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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks were little changed on Wall Street Monday as investors followed developments in Italy's closely contested elections.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up seven points, or 0.01 percent, to 14,011 as of 11:23 a.m. EST, giving up an early gain of 81 points. The Dow is within 153 points of the record high of 14,164 it reached in October 2007.
The Standard & Poor's 500 gained two points, or 0.1 percent, to 1,525 and the Nasdaq composite advanced 10, or 0.4 percent, to 3,184.
Stocks rallied in the early going as exit polls showed that a center-left coalition in Italy that favored economic reforms in the euro region's third-largest economy was leading in the polls. That gain evaporated after another poll showed that the elections appear to be heading toward gridlock. Stocks had slumped last year on concern that Italy would become engulfed in the European government debt crisis.
On the New York Stock Exchange, Barnes & Noble rose $1.23, or 9 percent, to $14.72 after founder and chairman Leonard Riggio told the bookseller he is going to try to buy the company's retail business. Hertz advanced $1.46 to $20.19, despite posting a fourth-quarter loss, after the rental car company said that pricing improved, volume rose and it cut costs.
Stocks gained even with the threat of across-the-board automatic government spending cuts less than a week away. Some $85 billion in cuts will occur over the next seven months starting March 1, with more in following years if lawmakers can't come to an agreement on how to reduce spending in a more measured and targeted manner.
The Standard & Poor's 500 had its first weekly decline of the year last week. Investors sent stocks plunging after minutes from the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting revealed disagreement over how long to keep buying bonds in an effort to boost the economy.
Many analysts say the Fed's bond-buying program and the resulting low interest rates have been a big driver behind this year's stock rally, which lifted indexes to their highest levels since 2007.
Japanese stocks surged on reports that the prime minister's pick for central bank governor will be a strong advocate of loose monetary policy aimed at reviving the moribund economy. The Nikkei 225 gained 2.4 percent to end at 11,662.52
European stocks also advanced.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to its price, fell one basis points to 1.95 percent.
Among other stocks making big moves:
— Drugmaker Affymax plunged $14, or 85 percent, to $2.43 after the company recalled its anemia drug following severe allergic reactions and the deaths of some kidney dialysis patients.

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I went and saw the movie Idiocracy last night. It's written & directed by Mike Judge, the guy who made Bevis & Butthead and King of the Hill. This is a fugging amazing movie. The review I've linked to (click the title of this article or the word "link" below) is much better than I'm gonna be able to write. The basic plot is that the most average guy in America gets put to sleep for 500 years as part of an Army experiment. He wakes up to find that he is the smartest person in the world. It's a great, dumb/funny movie. What's a true shame is that the film seems to be deliberately being buried by Fox, the studio that made it. They're almost going out of their way to ensure that no one even knows about it. The film was made 2 years ago and is only just now getting out. There is no advertising at all and it wasn't even screened for critics. While the lack of screenings for critics is usually a sign that a film sucks, this is not the case here. In fact I've seen very few reviews that were not positive, even glowing. I can only assume the film's burial must be due to pressure from the companies the film parodies. Judge must have secured their permission. But they must have been appalled at the results. Being unable to recind their permission, they instead put the screws to Fox to make sure as few people as possible saw the movie. That's my theory anyway.
I enjoy dumb movies the way I enjoy dumb Zen. Maybe instead of Hardcore Zen, I ought to have made a book called Stupid Zen. But not Zen for Dummies (have they done one of those yet?). I studied under a teacher whose dharma name is "The Way of Stupidity" after all.
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It's here. Finally. At last! Google Drive is live. All of your data — accessible in the cloud — from any computer, tablet or smartphone. The cloud has finally arrived for the masses.
Google Drive's unveil has been so many years in the making that even Google is likening it to the Loch Ness Monster.
As predicted, Google's foray into cloud storage is going to be huge. The big pushes for Drive are collaboration and search.
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Drive users will have 5GB of free storage to stash all of their videos, photos, Google Docs or any file they want.
Should you need more than 5GB of storage, Drive has paid upgrades with monthly subscriptions that go like this: 25GB ($2.50), 100GB ($5) and 1TB ($50). Paid subscribers also get their Gmail storage bumped up to 25GB.
Of course, all of this is kind of meaningless without device synergy. Drive has it. With either a Mac, PC or Android app (iOS is on its way), all of your data is a screen away. This is the future. Apple's banking on iCloud and now Google's following suit. Local storage is about to take one to the chest.


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|Rolling home on the commute, look up in the sky behind the Soleri Bridge...uh oh haboob on the way
|About three minutes out, put on the goggles, cover nose and mouth with bandana, mount the steel camel...
|Almost here, wind picking up, here comes the front of it...
|The front about to roll in, looking down the canal
I don't know if they keep track of megatons of dust that falls on Phoenix during each monsoon season from these haboobs, but if they do, this season has to some kind of record. I don't recall another year in which so many large dust storms rolled over the whole valley like they have this summer. Fortunately the wind speeds in this one seemed somewhat more moderate, 30 to 40mph gusts according to the NWS, not the 70mph we had back in early July. But this one lasted for an hour or so, giving me a good opportunity to test my monsoon dust storm gear. The goggles were excellent at protecting my eyes, and my bandana did a good job of filtering most dust out of the air I was breathing. My helmet strap held the bottom of the bandana against my neck quite securely. With those on, the ride was really pretty comfortable. The front insta-cooled the air down from what had been a record high for the date of 112F.
I saw pedestrians leaning into the wind, and drivers struggling to see. Except the few times that I got blown around on the road by the strongest gusts, a bicycle seemed like an excellent method for traveling in a haboob. A camel is probably best of all, but I didn't have access to one this afternoon, so I road my steel camel instead.


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A report that Facebook's chief operation officer Sheryl Sandberg may run for the U.S. Senate has been scotched by an unnamed source, according to a report.
Sandberg was reportedly looking into running for the U.S. Senate, possibly the seat held by Sen. Barbara Boxer, according to the Daily Mail. However, that report was negated by a "source close to her" that said it wasn't true, the Mail also reported.
Sandberg, a billionaire who is one of the world's wealthiest women, was said to have been interested in politics for years. She also managed daily operations of the U.S. Treasury as chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Larry Summers from 1996 to 2000.
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The Daily Mail article quote an unnamed source that Sandberg saw "politics as her future" and suggested she had the personal wealth to bankroll a Senate run.
However, the the close source said the rumors were "100 percent untrue."
While Sandberg's name has been bandied about by Democratic supporters and others have speculated about her entering politics, there has yet to be any real proof of her working towards a political career. Still, after a bestselling book and a great career in the tech field, Sandberg is in a prime position to be a successful political candidate.


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The extreme and unpredictable conditions that characterised the Lost Planet series return, harsher than ever before. Lost Planet 3 reveals new truths about the foreboding planet and the colonial history of E.D.N. III.
Lost Planet 3 introduces Jim Peyton, a rig pilot who leaves Earth to take on a hazardous but lucrative contract on E.D.N. III. Working for Neo-Venus Construction (NEVEC) who are preparing the planet for colonisation, Jim joins his fellow pioneers at the Coronis base and begins surveying the uncharted terrain and obtaining samples of the planet's energy supply – Thermal Energy.
With NEVEC's existing Thermal Energy reserve running low the fate of the Coronis mission depends on the natural source of the energy supply being located. Realising that this is a great opportunity for a huge pay-off and early ticket home to his family, Jim braves the risk of the treacherous environment and threat of the indigenous Akrid.
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Practice, qualifying, racing all on Friday's slate of activities.
DAYTONA BEACH -- The No. 02 BMW Riley, which earned outside pole honors for the Rolex 24 At Daytona, turned the fastest lap in final practice this morning at Daytona International Speedway.
The Daytona Prototype, owned by Chip Ganassi, which will be wheeled by Scott Dixon, Joey Hand, Jamie McMurray and Dario Franchitti this weekend, was clocked at 125.838 mph over the 3.56-mile road course.
Ganassi Racing kept the one-two theme alive as the No. 01 BMW Riley, driven by Scott Pruett, Juan Pablo Montoya, Memo Rojas and Charlie Kimball, turned the second-fastest lap of 125.508 mph. The No. 01 earned Rolex 24 pole honors in Thursday's qualifying.
Rounding out the top three fastest cars in practice was the No. 9 Action Express Racing Corvette DP wheeled by Mike Rockenfeller, Burt Frisselle, Christian Fittipaldi and Joao Barbosa. The No. 9 was clocked at 125.137 mph.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Grand-Am's Continental Tire Series kicked off today's action at Daytona with a half-hour practice session. The 10 fastest cars were within 1.3 seconds of each other on the 3.56-mile road course.
The No. 46 BMW M3 of Bryan Sellers (Dayton, Ohio) and Mark Boden (Winnetka, Ill.) was fastest with an average speed of 110.403 mph. Their car's fastest lap clocked in at a tick over 1 minute, 56 seconds. The Continental Series cars were making final shakedowns in advance of this afternoon's race, which starts at 1:45 p.m.
-- Ken Willis
DAYTONA BEACH -- The second day of Rolex Weekend is off and running with a 30-minute practice session for the cars of the Continental Tire Series. Those cars race later Friday.
Next on the track will be nearly two-dozen Ferraris from the Ferrari Challenge Series, which will have two 15-lap races this weekend. That circuit's qualifying session begins at 9:45.
The final Rolex Series practice – for cars in the marquee Rolex 24 – will begin at 10:30, and will be followed at 11:45 by the first Ferrari Challenge race.
One of the more underrated events of every Speedweeks – the Continental Tire Series 200-miler – gets the green flag at 1:45 p.m. Friday. That sprint race involves more than 60 cars, one mid-race driver change for each team, and a lot of bumping and jockeying in the heavy traffic.
Things calm down considerably after that – except in the Rolex Series garage, where teams will be frantically making their last-minute tweaks and outright rebuilds in anticipation of a very long Saturday at Daytona.
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German-speaking cinema markets had a disastrous year in 2018 with admissions down by more than 10% in all three countries. One reason for this is the continuing weakness of the film production industry in Germany, where film-makers have simply failed to take the advantageconferred by possessing Western Europe's largest linguistic market. Lacking a cultural product to call their own Germans are becoming increasingly uninterested in cinema, something of a shame given the country's hugely important role in the pre-war industry. Looking at trends in the cinema industry and key players within it - including the defensive merger of the two of the biggest circuits Cinemaxx and CineStar - data tracking admissions, box office and screen numbers since 2000 in the report tells what is a disappointing story.
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September 13, 2008 - 9:38pm
Shaping question
I see many examples of shaping and they're very helpful. I want to shape a decent bâtard. I've seen Janedo's wonderful photos. My basic problem at this point is that the techniques involve flouring the preshape and then doing some folding. Once the dough is floured it doesn't really stick to itself. So, with a floured, preshaped round bit of dough, how do I get it to stick to itself during the bâtard-shaping process? Is that what is happening when people "press gently and firmly" along a seam? Do you keep your fingers floured? (by preshaped I mean the dough has been divided and rested)
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I am currently running Towns v0.8a via Steam on Windows 7 and I have unzipped the Mod Manager into a folder and when I click on it I get the message "unable to locate towns executable. Please browse to it." I have tried locating Towns but since windows is searching for a towns executable nothing comes up in any towns folders. Incidentally, yes, I have tried turning off and back on again. Just want to make sure that there isn't something rather obvious that I have missed or that I am looking for the wrong thing.


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LOS ANGELES, March 24 (UPI) -- Chris Paul scored 29 points and sealed the victory with a late 3-point play Saturday, carrying the Los Angeles Clippers over Brooklyn 101-95.
Paul added 11 assists and tallied 11 of the Clippers' final 13 points, including a double-clutch basket from the lane and a subsequent free throw in the closing seconds.
DeAndre Jordan provided 13 points and 12 rebounds for Los Angeles, which recorded a second straight victory for the first time in March.
The Nets got 18 points and nine assists from Deron Williams in losing for only the third time in 10 road games.
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The Sphingidae are a family of moths (Lepidoptera), commonly known as hawk moths, sphinx moths, and hornworms; it includes about 1,450 species.[1] It is best represented in the tropics, but species are found in every region.[2] They are moderate to large in size and are distinguished among moths for their rapid, sustained flying ability.[2] Their narrow wings and streamlined abdomens are adaptations for rapid flight. The family was named by French zoologist Pierre André Latreille in 1802.
Some hawk moths, such as the hummingbird hawk-moth or the white-lined sphinx, hover in midair while they feed on nectar from flowers, so are sometimes mistaken for hummingbirds. This hovering capability is only known to have evolved four times in nectar feeders: in hummingbirds, certain bats, hoverflies, and these sphingids[3] (an example of convergent evolution). Sphingids have been much studied for their flying ability, especially their ability to move rapidly from side to side while hovering, called "swing-hovering" or "side-slipping". This is thought to have evolved to deal with ambush predators that lie in wait in flowers.[3]
Sphingids are some of the faster flying insects; some are capable of flying at over 5.3 m/s (12 miles per hour).[4] They have wingspans from 4 to over 10 cm (3.9 in).
Antennae are generally not very feathery, even in the males.[2] They lack tympanal organs, but members of the group Choerocampini have hearing organs on their heads.[2] They have a frenulum and retinaculum to join hindwings and forewings.[2] The thorax, abdomen, and wings are densely covered in scales. Some sphingids have a rudimentary proboscis, but most have a very long one,[2] which is used to feed on nectar from flowers. Most are crepuscular or nocturnal, but some species fly during the day.[8] Both males and females are relatively long lived (10 to 30 days).[8] Prior to flight, most species shiver their flight muscles to warm them up, and, during flight, body temperatures may surpass 40 °C (104 °F).[8]
In some species, differences in form between the sexes is quite marked. For example, in the African species Agrius convolvuli (the convolvulus or morning glory hawk moth), the antennae are thicker and wing markings more mottled in the male than in the female. Only males have both an undivided frenular hook and a retinaculum. Also, all male hawk moths have a partial comb of hairs along their antennae.[9] Females call males to them with pheromones. The male may douse the female with a pheromone[8] before mating.
Some species fly only for short periods either around dusk or dawn, while other species only appear later in the evening and others around midnight, but such species may occasionally be seen feeding on flowers during the day. A few common species in Africa, such as the Oriental bee hawk (Cephonodes hylas virescens), Macroglossum hirundo, and Macroglossum trochilus, are diurnal.[9]
In studies with Manduca sexta, moths have dynamic flight sensory abilities due to their antennae. The antennae are vibrated in a plane so that when the body of the moth rotates during controlled aerial maneuvers, the antennae are subject to the inertial Coriolis forces that are linearly proportional to the angular velocity of the body.[10] The Coriolis forces cause deflections of the antennae, which are detected by the Johnston's organ at the base of each antenna, with strong frequency responses at the beat frequency of the antennae (around 25 Hz) and at twice the beat frequency. The relative magnitude of the two frequency responses enables the moth to distinguish rotation around the different principal axes, allowing for rapid course control during aerial maneuvers.[11]
Life cycle
Most species are multivoltine, capable of producing several generations a year if weather conditions permit.[8] Females lay translucent, greenish, flattened, smooth eggs, usually singly on the host plants. Egg development time varies highly, from three to 21 days.
Sphingid caterpillars are medium to large in size, with stout bodies. They have five pairs of prolegs.[8] Usually, their bodies lack any hairs or tubercules, but most species have a "horn" at the posterior end,[2] which may be reduced to a button, or absent, in the final instar.[8] Many are cryptic greens and browns, and have countershading patterns to conceal them. Others are more conspicuously colored, typically with white spots on a black or yellow background along the length of the body. A pattern of diagonal slashes along the side is a common feature. When resting, the larva usually holds its legs off the surface and tucks its head underneath (praying position), which, resembling the Great Sphinx of Giza, gives rise to the name "sphinx moth".[8] Some tropical larvae are thought to mimic snakes.[2][12] Larvae are quick to regurgitate their sticky, often toxic, foregut contents on attackers such as ants and parasitoids.[8] Development rate depends on temperature, and to speed development, some northern and high-altitude species sunbathe.[8] Larvae burrow into soil to pupate, where they remain for two to three weeks before they emerge as adults.
In some Sphingidae, the pupa has a free proboscis, rather than being fused to the pupal case as is most common in the macrolepidoptera.[2] They have a cremaster at the tip of the abdomen.[8] Usually, they pupate off the host plant, in an underground chamber, among rocks, or in a loose cocoon.[8] In most species, the pupa is the overwintering stage.
Food plants
Sphingid larvae tend to be specific feeders, rather than generalists.[8] Compared to similarly sized saturniids, sphingids eat soft young leaves of host plants with small toxic molecules, and chew and mash the food into very small bits.[13] Some species can tolerate quite high concentrations of specific toxins. Tobacco hornworms (Manduca sexta) detoxify and rapidly excrete nicotine, as do several other related sphinx moths in the subfamilies Sphinginae and Macroglossinae, but members of the Smerinthinae that were tested are susceptible.[14] The species that are able to tolerate the toxin do not sequester it in their tissues; 98% was excreted. However, other species, such as Hyles euphorbiae and Daphnis nerii, do sequester toxins from their hosts, but do not pass them on to the adult stage.[8]
Most adults feed on nectar, although a few tropical species feed on eye secretions, and the death's-head hawkmoths steal honey from bees.[8] Night-flying sphingids tend to prefer pale flowers with long corolla tubes and a sweet odor, a pollination syndrome known as "sphingophily".[3] Some species are quite general in visitations, while others are very specific, with the plant only being successfully pollinated by a particular species of moth.[3] Orchids frequently have such specific relations with hawk moths, and very long corolla tubes. The comet orchid (Angraecum sesquipedale), a rare Malagasy flower with its nectar stored at the bottom of a 30-cm-long tube, was described in 1822 by Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars, and later, Charles Darwin famously predicted there must be some specialized animal to feed from it:
[A. sesquipetale has] nectaries 11 and a half inches long [29 cm], with only the lower inch and a half [3.8 cm] filled with very sweet nectar [...] it is, however, surprising, that any insect should be able to reach the nectar: our English sphinxes have probosces as long as their bodies, but in Madagascar there must be moths with probosces capable of extension to a length of between 10 and 12 inches! [30 cm][15]
Alfred Russel Wallace published a sort of "wanted poster" (properly, a drawing in a book)[16] of what this lepidopteran might look like, and, concurring with his colleague, added:
[The proboscis of a hawk moth] from tropical Africa ([Xanthopan] morganii) is seven inches and a half [19 cm]. A species having a proboscis two or three inches longer [7.6 cm] could reach the nectar in the largest flowers of Angraecum sesquipedale, whose nectaries vary in length from ten to fourteen inches [36 cm]. That such a moth exists in Madagascar may be safely predicted, and naturalists who visit that island should search for it with as much confidence as astronomers searched for the planet Neptune, – and they will be equally successful.[17]
The predicted sphingid was discovered 21 years later and described as a subspecies of the one African species studied by Wallace: Xanthopan morganii praedicta,[18] for which, the subspecific name praedicta ("the predicted one") was given. The Madagascan individuals had a pink, rather than white, breast and abdomen and a black apical line on the forewing, broader than in mainland specimens. Molecular clock models using either rate- or fossil-based calibrations imply that the Madagascan subspecies X. morgani praedicta and the African subspecies morgani diverged 7.4 ± 2.8 Mya (million years ago), which overlaps the divergence of A. sesquipedale from its sister, A. sororium, namely 7.5 ± 5.2 Mya.[19] Since both these orchids have extremely long spurs, long spurs likely existed before that and were exploited by long-tongued moths similar to Xanthopan morganii praedicta. The long geological separation of subspecies morgani and praedicta matches their morphological differences in the color of breast and abdomen.
Relationships and species
The Sphingidae is sometimes assigned its own exclusive superfamily, Sphingoidea, but is alternatively included with the more encompassing Bombycoidea. Following Hodges (1971) two [[Subfamily|subfamilies[[ are accepted, namely the Sphinginae and Macroglossinae.[5] Around 1,450 species of hawk moths are classified into around 200 genera. Some of the best-known hawk moth species are:
- Privet hawk moth (Sphinx ligustri)
- White-lined Sphinx (Hyles lineata)
- Death's-head hawk moth (Acherontia atropos)
- Lime hawk moth (Mimas tiliae)
- Poplar hawk moth (Laothoe populi)
- Convolvulus hawk moth (Agrius convolvuli)
- Catalpa sphinx (Ceratomia catalpae)
- Hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum)
- Elephant hawk moth (Deilephila elpenor)
- Vine hawk moth (Hippotion celerio)
- Spurge hawk moth (Hyles euphorbiae)
- Oleander hawk moth (Daphnis nerii)
- Pandora sphinx moth (Eumorpha pandorus)
- Tomato worm (Manduca quinquemaculata)
- Tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta)
See also
- Sphingidae species list
- Twin-spotted sphinx moth
- List of moths of India
- List of moths of Great Britain (Sphingidae)
- ↑ van Nieukerken (2011). "Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness". Zootaxa 3148: 212–221. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.41. http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03148p221.pdf.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Scoble, Malcolm J. (1995): The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and Diversity (2nd edition). Oxford University Press & Natural History Museum London. ISBN:0-19-854952-0
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kitching, Ian J (2002). "The phylogenetic relationships of Morgan's Sphinx, Xanthopan morganii (Walker), the tribe Acherontiini, and allied long-tongued hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae, Sphinginae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 135 (4): 471–527. doi:10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00021.x.
- ↑ Stevenson, R.; Corbo, K.; Baca, L.; Le, Q. (1995). "Cage size and flight speed of the tobacco hawkmoth Manduca sexta". The Journal of Experimental Biology 198 (Pt 8): 1665–1672. PMID 9319572. http://jeb.biologists.org/content/198/8/1665.full.pdf. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Common, I.F.B. (1990). Moths of Australia. Leiden: Brill. p. 24. ISBN 9789004092273.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Schreiber, Harald (1978). Dispersal Centres of Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) in the Neotropical Region. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. p. 18. ISBN 9789400999602.
- ↑ Messenger, Charlie (1997). "The Sphinx Moths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) of Nebraska". Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences (24): 91–93. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1071&context=tnas. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 8.14 Pittaway, A. R. (1993): The Hawkmoths of the Western Palaearctic. Harley Books & Natural History Museum, London. ISBN:0-946589-21-6
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Pinhey, E. (1962): Hawk Moths of Central and Southern Africa. Longmans Southern Africa, Cape Town.
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- Data related to Sphingidae at Wikispecies
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- Images of Sphingidae species in New Zealand
- List of Sphingidae Types from Museum Witt München
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Mineral Mountain Resources, Ltd., is a mining company based in British Columbia. It recently acquired 289 mineral rights in the Rochford Mining District, about 20 miles away from the former Homestake Gold Mine in Lead.
The company has also been doing exploratory drilling for gold on 5,000 acres near Keystone for the past five months.
Brad Baker, vice president of Mineral Mountain's corporate development, says the company has high hopes for the Rochford area. He says the goal is another "Homestake-like gold deposit."
That mine had been one of the country's most successful until it was shuttered and turned into an underground science lab.
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Ahead of Royal Opera LIVE on 7 January, we invited people from across the globe to film themselves singing Verdi's well-loved chorus "Va pensiero" and share their clips with us. A selection of your renditions will be broadcast to viewers around the world on the day, so watch Rolando Villazon's demonstration, sing along and upload your video to YouTube as a video response for your chance to sing with The Royal Opera.
We asked for submissions from interesting locations and have already a splendid selection of entries including submissions from the Sydney Opera House to the gardens of the Kyoto Imperial Palace in Japan. Other highlights so far include entries from the prolific Maestro Wenarto and an entry recorded during the preparation of the Christmas turkey from Frances Sladden.
Author Will Self got in on the act, with a deep baritone rendition that we highly recommend watching.
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When my good friend, blogger and photographer extraordinaire Abi Marvel told me to keep July 4th free for something fun, I have to be honest I didn't even question it, because as Abi was organising it I was totally in. Well, Abi certainly pulled out all the stops by teaming up with designer discount fashion retailer, The Outnet for an afternoon of basically playing dress up, and it was so much fun.
The first of my three looks, and part one of my The Outnet Summer Style series, was all about chic dressing for lunch with my blogger pals – Alex, Naomi, Ella, Kate, Monica, and of course Abi. I originally picked out a gorgeous Barbie pink Thakoon dress, it was gorgeous, it just didn't look amazing on me, so for my first look I actually stole something off Alex's rail, well she did seem to pick out the whole shop.
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I really loved all the other girls outfits, Kate from I Am Not A Celebrity looked amazing in DvF, Ella from Coco's Tea Party was stunning in Versus, I fell in love with Naomi from The Fash Pack's neon Christopher Kane, Alex from Alex Loves wore the Felder Felder mini dress that I have been stalking for a while, and Monica from The Elgin Avenue carried the Rebecca Minkoff clutch that I currently have sat in my wish-list.
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Minnesota Vikings first-round pick Matt Kalil signed today.
The deal had no offset language, according to various reports.
That's good news for Ryan Tannehill as his representative continues to talk to the Dolphins about signing their deal without offset language. Offset language allows a team to recoup some of the guaranteed money it pays a particular player in the event that player becomes a bust and is cut before his contract of four or five years (depending on a club option) expires.
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IVstudios wrote:How do you go about finding places to advertise? If you use the "search for new places to bid" option, it shouldn't take more than a half hour to do your 200 free bids (unless you're really picky about what sites you put ads on).
IVstudios wrote:Mostly through tags and people re-blogging your stuff. Tumblr isn't especially social, you can't really chat with people or have "friends." It's basically just a blog; you post stuff, people follow you, you follow other people, if you see something cool you reblog it.
It works well for self promotion because people are constantly sharing and reposting other people's stuff, but it all leads back to the original poster (as long as the person re-blogging isn't a dick who removes the history of posts. Which does happen but Tumblr makes it so much easier not to do that it's usually not an issue.)
I guess the best way to describe it would be that each user is in their own little bubble. No one else can come in, but they can all see in and if you do something cool someone can point to your bubble and say "Hey look, that guy is doing something awesome!" and a bunch of other people will turn and look at your bubble.
That's about what I was expecting. I think it's a pretty reasonable method, especially once you do it more often and get faster at it. You can also check out the statistics after the bids expire and see which banners are working the best and what sites are giving the best response.VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:13 now!! Damn!
I'd take Dawn Griffin's advice: "Be a social media whore. Promote, promote, promote." That means doing every method I listed, and possibly more.Montyandwoolley wrote:The problem I have, is having so many avenues - how do you pin down what's worth investing your time in for advertising?
I think you're already doing pretty good by inviting people and having a link to the Facebook page on your comic's home page. If you have extra time for social networking, I expect you'll get better results with Twitter or Tumblr.Montyandwoolley wrote:I'm stuck with who I have added on FB who are invited to my comics page, but then how do i expand from there?
The maximum duration for free bids is two days, so, for my blog, I've been keeping a schedule of placing bids on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. That means I pretty much always have ads going aside from Sunday-Monday. I've also gotten faster at it, and when I timed myself this morning, it took me about seven minutes to set up 200 bids.VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:No, it doesn't take long at all. But then I keep going back and checking to see if any more are available. It's not the duration, it's the frequency.
It's definitely a real thing. It's much more intuitive to say, "lol check out this funny strip" than to say, "hey i like this page but you have to read the last two years' worth of archives to understand what's going on."McDuffies wrote:Now I see why comics where each page is a self-sustained gag are such a big deal now, I tended to think it was because of Cyanide&Happyness' success, but it may be that such comics are most heavily promoted thanks to social media.
I'm glad it's working out so well for you! I'm looking forward to putting my own comic on there eventually, although I probably don't have enough pages yet to really consider it. Also, if you ever wanna promote more aggressively, you could look into doing penny bids to give us freeloaders the middle finger.VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:Wow!! 30 clicks now! Six of those are from today alone. this is quite splendid.
Awesome!VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:Holy shit. Sorry to keep bumping this thread with my own shit, but I just got 100 clicks from one of my paid bids today. Holy. Shit.
I was almost gonna make a follow-up post about how effective JustUnfollow has been, and then I got my @LCabbages account suspended for using it. I should be able to get my account back, but I'm done messing around with these dopey third-party apps. In my defense, I don't remember being informed by Twitter that using apps like this isn't allowed.LibertyCabbage wrote:A li'l update, I've been messing around with this site http://www.justunfollow.com, and it's pretty sweet, although it isn't fully functional unless you pay for it. It also has an iOS version, and there's another app called Unfollow that's similar.
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Tom Arling's 1973 Road Runner
This One Makes Us Wish We'd Kept Our First Car Too
They say you never forget your first, but the importance placed on that first is relative. Ask any car guy about his first kiss, and hell usually have to think for a while before coming up with a name. (That being said, well wait while you scroll through your brains Rolodex to come up with her name...)
Now, ask about his first car, and the recall is instantaneous. He may even still have a picture of it tucked away in his wallet! Personally, we feel there should be some sort of legislation passed that states if a particular vehicle was your first car, all future owners must offer you first chance at purchasing it when it goes up for sale. There isnt a man alive who doesnt reflect fondly upon his first car, even if it was a rust bucket that didnt run more than it did! Even if you dont want your exact first car, were willing to bet youd buy the same year and body style if given the opportunity.
Tom Arling, of Minster, Ohio, doesnt have to worry about searching out his first ride, because he was one of the smart ones and never let go of it, even after the insurance company totaled it out after an accident! He bought the 73 Road Runner in 1986 while still in junior high school, becoming the cars fourth owner. Originally sold in Batavia, Ohio, the Road Runner had spent its entire life in Ohio, including the Midwest winters and subsequent salt baths. Typical Ohio body rot had claimed the floors, quarter-panels and doors, but it was complete, and still had the numbers-matching 340/four-speed combo, so after plunking down $800 hard-earned teenage dollars, the car was his. He worked on the car for the next four years and built it into what he thought was a fairly decent set of wheels.
Soon after, Tom had one of those character building experiences all teenagers go through. An old guy in a pickup truck blew a stop sign and Tom T-boned him, wiping out the front of the car. Tom described the aftermath as just about demolished, being bad enough that the insurance company totaled the car. Most people would have taken the money and found a new car, but it was Toms first car, so he paid the insurance company a couple hundred dollars and hauled the carcass home. That was in 1990.
Tom spent the next seven years scouring swap meets and junkyards looking for the pieces he needed to put the car back together again, but this time around the car was going to be done better than his high school budget allowed him the first time. The car was rebuilt to factory specs, which feature power disc brakes, power steering, 3.55 Sure Grip 8 rearend and the Road Runner suspension package with front and rear sway bars. Toms brother, Jim, rebuilt the engine to factory specs, Carriage Werks in St. Henry, Ohio, was given the nod to massage and color the sheetmetal, and the interior was brought up to snuff with a Legendary Auto Interiors kit and an assortment of original and reproduction pieces, including the factory tach, center console, Pistol Grip shifter and AM/FM radio.
In 1997, the car was finished. Again. Hes only put a few hundred miles on it since its completion, and wed be willing to bet hes kept a sharp eye out for old guys and pick-up trucks! Tom still has no intention of letting his first car get away, and we have to admit were envious of a guy who still has his first car, because we know first hand that no other car, no matter how nice, has the same luster as your first set of wheels.


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of course, there's always something to fall in love with: asexual perspectives on pop culture and much more.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Subcultures of One
And then, asexuality came into my life. Like my exploration of indiepop and hip-hop, my discovery of asexuality was heavily aided by the internet. But oddly enough, I've probably interacted with more asexuals (thanks to meetups!) than I have with hip-hoppers or indiepoppers. I know I'm rare, though. Most aces still feel like the only ones they know-- like they're subcultures of one. And while that can be a relatively safe place, I think it's also important (perhaps vital!) to convene with like-minded, real-world folks every once in awhile. Especially in the case of asexuality. While it could be problematic to have a partner who paints over your lovingly sprayed graffiti, or who thinks The Jesus and Mary Chain is a product of Satan, you'll definitely want someone who has some overlap with you in how you view sex. The internet can be so tantalizing-- showing you so many people and cultures that you can relate to-- but it can also frustrate. What's the use of having internet asexuals if no one outside the 'net believes or reaffirms you? "All told", it can be very difficult to have an identity partially forged from the smithy of the internet.
But, it really isn't necessarily a bad thing. Sure, in a previous time period, we would probably just do and like whatever our friends did and liked. But what's the adventure in that? My disparate musical subcultures have given more to me than I could have imagined. Maybe it's strange, but music gives my life meaning. It gives me something to love deeply in a world where I often don't understand the love that I'm being told is most important. It also inspires me to be creative and to express myself-- I'm lucky enough to love a lot of music in which enthusiasm is more important than snazzy production. And asexuality has been the same. It's inspired me to work for a common good; to help people better understand themselves and show them that they're not alone. Secretly, I thought it was kind of cool to like music that my friends didn't know about. I felt good about my ability to "put people on to new shit", as they say, and liked nothing more than to share my discoveries. I have to admit, I haven't been able to capture this feeling yet about my obscure sexuality. But even if you have, at some point, you will probably want to meet real-life asexuals. The structure might not exist yet. But the fact that we actually went online and did the research speaks well of the possibilities. We're not content to act heterosexual because our friends are; we're enterprising. We seek answers. And that bodes well.
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Haha, yeah, me too. I'm into different obscure music than you are, but still obscure to the point that I have made up a "subculture of one" as you say, for most of my life. I know there are a lot of people out there who do listen to my music (it's getting kinda popular now actually), but I've hardly ever met them except over the internet. It is cool to be able to tell people about stuff they've never heard of, but with a topic so personal as my own sexual identity, it gets old fast. It's really exhausting to have to educate people all the time. But yeah, in a way I do feel good about it because I'm not just sticking with the default identity; I'm actively examining myself to decide what I really am regardless of what others think I should be.
- September 1, 2008 at 1:43 AM
DIY culture is very near & dear to my heart. I'm into independent music, although I identify as a punk rather than an indiepopper.
Interesting post & comparison. Asexuality is still very much an internet thing for me, while I'm heavily involved off the net (and on, in some cases) with punk/independent music. Are you having a difficult time meeting people who are also into the music you like (or even the ethics & ideas that are involved in making that music)? For me, it's mainly been something that's been off the internet, since I'm going to shows, playing in bands, setting up shows, and meeting people all the time who also move in similar circles.
But yeah - asexuality is still primarily an internet thing, & I definitely don't want it to remain that way. Hence my desire to see more literature, make zines, start real world organizations, etc etc etc.
- September 1, 2008 at 2:32 PM
- Ily said...
Gray, you're right...it does get old REAL fast! Honestly, I have a hard time educating people in the real world outside of structured settings. And Anne, your comment got me thinking that perhaps asexuals could be united by a creative endeavor-- maybe putting on a play or making a publication in their area. Maybe that's just because I never know what to do at meetups, but I'm also constantly trying to find ways for people to feel like they have some kind of stake in the process, rather than just showing up.
- September 1, 2008 at 9:09 PM
I totally relate to the 'subculture of one' thing; as time goes by I'm getting more and desperate to meet someone--anyone!--who shares my experience as an asexual.
- September 1, 2008 at 11:46 PM
Ily - I think that could be a great idea. People get motivated around different things, and maybe just planning meetups & hanging out shouldn't be the only way to get asexual people together. Working on a project can really bring people together, and feeling like you have some stake in the process, & that what you are doing is meaningful & important to you - I think that's a way to get people to want to be involved & stay involved.
I'm really into the idea of getting a zine going (& hopefully having it be submission-based will get other people involved & interested in the idea as well), and I'm also really interested in this, as long as the groups can find a way keep people involved.
- September 2, 2008 at 2:15 PM
- Ily said...
Ah, now I'm putting a name with a project-- I remember your zine! (Entertaining a Ghost?) I made a zine recently, and I'm realizing that distributing it will be the hard part-- any tips in that arena? You're right, those local groups are a good idea, I'm the leader of the SF one. I think a lot of people are apprehensive about visibility, though. I keep trying to think of ways to do visibility that are 100% nonthreatening, but it isn't easy...
- September 2, 2008 at 3:13 PM
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
- January 2, 2010 at 5:51 PM
I'm not Asexual, but i share your love of indiepop! I live in the uk and i've only met one (i think, maybe 2) other person(s) into that genre, and they were norwegian
interesting blog btw :)
- September 18, 2010 at 7:55 PM
- Ily said...
People of all orientations are welcome here, especially if they like indiepop! :-)
- September 19, 2010 at 8:52 PM


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Abstract: A Japanese acquaintance who has been living in Denmark for more than 40 years formulated his difficult mission of undertaking translation tasks in the following way: "Once I deeply understood the two cultures [Denmark and Japan] and the cultural differences/nuances of conceptual meanings existing in the two countries, it became impossible for me to translate culturally-specific terms into the other language. Existing language resources [dictionaries etc.] are in this context useless". What he was frustratingly expressing is that it becomes virtually an impossible task to precisely translate or convey the meaning of a Culturally-Specific Concept (CSC) if no exact equivalent concept exists in the Target Language (TL) culture. Despite this inherent frustration, communicators or translators are still required to convey such CSCs into a TL in an optimal manner such that a TL reader can instantly infer the original meaning of a given Source Language (SL) concept. In short, the key issue is whether there can be found a way to solve this inherently frustrating situation which even skilled human translators cannot easily cope with ? The challenge of translating CSCs from an SL is not only caused by the absence of equivalent concepts in a TL culture, but also due to differences of the background knowledge possessed by the two parties involved in a cross-cultural communication scenario. Sperber & Wilson (1986) emphasize that, although all humans live in the physical world, mental representations are constructed differently due to differences in our close environment and our different cognitive abilities. Because people use different languages and have mastered different concepts, the way they construct representations and make inference is also dissimilar. Since an individual possesses a total cognitive environment that is the set of facts based on his/her perceptual ability, inferential ability, actual awareness of facts, knowledge he/she has acquired and so on, it is much easier to achieve a so-called "asymmetric" coordination between communicator and audience (Sperber & Wilson, 1986).... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8546
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It sucks to see something like this in the news. It's so heartbreaking. Apparently Eric Hummel, of Hobart Indiana was teaching his kids gun safety when he accidentally shot his daughter in the head at close range. He told police "She's dead, She's dead - I thought it was empty".
According to the story - Alchohol may or may not have been a factor but anyone who would say "I thought it was empty" has no business handling guns or teaching anyone anything about them. A sad, hard learned lesson.
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Editorial decisions, economic decisions: The funders' role in West African media
While independent journalists are bastions in support of good government, "independence" is not always an available choice. In Nigeria, for example, in a highly competitive job market that underpays and has little respect for journalists, many sway their coverage according to explicit and implicit political pressures and are sometimes expected to take bribes. One member of the media explained it this way:
"If there's a cholera outbreak from contaminated water sources and the Ministry of Water Resources is doing an event, reporters will cover the event and not bother about the cholera outbreak itself. This is not because they don't care; [editorial choices] have mostly become economic decisions. The Ministry will pay for the event to be covered, that is how the system works. You aren't supposed to pay for news but you can pay to make news."
In a media landscape like this one, where economic and editorial decisions are in conflict, international donors can provide vital financial support to independent media organizations, empowering them to hold governments accountable. But as my team at Reboot detailed in a report published this summer, providing strategic support requires a holistic approach, beyond program funding.
Because of its flourishing media ecosystem, Nigeria is a powerful regional case study for how funders might take such an approach. Even though Nigeria formally ended state-owned media monopolies when it deregulated broadcasting in 1992, the government maintains informal control of the news through political patronage, corrupt practices, and direct threats and violence. This is true both at the federal level as well as subnational; state and local governments, to varying degrees, use these tools to bend media coverage.
Examples can be found across West Africa, such as in Ghana, where we learned that the practice of purchasing coverage is so widespread it has entered common parlance under the word "soli," or solidarity money. In this landscape, independent media struggles to be truly independent.
Nevertheless, the rise of the digital age is democratizing coverage control in West Africa. Citizens are breaking news and analyzing stories through social media. Their voices are transforming media—upending the traditional media models and inspiring new ones—and demanding that media uncover corruption and hold leaders accountable. This citizen-powered media landscape has in turn pushed the government to become more responsive to public discourse, potentially driving more citizen engagement.


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KB Racing Team - The Incredibles
KB Racing, Greg Anderson, And Jason Line Put Together The Greatest Season In The History Of Drag Racing. It Should Have Been Impossible.
How'd They Do It?
KB Racing's record during the '04 NHRA Powerade Drag Racing Series season is one of the greatest achievements in the history of sports. It's right up there with the '72 Miami Dolphins undefeated NFL season; Bob Beamon's insane 29-foot, 2-inch-long jump in the '68 Olympics; the seven NCAA championships the UCLA basketball team won between 1967 and 1973; and Lance Armstrong's six straight Tour de France wins. But it's unlikely to rate even a mention in Sports Illustrated.
KB won 19 of the 23 races they could win during 2004-in Pro Stock, a class designed to guarantee close competition by radically limiting innovation. KB drivers Greg Anderson and Jason Line met each other in the final round six times, and the two cars finished First and Second in the world championship. Anderson took his second consecutive championship after winning 15 events (a record for any drag racing category), appearing in 19 final rounds (another record), winning 76 elimination rounds (yeah, a record), qualifying first 16 times (a record), accumulating the largest margin of victory by points for a season ever (742), setting a new low-e.t. record for the class (6.661 seconds at 207.75 mph) and sewing up the championship earlier in the season than anyone has ever done before (by September's O'Reilly Fall Nationals, it was all over). As for Line, his four victories were as many as all the other drivers combined, he earned the "Road to the Future" award (which is as close to naming a Rookie of the Year as the NHRA gets), and he could take satisfaction in knowing that the primary tuner on Greg Anderson's car was, well, Jason Line. Just as, beyond his own success as a driver, Greg Anderson could take pride in being the primary tuner on Jason Line's car.
They seem to be well funded, but so do Warren Johnson, Kurt Johnson, Larry Morgan, and Jeg Coughlin. The KB cars are standard Pro Stock stuff with chassis bought from Jerry Haas (Anderson's car) and Jerry Bickel (Line's), and they run the latest version of GM's DRCE big-block V-8-just like everyone else using GM-based equipment, so hardware alone can't explain their success. But spend two days with KB Racing, which we did during the World Finals, and the secret of their success becomes obvious.
What propels KB Racing's success is the people who make up the team. Two years ago they barely knew one another, but Greg Anderson knew them all. And Ken Black knew Greg Anderson.
At six-foot-five, 58-year-old Ken Black is pretty close to being literally larger-than-life, and he's been a die-hard drag racer since running his own four-speed Nova back in the '60s at Las Vegas' old Stardust Raceway. He's also a shrewd businessman who has started and built up a series of companies that supply the building industry in Las Vegas. If you need 1,500 houses framed in a new Las Vegas subdivision, KB Framers is the company you call. And for almost two decades there's been no better place on Earth to be in the construction business than Las Vegas-the fastest growing city in America. Ken leaves the day-to-day running of his construction businesses to his son Kenny and uses some of the (obviously substantial) profits to finance his passion, KB Racing.
For seven years Black had been in Pro Stock as a partner to driver George Marnell, and not without some success. But that partnership was fading by the end of the 2001 season and Black decided to form KB Racing. He also decided to leave the substance and structure of the team up to Greg Anderson.
"My son said to hire Greg," explains Black. "Greg had worked for George and me driving our second car in 2000 and 2001. We knew he wanted to drive. And we knew he could put together a good team. We figured we could do well."
"I cherry-picked them," says Anderson about the formation of KB Racing in 2002. "I got all the guys I wanted and I didn't have to go to my second and third choices. Everyone here knows their job."
Anderson, who turns 44 this March, had worked in racing since he was 16 and spent 12 years wrenching for Warren and Kurt Johnson. He had been in the sport long enough to form his own opinions on how a Pro Stock team should be run. And it started with where the team would be based.
Instead of basing KB Racing in his own native Duluth,Minnesota, or Black's Las Vegas, Greg Anderson stuck it in Mooresville, North Carolina, where they've heard of drag racing, but live for NASCAR. After all, it's in the many NASCAR team shops that nestle into the suburbs and small towns surrounding Charlotte where the world's development of carbureted, pushrod, racing V-8s is centered. If the roundy-round boys were going to be spending all that money squeezing each additional thousandth of a horsepower out of archaic (in racing terms at least) technology, then why shouldn't KB piggyback their expertise?
The first critical hires Anderson made were Jeff Perley, who had been working on GM's efforts in the NHRA Sport Compact series, and Rob Downing who had been crewing for Mark Pawuk's Pro Stock team. Perley is Canadian, compactly built, and bounces from task to task like a superball. He's been in racing virtually his entire life. Downing, on the other hand, is tall, lean, analytical, and an engineering graduate of the University of Nebraska. On race weekends Perley seems to always have a clutch pack in his hand hauling it into one of the team's two car carriers for refacing, while Downing stares at a computer monitor trying to find some demon buried in the blizzard of data downloaded from the cars on their last runs. They're complementary personalities: Perley is action oriented, while Downing seems patient, contemplative, and inquisitive. "Jeff is good at quick decisions," explains Downing. "I'm better at looking at data." If they have arguments, they're not letting anyone else in on them. And at the track they seem to reach conclusions together without wasting their time on something as inefficient as conversation. "It just seems to work out," claims Perley.
Perley and Downing may be the crewchiefs, but it's Greg Anderson who sets the tone and agenda for the team. And it doesn't hurt that he is a spectacularly consistent driver too. Even though the team was brand-new, success came rapidly and Anderson won two races during 2002 while finishing third in the season points battle. And pushing their advantage meant more people had to come aboard for 2003.
Jason Line, 35, and like Anderson a native Minnesotan, was recruited out of the Joe Gibbs Racing NASCAR shop where he had been a dyno operator preparing engines for Tony Stewart and Bobby Labonte. A longtime drag racer at the sportsman level (he won the NHRA Stock Eliminator national championship in 1993), he had to take a pay cut to work for KB but gained a seat in the team's second Grand Am.
With Line running a few races (debuting with a spectacular crash at Columbus) and Anderson on the whole schedule, 2003 was the sort of year most drag racers dream about-Anderson won 12 races and the championship. But it was merely a prelude to what was coming for 2004.
The KB Racing team is extremely disciplined and extremely methodical at the track. Between runs, the cars come back to a common pit area set up between the two transporters and under their canopies. With almost no talking, the noses, doors, and rear tires of the cars come off and blankets go over exhaust headers and front tires both to keep prying eyes off those areas and to keep other teams wondering what's under the blankets. Line and Anderson go to work adjusting the valves on each other's cars while Perley extracts the clutches for refacing, being careful to cover the discs so no one actually sees the surface machined onto them. By the time they've been called to the line for the next round, the parachutes have been repacked, the cars thoroughly inspected, the nose and doors reassembled, and any tweaks that needed to be made are made. What KB does doesn't look any different from what any other Pro Stock team does between rounds, except that it happens so quickly and so silently.
While the team members work, most of the people in the pits are family (Anderson's wife Kim and his parents, Line's parents, a whole slew of Blacks) sitting back and basking in the glow of their relatives' success. Except for John Force's pit there probably isn't a more popular stop for fans right now than the KB compound. After all, success does attract attention and that attention quickly turns into responsibilities.
Despite the name, there's often very little that's either "stock" or "pro" about Pro Stock. Many of the teams aren't much more than hobbies for rich guys, and significant sponsorships from consumer products companies are rare. KB Racing may in fact be a hobby for Ken Black, but the team itself is truly professional and has the feel of permanence-of an operation that's going to be around for a good long while.
It's hard to imagine KB Racing matching its 2004 performance much less exceeding it in 2005.Yet, having picked up Summit Racing sponsorship for Anderson's car midway through 2004, the team is stronger going into the season than they were last year. They'll start in a pair of new Grand Ams but will have to manage a switch to new GTOs sometime during the year as Pontiac emphasizes that model in its marketing.
The economics of Pro Stock are exceptionally cruel and even with the Summit backing and the $515,000 in prize money Anderson alone earned last year, the team is "still too much of a drain on Ken Black," says Anderson. Black meanwhile is concentrating on finding sponsorship for Line's car to defray the $1- to $1.5-million a season he admits to putting into the team. A major sponsor for Line's car would, he says, put the team at about break-even.
It's also tough to sustain the near-miraculous chemistry of the personalities on the KB team. How long before someone even richer than Ken Black offers Perley, Downing, or Line their own opportunity to do what Anderson has done? How long can they all tolerate the brutal schedule that has them putting in 100-hour weeks even in the off-season? Will they all still want to travel to every race when they have wives and kids at home? It's going to be tough. Meanwhile Anderson, Line, Perley, and Downing have big plans. They're bringing ever more of their cylinder-head development in house and ultimately would like to build their own chassis. They're not really competing against other Pro Stock racers right now, but striving to achieve some sort of metaphysically ideal combination of engine, clutch, transmission, wheelie bar, and tire tuning that will result in a perfect blast down a quarter-mile.
The team's restlessness was obvious in Pomona, just minutes after Line and Anderson had yet again met in the final round (after again qualifying one-two). KB's co-crewchiefs Jeff Perley and Rob Downing were almost inconsolable. "We blew it," mumbled Perley. "We wanted to give them something and we just missed the setup. "In the rapidly cooling mid-November Sunday twilight, the two Grand Ams just didn't do what Perley and Downing had hoped. Instead of running in the 6.60s, Anderson ran a 6.722 and Line a 6.825-nowhere near the potential they knew they were capable of. Keep in mind that in Pro Stock, "nowhere near" means a couple hundredths of a second. Of course they won the race. But so what? "We know all our shortcomings," said Perley.
Hero worship: F1 vs. Pro Stock
While KB Racing was setting a new standard for Pro Stock, the Ferrari team was doing the same thing in the parallel motorsports universe of Formula One. Formula One and Pro Stock couldn't be more dissimilar, but these two teams dominate their respective sports so completely they can only be compared with each other.
There is however one area where Ferrari has KB completely beat-its '04 championship was Ferrari's fifth in a row. KB's streak only runs to two. So give KB another three years, but even then, we doubt NHRA stars will reach F1 income levels any time soon. Check the figures we came up with below.
|KB Racing Vs. Suderia Ferrari
|KB Racing
|19 of 23 (83%)
|15 of 18 (83%)
|KB had five more chances to lose but call this a draw.
|Qualify First
|17 of 23 (74%)
|12 of 18 (67%)
|KB Racing got better as the season wore on. Ferrari was fading.
|1-2 Finishes
|6 of 23 (26%)
|8 of 18 (44%)
|KB was ridiculously dominant. Ferrari was even more so.
|Fastest Lap/Low e.t.
|20 of 23 (87%)
|14 of 18 (78%)
|Ferrari was ridiculously dominant. KB was even more so.
|Greg Anderson Vs. Michael Schumacher
|G. Anderson
|M. Schumacher
|15 of 23 (65%)
|13 of 18 (72%)
|Schumacher-With two less wins in a shorter season.
|Qualify First
|16 of 23 (70%)
|8 of 18 (44%)
|Anderson-He consistently qualified quick, and Schuey sometimes didn't.
|Fastest Lap/Low e.t.
|17 of 23 (74%)
|10 of 18 (56%)
|Anderson-He consistently ran quick during eliminations.
|Take-Home Pay
|Schumacher-It's expensive to live in Switzerland and cheap to live in North Carolina. Right?
*Hot Rod's wild-ass guess based on NHRA winnings and inexplicable hunches about endorsements and salary.
**Forbes magazine "World's 50 Highest Paid Athletes 2004." Schumacher is number two on the list with a salary from Ferrari reportedly approaching $40 million and his face plastered on dozens of endorsed products in Europe.


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