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Oligodeoxyribonucleotides may be synthesized on a solid support, which allows for the elongation of the chain without intermediate purifications. The exocyclic amino groups on cytosine and the purines are protected as the alkali-labile benzoyl or iso-butyryl amides. The 3′-OH group of the first nucleoside is attached to the solid support by a spacer chain, and the synthesis procedes by coupling the 5′-OH group of the growing chain to the 3′-phosphorus of the monomer being added, which has its 5′-OH group protected by an acid-labile group. The phosphorus must also be protected to avoid side reactions. When the synthesis is completed, the chain must be cleaved from the support and the base, phosphorus, and terminal 5′-OH-protecting groups removed. The desired oligonucleotide is then separated from the mixture of shorter chains and modified chains (1).
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The Lost Continent, Bryson's hilarious first travel book, chronicles a trip in his mother's Chevy around small-town America. Since then, he has written the bestsellers A Walk in the Woods, I'm a Stranger Here Myself (published in Britain as Notes from a Big Country), and In a Sunburned Country (published in Britain as Down Under).
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AHRQ held its annual conference Sept. 7-10, highlighting the Agency's unique role in health services research and its goal of improving the effectiveness of health care delivery. The conference showcased many of the activities of the Effective Health Care Program and allowed attendees to discuss the larger issues of how to improve health care in the United States and how AHRQ research can facilitate that improvement.
The conference featured discussions that followed several different tracks, including Health Information Technology; Patient Safety; Effective Health Care; Prevention and Care Management; and Value, Innovations, and Emerging Issues. Also included was the "mAHRQet Place Café," which featured displays of quality improvement tools and applications that attendees could try out.
At the closing plenary session on Sept. 10, Dr. Carolyn Clancy, AHRQ Director, posed this question: "What is it we need to do right now so we're not having this same discussion in 5 years?"
This question was answered by members of an expert panel, who brought differing perspectives on the important priorities. Dr. Arthur Kellermann, associate dean for health policy at the Emory University School of Medicine, identified three innovations that would profoundly change the face of health care over the next 5 years: universal coverage; a basic set of universally available clinical services; and a cheap, simple electronic health record. "We are not possibly ever going to achieve the goals we aspire to in quality, safety, and effectiveness unless we cover everyone in this country," said Dr. Kellermann. In describing a universal set of services, he used the analogy of "tap-water health care," stating that the United States has a healthcare system today that is buying "Fiji water in supertankers." "The fact of the matter is tap water works," he said. "What I want all of you to do or your colleagues to do is, let's figure out what tap-water health care in this country is… What are the interventions? What's the primary care? What vaccinations? What disease management strategies should be on everybody's benefit list?" Dr. Kellermann also suggested using public funds to bring electronic health records up to date, then giving the system to public health systems and selling it to private health systems on a sliding scale.
Carol Cronin, executive director of the Informed Patient Institute, gave four "paradigm shifts" that were integral to changing health care delivery: moving from a fragmented system to an integrated one, moving from a passive patient to an active one, taking responsibility, and moving from a focus on sickness to a focus on health. Ms. Cronin described an active patient model, in which patients want to feel better, don't want to worry about money, and want to be respected. "Those three aspects… are universal across racial, cultural, and educational groups," she said. "Two others that many people want: they want to be informed… and they want to ask questions and get them answered. And people to a certain extent want to be involved, but they don't want to be the doctor. And I worry about some of the rhetoric about the informed patient. Pushing a lot of the responsibility of decision-making and the burden of choice on patients, it sometimes goes too far."
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That is a tough one - LEGO Star Wars was a top seller that is a 'license', but is *QUITE* different in every way from the other licensed games I played last year for review (which included Unfabulous, Nicktoons, SpongeBob, Avatar, etc) … and LEGO Star Wars was one of the better games I played all year.
Cars on the other hand was pretty lousy and sold largely on the strength of the name.
But then how does buying a 'license' game differ from buying the latest Madden retread?


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A peculiar characteristic of this warbler is that it does not try to lead an intruder away from the vicinity of its nest.
Wilson's warbler is a common spring and probably fall migrant in Coahuila.
Early the following morning, and again at the close of the day, the warbler foraged over the lawn in the same fashion.
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The voice of a colored person in the rear breaks in upon my recollections of the warbler.
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The principal excitement of the morning was a glimpse of a Kentucky warbler, a bird most peculiarly desired.
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The U.S. military is exploring the potential of augmented reality on the battlefield as part of its continuing effort to load foot soldiers up with as much useful information as the Pentagon can supply without weighing them down so much with hardware they can't get to their feet, let alone march on them.
The latest iteration of the long series of experiments with labels like Future Combat Systems – which have produced a few genuinely beneficial new capabilities amongst a raft of failures – is a smart contact lens designed to make it easier to focus on a heads-up display projected on eyewear that doesn't blind the user to anything but the screen.
There are plenty of head-wearablevirtual displays that cover the eyes completely or remain obtrusivelyas an obstacle to one eye or the other.
There is even another smart contact lens in the works. There are far fewer (none) that are unobtrusive enough to be tacked onto a regular set of glasses or goggles so the user can see through the glasses clearly and see the ghostly, projected HUD at the same time.
Google's Project Glass is one of the more elegant-looking versions of the latter approach.
The glasses, as modeled by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, are clear, half-rim glasses with an L-shaped module attached to the right temple, stretching from the to the lens, curving around near the top of the lens so the projector is out of the user's direct eyeline but is close enough to project its own images on the lens.
Focusing on an image so close is a big problem, because of how close the HUD projector has to be to the eye and the virtual distance needed to make the HUD image big enough to read.
Human eyes aren't good at focusing on details in both extremely short and extremely long detail at the same time.
The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) just signed a contract under which an optics company called Innovega in Bellvue, Wash. will develop a version of its dual-focus contact lens and accompanying HUD-display eyeglasses to DARPA's specs, according to an interview company CEO Steve Willey did with the BBC.
The contact lens allows human eyes to simultaneously focus on images that are ultra-close and those that are farther away by piping in the image from an accessory such as a HUD display and display it using the multiple-focus optic splitter designed into the contact lenses.
Making wearable HUD displays smaller, lighter, more energy efficient and easier to use is a huge priority for those within the military eager to put tactical information in the hands of troops who need it. Past efforts have provided useful information – according to the evaluations of the troops testing them in the field – but were too heavy, too awkward or displayed data too out of date to be useful to most ground troops.
The reliability and security of wireless networks connecting individual modules carried by one soldier and connecting troops to one another were bigger problems than the heads-up displays in the failure of the wearable hardware that was part of Future Combat System, which was killed in 2009.
The eyepiece in that case was a helmet-mounded opaque module troops would have to focus on while trying to keep an eye on approaching dangers with the other eye.
In live-combat tests in Afghanistan, most troops ditched the video, relying on squad leaders and field officers, who did use the monitors, to pass along the information they needed.
Innovega's combination of smart contact lenses and eyeglasses is designed to make displays easily wearable (once troops get the monstrous-looking contact lens onto their eyes.
The result may not be as elegant as the design prototype in most of the Google glasses pictures, but Google's might not be as elegant when it does what it's supposed to do, either.
Putting augmented reality into a contact lens might cause the kind of cognitive dissonance, disturbances of balance and problems with spatial awareness that are common side effects of anything that changes our perception of motion or depth may be a problem, and there's no proof troops will be able to see both images clearly.
"Two superimposed images tend to be degraded and lower in contrast," Gary Rubin, a professor at University College London's Institute of Ophthalmology told the BBC. "I question whether a multi-focal contact lens is the right solution."
Neither DARPA nor Innovega are claiming the super-eyeball will be helping U.S. troops on the battlefield any time soon. It may take a year or two to get the prototype up to DARPA's specs and start testing.
In the meantime, Innovega is already testing the iOptik lenses and glasses with the FDA. Willey said he expects the civilian version will be available by the end of 2014.
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Sorry about your father, I thank him for his service to our country. You are very correct in the fact that it could have been bad if this man on the bike would have become upset.
Stay safe, Stay armed
This is a discussion on You just never know......this happened at a funeral ! within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I post about this incident because it supports the philosophy of being armed all the time. Sure there are places and settings that you feel ...
I post about this incident because it supports the philosophy of being armed all the time. Sure there are places and settings that you feel "safe", just as there are places and settings you feel uneasy. You never know for sure, so don't compromise your safety by assuming some places are 100% without threats.
Here's what happened to us recently, and it shows how unexpectantly things can change in seconds.
We were attending my fathers funeral (WWII veteran) a few weeks ago and were all gathered at the gravesite concluding his final services. We're in a very nice cemetery on the edge of town, almost rural, major highway nearby. I'm sitting under the "green tent" facing my Dad's casket, attendees standing outside of the tent mostly to our backs, the pallbearers are on the opposite side of the casket from me, their backs are to the major highway that is somewhat nearby. Because of where I was sitting, I couldn't see any of this happening, but here is the story as I was told:
During the closing prayers, a guy on a bicycle, with stuff hanging off of it comes riding up the grass toward us behind the standing pallbearers. I can't see him because my view is blocked by the casket. He was described to me as sort of like a homeless-looking person. The lady funeral director spied his approach and wanted to intercept him from potentially disrupting the services. She trotted toward him with her finger over her lips signalling him to be quiet.
As she got closer to him, she whispered, "You've got to be quiet".
He says, "I'm here to pay my respects"
She says, "You need to leave".
He says, "I'm part of the family".
She says, "No you're not".
About this time her male co-workers had eased toward this minor scene and the guy on the bicycle took that as a cue as time to leave, and he left, peddling back toward the highway.
It didn't upset me, in fact I found it sort of funny. This occurred about 20-30 feet behind the pallbearers and it was handled so professionally by the staff that hardly anyone noticed it. The funny thing is the pallbearers, there were definitely 7 out of 8 of them that the homeless guy would not want to mess with.
Anyway the point of my story, you'd normally not had any thoughts of a potential threat riding up on a bicycle in a setting like that. Who knows what mental condition this guy was in and how he'd react to being ask to leave? Who knows what he had in the bags on his bicycle.
BTW at least two of us were armed, not that we felt threatened to be at a funeral, it was just our daily "wear".
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Sorry about your father, I thank him for his service to our country. You are very correct in the fact that it could have been bad if this man on the bike would have become upset.
Stay safe, Stay armed
I am sorry for your loss :(
I agree normally I am the "Paranoid" one who noticed people comeing and going, funeral security like me (been to ALOT of funerals). Safer then sorry and better armed with at least a pen if nothing else. Always been my thought on safety.
When life gives you lemons, Open a lemonaid buisness.
Sorry for your loss! And always be armed and safe!
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Talking about using a gun at a funeral? On a homeless guy with a bike?
Its a shame that youth is wasted on the young.
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Would I shoot a homeless guy on a bike at a funeral when he pulled out a pistol and pointed it at me or someone in my family? VERY LIKELY
This is a Defensive Scenario thread, and it's described as "Real or hypothetical, discussions regarding when you should or should not draw your weapon, shoot or not shoot, attack or retreat is valuable to each of us." The point I was making with this thread is contained in my first post, which I'll repeat here for you:
You never know for sure, so don't compromise your safety by assuming some places are 100% without threats.
I hope this clears it up for you.
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I see you are from IL. Is that coloring your judgment?
This post is clearly about how things could go bad in any innocent circumstance. Noone is suggesting shooting bikers.
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Really sorry for your loss..............but the story seems comical to me.
But, you just never know................
I didn't know it was going on at the time, and I wouldn't have found it funny if this guy had disrupted the services. I did find out about it later, and the whole thing did seem sort of funny and strange all rolled into one. Great job by the staff in proactively curtailing this guy.
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I'm pretty sure ppk's point is you never know, anytime anywhere comes to mind.
I am going to a funeral home tomorrow, myself, to pay my respects and support a friend who has buried 2 sons in less than 6 months.
Several of those in attendance are known to have issues, drugs, alcohol, attempted suicide, etc. Not the kind of folks I normally spend time with, and those who leave me feeling uncomfortable. I will be armed and no one will know but me.
Most likely nothing will happen, but honestly, you never know.
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I agree, the point of this thread was that even in the places where people feel "safe" (churches, funerals, wherever else), anything can happen, and you need to be ready for the unexpected.
I attended a funeral just yesterday with my girlfriend. She usually gets onto me pretty hard if I forget to strap on the gun. When we got back home from the funeral, I took my shirt off to change into something more comfortable and she saw my gun. She asked if I had actually carried it to the funeral. She knows I carry to church and everywhere else I go...I was surprised to see her wondering why I did at the funeral.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Sorry for the loss of your father, a WWII vet who clearly was part of the greatest generation!
As to funeral interruptions and possible deadly threats, yes, we all know it can happen anywhere, anytime. While the incident presented was merely a distraction, it should serve as a reminder to all of us.
For those who live in towns and cities where large gangs work with impunity, don't lose sight of the fact that while the funeral you are attending may not have any threat, there may be a funeral close by where the deceased is a gang member in which that funeral ceremony may be disrupted by violence.
It is not uncommon for a rival gang to seek revenge during a funeral as there is a high likelihood there will be a target rich environment of rival gang bangers paying their respects.
So, while it has been a rare occasion where I have attended a funeral and graveside services where another funeral is taking place 50 yards away, it has happened once or twice. I always take the time to profile the area and look around to see what the attendee's of the other services look like.
Stay safe out there, and again, my condolences for the recent loss of your father, ppk.
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Duffy-Wilson-Sanchez? Or Duffy-Sanchez-LaRoche? The Pirates' lineup has been getting a lot of attention as of late (such as in the P-G here and here, on Pirates.com here, and at WHYGAVS and Honest Wagner), as there's not too much else to talk about in the world of hardball at the end of January. The Bucs won't bring in any other significant pieces (save possibly another starting pitcher), so everyone's talking about the puzzle we can build with the players we already have.
I'm not the first to do it--and I certainly won't be the last--but here's the order David Pinto's Lineup Analysis tool spits out given our current personnel and their ZiPS projections:
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It's been 6yrs since my last custom build. So I figured it's long overdue for a new one. I've been eyeing up the overclocked bundles for afew months, trying to decide which bundle. To be honest I found the overclocked bundles abit off putting as I'm not a overclocker. I guess their the more popular choice. After going round in circles, I stumbled across the forum. I realised after reading up I'm alittle out of sorts with the latest offerings. For reference I will be upgrading from a cough cough P4 machine. Planning on the build being as future proof as possible.
Budget is around £1500. After realising how outdated most of my current parts are. I'm going to need more then I thought. PC connected to Sony TV so no monitor needed, also have a wireless keyboard with touch pad which is fine still, have Win 7 as well. Use will be mainly general plus I play alot of browser-based games with multiple accounts running. Everything film,tv and music wise also gets watched on my pc mainly.
[CPU] Intel model[Mobo] ?
[RAM] 16GB+, I tend to multi task alot which means many programs & browser windows open
[HDD] 3TB, I like to hoard my downloads
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[Extras] Blu Ray Rewriter? Any thoughts?
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I have a 2006 STS since a couple months and I have problems..
sometimes when I want to start the engine it doesnt start.. it seem to do it only when its hot or the engine is hot.. a friend plug the computer on it and the code p0300, p0301(cyl.1) and p0302(cyl.2) came out.. i change the sparks plugs and did a injector traitment.. someone talked about the coil.. he said if we inverse it we can see if the code swith cylinder... someone else tell me that it cant be this cause if it was this the problem would be all the time..... we erased the code and the problem is still there but the code didnt came back...
ohhh yeah I have another problem ti.. I dont know if its reliated..
sometimes when a drive I push on the gaz pedal and the car wont move.. the 'traction assertie activer' advise come on de dash.. when I push on the traction control button its ok.. ??
thank you in advance.
and sorry if there is some mistake I speak french!!
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The coils are a good place to check. I would switch your cylinder 1 and 2 coils with cylinders 3 and 4. Have your friend clear the codes, and scan again when the codes reappear. You may only have a P0300 atfirst, just give time for the individual cylinders to throw a code.
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the traction control message appear because your car think it is slipping, you'll need to go to a place with more advance scanners, not sure if you are in france or canada, but igf you are in canada then auto parts shops can scan these for free, not sure about france, you might need to go to a dealer,
about the missfire do as mkosharkii suggested and switch the coils, if it changed then it's the coils fault, if you still get the same codes then you probably have a bad ECM
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Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 34 / Number 3 / November 1998 / Pages 209-212
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A simple method of fabricating large plastic shells has been developed for use in future inertial confinement fusion experiments. This fabrication technique is based on the emulsion method and uses an interfacial polycondensation reaction between the water and oil phases. The largest shell obtained was 3.8 mm in diameter.


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The Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, which supports research and innovation in the field of sustainable food and diets, calls on the scientific community to mobilise for the second Premio Daniel Carasso.
The food challenge – to feed some 10 billion people with all due respect for the planet and humankind – requires that research into sustainable food systems be intensified. Doing so, however, calls for a multipronged, cross-disciplinary approach that is not really workable or adapted to what is still a very compartmentalized context. The Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation has created the Premio Daniel Carasso precisely to highlight such an approach and its practitioners.
The Premio Daniel Carasso is an international prize awarded every two years by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation. It is intended to reward and encourage outstanding scientific research into sustainable food systems and diets for long-term health. The Premio is worth €100,000 and the winner becomes the Foundation's ambassador for sustainable food and diets until the next Premio comes around.
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Dancing Robot Swarm Tells The Story Of The Universe
Disney's Pixelbots roll around and light up in sync like large, real-world pixels.
Three years ago, at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Disney Research released a prototype artistic robot swarm. Last month, Disney Research returned to the conference, showing off vast improvements on the bots, as they danced the Story of The Universe. This week, Disney released a video of the performance.
Now called Pixelbots, these tiny robots have two magnetic wheels that can be programmed to represent one pixel of light and color at a time. They are capable of making quick transitions and changes in shape without getting confused or running into each other, and will even reposition themselves if you try to mix them up.
Pixelbots can make images on tabletops or whiteboards. The software that controls them allows for quick recovery of disrupted displays, without the Pixelbots being put back in their starting place. You can sketch on an iPad and watch as the Pixelbots move into the position created in the sketch., or direct them with a gesture of your hand.
In the two-minute video, 50 Pixelbots begin as a bunch of stars that burst before becoming the sun, moon, and Earth. The bots then transform into a fish in the sea, followed by a dinosaur. The show ends with the bots formed as a waving human. The video was created excite children about Pixelbots.
Pixelbots represent a potential new kind of cartoon images and 3D animation. They could lead to flying high definition displays that form interactive images in the sky. Get a glimpse of the future by viewing The Story of The Universe, as told by Pixlebots.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce announced this week that total August exports fell $1.9 billion from July down to $181.3 billion, the lowest level in six months. Imports also fell in August, but only by $0.2 billion, resulting in a 4.1% increase in the nation's trade deficit, which widened to $44.2 billion in August from July's revised figure of $42.5 billion.
Responsibility for the 1% decline falls solely on the goods sector, where exports decreased by $2.1 billion between July and August. The service sector saw a $0.2 billion increase in exports, resulting in a monthly all-time record at $52.8 billion. Decreases in the goods sector came primarily from fewer exports of industrial supplies and materials, which fell $1.2 billion in August, and of foods, feeds and beverages, which fell $1.1 billion.
Wider trade deficits are often considered a drag on economic growth as it indicates that U.S. companies are earning less on their overseas sales, while U.S. consumers are spending more money on products manufactured abroad. Nonetheless, exports remain at historically high levels, having grown at an annualized rate of 12.7% over the last 12 months compared to 2009. Total exports over the last year are valued at $2.173 trillion, which is nearly 37.6% above the total level of exports in 2009.
As of August's figures, the top ten buying countries with the largest annualized increases in purchases of U.S. goods, compared to 2009, were Panama (34.9%), Chile (27.8%), Argentina (26.3%), Turkey (26.3%), Russia (25.7%), Hong Kong (25.6%), Peru (25.3%), the United Arab Emirates (21.8%), Ecuador (21.6%) and Venezuela (20.9%).
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Canelo Alvarez breaks with Televisa?
By Gabriel F. Cordero
Mexican boxing superstar Saul "Canelo" Alvarez has announced that his next fight will not be televised by the Mexican broadcast network Televisa, whom he has been with throughout his boxing career. Through his Instagram account, CaneloPower, Alvarez made the announcement: "Good morning, for the date of July 12, it has been decided that it will not be televised by Televisa due to work and personal issues. Thank you for your support and we'll find the best for you and me, have a great day, regards."
A source close to Alvarez told Fightnews.com the following: "Televisa hasn't treated Alvarez as the great global star he is. Although many think he's the darling of the network, the truth he is not … it's not official yet, but it appears that Alvarez wishes to take a different path and now could listen offers of the other broadcasters."
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This is a discussion on Which assault rifle? within the Defensive Rifles & Shotgun Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Originally Posted by C hawk Glock Your response comes from an area of lacking in experience and knowledge. I forgive you for that, as some ...
There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.--RAH
...man fights with his mind; the weapons are incidental.--Jeff Cooper
There is a reason they try and make small bullets act like big bullets--Glockmann10mm
To see if I could, for starters; I wanted to see if there was something to the myth that AR's are fragile beasts, and must be pampered. What I learned proved it to be just that--a myth.
And as far as I could tell, there was no adverse effect on accuracy, or on relaibility down the line, either (thousands more rounds have gone through 'em both after the test as well). Neither of the rifles were harmed.
There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.--RAH
...man fights with his mind; the weapons are incidental.--Jeff Cooper
There is a reason they try and make small bullets act like big bullets--Glockmann10mm
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S&W 642 Airweight, Ruger SP 101, Colt Detective Spec., CZ RAMI, Kahr PM9, Kahr CW40, S&W Model 10-7, Glock 30, 19, and 26, Browning Hi Power, CZ82, Colt Commander, Dan Wesson PM7, Ruger LCP
A rifle (an AR in this case) is a machine.
There is no benefit to the reliability of any machine by not lubricating and occasionally cleaning.
AR's have been stopped by excessive fouling (typically combined with a lack of lube). It can and occasionally does happen. To me, cleaning and lubing after reasonable intervals just flat out makes sense.
It makes the same kind of sense changing the oil in your car does. If a rifle is relegated to paper-punching duty exclusively, then I wouldn't care as much. Paper doesn't shoot back if my gun doesn't go "bang".
However, for me, I view my AR's and other weapons as having a potentially defensive role....as in defending me and my family. That being the case, proper field striping, cleaning and lubing is a nonnegotiable....and doing so in a manner that the machine in question (an AR15) benefits from in terms of reliability. Cleaning and lubing is also a good opportunity to see if there is any excessive wear, or a potential weakness in a component. All machines can and do wear/break and taking a good look occasionally can prevent one from learning of this weakness while engaged on the 2-way range.
AR's can handle a LOT of shooting, so is it likely the average shooter is really stressing their guns to a huge extent? Probably not. I'm also lot real likely to get in to a car accident this afternoon, however, if I were to, I'm looking for as close to 100% possibility my seat belt and airbag work. The higher the stakes, the more reliability matters.
Not everyone feels the same about their guns. Some go bonkers if their gun gets a tiny scratch on it. Some will shoot their guns in to the dirt. Some guys collect and target shoot, others have guns that include defensive response options. In the case of the later, cleaning and lubing appropriately is little more than common sense and an extremely small price to pay for as much assurance of reliability as possible.
Regular intervals is fine, but what intervals is that? To me, it's about every 1,000 rounds at a minimum. I lube before each day of shooting. Never had a gun become anything more than sluggish due to fouling. A little lube fixed that immediately. It won't affect function or accuracy. Getting hot will affect accuracy though to an extent.
Currently, I'm making a living off of my ARs, so it's somewhat important to me that they work. They are also defensive rifles as I always have one close by and in my car, so again, it's somewhat important to me that they work. I see my rifles work past 1,000 rounds without cleaning sometimes a couple times a month and sometimes more than one of them.
I'm all for guys that like a clean gun, but know why you're cleaning them. Some believe it will fail because that's what they were taught. Some are using cheaper guns with out of spec chambers or weak extractors that will gunk up and possibly fail. Others do it because they're OCD and just don't want to put it away for three or four months filthy. We just all need to recognize that a quality AR will not fail within a couple thousand rounds or even FAR more as long as it's lubed correctly.
I've found that maybe 4 out of 5 AR shooters (not just owners) that I know, still believe some sort of old time myth and it affects the way they do things. The other 1 out 5 decided to try it for themselves and figured out it was nothing more than BS.
So, for anyone that repeats all these myths, my question is, how many times have our personally had a failure due to not cleaning that was absolutely without a doubt due to not cleaning but was still lubed properly? My guess is none or the gun in question was a problem to begin with. This isn't directed at anyone here, just so something I would ask anyone repeating these myths as I'd suspect 99% just hear it and pass it on without ever attempting to see if it's true or not.
Proven combat techniques may not be flashy and may require a bit more physical effort on the part of the shooter. Further, they may not win competition matches, but they will help ensure your survival in a shooting or gunfight on the street. ~Paul Howe
But then I've also seen AR's fail. I remember one cold & nasty day when we were out at the range. Heavy rain, cold rain, pounding rain....and sand. Lots of wet, adherent sand that found it's way into everything after a good crawl through it. I'd guess that at least 40% of the trigger pullers had their weapons fail that day, especially after mag changes. Maybe more than 40%. These were USA M4's made by some company called Colt.
I kept my M4 shooting, but that's what happens when one is OCD about cleaning his or her weapon and magazines.
Proven combat techniques may not be flashy and may require a bit more physical effort on the part of the shooter. Further, they may not win competition matches, but they will help ensure your survival in a shooting or gunfight on the street. ~Paul Howe
Have not read the responses as I am supposed to be cleaning up from cooking a big messy curry, but I can't stand that saying assault rifle. Isn't your pinky finger something you can assault with?
Now to my messy stove.
Robar's Firearm Finishes and see for yourself. I'll more than likely have other guns given this treatment.
Former Army Infantry Captain; 28 yrs as an NRA Certified Instructor; NRA Patron Life; Avid practitioner of the martial art: KLIK-PAO.
Alas, that AR was gone when I went back for it. Darn.
"The value you put on the lost will be determined by the sacrifice you are willing to make to seek them until they are found."
No doubt NP3 and similar finishes are a fine choice. The other thing we have going that many overlook or don't truly understand is now have options beyond CLP. Choices like Slip EWL and Froglube will separate and lift the dirt and grime off of the surface while CLP will mix with it. These things can make a huge difference.
Nothing wrong with a quick wipe down after shooting if you feel you need to. Like I said, I keep my work guns clean, for the most part. My range guns I don't worry about that much.
Proven combat techniques may not be flashy and may require a bit more physical effort on the part of the shooter. Further, they may not win competition matches, but they will help ensure your survival in a shooting or gunfight on the street. ~Paul Howe
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"A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty. A people stripped of their right of self defense is defenseless against their own government." -source


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Guderian Credits (Atari 8-bit)
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|Roger Batchelder (as Roger Batchelder II), Neil Bradley, Peter Brickwood, David B. Brown, Paul L. Roberts, William Creamer, Dennis Duncan, Dale Findley, Lew Fisher, David C. Fram, Thomas Konczal, John Loy, William L. MacMurdy Jr., Chris Many, David W. Nesbitt, Richard Roberts, Jim Rupprecht, David Skarupa, Phil Studenberg, Johnny Wilson
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HEI, Vacuum, and Tach issue
OK, this one is weird to me. I just bought my car and it has a 350 ZZ4 motor with HEI distributor. Now, the tach did not work when I bought the car and I discovered the wire on the side of the HEI unhooked. So I hooked it up and the tach started working. Now, here is what is interesting. The car driving down the road just started to die but when I put on the brake it would start running again. Vacuum! Im going, okay, this has something to do with the tech connector and distributor. I unhooked the tach and she runs great now. Could this be a bad vacuum advance or distributor? I didnt think it would be electrical since it cleared up with a push of the brake, again, vacuum. I could use a little help on this one and thanks
Agreed, however, there is no short and wiring issues as I have already went through that very carefully. When I disconnected the tach from the dizzy issues gone. Like I said before, when I would touch the brakes causing a change in vacuum it would clear for a moment. This is a weird one for sure...
If you are completely certain that the problem is not the tach wire, then the only other connection between the brake pedal and the distributor would be the brake light switch. Applying the brakes causes a slight voltage drop, if the installation of the HEI is marginal from a wiring standpoint or if there's a grounding issue with the tach, then the voltage drop MIGHT be related.
I know all that sounds likely but I really have checked all the wiring between the tach and the dizzy as well as anything thing that the brake pedal would interfere with. That is why this is so crazy. I WILL get to the bottom of this soon. With Easter last weekend I did not get a chance to disappear in the garage. I will take a look at the brake light circuit too which I had not done yet. Thanks guys for your input...
I was thinking this morning that this could very well be a bad coil in the HEI. Maybe the hookup of the tach wire is enough to kill it. The symptom is that of a bad coil, but the brake pedal thing is still somewhat of a mystery to me. Thoughts anyone...
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News outlets failed to note recent prewar intel revelations in coverage of Hadley press conference
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The Washington Post, The New York Times, and CNN highlighted national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley's public defense of the Bush administration's use of prewar intelligence and his criticism of Democratic efforts to ensure full investigation of this matter. But in their coverage of his November 10 press conference, these outlets omitted mention of recent reports that undermine administration claims that Congress had access to the same intelligence as the administration and further support allegations that White House officials ignored dissenting views within the intelligence community in the build-up to war.
On November 6, both the Post and the Times reported on a newly declassified document proving that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) had voiced strong doubts about the credibility of an Al Qaeda operative whose statements provided the basis for many of the administration's prewar claims regarding Iraqi training of terrorists. The DIA report -- produced and distributed in February 2002 -- raised serious questions about the first interrogation report on the operative and determined that "it is more likely this individual is intentionally misleading the debriefers." Both newspapers noted that administration officials, in late 2002 and early 2003, repeatedly cited the alleged chemical and biological training as proof of an Iraq-Al Qaeda connection but never noted that the DIA considered this intelligence suspect. Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), who released the new materials, stated "that he could not be certain that White House officials read the DIA report, but his 'presumption' was that someone at the National Security Council saw it because it was sent there," according to the Post.
Four days after these revelations, Hadley held a press conference during which he responded to Democrats' ongoing calls for the completion of a congressional investigation into government officials' use of prewar intelligence. A November 11 Post article, a November 11 Times article, and the November 10 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight all focused on Hadley's response to the Democrats' efforts:
HADLEY: I point out that some of the critics today believed themselves in 2002 that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. They stated that belief, and they voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq because they believed Saddam Hussein posed a dangerous threat to the American people.
The Post devoted an entire article to Hadley's remarks; the article also included coverage of the Democratic response. The Times noted Hadley's defense at the end of an article on President Bush's current efforts to "to shore up his credibility and cast his critics as hypocrites." Dobbs gave only a brief report regarding his comments. But despite the Post and the Times' recent coverage of the declassified DIA report -- and despite the fact that Hadley was deputy national security adviser at the time that report was disseminated -- none of these news outlets mentioned the report.
That Hadley had directly addressed the matter of dissenting opinions compounded the severity of these news outlets' failure to note the DIA report. In response to a question regarding what lessons he had learned from the handling of Iraqi intelligence, Hadley suggested that the president may not have received an adequate assessment of the intelligence community's divided opinions on certain aspects of the Iraq intelligence:
HADLEY: Obviously, what comes into the Oval Office, again, is an effort to provide a consensus judgment. But I think one of the things we've all learned from that is that it is important, also, to be clear about dissenting opinions and make sure that dissenting opinions also are given visibility; that we need more competitive analysis and to have products that come to the president. This is one view; this is another view. ... And you're beginning to see that happen in terms of how intelligence is coming to the president.
Moreover, the Post quoted Hadley as stating that the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) was "clear in terms of weapons of mass destruction":
Hadley yesterday offered no direct critique of the prewar intelligence and instead said that at the time it was compelling evidence that also convinced the Clinton administration and other governments.
"The intelligence was clear in terms of the weapons of mass destruction," Hadley said, citing a National Intelligence Estimate provided to Bush. "The case that was brought to him, in terms of the NIE, and parts of which have been made public, was a very strong case."
But the Post failed to mention that the NIE "key judgments" had included a lengthy dissent on behalf of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) regarding the claim that Iraq had reconstituted its nuclear weapons program. Further, the Post's characterization of the NIE as simply "provided to Bush" ignored the fact that the document was produced only after Democratic members of the Senate Intelligence Committee requested it in September 2002. In fact, the White House reportedly objected to the production of such an assessment at the time. An article in the September 22, 2003, edition of The New Republic described how the then-chairman of the committee, Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL), and Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) pushed for the NIE after reviewing a classified CIA assessment of the Iraqi threat that reportedly took "the most aggressive view of all available information":
Stunned by what they read, Graham, Durbin and others on the committee intensified their demands for [then-director of central intelligence George J.] Tenet to produce an NIE on the Iraq threat. It was not a request that Tenet could easily fulfill. "The White House didn't want it," says a source with direct knowledge of the effort. "They wanted to draw their own analytical conclusions."
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Over the last couple of years I have been suggesting that we are living in the fourth cultural epoch of North American culture. We have seen the Agrarian Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age and now we are entering the Inventive Age.Each of these ages has particular ways of thinking, valuing, appreciating aesthetics and way of using tools. And all parts of culture including religious communities are created from these cultural situations.In Community in the Inventive Age, I … [Read more...]
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Pennsylvania Common Pleas Court Judge Ellen Ceisler ruled that the city could not extend a 5 percent amusement tax to the semi-private dances, upholding a ruling by the city's Tax Review Board.
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Jeffrey "The Vile One" Harris: So what is your background and what were you doing before you started doing the show?
Wes Sims: Hey this is Wes "The Whole Show" Sims, formerly known as "The Project." Professional fighter. Fought around the world. UFC veteran. I think the only UFC veteran to be main card coming back on the TV of The Ultimate Fighter. So, I'm looking to make it very interesting this season. Before I went on the show, I was living it up in the streets of Chicago, homeless. You shocked? You surprised? You still there with me, Jeffrey?
TVO: Were you hanging out with Mark Coleman and Phil Baroni at all?
WS: I was before I was homeless.
TVO: I hope now you've maybe upgraded to something better than a cardboard box.
WS: I've got an apartment now. The cardboard box? Uh-uh. Sleeping bag under the highway.
TVO: That sucks man. Obviously, you're done shooting the show, and the first episode hasn't aired yet so we can't talk too much about that. But what have you been doing since you finished shooting the show?
WS: Lots and lots of interviews . . . I really want to start working on my porn career. Yeah. Let's not elaborate that, let's not go into that. Just quote me, "I want to start working on my porn career."
TVO: Maybe the right person will read this interview.
WS: I just want to make sure because everybody knows I've got the largest crotch in the sport.
TVO: Is that such a good idea if you want to pursue a career in UFC or MMA to work in porn?
WS: Ah well, hell yeah, there's a lot of guys that do it. A lot of guys.
TVO: Who has done porn and fought in the UFC?
WS: Aaron Brink was a porn star. You got Dick Delaware. Kimbo Slice was a porn star before he was Kimbo Slice.
TVO: Yeah, he was the bodyguard of the MILF . . .
WS: Of the MILF Hunter, that's right. Frank Trigg did some gay shit.
TVO: Isn't he married?
WS: Whatever, I just know he did some gay pictures. 'Nuff said . . . do you want me to keep going? Give me enough time, I can think of some more.
TVO: Even though you yourself have been in this game a long time, you are not as big of a name as Kimbo Slice, who just has a few fights to his name, and this whole season has been marketed around Kimbo Slice. And a lot more people are probably going to be watching the show because of Kimbo Slice.'
WS: I won't argue that. You're right.
TVO: Does that bother you at all?
WS: I'm a show stealer. You'll have to wait and see. I don't care how they advertise it. I don't care what they do to get people to turn it on, end of the day, I want to know what people think.
TVO: I mean, clearly you are going to be on TV every week. But the more people tuning in for Kimbo Slice means the more people that will be that will be putting their eyeballs on you.
WS: At the 11 o'clock mark, when that episode is over, every episode people are going to be saying, "Wow. Wes Sims."
TVO: Are you training with Team HammerHouse right now?
WS: Team HammerHouse is all over the place. Baroni's in California. Randleman lives in Vegas, and Mark just flew out to Vegas last week to start his training camp. So I will be leaving to go to Vegas real soon right after this.
TVO: So who are you training with right now?
WS: Just my thing here in town, but I'm getting ready to leave and go out to Vegas.
TVO: How did you feel about your last three fights which you won?
WS: Just small little fights. Small shows. Just getting back in there, you know. I've got a lot more to prove in the UFC. A lot more to prove and a lot of things I want to do, and this season was awesome. Things went good there. I'm very excited to be back and I'm definitely going to throw some shit up.
TVO: I talked to Scott Junk who said no one was putting semen in anyone's food this season. Can you confirm that?
WS: I didn't put no semen in no one's food, and no one better have put no semen in my food. If anybody puts semen in my food, I'm pushing their shit in next time, quote me on that. I watch it, and I see somebody did something to something I ate, next time I see 'em, they're on blast. I'm pushing their shit in.
TVO: With like a baseball bat or something?
WS: Oh, uh-uh, uh-uh. The real thing. Yeah. I ain't going gay again, but I'll tell ya, I'm pushing their shit in.
TVO: Brendon Schaub was on the radio talking about Kimbo Slice being a great cook. Can you vouch for that?
WS: That man can cook a mean steak.
TVO: Would you invest in a steakhouse owned by Kimbo Slice.
WS: Yes, yes I would. I'm going to tell you one thing I wouldn't do.
TVO: What?
WS: I wouldn't give one fucking penny to Roy Nelson if it had anything to do with food because that fat fuck ate everything he got his hands on. That pig-eating mother-fucker wolfed down, I mean he uprooted a shrub out back and ate it. I ain't ever seen anything like it. I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have pigs that hungry.
TVO: I guess he's called "Big Country" for a reason.
WS: Fat Ass! We call him Fat Ass. That man has a growth over his belt line that at any point could erupt! Have you ever seen Total Recall?
TVO: Yeah man, I love that movie.
WS: You remember, "AHH! QUAID!" That's a man! That's a man under his shirt! There's another human being in there. Ridiculous fat. Roy, go on a diet.
TVO: He's with a lovely lady.
WS: Newsflash, she ain't in it for your appearance. That ridiculous haircut and that gut? Either he makes a lot of money and she takes it, or she's cheating on him. Quote me . . . I'm just telling ya, quote me, he either makes a lot of money and she takes it or she's cheating on him.
TVO: Being alone in the house, and its uncomfortable except all the alcohol and food you want. But what do you do to keep yourself mentally in the house so you don't lose it?
WS: I didn't. I fucking lost it many times.
TVO: Sorry to hear that.
WS: You'll just have to wait and see.
TVO: Did you guys have to wank it a lot?
WS: There was no wanking. I tell ya, there was cameras everywhere. There was just no opportunity. I wasn't doing it unless I was getting paid for it.
TVO: So basically you guys knew if you were caught doing it, SpikeTV would be filming it?
WS: Oh yeah. If you're gonna wank it, you better got paid for it.
TVO: How do you handle that?
WS: It sucks! It sucks, how could it not? Another fact, there ain't nobody I could look at in that house and wanna go yank it.
TVO: So do you leave and go back home and find a piece of ass to unleash all that pent up torment?
WS: Are you kidding me? I flew a chick out there and I started beating the fuck out of her immediately. I had my girl fly out and I fucked the shit out of her in the hotel. I locked us in the hotel; we didn't get out for an entire day.
TVO: Did you paralyze her or what?
WS: Oh my God. At first go was horrible for myself because it was just ridiculous. But after that, I about ripped her guts out. I tell ya one thing . . . if I was someone waiting to get her kidney or something, I'd be dead because her shit's all bruised up.
TVO: So it's kind of like you were pushing in and taking things out back on the way out?
WS: Oh the shit was fucking -- yeah, it was a mess.
TVO: I'm sure she'll forgive you if she really cares.
WS: It makes me sick talking about it.
TVO: But being a veteran and going into the show, was there anything, and knowing you'd be training with Rampage or Rashad Evans, was there anything you specifically wanted to work on and improve?
WS: Oh for sure, you wait and see, however much training they show on tape, I have no idea, but the training sessions were so intense. They were awesome. It was really a really, really good experience and I wouldn't take anything back. I mean it was great. I loved it.
TVO: So what's the dirtiest thing you've ever seen Phil Baroni do?
WS: Man, I just think some of those internet pictures where his pants are hiked down well below his belt line just above his incredibly small penis. And it just makes me sick. I can't imagine some of the shit he's done. I can only assume, I can only assume he's had unprotected gay sex for money. And quote me for that, please.
TVO: What if Phil reads that?
WS: There's nothing better than an inter-camp struggle, there's nothing better than that.
TVO: Thoughts on the fight with Tito Ortiz fighting your trainer, Mark Coleman at UFC 106?
WS: I will say one thing. Mark's going to beat him up worse than Jenna [Jameson] took it in Jungle of Love 8.
TVO: Anyone you would like to thank or give a shout out to?
WS: My buddy Mike Davis, over in Chicago. Chris Thomas. Randy Harris. My trainer, Mark Coleman. Everybody that was making the calls to me when I was out on the streets.
TVO: thanks for your time, and good luck with your other interviews.
WS: No problem, talk to you soon.


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by Dean Marshall Tuck
She wants me to skip "boyfriend" and be her savior, somehow. Tall order. My cousin, Lane, says there's only one way with a Christian girl like Meredith: marriage. We're lying on her bed watching I Love Lucy. I don't really love Lucy.
Love's a tall order, too. She sidles up to me with her head on my chest and falls asleep, leaving me to like Lucy on my own, her hand curled into a fist, perched on my ribs, exhausted but never resigned.
She says she's tired from lifting kids at pre-school. Her back hurts. I say, "Sit down." She sits cross-legged looking at me, sweet and unsuspecting. I sit behind her, my legs making an open V. I massage her shoulders. With a steady rhythm, she rocks forward each time my thumbs make tiny, firm circles. Slowly they move down her back, finally resting on her hips, soft and full. This is as close as she'll let me come, I think.
"Hands a little low," she says like I'm going to steal something.
I start again with the shoulders, watching her neck and enjoying the way she leans and sighs.
"Duke's playing Carolina tonight. Wanna come over?"
"What about choir practice?" I ask.
"I'll slip out early."
Slip out, I say over and over the entire drive to her apartment. Slip out.
Tonight she's wearing a red sleeveless turtleneck with a long black skirt that clings to her hips. A silver cross on the smallest chain hangs awkwardly over the turtleneck, pendulum-swinging with every move. She smiles.
"We should watch the game in the bedroom. My roommate's bringing friends over."
I watch her from the desk. She's talking about something. I have no idea. She turns on the TV and the Blue Devils have the lead.
"I'm going to change into something comfortable." She closes the bathroom door.
I consider taking off my clothes and climbing into her bed. She's not going to reappear in lingerie; don't be a fool, I think, but I move to the bed anyway.
She returns in a white t-shirt and a pair of black sweatpants, sits on the bed with her back to me, and lifts her hair off her shoulders.
And the game continues.
Sneakers are making thumps and high-pitched squeaks on the hardwood floor, commentators droning, refs whistling fouls, buzzers and horns.
Tarheels win.
So many thwarted attempts later, she shows me in the Bible one night how love is patient and kind and does not envy. "It is not self-seeking…keeps no record of wrongs…does not delight in evil." With a delicate touch she traces the words slowly. I want her fingers clutching the back of my neck, nestled in my hair, nails in my shoulders. Her soft, plaintive voice, "And love," she draws a deep breath, "…always perseveres."
This is impossible. I'm going out of my mind, here.
I tell her I can't see her again.
I'm sitting in my car outside her apartment watching the front door. I wonder, does she think of me when she brushes her teeth tonight? When she checks the locks on the door? Turns out the lights? Does the creaking of the bedsprings make her think of late night television and my hands gently exploring? She'd never cry for me. She's much too sensible. She'll probably tell herself I never loved her. Nothing more than sin, lust. I'm a second from cranking my car and leaving, but the doorbell winks at me through the darkness—a round, solitary glow, remote as the Bethlehem star.
Dean Marshall Tuck is a writer of fiction, an advisory editor for Tar River Poetry, and a performing singer/songwriter: www.deantuck.com. His work has been featured in Zone 3, SmokeLong Quarterly, Night Train, Fringe Magazine, and in Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine.
Author's Note
The term "compression" suits this story in how the narrative condenses time spanning an indefinite-but-seemingly-lengthy period of an almost-relationship between two people. Also, there's compression in the way the two characters bottle up their carnal desires for each other, one much better than the other. Even the stodgy and restrained word,"concupiscence," seems to embody this idea of compression.
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Welcome to Margaret River for only the second WCT event to ever bless this coast. Pretty crazy considering the wave quality and the fact that Australians think of surfing as a real sport, but not crazy when you think about how average Margaret's Main Break is when measured on a world-class scale. It's big, it's chunky, it's mushy and you better believe it's challenging. Still, this is not a spot where the modern day surf fan wants to watch their favorite surfers compete. But hey, thanks to Drug Aware, we get an 11th WCT event and that's a good thing. Let's just pray for swell that moves it to The Box or North Point. A doubtful outcome, but we can still hope.
The Elite
Mick Fanning
He's so damn consistent. I'm sick of risking top picks on the Jordy Smiths of the world. Mick never falls and never makes heat-costing mistakes. While this may not be the most inspiring trait, Mick's surfing is perfect in all conditions and I'll be baffled if it doesn't work for at least 3rd place.
Taj Burrow
Probably a popular selection because, well, he grew up here. That doesn't necessarily mean he's better suited for this wave than anyone else. I seriously doubt TB regularly paddled out at Margies much after the age of 12. With a 3rd at Snapper, I don't get the feeling he's ready to throw in the "I'm never winning a World Title" towel. If Taj is going to make us believers again, he better do it at home.
I'm cautious of picking…
Kelly Slater
There aren't many places you're able to say, "Kelly isn't at an advantage here." Basically only two places in the world: Sunset Beach and Margaret River. Both have similar wave styles that Slater seems to dislike. The WA Tourism board offered him multiple "open tickets (AKA appearance fees)" to show up for WQSs here in years past. We watched him fall to guys like Billy Stairmand and Oakley Team Manager Tom Whitaker. Those are hideous losses that would probably happen less than 1 percent of the time in quality surf, but at Margaret's, everyone is on the same open-ocean playing field and Kelly Slater becomes vulnerable against every surfer on tour. That said, he's still favored by betting sites to win the event. I'm not taking that bet, but I also wouldn't be surprised if he proved me wrong.
The Grinders
Josh Kerr
No one will soon forget Kerrzy's final out here when he blitzed Taj Burrow with a back-to-back air combo (1:58 mark) that had 10s dropping faster than strippers from a pole at Magic City. Success is not an abnormal thing for Kerr at Margaret's, though. He made the Final last year against Dusty Payne, and the Quarters the year before that. West Oz = air wind on rights. Air wind on rights = Kerr winning heats.
Nat Young
ASP judges don't have binoculars and they won't need them to see Natty-boy blasting chunks to oblivion at Main Break. The guy is built to surf powerful, open-ocean waves and is not gonna back down from any beastly section that comes his way. Look for Nat to be back in the Elite category when you're picking your team for Bells.
Ace Buchan
This is the kind of event where there's always someone under the radar who takes down multiple big names. Ace is a man of great character and also maybe a man forgotten on the Hurley team, but he's won two WCT events in his career and he's sneaky good out here. Go Ace!
Julian Wilson
When I saw Julian matched up against Mitch Crews in the Quik Pro I thought, hmm, sorry Mitch. Then I saw Julian blatantly burn Crewsey twice in an expression session the day before their matchup and thought, that's not very nice. Julian lost that next heat to karma and not to bad surfing. He still looked great, but caught crappy waves. I'm hoping he turned his karma around during the two-week break and is ready to kick some West Oz ass now.
I'm cautious of picking…
Jordy Smith
Watching Jordy sit with priority for three-quarters of a heat while Tiago Pires was getting barreled straight past him was one of the most surreal things I've seen in years. Isn't this the guy that's supposed to be all grown up and ready to contend? Jordy is too hard to predict and at a spot where you need to be smart and selective to make heats, I'm staying far away.
The Strugglers and Wilds
John Florence
Never thought I'd see the day where I called JJF a struggler. Well that day is here and I guess he deserves it for losing to Travis Logie, finishing last place on the Gold Coast. But shortly after, he beelined it to West Oz and has surely been taking his aggression out with airs to the flats for his next movie project. I guarantee you John will be out of this struggler bracket by the end of the Drug Aware Pro. If I'm wrong you can each smash one empty beer can on my forehead next time you see me and tell me I suck.
Kai Otton
You put Kai into the Elite bracket and there's no chance in hell I'm picking him. Throw him down to the Strugglers and I'm all over it.
I'm cautious of picking…
Honestly, there's quite a few good options in the Strugglers for this event. I wouldn't be surprised to see any surfer in here do damage. Remember, this is Main Break. You never know when someone will get smashed on dry reef, eaten by a great white or just not catch a wave that allows more than a single cutback. There's blood in the water, Strugglers. This is your ticket out.—Jimmicane
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