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Can the New Cadillac Catch Up to BMW?
Cadillac is expected to unveil the latest incarnation of its CTS Wednesday, a decade after first launching the midsize sedan whose sharp-creased looks—inspired by stealth bombers—were designed to attract younger buyers.
The CTS, to be introduced at the New York International Auto Show, has had some success in rejuvenating Cadillac's image. But it didn't revive slumping sales—and it failed to attract enough younger buyers from shifting toward foreign luxury cars. Once the top-selling luxury brand in the U.S., Cadillac finished 2012 in fifth place, behind BMW , BMW 0.12% Mercedes-Benz, Lexus and even Honda Motor Co.'s Acura.
But with the new CTS, Cadillac is again promising to use the $40,000-and-up car to challenge rivals such as BMW's 5 series and Daimler AG's DMLRY -0.75% Mercedes-Benz E-class for buyers.
The 2014 CTS will offer an eight-speed transmission—a first for General Motors Co.'s GM 0.83% brands. The car will go from the heaviest to the lightest among its European rivals, giving it better fuel economy. Cadillac executives say the vehicle uses aluminum in front doors and bumpers to slim down to 3,616 pounds, about 250 pounds less than the last design.
"The CTS was the vehicle that began the Cadillac renaissance," said Robert Ferguson, Cadillac's global brand chief. The new model "is a cornerstone vehicle for us and will keep the momentum going."
But in some respects it is the same old Cadillac facing the same dilemma. The average age of a Cadillac owner is 65 years old, compared with 49 years for BMW and 48 years for Audi, according to researcher StrategicVision. The new-to-GM eight-speed transmission has been available in rival vehicles for more than a year.
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After a lot of ups and downs over the years, the brand is focusing on a three-sedan portfolio—the ATS, CTS and XTS. That compares with the four different body styles in the BMW 5 series alone. GM says it plans to introduce six new or refreshed Cadillacs over the next four years and insist the coming CTS won't lag the size, length and electronic bling of its German rivals.
A strong debut for the new model is critical for GM. The company is pinning its future on the global sales of two brands: Cadillac and Chevrolet. GM needs Cadillac to crack the luxury barrier and boost its presence in markets such as China, Russia and perhaps Brazil if it hopes to generate the profit it needs for the brand's long-term survival.
That the new CTS a decade later faces the same, unaccomplished mission of regaining market and mind share from German luxury brands shows how much its rivals have gained. Audi, BMW and Mercedes are introducing a variety of new models in the U.S. and China this year to broaden their appeal to new and younger buyers.
Despite repeated revival promises, Cadillac's U.S. market share has remained relatively unchanged over the past 10 years, bouncing between a high of 1.35% in 2005 to 1.05% at the end of 2012.
Since the launch of the first generation CTS in 2002, Cadillac has sought to hammer a message that its cars are no longer the soft-riding, oversize boulevardiers that wealthy members of the World War II generation piloted to summer hotels in the Catskills or cabins in Northern Michigan.
It strove to recast the car as a high-performance machine, showing images of the CTS roaring around Germany's Nürburgring race circuit—a testing ground the German brands use to fine-tune the handling of their vehicles.
To launch last year's new sedan, the 2013 ATS, Cadillac commissioned a series of television spots showing a pair of young driving enthusiasts flogging the car along twisty roads in exotic locations from China to the tip of South America.
Today, GM again is considering changing Cadillac's advertising agency. If it does, it would be the fifth such switch since 2007.
"We owe it to ourselves to take a step back," Cadillac U.S. marketing chief Don Butler said. "We are looking at everything go on in the brand and asking ourselves should it be structured differently.
In part, that is because the about $38,000 and up ATS has gotten off to a slow start. U.S. dealers had a hefty 106 days' supply of the cars as of the end of February. By contrast, BMW's overall stock of unsold cars in the U.S. amounted to just 39 days' supply.
R.L. Polk & Co. automotive analyst Tom Libby said the new Cadillacs represent "a huge step forward for them." But at the same time, he said, BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz are escalating their assaults on the U.S. market with new models—including lower-priced vehicles aimed at picking off younger, affluent buyers before they ever consider Cadillac.
"They are also expanding their product portfolio downward which only increases the pressure," Mr. Libby said.
Mercedes-Benz, for example, will use the New York show to debut its CLA 45 AMG—a high performance version of the compact four-door it highlighted during the 2013 Super Bowl. The CLA will start under $30,000. Mercedes says the AMG version can reach 60 miles an hour time from a standing start in under 5 seconds at a price of about $50,000.
"Over the next seven years we are launching 30 new or refreshed cars, which averages out to about one new car per quarter," Mercedes-Benz spokesman Christian Bokich said. "We continue to invest in our product portfolio to meet what we see as the future demands of luxury customers."
Those new vehicles and others could make it tough for Cadillac to hang on to its rank in the U.S. Hot on Cadillac's heels is Volkswagen AG's Audi brand, which has been steadily increasing market share since 2004 when it had 0.44% of the U.S. market. Audi had a share of 0.96% at the end of 2012, and the brand is launching more models—including a compact A3 sedan that will be shown at the New York auto show.
To lead the latest relaunch of Cadillac, GM CEO Dan Akerson reached outside the company's automotive marketing ranks and named Mr. Ferguson, GM's Washington lobbyist and a former AT&T Inc. executive as Cadillac's global brand head.
Mr. Ferguson said he is confident Cadillac new lineup can take on the Germans by more directly positioning its cars in the same size and price categories of the German brands. GM says the ATS pricing is akin to BMW's 3 series and Audi's A4.
With the new sedan, "We are going to ride the CTS to get Cadillac to sales numbers it has never posted," Mr. Ferguson said. Cadillacs including the ATS and compact SRX sport utility also will help Cadillac in growth markets such as Brazil, Russia and China, he said.
Early sales of the ATS in the U.S. isn't a fair indicator of the brand's potential, Mr. Ferguson said, because they reflect a failure to supply enough all-wheel-drive models in a segment where roughly half the cars sell with the feature.
Now, Mr. Ferguson said, 70% of those customers buying a new ATS sedan have never previously owned a Cadillac.
Data from Edmunds.com, the car shopping website, suggests that the ATS is getting some looks from people shopping German brands. In February, about 4.9% of shoppers who looked at a BMW 3 series also looked at the ATS, up from 3.3% in December 2012.
But there was more cross-shopping traffic between the ATS and the Cadillac CTS. Of those who looked at a CTS, 26% also looked at the ATS. Of course, some things never change: Edmunds analyst Jessica Caldwell said the top state for ATS purchases is Michigan, GM's home state.
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Got To Be NC is North Carolina's agricultural buzz phrase that is rapidly becoming a common place logo in the state's grocery stores and popular among school children in the Tar Heel state.
When North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, Steve Troxler, took office in 2005, one of his primary goals was to develop a comprehensive agricultural marketing program that would provide more outlets for North Carolina-grown agricultural products, but also raise consumer awareness of the State's agriculture industry.
"We struggled for some time to come up with the right approach, but couldn't quite seem to put it all together," Troxler recalls.
"Then, one Monday morning I came into work and some of the marketing staff, working over the weekend, had come up with the name, Got To Be NC. I knew it was what we were looking for, and we've been building the program every since," Troxler explains.
The North Carolina Commissioner knows what works when it comes to marketing agricultural products. A long-time farmer, Troxler also spent a number of years in the produce business. "Selling tomatoes when everybody has plenty of them will make you a better marketer," Troxler laughs.
Once the Got To Be NC concept was in place, Troxler and his staff began the chore of getting the many components of North Carolina agriculture on board with the program. "All of the commodity groups that I am aware of in the state are involved in the program," according to Troxler.
Likewise, the major grocery store chains doing business in North Carolina are participating in the program. "We have a shared cost advertising program with grocery stores that they love, and it gives our farmers some priority for providing the produce needs of in-state stores," he explains.
A major component of Got To Be NC is the use of the Department of Agriculture's 34 tractor trailer trucks used to deliver food to the North Carolina school system, to food banks in the state and for emergency situations in other states.
"During the Katrina disaster, we drove some of our trucks down to the Mississippi coast to deliver North Carolina grown products to victims of the hurricane. The response we have gotten from people who saw those trucks with North Carolina agriculture logos and pictures on them has been phenomenal," Troxler beams.
Each of the 34 trucks is emblazoned with plastic panels promoting one of North Carolinas commodities. These removable vinyl panels cover both sides of a tractor trailer. Each commodity group pays for the cost of the panel, and as the program has gotten more popular in the state, demand for truck space is greater than trucks available. The same truck that promotes poultry and eggs one day, may promote North Carolina watermelons on the next trip.
"Regardless of what commodity is being promoted, it's hard to miss those 40-foot mobile billboards going up and down highways in the state," Troxler proudly proclaims. "In the past, these trucks had the North Carolina Department of Agriculture logo on the cab of the truck, but the trailers were white. Now, these trucks are hard to miss," Troxler explains.
Educating the state's non-agricultural population to the importance of agriculture is an ongoing success story for Got To Be NC. "We want our children to understand from a young age the importance of eating nutritious food," Troxler emphasizes.
Part of the funding for the program comes from a Gold Leaf Foundation grant. These funds, designed to help farmers who have been displaced by changes in the Federal Tobacco Program, are being used to promote North Carolina products, especially fruits and vegetables. Many former tobacco farmers have switched to vegetable production.
Though in its infancy, Got To Be NC has been widely accepted by grocery store chains operating in the state. Large chains, like Piggly Wiggly and Harris Teeter, promote North Carolina products.
The first cooperative programs were started in 2005, so no data is available on how much the program has impacted the use of state-grown products in these stores. "Reducing the time and distance to market provides a fresher product for these stores and at the same time saves in fuel costs," Troxler notes.
"Our goal is to generate a million dollars in advertising to promote North Carolina products. With shared cost advertising, we are already there, but I want us to be in a position to spend a million dollars a year just to promote North Carolina products," the Commissioner says.
North Carolina currently ranks among National leaders in cotton and peanut production, and with 1.2 million acres of soybeans is by far the largest soybean producer in the Southeast. The state ranks second in total poultry production and first in sweet potatoes. In addition, North Carolina has a built in market, which is growing. Projections are for the state to become the seventh most populous in the country within the next 10 years.
The huge demand for development, including the infrastructure needed to support such a large population sometimes conflicts with agricultural growth. Troxler is committed to working in harmony with the state's expected population growth.
North Carolina is the first state in the Southeast to build both ethanol and biodiesel plants. The ethanol plant is already under construction in Aurora and the biodiesel plant is close to the start of construction near Williamston.
Though excited about the alternative fuel opportunities in the state, Troxler notes that North Carolina is a corn-deficient state. He points out that Aurora is near the North Carolina coast and in an ideal position to bring in and process corn from surrounding states. With over a million acres of soybeans and world stores of beans at a record high, the opportunities for meeting the needs of the biodiesel plant provide a good market for North Carolina soybean farmers.
Another goal of the Got To Be NC program is to develop new niche products for North Carolina farmers. "We work closely with our land-grant university and have marketing staff members at a research facility near Kinston, N.C., which is geared to develop niche products that can be grown in our state," Troxler notes.
"I like to tell people that thanks to variety development by our North Carolina State researchers, I can eat fresh North Carolina strawberries in October," Troxler says. These strawberries, grown at 2,000 to 3,000 foot elevations in the western North Carolina mountains, provide a valuable niche crop for farmers in that part of the state, he explains.
Establishment of a Dole Foods salad plant in eastern North Carolina promises a new market for state-grown lettuce, cabbage, carrots and other salad crops. Recent announcement of a Dole fruit and berry frozen foods plant further expands opportunities for growers all over the state," the Commissioner adds.
Though Got To Be NC is in its infancy, commodity groups have been quick to endorse the program. "We have gotten nothing but positive feedback from people who have seen our display of a young boy eating watermelon," says Gloria Richardson, president of the North Carolina Watermelon Growers Association.
Troxler adds that schools often have special programs that are built around delivery of food to the state's schools. And, still a licensed truck driver, from time to time, Steve Troxler, North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture has taken the wheel of an 18-wheeler to personally promote North Carolina products.
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Acid Rain: Does it Contribute to Forest Decline?
Description: This minibrief describes the major hypothesis explaining why acid rain may be contributing to forest decline, along with the major arguments against this hypothesis. For additional information on acid rain and current legislation for pollutant emissions controls, see IB83016 -- Acid Rain: Current Issues, and IB83005 -- Clean Air Act: An Overview.
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Songs of a Different South: The Allman Brothers' Blues-Rock Legacy
In March 1971, the Allman Brothers Band—Duane Allman (guitar), Gregg Allman (vocals, organ), Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johnson (drums), Butch Trucks (drums), Dickey Betts (guitar), and Berry Oakley (bass)—took the stage at the Fillmore East on Manhattan's Lower East Side to make the historic live recordings that would propel them into rock-'n'-roll's upper echelon. By that time, rock had shifted its geographic epicenter from the Deep South to large metropolitan areas. Early rock pioneers such as Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino, and Jerry Lee Lewis had all hailed from the South. But during the 1960s, in the wake of the "British Invasion" led by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks and others, rock's center of gravity had migrated to large cities on the coasts and throughout the North, while widening the audience to a massive number of young men and women born in the fifteen years after World War II.
After playing around Daytona Beach, Florida, in bands such as the Untils, the Shufflers, the Escorts, and the Y-Teens, the Allman brothers launched their eponymous band in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969. They were by no means pioneers in the electric blues. Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon, and others were blues men from the Delta South who had traded their acoustic sound for the amplified requirements of Northern urban dance clubs, where the link between Delta blues and rock-'n'-roll was secured. If you wanted to be heard in the raucous music environment of Chicago, you had to go electric.
Duane and Gregg, the brothers after whom the band was named, knew this transplanted Southern blues tradition well, and participated in the same ritual that white teenage blues fanatics did everywhere: Like John Mayall, Jeff Beck, and Eric Clapton in England, they frantically collected records by James Brown, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, and a host of others.
Having lost their father to murder at a young age, and often living hand-to-mouth with their mother, perhaps the young brothers felt drawn to the sadness and betrayal, the misfortune and defeat that was in the blues DNA. At the same time, the joy and exhilaration of rock-'n'-roll appealed to the generation of young men and women brought up during the Vietnam War and amidst the profound cultural transformation of the 1960s. For this generation, hope for a better life was often best expressed in music. As the cultural critic Albert Murray pointed out with acuity, the blues are "synonymous with low spirits. Blues music is not."
In their social circle, the Allman brothers crossed over the strict boundaries of racial exclusion. In an interview, quoted by Alan Paul in One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band, Gregg recalled that in his teens in Daytona, Florida, he journeyed "over across the other side of the tracks—literally. Blacks lived on the other side of the railroad tracks, and it wasn't cool for me to be hanging out . . . in that neighborhood. I caught hell from my friends and family, but I didn't care."
The racially integrated Allman Brothers embraced the African American art form that is the blues. While proudly Southern, the band never trafficked in the mythology of the lost cause of the Confederacy. There were no stars and bars for this crew. As quoted by Mikal Gilmore in a 1990 Rolling Stone article, Dickey Betts put it, "We had nothing to do with that whole ideal, 'the South will rise again.' That was somebody else's idea. The thing is, we did appreciate our culture, and a lot of people in the South were proud of the Allman Brothers, because we were typically and obviously Southern. That was part of our aura. But beyond that, I don't think we were part of what was changing the South. It was people like Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King, Jr., and John Kennedy who helped affect Southern attitudes."
In the early days, when everyone in the band lived together in small apartments, the record player seemed to never stop, as each member brought his own favorites to the brotherhood. Jaimoe turned the others on to jazz greats like Miles Davis and especially John Coltrane, from whose rendition of "My Favorite Things" Jaimoe admitted to borrowing: "I did a lot of copying, but only from the best," he said in an interview quoted by Alan Paul in One Way Out. Guitarist Dickey Betts's early song "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" also worked the genre of jazz-infused jamming and improvisation, synthesizing and summarizing a big slice of the blues, rock, and jazz traditions. "It wasn't that we consciously copied that music," Betts told Rolling Stone's Mikal Gilmore in 1990. "It was just that later we realized that people like Coltrane and Adderley, or Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, had been pursuing the same idea many years before. For a rock-'n'-roll band, though, it was a pretty new adventure. I mean, one of the good things about the Allman Brothers was, we listened to jazz and were influenced by it without ever pretending we were jazz players." Betts also knew well the deep blues tradition, and brought a country sensibility to the Eat a Peach and Brothers and Sisters albums that found a wide audience in hits such as "Ramblin' Man" and "Blue Sky."
The blues was the lodestone of the Allman Brothers' appeal. On the band's first two records, The Allman Brothers Band (1969) and Idlewild South (1970), they gave credit where credit was due, covering Muddy Waters ("Trouble No More"), Willie Dixon ("Hoochie Coochie Man"), Statesboro Blues ("Blind Willie McTell"), and in general borrowing and reworking the black musical form that was the blues. These sophisticated progressive blues-rock records didn't sell well enough to allow the Allman Brothers to leave their rugged and parsimonious road life behind. It was their live shows, more than 200 a year, that won the band legendary status, their fame spreading by word of mouth.
It was the Allman Brothers' live, loud, and visceral sound, finally recorded to a critically and commercially successful album, At Fillmore East (1971), that showed the world just what the fuss was all about. And what the fuss was about was immediately apparent on the opening song, "Statesboro Blues." In the opening bars, Duane Allman plays a scorching, fluid, and expressive bottleneck slide. But the real revelation comes when Gregg Allman's deeply soulful, urgent singing enters the mix. A twenty-four-year-old with long blond hair, Gregg Allman brought a growling vocal subtlety and bold approach to the proceedings, as if blues were his birthright. On "Whipping Post," his voice, and the band's arrangement, is not just delivering on the promise of raw emotion, but instead combines the skill and taste that make up a classic sound, free of imitation. Six months after the release of At Fillmore East, Duane Allman died in a motorcycle accident.
The Allman Brothers went on to record other successful albums such as Eat a Peach (1972) and Brothers and Sisters (1973), and traveled an all-too-familiar road of rock-star excess and dissipation. But the excitement of the early years was never matched. The band broke up, got back together, added new members while getting rid of some old ones, and continued to play to large audiences throughout the world. With Gregg Allman's death in May 2017, the Allman Brothers cannot be revived.
The Allman Brothers' musical legacy is wide and deep. Although both Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts never liked the classification "Southern Rock"—Betts called it "limiting," and Gregg Allman said the two words linked are "redundant"—the band staked out an unmatched place in the music of the South. Other Southern bands have tried to replicate the Brothers' success and musical mastery, sometimes with outlaw defiance and reactionary postures, but their music does not reach the high bar the Allman Brothers set. None could get anywhere close to the majestic and melancholy defeat in "Trouble No More," or capture the sweet winds blowing across the South in a song like "Blue Sky."
Jazz vocalist Little Jimmy Scott tells us that "the blues has lasted because the blues is about reality. Life is blue. Life ends. Sorrow is certain. Pain can't be avoided. The blues lays it out. But as you sing the blues, and as you listen to the blues, something happens to you. In the middle of songs that have some of the saddest stories ever told, you feel more alive than ever. That's the strength of the blues. That's the miracle—watching the blues chase the blues away." The Allman Brothers played the blues and chased the blues away with an emotional power and musical sophistication rarely matched in the past half-century of rock music.
Kerry Candaele is a writer and filmmaker. He collaborated with his brother Kelly on the documentary A League of Their Own, about his mother's experience in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, which was later turned into a blockbuster movie. He is co-author of Bound for Glory: From the Great Migration to the Harlem Renaissance, 1910–1930 (1996) and Journeys with Beethoven: Following the Ninth, and Beyond (2012).
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TCG Gala Evening to Honor Phylicia Rashad and Condola Rashad
On Monday, November 13 at New York's Espace, Theatre Communications Group's 2017 Gala Evening will honor the award-winning artistry and ground-breaking careers of mother and daughter Phylicia Rashad and Condola Rashad.
The 2017 Gala honors individuals that have made theater the family business, impacting the U.S. theater field for multiple generations. This special evening will also commemorate the 20th Anniversary of TCG's National Council for the American Theatre, a group of trustees from around the country who have shaped their communities and influenced the national theater landscape.
The evening will begin with cocktails at 6 p.m. followed by dinner and special performances at 7 p.m. Guests have been asked to wear festive attire. All proceeds benefit TCG's wide-ranging programs to strengthen and promote the multi-generational theater field, while making a better world because of theater.
"Our theater field draws great strength from our multi-generational leadership, and from the artistry and craft that are passed down from one generation to the next," said Teresa Eyring, executive director, TCG. "There is no more inspiring example of that intergenerational exchange than the work of Phylicia and Condola Rashad. We are grateful for the opportunity to honor them at our 2017 Gala, and celebrate the work of TCG and the vitality of the field we serve."
Phylicia Rashad was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2016, the same year in which she received the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play for her performance as Shelah in Tarell Alvin McCraney's "Head of Passes." Broadway credits include Violet Weston in "August: Osage County," Big Mama in Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Aunt Ester in August Wilson's "Gem Of The Ocean" (Tony Award nomination), Queen Britannia in Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" at Lincoln Center, The Witch in Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods," and Sweet Anita in "Jelly's Last Jam."
Rashad received both the Drama Desk and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her riveting performance as Lena Younger in the Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin In The Sun." Rashad served as the first Denzel Washington Scholar at Fordham University, and as Master Teacher for the 2015 Lunt Fontanne Fellows at the Ten Chimneys Foundation. She has also conducted Master Classes at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Vassar, Howard University, and Carnegie Mellon University.
Condola Rashad began her career onstage in Lynn Nottage's 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Ruined," and has since been nominated for Tony Awards for her roles in "Stick Fly," "The Trip to Bountiful," and "A Doll's House, Part Two." Earlier this year, Rashad completed production on the Netflix film "Come Sunday," and in spring of 2016, Rashad completed production on Academy Award-nominee Milcho Manchevski's independent film "Bikini Moon."
Rashad co-starred in Joshua Marston's "Complete Unknown" opposite Michael Shannon and Rachel Weisz, and in Jodie Foster's "Money Monster," opposite George Clooney and Julia Roberts. On television, Rashad is known for her role as the young, motivated Assistant District Attorney Kate Sacker in Showtime's acclaimed series "Billions"; other credits include "Smash," "Sex and the City 2," and "The Good Wife."
Theatre Communications Group's 2017 Gala Evening will be held on Monday, November 13 at New York's Espace, 635 West 42nd Street.
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In this country's growing Survivalist Nation there's a tribe known as the "Urbivalists"– or "urban survivalists"—preppers who live in towns and cities, and have adapted their survivalist skills to more metro environments. One such urbivalist is Dan, a "self-proclaimed tenderfoot and city kid" who runs a survival-themed blog called The Daily Prep. Recently, Dan posted a video of a shopping trip he made to Harbor Freight–
–which included a tour of some of his favorite products. "It's a man mall!" he proclaimed.
It's no wonder HFT is popular with those who take survival preparation seriously. A renowned purveyor of hard-to-find and odd hardware– plus, a huge selection of essential tools and supplies at extremely low prices– it's a no-brainer. (Brains? Zombies? Apocalypse? Harbor Freight!)
So, what were some of the products Dan thought fellow preppers should look into? The video does a good job showcasing generators, welders, tarps, car battery jump starters, jerry cans, rope, axes & hatchets, duct tape ("of every kind!"), magnesium fire starters, solar panel kits, knives, slingshots, safes, winches, flashlights and batteries— and Harbor Freight's low prices make preparation a lot more doable.
FYI, for those looking to prep their home for the garden variety emergency, HFT also carries towing supplies, trailer hitches, alarms & security products, jack stands, engines, head lamps, cast iron frying pans, face masks, space saver vacuum bags, air compressors… you get the point. Harbor Freight is the "go-to store" for your doomsday prepper needs.
The Daily Prep isn't alone when it comes to survivalist forums swapping favorite HFT products that they keep in their arsenals. Surf the 'net and you'll find tons of great ideas. And while you're at it, why don't you share yours with us?


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the Martlet
A martlet is a heraldic charge depicting a stylized bird with short tufts of feathers in the place of legs. Swifts, formerly also called martlets, have such small legs that they were believed to have none at all.
The inability of the martlet to land is often seen to symbolize the constant quest for knowledge and learning.
It has been suggested that this same restlessness is the reason for the use of the martlet in English heraldry as the cadency mark of the fourth son: the first son inherited the estate, the second and third traditionally went into the Church and the Army, and the fourth had no well-defined place.
As the fourth son received no part of the family wealth and had to earn his own, the martlet was also a symbol of hard work, perseverance, and a nomadic household.
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Biochemistry Program
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Undergraduate Biochemistry Program
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Biochemistry is the basic science that explores the chemical and physical properties of living organisms and the chemical changes that occur in these organisms. It is integral to the study of multiple disciplines within the life and biomedical sciences, including biology, chemistry, microbiology, genetics, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, nutrition and food sciences, animal sciences, plant biology, and plant sciences. The Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry is an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program offered through the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) in conjunction with the College of Medicine (COM). It draws upon a broad set of university resources from CALS, CAS, and COM to provide students with a modern science-based education designed to emphasize fundamental knowledge of chemistry and biology along with advanced courses specializing in biochemistry and related life and biomedical sciences. The biochemistry curriculum offers students with a strong academic ability in the sciences an opportunity to explore upper-level courses in areas of modern biochemistry and is designed to meet the needs of students wishing to compete in the job market at the B.S. degree level as well as students planning to continue with advanced studies in a graduate or professional degree program.
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Standing at the top of the magnificent Slieve League Cliffs, it feels like you're at the very edge of the world
Swooping down from the mountain of Slieve League, these towering precipes are among the highest sea cliffs in Europe. From the crowning point on the cliffs, it's a staggering 609 metre (1,998 feet) drop into the swirling Atlantic Ocean below.
Before you come to the cliffs themselves, you'll come across the Slieve League Cliffs Centre. With a friendly local atmosphere, this family-run and award-winning spot is packed full of local history and culture. The craft shop stocks locally made knitwear and artworks and, come summertime, you can even catch a traditional Irish music session.
If you book a guided walk or hike of the cliffs, you'll be spirited away with insights into the local wildlife and spectacular geography, with a few local anecdotes thrown in for good measure. Take our advice and grab a bite to eat at the Tí Linn Café before you go – it'll set you up for the bracing walk ahead!
From the Cliffs Centre, you can drive right up to the main viewing area of the cliffs or, if you're among the faint-hearted, use the car-park on the way and walk the rest. The Slieve League Cliffs are nearly three times the height of their County Clare sisters, the Cliffs of Moher, so take care when treading those coastal paths.
From the designated viewing points, an astounding panorama opens up before you. The cliffs stretch towards the horizon and on a clear day you can see right across to Sligo and Leitrim and all the way to the mountains of the Mayo coast. To reach the highest point of Slieve League, you must take a narrow pathway to One Man's Pass. Experienced walkers only should venture beyond the viewing point up onto One Man's Pass, which loops around onto the Pilgrim's Path. For a gentler route, take the pathway from Bunglas to Malinbeg.
Remarkably ,on the high slopes of Slieve League there are remains of an early Christian monastic site, with chapel and beehive huts. There are also ancient stone remains that suggest that the mountain was a site of pilgrimage before the arrival of Christianity. At Carrigan Head, on the way to the main viewing area, you can see a Signal Tower built in the early years of the 19th century to watch for a possible French invasion. Close to the viewing area you can see stones, which marked out the word 'Éire' as a navigation aid for aircraft during WWII.
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Post subject: Dandelion & Burdock (pop and "small Beer").
Dandelion & Burdock (pop and "small Beer").
This is one of those little home-brewing and kitchen adventures that I have wanted to do for a long time, and so I eventually got around to it.
There are plenty of recipes available on the internet for Dandelion and Burdock, all of them using other ingredients that overcome and smoother the taste of the Dandelions and the Burdock. With the exception of using half of a Star Anise right at the beginning of making the starter, all of the flavour comes from the Dandelion and the Burdock.
You may recall the difficulties that I had finding wild growing Burdock here in Norfolk; Everytime Lois & I went for a walk, cycle ride or just out and about Fruit and Berry picking we searched high and low but to no avail. However, when we went to Stiffkey in search of Marsh Samphire, Lo and behold I parked right next to a mature and gone to seed Burdock plant. Finding the Dandelions on the other hand presented no problem.
The Burdock plant in Stiffkey car park:
A close up of the root that I managed to dig out of the ground with my hands:
Due to my inability to find a Burdock plant up until this time, I had also cheated and purchased 100g of dried Burdock root, and 100g of Dried Dandelion root from Purple Sage Botanicals:
My efforts of brewing this wonderful pop and small beer include equal amount of roots that I have harvested and dried by me, and the purchased commercially avaible ones from Purple Sage Botanicals.
To make 5 litres
Dried Dandelion root
Dried Burdock Root
750 g White Granulated Sugar
4 dessert spoons of Lemon or Lime Juice
A Pinch of Bread Making Yeast
Lots of Boiling Water.
I have chosen to go for the ever lasting starter method, as I use in Home-made Ginger Beer and Sourdough. I think that it is much more fun and rewarding to nurture a yeast, as it imparts a more natural and rounded flavour to the finished beverage. The chemical composition actually changes as the Yeast mutates to being able to grow and flourish in a solution of the base ingredients.
Day 1
Add 250 ml of previously boiled and cooled water to a large jar.
Crush half of a Star Anise and add it to the water (note: this is the only time that you will add Star Anise to the mix).
Grate approx. 1 teaspoon of Burdock root and 1 teaspoon of Dandelion root and add this to the water. Stir in 2 teaspoons of Sugar and allow to stand for 30 minutes. Add a small pinch of yeast to the surface of the liquid, and allow to stand over night before sealing the jar with it's lid.
Day 2.
Grate a little Dandelion, and a little Burdock root and add to the jar, add 1 teaspoon of Sugar and stir well. Seal the jar.
Day 3.
Grate a little Dandelion, and a little Burdock root and add to the jar, add 1 teaspoon of Sugar and stir well. Seal the jar.
Day 4.
Grate a little Dandelion, and a little Burdock root and add to the jar, add 1 teaspoon of Sugar and stir well. Seal the jar.
Day 5.
Grate a little Dandelion, and a little Burdock root and add to the jar, add 1 teaspoon of Sugar and stir well. Seal the jar.
Day 6.
Grate a little Dandelion, and a little Burdock root and add to the jar, add 1 teaspoon of Sugar and stir well. Seal the jar.
Day 7.
This is when you can start making the Dandelion & Burdock Pop/Beer.
Grate 25 grams of Dandelion root, and 25 grams of Burdock root: if you are using commercially purchased Dandelion and Burdock, bruise the pieces with a Mortar & Pestle. Add these to a saucepan containing 1 litre of water. Bring to the boil, cover and simmer for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, Dissolve 750g of White granulated Sugar with 4 litres of water in a bucket. Stir well to ensure that all of the sugar is dissolved.
Add the contents of the saucepan to the bucket: Do not strain at this point.
Cover with some muslin and allow the mixture to cool to about 40* centigrade, or about body temperature. Add 4 dessert spoons of either Lemon or Lime juice and stir well. Sieve the contents of your jar of starter mix into the bucket and stir well.
You may retain half of the starter as you would with everlasting Ginger beer and continue making D&B as outlined above one week later. If you do retain half of the starter to continue, this is the time to add another half of a Star Anise.
Allow the contents of the bucket to stand for betweeen 30 and 60 minutes, and then strain and bottle into sterlised empty
Plastic pop bottles.
Allow to stand in a dark cupboard for 1 week and then you may begin to enjoy your home-made Dandelion & Burdock pop (negligible Alcohol %ABV). If you continue to allow the mixture to ferment in the bottles, after 2-3 weeks it will become a very potent natural beer. The longer you leave it, the stronger it becomes, and the dryer the taste is. So far I have brewed some out to 6%, and it is lovely stuff.
This is one of those natural brewing mixtures that will carbonate with naturally occoring Carbon Dioxide from the yeast. This is what makes it a fizzy drink, so it may spray upon opening; You have been warned!
Dried Dandelion root and dried Burdock root:
Bruising the bits with a Mortar & Pestle:
The living starter in it's jar:
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Police at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport have opened a criminal investigation into how needles got into turkey sandwiches served to passengers on Delta Air Lines flights from Amsterdam to the United States, a spokesman said Tuesday. The FBI also is investigating the incidents.
Delta said what appear to be sewing needles were found in five sandwiches on Sunday. One passenger on a flight to Minneapolis was injured. The other needles were on two flights to Atlanta and one to Seattle.
"We are keeping all options open because at this moment we have no idea why somebody or something put needles inside the sandwiches so that is what we have to investigate," airport police spokesman Robert van Kapel told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
The sandwiches were made in the Amsterdam kitchen of catering company Gate Gourmet. The company's listed address in the Netherlands is in the Schiphol area, where the Dutch capital's airport is based.
Tjitte Mastenbroek, a spokesman for the Dutch government's Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, said the agency also was investigating "from a food safety point of view." He said the agency would share its findings with the criminal investigation. He declined to give more detail, citing the ongoing investigation.
Gate Gourmet's website calls the company "the world's largest independent provider of catering and provisioning services for airlines and railroads," with 122 flight kitchens serving 250 million meals each year and 9,700 flights per day. The company was founded in 1992 to cater Swissair flights and grew by taking over other airline caterers including that of British Airways. It went into private ownership in 2003 and was listed on the Swiss SIX Exchange in 2009.
The company issued a statement Monday saying, "We take this matter very seriously, and we have launched our own full-scale investigation." It also said it was "heightening our already stringent safety and security procedures, to prevent any recurrence."
The company also said it is "treating this as a criminal act" and stressed it is "cooperating fully with investigations by local and federal authorities and by our customer."
Dutch authorities have no indication the incident is linked to terrorism and Van Kapel said he had no information on whether there had been any blackmail threats made to the airline or catering company.
The FBI said its Atlanta office has opened a criminal investigation.
Passenger Jim Tonjes of Plymouth, Minnesota, told the Star Tribune newspaper that he felt a sharp poke in his mouth after biting into his sandwich.
"I figured it might be a toothpick," he said. But instead it was a one inch (2.5 centimeter) needle that had punctured the roof of his mouth.
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Delta spokeswoman Kristin Baur said Monday that flight attendants stopped serving the sandwiches as soon as the needle was discovered. Messages went out to other flights en route from Amsterdam. Another sandwich served on the Minneapolis-bound flight also had a needle, Baur said.
After the needles were found, passengers got pizza instead.
Baur said security for its meal production has been increased and it is using more prepackaged food while the investigation continues.
"Delta is taking this matter extremely seriously and is cooperating with local and federal authorities who are investigating the incident. Delta has taken immediate action with our in-flight caterer at Amsterdam to ensure the safety and quality of the food we provide onboard our aircraft," the airline said in a written statement.
Benno Baksteen, a former Dutch pilot and aviation safety expert, said food is transported to aircraft amid tight security, "for obvious reasons — because people can hide stuff in catering trolleys."
He said trolleys carrying prepared airline food are sealed in transport, "so the most likely place where it could have happened would be in the place where it's manufactured or of course before it's served, once the trolleys are opened."
Schiphol airport staff referred questions about security surrounding catering companies to the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice, which oversees aviation security. A spokesman at the ministry was not immediately available for comment.
Ton Scherrenberg, chairman of the VNC union that represents some 7,000 Dutch cabin personnel, told AP that cabin crew check food trolleys for foreign objects when they open them on board aircraft, "but you can't check every single sandwich."
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This is really upsetting my wife. We have made sure she is getting plenty rest, keeping hydrated, drinking milk (cows) and eating well.
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Fred Toole: Dennis The Menace
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I have an ugly confession to make. My favorite Dennis the Menace comics aren't the individual panels from the newspapers. They're the stories that appeared in Fawcett's Dennis the Menace comic books, and they weren't done by Dennis' creator Hank Ketcham. Oh, sure, his work on the newspaper comic is great, but I like the comic books better. It was only later that I found out these favorites of mine were done by writer Fred Toole and artist Al Wiseman.
Back in 1964, a company named Allied Publications put out an oversized, saddle-stitched magazine with the very unwieldy title These Top Cartoonists Tell How They Create America's Favorite Comics. It featured an introduction by Beetle Bailey's Mort Walker and was compiled by Allen Willette.
39 cartoonists were profiled, one per page, and it appears that the cartoonists themselves were responsible for their own write-up. This is the one Fred Toole wrote about Ketcham and Dennis. Toole is identified as being "in charge of Public Relations for Hank Ketcham."
Writes Fred:
"Henry King Ketcham was born in Seattle, Washington, March 14, 1920. His interest in drawing goes back to the time he was seven years old and used to watch a family friend make cartoon doodles. Hank proceeded to make cartoons himself all during his school years. After a year at the University of Washington, where he was an art major, Hank went to Hollywood to work as an animator in the Walt Lantz studios. Later, at the Walt Disney studios, he worked on several major Disney productions.
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Civil Warriors: Chuck Dixon and Gary Kwapisz
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Independent,
Sometimes a Civil War reenactor will don a floppy felt hat, pick up an old musket and spend a weekend in the rain chasing his beer-and-poker buddies down a hill. But if you're Chuck Dixon and Gary Kwapisz, you'll probably forgo the smell of soggy felt and take your action to the printed page. That's what they're doing with a new line of historical graphic novels. If you remember Savage Sword of Conan, then you've seen what happens when Chuck (Punisher, The Simpsons, Robin) works with Gary. Good stuff happens, that's what.
Chuck and Gary have launched their own publishing company, History Graphics Press. Their first book, Civil War Adventure, is a 144-page b&w trade paperback anthology of historical Civil War stories, written by Chuck, illustrated by Gary. Stories feature the famous, guys like Winslow Homer and George Armstrong Custer and also the not-famous, guys in the trenches just trying to stay alive and help their cause. And there are lots of horses and soldiers, all beautifully and accurately illustrated by Gary. This promises to be merely the first book in a series of graphic novels on the American Civil War and American history.
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Barry Blair and Aircel Comics
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials, Independent,
Barry Blair passed away earlier this week. A very talented writer-and-artist, he was one of the founders of Aircel Comics with the backing of Ken Campbell. The imprint got its name from Campbell's refrigeration company. Barry had a house stockpiled with a number of artists eager to create comics and they were all put to work churning out books for Aircel with titles like Elflord, Samurai and Warlock 5.
For a couple of years their books were very successful and featured work by Blair, Pat McEown, Dale Keown, Dave Cooper, Jim Somerville, Guang Yap and others during the black and white boom of the mid-1980s. When the market soured, Campbell was eager to shed the imprint. Rather than shut it down, he made a deal with Malibu Comics President Scott Rosenberg to take it over. Malibu was the parent company to Eternity Comics.
As part of the deal, Malibu would run the imprint and Barry would provide 4 books a month - a new book every Tuesday either by him or his studiomates or in some form of collaboration. In addition, Malibu would also sponsor Barry's green card - he wanted to move out of Canada to New York City and found a place in the shadow of the United Nations building. For a couple of years, Malibu published a wide variety of Aircel books - Barry's own adventure books, Dave Cooper's wild parodies, and even a Jim Somerville zombie book.
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Weekend Reading: James Bond, Wally Wood, Stan Lee and Frank Frazetta
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials, DC Comics, Independent,
It's old-school comic book week for the past several days as Wally Wood, Frank Frazetta, Stan Lee and that crazy caveman Alley Oop pop up. If that's not all, Evan Dorkin opened up an excellent thread on health insurance and freelance artists that's must read for anyone who's ever seen a 1099 form.
Wally Wood: Gold Key Stories posts a complete issue of M.A.R.S. Patrol Total War, with art by the great Wally Wood. Fanboys drool over this kind of stuff, and I'm not ashamed to say I'm one of them.
Frank Frazetta: A backhoe, a museum and millions of dollars worth of original art add up to a very sad family tragedy for the great artist. Heidi MacDonald over at The Beat has been on top of the story here and here and that'll get you started. Be sure to follow through and read all the comments and updates.
Free Content: Xark has a great take on why newspapers complain so much about the online readership who wants it for free, but it's really diners and coffee-sippers who are the real content thieves who don't pay for what they read.
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Weekend Reading: Atlas/Seaboard, Gene Deitch and Jonny Quest
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials, Independent, Marvel Comics,
Lots of great stuff all over the internet this week, including a nice piece on Martin Goodman's Atlas/Seaboard comics of the mid-1970s, a lost cartoon by Gene Deitch and a little piece of Jonny Quest/James Bond trivia. Let's click:
Atlas/Seaboard: If you remember Howard Chaykin's The Scorpion, Larry Hama's Wulf The Barbarian or Steve Ditko's Tarantula, then you're old. And that means you remember the Atlas/Seaboard comics that Martin Goodman published after Cadence bought him out from Marvel back in the 1970s. What you may not know is that their comics were also published in Australia. Oh Danny Boy has a detailed and well-illustrated account of their adventure down under.
Gene Deitch: Over at Cartoon Brew, Jerry Beck posts a note from acclaimed animation director Gene Deitch about his first (and lost) animated cartoon. It starred Howdy Doody, and the cartoon so enraged Buffalo Bob Smith that he had it destroyed.
John Kricfalusi: Over at John K Stuff, the animator has a hilarious post about amateur artwork and some ideas about how not-yet-professionals can still find outlets for their art.
Tom Richmond: The great MAD Magazine artist and caricaturist recently remodeled his studio and put up before and after pictures. We should all work in such a great environment. Warning: safe-for-work shelf porn ahead.
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Captain Swing by Warren Ellis & Raulo Caceres
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials, Independent,
Yo-ho-ho. If you love your pirates and you're a little bit burned out by Johnny Depp and the many, many Pirates of the Caribbean, you might be looking for something a little different in the "pirate" category. If you can expand your definition to include Bow Street Runners, flintlocks, and "flying things that aren't supposed to fly?" then February 2010 has something for you. It's the start of a new four-issue mini-series by Warren Ellis (Supergod; No Hero) and Raulo Caceres (Gravel; Crecy) from Avatar called Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island.
Described as "an electrical romance of a pirate utopia thwarted," Captain Swing is set in London, 1830. That would be the Warren Ellis London of 1830 in which copper Charlie Gravel starts seeing things, including the legendary Spring-Heeled Jack. I love the Bow Street Runners. They figure prominently in the mystery novels of Bruce Alexander (Blind Justice) and Richard Falkirk (Blackstone), and I'm curious to see what this new incarnation will be like.
This is an Avatar book, so expect some cover variants and a retailer incentive, but best of all, it's a new Ellis mini-series and I'm looking forward to it.
[Artwork: One of the covers to Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island, © Warren Ellis]
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VIDEO: Alan Moore Rocks Out With Retro Spankees
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: DC Comics, Independent,
Even though he has a musical history, it's quite easy to forget with all of the memorable novels and comic books Alan Moore has written. Well, now we've got a video to help us not forget!
At a launch party for his latest fanzine, Dodgem Logic, Moore jumped on stage with a band featured on the CD accompanying the magazine, the Retro Spankees. Moore was quick with his literary style in the intro to one of the songs: "This next number, it's about caring… about people. It's about caring about people so that you want to… protect them. It's about caring about people so that you want to protect them by unleashing a storm of malefic evil presences from the pit of Hell against anybody who is distressing you. This is to everybody—it's called 'Jonny Fortunate.'"
Check out another performance after the break!
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Bart Simpson #50: Sergio Aragonés!
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Reviews, Independent,
Let's get this out of the way right up front: I have a bias when it comes to Sergio Aragonés. I grew up reading his Marginals in MAD Magazine and later worked for a company that published his work (two graphic albums and The Mighty Magnor mini-series with Mark Evanier). During that time, I not only met him, but he once dropped by the office on a day that coincidentally was my birthday and, in the time it might take me to read an email, he drew in ink (no penciling) a breathtaking 9x12 illustration of multi-character cartoon goodness as a gift. I still have it, framed on my office wall.
So my bias goes well beyond fancrush. I was saddened that MAD Magazine went quarterly because it meant 8 fewer paychecks per year for all those freelancers associated with the magazine, including Sergio. But I knew that anyone who draws as fast and funny as he does would find another outlet for his work, and I was delighted - and surprised - to discover that it would be The Simpsons.
He's joined Bongo Comics, and they've made a big deal out of his debut on Simpsons Comics Presents Bart Simpson #50, subtitled "Mad About Sergio." Sergio writes, pencils and inks two complete stories. The first is "The Simpson Project," about what happens when Bart and Milhouse's homemade rocketship triggers a domino effect of international nuttiness. And the second is "Big Top Flop" where Bart and his friends sneak away from Cirque Du Lune ("the elegant art of mime and the subtle fantasy of Asian contortionists") and try to sneak into a "real" circus. There are also two shorter gag pieces by Sergio.
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Weekend Reading: Die Hard, Avengers, Stan Lee and Frank Robbins
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials, Independent, Marvel Comics,
Happy Halloween! You won't find any Halloween-themed stuff down below because thousands of other people are already way ahead of me on that. What you will find is some very nifty reading (and looking) on folks like Howard Chaykin, Frank Robbins, indie cartoonist J.R. Williams, Stan Lee, and Blackest Night. Start the ball rolling downhill…
Incognegro: Galleycat gives a shout-out to the new graphic novel by Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece, making it their Featured Book of Color. This Vertigo book has "movie" written all over it, and I'm sure Diane Nelson has noticed that.
Die Hard: Those We Left Behind enjoys the new Howard Chaykin/Stephen Thompson Die Hard prequel, Die Hard: Year One, from Boom! Says TWLB of the just-released second issue: "The series is really capturing the spirit of the McClane character, with his quick wit and regular-guy attitude."
The Avengers: James Reasoner reviews Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers Volume 1 by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers. "It's also interesting to see the introduction of storylines that would resonate through the Marvel Universe for years, and in some cases, decades afterwards." But there's a "but" coming that you'll have to click and discover for yourself.
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Name: Roger
Gender: Male
Age: 70s
Location: Saugatuck Michigan
Hi– linked to your very interesting site via Allkink. My question: last year I underwent radiation on my prostate; it was enlarged and had cancer cells. Apparently it did the job, since my PSA is way down and the Dr. says I've shrunk, and am healthy otherwise. But since then I am almost totally impotent (don't get erect when I want to, though sometimes get semi-erect at random times). I can still orgasm, but don't ejaculate; sometimes a little clear fluid dribbles out afterwards. Curiously, I could still ejaculate during and right after the radiation treatments, but not now. Also in general a noticeable decrease in libido. Needless to say, very annoying.
I'm gay, solo, in my 70s, celibate since mid-1980s when I tested HIV-, and a dedicated bottom. I knew I was at risk, and "safe-sex" just didn't turn me on. I've been using dildos of all sizes for years. Now, insertion has become a little painful (kinda stings, like the first times way back when), but after several tries they go in OK. Those of larger girth or not-very-smooth texture are really difficult, and I've pretty much given up on them (though "John Holmes" still works!). There is occasionally a little blood on the dildo afterwards, but bleeding doesn't persist, and Dr. says I have no hemorrhoid. The radiologist did warn me that the treatment might produce scar tissue in the colon. Is that a possibility?
I hate to think that I ought to give up altogether on my little pleasures, but would welcome you advice/opinion. I haven't discussed this with my urologist, whom I don't know very well, but did bring it up with my (female) GP, who didn't seem overly concerned and merely suggested lots of lube, which was not news to me.
Wow, Roger, that was a mouthful. I am so delighted that you wrote in. I love hearing from folks in their 60's 70's and 80's who are still enjoying a rich and fulfilling sex life, even if it is by themselves. I am of the mind that self-pleasuring can be some of the most rewarding sex available to a person at any age. And nowadays, with all the amazing sex toys on the market, one can enjoy solitary sexual pleasure like never before.
I've written and spoken a lot about prostate issues including the aftermath of cancer treatments. May I suggest that you take a look at the CATEGORY section on the sidebar of my site? There you will find a category labeled "Health Concerns." There are subcategories for "Anal Fissures," and one for "Prostatectomy." I realize that you haven't had a radical prostatectomy, but your situation is very similar to those men who have. If you click on either of those two subcategories you will find loads of useful information in both written and podcasts form.
In the meantime, let me see if I can address some of your questions in a nutshell. You ask about possible scar tissue from radiation therapy. The short answer is; yes, scar tissue is possible, even probable. And as we all know scar tissue is not nearly as pliable as regular tissue. Scar tissue also has fewer nerve ending than normal tissue. You could be injuring yourself without even knowing it since the sensations in your ass are considerably less then they once were. I'd be willing to guess that this might be the source of the bleeding you report. Maybe you need to retire the really big toys, like the John Holmes, and enjoy something more modest for the time being. Another suggestion is to try an inflatable dildo. or a smaller insertable that vibrates. There are several on the market. You can find several in My Stockroom. The advantage to something like the inflatable dildo is that you could insert something relatively narrow and inflate to a larger size once inside. This would avoid ramming a big dildo in bum from the get go. And a vibrating insertable would add stimulation without the length or girth.
As to your erection issues; yeah, I hear ya. Aging alone will take its toll on the hydraulics that give us wood. When you couple that with the trauma of invasive surgery and/or radiation therapy, well it's no wonder stiffies elude us. I tell the men that I see in my private practice, who are similarly challenged as you, to use a cock ring to assist in getting the best boner possible under the circumstances. A penis pump works pretty well too, if you want to go the distance. I have lots more to say about these devices if you care to hear about it.
Also, several men I know with erection concerns are taking a cue from the women folk and employing a vibrator in their sex play. There are the insertable kind, as I've already mentioned, and there are external ones too. Have you given this option a thought? The extra stimulation a vibrator can produce will increase blood flow and thus a more substantial boner. I have a whole lot more to say about this too if you care to write to me for that information.
In the end, it will be desire that will continue to propel you to further enjoy yourself and the pleasures your body has to offer. I wish you continued lust and many more years of healthy and life-affirming sexuality.
Good luck


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Downs rugby squad named for Queensland Police team clash
DARLING Downs will be out to make an early-season impact when they face the Queensland Police team in next Saturday's rugby curtain-raiser at Clive Berghofer Stadium.
The Downs representative team and Queensland Police will meet in the lead-up game to Saturday night's Super Rugby trial clash between the Reds and Auckland Blues.
Coach Andrew Skipper yesterday announced a Downs 23-player squad for its rep season pipe-opener.
Downs officials were left with a difficult task in naming their final line-up following a strong player roll-up at last weekend's Downs Rugby high performance camp at UQ Gatton.
Thirty-six of the Downs most experienced and promising players were put through their pre-season paces during the weekend by Skipper, guest specialist coach Jono Farrell, manager Bill McNaughton, trainer Kate Reardon and physio Mark Brownlie.
"I was very impressed with not only the high level of core skills displayed during the weekend, but also the mindset of the players and the intensity that they trained at," Skipper said.
"I am very excited about the program ahead and the prospect of playing against the police team prior to the Reds match."
Downs Rugby general manager Cameron Donaldson said the numbers and quality of players who committed to the high performance training camp is one of the most encouraging in recent years and augurs well for a promising season.
"It was exciting to watch stalwarts of previous rep teams locking horns with young up-and-coming players," Donaldson said.
"It was clear the competition for places in the team was fierce.
"The only problem coming out of the weekend was having to trim the squad for the police match next Saturday."
Brendan Sexton has been named Darling Downs captain with veteran representative scrum-half Matt Howse vice-captain.


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It was a sports year that often seemed blissfully out of touch with the times, with Beijing staging an opulent Olympics amid the backdrop of an earthquake that killed tens of thousands and the New York Yankees' spending hundreds of millions on free agents while an American economy shivered in the winter cold.
It was a year in which sports took its ability to distract quite seriously, delivering epic and historic achievement on a regular basis.
In the NFL, New England opened 2008 having just completed a 16-0 regular season, extended it to 18-0 heading into the Super Bowl against a seemingly overmatched New York Giants team. Then in Glendale, Ariz., Eli Manning outplayed Tom Brady and Tom Coughlin outcoached Bill Belichick and the Giants scored an upset comparable to that of another New York team, the Jets, almost 40 years earlier.
In the NBA, for the first time in 21 years, the Lakers and the Boston Celtics met in the Finals, which was welcomed by the league as a rescue mission after the San Antonio-Cleveland Finals of '07. It was heralded as a dream matchup across the land, even in Los Angeles, until the Lakers were eliminated in a nightmarish Game 6.
Baseball gave us a World Series between the Philadelphia Phillies (one Series championship in their first 125 years) and the worst-to-first Tampa Bay Rays, then gave us a Game 5 clincher that was interrupted by a 46-hour rain relay.
Hockey, after years of off-Broadway matchups in the Stanley Cup finals, finally got a pairing worthy of the marquee: Detroit against Pittsburgh, with the Red Wings' veterans prevailing over the Penguins' precocious young stars in six games.
Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate played 91 holes at the U.S. Open before a winner -- Woods, bad left knee and all -- could be decided.
Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer played a classic Wimbledon final, Nadal finally besting Federer on grass in a 9-7 fifth set. Mario Chalmers hit a three-pointer for the ages to send Kansas into overtime against Memphis, where the Jayhawks won an unforgettable NCAA basketball final. Jimmie Johnson won his third consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup championship.
With so much emphasis on big numbers, one of the smallest imaginable -- one-hundredth of a second -- yielded the most impressive performance of all: the margin of victory for Michael Phelps in the 100-meter butterfly final, enough for what would be an unprecedented eight Olympic gold medals.
By that much, Phelps out-touched Serbia's Milorad Cavic, climaxing a race-ending sprint that bordered on the unbelievable. The same could be said for Jason Lezak's incredible anchor leg in the 400-meter freestyle relay, already a legend. Lezak entered the pool with the Americans appearing hopelessly behind, but he somehow chased down France's Alain Bernard for the victory.
Phelps owned these Olympics -- at least until the track and field portion of the event began. Inside the Bird's Nest, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt reigned supreme, setting a world record in every final he ran. In order: 9.69 seconds in the 100-meter sprint, 19.30 in the 200 to break Michael Johnson's supposedly untouchable record, then running a leg on a 400-meter relay team that completed the trek in 37.10 seconds.
Bolt. It was the perfect name for the fastest man in the world, and sportswriters had a field day matching it with nicknames: Lightning Bolt. Insane Bolt.
Another nickname popularized in Beijing was Redeem Team, assigned to the U.S. basketball squad, attempting to make amends for the embarrassment four years earlier in Athens. Kobe Bryant didn't care for it much, but both in China and back home in the States, his 2008 played like one long redemption song.
Bryant led the United States back to the top of the medal stand and, somewhat less probable, drove the Lakers back to the Finals about a year after saying he'd rather play on another planet. As it developed, Bryant turned into the best player on this one, at last doing what his critics said he couldn't do -- make his teammates better -- and winning the league's most valuable player award for the first time.
With a sizable assist from the Memphis Grizzlies, who kindly donated Pau Gasol to the Lakers in a Feb. 1 trade/giveaway, Bryant maneuvered the Lakers through the Western Conference playoffs in a swift 15 games. Meanwhile, the Celtics, prohibitive championship favorites after the off-season additions of Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, scuffled through seven games in the first round of the playoffs against Atlanta, seven more against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers and six more against Detroit -- looking vulnerable every step of the way.
By the time the Finals were arranged, Los Angeles was frenzied. There was talk, in some corners of the media, of a Lakers sweep. Elsewhere, the general tone of discussion was: How could the Lakers lose?
Here's how: The Celtics might not have looked pretty surviving-and-advancing in the first three rounds, but one constant was their fierce approach to defense. The Lakers encountered it firsthand in the Finals, failing to score 95 points in four of the six games, including Boston's 131-92 blowout win in Game 6.
Boston walked away with its 17th NBA title -- and as a belated consolation prize, six weeks later, Los Angeles took Manny Ramirez from Boston. Initially, the Ramirez deal was seen as the Dodgers' taking a malcontent off the Red Sox's hands, but that trade proved to be one of the great late-season rentals in baseball history. In two months in Los Angeles, Ramirez batted .396 with 17 home runs and 53 RBIs -- shaking up a going-nowhere Dodgers team and leading it into the playoffs, where L.A. swept the 97-win Chicago Cubs in the first round before falling to the Phillies in a five-game National League Championship Series.
The Angels also took part in the late-season rental business, acquiring first baseman Mark Teixeira from Atlanta on July 29. Teixeira led the Angels in hitting the rest of the way and the Angels finished with the best record in the major leagues, 100-62.
But because Boston finished two games behind the surprising Rays in the American League East, the Angels opened the playoffs against the wild-card -- and longtime October nemeses -- Red Sox.
The Angels entered the series with a nine-game postseason losing streak against Boston, but at least the team was comforted by the knowledge it had home-field advantage. Two games in Anaheim, and the losing streak stood at 11. The Angels finally broke the streak, winning Game 3 in Boston, and were tied, 2-2, in the ninth inning of Game 4 with a runner on third when Manager Mike Scioscia called for a squeeze. Erick Aybar missed the pitch, Reggie Willits was caught off third base, and the Angels squandered an opportunity that positioned the Red Sox to win in the bottom of the ninth.
The Angels' cross-street neighbors, the Ducks, also fell in the first round of the NHL playoffs, losing in six games to the Dallas Stars. The Ducks' defense of the Stanley Cup ended quickly, and by year's end, the architect of that champion, general manager Brian Burke, had left the building, moving on to a similar position with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Elsewhere locally, 2008 often felt like a replay of 2007. UCLA's men's basketball team reached the Final Four for the third consecutive year but lost in the semifinals, to Memphis. The Kings, Clippers and Galaxy again missed the playoffs. Chivas USA again lost in the first round. USC's football team lost another early-season game to a lesser opponent, Oregon State, and the loss was enough to keep the Trojans out of the BCS championship game.
The BCS was business as usual, meaning the system continued to be assailed all season long. Oklahoma and Texas both ended the season with one loss, Texas defeated Oklahoma on a neutral field, but when it came time to send one team to the Big 12 championship game, the BCS standings broke the tie -- the Sooners moved on, and after defeating Missouri, they and Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Sam Bradford advanced to the BCS title game against Florida.
Disappointment of the year? It would be tough to argue against Big Brown, the alleged super-horse who blew away the competition in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness and had trainer Rick Dutrow calling victory at Belmont "a foregone conclusion." Result: Big Brown finished last, pulling up down the stretch, the victory going instead to 38-1 longshot Da' Tara.
Upset of the year? The U.S. Ryder Cup team, relying on six rookies with Woods on the disabled list, ended a three-match losing streak dating to 2002 with a 16 1/2 -11 1/2 triumph over Europe.
Reason for optimism for the new year? It's a fresh start. In Detroit, where the Lions are an unprecedented 0-15 heading into the final weekend of the NFL regular season, the fans can hardly wait.
Coming Sunday Sports lost some legendary figures in 2008, including Pete Newell, Gene Upshaw. Section B