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In the animal model described in our present work, purified IgG antibodies against a stretch of 200 amino acids (aa 757-967) of collagen VII are injected repeatedly into mice reproducing the blistering phenotype as well as the histo- and immunopathological features characteristic to human epidermolysis bullosa acquisita (EBA)1.
Date Published: 10/12/2012, Issue 68; doi: 10.3791/4250
Keywords: Immunology, Issue 68, Medicine, Physiology, Anatomy, Dermatology, autoimmunity, collagen VII, inflammation, extracellular matrix, Fc receptor, complement, granulocyte, antibody
Csorba, K., Sitaru, S., Sitaru, C. Granulocyte-dependent Autoantibody-induced Skin Blistering. J. Vis. Exp. (68), e4250, doi:10.3791/4250 (2012).
Autoimmune phenomena occur in healthy individuals, but when self-tolerance fails, the autoimmune response may result in specific pathology. According to Witebsky's postulates, one of the criteria in diagnosing a disease as autoimmune is the reproduction of the disease in experimental animals by the passive transfer of autoantibodies. For epidermolysis bullosa acquisita (EBA), a prototypic organ-specific autoimmune disease of skin and mucous membranes, several experimental models were recently established. In the animal model described in our present work, purified IgG antibodies against a stretch of 200 amino acids (aa 757-967) of collagen VII are injected repeatedly into mice reproducing the blistering phenotype as well as the histo- and immunopathological features characteristic to human EBA 1. Full-blown widespread disease is usually seen 5-6 days after the first injection and the extent of the disease correlates with the dose of the administered collagen VII-specific IgG. The tissue damage (blister formation) in the experimental EBA is depending on the recruitment and activation of granulocytes by tissue-bound autoantibodies 2,-4. Therefore, this model allows for the dissection of the granulocyte-dependent inflammatory pathway involved in the autoimmune tissue damage, as the model reproduces only the T cell-independent phase of the efferent autoimmune response. Furthermore, its value is underlined by a number of studies demonstrating the blister-inducing potential of autoantibodies in vivo and investigating the mechanism of the blister formation in EBA 1,3,-6. Finally, this model will greatly facilitate the development of new anti-inflammatory therapies in autoantibody-induced diseases. Overall, the passive transfer animal model of EBA is an accessible and instructive disease model and will help researchers to analyze not only EBA pathogenesis but to answer fundamental biologically and clinically essential autoimmunity questions.
1. Preparation of Pathogenic Antibody
Note: Purification and concentration of the antibodies should be performed on the same day, as antibodies are not to be stored in 0.1 M glycine pH 2.5-3 (elution buffer) over night (ON).
Affinity purification of IgG: use 25 ml of immune rabbit serum:
Concentration by ultrafiltration with Amicon tubes:
2. Injection of Collagen VII-specific IgG into Mice
Before starting the actual experimental procedure, make sure that the experimental protocol is written and all materials are prepared for the experiment.
Note: Perform all procedures on ketamine/xylazine or isoflurane narcotized mice. Isoflurane is the preferred anesthesia option for the daily skin checks, as mice recover quickly. However, when taking pictures, 87 mg/kg ketamine and 13 mg/kg xylazine is usually injected subcutaneously. For euthanasia the ketamine/xylazine dosage is increased to 130 mg/kg ketamine and 20 mg/kg xylazine.
Injections should be repeated every second day, 4 times. Balb/c and C57BL6 mice of a body weight of approximately 20 g start to develop the disease 3-4 days after the first administration of 400-500 up to 750 μg/g body weight/injection autoantibodies.
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3. Clinical Evaluation of Disease Severity
Mice should be examined daily for lesions of skin and mucosa and the findings should be recorded using appropriate forms. The criteria for early euthanasia is skin lesions affecting more that 20% of the body surface and a weight loss of 5-10% of the total body weight in three consecutive days, counting for a disease score of 5 (Table 1).
4. Analysis of Skin and Plasma Samples
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The passive transfer of antigen specific antibodies results in a full blown disease in mice, resembling at clinical, histological and immunopathological levels the human EBA. Blisters, crusts, erosions and alopecia develop on the ears, snout, paws, legs, back and around the eyes of the mice. The first clinical signs of the disease will most probably appear on the ears and/or head area. Deposition of specific rabbit IgG, and mouse complement C3 is detected by direct IF at the dermal epidermal junction in cryosections of perilesional skin. In lesional skin subepidermal blisters and inflammatory infiltrate are seen by histology.
However, if the injection of pathogenic collagen VII-specific antibodies is discontinued, the disease activity gradually becomes lower, and within several weeks the lesions heal. Nevertheless, a certain degree of postinflammatory cicatricial alopecia may persist indefinitely.
Characterization of the recombinant autoantigen (and of pathogenic IgG)
Murine collagen specific IgG binds at the dermal -epidermal junction (Figure 2B). The specificity is assessed by immunoblot (Figure 2C, lanes 3, 4 and 7).
Scoring disease activity
The clinical evaluation of the disease is based on a scoring system we developed (Table 1): 0, no lesions; 1, less than 1% of the skin surface; 2, 1-5% of the skin surface; 3, 5-10% of the skin surface; 4, 10-20% of the skin surface is affected. IgG against murine collagen VII induces cutaneous lesions such as erythema, alopecia, blisters, erosions, crusts on the ears, eyes, snout, limbs and trunk of Balb/c mice (Figure 3).
Analysis of tissue-bound and circulating collagen-specific antibodies
Deposition of rabbit IgG, and mouse complement C3 are detected in frozen, perilesional tissue sections (Figure 4D and E respectively). The subepidermal blisters and the inflammatory infiltrate are seen in histological samples (Figure 4F). Circulating rabbit antibodies are analyzed by ELISA (Figure 5). Frozen tissue and/or organ extracts are analyzed by different assays for their protein and enzyme content (MPO assay).
Figure 1. Overall scheme of the in vivo blistering induced by the passive transfer of collagen VII-specific antibodies. Rabbits are immunized with murine collagen VII and rabbit IgG is purified from the immune sera. Subsequently, the specific autoantibodies are injected subcutaneously into mice following an injection/bleeding schedule. Mice are being checked for general health condition and disease signs daily.
Figure 2. Characterization of pathogenic collagen VII-specific IgG. Indirect IF analysis of salt-split normal mouse skin sections incubated with pre-immune rabbit serum and with murine collagen VII-specific immune rabbit serum results in no deposition (A) and deposition of autoantibodies at the dermal epidermal junction (B), respectively. The specific antibodies recognize the antigen(s) they were raised against when immunoblot with a set of overlapping recombinant murine collagen VII fragments is performed (C, lanes 3, 4 and 7).
Figure 3. Clinical evaluation of mice. IgG to murine collagen VII induces cutaneous lesions such as alopecia, blisters, erosions, crusts on the ears, eyes, snout, limbs and trunk of Balb/c mice (A-D). Mice injected with specific autoantibodies reach a score of 4, whereas the ones injected with NRIgG or Abs against an indifferent protein had a score of 0 (E). The clinical score was calculated as follows: 0, no lesions; 1, less than 1% of the skin surface; 2, 1-5% of the skin surface; 3, 5-10% of the skin surface; 4, 10-20% of the skin surface is affected. Weight loss of 5-10% of the total body weight during three consecutive days counts as an extra point in the final score.
Figure 4. Histo- and immunopathological findings in mice injected with collagen VII-specific IgG. Deposition of rabbit IgG (D), and mouse complement C3 (E) is detected by direct IF at the dermal epidermal junction in cryosections of perilesional skin, in vivo. In lesional skin subepidermal blisters and inflammatory infiltrate is seen by histology (F). No deposition of rabbit IgG (A), mouse complement C3 (B), nor is subepidermal blister formation seen in the controls (C).
Figure 5. Immunoassay of plasma from mice injected with collagen VII-specific IgG. Plasma levels of circulating rabbit antibodies were measured by ELISA.
Table 1. Skin blistering disease scoring sheet. Click here to view larger table.
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The passive transfer of autoantibodies into experimental animals is a major approach for demonstrating their pathogenicity 7, -12. Animal models obtained through this method, in addition to being the indirect evidence for autoimmunity 13, allow the investigation of the efferent phase of the pathogenic mechanism. The passive transfer model of antibody-induced granulocyte-dependent skin blistering of epidermolysis bullosa acquisita (EBA) was used to dissect the mechanisms of tissue damage in autoimmune dermatoses. It emerged also, as an exquisitely instructive model disease to study fundamental, biologically and clinically crucial aspects of antibody-mediated organ-specific autoimmune diseases that extend well beyond the limits of autoimmunity against collagen VII. Finally, this model may be used to study fundamental biological and pathophysiological processes, including basement membrane biology, granulocyte activation by immune complexes and complement activation.
Although several experimental settings, including ex vivo and animal models, are available for the autoimmune skin disease EBA 14, by far the most suitable to study the granulocyte-dependent inflammatory pathways is the passive transfer of autoantibodies into animals. In contrast to the ex vivo model, where the granulocytes are added to the skin sections previously incubated with the autoantibodies 15, here the infiltration of leukocytes is spontaneously reproduced by the mice. Furthermore, if we choose to work with specific antibodies raised against the antigen in other organisms, such as rabbit and goat, we avoid the problem of limited patient sera availability and we also have a better chance to reproduce complement activation and granulocyte recruitment 16.
For the successful reproduction of granulocyte-dependent blistering in the passive transfer model of EBA, it is important to be able to adequately score the signs of disease, starting with erythema and oedema through blisters, erosions with crusts and alopecia. The evaluation of mice is a process that needs to be previously learned. The scoring of the disease has to be performed by the same person, throughout the experiment and always seconded by a collaborator or aid person. The development and use of a standardized scoring system for each experimental disease is of the outmost importance. The enclosed scoring sheet should give the reader an insight how skin dermatoses are evaluated in mice.
When performed as shown in the video, the model of autoantibody-induced subepidermal blistering will greatly facilitate the further dissection of the granulocyte-dependent inflammatory pathways triggered by autoantibodies and resulting in tissue damage. Its value in medical research is supported by the promising perspective of developing and testing new antigen-specific T and B cell targeted anti-inflammatory therapies. Finally, it will help in answering fundamental biologically and clinically essential autoimmunity questions.
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The authors acknowledge support by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft SI-1281/4-1 and BIOSS from the Medical Faculty of the Freiburg University (to CS).
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Al Gore reminds me of the Wizard who had the curtain pulled back on him planning to be taken more seriously by getting Toto sent away to obedience training.
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Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore wants to end the default practice of quarterly earnings guidance and explore issuing loyalty-driven securities as part of an overhaul of capitalism which he says has turned many of the world's largest economies into hotbeds of irresponsible short-term investment.
Together with David Blood, senior partner of 'green' fund firm Generation Investment Management, the environmental activist has crafted a blueprint for "sustainable capitalism" he wants the financial industry to adopt to support lasting economic growth.
"While we believe that capitalism is fundamentally superior to any other system for organising economic activity, it is also clear that some of the ways in which it is now practised do not incorporate sufficient regard for its impact on people, society and the planet," Gore said.
At a briefing ahead of Thursday's launch, David Blood said capitalism has been blighted with short-termism and an obsession with instant investment results, which had ramped up market volatility, widened the gap between rich and poor and deflected attention from the deepening climate crisis.
The Goracle has reportedly made around $100 million just in the last decade, much of it very quickly — dare I say "short term." But that was "good" short term… right now we're discussing "baaad" short term.
How come losing billions in taxpayer money overnight on clean energy "investments" is good for society and the economy in the long run, but a private investor seeking to earn a fortune overnight is bad for society and the economy in the long run? The answer is that both are perfectly acceptable as long as Gore has a piece of the action.
If Gore wants to get rid of corporate quarterly reporting, let him be the first to invest millions in a business that is only compelled to update him on it's progress, or lack thereof, every few years or so. I'll even volunteer to be the person who heads up that company just to show how much I care about the cause.
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The history of Ambaum Boulevard, Part 2: Hard work
by Rob Clay and Sharon Burkhart*
From Ohio in 1902, Jacob Ambaum arrived with his wife Mary, found work helping clear land for part of the Cedar River rail line near Renton that same year. He also helped clear the land along SW Roxbury St. up to the intersection of McKinnon Rd. (now Delridge) and 16th S.W. in what is virtually downtown White Center.
Seattle was a bustling place at the turn of the century. The city had streetcars all the way to the tide flats at Spokane Street. and across them to the shores of Harbor Avenue. The growth of immigrant families, Italians, Germans, Slavs and a few Irish were intent on developing the south end. Chicken farms became popular along the streetcar line, especially from 120th to 128th in what became part of Burien.
The street car line was the ambition of George White who secured a permit from King County by 1912 when construction began. The streetcar would become a reality once a path was cleared. Several moneyed investors helped finance the line that followed West Marginal Way south from Spokane street and up the hill to Holden street just north of White Center. There it turned west to 16th S.W., turning again south to 107th (where Yarington's Funeral home is now. The line turned east again to head up the hill to Mt. View elementary School before turning south all the way to Salmon Creek. A major landslide knocked the line out of service for almost 18 months.
Operations resumed by May 1914 but progress did not stop for Jacob Ambaum. Ambaum was a leader.. He was determined to get a road built from just south of present day White Center to Burien. Ten years before, he very likely worked on the Puncheon Rd coming up the hill on what became Meyers Way. There is some reference to heavy, flat-sided timbers being used instead of the actual view in the illustration provided.
Ambaum's road did not follow the streetcar line but took a more direct path initially. Heading due south from 112th street, it met up with the streetcar line at Salmon Creek. With a team of horses, necessary tools and back-breaking labor, Ambaum hired a crew to cut the swath of timber from 112th SW, through and around the Salmon Creek curve and on to Burien (then called Sunnydale) at 152nd Street.
Ambaum Rd. 1927 at S.W.122nd Street. Note cement roadway and streetcar tracks Highline Times 1974
At Salmon Creek, the ravine posed a serious problem. It was a convenient slope with a "skid road" for timber coming up from the mouth of the creek (much larger outfall then). Clarence Gresset (community historian shown in photo) stands on the old timbers the loggers used to bring the cut wood up to the top of Salmon Creek ravine.
Clarence Gresset, WC resident and historian posed for this picture of the remains from a skid road at the Salmon Creek curve, close to where Schick Shadel Hospital is now. Photo by Tim Robinson-1974
The street car and the road had to follow the slope. That would not happen easily, so Ambaum and the streetcar investors created a big loop in the line heading it more east to avoid the creek before resuming a straight line to S.W. 130th where it curved slightly at Pasquan's Hill (formerly the site of Standring Hospital and currently Milan Recovery Center).
Pasquan's Hill may have been part of the problem of flooding in the area known as Herme's Depression( a small pond) and an issue for Jacob Ambaum and the road crew. The runoff from Pasquan's Hill helped fill the low areas just east of where Ambaum Rd would be built. Marian Ambaum DeLeuw* (Jacob's adopted daughter) recalls rafting in the small pond after heavy spring rains failed to drain away. Her dad tried unsuccessfully to drain it further east. It remained an issue for the county for many years after and can be seen today as a retention pond just east of the Goodwill store at 128th and Ambaum.
Clarence Gresset, WC resident and historian posed for a picture of the remains from a skid road at the Salmon Creek curve, close to where Schick Shadel Hospital is now.
At the beginning of the Great Depression (not Hermes) Marian was starting school at Mt. View where she would ride the streetcar line north to 107th. The line had been in operation for nearly 17 years but fell on the hard times requiring maintenance and money.
In 1929 Jacob Ambaum was approached by the Highland Park management to inquire if he was interested in taking over the line. The line was in debt. Ambaum turned it down. The failure of the line was bad news for Marian who claimed she would ride to Seahurst at the end of the line, head down the hill Three Tree Point and play all day with her friends. She'd walk back home with her friends thinking nothing of the distance (2.5 miles). She was barely 11 years old when the tracks were finally removed. The old wagon road from 112th to Burien, improved by Ambaum, was graveled, bricked and eventually cemented as the number of cars and people increased.
*(Sharon Burkhart was raised near Salmon Creek. Her family befriended Marian Ambaum DeLeuw (daughter of Jacob and Mary Ambaum) in the 40's when Marian's father and Sharon's dad worked together at Todd Shipyards. Sharon was very close to Marian and her own daughter JoAnn. In later years Sharon interviewed Marian about her life from the early days of the 30's until her taking residence at Providence Mt. St. Vincent where she (Marian) passed away in 2013.
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can't say that I know what your talking about, but sounds like it reinforces my decision to not waste money on cable/satellite TV.
I agree but I do like it because it makes me drink more moonshine :redchug:
My ulcers keep me from it these days but after living in Franklin county I really had a taste for it!
Television BS
Well if it was real wouldnt these guys be getting busted? Hell looks like they would have plenty of evidence.
The one guy is the Fire Chief. So I guess he knows all the cops.
And the spinoff show tickle.people that know him have told me he isn't acting. He really is that goofy!
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but sounds like it reinforces my decision to not waste money on cable/satellite TV.
I think the last good tv shows were on in the 80s, now all you see are these so called reality shows. There's nothing entertaining about tv anymore.
It's supposed to be just "entertainment" and about as real as most of the reality tv crap out there. Here's what wiki sez
"Moonshiners is an American docudrama television series on the Discovery Channel that dramatizes the life of people who produce (illegal) moonshine in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina. The series dramatizes their liquor production efforts, law-evading techniques and life.[1] There have been claims by local officials that the show is not what it portrays to be. Virginia authorities have stated that no illegal liquor is actually being produced by the people depicted in the show. The Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control said in March 2012 that, "If illegal activity was actually taking place, the Virginia ABC Bureau of Law Enforcement would have taken action."[2] They also said that they had requested for the producers to add a disclaimer to clarify that the show was only a dramatization, "but the request was overlooked."[2]"
I'd bet though that the show has encouraged more than a few people to attempt distilling their own liquor.


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Kermit the Frog is keen to clear his name. Kermit and his co-star in The Muppets, and one of the film's writers, Jason Segel, deny any suggestion that they are now, or ever have been, communists.
"Just because we think everyone should have the same amount of money," Segel explains, "does not make us communists."
"Not at all," Kermit agrees. "That's just the way it should be."
Having survived more than 50 years in Hollywood, Kermit has been called many names, from puppet to fanciful frog.
Yet when his latest movie, The Muppets, was released in the US, Eric Bolling of the Fox News network accused Kermit of participating in a communist propaganda piece. Specifically, he asserted that the film's villain - a dastardly Chris Cooper - demonstrates the film's politics through his name: Tex Richman. For Bolling, this name highlights the underlying message that the Muppets are anti-wealth.
Kermit disputes this on many levels, not least of which is logic. "Let me just put it this way: if we had a problem with oil people, why would we drive around in an old Rolls-Royce," he asks, referring to the aged car within which he and Segel cross America in the course of the film in an effort to reunite the muppets for one final Muppet Show. "It's a gas guzzler, for crying out loud!"
For Kermit the communist accusations are just water off an amphibian's back. "It happens," he says of Bolling's accusations.
Segel is quick to defend Kermit, bemused at any suggestion of communism on set. "I serve at the pleasure of Kermit. Kermit has always been a very, very benevolent sort of leader. He made sure the lines were dispersed evenly between everyone throughout the movie."
The pair admit early on they tried to include some politics in the film, through one of the movie's many high-profile cameos. "We went hard after Barack Obama," Segel says. "He said he had more important things to do."
For Kermit, the biggest celebrity cameo disappointment was Kim Jong-il. "He turned us down,'' he says. ''He wouldn't do the film."
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A federal judge in Pensacola, Florida has struck down U.S. President Barack Obama's socialized medicine law in its entirety on the grounds "that Congress exceeded the bounds of its authority in passing the act with the individual mandate."
"Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void," U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson wrote in his 78-page opinion. "This has been a difficult decision to reach, and I am aware that it will have indeterminable implications."
Difficult? How is it "difficult" to conclude that the government has no right to dictate purchases to its citizens?
Last month, U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson also found the individual mandate unconstitutional. Two other lower courts have ruled that Congress had the right to impose the mandate as part of the $1 trillion (some say $2.5 trillion) plan.
"An individual's personal decision to purchase — or decline purchase — (of) health insurance from a private provider is beyond the historical reach of the U.S. Constitution," Hudson ruled in December. "No specifically constitutional authority exists to mandate the purchase of health insurance."
Unlike Vinson's ruling, Hudson's decision left other parts of Obamacare in place – but it's clear that all of these cases are heading to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Earlier this month, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives repealed Obamacare – the opening salvo in a protracted war against this costly, job-killing big government abomination.
In a letter to lawmakers prior to the vote, a group of 200 economists described Obamacare as "a threat to U.S. businesses," one that "will place a crushing debt burden on future generations of Americans." Meanwhile, a new report issued by The Cato Institute found that Obamacare will result in massive new Medicaid expenses for cash-strapped states.
Last March, "Obamacare" passed the U.S. House by a narrow 219-212 vote – with 178 Republicans and 34 Democrats voting against the bill.
After Obama signed the bill into law, Democrats vowed to undertake a massive educational and public relations campaign aimed at selling the American public on the benefits of the legislation. That didn't happen … and health care data that's been released over the past year hasn't helped their cause (click here, here, here and here for a few examples of that).
In striking down the new law, Vinson ruled that its mandate violated the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
"Regardless of how laudable its attempts may have been to accomplish these goals in passing the act, Congress must operate within the bounds established by the Constitution," Vinson wrote. "Again, this case is not about whether the act is wise or unwise legislation. It is about the constitutional role of the federal government."
True that …
We have consistently opposed Obama's socialized medicine law. We hate its infringements on individual liberty, but the bottom line is that America can't afford its exorbitant costs or the new burdens it would place on the private sector.


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BOB MOON: The founder of the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks
says he'd prefer to keep the details of his life to himself. But over the weekend, Julian Assange told London's Sunday Times that his mounting legal costs have required him to sign an $800,000 book deal for his memoirs. He, better than anyone, might know that there's not much that stays secret in this age of the Internet. We heard a lot this year about how much companies know about us. Our own Stacey Vanek-Smith got her data mined this year and she joins us to talk privacy. Hey Stacey.
STACEY VANEK-SMITH: Hi Bob.
MOON: So data mining is something companies have been doing for years. Why have we heard so much about it this year?
VANEK-SMITH: Well, Facebook. That site has changed the data mining game entirely. A few years ago, the best information a company could get on a consumer probably came from their Internet searches, what they were Googling. But with Facebook, companies can find out a lot more. And coupled with our search data, it's pretty powerful. Here's what data miner Robert Grossman was able to find out about me using my Facebook page coupled with my Google search history.
ROBERT GROSSMAN: I know your hometown, which is Boise, Idaho. I know where you work. You work pretty hard doing queries for work, but THEN it looked like in the evening, you would watch TV shows like "Glee," look at travel locations. I could see that you were interested in doing a trip to Berkeley, San Francisco.
MOON: Now that would creep me out. That's a lot of information!
VANEK-SMITH: It did creep me out, and it is a lot of information. But if you think about it, your Facebook page is like a consumer profile that you have built yourself. So advertisers can look at it and see who your friends are, where you like to go, what music and books you like, what you're planning to do this weekend.
MOON: What do they do with the information?
VANEK-SMITH: Well, that's interesting. All of this sounds very "1984," but honestly advertisers are mostly using this information to show us ads for things that we're pretty likely to want or need. So if you like Arby's, on your Facebook page you'd get a coupon for a roast beef sandwich and you'd actually want to use it.
MOON: OK, but it's not only advertisers that get a hold of this information. Are there worries that, let's say insurance companies, others might get this?
VANEK-SMITH: That's very true. The worry is that insurance companies and like creditors might get this information. So if you have a lot of bankrupt people in your social network, your access to credit might be affected. Or if your friends are all smokers, your health insurance premium might go up. And we're actually starting to see that happen a little bit.
MOON: Well what can people do about this going forward? Haven't there been attempts by lawmakers, even computer and software makers, to let people block their information?
VANEK-SMITH: Yes there have. Honestly though, it's going to be really, really hard to do that -- especially since creating that data is something we do in our free time on things like Facebook. I put that question actually to Matt Britton. He's the CEO of social marketing firm, Mr. Youth. He said what we really need to focusing on, the real solution, is to take ownership of our data.
MATT BRITTON: Building your personal brand is something that's going to be so incredibly important in this new economy. Consumers need to craft the right brand using everything from LinkedIn to Facebook to Twitter. Everything you're putting out there can precipitate a lot of what will happen in your life in terms of how you're perceived by everyone -- your friends, your colleagues, prospective mates and prospective employers.
MOON: Wait a minute, so I've got to be a brand now with brand images and all that?
VANEK-SMITH: It's brand Bob Moon.
VANEK-SMITH: In a way, yes. Our online profiles are something that we have to manage. And they can really take on a life of their own. So Bob, I know what a big "South Park" fan you are, right?
MOON: No, no. But OK.
VANEK-SMITH: Anyway, well, you will be now. So there's an episode of "South Park" where Stan actually has a showdown with his Facebook page.
FACEBOOK PAGE FROM "SOUTH PARK:" I'm your profile, and as you can see, I'm much more powerful than you!
STAN FROM "SOUTH PARK:" Dammit, I should have deleted you a long time ago!
FACEBOOK PAGE FROM "SOUTH PARK:" The fact of the matter is, I'm up and running now with almost a million friends... I don't need you anymore. Who is more powerful -- the user or the profile? Let's end this once and for all!
MOON: Ooh, so don't leave us hanging here, who wins?
VANEK-SMITH: Well, you know they can't kill off a main character. I guess, unless it's Kenny.
MOON: Yeah, but aren't they killing off privacy?
VANEK-SMITH: Well, yes. I guess so. You could sort of look at 2010 as the year that privacy died. Actually, my favorite thing about this topic -- the topic of privacy -- came from Andreas Weigend, he's a data mining expert at Stanford. Here's what he said.
ANDREAS WEIGEND: Maybe privacy was just a blip in history. It started when people moved to cities, where they had places to hide. And it ended with the Internet, when basically there was no place to hide left.
VANEK-SMITH: Weigend says as as culture, we've basically traded privacy for social connectivity. And he says the younger generation doesn't even respect or value privacy at all.
MOON: Well, I'm sure this isn't the last we've heard of this Stacey because as they say, you can run, but...
VANEK-SMITH: You can't hide.
MOON: Marketplace's Stacey Vanek-Smith, thank you.
VANEK-SMITH: Thanks Bob.
MOON: We've got more of the 2010's top business stories
in our year in review series,
as well as our most popular slideshows, videos and other features.Check out the series here.


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QIUKA, CHINA – A Chinese shaman resplendent in a dark suit and green cloth hat examined yellowing pages said to predict the future — but mass migration to cities means the prospects for his own profession look bleak.
"To see a spirit, you have to practice the ancient rituals," said Zhao Fucheng, 74, who claims he communicates with the spirit world from his wooden hut in southwestern Guangxi province.
He is one of the estimated thousands of shamans — locally known as "spirit masters" — who are called on as healers in a centuries-old tradition among ethnic groups in the region.
"If something bad is going to happen to you soon, and your luck is running out, I can change your luck," said Zhao, who belongs to the Yao ethnic minority. "If medicine doesn't work, then you need to ask a spirit."
Zhao, who lives in the village of Qiuka, which is accessible by a dirt track that rises high over mountains patterned with rice fields — receives a steady stream of villagers who profess to believe in spirits.
"Sometimes if you go to the hospital and see a doctor and it doesn't work, you need to look for a spirit master," said 38-year-old farmer Zhao Jintai, who like many in the village are surnamed Zhao but not related to the shaman.
"Spirits will make you ill, but they won't eat you or anything like that," offered Zhao Deqing, 13. He admires the motorbikes that older peers drive back from their jobs in nearby towns, and plans to leave the village as soon as school finishes.
When he does, he will join the largest migration in human history — which has seen more than 300 million Chinese people move to cities over the last 15 years — and leave the elderly shaman behind.
The shaman Zhao says he specializes in healing and telling fortunes.
"I do some communicating with ghosts, beating drums and blowing cow horns — I can do the little things," he said.
On a spring morning, he agreed to make predictions for a visitor. Armed with the client's date of birth, he scrutinized a lunar calendar printed in red ink.
Mouthing a series of calculations, he reached for a book that is hundreds of years old, its crumbling pages lined with Chinese characters.
"When you reach 39, things won't go smoothly for you," he declared as his increasingly red-faced client nodded.
The shaman pointed his dirt-caked fingernails at the characters, reading aloud and adding, "It's nothing to be scared about."
In the Cultural Revolution, a decade of upheaval launched in 1966 by leader Mao Zedong, there were violent campaigns against "superstitious" practices in which spirit masters were beaten and abused.
Shamans in Qiuka said they hid their books during the turmoil, retrieving them only when campaigns relaxed in the 1980s.
Demand for their services surged in the following decades as market reforms undermined China's public health care system and medical costs skyrocketed.
Even in a tiny village like Qiuka, with just a few hundred residents, several men identify themselves as spirit masters.
"People will look for me if they get sick," said Zhao Fukai, a gray-haired man in his 60s, cradling a thick yellowed tome.
"Ancient people left us this book," he said, adding: "To attract spirits, you need to use blood. It can be a little scary."
But in the mountain villages of Guangxi, one section of the population is visible by its absence: young people.
Nearly all of the remote village's youths leave after graduating from middle school, looking for work in cities that pay better than local jobs in farming or forestry.
China is set to add 300 million people to its urban population over the next decade, a process bound to leave thousands of villages virtually empty.
Shamans in Qiuka said they feared no one would learn the rites passed down to them.
Village traditions elsewhere, from theater to martial arts, face the same threat of extinction as China urbanizes.
"You can obviously make much more money working outside the village; you can't earn much doing this," shaman Zhao Jintai said.
He looked at his middle-aged son, who remains in the village due to an industrial accident but claims "not to believe" in the magic practiced by his father.
Yang Shengwen, a local researcher who has studied shamanic traditions in the region, said the practice would suffer as villages empty.
"Shamanism hasn't vanished, but it's a trend we are worried about, especially because of young people going to cities to work," he said. "In 30 years, they will be there, but after that, it's hard to say."
From his mountaintop perch, Zhao admitted seeing fewer patients in recent years, giving a cryptic explanation.
"The spirits have left, so I communicate with them less," he said.


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In calling attention to the above-named poets, we have merely indicated a few who seem to be chief; but the judgment is a personal one, and subject to challenge. The American critic Stedman, in his
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i paint on unborn children
My best friend from youngsta age sits for a murder committed with scissors and a hammer
I dream about the smell of paint
i like tagging rest stops from BC to Saskatchewan!!
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i live in japan for over two years hoping to stay out here
The first duty of a Revolutionary is to get away with it.
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My ex-fiancee's dad is in the Country Music Hall of Hame. One time we went to dinner at their house, and Garth Brooks and Randy Travis were there. Damn I'm glad that fell through.
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This tee features muffins being sad because "muffins are just ugly cupcakes." The ironic thing about this tee is that these muffins look cute and adorable on this tee. Now that's something muffins should smile about.
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Assembly Set to Spar with Senate, Cuomo Over Malpractice Caps
The State Senate and Assembly are expected to pass their versions of the state budget Tuesday, kicking off budget negotiations in earnest.
One big difference between the two houses is over the Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposal to cap medical malpractice awards.
Doctors and hospitals have been pressuring politicians to limit malpractice awards for years, and now they're close. Cuomo has proposed a $250,000 cap on non-economic damages. Those are the awards associated with "pain and suffering"— not the awards for lost income or for continued medical treatment.
Assembly Democrats said the proposed limit lets doctors and hospitals off the hook and takes away one of consumers' strongest safeguards.
"In our debates on the budget, I would say the vast majority of my Democratic colleagues were adamantly opposed to it and saw it as a real denial of the rights of people who were seriously injured," said Richard Gottfried, Chairman of the Assembly's Health Committee. "But where this will come out in negotiations is anyone's guess."
The Assembly has omitted the proposal from its version of the budget — setting up a showdown with Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, and with Senate Republicans, who favor the cap.
Including the award was crucial to getting support from the medical community for the governor's entire Medicaid Redesign package, which proposed dozens of cuts to trim $2.3 billion from the Medicaid budget. Much of the savings comes from either cutting or freezing medical reimbursement rates or raising taxes and surcharges.
Groups such as the Greater New York Hospital Association and the Hospital Association of New York State have said the malpractice cap is a crucial part of helping them save money by lowering malpractice insurance rates.
Trial lawyers and their allies said many states with damages caps have seen no decrease in malpractice insurance premiums.


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Full 26 pieces of $5 Bi-Metallic set!
This listing is for one set of 26 $5 peso Bimetallic coins. This set is part of a commemorative issue of coins for the 200th anniversary of Mexican Independance and the 100th anniversary of the Revolution. This is the most complete set to date, with 26!
The coins are as follows-
2008 Francisco ¨Pancho¨ Villa
2008 Carlos Maria Bustamante
2008 Ricardo Flores Macon
2008 Miguel Ramos Arizpe
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As we continue to explore the rise of narcissism in North American society, we have to realize that this growth in self-obsession is not happening in a vacuum. There are an abundance of factors involved in fostering this national quagmire, perhaps none more significant than the changes that have occurred in our attitudes regarding parenting.
In their latest book, The Narcissism Epidemic, Twenge and Campbell offer some unique insights gleaned from a large, national study that dates all the way back to 1958. In this study, parents were asked the following question: "If you had to choose, which thing on this list would you pick as the most important for a child to learn to prepare him (or her) for life?" The options were as follows:
- "To obey"
- "To be well-liked or popular"
- "To think for himself or herself"
- "To work hard"
- "To help others when they need help"
The first thing to note, from of this study, is that parents' greatest desire for their children has not changed from 1958 to 2004. Over the past half-century, parents consistently prioritize a child's ability "to think for themselves." This is not terribly surprising, for personal autonomy is one of the supreme values endorsed by the Enlightenment. And if America is anything at all, it is, at bare minimum, a living, breathing experiment in Enlightenment values.
Somewhat more surprising is the trend related to obedience. Take a look at the graph below:
Back in 1958, obedience was the second greatest virtue amongst this list of desirable traits to be possessed by one's child. But by 2004, obedience has declined by 15% to an all-time low, where it now ranks second to last.
What do you think? Is it possible to maintain an orderly home where obedience is not valued? What about a society? Is it possible for society to function if obedience is no longer a virtue? And lastly, what can we reasonably expect in a society where narcissism is on the rise, at the same time that obedience, as a taught virtue, is on the decline?
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For previous posts in this series, please feel free to make use of any of the following links.
Greater than Jesus: The Narcissism Epidemic … (part 3)
The Narcissism Epidemic … (part 2)
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83 305 4 bbl conversion to 350 w/750 edelbrock
Looking to replace wheezy ticky 305 in an 83 camino with a built late model 350 with edelbrock 750. Wires on old 4 bbl carb for what? Want them gone...how to eliminate elect controls...or do I need some aftermarket engine control? Will I get hassled eliminating the cat on this exempt car in upstate NY? Got shorty headers with engine I'd like to use. Thanks for any pertinent advice on this swap. camino is 305/th350 with AC.
i think the wires are for the elec choke and the CCC controls to the carb which, i think, are for the metering rods and throttle position sensor. You don't need these if you are going to be switching to an edlebrock 750.
Why not stick with a non-computer Q-jet?
2) What type of distributor are you going to use? i'm not sure if you can run the CCC distributor WITHOUT the CCC carb. Or can you? Will look into this.
i have no idea on upstate ny emmissions laws and i am perplexed as to why anyone would want to live there in the first place. But that's just me.
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hey guys,,,thanks for the responses. I appreciate the advice. I have since been able to talk with some knowledgeable mechanics and have gained some insight. I have no desire to make my car a gross polluter but then again I am just making a driver to use to and from work and don't' want to spend mass quantities of cash transforming this el camino into a respectable power making ride. I have found that I will be ok without the cats in this part of the world and have no plans to drive into other countries with it. Going to many cruise ins in the area I have seen many upgraded cars with no pollution controls on them and they seem to be able to get them inspected and registered. It has been my understanding from past articles that a properly tuned mild engine will pass any sniff test,,thus not a pollution pig. At almost 30 years old, this 83 elco is exempt from tests at any rate. when I got it the air pipes to the cat were already rotted off in more than one area and making that system ineffective anyhow. Mind you this is a 50g mile car...I guess the pollution system was a little weak to begin with. I fixed them myself as nobody but a dealer would even touch any of the pollution controls. I was hoping it would make it run properly and it almost does except for the warmed lean condition hesitation and the fact that it has no power to speak of at any temperature....the 4 barrel makes noise but that's about the extent of it. I was told that I could just disconnect that wiring and forget about it,,,,I will still be utilizing the electric choke,,,that is a separate circuit from the ones running right into the carb body. Check eng light will have to be disabled. I have scored a fresh and complete 350 that included the edelbrock carb and performer manifold already installed. It has new flat tops i can see thru the plug holes so I am confident that I have a decent engine here despite the dangers of sourcing anything from craigslist. Also had a set of sst shorty headers included so I would like to go the full hot rod route. Folding engine hoist and leveler were also part of the deal and many other new items...flywheel, mini starter, billet hei dist, pump and pulleys, alum fuel pump, cast alum bowtie valve covers, chrome goodies all over, etc...I just couldn't' pass it up for the $...whats not to like? It'll still nickel and dime me to death gathering the odds and ends as you should full well know how these things go...spent 50 today just getting header bolts and collectors which didn't get found to make the sale. Getting an exhaust system hooked up to those headers is turning into another boondoggle, do I need to add in cats to complicate it further? Local shop is talking 500 just for the parts. Now my latest concern is the th350c in there....looks to have a vacuum modulator for shifting and one 2 wire connector by the shifter...I guess it is the control for a lockup converter...I'll have to find a way to adapt that. I finally got under the thing again today and found that there was no bolts through the trans mount into the trans,,,,nice. I was wondering what the h was shifting around,,,I could feel it but the motor mounts checked out ok and nothing in the suspension looked suspect....just a tranny flopping around under there. Everybody says put a 700 r4 in there...yikes ,,,here we go again,,,does somebody think these things are free? I'm not trying to impress anybody with how much money I can spend on this car,,,I want to drive it and not have to worry about some 4g car that is now 12g or more after installing all these goodies that are so in vogue today. I have a feeling the th350 is stronger and will suit me fine...I only drive around 5g miles a year anyhow, gas mileage improvement from the 4 speed would be insignificant....besides...the th350 is lighter and we all know that lighter is better. It'll still have ****ty paint... one side looks nice from 20 ft or so.
Honestly, I wonder why I live in NY sometimes too.. other than it is were I was born and raised and where I will more than likely be planted too. Some people move away but there usually come back...there's no place like home...where ever that might be. Adirondacks right up the road, what more do you need? Adirondack Nationals forever! If its the winter you're scared of..we didn't even have one this year. Personally..I like to downhill ski too so I have everything I need right here. I did get out for the one snowfall we had worth going skiing on...my wrist is still killing me. Getting old and falling more.
Working on my 66 fairlane is so much easier...once all the rust is eliminated...almost there. Strictly old school there sorta too...390/toploader and nine inch..unbreakable. Elco will make a good parts chaser once it gets a real mans engine in there.
FWIW, Don't use the distributor from the 305 in the 350. You can wire up a lock up converter switch via several means and a few companies sell a kit for it so you can retain the converter lock up on your th350c. Pretty common stuff, just do a little searching.
Start by searching something like "lock up converter switch th350c" in our search bar or Google. You'll find a ton of info and it keeps our regulars from having to feel like broken records.
As far as swapping in 700R4, the extra gear is nice, but without the right combo you can render your first gear useless. The 2004R has a way better gear spread for a performance car and also comes with overdrive.
NAPA Echlin TCL100 $74.09 (joe retail)
or if you prefer it in kit form ... ($240.00 -ish)
Painless #60109 for 700R4 / #60100 for 200-4R
hey, Valkyrie5.7, thanks for the reply. The engine came with a new hei distributor that I will use...that engine assembly was originally intended for 78 malibu project that never made it according to the seller. The headers should fit the elco too as I did a search and found the same application for both. Good idea on the search..I will give it shot. I did see some stuff for doing the 400r swap but when I found I had a 6 inch tailshaft and driveshaft mods were required, I decided to abandon that thought. I get so caught up in the search that I find it impossible to find what I really want sometimes and before I know it, it's time to go too bed. I am a cad designer and spend enough time on the computer all day and have little taste for it at home...unless I am having success on one of my searches,,, then I am gung ho. I only accidentally ran across this site the other day, and I am glad I did. I figured I might not get any response but you and others are definitely being helpful. I can relate to the repeating the same stuff over and over again. I have seen a million articles on doing swaps like these but never took the time to read then through as they weren't pertinent to anything I was doing,,,things have changed and I still have all those old mags... I need a clerk to find the articles for me now. If I wait a while the stories may come back around. I;m finding that the 83 camino is an outdated auto that not many carry parts for...I consider it to be a late model...guess I'm showing my age.
66GMC...thanks for the sources....I Presume those are for the 700/200r4 swaps? I'll be sticking to the th350c I think. I'll give napa a call to see if they have something for the lockup converter for me. I'm a little wary of any napa electrical stuff though,,,they do not allow returns of any electrical items.. the last I knew.. so if there's something wrong with it its your tough luck. I learned the hard way with a defective set of points many years ago and never go to them since, except as a last resort. Not that a set of points was breaking the bank...it's just the principal. I don't like to do business with people that don't stand behind what they sell.
It really should read "No return on ELECTRONIC (solid state) parts".
Put it this way ... I wouldn't hassle you on a set of $10.00 points. It's pretty easy to visually check them. If you had installed them, there would be a mark from tightening the screw ... and/or if they were overheated and blue, they'd be your little souvenir, etc.
I had a guy bring back a $150.00 VW ignition coil a couple of months ago ... claiming that he hadn't installed it. It passed the "stink" test, but it had been marked by the coil wire clip. When I 'called' him on that he sheepishly admitted to trying it ... and that it didn't make any difference.
I decided to send it back to NAPA on a "goodwill" claim, and told him that I'd refund his money as long as NAPA deemed it to be in "re-saleable condition". They did, and I did.
Moral of the story? Tell the truth to begin with, and perhaps the counter guy will work WITH you. Respect is a 2-way street.
ha....and so how would you know the points were defective unless you tried to install them and they wouldn't open? Is that a catch 22? You got some points checker thingie that can verify them before you try to put them in? That would be bogus reasoning in my book. Nothing solid state about a set of strictly mechanical points. I guess I never had trouble with such a simple part from anywhere else and had to try to return the junk. I got another set from a reputable parts house and had no issues. The defect was strictly mechanical in nature. There was no arcing as they never opened at all...the cam follower wouldn't make contact with the cam at all. I guess you must be a napa guy or something, sorry if it hit a nerve with you...it hit mine a long time ago.
Not trying to make this all about NAPA and returns but you often get better treatment if you are a regular customer.
I can return almost anything at the two stores I buy from...but O'Reilly's? Not a chance. Since they are the highest priced in town they seldom see me.
Most stores around here also do not take back any electrical returns.. starters, alternators, ignition, etc. You own it once you bought it. But, again, I can get away with a better deal as can most shops and repair guys.
Good luck on your swap...
I suggest that you might want to re-read what I posted.
I said that I *would* take them (the points) back.
The "points checker thingie" is my eyes (and fingers)...
I also said that I *don't* hassle my customers one the return of "electrical" parts. (i.e. points, switches, signal flashers, trouble lights, etc)
Firstly ... because I don't believe that it's worth a potential confrontation over a lousy $10.00 part. Secondly, I try to put myself in the customers shoes. Most of us DIY-ers are not professional technicians and tend to make some poor diagnostic decisions from time to time ... I *get* that.
I have a few very simple, common-sense rules (IMO) when it comes to returns.
1.) If our store sold it to you, and there is no doubt in my staff's mind that it's in resalable condition ... we'll take it back.
2.) If it came from our stock ... there will be no re-stocking charge.
3.) Non-stocked items ... You will pay what I pay in regards to re-stocking and freight charges (in both directions), and will be subject to any of the supplier's rules. If they say it's non-returnable ...
IMO ... we have a very FAIR return policy. You may want to reconsider painting EVERY NAPA store with the same opinion brush. I'm just sayin' ...
I'll also say this again.
Another little secret ...
If I get some guy that comes in furious and throwing a fit ... bad-mouthing us to everyone in line and promising to never darken my door again ...
I'll take him at his word.
A promise is a promise, after all.
I really do believe in being given the chance to work it out reasonably and fairly.
I feel the same about a mechanical repair complaint...
Take it back to the shop that did the repair, and give them the chance to "make it right". Don't go back waving a bill from some other garage and expect reimbursement, because 9 times out of 10, you won't be getting it. Right?
Hmmm ... in regards to returns of starters and especially alternators.
That's getting to be a tough one.
Years ago an alternator was a $25 to $50 unit ... and had an external regulator. If it passed the "sniff test" and there were no signs of arcing or blueing on the terminals ... I'd probably take it back. Back in those days, we also used to have an electrical test bench ... where a 2-minute test could verify that it was operating normally.
Nowadays ... alternators are getting to be much more expensive and complex. I'd have to know and trust you before I'd consider taking it back.
A $10,000.00 / month account? Yes, no question.
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Hey guys, I guess I have thrown a pall over all of napa over that incident. I have dealt with other napa's and with electrical parts for a golf cart when I was camping up north, solenoids to be specific and they did allow me to test and return to get the right part. The points thing happened locally and I was a regular up to that point, with my 100$ bombs back in those days ... beleive me,,,I was in their store plenty. I seriously doubt that your eyes would have told you that these points were defective in their manufacture and I didn't just fall off the turnip truck putting points in a car either. One of the touchiest cars, point wise, I ever owned was 64 belvedere ex-interceptor car with a 383 4 sp and dual points....they had to be on the money or it just didn't' run right,,,a bit of a pain but when she was on, there wasn't many that could compete. And that was several years before I had this 71 318 cuda to replace the points in....like I said, I bought another set someplace else and had no issues so I take some offense to your insinuation that I don't' know what I am doing. Restocking? Resaleable?? I hope not, defects are defects...once discovered it should be no contest. Not that I am perfect...I am human and I make mistakes...I am also man enough to own up to them too. It appears as though you are saying it doesn't matter if an electrical part is defective, once you buy it the deal is closed. I had to buy some expensive starter motors in the past few years and can tell you that I would never accept a bad motor that cost me 150$, I use the best defense I can by charging expensive parts. Then if there's a problem I have the charge card to back me up in case I run into problems and better yet...my wife pays those bills with money I don't have to come up with. I never asked my local private parts store or advanced auto what their return policy was on such items but assumed that if I had a problem they would take care of me. I hope I never have to find out. There's nothing worse than disassembling your car to do a job and having the defective parts and having to put it all back together again and trying to do it all again later with hopefully good parts. Advance has a habit of giving the wrong parts it seems sometime but their return policy works for me. You have a better policy than my local napa dealer does or did..like I say //I don't go there except as a last resort. Burn me once, shame on you...burn me twice, shame on me. It's been like 30 years now and they have missed my business since then for the most part. I also work on other peoples cars...usually fixing things instead of just replacing,,,very few fix anymore,,,just throw new parts at it until the problem is solved. I'm sure you have the trust of your regular customers and wish you well in the future, my trust got broke and in the words of the famous designer, Mr Schmidt..when a rattlesnake bites me I don't pat him on the back. And remember respect is a two way street. I'm not a rocket scientist but more of an elephant I guess...I don't forget things easily.
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ok thats enough of that,,,this is not a group therapy session,,,we're supposed to be talking car talk here. napa burnt me...i wrote them off. lets just accept that and move on.
BTW ... I'm *reasonably sure* that the vacuum switch that I posted earlier would also work for a TH350C application. You may have to either make your own wiring harness of modify one of the Painless ones.
This theory *may* be reinforced here.
Scroll down to the last post in that thread for another (related) link.
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Comparison of microbial communities on roots, ceilings and floors of two lava tube caves in New Mexico
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Comparison of microbial communities on roots, ceilings and floors of two lava tube caves in New Mexico
Snider, Jessica
Pockman, Will
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Northup, Diana
Dahm, Cliff
Dahm, Cliff
University of New Mexico. Biology Dept.
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Cave ecology--New Mexico.
Microbial ecology--New Mexico.
Lava tubes--Environmental aspects--New Mexico.
Roots--Ecology--New Mexico.
Remnant vegetation conservation--New Mexico.
Microbial ecology--New Mexico.
Lava tubes--Environmental aspects--New Mexico.
Roots--Ecology--New Mexico.
Remnant vegetation conservation--New Mexico.
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Lava tube caves possess a rich and patchy mosaic of nutrients and water that fosters a wide variety of microbial life. Water percolating past vegetation and through surface soils introduces dissolved carbon and nitrogen into caves. Roots provide even higher levels of carbon, nitrogen and microorganisms as they grow into the cave environment from surface vegetation. I hypothesized that this mosaic of nutrients and energy resources has a direct effect on the distribution and composition of microbial communities within caves. To test this hypothesis, I selected two lava tube caves in New Mexico, USA and identified six zones consisting of ceiling and floor sampling sites in areas with: (1) active root growth and active water percolation; (2) active water percolation from the surface, but no root growth and; (3) neither roots nor water. After determining percent carbon and nitrogen for each of the sites, I compared the results using ANOVA. I constructed 12 clone libraries using 16S rRNA-based culture-independent methods. Closest relatives were determined using the NCBI BLAST database and phylogenetic trees were constructed in MEGA 4. Diversity and community composition were compared using mothur, UniFrac and traditional statistics. Roots formed zones of isolated, increased carbon and nitrogen, but water percolating into caves without the presence of roots did not bring significantly more carbon or nitrogen into lava tubes. The microbial community compositions of the six zones were different from each other at the 97% OTU level, but were similar in diversity, 'phylum' level distribution and relatedness to other bacteria found in other soil, rhizosphere and cave environments. This study has numerous management implications, including highlighting the importance of roots and percolating water within the cave environment and therefore, the need to protect surface vegetation above caves. In addition, given that roots represent a conduit from the surface into the cave, this study shows the importance of native vegetation above critical cave habitats to preserve cave nutrient inputs and endemic microbial communities.
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