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HOUMA — Thibodaux resident Jennifer Bullard is a soft-spoken college student who keeps a low-profile, however, its hard to miss the 26-year-old once she slips on her fin at the Bayouland YMCA in Houma.
That local woman dons a mermaid fin several nights each week to practice her moves.
Bullard began swimming as a mermaid to draw attention to the Gulf oil spill in July, however, the endeavor transitioned into something more when she slipped on the fin for the first time.
"I've always enjoyed swimming," Bullard said. "I quickly discovered I could do more than just swim with it on. I could play in it in the water and do tricks."
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The Razor-Edged BMW Z4 Has Put The Credibility Back Into The Munich Company's Roadster Portfolio. Andy Enright Tries The Powerful 3.0si Version.
It's improbable that any eulogy to the BMW Z4 3.0-litre will convince you to plump for one if you can't live with the looks. The controversial lines seem to attract or repel in equal measure but underneath the scalpel sharp bodywork beats the heart of a sports car. After the disappointment that was the Z3, fans of the Munich marque are rejoicing.
Although a fire-breathing 343bhp M version of the Z4 is now available, the 3.0-litre car sits at the top of the four engine line up that makes up the conventional Z4 range. Initially, enthusiasts took heart from BMW's decision not to introduce a weedy 1.8-litre version designed to mop up the volume sales against Mazda MX5s and the like. The lure of the lucre proved too strong, however, and an entry-level 2.0-litre engine was introduced. Above this base model, the Z4 gets a more satisfying all six-cylinder engine line up. Choose 177bhp 2.5i, 218bhp 2.5si or, if funds permit, the rather more satisfying 265bhp 3.0si version as tested here. We won't mention the 3.2-litre M Roadster again for fear of giving our test car an inferiority complex.
Of course, the 3.0-litre car is faster but it also feels more of a sports car than the 2.5-litre models. Much of this can be put down to the more spirited aural accompaniment that's apparent as soon as you twist the key. The 2,979cc engine snarls into life and fills the cabin with a malevolent grumble quite unlike what you'd be served in a 3-Series with the same powerplant. The reason is a piece of tubing that runs from the inlet manifold to the bulkhead. This contains a diaphragm that flexes like a drum as the engine breathes, channelling noise into the cabin. Whereas other manufacturers strive to quell cabin noise, BMW has taken the opposite route.
It works too, but the sound effects are only part of the story. The £33,500 Z4 3.0si also has to do the business when the blacktop is twisting into contorted shapes, throwing dips, bends, duplicitous cambers and blind brows at the driver. Whereas this scenario would tie a Z3 in knots, the Z4 is made, quite literally, of much stiffer stuff. In fact the chassis is extremely torsionally stiff, which helps when transmitting that power to the tarmac. With a 155mph top end and a sprint to 60mph occupying just 5.7 seconds, the BMW should be plenty fast enough for most.
"The BMW betrays the relentless march of technology"
It can also more than hold its own as a driver's car. Although the steering feel can't match the Porsche, in almost every other area the BMW betrays the relentless march of technology. The stability control system does little to interrupt the enthusiastic driver, the gearbox can be slotted between the six ratios with a delightful firmness and the brakes are superb. Jab the 'Sport' button on the dashboard and the Z4 sharpens up its act still further, beefing up the steering and giving the fly-by-wire throttle a more aggressive software map to work with. It inspires enormous confidence and the little yellow triangle on the fascia strobes furiously through full commitment cornering, the only indicator that you are not, in fact, blessed with the car control of Juan Pablo Montoya.
The difference in philosophy between the Z3 and Z4 is immediately apparent as soon as you take a look at the dirty side. Whereas the Z3 used the ancient semi-trailing arm suspension of a 1985 vintage 3-series, the Z4 is bang up to date, using a proper multi link arrangement. The Z4 sits foursquare on the road due to a wide track at the front and rear. It was the first BMW to use electric power steering and is hugely torsionally stiffer than the somewhat wobbly Z3.
The commitment to appearing a proper driver's car can be seen in certain key areas. The traction and stability control systems can both be disabled at the touch of a button, something you won't be able to do in a Mercedes SLK for instance. Although it does require you to hold the button in for what seems like an eternity when the control systems are disabled, you'll be aware quite how potent the 3.0-litre in particular is. BMW's paddle shift SMG sequential gearchange can also be specified. If the exterior design generates a little controversy, the same can't be said of the cabin styling. It's typically low-key but classy, BMW at their best. There's a broad centre console and clear dials. Space in the footwell is especially generous and it's possible to hunker down into a low driving position and feel really ensconced in rather than on the car.
The hood is a superb fully-automatic affair with no manual intervention required whatsoever. Simply push a button on the dashboard and the whole thing retreats in less than ten seconds with no clips, latches, poppers or stress. The Z4 promises an easy life but who will these laid back takers be? It's an open secret that the Z4 - like its predecessor - has been targeted at the lucrative US market and a catchy advertising campaign featuring Gary Oldman and the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown, received quite some acclaim back when the car was launched. The latest model can be spotted by the shoulder line that extends beyond the bonnet edge to the front air dam. There's a wider air intake below the grille, which itself displays some minor modifications and the rear tail lights feature horizontal light conductor rods as seen on the Z8.
The BMW Z4 3.0si is an enormously impressive achievement, better than we expected and better than we probably hoped for. With a charismatic and burly engine, beautifully designed cabin and fine road manners it is, if one takes pricing into account, the class standard. Of course, there are a number of very capable Plan Bs if the styling proves a little too much for your palate, but give it time and it'll grow on you. And time behind the wheel of a Z4 3.0si is time very well spent.
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If you thought that crime or dishonesty is driven by a cost-benefit analysis, then you have some very basic solutions — for example, put people in prison. And people who were going to commit a crime would say, 'Okay, I'll go to prison, not worth it.' I've been talking to big cheaters, including people who have been to prison, and I tell you, nobody I've talked to has ever thought about the long-term consequences of their actions.
We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences. If you have an internal truth of what you think and you have an external truth of what you say to society, in the social domain it's called politeness, and it's many cases it's okay.
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Stockton had snow laying when I got up this morning with more coming down, nearly went back to bed.it is going now and a bit brighter, just let the sun break through I ask.
FairyGirl, Lemon drizzle yum though more lemon than sugar in the drizzle, G/G coffee and walnut a favourite and any straightforward cake that does not have garden vegetables added to it for some unknown reason, I think it too much of a reminder of Mr Wooltons Pie.As to diet fads and that is what they are my advice is look at them closely, hidden sugar salt and chemicals abound. Being active all my life weight was never a problem then I seemed to pile it on. On my yearly MOT I got 11 out of ten having got rid of a full stone and not by diet simply eating less at each meal.I have seen everything you could put in your mouth demonised at one time or another then held up on high as the wonder food of the century, baloney the lot of it.FairyG, In Cavalry Barrakcs York when they found out I was from farming stock they gave me the 18 hand mad horse who had been very badly handled by people who should not have been anywhere near a horse. Within a week he was following me round like a dog though he would show his teeth to anyone coming near me, When the Blacksmith arrived I had to hoof him and he would stand still while the shoes were changed and luckily when I knew I was leaving he went to a good home retired, animals like humans respond to kindness and a firm hand, take note G/G.
G/G now you know why I walked around with permanent black eye's when Joan was around.
Nutcutlet, I lift mine after flowering and put them in a sheltered nursery bed or pots to feed the bulbs, remove the dead heads. If they have been in a long time and are doing nothing then you have nothing to lose in lifting them and easing them into pots or a bed to let them take some nourishment, a place that gets a couple of hours sun a day will do.When the foliage has gone then lift them clean them and dry them for the Autumn. When you replant them give them some room and a place where they will get some sun.Hope this helps although some would say bin them and start with fresh, I always try the recovery rout first.
Fairygirl I got a load of visitors just as Paul was coming on and in our house the TV goes off when people come.Ginger cake, Ginger bread, Parkin I love them all honest to goodness cakes but Carrot cake?? what kind of goat in sheep's clothing is that, not honest ginger as they hide it with spices, soft soggy and over sugared, leaves a yucky taste in the mouth and the icing should be used to grease car springs.Chili for tea?? Raw or in something??
G/G know your place! Women are supposed to be "err" how can I put this? well not quite as quick at problem solving as their sup-- spers--- superiors I think is the word, be not ashamed you did come second and according to my old school motto "Playing the game is more important than winning" what a load of old tosh, I play to win.It is not an unkind act it is the way of life, get used to it.
Dmball, go to your name at the very top of the page and click on then go to My Posts you will see your every comment.Egypt? Never mind the flies, the heat, the scorpions, the ants and the "Kite Hawks" not what we called them that would snatch your meal from the mess tin in nanoseconds. Shortage of water, dry rations and going everywhere in an oven set at max temp called an armoured vehicle.You can keep the place give me little old Britain any day freezing the door knockers off or not.
G/G Any relation to Pinocchio then?
Fairy Girl, my recipe for Carrot cake is bin the ingredients and do not bother, had this rant before see no need to add carrots or what difference it makes. I can make light or heavy ginger cakes and enjoy them without the use of a carrot, if I could find who invented it I know what I would do with the carrot.G/G, with my fingers I could play you a Nocturne a Concerto or I Do it my way without any problem. Give me a touch phone or one of those I-paddy thingees and I could make the phone disappear never mind what is on the screen. Daughter will say look at this Dad hand it over and bang it is gone, I will stick to my steam powered laptop thank-you.Untidiness, my answer was get them in the forces and now you should see their places, spotless everything in place, the problem being when the grandchildren come here I have to tell them it is OK to have their toys on the floor, no rules here and they love it, and guess what they clean up before leaving but had fun in-between.
As an old gardener always had a greenhouse and tried them all nothing will give you more than a frost guard.Paraffin is costly gives off moisture and needs constant attention if you do not wish to find all your glass black with smoke.A gas heater costly gives off some moisture although will not be as bad as Paraffin.None of those will ever pay their way, while you are eating your £1 per carrot salad the shops will be selling them by the bag full.My Father built a stove to burn rubbish outside the greenhouse with large pipes running through it worked well and cost nothing H&S plus green laws would frown on that now.I have a South Facing Wall Mounted GH now and ran electricity to it. The wall on even sunless days takes in heat and gives it back at night.A Sand-bed with warming cables and thermostat with shelving above allows for seeds to be sown and then put on the shelves with a bubble wrap curtain around that section, add a Fan Heater with Frost guard and that does nicely.Saying all that over the last three months here in the Northeast none of them have been switched on yet and will not be until we have more light, very important and the outside temperature raises above freezing, at the moment it is minus 2.You will do your own thing and find the cost prohibitive depending where you live I would say let nature do it naturally.
Mobile B@#@##@ phones, I had a house full Saturday all talking and comparing the latest black-bush or co2 or whatever they are called, Mine is only £35 a month and a free phone?? no it is not free you are paying for it.Mine only costs £17 a month? yes but how much did you pay for the phone. Well mine a bargain buy shell phone six years ago for £26 pay as you go last year cost me £20 I top up £10 and get £10 free plus they text me every week to top up again for more free time, I have not used last years yet. The beauity being in Scotland mine was the only phone getting a signal in some places, the fancy ones were useless.Today I had another house full, a daughters birthday and again phones going every five minutes, it is a wonder she had time to blow out the candles on guess what? A b@@###@@ carrot cake, I managed to force some down and smile yuck.I love my family although at times I feel like rolling out the barbed wire and erecting the Ikea machine gun post then fighting them off, saying that by the time I erected an Ikea guard post I would probably have been invaded.


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Did Bruce Harrell's campaign manager quit?
maybe some concerned woman of america will do him a solid, and write him a big 'ol check.
Burgess has mega bucks of his own and will self fund tens of thousand if needed.
City council for sale.
Wasn't it always, @4?
@4 Blood Money...Motherf'ing Blood Money.
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I'm in for 2 based on the comments from the previous offer.
If I didn't already have free shipping because I added an inch to my protruding stomach with the peanut butter cups, I would have skipped this; but the descriptions sound good and the comments in the previous thread were intriguing.
Funny, I was drinking a glass of this Mayo Zin tonight while following the woot off.
Very nice fruit forward taste with a dry finish.
Very nice wine! I rated it 91 on CT.
I had a bottle of the Gypsy awhile back, but it was nothing special... meh. Looking forward to the Cab sometime soon.
DSal wrote:I'm in East TN and havn't tried Mayo wines before. Rack is full but the woot thread from the last offering intrigues me.
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mschauber wrote:The monkey is flying on woot.com, guess this WO is over. With 100 sets in this offer, it's going to take a while..
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My loss of interest in contemporary culture was only a symptom of a deeper malady – a disavowal of almost everything that had once fascinated or at least entertained me. Some crisis was announcing itself, a "dark night of the soul" carefully prepared by me history, it seems to me now, though I did not see it that way at the time. Stalking the all-too-familiar pavement of New York City, I felt I was skating across the thinnest coating of ice, and beneath that slick crust the void was waiting to claim me, to crush me in the impersonal oblivion that had terrified me as a child. A simple question confronted me – "Is this it?" – and kept intensifying its mocking force, whispering that my life was a lie.
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Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Pages: 25
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"(Martin) Heidegger notes that the origin of the word "technology" comes from the Greek word techne, and this word was applied not only to technology, but to art, and artistic technique as well. 'Once there was a time when the bringing-forth of the true into the beautiful was also called techne.' He found this to be a numinous correspondence, and considered that, in art, the 'saving power' capable of confronting the abyss of the technological enframing might be found.If art contains a saving power, it is not in the atomized artworks produced by individual subjects, but in a deeper collective vision that sees the world as a work of art, one that is already, as (Sri) Nisargadatta (Maharaj) and (Terrence) McKenna suggest, perfect in its 'satisfying all-at-onceness'.' Instead of envisioning an ultimately boring 'technological singularity,' we might be better served by considering an evolution of technique, of skillful means, aimed at this world, as it is now. Technology might find its proper place in our lives if we experienced such a shift in perspective–in a society oriented around technique, we might find that we desired far less gadgetry. We might start to prefer slowness to speed, subtlety and complexity to products aimed at standardized mind. Rather than projecting the spiritual quest and the search for the good life onto futuristic A.I.s, we could actually take the time to fulfill those goals, here and now, in the present company of our friends and lovers.Part of the problem seems embedded in the basic concept of a concrescence or singularity, which compacts our possibilities rather than expands them. The notion of a technological singularity reflects our culture's obsessive rationality, reducing qualitative aspects of being to quantifiable factors, and imposing abstract systems over complex variables. Instead of a technological singularity, we might reorient our thinking toward a more desirable multiplicity of technique. Technique is erotic in essence; it is what Glenn Gould or Thelonious Monk expresses through the piano–the interplay between learned skill and quantum improvisation that is the stuff of genius. Technique embraces the now-ness of our living world; technology throws us into endless insatiation."
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What if the evolution of consciousness, rather than an adaptive quirk of the brain, was actually the central drama, purpose and point, of our whole show? There are, we shall see, philosophers and psychoanalysts, mystics and physicists who propose that this is the case. Inner development is an eccentric process, advancing in certain jumps, in revelatory sparks and fizzles--each person is his or her own private universe. Strengthened by suffering and crisis, consciousness does does not reach a new intensity according to any predictably linear progress that can be graphed by the tools of modern science. It follows its own wayward path.
What if this deepening of awareness takes place in the margins, in the nooks and crannies of contemporary life, like a weed flowing out of the thinnest sidewalk crack? Could it be, as the somnolent masses and the professional classes press forward in the old direction, seeking the same old rewards, that the new thing self-organizes out of chaos and noise, asserts itself in fragility and silence, then takes root and vitalizes until it suddenly manifests as established truth? If something like this was the case, we would be surprised at first-- even shocked--but then it might occur to us: Perhaps it has always happened this way.
Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Pages: 29
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"Clearly, the shift to a higher form of consciousness could not happen passively. The transformation of consciousness requires not only personal work, but direct and surgically precise engagement with ecological, political, psychological, commercial, technological, and spiritual aspects of reality -- as Nietzsche noted, the deed creates the doer, "as an afterthought." It is inconceivable that a movement to a state of higher consciousness could take place in a subconscious murk. Such a shift could take place in only one way: in the full light of consciousness. To accomplish this would require the complete engagement of our will and our higher cognitive faculties. We would have to decondition ourselves from negative programming, overcoming distractions and self-justifications and egocentric goals -- to "abandon abandonment" and "escape escapism," as I was once told in a dream -- in order to act for the greater good. At the moment, it is unclear how much sacrifice will be necessary. As futurist thinker Barbara Marx Hubbard writes in her book, Conscious Evolution:If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can repattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, or social collapse....If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.If our current civilization were to disintegrate -- a possibility that should not seem outlandish, considering the New Orleans flood, peak oil theories, and numerous ecological factors -- we might face an apocalyptic passage, forcing us to evolve at high speed. Breakdown and breakthrough may happen simultaneously."
Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Pages: 244
Contributed by: Chris
"I perceived my past impersonally, as if it belonged to somebody else, realizing how each small strand of it -- the deepest wounds, the most disolute and despairing aspects -- was a necessary part of the weaving, required to bring me to this place, to integrate what appeared to be prophetic knowledge, with the teacher as spiritual midwife. Without her mediating influence, I would have been lost. Late in the night, I seemed to commune with cosmic entities of pure thought, beaming a message at me. Their words hovered in my mind, then scattered away. I retrieved my notebook and scraled them down before they vanished from my memory: 'YOU GO DEEPER INTO THE PHYSICAL TO GET TO THE INFINITE.' "
Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Pages: 366
"Perhaps there is a law operating in the universe that the one who bends his mind to a paradox ends up insolubly meshed within that paradox? Perhaps the universe purely operates on wit, and the best joke, inducing the longest fit of cosmic giggles, becomes the operative law at the next quantum mind-shift? If, as the physicist Arthur March puts it, "the world is inseparable from the observing subject and is accordingly not objectifiable," then perhaps undertaking the quest for prophetic knowledge, in itself, causes reality to shiver and shift, as new possibilities open like the petals of an extravagant, multidimensional flower? The message, as I apparently received it, that "a quest to understand prophecy has become the fulfillment of prophecy," suggested some such wild card hypothesis."
Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Pages: 371
"Although we do not know how the Classical Maya interpreted the prophetic culmination of their Long Count, Carl Johan Calleman has elaborated a meticulously exact fractal model of time from the Mayan calendar, in which human consciousness evolves through nine "Underworlds," each twenty times faster in linear time than the previous one. Each underworld passes through a thirteen-stage process of alternating light and dark energy currents -- or seven "days" and six "nights" of creation -- culminating in a new level of realization. According to Calleman's model, sometime around the year 2008 -- the "fifth night" of the current underworld, ruled by the energies of Tezcatlipoca, the jaguar god of night and black magic -- our current socioeconomic system will suffer a drastic and irrevocable collapse. The primary catalyst for this collapse could be an approaching energy crisis. A report recently issued by the U.S. Department of Energy states: "Previous energy transitions (wood to coal and coal to oil) were gradual and evolutionary; oil peaking will be abrupt and revolutionary." According to a 2005 feature in The New York Times Magazine: "The consequences of an actual shortfall of supply would be immense." As Peter Maass reported, "When a crisis comes -- whether in a year or two or ten -- it will be all the more painful because we will have done little or nothing to prepare for it."
Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Pages: 391
"I have proposed that this intensifying global crisis is the material expression of a psycho-spiritual process, forcing our transition to a new and more intensified state of awareness. If Calleman's hypothesis is correct, this telescoping of time will mean a high-speed replay of aspects of past historical epochs -- echoes of the French Revolution, the rise and fall of the Third Reich, and so on -- before consciousness reaches the next twist of the spiral. As part of this transition, we will reintegrate the aboriginal and mythic worldviews, recognizing the essential importance of spiritual evolution, which understanding that this evolution is directly founded upon our relationship to material and physical aspects of reality. The higher consciousness and conscience of our species will be forged through the process of putting the proken and intricate shards of our world back together, piece by piece."
Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Pages: 392
"According to Gebser, the threat of nuclear weapons depends upon the mental-rational misconception of time. The attempt to incorporate "mental time" -- "itself divisive and disjunctive" -- as the fourth dimension, in Einstein's theories, led to a "consistent and obvious" dissolution or rupture in space-time. He theorized that the cause-and-effect, deterministic logic of modern technology would no longer threaten those who had "coalesced with origin," realizing the underlying acausal reality -- attaining, through their own intensified (rather than expanded) awareness, the presence of time-freedom. "The new world reality, which is at the same time also a world unreality, is to a great extent free of causality." Someone who had attained this state would not exercise "a new kind of magic power" or "mental superiority," but their appearance would "effect new exfoliations and crystallizations which could be nowhere manifest without his or her presence."
Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Pages: 218
" 'The Maya understood that whereas the 260-day sacred cycle is our period of individual gestation, the 26,000 year cycle is our collective gestation -- our collective unfolding as a species," Jenkins wrote in Maya Cosmogenesis 2012. 'Precession represents a 26,000-year cycle of biological unfolding -- a type of spiritual gestation and birth -- that Earth and its consciousness-endowed life forms undergo.' "
Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Pages: 232
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End the perfect party with a decadent dessert that will amaze and delight your guests. I'm giving amounts for 8 but that is only because I have to. Get as many strawberries as you want and a bottle of Amarula Cream liqueur and go to town! the prep time is 2 mins per berry but you can do it in less time that that when they are washed and waiting *wink*
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- Wash the berries but do not remove the green leaves.
- Cut the top off the berries and a small slice off the bottom (just enough so the berry will stand).
- Hollow out the strawberry, being sure not to make a hole in the bottom or sides.
- Fill the strawberry with well chilled Amarula (or Godiva Chocolate, Irish Cream -- you get the idea).
- Replace the berry top, repeat, repeat, repeat --
- A platter of strawberries can be made in advance and kept in the fridge (lightly covered with plastic wrap) until serving.
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Dena Joan Bell, age 70, of Marceline died Friday, August 16, 2013 at Pioneer Skilled Nursing Center, Marceline. Dena was born at Marceline, Missouri on April 2, 1943 to Roy and Ellen (Wise) Riddle. She married Clifford Bell and he survives her.
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They were reptiles like the dinosaurs, but belonged to a completely separate lineage that continues to this day.
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Scientists found the newly-identified fossils at a number of sites in the Sahara desert. Many were uncovered at one location, lying on the surface of a remote and windswept stretch of rock and dunes.
Expedition leader Professor Paul Sereno, from the University of Chicago, has previously described the largest find, Sarcosuchus imperator, which measured 40 feet and weighed eight tons.
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Soldiers are scheduled to convoy between Keaukaha Military Reservation in Hilo and Pohakuloa Training Area 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday through Sunday.
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1. Steering head locks (Airheads): These are not easy to remove, if they were, there would not be any need for a steering head lock! To remove a steering head lock, remove the swinging plate by prying the pin out. The next step depends on whether or not you have a proper working key. If you do, insert it, and turn the key a bit towards the LEFT. The lock should then come out. If you have a broken key in the lock, and you have not been able to pry it out; OR, you do not have a key and do not wish to engage the services of a locksmith, then you must drill the lock. Drill the lock with a 10 mm drill, or start with a 3/8" drill, a/r...be sure to use a powerful vacuum cleaner to suck out what you can as you drill. Clean carefully to avoid metal getting into the lower steering bearing. Do best as you can with taking out old parts and cleaning. I USUALLY advise a lock be changed when steering head bearings are being serviced. To Install the NEW lock you MUST have the key installed, it all simply snaps in place. Replace the cover and pin.
A LOT of information and pictures of the keys. Use his SEARCH function for KEYS. Here is a direct URL for some info on Krauser luggage: http://w6rec.com:80/duane/bmw/bags/krauser/index.http
MORE on Krauser keys much later in this article.
More photos: www.motokeys.com same as: http://motokeys.ecrater.com/ This is owned by Eric Johnson, a fellow Airhead rider.
Many other places have keys.
A source for numbered luggage keys: Larry Stonestreet, dba Stoner's Beemer Stash email@example.com or (951) 813-1704 8:00 a.m. to 6 p.m. PST.
Motobins.co.uk also has keys
See below in this article, several places, for more key sources. Don't forget that BMW Dealerships also have Neiman steel key blanks available.
http://users.pandora.be/tups/index.htm some locks reference materials
On CRAVEN equipment: http://bmwmotorcycletech.info/references.htm under L for Luggage.
The two "keys" below are exclusive for the ignition/lights on /5 Airheads. There is no coding.
|/5 normal use key
|/5 key-ring key
3. Key blanks:
This section #3 applies to all the keys EXCEPT the old cable lock and EXCEPT the FLAT LATCH luggage....note that KRAUSER KEYS are different on some versions, TWO I know of, but, see references later on this page regarding the FLAT LATCHES on the luggage. See also above references in 2. See information on Krauser bags, later in this article.
Also ...see my http://bmwmotorcycletech.info/references.htm page, under L for LUGGAGE.
Here is a URL that shows how to make your own key! It is an abbreviated version of what used to be on that site, but the page URL was changed, and this is what is left. Still, it may be useful to you:
Generally, this is for the more conventional looking keys.
Original coded keys are orderable, already cut, from your dealer, for such as the ignition. You need the code that came with the keys with your new bike. These codes were usually on a flexible plastic tag that came with the original key.
To duplicate a key from an existing key, you need the correct blank, and you will need to find a locksmith willing to cut the key. Genuine BMW keys are STEEL. You may well find that your BMW dealer will cut the keys. Many locksmiths will NOT cut steel keys.
Here is a website with some 'information', if you can understand it, on how the keys are cut, versus the coding numbers:
If you have been trying to find BMW numbers for folding key blanks from the on-line dealerships with parts catalogs, you might have trouble. For instance, just because RealOem.com does not recognize numbers, does not mean the number is not good.....or, did not ever exist, or doesn't now. A thread on the Airheads list in May of 2011 had someone trying to find 51251243275 on RealOEM.com. I found it at Max BMW's site.
The popular on-line parts catalogs, all of them showing things differently, and working a bit differently, are:
Max BMW, RealOem, A & S, Chicago (devoid of much info though).
HINT! When using BMW type numbers, do NOT use hyphens NOR blank spaces when entering BMW numbers into the various websites.
The common Key Blanks from BMW are Neiman brand, and they are NOT plated brass. If you held the side of the round end against a grinding wheel, it would cut into steel, AND, the key is STRONGLY MAGNETIC. I don't care who says they are brass. They ARE NOT.
51-25-1-243-275 folding key was replaced by 51-25-2-301-763 a long time ago, and both are NLA; but are shown here because you MIGHT find something at a very old dealership. You will possibly find it difficult to use some of the various websites to find out this sort of thing. Sometimes BMW supersedes a part number numerous times. I have even seen them go BACK to an earlier part number.
Folding keys come apart by pushing the "axle" or hinge pin out of the head. That can be helpful, because some otherwise-cooperative key cutters in your area may balk at copying your key just because the floppy head restricts it from fitting in the slots of their automatic machines.
Cloisonne insert roundel
Early folding type. NOTE the round hole. I think these are NLA as blanks.
Push-button light, K-bike
BMW genuine steel key blanks made by Neiman are by far the best. The following are other makes of 'usable' key blanks: ilco SR61N (brass, NOT STEEL like BMW keys); Euro style JMA-NE-7 (there is also a JMA NE-8 that is somewhat similar to the BMW 90° blank); B69F; Volvo V77; Volvo V07. ilco's V06 can be made to work. Other usable blanks are numbers RT15 as on Renault and Silca NE 5, Curtis MC44.UNCONFIRMED:
Taylor Lock Company #071V, which is supposedly the same as Ilco #L62VN. Note that the company was acquired by Simpson Hardware in 1983. It was reported that an Italian key, Silca brand, is available in Europe, and the model to use is NE5 and NE5P. These are STEEL!
Here is a link to a website with some very good cross-reference information:
|Note that Airhead key blanks and Classic K bike key blanks are interchangeable, that is, either type can be cut by a locksmith or your BMW dealer, and will work perfectly.
Another type of FOLDING key was a much larger type. The projecting metal part of the key is longer. It is the SAME fitment into any of the locks, however. On this large folding key, the plastic body is more or less square, is thicker, the key ring hole is a somewhat flatter D, and the relatively large BMW roundel (not quite the size of a dime) is in key plastic black...but is a PUSH BUTTON, that operates a tiny incandescent lamp, from an internal battery. This type was often seen seen used on K bikes....yes, the key can fit into Airhead's locks. NOTE that this particular key can not be actually used in the BENT 90° POSITION on pod instrument Airheads (not sure about R45/65/ST/GS ones though), as the pod will possibly contact the key plastic when the key is bent. The key still is usable in those airheads though.
There are 90 degree (solid, non-folding) keys also, that were furnished by BMW.
There are many sources for BMW keys; first choice should be your independent BMW service center and/or your BMW motorcycle dealership.
Motobins.co.uk also has keys
4. The BMW tour bags with the flat locks can be converted to the tubular style locks...a riveting job (no pun intended), but care must be taken to align the rear bag lock, to be SURE that it will actually latch onto the bag mount properly.
Saddle bags loose? vibrate? locks sloppy? Going to lose a bag whilst traveling?.....read on:
Luggage problems are common. Once in a while, a rear flat latch will get worn enough to break, leaving your bag all over the highway, and you may not notice the bag disappearing from the bike. FLAT latches means, here, the type that has a rather flat handle, and there is a small flip lever to allow the key to be inserted. Those that venture off-road, in particular, should be conscious of this possibility. Some of us put Bungy-Buddies on the rear of our bags, and bungee one bag to the other (some do it to the rear, even tops, of the lids). The bungee(s) go between the two bags. Other folks use a variety of straps....even ropes!...between the bags....or on individual bags around that bag's mounting frame. The standard bag frames have some round holes in them. Install a standard timing hole rubber in the two top holes, front and rear. That will stop some of the bag vibration. Bag vibration wears the rear latch. It is worse if the bag is very heavily loaded. If the front of the bag fits too loosely, build up the frame tubing with a few layers of tape. Same can be done for the rear, for the flat latch. There are numerous types of metal frames to which you affix the bags. Some of these frames have a hole at the left and right top areas (where an angular flat brace is welded), and you will find that the standard black rubber timing plug will fit and help with vibration/looseness.
There is a great tendency for folks to overload the bags, far beyond their rating, and that gives a lot of extra inertia over bumps, etc. That inertia can cause problems. It is possible for the bag frame to normally bend a bit in rough going, and with a worn rear latch, and a goodly bump, the bag can depart. I won't take the chance, and both my TourBags on one bike, and my Krausers on the other bike, have bungee cords. I've never had a bag depart from one of my rides, and that includes some worn rear latches and some 'flying' over Alaskan frost-heaves. Some dislike that bungee bodge, some use straps around the bag and frame....ETC. Some hate the idea of anything. Extra weight in the bags tends to be hard on the bag frames too, and they can crack, often near the front lower mounting.
The worst of the bag frames is the simple one with NO lower front mounting.
NOTE! The TourBag and some Krauser's use the same FLAT latch at the REAR, with only the early BMW TourBag having flat latches of the SAME type on top. Keys, etc., are treated much earlier in this article.
The flat latches are replaceable by the later, better, tubular latches, although the TOP flat ones don't fail all that often, like the rear (and vastly more important one) do. KEYING to match, is possible, as the tubular latches come without key locks, you purchase them separately, and with some clever playing, you can match your key. I have one bag that has the original flat top latches and one rear tubular. No one seems to notice the disparity. NOTE that roughly or vigorously snapping the latches closed tends to wear the latch prongs...which is where they break and let the bag go flying down the road. The tubular later latches are stronger in this respect.
NOTE!!! I have done a few changes for myself....and for several customer's bikes....from the flat latch to the tubular rear latch, and I have found that the tubular latches are not always a perfect fit to the old rivet holes. BE SURE that your new tubular latch, if you go that way, matches the holes when the latch is shut, fully clamped that is, on the frame.... and make it match, if that is needed. USUALLY what happens is that you rivet the new tubular latch to the existing holes, and the new tubular latch needs to be tightly forced, to close all the way. BAAAD! I found this out on the first one I did, and had to drill out the rivets and > move the hole centering a tiny amount. Bag keys are coded, and the latches have the same code on them someplace. The later tubular style lock (that tubular portion is the handle, so-to-speak) are better, use a more standard looking type of key.
There is a rubber insert on the original latches, there is no part number. The rubber tends to deteriorate over the years, even get lost. The rubber part can help at a latch, but if the latch is well-worn....worn considerably......you can have a problem. But...the rubber will tighten things up considerably, if you make the rubber part out of reasonably dense material. I use to use the rubber from common rubber mats as used on gym floors, using a very tough 'glue'....the same glue as for engine labels (and I use it at fairing bellows on RT's too) which is 3M Super Weatherstrip Adhesive. Yellow Gorilla Snot. Black if you want it, is available, not sure how commonly. Clean surfaces and apply EXACTLY per the tube. NOTE that if the fingers are really well worn, they can bust, and you become a loser, in both meanings of that word.
Note: The old flat tour bag latches (and rack clamping flat latch on some Krauser's) wear out, especially from 'snapping' the latches closed. It IS possible to mix and match various flat latch parts...and the secret to disassembly, when needed, is to drill out the rivets.
For OLD Krauser parts: Michael Krauser GmbH; 86415 Mering-kornblumenring 12 Tel 08233-1461 Fax 08233-1445
firstname.lastname@example.com (michael Krauser GmbH). Krauser is now owned by Hepco and Becker and they still make the classic Krauser panniers. They now have Hepco Quick Release Locks. One CAN remove the Hepco badge and use a BMW badge.
Krauser can still supply the old keys, particularly the S-150 that is difficult to find elsewhere's. $$$.
Here is a hyperlink to a How-To article, where someone replaces bad Krauser luggage locks with hardware store items:
SEE #5, just below!!
For CRAVEN parts and luggage: http://bmwmotorcycletech.info/references.htm under L for luggage
5. The cheap-looking 'luggage' style keys used on the Krauser top latches and the flat BMW style Krauser rear latch, and the BMW Tour Bag flat latches, top and rear, are special. Very difficult to get from a U.S. locksmith. These keys are made in TWO
GENERAL styles, with the ground-down flat area on opposite
sides being the major difference. Another differences between them MAY, in some
instances, be the style and side with the groove. The locks themselves have a part number on them, and that number corresponds to the stamped number on the keys. There are TWO systems of key markings and locks markings for Krauser locks. The TOP locking latches may have a stamped number such as S150 or 505, etc., on the top. That number applies if the SECOND number
does NOT appear. The second number on those top two Krauser locking latches is on the OUTside, the side FACING you as you look at the bag from the side. It is stamped, in very small letters. You may have to open the bag and latch and use a flashlight to see them. The stamped number is a similar number as with the BMW Tour Bags, below. One version of Krauser
bags have a REAR latch that is the same as the BMW flat latch, on the Krauser it holds the bag to the bag frame. The numbers are as follows for the BMW tour bag latches:
On the BMW tour bags with the flat top and flat rear latches, the number is stamped someplace on the latch after opening. That number could be something like 050; 051; 065, etc. SOME keys are still available by special order from your BMW dealer....and some may well be still in dealer stock, you will have to contact a few different dealers, such as your local favorite dealer, and I can also recommend REPSYCLE and Bob's BMW.
Here are friendly and helpful locksmiths named Trudy and Alex (and their white dog Maggie). They have quite a collection of the 3-digit coded keys for various BMW item locks, even has a ring of masters to attempt to make copies of any that they does not have a supply of. Lots of vintage keys, knowledge, etc. Key Kraft 1585 Church Street at 28th Street; San Francisco, CA 94131 (415) 285-0134 Open Monday through Friday 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Key numbers apply to the BMW flat latches and one system of the Krauser top latches and Krauser BMW-style flat rear latch. Here is a hyperlink to a How-To article, where someone replaces bad Krauser luggage locks with hardware store items:
If you do a search, you will find that a S150 key may be shown as an obsolete BMW number 46-54-1-237-764. You can ask the old-time dealers for keys. Available from Krauser in Germany, $$$. See much earlier in this article.
BMW does not stock, nor have available, all the various old keys anymore. Keys in BMW stock are likely to not be made again, and you will have to purchase new lock assemblies. I have obtained some information on SOME of the OLD keys, superceded numbers. MANY of these keys ARE AVAILABLE from dealerships, for special order; and, many old dealerships have assortments of keys. Get the lock number off your lock, or key, and see your dealership.
Another source for the luggage keys: Larry Stonestreet, dba Stoner's Beemer Stash email@example.com or (951) 813-1704 8:00 a.m. to 6 p.m. PST.
Note that key numbers may or may not start with a zero. Note that BMW has superceded the earliest part numbers a couple of times. ALL are listed below, as are a couple of photos of the types of keys.
Key Number
New number
OLD flat style numbers
71-60-1-467-563 I have two for sale, see SALE page
NOTE! When searching on-line dealership fiche, NEVER use the hyphens in BMW part numbers.
KRAUSER type keys. These are marked Sudhaus. The S-150 is
difficult to find, but see several places earlier in this article. Krauser
has used a different key number to lock the bag, versus locking the
bag to the fram.
6. Truck bed liner paint, in rattle cans, works well on sanded luggage
7. Gas Caps, problems, and including locks:
8. Windshields, installing, etc. Noisy dash's/vibration/etc:
Windshields which come already drilled, so the holes line up: Clearview brand. Very slippery fairing, that may even have less wind resistance than the stock BMW RS/RT: Hannigan STe.
Pesky BMW rivet problem?.....the BMW rivet tool is NOT the way to go for those rivets you need to install. The best way is to use a common hardened drywall screw, these have a taper head. Get a long one. Carefully grind the threads off, just enough so they fit your pop-rivet tool. Do not grind too fast and hard, do this slowly, quenching the screw in water often...don't take temper, hardness, or toughness out of the screw by overheating it. It is now easy to use that tool to make the proper rivet shape. Windshields mount on rubber tits, underlying structure is rivets; look and you will understand.
This is a tool that is very simple, solves a real problem, that you may never need, never use. It is shown here, and similarly in 2 other articles, because it is something to know about. On the FAIRED models, BMW uses a tubular (hollow) rivet, to fasten a black plastic trim piece (that contains a clock and voltmeter) to the fairing. You need a tool to tighten loose rivets for various reasons, such as fairing repairs/installations, loose dash pieces that can cause difficult to find noises, installation of Parabellum windshields that use an
additional black plastic cover piece, that fastens to two centered BMW rivets, ETC. The BMW hollow rivets need to be fairly tightly fastened to the fairing, but do not over-tighten. The problem is how to tighten them. The secret is very simple! You obtain a drywall screw. Carefully grind (do not overheat the screw which is very tough unless overheated) the threaded area as in the photo, so that the threaded area will just smoothly enter the 'chuck' of a common pop-rivet installer hand lever tool, using the 3/16" diameter chuck. To use, insert the screw from underneath via fingers or forceps, use the pop-rivet tool on the outside. The reason to not have over a 1-1/2" screw is so it is easier to insert from underneath. IF the outside of the rivet does not flatten properly (the inside will be cup-shaped), reverse the screw for the final moderate tightening. Do all the rivets, there are eight of them. If installing a Parabellum windscreen, be sure the black plastic cover piece from Parabellum does NOT interfere with the gauges, if it does, grind it a bit.
9. Tank bags: Some tank bags can restrict the fuel cap venting.
10. STEM MIRRORS: LOOK at these at your dealers, before buying. For same, L & R, 1985+ R80 cow bar euro mirrors. Big head mirrors 2 each 51-16-1-452-415, that is for the LEFT, and black in color, for the right use -416. These are fine with the S or other low bars, have longer stems, not quite as much rise, better for viewing to the rear; needing 2 each M8 wave washers 07-11-9-932-121; and 2 each Nylock nuts 17-12-9-964-675. Plastic caps (2) 46-51-1-234-785.
For large round plastic head mirrors, as from the 1985-1987 R80: They have LONG threaded stems for the RIGHT side, fitting the master cylinder mount; and the LEFT side has a shorter thread to fit the clutch lever perch. These are nice, don't vibrate much, lighter than the metal types. 51-16-1-452-417 black, left. 51-16-1-452-418 black, right.
Early airheads can use 1998 R1200C mirrors.
Information on cleaning, lubricating, fixing slipping odometer gears, and adjusting the speedometer, will probably be found on the Airheads Club Website, click on left for Technical Tips. The URL for the site is: http://www.airheads.org
An article on how to open and repair the electric clock found on Airheads, is to be found at:
The article is useful for working on the voltmeter and other instruments too, as far as how to deal with the bezel/glass/crimping. When looking at that article, be sure to click on each picture separately, otherwise you will not see the comments.
BMW purposely calibrates its speedometers to never read slower than the actual speed the motorcycle is traveling at; taking into account tire variations, temperature, instrument changes with conditions, and so on. BMW has a bulletin on this, #2756, dated 10-21-1996. The bulletin states that the MAXIMUM amount the speedometer will read fast is: 10% of true speed, PLUS 2.4 mph.
The colors on the face of the instruments vary with some years and models. BMW used white numbers for many years. 1977 models had red needles, blah blah. For some of these differences, in depth:
11/02/2006: All prior revisions incorporated and some minor editing.
12/29/2006: Add #9, to be greatly added to when I can
01/16/2007: add a bit more to item 9.
02/01/2007: some clarifications on gas cap numbers and what they are.
02/19/2007: #6 added
04/15/2007: Update item #3 with more blanks information; correct a few other places for typos
05/08/2007: Edit & revise this entire article. Try to clarify details, put things in proper context, add more
10/02/2009: Add Trudy's name and her locksmithing company
12/05/2009: Add #10
01/20/2010: Fix typo for newer part number for key 39; clean up table/column, so numbers are completely
in-line with each other.
02/01/2010: Add photos of gas cap drilling
07/21/2010: Update info on Key Kraft
04/26/2011: Add more information to item 10.
05/09/2011: Expand information on Krauser locks
05/29/2011: Expand information greatly on the folding keys
11/06/2011: Add hyperlink and notes on the Flickr article on the electric clock repair.
04/03/2012: Delete and move some items on the fuel caps to article 1.
10/02/2012: Add QR code; add language button; update google ad-sense code; add Stoner for source
for keys
04/30/2013: Remove Cravens information, and add hyperlink for Cravens items, to References.htm
08/31/2013: Add section to chart of keys, to include keys beginning with 0, and part numbers associated
beginning with 51-; plus a few notes on using.
12/20/2013: Change this article identification; was 75, now is 75A
01/22/2014: Add K caps section
09/02/2014: Entire section 7 removed, and will now be found in brand-new article 1B.
07/12/2015: For item #3: Regular ignition, luggage, & gas cap KEY BLANKS information, combined,
simplified, & put into the CHART, rather than scattered in text form.
11/01/2015: Add information to #8
03/06/2016: Update metacode; left justification; layout, etc.
07/11/2016: Update bad link from thisoldtractor for key cutting.
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We've (that is, to say, my client) implemented the Windows-platform scheduling software adTempus, and have a task with a peculiar schedule.
The task needs to run on the 31st day of the month, but of course only in months that have 31 days, and only if the 31st does not fall on a weekend, a holiday, or a day when the Federal Reserve is closed.
For example, if today was 6/29/2010, the next time the task should run is 8/31/2010, because 7/31/2010 is a Saturday and June doesn't have 31 days.
I haven't been able to configure adTempus in a way to allow me to do this. I can restrict things by day, but the options list contains days 1 - 30, and then has a "31/Last" option that uses the last day of the month if there aren't 31 days in it. This means that when my task shouldn't run until 8/31/2010, it wants to run it on 6/30/2010. We already have a calendar to exclude the holidays, but the whole "31/Last" really throws everything off. I think they really need to have a "31" option and a separate "Last" option. Anyway...
I think the only way this will actually work is to create a Holiday schedule where the only days that aren't holidays are the days that the task should run.
Another option would be to write a simple PowerShell script that contains the logic to make the decision (I don't need any help with that), set that up as a job, and then make our actual job dependent on that script succeeding, but I'd like to use the calendars in the scheduler if I can.
Does anybody have any adTempus experience that could possibly help me out?


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Ex-wife: Stabbing suspect was abusive, threateninga
Published: Wednesday, March 1, 2006 at 6:45 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 1, 2006 at 7:02 a.m.
COLUMBUS Kevin Thomas Parris was an abusive and threatening man, his former wife told a jury Tuesday.
At a glance:
* Kevin Thomas Parris, 37, charged in July 7, 2004 stabbing incident.
* Monday attorneys gave their opening statements and testimony began.
Cross-examination of Parris' estranged wife continues today.
Source: T-N Staff
Parris, 37, of 3735 AB Jacks Road, Laurens, S.C., is charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill inflicting serious injury, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon and felonious breaking and entering.
According to court records, Parris forced open the door to Crystal C. Roses, his ex-wife, home at 325 Rose Hollow Lane in Polk County grabbed Rose and threw
her across the room.
When Roses boyfriend, Gary B. Lutke Jr., tried to defend her, Parris stabbed him in
the stomach.
Tuesdays testimony dealt with Rose and Parris marriage and the days leading up to the stabbing.
Wearing a long, blue, sleeveless dress, Rose took deep breathes before answering prosecutor Doug Mondays questions.
He would hit me, kick me and slap me for no good reason, Rose testified.
As Rose told the court of the abuse, Parris looked at her in disbelief, shaking his head.
Rose testified that she left Parris as many as 15 times during their marriage, but returned because, he promised me none of that (the abuse) would happen
She also told the court that she never pressed charges against Parris because he threatened to kill her if she went to authorities.
Rose testified that she began an affair with Lutke in May 2004. Her testimony corroborated Lutkes testimony from Monday that Parris found them together at her
home in July 2004.
The door swung open, Rose testified. He came after me, and Gary (Lutke) yelled for me to get out of the house.
Rose testified that she did not see Parris with any weapons when he came into her Polk County home that day.
During his cross-examination of Rose, defense attorney Stephen Lindsay asked her why her testimony Tuesday differed from previous testimony and statements she had given in the case.
In testimony you gave today you described in detail what Kevin (Parris) was wearing when he came into your home in July 2004, Lindsay said. In your previous
testimony and statements you said nothing about clothing he was wearing ... that could have been hiding a weapon.
In addition to Roses testimony, a Mission Hospitalsemergency room doctor, Dr. William Shillinglaw, testified to the extent of Lutkes injuries. Lutke became visually emotional as the doctor testified.
Shillinglaw testified that Lutkes stab wound was life-threatening and surgery had to be performed.
In his cross-examination, Lindsay asked Shillinglaw if there were any other injuries noted in his report to show that Parris had thrown him into a television and beaten him.
I did not see any evidence of trauma to his back, Shillinglaw testified. But in this case I would not have checked for all minor injuries.
Court was recessed early Tuesday afternoon after the Judge James U. Downs recessed court early Tuesday.
The defense teams cross-examination of Rose is expected to continue this morning.
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Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyer's Cut (2009 TV Mini-Series)
Episode List
Season 1
18 Oct. 2009The Not-So-Interesting Beginnings
The birth of Monty Python. Join members as they tell the tale of how their lives and careers began Post-WWII to the culmination of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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Join Monty Python members as they discuss BBC censorship, unwanted celebrity status, member Graham Chapman, Python controversy, each other and Cleese's departure. Interviews with Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Eric Idle.
20 Oct. 2009The Ultimate Holy Grail Episode
Comedic team Monty Python document arriving in the U.S. and leaving TV to dive headfirst into film. The ups and downs with their project Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
21 Oct. 2009Lust for Glory!
The Python Gang reflects on their next misinterpreted and controversially banned film, The Life of Brian.
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The Gang recalls Monty Python Live at Hollywood Bowl and their last ever movie The Meaning of Life. The passing of Graham Chapman and his extraordinary memorial service, and finally some insights into whether the team will ever regroup again. Comedians and celebrities discuss Python's influence.
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