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Michael Jackson presided over the third and final big bang of the rock 'n' roll era.
The first explosion was Elvis. That was about sexual liberation and racial integration, and that blast lasted about ten years.
The second explosion was the Beatles - and everything they issued in. Suddenly pop music was about long hair and experimental sounds, progressive politics and outlaw rhetoric. Rock was about a counter-culture. That blast reverberated for 20 years, right through Springsteen, Prince and U2.
The third explosion was "Thriller," Michael Jackson's 1982 album - the bestselling record of all time, and an album that invented the pop world we are still living in 25 years later.
"Thriller" re-merged pop music with mainstream entertainment. After twenty years of anti-glamour, pop became again what it had been before the Sixties - part of show business. After "Thriller," pop was about not just how you sounded but how you looked, how you dressed, how you danced.
Michael Jackson ushered in a new era after the long reign of the counterculture. He did Pepsi commercials and met with President Reagan. He did not pretend not to care about commercial success - he wanted to break all the old records. Michael did not idolize Dylan and Hendrix - he idolized Elizabeth Taylor and Walt Disney.
The Michael Jackson model has ruled pop music for 26 years, and it shows no sign of ending. He made the world safe for MTV and Madonna, "Flashdance" and "Footloose," Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.
A student of P.T. Barnum, Jackson courted crazy rumors and publicity stunts - and at some point that hunger for tabloid headlines turned on him. He fed a beast, and the beast bit him.
At some point Michael seemed to forget about being a musician and got lost in being a star.
But one crucial fact often gets overlooked in all the statistics and hype and hoopla: Michael Jackson was amazingly talented.
Those Motown records he made as a kid ("I Want You Back") were fantastic, but it was when Michael grew up and took control of his own creativity that he gave us "Beat It," "Wanna Be Starting Something," "Billie Jean." The first time you heard those songs, with their snaking rhythms and beautiful playing and strange, almost paranoid lyrics, you had to pull the car over to the side of the road to figure out what was going on.
This was a new kind of popular music, so compelling that, like Elvis and the Beatles before him, Michael Jackson moved the mainstream.
If Michael Jackson had not been able to write those songs and sing them so powerfully, none of the rest of the circus would have mattered.
And now that he's gone, once the gossip and the exploitation and the vultures pass by, the music he made is what will remain.


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Friday, March 8, 2013
Medical Planning for Public Events
I was asked to write a piece for Sports Destination Management magazine about the medical aspects involved with setting up a major public event. After some research, and discussion with some who were involved in local situations, I put together this article, which is published in their March/April 2013 issue:
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Thanks ...
Nothing dramatic in this post, just a thank you to all who have stopped by over the past few years. Just passing the 1000 page view mark. I hope to post more for you all in the future.
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We were back down in London on Tuesday for my hip op. The Professor explained that there were two options to fix the problem: the easy option which would only require a day or two in hospital or the hard option with a minimum stay of eight days. Yikes !!!!!
|Chester and Frank keeping me company while I wait for my op
All of us, the Prof included, hoped it would be the easy option. However he wouldn't know until he opened me up which one it would be.
I was first on the Prof's evening theatre list (7pm....) so had plenty to keep me occupied until my op.
To everyone's relief the Prof was able to perform the easy option which meant that my hip was now much more stable than before. So on Wednesday Sarah, one of the physios, got me up walking – actual walking !!!! Having not been able to put any weight on my leg for four years it was an amazing feeling.
Everything was going great for me to leave hospital on Thursday. Then three hours before we were due to catch our train my wound started to bleed quite heavily. Agnes, my nurse, called the Prof who came immediately. It was now 50/50 whether I would be able to go home that day.
The Prof asked what time our train was. 1.30pm, but as we required assistance getting on the train, we had to be at Kings Cross twenty five minutes before hand.
He had to dash into theatre so instructed Agnes to put a pressure dressing on my hip. He would then come back to see me around the time we would be due to leave to say either yes or no.
True to his word, still in full theatre scrubs, he came back at 12.45pm and checked the wound again. He would discharge me on one condition. I had to let my body heal slowly so had to promise to take it extremely easy at all times. His departing words were he did not want to see me on the ward again.....
So, if I thought the past six weeks were tough not doing anything, in the words of Al Jolson, 'you ain't seen nothing yet' !!!!
Have a great week.
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1. Can goats see in the dark?
Apparently. Although three years old, this answer from Yahoo Answers is convincing enough for me:
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i have mother goats and they have kids. there is a big raccoon that killed a turkey on my property. the kids are only 5 days old. do you think i should put a light in the goats barn or are they fine and able to see.
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PLATTSBURGH - When Paula Ashline gets passionate about a cause, she sticks with it.
That's why, when the month of February was approaching - which is nationally recognized as American Heart Month - she wanted to do something to help promote it where she works.
Ashline, a hair stylist at Punki's Shear Perfection, wanted the salon to help raise money for the American Heart Association, so she talked with owner Elizabeth "Punki" Duhaime, and she was all for it, Ashline said.
"When I asked Punki about it, she said 'Go for it,'" said Ashline.
Immediately, Ashline looked into what she could do to help the AHA, and found the salon could sell paper hearts and Go Red for Women pins. The idea skyrocketed in the first week of February, with dozens of hearts and pins already sold.
Though Go Red for Women Day last Friday focused on raising awareness of heart disease and stroke in women, Ashline said she's put an emphasis on Punki's campaign being about educating all people about the importance of heart health. As the mother of a grown son with a heart condition known as aortic stenosis, Ashline said she wants to do whatever she can to increase support for all who have a heart condition.
"It doesn't matter to me whether it's men or women," she said. "I want us to support everyone."
This isn't the first community-minded endeavor to come from Punki's. Most recently, the salon hosted a fundraiser in October selling ribbons in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. That effort collected more than $500 for the Treasure Chests, a local team that competed in the annual Northeastern New York Race for the Cure, which benefits the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
"These kinds of things are important to us," said Ashline. "That's why we do them."
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During the month of February, paper hearts are available at the salon for a $1 donation each. Those purchasing hearts may sign their name or the name of a loved one on the heart and they will be hung in the salon. Go Red for Women pins are also available for a $5 donation.
The salon is also offering to anyone who purchases a CHI or Redken product that's red a chance to win one of two massage sessions by Erin Tate. The drawing will be held Friday, Feb. 26.
Punki's Shear Perfection, located at 2 Halsey Court, and open Monday 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.; Tuesday-Friday 9 a.m.-8 p.m., and Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. For more information, contact the salon at 563-0620.


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Review Text Euclid's axiom states "The whole is equal to the sum of all the parts and is greater than any of its parts." That being said, you have no idea how dreadful this album is. Where a George Harrison can rival the Beatles with All Things Must Pass, three ex-members of the Alice Cooper Group have no excuse for forcing this difficult set of songs on the world. The title track, "Battle Axe," with a Bob Dolin composition ("Sudden Death") stuck inside of it, is bombast, some fragments of the Killer album's tune "Dead Babies," but not much else. Co-guitarist Michael Bruce is the lead singer, bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neal Smith remain, and with the addition of guitarist Mike Marconi and keyboard/synthesist Bob Dolin they cannot survive the loss of Alice Cooper, and even Glen Buxton. The production is as weak as the Spiders From Mars album, where David Bowie's rhythm section decided to pull the same stunt a year before this. The tune "Winner" says the "billion dollar babies got the world," referring to this band, but the truth is, Alice Cooper is the billion dollar baby, and without the star, a song like "Too Young" doesn't come across. Michael Bruce re-recorded "Too Young" six years later on his Rock Rolls On disc, but this version is better. At the risk of sounding as redundant as this band, "Too Young" doesn't come across, but is better than its eventual remake. Big Brother & the Holding Company and the Doors at least came up with competent and interesting albums after their respective stars evaporated. Why Billion Dollar Babies, or Spiders From Mars, for that matter, didn't find an interesting character to back up is a pity; maybe Rob Grill from the Grass Roots or even Spanky McFarlane from Spanky & Our Gang or, even more obscure, Signe Anderson, original vocalist from the Jefferson Airplane. Putting a paradox together and making some rock history is certainly better than being a bad footnote, and that is all a song like "Shine Your Love" warrants. Equally depressing about this outing is that Bruce, Dunaway, and Smith recorded Easy Action, an album that borrowed from garage rock and British punk. Those elements are absent from this homogenized metal. "I Miss You" falls flat, a modified Barrett Strong "Money" riff goes nowhere. The ballad "Wasn't I The One" shows the flaws in Bruce's voice. This would be a great tune for Ian Hunter, as it sounds like early Mott the Hoople without the production and without the charisma. Alice Cooper should actually cut this track; it adds a little density that was missing in his adult contemporary hits like "Only Women Bleed." Producer Jack Douglas co-writes the other substantial track here, "Rock n' Roll Radio." and that track is produced by the band and Lee DeCarlo "in association with Jack Douglas." Having their engineer, DeCarlo, co-produce was as much a mistake as having Michael Bruce front this band. They should have sought out Chad Allan, Cindy Bullens, Sky Saxon, Captain Beefheart, Dana Gillespie, Little Joe Cook, someone, anyone, with personality to bring some life to this turkey. ~ Joe Viglione
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- One should start with a small wound using this technique.
- Freeing up a bilateral advancement flap.
- This is a superior technique for closing defects of the upper lip.
More than 50 percent of all skin cancers are found on the peri-nasal area, including the nose. The next most common site is the upper lip. After removal of skin cancers from the upper lip, they vary in size from very small to very extensive lesions involving the nasal vestibule and the nasolabial folds, as well as the upper lip. I am directing this pearl to regions of approximately 2 cm or less of the upper lip. The standard modalities for correction of the surgical defect would be advancement flaps, rotation flaps or transposition flaps. Without elaborating on the different methods, my technique of choice would be a wedge resection, which one could also call a bilateral advancement flap.
There are two types of advancement flaps, as seen in the first case which entails freeing up two horizontal skin flaps and bringing them together.
Potential pitfalls: There could be a pitfall, if one cuts the hair follicles, and the end result is a field of alopecia. Another problem is the distortion of the lip, if the two skin flaps are not long enough when brought together.
Technique: I have selected the wedge section to close the wound. First, with a marking pen, outline the area using three times the length to one time its width. This may entail cutting into the upper lip itself. The area is first anesthetized using lidocaine with epinephrine. If it entails cutting into the lip, I like to score with a scalpel, very gently the vermillion borders, as when brought together, they can be approximated precisely to each other. The excess tissue is removed and bleeding is controlled using electro-cautery, a number of absorbable buried sutures are used to close the wound. A running 5-0 suture is then used to close the skin. The skin sutures are usually left in place for one week, then removed. The end result will be a good cosmetic result and no distortion of the lip.
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|31 Oct 2013
I appreciate your help, but I CANNOT LOAD DRIVERS when there is no device showing. I ran BelArc and it doesn't see the devices either...
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Is the wireless LAN switch turned on where it exists on your laptop? It is often by the power button or on the side with an LED light showing if it is on.
What devices are listed in Device Manager under Network Adapters? Can you post a screenshot?
Also, are there any Unknown or other devices showing in error with a yellow ! mark in Device Manager? If the adapter has Win7 driver on the PC's Support Downloads webpage then it should definitely show up somewhere in the Device Manager.
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|31 Oct 2013
W7 Ultimate x64/W10 Pro x64 dual boot main build-remote pc W10 Pro x64 Insider Preview/W7 Pro x64
Greg has another good observation there. On many laptops you will find a WLan-Wi-FiLan button along the top area of the keyboard section that will usually be green or amber. If that was pressed even by accident it may be set for hard wired Lan not Wi-Fi. That will disable the Wi-Fi capability.
A good look at the Device Manager>Network adapters won't hurt any. You may have ended up with multiple adapters or find someone yellow marked under "other devices" as greg refers to. If you can reply back with a image captured with the snipping tool found under Start>Accessories that will be a help.
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Microsoft Kernel Debug Network Adapter
Qualcomm Atheros AR8162/8166 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.30)
Realtek RTL8188CE Wireless LN 802.11n PCI-E NIC
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Have you googled each of those for a Windows 7 driver?
Are any posted on the PC model's Support Downloads webpage?
Check the device manufacturer's Support Downloads webpage.
As a last resort I sometimes use the old XP-era DriverMax program for it's two free drivers a day downloads as it is mostly accurate with its scan for finding drivers which elude me.
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When Bing-ing that particular driver information I ended up right at the Czech company's own driver update page for that model. Drivers for Atheros AR8152 and Windows 7
That seems to be a general purpose driver set since it covers a variety of adapters. Speaking of DriverIdentifiers one site indicates it has the correct 8166/8162 driver set for Toshiba Satelite models found at Drivers for TOSHIBA - Satellite L855 (Dakar 10F/FG/PSKFUU-014003- SKU:PSKFUU) - Scan Result ANONYMOUS -
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i have an HP desktop 64 bit computer and have some network adapters with caution signs and idk how to fix them and they wont update i dont even know how they came to be on computer
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my computer is also freezing up on my game World of warcraft and when i am on google chrome. it goes grey and says stops responding then asks to kill page or wait. if im on hulu or netflix my silverlight keeps crashing and on hulu the flash keeps crashing. i am not a computer geek so if you respond please make it simple for me to understand and i dont mean to offend anyone with the term computer geek/nerd
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Work through the Troubleshooting Steps for Windows 7. Report back results as you go. Start with a clean boot, disinfect, then updating drivers.
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Farm Work
Since many students that come our way are hoping to find farm jobs in Australia, we have an extensive network of employers.
For those of you who are looking to get a job after the school, the Work Placement Programme is available! During the school we have a chat about the type of work you are looking for and then we go through our list of available job contacts and will try to match you up! We don't guarantee work, but we will do our best to source you a job! Most employers start off with a week's trial, and the type of work and the duration varies depending on the job. We also give you a reference at the end of your school which can assist you in your search for future jobs.
Some examples of our jobs are:
• Cattle Mustering - 1,000 head of cattle to be mustered on motorbike or quad.
• Jillaroo/Nanny - Three young children to be looked after three days a week, plus occasional gardening and stock work.
• Jackaroo/Jillaroo - Mustering and pasture care on cattle station. Room, board and internet access.
Job Testimonials
Lisa from Germany
Lisa enjoyed a week at Leconfield in 2008 doing our farm training and loved it so much, she came back for more in 2014. Upon completion of the 5 day Jackaroo/Jillaroo school, Lisa was offered a job at another farm and now works with horses and helps to train them for camp drafting.
Jean from France
Also Jean came to the Leconfield 5 day Jackaroo/Jillaroo school, learned how to ride horses the Natural Horsemanship way, was eager to learn everything and anything that evolved farm work, which helped him to get a job offer at a farm in the region right after the school.
Craig & Chris
Craig & Chris just spent a week at Leconfield and were offered a job during that week. Right after the school these great guys were striaght off to their work at a farm in the region where they were able to work together. It was very important to them to find work at the same place, since these friends were traveling together. Leconfield can forward all your special requests to potential employers in the region!


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OK! This is about me, I'll just write this down just the way I feel. I'm getting pretty worried about my relationship with people around me.
Am an extrovert, I make friends Alot and I make them real fast, but then I realized something, I get super attached, we could talk all day and be best of friends, this could go on for months, years and all of a sudden, we'd stop talking like before, we'll just drift from "what we used to be". Our conversations will be super awkward, we'll talk like once in two weeks.
After I noticed this, I decided to just stop getting really attached to anyone, stop letting people in much.
Now, I have some friends I talk to everyday, and I told them one after the other, "Don't find it weird if we wake up tomorrow and we drift", yes, they all thought I was joking or it can never happen . it's happening.
I feel so bad because, I really want to talk to these people, we never fought,no issues but we just drift, I just lose the connection we had, and I just ask myself "what happened?" . I don't know if it's okay or its weird. Am just confused. Now I love it when I stop at hello, don't go further.. It's heartbreaking


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Fiat 508
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|Fiat 508
Fiat 508B 1934
|Also called
|Fiat 508 Balilla
|Lingotto, Italy
Warsaw, Poland
Neckarsulm, Germany
Suresnes, France
(French assembly subsequently transferred to Nanterre, France)
|Body and chassis
|Compact car / Small family car (C)
|Body style
|4-door sedan
2-door sedan
2-door spider
4-door torpedo
|FR layout
|straight-4 995 cc
|3-speed manual
|3,140 mm (123.6 in)
|1,400 mm (55.1 in)
|1,530 mm (60.2 in)
|Curb weight
|685 kg (1,510 lb)
|Fiat 509
|Fiat 1100 Balilla (508C)
The 508 Balilla was a compact car designed and developed by Fiat in 1932. It was, effectively, the replacement of the Fiat 509, although production of the earlier model had ceased back in 1929. It had a three-speed transmission (increased to four in 1934), seated four, and had a top speed of about 50 mph (80 km/h). It sold for 10,800 lire (or 8,300 2005 euro). About 113,000 were produced.
The car was also assembled by Walter Motors a.s. in Czechoslovakia, in the Centralne Warsztaty Samochodowe factory in Poland, by NSU-Fiat in Germany and by "SAFAF" (rebranded in 1934 as "Simca-Fiat") in France.
The car was developed by some of the leading Italian automotive engineers of the day, including Nebbia, Fessia and Tranquillo Zerbi. The goal was to incorporate some of the qualities of a high class automobile into a modestly priced vehicle. The car had its unveiling on 12 April 1932 at a motor show being held on the Fiera Milano trade fair site.
The popular 508 baby Fiat small automobile, one of the early people's cars designed by Dante Giacosa and launched at the 1932 Milan automobile show was christened Fiat Balilla.
Many believe that the "Balilla" name was connected with Italian Fascism, but Fiat later insisted that the car was named after the 1746 Genoa boy-hero, not the fascist youth organisation Opera Nazionale Balilla.
The provenance of the name was actually far older than the Italian Fascist movement. "Balilla" was the dialect-nickname of a Genovese boy called Giovanni Battista Perasso, who back in 1746 threw a stone - according to one report several stones - at an Austrian officer in protest over the Austrian military occupation. The action triggered a Genoese revolt against the Austrians and for this Balilla was celebrated as a local hero in Northern Italy through the intervening two centuries. The story of "Balilla" is nevertheless one of many popular heroic tales from history to have gained in prominence in the early decades of the twentieth century, given the heightened nationalism characteristic of the period.
Previously, a class of light Regia Marina submarines of the Royal Italian Navy, and a pony tractor by Milan-based firm Motomeccanica had also been christened Balilla, and Fiat themselves had earlier used the name on the small Fiat-Ansaldo A1 biplane aircraft of World War I.
Fiats 508A (1932 - 1934) and 508B (1934 - 1937)[edit]
The first 508 came with a front-mounted four cylinder petrol/gasline side-valve engine of 995cc. Maximum power was listed as 20 hp (15 kW) at 3500 rpm, providing for a top speed of approximately 80 km/h (50 mph). Power passed to the rear wheels through a 3-speed manual gear box without the assistance of synchromesh on any of the ratios. Stopping power was provided by drum brakes on all four wheels.
At the end of 1933 power was increased to 24 hp (18 kW) at 3500 rpm, and the maximum speed went up to 85 km/h (53 mph). Transmission was upgraded to a four speed gear box. For 1934 the car now came with a slightly more aerodynamic looking "berlina" (saloon/sedan) body, available with either two or four doors. This version was identified as the Fiat 508B, and the original 1932 model was now, retrospectively, became the Fiat 508A.
The Fiat 508 was fitted with a 995 cc side valve engine.
|Fuel system
|straight-4 side valve
|995 cc
|20-24 hp
|single carburetor
|straight-4 side valve
|995 cc
|30-36 hp
|single carburetor
Body versions[edit]
The first 508A, introduced in 1932, was a 2-door "Berlina" (saloon/sedan) with four seats and a three speed "crash" gearbox. The front seats could be slid forwards and the backrests tilted in order to facilitate access to the back seat in what was a relatively small car. Unusually, the windows in the doors could be wound down by turning a crank handle fitted to the door, while the windscreen was hinged at the top and could be opened, while two windscreen wipers were powered by their own electric motor, positioned inside just above the windscreen. The interior used rubber mats while the seats were cloth covered. Accessories offered included a dash-mounted rear-view mirror, an interior light mounted on the centre of the roof and an externally mounted luggage platform at the back which, when specified, came with the spare wheel repositioned to a mounting point on the side of the car between the left-side door and the front wing. A "Lusso" ("de Luxe") version also featured a better type of cloth covering for the seats as well as extra bright work around the lights, front grille, wheels and door handles.
With the 508B, introduced early in 1934, the body was described as "more aerodynamic" although from the perspective of later developments in car styling, the 508B still followed the rather boxy lines associated with cheap cars from the early 1930s. The gear box was upgraded, now offering four forward speeds, and while the a 2-door "Berlina" remained on offer for a few more months, a 4-door "Berlina" was now added. In June of the same year the 2-door "Berlina" was delisted for Italy and there was a further face-lift for the 4-door bodied car, which now received a modified front grille and a windscreen, previously vertical, that was slightly raked, hinting at the more wholesale styling changes that would accompany the appearance in 1937 of the 508C version of the car. Standard and "Lusso" versions of the 4-door "Berlina" were both offered.
The 508 "Spider" was a small 2-door 2-seater cabriolet bodied car. The driver and passenger sat side by side, but the driver's seat was fixed a few centimetres further back than the passenger seat. On the Spider the seat coverings were made from leather. The car was available in both standard and "Lusso" ("de Luxe") versions. The windscreen could be folded down and the removable fabric hood could be stored in a suitably shaped storage bag provided for the purpose. The early "Spider" came with the same three-speed "no-synchromesh" gear-box as the "Berlina". However, it benefited mechanically from the 1934 upgrade, switching to a four-speed transmission. In the case of the "Spider", however, the 1934 upgrade was not accompanied by any change to the body shape.
A "Torpedo" bodied 508 was added to the range in 1933, with four seats and four doors, and in 1933 still with the 3-speed "crash" gear-box. It was offered only with the "Lusso" ("de Luxe") trimmings. As on the "Spider", seat covers and interior trimmings used coloured leather. The windscreen pillars and door hinges were chrome plated, and the removable fabric hood could be stored in a suitably shaped storage bag provided for the purpose. The upgrade to a four speed transmission in 1934 was not accompanied by any aesthetic changes to the "Torpedo" bodywork.
The Italian military was active in Tripolitania (now known as Libya) during this period, and a special "Torpedo Coloniale" was produced, sharing the features of the regular 508 Torpedo, but this car came with wider tyres and was painted the colour of sand.
Spider Sport[edit]
A lower sleeker shape than the "Spider", styling for the 2-seater "Spider Sport" included a distinctive tail treatment which attracted the catch-phrase "insect tail", designed in 1933 by Ghia and said to have been inspired by small roadster bodied English cars of the period. The early "Spider Sport" models came with the same crash gearbox as the other cars, but the engine was fed by a special carburetor, which with its raised compression ratio of 7:1 gave rise to a maximum output listed as 30 hp (22 kW) at 4,000 rpm. The final drive ratio was also altered, and top speed went up to 110 km/h (69 mph). Fiat 508s with this body type were assembled by Fiat in Italy, and were also included in the production schedules of Fiat affiliates/subsidiaries Germany, France and Czechoslovakia. Various small scale enhanced versions appeared, including the Fiat 508S, known as the "Fiat 508 Coppa d'Oro" ("Gold Cup"), especially prized by collectors 75 years later. The "Spider Sport" received the transmission upgrade to 4 speeds in 1934 together with a special overhead valves (at a time when other 508 variants still came with a side valve engine) and other technical enhancements which pushed the power up to 36 hp (27 kW). The most sporting versions advertised their performance aspirations with a more steeply tapered Tail section
Launched in 1935, the "Coupé" bodied 508 (also sometimes known as the "Berlinetta Mille Miglia") shared its mechanical elements, including the more powerful 108CS engine, with the "Spider Sport". The body was a 2-seater aerodynamic Berlinetta, intended for competition use in colder climates such as those encountered in Northern Italy during the "Mille Miglia" (then run in late Winter). The Coupé may have been warmer in cold weather than the Spider Sport, but it was also heavier: competition success proved elusive.
A commercial version of the Balilla was offered, both as a panel van or as a small flat-bed truck, with a 350 kg load capacity, based initially on the 3-speed 508A and later on the 4-speed 508B.
Foreign assembly[edit]
As well as being assembled at Turin in Italy, three successive versions of the car were produced in Poland where it was branded as the "Polski-Fiat 508" and priced at 5,400 Zł.
The arrangement was based on an agreement dated 21 September 1932 and provided for the assembly of the car by Centralne Warsztaty Samochodowe in Warsaw. Assembly progressed to full-scale production and the 508 became the country's top selling passenger car for a period during the 1930s. There were few paved roads in Poland at this time, and both the chassis and the axles of the car were strengthened, and the suspension was modified, in order to cope with the relatively harsh operating conditions resulting from the quality of the roads and of the Polish winter. 20 hp (15 kW) of power came from the same 995cc engine as in the Italian car, however, and the Polish cars benefited, in 1935 from the upgrade that in Italy gave birth to the "508B", although the upgraded Polish version was known as the "508 II".
Production was abruptly halted by the outbreak of war and precise production statistics do not survive; but it is apparent that the Polish output of Fiat 508s ran to several - probably many - thousand.
In Germany a motor bike manufacturer called NSU Motorenwerke AG had recently been persuaded by the dire state of the economy (and by their bankers) to abandon ambitious plans to become an automobile producer, and to sell their car plant plant to anyone who could be found to buy it. NSU found Fiat who thereby in 1929 acquired for One Million Marks a nearly new purpose built car plant near Heilbronn. The 508 Balilla was one of the first two models to be built at the plant It was badged as a "Fiat-NSU" between 1934 and 1938, and as an "NSU-Fiat" between 1938 and 1941 (though Fiat's right to use the NSU name on Fiat passenger cars assembled in Germany would 25 years later become the subject of a noisily litigious dispute).[1]
Production was halted by the outbreak of war and precise production statistics are not available, but it is thought that approximately 11,000 Fiat 508s were produced in Germany between 1934 and 1941 of which approximately 6,000, built between 1934 and 1938, were local equivalents of the 508A and the 508B.
The Fiat 508 Balilla was assembled in France under license from Fiat between 1932 and 1937, and is remembered in retrospect as the first Simca-Fiat. However, the "Simca-Fiat" business did not exist until 1934/35, and when, in 1932, French assembly started the car would have been known simply as a Fiat 6CV assembled in France by a company called "SAFAF".[2] At this stage the cars were assembled in a small-workshop style factory in Suresnes near Paris. Most of the French auto-makers and their suppliers were based in the Paris region, and it proved practical and cost-effective to source many components and sub-assemblies locally, while taking care to maintain a disparate supplier base of smaller companies in order to avoid over dependence on any supplier and, it was said, lower the risk of abusive copying in France of Fiat component designs.
From the start, the French assembled Fiat 6CV was available as a "berline" (four-door saloon/sedan), a "coach" (two-door saloon/sedan), a "coupé" and a "roadster", and subsequently the range of body variant would be widened further.[3] Power came, as in the Italian built cars, from a 995cc side-valve engine for which, initially, maximum power was listed as 20 hp (15 kW) at 3,400 rpm.[3]
In November 1934 production at Suresnes came to an end when Fiat acquired the plant of the recently defunct auto-maker "Donnet", in the west of the country. It was at this point that Fiat funded and created the Société Industrielle de Mécanique et de Carrosserie Automobile (Simca). The move to the more spacious Nanterre facility permitted an increase in volumes which enabled the manufacturer to become one of the country's top tier automakers by the end of the decade. The name "Simca" was now introduced to French customers, the French built Fiat 508 being rebranded as the Simca-Fiat 6CV. In a culture of heightened political awareness and growing polarisation, there was some hostility to things Italian, at least from the French left, and especially in the buildup to Mussolini's Abyssinian invasion. Simca's (originally Italian) boss, Henri Pigozzi, was more attuned than most automobile bosses to the power of skilful marketing, and Simca-Fiat publicity of the period increasingly down-plays Fiat ownership: by 1936 its new models were being branded simply as Simcas.[4] The Simca-Fiat 6CV nevertheless retained the Balilla engine and other mechanical components, and it continued to look like a Fiat.[3]
The Simca-Fiat 6CV made its last Motor Show appearance in October 1937.[3] By this time three slightly bowed thin chrome stripes had appeared on each side of the bonnet/hood, representing the tail of a comet, and for its final year in production, the car was rebaptised as the "Simca-Fiat 6CV Comète".[3] The list of different body variants produced by Simca in Nanterre extended to eight "different" shapes, though most of the steel body panels would have been common to several different shapes. The eight bodies featured in the 1937 show material were a 2-door "berline" (saloon/sedan), a 4-door "berline", a coupé, a cabriolet, a roadster, a "commerciale" (sharing most of the silhouette of the 2-door "berline" but with an opening tailgate) and a "fourgonette" (panel van).[3] However, the Simca list did not include a "Torpedo" bodied car.[3]
By the time the model was replaced in France by the Simca 8 (based on the next generation of the Fiat 508 Balilla) 26,472 of the cars had been built by Simca in Nanterre or its predecessor company, "SAFAF", in Suresnes.
The 508 was also produced at Prague-Jinonice by Walter a.s. under designation Walter Junior.[5][6] Production started in autumn 1932; till 1936, little over one thousand vehicles were built. All produced Juniors got only three-speed gearbox. Prices started at 27,500 Kč for two-door saloon.[7]
Popular culture / Song[edit]
Famous belgian cartoon author André Franquin 's goofy -hero-witout-an-employment Gaston Lagaffe, uses a balilla 508 (some say it is the very similar Fiat 509) as a daily transport . Though the car is "customized" with a checkered flag stripe (laboriously cut out of dozens of crossword puzzles), it is a hopeless piece of junk with a wheezy, smoke belching, misfiring engine. nevertheless Gaston dosen't seem to care and even "improves" his car with crackpot inventions, generally leading to some disastrous débacle. He generously offers rides to (generally reluctant) office colleagues who invariably regret their accepting (except, of course, Gaston's pointy nosed, pony-tailed, bespectacled love interest Mademoselle Jeanne.)[8]
The Balilla 508 was one of the very first attempt of mass motorization in Europe, long before the Wolkswagen Beetle or the Citroën 2CV though it's customers were more lower middle and middle class than working classes, it was a quite desired (and often stolen) item in 30's Italy. It was such an emblematic car that a specially dedicated song (or better said dozens vaiations of an initial song) was created at the time of it's launch. It is a burlesque and almost surrealist ballad called "La Balilla"about a small time cottage industrialist who sells soap, bleach and washing powder on town markets and makes a tidy income out of it, enabling him to buy a top of the range balilla with an exotic option, a special custom upholstery made out of eel skin. He instantly triggers envy and jealousy around him, his sisters , brothers , neighbours and relatives (and even a picturesque mob of passers-by) start litterally to eat the car bit by bit. (In the sicilian and neapolitan versions the car is rather stolen bit by bit, either by petty thugs or by seemingly respectable people acting just the same.) Most rhymes are matching with some unlikely part of the car, the doctor eating the radiator or the brother ill with diabetes eating the magnete (magneto)...In the end the unlucky motorist is left with almost nothing, a handful of nuts or even the smoke from the exhaust pipe.
It has a Lombard version (considered the original one as the historic Lingotto Fiat plant is in Torino)[9], but there are many other versions in various italian dialects from Roma [10] , Sicily[11] , Abruzzo [12] and others...etc[13]. Such a variety of versions mirror the wide diffusion and popularity of the Balilla 508 in the 30's
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fiat 508.
- Alessandro Sannia, Il grande libro delle piccole Fiat Giorgio Nada Editore ISBN 978-88-7911-439-4
- ^ Rudolf Augstein (proprietor & managing editor) (5 September 1956). "Scheidung von Fiats Tochter". SPIEGEL-ONLINE. p. 39. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
- ^ "SAFAF": "Société Anonyme pour la fabrication en France des Automobiles Fiat"/"Public Company for making Fiat automobiles in France" 6CV was a name applied to many cars from different automakers and simply defined the car tax band and thereby the market segment in which the car competed.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Automobilia". Toutes les voitures françaises 1937 (salon 1936). Paris: Histoire & collections. Nr. 3: Pages 86–87. 1997.
- ^ "Automobilia". Toutes les voitures françaises 1938 (salon 1937). Paris: Histoire & collections. Nr. 6: Pages 84–87. 1998.
- ^ http://www.balillaregistroitaliano.it/storia.html Webpage devoted to the Balilla (in Italian)
- ^ http://www.walterjinonice.cz/era-automobilu-walter Webpage on Walter's automotive period (in Czech)
- ^ Tuček, Jan. "Balilla z Jinonic". Automobil Revue. 12/2001: 39–40. ISSN 1211-9555. Retrieved 2014-11-17.
- ^ l'Est républicain http://www.lest-eclair.fr/13396/article/2017-02-14/la-voiture-de-gaston-lagaffe-est-auboise. Missing or empty
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGHV73Edu4Y. Missing or empty
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k638pa-GfEc. Missing or empty
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oaxt1VYYESs. Missing or empty
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUanwQkEZlc. Missing or empty
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0tkW2hxiJA. Missing or empty
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|500 "Topolino"
family car
|508 "Balilla"
|Family car
|1A / Zero
|514 / 515
family car
|Brevetti 10-12 HP
|Brevetti tipo 2 (15-25 HP)
|520 / 521
|522 / 524
|Executive car
|3A / 3Ter
|4 / 5 / 6
|520 "Superfiat"


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Thursday, July 7, 2011
The Trouble with Vacations
This photo of my kids waiting for the parade to start accurately illustrates my attitude about the tasks at hand today.
Definitely stop in tomorrow for the best giveaway ever. Seriously. You're not going to want to miss this one! And hopefully by tomorrow I'm not buried under a mound of laundry.
4 comments:
- Big D and Me said...
Love the picture! I love laundry so coming back from a trip is great but I hate cleaning under the table - I'm thinking about getting a dog to make it easier :)
- July 7, 2011 at 3:17 PM
- Erin said...
Charlotte looks sooo grown up in this picture!
- July 7, 2011 at 8:21 PM
- Rachel said...
Okay, seriously, this is absolutely the best picture ever. I love everything about this photo. Cracks me up!
- July 8, 2011 at 12:00 AM
- Natalia Lopérgolo said...
Very tender photo!... What spectacular expressions they have these two children!.
For them waiting is something serious.... Good weekend.
From Argentina Natalia
- July 9, 2011 at 4:05 PM
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The Death of the Author
- Bartholomew Neal
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1 The Death of the Author - Roland Barthes Source: UbuWeb UbuWeb Papers 1
2 In his story Sarrasine, Balzac, speaking of a castrato disguised as a woman, writes this sentence: It was Woman, with her sudden fears, her irrational whims, her instinctive fears, her unprovoked bravado, her daring and her delicious delicacy of feeling Who is speaking in this way? Is it the story s hero, concerned to ignore the castrato concealed beneath the woman? Is it the man Balzac, endowed by his personal experience with a philosophy of Woman? Is it the author Balzac, professing certain literary ideas of femininity? Is it universal wisdom? or romantic psychology? It will always be impossible to know, for the good reason that all writing is itself this special voice, consisting of several indiscernible voices, and that literature is precisely the invention of this voice, to which we cannot assign a specific origin: literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes. Probably this has always been the case: once an action is recounted, for intransitive ends, and no longer in order to act directly upon reality that is, finally external to any function but the very exercise of the symbol this disjunction occurs, the voice loses its origin, the author enters his own death, writing begins. Nevertheless, the feeling about this phenomenon has been variable; in primitive societies, narrative is never undertaken by a person, but by a mediator, shaman or speaker, whose performance may be admired (that is, his mastery of the narrative code), but not his genius The author is a modern figure, produced no doubt by our society insofar as, at the end of the middle ages, with English empiricism, French rationalism and the personal faith of the Reformation, it discovered the prestige of the individual, or, to put it more nobly, of the human person Hence it is logical that with regard to literature it should be positivism, resume and the result of capitalist ideology, which has accorded the greatest importance to the author s person The author still rules in manuals of literary history, in biographies of writers, in magazine interviews, and even in the awareness of literary men, anxious to unite, by their private journals, their person and their work; the image of literature to be found in contemporary culture is tyrannically centered on the author, his person, his history, his tastes, his passions; criticism still consists, most of the time, in saying that Baudelaire s work is the failure of the man Baudelaire, Van Gogh s work his madness, Tchaikovsky s his vice: the explanation of the work is always sought in the man who has produced it, as if, through the more or less transparent allegory of fiction, it was always finally the voice of one and the same person, the author, which delivered his confidence. 2
3 Though the Author s empire is still very powerful (recent criticism has often merely consolidated it), it is evident that for a long time now certain writers have attempted to topple it. In France, Mallarme was doubtless the first to see and foresee in its full extent the necessity of substituting language itself for the man who hitherto was supposed to own it; for Mallarme, as for us, it is language which speaks, not the author: to write is to reach, through a preexisting impersonality never to be confused with the castrating objectivity of the realistic novelist that point where language alone acts, performs, and not oneself : Mallarme s entire poetics consists in suppressing the author for the sake of the writing (which is, as we shall see, to restore the status of the reader.) Valery, encumbered with a psychology of the Self, greatly edulcorated Mallarme s theory, but, turning in a preference for classicism to the lessons of rhetoric, he unceasingly questioned and mocked the Author, emphasized the linguistic and almost chance nature of his activity, and throughout his prose works championed the essentially verbal condition of literature, in the face of which any recourse to the writer s inferiority seemed to him pure superstition. It is clear that Proust himself, despite the apparent psychological character of what is called his analyses, undertook the responsibility of inexorably blurring, by an extreme subtilization, the relation of the writer and his characters: by making the narrator not the person who has seen or felt, nor even the person who writes, but the person who will write (the young man of the novel but, in fact, how old is he, and who is he? wants to write but cannot, and the novel ends when at last the writing becomes possible), Proust has given modern writing its epic: by a radical reversal, instead of putting his life into his novel, as we say so often, he makes his very life into a work for which his own book was in a sense the model, so that it is quite obvious to us that it is not Charlus who imitates Montesquiou, but that Montesquiou in his anecdotal, historical reality is merely a secondary fragment, derived from Charlus. Surrealism lastly to remain on the level of this prehistory of modernity surrealism doubtless could not accord language a sovereign place, since language is a system and since what the movement sought was, romantically, a direct subversion of all codes an illusory subversion, moreover, for a code cannot be destroyed, it can only be played with ; but by abruptly violating expected meanings (this was the famous surrealist jolt ), by entrusting to the hand the responsibility of writing as fast as possible what the head itself ignores (this was automatic writing), by accepting the principle and the experience of a collective writing, surrealism helped secularize the image of the Author. Finally, outside of literature itself (actually, these distinctions are being superseded), linguistics has just furnished the destruction of the Author with a precious analytic instrument by showing that utterance in its entirety is a void process, which functions perfectly without requiring to be filled by the person of the interlocutors: linguistically, the author is never anything more than the man who writes, just as I is no more than the man who says I: language knows a subject, not a person, end this subject, void outside of the very utterance which defines it, suffices to make language work, that is, to exhaust it. 3
4 The absence of the Author (with Brecht, we might speak here of a real alienation: the Author diminishing like a tiny figure at the far end of the literary stage) is not only a historical fact or an act of writing: it utterly transforms the modern text (or what is the same thing the text is henceforth written and read so that in it, on every level, the Author absents himself). Time, first of all, is no longer the same. The Author, when we believe in him, is always conceived as the past of his own book: the book and the author take their places of their own accord on the same line, cast as a before and an after: the Author is supposed to feed the book that is, he pre-exists it, thinks, suffers, lives for it; he maintains with his work the same relation of antecedence a father maintains with his child. Quite the contrary, the modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously with his text; he is in no way supplied with a being which precedes or transcends his writing, he is in no way the subject of which his book is the predicate; there is no other time than that of the utterance, and every text is eternally written here and now. This is because (or: it follows that) to write can no longer designate an operation of recording, of observing, of representing, of painting (as the Classic writers put it), but rather what the linguisticians, following the vocabulary of the Oxford school, call a performative, a rare verbal form (exclusively given to the first person and to the present), in which utterance has no other content than the act by which it is uttered: something like the / Command of kings or the I Sing of the early bards; the modern writer, having buried the Author, can therefore no longer believe, according to the pathos of his predecessors, that his hand is too slow for his thought or his passion, and that in consequence, making a law out of necessity, he must accentuate this gap and endlessly elaborate his form; for him, on the contrary, his hand, detached from any voice, borne by a pure gesture of inscription (and not of expression), traces a field without origin or which, at least, has no other origin than language itself, that is, the very thing which ceaselessly questions any origin. We know that a text does not consist of a line of words, releasing a single theological meaning (the message of the Author-God), but is a space of many dimensions, in which are wedded and contested various kinds of writing, no one of which is original: the text is a tissue of citations, resulting from the thousand sources of culture. Like Bouvard and Pecuchet, those eternal copyists, both sublime and comical and whose profound absurdity precisely designates the truth of writing, the writer can only imitate a gesture forever anterior, never original; his only power is to combine the different kinds of writing, to oppose some by others, so as never to sustain himself by just one of them; if he wants to express himself, at least he should know that the 4
5 internal thing he claims to translate is itself only a readymade dictionary whose words can be explained (defined) only by other words, and so on ad infinitum: an experience which occurred in an exemplary fashion to the young De Quincey, so gifted in Greek that in order to translate into that dead language certain absolutely modern ideas and images, Baudelaire tells us, he created for it a standing dictionary much more complex and extensive than the one which results from the vulgar patience of purely literary themes (Paradis Artificiels). succeeding the Author, the writer no longer contains within himself passions, humors, sentiments, impressions, but that enormous dictionary, from which he derives a writing which can know no end or halt: life can only imitate the book, and the book itself is only a tissue of signs, a lost, infinitely remote imitation. Once the Author is gone, the claim to decipher a text becomes quite useless. To give an Author to a text is to impose upon that text a stop clause, to furnish it with a final signification, to close the writing. This conception perfectly suits criticism, which can then take as its major task the discovery of the Author (or his hypostases: society, history, the psyche, freedom) beneath the work: once the Author is discovered, the text is explained: the critic has conquered; hence it is scarcely surprising not only that, historically, the reign of the Author should also have been that of the Critic, but that criticism (even new criticism ) should be overthrown along with the Author. In a multiple writing, indeed, everything is to be distinguished, but nothing deciphered; structure can be followed, threaded (like a stocking that has run) in all its recurrences and all its stages, but there is no underlying ground; the space of the writing is to be traversed, not penetrated: writing ceaselessly posits meaning but always in order to evaporate it: it proceeds to a systematic exemption of meaning. Thus literature (it would be better, henceforth, to say writing), by refusing to assign to the text (and to the world as text) a secret: that is, an ultimate meaning, liberates an activity which we might call counter-theological, properly revolutionary, for to refuse to arrest meaning is finally to refuse God and his hypostases, reason, science, the law. Let us return to Balzac s sentence: no one (that is, no person ) utters it: its source, its voice is not to be located; and yet it is perfectly read; this is because the true locus of writing is reading. Another very specific example can make this understood: recent investigations (J. P. Vernant) have shed light upon the constitutively ambiguous nature of Greek tragedy, the text of which is woven with words that have double meanings, each character understanding them unilaterally (this perpetual misunderstanding is 5
6 precisely what is meant by the tragic ); yet there is someone who understands each word in its duplicity, and understands further, one might say, the very deafness of the characters speaking in front of him: this someone is precisely the reader (or here the spectator). In this way is revealed the whole being of writing: a text consists of multiple writings, issuing from several cultures and entering into dialogue with each other, into parody, into contestation; but there is one place where this multiplicity is collected, united, and this place is not the author, as we have hitherto said it was, but the reader: the reader is the very space in which are inscribed, without any being lost, all the citations a writing consists of; the unity of a text is not in its origin, it is in its destination; but this destination can no longer be personal: the reader is a man without history, without biography, without psychology; he is only that someone who holds gathered into a single field all the paths of which the text is constituted. This is why it is absurd to hear the new writing condemned in the name of a humanism which hypocritically appoints itself the champion of the reader s rights. The reader has never been the concern of classical criticism; for it, there is no other man in literature but the one who writes. We are now beginning to be the dupes no longer of such antiphrases, by which our society proudly champions precisely what it dismisses, ignores, smothers or destroys; we know that to restore to writing its future, we must reverse its myth: the birth of the reader must be ransomed by the death of the Author. translated by Richard Howard 6
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A comment in a recent blog post got me thinking. The conservative party is promoting infighting between each sector of those in public service, and as a result sniping and bickering is readily happening as to 'who has it worse'. This bickering is allowing the cuts imposed on the public sector to go unnoticed and remain ignored while each group fights with each other.
It's time to fight back. I implore all those who read this blog to contact me with examples of how the cuts in their sector is harming those who use their sector and how the cuts are reducing the level of service the public are getting. Only by doing this can we show the voting public the harm that these cuts are causing and exposing the falsehoods planted in the media. This invitation goes out to everyone in the public sector, armed forces, emergency services, healthcare, social services, council staff etc.
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If you don't contact me then when the public remain uninformed you can't really complain that there's no balance in the media nor how your point never gets across. So please, get in touch and share the damage being done that's being imposed by these cuts.
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The route consists of two days of sand driving
thursday night we leave to the camp site, Friday drive and camp or for the people leaving they may go home and on Saturday we drive again depending on the wonderful convoy we have. Any way please follow the criteria below and sign up
We stress the importance that all cars must be inspected before hand at the reputed garage below and all issues must be fixed before hand.
Any car not fully inspected will not be allowed to participate.
Any participant not carrying all the right recovery gear will be returned back
All participants must carry an excess of extra 90 liters of fuel( 3 jerry cans ).
This is a three day journey so carry enough food and water for your self and to share
Each participant please carry a log of wood
Meeting point: last emarat fuel station Dubai Abu Dhabi high way
Meeting time 6:20 pm
depart 6:45 pm
Madina zayed meeting point and petrol station. N 23 39.4418 E 53 42.2179
you can buy your dinner in madina zayed it self we will be stopping for shawarmas and filling fuel
Camp spot Coordinates: N 23 28.5816 E 53 42.6017
a) Ensure your 4 x 4 vehicle is in serviceable condition, with tow hooks at front & rear and with the spare tyre.
b) Compatible Radio, Flag & Air compressor is a must.
c) Carry all necessary offroad gears, in good condition as per your level.
d) Carry enough water / refreshments / re-hydration drinks for self & co-passenger(s
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f) All drivers accepts the convoy rules by joining the drive.
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Sergio 'Babu' Gasparelli Delivers A Goldmine of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Tidbits For The Masses With His Latest Release!
I'm a big music guy, and I like to dabble in a little bit of everything. I once stumbled upon an old school rapper that would later garner the nickname of "Your Favorite Rapper's Favorite Rapper." What does that have to do with this entry?
Well, it's simple, you could easily consider Sergio 'Babu' Gasparelli your favorite grappler's favorite grappler!
A man that has been around the block a few times when it comes to grappling, Babu has been there and done that. A BJJ coach to the stars of the MMA world—Anderson Silva, Rashad Evans, Vitor Belfort, Frank Mir and Lyoto Machida to name a few—Babu has garnered all types of respect within the BJJ community.
With all of that knowledge and wisdom floating inside of his head, it was only right that Babu served the masses with a plateful of BJJ info! He recently released his BJJ Mastermind Series 2 set, that is sure to have all of your grappling fanatics out there chomping at the bit! You can check out a triangle choke by one of his students, Anderson Silva, below
Lear From The "Walking Jiu Jitsu Encyclopedia"!
babu There have been many great names in the sport of BJJ and MMA, one being Anderson Silva, who provided the quote above. Babu is viewed as a pure genius, even by some of the best to ever do it!
So what exactly may be waiting for those looking to buy this DVD? Well, the shorter answer may be what isn't involved in this series!
Sergio did not cut any corners what so ever for the fans, and knew that there would be countless of topics that needed to be addressed, for instance:
- Fine Tuning Your Omoplata
- Head & Arm Front Mount
- Back Control Tactics
- The Kimura Counter
- Countering The Lockdown
- The Rolling Toe Hold
That's only a microcosm of what Babu offers you in this DVD series! I would start to list the entire content, but quite frankly I'm a busy man and I don't have that much free time to list ALL OF THE GOODS in this series!
Babu—the "Walking BJJ Encyclopedia"—is so good at what he does, he could share with you how to do a fundamental guillotine choke and STILL make it ten-times more effective than what it already is!
World Class Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Techniques In 6 DVDs!
If you didn't believe me in the above section, Babu delivers six DVDs busting at the seams with world class tactics, tricks, techniques and overall awesomeness! I did a full review of the course which you can check out here on Science of Skill.com!
Sergio is quite frankly one of the brightest minds that this sport has ever seen, and he is the byproduct of pure hard work, dedication and commitment. He embodies all of those things with this course, and is clearly looking to help the next generation of grapplers take a step forward.
If you haven't been inclined to Google search the course by now, I'll wrap this up so you can do yourself a favor and read up on it. You can check it out for yourself here!
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Hobbies to help stress and filling voids
When I was younger I had a ton of hobbies, but as you get older things fall away and you soon find yourself in a rut of just working and watching the TV as your only free time activity. You soon find yourself doing this day in and out, rinse and repeat, until everyday just blends into one constant blur.
When I decided to change my life, lose weight, get healthy, one thing that I planned on doing was getting some hobbies that I enjoyed when I was younger. Okay, so I couldn't do all the things of my youth, but I soon found that the things I enjoyed in the past are still things I enjoy now.
Stress, you'll find studies that show how hobbies reduce stress levels. This is kind of obvious if you have a hobby you enjoy, but the thing that I found was it filled voids in my life. The average person watches 6 hours of TV a day. I probably was watching 8 hours a day, having the TV constantly on as I worked, and then used it as my free time. Basically watching TV isn't necessarily a bad thing, I'm not one of those people that say no TV, but excessive amounts of TV just doesn't really fit into a healthy lifestyle. I still watch TV, have all the streaming services, and I use youtube a little to much but I maybe spend 2 hours a day watching various video media.
Yay, I got 6 hours back, umm, wait, now what do I do? This is what I mean about filling voids. Hobbies are a great way to fill those spaces you create by reducing habits like TV watching. Picking a hobby for me was easy, but hard at the same time. I didn't want to pick up Video Games as a hobby, because it's kinda like watching TV, you zone out for hours, its sedentary, and not very mentally stimulating. Youtube is great for hobbies, if you need to learn something, and you find people with the same interest, but make sure you don't just aimlessly watch videos. I mean I can get on a fail/win video kick and blow off 2 hours of watching people falling down.
The hobbies that I chose was reading non-fiction, so I was constantly learning something new, playing the guitar, walking / hiking, learning a second language (good for brain stimulation), learning how to cook healthy foods, and I'm still looking for more hobbies because 6 hours a day is a lot of void to fill up.
How many hours do you sit in front of the TV? Youtube? Facebook? What kind of hobbies could you be doing instead? Mentally stimulating hobbies are great, physically demanding hobbies is a fun way to add exercise that you wouldn't normally do. The point is that life is meant to be lived and that means to fill it with meaningful moments, not just escapism.
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Years after World War II, agents in the Israeli intelligence organization Mossad discover that Nazi officer Adolph Eichmann (Alfred Burke), a key architect of the Holocaust who supervised various extermination camps, is still alive and living in Argentina under an assumed name. Determined to abduct Eichmann and bring him to trial in Israel, a group of Mossad agents, including Isser Harel (Martin Balsam), travel to Argentina to carry out their mission.
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Environmental Challenges to Exporting Coal from the United States
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Chesapeake Climate Action Network v. Export-Import Bank of the United States highlights how failure to follow the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 can result in delays to coal export endeavors.
As recent news stories have emphasized, efforts to expand the United States' coal exporting capacity have encountered strong opposition from environmental organizations. The opposition takes many forms, but one development that has received substantial press attention is a lawsuit against the Export-Import Bank of the United States (E-I Bank) concerning a loan guarantee to Xcoal Energy & Resources, LLC—a lawsuit that arises under the United States' National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, better known as NEPA. This On the Subject aims to demystify the E-I Bank lawsuit for foreign entities that may not be familiar with NEPA.
NEPA is a procedural statute, not a substantive one. It requires U.S. agencies to take a "hard look" at the environmental consequences of their actions, but it does not prohibit the agencies from undertaking those actions, even when they have negative environmental impacts. In essence, the statute provides a means for federal agencies to examine their actions and think about alternatives to those actions, but it does not require any particular outcome as a result of that examination process.
The centerpiece of the NEPA examination process is the preparation of an environmental impact statement (EIS). NEPA requires federal agencies to prepare an EIS whenever they take a "major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment." The EIS is subject to public comment before it becomes final, and must include a discussion of possible alternative actions as well as a discussion of opportunities to mitigate any environmental harms from the proposed federal action. The statute does not require the agencies to adopt any specific mitigation measures, but the EIS process sometimes does result in the imposition of various obligations on the parties seeking government permits or financial support. For example, mitigation measures identified in an EIS are sometimes incorporated into federal, state or local permits that are required under other environmental statutes. Finally, the failure to follow NEPA—which is the issue in the E-I Bank case—can lead to significant delays. Where a plaintiff successfully proves that an agency undertook a major federal action significantly affecting the environment without first preparing an EIS, the judicial remedy will often be revocation of that action.
In the E-I Bank case, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, et al. v. Export-Import Bank of the United States, et al., No. 13-3532 (N.D. Cal.), a group of environmental organizations contend that the E-I Bank violated NEPA by guaranteeing a $90 million loan from PNC Bank, N.A., to Xcoal, thereby facilitating Xcoal's coal exporting activities, without first evaluating the environmental consequences of that action. The lawsuit, which is in its earliest procedural stages, likely will turn on whether the loan guarantee is the type of action that is subject to NEPA's requirements. If the court agrees with the plaintiffs and finds that the E-I Bank failed to undertake the required environmental review, the court may order the E-I Bank to revoke its loan guarantee, at least until it completes a proper NEPA review.
In the E-I Bank case, the plaintiffs are focused on the local impacts of Xcoal's activities, not the downstream impacts. They allege, for example, that Xcoal's transportation of coal by rail will result in the release of coal dust into surrounding neighborhoods, thereby harming the health of local residents. They do not allege that the coal exports are expected to result in increased greenhouse gas emissions, perhaps because Xcoal's coal is expected to be used to manufacture coke, rather than to be burned to generate electricity. But the issue of downstream emissions is likely to become an increasingly important issue in other coal export matters, especially where the coal will be used to generate electricity.
Under NEPA and its implementing regulations, agencies must consider the "direct," "indirect" and "cumulative" effect of their actions. Some commentators have argued that an "indirect" effect of exporting coal for electricity generation is increased greenhouse gas emissions, because the exported coal will result in emissions that would not otherwise have occurred. Thus, a federal agency that permits, finances or builds a coal exporting facility without first estimating and disclosing the downstream greenhouse gas emissions associated with the exports may find itself facing NEPA litigation to compel such estimates.
The NEPA process, and litigation concerning that process, may seem daunting for companies not familiar with U.S. environmental law. But since NEPA is a procedural rather than substantive statute, it is important to remember that the primary practical consequences of the EIS process are public scrutiny and potential delays in obtaining permits, not the outright prevention of a project. The failure to perform a proper EIS can be corrected, and NEPA does not prohibit federal agencies from taking actions that may harm the environment; it simply requires those agencies to consider and disclose such impacts.
McDermott Will & Emery has a strategic alliance with MWE China Law Offices, a separate law firm based in Shanghai. This On the Subject was also authored by MWE China Law Offices lawyer Kevin Qian.


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Spring 2008: Of Note
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One pill, once a day
By Mary J. Loftus
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Taking ten to fifteen pills a day—and a few more in the middle of the night—was commonplace a decade ago for HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy. Now, thanks in part to Emory researchers, adults with HIV can take one pill once a day.
Atripla, a highly effective combination of three previously approved drugs, was approved last July through the FDA's fast-track review program.
One of the combined drugs, Emtriva, was invented by a trio of Emory scientists: Professor of Pediatrics Raymond Schinazi, an infectious disease expert; Professor of Chemistry Dennis Liotta; and Woo-Baeg Choi, a chemist who left Emory to found FOB Synthesis of Atlanta. Schinazi says the new three-drug pill is like having "an H-bomb for HIV. You blow it to smithereens with one simple pill—the virus doesn't know how to escape."
Emory sold all royalties and future rights to the drug in 2005 to Gilead Sciences and Royalty Pharma in a record $525 million intellectual property deal. Gilead and Bristol-Myers Squibb then came out with Atripla.


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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
USA Today Exclusive: Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season Five Premier Clip
Darth Maul and Savage Opress take center stage in USA Today's exclusive clip from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Season Five premiere episode "Revival."
You can see the video clip HERE.
It certainly appears that Savage takes exception with being subordinated to anyone, even his Sith Lord brother.
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