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How Does Sun City Windshield Replacement Work?
Auto Glass Repairs Explained:
Broken windshields can be a major pain in Sun City. From chips and cracks to complete spiderwebs, damaged auto glass is a serious issue no matter the extent of the problem. That's because even tiny dings and splits in your windshield can grow into vision-obscuring messes. However, windshield replacement in Sun City isn't the only solution when you have damaged auto glass. Smaller flaws can actually be repaired invisibly to restore both strength and an unobstructed view to your windshield. Here's how it works.
The first step to any windshield repair is an evaluation of the damage. The chip or crack should be examined for size and depth as well as location to determine whether it is a candidate for repair. Most flaws up to 6 inches long can be fixed with the typical resin auto glass repair. However in Sun City, keep in mind that this type of solution only works when just the top layer of glass is fractured. Modern windshields are composed of two layers of glass with a rubber membrane laminated in between; the repair can only resolve issues with the first layer of glass, so if both layers are damaged, or you have a hole that goes all the way through, it's time to start learning about windshield replacement, not repairs. Also, some cracks that are around the perimeter of the windscreen can be difficult or impossible to correct, so make sure that the damage is located in a repairable place.
Once you've determined that the window glass can be repaired, the fix itself is relatively easy. Taking approximately 30 minutes, windshield chip repair is both simple and affordable. Using a special, sunlight-cured resin, the auto glass shop technician will inject the epoxy directly into the chip or crack using specialized tools. This completely fills the damage and ensures a smooth finish. The resin dries completely clear, helping the repair blend in to the surrounding windshield and almost totally hiding where the problem was. Natural sunlight dries the windshield crack repair to a waterproof, strong state that reinforces the windscreen and dependably prevents the crack or chip from ever spreading. Windshield replacement offers a reliable solution for both sturdiness and aesthetics.
Windshield repairs are also super convenient, as most auto glass shops can actually come to you. Because the resin cures in sunlight and the special tools used to apply it are quite portable, you won't have to take your car or truck into the shop to have it fixed. Instead, technicians can be sent to you for mobile glass repair right in your driveway or even your workplace's parking lot.
The best time to get a cracked windshield repaired is right now. Substantial research data shows that warm temperatures, cold temperatures, temperature shifts, and even rough road surfaces and speed bumps are all likely to exacerbate your car window glass's damage. Remember, windshield crack repair only works for fissures up to 6 inches long, so if you put off calling the auto glass shop, the crack may grow to the point where windshield replacement is your only option. Save yourself the hassle and the money by bringing in an auto glass repair pro today to take a look. Providing structural support and practically invisible performance, resin car window repairs can help get your windshield back to first-class condition quickly and affordably.
Auto Glass Replacement - For Safety And Maintenance
Replacing Your Vehicle's Windshield? Here is Your Windshield Replacement Survival Guide.
Safety First
A vehicles windshield provides the occupants a barrier from road debris and the outside elements. But most people don't know a windshield is designed for structural safety in case of an accident, especially a rollover. A windshield is a vehicles third most important safety feature behind the seat belts, and air bags.
Windshields are like basketball backboards for air bags. So if you have a damaged windshield your air bag may not function correctly. It actually may inflate out the windshield cavity, rather than towards you. Or it won't adsorb any pressure because your windshield simply pushes out.
Most consumers are not aware that when technicians replace your windshield, there is significant scratching to the "pinchweld" where the glass bonds to the car. These scratches must be prepped using paint and rust prevention steps. They should not simply leave exposed scratches where moisture from the exterior side can cause rust to develop.
Here are some questions you should ask your auto glass company:
- Is the new glass OEM?
- Did they remove the brand label on the windshield?
- Does the new glass have a shade band that matches your old glass?
- Is the new windshield the same color glass? (glass is actually colored, not clear)
- Does your windshield have a rain sensor?
- Is your windshield heated? (companies will install non-heated and charge for heated)
- Does the windshield have the right bracket for your rear view mirror?
- Does the new windshield have the same third visor as your old glass? (the painted black design which you can see around the rear view mirror on most cars)
- Are they using a universal trim molding, or the actual trim molding part for your vehicle?
- Does the company pay to fix paint scratches, if made by the auto glass technician?
Always inspect a piece of glass for scratches and distortion before it's installed.
Types of Automotive Glass
A windshield is actually two layers of glass with a laminate material between the layers, what is called "laminated glass". Laminated glass is extremely hard to puncture or break apart. That's why a large object like a stunt man, can impact the windshield without breaking through. The strength of laminated glass combined with proper adhesion of the windshield to the body of the car provides massive strength against the roof collapsing in a rollover.
All of the other windows in your vehicle are "tempered glass", which means they break into tiny fragments to reduce injury to the occupants. (a small fraction of vehicles have laminated side and rear windows also)
Windshield Urethane
Today's vehicles use urethane as the adhesive to bond the windshield to the vehicle, like a glue. Some urethane after complete hardening which can take 2-4 weeks, can hold 500 pounds per square inch of pressure. That's one reason why you could never simply push your windshield out. Impossible! Some urethane allows you to drive away within one hour after installing the windshield, hardening just enough to withstand vehicle accidents. When your replacement has been completed, make sure to inspect the inside of your vehicle around the edge of the glass. Make sure no urethane has oozed out into view or onto your vehicles interior. This is more common then people realize and needs to be fixed immediately before the glue hardens!
You can always find out what you need by calling your local dealer and giving them your VIN Identification number from your vehicle. If your car is important to you and you want to maintain the investment, always call your local dealer and ask for advice about your specific vehicle.
Windshield Shade Bands and Windshield Color
All auto glass has a shaded color. No windshields are completely clear. Typical shading colors are blue, green, bronze, and grey. Be sure sure to get the same color. You will see that all pieces of glass in your vehicle are the same color, excluding privacy glass and tinting.
A windshield may have a shade band across the top near the roof of the vehicle. This area is preferential. You should decide if you like it or not. It does tend to hide the edge of the interiors headliner when looking at the vehicle from the exterior. Shade bands do come in different colors but not all windshields
Most windshields can be ordered without a shade band at all. But you may find the part is actually more expensive because less people order it. Having a shade band does provide some shading in between your sun visors but it does little to drastically shade the sun. Take note the shade band will be darker at night.
Exterior Trim and Moldings
Your vehicle may have exterior trim or moldings cover the edge of the glass and/or covering the edge the car body. If the trim molding is just rubber, make sure you know what the technician is using to replace it. Some companies are now requiring that technicians use only a universal type aftermarket molding, rather than one that is specifically designed for your car. There should also be an OEM molding part available which is exactly the same as your original molding. Do note that cost for OEM is always more.
You may see plastic and/or metal trim moldings covering the edge of your windshield on the exterior. Normally these have some type of plastic or metal clips that attach them to the glass or vehicles body. Make sure the company replaces any broken clips or parts from removal of these parts. If your vehicle is older than 3 years, these parts become very brittle and damage easy. You may be warned about parts that always break, in which the company may request you also purchase that part ahead of time. You may find a lot of companies simply glue those parts back into place, rather than replacing the broken parts.
Vehicle Windshield Logo and VIN Window
On vehicles like a Ford Mustang and Ford F150, you may have a logo in the third visor above the rear view mirror. These windshields can be ordered with out the logo and are cheaper that way. Make sure you ask about your options.
Most windshields have a small narrow window for viewing of the VIN identification number near the lower drivers side portion of the glass. Make sure this window is in the right location on the glass. When the job is completed, make sure that glue has not covered the VIN, the VIN number plate has not been cut off, or that it has not been badly damaged. Police or the DMV will give you a hard time if the number is not legible or is completely missing from that location.
Windshield Replacement - The Ultimate Guide
To understand the importance of auto glass replacement services, it is vital to understand a car accident scenario. More so, windshield replacement is important to ensure the safety of driver and the passengers against wind, road debris, rain or any other harsh climatic conditions.
In this article, we will discuss some useful facts related to safety and maintenance aspects of auto glass replacement. Go through the points discussed below.
Auto service professionals are known to come with deep knowledge of the products as well as your vehicle. They are trained how to make best use of adhesives which are meant to secure the windshield to the vehicle frame. They know how to detect and treat corrosion to prevent future issues due to the bond between the vehicle frame and windshield.
If you find yourself in the need of a professional auto glass repair services provider, quality and safety should be your major concerns. In other words, you should go through the entire features and capabilities of leading service experts and go with the one that suits you the best. A qualified service provider is known to be current with all safety standards and advancements for all kinds of repair or replacement work needed in a vehicle.


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Beginning next week, Maryland property owners are in for a little surprise with their latest assessment notices. It's an application for the Homestead Tax Credit. For most people, this probably won't be a big deal. They need only fill it out and mail it back to the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation, and fortunately they have four years to do so. But for those who aren't particularly sophisticated about monitoring such paperwork, the consequences of neglect could be severe – a sizable increase in their property tax bill, perhaps in the hundreds of dollars, starting in 2012.
What's going on? The Homestead Tax Credit has long held a unique place in the often-confusing world of property taxes. Put simply, it's a cap on how much a property assessment can rise each year. The cap is set at 10 percent by the state, but Baltimore and many counties set it much lower – 4 percent to 5 percent, in many cases.
Unlike most tax credits, a person receives it automatically. It's only when a property owner declares himself ineligible – that is, the property is reported to no longer be the principal residence of the owner – that the credit is rescinded by the state.
But legislation approved unanimously by the General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Martin O'Malley last spring changes all that. Property owners are expected to make a one-time application for the tax credit. It's an effort to weed out scofflaws who may take advantage of the program even though they rent out or have some other commercial use for the property.
That's a legitimate concern.
But the change in the law has also put people who have a perfect right to the tax credit at risk. The recent wave of foreclosures provided ample demonstration that not all property owners fully understand their financial affairs.
How many people abuse the Homestead Tax Credit and how many legitimate beneficiaries might be unfairly left behind by the change? No one knows. But even with the recent slowdown in real estate values, it's likely that the tax credit continues to benefit hundreds of thousands of people.
What's needed is an outreach and consumer education program that goes well beyond a form letter attached to an assessment notice.
Fortunately, the problem isn't imminent. The law gives homeowners until 2012 to respond, though they would be well advised to act now rather than forget to later. However, the onus should be on state government to make sure that even the most befuddled homeowner is made to understand the consequences of inaction.
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Doctor Who's Alex Kingston has been cast on NCIS, TVLine reports.
Kingston, who has also starred on ER, will play Miranda Pennebaker, a shady business woman who gets tangled up with Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and the team. The actress, who reprised her Who role as River Song last week, will appear on the CBS procedural during November sweeps.
NCIS: Can our "fallen heroes" pick themselves back up?Executive producer Gary Glasberg tells TVLine that Kingston's character is a woman who "deals in everything from high end weapons sales to priceless gems. Her connections go all the way up the ladder of D.C. politics, and Gibbs needs her for this very disturbing, emotional case."Are you excited to see Kingston on NCIS or should she stick to the TARDIS?


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(Pocket-lint) - "Gentleman, start your engines," said the race marshal at the bottom of Goodwood hill - the 1.16-mile long track which has been raced on by anyone who's anyone in the world of motorsport.
Trouble is, the car the Pocket-lint - the Citroën Survolt - was in charge of doesn't technically have an engine. It has a pair of electric motors.
But, just because the Survolt is an electric vehicle, don't go thinking that is a glorified golf cart. Far from it. It packs a combined power output of 300 BHP (223.71 kW), with a top speed of just over 160MPH, and it can accelerate from 0–60MPH in under 5 seconds.
And it looks like the Batmobile too - which was probably our favourite aspect.
So starting our engines was more a case of switching on the power. As it's just a concept car, there's no bells and whistles on the inside - just a racing steering-wheel, two pedals (that have to be operated with dual feet due to the compact space), a touchscreen showing all the technical data and lots of silver switches.
In fact, the switches reminded us of an cheap science fiction movie's flight control deck. But there's nothing cheap about the Survolt. About two minutes before the start of the race we were told by the Citroën engineers, without even a trace of humour, not to crash it as it was a "one-off", worth "£1.6 million just in parts", and was "five years hard work for a lot of people".
No pressure then.
- Future electric cars: Upcoming battery-powered cars that will be on the roads within the next 5 years
As it turns out, they needn't have worried. Pocket-lint attacked the course with driving skills akin to Colin McRae's glory days. At least in our mind we did.
We topped 100MPH on the straight - without gears and a lack of moving engine parts the torque on the Survolt is incredible and it's easy (and scary) to hit great speeds very quickly.
Our lap time though, of just over a minute, was a long way off of F1 driver Nick Heinfeld's course record of 41.6 seconds.
But did Nick do it in a car with no gears, one that makes barely a whisper of sound (save for the high pitch scream of the brakes) and without emitting nasty fumes that make Mother Nature cry? Not a chance.


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At least six people died after authorities say alleged gunman Wade Michael Page opened fire in a suburban Sikh temple, prompting some to go beyond the call of duty to prevent an even greater loss of life. NBC's John Yang reports.
He was shot multiple times, but that didn't stop Oak Creek Police Lt. Brian Murphy from signaling fellow officers to continue rescuing victims at Sunday's deadly rampage at a Sikh temple in southern Wisconsin.
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Lt. Brian Murphy has served the Oak Creek Police Department for over two decades.
Police say they got the initial call about the attack at 10:25 a.m. Sunday. Murphy, 51, was among the first authorities to arrive on scene where suspect Wade Michael Page allegedly killed six people. The temple is located in the suburb of Oak Creek, Wis. about 11 miles south of Milwaukee.
Murphy was ambushed when he stopped to help a victim, Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards told reporters Monday. He said that Murphy was shot eight to nine times with a handgun at close range. Though he was wearing a bullet-proof vest, Murphy was hit in his extremities and suffered a serious wound in his neck.
When officers went to check on Murphy, he signaled them to go into the temple to help other victims, Edwards said.
"He waved them off … and told them to go into temple to assist those in there," the police chief said.
Authorities in Wisconsin say the suspected gunman in the deadly shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, Wade Michael Page, Â was the former leader of a neo-Nazi skinhead rock band.
The suspect was killed on the scene by another officer.
Murphy, a 21-year veteran of the Oak Creek Police Department, remained in critical condition on Monday in the hospital. He is expected to survive.
Oak Creek Mayor Stephen Scaffidi called Murphy's efforts "heroic actions in the line of fire."
"He helped to take down somebody that was intent on taking down lots and lots of people," Scaffidi told NBC News on Monday. "He thought about others before himself."
The mayor also said Murphy has been a part of the tactical squad for years and is the emergency management liaison for the city.
"I sat in a meeting with him three weeks ago and we talked about situations like this," Scaffidi said.
Former Oak Creek Police Chief Thomas Bauer told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he is not surprised by Murphy's heroic actions.
"He's a highly distinguished police officer, highly decorated," Bauer told the Journal Sentinel.
Murphy had been one of three finalists for the police chief's job after Bauer retired, according to the Journal Sentinel.
"He was willing to step up and take on the additional responsibilities and duties and keep that position in-house," Bauer told the Journal Sentinel. "He was certainly well-qualified to take on that role."
On Monday, there was already a growing Facebook group of Sikhs expressing "extreme gratitude" to Murphy.
"We are thankful to ALL the first responders and organizations that helped our community yesterday, but feel a SPECIAL thanks needs to go out to Lt. Murphy who is in critical care," wrote group creator Seema Singh-Dulai.
New York-based human rights group Sikhs for Justice said they are pledging a $10,000 award to Murphy, the Journal Sentinel also reported.
More content from NBCNews.com:
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- Sikhs reel after 'senseless' attack: We're not Taliban
- Gay couples face big hurdles to parenthood
- Loughner wants to plead guilty in Arizona shootings, sources say
- Video: Dog-paddling pooch swims with dolphins
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How Social Media Helps Businesses Deal with Economic DownturnsBlog Post: June 23, 2010
The fact is that social media can come very cheaply (as long as you aren't considering the time factor, anyway). So it's a low-barrier way to connect with customers and ideal for people or companies who like to communicate directly, instead of "blasting" their information to as many people as they can. For more established companies with larger budgets, it's still great for brand awareness, and can lower the total costs spent on marketing. Obviously I'm a big fan!


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Carson City Sheriff's Log: Man arrested on suspicion of threatening to kill stranger
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The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All suspects are innocent until proved guilty in court:
• 1:54 p.m.: William Percy Gary, 29, a transient, was arrested in the 1800 block of East Long Street on a felony burglary warrant. Bail was set at $20,000.
• 12:29 a.m.: A 39-year-old Carson City man was arrested at North Stewart and Dan streets on suspicion of possession of drug paraphernalia. According to the arrest report, a deputy saw the man almost fall while riding a bicycle south on Roop Street and trying to jump a curb. The man reportedly allowed the deputy to search him for weapons or drugs, and the deputy found a makeshift pipe emitting a strong odor of marijuana in the man's right front pants pocket. Bail was set at $1,000.
• 9:46 p.m.: A 22-year-old Carson City man was arrested in the 700 block of Silver Oak Drive on a violation-of-a-suspended-sentence warrant and ex-felon failure to register. According to the arrest report, a deputy was dispatched to the home on a report of a person possibly smoking marijuana. A deputy was advised that a man who lived at the home had a warrant. A woman who answered the door reportedly said at first that the man didn't live at the home, then acknowledged he did after being told he was in trouble. Total bail was set at $3,150.
• 4:30 p.m.: A 20-year-old Carson City woman was arrested in the 1700 block of Russell Way on suspicion of first-degree domestic battery. Bail was set at $3,000.
• 9:20 p.m.: A 41-year-old Carson City man was arrested in the 600 block of Norrie Drive on suspicion of making threats. He allegedly approached a stranger and said he had killed a man and would kill him. Bail was set at $500.
The Nevada Appeal only names people arrested on suspicion of felonies, violent crimes and DUIs. Carson City Secret Witness will pay up to $2,500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of people committing crimes. Anyone with information is asked to call 775-322-4900. The School Secret Witness number is 775-283-1799. Callers remain anonymous.


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Not this one, though. Doleful German actor Vadim Glowna adapted, directed and stars as a Berlin businessman mourning the death of his wife and daughter. A friend (Maximillian Schell) turns him on to a bordello where the madame (Angela Winkler) oversees drugged, dead-to-the-world young women, designed to unlock the memories and desires of the older male clientele. The rules stipulate no actual intercourse. "The girls sleep and remember nothing," says the madame.
A heavy aura of allegory and metaphor hangs over this place. As framed, dully, by Glowna, "Sleeping Beauties" ("Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen" in its original release) becomes a series of stultifying vignettes—clinical erotica and dramatic inertia. The script allows practically everyone onscreen to narrate, round-robin style, in voice-over, reflecting on the protagonist's state of mind. "Sleep is something that is enigmatic, mysterious, terrifying––like death," the businessman ruminates. A woman's body is strictly an occasion for "lamentation" at his point in life, he says.
Glowna's a fine actor, but his film offers nothing but toneless ruminations on desire. Plus the musical score never shuts up with its tangos of regret.
Running time: 1:39. Runs Jan. 9-15 at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.; 312-846-2600; siskelfilmcenter.org. In German, with English subtitles.


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Bituminous Roadways believes in controlling all aspects of the paving process, and for good reason: Every step is just as important as the next.
One of the final steps, compaction, is crucial in determining if the job is done right—whether goals are met, and often whether a bonus is paid.
"The compaction process can't turn a bad job into a good one," said Kent Peterson, president of Bituminous Roadways. "But it can do the opposite: Turn a good job into a bad one."
The firm last fall completed a street paving job near Minneapolis. The new Cat® CB64 Vibratory Asphalt Compactor handled compaction.
The paver placed 771 metric tons (850 U.S. short tons) on the first day the roller was on the job, and the CB64 easily kept pace. Besides production, both the operator and Randy Kramer, the Bituminous Roadways operations manager, were pleased with the roller's visibility. "It's one of the first things I noticed," Kramer said.
The vibratory roller also was able to achieve compaction in three passes, despite the cooler seasonal temperatures. (On future jobs, it sometimes would complete breakdown compaction in only two passes.) The early and subsequent success was no surprise given the research Bituminous Roadways conducted prior to the purchase.
"It wasn't a decision we jumped into," Kramer said. "Our decision-making process included a visit to the Caterpillar plant and a tour of the production line. We were able to see the new and improved features they were including before the product was launched. It made us even more confident."
Among the features that sold the company on the roller were:
Peterson had his own reason for preferring the CB64. "I like the size," he said. "The shorter drums are more maneuverable. We don't only use it on roads, but also in parking lots. We need our equipment to be versatile, too."
Some of that versatility has become a necessity. "There have been times we've had to adjust to stay busy with the recent economy," Kramer said. "We're not locked into highway paving projects, or parking lots. We do more variety now. Before the downturn we took on lots of private business. Our mix has shifted to more public work."
Added Peterson: "We can't buy new machines every time we switch from a public job, which has more straight-production rolling, to a private job, where maneuverability might matter a little more. We need to stay productive in both applications."
The roller continued to work well as the company's operators logged more hours. Randy Paurus, an operator with Bituminous Roadways, worked the compactor for a good part of the fall. He found some of the "little things" added up to substantial improvements.
"Controlling the high amplitude and the frequency were easier with the CB64 than with other rollers I've operated," Paurus said. Fewer adjustments were needed, which meant more time compacting. When required, switches between settings were easy to make.
At 2130 mm (84"), the roller is 152 mm (6") wider than many of its counterparts, helping it efficiently cover the width of the mat. "That 6" makes a difference," Paurus said.
Paurus said the spray system might be the best new feature. "First, you can see the sprayer working," he said. With other systems, an indicator might say the water is running, but a hose could be unplugged or not fully operational, he said.
The biggest spray system improvement is the use of drum pads, Paurus said. "The pads are better than a squeegee-type system," he said. "They disperse the water across the drum. The distribution is much more even and consistent. The pads also are more efficient. They still keep the drum wet, yet don't use as much water."
That efficiency became even more important as the season continued. With the arrival of cold weather, water was replaced with non-freezing windshield washer fluid. The spray system efficiency proved even more beneficial based on the high cost of the fluids.
An auxiliary tank made the conversion an easy one. "I could fill that tank with fluid, turn a valve and get to work," Paurus said. "I would turn on the pump, and it would draw the washer fluid. There would be no freezing, and it was a very simple adjustment to make."
The operator likes the roller, and so does the company president. "By controlling the plant and the crew, we can ensure the cost, quality and timing," Peterson said. "Every step matters."
The final step that brought everything together was led by the new Cat CB64.
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When you actually need her???
If there was any time for Katherine Heigl to come out and run her mouth like she loves to do, it would have been yesterday as news spread of Brooke Smith's firing because ABC couldn't handle the MiniVan homo hate.
And yet the Crown Princess of AssTalk has remained curiously quiet.
No doubt the network is muzzling. Come to think of it, Heigl's been muzzled for a while now, ever since she decided to get ungrateful about Grey's writers being undeserving of a potential Emmy nomination. Moron.
If she hadn't spewed her dumbassness back then, she could have had an opportunity to come out swinging for something that actually mattered.
Instead, and not surprisingly, the gaycists decided to send a female favourite out to quell the controversy, reinforcing Grey's Anatomy primary objective: make the MiniVan happy.
Patrick Dempsey on Ellen.
He appears on her show today and when asked about why the lesbian storyline was killed, this is his response:
"ABC actually sends me over what I should [say]. ABC's response … is that [I] should say: 'We've had a great time working with her and that the conclusion of her [character] has been orgasmic' — I'm sorry, I'm dyslexic! — 'organic' ending to the story line.' "
That's right honey. Read the script.
Patrick continues:
"Thursday night is her last show, which is too bad she has been great character. I don't know what happened with that story line. They decided not to continue it for some reason."
File photos from Wenn.com
Where`s Princess AssTalk…
When you actually need her???


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Here's one to stay away from.
Windstream (WIN), a telecommunications company based in Little Rock, Ark., is the best performer in the S&P 500 year to date (through Friday), having gained more than 12%. But I don't expect these good times to roll on.
To begin with, Windstream labors under a heavy debt load. At the end of September, net debt was approaching $9 billion, or 7x stockholders' equity. More than $3 billion of that debt is due to be paid or refinanced by the end of 2015.
The big attraction here is the dividend yield, which is now close to 11%. Windstream has paid out $0.25 each quarter like clockwork since late 2006.
But how long can the company continue to pay $1 a year in dividends when it hasn't even earned that much since 2007? In the past four years, Windstream has notched profits of $0.93 a share, $0.76, $0.66 and $0.33 -- less every year.
For the year just ended, analysts guess the company earned about $0.43 a share. That's a dime better than in 2011, but still way below what's needed to sustain a $1 dividend.
For the next three years, analysts predict annual earnings to range from $0.55 to $0.71 a share.
20 analysts follow this mid-cap telecom company, which specializes in phone and Internet service for people who live in rural areas. Six call it a buy, four a sell. The other 10 are neutral.
My contrarian instincts might be aroused by that, except that I can't see Windstream as much of a bargain. The stock fetches more than 16x earnings and more than 4x book value, or corporate net worth. To make matters worse, the book value consists largely of goodwill.
Why has the stock popped so far in 2013? It's largely due to relief from dividend-oriented investors -- in the fiscal-cliff compromise, Congress only mildly increased the tax on payouts. (Some investors will keep paying the recent 15% tax rate on dividends, while others with higher incomes will pay 20% -- still much better than some proposals that had been discussed.)
I think that sigh of relief has now been breathed, and I expect Windstream to be a below-market performer for the remainder of the year.
John Dorfman is chairman of Thunderstorm Capital LLC, a money management firm in Boston. He can be reached via email here. At the time of publication, he had no position in the stock discussed above.


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Properly responding to life's seasons of transition yields beautiful harvests in our lives and in the lives of those around us. Persevering through long stretches of waiting and enduring through the sometimes heart-wrenching challenges that come with change are not easy feats. Nonetheless, if we position our hearts rightly, we will arrive at the horizon of that season victoriously.
In my 35 years of ministry, I have been through quite a bit of transition. In the past three years alone, we have transitioned out from a 20-year tenure pastoring a healthy church in Colorado to supporting a youth ministry in Alabama and now serving as executive director of Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, Texas. And we are still in transition, still receiving new assignments and still seeking the Holy Spirit's direction on how to carry them out. It's keeping us young!
Despite the drastic shifts in location and assignment, my life mandate has not changed. Dutch Sheets Ministries (DSM) remains steadfast in carrying out an apostolic mandate to restore hope to America and be a voice for awakening and reformation. Every weekend, I am traveling for DSM and laboring for this great cause. Since the start of this calendar year, I have ministered in over two dozen cities across the nation, stirring the church to pray, challenging believers to be the ekklesia and fanning into flame the fires of revival and awakening.
All along this journey, through the transitions and the waiting, from one assignment to the next, as well as in steadfast pursuit of awakening and reformation, the most important lesson I've learned has been: Make time to listen to and obey God's voice.
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A New Level of Listening, Discerning and Seeing
Many of us have arrived at the place where we stand today only because we've been diligent to lean in to hear the voice of the Lord. Nonetheless, I feel very strongly in my spirit that to arrive at our next great horizon, we must go to a new level of listening, discerning and seeing in the Spirit. There is a new level of prophetic revelation God is inviting us to tap into that will take us to a greater level of authority and assignment.
There are new paradigms and strategies being released to the church that are vital for successfully moving forward into the next season. We cannot allow our attention to be divided. We must identify and remove anything that is crowding out His voice. Not only must we incline our ears to hear what Holy Spirit is saying to us, we must be willing to obey. We must bring ourselves under the authority of what we hear, to submit to it and follow it through to obedience.
One thing is certain: God has faithfully met me with an increase of anointing with every step of obedience in my personal life and ministry. And as we continue to listen and obey, we are seeing God raise us up into higher levels of authority and influence.
But this is for everyone. This promise of increase is available to you too. The church has moved into a season of increase. It's yours for the taking!
For those who are hungry, for those who are diligent to listen and willing to obey, there is increase available—increased anointing for signs, wonders, evangelism, prayer, prophecy and more.
Lean in close. He is speaking in the quiet. Posture your heart to obey—breakthrough and increase await.
Dutch Sheets is an internationally known speaker and was recently named the executive director of Christ for the Nations Institute. He is a successful author who has written many books, including the best-selling Intercessory Prayer and his recent book, Dream. Dutch travels extensively, empowering believers for passionate prayer and world-changing revival. He and his wife, Ceci, reside in Dallas, Texas.
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Gov. Perry Backs Resolution Affirming Texas' Sovereignty Under 10th Amendment
HCR 50 Reiterates Texas' Rights Over Powers Not Otherwise Granted to Federal Government
AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry today joined state Rep. Brandon Creighton and sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 50 in support of states' rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitutio
While HCR 50 is the idealogical new darling legislation of the 81st session, it has been gathering dust in the State Affairs office. No legislators were available for comment today at the Captiol due to Good Friday. There has bee no legislative action on HCR 50 since February, 23 2009; the date it was referred to the State Affairs committee. The show and tell we witnessed on Thursday is a heavy cloud. We can wait until Tuesday for any word on the rain.
There are 69 co-sponsors, 4 sponsors and the author, Rep. Brandon Creighton. Amid the approbation of 76 legislators is: the Vice Chair of the Calendars Committee, 6 co-sponsors on the Calendars committee, 5 State Affairs Committee members – 2 of which are also on the Calendar's committee. With the level of collaborative and incestuous support – why hasn't HCR 50 actually passed by now?
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This is an excerpt from Basketball for Women, Second Edition by Nancy Lieberman.
Most players love to run and have the freedom to attack opponents in the open court. The fast break should be performed with speed; players need to pass the ball quickly up the floor before the defense can recover. Forcing the tempo of a game is a great asset. Defenses are in scramble mode as players try to get back, identify their player, and help out teammates. This causes confusion and mismatches, and it can tire a team out.
Four-on-Zero Fast-Break Layup Drill
To practice filling in positions on the fast break.
1. Four players participate in this drill, with no defenders. Players set up in front of the basket along the baseline; players 1 and 4 start at the blocks, and players 2 and 3 start in the corners.
2. Player 4 tosses the ball off the backboard and rebounds. Player 1 cuts to the middle for an outlet pass, while players 2 and 3 run down the outside lanes for a pass at the opposite end.
3. Whoever receives the ball from player 1 takes the ball to the basket for a layup; player 4 sprints down the court for a rebound.
4. Whether the shot is made or missed, player 4 grabs the ball and makes an outlet pass once again to player 1, and the fast break is executed on the other end.
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Two-Player Fast Break
To practice passing and moving on the two-on-one fast break.
1. Divide players into pairs; one pair will be on the court at a time. Place one defender on the opposite end of the floor.
2. The first pair of players runs down the floor, passing back and forth and trying to score on the other end against the defender.
3. After the pair scores or the defender stops them, the next two players go, and so on. Everyone attempts to score on the fast break against the defender.
4. After every pair has gone, switch defenders and ends, and change up pairs. The drill continues until everyone has played defense.
11-Person Break
To practice rebounding, making good outlet passes, and executing the three-on-two break. This drill requires 11 players.
1. Begin with two defensive players on each side of the court; two outlet players are on each sideline. Player 1 has the ball at the top of one key, and players 2 and 3 are on the wings for a three-on-two.
2. Play out the three-on-two situation until the defense gains possession of the ball or the offense scores.
3. The first defensive player to gain control of the ball outlets to one of the two players stepping onto the court. This defensive player and the two outlet players go three on two at the other end.
4. Two of the three offensive players left on the other end of the court claim the now-open defensive positions, while the third offensive player and the remaining defensive player (who didn't gain possession of the ball) replace the outlets on the sideline.
5. The drill continues in this manner until time is up or a designated number of points are scored.
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Three Dog Night is an American rock band, best known for their music from 1968—1975. They were still making live appearances and recordings as of 2009.
The band started in 1968 with three lead vocalists, Danny Hutton, Chuck Negron, and Cory Wells who landed a recording contract with Dunhill Records in Los Angeles. They had made some early recordings in 1967 with Brian Wilson, and initially went by the name Redwood. Shortly after abandoning the Redwood moniker, the vocalists hired a group of backing musicians: Michael Allsup on guitar, Floyd Sneed on drums, Joe Schermie from the Cory Wells Blues Band on bass, and Jimmy Greenspoon on keyboards and soon became one of the most successful bands in the US during the late 1960s and early 1970s. On a number of early recordings as Three Dog Night one of their in-studio background singers was Donna Gaines, who would later find stardom on her own as Donna Summer.
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There was this guy I dated for a while but things didn't turn out well. I was so into him that one night I can't stop thinking about him, I've decided to send his MOM a message on facebook confessing how much I like her son. I wish it ended there but no. I had to make it so emotional, lengthy and detailed like the drama queen I am. Luckily, it went to message request so I'm hoping she hasn't really read it yet. Up until this day it makes me cringe whenever I think about it but hey, whenever it pops in my mind I make myself laugh too so thank you self for being unbelievably shameless and brave when it comes to love. I may age faster because I have made a lot of cringe-worthy moments that I constantly make faces out of embarrassment just reflecting on my antics but I know I've made more hilarious memories than what ifs and somehow that makes the disappointments feel more like assurances that I have gave it my all and I have lived as honest (maybe a little to honest) as I could. #ItsOnlyNatural #CanBnatural
I've been investing in arts, photography, and writing. I've also got back to reading the other day and I finished reading this amazing book entitled 300 Things I Hope by Iain S. Thomas. It is all about the things the author hopes his readers to do in all aspects of life. So, I decided to make a version of it with all of the things I'm hoping for.
I hope I get to see my friends be successful in life. I hope to make a big mural someday. I hope to be a well-known artist like the artists I look up to. I hope to marry the person I am in love with today. I hope to be a little kinder to myself. I hope to see happiness even in the smallest things. I hope to travel the world. I hope to be a good mother and a wife to my future family. I hope to have my artworks displayed in a gallery or an exhibit. I hope to learn more about creative writing. I hope I won't learn how to get tired and give up my passion. I hope I won't get too hard on myself whenever I don't get the results I've been wanting to see in my works. I hope to love myself more even on the days I hate it the most. I hope to lead and empower women; to be their voice and for them to believe in themselves that they can be the woman they look up to. And when I've reached my limit of these things, I hope I won't get tired of reminding myself that my emotions don't make me weak, hence, makes me stronger. These are some of the things I always hope for. What about you? What are you hoping for?
I started fixing myself this quarantine. I mean, I started trying makeup products. As a teen, I'm on my phone almost every hour of the day, scroll on my social media accounts, especially Instagram, and also Pinterest where you get to see nice and pleasing photography by bunch of amazing and beautiful people from different parts of the world. So I started taking my own as well. I did not know that taking your own photo and try to get an Instagramable one is sooooooooo hard, it's exhausting. I do not have alot of space in my room, and I would definitely not do it outside our house because of Corona Virus, and I don't want to be seen by our neighbors HAHA so I have no choice but to make tiis inside my room.
Out of atleast 25 shots, only 2 are a nice picture. While I'm all sweaty and tired, I am proud of what I could do beyond my comfort zone. And this definitely built my self confidence, (and I secret love the compliments I received from both people I know and don't know) It's not my first time visiting in here, Candy! But I'm new to writing my thoughts and experiences, so bare with me HAHA.
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Christopher Chase was a 'really nice guy,' neighbors say
More details about Christopher Chase, the Fourth Street shooter, emerged Monday.
Chase's neighbors said he was a nice guy. They're surprised he's the one who police said went on a shooting rampage, injuring three Albuquerque police officers and one sheriff's deputy.
In his criminal history, however, he has a pattern of not respecting court orders. Chase has one charge of obstructing or evading police.
The Metropolitan Detention Center released several mug shots of Chase from arrests between 2000 and 2008.
"You never know. Anybody can snap," said neighbor Glenda Gutierrez. "You know I would have never thought of him, in a million years, ever. He was a really nice guy."
Chase's last conviction was in 2008 for embezzling more than $2,500 worth of money orders from the gas station he worked at.
He was indicted in 2005, but never showed up to court and got picked up on an arrest warrant.
Chase also had four traffic tickets.
His only misdemeanor case was in 2000 for disorderly conduct, obstructing or eluding a police officer and failure to appear in court.
Months after he pleaded guilty, a judge issued an arrest warrant for Chase for not paying court fines.
According to his booking sheet, Chase has several tattoos. On his back is a demon with two guns. On his stomach is a juggalo, or a caricature of a fan of the musical group Insane Clown Posse. He had Joker cards on both of his arms. On his neck were Chinese character and the words, "Respect Chinese."
Albuquerque Police Chief Allen Banks said investigators discovered one tattoo right away after he was pronounced dead.
It read: "Cop killer." That last tattoo was on his hand.
Neighbors said he was unemployed and collected a social security check. They said he was never bitter or angry around them.
Chase listed his place of birth as Saint Robert, Mo.
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(a) Environmental documentation and analyses required by this rule should be integrated as much as practicable with any environmental studies, surveys and impact analyses required by other environmental review laws and executive orders (40 CFR 1502.25). When a cost-benefit analysis has been prepared in conjunction with an action which also requires a NEPA analysis, the cost-benefit analysis shall be integrated into the environmental documentation.
(b) CEQ regulations encourage the use of tiering whenever appropriate to eliminate repetitive discussions of the same issues and to focus on the actual issues ripe for discussion at each level of environmental review (40 CFR 1502.20). Tiering is accomplished through the preparation of a broad programmatic environmental impact statement discussing the impacts of a wide ranging or long term stepped program followed by narrower statements or environmental assessments concentrating solely on issues specific to the analysis subsequently prepared (40 CFR 1508.28).
(1) Appropriate use of tiering: Tiering is appropriate when it helps the lead agency to focus on issues which are ripe for decision and exclude from consideration issues already decided or not yet ripe. (40 CFR 1508.28(b).) The sequence of statements or analyses is:
(i) From a broad program, plan, or policy environmental impact statement (not necessarily site specific) to a subordinate/smaller scope program, plan, or policy statement or analysis (usually site specific) (40 CFR 1508.28 (a)).
(ii) From an environmental impact statement on a specific action at an early stage (such as need and site selection) to a supplement (which is preferred) or a subsequent statement or analysis at a later stage (such as environmental mitigation) (40 CFR 1508.28(b)).
(iii) In addition to the discussion required by these regulations for inclusion in environmental impact statements, the programmatic environmental impact statement shall also discuss:
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(C) All of the environmental impacts that will result from establishment of the overall program itself that will be similar for subsequent stages or sites as further implementation plans are proposed; and
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(iv) The analytical document used for stage or site specific analysis subsequent to the programmatic environmental impact statement shall also be an environmental impact statement when the subsequent tier itself may have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment or when an impact statement is otherwise required. Otherwise, it is appropriate to document the tiered analysis with an environmental assessment to fully assess the need for further documentation or whether a FONSI would be appropriate.
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Oregon Tech students from the following majors may participate: Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Manufacturing Engineering Technology, Geomatics, Civil Engineering, and Software Engineering Technology.
Students normally apply during their sophomore year in college; but dual majors and out of sequence juniors may also apply. Contact Brian Moravec for more information.
The Multiple Engineering Cooperative Program (MECOP) at Oregon Institute of Technology demonstrates the power of an effective business/education partnership.
The source of strength for the program is the imaginative ideas they are founded upon: support by a voluntary annual assessment on member companies; a high order of industry interaction with the higher education systems and its students; and continual improvement as the educational institution adjusts its curriculum on recommendations made by the industry partners.
Much discussion has evolved around the inability of major universities to provide an adequate education in engineering in a four-year program. Economic limitations hinder their ability to keep up with state-of-the-art technology. With this in mind, we feel we are providing the best of both worlds the University for the technical/theoretical background, and selected industries for the practical, state-of-the-art applications. Our goal is to supply the Northwest with the best engineers with the necessary tools to be true contributors in their chosen fields.
Each company appoints a representative to serve on the MECOP Advisory Board. The board serves a vital role for the program. The board members develop, help manage, and actively participate in all program activities. These activities include but are not limited to curriculum development, financial support, student selection, development of internship sites, placement of students into internships, and promotion of MECOP.
The Program Coordinator, Prof. Brian Moravec, is responsible for the implementation and administration of the program. It is a full-time position supported by the MECOP Board. This method insures accountability to both industry and Oregon Tech, and promotes a balance between the two interests.
Each Full Board member pays a fee to the program, depending on the size of the company. This amount is determined by the board, and the funds are used to support the Program Coordinators position, along with administrative and other expenses which are incurred in cooperative programs of this nature.
Students are selected into the program through two screening processes. First, they are screened academically in their sophomore year. This is primarily an effort to ensure that students are academically qualified to take upper-division courses. A second screening takes place through an interview process during which all members of the MECOP Board interview the students applying for the program. The goal of this screening is to make every effort to ensure that the students are qualified and ready for future internship placement.
The program's objective is to develop students through a variety of high quality manufacturing companies and firms that employ a wide range of engineering disciplines. To insure this, the students are required to intern at two different companies. This allows both the University and the students a more representative view of today's diverse engineering opportunities.
Representatives from each company offering internships for students in the program are required to participate in placing the students into internships. The process consists of an informal social gathering introducing students and representatives, followed by interviews. Each student is interviewed by a group of company representatives to ask questions and clarify students needs and expectations in an internship. The purpose is to match students and companies, achieving mutual benefits to all parties.
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This has got to be one of the best PR moves a celebrity can ever make: After getting an $80 bill at the Laugh Factory in L.A. on Friday, Rihanna reportedly asked her waiter what his biggest tip ever was, according to TMZ. He said, $100, so Rihanna gave him $200 and said, "Now I'm your biggest tip." Sure, she had to guess the story would make the rounds later, so it could have been a very calculated good PR move, but this is Rihanna — she doesn't care what we think, remember?
This act of generosity places Riri among an elite group of stars with good reps among waitstaff and bartenders. There are a bunch of sites out there with rankings of the best celebrity tippers (all based on secondhand reports from the waiters, of course). Johnny Depp, David Beckham, Charlie Sheen, Dan Ackroyd, Bill Murray, Drew Barrymore, President Obama, Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpson, Drew Carey and Hulk Hogan have all made such lists for their generous gratuities. More than dollar amounts, we've always enjoyed the sites, like this old-school one, that gather tales of the stars' behavior to their servers. The celebs with the worst tipping reputations, because we know you're even more curious about those, include Tiger Woods, Jeremy Piven, Madonna, Britney Spears, LeBron James and Mick Jagger.
What does this say about their personality? You could say the good tippers remember their humble roots, value good service, or, again, know these stories can come back to benefit or haunt them. On the other hand, maybe the bad tippers are forgetful, or they're just used to someone else taking care of the bill-paying for them.
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BALTIMORE, March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Personal Genome Diagnostics Inc. (PGDx), a pioneer in conducting patient-specific analyses aimed at identifying genomic alterations in tumors, today announced a number of developments that will support its expanding business. The company licensed exclusive rights to Digital Karyotyping (DK), an important genome-mapping technology developed by the company's founders at Johns Hopkins University. PGDx also announced that it is expanding into new facilities and has made a number of key hires, including Genzyme Oncology executive Antony Newton as Chief Commercial Officer.
PGDx's co-founders include Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Victor Velculescu and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Luis Diaz , international leaders in cancer genetics and faculty members at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who were the first to perform genome-wide sequence analyses of human cancer. They and colleagues at Johns Hopkins, including Dr. Bert Vogelstein , a recent recipient of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work in colon cancer, established the company in response to requests from cancer researchers and clinicians for commercial access to their specialized genome-mapping services and analyses. PGDx has licensed rights from Johns Hopkins to proprietary methods based on next-generation sequencing, patented approaches to genetic analysis and proprietary data algorithms, and its scientists have deep expertise in the practical application of these technologies to the study of cancer genomics.
"At PGDx, we are fortunate to be able to bring the latest advances in cancer genomics such as Digital Karyotyping to cancer researchers and clinicians around the globe," said Antony Newton . "This is an exciting time for cancer genomics, and we expect to be announcing a number of collaborations and partnerships in the coming months as we bring our advanced capabilities to the many researchers and drug developers who are rapidly advancing the field."
Newton added, "We also are using our CLIA-certified laboratory and our years of genomic know-how to provide information on tumor-specific mutations to cancer patients and their physicians. As the utility of cancer genomics evolves, we are considering a number of options for expanding our ability to serve the growing demand for patient-specific analyses that can help inform treatment decisions."
As part of its services, PGDx employs cancer exome analysis, an approach the company pioneered, to capture and selectively analyze the coding regions of the genome, enabling the comprehensive and reliable genome-wide identification of cancer-related mutations in all of the approximately 20,000 relevant genes. PGDx also provides in-depth computational analyses based on its proprietary methodologies to differentiate between unimportant and cancer-associated mutations.
The patented DK technology enables quantitative analysis of DNA copy number at high resolution with exceptional sensitivity. This method can identify large chromosomal changes in human cancer cells, along with amplifications and deletions, including those in regions not previously known to have been altered. DK has enabled a number of landmark discoveries in human cancer, such as identification of gene amplification of the therapeutically targetable OTX2 gene in medulloblastoma, detection of thymidylate synthase amplification as a mechanism of chemotherapy resistance in colorectal cancer and comprehensive copy number analyses in large-scale cancer genome analyses. The method can also be applied to other conditions, including analyses of chromosomal abnormalities in hereditary disorders. Digital Karotyping complements other technologies licensed from Hopkins, including the CHASM computational method for identifying cancer-related mutations, which are being applied to both research and diagnostic applications.
Under the terms of its agreement with Johns Hopkins, PGDx has the right to sub-license the DK technology to third parties.
Mr. Newton was recently recruited to PGDx after a 19-year career at Genzyme Corporation, where he held a number of roles in marketing, commercial development and drug development. He was most recently Vice President in the Oncology Division.
PGDx, which was originally located in the Johns Hopkins Science and Technology Park, has moved into larger laboratory and office facilities along the Inner Harbor area of Baltimore.
For more information on PGDx, visit: www.personalgenome.com/.
About Personal Genome Diagnostics
Personal Genome Diagnostics (PGDx) provides advanced genome-mapping services and analyses to oncology researchers, clinicians and patients. The company was founded in 2010 by international leaders in cancer genetics at Johns Hopkins University. PGDx conducts patient-specific analyses aimed at identifying the unique genomic alterations in tumors and linking them to the underlying biology. PGDx employs cancer exome analysis, which enables comprehensive and reliable genome-wide identification of cancer-related mutations. The company's proprietary methods for genome sequencing and analysis are complemented by its deep expertise in cancer genomics. PGDx's CLIA-certified facility provides personalized cancer genome analyses to patients and their physicians. For more information, visit www.personalgenome.com.
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Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory (1971). Directed by Mel Stuart. Screenplay by Roald Dahl (and an uncredited David Seltzer), from the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Starring Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, others. 100 minutes. ***
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by John August, from the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Starring Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Christopher Lee, Helena Bonham Carter, James Fox, Deep Roy, others. 115 minutes. * 1/2
Let's get this out of the way, right at the beginning.
Despite a lifetime of voluminous reading that began in childhood, I have never actually picked up Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. I have read some of that master's short stories, notably the grisly and often-filmed modern "Lamb To The Slaughter" and "The Man From The South," but I have never actually read Charlie. I therefore come to Willy Wonka's factory with no preconceptions, no fidelity to a version that exists between pages. Anything I might say about one version's faithfulness to its story is knowledge I might have picked up by osmosis. Unlike our previous two part essay on films starring the Three Musketeers, this one will not and cannot refer to a 'definitive' take, based on the characters originally portrayed in a beloved book; it can only talk about what works best on screen.
There is, as we'll see, enough to note on that basis alone.
Both Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory deal with the adventure of an impoverished young boy named Charlie Bucket, who lives in a hovel with an extended family that includes two sets of bedridden grandparents, perpetually sharing the same king-sized mattress in an arrangement that must lead to any number of broken noses whenever one of them kicks suddenly in the middle of the night. Charlie is a paragon of virtue, given his circumstances; he works to support his family, endures a ridiculous host of deprivations, and never complains, mever even seems to think of complaining.
Then one day, the reclusive but world-famous candy maker Willy Wonka, master of a factory that continues to churn out delicious confections decades after firing all its workers and shuttering its doors, announces that he will open his doors to five children lucky enough to find the golden tickets that have been inserted into five Wonka bars, worldwide. Each child will be able to take one adult family member and each one will win a lifetime's supply of chocolate. The first four tickets go to kids who are all truly rotten, for one reason or another; the fifth lands in Charlie's hands, and he takes the tour along with the other winners, their equally terrible parents, and his own suddenly – one would almost say 'suspiciously' — ambulatory grandfather.
(Watching the film as an adult, reality intrudes and it's hard not to feel suddenly angry at Charlie's grandpa, who has been lying in bed for years, while his family rotted in poverty and his grandson grew up eating weak cabbage soup for every meal. Talk about lazy bums who needed to go out and get a job. This is not a profitable train of thought, though, any more than it's profitable to despise Willy for firing all the local workers and bringing in a tribe of little people willing to live in the factory and be paid in cocoa beans. Right there, you have both the rationale behind Occupy Wall Street and the response of the opponents who tell the demonstrators to stop whining. In either case it's not something you want to think about very much. As we'll see in our discussion of the first film, this is a fable, that exists in an isolated moral universe.)
In any event, all of Charlie's fellow winners, and their parents and the other winners, are driven by their own individually awful brands of awfulness to meet whimsically horrific fates in a factory that has certainly never been inspected by OSHA. And in the end, it turns out to all come down to Willy's desire for a deserving heir, to carry on his confectionary work.
Both films stick to this skeletal plot very closely, but in practice they couldn't possibly be more different.
Two Willy Wonkas
The key difference is in the character of Willy Wonka himself.
He makes no sense viewed in grown-up terms. A genius businessman who lives by himself in a factory that seems to run on whimsy, its only current employees a diminutive race of men who sing germane songs while they work, he is clearly a fantasy figure, a magician, a wizard whose magic manifests as chocolate instead of bright bolts of light. Any real attempt to deconstruct him makes about as much sense as trying to reverse-engineer the Easter Bunny.
The key to recognizing why one Willy works and why the other does not is examining the context.
In both films, Willy Wonka exists in a universe where access to his factory is the most important thing in the entire world. It's just about the only thing that anybody talks about, the only issue that matters. The first film has some fun establishing that this extends, to a ridiculous degree, to adult society, where one newscaster confesses that there must be stories more important than Willy's contest but that he honestly cannot think of any; where an auction house sells off the last box of Wonka chocolate in England at a highly inflated price; and where a woman whose beloved husband has been kidnapped needs to think before giving up his box of Wonka chocolate bars as ransom. This is absurdity, but it's absurdity that sets up the laws of its fantastical universe, that establishes Willy Wonka as, really, the most important man who ever lived. In this context, he's not just some rich guy, exploiting the workers and running a scam contest. In a child's terms, he's not Donald Trump. He's Santa Claus: the god, or perhaps Mephistopheles, of chocolate.
On the story's chosen level, it therefore makes more moral sense that he should damn well act that way,
And while both Willy Wonkas are colorfully-clad eccentrics with childlike priorities, strange hair and an impatient streak that sometimes bubbles over into cruelty, they otherwise couldn't be farther apart.
Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka is, among other things, an adult. He is charismatic, and he is charming. He is enough of a showman to enter with a painful limp and then reveal with a flourish and somersault that he's just kidding.. When the contest winners enter his gates he is friendly enough to share introductions with both the children and their guardians, and to give them all the benefit of the doubt until they rapidly prove themselves to be a bunch of intolerable creeps. Even though disaster repeatedly strikes along the way, there is never any doubt, at any point, that he's ever in less than full control. When he assures Charlie, at the end, that the kid who drowned in chocolate and the kid who went down the chute to the incinerator and the kid who was turned into a giant blueberry and the kid who was shrunken to infinitesimal size will all be restored to full health, there's no doubt that he's telling the truth, and that there was never any real danger, to any of them, at any point. The sense is that he was always testing Charlie, and – though this is not stated aloud, it is my personal interpretation – that he somehow arranged for Charlie to get that last golden ticket in the first place. We trust and like that Willy Wonka. It's a happy ending, for Charlie to end up with him.
Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka is not only manifestly not an adult, but he's a pale, nervous, infantile, disturbed, broken caricature of a man, twisted by childhood trauma, and so asocial that he nervously resists being introduced to the various kids who have come to tour his factory. There are times when he seems downright evil. Some of this is actually fun – it's amusing, for instance, that he always accuses Mike Teavee of "mumbling" whenever that boy points out something that doesn't make logical sense. But the movie doesn't seem to be able to make up its mind whether this Willy Wonka is taken aback when disaster befalls the various nasty children, takes pleasure in it, or has maliciously planned it. There's a genuine qualitative difference between Wilder's Wonka, a man who doesn't dwell in the real world but who seems to exist on some plane superior to it, and Depp's Wonka, a man who has retreated from that real world in fright. Wilder's Wonka is the ultimate prize Charlie wins: a magical friend, an understanding father. Depp's Wonka is a good reason for a restraining order.
Nor is this a subtle thing. Tim Burton's Chocolate Factory builds up a substantial amount of good will with its visual wit and flawless pacing, up to the moment that the contest winners enter the factory. It is, to this essayist's eyes, actually a substantially better film than the original for as long as the opening act lasts, in that it's better at establishing the mystery of the factory, smarter when it comes to dramatizing and visualizing the squalor of Charlie's everyday life, more impressively photographed, and – though this may get some hate mail – more merciful in sparing us a couple of songs that are difficult to sit through today. It seems poised to enter classic territory. Then Willy Wonka enters and opens his mouth. And he's so bloody wrong, less P.T. Barnum than Boo Radley…if Boo Radley were not, at heart, a good neighbor, but a predatory one…that in less than a minute, the quality trajectory is recognizably steered toward the abyss. It's hard to remember the last time a great actor sabotaged a film so quickly. Unless you remember, let's say…Jack Nicholson and that previous Burton film, Batman.
The history of movies is a history of great directors who have forged lasting partnerships with great actors, and who did their best work with those actors; partnerships where both were better together, than they usually were apart. John Ford made classics with John Wayne. Akira Kurosawa made more than a dozen all-time classics with Toshiro Mifune. Martin Scorcese had such a partnership with Robert De Niro and has started another one, almost as fruitful, with Leonardo DeCaprio. Tim Burton's actor of choice is Johnny Depp. And though it has been profitable for both, the sad fact is that it has also been intensely limiting for Depp, in that Burton seems determined to always cast him as twitchy, pale-faced, freakish child-men…and that, between his collaborations with Burton and his success in the Pirates Of the Caribbean series, Depp has made a disproportionately large number of films where he played cartoons and disproportionately few where he played recognizable, nuanced human beings. It's repetitive, and disappointing…and in this version of the Wonka story, downright unpleasant.
But that's not even the main problem.
The Quality Differential In Oompa-Loompas
Roald Dahl's original book was subjected to charges of racism because of its Oompa-Loompas, who were specifically African pygmies, and therefore by implication slaves being exploited in Wonka's factory. (Dahl therefore changed a few things, in subsequent editions.)
The Oompa-Loompas of the 1971 film are little orange men with green hair, a visual design that happens to have two benefits. First, it frees them of any accidental insulting similarity to an existing race. Second, it eliminates their humanity. Some lip-service is given to them being an isolated tribe from Oompa-Land, but that might as well be Oz; what they are, really, is a magical race like elves or dwarves; why not put them to work in a factory? They're not serving mammon, they're serving Willy's perverse take on virtue.
The 2005 film makes the mistake of showing the Oompa-Loompa tribe in their homeland and dramatizing the contract negotiations where Wonka arranged to have them stay in his factory and be paid in cocoa beans. They all have a recognizable human skin tone and they are, in close-up at least, recognizably people. The racism is subtly restored.
(And while we're on the subject, let's be clear on this. In 1971, it was just barely acceptable that all the children who found golden tickets were white. In 2005, that story element is significantly more uncomfortable. If it can be forgiven at all, that's because it's hard to imagine any race feeling slighted in not having one of their own cast as one of the other, awful alternatives to Charlie. How racist would it be to have a fat black kid as Augustus Gloop, or a Japanese kid obsessed with video games as the Teavee brat? Let us shudder, and move on.)
The means the two films use to bring their Oompa-Loompas to the screen are also completely different.
The 1971 film made do with a bunch of authentically little men in costumes. The 2005 film used CGI to multiply actor/musician Deep Roy into dozens of simulacra of himself, performing in synchronized dances. It's an impressive trick, but a grotesque one, in that the 2005 Oompa-Loompas are not little people but shrunken ones, who look disconcertingly unreal whenever they are made to appear beside actors of normal dimensions. There are also, as a result, any number of scenes where the film seems more interested in showing off the cleverness of the technique than in serving the needs of the story. This is nowhere more true than in the scene where obese kid Augustus Gloop is sucked into the transparent tube; dozens of little Deep Roys perform an Esther Williams water ballet in the chocolate river around him, which is a) deeply unfunny, b) intrusive on the actual meaning of the moment, and c) a pop-culture reference so dated that it's designed to sail over the heads of not only the kids watching the film, but also their parents and in some cases their grandparents. (It's, as we shall soon see, a pervasive problem.) Six orange Oompa-Loompas popping up and down on their knees has infinitely more charm than dozens of CGI Oompa-Loompas performing overelaborate production numbers that only serve to make an already noisy film even noisier. It's one of the many places where the advances in technology and the deeper pockets of the production actually betray the 2005 film. (The extended sequence aboard the glass elevator would be another.)
But that, also, is not even the main problem.
Another Problem: Overindulgence in In-Jokes and Self-Referential Humor
The 1971 Chocolate Factory was the product of a less cynical, less media-savvy age, and exists entirely within its own universe. No other pop culture intrudes. No winking intrudes.
Since then we have have had pop-culture spoofs and Shrek movies and any number of other films that congratulate the audience on its familiarity with pop-culture precedents (though, of course, that knowledge is ankle-deep, as the references only rarely flag stuff more than a decade old). And it is now common, indeed almost expected, for a movie to step away from itself and comment on the action, in effect reminding us that it's a movie, which in effect diminishes it.
This is why the 2005 Chocolate Factory has dialogue pointing out that the Oompa-Loompas seem to have a song pre-written for every occasion, and how forced this is. That is also why the Teevee brat gets to snarl, "Why is everything (in this factory) completely pointless?", a line of dialogue of the sort that resonates deeply in any movie that has long since outstayed its welcome.
That's why Tim Burton includes that parody of an Esther Williams water ballet, which is a fine thing if you think the kids in the audience will point and hoot, "Look! A parody of an Esther Williams water ballet!"
This is why there's dialogue talking about how unlikely it is that the Oompa-Loompas have songs pre-written for every occasion. (Ha ha. A musical, pointing out how ridiculous musicals are. Ha, ha, ha. That is hilarious. Actually, it can be. See Urinetown. But it's just forced, here…and it comes off as the movie, trying to be superior to itself.)
That's why there's a painful joke involving the supposedly world-traveling young Willy Wonka parading proudly past a montage of flags of the world, that suddenly becomes literalized when we are told that it's not filmic shorthand but actually the young Willy, marching through a museum exhibit of flahs of the world. (Ha-ha.)
Winks like this have a way of destroying a story. They don't always. After all, Tony Curtis's Cary Grant impression doesn't ruin Some Like It Hot. But they work best when they're organic, when they can be glossed over, when they're functioning parts of a tale that doesn't stumble over them as if they were speed bumps. The knowing humor in Tim Burton's film constantly deflates the story being told.
Nowhere is this more obvious than in the scene in the 2005 film, in many ways a remake of a scene from the 1971 film, where Wonka demonstrates the invention that transports chocolate via television. As apes from 2001: A Space Odyssey cavort around a monolith on the TV image, the soundtrack plays "Also Sprach Zarathustra" and a huge candy bar becomes a monolith, itself. Ha, ha, ha. As if parodies of the 2001 monolith and evocations of Also Sprach Zarathustra hadn't become clichés by 1969; as if 2005 kids were going to say, "Ha-Ha, 2001!"; as if many of their parents were going to get the reference and that most of them weren't also going to be bored by it; as if this is particular joke (or a subsequent joke about the Psycho shower scene), weren't less about telling the story than about Tim Burton the film buff evoking movies that were much better than this one – or for that matter any he has made.
(Rule of thumb: don't quote a great movie in your less-than-great film. Especially don't show us a scene from that movie. The audience will resent it when that much better movie goes away…that is, if they recognize it all.)
The impression this device leaves is that film buff Tim Burton is bored by the movie he's actually making and had to find some other way to amuse himself. This is never a good impression for any moviemaker to make.
But that is also not the main problem.
Nor is the main problem something the Oompa-Loompas allude to, in the song they sing after Mike Teavee is shrunken to miniscule size; they moralize about how TV brutalizes the imagination, immediately after a film that literalized so much at such high volume that it brutalized the imagination pretty horrifically itself. Though it's never good for any movie to accidentally critique itself, the problem lies elsewhere.
Other Issues
There is much in the 2005 version worth admiring. The design of the Bucket house, for instance. The performances of such worthies as Helena Bonham Carter and Edward Fox. The performance of its Charlie, who unlike the original actually can act. (Actually, all the kids were better.) Some of the lines of dialogue. Some of Willy Wonka's bits of business. The staging of the sad fate of Violet. 2005's "Bad Nut" joke is no substitute for 1971's "Bad Egg" joke, but hey, kids in 2005 may not have heard the phrase "bad egg" and something had to be done. The grandfather does not have the charm of Jack Albertson, but brings his own. And unlike the first movie, which is as flatly and unimaginatively staged as any beloved film can be, it shows a genuine sense of visual flair, though that seems to be Burton's great skill and is no real substitute for skill at storytelling.)
Some of the 2005 version doesn't work nearly as well as the original. Willy's chocolate wonderland from the 1971 film is a practical set and not the vast CGI-enhanced locale of the 2005 version, but works about twenty times better. (It, too, represents the difference between teasing the imagination and clubbing it.)
The real problem comes at the point of the story where, in 1971, Charlie has every reason in the world to betray Willy Wonka and decides instead to be true to himself and not go for the quick payday. That's the key moment of the 1971 story; everything else leads up to it. It is a moment of karmic justice that kids and adults can appreciate. In 2005, Charlie has a much easier decision: not abandoning his family by agreeing to live with this rich but profoundly dysfunctional man instead. It's a much easier decision, poor as his family is; we can see that they have always loved him, and only a terrible kid who valued money or everything else would turn his back on them.
Missing this, the entire point of the 1971 version, the 2005 version decides to hinge on how exposure to this profoundly decent kid improves the broken Willy Wonka for the better; and thus goes on to explain how Willy reconciles with his son-of-a-bitch father (Christopher Lee). But there's a major problem with that. Lee projects so much stern evil in the prior flashbacks that, frankly, it's hard not to conclude that this was one of those families that was better off estranged. Christopher Lee may improve any movie he's in just by standing there, and it may be a real hoot to posit him as Willy Wonka's Dad, but he's better, in this film, projecting villainy than he is when reconciling with his wayward, peculiar son.
The whole movie leads up to an emotional catharsis it honestly has not earned.
And that's the fatal problem, the one that ultimately turns it into a colossal bummer.
The River Of Chocolate
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, a minor classic that soars in the performance of its star, Gene Wilder. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, a movie that for a long time also seems poised for greatness until the moment its star walks on screen. I'll see Willy again, gladly; I don't think I'll ever want to take another run at Charlie, which earns most of its star grade for its excellent staging of everything that happens before Willy Wonka shows up. Sorry, but that's the way it is.
And now, eight miniature orange versions of the wife march in singing, "Oompa-Loompa, Oompaty-Ooh, I'll Critique This Movie For You…."
Second Commentary by Judi B. Castro
Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory (1971). Directed by Mel Stuart. Screenplay by Roald Dahl (and an uncredited David Seltzer), from the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Starring Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, others. 100 minutes. ***1/2
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). Directed by Tim Burton. Screenplay by John August, from the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Starring Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Christopher Lee, Helena Bonham Carter, James Fox, Deep Roy, others. 115 minutes. *
Yippee!!! This set of reviews gave me the grand opportunity to be as annoying to my hubby as he has been to me while rewatching films for these columns. How so you may ask? Well, Adam is a lot like those wonderful folks in the theater who already know the story, they don't exactly give it away, they just throw enormous hint boulders at you. "OOh watch what happens here, you'll never believe it". This time I got to sing along and speak the lines all through the viewing of the 1971 film. I was sooo darn happy. Now, he too got into the Oompah Loompah songs, but not nearly as effusively as me. For you see, I have always loved this film!
Now, when the 2005 Tim Burton film was announced, I was a bit worried , but very hopeful. In the years between, I had read the Charlie books and knew that some differences were to be had from the sweet/slightly frightening Gene Wilder portrayal to the Wonka of the books. I wondered how the overwrought genius of Edward Scissorhands would rework the seminal figure. YOWCH!!
What Burton and Depp wrought was a savage, over psychological mess. This man/child twitches and tics his way through his half of the film and leaves the audience wondering why he was so beloved by past employees. Sure the man makes great candy (not the stuff at out stores, the imaginary stuff of the film), but I can't see how he could run an internationally recognized snack food corporation with his mind ripped to shreds by parental abuse issues.
What Burton did right was the visualization of Charlie's impoverished family. The look and feel of the Bucket homestead are nearly perfect. The familial warmth as good as the 1971 film and the feelings evoked from the books.
He ruins the factory by overdoing it. The initial welcome scene tells the audience that the tour is a nightmare come true, not the dream they are hoping will be.
And, must I mention the horrid Oompah Loompah. Singular, not plural. Does Tim Burton dislike little people, that he could only abide one on set? Or, was this a cost cutting measure gone horribly wrong? Having one man play an entire tribe of overeager, happy slaves just blew the magic apart of the happy little lessons "they" sing. I can recite the lyrics of the 1971 Oompah lessons, but I can't even remember the tune to hum it for the 2005. Not the best move for posterity there.
Okay, so I'm obviously prejudiced in this matter. But I need to assure you, I don't hate the Burton/Depp mess, I just don't like it all that much. And, if you ask me to show a child the movie made from the Dahl books, Well…figure out which I'll grab every time.


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