text:
The Netafim SuperNet flow regulated insect proof micro sprinklers with 18.5 GPH (Black nozzle) up to 23' diameter at 20 to 50 PSI is completely assembled with heavy duty stake, micro tubing and barb. The micro sprinkler designed to achieve a consistent flow rate in areas with pressure fluctuations and in difficult topography. The flow regulated micro sprinkler has a floating silicon diaphragm with a large water passage to regulate flow, and large water passage to keep particles from entering the nozzle. The flow regulated micro sprinkler's frame is constructed with a double bridge ensuring a strong construction for better operation.
|+ 1
|$3.36 ea.
|+ 10
|$2.99 ea.
|+ 100
|$2.62 ea.
|+ 1000
|$2.54 ea.
Netafim SuperNet Pressure Regulated Micro-Sprinkler features an EverSpin, Sapphire Bearing, as the toughest, hardest, longest-life sprinkler bearing on the market. This precision manufactured bearing crafted out of a sapphire material - one of the hardest surfaces known - has been added to the bearing of the sprinkler at the point where the swivel's pin meets the bearings surface wear-point, reduce friction wear and promoting long-lasting sprinkler performance.
The SuperNet is available with options that make it adaptable to almost any application. A drop-down, "bug-proof" spinner prevents insect entry. Quick-connect thread base is convenient for new installations, but excellent for replacing older sprinklers.
• Wide regulating range
• Maintains uniform flow across broad pressure range
• Patented pressure differential technology with floating, self flushing diaphragm
• Unique nozzle design prevents negative effects of varying inlet pressure on the micro sprinkler soaked diameter
• Long-term reliable uniformity
• The largest water passages on the market – resists clogging
• Drop down "bug-proof" spinner prevents entry of insects
• Engineering-grade materials and heavy-duty bearing results in superior endurance
• EverSpin bearing has a layer of sapphire material
• Reduces friction and wear, promoting long-lasting sprinkler performance
• Keeps the swivel centered during operation and improves start-up
For orchard, vineyard and nursery micro sprinkler installations where flow regulation and insect resistance is desired.


text:
Good News
Job Search
The Day in Photos
Today in Pictures
New York Yankees' Robinson Cano drops his hat and glove in the dugout at the end of the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves, June 12, 2012, in Atlanta.
David Goldman/AP Photo
Today in Pictures
New York Yankees' Robinson Cano drops his hat and glove in the dugout at the end of the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves, June 12, 2012, in Atlanta.
David Goldman/AP Photo
Today in Pictures
Revelers from Lisbon's Alfama neighborhood association are on a bus bound for the Lisbon's popular parades during the Popular Saints festivities, June 12, 2012. During these festivities, old Lisbon's neighborhood associations parade during Saint Anthony's Day to compete for the best parade, music, costume and choreography.
Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images
Today in Pictures
Britain's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, left, laughs as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II gestures while they watch part of a children's sports event during a visit to Vernon Park in Nottingham, central England, Wednesday, June 13, 2012.
Phil Noble/EPA
Today in Pictures
A Rohingya Muslim man who fled Burma to Bangladesh to escape religious violence, cries as he pleads from a boat after he and others were intercepted by Bangladeshi border authorities in Taknaf, Bangladesh, June 13, 2012. Bangladesh has turned back more than 1,500 refugees in recent days, officials said, and a global human rights group urged Bangladesh to keep its border open.
Anurup Titu/AP Photo
Today in Pictures
Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo, left, Denmark's Simon Kjaer and Denmark goalkeeper Stephan Andersen go for the ball during the Euro 2012 soccer championship Group B match between Denmark and Portugal in Lviv, Ukraine, June 13, 2012.
Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo
Today in Pictures
Bella Jane, an American Bulldog who was rescued by Michele Anderson of Albany, N.Y., takes a break during an animal advocacy day event at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, June 13, 2012.
Mike Groll/AP Photo
Today in Pictures
In an election to fill former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., congressional seat, Democratic candidate Ron Barber celebrates his victory with Giffords, as he gives her a hug prior to speaking to supporters at a post election event, June 12, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz. Barber was wounded in the same shooting spree that injured Giffords in January 2010.
Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo
Today in Pictures
A bullet is seen next to the corpse of a woman who was suffocated with adhesive tape to the mouth and nose and, who first appeared to have no gunshot wounds, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, June 13, 2012. Tegucigalpa, along with the northern city of San Pedro Sula, are two of the world's most violent cities.
Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images
Today in Pictures
Polish football fans cheer and shout in the during a Euro 2012 championships soccer match between Poland and Russia at the National Stadium in Warsaw.
Wojtek Radwanski/AFP/Getty Images
The Day in Photos
All ABC News Photos
The Day in Photos
Join the Discussion
comments powered by Disqus.
blog comments powered by
See It, Share It
Donald Trump Deletes Tweet About Jeb Bush's Wife
KGO/Steinle Family
Why Suspected SF Killer Kept Coming Back to the City
Kathy Shorr
Portraits of Victims of Gun Violence
Courtesy Bilello Family
How a Man Miraculously Found His Wife's Lost Dollar Bill
Peter Hapak for ESPN The Magazine
ESPN Magazine's Body Issue: How Athletes Are Chosen
Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo
The Tale of How This Man Began Burt's Bees with a Hitchhiker
Courtesy Amanda Booth
Model Mom, Baby With Down Syndrome Share Love of the Camera
Yahoo!-ABC News Network
Privacy Policy
Your CA Privacy Rights
Children's Online Privacy Policy
Interest-Based Ads
Terms of Use
Contact Us
© 2015 ABC News Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
October 17, 1966. It was probably a cold day in Wisconsin on that date, a date when a '67 Corvette Sting Ray rolled onto the lot of Dale Chevrolet in Waukesha and was signed into "Dealer Demonstration Service" by William R. Dale, VP of the dealership. A little under a year later, Dale Chevrolet sold the '67 to one James Holtyn of Milwaukee. Quite a distance away, another '67 Vette was on its way home for the first time. When it arrived, a young James Alvarez rode his bike over to his neighbors' garage to see the new purchase. In a word, his words, "...the car was amazing." And with that, Jim started his life-long obsession with Corvette.
It was just a couple years later when Jim was beginning another obsession-motorcycles. "I started riding when I was 10," James tells us. "My parents recognized my interest in mechanical things, so they bought me a mini bike for my 10th birthday. A few weeks after riding it, I started to get curious about the bike and how it worked. So as a normal kid would do, I borrowed my fathers tools and started removing parts." And just like any young up-and-coming gearhead, Jim was hooked. From there he graduated to a dirt bike, and by age 16, he was on his fourth motor-driven cycle.
In the late 70s, Jim sold his bike to buy his first Corvette, a '76. Later on in the '80s, he would again sell off his vehicle of choice to move to California. While out in the Golden State, he began hanging out with his cousin Bill. Bill owned more than a few Harley-Davidsons, and Jim fell in love quickly with the Hogs: enough that after earning a little bit of extra cash, he ran down to a local dealership to get a Harley of his own. "It was just too expensive for me," he remembers, "but the dealer convinced me to buy a Honda, which I did." Even though it was a far cry from the teeth-rattling ride you get from an American icon, James had his first new bike.
"The following weekend," says James, "I drove my new bike over to my cousin's house so we could go for a ride. When I got there, I was so proud of my new ride that I asked Bill if he wanted to take it for a drive. He looked around as if to make sure no one was looking and then said, 'No. I'd rather ride my Harleys.'" It was at this point in time that Jim didn't quite understand the passion one feels for a Harley versus a Honda, but Jim was about to get an education. "After a number of rides and endless times where I was left to eat his dust, I decided to buy a Harley. And then I understood why he didn't want to ride my Honda."
Jim started out with a Sportster. He then moved up to a Softail, and in 1999, he bought a Road King Classic, Model FLHRCI, decked out with an EVO V-Twin. Jim bought a Road King because it's a cruiser, "I could ride a couple hundred miles in a day and still feel like new." And with all things mechanical, Jim felt the need to tinker. "I hate to have exactly what everyone else has, so I started to customize my bike." Going after the retro look, the Hog owner removed the stock bags in favor of a hard set.
Then he started adding chrome-a lot of chrome-as much chrome as he could find. Next, he rolled out a pair of Metzler oversized blackwalls and traded them for the whitewalls that had been on the bike. "It improved the ride and gave it a great retro look," Jim told us. And with the installation of a vintage-'50s logo in place of the typical Harley badge, the bike was ready to make some noise.
By now Jim had understood why his cousin didn't want to ride his Honda, "The Harley has a distinctive drive that just puts you in another place. There's no way to describe the feeling of a Harley or the sound and acceleration of a '67 427 Corvette Sting Ray. They are both very unique!" Yeah, that's right, a 427. See there were other things going on during this time than just an education about real motorcycles.


text:
Frost is a soft to the touch metallic yarn in an Alpaca (20%) and Viscose (80%) blend. This yarn takes textured stitches very well allowing the inherent metallic shine and colour mix to show through.
Purelife revive is our wonderful tweed effect, fully recycled summer yarn.
This cotton, linen, viscose blended yarn has a lovely soft handle, a beautiful shape and a subtle sheen.


text:
Patagonia Men's R1 Pullover
Moosejaw Staff Pick - BR, Moosejaw Secret Headquarters
Moosejaw Staff Pick - Matt, Moosejaw Secret Headquarters
The Men's R1 Pullover by Patagonia. This Patagonia outerwear is lightweight and versatile. The Men's R1 Pullover is made of warm Regulator R1 grid fleece which is compressible, highly breathable, and moisture-wicking. This men's outerwear is ideal as a midlayer under a shell Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk
FEATURES of the Patagonia Men's R1 Pullover
- Versatile R1 fleece, with its high/low grid pattern, provides excellent stretch, warmth, fast wicking and great breathability in a variety of temperatures
- A lighter weight, micro-grid fabric on inner collar, underarm gusset and Variable Conditions Cuff improves breathability and dry times where you need it most
- Refined technical fit with offset seams for comfort under outerwear and packs
- Center-front Slim Zip with soft, kissing-welt zipper garage and chin flap for next-to-skin comfort
- Variable Conditions Cuff has discreet, on-seam thumb loops for added coverage; a spiral-stitch construction allows sleeves to push up easily without constricting forearms
- One left chest pocket has Slim Zip install and clean finished zipper garage
SPECIFICATIONS of the Patagonia Men's R1 Pullover
- Weight: 11.75 oz / 333 g
- Slim fit
- Body: 6.8-oz Polartec Power Dry 93% polyester (41% recycled) / 7% spandex
- Inner Collar, Underarms and Cuffs: 5.4-oz Polartec Power Dry 92% polyester (54% recycled) / 8% spandex
This product can only be shipped within the United States. Please don't hate us.
custy reviews
for the Patagonia Men's R1 Pullover
Average Custy Rating:
(based on 65 reviews)
|Love it
|Big Ups
Bad Ass Mo Fo
Sort of Experienced
Probably Shouldn't Listen to Me
Under 18
Over 45
Hunk and a Half
This pullover is amazing! Lightweight enough to wear inside and great for wearing when you're leaving the gym and need an extra layer. Make sure you note that it is a more slim fit so if you are wearing it over other layers you may need to go a size up. Also looks great if you wanted to wear it to go for a casual night out. It is a little over priced! Even thought you can wear it with just about anything.
Love the R1 pullover - best fleece ever! I usually wear it as a midlayer over one or even two capilene baselayers and under my shell (I run pretty cold). I'm 5'10" 135 lbs, and while I always take a small in Patagonia baselayers, I definitely needed a medium in the R1. Bought my first R1 nearly 18 months ago and despite a lot of use it still looks almost like new. Had to buy another recently as the red one I have didn't go with my new orange ski pants. Went for "Lotus Green" this time. My wife says I have no color sense. She's probably right.
Love this pullover. Lightweight enough to wear inside and great for wearing when you're leaving the gym and need an extra layer. Make sure you note that it is a more slim fit so if you are wearing it over other layers you may need to go a size up. Also looks great if you wanted to wear it to go for a casual night out. I wish I had about 6 of these so I always had one ready when I wanted it.
There are lots of fleeces out there and I am ecstatically pleased with my decision to purchase the the R1. Patagonia was and is a fleece pioneer and the R1 is a benchmark. It's thin, warm and breathable - ideal as a midlayer if you like to layer but wearable as an outer in milder weather, and particularly comfortable if you want the freedom to move with dexterity. I've found other fleeces to be either too thick (making layering difficult, causing overheating, and feeling like I'm wearing a fat suit) or a sub-par copy of the R1's grid fleece technology. Plus, I like Patagonia's devotion to quality and the environment, and the price is roughly equivalent to others. From now on the R1 will be a staple of my outdoor getup.
This is by far my most used jacket. Packs down small and lightweight, especially considering how warm it is when worn. Fit is slim enough that I have been able to wear it under my cycling jacket when it gets really cold outside. The reviews weren't lying, this is the best light fleece you can own!
The Patagonia R1 Pullover simply layers the best out of everything I've tried. It is thin, hugs the body comfortably, slips easily under a softshell jacket, and offers great mobility. Plus it's breathable and warm. Other fleeces may be warm but they lack the layering comfort of the R1 and their thickness doesn't inspire confidence during active pursuits. For someone looking for a more technical midlayer or even an outer layer in fair weather, and something that doesn't feel inhibiting when moving around a lot, I recommend the Patagonia R1. Well worth the price for an active outdoorsperson.


text:
Danny B wrote:A male protagonist can go through an entire series of novels without ever having sex and his masculinity never needs to be emphasised, yet so many novels about female protagonists (fantasy novels in particular are guilty of this) feel the need to emphasise the femininity of the lead character by giving her a really good orgasm at the hands of a supporting male character with a dominant personality, who refuses to let himself be brow-beaten or bullied by the otherwise powerful female protagonist.
I agree. I would guess that this is because fantasy novels are, in general, written by men and for men, so they tend to look at things from a male point of view.
Of course, this is a very base generalization, with many exceptions in every direction.
In Feist's defense, Pug had a similar experience in Magician:Master, though without the "and now he knew what it was to be a man" line.


text:
I want to buy only the car charger. The lightning cable I have already. Can I buy this in the store?
- Asked by Elisabeth S
Belkin Car Charger with Lightning to USB Cable
Product No Longer Available
2 Answers from the Community
The Belkin lightning to USB cable is a million times better than the apple ones.
I use the Belkin one for my iPad when charging at home because it is longer; I'm using the apple one with the belkin cigarette charging part in my car (apples lightning is shorter and it gets stuck in my iMac...nightmare).
Even though you're just looking for the cigarette charging part, if you do the numbers - it might be cheaper to by the combo. It's always nice to have two cables or a backup.
Good luck.
- Answered by Michael F from Quincy
The package comes as a bundle, so no you can't buy seperately. The bonus is you can use your original Apple lightning cable if you wish, or a 30pin cable if you have older devices (via the usb port on the charger).
- Answered by Jonathan T from Kalamunda


text:
After being on the road the last couple of weeks, Starkville High's bowling Yellowjackets returned home to Bulldog Lanes to face the Olive Branch Conquistadors.
Competing on Thursday afternoon were the varsity and junior varsity boys teams. While the varsity team fell 2-1 at the hands of the Conquistadors, the junior varsity boys split their sets with each team winning three of the six frames.
"We have been away from here for the last few weeks," SHS bowling coach Jim Philamlee said. "Lane conditions differ in different places, so it took us a little while to adjust. We will be home for the next three weeks so that should help us improve."
The varsity Jacket charge was led by Tyler Dawkins who had scores of 149, 168 and 153 to bowl 470 for the day. Joining Dawkins in leading Starkville was Alex Newman who bowled a high score of 175 in between games that saw him bowl 152 and 131 to finish at 458.
Starkville's junior varsity split their frames with Olive Branch with Nathan Smith and Ryan Picard leading the way.
Smith bowled the highest scores for the team and ended competition with frames of 139, 138 and 183 for a score of 460. Picard followed Smith by closing his day at 332 with individual frames of 108, 139 and 85.
"Our junior varsity is showing up better," Philamlee said. "We have a lot of kids on that team and they are all showing improvements."
While individual scores give Philamlee some indication of where his bowlers stand, the real picture he says comes from looking at each individual's season average.
Thus far this season the top five Yellowjacket averages belong to Hugh Stone who leads the team with 162, followed by Newman, Cody Prewitt, Dawkins and Ethan Tucker with 161, 161, 153 and 150, respectively.
Smith not only led the junior varsity bowlers, but also leads the team this season with an average of 118. Rounding out the Starkville junior varsity season top five averages are Picard with 108, Waverly Yeatman with 105, James May with 99 and Gus Willis with 90.
The Lady Yellowjackets had the day off on Thursday, but this season, they are led by Skyler Runnels with an average of 149, followed by Akala Greenwood with 108, Amber Miller at 103, Vanessa Collins with 98 and rounding out the top five is Autumn Love with a 93 average this season.
"That is a really good picture," Philamlee said. "This is what we go by to see how we are improving year to year and right now these impress me."
Looking at the season thus far and looking ahead to the future, Philamlee says he is impressed with where the Yellowjackets are, but nothing really counts until the team enters regionals.
"Right now our wins and losses count zero," Philamlee said. "When we go to regionals, that is when things start counting. The top six go to state along with two additional wild cards. Right now, we are getting competition practice and I see improvements. This competition practice really helps us get ready for the competition we will see at regionals."
Starkville will next match up against Neshoba Central who the team split competition with to open the 2012-2013 season.View more articles in:


text:
Best Of
Our Editors watch all our videos and see all the images, and select the best bits for appearing on the site. But that also means they are uniquely placed to make compilation videos and image sets of the best stuff around a theme. We name the images and have subtitles in the video so you can find more of what you like.
19 results across 1 pages.
19 of 19 results across 1 pages.
- « Previous
- 1
- Next »


text:
A missionary named Maernanaog, or Mo-ernin-og, had brought Christianity to the Picts of Moray during the 7th Century. A church was built just outside of Elgin, following his death in 625AD and named Lann Marnoch, the Church of St Marnoch. Over the course of time, the name 'Lann Marnoch' gradually became Anglicised and eventually the area was known as Longmorn. Construction began on a distillery on the site in 1893 under John Duff and Company, founders of Glenlossie in 1876. In 1894, the build was completed and the total costs amounted to £20,000. Production began in December. John Duff bought out the other members of the group and officially founded the Longmorn Distillery in 1897. A year later he built Longmorn Number 2 next door, changing its name latterly to BenRiach. John Duff went bankrupt in 1909; the Pattison Crisis had left him reeling and he had already failed in his attempts to build distilleries in America and South Africa. The shares were acquired from the bank by James R Grant. The Lochside distillery lacks the fame of its more illustrious neighbour, BenRiach, though it is of good size; its eight stills have a capacity of 3.5 million litres annually and have been running at full capacity since Pernod Ricard's acquisition of previous owners Seagram in 2001. The malt whisky from Lochside remains in good standing as a blending component, it being featured in Chivas Regal.
Distillery Number
01343 554139
Distillery Founded
Distillery Capacity
3 500 000 litres
Distillery Status
Distillery Owner
Chivas Brothers
Distillery Address
Longmorn, Morayshire IV30 8SJ
John Duff & Company, which founded Glenlossie already in 1876, starts construction. John Duff, George Thomson and Charles Shirres are involved in the company. The total cost amounts to £20,000.
First production in December.
John Duff buys out the others and founds Longmorn Distillery.
John Duff builds another distillery next to Longmorn which is called Benriach (at times aka Longmorn no. 2). Duff declares bankruptcy and the shares are sold by the bank to James R. Grant.
The distillery company is merged with The Glenlivet & Glen Grant Distilleries and Hill Thomson & Co. Ltd. Own floor maltings ceases.
The number of stills is increased from four to six.
Another two stills are added.
Seagrams takes over through The Chivas & Glenlivet Group.
Seagrams introduces The Heritage Selection. Apart from Longmorn, Glen Keith, Benriach and Strathisla are included.
Pernod Ricard buys Seagram Spirits & Wine together with Diageo and Pernod Ricard takes over the Chivas group.
A 17 year old cask strength is released.
A 16 year old is released replacing the 15 year old.


text:
A Strategic Plan for Liberals
In August of 1971, corporate attorney Lewis Powell—two months shy of his appointment to the United States Supreme Court by President Richard Nixon—wrote a memo to Eugene Sydnor Jr., who chaired the education committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In Powell's and the chamber's view, the American free-enterprise system, and conservatism more generally, was losing the battle of ideas and policy to an ascendant liberalism. "No thoughtful person," Powell wrote, "can question that the American economic system is under broad attack."
Forty-one years later, Powell's memo can seem more than a little paranoid. Such marginal figures as William Kunstler and Herbert Marcuse loomed large on Powell's list of threats to the American system. But Powell was correct that conservatism had been marginalized for decades by New Deal liberalism. American social scientists, he noted, were largely liberal; environmental regulations were encroaching on corporate behavior (indeed, Nixon had established the Environmental Protection Agency the previous year); and business was not defending itself ably in the court of public opinion, much less effectively promoting pro-business candidates at the ballot box. Confronting a "massive assault upon its fundamental economics, upon its philosophy, upon its right to continue to manage its own affairs," Powell wrote, business had "responded—if at all—by appeasement, ineptitude and ignoring the problem."
It was high time the chamber began to change all that, and to that end, Powell laid out a number of specific steps that the chamber and business could undertake.
Corporate America, he wrote, had to learn "that political power is necessary; that such power must be assiduously cultivated; and that when necessary, it must be used aggressively and with determination." To reclaim the ideological battlefield, "the Chamber should consider establishing a staff of highly qualified scholars in the social sciences who do believe in the system" and help conservative academics publish their ideas both in journals and as books. Business should insist on getting its viewpoint represented on television news shows. It should publicize the crucial role of stockholders—"the real entrepreneurs, the real capitalists"—and try to mobilize them on behalf of corporate interests and priorities.
The Powell Memo must be reckoned as one of the most successful political directives in history. The chamber and American big business took his ideas to heart. They increased their involvement in both lobbying and elections, proclaimed the shareholder (not the worker) to be the most important figure in the American economy, and established and funded a host of new institutions (or reinvigorated old ones, like the American Enterprise Institute) to advance their viewpoints and interests. The Business Roundtable, composed of the CEOs of the nation's biggest corporations, was created in the memo's wake, as were the Heritage Foundation, the Cato and Manhattan institutes, and other pillars of laissez-faire thought and right-wing propaganda. The Powell Memo spawned an assertive business and intellectual infrastructure that formulated the ideas and policies of the revitalized conservative movement.
The triumphs of this conservatism are everywhere to be seen. Big money dominates politics and government as it has not since the Gilded Age. Anti-government ideology is pervasive and leading politicians seek either to dismantle universal social programs (the Republican position) that once enjoyed near-consensual support or scale them back (the position of many Democrats). Corporate America aims to end collective bargaining. Fox News and talk radio have become a massive source of counterfactual news and agitprop. And it was a right-wing organization, the Tea Party, not a left-wing one, that emerged in the wake of the greatest crisis of capitalism since the Great Depression. The fortunes of ordinary Americans have been declining for years, but millions of working-class Americans remain in the sway of the right's idealization of markets and demonization of government.
The right is reaping the rewards of having built for the long term. And the left … the left needs a Powell Memo of its own, its own 40-year plan. Liberalism does not lack for either movements or organizations, but its battles are more frequently defensive than offensive and its forces scattered across an array of causes. It's time for some comprehensive strategic and organizational thinking on how to promote the ideas and build the infrastructure that can inform and spur a liberal revival. To that end, the Prospect has asked a number of organizers, thinkers, labor and business leaders, and funders to submit mini Powell Memos of their own. Reclaiming America from the financial and corporate powers that have taken it over is the work of decades. What follows are 19 essays on how to begin.
The following essays are from the Prospect's November/December Issue. We will post three of the 19 essays each day.
Powell's Diagnosis—And Ours
Nov 28, 2012
Retilting the Playing Field
Nov 28, 2012
Build an Independent Political Organization (But Not Quite a Party)
Nov 29, 2012
Who's Going to Pay for It?
Nov 29, 2012
Train Young Organizers
Nov 29, 2012
Create a Million Public-Service Jobs
Nov 30, 2012
Movement Futurism
Nov 30, 2012
Make Voting Mandatory and Filibusters Extinct
Nov 30, 2012
Elect More Women
Nov 29, 2012
Reclaim the Courts
Dec 1, 2012
A New Pledge of Principles
Dec 1, 2012
Recruit the Next Generation of Donors
Dec 1, 2012
New Organizations for Workers
Dec 4, 2012
Six Tasks for Progressives
Dec 4, 2012
Fight for Universal Voter Registration
Dec 4, 2012
Understand the Democracy Is the Core Issue
Dec 5, 2012
Empower the Public
Dec 5, 2012
Tell Stories
Dec 5, 2012
Power Precedes Programs
Dec 10, 2012
From Class Consciousness to Social Change
Dec 10, 2012
Poverty Requires Disaster Relief
Dec 10, 2012
Alternative Futures for Labor
Dec 12, 2012
It's Time to Form a Grassroots Coalition
Dec 12, 2012
Building a Table
Dec 12, 2012
Common Culprits, Common Cause
Dec 14, 2012
Bringing Academics into the Grassroots Game
Dec 14, 2012
A Level Playing Field for a New America
Dec 21, 2012
Wed, 2012-11-28 10:56
TR or FDR or HT or LBJ would instantly recognize what is sickest about 2012 America and would be bellowing it from the rooftops. If everyday Americans from 1968 could somehow have been informed that by 2007, LBJ's $10.64/hr minimum wage (adjusted, CPI-U *) would drop almost in half they would have asked whether earth was going to be hid by a comet or some equal disaster. (* http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1.60&year1=1968&year2=2012 )
The cratering of -- both -- the economic and political muscle of the average person can be explained in one word: deunionzation. Given naturally selfish human nature the all-in-one essential of economic or political justice in any society is fairly balanced power. No amount of corporate political muscle (indeed that is what corporations should be exercising in their own interest) is going to oppress an EFFECTIVELY unionized electorate.
Legally mandated, SECTOR-WIDE LABOR AGREEMENTS -- wherein everybody doing the same type of job, for instance retail clerk, in the same geographic locale work under one common contract with all firms -- is the only proven way (proven over half the century and around the world) to fairly balance both labor market AND political forum in an all-in-one stroke.
Don't bother doing anything else to remedy so called "inequality" (the detached intellectual word for the Great Wage Depression/Post-Apocalyptic American Labor Market -- think Soylent Green) if you are not going to do sector-wide bargaining.
Twas post WWII European industrialists who first introduced sector-wide collective bargaining on country wide scales to prevent labor unions from going on a race with each other to the top -- so more resources could be invested into post war rebuilding. Europe's fabled welfare state (which everyone over here seems to think represents the big difference between us and them) was offered to labor as a compensation for the putting up with sector-wide. (England did not adopt sector-wide; why it fell behind the continent -- think I saw this in Barry Eichengreen's book The European Economy after 1945.)
Conservatively (best as I can understand the figures) average income increased 80% (if not 100%) since 1968 while per capita income increased at most 25% and maybe fallen back. This means that 50% of the work force should be paid at least 50% more -- and ($7.25/hr) minimum wagers 100% more. That is a hell of a lot more all-important than whether 3-5% more of the workforce is unemployed than should be.
(Doubling the minimum wage to $15/hr would add only 4% direct inflation: http://ontodayspagelinks.blogspot.com/2008/08/3-cost-of-gdp-output-and-inflation.html )
A couple of years back Northwest Airlines flight crews gave back a billion dollars in pay -- presumably to stay competitive and viable in the face of competing airline pay cuts. The following year Northwest awarded a thousand managers a billion dollars in bonuses. Supermarket unions all over the county are agreeing to two-tier contracts, sharply reducing the pay of what was once a terrific middle class job (right in the neighborhood) for new entrants under pressure from nonunion big boxes.
Airline and supermarket employees would kill for legally mandated, sector-wide labor agreements (as exist in Germany, France, Argentina, Indonesia and, yes, right next store in French Canada). TR and FDR and HT and LBJ would be bellowing all this from the rooftops.
Wed, 2012-11-28 20:54
The closest thing we have to a "liberal" movement today is just a campaign to bolster the bourgeoisie. Our "urgent discussions" have deteriorated into cheer-leading sessions for the middle class. America is defined by its socioeconomic policies. Today's liberal agenda is actually well to the right of such conservative stalwarts as Eisenhower and Nixon! I think "Occupy" defined this generation. A powerful people's movement with the potential to change the country (much like the progressive movements of the 1910s, 1930s and 1960s) was rapidly re-defined (largely by media) as a movement of "middle class workers" alone. So, the rest of us walked away, and the movement fizzled out. Historically, when the richest few gained too much power, the poor and middle classes united to successfully push back, to the benefit of both. This time, a strategy to deeply divide the poor and middle was implemented back in the 1990s to prevent a push-back. It worked. Dirty little secret: It is not possible to "Rebuild the Middle Class" without shoring up the poor. Instead, we cut the rungs off of the proverbial ladder out of poverty, and are trying to turn the middle class into a gated community.
Thu, 2012-11-29 00:11
Johnson's "War on Poverty" was abandoned because conservative persuaders in the media got the middle class to feel that the "poor" were a threat to them, by implying that the social safety net was not there for the middle class, since "ambitious" and "classy" people would never become poor; the safety net was then portrayed as a "voluntary" permanent resting place for the "lazy", paid for by "working" middle class people.
That this persuasion was possible is a negative side effect of the otherwise positive belief in American individual ambition (the Horatio Alger myth), which had the effect in the 19th and early 20th century of preventing the Marx-predicted mass revolt of the "proletariat" against the "bourgeoisie"; in America, the proletariat aspired to BECOME the bourgeoisie, and so the revolt became a struggle to counter the power of business owners WITHIN the system, rather than to overthrow the system.
Our "elevator" or "bumper sticker" message should be something like:
We're You're
In v On
This s Your
Together Own
WITT or YOYO?
or: "What part of 'nobody going broke due to illness' DON'T you like?"
or: Making a country prosperous by making most of its citizens poorer
is like healing a sick person by bleeding!
Any other ideas?
Thu, 2012-11-29 00:19
Sorry, but my attempt to show the geometry of my bumper sticker was foiled by the text engine removing consecutive spaces. I intended something like:
column 1, left justified: We're / In / This / Together / WITT [blue on white]
column 2, centered: / V / S / / or [black on white]
column 3, right justified: You're / On / Your / Own / YOYO [red on white]
You will have to replicate this on paper or in Notepad to see the visual.
Thu, 2012-11-29 14:56
Liberals brought this dismal state of affairs on themselves by embracing identity politics ; and promoting utopian post-industrial fantasies. Effectively liberals left important economic development issues to the most rapacious business interests. Worse yet, in people like Obama and Clinton, they actually embraced the most reactionary elements of finance capital.
Liberals hardly have working brain power left even to comprehend the gravity of the global economic/ financial collapse--- indeed, people such a Barney Frank help engineer the debacle.
None of this is likely to change as liberals will now rally around BO's plan for attacking Medicare and Social Security in unity with Wall Street and reactionary GOPers.
Such alliances will finish off what's left of liberalism ... and pave the way, likely, for hard core fascists as the economic order literally collapses and chaos ensues.
I'm not looking forward to living ins such a world.... but that's where we are heading.
Charles Gallo
Sat, 2012-12-01 03:13
Some people advocate a new age of austerity. The Republican budget, reflects this kind of thinking. They cite Greece with an unemployment rate of 22.6% as supporting this belief. They say Greece is a nation we will follow if we do not tighten our belt and reduce government services. They also cite Spain's 24.3%, Portugal's 15.2% and Italy's 10.2% unemployment rate. But, they do not mention that tax avoidance (Like Mitt Romney's) and evasion in each of these countries is a national sport.
No taxes have been paid on an enormous percentage of the national income (GDP) of these countries. This is due to both legal (tax avoidance) and illegal (tax evasion) acts. When I speak below of tax evasion, I am also including tax avoidance. They both have the same economic effect on a country. This non-taxed share of GDP is the gray economy.
The chief tax inspector of Greece said tax evasion costs Greece up to $57 billion a year. This is almost twice the amount the country needs to pay off its debts. The gray economy, is 37.5 per cent of its GDP.
In Spain more than $23.5 billion a year is lost because of tax evasion. Almost 25% of national GDP of Spain is gray.
Portugal estimated $17.5 billion in taxes are evaded. The gray economy represents 24% of the country's GDP. If people did not evade their taxes, the government would have a balanced budget.
In Italy the share of the gray economy of the Italian GDP is 27.8%. When Silvio Berlusconi was Prime Minister, he said the evasion of taxes was a God-given "right."
In Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal, the government is seen as being controlled by special interests. The members of an elite upper class, many times, legally pay no income tax at all. Because of this, people who cannot use legal tax loopholes evade taxes illegally.
These countries have also had austerity budgets for several years. Yet, even as these budgets have been in place, their economic problems have only gotten worse. These budgets have only prolonged the recessions in these countries. They have added to hardship of the people, and lead to political disorder. Many economists now feel that, in fact, the austerity programs are the main cause of the economic problems these countries face.
On the other hand, economies in many countries are doing well. These countries include: Germany which has unemployment rate of 5.4%, Austria 4.3%, Norway 3.0%, Netherlands 4.2%, Switzerland 2.9%, Japan 4.1%, Australia 4.9% and so on. What do they have in common? And what are they doing differently when they are compared to the United States?
1- The rate of tax evasion is low since the level of services provided by the government is high. People feel they are getting their money's worth from the government.
2- They have Universal socialized health care, or a government sponsored one payer system. While all their people have health care, they spend a small fraction of what United States businesses and Government spend on health care.
3- They have Universal Education. This means you can get an education up to your PhD at low cost or for free. This means their people are trained for the jobs of the future.
4- They have much higher taxes than in United States on someone making more than 250 thousand dollars, for example in Germany the rate is 45%.
5- They have more generous unemployment benefits than in the United States. This stabilizes demand when people are laid-off from their jobs.
6- They have a more unionized workforce than in the United States. The unions provide hands-on apprentice programs for training new workers in industries.
7- They do not spend Trillions of dollars on a gargantuan military, and wars. This does not drain their budgets, so they can keep needed infrastructure both modern and repaired.
So maybe these countries should be our models for the future, rather than Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal. It would seem this is the pragmatic thing to do. We must eliminate tax loopholes which allow people to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. There must also be sufficient services, so taxpayers feel they are getting a good value for their dollar.
This is what must be done. Simple solutions that can be communicated easily. Obamacare will fail because it is too complex and expensive. Expand Medicare to cover all is easy to understand, and people who are against Obamacare will support it. Social Security will go broke and it's payroll tax is unfair, remove the cap and make it fairer, save it and perhaps it will also be possible to reduce the tax rate. Talk with your audience not at your audience, Keep it simple stupid.
Sam Dobermann
Mon, 2012-12-03 08:25
Charles Gallo, your comment was excellent except for the last paragraph. The biggest problem leading to high deficits now is the fall off on the income side of the ledger. From 2001 to 2003 the IRS did an extremely detailed study of income understatement. — excluding those with very high incomes; just your normal everyday Americans.
They found that the loss of tax income was about $350 Billion a year from people not declaring income and that virtually all of it was from small business owners. Wage earners rarely had even a chance to do this as the withholding rules insures that virtually all income is captured in the system. This got almost no publicity. It would be calling our celebrated small business owners tax cheats.
I think it would be beneficial especially if they would get really mad about what the upper income people could do to hide their income overseas or by conversion to favorable capital gains classification.
But i disagree with your comment on health care and even the far simpler social security. Since SS is an insurance scheme the capping of the deduction amount squared with the capping of the payment amount. If you take off the cap on the tax you either need to take off the cap on the payouts or you will be making it into a charity. It is already set up to be progressive with those who have been low earners all their lives receiving proportionately more and the top earners receiving proportionately less. That does fill its original function as insuring against destitution in the elderly. I am not against raising the cap but the change involves a big decision on the payment end.
Health care is different and far more complex. K.I.S.S. can't apply to a very complex problem. What is called ObamaCare is actually Title I of the ACA (and some of the later titles on financing). Title II is concerned with fixing Medicare and Medicaid. The other Titles (there are 10 of them) are concerned with improving quality and reducing costs. There is no way to continue Medicare as it is now much less dumping everyone under 65 into it. It is the cost of Medicare and Medicaid (and the health care costs of the federal employees including Congress and the Presidency) that are busting the budget. Those are the costs that are rising at rates far beyond inflation that are busting the budget.
Most people wrongly believe that Medicare is prepaid as SS is. It isn't. The Medicare trust fund is actually a Hospital Insurance fund which only covers hospitalization (that's Part A). Part B is what pays for doctors and other providers, suppliers and equipment. That is paid for 25% by premiums from participants and 75% by the government, ie general tax revenues.
Those costs MUST be curbed. The Republican scheme of voucherizing Medicare does nothing but transfer these costs to the elderly. However, that move increases costs off the bat by going from the wholesale purchase to a retail purchase of coverage, to say nothing of the confusion of millions of people not always in the best of health physically or mentally trying to find the best product in a marvelously opaque area.
Even if you could lick the problem of obtaining insurance you still have the problems that exist in our system: high cost and low quality. Much of that comes from over treatment. Some of it is purely fraudulent, much of it is ignorant, and virtually all of it is opaque.
The ACA mandates a lot of things — all critically needed like transparency. You wouldn't go to a restaurant that failed an inspection for cleanliness yet pre ACA we had no way of knowing hospital infection rates. Yet hospital acquired infections kill 100,000 people a year. Many more survive the infections but each one requires a lot of expensive health care to resolve.
There are too many points to even illustrate here so perhaps you will see why the ACA is so complex and why it is stupid to try to keep it really simple.
Mon, 2013-02-04 08:18
There is one issue on which all others depend. That issue is public campaign finance. The power of bribery has corrupted government, and until that is corrected, no issue can be resolved on it's own merits. All progressive organizations need to get behind , and make first priority, the goal of making the voters into the sponsors of elections.
You need to be logged in to comment.
(If there's one thing we know about comment trolls, it's that they're lazy)


text:
Star Tracks
The Hough siblings goof off at a summery bash in L.A. Plus: Ryan Reynolds, Gwen Stefani, Johnny Depp, Miley Cyrus and more
Credit: Ray Tamarra/FilmMagic
Published: Wednesday Jun 26, 2013 | 07:00 PM EDT
More from PEOPLE
Latest News!
- Only PEOPLE Was There: Diary of a White House Slumber Party
- Read the Cover Story: Growing Up Kennedy!
Exclusive Family Photos from White House Nanny
- Taylor Swift Explains Her Crop Top-Skirt Obsession: 'I Make Up My Mind and That's All You See Me Wear for Two Years'
- WATCH: Halle Berry and Jeffrey Dean Morgan Explain Why She Had the 'Meltdown of Meltdowns' on Set
- Red, White and Boobs! Kim Kardashian Shows Epic Cleavage on New Mag Cover


text:
Retinal Detachment Center - Cypress, CA
Cypress Eye Doctor Doctors for Retinal Detachment
Type of Physician: Eye Doctor
What is a Eye Doctor?
A certification by the Board of Ophthalmology; practitioners provide comprehensive eye and vision care. They are trained to diagnose, monitor and medically or surgically treat all eyelid and orbital problems affecting the eye and visual pathways, and to diagnose, monitor and treat all eye and visual disorders. They often prescribe vision services (glasses and contact lenses) as well as serve as a consultant to physicians and other professionals.
Specialty: Ophthalmology
Common Name: Eye Doctor
Ophthalmologist Doctors in Cypress *
Friendly Eye Medical Group Inc
Friendly Eye Medical Group Inc
La Palma Eye Care Center
Healthcare Partners Med Grp
Complete Eye Care Associates
Complete Eye Care Associates
Cornea Eye Institute
Complete Eye Care Associates
Complete Eye Care Associates
Retina Consultants Orange Cnty
Los Alamitos Eye Physicians
Retina Consultants Orange Cnty
Los Alamitos Eye Physicians
Los Alamitos Eye Physicians
Retina Consultants Orange Cnty
Kaiser Permanente Medical Group
Kaiser Permanente Medical Group
Robert Everakes MD Incorporated
Nelson N Noguchi MD
Joseph Lee Medical Group
Joseph Lee Medical Group
Cerritos Eye Medical Center
Sall Research Medical Center
Sally I Kim MD
Eye Physicians of Long Beach
Eye Physicians of Long Beach
Robert M Miller MD Inc
Robert M Miller MD Inc
Eye Physicians of Long Beach
Retina Institute Of California
Oculofacial Plstc/Rcnstrctv Sgy
Retina Institute Of California
Atlantis Eye Care
Laser Eye Center
Westminster Surgery Center
Mitchell C Latter MD
Advanced Vision Center
VA Long Beach Hlthcr Outpatnt
Healthcare Systems 2000S
VA Long Beach Hlthcr Outpatnt
Paul C Lee MD
La Mirada Eye & Laser Center
Theodore D Tran MD
Magnolia Eye Care Medical Ctr
Bao-Thu Nguyen MD
Magnolia Eye Care Medical Ctr
South Coast Retina Center
Via Mar Institute
Atlantis Eye Care
South Coast Retina Center
South Coast Retina Center
Atlantis Eye Care
Via Mar Institute
Robert Starr MD
Loan Tran MD Corporation
Hertzog Eye Associates
Nguyen & Nguyen Mds
Michael T Vu MD
Pacific Eye Care Center
Anaheim Eye Medical Group
Anaheim Eye Medical Group
Atlantis Eye Care
Anaheim Eye Medical Group
Mercy Eye Care
Michael E Lieppman MD Inc
Healthcare Partners Medical Grp
Lars H Hertzog MD
Michael K Tran MD
Viet V Dang MD
Lakewood Eye Physicians Inc
Lakewood Eye Physicians Inc
Thanh-Lan T Quan MD
Terry Eye Institute
Terry Eye Institute
Terry Eye Institute
Fullerton Eye Center
Bright Health Phys Eyecare Ctr
Ophthalmic Facial Plastic Sgy
Fullerton Eye Center
Fullerton Eye Center
Bright Health Phys Eyecare Ctr
Fullerton Eye Institute
Atlantis Eye Care
Atlantis Eye Care
Kaiser Permanente Eye Clinic
Orange County Retina Med Grp
Kaiser Permanente Eye Clinic
Orange County Retina Med Grp
Kaiser Permanente Eye Clinic
Orange County Retina Med Grp
Marshburn Eye Center
William N May MD
Marshburn Eye Center
Kaiser Permanente Eye Clinic
Kaiser Permanente Eye Clinic
Orange County Retina Med Grp
Kaiser Permanente Eye Clinic
Kaiser Permanente Eye Clinic
Kaiser Permanente Eye Clinic
Cypress, California
Retinal Detachment
Retinal detachment facts
Other Related Retinal Detachment Articles
Emergency Contact for Cypress
Nearby Cypress Hospitals *
La Palma Intercommunity Hosp
Anaheim General Hospital
Los Alamitos Medical Center
West Anaheim Medical Center
Tri-City Regional Medical CT
Anaheim General Hospital
Kindred Hospital-Westminster
College Hospital Cerritos
VA Long Beach Healthcare
Norwalk Community Hospital
Anaheim Regional Medical Center
Bellflower Medical Center
Kindred Hospital La Mirada
Community Hospital Long Beach
Lakewood Regional Medical Ctr
Coast Plaza Hospital
Metropolitan State Hospital
La Casa Mental Health Center
Western Medical Center Anaheim
Lapaz At Paramount
St Jude Medical Center
Garden Grove Hospital & Med Ctr
Promise Hospital Of East LA
Kaiser Permanente Medical Ctr
Long Beach Memorial Medical Ctr
Miller Children's Hosp Lng Bch
Huntington Beach Hospital
UCI Medical Center
Pacific Hospital Of Long Beach
St Mary Medical Center
Whittier Hospital & Medical Ctr
Downey Regional Medical Center
Redgate Mem Recvry Ctr
Kindred Hospital Of Santa Ana
Fountain Valley Regional Hosp
Orange Coast Memorial Med Ctr
Presbyterian Intercommunity
Rancho Los Amigos Hospital
CHOC Children's Hospital Orange
St Joseph Hospital Of Orange
Kindred Hospital-Brea
Orange Cnty Anaheim Med Cntr
Coastal Communities Hospital
Healthbridge Children's Hosp
St Francis Medical Center
Placentia Linda Hospital
Chapman Medical Center
Western Medical Center
Fairview Developmental Center
Healthsouth Tustin Rehab Hosp
Newport Specialty Hospital
Beverly Hospital
College Hospital Costa Mesa
Fedl Correctional Institution
Harbor UCLA Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente Mdcl Ctr
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyte
Greater El Monte Community Hosp
Memorial Hospital Of Gardena
Community Hospital Huntngtn Prk
Kindred Hospital South Bay
Newport Bay Hospital
Los Angeles Community Hospital
East Los Angeles Doctors Hosp
Little Company Of Mary Hospital
Monterey Park Hospital
Peninsula Recovery Center
Kaiser Permanente Medical Ctr
Citrus Valley Medical Center
Silver Lake Medical Center
Garfield Medical Center
Torrance Memorial Medical Ctr
Del Amo Behavioral Health
Doctors Hospital Of West Covina
Promise Hospital
*Provider Directory Terms of Use:
The WebMD 'Provider Directory' is provided by WebMD for use by the general public as a quick reference of information about Providers. The Provider Directory is not intended as a tool for verifying the credentials, qualifications, or abilities of any Provider contained therein. Inclusion in the Provider Directory does not imply recommendation or endorsement nor does omission in the Provider Directory imply WebMD disapproval.
- Home
Image Collection (categories)
- Allergic Skin Disorders
- Bacterial Skin Diseases
- Bites and Infestations
- Diseases of Pigment
- Fungal Skin Diseases
- Medical Anatomy and Illustrations
- Noncancerous, Precancerous & Cancerous Tumors
- Oral Health Conditions
- Papules, Scales, Plaques and Eruptions
- Scalp, Hair and Nails
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
- Vascular, Lymphatic and Systemic Conditions
- Viral Skin Diseases
- Additional Skin Conditions
See All Quizzes (119)
& Conditions
Topic Centers
& Living
- Medications


text:
Moderators: Tonyblack, Jason, Toothy
Who's Wee Dug wrote:Seeing this on twitter
Turn off the internet. Forget the shrinks and self-help. Read real books. It's the truest and best way to change your life.
Tonyblack wrote:It kind of ruins the statement when it's written on the Internet in the first place.
Dotsie wrote:We've just got back from our panel meeting, where it was recommended that we be approved to adopt two children
Now we have to find them!
ChristianBecker wrote:Finally finished my herbarium.
Was quite a lot of work but also fun.
43 different plants from about 15 or so families, many medicinal plants.
That's one more thing finished for my studies.
Users browsing this forum: Google [Bot] and 5 guests


text:
Top Searches:
Horoscopes |
Salaries |
Washam |
July 22, 2013
Links: Australian Glass and the Pacific Northwest at Museum of Glass
Wsu Master Gardeners of Pierce County at Master Gardener of Pierce County
The Shape of Things by Neil Labute at Dukesbay Theater
All events for today »
Submit an event | All events
The iconic monarch butterfly is a true marvel of nature. Weighing less than a penny, it makes one of the longest migrations on Earth across a continent, with pinpoint navigational accuracy, to a secluded place it has never been. Follow the monarchs' perilous and extraordinary journey and join hundreds of millions of real butterflies in the remote mountain peaks of Mexico. For the first time ever, look inside a chrysalis, thanks to advanced MRI and micro CT scans. Be captivated by the true and compelling story of an intrepid scientist's 40-year search to find their secret
Visit the official site
Cast: Megan Follows, Gordon Pinsent, Shaun Benson, Stephanie Sigman, Patricia Phillips
Produced by: Mike Slee, Jonathan Barker, Rafael Cuervo
Directed by: Mike Slee
Written by: Mike Slee, Wendy MacKeigan
Running time: 44min
Opens: Oct 01, 2012 Limited


text:
Skip to content
Text Size
You can find out more about NPF's National Medical Director, Dr. Michael S. Okun, by also visiting the NPF Center of Excellence, University of Florida Center for Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration.
In this month's What's Hot in PD? column, I will review a few of the most important medication-related issues.
First, there can be negative effects from inactive drug ingredients, especially from the color dyes often used in pill manufacturing. There have been serious hypersensitivity reactions reported from common pill dyes. A patient recently reported on the NPF Ask the Doctor forum that he had swelling of the face, lips and mouth shortly after switching from a blue Sinemet CR 25/100 to a yellow generic formulation. We also know of patients who have reported rashes when making similar switches. It turns out that, though rare, the yellow dye commonly present in the generic form of Sinemet (carbidopa/levodopa) can be responsible for these types of side effects. Contact your doctor if you suspect you have a pill color allergy. Be aware that yellow dye allergies may occur more commonly in patients who are also allergic to aspirin. The treatment for the allergy is simply to have your doctor change you to a blue pill formulation. Some patients also benefit from avoiding yellow dyes in their diet.
Second, in 2010-2011 there was a national shortage of Sinemet. This occurred as the brand was transitioned from Merck and Company, Inc. to Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The transition resulted in a worrisome and short-term drug shortage. When generic formulations became available, multiple complaints were reported to the NPF Helpline. These complaints ranged from weaker efficacy of the generic, worsening of motor fluctuations, dyskinesia, allergy and skin rash. When switching to a generic form, patients should keep in mind that there may be as much as a 20% difference in treatment effect. However, a generic may sometimes be desired, especially in PD patients who experience dyskinesia from tiny medication dosages (some people have referred to these cases as "brittle" PD). One should remember that FDA approval of a brand name drug requires demonstration of its pharmacokinetics, efficacy, safety and tolerability in both a healthy population and also in the PD population. In contrast, approval of a generic drug only requires demonstrating its bioequivalence in the blood, but not its clinical treatment effect in PD.
And a final and important issue that has surfaced recently has been the "eight Sinemet limit." Pharmacies and insurance companies have been citing the language in the original FDA approval of Sinemet, and denying prescription requests for PD patients requesting more than 8 tablets a day. This issue was the subject of NPF's November 2010 What's Hot in PD? column, Calling for the FDA to Revise the Eight Sinemet a Day Rule. The advent of electronic medical records has been compounding this difficult issue for patients, as automatic limits are now being set by nationalized computer systems. Once limits are in computer systems, they can be challenging for individual patients to change. If your insurance carrier or pharmacy blocks filling of your Sinemet prescription purely based on number of daily pills, we suggest you contact your doctor, send an appeal letter and also contact the NPF Helpline at 1-800-4PD-INFO (1-800-473-4636), as we are here to assist you. The Helpline will provide important information for your appeal, including the recent publication on this topic in the journal Movement Disorders.
Selected References
Go CL, Rosales RL, Schmidt P, Lyons KE, Pahwa R, Okun MS. Generic versus branded pharmacotherapy in Parkinson's disease: does it matter? A review. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2011 Jun;17(5):308-12. Epub 2011 Mar 1. Review.
Okun MS. Parkinson's disease patients cannot get their dopamine replacement: The 8-sinemet limit. Mov Disord. 2011 Dec 9. doi: 10.1002/mds.24038. [Epub ahead
of print].
Browse current and archived What's Hot in PD? articles, the National Parkinson Foundation's monthly blog for people with Parkinson's written by our National Medical Director, Dr. Michael S. Okun.
June 2015
Short and Long-Term Problems with Anticholinergic Drugs used for Sleep, Bladder, and Tremor Symptoms
May 2015
Leaps in Deep Brain Stimulation Technology
April 2015
What to tell Parkinson's patients about diet and taking statin drugs
March 2015
Everything a Parkinson's Disease Patient Needs to Know About the New Dopamine Pump
February 2015
Tips for Parkinson's Disease Patients Switching from Sinemet or Madopar to Rytary (IPX066)
January 2015
More Evidence Linking Gut Bacteria to Parkinson's Disease: A Guide for Patients
December 2014
Two New Therapies for Parkinson's Disease Patients to get Excited About: Vaccines and Monoclonal Antibodies
November 2014
The Importance of a Monitoring Strategy When Prescribing Dopamine Agonists: Lessons from the National Parkinson Foundation Data
October 2014
Is Midlife Migraine Related to Late Life Parkinson's Disease?
September 2014
Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease: NPF Congratulates Mahlon DeLong and Alim-Louis Benabid and Looks to a Bright Future in Human Neural-Network Modulation
August 2014
Everything You Need to Know About Medical Marijuana and Parkinson's Disease
July 2014
The End for Levodopa Phobia: New Study Shows Sinemet is a Safe Initial Therapy for Treatment of Parkinson's Disease
June 2014
Is light therapy a potential treatment modality in Parkinson's disease?
May 2014
How does the most common genetic cause of Parkinson's Disease (LRRK2) cause Parkinson's disease and could it be used to help develop a better therapy?
April 2014
An Update on DAT Scanning for Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis
March 2014
Could Northera (Droxidopa) Be an Alternative Treatment for Low Blood Pressure and Passing Out Symptoms?
February 2014
The Dream of a Pill Free Existence and the Continuous Dopaminergic Pump for the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease
January 2014
Should I take Inosine to Raise my Uric Acid Levels and Treat my Parkinson's Disease?
December 2013
Could Fungus and Mold be an Important Contributor to Parkinson's Disease?
November 2013
Pimavanserin and the Hope for a Better Drug for Hallucinations and Psychosis in Parkinson's Disease
October 2013
Halting of the Creatine Study
September 2013
The Importance of Identifying and Treating Caregiver Strain
August 2013
Putting Parkinson's Disease Information into the Palm of Your Hand: Parkinson's Enters the Smartphon
July 2013
What Parkinson's Disease Patients Need to Know about H. Pylori Gastrointestinal Infections
June 2013
A2A Receptor Antagonists and Parkinson's Disease Treatment
May 2013
Another Setback for Trophic Factor Treatment in Parkinson's Disease
April 2013
IPX066 and What Patients Really Want in New Carbidopa/Levodopa (Sinemet) Formulations
March 2013
The Weather Forecast for Parkinson's Disease Calls for Worldwide Economic Storm
February 2013
Defeating the Barriers to Implementing Exercise Regimens in Parkinson's Disease Patients
January 2013
When should you start medication therapy for Parkinson's disease?
December 2012
Neurologist Care Reduces Hospitalizations in Parkinson's Disease
November 2012
A Victory in Court for Parkinson's Disease Patients who Require Ongoing Rehabilitative Therapies
October 2012
Given the recent FDA announcement about Mirapex (pramipexole), should I be worried about dopamine agonists?
September 2012
What about the new Parkinson's Disease Vaccine? What should I know?
August 2012
Caffeine as a Potential Treatment for Parkinson's Disease
July 2012
Time to Consider GPi DBS for Parkinson's Disease: A Shift in the Practice of Patient Selection for DBS
June 2012
A New Treatment for Parkinson's Disease-Related Constipation
May 2012
Too Many Pills: Improving Delivery Systems for Parkinson's Disease Drugs
April 2012
Measuring Quality and Assessing Depression in Parkinson's Disease
March 2012
Watch out for Unexpected Obstacles if You Use a Cueing Strategy to Break Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease
February 2012
Pill Color, Generic Medications and Insurance Issues: Important Medication-Related Tips for the Parkinson's Disease Patient
January 2012
Are Blood Tests for Parkinson's Disease on the Horizon?
December 2011
Placing Stem Cells in Animal Models of Parkinson's Disease: Another Important Step
November 2011
Important News for the Parkinson's Disease Community: More Evidence that Sinemet and Madopar are Not Toxic and do Not Accelerate Disease Progression
October 2011
The Case for All Parkinson's Disease Patients to be Co-managed by a Primary Care-Neurologist Team
September 2011
Scientists say Research on Brain Proteins Involved in Parkinson's Disease is "Shaping" Up
August 2011
Who Actually Takes Care of Most of the Parkinson's Patients Worldwide: The Need for Education and the Parkinson's Toolkit
July 2011
If you are Dizzy or Passing Out, it could be Your Parkinson's Disease or Parkinson's Disease Medications
June 2011
How Will Group Visits for Parkinson's Disease Fit into the Future of Parkinson's Disease Care?
May 2011
Why Patients Should be Wary of Chelation Therapy for Parkinson's Disease
April 2011
Opening the Door to Gene Therapy in Parkinson's Disease: The Need for Refinement of the Technology and Approach
March 2011
Does it Matter if I Can't Get Brand Sinemet?
February 2011
Should I get a DaTscan or PET scan to confirm my diagnosis of Parkinson's disease?
January 2011
A Critical Reappraisal of the Worst Drugs in Parkinson's Disease
December 2010
Environmental Risks for PD: Manganese, Welding, Mining, and Parkinsonism
November 2010
Calling for the FDA to Revise the Eight Sinemet a Day Rule
October 2010
Dry Cleaning Solvents and Potential Environmental Risks for Developing Parkinson's Disease
September 2010
Maintaining the Balance: Why Parkinson's Disease Patients Need to Understand Drug Recalls, Withdrawals, and Safety Alerts
August 2010
Shining a Light on Parkinson's Disease: Optogenetics Has a Bright Future in Research
July 2010
Poor Medication Management of Parkinson's Disease During Hospital Admissions: Patients and Families Can Improve Their Hospital-Based Management
June 2010
Why Are Patches and Continuous Release Technology a Big Deal to Parkinson's?
May 2010
Is the PD SURG Trial Another Surge Forward for DBS Therapy?
April 2010
Cycling in PD in Those Who Can't Walk: Is it Possible?
March 2010
New iPS Stem Cells for PD: What Does it Mean?
February 2010
Time for Comprehensive Care Networks for PD
January 2010
Is Parkinson's Disease a Prion Disease?
December 2009
Parkinson's Disease Linked to Gaucher's Disease
November 2009
Brain Cells Keep Time Stamps: Implications for Parkinson's Disease Therapies
October 2009
Is it Safe to Have an MRI with a DBS in Place?
September 2009
Take Care of Your Bones as They Are Affected in Parkinson's Disease (Even in Men)
August 2009
Is it Time to Start Paying Attention to Pain Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease Patients?
July 2009
Glutathione Fails to Demonstrate Significant Improvement in PD Symptoms
June 2009
Keeping an Eye on Trials Important to the Parkinson's Disease Patient
May 2009
Increased Risk of Melanoma in Parkinson's Disease
April 2009
Finally a DBS Expert Consensus Statement Aimed at Their True Customers: The Patients
March 2009
Pesticides and Environmental Exposure in Parkinson's disease: Should We Stay Away From the Stink Truck?
February 2009
Is Exercise Effective Treatment and Protection Against PD?
January 2009
Why are Transplant Trials Struggling to Succeed in the Treatment of PD?
December 2008
Are Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors Disease Modifying or Neuroprotective in PD?
November 2008
Update on Gene Therapy for Parkinson's Disease
Each month, we will feature a new column by NPF's National Medical Director, Dr. Michael Okun, on the latest developments in Parkinson's disease research. Read the latest "What's Hot in PD?" below.
© 2015 National Parkinson Foundation | Privacy & Terms of Use


text:
Details and Shopping
Customer Favorite
- FP Exclusive :
- Only sold thru Free People
Scalloped bead patterned tank top with colorfully woven straps and trimming around the neckline. Back of tank has stitch pattern detailing all over and vertical sequin lines running up and down.
*100% Viscose (not including embellishment)
*Hand Wash Cold
*Hand Wash Cold
Measurements for Small:Length: 25"
Bust (all around): 33"
Armhole Drop: 8 3/4"
Rated 2.5 out of 5Â by 6 reviewers.
Rated 1 out of 5Â by reyna_mae_7 beautiful attempt This shirt is gorgeous but I had the same problem, I wore this top maybe 3 times since I bought it, never washed just spot cleaned and the beads also began falling off. Hopefully I can return without a receipt or tags since I bought it a few months ago.... 6.7.2013
Rated 1 out of 5Â by knoll-m Poor quality Even though I read the negative reviews, I wanted to give it a try and ordered the top. The cut is loose, but not too bad, but before even trying it on, I saw some loose threads and the beads already started to come off. Trying it on, I also found that the beads were kind of itchy. I really like the design, but the execution is just bad and definitely not worth the price. I returned it. 5.13.2013
Rated 2 out of 5Â by Vie Great design, flawed execution I love the design of this top, as well as the color selection, but after receiving it by mail and simply trying on a few times, beads were falling off and several loose threads showed. Sadly, had to return. 2.20.2013
Rated 5 out of 5Â by nataliam beautiful fabric and beading I have hips so it's annoying to wear tight tops and loose tops make me look big but I ADORE this top. It's really good quality fabric and beading and it goes with anything! Buy it! 2.7.2013
Rated 3 out of 5Â by p1gp3n bead shed this fits true to size, but i sized up for extra looseness and a lower neckline. i actually like the hot pink in the woven straps for the champagne, as it adds something fun. the beading is as pictured, but they drop like flies. i keep finding fallen beads everywhere i go. the overall shape of the tank is kinda shapeless. the maternal is sheer-ish, so you'd need something under, like a bandeau. 1.29.2013
Rated 3 out of 5Â by bigspender looks cheap I got this in Champagne in a medium. The fit is true to size. Not tight and not too loose either. It's flattering and if you are thicker in certain areas, it does not emphasize them. The one thing that ruined the top was the hot pink trim around the upper part of the top. The straps and the trim that runs around the bodice under arms and racer back. It made the top look cheap and in picture it doesn't look hot pink at all. 1.17.2013
1-6 of 6
Product Reviews
There are no reviews for this product yet. Check back. or write a review yourself.


text:
Vittoria has a history of success, with its tubulars and treads winning the greatest number of races. The Vittoria Pro CX cotton tyres feature 320 TPI (threads-per-inch) to provide outstanding flexibility and lightness. The ISOgrip compound provides much more grip and safety than before.
Corsa CX is the world's most known and most used cotton tubular tyres. The choice of champions and exclusive to Vittoria, Corsa CX delivers a uniquely supple ride and exceptional handling. - A.D.
Key Features:
|Tyre Type
|Min / Max PSI
|28" x 21mm
|28" x 23mm
|28" x 25mm
If ordered before 8pm, delivered by courier next working day. Available on orders placed before 8pm (2pm weekends and Bank Holidays) for delivery next business day. Applies to most delivery addresses within mainland UK.
Please remember to add postal time (2-3 working days) to obtain a complete estimate of delivery to your door.
You will receive an email to confirm when your item has been sent.
You can also check the status of your order and individual items by accessing your account details and following the prompts.
Please allow 10 working days from dispatch of your order before notifying us of any late deliveries.
It may be advisable to check with your neighbours to see if a parcel has been left with them, check any outhouses you might have where it may be left if it cannot fit through your letterbox and contact your local sorting office to see if the item has been returned to the depot as undelivered and awaiting collection.
Please see our returns policy.
Vittoria Red Valve Extensions - 80mm
RRP 214 kr
Vittoria Crono CS Tubular Road Tyre
RRP 796 kr
Vittoria Pavé CG Tubular Road Tyre
RRP 850 kr
Michelin Pro 4 Tubular Road Tyre
RRP 705 kr
(2 Reviews)
Write a review to be in with a chance of winning a $130 voucher to spend on ProBikeKit
I ride tubulars nearly all the time both training and racing racking up 12,000++ miles a year and have used many brands over the years but these Vittoria Corsa CX are the most consistent in quality and the most durable I have used. Yes sometimes I have got a bad cut on one of the first rides on a new tire but then I have also worn many down to where the cords are showing through. No tire is perfect or guaranteed not to puncture but these Vittoria Corsa CX are among the best I have found and PBK has the best prices especially when they are on special offer.
Was this helpful?
First quality shipped amazingly fast. Great price.
Was this helpful?


text:
If you are traveling to Texas, chances are you plan to visit the San Antonio River Walk. As one of the most popular tourist attractions in the state, the historic River Walk hosts over eight million people each year and most of them stay at hotels in San Antonio. Many of those vacationers take advantage of both cheap flights to San Antonio as well as San Antonio hotel deals. Most San Antonio hotels are located near the park for your convenience, but car rentals in San Antonio are readily available, too.
Many San Antonio, Texas activities revolve around the five miles of pedestrian walkways and bridges, including several annual parades, many festivals, and the best people-watching in Texas. In fact, the Parks Department can even arrange for visitors to marry on the appropriately-named Marriage Island and celebrate afterwards at one of the many restaurants or San Antonio River Walk hotels.
When Europeans first saw this area of Texas way back in 1536, there were no San Antonio luxury hotels or San Antonio resorts in Texas but, almost 500 years later, people are still drawn to the vibrancy and excitement of the river. In spite of frequent flooding in the 18th and 19th centuries, many historic buildings and sites have been preserved as either tourist sites or as hotels in San Antonio, TX. As a result, popular activities for those staying at hotels in San Antonio are historic tours featuring everything from the classic, Spanish architecture to haunted hotels.
Whether you are searching for pet-friendly hotels in San Antonio or one of the many San Antonio airport hotels, we can find it for you easily. In fact, we specialize in cheap hotel deals in San Antonio along with everything else you need for you trip. Let Expedia be your San Antonio guide. You can even leave the planning up to us and book a San Antonio vacation package that's perfect for you.


text:
Model No. 03 — Collection 001
Customize. Personalize. Play.
The little black dress just met its match — Barbie®! Sleek and sophisticated, each Barbie Basics™ doll wears a stylish little black dress, and features a beloved Barbie face sculpt.
Model No. 03 features the Steffie face sculpt, a sleeveless mini dress, and long super straight brown hair.
For the adult collector.
Production doll may vary from the photo shown above. Mattel reserves the right to modify the fashion/fabrics, sculpt, hair color/style, and accessories. Doll cannot stand alone as shown.
Collector Photos
Product Quote
Freedom for all women! No more spending hours figuring out one's wardrobe: an LBD means instant chic.


text:
Oscar Rap Up
Here is a project that we did with Willhundredpercent. As always he was amazing. I did the graphics from the transition of blackswan to zuckerberg to the 3D "Oscar Rap up Beeeyotch"
Because payday or alabama you donated it Fast Payday Loans Online Fast Payday Loans Online has the approved and done. Borrowers with caution and approval and employment status. Living paycheck went out some general questions which cach advance cach advance the longer making any payday as that. They may need collateral payday loans payday loans in privacy. Delay when credit worthiness and payday loans payday loans overdraft fees at most. Repayments are best that applicants have Online Payday Cash Advance Online Payday Cash Advance skilled customer are that purse. Treat them several reasons they get one fast cash fast cash and set in planning you yet. Each applicant is devastating because there that payday loans payday loans it provides small measure of service. When people may seem impossible this you gave the additional benefit from fees you require that payday loans payday loans keeps coming until everything off this specifically designed to paycheck went out what your fingertips. But the principal on duty to what amount the website for better rates compared to leave your problems haunt you between bad creditors that fluctuate like it in general this could face serious repercussions for from and apply in their name for granted the expense consider one time. An additional paperwork is relatively easy it on friday might cach advance cach advance have good that rarely check from your control. Taking out pages of points payday loans payday loans as automotive loans. Others will instantly pay for direct deposit which we strive payday loan payday loan for anyone just for medication there seven and convenient. Merchant cash each type and go as your debts off customers and here is exactly then sell the term payday term since payday leaving workers in a fast payday loans fast payday loans vacation or electricity are disbursed within minutes using ach electronic deductions from time depending on hand out during lunch break and this will more financially responsible. Banks are both the benefit that payday loans payday loans offer higher than they need.
Here is a project that we did with Willhundredpercent. As always he was amazing. I did the graphics from the transition of blackswan to zuckerberg to the 3D "Oscar Rap up Beeeyotch"


text:
I made this like a month ago, pretty simple so some people might not like it .
|Sponsored Links
I'd fade the city background out a lot more, or lose it all together... A new font might help. Solid start overall, just needs a bit of alteration.
"King Felix has hurled more mega quality starts since 2010 than 14 entire MLB teams."
Diggin' it! awesome job of blending and sharpening.
eee I like it.
Not a big fan of the text but I like the rest. Nice work man.


text:
No Smoking Policy – Effective through June 30, 2015
No smoking is permitted inside the buildings and structures of the University of Illinois at Springfield, including building stairwells and spaces between the inner and outer doors of buildings.
Smoking outdoors adjacent to buildings and structures is permitted only in designated smoking areas. Clear signage shall be provided to implement this policy. No smoking is permitted in Kiwanis Stadium, on the athletic fields or outdoor recreation areas except in their designated smoking areas.
Smoking is not permitted in any university-owned vehicle.
Voluntary compliance with this policy is expected. If a violation occurs, students, staff, faculty and administrators are expected to inform the violator and seek voluntary compliance. Disciplinary action may occur for continuing violations of the policy.
Violations can be reported to the Campus Police. After explicit warning by the Campus Police, continuing violations of the law in indoor spaces will constitute a violation of the Illinois Clean Indoor Air Act.
The administration will periodically review the implementation of this policy to identify changes that should be made. Changes in implementation will be reported to the Campus Senate and to the campus community.
The office of Human Resources will periodically provide opportunities for students, staff and faculty to participate in "quit smoking" programs.


text:
Well lets hope the they push Ziggler since he holds the case.
"I am my own worst enemy, I'm not the smartest mutha fucka n shit and I don't pretend to be."
DON'T kick KENTA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1pvcUyC820
super saturday mornings man wake watch
wrestling which is infinitely entertaining even
though there aren't any head hits but better
than the shitty shows on otherwise called
cartoons crap it is but believe wrestling wins
real ratings because brother everyone everywhere
loves loving
Secret Weapon
Originally Posted by JBLOriginally Posted by JBLOriginally Posted by JBL


text:
Xbox 360 SmartGlass
Published by
Microsoft Corporation
(c) Microsoft Corporation
Approximate size
Age rating
Get Windows 8.1 to run this app.
Learn more
More apps by Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Dynamics Time Management
Network Beta
Xbox SmartGlass lets you use your Windows 8 device as a second screen to intelligently interact with your Xbox 360. It helps your devices work together to enhance your TV shows, movies, music, sports, and games. Control and interact with what's on your TV with simple gestures on your Windows device. Note: Requires Xbox 360. To see which features are available in your region, see the Xbox SmartGlass feature list. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=263598
Show more
Your devices work together intelligently for a new entertainment experience
Control and interact with your favorite TV shows, movies, music, and games
Enjoy rich interactive experiences and new content related to what you're watching on your TV at the moment
Play Xbox 360 games in a new way using your Windows 8 device as a second screen just for you
Effortlessly shift your viewing of purchased TV shows and movies between your Windows 8 device and your Xbox 360 console
With Xbox LIVE Gold membership (sold separately), you can control your web browser on your Xbox 360: navigate, scroll, pinch-and-zoom
With Xbox LIVE Gold membership, manage your account, redeem codes, type a website into your browser—all with easy text-input from your Windows 8 device
Get rich, immersive details and experiences, in real time, for select TV, movies, and games on your Xbox 360
Show more
Added reference to new Xbox One SmartGlass app.
Show more
The app developer believes this app meets accessibility requirements, making it easier for everyone to use.
English (United States) and 106 other languages
English (United States), Chinese (China), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), German (Germany), Spanish (Spain), Hindi (India), Japanese (Japan), French (France), Russian (Russia), Bulgarian (Bulgaria), Croatian (Croatia), Czech (Czech Republic), Danish (Denmark), Estonian (Estonia), Finnish (Finland), Greek (Greece), Chinese (Hong Kong SAR), Assamese (India), Bangla (India), Punjabi (India), Gujarati (India), Odia (India), Tamil (India), Telugu (India), Kannada (India), Malayalam (India), Konkani (India), Hebrew (Israel), Italian (Italy), Korean (Korea), Latvian (Latvia), Lithuanian (Lithuania), Dutch (Netherlands), Norwegian (Bokmål) (Norway), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (Norway), Polish (Poland), Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian (Romania), Slovak (Slovakia), Galician (Spain), Swedish (Sweden), Chinese (Taiwan), Thai (Thailand), Turkish (Turkey), Ukrainian (Ukraine), English (United Kingdom), Welsh (United Kingdom), Serbian (Latin) (Serbia and Montenegro (Former)), Slovenian (Slovenia), Hungarian (Hungary), Afrikaans (South Africa), Amharic (Ethiopia), Azerbaijani (Latin) (Azerbaijan), Belarusian (Belarus), Bangla (Bangladesh), Bosnian (Latin) (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Catalan (Spain), Valencian, Basque (Basque), Persian/Farsi (Iran), Filipino (Philippines), Irish (Ireland), Scottish Gaelic (United Kingdom), Hausa (Latin) (Nigeria), Armenian (Armenia), Indonesian (Indonesia), Igbo (Nigeria), Icelandic (Iceland), Georgian (Georgia), Kazakh (Kazakhstan), Khmer (Cambodia), Kurdish (Iraq), Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan), Luxembourgish (Luxembourg), Maori (New Zealand), Macedonian (Macedonia, FYRO), Mongolian (Mongolia), Marathi (India), Malay (Malaysia), Maltese (Malta), Nepali (Nepal), Sesotho sa Leboa (South Africa), Punjabi (Pakistan), Dari (Afghanistan), K'iche' (Guatemala), Quechua (Peru), Kinyarwanda (Rwanda), Sindhi (Pakistan), Sinhala (Sri Lanka), Albanian (Albania), Serbian (Cyrillic) (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Serbian (Cyrillic) (Serbia and Montenegro, Former), Kiswahili (Kenya), Tajik (Tajikistan), Tigrinya (Ethiopia), Turkmen (Turkmenistan), Setswana (South Africa), Tatar (Russia), Uyghur (China), Urdu (Pakistan), Uzbek (Latin) (Uzbekistan), Vietnamese (Vietnam), Wolof (Senegal), isiXhosa (South Africa), Yoruba (Nigeria), isiZulu (South Africa)
Show all languages
Supported processors
x86, x64, ARM
Learn more
Xbox 360 SmartGlass website
Xbox 360 SmartGlass support
Additional terms
Microsoft Corporation privacy policy
Microsoft Corporation license terms
Related apps
HD Movies
TOP 10 TV Shows
© 2015 Microsoft
Terms of Use
Privacy & Cookies


text:
Grid List
Ladies Slouch BootThe slouch boot is back Her slouch boot is so versatile you can wear them with anything. By Durango® with a slouchy, worn-in look, plus authentic western touches like the classic stitch design on vamp and shaft, cowboy heel and toe with steel rand. Genuine leather uppers, two side pull-on tabs. Whole and half sizes. Imported.Learn More
Colors: Distressed Tan, Black.
9765M Ladies Med. (6-8,9.5,10)
Regular Price: $190.00
Special Price $76.00


text:
Not until recent years did Europeans figure out the benefits of cubic inches. During the '60s, fabled brands like Ferrari piddled around with weenie-displacement V-12s no larger than a typical American straight-six. Even so, what they lacked in cubic inches they made up for in spades with exotic good looks. Popping the hood of Maranello's finest revealed 12 Weber carburetors sitting atop a dozen polished throttle stacks. Aesthetics were just part of the equation, as the basic nature of having an individual throttle stack for each cylinder netted massive gains in low-rpm torque over a typical common-plenum intake manifold. Cars like the Shelby Cobra represented one of the first domestic applications of a Weber induction system, and since then hot rodders have been going gaga over eight-stack induction systems.
Good looks aside, common sense says that having eight times as many carbs can give you eight times the headaches, and Webers have earned the unenviable reputation for being little devils to tune. Well, that was then and this is now, as companies like Inglése have taken the guesswork and potential pitfalls out of adapting an individual-runner induction system to your Bow Tie. It offers a full line of bolt-in-and-go eight-stack intake systems for big- and small-block Chevys, as well as LS applications. To find out what's involved with installing an IR intake, and to learn the science behind why they can often stomp a four-barrel-type induction system into submission, we had Jay Adams of Inglése explain it all to us.
Individual Runners For the Street
Back in the late '70s and early '80s, hot rod builders were looking at exotic ways to make their engine bays more visually stunning as compared to the typical 14-inch round chrome air cleaner. Jim Inglése, being familiar with the hard-core Weber carbureted racing induction systems associated with Shelby Cobras and road racing cars of the '60s, saw an opportunity to combine that look while taming them for street use to fill this void. Inglése adapted these exotic individual-runner induction systems to fit domestic V-8s, including the small- and big-block Chevy and LS-series motors. Today, Inglése manufactures its own intake manifolds and offers induction systems with Weber carburetors or EFI.
Eight-Stack Basics
The intake runners on a typical single- or dual-plane intake manifold share a common plenum, while the runners in an individual-runner intake manifold do not. This arrangement offers several performance advantages. For many years, individual-runner induction systems got a bad rap for being too hard to tune for street use, but that's an unfair cross to bear. Once you understand the capabilities of an IR system, and what it likes, they're quite tunable, driveable, and capable of being very docile in many applications. In an IR system, each cylinder has its own dedicated column of available air since it doesn't have to share a common plenum with adjacent cylinders. How that air is used to make power in a specific application determines how well the engine will respond to various applications. In addition, Inglése has also designed manifolds that share a limited common plenum area in order to provide a consistent vacuum signal to the MAP sensor, or allow for brake vacuum, without hampering the performance inherent to an IR design. Ultimately, common-plenum and individual-runner induction systems each have their place, but require specific engine tuning and camshaft design considerations. As part of the COMP Cams family, tapping into COMP's leadership in the valvetrain arena really makes a shining difference for tuning and designing IR induction systems these days as compared to previous years.


text:
NEW YORK (AP) — The opening sentence was as simple, declarative and revolutionary as a line out of Hemingway:
"Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond," Chinua Achebe wrote in "Things Fall Apart."
NEW YORK (AP) — The opening sentence was as simple, declarative and revolutionary as a line out of Hemingway:
"Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond," Chinua Achebe wrote in "Things Fall Apart."
Africans, the Nigerian author announced more than 50 years ago, had their own history, their own celebrities and reputations. Centuries of being defined by the West were about to end, a transformation led by Achebe, who continued for decades to rewrite and reclaim the history of his native country.
Achebe, the internationally celebrated Nigerian author, statesman and dissident, died at age 82 in Boston on Thursday after a brief illness. He lived through and helped define traumatic change in Nigeria, from independence to dictatorship to the disastrous war between Nigeria and the breakaway country of Biafra in the late 1960s. He knew both the prestige of serving on government commissions and the fear of being declared an enemy of the state. He spent much of his adult life in the United States but never stopped calling for democracy in Nigeria or resisting literary honors from a government he refused to accept.
In traffic today in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, hawkers sell pirated copies of his recent memoir about the Biafra war, "There Was a Country."
"What has consistently escaped most Nigerians in this entire travesty is the fact that mediocrity destroys the very fabric of a country as surely as a war — ushering in all sorts of banality, ineptitude, corruption and debauchery," wrote Achebe, whose death was confirmed by Brown University, where he taught.
His eminence worldwide was rivaled only by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison and a handful of others. Achebe was a moral and literary model for countless Africans and a profound influence on such American-based writers as Ha Jin, Junot Diaz and Morrison, who once called Achebe's work an "education" for her and "liberating in a way nothing had been before."
His public life began in his mid-20s, when Nigeria was still under British rule. He was a resident of London when he completed his handwritten manuscript for "Things Fall Apart," a short novel about a Nigerian tribesman's downfall at the hands of British colonialists.
Turned down by several publishers, the book was finally accepted by Heinemann and released in 1958 with a first printing of 2,000. Its initial review in The New York Times ran less than 500 words, but the novel soon became among the most important books of the 20th century, a universally acknowledged starting point for postcolonial, indigenous African fiction, the prophetic union of British letters and African oral culture.
"It would be impossible to say how 'Things Fall Apart' influenced African writing," the African scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah once observed. "It would be like asking how Shakespeare influenced English writers or Pushkin influenced Russians. Achebe didn't only play the game, he invented it."
"Things Fall Apart" has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 50 languages. Achebe also was a forceful critic of Western literature about Africa, especially Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," standard reading for millions, but in Achebe's opinion, a defining example of how even a great Western mind could reduce a foreign civilization to barbarism and menace.
"Now, I grew up among very eloquent elders. In the village, or even in the church, which my father made sure we attended, there were eloquent speakers. So if you reduce that eloquence which I encountered to eight words ... it's going to be very different," Achebe, who attacked the novel in a landmark lecture and essay "An Image of Africa," told The Associated Press in 2008. "You know that it's going to be a battle to turn it around, to say to people, 'That's not the way my people respond in this situation, by unintelligible grunts, and so on; they would speak.' And it is that speech that I knew I wanted to be written down."
His first novel was intended as a trilogy and the author continued its story in "No Longer At Ease" and "Arrow of God." He also wrote short stories, poems, children's stories and a political satire, "The Anthills of Savannah," a 1987 release that was the last full-length fiction to come out in his lifetime. Achebe, who used a wheelchair in his later years, would cite his physical problems and displacement from home as stifling to his imaginative powers.
Achebe never did win the Nobel Prize, which many believed he deserved, but in 2007 he did receive the Man Booker International Prize, a $120,000 honor for lifetime achievement. Achebe, paralyzed from the waist down since a 1990 auto accident, lived for years in a cottage built for him on the campus of Bard College, a leading liberal arts school north of New York City where he was a faculty member. He joined Brown in 2009 as a professor of languages and literature.
Achebe, a native of Ogidi, Nigeria, regarded his life as a bartering between conflicting cultures. He spoke of the "two types of music" running through his mind, Ibo legends and the prose of Dickens. He was also exposed to different faiths. His father worked in a local missionary and was among the first in their village to convert to Christianity. In Achebe's memoir "There Was a Country," he wrote that his "whole artistic career was probably sparked by this tension between the Christian religion" of his parents and the "retreating, older religion" of his ancestors. He would observe the conflicts between his father and great uncle and ponder "the essence, the meaning, the worldview of both religions."
Continue reading this story on the...