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Weather to watch
Arizona Diamondbacks at Cincinnati Reds: It'll be hot again this afternoon in Cincy. The forecast says it'll feel like 102 F on the field with the humidity. Thundershowers are expected and there is a 65 percent chance of precipitation.
Miami Marlins at Chicago Cubs: The wind is blowing in at Wrigley Field, about 13 mph toward the home dugout. There's a 30 percent chance of rain today and a thunderstorm could run through, too.
Los Angeles Angels at Detroit Tigers: We've got a 60 percent chance of rain at Comerica Park, again with a possibility of thunderstorm.
Who's hot?
San Francisco Giants – The Giants are on a five-game winning streak, the last two coming at Atlanta against the sizzling hot Braves. San Fran is a +108 road dog this afternoon facing Atlanta start Tim Hudson.
Detroit Tigers – They've won nine of their last 11 including two of three against the Angels. The Tigers look to secure the series win against the Halos in this afternoon's game. Detroit is a -136 fave.
Who's not?
Phoenix Mercury – They're 0-6 straight up and 1-5 against the spread in their last six games. The under is also 4-1 in their last five contests. The Mercury visit Seattle on Thursday to play the Storm.
New York Mets – The Mets are on a six-game losing streak and are underdogs again today against the Washington Nationals.
Key stat
42 – Games in a row the Yankees have scored at least three runs. According to ESPN baseball writer Buster Olney, only the 1994 Cleveland Indians have a longer streak in the live-ball era. Surprisingly, the under is 24-18 during the Yankees' three-run plus streak.
Injury that shouldn't be overlooked
David Ortiz, Boston Red Sox – The Bo-Sox are going to miss Ortiz during his stay on the 15-day DL. Big Papi has been Boston's most consistent hitter this season. He's batting .316 and slugging .609.
Notable quotable
"We'll be talking this week, and we are talking, and there's no question that he'll be signed for the beginning of training camp and ready to go. No doubt about it." – Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay talking to the Indianapolis Star about contract negotiations with rookie Andrew Luck. The Colts season win total is set at 5.5.
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The Blue Jays lost 3B Brett Lawrie after a nasty spill during Wednesday's game. It's the second injury to a Toronto regular position player this week. Jose Bautista went on the DL on Monday with a bum wrist. The Jays are 0-3 in their last three games and you've got to think all these injuries are going to lead to a longer cold spell.
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The U.S. apologized Wednesday for a recent helicopter attack that killed two Pakistani soldiers at an outpost near the Afghan border, saying American pilots mistook the soldiers for insurgents they were pursuing. The Associated Press reports the apology, which came after a joint investigation, could pave the way for Pakistan to reopen a key border crossing that NATO uses to ship goods into landlocked Afghanistan. Pakistan closed the crossing to NATO supply convoys in apparent reaction to the Sept. 30 incident.

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All medical professional bodies express solidarity with stir
Thirivananthapuram: All professional bodies of doctors in the private and public sectors have come together to express solidarity with Government doctors who will luanch a relay hunger strike in front of the Secretariat on Tuesday to press their demand for a revised pay scale.
Health Service doctors have been on a non-cooperation strike for the past five months, demanding better pay-scale and restructuring of the service.
At a joint press conference here on Monday, representatives of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), its student wing, the Kerala Government Medical College Teachers' Association, Kerala Government Insurance Medical Officers' Association, Qualified Private Medical Practitioners' Association and the Junior Doctors' Association said the entire medical fraternity would be forced to join the agitationif the Government did not take any positive step to resolve the issue.
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In the last 15 years, four Chief Ministers, three Finance Ministers and seven Health Ministers had made public declarations in the floor of the Assembly and outside that young doctors were not attracted to the Health Services because of the dismal pay being offered.
Though the Government had said that several rounds of discussions were held with doctors and that most of their demands had been met, the only sop given was an increase in allowance, the KGMOA said.
Doctors with DM qualification were given a hike of Rs. 95 in their allowance of Rs. 650; those with MD qualification a hike of Rs. 85; and diploma holders a hike of Rs. 60.
A doctor holding an additional charge would get a hike of Rs. 15 in his or her charge allowance of Rs. 100, while the risk allowance had been hiked from Rs. 90 to Rs. 99.
There were 600 vacancies in Government Health Services at present.
The Government did not seem to recognise the fact that the Government doctors were working under severe limitations and that they have to handle several additional duties.
By the end of 2007, some 500 doctors in Health Service would be retiring, 80 per cent of them specialists.
The low pay and lack of incentives in the Health Service would only encourage young medical graduates to go in search of better options, the doctors said.
Meanwhile, the student wing of the IMA is holding a series of interactive sessions with postgraduate students, house surgeons and MBBS students from September 12 to 26 on the current scenario in Health Service. They will also join the hunger strike by the KGMOA on September 26.


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Tagged: Romain Duris
Populaire (France-Belgium 2012)
This is the film that I have enjoyed most in the cinema this year. I found it compelling entertainment for two reasons. One was the casting of Romain Duris and Déborah François and the other was the use of costume, colour, lighting, graphics and music. Duris and François are my favourite francophone actors of the current crop and that might explain why I am so taken with a film which too many critics seem to have dismissed as simply 'conventional'. Philip French has announced his retirement from the Observer but in one of his last published reviews he gave the film the full works and found many interesting connections – whereas his colleague on the Guardian, Peter Bradshaw, dismissed it with hardly a second glance. That's a big mistake because there is plenty to see.
Budgeted at a whopping €14.7 million, Populaire has been inevitably linked with The Artist and Mad Men because of its meticulously presented period detail. It shares The Artist's female star Bérénice Bejo (in a small but important role) and its cinematographer Guillaume Schiffman and it's set in 1958-9 with the same attention to period offered by Mad Men. But that's where the connection to the TV series ends – and the lazy hype perpetrated by distributors has arguably damaged the film's box office. Think instead an hommage to the American sex comedies of the 1950s with Duris as Cary Grant or Jack Lemmon and François as an amalgam of all those greats such as Doris Day and before her Judy Holliday – but also decidedly Déborah François. This feeling of borrowing from Hollywood is underlined by the clever use of colours and lighting – like the bright colours of early Technicolor. The music is also well chosen with a mix of French and Anglo-American popular styles. There is a real sense of that keen French interest in American modernity associated with the need for speed – the typing competition is an excellent vehicle for this. Populaire is the first feature by director Régis Roinsard who had the original idea and co-wrote the script. It has its flaws and weaknesses but overall it works extremely well. Of course, a romcom/social comedy set in the 1950s raises questions about gender and we'll come to those later. First though a brief outline.
Rose is a young woman bored by live in her Normandy village where her father owns the village store. When insurance agent Louis advertises for a secretary in a nearby town she applies for the post and gets it – because she is pretty and Louis is a letch, we assume. In fact she is hopeless as a secretary but she can type like a whirlwind. Louis keeps her on and begins to train her for the typing speed contests which were apparently all the rage in the late 1950s. From then on the narrative structure is highly conventional with Rose going on to contest the 'World Championship' in New York. Along the way there are a couple of innovations and some tricky decisions over what to show/hint at in terms of offering what might be seen as nostalgia to a contemporary audience. (The 'Populaire' is a model of typewriter manufactured by the Japy company of Paris who become Rose's sponsors when she wins the national title.)
The romcom demands that Louis at first doesn't recognise his own desire for Rose, allowing him to be quite determined and distanced in his 'use' of her typing skills to achieve the success as a trainer that eluded him as an athlete himself. He is that familiar figure, the man in his late thirties running the family business but feeling that he has not succeeded. Rose loves him from the start but is too proud to show it, going along with his madcap training schemes to please him. The narrative material that Roinsard attempts to work with here includes a backstory that involves Louis as member of the Résistance in the latter stages of the war – which in turn led to his separation from his childhood sweetheart (Bejo), now married to an American who parachuted onto her parents' farm in June 1944. For me, none of this worked, partly I think because despite his many talents I just couldn't see Duris in the Résistance – but perhaps the fault is mine, there is no reason why a man looking good in a sharp suit in 1958 shouldn't have a wartime past. But the back story does lead into some potentially darker sides to the drama. Allied to this the sudden appearance of Louis' family at Christmas provides one of the highlights of the film.
In the end, the film stands or falls for me on the performance of Ms François and she is formidable. She has the ability to move convincingly from village shop assistant to flirtatious romcom heroine, from childlike student to steely contestant and from clumsy office worker to assertive and confident young woman. In all of these roles she is convincing and she dominates the screen. The criticisms of the film's 'sexist' and 'gendered' view claims that the film is conservative and backward looking and this is linked by some commentators to the inclusion of one sex scene and one 'gratuitous' 'wet blouse' moment – see the image at the head of the post. In the UK the film was given a 12A certificate which seems about right – but in the US it seems to be heading for 'Restricted'. The sex certainly is an issue for a film which I've suggested is attempting to work like those 1950s Hollywood comedies with their Hays Code approved scripts. A similar problem comes up when characters appear to be speaking 'out of time' – e.g. with references to smoking and when Rose cries "but this is 1959″ (and therefore she can be a 'liberated' young woman). I think, on balance Populaire gets these decisions right. I also think that, like Doris Day and Judy Holliday before her, Déborah François is capable of taking the script away from its ideological implications of a submissive and restricted female underclass. Rose is a strong woman who works hard to get what she wants, standing up to whoever gets in her way. The narrative does validate the skills of the typist and it underlines the fact that secretarial work was one of the ways by which women were able to become independent and to establish themselves in the office before moving into a wider range of white collar jobs. The film has suffered because of some of the negative reviews. I hope more audiences are able to see it and enjoy it for what it is – a conventional romcom with great performances that recalls some of the under-rated popular films of the 1950s. It has already created a buzz among the collectors of antique typewriters!
And if you do enjoy this, can I recommend Déborah François in the generically very different La tourneuse de pages (The Pageturner) which nonetheless has some narrative similarities?
The Big Picture (L'homme qui voulait vivre sa vie, France 2010)
Watching this film was an unusual experience. At times it felt like a character-driven drama and at other times a high quality genre film. It wasn't until later that I realised that I'd seen the previous film by director Eric Lartigau, an interesting twist on the romcom Prête-moi ta main (France 2006) titled I Do in English. I enjoyed that film and I think I enjoyed The Big Picture – certainly I was engrossed by it and was surprised when the ending came.
It is difficult to outline the plot without spoilers, but I'll try. The English title isn't immediately helpful. The French title translates as something like the 'The Man Who Wanted to Live His Own Life' and this is more useful. Paul Exbon (Romain Duris) is a highly successful lawyer running a top practice in Paris with his older partner Anne (Catherine Deneuve). He has wealth, an attractive wife and two small children who he adores – but all is not well at home or in his head. Then a series of events overturns his comfortable world. The only way out seems to be to flee France for the Adriatic and to adopt a new identity. The 'instigator' of all this trouble is a man Paul detests, an unsuccessful professional photographer who taunts Paul because the lawyer only takes photographs as a hobby – he doesn't have the guts to go out and try it as a living even though he has the talent to do so. So when Paul flees he attempts to become a 'real' photographer. But his talent shines through and when journals and galleries start to take an interest he knows his identity will be uncovered – thus the English title, I guess. (The photographs used in the film were taken by various Magnum photographers I think.)
The main factor that attracted me to the film was the presence of Romain Duris in the lead and as usual he gives a great performance, more than justifying his billing. I don't really understand how he does it. This time he is in curly hair, stubble and generally dishevelled chic mode – but still with the Cuban heels. Why is that chipmunk-like face with its cheesy grin so manipulative? I don't know, but Duris is a natural talent and you can't really keep your eyes off him.
The film is an adaptation of a novel by Douglas Kennedy. He appears to be an American writer domiciled mainly in Europe where his reputation is high in France. His 2007 The Woman in the Fifth has also been adapted as a thriller, this time by Pawel Pawlikowski with Kristin Scott-Thomas and Ethan Hawke and scheduled for its première at Venice in September. I think that we are going to hear a lot more about him. (His earlier novel The Dead Heart was adapted as Welcome to Whoop Whoop, a British-Australian comedy which suffered from the injury to its director Stephan Elliott in 1997.) Kennedy has also written travel literature, something of an advantage for writers of 'international thrillers'. The Big Picture (which was the original title of the novel) introduces the coastline of Montenegro and in particular the heritage city of Kotor and the ship repair yards at Bijela. I found these fascinating and they give this film a different feel.
I think what marks this film out as something more than another generic 'international thriller' is a tight script, effective cinematography and editing and the performance of Romain Duris. It's a thriller in the sense that an unsettling tone runs throughout and I was genuinely concerned about what the central character was going to do. I didn't read too much about it beforehand and the two moments of violence are both handled well – I found them unsettling and shocking. Critics are referring to it as an 'existential thriller' and this is where the confusion arises. In this interesting review, the British trailer for the film is accused of making it look like an art film. Overall The Big Picture is definitely worth exploring for an evening's entertainment and the kind of well-made film that boosts the reputation of the French industry. In France it opened at No 2 in the chart grossing over $3 million but failing to dislodge the blockbuster Little White Lies – that's a shame because it's a far better film than Guillaume Canet's 'comedy'. If I have one complaint about The Big Picture it's that Catherine Deneuve is on screen for only a few short scenes and Neils Arestrup similarly has only a brief time to impress. The other factor that's getting some interest is the score by Evgueni and Sacha Galperine. I wasn't sure that his worked in the early part of the film, but by the end I was on side. A final piece of trivia – the director looks a little like Duris as he's presented in the film and he's married to Marina Foïs who plays Sarah Exben, Paul's wife.
Heartbreaker (L'arnacoeur, France 2010)
The hit of the year in France, Heartbreaker is slowly dying in UK cinemas on a limited release (around 60 prints). The same audiences who have shunned it in multiplexes, presumably because they would have to read subtitles, will no doubt flock to the inevitable Hollywood remake. C'est la vie as the English character in the film says – the loss is theirs. I would be very surprised if Hollywood can serve up anything as funny and sexy as this. There is no American actor I can think of who could compete with Romain Duris.
It's a compliment of sorts that Hollywood couldn't make anything more glamorous or more slick. This is a very conventional romcom. Duris is Alex, who works as a professional to break up engagements that somebody (usually a parent) doesn't want to see reaching the altar. Supported by his sister and her husband, Alex sets up extravagant cons that seduce the women targeted. But he has principles – he only works on women who are unhappy in their relationships (although, of course, they don't always know that they are unhappy). Then one day he meets Juliette (Vanessa Paradis) and you can guess the rest.
I've written about Romain Duris in the romcoms of Cédric Klapisch and in dramas such as The Beat That My Heart Skipped. I wasn't totally convinced by the Klapisch roles, but I rate him highly. The real surprise in the film was Vanessa Paradis who I thought was excellent – very beautiful, sexy and smart. Life with Johnny Depp can't be too stressful. The other two principal cast members are also very good (Julie Ferrier as the sister Mélanie and François Damiens as her husband Marc). Monaco (and Morocco) look great. I laughed a lot and even cried at the end – perfect entertainment.
The UK trailer:
French crime thrillers – the polar
In the week that sees the UK release of the first of two French films about Jacques Mesrine, the French gangster figure from the 1970s, it seems opportune to explore the concept of the polar or crime thriller in French Cinema. French crime cinema now exists in an interesting relationship with Hollywood and Hong Kong Cinema in a seemingly endless flow of influences between the three. I've just watched the slightly disappointing Public Enemies in which, as some commentators noted, Johnny Depp tries hard but can't really nail being as cool as Alain Delon in a Jean-Pierre Melville film. Eventually, I hope we also get to see the latest Johnnie To crime flick with French legend Johnny Halliday in Vengeance (2009).
Here is an update of some notes I used for a day school in 2006.
The thriller and crime fiction
In any film culture, the 'thriller' is likely to be one of the main broad generic categories. In France, as in Britain during the later studio period from the 1940s to the 1960s, the crime thriller was arguably second only to comedy as a popular format. France has a long history of 'crime fiction' – the first 'detective story' could be said to be Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841 with a character perhaps modelled on Eugène François Vidocq, a real life crook turned thief catcher who became the first head of the Sûreté in 1811 (and the basis for a feature film in 2001). Poe offers an early American connection with French crime fiction which was to become more important in the 20th century.
But the police were not the heroes of early French crime fiction. More important were 'super crooks' such as Fantômas and Arsène Lupin who were defeating clod-hopping policemen in films from the 1910s. It was not until the 1920s that the French police found their hero in the form of (Belgian) Georges Simenon's Maigret.
The roman noir, 'dark stories' of doomed characters began to appear in the 1940s and soon set up a kind of dialogue with 'hard-boiled' American fiction, both being published in France under the famous 'Série Noire' label. In the 1950s psychological mystery/crime novels gained a higher public and critical profile through the works of writers such as 'Boileau-Narcejac' and Sébastien Japrisot. The former is a pseudonym for a pair of writers, Pierre Boileau and Pierre Ayraud, perhaps best known outside France for the original novel used as the basis for Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) and for Clouzot's Les Diaboliques (1955). Japrisot's books have also been used for films, most recently for the story which became Jean-Pierre Jeunet's A Very Long Engagement (2004).
It isn't difficult to make the links between French novels and films and American novels and films, with various French film directors turning to the work of 'hardboiled' writers of the 1940s, e.g. Truffaut turning to the work of William Irish/ Cornell Woolrich in The Bride Wore Black (1968) and La sirène du Mississipi (1969) and to David Goodis for Shoot the Pianist (1960). Goodis was also the source for Jean-Jacques Beneix's The Moon in the Gutter (1983).
The polar
The term polar seems to have been coined in the 1970s. Like many terms in idiomatic French, it's a corruption or slang term, perhaps deriving from film policier. It now has a fairly loose meaning which covers films that may include 'police procedural' work or which may focus on the milieu of the criminals. It has also sometimes been widened to include spy thrillers and more action-orientated films. In critical usage, various French Cinema scholars have referred to the polar as a means of tracing how representations of crime, criminals and police work have changed over time. This is one of the important aspects of genre study. Because genre films are composed of elements mixed together in patterns of 'repetition and difference', we can use genres to log changes in references to issues of gender, race and class and to broader changes in French society. This is neatly set out by Phil Powrie (1997) in his book on 1980s French Cinema, a period when the polar was again popular. Powrie suggests three aspects of the polar that could form the basis for study:
- its use as a 'vehicle' to carry comments on contemporary society;
- an indication of the state of French-American cultural exchange;
- the focus on a hero who is 'marginal' to mainstream society.
Although the term 'polar dates from the 1970s, we can trace it back at least as far as the 1930s when Jean Gabin was the major star of French cinema.
Pépé le Moko (1937)
Pépé (Jean Gabin) is a Parisian gangster (originally a 'moko' – 'from Marseilles') exiled in Algiers where he is holed up in the Casbah and supported by a network of people all dedicated to making sure that the police can't arrest him. He is doomed because he can't stop himself being attracted to beautiful women and because his network is vulnerable through the naivety of his 'surrogate son' and the sly manipulations of a local police officer.
The Casbah is carefully constructed and photographed in a Parisian studio – so effectively that in some ways the film looks like an early rehearsal of the famous scenes in Battle of Algiers, shot on location in 1965. Gabin/Pépé is a recognisable character in a category of films given the title of 'poetic realism' in which a romanticised hero from the working class is shown to be ultimately defeated. Surprisingly perhaps, most of these pessimistic films were made by supposedly 'left-wing' directors. In this case, the director was Julien Duvivier, not generally seen as of the left. Gabin continued to be a major star into the 1970s, dying in 1976. He set the standard for the masculine hero, rugged and brutal, but also romantic and well-dressed.
Plein soleil (France/Italy 1960)
This version of Patricia Highsmith's novel, The Talented Mr Ripley, starred Alain Delon in one of his first roles as the cold-blooded killer Tom Ripley. Delon went on to become a major star of both auteur films and popular polars, later appearing in the films of Jean-Pierre Melville. It was directed by René Clément, one of the directors who perhaps suffered by association with la tradition de qualité attacked by the critics of Cahiers du cinéma. Plein soleil refers to at least two of the polar's features in the early 1960s – an origination in American crime writing and and to some extent Hollywood filmmaking in colour, on location in Italy. The Italian setting also refers to the sense of the new environment of the 'periphery' (i.e. 'not Paris') which began to appear as a locale at this time.
À bout de souffle (1959)
Now famous, alongside Truffaut's Les 400 coups, as the films that heralded la nouvelle vague for cinephiles around the world, À bout de souffle shows director Jean-Luc Godard taking the elements of the polar and the American crime B-picture and creating something new. In the opening of the film, we see Jean-Paul Belmondo 'playing' with the image of Humphrey Bogart and then moving into an exciting drive from the Cote d'Azur to Paris and trashing the conventions of the 'well-made' film along the way.
Belmondo was both the male star of the New Wave and the heir to Gabin's role. In À bout de souffle he is a charming young thug who dies on the street in a scene at once 'romantic', futile and 'marginal'. He appeared in other polar-related films for Truffaut and Chabrol and for the 'mentor' of the New Wave, Jean-Pierre Melville. He also appeared in more commercial films, e.g. alongside Alain Delon in Borsalino (France/Italy 1970) a 1930s set Marseilles gangster movie which refers perhaps to both the Warners films of the 1930s and to contemporary 'buddy movies' such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (US 1969).
Le Samuraï (France/Italy 1967)
Delon again, for Melville and playing the ultimate hitman 'Jeff Costello'. Melville had developed a highly individual style in his earlier polars, which were both 'popular' (i.e. commercially more successful than the New Wave films) and attracted cinephiles intrigued by his commentary on the crime film, American cinema, existentialism etc. Costello is clearly 'marginalised' and seemingly anachronistic in the Paris of the mid 1960s.
Subway (France 1985)
Writer-producer-director Luc Besson is one of the figures associated with the cinéma du look of the 1980s. Powrie argues that the polar was revived in the 1980s and filled an 'ideological gap' left by the dramas drawing on left-wing ideas in the 1970s. Other auteur directors of the period (e.g. Beneix, Leos Carax) also made polars, but Besson has always been interested in popular genre cinema and the American connections which saw his Nikita (France 1990) re-made in Hollywood and Léon (France/US 1994) set in America, are an integral part of the history of the polar.
Other polars released in the UK include Bertrand Tavernier's 'realist' study of the Parisian drugs squad in L.627 (France 1992) and Maurice Pialat's Police (1985), a classic polar with Gérard Depardieu as a police officer falling for a mysterious woman. Depardieu could be seen as the 1980s successor to Belmondo/Delon as a polar hero.
References and further reading
Susan Hayward (1993) French National Cinema, London: Routledge
Susan Hayward and Ginette Vincendeau (eds) (2000) French Film: Text and Contexts, London: Routledge
(Includes papers on Le Samouraï, À bout de souffle and Nikita)
Phil Powrie (1997) French Cinema in the 1980s: Nostalgia and the Crisis of Masculinity, Oxford: OUP
Useful sites giving background on French crime fiction:
De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped, France 2005)
Jacques Audiard (born 1952)
Audiard's father, Michel, was a prolific writer/director of thrillers/polars, responsible for over 100 scripts between 1949 and his death in 2000. Jacques Audiard also became a screenwriter and in 1994 directed his first feature Regarde les hommes tomber. Unlike his father, Jacques began as an editor, before moving to writing and finally to directing. He has spent much longer fashioning his scripts and has directed just five features to date. All have been widely praised and each represents a form of commentary on the history of the thriller. The first two films both feature Jean-Louis Trintignant and Mathieu Kassovitz.
In Regarde les hommes tomber (See How They Fall, 1994), the veteran Trintignant (himself a star of crime films, alongside other genres and auteur films of the 1960s and 1970s) is an ageing hitman who takes on a younger partner (Kassovitz) with learning difficulties. The film is more of a character study than a straight thriller. In Un héros très discret (Self-made Hero, 1997), one of the best French films of the 1990s, Trintignant and Kassovitz return as older and younger versions of the same man, a successful politician of the 1990s recounting his own bizarre story from the Occupation in the 1940s. This isn't a thriller as such, but again it features a rather weak character who is taught how to behave and who discovers a talent for inventing himself as a new personality. Sur mes lèvres (Read My Lips) in 2001 certainly was a thriller. A working class criminal released from prison meets a thirty-something woman with a hearing impairment who is being cold-shouldered in her work as a secretary for a building company. She hires him as her assistant and gradually they are drawn together to form a an unusual partnership which benefits from her skills as a lip-reader. The relationship strengthens as they become enmeshed in a thriller narrative.
Audiard's films all feature partnerships. Regarde les hommes tomber is perhaps most clearly related to the polartradition, with its surrogate father-son relationship. Un héros très discret offers several different relationships all involving the central character, but all in some way based on a deceit – fitting for a story set in the context of exposing the 'myth' of resistance in the 1940s. Sur mes lèvres is unusual in focusing primarily on the woman, but creating through the partnership a kind of amalgam figure related to the polar hero. De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté returns in a way to the (real) father/son relationship.
Putting aside the 'special case' of Un héros très discret, Audiard's three polars all take place in a world that is recognisably the 'real France' of the 1990s/2000s, but which also makes reference to the generic locations/mise en scène of earlier polars. They are mostly set in Paris, but more in the suburbs than the centre and, in Sur mes lèvres, the kind of industrial/residential sprawl with its clubbing and high rises that features in many European cities. There are strong elements of realism in the depiction of Paris in a range of polars – marking the genre as aesthetically removed from the quirky fantasy world of Amélie or the earlier 'heritage' films set in the 'glorious' past.
The two most recent Audiard films are interesting in terms of their central characters. Vincent Cassel plays against type in Sur mes lèvres. Cassel has all the qualities that would make him a modern counterpart of the Belmondo/Delon characters from the 1960s/70s. He has the same physical beauty and presence and the skill to suggest the peculiar mixture of intelligence, brutality, coldness and tenderness that they display. But in Sur mes lèvres, he becomes the object of attraction for Carla (Emmanuelle Devos), who herself displays a similarly complex array of personal traits. Carla is the lonely and isolated figure, drawn into criminal activity through her repressed sexual desire. For some audiences, the move into the thriller territory is something of a disappointment after the slow build of the first half of the film which carries a strong sexual charge.
Perhaps the clearer generic narrative in De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté has enabled it to become a bigger commercial success. The film is a remake of Fingers, the 1978 American 'independent' film made by James Toback and starring Harvey Keitel. Bizarrely produced by Brut "the great smell for men", the plot outline sees a young man who is caught between the demi-world of his criminal father and the more gentile world of his mother a concert pianist.
Thomas Seyr (Romain Duris) in the remake really does seem to be the Belmondo/Delon hero. His dark good looks and stylish, if casual, clothes, his mix of brutality and delicacy are all suggestive of the earlier characters. Duris is some thing of a throwback in this performance with his longish hair, leather jacket and cuban heeled boots. He has entered his father's business as an unscrupulous property developer who buys up apartment blocks after evicting squatters with violence and threats. He wearily beats people up for his ailing father, but refuses to endorse his parent's new relationship (with Emannuelle Devos). His chance meeting with his dead mother's agent/impresario prompts him to take up the piano again and to seek out a piano tutor, Chinese conservatoire student Miao-Lin.
Duris is fantastic and manages to be brutal and sexy, immoral and honourable. Audiard makes excellent use of the mix of classical piano with 'techno' and edits the film tightly so that it is a tense thriller even if the actual narrative incident is relatively slight. This is possibly the best polar of recent years – at least before Audiard's next film which did so well at Cannes in 2009.
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Discussion questions
1. Think about the ending of De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté. How does it compare with the traditional polar? What do we think of Thomas and his situation at the end of the film?
2. Is Thomas the 'marginalised figure' alluded to by Phil Powrie? If so, in what ways?
3. What kind of environment does the film inhabit? If you have been to Paris recently, is it a 'realist' environment? Does the film feel like it is dealing with a recognisable society in 2005?
4. Should we take anything from the fact that Audiard has 'remade' a (relatively obscure) American film? Does the film have anything to say about that unique French/American/crime connection?


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A suspicious Twitter account @FifNdhs tweeted 17 hours before the World Cup Final between Argentina and Germany, stating that Mario Goetze would score in the second half of extra time and that Germany would win 1-0.
So what happened in the final? Exactly that happened. Mario Goetze scored for Germany in the 113th minute, and Germany won 1-0 in extra time.
Here are the tweets:
Prove FIFA is corrupt
— FIFA Corruption (@FifNdhs) July 13, 2014
Tomorrows scoreline will be Germany win 1-0
— FIFA Corruption (@FifNdhs) July 13, 2014
Germany will win at ET
— FIFA Corruption (@FifNdhs) July 13, 2014
Gotze will score
— FIFA Corruption (@FifNdhs) July 13, 2014
There will be a goal in the second half of ET
— FIFA Corruption (@FifNdhs) July 13, 2014
Interestingly, there might be more to it than meets the eye, because most of the replies the handle got claimed that it deleted tweets predicting various match outcomes, keeping only the one that actually happened (i.e. Goetze scoring for Germany in extra time).
"@FifNdhs: There will be a goal in the second half of ET" You tweet every outcome and then delete as appropriate
— Michael (@MichaelLFC28) July 13, 2014
@FifNdhs @Beanssy These accounts tweet every possible eventuality while there set to priv then delete the wrong ones and un priv
— Pnda (@vPnda) July 13, 2014
@mookiealexander Hmm, @FifNdhs. I wonder how many accounts that person made and how many different possible outcomes that person tweeted.
— Justin (@JustinF_LB) July 13, 2014
@jst1986 @FifNdhs this account tweeted every possible outcome and deleted the ones that didn't happen
— Fernando (@iiDarkGalaxy) July 13, 2014
This begs another question though - Germany had Muller, Klose, Schurrle, Ozil, and some others who could have scored too. How many tweets would this Twitter user have had to delete to arrive at the correct 'prediction' while the match was going on? Given the number of permutations and combinations, this seems mind-boggling.
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Evana Roth said Friday that her husband, Raymond Roth, had sent her son Jonathan emails referring to a possible plot.
She provided copies at a news conference with her attorney. One instructs Jonathan to call his father Sunday in Florida to update him on developments in New York.
Jonathan Roth reported his father missing Saturday at Jones Beach. That set off an extensive search. On Thursday, Roth got a speeding ticket in South Carolina.
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- 2 tablespoon(s) olive oil
- 2 clove(s) garlic -crushed
- hot red pepper flakes, to taste
- 6 piece(s) boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 2 cup(s) marinara sauce
- 1/4 cup(s) fresh chopped basil
- 8 ounce(s) mozzarella, shredded
- 4 ounce(s) Parmesan, grated
- 5 ounce(s) package garlic croutons-1 package
- In a 9x13" baking pan, pour in a couple tablespoons of olive oil. Add your crushed garlic and red pepper flakes and spread it around so it covers the bottom of the pan. Place whole chicken breasts in the pan. Pour the sauce on top of the chicken. Sprinkle basil on top. Sprinkle half of the cheeses on top of the basil. Dump all the croutons on top of that. Finish it off with the other half of the cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 35- 55 minutes (it depends on how large your chicken breasts are- mine cooked for about 50 minutes). Let stand for about 10 minutes after you pull it out of the oven.
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About IW; yes, that Mesmer would have crap DPS...if he actually waded in to use IW. I'd assume if it made it to PvP formats those seven other Illusion skills would be what he actually disrupted/damaged with.
Heck, even throwing a few on there for a buffed armor level would make them more irritating to kill (especially with shield sets). It might not be the most effective thing out there (and likely a complete waste of an elite), but I could see it being annoying if an entire team brought that (remember that neither the duration or armor buff is dependent on attribute ranks, so secondaries would be fine) and brought a spike skill or two.


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Thanks dk75, interesting idea. I did some research on the back of what you said, and have figured out how to switch to vt1, startx with a different xorg.conf (with composite disabled) onto vt8 and then start mplayer on vt8. On Ubuntu, vt7 is the normal vt.
It works, but it's a pretty lengthy a difficult procedure every time I want to watch a tear-free video. Is there a way of automating all that with a bash script? I know chvt changes the vt, but then you need to log in to that vt, and you need to disable anything that autostarts (like the cairo dock which needs composite) in the new X session.
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Turns out, Torrealba was GM Hoyer's prime pickup
"I've become more patient," Torrealba says. "Last year I played good when I became a little more patient and this year I've been even more patient. The year before last I was hitting .240 and striking out, not getting any walks. Now I'll take a walk; before I was swinging at everything. I have an idea what they're trying to do to me.
"It's going the way I want it to. I feel good at the plate; I'm confident."
Comfort is important to Torrealba. He's been at ease since the first day of spring training, when he entered the clubhouse as a stranger, a member of a club that couldn't have known it would be in first place in mid-August.
"I didn't know what to expect," he says. "But the guys treated me well right away and I built confidence with the pitching staff. They trust me. If they shake me off (a sign), there's a reason. The confidence level between the pitchers and myself is great. We're having fun. This team reminds me of the Colorado team, a bunch of young, hungry guys. But I think this team is more loose.
"People are starting to talk about us now, but it's good when they don't. They will at one point. They'll have to talk about us."
And the bond with the 26-year-old Hundley is solid. They'd both like to play every day, but they've accepted their roles.
"The good thing about Nick is that he wants to learn," Torrealba says. "He asks questions. I've told him that, if you need something on and off the field, I'm there for you."
Says Hundley: "He makes it easy for me. He's real approachable. He comes to play every day. I watch how he controls a game. He's in charge in every situation. He's not surprised by anything. It's where I want to get to. I look up to him."
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So is that how [Terminator director] McG sold you on the project? By dubbing you TBAOYG?
At first they wanted me to play another character. I read the script and was like, Nah. But McG, who had a fear of flying, flew to England to meet me. He still didn't convince me. I was very open with him and said that I hadn't seen anything he had done before that justified him being the guy to make this. But I've always been grateful for people giving me that opportunity to do things I've never done before, and I'm always for people transforming themselves. But without the script there, there was no way in hell this could work. Ultimately, McG came back and wanted me to play the Connor role. But the Connor role was small. I said, "This guy has no real role here."
How can that be?
Exactly. The Connors are the story. But then I was in Hong Kong on the very last week of shooting The Dark Knight. I had been to some teahouse where this local guide insisted I drink this tea he'd made. I don't know if he'd spiked it, but within half an hour I turned to my wife and said, "Eh, I kind of feel like doing this." So I called McG up, said, "If we can get a new script, then yeah, let's go for Connor." I felt good about it, because we really did have a lot of time. And then…ffffuck, writers' strike. I learned a lesson then about movies like The Terminator and Batman. Most people assume that if you're risking that amount of money, you don't begin until you're completely ready. In fact, that's what they do only with the lower-budget movies. With the bigger ones, the ones that keep the studios afloat, they have to release it on a certain date. In my naïveté, I thought, Of course we'll push back filming. No. Ain't a possibility. And that strike kept going on, and we were getting less and less time to get it together. In the end, it was a film experience unlike any I'd had before. A real balls-to-the-wall kind of effort.
So who is John Connor?
Well, he's not a freak like Bruce Wayne. There's nothing pathological about him. He has a burden. He knows he's to be the savior of mankind. J.C., right? In early versions of the script, they had all these weird paganistic amulets and talismans all over me. I told 'em to get rid of that crap. John Connor is all about utility: "There is no fate but what you make." As far as playing him, I thought of it mainly in terms of his mom. He's got this mad dog of a mom who everybody thinks is crazy but whose prophecies turn out to be true. I felt that a lot of her ferocity and recklessness had to be passed down.
Would you have unleashed the Rant as intensely, if at all, had you been playing someone other than John Connor?
Of course not. And it wouldn't have happened if we hadn't been playing that scene, for Christ's sake, between John Connor and his wife, which is probably the most intense one in the movie.
I've been wondering if you're so Methody that when you kept yelling, What don't you fucking understand? the question between the lines wasDon't you fucking understand that by walking in front of the lights, you're putting the survival of the human race at stake?
[an irritated sigh] I'd definitely say that that guy who was yelling was at least half John Connor, and the rest was Christian Bale.
Save for a few British inflections in those four minutes of sustained screaming, the Rant occurred in your Americanized John Connor accent. Did you use that voice off-camera throughout filming?
I do that because I'm just not very good at switching between two voices. If I had the talent to turn it on and off on cue, I would. But I don't, so I have to maintain. Otherwise I'm aware that I'm "doing an accent" whenever I'm filming, instead of just speaking. Hey, listen, I don't make any excuses. None of it is excusable. You know, I feel I already said everything about this that needs to be said when I called up the radio station.
[Four days after the Rant (just audio, regrettably) became public, Bale phoned the Kevin & Bean show on KROQ in Los Angeles. After telling the hosts that during an otherwise "miserable" week, their Rant-related riffing had made him laugh, Bale launched into a ten-minute apology so abject that it might better be described as an autovivisection.]
In a way, your apology was as intense as the original tirade. You nailed that apology, man.
Oh, really? I didn't listen to it.
It was like, What don't you fucking understand? I'm APOLOGIZING!
Yeah. Right.
Do people now regard you differently? You know, Oooh, there's Christian Bale. Careful!
Come on. No.
What's your favorite Christian Bale Rant dance remix or mash-up?
A friend sent me one. They did a bloody good job! I've gotta say, what a great impulse, you know? To take something ugly like that and make it into a dance? That's a wonderful thing.


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But truth is, in the midst of a British winter, a left-hand drive, rear-drive V8 convertible is, as our stateside cousins would have it, a pain in the fanny.
The Grand Sport is, essentially, a meatier version of the basic Corvette C6, bringing it, in both focus and appearance, closer to the hotter Z06 - but somehow without the handling nous that that model unquestionably has. Weird.
Retaining the C6's 431bhp V8 but with the Z06's lower ride height and beefed-up suspension, it at least rides with more composure than Corvettes of old, but this is a crude thing by modern standards.
Sitting on wider tracks and wearing tyres the breadth of dinner platters, the Grand Sport's steering chases every fissure and puddle, always threatening to spit you backwards and give you a nice, shiny, new Armco bow tie, just for kicks. Factor in a front splitter that'll chin-butt even the trimmest of sleeping policemen, and the Grand Sport starts to look like more hassle than it's worth.
Back in the old days, before the sterling's Zimbabwean-dollar devaluation, you could justify a Corvette on price grounds. But the Grand Sport costs over £73,000, which is a lot of cash for swathes of pound-shop-grade plastics and a satnav system that makes Pong look cutting-edge.
But then, but then. Get one dry, clear day, drop the roof, find a few miles of clear road, wind that V8 all the way out and trust the Grand Sport won't kill you. Then, for an instant or two, amid the churning of 6,162 cubic centimetres of naturally aspirated goodness, the brawny 'Vette clicks into place: a big-screen blockbuster from an era when men were men and crashes were fatal. If you can handle the discomfort for those 10 minutes of Eighties entertainment, knock yourself out. Otherwise, that 911 Cabrio looks mighty tempting...
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Guided tours and workshops for families Daddy, Mummy, Horta and me ! at the Horta Museum in Brussels – from 7 July to 8 August 2014
During the Summer, the Horta Museum will open its doors on Mornings to the children and parents for an adapted visit to each age.
The space of the servants of the house will be exceptionally open for the occasion. The visit will take the shape of a role-play for the oldest and a treasure hunt for the youngest and enables to discover an a pro-active way the extraordinary house and Victor Horta's wonderful universe. After the visit, a creative workshop will be offered, so that everyone can create a work inspired from Nature, in relation with Art Nouveau – different workshop each week (stained-glass, mosaic, mural painting, Art Nouveau house in paper, animals in paper).
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That's because schools try to standardize the kind of laptop used. It makes support and configuration issues much, much easier for the IT staff.
For example, here's what The Hotchkiss School has to say about the issue:
"Beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, The Hotchkiss School will issue Macbook computers to all incoming Preps and Lower Mids. Returning Lower Mids will be re-issued the same computer they used the previous school year. Each student will use the computer during the school year throughout his or her career at Hotchkiss. "
Handheld devices such as iPads and Android tablets are permitted in many schools. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) makes great sense on so many levels because the devices are so common and relatively inexpensive. Indeed handhelds are rapidly replacing desktop computers as one can see from declining desktop sales.
Integrating a variety of handheld devices into the classroom presents a variety of challenges for most schools. First off, the network environment has to be secure. That requires significant expenditures on the backend to ensure that every member of the community has reliable, high-speed access both to the Internet and to internal databases.
The second challenge is wireless. In 2005 you could get away with a modest wired network linking classrooms and computers in public areas such as libraries and in student dorms. In 2013 wireless has all but replaced the older wired networks. Wireless mesh networks allow handheld devices to be used any time, anywhere which is what both faculty and students expect.
The third challenge is security. Most private schools have comprehensive Acceptable Use policies which cover everything from downloading pirated materials and accessing pornography and so on. Peddie School puts it succinctly:
- We expect you to have consideration for the personal and material rights of others. In other words, bullying others, destroying property, and stealing from others are totally unacceptable behaviors.
- We expect you to be honest with others in what you do and say."
Certain kinds of private schools tend to downplay the significance of computers in education. The Waldorf or Steiner schools, for example, as well as the classical Christian schools focus on traditional core subjects and minimize the importance of technology in the classroom. That may seem a bit out of step with the times, but that is the essence of a private school. It can follow its own teaching methods, philosophy and curriculum. If you don't agree with these, you have other private schools which can meet your child's needs. It's that simple!


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When the right heart does not pump blood normally, the disorder is called "right ventricular heart failure ". This condition is progressive and chronic. The weakened heart muscle resulting in inadequate pumping of blood to different elements of the system. The bad blood or deoxygenated blood, flows in the opposite direction to the various elements of the system, causing a run on the right side of the system and congestion. The ill effects of overcrowding, including the enlargement of the heart, liver dysfunction, or adverse effects on the limbs and gastrointestinal tract.
Early detection will prevent the disorder of acute and also get to keep away from death. The doctor will advise patients to undergo certain tests like blood tests, chest X-rays, EKG or echo-cardiogram, CT scan and MRI.
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The American Heart Association released a scientific statement to help physicians standardize how they measure and interpret the ankle-brachial index, which diagnoses lower-extremity peripheral artery disease and can be a marker for other cardiovascular diseases. The study authors called for faster and easier ways to measure the ABI so it can be more broadly implemented in primary care.
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Police accused man who attended mass of attacking Rev. Varghese
CORPUS CHRISTI - The priest stabbed outside his Sinton church has been upgraded from critical to serious condition, and he is stable, Corpus Christi Diocese officials said Saturday.
The Rev. Shaji F. Varghese, 42, administrator of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Sinton, still is unable to talk, but is attended in shifts by at least two diocesan officials, diocese spokesman Marty Wind said.
"We are encouraged," Wind said Saturday morning.
Varghese was attacked about 7:40 a.m. Friday at the side entrance of the sanctuary after celebrating Mass. He was airlifted to Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial.
Authorities arrested David Rodriguez, 36, a Sinton man who had been seeking help at the church for about a year. Rodriguez had attended the Mass.
He is being held in the San Patricio County Jail on suspicion of aggravated assault with a weapon tampering with evidence. His combined bonds total $350,000.
The church is closed until 10 a.m. Sunday, when Bishop Edmond Carmody will officiate a Mass with the Rite of Reparation. Parishioners can attend Mass today at Sacred Heart Parish at 906 E. Sinton St., Sinton.
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Very rarely does the word "light" aptly describe the traditionally butter-laden and creamy fare one usually expects of French cuisine, so I was a bit thrown off, in a good way, with The Peninsula Manila's visiting chef Patrice Martineau's menu.
Perhaps it's Tokyo, where he resides and works, rubbing off on him, where people generally eat healthier, and according to him, are sensitive to too much salt. Perhaps also, it really is the trend for French cuisine to go a little healthier, with less butter, cream and fat.
The challenge, of course, would be to keep it flavorful, but Chef Martineau's menu for his one-week stint at Old Manila has no problem in that sense. His dishes are familiar yet something you've never tried, such as salmon confit paired with caramelized fresh fig, or marinated scallop with spiced watermelon.
"I find inspiration in Tokyo, where I live," he says, "The people, the energy. I always like to create and invent things."
He features a few dishes from The Peninsula Tokyo's premier restaurant and one of the city's hippest spots, Peter, at Old Manila for the rest of this week. On Saturday he is offering a cooking class consisting of 2-3 dishes. He will teach whatever he feels is the most well-received throughout the week.
We started with tomato degustation as our amuse bouche and included a bite-size panini with tomato and olives, cold tomato veloute, and the deceivingly simple roasted cherry tomatoes with green tomato leaf oil—I think this was my favorite.
The Tokyo connection was evident in the marinated scallop with mango-passion fruit chutney, spiced watermelon and a citrus broth infused with wasabi. The flavors weren't the usual pairings but nonetheless worked really well and, more importantly, the dish tasted streamlined and clean.
The best surprise for me was the Tasmanian Salmon Confit. Topped and sitting next to the fish were caramelized fresh figs flown in from Australia, a subtle sweet contrast to the savory salmon, and beside it was a smoked salmon salad and potato tempura. The entire dish seemed strange at first, but as soon as I dug in, my palate said it made perfect sense.
The Champagne Poached French Heritage Red Label Chicken was a tribute to Chef Martineau's place of birth—Troyes in the gastronomic region of Champagne in France. The red label chickens are held in high regard, as they adhere to strict rules when it comes to their feed and are grown only in a certain part of the country.
In this dish it was poached in Champagne cream sauce, again surprisingly light and not at all cloying, and paired with mushroom fricassee and celery root, stem and leaves. Even if you say you dislike celery, you will find yourself eating it. It just brings all the mild flavors together into something so seemingly simple and filled with comfort. If you were French, you'd imagine your grand-mere whipping this up for you.
Unexpected flavors
Dessert was Apple-Citrus Vacherin with Granny Smith gelee, cider reduction and Calvados Chantilly cream. This was essentially a pavlova, but with flavors you don't expect in one. The freshness of the Granny Smith apples and the yuzu powder provided a contrast to the sweet merengue shell. I didn't want this course to end.
The meal was a refreshing take on French cuisine, both literally and figuratively. Chef Patrice Martineau's menu will be available until June 30. Four-course lunches and dinners are available, except Thursday, wherein a five-course dinner and wine pairing will take place.
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Pics I took on Saturday.
That is all. I hope it helps the snowbound get through their day.
Ride well,
Pics I took on Saturday.
That is all. I hope it helps the snowbound get through their day.
Ride well,
Dave Swider
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Some bikes. Some with motors, some without.
you need a roomate?
Nice pics Dave.
Boy that bike is clean.
Thank you. A year after finishing the restoration and I still haven't mucked it up.
And yes, I ride it.
A lot.
Dave Swider
Marin County, CA
Some bikes. Some with motors, some without.
Good job Dave!
That is one nice bike. wishing my project bike turns out like that. and Hi to the forum from Calgary..
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Definitely, a looker; I like it. The fork boots really set it off.
Dave, is this the bike you were in the accident with? I think when you were attempting to pass a pickup? Very, very nice!
I was actually Uturned by a Toyota Corolla. I'd been following them for about 5 minutes and as we reached the crest of the hill they pulled over. I started to go by them and they just pulled out and shut the door on me. I couldn't have been going more than 20 mph. I was all of about 2 miles from home.
We were just over the crest of the hill and they were making a Uturn to park to go hiking. There's a pretty signficant set of trails that pass through that point.
Now that I think about it, if you look at the top photo, that incident happened right where the road disappears. We were coming from the other direction.
And thank you for the kind thoughts. It was fun to do and I'm very pleased with it.
Dave Swider
Marin County, CA
Some bikes. Some with motors, some without.
Beautiful job!
I'm still not 100% exactly sure what an R100CS is...but that makes for one classic looking scoot.
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'83 R100RT'd
I guess I have a generic R100-turned-RT-that-might-turn-RS. All the specs are the same. Ok, well I have that rear slowing device (drum) not a disc brake. But otherwise, it has the same hp specs, speedo, tach, clock, volt meter, wheels, seat, etc.
A /5 SWB was different. The R90S had a different cam, special paint, fairing, etc. The R100RS Motosport had a unique, limited production paint scheme, blue 3/4 seat.
Don't get me wrong, that's a fine, fine looking bike and a heck of a restoration! I'm just wondering if the CS designation was just a marketing game from das Vaterland. Am I missing something?
'83 R100RT'd
I don't know,man, it looks like it must be cold and I bet having the sun low and in your eyes must be really uncomfortable. There, I feel better now. Just a few more hours in my hotel room before I have to take a planeload of folks to Chicago to enjoy the first blizzard of the year.
....oh yea, nice bike.
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Thanks Dave...I think.
When I pushed the bike into the garage Sunday night it had snow on it. In my little corner of fly-over-land it has been snowing off and on since then and is expected to continue for another day. This is our first real snow fall that will stay for any length of time and already I have CABIN FEVER!
Put a couple of miles on it for me, please.
Pass the mustard and UP THE REVOLUTION!
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Very nice job on fixing up the CS, Dave.
I don't think some people understand that airheads make perfectly good daily riders.
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Thanks Tom. I'll be real honest though... it's not hard at all... just time consuming. I offer that much to anyone who is interested in doing fiberglass work. Also, one of the best resources for step by step, "this is how to do it and why we do it this way" type instructions... Go to YouTube and look for Steve Meade Designs.
Steve is this guy who lives in Cali, and has a series of YouTube videos for his trucks that he's been building and they are SICK (!!!). He'll show you all of the dos and dont's.
I really recommend going straight to the 15 or so videos (they range from 1 minute to 15 minutes each) on how he built his door panels. He walks you through making the speaker rings, and how to mount them and how to lay glass and how to beef it up with structure so it won't rattle or break... And the door panels for his tahoe are insane... he put an 8" mid-bass and (3) 6.5" component sets (with the tweeters too) in each door panel (not mounted to the door, but mounted in a heavy duty fiberglass panel so there's no issue with mounting depth).
As for my progress on the dash and the wire job... By Friday I should have all of the wire run and the dash smoothed out and ready for me to decide between paint or vinyl. I want to do vinyl, but I think paint may be quicker, and then I can do Vinyl after I have the center console built and the door panels redone.
I was going to scrap this truck this summer and throw my CTD (Cummins Turbo Diesel) into a 4x4 suburban or maybe a crew cab F-350 (there are a lot of them from the early '90s that came with gas motors because it was so cheap back then, and they are perfect for an engine swap)... So this truck is really more or less practice for what I'm going to do to my next ride. And then I can part out the dodge... including the custom fiberglass I've been making. There again, that's all hearsay until I actually do it... I do a lot of thinking out loud, but the real decision is never made until I'm at THAT point where it has to be made (kinda like the paint vs vinyl decision I'll be making this weekend).
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Harvin requests trade, Vikings 'not interested'
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. Percy Harvin made it known that he wants out of Minnesota.
Vikings general manager Rick Spielman said there's no way he's going to let that happen.
Unhappy with several issues with the team that drafted him in the first round in 2009, Harvin requested to be traded, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
A few hours later, Spielman said the organization considers the star receiver a cornerstone player and will work to resolve any issues that have Harvin upset.
"We have no interest at all in trading Percy Harvin," Spielman said. "We drafted Percy Harvin here. He's a key part of our organization. He's a key part of our football team. Any issues that are out there, or reported, we always handle those internally, and we'll continue to handle those internally."
The situation seemingly came out of the blue this week, surprising many Vikings players and coaches when Harvin voiced his frustrations with the team on Tuesday at the opening of a mandatory minicamp.
"I just put it this way: There's a lot of different things that have to be sorted out," Harvin said Tuesday. "Just haven't been really happy lately. We've got a couple of things to work on. I'm here in the classroom. We'll go from there."
He is due to make $915,000 in the fourth year of a five-year rookie deal. That total is much lower than veterans Micheal Jenkins and Jerome Simpson, with neither coming close to his production on the field.
Requesting a trade now would be a curious move if his main motivation is a new contract. Most players in similar situations first voice their concerns, then threaten to holdout of training camp before going as far as to request a trade.
Spielman would not say if money was an issue, but also reiterated the organization's approach to signing players to extensions.
"Our philosophy has always been as players enter the last year of their contract we have a history of extending players going into the last year of their contract," Spielman said. "And that's been our history."
Harvin has emerged as perhaps the most versatile and dynamic player on the team. He earned respect in the locker room for his willingness to play through injuries and still produce late in last year's miserable 3-13 season. In May, Harvin showed up at voluntary workouts despite still recovering from shoulder surgery and spoke of asserting himself as a leader and encouraging other players to participate in the team's offseason program.
He caught 87 passes for 967 yards and six touchdowns last season, rushed for another 345 yards and two scores and also returned a kick for a touchdown during a sensational year.
But indications are that Harvin's issues go far deeper than just money. His role in the offense, which diminished greatly last season when the Vikings reached the red zone, and the organization's decision to go into a rebuilding phase coming off of consecutive last-place finishes in the NFC North combined with his modest salary all figure to factor into his mindset.


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(May 29th) Barnsdall Art Park Foundation presents Barnsdall Fridays
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5th Annual Alex Thomas Golf Classic POOL PARTY
Alex Thomas Foundation
Sunday, July 13, 2014 from 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM (PDT)
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