Who is the GBVIMS Steering Committee?
The GBVIMS Global Team was established in 2007 in response to the need for a standardized information management system to manage GBV incident data in humanitarian contexts. Today, the GBVIMS is an inter-agency initiative overseen by a Steering Committee made up of representatives from the IRC, UNHCR, UNFPA, UNICEF, and IMC.
What is the GBVIMS Technical Team?
The GBVIMS Technical Team consists of GBVIMS Specialists seated in UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, and the IRC through funding and support from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of the Government of Canada and the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, USG. The Inter-Agency Coordinator (IAC) is first point of contact on GBVIMS-related queries and information on all GBVIMS-related issues. The IAC coordinates with the inter-agency, GBVIMS Steering Committee and provides backstopping for technical support needs. The GBVIMS Surge Team consists of two consultants hired by UNICEF and serving as inter-agency representatives of the Steering Committee and two consultants hired by UNHCR to provide technical support to on-going implementation of the GBVIMS in selected conflict-affected contexts and to other past or potential roll-out sites and to develop resources and lessons learned to further assist implementation of the GBVIMS in humanitarian contexts worldwide. The IRC GBV Information Management Specialist provides technical support to IRC's GBV programming while engaging with inter-agency rollouts and implementations of the GBVIMS. The GBVIMS Technical Team works closely with and is accountable to the GBVIMS Steering Committee. As new member of the GBVIMS Steering Committee, International Medical Corps, will join the Surge Team in supporting the use of the IMS globally, with specific focus on health service providers.
Kate Rougvie, GBVIMS Inter-agency Coordinator. Kate is based at UNFPA HQ in New York, and can be reached at krougvie@unfpa.org, or at gbvims@gmail.com.
Kate has worked across a number of humanitarian coordination, programming and research roles on GBV, gender and child protection in contexts such as Jordan, Liberia, DRC, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Lebanon, and Burundi, with experience within a range of UN (DPKO, UNRWA, UNFPA), INGO (The Carter Center, IRC, ARC, Mercy Corps), and academic institutions. Kate's academic background focused on gender in peace and conflict studies, and interpreting and translating. Kate joined the global team as a dedicated GBVIMS Inter-agency Coordinator in August 2017.
Graduate in International Humanitarian law, Caroline qualified as a lawyer in Paris before taking on humanitarian roles. She worked for over eight years on GBV prevention and response, first on the fight against impunity of sexual violence in Ethiopia and DR Congo with OHCHR, then on GBV programming with IRC and DRC in Lebanon and the Middle East as well as on GBV Monitoring and Evaluation with IOM in Geneva.
Kate McCallister, Global GBV Information Management System Specialist with UNHCR, works with refugee and IDP operations. Kate is based in Chicago and can be reached at mccallis@unhcr.org.
Kate has a background in GBV programming and information management and has been working in humanitarian and development settings for over 10 years. Kate was previously a member of the GBVIMS Technical Team from 2009 – 2013. She assumed her current role as a UNHCR GBVIMS Specialist in October 2017, which also includes support on GBV IM more broadly.
Kristy leads information management strategy development and implementation for the Women's Protection and Empowerment sector at IRC. She started her career in the US Peace Corps in Bangladesh in community development. She has 10 years of experience in the protection and GBV field working in information management, academic research, data management and systems development, project management, refugee resettlement, and monitoring and evaluation.
Laura Canali, Regional GBV Advisor with IMC. She can be reached at lcanali@internationalmedicalcorps.org.
Laura has a broad international experience in the field of Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies. Before joiing IMC as the Regional GBV Advisor for the Middle East region, Laura held various program management and coordination positions with international NGOs in South Sudan (ARC), Liberia (IRC), and Uganda (with the European Union and COOPI). She graduated from the University or York with a Master of International Human Rights Law and Practice in 2011. She joined the Gender-Based Violence Information Management System (GBVIMS) Global team in June 2015, when IMC joined the GBVIMS Steering Committee.
Maria Ca terina Ciampi, Inter-Agency GBVIMS Technical Specialist based with UNICEF, covers the Anglophone and Arabic countries. Maria Caterina is based in France and can be reached at mcciampi@unicef.org.
Maria Caterina is a social worker and public health professional with over 18 years of experience focusing on gender equality promotion and GBV prevention and response in stable and disaster/conflict-affected settings. Canadian and international experience includes: conducting assessments and action research for programme design; building and managing teams; providing and supporting the establishment of specialized services for survivors of gender-based violence; implementing information-management systems; developing pedagogical materials and training initiatives; testing and monitoring programme standards; and ensuring quality control and assurance.
What support can the GBVIMS Technical Team provide?
The GBVIMS Technical Team provides on- and off-site field support to the GBVIMS roll-out process. This will include providing assistance through skype help desks, direct requests for technical support from country programs, and through in-country training and support missions.
Who is eligible for assistance from the GBVIMS Technical Team?
For countries already using the GBVIMS, what assistance can be requested from the GBVIMS Technical Team?
For countries not yet using the GBVIMS, what assistance can be requested from the GBVIMS Technical Team?
The GBVIMS Technical Team can provide information on the GBVIMS, including further explanation of documents and tools available on the GBVIMS website and assist to develop requests for roll-out or in-country missions, including completing the preliminary assessment reports.
How can remote trouble-shooting and support from the GBVIMS Technical Team be accessed?
How can in-country support from the GBVIMS Technical Team be requested?
Organizations wishing to have support from the GBVIMS Technical Team can make a request via email to the GBVIMS Technical Team or to any member(s) of the GBVIMS Steering Committee. The request will be submitted to the GBVIMS Steering Committee for consideration. Decisions will be made by the Steering Committee based on need and resources available.
How long can the GBVIMS Surge Team be deployed?
The duration of time for a deployment will vary based on the need and context. However, generally the Technical Team can be deployed for an average of 1 to 4 weeks.


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In Approaching the Bench: Tales of a Personal Injury Lawyer, attorney Jan Weinberg shares some of his most fascinating cases over a career that has spanned decades. Beginning with stories of his time at Harvard Law School-years marked by anxiety and skipping classes-to his first assignment to a client while still a law student, and then being a partner in a law firm and finally practicing on his own in Hawaii, Weinberg offers a revealing portrait of not only the clients, judges, and opponents he faced in the courtroom, but also a look at how being a lawyer at times affected his personal life.
Anyone who loves good courtroom drama will find much to enjoy in this book. There are fascinating details about how Weinberg researches his cases and finds precedents for his arguments; there are female clients more interested in hitting on him than having him defend them, and there are some heart-wrenching stories of clients who desperately needed someone to stand up and fight for their rights, and Weinberg was able to do that for them.
While I can't detail every story here, I'll briefly mention a few of my favorites. One case Weinberg wasn't involved in but that was a key case he learned about in law school was the case of the hairy hand-in this case, a doctor did a skin graft by taking skin from a patient's chest and using it for his hand-when chest hair grew on the patient's hand, the patient was not happy. This case is one every good law student apparently knows about.
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One story that really made me admire Weinberg's techniques in the courtroom was when he was questioning a doctor who was an expert witness in the trial for his side. Feigning full disclosure, but really to get the jury's sympathy, Weinberg asked the doctor whether it was true that he was a convicted felon. The man replied, "Yes, I am a convicted felon. But, please, may I explain. As I told the jury, I am a Hungarian. You may recall that in 1956, the Soviet Union sent tanks and troops to overtake our country. I was a young man then, and with other young men filled Coke bottles with gasoline and inserted rags in them. We would run up to the tanks, light the rags, and throw the bottles under the tanks. We called ourselves 'freedom fighters.' The Soviets called us 'terrorists.' I was convicted of terrorism and spent two years in a Soviet prison in solitary confinement." Weinberg goes on to say that the doctor "spoke in a mellifluous tone of voice, with a distinct Hungarian accent. His performance was operatic. He was mesmerizing. He spoke directly to the juror who seemed to be attracted to him. She had tears in her eyes as he finished his answer. The Hungarian dance of love looked like it was succeeding."
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Hilda Anne Carline (1889–1950) was a British painter, daughter of the artist George Francis Carline, and first wife of the artist Stanley Spencer. She studied art under the Post-Impressionist Percyval Tudor-Hart, with her brothers Sydney and Richard, and then at the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks. She had a promising early start with her works being shown at the London Group, Royal Academy and New English Art Club.

In 1925 she married fellow artist Stanley Spencer with whom she had what has been described as "the most bizarre domestic soap opera in the history of British art." During the time that Carline lived with Spencer she rarely painted and it was not until they separated that she began painting more frequently. Carline's physical and mental health was poor starting several years after her divorce and after 1937 she lived with family members. Spencer became obsessed with his ex-wife with whom he corresponded and painted. In her later years she made religious works with pastels. She died in 1950, having struggled for several years with breast cancer. A touring exhibition of her works, The Art of Hilda Carline: Mrs. Stanley Spencer, was held in 1999.

Early life
Hilda Anne Carline was born on 20 November 1889 to the artist George Francis Carline and Annie Smith Carline, who had been adopted by a relative and never knew her mother or father, John Smith.

Carline was one of five children born to the family. Of her brothers, Richard and Sydney became artists, and George chose another career. The family moved many times when she was a child. She lived in London until 1892 when the family moved to Oxford. After that, they lived in Switzerland, Derbyshire and returned to Oxford.

Adulthood

Education and World War I service
George Carline taught his daughter to paint until October 1913, when she enrolled in the school that Percyval Tudor-Hart had established in Hampstead. Prior to that, Tudor-Hart had a school in Paris where her brothers Sydney and Richard had studied. Now, Sydney, Richard and Hilda lived and studied together, sharing their opinions about art. Hilda focused on making watercolour paintings and sketching. Tudor-Hart, a Post-Impressionist who was an early proponent of colour theories of Wassily Kandinsky, introduced them to avant-garde continental art that was "expressive, bold, abstract and 'primitive.'"

From 1916 to 1918 Hilda did farm work for the Women's Land Army near Wangford, Suffolk. She made Return from the Farm, in a Gauguinesque style that reflected her connection to and appreciation for the countryside. After the war she enrolled at the Slade School of Art, where she studied part-time over five years. Under Henry Tonks, Carline studied line and formalism, which was different from the instruction she received from Tudor-Hart. She was able to leverage what she learned from Tudor-Hart to make works that were nearly abstract landscapes, and she also made refined landscapes and figures from Tonks instruction. She earned prizes for her drawings and paintings. In the early 1920s, Hilda participated in the gatherings of artists and intellectuals – including Stanley Spencer, John and Paul Nash. – that met at her family's house on Downshire Hill in Hampstead. Henry Lamb called them "cercle pan-artisque of Downshire Hill." She and her brothers exhibited at the London Group, Hilda in 1921. She also exhibited at the New English Art Club and the Royal Academy.

Marriage
In December 1919, she met Stanley Spencer. He liked the fact that she was a devout Christian Scientist, talented, imaginative and striking. Spencer said of her: "I felt she had the same mental attitude to things as I had. I saw myself in that extraordinary person. I saw life with her."

The Carline family travelled for painting retreats and Stanley Spencer accompanied them on the 1920 Seaford, Sussex, 1922 Yugoslavia and 1924 Essex and Suffolk trips. Spencer and Hilda Carline often painted landscapes side-by-side, making similar works. He proposed to her six times before they were married, Spencer got cold feet and called the wedding off, only to ask her again. They were married quietly on 23 February 1925 and lived in the Vale of Heath Hotel, near Hampstead Heath. A shared studio was established at the Vale of Heath. In 1927 they moved to Hampshire and by 1931 they were living in Burghclere, Hampshire.

They had two daughters, Shirin (born 1925) and Unity (born 1930). While the girls were young Carline was unable to paint much, needing to tend to them and household duties. Her self-confidence waned during her marriage to Spencer. He was a man of "idiosyncratic vision, unassailable conviction, egocentricity, and brilliance." They could both be stubborn and argumentative. Richard Carline's wife, the artist Nancy Carline, contended that Spencer was frustrated by Hilda's lack of time to devote to paintings and housekeeping, and felt the time she spent gardening and sewing was unnecessary. Although Carline was not painting, she was the subject of several of Spencer's works, the drawings Hilda Nude and Hilda with Hair Down. She made Stanley Nude, which is similar in composition to the sketch Spencer made of her. All three were made in 1931 and ended the first period of works made of Hilda.

Spencer and Carline moved in 1932 to Cookham and bought a large house called Lindworth. Spencer pursued a relationship with Patricia Preece, a neighbor, who had a lesbian lover, Dorothy Hepworth. Preece's actions were like that of a con-artist. Both women were artists, but Preece signed and exhibited Hepworth's works as if they were hers. In 1932 Carline made only two paintings, which journalist John Henshall attributed to depression.

From 1932, Carline and Spencer became increasingly independent of each other, and Spencer began painting and drawing Preece. Although he faltered on his obligations to provide support for Hilda and the girls, Spencer bought Preece gifts, including jewellery. "Hilda later wrote that Patricia was interested in Spencer for his money (he did indeed spend recklessly on her) and 'set about to procure him, trying to keep the road clear to get rid of him when she wanted to. . . She vamped him to a degree unbelievable. . . If he went to her house, she always received him half or quarter dressed.'"

By the mid-1930s the couple were living apart, their daughter Shirin was sent to live with a relative, and two of her brothers had died. Throughout the emotional crisis, her sister-in-law, Nancy Carline (wife of Richard) said that painting was therapeutic for her. One of the works, Lady in Green, was made of Preece, and she travelled to Cookham to make the painting. Carline and Spencer were divorced in May 1937, and Preece and Spencer were married the next week. The marriage was not consummated, they never lived together and Preece had him evicted from the house in 1938 after he had signed over his financial business and house to her. Spencer then lived in Hampstead in a single room. From 1937 onward, Carline and the girls lived with family members including her mother that year. Subsequently, there began a decline in Carline's mental health.

Spencer began visiting his ex-wife regularly after his relationship with Preece ended, although they remained legally married. Spencer made paintings of Carline, some of which were realistic portraits and others were imaginative paintings.

Art
When she began she made daring, unique paintings. She then was immersed in what Alfred Hickling of The Guardian phrased was "the most bizarre domestic soap opera in the history of British art." She was one of the early British modernist painters and made important works and interacted with other artists in the movement. She never developed a theme or signature style, largely because of the long periods of not painting when she was married.

Carline struggled to see herself, and have others see her, as a serious artist: when she was studying with her brothers she thought she just needed some space in a hall, while her brothers had their own rooms in the studio building. When she was married she shared a small room with her youngest daughter, Unity, and her things were cramped and hard to get to. She said: "I cannot even have my paintbox about – it has to be packed away." Carline shared some space at times with her husband but did not have the time or space to paint seriously. She became an artist during the Edwardian era, when there were strict responsibilities and limitations for single and married woman. The pathos of her lot seems borne out by the self-portrait that she made not long before she married. She seems trapped, shaded under her hat, and yet slightly defiant.

Carline retained her own artistic style, like the portrait she made of Elsie, their housekeeper. It was a "meticulous and candid" portrayal. The quality of her work improved after her divorce. Towards the end of her life, Carline created works that expressed her devout religious beliefs using pastels.

Ill health and death

Her health began to falter in the 1940s. In 1942 she had a nervous breakdown, and was in a mental hospital for eight months, during which time she was visited every Sunday by Spencer. After their divorce, Spencer continued to be "obsessed" with her and that only increased after her breakdown. He became a prolific writer and painter. In 1947 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy.  On 1 November 1950 she died at Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, where Stanley had often been at her bedside. She was buried in Cookham, Berkshire.

Spencer continued to be inspired by Hilda after her death, continuing his stream of works from his memory and writing letters to her until his death.

Carline's reputation has grown following her death. She is recognized for her talent, specifically for "her incisive portraits and atmospheric landscapes." A touring exhibition of her work entitled The Art of Hilda Spencer: Mrs. Stanley Spencer, curated by Timothy Wilcox and Alison Thomas, was conducted in 1999. It was shown at Lincoln's Usher Gallery and Kenwood House. On the 60th anniversary of Carline's death, an exhibition was held in her honour. Her daughter Shirin opened the event on 10 April 2014. The works made by Stanley Spencer of her were exhibited at the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham.

Works
A few of her works are:
A fantasy, 1914
Cliffs *
Cookham Bridge *
Downshire Hill Garden *
Elsie, 1929, Brighton and Hove Museum *
Hampstead *
Lady in Green (Patricia Preece) *
Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 1930, private collector*
Return from the Farm, 1919
Seaford, East Sussex *
Self-Portrait, 1923, Tate
Swans *

* Shown in the 1999 "The Art of Hilda Carline, Mrs Stanley Spencer" exhibition of her work, which was shown in Kenwood, London, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea and York City Art Gallery.

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References

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1889 births
1950 deaths
20th-century English painters
20th-century English women artists
Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art
Hilda
English women painters
Sibling artists
People from Hampstead
People from Cookham
Deaths from breast cancer
Deaths from cancer in England

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Q: Modify the parameter of a function only once I started with Haskell a few days ago.
I have the following piece of code (recursive function):
totaltime t [x] = 0
totaltime t route = tbd + totaltime (t+tbd) (tail(route))
    where tbd = timebetweendepartures (fst(route!!0)) (fst(route!!1)) t (snd(route!!1))

"route" is a list of tuples, e.g: [(3,1), (1,2), (5,2), (2,1)]
What I'm trying to do, is to add (0,0) to the route before the function even starts doing what it's supposed to do.
So if the parameter route is passed as [(3,1), (1,2), (5,2), (2,1)] then the function should receive it as [(0,0), (3,1), (1,2), (5,2), (2,1)]
I could just do totaltime t ((0,0):route), but since the function is recursive this won't work as intended.
Ideas are much appreciated!

A: Short answer: you can scope the function totaltime into a where clause, and expose another function that prepends the list with (0,0):
totaltime t l = tt t ((0,0):l)
where tt t [x] = 0
      tt t route = tbd + tt (t+tbd) (tail(route))
          where tbd = timebetweendepartures (fst(route!!0)) (fst(route!!1)) t (snd(route!!1))

But that being said, the code is quite inelegant and probably unsafe:

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*you do not define a case for an empty list;

*the case that is used for the empty list is the second clause, where you call !!0 and !!1 which are functions that are not total.

Furthermore it is not very elegant you call fst and snd. We can introduce patterns in the head of the clause that ususally make it more elegant and easier to understand. We can thus rewrite our tt function to:
tt t [] = ... # create a case for the empty list
tt t [x] = 0
tt t ((x0,_):xys@((x1,y1):_)) = tbd + tt (t+tbd) xys
    where tbd = timebetweendepartures x0 x1 t y1

so now we can use it like:
totaltime t l = tt t ((0,0):l)
    where tt t [] = ... # create a case for the empty list
          tt t [x] = 0
          tt t ((x0,_):xys@((x1,y1):_)) = tbd + tt (t+tbd) xys
              where tbd = timebetweendepartures x0 x1 t y1

Of course in this case, it would be impossible to ever handle the empty list, since totaltime prepends (0,0) we have guarantees that the initial call is a call with at least one element, and we perform recursion on the direct tail, so that means that the list decreases with one at a time.
We still can however improve the function by using three arugments: the t variable; the head of the list, the tail of the list, and rewrite it to:
totaltime t = tt t (0,0)
    where tt _ _ [] = 0
          tt t (x0,_) (xyh@(x1,y1):xyt) = tbd + tt (t+tbd) xyh xyt
              where tbd = timebetweendepartures x0 x1 t y1

Now the code is syntactically total, and furthermore it can boost efficiency (since we avoid unpacking some parts of the list twice.
We can still improve the code. Notice that we only take the first element of the head of the list (we do not use an y0 variable). So we can omit packing and unpackand and rewrite it to:
totaltime t = tt t 0
    where tt _ _ [] = 0
          tt t x0 ((x1,y1):xyt) = tbd + tt (t+tbd) x1 xyt
              where tbd = timebetweendepartures x0 x1 t y1
Now we save on unpacking tuples and it is more clear what we do.

A: You could wrap the function into an "entry-point" function that does the pre-processing of the externally received parameters:
 totaltime t route =
   totaltime' t ((0,0):route)
   where
      totaltime' t [x] = 0
      totaltime' t route = .....

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What's that we keep hearing about modern medicine? That it's evidence based? If this doesn't clarify how false that claim is, nothing can. The reality is that most of modern medicine has little or nothing to do with evidence. The claim is hype, a method of promoting allopathic medicine and to try to sideline all others as not being based on evidence.
They assumed that certain things were true, but did so without any evidence. They assumed that a weight range they believed to be healthy was, by definition, ideal. Thus, they defined any BMI over 25 to be, at a minimum, Overweight. Then, they assumed that there must be a simple progression—that the more you weighed over your "ideal" weight, the worse your health.
They simply didn't bother to look. If they had, they'd have seen the truth. Only the most Obese are harmed by it. Those in between are actually better off for carrying what doctors would call "excess" weight.
This new AMA edict stating that obesity is, by definition, a disease, has little to do with reality. But it does give cover for their treatments. They've started drugging fetuses in the womb to prevent obesity. In spite of the enormous dangers in bariatric surgery, it's growing ever more common.
The use of bisphosphonates to treat and prevent osteoporosis was never based on evidence. It was based on an assumption, the belief that, because phosphorus is a component of bones, then giving it in drug form would be beneficial. Indeed, they even invented a new disease so there would be a whole new class of people to take their poisonous bisphosphonates: osteopenia, people whose bones are less dense than some arbitrarily defined amount.
The result has been disastrous for a number of women. Had the medical system actually looked at evidence, they'd have known that phosphorus can cause bones, especially the jaw bone, to disintegrate. It's been known for centuries. The term "phossy jaw" referred to unfortunate match factory workers whose jaws had crumbled as a result of phosphorus exposure. Nonetheless, there was money to be made in selling bisphosphonates to women—even when there was no disease present. Those women whose legs suddenly snapped or whose jaws crumbled, disfiguring them for life and even making it difficult or impossible to eat normally, are simply collateral damage in the rush to profits.
Massively overprescribed treatment after treatment has proven to do far more harm than good, primarily because real evidence was ignored in favor of junk science and the profits in the treatments were enormous. Hormone replacement therapy for the nonexistent disease of menopause and statins for the nonexistent disease of high cholesterol are two such examples.
The reality is that most of the studies that modern medicine relies on for its "evidence" are not based on a genuine search for truth. Rather, they're based on getting the results that the funder wants. As a direct result, a huge proportion of the "evidence" that is used to support treatments has little to do with evidence, and everything to do with selling drugs.
So, the AMA has just defined itself a new disease, obesity, and everyone who is over some arbitrary weight is a target for treatment. The fact that real evidence shows that most of those who are defined as obese are actually healthier for carrying the extra weight is irrelevant.
The evidence based medicine mantra is a ploy. It's chanted over and over, until it's believed to be truth. But its purpose is not to provide the best possible medicine. The reality, as we can see by the AMA's utterly callous and enormously greedy decision to define obesity as a disease, is that profits are what drive the profession.


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Sofi de la Torre: Sit Down
Posted on 13 June, 2016 Author cheatbook
The Canary Islands are better known for package holidays than sultry pop, but Sofi de la Torre is well on her way to changing that. Having already been commended by the likes of The Guardian, Noisey and Billboard, she presents her upcoming feisty single and video, 'Sit Down', on 10th June. Following the release of her 'Mess' EP last year, featuring tracks such as stream-of-consciousness smooth summer jam '19 in Mexico' and 'London x Paris' – which saw a spin from Jaden Smith on his Beats 1 show – Sofi's return is marked by a sassy new sound. Globe-trotting between the Canary Islands, London, LA and Helsinki, the Berlin-based artist's style touches on a range of influences, with electronic beats and a subtle Scandi-pop inclination inspired by her ongoing collaboration with Finnish producer Jonas Karlsson.
It's clear by now that Sofi doesn't release the same thing twice: each new track is a fresh, innovative approach that still manages to sit perfectly within the walls of her signature #popdoneright sound – a hashtag which spearheads her vivacious online presence. Chosen to encapsulate a style which Sofi remarks is neither "full on pop or indie pop…"pop done right" is what came to my mind because it has R&B influences", the inspiration of artists like Drake shine through on 'Sit Down'. An infectious blend of her distinctive voice and seductive half-whispered rapping, the track's mellow production and tropical-tinged beats are juxtaposed with bold, brazen lyrics and warped vocals unlike anything Sofi has unleashed before.
Driven by a crystal clear vision, de la Torre is involved in every part of the creative process, from press shots to social media – bringing a crucial DIY aesthetic both to her unique brand of pop and her status as an independent artist as a whole. Above all, Sofi wants 'Sit Down' to be empowering: "This song is so liberating…not just for me – for anyone out there who feels they have something to say about any situation that bothers them. We all know a person who needs to sit the fuck down. The world is full of petty people. And this song is their anthem". With celebrity fans including Grimes and Paramore's lead singer Hayley Williams, and support from publications including The Sunday Times and Nylon, Sofi de la Torre's 'Sit Down' showcases a commendable ability and commitment to developing her sound. Despite being approached by a number of major labels over the past few months, it's clear that her priorities lie just one way: staying true to her 'pop done right' philosophy, and to herself.
Sofi de la Torre: Sit Down Lyrics:
I'ma tell you to sit down real quick
Sit down, si- sit down real quick
Ain't nobody got time for this shit
U a clown, make me watch my back cause I'm fearful
Face like that…actin cheerful
Ain't nobody buyin, ain't nobody buyin
U a clown…so my eyes stay open
Cause I know you're waitin for the perfect moment
I don't wanna hear a single word
I don't, I don't wanna hear a single word from u
I don't, I don't wanna hear a single word
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Foi criada em 2017 com a fusão da FIRS (Federação Internacional de Desportos sobre Patins) e do ISP (International Skateboarding Federation).

Divide-se em World Skate Europe, World Skate America, World Skate Africa, World Skate Asia e World Skate Oceania.

A entidade é responsável por estabelecer o ranking que define as vagas para os Jogos Olímpicos.

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Buoyed by Response, Sssh.com Plans 'Women in Porn' Sequel
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CYBERSPACE (July 28, 2014) - In the wake of the July 22 online debate "Women in Porn: Shattering the Myths," the organizers declared the event "wildly successful" and announced that a second discussion featuring the same panelists is already in the planning stages.
"The response from people who watched the discussion has been tremendous," said Angie Rowntree, owner of the porn-for-women site Sssh.com and coordinator of the debate. "We received so much positive feedback along with several requests asking that we bring back the same panelists, for another show on the same topic. This event really is just part one of an ongoing conversation - which is exactly what we hoped it would become."
Those who weren't able to see the debate can still find it on MindBrowse.com. Rowntree noted that the event was about "giving women in the adult industry a chance to be heard in their own words. I don't want to try to paraphrase the great points the panelists made, and the debate is available to watch any time on MindBrowse.com (www.mindbrowse.com); I encourage everybody interested in these topics to check it out for themselves, firsthand."
Rowntree said that while the entire discussion was animated and engaging, the most heated moments came when the panel took up the topics of performer compensation (including whether performers make less for their efforts now than they did 10 to 20 years ago) and the question of how much responsibility the porn industry should shoulder for keeping children from accessing pornography - exchanges that Rowntree said "people really need to see and hear for themselves."
Rowntree added that other live panel discussions, interviews and debates will soon air on MindBrowse.com, including the live broadcast of "An Intimate Talk with Nina Hartley and Ernest Greene", which is scheduled for August 26, and a discussion entitled "Feminism and Porn: Can They Co-Exist?" slated for broadcast in September. The second edition of "Women in Porn: Shattering the Myths" will follow in October, Rowntree said.
Rowntree says that the goal for MindBrowse.com is to develop into a "TED-like platform for discussion of serious, weighty issues surrounding the adult industry."
"One of the best-kept secrets about our industry is that it is filled with amazing people," Rowntree said. "I'd love to see MindBrowse.com become a vehicle for people to contribute their perspective on a range of issues, and not necessarily just those that directly relate to the adult industry."
To watch the "Women in Porn: Shattering the Myths" debate and for more information on future events visit MindBrowse.com or Sssh.com
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Watch This: One Mazda 787 Prototype Keeps an Interesting Secret
Marshall Pruett and Mazda's Mo Murray remind us that racing cars change colors.
Adam Ismail
PublishedJanuary 5, 2023
The 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans-winning No. 55 Mazda 787B, driven by Volker Weidler, Johnny Herbert and Bertrand Gachot.
Photo: Simon Bruty (Getty Images)
The Mazda 787B may not have been the fastest prototype to participate in the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans. In fact, it certainly wasn't, with a qualifying time 12 seconds slower than that of the pole Sauber-Mercedes C11. But you don't win Le Mans on speed alone, or sometimes even speed at all. Reliability and efficiency are king. That's how Mazda became the first Japanese manufacturer to win the event, and probably the only one that will ever do it using rotary power alone. Of course, it helped that the car looked stunning too, with its argyle green-and-orange livery.
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Mazda brought several of its Group C prototypes to IMSA's Long Beach Grand Prix last May, and journalist Marshall Pruett has posted a very interesting video about one of the 787Bs on hand.
Credit: Marshall Pruett via YouTube
It's the 787 with the white-and-blue corporate Mazda livery that's of interest here. Mo Murray, Mazda Motorsports director, tells Pruett in the video that this car raced in the 1990 and '91 Le Mans event, and finished eighth in the latter. Note that it's not the 787B — that revision first appeared in '91, and it was the No. 55 "B" chassis that won the race. As Murray researched Mazda's collection and discovered in a book written by Pierre Dieudonné — one of the drivers of that No. 56 car — the white-and-blue 787 originally wore those iconic colors, too.
Chips on the wing and radiator reveal the No. 56's original paint job. It's the very same orange that bore Charge and Renown sponsorship on the winning 787B, as well as earlier iterations, like the 767. Murray tells us that the Charge/Renown livery moved to the newer 787B in '91, leaving the older car to be repainted in Mazda's colors.
These weren't the only looks for Mazda's prototype; the 787B also ran in the green-and-white colors of ɛ̃fini, Mazda's short-lived, pseudo-luxury brand exclusive to the Japanese market, for a few races in Japan in '91. It's hard to find a sourceable photo of that machine, but as always, Racing Sports Cars has us covered.
Motorsports fans know that livery changes are routine, but as time passes — particularly since events in the pre-internet world — documenting these things becomes harder and harder.
For example, Nissan only ever built one R390 GT1 road car — a blue car that remains in the automaker's collection in Japan, with a long-tail body. However, when the R390 homologation model was first built in 1997, it was red, with a completely different rear-end design.
The lone Nissan R390 GT1 road car, in navy with the long tail.
Image: Morio via Wikipedia
It might seem like there are two different R390s out there, but the red one hasn't been photographed since the blue one appeared. They're the same chassis. Another secret: the R390's greenhouse is visibly similar to that of the Jaguar XJR-15, because Tom Walkinshaw Racing was contracted to build both and utilized some of the same tooling.
Not that we'd recommend it (or say we did in a court of law), but if you managed to infiltrate Nissan's headquarters and chip at the body of the blue R390 road car with a knife, chances are you'd find a different hue underneath, just like on the No. 56 Mazda 787.


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Gov'ts fund propaganda instead of civic education -Prof. Adei
botchway June 26, 2019
By Maxwell Obiri-Yeboah
The Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Prof. Stephen Adei, has stated that successive governments from time in memorial have failed in educating the entire Ghanaian populace to have a total knowledge of their of their rights, privileges and responsibilities.
Rather, regimes that thrive democratically to govern the country have intentionally funded propaganda activities in order to push their political agenda for so many years.
He expressed that he was sure underfunding the NCCE was a "deliberate attempt" by politicians "to make sure that NCCE does not work," but rather keep the citizens in the dark and prevent them from gaining knowledge.
"I believe that we have sufficient money in the nation to fund all the needs of the NCCE. It's a small institution. GH¢2 million to educate the whole of Ghana on civility …Even in my small university, we are talking about GH¢30 million and over. I think that this is a deliberate attempt to make sure that the NCCE does not work. And that is not the government of today. The governments' of the day don't want that. They would do anything at all; they would like to give the money to the Ministry of Information, because it is their propaganda machinery," the Commissioner opined.
This pronouncement was made in Accra yesterday, when the NCCE met stakeholders and members of the diplomatic community to have a discussion on public accountability, dubbed "Abuse of Office" by public officials.
This statement from the renowned academician came after the Chairperson of the NCCE, Ms. Josephine Nkrumah, had stated that her office was given only GH¢2 million to educate the entire 30 million Ghanaians nationwide on all activities of national importance with such a meager amount to cover all their numerous activities.
He also reiterated that the 1992 Constitution needed to be reviewed to stipulate the powers that citizens hold to make our democracy attractive.
According to him, when it comes to accountability, power and capability of the citizenry to hold public officers accountable, it seems not to be available in the framework that birthed and hold the fundamentals of the nation.
This national dialogue was held by the NCCE to discuss excerpts from a study it conducted on "Public Opinion on Corruption, Accountability and Environmental Governance," which reports were released last year, 2018.
Per the survey report, it came out that 53.3 percent of services rendered in state institutions was executed after a bribe was received by an official undertaking such a transaction before it was successfully done.
The report showed that 21 percent of media accounts were reported in state institutions.
The Ghana Police Service topped as the most corrupt office in the country with 46.5 percent, followed by the Judicial Service, civil servants, ministries, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority pulling 7.8 percent, 5.1, 4.3 and 3.7 percent respectively.
Touching on some of the worries Members of Parliament (MP) go through and ways to curb corruption among parliamentarians, Prof. Adei, however, expressed that "one of the fundamental mistakes which the Government of Ghana and Parliament made was giving an MP part of the Common Fund. So now, people look at you that there is a Common Fund; you are our bank" and they expect an MP to attend to their numerous needs, whereas the money could have been given directly to the leaders within the district assemblies to execute developmental projects to benefit the majority.
The former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Procurement Authority also applauded the efforts of the Akufo-Addo government in erecting some electronic platforms housed online, which is a means to reduce corruption in some offices, and also to speed up the processes of transacting some deals in the state departments.
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69 of 69: Last 1969 Camaro ZL-1 - Sold - Crashed - Restored
Although the ad doesn't indicate, this 1-of-69 ZL-1 Camaros is actually #69. The Hugger Orange Camaro rolled off the assembly line in early 1969 and then was shipped off to the Huebner Chevrolet and Oldsmobile Dealership in Carlton, OH.
1969 Camaro ZL-1 #69 History
The Camaro was sold by Archie Huebner to an unknown customer. Through the first couple of years, the ZL-1 received custom candy-coated cobb-web stripes by the famous custom vehicle painter "Greg of Akron".
The Camaro also received a healthy 396 to replace the famous ZL-1 aluminum-block and wider wheel wells for wider rear tires. In the hands of its's first owner, the Camaro turned in a quarter-mile time of 11:29 sec. at Norwalk Raceway in Ohio.
After a few years, the Camaro was sold to a second owner and then thrid. Eventually, the Camaro would get sold to a fourth owner in '78 with only 11,000 miles on it. He would then sell it to a friend in '81 who ended up wrecking it within a week.
#69 ZL-1 Camaro Restoration Time
The Camaro sat for 22 years without no one really knowing what kind of Camaro it was. Then one day someone sent the owner a letter inquiring about the Camaro. So the owner and some friends did some research only to find out they were sitting on a goldmine.
After all the research and the number checking, it was time to start shopping for NOS sheet metal, parts, and everything else that was no longer salvageable on the Camaro.
The 396 engine was pulled a long time before the restoration was started, but luckily for the restorers, they found the original 427 aluminum-block that matched the code for the Camaro.
1969 Camaro ZL-1 Fact Sheet
Vin# 9N650977 (#69)
M22 4-Speed HD Close Ration Transmission
A01 Soft-Ray Tinted Class
D55 Center Console
D80 Air Spoiler Equipment
U17 Special Instrumentation
U63 AM Pushbutton Radio
Z21 Style Trim Group
5927 72-72 Hugger Orange
Sports Car Conversion
9737 Tires (in place of PL5)
The Last 1969 ZL-1 Camaro's Resting Place
Unfortunately, I have done some research and found other documented true '69 ZL-1 Camaros, but I have yet to find this one. I've heard rumors and stories, but nothing positive enough for me to put in writing under fact. Maybe it is in a museum somewhere or held down at someone's garage?
Hopefully, It's Safe!
Posted by Brian at 11:04 AM
Labels: #69 Zl-1 Caamro, 1969 Camaro ZL-1, 1969 ZL-1 Camaro, Huebner Chevrolet
Difference Between the Yenko Camaro and COPO Camaro
Most people probably know about how badass the Yenko and the COPO Camaros are, but how many people know where the names come from and what's the difference between the two. Of course, if you are a diehard Camaro fan with a lot of knowledge of the first generation Camaros, you probably know some or all of the facts, but just in case you don't, here is a little bit of education.
The Yenko
In 1967, Don Yenko, owner of Don Yenko Chevrolet, contacted General Motors and ordered 54 Camaros straight from the factory with a special mission in mind. That special mission was to convert those Camaros into Yenko drag strip-ready IHRA/NHRA Stock and Super Stock Camaro competitors.
(How many Yenko Camaros were built and sold from 67 through 69 is really unknown. The same goes with COPO Camaros; ask ten different experts and you're likely to get ten different answers).
When these Camaros first showed up at the Yenko Dealership, the first order of business was to take out the existing 396-cu.-in. engines and replace them with 427 big-blocks. Although a lot of numbers swirled around about how much horsepower they produced, it was estimated around 425-450-hp (depending on who you asked). Along the way, Yenko also had all Yenko labeled Camaros beefed up with other goodies like traction-bars and 3:73-positraction rear-ends.
There was only one problem with Team Yenko's plan to turn the Camaros into drag strip-ready Camaros, they were not allowed to race in the IHRA/NHRA Stock or Super Stock classes. These classes were strictly for cars that had no engine changes or any other big mechanical changes after they left the factory. They were not banned from all drag racing, just the Stock and Super Stock classes that the Yenko Team was aiming for, so eventually the Yenko program was canned.
A lot of people think that the reason Yenko stopped the program was because of the inability to race in their intended classes. That was part of the reason, but most of the reasons were because Yenko was losing money on the pulled 396 motors and rear-ends they could not seem to get rid of and the program was losing even more money since GM would no longer warranty the Camaros if they were modified after they left the factory. That either fell in the hands of the owner or Yenko himself.
69 COPO Camaro
It's true, the name strikes fear in the hearts of racers who dare to pull up next to one in the staging lanes. They dominated the Stock and Super Stock classes for a long time.
COPO stands for (Central Office Production Order) and this program was invented specifically to put competitive Camaros in those Stock and Super Stock classes. If you ordered a Camaro from the central office, the build sheet would go to the factory, and when the Camaro rolled off the factory line complete, whatever you asked to be installed would be installed and considered stock. With that being said, there was nothing IHRA or NHRA could do about excluding the cars from racing in stock classes.
Ultimately, it was Fred Gibb and Don Yenko that pushed Chevrolet into making this program happen. Chevy saw the need for competitive Camaros in these classes for the use of sponsorship and of course bragging rights. They were Camaros, they were stock, and they were Mustang and Mopar eaters for a long time at the track. The 427 big-blocks made 425-hp and 460-lb.-ft. of torque, they took home a lot of trophies.
A lot of people believe the COPO division was designed for the 69 ZL1-Camaro and then squashed, and then brought back in 2013 for the Camaro again. But the General Motors COPO Division has been around since GM made fleet vehicles e.i. cop cars, taxis, tow trucks, etc. All vehicles that are ordered specially from a corporation, charity, a government, or something like that are considered specialty made vehicles or COPO vehicles. (It wasn't just a program made up for one of the baddest Camaros ever produced, the Camaros just stole the spotlight).
Labels: Camaro, COPO Camaro, General Motors, IHRA, NHRA, Racecars, Sports cars, Super Stock, Yenko Camaro
Brand New Trans Am "Smokey and The Bandit" Car
Update 12/2020
"Smokey and The Bandit" Trans Am
Well, as everyone excepted, the "Smokey and The Bandit" Trans Am was going to sell out fast, and that's exactly what it did. But with the Pandemic and the holidays on the horizon, keeping your eyes open for one on sale is a good idea. In fact, this December, I've come across a couple of them for sale. I can't say rather or not they're priced to move, but they are for sale and they're collector items.
There are some imposters out there, so to be on the safe side, take the VIN# down and call transamdepo.com to make sure that it is an official (1-of-77 Trans Am Smokey and The Bandit Special Edition cars). There is a big difference, one that could leave you on the losing side of a car transaction.
Trans Am Worldwide is announcing that they will be producing 77 Trans Am Bandit Sports Cars signed and certified by the man himself, Burt Reynolds. The reason for the off-beat number being built of 77 represents the year the movie "Smokey and the Bandit" came out in theaters (1977), and it represents the year Trans Am that was used for the movie.
With 800+ horsepower, these Trans Ams are sure to be a little bit more fun to drive than the ones that were raced around in the movies. Probably more expensive and harder to get your hands on as well, but if you do, this would definitely be a collector car.
Trans Am-Firebird
There is a lot of talk about if GM will ever come back with a Trans Am or a Firebird, but that is just what it is, talk. If GM does decide to bring it back, there would be a lot of car enthusiasts very happy with their decision. If they are planning on making this type of move, they are defiantly keeping a very tight lip on what they're going to do and when.
There is one fact that has been made very clear by GM. If they do bring back the Trans Am and Firebird, they will not be bringing back the Pontiac brand. All production would be under the authority of GM and the Pontiac name would not even be used for the Trans Am campaign. One last thing that is pretty well-known about the situation is that they would probably be produced in the same factories as the Camaros and would be sold at Chevrolet dealerships where Camaros are sold.
Build Your Own Trans Am/Firebird
If you're someone who does not want to wait for GM's decision and you must have one no matter what, there are alternatives. Companies like Trans Am Worldwide build authentic-awesome-looking prototypes of Trans Ams, Firebirds, Hurst, and Firehawks that can be customized personally and purchased by private owners.
The process is really cool! Brand new Camaros are purchased, then ground effects, bumpers, spoilers, customer interiors, and whatever else that needs to be replaced are replaced with prototype parts for the unique styling that replicates what a new Trans Am would probably look like if GM was to start making them again. The nice thing about these projects is that they're made from new Camaros, which should be enough to ensure that these Trans Ams are built American Motor tough.
Labels: Firebird, GM, muscle car, New Trans Am Hurst, Pontiac, Pontiac Firehawk, Smokey and the Bandit, Trans Am, Trans Am Bandit
Rarest of Rarest Corvettes: Own One Without Paying A Million Dollars
Some of the rarest sports cars of all time are a group of five early '60s Corvette Grand Sports built with the sole purpose of running in the GT classes at the Sebring 12 Hours and the 24-hour LaMans races. The Godfather of Corvettes, Zora Arkus-Duntov, led the crusade of light-weight race-ready roadsters that were designed to compete with the dominant Ford GTs and the rest of the field's competitors.
Duntov had planned on building 1,000 of these Corvettes, but only five Corvette Grand Sports were originally built at this time in the '60s. Two of the Corvettes [#001 and #002] were put to the side and three others were sent to John Mecom of Houston, TX, who eventually sent them off to three other prominent individuals in the racing industry.
Purchasing One Of These Rare Beauties
So let's say you were not lucky enough to be one of those people who received one of those five Corvettes, but now you would like to see if you can purchase one today. Well, although these Corvettes are not relevant in the 24-hour LaMans and other races anymore, fat chance of getting your hands on one for under five million dollars. A few years back, the #002 Corvette Grand Sport found its way to an auction block, and although the high-bid was $4.9 million, it was still not enough to take the blue beautiful race car home.
If you're like most car guys, you probably don't have $4.9 million sitting around for a sports car that you wouldn't even want to drive that much anyway. But getting something similar and in many cases, much more modern and driveable with an affordable price tag is definitely feasible.
Superformance, a car-building company in Southern California pushed to get granted the licensing to build replicas of Zora Duntov's famed Corvette Grand Sport making it possible to own one, well at least a replica of one.
Superformance was even granted original build sheets for the #002 Grand Sport Corvette. They claim that if you wanted a replica almost identical to the original, they could build you one that only experts could tell it's not an original #002 Grand Sport. But if you are like a lot of people, you may be just looking for the look of the legendary Corvette and the performance and comforts of a newer vehicle, and that's fine too, Superformance can build something like that as well.
Customize Your Own Corvette Grand Sport
Superformance will work you up a vintage Corvette Grand Sport of your liking. Features like power steering, four-wheel disc brakes, power windows, A/C, and fully independent front and rear suspension with Bilstein suspension components can be optioned up for your Vette. There are roadster versions available, but they will look and drive more like the race Corvettes of the past, and many features and options of the coupe will be limited. But as far as power plants go, Superformance offers a variety of engines including an LS9 supercharged monster that can really make the coupe and the roadsters fun to drive.
There are actually seven engines in all to choose from. All engines come with a 2/year 50,000-mile warranty that can be serviced at your local authorized dealer. The greatest thing about the Superformance Corvette Grand Sport replica is the price tag. Depending on your options and how customized you want it, your price tag will still be just a fraction of the price you would have to pay for the real thing.
Labels: 1963 Corvette Grand Sport, 24-Hour LaMans, Corvette Grand Sport, Ford GT, Superformance, Zora Arkus-Duntov
1970 Buick GS Stage 2 - The Myth And The Truth
The 1970 Buick GS Stage 2 was going to be produced as a predecessor to the Buick GS Stage 1. The GS Stage 1 was already one of the most faired muscle cars in the industry and Buick was ready to double up on that fair by creating something bigger and meaner.
Two lucky GS Stage 1 Buicks got the honor of becoming a true Buick Stage 2 prototype. One was a white GSX bought by Reynolds Buick in California, where "Pappy" Kennedy and Jim Bell (Kenne-Bell) tweaked and tested the car and all its after-market parts, and the other was a red 4-speed GS sent to races Doug Jones and Dave Benisek.
Both teams of qualified high-performance Buick engineers/technicians went to work adding the performance upgrades like improved forged TRW pistons, redesigned heads, a valvetrain capable of 7000 rpm, and much more. The whole idea of the Buick Stage 2 prototype was to eventually turn the project into a production off-the-line streetable drag car that could compete in Super Stock classes at the drag strip.
The Myth About The Stage 2
People who don't know that much about the Buick muscle car era believe that the Buick Stage 2 was a production car. That idea is usually put in people's heads because at car shows and race events, especially Buick events, people often have their GS Stage 1 Buicks labeled with GS Stage 2 badges.
The Truth About The Stage 2
The truth is the badges are very easy to find and are inexpensive. This is not saying that the parts that replicate the GS Stage 2 Buick 455 cu-in motor aren't under the hood, but the only originally GS Stage 2 Buicks that exist are the ones that were sent out by Buick to Reynolds Buick and races Doug Jones and Dave Benisek.
Although, with all the hopes and intent in the world of putting this monstrous Buick into production and on the track, Buick was forced to stop the program as stricter pending emissions standards were going to go into effect for sure and the Stage 2 upgrades and horsepower tweaks were never going to pass.
The other reason why the program was going to be let go was that this was not going to be a Central Office Production Ordered Buick like the COPO Camaro, and street safety was becoming an issue. Government organizations like the Department of Transportation were none-to-trilled about the ability to title these drag strip ready vehicles.
Buying Parts To Turn Your Stage 1 Into A Stage 2
Buick didn't let the roadblocks get in the way of giving their raced-crazed consumers what they wanted. You could buy a GS Stage 1 Buick and easily purchase all the Stage 2 parts you needed at any Buick dealer around. So although a lot of those Stage 2 Buicks you see out there are for the most part going to be colognes, that doesn't mean they still can't pack the punch of the original two Stage 2 Buicks that ran the quarter-mile at a consistent and respectable 10.7s.
Labels: 1970 Buick GS Stage 2, Dave Benisek, Doug Jones, Kenne Bell, Reynolds Buick, White 1970 GSX
1959 Corvette: Unbeatable Purple People Eater MKIII
Oddly enough, this Corvette was named after the very odd song - "One Eye, One Horn, Flying Purple People Eater", a Sheb Wooley hit back in the 50s.
There were two reasons for the paint job and the name for this 1959 Corvette. The idea for the paint job was because the Corvette racing team was having trouble finding their car in the pits and on the track - all the cars looked too similar to one another. Kind of like finding your car in a mall parking lot on the weekend the week before Christmas.
So a standout color scheme was born. The color scheme that was created was a metallic purple for the base color and bright white for the trim and decals. Next, they needed a name for the Corvette, so they decided on the "Purple People Eater". It was kind of a no brainer since the song itself was topping the charts in 1958-59 and the Purple People Eater Corvette was eating up all the competition on the track every single weekend.
Nickey Chevrolet In Chicago
Back in the 50s, a lot of racing teams were owned by dealerships and this Corvette team was no different. Nickey Chevrolet in Chicago was the owner of this team and at the time, the largest factory dealership, specializing in high-performance muscle car sales and service. Their parts department functioned as a huge speed shop.
When it came time for the Nickey Chevrolet Race Team to hire a driver and a mechanic, Nickey Chevrolet took some help and advice from none other than the legendary Zora Arkus-Duntov, the Corvette engineer and designer that made Corvette what it is today. Zora suggested they use an aggressive driver named Jim Jeffords and a talented mechanic who was known as the guy who could turn a "Javelin into a competitive race car." Ronnie Kaplan.
The "Purple People Eater" Corvette Eating Up The Competition
The Purple People Eater Corvettes (yes, there were three altogether) raced during the '58 and '59 seasons. During that time they won the SCCA National B-Production titles and a race at Nassau Speed Week. During the 1959 season, the cars never finished worse than second place in any race, always making the Purple People Eater the car to beat at the track.
Ordering Your Own Corvette With Race Specs
If you ordered a factory Corvette with race specs in the late 1950s, you received a Corvette with heater delete, and a heavy-duty brake and suspension package.
The Corvette came with a 283 Chevrolet V-8 with factory Rochester fuel injection and a four-speed manual transmission, the same way the Purple People Eater was raced. In an interview, Kaplan said "GM helped with some technical advice, and I got that fuel injection figured out pretty quick. It was very reliable. I told Jim to keep that engine about 6,000 rpm, and it never broke. He is a very big, strong man and was tough on equipment. I swear he could break off a shifter."
Where Did The Purple People Eater End Up?
The last one known to exist is the "Purple People Eater MKIII". It was sold for $800 to a Chip Miller and Ken Heckert, who raced the 1959 Corvette for a short time at Autocross events. Not knowing its future historical significance, it was parked and used as a workbench for a very long time.
After 14 years of being a garage workbench, the sharp eye of car expert/enthusiast Mike Philsbury notices that there were a few things different about some of the parts and options on the car. After some deep research, Mike, Chip, and Ken confirmed that they were eating their lunch every day on the 1959 Corvette "Purple People Eater MKIII".
The American Heritage Award In 2002
Knowing what they knew, Chip and Ken went to work and restored the Corvette back to its racing form - color and all.
In 2002, the Corvette was awarded the American Heritage Award. Thanks to two guys who just wanted a Corvette to go autocross racing in, and a car enthusiast named Mike Philsbury, the 1959 Corvette "Purple People Eater MKIII" lives on.
Labels: 1959 Corvette, 1959 Corvette Purple People Eater MKIII, 283 Chevrolet V-8, Nickey Chevrolet, One Eye One Horn Flying Purple People Eater, SCCA National B-Production
1956 Corvette "The Real McCoy" That Saved the Corvette Brand
Just about anybody in the world who knows just a little bit about cars knows that the Corvette was the first American sports car and is now the most popular, fastest, and most recognizable American sports car to date. But what a lot of people may not know is that this was not always true. In fact, by the year 1955, the Corvette almost saw extinction.
Rumors about the move to drop the Corvette flooded out of Chevrolet's top offices with very sad sales numbers to back-up what only seemed to be a good idea. Their competition, the two-seater Ford Thunderbird sold an astonishing 16,000 units in 1955 while the Corvette only sold a depressing 700 units.
Unfortunately for Ford, the same car that was taking so many sales away from the Corvette would be the inspiration for keeping the car in the product lineup. The idea behind keeping the Corvette and spending more money on a car that was obviously tanking was brought on by a few Chevrolet big wigs including former Corvette chief engineer Dave McLellan. He released a statement concurring that if the Ford Thunderbird was doing so well that there is obviously a market for a two-seater sports car, and with a solid change for the better and the right amount of marketing the Corvette should be able to become a moneymaker.
In an ironic twist, the very car that Corvette planned to piggyback off of, the Ford Thunderbird, had already made future plans to market the car differently by doing away with the two-seater style and making it a four-seater touring car thus leaving the American sports car market wide open.
"The Real McCoy"
As wide open as the market was, the Corvette needed some changes for success, ideally in the form of performance and with a new body style. When Corvette chief engineer Zora Arkus Dutov came in, he decided that one thing the Corvette needed to bring to the table to get the public's attention was documented power achievements, but to get that first they had to design a chassis that could handle future horsepower upgrades.
With a '55 chassis, Chevrolet engineers went to work. First, they ditched the boring and heavy two-speed power-glide transmission and replaced it with an up-graded four-speed. They also took the original 265 cu.-in. motor and bored it out to a 307 that sported dual Cater carbs and a now-famous "Dutov high-performance cam."
Many other upgrades were also included. Very rare Halibrand magnesium knock-off wheels, special heavy-duty brakes with cooling scoops, heavy-duty shocks and sway bars, an upgraded high capacity fuel tank, and more were all newly implicated to help achieve what would become some of Chevrolet's most important upgrades for the '56 Corvette.
After all of those upgrades, top-engineers slapped a new SR Prototype body on what was now known as project Corvette #6901. The engineers called it "The Real McCoy" and decided it was ready to head to the racetrack.
Dayton Speedway Record
The first stop was at Dayton Speed Week for a two-way flying speed mile. This is where the Corvette would make its first milestone. At the time the record for the Corvettes class was 127mph. With Dutov as the driver, the 255hp Corvette sped to an average speed of 150.58mph to crush the record. This was an extremely sufficient record because it occurred just weeks before the New York Motorama where the Corvette would be on display to many potential buyers, most of which had already heard the news of the record-breaking performance.
12 Hour Sebring Race
A few months later in March, the ground-breaking Corvette made its way to the famous 12 Hour Sebring Race. This was a race that was only made for the toughest of the toughest - the fastest of the fastest. Only cars like Jaguars, Bentleys, and Aston Martins graced the racetracks for these events. But wanting to prove that the Corvette has changed and deserved respect as a truly powerful sports car, Chevrolet did not shy away.
Race drivers John Fitch and Walter Hansgen were brought on board to take on the challenging race. When the green flag dropped the race was on. But early on in the race, the Corvette experienced mechanical problems, so much so they did not think that it would finish. But in the end, not only did it finish, the Corvette finished first in its respected class and 9th over-all. This was an incredible accomplishment especially considering 60 cars entered the event, but only 24 would cross the finish line.
This was another huge milestone and Chevrolet exploited it in printing ads praising the Corvette: "A Tough, Road-Gripping Torpedo On Wheels" and "The Most Remarkable Car Made In America Today."
Those ads were to send a message: Corvette had finally arrived as a force in the international sportscar racing circuits, and Corvette proudly called this particular Vette "The Real McCoy."
Between all of its accomplishments and Chevrolet's ad campaigns, the '56 Corvette sold 3,467 units and in '57 they nearly doubled that with 6,339 sold. One of the main reasons why the Corvette saw such selling success was because if it were to compete in its respected class at the Sebring 12 race, every part that was changed or modified had to be documented and later made available to the public. This made potential buyers very excited about the fact they could buy a Corvette and beef it up to run and look just like the "The Real McCoy"
In any event, if it was not for the #6901 '56 PJ Prototype "Real McCoy" Corvette, and possibly the success of the Thunderbird, Chevrolet may have never gone forward with the Corvette and the automobile industry would definitely not be the same today.
Labels: 1956 Corvette, Barret Jackson, Chevrolet, Corvette Racing, T-Bird, The Real McCoy Corvette
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Playing the guitar by fingerpicking often takes effort to master; how would you explain those guitar tabs, fingers that have a mind of its own, and your long nails? But with time, you will manage. You just need a lot of patience, determination, an open mind, and a sensitive ear.
Fingerpicking, as the title says, means to play separate tunes on your guitar by using your fingers. This is entirely different from strumming, wherein you use either your thumb or some other finger to strum all the six strings on your guitar. Fingerpicking entails the use of either separate strings or two strings but not all the strings at once.
So how do you learn fingerpicking? Learn and understand guitar tabs. There are many websites that would offer a helping hand for you to understand guitar tabs, but to give you a bird's eye view on the strange world (at first) of the guitar tabs, imagine six lines displayed horizontally, (called a tab staff) and each horizontal line means a string on your guitar. The very bottom of that staff represents the "E" string, then going higher to the next "A" string, then the "D" string, until the highest horizontal line, which represents the top "E" string.
After you begin learning about guitar tabs you will then question what are those numbers that lay in the middle of the horizontal lines. Let's take an example: Let's say you have the number "2" on the line that represents the "E" string. This means you have to pluck the "E" string, with your fingers pressing down on the 2nd fret of the "E" string. Simple right? This goes for any other number, except 0. When you see the number "0", it means that it is an open string, wherein you will pluck wherever the number is based but you will not press down on any fret. Hence, 0.
Guitar tabs at its most simplest form.
Learning guitar tabs is easy, but after you learn it you will face difficulties on plucking the guitar, like which fingers to choose. Well, that depends, but more or less you would start with a thumb. Let's give another example: suppose those guitar tabs mean that you have to pluck the chord "D". So, on the "G" string, I'll place my first finger; guitarists often use mostly the thumb. Then for the next string, you may place the second finger, or your index finger, on the "B" string, and then for the top "E" string, wherein you may place your third finger. After what the guitar tabs says, you can now proceed to pluck separately each string.
Most guitarists I know don't understand the difference between short nails and long nails and how it can affect their performance when it comes to fingerpicking, though it's quite obvious. But even though professional musicians can play the guitar with long nails, the beginner is often faced with long nails as interfering with his performance, like a nail that plucked accidentally a string that isn't supposed to be plucked. So the underlying tip here is: whatever nail type suits you, stick with it.
So what are you waiting for? Grab the nearest guitar and practice those tabs!
Learning to play guitar is fun and rewarding so if you enjoy fingerstyle guitarist like Tommy Emmanuel go ahead and get started on your journey to becoming one of them. You could be playing the Cannonball Rag sooner than you think!


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Q: WPF DataGridComboBoxColumn SelectedItem's property as cell text I have a column bound like this:
<DataGridComboBoxColumn Header="Status" SortMemberPath="Status.StatusName"
    DisplayMemberPath="StatusName"
    ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource OrderStatuses}}"
    SelectedItemBinding="{Binding Path=Status, Mode=TwoWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}" />

The DataGrid this column is member of is bound to a list of objects that each have a "Status" property which in turn has "StatusName" property.
With this binding I get these two errors as soon as I open any ComboBox for a cell:

Cannot convert from type 'OrderStatus' to 'System.String'. Consider
setting a converter on the binding.
Value 'OrderStatus' cannot be assigned to property
DataGridCell.CellContent (type String).

How do I get rid of this errors? Where am I going wrong?

A: I had the same error today, the problem was that the property I was trying to bind was Null in some cases.
<DataGridComboBoxColumn
    ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource vmCatalogoRangosContractuales}}"
    DisplayMemberPath="Nombre"
    SelectedValuePath="IdBAOngFMTRangosContractuales"
    SelectedValueBinding="{Binding Path=Restriccion.IdBAOngFMTRangosContractuales}"/>

In my case the property "Restriccion" was NULL. So basically the solution was to initialize an empty object in cases where that property was Null


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Q: Segmentation Fault when reading File I am reading a file that stores information that I must later draw. When I read the file, I can collect the information I need (used printf just to verify that values were being stored in correct places) but I cant seem to leave the loop.
void getInfo(info *rooms, borderControl *doors, FILE *file)
{
char buffer[150];
char tempStorage[10];
char *temp;
char *locaOne, *locaTwo;

temp = tempStorage;
temp = malloc(sizeof(tempStorage));

while(fgets(buffer, 150, file) != NULL)
{
    printf("Inside fgets loop\n");
    temp = strtok_r(buffer, " ", &locaOne);
    rooms->size[0] = atoi(strtok(temp, "x"));
    rooms->size[1] = atoi(strtok(NULL, " "));
    temp = strtok_r(NULL, " ", &locaOne);

    while(temp != NULL)
    {
        printf("Inside line loop\n");
        if (temp[0] == 'g') //gold
        {
            printf("Inside gold\n");
            temp++;
            rooms->gold[0] = atoi(strtok_r(temp, ",", &locaTwo));
            rooms->gold[1] = atoi(strtok_r(NULL, " ", &locaTwo));
            drawRooms(rooms, doors);
        }
        else if (temp[0] == 'h') //hero
        {
            temp++;
            rooms->heroPosi[0] = atoi(strtok_r(temp, ",", &locaTwo));
            rooms->heroPosi[1] = atoi(strtok_r(NULL, " ", &locaTwo));
            drawRooms(rooms,doors);
        }
        else if (temp[0] == 's') //staris
        {
            temp++;
            rooms->stairs[0] = atoi(strtok_r(temp, ",", &locaTwo));
            rooms->stairs[1] = atoi(strtok_r(NULL, " ", &locaTwo));
            drawRooms(rooms,doors);
        }
        else if (temp[0] == 'd') //doors
        {
            temp++;
            rooms->door[0] = atoi(strtok_r(temp, ",", &locaTwo));
            rooms->door[1] = atoi(strtok_r(NULL, " ", &locaTwo));
            drawRooms(rooms,doors);
        }
        else if (temp[0] == 'm') //magic
        {
            temp++;
            rooms->magic[0] = atoi(strtok_r(temp, ",", &locaTwo));
            rooms->magic[1] = atoi(strtok_r(NULL, " ", &locaTwo));
            drawRooms(rooms,doors);
        }
        else if (temp[0] == 'p') //potion
        {
            temp++;
            rooms->magic[0] = atoi(strtok_r(temp, ",", &locaTwo));
            rooms->magic[1] = atoi(strtok_r(NULL, " ", &locaTwo));
            drawRooms(rooms,doors);
        }
        else if (temp[0] == 'w') //weapon
        {
            temp++;
            rooms->weapon[0] = atoi(strtok_r(temp, ",", &locaTwo));
            rooms->weapon[1] = atoi(strtok_r(NULL, " ", &locaTwo));
            drawRooms(rooms,doors);
        }
        else if (temp == NULL)
        {
            break;
        }
        else
        {
            temp = strtok_r(NULL, " ", &locaOne);
            if(temp == NULL)
            {
                break;
            }
        }
        temp = strtok_r(NULL, " ", &locaOne);
    }
    printf("here\n");
}

I call this function using:
FILE *file;
file = fopen(argv[1], "r");
if (file == NULL)
{
    printf("Error! Could not open file.\n");
    return 0;
}
else
{
    initscr();
    getInfo(rooms, doors, file);
}

There isn't any compiling error/warning but when I run the program, I get this:
Inside fgets loop
Inside line loop
Inside gold
Inside fgets loop
Inside fgets loop
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

A: fgets() returns NULL only when characters couldn't be read.
What you need to do is check for feof(file). When you finish reading the file the EOF bit is set to 1 and feof() returns true;


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The Berliner Konzerthaus Orchester invited me to join them in celebrating Bernstein's 100th birthday and to perform Rachmaninoff's Paganini Variations in a concert otherwise full of Lenny's works. (A great inspiration as I am working on his 2nd Symphony). It was a first and very happy encounter with the Orchestra as well as with the wonderful Maestro Yutaka Sado. I am hugely looking forward to making music with them again soon!