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New Zealand financial institutions are picking a slower pace of price increases in the coming year and aren't betting on the unemployment rate dropping below 6 percent for two years, according to a Reserve Bank's survey.
Respondents in the central bank's survey of expectations sliced 20 basis points from their one-year median forecast for the consumer price index to 1.77 percent, below governor Graeme Wheeler's long-term aim under the policy target agreement, and the two-year ahead median expectation at 2.3 percent, down by the same amount.
Respondents are picking CPI to rise 0.3 percent and 0.5 percent in the December and March quarters, implying annual inflation of 1.5 percent and 1.4 percent respectively.
"Monetary conditions are currently perceived as being easy, and are expected to remain easy over the forecast horizon," the survey said.
The subdued inflation outlook comes after third-quarter CPI figures showed consumer prices rose at an annual pace of 0.8 percent, falling short of the central bank's target band of between 1 percent and 3 percent.
Last month, governor Wheeler said he was keeping close tabs on inflation in his debut monetary policy statement, and would monitor indicators such as pricing intentions and inflation expectations data closely over coming months.
Respondents were gloomier about the labour market in coming year, with one-year ahead expectations for unemployment rising to 6.8 percent from 6.3 percent in the September survey, and the two-year forward horizon increasing to 6.3 percent from 5.9 percent.
Earnings growth expectations were pared by 10 basis points to 2.4 percent and 2.7 percent for the one-year and two-year outlooks respectively.
Government figures showed the jobless rate unexpectedly rose to a 13-year high 7.3 percent in the September quarter with a flat labour market in Auckland and falling full-time payrolls. Economists have been sceptical of the latest reading, which has surprised them with three quarterly increases in the headline unemployment figure.
Firms trimmed 0.1 of a percentage point from their one-year forecast for annual gross domestic product growth to 2.1 percent and held two-year expectations at 2.3 percent.
The 90-day bank bill rate is expected to be 2.7 percent by the end of the year, rising to 2.8 percent by September 2013. The bill recently traded at 2.66 percent.
Firms predict the yield on the 10-year government bond will be 3.8 percent by September next year. The yield was recently at 3.54 percent.
The New Zealand dollar is expected to be 81 US cents by the end of March, falling to 80 cents by September, and is predicted to be 80 Australian cents by the end of September next year. The currency recently traded at 82.24 US cents and 78.44 Australian cents.
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U.S. President Barack Obama was welcomed to Israel and the Palestinian Authority with anti-American and pro-Hitler comments in an opinion piece printed by the PA-run newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida.
"Our history is replete with lies… [including] the lie about al-Qaida and the September 11 [2001] events, which asserted that Muslim terrorists committed it, and that it was not an internal American action by the Freemasons," Hassan Ouda Abu Zaher wrote in an op-ed published Monday that was translated by Palestinian Media Watch.
The op-ed also suggests that Hitler was greater than both Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
"Churchill and Roosevelt were alcoholics, and in their youth were questioned more than once about brawls they started in bars, while Hitler hated alcohol and was not addicted to it. He used to go to sleep early and wake up early, and was very organized. These facts have been turned upside down as well, and Satan has been dressed with angels' wings," the op-ed stated.
The article said negative attitudes toward Nazism were not objective, but the result of the West's victory in World War II.
"Had Hitler won, Nazism would be an honour that people would be competing to belong to, and not a disgrace punishable by law," the op-ed said.


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Why do I love The Hold Steady? Because they've been making non-stupid ROCK music for ten years. It's miraculous that a band can deliver so many songs about heartbreak and drinking with the requisite choruses and bridges and still sound smart. Part of it is that the band has a knack for air-guitar-worthy riffs, but it's really singer/songwriter Craig Finn's storytelling that sets The Hold Steady apart. Craig's also possessed of a unique charisma on stage - check out the band on tour in the U.S and Europe from now through October for an undeniably fun and sweaty time.
The new Hold Steady record is called Teeth Dreams and I've been dying to share my favorite song "Wait a While" with you for months. It's a deceptively simple gem that you'll want on your summer playlist. I personally would slug nearly any man who called me "little girl," but somehow Craig Finn can get away with it and even get me to sing along. Download it below.


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Zsa Zsa Gabor is back in the hospital.
The "Moulin Rouge" actress and Hollywood socialite -- who is turning 94 this Sunday -- was disoriented and vomiting blood in her L.A. home Tuesday morning, her spokesman confirmed.
"Following breakfast this morning… she started coughing up blood and mucus," spokesman John Blanchette told AFP. "[The hospital] sent an ambulance to the house immediately. They've pumped the mucus out of her lungs… and they had to treat some pus pockets in her leg, where there is an infection."
Gabor's husband, Frederic Prinz Von Anhalt, later told The Associated Press doctors told him they hoped to stabilize her leg "in a few hours."
His wife was "sort of conscious" as she was rushed to the hospital, he said.
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"She doesn't know what is going on. She has no memories. It could come back but the doctor doesn't know yet," van Anhalt added.
Gabor's leg was amputated on Jan. 14 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center because of an infection. Last July, the actress, 93, broke her hip and had surgery; she had also been in the hospital due to blood clots.
Additionally, she was partly paralyzed in a car wreck in 2002 and in 2005 she suffered a stroke.
Gabor shot to fame as a sex symbol in the 1950s and has famously been married nine times.


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pidgi2009 wrote:No, it definitly does not work.
I will try something else.
Something is not right. What are the EXACT steps you are taking? Do you have Runtime packages enabled or disabled?
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pidgi2009 wrote:No, it definitly does not work.
I will try something else.
pidgi2009 wrote:Here are the steps I used:
1- load the very same project in XE4 instead of XE2, both (XE2 and XE4) installed on the same computer.
pidgi2009 wrote:2- Go to 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\11.0\source\rtl\win', find the Winapi.Windows.pas file, make o copy of it, then open the Winapi.Windows.pas file itself (not the copy), find the following line:
function GetSystemTimes; external kernel32 name 'GetSystemTimes';
and modify it as
function GetSystemTimes; external kernel32 name 'GetSystemTimes' delayed;
pidgi2009 wrote:5- Using the new .exe file at work, I notice that it does work on the stations that are running Windows XP SP2
pidgi2009 wrote:but most stations use a Citrix session, which is running Windows 2000, and the program does not run on those last with a message stating that the entry point of GetSystemTimes() is not found in the Kernell.
pidgi2009 wrote:One of the project, the simplest, is named ListeDeGarde, thus the main file is ListeDeGarde.cpp. I add the #define you showed as the very first line, above the #include <vcl.h>, rebuilt all, no spurious message.
pidgi2009 wrote:BUT, (there is always a BUT) with or without that #define, as I recompile there are a few dozen lines stating that:
"[DCC Avertissement] Winapi.Windows.pas(33698): W1002 Le symbole 'DELAYED' est spécifique à une plate-forme"
pidgi2009 wrote:That is my understanding, that the message is only a warning. But maybe it could mean that Windows 2000 does not support the 'delayed' directive?
pidgi2009 wrote:Nope, exactly same message, stating that the entry point of GetSystemTimes() is impossible to find in the Kernell dll.
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Before there was Ty Segall,Nobunny or Fe Fi Fo Fums, there were the second wave garage bands from the so-called early '90s revival. With the exception of Detroit's Gories, Billy Childish's Thee Headcoats and Memphis' Oblivians, some of the best stripped-down, dirty guitar bands from that era came from the West Coast: The Mummies, Supercharger, The Fall-Outs, Girl Trouble. And one of the most incredible of them all came out of Seattle. Not even one band, actually, since none of his ten or so bands ever lasted very long, but a guitarist with a beat up Fender amp and a classic graveyard howl: Rob Vasquez.
Kinks-type riffs, thunder drums, fast changes – Vasquez delivered the whole raw, gutter-cocktailwith his earlier bands the Nights and Days and Night Kings, all the frantic yet melodic boom, bap, boom that fans of The Stooges and MC5 want in their music. The terrible essence of these bands can be summarized with one of the most tired lines in music: how can someone who writes such amazing songs remain so tragically underappreciated? Even in Vasquez's native Pacific Northwest, and in our era of file-sharing and music blogs, it's shocking how few people know the guy's name.
Vasquez started playing in Seattle around 1976 with a punk band called The Feelings. According to the book Loser, they were one of the first bands in Seattle "to get into the snarly, surly attitude rock being spread in England by the Sex Pistols and the Damned. Its songs included 'Turds of Love.' Guitarist-singer Greg Ragan used to hang from curtains and rafters and scream his lyrics while writhing about. At one Odd Fellows [Hall] show, Ragan went into convulsions during the set and crawled to a restroom to vomit while drummer Dean Helgeson tore up his rented kit."
When The Feelings split up, Vasquez started another band called The Look, followed by Egor, then Nights and Days, then Night Kings, Ape Lost, The Chintz Devils, Gorls, Man Tee Mans, Right On, currently Nice Smile, and in his wake he left a string of stellar 45s. Some of them, like the Gorls' split 7-inch with the band Flathead, are quiet classics, but it's his Night Kings and Nights and Days stuff that won him diehard fans. In Jay Hinman's '90s Superdope zine #5, Vasquez says the difference between these two bands is that "The Nights & Days were kind of mod-garage kind of stuff, style and music, whereas Night Kings I think are a little more of a punk offering than the Nights & Days were." That's as detailed a quote as you're likely to find from him, because few fanzines, let alone glossy magazines, ever bothered to interview him. Named for the Fabulous Wailers' song "All My Nights, All My Days," the Nights and Days put out three 45s and some songs on a few compilations. One, called "Split," appears on the famous 1988 Sub Pop 200 comp. Another, called "These Days," has a chorus and melody so catchy that it always struck me as some sort of anthem. Same can be said for the more melancholic "Goes Without Saying." Night Kings put out three 45s, two split 7's and one LP, called Increasing Our High. It's the sole full-length in Vasquez's thirty-six-or-so years of playing. It came out on the Super Electro label, was never issued on CD, and it's been the out of print since the early '90s.
Mudhoney's Steve Turner – one of the musicians who put Seattle on the map – started Super Electro in 1992. Turner was a Vasquez fan. In the liner notes to Mudhoney's March to Fuzz anthology, Turner describes the influences you hear in their song "Touch Me I'm Sick:" "In retrospect," he says, "it's The Yardbirds' 'Happenings Ten Years Time Ago' by way of The Stooges' 'Sick of You'. At the time I was trying for the stuttering R&B guitar of The Nights and Days." Until Super Electro ceased operation seven years later, the label released 45s and LPs from Seattle bands such as The Kent 3, Wellwater Conspiracy, The Statics and The Fall-Outs, as well non-Northwest musicians such as Thee Headcoats, Holly Golightly and The Masonics. Although some might argue that The Kent 3 is the most underappreciated Seattle band of all time, many garage rock types would say that the Night Kings' LP is the true cream of Super Electro's crop.
Released in 1992 in the midst of the grunge feeding frenzy, Increasing Our High bears only the faintest whiffs of that era. The best songs sound as timeless as the bands that seem to have inspired Vasquez, such as The Kinks and The Sonics. The Pacific Northwest had always been a hotbed of garage music, but at that time, a so-called neo-garage revival was sweeping through the global music underworld. The charge was initially led by The Gories, and although the revival spawned tons of cookie-cutter, backward-looking bands with pageboy haircuts and formulaic tunes, it also birthed now legendary bands such as The Mummies, The Trashwomen and Supercharger, bands who turned the vintage sound into something completely unique and far more inventive than simple retro posturing. It's with the Gories and Mummies that Vasquez's Night Kings most closely fit, albeit still loosely. Despite his obvious influences, Vasquez wasn't drawing from the all too familiar Nuggets and Pebbles wells to scavenge paisleysounds to meticulously recreate. He was someone for whom '60s rock riffs best fit his fury. His Night Kings songs "Black Fluid," "Dirty Work," "Death," "Black and White," "Bum" and"Complaint Dept" are frenzied, infectiously catchy,and, despite their relative simplicity, have tons more personality than most of the songs that derivative garage dress-up bands such as The Fuzztones and The Lyres produced. If Vasquez's anger and punk root-stock weren't enough to earn his music wide recognition, then at least these elements colored his music with enough originality to distinguish it from the garage revival pack.
Listening to Increasing Our High, your feet tap and head sways, and when the gravely lyrics rise above the distorted guitar, you start to wonder: what's this guy so angry about? Everything. He's pissed about money, pissed about rules. He's pissed about women and power, peoples' perceptions and what the world expects from him. He works shitty jobs ("Dirty Work") for low pay and he's mad about it, though not mad enough to quit drinking so much beer and sitting around stoned watching TV ("Bum") to pursue a better line of work. Yet beyond the particular sources of his ire, lies an indiscriminate, almost adolescent rage. Vasquez is just pissed, period, one of those fiery guys who might have been born with a chip on their shoulder and who give you the finger simply because they can.
Whatever the source of his energy, Vasquez's sole LP seems destined to remain in that fetishized subset of the underground rock canon where the "underappreciated classics" go, and not simply based on the power of his songwriting, but also on the album's limited availability. Apparently, an early '90s Illinois-based fanzine called Bad Vibe was going to release a Nights and Days LP, but that didn't pan out. They might have discovered what so many people in Seattle, including promoters, record labels, musicians, even Vasquez's own band members, already knew: that he was difficult, some said impossible, to deal with. He's been called "a dick." On the Right On record sleeve, he seems to acknowledge his reputation when he credits his role in the band as "Guitar and His Big Mouth." In the end, this makes Steve Turner the only person to squeeze a whole album out of Vasquez. The rest of Vasquez's music scattered across a slew of 7-inches with print runs ranging from 250 to 1000. Based strictly on the size-to-convenience ratio, Increasing Our High offers the ideal starting point for anyone interested in checking out this aging punk's music. Based on the unfiltered force of the performances, though, I would suggest tracking down each 45. They're essentially live recordings, and they are full of The Stooge's raw power. Yes, tracking them all down will require some hunting and shipping and handling fees, and you still won't be able to play the songs on your iPod until you digitally transfer them yourself,but most of the records are readily available for purchase online. The best takes of some of Increasing Our High' songs appear on their respective 45s, all recorded during different sessions: "Bum" on the Bum/Ain't No Fun 45, "Death" from the Brainwashed EP, and "Dirty Work" from the Tales from Estrus Vol. 1 compilation. The one track that doesn't appear on the LP but which is worth hunting down no matter what is "Black Fluid," from the Puget Power III 45 (Regal Select Records). If you like rock and roll enough to have read this far, then that song will colonize your brainstem like root rot and never let go.It's one of the best garage-punk songs of not only the '90s, but any era.
The lyrics go:
First thing's a double in the morning
When that one's gone another's coming
It goes on and on for hours
Untill I think I've got the power
Power climbing up the walls and grinding down
I can't sit still, can't hang around
My blood's not red anymore
Black fluid oozing out my pores
One cause of Vasquez's relative obscurity lies not in the quality of his music, but in its limited availability: maybe 90% of his recorded output, from thirty-six-plus years of playing, has never appeared on CD, only vinyl. And except for his new band's, Nice Smile's, 2010 seven-inch single, Building/Mans To Short, all of that vinyl is out of print. No iTunes downloads, no last.fm or Bandcamp sampling. You can't even find that Nice Smile record at Silver Platters, Sonic Boom or Everyday Music in Seattle. I tried. Vasquez and the band aren't in the stores' databases. When I called each store in the summer of 2011, I listed a few of his other bands in hopes of sparking some faint recollection. Each clerk responded with a variation of the same reply: No, never heard of him. "Usually in these cases," the clerk at Sonic Boom said, "I direct people to the artist's website." That's another problem.
Nice Smile's Myspace page is so Spartan and sporadically updated that it hardly qualifies as a web presence. Where the first thing most bands do nowadays is start a Bandcamp and Facebook page, seed certain music blogs with sample tracks, and sell their songs online, Vasquez's music seems as inaccessible as it was in the pre-mp3 era. The issue of its invisibility is less the result of a disinterested public and more the result of his apathetic approach to self-promotion. From Gorls to The Chintz Devils to Right On, he's never heavily promoted any of his bands.
I did some cyber-sleuthing last summer and managed to dig up Vasquez's email address. His attitude might best be summarized by what he wrote me in an email: "shows, eh, nothin really planned out. not really aggressive about that kinda stuff, so we dont really play out much." His small but dedicated group of fans hails him as an underground artist, and he is in the sense that he's never been on a major label, never played outside the West Coast, and he drew many of his own record sleeves. But if he's underground in the cool, respectable, punk rock sense of the term, it's not because mainstream America has continually ignored his advances. He's underground because he doesn't make his music or himself that available. In our era of social-networking and transparent self-promotion, most people know that audiences don't come to you. You have to get music into people's hands, play out and blanket the web to let them know you exist. This is particularly regrettable since Nice Smile songs such as "My World," "Dark Thud" and "The Show," as with much of Vasquez's previous music, are too powerful to let wallow away on some Myspace page's embedded player, unavailable for purchase. It's not like people aren't interested.
Europeans sell his 45s on Discogs for up to 20+ Euros a pop. On music blogs such as Detailed Twang, guys describe the Nights and Days' Garbage Can single as "one of the great records of the 80s to boot, and an all-time second-wave-of-garage landmark." On message boards such as Terminal Boredom, fans write gushing accounts of Vasquez's talent like "The live Right On stuff he used to have up on the MySpace page for his former page for his former bands just SLAYS – too bad that'll never see the light of day," and they trade and sell records: "Need a Nice Smile 7"! Have a spare Ape Lost." The Hospitals' guitarist and singer, Adam Stonehouse, credits Vasquez as his primary inspiration for playing music. When The Gories played Seattle in September, 2010, their second guitarist Dan Kroha wore a Night Kings shirt. "I often tell people that if we'd heard 'Garbage Can,' the Gories would never have formed," Mick Collins told me over Twitter, "that's what we wanted to sound like." Even the Seattle Weekly gave a brief but resounding nod in their 2008 "Grunge 101" article: "Seattle might not know it, but Rob Vasquez is a goddamn rock-and-roll genius: His '80s band, the Nights and Days, were hugely underrated, and his turn-of-the-decade band, the Night Kings, were just as good. The Night Kings played garage rock (not grunge at all) minus any and all lame revival shtick." Imagine how many more people would share that enthusiasm if they could only find his music. Although some people might view Vasquez's indifference as part of his punk rock mythos or DIY aesthetic, for me, it's difficult not to see it as the most unfortunate thing a musician of his ability can do to themselves: not get heard.
Hopefully, this might be changing a little. In the summer of 2010, Nice Smile opened for the legendary Gories on a short West Coast tour from Seattle to San Diego. They released the aforementioned 45. In 2008 they included a song on Funhouse Comp Thing II, a double CD put out by the longtime Seattle club The Funhouse. Vasquez told me he wants to eventually record a Nice Smile LP. Other than that, they still don't have any local shows booked, and their Myspace page lists no news of upcoming releases. As Vasquez put it in an email: "you gotta realize were kinda bums at this whole mess. but ya, we'll get some wax out again but we have no label and ive never fished."
Unlike Rob's previous efforts, Nice Smile is a duo. Interestingly, it's The Statics' first drummer, Donnie Hilstad, who now plays in it. He also played drums on Gorls' two releases, Bongo Beat and the Tracie 45. Besides the two-piece format, what also distinguishes the band is Donnie's drumming. One part Philly Joe Jones, one part Russell Quan, he stomps out big beats, crashes cymbals and pounds the floor-tom, conjuring a thunderstorm when the mood calls for it. But he also has a jazz drummer's sensibility, that flexible, intuitive sense of timing, as well as quick snare rolls and gentle taps of the ride. That lighter touch perfectly fits the moody shifts and soft bridges of the song "The Show" (an old Chintz Devils tune). And it adds a distinctive texture to the loose, dark, almost deconstructivist "Muse" and "Mans To Short" (a revived Pissed Off Zombies song), giving Nice Smile a different, varied flavor than the more rocking four-four and punk beat Night Kings.
Judging from his new music, Vasquez seems to have mellowed a bit. One thing that has not changed is Vasquez's signature guitar tone and playing. You'd recognize it anywhere. Dave Crider of Estrus Records once called it "shit-o-phonic," a description Rob dislikes. RV's gravely, tortured howl is still intact too, still front-and-center. One of the things that's so interesting about listening to Nice Smile is that, no matter how "modern" some of it is, most of it still sounds like Night Kings and Nights and Days. When the opening riff of "The Show" kicks in, it sounds like it could have been written by 1988 or 1992 Vasquez. Same with guitar on "My World" and "Dark Thud." That's because Rob builds his songs from timeless materials. Straight rock and roll does not age. Beneath the sonic adulterations of effects pedals, keyboards and buried, echoey Sic Alps type mixes — all of which I love — melody and mood also matter. Vasquez has always delivered those. If his new songs could be mistaken for "old" songs, it's not because they've aged poorly or feel out of sync with the so-called times; it's because they're vintage. Timeless. As evergreen as "Strychnine." Nice Smile proves that Vasquez hasn't failed to evolve; he's simply stayed true to his favorite sound, which is, at its heart — whether under the name garage, under whatever name you want — the sound of pure rock and roll.
All of which is to say, hopefully we'll get a Nice Smile LP soon.
There are apparently a bunch of unissued songs lying around. Someone in Germany was supposed to, or may still be planning to, release some lost Night Kings tunes on a Night Kings compilation. Vasquez's short-lived band The Pissed Off Zombies recorded an album's worth of songs; the kick ass Bay Area record label Hook or Crook was going to release it but, for some reason, it fell through. There's still that unreleased Nights and Days LP, and that live soundboard Right On recording, and there's all those incredible Nice Smile songs on Myspace. Rob and Donnie made what he called a short "cheap mic set up" recording at rehearsal last summer that he was going to send me, but Rob ultimately wasn't happy with the sound. In 2007, the band was selling two different CD-Rs at Seattle Nice Smile shows, simple homemade things with hand-written covers. It's the closest thing to a Nice Smile album that exists. I've never been able to track down copies.
Clearly the time has come for a Vasquez retrospective. Unfortunately, if he's as difficult to deal with as some people say, then the only person able to release such a compilation might be Vasquez himself.
On September 6, 2011, Mark Yarm published the book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge. I read it and loved it, and it left me thinking about my '90s youth, the music that spilled out of old Seattle, and also, about Vasquez. I spun a bunch of his records and thought about how his music seemed to have so much potential for wider appreciation, if not on the scale of his Seattle contemporaries, then at least an appeal wide enough to have elevated him beyond the status of "tragically overlooked local legend." But there are those musicians who just want to write music and be left alone. They enjoy the creative process for its own intrinsic rewards and don't want to perform publically, or make money from their art, or even involve themselves in the commercial aspects of being in a band. You have to respect that. Touring, booking, dealing with club owners, record labels and royalties – from all reports, it sounds grating. Maybe Vasquez is that type of musician. Or maybe he was self-sabotaging. Maybe he just needed a little outside push to get him going, or maybe he pushed too many people away. It's all speculation, yet the record is indisputable: during the early '90s, while fellow Northwesterners such as Nirvana, Mudhoney and Soundgarden appeared on innumerable magazine covers, released albums on major labels and graduated to the large concert stages and world tours that defined their mid-90s careers, Vasquez remained in Seattle, playing the occasional local venue, pressing small runs of seven-inches, and working odd jobs. Which is where he remains today: as talented as ever, and just as invisible.
In 2010, Soundgarden reunited. Rolling Stone and Spin covered it. They played the Conan O'Brien Show.
In 2010, Nice Smile played Betsy's Radar Hair and Records, a split salon and record store, in Seattle. No one wrote about it.
I'm writing this in the hope that others will hear him.
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Bonus feature: Here's some rare footage of Vasquez playing live. Although this is Vasquez's band Nice Smile, they're playing a Pissed Off Zombies song called "Garbage," never officially released. Video shot 9/11/10 in Seattle at a club called Neumos, at the end of the Gories tour:
And here's some more live footage of Nice Smile. They're playing the song "Think You're On Top of the World" by Vasquez's band Right On, another song that was never officially released. This vid is composed of still photos from a January 15, 2011 show at Radar Hair and Records in Seattle:
Also, some DLs of 45s here and there, there and over here. No matter what you do, track down the Nights and Days' song "These Days."
And some info on rock and roll photographer Bob Kondrak.


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James Eagan Holmes is scheduled to be arraigned March 12 in the July 2012 Colorado theater shootings that killed 12 people.
James Eagan Holmes, the man charged with killing 12 people and wounding 58 others in a crowded Colorado movie theater last year, may seek to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, his lawyers indicated in court documents made public Friday.
Holmes, 25, allegedly stormed a theater in Aurira, Colo., showing the premiere of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" on July 20 and opened fire with an armament of legally acquired weapons. He is charged with 166 counts of murder, attempted murder and other offenses.
Prosecutors still haven't said whether they intend to seek the death penalty for Holmes, who is scheduled to be arraigned March 12, and Friday's filing indicates that the lack of certainty is complicating his defense.
"Mr. Holmes is considering entering a plea pursuant to (the Colorado law governing insanity pleas), but he cannot intelligently decide how to proceed, until this Court rules upon certain legal issues related to the entry of such a plea and advises Mr. Holmes and counsel of the consequences of such a plea.
In five filings, Holmes' lawyers ask the court to declare parts of that law unconstitutional. Specifically, it argues that sections governing when a defendant may waive his right to remain silent and whether he must reveal confidential medical information are unconstitutionally vague.
Holmes' attorneys have previously said he suffers from mental illness, and he is known to have seen a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado Medical School before he dropped out a month before the shootings.
Only one person has been executed in Colorado since it legalized capital punishment in 1976.
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Education has always played a vital role for the political development of a country. But, in the erstwhile Sikkim it was a privilege enjoyed only by the super class. People belonging to the grass root level did not have any opportunity to attend a school. In every society, people began to dream for a better life only after getting closer to education. Hence, it plays an active role in grooming the ideas of democracy inside the ignorant and slumbered minds of the common people. Possibly, the neglected education system of the erstwhile Himalayan Kingdom was highly responsible for the delay of democratic ideas among the Sikkimese peasants.
Above all, the majority of Sikkim's population was that of peasants or 'Bustiwallas,' as they were known by the authorities that time, were very much innocent. The economic condition of the kingdom apart from those of the authorities, was not good than the poorest country of the world. The peasants are the backbone of every agricultural country but, the Sikkimese authorities were a mile away from this fact. They never did a mistake to see a peasant from the eye of humanity, if they did so, they knew that they would be in a great lost. The peasant, who always remained busy in serving their masters without any wage, could not imagine a world of freedom. They might have a concept that every nations of the world are moving in the same pattern as their world was moving. Therefore, they made a compromise in their lives, since many generations, to live the very same life obeying the orders of their authorities and getting betrayed from them. There was no question of education in such a situation where one loaf of bread was more valuable then the philosophies of Marx, Engel, Gandhi and Socrates. Moreover, there were no schools in the villages nor were they in the neighbouring areas. Few peasants though, had sent their children to the neighbouring state of West Bengal for their study, of course, not in a good school, but just to get educated.
Amid to a Nepali proverb Pade Gune K Kam….Halo Jotey Payo Mam (Nothing is there in reading and Writing plough the field and get food) few peasants have tried their best to set up some schools in distant villages but, their attempts went futile due to the least bothered attitude of the Kazis, the self-styled Masters of the Sikkimese peasantry. It is to be noted here that, in the midst of to the enlightened rule of its reformist ruler, Sir Tashi Namgyal, there was a hold down in opening some schools in Sikkim. Those obstacles were mainly posed by the Kazis and the Thikadars. Further, they even punished the parents for sending their children to the schools. The Kazis and the Thikadars were very much aware to the fact that if the children of a peasant get education, they would never follow their orders. The document along with this post shows how pathetically schools in Sikkim were functioning in those days. It is a letter sent to Sikkim Durbar by the Kazi of Namchi Tashi Wangyal Lassepa which is related to the commencement of a village school at Namchi. In this letter he has referred the virtuous idea of opening a school as an attempt of the peasants to fulfill their selfish motives. The said school is presently known as Namchi Senior Secondary School which has produced many great politicians and people of extra excellence. The most important students of this school are Mr. C D Rai (A veteran Politician, who has been associated with Sikkimese politics since 1940's) and Mr. Nar Bahadur Bhandari, the former Chief Minister of Sikkim. The School was established in 1934 with the futurist zeal of the peasants of Namchi. But, their attempts were nearly crushed by the undemocratic and dictatorial system of pre-independence Sikkim.
It is a wonder how those illiterate fathers knew the importance of education? These children of those illiterate fathers later became the Messiah to the whole peasantry of Sikkim. To get education in some good institutions was only the inherited right for the children of Kazis, Thikadars and other high officials. They sent their children to some good schools in Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Dehradun for their education. But there children too, even after getting educated in such good institutes, apart from few, never got farsighted. It was due to the innocence and illiteracy of the Sikkimese people they were always betrayed and cheated by their Kazis and Thikadars. The resolutions passed by the International Convention announcing the abolition of forced labour was never explained to them by the Zamindars and the Thikadars (L.B Basnet). Thus, in such an atmosphere to expect democratic idea among the common people in Sikkim was not less than a mirage in a desert.
(The above references are collected from the interviews taken from various people who have witnessed such practices prevalent in erstwhile Sikkim)


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2011 Kentucky Derby hopeful To Honor And Serve, winner of the 2010 Nashua and Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct, tops a field of eight in the Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park on Feb 26. The nine furlong event is the 10th race on Saturday's card.
The exciting 3-year-old son of Bernardini, out of Deputy Minister dam Pilfer, finished second in his sprint debut at Saratoga last summer before reeling off three straight wins to end his juvenile campaign. He defeated recent Risen Star Stakes winner Mucho Macho Man in the Nashua and Remsen.
Bill Mott trains To Honor And Serve for Live Oak Plantation. John Velazquez, who was aboard for the Remsen, will be back in the saddle on Saturday.
To Honor And Serve has worked six times at Payson Park in preparation for his 2011 bow, including a bullet four furlong move on Feb 20.
His competition includes graded stakes winners Soldat and Gourmet Dinner.


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A delicious, refreshing pie for the hot summer months! It can also be served warm, but I much prefer it cold. It can also be served with ice cream. Mmmm!
1 packet filo pastry (12 sheets)
250g Greek strained yoghurt
4 eggs
2 tablespoons baking powder
250 ml extra virgin olive oil
For the syrup
600 ml water
250g sugar
Grated rind from 2 oranges
Leave the sheets of filo pastry out, separated and uncovered, to dry for a few hours.
Crumble the sheets of filo.
Put the olive oil and eggs in a mixing bowl and whisk well with a metal whisker.
Add the yoghurt and baking powder and continue whisking until you have a smooth cream.
Add the crumbled filo pastry and mix in well with your hands.
Put in an oven dish and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes until it turns a golden colour.
In the meantime, prepare the syrup – boil the syrup ingredients in a pan for 5 minutes.
After removing the pie, once it is cold, cut into portions and spread the warm syrup on top.
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When you go on a mission trip, you often get more help than you give.
When you go on a mission trip, you often get more help than you give.
�It teaches me every time I go,� said Zach Smith, a Kings Mountain native and religious studies major at Gardner-Webb University.
Smith recently returned home from a mission trip to Manali, India, with a group of GWU nursing students and professors.
�We visited at the Lady Wellingdon Hospital,� Smith said. �The nurses worked there. Myself and Pastor Page worked with the local church there and the local orphanages.�
One of those orphanages was Hindu.
�We were the first Christians to go there,� he said.
The group conducted children�s churches while in Manali, speaking to several hundred kids at a time. They also visited New Delhi and the slum areas.
Smith said in the slums, the smell was unpleasant and many people were malnourished or living among trash.
�But they seem to be happy, because they have Jesus,� he said.
'We touched her shoulder and prayed'
Smith told the story of an Indian woman who approached them in Manali�s marketplace.
�She seemed to be kind of desperate about something and very emotional,� he said. �She spoke Hindi, and we didn�t understand her.�
The woman then pulled out a cross necklace with Jesus on it. She showed the group hospital documents showing that her daughter had been at the hospital they were working through.
�She wanted us to follow her,� said Smith.
The group would have followed her to pray for her daughter, but on mission trips, it�s often dangerous to follow strangers into alleys.
�Ten minutes later, she was pushing her daughter in a wheelchair. She pushed her up to us and the whole team gathered hands, and we touched her shoulder and prayed for her,� said Smith.
By the time they finished, a crowd of people had gathered, some with friendly stares, some not.
�People are still hungry for the truth, for Christ, even in the midst of a very diverse place,� he said.
�It challenged me to be sincere�
Foreign perspectives of Christianity aren�t always so positive, Smith said.
One person asked him, �Out of all the Christians we�ve come into contact with, most are just Christians by name. If he�s such a good God, why can�t you be dedicated to him?�
�It challenged me to be sincere,� he said. �The most important thing I learned is if you claim to be a Christian, be sincere.�
Smith said while there, he realized just how different India is compared to America.
�We have the freedom to worship freely,� he said. �We have so much, and they have so little. But they have love. They�re some of the most loving people I�ve ever met.�
He said the people of India are also very devoted to their families.
�If they have Christ, they�re joyful, and they�re very family oriented. They would do anything for family,� he said. �That challenges me to love and embrace my family, too.�
�Loving God and loving people�
When asked if he would return to India, Smith said, �Absolutely.�
�I�d go back tonight if I could,� he said. �I just felt a burden for the people of India. I really wanted to try to make a difference in their life.�
For his major at Gardner-Webb, Smith will be required to do an internship.
�I�d consider going back and interning at the church there. Whatever God would have me to do,� he said.
Smith said he is appreciative of the prayers and support of his home church and pastors at the Family Worship Center in Kings Mountain. He said he is also thankful for the relationships he built in India with the youth.
�That�s what I think ministry�s all about�building relationships, loving God and loving people,� he said.
Reach Molly Phipps at 704-669-3339, at email@example.com or on Twitter @MollyAPhipps.


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Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Friday, July 05, 2013
Thursday, July 04, 2013
Greenery to brighten your day
Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Let there be colour
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
make yourself at home
I had the good fortune to stay at
a nice hotel, in a swishy room.
Nice furnishings and a generous amount
of space for a Hotel room....
By my standards.
My photos don't give a sense of the space,
but you can enjoy a few of the furnishings.
The shiny, tiled shower enclosure
was bigger than my entire at-home bathroom.
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Monday, July 01, 2013
Welcome to July . . .
Hello July
and all your inherent humid, steamyness.
Time to think of
new and fun summer shoes . . . .
and by the way,
did you find your way
to the Uppercase site yet?
you'll have such fun with their magazines.
Published quarterly.
In Canada.
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Sunday, June 30, 2013
knit up
This week, I will finish
work on this feather-light "shawlette".
This has been a very enjoyable project and
the finished work will be a gift.
Here are the yarns that i used
to make the shawl . . .
they're both by Madeline Tosh.
This photograph, below,
was taken at the end of April, here in Montreal.
It's hard to imagine that this was merely two months ago.
We've had a hot and steamy week -
it's amazing how quickly things change.
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Be fun and do fun
Friday, June 28, 2013
For the Creative and Curious . . . .
Have you
read Uppercase yet?
Have you seen it?
you must buy this marvellous magazine.
After all, it's for the Creative AND Curious !
it's Wonderful.
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
hello gorgeous
I love this floral Gucci print.
Here you see it on the
back of a beautiful magazine.
I would just love to wear this blouse. I believe
that this Gucci print last circulated in the 19880's.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
oh Hello
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Labels: knitting, reading, sketchbook, tea, tea time
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
A fun and
colourful new summer dress,
with coordinating floral earrings.
How festive.
and timely ! !
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Monday, June 24, 2013
Summer is here
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Centre ville Montreal
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Labels: centre ville, favourite, food, fun, montreal
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Montreal Morning
Saturday, June 22, 2013
rue Sherbrooke
red carpet event.
The McCord Museum is hosting an
exhibition on Grace Kelly
this summer.
They held a red carpet event recently.
Here is a photo of
an image from the Royal Wedding.


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Happy weekends begin with a comforting breakfast like this one: Buttermilk Brown Sugar Waffles
Buttermilk Brown Sugar Waffles
Prep Time:15 min
Cook Time:15 min
2 large eggs
1 3/4 cups buttermilk
1/2 cup (1 stick) salted butter, melted and cooled to room temperature
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1. In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, buttermilk and melted butter. In another bowl, stir dry ingredients together. Add dry ingredients to egg mixture and whisk just until smooth.
2. Preheat waffle iron; butter lightly or spray with nonstick spray (even if it's a nonstick waffle iron). Ladle batter onto iron (about 1/4 cup for an 8-inch round iron). Close lid, and cook until light golden brown. Serve immediately.
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Arkansas coach's bankruptcy case turns contentious
- Bankruptcy expert says hearing is typically sought by creditors when they suspect improprieties
- Smith deferred 71% of his pay at Arkansas until after the date he filed for bankruptcy
- Coach lists $40 million in debt from real estate investments in Kentucky that soured
A troubling year is about to get even more contentious for Arkansas football coach John L. Smith.
One of the creditors in Smith's bankruptcy case is asking the court to put Smith under oath for a more extensive examination of his finances, including his unusual salary arrangement at the university.
The bankruptcy trustee also has asked for a 60-day extension in the case because the trustee "has not received all documentation he has requested" from Smith.
Both moves signal a lengthy court battle for Smith, who once had hoped to quickly discharge his $40 million debt within months of filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Sept.6. Instead, Smith has been asked by a creditor, RL BB Acquisition, to turn over numerous financial records.
Among other items, the creditor has asked Smith to produce "all documents, notes, e-mails, correspondence, telephone records, recordings, documenting discussions or negotiations, or otherwise regarding or relating in any way to any contracts between and among John L. Smith, JLS Consulting, the University of Arkansas (or the University Board of Trustees), and the University of Arkansas Foundation that were entered into by and among the foregoing parties in 2012."
As reported by USA TODAY Sports, one week before he filed for bankruptcy, Smith arranged to have 71 percent of his $850,000 salary at Arkansas deferred until after the football season – a move that has raised legal questions about whether he was trying to shield that money from his creditors.
The examination being requested by the creditor is a "common device used by trustees and creditors when they suspect there may have been fraudulent conveyances or other pre-petition transfers that can be avoided," said Scott Ehrlich, a bankruptcy expert and law professor at California Western School of Law in San Diego.
Ehrlich said the examination could help determine if the debtor's case should be dismissed or converted, or if the debtor should be denied the discharge of debts he is seeking.
In general, money earned by a debtor after the bankruptcy filing date is his to keep, but money earned before that belongs to the bankruptcy estate to be divided among creditors. When Smith was hired in April, he signed a letter that said half of his salary ($425,000) would be paid by the university on a monthly basis, with the rest coming from the Razorback Foundation, the fund-raising arm of the athletic department.
That changed in July and August, when he agreed to have $250,000 paid by the university on a monthly basis and the rest paid by the foundation in two lump sums after the season -- and after he had filed for bankruptcy. The first deferred sum of $300,000 would be paid Dec. 31, the other $300,000 on Feb. 23. Smith's predecessor, Bobby Petrino, was paid on a monthly basis by the university and foundation.
The revised arrangement allowed Smith to report on his bankruptcy filing that he only earned $19,800 in gross monthly income, about $65,000 less per month than what it would be if is income was not deferred. After expenses and payroll deductions, Smith claimed on his bankruptcy filing to have a net monthly income of just $107.66. Smith said in court last month that his attorney in Louisville negotiated his employment contracts.
Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long has told reporters that the deferred pay arrangement was for Smith's "retirement." Smith turns 64 on Thursday.
On Monday, Smith told the media he still is holding out hope he will keep his coaching job at Arkansas next year.
Smith's debts stem from real estate deals in Louisville that went bad when the market cratered. He had signed agreements that guaranteed the loans along with several other investors, one of whom sued him for payment and another who said Smith left them "holding the bag."
RL BB Acquisition is owed $600,000 by Smith, according to his filing. The company is a subsidiary of a firm that specializes in distressed real estate.
The company's attorney declined comment.
Smith's Razorbacks (4-6) play at Mississippi State Saturday and then host LSU Nov. 23 to end the regular season.


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The 300,000 West Virginians who have been without water since Thursday will probably have have to wait days for it to be safe to use again after a chemical spill forced the closure of one of the state's largest water suppliers.
As many as 5,000 gallons of a foaming agent used in the production of coal escaped from a tank at Freedom Industries plant Thursday.
The chemical seeped into the Elk River, less than 2 miles from the center of Charleston. That river feeds into the Kanawha River, which goes to a water treatment plant that supplies more than 300,000 people.
(Read more: WestVirginia chemical spill prompts state of emergency)
The contaminated water means residents in nine counties who received their water from West Virginia American Water are unable to drink, bathe in or wash dishes or clothes with their tap water. That includes Charleston, the state capital and largest city.
Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have said that drinking water is safe when levels of the chemical fall to 1 part per million or below, said Jeff McIntyre, president of West Virginia American Water.
"Currently there are four laboratories testing water samples from the river. When levels fall below 1 ppm the Do Not Use order can be removed," he said.
Initial testing found a level of 3 ppm, said Maj. Gen. James Hoyer of the West Virginia National Guard.
First, however, the entire water system will need to be flushed out, a process that could take several days, he said. It is a difficult process because of the hilly nature of West Virginia and the large number of storage tanks required to keep the water system working, McIntyre said.
"We have 100 water storage tanks and 1,700 miles of pipe" to flush, he said.
Five people have been admitted to the hospital and 24 have sought treatment for symptoms such as nausea and vomiting, said Allison Adler of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources at a press conference Saturday in Charleston.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has already brought in 4.1 million liters of water to the area and another 800,000 liters are on their way, said Homeland Security and Emergency Management Director Jimmy Gianato, director of the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security.
The water that comes out of the taps is "gross," said Jane Haley, 48, in Charleston. "It's hard to describe how bad it smells."
Saturday was rainy "so I put out two coolers out and filled them up with rainwater. I heated the water up on (the) stove and used it to wash my hair," she said.
Others were more direct.
"I was laying in bed this morning and I heard the rain and I thought, 'Thank God,' " said Debbie Stevens, 54.
The Charleston resident grabbed her shampoo and conditioner and went outside to stand in her pajamas under a leaky gutter that was pouring rainwater.
"I washed my hair and then I came in and used my wet pajamas take a horse bath," she said.
The primary component in the foaming agent that leaked is the chemical 4-methylcyclohexane methanol.
Engineers have placed booms in the Elk River to catch as much of the chemical as possible that might be leaking from the ground near the tank, said Mike Dorsey with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection.
"To the best of our knowledge there's no more material getting into the river," he said at the Saturday news conference. The tank itself is no longer leaking, he said.
However, once the chemical gets into the main body of the river, "there's not much you can do except let it flush through," Dorsey said.
The chemical disperses in the water and becomes more diluted, a process that "is happening in real time," he said.
The Kanawha River eventually feeds into the Ohio River, but the dilution factor makes Dorsey unconcerned about people who get their water from the Ohio.
"By the time you get to the Kanawha and then the Ohio, I don't see how it could be an issue for people downstream," he said.
Small businesses are reeling under the shutdown.
"We're not hearing anything from the state, that's what's scary," said Tammi Ray, 54, who owns Handiman Car Wash in Charleston. "This is our busy season. Up to Friday, we had done about 3,100 cars this week. People don't want the salt on their cars so they come in to get them cleaned up."
On Thursday night, she closed down her operation, putting her 12 employees out of work. "I can't risk it, it's a health hazard for my workers," she said.
To aid businesses, the state and local health departments are allowing those with portable water systems to reopen. The business must first submit a plan to the local health department, which will review and approve it and then do a site visit.
"The good news is we have begun reopening restaurants even as I speak,"said Rahul Gupta, director of the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department.
"We'll be posting sings on those facilities saying they've been opened by the health department," he said.
Federal authorities, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) opened an investigation into Thursday's spill.
The leak was discovered Thursday at the bottom of a storage tank that held at least 40,000 gallons, according to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. However, state officials believe no more than 5,000 gallons leaked from the tank.
Mary Beth Mangus, 51, lives just a quarter-mile from the plant, on the banks of the Elk River. The smell at her house on Thursday was unbearable and nauseating. "It made my dogs throw up," she said.
The company hasn't given a reason for the leak.
The spill has resulted in one amusing trend, said Haley. Many of her friends have college-age children at West Virginia University in Morgantown, north of the spill area.
"Usually college kids come home with their dirty clothes. But I've talked to three people now who've gone up to Morgantown to stay with their kids and do laundry."
—By Elizabeth Weise of USA Today


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80 x 80 cm | 31 x 31 in
Subject: Objects/still Life
Tags: Still Life, Boxing, Gloves, Leather
Original painting in oil on canvas.
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Avidly collected by patrons such as Sir Paul Smith, Keren Luchtenstein's still lives see the observation of objects with almost irrational reverence. Luchtenstein's attentive and nostalgic paintings playfully investigate the resonance of objects and the powers we give them to protect us.
Keren Luchtenstein makes illusionistic oil paintings portraying items which appear to occupy the viewer's space. As a child Keren remembers the sensory experience of examining objects with a heightened obsessive focus. Through her paintings she aims to communicate the pleasure thus derived.
This connection with childhood feelings informs the subject-matter - the yearning for beautiful shoes and ornaments, the emotional attachment to well-used utility items and to inherited objects. Much of Keren's work relates to fashion and textiles - clothes and interiors being an abiding delight to her.
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I can just see this happen.
But did you see Sutil leading in Melbourne? Without my glasses on it looked like a Spyker in the lead!!
Our kids still have their signed Spyker caps
I bought a box of Spyker F1 shirts on eBay a couple years ago. I think I wore one when I visited the factory.
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Kimi Raikonen
Kimi Raikonen at his best
On tyres
I dont know and it doesnt mean anything to me. Tyres are what they are.
On Alonsos mind games
I couldnt care less what that man thinks.
On weather conditions
Its all the same if it rains or not.
On Finland
Well, in summer theres fishing and ****ing. And in winter the fishing is bad.
On the 2006 season
It doesnt interest me yet what is going to happen. Youll see it then.
Kimi, whats the 5th grid place like?
Its the 5th grid place.
On Hungarian GP 2007:
Boring race.
On Ron Dennis:
Hes strange now and then. He always wants to know everything. He doesnt interest me.
What makes TAG Heuer special?
Its ok.
What kind of an atmosphere do you think McLaren has right now (the spy saga)?
I bet its ****ing great.
On the Constructors Championship
The Constructors Championship doesnt really mean anything to me.
On what Sir Jackie Stewart says
Im not interested in what Jackie says. He hasnt got anything to do with me.
On what David Coulthard says
Coulthard can say what he wants. Im not interested in what hes saying.
On what Jarno Trulli says
I dont give a damn about what Trulli says.
On what Juan Pablo Montoya says
Montoyas comments doesnt interest me.
On what Lewis Hamilton says (I wonder )
It doesnt matter what he says.
On not seeing red lights in the pit lane
If theres a red light when you leave the pit lane you have to stop. Then some wooden eye (Hamilton) crashes into you and breaks the car.
On the media
What the papers write about me afterwards makes me laugh.
Formula 1 would be a paradise without the media.
Im not interested in what people think about me. Im not Michael Schumacher.
On what it feels to drive at 300 km/h?
It feels normal.
On idols?
There arent any.
What kind of a relationship do you have with Peter Sauber?
He is my boss.
Is he a father figure or a god father?
He is my boss.
The helmet has a special meaning for many drivers. How important is it to you?
It protects my head.
Do you have any special rituals when the helmet is concerned like many have?
I wipe it so that I can see better.
What would you if you met an alien, run away out of fear or try to talk to him?
The problem wont arise so I dont imagine meeting one.
Martin Brundle: Kimi Raikkonen doesnt seem interested in the proceedings going on up there. Kimi, you missed the presentation by Pele.
Kimi (nonchalantly): Yeah.
Martin: Will you get over it?
Kimi: Yeah. I was having a ****.
Martin: OK, thanks for that! Obviously youll have a nice light car on the grid, then.
Describe yourself. What are you made of ?
Blood, flesh and bone like everybody else!
Interviewer: The most exciting moment during the race weekend?
Kimi: I think so its the race start, always.
Interviewer: The most boring?
Kimi: Now.
On San Marino 2001
Suddenly the steering wheel was in my hands. I tried to put it back on, but it was too late. I was just wondering where I was going to end up.
Is it true that sometimes youre bored in the car?
Only when I am in front by a country mile, like in Melbourne last year. Then you are thinking about other things or youre playing with the buttons on the steering wheel. Then I suddenly missed a braking point. This year unfortunately we havent had such race.
Q: (Peter Windsor F1 Racing) Kimi, Im sure youre aware that, as a result of the seventeen laps you led in Hungary, McLaren Mercedes, for the first time this year, have now led more racing laps than the Mercedes safety car driven by Bernd Maylander. I just wonder how you see that battle developing in the remaining races and how strong McLaren will be versus the safety car. - Hopefully we can beat them. At least its the same company so it doesnt really matter but we will see what happens.
Kimi, have you ever got angry about anything, and jumped up and down and shouted?
Yeah, many times but of course youre not happy if you retire or something but I guess it mostly happens more in normal life than in racing.
Can you give us examples?
No, not really.
What are the kind of things that make you angry in normal life, as you say?
If you keep asking questions like those.
When asked to comment on Hamiltons crazy move at Fuji that ran everyone off at the first curve: You have to learn how to find the braking points already when you are six years old while starting in Go Karts. Obviously, you should know how it goes at this level. I dont know about others but, at least, my father Matti put sticks on the right places for me and for my brother to know where to brake. Thats how you learn that lesson the best and you remember it always where ever you race.
The car is certainly different, but do you feel different to last year?
I dont know anything about a different feeling. Its a new season, so its hard to know what to expect.
What about Felipe? Is he still the same guy he was last year or has he changed a lot?
I dont know. You should ask him. I dont know what hes been doing, so if you want to know something about his life you should speak to him.
Who do you see as your main competitors this year?
It could be all tight but then again, it might not be. I dont know more than anybody else I just see the times. Thats it.
On the Yas Marina Circuit
Well, the first few turns are quite good, but the rest of it is ****
During his NASCAR debut
Were so ****ing ****, its unbelievable. The car is **** because I cannot get it turned! It is so frustrating! I cannot get the ****ing car turned!
His quotes can use some updates, like:
"Leave me alone. I know what I am doing"
These are fantastic!
Yeah, funny guy.
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This is a Japanese domestic market (JDM) factory soft top (FST) with a 2B 4-cylinder diesel engine and a 4-speed manual transmission. It also has a factory power take-off(PTO) winch and factory air conditioning.
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The likelihood of developing cancer is largely attributed to an individual's genetic inheritance, but can also be affected by lifestyle choices and what we eat. in a 2009 article, the American Cancer Society recommended eating at least five servings of fruits and vegetables per day to prevent cancer. Now, a new study from the University of Oxford suggests that fruits and vegetables, while important for a healthy diet, are unlikely to protect against cancer.
The study, published in the British Journal of Cancer, examined evidence from the last decade for the connection between the consumption of fruits and vegetables and cancer development. the researchers concluded that the only diet-related factors to affect the risk of cancer were obesity and alcohol. Tobacco smoke, technically not diet-related, remains the single largest cause of cancer.
According to Tim Key of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University, "Fruit and vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet and a excellent source of nutrients. but so far the data does not prove that eating increased amounts of fruit and vegetables offers much protection against cancer. but there's strong scientific evidence to show that, after smoking, being overweight and alcohol are two of the biggest cancer risks."
Obesity can cause very hard-to-treat forms of cancer in the bowel, pancreas, kidney, esophagus, and breast. Alcohol can cause cancer of the mouth, throat, breast, bowel, and of course, liver.
The researchers stress that the best ways to prevent cancer is keep a healthy weight, stop smoking, and limiting alcohol to one drink per day for women and two for men. Eating fruits and vegetables up to a certain level is essential for the body to obtain vital nutrients.
But, as the law of diminishing returns dictates, consumption exceeding that certain level provides fewer, if any, benefits. it does not make the tissues super-healthy or indestructible. So while the American Cancer Society is not giving terrible advice, it may have to change its message in light of new evidence.
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Part I: Getting it wrong from the start.
One of the great, long-proven truths of policy and practice in the transport field is the we all to often start out by jumping right into the middle of the problem set – instead of taking the time to sit back and figure out what really is going on. This genuinely disturbing tendency to premature postulation more often than not leads us to weak answers to important problems. Worse yet, this brain-light process all too often brings us to do just about the opposite of what the full problem set actually calls for.
This is what we see when we take the time to assess the impact of past polices in our sector (itself an all too rare event) and are obliged to conclude that, as is said, "the greater part of the problems that threaten our sector today are in fact the result of someone's old solutions". Oops. And if we do not learn that lesson, we are, for sure, going to run that cycle one more irresponsible time and with totally anticipatable results.
So with this fundamental reminder in view, what then are the most important issues and targets that we need to have at the top of the list when we come to talk about, as we put it here, Transport Mobility and/or Access"? Let's start by asking the following basic question.
What exactly is it that we should be trying to target, achieve and improve on? It's not all that complicated. Let's have a look.
We desperately (the word is not too strong) need to learn to make wise and informed decisions which will lead policy and practice in ways which help us to move ahead in the following key socio-economic vectors. We want and need a transport system that fundamentally works, that provides fair and affordable access for all (and above all for women), that is easy on the environment, friendly to our sweltering planet, supports strong and livable communities, provides good jobs for citizens, espouses entrepreneurship and public interest groups, is transparent from start to finish, and that will help us to get out from under the Sword of Damocles of when it comes to our continuing, hugely excessive, and planet- threatening fossil fuel dependency.
So against this background let me now take a few minutes to share some thoughts with you concerning one very popular and often discussed starting place, target or, worse yet, proposed "solution" to many of the problems facing our sector, i.e., energy technology. And if my thoughts on this may be a bit discordant with received views here, well of that I am happy. This is a far better place to vent our opposing views and work out a more informed stance for good governance than after the billions of hard-earned taxpayer earning have been squandered in the next ballyhooed technology boondoggle .
Part II. Betting on Energy Technology is NOT the right place to start
Whoa! There is a great deal of enthusiasm manifested in many quarters with the idea of taking the energy vector as the priority point of departure for informing and transforming public policy in the transport sector in the context of the world climate challenge. This is one more example of what you get when you try to solve a problem by starting in from the middle.
This is turning out to be a major strategic error, for if we scan the field for the main trends and accomplishments over the last decade, we will see that this approach almost always brings those behind it sooner or later to fixate on the potential for "saving the planet" though new energy-related technologies. Chief among these we are seeing programs vigorously pushing for large public investments to fund R&D in support of new power sources for vehicles (EVs, hybrids, etc.), new fuels (biofuels et al) and/or new transportation technologies (including such demonstrably wacky ideas as PRT, monorails and what have you).
There are at least two things badly wrong with this approach. First, it pushes the actual impact horizon decades out into the future, during which interim these uncertain promises offer little or no relief to a planet which is under severe attack today.
Second, because the interests behind them are well-funded and very skilled at shaping the public debate, they distract and in the process displace attention and action on the one, the only approach which can make big and rapid inroads on the basic problem – which in a single phrase is (a) major (b)near term carbon reductions.
Part III: Why an aggressive near-term low-carbon strategy offers a good starting point
If significant fossil fuel reductions climate protection is our goal, then near-term carbon reduction has to be our base strategy. We must go straight to the heart of the beast. And the only way to achieve this is through a program of significant scaled reductions of motorized vehicular movements.
Now here is our technology clue for the future.
We know very well that the only way to cut back traffic is to shift over to a more efficient transportation system, one that makes much better use of the mobility assets that are out there and moving about in our cities and rural areas. However we do not only want cut back on traffic mindlessly, at the same time we also need to make significant qualitative improvements in overall system efficiency from both a user and public investment perspective. Without these underlying and significant system improvement we cannot hope to sell our carbon-reduction program.
And how exactly do we make better use of these transportation assets? Through ICT improvements. These can be brought on line quickly, and indeed when it comes to the transport sector are the most important area of technology development that we have at our disposal. Near term ICT improvements in the transport sector.
To be continued.
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Transport, Mobility and/or Access – Technologies, Management and/or Behavior?
Part I: Getting it wrong from the start.
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There are a million good arguments why EVs may be the way of the future in the US, but in the short terms they're barely better than hybrids. Take a look at this <a href=http://www.ge.com/visualization/driving_emissions/"calculation" from General Electric's web site selling EV battery recharging stations:ReplyDelete
Over one peak weekend we (American) produce 4.7 metric tonnes now; 2.2 mt if everyone drove a hybrid and 1.8 mt if all EV. I was quite surprised how little the increment of GHG savings was going to pure EV.
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You know that dog biscuit shaped like a bone but made mostly of wheat? The fact that your dog is satisfied with it instead of going for a piece of your thigh may be one of the big reasons why its ancestors evolved from wolves to house pets.
A team of Swedish researchers has compared the genomes of wolves and dogs and found that a big difference between the two is a dog's ability to easily digest starch. On its way from pack-hunting carnivore to fireside companion, dogs learned to love -- or at least live on -- wheat, rice, barley, corn and potatoes.
As it turns out, that's also a change that human beings underwent as they came out of the forest, built permanent settlements and began to grow grain.
"I think it is a striking case of co-evolution," said Erik Axelsson, a geneticist at Uppsala University. "The fact that we shared a similar environment in the last 10,000 years caused a similar adaptation. And the big change in the environment was the development of agriculture."
The findings, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, support the hypothesis that dogs evolved from wolves who found a new food source in refuse on the outskirts of human settlements. Eventually they came to tolerate human contact and were brought into the household to be guards, workers and companions.
Another theory is that dogs were descended from wolves captured by hunter-gatherers, who tamed and bred them.
Dog evolution is a contentious subject, and the new findings are unlikely to settle the debate. Among the uncertainties is when some wolves began to evolve into dogs.
Human-tolerant -- if not fully domesticated -- canids may have existed as long as 33,000 years ago. Archaeological remains reveal dogs and human beings sharing the same graves 11,000 ago. That was at the dawn of agriculture; the two species appear to have been at least acquaintances by then.
"Pretty much everyone without an agenda agrees that we don't really have a good handle about why wolves domesticated into dogs when they did," said Adam Boyko, a geneticist at Cornell University who studies dog evolution and was not involved in the new research. "But it does seem reasonable, and in agreement with the fossil and genetic record, that it could have predated agriculture somewhat."
The evidence of natural selection in the number and efficiency of key digestive enzymes supports the hypothesis that dogs may have domesticated themselves as a way to exploit the garbage of permanent human settlements.
"Humans had nothing to do with it," said Raymond Coppinger, an emeritus professor of biology and expert on dog evolution at Hampshire College, in Massachusetts. "There was a new niche that was all of a sudden available for somebody to move into."
Accompanying the dietary change -- and probably evolving along with it -- were behavior changes that allowed dogs to tolerate living near people and ultimately being adopted by them. The Swedish researchers found strong evidence of genetic differences in brain function -- and particularly brain development -- between wolves and dogs, which they have not yet analyzed in detail.
In the new study, Axelsson and his colleagues examined DNA from 12 wolves and 60 dogs. The wolf samples were from animals from the United States, Sweden, Russia, Canada and several other northern countries. The dogs were from 14 different breeds.
The researchers compared the DNA sequences of the wolves and dogs (which are subspecies of the same species, Canis lupus) and identified 36 regions in which differences suggested recent natural selection in dogs.
In particular, dogs show changes in genes governing three key steps in the digestion of starch. The first is the breakdown of large carbohydrate molecules into smaller pieces; the second is the chopping of those pieces into sugar molecules; the third is the absorption of those molecules in the intestine.
"It is such a strong signal that it makes us convinced that being able to digest starch efficiently was crucial to dogs," Axelsson said.
Man's best friend, but only thanks to starch tolerance?
You know that dog biscuit shaped like a bone but made mostly of wheat? The fact that your dog is satisfied with it instead of going for a piece of your thigh may be one of the big reasons why its ancestors evolved from wolves to house pets.


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