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JASDF 60th Anniversary
The 60th anniversary of the JASDF in 2014 promised many special schemes on their aircraft, though the amount and variety of the 50th anniversary would most probably not be matched. Nevertheless this was the motivation for another trip to the land of the rising sun.
Where? Japan
When? November 2014
Usually it is recommended to avoid the hot and humid summer months and spring or autumn are the preferred travel season to Japan. The climate is then bearable again, and especially in autumn the red and yellow colors of the trees transform the landscape into nice paintings. And the months from September to the beginning of December also see airshow on nearly every week-end at another airbase. Time to go there again! This time with the focus on the Flight Test Center's ADTW (Air Development and Test Wing) airshow at Gifu and the only one week later the show at Tsuiki on the Southern island of Kyushu. Both of these airshows could nicely be combined with visits to other bases that were all within a more or less 3-4h driving time. A bit of time, though not far looking at the distance as it easily can take that long to cover around 150km on Japanese roads…
Eagles at Komatsu … and more than that…
So let's start in Komatsu!
About 200km on the highway North of Nagoya and on the shore to the Japan Sea lays Komatsu, which is not only the birthplace of the world-famous construction engines, but its airport also the homebase of two wings of F-15 Eagles, the 303 Hikotai "Fighting Dragons" and the 306 Hikotai "Golden Eagles".
Its location make it the spear tip against intruders approaching from the East, though during nearly four days at the airport the QRA did not fly even once. But seeing F-15s equipped with the AAM-5 air-air Missile was a new sight for me.
However a small exercise was going on: there was a detachment from Hyakuri with some F-4EJ Phantoms of the 302 Hikotai and 8 F-15 Eagles of 305 Hikotai. Furthermore up to 7 PACAF F-16s from Misawa were flying local mission from Komatsu.
Flying activity was very good, but there was obviously a bad weather period as the sun was nearly continuously hiding behind the clouds or came out at the wrong point of time. Nevertheless during cold autumn months the visitors deck of the civil airport building offers a warm waiting room and the possible to get also some nice shots of civil traffic with the Hakusan mountain range in the background. Its peaks with a height of up to approximately 2800m were already covered with slight snow at this time of the year.
And while you are there, you should not Forget the "Aviation Plaza" Museum, which is located just opposite the civil Airport terminal. The "Plaza" is led by a former JASDF Pilot who likes it a lot to guide foreign visitors around and feautures a range of interesting exhibits such as the sole Japanese Dornier Do-28, an immaculate F-104J and a wodden mock-up of the Mitsubishi F-2B.
JASDF Flight Test Centre at Gifu
Back to Gifu in Central Japan, offering far favorable weather conditions. Located a bit North of Nagoya, Gifu is home of the ATDW (Air Test and Development Wing), the Flight Test Centre of the JSADF. The airshow is a unique occasion to get on base and get a close look on the recent JASDF defense projects, and the test aircraft and prototypes of Japanese military aircraft.
A report about the Gifu airshow 2014 can be found on a separate page on this site.
Gifu is thus the place where the first F-4EJ Phantoms and F-15J Eagles fly, the prototypes of the indigenous Mitsubishi F-2 "Viper Zero" support to upgrades of Japan's multi-role fighter Jet. After the P-1 maritime patrol aircraft (MPA), the domestically developed successor to the submarine hunter Lockheed P-3 Orion, the main activities at Gifu focus today on the XC-2, which will replace the Kawasaki C-1 transport aircraft in the near future.
Of course there is also the aviation Museum at Kakamigahara, which hosts numerous prototypes and testbeds that were test-flown it Gifu. It is also always worth a visit if you are in the area. Even more so when you realize that there is no more flying activity at Gifu.
The main attraction of the annual airshow is big mixed formation varying from year to year. In 2014 the formation leader was a C-1 transport plane, followed by Phantoms, Eagles, F-2 and T-7, which made a great sight in the air. Solo displays complemented this happening, though they were a bit restricted. No wonder as the airbase is in the middle of a densely populated area and surrounded by housing areas on every side. But nevertheless, there was also always the Chance to spot some autumn Colors.
JGSDF Helicopters at Akeno
Further South and reached from Gifu with another long, but easy rive another interesting airbase not to be missed was Akeno, home of several JGSDF helicopter (training) units and greatly accessible for photography, especially early in the morning. Apart from the AH-64D Apache and CH-47 Chinook the based helicopters posed nicely in front of the lens on a perfect morning.
The OH-1 Ninja observation helicopters and AH-1 Cobras were in full swing, together with the TH-480 training helicopters continuously in the circuit around the airfield and a pair of UH-60 Blackhawks going out. Unfortunately the light turns not so good around midday for the nice three-tone camouflage of these combat helicopters. Time to move North again to Komaki!
Mitsubishi Factory at Komaki
Komaki is Nagoya's previous main civil airport, which is nowadays replaced by the Nagoya Centrair airport build on an artificial island South of the City.
But still Komaki is used as a hub for the domestic flights of Fuji Dream Airlines (FDA) colorful fleet of Embraer regional jets as well as numerous helicopters, which use the Airport as a m,ain hub for their shuttle services.
On the military the airfield hosts a wing of C-130 Hercules and the KC-767 tanker aircraft of the JASDF. And it is home of the Mitsubishi factory, thus the chances are given to get a check flight on either an F-2, F-4 or F-15, which all come regularly there for maintenance.
As at Akeno in the morning luck struck at Komaki this day as well: an immaculate F-2 coming out of Mitsubishi in splendid new colors, all four KC-767 on the ramp on the other (military) side, and a three-ship formation of C-130 Hercules approached the airfield during dawn and came in to land. All observed from the very relaxed spot on the visitor's deck of the civil terminal.
Heading South
Another good time was also spent on the visitors deck of Nagoya Centrair's airport before the flight further South. With some international traffic in the morning and an interesting mix of Japanese smaller regional aircraft it was a nice stay, however traffic slows down around midday and the light is getting bad.
Tsuiki on the Southern island was the main 'task' during the week preceding the airshow at this base. But somehow bad luck regarding the weather struck again. Only one day during the week was really good, which was extensively used by aircrews to fly regular missions as well as to train for the airshow. Absolutely stunning, with three waves of four F-15s and between 6 and 8 F-2s going out for their missions. Unfortunately the special markings for the airshow were not readily painted yet to practice this day.
However only one day of sun during the week was a bit sparse, and making the drive to Nyutabaru to stand there in the rain as well, seeing only four F-4EJ Phantoms flying and two special painted Aggressor jets was somehow frustrating… I have had better days there!
Tsuiki airshow some days later was great in the morning, but very wet in the afternoon. This is covered in a separate airshow report linked here.
an explosive end at Mt. Aso
To finish with some scenic sights the drive to Mt. Aso was a must for a sightseeing trip, as this volcano erupted for the first time since 22 years, spitting huge ash clouds up to 800m in the air and causing interruptions at the nearby Kumamoto airport. Furthermore the volcano itself is located in the middle of the world's largest caldera having a circumference of about 128km, which makes an interesting drive heading South from Tsuiki.
With a bit more rain and clouds than usual during this trip Japan's National Tourism Organization Slogan "Japan. Endless Discovery" was however true once again during this trip. It was once again a very nice time and a warm welcome in the land of the rising sun!
JASDF 60th Anniversary Tour – Photo Gallery
More photos from this trip in a higher Resolution can also be found on airliners.net and airfighters.com.


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April 5, 2013
Forty-one people were killed and at least 50 injured when a residential building being constructed illegally in a suburb of Mumbai collapsed. More than 20 people remained missing Friday afternoon and three floors of the building remained to be searched
April 5, 2013
Forty-one people were killed and at least 50 injured when a residential building being constructed illegally in a suburb of Mumbai collapsed. More than 20 people remained missing Friday afternoon and three floors of the building remained to be searched
Rescue workers look for trapped people after a residential building collapsed in Thane, Mumbai, India, Thursday, April 4, 2013.
A residential building being constructed illegally on forest land in a suburb of India's financial capital collapsed into a mound of steel and concrete, killing at least 41 people and injuring more than 50 others, authorities said Friday.
The eight-story building in the Mumbai suburb of Thane caved in Thursday evening, police said. Rescue workers with sledgehammers, gasoline-powered saws and hydraulic jacks struggled Friday to break through the tower of rubble in their search for possible survivors. Six bulldozers were brought to the scene.
"There may be (a) possibility people have been trapped inside right now," local police commissioner K.P. Raghuvanshi said Friday.
At the time of the collapse, between 100 and 150 people were in the building. Many were residents or construction workers, who were living at the site as they worked on it, said Sandeep Malvi, a spokesman for the Thane government.
More than 20 people remained missing Friday afternoon and three floors of the building remained to be searched, said R.S. Rajesh, an official with the National Disaster Response Force who was at the scene.
"All the three floors are sandwiched … so it's very difficult for us," he said, adding that rescuers were continuing to pull survivors from the wreckage.
The dead included at least 11 children, police said.
At least four floors of the building had been completed and were occupied. Workers had finished three more floors and were adding the eighth when it collapsed, police Inspector Digamber Jangale said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the structure to collapse, but Raghuvanshi said it was weakly built. Police were searching for the builders to arrest them, he said.
"The inquiry is ongoing. We are all busy with the rescue operation; our priority now is to rescue as many as possible," he said.
Police with rescue dogs were searching the building, which appeared to have buckled and collapsed upon itself. Rescuers and nearby residents stood on the remains of the roof trying to get to people trapped inside. Residents carried the injured to ambulances and one man carried a small child caked white with dust from the wreckage.
Raghuvanshi said rescue workers had saved 15 people from the wreckage.
Building collapses are common in India as builders try to cut corners by using poor quality materials, and multi-storied structures are built with inadequate supervision. The massive demand for housing around India's cities and pervasive corruption allow builders to add unauthorized floors or build entirely illegal buildings.
The neighborhood where the building collapsed was part of a belt of more than 2,000 illegal structures that had sprung up in the area in recent years, said Malvi, the town spokesman.
"Notices have been served several times for such illegal construction, sometimes notices are sent 10 times for the same building," he said.
G.R. Khairnar, a former top Mumbai official, said government officials who allowed the illegal construction should be tried along with the builders.
"There are a lot of people involved (in illegal construction) — builders, government machinery, police, municipal corporation — everybody is involved in this process," he told CNN-IBN television.
The building that collapsed was illegally constructed on forest land, and the city informed forestry officials twice about it, Malvi said.
A local resident, who did not give his name, said the site was meant to hold a smaller structure and accused officials of turning a blind eye to the problem.
"They made an eight-story building of what was supposed to be a four-story building. People from the municipality used to visit the building but the builder still continued to add floors," he said.
In one of the worst recent collapses, nearly 70 people were killed in November 2010 when an apartment building in a congested New Delhi neighborhood crumpled. That building was two floors higher than legally allowed and its foundation appeared to have been weakened by water damage.
Courtesy: AP

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court largely left intact Monday the Obama administration's only existing program to limit power plant and factory emissions of the gases blamed for global warming. But a divided court also rebuked environmental regulators for taking too much authority into their own hands without congressional approval.
The justices said in a 5-4 vote along ideological lines that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot apply a permitting provision of the Clean Air Act to new and expanded power plants, refineries and factories solely because they emit greenhouse gases.
The decision underscores the limits of using the Clean Air Act to deal with greenhouse gases and the administration's inability to get climate change legislation through Congress.
"The Supreme Court put EPA on a leash but not in a noose," said Michael Gerrard, director of Columbia University's Center for Climate Change Law.
"It reaffirmed that EPA can regulate greenhouse gases, but it can only go so far in reinterpreting the statute," Gerrard said. "The court invalidated a small corner of a secondary program. The main event — EPA's proposed rules on existing power plants — remains to be fought another day."
The EPA and many environmental advocates said the ruling would not affect the agency's proposals for first-time national standards for new and existing power plants. The most recent proposal aims at a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants by 2030, but won't take effect for at least another two years.
The justices warned that the regulation of greenhouse gases is not automatic under every program of the Clean Air Act as the administration had assumed it was. Similar logic is driving the EPA's other actions on global-warming pollution.
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for his conservative colleagues, said EPA could not "just rewrite the statute" to bring greenhouse gases under a provision dealing with expanded and new facilities that would increase the overall amount of air pollution. Under the program, companies must evaluate ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in order to get a permit to build. Carbon dioxide is the chief gas linked to global warming.
But by a wider, 7-2 margin, the court preserved EPA's authority over facilities that already emit pollutants that the agency regulates, other than greenhouse gases.
"EPA is getting almost everything it wanted in this case," Scalia said. He said the agency wanted to regulate 86 percent of all greenhouse gases emitted from plants nationwide, and it will it be able to regulate 83 percent of the emissions under the ruling. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas said they would go farther and bar all regulation of greenhouse gases under the permitting program.
The EPA called the decision "a win for our efforts to reduce carbon pollution because it allows EPA, states and other permitting authorities to continue to require carbon pollution limits in permits for the largest pollution sources."
The agency said that, as of late March, 166 permits have been issued by state and federal regulators since 2011.
Permits have been issued to power plants, but also to plants that produce chemicals, cement, iron and steel, fertilizer, ceramics and ethanol. Oil refineries and municipal landfills also have obtained greenhouse gas permits since 2011, EPA said.
Under Monday's ruling, the EPA can continue to require permits for greenhouse gas emissions for those facilities that already have to obtain permits because they emit other pollutants that the government has long regulated.
The program at issue is the first piece of the EPA's attempt to reduce carbon output from large sources of pollution.
The utility industry, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and 13 states led by Texas had asked the court to rule that the EPA overstepped its authority by trying to regulate greenhouse gas emissions through the permitting program. The administration failed to get climate change legislation through Congress.
In 2012, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that the EPA was "unambiguously correct" in using existing federal law to address global warming.
The agency's authority came from the high court's 2007 ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA, which said the Clean Air Act gives EPA power to limit emissions of greenhouse gases from vehicles.
Two years later, with Obama in office, the EPA concluded that the release of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases endangered human health and welfare. The administration used that finding to extend its regulatory reach beyond automobiles and develop national standards for large stationary sources. Of those, electric plants are the largest source of emissions.
When the Supreme Court considered the appeals in October, the justices declined requests to consider overruling the court's 2007 decision, review the EPA's conclusion about the health effects of greenhouse gas emissions or question limits on vehicle emissions.
Scalia said the principal objection to the EPA's interpretation of the clean air law was that it claimed authority "to regulate millions of small sources — including retail stores, offices, apartment buildings, shopping centers, schools, and churches — and to decide, on an ongoing basis and without regard for the thresholds prescribed by Congress, how many of those sources to regulate. We are not willing to stand on the dock and wave goodbye as EPA embarks on this multiyear voyage of discovery."
Industry groups praised the court for reining in the EPA's authority. "It is a stark reminder that the EPA's power is not unlimited," said Harry Ng, vice president and general counsel of the American Petroleum Institute, the oil and natural gas industry's trade association.
But David Doniger, director of the climate and clean air program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the ruling was a green light for the administration's proposal to cut greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. "There's no adverse effect on EPA's power plant proposal. In fact, it looks like the court is reaffirming EPA's authority to set those standards," Doniger said.
Associated Press writer Dina Cappiello contributed to this report.
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Perry, Texas GOP revive abortion limits fight
Published 12:00 am Thursday, June 27, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry is set to address a national convention of anti-abortion activists Thursday little more than a day after a special legislative session failed to approve sweeping restrictions to make abortion all but impossible for many women in the state.
The Republican leader has called a second special legislative session beginning July 1, allowing the GOP-controlled Texas statehouse another crack at passing the restrictions that opponents say could shutter nearly all abortion clinics in the country's second-largest state.
Perry's announcement came hours after the much-watched proposal failed in the face of a Democratic filibuster in the Senate that turned chaotic when Republicans used parliamentary rules to cut it short. The hubbub from jeering opponents of the proposal in the public gallery became so deafening that it halted all action on the floor.
Perry, who has said he'd like to make abortion at any stage of pregnancy a thing of the past in Texas, called the special session after lawmakers finished the regular session May 27. He didn't add the abortion measure to the issues to be discussed until late in the session.
The omnibus abortion measure passed the Texas House after nearly an entire night of heated debate Sunday, but the effort to get Senate approval before the session ended at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday failed.
Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis of Fort Worth staged a filibuster for more than 11 hours. But when Republicans were able to silence her on a technicality minutes before midnight, hundreds of protesters raised such a ruckus that lawmakers were unable to hold a final vote until after the clock had run out.
The spectacle put the spotlight on Perry as he prepared to open the 43rd annual National Right to Life Convention in Dallas on Thursday.
His decision to call another special session gives lawmakers 30 more days to push the abortion restrictions — perhaps enough time to withstand Democratic stalling tactics. The governor can call as many special sessions as he likes, though lawmakers can only work on the agenda Perry sets.
In addition to a renewed abortion fight, Perry asked lawmakers to pass two pieces of legislation that also died with Davis' filibuster: funding for major transportation projects statewide, and approval of new, stricter sentencing guidelines for 17 year olds in capital murder cases.
"I am calling the Legislature back into session because too much important work remains undone for the people of Texas," Perry said in a statement. "Texans value life and want to protect women and the unborn."
The entire process starts over with lawmakers filing the bills that then undergo public hearings before being passed out of committee. Only then can they be considered by both chambers.
Supporters are likely to draft a measure similar to the one that nearly passed this week that sought a statewide ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy — the point at which anti-abortion activists claim a fetus can feel pain. There is no scientific evidence to support that claim.
It also would have forced many clinics that perform abortions to upgrade their facilities to be classified as ambulatory surgical centers. Doctors would have been required to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles.
If such a provision became law, it is possible only five of Texas' 42 abortion clinics would remain in operation in a state 773 miles wide and 790 miles long — and with 26 million people.
In a statement Wednesday night, Davis said that if her GOP colleagues intend "to keep pushing their extreme personal political agenda ahead of the interests of Texas families, I will not back off of my duty to fight on their behalf."
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund and daughter of the late former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, said: "While yesterday was a great victory, we knew the fight was not over. And it's a fight we will win. The nation is watching and we will defeat this again."
But Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who oversees the Texas Senate, said an extra session will let lawmakers "address the issues derailed by the actions of an angry mob."


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Fr girl announces her friends are joining us at noon for lunch in Chinatown.
"Where are your friends...ahem?"
At 1:30:American girl is dying to look in the fridge for macarons.
This is The French way.
The American Way: "You are not leaving the house with that horror!"
Fr Girl eats her petit dej' of two slices of toast slathered thickly with beurre de Normandie, honey and drinks some tea.
Fr Girl does her blog posts the evening before like any sane Fr person.
No loud singing SVP!"
Elizabeth describes her French husband at breakfast:
The French way. I know you'll enjoy her book.
After, you can do what you want."
Fr Girl's parting words:
"Don't burn down the house."
This is a universal sentiment.
The French Way?


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#10702 - RTR E10 DRIFT with Mazda RX-7 FD3S (Painted/190mm)
Pre-Assembled 1/10th scale electric 4WD racing car with radio system and painted body. Battery pack and charger included.
Standard Parts | Optional Parts
Introducing the HPI E10 Drift! The E10 is the latest RTR-spec touring and drift machine from HPI, and will dazzle you with its ease of use and great looks! The E10 Drift is a four-wheel drive, factory-assembled, fully prepared 1/10th scale drift car from the same world-renowned HPI design team that is famous for user friendliness, racer appeal and usability. Aimed squarely at the new or casual RC car hobbyist, the E10 Drift will amaze you with its easy driving qualities and graceful drift driving! Stunning Looks The first thing that will strike you about the E10 Drift is how great it looks on the outside. Amazing quality bodyshells, crafted to perfection by HPI's in-house craftsmen, are a trademark of HPI's commitment to quality. Unique wheels in today's latest JDM styles and realistic-looking drift tyres in long-lasting rubber compounds are great additions to enhance the realism of the E10 Drift. Each bodyshell supplied with the E10 Drift is painted in bright colours that you can see a mile away. These are the same bodyshells that concours winners around the world have used to win trophies and medals! Applied carefully to the outside of the bodyshell are fully detailed decals of headlights, tail lights, vents, scoops and grilles for a totally really look that will truly impress your friends. The body post holes and aerial opening are pre-drilled, meaning there is nothing for you to prepare after opening the box! Rolling on shiny, fashionable chrome wheels, each E10 Drift rolls on realistic treaded rubber special drifting tyres wrapped around bright chromed wheels that look fantastic rolling down the street! Looking inside the wheels, you will see brake discs that rotate with the wheel, and separate brake calipers that stay in place - details not included on any other RTR car! This final style touch helps set the E10 Drift apart from all the other contenders! HPI Quality RTR Gear From the beginning of HPI's RTR dominance, the equipment included in each HPI RTR kit has been the best equipment that anyone could ask for. With the E10 we do not stop this trend of excellence. Every HPI E10 car is equipped standard with a narrowband high frequency dual channel AM pistol grip radio. The realistic steering wheel feel of this type of radio encourages the RC beginner to think of the E10 as a real car driving around a race course, and the feel of pulling back on the throttle trigger is just like stomping on the accelerator of a real car! The HPI TF-1 radio transmitter features interchangeable frequency crystals, a retractable aerial with sliding cover, easy access to radio adjustments and simple battery replacement. Taking the signals from the transmitter, the HPI RF-1 receiver uses standard RC connectors to send your control signals to the SF-1 steering servo and EN-1 electronic speed controller. The RF-1 receiver and SF-1 servo have been used in many HPI RTR kits over the past several years and have proven their reliability and endurance many times over! You'll get long-range, reliable connections between your transmitter and car with the RF-1 and dependable steering action from the SF-1 servo. The EN-1 is our latest electronic speed controller and features fully proportional throttle control as well as reverse. This means you have fine control over the acceleration of your car, so you won't experience any sudden throttle changes. With the reversing function you'll be able to back your way out of trouble, such as if you spin or crash and are facing a wall. Providing the electrical power to the car is a 1500mAh stick-type battery pack with a standard battery connector. This will give you plenty of run time for driving around an RC track, racing your friends or drifting in a car park! An overnight charger is also included which will safely and easily charge the battery to full capacity. Powering the E10 is the sturdy and reliable Saturn 27T motor with standard 'bullet' type connectors. A 27-turn motor is powerful enough to provide any RC beginner with good acceleration and top speeds, but not so fast as to damage parts in a crash or cause you to lose control. Finally, because all of the electronics are standard-size RC components with standardized connectors, any or all of the components can be upgraded at any time, or moved into a different RC vehicle in the future. The E10 will accept any standard 540-size motor in the E10, and also any RC battery pack, of either stick pack or side-by-side design. Amazing Durability Beyond its great looks and dependable equipment, the next important function of any entry-level RTR car is to be tough! The E10 does this very well, absorbing all the abuse and damage you can throw its way. From the drivetrain and chassis to suspension and bodyshell, the E10 is strong, durable and long-lasting! The lightweight drivetrain features oversized driveshafts, shielded ball bearings and strong plastic parts to make it long-lasting and efficient. The motor is mounted on a unique cam motor mount that is marked for easy gear mesh alignment. A large cover protects the spur gear, and a snap-on cover keeps rocks away from the pinion and spur gear. The central driveshaft has longitudinal ribs to prevent excess flex, and is lightweight to provide maximum acceleration. The central driveshaft turns the front and rear sealed gear differentials. From the diffs, oversize outdrives spin thick dogbones to each wheel, providing power and grip for maximum four-wheel drive action! The suspension parts (wishbones, shock towers, uprights and hubs) are all made from thick, long-wearing durable plastic so you don't have to worry about making a few mistakes from time to time. A tough servo saver does the vital task of keeping the servo's internal gears intact, and thick steering arms connect the servo to the front steering knuckles to protect the many moving parts of the steering system. An extra-wide solid front bumper protects the car from really hard crashes, and a closed-cell foam bumper keeps the front of the body intact during light impacts. Protecting the rear of the car is cool venturi-style bumper that looks like it came right off a GT racing car! Finally, making maintenance and rebuilding even easier, the E10 doesn't use e-clips anywhere in its suspension, because the car uses a 'captive hinge pin' design! Overall, the E10 is super-strong and extra-durable to withstand the rigours of driving on any kind of paved surface by RC drivers of any ability level! Great Performance With great looks, excellent electronics package and sturdy build, you might think that's all the E10 has to offer, however this car is a joy to drive! The E10 takes performance cues from previous HPI championship-winning cars and durable design elements and bring them all together for a total package that is fun to drive, tough and featuring great performance! The underside of the chassis is fully countersunk, which means it's completely flat for driving over smooth or rough tarmac, and no screws stick out to catch on any debris that might be on your driving surface. The strong tub shape helps keep rocks and other debris out of the chassis, keeping the car cleaner for easy maintenance. Giving you the widest range of power options, you can fit any standard 540-size motor in the E10 - these are the hobby motors you can find at any model shop. You can also fit any 5-cell or 6-cell battery in the car, of either hobby stick pack design or the racing side-by-side design. Finally, the E10 Drift is set up right out of the box for easy handling, optimised for easy drifting and light handling. 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Not only does the stiffener help the fabric hold its shape, but it also does a great job of keeping the burlap from fraying. The photo below shows what the burlap looked like before I started. You can add the stiffener to the edges of your burlap and no more frayed edges.
The photo below shows both turkey projects. The paper bag version is definitely much easier and faster. :)


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Recently I had a conversation with a friend of mine, you might know him or heard of him. James J Cudney the fourth prince of the secret land of This is my Truth Now.
This was the gist of it.
What do typos do to you – make you angry, irritated or put off reading, or can you overlook that and still enjoy the book?
I like a well edited book, and I don't mind a few typos. I find that my brain corrects it as I read it. So it doesn't damper my story reading. But if there is a typo in every line/paragraph, it blocks my enjoyment, and then it is a no-no.
Grammar and wrong punctuation in some lines do not affect me as I assume that to be the colloquial English. I don't want the novel to be in perfect English with all the correct punctuation and neither do I bother about it. Authors have a creative license, and for me, this comes within its entire overcast.
I went back and read through my reviews, except in a couple of them, I don't generally mention typos or put "not a well edited book" in my review. I generally want an interesting plot and well developed characters.
How do you guys react to typos? Does it affect your rating of the book? Do you mention it in your review? Do you want perfect English, with the correct grammar and tenses?
The only example I have got to mention – I was reading a vampire story, skim reading it, and suddenly a line struck me. She killed him with a steak!! I had to go back a couple of pages to understand how she managed to kill the vampire with a steak… Till I realized it was a typo – a stake was what it was!! I had a good laugh, thought about how I could twist "killing with a steak" in the plot line, maybe coating it with poison or silver were my go-to solution, and continued with my skim reading!! 😂


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The ancient samples vary greatly in the number of SNPs tested, and we cannot be sure how well they map to the restricted range of modern populations. Nonetheless, a crystal clear general pattern seems to emerge, at least in its broadest outlines (Sources: Oetzi the Iceman, Neolithic Swedes, Mesolithic Iberians):
We can plainly see that European hunter-gatherers best map to the modern Atlantic_Baltic population component. This is well represented in the remotest areas of Europe, the ones most distant from the Near Eastern womb of nations. It can be reasonably supposed that the modern Atlantic_Baltic component partially captures alleles present in the ancient European hunter-gatherers, the mtDNA haplogroup U population that seems to stretch from Iberia to Siberia. (However, note, that this does not mean that the Atlantic_Baltic component represents hunter-gatherer ancestry only.)
Conversely, ancient European farmers also possess a large chunk of the Southern component which is absent in the hunter-gatherers. This occurs at high frequencies today around the Mediterranean and reaches its maximum in the Near East. It is clear that there is direct evidence that farming came to Europe not as an idea, but as a people, just as archaeology and physical anthropology had always indicated -- until the rather modern distaste for migration set in.
But there is another component present in modern Europe, the West_Asian which is conspicuous in its absence in all the ancient samples so far. This component reaches its highest occurrence in the highlands of West Asia, from Anatolia and the Caucasus all the way to the Indian subcontinent. It is well represented in modern Europeans, reaching its minima in the Iberian peninsula, Sardinia, and Finland. A sampling of populations, including those closest geographically to the ancient samples:
There are several observations we can make:
- The West_Asian component has a pan-European distribution: it must have been involved in a pan-European process rather than a more localized historical phenomenon.
- Its absence from prehistoric individuals down to ~5ky ago suggests that it may have been added to the European population at a later date, although it may already have been present in currently unsampled areas (e.g., the Balkans) prior to 5kya.
- It reaches its lowest occurrence in areas where non-Indo-European languages have been spoken (Basques and Iberia in general, Sardinia, and Finland)
In that respect, it is important to note the correspondence between the West_Asian autosomal component and the k5 component of Metspalu et al. (2011): the latter is the major West Eurasian element in the Indian subcontinent. If a major episode of West Eurasian admixture took place in India 1,200-4,000 years ago, and keeping in mind uncertainties about dating, it may very well be that this corresponds, at least in part, to the eastern manifestation of the same phenomenon.
The Bronze Age is an important transitional phase in European archaeology: distinctive archaeological cultures with distinctive physical types make their appearance across the continent. There appears to be substantial innovation in metallurgy, weapons and transportation, increase in raiding, abandonment of settlements, and formation of broad-range confederacies with distinctive archaeological markers.
I propose that a quantum leap in social complexity occurred during this period. Remarkably, after ~4,000YBP, there are no longer farmers and hunter-gatherers as distinct cultures anywhere in Europe, and their mtDNA gene pools begin to expand in synch with each other. It may very well be that climatic upheavals framing this period may have triggered population movements, both Indo-European and Semitic.
Perhaps, through a combination of better technology and social organization, the Indo-European speaking nucleus, originally one among many linguistic groups of the prehistoric Near East were able to transmit their language, culture, and ideology to much larger populations, by alternatively subjugating or incorporating them. We can thus view the Indo-European bearers as "creative destructors", upsetting the balance of established societies and re-creating them in their own image.
Both the wide differences in genetic composition among present-day Indo-European speakers, and their early-attested physical contrasts testify to the fact that the original IE nucleus did not maintain itself apart --at least not for long!-- from the populations they encountered; in this they appear different from the earlier farmers who apparently kept their Mediterranean affinity even in the northernmost edge of their expansion, thousands of years after their entry into Europe.
Nonetheless, some of the legacy of the earliest Indo-European speakers does appear to persist down to the present day in the genomes of their linguistic descendants, and I predict that when we sample later (post 5-4kya) individuals we will finally find the West_Asian piece that is missing from the European puzzle.
On the right are the K12b results for the ancient individuals, which further suggest that the Mesolithic Europeans possessed a Northern European affinity that is lacking in the farmer individuals. Conversely, farmer individuals have an excess of the Atlantic_Med component, and also a presence of the Southwest_Asian one.
These results are compatible with the above discussion, as well as the observation by Sánchez-Quinto et al. (2012) that:
the position of La Braña individuals in the 1000 Genomes Project data and the 1KGPomnichip PCAs suggests that the uniform Mesolithic substrate could be related to modern Northern European populations but may represent a gene pool that is no longer present in contemporary Southern European populations.I wrote a small survey a couple years ago, in which I argued that:
I will simply say that the recent results of Bramanti et al. for a U-dominated older mtDNA stratum in Central/North-eastern Europe can be reasonably extended to cover both North-western Europe and northern Eurasia up to Lake Baikal, the prehistoric limit between Caucasoids and Mongoloids.The extension of U dominance to Iberia, as well as the detection of the North European autosomal signal in both Iberia as well as, presumably, Siberia, seems to make the case for the existence of this postulated zone pretty clear.
One could very well call this boreal population Ancestral Northwest Eurasians (ANWEA) and parallelize it with the Ancestral South Indians (ASI). These Paleolithic substrata frame the Eurasian landmass on opposite latitudinal ends, and were the receptacles of the great chain of migrations which began in the Neolithic womb of nations. One of the final episodes of this process was the dispersal of the Indo-European languages during the Copper and Bronze Ages.
UPDATE (July 3): Indo-European genetic signatures in an Orcadian genome and a Lithuanian and Ancient European DNA using DIYHarappaWorld and MDLP5


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It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning, I'm David Greene.
And I'm Linda Wertheimer.
When you're filling up a car with gas, chances are you are not looking at the price per gallon and thinking how low it is. And maybe thinking that the government ought to do something about that and raise prices. But the economic wizards at the International Monetary Fund are recommending exactly that, not just for the U.S. but for the entire world.
So to find out what's that's about, we turn to David Wessel. He is the economics editor of The Wall Street Journal and a frequent guest on our program. David, good morning.
DAVID WESSEL: Good morning, Linda.
WERTHEIMER: So let me get this straight. Gasoline is selling for around $3.65 a gallon in the U.S. and the IMF thinks that's too low?
WESSEL: That's right. The IMF says that the price of gasoline in the U.S. covers the cost of producing and distributing it, but doesn't reflect all the costs that using gasoline imposes on society: traffic, pollution, global warming. But in other countries, particularly in the developing world, governments set gasoline prices artificially low - lower than the cost of producing it. In Saudi Arabia, for instance, gas goes for only 45 cents a gallon.
The result is that people here and abroad use more energy than they would otherwise. So the IMF says that subsidizing energy or mispricing it aggravates budget deficits, crowds out spending on health and education, discourages investment in energy, encourages excessive energy use, artificially promotes capital-intensive industries, accelerates the depletion of natural resources...
WESSEL: ...and exacerbate climate change. But other than that it's a great idea.
WERTHEIMER: So how much do governments spend subsidizing energy?
WESSEL: They spend a lot of money. About half a trillion dollars a year in direct subsidy that taxpayers pay for. That's two percent of government revenues worldwide - not that much. But in some countries, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa, it's more like 20 percent of revenues.
The U.S. doesn't do that much direct taxpayer subsidy or regulation of energy prices, though we do have those controversial tax breaks for oil and gas exploration. But when the IMF adds up all this under-pricing of energy, they say it comes to about a trillion and a half dollars a year.
WERTHEIMER: Now, David, we usually think of the IMF as worrying about money and rescuing countries that run short of money. Why are they worrying about energy prices?
WESSEL: Well, that's a good question. One reason is that they worry a lot about budget deficits. In a lot of countries, these energy subsidies are an enormous part of government spending, sometimes even equal to the size of their government budget deficits. Some governments spend more on energy subsidies than they do on education and healthcare. And nobody really thinks that's a great idea.
So what the IMF is saying is there's a twofer here: You can curtail these subsidies, reduce your deficits, and do something about global warming at the same time.
WERTHEIMER: But you wouldn't curtailing subsidies mean that poor people, or people who are living in poorer countries and already struggling, would have yet another cost going up?
WESSEL: Right. Well, energy subsidies are often defended as a way to help the poor. But actually they don't really target the poor. Think of it this way: If you're poor and you don't own a car, and you don't have an air conditioner, and the government subsidizes energy, electricity and gasoline, you don't get much benefit. If you live in the same country and you're rich, and you have two or three cars and five air-conditioners, you get a big benefit.
So there are ways to cushion the blow on the poor - giving them vouchers to buy energy cheaply, or giving them cash payments to offset subsidies or something.
The politics are tricky. But David Lipton, the number two at the IMF who's been pushing this idea, says this. He says it's better to do this the right way than to do it right away, but it's important to do it.
WERTHEIMER: But, of course, here in the United States you would raise the price by raising taxes. That doesn't sound likely.
WESSEL: It isn't likely. I think the only way that happens is if some day Congress does some of massive overhaul of the tax code and decides to deal with the deficit at the same time it deals with global warming. But that sure doesn't look like it's going to happen soon.
WERTHEIMER: David Wessel, economics editor of The Wall Street Journal, thank you.
WESSEL: You're welcome. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Cheryl Strayed is the author of Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on
Love and Life from Dear Sugar and the novel Torch. Her stories and
essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including
The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Vogue,
The Rumpus, Self, The Missouri Review, The Sun, and The Best
American Essays. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Boston Globe,
Entertainment Weekly, Vogue
"A rich, riveting true story . . . During her grueling three-month
journey, Strayed circled around black bears and rattlesnakes,
fought extreme dehydration by drinking oily gray pond water, and
hiked in boots made entirely of duct tape. Reading her
matter-of-fact take on love and grief and the soul-saving quality
of a Snapple lemonade, you can understand why Strayed has earned a
cult following as the author of Dear Sugar, a popular advice column
on therumpus.net. . . . With its vivid descriptions of beautiful
but unforgiving terrain, Wild is a cinematic story, but Strayed's
book isn't really about big, cathartic moments. The author never
'finds herself' or gets healed. When she reaches the trail's end,
she buys a cheap ice cream cone and continues down the road. . . .
It's hard to imagine anything more important than taking one step
at a time. That's endurance, and that's what Strayed understands,
almost 20 years later. As she writes, 'There was only one [option],
I knew. To keep walking.' Our verdict: A." —Melissa Maerz,
Entertainment Weekly
"Strayed's journey was as transcendent as it was turbulent. She
faced down hunger, thirst, injury, fatigue, boredom, loss, bad
weather, and wild animals. Yet she also reached new levels of joy,
accomplishment, courage, peace, and found extraordinary
companionship." —Marjorie Kehe, Christian Science Monitor
"It's not very manly, the topic of weeping while reading. Yet for a
book critic tears are an occupational hazard. Luckily, perhaps,
books don't make me cry very often. Turning pages, I'm practically
Steve McQueen. Strayed's memoir, Wild, however, pretty much
obliterated me. I was reduced, during her book's final third, to
puddle-eyed cretinism. I like to read in coffee shops, and I began
to receive concerned glances from matronly women, the kind of looks
that said, 'Oh, honey.' To mention all this does Strayed a bit of a
disservice, because there's nothing cloying about Wild. It's
uplifting, but not in the way of many memoirs, where the uplift
makes you feel that you're committing mental suicide. This book is
as loose and sexy and dark as an early Lucinda Williams song. It's
got a punk spirit and makes an earthy and American sound. . . .
Wild recounts the months Strayed spent when she was 26, hiking
alone on the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through
California and Oregon to Washington State. There were very
frightening moments, but the author was not chewed on by bears,
plucked dangling from the edge of a pit, buried by an avalanche or
made witness to the rapture. No dingo ate anyone's baby. Yet
everything happened. The clarity of Ms. Strayed's prose, and thus
of her person, makes her story, in its quiet way, nearly as
riveting an adventure narrative as Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild and
Into Thin Air. . . . Her grief, early in this book, is as palpable
as her confusion. Her portrait of her mother, who died of cancer at
45, is raw and bitter and reverent all at once. . . . Wild is thus
the story of an unfolding. She got tougher, mentally as well as
physically [and she] tells good, scary stories about nearly running
out of water, encountering leering men and dangerous animals. . .
The lack of ease in her life made her fierce and funny; she hammers
home her hard-won sentences like a box of nails. The cumulative
welling up I experienced during Wild was partly a response to that
too infrequent sight: that of a writer finding her voice, and
sustaining it, right in front of your eyes." —Dwight Garner, The
New York Times
"One of the most original, heartbreaking and beautiful American
memoirs in years. . . . The unlikely journey is awe-inspiring, but
it's one of the least remarkable things about the book. Strayed,
who was recently revealed as the anonymous author of the 'Dear
Sugar' advice column of the literary website The Rumpus, writes
with stunningly authentic emotional resonance—Wild is brutal and
touching in equal measures, but there's nothing forced about it.
She chronicles sorrow and loss with unflinching honesty, but
without artifice or self-pity. There are no easy answers in life,
she seems to be telling the reader. Maybe there are no answers at
all. It's fitting, perhaps, that the writer chose to end her long
pilgrimage at the Bridge of the Gods, a majestic structure that
stretches a third of a mile across the Columbia, the largest river
in the Pacific Northwest. We think of bridges as separating
destinations, just as we think of long journeys as the price we
have to pay to get from one place to another. Sometimes, though,
the journey is the destination, and the bridge connects more than
just dots on a map—it joins reality with the dream world, the
living with the dead, the tame with the wild." —Michael Schaub, NPR
"Brilliant. . . pointedly honest . . . Part adventure narrative,
part deeply personal reflection, Wild chronicles an adventure born
of heartbreak. . . . While it is certain that the obvious dangers
of the trail are real — the cliffs are high, the path narrow, the
ice slick, and the animal life wild — the book's greatest
achievement lies in its exploration of the author's emotional
landscape. With flashbacks as organic and natural as memory itself,
Strayed mines the bedrock of her past to reveal what rests beneath
her compulsion to hike alone across more than one thousand
primitive miles: her biological father's abuse and abandonment, her
mother's diagnosis and death, and her family's unraveling. Strayed
emerges from her grief-stricken journey as a practitioner of a rare
and vital vocation. She has become an intrepid cartographer of the
human heart." —Bruce Machart, Houston Chronicle
"Strayed writes a crisp scene; her sentences hum with energy. She
can describe a trail-parched yearning for Snapple like no writer I
know. She moves us briskly along the route, making discrete rest
stops to parcel out her backstory. It becomes impossible not to
root for her." —Karen R. Long, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"[A] vivid, touching and ultimately inspiring account of a life
unraveling, and of the journey that put it back together. . . . The
darkness is relieved by self-deprecating humor as [Strayed]
chronicles her hiking expedition and the rebirth it helped to
inspire. . . . Wild easily transcends the hiking genre, though it
presents plenty of details about equipment ordeals and physical
challenges. Anyone with some backpacking experience will find
Strayed's chronicle especially amusing. Her boots prove too small.
The trail destroys her feet. Then there is the possibility of real
mortality: She repeatedly finds herself just barely avoiding
rattlesnakes. Strayed is honest about the tedium of hiking but also
alert to the self-discovery that can be stirred by solitude and
self-reliance. . . . Pathos and humor are her main companions on
the trail, although she writes vividly about the cast of other
pilgrims she encounters. Finding out 'what it was like to walk for
miles,' Strayed writes, was 'a powerful and fundamental
experience.' And knowing that feeling has a way of taming the
challenges thrown up by modern life." —Michael J. Ybarra, The Wall
Street Journal
"Strayed's journey is the focal point of Wild, in which she
interweaves suspenseful accounts of her most harrowing crises with
imagistic moments of reflection. Her profound grief over her
mother's death, her emotional abandonment by her siblings and
stepfather, and her personal shortcomings and misadventures are all
conveyed with a consistently grounded, quietly pained
self-awareness. On the trail, she fends of everything from
loneliness to black bears; we groan when her boots go tumbling off
a cliff and we rejoice as she transforms from a terrified amateur
hiker into the 'Queen of the PCT.' In a style that embodies her
wanderlust, Strayed transports us with this gripping, ultimately
uplifting tale." —Catherine Straut, ELLE
"Spectacular. Wild is at once a breathtaking adventure tale and a
profound meditation on the nature of grief and survival. . . . .
Strayed's load is both literal and metaphorical—so heavy that she
staggers beneath its weight. . . . Often when narratives are
structured in parallel arcs, the two stories compete and one
dominates. But in Wild, the two tales Strayed tells, of her
difficult past and challenging present, are delivered in perfect
balance. Not only am I not an adventurer myself, but I am not
typically a reader of wilderness stories. Yet I was riveted step by
precarious step through Strayed's encounters with bears,
rattlesnakes, mountain lion scat, ice, record snow and predatory
men. She lost six toenails, suffered countless bruises and scabs,
improvised bootees made of socks wrapped in duct tape, woke up one
time covered in frogs, and met strangers who were extraordinarily
kind to her. Perhaps her adventure is so gripping because Strayed
relates its gritty, visceral details not out of a desire to milk
its obviously dramatic circumstances, but out of a powerful, yet
understated, imperative to understand its meaning. We come to feel
how her actions and her internal struggles intertwine, and
appreciate the lessons she finds embedded in the natural world. . .
. Strayed is a clearheaded, scarred, human, powerful and enormously
talented writer who is secure enough to confess she does not have
all the answers. . . Wild isn't a concept-generated book, that is,
one of those great projects that began as a good, salable idea.
Rather, it started out as an experience that was lived, digested
and deeply understood. Only then was it fashioned into a book—one
that is both a literary and human triumph." —Dani Shapiro, The New
York Times Book Review
"What should you do when you have truly lost your way? A. Go to
rehab. B. Find God. C. Give up. D. Strap on an 80-pound backpack
and hike 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail by yourself. Few of
us who would even come up with D, much less do it. Yet that is
exactly what Strayed did at age 26, though she had no serious
experience backpacking or hiking. Within days of beginning her
trek—already bruised, bloodied and broke—it occurred to her that
this whimsical choice was the hardest thing she'd ever done. . . .
What she does have is brute persistence, sheer will and moxie, and
her belief that there is only one option: 'To keep walking.' . . .
In her journey from the most hapless hiker on Earth to the Queen of
the PCT, Strayed offers not just practical and spiritual wisdom,
but a blast of sheer, ferocious moral inspiration." —Marion
Winik, Newsday
"When a book has this kind of velocity, when a narrative is
enriched by the authority and raw power of a voice like Strayed's,
it barely needs a plot to pull the reader into its vortex. But this
first memoir by the author of the well-received novel Torch does
indeed have a tightly loaded trajectory. Wild is a poetically told
tale of devastation and redemption that begins with the death of
Strayed's mother when Strayed was 22, and ends four years later,
after she writes herself an unusual prescription in hopes of saving
her own life. . . . Although Wild is the story of an exceptional
young woman who takes exceptional measures to ease an exceptional
amount of pain, the universality of Strayed's emotions, paired with
the searing intimacy of her prose, convince us that she's more like
than unlike us, and that she did something most of us would never
do, but for reasons we can all understand. . . . And so we relate
to her and root for her as she walks, through searing heat and
trail-blurring snow, wearing boots that don't fit, with inadequate
supplies of money, food, water and experience, escaping the
clutches of scary wildlife and scary men along the way. For three
months. Alone. She keeps going even when her feet are shredded and
her water runs out and an unseasonal blizzard blocks her way.
Reading a travelogue of a long hike could be as thrilling as
watching a faucet drip. But Strayed is a formidable talent, a woman
in full control of her emotions, her soul, and her literary gift,
and in Wild she's parlayed her heartache and her blisters into an
addictive, gorgeous book that not only entertains, but leaves us
the better for having read it." —Meredith Maran, The Boston
"[Wild] is really two books in one. Initially it's a story of grief
and a chronicle of the loss of her mother, her marriage, even the
loss of her last name. . . . And in this way, Wild is much more
than a book about grief and loss. [But] it's also about change and
transformation, an adventure story full of hope, friendship, and
second chances at life. From all appearances, this is a woman who
has found her place in the world, both on the home front and in
literary circles, where the buzz about her new memoir has steadily
grown into a roar." —Leslie Schwartz, Poets & Writers
"A long-distance hike through the wilds of the West is a perfect
metaphor for someone seeking to draw a new line from past to
future, and it's with such self-awareness that Strayed sets
out—with woeful preparation—to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from
the Mojave Desert to the California-Oregon border. The journey's
purpose is to correct the trajectory of her life and lead her to a
better version of herself. Flashbacks to her childhood in northern
Minnesota, to the collapse of her marriage, and, most of all, to
her mother's death and the subsequent dissolution of her family,
give us a troubled and complex figure whose lostness is palpable. .
. . It's a fearless story, told in honest prose that is wildly
lyrical as often as it is physical." —Scott Parker, The Minneapolis
Star Tribune
"We readers love memoirs for the most selfish of reasons: As we
encounter the writer's decisions, collisions, the chances taken or
missed, some part of our brain is simultaneously revisiting the
things in our own lives that got us this far. Strayed's Wild is one
of the best examples of this phenomenon to come along since Poser
by Clare Dederer last year and Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott's classic.
. . . Anyone who has read a lot of this genre in recent years can't
help but brace herself for the sordid details of a downward spiral.
Strayed, however, takes to a different trail. The Pacific Crest
Trail, to be precise. . . . Wild will appeal to readers who dream
of making such a hike, and Strayed's descriptions of the landscape
will not disappoint. They are as frank and original as the rest of
the book . . . This isn't Cinderella in hiking boots, it's a woman
coming out of heartbreak, darkness and bad decisions with a clear
view of where she has been. She isn't inoculated against all future
heartbreak, but she suspects she can make it through what comes
next. Wild could slide neatly into predictability, but it doesn't.
There are adventures and characters aplenty, from heartwarming to
dangerous, but Strayed resists the temptation to overplay or
sweeten such moments. Her pacing is impeccable as she captures her
impressive journey. She deftly revisits the mix of bravado and
introspection inside the head of a wounded young woman. Her honesty
never flags." —Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, The Seattle Times
"Brave and beautiful." —Antonia Crane, ZYZZYVA
"In Wild, Strayed recounts the road to redemption—a road buried in
snow, crawling with rattlers, and patrolled by bears—with humor and
irrefutably hard-won wisdom." —Elissa Schappell, Vanity
"Wild seamlessly intercuts Strayed's occasionally harrowing
adventures on the PCT—from bear sightings to the hot bartender she
picks up in a trailside town—with recollections of her childhood
and family, as well as postcard panoramas of the deserts, forests,
and snowfields she traverses. Wild is a memoir that's light on
epiphany, but heavy on the importance of keeping moving—even when
it's hard. Even when your toenails keep falling off. . . .
beautifully told." —Alison Hallett, Portland Mercury
"How long is the journey to happiness? For Strayed, it was 1,100
miles. . . . Layered between tales of the trail are painful yet
beautiful remembrances of the experiences that led her there: the
heart-wrenching days spent at her dying mother's bedside; the
sadness and guilt she carried about her subsequent unraveling,
which led to a divorce; and the attempts she made to escape these
emotions through drugs, alcohol and men. . . . Though it's easy to
get lost among the cacophony of voices competing for attention in
today's memoir market, Wild rises above the clatter. Strayed is a
brilliant storyteller with an extraordinary gift not only for
language but also for sharing the wisdom she earned with each and
every step. Spectacular." —Kim Schmidt, American Way
"After her mother died and her marriage fell apart, novelist
Strayed impulsively decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, from
the Mexican border to just below Canada, in a desperate attempt to
regain her footing. With no hiking experience, too-small boots and
a too-large backpack (she dubs it Monster), she soloed for three
months, encountering rattlers and battling her terror of bears and
mountain lions by singing 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.' Strayed
persevered through punishing loneliness, coping by digging deeper
into her own psyche. . . . With grace, wild humor and transcendent
insights, she describes her dawning awareness that hiking was
making the pain in her life 'the tiniest bit less hard,' and as she
begins to heal, she also discovers just how strong she really is.
Strayed's language is so vivid, sharp and compelling that you feel
the heat of the desert, the frigid ice of the High Sierra and the
breathtaking power of one remarkable woman finding her way—and
herself—one brave step at a time. Four stars." —Caroline
Leavitt, People
"[A] poignant, no-holds barred, kick-ass memoir that will grab you
by the throat and shake you to your core. . . . Strayed seamlessly
weaves events on the trail with memories, good and bad, that
explain why this hike had to be. And so it goes, for 1,100 miles
and three arduous months—through injuries, hunger, thirst,
strangers met, kindnesses shown, ice and snow, some hilarity, much
suffering, almost quitting and much learning. . . . this powerful
and raw, deeply felt, often humorous, and beautifully written
memoir turns hiking into an act of redemption and salvation."
—Shelf Awareness
"Strayed has enjoyed acclaim as an extraordinary essayist for 15
years. . . . Wild tells how, when she was 22 with her life in
disarray, she impulsively decided to hike the Pacific Crest Trail
alone, from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon. The
idea was that it might help her put things back together. Like the
Adrienne Rich poem 'Power' that bolsters Strayed after the trail
nearly breaks her on her first day out, Strayed has power in
reserve. It used to take her younger self by surprise—like so many
of her encounters and revelations along the trail. Strayed
reclaimed herself with she claimed that power on the Pacific Crest
Trail. Today, she owns it, and she knows how to use it. We're
feeling it now." —Brian Juenemann, The Register-Guard
"Ardent. . . it is voice—fierce, billowing with energy,
precise—that carries Wild. By turns both devastating and glorious,
Strayed uses it to narrate her progress and setbacks on the trail
and within herself, occasionally flashing back to fill in the
events that brought her to this desperate traverse. . . . By laying
bare a great unspoken truth of adulthood—that many things in life
don't turn out the way you want them to, and that you can and must
live through them anyway—Wild feels real in ways that many books
about 'finding oneself' do not. The hike, rewarding though it is,
doesn't heal Strayed. . . . Strayed waited close to 20 years to
publish her story, and it shows. Though many of the things that
happen to her are extreme—at one point she hikes in boots made
entirely of duct tape—she never writes from a place of desperation
in the kind of semi-edited purge state that has marred so many true
stories in recent years. Such fine control over so many
unfathomable, enormous experiences was no doubt hard-won. When she
finally reaches her destination, she's completed her hike,
but her mother is still dead, her marriage is still over, her
family and home still lost forever. She spends $1.80 of her last $2
on an ice cream cone. The ice cream is wonderful, but it's not the
answer to anything, and she knows it. . . . Strayed is someone you
want to listen to as she walks on. What she offers up are many,
many new questions far more valuable than any platitudes about
self-discovery, and it's in these that the heart of her story
lies." —Melanie Rehak, Slate
"Cheryl Strayed was a novice hiker when she decided to embark on a
solo trek along the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), a scenic footpath
that zigzags over the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountains for 2,650
miles between Mexico and Canada. Her poetic memoir Wild opens with
the impetus for her journey: the sudden death of her mother just 49
days after being diagnosed with lung cancer. Despondent an
disoriented in the wake of her loss, Strayed self-destructs. . . .
Not sure what she is in search of, she sets off for the PCT with a
guidebook, a collection of poems and an ice ax she doesn't yet know
how to use. During the harrowing three-month journey that ensues,
she starts to make sense of her loss . . . In this compelling
chronicle, she does just that, meeting kindhearted fellow travelers
along the way as well as two terrifying hunters, several
rattlesnakes, a bull and, in the end, someone she can finally begin
to admire: herself." —Liz Welch, More
"Raw, heartbreaking, humorous, 'Wild' is an apt title in many
ways—evoking not just the pristine rugged-ness of [Strayed's]
1,100-mile hike from the Mojave Desert in California to the
Columbia River on Oregon's northern edge, but also the untamed
emotional landscape that Strayed is desperately trying to escape.
In flashbacks along the trail, she relives the jagged memories she
is fighting to outrun: abuse, adultery, and the death of her
mother—a loss that left her so grief-stricken she once broke down
and ate her mother's cremated remains. . . . If the emotional
baggage isn't enough, there is the actual bag Strayed struggles to
carry: a ridiculously enormous backpack so overloaded with
nonessentials she dubs it 'Monster' and can hoist it only by
finding ways to get her legs underneath it. Such bursts of levity
come just often enough to blunt Wild's darkest moments. Wild
succeeds in reminding us that there's always something to be
learned from anyone who, however lost, keeps putting one foot in
front of the other." —Brian Barker, Portland Monthly
"Strayed recounts her experience hiking the PCT after her mother's
death and her own subsequent divorce. . . . She takes readers with
her on the trail, and the transformation she experiences on its
course is significant: she goes from feeling out of her element
with a too-big backpack and too-small boots to finding a sense of
home in the wilderness and with the allies she meets along the way.
Readers will appreciate her vivid descriptions of the natural
wonders." —Karen McCoy, Library Journal
"Shattered by the death of her mother and the breakup of her
marriage in her mid-twenties, Strayed attempted to hike 1,000 miles
of the Pacific Crest Trail alone as a way to piece herself back
together after so much loss. . . . The portrait of her mother, a
free spirit once married to an abusive man, is heartbreaking. As
are her accounts of the extraordinary bonds that sprung up among
hikers sharing provisions and offering help." —Whole
"At 26, Cheryl Strayed realized she was lost. Divorced, still
reeling from the sudden death of her mother, she made the radical
decision to hike 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail—from the
Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington state—by
herself. Her account of that journey is one of the most thrilling
memoirs in years. Why is Wild such a standout? For starters,
there's the tale's sheer ballsiness: Strayed was an inexperienced
hiker when she set out alone, unsure of how to read a compass.
When she lost her boots, she wrapped duct tape around her
feet and kept hiking. It's fascinating to imagine Strayed
taking on black bears and rattlesnakes and impassable snowfall (to
say nothing of sexy, dark-haired guitar players and lecherous
rednecks with knives). But more impressive is Strayed's writing.
Wild will undoubtedly be compared to Krakauer's Into the Wild, but
unlike its tragic cousin, Wild is not about an idealistic young
person trying to escape the world. It's about an idealistic young
person learning to live within in. Reading Wild, you think: Here is
a woman speaking in her own voice about trying to heal her soul—by
getting her ass kicked in the woods. . . Clear, honest, and quietly
riveting." —Kimberly Cutter, Marie Claire
"After the untimely death of her beloved mother from cancer, Cheryl
Strayed, 22 at the time, was left with an all-encompassing grief
and a disintegrating marriage. Directionless and searching, an
impromptu decision set her compass north. North from the Mojave
Desert through California, north across Oregon, and north still
through Washington state across the vast, beautiful, and
unforgiving stretches of the Pacific Crest Trail. Having never gone
backpacking before, Strayed embarked on an 1,100-mile, three-month
solo hike that tested both her physical and mental endurance, and
ultimately restored her sense of self. A deeply honest memoir about
mother and daughter, solitude and courage, and regaining footing
one step at a time." —Antonina Jedrzejczak, Vogue
"Cheryl Strayed's memoir, Wild, proves she's fearless: in life and
in her writing. . . . This book isn't just a travel memoir: it's a
no-holds-barred account of what inspired a novice hiker to
undertake such a grueling journey in the first place. Using the
chronological framework of the trek to examine her life up to that
point (she was 26), Strayed explores the aftermath of her
45-year-old mother's death from cancer four years earlier. Writing
takes one 'into all the dark places,' Strayed says, describing the
evolution of Wild as starting out as a personal essay for a planned
collection that expanded into a memoir because she finally felt
that she had to tell the whole story of the hike, including its
backstory. Searing . . . powerful . . . mesmerizing." —Claire
Kirch, Publishers Weekly
"Gripping." —Esquire
"Echoing the ever popular search for wilderness salvation by Chris
McCandless and other modern-day disciple[s] of Thoreau, Strayed
tells the story of her emotional devastation after the death of her
mother and the seeks she spent hiking the 1,100-mile Pacific Crest
Trail. . . . Woefully unprepared (she fails to read about the
trail, buys boots that fit, or pack practically), she relies on the
kindess and assistance of those she meets along the way . . .
Clinging to the books she lugs along—Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor,
Adrienne Rich—Strayed labors along the demanding trail, documenting
her bruises, blisters, and greater troubles. Hiker wannabes will
likely be inspired. . . . This chronicle, perfect for book clubs,
is certain to spark lively conversation." —Colleen Mondor,
"In the summer of 1995, at age 26 and feeling at the end of her
rope emotionally, Strayed resolved to hike solo the Pacific Crest
Trail . . . In this detailed, in-the-moment re-enactment, she
delineates the travails and triumphs of those three grueling
months. Living in Minneapolis, on the verge of divorcing her
husband, Strayed was still reeling from the sudden death four years
before of her mother; the ensuing years formed an erratic, confused
time 'like a crackling Fourth of July sparkler.' Hiking the trail
helped decide what direction her life would take, even though she
had never seriously hiked or carried a pack before. . . .
Eventually she began to experience 'a kind of strange, abstract,
retrospective fun,' meeting the few other hikers along the way, all
male; jettisoning some of the weight from her pack and burning
books she had read; and encountering all manner of creature and
acts of nature, from rock slides to snow. Her account forms a
charming, intrepid trial by fire, as she emerges from the ordeal
bruised but not beaten, changed, a lone survivor." —Publishers
Weekly (starred review)
"Unsentimental memoir of the author's solo hike from California to
Washington along the Pacific Crest Trail. Following the death of
her mother, Strayed's life quickly disintegrated. . . . While
waiting in line at an outdoors store, [she] read the back cover of
a book about the Pacific Crest Trail. Initially, the idea of hiking
the trail became a vague apparition, then a goal. Woefully
underprepared for the wilderness, out of shape and carrying a
ridiculously overweight pack, the author set out from the small
California town of Mojave, toward a bridge ('the Bridge of the
Gods') crossing the Columbia River at the Oregon-Washington border.
Strayed's writing admirably conveys the rigors and rewards of
long-distance hiking. Along the way she suffered aches, pains,
loneliness, blistered, bloody feet and persistent hunger. Yet the
author also discovered a newfound sense of awe . . . stunned by how
the trail both shattered and sheltered her. Most of the hikers she
met along the way were helpful, and she also encountered instances
of trail magic . . . A candid, inspiring narrative of the author's
brutal physical and psychological journey through a wilderness of
despair to a renewed sense of self." —Kirkus Reviews (starred
"No one can write like Cheryl Strayed. Wild is one of the most
unflinching and emotionally honest books I've read in a long time.
It is about forgiveness and grief, bravery and hope. It is
unforgettable." —Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle
"While reading Cheryl Strayed's stunning book about her arduous
solo journey along the Pacific Crest Trail, I kept asking
myself—what would I do if I were stripped bare of everything—money,
job, community, even family and love? Thoreau once said, 'In
wildness is the preservation of the world.' For Strayed, it is
clear that in wildness was the preservation of her soul. She
reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it
means to be fully alive, even in the face of catastrophe, physical
and psychic hardship, and loss." —Mira Bartók, author of The
Memory Palace
"Cheryl Strayed can sure tell a story. In Wild, she describes her
journey from despair to transcendence with honesty, humor, and
heart-cracking poignancy. This is a great book." —Mary Pipher,
author of Reviving Ophelia and Seeking Peace
"A courageous and transforming journey—spirit and body." —Ursula
Hegi, author of Stones from the River
"Arresting . . . So many heal-myself memoirs are available that
initially I hesitated about [Wild]. Then I considered the source:
Cheryl Strayed, the author of a lyric yet tough-minded first
novel [called] Torch—a Great Lakes Book Award finalist . . .
Wild [is] Strayed's account of her 1,100-mile solo hike along the
Pacific Crest Trail, from the Mojave Desert to Washington State.
Shattered at 26 by her mother's death, her family's fragmenting,
and the end of her marriage, Strayed upped and decided to do
something way out of the realm of her experience; here
she confronts snowstorms and rattlesnakes even as she
confronts her personal pain. Wish I had her guts!" —Barbara
Hoffert, LibraryJournal.com
"This is a big, brave,
break-your-heart-and-put-it-back-together-again kind of
book. Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and
deceptively elegant writer. She walked the PCT to find
forgiveness, came back with generosity—and now she shares her
reward with us. I snorted with laughter, I wept
uncontrollably; I don't even want to know the person who isn't
going to love Wild. This is a beautifully made, utterly
realized book." —Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have
Shifted and Cowboys Are My Weakness
"Spectacular!" —Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Giant's
"Cheryl Strayed is one of the most exciting writers I've come
across in a long time." —Hope Edelman, author of Motherless
"Smart, funny, and often sublime, Wild has something for everyone—a
fight for survival in the wilderness, a bad girl's quest for
redemption—all in the hands of a brilliant and evocative writer."
—Chelsea Cain, author of Heartsick
"Stunning . . . An incredible journey, both inward and outward."
—Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the Rain
Grieving for her recently deceased mother and a failed marriage, Strayed slipped into heroin addiction and a destructive lifestyle before deciding on a whim to hike the grueling Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) at age 26. Part memoir and part adventure story, Strayed's chronicle of her 1100-mile hike describes her suffering through blisters and bruises, threats from rattlesnakes, extreme thirst, bears, a predatory hunter, and intense loneliness, all while carrying her huge pack nicknamed "Monster." Strayed (Torch) writes with startling and heartbreaking clarity as she relates her mother's sad death at 45 as well as the physical and psychological transformation she underwent while on the trail. Bernadette Dunne's versatile narration can make even the male characters sound realistic. -VERDICT This audiobook will appeal to memoir fans and to those interested in physical challenges as an antidote to emotional pain. ["This book is less about the PCT and more about Strayed's own personal journey, which makes the story's scope a bit unclear. However, fans of her novel will likely enjoy this new book," read the review of the Knopf hc, LJ 2/15/12.-Ed.]-Nancy R. Ives, SUNY at Geneseo (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Allergies, Extra Weight Tied to Bullying
Kids who have food allergies or are overweight may be especially likely to get bullied by their peers, two new studies suggest.
Not surprisingly, researchers also found targets of bullying were more distressed and anxious and had a worse quality of life, in general, than those who weren't picked on.
Bullying has become a concern among parents, doctors and school administrators since research and news stories emerged linking bullying - including online "cyberbullying" - with depression and even suicide.
"There has been a shift and people are more and more recognizing that bullying has real consequences, it's not just something to be making jokes about," said Dr. Mark Schuster, chief of general pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School, who wrote a commentary published with the new research.
Studies suggest between one in ten and one in three of all kids and teens are bullied - but those figures may vary by location and demographics, researchers noted.
The new findings come from two studies published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
In one, Dr. Eyal Shemesh from the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and his colleagues surveyed 251 kids who were seen at an allergy clinic and their parents. The children were all between age eight and 17 with a diagnosed food allergy.
Just over 45 percent of them said they'd been bullied or harassed for any reason, and 32 percent reported being bullied because of their allergy in particular.
"Our finding is entirely consistently with what you find with children with a disability," Shemesh told Reuters Health.
A food allergy, he said, "is a vulnerability that can be very easily exploited, so of course it will be exploited."
The kids in the study were mostly white and well-off, the researcher said - a group that you'd expect would be targeted less often. So bullying may be more common in poorer and minority children who also have food allergies.
But allergies aren't the only cause of teasing and harassment by peers.
In another study, researchers from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, found that almost two-thirds of 361 teens enrolled in weight-loss camps had been bullied due to their size.
That likelihood increased with weight, so that the heaviest kids had almost a 100 percent chance of being bullied, Rebecca Puhl and her colleagues found. Verbal teasing was the most common form of bullying, but more than half of bullied kids reported getting taunted online or through texts and emails as well.
Shemesh's team found only about half of parents knew when their food-allergic child was being bullied, and kids tended to be better off when their families were aware of the problem.
He said parents should feel comfortable asking kids if they're being bothered at school or elsewhere - and that even if it only happens once, bullying shouldn't be ignored.
"We want parents to know," he said. "Start the conversation."
"Parents whose kids have a food allergy should really be aware that their kids have the kind of characteristic that often leads to being bullied," Schuster told Reuters Health. "They should be working with the school to handle the food allergy in a way that isn't going to make it more likely that their kids will be bullied - and they need to be attuned to their kids."
That's the same for parents of overweight and obese children, he added.
"Kids need their parents to be their allies in these situations," he said. "Their parents can help them still feel strong."


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The regulation, which was proposed in the spring by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and approved by panel of health experts after several months of review, puts a 16-ounce size limit on cups and bottles of non-diet soda, sweetened teas, and other calorie-packed beverages.
The ban will apply in fast-food joints, movie houses and Broadway theaters, workplace cafeterias, and most other places selling prepared food.
It doesn't cover beverages sold in supermarkets or most convenience stores.
The restaurant and beverage industries have assailed the plan as misguided. They say the city's health experts are exaggerating the role sugary beverages have played in making Americans fat.
One board member, Dr. Sixto R. Caro, abstained from voting. The other eight board members voted yes.
"I am still skeptical. . This is not comprehensive enough," said Caro, a doctor of internal medicine who practices in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Some New Yorkers have also ridiculed the rule as a gross government intrusion and tens of thousands signed a petition, circulated by the industry, voicing their opposition.
The unprecedented regulation would follow other ambitious health moves on Bloomberg's watch.
Some have proven to be national pacesetters, such as making chain restaurants post calorie counts prominently on their menus; McDonald's announced Wednesday that it would start displaying the information nationwide next week, before a federal requirement that could force all major chains to do so next year.
New York City also has barred artificial trans fats from restaurant food and taken aggressive steps to discourage smoking. Starting this month, dozens of city hospitals are asking mothers of newborns to listen to talks about why they should breast-feed instead of using formula.
Bloomberg and other advocates for the soda plan — who include a roster of doctors and such food figures as chef Jamie Oliver — see it as another pioneering step for public health.
After Thursday's vote, Bloomberg's official Twitter feed tweeted: "NYC's new sugary drink policy is the single biggest step any gov't has taken to curb (hash)obesity. It will help save lives."
They say the proposal strikes at a leading cause of obesity simply by giving people a built-in reason to stop at 16 ounces: 200 calories, if it's a regular Coke, compared to 240 in a 20-ounce size. For someone who drinks a soda a day, the difference amounts to 14,600 calories a year, or the equivalent of 70 Hershey bars, enough to add about four pounds of fat to a person's body.
Beyond the numbers, some doctors and nutrition experts say the proposal starts a conversation that could change attitudes toward overeating. While there are many factors in obesity, "ultimately it does come down to culture, and it comes down to taking some first steps," said Dr. Jeffrey Mechanick, a Mount Sinai School of Medicine professor who has studied the effect of government regulation on the obesity epidemic.
Soda makers and sellers say the plan unfairly singles out soft drinks as culprits for the nation's fat problem, represents an overweening government effort to regulate behavior and is so patchy as to be pointless. Because of the web of who regulates what, it would affect a belly-buster regular soda sold at a sports arena but not a 7-Eleven Big Gulp, for instance.
An average New Yorker goes to the movies about four times per year and buys concessions only twice, said Sun Dee Larson, a spokeswoman for the AMC Theatres chain.
"We firmly believe the choices made during the other 363 days have a much greater impact on public health," she said in a statement.
Thursday's vote is unlikely to be the final word on the proposal.
A soft-drink industry sponsored group called New Yorkers for Beverage Choices — which says it has gathered more than 250,000 signatures on petitions opposing the soda plan — is considering a lawsuit and exploring legislative options for challenging the plan.
"This is not the end," Eliot Hoff, a spokesman for the group, said in a written statement. "We will continue to voice our opposition to this ban and fight for the right of New Yorkers to make their own choices. And we will stand with the business owners who will be hurt by these arbitrary limitations."
It's not clear what legislative routes there may be: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said Wednesday she's not interested in trying to block the expected health board vote, though she has said she isn't a fan of the soda idea.
The rule wouldn't apply to lower-calorie drinks, such as water or diet soda, or to alcoholic beverages or drinks that are more than half milk or 70 percent, unsweetened juice.
Enforcement would be conducted by an existing corps of city restaurant inspectors. A violation would lead to a $200 fine.


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It's never too early to introduce your baby to play. This is the time when babies develop motor skills, learn to explore and discover the world around them. There are still a few things to remember to keep them safe in any situation, and that's where our safety tips come in to play.