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THE horrible events in Connecticut have left citizens on edge, yet the sight of armed men and women near many Oklahoma schools this week has not only been welcomed, but requested. That's because those armed individuals have been police officers.
At schools statewide, officials have asked police to increase patrols. Yet at the same time school officials welcome armed officers, many oppose arming principals or teachers who have police-style gun training.
It's an odd juxtaposition that shows how conflicted our society is over the issue of firearms. We entrust school officials with our children, but hesitate to entrust our children's protection to those same individuals if they possess a gun.
This may be shortsighted. In 1997, Luke Woodham's shooting spree at Pearl High School in Mississippi — he killed two and wounded seven — was stopped when a vice-principal retrieved his own gun from his car. Woodham had planned to drive to the junior high and continue killing.
In many cases, the mere sight of a gun deters criminals. This may be why "gun free" areas appear more likely to become targets. Economist John Lott, who has studied mass shootings, told National Review that all but one public shooting where more than three people have been killed since 1950 "has taken place where citizens are not allowed to carry guns."
Those factors are a reason state Rep. Mark McCullough, R-Sapulpa, has called for allowing teachers and principals to carry a firearm on school property if they have obtained certification from the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training. The early response of education officials has been negative, citing safety concerns.
Stan Florence, director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, notes that responding to an active shooter is far tougher in reality than in the abstract. Oklahoma City Superintendent Karl Springer said he would prefer increased funding to boost law enforcement presence at schools, while in Tulsa the district has a campus police department with 23 sworn, certified officers.
This may be a better option for large districts with financial resources, but many of Oklahoma's 500-plus districts are small and geographically isolated. For those districts, extra security may be unaffordable; travel times could impede a swift law-enforcement response to a crisis. Such concerns led the tiny Harrold school district in northwest Texas to allow staff members to carry concealed handguns starting in 2007.
There is no perfect plan. Some districts may rely on in-house security or local police, while educational staff may be crucial in others. Districts' varying needs and demographics make this a true local control issue; one size will not fit all.
Sadly, in no case can it be certain a school will never be targeted. No one can predict the unpredictable or be totally prepared for it.
Even if authorized, we doubt most teachers would carry a weapon. But those who obtain CLEET certification could likely be trusted. More than 144,000 Oklahomans possess a right-to-carry license with little problem.
Lawmakers shouldn't pass a law to simply say they've done something in response to Connecticut. But nor should they reject proposals in a knee-jerk fashion either. McCullough's legislation may not ultimately warrant enactment, but with children's lives potentially on the line, it does deserve careful consideration and thoughtful analysis.


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SEXING THE CARIBBEAN: GENDER, RACE, AND SEXUAL LABOR by Kamala Kempadoo. London: Routledge, 2004. $24.95 US (paperback), 264 pages
Kempadoo provides an extensive, but impassioned, exploration into the economic and social motivations of Caribbean sex workers. Though "numerous studies have been conducted on aspects of sex and sexuality in the Caribbean," she states, "little has centered exclusively on Caribbean sexuality or connects racialized sexualized practices with the economy." She backs her claims with a decade of research, placing herself within Third World feminism as practiced by Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Himani Bannerji.
She explores the inevitable link between tourism and the sex industry, simultaneously oppressing and liberating Caribbean sex workers. On one hand, workers "confirm racializing and exoticizing ideas about the hypersexual nature of the Caribbean" and thus often reconstruct the limits of obtained financial mobility. Nevertheless, Kempadoo asserts that, by taking such work, "they transform racialized, exoticized bodies into resources for freedom, betterment, and economic development." As well, her discussion of migrant sex work opens up challenging questions about the possibilities of globalization for empowerment or for dissolution into invisible, underground economies that compromise personal freedoms.
Her treatment of male and female sex workers alike presents a comprehensive view of Caribbean economies that facilitate such economic opportunities. By breaking the gender boundary in her discussion, she treats her subjects more like agents in a global economy than as aggressors or victims. I see an attempt at objectivity that is mostly effective and adds to the persuasiveness of her argumentation. She doesn't make a concise argument about how we as readers should feel about the evidence that we're given. This book, until the last chapter, seems to be less of a call to action and more of a resource of documentation.
However, she doesn't fully explore "whether sexual agents constitute a 'rebelling pillar' in Caribbean society" until her last chapter on "Resistance, Rebellion, and Futures. …

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L'emprunteur en vedette madame Ndéye a 28 ans c'est une femmes mariée sans enfant; elle est coiffeuse et a un salon de coiffure dans le village et son activité marche très bien. Elle est à droite sur la photo tenant un livret.
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I now have signal on 101 trans 2 and 10.72% and 76% and 6 or so transponders on 103c in the 40s. Nothing on 99 and 103b
6 or so transponders with reading in the 40s on 103c, but nothing on ... 103b?
The Ka signal categories for the HR2X receivers should be 99s, 99c, 103s, 103ca, 103cb.
Anyhow thanks doctorj for the info. As I strongly suspect though the 110/119 AL/HI kit is essentially a nonintegrated discrete component equivalent of the AT-9 sidecar unit.
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the transponders are 101, 99c,103ca, and 103b
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I mean to make new [actually extend existing] feed horn with bigger entrance to collect signal from sides of your current triple LNBF (99/101/103) due different focal points' location for a reception of Ka sats..
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) monitoring of federal agencies' safety and health programs and implementation of the Hazard Communication Standard.
GAO found that OSHA: (1) monitors federal agencies' safety and health programs differently from the approach envisioned in its regulations; (2) is not conducting required annual evaluations of the 15 agencies identified as the largest or most hazardous agencies, and it rarely evaluates the 95 or so other agencies, even when their work-related injury and illness rates are high; (3) inspects federal work places but makes limited use of inspection results in assessing agencies' programs; (4) does not require agencies to provide evidence of actions to correct hazardous conditions, inspect agencies for compliance with program requirements, or use inspections to identify and correct programmatic and agency actions to correct identified hazards; and (5) is not required to and does not monitor how well federal agencies implement the Hazard Communication Standard.
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Comments: In April 1993, OSHA established a task group to identify the information OSHA should collect from federal agencies on their safety and health programs and develop a means for agencies to report this information to OSHA. Beginning with their FY 1993 annual reports, which are due to OSHA in January 1994, federal agencies are required to report baseline program performance indicators.
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Comments: OSHA revised its instructions to inspectors to have them monitor federal agencies' safety and health programs for compliance with applicable program requirements during inspections they conduct at agency workplaces.
Recommendation: To strengthen OSHA monitoring of federal agencies' safety and health programs, the Secretary of Labor should direct OSHA to include monitoring for compliance with program requirements in inspections it makes at agencies' work places.
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Comments: OSHA revised its procedures for conducting federal agency safety and health evaluations. The results of agency work-place compliance inspections will now be used as part of OSHA's assessment of the agencies' programs.
Recommendation: To strengthen OSHA monitoring of federal agencies' safety and health programs, the Secretary of Labor should direct OSHA to use the results of work-place compliance inspections to identify potential systemic weaknesses in agencies' programs.
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Since Suncor opened Canada's first oil sands mine in 1967, our operations have disturbed approximately 17,161 hectares of land. As of the end of 2009, the company had reclaimed approximately 1,182 hectares, or about 6.9% of the total landdisturbance to date.
Reclamation takes place once the disturbed land is no longer part of active operations. With the introduction of Suncor's new TROTM (Tailings Reduction Operations) process, we expect to see more land available for reclamationmore quickly. Suncor is targeting a 100% increasein land area reclaimed by 2015.
Oil sands reclamation techniques are constantly evolving and improving. In 2009, Suncor continued to make significant strides in how quickly—and how well—it reclaims disturbed lands.
Mining oil sands ore requires digging about 50 meters below the surface. The soil that's removed is known as overburden and has to be stored in an overburden storage area, usually situated close to the mine site. Once the overburden is removed and the ore extracted, a pit is created. These pits are often filled back in with liquid tailings from the extraction process.
In the past, there has been a lag time of many years between when overburden was removed and reclamation could begin. Suncor is increasingly aiming to reclaim disturbed lands as they are created. Mine Dump 5, an overburden storage area in Suncor's Millennium Mine, is an example of what's known as progressive reclamation.
As soon as the 160-hectare Mine Dump 5 was created in 2008, Suncor began reclaiming it. Enough progress was made that topsoil was placed on the overburden and seeded with the usual barley nurse crop by the spring of 2009. Following fertilization, tree planting began a few months later.
Suncor's new TROTM strategy, which we expect to begin implementing on a commercial scale in 2010 subject to regulatory approval, will further bolster the cause of progressive reclamation. Suncor's nine active tailings ponds account for 30 % of the disturbed land Suncor is currently working to reclaim. So accelerating the pace at which liquid mine tailings are transformed into solid, reclaimable surfaces is critical to resolving our overall oil sands reclamation challenge.
The technologies Suncor has researched and developed for drying mine tailings will allow us to significantly reduce our existing tailings inventory, freeing up additional lands for reclamation. Our TROTM process will also reduce or eliminate the need for future tailings ponds—removing another key obstacle to progressive oil sands reclamation.
As we enter a new era in mine reclamation, we are also marking a significant industry milestone from the era just past. In September 2010, Suncor is to become the first oil sands company to have a tailings pond with a trafficable surface that has progressive reclamation underway. The plan is to ultimately transform the company's 220-hectare Pond 1, established in the 1960s, into mixed wood forest and a small wetland capable of supporting a variety of plants and wildlife.
While the 2010 milestone will not result in an official reclamation certificate from the Alberta government, Suncor is working to secure a progressive reclamation acknowledgment. The Pond 1 area is also to be re-named to mark this significant accomplishment.
Watch a video where employees talk about reclaiming Pond 1
Questions have been raised about why so few of the lands described by the oil sands industry as "reclaimed" have been certified as such by government regulators. Part of the answer is that under the current regulations companies can only apply for a reclamation certificate when the lands in question are fully functioning ecosystems—and that can take many years to achieve. For example, even when surface reclamation of Suncor's Pond 1 is well underway in 2010, and after all the trees are planted, it will take at least another 15 years to reach the "free-to-grow" standard required for certification.
Even when oil sands reclamation has run its full course, there are additional reasons why industry is reluctant to seek certification under the current regulations. Reclaimed lands that have been certified revert to Crown ownership and can be accessed by the public. Since most of the reclaimed land is adjacent to, or entirely within ongoing operating areas, granting public access to such lands would create a concern for public safety.
As the oil sands industry grows, the ratio of land being disturbed by development is expected to decline. That's because more of the oil will be extracted using in-situ technology to retrieve bitumen buried too deep to be reached by mining. In-situ operations disturb only 15% of the land required for traditional mining operations and do not produce tailings ponds.
While it's true that lands surrounding in-situ facilities are affected by a network of roads, seismic lines, power corridors and pipelines, many of these impacts can be mitigated through technological innovation and better land management. Suncor helped pioneer equipment to build low-impact seismic lines that significantly reduced the amount of land disturbed by natural gas, in situ and pipeline development. We've also entered into agreements to share best practices and infrastructure with industry peers and to provide conservation offsets for boreal forest habitat impacted by development.
As a matter of course, Suncor undertakes active remediation at its downstream retail sites operated under the Petro-Canada, Sunoco and Phillips66 brands. Remediation is done in conjunction with upgrades to facilities and tanks at existing operations and at sites slated for closure.
Active remediation is also conducted at Suncor's conventional oil and gas sites impacted by historical activities. Where remediation has been completed, the next phase is reclamation, including the establishment of proper vegetation. Reclamation certificates are issued on sites that have been returned to equivalent pre-disturbance land capability.
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Summer should be a stress-free time for parents and kids. Let our Summer Meals Program help.
The Summer Meals Program is available all summer long, Monday-Friday from 12pm-1pm (excluding July 3rd)
Our LUNCH program is open to ALL kids and teens 18 and under. FREE, healthy meals are available at meal sites across Bozeman and Belgrade. We'll offer a safe, supervised location where your kids and teens can stay active and spend time with friends while enjoying healthy meals.
Meals served are tasty, follow USDA nutrition guidelines, and help ALL families save money. There are no applications to fill out and do not require proof of income.
Please join us at one of our following meal sites or text "lunch" to 877 877 for a site near you:
Beginning Monday June 8th
In Belgrade at Hollensteiner Park from 12-1 pm Monday-Friday- We offer a two week cycle menu that begins on week one, the menu is available Here: Summer Lunch Menu 2015.
In Three Forks at Stevenson Park from 11-11:30 Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Our Three Forks Menu is a weekly menu available Here: Three Forks Summer Lunch Menu 2015
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In Bozeman at lawn of the SOB Barn or Beall Park from 12-1 pm Monday-Friday. We offer a two week cycle menu that begins on week two, the menu is available Here: Summer Lunch Menu 2015.
Our SUPPER program at the Community Cafe offers free nutritious, healthy food for the ENTIRE family. Meals are served each night of the week from 5-7 pm. The cafe weekly menu is posted on our website.
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While feeding children is the top priority of the Summer Meal Program, programming and activities is what keeps children coming back. This takes volunteers–and lots of them–especially in June, July, and August. Volunteers can help with basics like transporting food, meal service at a site–they also plan and do educational or recreational activities with the children. Visit www.cafebozeman.org for more details.
Tell others how the Summer Meal Program helps feed children and discuss how they or their organization can help. The more people who know, the more likely they are to take action to help end hunger or know how to help their own children. Please give us call if you have any questions.
The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) runs throughout the summer months providing FREE meals to all kids and teen 18 and under; The Gallatin Valley Food Bank/Community Cafe is the local sponsor for the State Office of Public Instruction to provide this program in Gallatin County.
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This past semester participants in the ENGAGE at CCA course "Designing Ecology with Año Neuvo Island" designed, built, and deployed nesting modules for rhinoceros aucklets, an endangered sea bird. CCA Ceramics chair Nathan Lynch and his students collaborated with Oikonos eco-science nonprofit and REBAR art, design, and social activism group to design the nesting modules now in place on the island. Last report from the team was the birds are doing well in their new homes!


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Fine art print on bright white, fine poly-cotton blend, matte canvas using latest generation Epson archival inks. Individually trimmed and hand stretched museum wrap over 1-1/2" deep wood stretcher bars. Includes wall hanging hardware.
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Though printed at different sizes this series is intended to be 7" record sleeve tributes for various songs by various bands, some known and some unsung.
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Isabel has worked all of her life and managed to raise her daughter by herself. As a single mother, she continues to face many difficult situations even though she has been able to get ahead. Isabel invested great effort to open a store where she sells food, household products, and other items. Little by little, her business grew despite the difficulty she faced to maintain it. The store is located inside of her home.
Isabel is requesting a loan because she wants to invest in her store. She plans to restock it with everything necessary to increase her sales. Thanks to this business, Isabel and her daughter have been able to achieve an acceptable level of financial stability.
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This 750-acre preserve consists of three major plant collections. Covering 20 acres, the Native Plant Collection features shrubs, trees and wildflowers indigenous to eastern North America. The main trail (2mi) circles a marsh; two optional loops lead to a bog and a hemlock forest. A variety of woody plants occupy the three-acre Caroline Black Garden. The Campus Landscape comprises 120 acres with over 200 trees from different parts of the world.
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Reflections on Rabat: A Year LaterRabat, Fall 2010
I struggled a long time with the concept of summarizing my time abroad. How could I avoid creating a huge blanket list of everything that I miss and everything that's changed me, yet still give a genuine portrayal about the impact it's had on my life? Nothing is cheesier than a couple pages of "how my study abroad experience changed me". And believe me, I know because I just re-read the first draft of my "how my study abroad experience changed me" post and the cheese in it was enough to feed a large Moroccan family mac n' cheese for days. The task of summing up how those three little months in a country whose greatest economic assets are phosphorous, tourism, and being more peaceful than its neighboring countries is intimidating. Rather like the task of capturing the beauty of a sunset with ink and paper; I just don't think it can be done. The actual sunset will never be as breathtaking on paper. Isolated, & away from it's natural setting, the sunset on paper looks cheesy, unnatural, and more than a little out of place. That said, ideas for the post broiled and bubbled in the back of my mind as I spent my day at work (reorganizing data spreadsheets and making copies, if you wanted to know). Could I write about how life in Morocco showed me the world outside of my bubble? Or maybe I should write something about the good friends I met, and the good people who helped me along my way in a foreign country...I've forgotten a lot about daily life in the Maghrib, though it's only been a year. I have pictures, and memories, but I don't revisit them all the time. The experience of traveling alone, the experience of leaving your home to go to an unknown, the experience of being the outsider, though, those things that the photos don't capture, are the moments that I'm the most grateful for. I don't know what I'm going to do with my future. I don't know how exactly the experience of study abroad will factor into my career goals/ grad school dreams. I won't be going back to Morocco soon, to teach or to do research, like so many of us talked about doing back then. Eventually, after I've decided things about my future, that is my Future capital F, I'll make my way back to the country that taught me so much, perhaps with a couple of old friends, and call up the teachers and staff that made my stay so rewarding. I will say this- learning to be flexible in less-than-ideal circumstances and smiling through it all; that is one of the things that will go with me. Learning that fears that reside within your own mind are really not all that bad; that is one of the things that will go with me. These, I think, are things I would have been hard-pressed to find if I had only lived in California all my life. And, profound, life-changing experiences aside, I can say that I learned how to make damn good couscous.
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So beautiful! It's clear that your study abroad experience changed you in big ways and in little day-to-day ways as well. And yum…couscous. One of life's greatest miracles.


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TOYAMA/FUKUI – Police opened an investigation Friday into the chain of "yakiniku" barbecue restaurants linked to the deaths of four people who ate raw meat dishes at its outlets.
The joint investigation squad of Toyama and Fukui prefectural police raided the headquarters of Food Forus Co., operator of the Yakiniku-zakaya Ebisu restaurant chain, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture.
Also raided were the chain's outlets in Toyama and Fukui prefectures, as well as the Tokyo office of a meat distributor that provided the beef in question.
With an eye on building a case of professional negligence resulting in death and injury, the investigators will hear what the operator and the distributor have to say to determine the cause of the poisoning.
Also Friday, the Toyama Prefectural Government ordered two of the company's outlets in the prefecture, one in Tonami and the other in Takaoka, where food poisoning cases occurred, to be suspended from operating for an indefinite period of time.
The barbecue outlets were routinely serving customers raw beef that had been left unsold the previous day, their operator said, adding that the company had not made it a rule for its restaurants to trim the beef to remove contaminated surface areas before serving.
Regarding serving the leftover beef, a senior Foods Forus official said, "It's not that we had any basis (for the practice) on sanitation grounds. It cannot be helped if we are criticized as lacking proper awareness for food safety."
In addition to the four victims — two boys and two women in Toyama and Fukui — more than 35 people have been hospitalized, with more than 20 in serious condition, the police said.
Patients have also been reported in Kanagawa Prefecture, prompting police there to launch their own investigation.
During an inspection by a local health office late last month, the meat distributor said it does not provide the beef to be consumed raw.


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Helping residents who are struggling financially is a top priority for the Republican candidates for Hensley Township trustee.
A primary job of the township trustee is to review applications from residents for assistance with utility bills, verify if they qualify for financial aid, and provide money for gas and electric bills, funerals and burials if a person doesn't have the money to pay those costs.
Beth Baird and Joe Sichting are running for their party's nomination in the May primary election. Baird is challenging Sichting, who has served as Hensley Township trustee for about 16 years. A Democratic or independent candidate could file to oppose the primary winner in the fall election.
Each of Johnson County's nine townships has a trustee. The trustee's duties include referring needy people to food pantries for help, providing tax dollars to help residents who have fallen on hard times, maintaining cemeteries and contracting with local fire departments to offer fire protection in the township. They also help make sure invasive weeds, such as Canada thistle, don't spread across fields, lawns and gardens.
The trustee also oversees the township's tax-funded budget, managing township financial
records and filing an annual report with the state. The Hensley Township trustee's budget is $31,850, more than half of which is set aside to help residents with financial needs.
State lawmakers have considered consolidating small townships or eliminating trusteeships altogether, but the part-time job doesn't require taxpayers to pay health insurance or other benefits, and residents want to keep the position local, Sichting said.
"They don't want someone from the county or the state to control this township position because it would be more red tape and it would be more costly to the taxpayers," he said.
Baird has worked for years managing financial records and budgeting for family businesses, and she said her experience has prepared her to oversee the township budget. She also likes to assist her neighbors, currently volunteering with the Johnson County Sheriff's Office to teach schoolchildren about crime prevention.
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Let's take a look at the Friday morning headlines from around the NFC South:
Scott Reynolds writes that middle linebacker Mason Foster is prospering in his second season. That's a wonderful sign for a young team that's looking for bright spots. It's also an early indication the coaching staff and front office were right to leave Foster in the middle. There was some temptation to draft Luke Kuechly and there was at least a flirtation with veteran free-agent Curtis Lofton, who wound up in New Orleans.
Martin Fennelly writes that, despite their 1-3 record, the Bucs are much more competitive than last season. He's right. The Bucs have been in every game and, had a couple of plays gone differently, there record could be much better. I take that as a sign that coach Greg Schiano has this team on the right path. It might take time to turn the corner. But I'm seeing the same thing from this team that I saw from the Bucs when Tony Dungy first took over and from the Panthers when John Fox took over -- gradual improvement.
Mike Triplett writes that, if the Saints are going to turn around their season (and their defense), they need free safety Malcolm Jenkins to finally play to his star potential. That's very true. Jenkins might be the biggest mystery in the NFC South. For the past few seasons, I've been waiting for him to have a breakout year. Scouts and coaches around the league say he has the talent to be a big-time playmaker. I thought Jenkins might start to shine in coordinator Steve Spagnuolo's new scheme. But, so far, Jenkins really hasn't been a factor.
Ed Werder previously reported that linebacker Jonathan Vilma has filed an appeal of his season-long suspension. As you probably expected, it's now being reported that current New Orleans defensive end Will Smith and former New Orleans players Scott Fujita and Anthony Hargrove also have appealed their suspensions.
Jonathan Jones has a good overview of the Lisfranc foot injury, the same injury that will sideline center Ryan Kalil the rest of the season. It's a fairly common injury and will require surgery. But Carolina team doctor Robert Anderson is considered one of the world's top surgeons for this type of injury.
With backup tight end Michael Palmer out with an injury the past two games, Tommy Gallarda has done a nice job filling in. He's been used mainly as a blocker, but also is getting some opportunities as a receiver.
Defensive tackle Corey Peters, who has been on the physically unable to perform list, is eligible to start practicing next week. But I'd look for the Falcons to wait a bit on their three-week window on Peters. They have a bye next week and won't be doing much practicing. Even then, I think it might take Peters a few weeks to get on the field. Coach Mike Smith said it's going to take Peters some time to get into football shape.


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Take each day as it comes, but never take it for granted.
Open him!
BTW - if it's not too rude to ask, how much did he set you back? With the upcoming battle-damaged Faker head I'm redoubling my efforts to get his figure, but some of the eBay prices I've seen are astronomical.
Whatever you do, don't open it! These people are just trying to trick you because they are jealous that you might one day become a millionaire if you leave it in the package after they have all opened theirs!
Open it! I have mine and its a great variant. Plus, you need an extra Faker in order to display both heads after Intergalactic Skeletor comes!
Not to sound like a creepy cheerleader for Uki, but it's nice to know there is at least one person on this forum who is extremely positive & friendly all the time. I don't think I could be that nice even if you paid me. If we ever give out awards for "forum member of the month", Uki gets my vote. -Mr. Shokoti
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Thanks guys, I think I will open him at some point. Seems too cool to keep sealed up.
Neil, I did pay over £100 for it. Came all the way from Australia. The way I look at it, I have gotten some real bargains while building up my collection, so the expensive price sort of balances out. That's what I'm telling myself anyway
Take each day as it comes, but never take it for granted.
My collection has undergone a slight downsizing, mostly in the Transformers department, mainly due to consolidation down so I can mainly focus on the Masterpiece line, and the Classics / Generations that will serve as placeholders until official Masterpiece version surface, if ever.
MOTUC lost 3 members, King He-Man & Stondar and Rokkon, mainly due to being able to live without them, and trying to get a little extra dough for the next 2 MP releases in December, Smokescreen and the Sideswipe re-issue. Now, I have opened a lot of room up....now to fill it.
Transformers top shelf with Wheeljack and Jazz customs
Club 30th (the only 2 I cared about)
Club Filmation thus far
Minion and sidekick shelf
A recent mod to Demo, instead of being merged with Keldor, he became an enslaved member of the Horde. Just a calf swap with a custom set of calves, no fowl to the figure.
I recently acquired MP Prowl and Bluestreak, as well as the large October MOTUC haul....
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Recent.... HATMOTU Trap Jaw
Coming.... Classics Vultak
Wanted.... Classics Masque & Callix?
Oh man, did I forget to use these [sarcasm][/sarcasm] again? Sorry....
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The recently arrived King Grayskull
My DC Vs MOTUC packs
Mini Masters
I asked Granamyr where I should put Castle Grayskull when it arrives, he doesn't know either!!
Flying School
Vintage Rules!
All the He-Men (He-Man's??)
The enforcers are gathering
Teela summoning the power of the Sorceress and the Goddess
Take each day as it comes, but never take it for granted.
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So, I took this picture of the MOTUC collection because I realized that with Castle Grayskull getting ready to ship, this is probably the last quick phone pic I will take of the collection in its current form. When CG arrives, everything is getting taken down and the display is getting slightly reconfigured and moved to a different wall in the toy room. Which means I have to move all of my comic figure displays as well. That is, at minimum, a 600-700 figure move. Gonna be a bear.
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Saw a pic of one...whare does one get one? Cool jersey btw...
Saw a pic of one...whare does one get one? Cool jersey btw...
LOL! Yeah just read the date of the posts on the cycle jerseys...ANCIENT HISTORY....
Sometime last year, I think someone noted that "they" might be creating some bike forum jerseys... Anything new on that? Or do we wait until the Spring weather has whipped us into a cycling frenzy?
I'm not sure if there will be 2005 jerseys. I don't have the money to pay for 100+ jerseys upfront, and pre-paying for jerseys last time was a PITA.
Is there any chance, or just i should give up?
When you order the jersey, do you get it cheaper and sell it for a more expensive price, or is it, what you bought it for is waht we would buy it for?
How about licensing the name. Maybe you can find someone who does it as a business in this forum, give them exclusive right. Forum gets $5.- to $10.- a piece or 10% of the sales wouldn't be so bad. Member bough it gets a yellow star instead of a red star.Originally Posted by Joe Gardner
When we did a custom order here at work we made everyone pay for them in advance. How much upfront $$$ did you have to put out last time? If you want to PM me with the info that's fine. We ordered jerseys and shorts through Louis Garneau and have been very pleased with the quality of them.
I've lost enough weight that the two XXL jersys I have don't really fit anymore. Anyone interested can send me a PM.
Here's a picture for those who have never seen the real thing.
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USDA finalizes new microloan program
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a new microloan program from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) designed to help small and family operations, beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers secure loans under $35,000. The new microloan program is aimed at bolstering the progress of producers through their start-up years by providing needed resources and helping to increase equity so that farmers may eventually graduate to commercial credit and expand their operations. The microloan program will also provide a less burdensome, more simplified application process in comparison to traditional farm loans.
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A place where inventive technology and the visual arts are combined in perfect interplay. That's what we call Visual Engineering.
ASTRA: The fight for the last sixpack
When it comes to beer, mankind might forget about friendship. We've got proof! Til Obladen from mypony contacted our director Torsten Eichten to revive an old idea. They worked together with Lyndon Gaul and Eike Rieche on this glorious commercial for Astra beer. Check out the result and enjoy a vibrant, hilarious fight between two old friends for the last piece of pure bliss. Cheers mates!
Düft: new full CG animated short
Inspired by the work of photographer Charles Helleu, our 3D department created this experimental short. Led by Jan Elsner who directed the film, the team took full advantage of the tools they have at hand: Softimage, Houdini and rendered with Arnold. Awesome job, guys! Check it out.
Golden Arrow for Cassidy Burcher
Another award to be celebrated: Our newbie Cassidy won gold at the BRITISH ARROWS CRAFT 2015 for his charming commercial Honda "Perfect Fit" and has been named BEST NEW DIRECTOR. Have a look on his reel here. It's fun.
World Technology Award for Spike
Congrats to our dear colleagues Christian Fritz and Jan Gwiasda, developers and fathers of our high-speed-motion-control-system SPIKE. They won at the 2015 WORLD TECHNOLOGY AWARDS in the category ENTERTAINMENT. The annual event in New York brings together the most innovative people and organizations in science and technology from all over the world. Guys, we are so proud of you!
Leica: Mirrorless reflection
GEOMETRY GLOBAL asked our creatives in Frankfurt to play around with high res photography and typography to visualise the concept of the new mirrorless LEICA SL camera. The result is a nice and easy teaser and the strong desire to go out there and take some amazing pictures…
KIA: Beyond The Line
We contributed our expertise in high-speed-photography to this years IAA. Together with INNOCEAN we created an emotional visual experience for KIA. The challenge was to really think big this time: produced in 4K, impressive in camera special effects where combined with CGI elements on a 5×40 meter screen. Baam!
Beatbox for McDonald's
Lips and colors are the heroes of this vibrant commercial for McDonald's. Leo's Thjnk Tank asked us to shoot a short beatbox performance to promote their new colored Coca Cola glasses. Our inhouse directors Michael Seiser & Philipp Kehl turned this concept into a vigorous graphic sequence which is really fun to watch.
New Animation Director: Gerrit Bekers
We proudly present animation director Gerrit Bekers, who signed with our partner WIZZ design, exclusively for the German market. Originally an art director and designer he was lured to join the company Creative Conspiracy by his addiction to the charm of storytelling. Watch his hilarious work here.
50 Shades of… Asparagus!?
Proud of being famous for the most seductive food porn out there, The Marmalade has lived up to it's name yet again with our latest commercial for RAPP Germany and Unilever. Always walking a fine line between the culinary arts and eroticism, Joschka Laukeninks brought the sauce to the table. So sit back, relax and enjoy this highly suggestive film here.
New Animation Director: Kathrin AlbersWe are happy to announce that Kathrin Albers, one of the most renowned German artists in the field of stoptrick animation has signed exclusively with The Marmalade. Please have a look on her stunning and enchanting work here. This is real craftman(woman)ship!
Ferrero: Welcome to the nerdy side
Zum golden Hirschen commissioned us to create these freaky sponsoring trailers for Ferrero Duplo to be used as teasers for the comedy show "The Big Bang Theory". What a great opportunity to finally act out our nerdy side! Sheldon Cooper would have been proud of us.
Watch the playful result here.
Nescafe: Beyond The Final Frontier
Following the suit of our Hollywood colleagues we would like to unearth our latest film – space development. Please welcome the new campaign for Nescafe Tama created by our director Niels Thomsen together with the Tokyo based Dentsu agency. Our creative department jumped onto an exciting opportunity to create a visual world merging the outer space with the world of Nescafe Tama. Watch the epic result here.
Torsten Eichten for Smart
We are proud to present you a hell of an example of how to put our one-stop-shop philosophy into practice. Every single department was involved in this great piece of work. Thank you Torsten for leading the tribe through this rock'n'roll project. It definitely was worth the effort. Watch the result here.
New CollaborationWe are pleased to announce that we've signed with QUAD. For the french market The Marmalade is now exclusively represented by the renowned Paris based production house. Based on this collaboration we are proud to present WIZZ DESIGN to Germany. Watch their designers work.
Damien Krisl for LangneseJust released… the summer campaign for Langenese Honey we created together with our newly signed young star Damien Krisl. Crazy shoot, loads of fun, check it out!
Hamburg for Braun S9
The Marmalade Posts recent project for BBDO Proximity, Braun S9. Some really complexe 3D work for a really complexe machine. Men's only.


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Madrid press single out Wayne Rooney for special treatment
WAYNE ROONEY has been singled out for special treatment ahead of tonight's Bernabeu showdown.
Rooney is a football player and hooligan all rolled into one
The Manchester United striker is pictured on the front page of the Madrid paper Marca under the headline "El Coco" (bogey man).
And inside he is described as "a barrel packed with gunpowder".
The paper said: "Rooney is a football player and hooligan all rolled into one. To look at him, you'd think he was one of the 4,000 British fans on the terraces – yelling and drinking beer and jumping the queue to get in through Gate D.
"Rooney will run out on to the turf at the Bernabeu and face players who have bones to pick with him. Pepe, Ricardo Carvalho, Iker Casillas and Cristiano Ronaldo may relive their encounters with the English bad boy."
Rooney slammed Real defender Pepe just over 12 months ago after he stamped on Lionel Messi's hand during a Copa del Rey tie with Barcelona.
Rooney, watching on TV, said on Twitter: "Pepe. What an idiot. Sometimes people wind you up."
Marca reprinted the tweet, under the headline "Este Chico es un Demonio", which means "This boy is a demon and hooligan".
The paper also printed pictures of Rooney's sending off in the 2006 World Cup for stamping on Carvalho, and a photo of his red card in a pre-season game against Porto in Amsterdam the same year.
But United boss Sir Alex Ferguson said: "He is a mature player now, he is 27. His goalscoring has been very consistent.
"He can play in more positions, he has energy, enthusiasm, desire. He is a terrific player."


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Originally Posted by 3MTA3
Nice! Although nothing showed up for me and it was just a red X. I had to right click, properties, copy the link and paste in new window to see the picture.
It was worth it. Is that an Axiom?
Originally Posted by 3MTA3
Nice! Although nothing showed up for me and it was just a red X. I had to right click, properties, copy the link and paste in new window to see the picture.
It was worth it. Is that an Axiom?
Originally Posted by ViperZ
Hey ViperZ,
Who's in the running? What about a custom Moots, or Strong, or Dean, or hmmm IF, or who else does custom TI? I heard that crazy dude Zinn is now doing TI. His book is pretty good. Let's see, what about Tom Kellogg at Spectrum Cycles?
I have been talking to Everti and Spicer. Gene at Spicer was wanting to build me a custom Steel Cruiser frame with Disc brakes. Everti has a Ti Fighter Cross Bike.
I would like a Seven Mud Honey Cross Bike, but it's a bit costly right now.
I think a Steel/Ti 29" MTB woul dfill the need for my new MTB, yet beable to suffce as a good cross bike as well with different tires/wheels
Originally Posted by blandin
Looks like whitewalls. I actually thought it was at first.. eheh
All posts are crafted by an adult, for adults. Not responsible for hurt feelings, snot bubbles or tears. If something someone says to you on an internet forum affects your happiness, you have issues. Get in touch with your true self.
nothing showed? hmm... let me try again. it's an alaris.
Hey Bubbles don't you have any photos of some Titanium Shopping Carts?
Should I post my ti bottle cages and my ti tire levers?Originally Posted by itsIRIEpat
Still does not show until you right click, copy properties and paste in a new browser. Once it's in your PC's Cache, it shows up in the thread. Your host may not allow remote linking.Originally Posted by 3MTA3
Thats a fine machine!
My Tuscany last week in need of a bath.
I feel like a soiled kleenex dropped in the gutter in the red-light district of Paris.
How is the build going on the Hab? Pics? photos?Originally Posted by Gomez308
Here is my Seven Axiom:
No progress to report. I've been going crazy waiting on the components to arrive. I did remove the decals. I started with the top tube cause they were a little wrinkled and ended up taking them all off. It looks a little naked right now. I hope when everything is put together it'll look better.Originally Posted by sshakari
I'm thinking about making some type of head tube badge for it. Does anyone have any ideas??
My Litespeed Vortex compact. I bought this about two months ago, rode it over 500 miles since and am having a blast with it. I just added a Selle Italia Gelflow SLR saddle, Easton 44cm handlebars and GP4000 tires.
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Here's my Litespeed Classic:
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OK. Here are a couple of pics of my partial build. Sorry. I couldn't find a garage door at the office. This will have to do.
Excuse me sir, I have no garage door to show you, so let me take the photos next to my helicopter.
Kidding aside, what frame is that, and what size is it? Judging by the headtube, I'd say it's a fairly large size. And oh yes - it looks very nice so far.
'00 TiSports Titanium - DA 9 speed------ '01 KHS Flite 800 - DA/Utegra 9 speed mix
02 Ellsworth Flight - Ultegra 10 speed -.'03 Basso Coral - Ultegra 10 speed
'03 Specialized Allez Pro - DA 10 speed .'04 Scattante CFR Limited - DA 9 speed
'05 KHS Flite 2000 - Ultegra 9 speed -... '06 Flyte SRS-3 - DA 9 speed-------
'05 Serotta Fierte - Utegra 10 speed--..-'07 Pedal Force RS - SRAM Force
Trust me. The copter is not mine. I just get to wiggle the sticks every once and a while. And I get paid for it too.Originally Posted by blandin
The bike is a Habanero Team Issue 64 C-T. Mostly Ultegra with Shimano compact crank. Thomson stem and post. King HS. Deda Newton shallow drop bars. Mike Garcia Niobium 30 wheels.
I guess that's all. I'm still waiting on the front derailleur so I can finish it up. So far it rides really well. I rode it like a scooter around the hangar today.
IF Ti ClubRacer, my distance machine, brevet bike, etc. Ti frame, Steel Fork
Day of build... I had a pro fit done about a week later and worked out the steerer tube length and stem position. (didn't want to cut anything too short!) The Ritchey crank was eventually swapped to a Specialities TA Carmina.
Rigged for randonneuring...
Love the jeckyll / hyde of this frame. Road machine that converts easily (and gracefully) to a distance machine.
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So long. Been nice knowing you BF.... to all the friends I've made here and in real life... its been great. But this place needs an enema.
Nice. I went out tonight and tried some night photography as well. I posted a link in your other thread. I have that same tripod (works great backpacking!) and a Canon as well. Was inspired but didn't get nearly the same kind of shots you did.Originally Posted by ViperZ
So long. Been nice knowing you BF.... to all the friends I've made here and in real life... its been great. But this place needs an enema.


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Austrian Open Data Whitebook
Austrian Open Data Whitebook
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The Austrian open data community published a whitebook on open data in Austria.
Vienna, 1 September 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
The Austrian open data community has published a whitebook describing the current status of PSI re-use and open government data in Austria, as well as giving advice on how to move forward.
Martin Kaltenböck and Thomas Thurner who also were responsible for the successful Open Data conference in Vienna last June are the editors.
The book covers
- Introduction to open government data
- Analysis of the Austrian situation and challenges involved
- Open Government Data guideline for Austria
- A resource section
It is available for free through the Semantic Web Company, and also available on-line. The book is embedded below for you to browse through.


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Went up pulled over then waited for temp. to go back to middle went back to mechanic. Now the oil looks black in am then looks normal when checking it. the oil pressure gauge goes high low when stopping. Still see some leak where mechanic said these gaskets need to be done. Now what do I need?? has 215505 miles. Thanks
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Even thou u answered my question. I understand what u was saying, but I can get the belt off of the wheels but its a bar at the bottom that the belt go around and that's the part I can't get the belt from around .Do the bar slide out or something. 1995 park avenue
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REDLANDS: 1 arrested, 1 sought in gas station holdup
Michael James Soto, 39, of Colton
A 23-year-old Colton man is behind bars and police are seeking another man in connection with a robbery this week at a Redlands gas station and a car chase to Grand Terrace, investigators say.
The holdup happened at 4:15 p.m. Monday, Jan. 20, at the Unocal station, 1075 Parkford Drive, just off Interstate 10 and Ford Street.
"Two men entered the store, displayed handguns and robbed the clerk of cash, alcohol and cigarettes," city spokesman Carl Baker said in a written statement.
Police spotted the green 2006 Honda Pilot getaway car on Alabama Street near I-10. The resulting chase ended when the Honda crashed in Grand Terrace, where the passenger was apprehended but the driver escaped. Guns and stolen property were found in the vehicle, police said.
Frank Louis Colunga was arrested at Mount Vernon Avenue and Brentwood Street in Grand Terrace and booked for investigation of robbery and conspiracy, jail records show. His bail is $500,000.
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hi there all of you precious lil' buttercups~
i have received some inquiries about portraits and other various custom drawings, so for those of you who have asked, or perhaps were wondering, i would absolutely love to create something for you!
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Bert and Ernie lay the smack down.
Bert and Ernie lay the smack down.
Slightly NSFW (language)
Always knew they were a couple of subversives sent to install anti social values in our kids. These two and that purple dinosaur, Barney.
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Apparently this problem with the Bike Forums software has been brought up here in the past, but I don't see it on the first page. Besides, the user who brought it up didn't get a satisfactory response, so I'll just start a new thread and bring it up again.
If you don't know what I'm talking about it's this: Every time someone posts a picture wider than the message area, the message area just expands to accommodate the picture and you have to scroll back and forth to read each line of message text. Not only is this very irritating, but the board sponsors should also be annoyed, because their ads won't be seen unless someone scrolls all the way over to them. I've used Bike Forums for many years and seem to remember it was not always so. The pictures were automatically downsized to the width of the message area and only expanded to full size when you clicked them. I thought that was a cool feature of Bike Forums because most other forums I frequented didn't have it. Somewhere along the way this software was "upgraded" and this feature was discarded or broken in the process.
Can this be fixed? Not only will it make thousands of users very happy, but the sponsors will get more hits.


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Thranduil and his wife, Elven Queen, Ellerian. This is original Silmarillion cosplay. I recall that Thranduil's wife is not registered in canonical texts and it's totally my idea and my vision. Many thanks to all who participated in photoshoot, and especially my beloved King and noldo daddy-photographer, whose work is perfect and priceless.
great look in the eyes, she waiting, hearing something ? our imagination run with this photagraphy, nice shoot.
I think your costume are very beautiful and you look every inch the Elven princess Ellerian.
Beautiful...and the winter scenery fits perfectly.
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beauty) I've seen some more photos in VK, hope you will post them too! amazing cosplay! lovely details and atmosphere
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The rise of 'Django' and the spagetti western
It's Django January at the Curzon Soho, with a midnight double bill of the original spaghetti shocker and Takashi Miike's new tribute. Adam Lee Davies dives into the tangled history of this flyblown western hero
The original 'Django' (1966) was directed by sword 'n' sandal specialist Sergio Corbucci and starred steely-eyed non-actor Franco Nero as a sun-baked Angel of Death arriving in a corrupt Mexican border town lugging a coffin. It's a dirty, nasty, thoroughly enjoyable film that set the tone for all later outings: revenge, cruelty and misogyny hold sway, violence is patterned with vaguely supernatural noodlings and dusty graves are forever beckoning. The film was huge across Europe, a cult hit in the US and did as much as 'A Fistful of Dollars' to cement the spaghetti western as a bona fide cinematic genre.
Thanks to the especially loose-leaf Italian copyright laws of the time, it wasn't long before this success was grossly exploited. Films already in the can were hastily retitled, with the lackluster 'Some Dollars for Django' and 'Django Shoots First' hitting the screen before the year was out.
In 1967 at least half a dozen films bearing no connection to the original made their way into cinemas, the main character renamed Django thanks to some slipshod dubbing sessions. The most notable is the totally unhooked 'Django, Kill!' with passive pretty-boy Tomas Milian in the lead. Featuring a gang of black-clad homosexual 'muchachos', vampire bats, scalpings and a heavy dose of psychedelia, it's the most demented of the Django canon.
The following year brought comedy western legend Terence Hill's slightly more ironic take on the role in the restrained 'Django Prepare a Coffin', which opens with the threatening theme song 'You Better Smile'. Then 1968 also saw the arrival of 'Nude Django' (released as 'Django Nudo und die Lüsternen Mädchen von Porno Hill' in its native Germany), a spurious entry which consists of little more than a long scene of a woman being whipped.
Spaghetti stalwart Anthony Steffen assumed Django duties for the revenger 'Django the Bastard' (1969), while 'One Damned Day at Dawn… Django Meets Sartana!' (1970) sees our hero alongside another of the genre's most pliable characters. The fact that bland Jack Betts could play Django here and then Sartana in 'Django and Sartana are Coming…' suggests that the Euro-western was nearing saturation and Django's days were fading – though mention must go to 'Django's Cut Price Corpses' (1971) purely for its title.
Fittingly, the trouble man's last notable turn came from original star Nero in 1976s 'Keoma', aka 'Django's Great Return'. It offers nothing new, but is the most professional of them all, and Nero's acting chops have improved. Unfortunately, he blotted his copybook with the first official Django sequel 'Django Strikes Again' (1987), which wasn't worth the wait. The arrival of 'Sukiyaki Western Django' not only proves there's a Django for everyone, but that bad men don't die easy.
Django January is at Soho Curzon on Fri Jan 23. 'Sukiyaki Western Django' is on DVD from Feb 2.
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