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Stewart Granger | |
Granger in 1970. | |
Born | James Lablache Stewart 6 May 1913 London, England, United Kingdom |
Died | 16 August 1993 Santa Monica, California, US | (aged 80)
Other names | Jimmy Stewart |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1933–89 |
Spouse(s) | Elspeth March (1938–48) (divorced) two children Jean Simmons (1950–60) (divorced) one child Caroline LeCerf (1964–69) (divorced) one child |
Stewart Granger | |
Granger in 1970. | |
Born | James Lablache Stewart 6 May 1913 London, England, United Kingdom |
Died | 16 August 1993 Santa Monica, California, US | (aged 80)
Other names | Jimmy Stewart |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1933–89 |
Spouse(s) | Elspeth March (1938–48) (divorced) two children Jean Simmons (1950–60) (divorced) one child Caroline LeCerf (1964–69) (divorced) one child |
Stewart Granger (6 May 1913 – 16 August 1993) was a English-American film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was a popular leading man from the 1940s to the early 1960s, rising to fame through his appearances in the Gainsborough melodramas.
He was born James Lablache Stewart in Old Brompton Road, west London, the only son of Major James Stewart, OBE and his wife Frederica Eliza (née Lablache). Granger was educated at Epsom College and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He was the great-great-grandson of the opera singer Luigi Lablache and the grandson of the actor Luigi Lablache.[1] When he became an actor, he was advised to change his name in order to avoid being confused with the American actor James Stewart. (Granger[2] was his Scottish grandmother's maiden name.) Offscreen friends and colleagues continued to call him Jimmy for the rest of his life, but to the general public he became Stewart Granger.
He made his film debut as an extra in 1933. It was at this time that he met Michael Wilding and they remained friends until Wilding's death in 1979. Years of theatre work followed, initially at Hull Repertory Theatre and then, after a pay dispute, at Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Here he met Elspeth March, a leading actress with the company, who became his first wife.
At the outbreak of World War II Granger enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders, then transferred to the Black Watch with the rank of second lieutenant.[3] However he suffered from stomach ulcers and he was invalided out of the army in 1942.[4]
His first starring film role was as the acid-tongued Rokeby in the Gainsborough Pictures period melodrama The Man in Grey (1943), a film that helped to make him a huge star in Britain. He followed this with the even more popular Fanny By Gaslight (1944). The New York Times reported that Granger "is a young man worth watching. The customers... like his dark looks and his dash; he puts them in mind, they say of Cary Grant."[5]
He was cast in some prestige films, Caesar and Cleopatra and Waterloo Road, then in Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945) which the critic Leslie Halliwell called "novelettish balderdash killed stone dead by stilted production". All these films were successful at the box office (although Caesar and Cleopatra never recouped its large cost) and in 1945 the Times reported that "this six-foot black-visaged ex-soldier from the Black Watch is England's Number One pin up boy. Only Bing Crosby can match him for popularity."[6]
Granger followed this with Caravan and then The Magic Bow in which he played Niccolò Paganini. In 1945 he was voted the second-most popular British film star, and the ninth-most popular overall.[7] The following year he was voted the third-most popular British star, and the sixth-most popular overall.
He went over to Rank for whom he made Captain Boycott, Blanche Fury and then Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948), an Ealing Studios production. The screenplay was by John Dighton and Alexander Mackendrick, who would later direct The Ladykillers (1955) and Sweet Smell of Success. Granger was cast as the outsider, the handsome gambler who is perceived as 'not quite the ticket' by the established order, the Hanoverian court where the action is mostly set. Granger stated that this was one of his few films of which he was proud.
In 1949 Granger was reported as earning around £30,000 a year.[8]
That year Granger made Adam and Evelyne, starring with Jean Simmons. The story, about a much older man and a teenager who he gradually realises is no longer a child but a young woman with mature emotions and sexuality had obvious parallels to Granger's and Simmons' own lives. Granger had first met the very young Jean Simmons when they both worked on Gabriel Pascal's Caesar and Cleopatra (1945). Three years on, Simmons had transformed from a promising newcomer into a star - and a very attractive young woman. They married the following year in a bizarre wedding ceremony organised by Howard Hughes - one of his private aircraft flew the couple to Tucson, Arizona, where they were married, mainly among strangers, with Michael Wilding as Granger's best man.[9]
After Granger's stage production of Leo Tolstoy's The Power of Darkness (a venture he had intended to provide a vehicle for him to star with Jean Simmons) had been very poorly received when it opened in London at the Lyric Theatre on 25 April 1949. (During the run two men attempted to cut some locks from Granger's hair.[10]) The disappointment, added to dissatisfaction with the Rank Organisation, led his thoughts to turn to Hollywood.
In 1949 Granger made his move; MGM was looking for someone to play H. Rider Haggard's hero Allan Quatermain in a film version of King Solomon's Mines. Errol Flynn was offered the role but turned it down; Granger's signing was announced in August 1949.[11]
On the basis of the huge success of this film, released in 1950 and co-starring Deborah Kerr and Richard Carlson, he was offered a seven-year contract by MGM. Following two less successful assignments, Soldiers Three and The Light Touch, in 1952, he starred in Scaramouche in the role of Andre Moreau, the bastard son of a French nobleman, a part Ramón Novarro had played in the 1923 version of Rafael Sabatini's novel. Soon after this came the remake of The Prisoner of Zenda (1952), for which his theatrical voice, stature (6'2") and dignified profile made him a natural.
In 1952 he and Jean Simmons sued Howard Hughes for $250,000 damages arising from an alleged breach of contract.[12][13] The case was settled out of court.[14]
Granger lost out on A Star Is Born, which went to James Mason. In Moonfleet (1955), Granger was cast as an adventurer, Jeremy Fox, in the Dorset of 1757, a man who rules a gang of cut-throat smugglers with an iron fist until he is softened by a 10-year-old boy who worships him and who believes only the best of him. The film was directed by Fritz Lang and produced by John Houseman, a former associate of Orson Welles. Footsteps in the Fog was the third and final film Granger and Jean Simmons made together - Simmons played a Cockney housemaid who finds that her adventurer employer (Granger) has poisoned his rich wife in order to inherit her wealth. Bhowani Junction (1956), was adapted from a John Masters novel about colonial India on the verge of obtaining independence. Ava Gardner played an Anglo-Indian (mixed race) woman caught between the two worlds of the British and the Indians, and Granger the British officer with whom (in a change from the novel) she ultimately fell in love. His films The Little Hut (1957), a coy sex comedy, and Gun Glory (1957), a Western story of redemption, both bombed.[15] North to Alaska with John Wayne, 'a brawling comedy western', was the last Hollywood film Granger made. Granger had turned down the role of Messala in the 1959 film Ben-Hur, reportedly because he did not want to take second billing to Charlton Heston.
Granger had become a successful cattle rancher but he left Hollywood in the wake of the breakup of his second marriage to Simmons.
In Germany, Granger acted in the role of Old Surehand in three Western films adapted from novels by German author Karl May, with French actor Pierre Brice (playing the fictional Indian chief Winnetou), in Unter Geiern (Frontier Hellcat) (1964), Der Ölprinz (Rampage at Apache Wells) (1965) and Old Surehand (Flaming Frontier) (1965). He was united with Pierre Brice and Lex Barker, also a hero of Karl May films, in Gern hab' ich die Frauen gekillt (Killer's Carnival) (1966). In the German Edgar Wallace film series of the 1960s, he was seen in The Trygon Factor (1966). He later estimated that he made more than $1.5 million in the 1960s but lost all of it.[16]
He subsequently replaced actor Lee J. Cobb, Charles Bickford and John McIntire on NBC's The Virginian as the new owner of the Shiloh ranch on prime-time TV for its ninth year (1971).[17]
He appeared in The Wild Geese (1978) as an unscrupulous banker, who hires a unit of mercenary soldiers (Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and others) to stage a military coup in an African nation. His character then makes a deal with the existing government, and betrays the mercenaries.
In the 1970s Granger retired from acting and went to live in southern Spain, where he invested in real estate. He returned to acting in 1981 with the publication of his autobiography, claiming he was bored.[16] Granger spent the last decade of his life appearing on television (including portraying Sherlock Holmes in an American TV movie version of The Hound of the Baskervilles with William Shatner also in the cast, and a guest role in the ABC series The Fall Guy starring Lee Majors) and on the stage. He even starred in a German soap-opera called Das Erbe der Guldenburgs (The Guldenburg Heritage) (1987).
One of his last roles was in the 1989–90 Broadway production of The Circle by W. Somerset Maugham, opposite Glynis Johns and Rex Harrison in Harrison's final role.[18] The production actually opened at Duke University for a three-week run, followed by performances in Baltimore and Boston before opening on 14 November 1989 on Broadway. [19] [20]
He was married three times:
Granger claimed in his autobiography that Deborah Kerr had approached him romantically in the back of his chauffeur-driven car at the time he was making Caesar and Cleopatra.[21] Although at the time he was married to Elspeth March, he states that he and Kerr went on to have an affair.[22] When asked about this revelation, Kerr's response was, "What a gallant man he is."[23]
In 1956 Granger became a naturalised citizen of the United States.[24]
He died in Santa Monica, California from prostate and bone cancer at the age of 80.[25]
His niece is Antiques Roadshow appraiser Bunny Campione, the daughter of his sister, Iris.[26]
In 1970 Granger said "Stewart Granger was quite a successful film star, but I don't think he was an actor's actor."[27]
Among the films that Granger was announced to star in, but that ended up being made with other actors, were Ivanhoe (1952), Mogambo (1953), The King's Thief (1955) and Man of the West (1958).[28]
At the peak of his career, exhibitors voted Granger among the top stars at the box office:
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New to lights- lettuce question
I am new to growing under lights, and I have some questions about my setup. I am trying to grow lettuce, as lettuce appears to be simple to grow under a light. I have spent hours of reading trying to figure out if I have the correct setup, but cannot seem to figure it out on my own.
I am using a shop light (the round kind that have clips) with a Sylvania CFL 23 watt daylight bulb. It is 6500K and has a light output of 1,450 lumens. From what I understand, for growing lettuce one needs a light at the blue end of the spectrum. Will this bulb work for growing lettuce, or did I buy the wrong bulb? If so, what bulb would you recommend? I am trying to keep things simple/cheap, hence starting with lettuce.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Mine setup seems to be working fine as well. Although my lettuce has yet to sprout, I have two tomatoe seedlings and an eggplant under the light and they seem to be growing quite well. My lettuce is in a round container, which is why I am using a round light. All seems well, I just wanted to double check I was doing things correct. Thank You for your reply.
Not to be flippant, but lumens are like points in Drew Carey's "Who's Line Is It?" program. What counts is the intensity (measured in Foot Candles or Lux) of the light hitting the plant. I just measured mine and I'm getting 6500 lux or ~604 FC.
A very broad rule of thumb is 1 lumen is equal to 1 FC if the light is one foot away. But that is for a point-light source - in other words, all the light is aimed at a point. My bulbs are 2800 lumens and I have four of them inside a white reflector. The light is 3-4" above the tops of the plants.
Yes, 1 lux is 1 lumen hitting a square meter. And yes, there is rough formula for calculating lux (or Foot Candles) but it is anything but precise. It presumes that a bulb rated at 1000 lumens will deliver 10,700 lux or 1,000 FC if the bulb is one foot away. In reality, the light will diffuse, some will be blocked by the bulb itself (the light coming from the top of the tube, for instance and bulbs seldom provide the lumens they are rated at, unless they are brand new and have a perfect reflector. Then there is the inverse square law that says that as the distance from the bulb to the surface is cut in half, the intensity is increased 4 times.
Lumens are a good way to compare one bulb to another, if they are the same type and color temp. But alone, they are like engine horsepower. A 1949 Cub tractor with 12 HP will pull a 12" moldboard plow. But that same plow behind a 20 HP Cub lawn tractor and it will sit there.
If you plan on doing any serious indoor growing, I highly recommend a light meter and reading about Daily Light Integral by Jim Faust. Of course, I hope to grow at least 144 heads of Romaine lettuce at a time after my outdoor season ends this fall.
Something many growers here haven't discovered is that lumen specs are weighted around human vision, which sees best, or is most receptive, at green wavelengths. A "totally green" light might rate high in lumens (your plants would be light starved) while a "blue-red only" light would rate low in lumens (your plants would do well).
However, as Wordwiz correctly stated, "Lumens are a good way to compare one bulb to another..." if the bulbs have similar spectra, as he inferred. I always found that just comparing spectral energy (SPD graphs) to be my favorite method.
To add a bit more info, color temperature (CCT) is NOT a reliable indicator of light content. While CCT is a good indicator of the color content of the standard blackbody definition, it fails to convey the true output of artificial lights. In that case, the CCT merely indicates the average center of the sum of the wavelengths emitted by the lamp source. For example, you could have a lamp which only emits infrared and UV. By simply varying the level of the two , you could achieve ANY color temperature rating between maybe 1700K and 30,000K. How about that - no useful plant energy there at all.
If you have the time to read, it would be educational to look up the specific meanings of Color Temperature, Metamerism, Blackbody, Lumens and Spectral Power Density(SPD). If you compare the smooth blackbody spectrum to the "jagged and uneven" spectrum of fluorescent and HID lamps, you will begin to understand. Google and Wikipedia might help.
I am sure that some of the regulars here really do know that, but nobody seems to try to convey that information. Good luck reading!
A couple of other crumbs to nibble on:
If you want to see a spectral graph of the light you are using, it's cheap and easy. The simple way is to hold a CD or DVD at a 45 degree angle under the light with the bottom side facing the light.
A more precise way: You need something like a shoe box and the CD or DVD. Poke a small hole in the top of the box. At the other end, cut out part of the lid or side. Insert the CD or DVD so the bottom is facing the hole in the top of box and tape it so it is at a 45 degree angle. Place the box under your light and view the percentage of each spectra of light.
When it comes to useful light, here is a comparison among some common types of lights and how useful their type of light is to plants. The figure is the amount of mols (an hourly accumulation of PAR light) plants receive. For simplicity sake, the amount is based on 1,000 Footcandles.
Sunlight: .713
Cool-white fluro: .524
Veggies such as tomatoes, peppers and cukes need at least 20 mols per day (multiply mols per hour by hours of light) for decent production. I have not seen the figure for lettuce but IME, it is probably 12-14 mols/day.
Thank you guys for your replies. I still have a bunch more reading ahead of me, but I have since started. After some research I am wondering if it would be beneficial to switch to the shop style grow lights. It seems to me that this is the prefered setup. My lettuce has since sprouted, however, I am a wondering if it will do well under my current light setup. I went to the hardware store today to price some shop lights, and they seem pretty cheap. I have spent more on my round shop lights/ bulbs than I would have spent on a shop light. I am looking at purchasing a 4 bulb shop light, maybe one that is around 36" long. I do have some questions about such a light.
I believe the shop light I looked at uses T8 bulbs. What bulb would you recommend I purchase for growing lettuce? I am still so new to this that I do not even know what to look for as far as bulbs go. I believe (correct me if I am wrong) that I should be looking for something around 6500K for growing lettuce. Could such a light be found at Lowe's, or would I be better off purchasing the bulbs online?
Thank you for your help.
Wanna know a secret? You cannot go wrong with the most inexpensive "cool-white" bulbs. I have used more exotic bulbs at different times, but as flourescents go, cheap cool-whites have always done me well. I am pretty sure that they currently have a two-layer phosphor: a halophosphor on the glass surface and a second coating of "rare earth" triphosphor blend on top of that. The old ugly "cool-white" tubes from years ago were really great for plants. Now they have been officially mandated to be more efficient and have better CRI(color rendering index). That is why they now contain the triphosphor blends that are in flourescents sold currently.
Lamps that are labeled 7xx(eg 730/735/741) have the halo-triphosphor combination I mentioned above, and are in the 70% CRI range. Lamps that are labeled 8xx(eg 830/835/841) have only triphosphor blends in them and are in the 80% CRI range. CRI is a rating for human color accuracy. Plant just don't have eyes, yet, so don't worry about CRI ratings. (We cannot predict what future genetic manipulation may bring, like... plants that can see you coming, but right now CRI is meaningless to them).
Lucky for plant growers, both the old halophosphor and the current blue-phosphor component in the current triphosphor blends cover a broad spectrum in the blue wavelengths that just happen to center on both the human eye's blue cones AND the blue-absorbing chlorophylls.
I forgot to note that the ugly older "cool-white" tubes that I mentioned were halophosphors only. They had a bland, almost greenish hue, and did not have much of a red component. That didn't seem to matter. They did a great job on plants. I once painted a small coal bin in my basement from top-to-bottom with flat white paint. I had 30 cool-white lamps across the top of the ceiling. It was startlingly bright. My plants loved it.
I like the daylight (6000-6500K) bulbs better than the Cool White (4000K) but they both will work.
What size you need (2 or 4 bulbs, 24, 36 or 48 inch length) depends on how many heads and what type of lettuce you might need. A four foot, four bulb shop light will easily support 21, maybe 24 plants in a 3x4' DWC hydroponic raft system. If you figure 60 days from transplant to eating, you could figure on having two large heads of lettuce per week. Enough to feed a family of rabbits! Or, you could take a couple of spaces and grow chard, spinach or a number of other greens. If you start the plants in something like Oasis Horticubes or Rockwool, it's easy to raise 12 plants to transplant size under a 23-watt CFL, cutting the time until you have harvestable size plants to 40 days or less.
Thank you guys for all of your help. I ended up going to Lowe's and checked out their selection of shop lights. Interestingly enough they had one 48" 4 bulb light left, so I bought it. However they only had two light bulbs (go figure). I have since purchased four 6500K bulbs for my lettuce. I am keeping the round shop lights over some seedlings, but the majority of my lettuce is under the new setup.
"For example, you could have a lamp which only emits infrared and UV. By simply varying the level of the two , you could achieve ANY color temperature rating between maybe 1700K and 30,000K. How about that - no useful plant energy there at all. "
Except there's a Pfr and Pfb reaction that IR and UV encompass in plant physiology, so yes, there IS usable energy there. Not a very accurate statement.
Photon flux density is the proper measurement used in photobiology. Not lumens (or lux) or candles, raw photon count. In a targeted-light application you would call it photosynthetic photon flux.
Spectral graph + photon flux density (which most lamp manufacturers will not list) is the best way to obtain the info you need.
Pick up a $200 cheapo quantum meter (yes, that's for the cheap ones with a decent degree of accuracy) and get to your nearest hardware supplier with it to test out the lamps.
Hey everyone.
This post has been helpful and I was hoping you could help me.
I have a 2x2 foot box and with winter coming I need to move indoors and equip with lighting. Inside it will get roughly 1-2 hours of sunlight per day (if there is a sun out) I am looking to grow spinach, lettuce, swiss chard, and beets.
At the moment I am looking to purchase a 2 foot, single bulb, T5 24watt fixture with a 6400K bulb (2480 lumens)
Do you think this would be enough for growth?


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Don't you just love a nice surprise in your mailbox? You know, a nice fat IRS tax refund, a Publishers Clearance Warehouse winner notification, or a letter from an old flame. (okay, maybe not that last one) The April 2012 issue of Car and Driver arrived in my mailbox today and I was greeted with what appears to be the real car that the November 2011 Jalopnik illustrations were based upon. It's SO hard to tell computer rendered cars these days. "Usually" computer images are a little too flashy and that's the telltale sign. A year, or less, from now, we'll know for sure how spot on Jalopnik and Car and Driver are.
But for now, it's deal with what's in front of us. Sometimes, cars look better in person. But the C7 is looking more like a C6.75. I know that Corvettes tend to be evolutionary in their design, but honestly, there'd better be some stunning things going on under all the pretty fiberglass and carbon fiber.
The front view of the car is interesting, but two design elements bother me. The front grille opening looks awfully close to that of the 1993 – 2002 Camaro with its Billy Bass mouth. Going by the Jalopnik renderings, the hood vents and vents on the tops of the rear fenders indicate that this is the 2015 ZR1 configuration. But the vents on the hood look like those on the new ZL1 Camaro. Since when does the Corvette FOLLOW the Camaro? (when Camaros outsell Corvettes 6-to-1?) I suppose we'll get used to it. But we're not supposed to "get used to it," we're supposed to LUST for it!
And now to the back end. (sigh) PLEASE!!! Don't let this be the real back end of the C7 Corvette, PLEASE. If so, we'll never hear the end of the "Cormaro" of the "Camvette." Continue reading
C7 Report – Styling Analysis of the Jalopnik C7 ZR1 Renderings
Dateline: 2.10.1
Are the Jalopnik C7 renderings revving you up, or stalling you out?
Be sure to take out C7 Jalopnik rendering poll at the bottom of this post!
I've been meaning to get to this for about two months now. Back on November 14, 2011, Jalopnik.com dropped a fire bomb on the Corvette community with three renderings of what they claim to be, accurate illustrations of a ZR1 version of the C7 Corvette. Chevrolet immediately said, "Thanks, but WRONG, Jalopnik!" And Jalopnik called GM's response, "a weak ass denial…" Okay, play NICE, everyone!
So, it's been almost three months and if you read through the various forums and blog comments, not everyone is jazzed about what they see. Initially, Jalopnik said they would be releasing "photos" and then delivered "renderings," claiming that their inside source swears on his mother's grave that the created renderings are correct. I also have it from a Corvette writer friend with an inside source (I don't know if it's the same source as Jalopnik's) that the renderings are spot on. Yes, right down to the Camaro taillights. My friend's friend claims that even though Chevrolet knows that the Corvette fans will negatively react to the Camaro taillights, it's a "corporate look" that runs across the Chevrolet line. I suppose it's like how the Chevy Volt's front end almost looks like a Malibu.
Since the Jalopnik renderings were published, there have been a rash of C7 sightings wearing those totally UGLY camo suits that could make a Playboy centerfold girl look like a dawg!. About the only thing that clear is that the car will (might) have quad exhaust pipes and LED taillights. But most obvious is the overall shape. Sorry guys, but it sure does look like a C6. And it's BIG too. Continue reading
Jalopnik Says This is the C7 2014 Corvette
Dateline: 11.14.11
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With less than two years to go, Jalopnik.com says this is the C7 Corvette. Believe it… or NOT!
Oh course, we won't know for sure until Chevrolet wants us to know for sure. But Jalopnik.com is claiming that THIS is the the new C7 Corvette, as photographed by someone that isn't supposed to be photographing things inside the design center. If this isn't a carefully contrived leak created to stoke the Corvette loyal and faithful, then someone will either NEVER be allowed inside again or someone will be fired!
At the earliest, we're looking at a "possible" Spring release of the '14 C7 Corvette, which puts that 18 months or so out ahead of us now. Will Chevrolet just show us the C7 in Spring '13 as the '14 C7 Corvette, or will they be taking orders for the '14 C7 Corvette? We don't know. Will the C7 be shown at the Summer press preview so that as the magazines can splash the C7 Corvette at the news stands in early September, along with the rest of the new '14 cars? We don't know.
(Love it or hate it? Cast your vote at the bottom of this post!)
What is certain is this. Because of the Internet and the blogosphere, if the C7 is released in the Spring or shown to the press as part of the Summer "14 preview, as soon as the car is "officially" shown, it will be all over the net in a matter of nanoseconds! Continue reading
Vette Videos – Vette Polls: C6 ZR1 Corvette vs All-Wheel-Drive Lamborghini LP670-4 SV
Dateline: 10.6.11
Another look at AWD, does it really matter?
(Cast your vote at the bottom of this post.)
The other day I was sharing with you the November 2011 Road & track cover story about the 2-second club – three world-class sports cars capable of 0-to-60 in LESS than 3-seconds. Club members include the Nissan GT-R Premium, the Porsche 911 Turbo S, and the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport. All three cars had AWD and except for the nuts-o 1,183-HP Bugatti, the other two members have LESS horsepower that the ZR1. Plus, the ZR1 Corvette weighs 225-pounds LESS than the Porsche. So, the Corvette with a 106-horsepower advantage isn't in the club, what's up with that? "All-wheel-drive" boys and girls.
Well don't despair Corvette fans, not all AWD supercars are in the 2-second club. The Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SV could only to the 0-to-60 scoot in 3.0-seconds, so no club membership card for the Lambo either. The June '09 Car & Driver Lambo test car was packing 661-HP, 487 LB/FT of torque, weighed 3,850-pounds, and has a top speed of 209 to 213-mph. All that for only $457,500 – enough to buy three ZR1s and a Z06! But we won't beat them up over a few hundred grand.
Autocar Magazine created the below video comparison between the top gun Corvette and Lamborghini cars. The Lambo has the horsepower edge plus AWD and the ZR1 has the weight advantage. So who wins on a road course? (The video is on the next page –>>) Continue reading
Vette Polls: Another Case for an All-Wheel Drive C7 Corvette
Dateline: 10.3.11
Porsche and Bugatti Should be Red Faced (Chevrolet too!)
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Last July 1, 2011 I posted a story titled "A Case For An All-Wheel-Drive C7 Corvette." Motor Trend TV presented a video featuring a 3-way drag race between a Shelby GT 500, a Nissan GT-R, and a 2011 Z06. Although the video was fun to watch, no ETs or speeds were mentioned, but is was obvious that the Shelby was totally SMOKED, the Z06 tried valiantly, but the Nissan was the winner.
Of the three cars, the critical numbers were all over the place and if you ignore the Nissan's AWD drive train, the performance was baffling. The Shelby and the Nissan both have 550-HP, while the Z06 only has 505-HP. The Shelby had the most torque (you know, that "other" horsepower) with 510 lb/ft, while the Nissan had 448 lb/ft and the Z06 470 lb/ft. In the weight department, the Z06 was the flyweight, weighing in at just 3,253 LBS, with the Shelby at 3,801 and the Nissan at 3,898. So, on paper, the Z06's 645-pound advantage should have given the win to the Corvette. But when you see the video, the story was obvious. The Nissan slapped a hole shot on the Z06 and the Shelby that they were never able to recover from. End of story.
The cover story of the November 2011 issue of Road & Track, the title story reads, "Speed Kings – 0-60 in 2.5 SEC!" On page 50 the article lead is "The Two Second Club – What does it take to join the quickest club on four wheels?" Of all of the current production high performance cars, apparently there are only three capable of running sub-3-second 0-60-mph times. The three cars are: the 2012 Nissan GT-R Premium, the 2011 Porsche 911 Turbo S, and the 2012 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport.
For the purpose of the essay, it's important to note that all three of these cars have all-wheel-drive.
Who won? Want to take a guess? Time's up! First place went to the Bugatti with a 0-60-mph blast of 2.52-seconds! You might want to let that one soak in a little. Second place went to the 911 Porsche with a 2.84-second 0-60 time. (See, Porsche doesn't win everything!) And third place went to the Nissan GT-R Premium with a 0-60 time of 2.94-seconds. Quarter-mile ET and speeds were not given.
The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport is hands down, the King of Supercars. The car packs a 7993cc W-16, quad turbo (that FOUR turbochargers!) with a whopping 1,183-HP, 1106 lb/ft of torque, and a 7-speed dual-clutch transaxle. Weight – 4,545-LBS. Top speed is "limited" at 258-MPH. OUCH! Nuff said. Continue reading
FINALLY! Some C7 News – C7 Corvette to Get a 7-Speed Gearbox!
Dateline: 9.24.11
After a LONG dry spell, some C7 news that's really "news."
We haven't had much to say about the C7 Corvette because there hasn't been much to say about the new C7 Corvette. Oh, there have been a few burps of "news" but it was more like a rehash or rehashed material, spiced up with lots of wild speculation. Eventually, we'll all know everything there is to know about the C7. But thanks to the immediacy of the internet, there's been a feeding frenzy over the C7 question for at least the last two years! But finally, there's something tangible to talk about.
This isn't a huge piece of juicy red meat, but it's better than nothing. According to InsideLine.com the 2014 C7 Corvette will receive a 7-speed transmission! Calm down, calm down, this has not been "officially" confirmed by Chevrolet, yet.
While a 7-speed tranny won't do much for "performance" (in the terms WE like to think of) the additional top gear would allow Continue reading


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On behalf of the Amateur Softball Association, welcome to the October issue of the ACE Coach monthly email from ASA Director of Coaching Education and two-time Olympic Coach Mike Candrea: Candrea on Coaching. As a youth sports coach, you naturally want to prepare your team to win as many games as possible, and as a Responsible Coach, you want to prepare your players to win off the field, too. The Liberty Mutual Responsible Sports program is proud to bring you this series in which Coach Candrea will provide you with coaching tips and resources that you can use for the betterment of your youth softball team.
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Competitive Excellence
How do we instill competitive excellence in our culture? I always hear people state that the kids of today are not as competitive as 10 years ago. Is this a true statement or are we giving our own generation too much credit?
Competitive excellence can mean different things to different people, although the foundation is nothing more than making the right choices. Yes, life is the sum of the choices we make and to me competitive excellence is making the choice to train and compete without complacency. Complacency is the silent killer of performance. There are many factors that go into competitive excellence and as coaches or parents; we often throw out words such as "effort", "focus", "work ethic", and many others to help describe what it takes to be successful. The unfortunate problem with most athletic cultures is the lack of models to learn from and more importantly to establish a picture of what these frequently used words actually look like.
Most young people today cannot describe these key words that are used frequently, so how can we expect them to truly understand their meaning. I have had the opportunity to be involved with the game for many, many years and along with that experience, I have witnessed various players, teams, and performances that have created a picture for me of what these words actually look like. The dilemma is creating these images for the players who do not have that experience and whom we are coaching today.
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What killed our campaign
Here are a few things that I think hurt us the most.
- Kallis losing form
I remember an early poll in the tournament on the site, about who is the most influential player for RCB this season. And it was almost unanimously Kallis. At that moment we were right on the top. Unfortunately, he lost form and he indeed was the most influential player in our camp.
- Choice of too many
Once we had the full strength, we were really not too sure whom to pick whom to not. And while its a good to be in situation, it can back fire too
- Change of opening pair
And in general too many changes to a winning combination. We had one of the best openings and suddenly we got Pandey out. The new pair din't work. We got Pandey back. He failed. (and eventually even Kallis failed)
- Change of the venue for semis
As Ramya calls it, we got 'Bomb'ayed. Though I think it was the right thing to do, given that the drama continued on the following day.
That said, I think we had one of the better teams in the tournament, we lost some very easy chases and end of the day 14 points don't justify our potential. At least 4 points short I think.
Hopefully, we win the 3rd place playoff and get a berth for the champions league. Of course DC will be my favorite opposition :)
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I think we should get over it and start looking ahead to win the games coming our way.
2.reluctant to give a chance for leading wkt tkr
4.dravid n kohli can give a gd platform bt they cant take on the bowling attack so they should be utilised in early part of the innings
5.keeping a specialist t20 batsman in dugout!
( morgan)
Its not fair to compare, but if you look at teams like CSK,RR,DC, they give their best and try to pull the game as much as possible. Our team neither with bat nor ball seemed like had intent of winning.
The other day against DD when DC won, Symonds being the MoM said that he was sad for getting out that way and was feeling very much responsible for the team for not putting a better score - Really a sportsman's attitude. I appreciate!
We are a massive fans of a team that least has a attitude to fight. :(
Throughout the tournament Manish Pandey kept getting chances after chances. Was there nobody else to replace him. Did he deserve so many chances?
Praveen Kumar was always known to bowl four good balls and I wonder what happens after that. He thinks he is a stalwart and experiments and gets pelted. Cant he stick to his basics.
Robin Uthappa can never finish off matches like a Suresh Raina or Rohit Sharma. Tendulkar has clearly shown that T20 is not all abt striking the ball hard. Its about timing, rotating the strike and partnerships. What has Uthappa learned from it?? Nothing. He thinks his sixers will finish off the game and he has the poorest shot selection. He is one of the most talented Indian cricketers and it pains to see him get out like this after a solid start. What does the coach teach them.
All The matches RCB has lost is cause they did not have a good partnership and even the ones they won was due to Induvidual performances like that of Kallis, or Kevin Pieterson or Robin. Each member of the team has always tried to win the game for RCB all by himself not with a partnership
Thanks RCB for such a shameful performance after all the promise you made in the initial few games. Ray Jennings I wonder what You teach your boys. I think its time for you to go back to South Africa with crates of Kingfisher beer and not come back.
they are all stuck up with names than performances.....
i cant make out y kallis,pandey and praveen cud still be in the team....
they cud have delivered long back....but its not now definately right?......
y cant white play?..
what about vander merwe...
what was taylor doing der?....
playing the test match against aussies again after his series?.........


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Jorma Kaukonen is a genuine musical journeyman, a man whose trajectory has all but ensured his musical immortality. As a member of both the Jefferson Airplane and its bluesy offshoot Hot Tuna, which he formed with bassist and longtime friend Jack Casady, his name is forever ingrained in the annals of rock history. On the eve of his 73rd birthday, he remains as active, enthused, and eager to pursue his muse as at any time in his 50-year career.
Kaukonen first met Casady, the man who would become his lifetime musical partner, when they played together in a Washington, D.C., band dubbed the Triumphs. By the mid-'60s, the two men were on sturdier footing when they joined the fledgling Jefferson Airplane. Despite Kaukonen's appreciation for traditional folk blues — artists like Howlin' Wolf, Son House, the Reverend Gary Davis, and Muddy Waters — he and Casady became an integral part of that band as it made its transition from folk rock to the high-flying psychedelia that typified the Airplane at its peak. Though never a particularly prolific songwriter, several Kaukonen compositions became staples of the band's repertoire — "Hey, Frederick," "Embryonic Journey," "Feel So Good," and "Good Shepherd" among them.
Even as the Airplane flourished and later floundered, Hot Tuna's own efforts picked up steam, thanks to a well-received string of early albums and live performances that would often stretch over several hours. After a steady influx of auxiliary players coming in and out of the band's ranks, Kaukonen and Casady agreed to call it quits in the late '70s, only to re-form a few years later. Although Kaukonen still pursues a solo career, Hot Tuna itself is now as active as ever.
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We caught up with Kaukonen by phone from his home in Southeast Ohio that doubles as the Fur Peace Ranch — a weekend music camp he and his wife, Vanessa, have managed for 17 years.
New Times: Hot Tuna has put out a slew of live albums over the past few decades, but in recent years, the band's studio output has been scarce at best. Your last album, 2011's Steady as She Goes, was your first in 20 years.
Jorma Kaukonen: In the last few decades, we haven't had a record deal. It costs money to go into the studio. A lot of the kids today, they do a lot of that stuff on their own. But I'm not that kid. So we did a lot of live stuff because it was easy to do. But I've done some studio albums on my own. I did Blue Country Heart in 2002, and then I did The Stars in My Crown and, more recently, River of Time.
As I got back to working in the studio and having a good time with it, I went to the folks at my label, Red House. I was supposed to do another Jorma record after River of Time, and I suggested doing another Hot Tuna record instead, and they were very excited about it. In today's world, you don't have the absurd budgets that you did in the old days. But you want to know something? It's a good thing. Because you don't waste time. And we had a really good time playing. So there will be a new Jorma record after the first of the year and then later on in the year, or the first of the following year, there will be a new Hot Tuna record. We're back in the saddle.
I guess the bad news was, we didn't have people looking for that next studio album. But the good news is — and it is good news — that we didn't have that pressure to do two albums a year. If I was a young artist, I'd probably thrive on that. But as an older guy, I like not having that pressure.
What is the divide that separates your solo material from something you might do with the band?
Sometimes people ask me when I do a so-called solo album — by the way, when you do a "solo album," it usually takes eight or nine people — why don't I use Jack. Then it would be a Hot Tuna album. The interaction that Jack and I have is a different thing altogether. It's about the songs, but it's also about the interaction between us. When I do a so-called solo record, it's always about the songs.
Is it a challenge not to repeat yourselves?
[laughs] Of course it is. I remember reading an interview with ZZ Top where they asked, "How do you guys keep it fresh?" And their answer was, "Buy new gear."
So can we assume that would be your response as well?
There is some truth to that. Sometimes you get a new guitar and it will give you a new perspective on your music, whatever that music is. A lot of things happen. I'm listening to a lot of different kinds of music, so I'm always looking for something new. I'm always jotting lyrics down, because you never know what will come, something that really smokes your shorts. Obviously, me and Jack are always going to sound like me and Jack, but I think there were some growth elements to Steady as She Goes, and I like that. It sounds like us, but it also sounds like us a little more.


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Wasteland volume 8
My arc of Wasteland comes out in trade paperback from Oni Press this week! Whoohoo!
You can get it directly from them here, starting tomorrow!
Wasteland #41 out this week!
Another from ECCC '12
Faeries and such
Just outa' reach
It was pretty awesome! This weekend was my first time having a table at a con, and I think I'm addicted. Everyone who came by was super nice (maybe a little too nice… what's their angle?). Thanks to everyone who took a minute to look through my stuff, and especially to the people who bought commissions, they were a blast to work on!
Speaking of said commissions, here's one of them. The second one I didn't get a chance to photograph, unfortunately. So until a scanned version pops up, here's a blurry, badly lit photo of Delirium, from Neil Gaiman's Sandman series.
Still Sketchin'
Hey all,
Haven't been around for a while! I've been super busy with Wasteland for Oni Press, and a few other small projects. I finished up my first issue a week or so ago, so look for it around June this year!
I haven't had a chance to do much drawing for myself, and certainly nothing finished enough to subject anyone's eyeballs to. So here's one somewhat whole sketch from the other day
Eyowyn Vs The Nazgul
I was working on this one for WAAAAAY too long. I originally started this one to enter into a contest, but still wasn't happy with it when the deadline rolled along. I submitted it, but kept picking at it for months afterwards. It's mostly watercolor, with a good deal of it painted over in gouache. The original is 19 by 13.
Dog Soldiers
This is one of the first horror movies that got to me, kinda stuck in my head for days. I remember The Chatterer cenobite creeping me out really bad. And The Butterball cenobite… well I'm pretty sure I knew him in gradeschool, He tried to sell me porno mags he stole from his parents.
This was my first time using Sumi ink, the traditional stick form that you have to grind. I gotta say: I think I'm in love. It's got much better flow than india ink, and the washes come out a slightly warm neutral gray. Awesome stuff.
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Friday the 13th these movies hold a place in my heart…. for some odd reason. They're terrible, but Jason Vorhees is inexplicably my favorite slasher villain. So here's a tribute!
I know I said I'd post one a day… ugh. I started a werewolf piece, after watching Dog Soldiers. The drawing got out of control, and became a painting. So I decided I'd watch a whole bunch of werewolf movies, and capture the gist of them in one piece. I feel like I should wait for a full moon to unveil it, but being in Seattle, God only knows when I'll see the moon again.
I watched Return of the Living Dead last night, and found myself pleasantly surprised. Cheezy as hell of course, being a low budget zombie comedy from the 80′s, but it had some surprisingly good characters, and some great zombie designs. Here's Tar-man, designed by William Stout
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Research Topics
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Specific Clinical/Research Interest: Chemokines; leukocyte trafficking; angiogenesis; lymphoid development; mouse genetics
Current Students: Luciana Muniz
Postdoctoral Fellows: Gerold Bongers, Erik Slinger
Research Personnel: Research Assistant: Michelle Pacer
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We use genetic approaches in mice to study the function of chemokines and their receptors in leukocyte trafficking, angiogenesis, inflammation and cancer. Recent work in the laboratory focuses:
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Islam SA, Chang DS, Colvin RA, Byrne MH, McCully ML, Moser B, Lira SA, Charo IF, Luster AD. Mouse CCL8, a CCR8 agonist, promotes atopic dermatitis by recruiting IL-5(+) T(H)2 cells. Nat Immunol. 2011 Feb;12(2):167-77.
Bongers G, Maussang D, Muniz LR, Noriega VM, Fraile-Ramos A, Barker N, Marchesi F, Thirunarayanan N, Vischer HF, Qin L, Mayer L, Harpaz N, Leurs R, Furtado GC, Clevers H, Tortorella D, Smit MJ, Lira SA. The cytomegalovirus-encoded chemokine receptor US28 promotes intestinal neoplasia in transgenic mice. J Clin Invest. 2010 Nov 1;120(11):3969-78.
Méndez-Ferrer S, Michurina TV, Ferraro F, Mazloom AR, Macarthur BD, Lira SA, Scadden DT, Ma'ayan A, Enikolopov GN, Frenette PS .Mesenchymal and haematopoietic stem cells form a unique bone marrow niche. Nature. 2010 Aug 12;466(7308):829-34.
Slinger E, Maussang D, Schreiber A, Siderius M, Rahbar A, Fraile-Ramos A, Lira SA, Söderberg-Nauclér C, Smit MJ. HCMV-encoded chemokine receptor US28 mediates proliferative signaling through the IL-6-STAT3 axis. Sci Signal. 2010 Aug 3;3(133):ra58.
Viejo-Borbolla A, Martin AP, Muniz LR, Shang L, Marchesi F, Thirunarayanan N, Harpaz N, Garcia RA, Apostolaki M, Furtado GC, Mayer L, Kollias G, Alcami A, Lira SA. Attenuation of TNF-driven murine ileitis by intestinal expression of the viral immunomodulator CrmD. Mucosal Immunol. 2010 Nov;3(6):633-44.
Alcami A, Lira SA. Modulation of chemokine activity by viruses. Curr Opin Immunol. 2010 Aug;22(4):482-7.
Ginhoux F, Liu K, Helft J, Bogunovic M, Greter M, Hashimoto D, Price J, Yin N, Bromberg J, Lira SA, Stanley ER, Nussenzweig M, Merad M. The origin and development of nonlymphoid tissue CD103+ DCs. J Exp Med. 2009 Dec 21;206(13):3115-30.
Marchesi F, Martin AP, Thirunarayanan N, Devany E, Mayer L, Grisotto MG, Furtado GC, Lira SA. CXCL13 expression in the gut promotes accumulation of IL-22-producing lymphoid tissue-inducer cells, and formation of isolated lymphoid follicles. Mucosal Immunol. 2009 Nov;2(6):486-94.
Bogunovic M, Ginhoux F, Helft J, Shang L, Hashimoto D, Greter M, Liu K, Jakubzick C, Ingersoll MA, Leboeuf M, Stanley ER, Nussenzweig M, Lira SA, Randolph GJ, Merad M. Origin of the lamina propria dendritic cell network. Immunity. 2009 Sep 18;31(3):513-25.
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From the February 25, 2013 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel
Originally written in French and published in the January 2013 French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish editions of The Herald of Christian Science.
Have you ever found yourself in a situation so bleak that it darkens your days? It is well known that when things take a bad turn, we feel that we're surrounded by obscurity. But when things get better, it is also well known that we feel that we can see the light at the end of the tunnel! It is so natural to desire bright days, a bright existence, filled with the light of joy, love, and health.
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Actress, character soar in 'Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest'
he devil finally gets her due, and it's a glorious thing to behold, in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. In this third and final installment of the gritty, uncompromising Swedish film trilogy based on the globally bestselling Stieg Larsson novels, the devil in question is, of course, Lisbeth Salander—at least as far as the old boy's club of aging white males in the corrupt, clandestine inner circle of Sweden's power elite are concerned. To the series' legion of fans, especially women, Lisbeth is an avenging angel who refuses to back down in the face of overwhelming male power. And in her third outing as tough, resourceful, utterly implacable Lisbeth, actress Noomi Rapace proves why she's cinema's Woman of the Year for 2010.


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Yes, it is possible to love insects in the summer! Make Bottle Cap Bugs from Heidi Borchers from recyclable materials such as plastic bottle caps, empty cereal boxes, and wire. No need to wait until next year to create Earth Day crafts - work on this project today and go green!
- Plastic bottle caps – assorted sizes – (I've used a Gatorade cap for the body and a water bottle cap for the head in this tutorial)
- Fabric
- Cereal box cardboard
- Aleene's Tacky Glue
- Glue gun
- Wire- 18 gauge- 3 pieces 7" long for each bug
- Needle nose pliers to shape wire
- Craft foam for eyes and beak (or wiggle eyes)
- Measure cap for body of the bug and cut a piece of fabric approximately 1-½" larger than cap.
- For body back, cut cardboard circle 1/8" smaller than the plastic cap.
- Put glue onto the cardboard circle and place glue side down onto wrong side of a fabric scrap.
- Cut off excess fabric around cardboard circle.
- Place glue onto the top of the cap, and place glue side onto wrong side of fabric in the middle of the fabric circle.
- Place the Aleene's Tacky glue around the sides of the plastic cap.
- Place hot glue on the inside of the water bottle cap.
- Immediately bring the fabric over the sides and into the hot glue. Continue to place the fabric into the hot glue as you make your way around the cap.
- Fabric will need to be completely pushed to the inside of the cap for body.
- Place a mark on the center of each of the wires.
- Shape the wire as shown in photo, using the center mark, as the center of the leg, that will be placed in the center of the fabric covered cap.
- Put hot glue and Aleene's Tacky Glue in the inside of the cap. Place the shaped wire legs into the glue.
- Place hot glue onto the back of the fabric covered prepared cardboard circle for body.
- Immediately place the cardboard into the glue inside the cap, and 'sandwiching' the wire legs in between.
- Immediately adjust the wire legs, while holding the cap and the cardboard together. Hold until hot glue cools.
- Cut fabric circle for the head approximately 1-¼" larger than plastic cap. Place glue onto the top of the plastic cap. Place glued side onto the wrong side of fabric circle.
- Wrap glue fabric to the inside of cap using the hot glue and Aleene's Tacky glue to hold fabric into place.
- Glue fabric covered head to fabric covered prepared body.
- Cut eyes from craft foam and with a paper punch, punch out smaller eyes for the center, or use wiggly eyes. Cut out a beak.
- Glue the eyes and beak onto the top of the head. Adjust wire legs, so the bug stands.
For a comprehensive video tutorial of this project, check out How to Recycle Bottle Lids into Cute Critters.
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Libyan PM Ali Zeidan freed from captivity
Libyan PM Ali Zeidan has called for "calm and "wisdom" after being freed from the custody of militiamen.
He was abducted from a Tripoli hotel and held for several hours by armed men whose identity has yet to be confirmed.
In a televised cabinet meeting, the PM thanked those who freed him, suggesting there had been a security operation.
The motive of the abduction is unclear but some militias had been angered by a US commando raid to capture senior al-Qaeda suspect Anas al-Liby.
Many militia groups saw the raid in Tripoli on Saturday as a breach of Libyan sovereignty and there is growing pressure on the government to explain if it was involved.
One group, the Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (LROR), said it had captured Mr Zeidan, claiming it was acting on orders from the prosecutor general. But the justice ministry denied this.
When I interviewed Mr Zeidan a week ago for Newsnight, he seemed almost overwhelmed by the scale of the task he faces in trying to disband the militias that effectively control Libya and replace them with a national army and police force.
He appealed for more international help in training militiamen - and in trying to reduce the number of weapons in circulation. Libya is now believed to have the largest unsecured arms stockpile in the world - and those arms are now fuelling conflicts in neighbouring countries such as Algeria, Mali and Egypt, as well as being exported to Syria.
Mr Zeidan made the same plea to the British government on a recent visit to London. The UK has now agreed to take an initial group of 360 militiamen for training in Britain this year. Others will follow later in a programme to be paid for by Libya, also involving Italy, France, Turkey and other countries.
But today's kidnapping illustrates how closely intertwined some militias are with government departments. The militias have many powerful supporters within government - some of them Islamists - who regard them as a very useful tool and will oppose any attempt to disband them.
The LROR said its actions had not been related to Mr Liby's detention.
The official Lana news agency also named another formal rebel group, the Brigade for the Fight against Crime, as being involved.
Two years after the overthrow of Col Muammar Gaddafi, Libya still has no constitution and divisions between secular and Islamist forces have paralysed parliament.
The government has been struggling to contain the numerous militias who control many parts of the country.
'No warrant'Mr Zeidan's cabinet meeting following his release was shown live on Libyan television.
He thanked those who had helped free him but gave no details about them or the abductors.
"We hope this matter will be treated with wisdom and rationality, far from tension," he said. "There are many things that need dealing with."
State TV had also earlier broadcast live Mr Zeidan's return to his office in Tripoli.
There was a high security presence as his car pulled up outside.
Mr Zeidan had been taken in a pre-dawn raid on the Corinthia Hotel by more than 100 armed men.
Photographs circulating online showed Mr Zeidan surrounded by what state TV said were armed men as he was led away. There were no reports of violence during his capture.
Militias in Libya
- Numerous militias formed to topple Gaddafi still operate
- Many still control the towns or areas where they were formed
- Some believed to have links to al-Qaeda
- Government has been unable to disarm them, instead it works with some militias
- Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room, which says it seized the prime minister, has links to defence and interior ministries
- It condemned the US raid to seize al-Qaeda suspect Anas al-Liby
In claiming it carried out the attack, the LROR said it was acting on the orders of the prosecutor general and in accordance with a section of Libya's criminal code relating to "crimes and misdemeanours harmful to state security".
But Justice Minister Salah al-Marghani said the prosecutor general had issued no arrest warrant, according to state-run National Libyan TV.
The prime minister was reportedly held at the interior ministry anti-crime department in Tripoli, where an official said he was being treated well.
In a news conference shortly before the release was announced, the government condemned the "criminal act" of his detention and said it would not give in to "blackmail".
The LROR is one of a number of militias operating in Libya which are nominally attached to government ministries but often act independently and, correspondents say, often have the upper hand over police and army forces.
Earlier this week, the prime minister appealed for Western help in tackling rising militancy in Libya.
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In an interview with the BBC on Monday, he said Libya was being used as a base to export weapons throughout the region.
Mr Liby, 49, is believed to have been one of the masterminds behind the 1998 US embassy attacks, which killed more than 220 people in Kenya and Tanzania.
He was living openly in Tripoli before his capture by US commandos early on Saturday morning.
In remains unclear whether the Libyan government had prior knowledge of the operation to capture him.
Libya asked the US for clarification of the incident and has questioned the US ambassador, but the PM also said it would not harm ties with Washington.


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After scouring northern Colorado by foot and air, frantically chasing a helium balloon for miles, authorities ended the search for a 6 year-old boy in his home.
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