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Lynnwood's Deputy Police Chief Paul Watkins was under investigation for stealing evidence from the department when he slipped away from his home late one night, just hours before the FBI planned to serve him with a search warrant.
Though Watkins didn't know it at the time, FBI agents were already watching his home in preparation for serving the warrant the next day, Oct. 23, according to federal prosecutors.
They tailed him as he drove around Everett, stopping at four trash bins and depositing garbage bags that were later found to be filled with shredded papers, prosecutors revealed Friday.
Prosecutors say Watkins had gotten a tip that the search warrant had been issued and he was trying to destroy evidence.
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That's one reason they said they intend to ask for an extraordinarily long sentence when Watkins is sentenced for one count of stealing from a federally funded local agency, the Lynnwood Police Department. Watkins, who pleaded guilty on Friday, could face up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 at his sentencing Feb. 22.
Prosecutors said he remains on leave from his job. Watkins, 50, could not be reached for comment Friday. Messages left with a spokesperson for the city of Lynnwood were not returned.
Police and prosecutors allege Watkins stole between $70,000 and $120,000 over four years while he was commander of the department's Criminal Investigative Division. The money had been previously seized by Lynnwood officers during criminal investigations and was supposed to either be forfeited to the city or returned to its owners.
Prosecutors said Watkins would ask evidence officers to sign over the seized cash to him, saying that he would return it to its rightful owners, but instead he would pocket it.
Investigators said on some occasions Watkins made bank deposits the same days he'd signed out seized money, and detailed how Watkins and his wife struggled financially for years and four times filed for bankruptcy.
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Bartlett said Watkins succeeded for a time because he targeted money and property seized from drug dealers and others who would be unlikely to return to the Police Department to claim it.
The FBI was asked by Lynnwood police to investigate Watkins after an internal audit showed that cash released to Watkins between 2001 and 2005 could not be accounted for, including a package that contained more than $14,000 in cash, two handguns and 2 grams of cocaine.
Watkins was charged in federal court because the Lynnwood Police Department has received federal funds.
Bartlett said public-corruption cases are unusual in the Western District of Washington, but important.
"The public must be able to have faith in the honesty and integrity of public officials," he said.
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As a former county commissioner (1980-84) we worked full-time, met every Monday from
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These part-time positions should not be provided taxpayer funds for personal insurance. The county council is even worse ... working a few hours each month and expecting benefits.
Part-time elected officials should not be offered health insurance benefits at taxpayer cost.
People in this county ought to be up in arms about all of this. Maybe we should look at getting some new blood next election.
To summarize, as in the real world, no part-time employee should receive benefits ... part-time being under 40 hours a week.
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Reigning Big West Freshman of the Year Ebba Unden will look to help LBSU build upon last season's 21-4 season.
July 26, 2013
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Long Beach State head women's tennis coach Jenny Hilt-Costello announced the 2013-14 schedule on Friday.
"I'm very happy with the schedule we were able to put together for this upcoming season," Hilt-Costello said. "We're starting off the year with some great tournaments in the fall that will help get us rolling and ready for the spring season."
The 49ers will begin the year on the road when they travel to Las Vegas for the UNLV Fall Invitational from Sept. 20-22. The very next weekend, LBSU will return back to Southern California for the All American Tournament, which is held in Los Angeles Sept. 28 – Oct. 6. Following that, Beach Tennis will host their annual Fall Invitational the first weekend in October. Long Beach State will then finish out the fall season in San Diego at the ITA West Regional Oct. 17-21.
The spring season kicks off with the third annual Beach Classic on Jan. 10-12. The tournament will feature conference foe Cal State Northridge as well as Portland and Denver, who finished last season ranked 62nd in the final ITA rankings.
The 49ers then travel to Hawai'i to face Washington on Jan. 19 in a non-conference match. The huskies finished the 2012-13 season ranked No. 46. The next day, LBSU will begin conference play against the Rainbow Wahine.
The following week begins a five-match home stand for the 49ers who will host San Diego State (No. 41) on Jan. 25 followed by Big West opponent Cal State Fullerton on Jan. 31. On Feb. 7, LBSU has a chance to avenge last season's narrow loss to non-conference opponent, LMU. The 49ers then host San Jose State (No. 63) on Feb. 8 and UC Davis to finish out the stretch on Feb. 15.
Beach Tennis then is on the road for one match at Cal State Northridge on Feb. 21 before spending the entire month of March at home against eight non-conference opponents.
"We always look to schedule tough, non-conference matches during March," Hilt-Costello said. "This year, we're able to host some great opponents, including three that ended the year in the rankings."
The 49ers will begin March by hosting BYU on March 1, followed by Tulane (No. 50) on March 6 and Montana on March 8. 55th-ranked Pepperdine then makes the trip down to Long Beach on March 15 and Wyoming returns on March 19. The 49ers then play host to a pair of Ivy League schools in Dartmouth on March 20 and Harvard (No. 68) on March 22. LBSU will then close out the month by hosting Sacramento State on March 27.
The 49ers open up April on the road as they travel to UC Santa Barbara on April 4 and Cal Poly on April 5. April 12 marks a huge match as LBSU hosts long-time conference rival UC Irvine (No. 33).
"The match with UCI is one that we look forward to every year," Hilt-Costello said. "For the past couple of seasons, this match has determined who wins the conference regular season title, making it one we always circle on our calendar."
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Death Valley: From America's low point, looking up
It happens to everyone now and then. Last week, I boiled over. A combination of seemingly intractable problems, both personal and professional, the relentless noise of Facebook and Twitter, combined with a steady flow of stupider-than-usual news (turns out our economy has a delete key and our best answer to an environmental crisis is to follow the plot of The Simpsons Movie and put a big dome over the whole thing) twisted around me into a knot that wouldn't untie.
So I did what any sensible Angelino does when the world gets to crazy and headed out to the desert for some alone time.
If this sounds like one of those stories where I go out in search of my spirit animal, it is. Only, my spirit animal turns out to be a Mustang convertible and along the way, I discovered that the sky has fallen– and none of us seem to have noticed.
Everyone has their own way of blowing off steam. I've tried my share of poisons, though last time I managed to get really drunk it only led to me emailing and overly effusive letter to my congressman, Henry Waxman, thanking him for his work on the health care bill. Needing silence and solitude, I rented a red 2010 Mustang convertible and took off for Death Valley, which is not only the largest national park outside Alaska, but also, come night time famed for being the darkest spot on Earth.
I made my way up Antelope Valley, past Owens Lake, the source of much of L.A.'s water and as a result of that city's thrist, now little more than a dry salt pan covered with sprinklers to keep the dust down.
I shot the car over the Panamint Mountains, dropping 6000 feet in little less than an hour. The temperature rose from the mid 60s to 102 as Mustang and me sailed to Death Valley's floor, which at its lowest point in Badwater Basin, is the lowest point in North America. It's only 76 miles away from Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the lower 48. Despite its terrifying name, Death Valley is nothing if not a place of superlatives.
Of all those superlatives, the one I wanted to experience was Death Valley's legendary night sky. It's widely regarded as the darkest place on Earth.
You see, I wanted to see the stars. I remember as a kid, hiking at Philmont Ranch in northern New Mexico and marveling at the night sky while laying on dry chalky rock breathing in air perfumed with mesquite.
I figured if I could get a taste of that feeling again, of looking up and seeing the Milky Way as a tangible band across the sky, then things would be all right.
I pulled the car into an empty campground, cracked opened a can of Bud Lite already warm only an after hour after buying it from the nearby general store and looked up.
It's hard to describe the heavens to someone who hasn't seen it and unfortunately, chances are you haven't. Up until the last century, when the electric light lit up the planet like a epileptic glowworm, the night sky looked much like it does in Death Valley everywhere.
I remember learning about constellations when I was young and joking with my pals about how bored the ancients must have been to see scorpions and bulls and twins in the sky. I see now how wrong I was and I see why I was so wrong. The sky that I grew up with, that we live with now is a paint-by-numbers version of the Mona Lisa that is the real sky.
Looking up at the real sky, your imagination can't help from firing. I easily see giant turtles festooned with blinking jewels and scarabs and great arms cradling them. Another thing I notice is that the sky doesn't look like a perfect dome. Ribbons of gas, nebulae and clusters give dimensionality to the heavens.
At one point, it appears as if I am looking up at the inside of a giant pagoda; tiers of light receding upward into infinity. Nothing man has created compares, not even Avatar.
As my eyes adjust to the dark, something else becomes apparent: a hazy glow rising up from behind the mountains to the east. It's Las Vegas. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "light pollution from Las Vegas increased 61 percent between 2001 and 2007″, threatening this last remaining bastion of darkness. As the National Park guide to Death Valley glumly puts is, "there's little we can do to impact the light from Las Vegas."
Now, I know concern over light pollution may seem like tilting at windmills with all the problems we face, but there's something terrifying in our indifference, something that bodes ill for our future. What chance do polar bears, frogs or the ice caps have when we so readily accept the loss of the entire night sky?
It would not be an unreasonable hypothesis to suggest that it was the combination of man's primitive brain, gifted with the ability to make connections and the night sky, fretted not just with golden fire, but with the promise of endless possibility and wonder, that made our species so successful.
The night sky dazzles, but it also invites curiosity, a sense of humility and if not a perception of the divine, then at the very least, a stunning argument that compared to the infinite vastness of its reaches, we are still so very small.
Without making the mistake of assuming that connection indicates causality, it does seem that we live in an age devoid of wonder, which we have replaced with fear. We are beset by challenges, as every generation has been, but we seem to have lost our faith in possibility, whether it's in our politics or in our arts. It says something that we've elected a President of hope and change, but whose great dream is to usher in an age of pragmatism.
A great many evils have been committed in the name of fanciful dreams, to be sure. The last century provides ample evidence of this, however it's also true that our greatest achievements, not just as a country, but as a species, all began with dreams which exceeded our horizons. What happens then, when we dim our view, not just of the sky above, but of our own future?
And if we are willing to sacrifice the sky, what else are we willing to sacrifice as we press on into the unknown?
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Getting Started with 3D Printing, the first printSubmitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 01/18/2014 - 09:10
Recently, we got a Makerbot Replicator 2 at work, and I've been spending a bit of my free time learning my way around 3D printing.
The initial setup was pretty straight forward. Take it out of the box. Put it on the counter top you are going to use, plug in the power, put the snap the build plate in, connect the tube to the extruder on one end and to the back of the printer on the other end, feed the filament through the tube, and run the startup routine.
The startup routine displays on the little display screen on the printer the steps to start printing your first object, which you select from a few objects stored on an SD card that comes with the printer. Before you start printing, you need to level the build plate. You twist a few adjustment screws on the support below the build plate. It was fairly easy to adjust, much easier than tuning a guitar. We selected a comb to build.
We watched the extruder move back and forth across the build plate, squirting out a thin line of melted plastic. These lines combined, and we ended up with a comb.
This is where we ran into the first problem. The comb stuck to the build plate. After a little experimentation, we discovered that the easiest thing to do is to remove the build plate, by unsnapping it at the back of the printer and lifting it forward. Then, using a sharp knife and a bit of finesse, we finally got the comb off, without much damage to the comb.
The build plate is smooth on one side and frosted on the other. We had the frosted side up. We flipped the build plate over and tried another comb. It also stuck. Apparently the side of the build plate that is up doesn't seem to matter.
Reading online, I found a lot of people have reported this problem and suggests are all over the place. Some say lowering the build plate a little. Some talk about heating or cooling the build plate, or using a different temperature for doing the build. Others spoke about using painters tape and putting down a piece of paper on the build plate.
I've taken to using left over printer paper and taping it on with scotch tape. This works pretty well. For bigger objects, or if I don't tape well, the paper sometimes lifts up a little adding a little bit of a curve to the object base, but this has been minor.
One of my coworkers later asked how difficult it was to set up. It is probably a little less difficult than setting up a DVD player for your home entertainment system. If you're comfortable with technology, you should be able to do it easily. If not, you should be able to get a friend to set it up for you.
Of course, setting up a printer, and designing interesting objects are two very different things, and I'll get into some of that in later blog posts.
Do you have a 3D printer? How's it been going for you? Have you been thinking about getting one? Do you have any questions about 3D printing?
3D Printing a Better Healthcare SystemSubmitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 01/15/2014 - 07:25
Recently, at work, we got a 3D printer. I work at a health care center, serving mostly poor; people on Medicaid, or without insurance. People have asked, what does 3D printing have to do with that? Are you going to print syringes?
As I've been thinking a lot about it, 3D printers, at least in my work space, are about fostering creativity. How do we get people to think more creativity, not only about what they put down on paper or canvas, but how they live their lives and promote health around them? Does learning how to design and print 3D objects help empower people to be more creative? Does it even, simply, get people who should be getting primary health care, in the door?
How do we use having a 3D printer in our innovation center, to encourage people to come forward with creative ideas? Does fostering creativity in one realm, like 3D design, encourage creative thinking in another realm, like public health? These are issues for me to explore.
So far, I've been testing the 3D printer, getting to know what it does and doesn't do, getting to know how to operate it must effectively. So far, I've printed a couple comes and an Ingress Enlightened game insignia. I've started looking at 3D design and exploring different design packages. There are several free ones, like Sketchup and Blender. I've used both in the past, and I'm starting to relearn them to see if I can make some neat objects.
I started thinking about 3D design back when I was active in Second Life, a 3D virtual world. I've encouraged people to use 3D virtual games to create animated videos. These days, my youngest daughter plays a lot in Minecraft and related games. I like Minecraft much better than a lot of the other games she plays because it is a game that encourages rudimentary 3D design. Can I use it as a gateway to Sketchup, Blender, and Opensim for her?
I'll continue to work on my 3D design skills. I'll try to find others interested in these skills near where I work. It may not lead to a cure for cancer, but if it can provide even a small spark that improves the health of our communities, it will be worth it.
Do you do any 3D design or printing? Are their systems, tutorials, or projects you recommend? Let me know.
Organizing InformationSubmitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 01/04/2014 - 15:17
I've been looking at app development recently and speaking with different people about the tools they use. One of them mentioned MongoDB. MongoDB is a document oriented NoSQL database. I loaded it on one of my servers and played with it a little. I was impressed with the simplicity of getting started with it.
Yet as we move away from tabular storage of data, it poses the question, how should we think about organizing information?
There is the great line from The Cluetrain Manifesto, Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy. There is a lot in that statement. To what extent are hyperlinks subverting authoritarian structures based on hierarchy? How is this playing out in media, education, and politics? And, how is it playing out in organizing information?
As I dig a little deeper into NoSQL databases, I'm finding myself more interested in triple store or graph oriented databases. Instead of having a limited, predefined set of relationships like, parent child in a traditional relational database, what can we do when we start storing many different types of relationships in databases? What can we do when we start graphing out this information?
So, on my radar for future explorations are Neo4j and Sparql. From there, I may wander back into topics like RDF, the Semantic Web, and of course once information becomes more machine readable, back to the singularity.
Are you playing with MongoDB? Neo4J? Sparql? RDF? The Semantic Web? What things do you think I should be looking into? Are there good starting points and tutorials?
Smarter Happier SelfiesSubmitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 12/18/2013 - 21:50
This evening, I sat down to my evening positive attitude adjustment, and found Howard Rheingold had shared on Facebook a link to Jason Feifer's comments in Fast Company, GOOGLE MAKES YOU SMARTER, FACEBOOK MAKES YOU HAPPIER, SELFIES MAKE YOU A BETTER PERSON
It was, in my opinion, a very well written response to Sherry Turkle's recent Op-Ed in the New York Times, The Documented Life where she complains about Selfies.
My Initial reaction to Turkle's piece was to write Sisyphus' Selfie. I've been intending to write more on this, and I started to write a comment to Howard's status. Yet as it grew, I thought I should really make it part of my blog post.
I started off:
I must say, as an active participant in LambdaMOO back in the mid 90s and a friend of many of the researchers and cyberanthropoligists that became involved there. I've always found Turkle to be a bit full of herself (and other stuff).
I read her Op-Ed and found that my opinion of her hasn't improved over the past 18 years. I've been meaning to write a blog post about her article, very similar to Feifer's, but perhaps from a slightly different angle.
This is where I decided to merge the comment into this blog post. One person suggested, why not just call Turkle a Luddite, and then went on to repeat various assertions of Turkle that are tangential to the article, claiming them to be facts.
I think Luddite is an overused word amongst technophiles and so I want to present a slightly different idea.
Marc Prensky, in his famous article, Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants presents the idea of people who have grown up in a digital culture as digital natives. Those who have moved into a digital culture, having grown up in a different culture are digital immigrants.
In my mind, this fits nicely with some of what Turkle talks about. Yes, growing up in a digital culture does change the way we think and act. Yet this also points to the biggest problem with what Turkle has to say.
She is looking at digital culture from the viewpoint of a digital immigrant. For example, her comment
We don't experience interruptions as disruptions anymore. But they make it hard to settle into serious conversations with ourselves and with other people because emotionally, we keep ourselves available to be taken away from everything.
This sure sounds a lot to me like that old grandmother living in the immigrant community complaining about how people these days just don't do things the way they used to in the old world, and how much better the old world was.
I pause to think a little more and glance at my daughter creating something in Mindcraft. She is a digital native. Me? Having been on the Internet for over thirty years, and on bulletin boards and programming computers long before this, I tend to think of myself as a digital pioneer, or perhaps a digital aborigine.
Yes, working with computers for all these years has changed my way of thinking. A critic might compare it to the way mercury changed the thinking of hatmakers, and my children might have other comments about having a Dad that has been online longer than they have.
Yet I relish my experiences with technology and I'm glad that my children are having even greater experiences with it. I love the camaraderie of other digital pioneers or digital aborigines.
Through my discussions with friends on Facebook, I've also found myself talking about Jacques Ellul, whether or not people need to learn to program, representations of transhumanism, The Power of Patience and Civil Religion and how it relates to prophetic religion, the social contract, the way we interact through digital media, and if there are implications for a Great Awakening.
And, for that matter, I let a young college student from Iran borrow my Google Glass this afternoon, so he could take a selfie of him wearing Google Glass, standing next to a robot.
Technology does change the way we think and act. There is much that needs to be discussed about it. I'm happy that Facebook has given me topics to Google and become smarter about. I'm just not sure that Turkle is really adding much of value to the conversation.
Dystopian RabbitsSubmitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 10/01/2013 - 01:19
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit. We'll here we are, another October. Like other months, when I get time, I start off with a childhood invocation for good luck.
But it's October, thirty-seven years ago, a classmate of mine from high school disappeared. They found her body later in the month, but never found the murderer. Last year, during Hurricane Sandy, towards the end of October, my mother died in a car accident.
Looking back over my career, many of my job changes took place in October. My youngest daughter was born in October, as were some of my closest long time friends.
It's October, and the Government is shut down. This weekend, I sat on the porch, after making a batch of green apple jelly. Yes, I'm connected online. With my Google Glass, I get notifications as they happen. But there is something about sitting on the porch, having just made jelly.
I thought about when my mother was a kid. Yes, she heard, via the radio fairly quickly about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but most news was much slower then, and even more slow before the radio and telegraph. How much is this always on, instant notification contributing to disfunction in Washington, where people seem more interested in the political theatre of the sound bite than in sound governing?
How much is the medium the message?
I've been reading The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The setting is a utopian community in the mid nineteenth century. The hero is sick and reads books that other members of the community bring to him. Yet I'm reading it as an ebook on my smartphone. What is the mixed message of a nineteenth century novel on a twenty-first century device?
Kim and I have started watching "H+". It is a series about human implants, similar to Google Glass and a mass kill off of people with the implants due to a network virus. The medium is the message, as my wife and I watch it on an old TV hooked up to an old Roku which manages to still get YouTube. I watched an episode on Google Glass, which pushes the medium is the message idea even further.
And here I am, writing a blog post about it.
It is a post-apocalyptical world and I've been thinking about this new millennialism, a resurgence of apocalyptical thinking. No, we didn't have a Mayan apocalypse. We haven't had an apocalypse as a result of people of the same gender who love each other now being able to marry one another.
Now, even though the Federal Government is shutdown, you can go online and purchase health insurance. Like same-sex marriage, for some this looks like the end of the world. For others, the Federal Government shutdown looks like the end of the world.
But as I sat on the porch over the weekend, with a kitchen full of jams and jellies that I've made, and as I sit in my chair now, writing my blog post and listening to the large dog snore on the couch next to me, this is nothing like the end of the world in all the dystopian post-apocalyptical stories.
So I say Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, bringing back all the simple childhood hopes and memories in this complicated hyper-connected world as I think of dogs and jelly and porches, and trying to get back to sleep.


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The new Fiat 500L and Mini Contrymanson able to demonstrate that the unique design and chic does not conflict at all with the functionality and the needs of a modern family.
I have to confess that until I saw these two cars parked in the garage of the writing was not sure if this comparison not faced two cars that had nothing in common, but served a singleglance outside to realize that two separate vehicles speak the same language.
In both cases these derivatives with family vocation resulting from subjecting a bodybuilding and anabolic treatment to two of the most attractive and flirtatious utility of the moment: 500 and Mini.
Each with its own philosophy as the Mini boasts a more SUV side, which allows us to incorporate AWD-even if the unit used for the photos, which was later replaced with the correct for-dynamic test, while the Fiat takes over your spirit home, a task that fulfills an outstanding to say the sensations during the test check.
Back in the cockpit perceive what 'left' who walks Coordinate the Fiat front and rear. The height, width and legroom is insulting in every street. It also has ingenious solutions, which also has the Mini as a sliding rear bench with a few extra inches to win for passengers and increased the capacity of the trunk, and quite generous of origin.
In fact, a slightly elevated driving position and a glazed surface unsurpassed call into question whether this vehicle is not derived from an industrial platform, in this case the Fiorino, a minor detail as fulfills its mission perfectly.
In both cases the family vocation of derivatives resulting from subjecting a bodybuilding and anabolic treatment to two of the most attractive and flirtatious utility of the moment: 500 and Mini.
The Mini, for its part, enfolds us with an interior slightly more care on quality-not much-and with anextremely design 'adorned' that requires us to pay a fee in exchange valuable because theergonomics is highly penalized by the location and shape of some controls like the browser windows or central position, with a huge marker reading speed very complicated, and we had better also tell us the speed at which we have little clock behind the wheel because the digits are as small as a wristwatch.
Solutions interior
rear habitability As we can slide longitudinally rear bank, but is configured for serial only two passengers, having to pay for one third smaller central square, which greatly reduces the functionality.
If we analyze the engines, and making clear the obvious limitation of power of both when circulated upload, say that the Mini is more energetic and functional power delivery, especially in the lower area of the counter, where the block the 500 is shown slightly short of horses pulled, reaching to sink if we do not touch the throttle. First class dynamically Fiat is as comfortable as an MPV.Their reactions are predetermined by a fairly long travel amortigudores and a moron too Successful ensures comfort without falling into excessive body rebounds or pitching. Another thing is not to look for the slightest connotation sport in their responses, it is not designed for this … I hope in the future through the hands of Abarth to our delight.
On the contrary to what happens in the Countryman in which the occupants pass the background in favor of sportsmanship, thus we will have fun as driving dwarf, with some extremely agile racing reactions that can take its toll on long trips or jams.
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DETROIT (AP) _ A Detroit gas station owner, accused of shooting
a rival to death over gas prices, is now charged with murder.
The man (Hassan Masbouth) faces an open murder count, and a
charge of using a firearm while committing a felony. He's been in
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This movie — written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson — is so bad it can't even steal effectively from good movies that came before.
Its chief instrument of horror is a mob of flesh-eating zombies lifted part, parcel and gaping head wounds from Night of the Living Dead. Yet even they are not enough to fill the bottomless void that is the plot of this movie, so it turns to Alien for a gross-out monster to scamper through the ductwork and rip open a moving train in what passes for a climax.
These encounters are occasioned by the release of a virus in a subterranean factory owned by a giant, evil entity called "The Umbrella Corporation" — and how's that for a blood-chilling name?
For reasons that make no more sense than anything else in the movie, the corporation created a virus that briefly brings dead bodies back to life as voracious cannibals. A central computer responds by killing everyone on the premises, and a fresh crew of gun-toting hard cases arrive to investigate.
"Investigate" mostly means crouching and jumping around the joint like a bunch of CPAs at a paint-ball party, while one or two characters wander off aimlessly to be frightened by the latest cunning creations of the special-effects makeup boys.
The eventual leader of the bunch is an amnesiac (don't ask) agent played by Milla Jovovich. Never a particularly animated actress, she goes through this movie with such slack-jawed lack of expression she looks like she's been Botoxed with a fire extinguisher.
Because nothing genuinely frightening or even surprising happens, Resident Evil tries to get over as a collection of piercing sound effects. Screeching, clanging metallic noises rarely cease — although they do serve a useful purpose when they partially obscure the moronic dialogue.
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2009-2015 Cadillac CTS-V General Discussion Discussion, Carbon Fiber Wrap on Dash (pics) in Cadillac CTS-V Series Forum - 2009-2015; Well, after having some carbon fiber fabric sitting around the house for months now, I finally put some of the ...
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Well, after having some carbon fiber fabric sitting around the house for months now, I finally put some of the stuff on. It's called Neffy Wrap. Can't miss their site if you Google it.
As you can see, I chose to use the black CF wrap on the upper black obsidian center console and silver CF wrap on the strips on either side of the lower center console, as well as the trim pieces that run along the dash above the pipe accent lighting. I have not put wrap on the lower console yet (surrounding the gear shifter and the lid for the cup holder.) I may or may not do this some time later. The recessed area that is at the base of the shifter (with the red P, R, N and D letters) looks like it would be extremely difficult to wrap. It actually doesn't look too bad (black CF next to the glossy obsidian) because the top of the shifter is still obsidian as well as the three sections on the steering wheel. Another consideration about doing the lower console is beverage spillage. I'm not sure how well this fabric will stand up against my Starbucks mocha that I am always spilling.
First of all, as much as I like the way I came out, I don't necessarily recommend this to everyone. The problem is that many of the buttons on the center console have JUST ENOUGH clearance to work as intended. I found out the hard way (after thinking I had thought of everything - ha ha) that once I added the fabric some of the buttons didn't operate as smoothly, if at all. The worst culprits were the top row, consisting of the nav screen up/down button, sport/tour suspension, etc. This required some very labor-intensive trimming of the back of the buttons in order to free them up. Consequently, there is some light illuminating from behind that wasn't there before. Only noticeable at night, but nonetheless another unanticipated issue. Most people (excluding myself of course) will probably never notice. That particular row of buttons were worse than the others, and were the only ones that required trimming. The other buttons still work smoothly, although I had to trim the CF wrap from behind a few times in order to free them completely up. Also, the volume and tune dials turn slightly stiffer than before, but not distractingly so. And the cigarette lighter door requires more pressure to open and close than before. An alternative to the button cutting would have been to slightly widen the openings, increasing the gap between the buttons and the console itself. This would have required tools I didn't have, and would have had to have been darn near perfect to have looked good in the end.
The pieces I did in silver wrap were easy to do in comparison, and fit right back in place as before, if not a little bit tighter of course. In the future I will probably do the strips in the door panels to match. I might even do the areas surrounding the door latches and/or outer vents in black CF wrap. We'll see.
Overall, I think it looks very good. Much better in person. Pictures don't do it justice. I think it looks MUCH better than the glossy obsidian, which always looked cheap to me.
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Good job on the CF install! Just my opinion and not meant as a knock on you, but I like the Black CF better and would have liked to see it all one color CF as opposed to the black and silver. Other than that, it looks good!
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I really like this. However, it doesn't go with the other fake carbon pieces in the car very well. I think the carbon pieces on the sides of the shift knob would look good black and the whole center Carbon. As well as the pieces in the dash.
I really like this. I am wanting someone to make true carbon fiber replacement pieces. I like the look of the black obsidian, but the crap scratches like nothing else. It looked good for the 2 seconds when it was not scratched, then looks like $h!t from then on.
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I like your shoes...... JK
I think the CF looks better than the obsidian. However, I think it should be all one CF color. Great job installing. I would be hesitant to attempt it myself.
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Once you settle on a color you like and get the install perfect, I'd take the faceplate off and have it clearcoated at a paint shop. Not only will it hold up better, but it'll make it look more "real".
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How is that applied?
Is it very hard to do??
Can that be done to the rear bumper insert instead of paying hennessey 500 bucks?
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i think thats how the car should have come fromt he factory..... but it might look all better with the darker cf look.
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Are you a ricer, ur somethin??
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I'm planning on doing close to the same thing. BUT, I'd leave the gloss black sections alone. They look good as is. The only part of the interior that I want to change, is covering the silve fake carbon pieces in real carbon fiber. I was going to do a dry fiber wrap, but after seeing this I'll end up coating them in resin after I wrap them.
+5 for the effort man.
-2 for coating the black parts and using Silver weave.
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I hate the gloss black stock dash.. I'm still waiting for someone to release a real CF replacement for the everything in the car. Seeing your work made me drool, I just wish you wrapped it all the way back. The gloss is like the playstation 3, very quick to stain gather dust etc.
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Surrounded on three sides by a moat, with an 18C main façade in the Classical style, the castle still has a corps de logis built by the alchemist Nicolas Grosparmy (Baron de Flers from 1527 to 1541). It is lovely to stroll about the grounds, which we..
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Update on Mujeres Formales GroupMujeres Formales [Professional Women] is taking out its fifth loan with the goal of keeping a business stable that has grown a lot since its first loan. Claire hopes to learn how to craft new clothing styles so as to provide her customers with variety and keep her revenues up. For her, the biggest challenge in her life has been providing an education for her only son. That said, he's been an inspiration to her to always keep moving ahead in her work and never give up. Her daily routine takes her in many directions; selling clothes in the mornings whether in her house or at a customer's home, and in the afternoons focussing on collecting payments from customers who owe her installments.
Hortencia and Jesús hope to buy their own materials in order to improve their sales in the back to school season when uniforms are in high demand and people always want to have them tailored to the student. This is how this group of determined women keeps on striving for their dreams.
Previous Loan DetailsIn Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas live three enterprising women who formed the "Mujeres Formales, JC" group. Santo Domingo is a city with a tropical humid climate and average temperature of 25º C. The city is known for being a crossroads between several cities on the equator, such as Esmeraldas... More from Mujeres Formales Group's previous loan »
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About Fundación AlternativaFundación Alternativa encourages entrepreneurship and provides sustainable financial and non-financial services that promote social and economic development in Ecuador. The organization focuses on serving poor and excluded populations through analysis of clients' living conditions and by providing business training and other support services in urban, rural and marginalized parts of the country.
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Happy news for all the ladies out there. George Clooney and Stacey Keibler have called it quits! Plus, it looks like the pair tried to hide their split for as long as possible. The breakup was friendly, and was due to their schedules being too busy and nothing more. However, it's been Stacey Keibler's schedule that was blamed last week for their time apart. The odd part? The two are apparently still living together! Awkward! Let's see how long that lasts!
No one is safe from Amanda Bynes! Not even, the President of the United States and the First Lady! Amanda Bynes took to Twitter yesterday to tweet this nasty message: "Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are ugly!" This is a very different tune from the one she sang last year when she reached out to President Obama for help with her DUI charge. Amanda Bynes' legal issues are piling up and her latest tweet to the President and First Lady is not going over well with the public. Someone get this girl help!
Jennifer Aniston and fiancé Justin Theroux have reportedly been on the rocks for a while and haven't been spotted together recently. Well, time to put that to rest because nearly a year since their engagement, and several months since they postponed their wedding plans, the couple were photographed together this week! The couple went shopping. Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux have been bogged down with multiple film projects and the massive renovation of their $21 million Bel Air mansion. STRESS CENTRAL!
Looks like John Mayer and Katy Perry are definitely together and this time, the proof is in the song! Days after Katy Perry shared a picture of the two snuggling on the Fourth of July, John Mayer settled the score by dedicating a song to Katy Perry, who reportedly looked on from the mixing board on the opening night of his
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Slow down! Just because Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez were at the same Fourth of July party, doesn't mean that they are back together. My sources are saying that the two have not gotten back together and instead, are just trying to maintain a friendship. Reps for both stars declined to comment on the situation. If you are keeping track, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez called it quits in November. Since then, it's been a roller-coaster ride for the two. It was only a few days after magazines hit stands that the pair broke up that Justin Bieber posted pictures on Instagram of him and Selena Gomez cuddling. I guess we'll just have to wait and see!
After enduring a difficult pregnancy, Kim Kardashian is enjoying motherhood and isn't losing any sleep because she has the best help money can buy! Why is she getting her beauty rest? How about because Kim Kardashian hired a night nurse to take care of baby north West if she needs a diaper change or feeding. Kim Kardashian has been breast feeding North and always pumps before she goes to bed in case the baby wakes up, but Kim and Kanye's night nurse sleeps in the nursery with Nori, and if she needs anything, even if it's just to be soothed, she's the one that's taking care of the baby. Kim Kardashian wants to be well rested so she can be the best possible mom to Nori, and feels if she is sleep deprived, that isn't going to happen. Sleep is very, very important to Kim, without 8 to 10 hours, she just can't function. We all can't be so lucky.
It's not often that Ryan Reynolds talks about his wife Blake Lively, so when he does, we're listening! As for keeping his marriage a secret and not talking a lot about it, Ryan Reynolds says, "I don't intentionally try to be evasive about that stuff. If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean -- words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing. I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent -- for anyone, I think -- to see your personal life summarized in a sentence." As for a future family, Ryan Reynolds says that they couple wants to have a BIG family. "We both come from big families -- my parents did four, Blake's did five. A lot of people say it's crazy, but we'll only know when we're there, you know? We'll walk through that fire pretty happily, I think."
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A Native American mother of a Seattle Public Schools student appealed to the Seattle School Board Wednesday to remove the novel "Brave New World" from the district's list of approved books for language arts classes.
A Native American mother of a Seattle Public Schools student appealed to the Seattle School Board Wednesday to remove the novel "Brave New World" from the district's list of approved books for language-arts classes.
"We are assembled here today to take a stand against institutional racism," Sarah Sense-Wilson told board members at a special session before their regular meeting Wednesday evening.
Sense-Wilson, whose daughter read the 1932 classic in class at Nathan Hale High School last year, took issue with Aldous Huxley's numerous uses of the word "savage" and negative depictions of Native Americans.
The board ran out of time Wednesday and will schedule another session to deliberate and vote on the issue.
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Kathleen Vasquez, who chaired a school-district committee that selected the 75 books on the approved list, told board members that racially charged language in "Brave New World" is satirical. She conceded that whether teachers place sensitive issues into context could be an issue.
She said one of the committee's priorities was "text complexity," referring to books that have multiple layers of meaning or "are intentionally misleading sometimes."
Nathan Hale administrators dropped the book from its sophomore Language Arts class after Sense-Wilson's initial complaint, but Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson denied her request that the book be removed from curricula districtwide.
Appealing to the board is Sense-Wilson's final option, according to district rules.
"Historically this derogatory term has been used in an effort to dehumanize American Indian, Alaska Native, and First Nations people," she wrote in a letter to Nathan Hale High Principal Jill Hudson last March. Her daughter "reported feeling inferior, embarrassment and misunderstood, she also felt invalidated and stereotyped," she wrote.
"Brave New World" has stirred controversy in schools for decades, but most criticisms have focused on its depictions of drug use and orgies.
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I just spent the most splendid evening learning all about and playing with porcelain clay under the tutelage of Miss Abby Seymour (go check out her work, people, it is incredible) and I had SO MUCH FUN. It was so nice to play with an entirely new medium - okay, not entirely new, I've done quite a few ceramic classes over the years but never before with porcelain, which I found really great to work with, especially with all of Abby's knowledge and tools to help out. But it was just so nice to play with something creative with no real outcome expected, you know? I don't plan on becoming an ceramic artist or releasing a line of porcelain vessels or beads, I just wanted to create something entirely different for my own use and enjoyment. Loved it. I have three more sessions to go and can't wait to go back.
In other crafty news, the quilt top in muted teals and neutrals is finished and I've made the binding, just need to have the backing decided upon and then I can get quilting. Over the weekend I managed to convince myself that I really do need a new sewing machine but it's going to require the savings of quite a few pennies so it probably won't happen it in time to do this quilt, which is a bit of a bummer. My current Janome works just fine but it's 8 years old and was only ever a very standard mid-range machine (I think it was $599 when I bought it), not really designed for quilting or the completely ridiculous amount of work I've put it through over the years. To it's credit it hasn't missed a beat and I've never even had it professionally serviced (I do clean it out periodically) but the thought of having a super fast machine with a big open throat and lots of perks has finally won me over, especially with all the quilting I intend to do over the next few years. I foresee a massive drop of Sample Packs at the end of March to help nudge me towards sewing nirvana... :)


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Residents in Franklin will be able to enjoy a new garden featuring a shrubbery maze and sculptures from local artists this summer.
The garden is being built on South Main Street south of Richard's Brick Oven Pizza and includes a new public parking lot, wrought iron gate, labyrinth, Zen garden and art. Meg Jones and her husband, Richard Goss, who own the land and the restaurant next door, will spend about $200,000 in total to build it.
The Franklin Development Corp., an organization that was created and funded by the city with tax dollars, is giving the Joneses $90,000 to help pay for the garden. Board members also are helping keep the project on schedule by removing a requirement that the property be given to the city after construction.
The development agency previously required that the garden by given to the parks department in order to get the $90,000. But park board members had concerns about taking ownership because they weren't sure Jones would be able to complete the project as planned for $200,000, parks director Chip Orner said. The plan also did not include additional lighting, which Orner wanted for security reasons, or a handicap-accessible ramp from the garden to Province Park.
Park officials said the idea is great. They said they are confident Jones, who does landscaping for the parks department, will make the garden beautiful. Orner said he could picture the garden becoming a popular outdoor wedding venue in the city or being used to host small gatherings for businesses and other groups. But he added park board members want to be able to look at a completed product, not conceptual drawings, before agreeing to take ownership.
"It would be awesome for the community, would clean up that area, be adjacent to the park and be beautiful," Orner said. "They would love to have her do it and then take it."
Development corporation board members required the garden be given to the city because of concerns about what would happen if the couple sold the property or didn't want to maintain it any more. But new board members, who were appointed after the group reorganized last year, said they don't have a problem with the couple owning it in the short term as long as the park board would agree to take it in the future.
Orner said he thinks park board members would agree to owning it in the future after Jones completed the project, so they could have a better idea what additional features the city might need to add or maintain.
Although the garden technically will be on private property, Jones said, it will be open and available to the public.


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