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Egyptian Mau at a Glance
The Egyptian Mau is a colorful, elegant cat with an alert appearance that gives it a regal bearing. They are intensely loyal and are passionate about their families yet also happy to go about the business of being a cat. Mau's are shy, sensitive cats that are easily upset by sudden loud noises. They are the only natural spotted breed of domestic cat. The active and playful Mau is a perfect choice for families with children and cat-friendly dogs. Their coat is medium in length and easy to maintain. Find out more about this breed and if the Egyptian Mau is right for you and your family.
- Temperament: Fast, Loyal, Gentle
- Size: Medium-sized cat.
- Colors: The Egyptian Mau comes in silver, bronze and smoke. All colors have "gooseberry green" eye color, a hallmark of the breed.
- Life Expectancy: 10-15+ years, with proper care.
About the Egyptian Mau
Gentle and extremely loyal, the striking Egyptian Mau has many unique qualities that make the breed stand out among felines.
Their looks set them apart as a result of their brow line and characteristic eye set that gives the breed a naturally worried look. They are also the only domesticated cat with a naturally occurring spotted coat and have an "M" shape on their forehead called the mark of the scarab. Their "tiptoe" stance given by the hind legs being proportionally longer than the front legs, lends to the graceful look of elegance to the Mau.
They are powerful athletes among their fellow felines with an uncanny leaping ability and are considered the fastest breed capable of great bursts of speed.
Despite their amazing athletic ability and physical power, the Egyptian Mau is a gentle and reserved cat. They love being a part of a family, but are wary of others. Early socialization is essential otherwise they can be easily startled by unexpected noises or events. Maus communicate pleasure or enthusiasm with a wagging tail and kneading paws, and may converse with you in a voice that chortles and trills.
A devoted family companion, Maus make great family pets. They get along well with playful children and other cat-friendly pets as long as they can keep up with the Mau's energy.
Activity Level
The Egyptian Mau is a moderate- to highly active breed. They are athletic and love to climb and jump, making a perch or cat tree essential, otherwise they will create their own perch on top of the refrigerator or bookcases.
They are smart and observant and tend to teach themselves how to open doors and drawers. They love to play with water and are smart enough to learn how to turn on the faucet.
Despite their high energy levels, they love to sit on laps and snuggle.
TICA Regions, Clubs & RescuesWant to connect with fellow cat lovers and those who love the same breed as you? |
Find a Kitten: TICA BreedersThe TICA website is the only place where you can find TICA member breeders who have signed the TICA Code of Ethics. |
The Egyptian Mau has a medium-length coat. The texture of the fur varies depending on the cat's color. Cats with smoke coloring have silky, fine fur. Cats with silver or bronze coloring have fur with a more dense, resilient texture. Brush their coat weekly to keep it shiny and healthy.
The only other grooming the Egyptian Mau needs is regular nail trimming, usually weekly, and ear cleaning if the ears look dirty. Use a gentle cleanser recommended by your veterinarian. Brush the teeth frequently with a vet-approved pet toothpaste for good overall health and fresh breath.
As with all cats, it is important to give your cat fresh, clean water daily. Fresh, clean water is best, so cats don't hesitate to drink. If you worry about your cat drinking enough water each day, here's a tip from some cat behaviorists: place the water bowl at least three feet away from any food. Cats' noses are sensitive, and an overwhelming smell of food may cause them to drink less. Filtered drinking fountains can also be used in place of a water bowl.
Egyptian Mau is generally a healthy breed, with the only predispositions for disease being urolithiasis, pyruvate kinase deficiency (PK-Def), and leukodystrophy a neurological condition that may appear in kittens as early as 7 weeks of age.
There is little doubt that Ancient Egypt was the birthplace of the domestic feline we call the Egyptian Mau. Their ancestors are highly visible in the artworks of the Ancient Egyptians. Many of their pictures were of heavily spotted cats bearing the distinctive mascara marking and barring seen on today's Mau. Recent findings in research studies lead by feline geneticist Leslie Lyons, PhD confirmed that cats first originated in Egypt. There is archaeological and genetic evidence to show that cats first originated in the fertile crescent.
The Egyptian Mau arrived in the United States in 1956 when Russian Princess Nathalie Troubetskoy, with help from Richard Gebhardt, imported three Maus from Italy: two silver females, Baba and Liza, and a bronze male called JoJo.
The origins and history of the Egyptian Mau are important to understanding the ideal cat to which Mau breeders aspire. Through the years, it has been challenging to meet the standard while maintaining the distinctive qualities and characteristics of the breed. This was especially difficult due to a very limited gene pool. Recent imports have broadened this gene pool and helped improve the overall quality and uniformity. This has all been a challenge to breeders and judges, but today the Egyptian Mau is beautiful and healthy.
TICA accepted the Egyptian Mau breed into championship status in 1979.
Did You Know?
Mau is the Egyptian word for cat.
The "M" shape on the forehead is called the mark of the scarab.
Egyptian Maus are the fastest domestic housecat. They've been clocked running at speeds up to 30 miles per hour.
The Egyptian Mau's hind legs are longer than his front legs, giving him a characteristic tippy-toe stance.
From the Breed Standard
The Egyptian Mau is the only natural domestic breed of spotted cat. The body is graceful, showing well-developed muscular strength. It strikes a balance between the heftiness of the cobby and svelteness of the oriental types. It is an alert, active, strong, colorful cat of medium size. It should be well-balanced physically and temperamentally. General balance is more to be desired than size alone.
Click here to read the full TICA Breed Standard.
Additional information and an introduction to the breed can be found in the links below:
Egyptian Mau Breed |
Accepted For Championship in TICA in 1979
- Egyptian Mau Breed At A Glance
- Breed Introduction
- Printable Breed Introduction
- Egyptian Mau Breeders
- Breed Standards
- Breed Committee
Photos used courtesy of © Helmi Flick Cat Photography.


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The NFL Players Association filed a collusion complaint against the NFL in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota on Wednesday, alleging the league imposed a secret $123 million salary cap during the uncapped year of 2010.
The NFLPA's complaint points to the league's punishment of the Washington Redskins, Dallas Cowboys, New Orleans Saints and Oakland Raiders as proof that restraints were in place to suppress salaries during that year. The filing also alleges that internal NFL calculations showed that Washington was $102,833,047 in excess of the secret cap, Dallas was $52,938,774 over, Oakland was $41,914,060 over and New Orleans was $36,329,770 over.
On Tuesday, system arbitrator Stephen Burbank upheld a league decision to take $36 million of cap space from the Redskins and $10 million of cap space from the Cowboys as a result of contracts that the league has said violated the spirit of competitive balance. The league, by owner vote, agreed to take that cap space and spread it among 28 other teams, excluding the Raiders and Saints as beneficiaries as a result of their 2010 actions.
"When the rules are broken in a way that hurts the game, we have an obligation to act," said NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith in a statement. "We cannot stand by when we now know that the owners conspired to collude."
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello responded to the players' claims with a comment: "The filing of these claims is prohibited by the collective bargaining agreement and separately by an agreement signed by the players' attorneys last August. The claims have absolutely no merit and we fully expect them to be dismissed. On multiple occasions, the players and their representatives specifically dismissed all claims, known or unknown, whether pending or not, regarding alleged violations of the 2006 CBA and the related settlement agreement. We continue to look forward to focusing on the future of the game rather than grievances of a prior era that have already been resolved."
According to part of the union's complaint, "The conspiracy alleged herein resulted in actual damages to the players of up to $1 billion, if not substantially more." NFLPA outside counsel Jeffrey Kessler said on a conference call Wednesday that the damages are made up entirely of lost salary, but added that the discovery process would be necessary to get a more exact total.
The NFLPA pointed to comments made by New York Giants owner John Mara, the chair of the league's executive committee, in response to questions posed on the Redskins' and Cowboys' salary-cap matter as proof of the existence of a cap in 2010.
"What they did was in violation of the spirit of the salary cap," Mara said. "They attempted to take advantage of a one-year loophole ... full well knowing there would be consequences."
The NFLPA will be represented by Kessler in this case, which could hinge on jurisdiction.
The separate agreement Aiello referenced in his statement pertains to the NFL's assertion that the Aug. 4, 2011 settlement of the 1993 case White v. the NFL was global, and should prevent any collusion charges from going forward. The NFLPA has responded that new information has surfaced since, and should allow the case to proceed.
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The agreement reads that the "parties stipulate to the dismissal with prejudice of all claims, known and unknown, whether pending or not" including "asserted collusion with respect to the 2010 league year," and was signed by Kessler. Kessler said on the NFLPA's conference call on Wednesday that a Minnesota court rejected the stipulation.
On Aug. 11, 2011, Judge David Doty "ordered that all claims pending regarding the stipulation and settlement agreement are dismissed. All other outstanding motions are dismissed," according to a court order. Kessler said Doty's specification on "pending" cases left the door open for cases that were not pending, such as the current collusion case.
When asked for a response to that assertion, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said in an email, "Not accurate. A stipulation of dismissal on behalf of the union and the White class was signed by Kessler and filed in the court. The union is bound by that document."
The union also claims that it entered into the "reallocation letter," which set the salary cap for 2011, and signed off on the Cowboys' and Redskins' penalties before that new information on the alleged 2010 cap -- and related violations -- surfaced. Kessler said the NFLPA had no idea, at that point, that the alleged collusion was happening.
"Before we signed the agreement, they told us they thought the Redskins and Cowboys had taken advantage of there being no salary cap, and the league felt it was necessary (to punish them) in order to equalize that competitive advantage," Kessler said. "The union didn't agree with that, but that was the price of doing the deal."
Both Kessler and NFLPA spokesman George Atallah described the reallocation proposal, which borrowed from future years to keep the cap at its 2011 level and included the Washington and Dallas sanctions, as a "take it or leave it" offer from the league just prior to the beginning of the 2012 league year.
Kessler also said that the case's direction to Minnesota, and quite possibly into the hands of the traditionally union-friendly Doty, was simply a matter of procedure. He added that the timing of Wednesday's announcement, a day after Burbank dismissed the Redskins' and Cowboys' appeal of the salary-cap sanctions, was "100 percent pure coincidence," and that the union hasn't had help in this case from any of the NFL teams, outside of appeal filings from Washington and Dallas.
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Last week, MLB union chief Tony Clark again expressed frustration with how last winter's market played out, with the sluggish business for veteran free agents.
"What we experienced last offseason was a direct attack on free agency, which has been a bedrock of our economic system," he said. "If that's going to continue, then we have some very difficult decisions to make moving forward."
As the union begins to formulate a badly needed strategy for the months and years ahead, sources continue to say that Clark and the union leadership have been engaged in substantive conversations with agents, a marked change from how business was conducted leading up to the last Collective Bargaining Agreement. Back then, many agents felt shut out of the process, and after the final CBA terms were revealed, they felt the lack of dialogue and assessment was a serious mistake.
Now, said one source, Clark "is trying" to make it better. The expectation is that the union will restructure its central group in some way, likely with the addition of more legal firepower. Once they get the new team in place, they will presumably try to hone strategy and priorities.
Whatever its composition, whoever is involved, the union leadership should devote some serious thought to how to handle social media -- which has the potential to be a weapon for the players' association, but also a significant problem if the players' association goes to war with MLB in the next round of talks. No major professional sports league has attempted to strike since social media became so ingrained in U.S. culture.
Almost a quarter-century has passed since the last time the union conducted a players' strike, which swallowed the 1994 World Series and the beginning of the 1995 season. Back then, the oldest and even the youngest players were battle-tested in labor strife, with many having experienced everything from multiple rounds of owners' collusion to strikes to lockouts, and within the membership, there was a strong belief in the common cause. There was also intense peer pressure, when needed. I remember Tony Gwynn chuckling as he recalled the angry exchanges in some of the meetings, whenever an individual player would question the wisdom of the union's path. The occasional dissenters were shouted down.
Players such as Lenny Dykstra might have disagreed with the decisions and preferred to be back at work, but generally speaking, players expected each other to fall in line and back the leadership. In the midst of the 1994-95 strike, Orioles pitcher Arthur Rhodes showed up at Baltimore's camp to say hello to friends -- and when the union leadership got wind of this, he was told to leave ASAP, lest he inadvertently convey the message to baseball owners that the players were desperate to get back to work.
Imagine how much more difficult it could be for the union to hold together a coalition these days, with a thousand-plus members posting on their own Instagram, Twitter and Facebook accounts. Imagine what a body blow it would be to any union if you had individuals griping in Tweets about being out of work, about paychecks missed, about union leadership choices.
Marvin Miller, the legendary union leader who is primarily responsible for building the strength of baseball's players' association, believed in openness, to better educate rank-and-file members. He wanted the players to know what their peers were earning, because owners had kept everything secret for decades and used the players' ignorance in salary matters against them. He wanted the players to understand when and why it was important to take a stand.
The union could use social media to inform the players, to provide messaging, to reinforce arguments. Hundreds of unleashed players would be capable of swaying public opinion through their social media posts.
But a handful of tweets from disgruntled players would have the potential to devastate the strategy of Clark and his leadership team, depending on their timing -- because the posts could serve to encourage owners to wait for surrender, and look for more cracks in the players' united front.
The Josh Hader situation the other day was a reminder that the union hasn't really developed a social media strategy. As one GM pointed out, acknowledging the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, it should be standard operating procedure for all new union members to scrub past tweets and posts.
Clark and the players have a lot to sort through and need to do so quickly, given the leverage the union could possess immediately over the issues of tanking teams, the NL adoption of the designated hitter and changes to rules. The players' association likely will have the opportunity to make up for lost ground long before it has to think about a work stoppage, so long as the union engages.
But along the way, this generation of players -- some of whom seemed to embrace the notion of a possible strike in a recent USA Today poll -- should be schooled on the sacrifices that would be required in any work stoppage, and in this era, that might include the suspension of social media posts.
News from around the major leagues
Francisco Mejia, the young catcher acquired by the Padres when San Diego traded lefty Brad Hand and sidearmer Adam Cimber to Cleveland, has always hit in the minor leagues. But moving forward, a key question about Mejia for some evaluators is whether he can play well enough defensively to continue to be a catcher, or if he has to move to another position; of course, a shift to another spot would greatly mitigate his value.
• Baltimore's Zach Britton is the most coveted reliever available in a trade market that is generally devoid of experienced and big-time closers -- and he is in the crosshairs of a bunch of contenders:
The Cubs, who just lost Brandon Morrow to the disabled list and need a lefty.
The Astros, who thought they had a trade arranged for Britton last July -- and who recently demoted Ken Giles to the minors.
The Red Sox, who need late-inning depth.
The Yankees, who have a great bullpen but might look at Britton as a possible upgrade over Chasen Shreve -- while working to keep Britton away from other contenders.
The Dodgers, who just finished an extensive negotiation with the Orioles.
The velocity and movement on Britton's fastball have improved markedly since the beginning of the month, and the Orioles are working quickly and could move him in the next few days.
• Kyle Schwarber estimates that he takes anywhere from 30 to 50 swings on an average day -- and he figures he took about 10 times that many in the Home Run Derby last Monday, which is why his arms were sore in the days after the event. Schwarber lost in the finals to Bryce Harper -- and after it was over, the Cubs' outfielder said he thought this was the best possible result: Harper winning in front of his home crowd.
• Jacob deGrom pitches against the Yankees on Sunday Night Baseball amid a lot of speculation about his future with the Mets. His agent has called for clarification of his situation -- a contract extension or a trade ... despite the fact that the 30-year-old deGrom really doesn't have a lot of leverage at this moment; he won't be eligible for free agency until after the 2020 season. But the Mets have been in the vortex of a lot of media and fan criticism this summer, and the pressure to lock up their biggest star might continue to grow.
• Cardinals interim manager Mike Shildt's first job in baseball was as a clubhouse attendant for the Double-A Charlotte Orioles. In the summer of 1980, it was his job to shine the shoes of Cal Ripken Jr. Shildt's mom worked for the team, and he got his first paid assignment when he was 8 years old -- retrieving foul balls, for $5 a game. Shildt remembers being expected to generate at least two fouls per game, and if he came back with one, well, there was some question about whether he'd get his $5.
Baseball Tonight Podcast
Friday: Tim Kurkjian on the Indians' acquisition of Hand and Cimber and the Dodgers' improvement; Paul Hembekides on the legacy of Chase Utley; Indians play-by-play man Tom Hamilton on the Cleveland upgrades; Roch Kubatko of MASN Sports on the Machado trade, the Zach Britton talks and the future of Adam Jones.
Thursday: Keith Law assesses both sides of the Machado trade -- what it means for the Orioles and what it means for the Dodgers; Rob Manfred's comments about Mike Trout and player marketing; Sarah Langs and The Numbers Game.
Wednesday: Jerry Crasnick looks back on the Home Run Derby and the All-Star Game, as well as the Hader tweets; the sounds and voices from the All-Star events; Rob Manfred on the state of the game.
Tuesday: In ESPN's first live podcast -- from Washington, D.C. -- Karl Ravech and Tim Kurkjian chat about baseball issues; Sarah Langs and The Numbers Game; Todd Radom's weekly uniform presentation, and quiz.
And today will be better than yesterday.


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Jan 12, 2011 | |
Quantum quirk contained |
(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of Calgary, in Canada, collaborating with the University of Paderborn, in Germany, are working on a way to make quantum networks a reality and have published their findings in the journal Nature. A similar finding by a group at the University of Geneva, in Switzerland is reported in the same issue. "We have demonstrated, for the first time, that a crystal can store information encoded into entangled quantum states of photons," says paper co-author Dr. Wolfgang Tittel of the University of Calgary's Institute for Quantum Information Science. "This discovery constitutes an important milestone on the path toward quantum networks, and will hopefully enable building quantum networks in a few years." | |
In current communication networks, information is sent through pulses of light moving through optical fibre. The information can be stored on computer hard disks for future use. | |
Quantum networks operate differently than the networks we use daily. | |
"What we have is similar but it does not use pulses of light," says Tittel, who is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary. "In quantum communication, we also have to store and retrieve information. But in our case, the information is encoded into entangled states of photons." | |
In this state, photons are "entangled," and remain so even when they fly apart. In a way, they communicate with each other even when they are very far apart. The difficulty is getting them to stay put without breaking this fragile quantum link. | |
To achieve this task, the researchers used a crystal doped with rare-earth ions and cooled it to -270 Celsius. At these temperatures, material properties change and allowed the researchers to store and retrieve these photons without measurable degradation. | |
An important feature is that this memory device uses almost entirely standard fabrication technologies. "The resulting robustness, and the possibility to integrate the memory with current technology such as fibre-optic cables is important when moving the currently fundamental research towards applications." | |
Quantum networks will allow sending information without being afraid of somebody listening in. | |
"The results show that entanglement, a quantum physical property that has puzzled philosophers and physicists since almost hundred years, is not as fragile as is generally believed," says Tittel. |
Source: University of Calgary |


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2004 Ford Mustang Mach 1 - Near Nuclear Blown
Here's What To Do When The Speed Of Sound Just Isn't Enough
Horse Sense: Wheels can make or break any Mustang, and they don't get any better than the lightweight Fikse Profil 5S forgings seen here. Alan Feenstra custom-ordered them with an offset of +25mm on the front, +19mm on the rear, and a black center finish. While the wheels certainly help make this Mustang, they can also break the bank at about $1K each-but nobody said the best was cheap!
You might say that Bremerton, Washington's Alan Feenstra is a man who's used to working on some serious equipment. A lifelong employee of the federal government-a U.S. Navy lieutenant to be specific-Alan's 21-year career included such critical positions as chief reactor operator on three nuclear-powered fast attack subs, and chemistry and radiological controls assistant on the USS John C. Stennis, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Obviously, we couldn't resist the temptation to work Alan's atomic credentials into this feature title, yet the play on words is well representative of the transformation he's performed on this '04 Mach-indicating he's nearly as serious about his hobby as he is his profession.
As expected, this isn't Alan's first foray into the world of high-performance Mustangs, but it's arguably his most successful. Also residing in the Feenstra stable is a street/strip '91 GT, which was purchased brand-new and still sports but 12,000 miles. As Alan puts it, "The '91 is a car I've had so long that I've modified all the modifications." Yet as much as Alan was a pushrod traditionalist, the reemergence of the Mach 1 for '03-'04 was the car that finally sucked him into a brave new world-that of the Four-Valve mod-motor. Truth be told, it was his wife, Lori, who encouraged Alan to go for the unique throwback model, though with a none-too-realistic expectation that the Mach remain factory stock for the foreseeable future. Within 500 miles, such delusion was shattered by a Vortech blower, which, as they say, "was just the beginning."
Of course, wrenching on any new car is pure joy, but it's particularly so when executed in the manner that FoMoCo laid on the newest Mach 1. Aside from the rolling stock, it's clear that Alan feels Dearborn stylists did the car right-leaving all other cosmetics as the factory saw fit, and letting the retro styling and Competition Orange topcoat do the talking. Speaking of the tire and wheel package, the rims are 18-inch Fikses, custom-built for the Mach 1 with specific offsets front and rear, while the rubber is Kumho ECSTA MX..
Clearly visible through the forged spokes is a massive upgrade from the stock braking package-in this case Brembo clamps on all four corners. Lay into these binders and you'll feel as though an anchor was thrown from one of the Navy ships Alan rode on a regular basis. Alan explained that the rear brakes are actually designed for use on a Cobra IRS, requiring some extra effort and creativity to make the jump to the stick axle. The Brembos are fixed-mount calipers rather than the stock floating style, and installer Brian Holsten at Brad's Custom Auto figured it wise to go with a differential with less potential lateral axle movement than the stock Ford Traction-Lok-a Torsen piece from Ford Racing Performance Parts was the answer. Mounting the emergency-brake caliper required more of Brad's ingenuity, resulting in a custom CNC'd bracket to get the job done.
With top-of-the-heap brakes and wheels, it's of little surprise that the underpinnings of the car have been reworked to take full advantage. Maximum Motorsports got the call for their full-meal deal, while Brad spun the wrenches on the company's torque arm, Panhard bar, lower control arms, adjustable rear sway bar, tubular K-member, front control arms, coilover Bilsteins, and plenty of ancillaries. Alan says the control and handling is now phenomenal-a report we have little difficulty believing.
If the upgrades to this special '04 had been limited to the aforementioned suspension, wheels/tires, and brakes, Alan would have had plenty of ammunition to compete with today's top performing elite. But as we've already hinted, the genie came out of the bottle with the mods under the hood. Boosting the stock Mach 1's 305 hp is a Vortech supercharger kit featuring an SQ SC-trim blower, an air-to-water charge cooler, and an advertised claim of 484 hp and 420 lb-ft of torque. Alan and his son did the install together over several weekends, then dialed it in with an SCT Pro Racer flash tuner-the result being a combination that'll respond when the hammer falls, yet knows what to do when the straightaway ends.
Two years into ownership, Alan believes he's finished with the modifications (can't fool us) on his special '04, and he now plans to spend more seat time with his performance mission accomplished and a new assignment with the Navy that should provide more time on dry land. That'll be a welcome change, as Alan mentioned shipping out on a six-month tour just days after purchasing the Mach 1, explaining the car's low mileage. Talk about delayed gratification. Alan figures he's ready to head to a road-course track day where, whether nuclear or not, we predict the fun to be only just beginning.
5.0 Tech Specs | |
ENGINE AND DRIVETRAIN | Springs |
Block | Maximum Motorsports coilover |
Stock | kit with 425-lb Hypercoil springs |
Oil Pan | Struts |
Canton 7-qt, Canton windage | Bilstein race-valved struts, |
tray | Caster/Camber |
Fuel System | Maximum Motorsports plates |
Vortech-supplied high-flow in-tank | Brakes |
pump, FRPP 42-lb/hr injectors | Brembo 14-in Gran Turismo w/ |
Throttle Body | two-piece cross-drilled rotors |
Stock | Wheels |
Mass Air | Fikse Profil 5S, 18x9.5-in, +25mm |
Vortech supplied 90mm | offset |
Exhaust | Tires |
Bassani mid-length headers, | Kumho ECSTA MX |
catalytic X-shape crossover, | 275YR/35-18 |
DynoMax Ultra-Flo after-cat | Rear Suspension |
Transmission | Springs |
Stock Tremec 3650 w/ MGW shifter | Bilstein race-valved shocks, |
Rearend | {{{300}}}-lb Hypercoil |
8.8 w/ FRPP 4.10 gears, Torsen | Shocks |
diff, Moser 31-spline axles | Maximum Motorsports coilover |
Power Adder | kit |
Vortech SQ SC-Trim, aftercooled | Traction Devices |
  | Maximum Motorsports torque |
ELECTRONICS | arm, Panhard bar, lower control |
Engine Management | arms, adjustable sway bar |
EEC V w/ SCT Pro Racer | Brakes |
flash tune | Brembo 13-in Gran Turismo w/ |
Ignition | two-piece cross drilled rotors |
Stock | Wheels |
Gauges | Fikse Profil 5S, 18x10.5-in, +19mm |
Auto Meter Carbon-Fiber series | offset |
  | Tires |
SUSPENSION AND CHASSIS | Kumho ECSTA MX |
Front Suspension | 295YR/35-18 |
K-member | Chassis Stiffening |
Maximum Motorsports tubular | Maximum Motorsports full- |
Control Arms | length subframe connectors |
Maximum Motorsports tubular |   |
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Thunder center Kendrick Perkins will miss Sundays' game against the Los Angeles Clippers with a strained left groin.
Perkins was injured during the third quarter of Oklahoma City's loss to Miami on Thursday night. He has averaged 3.4 points and 5.0 rebounds in 54 starts. Steven Adams, a rookie, will get his third career start in Perkins' place.
Clippers guard J.J Redick is out with a bulging disc in his lower back. He had missed the previous six games. He has played in just 30 games this season while dealing with wrist, hip and back injuries. He averages 15.7 points and 2.2 assists per game.


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Green foods include water-based ingredients such as spirulina, chlorella and blue green algae as well as cereal grains like wheatgrass and barley grass. They are rich in amino acids, protein, fiber, vitamin B12 and beta-carotene, and may also contain essential fatty acids. Spirulina, for example, provides GLA, DHA and other EFAs.
Research on these nutrient-dense ingredients suggest they can strengthen immune response and increase energy. In addition, some green foods have applications for lowering cholesterol and blood pressure.
Most common in powdered supplement form, green foods can be found in functional food bars and even in cosmetics and personal care products. In facial creams, spirulina is used to revitalize skin and improve moisture retention and collagen elasticity.


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The city of Kenmare just received a $200,000 boost toward plans to upgrade its water system.
9/23/09 (Wed)
The city of
The North Dakota Department of Commerce, in conjunction with the Souris Basin Planning Council, provided the grant to the city. The funds will be used for the Kenmare water tower and booster pump station project.
"We've been very fortunate to receive this money," said Kenmare mayor Roger Ness, who is also a member of the Souris Basin Planning Council. Then he smiled and continued, "It's a small part of what we need. The whole project will cost close to $1.6 or $1.7 million."
NAWS line to
Kenmare complete
According to city engineer Ryan Ackerman, of Ackerman-Estvold Engineering & Management Consulting in
The first phase, which was essentially complete as of August, was to lay pipeline to transport NAWS water to the Kenmare distribution system. "We are ready for NAWS water," said
Under a contract arranged with the State Water Commission, Kenmare will purchase water from the city of
Installation of the NAWS pipeline has continued this summer, and extended past Kenmare toward Mohall and Sherwood. A pipeline connecting Kenmare to the NAWS system was finished in August.
According to Ness, that pipeline will bring
Blending city of
Funds from the latest grant awarded to Kenmare will actually go toward expenses for two other phases of the water project.
The existing elevated water storage tower, with a capacity of about 50,000 gallons, will be replaced by one five times larger at 250,000 gallons. "We'll build that east of the existing one on the same lot,"
The cost of the new tank will be $900,000. The larger size will allow the city to eventually discontinue use of its underground reservoirs for the domestic water supply, with water pumped through the NAWS system directly into the new tank.
A new booster pump station, at a cost of approximately $250,000, will facilitate and control that process. Negotiations are underway between the city and Farmers Union Oil Company to purchase an acre of land east of the city's old landfill. The station would be housed there in a 12'x12' building.
Bids for the water tower project will go out this winter, with an expected completion date of 2011. "If they can get started right away on the elevated tank, they may finish in one construction season," Ackerman said.
Bids for the booster pump station could be let at the same time, with a similar construction schedule.
"Replacing the water tower and purchasing a new booster pump are just a part of the extensive project involving the NAWS system being piped from
Funds for the project came from the Community Development Block Grant program managed by the North Dakota Department of Commerce. The program provides financial assistance to eligible cities and counties in the state. The eight regional planning councils receive an allocation from the state to fund projects in their regions.
Pressure regulation
The new elevated tank will distribute water into the Kenmare system by gravity feed, but the fourth phase of the project involves the installation of pressure regulation stations in the city's water system to correct some other issues. "Kenmare is built on a hill and the town has a pressure problem," Ackerman explained. "There are places where it's either too low or too high."
He used
The pressure range poses potential hazards to the city's water supply, especially in times of peak summer use, related to sanitary and fire protection. The new pressure regulation stations will create two zones within the city's water system to stabilize pressure, regardless of demands put on the system. "The project also calls for additional water lines to be run through town, to help with water quality," said Ackerman.
Cost of the pressure regulation station portion of the project is estimated at $450,000, with bids scheduled to go out later this fall.
Search for funding goes on
Ackerman and
"There's a USDA application under process for a three percent line of credit through the Department of Health for the tower," said Ackerman. "For the booster pump and pressure regulation stations, we've secured half a million local share financed with a one percent loan from the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund through the Department of Health."
Both Ackerman and
The purchase price in the contract for the NAWS system is currently $2.20 per thousand gallons for the city. "Then there other costs associated with the project, including repaying debt, paying employees, insurance, vehicles, and maintenance on the system," Ackerman said. "We will do a rate analysis and devise a new rate schedule for the city, after other funding has been secured."
Ackerman agreed with
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Ackerman noted that improvements to Kenmare's water system, especially the new elevated tank, will provide secondary benefits to the community. "This also opens up areas to the east [of town] for more development," he said, "and they should get fire service out to the airport now."
He also mentioned that while NAWS is constructing their own water storage tank, for one million gallons, about a mile east of Kenmare, the city cannot use that tank for its municipal system.
"NAWS set up a fixed flow rate to the city of
More information about the change in Kenmare's water supply and potential increase in water rates will be made available as those details are finalized. For questions about water meters, contact the city auditor's office at 701-385-4232.


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"There is a sudden awakening among the wealthy that they're no longer bound to a certain country," said David Lesperance, a Toronto-based attorney who specializes in relocating the rich. "After the recession and other recent events, they realize they need to get themselves in better fiscal shape. For the wealthy, the idea of moving has changed from something that's interesting or exotic to something they feel they really need to do."


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There are a few examples included which show how to add your own reverberation or equalizer using SuperCollider and the SwingOSC GUI, as well as a control room recorder which is useful to quickly capture sound ideas from multiple running documents.
Eisenkraut also works as a useful companion of FScape and Kontur, as it allows to quickly open and playback files in the former case, or to make region selections and place them on Kontur's timeline in the latter case. The built in audio recorder is a handy tool to make multi channel recordings without a fuss.
Other features include waveform caching, easy and precise time selections and marker manipulations, configurable automatic crossfades during cut and paste, overwrite and mix modes for pasting, half and double speed playback, adjustable solo, mute and panorama per channel, and editable input and output configurations for multichannel soundcards.
Finally, there is an experimental sonagramme option which uses logarithmic sampling with adaptive time resolution, based on the constant Q algorithm by Brown and Puckette. At the time of this writing, editing is currently not possible in the sonagramme mode, so it is restricted to pure analytical uses. This will be fully functional in future versions.
The following 18 minute screencast should allow you to get started with Eisenkraut:
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Honda Racing F1 Team launches pioneering environmental concept
The Honda Racing F1 Team today announced a major new initiative for the 2007 Formula 1 season. To help raise awareness of the environmental issues facing the planet, the RA107 F1 car will simply feature a huge image of earth, in place of the advertising and sponsor logos which have featured and dominated all other F1 cars for decades.
The car's new look is a powerful call to action for fans, sponsors, customers and members of the public to join Honda's commitment to help address the environmental issues facing the world. Via the website www.myearthdream.com, anyone who wishes will have the opportunity to have their name on the car, make a pledge to make a lifestyle change to improve the environment and make a donation to an environmental charity. Under the concept of "our car is your car", each name will form a tiny individual pixel which will help build the image of planet earth on the car. Each name will be visible on the website when you make the pledge or under a microscope on the car.
Universal Music, the largest music company in the world, and Gatorade are the first global brands to partner the team in this exciting new concept. Existing partners have enthusiastically embraced the idea and all remain involved with the team for the 07 season. In addition, the team is delighted to announce that Fila, IBM, Instron, Oliver Sweeney, Perkin Elmer, Showa Denko, TUV and GF Agie Charmilles have joined the roster of team partners and suppliers.
[Source: Honda Racing F1]
Watch the release on You Tube – great video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utiQd33sIGE:
The Honda Racing F1 Team will work closely with global environmental charities to develop Honda's existing environmental ethos within the world's most high profile motor-sport. Nick Fry, Chief Executive Officer, Honda Racing F1 Team: "Climate change is probably the single biggest issue facing our planet and F1 is not immune from it. On the contrary we believe that F1 with its huge global profile and cutting edge technology can play an important role in not only highlighting the issues but also playing our part in developing solutions. In addition, the FIA recognises the opportunity for F1 to play an important role in developing technologies for the benefit of society long term. For example, by 2009, devices for energy recovery will be in place on the cars. So we at Honda F1 are proud to dedicate our car to the environmental challenge. We believe that solutions can stem directly from engineers working on our F1 program and are working harder than ever to achieve our dreams and win the World Championship while embracing and underscoring Honda's environmental ethos. First and foremost, we are a race team and F1 is very much a team sport. We achieve our racing objectives only by working together and parallels can be drawn with the way that we must all join together to address the environmental challenge. We hope that in raising awareness and highlighting the issues we will encourage members of the public to come together and help take on the challenge of climate change".
Yasuhiro Wada, Chairman, Honda Racing F1 Team and General Manager, Honda Motor Company: "Honda has a huge desire to challenge for this year's 2007 F1 World Championship. We hope this year will be a successful and exciting season. Equally we intend to give something back in the form of our new environmental F1 concept, which we believe will bring something fresh and new to motor sport. Honda constantly strives to be innovative in both its technology and its thinking and to sincerely respond to the demands of customers and society. Honda has always made great efforts to contribute to the preservation of the environment in its corporate activity. We hope this new initiative for Honda in F1 will help to further stimulate awareness and interest across the world for these important environmental issues."
[Source: Honda Racing F1]


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North American Fur is an APA/zine published by Jarlidium Press. Issues are made available to the public to cover the cost of the member's copies.
The APA was started in 1997 by Paul Groulx, a former editor of the Furthest North Crew. After the first three issues were produced, Groulx passed the publication on to Jarlidium Press, who has published it ever since. As of Summer 2012, there have been 27 issues; it is normally published twice a year, although there was a gap between #11 and #12 due to circumstances beyond the publisher's control.
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Metairie, LA – The New Orleans Saints announced that they have signed pass-rusher Junior Galette to a three-year contract.
Galette, 24, recorded 22 tackles, a career-best five sacks and one forced fumble while playing all 16 games as a defensive end last season, but is expected to transition to an outside linebacker as the team switches to a 3-4 alignment in 2013.
The Stillman product was signed by the Saints as an undrafted free agent in 2010 and made the 53-man roster out of training camp.
In 32 games over the past three seasons, Galette has registered 51 tackles, five sacks, one forced fumble and one pass defensed.


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June 13, 2013
According to a UN report on aging, the world's population is aging at an unprecedented rate. By 2050, the number of people 60 years or older will exceed the number of young people under age 15 for the first time in history. The effects of population aging are profound and impact everything from economic growth, labor markets, and taxes to healthcare, housing, and family structures.
Simply put, aging is a fact of life. Our parents, grandparents, friends, ourselves: we all will age. Whether we're able to stay active, healthy, and retain our sense of autonomy as we age, well, that's another matter. Which is why this question is so pressing: How might we all maintain wellbeing and thrive as we age?
This is the latest OpenIDEO design challenge posed by Mayo Clinic and it's one I encourage you to contribute your creativity to. After all, staying mentally active is key to healthy aging.
What aspects of aging are you most concerned about?
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Anti-Muslim Activists Attack TLC's All-American Muslim As "A Little Taqiyya On The Prairie"
Written by Terry Krepel
Anti-Muslim activists have attacked the new TLC reality show All-American Muslim as "propaganda," "a video version of jihad," and "A Little Taqiyya on the Prairie." Television critics, meanwhile, have praised the show for portraying the diversity of the American Muslim community.
Activists Complain All-American Muslim Is An "Attempt To Manipulate Americans Into Ignoring The Threat Of Jihad"
Geller Calls Show "An Attempt To Manipulate Americans Into Ignoring The Threat Of Jihad," Smears Show Supporter As "Dhimmi Jew." From a WorldNetDaily column by Pamela Geller:
The premise behind the creation of the show is the fictional construct "Islamophobia." "All-American Muslim" is designed to counter "Islamophobia" by showing Muslims who aren't terrorist monsters, but ordinary people living ordinary lives, balancing tradition and modern life, dealing with their families, their jobs, etc.
Yet based on the most recent FBI statistics, hate crimes against Muslims are at record lows - the lowest since 9/11. Contrast that to the record highs in anti-Semitic attacks against the Jewish people; so where's TLC's Jewish family series?
Left-wing sites are shamelessly pushing, promoting and propagandizing the new "All-American Muslim" show. The dhimmi Jew Alyssa Rosenberg urged viewers to watch the show, writing at Think Progress: "Normally, I would never tell you to watch something just because it would make someone mad. But noted Islamophobe Pamela Geller is apparently vexed that TLC's 'All-American Muslim,' a new reality show about a group of Muslim families in Dearborn, Mich., doesn't achieve what she thinks of as balance, by which she means including story lines where Muslims commit crimes based on their faith."
The danger is in the deception and obfuscation of the truth, which results in the intellectual disarming of the American people. "All-American Muslim" is trying to show nominal Muslims as the norm, as if their existence takes away the threat from devout Muslims. It is mentioned once but never explained: The man has to convert to Islam because a Muslim woman cannot marry a non-Muslim man. This is a supremacist measure designed to make the Muslim community always expand at the expense of the non-Muslim one. But there is no hint of that in this show.
Clearly this program is an attempt to manipulate Americans into ignoring the threat of jihad and to bully them into thinking that being concerned about the jihad threat would somehow victimize these nice people in this show.
The problem is not people, it's ideology. The show doesn't address that. [WorldNetDaily, 11/15/11]
Geller Depicts NYC Terror Suspect As "All-American Muslim." In the headlines of several Atlas Shrugs blog posts on Jose Pimentel, who was arrested in New York City on terrorism charges, Geller repeatedly describes him as an "All-American Muslim":
- Noted moderate Muslim Akbar Ahmed blames jihad of NY All-American Muslim bomb plotter on "Islamophobia," issues veiled threat [11/21/11]
- Mom of NYC All-American Muslim bomber: She "couldn't deal with him after he started reading the Koran in 2001"" [11/21/11]
- Omerica: FBI Turned Down the Case of the All-American Muslim NYC Bomber Twice [11/21/11]
- All-American Muslim: New York jihad bomb plotter wanted to show "there was mujahideen in the city ready to wage Jihad" [11/21/11]
- All-American Muslim: NYPD Arrest Muslim Terror Suspect "plotting to bomb police patrol cars, postal facilities and US soldiers" [11/20/11]
For more on Geller's anti-Muslim activism, CLICK HERE.
Spencer: "The Problem" Is That The Show Depicts Muslims Who Are "Undoubtedly Harmless, Completely Uninterested In Jihad And Islamic Supremacism." From a Human Events column by Robert Spencer:
And so we meet one zaftig girl who loves to have fun and go to clubs, and who is in the process of getting married. Another young woman, provocatively dressed by Muslim standards, is trying to open up a club of her own. A young hijab-wearing wife shares the joy of her pregnancy with her loving husband. They're balancing the demands of faith and family with life's daily pressures, just like most Americans. So why -- the show implies -- are non-Muslim Americans so mean to them?
Yet it is noteworthy that both the woman who is getting married and the one who is trying to open a club acknowledge that they are not all that religious. And that is the problem at the heart of All-American Muslim. The Muslims it depicts are for the most part undoubtedly harmless, completely uninterested in jihad and Islamic supremacism (although there is a notable undertone of something quite different here and there, such as when the career woman's "friend and business partner Mahmoud" tells her, his voice full of quiet menace, that a Muslim woman is really better off tending to her family than opening a club).
But Americans aren't suspicious of Muslims who are trying to get married, open clubs, and play football. Americans are suspicious of Muslims who are trying to blow up American buildings, subvert American freedoms, and assert the primacy of Islamic law over American law. The problem people have with Islam is not with every Muslim person. It is with Islam's teachings of violence against and the subjugation of unbelievers. It is with the supremacist ideology and the fervent believers in those noxious doctrines of warfare and subjugation. [Human Events, 11/15/11]
For more on Spencer's anti-Muslim activism, CLICK HERE.
Family Security Matters: "A Little Taqiyya On The Prairie." From a column by Clare M. Lopez on the right-wing website Family Security Matters:
Misconceptions about Islam do, in fact, abound; but it is not likely that "All-American Muslim" will do much to clarify how Islamic supremacism and violence against non-believers derive directly from the doctrine, law, and scriptures of Islam itself. That every Muslim believer does not behave in conformance with such fundamental tenets of the faith is obvious and to be acknowledged with relief. Unfortunately, though, television shows that gloss over the reality of Islamic ideology not only obscure the full truth about Islam from non-Muslims who then remain unprepared to defend against its hostile elements, but also leave no space for Muslims who themselves oppose jihadist terrorism, inequality between Muslims and non-Muslims, misogyny, honor killings, the apostasy death penalty, and vicious hudud punishments. This is why the new TLC series might more accurately be called "A Little Taqiyya on the Prairie." Taqiyya, of course, is the sanctioned Islamic practice of deceit and dissimulation to defend or promote Islam. [Family Security Matters, 11/23/11]
WorldNetDaily Promotes Right-Wing Group's Advertiser Boycott Against "Propaganda" Show. From a WorldNetDaily article:
Critics say the program is nothing more than video jihad propaganda, and the Florida Family Association says it is contacting companies whose advertising appears on the show to ask them to quit. So far, 18 of 20 companies contacted have done so, the group said.
The organization said that among the companies that initially supported the program, but later did not have any advertising aired, were Airborne Vitamin, Amway, Diamond Foods, Dyson Vacuum, Estee Lauder, HTC Phones, Home Depot, McDonald's, Petsmart, Pfizer, Sears, Sonic, T-Mobil and Wal-Mart.
The Florida group said it sent out an email alert to constituents only a week ago, who then contacted the sponsors.
"The Learning Channel's new show 'All-American Muslim' is propaganda clearly designed to counter legitimate and present-day concerns about many Muslims who are advancing Islamic fundamentalism and Shariah law," the organization's report on its work said. "The show profiles only Muslims that appear to be ordinary folks while excluding many Islamic believers whose agenda poses a clear and present danger to liberties and traditional values that the majority of Americans cherish." [WorldNetDaily, 11/22/11]
WorldNetDaily Touts "Critics" Who Call Show "A Video Version Of Jihad." From a WorldNetDaily article:
According to The Learning Channel, its coming new "All-American Muslim" program is a "powerful series" taking viewers "inside the rarely seen world of American Muslims." And it uncovers a "unique community struggling to balance faith and nationality."
Critics, however, say it is nothing more or less than a video version of jihad.
Jerry Newcombe, Truth in Action Ministries' senior producer and analyst, says the major problem with the program is that it's not going to show the reality of "pure Islam."
"It's a free country. Muslims are free to practice their religion here (thanks to Christianity, ultimately). What is sad, though, is that the truth about the goals of radical Islam are hidden from many Americans through programs like the one on TLC. Islam wants to take over the world. If they have to use force, they'll do that. But otherwise, they'll do it by what Robert Spencer calls 'stealth jihad,'" Newcombe said.
A line from one of the first two episodes illustrates what both Geller and Newcombe are describing, when one of Muslim women says in a panel discussion, "We live our lives just like anyone else."
That perception is one of the reasons why Jihad Watch publisher and Executive Director Robert Spencer shares the concerns expressed by Geller and Newcombe.
Spencer says the program is attempting to produce a neutral view of Islam.
"The show apparently is trying to show that Muslims go to clubs, like to have fun, etc. But this doesn't really establish anything," Spencer said.
"The problem people have with Islam is its teachings of violence against and the subjugation of unbelievers. The problem is not with every Muslim person. It is with the supremacist ideology and the fervent believers in those noxious doctrines of warfare and subjugation," Spencer also said.
Geller agrees.
"It is trying to show nominal Muslims as the norm, as if their existence takes away the threat from devout Muslims," Geller said. [WorldNetDaily, 11/10/11]
FrontPageMag: Show Promotes "Submission To Islam Through The Hijab And The Shahada." From a column by Daniel Greenfield at the David Horowitz-operated FrontPageMag:
The theme of All-American Muslim is that Muslims are just like us. It's the same message that Hollywood has been blasting at us for ten years as if anyone were under the impression that Muslims are aliens from another planet.
Muslims are like us; that's the problem. The Nazis were like us too. So were the Communists. They were and are what we are capable of becoming if we fall under the sway of a totalitarian ideology that insists it has the right and duty to enslave the human race. And so we're treated to endless scenes of normalization. Muslim women care about their looks. Muslim men like sports. Muslims hold down jobs and deal with the same issues that we do.
The Muslim families in All-American Muslim are being allowed to make choices that don't exist in the Muslim world, and rather than embracing their new freedom, the show defaults to promoting a submission to Islam through the Hijab and the Shahada. And there's nothing American about that. [FrontPageMag, 11/14/11]
For more on Horowitz's anti-Muslim activism, CLICK HERE.
Critics Say All-American Muslim Depicts Diversity Of Muslims
Philadelphia Inquirer: Show Offers "Purposefully Diverse" View Of Muslims, "From The Strictly Observant To The Seamlessly Assimilated." From a review of All-American Muslim by Philadelphia Inquirer TV columnist David Hiltbrand:
The portrait of Muslim Americans depicted on the show is a purposefully diverse one, from the strictly observant to the seamlessly assimilated.
The gratifying part of All-American Muslim is that no matter where on the religious spectrum these families fall, as soon as the cameras go inside their living rooms, they quickly feel like neighbors.
"All-American Muslim is a much needed counter-narrative to negative images of Muslims that seem to saturate the news," says Rugiatu Conteh, outreach and communications director for the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The religion could certainly use an image upgrade. A new study conducted by the Pew Research Center indicates that 24 percent of the general public believes American Muslim support for Islamic extremism is on the rise.
Only 4 percent of American Muslims agree. [The Philadelphia Inquirer, 11/13/11]
LA Times: Show Depicts "Nice People ... Trying To Lead Happy Lives." From a review by Los Angeles Times television critic Robert Lloyd:
Though the show itself does not make it clear, it focuses on middle- to upper-middle-class Muslim families in the Lebanese community, the largest portion of Dearborn's Arab American population, which also includes Palestinians, Yemenis and Iraqis. (And many of Dearborn's Lebanese are, it is also not mentioned, Christian.) Yet even within this portion of the population, there is plenty of variation, and the show does explode the lazy notion that Muslim life is at all homogenous or unchanging.
There are, to be sure, events specific to the religion and the culture, as when a football coach schedules night practices to accommodate the daytime fasts of Ramadan, or a young woman, under clerical advice, begins wearing a hijab, the Muslim head scarf, in order to improve her chances of conception. There are moments of artificially heightened drama common to reality shows, but less of them than usual, and the lack of drama is actually part of the just-folks point. Indeed, in the first two episodes, the tensest moments all belong to Jeff, an Irish Catholic about to marry Shadia -- who is tattooed, pierced, loves country music and doesn't wear the hijab -- and convert to please her father.
There are a lot of characters here, who chafe against or embrace their traditions to varying degrees, and it is a little hard to get a handle on everyone at first. But the general impression is one of a lot of nice people -- most of them Dearborn born-and-bred, solid Midwesterners with Middle Eastern roots -- trying to lead happy lives. [Los Angeles Times, 11/12/11]
Wash. Post: Show Serves As "Much-Needed Primer." From a Washington Post review by Hank Steuver:
TLC's highly anticipated yet oddly restrained new reality series, "All-American Muslim," approaches its subjects from a starting point of total naivete. That's because, like most journalistic acts of enterprise regarding U.S. citizens who follow the Islamic faith, it assumes viewers know absolutely nothing about modern Muslims.
Unfortunately, that's probably still the best place to begin. A decade after 9/11, our society remains perniciously uninformed about the everyday, non-terrorist Muslims around us and is too easily freaked out by episodes of "24" or "Homeland" -- when not outright paranoid about the "Ground Zero mosque" and other hot-button issues. A woman in a hijab in a suburban Costco still attracts far too many glances, to say nothing of what happens to her in an airport security line.
In that way, "All-American Muslim," which premieres Sunday night, is a much-needed primer, focused on the lives a dozen or so residents of Dearborn, Mich., which has one of the largest and most established Muslim communities in the nation. Even there it seems as though marginalization and assimilation are constant forces with which these families reckon, and it goes both ways.
Compared with typical reality fare (especially TLC's reality fare, which has drifted in recent years toward shows about bakeries with personnel issues, dwarfism, multiple births, obesity -- any combination of those will do), "All-American Muslim" is assiduously straightforward and careful. [The Washington Post, 11/11/11]
Detroit Free Press: Show Depicts "Independent Women Who Decide For Themselves Whether To Wear Hijab." From a Detroit Free Press article:
The series comes at a time of intense curiosity among Americans about Islam, with some believing that the religion oppresses women and forces them to wear the Islamic head scarf commonly known as hijab. But as many in Dearborn already know, the TV series shows a world of independent women who decide for themselves whether to wear hijab and how to incorporate Islam into their lives.
That's apparent in the lives of the Amen sisters. They grew up in Dearborn in the 1980s during a religious revival among Lebanese Shias that developed after the Iranian revolution in 1979. Women who previously had not worn the hijab or attended mosques became attracted to Islam.
Amen's mother, Lila Amen, started wearing a head scarf, which the young girls noticed and wanted to emulate.
"After the Iranian revolution, people were really being more consciously aware of Islam," oldest sister Suehaila Amen, 32, explained. They began to learn about the faith.
"My mother and all my aunts were putting on the head scarf at the time, and I was trying to be like them, following in their footsteps. ... Everyone else was doing it. We wanted to do it, too."
Islamic tradition urges women to cover up in the presence of men not related to them. The practice is called hijab, a term also used to refer specifically to the scarf that covers the head and neck. [Detroit Free Press, 11/12/11]


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Election Day Rally... Risk-On or Inflation Trade?
On the day that the Presidential election is happening, investors are throwing money into the inflation winners. The problem is that maybe this is not an inflation trade. Maybe it is a risk-on trade. There are some other interesting moves happening which also seem counterintuitive on the surface. Some obvious winners for one candidate or the other are not necessarily playing out the way you might expect.
The SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEMKT: GLD) is up 1.2% at $165.16 but this is still way down from when the markets resumed trading last Wednesday. The move in silver, The Devil's Metal, is also up even more than gold as the iShares Silver Trust (NYSEMKT: SLV) trust is up 1.8% at $30.72 on the day. And what about oil? The United States Oil (NYSEMKT: USO) is up 1.6% at $32.11 on the day.
What is interesting is that even the Utilities Select Sector SPDR (NYSEMKT: XLU) is up 0.4% at $35.81 against a 52-week range of $33.18 to $38.54. And the banking and financial ETF, the Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSEMKT: XLF), is up 1.3% at $16.17 and that only about 2% shy of a 52-week high as the 52-week range os $11.73 to $16.44.
Isn't Obamacare supposed to be good for reimbursement rates for hospitals? Industry-leader HCA Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HCA) is down by 4.5% at $30.78 on the day, but its 52-week range is $19.86 to $34.32. UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH), the largest health insurer in the US, is up over 1.5% at $56.12. Cost-containment, or supposed cost-containment via pharmacy benefit management, is not working well for Express Scripts Holding Co. (NASDAQ: ESRX) as its stock is down over 13% at $54.65 on guidance comments. Are we supposed to think that inflation or risk-on is at work here in healthcare now?
And coal is a political issue as well. Market Vectors Coal ETF (NYSEMKT: KOL) is up 1.2% at $26.06 against a 52-week range of $21.49 to $39.85.
All that we can truly say is that hopefully today brings a resolution and final outcome. This election has been much shorter than the 2008 election cycle yet somehow it has felt just as long.
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Velvet Revolution, a coalition of nearly 100 true Voting Rights and Election Reform organizations is launching a major campaign to bring former-President Jimmy Carter's attention to their myriad concerns about the secretly seated Blue-Ribbon National Election Reform Commission! Specifically, they are calling for James A. Baker --- the architect of the Bush/Cheney strategy to ensure that America's votes would not be counted in 2000 --- to resign immediatelly along with a number of the anti-reform partisans and voting machine company officials who have been appointed secretly to this commission!
VR is calling for the American people to send an Email webletter to President Carter and the National Election Reform Commissioners, demanding Baker and cronies step down immediately or, in lieu of that, Carter leave this commission in protest of the cynical and mind-boggling hoax being perpetrated on those who understand the need for true Election Reform in America!
The "YES to Election Reform! NO to James Baker & his anti-Reform Cronies!" is now up and online.
The address for the new Velvet Revolution action:
...Please spread it far and wide! And be quick about it!
Also...action on the ground at the first Commission Hearing this Monday! See this Election Reform Coalition Press Release for details!
And finally, if you have no idea what we're talking about, turn off Fox "News" and see RAW STORY's explosive expos� from yesterday on the Commission and its secretive, insidious, partisan, pro-voting machine makeup!
Spread the word! Feel free to use the "Email it to Someone" link at the bottom of this item!
Be. The. Media! It's only your democracy at stake!
(BRAD BLOG is a co-founder of Velvet Revolution)


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What is your opinion on this blue F40?
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What is your opinion on this blue F40?
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You don't like the white on this years car?
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Prefer my Scuderia in TDF blue
I love blue Ferrari's. They're gorgeous. The contrast between the blue paint and the yellow badge is just glorious to my eyes :)
Great video!!
Rest in Peace Leza, you were a true warrior...
Im not sure any F40 could be considered ugly. Red looks much better of course, but its still a great looking car. The darker wheels make's the blue acceptable.
This shade of blue Im not crazy about..reminds me of bumper cars at a festival..
But, me like anyway.
Not that blue but a lighter metallizato? Metallizato silver/pewter/grey suits cars with ravishing lines because it conceals nothing and reveals all. ALL racing stripes of whatever color(s) are silly unless on a real racecar and part of it's campaign colors, if only for historical purposes. Red is always an option for all/any Ferrari as it's part of the DNA but this is all just my taste and I'm often surprised and delighted by what sometimes crops up. That blue? Meh.....................
I think that's awesome! The blue definitely grabs your attention.
Speaking about the F40, which is to me one of the most desirable cars in the world, of course
Ferrari's should be red, but thruout history, there have been many different
colored Ferrari's. Nart, Penske, Ecurrie Ecosse, to name a few.
I think there was even a white F1 car from the factory a while back.
Enzo was ticked about something.
One thing I dont like is the large amount of black on the current F1 car.
I like it
Dont like it. I would rather have it yellow, it looks better. But perfect is red.
I've seen one in person. Didn't like it TBH. I'd take it if they gave it to me, though.
Forza Ferrari 16/15
Totus Tuus
Doesn't look so bad, :)
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For me, the Ferrari F40 should be Red. Every kid's bedroom wall poster is a Red Ferrari F40.
But dare I say it, Ferrari's in Yellow do look Good . This YouTube Video may hopefully prove my point. Red Ferrari, Yellow Ferrari.
The good times WILL return, and FERever.
For a Ferrari, the only color apart from Red that I can go for is Yellow. So this one is surely not for me.


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