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Trish wrote:MattK wrote:I'd love to see this, or any of the other discworld TV adaptations. Are there any plans on bringing these to the U.S.? I know that The Hogfather and The Colour of Magic are available, but I can't find them anyplace except Amazon.
Until someone converts these to Region 1, you're best off to try and find them on youtube.
I have the Hogfather in Region 2 and we can't watch it at all.
Can't you convert your DVD players to multi regional? I have just done mine. See my DVD thread.


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Tonyblack wrote:I don'tactually want to hear/read a preview of Snuff, so I'm avoiding the link now.
Tony, a heads up but gioving nothing away can be found on the amazon site for pre ordering Snuiff.
Like you, I don't want to know any more than I do already! Ooh, roll on publication date!

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Whether it's a 1958 Edsel or a 1963 Corvette, all classic cars have their dedicated fans and admirers. But not many of these vintage machines can claim to be both rare and highly desirable from the day they left the showroom. Modeled after a famous 1954 GM Motorama concept and sold as a high priced, low production 'halo car' from day one, the first generation Chevrolet Nomad is a true all-time all-star. So, how do you make a car that's already as cool as this 1955 Nomad even more desirable? You start with $127K, bolt its refinished black body to a state of the art pro-touring chassis, throw in a completely detailed small block V8 and line the interior with nice combination of custom panels and modern conveniences. If you like your custom 'tri-five' to be show ready AND fun to drive, but a Bel Air is just too common and too cramped, this incredible '55 Nomad pro-tourer is just what you've been looking for!
Despite the red hot sales of the 1955 Bel Air, their higher priced Nomad stable mates were not as popular as you might think and, throughout the years, attrition has made them even rarer. Fortunately, it appears this slick '55 pro tourer has always been a solid, complete car which benefitted from 57 years' worth of owners who were smart enough to realize they had a special Chevrolet halo. In 2009, when the car's owner decided to turn it into a no-holds-barred street machine, he contacted Willet Motorsports in Orlando Park, Illinois and big money was spent on a frame-off build which included a whole roster of modern updates and hours bodywork. When the build was close to completion, the cars arrow straight panels were covered in a subtle, yet dazzling two-stage jet black paint job and it was shipped to Precision Street Rods & Machines in Northridge, California for fine-tuning. Today, the car is a road ready show stopper that presents a trophy winning level of workmanship which proves just as impressive on a curvy mountain road as it does on a summer show field.
One thing about classic car guys who build their dream car is they're uncanny ability to methodically plot, plan and execute even the minutest details; and the guy who built this spectacular '55 Chevy probably spent weeks doing just that. At the front of the car, a trademark body-width Bel Air bumper sits below a pristine chrome grille, clear parking lights and bright, chrome browed headlights. At the top of that chrome grille, a factory fresh Chevrolet crest is centered below a new chrome hood ornament that looks fantastic against the cars wet-looking black paint. At the back of that hood, a like-new windshield sits in front of lightly smoke side and rear glass that is highlighted by new mirror-like chrome trim and simple chrome mirrors. At the sides of the car, new deluxe Bel Air front fender trim fades into a point on the car's doors, and classic gold and silver "Bel Air" emblems ride just in front of pristine chrome trimmed tail lights. At the back of the car, a second body-width chrome bumper hangs below showroom fresh chrome tail gate spears which are divided by a fully functional chrome handle and flanked by small chrome Chevrolet emblems. With its class combination of black and chrome, this car would stop traffic on the Power Tour!
Pop the cars domed hood and you'll find an impressive 350 cubic inch Chevrolet motor that has been completely outfitted for both show and go. At the top of the motor two small chrome air filters, which are secured by "GM" spinner nuts, force air into a two Edelbrock Durashine Performer 4-barrel carburetors that are complete with polished fuel lines, braided hoses and an Autogauge fuel pressure gauge. Below those carburetors, an Edelbrock polished aluminum intake holds an orange capped points distributor above black Taylor performance plug wires which snake around trick Sanderson cast exhaust manifolds. In front of the motor, fresh V-belts spin a polished AC compressor and chrome alternator above Chevy Orange pulleys which turn a polished water pump and an upfitted power steering pump; and a body-matched Be Cool aluminum radiator sits between a quick spinning electric fans and a billet overflow tank. The impressive Chevy Orange bock contrasts well to this Nomads clean, gloss black engine compartment, and details such as polished aluminum valve covers, braided hoses, an Optima gel cell battery and a body-matched brake booster add a nice finishing touch.
Pull this stunning Nomad onto the lift and you'll find solid, completely restored floors that have been bolted to a modern and rigid Art Morrison GT chassis. Combining first hand racing experience with almost 40 years of engineering expertise, Morrison Enterprises is the number one stop for any tri-five owner who wants classic Chevy good looks with slot car handling characteristics. At the center of the car, a proven GM Turbo-Hydramatic 350 sends torque to a stout Ford nine inch rear end while spent gases flow through a great sounding stainless Magnaflow exhaust system. And at the corners of the car, a first rate chassis makes good use of tubular front A-arms, a four link rear suspension, and a complete set of coil overs and sway bars while Wilwood four wheel disc brakes supply fade-free stops. All this mechanical goodness rolls on 18 inch front and 20 inch rear Billet Specialty Legacy wheels which wear aggressive 235/50 and 265/50 BF Goodrich G-Force T/A tires. Naturally, the cars gloss black floors were expertly restored to perfectly match its slick body; and all the details, from the custom aluminum fuel tank and polished 110 GPH Edelbrock fuel pump to the chrome oil pan and super clean drivetrain would fare well at just about any major show. That said, this impressive Nomad is built to drive, and it'll be right at home turning heads on sunny weekend getaways.
Climb inside this cool Nomad and you'll find a completely custom interior which features dramatic colors and enough great looking trim to keep a small upholstery shop busy for two weeks. Covered in warm beige leather, the cars modern seats are all-day comfortable and display no wrinkles or annoying creases. Between those seats, a custom console props an Alpine CD player, black faced Autogauge gauges, a short shifter and chrome power window switches on top of like-new carpet; and above those seats, traditional chrome bows highlight a tight custom headliner. At the sides of the car, custom beige door panels with integrated speakers look great between billet door handles and gloss black door frames. And at the front of the car, a traditional wrap around dash tops a slick coat of flat beige and gloss black paint with bowtie stamped trim, a correct Chevrolet AM radio, Vintage Air climate controls and a sweet looking Bel Air speaker and clock. In front of the driver, a polished three-spoke steering wheel sits on a tilt steering column which is complete with billet stalks. And behind the cockpit, a custom upholstered cargo area carries a full-size spare tire.
Included with the sale is a small stack of restoration photos, paperwork and manuals for the cars aftermarket components, some recent maintenance receipts, a reproduction owner's manual, a toy replica, a Chevrolet Nomad Association Jacket, and a high quality car cover.
It's no wonder the Chevrolet Nomad enjoys such huge popularity, because it just doesn't get much better than this slick black '55 pro-tourer. With the speed and handling of a modern car, a plush interior that has plenty of room to stretch out and a rare, head turning body, it's the perfect combination of form and functionality. To sum it up: this Nomad is the best of all worlds!
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- MagnaFlow
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Should You Vote for Barack Obama?
If you were to judge them against the records of previous Democratic presidents, it's clear that President Obama is the most liberal president since Lyndon Johnson. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act prevented a second Great Depression and invested billions in education, clean energy, and future technologies. The Affordable Care Act has put the United States on the path toward universal health coverage, and a more sustainable health care system. Dodd-Frank is the most important piece of financial regulation in a generation. It's not perfect, but—all things considered—it's pretty good.
National security is a different story. Obama campaigned as someone who push back against the civil liberties abuses of the Bush era. As president, he has doubled-down on them. The drone war in Pakistan, expanded by the Obama administration, has claimed hundreds of innocent lives, and is conducted under a veil of secrecy. The "militants" targeted by the United States are often just military-aged men who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Obama's kill list–his program of extrajudicial killings, directed at American citizens suspected of terrorism—is an affront to the values of the Constitution, and a huge blemish on his record. The same goes for his failure to prosecute Bush-era tortue abuses, as well as his zeal for whistleblower prosecutions.
For The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf, Obama's terrible record on national security is a deal-breaker; absent a promise to completely reverse course, Friedersdorf cannot vote to give Obama a second term. But, because the Republican Party has gone even further down the road of belligerence, supporting Romney isn't an option either. Instead, Friedersdorf will give his vote to Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico turned Libertarian candidate who opposes the bipartisan consensus on national security. Conor knows Johnson can't win, but he supports him anyway because he "ought to."
Why make a protest vote? He explains:
Sometimes a policy is so reckless or immoral that supporting its backer as "the lesser of two evils" is unacceptable. If enough people start refusing to support any candidate who needlessly terrorizes innocents, perpetrates radical assaults on civil liberties, goes to war without Congress, or persecutes whistleblowers, among other misdeeds, post–9/11 excesses will be reined in.
I admire Conor's desire for change, and I have a lot of sympathy for his refusal to set his moral values aside when making an electoral choice. But, I have a few quibbles.
For as much as they have a huge effect on the direction of the country, presidential elections are not the place where meaningful change occurs.
Take President Obama. He was the catalyst for health care reform—in the sense that it was part of his agenda—but it didn't happen because Obama was elected. The push for universal health care was a decades-long process that involved efforts at the elite and grassroots levels. Experts had to be trained, politicians had to be elected, and liberals who supported reform had to reach key positions within the Democratic Party. Obama's decision to run with health care reform was the culmination of that effort, not the beginning.
By itself, voting for Gary Johnson won't move the parties away their consensus on national security. Indeed, Conor's scenario—where the two parties change in response to a third—requires the outright collapse of the Democratic and Republican parties, as well as an incredibly successful third-party candidacy. This isn't likely. Tthe most successful third-party candidacy in American history happened before the age of strong parties, and was run by a popular former president—Theodore Roosevelt—who led a major faction of the GOP. It's hard to imagine any similar scenario repeating itself.
If you want the American political system to become more responsive to the concerns of civil libertarians, you have to make it more responsive. And you do that by utilizing the tremendous influence available to dedicated interests within the system. The two parties aren't particularly centralized—they draw their talent and resources from smaller state parties, who in turn draw from local and county parties. It's possible for a dedicated group of people to take control of a local party, field a candidate, win, and expand outwards.
It's hard work—and a lot of time and persuasion—but it can happen. Moreover, it can be translated to influence on a presidential scale. In five years, opposition to the Iraq War went from a minority position in the Democratic Party, to a litmus test for the party's nomination. It's when you've built a strong constituency for your interests, and shaped the contours of the debate, that you can shape the conduct of a presidency.
Which gets to my second quibble with Conor's piece: This idea that President Obama—or any executive—is acting with complete autonomy when it comes to national security. In a literal sense, this is true. There are few—if any—constraints on Obama's ability to conduct war. But, if this were offensive to the public, we would have heard something. American voters don't care about the drone war. And insofar that they care, it's because the government has seemingly developed a way to kill "terrorists" without risking American lives. Put another way, if there is a bipartisan consensus around national security, it's at least partly because the voters have pushed the parties in that direction, by rewarding the belligerent and punishing the reticient. Civil libertarians have to shift public opinion in their direction before they can expect to see politicians respond to their concerns. This is hard work, but it's possible (see: the push for same-sex marriage).
One last thing. Friedersdorf refuses to vote for a "lesser evil," but the fact of the matter is that Gary Johnson is also a "lesser evil." Johnson supports immediate austerity and a move to balanced budgets for the 2013 fiscal year. He would cut 43 percent from the federal budget in all areas, and call for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. He supports "sound money"—which is code for tight monetary policy—and opposes entitlement spending, and most functions of the welfare state. He opposes Roe v. Wade—thus making him an effective opponent of abortion rights—and does not believe that health care is a right.
A world where Johnson could be elected president—which, Conor says, would be a good outcome—is a world where these things are possible. His domestic policies would throw millions into hardship, and his hugely contractionary economic policies would plunge the country—and the globe—into a recession.
Whether he sees it or not, Friedersdorf is making a moral calculus by supporting Johnson. For him, the terrible effects of Johnsons' policies on ordinary people—recession, increased joblessness, increased homelessness—is worth a world where the United States does not conduct drone strikes. I disagree, but unlike Friedersdorf—who sees the similar calculus among liberals as evidence of willful blindness to the consequences of drone strikes—I don't think this makes him indifferent to the concern of poor people.
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"If you were to judge them against the records of previous Democratic presidents, it's clear that President Obama is the most liberal president since Lyndon Johnson.... National security is a different story."
So, on national security he's the least liberal Democratic president since Lyndon Johnson?
One last thing. Friedersdorf refuses to vote for a "lesser evil," but the fact of the matter is that Gary Johnson is also a "lesser evil."
It's something of a conceit to believe that any vote isn't going to be, at some level, for the "lesser evil". I suspect that the thing that makes a vote for Johnson "different" in Friedersdorf's eyes is that he expects Johnson to lose. But if that's the case, he's effectively casting 0.5 votes for the candidate he believes to be the greater evil, the difference between an actual vote for the lesser evil and the "wash" that results from voting for Johnson.
Sat, 2012-09-29 11:14
Romney's plan reduces his own taxes to 1% I have read. Looking at the new State of Working America, Table 2.4 on income sources and distribution, the top 1% received 19.9% of all income which about the same amount as the lower-earning 50% of households. And their income sources break down to 31.4% from capital gains and 12.1% in interest and dividends --- that's over half their income. Wages is about 1/4 of the income of the top 1%. In 1979 the income of the top 1% was about 8% of total income, in 2007 it was about 17% (post-tax and post-transfer according to the CBO report Historical Trends in Income Distribution between 1997 - 2007). Romney's plan is ridiculous -- verges on treason? if you believe deficit spending is a high crime. Doesn't the CBPP.org have an essay on his plan stating that 70% cuts in non-defense discretionary spending would result over 10 years in 2022? That's with the passage of the balanced budget amendment and the 20% of GDP revenue cap. That's my recollection.
Fri, 2012-09-28 17:21
"President Obama is the most liberal president since Lyndon Johnson."
LBJ killed hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, and over 50,000 American kids for a pointless ideological cause. If killing brown-skinned people is liberal, then Obama matches Johnson's record well, though he has not accounted for as many deaths of innocents. Maybe he needs another four years to accomplish this.
"The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act prevented a second Great Depression and invested billions in education, clean energy, and future technologies."
The ARRA's effects on the economy have been debated by many scholars and there is no clear consensus on its effect. We do know that the recovery from the recession has been a jobless one, that many of the energy/tech investments turned out to be boondoggles (Solyndra, Fiskar, and many others), and the investments in education were essentially paying for an extra year or two of teachers' salaries while state and local governments got their ducks in a row. (There is strong evidence that class size does not matter for most subject matter and for most grade levels.) The education investment was a pay back to the NEA and teachers' unions in general. Meanwhile, national test scores continue to slide or are stagnant. The investments in GM and Chrysler resulted in taxpayers being on the hook for $25-35 billion dollars (stock price changes make the final figure uncertain). Obama also did nothing to prosecute wrongdoing in the financial industry, sending a signal that wrongdoing is tolerated among the elite (a message he also sent by not prosecuting Bush and company for war crimes).
"The Affordable Care Act has put the United States on the path toward universal health coverage, and a more sustainable health care system."
There is no evidence that the ACA reformed anything about the system. It did expand coverage, but it is not clear who, ultimately, will foot the bill. Health care analysts are in consensus that there is precious little in the ACA that will change the cost curve downwards. Watch the Democrats run away from the individual mandate when the first bills start arriving. Remember, the ACA was supported by the AMA, Pharma, hospitals -- all the vested interests who saw that it would increase demand for health care without forcing them to reform from within -- i.e., they will continue to profit at the same high rate as before.
Obama has been a negative force with regards to our nation's economy. When he had the majority in both houses he did nothing to reform the tax code, for example. He said during the campaign that he would get rid of worthless domestic programs -- name one that he has eliminated. His stepping up of the War on Drugs has wasted lives and money -- and resulted in the incarceration of thousands of minorities, who are most often victimized by unnecessary drug enforcement policy.
Sat, 2012-09-29 16:12
A protest vote is a vote for Romney. Romney will appoint at least one Supreme Court justice. He has already said he will appoint justices in the mold of Clarence Thomas etc. who invented the "Money is speech" idea that resulted in Citizens United. That way lies the end of US elections. They will be owned by the richest 1% for no one else will be able to afford one.
POed Lib
Sat, 2012-09-29 22:12
GARY JOHNSON IS A LIBERTARIAN!!! Libertarians are the stupidest morons in the universe. They want to eliminate the FDA, among other things. If you vote libertarian, you might as well shoot yourself in the head, and please do it before you vote.
Is this article snark?
POed Lib
Sat, 2012-09-29 22:15
Not only is a vote for Johnson possible the stupidest fu-ck-ing choice in this election, but it would absolutely DESTROY the economy. Don't listen to me, listen to Krugman (Nobel) and Steiglitz (Nobel) who both are very clear - austerity is the road to the destruction of the US economy. The author is an absolute ignoramus and idiot.
Sun, 2012-09-30 00:52
Death or indefinate detention on the whim of a death committee is not acceptable, nor is perpetual contractor-feeding war. Gary Johnson is it for anyone who cares about civil rights. A Jill Stein/Gary Johnson debate should happen, moderated by Jon Stewart of some equally intelligent person. There should be a debate for people who do not want to vote for a Goldman Sachs-owned candidate.
Sun, 2012-09-30 12:21
POed Lib,
You really don't know much about life or economics do you? You are comparing an ideology to a political party. That is like saying that Democrats want everyone to be poor, because it gives power to the big government agenda.
The fiscal cliff is coming and borrowing a crap ton of money to pay for toys now will not prevent the cliff. We can slam on our brakes, use what resources we have to fix the fundamental problems with our economy, and end up in a better spot in 20 years.
QE4, QE15 won't change the fact that the American Dream is dying. Krugman and Steiglitz are failures, and that type of economics has run way beyond the bounds of what should be possible.
The problem with austerity as it has been done in Europe is that the population is used to the government teet. We aren't used to it yet in the US, so the process will be much less painful. Why else will it be less painful? Our military budget makes up such a huge proportion of our federal government budget. Very easy target to cut. Would you rather have a bunch of new weapons or healthcare for citizens? You can't have both.
I don't see how any logical person sees the defecit financing model as an OK system of economics. At a basic level this is like going to a payday loan office because you think you are going to get a raise at work in a few months. What happens if you don't get the raise? What happens if you do this for 50 years and are 42 raises short of paying off your loan? At some point you have to cut back and pay the loan back or go bankrupt.
Bill Samuel
Mon, 2012-10-01 12:15
I agree that not much can be done in this Presidential election, but I think this analysis is naive on changing the corporate-controlled parties. I believe the establishment parties can and will thwart efforts to remove them from control byt Wall Street and the military-industrial complex. Witness the blatant ignoring of actual votes from the floor at both national conventions this year.
The "national security consensus" does not include the people. For example, polls clearly show that a huge majority of Americans (including majorities of both self-identified Democrats and self-identified Republicans) believe we should be out of Afghanistan now, but neither establishment party cares what the people think. They always nominate militaristic candidates despite survey after survey showing that's not where the majority of the people stand.
I also don't support Gary Johnson, but that's somewhat irrelevant to the argument of whether or not to vote for one of the corporatist candidates. In fact, at this point I don't think it's that important which alternative you vote for. The significant thing will be how many total votes go for candidates other than Obamney. The goal should be to make that high enough to get some media attention at the dissatisfaction with the extra-Constitutional 2-party system.
Philo Vaihinger
Mon, 2012-10-01 12:34
Wed, 2012-10-10 13:54
I disagree with this on every point. Obama is the most liberal president since Bush. For the most part he has doubled down on every Bush policy. AHCA was written by corporations, the bailout benefited the rich the most while prolonging the recession and driving up the price of goods. His assessment of Johnson suffers from exaggeration and selective use of facts. Johnson stated in a GOP DEBATE that while he would have signed a ban on late term abortion he would not otherwise restrict a woman's right to choose. He also said he would bring the troops home and cut the DEFENSE BUDGET by 40% (still a big chunk of the overall budget.) He would also submit a balanced budget and refuse to sign a budget that was not balanced. Those are things he did as governor. Let's face facts, deficit spending hasn't helped under Obama just like it didn't work under Bush and Reagan.
Why no mention of the war on drugs or NDAA? Maybe because Obama falls on the unpopular and not-so-liberal side of those arguments while Johnson does not? How convenient to leave those issues out.
So his argument boils down to "Vote for Obama because nobody really cares about civil rights and war anymore."
I do appreciate the writer's comparison of Obama to the Lyndon Johnson. That Johnson is also known for his escalation of the war in Vietnam. So much for the peace party.
This goes to show the Democratic Party cares about war just like the Republican Party cares about the budget. It's important only when the other side is in power.
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A skilled predator, the cat is known to hunt over 1,000 species for food. It can be trained to obey simple commands. Individual cats have also been known to learn on their own to manipulate simple mechanisms, such as doorknobs. Cats use a variety of vocalizations and types of body language for communication, including meowing, purring, hissing, growling, squeaking, chirping, clicking, and grunting. With 69 million of them present in American homes, cats are the most or the second most popular pets in that country. Cats also may be the most popular pet in the world, with over 600 million in homes all over the world. They are also bred and shown as registered pedigree pets. This hobby is known as the "Cat Fancy".
Until recently the cat was commonly believed to have been domesticated in ancient Egypt, where it was a cult animal. However a 2007 study found that all house cats are probably descended from a group of as few as five self-domesticating African Wildcats Felis silvestris lybica circa 8000 BC, in the Near East.
Cats typically weigh between 2.5 and 7 kg (5.5–16 pounds); however, some Cat breeds, such as the Maine Coon, can exceed . Some have been known to reach up to due to overfeeding. Conversely, very small cats (less than ) have been reported.
The largest cat ever was officially reported to have weighed in at about (46 lb 15.25 oz).
As facilitated by their oral structure, cats use a variety of vocalizations and types of body language for communication, including mewing ("meow" or "miaow"), purring, hissing, growling, squeaking, chirping, clicking, and grunting.
Like nearly all members of family Felidae, cats have retractable claws. In their normal, relaxed position the claws are sheathed with the skin and fur around the toe pads. This keeps the claws sharp by preventing wear from contact with the ground and allows the silent stalking of prey. The claws on the forefeet are typically sharper than those on the hind feet. Cats can extend their claws voluntarily on one or more paws at will. They may extend their claws in hunting or self-defense, climbing, "kneading", or for extra traction on soft surfaces (bedspreads, thick rugs, etc.). It is also possible to make a cooperative cat extend its claws by carefully pressing both the top and bottom of the paw. The curved claws may become entangled in carpet or thick fabric, which may cause injury if the cat is unable to free itself.
Most cats have five claws on their front paws, and four or five on their rear paws. Because of an ancient mutation, however, domestic cats are prone to polydactylyism, and may have six or seven toes. The fifth front claw (the dewclaw) is proximal to the other claws. More proximally, there is a protrusion which appears to be a sixth "finger". This special feature of the front paws, on the inside of the wrists, is the carpal pad, also found on the paws of big cats and dogs. It has no function in normal walking, but is thought to be an anti-skidding device used while jumping.
The particularly loose skin at the back of the neck is known as the scruff, and is the area by which a mother cat grips her kittens to carry them. As a result, cats tend to become quiet and passive when gripped there. This behavior also extends into adulthood, when a male will grab the female by the scruff to immobilize her while he mounts, and to prevent her from running away as the mating process takes place.
This technique can be useful when attempting to treat or move an uncooperative cat. However, since an adult cat is heavier than a kitten, a pet cat should never be carried by the scruff, but should instead have its weight supported at the rump and hind legs, and at the chest and front paws. Often (much like a small child) a cat will lie with its head and front paws over a person's shoulder, and its back legs and rump supported under the person's arm.
Cat senses are attuned for hunting. Cats have highly advanced hearing, eyesight, taste, and touch receptors, making the cat extremely sensitive among mammals. Cats' night vision is superior to humans although their vision in daylight is inferior.
Humans and cats have a similar range of hearing on the low end of the scale, but cats can hear much higher-pitched sounds, up to 64 kHz, which is 1.6 octaves above the range of a human, and even one octave above the range of a dog.
A domestic cat's sense of smell is about fourteen times as strong as a human's.
Due to a mutation in an early cat ancestor, one of two genes necessary to taste sweetness may have been lost by the cat family.
To aid with navigation and sensation, cats have dozens of movable vibrissae (whiskers) over their body, especially their face.
Cats conserve energy by sleeping more than most animals, especially as they grow older. The daily duration of sleep varies, usually 12–16 hours, with 13–14 being the average. Some cats can sleep as much as 20 hours in a 24-hour period. The term cat nap refers to the cat's ability to fall asleep (lightly) for a brief period and has entered the English lexicon – someone who nods off for a few minutes is said to be "taking a cat nap".
Due to their crepuscular nature, cats are often known to enter a period of increased activity and playfulness during the evening and early morning, dubbed the "evening crazies", "night crazies", "elevenses" or "mad half-hour" by some.
The temperament of a cat can vary depending on the breed and socialization. Cats with oriental body types tend to be thinner and more active, while cats that have a cobby body type tend to be heavier and less active.
The normal body temperature of a cat is between 38 and 39 °C (101 and 102.2 °F). A cat is considered febrile (hyperthermic) if it has a temperature of 39.5 °C (103 °F) or greater, or hypothermic if less than 37.5 °C (100 °F). For comparison, humans have a normal temperature of approximately 36.8 °C (98.6 °F). A domestic cat's normal heart rate ranges from 140 to 220 beats per minute, and is largely dependent on how excited the cat is. For a cat at rest, the average heart rate should be between 150 and 180 bpm, about twice that of a human (average 80 bpm).
A 2007 study published in the journal Science asserts that all house cats are descended from a group of self-domesticating desert wildcats Felis silvestris lybica circa 10,000 years ago, in the Near East.
The domesticated cat and its closest wild ancestor are both diploid organisms that possess 38 chromosomes, in which over 200 heritable genetic defects have been identified, many homologous to human inborn errors. Specific metabolic defects have been identified underlying many of these feline diseases. There are several genes responsible for the hair color identified. The combination of them gives different phenotypes.
Features like hair length, lack of tail or presence of a very short tail (bobtail cat) are also determined by single alleles and modified by polygenes.
The Cat Genome Project, sponsored by the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the U.S. National Cancer Institute Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center in Frederick, Maryland, focuses on the development of the cat as an animal model for human hereditary disease, infectious disease, genome evolution, comparative research initiatives within the family Felidae, and forensic potential.
All felines, including the big cats, have a genetic anomaly that may prevent them from tasting sweetness, which is a likely factor for their indifference to or avoidance of fruits, berries, and other sugary foods.
Despite the cat's meat-oriented physiology, it is still quite common for a cat to supplement its carnivorous diet with small amounts of grass, leaves, shrubs, houseplants, or other plant matter. One theory suggests this behavior helps cats regurgitate if their digestion is upset; another is that it introduces fiber or trace minerals into the diet. In this context, caution is recommended for cat owners because some houseplants are harmful to cats. For example, the leaves of the Easter Lily can cause permanent and life-threatening kidney damage to cats, and Philodendron are also poisonous to cats. The Cat Fanciers' Association has a full list of plants harmful to cats.
There are several vegetarian or vegan commercially-available cat foods supplemented with chemically-synthesized taurine and other added nutrients that attempt to address nutritional shortfalls.
Cats can be selective eaters (which may be due in some way to the aforementioned mutation which caused their species to lose sugar-tasting ability). Unlike most mammals, cats can voluntarily starve themselves indefinitely despite being presented with palatable food, even a food which they had previously readily consumed.
Cats have a fondness for catnip, which is sensed by their olfactory systems. Many enjoy consuming catnip, and most will often roll in it, paw at it, and occasionally chew on it.
For instance, the common painkiller paracetamol or acetaminophen, sold under brand names such as Tylenol and Panadol, is extremely toxic to cats; because they naturally lack enzymes needed to digest it, even minute portions of doses safe for humans can be fatal and any suspected ingestion warrants immediate veterinary attention. Even aspirin, which is sometimes used to treat arthritis in cats, is much more toxic to them than to humans and must be administered cautiously. Similarly, application of minoxidil (Rogaine) to the skin of cats, either accidental or by well-meaning owners attempting to counter loss of fur, has sometimes proved fatal.
In addition to such obvious dangers as insecticides and weed killers, other common household substances that should be used with caution in areas where cats may be exposed to them include mothballs and other naphthalene products, as well as phenol based products often used for cleaning and disinfecting near cats' feeding areas or litter boxes, such as Pine-Sol, Dettol (Lysol), hexachlorophene, etc. which, although they are widely used without problem, have been sometimes seen to be fatal. Ethylene glycol, often used as an automotive antifreeze, is particularly appealing to cats, and as little as a teaspoonful can be fatal.
Many human foods are somewhat toxic to cats; theobromine in chocolate can cause theobromine poisoning, for instance, although few cats will eat chocolate. Toxicity in cats ingesting relatively large amounts of onions or garlic has also been reported. Even such seemingly safe items as cat food packaged in pull tab tin cans have been statistically linked to hyperthyroidism; although the connection is far from proven, suspicion has fallen on the use of bisphenol A-based plastics, another phenol based product as discussed above, to seal such cans.
Many houseplants are at least somewhat toxic to many species, cats included and the consumption of such plants by cats is to be avoided.
For cats, life in close proximity with humans (and other animals kept by humans) amounts to a "symbiotic social adaptation" which has developed over thousands of years. It has been suggested that, ethologically, the human keeper of a cat functions as a sort of surrogate for the cat's mother, and that adult domestic cats live their lives in a kind of extended kittenhood, a form of behavioral neoteny.
Cats may express affection towards their human companions, especially if they imprint on them at a very young age and are treated with consistent affection.
Regardless of the average sociability of any given cat or of cats in general, there are still any number of cats who meet or exceed the negative feline stereotype insofar as being poorly socialized. Older cats have also been reported to sometimes develop aggressiveness towards kittens, which may include biting and scratching; this type of behavior is known as Feline Asocial Aggression.
Despite cohabitation in colonies, cats do not have a social survival strategy, or a pack mentality. This mainly means that an individual cat takes care of all basic needs on its own (e.g., finding food, and defending itself), and thus cats are always lone hunters; they do not hunt in groups as dogs or lions do.
Cats frequently tonguebathe themselves (see Hygiene). The chemistry of their saliva, expended during their frequent grooming, appears to be a natural deodorant. Thus, a cat's cleanliness would aid in decreasing the chance a prey animal could notice the cat's presence. By contrast, dog odor is an advantage in hunting, for a dog is a pack hunter; part of the pack stations itself upwind, and its odor drives prey towards the rest of the pack stationed downwind. This requires a cooperative effort, which in turn requires communication skills. No such communication skills are required of a lone hunter.
When engaged in feline-to-feline combat for self-defense, territory, reproduction, or dominance, fighting cats make themselves appear more impressive and threatening by raising their fur and arching their backs, thus increasing their apparent size. Cats also behave this way while playing. Attacks usually comprise powerful slaps to the face and body with the forepaws as well as bites, but serious damage is rare; usually the loser runs away with little more than a few scratches to the face, and perhaps the ears. Cats will also throw themselves to the ground in a defensive posture to rake with their powerful hind legs. Normally, serious negative effects will be limited to possible infections of the scratches and bites; though these have been known to sometimes kill cats if untreated. In addition, such fighting is believed to be the primary route of transmission of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV). Sexually active males will usually be in many fights during their lives, and often have decidedly battered faces with obvious scars and cuts to the ears and nose. Not only males will fight; females will also fight over territory or to defend their kittens, and even neutered cats will defend their (smaller) territories aggressively.
Cats will also engage in play fighting, with each other and with human partners. Humans "wrestling" with a supine cat, however, should be wary: if the cat is overstimulated or startled it may decide that the play has turned serious and cease to pull its punches; this can lead to serious scratches and occasionally even bites.
One poorly-understood element of cat hunting behavior is the presentation of prey to human owners. Ethologist Paul Leyhausen proposed that cats adopt humans into their social group, and share excess kill with others in the group according to the local pecking order, in which humans are placed at or near the top. However, anthropologist and animal scientist Desmond Morris in his 1986 book Catwatching suggests that when cats bring home mice or birds they have caught, they are teaching their human to hunt, or helping their human as if feeding (his words) "an elderly, inept kitten". Another possibility is that presenting the kill might be a relic of a kitten's behavior of demonstrating for its mother's approval that it has developed the necessary skill for hunting. Indoor cats will often retain their hunting instinct and deliver small household items to their owners, such as watches, pens, pencils, and other objects they can carry in their mouths.
Multiple males will be attracted to a female in heat. The males will fight over her, and the victor wins the right to mate. At first, the female will reject the male, but eventually the female will allow the male to mate. The female will give a loud yowl as the male pulls out of her. After mating, the female will give herself a thorough wash. If a male attempts to breed with her at this point, the female will attack him. Once the female is done grooming, the cycle will repeat.
The male cat's penis has spines which point backwards. Upon withdrawal of the penis, the spines rake the walls of the female's vagina, which may cause ovulation. Because this does not always occur, females are rarely impregnated by the first male with which they mate. Furthermore, cats are superfecund; that is, a female may mate with more than one male when she is in heat, meaning different kittens in a litter may have different fathers.
The gestation period for cats is approximately 63–65 days. The size of a litter averages three to five kittens, with the first litter usually smaller than subsequent litters. Kittens are weaned at between six and seven weeks, and cats normally reach sexual maturity at 4–10 months (females) and to 5–7 months (males).
Cats are ready to go to new homes at about 12 weeks old (the recommended minimum age by Fédération Internationale Féline), or when they are ready to leave their mother. Cats can be surgically sterilized (spayed or castrated) as early as 6–8 weeks to limit unwanted reproduction. This surgery also prevents undesirable sex-related behavior, such as territory marking (spraying urine) in males and yowling (calling) in females. If a cat is neutered after such behavior has been learned, however, then the behavior may persist.
Some cats occasionally regurgitate hairballs of fur that have collected in their stomachs as a result of their grooming. Longhaired cats are more prone to this than shorthaired cats. Hairballs can be prevented with certain cat foods and remedies that ease elimination of the hair and regular grooming of the coat with a comb or stiff brush.
Most breeds of cat have a noted fondness for settling in high places, or perching. Animal behaviorists have posited a number of explanations, the most common being that height gives the cat a better observation point, allowing it to survey its territory and become aware of activities of people and other pets in the area. In the wild, a higher place may serve as a concealed site from which to hunt; domestic cats are known to strike prey by pouncing from such a perch as a tree branch, as does a leopard. Height, therefore, can also give cats a sense of security and prestige.
During a fall from a high place, a cat can reflexively twist its body and right itself using its acute sense of balance and flexibility. This is known as the cat's "righting reflex". It always rights itself in the same way, provided it has the time to do so, during a fall. The height required for this to occur in most cats (safely) is around 90 cm (3 feet). Cats without a tail also have this ability, since a cat mostly moves its hind legs and relies on conservation of angular momentum to set up for landing, and the tail is in fact little used for this feat.
However, cats' fondness for high spaces can dangerously test the righting reflex. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals warns owners to safeguard the more dangerous perches in their homes, to avoid "high-rise syndrome", where an overconfident cat falls from an extreme height.
Being closely related to desert animals, cats enjoy heat and solar exposure, often sleeping in a sunny area during the heat of the day, as part of a general preference for warm temperatures. Where humans typically start to feel uncomfortable when their skin temperature gets higher than about 44.5 °C (112 °F), by contrast cats do not start to show signs of discomfort until their skin reaches about 52 °C (126 °F).
Overall, cats can easily withstand the heat and cold of a temperate climate, so long as the cold is not for extended periods. Although certain breeds such as the Norwegian Forest Cat and Maine Coon have developed heavier coats of fur than other cats, they have little resistance against moist cold (e.g., fog, rain and snow) and struggle to maintain their 39 °C (102 °F) body temperature when wet. In direct relation to that fact, most cats dislike immersion in water. One major exception is the Turkish Van breed which has an unusual fondness for water. Abyssinians and Bengals are also reported to be more tolerant of water than most cats.
As a consequence of their exceptional hunting ability, cats can be quite destructive to ecosystems in which they are not native, where local species have not had time to adapt to feline introduction. In some cases, cats have contributed to or caused extinctions — for example, see the case of the Stephens Island Wren. Due to their hunting behavior, in many countries feral cats are considered pests. Domestic cats are occasionally also required to have contained cat runs or to be kept inside entirely, as they can be hazardous to locally endangered bird species. For instance, various municipalities in Australia have enacted such legislation. In some localities, owners fit their cat with a bell in order to warn prey of its approach (although some cats may figure out how and when the bell works, thereby learning more careful movements to avoid the ringing).
In captivity, indoor cats typically live 14 to 20 years, though the oldest-known cat lived to age 36. Domesticated cats tend to live longer if they are not permitted to go outdoors (reducing the risk of injury from fights or accidents and exposure to diseases) and if they are neutered. Some such benefits are: castrated male cats cannot develop testicular cancer, spayed female cats cannot develop ovarian cancer, and both have a reduced risk of mammary cancer.
Like some other domesticated animals, cats live in a mutualistic arrangement with humans. It is believed that the benefit of removing rats and mice from humans' food stores outweighed the trouble of extending the protection of a human settlement to a formerly wild animal, almost certainly for humans who had adopted a farming economy. Unlike the dog, which also hunts and kills rodents, the cat does not eat grains, fruits, or vegetables.
In modern rural areas, farms often have dozens of semi-feral cats. Hunting in the barns and the fields, they kill and eat rodents that would otherwise spoil large parts of the grain crop. Many pet cats successfully hunt and kill rabbits, rodents, birds, lizards, frogs, fish, and large insects by instinct, but might not eat their prey.
In modern urban areas, some people find feral and free-roaming pet cats annoying and intrusive. Unaltered cats can engage in persistent nighttime calling (termed caterwauling) and defecation or "marking" of private property. Indoor confinement of pets and TNR programs for feral cats can help; some people also use cat deterrents to discourage cats from entering their property.
Because of their small size, domesticated house cats pose almost no danger to adult humans — the main hazard is the possibility of infection (e.g., cat scratch disease, or, rarely, rabies) from a cat bite or scratch. Cats can also potentially inflict severe scratches or puncture an eye, though this is quite rare (although dogs have been known to be blinded by cats in fights, where the cat specifically and accurately targeted the eyes of the larger animal).
Many humans find the rewards of cat companionship outweigh the discomfort and problems associated with these allergens. Some cope with the problem by taking prescription allergy medicine, along with bathing their cats frequently (weekly bathing will eliminate about 90% of the cat dander present in the environment). There are also attempts to breed cats that are less likely to provoke an allergic reaction.
Although scratching can serve cats to keep their claws from growing excessively long, their nails can be trimmed if necessary with a small nail trimmer designed for humans, or a small pair of electrician's diagonal cutting pliers, or a guillotine type cutter specifically designed for animal nail trimming. Care must always be taken to avoid cutting the quick#Noun of the claw, analogous to cutting into the tip of a finger and equally painful and bloody. The position of the quick can be easily seen through the translucent nail of a cat with light colored claws but not in cats with dark colored nails, who therefore require carefully trimming of only small amounts from the nails.
Scratching can be reduced and even eliminated by disciplining the cat with a quick spritz from a water bottle when the cat is scratching or by applying a product called Sticky Paws (similar to double-sided tape) to the surface the cat is prone to scratch. Cats are also repelled by citrus scents, and a citrus-scented product may also help stop unwanted furniture destruction. Pet supply stores also sell bitter apple spray, which cats do not like and will generally avoid.
Declawing may be performed to prevent the cat from damaging furniture. Additionally, declawing may be performed on vicious cats, cats that frequently fight with other pets, or cats that are too efficient at predation of animals. In the United States, landlords sometimes require that tenants' cats be declawed.
Declawing is controversial and is uncommon outside of North America. It is sometimes prohibited by animal cruelty laws.
Daily attention to the litter box also serves as a monitor of the cat's health. Numerous variations on litter and litter box design exist, including some which automatically sift the litter after each use. Bentonite or clumping litter is a variation which absorbs urine into clumps which can be sifted out along with feces, and thus stays cleaner longer with regular sifting, but has sometimes been reported to cause health problems in some cats. Those with toxoplasmosis-infected cats living in habitat areas of sea otters may wish to dispose of droppings in the trash, rather than flushing them down the toilet.
Litterboxes may pose a risk of toxoplasmosis transmission to susceptible pregnant women and immuno-compromised individuals. Most indoor-only cats are not normally exposed to the disease and are not carriers. Transmission risk may be reduced by daily litterbox cleaning by someone other than the susceptible individual.
Some cats can be trained to use the human toilet, eliminating the litter box and its attendant expense, unpleasant odor, and the need to use landfill space for disposal. Training may involve four to six weeks of incremental moves, such as moving and elevating the litter box until it is near the toilet, as well as employing an adapter such as a bowl or small box to suspend the litter above the toilet bowl. Several kits and other aids are marketed to help toilet-train cats. When training is complete, the cat uses the toilet by squatting on the toilet seat over the bowl.
Tabby cat :Striped, with a variety of patterns. The classic "blotched" tabby (or "marbled") pattern is the most common and consists of butterflies and bullseyes. The "mackerel" or "striped" tabby is a series of vertical stripes down the cat's side (resembling the fish). This pattern broken into spots is referred to as a "spotted" tabby. Finally, the tabby markings may look like a series of ticks on the fur, thus the "ticked" tabby, which is almost exclusively associated with the Abyssinian breed of cats. The worldwide evolution of the cat means that certain types of tabby are associated with certain countries; for instance, blotched tabbies are quite rare outside NW Europe, where they are the most common type.
Feral cats may live alone, but most are found in large groups called feral colonies with communal nurseries, depending on resource availability. Most abandoned cats probably have little alternative to joining a feral colony. Some feral cat colonies are found in large cities such as around the Colosseum and Forum Romanum in Rome. The Roman cats are not truly feral because they are partly fed and vetted by the local authority. Because cats are adaptable, those in residential areas know that if they are friendly to humans they need not worry about food or shelter. Some urban "stray" cats have many houses/humans to support them.
Although cats are adaptable, feral felines are unable to thrive in extreme cold and heat, and with a very high protein requirement, few find adequate nutrition on their own in cities. They are often killed by dogs, coyotes, and automobiles. However, there are thousands of volunteers and organizations that trap these unadoptable feral felines, neutering them, immunize the cats against rabies and feline leukemia, and treat them with long-lasting flea products. Before release back into their feral colonies, the attending veterinarian often nips the tip off one ear to mark the feral as neutered and inoculated, since these cats will more than likely find themselves trapped again. Volunteers continue to feed and give care to these cats throughout their lives, and not only is their lifespan greatly increased, but behavior and nuisance problems, due to competition for food, are also greatly reduced.
Feral cats are thought to be a major predator of Hawaiian coastal and forest habitats, and are one species among many responsible for the decline of endemic forest bird species as well as seabirds like the Wedge-tailed Shearwater. In one study of 56 cats' feces, the remains of 44 birds were found, 40 of which were endemic species.
In the Southern Hemisphere there are many landmasses including Australia where cat species have never been native, and other placental mammalian predators were rare or absent. Native species there tend to be more ecologically vulnerable and behaviorally "naive" to predation by feral cats. Feral cats have had serious effects on these wildlife species and have played a leading role in the endangerment and extinction of many of them. In Australia a large quantity of native birds, lizards and small marsupials are taken every year by feral cats, and feral cats have played a role in driving some small marsupial species to extinction. Some organizations in Australia are now going to effort of creating fenced islands of habitat for endangered species that are free of feral cats and foxes.
Cats present a risk of overpopulation, as well. According to the Humane Society of the United States, 3–4 million cats and dogs are euthanized each year in the United States and many more are confined to cages in shelters because there are significantly more animals being born than there are homes. Neutering pets helps keep the overpopulation down. A study in 1992 found that in the USA, 12,893 (29.4%) of pets, 26.9% of dogs and 32.6% of cats were sterilized. Local humane societies, SPCAs, and other animal protection organizations urge people to neuter their pets and to adopt from shelters instead of purchasing elsewhere.
Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben classified the domesticated cat as Felis domesticus in his Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre and Systema regni animalis of 1777. This name, and its variants Felis catus domesticus and Felis silvestris domesticus, are often seen, but they are not valid scientific names under the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
The term puss (as in pussycat) may come from Dutch poes or from Low German Puuskatte, dialectal Swedish kattepus, or Norwegian pus, pusekatt, all of which primarily denote a woman and, by extension, a female cat.
Cats have been kept by humans since at least ancient Egypt, where Bast in cat form was goddess of the home, the domesticated cat, protector of the fields and home from vermin infestations, and sometimes took on the warlike aspect of a lioness. The first domesticated cats may have saved early Egyptians from many rodent infestations and likewise, Bast developed from the adoration for her feline companions. She was the daughter of the sun god Ra and played significant role in Ancient Egyptian religion. It has been speculated that cats resident in Kenya's Islands in the Lamu Archipelago may be the last living direct descendants of the cats of ancient Egypt.
Several ancient religions believed that cats are exalted souls, companions or guides for humans, that they are all-knowing but are mute so they cannot influence decisions made by humans. In Japan, the Maneki Neko is a cat that is a symbol of "good fortune". While in Islam there is not a sacred species, it is said by some writers that Muhammad had a favorite cat, Muezza. It is said he loved cats so much that "he would do without his cloak rather than disturb one that was sleeping on it".
Freyja — the goddess of love, beauty, and fertility in Norse mythology — is riding a chariot driven by cats.
There are also negative superstitions about cats in many cultures. An example would be the belief that a black cat "crossing your path" leads to bad luck, or that cats are witches' familiars used to augment a witch's powers and skills. This belief led to the widespread extermination of cats in Europe in medieval times. Killing the cats aggravated epidemics of the Black Plague in places where there were not enough cats left to keep rat populations down. The plague was spread by fleas carried by infected rats.
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The $56,216 lighting project was part of a $1.8 million campus energy upgrade that included an apartment heating-and-cooling system replacement project and chiller improvement for the dining hall HVAC system. The energy upgrade was partially funded with a $533,166 U.S. Department of Energy State Energy Program Grant for Government, Universities and State Agencies from federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act money administered by the N.C. Energy Office for the N.C. Department of Commerce.
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Frederic Thompson and Elmer Dundy, with experience of running concessions at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and other fairs, had brought their successful simulation of a spaceship ride, A Trip to the Moon, to Steeplechase in 1902. The following year they decided to open their own amusement venture, Luna Park, on the site of Boyton's failing Sea Lion Park, on Surf Avenue between West Eighth and West Twelfth streets. Two hundred fifty thousand electric lights turned night into day, with an imaginary architecture of many exotic spires and domes in white, orange, and gold. Luna's twenty-two acres were dedicated entirely to pleasure and play with concerts, fireworks, and carnivalesque performances, in addition to the many fanciful and creative rides that employed all the technical innovations of the day. The entrance on Surf Avenue with its many moon-shaped decorations, seen here, was a 1905 addition. Note the electric trolley headed west to Seagate, which had become an independent and exclusive gated community in 1896.
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Longtime VETTE readers will recognize the name Marty Schorr. After a career editing high-performance magazines such as CARS and working with the legendary Joel Rosen at Motion Performance, Schorr launched a new, all-Corvette publication in 1975. It appeared first as a quarterly and then, after a couple of name changes to satisfy Chevrolet, it became a monthly magazine in 1976. Since that humble beginning 32 years ago, VETTE has grown into America's leading Corvette magazine.
What few know is that when Schorr started the magazine, he didn't own a Vette. "In fact," he says, "I had never owned one. I was more of a musclecar and street-rod guy. Once I started the magazine, though, I felt it was mandatory that I own a Corvette. I had always loved '67 big-blocks, so I bought a 40,000-mile '67 427 convertible from the Glass Car Company in New Jersey. It was Marlboro Maroon with a black stripe and a black leather interior, the 390-horsepower engine, a four-speed transmission, side pipes, and a bunch of options. It was a correct, matching-numbers car with lots of original equipment on it."
As you might expect, the '67 soon became a magazine project car. "I dressed it up a little," Schorr says, "but I kept it as original as possible, because I always anticipated that [its] value would remain strong. I only changed wheels once to put Dayton wires on it; otherwise it had Rally wheels. That's the way I kept it until 1999, when I sold it just before moving to Florida."
When Schorr delivered the car to its new owner, he had those pangs of guilt we've all felt when we sell a special car. And, like most of us, he realized he had just made a major mistake. "I was sitting in the new owner's driveway," Schorr recalls, "the sun was setting, and the car looked incredible. I had detailed it for the sale, and it was stunning. I hated to take the check. From that day on, I regretted being out of a Corvette."
Proving once again that while you can take the man out the Vette, you can't take the Vette out of the man, Schorr kept looking at Corvettes and toying with the idea of buying a new one. "[When] I saw the C6 being developed at GM," he says, "I decided that if I were to buy another Corvette, it would be a C6. Finally, I took delivery this year of an '07 convertible in Monterey Red Metallic, a color that's close to Marlboro Maroon. It has a black top and interior just like my '67, and all I can say is the car is absolutely spectacular."
So what made the C6 more attractive than the C5? "Not a lot, really," Schorr laughs. "The C5 appealed to me as well, but because I am still involved in the automotive business, and I'm very friendly with [GM VP of Design] Ed Welburn and [C6 Chief Designer] Tom Peters, I had taken a few tours of the Design Center and seen the C6 being developed. It just came together for me, and I decided that was the car that I really wanted."
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