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Gunfighter Saddle for 2017 - 2018 Yamaha MT-09
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Comfort and style together in one package is what made the Corbin name
famous worldwide. Delivering a quality product constructed of the finest
materials available has made Corbin the number one manufacturer of
motorcycle saddles for fifty years! Our Gunfighter saddle for the MT-09
is a perfect example of this combination of form and function.
Up front the seating area has been ergonomically designed to distribute body weight over a greater area. This provides longer-range support and eliminates hot spots. Neutralized seating platform helps to hold you body in place and curbs sliding in the saddle. This also helps to relieve rider fatigue by taking pressure off your wrists and knees. Our exclusive Comfort Cell foam material on the inside provides a firm, resilient ride that supports your body indefinitely. Over time, Comfort Cell will break in and adapt to provide a personalized fit to your body.
For a solo look, the Gunfighter tail section is shaped to emulate the lines of the bodywork with a fastback tail section. On the inside, the tail is padded and upholstered to provide for short trip passenger capability. Although the shaping of the tail is designed primarily for looks, the Comfort Cell foam still provides a good perch for your copilot on short to medium length trips.
Bucket shaping of the front seating area gives an unprecedented amount of body support. Notice how it curves up at the back to provide support to your lower back. Towards the front of the bucket we design the saddle narrower to allow for ground reach. Smaller riders may prefer to slide forward and out of the bucket at stop signs for best ground reach.
Our Fibertech base material and patented manufacturing process allows a perfect fit to the lines of the bodywork and tank. This rigid baseplate provides the saddle with a firm foundation to support the carefully designed ergonomics of the foam. The entire seat rides on rubber bumpers to protect your paint job and mounts to your bike with the stock key lock system. Latch bracket comes pre-mounted on the saddle.
On the outside we use genuine leather seating for a luxurious ride that breathes with your body. Leather will break in along with the foam to support the personalized fit. We've designed a cover pattern that allows you to keep a custom, yet subtle look or choose from a variety of colored material options at no extra charge for high visual impact. Shown here with Carbon-Fiber leather seating, Matte Black sides, Carbonium tail & Black stitch pattern.
Corbin's saddle mounts like stock with a tongue in the front and included latch bracket at the rear. Rear seat latch is adjustable to assure a perfect fit with your key lock system. When new, you may wish to put a washer between seat and bracket to ease locking on the bike. Remove these washers once the rubber bumpers have broken in a bit.
Unique Technology
The design and manufacture of Corbin products is so unique that Mike Corbin himself holds more than 60 United States Patents! From the process itself to new innovations like the Corbin Glovebox, you can count on highly functional and unique products that work. Corbin products are manufactured under one or more of the following US Patents: 6,848,156 B2; 6,729,516 B2; D 489,540S; 6,655,740 B1; 6,422,648 B1; 5,544,937; 5,608,957; 4,953,911; D545,073S & 6,971,714 B1.
Fibertech™ Basepan
A purpose built, hybrid material that provides a firm foundation to support the carefully designed ergonomics of the Corbin saddle. Provides a precision fit to every arc and contour of the machine and rides on rubber bumpers to protect your paint. We always design our basepans as flat as possible so bumps or odd shapes don't telegraph through the foam to your body. Click on the button at left to learn more...
Comfort Cell® Foam
The heart of the Corbin saddle! Our exclusive, purpose built foam material, called Comfort Cell, was created to provide a firm, resilient ride that doesn't break down. This means it will support you for long days on the road. Over time, Comfort Cell will break in to provide a personalized fit to your posture and even greater comfort!
Ergonomic Shaping
A major part of the design criteria of the Corbin saddle is the Ergonomic shape. This means the saddle's foam shape is designed to emulate the curves of the human body. This provides more square inches of body contact and helps to eliminate hot spots. This shaping also neutralizes the seating platform to help curb sliding in the saddle which reduces fatigue. In a nutshell... more comfort for a longer ride! Just click the button at left for an animation that shows how it works.
Patented Manufacturing Technology
Always an innovator, Mike Corbin invented Integrated Molding technology which is now the process by which all Corbin saddles are made. This process allows extremely tight tolerances and creates a chemical bond between the foam and base material. To see what this is all about, just click the button for More Info
Genuine Leather
We use leather in all panels of the seat that contact your body. This provides a luxurious ride that breathes with your body. Leather will also break in along with the foam shape to support the personalized fit. Available in a wide range of textures and styles to suit your taste. For more information about leather seating just click away.
One of the first things you'll notice about your new Corbin saddle is how stocky it feels. Our high density foam and rigid Fibertech base material add some heft to the seat, but it's worth it in the long run for sure! Here's why:
Corbin's basepan material is extremely stiff and therefore supplies the necessary rigid foundation to support the carefully designed ergonomics of the saddle. A thinner or more flexible base (ie nylon) would allow the saddle to sag in the middle which changes the foam shape impacting comfort value. We always design our basepans as flat as possible since odd shapes or bumps can telegraph through the foam and create pressure points.
This rigid base also supplies the mechanics for built in hardware like our removable backrest system. Backrest support hardware is buried inside the Fibertech to assure it remains stable and supports the weight of rider or passenger. Remember, the Corbin backrest system is like a complete integrated sissy bar that adjusts! Pretty amazing when you think about it.
Specifically designed for Corbin, this hybrid material has almost no shrinkage as it cures. Fibertech combined with our patented manufacturing process provides a precision fit to all areas of the bike and offers minimal manufacturing tolerance. The entire basepan only contacts your bike through rubber bumpers to protect your paint.
Ergonomic Shaping
Better weight distribution
"Ergonomic" is the applied science ofequipment design intended to reduce operator fatigue and discomfort. Also calledbiotechnology, human engineering or human factors engineering. What it means isthat the product was designed to work with the human body. This is a key factorin how a Corbin saddle functions.
Notice how our saddles are sculpted and shapedto fit the human body? That's what we're talking about. This gives more squareinches of body contact which disperses your weight over a greater area. Sinceit matches the curve of your body, it also eliminates hot spots and centralizedpressure on your spine.
In order to manufacture seats this way, itrequires special materials and manufacturing processes. Over the years we'veexperimented with many different materials, but in the end wound up developingour own. The process itself, calledIntegrated Molding, was also inventedby Mike Corbin and was awarded a United States patent.
Naturally we're always on the lookout for newmaterials and processes. What you find today is the product of nearly fourdecades of relentless product development. Because of this, Corbin Saddles arecommonly considered the finest motorcycle seat in the world.
Exclusive Materials and a Patented Process
One of the main reasons Corbin saddles have beenso popular over the years is because the technology under the saddle's cover isin constant development. New models and improved features require constantdiligence on the part of the factory to assure each product lives up to theoriginal design. Integrated molding was the missing link between designconcepts and actual production.
In a nutshell we've taken the components of thesaddle and combined (integrated) the molds into one unit. Brackets and backresthardware is placed in the mold where the basepan is created around it. The molditself dictates the shape of the base and placement of the hardware whilecreating a clean rounded edge in the exact same shape every time.
This same mold is then used to cast ourinfinite-ratio Comfort Cell foam into the ergonomic shape common to Corbinseats. This process takes place on a tight schedule while the Fibertech basematerial is still at a curing stage. This creates a chemical bond between baseand foam that helps keep the crafted shape intact under heavy use.
Integrated Molding has created a process soconsistant it gave our R&D team the freedom to design for a more precisionfit. Extremely tight tolerances allow the seat shape to fit every arc and curveof your motorcycle like never before. It also enabled us to introduce a host ofnew features like Chrome V-Rails, fold down backrest hardware, heater insertsand our new Ovalbac model backrests.
Genuine Leather Seating
For a luxurious ride
With few exceptions (seats for off-road bikes),we include genuine leather seating panels in all Corbin saddles. A naturalproduct, leather provides a luxurious ride by allowing your body to breathewhile in contact with the seat. Leather is also extremely durable so it willlast in the harsh environment your bike is subjected to.
Genuine leather will also adapt with the foamshape to support the personalized fit after break in. This is why we recommendusing vinyl instead of leather in the SIDE areas of your seat. Vinyl will"spring back" instead of stretching, so it will support the foamshape and stay looking new.
We have a wide range of specialty leathers &vinyls available for covering your Corbin saddle, but beware the Kid in a Candy Store syndrome. Most people that create wild seat coverdesigns end up unhappy with them over time and admit they went crazy justbecause they could. So even though we let you choose any materials you want foryour seat, doesn't mean you SHOULD... sometimes less is more.
Lastly, be sure to care for your leatherproperly with a quality conditioner like Corbin's Saddle Cream. This will helpit to resist the elements and stay water resistant and looking sharp longer.Over time you can expect your saddle to break in and develop its own uniquecharacter, just like your leather jacket or gloves.
Paint Color Matching
Color Variations
Color is one of the most emotional issues faced in therefinish & paint business. Everyone has an opinion about color. Unfortunatelyeveryone sees color slightly differently and this can be the cause of discussion. The biggest problem is thatof color variants. Cars and motorcycles are no longer produced in fixed colors,but come from the manufacturing plants in a range of shades of a particularcolor.
Manufacturers & OEMs
At the OEMplants, there are a multitude of reasons why variants may occur. These reasonsinclude the paint system being used, the line speed, line trials, lineproblems, plant differences and variations in film builds. No matter how hardOEM manufacturers try to duplicate paint results from unit to unit in any givencolor, there will always be paintvariations! No matter how much time and money OEM paint companies spend on makingsure their colors are consistent from batch to batch in both OEM paint and refinishformulas, there will always be paint variations.
Paint Maker
Variations inthe production of paint can also contribute to variations in a particular colorcode. As research and technology allow, new chemistries and resins may beintroduced into a particular product line at any given time. This may allow fora slight color shift when a plant empties a container of existing material andorders more from the supplier.
Also during the manufacturing process, thepotential exists for slight differences in the final product. The manufacturingprocess requires a lot of equipment, settings, human control, and other factorsand any slight change in any one of those components may contribute to theslight deviation. The final paint product may be well within the specificationsfor that product but be slightly different from a previous batch.
TrackingVariant Formulas
PPG (Corbin'smain paint supplier) monitors color consistency directly at the OEM plantswhenever possible and also out in the "real world" of repair centers.This is done through their Parts program by receiving documentation fromdistributors, customers and internal sales people.
This constant feedback of color informationallows PPG to identify colors that consistently do not match the OEM standard.They then create avariation (redder,greener, lighter, darker, etc.) of the Prime formula that will provide a bettermatch in some cases than the prime formula.
When a paint technician is looking up a colorusing any PPG Color Information System they check to see if a Variant formulaexists. This can save a great deal of time and provide better consistency.Corbin uses the PPG TouchMix computer to provide the best possible match toyour OEM paint. However, given variances at the OEM level, we cannot guaranteea perfect match at all times.
Another Corbin Invention
Corbin backrests are designed to install and remove easily so you can use a single backrest transferred front to back as needed or get two for full time use. Just slide the backrest shaft into the hardware contained inside the saddle and lock it in place with a single safety screw.
Backrests adjust to rider profile easily without removing the rest from the seat. In some saddles we incorporate special hardware in the front position that allows the backrest to fold down to ease mounting the bike. This hardware also allows you to position the backrest fore and aft to suit your stature.
Of course, all backrests are made to coordinate with your Corbin saddle in your choice of materials. Ovalbac models also have finishing plate options for the rear to add a bit more flair. Need a little storage? Check out Corbin's new Glovebox that bolts directly up to your backrest in place of the finishing plate and adds four liters of storage!
Paint Color Matching
Color Variations
Color is one of the most emotional issues faced in the refinish & paint business. Everyone has an opinion about color. Unfortunately everyone sees color slightly differently and this can be the cause of discussion. The biggest problem is that of color variants. Cars and motorcycles are no longer produced in fixed colors, but come from the manufacturing plants in a range of shades of a particular color.
For those chilly mornings
As an option on many of Corbin's Touring Class saddles, electric heat provides a very nice way to raise your riding enjoyment when the temperature drops. On these models, the heaters and required controller come preinstalled on the saddle. We include a wiring pigtail that integrates with your bike's fusebox or directly to the battery and provides a quick disconnect for saddle removal.
Operation of the heater(s) is handled by a switch built into the left side of the saddle where you can reach it without removing your hand from the throttle. Justflip the switch and start enjoying the warmth! Heater will run for one hour then shut itself off automatically. If you're still riding, just flip the switch off and back on to reset. Remember, heated seats require a stitch pattern in the seating area to conceal the heater elements.


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A group of baby orangutans at the Orangutan Foundation International Care Center in Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan. Expansion of oil palm plantations is destroying their forest habitat.
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Maybe Tony Gonzalez will change his mind. Maybe he'll get bored in a few months' time. Maybe he'll pull a Brett Favre and return to the game of football only after he's dodged the physical pain and stress of training camp and the preseason. But one of the greatest tight ends in NFL history insists that he's "probably" retiring after the Atlanta Falcons were knocked out of the playoffs Sunday by the San Francisco 49ers.
If indeed he's done after 16 NFL seasons, here are 10 stats that help tell the story of Gonzalez's career.
1,242: That's how many catches Gonzalez had during his 16 seasons. No NFL player had more than 1,043 during that same span, and it's the second-highest total in NFL history. That's 427 more receptions than the next tight end on the list, Shannon Sharpe.
14,268: That's how many receiving yards Gonzalez accumulated in his 16 seasons. Only Terrell Owens and Randy Moss have posted higher numbers during that span, and it's the seventh-highest total in NFL history. That's 4,208 more yards than the next tight end on the list, Sharpe.
103: That's how many touchdown catches Gonzalez had in his 16 seasons. Only Owens, Moss and Marvin Harrison posted more during that span, and it's the sixth-highest total in NFL history. That's 20 more than the next tight end on the list, Antonio Gates.
1: That's how many playoff games Gonzalez won in 16 seasons. He played in 256 games and won 136 of them, but his 136th and final victory was his only playoff win. His final game was his only Conference Championship appearance. He obviously never made a Super Bowl.
2: That's the total number of games Gonzalez missed in 16 years. After missing a game against the Raiders on Nov. 19, 2006 due to a shoulder injury, Gonzalez played in 102 straight regular-season games to finish his career. Prior to that, he had started 120 straight games, which is also a tight end record for consecutive starts. So that's two separate streaks of 100 or more starts in a row.
13: That's how many Pro Bowls Gonzalez made. He's been voted to the game each of the last three years. Jerry Rice, Reggie White and Ray Lewis were also selected to appear in 13 Pro Bowls, and only Hall of Famers Merlin Olsen and Bruce Matthews made the cut the cut more (14 each).
7: That's the number of starting quarterbacks Gonzalez worked with in 12 seasons with the Chiefs. Kellen Winslow had Dan Fouts as his primary quarterback in all nine of his seasons. For Antonio Gates, it's just been Philip Rivers and Drew Brees for 10 years. Johnny Unitas started 107 of John Mackey's 139 career games. John Elway started all but 11 games during the first nine seasons of Shannon Sharpe's career. Drew Bledsoe was Ben Coates' quarterback in 105 of his 142 games in New England.
13: That's the total number of games in which Gonzalez had 10-plus catches. Sharpe had just six. Gates has three. Coates had five. Ozzie Newsome had four. Only seven players have more double-digit-catch games under their belts.
4: That's how many 1,000-yard seasons Gonzalez had. Tight ends only accomplished that feat a grand total of seven times between 1980 and 1999. Sharpe hit that mark three times, but no tight end ever hit the quadruple digits four times.
13: That's how many times Gonzalez caught at least 70 passes in a season. Only he and Jerry Rice have hit the teens in that category.


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I get angry, too
Recently, online, I picked a battle that isn't mine to pick. Relief finally came in the form of an email. "My wife and I are Quaker," the letter-writer explained; I was immediately overwhelmed.
My mother never identified Quaker as such, but when she was new to Christianity she was mentored by a Quaker, by a man called John Steiner. She spoke of this person a lot. She took certain ideals to heart and, although she would certainly tell you that her message, as transmitted to me, got all mixed up, some ideals really did glom onto me. I am anti-war; I am terribly conflict-averse; I believe in compassion and inclusion. I still identify as Christian—and make no mistake, I have several crises of faith in a single day—but none of those crises has anything to do with whether God, as I interpret Him, composed human beings lovingly in His own image. (Mostly my crises are about me being a shitty person. I am trying to learn to become more patient with myself.)
Principally, though, I am terrified of my own anger. Very few people have witnessed it, but they can tell you it's an ugly, remarkable thing, a thing that gets away from me before I can grab back onto it and rein it to shore again. Like most people, I figure, my anger usually has something to do with an issue of "justice." When I have been at my very angriest, my mother used to sigh—oh, my mother!—and warn me, "Jenny, don't talk to people that way." Now, here in her shadow, I am beginning to think she is right.
I understand the argument against "tone arguments." I also hate tone arguments. It's usually an unfair thing, this gambit is, demanding the other person sacrifice all emotion—indeed, all humanity—for the sake of being "calm," "reasonable," "rational." These are loaded terms, denying a speaker all the emotion—which is, absolutely, another type of data, what we call "experiential data"—he or she is feeling. Women especially are socialized to couch their assertions of opinion with words like "I am beginning to think" or "sometimes I get the feeling," which are all ways of preemptively apologizing for holding any opinion or valueset at all. Even now I'm using a type of passive speech, as a defense mechanism, certainly, so you will not feel like hitting me.
As we slowly open up and allow ourselves to discuss a hostile tech culture—or any hostile culture—it's easy to use hostile language ourselves. This, I think, may be a mistake. If we are to make ourselves understood, I do think there is great value in "tone" as mediator. It would be peculiar if we ran around shouting, for instance, at little children, at hotel receptionists.
I don't mean to diminish the concept of "righteous indignation," either—righteous, because we are in the Right, and indignation because we recognize we or someone else is being disabused of human dignity. But bad behavior is not always the same thing as bad people, and "righteous indignation" is not the same as blind fury. We speak to one another with respect because we want to preserve dignity for all.
"We have many new tools to communicate," Professor Michael Abbott writes, "but our powerful tools have outpaced our abilities to harness them responsibly. It's just so easy to be mean."
I would take it a step further: when a writer or speaker becomes mean, is the motive to inspire change in the person she or he is addressing? Or is the intent only to make an example of the person? I've been guilty of the latter (even very recently!). But to dress down individuals, make it personal—even if the person is not necessarily someone we'd enjoy lunch with—seems vindictive and cruel. Because it's almost never the person; it's the pattern of behavior that is the real problem. To that end, we are all, indeed, victims of our own culture.
This is all hypocritical of me to say: of course I have been uncompromising at times, and so I have been brash. I owe some apologies. But when I first decided to identify as "feminist," I had to ask myself if I were also comfortable with friends and colleagues holding me up as an example of What Not to Say—could I be comfortable with being made an-example-of myself? I've continued to mull over it, and I guess I am.
I think I believe the human heart, like video games themselves, has the capacity to change other hearts and minds. The heart is made up of a lot of things—anger, fear, experience—but it is also an aggressive agent of love. Maybe I am saying this way works better for me: that anger can work but, for me, it almost never has.
For my own part, though, I believe the heart and mind should be used holistically. I believe video games are the most compassionate integration of the two because they extend to your listener, as a sort of olive branch, the opportunity to walk in other shoes for minutes or hours at a time.
[Image source: Brain Pickings – Helen Keller on Optimism]
- Postscript (added): I feel like changes happen in two ways. They happen either in subcultures or in the mainstream, which are two potentially wildly-differing tacks. The first issue of Memory Insufficient, edited by Zoya Street, brings together some of the smartest writers working in games to talk about gender and queerness. Meanwhile, to mainstream outlets, doctoral candidate Samantha Allen presents this worthwhile challenge.
On a micro and macro level, both defy the "norm." Street brings a higher caliber of writing to groups under- or mis-represented, while Allen asks the mainstream to enforce a civility of discourse.
For my own part, I guess I'm still not clear on which group I'm in—subculture or mainstream—and in any given moment I struggle to understand whom my message is directed toward. Probably the answer is, not "up the middle," but just kind of both. It's hard for me. I'm still negotiating it. But that does not, will not, change my message, which is one of advocacy and faith in change.


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It came to light this morning that Apple was sued by Tina King late on Wednesday for $75,000 in a personal injury/ product liability lawsuit. King alleges that her iPod touch blew up in her face while listening to her music. Her incurred medical costs were claimed to be a whopping $600. That's right, $600, which is about the cost of a Band-Aid these days at a local hospital or clinic. Yet that will somehow cost Apple $75,000 if it is found liable. The formal complaint was filed in Eastern Texas.
Tina King's Alleged Incident was in one Part Presented as follows:
"On February 22, 2011, Tina Kings was laying in her bed with her iPod touch listening to music when Tina felt a burning sensation on her eye. As a direct and proximate result of the explosion and result of the explosion and resulting electrical shock of the iPod touch, Tina King received burns to her eye and was otherwise caused pain and suffering resulting in serious injury to the plaintiff, Tina King, including but not limited to the burns on her eye and the incurring medical and mental conditions which will cause her to suffer pain, mental distress, emotional distress, and otherwise for the rest of her life."
A portion of Tina King's formal Complaint reads as follows:
"Plaintiffs believe, and based thereon allege, that Defendant in some manner intentionally, maliciously, willfully, wantonly, recklessly, and were otherwise grossly negligent and acted with conscious disregard and/ or malice as well as negligently, and therefore, are legally responsible for the damages arising out of the events and happenings alleged in this Complaint suffered by Plaintiffs for their below described injuries, losses, and damages."
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text: Hurricane researchers are enjoying some new capabilities this month thanks to a pair of unmanned Global Hawk aircraft capable of flying for up to 30 hours at a time. Aircraft and satellites have long been used to study and observe hurricanes. The airplanes with pilots and researchers on board are capable of making measurements and getting up close, but only for a maximum of about 10 hours. Satellites could watch them for days, but with limited resolution, and they can't exactly make atmospheric measurements from space. In 2007 NASA acquired a pair of pre-production Global Hawks (airframes #1 and #6) and entered a partnership with Northrop Grumman to modify, operate and maintain the airplanes as scientific and research platforms and began using them to study hurricanes in 2010. The airplanes are shared 50/50, with each organization getting half of the flight hours and providing half of the funding/manpower for operating and maintenance costs. NASA's Chris Naftel oversees the Global Hawk program and says the airplanes were well suited for the agency's needs. "We had a big hole. We had the ER-2 [a modified U-2] and DC-8 that would give us about 10 hours [flight time] at mid altitude," Naftel told Wired. "We had the Predator that would give us more endurance but at lower altitude. Global Hawk bought us a lot of altitude all the way out to 30 hours." The Global Hawk's ability to fly high and for more than a day at a time made the program an easy sell for NASA management, says Naftel. He adds that the airplanes are purely used as scientific platforms and are funded by the airborne science program. The initial hurricane observation flights were made from the Global Hawk's home base at the Dryden Flight Research Center, located within Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California. The long commute from California to the Atlantic limited the amount of time the airplanes could spend over a hurricane. NASA had planned on basing the aircraft on the East Coast during hurricane season, and earlier this month one of NASA's Global Hawks was flown to the agency's Wallops Island facility in Virginia (pictured above) and will soon be joined by the second aircraft. From this new base on the East Coast, the Global Hawks will be able to cover almost the entire area of the mid-Atlantic Ocean, where hurricanes develop, and spend 10 to 20 hours at a time – possibly more – watching the storms develop and tracking them as they cross the ocean towards North America. We had a chance to walk through the hangar where the Global Hawks are based at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center. Both airplanes were at various states of modification during our visit in preparation for their current hurricane observation mission. Photo: NASAInitially developed for the military by Northrop Grumman, the Global Hawk is a high-altitude observation platform capable of flying up to 65,000 feet with a wide range of instruments on board. The airplanes have flown more than 30,000 hours over Afghanistan and Iraq since first being deployed to a combat zone in October 2001. Like many unmanned aircraft, the Global Hawk's capabilities have attracted the attention of those beyond the military. Global Hawks were flown more than 300 hours over the areas affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last year, aiding search-and-rescue efforts as well as providing imagery of the nuclear power plant after the meltdown. Here the first (left) and sixth (right) Global Hawks to roll off the assembly line sit inside a hangar at Dryden. The airplane has a wingspan of 116 feet. The high-aspect-ratio wings are made from composites, and their efficient design is one of the main reasons the airplane can fly for such long periods of time at high altitudes. Photo: Jason Paur/Wired.comBecause the airplanes were originally designed with military observation in mind, AV-1 and AV-6 underwent significant modifications to prepare them for use as science platforms. The Air Force mostly limited its instruments to under the nose of the Global Hawk. NASA has modified the airplanes, installing power and Ethernet connections throughout the airframes to accommodate payloads from a camera in the nose, to a device that operates sort of like a soda-can machine, dropping atmospheric measuring devices out the tail. Without the fairing that covers the nose, it's possible to see the platform where the Ku-band antenna dish resides in the front of the Global Hawk. On this airplane (airframe #1, tail number 871), the nose area where cameras would normally be found on a military version will be filled with the Cloud Physics Lidar. This instrument will allow researchers to see cloud structure and depth within the hurricane. Photo: Jason Paur/Wired.comHere the top of the Cloud Physics Lidar instrument can be seen directly in front of the Global Hawk's Ku-band communication antenna. Photo: NASAHere's a view from the other side of 871. The airplane was the first Global Hawk built and NASA will use it to carry the "environmental payloads" for hurricane research. In addition to the cloud lidar, the airplane will carry other instruments that will make direct measurements of the hurricanes as they develop. The Global Hawk is powered by a single Allison Rolls Royce turbofan engine capable of producing just over 7,000 pounds of thrust. The airplane has a maximum take-off weight of 26,750 pounds and typically cruises at around 370 miles per hour. Photo: Jason Paur/Wired.comNASA had to modify the Global Hawks significantly to accommodate scientific payloads. This included adding mounting brackets throughout the airframe as well as the electrical power and Ethernet connections for the instruments. Photo: Jason Paur/Wired.comMany of the airplane's internal bays are filled with communication and data-management equipment. And a well-strapped-in mascot. Tail number 872 is nicknamed Mr. Bill, and the adventurer goes along for the flights. The other airplane is called Yoda – named after the call sign of a pilot who first flew the Global Hawk – and also will fly with its namesake on board. Photo: Jason Paur/Wired.comNASA isn't using the same cameras and other observation/spy equipment the military uses on its own Global Hawk aircraft. But there are a few cameras on board, like this one in the nose that is used primarily for simply seeing where the airplane is going during flights. It's the eyes for the pilots, especially important during take-off and landing.Tail number 872 was the sixth Global Hawk to roll off the Northrop Grumman assembly line and will serve as the "big picture" platform during the hurricane missions. The airplane will carry three main scientific instruments and will not get as close to the storms as 871. Never an agency to shy away from big names, 872's nose carries the High Altitude Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit Sounding Radiometer. It allows scientists to take temperature measurements as well as profiles of the liquid water content in the clouds. The belly of 872 carries the High Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler to measure radar reflectivity (rain) and wind speeds. In the tail measurements of surface wind speeds and rain rate will be measured from the Hurricane Imaging Radiometer. Photo: Jason Paur/Wired.comBecause of the high-aspect-ratio wings (they're relatively narrow compared to their span), the Global Hawk has an excellent glide ratio. This translates to being able to fly at high altitudes without requiring a tremendous amount of power. But it also means the airplane is a great glider, and like gliders, it can be difficult to descend. The Global Hawk uses spoilers in the wings to help destroy some of the lift generated when it's time to come down and land. These devices are common on gliders and can also be seen on airliners, usually once the airplane has touched down and the pilot wants to keep it on the ground and slow down. Photo: Jason Paur/Wired.comMost of the tail of 871 was missing during our visit. But this is where the business end of the airplane's Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System will be located. The device will carry 89 dropsondes towards the middle of the airplane, and it operates a bit like a soda machine to transfer the small canisters to the tail, where they will be dropped from the airplane. Each dropsonde will descend attached to a small parachute through the hurricane, measuring wind speed, temperature, humidity and air pressure the whole way down. These devices are common in other research aircraft and the information is sent back to researchers to develop vertical profiles of the atmosphere in storms. Photo: Jason Paur/Wired.comThe NASA Global Hawks are flown from the agency's airport on Wallops Island. The airplanes are pre-programmed to fly autonomously over the hurricanes, but pilots can intervene at any time from their ground station to either accommodate a request from a scientist or to avoid the most dangerous parts of the hurricane. NASA operates a mobile command station at Wallops Island because pilots must be within line-of-sight of the airplanes during take-off and landing operations. Once at cruise altitude over the ocean, the Wallops Island pilots hand over to a flight crew at Dryden, where pilots fly most of the mission. Photo: NASAInside the flight operations room at Dryden sits the mission manager (facing panel at left), along with the pilots to his right. Scientists are also in communication with the flight crew during the missions and can change or add to a flight when needed. Photo: NASABoth airplanes will remain at Wallops Island until early October, flying regularly over the Atlantic to study hurricanes. The airplanes will return to their hangar in California for maintenance once they are done, but will be back in Virginia next year for hurricane season, as well as 2014. Photo: Jason Paur/Wired.com


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Chart star Pharrell Williams has revealed that reuniting the feuding Gallaghers for a collaboration would make him Happy.
The singer and producer - who was guest vocalist on Daft Punk's Get Lucky - said teaming up with former Oasis stars Noel and Liam would be one of his dream projects.
The pair have not spoken since Noel stormed out of the group in 2009 following years of friction and he has his own solo career while Liam continued to work with his Oasis bandmates under the name Beady Eye.
Williams - who has worked with the likes of Snoop Dogg, Jay Z and Robin Thicke - said he wanted to bring them together.
"Who wouldn't want to work with the Gallaghers? Yeah, both of them," he said.
Williams - in the running for an Oscar for his track Happy from Despicable Me 2 - also longs to work with Sir Elton John who even inspired his own son Rocket's name with his 1970s hit Rocket Man.
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Deutsche Bank drops last BlackBerrys to standardize on iOS
09/01/2017, 05:09 pm
After many years of allowing its employees to replace their corporate-assigned BlackBerry phones with iPhones under a "Bring Your Own Device" policy, Germany's Deutsche Bank is finally officially phasing out all of its BlackBerry devices for new Apple gear.
Custom iPhone baseband chips seen as too 'herculean' a task for Apple to tackle in-house
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Apple had ample supply of iPad Air, iPhone 5s over holiday weekend, Retina iPad mini was constrained
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If Apple were to reach agreements with carriers China Mobile and NTT DoCoMo to offer the iPhone before the end of the year, it would increase the company's addressable market by about 900 million total subscribers, providing a major boost to sales throughout 2014.
Buying back an additional $50B in stock estimated to boost Apple's 2014 EPS by $4.25
08/19/2013, 12:08 pm
If Apple were to heed the advice of investor Carl Icahn and increase its share buyback program, it could have a quick and significant effect on the company's stock, a new analysis has found.
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04/22/2013, 02:04 pm
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04/15/2013, 02:04 pm
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Despite having $121B in cash, Apple not expected to issue special dividend
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Eminent critic to delve into Bible, Bellow and more
James Wood will deliver the annual Mandel Lectures in the Humanities next week
James Wood, a leading cultural critic who writes for The New Yorker magazine and teaches at Harvard, will deliver this year's Mandel Lectures in the Humanities, beginning on Monday, April 8.
The series of three lectures is organized around the theme of "Letters to a Young Writer" and will be delivered at 4:30 p.m. on April 8, 10 and 11 in the auditorium of the Mandel Center for the Humanities.
Wood, who is known for his wry wit as well as his literary acuity, says he will "dwell on the Bible – especially the Book of Job – on Chekhov, on a wonderful novel by the English writer Penelope Fitzgerald called "The Blue Flower." Plus Tolstoy, Camus, Beckett. Plus some stuff about music."
And that's just the first day.
There also will be a lunch symposium at 12:30 p.m. on April 9 in the Mandel Center reading room, at which Wood will lead a discussion of Saul Bellow's classic short novel "Seize the Day." Copies of the book are available free to participants; to get a copy, contact Mangok Bol at the Mandel Center reception desk.
The lectures, which are supported by a grant from the Mandel Foundation, are free and open to the public. After they are completed, they will be published as a book by Brandeis University Press.
Professor of History Michael Willrich, who is acting director of the humanities center this year, says the idea of the lecture series "is to bring in a distinguished humanist to essentially spend a week in residence at Brandeis and feed our heads, get us thinking about the state of the humanities."
The lectures will be "the peak of the year's programming at the center," he said, the culmination of a program that has included team-taught courses, faculty and graduate student workshops, public lectures, musical performances and a faculty grants competition.
Wood was at the top of the list of possible lecturers drawn up by the humanities steering committee, Willrich said, because he is "a marvelous writer and a person of strong ideas and opinions about what literature can and should be. That's what criticism is meant to be – serious engagement with the work."
Wood has been a staff writer and book critic at The New Yorker since 2007. He was the chief literary critic at the Guardian, in London, from 1992 to 1995, and a senior editor at the New Republic from 1995 to 2007. His critical essays have been collected in two volumes, "The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief" and "The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel." He is also the author of a novel, "The Book Against God," a study of technique in the novel, "How Fiction Works" and, most recently, "The Fun Stuff and Other Essays."
Wood lives in the Boston area and is professor of the practice of literary criticism at Harvard.
[Read an interview with James Wood in the Harvard Gazette.]


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Saturday, November 24, 2012
Jamaica is still a dump, literally
It has been awhile since I reported any Jamaica trash, but while walking my dog in an area that I rarely visit I came across this. Just another typical empty lot in Jamaica Queens complete with a whole shitload of garbage (large garbage bags, tires, bottles, cans, container, plus the pieces of the broken wooden fence). From the looks of it, this just did not happen over night, but has been some time in the making and not one concerned individual, city official or leader noticed this. It is not like it is in a desolate area, it is on a busy street: 91-22 175th Street just off Jamaica Avenue. The ironic thing is that is that this lot is just two lots from a so-called "luxury" apartment building (which actually is pretty nice-looking), yet the view is this garbage dump. In fact, 175th Street, with a few of these "luxury apartment buildings" is a pretty garbage strewn street, which is too bad because with the exception of a couple of the typical 3rd world shithole 3-story apartments that not only litter Jamaica, but other parts of Queens, there are actually some very nice homes on this block. Well, at least the ones that survived the horrible zoning laws that allow some of these nice homes to be torn down to put up 3rd world tenements or an empty lot, like this piece of shit. Again another example of the horrible leadership past and present in Jamaica Queens and the population of the low class filthy savages that populate Jamaica. Both parties have been dragging Jamaica down for decades. Why don't some of you politicians put this accomplishment on your websites. SHAME!
The owner of this property (91-22 175th St) had several violations over the years from the get-go beginning with the demolition. Can one of you city leaders or politicians give me a straight answer why this was allowed to continue for so long and why so many owners of such properties are allowed to continue this all the time. CAN ANY OF YOU GIVE ME A DAMN STRAIGHT ANSWER?
Most of you are a waste just collecting a damn paycheck from the tax payers money. From the USELESS Queens borough president with one foot in the grave, Helen Marshall, to the corrupt useless Jamaica politicians like Shirley Huntley, Vivian Cook and some of the rest of you pathetic leaders. All you need to do is look at Jamaica and see that most of you have done SHIT! Some of the most useless bums in the city. The old saying "Throw the bums out" could not be more appropriate! As you can see you do not deserve my respect, because from where I am sitting, all of you, past and present have let Jamaica go down the shitter.
Joe Moretti
Jamaica, Queens
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Joe, I drove around Jamaica just yesterday and saw a ton of exactly what you have been posting. I could not believe it! Even the area directly adjacent to the LIRR terminal and AirTrain is a shocker . Didn't Helen ( epitome of useless and clueless elected politician) spend $millions to "upgrade" that specific area to bring in tourists and commerce??? I remember that area from the 1970s....it hasn't changed a bit...and only looks worse and scarier. Keep up your fight!
- Saturday, November 24, 2012
FluShing looks like crap too! Corona is another majorly Third World-like locale.
You are great Joe!!! Keep it up!!! We need a Wall of Shame for Queens website - hmm!!!
A place to post pictures and list all the local pols that should be taking action.
Think I just got inspired!
- Saturday, November 24, 2012
- georgetheatheist said...
In Queens, they don't "throw the bums out", they "throw the bums in".
- Saturday, November 24, 2012
It's not the City, or Jamaica.
It's the people. No sense of civic pride. Stop bailing Jamaica out, let it go to hell.
- Saturday, November 24, 2012
Well, remove the clapboard and the Bed BUgs are gone!
- Monday, November 26, 2012


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Louisiana to sue over flood insurance reform
By: Xerxes Wilson | Houma Courier | 10/11/2013
Louisiana plans to sue the federal government to delay or block potentially unaffordable price increases tied to reform of the National Flood Insurance Program.
"We are going to file suit," Louisiana Insurance Commissioner James Donelon said Thursday. "The question now being decided by the lawyers we have hired is whether we file in the pending Mississippi action or a separate action in Louisiana."
Provisions of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act coupled with new FEMA elevation maps have resulted in some residents of coastal parishes facing premiums topping $20,000 a year. Local government leaders fear plummeting home values will wreck coastal economies like Terrebonne and Lafourche.
Mississippi's Insurance Department filed suit against FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security two weeks ago asking a federal court to block cost increases until Congress has reviewed an affordability study mandated by the law.
Last month, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate told a congressional committee the affordability study isn't legally tied to the implementation of new rates so the reforms can only be delayed through further congressional action. He added the study could be two years from completion as some rate changes began this year.
"Let me put my cards on the table, I need your help. I have not found, my attorneys have not found, a way," Fugate said.
Donelon said a more "viable challenge" is to argue the potential devaluation of homes due to the reforms is a "de facto taking of people's property value" without due process.
If that argument can't be tied to Mississippi's challenge, he said, the state will file a separate lawsuit in Louisiana. Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has given a verbal blessing to the effort, Donelon said.
New Orleans law firms Jones Walker and Adams & Reese have explored legal challenges to the law for the economic development organization GNO Inc. Donelon said he is seeking state approval to hire the firms.
Louisiana is the third state government to back a legal challenge to the reforms.
On Thursday, Republican Gov. Rick Scott of Florida voiced his backing of Mississippi's challenge with a supporting brief rather than filing a separate suit.
More than 2 million homes are insured through the National Flood Insurance program in Florida. Louisiana has more than 480,000 homes insured through the program.
The Biggert-Waters Act was passed with the stated goal reining in the National Flood Insurance Program's estimated $20 billion debt.
It uses a combination of reforms, including removing federal taxpayer subsidies on buildings built before the first flood maps were accepted by the local government. FEMA notes only 20 percent of policies are subsidized.
The removal of rate grandfathering will likely have a more widespread effect. All policyholders will eventually see costs changes as FEMA updates the flood maps used to determine insurance costs and the minimum elevation a structure can be built to.
Historically, owners were allowed to keep their insurance bill tied to the flood map in use when their home or business was built. Reforms remove this so-called "grandfathering" and link costs to the elevation dictated by new flood maps as they are accepted by local government.
In many places, new maps will raise FEMA's prescribed elevations for homes, meaning some residents may find their homes below the newly mandated elevations. Structures below that level will pay so-called punitive rates.
Blue "Stop FEMA now" signs dot yards in St. Charles Parish's Bayou Gauche community where residents like Ann Morvant have been quoted rate increases topping 4,000 percent.
"As we all stand here, our homes are worthless so that is how we have come together and joined to fight because we are all literally in the same boat," said Morvant, whose rate would increase from $365 to $16,000 under the newly proposed flood maps.
Flood insurance is required by almost all mortgage agreements in flood zones, and requiring a hefty premium could cause a property's value to drop significantly, local politicians and bankers have said.
Terrebonne Parish President Michel Claudet fears a chain reaction where homeowners lose their largest investment, banks lose their mortgage portfolios, the real estate market freezes, businesses lose employees and the parish's tax collections wither.
Bayou Gauche is already seeing the real estate market sputter and property values dip. Tab Troxler, St. Charles Parish tax assessor, has lowered property values between 18 and 30 percent because of the "untenable" rates and the corresponding lack of real estate activity in Bayou Gauche.
This will likely be a central example in Louisiana's challenge, though Donelon declined to get too specific with the legal argument.
Donelon said he will argue such devaluation caused by the reforms is a "legal taking" of that property value without due process. He likened the argument to one that might arise challenging the government expropriation of a piece of land.
GNO Inc. CEO and President Michael Hecht could not be reached for comment.
Claudet said he still holds out hope for a legislative solution but said the question could reach the highest courts.
"Whatever happens in district court isn't going to stay there," Claudet said. "It will likely go through appeals and perhaps even to the Supreme Court."
Read the full article here: http://www.wwltv.com/news/Louisiana-to-sue-over-flood-insurance-reform-227431111.html


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The true value of Audi Care: service as sophisticated as your Audi.Audi Care is much more than savings and convenience. It delivers the extensive technical training, most up-to-date diagnostic tools and the use of Audi Genuine Parts to help maintain the original performance and integrity of your vehicle. This premium service helps ensure you receive the most from your Audi ownership experience. When you bring your vehicle in for Audi Care, you'll know exactly what to expect. Expect excellence.
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Engine Oil/Oil Filter Change oil and replace filter
Wiper Blades Check condition and replace if necessary2
Windshield and Headlight Wiper/Washers Inspect and check function
Tires and Spare Inspect for wear/damage, adjust pressure if required
AdBlue Fluid Refill completely (23 liters), Audi Q7 3.0L TDI only
Service Reminder Display Reset
Brake System Inspect system, check pad wear, check fluid level
Cooling System Inspect system, check fluid level, add if necessary
Exhaust System Inspect system
Engine Compartment Inspect for leaks
Battery Test and replace if necessary2
Dust and Pollen Filter Replace
Automatic Transmission and Final Drive Check for leaks
Manual Transmission and Final Drive Check for leaks
Front Axle Test for excessive play, inspect all dust seals
Drive Shaft Boots Inspect
Spark Plugs Replace at 35,000 miles or three years,3 then every 40,000 miles or three years3depending on model
Continuously Variable Transmission (multitronic) Change ATF
Power Steering Fluid Check, add if necessary
Air Cleaner Clean housing, replace filter element
Belts and Tensioners Inspect condition and replace if necessary2
Underbody Inspect for damage and leaks
Road Test Check all systems for correct on-road operation
Lights Check all exterior and interior lights for proper operation
Brake Fluid Replace every two years regardless of mileage
Cloth Top Check function and rollover protection every two years regardless of mileage (Audi A4/S4/A5/S5 Cabriolet only)
1Actual scheduled maintenance checks vary based on vehicle model, model year and mileage. See vehicle Owner's Manual for details.
2Replacement parts and labor additional. See dealer for details.
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Danny Meyer On Fixing Mistakes
The Washington Post's Joe Yonan has a short but great Q&A with NYC restauranteur extraordinaire Danny Meyer up today:
"Let's say I get a salmon dish at Union Square Cafe, and it's not too salty, it's not under- or over-cooked. There's nothing particularly wrong with it, but I'm disappointed with how it all comes together, and I think, "eh." What should I do?"
"Tell me. Please tell me. And have the confidence to accept my suggestion for a solution. I have a choice. If it's a $25 entree, I have $8 or $9 invested in it. Would I rather save that $8 or $9 and have you go tell the world "eh"? Or do I make sure you leave the restaurant raving? You may say [that] "eh" doesn't rise to the level of a mistake, but I say that it does. Nothing is worse than to just "whelm" somebody."
Meyer's most recent book, "Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business", came out just last year and is perhaps unsurprisingly already on its seventh printing.
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The Most Expensive Fast Food Items in the World
Norma's is one of New York City's most popular breakfast spots, and its Zillion Dollar Lobster Frittata is the world's most expensive egg dish. Launched in 2004, the frittata contains six eggs and the meat of a whole lobster, and it's sopped with a whopping 10 ounces of sevruga caviar. It'll cost you $1,000 (the menu goads customers with "Norma dares you to expense this"), but if you'd like to sample it with just 1 ounce of caviar, it'll cost you only $100.Norma's / Yelp
Sundae: Golden Opulence Sundae, $1,000
Perhaps America's most famous super-expensive dish, Serendipity 3's Golden Opulence Sundae was introduced to celebrate the New York City restaurant's 50th anniversary in 2005, and at $1,000 it's listed by Guinness as the world's most expensive sundae. What's on it? Three scoops of Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream infused with Madagascar vanilla and covered in 23-karat gold leaf; chocolate syrup made with Amedei Porcelana, one of the world's most expensive chocolates; chunks of rare Venezuelan Chuao chocolate; candied fruits from Paris; gold-covered almonds; chocolate truffles; marzipan cherries; a small bowl of unsalted caviar infused with passion fruit, orange, and Armagnac; and a whole lot of edible gold leaf.Carla E./ Yelp
Burger: FleurBurger 5000, $5,000
This isn't just the most expensive burger in America, it's the most expensive restaurant dish in America, period, served at Las Vegas' Fleur by Hubert Keller. What exactly does a $5,000 burger look like? It starts with real wagyu beef, and it's topped with foie gras and truffles. To gild the lily, it's served with a bottle of 1995 Château Pétrus.Fleur by Hubert Keller Mandalay Bay
Cheesesteak: Barclay Prime Cheesesteak, $120
Philadelphia's Barclay Prime is one of the best steakhouses in America, and its $120 cheesesteak, which has been on the menu since 2004, is actually a popular menu item. Why? Because it's delicious, and is big enough to share with a couple friends. It's made with Japanese wagyu New York strip and rib-eye, caramelized onion, shaved truffle, and big chunks of foie gras, topped with a truffle-flecked mornay sauce, and it's served with a split of Perrier-Jouet. It's greasy, cheesy, full of flavor, and (so we've heard) worth every penny.Barclay Prime / Yelp
Grilled Cheese: Quintessential Grilled Cheese, $214
Serendipity 3 shows up a couple times on this list; this Manhattan restaurant is nothing if not self-promoting. How does it make its $214 grilled cheese? Chef Joe Calderoni starts with bread that's been baked with Dom Pérignon and piles on slices of super-expensive caciocavallo podolico cheese. Both sides of the bread are then brushed with truffle oil and white truffle butter and the sandwich is pressed until golden brown and melty. The edges of the sandwich are then coated in gold leaf, and it's served with tomato and lobster bisque in a Baccarat crystal glass.Serendipity 3
Chocolate Truffle: La Madeleine au Truffle, $250
Master chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt is selling the most expensive chocolate truffle in the world from his online shop, House of Knipschildt, based in Norwalk, Connecticut. It's made via a seven-step process and contains chocolate ganache made from 71 percent Valrhona dark chocolate, French Perigord truffle (or Italian white truffle if they're not available), and truffle oil. It takes about 14 days to ship, because each truffle is made to order.chocopologie.com
Coffee: Kopi Luwak, $90 per cup
Cute, cat-like creatures in Sumatra, Java, and Bali, called Asian palm civets, eat whole coffee cherries, and by the time the beans come out the other end they've been digested, so they have shorter peptide chains and more free amino acids (which equals better flavor). The beans are then cleaned, roasted, and brewed. Being run through a cat's digestive tract supposedly makes the coffee taste better, but we're not planning on testing it for ourselves. Due to the product's rarity, if you can find a cup, you can expect to pay upwards of $90 for it.Dreamstime
Macaroni and Cheese: Lobster Truffle Mac & Cheese, $200 and up
America's most expensive order of macaroni and cheese is served at Barton G., which has locations in Los Angeles, Miami, and Chicago and is known for its over-the-top opulence. This dish is so opulent it's actually an off-menu item and has to be ordered at least a couple days in advance. It starts with cheesy spiral pasta, which is topped off with a 5-pound Maine lobster and a generous dose of shaved black truffle. The price changes depending on how much the lobster costs, but it's always well over $200, according to a restaurant representative.Barton G.
Nachos: Brennan's Blue Crab & Caviar Nachos, $100
Nachos usually only require some chips, cheese, salsa, and other cheap ingredients to make, but when they're topped with a full pound of Louisiana jumbo lump crabmeat, queso made with Saint-André cheese, and an ounce of Petrossian caviar (along with fire-roasted corn, avocado, pico de gallo, and lime crema for good measure), the price tag jumps accordingly. That's exactly what they're serving at Brennan's in Houston, Texas, and it'll set you back $100.Brennan's
Pizza: Guinness World Record 24K, $2,000
Plenty of restaurants over the years have crafted some sort of super-expensive pizza, but only one remains that actually lists it on their menu: New York City's Industry Kitchen. It's called the Guinness World Record 24K, and as the name might imply, it actually holds the world record for the most expensive commercially available pizza. It's topped with Stilton, foie gras, platinum osetra caviar, truffles, and 24-karat gold leaf, and it clocks in at $2,000 (an additional half-ounce of almas caviar is available for $700, if you're feeling sassy). Unsurprisingly, you're going to need to give the restaurant 48 hours' notice if you want to order the most luxurious pizza in the country, but if you don't want to spend a mint you'll be better off trying one of the 101 best pizzas in America.
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It's impossible not to notice the aura of positivity that surrounds LA Galaxy assistant coach Curt Onalfo.
Whether it is coaching the club's Reserve League squad or assisting the first team during training, the 42-year-old assistant coach is never too far from flashing the infectious smile that has become a staple in the Galaxy training ground.
Onalfo has plenty of reason to be excited as he has helped lead his Reserve League squad to the brink of the West Division title, but 19 years ago, next month, an event happened that forever changed the Galaxy assistant.
In 1993, at the age of 23, Onalfo had lived what few could have dreamed. A professional soccer player, Onalfo won an NCAA National Championship in 1989 at the University of Virginia with Bruce Arena at the helm. In 1992, Onalfo served as the captain of the United States Olympic team at the Barcelona Olympic Games, helping the U.S. amass a 1-1-1 record. However, a pair of surgeries to repair torn Achilles tendon put Onalfo's career on hold, causing him to move in with his parents in Connecticut and return to finish his education.
Although Onalfo's life was seemingly on the upward tick, despite the injury, one day in November, Onalfo noticed a lump in his neck. After a visit to the family doctor for a few seemingly harmless chest X-rays, on November 19th—his 24th birthday—his life changed forever.
"I came back [to the doctor] the 19th, which was my birthday, and he got the blood work and he immediately asked me to take a chest X-ray and then he proceeded to call me in his office and said, 'why don't you give your mother a call.'"
The idea of calling his mother shocked Onalfo to his core.
"I said, 'I'm 24-years-old, why am I going to have my mother come in' and he told me, 'just do me a favor, call your mother and have her come in.'"
Onalfo soon called his mother and was given the grim news. He was being sent to an oncologist, which stunned Onalfo, who admittedly needed his mother to inform him, what an oncologist actually was.
"I asked my mother, what is an oncologist, and she said, it's a cancer doctor," said Onalfo. "Long story short, we get to Doctor Abrams and he told me that I had Hodgkin's disease and now it was a matter of staging where it is."
In other words, determining how far along the disease was.
The diagnosis, after the two-week staging process was shocking. The doctor determined that Onalfo had stage three Hodgkin's disease—the third most severe stage.
"It turns out I had it all through my neck, under my arms and I had a huge mass under my neck and an area in my spleen," said Onalfo. "I had stage three, once it leaves your lymphatic system and goes to another organ then it's really serious."
The one-time Olympian was now a cancer patient, who needed to undergo a six-month chemotherapy treatment. Although Onalfo placed himself on a macrobiotic diet that he believed would prepare him for the rigors of the treatment, he had no idea what was in store.
"The whole theory is that you get yourself as close to death without dying, you kill all your cells and hopefully, you reproduce good cells," said Onalfo, who admits that the injections left him with no veins on either of his arms. "It was a cumulative effect, it was difficult, chemo was brutal, but it got worse with each one because you get weaker and weaker. I had real good news after three months, all the cancer was gone, but you had to finish your cycle which is six months."
With the support of his family—especially his mother Linda—Onalfo's condition was improving rapidly due to the treatments. However, he was not in the clear yet.
Admittedly cocky due to the cancer's remission after three months, Onalfo began to exercise more and more as he looked to rebuild the fitness that made him an Olympian. Then, disaster struck as Onalfo was admitted into the hospital because a dangerously low white blood cell count—a count so low that even the common cold could have killed Onalfo.
"It was a major wake up call," said Onalfo. "Literally, I got admitted to the hospital and I thought, 'my cancer is gone, but the chemo could kill me.' I wasn't able to have any visitors, the doctors came in with masks on and it was really scary."
But there on, what was seemingly, his deathbed, life crystallized for Onalfo and the goals of the soccer player and part-time chiropractic student became incredibly clear.
"I remember being in the hospital bed and thinking that I'm not going to be wasting my life. I was in school, I remember thinking vividly in bed, my life is soccer," said Onalfo, getting visibly emotional at the thought. "I don't care how, [but] I want to get back to health and I want to compete and play professionally as long as I can, it doesn't matter what level it is and then afterward, I'm going to coach. My life became very crystal clear in terms of what I wanted to achieve."
And return he did, even though admittedly a step lower than his previous level, eventually going on to play for Mexican side Tampico FC—where he eventually met his wife Sandra— before being selected by the Galaxy in the inaugural MLS Player Draft. Onalfo spent just a single season with the Galaxy playing 13 times for the club, but played three more seasons in MLS winning a host of trophies including the 1999 MLS Cup with D.C. United.
At the end of his playing days, Onalfo began to dive feet first into coaching, first as an assistant with D.C. United before stops as an assistant with the U.S. National Team Under-23's as well as the full squad, serving under his former college coach, Arena. Finally, in 2007, Onalfo was given his first head coaching job with the Kansas City Wizards, a position that he held for two seasons before returning to serve as the head coach of D.C. for the 2010 season, though he parted ways with the club in August of that year.
After two stints as a head coach—where he played a role in the development of players like Graham Zusi, Roger Espinoza, Andy Najar and Bill Hamid—Onalfo was eager for a fresh start and to do so, he dialed Arena with a simple request.
"I remember talking to Bruce after I left D.C. I told myself, I need more time, I need to get back in the trenches and relearn my methodology and become a better coach from the ground up," said Onalfo. "So, I told him, if you ever had a position open, whether I can be helping the academy or the reserve team and be in the trenches, to better myself as a coach, I want to do it."
Once then-assistant coach Cobi Jones stepped down in January of 2011, Arena dialed up Onalfo and took him up on his offer.
"He provides a different point of view," said Arena of Onalfo. "He's a guy that supports the coach and communicates well with the players and is very studious about his job and he works hard, and complements the entire staff… He's had his ups and downs, but he's still young and hopefully he has a bright future."
On Friday, Onalfo will look to further his coaching credentials as he leads his Galaxy Reserve squad against the Vancouver Whitecaps FC Reserve squad in a match that will decide if LA can win the West Division title. Currently, Onalfo has led his Reserves to a 5-3-1 record, a far cry from LA's 1-6-2 mark and last place finish in the division a year earlier.
With a balance of experienced players like Pat Noonan and Andrew Boyens as well as youngsters Jose Villarreal and Tommy Meyer, the reserves have flourished even playing a key role in LA's qualification for the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions League. But regardless of if the Galaxy Reserve squad wins the division title or not, Onalfo's impact has been felt in the development of LA's younger players.
"The thing with Curt is that he's focused on always doing the little things right when we play, he's always talking about shape and getting after things so he's given the 'reserve guys' a lot of confidence, telling us that when we get our opportunity to take advantage of it," said midfielder Rafael Garcia, who has played in all nine of LA's Reserve League games this season. "That's one of the things that I've taken from him the most, it's not easy being in the reserves and not getting as much playing time, but he's always helped us in any way that he could so I definitely owe a lot to him."
As for Onalfo, strengthened by the arduous moments of the past, the Galaxy assistant coach is enjoying the present and with an eye to the future.
"I want my story to have an even happier ending than it is. I've had some great successes as a head coach and some very difficult situations as a coach, that's all part of my development, but I know I have better days ahead, in whatever role that I'm in whether it's an assistant coach role or a head coach role," said Onalfo. "My attitude is to focus on being the best that I possibly can and to help Bruce and the Galaxy be successful. That's my focus and whatever is down the line, they will be great things I'm sure."
Adam Serrano is the LA Galaxy Insider. Read his blog at LAGalaxy.com/Insider and contact him at email@example.com


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