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About 4 years ago I discover this unique home-style restaurant down a little hidden alley, Soi 14, off Sukhumvit Road, in the heart of Bangkok. Since then it has been through a few changes from Suk 1 House Restaurant, a Mexican restaurant to what is now Hemingway's, named after Earnest Hemingway, the American author and journalist.
Now that I'm finally settled back in Bangkok, I decided to drop in once again and met Damian, the GM, and thought this would be a great spot for visitors to Bangkok to know about, enjoy the property and excellent cuisine, so we had a nice chat.
Splash – Hemingway's Restaurant has an interesting history. Can you tell us a little about the property, its great location, and where the concept of calling it Hemingway's came from?
The original house here at Hemingway's was built in 1926. So we took the history of the venue and thought about who summed up the 20's - and Hemingway was pretty high on the list. We used the myth of the man, being an explorer, writer, adventurist and themed the venue around his life, where he lived and the food and drinks he loved so much.
That's how each of the 6 zones of the house have been styled. Downstairs we have the Spanish Garden, because he lived in Spain and fought for democracy in the Spanish civil war, from Cuba where he lived for many years we themed the main bar and outdoor portico called the Habana Bar. And the main dining we called Key West Cafe, is named after his famous Key West home in Florida Keys, only 90 miles from Cuba.
Up stairs on the second floor we styled one of the indoor rooms after a French style apartment called The Hideaway, which sits between a beautiful balcony wrapping around the house offering a second dining space both under the stars or under cover named the Marlin Boulevard after a very famous fishing shelf off the coast of Peru where Hemingway loved to fish. And finally the upstairs bar call the Safari Sports Bar is themed after an African Hunting Lodge because of Hemingway's love of adventure throughout the African continent.
The music at Hemingway's is programmed to reflect the times and styles of the house.
The Key West Café being styled around the 1950's plays a range of music from the 20's and 40's including Swing, Big Bang and Dixie Land Jazz. The Habana Bar, Spanish Garden and Marlin Boulevard echo the sounds of sexy Latino Cuban Music among the wooden bar and lush tropical gardens, while the Safari Sport Bar is place fitting more up-tempo pop classic from the 70's to the naughties (00's).
Splash – Have you done anything to flavor the interior with that period and is there anything that gives visitors the feeling that "Papa" hangs out here? (e.g. his chair in the bar)?
In the Habana Bar downstairs, we have a chair, called Papa's Chair just like the famed El Floridita of Old Havana where Hemingway spent many an evening.
Splash - Can you tell us about your chef, the style of fare and your special entrees.
Our chef is Irish born Wayne Morris. He came to us towards the end of last year (2012) after moving to Thailand with his wife and baby daughter. He spent the last 10 years working in Sydney Australia. A true professional and culinary genius he sourced and selected the best quality and freshest ingredients to ensure everything that Hemingway's kitchen produces is of the best quality and taste.
Splash - Do you have a "papas" special?
The menu has been styled around the foods Hemingway loved to eat and write about as well as from the many countries he spent many years travelling through. To name a few signature dishes we have the Sea Bass with Hemingway's Oyster and Pernod Broth, Steamed Mussels rested on braised lettuce, Pan seared Duck Breast with Duck Rillette and Micro Herb Orange and Mango Salad, and Hanger Steak, ofter called the butcher cut because of it being one the most tasty cuts of beef with only 2 pieces per cow - the butcher would never sell it and keep it for himself.
Splash - You have a great bar, I'm sure you have a nice selection of beers, wine and spirits.
A great selection of beers from around the world, both in bottle and on tap, plus a cider and beer of the week on tap. An amazing Happy Hours deal from 3pm - 7pm with beers and spirits from as little at THB 80.00.
Splash – how about Hemingway's hosting special events? How many you can accommodate?
The top floor of Hemingway's with the Safari Bar, The Hideaway, and the fabulous Marlin Boulevard offer a perfect location for private and corporate events, parties, weddings anything. We've hosted a number of social gatherings from product launched and networking from 20 to over 600 people. We're not restricted to hotel policy or like other venue that have regulated function guidelines. If you have an idea just ask us to tailor something to suit what you're looking for.
Splash – I've enjoyed the Sea Bass with Hemingway's Oyster & Absinthe Broth, Steamed Mussels and Braised Lettuce. The entrée was very well prepared and a nice presentation. The Thai staff is extremely pleasant and makes you feel right at home in Papa's place!
Agneta Bekassy – A Swedish Expat living in Bangkok enjoy lunch at Hemingway's and had this to say…..
"I had a very pleasant experience, discovered the Cuban Restaurant Hemmingway's at Sukhumvit, Soi 14. A beautiful old building with a very cozy restaurant and charming bar. You just expected to see Mr. Hemingway himself in the corner....I enjoyed the La Scala salad, similar to Caesar's Salad, but with some other ingredients, very tasteful. Also tried the house wine Chardonnay, which was served very chilled in nice glasses and tasted "summer". An overall nice lunch. Will, for sure, be back."
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(NEW YORK) -- For many people Memorial Day weekend means finally getting to kick off summer by striking up the barbecue, taking a dip in the ocean or simply basking in the sunshine during a long weekend.
But celebrating the unofficial start of summer also means encountering a few hazards of the season. From sunburns to bug bites or even an ill-cooked hotdog, the summer months have a few perils to contend with.
To help you avoid these pitfalls, we've put together a list of five health hazards for the summer months and how to avoid them.
After a long winter hibernation, it can be tempting to soak up as much sun as possible during a day at the beach or a picnic in the park, but experts warn that even a single sunburn can do lasting damage to the skin.
To enjoy the sun safely, the American Academy of Dermatology recommends using water-resistant, broad-spectrum sunscreen, which protects against UVA and UVB rays, which has an SPF of 30 or higher.
Additionally, experts advise seeking shade from 10a.m. to 2p.m., when the sun's rays are the strongest.
Unfortunately water and sand can amplify the sun's rays, so be extra-careful during trips to the beach. And be sure to reapply sun block every two hours or after taking a dip in the ocean.
If you do get a sunburn, the American Academy of Dermatology recommends taking a cool bath, popping a few aspirin or ibuprofen to help lessen the swelling and redness, and drinking lots of water since a sunburn draws fluid from the body.
Insects that Sting and Bite
One consequence of enjoying the great outdoors is being assailed by various stinging and biting insects that only a beekeeper outfit could keep at bay. While many of these insects are merely a nuisance, for people who are allergic, they pose a clear and even deadly threat to their health. The American College of Allergies, Asthma and Immunology estimates that 2 million Americans are allergic to insect stings. That includes people who are at risk of having a potentially fatal reaction to the venom of certain insects.
More than 500,000 Americans end up in the hospital every year due to insect stings and bites, and they cause at least 50 known deaths a year.
Richard Pollack, a public health entomologist and instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health, says it's imperative for those who are allergic to insect stings to carry around an epi-pen, which can be used to easily inject epinephrine to help ease a severe allergic reaction.
"It does you no good to have it in your medicine cabinet if you're out and about [and get stung]," said Pollack.
In addition to life-threatening reactions from bee or wasp stings, warmer weather also means ticks will be actively looking for a host to feed off. Ticks can carry multiple diseases, including Lyme disease or Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
"If you're going to enjoy the outdoors, even just a backyard barbecue, you run some risk of acquiring a tick," said Pollack. "At the end of the day, do a tick check on yourself, children and even your pets."
To keep insects at bay during the spring and summer months, Pollack recommends using an insect repellent when outdoors and putting screens over your windows to keep out pests such as mosquitoes.
Food Poisoning
While enjoying a picnic or barbecue is one of the great traditions of Memorial Day weekend, getting ill from spoiled potato salad or a rotten deviled egg is one of the worst.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, about 48 million Americans become sick with food poisoning every year. Reactions to spoiled food can result in nausea, vomiting, fever or diarrhea.
To avoid any dietary mishaps this holiday, the CDC recommends that foods prone to spoiling not be kept unrefrigerated for more than two hours, one hour in extremely hot weather, and that meat is cooked to the proper temperature.
The United States Department of Agriculture even has a website dedicated to grilling safely, which explains the correct temperature for all your favorite summer meals. Hot dogs, for example, need to be cooked to 165 degrees Fahrenheit or until steaming hot. The CDC recommends that whole meats be cooked to a temperature of at least 145 degrees Fahrenheit; ground meats cooked to 160; and poultry, 165.
Poison ivy
A hiking trip can be a great way to celebrate the long holiday weekend, but one brush with poison ivy and a fun holiday excursion can turn excruciating.
While many people know to avoid poison ivy's infamous "leaves of three," the American Academy of Family Physicians says if people accidently swipe the plant they can quickly wash the skin with soap and water to help minimize effects. The oily sap of the plant contains urushiol, which bonds to the skin after a few minutes of contact and over the next few days will result in an itchy-blistered rash.
If you end up one of the unfortunate ones who didn't spot the plant in time, you can use one of the recommended over-the-counter medications such as a hydrocortisone cream, Calamine lotion, an antihistamine or an oatmeal bath to ease the symptoms.
Pollen Allergies
For those with pollen allergies, spending Memorial Day outdoors can mean suffering through a host of unpleasant allergy symptoms from sneezing to itchy watery eyes. In some states the summer grass season is already gearing up before the spring tree pollen season has fully ended. Anyone allergic to both kinds of pollen should consider staying inside for the long weekend.
However, Dr. Andy Nish, a Georgia-based allergist and fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, says people should try to avoid being out in the mornings if they have particularly bad reactions to grass pollen since the pollen count is usually highest during the early hours. Additionally, anyone who has allergies and is attending a barbecue may want to stay away from the grill.
"We know that other things [like smoke] can prime the nose and make it more sensitive to allergies," said Nish. "It can make [people] have a double whammy."
In addition to taking nasal steroids or over-the-counter medications, there are other steps allergy sufferers can take to lessen their symptoms. Nish recommends that people who are allergic to pollen change their clothes and take a shower when they get home so that the pollen isn't tracked indoors.
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World War II veteran finally gets his diploma
Students thought of way to honor him
Thu., May 23, 2013
BOISE – World history conspired to keep George Jones from getting his high school diploma.
Bailey Jo Bartlome and other Kuna High seniors conspired to make sure he got it.
Jones, now 88, went from a farm to the Pacific theater and into banking.
Bartlome, 18, met Jones at a school veterans celebration last fall. She was so moved by his life and story that she worked with her fellow 250 seniors to include Jones at graduation ceremonies, complete with cap and gown.
"What he went through is amazing," said Bartlome, who will attend College of Southern Idaho on a full rodeo scholarship next fall. "This is going to be awesome. I cannot wait."
Jones was a sophomore at Kuna High School in 1941. He was quarterback of the Kaveman football team, wearing No. 12. In those days, the team didn't have enough players for separate squads for defense and offense. So when the other team got the ball, Jones played linebacker.
Then the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Jones left school to go to Boise and join the military. But at 17, he was too young and the military wouldn't take him.
So he went to work for Morrison Knudsen, the global construction company headquartered in Boise. He built underground fuel storage tanks in Hawaii.
He came back to Kuna High for a while. When he turned 18, he joined the Army, volunteering as a paratrooper.
After an injury in training knocked him out of jumping from planes, he was sent to the infantry – and back to Hawaii.
There he was assigned to a ship outfitted with three 4.2-inch mortars and sent into combat to lob shells from the water over the heads of advancing infantry troops.
He was at Leyte in the fight that led to Allied forces reclaiming the Philippines. He went on to Luzon, also in the Philippines, in January 1945.
At the start of the battle of Okinawa, the morning of Easter in April 1945, he was shelling the island as thousands of American forces made their way to the beach.
Ahead of him were Americans. Around him were naval vessels taking hits from kamikaze pilots.
"They weren't after us," he said. "We were too small."
A suicidal pilot smashed into a cruiser 200 yards away. "I cried and cussed," Jones said. But he came away without a scratch.
He was on his way to join the invasion force for Japan when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending the war with Japan.
Back home in Boise at age 22, Jones enrolled in Franklin High School.
He met a girl, got married, had a job and wanted a family. He left Franklin after six months.
Jones was a messenger for Idaho First National Bank.
"I got on a bike and rode around town taking bum checks back to merchants," he said.
Except for a couple of detours, Jones spent much of his life in banking, moving into branch management before working as a courier in Idaho.
In 2012, Jones went on an Honor Flight, in which pilots take veterans to see the World War II monument in Washington, D.C. On that visit, he received a flag that had flown over the U.S. Capitol.
He decided to give it to his old high school, in memory of two fellow football players who had died in World War II.
And that brought Jones to a Kuna High School assembly last fall, where Bartlome sat with the rest of her class.
Jones talked to the students about his war experience. Even though seven decades separated the speaker and his audience, he reminded them: "Once a Kaveman, always a Kaveman."
"We were all just sitting there crying," Bartlome said. "We were so amazed."
Immediately after the assembly, she talked with the government teacher about a way to honor Jones. She brought the senior class together to ask them what they thought of inviting Jones to graduate with them. They loved it.
Today, Jones will get an honorary Kuna High diploma. Under his black robe and mortarboard with a gold tassel – Kuna High's colors – he'll be wearing a No. 12 jersey.
Jones will lead his classmates in the traditional switching of the tassel, signifying the change from life as a student to life as a graduate.
"It is awesome," Jones said. "As far as I am concerned, the story is what these kids are doing."
Bartlome said, "This is going to make the class of 2013 Kuna High School graduation better than anybody's ever."
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Mention "Jungle Pam" around the HOT ROD offices and all the guys get a little dreamy and distracted. Pam toured the country with drag racing's wild child, "Jungle" Jim Liberman, backing up his fuel Funny Cars and putting the "hot" in hot pants. In drag racing's nitro-fueled '70s circus, Pam was the gal in a tutu riding the elephant and she turned the mundane act of backing up five feet into a show equal to, and sometimes better than, the race itself. As the decade crested the hill toward the '80s, drag racing began to have more rules and less space for showmen. The nomadic party lifestyle took its toll on Pam and Jungle's relationship and they eventually parted ways. Jungle continued racing, but the increasing costs of competing and shrinking opportunities for lucrative match races pushed drag racing further from fire burnouts and halter tops and closer to the more corporate format we know today. It just wasn't Jungle's bag, man. Jungle Jim died in 1977 when his Corvette hit a bus one miserable morning. He was 31. Pam currently runs a Facebook page and website dedicated to remembering when "Drag Racing was Far Out." See more at JunglePam.com.
HRM] How did you meet Jungle Jim?
JP] On a splendid May afternoon in 1972, I decided to walk into town. It was a couple of weeks shy of high school graduation. I noticed a Corvette slowly drive by. A minute later that Vette came by again, pulled up to the curb, and parked. The young man driving exited the car, smiled broadly, and cheerily says to me, "Hi, I'm Jim."
HRM] What made you go on the road with him?
JP] There wasn't anything to keep me from leaving that sleepy burg [West Chester, Pennsylvania]. I graduated high school, ditched the college that had accepted me, and drove my mother nuts as I hit the road with Jim.
HRM] Who first had the idea for you to back up the car?
JP] Jungle had an epiphany. Sex and speed sells! His number one at the time was Pete White, a savvy, patient soul. Pete put up with Jungle's idea and taught me how to back up a Funny Car. I wasn't a natural, so I took to standing behind the car for back-ups. A couple of months later, Pete moved on and I moved up front.
HRM] You did a little more than just back it up, right?
JP] I also filled the block with water and eight quarts of 70W, and packed 'chutes after each run.
HRM] Was that a common thing back then, to have a wife or girlfriend wrench on the car?
JP] I recall that Shirl Greer had his wife working on the clutch and on the line.
HRM] What was Jungle's opinion of the NHRA?
JP] Apples and oranges. Jungle saw NHRA as opportunists. Back in the day, you could make as many NHRA qualifying runs as you wanted. You could blow up everything you owned trying to qualify for a race, which benefited the spectators. And there was no qualifying money and precious little round/win money.
HRM] How did match racing differ from NHRA events?
JP] Match races were contracts between owner/drivers and track owners/promoters. You were paid for three runs, win or lose. Of course, some people could command more payout than others. The track owners, with a couple of exceptions, were up front. Sure, each one wanted to cut your pay for a light turnout or a poor performance, but basically a contract was honored if you were wanted back.
HRM] Did you ever drive the truck? Did you ever want to drive the car?
JP] Hell no, and hell no. Those things could blow up and catch fire.
HRM] Were there any particular drivers that you and Jungle liked, or feared, or hated?
JP] Drag racers are a fairly close fraternity. Most everyone got along. Oh sure, words were exchanged and punches thrown, but the real drama involved cheating spouses and monies owed.
HRM] What was your relationship with other women in the sport?
JP] Jungle introduced me to Shirley [Muldowney] the very first day. She and her crew were staying over at Jungle's at the time. She was kind and cordial. Jungle liked her, admired her toughness. Paula Murphy was fun to be around. She was also a determined racer.
HRM] Did you have any competition with the Hurst girls, or was that all friendly too?
JP] Competition? You mean like a foot race? Linda and her Hurstettes were all sweet ladies. They had their "shtick" and we had ours. It was air-conditioned perfection versus sweat and work. It was a carny type of life and all acts were welcome.
I drove my mother nuts as I hit the road with Jim.
HRM] Tell us something crazy that happened off-track.
JP] We took the Funny Car for a spin on a roundy-round dirt track in Binghamton, New York. Jungle had a wild hair up his ass and went to the track promoter/owner with his offer to idle around the track for a few dollars. The headers had a bit of a tough time with the track surface, but the owner, spectators, and Jungle were happy. That was a one-off. Contrary to many imaginations, Jungle did not do burnouts out in front of the house.
HRM] How often were the match race results decided ahead of time between the drivers?
JP] Match races were played out in a straightforward manner. First one to the light wins. The two low e.t.'s would race for the event win—simple and elegant. A match race with only two cars booked in would have each competitor winning a round and running all out the third round. Ace [Ed McCulloch] and Jungle ran a track that was so dangerous that we each won a round and flipped a coin for the win. Ed took that race as I recall.
HRM] What do you think Jungle would think of contemporary racing?
JP] I suppose that would have depended which side of a sponsorship dollar he was on. I was taught early on to keep National HRA at arm's length.
HRM] Do you think there was a drug/alcohol problem in racing in the '70s?
JP] Excess was the norm in the '70s. The match-race circuit was "Boogie Nights" on nitromethane. Everyone was still in their 20s. Show me a bunch of 20-somethings in any given year and I'll show you drugs and alcohol being used/abused.
HRM] What is your relationship to racing today?
JP] I currently enjoy drag racing at the grassroots level. My husband, Bill Hodgson, helps tune a Nostalgia Funny Car, the Excalibur Corvette owned and driven by George Reidnauer. I am also proud to be involved with "Auto World Legends of the Quarter Mile Drag Race Set."
Nearly every recollection you'll hear about Jungle Jim refers to him as a master showman, but he wasn't the first to mix a bit of show business with motorsports.
Because driving a car or motorcycle on a vertical wooden surface isn't impressive enough, "wall of death" drivers in the '20s decided to bump it up a notch by adding lions. Fearless Egbert was just one of several stunt drivers/racers famous for driving around a board track with a full grown jungle cat in the driver seat. Look it up, you won't be sorry.
Race-car Monkey:
More jungle connections! NASCAR racer Tim Flock raced with a rhesus monkey named Jocko Flocko. Jocko had a special little perch and rode to victory at a Grand National race in 1953. A few races later, he got loose in the car and forced Flock to make an unscheduled pit stop, costing him several spots. That was the end of Jocko's career.
"TV" Tommy:
No discussion of showmanship in motorsports would be complete without a mention of "TV" Tommy Ivo. From his glass-sided trailers to his multi-engine dragsters, Ivo was a popular draw at the track, and even his crashes—backward, 240 mph, upside-down, on fire—were the stuff of legends.


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The NSW capital boasts one of the world's most famous waterfronts – and the coastal lifestyle and temperate climate attract people from all over the world.
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By Lisa Myers and Diane Beasley
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Rosie and Ken are 30-year-old chimpanzees who've never known a day of freedom. They were born in research labs and have spent almost their entire lives being experimented on by scientists in search of cures for human diseases.
These two chimpanzees have been infected with viruses, darted, and sedated more than 100 times, and put through dozens of sometimes painful procedures. For years, Rosie repeatedly was given a drug that caused her seizures.
Today, these aging chimps are living in large enclosures called primadomes at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio, available to be used for still more experiments. When Rosie and Ken and a dozen other chimps were shipped to the lab, in 2010, after a 10-year hiatus from invasive testing, it provoked a public outcry.
Chimpanzee 'Ken' in his enclosure.
We met Rosie and Ken not long ago, when, after months of negotiation, Texas Biomed gave NBC News unprecedented access to the highly secretive world of primate research.
Dr. Robert Lanford, who has experimented on chimps for 27 years, said he wants the public to see what it's like at his research lab today. "The American people has had the wrong opinion that these animals are in little bitty cages in a dark room with no windows," he said. "I want them to see who we are and how we take care of the animals and why we're doing it."
Dr. John VandeBerg, director of the primate research center, says chimpanzees here are treated "with the utmost of reverence," and have a "high quality of life."
But that quality of life is a matter of intense debate and part of the emotional argument over whether experimenting on chimps is morally and scientifically justified to save human lives. Also at issue: When is enough enough? When do chimps who've given much in the name of science get to retire to the relative freedom of a sanctuary?
One reason chimpanzee research is so controversial is that these amazing creatures share 98 percent of our DNA and have many human traits, including emotions ranging from joy to sadness and fear.
"Remember we're talking about our closest living relatives with brains so sophisticated that they can do a lot of problems on a computer with a touchpad, faster than secondary school students. That's how bright they are," said famed anthropologist and primatologist Jane Goodall in an interview with NBC News.
Dr. Goodall has worked tirelessly for decades to improve the lives of lab chimps and to persuade scientists and the government that this research should be banned.
"All invasive research is torture," Goodall says. "And it's not just the procedures. It's the imprisonment. It's being kept in a small space with no choice. You just are there. You're powerless."
Over the four days our team spent at Texas Biomed, our cameras were required to shoot from a "safe zone," since many of the chimps, like Ken and Rosie, are infected with viruses such as Hepatitis C and HIV. So to get close-ups of the chimps, we built special equipment to attach small cameras to the cages. At first, the chimps tried to remove them — and then, were fascinated by seeing their own reflections in the camera lens.
We saw three different types of housing where the chimps live, enrichment which involves activities to keep them engaged, and their interaction with behaviorists. We observed how the chimpanzees are trained to voluntarily present their own body parts to receive shots. We also were allowed to watch one of Lanford's experiments in which a chimp who'd been infected with the Hepatitis C virus was sedated and then bled. Lanford has been working to find a vaccine for over a decade.
Testing on chimps has saved lives in the past: it helped produce the Hepatitis B vaccine which is now given to children at birth.
But scientists disagree about whether chimps are needed to find a cure for Hepatitis C. Lanford says testing on chimps will save human lives. Chimps are crucial, he says, because they're the only animals that can be infected with the virus. Unlike humans, they don't develop liver disease.
Scientists here also argue that they provide a quality of life for chimpanzees which is just as good as a sanctuary, and that instead of being retired, chimps like Rosie and Ken should live out their days in the labs, in case they are needed for research in the future.
"I think of the chimpanzees in the same way that I think of a library. There are many books in the library that will never be used this year or next year," VandeBerg says. "Many of them might never be used again. But we don't know which ones will be needed tomorrow, next year or the year after."
Anthropologist and primatologist Jane Goodall.
Goodall says that's a terrible idea. "Most of them are just stockpiled. Most of them are not being used. They're just there in case maybe one day we might want to use them again," she said. "I definitely think at a certain point, they deserve to be freed from this kind of life of servitude."
Whether a chimp gets to retire is entirely up to the labs and the government. There is no ethical standard or uniform criteria.
According to Goodall, "the tragedy is that some of the chimps in the labs know nothing else. They have never tasted any kind of freedom in their lives. Freedom to choose, freedom to go where they want."
To see what life looks like for lab chimps lucky enough to be deemed no longer needed for research, we spent two days at the National Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Shreveport, Louisiana. It's aptly known as "Chimp Haven."
In the back woods of Louisiana, for the first time in most of their lives, the chimps can walk on grass, swing in the trees ... and forage in the forest.
Dr. Linda Brent founded Chimp Haven, after spending 16 years as a behaviorist at Texas Biomed. "Everything we do here, from the way the facility was built to the things we give to the chimpanzees and the way we manage the facility, every decision we make is for the welfare of the chimpanzees," she says.
Additional Resources: For more information on the National Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Chimp Haven, click here. For more information on the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, click here. For more information on Jane Goodall's work and the Jane Goodall Institute, click here. To learn about a group of lab chimpanzees that Goodall helped get placed in the Fauna sanctuary outside of Montreal, Canada, click here. To learn more about the Great Ape Protection Act that Goodall is working to pass, click here.


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Entertainment Industry Propaganda Organization Kicks Off Hilarious Astroturf Letter Writing Campaign
from the good-luck-with-that,-pat deptThe "Copyright Alliance" is a propaganda organization put together by the entertainment industry, pretending to focus on "the rights of creators," but which has always been focused on strengthening the monopolies of the middlemen (the same folks who quite frequently screw over the creators). Recently, the Copyright Alliance came out with its latest astroturfing attempt, with an automatic letter generator that will pop out cloned letters that the Copyright Alliance itself will send to President Obama and Vice President Biden. The tone of the letter is rather silly, as it seems to suggest that Obama and Biden haven't been supporting the entertainment industry's position all along -- and that there's some huge legislative movement afoot to wipe out artists' rights. It is, as William Patry notes, yet another attempt by the entertainment industry to create a folk devil and a moral panic in an attempt to further prop up its business model. Patry, not surprisingly, takes little time ripping the letter to shreds:
It is very hard not to laugh in the face of such ugliness and to wonder where the reason is in such dysfunctional nonsense, but what came to my mind was Helen Reddy's 1972 anthem, which began: "I am woman, hear me roar/In numbers too big to ignore." The moral panic in the Alliance's letter is that the very essence of what makes America America is threatened by evil forces that supposedly have launched an assault demanding that Helen Reddy and her 11 million colleagues give their works away for free, that the evil doers be permitted to have their way with the vestal virgins of America's copyright sweethearts. This is of course complete baloney. Name one piece of pending legislation that would accomplish what the Alliance claims. Name one lawsuit currently pending that would accomplish what the Alliance claims. There are none.Indeed. At first, I had considered setting up our own "letter generator" in response, highlighting the problems of stricter copyright law, the vast and ever growing evidence of how copyright law is misused by the very organizations that back the Copyright Alliance to prop up obsolete business models rather than innovate. On top of that, such a letter would highlight all of the creative content creators who have been embracing new technologies for creating, promoting and distributing content along with embracing new business models and finding that they work better than the old models.
But, honestly, I'd like to believe that our President and Vice President aren't swayed by a bunch of form letters from an industry propagandist, and that, instead, people would be inspired to write their own letters highlighting the creativity that new technology has allowed -- and how some legacy industries have repeatedly abused copyright law to stifle such innovation and creativity many times over. Luckily, Jonathan Melber has a nice prototype of just such an open letter, where he highlights our cultural heritage, and how content creators regularly build on the works of others in creating something new and wonderful -- but how that tradition is often blocked by an industry that doesn't like outsiders trying to route around its control.
Separately, the Copyright Alliance should be ashamed of itself for blatantly lying with statistics. It tries to claim the right to speak for $1.52 trillion of the nation's GDP. This is pure farce. It's based on a study done by (you guessed it) the industry itself in the form of the International Intellectual Property Alliance, which is yet another propaganda/lobbying organization made up of the other lobbying/propaganda groups representing different industries: including the MPAA, the RIAA, the BSA and the ESA among others. In other words, hardly an unbiased source.
The methodology of the study is pretty laughable. It's based on WIPO's stated methodology, which is basically "count absolutely everything that even remotely touches on copyright" and then assume that every bit of that revenue is because of strong copyright laws. Hell, by the methodology used in the report, all of the revenue we earn here -- despite all the content on this site being public domain -- gets credited to "the copyright industry." It's such a typical DC-insider move: use totally bogus stats to bolster a weak argument. But that's the game that the Copyright Alliance has played since its inception. Just defining all those industries as "copyright industries" is misleading, because it implies that their revenue is due to copyright. But it's much worse than that. Companies that make furniture or jewelry are specifically listed as being a part of "the copyright industry" for purposes of this calculation. Yes, because without copyright, no one would be making furniture, right?
Even more amusing -- that same report shows continued and strong growth in what it defines as the copyright industries. So much for that massive attack destroying American society, huh? And this highlights the intellectual dishonesty of the Copyright Alliance and its backers. For the sake of making themselves look "big" they have to throw everything and the kitchen sink into their estimates and show that it's "growing." But for the sake of demonizing anyone who might seek to stop abuse of copyright laws, they have to claim that those industries are under constant attack, even as they grow to record levels. Propaganda at its finest.
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|Alain Vigneault was named head coach of the Rangers on June 21, 2013. A three-time Jack Adams Award finalist, and the 2007 winner of the award presented to the NHL's top coach, Vigneault joins the Rangers after spending the past seven seasons guiding the Vancouver Canucks to much success. Vigneault coached the Canucks to a pair of President's Trophies---in 2010-11 and 2011-12---six Northwest Division titles, five seasons with 100 or more points, and an appearance in the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals, where Vancouver lost in seven games to the Boston Bruins.
Vigneault is Vancouver's all-time leader in coaching victories with 313, and he has amassed a career coaching record of 422-288-35-61 in 806 games over all or parts of eleven seasons with the Canucks and Montreal Canadiens.
"I think we got the right guy," said Rangers president and general manager Glen Sather, who also confirmed that he had interviewed two candidates in person and four others on the phone before deciding to hire Vigneault. "I think in picking any coach it's got to be a gut feeling, whether or not you and he can get along, whether his ideas mesh with everyone's in the organization, make sure he has the right attitude. So, yeah, I think we have the right guy."
|After being a successful head coach in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League---where, among others, he coached current Rangers goalie Martin Biron for parts of two seasons in Beauport---and as an assistant with the Ottawa Senators, Vigneault earned his first NHL head coaching job with the Canadiens in 1997-98. Vigneault led the Canadiens to the second round of the playoffs that season, before missing out on the post-season the next two years---although he still earned a Jack Adams nomination for his outstanding work in 1999-2000.
After being relieved of his duties by Montreal 20 games into the 2000-01 campaign, Vigneault coached once again in the QMJHL and then in the minor leagues for Vancouver before becoming the Canucks head coach prior to the 2006-07 season. Excluding the lockout-shortened 48-game season in 2013, Vigneault's Canucks teams never failed to win fewer than 39 games in a single season. His most successful season behind the bench in Vancouver was 2010-11 when the Canucks won 54 games, totaled 117 points, captured the Presidents Trophy as the top team in the league over the regular season, and then fell just one victory shy of winning the Stanley Cup.


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UNITED NATIONS - Syria's foreign minister claimed Monday that his government is fighting a war against al-Qaida-linked militants who eat human hearts and dismember people while they are still alive, then send their limbs to family members.
Walid al-Moallem, addressing world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, also charged that the U.S., Britain and France had blocked the naming of the real perpetrators of chemical weapons attacks in Syria, which he blamed on the opposition.
He claimed "terrorists" fighting the regime in the civil war are being supplied with chemical weapons, but he did not name specific nations accused of supplying them.
President Barack Obama told the same forum last week that it was the President Bashar Assad's regime that was behind a chemical weapons attack in August that killed hundreds in the Damascus suburbs and brought threats of a retaliatory U.S. strike.
Syria subsequently committed to getting rid of its stockpiles of chemical weapons and the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Friday to oblige it to do so based on a plan made by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
Al-Moallem claimed that it is clear to all that offshoots of al-Qaida - "the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world" - is fighting in the Syrian civil war. But some countries refuse to recognize it, he charged.
"The scenes of murder, manslaughter and eating human hearts were shown on TV screens, but did not touch blind consciences," al-Moallem said.
"There are innocent civilians whose heads are put on the grill just because they violate the extremist ideology and deviant views of al-Qaida. In Syria ... there are murderers who dismember human bodies into pieces while still alive and send their limbs to their families, just because those citizens are defending a unified and secular Syria."
A video published online in May purported to show a member of Syria's armed opposition eating a human heart while the body of a Syrian soldier lay close by. The video drew condemnation from human rights groups as well as the Syrian National Coalition, one of the main opposition groups.
Another video the minister referred to purportedly showed rebels grilling the head of a Syrian soldier.
As rebels gain more territory and a multitude of militias, jihadists and criminals join the fight against Assad, reports of serious human rights abuses committed by armed opposition elements are on the rise.
Summary executions committed by rebel forces - albeit on a far smaller scale than the regime's alleged atrocities - have put the West in a difficult position as it seeks to arm, train and otherwise aid the rebels.
Al-Moallem said his government was committed to a political solution to the conflict, which he called a war against "terror" and not a civil war as the international community has been referring to it for months. He added that "terrorists" from 83 countries are operating in Syria.
The Syrian regime has long referred to the entire opposition rising up against Assad as "terrorists."
"Our commitment to a political solution does not mean watching our mosques and churches destroyed, as is happening in Homs and Aleppo, and is happening now in the town of Maaloula, the only place in the world whose people still speak the language of Jesus Christ."
The al-Qaida-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, or Nusra Front, carried out an armed attack on Maaloula in western Syria earlier this month. Rebels from the Western-backed Free Syrian Army also fought government forces on the outskirts of the town, home to around 2,000 mostly Christian residents.
The Assad family relied on the support of religious and ethnic minorities in its tight control of Syria for the four decades preceding the civil war. Some minorities, particularly Christians and members of Assad's Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, have been the target of violent attacks during the war.
Alawites are a minority in Syria while the opposition is dominated by the majority Sunni sect.
Al-Moallem said armed Islamist groups in Syria are using "perverted concepts of religion that have nothing to do with Islam."
The Syrian foreign minister also touched on regional issues drawing attention to his government's call a decade ago to making the Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction.
"Syria stresses that establishing a free zone of weapons of mass destruction in the region is unachievable without the accession of Israel, the only nuclear power in the region, to all treaties banning such weapons," he said.
Israel does not deny or confirm that it has nuclear weapons though it is widely believed to possess them. Israel has also not ratified the world convention banning chemical weapons.


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Wales 8-9 France, Rugby World Cup Semi-Final, October 15, 2011
Welsh complaints will fall on deaf ears
Graham Jenkins at Eden Park
October 15, 2011
Wales' Sam Warbuton sends France's Vincent Clerc crashing to the turf during their clash at Eden Park © Getty Images
Despite their admirable courage, Wales' Rugby World Cup dream faded in agonising circumstances on Saturday against a France side seemingly unworthy of a chance to play for the sport's biggest prize.
Billed as one of the game's rising stars and a hugely influential part of Wales' arsenal coming into the game, skipper Sam Warburton will hog the headlines for all the wrong reasons as a result of the red card that turned this game on its head, just as he upended France's Vincent Clerc before getting his marching orders from referee Alain Rolland.
So clear is the International Rugby Board (IRB) stance on 'dangerous tackles' that he has little reason for complaint. Determined to rid the game of one of its uglier elements, the governing body have issued repeated directives on the subject that offer little room for movement. The three options open to referees "when a tackler horizontally lifts a player off the ground" are as follows:
A. The player is lifted and then forced or 'speared" into the ground. A red card should be issued for this type of tackle
B. The lifted player is dropped to the ground from a height with no regard to the player's safety. A red card should be issued for this type of tackle.
C. For all other types of dangerous lifting tackle it may be considered a penalty or yellow card is sufficient.
While no-one is suggesting Warburton speared Clerc into the ground in a malicious attack on his relatively slight rival, there can be little doubt that the Frenchman's safety was jeopardised by the tackle even if there was no intent. The IRB are also keen to stress that "any player who puts a player in the air or caused a player to be put in the air has a responsibility to ensure that the player is brought to the ground safely". Warburton didn't and has paid the price.
Some may well point to the case of France's Fabrice Estabanez, who only saw yellow for a tip tackle during his side's defeat to Tonga, but he was subsequently suspended for three games when the judicial officer ruled that referee Steve Walsh has got that decision wrong. It appears that the law is not in question, it is the application, which is nothing new for the IRB or referees boss Paddy O'Brien. There is always a grey area on such matters and maybe a more lenient and not so hasty decision by Rolland would have resulted in a better contest but that is a dangerous road to venture down.
Warburton himself was clearly in shock as he sat on the sidelines and he will lose some sleep as reality sets in. As captain and player he has set a superb example both on and off the field throughout the last few weeks, and it is disappointing that an otherwise outstanding tournament ends on such a reckless note. His anointment as one of the game's best players may have been a little premature but rest assured the recently-turned 23-year-old will learn from this painful experience and will be an even better player for it.
Even though they were reduced to 14-men with just 17 minutes gone there was never any fear of France running away with this contest. Wales are a formidable unit and their superior fitness and France's attacking impotence ensured that they game was in the balance until the final whistle. That was largely down to the efforts of centre Jamie Roberts, No.8 Toby Faletau and scrum-half Mike Phillips, who did not take a backward step all night. On reflection, the absence of injured fly-half Rhys Priestland disrupted their flow, with neither James Hook or replacement Stephen Jones able to dictate proceedings with the former's kicking another contributing factor to their defeat.
The major positive for Wales is the reason coach Warren Gatland is already signed up to steer the side into the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England - they have time on their side. While one or two may not grace the stage again, a whole host of these players will, fitness and form allowing, be looking to go one better than this time.
It is almost unbelievable that this French side will contest the Final. A mauling at the hands of the All Blacks in the Pool stages dented their hopes and belief, and led to reports of disquiet among the players. There was further woe around the corner as Tonga inflicted a highly-embarrassing defeat and coach Marc Lievremont's relationship with the French media descended from bad to worse. Somehow they rediscovered a tiny semblance of form to account for a fragile England side in the quarter-finals.
That was it we thought, France rarely produce back-to-back performances of note, especially on the World Cup stage, and we were right. But unfortunately for Wales, a painfully uninspiring display offering conviction but little flair was just enough to see of a rival who had been stripped of the services of its talisman before he had been given a chance to work up a sweat.
At times it appeared that France did not want to win this game and were doing all they could to encourage Wales to snatch it from them. Happy to kick ball away time and time again, they refused to gamble in attack. They only held a one-point lead going into the final quarter but that was enough for them to shut down the limited creative output they had mustered to that point. And while some border on the work shy, others offer refuse to coast along with flanker Julien Bonnaire's industry a huge plus for the side.
There remains hope for France with fly-half Morgan Parra able to find time and space in a Wales defence that had offered little of either coming into this game and the boot of Dimitri Yachvili was another get-out-of-jail card played several times. But in this form you really fear for them whoever they face in the tournament finale such is the threat posed by both the All Blacks and the Wallabies - a third final defeat looks inevitable. A 'battle of the hemispheres' draw in the knock out stages but something went wrong along the way as France are not, whatever this result suggests, the best Europe has to offer.
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An intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance unmanned air vehicle is one of the more obvious applications of stealth. ISR aircraft do not have to be agile or supersonic, two expensive complicating factors for stealth technology. Stealth is one of the few ways for UAVs, which mostly cannot detect threats reliably, let alone shoot back, to survive in denied or contested airspace
There is a double bonus if the mission can be accomplished undetected, since intelligence will be untainted by camouflage or deception. It is surprising that the U.S. has only known active stealth ISR UAV programs, one of them industry-funded.
Equally odd, given the importance of the Pacific theater and the stress being placed on a future long-range strike (LRS) family of systems, is the lack of visible activity surrounding the LRS-B bomber, the centerpiece of the group.
The solution to both puzzles lies in the black world. What follows is an account of developments in the black ISR and strike realms in the past decade, and how they relate to the trajectory of white-world programs. Most sources cannot be identified.
Stealth technology for aircraft mostly originated for the most part in the ISR world, including early and unsuccessful attempts to make the U-2 stealthy: the Lockheed and General Dynamics finalists in the competition that led to the Lockheed A-12 Blackbird and the AQM-91 Compass Arrow UAV. The second wave of stealth development in the 1970s included the Northrop Tacit Blue surveillance aircraft.
In 1983, with all attention on the Soviet Union, Lockheed and Boeing were selected to co-develop the Advanced Airborne Reconnaissance System (AARS) and code-named Quartz, designed to loiter in Soviet airspace and track down mobile missile launchers. Vast, expensive and dogged by competing requirements from the CIA and National Reconnaissance Office, Quartz had not flown by the end of the Cold War and was canceled in 1992.
Its shape may well have survived in the form of the RQ-3A DarkStar, also a Lockheed-Boeing project, which materialized with deeply suspicious speed as part of a UAV strategy hatched in 1994. If DarkStar originated as a subscale testbed for Quartz, that would account for its rapid appearance. Unveiled in mid-1995, DarkStar crashed on its second flight the following year. The program was finally canceled in 1999, because the U.S. Air Force could not afford both it and Global Hawk.
An April 2001 collision between a U.S. Navy EP-3E signals intelligence aircraft and a Chinese fighter revived interest in a high-altitude, long-endurance UAV. Various designs were considered, including a V-tailed Lockheed Martin concept called Distant Star (or Penetrating High Altitude Endurance), but great things were expected (at the time) from high-resolution, space-based radar. Consequently, expectations were scaled back, and in late 2001 or early 2002 Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract for a simpler, medium-altitude tactical stealth UAV, which became the RQ-170 Sentinel.
Another late-1990s development that has been significant in terms of current programs was the emergence of the unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) concept. In 1999, Boeing won a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) to build two X-45A UCAV demonstrators, which were tested in 2002-06.
In the heady transformational days of the Donald Rumsfeld-led Pentagon, the UCAV gathered momentum quickly. By 2002, the Navy was looking at an operational vehicle. By 2003, the UCAV project had become Darpa's Joint Unmanned Combat Air System (J-UCAS) and the first wing was expected in Air Force service in 2010. However, powerful forces were threatening to blow J-UCAS apart.
The Air Force wanted a bigger vehicle than an aircraft carrier could accommodate, on the grounds that persistence was a key advantage of the UCAV over a piloted aircraft. Northrop Grumman responded with successively larger versions of its X-47C design, ending up with two engines and a 172-ft. wingspan.
A further change took place in 2003, as the Air Force defined its J-UCAS as a "Global Strike Enabler." The service built the UCAV's role around its ability to "go deep and persist," flying into heavily defended airspace and remaining there long enough for manned strike aircraft to fly in, complete their missions and leave. This would be made possible by the UCAV's stealth, range and endurance—the service was looking for 2-hr. endurance combined with a 1,000-nm unrefueled radius.
Because it was difficult to carry enough kinetic weapons for 2 hr. of defense suppression, the Air Force was particularly interested in airborne electronic attack (AEA) and information warfare systems. The stealthy UCAV would be able to approach closer to an emitter than a manned aircraft and jam it effectively with less power. One Air Force officer noted at the time that the service was "examining various ways to use [information warfare] attack to cause an integrated air defense system to implode on itself." Information warfare, he added, was "the great equalizer against integrated threats, because it forces them to operate autonomously." Weapons would include up to eight Small Diameter Bombs (SDB).
Along with ISR requirements and the UCAV project, a third influence on what is happening today was the Air Force Research Laboratory's Sensor Craft program, started in the late 1990s. Sensor Craft took on the main challenge of Quartz—combining efficiency with stealth. Its main thrusts were the maintenance of natural laminar flow control on swept wings, structurally integrated sensors and unusual configurations, including joined wings. At Northrop Grumman, Sensor Craft work blended with its in-house studies of "cranked kite" configurations that were stealthy and offered "sailplane-like" efficiency, in one engineer's words. Lockheed Martin, meanwhile, unveiled its Polecat demonstrator in the summer of 2006, aimed at similar goals.
Also in 2006, the Quadrennial Defense Review terminated J-UCAS. It was openly reported at the time that while the Navy continued with its carrier-based demonstrator (the Northrop Grumman X-47B), Air Force J-UCAS money was going to a classified program. At the time, the RQ-170 was just starting flight tests, and two batches—totaling fewer than 20 aircraft—were ordered. It would serve as a stopgap until the bigger aircraft was ready.
The classified program had a slow start because it competed with Space Radar, which enjoyed high-level support. However, with personnel changes at the Pentagon, the Air Force concept for a long-range, unmanned, combat ISR/AEA aircraft to suppress, destroy and degrade defenses became reality.
It now appears that the large contract awarded to Northrop Grumman in early 2008, which seemed at the time to cover a demonstrator for the Next Generation Bomber (NGB), was a development contract for the armed ISR aircraft. It is believed to be a single-engine aircraft with a wingspan similar to a Global Hawk, and (given Northrop Grumman's enthusiasm for the cranked-kite configuration) it most likely resembles the X-47B, but with larger, more slender outer wings. It has radar, electronic surveillance systems and active electronic warfare equipment and, quite possibly, a weapon bay for SDBs and Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer (MALD-J) expendable jamming vehicles. It may also be equipped to act as a communications gateway for other aircraft, using either satcoms or high-frequency radio.
The new UAV is a joint development with the CIA, like the RQ-170, and is being managed by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (see page DT3). It is, by now, probably being test-flown at Groom Lake, Nev. If this is correct, it is the program for which Northrop Grumman drew on the expertise of John Cashen, the signatures lead for the B-2 program, who was consulting for the company in 2008.
Meanwhile, the small Air Force/CIA fleet of RQ-170s remains in high demand for both Middle East and Pacific operations. A CIA aircraft was reportedly overhead during the operation to kill Osama bin Laden in 2011.
For the Air Force, the other outcome of the demise of J-UCAS was the acceleration of its next bomber initial operational capability (IOC) to 2018 from far-beyond-the-horizon 2037. The Next Generation Bomber became a real program—but devoid of nonclassified detail or funding. Quite clearly, given the IOC date and the rush by Boeing and Lockheed Martin to form a team, there had to be funding and a program organization in the classified world.
The bomber effort was halted by then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates in early 2009, citing technology risks with the 2018 IOC date and the economic crash, but it was re-energized in 2010 because the Air-Sea Battle concept would not become a reality without it.
In the last few weeks, an industry executive has told Aviation Week that Lockheed Martin is building a "Next Generation Bomber" (not LRS-B) at Palmdale, Calif., using some "repackaging of equipment from earlier programs." It is possible that the project represents a restart of a program originally launched with fiscal 2008 money—the first clean-sheet budget to follow the 2006 QDR, with its support for the 2018 bomber—and suspended by Gates in 2009. If so, however, it is purely a demonstrator for now, because its design would not reflect changes in the requirement since 2008.
One dog-in-the-nighttime factor that supports this theory: While Northrop Grumman and Boeing have consistently identified LRS-B as a growth opportunity in presentations to market analysts, Lockheed Martin has not, implying that it has already booked as much bomber business as it can expect.
A 2010 Air Force presentation continues to identify "penetrating ISR" and "penetrating, stand-in AEA" as key enablers for the entire LRS family of systems, clearing a path for the LRS-B and finding targets for cruise missiles and Prompt Global Strike weapons. Moreover, the presentation draws a clear distinction between "proposed systems" and others—and penetrating ISR is clearly shown as one of the others, a real and funded program.
What this suggests is that the Air Force still believes in stealth—but not necessarily in the classic "alone and unafraid" model. Instead, the unmanned "enablers"—the ISR platform and low-power, close-in jammers—will disrupt the defenses enough for the all-aspect, broadband stealth of the bombers to protect them. But when the new systems will be disclosed is anyone's guess.
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MY, my, late for the morning commute. Just a quick slurp of coffee; don't spill it on the tie again, and darn it, where did I leave those car keys?
Oh, that's right: I don't actually have an office to go to.
But with a 2013 Chevrolet Malibu waiting at the curb — Detroit's gray-flannel, workaday answer to the Toyota Camry — you'll forgive me for overlooking that fact.
The redesigned Malibu faces a daunting traffic jam, with multiple midsize rivals already on the streets, shined up and ready for water-cooler warfare.
Three new hotshots are already jostling for promotions: the formidably redesigned 2013 Honda Accord, Ford Fusion and Nissan Altima. They join fresh upstarts like the Hyundai Sonata, the Kia Optima and an American-made Volkswagen Passat. The Camry sits quietly in its beige cubicle, never rocking the boat, yet outselling the rest year after year. And a new headhunting Mazda 6 is now patrolling the margins for sporty rebels and outliers who wouldn't be seen in a Camry.
Into that scrum comes this eager new Malibu, waving its résumé and offering its usual pleasantries, but not making the strongest impression.
Sure, the Malibu is soft-spoken and well mannered, and it performed any task I asked of it with little complaint. Chevrolet says the Malibu is the quietest car it's ever made, and the cabin does soothe the ears in the manner of an entry-priced luxury car.
And yet, especially for a class underdog, I expected this revamped Chevy to bring something more to the office party, some claim to specialness — in styling, fuel economy, technology, anything. Instead, the Malibu does only what's expected, and it loses points on rear-seat comfort. The sedan lands smack in the middle of its class — hello, Camryville — with a muffled thud.
Charmingly or not, depending on your view, the Malibu has tried to improve its formerly staid wardrobe. Taking cues from its macho Camaro sibling, always so smooth with the ladies, the Malibu mimics that sporty car's winking rectangular taillamps and puffed-out haunches. A coffin-lidded trunk and grooved hood seem inspired by BMW.
Yet the scent of a General Motors committee meeting wafts over the exterior styling. It's as though three different design teams put ideas on the table, which the bosses then blended into a compromise that avoided screaming matches but left everyone grumbling. The interior, with its distinctive two-tiered dashboard, is more focused and thereby more successful. From the shotgun seat, New Yorkers who rode in my test car were impressed by the cabin's layout and materials.
The available two-tone interior adds visual interest, though getting black and brown to work together is tricky, especially in plastic rather than natural materials. I have no argument, however, with the optional ambient blue lighting that spills from the dash and door panels, a genuinely luxurious touch.
The new car's 4.5-inch-shorter wheelbase does no favors for interior packaging, though the car has grown 2.7 inches wider. Chevy says interior volume is up a fraction in the new model. But the back seat is set relatively low to the floor, causing taller riders' knees to point skyward. I couldn't get my thighs flat against the cushion, a less-than-ideal position for long rides in the back.
Aside from the base LS model, all Malibus feature Chevy's new MyLink radio. These infotainment units feature a seven-inch color touch screen that's easier to use than Ford's stubborn MyFord Touch units, but are also less functional. MyLink uses a Bluetooth smartphone connection to control external portable devices with commands from the screen, the steering wheel or voice recognition. The system includes Pandora and Stitcher Internet radio apps. The radio also pivots outward to reveal a hidden, illuminated storage cubby, perhaps the car's most distinctive feature.
All Malibus get a free six-month subscription to G.M.'s OnStar communications system. That service includes a live operator who can beam navigation information, including turn-by-directions, into the car, where they appear in a small display in front of the driver. Most versions of the Malibu also offer an optional screen-based navigation system.
Like every basic family sedan from Detroit, Japan, Germany or Korea — save the oddball 5-cylinder VW Passat — the Malibu starts with a naturally aspirated 4-cylinder engine. And with 197 horsepower and 191 pound-feet of torque, Chevy's all-new 2.5-liter Ecotec with direct fuel injection is among the strongest in the field.
So equipped, a basic Malibu LS with a 6-speed automatic transmission begins at $23,150, or $24,675 for LT trim, whose niceties include the MyLink radio, Bluetooth and ambient lighting.
That engine carries a competitive mileage rating of 22 city, 34 highway. For its green calling card, Chevy offers the $26,095 Eco model, a mild hybrid that nudges economy up by 3 m.p.g., to 25/37.
Savvy shoppers will note that the Altima and the Mazda 6 manage 38 m.p.g. on the highway, and they do it with a conventional, less-costly 4-cylinder gasoline engine. In other words, the Malibu Eco may lack the billboard-splashing economy numbers that help to sell hybrids.
Nor can the Malibu's breadth of offerings match that of Ford, whose Fusion offers not just standard and turbocharged 4-cylinder engines, but also a hybrid and a plug-in hybrid version, the Energi, that will come to market soon and is rated at the gasoline-equivalent of 100 m.p.g. in combined city-highway driving.
Like the Fusion and the Sonata, Chevy eschews a range-topping V-6 engine, preferring a turbo 2-liter 4-cylinder. This engine, also used in the Cadillac ATS and Buick Regal, punches out 259 horsepower and 260 pound-feet of torque.
That Malibu with the turbocharged engine starts at $30,925. Options brought my test car's sticker to $34,145. That's on par with the Honda Accord V-6 Touring, one of the shining stars in the midsize galaxy.
For such a powerful front-drive turbo, Chevy has managed to keep torque steer — a telltale sideways tugging of the front wheels under acceleration — almost entirely at bay. The car feels quick, but nowhere near the crackling performance of the Accord V-6. Fuel economy also takes a hit, to 24/30 m.p.g. That's 4 fewer highway m.p.g. than the Accord's stronger 278-horsepower V-6.
North of New York City, I followed an Audi A4 along the Saw Mill Parkway, and the Malibu handily kept pace with the German sport sedan. The Chevy tracked faithfully and showed reasonable tire grip. A typical sedan buyer would probably say, "Hey, this car handles really well."
But there was no joy in the car's effort. The steering may be deadly accurate, but there is almost no feedback from the road. The soft springs and dampers that burnish the ride quality leave the Malibu doing the roly-poly over crests and uneven pavement.
Arguing with myself, Socratic style, I propose that many, if not most, family-car buyers don't put a premium on sporty handling. But then I remind myself that other cars in this class, especially the Fusion, Accord and Passat, are virtuous and fun.
To stand out in a midsize class that accounts for more than two million buyers a year, you have to be known for something. The Hyundai Sonata is a striking value. The Ford Fusion is stylish, fun and offers two hybrids. The Passat is distinctively Germanic. The Altima is a fine all-around choice. The Mazda 6 adds impressive fuel economy to its sporty bona fides. The Accord is the perennial, sophisticated benchmark. The Camry is the Camry, a safe choice with great resale value.
And the Malibu? It's good, but not great at any single thing. Unless you're a Chevy loyalist, it conjures no fixed image in the consumer's mind. And that leaves one selling point: the price.
A prediction: Of all the newly redesigned sedans, the Malibu will be first to blink and roll out incentives — whether they be rebates or low-interest financing. If and when that happens, this Chevy will be an even better deal.
That is, so long as you don't mind wearing gray flannel.
INSIDE TRACK: Midpack Malibu.


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I will start this conspiracy in 1948 with Dr. Fredric Wertham who wrote, "The Psychopathology of Comic Books".
Which would lead to the The mass burning of comic books on December 20th, in 1948 and the eventual creation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority
The Comics Code Authority (CCA) was formed in 1954 by the Comics Magazine Association of America as an alternative to government regulation, to allow the comic publishers to self-regulate the content of comic books in the United States. Its code, commonly called "the Comics Code," lasted until the early 21st century.The authority may not be there but the morality they created still exists. Main stream books, movies and games still follow a basic rule of redemption for crimes and a limited action about sex. The conspiracy itself would be that your own government believes that comic books can influence childrens decisions and later life style choices.The Code was revised a number of times during 1971, initially on January 28, 1971, to allow for, among other things, the sometimes "sympathetic depiction of criminal behavior... [and] corruption among public officials" ("as long as it is portrayed as exceptional and the culprit is punished"[12]) as well as permitting some criminal activities to kill law-enforcement officers and the "suggestion but not portrayal of seduction."[12]
Around this time, the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare approached Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Stan Lee to do a story about drug abuse.[12] Lee agreed and wrote a three-part Spider-Man story, portraying drug use as dangerous and unglamorous.
So if reading comic books can influence my behaviour towards drugs, is it not then also possible that wertham was in fact right and comic books can also bring about juvenile tendencies or lead to homosexual activities and teach girls improper attitudes?
With the popular rising of marvel and dc super heroes at the cinemas should we be wondering if the next generation of children might end up being a little bit more gay than usual?


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And then it happens again in slow motion, and there is mooing. Also, he is French, or maybe Canadian.
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