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Inside the talks: Fiscal framework emerges — Listen to top Democrats and Republicans talk on camera, and it sounds like they could not be further apart on a year-end tax-and-spending deal - a down payment on a $4 trillion grand bargain. — But behind the scenes, top officials …
Discussion: Firedoglake, protein wisdom, Reuters, The Maddow Blog, Hit & Run, New York Magazine, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, Jared Bernstein, The Week, Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo, NationalJournal.com, Washington Post, Prairie Weather, Business Insider, msnbc.com, CNN, Daily Kos, Balloon Juice and ABCNEWS
David Dayen / Firedoglake: Today on the Fiscal Slopes
Fred Barbash / Reuters: Geithner set for talks on cliff; senator sees "standoff"
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog: The Medicare cuts the GOP refuses to identify
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run: The "Balanced Approach" is Bunk: All Tax Hikes, No Spending Cuts
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine: What Do Republicans Want? — You want me to cut Medicare by $500 billion?
Jared Bernstein / On the Economy: Morning/Afternoon Papers/Radio
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: The Deal Going Down—But Not Without Kabuki
Dana Milbank / Washington Post: The bare truth about the 'fiscal cliff'
Prairie Weather: Congressional Republicans find themselves on a desert island with no company and 2014 elections looming
Grace Wyler / Business Insider: JOHN BOEHNER: 'I'm Disappointed In Where We Are' — There's Been 'No Substantive Progress' In Two Weeks
Joan McCarter / Daily Kos: The fiscal cliff official negotiating begins
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
The GOP's Medicare confusion — The austerity crisis talks have hit a peculiar impasse. The problem isn't, as most analysts expected, taxes, where Republicans seem increasingly resigned to new revenue. It's Medicare. And the particular Medicare problem isn't that Democrats are refusing the GOP's proposed Medicare cuts.
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Hit & Run, Daily Kos and The New Republic
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Tough Spot For the Saviors of Medicare
Peter Suderman / Hit & Run: False Balance in the Fiscal Cliff Deal: Real Tax Hikes, Fake Spending Cuts
Russell Berman / The Hill:
'Disappointed' Boehner calls on Obama to get serious on spending in deficit talks
'Disappointed' Boehner calls on Obama to get serious on spending in deficit talks
Discussion: ABCNEWS, The Page and Taegan Goddard's …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell slams the door on raising tax rates in deficit deal
McConnell slams the door on raising tax rates in deficit deal
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and The Hill
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Inside the 'fiscal cliff' haggling over Medicare
Inside the 'fiscal cliff' haggling over Medicare
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Politico, Business Insider and Eschaton
Kyle Cheney / Politico: Providers: Doctors face 'worse' fiscal cliff
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider: Here's What The Fiscal Cliff Deal Is Starting To Look Like
Washington Examiner:
Morning Examiner: We're going over the cliff
Morning Examiner: We're going over the cliff
Discussion: Hit & Run, Daily Kos, THE WESTERN EXPERIENCE, Politico and Reuters
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run: Is John Boehner Dumb Enough to Take $400 Billion in Cuts a Decade From Now in Exchange …
Jed Lewison / Daily Kos: Politico: Fiscal framework emerging
Kate Nocera / Politico: Approaching cliff, Norquist mellows
Jake Sherman / Reuters: John Boehner to GOP: Stick together on taxes
Inside the talks: Fiscal framework emerges
Inside the talks: Fiscal framework emerges
Discussion: Firedoglake, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Dish
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: Cliff Notes — You have to read the tea-leaves right now …
Tom Cohen / CNN:
Mistrust continues to vex fiscal cliff talks
Mistrust continues to vex fiscal cliff talks
Discussion: New York Times and PoliPundit.com
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times: Fiscal Talks in Congress Seem to Reach Impasse
James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
Syrian Internet Is Off The Air — Starting at 10:26 UTC (12:26pm in Damascus), Syria's international Internet connectivity shut down. In the global routing table, all 84 of Syria's IP address blocks have become unreachable, effectively removing the country from the Internet.
Renesys Events / Internet Events Bulletin: 77 networks out in Syria
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: Syria Has Disappeared From the Internet
Charles Arthur / Guardian: Syria's internet cutoff easy to spot
Anne Barnard / New York Times: In Syria, Internet and Main Airport Shut Down
Cameron Scott / SocialTimes: Amid Conflict, Syria Drops Almost Entirely Offline
Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER USA NET: Obama Naivete Destabilizing the Middle East
Patrick Brennan / National Review: Syria Shuts Down Cell Service, Internet, Flights
Patrick Clark / Betabeat: Syria Is Off the Internet Amid Fighting in Damascus
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: Reports: Syria is cut off from the internet and how it may have happened
Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia: Breaking: Syrian Internet Down
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: Syria Goes Offline
Oliver Holmes / Reuters:
Damascus fighting cuts off Internet, airport
Damascus fighting cuts off Internet, airport
Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Los Angeles Times, The Week, Taylor Marsh and Guardian
Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online: The Internet Is Down in Syria
Martin Chulov / Guardian: Syrian rebels turn looted missiles on Assad's aircraft
New York Times:
U.S. Is Weighing Stronger Action in Syrian Conflict
U.S. Is Weighing Stronger Action in Syrian Conflict
Discussion: Weekly Standard, Weasel Zippers, Via Meadia, National Review, The Caucus, ABCNEWS and The Week
Lee Smith / Weekly Standard: Communications Blackout in Syria
Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia: After the Election, Obama's Thinking on Syria "Evolves"
Patrick Brennan / National Review: As Syria Teeters, U.S. Sidles Up to Rebels?
Ashley Southall / The Caucus: The Early Word: Frustrations
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS: Campaign Comes Full Circle (The Note)
Max Fisher / WorldViews:
Web monitor: 100 percent of Syria's Internet just shut down
Web monitor: 100 percent of Syria's Internet just shut down
Discussion: BBC, Wired, Guardian, The Verge, TechCrunch and Outside the Beltway
Noah Shachtman / Wired: Syria Has Just Been Taken Offline
Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: Syrian internet goes dark in the midst of violent upheaval, cause still unclear
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Syria Shuts Down Internet In Midst Of Uprising, Mobile Services And Land Lines Partially Down
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Syrians Shut Off From The Internet
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Drive to Unionize Fast-Food Workers Begins — After three years of working at the McDonald's restaurant on 51st Street and Broadway, Alterique Hall earns $8 an hour — and is yearning for something better. — So when he heard about an unusual campaign that aims to unionize dozens …
Discussion: American Prospect, Politicker, Washington Examiner, Weasel Zippers, Daily Kos, Firedoglake, Taylor Marsh and Jammie Wearing Fools
Catherine Ruetschlin / American Prospect: Fast Food Shouldn't Mean Low Wages
Colin Campbell / Politicker: Mayoral Candidates Back NYC's Fast-Food Strikers
Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner: Former New York City ACORN office working to unionize fast food workers
Laura Clawson / Daily Kos: Hundreds of New York City fast food workers strike
Josh Eidelson / Salon:
In rare strike, NYC fast-food workers walk out
In rare strike, NYC fast-food workers walk out
Discussion: Colorlines
Sarah Jaffe / The Atlantic Online:
McJobs Should Pay, Too: It's Time for Fast-Food Workers To Get Living Wages
McJobs Should Pay, Too: It's Time for Fast-Food Workers To Get Living Wages
Discussion: The Raw Story and OccupyWallSt News
Erick Erickson / RedState:
The Incestuous Bleeding of the Republican Party — If money is the root of all evil, for the Republican Party evil is located on the fifth floor of 66 Canal Center Plaza, Alexandria, VA 22314. — Strip away the candidate and coalition and it is on the fifth floor of 66 Canal Center Plaza …
Discussion: americanthinker.com, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Hinterland Gazette and Taylor Marsh
Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com: Who's getting rich off of GOP defeat?
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: Rebuilding from the grassroots up
Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE: UN CONSPIRES TO EXPEL PROMINENT JEWISH GROUP FROM PALESTINE VOTE — Today, for the first time, the United Nations will name Palestine a (non-member) "observer state" by first engaging in exactly the charge that they press against Israel: apartheid.
Discussion: The Jawa Report, Algemeiner.com, Israel Matzav and The PJ Tatler
Stable Hand / The Jawa Report: Israeli Ambassador to the UN Addresses UNGA Debate On "The Question of Palestine"..
Algemeiner.com: Head of Jewish NGO Banned From United Nations: Ability of Palestinians to Control UN Offices is "Shocking"
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: UN Conspires to Pack Assembly with Cheers for Palestinian Vote; Revokes Jewish NGO Access
CAMERA Snapshots:
Where's the Coverage? "Palestine" Doesn't Qualify as a State
Where's the Coverage? "Palestine" Doesn't Qualify as a State
Discussion: TIME, Hot Air, New York Times, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and IHT Rendezvous
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Germany reverses on Palestinian bid at UN General Assembly
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: U.N. non-member status for, um, what exactly?
Harvey Morris / IHT Rendezvous: Europe Divided Ahead of U.N. Palestinian Vote
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Photo of Officer Giving Boots to Barefoot Man Warms Hearts Online — On a cold November night in Times Square, Officer Lawrence Deprimo was working a counterterrorism post when he encountered an older, barefooted homeless man. The officer disappeared for a moment, then returned with a new pair of boots …
Anthony M. Destefano / Newsday: NYPD Officer Larry DePrimo's act of kindness becomes a Facebook sensation
Ricochet Conversations Feed: Mollie Hemingway, Ed. : Inasmuch As You Did It To One Of The Least Of These
Taylor Berman / Gawker: Arizona Tourist Takes Heartwarming Photo of NYPD Officer Giving New Pair of Boots to Homeless Man
Jen Carlson / Gothamist: NYPD Officer Secretly Photographed Doing Good, Purchasing Homeless Man $100 Boots
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine: NYPD Officer Caught On-Camera Doing Really Nice Thing
Joshua Green / Business Week:
The Science Behind Those Obama Campaign E-Mails — One fascination in a presidential race mostly bereft of intrigue was the strange, incessant, and weirdly overfamiliar e-mails that emanated from the Obama campaign. Anyone who shared an address with the campaign soon started receiving messages …
Discussion: Politico, The Week, Mediaite, Taegan Goddard's …, Washington Examiner and Washington Post
Jennifer Epstein / Politico: Obama campaign: 'There's more to come'
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite: Morning Joe Guest: Obama Campaign Used 'Monkeys Chained To Computers' To Create Email Subjects
Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner: Obama campaign: Profanity a hit in fundraising emails
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post: Obama supporters liked profanity, ugly e-mails, Hey'
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Big Issues Are Lost in Focus on Libya Talking Points — WASHINGTON — Three days after the lethal attack on the American Mission in Benghazi, Libya, Representative C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, asked intelligence agencies to write …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs, Right Wing News, the daily howler and The Moderate Voice
Clay Waters / NewsBusters.org blogs: NYTimes' Shane Laments How 'Four Pallid Sentences' Are Root of GOP Attacks on Rice Handling of Benghazi
William Teach / Right Wing News: NY Times: Hey, We're Missing The Big Issues While Focusing On Benghazi Talking Points
Bob Somerby / the daily howler: BANANA REPUBLIC BENGHAZI: Scott Shane!
Dorian De Wind / The Moderate Voice: What Motivates John McCain on Benghazi and Susan Rice? (Updates)
Wall Street Journal:
The Trouble With Susan Rice
The Trouble With Susan Rice
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Hot Air, Cognitive Dissidence and New York Times
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Scarborough: If the GOP wants to go after Susan Rice, why not go after her over her temperament?
Capper / Cognitive Dissidence: Rice-A-Phonies
Dane Schiller / Houston Chronicle:
Former President George H.W. Bush hospitalized in Houston — Former President George H.W. Bush remains in a Houston hospital, where he has been for seven days as doctors battle a lingering cough that has drawn concern, officials said Thursday. — Bush, 88, has bronchitis …
Discussion: Politico, Associated Press, The Hill and WJLA-TV
Katie Glueck / Politico: George H.W. Bush hospitalized, report says
Paul Davenport / Associated Press: Brewer rejects state-run health exchange for Ariz.
Daniel Strauss / The Hill: Former President George H. W. Bush hospitalized
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Booker could win Senate seat — New Jersey voters like Frank Lautenberg well enough. He has a 43/36 approval rating and in a hypothetical match up with Republican Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno he would lead right now by a 15 point margin at 48/33. — Democratic primary voters …
Discussion: The Fix, Taegan Goddard's … and Ballot Box
Aaron Blake / The Fix: For Cory Booker, the Senate is the ticket
Surveillance video shows violent confrontation at gas station — HOUSTON—As family members of a man who was shot by a Valero clerk in southeast Houston called for the store clerk's arrest, the store owner released surveillance video. — Alexander Calloway, 21, and his two cousins were trying …
Discussion: Moonbattery, The Last Refuge and The Gateway Pundit
Chuck Bennett / New York Post:
David Petraeus says he 'screwed up royally' in letter to old Army buddy — Ex-CIA chief David Petraeus took the blame for the extramarital affair that torpedoed his career, but his forgiving wife, Holly, is sticking by him, according to a newly revealed private letter.
Discussion: WorldViews, New York Magazine, CBS DC and Mediaite
Olga Khazan / WorldViews: Petraeus says he messed up 'royally'
Matt Higgins / CBS DC: Petraeus: 'I Screwed Up Royally'
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: David Petraeus In Handwritten Letter To Friend: 'I Screwed Up Royally'
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Mitt Romney face tattoo man does an about-face — Critics of Mitt Romney accused him of being a flip-flopper. Now one of his die-hard supporters is guilty of the same charge. — Eric Hartsburg, the 30-year-old resident of Michigan City, Ind., inked the Romney/Ryan campaign's distinctive …
Discussion: Addicting Info, Mediaite, New York Magazine, Boston Globe, Gawker, First Read and The Raw Story
Justin Acuff / Addicting Info: Man With Romney Face Tattoo Has Change Of Heart
Anjali Sareen / Mediaite: Romney Face Tattoo Guy Pulls An About-Face, Will Laser Off Failed Republican Campaign Logo
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine: 'Gifts' Remark Costs Romney Another Supporter, One Facial Tattoo
Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker: Romney Face Tat Guy Wants the Ink Removed, Says Romney Has 'No Dignity'
Brady Dennis / Washington Post:
Mortgage-interest deduction could be on the table in 'fiscal cliff' debate — Of all the deductions woven into the sprawling U.S. tax code, few have been more fiercely guarded than the enormous tax break that lets homeowners deduct the interest they pay on their mortgages.
Discussion: Guardian, americanthinker.com, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and National Review
Heidi Moore / Guardian: Mortgage interest rate tax deduction scores political points - but little else
Hugh Hewitt / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog: "People account for it when they think about how much house they could afford to buy.
Jessica Yellin / CNN:
White House personnel shuffle: Who's on the list — Washington (CNN) - Staff and cabinet reshuffles are one of the many unknowns in Washington as impending departures leave question marks about who will fill the roles of treasury secretary, chief of staff, secretary of state and secretary of defense.
Discussion: Politico
Josh Gerstein / Politico: White House threatens veto of defense bill
Summer Anne Burton / BuzzFeed:
Barack Obama Now Has A Fish Named After Him — Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Teddy Roosevelt, and Jimmy Carter are also honored by the names of these new freshwater darter species. — Last week, five new fish species were given some left-leaning names after being recognized as distinct species for the first time.
Discussion: Washington Examiner, Stinque and The Daily Caller
Jenny Rogers / Washington Examiner: New fish species named for Obama
Nojo / Stinque: Hail to the Spangled Darter
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Rick Warren: Churches Are 'Probably' Responsible For Negative Attitudes Towards Gays — Pastor Rick Warren admitted on CNN on Thursday that Evangelical churches are at least partly responsible for some of the negative attitudes towards gay and lesbian people.
Discussion: Mediaite, The Raw Story, Shakesville, Christian Today Australia and Crooks and Liars
Anjali Sareen / Mediaite: Pastor Rick Warren To CNN: Churches Are 'Probaby' Responsible For Negative Attitudes Towards Gays
David Edwards / The Raw Story: Rick Warren: Churches 'probably' responsible for negative views on LGBT people
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: Rick Warren Doesn't Believe in Evolution
Stoyan Zaimov / Christian Today Australia: Rick Warren tolerance towards homosexuals does not mean approving homosexuality
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
National Income and Product Accounts Gross Domestic Product, 3rd quarter 2012 (second estimate); Corporate Profits, 3rd quarter 2012 (preliminary estimate) — Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States …
Discussion: New York Times, Economix, BBC, Wonkblog, AEIdeas, Business Insider, The Maddow Blog and Balloon Juice
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times: U.S. Growth Revised Up, but Year-End Slowdown Is Feared
Catherine Rampell / Economix: Record Corporate Profits
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas: Well, I think we have a final verdict on the Obama stimulus
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog: Economic growth improves significantly


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Sharing a platform with the Peugeot Boxer and Fiat Ducato, Citroen's Relay scores with keen pricing and strong equipment levels. If you thought this sector of the commercial vehicle market began and ended with the Ford Transit, you'll find the Relay offers a wholly convincing alternative, with features you wouldn't expect at this price point. Thanks to a fresh range of Euro6 BlueHDi diesel engines, it's now more efficient too.
If you're looking for a large panel van, the choices are dizzying. Many manufacturers all clamour for your money, each offering a range of several hundred model permutations that, when broken down, all do much the same thing. How on earth do you make a selection and have any confidence that it's the right one? Or, come to that, even a good one? The good news first. The van market has become so competitive in recent years that the dross has been shaken out. The other factor that's going to make choosing a big van so much easier is that there are basically just four fundamental vehicle families to choose from. You can go for the trusty Transit from Ford, the high-end Volkswagen Crafter/Mercedes Sprinter package, the increasingly popular Renault Master/Vauxhall Movano/Nissan NV400 tie-up or the van we take a look at here, the Citroen Relay, also sold as Peugeot Boxer and Fiat Ducato. The Relay's been with us since 2007 but the latest model with its BlueHDi engine technology looks best set to crack some seriously big numbers in the UK sales charts.
Driving Experience
The Relay goes to battle armed with a three BlueHDi powerplants. Buyers get to choose from 120, 140 or 165PS units - and all are mated to a six-speed, all-synchromesh manual gearbox. All the engines are of 2.0-litre capacity and have been optimised for class-leading fuel economy. There's also the option of a full-electric version. Citroen has also listened to feedback from existing Relay users who expressed a concern that road noise in the cabin was higher than the class benchmark and this Relay features redesigned shock absorber mountings to reduce the amount of suspension bump and thump entering the cabin. The brakes have been beefed up as well, with dimensional and tolerance changes to make them more effective. They're quieter in operation as well.
Design and Build
If you haven't tried a Relay for some time, you may not be up to speed with the way that the current generation design has been much improved in recent years. The front end features large high-mounted headlights incorporating daytime running lights. It also incorporates a multi-piece front bumper to minimise accident damage and reduce repair costs. Climb inside and you'll be greeted by surprisingly high quality cab trim and a logical dashboard layout. The Relay features a dual passenger seat incorporating a drop-down desk unit. Up to ten in-cab storage areas are available, including the glovebox, a dash-mounted document clip and various open or lidded compartments on the dashboard. In addition, there are large door pockets, storage space beneath the passenger seat and a sizeable 22-litre overhead storage compartment. There's been a clear effort not just to improve the perception of quality in the cab but also to beef up high use, high stress items such as the rear doors. These have been reinforced and higher strength door hinges are now used. Similarly, the sliding side load doors have benefited from reinforced rails, re-designed runners and improved door locks - all of which raise durability and security standards.
Market and Model
Catering for the requirements of numerous trades, the Citroen Relay range comprises a wide range of body styles, with four lengths (L1, L2, L3, L4) on three wheelbases (3.00m, 3.45m, 4.04m) and with three roof heights (H1, H2, H3). Relay van is available in eight body styles including a Crew Van, with load volume ranging from 8m3 to 17m3 for the panel vans. There's even the option of a full-electric version. Prices open at around £24,000 excluding VAT for a 30 L1H1 BlueHDi 120 6-speed manual and top out at just over £33,000 for the 35 Heavy series models. There's a choice of four trim levels, 'X', 'Worker', 'Enterprise' and 'Drive'. The 'Enterprise' variants most will choose get a centre-dash infotainment touch screen, air con, parking sensors, cruise control and a perimetric and volumetric alarm as standard. All Relay models get dark grey and black & red twill seat cloth, and have a smartly finished dashboard that can incorporate a 5-inch colour LCD screen for the media system and an optional reversing camera. That's on top of the electric windows and electrically operated and heated door mirrors that are standard, together with a DAB radio, steering wheel-mounted audio controls and a Bluetooth system. To ensure a comfortable driving position, the steering wheel adjusts for both rake and reach.
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Key Standard Features*
- 15" steel wheels
- Height adjustable single passenger seat with armrest and lumbar adjustment
- Central dash folding clipboard
- Wider door mirrors - 2200mm
- Daytime running lights
- Solid - Tiziano red
- Solid - Polar white
- Solid - Pacific blue
- Solid - Carioca yellow
- Solid - Imperial blue
- Magnet cloth - Black with red twill
|Body Glass
|Two speed intermittent front wipers
|Electric front windows
|Tinted windows
|Side window demisters
|Electronic brake force distribution (EBFD)
|Heavy duty reinforced twin leaf rear suspension
|Bluetooth with USB box
|Driver Aids
|Variable PAS
|Driver Convenience
|Locking fuel cap
|Driver Information
|Outside temperature gauge
|Gearshift indicator
|Door open warning light
|Speedometer with digital odometer and digital trip recorder
|Rev counter
|Trip computer
|Low fuel warning light
|Handbrake on warning light
|Seatbelt warning indicator
|Programmable overspeed warning
|Digital clock
|Driving Mirrors
|Dipping rear view mirror
|Electrically adjustable + heated door mirrors
|Extended wiring at rear of vehicle
|Reinforced battery (110Ah)
|Convertor socket
|12V socket on central dashboard console
|Steering wheel controls for remote audio
|4 speakers
|Radio/CD and mp3 player
|Digital radio (DAB)
|Exterior Lights
|Halogen headlights with clear polycarbonate lenses
|Rear fog lights and twin reversing lights
|Remote headlight adjustment from facia
|Internally adjustable headlights
|Indicators in front door mirrors
|Manual air conditioning
|Interior Features
|Reach adjustable steering column
|Front door pockets
|Front door armrest
|Side light, headlamp indicator and battery charge warning
|Two glove boxes
|Driver and passenger sun visors
|Front door bins
|Passengers underseat storage tray
|Passenger grab handle
|Overhead storage shelf
|Height adjustable steering wheel
|Under dash storage areas
|Collapsible document clipboard
|Cup holder
|Portable storage container on central dashboard console
|Lockable central glovebox - can accommodate laptop
|Storage bin in top of dashboard
|Magnet cloth upholstery
|Interior Lights
|Load compartment interior light
|Courtesy light
|Auto illumination of cab light via ceiling mount button
|Drivers airbag
|Brake pad wear indicator
|3 point inertia reel seatbelts with pretensioners
|Dual passenger seat
|Driver seat height adjuster
|Anti-submarining seats
|Height adjustable front headrests
|Driver seat height and lumbar adjust
|Visible Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)
|Lights on alarm
|Central locking with remote control
|Auto door locking
|Wheels - Spare
|Full size spare wheel
|5" Colour touch screen with audio system
|15" steel wheels
|Uprated tyres - 225/70 R15
|Driver Convenience
|Cruise control and variable speed limiter
|Height adjustable single passenger seat with armrest and lumbar adjustment
|Exterior Body Features
|Underbody protection
|Interior Features
|Central dash folding clipboard
|Body Glass
|Automatic windscreen wipers and headlamps
|Intelligent traction control
|Driving Mirrors
|Wider door mirrors - 2200mm
|Extended door mirrors (2.35m total width)
|Exterior Lights
|Headlight washers and front fog lights
|Front fog lights
|Daytime running lights
|LED Daytime running lights
|Front passenger airbag
|Side and curtain airbags
|Tyre pressure sensors
|Wheels - Alloys
|15" alloy wheels
|Perimetric alarm with anti-lift alarm
|Paint - Solid
|Solid - Tiziano red
|Solid - Polar white
|Solid - Pacific blue
|Solid - Carioca yellow
|Solid - Imperial blue
|Trim - Cloth
|Magnet cloth - Black with red twill
|Driver Aids
|Active safety brake and lane departure warning
|0 to 60
|0 to 62
|Engine Power KW
|Engine Power RPM
|Engine Torque LBS.FT
|Engine Torque MKG
|Engine Torque NM
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Antonio Pedro Coutinho shared with us the entry he designed with Estelle Dugachard, Fabiana Araújo, Nanda Eskes, Ricardo Caruana for the competition regarding the expansion of the Environment Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The main challenge dealt in this competition was finding a way where the architecture would be inserted on the ecosystem where it was being planned; the magnificent Botanical Garden of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
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Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and Immigrants in the United States
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This entry presents introductory information on asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants in the United States, including distinctions among them, major regions of origin, demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, challenges in social and cultural adaptation, and best practices for social work with these populations.
Keywords: asylum seekers, cultural adaptation, immigrants, refugees, United States
The percentage of foreign-born people in the United States is increasing, having grown from 11% in 2000 to 13% in 2010 (Immigration Policy Center, 2012). At present, nearly 40 million members of the U.S. population are foreign born (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012). Thus, all social workers are likely to encounter asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants in their practice, and it is essential that they be prepared to work effectively with these populations.
There are many differing categories of international migrants. Table 1 shows some common conceptual categories. The table categorizes the foreign born as either voluntary or forced migrants, and as either permanent or temporary. These categories are intended to provide a guiding framework; in reality, such distinctions are not always clear cut. For example, many international migrants experience a mixture of both voluntary and forced reasons for migration.
Table 1 Conceptual Categories of International Migrants
Length of Residence
Impetus for migration
Victims of atrocities
International adoptees
International students
Asylum seekers
Victims of disasters
Professionals on assignment
Natural disasters
Guest workers
Human-made disasters
Seasonal workers
Persons in any of these categories may have legal or illegal status. This is a guiding framework only. Categorical distinctions are not always clear cut in reality. Persons may move from one cell to another over time.
Voluntary, permanent international migrants include immigrants and international adoptees. Immigrants are persons who leave their countries of their own will, usually in search of better economic opportunities. International adoptees whose birth parents and home governments have consented to their adoption abroad would also be considered voluntary permanent migrants (as minors, they themselves are not considered capable of giving consent; thus their parents' or guardians' consent makes this a voluntary situation).
Forced migrants are those who have left their homelands because they had no other choice. In the permanent category, these include victims of atrocities, such as refugees who are victims of war and other human rights violations and cannot return to their countries because of fear of persecution.
Temporary voluntary migrants include students, tourists, and so forth, who intend to stay in the country a limited period of time and then return to their homelands. Temporary forced migrants include asylum seekers; these are persons making a claim for refugee status, for whom a decision is pending. This status is temporary because ultimately they are either granted refugee status or they are ordered to return to their homeland. Victims of natural and human-made disasters are also usually temporary migrants, as they typically return to their homelands after the disaster has abated.
Persons in any of these conceptual categories may have legal or illegal status. Legal migrants are those who are authorized to live in the country; illegal migrants are those who entered the country either without authorization or with fraudulent passports, or overstayed their visas. People may also move from one cell to another. For example, students or tourists who stay in the country after their visas have expired become illegal, permanent immigrants.
Regions of Origin
Among the foreign born in 2010, 53.1% were born in Latin America or the Caribbean, 28.2% in Asia, 12.1% in Europe, and the remaining 6.6% in other regions of the world (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012).
Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics
Table 2 provides a composite profile of the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the foreign born. It should be noted, however, that the foreign born are a very heterogeneous population, and there is great variability in these characteristics.
Table 2 Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics of the Foreign Born
Geographic distribution
In 2010 about 74% of foreign-born persons lived in 10 states: California, New York, Texas, Florida, New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts, Georgia, Virginia, and Washington (in descending order of the percentage of the foreign-born population that resides in the state). The remaining 26% was dispersed throughout the remaining states, each with 2% or less of the foreign-born population.
In 2010, 80.5% of the foreign born were 18–64 years old, whereas 60.3% of natives were in this age group. More specifically, 50.3% of the foreign born, but 34.5% of the native population, were aged 18–44 years. Among the foreign born, 30.2% were 45–64 years old, compared with 25.8% of natives. The percentage of the foreign born that was aged 65 years and over differed slightly from that of the native population (12.4%, compared with 13.2%). In contrast, 7.1% of the foreign born, but 26.5% of the native population, were less than 18 years old. The small proportion of foreign born in the youngest age group occurred because most of the children of foreign-born parents were born in the United States and thus are natives.
Year of entry
Among the foreign born in 2010, 34.7% entered the United States since 2000, 27.2% came in the 1990s, 18.6% came in the 1980s, and the remaining 19.6% arrived before 1980.
Family household size and composition
In 2010, the average household size with a foreign-born householder was 3.4 people, compared to 2.5 among households with a native householder. Among the population 15 years and older, the foreign born were more likely than natives to be currently married (58.5% compared with 47.0%).
Educational attainment
The foreign born aged 25 years and over were less likely to have graduated from high school than were natives the same age (68.3% and 89.0%, respectively). The percentage of the foreign born with a bachelor's degree or more education (27.0%) was similar to that of the native population (28.4%).
Economic characteristics
Labor force participation
In 2010, 67.7% of the foreign born were in the labor force, compared with 63.8% of natives.
In 2010, the foreign born were more likely than the native-born to work in jobs in service (25.1% vs. 16.6%), construction (13.0% vs. 8.4%), and production (15.5% vs. 11.2%). The foreign born were less likely to work in management, business, science, and arts occupations (28.6% vs. 37.4%).
In 2010, the median income of foreign-born households was $46,224, compared with $50,541 for native households.
In 2010, 18.8% of the foreign born were living below the poverty level, compared with 14.8% of natives.
Health Insurance
In 2010, 65.7% of the foreign born had health insurance, compared to 87.3% of the native born.
Note. From the U.S. Census Bureau, The foreign-born population in the United States, 2012.
Challenges in Social and Cultural Adaptation
International migrants are likely to encounter challenges in numerous areas of adaptation, including health; mental health; family dynamics; language, education, and economic well-being; and interethnic relations (Potocky-Tripodi, 2002).
International migrants often face inadequate health care access due to structural barriers, financial barriers, and personal and cultural barriers. In general, the health status of ethnic minorities, including many immigrants and refugees, tends to be worse than that of White Americans. These disparities are due to a complex combination of socioeconomic, physiological, psychological, societal, and cultural factors. Relevant cultural factors include health beliefs and health practices, which encompass cultural concepts of health and illness, folk illness, traditional therapeutic practices, and the integration of traditional and conventional healing systems. Psychosocial issues are also related to the health and health care of immigrants and refugees, including treatment adherence, somatization, and family involvement (Potocky-Tripodi, 2002).
Mental Health
International migrants are at risk of developing mental health problems due to stressors experienced during the migration process. These stressors may include loss of family members, friends, home, and the familiar environment; traumatic experiences such as war, famine, violence, rape, enslavement, imprisonment, and torture; a hasty and dangerous departure; dangerous transit experiences; loss of status; language problems; employment problems; legal problems; social isolation; family conflict; role changes; discrimination, racism, and xenophobia; and acculturative stress.
Some of these experiences are common to almost all international migrants, whereas others, such as traumatic experiences, are experienced only by some, particularly by forced migrants. Additionally, the mental health of international migrants is influenced by cultural factors. These include conceptualizations of mental health, diagnosis and symptom expression, communication styles, and service utilization. The most commonly observed mental health problems of international migrants include grief, alienation and loneliness, decreased self-esteem, depression, anxiety, somatization, paranoia, guilt, posttraumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse (Potocky-Tripodi, 2002).
Family Dynamics
The stressors of the migration process typically lead to changes in family roles and dynamics. In some cases, these stressors may overcome a family's ability to cope, resulting in marital and intergenerational conflicts, which may include domestic violence, child abuse, and elder abuse. In addition to family conflicts, family members, particularly adolescents and the elderly, experience unique life cycle issues that are affected by migration. These issues center on identity, meaning, and family expectations (Potocky-Tripodi, 2002).
Language, Education, and Economic Well-Being
Most international migrants are highly motivated to learn English, as evidenced by high demand for English-as-a-Second Language classes (Center for Adult English Language Acquisition, 2012). For most migrants, English ability improves with length of residence. However, the rate of language acquisition depends on many factors, including age, education, time available for language learning, level of literacy in the native language, opportunities to interact with native English speakers, and the value that the individual places on being bilingual. Across generations, the level of English language acquisition appears to be increasing, and immigrant and refugee children acquire English much faster than their parents. It is generally accepted that bilingualism is the desired outcome for both children and adults. However, it is important to recognize that being bilingual does not necessarily mean equal proficiency in both languages. This has implications for the level of written and oral translation in reaching those who speak another language.
The educational attainment of adult international migrants is clustered at the low and high ends of the educational spectrum. While many children in immigrant and refugee families perform well in school, many are also disadvantaged by low family socioeconomic status, limited English proficiency, late entry into the U.S. school system, and assimilation into disadvantaged minority groups.
The economic well-being of immigrants and refugees varies widely and is influenced by numerous factors, including financial capital, human capital, social capital, household composition, and community contexts (Potocky-Tripodi, 2002).
Interethnic Relations
Anti-immigrant sentiments and policies rise and fall in cycles that are linked to changing economic and political conditions. Anti-immigrant sentiments are also linked to prejudice, racism, and discrimination. This is an era when the anti-immigrant sentiment is high. These attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors have multiple causes, including economic, psychological, social, and power-conflict factors. Relations between the foreign-born and the native-born population tend to be characterized by separation, conflict, and competition in some communities (Potocky-Tripodi, 2002).
Best Practices
Social work best practices for working with international migrants have the following fundamental features: they are (1) human rights based, (2) strengths based, (3) evidence based, (4) holistic, and (5) multilevel.
Human Rights Base
International migrants, particularly those who are undocumented, are often viewed by natives as "subhuman" and not deserving of the same rights as humans. It is essential that social workers combat this attitude and its resultant policies and practices. Therefore, a human rights base is essential to practice with this population (Ife, 2008).
Strengths Base
Best practices for social work with international migrants use a strengths perspective (Saleebey, 2008) that "emphasizes the discovery of strengths in the person and the culture, the motivation toward perseverance and change based on inner strength and endurance, and the environment as full of resources at the family, group, and community levels" (Lum & Lu, 2007, p. 202). The social worker should find out what coping strategies and problem resolution strategies the client has successfully used in the past. These strengths should then be built upon for addressing the current problem.
Evidence Base
This author defines evidence-based practitioners as those who (a) use interventions that have evidence of effectiveness based on published evaluations, whenever available, and (b) systematically evaluate their effectiveness through practice or program evaluation methods, or both. Thus, evidence-based social workers must know what interventions have been demonstrated to be effective in resolving particular problems among particular clients. However, many interventions have not been specifically evaluated for international migrant clients. Thus, workers must be able to determine what interventions, or modifications of interventions, appear most promising for these clients based on demonstrated effectiveness for other populations. In many cases, social workers will adapt existing interventions or programs to make them culturally compatible for international migrants. Therefore, social workers need to evaluate their practice with these populations to determine the effectiveness of these adaptations, and to disseminate their findings in order to add to the profession's knowledge base about what works for these clients.
Holistic Practice
As described earlier, international migrants usually are confronted with a multitude of challenges. Thus, effective social workers must identify, assess, and intervene with the totality of the problems that clients are facing. For this reason, case management is an essential underpinning of best practices with these populations.
Multilevel Practice
Problems that are the target of social work practice may be located at three possible levels: micro (individual, family, and small group), meso (local communities and organizations), and macro (complex organizations or systems). For international migrants, problems often lie in the meso or macro levels in the form of societal discrimination as manifested in factors such as lack of access to health care or employment. In such cases, meso- and macro-level interventions are required, since working only with the client is highly unlikely to resolve the problem. To aim for change in the client when the problem really lies in the society would further the client's oppression; it would make the helping relationship a means of oppression rather than a means of help.
Summary of Best Practices
Table 3 summarizes the best practices that meet the aforementioned criteria and that address each of the areas of challenge described earlier (Potocky-Tripodi, 2002).
Table 3 Best Practice Interventions for Immigrant and Refugee Populations
Macro practices
• Community needs assessment
• Policy and program advocacy and planning
• Community consultation, education, and development
Meso practices
• Interdisciplinary and interagency collaboration
• Organizational development
Micro practices
• Case identification
• Assessment of health beliefs and treatment expectations
• Case management
• Health education and counseling
• Psychosocial treatment
Mental health
• Case management
• Supportive counseling
• Information and skills training
• Crisis intervention
• Cognitive and behavioral therapies
• Interpersonal psychotherapy
Family conflict
• Marital and family therapies: behavioral, cognitive, structural–strategic, psychoeducational, and family systems
• Family preservation
• Ethnic identity and acculturation interventions
• Problem-solving therapy
• Reminiscence therapy
Language and education
• Referral, case advocacy, and follow-up
• Supportive counseling
• Psychosocial interventions
Economic well-being
• Job search assistance, coaching, and mentoring
• Self-employment assistance
• Vocational education and career counseling
• Professional recertification
• Child care
Interethnic relations
• Structured interethnic contact
• Conflict resolution
• Client education
• Antiracist psychotherapy
Social work practice with immigrants and refugees requires specialized knowledge of the unique issues of these populations. This entry has provided introductory information as a foundation for compassionate and effective service delivery.
Center for Adult English Language Acquisition. (2012). ESL resources. Retrieved June 2012, from http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/faqs.html
Ife, J. (2008). Human rights and social work: Towards rights-based practice (Rev ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.Find this resource:
Immigration Policy Center. (2012). Strength in diversity: The economic and political clout of immigrants, Latinos, and Asians in the United States. Retrieved April 13 2013, from http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/docs/Strength%20in%20Diversity%20updated%20061912.pdf
Lum, D., & Lu, Y. E. (2007). Skill development. In D. Lum (Ed.), Culturally competent practice: A framework for understanding diverse groups and justice issues (3rd ed., pp. 185–225). Belmont, CA: Thomson.Find this resource:
Potocky-Tripodi, M. (2002). Best practices for social work with refugees and immigrants. New York: Columbia University Press.Find this resource:
Saleebey, D. (2008). The strengths perspective in social work practice (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.Find this resource:
U.S. Census Bureau. (2012). The foreign-born population in the United States: 2010.Retrieved April 13, 2013 from http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/acs-19.pdf.
Further Reading
Chang-Muy, F., & Congress, E. P. (Eds.). (2007). Social work with immigrants and refugees: Legal issues, clinical skills, and advocacy. New York: Springer.Find this resource:
Potocky-Tripodi, M. (2002). Best practices for social work with refugees and immigrants. New York: Columbia University Press.Find this resource:
Segal, U. A., & Elliott, D. (Eds.). (2012). Refugees worldwide. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.Find this resource:
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees. http://www.gcir.org
Migration Policy Institute. http://www.migrationpolicy.org
National Association of Social Workers Indicators for the Achievement of the Standards for Cultural Competence. http://www.socialworkers.org/practice/standards/NASWCulturalStandardsIndicators2006.pdf


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Let $\{a_n\}$ be a sequence. We say $\{a_n\}$ is summable if the sequence $\{s_n\}$ defined by $$s_1=a_1\\s_{n+1}=s_n+a_{n+1}$$
converges to $\ell\in\Bbb R$, and write $$\sum\limits_{n = 1}^\infty {{a_n}} = \ell $$
$(1)$ Suppose $\{a_n\}$ is of non-negative terms, and that it is not summable, that is $\lim {s_n}$ fails to exist. Show that $$\left\{ {\frac{{{a_n}}}{{1 + {a_n}}}} \right\}$$ is not summable either.
Now, since $$0 \leqslant \frac{{{a_n}}}{{1 + {a_n}}} \leqslant {a_n}$$ for each $n$, $\{a_n\}$ being summable implies $\left\{ {\dfrac{{{a_n}}}{{1 + {a_n}}}} \right\}$ also is (monotone convergence). I need to show the converse of this, but I can see no way to prove it. Since $a_n\geq0$, the partial sums $${s_N} = \sum\limits_{n = 1}^N {{a_n}} $$can be made as large as we want.


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Gaddafi's ghost: The spillover from Libya's lawlessness
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Mali's not the only country feeling the spillover effect of Libya's lawlessness as Gaddafi's arsenal gets spent and fighters fan out across the region. The cross-border attack on an Algerian gas complex has certainly caught the West's attention. As for Libyans, the challenge is to disarm local militias.
- William JORDAN, Former Deputy Chief of Mission of the US State Department in Algiers;
- Paul MELLY, Associate Fellow of the Africa Programme, Chatham House;
- Oliver MILES, Former British Ambassador to Libya;
- Radidja NEMAR, Junior Researcher at IRSEM (Military Academy French Strategic Institute), Visiting Researcher at Yale Law School.
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New Year - New Fitness Classes for Obese Teens
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Sport Centres across Hastings are taking drastic measures to help tackle obesity in the UK as first-hand fitness classes and gym sessions are introduced to teenagers
Hastings students petition for cheaper rail fares
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Hastings students are still hoping for a Unizone extension to cheapen inter campus rail fare.
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France manhunt continues as police deal with two different hostage situations
Green party only second to Labour for students
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The Green Party rises above the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in student support, survey finds.
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One in five parents in the UK may give up work altogether because of the rising costs in childcare, latest results show.


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Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna won't automatically renew its agreement with Summa Health System, but will be "seriously considering" a new agreement with the hospital system as it moves into not-for profit-status, said Stephen Colecchi, president and CEO of Robinson Memorial.
Robinson Memorial has been an "affiliated member" of the Summa system since 2007. The agreement expires at the end of 2013, but the agreement was set to automatically renew.
However, when Robinson Memorial completes its process of becoming a nonprofit hospital, the agreement will require "significant changes." And since Robinson is expected to obtain that status before the end of 2013, Colecchi said, both parties made a "mutual decision" not to let the agreement automatically renew.
For now, Colecchi said, "everything remains status quo" as the contract doesn't expire until the end of the year. Over the next few months, Robinson Memorial will explore a more appropriate model for affiliation going forward.
"We're starting to take a closer look at what a new affiliation with Summa would look like," he said. "We will start to look at all partnership models."
"In addition, as a not-for-profit, Robinson can avail itself of new partnership business models, models that Robinson could not previously consider because of the legal restrictions imposed on it as a county owned hospital," Colecchi stated in a memo to board members and staff. "Robinson and Summa believe it to be in the best interests of both parties that we jointly explore in more detail those various partnership business models."
Robinson applied for tax exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service on Jan. 28. A decision on that application is expected in the third quarter of the year.
"Once that status is granted, we will be able to officially operate Robinson Memorial Hospital as not for profit," he said.
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Romance with the regime?
By Peter Brookes (bio)
Just as Team Obama tries to make us feel all warm and fuzzy about relations with Iran due to perceived "progress" on the interim (but not nearly final) nuclear deal, Tehran goes and blows it with some, shall we say, "hateful" acts.
For instance, after the United States and others started releasing frozen Iranian assets as part of the new nuke agreement, Tehran announced last week that they're sending warships to patrol our East coast.
The latest reports indicate that two Iranian naval vessels are somewhere near the southern tip of Africa and would soon be rounding the Cape of Good Hope and heading our way.
Of course, this isn't the first time Iran claimed their "fleet" was coming to shadow our shoreline — without result.
But while the Iranian naval task force doesn't currently pose a threat (due to a lack of weapon's punch) that could change if Iran joins the atomic bomb association and arms its ships with nukes in the future.
For the moment, the flotilla — which will almost certainly stay outside our territorial waters (12 miles) unless it wants to get spanked by the U.S. Navy — is meant to send a message at home and abroad.
Domestically, it's the regime's attempt to show strength and anti-Uncle Sam resolve to hardliners while negotiating with America over their nuclear program to allay concerns that they're going soft on the "Big Satan."
Overseas, Tehran wants to give Washington a taste of its own "medicine" by projecting power (if you can call it that) into our 'hood in an effort to get us to withdraw our ships from the Middle East — especially the Persian Gulf.
In Tehran's view, it's called the "Persian Gulf" for good reason.
But the ships are a silly sideshow compared to the more worrisome news on the ballistic missile front days before the parties reassemble in Geneva for the next round of talks aimed at a final nuclear deal.
It seems Iran is well on its way to developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that can reach the United States by 2015. That's right: next year. Our spooks confirmed that assessment this week in Senate testimony.
In fact, besides having the most active missile program in the Middle East, Tehran this week reportedly tested new missiles (e.g., surface-surface, air-surface, and long-range) to mark the 35th anniversary of their Islamic revolution.
The regime also made it clear through its news outlets that it has no plans to negotiate its ICBM program away in Geneva as part of a nuclear framework; this reportedly runs directly counter to Team Obama's plans.
The question is: Why do you need an ICBM unless you plan to put a nuke atop it? The answer is you don't.
The point here is the chance of romance with the regime is remote. It probably makes more sense to skip the candy and flowers and spend it on something more practical like missile defense to blunt Iran's insincere advances.
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Well, so much for that mystery. Yesterday we learned that Samsung's next Unpacked event will be taking place in Berlin on August 29, but at the time the company didn't say what it was planning to show. That's apparently changed now, as a Samsung spokesperson has told Reuters that "the next Galaxy Note" will be shown at the gathering. No other details of the device were mentioned.
The timing for a new Galaxy Note makes sense, as the original Note was first introduced at IFA 2011, and this new Unpacked event will be taking place right before the IFA 2012 show kicks off. As for what makes this new Galaxy Note tick, the rumor mill has claimed that we can expect features like a 5.5-inch display and quad-core processor. With August 29 less than four weeks away, it won't be long before lovers of large phones have a new device to lust after, so keep it locked to PhoneDog for more!
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My wife gave me for my birthday on Saturday a compilation collection of 15 World War II films. I immediately noticed one of the titles: Go For Broke (1951). It had been over thirty years since I last viewed that film and I watched it last night and greatly enjoyed it.
Go For Broke, tells the story of the 442nd regimental combat team during World War II. Made up of first generation Japanese-Americans, Nisei, the 442nd, along with the 100th Infantry battalion, made up of Nisei from Hawaii and which became associated with the 442nd, fought in Italy, France and Germany. Many of the Japanese-American actors in the film were combat veterans of the 442nd which lends the film a very realistic, almost documentary feel, especially in the combat sequences.
The film opens in 1943 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi where the men of the 442nd are being trained. Van Johnson, portraying Lieutenant Michael Grayson, is a "90 day wonder", an enlisted man commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant after completing a 90 days officer's candidate school. Prior to officer's candidate school he had been a member of the 36th National Guard Division, one of several National Guard units from Texas that fought in World War II, sometimes waggishly refered to as the Texan Army. Grayson was hoping that he would be reassigned to the 36th and is dismayed to find that he will be leading Japanese-American troops, sharing to the full the prejudice that most Americans felt against everything Japanese following Pearl Harbor. He immediately asks Colonel Charles W. Pence, portrayed by Warner Anderson, for a transfer to the 36th. Pence quickly realizes, despite the denials of Grayson, that he is prejudiced against the Japanese-Americans, and informs him in no uncertain terms that his men are loyal Americans, that there will no be transfer, and that he is to take up his duties as a platoon commander, a 40 man unit, immediately. The scene shifts to the platoon, where the men are relaxing in the barracks. Other than their ancestry, and different slang, viewers quickly realize that they are like other American soldiers, griping about the Army, wondering what is going on back home, playing craps, etc. Grayson and his men are a poor fit initially, but he does his job and helps turn them into soldiers. Read the rest of this entry »


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Yes to the Fence
By Barry Rubin
Israel's most urgent strategic need today is the completion of a comprehensive security fence along the edge of the West Bank. At home, failure to appreciate this vital effort is extraordinarily foolish. Abroad, opponents are denying Israel the most elementary right of defense for its citizens, thus ensuring a longer, bloodier conflict. Moreover, the controversies over the precise route of the fence are a needless distraction.
The current - more limited - plan for the fence's route would affect a tiny portion of the West Bank land and very few Palestinians. But like everything about the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the fence issue has become wrapped in misperceptions and outright lies. Supposedly, the Palestinians want their own state, separate from and alongside Israel. Anything that sets off these two territories, then, is a step in that direction and is in their interests.
But the Palestinian leadership campaigned against the fence, and indeed against the idea of permanent separation initiated by former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, for two reasons.
* First, because the Palestinian leadership's main strategy is based on Israel's population being vulnerable to terrorism.
* Second, because Yasser Arafat's goal remains the conquest of Israel rather than achieving an independent Palestinian state. A state, in his thinking, can be accepted only if it does not interfere with the continued struggle to get everything.
Yet, much of the world has accepted the anti-fence argument. It is portrayed in cartoons as a tool of apartheid, even genocide, or an attempt to grab large portions of the West Bank.
Such is the luxury of people who can pretend that the only problem in the Middle East is Israel's attempt to defend itself, ignoring that there have been scores of attacks across what is actually an open border.
Suicide bombers easily walk or are driven around scattered checkpoints. Explosives are smuggled with relatively little difficulty. Any country faced with such a situation would build a barrier and no one would challenge that right.
Moreover, anti-Israel claims regarding the fence ignore that opposition to it within Israel has come from the right wing.
To them, the fence does not represent "seizing" 3 percent of the West Bank, but in effect giving up 97 percent. Those who embrace this cynical approach believe they will get more support if everyone within Israel face risks equal to those of settlers who have chosen to live deep inside the West Bank or Gaza Strip.
But such right-wing opposition to the fence is a serious mistake. By improving Israel's defenses, a barrier will open up forces and resources which will enable the army to better concentrate on defending those who live beyond it [i.e., the settlements in the West Bank].
And by reducing Israeli casualties it will strengthen the country's political will and economic ability to sustain this imposed war.
While the fence does symbolize Israel's willingness in principle to give up the vast majority of the West Bank, it is a temporary measure against an immediate threat.
This is easily demonstrated by precedent. Israel has repeatedly dismantled expensive security structures in the Sinai and later in the West Bank when a perceived opportunity for peace and diplomatic agreements required such steps.
In addition, the fence is not being built eagerly for political reasons but reluctantly for self-defense purposes.
Israel has huge social and educational needs. No Israeli decision maker would waste money on a fence if the daily danger had not made it imperative. If Palestinian attacks were to stop, or even if the Palestinian leadership would make a real attempt to prevent them, the fence project would be immediately stopped.
Aside from the political arguments, there are claims that a fence would not be effective.
But we are not talking about some barbed-wire garden fence which can be snipped with metal clippers. The barrier is to be built along the best strategically defensive route. It will utilize state-of-the-art sensors and electronic surveillance equipment. As a result, nighttime will not offer a cover for infiltrators. If terrorists or scouts approach, troops can quickly be rushed to the scene; if anyone gets through, there will be an immediate warning on that spot and the pursuit can begin before they have gotten very far.
This method has worked on the perimeter of the Gaza Strip and on the Lebanon border. The technology is so good that countries like India are eager to buy it for their own border defenses.
Will this mean the number of successful terrorist attacks within Israel and the immediately adjacent area will fall to zero? Probably not.
It will "merely" mean that the overwhelming majority of attacks will be stopped. Hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries will be averted.
And despite the complaints of the Palestinian leadership, it will be good for their people also. The fewer successful terrorist attacks in Israel, the less the need for Israeli retaliatory and defensive operations. Lower Israeli casualties will translate into lower Palestinian casualties.
Equally important, by showing that Arafat's terrorism strategy has failed, it would encourage Palestinians to end the war and engage in serious peace negotiations.
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Israel's Foreign Ministry has slammed a report put out recently by the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. OCHA claims that some 274,000 Palestinians will be on the Israeli side of the fence, and that 30 percent (680,000 people) of the Palestinians will be affected by it. It also claims that the fence will swallow up 14.5 percent of the West Bank.
These figures are completely inaccurate according to an Israel Foreign Ministry official. He said that the report "simply harms the trustworthiness and credibility of the UN," and is the result of unprofessional work, and simply reflects Palestinian propaganda. He noted that another UN department, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), recently reported that 4 percent of the West Bank would be affected by the fence. (According to Israeli sources, the true amount is closer to 3 percent.) Ninety-five percent of the barrier is chain-link fencing with electronic sensors, while only 5 percent consists of sections of concrete anti-sniper wall. (Jerusalem Post Nov. 12, 2003)
Demonstrations to mark International Day Against the Wall were organized in many nations around the world by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Seven Pillars of Messianic Judaism
By Asher Intrater
Over the years I have often challenged the excesses within the Messianic Jewish movement. We have made our culture more important than the gospel itself and let our ethnic identity become an idol.
At the same time there are many others who have never had a clear understanding of those "Jewish" aspects of the faith. If you ask, "Why Messianic Judaism?", then this article is for you.
1. Cultural Context of the Gospel
In the 1970's when Jewish people started to open their hearts to the gospel, (according to the timing predicted in the New Covenant Luke 21:24, Romans 11:25), the need was seen to present the message of salvation in a way that was culturally relevant. If the gospel should be shared with cultural sensitivity to other peoples, how much more so to the Jews.
In the case of the Jewish people, what is culturally relevant also happens to be the actual historic context of the writings of the New Covenant. This had the additional benefit of helping Christians understand the teachings of Yeshua in their original context.
2. Consistent Truth of the Torah
Through Yeshua's atonement, we are set free from the punishment that is due us for having broken the Law. In that sense we are no longer "under the Law." However that does not mean that the moral absolutes of the Law are no longer applicable to us.
The New Covenant does not "do away" with the Law, but rather writes it in our hearts (Jeremiah 31:31). For any system of truth to be valid, it must be consistent with itself. Contradictions disprove truth. If the New Covenant were to contradict previously given scriptures in the Law or the Prophets, then the New Covenant would not be true.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Yeshua instructs us as to what is the true "heart-meaning" of the Law. In that sense He makes the Law even more demanding. For those who say we are not required to keep the Law, I ask, "Just which one of those Ten Commandments were you planning on NOT keeping?" Christianity, without a proper understanding of Torah, loses its own moral courage and integrity.
3. Continuing Destiny of the Jewish Nation
Replacement and dispensational theology holds that the role of the Jews as the chosen people has only a past meaning, not a present one and not a future one. But Romans 11 teaches that they are still "His people" in the present time, despite their unbelief. And they have a future restoration, which "will then" yet take place.
All true born-again Christians are also "chosen people". However that universal chosen-ness does not subtract from the calling of the Jewish people, but rather adds to it. The international church is "grafted into" Israel (Romans 11:17).
Rightly understood, the calling of the church actually reaffirms the calling of Israel, rather than replacing it. During the 1980's, as so many of the apostolic aspects of the first century church were being restored, so was the importance of the restoration of Israel's destiny as a nation rediscovered by many.
4. Crucifixion of Israel's King
Yeshua was crucified not only as the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, but also as the King of Israel who will soon return to rule upon the earth. It was the sovereign hand of God that guided Pilate unknowingly to have "King of the Jews" written above Yeshua's head on the cross. From man's side, the crucifixion was a rebellion against Yeshua's authority as King, specifically as King of the Jews. It was a rejection of both His Kingship and His Jewishness.
From God's side, the cross was a declaration of Yeshua's authority. God was "staking His claim" to rightful government over this planet (Psalm 2). Yeshua's general authority comes through His position as King of the Jews. If Yeshua is not the King of the Jews, then He is not the king of anything else either. Therefore to deny His Jewishness is to deny His kingship. The cross is God's demand to accept Yeshua both as a King and as a Jew.
Yeshua is not only the Son of God, but also the Son of David (Romans 1:3). When He returns, He will still be the Son of David (Revelation 22:16). Yeshua has a personal destiny. That destiny is to be King of the Jews. He did so much for us. What can we do for Him? One of the reasons we preach the gospel is to help Him actualize His own destiny - to one day fulfill His role as King of the Jews.
5. Contingency of the Second Coming
"You will not see Me again until you say, 'Blessed is He who comes..." - Matthew 23:39
God has set a time for the Second Coming in His own sovereign authority. Nothing can stop it. On the other hand, Yeshua gave a certain prerequisite for His return. In speaking to the very same religious leaders in Jerusalem who rejected Him and whom He called "snakes" for their hypocrisy, He categorically stated that He would not return unless and until they welcomed Him back as King Messiah.
David was anointed to be king early in his childhood (I Samuel 16). However he was not inaugurated as king until the elders of Judah and Israel agreed to do so (II Samuel 5:3). This prerequisite of the leaders in Jerusalem is related to the previous section about Yeshua's role as King of the Jews. He can't come back as King of the Jews until there are a number of Jews who receive Him as King.
Satan knows that his reign and influence on this planet come to an end when Yeshua returns (Revelation 20). Therefore if there is anything the devil wants to fight, it is the possibility of a revival in Jerusalem. (For this reason we see the hatred of Yeshua by religious leaders in Jerusalem as being so satanic in nature.) If there is to be a revival in Israel, then the people must first physically return to the Land. That's why there has been such attack against Zionism - first from Nazism, now from Islamic terrorism.
6. Conflict of the End Times
A study of eschatology in the Bible soon reveals that all of the conflicts of the end times culminate in one great last battle, in which the nations of the world gather together to attack Israel. It is at that time that Yeshua returns, intervening in the battle. His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives (Zechariah 14:3) and He will destroy those nations that attacked Jerusalem (12:9).
God considers the attack against Jerusalem to be an attack against Yeshua Himself. Anyone found fighting against Jerusalem at the Second Coming will find himself fighting against Yeshua. This is a focal point of both end times prophecy and of spiritual warfare. (I have developed these points at length in the new edition of the book, From Iraq To Armageddon; so please don't miss it.)
It is God who summons this confrontation. It is similar to the way in which God hardened the heart of Pharaoh in order to destroy the armies of Egypt in the Red Sea. God sees the final battle over Jerusalem as the final confrontation between good and evil. In that conflict He looks to demonstrate both His power and His righteousness by destroying the combined forces of evil in a stunning and glorious manner. (It is as if God were saying, "Make My Day!" - that great and terrible Day.)
7. Capital of the Millennial Kingdom
"For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem." - Isaiah 2:3
The statement that, "Yeshua has fulfilled all the prophecies about the Messiah" is not true. Those prophecies concerning His birth, death, resurrection and ascension have been fulfilled. Those concerning the Second Coming have yet to be fulfilled.
After Yeshua returns, He will establish His kingdom on earth. There will be peace and prosperity (Isaiah 2:3, Micah 4:4). There will be a one-world government, with Yeshua as its King and with Jerusalem as its capital. The nations will come up to Jerusalem, both to celebrate the feasts and to worship Yeshua as King (Zechariah 14:16).
At that time all of the traditional Jewish expectations for the Messianic kingdom will be fulfilled. The Bible even indicates that there will be a rebuilt Temple (Ezekiel 40 ff.). In other words, the future seems pretty Jewish. Yet since it will all take place under the lordship of Yeshua the Messiah, the future will also be quite Messianic.
Jewish people around the world are going to have to get used to that "Jesus" part; and Christians around the world are going to have to get used to that "Jewish" part. So we might as well get started now. And that is what Messianic Judaism is all about. Ultimately, it is not about what Jewish tradition has to say; nor what Christian theology has to say; but what the Bible has to say.
Asher Intrater is an elder of Congregation Tiferet Yeshua, Tel Aviv and founder of Revive Israel Ministries. http//www.revive-israel.org
Since Jewels of Israel began last summer, Maoz readers and friends have purchased nearly $30,000 worth of jewelry! And recently, wholesalers from boutiques and shops have begun calling in for additional orders. Tanya, member of our congregation and creator of the jewelry here in Tel Aviv, now employs four full time workers three who are believers and one who is carefully observing what it means to have a personal relationship with God.
Through Jewels of Israel, Maoz readers have created work for five Israelis, a really tremendous benefit, both to the state of Israel, and to the Body of Messiah in Israel. Moreover, with each piece of jewelry purchased, a percentage of the profit is added to the Coffee House outreach fund!
Now that the rush for holiday gifts is passing, we encourage you to continue buying jewelry from Jewels of Israel so that these Israeli believers can continue to support themselves and their families. Tanya will be adding new pieces of jewelry to her collection on a regular basis which you may view on our website, http://www.jewelsofisrael.net/
December 2003
Dear Maoz Partner,
In the year of 2003, our Tel Aviv congregation Tiferet Yeshua (the Glory of Yeshua) grew from approximately 90 people to more than 160 (sometimes up to 200), a 56% increase.
The majority of our members are native-born Israelis the hardest group in Israel to reach. But we also have a significant number of Jewish Russian immigrants (one out of every five Israelis were born in the Former Soviet Union) and also immigrants from South America who speak Hebrew.
Because there is no translation to other languages in our meetings, the personality of the congregation is distinctly Israeli, and we are able to draw other Israelis into the Kingdom of God in a way that we have never seen before.
At first, having an Israeli congregation of native-born Israelis meant that we were growing very slowly (we started this congregation in 1995), since, as we mentioned, this is the hardest group in Israel to reach.
However, it is clear now that we have reached critical mass, so that when an Israeli enters our congregation and sees a room packed with 160 adults and lots of children running around, his or her set ideas on Jews who believe that Yeshua is the Messiah are completely turned upside down.
Now it is very common for visitors to enter our congregation for the first time and accept the invitation to come forward and receive the salvation of Yeshua into their lives. Of course, those visitors have almost always been witnessed to by the person who brought them to the service.
This combination of members witnessing to their friends and relatives, then bringing them to the congregation where they see other Israelis worshiping and they hear the Word of God in the language of the prophets -- well, that is bringing these new people to make a decision to follow Yeshua.
Last week, our elder, Asher Intrater, in his sermon to the congregation, asked who had witnessed to someone during the last week. To his amazement, about 80% of our members raised their hands. We have a witnessing congregation!
Furthermore, there are those who have accepted Yeshua in home groups that are not yet coming to the congregation. In one home group alone, in a suburb of Tel Aviv, 26 Israelis in the last 12 months have accepted the call to follow Yeshua!
For Israel, this is absolutely amazing!
Now is the time to go a step further a BIG step further.
For a number of years we have been asking God to provide us with a coffee-house outreach center where our members can bring their friends and acquaintances and where Israelis can walk in and hear the Good News of God's plan for redeeming His people.
We have a place picked out that will attract the people of Tel Aviv especially the young people who are empty, empty, empty. It is an opportunity to multiply, many fold, what we have already seen.
We are now able to absorb many new people into the congregation because we have a wonderful harvest of leaders and potential leaders who are able to minister to the newcomers.
This coffee house will be an important way to bring many, many more Israelis to the faith.
The coffee house will feature believing musicians and will be staffed with believers who will be ready to share their faith with those who desire. We will have available the books that Maoz has translated and published in Hebrew. We will offer Gospel CD's, another powerful way to move people towards the God of Israel.
Can there be anything more dear to God's heart than to see the people of Israel turning to Him? Israel's revival is a sign of coming revival to all the earth when God will pour out His Spirit on all flesh.
Because of the overcrowded city of Tel Aviv in tiny Israel, the costs of rental are very high. Because of the government's desperate need for money to survive, the taxes and expenses to run such a place are astronomical.
But the return on this investment will be enormous! We have a fund for the coffee house that is growing we now have $89,000 in it. In order to open our doors, we need $400,000. Every cent you send for the coffee house will go into that fund.
It is time for us to possess this vision that God has placed in our hearts and run with it.
Will you run with us?
SO ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED, as it is written. Rom. 11:26.
For the Salvation of Israel,
Ari & Shira Sorko-Ram


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Students in three classes at McKinley Elementary School gave their parents and siblings a lesson in building positive traits with an after-school musical performance titled "Character Matters."
About 90 students, representing two fourth-grade classes and one third-grade class, took part in the May 22 production, said Cherie Wescott, who produced the musical along with Dennis Danielson, Angie D'Mello and Lisa Fuentez.
"Every year we get together and do one of these at the end of the year," she said. "We just find it is a nice way to wind things up for the kids; and after all the hard work of state testing, it gives them a little relaxation. It is something fun for them to do every year."
The play combined favorite fairy tales with lessons on building good character.
"We purchased this play from a company in Camarillo," Wescott said. "We have a selection of these musical performances we have purchased from them. We did this one about four years ago. We try to do a different one each year."
Wescott believes the youngsters take what they've learned from the plays and apply it to the classroom curriculum.
"In the past, we did a play about the Western movement and they will come back the next year when it's part of the social studies curriculum and they say they remember when the same things were mentioned in the play," she said.
The chorus of the song that runs through the production hits a poignant note:
"Character matters, you must care how you act. Character matters, as a matter of fact. Character matters, 'cause you are what you choose. Character matters, it's one thing you can't lose."
In one skit, "Magic Mirrors," three students — Robert McGraham, Kate Outwater and Troy Outwater — wear cardboard squares covered in a reflective material, in a take on the story of "Snow White."
The final line says, "Honesty is the fairest of all."
In another scene, Richard Solano plays Jack, and Brandin Gustafson is the giant from "Jack and the Bean Stalk."
"I learned that you don't judge someone by how they look, but by asking them questions and finding out something about them," Richard Solano said.
The final line is, "Differences can be scary, but it's cool."
Parent Fran Martin said she was impressed with the acting. Her favorite scene was the one about Humpty Dumpty and his friends, she said.
"It was about taking responsibility, and the little girl was blaming everyone but herself," Martin said. "I thought that was really cute."
Webelos earn Cub Scouting honor
Eight Webelos Scouts from Burbank's Cub Scout Pack 225 received the Arrow of Light Award, Cub Scouting's highest honor, at a pack meeting in April at Burbank First United Methodist Church.
The boys received hand-crafted arrows symbolizing completion of the program. Webelos Scouts who have earned the Arrow of Light Award have also completed nearly all the requirements to earn the Scout badge, so they have already begun their Boy Scout trail.
Those who earned the Arrow of Light Award are Matias Artiga, Aleko Brice, Gavin Cho, Dylan Giliberto, Jonah Goldman, Liam Stackhouse, Jake Noren and Christopher Wilke.
Cub Scout Pack 225 serves boys in grades 1 to 5. For more information, visit www.pack225.com.
Couple will exchange vows
Don and Debbie Schrey of Burbank announce the upcoming wedding of their daughter, Casey, to Andrew Lazar, son of Jerold and Pam Lazar, of Mulvane, Kan.
Casey graduated from Azusa Pacific University and is employed at Pepperdine University.
Andrew graduated from Purdue University and is employed with Pankow Construction in the engineering department.
A June wedding is planned. The couple will make their home in Burbank.
Local singers perform with chorale
Two local singers will perform with the Los Angeles Master Chorale when it concludes its 48th season with a mostly a cappella tribute to celebrated Polish composer Henryk Górecki at 7 p.m. June 10 at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Performing are Todd Honeycutt (tenor) and Christian Marcoe (tenor) of Burbank.
Music Director Grant Gershon conducts "Miserere," "Lobgesang (Song of Praise)," written for chorus and glockenspiel, and the "Marian Songs."
For tickets call (213) 972-7282, or visit www.lamc.org.
JOYCE RUDOLPH can be reached at email@example.com.


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In Issue 1 of this year we showed you the differences between only showing your truck versus beating on it. Jason Chandler, of Nacogdoches, Texas, solved this problem by spending six months and sparing no cost to build an amazing 1966 C10 that he drives like he stole it during the week and then takes it to shows on the weekend and wins award after award.
First thing after buying his C10, Jason took it to the Chicken House Chop Shop, also in Nacogdoches, and had them build a custom suspension around the stock chassis. Starting with Belltech 3-inch drop spindles, they added tubular A-arms, and Slam Specialties 'bags to make the front of the truck hug the ground. With the front low, Jason contacted Sleeper Suspension Development, in La Verne, California, and ordered their triangulated four-link in order to even out the stance. With the four-link installed, Chicken House Chop Shop installed another set of Slam Specialties 'bags to make the rear match the front. Since Jason wanted to beat on his truck, he also installed an SSD front crossmember for extra support, clearance, and protection. To get the chassis rolling, Jason chose Intro 22×8.5-inch Pentia wheels up front and 22×12-inch Pentias in the rear. For tires, Jason went to Pirelli for their Scorpion Zero Asimmetrico 335/25R22 rubber in the rear and 265/35R22 in the front.
Jason swapped out the old six-cylinder and brought the Chevy into the 21st century by bolting in an LQ9 6.0L. He then improved the LQ9 with L92 heads, an upgraded cam, a custom intake, Street Performance ceramic-coated headers, and a MagnaFlow 3-inch exhaust. Connected to the back of this monster engine is a 4L60E tranny, which feeds into a 12-bolt rearend outfitted with 3.73 gears and a posi. The axlehousing has been narrowed 10 inches total and Moser axles were installed for strength and durability. For maximum braking, Jason upgraded the brakes to slotted and drilled discs front and rear.
Opting to keep the factory body and trim, Jason turned his attention to the interior. He first ordered a set of Auto Meter gauges and fit them into a custom dash panel. Then he had Watson's Leather of Nacogdoches wrap the factory bench in black leather and suede for a simple, clean look.
Even though the exterior of this truck is fairly stock, it's what lies under the skin that counts. With a suspension and engine built for speed and maneuverability, and a body built for show, this truck is a double-edged sword, a sleeper if you will.
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