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Astra is a model-name which has been used by Vauxhall, the British subsidiary of General Motors (GM), on their small family car ranges since 1979. Astras are technically essentially identical with similar vehicles offered by GM's German subsidiary Opel in most other European countries. For the first two generations, the nameplate was applied to UK spec right-hand drive versions of Opel Kadett (which it was sold as in the Republic of Ireland in right-hand drive), and since 1991, Opel also uses the Astra nameplate, so Vauxhall and Opel Astras are essentially identical vehicles. General Motors' Saturn division in America also offers the Astra since late 2007.
The Astra name originated with Vauxhall's 1979 model, though the car was designed and built a year earlier in Germany as an Opel Kadett. This model replaced the Vauxhall Viva in the UK, along with some versions of the Vauxhall Chevette. However, the Chevette remained available for several years afterwards until the Vauxhall Nova was launched. The Astra was Vauxhall's first model to have front wheel drive. Not all trim levels were available with all body styles
Production began at Opel's West German plant at Bochum in August 1979, and the first British customers took delivery of their cars in February 1980.


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Assessment of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Administered at Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Clinics
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01632995
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : July 4, 2012
Results First Posted : March 21, 2017
Last Update Posted : March 21, 2017
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Drug: FTC 200 mg/TDF 300 mg fixed-dose combination tablet
|Not Applicable
A previous study (iPrEx) showed that daily PrEP with FTC/TDF provided with a comprehensive package of prevention services is effective in preventing HIV infection among men who have sex with men (MSM). The PrEP administered in that study was given in the context of a research setting/controlled trial, but it is important to evaluate the acceptability, sustainability, and safety of PrEP in a "real world" setting. This study will evaluate PrEP administered to HIV-uninfected MSM and transgender females at two STD clinics and one community health center in the United States.
Each participant will receive PrEP for up to 1 year and will have up to 8 study visits. PrEP will consist of one fixed-dose FTC/TDF combination tablet orally each day. All participants will have study visits at screening, enrollment, and 4 weeks after enrollment; participants will continue to have visits at Weeks 12, 24, 36, 48, and 52 if they do not seroconvert. Participants who seroconvert will discontinue PrEP and will have a post-drug discontinuation visit 4 weeks after discontinuing PrEP. At most visits, participants will undergo blood, urine, and hair sample collection; give a medical history; undergo a physical exam; receive risk-reduction counseling and condoms; undergo testing for HIV and other STDs; receive study drugs; and undergo a pill count and adherence assessment (follow-up visits only). For participants who stop taking the study drug but remain in the study, urine, blood, and hair samples will not be collected at 12-week follow-up visits if all stop procedures have been completed and if there are no lab abnormalities that require additional follow-up. Participants will also answer questionnaires at screening, 12-week visits, and at study exit.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|557 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Implementation of HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): A Demonstration Project
|Study Start Date :
|October 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|February 2015
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 2015
Experimental: Emtricitabine (FTC)/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF)
All study participants will be assigned to this arm and will receive one FTC/TDF tablet orally once a day.
Drug: FTC 200 mg/TDF 300 mg fixed-dose combination tablet
Each participant will be directed to take one FTC/TDF tablet orally once a day, with or without food.
Other Name: Truvada
- Measurement of Acceptance Rate of PrEP [ Time Frame: Measured through enrollment (Week 0) ]
- Measurement of Refusal Rate of PrEP [ Time Frame: Measured through enrollment (Week 0) ]
- Duration of PrEP Use [ Time Frame: Participants were followed for 48 weeks, or up to the point of early termination ]Number of study drug interruptions
- Duration of PrEP Use [ Time Frame: Participants were followed for 48 weeks, or up to the point of early termination ]Mean duration of interruptions
- Measurement of Side Effects/Toxicities [ Time Frame: Participants were followed for 48 weeks, or up to the point of early termination ]
- Measurement of PrEP Adherence by TFV-DP Levels in DBS [ Time Frame: Participants were followed for 48 weeks, or up to the point of early termination ]
- Number of Male Sexual Partners [ Time Frame: Participants were followed for 48 weeks, or up to the point of early termination ]
- Measurement of PrEP Adherence by Medication Possession Ratio [ Time Frame: Participants were followed for 48 weeks, or up to the point of early termination ]Medication possession ratio is defined as the number of dispensed pills divided by the number of days between visits
- Number of Participants Who Seroconvert [ Time Frame: Participants were followed for 48 weeks, or up to the point of early termination ]
- Measurement of HIV Drug Resistance Patterns Among Participants Who Become Infected [ Time Frame: Participants were followed for 48 weeks, or up to the point of early termination ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Must be either a man who has sex with men or a transgender female
- Male sex (at birth)
- Willing and able to provide written informed consent
- HIV-1 uninfected, defined as having a negative rapid HIV antibody test at both screening visit and enrollment and a negative 4th generation antibody/antigen test at screening
- No laboratory evidence of a detectable HIV viral load (San Francisco site only)
Evidence of risk of acquiring HIV-1 infection including any one of the following:
(1) Condomless anal sex with two or more male or transgender female sex partners during the last 12 months; or (2) two or more episodes of anal sex with at least one HIV-positive partner during the last 12 months; or (3) sex with a male or transgender female partner and any of the following STDs diagnosed during the last 12 months or at screening: syphilis, rectal gonorrhea, or rectal chlamydia.
- Able to provide a street address of residence or phone number for themselves or two personal contacts who would know their whereabouts during the period of the demonstration project
- Adequate renal function: creatinine clearance of 60 ml/min or greater as estimated by the Cockcroft-Gault equation within 45 days of enrollment
- A urine dipstick with a negative or trace result for protein within 45 days of enrollment
- Fluent in English or in Spanish
Exclusion Criteria:
- Signs or symptoms of acute HIV infection
- Previously diagnosed active and serious infections including active tuberculosis infection or osteomyelitis and all infections requiring parenteral antibiotic therapy (other than STDs requiring intramuscular injections of antibiotics); active clinically significant medical problems including poorly controlled cardiac disease (e.g., symptoms of ischemia or congestive heart failure) or previously diagnosed malignancy expected to require further treatment
- Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive
- History of pathological bone fractures not related to trauma
- Receiving ongoing therapy with any of the following: investigational antiretroviral agents (PEP is allowed as described in the protocol), interferon (alpha, beta, or gamma) or interleukin (e.g., IL-2) therapy, agents with significant nephrotoxic potential, other agents that may inhibit or compete for elimination via active renal tubular secretion (e.g., probenecid), and/or other investigational agents
- Concomitant participation in a clinical trial using investigational agents, including placebo-controlled clinical trials using such agents
- At enrollment, has any other condition that, based on the opinion of the investigator or designee, would preclude provision of informed consent; make participation in the project unsafe; complicate interpretation of outcome data; or otherwise interfere with achieving the project objectives
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01632995
|United States, California
|SF City Clinic Non-Network CRS
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94103
|United States, District of Columbia
|Whitman Walker Non-network CRS
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20009
|United States, Florida
|Miami PrEP Non-Network CRS
|Miami, Florida, United States, 33136
|Study Chair:
|Albert Liu, MD, MPH
|San Francisco Department of Public Health
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
PrEP Demonstration Project
11879 ( Registry Identifier: DAIDS ES )
|First Posted:
|July 4, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|March 21, 2017
|Last Update Posted:
|March 21, 2017
|Last Verified:
|July 2016
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Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Emtricitabine, Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Drug Combination
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
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Julie Jason: Handling volatility for long-term investors
A long-term investor who put money to work in the stock market and held on through thick and thin during the financial crisis experienced a rough-and-tumble roller-coaster ride. The question is, was the ride worth it?
Let's go back 10 years.
An investor who bought into the stock market, as measured by the S&P 500 Index, 10 years ago and held on through 2013 achieved an annual return of 7.4 percent, according to Morningstar, a provider of market research. You have to reduce that figure somewhat for operating expenses, since an investor would have purchased a mutual fund that replicated the index. The oldest such fund has annual operating expenses of 0.17 percent.
If instead he had put his money in the bank or, better yet, the safest of all investments, 30-day U.S. Treasury bills, he would have been far behind. The annualized return on T-bills was only 1.54 percent for the 10-year period ending Dec. 31, 2013.
For long-term goals such as retirement, it becomes important to recognize that stable investments such as T-bills don't offer real returns after inflation.
In the past 10 years, the inflation-adjusted return on T-bills was a negative 0.81 percent annualized, compared with a positive 4.91 percent annualized for the S&P 500 Index, according to Morningstar.
In the past 20 years, after inflation, T-bills returned 0.47 percent per year, compared with 6.69 percent for the S&P 500 Index.
Are investors benefiting from long-term stock market results?
Studies of investor behavior say no.
It turns out that investors tend to sell at "low points" and buy at "market highs," according to DALBAR, as reported last month in DALBAR's 20th Annual Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior for 2014.
According to DALBAR: "Investors continue to react to market movements and the news. One of the most startling and ongoing facts is that at no point in time have average investors remained invested for sufficiently long periods to derive the benefits of the investment markets. Recommendations by the investment community to remain invested have had little effect on what investors actually do. The result is that the alpha created by the portfolio is lost to the average investor, who generally abandons investments at inopportune times, often in response to bad news."
As C. Thomas Howard says in his book, "Behavioral Portfolio Management," we make investment decisions based on "heuristics:" "A heuristic is a shortcut approach to making decisions and, while it often leads to good decisions, in the world of investing such an approach can be highly problematic."
Cognitive errors that interfere with sound investment decisions abound. Not wanting to lose money (who does?) is probably the single biggest reason why people run from volatility.
DALBAR finds that: "Investors tend to sell after experiencing a paper loss and start investing only after the markets have recovered their value. The devastating result of this behavior is participation in the downside while being out of the market during the rise."
Should investors try to beat the market? The answer, of course, is no.
As DALBAR concludes: "The humbling fact has been and always will be that: the average investor cannot be above average. Investors should understand this fact and not judge the performance of their portfolio based on broad market indices, but rather based on their individual path towards a personal goal."
If that goal is your distant retirement, it's important to factor in how volatility affects results over time.
No matter how you look at your job as an investor, your time horizon, your expectations and how you measure your results will affect your decisions.
As Howard points out, "Almost all time periods in investment analysis are arbitrary and the length decided upon is based on emotion rather than on logic."
That's something a long-term investor needs to think about.
We'll talk more about long-term investing in future columns. Send questions and comments to me at email@example.com.
Julie Jason, JD, LLM, award-winning author of "The AARP Retirement Survival Guide: How to Make Smart Financial Decisions in Good Times and Bad," and "Managing Retirement Wealth: An Expert Guide to Personal Portfolio Management in Good Times and Bad," is principal of Jackson, Grant Investment Advisers, Inc. of Stamford. Please e-mail her with questions at firstname.lastname@example.com or write to her c/o The Advocate, 9A Riverbend Drive South, Box 4910, Stamford, CT 06907. Follow her on Twitter @RetireSecureNow or connect on LinkedIn. Copyright 2014 Julie Jason.


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Saw unit «104»
The FELDER saw unit "104" Manufactured entirely from cast iron, the new Felder "104" saw unit fulfils the highest demands of modern woodworking.
The new CF 741 – versatility in perfection
The combination machine CF 741 is the premium machine for modern woodworking and leaves nothing to be desired with the different equipment options. The all-rounder impresses with its clear layout, combining small space requirement with perfection and user-friendliness of professional machines and offers excellent quality in planing, cutting, moulding and slot drilling.
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The FELDER saw unit "104" Manufactured entirely from cast iron, the new Felder "104" saw unit fulfils the highest demands of modern woodworking.
The patented tilt segment "Easy-Glide" fulfills the highest requirements in businesses and industries. A precise, guided, doublesided support, guarantees maximum load bearing and tolerance free tilting and is absolutely maintenance free. A special, highly durable synthetic material situated in the guide of the tilting segment ensures extremely smooth movement and long-lasting precision. The tilting guide system, a synthetic material tried and tested in aerospace and lock construction, works without the requirement of lubrication and is totally resistant to dust. With a 6 year factory guarantee this Felder component offers reliabilty for many years to come.
The electronically balanced saw arbor with dual bearing seat system is powered via a Poly-V belt. This combination results in an almost perfect transmission of power to the saw blade.
The Felder 700 Series saw unit is fully compatible with dado tooling. Thanks to removable flanges and table insert, the Felder designed, fully adjustable dado cutters can be used.
Similarly, the saw blade height and angle settings can be set to an accuracy of a tenth of a millimetre. For fine tuning there is also a push button and a clear LED display screen to show you the actual current value.
For chip free cutting of laminated panels. The saw blade can be mechanically or electrically driven and can be set in both height and lateral position.
The continuously developed linear guiding system from Felder has been astounding woodworkers since 1990. The high quality format sliding table guiding technology "X-Roll" comes with a 10 year Felder guarantee and offers amazing operating smoothness and is completely maintenance free. The 'x' design of the position of the roller bearings ensures that they move smoothly along hardened guides.
For a convenient option we can equip your Felder 700 Series machine with start buttons for the main and scoring blades.
The solid outrigger makes it possible to process large and heavy workpieces. High precision and operating smoothness is guaranteed by 8 bearing guide rollers situated in the outrigger telescopic arm. You can optionally equip your Felder saw with a 1300 Felder outrigger or the 1500 premium version Optional roller for the outrigger to facilitate the loading of workpieces
The bevelled mitre scale with accurate readout is visible from the operating area, enabling setting of the required crosscut value.
No reading errors due to scales and vernier. No time-wasting with arduous approximations of angle values. The advantage of the Felder degree index is that the stop is set and fixed without losing time or making reading errors. Highly precise index positions allow for the accurate production of polygons, e.g. 5.625º (32 sided), 11.25º (16 sided), 22.5º (8 sided). In addition, index positions at 15º, 20º, 25º, 30º, 35º, 40º and 45º can be used when working in slide to cut or push to cut mode. Every index position is equipped with a length compensator. The highly precise Felder degree index system is adjusted at the factory. Every index position also has individual fine adjustment. This cost effective index system integrates well into the machine design and will increase your productivity.
On request: the digital crosscut stop. For repeatable accuracy to 0.1 mm with large LED display.
The rip fence is easy and smooth to adjust, with a single-handed clamping mechanism. The optional fine adjustment makes precise measurements possible. The rip scale is easy to read and perfectly integrated into the machine table.
The solid cast iron cutterblock housing is built for heavy duty work. The serrated steel infeed roller and the micro-serrated steel outfeed roller guarantee a perfect transport of the workpiece through the machine. Both steel rollers are large dimensioned and non-wearing. If desired we can equip your AD 941 with a rubber infeed roller. This allows workpieces of varying thicknesses to be processed at the same time, equalling out any differences in thickness. The combination of cutterblock, transport rollers and wood type is decisive for perfect planing resuts. The new Felder AD 941 can be individually configured and specified to meet your exact requirements.
Simple blade settings, carried out incredibly quick - accurate to a tenth of a millimetre, standard with FELDER! Resin free locking screws and the self-setting knives make it possible to change the blade in less than 2 minutes. Time consuming adjustments and purchasing of expensive setting gauges are a thing of the past. The advantages at a glance ...
Exclusive for planer/thicknessers from the Felder Group. The Silent-Power® spiral cutterblock reduces noise emissions by more than half when planing. The continuous pulling cut ensures tear-free results when planing all types of wood. With this revolutionary new development from Format-4 you are obtaining all of the advantages of a spiral cutterblock at considerably lower operating, investment and adjustment costs. The advantages of the Silent-Power® cutterblock at a glance ...
The chip removal can be adjusted continuously to up to 4 mm. The magnifying glass guarantees accurate reading of the scale.
The planer fence may be tilted to any angle between 90° and 45°. End stops are placed at 90° and 45°.
The space saving planer guard is integrated into the machine chassis which stabilises the workpiece when planing and bevelling.
Simple choice for the power feeder speeds of 6 m/min. and 12 m/min.
Thicknessing accuracy to one tenth of a millimeter with the use of the handwheel and its integrated digital display. Max. Thicknessing height 230 mm.
Heavy chip loads are no problem for the chip extraction hood due to its efficient design and large dimension.
The horizontal mortiser is mounted on the planer side. An optional dowelling device can be added to increase the mortiser capability.
The Felder 700 Series spindle aggregate sets standards that are unparalleled.
Large dimensioned and designed for maximum load bearing capacity, the aluminium format sliding table "hovers" on the "X-Roll", a highly developed guiding technology. The X shape ("X-Roll") design of the rollers distributes the load optimally on all sides. The linear surface of the steel rollers running on the hardened and ground guiding surface guarantees unbeatable precision and smoothness. "X-Roll" will guarantee you the quality and precision that you expect from your new tilting spindle moulder. Another reason to choose Felder: 10 year factory guarantee to underline the reliability of "X-Roll".
The fully electrical "Power-Drive" control offers exact adjustment and repeat accuracy. The saw blade height and the angle settings can be adjusted at the turn of a knob, the fine setting adjustments are carried out to tenth of a millimetre accuracy using a push button. Red LED digits display the current position in real time on the control panel.
Advantages of the Felder spindle quick change system:
"230" spindle fence for max. tooling diameter 230 mm, MULTI adjustment system for spindle fence "230" enabling parallel alignment and quick setup
The large table opening allows for maximum operator safety. For large dimension tooling, as used for tenoning and panel raising, the cutterblock can be conveniently positioned below the table.
The dual extraction system from the spindle unit and fence ensures that the machine stays clean and dust free.
The safety bar guides are great for end-grain work (optional).
The use of a power feeder ensures that standard work when moulding can be carried out cleanly and precisely
The Felder device for tilting the feeder away means the power feeder always remains on the machine and can be used at any time with no difficulties.
OUTSTANDING! The patented double mitre gauge from Felder allows for mitre cuts on pieces of differing widths and at any angle. Really easy to use: simply type in the desired angle as well as the widths of your workpieces on the keyboard. Immediately, you will receive the settings and can set the electronic double mitre gauge accordingly. The fence stop on the fence can be adjusted up to 1350 mm with the scale. Regardless of the angles set, the length compensating vernier scale allows you to compensate for the workpiece length.
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Build together with us this highlight for fun, joy and relaxation, In this do-it-yourself video we will show you step by step how easy it is to produce a wooden hot tub with your Felder woodworking machines.


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Isotherm, Kinetic and Thermodynamic of Adsorption of Heavy Metal Ions onto Local Activated Carbon
In this work, the adsorption isotherm, Kinetic and thermodynamic of removal of Fe3+, Cu2+, Pb2+ and Zn2+) ions by activated carbon produced from rice husk were studied. The results shown that the Freundlich isotherm model achieved best fit with the equilibrium adsorption data for adsorption of (Fe3+, Cu2+ and Pb2+) ions, it is indicates to multilayer adsorption nature of these metal ions on RHAC. The adsorption capacity (Kf) of the adsorbent have a value of (312.1, 628.93 and 162.66 mg/g) for (Fe3+, Cu2+ and Pb2+), respectively. The Langmuir isotherm model gives best fit with the equilibrium adsorption data, it is instated to monolayer adsorption nature of (Zn2+) ions on RHAC. The monolayer adsorption capacity (Q) have a value of (714.285 mg/g). The adsorption kinetics were followed the pseudo-second-order model, this model gives the best- fit to experimental data for all heavy metal ions which studied in this work. which have highest correlation coefficient values of (0.988 ,0.996 ,0.999 and 0.9232) for (Cu2+, Fe3+, Pb2+ and Zn2+), respectively. Also, the adsorption thermodynamic showed that the adsorption of heavy metal ions becomes more feasibility with increasing in temperature due to negative values of ΔG. The adsorption process is endothermicdue to positive values of ΔH.
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Mom's Weight 14 - 16 lbs
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Cavalier King Charles Spaniels are the quintessential lap dog: sweet, gentle and affectionate. These dogs gained their popularity as a pet to royalty in Scotland in the 1500's, and are today among the most popular breeds by the AKC. Their dark, expressive eyes are characteristic of the breed, just as their calm and loving nature. Cavalier King Charles Spaniels are known for being wonderful with children and making excellent family pets. Because they are so eager to please, training is generally easy for these dogs. They will weigh between 13-18 lbs. on average when fully grown. Read More
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Beyonce's to blame for dozens of people losing their jobs and a video game developer being out more than $100 million, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York.
Gate Five claims it had teamed up with the singer for a dance game called "Starpower: Beyonce." The game was supposed to be out in time for Christmas, but the project fell apart when Beyonce demanded more money, according to the suit. As a result, claims Gate Five, 70 people lost their jobs.
The company also claims it lost a $7 million initial investment, and more than $100 million in potential profits.
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Security officers overwhelmingly vote in favor of collective bargaining agreement.
The Transportation Security Administration employees ratified their first ever collective bargaining agreement Friday, according to a federal union.
TSA negotiated with the American Federation of Government Employees and reached a tentative agreement on the agency's first every labor contract in August.
"AFGE is proud that TSA workers finally have a union contract that will improve their working lives and bring stability to the workforce," said AFGE National President J. David Cox in a statement. "This agreement will mean better working conditions, fair evaluation practices and safer workplaces, and in doing so, it will improve morale. This is important because low morale leads to unsafe levels of attrition in an agency where a stable, professional workforce of career employees is vital to its national security mission."
The new contract creates new awards for employees at both the national and local levels. It reforms the leave process, as well as procedures for shift bidding and trading. The contract emphasizes seniority, giving officers who have been with the agency the longest advantages in nearly every aspect of employee competition.
The contract also nearly doubles the current $232 annual uniform allowance and permits new uniform variations to account for weather.
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We have all breeds and all ages! Our animals change every day. Your best bet is to come in with your family and look around.
The first step in the adoption process is to complete our adoption application. You can download this by clicking here. Be sure to bring the completed application in with you, or we can provide you an application while you are at the facility.
Proof of address is also required via a valid state drivers license or identification. If you only have a cellular phone, you must bring in a copy of a recent cellular phone bill to verify that the phone number is for the address shown on your identification.
If you have a child under the age of five, the animal must be older than 3 months of age. We strongly recommend that all members of the household, including children, come along to the shelter to meet their new pet. Also, some of the larger breed dogs require "house checks". This simply means that one of our investigators goes to your home and checks for yard space, fencing, etc.
If you live in an apartment or condo, you will need to bring a copy of your lease or condo policies to show that you are allowed pets.
We also strongly recommend that once you have chosen a pet here at our facility, and you currently have a dog, that you bring your pet in to conduct a "pet introduction". Nothing is worse then bringing home a new dog that just will simply not get along with your dog and you need to bring him or her back to the shelter. We feel that is just not fair for the dog or your family!


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Clocking in at a paltry 76 minutes, "BloodRayne: The Third Reich" finally manages to deliver a film somewhat similar to the premise of the game series that inspired the feature-length medieval big screen clunker that director Uwe Boll followed up with an even worse wild west outing. Boll returns to the helm, taking Rayne, the series' heroine, still played by Natassia Malthe (who replaced original film star Kristanna Lokken), to Nazi Germany to kill Nazis and stop Ekart Brand (Boll regular Michael Paré), an insane Nazi (is there any other kind?) who has acquired Rayne's unique vampiric mutation, which any viewer whose seen "Blade" will recognize: the ability to function in daylight.
At this point, anyone coming into the "BloodRayne" series (I cringe as I write that), isn't expecting high art, let alone a barely competent film, but for anyone who has followed Boll's career with interest, morbid fascination, or in my case a little of both, will understand the esteemed Dr. Boll always has a trick up his sleeve, resulting in a film that either manages to be more incompetent than the last or in some rare cases, such as Boll's serious political message film, "Attack on Darfur," show an earnest filmmaker who is capable of at least above average filmmaking. "BloodRayne: The Third Reich" is no exception to Boll's unpredictability and falls somewhere in between both categories. While far from being an average movie, not one frame tries to outdo the overly long, paper thin, insufferable excess of the preceding two films. Instead, Boll phones this one in, leaving viewers with a watchable time waster.
Even with such a short running time, "The Third Reich," manages to drag along, half-heartedly attempting to provide a narrative for a bland heroine played by an actress who looks the part but once she opens her mouth, makes one long for the days of Lokken. The highlight of the film, from both an acting and narrative standpoint is delivered by the incomparable Clint Howard, filling the twisted shoes of the not so subtly named Dr. Mangler, a Nazi scientist naturally, who speaks with the most unholy amalgamated accent since Nicolas Cage chose to randomly channel Jimmy Stewart in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans." Howard is simultaneously insufferable and delightful, acting as the sick mastermind tying Rayne to Brand and the greater Nazi goal of domination. His plan to make Hitler a super vampire allows the film to indulge in cinematic absurdity by the hand of Boll who throws in a nonsensical daydream/nightmare for no other reason to limp the film towards the hour and 15 minute mark.
Non sequiturs are par for the course in "The Third Reich" with Rayne stopping into a war torn brothel to dispatch an abusive Nazi john and then engage in a trashy love scene with another actress who like Malthe is all looks and no talent. Boll's kitchen sink approach to filmmaking is mildly amusing, but the routine grows tired as the film progresses, killing what little charm was promised by initial scenes of CGI assisted Nazi slaughter in lieu of Clint Howard hamming it up and Michael Paré looking more confused than intimidating. "The Third Reich" raps up as well as one could hope with a final bad guy vs. heroine showdown that is brief but so ballsy it nearly makes the film required viewing for fans of schlock. Boll is remarkably restrained whilst playing in a land that is so ripe for exploitation. That's not to say the film isn't exploitative, by all means it is, but to be perfectly fair, it's a lot less sleazy than one might expect from a Boll led female vampiric journey into WWII Nazi Germany. Fear not though, because Boll does get the last laugh, ending on a possible set-up for a fourth "BloodRayne" film with a tease of more slaughter an a vulgar wood one-liner from Rayne herself. You can't ask for much more, nor should you.
The 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer sports an intentionally drab, monochromatic color scheme that is faithfully rendered. Light noise persists throughout the image, making the already average detail level of the transfer look even weaker. Thankfully the image is free of compression artifacts and edge enhancement, making for a decidedly uninspired image, fitting nicely with the actual content of the film.
The Audio
The English Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track is relatively flat and lifeless, never offering much kick during the sparse action scenes. Dialogue is dominant and clear, a misfortune given the script itself. A French 5.1 track and English subtitles for the hearing impaired are included.
The Extras
As with most Boll releases, a commentary track featuring the director himself is included. The film's writer joins him and together the two say little of substance and meaning. A bland, promotional style making-of featurette is included as well as a short interview with the writer, who begins on a very unintentionally funny note, although his intentions are well meaning. Finally a digital copy of the film is found on the disc should one desire to have this film on hands at any given moment.
Final Thoughts
In the vast catalogue of Uwe Boll films, "BloodRayne: The Third Reich" falls towards the upper middle. It never takes itself seriously and doesn't aspire to such heights that it looks embarrassingly incompetent; instead it's Boll lazily slapping something vaguely comprehensible together for consumption by those who "get" what he's about. The brief running time, decent action, and gamut of acting (with Clint Howard chewing scenery like there's no tomorrow) make it worth a rental and nothing more. Rent It.


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Elisabeth Hasselbeck Dismisses Plagiarism Claim
The View co-host calls the accusation against her book "without merit"
No worries, says Elisabeth Hasselbeck – who took a brief moment during Wednesday's The View to comment on the copyright infringement charge against her by a Massachusetts author.
"I just want to assure you the allegations are without merit and are being handled appropriately," said Hasselbeck, 32, who has spoken openly about her self-diagnosed celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder linked to gluten proteins in wheat, barley and rye.
Hasselbeck's book, The G Free Diet-A Gluten-Free Survival Guide, was published in May 2009 by Center Street Hachette Book Group. Crying foul, and seeking $3 million, is Susan Hassett, who claims that in 2008 she had sent Hasselbeck a copy of her own book – the self-published Living with Celiac Disease – along with a homemade cooking video, a newspaper story about celiac disease, her business card and a personal note.
The message expressed Hassett's hope that Hasselbeck was well and noted that the TV personality was lucky to catch her celiac disease early. Hassett also offered to discuss her book with Hasselbeck in order to spread the word about celiac disease to her viewers. In return, she never received so much as a thank you, says Hassett.
Instead, Hassett claims Hasselbeck infringed on Hassett's copyright by stealing her material "word for word" and copying the format of her book. In her lawsuit, filed Monday in Boston federal court, Hassett says she will donate a portion of whatever proceeds she receives from the suit to create a camp designed for children with celiac disease.
On Tuesday, a statement released on behalf of Center Street and Hasselbeck, said, in part, "There is no basis for the allegations in the Complaint as published in the press. Ms. Hasselbeck worked diligently and tirelessly on her book and is disappointed in this attempt to discredit her work and her ability to bring this important message to the public."


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For yesterday, today and tomorrow, these guys know comic book heroes.
As Disney XD launches its "Ultimate Spider-Man" animated series, the latest in Marvel Comics' television adventures of its world-famous wall-crawler (he's starred in six different cartoon series since 1967), the buzzword "synergy" is being put to good use: Now that the Walt Disney Company owns Marvel outright, for the first time ever a network airing a Spidey show has truly tapped the creative brainpower of a team of folks who have their share of experience with both the comic book and television format.
There's the legendary executive producer Stan Lee, who besides co-creating Spidey back in 1962 with artist Steve Ditko (as well as, y'know, the entire Marvel Universe) has been shepherding all of Marvel's properties to film and television since the '70s. Then there's Marvel's head of television Jeph Loeb, an acclaimed comic book scribe ("Spider-Man: Blue") and accomplished television writer-producer ("Heroes," "Lost," "Smallville"). And Joe Quesada, the popular writer-artist and longtime Marvel editor-in-chief who was recently names the company's Chief Creative Officer.
Along with a roster of behind-the-scenes contributors rich in comic book history, they're delivering what they believe is one of the most faithful iterations of Spider-Man's essence ever seen on TV, loosely based on writer Brian Michael Bendis' long-running revisionist comic book series "Ultimate Spider-Man," which has reworked the classic story into more contemporary terms for the past dozen years (and yes, Bendis is also writing episodes). They give PopcornBiz a glimpse into what kind of web they're weaving for Spidey's animated universe.
Stan Lee: It's so hip. Spider-Man has his little wisecracks to the audience. Everything about it is 'today.' It's well written, it's beautifully drawn and it's cool. In fact, all of the Spider-Man cartoons [over the years] were emblematic: they represented the time they were done, and I think that this "Ultimate Spider-Man" cartoon could only have been done in this period of time. I think it's just such a beautiful cartoon. It's so well done – if you can live with the fact that I play the janitor in it. I think they could've given me something more glamorous, but hey, beggars can't be choosers.
Jeph Loeb: One of the things that's really exciting about the show is that much in the same way that Joe and Brian Michael Bendis originally came up with the idea to reinvent for a brand new generation and to be able to tell the story, the basic concept, in the Ultimate Universe is to take concepts that Stan had created in the 1960s and make them relevant to the 2000 audiences. So our job on the animation side was to now, believe it or not 12 years later, come back at it and say, 'Okay, how do we tell that story for a new generation?' – because every generation has their favorite Spider-Man cartoon. How do we make this one into, as we like to say, the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon?
Lee: I always wanted the people who read Marvel comics to feel they weren't just readers but they were sharing a little secret with the people at Marvel. We were all enjoying something that the outside world wasn't privy to and was unaware of. It's like we were part of the special little group having fun with these stories and that was the reason I wrote a column called Stan's Soapbox every month where I would talk to the readers and make them feel we didn't consider them just our readers. We considered them our friends…I like to feel that our cartoons like the Spider-Man cartoon now, the "Ultimate Spider-Man," there's a feeling that we're relating to the viewer. We're all sharing a little inside joke together that the outside world isn't aware of. I think it's important for Marvel and Disney, whoever it is, to keep that spirit alive.
Loeb: You can't really point out what it is that Marvel is. Somehow you seem to know it. In other words, if we were to take five comic books and four of them were from other publishers and one of them was a Marvel comic. Even if they were characters that you were not familiar with, there's something about the way that Marvel Comics stories are told. I like to think of them as being too big to be contained within the page – that it's almost as though its bursting out, that if you're going to be reading a Spider-Man story the webbing will be coming out of the page and into your room. That's what we wanted to try and capture in the television series, that you do suddenly feel like, 'We're not even going 3-D. We're going to go 4-D': that Spider-Man is going to be swinging around in your house, and Lord knows that kids everywhere will be able to explain that broken lamp: it wasn't them, it was Spider-Man. 'He came out of the television set.'
Joe Quesada: We have a huge treasure chest of wonderful characters that we think haven't been exposed properly over time, but it was also a matter of finding characters that work well within this cast, that would mix well with Peter Parker and characters that would translate to the young audience. So it was a mixture of all of those things and then culling it down to the proper team [of Spider-Man fellow high school classmates/superheroes: Luke Cage, Iron Fist, White Tiger and Nova]. These are absolutely characters that we feel vested in, that we're going to be investing in, in the future and that we thought would just make for a wonderful show.
Loeb: One of the things that I did when I came onboard as the head of television was to take a look at the way that Marvel had been previously working in the animation space, and it's important that everyone knows that up until this time Marvel was not really making its own shows. Certainly, if you go back and look at some of the old cartoon series that have been done you'll recognize some of the names, but it was never something where our own group, the Marvel group, was actually involved. Taking a page, really, from the studio which has done such an extraordinary job of moving from the movies that were made in other places, and once you start looking at things like 'Iron Man' and 'Thor' and 'Captain America' and of course 'The Avengers,' you're talking about Marvel making Marvel. You're talking about a group of individuals who really truly understand the DNA of what it is that we do. Our feeling is that, like with anything, if you have the best people working on something what you're going to wind up with is a better product.
Quesada: It was something that was made very, very evident by studios as we saw Marvel Studios start to make our movies. The thing that we kept hearing back from the hardcore fan and the casual fan was that these movies had a distinctive Marvel feel that they hadn't felt before in previous incarnations, in previous movies. So taking from that, Jeph was so instrumental in this, saying, 'We're going to get Marvel people to make Marvel shows.' I think 'Ultimate Spider-Man' is the first one that's really going to exhibit that Marvel DNA all the way through. It's funny because even when we have some staff members that come on over to work for us they aren't necessarily familiar with the Marvel DNA, and as we start to coach them they start to really get the feeling of it, from the artwork in the show to the tone of the show to the stories.
Loeb: It's important to note that our incredible writing staff, which is made up of the Man of Action Studios guys who created 'Ben Ten' and also 'Generator Rex' – Joe Kelly, Joe Casey, Duncan Rouleau, Steven T. Seagle. These are guys that certainly came from the world of comics as well. Paul Dini, a two-time Emmy-winner who wrote our pilot and serves as a creative consultant to the show, is a huge comic book fan and a Marvel fan. All the work he had done previous to this had always been for, as we like to say, the other team and just no one had ever asked. It was just one of the opportunities where I went to him and said, 'Here you go.' And then you'd think that would be enough, but in typical Marvel fashion we always have to take it one step further and add that little icing on the cake, and so we went to the guy who's written every single issue of 'Ultimate Spider-Man' – which is over a 150 issues in the last ten years – and that's Brian Michael Bendis. So of course if you have someone like Brian as a part of your staff there's going to be that moment he says, 'Well, once I did this story…' and once you get that into it we try to say, 'Okay, how do we do that and how do we make that work and have a lot of fun with it.' Brian has written some of the most fun episodes of the season.
Lee: It did boggle my mind years ago when I saw how popular Spider-Man was getting, but I've gotten quite used to it now. If I he's not on a Kindle yet, they should have their own show – whatever comes along, Spider-Man should be part of it because he has become possibly one of the most popular characters in the world. They know him all over. And more than know him, they seem to love him… People call me legendary now, and iconic. I don't even know what those words mean, but I seem to have become associated with Spider-Man and with most of the Marvel characters and I love it. It's a great feeling to feel that something that people like that much, something that brings people so much enjoyment – somehow I'm linked to it as well as all the other people who were involved. In fact sometimes fans will come over to me and they'll say 'I just want to thank you for all the enjoyment your stories have brought.' I find that very touching. It's really something that makes me very happy.
'Ultimate Spider-Man' Cartoon Taps Stan Lee & Other Veteran Webslingers
For yesterday, today and tomorrow, these guys know comic book heroes.


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With every spring season comes warnings about Lyme disease. The bacterial infection is most often contracted through the bite of the black-legged or deer tick and, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the highest incident rate for the disease can be found in states in the Northeast.
Editor's note: Seacoast Media Group recently asked musician and Kittery Point, Maine, resident Daryl Hall to serve as guest health editor for a story package about Lyme disease. Please click on the "related stories" for more.
With every spring season comes warnings about Lyme disease. The bacterial infection is most often contracted through the bite of the black-legged or deer tick and, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the highest incident rate for the disease can be found in states in the Northeast.
Rash and flu-like symptoms can accompany the infection, but in some cases the disease includes arthritic, musculoskeletal, cardiac and neurologic manifestations, which can become debilitating and devastating.
In 2005, the CDC reported more than 23,000 cases of Lyme disease, with a national average of 7.9 cases per 100,000 people. In the top 10 states, the average was 31.6 cases per 100,000. In New Hampshire, there were 265 reported cases in 2005, and while the incidence rate may seem small, the consequences of the disease can be monumental.
Musician Daryl Hall has lived with Lyme disease for more than three years and is a vocal advocate for education about the disease and its treatment.
Hall says that for him, the symptoms of the disease can come and go. When he was first diagnosed, he was forced to cancel show dates in the summer of 2005 in order to recuperate from his symptoms.
"I have good days and bad days. I was fine for four months then I might have tremors, headaches, fatigue. It's like a roving street gang of germs. There's no cure, but you can control it," he says.
And it's the cure that has created controversy, with one mainstream camp arguing that Lyme disease is rare, easy to diagnose and treatable with just a few weeks of antibiotics.
Others, like Hall, feel the medical community is under-diagnosing the disease, that the treatment is not as simple or quick as it seems and that chronic Lyme disease needs to be acknowledged as a serious health issue.
"There are two very, very strong-feeling camps. One camp is really sure that if you're bitten by a tick you get tests, medicine. But with the chronic disease, that won't put a dent in it. It manifests in so many ways. It can lead to heart disease, depression. It can be so serious that people have died. It's a battle," says Hall.
Hall recounts his own experiences with the disease and its treatment in order to raise awareness about the chronic illness.
"I find that when I talk about this, I'm going to get some doctor who says that I'm full of crap, that it's not really as prevalent as we say. But they're wrong and I'm right. I'm one of the people on the front lines, one of the people who suffer. It's very controversial," he says.
What is not in dispute is that treatment must be started as early as possible in order to avoid long-term health issues and prevention is key, especially in the late spring and early summer months. Avoid woody and bushy areas, use insect repellent and check your skin and clothes for ticks each day. Watch for early signs of infection in a circular rash for as much as three to 30 days after being bitten by a tick.


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November 22, 2019
Dirty 1948 Harley Panhead Motorcycle
Harley Panheads were built and sold as 1948 through 1965 model years. The 1948 (like this one) was the last big twin Harley with a factory Springer front end, and the 1965 (first and last Panheads) was the first Harley Big Twin with an electric starter and 12 volt electrics.
Here is a mostly correct and original 1948 Panhead and quick explanation of how it works.
Filed under Classic Harley History by Buzz Kanter
July 16, 2013
New Sealed 6-Volt Battery In Classic 1948 Harley Panhead
Are you tired of the old style wet cell batteries that came standard in classic Harleys? Me too. Enough with checking fluid levels and topping off. Enough with the corrosion on the battery terminals and wires. Me too. I figured it was time to try a little bit of higher tech ans try out this sealed battery in my classic Harley. I first heard of this particular deal on the www.caimag.com forum.
I still have a little over two months to get this bike back on the road in time to lead the American Iron Magazine Honor Ride, sponsored by GEICO, to Milwaukee for Harley's 110th anniversary. As I continue to make progress on my 1948 Harley Panhead I have updated the old wet cell battery with this high tech version. The design mounts a sealed 6-volt battery inside a plastic case made to look exactly, from the outside, like a genuine Harley battery. It comes internally pre-wired and even has an in-line fuse tucked away inside. Nice!
This is a well designed and manufactured item that I look forward to testing in the next year. Once it is installed, which takes literally a minute or two, it would be very difficult to recognize it as anything other than an original and correct classic Harley battery.
All I have to do now it drop on the battery box cover, line up the battery box posts and tighten down the two wing nuts. Even attaching a battery charger is easy thanks to the easy access terminal posts.
If this set up works as well as I am told it does I expect I will be replacing the batteries in each of my 6-volt classic Harley Big Twin motorcycles as the old wet cell ones die.
I purchased this complete set-up ready to drop in and go, for Erdos on the www.caimag.com forum.
Filed under Buzz Kanter Classic Motorcycle Blog, Classic Motorcycle Maintenance, Wiring & Electrics by Buzz Kanter
October 10, 2012
AMCA Southern Coalition National Road Run
Day 1
A large storm system that had brought days of rain was just working it's way out of central North Carolina as I pushed my 1964 Panhead outside to begin my ride to Maggie Valley. I planned to meet up with another rider at 7:00 AM, down in Pittsboro, about a 45 minute ride from my house. The roads were still wet as I made my way toward the old courthouse located downtown. Within a few minutes, Steve showed up on his 1947 Knucklehead and we were headed for the highway.
The plan was to ride secondary highways all the way to Maggie Valley, about 250 miles total. We stuck to the plan for the first 100 miles of the ride, which took us through a few small towns separated by rolling hills and green fields. At our first gas stop we checked the map and realized that we could save some time if we got on the interstate. We figured traffic would be light, so we could just cruise at 55 mph without interfering with the flow of cars.
As we expected, there weren't many cars on the road and the miles passed by easily. That is until Steve's bike started to backfire and cut off. We rolled over onto the shoulder and began troubleshooting his Knucklehead. Turns out that his points had broken and he did not have a spare set on hand. It took about an hour and a little ingenuity, but we were able to repair the points and get back on the road. If your curious, here's how we did it: Click Here
With Steve's bike back in running condition, we rode the last 75 miles to Maggie Valley. The headquarters for the road run just happened to be at the Wheels Through Time museum, which was the perfect choice for a group of about 150 vintage bike enthusiasts. Dale and Matt Walksler were great hosts as always and even allowed us to pitch our tents on the museum grounds. After getting our run packet which consisted of daily route maps, a pin, a license plate medallion, a t-shirt and a name tag, we unpacked the bikes and started setting up camp.
Once the tents were in place, it was time to hit the parking lot and start checking out the other bikes.
Dinner was served under the white tent around 7:00 and soon after most folks started heading back to their hotels. Dale kept the museum open until 9:00 which gave us something to do besides sitting in the tents. Then it began to rain…
Day 2
The second day was a complete wash out. Twenty-four hours of steady rain. No one seemed to mind as we were able to spend a solid 8 hours going through the museum. I've been to Wheels Through Time on several occasions, but this was the first chance I really had to take it all in. There are so many bikes, parts, memorabilia and other things that it can cause a bit of sensory overload. When you really can take your time, you start noticing unusual things, like a Knucklehead with homemade rear suspension or a Flathead with tankshifters on both tanks. Odd bits sitting on shelves or hanging from the rafters catch your eye and require closer inspection. I honestly cannot think of a better place to spend a rainy day.
A fire was built in the outdoor shelter and the evening was spent talking about bikes and telling lies. A couple of guys from Australia were also camping at the museum and I enjoyed hearing about their adventures in the US. Turns out they were on a 6 month long motorcycle trip across the country. Talk about a vacation! Around midnight, I finally slogged back to the tent to try and get some sleep.
Day 3
We had pitched our tents next to a small stream that ran around the edge of the museum's grounds. Initially it had seemed like a good idea to set up next to the stream, it made for a very peaceful location with the water gentle running through the rocks. This all changed after an entire day of rain, soon the stream had turned into a minature raging river. Between the sounds of the rain on the tents, the wind whipping the tarp and the water crashing on the rocks, I was up half the night keeping an eye on the water level. By morning, the water had not risen past it's banks, but it was really ripping past our campsite.
Finally around noon the rain started clearing out and we prepared for our first group ride. Plans were altered slightly and we chose to ride the Blue Ridge Parkway up to Mt Pisgah. The roads were still a little wet, with water running across them in some places and plenty of wet leaves, but it was great to finally get on the bike. We made one stop at the highest point on the Parkway, before continuing on to Mt Pisgah.
Returning back to Wheels Through Time, another dinner was being prepared and everyone was glad to have a warm meal after a cool ride in the mountains. The route for the following day was close to 250 miles of mountain roads, so most folks headed back to the hotels early to get some rest.
Day 4
The last day of the run actually started out with something I hadn't seen all week, warm air and sunny skies. People arrived early at the museum to get a start on the long ride and to make sure that they were in front of the chase truck.
The route for the day was supposed to take us over the Cherohala Skyway, then loop around to the Dragon and back to Maggie Valley. Of course there were a couple wrong turns added, which kept us from completing the planned ride, but we still logged over 200 miles and had a good time.
Dinner for the last night was BBQ sandwiches, followed by an awards banquet. Plaques were given out for the oldest and youngest riders, longest distance traveled, etc. Once the banquet was over, people headed out to start packing up bikes and trailers for the return trip home. The next morning I did the same, finally getting on the road by 9:00 AM. Steve and I had an uneventful ride back to central NC and I was home by mid afternoon.
This was my first AMCA road run and I hope to attend more in the future. If you like riding old bikes or even just looking at them, then an AMCA road run would be worth considering. You have to be an AMCA member to attend, but that's it. They are already scheduling runs for next year, so check out their website for more information.
I posted some additional pictures of individual bikes here: Click Here
Filed under Events, Panhead Jim's Blog by PanheadJim


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MARYKNOLL, N.Y. -- To the more traditional elements of their job description, two Maryknoll missioners in Guatemala have added the responsibility of being a presence in the face of injustice and inhumanity.
Fr. William F. Mullan and Br. Martin J. Shea said their combined 110 years of service to Maryknoll, most of it in Guatemala, included evangelization and pastoral care of the local church, as well as temporal and emotional support for people displaced by that country's civil war.
"The church is very vital, very alive and very present in the face of inhumanity," Shea told Catholic News Service in a June 20 interview at the Maryknoll Mission Center.
He and Mullen were among 37 Maryknoll fathers and brothers who celebrated milestone jubilees at a June 24 Mass at the society's headquarters. Shea professed his first oath to Maryknoll 60 years ago. Mullen was ordained in 1962.
Mullen said his work was primarily pastoral when he arrived in rural Huehuetenango after studying linguistics at the University of Oklahoma following his ordination. "There were no roads, electricity or running water," he recalled.
There were three priests and Catholicism was already well-established, he said.
"We'd set out on five-day visits to small villages and townships," he said. "We'd sleep in people's houses. The catechists would have prepared people for the sacraments and we'd administer baptism, marriage and first Communion. And we'd meet with the catechists to see how things were going."
Mullen said he is able to celebrate sacraments, offer Mass and preach in three of the Mayan languages spoken in Guatemala. He said the Second Vatican Council encouraged missioners to appreciate the types of religious expression indigenous to a culture. As a result, Maryknollers began to value "the beauty of Mayan faith and culture," he said.
Over the years, Maryknoll sisters introduced preventive health programs and the Maryknollers and other religious orders established agricultural projects and schools, Mullen said.
At the same time, he said, "there were things going on in Guatemala that we weren't conscious of," referring to the brutal civil war waged from 1960 to 1996. More than 200,000 people died during the war, but Mullen said the missioners did not see direct evidence of the war until "a very violent genocide" aimed at Mayans in the early 1980s.
About 100,000 civilians were massacred, he said, and in one particularly gruesome incident, more than 1,000 people were killed in a parish he had previously served.
"I started to cry when I read the report by (Maryknoll) Fr. Ron Hennessy," Mullen said.
Maryknoll leadership training, literacy programs and agriculture initiatives were halted at that time, Mullen said, because the Guatemalan military considered the activities subversive.
"Ten priests, many catechists and health promoters were killed," he said. "We became sources of information for reporters, the church, the U.S. Embassy, Congress people and the Department of State."
Shea was assigned to Huehuetenango in 1955 and has worked in pastoral ministry, education, health care and post-earthquake reconstruction. He accompanied a group of Guatemalan refugees to safety in southern Mexico in 1985 and lived with them for three years.
Shea said the experience of living with the refugees changed his life.
"You get kind of caught up in it," he said. "The mission is to survive, and people are survivors. They get on with their lives despite the challenges. The good news is life."
Many of the refugees relocated to Guatemala after a peace accord was signed in 1996, he said. Shea, though retired, continues to live and work with immigrants and returnees in Peten, Guatemala.
The face of the Catholic church in Guatemala has changed during the years Mullen and Shea have served there. Mullen said the balance has tipped from missionary priests to local priests. There are now six Maryknoll priests and brothers in Guatemala; there were 64 in 1962. Mullen said most of the priests and bishops in the country are Guatemalan. There are 26 indigenous priests in the state of Huehuetenango.
"Every parish there has an indigenous priest; many are Mayan, and we helped a lot of them get educated," he said.
The men said new parishes are being established to accommodate the growth of the church in Guatemala, but there is a shortage of priests to staff them. They said catechists celebrate the Liturgy of the Word and "a priest shows up three or four times a year" in remote areas.
Shea said, "The church today is the church of the people. It's alive and beautiful. The catechists are the future. The church is there."
Mullen added, "It certainly does not depend on Maryknoll."
"Haven't we done what we came to do?" Shea asked. "Maryknoll's goal is to develop a native church and we've worked ourselves out of a job."
Mullen said his more recent pastoral emphasis was on visiting 30 Q'ek'chi villages and training lay leaders.
"They're very religious, family-oriented, good people," he said. "It's very hard to leave there."


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The Dior international press office in Paris explained to The Hollywood Reporter Wednesday morning that the so-called "reports" were just rumors and that no contract has been signed. They had no further comments.
Calls to Pattinson's camp went unanswered.
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Pattinson will star in a series of ad campaigns for the French fashion house's line of men's fragrances.
"Rob likes the brand," reports a source, who estimates the deal at being worth close to $12 million for three years.
Other celebs who have endorsed Dior fragrances include Jude Law, Charlize Theron and Natalie Portman, who appeared in a controversial topless ad last year.
That got us thinking, what will the campaign look like? - here are some of the examples with other stars.
From what we've seen so far, Rob can carry Dior like no other ;) so excited to see the gorgeous pictures/ads that no doubt will come out of this pairing. Congratulations Rob!
UPDATE: Grazia has more details.. Moulin Rouge inspired!
We've just heard from a reliable source that Robert is shooting the Dior campaign in London any day now (eyes peeled, ladies!). We also know it's set to be a Moulin Rouge-style shoot in black and white. Appaz, Rob had no less than three offers on the table but chose Dior because it's 'classic and timeless'.


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Hi, In my app I use a grid. Double click a row will open a window with another related grid. That window I configured modal: true. So the page is masked. Then in the second window on doubleclick a row again another new window (with modal: true) is openen with a form. A new mask is displayd. After using the form in the last window and close it the window will remove both masks, leaving the first window umasked. What I want is that the first mask isn't removed. It seems there is only 1 mask at a time possible. Is it possible to 'instantiate' a mask to a component?? Or is there another solution for this??


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I should mention that we don't do any really long rappels. The longest vertical rappel we've done so far was fifty feet or so. We've encountered some shafts that were 200 feet or so but haven't gone down yet. That's about the longest I'd expect to encounter. We do go down longer inclined shafts but I'm not worried about those.
Rescue is a very good point Scott. What we do would depend on the situation of course. If we still had people above we would descend and asses the injured persons condition. From there we could lower them down to the bottom of the shaft or leave them in place while we get help. We could also ascend from below and do the same thing if the rest of us were already down. It would really boil down to the extent of the injuries. If someone was hurt bad we would not attempt to extract them ourselves but would seek help.
Compared to other guys we encounter exploring mines, we're being super cautious and trying to anticipate the worst that can happen. We're not opposed to spend some money to get the right gear to be as safe as possible. It also allows us to access places in the mine that not many people have visited due to what's required to get there.
OpenTrackRacer wrote:If they were in good condition but upright it leaves more options.
fuzzy-hair-man wrote:OpenTrackRacer wrote:If they were in good condition but upright it leaves more options.
Not quite, if they are immobile they are in danger of harness hang syndrome (HHS), in trials conducted by a french group (I think) as little as 6 minutes hanging immobile was required for an otherwise healthy person to loose consiousness in some of these cases the person complained of not feeling well and before they could be lowered they had lost consiousness. The trials weren't completed despite having medical staff nearby such was their concern for the subjects.
Hanging back so that you are horizontal is one of the ways to combat HHS but really they need to get off rope as soon as possible.
Here's a previous topic about HHS:
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Girardi optimistic Yanks' bats will soon break out
KANSAS CITY -- The New York Yankees are 13th in the American League in runs scored. This is a long way from anything resembling our shared notion of the Bronx Bombers.
The Yankees have been slumping offensively for some time. The problem isn't becoming any less acute. In their last 10 games, the Yanks have scored 28 runs and have gone 3-7. After 62 games, they are a .500 team.
To their manager, Joe Girardi, this does not mean that a crisis is at hand. It means instead that the Yankees are due to go on a tear.
"I'm an optimist," Girardi said Monday in the visiting manager's office at Kauffman Stadium. "You know that. I don't believe people forget to hit overnight. I just don't believe it happens. You know that it's a long haul. You know it's 162 games. Averages are usually averages, because over time it's going to equal out. So I've got to believe we're due to get hot."
There was no opportunity to test Girardi's theory Monday night. The scheduled game between the Yankees and the Kansas City Royals was postponed due to rain. The Royals had taken two out of three from the Yanks over the weekend.
Much has been made of the fact that the Yankees are missing three pitchers from their projected starting rotation. But the pitching hasn't been the core problem. The Yanks are 12th in the league in on-base percentage and 10th in slugging percentage. Again, this sort of thing is distinctly un-Yankee-like.
And it is not as though one or two culprits are dragging down the rest of the offense. A majority of Yankees hitters are performing below their career norms. To some people, this might look like serious trouble ahead. To Girardi, it means that better days are coming.
"The one thing that you can't do is you can't necessarily start changing everything," the manager said. "You look at what guys have done in the past, you try to put what you think is the best lineup together every day. It's been two months. We've struggled the last three or four weeks scoring runs. Obviously, we know we need to score more, but guys are going through a tough time. Sometimes you've just got to ride it out a little bit.
"You might move a guy one position down, one position up, that sort of thing. But for the most part, numbers even out over time. Maybe it's like buying and selling stocks all the time -- you try to figure out when it's going to be at its highest and when it's going to be at its lowest. You know, it's hard to predict. No one knows the answers.
"You move a guy down and he goes 3-for-4, and then you wish you had him hitting fifth that day when two guys were on. That's what you deal with. The big thing is to get them going. That's the big thing, and they need at-bats to get going."
As a former player, the quality of empathy is available for Girardi.
"Believe me, I know what it was like to struggle as a hitter," he said with a smile. "I know when I watch games on TV or broadcast games, you think: 'Man, that looks easy to hit,' because it's slow. But when you got up to the plate, it wasn't easy. I understand. I don't ever want to forget how hard it is to play this game. Some guys at times make it look real easy. But it's really difficult.
"Sometimes, it's the pitchers you run into, sometimes it's mechanical, maybe you're a little bit over-aggressive. There's a lot of different things that can take place. It's just getting through that."
At some point, the Yankees hitting like the Yanks are supposed to hit becomes an article of faith. You either have it or you don't. Girardi has that faith in an amount that is much larger than marginal.
"You're never as good as when you're going great and vice versa," Girardi said. "And right now, we're going through tough times and I know we're better than this."
The Yankees go to the West Coast now for three-game series in Seattle and Oakland. Seattle is second in the AL in team ERA. Oakland is first. The degree of difficulty for the Yanks' offense isn't going to be diminished. But if Girardi's optimism is well-placed, the revival of the Yankees' offense should start any day now.


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George Clooney, for reasons that remain unclear, has backed away from what would be his last chance to work with old friend Steven Soderbergh--assuming Soderbergh finally gets around to retiring.
Clooney is dropping out of Soderbergh's big-screen adaptation of the '60s spy series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," reported Deadline. Despite the loss of Clooney, Warner. Bros still intends to move forward with their plans to start shooting in February.
It seems odd that Clooney would pass on "U.N.C.L.E." what with Soderbergh spending the last two years threatening to retire. Is it possible that Clooney's grown as weary as the rest of us of Soderbergh's blather?
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When Matt Damon first spilled the beans on Soderbergh's plans, the director was annoyed by the actor's indiscretion. But since then, Soderbergh can't seem to stop talking about retiring--and yet, he also keeps picking up new projects. He's got "Contagion" coming out next week, "Haywire" gets released in January, "U.N.C.L.E." starts shooting in February, he's said to be working on "The Hunger Games," then he's supposed to make "Liberace," and most recently he's added the male-stripper coming-of-age tale "Magic Mike," in per-production. This is not the schedule for a man who plans to quit movie making in order to pursue a career as a painter.
"I'm interested in exploring another art form while I have the time and ability to do so," he recently told The New York Times. "I'll be the first person to say if I can't be any good at it and run out of money I'll be back making another 'Ocean's' movie."
We have to admit, we were amused earlier this year when he demanded "a smallish farewell parade," but we wish he'd stop with the retirement talk. Listen up, Steven: Just paint and shut up about retiring. You're not yet 50, there's is now way you're going to live another 30 years without making another film.
If Soderbergh were really done, we find it impossible to believe that Clooney, with whom he's made six films and a TV series, would pass up "U.N.C.L.E."


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Reminding you of the circus, Joker Jester is a colourful slot game with plenty of bonus games to keep you occupied. Overall a simple slot with average looks and design.
Joker Jester symbols
Typical cartoonish characters of the Joker Jester, his various trade tools, a castle, banjos, juggling balls, card symbols from 9 through Ace are the other symbols that are present in Joker Jester.
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Joker Jester is a 5 reel, 20 payline slot game. Bright tapestries hang from the reels as the symbols roll down. Bonus games that are triggered frequently allow the players to make a good win throughout the game.
Wilds: The Joker Jester is the wild that substitutes any of the symbols except for the scatters. A 500 coins prize is won if 5 of these symbols appear on the reels.
Scatters: The Balls are the scatters that can win for any place on the reels.
The three bonus games are the player's hope of landing a good win.
Juggle Bonus can be won by getting the Basket symbol on reels, 1, 2 and 3. Let your juggling skills come forth in this round as you juggle 3 eggs. Keep adding eggs to increase your wins and make it to the Safety levels. A dropped egg will end the feature and you receive the prize last crossed at the safety level. A golden Egg increase your total wins.
Barrel Bonus round is triggered when the barrel symbol occurs on the reels, 3, 4 and 5. Each selection of the barrels will reward with a prize. Keep picking until the Jester appears.
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Title: Canadian Sikhs (Part One) and Komagata Maru Massacre. Page 43
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Panetta to recommend what amounts to a military pay cut
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
I assume, given this administration, this won't particularly surprise anyone (per Barbara Starr at CNN):
Just days before he leaves office, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is recommending military pay be limited, effectively decreasing troop salary next year.
Panetta will recommend to Congress that military salaries be limited to a one percent increase in 2014. The Pentagon has calculated that the 2014 Employment Cost Index (ECI) from the Labor Department is expected to be above one percent, but wants to still cut back on pay due to "budget uncertainties," one department official told CNN. In 2013, a 1.7 percent increase was approved, based on the ECI, which has been the basis for military pay for the last several years.
Three Pentagon officials have confirmed details of the plan to CNN. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have also agreed to Panetta's proposed pay plan. Final approval for the pay would come from Congress in the form of the 2014 budget.
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Stanley McChrystal
His report to Washington of Aug. 30, 2009, set the parameters for the American debate on the Afghanistan War. He warned of failure unless his forces were greatly enlarged, and were more focused on protecting the civilian population. He considered the civilian government of Afghanistan a hindrance more than a help.
A 1976 graduate of West Point, he has held many commands and is known as a scholar-warrior.
After graduating from West Point in 1976, McChrystal worked on a U.N. Command Support Group in South Korea, and later served as an Army briefer and commanded the 75th Ranger Regiment in Saudi Arabia during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. In 2001, he was appointed chief of staff of military operations in Afghanistan. He led the Army's Delta Force, which is credited for the December 2003 capture of Saddam Hussein.
In 2003-2008 McChrystal headed the super-secret "Joint Special Operations Command" in the Pentagon. He took over an insular, shadowy commando force with a reputation for spurning partnerships with other military and intelligence organizations. He managed to build close relationships with the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. He won praise from C.I.A. officers, many of whom had stormy relationships with commanders running the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His command is credited for the death of Al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Before McChrystal's appointment to ISAF in June 2009, command was held by Gen. David D. McKiernan, who was forced out by the Obama Administration, which demanded a new look at policy options.
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McChrystal reports to General David Petraeus, head of Central Command.
In August 2009, McChrystal reported on the dire conditions in Afghanistan to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. He asked for 30,000-40,000 additional troops, warning that "Although considerable effort and sacrifice have resulted in some progress, many indicators suggest the overall effort is deteriorating" and added that there is "the urgent need for a significant change to our strategy." [1]
McChrystal said the Afghan government was riddled with corruption and NATO was being undermined by tactics that alienate civilians. He called the Taliban insurgency "a muscular and sophisticated enemy" that uses modern propaganda and systematically reaches into Afghanistan's prisons to recruit members and even plan operations. McChrystal alerted Washington that he urgently needs more forces within the next year; without them, he warned, the eight-year conflict "will likely result in failure."[2]American policy was increasing set by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, originally appointed by President Bush in 2006 and reappointed by President Obama in 2009. Gates fired the commander General David McKiernan in May, 2009, replacing him with McChrystal.
By spring 2010 McChrystal will have over 100,000 American troops and some 30,000 or more NATO troops under his command in Afghanistan, exactly in line with his Aug. 2009 request.[3]
In June 2010, McChrystal was summoned to the White House to explain biting and unflattering remarks he made to a freelance writer about President Barack Obama and others in the Obama administration. In the Rolling Stone article, titled "The Runaway General," McChrystal described Obama during their first meeting as "uncomfortable and intimidated." [4] National Security Adviser Jim Jones was described by a McChrystal aide as a "clown" stuck in 1985. Others aides joked about Vice President Joe Biden's last name as sounding like "Bite me" since Biden opposed the surge.[5]
Despite his criticisms of the Obama Administration, McChrystal is actually a political and social liberal who voted for Obama. In fact, he is so left-wing that he banned the Fox News Channel from the television sets in his headquarters.[6]
- ↑ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/21/mcchrystal-warns-failure-afghan-war/
- ↑ Bob Woodward, "McChrystal: More Forces or 'Mission Failure Washington Post Sept 21, 2009
- ↑ Richard A. Oppel, "Most New U.S. Forces for Afghanistan Will Be Sent to Taliban Stronghold in South," New York Times Dec. 2, 2009
- ↑ https://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/22/the-rolling-stone-article-as-bad-as-advertised/
- ↑ https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38837.html#ixzz0razXNkpe
- ↑ https://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/06/liberal-stanley-mcchrystal-banned-fox-news-from-his-headquarters.html