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Sometimes the heater works only a few seconds and other times the air is cool immediately. What could be the problem. On old cars a thermostat replacement would solve this problem. I don't know about newer cars. - Tn Jerry
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I advise you to have your vehicle inspected by your local dealership. This is how complex your system is: ON-BOARD DIAGNOSTICS CAUTION: Do not exchange A/C Heater Controls from vehicle to vehicle. Software versions differ between models and model years. Installing an A/C Heater Control with software that is incompatible for a given vehicle can result in either improper or failed HVAC system operation. NOTE: Always inspect the IOD fuse prior to diagnosing any automatic temperature control (ATC) system concerns. Make sure the fuse is functional and fully seated into the terminals of the Totally Integrated Power Module (TIPM) located in the engine compartment. The A/C-heater control communicates on the Controller Area Network (CAN) IHS bus and is fully addressable with a scan tool. The A/C-heater control's primary means of fault detection is through active and stored Diagnostic Trouble Codes (DTCs). Active DTCs are those which currently exist in the system. The condition causing the fault must be repaired in order to clear this type of DTC. Stored DTCs are those which occurred in the system since the A/C-heater control received the last clear diagnostic info message. All DTCs must be read with a scan tool (Refer to 28 - DTC-Based Diagnostics/HVAC - Diagnosis and Testing) . The A/C-heater control's secondary means of fault detection is through system tests. These tests include the HVAC System Test, the A/C Cooldown Test, the Actuator Calibration Function, and for MTC Systems, the Actuator DTC Detection Test. Refer to System Tests in this Section for a detailed description of each test. The HVAC System Test provides a starting point in the diagnostic process by identifying the appropriate system test to perform when diagnosing a given condition or DTC. It also provides a means for testing the entire HVAC system by utilizing the A/C-heater control's On-Board System Tests. The On-Board System Tests can also assist in diagnosing stored DTCs - Johnny Mopar
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Saturday, March 31, 2012 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EDT)
Chatbots 3.2
Who: Bot creators, commercial users, enthusiasts, scientists, students, and the press are invited.
What: Chatbots 3.2 Conference
When: Saturday, March 31, 2012
Where: Suite 3200 (32nd Floor) Two Liberty Place, 50 S. 16th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102
Why: Chatbots have been adapted to nearly every ecological niche on the internet. Bots appear on web pages, in instant messaging, and respond to email and forum posts. They can be found in Second Life, in online games, and in social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Increasingly bots are turning up in mobile applications and texting. Bots support marketing and advertising and are used in education. This conference brings together leading experts to discuss their ideas and present the latest technologies and trends in chatbots.
Why Chabots 3.x?
Artificial intelligence chat bots, also known as chatterbots or conversational agents, developed in a series of three stages over the past 60 years.
Alan Turing conceived of the talking computer in his 1950 paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence. For his famous test, Turing imagined an artificial intelligence that communicates in natural language through a text based medium, such as a teletype.
In 1966 MIT Professor Joseph Weizenbaum became the first botmaster, or chat bot author, when he created the famous ELIZA prorgam. ELIZA was the first A.I. to apply the concept of stimulus-response pattern recognition to natural language understanding. ELIZA was also the first bot to employ conversational logging as a means for the botmaster to review and refine the bot.
Dr. Hugh Loebner began sponsoring the first real-world Turing Test in 1991. To the surpise of many, the winner of the first contest was based on the ELIZA psychiatrist program.
In 1994, Michael Mauldin created a bot named Julia in an online MUD environment. He coined the term "chatterbot" to describe his conversational programs.
The advent of the world wide web marked the beginning of widespreaed access to chatterbots. By exposing their bots on the web, botmasters collected a huge amount of conversational log data to help them improve the quality of the bots. Better and faster computers led to the development of large knowledge bases for bots.
Dr. Richard Wallace launched the free software ALICE project in 1995. ALICE led to the development of the open AIML standard for creating chat bots. An alphabet soup of AIML interpreters and servers appeared.
The first commercial chat bot companies, Neuromedia and Virtual Personalities, were launched in the heady early days of the dot-com boom.
In the late 90's, two prominent web sites emerged to provide to index and promote chat bot projects and companies. These were the Simon Laven page, and Marcus Zillman's Botspot.com.
Today chatterbots have been adapted to nearly every ecological niche on the internet. Bots appear on web pages, in instant messaging, and respond to email and forum posts. They can be found in Second Life, in online games, and in social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Bots support marketing and advertising and are used in education.
New technologies for automated learning have appeared which vastly reduce the time and effort needed to create convincing bots. At the same time, a series of new commercial opportunities have opened for bots and their botmasters.
We're experiencing the beginning of a new era. The time has come to gather together the leading experts in chat bot technology to share our ideas and discoveries.
Last year's Chatbots 3.1 conference and the Chatbots 3.0 conference in 2009 were huge successes. We had about 25 attendees each year around a dozen high quality presentations. The presentations were recorded and published on the Youtube aimlinstructor channel, where they have been watched by a worldwide audience.
Philadelphia has excellent public transportation and the downtown area is accessible by subway, bus, and trolley. The local transit agency SEPTA provides transit info, also available on Google transit.
Philadelphia is accessible by Amtrak rail at 30th Street Station, and Philadelphia International Airport (PHL). Philadelphia is 90 miles (145km) from New York City. Several intercity bus companies also serve Philadelphia: Greyhound, Megabus, Boltbus, 2000coach, and Apexbus.
There are numerous indoor and outdoor parking lots in the vicinity, including in the Two Liberty Place building itself (expensive though) and across the street in the 1500 Market Street building.
The Chatbots 3.2 conference is made possible by the generous support of the following organizations:
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The ALICE A.I. Foundation is devoted to the development and promotion of the AIML open standard for artificial intelligence chat bots.
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It was great to see some of our fans there, and great to talk about new and old Revision3 shows. I'm really happy for all the feedback – both positive and negative – that we got. And I always like buying folks drinks, so that was definitely fun as well.
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|Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb; Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab; Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb; Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb
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|Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab and the origins of Wahhabism : the eighteenth-century context --
The theology and worldview of Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab --
Islamic law : separation of the divine from the human --
Women and Wahhabis : in defense of women's rights --
Jihad : call to Islam or call to violence? --
The trajectory of Wahhabism : from revival and reform to global Jihad.
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"In the first study ever undertaken of the writings of Wahhabism's founder, Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1702-1791), Natana DeLong-Bas shatters stereotypes and misconceptions. Her reading of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab's works produces a revisionist thesis: Ibn Abd al-Wahhab was not the godfather of contemporary terrorist movements. Rather, he was a voice of reform, reflecting mainstream eighteenth-century Islamic thought. His vision of Islamic society was based upon a monotheism in which Muslims, Christians, and Jews were to enjoy peaceful co-existence and cooperative commercial and treaty relations. Eschewing medieval interpretations of the Quran and hadith (sayings and deeds of the prophet Muhammad), Ibn Abd al-Wahhab called for direct, historically contextualized interpretation of scripture by both women and men. His understanding of theology and Islamic law was rooted in Quranic values rather than literal interpretations. A strong proponent of women's rights, he called for a balance of rights between women and men both within marriage and in access to education and public space." "In the most comprehensive study of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab's interpretation of jihad ever written, DeLong-Bas details a vision in which jihad is strictly limited to the self-defense of the Muslim community against military aggression. Contemporary extremists like Osama bin Laden do not have their origins in Wahhabism, she shows. The hallmark jihadi focus on a cult of martyrdom, the strict division of the world into two necessarily opposing spheres, the wholescale destruction of both civilian life and property, and the call for global jihad are entirely absent from Ibn Abd al-Wahhab's writings. Instead, the militant stance of contemporary jihadism lies in adherence to the writings of the medieval scholar, Ibn Taymiyya, and the twentieth-century Egyptian radical, Sayyid Qutb."--Jacket.
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: hi...I have a jrt/whippet mix (4 mo old/nutered), and about a week ago he started wetting himself submissively, but only on rare occasions. it seems that his confidence is up, and i'm not sure that it's the tyical submissive wetting one would expect. what leads me to believe this is that the last instance of wetting, the dog was 'releasing' urination along with a yellow creamy substance. I've already scheduled a vet appt for next week, but I'm curious if anybody else has ever had the problem of a yellow cream coming out of their dog's you know what? Any info would help ease my mind....thanks.
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Do I really need an insulated door?
I know it all depends on what you want to use the oven for with its residual heat and all.
But I'm at a stage where my oven build is almost complete and am currently curing the oven with a series of low to med temp burns using charcoal briquettes.
Even at this early stages of firing, I am amazed at which I can retain smoking temps for over 12 hours with just a grill basket full of charcoal briquettes and several full bricks covering the entry constricting air & exhaust flow in and out of the chamber.
Like most everyone else, aside from doing just pizzas I'd like to use the oven for other things, including smoking, where some airflow is required.
I'll eventually get into baking bread or anything which requires use of prolonged residual heat, but for the time being I think all I need is a simple metal plate door with perhaps an oven thermometer attached to its face. Air flow can be controlled by simply leaving a narrow gap between the door and the oven entry instead in installing adjustable air vents. Thoughts?
Re: Do I really need an insulated door?
I believe the FB ovens come with a 1/4 inch steel plate door - you should be fine.
Re: Do I really need an insulated door?
I would say it depends upon what you are going to use the oven for. I like to use all the heat, so with my insulated door I can get 4 or 5 days of use:
Saturday 7:00PM dome clears, pizza, ambient 95.
Sunday 9:00AM (I had to leave the door off for an hour and steam it) 450, full floor of bread ambient 85.
Monday 7PM 240 degrees ambient 90 could have done meat.
Tuesday 7PM 180 degrees ambient 80 could have dried veges or slow cooked meat.
Wednesday 6:45PM 115 degrees ambient 80 could continue drying vegetables.
Re: Do I really need an insulated door?
Nice profile TS!
I have a Casa oven with a refractory door and it would be interesting to close the oven with a highly insulating door and see what my profile would be.
We need to invent a good Texas pizza!
Re: Do I really need an insulated door?
My Texas pizza is a Margherita using Oxaca cheese, Early Girl tomatoes, and Jalapenos instead of Basil.
Re: Do I really need an insulated door?
I have an insulated door made from my excess 2" rigid insulation. Here is this week's profile.
850 500 400 250
Sat 850F - Pizza and made Calzones with the extra dough and toppings to get ahead.
Sun 500F -
Mon 400F - Leg of lamb
Tue 250F - Re-heated the lamb - removed the lamb and added the next starting load of wood to dry.
I think the insulated door gives you options that you would otherwise have.
Re: Do I really need an insulated door?
Wow. Chris! Your oven is awsomely insulated. Amazing!
Also, TS, nice pizza! I will try it!
Re: Do I really need an insulated door?
And today at 5:00PM the oven is still at 101 degrees, ambient 75, so I could still be drying out vegetables. I looked for okra last weekend but couldn't find any. That is what I want to try to dry next.
Re: Do I really need an insulated door?
All right.....you guys convinced me. I will make mine insulated. At least I could use the retained heat to dry out wood for starters until I get the hang of things. :D
Re: Do I really need an insulated door?
Hi George!
You don't need an insulated door to dry wood. Having it insulated is certainly (at least to a point) better than uninsulated but....most any door is better than no door! Based on a lot of comments on this site I think it is safe to say "Your first door is unlikely to be your last door!"
Good Luck!
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Cupid's arrow has struck Bravo Media as two loved themed specials airing on Valentine's Day with "The Ring Leader" on Tuesday, February 14th at 7 pm ET/PT, followed by "The Millionaire Matchmaker Valentine's Day WWHL Special" at 10:00 pm ET/PT.
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No chief yeoman tried to urinate in the gas tank of a 54 Packard Patrician parked outside the bar, but on 8 May, 1975, patrons inside Riordans waterfront tavern in San Francisco experienced an invasion of unfamiliar characters carrying books by author, Thomas Pynchon. It was his 38th birthday, and a surprise party had begun. The real surprise, however, was if the elusive author of V. showed up. Never photographed and interviewed (at least no public photographs), who knew what Pynchon looked like if he did show up?
But I run ahead of myself.
I had an epiphany one day walking into a bookstore to see the intriguing cover of Thomas Pynchons Bantam paperback, V., showing a red-haired woman in a blue gown against a blue backdrop, with white trimmed blue lines going off into infinity. (If parallel lines meet in infinity, theyd form a V.) A giant white V. towered over the woman whose face was obscured, and I recalled my mysterious Aunt Veronica nicknamed Vee, a woman who never revealed herself until she suffered from dementia and the State claimed her estate. I eventually discovered Aunt Veronica was nothing like the Veronica in V., one of many Vs in Pynchons first novel and the object of Herbert Stencils quest.
I opened V. to the wonderful scene at the Sailors Grave bar with Benny Profane and Pig Bodine. The scene demonstrates Pynchons use of dark humor:
A miasma of evil suddenly enveloped Profane from behind; an arm fell like a sack of spuds across his shoulder and into his peripheral vision crept a beer glass surrounded by a large muff, fashioned ineptly from diseased baboon fur.
Benny. How is the pimping business, hyeugh, hyeugh.
The laugh could only have come from Profanes onetime shipmate, Pig Bodine. Profane looked around. It had (Pynchon, 5).
Pynchon describes Pig Bodines obscene laugh in detail, the sound forced through the nose to be horribly obscene. Pig and his pal, Benny Profane, are part of the whole sick crew, but they are only two of many colorful characters in this picaresque novel.
I bought V. and began my life as a Pynchonite. I discovered the book was more complex than the opening gag. V. is a marvelous display of scholarship and imagination; the book with its often comic chapter titles captures the feel of 18th century satirical novels, yet has a modern sensitivity, combining high and low art eventually called post modernism. Pynchon combines so many elements: history, humor, physics, puns, pop culture, literature, songs and comic names. The prose can be lyrical like Melvilles in one paragraph, only to turn a deliberately bad pun in the next. Even in 1963, Pynchon could make the banal seem surreal and the surreal somewhat commonplace. Young Stencils search for V is unsuccessful, and the book ends with the mysterious death of Stencils father in the sea off Malta. (I might add that Pynchons books never seem to end but rather stop.)
The point of this article is not to analyze Pynchons work, however, but to describe the surprise party thrown for him at a waterfront dive, not unlike The Sailors Grave. I had some success as a playwright and was living with a gifted photographer, an elegant woman with thick curly hair who carried a silver card that read: Jackie Poitier, Real Elegant Photography. The card was meant to evoke business and an amused response. The other roommate was an old friend named Warren Mason, a creative lead guitarist who later gained some fame as the teacher of Kurt Cobain. Warren is a quiet man with brown hair combed forward and dark brown eyes, but he becomes a monster with an electric guitar in his hands. Though a guitar artist, Warren Mason never invaded Memphis to build a reputation, never claimed to play the notes Clapton missed. Warren and I had put a few of Pynchons comic songs to music, including Dopers Greed and Loonies on Leave. (Warren could stand in for guitarist, Dewey Gland, only without the beak.) At one performance, I recited the Aqyns song from the Kirghiz Light sequence in Gravitys Rainbow while Warren played an eerie series of dissonant chords. (An Aqyn is a tribal bard.) One semester at a community college, I taught a class on Pynchon, concentrating on Gravitys Rainbow, probably the most remarkable American novel since Moby Dick. I was struck that so many Pynchon readers looked like characters out of his books. They seemed part of the passed over preterite souls he talks about, all of them eccentric, colorful, gifted.
I had a suggestion one night after a spirited discussion.
Why dont we throw a surprise party for Pynchon on 8 May?
A student named Greg looked at me. He resembled one of the long haired characters out of the underground comic strip, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Greg and Jackie had been lovers at one time.
Pynchon is paranoid, Greg said. I mean, maybe he is onto something. The party would blow his cover.
If hes really onto something, hes not technically paranoid, and who knows what he looks like? I asked. Except maybe a resemblance to Joe DiMaggio.
And what do we say if he shows up? Carol asked. She resembled Melanie, the doomed dancer and lover of the mysterious Lady V. from the chapter, V in Love. Though a committed lesbian, Carol enjoyed men.
What do we say? I dont know. How about Happy birthday, Tom?
Jackie, an Irish refugee pre-economic boom, considered it a good idea. We decided to throw the party for fellow Pynchonites, those consumed by the Pynchon magic, those willing to follow Pynchon and Alice down the rabbit hole. To join this underground club, one had to read Gravitys Rainbow at least four times and duplicate the famous Pig Bodine laugh. Of course, Pynchon is not for everyone, and his diversions will drive many readers to furious impatience. The trustees for the Pulitzer refused Pynchon the prize for Gravitys Rainbow because it was unreadable and obscene, as if a moral judgment over an aesthetic one mattered in literature.
Greg worked in advertising and designed a poster with a V2 rocket falling on a birthday cake and the sentence, Happy birthday, Tom. A disclaimer stated that the real surprise was if Pynchon showed up. Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle mentioned the poster in his column and expressed regret that Thomas Pynchon might not show. Im not sure if Caen was truly disappointed, but he gave us great publicity.
When 8 May arrived, Warren went early to Riordans Tavern, a bar full of rum-dums, winos, and people living on the fringe. Any one of them could have been the old sailor with the post horn tattoo in The Crying of Lot 49.
No ones here, he said on the phone. The party is a bust.
No one we know? I asked.
Yeah. Though there are a few people here who dont look like the regulars.
Well be down, I said.
Riordans Tavern was a dive; there is no other way to describe it. A few patrons shot pool while others sat at the bar, drinking shots and beer from 6:00 AM until closing at 2:00 AM. They were the lost souls, those who waited for the next welfare or disability check, those who might die anytime in some fleabag hotel because of a cigarette dropped from yellowed fingers. The smell of dust and cheap whiskey and unwashed drinkers gave Riordans a distinctive tragic ambiance that Pynchon had described poignantly in The Crying of Lot 49. Then I noticed other characters, unusual yet not part of the bar, all of them somewhat eager, bizarre, even: a sailor with thick hair on his hands like Pig Bodine, a small young woman with a sensual trudging and a nice ass like Rachel Owlglass, and others unremarkable except they carried editions of Pynchons books. One by one, we formed a pack.
I saw the Herb Caen article, a young man said. We live at the Y. Most of us are gay.
Pynchon doesnt like gays, Greg said.
Au contraire, the young man said, and referenced a scene in Gravitys Rainbow.
I was the model for Rachel Owlglass, the short buxom woman told us. But I dont do cars. He made that up.
Really. You know Thomas Pynchon?
Sorry, she said. Were sworn to secrecy.
I met Pynchon on the docks in the Navy, the sailor said. He stole my laugh.
He demonstrated the laugh. It was passable.
What did he look like? I asked
Like that Joe DiMaggio, the sailor said.
The bartender suddenly called me over. He had a thin hatchet face and missing teeth. This Pynchon fella just called. Hes on his way over.
Great, I replied. Gimme a shot.
The party continued and everyone got drunk. Warren played On the Good Ship Lollipop as a woman sang in a Shirley Temple voice. Jackie had not brought her camera, so party images would perish. Occasionally, a patron of Riordans would stare at us, a bit hostile, and then turn back to the pool table or dark cloudy bar mirror. A man in his late thirties suddenly announced he had graduated with Pynchon from Cornell.
I know what he looks like. I saw him with Dick Farina.
April of 1966, I attended a San Francisco State folk festival where Richard Farina had performed, and was saddened to hear of his death a few days later in a motorcycle accident. Pynchon had dedicated Gravitys Rainbow to him.
What does he look like? Joe DiMaggio?
Hes right over there at the bar, the man insisted. Thats him!
We all looked. A tall man with reddish hair and slightly protruding teeth sat at the bar, drinking a beer and occasionally glancing our way. There was a slightly a malevolent glint in his eyes, and he definitely didnt fit the Riordans profile.
Maybe I should talk to him, Jackie said. See if hes having a good time.
Though she had lost her Irish accent, a wicked gleam of Irish madness could appear in her eyes at any time. She had the plump sensuality of Rubens women.
Leave him be, Greg insisted. If it is him, hes pissed that weve blown his cover. Dont ever antagonize the Pynch.
But if hes here, he wants to be contacted, I said.
Hes a fake, the short woman said.
Dont look like DiMaggio to me, the sailor added.
I approached the tall man at the bar. He watched me coming. I knew I was drunk, and one day, I would have to quit or end up a rummy at Riordans Tavern.
Okay, I said. Heres the deal. Were throwing a surprise party for Thomas Pynchon, the surprise being if he shows up. A guy over there insists youre the great T.P. I blinked a few times. Well? Are you Thomas Pynchon?
No, the man said. After a pause, he added: Im Duane Marvy.
To any Pynchonite, Marvy is the fat racist from Gravitys Rainbow who gets castrated when mistaken for Tyrone Slothrop. The man with red hair looked nothing like the insane Duane, but his tone was not comic.
I see. I walked back to the group. That aint him.
I saw him, the Cornell grad insisted. Thats him.
He says hes Duane Marvy.
Duane aint real. Maybe hes the model for Duane Marvy.
In that case, I said, he could have some twin forty-fives hidden somewhere.
Holding the phone, the toothless bartender waved to me. Pynchons stuck in traffic, he said.
The scattered conversations continued:
Pynchon knows about the pattern of random coincidences
He understands the conspiracy that is America
The W.A.S.T.E. postal system is the only away to avoid the Man
Senor, get your hand off my ass
By late afternoon, the crowd thinned out after many Pynchon stories and discussions. I didnt notice if the girl who claimed to be Rachel Owlglass drove an MG. The red-haired man had disappeared. The party only confirmed that many Americans communicate through secret channels, like the underground post office in The Crying of Lot 49, and now with the internet and e mail, the regular post office seems even more outdated. Drunk, we rode home in Gregs van.
That wasnt him, Greg said, Why would T.P. find himself at that dive surrounded by the fans he avoids?
Youre right, I said, though I hear Pynchon does have red hair and protruding teeth.
Warren struck up a few chords in ¾ time of Dopers Greed. His guitar is almost an extension of himself. Greg dropped us off. When I woke up the next morning, the headache seemed Pynchonian in its bigness. Had I met the mysterious Thomas Pynchon, remained the lingering question for the day.
I love some of his sentences, Jackie said over coffee, but I dont understand a lot of it. He digresses all over the place. Hes difficult like Joyce. She wore a slip and spoke in a smoky rasp. Is the payoff enough after all that work?
For me, it is.
Warren appeared with his guitar.
We could put that toilet scene to music, he said. You read, and Ill play.
Sure, I said. Why not?
I gulped a morning beer and began reading aloud the scene where Slothrop goes down the toilet after his harmonica before awful Negroes from the Harlem ballroom can bugger him. Warren accompanied Pynchons surreal prose with sliding blues notes, bent into another key. That cartoon moment in the novel demonstrates how Pynchon can make an absurd scene somehow believable, and capture a bit of history, as well, with Malcolm X shining Jack Kennedys shoes.
It was a good feeling to be hopeful artists living together and planning to create new art.
During the year, Warren joined a band in his home state of Washington. Jackie moved back with Greg, and then briefly hooked up with a former grammar school classmate, gonzo journalist, Richard Boyle, as if one Irish renegade wasnt enough. I was offered a teaching job in Idaho. The scattering of friends had begun. When my ex wife came to visit, she discovered we had lived in the very house where she grew up. Was this another example of a Pynchonian random yet somehow connected coincidence?
It was time to let go of the past, but I had to visit Riordans Tavern one last time. I rode down to the waterfront; Riordans Tavern remained unchanged, a poorly lit dive for sad wasted creatures, members of the underclass, doomed to die alone and forgotten. The bartender had vanished. No Pynchonites searched the bar for fellow cult members in the Clan of T.P., so that added charm was gone. The bar seemed even more depressing. I ordered a seven-up.
An old man with thick veins lining bone thin arms sat next to me. His tattoos were blurred and fading. For safe passage, I placed a copy of Lot 49 on the bar.
Listen, he said, lighting a cigarette. I got a Goddamn slut at home. Never knew what a piece of ass was a year ago, and now shes got four kids. Who pays the bills? I do!
Four? Thats amazing, I said.
Not only that, shes going to have four more!
He wheezed around the cigarette.
That is really amazing.
I cant keep the little whore in the house. She does it in the alley.
I looked at the sunken jaundiced face.
Youre telling me shes going to have four more kids? What are the odds? You did ultra sound?
Hell no.
Then I saw the huge bag of cat food propped against the barstool.
This whore is a cat?
He didnt answer. He was staring at my book.
Hes right. All life is a plot. Theyre up there, hidden creatures flying through the night, wearing goggles in the shape of infinity signs, and everything is planned by Them. Things happen, and often its just too coincidental. They are in control.
Who is They?
The old man didnt answer but dragged off the cigarette, quickly coughing.
We had a surprise birthday party for Thomas Pynchon here, I said.
The old man met my eyes. Try New Jersey, next time. Or maybe Long Island. Youll have better luck.
Whats your cats name?
Get her spayed.
And interfere with her reproductive rights? He glared at me. Listen, young man, dont drink, dont smoke, and dont fall in loveever!
Ill remember that.
It was raining when I left the bar. No buck-toothed man wearing a trench coat watched from the neon shadows. Shortly after arriving in Idaho, I heard that Riordans Tavern had burned down; I dont remember how I got the news. Perhaps it was a tramp using the Tristero W.A.S.T.E. system. Nothing remained of Riordans but charred ruins and the ghosts of old winos. In what zone lived the old man and his cat, Ursula?
I still keep in touch with Warren and Jackie. Thirty years after the surprise birthday party with Pynchon now approaching 68, his shadow stretches longer than ever, though he remains the most invisible major American writer alive. Of course, it is the work that is important. We have the massive Mason and Dixon, and no doubt, Americas greatest living writer will surface again.
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The 18-year-old pitcher from Hazelwood West High School in St. Louis has signed with the Milwaukee Brewers, the team that selected him with the 54th pick in this year's MLB Draft.
Williams will receive a $1.35 million signing bonus, his adviser told FOXSportsMidwest.com. That amount is $333,000 more than the recommended bonus for the 54th pick.
The news squashes the chance of the 6-foot-3 right-hander ever throwing a pitch for the University of Missouri. Williams, whose fastball can touch 96 mph, committed to the Tigers in January, and the likelihood of him fulfilling that commitment appeared to increase a bit when he was not selected in the first round. But the Brewers were intent on securing the young man Baseball America pegged as the 44th overall player in the draft.
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A community baby shower is an event for expectant parents and for parents to children birth through age 3. It combines training and informational booths, cake, punch and free prizes.
The first annual Harrison County Community Baby Shower will be held April 21 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Westside Elementary School. You must attend the entire session to be eligible to win door prizes.
Car seat checks will be provided before and after the shower as well as a booth that can be visited.
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Harrison County Homemakers look to add smiles to nursing home residents with Hawaiian-themed tea parties.
"This makes the fourth year that we have hosted tea parties at the nursing homes," said Cheryl Case, Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Science. "We see it as a way to honor those who dedicated their life to their families and treat them to an hour of old-fashioned tradition."
I have mixed emotions about the by-pass around Cynthiana that's set to get underway this summer.
I can see the benefits for those who commute north and south to work and school. When you talk about spending two hours of your day on the road, cutting out 10 or 15 minutes of one-way drive time would be a big deal.
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The Women's Club of Harrison County had their meeting at the Harrison County Country Club on April 9. The Pledge to the Flag was led by Virgie Wells, club president.
The blessing and Spiritual Values was given by Zenoa McCauley.
In the absence of Bonnie Teater, Wells introduced Susan Davisson. Her program was 'Jewelry be the Spoonful.' She showed jewelry she had made out of silverplated spoons, forks, bracelets, rings and pendants.
The club welcomed three guests, Susan Davisson's mother Sandy Zumwalt, Judy Judy and Etta Donahue.
* If you are reading this, you surely have some interest in this community and its history. Hopefully, you are well aware of the Cynthiana-Harrison County Museum located on South Walnut Street in the old Rohs Theatre Building. How many small communities have two thriving theatre buildings?
To the editor:
I recently had the honor to preside over the funeral services for Melissa Hall. In my eulogy I read a letter written to me by Melissa. However, I was apparently not clear about when the letter was written causing some people to believe and gossip things that are not true. I just wanted to clarify that the letter was written to me around one year before her death.
To the family, please know that I am still praying for you often, and to those overcome with the need to gossip, know that I am praying for you too.
To the editor:
Someone walked into our home and stole our safe. Everything we had of value was in it. I called the Sheriff's Office and Steve McCauley wrote up the report. He never came to our home to look for evidence. He just said if he finds anything he would call. You can't investigate a crime without going to the crime scene.
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Saturday, Oct. 11
Attend the "Summer Movie Double Feature: an Evening of Laughs and Action" at the Immaculate Conception Lower Church from 3 to 7:30 p.m. "The Lego Movie" will be shown at 3 p.m. followed by "Thor: The Dark World" at 5:30 p.m. Admission is free and there will be snacks and beverages for sale. Raffles and prizes are for the whole family. The church is located at 21-47 29th St. For more information, click here.
St. Josaphat's R.C. Church will hold a rummage sale plus ethnic Polish bake sale today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There is plenty of free parking. The sale will be held at the Parish Hall at 35th Avenue and 210th Street. Call Steve at 718-224-3052 for more information.
The Queens Pride Lions Club celebrates National Coming Out Day on Saturday, Oct. 11, with this "Coming Out Day Expo," which features various local organizations offering support and services for the queer community. The Pride House is located at 76-11 37th Ave. Please call 718-429-5309 for more information. The expo starts at 3 p.m.
Don't miss the Grammy-nominated, platinum album-selling artist Eddie Money perform hits like "Take Me Home Tonight" and more at the Resorts World Casino. Tickets are $25 to $75. The event starts at 9 p.m. The casino is located at 110-00 Rockaway Blvd.
The "Fall Festival and Touch & Truck" event at the Cross Island YMCA gives kids a chance to encounter working trucks and vehicles they see in everyday life up close and personal. Visitors can climb inside, touch and explore the vehicles. The festival also offers families a day of fun, food and entertainment with activities such as pumpkin picking, a rock wall, a bounce house, face painting and more. Pre-sale tickets are $10 and $5 for each additional child. Day-of tickets are $15 and $5 for each child. Adults over 18 and children under 6 months are free. The festival is located at 238-10 Hillside Ave. Visit www.ymcanyc.org/crossisland/pages/tat#ticket to purchase tickets. The event is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Church of the Resurrection will be having its "Autumn Treasure, Bake & Book Sale" from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today and from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. tomorrow, on Sunday. There will be used clothing, household items, one-of-a-kind items and much more to be sold. Homemade baked goods, snacks and lunch will be available. For more information please call 718-847-2649. The church is located at 85-09 118th St.
Sunday, Oct. 12
The "Rockspot Bike Tour" is an interactive tour that allows participants to explore select sites of environmental and historical significance along the Rockaway Peninsula. The tour will depart from Jacob Riis Bathhouse and travel through Gateway National Park to explore the west end of the Rockaway Peninsula. Admission is free. Visit www.rwalliance.org/rwa/events or call 718-327-5919 for more information. The tour is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
St. Josaphat's R.C. Church will hold a rummage sale plus ethnic Polish bake sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. There is plenty of free parking. The sale will be located at the Parish Hall at 35th Avenue and 210 Street. Call Steve at 718-224-3052 for more information.
"The 5 Kings of Motown," the popular Vegas show that plays tribute to the famous Motown sound, will be performing at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center at 3 p.m. Nat Evans, who toured extensively with David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks and Dennis Edwards, stars in this tribute. Orchestra seats are $42 each while rear orchestra and mezzanine tickets are $35 each. The center is located at 222-05 56th Ave. The box office number is 718-631-6311.
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with the music, dance and food of Peru, Argentina and Puerto Rico at the Queens Library's Jackson Heights Branch. Participants are welcome to sample the food prepared on a first-come, first-served basis. The library is located at 35-51 81 St. For more information please call 718-899-2500. The event starts at 4 p.m.


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Selective amyloid-β lowering agents
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BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 2):S4 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-9-S2-S4Published: 3 December 2008
The amyloid-β peptide (Aβ), implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), is produced through sequential proteolysis of the Aβ precursor protein (APP) by β- and γ-secretases. Thus, blocking either of these two proteases, directly or indirectly, is potentially worthwhile toward developing AD therapeutics. β-Secretase is a membrane-tethered pepsin-like aspartyl protease suitable for structure-based design, whereas γ-secretase is an unusual, heterotetrameric membrane-embedded aspartyl protease. While γ-secretase inhibitors entered clinical trials first due to their superior pharmacological properties (for example, brain penetration) over β-secretase inhibitors, it has since become clear that γ-secretase inhibitors can cause mechanism-based toxicities owing to interference with the proteolysis of another γ-secretase substrate, the Notch receptor. Strategies for targeting Aβ production at the γ-secretase level without blocking Notch signalling will be discussed. Other strategies utilizing cell-based screening have led to the identification of novel Aβ lowering agents that likewise leave Notch proteolysis intact. The mechanism by which these agents lower Aβ is unknown, but these compounds may ultimately reveal new targets for AD therapeutics.


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CORPUS CHRISTI - I'll be the first to admit that I was skeptical about how effective Blake Farenthold would be as a congressman. And I guess I'd better couch "effective" since this Congress has been the most frustrating and least effective in my voting lifetime (I'm 49).
Farenthold, R-Texas, has done a good job communicating with the district, shows up to local functions routinely, takes questions on a local radio show (granted, he had an advantage as a former host there) and has stopped by the paper to chat with our editorial board when asked. In the staying-in-touch-with-real-people-in-the-district regard, he has been a long way ahead of his longtime predecessor, Solomon Ortiz Sr.
Farenthold readily admitted he learned on the job, and he has become far more polished on issues than when he was a candidate trying to unseat an incumbent. Of course, that's a basic expectation of a politician if he or she wants to be the incumbent during the next election cycle.
Farenthold certainly had the advantage over his opponents in articulating what he believes needs to be done during the next term, since being on the inside and living and breathing the issues for two years gives any incumbent that advantage.
Farenthold's new District 27 lines (we'll see if they stay that way) that meander up toward Victoria certainly gives the Republican a bigger base of like-minded folks than the current view, which contains a substantial portion of the more Democrat-leaning Rio Grande Valley.
It's clear Farenthold has studied the issues, can articulate them and presents his case well for his positions, even if you don't agree with him on everything.
During our 30-minute interview that helped us determine our Editorial Board endorsements, with all the positives I've just outlined, there is one area voters should carefully watch if Farenthold returns to Congress: Can he reach across the aisle and get something done?
Farenthold spent pockets of our conversation pointing fingers at Democrats, particularly President Barack Obama and Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada, and his heels were firmly dug in that gridlock was all their fault. That is as hard to listen to in person as it is on the radio or with cable pundits. That entrenched attitude, shared by so many on both sides of the aisle, is why this was the least effective Congress in my lifetime.
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Quit vowing to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act. Fix what's broken in it with good, solid legislation. Start chipping away at the budget deficit with the knowledge that the hole is so big, everyone is going to have to pay a little more than they would like. Figure out how to ensure education is at the forefront of priorities — like virtually every politician who met with our board assured us — and look at true reform to get those costs under control and more predictable.
True compromise has to come from the basic idea that nothing is untouchable (military, Social Security, Medicaid/Medicare, taxes, etc.). The world has changed so quickly in the past decade that we absolutely have to rethink the way we look at everything. Right now, Congress is standing still while much of the rest of the world is driving in the left lane of the Autobahn.
Farenthold and his peers have tried the entrenched, stare-down-your-opponent style. It doesn't work. It's time to reach across the aisle and get stuff done. And I hope next time voters evaluate Congress on how much it gets done rather than what party line one held. That's my challenge to Farenthold, to be more of a leader in that regard.
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For this Workout Wednesday, we're focusing on using the Adaptive Motion Trainer® with this six-week workout program.
This program is perfect for exercisers looking to stay fit or lose weight. Each week you'll increase your time limit and change-up your stride type. For this intermediate program, it's recommended that you perform these workouts three times per week.
If you're interested in more AMT workout programs or workout programs utilizing ellipticals, treadmills, or our strength equipment, you can find them over on the Precor website.
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Past Workout Wednesdays:
- Upper Body (seated pulldown, seated incline press, single arm dumbbell row, dumbbell overhead press)
- Lower Body (leg extension, leg press, dumbbell front squat, dumbbell step-up)
- Warm-up Exercises (hip stretch with a twist, plank)
- The Core (Strength Equipment)
- Focusing on Your Arms


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Give your legs a rest and workout your upper body with the help of the TYR Pull Float. It isolates your torso and arms for a strengthening workout and enables concentration on your pull.
For more information on pull buoys, read Swim Goggles Buying Guide
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Although I purchased this to facilitate the Crawl while keeping my head above water, (ear problems), I quickly found how versatile this device is to use for added buoyancy while doing numerous other strokes for exercising arms, legs, abs, gluteus, etc. Solid construction makes it indestructible and compact design for convenient storage.
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As always TYR products can not be beat. Works well, and stays put easily. Make sure to squeeze in when flipping, otherwise ready to go.
Works good
The float gets the job done--lifting the core while a swimmer concentrates on stroke form and keeps the legs stationary.
Great to change up your workout and focus on upper body. I love it as it keeps my legs up and I can focus on my stroke. Plenty of bouyancy for me (190lbs). Greta value for the price.
The Amazing comment comes from my son, who has evidently used bad ones at his swim team pool. He said he loves it.
Just what I wanted! My friend says this reminds her of platform flip flops from the 90's (HAHA) -- but it works great for helping me regain my strength in the pool.
Works great and great price
New to swimming freestyle and find this float extremely helpful. Float is comfortable and seems to be holding up well.
I purchased this for my 12 yr. old daughter who just joined an Age Group Swim Club. It works well with her 2 hour swim workouts. Because we live in Hawaii, ordering online is hard for us because of the shipping. With this company, shipping was very minimal. For the cost of all that I ordered plus shipping, I still paid less than what I would pay here.
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Founded in Southern California in 1985, TYR™ has since developed a reputation for high-quality products and equipment. TYR competition swimwear and triathlon gear have been a dominant force in their respective industries. The company is also known for its TYR goggles, swim apparel, triathlon wetsuits and a wide variety of swimming equipment.
TYR was the first company to introduce a pair of goggles designed to fit a woman's face (the TYR T-72). TYR was also responsible for the famous red bathing suits featured on the hit television series "Baywatch." TYR consults with current and former athletes when developing its products. Swimmers know that TYR is a leader in swimsuits, warm-up suits, and swim training equipment. The TYR Tracer Series is one of the most advanced technical suit lines on the market. The TYR Hurricane wetsuits and the TYR Torque collections include top-of-the-line suits for the competitive swimmer.
TYR has also moved into competitive running equipment. From running shirts to shorts, its apparel is designed with the runner in mind. Built with moisture wicking fabric and antimicrobial material, TYR running apparel is designed to give the athlete the most comfortable, dry clothing on the market.
The name "TYR" is derived from the Norse god of warriors, who is said to have embodied victory and glory. Much the same can be said about the athletes who started TYR. Executive Vice President, Steve Furniss, was an Olympian who competed in the 1972 and 1976 Summer Games, and captained the 76th U.S. Olympic Swim Team.


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So, by having one "good" (debatable) sp game in their entire catalog you already consider Treyarch "single player experts"?
It, to me, is perely subjective. Maybe you've played more games than I have and that is the reason behind this.
I, for one, liked it because it gave me a good 5-6 hours of fun.
Treyarch is expert when compared to DICE. put it this way, shall we?