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Daphne Merkin
SOURCE: "Eros Redux," in The New Yorker, Vol. LXIX, No. 44, December 27, 1993–January 3, 1994, pp. 154-59.
Merkin is an American novelist and editor. In the essay below, in which she offers a laudatory assessment of Simple Passion, Merkin addresses the popularity of the volume in France, discussing its status and uniqueness as an example of erotic literature.
The possibility that we are all fated to inhabit sexual islands of our own idiosyncratic making was brought home to me at a small dinner party I attended several months ago, when the hostess mentioned that two once prominent couples—no longer together, owing to death in one case and divorce in the other—had enjoyed sex lives that were notably "kinky." Of course, I understood the term, in some purely literal sense, as I assume did the other guests—but then my imagination wandered off, in directions peculiar to my history, and I felt the draft of separateness enter the room. What, I wondered, were the other guests conjuring up to go with the word "kinky"? Was it anything like the stuff I had called to mind? One thing that stands out in the haze of confusion that surrounds the subject of sex is that there is no real consensus about what constitutes erotic pleasure. As the Village Voice columnist Richard Goldstein once mused, "If there's no great porn film—not even Last Tango in Paris, for all its value as dramatic tour de force—that's because there's no unity in people's fantasies; some of us will always think a stick of butter is for bread."
Clearly, erotic imaginations have always been as diverse as thumbprints. But sometime in the past three decades we seem to have lost our balance about things sexual. What is normal? What is off? Jeffrey Dahmer is surely everyone's idea of a sickie, and we are relieved to be able to identify him as such. What, however, is one to make of Prince Charles, longing to be Camilla Parker Bowles's tampon? Once you put the extremes aside, where do you draw the
Indeed, many of us prefer, perversely, the anticipation of sex to the thing itself. Or we have the opposite wish—which is to prolong the aftermath of lovemaking, avidly seeking out its physical aspect in lingering smells and rumpled sheets. There's a whole literature of erotic longing, with overtones of bliss and undertones of pain-in-pleasure, that has sprung up to accommodate this predilection. It's a genre written by women for women—and for men intrigued by the inner life of women. (There's also a small cadre of male authors mining this territory: James Salter, Robert Coover, and, more recently, Nicholson Baker.) French writers—perhaps because they're schooled to appreciate the theoretical, perhaps because they're not burdened by a Puritan legacy—are particularly adept at evoking these blasted-out landscapes, less romance than romantic desperation. If Marguerite Duras's The Lover is the purest and most literarily gifted example, Pauline Réage's Story of O runs a close second, although the latter's reputation as a soft-core masterpiece has tended to obscure its psychological underpinnings.
Beneath their erotic feinting, these books—and the work of other (non-French) writers, such as Edna O'Brien and Jean Rhys—are about the embattled border where I leave off and you begin: the primal lure of symbiosis versus the rigorous claims of autonomy, set to a sexual beat. How much merging with the Other can one sustain without giving up the Self? The literature of longing exists on a continuum that seems to mirror the broad-ranging dynamics of this predicament: at one end is the lost-in-the-funhouse escapade, from which the two lovers emerge bruised but essentially intact; at the other the consigned-to-the-nuthouse drama, in which one of the players (usually the woman) is destroyed. Although Madame Bovarys have always existed in one form or another, the past decade or so has witnessed a florescence of interest in this self-immolating romantic type, both in literature and on film; 9 1/2 Weeks, Damage, Fatal Attraction, and Camille Claudel come to mind. The prevalence of the genre suggests, among other things, that as traditional means of defining ourselves—through gender, class, and geographical origins—become more fluid, our chances of resolving our anxieties about who we are decrease.
Annie Ernaux describes the condition of obsessive erotic longing with a lighter touch than most authors: she calls it "craving through absence." Ernaux, who is French, and has previously written short, grave, and deeply affecting memoirs about her mother (A Woman's Story) and her father (A Man's Place), has now written a memoir of a sexual paradise lost. (If the true paradises are lost paradises—as Proust wrote—can one further infer that every paradise is essentially erotic?) Ernaux demonstrates with an almost abjectly self-revealing candor (in contrast to the self-protective "confessional" writing of someone like Duras) that the elusiveness of the love object—the circumstantial and emotional hurdles that separate us from it—is its most powerful draw:
As he always called me from telephone boxes, whose functioning could prove erratic, quite often when I picked up the receiver there was no one on the line. After some time I realized that this 'fake' phone call would be followed by the real one, fifteen minutes later at the most, the time it took to find a phone booth in working order. That first silent call was a prelude to his voice, a (rare) promise of happiness, and the interval separating it from the second call—when he would say my name and 'can we meet?'—one of the most glorious moments ever.
Ernaux's book is called, with a graceful bow in the direction of irony, Simple Passion. It is tiny, only sixty-four wide-margined pages long, and contains the first-person account of one woman's love affair with a married man—she a divorced schoolteacher and writer, he an Eastern European stationed in Paris. The story is told in immediate flashback, several months after the affair has ended, in a habitual past tense: "I would be overcome," "He would dress slowly," "It would only last …" It's as if Ernaux had managed to wring a humane responsiveness out of the neutral conjugations of grammar.
The protagonist has "gotten over" the situation sufficiently to be able to recollect it in artistic tranquillity, but not enough so that we don't feel the sizzle, and the hurt. The affair, which lasted less than two years, has presumably ended because the man—A—has gone back to his native country. (Left unspoken is the fact that he doesn't feel strongly enough to pursue her from across the globe.) On a deeper level, the affair has ended because the protagonist has willed her "age of passion" to come a close, out of psychological exhaustion, but also out of a need to rage—on paper rather than in her life—against the inevitable dying of sexual fixation. "So the world is beginning to mean something again outside A? The cat trainer from the Moscow Circus, the towelling bathrobe, Barbizon, the entire text assembled in my head day after day since the first night with words, images and gestures, all the signs forming the unwritten novel of a passion are beginning to fall apart."
There is perhaps in all such literature a Swinburnian wish—implied rather than expressed—for the easeful cessation of consciousness that is the peace beyond longing, in which the disturbing vividness of carnal attraction is extinguished in the vast impersonality of time. And curled silently behind this is yet another recognition: that we are, writers and readers alike, temporary dwellers in the country of speech, of squawkings on the page, on our way to permanent residence in the universe of speechlessness—the "infinite emptiness," as Ernaux calls it, after passion.
What this slim, elliptical narrative captures better than anything else I've read regarding the nature of erotic reverie is its encased, nothing-further-to-be-said quality. "I would have liked," Ernaux writes, "to have done nothing else but wait for him." (So, too, Duras in The Lover: "I've … never loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.") The book's power lies in the micro-scopic intensity of its focus, a remembrance of desire past in which everything remotely associated with the loved one—all of life outside the obsession, that is—becomes a way back into the obsession, Proust's madeleine rendered into a whole lineup of madeleines, each more thoroughly steeped in erotic nostalgia than the next:
As soon as he left, I would be overcome by a wave of fatigue. I wouldn't tidy up straight away: I would sit staring at the glasses, the plates and their leftovers, the overflowing ashtray, the clothes, the lingerie strewn all over the bedroom and the hallway, the sheets spilling over on to the carpet. I would have liked to keep that mess the way it was—a mess in which every object evoked a caress or a particular moment, forming a still-life whose intensity and pain could never, for me, be captured by any painting in a museum. Naturally, I would never wash until the next day, to keep his sperm inside me.
Simple Passion is transparently autobiographical. But it refuses, or gives the impression of refusing, to take advantage of the fictional scrim that most autobiography, from Rousseau's Confessions onward, has helped itself to: the self-portraitist's crucial touchups, bespeaking artistic intention or, more likely, personal vanity. This memoir falls into the reader's lap like a steaming lump of truth, smelling of sexual hunger, indifferent to the shamelessness or the pathos of its cause. "Having to answer questions such as 'Is it an autobiography?,'" Ernaux muses parenthetically, "and having to justify this or that may have stopped many books from seeing the light of day, except in the form of a novel, which succeeds in saving appearances."
Simple Passion can be read in under an hour, which may help explain why it achieved best-seller status in France—just as the brevity of Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County has been adduced to explain its spectacular performance in this country. Although very different, the two books are not unrelated literary animals. Another factor that may help explain the impact of Ernaux's book is that—though it aches on the page like an exposed nerve—it is clearly the rumination of someone who has imbibed the work of Barthes, Blanchot, and the rest of the semiotic whiz kids. Her account abounds with references to absence and presence ("I experienced pleasure like a future pain"); to the limited province of authorship versus the unbounded terrain of the text ("Once I start typing out the text … I shall be through with innocence"); and to the ontological anxiety, so beloved of deconstructionists, that besets disparate but related activities, such as sex and writing ("Living in passion or writing: in each case one's perception of time is fundamentally different"). The lack of emotional sprawl here is entirely un-American, very much the product of a Gallic sensibility—wreathed in booze and cigarette smoke, more literate and world-weary than our Yankee one.
More shockable, too, evidently, for otherwise it is hard to figure out why this highly cerebral book caused a national controversy in France—the country of preëminent sophistication concerning affairs of the heart. Or so we've been led to believe: France, after all, is where Roman Polanski fled after romping with a girl barely old enough to babysit, and France is where the marriage of convenience and the ménage à trois were virtually invented. It is we Americans who are reputedly naïve when it comes to the realm of the senses—we who expect our Presidents to be faithful husbands as well as faithful citizens, with any evidence to the contrary likely to ignite a major contretemps. National tastes in reading are apparently as opaque as individual sexual preferences—once again the old conundrum of what your brain sees when it is shown a stick of butter. This is not to suggest that Simple Passion isn't memorable—it is, in fact, a work of lyrical precision and diamond-hard clarity—only that it would be inconceivable for such a contained, literarily self-conscious work to achieve a wide readership in America.
The French, on the evidence of their embrace of this book, have an admirably high tolerance for postmodern complexities, which make it difficult to tell a story—even as elemental a story as this—without an acute awareness on the storyteller's part of the creaky contraption of storytelling. That Simple Passion is a book—a "text"—about an affair is part and parcel of its self-perception; we are not for a moment to be fooled into thinking that this modest, hedged-in artifact is the Ding an sich, the affair in itself. A contemporary sensibility such as Ernaux's is defined in part by a refusal to treat her readers as unsophisticated latecomers to the literary dance: the illusion of verisimilitude that was once art's finest offering has been disavowed, and in its place is a general tentativeness about the larger reality that art is supposed to be imitating. Whether you like this kind of writing or not, it certainly isn't trying to give you the rush of immersion, the "you are there" feeling that much of American fiction still aims for. In other words, it certainly isn't The Bridges of Madison County, written to entertain the late-twentieth-century descendants of those cave dwellers who were lulled by the first storyteller into forgetting the howling wolves, in the darkness outside.
And yet, curiously, the shock value of the woman's predicament in Ernaux's book—its readerly seduction, if you will—is not, at its core, very different from the appeal of The Bridges of Madison County. Bridges, of course, was the publishing surprise of last year, catching even marketing-savvy Warner Books off guard. Waller writes like a mediocre balladeer—although when he tried to make like Willie Nelson, and issued a recording of songs, he struck out. Now he has written a second novel, Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend, with a print run of a million and a half copies. It is very nearly a clone of the first, and, given the sales record of Bridges—more than half a year as No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list—who can blame him? It is a chestnut of the book business that romance sells, that mass-market paperbacks of a specific sort—featuring a woman in décolletage, an Alec Baldwinish male, and prose that manages to convey tumescence while at the same time primly veiling any intrusion of the phallic—do well. But "literary" fiction has never sold on the basis of love triumphant. When Bridges performed spectacularly, the surprise was not that a romantic story sold at this stratospheric level but that a small-size, hardcover love story—packaged by its publishers to look serious in its intentions, the jacket done up in smudgy, greige colors—found so many readers. (Bridges has dropped to No. 2 on the list, edged out by—what else?—Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend.)
What both Waller's books have in common with Ernaux's book is that they reassert—in the face of AIDS, and the revival of the concept of marital fidelity, and even of premarital chastity—the perception that the heartland of eroticism lies outside the confines of marriage. In their puffed-up, clumsy, yet somehow canny way, Waller's novels sniff out the great valley of discontent between the sexes; his randy, unattached protagonists smugly observe the slow drip of calcification that occurs in even the best of domestic arrangements. Their author has figured out that at the heart of every long-suffering wife is an underappreciated wench, whose submerged glory is just waiting to be rediscovered. Here is Robert Kincaid, the peripatetic photographer in Bridges, on first spotting Francesca, the Iowa farm wife whose husband pays more attention to his prize steer than to her: "She came off the porch toward him. He stepped from the truck and looked at her, looked closer, and then closer still. She was lovely, or had been at one time, or could be again."
Waller's depiction of self-regarding loners with amatory talents (narcissists, if only they and he knew it) who pine for women already claimed by stalwart but unworthy spouses depends for its effect on the reader's tacit agreement—and there seem to be a lot of willing readers out there—that marriage is not good for your sex life. Possession, it seems, is nine-tenths of boredom, and the daily grind will do the rest. Just as the imperatives of domesticity are not conducive to passion, so the imperatives of passion are not conducive to domesticity. Affairs, by their very nature, preclude taking out the garbage. Most of us know this instinctively, and yet many of us spend our adult lives making an end run around this incontestable fact, trying to have it both ways. We marry for—among other things—the simple certitude of it; we have affairs because we crave the unexpected. No one has ever titled a movie "A Marriage to Remember," and for good reason: it would bomb at the box office. Marriages endure, but they're not, generally speaking, memorable except to the parties involved.
At the opening of Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend, the leather-jacketed, motorcycle-gunning professor who is the novel's hero spots his married prey, the gray-eyed Jellie Braden, and spends "a restless night" agitating about "primal things versus rectitude." The conflict could apply just as well to the woman writing her way out of sexual obsession in Simple Passion. Ernaux's narrator would willingly drop everything and light out for amorous territory, if only her man would stay in her field of vision long enough: "I knew that nothing in my life (having children, passing exams, travelling to faraway countries) had ever meant as much to me as lying in bed with that man in the middle of the afternoon."
It's odd that Ernaux, who so scrupulously records the impact of an extra-marital relationship, says almost nothing about marriage. One can take this as an indictment—or, more simply, as a reflection of the postmodern view of connubial love. To live with a man or a woman on an ongoing, intimate basis is to grow jaded, weary of the imaginative possibilities; at some point, our husbands and wives fail to live up to a long-ago sensed potential. They become to us who they have become to themselves, and it is hard to envision them as promising more than they currently yield. An affair brings with it a reclaiming of one's own dimmed hope for oneself. Men look for the erect stalk of their youth, women for something more amorphous, something close to that moment when they first glimpsed sensual bliss.
The very form of Ernaux's book—the narrative as a revisiting of a passion eclipsed—suggests that all eros is redux: a magical reading backward against the inscribed flow of history, a temporary reversal of that infinite regress, of that long unfolding wherein the flesh softens, the teeth decay, and passion wanes. If paradise is but a memory of paradise, then perhaps we are wiser to stay in our own beds and leave it to other people—writers, that is—to have their messy or bittersweet affairs and come back and report on them to us. On the last page of her memoir, Ernaux presents us directly with the purpose of Simple Passion: "an offering of a sort, bequeathed to others." We should be grateful for the small, comforting indiscretions of her prose—even for Robert James Waller's ungainly, strutting croonings. They relieve us for a while of our unmet curiosity, articulate for us—in neatly packaged narrative—erotic byways we have thought about while feeding the cat or reading a bed time story to one of our children. When they're over, we can close the book, turn off the light, and dream.
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The National Federation of Independent Business has endorsed GOP candidate Mike Bost for the 12th U.S. House District seat.
Bost announced the endorsement Thursday afternoon in Belleville at Frerichs Freight Lines Inc., a family owned business started in 1949.
Bost, R-Murphysboro, is the third generation of his family to help run Bost Truck Service. He spoke out against burdensome government regulations, such as the Affordable Care Act, in discouraging small businesses.
"Government doesn't create jobs," Bost said. "It just sometimes stands in the way of creating jobs."
Bost said he has formed a coalition of small business owners and others to advise him on the Affordable Care Act, known as "Obamacare," which he opposes.
Bost is running against incumbent U.S. Rep. Bill Enyart, D-Belleville, and Green Party candidate Paula Bradshaw.
NFIB is a small business association that has 11,000 members in Illinois and 350,000 members nationwide, according to Kim Clarke Maisch, group's Illinois state director.
NFIB also is endorsing Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville, in the 13th Congressional District and State Rep. Dwight Kay, R-Glen Carbon in the 112th State Representative race.
The NFIB does not have endorsements in the 113th state representative or 57th state senate races at this time, Maisch said.

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Ivan Newman sentenced to 90 years in Lenny Harris murder
Ivan Newman, one of three people arrested and charged in the 2012 murder of a prominent Alexandria activist, pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder charges. A judge sentenced him to 90 years in prison.
Tyrone Lewis sentenced to life in prison for murdering Lenny Harris
Tyrone Lewis, the man convicted in the murder of Lenny Harris, the prominent Virginia community activist, continued to insist he was framed while being sentenced Friday to life in prison.
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A sentencing hearing is set for a man who acknowledged being involved in the kidnapping and murder of a northern Virginia activist.
Lenny Harris trial: closing arguments today
Closing arguments are expected today in the case of Tyrone Lewis, the man accused of murdering a community activist from Alexandria.
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Authorities are now linking Tyrone Lewis to two additional murders. He's charged in connection with the slaying of a 17-year-old in 2011 and the 2005 killing of a cab driver.
Linwood Johnson, suspect in Lenny Harris murder, to be held without bondComment
A man accused of killing an Alexandria community activist is to be held without bond.
Lenny Harris murder: Third person in custody in activist's murderComment
A third suspect is in custody in connection with the slaying of activist Lenny Harris.
Funeral service set for Lenny HarrisComment
Funeral services will be held today for murdered community activist from Alexandria, Lenny Harris.
Ivan Newman arrested for Lenny Harris slayingComment
Police have arrested another suspect connected to the slaying of community activist Lenny Harris. Police earlier this week arrested a 49-year-old man and charged him in the killing.
Lenny Harris: Police looking for more evidenceComment
For hours Wednesday morning and early afternoon, recruits and crime scene investigators looked for evidence connected with the murder of Alexandria activist Lenny Harris.
Linwood Johnson arrested for Lenny Harris murderComment
Lenny Harris was a respected activist who wanted to help people. Many find his violent death difficult to comprehend.
Lenny Harris found dead: Gunshot wound killed community activistComment
Alexandria activist Lenwood Harris went missing in September. On Thursday, his body was found with a gunshot wound at the bottom of a Fort Washington well.
Lenny Harris' vehicle found in Prince George's CountyComment
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GANT Rugger spring/summer 2013 lands in Florence, Italy in June when the menswear cognoscenti are summoned to Pitti Uomo. Just don't call it a trade show. Ostensibly a marketplace, Pitti is just as much a global congress of style attended by effortlessly debonair Italian guys, their imitators, earnest brand men, clothes geeks, street-style lensmen, revered magazine editors and bloggers, both the seasoned and
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Judge throws Balboa Park plan in doubt
Jacob's park plan in doubt with judge's tentative ruling
The $45 million plan to clear cars and parking from the center of Balboa Park might never get off the ground.
That may be the result if Superior Court Judge Timothy Taylor upholds his tentative ruling issued last Friday that would halt the plan put forth by Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs. A hearing is scheduled Friday, Feb. 1., on the lawsuit by the Save Our Heritage Organisation against the city and Jacobs' Plaza de Panama Committee.
Taylor said the city is violating its own ordinance as it applies to Balboa Park and economics of changing historic sites, including Balboa Park, a national historic landmark district.
"The court's duty is to do likewise when others demand that the city be held to its own law," he said.
Jacobs' plan would remove cars and traffic from the Plaza de Panama in front of the San Diego Museum of Art and from the Plaza de California in front of the San Diego Museum of Man as a way to return the spaces back to pedestrian use.
But to accommodate continued car access, he proposed the "Centennial Bridge," a bypass off the Cabrillo Bridge on the west side of the park to funnel traffic to a new 800-space parking garage south of the Spreckels Organ Pavilion.
It is the bypass that SOHO and other opponents have criticized because they believe it would alter the look of the west entrance to the park, built for the 1915-16 Panama-California Exposition. The city concedes that adding the bypass does harm the historic look but it would result in more park space for visitors. It would also restore the plazas to pedestrian-only use of a century ago.
Jacobs was hoping the improvements would be ready in time for the January 2015 kickoff to the year-long expo centennial celebration.
SOHO has not been campaigning to keep cars in the center of the park. They just want a different, "nondestructive and unintrusive" approach that protects the park's national historic landmark status, said SOHO Executive Director Bruce Coons.
SOHO has backed various alternatives, including a different bypass or continued vehicle access through the plazas but removal of some parking to make room for pedestrian-only use. But Jacobs has not promised to fund any other alternative and no other donor has stepped forth to take his place.
The judge calling SOHO "shortsighted" because the Jacobs' plan offers "net benefits in terms of restoration of historic resources."
Although the bypass bridge has been the touchstone of controversy, the continuation of parking in the Plaza de Panama is the linchpin in the project's fate. That's because the city says without the Jacobs plan, there is no "reasonable beneficial use" for the parking lot, whereas SOHO and the judge say parking, while maybe not desirable, is such a use.
If the city loses, City Attorney Jan Goldsmith said it will be up to the council and Mayor Bob Filner to decide what to do next.


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Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on March 23, 1959.
In 1964 it was adapted as the third film in the EON Productions James Bond series and was the third to star Sean Connery as British Secret Service agent, Commander James Bond. See Goldfinger for discussion of the film.
The novel begins in a similar fashion to Moonraker with an acquaintance of Bond (Junius Du Pont from Casino Royale) meeting him at a Miami airport and requesting that he observe a two-handed Canasta game between him and the eponymous villain of the novel, Auric Goldfinger. Du Pont suspects Goldfinger of cheating and offers to pay Bond to confirm his suspicions. It turns out that Goldfinger is indeed cheating and Bond forces him to admit his guilt and pay back Du Pont due compensation.
After Bond returns to London he inquires into the background of Goldfinger to find that he is the world's top gold smuggler, the richest man in England, and after further investigation Bond also learns that Goldfinger is working as treasurer for the Soviet assassination agency SMERSH.
Bond is sent to contact Goldfinger to collect information, and they engage in a high-stakes game of golf, for money, in England. Again Goldfinger cheats by switching golf balls, but by switching the ball again, Bond forces Goldfinger to lose due to the cheating, without directly accusing him.
Bond is then sent on a mission to find Goldfinger's supply of gold that he has been smuggling, and bring it back to England. Bond manages to trace Goldfinger to a warehouse in Geneva where the white-gold armor of Goldfinger's Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is regularly being melted into aircraft chair-frames, to be smuggled into India. Bond is then captured and tortured for information (being promised a slow death by buzz saw rather than a quick one, if he doesn't talk). This continues until Bond blacks out.
He then wakes up in New York and is taken to Goldfinger's warehouse, where he is told he and Tilly Masterton will be working for Goldfinger, essentially as secretaries and personnel managers. Bond had earlier offered his services, pretending to be a huckster, but had seemingly been refused and had expected to die.
Bond has observed Goldfinger making dead drops of gold bars in Europe, for SMERSH. Bond learns that Goldfinger intends to finance SMERSH's schemes by stealing fifteen billion USD worth of gold bullion from the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky, an operation codenamed "Operation Grand Slam". Bond, along with Felix Leiter, works to prevent the villain from executing his plan, which involves killing the soldiers of Fort Knox with water-borne nerve agent (GB, also called sarin) and then using a stolen U.S. tactical atomic bomb missile warhead to break into Fort Knox's impregnable vault. They do not succeed in stealing any of Fort Knox's gold, but they do manage to escape after failing the robbery when it becomes apparent the poisoning hasn't worked.
In the novel, Pussy Galore is the lesbian leader of an all-female criminal organisation from New York City called the Cement Mixers. (She later tells Bond that the only reason she is a man-hating lesbian is because as a child she was raped by her uncle; she says that forcible incest is common in the southern United States.) They had previously been circus acrobats and cat-burglars. Her group, as well as various other mobs including the Mafia and the Spangled Mob from Diamonds Are Forever, have been employed to aid Goldfinger in the planning and execution of "Operation Grand Slam".
Martial arts expert Oddjob appears in the novel with a lethal metal-rimmed bowler hat, which he uses to kill Tilly at Fort Knox, and he is as seemingly invincible in the novel as in the movie. But he and Bond do not have the chance to fight, as in the novel it is a dozing Oddjob who is sucked to his death through the window of the airplane, after Bond penetrates it with a concealed knife under his jacket sleeve. Bond then strangles Goldfinger and orders the pilot to crash-land in the ocean. Only Bond and Pussy survive.
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London: Triad/Panther/Granada. Paperback. Reprinted: 1984; Reprinted: 1986. ISBN 0-586-04519-8
Sevenoaks [Kent]: Coronet. Paperback. 1st printing: February 1989. ISBN 0-340-42568-7
Sevenoaks [Kent]: Coronet. Paperback. 6th printing: n.d. ISBN 0-340-42568-7
London: Penguin. Paperback. 4 April 2002. ISBN 0-14-100285-9
Bath [England]: New Portway/Chivers Press. Large print edition. Hardcover. 1st printing: 1983. ISBN 085119205X
England: Eagle Large Print. Hardcover. 1st printing: 1992. ISBN 0792713206
Bath [England]: Paragon/Chivers Press. Large print edition. Softcover. 1st printing: March 1993.
London: Hutchinson. Children's edition. Paperback. 1st printing: May 1976. Part of the 'Bull's-eye' series. ISBN 0091269911
England: Nelson Thomes. Children's edition. Paperback. 1st printing: June 1976. Part of the 'Bull's-eye' series. ISBN 0-7487-1019-1
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Fleming's original novel was adapted as a daily comic strip which was published in the British Daily Express newspaper and syndicated around the world. The adaptation ran from October 3, 1960 to April 1, 1961. The adaptation was written by Henry Gammidge and illustrated by John McLusky. It was reprinted by Titan Books in 2004 in an edition known as the Goldfinger collection.


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Great Field Trip! Thank you to everyone for contributions large and small! If you have pictures that you would be willing to share with the group, please send them as a jpg attachment to Kevin at email@example.com.
Here's what you need to know about the midterm (Wednesday) and plant identification (Tuesday) exams next week. (We answered a few questions from individual students during the field trip and wanted to make sure everyone had the same information.)
MIDTERM: For the midterm, you should review your notes on lectures, readings, labs, and field trips. For the history / philosophy section, make sure to review the discussion questions for each week's lecture reading. The lecture / seminar material for week 5 on plant associations (Clements/Gleason) and scientific revolutions will be on the midterm. (I would recommend reading them in the order that they appear as attachments in the Moodle site.) Kevin will hand out a final list of potential essay questions on Monday that should look familiar if you have read the material and considered the discussion questions; there will be time during the lab period on Tuesday to work with other students to develop answers to these essay questions. Remember that you can have one page of notes for the midterm.
PLANT IDENTIFICATION: Final list of species for plant identification exam (Tuesday, Oct. 27). We "pruned" the list of required species down to 25. You should be able to identify the following species based on a sample (e.g. branch and leaves) and produce the scientific name from memory. The plant identification exam will be on Tuesday, Oct. 27. The page numbers next to the plants are from Pojar and Mackinnon (revised edition).
Tsuga heterophylla (western hemlock, p. 30)
Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas fir, p. 32)
Taxus brevifolia (Pacific yew, p. 40)
Thuja plicata (western redcedar, p. 42)
Alnus rubra (red alder, p. 44)
Acer macrophyllum (bigleaf maple, p. 45)
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Populus trichocarpa (black cottonwood, p. 46)
Abies grandis (grand fir, p. 34)
Picea sitchensis (Sitka spruce, p. 37)
Gaultheria shallon (salal, p. 53)
Vaccinium parvifolium (red huckleberry, p. 57)
Corylus cornata (beaked hazelnut, p. 92)
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The Philidelphia Flyers killed the Montreal Canadiens 6-0 in game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final.
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I'm leaving the College in good hands and will have my iPhone and iPad at the ready in case I'm needed of course. But if you all can excuse me for about 10 days, I think I'll take a short break from blogging. I'm sure I'll have a lot to tell you about when I get back!


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Go on an adventure this weekend and visit Sedona, Arizona! Take a guided Sedona ATV tour, be amazed at the strength and agility of the big cats at the Out of Africa Wildlife Park "Tiger Splash" show, take a hike in the red rocks with Sedona Adventure Tours followed by Verde Valley wine tasting, experience the west the way of the cowboy with "Ranch Rendezvous" at the M Diamond Ranch and you can event venture into the Verde Canyon for "Eagle Watch" with the Verde Canyon Railroad. If you are an early bird like me make sure to check out the "Bird Hike" offered by Red Rock State Park on Saturday. Just click on the Sedona adventures below that interest you and you will be off to a great weekend in Sedona. Make sure to visit us on Facebook and twitter! If you are looking for weekend events in Sedona please visit our Sedona Events Page.
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Go on an expertly guided 30 mile ATV tour in the outback of the West Sedona Valley where over 40 movies have been filmed.Arizona ATV Adventures has over a hundred miles of trails to choose from, which allows their guides to customize each tour based on the age, interests and skill levels of the group. For more Information please visit Arizona ATV Adventures.
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Take a mellow 2 mile hike along the base of Thunder Mountain, Sedona's tallest peak, with a fun and knowledgeable guide that can share the history, geology and mystical traditions of Sedona's powerful Vortex energies. Don't forget to bring your camera for the abundant photo opportunities. Later in the day they guide you through wine tastings at 3 of the Verde Valley's best vineyards and tasting rooms. For more information on this Sedona hiking tour visit Sedona Adventure Tours. Make sure to check out check out Sedona Adventure tours preseason deals!
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Meet up with other bird lovers at the visitors center(9:00 am) and enjoy a leisurely stroll through one of the most popular parks in Northern Arizona . Bird enthusiasts can join a naturalist for a "Guided Bird Walk". Beginning as well as advanced birders are welcome. Rangers recommend that visitors being their own binoculars. A limited number are available for loan from the Park. To contact the park about schedules, or reservations for some of their most popular hikes, call 928.282.6907 or visit Red Rock State Park.
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Intriguing 1925 Norse American Medal, Rare Matte Proof Striking1925 Medal Norse American Gold Medal PR63 Matte NGC. The Norse American medal was proposed by Congressman O. J. Kvale of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Authorized by Congress on March 2, 1925, these medals commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first organized arrival of Norse immigrants in the United States. After crossing the Atlantic Ocean on the sloop Restaurationen, these Scandinavians had arrived in Orleans County, New York on October 9, 1825. Kvale petitioned for a medal instead of a coin because Congress had authorized four Commemorative coins earlier in 1925: the Lexington-Concord Sesquicentennial, Fort Vancouver Centennial, California Diamond Jubilee, and Vermont or Battle of Bennington Half Dollars. The controversy surrounding the Huguenot-Walloon Tercentenary Half Dollar of 1924 also helped to convince Congressman Kvale that a proposal for a medal stood a better chance of acceptance by the federal government at that time.
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South Sudan's foreign minister says President Salva Kiir is committed to a peaceful political settlement to the ongoing civil conflict as the warring factions begin peace negotiations in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.
Barnaba Marial Benjamin says Mr. Kiir is willing to hold face-to-face talks with his sacked former vice president Riek Machar. The talks are sanctioned by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a regional bloc.
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According to the United Nations the clashes that began last month have left at least 1,000 people killed and tens of thousands displaced from their homes in the Africa's newest nation.
The wave of violence in South Sudan continues, despite calls by regional leaders, the African Union, and the international community for a ceasefire to allow peace negotiations to the end the conflict.
The violence erupted after President Salva Kiir, a Dinka, accused former vice president Riek Machar, a Nuer, of attempting a coup. Mr. Macher, who is in hiding, has denied the accusation.
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Some observers say President Kiir's coup accusation appears to have lost traction due to the lack of evidence to support it. Benjamin insists there was a coup attempt to topple the Kiir administration.
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News reports say ethnic tension between the two groups is fueling the conflict, with members of the Nuer and Dinka ethnic groups targeting each other.
Benjamin says President Kiir is ready to hold direct talks with Machar.
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Consider donating to a Brighton LGBT charity this Christmas
Christmas is the giving season and so whilst doing your last minute shopping gifts for friends and family, think about sparing a few moments of time on-line and donating something to charity this Christmas. I've compiled a list of LGBT charities in Brighton & Hove for you to consider where you can donate directly via their sites.
The Mayor's Charities
The Mayor currently supports three Brighton charities: LGBT youth project Allsorts Youth Project, The Martlets Hospice and the Brighton Women's Centre. There are two events in 2013 that will raise funds for these charities , a quiz night and a variety show– so why not purchase a ticket to one of these and help three local charities at once!
Rainbow Fund
Many of Brighton's LGBT charities are still reliant on grants to remain sustainable. With grants becoming decreasingly available and increasingly competitive, The Rainbow Fund (initially set up to provide for the AIDS memorial) now supports 'Pride Brighton & Hove' and raises funds from the local LGBT community to provide grants to local LGBT and HIV/AIDS organisations. So why not donate and know your money is helping keep Pride as an annual event in the city and is helping support directly local charities from the LGBT community. http://www.sussexgiving.org.uk/how-to-give/donorview.php?id=57
Sussex Beacon
Last year the Sussex Beacon launched an appeal to raise £150,000 to keep its HIV Inpatient Unit open. How about supporting local LGBT group 'Bear Patrol' who are entering 22 runners in the Brighton Half Marathon on 17th February.
Team Runners are:
Danny Dwyer, Adam Betteridge, Jonathan Terry, Ian Chaplin, Mark Flood, Shaun Roe, Paul Brown, Robert Taylor, Jason Bramwell, Nicolas Collins, Susan Luxford, Colin Bentley, Martin Still, Margot Uden, Robert Sz, Antonio DaVinci, Lawrence Simpson, PJ Hopper, Ant Pay, Deborah Wolf, David Wilkes & Fiona Coad-Window.
LGBT Switchboard
As well as a helpline for those in distress or just wanting up to date information, Switchboard provides face to face counselling service with professionally trained LGBT counsellors.
Rise is a charity which supports women, children, young people and families affected by domestic abuse in Brighton & Hove and across West Sussex including specialist services for those who are LGBT and experiencing domestic abuse.
MindOut is a mental health service run by and for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgender people. Based in Brighton and Hove, we provide local services such as advice, information, advocacy, peer support group programmes, and a food & allotment project.
http://www.mindout.org.uk/ (scroll to bottom of their home page to donate)
Lunch Positive
Lunch Positive a community space for everyone with HIV providing enjoyable and quality food that's well balanced and incorporates a persons '5 a day' portions of fruit and vegetables. They also provide information, advice and support with healthy eating and nutrition, as well as information on other local groups and services and run healthy eating and cookery events.
The Carer's Centre
Through their ReachingOUT initiative the Carers Centre for Brighton and Hove provides information and support to carers from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities supporting those caring for a partner, relative or friend who needs help because of illness, disability, substance misuse or old age.
The Men's Network
The Men's Network in Brighton & Hove is a charity committed to creating a city that works for everyone – men and boys included – committed to helping every man and boy in our city to fulfil his greatest potential by taking action to improve men's health, support dads, help boys do better in school and give children more access to male mentors and role models.
Terrence Higgins Trust
THT provides free condom and lube across the The Scene for the LGBT community. They provide fast HIV testing and offer support, information and peer support groups to those diagnosed as well as campaign the safe sex message.
The L-Project
Ten months ago The L Project released the chart topping charity song "It Does Get Better" with contributions by local lesbian singers. All the proceeds and royalties collected are being donated to Stonewall and Diversity Role Models, both charities who help prevent LGBT bullying in schools. You can help the cause by sharing the Official Music Video from Youtube and download it from iTunes or Amazon now:
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Nomar Garciaparra
Biographical Information
Garciaparra was part of the so-called "Holy Trinity" of shortstops that debuted in the mid '90s, which also included Alex Rodriguez (now a third baseman) and Derek Jeter, who were considered the best shortstops in baseball.
Through the 2005 season, in 1071 games he has hit (.320/.367/.544/.911) (BA/OBP/SLG/OPS), with 191 HRs and 740 RBI.
The Ox is a Yin,
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Eighth DAZ 3D Bryce rendering Challenge
Theme for this month is "SPRINGTIME"
As Trish said, we have had frozen and we have had rain, so let's lighten things up and have Springtime. Feel free to use imports and postwork is allowed but not so that it dominates your image. Ok, Bryce away!
This thread is the WIP thread, so you can post here to show us how things are coming along before the render is transferred to the actual Contest thread for judging. You don't have to do that. I collect up all the finished ones and make the thread, with each render given a number and title, but no artist name shown.
All renders must be new renders.
You can enter up to 3 renders.
You must abide by the DAZ 3D forum TOS
Imported content is allowed, but the render must be obviously a Bryce render.
Post Work permitted, but please keep it to a minimum.
Rules may be changed for subsequent Challenges, depending on the theme and the person who has selected it.
The winner of the Challenge will get the chance to name the theme for the next contest.
This will then continue with subsequent winners choosing the theme for the next contest, which will enable a new contest to start with the minimum of delay between contests.
Whoever nominates the subject for the Challenge can modify the rules to suit that challenge.
Challenge ends on 30th April :- Midnight DAZ 3D time.
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In addition DAZ 3D Store Credit will be given to the people whose renders are selected as the Honourable mentions,
$10 for each of 3 honorable mentions
We will also be offering a special prize for the render judged the best from a Bryce New User. Jaderail has offered $20 and DAZ 3D will add $10.
Judged by members of the DAZ 3D CV team and guest judges.
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Annual Round Louth Walk to benefit two charities
Posted: February 13, 2013|
IT is the end of an era and the start of a new chapter for a popular annual fundraising event.
Organisers of the annual Round Louth Walk have made their final presentation following this year's event in January.
Volunteers David Bolland, Jenny Crooks and Michael Preen announced last year that the 2013 walk would be their last.
During the presentation of £2,039 raised from this year's event in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, the organisers were pleased to announce it will now become a jointly organised event between Macmillan and St Andrew's Hospice, which the walk has supported three times.
Mr Bolland said: "The Round Louth Walk started in 1998 when we first thought about doing it for the year 2000 for the millennium as a way for families to get exercise and do something good for children's charities, which then extended to other charities over the years.
"This is Round Louth Walk part one. Jenny, Michael and I were very anxious that it continues. We feel assured that we are handing it over to people who will see it into the future.
"They have the enthusiasm for it and they have the commitment to do a good job.
"These two causes effect the majority of people in our county."
Since 2000, the walk has raised £22,890 for charity.
Tanya Taylor from Macmillan Cancer Support and Lisa Courtney, fundraiser for St Andrew's Hospice, were both delighted to take on the walk as an annual fundraiser benefiting both charities.
Lisa said: "We have a Macmillan base already at our hospice so this is a fantastic idea. It will be nice to work closer together as a team as we do have children at the hospice who are suffering from cancer."
Tanya added: "It is great that our two charities are taking on this fantastic legacy and I am sure we will strive to do such a good job as David, Jenny and Michael have done since 2000."
Mr Bolland thanked all the walkers and fundraisers who have taken part, The Target for helping publicise the event, Flora and Paul Bennett of Brackenborough Hall, East Lindsey District Council and the Lincolnshire Wolds Countryside Service.


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- The definition of a flashback is when an earlier moment is portrayed in a story or when a past experience is remembered.
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- an interruption in the continuity of a story, play, film, etc. by the narration or portrayal of some earlier episode
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- a. Psychiatry A recurring, intensely vivid mental image of a past traumatic experience: soldiers who had flashbacks of the war.b. An unexpected recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug long after its original use.c. A vivid memory that arises spontaneously or is provoked by an experience.d. An experience that has characteristics of an earlier experience.
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Augustus Willington Shelton Agar VC, DSO, RN (4 Jan 1890 -30 Dec 1968) was the son of John Shelton Agar of Woodmount, Co Kerry. Agar was educated at Eastmans Naval Academy and HMS Britannia and entered the Royal Navy in 1905. He served with the Grand Fleet in the North Sea from 1914-15 and then took part in the evacuation of Gallipoli. In 1918, he was detached for special service in Coastal Motor Boats (CMBs) and in 1919 established a secret base at Terrioki in Finland from which he landed and collected British secret agents operating in Bolshevik Russia. On 17 June 1919, Agar took a more aggressive course of action, mounting a torpedo attack on the Bolshevik cruiser Oleg in Kronstadt harbour. The cruiser was sunk and Agar brought his vessel CMB 4 safely back to base. Agar was awarded the VC for his part in this action, receiving the DSO for a second, large-scale attack on Kronstadt in August. The secrecy attached to Agar's VC led to his award being described as the 'mystery' VC. Promoted captain in 1933, he commanded the cruiser HMS Dorsetshire, surviving its sinking by Japanese dive bombers in the Indian Ocean in April 1942. On appointment as commodore in 1943, he was president of the RN College, Greenwich from 1943-46. Agar contested Greenwich in the Conservative interest in the 1945 General Election. Agar retired in the rank of captain in 1947. He was a younger brother of Trinity House from 1936 and, inter alia, a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. His VC was gazetted on 22 August 1919. He published a number of books including his autobiography 'Footprints in the Sea' (Evans, London 1959) as well as 'Showing the Flag' and 'Baltic Episode'. Agar died at Alton, Hampshire on 30 December 1968. CMB 4, (Ref: MAR 563) commanded by Agar during the action for which he received his VC is on display at IWM Duxford. Other material relating both to Agar and CMB 4 may be found in the Museum's Department of Documents, which holds various papers and photographs relating to his service with the Royal Navy, 1917-42. (Ref: 69/1/10). The Museum also holds some items of uniform (Ref: UNI 1086; 1137;1178;8118) and items relating to Sub-Lieutenant J W Hampsheir RNR Agar's First Lieutenant on the CMB 4 (Ref: MAR 631; OMD 2848-2851)
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Captain A W S Agar VC, DSO, Royal Navy (1890-1968)
Physical description
cross patté (described in the Royal Warrant as a 'Maltese cross of bronze') having at its centre a crown surmounted by 'lion gardant'; beneath the crown an ornamentally draped scroll bearing the motto: 'FOR VALOUR'. Raised borders outline the shape of the cross. The plain reverse bears a central circle (with raised edge) to enclose the date of the act of gallantry. The suspension bar comprises a straight laurelled bar with integral 'V' lug; the plain reverse of the suspension bar is engraved with details of the recipient. The 1½-inch wide ribbon is crimson. [Note: originally the ribbon was dark blue for Royal Navy recipients and crimson (described as 'red' in the Warrants) for the Army. After the formation of the Royal Air Force (1 April 1918) the crimson ribbon (sometimes described as 'claret', 'maroon' or 'dark red') was adopted for all recipients. When present, a straight laurelled Bar (in the same form as the suspension bar but without the 'V' lug) indicates a subsequent award.]
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Bayside chatter: Dec. 13
December 13, 2013 at 1:50 pm in Uncategorized
From Steve Gow
A win and a loss for the Storm
The North Shore Storm split a pair of contests last weekend. They lost 3-1 to the Faribault Falcons at Silver Bay and defeated the Pine City Dragons 4-0 at Two Harbors.
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Honda CRF250L vs CRF230L
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I have been mulling over an upgrade (side-grade?) from my several years old 230L to a 250L for some months, ever since the 250L was announced. For adventure riding, which is why I purchased the small dual sport in the first place, I've decided that 50lbs lighter and much less complexity makes the 230L a winner *for my purpose*. I'm sticking with the lighter bike, air-cooled engine and gravity fed carb. I realize the 250L will be better on the street, but I have street bikes for the street. Of course I long for a faster and smoother street ride to get me to the trail-head, but my type of trail riding dictates light weight and simplicity over technology. I also make extensive use of the low gearing on the 230L to get me up insane mountain goat trails, I'd hate to give that up - (sigh) everything is a trade-off. The 250L will make a bad-A little Super Motard - but the 230L is what I would buy again today for my type of off-road adventures. If I was planning on riding 80% street, I'd go 250L - it will be a hoot in town! For picking my way through the woods, creeks, or up crazy rutted out trails, or if I plan to leave civilization far behind, I'm going 230L.
I also was not aware that the 250L was Thai made - that has a huge impact on my purchase decision. I'm not saying it is crap or there will be a problem, I am sure that Honda has excellent oversight of the process. But what I am saying is you find a different pride in workmanship from Japan vs Thailand, a night and day difference. And when you are talking about a living breathing machine - hopefully one with soul, one that you plan on getting far away with - pride in workmanship means everything.
To those who like to constantly call people by their first name in forum posts while attempting to belittle them for their opinions: I know a little bit about technology, having worked at it for 30+ years to the point I can play with bikes and airplanes. I know enough about technology to know how great and how fallible it is. Speaking of airplanes, I'm one of those people who take a no bullshit approach to vehicle systems: the simpler the better when things go sideways far from home. You don't see a lot of fuel injected airplanes plying the backwoods of Alaska for instance.
If someone who owns a 250L might indulge the audience with a test: Disconnect your battery and then see if you can push start the bike. If you want to spice up the test, load your bike out with 60lbs of camp gear and pretend like you're 300 miles from nowhere, hot and tired. Report back, thanks.
I agree and I understand your views. Nothing wrong with FI or enduro race bikes or etc all fine. But yes my 230L worked great for 7000 trouble-free miles traveling from May to Oct., riding, plenty of gnarly mountain-trail riding and traveling!
Thus far I have resisted even buying the WR250R because of the weight! Weight matters on the tight and gnarly! Then consider the situation for adventure traveling with the real light bikes- Euro bikes- where reliability and durability are not yet proven. Tough for me to think about spending $10k for a bike that runs for 10 minutes without issues, and then is buzzy going down the road. Heck, my 230L is buzzy going down the road for under $3k but dead reliable, always runs perfectly, little maintenance needed.
So then there is or will be all the commentary about a list of 23 mods to make the WR250R travel ready or lighter/ better for enduro riding, or how to make the orange bike work right much less work for traveling....
The 'lowly' 230L will do it basically stock. It will ride the tight and gnarly easily, it will travel down the highway weakly, but with traffic. And the 230L will run forever,,,
The weight of the loaded 230L shown above is about equal to a stock new 250L....and I camped for several weeks this past summer with that load!
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A lot of people try to front on Nike 6.0, no where more than in surfing where people even made "Welcome to Huntington Beach, Now Go Back To Portland" stickers during the US Open of Surf. But it's pretty hard to front on this: Nike 6.0 surfer Dusty Payne on the cover of the new Surfer's Journal. D Payne goes huge!
When you're on fire, you're on fire. In more Nigel Sylvester news, the Queens ripper is dropping an exclusive new Mavrk-Mid next Monday with Dan's Comp. Dubbed as "Chocolate, but for your feet," Nigel hooked this kick up from top to bottom with black on black detailing, stingray leather swooshes in alternating gold and black, and an ice gel toe bumper with quilted purple lining, what?! Not bananas enough – the right foot has a toe box sewn in ostrich leather while the left is pure croc. Seriously. Good luck getting a pair of these. More looks after the jump.
Garrett Reynolds has pretty much won everything there is for a rider to win this year except the Dew Tour. Oh wait, he won that too. To big up their wunderkind, 6.0 put together this edit of awesomeness. His secret to success: not giving a shit. You gots to love that.
Another one on the feel good tip, Nike 6.0 got their philanthropic steez on last weekend with their Banksgiving event to open the Nicholas Wilson Memorial Park in Newark Valley, NY. Named for fallen US soldier and BMW rider Nick Wilson, the park will bring some much needed diversion to a working class town that has suffered much at the hands of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Props to Nike for doing one strictly for the locals.
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Nike 6.0 proves again why they are a force for good with the 2009 Tunnel Jam in the UK. This spot was kept under super secret wraps for a while but is now fair game. Shred on! This is also another reason why Reynolds is the reigning king. Peep some sick photos of the day at Defgrip.
The anticipated collaborative project between Nike 6.0 and Todd Selby goes live on Selby's site TheSelby.com tomorrow. Until then you can catch a sneak preview of exclusive photos and videos from Selby's shoots with Ben Horan, Nigel Sylvester, Garrett Reynolds, James Stewart, Mason Aguirre, and Michel Bourez right over here.
Big ups are in order to Garrett Reynolds who snatched up his second consecutive Street Rider of the Year award at the 2009 Nora Awards in Las Vegas. He also picked up Best Video Part for Nike 6.0′s Writing on the Wall, which also won best video. This is this kid's year. In addition to last night's big wins, Garrett won his 7th X Games Gold medal for BMX Street, has a show on MTV2 and is currently leading the Dew Tour Park standings.
Nike 6.0 has announced that they are bringing the holidays early this year with the Banksgiving BMX jam in Newark Valley, NY on October 10. Banksgiving comes as the result of Newark Valley resident Nick Marzolino's winning entry in a Nike 6.0 custom mini-ramp contest where he detailed his community's love of riding and their loss when local ripper Nick Wilson was killed while serving in Iraq. After hearing his story, Nike decided to turn the mini into a full fledged park and are now throwing Banksgiving to kick off the park's construction. The park will be named Nick Wilson Memorial Park. That's pretty dope. Event details after the jump.
The Frank151 x Herbie Fletcher Samoan Luau party went down last Thursday night to celebrate the release the the Frank Surf chapter curated by Herbie. Where better to have roasted pig, firedancers, and mad Cali OG's than the Nike 6.0 Motel NoTell in San Clemente? Heads like Lord Ezec DMS, Revok MSK, and Michel Bourez joined Herbie and Christian Fletcher for Pabst and Reeds x Sailor Jerry Dark-n-Stormy's while DJ Spider held it down for the hula girls. A ton of rad photos by Craig Wetherby after the jump.
If they are actually ever to move past Kanye-gate, MTV looks like they may have some watchable programming on their hands with "5 Months to Freedom," a reality show featuring Garrett Reynolds and Dennis Enarson. More than just a day-in-the-life type thing, "5 Months to Freedom" specifically tracks both athlete's difficult process of trying to finish high school while a life of money, fame, and mad shorties beckons with every contest win and team tour. The show debuts this Saturday night at 10pm on MTV2. Some behind the scenes stills after the jump.


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Gevo in the newsREDFIELD, S.D. — Redfield Energy LLC of Redfield, S.D., is switching from ethanol to isobutanol in a project funded by Gevo Inc., a biofuel technology company in Englewood, Colo.
By: Mikkel Pates, Agweek
REDFIELD, S.D. — Redfield Energy LLC of Redfield, S.D., is switching from ethanol to isobutanol in a project funded by Gevo Inc., a biofuel technology company in Englewood, Colo.
Here is a brief summary of recent articles on isobutanol, listed on the Gevo website:
March 11: The Minneapolis Star Tribunereports on Luverne, Minn., the nation's first "commercial-scale corn isobutanol plant," but says state law doesn't make it part of the mandated 10 percent ethanol mix for the state. The part of the state law that mandates ethanol has a sunset provision. Rep. Paul Anderson, R-Starbuck, is sponsoring a bill that would extend the law but not broaden it. Brian Kletscher, CEO of Highwater Ethanol in Lamberton, Minn., favors passing the extension and changing it later. Highwater is in discussions with Butamax Advanced Biofuels, a company in a patent dispute with Gevo Inc.
March 2: AOL Energy, an online publication, produced by AOL Industry, names Gevo Inc. one of a handful of biofuel companies that is entering the market with commercial-scale isobutanol. Gevo will use a "yeast-based process that 'makes scotch taste like scotch,'" they say, quoting Jack Huttner, Gevo's executive vice president of commercial and public affairs. The first market will be for paint, solvents, cleaning agents, lacquers and nail polish. The company plans to "scale up to 350 million gallons of transportation fuels by 2015." Credits will be awarded under the Renewable Fuel Standard 2, which has targets of 36 billion gallons of biofuel by 2022, the article says, including 4 billion gallons of advanced biofuel.
Feb. 24: BoatUS, a Boat Owners Association of the United States publication, writes that increasing the ethanol blend for boats to E15 is not legal. "BoatUS suggests that butanol, an alcohol with a characteristic banana-like odor typically made from corn and beet byproducts, may be an answer." Butanol is less corrosive and doesn't attract moisture, which can cause "phase separation" in the fuel. It delivers 110,000 Btu per gallon compared to ethanol's 84,000 Btu. With ethanol subsidies expired, and new technologies, the costs to produce both fuels are similar "although butanol is ultimately far less expensive" in terms of the "amount of energy delivered per gallon."
Feb. 22: Ethanol Producer Magazine reports that 2012 could be the turning point when the ethanol industry transforms itself. Biobutanol is "high on the list of contenders." BP and DuPont's joint venture, Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC, has formed an Early Adopters Group for existing ethanol makers who collaborate with isobutanol retrofits. Highwater Ethanol LLC of Lamberton, Minn., had "signed on" to retrofit its 50-million-gallon per year ethanol plant.
Meanwhile, Gevo Inc., of Englewood, Colo., is converting the Luverne, Minn., based CORN-er Stone Farmers Co-op to produce 18 million gallons per year and the Redfield Energy plant with 38 million gallons. Green Biologics Inc. is merging Ohio's Butylfuel Inc. with United Kingdom–based Green Biologics Ltd., and looking for U.S. ethanol partners to retrofit its butanol production capabilities onto existing facilities. While ethanol seeks E15 implementation, "butanol can currently be blended at up to 12.5 percent by volume," and is defined as "substantially similar" to gasoline under the U.S. Clean Air Act. Isobutanol has 30 percent more energy than ethanol, the magazine notes, and generates 1.3 renewable identification numbers (RINs) per gallon, compared with 1 RIN for ethanol. Gevo has committed its production for the next two years to Sasol Chemical Industries Ltd. for the chemical market. Gevo "envisions a production model that would allow ethanol plants to produce their own 100 percent, biobased E85 by replacing petroleum-based gasoline with butanol, the magazine says. "If you have a bolt-on butanol plant and you produce butanol using 15 percent of the corn volume, you could produce E85 with butanol and sell it directly to your regional distributor."
Feb. 1: Biofuels Digest reports that there are 14 billion gallons of installed corn ethanol capacity in the U.S., and that the Renewable Fuel Standard "does not mandate ethanol." "We believe that the fleet can convert to biobutanol by 2022," the publication says. Producers "would do so, to produce higher value molecules, and working around the E10 'blend wall' which limits the U.S. to about 13.5 billion gallons of ethanol via blending at the refineries." The article notes that isobutanol sells for $1,400 per ton, while n-butanol sells for $1,500 per ton and ethanol is at around $700 per ton.
Dec. 21: Technology Review, published by Massachusetts institute of Technology, describes Gevo as a "prominent advanced-biofuel company that has received millions in U.S. government funding to develop fuels made from cellulosic sources such as grasses and wood chips, is finding that it can't use these materials if it hopes to survive" and is instead shifting to corn. And it will make chemicals, not fuel. The Luverne retrofit, to make "butanol" will cost about $40 million, "a fraction of the hundreds of millions it costs to build a new plant."
Gevo has a partnership with Coca-Cola to make plastic bottles from plants. It is making 11,000 gallons of jet fuel for the U.S. Air Force to test in planes, and the contract will cover a 10,000-gallon-per-month jet fuel demonstration plant.
Dec. 12: Chemical and Engineering News features companies, including Gevo, for efforts to use biobased rubber ingredients to replace materials made from latex-bearing trees and rubber synthesized from petroleum feedstocks. Isobutene is a four-carbon intermediate used to make butyl rubber and styrene-butadiene rubber. Goodyear and Michelin are among the companies in partnerships, motivated by tight supplies and volatile prices for natural and synthetic rubber, driven by global demand, especially in emerging companies. The new rubber, made from renewable sources, won't be commercially available for three to five years. Gevo is in a partnership with specialty chemical maker Lanxess.
"Gevo's scientists engineered a yeast strain to produce isobutyl alcohol from sugar by blocking competing pathways for ethanol and acetic acid," the article explains. "Lanxess researchers added a dehydration process to convert isobutyl alcohol to isobutene, which can be polymerized to butyl rubber." Lanxess invested $27 million into Gevo and is a major shareholder. Christopher Ryan, Gevo's president and chief operating officer, says the economics are "acceptable with corn sugar as a feedstock" and look "even better with sugar derived from cellulose."
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Kurt Loves Angelina Jolie! Glee Season 3, Episode 11 Pop Culture References
Namedrops abound on Glee. More often than not, a famous person's name is used as an insult to take someone down a peg or two — and that's something we totally support! To help you keep it all straight, we've compiled a list of the names and pop culture references deemed important enough to be dropped by Glee characters in Season 3, Episode 11: "Michael." Did you catch them all?
Blaine: The world tour of the Cirque du Soleil tribute show to Michael Jackson, Immortal, is coming to Columbus in June.
Kurt: Rachel, he was best friends with Liza Minnelli and Liz Taylor.
Rachel: All I'm saying is, I haven't connected with him the way I have with Barbra or either of the Stephens: Sondheim, Schwartz.
Artie: In 1983, MTV said they wouldn't air his "Billie Jean" video. What'd he do? He fought back. They aired it, and the Thriller album sold an additional ten million copies.
Santana [to Kurt]: You know what, Prancy Smurf?
Santana: I respect that — I wanna go to a college that isn't a FEMA trailer in a prison yard, so let's take the high road.
Kurt [reading]: "Miss Jolie says that after a dramatic directorial debut, she expects her second feature to have far more honey than blood."
Finn: And I brought you a couple of eye-patch-featuring flicks from my collection. I got, uh, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Valkyrie, and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
Rachel: Yeah, and there are tons of legendary performers who've only had one eye: Sammy Davis, Jr., Columbo.
Finn: And Stevie Wonder, he did pretty good with no eyes at all.
Santana [to Sebastian]: Hey, Andrew McCarthy.
Santana: You may look like the villain out of a cheesy '80s high school movie, but you should know that I am fully prepared to go all Danny LaRusso on your ass.
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