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Original 67 GT 500 that's been sitting for years and does not run. The engine is the original 428PI and it does turn over easily. This... More
1937 DeSoto 4 Door Convertible, Overdrive, all original dark green leather seats and door panels, deluxe steering wheel, heater. Very rare. Plus, restorable 1937... More
Mercedes Benz O 319 B Panoramabus Samba 1966 driving condition Very rare 1966 Mercedes Benz O 319 B Panoramabus. The equivalent of the VW Samba... More
1946 Bentley MKVI '46 Bentley MKVI Right Hand Drive with a silver body section and black roof and fenders with grey interior. Excellent color combination.... More
True Barn Find: California car purchased new in Pasadena, CA, remaining in the State this entire time. Discovered in this tin shed where it... More
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1965 Triumph Spitfire, This car has a lot of original parts. The engine runs strong and transmission works well. I have the original steering... More
1987 Porsche Carrera Coupe '87 Porsche Carrera Coupe with matching numbers chassis#WP0AB0911HS120125 engine#64H00298 in its original color code#697 diamond blue metallic with black interior. Excellent... More
Lovingly restored, driven and enjoyed by a former NCRS Judge and his family, this Polo White Corvette was restored approximately 26 years ago and... More
1957 Ford Thunderbird '57 Ford Thunderbird in creme with tuxedo interior and comes with a hard top only. Lots of potential. Excellent original car... More
1955 Beck Spyder '55 Spyder replica by Beck, silver with red interior. Beautiful color combination. Comes with the soft top, side curtains and tonneau cover.... More
1970 TR6 that can be made into a nice driver. The car is in baby blue with a black interior and it comes with... More
1939 Ford Deluxe Four Door Convertible Sedan #12 of 3,000 made This car was perviously owned by Don Garlits All original, never apart Engine Turns over (Will run... More
1988 Mercedes 560SL that can be used as a driver. The car is in green with a tan interior and it comes with 2... More
1954 Mercedes-Benz 300B Adenaur '54 Mercedes-Benz 300B Adenaur in black with red interior. Great color combination. Comes with the jack, spare tire and tool kit.... More
1953 MGTD that is a good candidate for a minor restoration. The car is in red with a brown interior and it comes with... More
1974 Porsche 911 Targa '74 Porsche 911 Targa with matching numbers chassis#9114111815 engine#6143831 in green with black interior with velvet inserts. Very nice color combination.... More
1954 Chevrolet Corvette '54 Chevrolet Corvette in pale yellow with red interior. Beautiful color scheme on this car. Comes equipped with a powerglide transmission, canvas... More
1948 Bentley MK IV Saloon '48 Bentley MK IV Saloon in black over red with brown interior. Gorgeous color combination that demands attention. Very nice... More
1963 Corvair Monza 900, 2-door convertible, 4 speed manual shift. Style 63-0927, 2.4 engine, 13 inch rims, 4 lug nuts. Transported from California to... More
1954 Studebaker Commander. this is a V-8 car with an overdrive and also a Hill Holder option. This car also comes complete with a... More
1954 Chrysler New Yorker Deluxe Convertible. Original 4V 235 hp Hemi V8 & Powerflite automatic transmission. Original Kelsey Hayes wire wheels. Exterior has a thin... More
350 V-8 Muncie 4-Speed Runs good White wall tires Body is in good shape... More
1970 Dodge Charger R/T for sale. This car was a very highly opted car for the 1970 model year. It has the original matching... More
1966 Triumph TR4A IRS that is a good candidate for a restoration. The car is in blue with a black interior. The car has... More
1979 Mercedes 450SL that can be made into a driver. The car is in green with a brown interior and it comes with 2... More
1930 Ford Model A Woody Wagon BARN FRESH! Manila Tan with black fenders and wheels, Stored in a mid-west barn for 30+ years, Very nice... More
1952 Jaguar XK120 FHC '52 Jaguar XK120 Fixed Head Coupe with matching numbers in red with grey interior and comes with a manual transmission and... More
1956 DeSoto 2 door hardtop Sportsman with a 330 Hemi & auto transmission. Airconditioning system located in the rear of car - very unique feature. Car has very... More
1959 Edsel Ranger Rust Free car-- black w painted white top ---sat for 35-40 years outside in Arizona automatic trans Jeffco Ent ---- 2111 E Bremer Ave Waverly, IA... More
1959 Chrysler Crown Imperial 2 dr hardtop -- 413 auto -- ran & drove last year original paint except hood -- needs interior redone power windows and seats -- original rims... More
1967 Porsche 911 Coupe '67 Porsche 911 Coupe with matching numbers chassis#305717 engine#909432 in grey with black interior. Comes with Weber carburetors, original wood steering... More
1967 Porsche 912, Very Rare Matching 912 Porsche factory sunroof with one owner since new for 49 years. no rust, no accident, SWB matching... More
1989 Buick Riviera Coupe. 120xxx miles. Computer Command Control Touch Screen and digital dash. All power accessories work. Solid motor and transmission. Car needs... More
1969 Lotus Elan Roadster '69 Lotus Elan Roadster, blue with black interior. Equipped with dual carburetors and comes with the soft top and original boot... More
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1941 Ford pickup. V8 flathead with 3-speed manual transmission and complete bed. Has fiberglass rear fenders. Very solid pickup with custom paint. Full chrome... More
1966 Lincoln Continental 4 door hardtop, Priced to sell now. This car ran fine before I parked it years ago. I cannot start it... More
1981 Mercedes-Benz 380SLC, One owner. Double timing chain conversion. Starts and runs well. Looks good. Tires and brakes good. Fun to drive. Drive it... More
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This classic beauty belonged to my late mother who was the second owner. There are lots of customs on this hot rod - headers, 350... More
Daimler Regency Empress body by Hooper – Complete, Original, Solid Car! – Aluminum Body with Mostly Original Paint! – 1 of 5 Imported to the USA – 18... More
Chevrolet 1937 2-door sedan model GB Master, from NE, 112" wb, rolls, driveline intact, make nice rod, needs floor, located in MN.... More
International 1934 C-20 light duty truck, 13' wb, ideal pickup-type cab and grille for street rod, clean MT unit, rolls, 6-cyl, driveline is in... More
This Yellowstone Bus is an older restoration with automatic transmission and V-8 engine that has been used as a ski shuttle since 2001. It has... More
A really solid truck that would be very easy to restore. A true barn find out of a museum this truck has only some... More
1974 Porsche 914 '74 Porsche 914 chassis# 4742906999 in its original color code#64K Zambezi green with brown interior. Great car in a great color combination... More
1982 Studebaker Avanti '82 Studebaker Avanti in silver with red interior. Very desirable color combination. Excellent original car that has been sitting for many... More
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1980 Mack F model cabover. partial in frame rebuild. 300 cummins. single pipe hydraulic system (with tank, pto, pump). pair of aluminum wheels plus... More
This 1964 Chrysler 300 convertible is serviced annually and still runs and drives well. Owned by a Chrysler dealer for 20 years who has... More
1964 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible. Needs work. Engine is 351 Windsor from 1976 Mustang with 4-barrel box carb. ET-II mags with 5-post caps. Original... More
1964 Mercedes 230SL Very Early Car 4-Speed 2 Tops* A/C W113 Unrestored, running and driving 230SL. Under 40 Years of ownership from Florida. Title dates... More
1973 Volvo P1800ES that can be made into a driver. The car is in pale yellow with a blue interior and it has the... More
The "Coveted" Year - 1967 Mustang Convertible A Great Driver! 289 V8 / Automatic / Power Steering / PB / Only 118 k original miles.... More
For sale is my Great Great Aunts Ford, she bought it brand new and I still have the original sales recipts and original Ford... More
1957 Porsche 356A Coupe '57 Porsche 356A Coupe chassis# 57807 engine# 810954 in black with red interior. Lots of potential. Same owner since 1988.... More
1982 CADILLAC ELDORADO 2 DOOR COUPE FEATURES A 4.1L MOTOR WITH ELECTRIC SUNROOF. WHITE WITH MAROON LEATHER SEATS AND MATCHING MAROON VINYL ROOF. 89,482... More
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2014 Call for Issue Editors
Each issue of Virtual Mentor has a theme—a medical specialty field or topic of concern or debate in medical ethics. We invite medical students and residents to apply to serve as theme issue editors. Each theme issue editor undertakes, with help from VM staff editors, responsibility for: (1) selecting a theme for one issue and defining the ethical and professionalism concerns inherent in that theme, (2) generating case narratives that provide opportunities for examining those concerns in clinical and educational contexts, (3) identifying, securing, and corresponding with 10 to 15 contributors to the issue, (4) editing copy of solicited manuscripts and reviewing page proofs before the issue goes live on the first working day of the month, and (5) joining the AMA Virtual Mentor group on LinkedIn and promote your VM issue when it goes live. These tasks will be accomplished at each editor's "home" location.
Theme issue editors, selected in November, meet in Chicago with Virtual Mentor staff in February. Each theme issue editor receives a $2,000-stipend.
The abilities to critique an argument or article, work well with authors, and meet deadlines are essential. Experience in editing or journalism is desirable.
To Apply
The call for applications is announced in the August issue of VM each year. You must be a medical student or resident physician member of the AMA to serve as an issue editor. If you are not yet an AMA member and would like to join, you can do so online at http://www.ama-assn.org/go/join.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Start spreading the news.
Iowa will leave next week for an NIT semifinal at Madison Square Garden. The Hawkeyes wiped away a season's worth of road disappointment and beat Virginia 75-64 last night at John Paul Jones Arena.
New York, New York. Iowa (24-12) made it there, and will play future Big Ten member Maryland (25-12) at 8 p.m. next Tuesday.
Iowa coach Fran McCaffery declared the postgame locker room scene the wildest in his three seasons. New York native Melsahn Basabe twice described it as "crazy" before shouting "We're going to New York baby!"
Perhaps the happiest member of the Iowa locker room was senior Eric May, who opened his career with a 10-win season and helped win a game Wednesday that equaled the third-most victories in school history.
"We're by no means satisfied, but man that was special," May said. "The excitement of everybody in there. We're going for a common goal. We're in it together. Just knowing everybody's excited, one through 15. It's unbelievable, the atmosphere we had."
The Cavaliers had won 19 straight home games before Tuesday, and Iowa had lost eight of its previous 10 true road games. But the Hawkeyes weathered a tough couple of possessions and put together its best second half of the season. Iowa finally closed out an opponent on the road and did it almost perfectly.
The Hawkeyes drilled all 15 free-throw attempts, and 14 took place inside of the final 3:09. Iowa scored 75 points against a team that ranked fourth nationally giving up only 55 per game. The Hawkeyes shot 49.1 percent from the field and out-rebounded Virginia 34-26.
"I thought our offensive execution down the stretch was great," McCaffery said. "Our spacing, our back-running was good and we executed our sets. Guys made shots, guys made free throws and guys made passes."
In a back-and-forth second half, Iowa broke apart a close game with a 12-3 run. With Iowa up 49-46, Aaron White scored his first basket with a ferocious dunk over Justin Anderson. Adam Woodbury, who finished with 10 points and eight rebounds, followed with an inside basket a possession later.
Then Iowa scored back-to-back on a Devyn Marble shot at the rim, a Zach McCabe 3-pointer and a May 3-pointer at the top of the key to put the Hawkeyes up 61-49.
Iowa held the Cavaliers (23-12) to 38 percent from the field and kept all-ACC guard Joe Harris to 11 points and four turnovers.
"They play good basketball," Virginia coach Tony Bennett said. "They're difficult to play against because they defend you and they're very physical. We were trying to guard them.
"I think they wore us down. They're hard to play because I think they're balanced. We gave them way too many easy looks."
Marble and Anthony Clemmons, who scored seven points in 19 minutes, had to compensate for Mike Gesell's continued foot problems. Gesell reinjured his right foot and didn't play in the second half. Marble continued his sizzling postseason run, scoring 24 points. He's averaging 25.3 points over the Iowa's three NIT games.
"We definitely earned this one," Marble said. "We played hard, we played hungry, we knew what was at stake and we knew they weren't going to give it to us. We had to take it."
Iowa qualifies for its first NIT semifinal in seven trips. The Hawkeyes previously were 0-2 in NIT quarterfinals.
"This is one of the best team wins I've ever been a part of," May said. "To come here and to win it like that, nobody's done it this year like we did. That just shows how good this team is and how dangerous we are when we're playing like that."
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President Mohamed Morsi met on Sunday 13/1/2013 with President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy.
During the meeting, the two sides discussed ways of boosting bilateral ties between Egypt and the European Union (EU) in the various fields along with activating the soft loans program, offered by the EU to support development projects in Egypt.
At a press conference at the end of their talks on 13/1/2013 at Egypt's presidential palace, President Morsi underlined the strength and depth of relations between Egypt and the European Union.
Morsi asserted that Egypt appreciates the EU stances in support for its democratic transition as well as democracy in Arab Spring countries.
Morsi said that Rompuy's visit to Egypt emanates from ongoing dialogue between Egypt and the EU regarding bilateral, regional and international issues of joint interest.
Egypt has been making strides in building the modern and civil state, Morsi added.
The Egyptian leader went on to say that his country is highly appreciating clear EU stances on the Syrian crisis and peacemaking in the Middle East, based on general humanitarian principles.


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Jana Jones has joined Regional Medical Center as Administrator, Ambulatory Surgery.
The Ambulatory Surgery Center is now under construction at Regional Medical Center. Jana most recently served as the COO and Administrator at the Eye Specialty Group and Ridge Lake Ambulatory Surgery Center. Jana has also worked with the Corrections Corporation of America and currently serves on the Concorde Career College advisory board.
Kathy Beydler has joined Regional Medical Center as Director of Surgical Services.
Kathy has more than 20 years experience in surgery administration including serving as the Director of Surgery at Methodist University Hospital and serving as the administrator at the Baptist DeSoto Surgery Center. Kathy's educational background includes degrees in nursing, education and an MBA.


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Awesome! That image rocks! Where did it come from? Can I get it a size bigger and make it my desktop wallpaper?
Such are the common questions you might ask yourself should you stumble across an awesome picture on the Internet And until now, there's been no clear way to search for an identical version of an image across the Web No, a Google search for the image's characteristics doesn't count--good luck trying to find the one shot of a red balloon you're looking for in a sea of thousands.
The Mozilla Firefox add-on TinEye Reverse Image Search uses a novel method for finding copies of said image across the Internet Whenever you submit an image to be searched, the accompanying site--tineye.com--assigns a digital fingerprint to the picture. It then looks for similar fingerprints across its archive of collected images, allowing the site (or your add-on) to pull up partial or exact matches for the image you've searched for In that sense, you're not just looking for images that are similar to your picture in terms of coloration or subject You're looking for exact copies, crops, or scaled versions of the shot.
How well does TinEye Reverse Image Search actually work in practice? As expected, you can't just click on any ol' image on the Internet and expect it to produce comparable results Trying to search for alternate versions of random Web graphics on, say, CNN.com or maximumpc.com isn't always going to produce much to look at. Remember, you're searching for duplicate images . Screenshots will certainly pull up results, as will pictures that would otherwise be the kind that are copied around the Web--like certain Flickr photographs, for example And now that I've mentioned that, you should probably know that TinEye Reverse Image Search is an excellent way to find out who's using your images around the 'net as well...
Maximum PC picks one new Firefox add-on as its favorite of the week each... week. Have a nifty extension that you can't live without? Twitter David Murphy @acererak with your latest suggestions.


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Filmmaking, Screenwriting and Media Arts
Sarah Lawrence College's undergraduate filmmaking, screenwriting and media arts program (FSMA) offers a vibrant, dynamic, creative incubator to ignite the imagination of the next generation of media makers. The program seeks to help students navigate the intersection of art and technology, as they acquire the tools and skills of the discipline and develop their critical and creative voices.
Cognizant that not every student will graduate to be a writer, director, producer, or game developer, the program believes that—with the enduring power and influence of cinema, television, the Web, and social media—students in all fields of study benefit from media literacy and theory and an enduring understanding of the ways and means of media development and production.
The program explores a broad scope of media making, including narrative fiction, documentary/nonfiction, experimental film, animation, cinematography, storyboarding, directing actors, as well as producing, screenwriting, writing for television, writing and producing for the Web, writing for games, and game development.
Interdisciplinary work across the liberal arts is encouraged, and formal and informal collaboration among the music, dance, theatre and other disciplines continue to emerge and flourish. In a creative alliance with the theatre program, FSMA has begun the third year of its interdisciplinary, team-taught project in developing and producing Web series.
Our faculty and staff are all accomplished, working filmmakers, screenwriters, and media artists. We have an exchange program in animation with CalArts and study-abroad opportunities in film in Paris, Cuba, and at the world famous FAMU film school in Prague. Our ever-expanding network of alums working in the field help provide internship opportunities, as well.
Recent graduates routinely have their work represented at some of the world's most prestigious film and media festivals, and graduates who chose to pursue advanced degrees are finding traction at the top film schools in the United States and abroad.
Courses in other disciplines related to Filmmaking, Screenwriting and Media Arts
- Acting for Screenwriters and Directors: Less Is More—How to Talk the Talk
- Cinematography: Color, Composition, and Style
- Collaboration in Audio and Moving-Image Technologies
- Concepts in Media Self-Portraiture
- Creating the Digital Documentary
- Digital Documentary Storytelling
- Directing Methods: Creating a Solid Foundation Through Collaboration
- Drawing for Animation: Form and Motion
- Filmmaking: Advanced Projects in Directing
- Filmmaking Structural Analysis
- Filmmaking: The Director Prepares
- First-Year Studies: Animated Documentary
- First-Year Studies: Sustainable Content: An Introduction to Media Creation for the Web
- Introduction to Filmmaking: Where to Put the Camera
- Introduction to Television Writing: The Spec Script
- Making the Genre Film: Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy
- Producing for the Screen: A Real World Guide, Part 1
- Producing For The Screen: A Real World Guide, Part II
- Screenwriting: Finishing The First Draft of Your Feature Film
- Screenwriting: Structuring and Writing the Narrative Feature Film
- Screenwriting: The Art and Craft of Film-Telling
- Storyboard Drawing and Visualization for Film and Animation
- Subverting the Arts for Environmental Change
- TV Writing: The Original TV Pilot
- Women/Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Film and Media: History and Theory
- Working With Light and Shadows
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U.S. Plagued with Serious Gun-related Crimes
|Pyongyang, May 7 (KCNA) -- Serious gun-related crimes occurred in Texas and Kansas, etc. of the U.S., claiming the lives of dozens of people.
At a U.S. military base in Texas State a soldier in his combat fatigue desperately made shooting spree, leaving three persons dead and 16 others wounded. It caused such great chaos that many around the scene of the crime ran about to seek shelters. A similar crime took place in November, 2009, too in this military base, leaving 13 dead and 32 others wounded.
As regards the gun-related crime which occurred in Kansas on April 14, Obama shouted hoarse that such case should not be allowed to occur again as it makes people worry about their safety. But gun-related crimes are like a malignant tumor hard to cure as they are rampant in the society as a trend.
Due to ceaseless gun-related crimes, people are exposed to constant threat to their safety. They are not free from uneasiness and horror.
In the U.S. 69.3 percent of murders and 41 percent of robberies are gun-related crimes.
The number of guns possessed by individual inhabitants reaches about O.3 billion and over 100 000 people are suffering from gun-related crimes.
In New York in 2013 alone, there occurred 1 093 gun-related crimes.
The U.S. is plagued with all social evils and awash with guns. So, gun-related crimes take place frequently regardless of time, place and age.
Shooting sprees occur at campuses of universities and high schools, department stores and even churches. Due to these crimes, those who are not particularly related to criminals fall victim to them with their grudge unsettled and many people meet grievous deaths.
Even soldiers and policemen who should be responsible for the lives and security of people are involved in these gun-related crimes. For instance, a policeman shot a man living in a tent to death in March last.
As society is awash with guns, even children brandish guns, causing a series of gun-related crimes.
A 2 year-old boy fired a loaded gun at his 11-year old sister on her breast by accident in the bedroom of his parents at a house in Philadelphia City on April 6. A little boy in a city of Georgia State also accidentally shot her 10-year old sister to death on April 4.
As seen above, the U.S. tops the world list of gun-related crimes.
It is quite natural that social uneasiness is growing day by day among Americans due to various crimes including gun-related crimes.
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Naji asserts that Jundallah will not clash with the Army. (The Daily Star/Antoine Amrieh)
TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Sheikh Kanaan Naji, the head of the powerful Islamist group Jundallah, has spoken out for the first time since the beginning of violence in Tripoli to call the events "part of the Syrian issue," saying that Hezbollah and March 8 are attempting to drive a wedge between Sunnis and the Lebanese Army.
Since its formation in the 1970s in Tripoli, Jundallah has emerged as the dominant force in the northern city's Islamist Committees, which Naji heads. Jundallah has so far not taken part in the Tripoli clashes, and Naji told The Daily Star he decided to break his media silence to speak about the connection between Tripoli's violence and the Syrian uprising, as well as efforts to split the Sunni population from the Army.
Since the Syrian Army's 2005 withdrawal from Lebanon, Naji said Hezbollah, which supports the Syrian regime, has "insisted on ruling the country through involvement in government and repeatedly obstructing its work.
"Today, Syria wants to prevent us from supporting the uprising," Naji said, denying that the rebel Free Syrian Army has a presence in Lebanon.
"We sympathize with the uprising morally," he said, "but not by embracing the Syrian Army ... all events taking place in Tripoli are related to the Syrian uprising and how it develops, and thus the Syrian regime is threatening a security explosion [inside Lebanon] to prevent us from supporting the uprising."
Naji continued that "supporting the uprising is an honor for us, and we will not be subjected to threats. We will confront every attempt by the Syrian Army to enter Lebanon again, not just in Tripoli but at the borders as well."
Hezbollah and March 8 are inciting sectarian strife in order to drive a wedge between Sunnis and the Lebanese Army, Naji said, citing the killing of a prominent anti-Assad Muslim sheikh and his companion at a Lebanese Army checkpoint in Akkar in late May as evidence for this.
Almost immediately after the shootings, angry protesters took to the streets in Akkar, Tripoli, and Beirut.
"We have informed the army command that the aim of the incident is to divide the Sunnis from the army and that the incident was deliberate and calculated," Naji said. But he insisted that "the Lebanese Army is a necessity, and will remain the institution that guarantees peace and stability in the country, despite some violations [it has made]."
Addressing those who he said want to divide Sunnis from the Army, Naji said: "Cease your efforts; we will not clash with the Army. We also say to all groups that we will continue to support the Army, and hope investigations will continue in the Akkar incident."
Of the Tripoli clashes, largely in the neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh, Jabal Mohsen and Qobbeh, Naji's participation is not in the Lebanese interest.
"We will not allow division between us," he said. "We will not stop supporting the Syrian uprising and embracing it socially and morally ... we will give all our support to Syrian refugees," but said they cannot become part of Lebanon's security equation.
"Those who are supporters of the Syrian regime have the right to express their opinions freely, but without violating the law," he added.
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt Monday said that the events in Tripoli were aimed at putting pressure on Prime Minister Najib Mikati's government so as to bring it down. For his part, Naji said that "unfortunately some see the events in Tripoli as an opportunity to topple the government, but in our opinion this is not the way to bring it down."
Naji said that his "message to local and regional groups is 'halt your attempts to tamper with security.'"
After Tripoli's neighborhoods were calmed, in part due to deployment of the Lebanese Army, there were attacks on several Alawite-owned businesses.
Politicians from across the political spectrum have condemned the attacks, and Naji called them "a game [intended] to make Alawites feel targeted. We call on the government to deal with this issue with justice."
"Change in Syria will take place sooner or later," he said, speaking of the issue he believes is driving events in the north. "If things spiral out of control [in Lebanon], it will affect all groups."
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Guest post by Callie Durbrow
Hey KBL gang, Callie Durbrow here and I wanted to write this post for my mentor and friend, Big Chris because it's so simple yet so powerful.
A few years ago I was renting space in this tiny MMA gym and I had a bunch of clients which was cool, but I didn't have a system so I kind of felt like I was always running around trying to find the next big thing to bring in clients.
Back then Chris said to me, "You need to get your own place. You have to just fuckin' do it."
I was really scared but I took action and just kept going, moving my business forward one day at a time. Just 2 short years later I have my own 5,000 square foot facility with two trainers and best of all, I have the systems in place to rinse and repeat so I don't have to worry about where my next client is coming from.
So why should you care about my story?
Because I'm about to break it down for you and give you the top 5 strategies to get more clients and triple your income.
Strategy #1- Fire your 1 on 1 clients.
Yeah I said it. Bold and crazy?
Hear me out on this. Training clients one on one will not allow you to leverage your time. You need to train them in small groups. All you need to do is figure out the times that you want to train.
For me initially it was 6-9am and 5-8pm so I just told all my current clients that I was going to be switching over to group training and I told them they would get way better results, it would be really motivating and fun and it would cost them about 50% as much. They were sold (that's the thing, you have to position it like it's awesome and not ask them if they just want to try it out).
Once I told everyone, I just let them pick their time slot and I filled those groups. This is easy because most people want to train at those peak times anyway. Groups of 6-10 work really well and you can easily fit all of your clients in each day.
Here's some resources to help with group training:
Strategy #2- Take Massive Action
Sometimes I hate when I see advice like this. What the hell does that even mean? I know you want something tangible that you can start doing today and not just some theory. Taking massive action simply means do 1-2 things each day that will move your business forward. These are things that are often future based and you may not get an immediate return but you have to keep doing them. Even if you feel like total garbage that day, just do 1-2 things. Chris said to me once that action alleviates anxiety. For those of us with a touch of anxiety, this couldn't be further from the truth
Massive action steps:
Contact local businesses and offer to do lunch and learns
Connect with previous clients and just see how they're doing and if you can help in any way
Write guest blog posts in your industry or locally
Create Facebook ads with a compelling offer (we use 21 days for $21)
Create training videos and post to Youtube using your local keywords (City Personal Trainer)
These are just a few things you can do daily and weekly. Stay consistent and just get it done.
Strategy #3- Create Systems for Referrals
This one can vary from business to business but here are some of the best ways to get referrals from your best clients:
Transformation Contests ( like HERE )
Ask for a referral commitment at the point of sale. Make it a condition of doing business that they'll commit to bringing in their friends
Offer a low barrier trial like 21 days for $21
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Measure your clients every 4-6 weeks. This keeps them accountable and gives them (and you) tangible results
Take before and after photos
Set short and long term goals
Give them awesome training sessions using a variety of methods- Kettlebells, Ropes, Prowler, Med Balls and Valslides are all killer tools that will make the training sessions more exciting and fun
Stick to the basics- don't forget good old fashioned squats, dead lifts, lunges and push ups
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When people come to train and they get to hang out with their friends at the same time, they'll never want to leave for fear of missing out on something cool.
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Three more photos of Hagrid's Hut from the filming of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix have now emerged online. Expectro-Patronum.com let us know that in these new set photos, you can see the blue screen they have set up in the background of the Hut. There is also a closeup photo of a scarecrow in the garden, with a head made from a pumpkin You can see these photos here, here, and the scarecrow photo here. Thanks much to Expectro-Patronum!


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The pg era could work!!!
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Hi, this is my first blog, some of you will hate it some may like it, but hopefully you may take some of what i say on board.
I am 31, i started watching wrestling, here in the UK, when i was around 7 or 8, my dad still remembers me trying to replicate Randy Savages elbow drop from the top of my bunk beds onto my friends in the street. i have watched the WWF/WWE since. I loved the attitude era and like most people at the moment am a bit down on the current stsate of the WWE. but....
Now it seems a lot of people on here only watched wrestling in the attitude era and not a lot before, apologies if i am wrong. Before the attitude era there was a host of stars Hulkster, Warrior, Brett, Rick Rude, Mr Perfect, Junkyard dog, Hercules, Andre, Bam BAam, One Man Gang, Earthquake, SGT Slaughter, Nikolai Volkoff, Iron Sheikh to name but a small few. Now these names enterained a generation of fans like myself for hours every week and we loved it, Heels were booed faces were cheered. But they all had one thing in common, there was no swearing, no crass behaviour (well not a great deal). In the early eighties and the early nineties WWE (WWF) was a PG era!!!!!!
Go back and watch some of these matches, they all told a story, the build ups were fantastic and everyone played their roles, backstage segments were 'i am gonna beat you in the ring because i hate you' but they put the intensity into their promos that made you believe they wanted to beat each other up to prove they were the better men. PPV's were a big thing with everything built up top the big match climax that often resolved feuds. Tag teams were relevant and good, people had time to build up heat between each other. And above all, the wrestlers were entertaining! Oh and managers! every good era has top quality managers, Hart, Heenan & Mr Fuji were my favourites.
Now it was done then and it can be done again, by this I mean good wrestling, entertaining wrestlers, comedy skits and all catering for the kids and the adults. go and watch matches from this era. the singles matches, the tag matches, the skits watch it all. story telling was the way the WWE got its fans, the kids in the events used to go nuts for heels and faces and not just their favourite wrestlers, watch how they wrestlers control the crowd. Nowadays its almost a lost art form!
Final paragraph, i promise, for me the WWE needs to tell a story between wrestlers, build up the heat between them, less pay per views, real tag teams with team names, backstage skits that add to tensions between people and not random unfunny comedy, generate heat by playing to the audience at ringside, take a kids hat and shout at the front row, make them hate you. Dont get me wrong i loved the attitude era as well, but i am trying to look at the PG era previously that launched a lot of brilliant wrestlers to the PG era today that doesnt tell a story. Let me know what you think guys, be nice please!
P.S check out some of my favourite wrestlers then tell me PG cant be done....Steamboat, British Bulldogs, Hart Foundation, Demolition, Rogeaux brothers, Texas Tornado, Bam Bam Bigalow, Dibaise, Coco be Ware, Big JohnStudd, One man Gang and watch promos from Piper, Jimmy Hart, Booby Heenan...


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Got the cast off my hand on Friday, and now that the swelling has gone down I can see things better. After new X-rays at the Orthopedic surgeon's office I'm told that it looks OK, and I'll need a couple of more months of healing. The bone is sticking up out of the top of my hand, so I wasn't too happy overall.
I've only been seen by the Physician's assistant, I've never met the actual hand doctor, though he has seen my X-rays. It was explained to me that I have about a 40 degree angle from the break, and they normally only operate when they're over 45. Also the bone is short by just under 1/2", and only over a 1/2" do they normally operate to correct it.
I went to see a doctor 'friend' and showed him the hand, and the pictures. He said " They're going fix that, aren't they?" I explained what I was told, and he wasn't too pleased with the diagnosis, telling me that I'll likely lose most of my grip strength, and that the tendons will have a tough time riding over the raised bone, and likely tear over time, and bother me forever. He set me up with a different hand specialist next week to go and get a 2nd opinion. I'm looking forward to hearing the view of someone else.
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More than a quarter of a million people died in the famine in Somalia between October 2010 and April 2012, in part because the international community did not act quickly enough, the top United Nations humanitarian official in the country said today. "The suffering played out like a drama without witnesses," said Philippe Lazzarini, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, reacting to the findings in a new report funded and commissioned the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Some 133,000 of the Somalis who perished - about half - were children under five, according to FAO's Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit for Somalia (FSNAU), which carried out the study along with the USAID-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). Calling the magnitude of the mortality figures "unsettling", Mr. Lazzarini said the report confirms "that we could have done more before famine was declared on 20 July 2011" and that it will help ensure "that Somalia never goes through another famine again." He added that "warnings that began as far back as the drought in 2010 did not trigger sufficient early action.
In the worst affected areas, access to people in need was tremendously difficult. At the peak of the crises, between May and August 2011, about 30,000 excess people died per month, according to the study. "An estimated 4.6 per cent of the total population and 10 per cent of children under 5 died in Southern and Central Somalia," FAO reported. "Lower Shabelle, Mogadishu, and Bay were hardest hit." A massive mobilization of the humanitarian community helped mitigate the worst effects of the crisis, once famine was declared, the Humanitarian Coordinator continued. "We reached previously inaccessible areas through innovative programming and by strengthening local partnerships." Since then, the UN community and its partners have changed the way it operates, Mr. Lazzarini said, "With 2.7 million people still in need of life-saving assistance and support to build up their livelihoods, we are redoubling efforts to invest in Somalia's people and communities to break the cycle of crisis and response." "We are seeking ways to bridge humanitarian and development work which will be crucial to consolidating the resilience of Somalia's people and communities," he added.


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The former president was admitted on November 23rd for bronchitis and then transferred to intensive care in December after coming down with a persistent fever and other complications.
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Shell navigates obstacles in Arctic drilling
Energy giant battles snags in quest for oil
By Jennifer A. Dlouhy | November 3, 2012 | Updated: November 3, 2012 9:09pm
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Workers step off a helicopter onto the drilling vessel Noble Discoverer during a crew change in October.
Photo By Jennifer A. DlouhyIn 2012, Shell drilled in the Chukchi Sea north of Alaska using the drillship Noble Discoverer (Photo: Jennifer A. Dlouhy / The Houston Chronicle)
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Pete Slaiby, the vice president of Shell Alaska, surveys the scene on the drillship Noble Discoverer. As Shell's top executive in Alaska, Slaiby is overseeing the company's new venture in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.
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Workers on the rig floor link up drill pipe. Shell is using the ship and its crew to finish the first half of a well in its Burger prospect in the Chukchi Sea - with a plan to return next year and drill it to completion.
Photo By Jennifer A. DlouhyAlton Brown is the rig manager on the Noble Discoverer. (Photo: Jennifer A. Dlouhy / The Houston Chronicle)
Photo By Jennifer A. DlouhyA view of the 160-foot-tall derrick on the Noble Discoverer. (Photo: Jennifer A. Dlouhy / The Houston Chronicle)
Photo By Jennifer A. DlouhyThe drillship Noble Discoverer is boring a well in the Chukchi Sea north of Alaska. (Photo: Jennifer A. Dlouhy / The Houston Chronicle)
Photo By Jennifer A. DlouhyThe drillship Noble Discoverer is boring a well in the Chukchi Sea north of Alaska. (Photo: Jennifer A. Dlouhy / The Houston Chronicle)
Photo By Jennifer A. DlouhyThe drillship Noble Discoverer is boring a well in the Chukchi Sea north of Alaska. (Photo: Jennifer A. Dlouhy / The Houston Chronicle)
Photo By Jennifer A. DlouhyThe drillship Noble Discoverer will leave Alaska as early as next week to be repaired in South Korea.
Photo By Jennifer A. DlouhyWorkers on the Noble Discoverer link up drill pipe. Before heading to Alaska, the Discoverer was drilling in New Zealand.
Photo By Jennifer A. DlouhyKendall Duncan, assistant rig manager, and driller Sheldon Smith coordinate operations inside the drill shack on the Noble Discoverer. Duncan, who is from Poplarville, Miss., says he is still adjusting to the Arctic climate -- including the patches of ice that appear on the vessel. "It's like waking up in the Twilight Zone," Duncan says. (Photo: Jennifer A. Dlouhy / The Houston Chronicle)
Photo By Jennifer A. DlouhyWorkers step off a helicopter onto the Noble Discoverer during a crew change Oct. 9, 2012. The Discoverer is boring a well for Shell in the Chukchi Sea north of Alaska. Most Shell employees and some contractors on the vessel generally work three week shifts -- with three-week breaks in between the stints. (Photo: Jennifer A. Dlouhy / The Houston Chronicle)
Photo By Jennifer A. DlouhyThe Noble Discoverer carried casings during its time north of Alaska in the Chukchi Sea as it started a well for Shell Oil Co. It has since sailed south.
Photo By Jennifer A. DlouhyCasing sits on the Noble Discoverer, ready to be run in the first half of the well Shell is drilling in the Chukchi Sea. (Photo: Jennifer A. Dlouhy / The Houston Chronicle)
Photo By Jennifer A. DlouhyThe blowout preventer on the Noble Discoverer drillship has two sets of shearing rams meant to cut through drill pipe in case of an emergency.
CHUKCHI SEA, OFF THE COAST OF NORTHERN ALASKA - On an all-but-invisible horizon, light gray mist meets dark gray water. Tiny, dry snowflakes and ice crystals swirl across the deck of the drillship Noble Discoverer, driven by a wind that whips through the warmest coveralls.
Just another day at the office, 400 miles above the Arctic Circle.
"It is a challenging environment," conceded Shell Alaska Vice President Pete Slaiby, watching the waves that rocked the rig as it bored the first 1,500 feet of an exploratory well in the Chukchi Sea. "You have to plan every day, every operation."
Six years and about $5 billion into its quest for Arctic oil, Shell still struggles to overcome the obstacles of this forbidding frontier, where the cold locks up machines and blankets of fog sometime keep planes out of the sky for days at a time.
Despite exhaustive planning and simulation of the work to come, problems started even before Shell's drilling units arrived. First, stubborn sea ice clung to Alaska's shores, preventing Shell's ships from cruising to their shallow-water drill sites. Then, the Discoverer dragged its anchors and briefly floated out of control near Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Later, Shell confessed it couldn't satisfy some terms of an air-pollution permit governing the Discoverer. And finally, after months of construction delays, the company's first-of-its-kind oil spill containment barge was damaged during certification tests.
Although oil companies punched nearly three dozen wells in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas between 1982 and 1997, Shell's latest Arctic venture is the first bid to find crude underneath these waters in decades and the first since the Gulf oil spill focused new scrutiny on the safety of offshore drilling.
In its return to the Arctic, Shell navigated around such obstacles as low-hanging fog and floating ice while managing more than two dozen ships and the logistics of deploying, feeding and boarding hundreds of workers at a time.
Now, just days after Shell left its half-finished Chukchi and Beaufort Sea wells for the winter, the company is preparing to make changes because of the lessons it learned this summer.
Cold-weather setbacks
All too often, fog socked in the helicopters Shell used to rotate workers on and off its vessels, stranding them for extra time at sea or onshore in Barrow and Prudhoe Bay. While the choppers, operated by PHI Inc., have instrument-flying capability, they weren't equipped with critical de-icing equipment that would allow them to soar into the clouds. And whenever fog rolled in - as it does roughly half the time in the summer - it was often impossible for the helicopters to stay below the clouds while still flying sufficiently above the water.
The solution next year will be to put rotor heating on the equipment, allowing Shell to keep the helicopters flying on a more predictable schedule.
Shell also is planning to replace the cranes on its Kulluk floating drilling unit, which worked in the Chukchi Sea. The move will allow the equipment to work in colder conditions. On the Discoverer, cranes still won't be operable in temperatures below freezing - suspending any efforts to run the widest (and heaviest) casing in the well hole.
The cold weather also has made it difficult for the Noble Discoverer to desalinate and treat water for use on the ship, something Capt. Mike Shanley acknowledged he had not anticipated. The vessel is relying on an alternative evaporative distillation process as a workaround.
Still, Slaiby thinks Shell's logistical management was a success, in part because workers on the rigs never went without needed equipment.
For example, when rocks got caught in the wheel harrow blades of a massive, specialized drill bit on the Discoverer in mid-October, Shell was able to draw from a stash of spare parts near its helipad for repairs.
The fix took just 12 hours instead of the several days that might have been required if the equipment were on a nearby floating barge or on land.
Distance is a major foe in this barren environment. And while Shell has an armada of support ships spread across these Arctic waters, there are no nearby deep-water ports for extra supplies. The closest one, in Dutch Harbor, is more than 1,200 miles away.
Threat of ice
Ice is also an ever-present threat.
Thirty-five years of experience in offshore exploration didn't prepare senior drilling supervisor Loyd Wallace for the perpetually overcast skies, the cold or the ice he saw one day on the horizon: "It was sticking out of the water, like a mountain of snow floating by."
On the Discoverer's bridge, an ice adviser, Capt. Doug Allen, scans an array of computer screens, constantly monitoring ice around the drillship and its support vessels. "You always have to be aware of it," Allen said.
Shell was forced to flee ice in September, just one day into drilling its Burger A well in the Chukchi Sea, after a 30x12-mile floe half the size of Houston encroached. Workers halted work, hurriedly disconnected from the ship's eight anchors and retreated until the ice floe could pass by.
That episode and others were instructive for federal offshore drilling regulators that have stationed inspectors on Shell's Arctic drilling units around the clock.
"We're no longer talking about these things in the abstract, where ... the issues seem very manageable," said Deputy Interior Secretary David Hayes. "When they actually affect operations, it's a reminder that this is ... a particularly challenging environment."
Interior Department officials expect to conduct a "lessons learned" exercise internally and with Shell in coming weeks.
Several other companies are waiting to follow in Shell's footsteps, including ConocoPhillips, Statoil and Repsol. All would be taking advantage of new sea conditions, as climate change and melting ice open areas that were once impassible.
Are woes a warning?
But even as the Arctic potential widens, some in the industry are skittish. Statoil said it would wait until 2015 at the earliest to pursue drilling on its own leases in the Chukchi Sea after witnessing Shell's woes this year. And Total SA CEO Christophe de Margerie told the Financial Times last month that the environmental risks are too high to justify oil drilling in Arctic waters. Total does not have leases in the U.S. Arctic, but does own rights in other Arctic waters.
Shell's setbacks this year surprised even some veteran industry observers who were braced for problems.
"Even as a person who is thinking about what could go wrong, I was surprised at how many things went wrong," said Marilyn Heiman, director of the Pew Environment Group's Arctic Program.
Environmentalists say Shell's problem-plagued start proved the company isn't capable of safely searching for oil in the Arctic, where spill-response technology can be defeated by slushy waters and ice. They also insist that the government and public deserve more details about what went wrong with the containment system testing and the Discoverer in Dutch Harbor.
"If they don't make this information public, how can we be assured that these kinds of problems won't happen in the extreme Arctic Ocean?" Heiman asked.
Eyes on oil prize
Still, for Shell, an enormous prize beckons. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the area north of the Arctic Circle contains 90 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil, with nearly a third of them under the American continental shelf.
And Shell has staked out a big position, with 408 federal drilling leases in U.S. Arctic waters.
Armed with knowledge from Shell's earlier 1990-era drilling and from studying 3D seismic surveys of the Chukchi Sea, company geologists have identified strong indications of a large subsurface structure that they say could have a multibillion-barrel potential, possibly yielding 400,000 barrels per day. That's roughly 4 percent of current daily U.S. production.
Expensive gamble
Dave Pursell, an analyst with the Houston-based energy investment bank Tudor, Pickering and Holt, said Shell is making a big bet not just that there is oil under its leases, but also that it has the money and in-house engineering skills to develop production equipment and pipelines that can withstand Arctic conditions and churn out oil year-round.
"Shell views themselves as a kind of leading technology company," Pursell said, noting the firm's other advantage: capital. "There are significant barriers to entry. Not many guys can spend billions and billions of dollars on plays that probably require yet-to-be-developed technology."


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because it's raw and pure, it's raw energy.†But rather than being an absent-minded character locked in the ivory tower of academe, Choe is running loose in the streets (dressed in slacks and blazer, can of spray paint in hand, skateboarding), being paid to destroy movie sets, and falling in love with oils in his studio. He lives. He lives out his artwork and philosophies—the postmodern and crazed version of the Zenga artist quickly drawing the enso.
These apparent paradoxes eventually clue the reader into the nature of Choe and his artwork: He is a cultural satirist who is serious about his personal life, with a sincerity that Urb magazine sarcastically described as "secretly romantic.â€
Choe doesn't try to create some great piece of art. It comes naturally. Choe is just doing his thing, following a method similar to what San Jose artist Joseph Demaree calls "Telling-My-Story-Wellism.†In all of his art, from the mixed media (watercolors, pen and ink, white out, acrylics, oils, spray paints, crayons, Polaroids, and Mexican candy wrappers) of his 1999 Self Portrait, to the traditional materials of his more recent Water Color Sketch from Parked Car Outside 7-11, to the pages of his newest book Bruised Fruit (Slow Jams, $20.00), he captures and conveys a stimulating self-reflection that is always
"In general, I imagine Pynchon is so important because of the emphasis in his work on epistemology, technology and history. His work amounts to an ongoing critique of the way these themes are articulated in Western culture,†says Rick Moody, author of The Diviners and the forthcoming collection Right Livelihoods. "Because, moreover, he happens to understand technology deeply, more deeply than most contemporary American writers. That theme is perhaps especially rigorously thought through, with the result that Pynchon seems to have more to say about technology than just about anyone.â€
"With Pynchon, one can't help but feel simultaneously intimidated and embraced. The breadth of the work's intelligence is nothing short of obscene, and such intellectual formidability is dazzling, seductive and utterly enduring,†says author Bret Anthony Johnston, author of the critically acclaimed stories collection Corpus Christi. "I love the endless abundance of dualities in all of his books, and how they — whether political or scientific or conspiratorial or infrastructural — are precariously teetering on a kind of cultural seesaw — tipped one way, we're saved, tipped the other, we're goners.â€
Robert Bramkamp, a German filmmaker whose Preufstand 7 loosely adapts Pynchon's magnum opus, Gravity's Rainbow, for the big screen, telling the cinematic biography of the novel's screaming missile, says, "Pynchon's novels operate interconnected within their own time zone, and that mystery and wonder is the key to our own times.â€
Steve Erickson, prodigious author of Our Ecstatic Days and Amnesiascope, both significantly influenced by Pynchon, calls the American maestro "the lunatic god of American literature†and says Pynchon's novels are full of "infinite secrets.†Gravity's Rainbow, Erickson says, "transcends assessment: Whatever you think of it, whatever you can even begin to think of it, you can't resist it, it's inexorable, the event horizon of contemporary literature. The only novel of the last 50 years in its league is One Hundred Years of Solitude.â€
"Pynchon knows the culture before the culture knows itself, and in some cases, he knows the culture in a way the culture will never know itself,†says columnist and author Jim (The Buzzing, Slackjaw) Knipfel, whose work has been blurbed by the reclusive Pynchon. "In a world of constant acceleration, Mr. Pynchon somehow manages to remain five steps ahead at all times.â€
If praise for Pynchon were only limited to this quintet of artists, it would still be a heady song. But the world's ongoing heralding of Pynchon as one of the artists for our time is raucous, lively and utterly deafening. Much of the fervor surrounding the 69-year-old author centers not only on his books, but also on the impenetrable air of enigma that surrounds the man himself. Pynchon has never given an interview, has been photographed publicly only a few times, and lives, according to many, a hermitic existence. This level of personal intrigue, coupled with the author's penchant for conspiracy and code-laden narratives, has long been a game of intellectual marksmanship among fans and academics alike who piece together textual clues, biographical tidbits and urban legend to craft a portrait of the author many call God. Or Dog, as the case may be. (Pynchon himself has been known to refer to the Almighty as Dog, and author Knipfel, for one, believes the key to Pynchon's genius may lie in the author's ability to convincingly conjure the canine. "Mr. Pynchon does dogs better than anyone,†Knipfel says. "Consider Zoyd's dog, who opens and closes Vineland, or the various dogs who romp through Gravity's Rainbow, or even Mason & Dixon's Learned English Dog. They're perfect. He captures Dogness — the Platonic Form of Dogness — in a way no one ever has before. To my mind, that's the key to his genius.â€)
What we know about Pynchon, for sure: Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. was born May 8, 1937. He spent two years in the U.S. Navy. He studied engineering physics and English at Cornell University, where Lolita author Vladimir Nabakov was one of his professors. Pynchon graduated in 1959 with a degree in literature. After college, Pynchon was hired as a technical writer at Boeing, the aerospace juggernaut, then developing its surface-to-air missiles. In 1963, Pynchon published his first novel, V., which was awarded William Faulkner Foundation's Award for best first novel of the year. And then, for all intents and purposes, Pynchon disappeared. He has lived in Southern California, Northern California, Mexico City and, currently, reportedly, New York. He is married to his agent, Melanie Jackson, with whom he has a young son, Jackson. He has published five novels and one story collection, V. (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Gravity's Rainbow (1973), Vineland (1990), Mason & Dixon (1997) and Slow Learner (1984), respectively. The Penguin Press will publish his sixth novel, Against the Day, in December. Critics and academics aren't the only ones who love his books, which are often unlikely bestsellers. They have inspired legions of obsessive admirers, collectors and followers throughout the world.
That's essentially everything we know for certain about Pynchon. Which hasn't stopped his global following from concocting some truly intriguing, if barely rooted in reality, theories about who Pynchon really is, and why he insists on flying under the radar. What people think they know about Thomas Pynchon: He is J.D. Salinger; after all, have you seen them in the same place at the same time? He had loose connections to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of JFK. He was part of the CIA's program to unleash LSD and other psychedelics on the baby boomer generation. He is a member of the cult rock band The Residents.
…as to this last assertion, I know The Residents, and they do not include Pynchon physically among them. Go ask Homer. When you're ten feet tall.
Meeting at Heart Attack and Vine
(A post in which we discover that the title has nothing to do with the content, even though there may have been a dim connection at some conceptual stage.)
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I hate to disagree with Rage Boy, but I don't get it. I don't get why Jill Bolte Taylor's schtick is so egregious. I saw the TED talk and I shared it with a psychologist. He referred me to the case of Kim Peek, the savant who was born with a corpus callosum similarly shorted out, and on whom Dustin Hoffman's "Rain Man" character was based. Peek never experienced what we think of as normalcy, and he had other congenital brain problems too. But he does have the corpus callosum problem in common with Taylor.
Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a shut-down of her corpus callosum severing communication between the right and left hemispheres of her brain as an effect of a stroke. Anecdotally, she shares her experience of the right brain as a massive parallel processor and the left brain as an orderly serial processor. She carries with her the memory of the powerful feeling of happiness and enlightenment she had when her corpus callosum crashed, and she calls it Nirvana.
She was Oprah Winfrey's guest. Oprah and Eckhart Tolle have been flogging Tolle's books, and they've associated that cosmic integral feeling of everything in the present moment that Taylor describes, with Tolle's chicanery. RB claims that he simply finds "Jill Bolte Taylor incredibly tedious and annoying…," but I wonder if he isn't ginning up some guilt by association. Lie down with Eckhart Tolle, get up with spiritual fleas?
In her presentation she does have an aura of unreconstructed hippie, but as a scientist she is only describing what happened to her. She isn't making claims about anything more metaphysical than the subjective experience of an acid trip. Personally, I like the idea that she had a brain-fault that tickled her God Spot, that she is able to associate what others might have described as a profound metaphysical experience in neuroanatomical terms.
I like her nerdiness. I think she and Kim Peek should go the road together, a double billing featuring prodigious feats of memory and self stimulated spirituality, and the neuroanatomical explanations for them.
Dancing Bears
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Had a bout of tachycardia today, but I didn't know what it was when it came on. Seemed pretty obvious I was having heart trouble though. Beth drove me to the University Hospital Emergency Room. I presented as a 63 old, overweight, male, lightheaded, experiencing dizziness, shortness of breath, clamminess, chest discomfort.
They were kind enough to skip most of the intake paperwork and take me down to the examining room, shove an IV in my arm, and take my vitals: Pulse rate about 170, blood pressure way high. They hooked me up to the EKG machine and ran a few tests. The doc came back and prescribed an adenosine treatment. They shoved a dose of that down the IV efectively shutting down the electrical activity in my heart.
Within maybe ten seconds, my heart picked up with a normal heart beat, all the ER staff let out the breath they were holding, my blood pressure started down, and over the next few hours lying about watching the Disney channel, my heartbeat returned to my normal 68, and my blood pressure returned to the usual 120/78 or so.
Didn't see any white light, but felt an uncomfortable pressure, first in the carotid arteries, then in the femoral, and my whole body felt flushed. Felt somehow cheated to have remained conscious while my heart was re-booted. But, the worst discomfort I experienced was the removal of all the tape and electrodes. Carla, the ER nurse, was quick, but enough hair came off with each tug that I was more than glad when it was over.
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Right to Bare Arms…
"Desert Eagle" compliments of Israeli Military Industries. Mean spirited shooting lesson compliments of the NRA, I guess.
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We're all downwind
I went to the pharmacy to pick up potassium iodide tablets, just in case. They don't stock them at my local Walgreens. The pharmacist laughed at me. "Concerned about radiation? Do you have gas masks too?" Oops. He lost a customer forever. Or for the next year, whichever comes first.
On Friday, April 25, 1986, as a result of human error during experiments being performed by the staff at Chernobyl, the cooling system failed resulting in the melting of fuel and, of greater importance to the public, the graphite moderator ignited and began the release of what has been approximated as 1900 PBq [1] of activity to the environment (it has been commented that had there been a containment building similar to the ones used in U.S. reactors, this value might have been greatly reduced). The most hazardous isotopes released in this accident are known to Cs-137, I-131, and Sr-90. These isotopes have half-lives sufficiently long to allow them to migrate into the body or, in the case of Iodine, have the tendency to accumulate in the thyroid gland.
The plume from the burning graphite initially traveled in a northwest direction toward Sweden, Finland and eastern Europe, exposing the public to levels up to 100 times the normal background radiation. A very serious concern involves the contamination of grain and dairy products from fallout. This contamination presents the chance for permanent internal contamination. Both Sr-90 and I-131 migrate to vital organs in the body where they are impossible to remove, serving as a constant source of unnecessary radiation and as a cause of cancer or other diseases.
The potential ramifications of the Bhutto assassination in the context of the US election year are probably only clear to the war gamers in the clandestine services. Any destabilization of Pakistan puts five or six nuclear powers into play, powers with leadership as deranged and avaricious as Bush, Cheney, and Putin… powers as assertive as India and China when it comes to maintaining membership in the nuclear club and powers as unpredictable as Pakistan and North Korea. Regardless of who would benefit from blowing up a few bombs in South Asia, it's clear that all of us would be harmed. The odds are pretty good at my age that I could soak up some radioactive iodine and still die from natural causes before the thyroid cancer kills me. But what about the kids? Good news there for the developed nations! Thyroid cancer is very treatable with modern medical technology.
There is no medicine that will effectively prevent nuclear radiations from damaging the human body cells that they strike.However, a salt of the elements potassium and iodine, taken orally even in very small quantities 1/2 hour to 1 day before radioactive iodines are swallowed or inhaled, prevents about 99% of the damage to the thyroid gland that otherwise would result. The thyroid gland readily absorbs both non-radioactive and radioactive iodine, and normally it retains much of this element in either or both forms.
When the nuclear dust starts drifting, you're better off with a stash of potassium iodide in the medicine chest. No joke.


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Faversham Town will warm up for Saturday's trip to leaders Peacehaven & Telscombe by training at Maidstone United's Gallagher Stadium on Thursday tonight .
With Salters Lane waterlogged, the Lilywhites had their home game against Redhill postponed on Tuesday and they were left without a training pitch.
But a solution was found when Town manager Ray Turner accepted an offer of help from his Stones counterpart, Jay Saunders.
Turner said: "Jay did say that if we were struggling, he'd try to help us out a little bit, so that's good of him. It gives us an opportunity to work on a decent surface.
"It's all right running around in the mud but after a while, the quality does start to suffer.
"It'll be good to have a change of scenery, too. We're trying to keep the players fresh, mentally, for what is a big game on Saturday."
If that game, at Peacehaven, goes ahead, it will be the first Faversham have played outside Kent since their 3-1 win at Three Bridges on November 30.
The leaders have only lost twice in the league all season, including a 3-0 reverse at Faversham in September.
Luke Harvey (hamstring) is still two weeks away from a return to action, Turner is hoping to sign a striker on loan by the weekend.
Faversham travel to Horsham on Tuesday night, kick-off 7.30pm.
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Each series of Muscle Rods headers are available as mid-length headers with a ball-and-socket–style collector, or as full-length headers with a race-style collector. For those wanting to utilize headers that provide maximum power potential, full-length headers with stepped primary tubes are also available. Tube diameters range from 1.625- all the way up to 1.875x2-inch stepped tubes. Regardless of the tube style or diameter, the smooth, mandrel-bent Muscle Rods tubes provide performance that is far superior to cast LS manifolds or generic LS headers. The Husler R&D gurus went so far as to tune the primary tube lengths to work with the LS engine's timing curve. This added feature optimizes exhaust scavenging for maximum power potential. In fact, mid-length Muscle Rods models can add as much as 20-25 hp at the rear wheels, and full-length models can add as much as 45 hp. All Muscle Rods LS Swap headers are offered in a variety of finishes. LS guys can choose from raw mild steel headers that they can finish however they want, Hedman's HTC silver ceramic-metallic coating, or Husler's new Black Maxx ceramic-metallic finish.
Liz Miles: Hooker offers headers for several LS swap applications, and is constantly engineering new ones to add to this list. Currently, we have Super Competition LS swap headers for '55-57 Chevys, '67-69 Camaros, and '68-72 Chevelles. Coming soon are swap headers for second-generation Camaros as well. These headers feature 1.75-inch primaries, thick 5/16-inch flanges, 3-inch collectors, and 18-gauge steel tubing. To suit a wide variety of applications, Hooker headers are available in our traditional metallic ceramic coating, and our Darksides ceramic coatings. While our traditional metallic ceramic coatings are good for up to 1,300 degrees F, the Darksides' coating can withstand temperatures up to 1,700 degrees. This makes it an excellent choice for forced-induction and nitrous applications. Additionally, soon to be released are our new cast-iron exhaust manifolds for use with the E-rod crate engine, or any other application where space, simplicity, or a nostalgic look is desired."
Mark Campbell: After retrofitting an LS motor into the engine compartment, the next step is figuring out how to support the transmission. F- and X-bodies, Tri-Fives, and '58-64 fullsize Chevys typically require an aftermarket crossmember in order to use a late-model GM trans. Fortunately, they are available turnkey from a number of manufacturers, including Street and Performance. On the other hand, Chevelles and late-model Caprices can use a stock crossmember. All you have to do is slide the crossmember back on the framerails, and lower or raise it to get the driveshaft angle correct. We usually recommend a driveshaft angle of -0.5 to 2 degrees. Otherwise, you'll have driveshaft problems and wear out the U-joints.
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Liz Miles: Hooker's engine mount plates are built to be a simple, strong, and aesthetically pleasing way to easily mount an LS small-block in a muscle car. The Hooker engine swap plate bolts to the LS motor, and a standard small-block Chevy engine mount bolts to our plate. This approach eliminates much of the fabrication work required with such swaps. Built from 3/8-inch hot rolled steel, they feature counter-sunk machine screws and a durable zinc coating. Hooker's LS engine mount plates come in a large assortment of configurations to cover a wide range of applications. The plates can position the motor in the stock location, but we also offer plates that relocate the motor 0.5, 1.25, and 3 inches forward. We even cover G-bodies with our clamshell-style mounts. LS cylinder heads extend all the way to the bellhousing mounting surface while Gen I engines have about an inch of space. This needs to be considered when selecting the plates.


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Does Senator Ted Kennedy's Barack Obama endorsement matter? Well, unlike Maureen Dowd, I don't think he needs the boost with upscale liberals pining for the second Camelot. However, to the extent organized labor, working-class voters more generally, and other prominent Democratic politicians take their cue from Kennedy, the impact could be significant. It would be a signal that even the stalwart establishment Democrats have had enough of the Bill/Hillary carnival and are ready to move on. Most important, Kennedy may be influential with those 796 super delegates, who make up about 20 percent of the Democratic delegate total. That's a lot of persuadable Democratic office holders and DNC officials.
Kennedy or no Kennedy, many have looked at the South Carolina totals and remarked, "Yeah, but he's not going to win California." That may be, and the demographics there likely favor Hillary. However, California, like all Democratic primaries, awards its delegates proportionally. So Obama still stands to gain a fair share of delegates. The same is true of Hillary-leaning states like New York and New Jersey. On February 5 Obama may be counting on Illinois, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri and maybe even liberal Connecticut (all those Lamont voters).
Given all this, it would seem almost certain that the Democratic race will not be settled on February 5. We will then head on to states like Louisiana (February 9), Maryland and Virginia (February 12), Wisconsin (February 19), Ohio and Texas (March 4) ,and if the political junkies are lucky, maybe even Pennsylvania( April 22).
This may raise an interesting question for voters in my home state of Virginia, which does not require registration by party. As I and many others walk into the booth we will have a choice of which primary to vote in. It may be that the GOP race is far more settled than the Democratic race by then. Hmmm…