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Dover's Split End Girth has classic overlay style. Appropriate for both showing and schooling, this girth has one split end and triple elastic at the other for even adjustment. Stainless steel roller buckles won't rust.
The Circuit Elite with RTF Saddle features the Rotate-to-Fit (RTF) system for exceptionally easy widening or narrowing of the gullet to fit multiple horses. Circuit Saddles are made from excellent materials and premium leather with details usually found in far more expensive models. Circuit Saddles carry a lifetime tree warranty and include a complimentary saddle cover.
The Circuit Overlay Girth has fancy stitching for show ring style. A great match for Circuit saddles, this high-quality leather girth has triple elastic at both ends and long-wearing stainless steel roller buckles.
Pessoa Saddles have been the choice of the masters since 1973, and Pessoa has continued to innovate ever since. The Gen-X saddle was designed in close collaboration with Rodrigo and offers comfort, quality and value. The Pessoa Gen-X Prestige XCH saddle is the top of the line in long-wearing, extra grippy leather that helps provide extra security.
This all-leather Double Elastic Dressage Girth looks and performs great for both competition and schooling. Double elastic allows for horse comfort.
The Circuit Premier Hybrid Dressage Saddle caters to eventers, new dressage riders, pleasure riders and those seeking a close contact feel. This leather dressage saddle has slightly shortened dressage flap, a medium deep, close contact seat, a moderate twist and a slightly lowered pommel. Generous panels and a wide gullet are comfortable for the horse.
The PJ USA Saddle is classically styled for the show ring and engineered to ride like the PJ Original by Olympic trainer Pierre Jolicoeur, but at an attainable price. Built on a wooden spring tree, this jumping saddle features a medium-deep seat, padded flaps, medium sized front triangle blocks, larger triangle thigh blocks, and slotted stirrup leather keepers.
Handcrafted of natural, vegetable-tanned, pigmented and aniline finished leather, the Marcel Toulouse Celine has a hand-laminated beechwood tree with steel reinforcement. Tree carries a 10-year guarantee.
The Vega Monoflap Dressage by Amerigo combines a close contact feel with a medium-deep seat and moderately sized knee rolls. Calfskin on the seat and flap provide grip. This dressage saddle is easy to fit and correctly styled. It has a flexible polyamide tree with steel head plate, independent Swiss style panels and wool flocking.
The Stubben Zaria Optimum with Biomex seat provides a close contact feel and exceptional comfort. This monoflap cross-country saddle is built on Stubben's polymer spring tree and fitted with multi-layered comfort panels that combine wool with foam. The Freedom flex forward panel design allows the horse full mobility and shoulder comfort.
Crafted in England, this classically-styled Elegance Dressage Saddle supports your riding position. The semi-deep seat with soft French calfskin insert offers both comfort and grip while shaped knee blocks encourage proper leg positioning. Made of durable buffalo leather, it has wide panels and a V-billet girthing system to promote stability.
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Made in full-grain French leather, the Ovation® Show Jumping XCH has large triangle knee rolls and small thigh block, a narrow twist and an attractive stitch detail.
The Pessoa Heritage Pro XCH saddle offers unprecedented comfort for both horse and rider. Large padded flaps in a unique and durable leather feel instantly broken-in. Available with four flap rotations, this leather saddle is built on the XCH adjustable tree and has AMS® panels with high-quality synthetic wool flocking.
The Circuit Pro offers a nicely-padded, slightly wider, medium-deep seat for comfort and security. This correctly-styled jumping saddle is made of high-quality French leather and is beautifully detailed for a distinctive look. Slightly larger panels offer a bigger weight-bearing area, and the wider gullet fits more horses. Lifetime warranty on the tree.
Made from durable full-grain English leather, the Pessoa A/O XCH Saddle has a medium deep seat, a wide channel, narrow twist and traditional padded flaps with pencil knee rolls. It's built on the carbon fiber spring tree with the XCH System and Bayflex® panels. Medium gullet plate is included.
The fully covered premium calfskin flaps on the Circuit Premier Victory saddle provide optimal grip. Medium-deep seat has a narrow twist and is a bit wider. This saddle includes a slightly forward flap rotation, sculpted knee pad, front pencil and rear triangle blocks, full-grain reinforcements and a wide channel. Beechwood laminated spring tree carries a lifetime warranty.
The ThinLine® Dressage Girth makes your horse comfortable for every ride with softly-conforming ThinLine material and a fully elasticized middle. This contoured dressage girth has stainless steel roller buckles at each end and a center D-ring. It won't rub or slip and is easy to care for.
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This Saturday at 7 p.m., David Goldstein of Horse's Ass and I kicked off a new feature called the Stranger Hour on "The David Goldstein Show" (7-10 pm Saturdays and Sundays on Newsradio 710-KIRO). Every Saturday, Goldstein will sit down with a Stranger writer (or, as Goldy likes to refer to us, "victim") to recap last week's news and talk about what's coming up in the paper. Feel free to suggest topics in the comments.

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Summary: Simply at the wrong place at the wrong time. Prisoner to a 'unknown' host... Screaming will give no desired mercy.
Because remember- That's all in your head.
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Genres: Tragedy
Warnings: Character Death, Torture, Violence
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
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Once upon a time in a land far, far away... STOP! This is no fairy tale. Although sometimes I do wake up and have to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming. For those who don't know my story from the Bodybuilding.com forums, my professional career began as a personal trainer in a local gym. I was a trainer during and after college and wanted to further my career.
Those of you who are trainers understand the love that comes with helping people achieve their health and fitness goals. The same thing goes with the supplement industry.
After several years of training I wished I could live my dream and make the change over into the supplement industry. Anyone who knows the industry knows that it is difficult to land a job with any supplement company, let alone one of the world's largest.
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Author, Matt Weik: I Wished I Could Live My Dream
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My Story
I found Bodybuilding.com while in college and found it to be like my second family. Everyone on the forums was helpful and knowledgeable in the industry and I learned a lot from everyone's experiences.
I started contributing to the forums and was considered a knowledgeable resource and was helping as many people as I could not only about supplement usage, but also health and fitness.
Soon after that I was asked by Bodybuilding.com if I would be interested in doing some articles/interviews for them. From there, I got a call from a representative of MET-Rx asking if I would be interested in becoming a board rep for the company.
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At that point I was not employed by the company and was not paid any monetary amount, it was agreed upon that I would be able to get some free product for my time on the board answering questions. Being a poor college student at the time, that was as good as gold to me. I ran with the opportunity and was answering product questions for the company on the forums.
I kept telling MET-Rx anything that I can help them with just ask and I'll do it. I was itching for the opportunity to prove myself to them and possibly land a job with them down the road.
Then there were some forks in the road with things going on in my life and a tragedy in the family which everyone goes through at some point. Some things you just can't plan for, it's not in our plans and only God knows what the deal is. It seemed as if all my hopes and dreams went down the pooper.
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The Opportunity To Prove Myself To Them.
I was questioning if the choices I made for my career were really going to take me anywhere and if all the hard work I've done is ever going to pay off.
Literally a couple days after tragedy struck my family, I got a call from the national distribution manager of MET-Rx asking if I could meet him in Philadelphia to talk about some opportunities. That was my break.
We sat down a few days later and I was offered a regional manager position with the company. Everything happens for a reason, right? I felt like a million bucks and as if I was on top of the world.
I had to hold back during the meeting from showing my true excitement as I didn't want to look like a freak. Needless to say, I accepted the position and am to this day the Mid-Atlantic Regional Manager for MET-Rx and Worldwide Nutrition.
I also need to say thank you to my contacts up at the corporate office that have helped me when I was just a board rep. We are all very good friends now and have a great story line to go along with our working relationship.
I was always in contact with them learning as much as I could about every aspect of the company. I'm not going to be a name dropper, you know who you are, so thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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I Was Always In Contact With Them Learning As
Much As I Could About Every Aspect Of The Company.
Also, Bodybuilding.com... this is where it all began. I owe everything to them, because without their website I would have never had the opportunity to showcase my talents and help and touch as many people as I have. I get emails every single day from people who tell me stories about how my articles help them reach their fitness/health goals or from people who have questions.
And I will say this, I sit down and answer every single email I get no matter how long it takes. This industry has done so much for me that I want to give back as much as possible.
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Now It's Your Turn
Now I'm sure you're thinking how great it would be if you could also break through into the industry. This article is not only to be a source of inspiration for you, but I am going to outline the steps you need to take to help increase your chances of landing a job with a supplement company.
Now this is not a guarantee, so I don't want you to go nuts doing everything I say in the first week and expect to have a job within two weeks. Things don't happen that quickly, and let's be serious for a second - the economy is horrible and companies really aren't looking to increase their staff if they don't need to. However, prove yourself to be an asset and anything can happen.
Join The Bodybuilding.com Forum:
Here is your first step. Make sure you create a user name and join the Bodybuilding.com
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Now I don't mean go to the MISC. section and talk about your favorite TV show or what you plan on doing this weekend. I'm talking about contributing to anything under the Supplement Section heading. There are many sub-sections under it that you can go through and help people.
Feedback on products is very helpful so make sure you review products you try and let people know your thoughts and experiences. There are tons of questions each day on what products people should use for bulking/cutting that you could help answer based on your experience. Get your hands in every aspect of the forum and help out as many people as you can.
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Write Articles:
Become a writer for the site and submit anything you write to them for consideration. If you are lucky enough to have your article chosen, thousands of people will have access to your work.
Make sure you take your time with the articles and make sure the content is solid. People will base their opinion of you from your articles if you are credible or not. Do your research on a topic and make sure the facts are correct and truthful.
Introduce Yourself To Companies:
Once you get some experience on the forums and have some articles under your belt, it's time to showcase your portfolio. Send out some emails or letters to companies you are interested in becoming a board rep for.
Introduce yourself and explain how you would like to help their company have a better presence on the world's largest health and fitness website. Attach to your articles to the email or letter for them to view and mention that they can take a look at some of your work at their convenience.
Explain to them why you feel you would be a good candidate and what qualifications you have. Tell them how much time you give them towards promoting their company and products on the forum.
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Explain To Them Why You Feel You Would Be
A Good Candidate And What Qualifications You Have.
Tell them to feel free to contact you if they would like any further information or if they would like to have an interview to introduce all parties involved.
I will say this, don't contact a company whose products you don't use. There is a good possibility that they will ask you some questions about their products and if you don't know the answers you will look like an idiot. Not cool.
Remember, everyone knows each other in the supplement industry. So unfortunately, if you make a bad impression, someone else will know about you in a negative way as well.
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Check out the latest job openings for Bodybuilding.com. Join our team and help people reach their fitness goals!.
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Knowledge Is Key:
Grab every
book and
magazine you can get your hands on and learn as much about the industry as possible. Make sure you are also knowledgeable about the fitness side of the business as well.
The last thing you want to do is be talking to someone about products and know nothing about working out or proper nutrition.
Be well rounded. Learn as much as you can about health, fitness, nutrition, and supplementation. Knowledge is power and can set you apart from everyone else striving for the same goals and career as you.
Follow Your Dreams:
If getting into the supplement industry is something you want to do then don't let anyone else take that dream away from you. Only you can stand in the way of greatness. Your future is in your hands and you create your own destiny. Put in the time and effort and all great things will follow.
Strive to be the best at everything you do. Never settle for being "average". Average people get "average" jobs. You want greatness! Stay motivated and write down everything you want to accomplish and put it on a timeline so you have something to look at to remind you of your upcoming goals.
Surround yourself with positive people. Negative people will only bring you down. Allow the people who are behind you to push you harder to achieve more with your life. After all, they are in your corner for a reason - they want to see you succeed just as much as you want to.
Have Fun:
This one should be a no-brainer. If you aren't having fun with something then why do it? If you pick up a magazine and get sick of reading about supplements or fitness, maybe the industry isn't for you. However, if you can't seem to keep your hands off books/magazines and you want to absorb as much information as possible - then this is the career for you.
I love what I do and am absolutely obsessed with this industry. Every chance I get I jump on the opportunity to do more with all my relationships I have in the industry. Get your hands in everything you can.
Get your name out there and make people notice you. If you sit back and let people steal your opportunities you will be stuck doing whatever you are doing currently. Go out and meet people. Shake their hands and introduce yourself.
Once you get there, live the dream. Pinch yourself a couple times to make sure you won't wake up from what feels like a dream. The feeling you get from waking up every day and going to a job you love, is like no other feeling in the world. I wouldn't trade it for anything and neither should you. Never settle for less than the best!


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"Bushwick hipster music group" Radical Outing felt so distraught about the ban on Four Loko last year that it put together an entire album of Loko-related tracks, which it called Never Forget: An Attack on Our Freedom and Way of Life. The cover art: two cans of Four Loko as the burning Twin Towers. [NYDN]


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2K Marin Hit By Huge Layoffs, Reportedly Closed
Written Friday, October 18, 2013 By Richard WalkerView author's profile
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified and BioShock 2 studio 2K Marin has been hit by staff layoffs that have apparently affected the "majority" of staff working there according to a source. Said source claims that only those employees who've moved to Rod Fergusson's (former Irrational and Epic producer) new Bay Area 2K outfit are safe.
"We can confirm staff reductions at 2K Marin," a 2K representative confirmed. "While these were difficult decisions, we regularly evaluate our development efforts and have decided to reallocate creative resources. Our goal to create world-class video game titles remains unchanged."
Meanwhile another source has revealed to Polygon that they are "100 percent sure" that 2K Marin has ceased operating entirely, and at least one employee has declared via Twitter, that their time at 2K Marin is at an end.


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I've just installed manually python3.3 sources on the directory :
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Q: Is H1N1 (swine flu) still a concern?
A: Yes. We need to consider whether children get an adequate number of doses of the H1N1 pandemic strain to be protected from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic virus.
Q: Which children are eligible for the nasal spray flu vaccine?
A: The nasal spray is an option for healthy children over age 2 who don't have asthma, chronic medical conditions that cause a suppression of the immune response, or other medical problems that might place them at increased risk for influenza complications.
Sometimes doctors' practices run out of it, or they're not able to stock it every year. But you can ask for it.
Q: How can a parent prepare a child for the flu shot, particularly if the child is afraid of injections?
A: For children who are fearful of an injection, the nasal spray flu vaccine is an option. Otherwise, it's just like any other vaccination, and it may help if the pediatrician has good distraction techniques.
Q: What are the typical reactions to the flu shot?
A: Generally, the most common side effects from the flu shot are local symptoms around the site where the shot was given -- things like soreness, redness, or swelling. Children who get the nasal spray vaccine may have a runny nose, congestion, or cough.
After either vaccine, some children may have other symptoms, such as fever or aches. These effects are usually mild and last only one to two days.
Severe reactions are rare, but parents could look for a high fever, behavior changes, or signs of a severe allergic reaction, like trouble breathing or hives.
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Sasha Frere-Jones: Sean Nelson agrees with S/FJ's logic, but disagrees emotionally.
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I have a shell script (csh) - I didn't write it so I can't change it now. The script does a lot of parsing of log files, calls other scripts in languages like Perl and Tcl, creates new files and calls executables. It runs nicely from the command line.
I would like to be able to run the script from a HTML form (I can do that), work normally and output the text that usually goes to the terminal to a web browser instead.
I'm on Ubuntu 10.10 and have installed lighttpd 1.4.26. The script just needs one single variable passed to it from the HTML.
It doesn't work properly.
- I linked the
conf-enabled. This should enable CGI, it appears to do so.
- I commented out the
server.groupnamelines in
lighttpd.conf. This apparently lets the server run scripts as "root".
- I created a small script that takes the query string, parses it and calls the real useful script.
Here are the problems I'm having:
I add
pwdand it prints out the correct directory. However it won't actually use that path when writing files with '>'. I need to manually add the entire path for every file access of this nature - why?
There is no PATH defined, so none of the commands like
ifconfigetc work. I added a hard-coded PATH= , that seems to work but even then some commands simply don't work. I copied the same PATH as the one I have at an interactive shell. Is there a length limit? Why is there no PATH?
Related to all this is that when calling executables, they seem to be confused as to where they are since relative paths ../../ don't work any more.
I have a feeling that this is some kind of user permission or interactive vs non-interactive problem.
One important note is that this will never be on the web, just running locally on a small setup with a few qualified users. Security is not a concern, really.


text: Excited to implement this plugin. However, i first need to hide the Recently Submitted Resumes' module from the Dashboard of subscribers. They can currently view a list of submitted resumes, but do not have permissions to view the actual resumes. Can this list be hidden from those without permissions? Thanks!


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Good Night, and Good Luck.
- Studio: Warner Independent Pictures (WIP)
- Release Date: Oct 7, 2005
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The biggest little movie of the year - and one of the best ever about the news media.
Vividly re- creates TV news icon Edward R. Murrow's historic face-off with Sen. Joseph McCarthy in devastatingly low-key detail -- is the right movie at the right time.
It's a passionate, serious, impeccably crafted movie tackling a subject Clooney cares about deeply: the duty of journalism to speak truth to power. It also happens to be the most compelling American movie of the year so far.
The only things missing from making this showdown worthy of a Western is Murrow's sheriff's badge, a dusty street and maybe a spittoon for McCarthy's infamous invectives.
A riveting movie that's as entertaining as it is socially and politically important.
You go to Good Night, and Good Luck expecting inspiration, and you get it. It's also unexpectedly subtle, tense, and challenging, complex both in its take on its subject and in its craftsmanship. So the movie brings you to your feet - and, at times, to tears.
The other key character is McCarthy himself, and Clooney uses a masterstroke: He employs actual news footage of McCarthy, who therefore plays himself.
It'll preach mainly to the choir - lazy thinkers won't attend, despite George Clooney's attachment as director and actor - but maybe it'll wake a few sleepers.
A paragon of subtlety. Yet this message is exactly what we carry out of the theater, and it lingers on with a powerful resonance.
This is an elegant and stirring entertainment about the hard-drinking, hard-smoking reporters of "See It Now," the show that Murrow and the producer Fred Friendly put together every week.
He [Clooney] has found a cogent subject, an urgent set of ideas and a formally inventive, absolutely convincing way to make them live on screen.
Langella is terrific in a small but critical role as CBS president William Paley, although the one essential problem with the film is that it never clearly delineates the jobs fulfilled by the cluster of other newsroom employees that are always huddled about.
In ninety-three tight, terrifically exciting minutes, Clooney makes integrity look mighty sexy.
David Strathairn, playing Murrow, follows his writers' lead beautifully, delivering a performance that's all understatement on the surface and searing fire underneath.
That the film should have the look and feel of a classic teleplay by, say, Rod Serling, is probably no accident -- the style is one more reminder of just how regrettably short of Murrow's vision we've fallen.
A puzzle: a hermetically sealed period piece so intensely relevant to our current state of affairs that it takes your breath away.
Like other actors who successfully create a cinematic doppelganger of a real person, Strathairn gets under the character's skin.
Good Night, and Good Luck has a small-scale time-capsule fascination, yet its hermeticism is really a form of moral caution -- a way of keeping the issues neat, the liberal idealism untainted.
A solid achievement, but those in the press who have been trumpeting its greatness may be going in for a bit of self-congratulation. The movie plays very well to the choir.
It doesn't sacrifice craftsmanship and elegance at the altar of its strong convictions.
A vital chapter of mid-century history is brought to life concisely, with intimacy and matter-of-fact artistry.
Good Night, and Good Luck's primary handicap is history itself -- the toe-to-toe televised dialogue between McCarthy and Murrow was, however arguably vital to the Wisconsin senator's eventual retreat, brief and less than epochal. Even so, the wonderfully mustered context wins out.
Many movies these days are too long; this one, at 90 minutes, feels too short. That's because its purpose is so sharply defined: a tight close-up, in black and white, of a single, seminal moment -- a black and white moment -- in American history, and American journalism.
A passionate and rousing piece of filmmaking--a civics lesson with the punch of a good melodrama.
Provocative, principled and richly detailed, this is compelling stuff. Emotionally it's a little dry, but as brain-food, it's absolutely invigorating.
The result, then, is good, not great. But it is hard to come by good films about media and politics, and why the intersection thereof matters so much in a democracy.
Good Night, and Good Luck may be simplified history, but it's almost consistently well-crafted.
Moviegoers who know their American political history will respond to the film's immediacy and forgive the film's tight focus and narrow view. Anyone hoping for an entertaining drama about newsmen and politics along the lines of "All the President's Men" will be disappointed.
Where "Quiz Show" elevated its story to the level of Shakespearean tragedy, Clooney's film is too lightweight to reach such tragic heights. In part, it's too short--at 90 minutes, including musical interludes and lengthy monologues taken whole-cloth from the historical record, Good Night breezes by effortlessly when it really needs time and space to build up to appropriately epic dimensions.
Though I'm not fully convinced that cool and jazzy is the way to go with one of the great civil-rights battles of 20th-century America, George Clooney's elegantly muted take on Edward R. Murrow's fight with Joe McCarthy offers many riches, notably a wicked character study of Murrow and a sexy homage to the pleasures of teamwork when the team is a bunch of smart-ass liberal reporters making common cause against a wannabe dictator.
Clooney may be a specialist in embattled camaraderie--he helped revive "Ocean's Eleven," after all--but as in that caper remake, there's no depth to these characterizations, and Downey and Clarkson are squandered in a goes-nowhere subplot about their secret marriage.
The film, therefore, is like a child's view of these events, untroubled by complexity, hungry for myth and simplicity.
There is more to the intertwined stories of Murrow and McCarthy than this simpleminded, rhetorically driven movie begins to encompass.
The film adopts, somewhat insidiously, the myth that life was simpler back in 1953 and '54, and it offers Murrow as a lesson for today.
Yet the McCarthy/Murrow conflict in the picture is not pressing enough--these days, anyway--to justify the considerable skill expended on it.
Clooney has littered his film with such a high quantity of mistakes that it is hard to know where exactly to begin finding fault.
Awards & Rankings
User Score
Generally favorable reviews- based on 166 Ratings
User score distribution:
Positive: 52 out of 76
Mixed: 13 out of 76
Negative: 11 out of 76
Feb 22, 2012"Good Night, and Good Luck" isn't really a masterpiece as the critics claim, but it has it's sophisticated entertainment values thanks to the"Good Night, and Good Luck" isn't really a masterpiece as the critics claim, but it has it's sophisticated entertainment values thanks to the wonderful direction / performance of George Clooney and his crew.… Full Review »
May 2, 2011Seldom does a film pontificate such an intellectually prescient concept to their film the way "Good Night and Good Luck" did so brilliantly!Seldom does a film pontificate such an intellectually prescient concept to their film the way "Good Night and Good Luck" did so brilliantly! To comprehend the full gist of this movie is to ruminate the prevailing era in this country during McCarthyism. What Edward R Murrow hoped to accomplish with his news show was to format objectivity in a manner whereby the truth on any given issue required a full perspective, and, not just one politician's point of view! Today, the dichotimizing of various philosophies concerning different positions on any given issue, seem relatively second nature to the dynamic of the news media, however, in 1954, it was an intrepidly new concept in which Edward R Morrow essentially gave birth to. To theorize on the veracity of any particular concept becomes an intellectual endeavor which broadens our horizons as Americans. Such an esoteric epigram from "Good Night and Good Luck" is what made this film so intellectually spellbinding! So often in films today, the fusillade of special effects supercedes the basic cerebral element of human nature. The success of most films are determined by their box office budget. Steve Soderbourgh and George Clooney attained a clairvoyant effervescence to decide to produce this film. "Good Night and Good Luck" effloresces into a precis for academic fervor in establishing the very real purpose of television. Edward R Murrow became the single biggest purveyor for unprecedented accuracy in the news world of television just by virtue of delving into every angle of a volatile, and formerly misunderstood issue. Issues such as Communist paranoia, which was vehemently advocated by Joe McCarthy! It was probably the hacked out stoicism to predetermined news programming which Edward R Murrow wished to severely abbreviate. Murrow's philosophy of the news was to conceptualize the aggregate circumstances to a news story to determine the accuracy and significance of the actual controversy pertaining to this news item. Newsworthiness became a prerogative of every American in the United States after Murrow's entrance in the news realm of professionalism. The fact is, the truth is multi faceted, and the simple mendacity to the American News Media, is that is was not represented by that criteria! What was placatory doggerel back then, became hard bitten reality thanks to Edward R Murrow. By 1954, it was time for stilted national heroism to be dragged down from the soap box and revolutionized to the paradigm which accommodated the overall wishes of the American public. For now, television was not just about ratings and innocuous entertainment, it was incumbent upon someone such as Edward R Murrow to introduce the informative element of television as a foundation to enhance professional integrity. The visceral outlook in which the film "Good Night and Good Luck" assumed was an intelligent and an enlightening perspective that brought the birth of prolific news media coverage to the American people. Was this film exciting? No! It could not possibly be. This movie is about the truth, and, the truth is not exciting. The truth is stubborn, the truth is wry as well as abrasive, but, most of all, the truth is a necessary evil which keeps our eyes wide open to determine the full scope of political philosophy as opposed to another. This acute presentation of fundamental principals and policies which Edward R Murrow established as a precedent for news anchormen in the ensuing years ahead, made the film "Good Night and Good Luck" a cogently accurate account of how Americans have dissected the accuracy of hard bitten news on television. The film "Good Night and Good Luck" is unbelievably brilliant in the overall premise by which it purveys. Put it this way: Christopher Columbus discovered America, and Edward R Murrow discovered objectivity for television news shows. While I thought this film was fabulous, if people didn't like it, it is good in some ways, mostly because we do not realize how much we have taken the privilege of a well rounded perspective on a political issue for granted., therefore, we do not perceive that this film was groundbreaking in any way, but,, it most assuredly was! A simple solution for a seemingly complicated issue is merely a simple response! This movie "Good Night and Good Luck" is what made me just say that. One more thing, make sure you go out there and vote!!… Full Review »
Mar 14, 2015The fight against the powerful takes bravery, such as shown Edward R Murrow and the people he worked during the witch-hunts of McCarthyism.The fight against the powerful takes bravery, such as shown Edward R Murrow and the people he worked during the witch-hunts of McCarthyism. "Good Night and Good Luck" displays that fight brilliantly. George Clooney gives his best directorial work and David Strathairn as Murrow gives his best performance to date, in one of the best films about journalism since "All The Presidents Men". It may not be high flying sensationalistic twists and turns, but all the little details, the beautiful black and white cinematography, and the great cast of a number of known names, add up to a compelling piece, and a timeless story about what it takes to stand up for what's right.… Full Review »


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Road Bear - Motorhome hire in the USA
Please Note: The Motorhomes will be winterized no use of shower, toilet or sink. during the winter period(From Mid October to Mid April)
The following is Included in the daily rental rates:- A Quality Road Bear vehicle (Guaranteed New Models)- Standard Insurance with an excess of USD $1,000- Sales Tax- 24 Hour Road Side Assistance
The following are payable at time of collection, if applicable:Additional mileage charged at USD $0.45 + local sales tax at drop off 500 mile packages prepaid / prebooked are USD $190 incl. tax.Refundable deposit: USD $1,000. Visa, Mastercard, Euro card and Amex accepted.VIP coverage: Excess of USD $1,000. Insurance liability may increase to USD $3,000 is some instances. SLI (Supplimentary Liability Insurance): USD $9 + Tax per day. Will cover up to USD $1,000,000 if involved in an accident. Refer to Motorhomes Worldwide for details.DepositUSD $1,000 - Will be authorized / blocked (not charged) on Visa / Mastercard / Amex credit card while traveling.
Mileage Rate:USD $190 incl tax per 500 mile package USD $0.45 plus local tax per extra mile at drop off.Please note: All mileage must be prebooked - no additional mileage packages or unlimited mileage upgrade available at pick up.
Taxes & Governmental Fees:Sale taxes are included for all pre-booked items. Local taxes apply for all pick up and drop off charges and may change at any time. Newly assessed governmental fees (other than sales tax or DMV fees) not known at this time will be collected at pick up. (Except SLI Insurance / N.J. security / Colorado Road Safety Fee)
Local taxes are as follows and are applicable for any additional charges paid for at the depot:
Preparation Fee: USD $200 per rental for all bookings. It includes:
All Inclusive Package:USD $125 per day - ( USD $94 per day for 2016 / 2017 ) Minimum of 14 nights hire required. All inclusive package includes unlimited milage, Preparation Fee, all Convenience kits, GPS, VIP, Camping Table & Chairs & tax.
Convenience Kit (Includes FREE GPS Rental):USD $70 per person - children up to 6 years free of chargeClick here for PDF file 142kb
All items must be returned at end of trip.
The Vehicle Provisioning Kit includes a flashlight, can opener, bottle opener, broom with dust pan, plastic pail, spatula, cooking spoon, cooking fork, coffee cups, tumblers, plates, soup bowls, silverware, platter, tea kettle, colander, mixing bowl, and a cookware set. All item must be returned clean at end of trip.
GPS Rental:$70 Per Rental - FREE if Convenience Kits are selected for hire.
Camping Chair:USD $9.00 per camping chair. No tables, BBQ's, child seats or bikes are available.
WIFI Hotspot Rental:USD $125.00 incl. 1GB data (expires after 30 days) ; connects up to 5 WiFi enabled devices. Fees may change at any time and without prior notice. Devices are subject to availability and reception is limited to 3G/4G data carrier coverage.Additional data can be purchased online.
One Way Rental Fees :
2016 One Way Specials:
2017 One Way Specials:
Long Term Discounts:5% Discount with rentals of 21 or more nights10% Discount with rentals of 42 or more nights
Generator:USD $3 per hour (payable at drop off).
Supplemental Liability Insurance ( SLI )USD $10 per day.
Colorado Road Safety Fee:USD $2.00 per night (Max: USD $90 per booking) applies to all bookings with Denver Pick Up. Please Note: Denver Branch closed from 01 December to 28 February 2016
Sunpass Transponder (SPT):USD $5.00 per night (Max. USD $50.00 per booking) - available with MCO pick up only.
Florida Road Toll System:Please click here if you are travelling on the Florida Turnpike on the southern 47 miles stretch of the Turnpike, from US1 in Florida City to the Miami-Dade/Broward County line.
New Jersey Security Fee:USD $5 per day applies to all New York City pick ups, maximum of USD $140 per booking.
Transfers to Branch:Clients cannot pick up the vehicle the day they arrive with an inter-continental flight. We recommend therefore spending the first night in an airport hotel or motel. Priority shuttle service will be granted to customers who have made contact at least 72 hours in advance, via you or the online check-in system with their transfer location and how they can be reached so we may inform them about the exact pick-up time for the transfer. If customers choose not to supply the transfer location 72 hours in advance the complimentary shuttle service cannot be guaranteed.
If the customer has provided us the transfer location and how we can reach them but not received the exact pick-up time for the transfer at 4:00 pm the day before vehicle pick-up, we advise the customer to call the pick-up rental station between 8:00 am and 9:00 am on the pick-up day.
Complimentary Transfers:Complimentary transfers are provided once a day at all rental locations from/to named airport hotels7 and to the airports DEN/EWR/LAS/LAX/MCO/OAK/SEA/SFO (neither JFK nor La Guardia). The complimentary permitted amount of luggage is in accordance with the airline regulations (1 suitcase max. 50 lbs. / 23 kg plus 2 pieces of hand luggage per person). Excessive luggage is the customer�s responsibility.
The complimentary airport (hotel) shuttle leaves at 11:00 am at all branches.
TRANSFERS SFO: The convenient and inexpensive BART allows customers who stay in SFO downtown to arrive within 35 minutes at the BART train station in South Hayward instead of taking a 30 minutes taxi back to SFO airport hotels (US$ 50.00+) to catch the free shuttle (another 30-40 minutes). A free shuttle service between our branch and the BART train station South Hayward is provided when the customer informs us accordingly (see �TRANSFERS COMMON�). The train schedule can be looked up at: http://www.bart.gov/schedules/byline.aspx (select Fremont Daly City).
In San Francisco / Denver clients will be picked up in downtown and in Los Angeles from Marina del Rey, Venice, Santa Monica for an extra charge.
Pick Up and Drop Off Times:Vehicle pick up time is between 12:00 noon and 4:00pm. To avoid waiting times all customers are asked to check-in online and communicate with the branch to schedule the exact pick-up time.Vehicle drop off time starts at 8:00 am has to be concluded at 10.30am. Later drop-offs will not be entitled to get a complementary transfer to the airport hotels or airport.
Hours of Operation:Monday through Friday 8.00 am to 5.00 pm. Saturday from 8.00 am to 1.00 pm (or during season as required). All stations are closed on Sundays and on all statutory holidays.Please note: Denver and Seattle depots are closed 04 December 2016 to 26 February 2017.
2016 Public Holidays:
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Driver Requirements:A valid national driver's licence is required for each driver. In addition we recommend that foreign customers have an international driver's license or an English translation of the license issued by their home country. All drivers must be at least 25 to 79 years of age (21 to 25 years on request basis).
Additional Drivers:No extra charge for additional drivers.
Minimum Rental:7 nights (14 nights if All Inclusive Package is selected)
Special Event Conditions:Minimum rental periods apply for Special event rentals:
* NASCAR: 4 days* Bonnaroo: 7 Days
Bonnaroo: A USD $1,500.00 refundable cleaning & security deposit (authorized on credit card only) is required for this event!
Burning Man: Road Bear will combine the Security & Cleaning deposits for Burning Man and CHARGE (credit card only) a refundable USD $1,500.00 Deposit at pick-up.Holiday Surcharge: (pre-paid) USD $1,000 for all pick ups from San Francisco / USD $500 from Las Vegas & Los Angeles between 24 to 29 August 2016.
Road Bear will NOT allow name changes on confirmed reservations and the main renter/credit card holder must be present at time of vehicle pick up. Vehicles will not be handed over to a 3rd party or in case of insufficient funds for the security deposit. The reservation will be cancelled and prepaid funds are forfeit ! No exceptions please.
We accept for this time bookings with 13 and more nights and NOT dropping off in San Francisco on 06 / 07 September 2016.
Customer Orientation:At all locations our staff speak German and English, Dutch, French, Spanish is spoken at some locations. After completing the paperwork the clients get a very thorough personal walk-thru of the motorhome. In addition every vehicle is equipped with an operation manual in German and English. In case of an emergency, accident or technical problems, clients may call 24-hours a day/7 days a week the emergency toll free number which is printed on the keychain.
Vehicle Substitutions:If for any reason the booked vehicle should not be available, ROAD BEAR RV reserves the right to substitute a higher-rated vehicle at no additional cost. Should a lower-rated vehicle be substituted, the liability is limited to the refund of the gross rate difference of the two vehicles.
Pet, Smoking and Travel Restrictions:
Road Bear RV will hold the customer responsible for disregarding these restrictions including accidents, mechanical breakdowns and thefts occurring in a travel restricted area!
Gasoline and Propane:The cost of gasoline and propane is not included in any rent and Road Bear RV does not assume responsibility for estimates of consumption. All vehicles are delivered with full tanks and the customer is expected to return the vehicle with full tanks or will be charged accordingly.
Maintenance:The customer is responsible for checking engine oil and coolant levels at each refueling as well as reporting mechanical failures immediately. Coolant refills and authorized repairs will be reimbursed upon return of the vehicle and presentation of all receipts (see mechanical breakdown). It is the driver's responsibility to operate the vehicle in a safe manner and to exercise all caution possible.
Mechanical Breakdown:For maintenance and repairs exceeding USD $50 the customer must call the Road Bear RV 24-hour / 7-days toll free helpline to get an authorization. Non-authorized invoices over USD $50 will not be reimbursed. Receipts and replaced parts must be presented for reimbursement. Customer will be held responsible for mechanical damage due to negligence in operation and/or maintenance.
Vacation Interuption Protection (VIP) Insurance Should the renter�s motorhome vacation be interrupted by an automotive mechanical breakdown, not accident or damages caused by the renter, for more than 12 working hours after reporting this to Road Bear RV, the renter will be reimbursed for the greater of the gross daily rental rate or expenses for hotel rooms up to USD $25 per person per night and car rental up to USD $50 per day per motorhome with a combined maximum of USD $1,500 per rental agreement.
Such reimbursement is only possible when we had the chance to take care of the problem and the customer cooperated to do so. Defects and repairs of Wi-Fi, GPS, radio, TV, CD or DVD player, generator, AC, refrigerator, heater, water heater, slide-out room, awning, cruise control, etc. are not considered mechanical breakdowns and are excluded from VIP reimbursement. Refund of expenses is only possible against proper receipts (see above).
In the Event of an Accident
Parking and Traffic Violations:It is the client�s responsibility to report and pay at drop-off for all parking and traffic violations. Failing to report these violations at drop-off will cause a charge of a USD $100 administrative fee per violation plus the fine (including all late charges) to the client�s credit card.
Toll Road System in the Florida Keys:Since February 2011 the Florida Turnpike Enterprise has implemented an all-electronic open road tolling for the southern 47 miles stretch of the Turnpike, from US1 in Florida City to the Miami-Dade/Broward County line. The old tollbooths have been eliminated and the toll-fees cannot be paid in cash anymore. There are the following options for payment to travel on the Turnpike:1. Customers picking up in MCO may conveniently rent a Sun Pass transponder at the branch.2. A SunPass Transponder can be obtained by calling 1-888-865-5352 or visiting www.SunPass.com. The transponder will allow traveling on toll roads by paying money into the personal SunPass account.
3. The �TOLL-BY-PLATE� program can be used as an alternative. This program captures an image of the vehicle license plate and bills the registered owner of the vehicle for the toll amount. The �TOLL-BY-PLATE� program allows the customer to call in to register for a �TOLL-BY-PLATE� account and to pay for tolls before an invoice will be issued. Payments can be made by cash, credit/debit card on-line or through new payment kiosks located at major retail stores.
Be Aware:Florida State Law (Statue 316.1001) requires payment of prescribed tolls for the usage of toll facilities. Failure to comply with this statute may result in the assessment of a USD $100 or more civil penalty, assessment of court costs, and suspension of the vehicle registration and/or suspension of the driver's license. It will be important for the customer to inform the Road Bear RV drop-off location of the fact that they traveled on the Florida Turnpike regardless of what option they choose. In case that an invoice for toll fees will be sent to Road Bear RV as the registered owner of the vehicle, all fees due will be charged to the customer�s credit card on file and processed according to our rental provisions with regards to traffic citations (incl. administrative fees).
Cleaning Fee: The clients are responsible to return the vehicle with the interior clean and holding tanks dumped. The vehicles exterior does not require cleaning by the customer. Cleaning and dumping charges apply as posted at the drop-off location.
Unauthorized Late Return (aka "Unauthorized Extension of the Rental Period):For an unauthorized late return after 12:00 pm the sum of a) the actual gross rental rate night plus b) USD $300 for administration and handling will be charged for each day late, or part thereof.
Towing:Towing does not cost anything extra. The limit is 1000 lbs with the trailer. The customer has to find a trailer themselves.
Insurance:Public Liability Insurance (secondary coverage included in the daily rate)The Public Liability Insurance covers accidents in the event that the renter is at fault. The policy protects the rental company up to USD $1,000,000 and the renter to Statutory Limits (State mandated minimum liability coverage). Liability Insurance has no deductible and current limits can be checked at https://extranet.mbainsurance.net/choice/statelimits.php.
Additional liability coverage can be purchased as described below:SLI - Provides the customer with an increased limit protection up to one million dollars.USD $9 per day
Supplemental Liability Insurance (SLI) The optional SLI coverage provides the customer with an increased limit of liability protection. SLI protects the renter and any authorized driver listed on the rental contract for up to US$ 1,000,000 toward 3rd party damage claims. Premium VIP Coverage (included in the daily rate) - Security Deposit of USD $1,000 (will be authorised on a major credit card)Premium VIP coverage includes secondary comprehensive and collision coverage for the rented vehicle with a deductible of USD $1,000 per incident. Coverage includes but is not limited to:
No insurance coverage is provided (liability or comprehensive & collision) while traveling into non-authorized areas including but not limited to the country of Mexico, the inner cities of New York, Montreal and Quebec (Canada) (see �Pet, Smoking and Travel Restrictions� section).
Non-Covered Damages (including but not limited to) The renter�s responsibility for negligence and/or non-covered damages e.g. roof damages and roof accessories (all damages above the windshield) is unlimited, up to the vehicle value.
Customer has full legal and financial responsibility in case of:
Storage: We provide free storage of luggage at the rental station at clients own risk.
Winterized vehicles:Vehicles are winterized in areas with temperatures below freezing point. The water-/waste water system will be drained and CANNOT be used! USD $100 re-winterization fee & damages caused by freezing will be charged if customer de-winterizes system on the road.
Refund for Unused Portion:No refund will be given for delayed pick ups / early returns, unused mileage or for �no shows�.
Cancellation Fees:Every cancellation needs to be made in writing. The day of receipt of the cancellation is the date the cancellation fee is calculated as follows:
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Well said, Mr. Poe.
You really don't understand why daily papers aren't full of curse words? You really don't get how they are different from alt-weeklies? Or are you just pretending to be stupid?
It´s hard to believe you do not understand the difference Dan. It´s not hard to believe that you stopped maturing past junior high! Give me a break.
Because the readers /are/ a bunch of prissy ol' clenchbutts, one assumes. One also assumes things will be very different once all the old people are dead.
You should have prefaced: "Warning: post contains fuck words."
One time when I was in jail, I got (back my?)religion (cliche, I know, spare me the guilt.) So I'd go visit with the Catholic chaplain every now and then. One time I was puzzling over the whole concept of profanity. I went to the chaplain and explained I was starting to trip on how vulgar my language had become in jail. He said to me in his tough as nails Hells Kitchen accent, "Don't struggle with profanity. You're in jail and it fucking sucks here."
On a side note, that entire 2 year long dialog I had with that dude made me wonder if there any Catholics who are religious. (note to offended Catholics: I kid).
Second CIRCUIT Court of Appeals...
If you can't say it, you can't do it.
I think I've got the vapors. Fuck profanity. It's vulgar!
Fuck! Look what good ole Dan wrote back in 2002.
Excerpt from \"Say Yes To War\" by Dan Savage October 2002
\"In the meantime, invading and rebuilding Iraq will not only free the Iraqi people, it will also make the Saudis aware of the consequences they face if they continue to oppress their own people while exporting terrorism and terrorists. The War on Iraq will make it clear to our friends and enemies in the Middle East (and elsewhere) that we mean business: Free your people, reform your societies, liberalize, and democratize... or we\'re going to come over there, remove you from power, free your people, and reform your societies for ourselves\"
And I FUCKING love the Blue Angels. And I am in FUCKING love with me! FUCK you Postman with your "necessary" prudishne...oops, my mom's on the phone explaining what kind of sunlight is best for geraniums, hold that thought...
Fucking trolls.
Trolls, whatever - if I'd said anything as incredibly stupid and arrogant as what Savage did (and I made it my full time job to be a nasty prick to anybody and everybody I disagree with), I'd expect to have my words thrown back at me for the rest of my life.
And people who want (let alone expect) to be treated as serious journalists don't use "fuck" except in a direct quote.
This is so typically Dan - fighting the culture wars while the important stuff is forgotten. Here, Dan's ignoring the demise of 162 units of affordable housing (the genesis of the e-mail tirade by John Creighton of the Port of Seattle) while he's spending his time worrying about someone's silly criticism of silly language.
Dan, it's time to get a clue - there are more battles to fight than the culture wars. One worth fighting is the battle to save the Lora Lake apartments. When will you get your head out fof your butt and turn The Stranger's truth squad on the Port of Seattle and its heartless commission?
It'd be nice to read something in The Stranger/Slog again that actually made a real difference in someone's life. Use or misuse of the word "fuck" doesn't. Dan, get a clue.
Retard @3:
You really don't understand why daily papers aren't full of curse words? You really don't get how they are different from alt-weeklies? Or are you just pretending to be stupid?
Are you really beating up a straw man? Or are you just pretending to be stupid. Dan was responding specifically to Postman's little dig at The Stranger:
Please excuse the (totally unnecessary) profane headline
Who is Postman to decide whether or not cursing is "necessary"? And what if it is unnecessary - so fucking what? I and thousands like me appreciate the fact that The Stranger says "fuck". If Postman wants to warn his readers about profanity, more power to him. As for labeling it "totally unnecessary"? Lick my ass.
...so what I was saying, FUCK you Postman, I don't care about your pansieness. My mom even said for me not to care. If it wasn't for her I'd have ASS else to do
Here, here to #16
I didn't see your post Sean, cuz I was typing. I TOTALLLY agree with you, though can I lick your ASS? ;)
Thanks, Dan. I try. Sometimes. Word.
Methinks Postman is simply Jean Godden, reincarnate. Milk and cookies anyone?
Stop with this "get a clue" thing! Do you say that in real life? Jesus fucking christ!
The thing is, good writers/orators don't need to rely on profane expletives to get their message across. It's the easy, lazy way.
A smart, proficient person can still say or write something impactful and emphatic without resorting to words that by their very nature get an immediate recoil.
It's just lazy.
Perfect for playgrounds or Seattle.
No, Dan, I should be writing headlines like that when it makes some sense. But writing fuck -- ooh, you're right that feels so good -- doesn't always make sense does it? I don't think that e-mail qualified as "fucking" angry or whatever. I link to the Slog a ton of course and never worry about our different standards for language. This one just seemed, well, unnecessary. And as to Sean, it's not up to me to decide when profanity is necessary for the Slog of course, but it is for when I decide to link to it on my blog.
@ 15, give it a rest already, will you?
Anyone who calls establishment ass-kissing, rubber stamping, "Go Along Get Along" Bob Edwards out on his sudden born again political progressiveness conveniently taking place right before the major dailies are due with their port commission endorsements deserves props. Good job Josh!
And King County could care less about housing low income families in this county. If they did, they would be collaborating with Burien city hall and other local governments on real solutions.
Instead, the the county government bureaucrats are bullying Burien, threatening to withhold funding, and when that doesn't work, they file baseless lawsuits.
It's great political theater, it draws a lot of attention to the Housing Authority, but it does little to actually solve the problem of housing the homeless.
What does that have to do with the use of the word "fuck"? And if you're so smart, why has The Stranger been silent on Lora Lake?
Postman and Ecce Homo should buttfuck.
Postman and Ecce Homo should buttfuck.
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I add the <<1>> code to the footer. It looks fine in Acrobat itself, but when I print to the Laserjet 4000 (PCL 6 driver) the page numbers don't actually appear on the printed page.
I can't find any reference to this on Adobe's forums or knowledgebase.
EDIT: I tried printing to a different printer (but also the PCL 6 driver). No improvement.
Another EDIT: printing to file also doesn't include the footer.
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slip stitches onto spare needle then...?
Hi everyone. I'm a returner to knitting and am making a really simple cell phone cover with a pocket.
The instructions say to slip the pocket stitches onto a spare needle. I then have to cast on some more for the main part.
Is it that simple? Do I break the yarn and just leave the stitches to one side until needed?
All help is appreciated.
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It sounds like it. If you could include a link it would help.
You might need to leave the yarn attached and work the rest of it with a new end. A little more information as to how it's worded there would be helpful.
ooer, hope this link works
Thanks for the swift reply.
I've cut and pasted the pattern link. Hope this helps.
Okay it looks like the sts are just left on a holder, then knit on to the rest of them. So cut the yarn and cast on for the other sts.
Thankyou for your help
Hi again everyone,
I'm not sure if this is how I say it but thankyou for the replies. I'll get on now and hopefully have learned yet another technique.
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Aloo Bread Pakora Recipe – Fried Potato Sandwich
Aloo bread pakora is the fried stuffed Potato sandwich. Recipe video and step by step pictures. Make Delhi restaurant style stuffed pakoda. Serve with tea.
- Video (Audio in Hindi)
- Time and Yield
- Nutrition and Calories
- Ingredient List
- Method in English with step by step pictures
- Storage and Serving Suggestions
- Comments
Aloo bread pakora is arguably the best traditional snack for enjoying with your tea sips in monsoon time. We remember eating it in our school canteen during recess time. The simple plain bread pakora used to cost Rs 1 and the Potato stuffed Bread Pakora was available for Rs. 2.
The rupee 1 and 2 sound too artificial in today's inflationary time. Isn't it?
School times are over but we still get nostalgic, whenever we have them with a sip of coffee! We love going back in memory lane to find moments of glory.
This is our tried and tested stuffed bread pakora recipe. The video shows the process and might be a little different than the textual recipe that we have shared. The overall recipe remains same but the textural recipe has some improvements that we have made over the time.
We have highlighted those improvements within the recipe for your ease of understanding.
Street vendors use Thick Besan
The Gram flour that restaurants or street vendors use for making this pakoda is a thick flour. it is popularly known as 'Mota' besan in North India.
The one we normally use at home is the light one.
By thick and light, we mean the process of grinding the Gram lentil. The more you grind the Gram lentil, the lighter the flour would be.
The thick Besan produces a thick layer on the bread pakoda and makes it look heavy and fluffy.
We are using the light Gram flour here. You can certainly use the thick one, if you have with no changes to the recipe.
|Prep time:
|Cook time:
|Total time:
|8 Bread Pakora
Each approximately 1 Inch thick and 4 inch long. 4 serving (good for 4 person)
|Serving Size
|2 Aloo Bread Pakora.
|Serving Per Recipe
|Calories per serving Per Recipe
|440 Calories
|Calories from Fat
For Potato Mixture, we need:
- 6 Small Size Boiled Potatoes (3 Inch diameter)
- 1 Green Chili (You can add more, if you like spicy or hot)
- 3/4 Tsp Salt
- 1/2 Tsp Red Chili Powder
- 1/4 Tsp Garam Masala (Home made Garam Masala recipe)
- 1/4 Tsp Mango Powder (Amchoor)
- 1 Tsp � Lemon Juice (or 1/2 Lemon – 1 Inch Diameter)
For Besan mixture, we need:
- 1 Cup (Our 1 Cup = 240 ML) Gram Flour
- 1/4 Tsp Garam Masala
- 1/4 Tsp Red Chili Powder
- 1/4 Tsp Salt
- 1/4 Tsp Mango Powder (Amchoor)
- 1/4 Tsp Cumin Seeds
- 4 Bread Slices
- Enough Oil (For frying)
- Few drops Lemon juice
- 1 Tbsp Amchoor Chutney (Optional) (Mango powder Sauce – get the recipe here.)
- 1/4 Tsp Baking Soda (Optional)
Preparing the Potato (Aloo) mixture Preparation Time: 13 Minutes
- We will start with preparing the potato mixture which we need to stuff inside the breads. Grate Boiled Potatoes in a big pan.
We have assumed that you already have the boiled potato. If you have not boiled them yet, please boil the potato before proceeding.
We have counted the Potato boiling time in this recipe. It would take about 10 minutes to boil.
Add finely chopped Green Chili, Salt, Red Chili Powder, Garam Masala, Mango Powder. Mix well.
Squeeze the Lemon Juice and mix well again. Potato mixture is now ready. Keep it aside.
Preparing the Gram Flour (Besan) paste Preparation Time: 5 Minutes
Use the ingredients mentioned in Gram flour paste section now. Take another bowl, add Gram flour, Salt, Red Chili Powder, Garam Masala, Mango Powder, Cumin Seeds. Mix well.
Add water gradually and make a smooth paste. Make sure there are no lumps in the batter and the paste has dropping consistency.
Optional: You can add baking soda now. It helps fluff the besan paste a bit. We are ourselves using it in this recipe.
Add few drops (1/4 tsp recommended) of lemon juice. Mix well and make sure that there are no visible lumps in the paste.
If you do see some lumps, use a spoon to suppress and mix it with paste.
Gram Flour paste is now ready.
Frying the Bread Pakora (Sandwich) Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Both Potato mixture and Gram flour paste are now ready. We now need to combine the two and deep fry the Aloo bread pakora.
Cut the bread slices in your choice of shape (Triangle or Rectangle). We are using Triangle shape.
Optional: You can first add a layer of Amchoor Chutney (Mango powder sauce) or Tamarind Sauce. We recommend it for enhancing taste and are ourselves using it in this recipe.
Optional: Some people also like to add a layer of Coriander (Cilantro) Chutney too. We are not using it inside the bread, you there is no harm is doing it. It gives the bread pakora sweet and Sour taste. Get Coriander chutney recipe here.
Pick one bread slice and spread the Potato mixture just like you would do with butter. Once done, cover it with another slice. This makes one aloo bread pakora which is ready to go into frying pan. You can prepare other pakoras in a similar fashion.
if you are using both the Chutneys as mentioned above, add one on each slice and then sandwich the potato mixture. This way, the two chutneys won't mix with each other.
Heat Oil on a high flame in a pan. It should take about 3 minutes to heat up.
The Oil's quantity should be good enough to completely sub-merge the aloo bread pakora and help in deep frying.
Once the Oil is hot, dip the aloo bread pakora in the Gram flour paste to cover it completely from all sides and immediately drop it into hot oil.
Fry the pakora on high flame until it gets golden brown in color from both the sides.
- Once you see the golden brown color, take them out of frying pan.
- Delicious Aloo Bread Pakora is ready to eat.
Storage and Serving Suggestions
- You can pre-prepare the raw Bread Pakora and fry only when you have to serve. This is exactly what restaurant's and street side food vendors do.
Some vendors go a step ahead and half-fry the bread pakora. This makes it faster for them to process your order as they just have to re-fry the pakoda for half the time than the full fry.
We do NOT recommend the half-fry method. It is not a good idea to re-fry anything as it adds hell lot of saturated fat.
- If you are using the Amchoor chutney or Coriander Chutney or both in the raw Brad Pakora, we would advice to not pre-prepare the raw bread sandwiches. The chutneys are going to moist the bread slices within minutes and you won't be able to fry them.
So, the recommendation is that you should prepare everything in one shot, if you want to use chutneys inside the sandwich stuffing.
- The bread pakoda tastes crisp with the besan paste layer, if served within 5 minutes of frying.
You can certainly refrigerate them and re-heat using a microwave or re-fry.
We do NOT recommend re-frying. Microwave heating or simple heating on plain griddle also works.
The only caveat is the pakoda loses its crispness once it is refrigerated.
You can serve the Bread pakoda with Tomato Ketchup or any other sauces. We normally like to eat it like a Chat. Here is the recipe for making the Bread Pakoda Chat.
If you have ever been to Kamla Nagar market in New Delhi, and tasted the famous Kashyap's bread Pakoda chat, this recipe would help you re-create the same taste at home.


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Checking Medicine's Vital Signs
By Michael M. Weinstein
Published: April 19, 1998
Three jumbo jets crashing every two days. If the airlines killed that many people annually, public outrage would close them overnight. Hospitals kill that many patients every year because of missed diagnoses, medication mishaps and other preventable errors. Yet there's hardly a whimper of protest.
Shocking? Choke on these findings by some of the nation's leading researchers:
Medical errors account for up to a quarter of the deaths from heart attack, stroke and pneumonia. Perhaps half the nation's diabetics are treated improperly. Up to 85 percent of prescribed medical treatments lack scientific validation. An intensive-care unit at one medical center committed nearly two errors per patient each day, a third of which were potentially serious. Surgeons in some parts of the country perform mastectomies rather than lumpectomies on Medicare patients 35 times more often than those in other regions, and for no apparent medical reason. Rates of heart surgery vary by a factor of three. One study found that nearly 20 percent of coronary angiographies lacked medical justification. A quarter of the surgeries to implant tubes in children's ears are inappropriate and a third are questionable.
Missed diagnoses. Unjustified surgery. Unwarranted tests. Drug mishaps. How can this medical mayhem be avoided?
For starters, we need choice -- the leeway to pick the physicians, hospitals and health plans and clinics that do the best job treating patients in our communities. Most people, including Federal employees, Medicare enrollees and employees of large businesses, have at least some choice of health plans and doctors. (Employees at smaller firms often have none, a problem that should be addressed by Congress.) But choice alone does little good if we can't distinguish excellent from mediocre, let alone atrocious. Most of us know more about the effectiveness of our deodorants than we do about the competence of our surgeons.
So how can we choose the best quality?
Such choice is not provided by various versions of a patient ''bill of rights,'' now before Congress. A package of consumer protections is a useful though limited idea that would give people in managed-care plans some peace of mind, but it barely touches the scandal of mediocre medicine. After all, the statistics just cited are drawn largely from studies of patients in traditional fee-for-service plans. And even for patients in managed care, the bill's most potent element is merely a right of appeal if a health plan refuses to pay for a doctor-prescribed treatment.
The right of appeal would improve medical practice in isolated cases. But it would do nothing to protect patients from doctors who prescribe the wrong drugs or surgeons who perform needless and potentially risky operations. What patients really need is a right to information. Providing it would transform health care by putting patients in control, rather than doctors and insurance companies. In fact, outside Washington there are important projects under way that are on the verge of handing Americans a report card on health plans -- the tool that enables patients to guard the quality of their health care.
In Boston, Dr. Lucian L. Leape of the Harvard School of Public Health is studying how physicians and health plans can cut down on mistakes. Drug mishaps injure more than 220,000 hospital patients a year. Leape's powerful point is that these mistakes can be significantly reduced if hospitals adopt simple procedures. One of these is ''unit dosing,'' in which hospital pharmacists would prepare injections in advance, before a patient suffers cardiac arrest and a nurse scrambles to draw the precise amount of a potent drug. Some hospitals and clinics have adopted this precaution. The scandal is that others have not.
In Los Angeles, Dr. Robert H. Brook of the Rand Corporation and the University of California at Los Angeles has developed criteria for determining when medical procedures -- like coronary bypass surgery, mastectomies and hysterectomies -- are appropriate and when they are ineffective or needlessly risky. Brook's work is the source of many of the statistics given at the beginning of this article, and it could tell physicians and health plans how best to practice medicine if they would listen. But few do. The doctors who perform unwarranted treatments are rarely incompetent, let alone villainous. Their decisions are more often based on habit and presumption. In a sensible system, decisions would be solidly rooted in Brook's clinical evidence.
In New York, a state agency rates the performance of cardiac surgeons with an increasingly sophisticated method that adjusts for the severity of the patients' condition. And in Boston, Dr. Troyen Brennan of Harvard Medical School organizes an evening seminar for a small group of colleagues on the latest advances in treating asthmatics. The seminar is part of his two-year program to evaluate overall health care at 11 outpatient clinics associated with Harvard. Brennan sends nurses into the clinics to examine a random sample of patient records and determine, according to a detailed questionnaire, whether patient care conforms to the highest standards set by Leape, Brook and others. Do the clinics, as one seminar guest recommended, teach asthmatics to use ''peak flow'' meters that gauge their lung performance? Do the clinics administer the proper vaccines, perform diagnostic blood tests, offer nutritional advice and teach how to examine breasts and prostate glands for early signs of cancer? Do doctors spend enough time with patients, and are patients satisfied?


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The mid-1980s was a period of economic reform the likes of which Australia hasn't seen since. It was a Labor government, presided over by two huge personalities, prime minister
The dollar was floated, income tax was substantially reduced, a petroleum resources rent tax was introduced and banking met foreign competition. And yes, a surplus was obtained.
As the architect of those reforms, the then treasurer, Keating, can claim much of the credit – and 28 years later, he does. In an interview with The Australian Financial Review to mark the release of the 1984 and 1985 cabinet papers, Keating paints the scale of the challenge facing the new Hawke government.
"Contrary to popular belief, the recession of 82-83 was the deepest since the depression. There was a feeling with stagflation that the country was going nowhere. Tariff protection actually rose under the Fraser government with [John] Howard as treasurer,'' he says.
"At the same time there was an explosion in wages under Howard's policies. So there was a feeling of bewilderment and in the face of that, the Hawke government in which I was treasurer, decided to distil the essence of the problem and sought advice from business and unions, as well as economic experts about the way forward.
"There was no particular consensus about the way forward but we embarked upon a policy that overturned what was called, in academic terms, the 'Australian defence model' – ring fenced by tariffs, a fixed exchange rate and arbitrarily set interest rates and centrally set wages."
Keating says decisions in 1983 to remove deposit maturity controls on banks, the floating of the dollar and the removal of exchange controls set the scene for what was to come in 1984 and 1985.
"By early 1984 the public knew something big was happening, something different to the old cruise-along stagflation model. That's why we went into '84 with the polls telling us we had a two-to-one lead over the Liberals as economic managers."
Cabinet papers reveal a treasurer at the height of his powers in 1984, pushing reforms swiftly. The petroleum resource rent tax, forerunner to the minerals resource rent tax, was introduced after wide consultations with the resources sector. And the major banks met competition as Keating approved 16 of 42 applications from foreign and domestic interests to set up banks across the nation.
Keating claims credit for the PRRT. "I wanted to see the people of Australia benefit from windfall increases in oil revenues but in setting up the PRRT, we sought to share that equitably between oil producers and the people.
"We applied it for prospective developments, we were not going to simply dry gulch the existing producers who had invested on the basis that oil was $20 per barrel, and that any windfall that came their way was their own."
As for banks, Keating says they were "losing their share of financial assets in Australia because of the regulations – the beneficiaries were building societies, cash management trusts and all manner of non-bank institutions".
"Having given them more freedom, no longer with the Reserve Bank looking over their shoulder with restrictions on lending, I decided they should have competition themselves."
But one reform never made it and it is this that rankles most with Keating. He crusaded for a consumption tax and felt that Hawke squibbed it. Under pressure in the 1984 election campaign Hawke fobbed it off promising a tax summit with government, business and unions – a process Keating called "an abortive event".
A minute from a cabinet meeting on December 13, 1984, soon after the Hawke government had been re-elected with a reduced majority of 16 seats, showcases Keating's obsession with tax reform – the centrepiece of his second term. By now, however, he had been forced to accept the tax summit but still had hopes to prevail.
"The taxation system must be the priority area of reform in 1985. The taxation summit will require careful preparation. It will be essential any reform package commands a large degree of public support,'' he states.
The tax summit was held that year after months of preparation and a white paper on May 12 had recommended "option c" – a trade off that would see marginal tax rates cut and a broad-based consumption tax introduced.
Yet as Keating bitterly notes, option C was hijacked by an unholy alliance between business, unions and the welfare lobby.
"The tax summit was an abortive event, not withstanding the massive amount of work that went into it.
"It was a failure because the Business Council under Bob White said the Business Council doesn't agree with options a, b or c. The welfare sector opposed a one level only retail consumption tax with massive compensation. And the ACTU rejected the lot as well – though they probably would have accepted a consumption tax if the Business Council and the welfare lobby gave some ground."
Despite this loss Keating still hoped to prevail in cabinet where he had some support. Then education minister
Despite his efforts, Keating lost. On August 12 cabinet decided not to pursue the tax, no doubt helping lead Keating to believe Hawke was too captive of the unions.
Ryan says there was a lot of unhappiness about the decision to drop option c, and that the decision marked the beginning of the divergence of views between Hawke and Keating.
"They were a real power team but their views did diverge. I think you could trace the beginning of that divergence to the failure to proceed with option c,'' she says.
Despite losing option c, Keating's tax reform package was broad. He cut taxes in all brackets, including in the top rate from 60¢ to 49¢, and then 47¢, he abolished dividend imputation, and introduced fringe benefits and capital gains tax. Keating says it's "the biggest tax reform package in the nation's history". "The September '85 package is broadly the shape of the Australian taxation system [today]."
While Keating claims the reformist mantle as his own, economist
"There was some differences in relative priorities – but certainly they supported right through the base-broadening component of the tax reform, the capital gains, fringe benefits taxes, the removal of a lot of other exemptions which were difficult to justify,'' he says.
Garnaut explains Hawke's decision not to pursue option c. "After the tax summit, the prime minister was concerned that pressing ahead with a consumption tax while inflation was still high, at a time when the government needed the co-operation of the ACTU in reducing inflation, would give unjustifiable priority to the consumption tax over macro economic stability.
"The general story on economic matters was that the prime minister and treasurer worked together and in cabinet, by the time big issues got to cabinet, they had been extensively talked through."
Keating dismisses the achievements of his successor
"In 12 years in office he introduced one thing, a tax change in micro-economic reform. That's why productivity is now languishing, they [the coalition] completely dropped the micro economic reform agenda."
He is also able to reconcile his advocacy for a consumption tax in 1985 with his successful campaign against John Hewson's proposed GST [goods and services tax] in 1992-93 while prime minister. "When that was refused I then got back to the long hand route of cutting outlays over five years back to the level of GDP that obtained before the Whitlam government came to office.''
Keating points out that government outlays had risen from 23.4 per cent when the Whitlam government came to power to 30.5 when Malcolm Fraser left office.
"Having done all that hard work, why would I support
The Hawke-Keating government eventually handed down a surplus in 1989-90, one of Keating's proudest achievements.
Keating had a fundamentally different view to Hawke and the union movement on how the economy should be.
"I had worked out years earlier that we had to go to a more open competitive model, making changes at the edges was of no profit. This is why in 1977 I made a speech proposing the entry of foreign banks, six years before I became treasurer. It took me sometime to have a run over the target and get the co-ordinates. But if I hadn't turned up it wouldn't have all changed."
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We hope you're hungry, because this week's Brazos Valley Bucket List takes us to the Guadalajara Mexican Restaurant in Brenham.
From the moment the restaurant opens its doors at 11am, they are packed.
Manager Juan Paniagua says, "We always have a buffet. 7 days a week at lunchtime."
On that buffet, you'll find all the usual suspects - tacos, enchiladas, quesadillas - but what makes this restaurant unique is while you wait in line for that buffet, you'll get an up close look at how the food is made.
That's where Margarita Morcira comes in. She is the in-house tortilla making expert.
She says, "The longest process is making all the balls of dough. The little balls of dough."
She certainly makes a lot of them - 300 on a normal day and 600 on Friday, the restaurant's busiest day.
Her work often attracts quite the crowd.
"Many people bring the kids to the counter so they can watch. They like to see how I make the tortillas."
The customers, though, aren't the only ones enjoying the fruits of her labor.
Margarita says, "I eat one per day."