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100 Things Every Steelers Fan Should Know Before They Die: #6 "Cowher Power"
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In the summer of 2010, my first book will be coming out in stores entitled "100 Things Every Steelers Fan Should Know Before They Die." The book, which is being published by Triumph Books, will be in stores next Summer and will retail for $14.95. We will have ordering info through Amazon as soon as it becomes available.
In the meantime, through the offseason, we'll give Steelers Gab readers a sneak peek of some chapters of the book. Today is chapter 6, which talks about the man better known as "The Chin" – that of course being former head coach Bill Cowher!. Enjoy!
It's never easy replacing a legend, but if there's one coach that pulled it off and did an excellent job of it, it was former Steelers head coach Bill Cowher. "The Jaw" stepped in for Chuck Noll in 1992, and lit a fire under the Steelers that burned for most of his 15 seasons as the face of the franchise. His dream was to bring a 5th Super Bowl to Pittsburgh, and while it took quite awhile to do it, he finally delivered on his promise on February 5th, 2006 when the Steelers beat the Seattle Seahawks 21-10 in Super Bowl XL.
Cowher was a hometown boy, born and raised in Crafton, PA. He was a very good football, basketball and track competitor in high school, and at North Carolina State he was a starting linebacker, and was the team captain and MVP in his senior season. His playing career saw him make the Philadelphia Eagles as a free agent in 1979. The following season he moved to Cleveland, where he played for the Browns for three seasons from 1980 to 1982.
He then went back to Philly, finishing his career playing two more seasons with the Eagles in 1983 and 1984. While not the most talented player, Cowher played every play hard, just like he coached. After his career ended, he joined the Browns and their head coach Marty Schottenheimer as the teams special teams coach. His energy and fire could be seen as the Browns made it to the AFC Title game in 1986. Cowher was on the fast track to greatness himself, as he then was the Browns secondary coach and moved with Schottenheimer to Kansas City as their defensive coordinator in 1989.
The end of Noll's coaching career neared in the late 80's and early 90's, and by the end of the 1991 season, he had decided it was time. The Steelers had become a very average to below average team in Noll's final decade, making the playoffs just once in his last seven seasons as coach. The team needed a fresh start, and Cowher was the perfect fit.
When he was hired on January 21st, 1992, he spoke right away of winning, saying that he was determined to light a fire under a group of young, talented players. Problem was, not many in the media agreed with him. The Steelers had been hampered by poor drafts, and players that never lived up to their billing. Plus some just never responded to Noll's old school style. Enter Cowher.
He was not afraid to put players on notice right away, cutting high draft choices like linebacker Huey Richardson, a linebacker who was simply too soft to garner the first round pick the team had used on him. He also proclaimed that the Steelers would be a team built on the run game, turning running back Barry Foster into a star by feeding him the ball 20-25 times a game.
He also went away from gun slinging quarterback Bubby Brister and went with the safer, less flashy quarterback in Neil O'Donnell. Cowher's fingerprints were all over this team right away, and it showed as they went 3-0 to start his coaching tenure, and right away were contenders, going 11-5 in 1992 as Cowher was named the AP NFL Coach of the Year.
In each of his first six seasons, Cowher got his team to the playoffs, but only once, 1995, were they able to go the distance, reaching Super Bowl XXX before falling to the Cowboys 27-17. He was able to endure high profile players leaving year after year via free agency, and never lost that fire or push to want to make his team better.
Cowher fired up his players with emotion, something the city had not seen in years. When you talked about the Steelers in the 90's and early 2000's, it was Cowher's team, no questions asked. He suffered the hard losses right along with the team, and nothing hurt more than when the team fell in home AFC Title games like in 94, 97, 01 and 04. The media labeled the coach and the team as chokers, not able to win the big game.
That all changed in 05, as the club turned a 7-5 record into a 11-5 mark and a 6th seed in the playoffs. They took to the road, winning in Cincinnati, upsetting the first seed Colts in Indy, and then dominating the Broncos in his first road AFC Championship game in Denver. Ten years after a tough 10-point loss to Dallas in Super Bowl XXX, Cowher and his road warriors finally brought the Lombardi trophy back to the Steel city as the club earned a hard fought 11-point win over the Seahawks.
Questions abound during the offseason after the Super Bowl about Cowher's future. It was not a secret that he and his family were moving to North Carolina, and many took that as a for sure sign that he was going to step down as Steelers coach no matter what happened after the 2006 campaign.
Those that thought that, were right. Cowher's club had a bad post Super Bowl hangover, as they started the 06 season 2-6, but then just like their coach, they fought to the end, and went 6-2 down the stretch, finishing the season 8-8. In his final game as coach, Cowher's team knocked the Bengals out of the playoffs with a 23-17 overtime win.
Five days after the win, Cowher announced he was stepping down, saying his desire to spend more time with his family had finally gotten the best of him. Cowher wrapped up his career with an overall record of 161-99-1 (.619) including a 149-90-1 (.623) mark in the regular season. His record with the team ranks second only to Noll's overall (209-156-1/.572) and regular season (193-148-1/.566) records. Cowher's .623 regular season and .619 overall winning percentages are the highest in Steelers history.
Many felt that his walking away from the Steelers was just the start, and he would be back on a NFL sideline the following season. Instead, about a month after he walked away he inked a deal to be a studio analyst with CBS' "The NFL Today." His name still pops up when there's a vacancy in the league, but for now, Cowher seems content talking about football each Sunday instead of coaching it.
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Matt Loede has been in the sports media for over 16 years, with experience covering the MLB, NBA, and NFL. On Sunday's during football season, you can hear Matt on national networks like Fox Sports Radio, Associated Press, and others. Born and raised in Cleveland Ohio, Matt studies and talks football inside and out, and is anxious to share his thoughts and comments with readers on a daily basis.
Cowher was the perfect coach for our Steelers at the time. I recently went to a Cowher speaking engagement, sat in the front row, and found him to be a very sincere and grounded man. He did everything Matt spoke of and resurrected a very mediocre franchise.His coaching style was no doubt based upon emotion and it wasnt until he was seasoned and trusted his assistants that he was able to finally win a Super Bowl. I dont think that is a knock on him. I just think that it took him 10 years or so to embrace what it takes to be a champion and not be stubborn on some points. He seems to be that way as a family man as well as being an analyst. He is seasoned now and if he ever coached again, I would have to wonder what kind of passion he would bring to his team? He seems to be very content after spending season after season ridng that emotional roller coaster of being that type of coach and finally delivering that Super Bowl after so many near misses.
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Been a couple of days… apparently more like 193… well, not to be deterred I'm going to try this again.
Tonight I am hacking on a CTFtime stats application. CTFtime is "All about CTF (Capture the Flag)". It is the defacto scoreboard aggregator for all the wonderful CTFs that occur each week. They actually have been doing it for some time (since 2011) so there is a lot of really great data there.
What CTFs did the top teams compete in?
What was team X's rank over time?
Compare the qualifier rank vs finals rank for team X in CTF A?
Nothing too crazy, but could provide interesting insights, in the past a collection of one off spreadsheet has served this purpose but this is a perfect excuse to get better at building real things.
Currently working on the backend in go, and specifically the database parts. In the past I have tried using gorm but have found I spend more time fighting it than actually getting things done.
This seems to come up all the time when I want to store data locally that I have fetched from some canonical source (for example an API). This way I can always fetch data from the remote source, and have it override my local data without worrying if I've already inserted it. Is there a cleaner way to do this pattern?
Perhaps this is something gorm supports (1188, 1346), but again I'm back to fighting with a dependency. This long story is all to say I am going to try a different approach, namely sqlx which is just an extension of the standard libraries database/sql. Back to the code.


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Peter Wollen (1938–2019)
Filmmaker and theorist Peter Wollen, among a small group of British scholars who crystallized a new aesthetic paradigm that revitalized cinema studies in the late twentieth century, has died at age eighty-one. Breaking from prevailing auteurist theories to forge more cooperative models of thinking about movies, Wollen engaged psychoanalysis, radical politics, modernism, and fashion in a structuralism first advanced in Signs and Meaning in the Cinema (1969). That book, as well as "The Two Avant Gardes," a 1975 essay published in Studio International, are among several texts by Wollen considered pioneering contributions to film theory.
Born in London in 1938, Wollen studied English at Oxford University before beginning his career as a political journalist and film theorist, publishing in the New Left Review and later the London Review of Books. With Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, Wollen augured a methodological shift in film criticism, incorporating the French-inflected insights of structuralism and semiotics. "My guiding principle," he wrote in its introduction, "has been that the study of film does not necessarily have to take place in a world of its own, a closed and idiosyncratic universe of discourse from which all alien concepts and methods are expelled. The study of film must keep pace with and be responsive to changes and developments in the study of other media, other arts, other modes of communication and expression." His ideas found further footing in Screen, the quintessential British Film Institute–backed journal he refounded in 1971 with feminist filmmaker and theorist Laura Mulvey, to whom he was married between 1968 and 1993.
In 1974, Wollen made his directorial debut with Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons, inspired in part by Heinrich von Kleist's play and the first of six films cowritten and codirected with Mulvey. In 1975, he coscripted Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger. He was chair of the film department at the University of California, Los Angeles, and also taught at Brown University, New York University, Columbia University, Northwestern University, and Vassar College. He directed or codirected Riddles of the Sphinx (1977), Amy! (1980), Crystal Gazing (1982), The Bad Sister (1983), Friendship's Death (1987), and Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (1983).
Wollen also curated Nan Goldin's "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (1985); "Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti" at Grey Art Gallery, New York, and the Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City (1982–83); "On the passage of a few people through a rather brief period of time: the Situationist International, 1957–72" at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (1989); and "Addressing the Century: Art and Fashion" at Southbank Centre, London (1998); among other exhibitions. He is survived by his first wife and their son Chad, and by his second wife, artist and writer Leslie Dick, and their daughter Audrey.

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Still, should the Treasury give away money to poor people who dared dream own a house? I am not going to make the "populist" argument that doing so is better than giving $700 billion to the shareholders and creditors of banks and financial firms over at least 2 years (I'm sure that the $700 billion would not be the end of the Paulson plan, just like Wolfowitz's $60 billion budget estimate wasn't the total cost of the Iraq war). Giving money to people in need, of course, creates horrible moral hazard, which would in turn erode the basis of our civilization. When in distress caused by a disaster not of their creation, people would grow accustomed to receiving the solidarity and support of the rest of society and, thus, would start to behave in self-destructive ways. As we know, only the rich have the moral fortitude to properly use government subsidies: the bigger the subsidies, the more morally they behave. So, no. There would be a quid pro quo, an upside to taxpayers.
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The owner had been paying a piece rate—a rate per kilogram of fruit—but also needed to ensure that whether pickers spent the day on a bountiful field or a sparse one, their wages didn't fall below the legal hourly minimum. Farmer Smith tried to adjust the piece rate each day so that it was always adequate but never generous: The more the work force picked, the lower the piece rate. But his workers were outwitting him by keeping an eye on each other, making sure nobody picked too quickly, and thus collectively slowing down and cranking up the piece rate.
Bandiera and her colleagues proposed a different way of adjusting the piece rate: Managers would test-pick the field to see how difficult it was and set the rate accordingly, thus preventing the workers from engaging in a collective go-slow. (If the managers made a mistake in their estimate, and the pickers didn't earn minimum wage, Farmer Smith would make up the shortfall with an extra payment. This rarely happened.) The economists measured the result. By the time the experiment was over, Farmer Smith's initial skepticism had long evaporated: The new pay scheme increased productivity (kilograms of fruit per worker per hour) by about 50 percent.
The next summer, the researchers turned their attention to incentives for low-level managers, who would also be temporary immigrant workers but who would be responsible for on-the-spot decisions such as which workers were assigned to which row. The researchers found that managers tended to do their friends favors by assigning them the easiest rows. This made life comfortable for insiders but was unproductive since the most efficient assignment for fruit picking is for the best workers to get the best rows. The researchers responded by linking managers' pay to the daily harvest. The result was that managers started favoring the best workers rather than their own friends, and productivity rose by another 20 percent.
Small wonder that the economists were invited back for another summer. They proposed a "tournament" scheme in which workers were allowed to sort themselves into teams. Initially, friends tended to group themselves together, but as the economists began to publish league tables and then hand out prizes to the most productive teams, that changed. Again, workers prioritized money over social ties, abandoning groups of friends to ally themselves with the most productive co-workers who would accept them. In practice, that meant that the fastest workers clustered together, and again, productivity soared—by yet another 20 percent.
The series of experiments provided a fascinating confirmation that financial incentives can trump social networks, with some precision and much detail about the mechanisms involved.
The margin of those in favour of Mr Obama winning November's US election ranged from 9% in India to 82% in Kenya, which is the birthplace of the Illinois senator's father.
Doughty defenders of free speech will have no truck with such quibbling. They insist on a right to offend, wheeling out John Stuart Mill's venerable "harm principle" to clinch the case: "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others." And, no, "mere offence" does not constitute harm.
There are two problems with this simple view. Saying that we have a right to offend skips over the question of whether we are right to offend. I have a right to tell random strangers that I think they're ugly, or that they have terrible taste in clothes, but it would be wrong of me to exercise that right, and not just because of the pots and kettles principle.
But isn't mockery good, and any belief system incapable of putting up with it deficient in some way? That's true, but you can't just ignore the background against which lampooning takes place. Christians, for example, are not oppressed, despite what some wannabe martyrs would have us believe. British Muslims, in contrast, are a somewhat beleaguered minority. We should think twice before mocking them because, while comedy speaking truth to power is funny, the powerful laughing at the weak is not. The difference is only subtle to those too dunderheaded to spot the obvious. Witness Alan Partridge asking a Jewish comedian who uses Jewish humour to "tell us a joke about Jews".
That does not mean that we should never do anything that causes Muslims offence, or that shows Islam in a bad light, of course; only that we should not do so lightly. The choice is not between an all-out offence offensive and craven silence.
The other reason absolutist claims for speech acts are misguided is that we don't just utter words, we do things with them, as the Oxford philosopher JL Austin put it. When words belittle or mock, they can reinforce prejudice and hierarchies that have very real effects on people's lives. Mockery of those already on the margins can shore up the very barriers that limit their life chances.
Free speech is indeed precious, but that doesn't mean that we have to defend without qualification every moron who abuses it.
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"You don't come into my country, you don't come into my congressional district and criticize my president," Mr. Rangel, a Democrat, told stunned reporters on Capitol Hill.
The Broken Windows theory of Civilisation!
Contrary to the popular belief that we are living in horrifically violent times, rates of homicide in the West have plummeted ten- to a hundredfold over the centuries. The sociologist Norbert Elias noted that this pacification process, correlated with other changes in everyday manners. Starting in the Late Middle Ages, people stopped blowing their noses onto the dining room table, urinating onto curtains, defecating in public, and giving their eight-year-olds advice about prostitution. Taboos on speaking about excretion and sexuality were part of this development. Ellis lumps these trends into a "civilizing process," in which the formation of states and complex social networks forced people to exercise their superego (today we would say their prefrontal cortex) to inhibit their first impulses.


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Squeeze, photo by Rob O'Connor
You might be tempted to write off the 1980's as a decade of too much— too much hairspray, too much neon, and too much eye makeup, but if you did you'd be dead wrong. And that was proven by one of this summer's hottest tickets, the "Squeeze Songbook 2019" tour.
Squeeze frontmen and songwriters Glen Tillbrook and Chris Difford were called the "Lennon and McCartney of their generation" by Rolling Stone. Hits like Pulling Mussels from a Shell, Hour Glass, Black Coffee in Bed, Cool for Cats, and Tempted are a testament to the band's talent and staying power, as was the audience at the sold out Pier 17 show. Their voices are strong—the unmistakable Squeeze sound provided by Tillbrook's earnest, vulnerable, bluesy top line, and Chris Difford's sexy, throaty alto and keen sense of irony. Their harmonies are as sharp as ever, and listening to them feels as fresh and exciting as it did in the early 80s. The Squeeze lineup, notoriously, changed a lot over the years, but this tour includes Simon Hanson, Stephen Large, and newest addition, Yolanda Charles on bass.
Squeeze released their first single, Take Me I'm Yours, in 1978, and were at the forefront of what came to be known as the "Second British Invasion." Their popularity grew with albums like the self-titled Squeeze, followed by Cool for Cats, Argy Bargy, East Side Story, and Sweets from a Stranger. After splitting for a couple of years, they reunited in 1985 and released Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti, and since then have consistently continued to release new music. The band has 15 studio albums, 14 compilations, 4 live albums, and 48 singles. This tour includes some of the bands most well-known hits, as well as some rare gems.
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THE ANALYSIS:-
"Katerina: An Angel In The Flesh" is a descriptive love poem that embraced the instrument of praise and prayer.
The most part of the poem described Femi Fani Kayode's Katerina as an extraordinary beauty; using the same hyperbolical language of William Shakespeare's craftiness. The ending part of the poem carry some hope words that are tabled in form of prayer.
Few of the poetic devices in the poem are enjambment (as ideas or expressions flow beyond a single line), simile (many comparisons are made in the poem using "like" for instance "Your
words, like the Balm of Gilead" and "blazing red hair like a Royal Princess"), allusion in the poem "the Game of Thrones", alliteration in the poem "deep dimples" and "poor and less privileged", metaphor in the poem "thirst and quest for knowledge and understanding" and "wisdom oozes", the imageries in the poem a mostly of sight.
The major theme of the poem is love, beauty, and the excitement in pleasant human qualities. From the context of the poem, human achievement can also be considered as part of the themes in the poem.
THE POEM:-
Emerald-green eyes and blazing red hair, like a Royal Princess of Westeroth from the Game of Thrones. Beautiful deep dimples and a lovely warm smile. Pale, silk-like skin and waifer-thin lips. Such natural beauty. Your crown glistens and your glory is self-evident.
Most captivating of all is the power of your soul, the beauty and strength of your inner man and the profundity of your learned tongue: wisdom oozes. Your words, like the Balm of Gilead, bring hope: they soothe and heal.
Your compassion for the poor and less privileged and your empathy for the persecuted, the oppressed, the misunderstood and the downtrodden is self-evident and compelling. Your thirst and quest for knowledge and understanding is insatiable and never-ending.
Your love of the Living God is inexplicable, indescribable, unfathomable, profound, deep and utterly moving. You are a woman of substance, an angel in the flesh, a handmaiden of Jerusalem, a speaker of divine truths, a Daughter of Zion.
You are the stuff of which great Queens are made. May you live long and prosper and may you be a blessing to your generation and to generations unborn.
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Chief Femi Fani-Kayode is a Nigerian poet, a lawyer, and a politician born in Lagos, Nigeria on 16th October 1960 to Chief Remilekun Adetokunbo Fani-Kayode and to Chief (Mrs) Adia Adunni Fani-Kayode.He was christened David Oluwafemi (meaning "the beloved of the Lord") Adewunmi Fani-Kayode. He was the Special Assistant (Public Affairs) to President Olusegun Obasanjo from July 2003 until June 2006.
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SkyCab Balloon Promotions uses an engineered rope harness system that enables us to fly the hot air balloon in a controlled and restrained setting. This system allows for short rides that take passengers between 50 to 100 feet (depending upon the weather conditions), with each ride lasting about five minutes.
Hosting tethered hot air balloon rides is a great way for an event to share the hot air balloon experience with a large number of people. It is a perfect medium for crowds of all ages to interact with balloons without having to pay the cost of a full balloon ride ($200+ per person). Hot air balloons are extremely diverse and can create value in a variety of ways. For instance, a festival can use the balloon as a revenue generating ride, a way to sell sponsorships, a charitable fundraiser or all three at the same time.
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Our Easy Access Door Basket allows almost everyone the opportunity to enjoy a tethered balloon ride. However, the sides of the basket are approximately 45 inches tall so young kids may not be able to see without the help of a parent/guardian. We do limit tether rides for those in wheel chairs and walkers to when the wind speeds are lower.
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Our larger balloon with the Easy Access Door can accommodate up to 5-6 people at a time and our other balloons can accommodate up to 2-4 people at a time depending on their combined weight. We are limited to two standing people when a wheelchair goes up for a ride. During a normal tethered balloon event our balloon with the Easy Access Door can take up approximately 65 guests per hour while our other balloons can accommodate approximately 50 people per hour.
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Filed under: Carbon Black, General — Notch @ 2:42 pm
The 11th Biennial Carbon Black World conference was held last week at the Crown Plaza hotel in Rome, Italy. The last Carbon Black World conference was held in Vancouver, Canada in November 2008 just as the global economic crisis was emerging, and the general tone of the two conferences couldn't have been more different. The general mood of the Vancouver conference two years ago was one of wariness and apprehension, as every day there came a new onslaught of bad news — the auto industry in desperate straits, tire plants idling, carbon black expansions being canceled or delayed. In retrospect, as dire as the mood was, the reality was probably worse, as the first six months of 2009 was one of the most challenging periods in the modern history of the carbon black industry, particularly in North America, the European Union, and Japan. The carbon black market in the EU, for instance, saw ten months of volume declines from around mid-2008 and finally bottoming out in April 2009, during which carbon black demand in the EU 27 countries fell an astounding 45%.
As steep as the downturn was, however, the recovery has been quite robust, particularly considering that underlying economic fundamentals (especially unemployment) remain problematic. Reflecting this, the mood at the conference was positive, with several major players planning expansions. Notch is currently forecasting that carbon black demand in the EU 27 countries will rise 15% to 1.4 million tonnes in 2010, after declining by 25% in 2009. The European carbon black industry is operating at or very close to its capacity, a reflection of both stronger domestic demand as well as the 340 KT of capacity that was removed in 2008-2010 (in France, the Netherlands, and the UK). Both Alexandria Carbon Black in Egypt and several of the leading Russian producers are embarking on capacity expansions to meet Europe's future requirements. At the same time, the world's number two carbon black producer, Evonik, is in the process of divesting its carbon black business, a development that — depending on how the sale works out — may shake up the industry's established order.
With the conference over, I am working to complete the latest quarterly carbon black report, which will include fully updated supply and demand data, the latest information on future expansions, and a special report on the specialty black sector (i.e., carbon black used in non-rubber markets). The report will be sent to subscribers of the Carbon Black World Data Book 2010 upon completion. Non-subscribers can write to info@notchconsulting.com to order the report.
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Drifters Are The New Hot Rodders
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"Loud, obnoxious, rowdy cars are inherently fun," Tony Angelo tells me. "Doesn't matter what it is. Doesn't matter what year it was made. It doesn't matter if it's fuel injected or carbureted."
Tony says this standing next to his two most beloved cars, his numbers-matching 340 Dodge Demon he's had since he was in high school, and the 700 horsepower Scion FR-S he used to compete in Formula Drift.
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One is a classic muscle car. The other is a top-of-the-world drift car. He calls them both his hot rods, and he's right to do so.
At first glance there is little in common between hot rodding and drifting. One looks old, the other looks young. One looks like it plays heavily on tradition, while the other doesn't seem interested.
But spend time in the two cultures and you see that they're both filled with homebuilt cars tuned to destruction, packing dive bars and barbecues with tattoo'd punks, acting as havens for the weird, nerd, outcast speed freaks living in this country.
Get to know hot rodding and drifting and it becomes hard to see any differences between them, impossible to miss their similarities.
"I like cars that feel out of control, and these cars feel outta control," Tony says of his Demon and his FR-S. "For different reasons. The rudimentary suspension on this car with 400 horsepower is definitely exciting," he says of his Dodge. "This car with far advanced suspension and twice the power is also super exciting," he says of the Scion. "They're both completely different and super fun to drive."
If there's anyone to explain how the ethos of hot rodding is very much present in modern drifting, it's Tony.
He was one of the very first people to bring drifting to America. He used to ship over parts from Japan for his old Mazda RX-7, and his connect started sending along VHS tapes full of drifting clips along with his orders. Tony (or anyone else in the country for that matter) had never seen anything like it. It looked dangerous and exciting and Tony started to trying to do it himself. Then he got his friends involved, and things spread from there.
He's had one of the longest careers in professional Formula Drift, both competing in and working for the series itself.
Now he works for none other than Hot Rod Magazine, his even older automotive passion. Before he had his rotary Mazda, Tony bought his numbers-matching Demon. It was more car than he knew what to do with, but he kept it running and working. He's actually working on the car right this very moment on the YouTube show he hosts for Hot Rod on how to wrench on your own car.
It's easy to see why Hot Rod hired him. I talked to him at his old shop in Philly (the Snake Pit, he called it), and his mechanic cred was pretty clear.
In this little shop in the middle of the block on a neighborhood side street was an early '70s Dodge Challenger he and his buddy bought out of a field while driving crosscountry, his friend's A-body Dodge Dart engine donor, a spare Nissan 240SX convertible waiting on some work, Tony's FR-S and Demon, and his older Formula Drift car. That one is a Scion tC converted to rear-wheel drive using parts from a Supra.
In one corner of the shop is a drill press from the '20s, in a drawer is his father's father's tool kit filled with the tools his mother's father used as a tool and die maker in the UAW. Up against a far wall is a South Bend lathe taken from a 1942 submarine. "All I think of when I see this," I tell Tony looking at the almost completely exposed machinery, "is 9,000 ways to lose a finger."
"Or your face," Tony is quick to reply. "You can definitely kill yourself with that thing."
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This mix of new parts and old machines fits in perfectly with Tony's understanding of the cars he builds.
More than that, his FR-S is more like a hot rod, physically as much as spiritually, than you might expect. While most of the professional Formula Drift field uses an American V8, Tony's car has a Toyota four-cylinder, but just about everything else added to the car comes from America.
His transmission is made in Pennsylvania. His quick-change rear is made in Pennsylvania. His axles and driveshafts are from North Carolina. His suspension arms are handmade in Texas.
These are speed shop parts, developed for NASCAR road racers and dirt track sprint cars. They're the only components strong enough to handle the stresses of running a pro drift car.
"I think people need to understand that this is a car that's built in America by an American dude for a certain purpose," Tony explains, "but we use what makes the most sense. A lot of times these American parts are awesome, so we use 'em."
This kind of attitude is right at the heart of the hot rod spirit.
"The coolest thing about hot rodding," Tony says, "is the ability to take whatever is at your disposal and make the raddest car you can build with your skills and your budget. It's just about doing what you want to do."
"I think originally, hot rodding was really about creativity, and modifying cars and making them do whatever you want."
"In drifting," Tony continues, "it's creativity driven."
He brings up how drift cars don't only use highly strung Japanese four- and six-cylinder engines but often come with V8 swaps these days. People have been arguing about it for years. Watch this video from 2012 and you'll hear Tony even complaining about the ubiquity of lazy lump LS-swaps in professional Formula Drift.
"People have said ok, that's what they used to do but I don't have access to that or here's a cheaper, more efficient solution. Here I can pull this Camaro motor and put it in a 240 chassis," Tony tells me now. "It's very much in line with what hot rodders used to do, which was take a giant big block and jam it in an A-body or something and go fast."
And that's exactly what I heard when I talked to a dedicated, old school hot rodder a few weeks later.
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"Put the biggest motor in the smallest chassis. It's the same formula," Jim tells me. You can see him pictured above, all the way on the left with the black hat. We're standing next to the midengine lakester he built at his shop, Ray's Hot Rods. "Look us up on Facebook," he says to me.
"You'll see videos of us drifting this thing."
We're at Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey, at a Club Loose drift weekend. Some of the guys out on track are friends of friends of his, and they encouraged him to swing by with his chromed-out Freightliner, his dropped 1960s Cadillacs, and his lakester.
The sound of V8 drift cars ripping past drowns out most of our conversation.
It looked more like the drifters had come to him to see what his builds were about. His lakester, pinstriped by hand, was swarmed with people, asking him how it's made and how it runs.
They are far from what you think of as a hot rod kind of crowd. They do not listen to Rockabilly music. They do not grease back their hair and talk about necking on lover's lane. They are the opposite of 'America's fading car culture' as old farts love to claim.
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It was funny — the drifters and the hot rodders didn't only have the same attitude about cars. They even had the same tattoos.
"We built this exactly as it would have been made in about '49 to '52, but I drive it like it's 2015," Jim explains. The 221 cubic inch (3.6 liter), 24-stud Ford Flathead V8 sits behind the driver with Edelbrock heads and an intake. The body was formed by hand, the chassis made from scratch. Jim put in a column shift transmission to make everything fit, but it meant that he needed to put the shifter on the left.
There are only two foot pedals, one for the clutch and one for the gas. "No room for the brakes," Jim tells me.
There is no radiator. All the car has is two eight gallon water tanks that feed water directly into the engine's cooling passages. Some Bonneville guys still use the system, as it helps work as ballast, and it means that the engine can only run for about half an hour before it heat soaks.
Most of all, Jim was proud of the engine's classic 433 Isky cam, just like was used back in hot rodding's golden era. "You can get a brand new cam from Isky. The old man's still alive," Jim beams. "Call and ask for Iskenderian."
What's interesting about Jim is how he talks about his scene. He grew up in shops and garages, but he doesn't have any great love for the static, elderly, traditional side of the hot rod world, the same one that had turned me away from hot rods. "I don't want to build something to sit," Jim says. "I want to beat the hell out of it."
That's the thing about today's drifting scene matching up so well with today's hot rod scene. It's not only that the style of drifting mirrors the style of hot rodding from half a century ago, it's also that now, in 2015, the hot rodding community is starting to mirror the mindset of drifting. It's not just about the cars; it's about driving them.
"For all intents and purposes this car is pointless," Jim says about his lakester, "except to beat the shit out of it."
Don't think I'm just talking about commonalities between hot rodding and drifting in New Jersey alone. Yes, these New Jersians share the same tats and beards and paint jobs. But the point is true in any drift scene in the country. Even the drift cars built to look as traditional or Japanese as possible also have a hot rod spirit to them.
Crews like Animal Style out in California slam their cars to the ground, paint them cherry red, and cover them in glitter graphics. They are as close to real life Fast and the Furious as you can get.
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But there's nothing in their spirit that you wouldn't have found in someone building a T-Bucket or a lead sled Mercury half a century ago. The cars might look different, but the ideals are the same. Animal Style's cars might share the same look with each other, but they run different chassis and when they competed at this year's top American drift meet, Final Bout, they came with an RB straight six and an SR20 straight four from Nissan, a 1JZ straight six from Toyota, and an LS V8 from GM. Like hot rodders, they do not discriminate.
The Hot Rod Rebirth
It took me a while to see this picture clearly. The older generation in this country is only beginning to realize that kids raised on video games and YouTube immediately grasp what's awesome about the spirit of hot rods. The video below (currently at 40 million views, if you're wondering) from Roadkill is a perfect example.
Watch how kids react to a 1930 Ford Model A rat rod in comparison to the car that one might think they would prefer, a 2012 Lamborghini Aventador.
The kids go apeshit for that rat rod. It's different and it's personal, and it's louder and wilder than any store-bought Lambo.
That video came out in 2012. I never saw anything like it when I was younger.
Growing up in the '90s, there was nothing I could find less interesting that hot rods. All I ever saw of them were candy coat show queens, parked out on some grass lawn in Sacramento, polished and adored by some fat old man with a grey beard and a long winded story to tell. They were not of my generation. They did not appeal to me. They were not fast, they were not loud, they were not interesting or new. Everything I saw of hot rods was stuffy and old and stale.
It wasn't until years later that I started reading websites like JalopyJournal and HooptyRides and, yes, Jalopnik before I worked there, to learn about what hot rodding was like during its heyday of America's postwar boom years. I had grown up in California, but I didn't know about veterans turning belly-mounted fuel tanks from their WWII airplanes into land speed record cars running out on salt flats.
I didn't know about the guy who moved the engine in his '55 Chevy gasser so far back that it ended up where his front seats used to be and he had to sit in the rear. I didn't know about pinstripe guys showing up to work in a dress. I didn't know about George Barris wandering around custom car shows in fluffy slippers and picking up the trophy girls. I didn't know about the weirdness of hot rodding or its outcast rebel nerd spirit. I didn't know how Wild West it all had been.
And the first place I ever saw that kind of spirit in person was at a drift meet, fortuitously located at one of the hot rod centers of the East Coast. I don't really know how I ended up going out to see a Club Loose event at Englishtown, but I was hooked the moment I arrived. I remember thinking it was like being inside a YouTube video.
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The cars looked like they'd been hauled out of a junkyard. Some of them didn't have hoods, others didn't have any front end at all. Some cars ran stock engines with new and huge turbochargers, others swapped in straight sixes, V6s, and others crammed American V8s into small Japanese frames. There were Nissans and Pontiacs and BMWs.
If there was a strict dogma, it didn't have anything to do with what car you bought, or how you made it look, or anything else that seemed to define other exclusionary car cultures. The only thing that mattered was how your car drove, and if it could spin tires whenever you wanted it to.
I kept going to these Club Loose events and I started to get to know the people there. Biker gang looking guys, getting drunk and breathing fire in a barn they converted into a dive bar.
They were like the guys I had read about in the '40s and '50s and '60s. Outcast types who just wanted to go fast. They didn't care what they built so long as it held together and seared itself into your ears and your eyeballs.
Is this Nissan 350Z with a monster of a Chevy V8 not a hot rod?
The guy giving me the finger in the picture below swapped a Toyota 1UZ V8 into his 240SX in his driveway with the help of a friend. He didn't care how it looked. He just wanted to make smoke. Actually, he wants to twin-supercharge it now.
A Toyota Corolla AE86, about as classic a drift car can be, is equally at home on a track as a Corvette or a 240SX with an LS swap. All three are pictured below. The car on the left is driven by a Korean American, the one on the right by a Russian visiting the US.
Does your car shoot flames? Awesome. Just have an extinguisher handy for when your bumper catches fire.
Drift cars are meant to be driven. Doors are meant to be banged.
There's a scene in one of the first episodes of Roadkill where the former editor-in-chief of Hot Rod is watching a bunch of Australian hoons shred tires on a track instead of parking their rides at a car show like many American hot rodders and sitting in a lawnchair all day. "Seriously," he asks the viewer, "Why don't we do this?"
We do. The spirit of bone-crushing, teeth-gnashing hot rodding of the past is alive and well in the United States. Go to any drift event and you'll find it.
Photo Credits: Raphael Orlove, except for that Instagram picture. That was shot by theenemyphotos and shows Drift Team Animal Style at Final Bout II this year.
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And the internet is looking to Canucks for answers.
It was only a matter of time before Tim Hortons came up with their own unique drink to rival Starbucks' ever-popular pumpkin spice latte. But unfortunately, their latest invention has everyone confused thanks to its bizarre choice of flavour: buffalo sauce.
Yep, someone actually thought that buffalo sauce and coffee would be the perfect combination to spice up your morning.
According to a press release, the latte is made from "freshly brewed espresso, steamed milk, mocha, and bold Buffalo sauce flavour." And to top it off, the drink is dusted with Buffalo seasoning to give it a real kick!
Naturally, the internet had some strong feelings (and questions) about Tim's latest menu addition.
Many also looked to Canucks for answers, considering Tim's is a well-known Canadian coffee chain.
This is why nobody takes Canada seriously.
But hey, don't blame us! According to the company's press release, the Buffalo-flavoured latte is actually an American invention and is only available in Buffalo, N.Y., A.K.A. home of the Buffalo wing.
Commenting on the thought process behind the latte, Stephen Goldstein, the regional president of Tim Hortons U.S., explained: "Tim Hortons and Buffalo sauce were both born in 1964, so why not take these two Buffalo staples and combine them?
"The unlikely pairing of sweet mocha and tangy Buffalo sauce come together to create an unexpectedly delicious sweet and spicy treat we hope our guests will enjoy."
If Tim Hortons honestly thinks that I'm going to spend $$ on a buffalo wing flavored latte, just bc I live there...they're absolutely right.
And (surprisingly) they've been giving it positive reviews. "LOVED IT!! Spicy and chocolatey!!" one customer wrote on Instagram.
If you're feeling adventurous, you can get your hands on one of these Buffalo-flavoured lattes at select Buffalo stores from now until Oct. 20.


In honor of turning 23 recently (two weeks ago!), here are 23 things I've learned about writing.
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When i look back on the month of April i realise that April was a rather good month. There were alot of positives and it was getting brighter and warmer which is always appreciated!
I baked two cakes for Easter!!
Went out for dinner with my boyfriend, and i think it was this month (Or earlier?) when i got to meet my boyfriends best friend who was in Stockholm for a few days!! Hahah the pressure was real, had to make a good impression. The first impression was a good one i think, though my second impression on him wasnt as good i dont think.
I had set myself the goal to run a half marathon in May, so i had 4 weeks on me to be prepared. Which meant that i ran 20km every weekend for the month of April, as well as fitting in intervals and more running throughout the week.
Snacks for me and my boyfriend. We did alot of series watching!!
This was insanely good! Eggwhite oatmeal (with just a little bit of salt) & chocolate casein and two warm brownie pieces!!
At the end of april i was able to run in shorts!
The evening of the 30th i was going to celebrate with friends however i was so tired that i remember when i got home after all the celebrations in school and then meeting my dad, i came home and just fell asleep at once. The beginning of needing naps XD No amount of caffeine could increase my energy levels at this point and the sttress was wearing me down even more.
I had my friends over for brunch - and the first time they got to meet my boyfriend as well!
Went to a "tea party/birthday party"
I got my heels for graduation and i never wanted to take them off, despite them being super high and a very thin heel i loved my shoes!!
It was time for my graduation and dinner. I was awarded the "class strength" during dinner, which was a nice award to be nominated, haha :) Got to dance and have a good time with friends!
Spent time walking around the city and sitting by the pier with my boyfriend... most of my school work was done so i wasnt drowning in school work anymore.
I made brunch (on my own) for my mum on mothers day.
Took some pictures of me in my graduation outfit... but of course i had to get down and do some push ups and go to the outside gym.... in my heels and white dress, hahah. I had people look at me like i was crazy!!!
Bought new running shoes which took a long time to be able to use without getting blisters.
I was excited for the Nike race in Stockholm, also the colour Me Rad race!
The day after the colour run it was time for my graduation, which meant waking up at 5am XD I had to get ready then meet my friends in a park and have a champagne "breakfast". Then we walked to the school where we got some actual breakfast and then there were lots of speeches and then waiting and finally we got to "run out" of the school - a symbol of finally leaving the school!! And we were meant by lots of people and we had to find our families and then get changed before we got on a "truck" which drives you around town and it plays music and you spray alcohol (XD) and you just sort of celebrate that you have graduated! (Its a swedish tradition!) It was super cold and you got wet from all the beer sprayed but i had a good time anyway. Afterwards my mum picked me up, i got changed and showered before family and friends came over and it was dinner/lunch and i got some lovely presents and then it was just to take a short nap before heading out for even more partying with friends (which was a disaster party, hahaha.) Also my dad and younger brother were in Sweden for my graduation which made the day even better!
I miss this day alot... because it was such a milestone for me. Something i had only ever dreamed of but never thought i would achieve... there have been far too many times in my life that i have been suicidal and wanted to give up. So for me, graduating was such an unbelievable feeling, though that day went far too quickly!!
Time for another race.... which didnt go well at all. It was super warm, i hadnt ate enough or drank enough and my breathing had gotten alot worse. So there were times i felt like fainting due to the warmth and lack of water... this was just an awful race but i ran the 10km under 55minutes which i was proud of due to the circumstances.
I celebrated midsummer with my family out in an apartment and we also travelled to a new town though as it was midsummer everything was closed, haha.
I was also in a sort of "half argument/dispute" with my boyfriend at the time. The only one we have had. Well, due to how i was feeling i was super forgetful and we had booked a hotel and train tickets to Gothenburg, but i had forgotten about my Nike race which was on the evening of the day we had booked the train tickets. My boyfriend just wanted to get out of Stockholm but i so badly wanted to run the Nike race. I had no idea what to do, as it was just myself and my dizzziness to blame for the double booking. But i had so much anxiety and didnt know what to do. I didnt want to be one of those girlfriends who had to have things my way, but ever since i booked the Nike race i wanted to run it. Finally things solved themselves and i bought two new train tickets (as we couldnt change the dates or sell our previous tickets) and had to rebook the hotel dates... and i am glad i did. Even if i felt awful but it was just one day difference and the Nike race was one of my best races and most favourite races. Though i felt like such an awful person which was silly, but i couldnt help it. I hate being an inconvenience and have people change plans for me.
Spent two days in hospital doing all the tests there are... checked my heart, lungs, kidneys, bone density, fat, cardiovascular health, eye sight, hearing, blood test, checking if have diabetes etc etc I was poked and proded and super tired by the end of those 2 days.
Finally, the day after my Nike race it was time for Gothenburg with my boyfriend and we spent 3 nights at a super hotel. The hotel breakfast was amazing, i loved the huge theme park. The food was delicious, i fell in love with Gothenburg and wanted to move there. And it was also my first time travelling with my boyfriend and i had a good time and made the best of things. But i remember beforehand i was super nervous as i hate sleeping away from home and spending nights in hotels and such but the 3 days went well, but i was longing for home by the 3rd day.
So much happened these 3 months!!! Lots of things i had sort of forgotten about, so it was nice to look back on!!
Wish I could also look back on times having friends and a loving family. Now I'm a twenty-something and I don't think I will ever find friends. I keep asking myself what I am expecting from life.
Its not until you look back after a year that you realise how much happens, and how much a person can change.


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Decision time for new EU rules on how researchers use personal data
Catherine Guinard
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It's a key time for research across the EU.
For the last four years, an important European data law has been batted back and forth between different parts of the EU policy process. And now those talks are reaching the final stages – and we need your help.
We've written about the law – called the EU Data Protection Regulation – before. And we've also raised concerns about how early versions of the law – if put into practice – would leave life-saving research under threat.
So now, more than ever, we're keen to make sure EU policymakers hear our concerns.
That's why we, alongside several leading patient and research organisations across Europe, sent this letter to The Times, highlighting the issue to policymakers in Brussels (a word of warning – it's behind a pay wall).
And it's also why we've launched a new petition on our collaborative campaign site (sign it here), so you can join us in making sure these important concerns are heard in Europe.
If you haven't been following the draft law since the start, it's worth recapping. The Data Protection Regulation looks at how personal data is used across a number of sectors, from telecoms through to medical research.
And we support what the law is trying to achieve – safe, secure and responsible use of personal data.
Research happens across countries and continents, and it's collaborative, so harmonising the rules across Europe makes a lot of sense.
But the way the law has developed has been worrying.
At first everything was fine. The original proposal accommodated the needs of researchers, and offered an exemption from the need to ask for consent every time researchers use personal data in their work. You can read more on why this is so important on the campaign website.
The trouble began when the European Parliament proposed changes to the draft version of the law. They wanted changes to the consent agreement, which would require researchers to seek consent each time they use personal data. This would cause a real problem for how important research studies are run (particularly, for example, when reusing data from previous studies), raising costs and even undermining the findings in some cases.
Crucially, the European Parliament's changes don't take into account the important and effective safeguards that are already in place for handling research data. Ethics committees and robust contractual agreements already ensure people's personal information is kept safe.
Thankfully, a second tier of EU approval, made up of representatives of national governments (called the Council of Ministers), shared these concerns. And they agreed with the original approach, which we blogged about at the time.
What's happening now?
Now the three EU institutions involved in approving new laws have agreed their respective positions, it's time to thrash out a compromise. As you read this, representatives from the three bodies (the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers) are sitting at a table in Brussels crafting the final version of the law.
And it's vital they get it right. Personal data is the lifeblood of research, and absolutely at the heart of our progress on beating cancer. Thanks to such data, researchers have already been able to uncover how some cancers develop and ways to prevent this. The link between smoking and lung cancer, for instance, was made possible by personal data use in research.
That's why it's important that the final text of the law stays on track. In other words the law needs to allow researchers to continue using personal data as they do today.
If you believe that researchers across Europe should be able to carry on doing the work they do then please sign our petition.
We'll use it to show policymakers just how much support there is for researchers using personal data in research.
You can, and we hope, will, make a difference.
Catherine Guinard is a public affairs manager at Cancer Research UK
Campaigning Policy Research policy


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This bad penny just won't go away
By Jim Matthews | |
PUBLISHED: June 5, 2009 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 7:04 am
After being placed in the suspense file, and everyone thinking it was dead, Assembly Bill 962 is moving through the state legislature again.
It passed the state Assembly Wednesday and now moves to the state Senate. How it got this far is a mystery.
In case you've forgotten, Los Angeles Assemblyman Kevin DeLeon's bill would:
1. Stop the sale of more than 50 rounds of handgun ammunition per month to individuals.
Since "handgun" ammunition is not defined anywhere in the bill, it effectively means "all" ammunition, since you can buy handguns in just about any metallic cartridge today. It would also include rimfire cartridges, which are routinely sold in 100-round packs, and are used in many handguns.
How can state government tell me I can only buy and shoot 50 rounds of ammunition per month to be competent with my handgun (or any gun)? The part of the law would effectively ban competitive shooting by civilians, if the law was followed to the letter. It would make those who live in dangerous neighborhoods less safe because gun owners would be less practiced, less trained.
How limiting how much ammunition we buy is supposed to do anything to help prevent crimes or help solve crimes is a complete mystery to anyone who has seriously examined this legislation.
2. It would license and tax anyone selling handgun ammunition commercially and force these stores to get background checks on anyone selling that ammunition.
This would make it more expensive to operate a firearms business in California, already one of the most expensive and highly-regulated businesses in the state. How does this help prevent or solve crimes? It doesn't, of course.
3. It would require ammunition sellers to get a thumbprint from anyone buying handgun ammunition, and mandate store owners to keep these records for five years.
The bill would force store owners to keep track of their customers so they know if John Doe has bought or tried to buy more than 50 rounds in any given month. (There are no provisions, however, for anyone to know if John Doe bought 50 rounds from a business across town earlier yesterday.)
First, imagine the paperwork nightmare this creates for these businesses. Second, it has been proven that even if law enforcement knows someone purchased a box of ammunition does nothing to help solve a crime.
Zip. This is just another harassment of gun owners and legal gun sellers. Plus there's the law enforcement oversight, adding more bureaucratic costs to a state that is going bankrupt, and wasting law enforcement's time and money with an effort that won't help them. This is a really bright thing. Don't you think?
4. It would ban all ammunition sales that don't take place face-to-face, effectively banning all mail-order sales.
If this was the only provision of the bill, it might be supported by local gun retailers because it would mean they wouldn't have to compete with mail order businesses that provide a lot of us with ammunition cheaper and offer more selection than the local gun shops. This is restraint of trade, but worse, it would effectively put out of business several local business who custom load ammunition for hunters. Custom Cartridge in Santa Barbara is one of the few companies that will load non-lead bullets into just about any hunting round to make it legal for use in California's condor hunting zone. They'd be forced out of business by this bill.
The bill was supposedly amended recently, but the only real change I could find in the legislation was the name. This horribly prejudical legislation is now called: PROTECTION Act of 2009: Providing Regulation and Oversight To End Community Terrorism In Our Neighborhoods.
Isn't that clever? Never mind that it has nothing to do with making our neighborhoods safer.
It has everything to do with a bias against legal gun ownership and those who legally sell guns and ammunition. This is legislated discrimination. It is about a legislator who doesn't have the courage to introduce legislation to ban handguns. That's what he wants, but he realizes that even in his liberal Los Angeles district that stand would get him kicked out of office in the next election. This is his way to get at gun owners and sellers by making their lives more difficult and expensive.
Unfortunately, it's time to call your state Senate members and ask them to jettison this bill once and for all.
Jim Matthews' Outdoors column runs on Friday. For more, check out outdoornewsservice.com
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