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Local, organic foods not always safer
The Associated Press via USA Today
Shoppers nervous about foodborne illnesses might turn to foods produced at smaller farms or labeled "local," "organic" or "natural" in the hopes that such products are safer. But a small outbreak of Salmonella in organic eggs from Minnesota shows no food is immune to contamination.
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Vilsack outlines priorities for 2012 farm bill
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U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack this week is sharing USDA's priorities for the 2012 farm bill. Vilsack says the legislation is about more than farming — it's about energy, nutrition, jobs and providing an adequate food supply for the U.S. and the world.
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Listeria investigation update: 3 additional deaths
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Three more people have died after eating Listeria-tainted cantaloupe, bringing the toll to 28 deaths, 133 illnesses and a miscarriage.
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Obama: From hope and change, to change and hope for best
The Hill
President Barack Obama's campaign has gone from hope and change to change and hope: He wants to change the conversation to what the Republicans are saying and hope voters find him to be the lesser of two evils.
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Big Democratic donors stiff super PACs
Democrats railed against deep-pocketed Republican groups in 2010 but this year conceded it was time to compete, rolling out their own network of super PACs and other groups that can take unlimited cash. So far, their big money groups are low on one thing: big donors.
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Carville 'worried' for general election
James Carville underscored the concerns among Democrats about the current economic picture and what it means for 2012 in a radio interview with Scott Hennen.
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Americans getting more 'real' about their diets
United States Department of Agriculture
A USDA researchers asks, "If our diets in America haven't improved much, are we at least more aware of our shortcomings?"
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China: Rapid yuan rise 'not possible'
The Wall Street Journal
China said Wednesday that rapid yuan appreciation in the near term is out of the question because it would harm China's economic growth, in one of the strongest responses yet to U.S. pressure for a faster rise in the currency.
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Court dismisses food labeling case
Food Business News
Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago has dismissed a lawsuit filed by consumer Carolyn Turek regarding food labeling on fiber bars produced by General Mills Inc. and Kellogg Co.
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Off to a rocky start: A producer and a food safety attorney
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Food Safety News recently ran a series by John Munsell that explained how his small meat plant in Miles City, Mont., ran afoul of USDA's meat inspection practices. In this addendum, Munsell offers an insider's perspective on one of the most well-known names in food safety litigation.
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EU food safety border rejections on the rise
Food Production Daily
A rise in the rejection of food and feed consignments at EU borders in 2010 has contributed to the number of food safety notifications reaching 8,582 — an 8 percent increase on 2009 and a record high.
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Small wonders: Mini, micro portions in demand
The New York Times
An examination of the mini and micro dessert trend in New York sheds light on a growing business trend in the food industry.
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E. coli outbreak strikes in North Carolina
The News & Observer
Health officials in Wake County, N.C., are investigating seven confirmed cases of illness from E. coli; investigators have not identified a location or food source the victims might have had in common.
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Supreme Meat recalls carne guisada over undeclared allergen
Supreme Meat Purveyors, a Texas establishment, is recalling approximately 22,100 pounds of carne guisada because the products contain soy that is not declared on the label, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
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Truck tonnage index up; indicator of economic health?
American Trucking Associations' advance seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage index increased 1.6 percent in September after falling a revised 0.5 percent in August 2011, the group's economists announced — offering a sign of hope for the economy.
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Yogen Fruz, Jamba Juice join forces
Jamba Juice is moving forward with plans to expand its frozen yogurt product line after signing a licensing agreement with Yogen Fruz.
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Pathogen detection: Sample product or sample environment?
Quality Assurance & Food Safety
As the risk-based provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act roll out, risk assessment is being conducted in areas in which it has not been applied previously and is increasing for practices for which it has always been a part. Pathogen detection and sampling is no exception.
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Study: Labels read more often when placed centrally
Packaging Gateway
Nutritional labels should be placed in the center of food packaging rather than in one corner in order to attract consumers' attention, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
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New method for testing allergens through mass spectrometry
Business Wire via MarketWatch
AB SCIEX today introduced the world's first commercially available and verified mass spectrometry-based method for detecting and measuring allergens in baked food products.
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Lessons in food processing economics
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Every food professional needs to know the basic elements of the business in which they practice.
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Evolution of X-ray inspection systems
Food Processing
With ever-changing trends in the food industry, X-ray inspection equipment has evolved to meet the new demands that increasingly innovative packaging designs are placing on the inspection process.
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Soft drinks linked to violent tendency in teens
HealthDay News via Medline Plus
Teens who drink lots of soda seem to be prone to violence, new research suggests. But the study authors concede that sodas probably are not the direct cause of the aggression.
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UK demand for frozen food continues to rise
Food Manufacture
The value of the frozen food sector in the U.K. has soared this year, with 3.6 percent growth in the third quarter alone, the British Frozen Food Federation announced Tuesday.
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UK: Greencore attracts takeover approach
The Financial Times
Greencore, which failed to pull off a merger designed to create the U.K.'s biggest chilled foods manufacturer last year, has itself attracted the eye of a potential purchaser.
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Watching the Gary Hart Guest Booker DVD from Kayfabe Commentaries has an eerie feeling as this interview was done less than 24 hours before his untimely death this past spring. Even so, hearing Hart talk about World Class Championship Wrestling during the trying year of 1986 is a treat.
Hart and Kayfabe Commentaries co-owner Sean Oliver sit and discuss WCCW and the objective of this interview is to have Hart re-book World Class from May 1986 through the Thanksgiving night Star Wars supercard. The six months in between included Gino Hernandez passing away, WCCW seceding from the NWA, Kerry Von Erich's near-fatal motorcycle accident, head WCCW booker Ken Mantell quitting and Bill Watts' UWF taking talent from World Class and Hart gets to re-book without any of that happening and the WCCW roster staying intact, along with getting to use wrestlers from the NWA and Jim Crockett Promotions.
This two-hour DVD starts with Hart detailing the Texas territory and the whole concept of the now-defunct concept of a territory. It's a lost concept to say the least and one that takes Hart about 30 minutes to explain. Names such as Paul Boesch, Jim Crockett, Joe Blanchard and Fritz Von Erich get mention and Hart also tells of how the WCCW hierarchy used to fly to all the shows in Texas long before wrestlers flew. The Texas TV deal also included main event-type matches and not squashes as was the norm back then.
The second chapter is called "The Roster" and it's here where Hart tells of Mantell's "deal" with Watts to try and put Fritz out of business. Hart calls Mantell a good booker, but not a good matchmaker. He said Mantell couldn't keep wrestlers established to keep drawing fans and his deal with Watts left WCCW with just Kerry, Kevin and Mike Von Erich and Bruiser Brody as the top stars.
Oliver then asks Hart to start the exercise of re-booking the territory before the downward spiral happened and he would have full use of the WCCW and NWA rosters. Hart thinks this is fantasy, and Oliver agrees, only to humble Hart by saying it's simply "a study of wrestling's most creative minds." Genius.
But before Hart starts the fantasy re-booking process, we take a detour as Hart talks about ECW and Paul Heyman. He said ECW changed wrestling from a sport to a show, that any guy off the street could be a wrestler and that the ECW gimmick hurt wrestling in the long-term. Hart then shoots on Vince McMahon and says watching a two-hour show of his nowadays is pretty hard to do. All those in agreement? Wow, look at all the hands!
Back on track with the fantasy, Hart would bring the Road Warriors and Paul Ellering to WCCW to challenge The Fabulous Freebirds for a shot at the six-man titles held by Kerry, Kevin and Lance Von Erich. This would establish the Warriors and they would go over. A Bruiser Brody and Blackjack Mulligan feud also happen with the TV title at stake. Hart said he would also talk Brody into losing the title to Mulligan.
Hart goes week by week on how he would write the shows and build the Freebirds-Road Warriors feud all the way to Thanksgiving. He even adds Abdullah the Butcher to the Brody-Mulligan angle with Brickhouse Brown also involved. The Von Erichs would also face the Road Warriors and Ellering in a non-title match with Ellering taking the fall. Having the Rock 'n' Roll Express on the undercard is also bandied about and other names that get mention include Kabuki, Iceman Parsons, Chris Adams and the One Man Gang.
Weaving names in and out of matches, yet still building to the supercard, and to hear Hart talk about it all is very bittersweet as it's unfortunate he's no longer with us to make decisions like this. He talks about how to establish wrestlers by having them go over and re-establish certain wrestlers to keep fan interest alive. The word "genius" was already used once before in this review and it should get more mention. Heck, Hart even books matches for the NWA Brass Knucks title!
Hart adds special attraction matches now and then, including one with Baron von Raschke against Wahoo McDaniel (or is it McDaniels?), and specialty matches such as Brody and Mulligan in a cage with the winner getting an NWA World title shot versus Ric Flair. Wow. Wouldn't that have been something?!?
Building the Warriors-Von Erichs angle stays consistent with the Freebirds always involved and return matches aplenty. It's a shame we don't get wrestling (not sports entertainment) like this these days. A crying shame. Seriously.
Another separate section has Hart telling stories about Don "The Spoiler" Jardine and The Missing Link (Dewey Robertson). Typical stories about life on the road that has the obvious violence and women anecdotes are always entertaining. Hart also calls Jardine "Donald" and his stories of him are laced with someone who maybe needed anger management.
The stories about the late Link are much more PG as Hart says Link apologized to him at the 2006 meeting at the Cauliflower Alley Club because Mantell wanted Link to attack Hart, who closes the segment saying he himself was in anger management in WCCW with Dusty Rhodes, who stood up at one meeting and said he's fat and wants people to stop calling him that. Ha!
Ending the DVD is how Hart would book Star Wars. The Von Erichs would win back their previously-lost six-man belts from the LOD and Ellering, Buddy Roberts winning the Texas title from Brian Adias and Mulligan losing a Loser Leaves Texas Match to Brody where falls count anywhere. Not only does Hart detail each match ending, but he explains why it would be done that way.
The DVD ends with Hart saying Oliver is better looking than Johnny Knoxville. An ending montage is a plethora of photos of Hart and sons, Jason and Chad, over some mellow and somber piano and violin music.
This is definitely a DVD that the WWE creative team should purchase to see how to write a wrestling show and how to book the proper way with matches that tell a story and not two-minute crud we get on Monday nights.
The entire Guest Booker series from Kayfabe Commentaries should get an award or something and not just rave reviews here on SLAM! Wrestling. This Hart DVD is a genius (there's that word again!) at work and it's mind-boggling, yet sad at the same time, to hear Hart talk about WCCW and how he would have made it work back some 22 years ago.
That said, this DVD isn't for everyone. If you're a new fan who thinks Triple H and John Cena are the end-all, be-all, then steer clear because you will have no clue A) who Gary Hart is or B) what he's talking about. If you are a fan of the lost "art" of wrestling and the writing and booking, hopefully, you already have this. If not, get it. Now.


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rickhubbelltimc precisava de um novo design de logo e criou um concurso na 99designs.
Um vencedor foi selecionado entre 169 designs enviados por 27 designers freelancers.
Navix.com or Navix, Inc or Navix Group (Undecided until we see designs)
We are a small consulting firm that helps entrepreneurs run their companies instead of their business running them. We free them up to do more of what they love to.
We help these businesses take control of their future by showing them how to navigate the present better. We provide integrated consulting services, meaning we come alongside and assess the situation and provide recommendations, but also have our own software to help them. So not just consulting, basic software too. (that's where future designing possibilities come in).
We will roll out our software with their own design and sites in the future, related to the main logo. So if we find the right person - plenty of opportunity. Most of our clients choose to stay involved with us for years because we treat them right.
We are a comprehensive business solutions company that enables owners to focus on their expertise and allows them to do what they love to do.
Entrepreneurs of small and medium sized companies. Current customers: a lot in commercial landscaping BUT we have some high tech firms too and want to expand into other sectors. Need to have a pleasant, universal feel.
We are especially good at keeping the books and accounting, but provide services in virtually all areas of business.
Should feel a tiny bit corporate but small business friendly. Don't think tiny one man operations, but small to medium sized companies that have had success but haven't been able to maximize it yet. We love helping clients grow their companies and have been doing it for 20 years.
Final Tagline : work together, win together there are two concepts we would like to explore, specifically now. The last two. #1 Can you create something with a cool, simple lighthouse as the icon or guiding light kind of effect. Focus on the navix.com and the take control of your business and win line. #2 something based on a cool looking, simple 3d compass. Please also explore building blocks. Will be hard to make fresh since it's overused, but please give it a go. (Nothing we have done in the past is worth hanging onto, design wise, as all our business has been word of mouth. (We haven't needed cool logos and such, so this is a big step for us. But now we really do.)
We are currently developing our new website which will be fantastic. Your design will be an important part of the look and feel. If it comes out really well, we will be happy to recommend you in a variety of ways.
We'd first like to see basic designs for Navix Group, Navix, Inc & Navix.com before we pick the one. Just concepts of course! We are not sure which way to go yet. We are hoping a strong creative concept comes to you that will help us decide and then we'll quickly head toward one.
Navix Group, Navix, Inc, Navix.com
TAGLINES TO PLAY WITH: (please include with designs)
Take Control of Your Business and Win
Tools, Training & Consulting to Grow Your Business
Do More of What You Love, We'll Tame the Rest
MUST INCLUDE: some 3-D Element(s) (hover drop shadow, chunky lettering, etc...something hip)
STRONG COLORS, Look sharp
Final Files: Photoshop or Illustrator and jpeg, versions with and without tagline AND PLEASE INCLUDE FONTS
Saiba como um concurso de design funciona ou leia mais sobre nossos serviços de design de logo.


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The weather has gone from warm and rainy to cold and snowy across much of the state. With approximately 18% of corn and 23% of beans still in the field, how big of a concern is this? More
The hot, wet summer and early fall weather continued to delay the late-season apple crop until the middle of October. More
The hot, wet summer and early fall weather continued to affect the apple crop in October. More
This year's bloom was later than in 2017. With a later bloom and a cool rainy season, we initially wondered when this year's apple crop would be ready to pick. More
The hot, wet summer weather continues to affect our apple crop. While size is not a problem, red color development continues to be problematic in most varieties. More
This week we added Autumn Crisp, Daybreak Fuji, and CrimsonCrisp to our evaluations. More
Many locations in the Mid-Atlantic States recorded above-average temperatures and rainfall during August. These warm temperatures retarded red color development and reduced soluble solids (sugars) in Honeycrisp apples. More
2018 Apple Maturity Assessment: Week Six
While Gala is a small apple, its flavor and heat tolerance has made it a mainstay of the August harvest. More
Penn State Law is offering farmers the opportunity to obtain free legal services through its Rural Economic Development Clinic. More
The Premier Honeycrisp harvest is ending as the Honeycrisp and Gala are maturing. More
We have been monitoring Premier Honeycrisp maturation and tree ripening for the past three years. Every year we are surprised how quickly they move from un-ripe to tree-ripe and then begin to drop. More
2018 Apple Harvest: Where Are We Now?
Apple bloom in 2018 was later than bloom in 2017. With a later bloom and a cool rainy season, we're all wondering when this year's apple crop will be ready to pick. More
This article describes a new test methodology that is available for growers that are interested in trying to predict the potential for a lot of fruit to develop bitter pit in storage. More
Peach blossoms are just starting to open this season, and full bloom will be more than a week later than normal. More
This Penn State Extension publication, in Spanish and English, is designed for use by orchard employees - often the first individuals to detect a new occurrence of a fruit disease or insect pest. More
Welcome Justin Brackenrich to Butler County. Justin is serving as the new Agronomy Educator with PSU Extension helping provide coverage to Western Pennsylvania. More
In response to an early bloom, wet spring and dry summer, apples matured earlier than normal in 2017. More
We again sampled Aztec Fuji, Cripps Pink (Pink Lady) and Granny Smith this week. More
This week we sampled Aztec Fuji, Cripps Pink (Pink Lady) and Granny Smith grown in Maryland. More
Apple harvest in 2017 has been well ahead of "normal." This week we again sampled late-season apples, Cripps Pink (Pink Lady) and Granny Smith. More
Granny Smith fruit harvested from Western Maryland are nearing storage maturity, and Cripps Pink fruit are beginning to lose ground color. More
Apple harvest in 2017 has been well ahead of "normal." To update you on late season apples, this week we sampled Nagafu Fuji and GoldRush. More
This week we received three fruit samples from a Maryland grower who grows a wide variety of 'newer' apple cultivars for direct-market sales. More
Daybreak Fuji and Olympic Asian Pear are ten days ahead of last year. More
Focus on Honeycrisp, what a difference a week makes! More


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Shurat Hadin Law Center Wins $338 Million Judgment Against Syrian Government Over Kidnapping Of US Citizens By Kurdish Terrorists PKK
Dec 17, 2012, 05:33 ET
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A Tel-Aviv based law center has represented two families of American citizens in their successful $338 million lawsuit against the government of Syria. The decision, handed down today in the United States district court for Washington D.C., found that the government of Syria was responsible for providing material support and resources to the Kurdish Workers Party ("PKK"), a terrorist organization designated by the United States State Department. Chief District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that Syria was vicariously liable for the PKK's 1991 kidnapping of a group of American biblical archeologists leading an excavation in Turkey. The Americans, who were searching to discover the location of the remains of the biblical Noah's Ark, were held hostage for 21 days before they finally were able to escape.
The families were represented by attorneys Robert Tolchin of New York and Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of Tel-Aviv. Darshan-Leitner is the director of the Shurat HaDin Law Center. The Court awarded the families $38 million dollars in compensatory damages and levied a $300 million punitive damages award against the Syrian government as well.
Marvin Wilson and the family of the deceased Ronald Wyatt brought the lawsuit against Syria alleging that Damascus had allowed the PKK to operate from Syrian territory, and provided financial support and training to the terrorist group. The civil action sought both compensation and punitive damages from Syria.
Marvin Wilson, one of the kidnapped Americans, stressed: "The news we received today of a successful ruling against Syria for their support of the PKK during the time of our 1991 kidnapping in Turkey was extremely exciting! After 12 years of anticipating that justice would be served, I hope this ruling will serve notice and be a deterrent to others that there is a penalty for complicity in taking American citizens as hostages. We truly appreciate the dedication and resolve given by the Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center in litigating our case."
Mary Nell Lee, the wife of the late Ronald Wyatt, added: "I am so very grateful that the judge recognized the effects this kidnapping had on our families. Each of our lives was changed in ways that have continued until this day. My prayer is that all those who have suffered at the hands of terrorists, receive compensation such as we have been awarded. While it cannot erase the memories of the event, it can provide each person a sense of justice and closure. Hopefully, it will have an effect on the countries involved in supporting terrorist organizations and help them learn that they cannot get away with such horrendous behavior."
In Sept. 1991, Wilson and Wyatt traveled to Turkey as part of an archeological project to excavate a site near Mount Ararat, where according to the Old Testament, Noah's Ark is believed to have finally found land. Shortly after traveling near the Syrian border the Americans, along with others, were taken hostage by armed gunmen. For the next 21 days the captives were subjected to brutal treatment, forced 18 hour marches and repeatedly assaulted by their PKK captors. The terrorists made ransom demands to the Turkish and American governments.
In July 2001, plaintiffs filed a complaint against Syria pursuant to the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act's terrorism exception, 28 U.S.C. § 1605A in the U.S. district court in Washington D.C.
In today's ruling, the Court wrote that: "the brutal character of the kidnapping in this case, the significant harm it caused both the hostage plaintiffs and their families, along with Syria's demonstrated and well known policy to encourage terrorism all merit an award of punitive damages."
According to Darshan-Leitner: "This is a groundbreaking ruling which finds that Syria was responsible for the crimes perpetrated by the PKK terror organization it sponsors. This ruling also points to an underlying fact: the free world will no longer stand idle while international crimes are committed and it will fight against those rogue regimes which support these heinous acts. Above all, the court found that this kidnapping was brutal and heinous, and involved threats of execution, torture, as well as marches through mountains and dense forests. It is therefore fitting that compensation should be in the millions not in the tens of thousands. These days Syria continues to commit crimes against those who oppose the regime, and Syria will pay."
Tolchin added: "Although the events that gave rise to this judgment took place a number of years ago, it is remarkable how little things have changed. Syria is still playing a proxy game creating terror, instability and mayhem via the PKK and Hizbollah. Hopefully with this judgment Syria will come to realize that there are financial consequences for its actions, while at the same time bringing some measure of comfort to the Wyatt and Wilson families for their ordeal."
The case is called Mary Nell Wyatt v. Syrian Arab Republic. Civil No. 08-502 (RCL)
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Fleecing the poor
There is an epidemic afoot in Beaumont, and it isn't the seasonal flu.
Beaumont families from all walks of life are seeking out fast cash from payday and title loan companies. These companies promise easy, same-day money that some establishments market as a way of helping residents build their credit.
But what sounds too good to be true often is. According to the Officer of Consumer Credit, only 27 percent of payday loan recipients statewide are able to pay them back on time. With various fees and interest rates that can exceed 1000 percent, hundreds of thousands of residents across the state of Texas are feeling the financial pain.
In Beaumont, that statistic is even worse. According to the Center for Public Policy Priorities (CPPP), about 10 percent of Beaumont and Port Arthur payday loans were paid on time, meaning almost 90 percent of short-term payday loans were rolled over at least once, compounding the interest and money owed to the lender.
The stats for car title loans aren't much better. Almost half of consumers refinance their title loans and at least 15 vehicles are repossessed every week in Beaumont and Port Arthur, according to the CPPP.
Just ask Marshall Jones of Beaumont.
"I just needed something to pay bills," he said after exiting Texas Car Title and Payday Loans on E. Lucas Drive in Beaumont. "I went from one bad situation into another bad situation."
Jones said he has paid far in excess of his original $600 pay day loan after months of making recommended minimum payments of $45 every two weeks. Such minimum payments never come close to paying the interest or principle on the original loan, and cover only the fee to renew the loan — compounding the interest and fees on top of the original principle in a snowball of debt from which many never recover.
"I can't get out from under it because I'm steady paying such a small amount...," he said. "It's killin' me."
Although a typical payday or car title loan clearly states an annual percentage rate (APR) of 400 percent, the contract contains hidden fees associated with new laws in Texas aimed at reigning in pay day and title loan companies. In reaction to the new laws, consumer advocates say payday and title loan companies have found loopholes to circumvent Texas' recent attempts to curb such practices, allowing them to conceal from unsuspecting consumers the real consequences of making only the minimum payments.
Payday and title loan companies are banned in 12 states across the U.S. Some states limit the amount a company can loan. In Texas, there is no limit to fees or the amount a company can lend.
"I don't like people getting taken advantage of. And it is an industry that is taking advantage of people," said the Director of Financial Education at FivePoint Credit Union, Mandy Clayton.
Having taught financial education classes with the help of Stephanie Lundgreen of Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas, Clayton said the recent increase in payday lenders has made one thing clear: Business is booming.
"On average, a person doesn't just have one payday loan. They have multiple," she said. "That one payday loan, they do what's called in their business 're-upping' the loan nine times in a year. So most of the people that I've counseled, they have four, five maybe. It's almost as if they're running from one payday lender to the other. It's a horrible cycle that they're going through."
But the epidemic isn't just hitting Beaumont. It's statewide and the Texas Legislature has taken the issue up at each session for years.
"These payday lenders, in one way they can serve a purpose, but it can also be a nightmare for a person," said Rep. Joe Deshotel.
Beaumont's state representative holds a grim outlook for any future reforms, saying he's followed the industry's power and voted for HB 2592 and 2594 which sought to limit fees and reign in payday/title loan companies. HB 2593 sought to further limit the fees and interest associated with unlimited title and pay day loan roll-overs, but the 82nd Legislature was unable to pass the bill. Soon after, the Austin City Council voted to force full disclosure of interest and other fees where the legislature's bills couldn't or wouldn't.
"The only way to do it is to truly limit the interest, limit the fees," Deshotel said. "But that industry spends a lot of money on lobbying, a lot of money keeping detrimental things from happening to the industry. It's unbelievable."
According to a study by Texans for Public Justice (TPJ) — a non-profit think-tank in Austin — credit usury organizations that make pay day and title loans have donated millions to Texas' highest office-holders. Republican Speaker of the House, Joe Straus received the most, according to the study, more than $140,000 during the 82nd Legislature. Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst come in a close second and third, having received some $120,000 and $100,000 respectively. Let's not forget Texas' top lawyer, Attorney General Greg Abbott, who received at least $50,000 from ACE Cash Express. Local Representatives Joe Deshotel and Allan Ritter were among those who garnered donations in 2011 as well, having received $3,000 and $3,500 respectively from Trevor Ahlberg-Cottonwoood Financial, owner of Irving-based Cash Store, according to TPJ.
In 2009, Perry appointed William J. White as chair of the Texas Finance Commission. White's previous job was Vice President of Fort Worth's unregulated pay day lender, Cash America.
"I don't think the legislature will be able to shut the industry down. Each session we try to put in some disclosure and some limits on interest, but they find very creative ways to make money off of interest and different types of fees, which doesn't come under the usury of interest," he said, referring to new usury laws passed under HB2592 and HB2594 during the 82nd Legislature. "Whenever we put something up they find a way around it."
The legislature's newest bill, HB 2019 sponsored by Republican Tom Craddick, seeks to achieve what HB 2593 failed to — limiting the interest and fees associated with unlimited loan roll-overs which lead to undisclosed interest rates as high as 1000 percent.
Lundgreen, the director of asset building and case management (ABC) with Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas, said she has conducted in-depth analysis of more than 3,000 credit reports in the five years since starting ABC. Of those, she said the number of residents whose credit problems can be directly attributed to payday or title loans is staggering.
"A little bit more than half, at least, are dealing with payday lenders," she said. "I think it's more than that, but I would say that's a very conservative estimate."
To mitigate growing financial hardship among Beaumont's financially troubled, some of whom are professionals with good-paying jobs, Lundgreen encouraged residents to attend ABC's financial education classes.
Lundgreen went on to say the City Council of Beaumont could do more to curb the increase of payday lenders.
"The city needs to force the issue that there's full disclosure of the terms because a lot of stuff gets hidden in the fine print," she said.
Calls to the Beaumont City Council members and City Manager Kyle Hayes revealed no plans for a city ordinance regulating payday or title loan companies, however.
And the problem continues. "My daughter was graduating and I was trying to pay for her senior package," said a woman who requested not to be identified as she exited Texas Title and Payday Loans on College Street.
The single mother of four and a senior at Lamar University claims her original loan amount of $300 has cost her more than $2,000.
According to the woman's contract, her interest rate is 402.44 percent, but with hidden fees and compounding interest once the loan is rolled over — at least nine times, in her case — the interest rate is closer to 600 percent.
The woman said Texas Title and Payday Loans recommended she make only the minimum payment of $25 every two weeks, thereby drawing out the loan and increasing fees owed to the company.
"They always encourage that you pay just the minimum. They get you on that minimum payment," she said. "I probably would've paid more, but I work construction and I'm always laid off. My employment is never steady."
Although she said she always made at least the minimum payment, she said she did not begin paying more than the minimum payment until it was clear to her she would never pay the loan off by following the company's minimum payment recommendations.
Stories such as this are typical. Not every consumer reads the fine print in payday/title loan contracts and don't understand how making only the minimum payment every two weeks simply renews the loan and increases the amount of fees and interest they owe over time.
The woman said she has never taken out a title loan and doesn't plan on ever coming back.
"When I get through with this, never again," she said.


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I must have missed the 24/7 prattling on every TV channel about the old dear and how marvelous she is. About how lovely the Duchess of Cambridge is with a swishy hair and her big white teeth. Blah blah blah. I must have missed all those sodding 'Keep Calm and Carry On' slogans spaffed across every object with white space on it that have sporned THIS abomination.
No, really, I challenge you to get through a day without seeing one. Today I have been treated to:
- Keep Calm and Grow a Mustache
- Keep Calm and Buy Stuff (fucking hell)
- Keep Calm and .....Be Yourself (foul!)
How about 'Keep Calm and Gouge You Eyes Out With A Spoon'?
Keep Calm and Cunt Off, I say.
Seriously. Could I be any more bored of hearing about it?
No I fucking couldn't.
To be honest I do actually really like the Queen, she's a real brick and to be given the utmost R.E.S.P.E.C.T. People ought to listen to her sort a bit more often. It's not her that gets on my tits. It's every other corporate cunt jumping on the band wagon with completely random-unrelated stuff that has nothing to do with it whatsoever, smacking a union jack on it and calling it 'Jubilee…'
Jubilee cupcakes and tea cups I can deal with.
But it doesn't stop there. They are taking every fucking inanimate object or abstract idea, sticking 'Jubilee' in front of it and expecting the average punter to cream their pants with delight at the prospect of a 'Jubilee themed iPod' that they can keep forever. Yuck!
Today I saw an advert for a Jubilee Lawnmower (union jack handles). What's next?
Jubilee Edition Hemorrhoid Cream (clotted)
Jubilee Cast Enamel Squirrel (well, why the fuck not?)
Jubilee Hamster Shaving Kit (for when you really need to shave that hamster)
Jubilee themed stab-proof vest (to protect yourself from the psychos down the river pageant)
Special Jubilee Edition Quran
Jubilee Butt-Plug (in shape of Queen's head - much more fun than a mug)
Jubilee themed Diamond Encrusted Gimp Suit (now that I would buy)
Jubilee Celebratory Rape Alarm
Jubilee Ice Pick (to stab yourself in the head with when it gets too much)
I think it is fairly safe to say that life hasn't exactly gone as planned in the last six months, which is probably why I am a little narky about this Jubilee shizzle, considering I had no intention of being in the country for it. Today I sent Scruffy-but-Handsome off to a job interview dressed in a suit. The overall effect was rather reminiscent of dressing a corgi in a tuxedo. Cute and slightly amusing, but definitely not something I planned to ever do.
The one saving grace of the last 2 weeks has been that I finally managed to sell the house. This means my lodgers are moving out this weekend. It's been quite a journey, having this rag-tag and morally suspect set of individuals living together;
1) Me - errant part-timer trying to project the appearance of being legitimately busy and important with nose-constantly-in-laptop working on various 'projects' one of which being this blog, whilst actually doing three shades of fuck all.
2) Lodger 1 - precarious platinum-blonde and all-round lovable one-time gypsy with a dog and a slightly murky past that may or may not have involved pouring acid in her enemies' swimming pools and slashing people's tyres.
3) Lodger 2 - freelance stock-market-trading spiv with sloaney wardrobe pretensions and (it would appear) an enormous amount of cash in the bank (spends almost 24/7 in his bedroom glued to four computer screens gambling with fraudulently-gotten gains and if he's not doing that stuffing coke up his nostrils and renting whores.)
Part of me is sad to see them go. The other part (the part that has been living in constant terror of being horribly murdered in my bed with a machete, or finding Lodger 2 swinging from the ceiling fan one evening) is quite relieved.
It's sort of the end of an era.
Well, anyway, since I am in the country for this bloody Jubilee I intend to enjoy it.
Therefore I will be spending most of the bank holiday playing 'BBC TV Coverage Jubilee Cliché Bingo.' This basically entails sitting on the sofa in your underpants eating cake and downing a Tequila every time you encounter one of these hackneyed hyperbole clangers:
- Cliff Richard /Paul McCartney (1 shot Tequila - double measure if on stage together)
- Keep Calm and (insert fucktarded cliché here - sambucca shot)
- A Union Jack being waved feverishly by a spotty oik (Gin)
- Victoria Sponge (See it, eat it)
- Coronation Chicken (See it, eat it)
- Huw Edwards saying any of the following: 'The People's Queen, Day of National Joy, Her Majesty's Famous Sense of Fun, Deeply Moving, And What a Magnificent Spectacle This Is, Such Dedication and Hard Work, Oh Look There Goes Pippa Middleton's Arse' (1 glass champers)
- Bunting (Rum)
- Prince Phillip saying something fabulous and pissing everybody off. (1 seasonaire nightmare)
I shall then probably put a fuck load of drugs in my face, party until I'm sick and round it all off with a Jubilee themed gang bang. God Save the Queen.
Oh yes….and if anyone else has any Jubilee Clichés for me to add to my bingo list I'd be thrilled to hear them…


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The lucky lady is Camilla Belle, 26, a knockout brunette who shares the 25-year-old quarterback's conservative views on premarital sex.
"Both say they're virgins," an insider divulged. "They've been dating secretly since the summer, but they can't hide their love any longer. "Tim is looking for a woman so he can have a proper engagement and church wedding, and he's told friends that Camilla fits the bill."
The highly religious tweosome– he's a devout Christian raised by Baptist missionary parents, while she was raised Catholic – were spotted getting affectionate during an Oct. 30 date at Latitude 30, an entertainment center in Jacksonville, Fla.
Tim, who plays for the New York Jets, has been open about what he wants in a wife. In September, he told a reporter: "Obviously looks play a part...but there's also so much more than that for me. It's about finding someone sweet and kind – and that has a servant's heart. It's about finding a girl who likes me for me, and not because of what I do or who I am or the name."
Camilla dated singer Joe Jonas for about nine months after starring in one of his band's music videos, but they ended the relationship in July 2009.
Meanwhile, plenty of women – including reality star Kim Kardashian – have made a play for Tebow, but pals say Camilla's the first to capture his heart. "Tim calls her 'the woman of his dreams,'" added the insider. "He's anxious to make Camilla part of his close-knit family."
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Congressman: Muslims 'enemy amongst us'
Democrats' McAuliffe, Islamic leaders call on Bush to repudiate
The Democratic National Committee condemned a congressman who claimed the vast majority of American mosques are run by extremists, "an enemy living amongst us," earning the praise of an Islamic lobby group.
Rep. Peter T. King, R-N.Y., told radio talk host Sean Hannity in an interview Monday no American Muslim leaders are cooperating in the war on terror.
"I would say, you could say that 80-85 percent of mosques in this country are controlled by Islamic fundamentalists," he said. "Those who are in control. The average Muslim, no, they are loyal, but they don't work, they don't come forward, they don't tell the police … ."
DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe called on President Bush yesterday to "condemn this latest example of hate-filled language."
"In the past, President Bush has told Muslim Americans that his administration does not condone bigotry," McAuliffe said. "Muslim Americans are teachers, lawyers, doctors, business owners who have made invaluable contributions to our country."
The Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations has urged King to meet with Muslim representatives.
"We would like to thank DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe for recognizing the positive contributions of American Muslims and rejecting Islamophobic bigotry," said Hasan Mansori, CAIR's governmental affairs coordinator.
King was promoting his new novel, "Vale of Tears," which he described as a "half truth and half fiction" story about future terrorist attacks by Muslim extremists in Nassau County, N.Y.
In the interview with Hannity, King criticized a mosque in Westbury, N.Y., which he accused of failing to adequately condemn terrorism.
Hannity asked King to confirm he was saying 85 percent of mosques in America are "ruled by the extremists."
"Yes," he replied, "and I can get you the documentation on that from experts in the field. Talk to a Steve Emerson, talk to a [Daniel] Pipes, talk to any of those. They will tell you. It's a real issue … . I'll stand by that number of 85 percent. This is an enemy living amongst us."
CAIR and similar Muslim lobby groups regard anti-terrorism specialist Emerson and Pipes, director of the Philadelphia-based think tank Middle East Forum, "as America's leading Islamophobes."
However, in testimony before the U.S. State Department in 1999, Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, affirmed most of the mosques in the U.S. are run by extremists.
"We would like to advise our government, our congressmen, that there is something big going on and people do not understand it," he said. "You have many mosques around the United States … . So the most dangerous things are going on in these mosques that have self appointed leaders throughout the United States. The extremist ideology makes them very active. We can say that they took over 80 per cent of the mosques in the United States … . This means that the ideology of extremism has been spread to the youth and the new generation."
King said while most American Muslims are loyal to this country, "They won't turn in their own. They won't tell what's going on in the mosques. They won't come forward and cooperate with the police."
CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad responded: "It is unconscionable that an elected official would defame America's Islamic leaders and ordinary Muslims, including those in his own district, just to sell a few more books for personal gain."
"President Bush and other political and religious leaders should repudiate these baseless smears and reject the growing exploitation of legitimate fears of terrorism to marginalize an entire community," Awad said.
The Muslim leader insisted he was among the first to condemn the 9-11 terror attacks, and said American Muslim leaders frequently have worked with law enforcement officials on the national, state and local levels.
CAIR has filed a $2 million defamation suit against Rep. Cass Ballenger, charging the congresssman falsely claimed the group raised funds for terrorists and did so "with actual malice, wrongful and willful intent to injure and with reckless disregard for its truth or falsity."
The group is a spin-off of the Islamic Association For Palestine, labeled a "front group" for the terrorist organization Hamas by two former heads of the FBI's counterterrorism section.
Last July, a member of CAIR's national staff, Randall Todd "Ismail" Royer, was among 11 men indicted for conspiring to train on American soil for a "violent jihad." Another CAIR figure, Bassem Khafagi, was arrested in January 2003 while serving as the group's director of community relations. In December, Ghassan Elashi, the founder of CAIR's Texas chapter, was indicted for financial ties to Hamas leader Musa Abu Marzook.
CAIR's leaders also have provided evidence the group has aims beyond civil-rights advocacy.
As WorldNetDaily reported, CAIR's chairman of the board, Omar Ahmad, was cited by a California newspaper in 1998 declaring the Quran should be America's highest authority.
He also was reported to have said Islam is not in America to be equal to any other religion but to be dominant.
Hooper himself indicated in a 1993 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he wants to see the United States become a Muslim country.
"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future," Hooper told the paper. "But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education."


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Congressman John Garamendi (D-Walnut Grove, Calif.), a former insurance commissioner and a life-long rancher, has introduced the bipartisan Flood Insurance for Farmers Act of 2012, H.R. 4020.
The bill addresses a serious problem for farmers who produce crops and raise livestock in floodplains. As the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) continues its studies of the levee systems that protect agricultural land, many of the levees have been downgraded. Until the levees are improved, farmers in many places are unable to build new or upgrade existing agricultural structures necessary to conduct or increase production and business.
The Flood Insurance for Farmers Act would help remedy this situation by allowing farmers to continue to farm, build necessary agricultural structures and provide a solid economic base for their region. The bill would also allow farmers to obtain subsidized flood insurance on existing and new agricultural structures in these zones. Furthermore, the legislation would establish a task force to conduct a study on legacy community flood insurance issues nationwide.
"Many farmers in my Delta community have personally asked me to help fix this problem," said Congressman John Garamendi. "I am proud to take their voice to Washington, so American farmers have the freedom to grow their businesses and grow the products this country needs."
"I genuinely appreciate the work Rep. Garamendi has put into the Flood Insurance for Farmers Act of 2012," said Charley Mathews Jr., a Rice Farmer in Marysville, Calif. "In particular, this legislation addresses many concerns expressed by the California rice industry. As a rice farmer, I am particularly concerned about existing farm structures such as those used for grain storage which have become incredibly expensive to insure. I applaud the work of Representative Garamendi and look forward to collaboratively working to advance this legislation."
Click here for an information packet on the Flood Insurance for Farmers Act, including full text, a section by section summary, and background.


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HRH Princess Haya Al Hussein, a UN Messenger of Peace, took a turn serving bowls of maize and beans to school children in a Nairobi slum on Friday. For many of the kids, this meal was the only food they would receive throughout the day.
NAIROBI -- HRH Princess Haya Al Hussein was moved to tears after she had finished speaking to Elizabeth Wanjira, one of the children she met at the Valley View School in Mathare, a Nairobi slum. Elizabeth told the Princess how her mother struggles daily to feed her at home, and that sometimes the meal she has in school is the only food that she eats in a day.
A United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special interest in nutrition, Princess Haya came to Kenya to visit some of the projects through which WFP gets nutritious food to the hungry poor. She was joined in Mathare by Paul Tergat, the world-beating Kenyan long-distance runner who received WFP school meals as a boy and is now one of WFP's celebrity Ambassadors Against Hunger.
Messenger of Peace
Her Royal Highness Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein of Jordan was made a UN Messenger of Peace in September 2007. She is known for her commitment to humanitarian causes. Learn more.
Through the school meals programme in Kenya, WFP gives one hot meal a day to the poorest children, be they in slums or in arid rural areas. This meal consists mainly of maize, beans, salt and vegetable oil. This is much more than most people in Nairobi's slums can afford.
Biggest slum
Valley View School is on the outskirts of Mathare, one of the capital's biggest slums. To get to it, you have to travel along unpaved roads, surrounded by rubbish. Few people here have running water and electricity.
Princess Haya helped serve school meals to the children, who were delighted at the chance to meet 'a real princess.' Since school feeding started in 2005, the number of students has more than doubled to 867 students.
Princess Haya has long been a supporter of WFP, because hunger is of special concern to Her in Her capacity as a UN Messenger of Peace. She founded the first Arab NGO providing food assistance to poor families in her native country, Jordan.
Food, health, education
"My goal is to persuade political leaders and the public to take the Millennium Development Goals seriously and reach out to poor families like those I met in Mathare. My message is simple: we do not have our priorities straight. Food, health and education must come first, particularly for our children."
As well as visiting the school meals project, Princess Haya also visited Huruma Hospital in the same slum. Despite electricity and water shortages, Huruma hospital still manages to treat patients, in desperate need to medical care.
WFP started distributing food in a new Mother and Child Health project in 2009, because so many pregnant and breast feeding mothers were malnourished when they came to the clinic. Princess Haya helped distribute food to the mothers.


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April 21, 2006
Wabash College alumnus Ryan Smith '03, who suffered a brutal beating while vacationing on the Dutch island of St. Maarten on April 6, is improving with every passing day.
Smith suffered a fractured skull, brain injury, and other injuries when he and a friend, Dick Jefferson, were attacked in what investigators are calling a hate crime. Smith was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida, where he underwent surgery on his brain. Five days after the attack, he was able to walk again and was regaining his ability to communicate.
Smith faces a long recovery from the incident in which he was beaten with a tire iron. The injury to his brain affected his ability to speak and write. He continues to undergo speech and writing therapy in Miami and his improvement has been dramatic in the last week.
He continues to receive notes that Wabash friends are sending him; he is reading them; and he is grateful for all the love and support he has been receiving from the Wabash community.
"Every day people send that stuff, it is amazing," he said. "It has made me try to be better and better and better each and every day. It is so important to me."
The incident has sparked intense media scrutiny because of the St. Maarten police department's failure to investigate the crime, which officials there call "gay bashing." Only after repeated calls from Smith's family, media queries, and calls from CBS and personal attorneys did the island's chief prosecutor become involved. The case is now being investigated by several detectives.
Smith, a political science major and winner of Wabash's top journalism award, attended Columbia University upon graduation, receiving his master's degree in journalism. After completing an internship with David Letterman, Smith landed at the CBS news magazine 48 Hours, where he serves as an advanced researcher and producer. Jefferson, who was with Smith and four others on vacation, is the senior broadcast producer for CBS Evening News Saturday.


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1965 Ford Mustang Fastback - Auto Erotica
Aussie Mark Sullivan is a prolific DIY builder, and his latest '65 fastback takes things to a new level
Mark decided against fitting any stereo gear, instead preferring to listen to the glorious cacophony coming from the Windsor.
In a sea of classically inspired restomod Mustangs and Eleanor clones, Mark Sullivan's '65 Fastback stands out a little more than most. Sullivan has built plenty of cars in his time, including a '69 Pontiac, a Chevy Impala, and a handful of Holdens. And when we say he's built them, we mean he's built them himself—no checkbook builds to be found here!
Situated on a couple of acres down a bumpy old road in a little suburb on the coast between two of Australia's biggest cities, Sullivan's property features an interesting array of garages that resemble something akin to Dr. Who's Tardis. You walk in through the door of what seems like a regular two-car shed, only to continue walking through doors into additional large spaces—all full of projects on the boil, including a VW Beetle awaiting fresh paint, another couple of 1970s Holdens, his father's Mustang Fastback that's awaiting new paint on its roof, and Mark's latest acquisition, a 1960 Cadillac that he's working on now.
It's within the walls of these workshop spaces that Mark creates his own version of automotive perfection, including the process of prepping and painting each vehicle in his own improvised paint booth out back. Apart from engine building and interior trimming, his latest completed project—this two-tone fastback—Sullivan handled all the hard work himself at home.
When you gaze over the images of the PPG Orange and Black '65 here, you start to appreciate just how much work the transformation process must have included. Starting with a pretty clean original specimen, Sullivan says that it only took him around 12 months of after-hours and weekend work to complete the project, which is impressive in anyone's language.
Perhaps the most obvious alterations to Mark's fastback are the deletion of the roof louvers and billet alloy radiator grilles. However, the changes go far deeper than that. Peer past the flawless bodywork and billet details (including the fuel cap and taillight surrounds) and you'll realize that the only way to get the 20x10-inch Intro alloy rims that far under the butt is to tub the car. Poke your head underneath and you'll see all the neat fabrication work Mark completed to further aid the use of the large tires and improve the 49-year-old two-door's handling. Helix coilovers are mounted at all four corners, and a MacDonald Brothers four-link setup helps hold up the rearend, with a 9-inch between the rear wheels using 4.11:1 gears and 31-spline Moser axles.
Eight ceramic-coated black trumpets poke up through the carbon fiber-style vinyl stripes that run the length of the Pony and hint at what lurks beneath. These are bolted to a set of four 48IDF Weber carbs that feed a thirsty 427ci Windsor stroker. Pop the bonnet and you'll find that everything within the bright orange engine bay is also coated in matching crinkle black. No doubt this is thanks to Mark's day job as owner of Procoat, a business that specializes in all kinds of automotive coating services. The result is striking and a world apart from the usual gleaming towers of polished and chromed metal that one sees protruding from a muscle car's engine bay.
That black theme is continued elsewhere on the Mustang, where anything chrome has been coated or painted black, like the bumpers, exterior bright work, and those Intro wheels. One area where Mark deviated from that theme was the interior, where polished billet and sandstone-colored leather keep things nice and bright.
Inside, a pair of Honda buckets live up front, with whatever hasn't been covered in the pale leather painted in the same PPG orange as the exterior. Mark smoothed off the dash, fitting a billet instrument fascia full of Auto Meter gauges. The same design theme runs right through the middle of the coupe thanks to the custom center console that features drink holders and a custom surround for the Quicksilver shifter. The scratched and fingerprint-covered billet steering wheel provides evidence of Mark's willingness to get the car out at every opportunity and cruise.
Indeed, since Sullivan completed the build, he's put more than 1,600 miles on the clock through regular weekend cruising and attending a number of car shows like Sydney's annual MotorEx and shows around his local Central Coast area of New South Wales. Despite the hours the car spends out on the road, Mark decided against fitting any stereo gear, instead preferring to listen to the glorious cacophony coming from the Windsor.
Despite a garage full of cars, Mark says he's not yet ready to part with the Mustang, although he does have an Impala sitting next to it with a fresh big-block crate engine awaiting a new owner. Instead, he's more than happy to continue cruising in the fastback while he rebuilds the Cadillac that's his latest focus. With a stack of trophies on the mantle already, we don't blame Mark for holding onto this one-of-a-kind Pony.
The DetailsMark Sullivan's '65 Mustang Fastback
427ci Dart Windsor block
Scat H-beam rods
Ross forged pistons
Scat forged crank
Bennett Racing custom hydraulic roller cam
Ported Edelbrock aluminum heads
Edelbrock intake manifold
4x48IDE Weber carbs
MDS 6AL ignition
MSD distributor
Sheetmetal rocker covers
Billet breathers
Braided stainless fuel lines
2,800rpm TCE stall
Quicksilver shifter
4.11:1 final drive
31-spline Moser axles
MacDonald Brothers four-link
Pacemaker headers (13⁄4-inch primaries)
Hooker mufflers
2½-inch mild steel dual exhaust
Front: Rack-and-pinion conversion, Helix coilovers
Rear: Helix coilovers
Front: Helix 330mm discs, Helix calipers
Rear: Stock drums
Front: 20x8.5-inch Intro rims powdercoated
Rear: 20x10-inch Intro rims powdercoated
Front: 225/30-20 Kumho
Rear: 255/30-20 Kumho
Sandstone leather trim, Honda front buckets, Intro billet steering wheel, tan carpets, Auto Meter gauges, billet instrument fascia, custom dash fascia, custom center console, billet armrests and window winders, billet foot pedals
PPG orange and black paint, deleted C-pillar louvers, carbon fiber-style vinyl stripes, billet taillight surrounds, billet fuel cap, custom radiator grille


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I thought that was really wierd with Andrew and Brendan during the blackout, but I think it would be to obvious if they were the Sab.....Rachel is too loud and talky....otherwise I did not get too many impressoins. A lot was packed into the show..I reserve judgement....except I do not care for rachel, I guess I am not one of her fans..
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Phillip Phillips' debut album, "The World From the Side of the Moon," is set for a Nov. 19 release, Amazon.com said.
The song "Take Me Away," which Phillips has performed on the radio and another song he has referenced in interviews, "Drive Me," could also be included.
The Leesburg, Ga., native described his sound as "jazz and rock" with some alternative.
Phillips recently wrapped up the American Idol Live! tour last month and performed solo for the Dalai Lama last week, The Hollywood Reporter reported Saturday.