It's amazing how quickly this can happen. Your family is cruising along at optimum speed and turbulence comes out of nowhere. One kid gets in some kind of mood, makes a biting remark. The others are caught off guard and respond in kind.
The next you thing you know, sharp words are flying. They can't stop themselves and as their mom, this all feels quite personal. Soon enough you spit out your own curt warnings because who are these kids? This is not okay.
Now we're all offended and annoyed.
Limp apologies might be handed out at this point but the damage is done, the climate has shifted and the forecast is ugly.
These wild spikes in the climate of my home happen more frequently than I prefer. They are both unexpected and yet predictable. That's the interesting part. I've been around this block long enough to know the routine and yet I often still feel at a loss to extinguishing the sparks before someone gets burned.
I was recently reminded of Michael Phelps' triumphant victory at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Not only did Phelps become the winningest athlete in Olympic history during the 200M butterfly, but he did it blind. Just after the race began, Phelps' goggles failed, filling with water, and he was unable to see the wall.
How was he able to continue on, swimming blindly and yet flawlessly, to set a new world record and take the gold? He had actually planned for failure. Practiced for it. He had swum in the dark before, training himself how to respond in the event of goggle failure.
There is wisdom in that strategy for us as well.
We cannot control when one kid will wake up in a mood that will threaten to set the house afire. Changing hormones, different ages and stages, and new and different seasons can have an intense impact on the people in our home and thus, how we relate. But, we can plan how we will respond. We can have some solid resources at our disposal that keep us from panicking, responding emotionally or feeling helpless.
Pray for present and future climate changes.
You can see it brewing the moment your girl wakes up, things are a bit off today. Pause right then and pray. As soon as you see the shift, someone is tired, someone is impatient, train yourself to stop and breathe a prayer for grace and wisdom to lead well. Begin a habit of praying over the interactions of your day before your feet hit the ground. He goes before you; ask Him to meet you there.
Check the posture of your own heart.
It is easy to go down with the ship, friend. Your husband is having a bad day and rather than being a source of grace and encouragement we get annoyed and add fuel to the fire. When our kids get combative and whiney we often become combative and whiney in our own way. Sticking with our airplane analogy, this is where we need to secure our own oxygen mask first. Repeat step one. Pause and pray before you respond and react.
Do not take the easy way out. This is too often what I crave in the moment "Oh my goodness. These kids are just too much right now." And without even realizing, I pick up my phone and check out. There is nothing wrong with taking a break (hold on, we'll address that). But giving ourselves to mindless distraction rather than tending to the real need in front of us is a failure to do the hard and holy work we are called to do. It's tough, I know. I promise I want to run from it some days too, but this work is vital and it is our job to stay in the game. Not only are we failing to deal with the hard thing in front of us by choosing distraction, but we are also teaching our kids how to deal with hard things as well.
I'm not condemning your phone here. Don't read that. But before you pick it up ask yourself the honest question – am I doing this, because I am running from the real work in front of me? If so, have the courage to put it down.
Timeouts are not just for the toddler stage. When the people in my home start bumping into one another, often what they really need is a break. We homeschool here so we are together a lot. There are real effects of too much togetherness, no matter what kind of schooling you choose.
Make everyone go on a walk. Play a family game of hide-and-seek (I promise you don't outgrow this) or just put on some worship music and assign everyone to a different area of the house for 20 minutes of "read or rest time", as we call it here. While some personality types thrive on these timeouts more than others, everyone can benefit from learning that sometimes friction is alleviated by space.
Let's take a cue from Michael Phelps and plan how we will respond next time the climate in our home begins to rise. Think through the tools you have at your disposable to be an agent of grace, to put out sparks and become a purveyor of peace in your home. And no matter what, just keep swimming.
Ah! Thank you so much! I needed this today! I have 3 daughters who aren't even teenagers yet but already have so many strong emotions that I feel like I put fires out all day. (We are homeschooling, too, so the "togetherness" presents many, many opportunities)…thank you for your wonderful words of insight and encouragement today. Just what I needed to read.
What refreshing words for a Monday afternoon. I have struggled for years with sour, grumpy, crazy, chaotic Mondays and I am just beginning to realize that it is due in large part to the lack of routine and structure on the weekends. Although I don't "check-out" in the sense of television or smart phone, the Lord has been showing me lately that I am not faithful to be consistent on the weekends and we pay the price every Monday. Thank you for the encouragement today!
My pleasure, Diedrah! I'm living these out right along with you.


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2020 has been a challenging year for FC Bayern with the coronavirus pandemic, but the club has overcome everything to win the second treble in its history. It means the bar for the coming months is high. Going into 2021, leading figures at Germany's record champions spoke to club magazine "51" about what's to come. In the fifth of seven parts, we sat down with the club's board member for internationalisation and strategy Jörg Wacker.
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Foxburrow Grange resident gets visit from Southend United defender Ben Coker
A lifelong fan of Southend United was treated to a very special visit at his Colchester care home from club defender Ben Coker as a way of saying thank you for his 89 years of loyalty.
Arthur 'Vic' Vichers, 97, has been a fan of Southend United football club since he was eight years old when his father took him to see his first match at Roots Hall stadium against Colchester United. He is believed to be the club's longest surviving supporter.
Based nea r the Army Garrison in Colchester, Essex, Foxburrow Grange provides residential, nursing and dementia services to 69 people with a range of care needs including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, general and specialist nursing, and end of life care.
Foxburrow Grange's activity coordinator, Margaret Brodie contacted Southend United to see if they would come and visit Vic. She had noticed that Vic's eyes would light up whenever he talked about the football team.
Defender Ben Coker jumped at the chance to take a trip down memory lane with Vic and they spent a good hour chatting about how Vic used to go to matches and watch the team train as a boy, reeling off names of players of yesteryear.
Margaret was delighted that Ben was able to visit Vic as part of Foxburrow Grange's 'Wish Come True' campaign. Margaret spends time with residents, getting to know their wishes and then arranges activities and events to help them recall their most fond memories.
She said the conversation between the two men was wonderful. "I couldn't believe how quickly Ben replied, it was almost the same day. He was absolutely lovely, listening to Vic talking about his memories. It made Vic's day."
Vic was over the moon to see Ben and they shared lots of laughs and jokes together. Vic was thankful to both Ben and Margaret: "Thank you for the memories and the interest you gave me, the one wish from me, dreams can come true, no matter age or health".
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Kyrie Irving has parted ways with his longtime agent Jeff Wechsler and has reportedly signed with Roc Nation Sports. Irving opted out of his $21.3M deal to play for the Celtics next season and will become a free agent for the first time in his career this summer. Wechsler has represented Irving since he was […]
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College football is a week away. The NFL is not far behind. I had my draft in one of the two fantasy leagues I participate in last night. You can just smell and taste football at this point. However, I must admit that this season of Hard Knocks does not have me as enthused as years' […]
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Most analysis surrounding sports agents revolve around an agent's initial signing of an athlete or an athlete firing an agent or an agent negotiating an athlete's contract. However, less emphasis is placed on the accolades agents' clients receive during their playing careers. Below highlights the players and coach that won (or will likely win) 2013-2014 […]
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I hope that everyone had a fantastic and fun July 4th full of smiles and fireworks. I, for one, did not even stay awake throughout the entire New York show on TV. A day full of sun can be quite exhausting. Jay-Z has a new rap album out with shout outs to Robinson Cano and […]
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On February 21, 2012, I wrote that Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant became the latest NBA all-star to leave basketball agent Aaron Goodwin and his company Goodwin Sports Management (GSM). Along with Durant, Jason Kidd, Paul Pierce, LeBron James, Jamal Crawford, Rodney Stuckey, Al Horford, and Dwight Howard have all once been represented by Goodwin, but moved on to another agent later […]
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Kevin Durant has dropped Seattle-based Aaron Goodwin of Goodwin Sports Management (GSM) as his NBA agent. It appears that Jason Whitlock was the first to report on the rumor of Durant's decision to leave Goodwin, and followed up with a Tweet that Candace Parker may be the next high-profile athlete to leave the firm that […]
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Last week, Caron Butler, Ben Gordon, Anthony Tolliver, and Derrick Williams filed a Class Action Complaint against the NBA and its member teams in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. At roughly the same time, another class of NBA players filed a similar lawsuit in the Northern District of California. The California lawsuit has since been dismissed […]
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Aaron Goodwin of Goodwin Sports Management has represented some of the best players in basketball. At one point in time, he represented Rodney Stuckey, LeBron James, Al Horford, and Dwight Howard. They all currently have different agents representing them. Now add Jamal Crawford to that list. Jamal Crawford has terminated his relationship with Goodwin Sports Management in an offseason […]
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Restorative dentistry just isn't the same anymore.
In the past 15 years we've seen the development of materials and procedures we could only dream about before. And if you know someone who hasn't been to the dentist in a while, tell them they'll be pleasantly surprised by what they find.
Dental medicine has come a long way from the days when whiskey was the anesthetic of choice. Today's dentistry is virtually painless. Technology, stress control techniques, and some very sophisticated approaches to anesthesia have all contributed to painless treatment - from cleaning to cavity preparation to root canal treatment.
A new discipline has grown up around restorative dentistry procedures. But, does it show in a smile?
Tooth whitening is a simple, inexpensive way to lighten stains and discolorations on teeth without altering the natural structure.
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Dental Implants - Though people are keeping their teeth longer and longer, part of the older population still has to deal with missing teeth. For those denture wearers who've always hoped for something better, dental implants can be a kind of dental rebirth.
The future of dentistry looms exciting, too. Cosmetic laser dentistry, fiber optics, computer-aided design - all are finding applications in dentistry. Cosmetic dentistry - it's a whole new ball game.
You'd be amazed (and probably delighted) by the options modern dentistry makes available for strong, natural-looking tooth restoration. Read on for more information about the exciting new cosmetic dental materials we have available now.
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Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive disease that is difficult to detect. There is no screening test available to identify the disease, and because there may be no symptoms present, it is often diagnosed at an advanced stage, after the cancer has spread to other organs in the body. Standard treatment avenues for cancer, such as chemotherapy and radiation, have limited effectiveness in pancreatic cancer patients.
Based on current SEER data from the National Cancer Institute, there were an estimated 56,770 new cases of pancreatic cancer diagnosed in the U.S. during 2019. Pancreatic cancer is also the eleventh most common type of cancer in the United States, representing 3.2% of all new cancer diagnoses every year. The five-year survival rate for those with pancreatic cancer is just over 9%. Since 2011, the CDMRP has funded pancreatic cancer research through the Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP).
For FY20, the U.S. Congress established the Pancreatic Cancer Research Program (PCARP) in the DoD appropriation with an appropriation of $6M. With this new program, PCARP will continue to invest in research focusing on advancing our understanding of pancreatic cancer for the benefit of Service members, Veterans, their families, and the American public.
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The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) was established under the Sri Lanka Telecommunication (Amendment) Act No. 27 of 1996. As the national regulatory agency for telecommunications in Sri Lanka we will promote sustained development in the telecommunication industry by shaping the regulatory process, protecting public interest and being responsive to challenges in an increasingly competitive market. TRCSL will ensure that competition in the market is open, fair and effective.
To ensure the provision of a reliable and efficient, national and international telecommunication services in Sri Lanka.
To protect and promote the interests of consumers, purchasers and other users and the public interest with respect to charges for and the quality and variety of telecommunication services provided and apparatus supplied.
To maintain and promote effective competition between persons engaged in commercial activities.
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We will ensure provision of universal access/services to the rural communities, elderly and people who are differently able.
To make telecommunication services available for people with disabilities.
To ensure that telecommunication services are of a high quality which are just, reasonable and affordable and which will satisfy the needs of the consumers.
We ensure a transparent decision making process, encouraging public participation and giving timely decisions by following principles of natural justice.
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We will help to build a civil society by making our society an "informed" society in this modern information age.
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At AXN, we know magic.
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AXN teams up with one of the hottest and nicest magicians in the world: Cyril, a superstar magician in Japan and across the Internet, Cyril is now bringing his special brand of magic to Asian TV audiences for the very first time.
Exclusively on AXN, viewers will get to go on the road with Cyril in three one-hour Magic specials to some of Asia's best cities: Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Taipei, to discover if Cyril's magic has what it takes to leave smiling, happy, faces in its wake.
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The Journal of Clinical & Experimental Orthopaedics brings together an expert Editorial Board, which comprises of noted scholars in the field of clinical Orthopaedics. Every single article is subjected to rigorous peer review by illustrious scientists. In addition to Research Articles, the Journal also publishes high quality Commentaries, Reviews, and Perspectives aimed at synthesizing the latest developments in the field, and putting forward new theories in order to provoke debates amongst the scholars in the field. The journal thus maintains the highest standards in terms of quality and comprehensive in its approach. The Editorial Board of IPJCEO consists of 23 eminent researchers as the Editorial Board Members and one accomplished researchers as the Editors-in-Chief. IPJCEO follows a double blind peer review process. The peer review process takes 21 days to be published after the acceptance of the manuscript and the work flow of the manuscript takes 45 days and a manuscript number will be e-mailed to the corresponding author within 72 hours. Journal Clinical and Experimental Orthopaedics is the Council Contributor Member for Council of Science Editors (CSE) and follows the CSE's slogan 'Education, Ethics, and Evidence for Editors'. IPJCEO follows a progressive editorial policy that encourages researchers to submit the original research, reviews and editorial observations as articles, well supported by tables and graphic representation.
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Two-car finish remains objective for Hyundai Shell World Rally Team after another solid day in Mexico
León, Mexico March 8, 2014 – The Hyundai Shell World Rally Team heads into the final day of this weekend's Rally Mexico holding a provisional podium position after Thierry Neuville excelled in the high-altitude gravel conditions to take third place overall after Saturday's seven stages.
Despite the encouraging performance of the Hyundai i20 WRC cars, the team remains focussed on securing a two-car finish in this demanding rally, its third WRC event, which will enable it to add invaluable experience in its ongoing learning year.
The opening two stages today – SS12 Ibarilla 1 (30.33km) and SS13 Otates (53.69km) – gave the Hyundai Shell World Rally Team its sternest test yet, representing just under half of the day's competitive kilometres. 170km of stages run throughout the day allowed the team to improve from yesterday as Neuville moved from eighth on Friday to third at the end of Saturday with a podium wellin his sights and with Atkinson sitting in seventh position.
Neuville said: "The first stage this morning was not easy because I lost the brakes towards the end of the stage and had to slow down but since then we have had a good run. The stages were really slippery this morning but I enjoyed driving and we took it nice and steady. We are now in a very interesting position. I've been carrying two spares so the car has been a bit heavier than normal and I lost a bit of time in the fast sections but I made up time on the twisty bits. In the afternoon, I was sliding a lot in SS14 (Ibarilla 2) because of the weight on the rear but SS15 (Otatitos 43.06km) was good and I had a great run. We are in a good position heading into tomorrow but our focus is still on finishing the rally rather than the overall result."
Atkinson, who is taking part in his first WRC event for Hyundai Shell World Rally Team this weekend, and his first WRC event for over a year, advanced to seventh overall from eighth place at the end of the penultimate day after a more confident performance today.
A tkinson said: "It was not easy to be first on the road this morning and the stages were very loose, it was like driving on ice. It was easy to make a mistake so we took it easy and stayed out of trouble. We played with the balance of the car over lunch to improve the handling in the conditions which helped in SS14 but further changes before SS15 weren't really in the right direction. Even so, we had a better day and learned a lot. We moved up the rankings but tomorrow our objective is to reach the end of the rally and to bring our learning from this event to a positive conclusion."
Despite the allure of a podium result, the Hyundai Shell World Rally Team is fully focussed on its main objective on securing a two-car finish, which will allow the team to add more experience and data in its first year of competition. Nonetheless, the ability to fight in the top five in most of today's tricky stages gives the team confidence in its abilities and in the performance of the Hyundai i20 WRC cars.
Team Principal Michel Nandan said: "It has been another day of intensive learning for the Hyundai Shell World Rally Team as we continue to gather more experience from the unique conditions of Rally Mexico. Both crews were effectively sweeping the roads in this morning's first stage as they started first and fourth, encountering tough road conditions. It was a relatively trouble-free morning and very useful for data acquisition. We made some changes to the cars over the lunchtime service and made some progress this afternoon. Thierry is in a podium position at the end of today which is obviously great but it is not our target. Chris, too, has made significant improvements compared to our difficult Friday. We have a long final day ahead of us tomorrow so our objective is to keep both cars on the road and to conclude our learning targets from this rally."
Overall Classification after Day One
1. S. Ogier / J. Ingrassia (Volkswagen Polo R WRC) 3:36:42.2
2. J.M. Latvala / M. Anttila (Volkswagen Polo R WRC)+1:00.3
3. T. Neuville / N. Gilsoul (Hyundai i20 WRC) +4:37.0
4. E. Evans / D. Barritt (Ford Fiesta RS WRC) +5:24.0
5. M. Prokop / J. Tománek (Ford Fiesta RS WRC) +8:02.5
6. B. Guerra / B. Rozada (Ford Fiesta RS WRC) +10:33.6
7. C. Atkinson / S. Prévot (Hyundai i20 WRC) +12:18.3
8. M. Hirvonen / J. Lehtinen (Ford Fiesta RS WRC) +16:09.4
9. K. Meeke / P. Nagle (Citroën DS3 WRC) +17:18.9
10. Y. Protasov / P. Cherepin (Ford Fiesta R5) +17:35.0
About Hyundai Motor Company
Established in 1967, Hyundai Motor Company is committed to becoming a lifetime partner in automobiles and beyond. The company, which leads the Hyundai Motor Group, an innovative business structure capable of circulating resources from molten iron to finished cars, offers top-quality best-sellers such as Elantra, Sonata and Genesis. Hyundai Motor has seven manufacturing bases and seven design & technical centers outside of South Korea and in 2013, sold 4.73 million vehicles globally. With over 90,000 employees worldwide, Hyundai Motor continues to enhance its product line-up with localized models and strives to strengthen its leadership in clean technology, starting with the world[s first mass-produced hydrogen-powered vehicle, ix35 Fuel Cell.
About Hyundai Motorsport GmbH
Established on 19 December 2012, Hyundai Motorsport GmbH is responsible for Hyundai's global motorsport activities and primarily for its World Rally Championship programme. Based in Alzenau on the outskirts of Frankfurt in Germany, the company is embarking on its debut season in the FIA World Rally Championship in 2014 with a bespoke team of skilled staff and a brand new car, the Hyundai i20 WRC.
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Congrats! It seems that the GUI on the RPi2 is noticeably smoother on LE 8. Everything is snappy as can be.
Thanks very much. Great work! Quick question... Has DTS playback been fixed?
DTS playback works in 16.1.
(2017-02-06, 06:48)Davesummy Wrote: Thanks very much. Great work! Quick question... Has DTS playback been fixed?
I am using Kodibuntu and Kodi 16.1.
In repository no new wersion?
kodi is already the newest version.
Congratulations on reaching an important milestone!
Android audio will depend how well your firmware supports android standards - and that is not up to Team Kodi.
(2017-02-06, 07:54)IgorA100 Wrote: I am using Kodibuntu and Kodi 16.1.
Click on "Read More" in Post 1.
(2017-02-06, 09:22)nickr Wrote: Click on "Read More" in Post 1.
Quote: Note: Kodi 17 downloads will be available in our Ubuntu PPA soon, so stay tuned for updates!
It is not known when the update will be added?
That would be true if Kodi would support all possible audio paths, including IEC passthrough and OpenSL ES. Is that the case?
I just updated both my Android TV boxes. DTS was fine on both with 16.1 but now one of them won't play DTS which has me stumped. I'm guessing it's a hardware issue. I'm only getting stereo with DTS passthrough switched off and no audio at all when switched on. Android 6 & HDMI.
Edit: Both boxes are only giving me stereo. Back to Jarvis methinks, or are there any plans to fix this issue?
Good work all, V17 is a HUGE improvement.


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Mike Portnoy.
"When A.J. Pero passed away it was very sad on a personal level because we were friends. So when Twisted Sister asked me to come on board and help close out the remaining chapters, for me it was, and is a huge honour."
Mike Portnoy is one of rock's most prolific musicians. Having spent the best part of two decades in Dream Theatre, the respected skinsman is now firmly established in power trio The Winery Dogs. With The Dogs on downtime following an extended bout of touring, Mike is about to get to work with some of his close friends, as well as his idols. Stepping out onto the stage at August's Bloodstock Open Air with super group Metal Allegiance, Portnoy will also be living out a childhood dream when he performs with legendary New York rockers Twisted Sister, who'll be playing their last ever British date at the festival. We caught up with Mike to chat about the shows, and find out if there's anyone left that he has yet to work with. On a hot streak: Eamon O'Neill.
Mike Portnoy: Working with both Twisted Sister and Metal Allegiance this summer.
Hi Mike, How are you today?
I'm doing good.
Metal Allegiance; tell me how that come about?
About 2011 when they were doing the 'Big Four' shows, the Big Four [Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth & Anthrax] was playing in California, and this guy named Mark Menghi, he was one of the artist relation guys at Samsung electronics, Hartke amps, he put together a four-man clinic around the Big 4 shows. It was myself and Charlie Benante and Frankie Bello from Anthrax, and David Ellefson from Megadeth. Those three were already together for the Big Four show, and then I was brought on board as well and we did this four-man clinic the day before the Big 4, and it was a huge success. And then when the Big 4 played about six months later in September we did another one and at that point we added on Scott Ian from Anthrax, Kerry King from Slayer, and Phil Anselmo.
That was the 'Metal Master's event, wasn't it?
Yeah, they were called 'Metal Masters' at the time, and then they kept growing, and it went from four people to seven people, and then the next year we did it again with maybe ten people, and it just kept growing and growing and growing. Long story short; we changed the name to Metal Allegiance last year, and at that point we decided that these things are so much fun but rather than just always playing covers, why don't we write an album together? At that point we broke it down to a core band of myself, David Ellefson, Alex Skolnick, [Testament guitarist] and Mark Menghi, and the four of us wrote this album and then at that point got twenty other guest singers and guitar players, and it turned into this really cool metal album. It's weird as it's one of the few projects I've been involved that started live and evolved into a studio thing; it's usually the other way around.
It sounds like it's a lot of fun. Is it about that more so than anything else?
Yeah, I mean it was always about a bunch of friends getting together and jamming and playing covers and paying tribute to our metal heroes. We all grew up with the same record collection, we all grew up listening to Maiden and Priest and Kiss and Motörhead and AC/DC and Sabbath, so we just all happened to grow up creating bands of our own, but at the end of the day, we were fans and when we do Metal Allegiance it's about us being on stage as fans just as much as the people on the other side of the stage.
You're performing at Bloodstock here in the U.K. later this year.
Yeah, it's going to be awesome. Originally this only was in New York and then L.A, and then we eventually did a couple of cruises; we did the Motörboat and then Shiprocked, and it's nice now that we have the album out that we can actually have opportunities to go other places. We did Japan and we're really looking forward to doing Bloodstock and making our U.K. debut with this fun project.
I see Charlie Benante is playing. Will you be trading the drum stool, or will Charlie play guitar?
Usually when we do it Charlie and I both play drums together; most of the time together, and then sometimes swapping over. On the album Charlie only played guitar. I was the sole drummer on the album, but live he plays drums with us.
Only one Metal Allegiance show been announced so far. Is there a chance of adding other shows around it?
We're hoping to do more festivals. I mean, it's hard for Metal Allegiance to do any proper tours because of the nature of what it is - where everybody's in other bands and the line-up is constantly changing. Every Metal Allegiance show is a different line-up, so really the best opportunity for us to play live is when it's a festival situation. We're certainly open to doing more and we hope to do more, but time will tell.
You're also performing with Twisted Sister at Bloodstock. That must be quite an honour for you.
I'm playing with Twisted two nights earlier; it's the same weekend, but I think it's different days. It's a total honour for me. I did about a dozen shows with them last year. I grew up in Long Island where they were the ultimate club band, back in the late seventies' and early eighties' before anybody else around the world knew about them. They were New York heroes and I was in the age bracket that was going to see them in the clubs. I grew up with them and they were local heroes and I became friends with them through the years, and especially with A.J. [Pero, drummer]. When he passed away it was very sad on a personal level, because we were friends. When they asked me to come on board and help close out the remaining chapters, for me it was, and is a huge honour.
Were you shocked to receive that call? I seem to remember you volunteered by posting on social media.
Well we had a weird connection because when I left Adrenaline Mob, A.J. took my place, and the day after A.J. passed away, I actually did a show with Adrenaline Mob. They were already booked to play a show in New Jersey the next day and they asked if I would come and do the show. So there I was, literally twenty-four hours after A.J. passed away, playing his drum set, and his show with Adrenaline Mob. That night [Twisted Sister guitarist] Jay Jay French came out to join us on stage as well, and that was the night that Jay Jay asked me if I would be interested and if I was available to help them out with the remaining shows. So it was a weird connection already, you know, with A.J. helping out my former band and with me helping out A.J.'s band.
Finally, you've worked with so many people at this stage; Is there anyone left that you haven't played with that you'd love to - Van Halen, Iron Maiden, or Rush perhaps?
They're all great examples, so yeah. To me there's the dream collaborations and there's the realistic ones, and I've been able to make most of my realistic collaborations come to life. If you look at the list of guitar players I've played with in the last five years; everybody from Richie Kotzen to Paul Gilbert to John Sykes to Zakk Wylde, Steve Morse, I mean, it's really an incredible list. So I've been able to have all these dream collaborations, but I would say the one outstanding one would be Michael Åkerfeldt form Opeth. He and I are really good friends and for so many years, and we've talked about doing something together, so I still would love to. And then there of course are the imaginary dream things, you know? You mentioned jamming with Maiden or Van Halen or Rush, obviously any of those would be completely surreal and I would do any of those in a heartbeat. Or you know, working with Paul McCartney or Roger Waters or Pete Townshend – those are some of my biggest living heroes, so yeah, you know, a boy can still dream!
Have you ever jammed with anybody from any of those bands?
I've jammed with Wolfgang Van Halen. Metal Allegiance did the entire Van Halen I album from start to finish last year and Wolfgang sat in with us on that. I've had the honour of hanging out and meeting [Van Halen brothers] Alex and Eddie, and spending time with those guys, but I haven't played with them. Sure, yeah I'm a fan first and foremost, and secondly I'm a musician that just loves to play, so I always have an open invitation.
If they come calling you'll be ready!
Yeah, I love playing!
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Twisted Sister and Metal Allegiance play Bloodstock Open Air, which takes place in Catton Park, Derbyshire from 11 - 14 August 2016. Twisted Sister's 'Metal Meltdown Live At The Hard Rock Casino - A Concert To Honor AJ Pero' which features Mike, is out on 5th August.


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the Keystone Antique Tractor Museum has 260 perfectly restored tractors, 170 on display in Colonial Heights, VA
One of the largest private collections of pre-1960 totally restored tractors, collectible cars and antique trucks on the east coast.
Keith Jones has a passion for all kinds of tractors dating back to the first one he fell in love with.
Sitting in an overgrown patch of weeds, a blanket of honeysuckle had made the farm tractor its own private trellis.
Keith learned that his aunt was planning to send the farm tractor off to auction, to be sold to the highest bidder. Approaching his aunt Keith told her that he wanted the farm tractor. She said, "that he could bid on the John Deere M, just like everyone else!"
Paying close to fourteen hundred dollars for his uncle's old farm tractor, the John Deere M that he came to love.
Weeks later, to Keith's surprise, his Aunt gave him back his money. She told him, "that his Uncle always wanted him to have it, but she didn't want to just hand it over to him; she wanted him to earn it."
Keith went on to restore the old farm tractor back to show quality. The restoration of the old honeysuckled covered John Deere M had Keith's undivided attention, and throughout the years Keith has collected, and restored over 200 antique farm tractors and vintage road trucks that are now housed in the Keystone Tractor Works Museum.
http://carzhunt.blogspot.com/2014/04/tractor-museum-part-2-plus.html
http://www.petersburgarea.org/attractions/keystone-tractor-works
http://www.keystonetractorworks.com/about-us/
Labels: collection, collector, John Deere, Minneapolis Moline Model UDLX, museum, tractor
Kevin Scott has the record for the fastest ride in a monocycle, 61.2 mph
http://www.carsdistrict.com/kevin-scott-man-strangest-moto-speed-record/
Labels: monowheel, motor wheel, news
the long-lost first 1967 Camaro Z-28 has been found and restored
The car you see pictured here is the very first Z/28 made, and is now owned by Jon Mello.
Jon has sports car racing in his blood. His parents were tech inspectors for the SCCA and, as a family, all attended Can-Am and Trans-Am races back at Road America from 1970 to 1974.
His 1st car was a 69 Z/28 Camaro with headers and 4.10s
In late December 1966, the first batch of Z-28s rolled down GM's Norwood, Ohio, assembly line. With the exception of air conditioning and an automatic transmission (or a convertible body), it was possible to equip a Z-28 with just about every option on the extensive 1967 Camaro list.
Jon agreed to examine a car in San Francisco for a friend living in Florida about a dozen years ago. He bought it not knowing it's significance. Jon noted signs that the vehicle had likely been used for professional racing, rollbar mounting holes etc.
When he started sanding down the body, he discovered racing stripes and lettering that indicated that one of the car's drivers was named John Moore. In his book The Great Camaro, author Michael Lamm was able to list the recipients of the first 25 Z-28s to come out of Norwood, thanks to documents he received from Vince Piggins. "Z-28 #1 was shipped to Aero Chevrolet in Alexandria, Virginia," Lamm wrote, "where it was groomed as Johnny Moore's entry into the Daytona 24-hour Continental." It turns out Jon had received a copy of Lamm's book years before as a Christmas present.
Jon talked with Moore, who pointed him to Hugh Heishman, who owned the local VW/Porsche dealership and a racing team at the time. Heishman was the car's original buyer, purchasing the car through Aero Chevrolet. As unbelievable as it seems, Heishman still had the car's original dealership sales invoice in his possession—35 years later.
In 2003 he got confirmation from Lamm as to where he got his first 25 Z-28 list." Vince Piggins himself had given Lamm the list of the first 25 Z-28s.
He learned the car's Trans-Am race history was limited. It was used for just six Trans-Am races in 1967 and 1968 in addition to several SCCA-sanctioned, non–Trans-Am events, a total of eight races driven by Moore and owned by Heishman.
http://www.hotrod.com/articles/first-1967-chevrolet-camaro-z-28-back-track-years-research-meticulous-restoration/
http://gwadagone.fotki.com/trans-am-racing1966/?view=roll#245
Labels: Camaro, Z28
Bill Hunter left a Chevy dealership with a Hugger Orange, X66, 4-speed Yenko Camaro. Street raced that and blew up the motor that night, towed it back to the dealership for the warranty claim. He was given a choice, they'd fix his engine, or he could drop $500 and get a new car
The Yenko didn't see a dull moment during the first years of life. Bill street-raced the car initially, but in the early 1970s he pulled the motor and installed a radical L88 aluminum-headed race motor that pumped out more than 500 ponies. With this combination Bill terrorized the local tracks, making a name for himself.
Bill's dad had always left the window stickers in all the cars he bought, so Bill stored the original window sticker for safekeeping and hung a copy in the window where it remains today. Lucky for him, his one-owner Yenko survived its racing days, as did its original L72, which was stored away just in case Bill wanted to bring the car back to its as-delivered state.
Muscle car collector and weekend race car driver Dave Beem spotted Bill's unrestored Yenko three years ago at a Yenko Supercar Reunion. He just couldn't believe that the car was still a one-owner original with a file folder full of all the original sales docs, Protect-O-Plate, and window sticker. Bill and Dave became fast friends and stayed in contact over the next three years.
Last year Dave visited Bill, talked of their love for fast cars and especially Yenkos, and whether the car would ever be for sale. After some thought, Bill said he was open to offers. Dave threw out a number to purchase the car. After a night to think about it, Bill accepted his offer. And just like that, after 47 years of ownership, the car was changing hands.
http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=202436&page=all
http://www.hotrod.com/articles/amazing-unrestored-1969-yenko-camaro-survives-street-racing-past-unscathed-born-big-block-intact/
Labels: 1969 Camaro, Camaro, Yenko
Giving the speeding ticket camera the finger
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/4dryxc/fuck_you_speed_camera/
30mph zone. Above 10% + 2mph to trigger a ticket which means he not only spun the trike and got the finger up with perfect timing, he did it at at least 35mph one handed.
He's not just flipping off this particular speed camera. He's flipping off the entire policing system. However, the cops probably won't catch his drift.
Labels: awesome, humor
and now, a public service message that has nothing to do with cars. That's why it's a PSA
I am so impressed by the production and story, and the plot twist, I gotta share it. I hope you watch it and appreciate why I shared it with you, maybe you'll share it, maybe with your high school or middle school kids.
Since I live in San Diego, site of 3 notorious schools,
Cleveland Elementary, 1979,
Santana HS, 2001
and Granite Hills HS 2001, just 3 weeks later.
Only sharing because I care and wish you and your family the best lives possible, which means looking out for each other, and keeping an eye out for trouble we can prevent
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-timeline-san-diegos-school-shootings-2012dec14-story.html
Labels: awesome, kids, PSA
The Grand Tour episode 3
Adjust the speed (use settings) to 1.25 or 1.5 to get them to sound a bit more realistic
And I find that increasing the screen magnification (control button, and roll the mouse finger wheel) to 250% gets this pretty good to watch
Labels: Top Gear
cool old towtruck
https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed
Labels: Dodge, Mopar, towtruck
Fast Eddie, and his half of all the factory stock Boss 429 Cougars ever made (Kar Kraft) as Dyno Don got the other one.
he ran a 10.32 in 1970 with it, but it tore itself apart from the violent launches as it wasn't braced well enough to last long, and it wasn't competitive against the smaller Comets and Mavericks that followed
Ford did commission two 1969 Mercury Cougars with the BOSS 429 engine, and sold both of them for $1 a piece to "Dyno Don" Nicholson and "Fast Eddie" Schartman. Designated by Mercury as "clinic cars," the two BOSS 429 Cougars toured through dealerships teaching Ford gearheads all about horsepower.
Dyno Don immediately ditched the 429 engine, replacing it with the even rarer 427 Ford SOHC "Cammer" engine and he painted his car red. Fast Eddie kept the 429 engine and the white hue, but converted his Cougar over to a 1970 hood and front clip. Both of these cars had fiberglass front panels, which technically disqualified them from running in Super Stock.
However, the cars were reportedly so slow that nobody really seemed bothered, and they were hardly raced anyway. Both Cougars were supposed to be returned to Ford, and in all likelihood were destined for the crusher. Curiously, neither car was returned to Ford, and the Cougars disappeared.
Fast Eddie's car was sold in 1971 to Lou Cerra, who replaced the engine and raced it through 1973. It was then sold to Steve Comstock, who dropped a 454ci Holmann & Moody BOSS engine into it. It was raced for a few years before the body was twisted something fierce. These Cougars, despite being built for racing, lacked many important features like sub-frame connectors or a real roll cage (a bolt-in kit was used instead). It sat around unloved for awhile before being bought by Douglas Herzog, a racing engine builder and 429 aficionado.
http://www.streetmusclemag.com/news/muscle-cars-you-should-know-69-mercury-cougar-boss-429/
http://www.fordmercurycougarxr7.com/pages/DragRacing/EddieSchartman.html
Labels: Boss 429, Cougar, rare
The restoration of Hemmingway's Chrysler 392 hemi New Yorker deluxe convertible in Cuba
https://www.facebook.com/darsoul43
Soul, now a dual citizen, USA and England, is a Hemingway fan who has traveled to Cuba several times and is friends with the museum's administrators. When the restoration project stalled, the result of difficulty obtaining parts due to the longstanding U.S. trade embargo with Cuba, the museum director, Ada Rosa Rosales, called on Soul to intervene.
Although Cuban mechanics are experts at keeping old American cars running, much of their work comes down to improvising repairs and hand-making parts. But proper restorations require original components, impossible to find on the island. Soul contacted a parts supplier in Massachusetts that specializes in classic Chryslers and found that its proprietor is also a Hemingway enthusiast. Parts problem seemingly solved.
However, despite Soul's best efforts, some parts have been delayed due to customs snags, while others, like a fuel tank, have proven difficult to locate. The plan had been to debut the hour-long film this June in time for the 14th Hemingway Colloquium in Havana, but the delays will result in a later release.
https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/new-documentary-focuses-on-tale-of-hemingways-1955-chrysler-new-yorker.html
Labels: celebrity, chrysler, Cuba
Stats on Cuban cars
From 1950-1958 the number of cars in Cuba more than doubled – from 70,000 to 167,000.
Contrast that with 2014, the first year Cuban policy removed limits on auto purchases resulted in the 11 national Cuban car dealerships selling only 50 cars and four motorcycles in the first half of the year under the new law.
http://www.highsnobiety.com/2016/12/01/cuban-cars/
Labels: Cuba
40 years after her '64 Stingray Corvette was stolen in 1976, it's finally been found and returned to her.... it was found at a car show!
A walking VIN decoder of a car nut recognized that the VIN was not a Vette type, it was for an Impala, so the owner had the cops check it out, and the hidden VIN was still there, and checked as the stolen car from 1976.
The cops found the police report from Anahiem in the micro fiche, and fortuneatly the woman is still alive, and they reunited her with it.
The person who had it at the car show? He had been given the car by his wife about 20 years ago, and she had bought it at some sketchy cars sales place in Redding that isn't in business anymore (makes sense)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3994844/Woman-reunited-stolen-Corvette-FORTY-YEARS-swiped-home.html
http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/general-news/20161124/red-bluff-chp-reunite-arizona-woman-with-corvette-stolen-40-years-ago-in-anaheim
Labels: corvette, good news, news, Stolen
that normally fun website, the Drive, posted they had a video of a Camaro at Spring Mountain, when actually, it's a Corvette at Atlanta Motorsports Park. Seems the mistake will stay online til they Monday when they return from the weekend
They are saying this video " Camaro at Nevada's Spring Mountain " with these stills:
and with all those trees, is Spring Mountain, Nevada.
Below is a video that actually WAS filmed at Spring Mountain, to show you what it really looks like
here are a couple of photos I took there in 2013
See what I mean? Lots of Nevada desert, nothing like that forest they had the Camaro in. These are photos at the Spring Mountain race track which hosted the Optima Challenge.
Talk about not paying attention. Here is a satellite photo image, to show you there are no lawns, grass, trees, etc. Lots of rock, sand, and gravel though when you are actually there. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-autocross-part.html
http://www.thedrive.com/muscle-cars/6297/watch-the-2017-chevrolet-camaro-ss-1le-crush-it-at-nevadas-spring-mountain-motorsports-ranch?xid=hl
Labels: morons
Stolen vehicles, and the TiJuana police... supply - and demand
When record checks found that up to 30 unmarked police vehicles appeared to have been stolen north of the border, outraged San Diego County officials demanded action by both governments.
But it is common knowledge among police and journalists in Tijuana that some stolen vehicles end up in possession of Mexican officers and can be seen parked outside the headquarters of the federal, state and municipal forces.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940524&slug=1912101
"There were a lot of cars being stolen in Southern California," Escobedo continues, "and they were all coming to Mexico. Those cars were used by federal police, by state police, by state police wives, by state policeman's mistress, by her brother, by the attorney general. Everybody that was in some kind of power was driving one of these cars."
In addition to buying the stolen cars -- "mostly Cherokees, Explorers, and Suburbans" -- from the thieves, Escobedo says, state and federal policemen were confiscating them. "They could tell by the way people were driving them, by the California plates, and by the condition of the car that it was probably stolen. So they would pull it over and say, 'We know this car is stolen.' The driver, who is very nervous, says, 'Oh, it's my aunt's car.' They tell him, 'Bullshit, it's stolen.' So they just take it away, and it was like a black market of stolen cars."
The cars that they didn't keep for themselves, their wives, or their mistresses, "They would dismantle them for the parts," Escobedo says. "You are talking about $25,000 to $30,000 car, maybe $40,000 car, that was ripped off, and the insurance company got it back, but it was worth only $8000."
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2003/feb/13/car-mafia-steals-baja-sells-us/#
The newly appointed chief of the Mexico City police department`s intelligence division is a former CIA informant who was charged in 1982 with involvement in a car-theft ring operating in southern California in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The stolen-car ring, made up mostly of Mexican federal law-enforcement agents, was crippled when 14 defendants were convicted and sentenced to prison in the United States.
Miguel Nassar Haro, a Tijuana-based commander in the now disbanded Federal Security Directorate, was indicted by a grand jury in San Diego. He was implicated by the federal grand jury in an international ring that specialized in stealing luxury cars in the Los Angeles area and smuggling them across the border for customers in Mexico.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-12-27/news/8802270490_1_car-theft-ring-indictment-mexico-city
In 1982, Miguel Nazar Haro, then chief of Mexico's Federal Security Directorate, the country's equivalent of the CIA, was forced to resign after he was indicted in San Diego on charges of involvement in a massive car-theft ring that stole luxury vehicles in the United States and supplied them to members of the Federal Security Directorate and other officials.
He was arrested in San Diego, but jumped bail set at $200,000 and fled back to Mexico. In December 1988, Nazar Haro was appointed chief of intelligence for the Mexico City police department but was forced to quit two months later.
U.S. police and government officials say federal police in Mexico's northern border states have revived a practice of placing orders for stolen cars with rings operating in southern California. That practice led to a U.S. indictment against the then-chief of the Mexican secret police in 1982.
Luxury cars stolen in the United States also frequently turn up in the hands of federal police, as in the case of an $82,000 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet swiped from a San Diego dealer last year. According to Gloria Laxson, business manager for Hoehn Motors, the car, one of only two such models in southern California at the time, was eventually recovered from a federal police commander.
State government sources say the stolen-car issue may have been one reason for the sudden transfer last week of the Federal Judicial Police commander in Tijuana, Jose Luis Larrasolo, after three months on the job. Reporting on the transfer, the Tijuana weekly newspaper Zeta published a photo of vehicles loaded on flatbed trucks for shipment to Larrasolo's new assignment in the central state of Michoacan.
"Almost all of the vehicles driven by Larrasolo's federales were stolen from their original owners in the United States," Zeta reported.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/06/24/mexican-police-are-using-stolen-cars/b6317ec2-1a9d-4b20-bf1d-951f1fe709b6/?utm_term=.06d6d10821a0
Labels: Stolen
FX announced today that it will shoot a pilot for Mayans MC in March, that will be written by Kurt Sutter who created the immensely popular SOA and who will direct the pilot episode.
Here's the official synopsis, per FX:
Mayans MC is set in a post Jax Teller world, where EZ Reyes, a prospect in the Mayan MC charter on the Cali/Mexi border, struggles with his desire for vengeance against the cartel, and his need for respect from the women he loves.
http://tvline.com/2016/12/01/sons-of-anarchy-spinoff-mayans-mc-pilot-ordered-fx/
Labels: new tv show, news
the hydrogen-powered Nikola One long haul truck was unveiled today, and it looks more aerodynamic... time will tell it it's just another overpriced concept no one buys
The class 8 truck will have a range of 800 to 1,200 miles between refueling. If the company delivers on that range, the truck might get from San Francisco to Cheyenne, Wyoming on one tank of gas. And the fuel needed for that trip will be included in the 72-month leasing program that company is offering.
To solve the limited supply of hydrogen along the highways of the United States and Canada, Nikola also announced its plans to build a Hydrogen production refinery, and Hydrogen stations to refuel its new trucks for the first million miles, for free. The company will start making these, maybe, if it gets investors and everything goes well in permits and DOT inspections and testing, it's possibly breaking ground on the refueling stops in 2018 and they will open in 2019.
https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/01/nikola-unveils-its-hydrogen-powered-semi-truck/
skip the 1st 8 minutes
Labels: news, trucking
referring to Mickey Thompson and Danny Ongais
Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/ of course. Lots of good stuff there
Labels: advertising, Bonneville, Mach 1, Mickey Thompson, Mustang, record setter
incredibly innovative way to paint a car. Electric motor spins a hand crank handle, which pumps an old bike tire hand pump, which fills a motorcycle tire used as a compressed air reservoir and regulator
Labels: innovation
baby seats and other things were very much a matter of just hanging them up by hooking over a seat or other fixed object.
https://www.facebook.com/All-Things-Vintage-1548902362053001/
Labels: airlines, kids
there you are, 10 years, 26,000 posts
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117 stolen cars worth at least $1.3 million, returned to their owners today, the results of a ten-month undercover sting operation in San Diego County. 33 car thieves were arrested... plus one more news story about stolen cars
"In this operation that we call Kwik Boost, the defendants were stealing cars from victims in San Diego and they were selling the vehicles to a place that was undercover – a store front – in order to break up the car into small pieces," said Summer Stephan, Chief Deputy District Attorney of San Diego County.
Law enforcement shut down the store front located in the Lemon Grove area of East County, putting dozens of car thieves out of business.
The suspects believed they were selling cars to customers, when the vehicles were actually bought by undercover police officers In addition to stealing cars, many of these criminal groups were involved in gun trades and drug deals. Law enforcement agencies seized 51 illegal firearms off the street, along with five pounds of methamphetamine, three kilograms of cocaine and 15 pounds of marijuana, according to Goodbrand.
About 10,000 vehicles are stolen in San Diego County each year
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Over-100-Stolen-Cars-Returned-to-Owners-in-Undercover-Operation-in-San-Diego-County-404096456.html
Meanwhile, Border Patrol is starting to figure out that they can use facial recognition software to catch car thieves driving stolen cars over the border into Mexico... yeah, there is ZERO give a damn by Mexico about seeing or stopping ANYTHING going INTO or OUT OF Mexico, only the USA is manning the border and keeping things somewhat under a watchful eye as it going across the border into the USA and San Diego
A Border Patrol agent was compiling a list of stolen vehicles. When he conducted border crossing queries on the stolen vehicles, he identified Jose Ernesto Camarillo, David Urbina and others as suspects tied to the cross-border trafficking of at least 81 vehicles.
Photographs taken at the (San Diego suburbs) San Ysidro and Otay Mesa ports of entry indicated Camarillo drove about 20 vehicles into Mexico and Urbina drove about 14 since Jan. 1, the affidavit states.
Auto thefts have jumped 16 percent in San Diego County from mid-year 2015 to mid-year 2016, according to the San Diego Association of Governments, which tracks crime trends.
The increase was from 4,778 vehicles stolen to 5,551. That is still a low number compared to the number of vehicles stolen in 2006: 11,901.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/sd-me-car-thefts-20161101-story.html
So, just this year alone, 36 car thieves in San Diego are out of work.
Ever wonder how many car thieves are taken out of the stealing car business annually, and yet, more keep getting into being car thiefs, and the cars never stop being stolen? Seems like the short term career of those that were arrested before, would be a pretty strong warning to all those who come after
Labels: good news, law enforcement, news, police, Stolen
car art... good stuff
Labels: art, humor
Long sparky slide down the track... at least a slide beats a barrel roll
http://www.hotrod.com/articles/video-australian-camaro-took-wild-sparky-ride
Labels: drag racing
With three Distinguished Flying Crosses to her career, this helicopter has seen action all around the globe and has a service record second to none. In the past twenty-six years she has served in the Falkland Islands, Lebanon, Germany, Northern Ireland, Kurdistan, Iraq and Afghanistan.
During the Falkland Islands War, the SS Atlantic Conveyor was carrying six Chinook HC.1s when she took two Exocet missiles to the side and burned.
Only one helicopter, the "Bravo November" - was in flight at the time, meaning she was the lone survivor. Hence the name it's carried ever since
The ship also went down with nearly every tool used in maintenance except a pair of pliers and a screwdriver. The other helicopters aboard were all lost, along with the second-line repair and maintenance support equipment and stores.
The crew of 'Bravo November', captained by the late Sqn Ldr Dick Langworthy, managed to make it to safety on the aircraft carrier HMS Hermes.
Operating without spares, tools or lubricants, the Survivor got filthier and filthier - parts fell off, her rotors got out of track, she developed a leak of oil in her rear rotor's gearbox, but she gamely flew on without nearly any form of maintenance.
The British forces loved her, giving her the new nickname, "The Shuddering Shithead."
On her way back from a night mission she flew into a snowstorm. While the crew was trying to figure out how to get home, they flew into the sea at 100 knots, due to a faulty altimeter.
The impact threw up spray that flooded the engine intakes but Langworthy and his co-pilot managed to get the helicopter back in the air.
As the helicopter settled, the bow wave reduced. We had the collective still up and the engine wound up as we came out of the water like a cork out of a bottle. We were climbing!
The fuselage was damaged, an antenna had been lost and the co-pilot's door was lost too.
The crew was unable to navigate or communicate with other forces, so it returned to San Carlos for damage inspection. The impact had caused "little more than dents to the fuselage and damage to the radio systems." For the rest of the war she flew without a side door, leaving the copilot shivering.
By the time the Argentines surrendered, Bravo November had notched up over a hundred flying hours, carried some 1,500 troops, 95 casualties, 650 POWs and 550 tons of cargo.
At the end of the war she had one last thing to do.
Flying into Port Stanley at the cessation of hostilities, she landed next to an Argentinean helicopter that had been grounded by an air strike.
Her crew took their single screwdriver, unscrewed the Argentine door, and put it on the British helicopter. Allegedly, she still has the Argentine door today.
What's even funnier is that, a decade later, her original door washed up on shore and was discovered by a Falkland Islander.
http://uss-edsall.tumblr.com/post/153339972725/during-the-falklands-war-the-ss-atlantic-conveyor
In April 1982 Bravo November was loaded, along with three other Chinooks, aboard the container ship MV Atlantic Conveyor bound for the Falkland Islands on Operation Corporate. Atlantic Conveyor was hit by an Exocet missile destroying the vessel along with its cargo. Bravo November was on an airborne task at the time and managed to land on HMS Hermes, gaining the nickname "The Survivor". It was the only serviceable heavy lift helicopter available to British forces involved in the hostilities. The first of its four Distinguished Flying Crosses came for actions in the Falklands. Ever since, the name Bravo November became associated with this aircraft that has become "most famous" in the popular imagination. The aircraft is the subject of an exhibit at the RAF Museum.
Bravo November has had a distinguished career within the Royal Air Force serving in every conflict of the last 30 years and has seen four of its pilots awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for actions whilst at the controls of the aircraft.
Twenty years after the Falklands conflict Bravo November saw service in Iraq, being the first British helicopter to land Royal Marines ashore. After departing from HMS Ark Royal, Bravo November landed the first Royal Marines on to the Al-Faw peninsula to seize oil-pumping facilities before Iraqi troops could destroy them.
During a three-day period, the aircraft averaged nineteen flight-hours per day, delivering combat vehicles, artillery and troops. The mission was the first opposed UK helicopter assault since the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the largest in UK military helicopter history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo_November
http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/oldstuff/2008/469za718/za718.htm
http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/royalairforcech47chinookbravonovember.cfm
Labels: awesome, helicopter, Military
In 1876 Government Surveyors found this old wagon in the valley north of "Emigrant Wash" in Death Valley. Since then this place has been marked on the maps as "Last Wagon".
It was found 52 years ago but up to 1928, nothing definite had been found as to how it came to be in Death Valley.
http://www.vintag.es/2016/12/76-amazing-vintage-photographs.html
Labels: historical, horse wagon
This wagon weighed 7 tons and was loaded with 20 tons of Borax. The tires on the wheels were 10 inches.
Labels: historical, wagon train
Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman, #10 on the Motor Trend 2017 Power List of the most influential people in the business
The Grand Tour Presenter and Producer
They worked together to turn an old-school BBC motoring program into a global television phenomenon, Clarkson the star in front of the camera and Wilman the brains behind it.
The Top Gear story ended but mere months later, Clarkson and Wilman stunned the TV industry by announcing a deal said to be worth $200 million to produce 36 hour-long episodes of a new program, The Grand Tour, for … Amazon.
If broadcast and cable TV operators needed proof their cozy world is about to change forever, this single deal was it. And for a show about men behaving badly with cars, no less.
Motor Trend 2017 Power List, has only two racecar drivers, Ken Block, and F1 World Champ Lewis Hamilton, out of their 50 most influential people in the car industry.
It doesn't matter if he jumps the shark—or does donuts around it. Block's stunts are becoming more predictable yet also more insane. He shows no signs of losing his millions of followers on YouTube or his Gymkhana partnership with Ford, which draws an all-important young audience. You know you've made it when millions watch parody videos of your antics.
http://www.motortrend.com/news/2017-power-list-and-the-person-of-the-year/
Labels: Ken Block, news, top ten list
Chevy beat Tesla to the punch, you can now buy a Chevy Bolt, and for 30% less than Telsa Model S
Chevy intends to keep its promise of cars on the road before the end of 2016, and starts with selling the Bolt in California1st, the largest sales market in the country.
The Bolt has a 238-mile range, which gives it an edge over mass-market electrics that have been around for a while; the Leaf can go 107 miles on a single charge, the Fiat 500e just 85. GM will also have a jump on Tesla Motors Inc.'s first and hotly anticipated mass-market offering, the Model 3, due late next year.
But will it cost them? Chevy may be losing money on each car delivered. Not the first car model to do that.
Why do it though? So soon after a bankruptcy? Just to do business in some states that have legislated zero emissions cars (1st I've heard of this) from the big car makers in order to sell ANY cars in those states:
California crafted the doctrine, with tough clean-air rules and a mandate that automakers sell some non-polluting vehicles if they want to do business in the Golden State. Nine others have adopted it, New York and New Jersey among them, and all told they make up close to 30 percent of the U.S. market.
That goes a long way to explaining why zero-emissions models from more than 10 brands are on the roads, with more on the way.
Just consider how many gas guzzler trucks and sports cars Chevy wants to sell in those same markets, and those gas guzzlers are all the most expensive, and most profitable, vehicles that Chevy makes
Two California cities, Los Angeles and Bakersfield, are the most smog- and particulate-laden in the U.S. Brown has called climate change "the existential threat of our time." And California is where ZEVs are being dumped. More than half of all electrics were sold there in the first six months of 2016, according to IHS Markit Ltd.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV's battery-powered Fiat 500e is made for California alone, and Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne said in 2014 that it was losing $14,000 per sale. The company's pretty much giving it away, at a monthly lease-rate of as little as $69.
http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/12/chevrolets-bolt-configurator-goes-live-deliveries-before-years-end/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-30/gm-s-ready-to-lose-9-000-a-pop-and-chase-the-electric-car-boom
Labels: electric car, news
A moment to ponder Subaru
Subaru sales in the U.S. market grew 13 percent to more than half a million last year and were pacing up a further 4 percent through the first nine months of 2016—double the industry rate.
That's quite the feat given that Subardoesn't sell a single truck.
Labels: Subaru
Petroliana coming up for auction next week at Morphy
http://www.morphyauctions.com/auctions/past-auctions/advertising-petroliana/
Labels: auction, petroliana
This guy gets it... too many prima dona BMXers out there thinking you have to blow a fortune to look the part to mountain bike down a hill needed to be taken down a notch... so - he seems to have made a film to prove the point.
Labels: extreme sports video, humor, stunts
Don't watch this if you're afraid of heights
http://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/6273/get-down-from-there-fabio
Labels: extreme sports video, stunts
teach them young to fix their own cars!
there wasn't much to do in Mesa Arizona in 1972, so they shoehorned a 401 into a Gremlin, and tried selling it
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/321577158048111/permalink/543358759203282/
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Q: Why doesn't webpack include assert.rejects when bundling (UMD library target) You can use this repo as a starting point if you wish: https://github.com/goofballLogic/webpackery
My code runs an assertion
const assert = require( "assert" );
assert.rejects( () => Promise.reject() );

which passes in node.js.
When I bundle this code using webpack and run from node (or e.g. in a browser) it produces the following output. Why?
> ./node_modules/.bin/webpack-cli --entry ./test.js --output test.bundle.js --libraryTarget umd --mode development

Hash: d30ba0b02040a574f117
Version: webpack 4.33.0
Time: 200ms
Built at: 06/12/2019 10:50:56
         Asset      Size  Chunks             Chunk Names
test.bundle.js  51.8 KiB    null  [emitted]  null
Entrypoint null = test.bundle.js
[./node_modules/webpack/buildin/global.js] (webpack)/buildin/global.js 472 bytes {null} [built]
[./test.js] 78 bytes {null} [built]
    + 6 hidden modules

> node test.js

webpack:///./test.js?:2
assert.rejects( () => Promise.reject() );
       ^

TypeError: assert.rejects is not a function
    at eval (webpack:///./test.js?:2:8)
    at Object../test.js (/Users/andrewgibson/src/webpackery/test.bundle.js:175:1)
    at __webpack_require__ (/Users/andrewgibson/src/webpackery/test.bundle.js:20:30)
    at /Users/andrewgibson/src/webpackery/test.bundle.js:84:18
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/andrewgibson/src/webpackery/test.bundle.js:87:10)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:774:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:785:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:641:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:556:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:837:10)

A: asserts.rejects is only available in NodeJS v10.x and above.

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Downton Abbey is coming back to our screens
September 11, 2018 ~ Michael Stevenson	~ Leave a comment
IT WAS television gold, and now Downton Abbey the movie is in the works.Original cast members, including Michelle Dockerty and Joanne Froggatt, will return for the film.Producers have said that all the original principle cast will come back for the production, set to start filming this year.
Taking to social media site Instagram, Dockerty, who played Lady Mary Crawley, wrote: "The secret's out.. thrilled to announce that Downton Abbey is coming to the big screen."
Froggatt, who played lady's maid Anna Bates added: "Delighted to announce we're getting the band back together." Downton's creator Julian Fellowes wrote the screenplay for the new film and will co-produce. Downton Abbey followed the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and the servants who worked for them at the start of the 20th century [ . . . ]
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Unforgotten – nobody escapes the past in a finale full of redemption
April 23, 2018 ~ Michael Stevenson	~ Leave a comment
We find out who killed Jimmy (take a bow, one of the commenters from episode three's blog) in an episode that ties up the loose ends via a wedding, a funeral and a suicide [ . . .] *** SPOILER ALERT ***
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MASTERPIECE Podcast: Nicola Walker
April 9, 2018 May 6, 2018 ~ Michael Stevenson	~ Leave a comment
Nicola Walker leads the crime-fighting duo on the new MASTERPIECE Mystery! drama, Unforgotten. But the series' complicated cold-case investigations surprise even her as they unfold week after week. Walker shares stories of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Broadway and why she could never be counted on to keep a criminal secret.
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Paul Hollywood: "I have missed Mary, Mel and Sue"
March 6, 2018 March 6, 2018 ~ Michael Stevenson	~ Leave a comment
The Bake Off presenter admits it was hard filming the new series without the old gang
Paul Hollywood has revealed that he "missed Mary, Mel and Sue" and that filming the new series of The Great British Bake Off has been "hard" at times.
RADIOTIMES :: Bake Off left its home on BBC1 last year after it was bought by Channel 4 for £25 million. Presenters Mel and Sue decided not to "go with the dough" and follow the show to the new broadcaster, as did judge Mary Berry. However, Paul Hollywood stuck with the programme during its switch and will reprise his judging role in the new series.
"I have missed Mary, Mel and Sue," Hollywood told Closer. "When I started filming the new Bake Off it was hard." [ . . . ]
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The Crown, Season 2: How True Is It?
December 8, 2017 February 15, 2018 ~ Michael Stevenson	~ Leave a comment
It sure seems real, sumptuously produced and beautifully acted. But how much truth? How much fiction?
Season 2 of the successful Netflix series The Crown that premieres Friday, December 8, kicks off with a taboo subject: the rumored infidelity of the British monarch's husband, Prince Philip, with a fictional ballet dancer (which is based on rumors at the time of an affair with the actress Pat Kirkwood.)
At the same time, some biographers like Sarah Bradford in her book Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Our Times, present his infidelity as a fact, adding that she talked with two women who had been romantically involved with the royal consort.
The answer about how close is The Crown to the real life of the British royals, though, is very nuanced. After all, throughout its history the royal family has become quite adept at keeping secrets.
"The series is incredibly accurate and true to the history," Robert Lacey, a historical biographer and consultant for the series who just published his new book, The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1: Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill and the Making of a Young Queen (1947-1955), told royal correspondent Tom Sykes. "If you go into the Left Bank offices—Left Bank being the company producing the series for Netflix—the first thing you see is a huge newsroom with eight full-time researchers working away, and that's just the start, the raw material." | Read More at : The Crown, Season 2: How True Is It?