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In 1957 Rhoda Torrey was about to enter her freshman year of college when
she experienced what her mother termed a "nervous breakdown."
Fifty years later, Rhoda Torrey is hospitalized again, now in New York's
Mohawk Valley State Psychiatric Institute.
In the intervening years, her brother Fuller Torrey, M.D., moved by Rhoda's
illness and puzzled by the explanations doctors in the late 1950s offered the
family, would pursue a career as a psychiatric clinician, researcher, and
fierce advocate for treating schizophrenia as a neurobiological illness.
In a spate of widely read books, such as his 1982 Surviving
Schizophrenia, Torrey challenged the prevailing theories that blamed
families and parents and offered a different narrative based on emerging
evidence that schizophrenia is a disease of the brain.
In part because of Torrey's influence, the notion that schizophrenia is
caused by bad parenting now seems as archaic as bloodletting.
"Things are obviously very different today, but in my era it had an
extremely toxic effect on my mother, who tended to accept what authorities
told her," Torrey told Psychiatric News.
As a scientist at the National Instittue of Mental Health (NIMH), and later
at the Stanley Medical Research Institute and in his own independent research,
Torrey has been one of the foremost proponents of an infectious etiology for
schizophrenia. While not yet embraced by the mainstream, the infectious
hypothesis is no longer a concept on the
Fuller Torrey, M.D.: "In my most unguarded moments, I like to
think I will live long enough to see vaccines to prevent many or most cases of
Credit: Clay Blackmore
Today, he is associate director for laboratory research at the Stanley
Medical Research Institute (he was executive director until 2003) and
president of the Treatment Advocacy Center, an organization that advocates for
laws permitting involuntary treatment of patients with severe mental
"Fuller gets as much credit as anyone for moving American psychiatry
from a psychoanalytic foundation to a biological one," said APA Trustee
Roger Peele, M.D., who was chair of the department of psychiatry at St.
Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., and hired Torrey as a staff
psychiatrist in 1977.
"His provocative books and his plausible, although yet to be proven,
concept as to the cause of schizophrenia contributed to a focus on the
biological. His call for change was markedly enhanced by not remaining
academic. He is combative—when public agency chiefs heard he was due to
be on national TV, they ran to their bunkers—and he has used pithy
public pronouncements to hammer home the need for public research monies to be
devoted to a biological understanding of people with the most disabling of
psychiatric illnesses."
As early as fourth grade, Torrey said, he had a "life plan" to
be a doctor, expecting to be a small-town practitioner like those he knew in
the upstate New York town where he was raised. By his teens he was determined
also to spend time as a doctor in third-world countries.
So after medical school at McGill University, he spent two years in
Ethiopia serving as staff physician to 600 Peace Corps volunteers and
developing preventive health programs for the local population. By that time,
his sister was very ill, and he had already taken an interest in psychiatry;
when he returned to the United States, he entered a psychiatry residency at
Stanford University.
"I was also leaning toward pediatrics, but as I became more aware of
how much was not known about the brain, it just seemed like the last
frontier," Torrey said. "When I was in medical school [physicians]
were starting to do open-heart surgery. I thought, 'Well, it's an interesting
pump, but that's all it is.' Whereas the brain is this enormously complex
organ, and remarkably little is known about it."
At McGill and later at Stanford, he was exposed to a biological approach to
mental illness; he recalls that a first-year instructor at McGill, Hans
Lehman, M.D., was known as the first clinician in North America to use
chlorpromazine. The medical school was housed next door to the Montreal
Neurological Institute, a premier neuroscience center.
But Torrey concedes that his antipathy toward nonbiological explanations
stems from the experience of his sister's illness.
"Schizophrenia is a terrible disease to have, as bad as any disease
we know of, and it's a huge burden to bear for families," he said."
To have on top of that the burden of being told you caused it is almost
Torrey worked as a staff psychiatrist at St. Elizabeths for nine years.
Peele recalled that Torrey worked with the most challenging patients and
established a goal of using no seclusion or restraints on acute admission
units two decades before it became the nation's goal.
Although he had been publishing papers on various topics since completing
medical school, it was not until after he left St. Elizabeths that he began to
think of himself as a researcher. He became principal investigator of NIMH's
Schizophrenia/Bipolar Disorder Twin Study, and he and colleagues produced more
than a dozen publications showing differences in crucial brain structures
between affected and unaffected siblings in twin pairs.
Among those was a 1990 article in the New England Journal of
Medicine demonstrating that subtle neuroanatomical
differences—namely, small anterior hippocampi and enlarged lateral and
third ventricles—are consistent neuropathologic features of
All the while, Torrey had been fascinated by the possibility that
schizophrenia had an infectious origin. As early as 1973 he published an
article in Lancet on the topic, "Slow and Latent Viruses in
Schizophrenia" (July 7, 1973).
He was drawn especially to the work of the late British psychiatric
epidemiologist, Edward Hare, M.D. Writing in the 1970s and 1980s, Hare was
interested in what he believed was a real increase in the incidence of
psychosis in the 19th and 20th centuries (as opposed to an increase in
diagnosis, as others have held), a fact that he believed precluded a merely
genetic cause.
In addition, Hare had documented a marked increase in late-winter and
early-spring births among people with schizophrenia. Along with the evidence
for increasing incidence, this pointed to an infection, possibly acquired
during winter months in utero.
"I started doing those studies here and replicated the same seasonal
variation," Torrey said. "I began to think that this is a really
odd disease if you are only thinking of genes or bad mothers."
Since the 1970s, Torrey has published more than 30 articles on seasonal
variation and possible infectious causes of schizophrenia, focusing especially
on the feline parasite Toxoplasma gondii. He credits Robert Yolken,
M.D., a professor of neurovirology and infectious disease at Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine—with whom he has collaborated on many
studies—as indispensable to advancing the infectious hypothesis.
In a recent meta-analysis of 42 studies on antibodies to Toxoplasma
gondii in patients with schizophrenia carried out in 17 countries over 50
years, Torrey and colleagues found a significant increase in the presence of
antibodies among patients.
The report, "Antibodies to Toxoplasma Gondii in Patients
With Schizophrenia: A Meta-Analysis," was published in the November 2006
Schizophrenia Bulletin.
"Until about seven years ago, the infectious hypothesis was
considered far out," Torrey said. "While it's not mainstream now,
it has become at least respectable."
A critical development, he said, was the discovery that Helicobacter
pylori was a major cause of peptic ulcers. "This had a profound
effect," Torrey said. "If ulcers can be caused by infectious
agents, then who knows what else can be caused by infectious
The more recently discovered "prion diseases," such as the
so-called "mad cow" disease, that are infectious in nature and
remain latent in the brain for many years seem to fit well with the typical
pattern of schizophrenia.
Torrey believes the infectious hypothesis will someday be shown to explain
the "vast majority" of schizophrenia cases.
"The infectious hypothesis is remarkably compatible with existing
theories," Torrey said. "There are genetic antecedents to many
infectious agents, so it is likely that someone genetically predisposed to
schizophrenia would be more severely affected by an infectious agent.
"And it is entirely compatible with neurodevelopmental theories since
we believe the majority of cases are caused by infectious agents that get in
the brain in early childhood or in utero and remain latent until
If Torrey is right that the disease has an infectious cause, then it is
reasonable to assume that a vaccine could someday be preventative.
"There are currently ongoing five or six studies using
anti-Toxoplasmosa gondii agents as an add-on treatment for
schizophrenia," he said. "In my most unguarded moments, I like to
think I will live long enough to see vaccines to prevent many or most cases of
Meanwhile, the person with schizophrenia Torrey knows best survives as a
reminder of the toll the disease takes on a life. Though she lived for 10
years in group housing in the community, Rhoda Torrey has spent much of the
past five decades as an inpatient.
"She is on the most severely affected end of the spectrum, especially
for women," Torrey told Psychiatric News. "It will be 50
years this fall since she first became sick, and she is still anything but
In a 1992 article titled "Remembrance of Psychosis Past" in the
Journal of the California Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Torrey
described the shadow the illness cast on the family and the intimation it
leant him that the brain—no less than the heart or the lungs or the
eyes—is an organ at the mercy of a capricious nature.
"Since the illness has always seemed to be a purely random event,
like most other diseases, it has given me an appreciation of the transitory
nature of health and the vulnerability of our brains," he wrote."
Except for chance, I could just as easily have spent 25 years in a
state psychiatric hospital."
An abstract of Torrey's 1990 article, "Anatomical Abnormalities in the Brains
of Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Schizophrenia," is posted at<http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/322/12/789>.
An abstract of "Antibodies to Toxoplasma Gondii in Patients With Schizophrenia: A
Meta-Analysis" is posted at<http://schizophreniabulletin.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/33/3/729>.▪
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Max Levin died on August 25, 1892, one month before Rose Hill Cemetery began keeping records. Although the details of what killed Max have faded from memory, it's easy to imagine what happened immediately after he died. The chevra kaddisha, the sacred society of Jewish men who consider preparation of the dead to be the ultimate mitzvah, would have arrived to wash his body, dress him in plain linen shrouds and his prayer shawl and place him in a plain pine coffin. Then Max would have been taken by horse-drawn hearse into the countryside now known as Commerce City. If this trip was made after dark, lanterns would have swung from the hearse as it traversed the sandy roads from west Denver, where, as a Jew, Max probably had lived.
When he was laid to rest, Max may have joined a few other Jews, their graves marked and otherwise -- but 107 years later, his grave is the earliest anyone can point to. Six thousand graves have been dug and filled there since Max arrived, and every month or so, someone knocks on the caretaker's door, asking to buy a plot. But since the odds that this person is Jewish are small, most are sent away, often to Riverside Cemetery, which is not far.
There are no roses at Rose Hill. Grass has replaced the dirt and pebbles that once stretched wall-to-wall between the headstones. The graveyard boundaries are marked by a rusting chain-link fence whose gate bears a discreet Star of David. A cattle guard still marks the north entrance, where weeds grow; there are no cattle to speak of in the neighborhood. What are there: low-slung brick houses, several mega truck stops, places where you can buy a single cold beer in a hurry, a gleaming new housing development that will look tired before five years have passed, an elementary school, a celebrated dog track.
Most of the people who have lived their entire lives in the Commerce City neighborhood that is known as Rose Hill have never been inside the gates of the cemetery, and its few modern-day updates have gone largely unnoticed. In the past year, for instance, Rose Hill's board of directors authorized the construction of a new brick building designed to house the cemetery office and an annex for tahara -- ritual washing and preparing of the dead -- as well as a shomer room, in which someone sits adjacent to the deceased all night, reciting psalms. The shomer room resembles a dentist's waiting room as much as anything else, and the annex in which it sits looks exactly like the other buildings at Rose Hill, though it's fifty years newer. It is not the kind of building that inspires curiosity.
In a way, that's just as well. What goes on at Rose Hill is what has always gone on at this unprepossessing place, which exists only to perform the final service for anyone who is a Jew -- by birth or by Orthodox conversion. Whether that Jew led a religious life or not is immaterial, because at Rose Hill, he is guaranteed a religious death.
Mr. Saliman and Mr. Goldstein, Members of the Board
Richard Saliman and David Goldstein are walking through the cemetery on an unseasonably warm fall day, looking for the graves of their mothers and fathers.
"Wasn't it just a few weeks ago I was doing this?" Mr. Saliman asks himself. "It took me half an hour. By now, I should know."
It was probably six weeks ago, during the High Holy Days, one of the many times each year that Jews honor their ancestors. Mr. Saliman's father and grandfather, and just about all of his Denver-born forebears, are buried here; he has a "reservation" at Rose Hill himself. He is a third-generation volunteer boardmember of the nonprofit cemetery, as well as a past president, like his grandfather and father before him.
Mr. Goldstein shares every one of these distinctions.
"My grandfather came here in 1888 from Poland. He came to Galveston, then Denver," Mr. Goldstein says, puffing a little to keep up with Mr. Saliman's pace. "In a covered wagon, so I'm told. And he settled in the ghetto called West Colfax. My grandma started a bakery. My grandfather never worked. He stayed busy studying Talmud and Torah."
"You and I grew up in the same terrace," Mr. Saliman recalls. "How old were we when we first met?"
"Excuse me? I don't hear so good."
"We must have been babies. Babies."
"Do you know how old we are?" Mr. Goldstein asks. "Both of us are 84."
Mr. Saliman and Mr. Goldstein have known each other forever, and their memories are sharp even if their hearing isn't. Indisputably, they are both pillars of the Jewish community -- but their effect, at least when they are wandering around outside, is more like that of a couple of eleven-year-old boys.
"We both went to Cheltenham Elementary School," Mr. Saliman says.
"Let me tell you, that's where every teacher in Denver wanted to work," says Mr. Goldstein. "It was 99 percent Jewish, so you had the smartest kids in the city. Plus you got all the Jewish holidays off, which made ten more days of vacation."


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One Pastor Reflects upon Falwell's Legacy
- Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Last week a friend sent along a column Dr. Falwell wrote praising Lee Roberson who died a few days ago at the age of 97. The two men came from different generations and their ministries reflected those differences. Dr. Roberson never got into politics and Jerry couldn't stay out of it. I heard someone say that Jerry Falwell's influence had waned in recent years. That's probably true and inevitable and it doesn't matter. You have to have it in order to lose it, and Jerry Falwell had it and still had a lot of it until he finally entered heaven a few hours ago. At breakfast this morning he was fine and then he was gone. Just like that. He didn't drift away quietly into the night. He was going full speed ahead when the Lord called him home. Well done, Dr. Falwell. Rest in peace.
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The Cal Bears, ranked No. 17 in the most recent Associated Press poll, scored the first nine points of the game and held off previously unbeaten Northwestern 65-51 at Haas Pavilion Sunday afternoon.
Reshanda Gray scored 23 points and had 10 rebounds for the Golden Bears (3-2) and Afure Jemerigbe added 16 points. Courtney Range had a game-high 13 rebounds for Cal and Mercedes Jefflo did damage on the defensive end with four steals.
Maggie Lyon paced the Wildcats (4-1) with 17 points. Nia Coffey had 10 rebounds and two blocked shots for Northwestern, Ashley Deary handed out six assists, Christen Inman had three steals and Alex Cohen also swatted a pair of shots.
Cal scored the first nine points before the Wildcats got on the board and led 13-2 after 5½ minutes. But Northwestern battled back to get within two points at 21-19 before the Golden Bears closed the first half strong to lead 32-25.
Cal then steadily pulled away from the Wildcats in the second half, leading by as many as 18 points.
The Golden Bears are off until after Thanksgiving. They will face Wake Forest (3-2) in the opening round of the Nugget Classic in Reno, Nev., on Friday night at 7:30 p.m. Pacific, then will play either Idaho (3-1) or host Nevada (2-2) on Saturday at either 5:30 or 8 p.m.
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Looking at the reviews of The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown, I feel a little out of sync. It seems like everyone who read it, loves it and I most definitely did not love it. I did not like the three sisters, I didn't like their parents and I most definitely did not like the choral voice of the narrator, since I was constantly trying to figure out which "sister" was doing the narrating when speaking about "our" experience.
Rosalind, Bianca and Cordelia are the three daughters of a Shakespeare scholar who all end up coming home to help their father care for their mother who is undergoing cancer treatment. They don't like each other very much and each is struggling, in her own self-obsessed way, to get her life back in order. I didn't like them and I found it very hard to root for them to do the right thing, or make the hard choice, or mostly just pay attention to what was going on around them and get on with things. I did not find anyone in this book to be funny or endearing.
I will admit that I have a sister, whom I do not see very much, even though she lives less than two miles from my house. We have very different outlooks on life and disagree on just about everything. This is probably why I found The Weird Sisters to be so tiresome. It was nauseatingly close to my personal experience of having a sister I will never be able to relate to or understand. I don't blame Eleanor Brown, I blame myself, but I really did not like this story.
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The 10-person NCAA Men's Basketball Committee will be meeting in Indianapolis this week to decide how to expand the NCAA Tournament from 65 teams to 68 teams.
The explansion is already a done deal ... the debate is over how to incorporate the extra three teams.
Under last year's format, the tournament included 31 automatic qualifiers and 34 at-large teams. Under the new format the 2011 field will include tha same 31 automatic qualifiers, but the number of at-large teams will incease to 37 teams.
Under the old format, the two lowest seeded teams in the tournament faced each other in Dayton each year for a play-in game (although the NCAA refused to call it that).
It's almost certain that under the new format will feature four "play-in" games. But nothing else is certain. When the expansion was approached last spring, the NCAA asked schools and conferences to submit ideas for how to deal with the expansion. I don't think it's oversimplifing to say there are basically two ideas that most schools support:
(1) Simply have the eight lowest seeds in the tournament play each other to determine who will be the No. 16 seeds and get to face the four number ones.
(2) Have the eight lowest seeded at large teams play each other -- maybe to determine the No. 12 seeds (that's about where the lowest seeded at large teams usually end up).
The bigger schools and conferences advocate the first plan -- their argument is "We should remain true to the seeding process".
Of course, the lowest seeded teams are ALWAYS the champions of small conferences -- the SWAC, the MEAC, the Big South, etc. They are the leagues stuck playing in Dayton every year and they don't like it.
The smaller schools advocate the second plan. Their argument is that the expansion was to benefit the big leagues (which will gobble up all the extra at-large spots) and they should not ask the smaller conferences to take a hit so that Virginia Tech and Mississippi State (two teams that probably would have benefited last season) can play in the NCAA instead of the NIT.
Can I offer three factors that I rarely see mentioned in the media when it comes to this issue?
First, the play-in game (whatever you call it) is financially favorable to the teams (and conferences) which participate. The NCAA awards tourney shares based on participation (one share for each conference team in the field) and for wins (one addition share for each victory per team leading up to the Final Four). Since No. 16 has ever beaten a 1, the play-in game has offered teams a chance to win an extra tourney share since the NCAA treats the play-in game as a real game and it's just as valuable in financial terms as a Sweet 16 win.
Don't discount the value of that -- some small conference doubles its NCAA payout every year because of the play-in game -- and that's big money in those leagues.
But is the extra money make up for the humilation of participating in a play-in game? Well, the fact that the small conferences want to escape it tells you that. And the fact that the big conferences don't want to get involved means that they do see the added revenues as that much of a plus.
The second issue is TV. Over the years, ESPN has televised the play-in game from Dayton to dismal ratings -- more akin to the NIT going on at the same time than to the NCAA bonanza that CBS has two days later.
It's unlikely that having four Belmont vs. Jackson State games will do anything for the ratings. But if the four play-in games involve big name schools from big time conferences (as the last eight at large teams would be), then the NCAA's TV partners would have a better product to sell.
The third issue is logistics. Right now, the play-in game is Tuesday night of tourney week with the winner getting to play a true first-round game on Friday -- always.
But if the four play-in games produce four No. 16s, then two of them would probably have to play on Thursday. Can you see that -- play a killer game on Tuesday night, fly straight to, say, Greensboro for Wednesday's mandated NCAA practice and then play the No. 1 seed on Thursday? It would be the same for two of the four No. 12 seeds, if the committee goes that way.
I don't know how you get around that -- schedule two play-in games on Monday? Have all four No. 1 seeds at Friday/Sunday sites? Awkward either way.
Of course, it's always possible that somebody comes up with a third option that would satisfy both sides -- a hybrid of the two plans (in which four lower seeds play for the last two No. 16s and the four lowest at large seeds play for the last two No. 12s)??
Still, the debate ought to be interesting -- too bad it will be behind close doors.


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Helpful Faculty Grading Information for Spring 2013
All faculty members are strongly encouraged to view and print a copy of the grading tip sheet, which addresses areas where faculty have recently experienced difficulties with grading. It should be used in conjunction with the instructions at http://buffalostate.edu/banner/documents/grading.pdf .
You may view and print the faculty grading tip sheet, faculty grading schedule for 2013, and explanation of grades at www.buffalostate.edu/registrar/FacultyGrading.xml.
The grading window for spring 2013 opens at 9:00 a.m. Monday, May 13, and closes at 9:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 22.


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Giratina's Origin Forme by Ashley Davis, drawn for the Ghost Pokezine. Look, I don't want to freak anyone out, but there are currently 27 copies of the zine available for purchase. If you want to see more illustrations of Ghost-type Pokemon, you'd best get to it.
Buy: Pokemon Black/White Version 2
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Ghost PokéZine's wicked cover. You can admire a much bigger, near final version of the cover here.
This one-shot zine collects 28 illustrations of 28 Ghost Type Pokémon from 28 talented artists — you may remember Mare Odomo's adorable Gengar contribution.
It was all funded by a number of kind souls through Kickstarter (still sad that I didn't get to throw cash at this campaign because I'm forever broke), and the man behind the project Jordan Rosenberg sent out the issues last week.
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- The new kitchen takes shape as carpenter Russ Hemmis and an assistant install the cabinetry.
- Russ custom-fits cabinetry.
- After rebuilding the water-damaged flooring, Russ tiles the floors.
- The Alexander sisters take a break from working to discuss the kitchen renovation with Russ.
- Phyllis prepares the tile for installation.
- Russ tiles the backsplash in a mix of stainless-steel and red ceramic tiles that give the kitchen a retro flair.
- Kelley adds silver hardware to the cabinetry.
- Kelly prepares decorative covers for kitchen outlets.
- The Alexanders chose a vibrant shade of red for the walls.
- A bowl of fresh vegetables brightens the countertop and serves as the inspiration for the bold color palette.
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Guess Big Sean Wasn't Lying When He Spit These Lyrics Below..
And I never cheated (I mean, maybe once, twice)
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Science of the storm: More monster typhoons may lie ahead, experts warn
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The typhoon that devastated the Philippines was about as strong as it could theoretically get, but climate models suggest the potential for bigger and more devastating storms.
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Florida State just unveiled its new logo and uniforms in downtown Tallahassee. The football uniform has gone through the biggest face-lift, there are now two helmets, a black alternate and a "heritage pattern" that accents the whole look.
Here, from Scott Kotick and Seminoles.com, is a look inside the changes to the football uniform:
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Senior Health and Wellness Day, presented by the Cabarrus County Department of Aging and CMC-NorthEast, allows older adults and caregivers to learn more about aging services and discover ways to be more active. The event focuses on cardiovascular health, medication management and wellness, and includes screenings for cholesterol, glucose, blood pressure, hearing, and vision plus skin checks, bone density screenings and more.
New this year is a focus on support services to help caregivers better care for aging family members while also maintaining a balanced life. Plus, event-goers can participate in a blood drive and donate canned food to support area food pantries.
Event-goers also can enjoy a variety of entertainment throughout the day and enjoy live music, food and dancing. Many exhibitors will be on hand to address such issues as active living, mental health, health insurance, financial planning and much more. Plus, participants can register for door prizes.
Senior Health and Wellness Day will be held March 14 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the Cabarrus Arena and Events Center located at the corner of Old Airport Road and N.C. Highway 49 in Concord. Admission and parking are free. For more information, call the Cabarrus County Department of Aging at 704-920-3484.


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Speed painting for the day…powered by unhealthy amounts of Red Bull and music that's way too loud. :)
Some muscle studies in charcoal. Trying to drill this stuff into memory, but it don't wanna stick…
why us humans gotta be so darn complicated? :(
Was just playing around with some silhouette exercises in Painter and suddenly this happened.
Haha, seriously, idea totally struck me out of nowhere. I guess Nathan Fillion is just that damn cool… :O
Going through the old charcoal archives. Charchives? #lifedrawing #art
Some peeps in charcoal. #lifedrawing
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Atlas to the Atlantic - Morocco Family Adventure
Morocco, Family, 10 days - from £545 (land only) - from €680 (land only) - from $955 (land only)
Holiday Information
What's Included
- An experienced professional English-speaking local leader
- Marrakech Airport transfers (on first and last day of itinerary)
- All land transport involved in the itinerary
- Mules for children to ride (2 per mule) for 4 days of trek
- Accommodation as per the dossier
- All meals included
- Half day Sightseeing tour of Marakech with an English speaking guide
- A full service on trek including food and all equipment (excluding personal equipment)
What's Not Included
- Travel Insurance
- Tips for staff
- Miscellaneous expenses - drinks and souvenirs etc.
Meal Plan
All meals included from dinner on day 1 to breakfast on day 10.
During this holiday the group will spend 3 nights at a comfortable family orientated hotel in Marrakech. In Essaouira, we have 2 nights at a hotel with a pool, close to the seafront and on the south side of the walled medina. In the mountains we have 4 nights in simple gites, with family rooms with mattresses on the floor. Blankets are provided here but we advise you to take a sheet sleeping bag. In March and October you may also wish to bring a light sleeping bag to supplement the blankets. Rooms in the gite have shared facilities. The gite in Ait Souka has a hot shower.
In the hotels, children of 11 years and under will share with parents in a triple for a family of 3 or a double with 2 extra beds for a family of 4. Children over 12 years will share with parents in a triple for a family of 3, or have 2 rooms for a family of 4. Larger family rooms are occasionally available. We will do everything to ensure that you are happy with your rooming allocation.
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The Liberal Party preselection for the NSW seat of Riverstone has been put on hold as Bart Bassett, MP for Londonderry, waits to give evidence at the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
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Former Labor MP Joe Tripodi helped coal baron Nathan Tinkler run a political campaign against one of his ALP colleagues because he hoped to work for the businessman after the 2011 election, an inquiry has heard.
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Metgasco's Bentley drilling suspended
26 July 2014 | Matthew Stevens
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It was called Project Stapler and it was a plan to deploy 800 police at a usually peaceful farm near the verdant northern NSW hamlet of Bentley.
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Hasty law for mean streets of Sydney
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At a quarter to 10 on Thursday morning copies of the new bill which NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell had hailed as the way to restore safety to the streets of Sydney was hot off the photocopier and being ferried toward the chamber for a special sitting of Parliament.
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Activist barrister wins seat on NSW bar council
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The Sydney barrister who campaigned for NSW barristers to be able to incorporate has won a seat on the NSW bar council for 2013.
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Greens oust Labor leader
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Councillors hang on to happy hour
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Workers' comp 'pig' still under fire
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NSW to scrap 'journey claims'
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Crossbenchers tweak OH&S laws
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The NSW government has emerged from its first serious tussle with the Greens and crossbenchers in the upper house with a compromise deal on workplace safety laws.
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Unions to attack wages 'Trojan horse'
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CROWN POINT | Art, music and nature blended Thursday during Centier Bank's unveiling of its newly renovated downtown office at 117 E. Joliet St.
The evening business reception centered on the new East Plaza Courtyard that features a water fountain, tiered green space and benches.
"Enjoy the garden," Centier President/CEO Michael E. Schrage told dozens of invited guests. "We have created a sparkling eastern gateway for the downtown."
The outdoor courtyard was started earlier this year on the site of the original bank, which was demolished.
As Schrage spoke, the fountain was turned on to the applause of guests.
The Schafer Trio from Valparaiso played soft jazz during the reception and Valparaiso artist Linda Eyermann created a painting of the fountain with the Crown Point Post Office in the background. The painting will be raffled off with all funds going to the South Shore Arts children's program, Schrage said.
Inside the new bank lobby, an exhibit of children's art highlighted the South Shore Arts program, which is supported by Centier.
The new banking center was designed in the image of the Centier Corporate Center that opened in Merrillville in 2008. The new bank building will house investment and retail banking services, said Angela Jimenez, Centier spokesperson.
The original structure on Joliet Street dated to 1917 and over the years had been a furniture store and a Sears outlet, Jimenez said.
In the 1970s, the building became home to First National Bank of Crown Point.
Schrage saluted the partnership that brought that bank into the First Bank of Whiting family in 1982, as well as the commitment by Crown Point officials.
"This is a wonderful partnership," he said. "This is a partnership that will last for centuries."
Rebuilding the Centier branch began a year ago. The project included additional parking at Hack Court and renovation of the existing green space on the bank's west side at Joliet and Main streets.
"We carefully planned this project to avoid any disruption in the day-to-day service that we provide to our Crown Point clients," said Carol Highsmith, Centier senior partner and project manager. "We decided that the space would be better utilized by our clients if we were to remodel the branch."
Kevin Stevens, chief of staff to Mayor David Uran, said city officials are "very grateful that Centier stayed in the city and is continuing to invest in Crown Point."
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Propeller shaft universal joint replacement how to - Dial up Beware!
I'll have to call http://www.rockforddriveline.com/ on Monday to order another one. The part number for the 1997 - 2001 CR-Vs is 430-9B, 2002 - 2006 CR-Vs is 430-9A.
First off, how do you know they need replaced? Typically, you will get a grinding noise or a vibration when they are going bad. In my particular case, it made the grinding noise you hear when a bearing is going bad.
To verify, simply drop the shaft and articulate the u-joints. If notchy, they are bad and need replaced. You can drive for quite some time without the shaft installed, so don't worry about it if you can't get to it right away. Naturally, your available traction will be less since you will only have front wheel drive.
I didn't get pictures when dropping the shaft, so those will have to wait until the new u-joint arrives and is installed but here is how the procedure goes. Bolt sizes will be provided later with the pictures.
1. Unbolt the shaft keeper rings.
2. Unbolt the rear flange attached to the rear differential first. The rear differential is free spinning and will give no resistance if you wait to do it last.
3. While providing some support to the rear portion of the shaft with something, unbolt the center support bearing. It doesn't matter what, a box, jack stand, whatever is handy. You do not want to over flex the center joint, otherwise you could stress it and then you will need to get a whole new shaft.
4. Unbolt the front flange attached to the power take off shaft on the transmission.
The OEM u-joints are pressed in and the flange is then struck to create "ears" that hold the bearing caps in place. Also, the u-joint caps are smaller than standard, so any tool you get will need to be modified to fit the smaller size.
I have a press from http://www.harborfrieght.com/ that worked well for replacing my ball joints and is also designed to work on u-joints.
Now, since the CR-V u-joints are smaller than standard, the pin had to be ground down to fit. This means, I'll probably will have to buy a new kit if I need to replace the ball joints again but at $29.99, it won't kill me.
The original joints did not appear to be bad but moving it around told me otherwise.
Notice how I have the press in a vise. Breaking the ears so that the old joint will press out will take some force, so it needs to be held in place securely to keep the press from spinning. Again, support the other end so that the center joint doesn't over flex.
The clearances are quite tight even after pressing the joint out of the one side of the yoke. You will need to cut a notch out of the bearing cap wide enough to allow the cap to slide out after removing the needle bearings. I used a Dremel type rotary cutting tool with diamond coated cutting wheels to complete the job. Make sure you wear at minimum, safety glasses but a face shield would be better just in case the cutting wheel shatters.
You will also need to hold the bearing cap in place to keep it from spinning while you cut it. Needle-nose pliers worked for me. They keep your hands out of the way and keeps you from getting burned. There will be smoke from melting and burning grease.
Once you have the cap removed, it will be easy to slide the u-joint out. The remaining cap can be knocked out with a hammer and a drift pin or a punch.
The removal the other portion of the u-joint is the same but would recommend putting the flange in a vise to hold it steady since one hand will be holding the pliers and the other the rotary tool to cut the other bearing cap.
There will be remaining metal left from where the strike points were and will need to be cleaned up before installing the new joints. A rotary tool with a grinding stone works well. You just want to dress it up and make it smooth. Don't remove anymore material that necessary to do this. You want the new bearing caps to be tight after installation.
The new u-joint, clips and grease fitting plug. The clips go on the inside of the yoke to hold the caps in place. One cap will be drilled and tapped to receive the greese fitting plug (zerk fittings will be needed to service the joint after installation and later down the road).
Mike: Sgtsandman's 'V
2011 Ford Ranger XLT, 4X4 5 MT
1999 Honda CR-V EX RT4WD 5 MT
Just like the OEM u-joints. Fitment is tight. The bearing caps will need to be installed from the outside of the yoke. Be careful make sure the needle bearings are in place before pressing the cap in. The only way you will get the cap back out otherwise is to cut it like before.
My boo boo u-joint. Notice the clearance between the cap and yoke ear.
New u-joint installed.
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1999 Honda CR-V EX RT4WD 5 MT
Last edited by sgtsandman; 07-11-2009 at 01:43 PM.
Could have just as easily been my eye.
Stay safe.
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Well, well, I thought Dremels are only for cutting through sheet metal to put in side markers-repeaters....I was wrong!!!!
Nice write up though!
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Rotary tools are for all kinds of neat stuff! Mine is actually made by Chicago Tools, so it is a Dremel like tool and not an actual Dremel. They want too much money or the name.
Thanks for the kudos everyone. I ordered the replacement for the replacement u-joint yesterday. The sales rep said not to feel too bad, they have people who have worked on u-joints for years that have run into the same problem. So apparently, I have some elite company. It was $43 this time instead of $37 (big jump since January), including the $12.50 for shipping and handling.
In any case, Rockford was pretty fast before, so hopefully I'll have AWD again before I go camping next week. Some of those camp site entry ways are pretty steep and I would hate to get stuck trying to pull the trailer back out.
Depending on timing of delivery and installation, the final pics may be a bit delayed.
Mike: Sgtsandman's 'V
2011 Ford Ranger XLT, 4X4 5 MT
1999 Honda CR-V EX RT4WD 5 MT
Nice write-up Mike!
The term for Honda's u-joint "Retaining Method" is "staked"...the bearing cups are staked into place. This is cheaper for Honda than the additional machining of retainer clips, I guess.
I use my own Dremels (I have two) quite often. One is the genuine article, the other is a clone. But they have proven indispensable time and time again.
Thanks for the kudos on the write up too. I ordered the replacement, replacement joint on Monday. I hope it comes in on time for a Saturday or Sunday installation.
The camping site I reserved is pretty flat from what I remember, so I think I'll be okay without AWD but that's not the point.
Mike: Sgtsandman's 'V
2011 Ford Ranger XLT, 4X4 5 MT
1999 Honda CR-V EX RT4WD 5 MT
Great write-up and pictures...
Did you have to grind down the stakings before pressing- or did you just press the caps thru the stakes?
- after popping out the first cup, instead of using a dremel to cut the remaining cup - couldn't you just push the remaining cup back in (giving you more clearance to remove the joint) and then press the cup out?
Also- to prevent needle bearings from falling out - would a good dollop of grease hold them in while you are lining everything up?
I've had front wheel drive's for so long I can't remember the last time I had to replace a u-joint on a drive shaft. I think we used to just use a bench vise with appropriately sized sockets on either end ( a larger one to catch the cup being pushed out and a smaller one on the other side to push the cup through). But the harbor freight press looks like the perfect tool for the job.
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Now I've got to find a cheaper supplier. I still think $52 CAN (each) is too steep, especially when I live near a large city like Edmonton...
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I couldn't see a way to press the cap out the other way. With the grinding tips I have, I couldn't get in there well enough to grind the stakes before hand, though I did try.
As far as the repair goes, it's still on hold. Rockford is on back order for the u-joints. Apparently, many are going this route instead of replacing the entire shaft....
Mike: Sgtsandman's 'V
2011 Ford Ranger XLT, 4X4 5 MT
1999 Honda CR-V EX RT4WD 5 MT
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