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Oops! I only installed DIOS MIOS onto my SD card. I didn't install it onto my USB HDD because I didn't know how to work Wad Manager or add Wads onto there. OTL
Oops! I only installed DIOS MIOS onto my SD card. I didn't install it onto my USB HDD because I didn't know how to work Wad Manager or add Wads onto there. OTL
You seem confused.
DMToolbox doesn't transfer any files anywhere, it "massages" an .iso image into a format usable by DM, you copy the results to the hard drive when done.
Dios Mios isn't installed onto SD or USB. You copy the .wad file to SD and install it to system memory using a WAD manager, but after that, the .wad file is no longer needed.
So I have no idea what you've done or not done since what you're saying makes no sense.
after i installed the DIOS MIOS v2.10 wad file my Wii wont play burnt games n my regular games say 'Could not read Game Disc, Please see the Instruction Booklet for details.' i used WiiGator's GC Backup Launcher for backup games n they worked perfect n whenever i played regular GC discs the backup launcher came up anyway but it booted up n played fine. Do u kno how i can get this working back to normal? mayb reinstall the GC Backup Launcher?
and yes i installed v10 dios mios to get the regular discs working again, except their not working
You can install the Mios v10 (in the guide near the bottom of first post) to get rid of Dios Mios and return Gamecube support to normal. If retail games still do not work than you probably have a hardware problem.
This makes me wonder though, is the Mios v10 in this guide the official nintendo one? I know the softmod guide intalls a custom mios that lets you launch backups from disc.
A system check should show you what Mios is installed. Reinstalling may fix some issues.....
If you install Lite it will ask you to copy to SD card because the games folder have to be on the SD card for Lite to work.
The edit butoon below your post(s)? Not just a decorative thing. Old as dirt or non-wwihacks softmod.
Hi all, I've been working on getting this mod to work for two days straight now and I'm at somewhat of a loss, so hopefully someone here can tell me what I've done wrong. I followed this guide to the T, and for whatever reason whenever I attempt to start a GameCube game in USB Loader GX, I get a black screen and the system freezes. I made sure my USB is 32KB Aligned, my FAT32 partition is the first of 3 partitions on the Drive, I tried to see if my HDD might not be supported, but I'm not sure, I just got it, and I'm not sure how frequently that list is updated. However, it does work when loading Wii games, and it does recognize the GameCube games, it just won't load them. I'm using the most recent version of USB Loader GX and Dios Mios 2.10, I just can't figure out what I'm missing. Does anyone have any ideas where I might look? Or should I just assume that my USB drive isn't compatible?
When you say "most recent version of USB Loader GX" which revision is the loader? It's possible you may think it's the most up to date version but you could be wrong, you wouldn't be the first to make that mistake.
The newest is actually 1217: https://code.google.com/p/usbloader-.../detail?r=1217
Here is the download:
From SNES's post on FAT 32 Guide: http://www.wiihacks.com/recommended-...tml#post707824


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What are Forex signal providers with trade copier?
I am pretty much a one man operation so I seldom get free time off and my websites are my new hobby, replacing Golf, something i would have never thought possible. Anyway after a few tense moments with the wife i had to go to the old home office and check the market numbers, of course but also the emails. Of the hundred or so legitimate emails over the last 2 days 11 were concerning trade copiers in relationship to forex signals. While the concept is definitely not new the fact that so many emails were about the concept that it prompted me to write this short post informing you guys that I will be on the research case and penning a readers digest condensed post on the subject soon (day or 2) and ,ade me thankful I took jack up o his offer to promote his program,pictured above…again. Tune in in a day or so and I'll have something for you about the famous trade copy type services and also a elementary response to What are Forex signal providers.


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AS A TRENDSETTER AND STYLE icon, Peter Saville doesn't disappoint. When we meet in London - at the offices of ad agency M&C Saatchi, where he is a consultant - the 51-year-old designer is dressed in a dark blue pinstriped jacket, matching jeans and white shirt, his hair immaculately ruffled. He has all the flamboyance of the musicians whose noise he has beautified, and isn't shy of acknowledging his influence - not just on the world of rock'n'roll, but the world per se.
"Look in a record shop or take a walk through Selfridges," he replies when I ask him where to find signs of his impact. "Look at the BBC's colour-bar identity, or the iPod," he continues, opening the office door on to the third-floor veranda so he can have a crafty cigarette. "It all looks so much better than 20 years ago." He points at my tastefully minimalist black hoodie with the neat yellow lettering promoting UK rapper Roots Manuva. "That sweatshirt you're wearing - you can see the influence directly from my work. There has been a revised standard."
Peter Blake's design for The Beatles' Sgt Pepper album may be the single most famous example of record sleeve art, but Saville is probably the single most famous record sleeve artist. Certainly, he is the only one to have an actor play him on the big screen, in 24 Hour Party People, about the Manchester music scene.
Saville's work for Factory Records in the 1980s cast a giant shadow, appropriate considering the sombre, monumentalist nature of his sleeves for Joy Division's albums, Unknown Pleasures and Closer, which caught the apocalyptic Cold War mood. Throughout the decade, his uncluttered designs set the modernist tone, while the references to such past glories as the neo-classical era marked them out as pioneering examples of postmodernism in rock - although Andy Warhol, operating in the broader pop culture arena, probably got there first. ("All of my work between 1978 and 2000 is a quotation from or reference to less well-known aesthetics," Saville admits.)
COMPARED TO MORE WIDELY known artists such as Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst, Saville's impact, he contends, has been greater because of the wider penetration offered by the record sleeve. A successful album can enter thousands, even millions, of homes.
"Damien and Tracey get a lot of press but what they do doesn't necessarily get across, doesn't register," he says. "They envy the pop audience. Record covers gave me uncompromised freedom and an incredibly large audience to speak to. And it influenced that audience, for better or worse."
Born in 1955, Saville grew up in the affluent South Manchester suburb of Hale, where his father, a businessman, spoilt him, the youngest of three boys who "didn't have much to feel bad about". He learned to survive his 12 years at a Roman Catholic grammar school by "being fluid and fitting in", even though, he admits, "they probably thought I was a bit pompous and pretentious".
It was a lesson that stayed with him during his years at Manchester Polytechnic, where he studied graphic design alongside Malcolm Garrett (who created the sleeves for the Buzzcocks and Magazine), and beyond, when he would come into contact with the working-class lads of Joy Division and the staff of Factory Records.
To the middle-class Saville, urban, post-industrial Manchester was an exciting, alien place. It fired his interest in the wider world and inspired him to seek out new cultural stimuli.
"I was on my own version of the Grand Tour," he explains. "My education began by staring at Roxy Music LP covers and listening to Kraftwerk, which gave me the courage to listen to Mozart. Suddenly I wanted to know about modernism, the Bauhaus, classicism, the Renaissance, typography, film-makers, photographers ... I discovered this enormous universe of culture.
"Malcolm and I would sit at art college in Manchester looking at books on the Bauhaus and, staring at Market Street, we'd wonder what the f*** had gone wrong. We'd look at packaging and signs, and we'd see how brilliant it could be, and it wasn't and it upset us. We found reality shabby. And although we couldn't change the world from the top down - we weren't invited to redecorate Downing Street! - we did get invited to do record sleeves. And we realised we could make a difference."
Comparing and contrasting his and Garrett's modus operandi, he explains: "Malcolm mixed up pop and Constructivism and came up with that weird DayGlo Constructivist thing. I didn't want to confront people; it was a seductive form of subversion, although it, too, changed things. And it did so through people saying, 'Oh, that's gorgeous.' And without doubt we've had an enormous effect on the visual culture of the UK."
He reckons that his signal achievement, even more than the chilling image of a tomb that appeared on the cover of Joy Division's Closer mere weeks after Ian Curtis's suicide, or the giant faux floppy disk that was the sleeve to New Order's Blue Monday 12-inch single (said to have been so costly that each copy lost the group money), is the design for New Order's second album, 1983's Power Corruption & Lies. It features, not as you might imagine from the LP title, an image of Machiavelli ("that would have been too literal," he says), but Henri Fantin-Latour's 19th-century depiction of roses. "It was the perfect conceit," he says, "a deceit, a lie. The group loved it."
And Saville, whose work grew more playful and lightened up as the decade progressed, loved the juxtaposition provided by the technological pop and the oil painting, of the old and the new. "It is without doubt the best piece of work that I've done," he says. It also explains why his favourite city would be an Italian one, where you are most likely to see "the intelligent integration of where we've been with where we're going".
Saville's rubbing together of the classical and computer worlds has served him well, throughout the Factory years and on to stints with design agency Pentagram and projects for everyone from Yohji Yamamoto to Pringle. But not as well as you'd think.
"Am I a millionaire?" he pauses for a moment, as though to check. "Well, back in January I did my accounts, and for the financial year 2005-2006 I earned 53,000 - that was my taxable income." I'm shocked, not just by his candour, but because I assumed - from his reputation and general demeanour - that he'd be fabulously wealthy. On the contrary: "I don't own a property. I owned one briefly and gave it back to the Halifax Building Society in the last recession. I just about break even in my earnings; I'm only just getting to the point where I'm solvent. Between 1985 and 2005, I never settled into an ad agency or a large design firm or owned a big successful design company of my own. That's why I don't have any money."
It isn't just his maverick career that Saville is refreshingly honest about. Ask him about his relationships with women and there's little that he won't tell you.
"I'm a bachelor in that I'm not married," he says. "I've had a reputation for being a playboy. Some lovely girls have said, 'We've heard the stories - we're not even going for supper with you!' Which was sad: I felt ashamed of that. It can be a handicap having a reputation."
Five years ago Saville met "an amazing girl in Berlin, completely out of the blue". Anna has shared his Clerkenwell studio-cum-apartment for the last three years. Living together with a woman for the first time in 20 years (the sleeve to New Order's 1987 single True Faith, featuring a gold leaf suspended against a blue background, was created in a melancholy moment during the aftermath of his last serious relationship) affected, he says, "the whole method of my life". So no more eating out, which he did nightly for 25 years, in "irritatingly fashionable" restaurants, and more eating at home with his 38-year-old girlfriend.
As for sex, the louche former gadabout reveals: "Because it tends to drift away in the context of a relationship I'm entirely used to the idea of loved ones doing things with other people". As for becoming a father, he says he's "not yet arrived at the point where I feel I can take care of children".
THIS MONTH, SAVILLE WILL BE "disseminating information and awareness about the role of design in the world today" at the Six Cities Design Festival. "Why does your TV set look like that, or your car?" he ponders. "These things should be on the school curriculum."
Saville is quite accepting of the imminent obsolescence, in this digital age, of the very thing that earned him his place in the pop-culture pantheon, even though he is saddened by "the appropriation by businesses of [my] cultural codes as camouflage for unbridled profitability".
"I tried to make the world more grown-up and put more grown-up references into pop culture," he says. "People ask me, 'What do you think of Coldplay?' I have no opinion of Coldplay. I'm 50. I didn't ask my dad what he thought of Roxy Music. I'm more interested in Newsnight than the V Festival.
"And I'm fine about record sleeves becoming obsolete. Music doesn't have as important a role to play in social culture as it did in the 1950s and '60s.
"Rock'n'roll introduced us to ideas of gender, equality, peace, war, freedom. But those ideas have been grasped. You can sleep with your girlfriend now; your parents take more drugs than you."
Saville also accepts that, despite his continued influence on 21st-century art and design, he did his highest-impact work long ago.
"I played a part in the opening up of the canon," he says, stubbing out his last Gauloise. "The fact that you and I can discuss Fantin-Latour and modernism - these were areas that pop hadn't gone to before. From the point of view of posterity that is my single biggest achievement."
• Peter Saville will talk about his work at the Tolbooth, Stirling, on 29 May from 6:30pm, as part of the Six Cities Design Festival's Designer Double Bill series. He will be joined by Robert Johnston, a Glasgow designer who has made books for Douglas Gordon, Jim Lambie and Mark Titchner, and artwork for Rough Trade and Chemikal Underground records. The event is free but ticketed. Tel: 01786 274 000 for details. See www.six-cities.com


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so funny, print that sucker!! !
This is sick! The colors are not ok with me, but i just love this idea :) Look how they took down the weaponary :D
Your brain is so clever.
Ah yes, the bouncy castle – very nicely done..!
the visual just 'clicks' in my mind. so fun, great job on this!
I love that they are both wearing socks! Who knew knights wore socks? Awesomeness.
funny & clever. one of the best i've seen on this site.
Great colours!
Thanks guys! The image here is the one I submitted to be the larger version. Hence no placement shown. Placement would be centre on the chest, and the armour and objects on the ground are printed in silver foil with 5 other colours making up the design. :-)
I absolutely love this.
I am amazed some "other" competition site hasn't printed this by now…it deserves a place in my closet no matter who prints it up! Such a fun design.
Yeah, this is really hilarious!
this one is sooo awesome!
I like that one bouncing knight seems a bit timid about it and the other one is really committing to the experience.
I like this it's not overly complex & covering every inch of the T-shirt, which I have seems to be the norm on this site. It's just fun and straight forward.
Silly knights on a bouncy-bouncy castle! What's not to love.
ha another great one from you! :D
how is this not printed yet?
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TRENTON — Representatives from the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority and several venues in the state spoke out Monday against a bill that would ban "paperless" tickets that can't be resold.
Senate Bill 875 would impose a host of regulations on the ticket-selling industry, including a requirement to announce sale dates and a ban on selling tickets before those dates.
The bill would curb computer programs, called "bots" from buying up thousands of tickets seconds after they go on sale, the Record reported. The measure has the support of consumer groups who say it will increase transparency in the industry.
The NJSEA worries the state will lose events if the restrictions come into effect.
"Literally every venue in the state—from Izod, to MetLife, to every casino—have all united together to try to work out our logistical concerns associated with this legislation, because we're the ones on the front lines making sure tickets are issued properly," Wayne Hasenbalg, president and CEO of the NJSEA, told NJBIZ.
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KALAMAZOO, MI -- Flint's very own Claressa Shields, 18, was the first American woman to win a boxing gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics.
Now, she's visiting the city of Kalamazoo for the first times since her win.
Kalamazoo's Eastside Boxing Club is hosting the first inaugural Michigan vs. Indiana boxing tournament at Parchment Middle School's gym at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 10. The tournament will feature 21 matches with three two-minute rounds.
Founder and coach of Eastside Boxing, Curtis Isaac, 60, said
he's not sure whether she'll be boxing, but she will definitely be there with
her gold medal, signing autographs.
With the help of her boxing coach, Jason Crutchfield, Shields used boxing to overcome big life obstacles, Isaac said. At the Eastside Boxing Club, Isaac uses the same coaching techniques to keep young kids out of trouble and in the gym.
"I keep hearing people say kids have got nothing to do," he said. "With us they do have something to do."
Isaac uses boxing to teach kids how to cope with temptations like violence and stealing, he said.
"It's intense, but it's social work too," he said. "I teach them morals and stuff. We don't allow any type of bad behavior."
Isaac said he's starting to get a lot of young girls calling into his gym and asking questions about boxing.
"Kids love her," he said. "When she comes around, they're in awe of her because it's just like seeing Muhammad Ali coming in."
Claressa Shields visited Portage Northern High School last year, where she received keys to the city of Kalamazoo and Portage, but hasn't made an official appearance in the city of Kalamazoo.
"Getting her here is no problem," he said. "Getting somebody to fight her is another thing. She's tough."
Shields grew up in Flint, which was named the most violent city in the nation in 2013. She came from a very bad background, he said. He's known Shields since she was 9 or 10 years old, but didn't know her background until after she won the Olympic gold medal.
"When you talk to her, you'll feel the strength in this girl," he said. "Boxing was an 'out' for her."
Isaac said boxing, just like Flint, gets a bad name.
"They think boxing brings out a bunch of heathens," he said. "They confuse us with MMA. If it wasn't for boxing, I wouldn't be here today."
Boxers from Chicago, Detroit, Canada and Indiana will be at the tournament. Boxers from Chicago will fight for Indiana and boxers from Canada will fight for Michigan.
Doors open at 7 p.m. and the fights start at 7:30 p.m.
General admission tickets for $10 and ring side seats for $12 can be purchased
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This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
Today (14 july 2015) is the 40th death anniversary of Madan Mohan (25 june 1924- 14 july 1975). We are paying tribute to Madan Mohan today by discussing songs composed by him.
In one of my previous articles today, I mentioned that I have carried out a detailed moviewise analysis of all HFM songs composed by Madan Mohan.
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"Jhumroo"(1961) was a Kishore Kumar production movie though officially it was a K S Production movie which was directed by Shankar Mukherji. I wonder what K S stood for. The movie had several family members of Kishore Kumar present in it, viz. Kishore Kumar, Madhubala, Anoop Kumar, Chanchal etc. In addition, the movie also had Lalita Pawar, Sajjan, K N Singh, Jayant, Kumar etc in it.
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Chhatri na khol ud jaayegi
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"Do Jhooth" (1975) was a Vinod Mehra- Mausami Chatterji starrer. This duo was the the Dharmendra-Hema Malini of poor producers and were quite a popular pair in small budget movies of those days.
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"Hamaare Tumhaare" (1979) was an Eagle Films Production. It was produced by F C Mehra and directed by Umesh Mehra. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Rakhee Gulzaar, Mehmood, Shubha Khote, David Abraham, Lucky Ali, Anil Kapoor, Rakesh Bedi, Gayatri, Amjad Khan, Radhika, Prem Kishen, Asrani, Pucky Ali,Baby Pinky, Amrish Puri, Agha, Manik Dutt, Pinchoo Kapoor, Rajen Kapoor, Lalita Kumari, Sunder, Mohan Choti, Mushtaque Merchant, Jerry, Jambura, Kailash Sharma, Leela Mishra, Danny Jr,Baby Dimple, Brahm Bhardwaj etc in it.
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
One of the advantages of advancing years, I feel, is that you tend to get a perspective. You are able to relate events and situations not just in THAT moment in time but also relative to events/situations in the past.
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"Begunaah" (1957) was a movie whose story was plagiarised from an American movie namely "Knock on Wood" (1954). Plagiarisation from foreign movies have been going on from olden days and filmakers indulge in it with impunity even today. It would seem that "Begunaah" (1957) was the only movie which has even been penalised for this act. When Paramount Pictures, the makers of "Knock on Wood" (1954) came to know about the fact that "Begunaah" (1957) was copied from their movie, they look legal action in a Bombay court. Much to the astonishment of Indian movie fraternity and legal circles, the Indian court ordered the destruction of all copies of "Begunaah" (1957). The movie, which was already released, had to be withdrawn from movie halls and the prints were destroyed. all this happened quite swiftly. The court gave its decision within six weeks of filint the case and the prints were destroyed in another three months time.
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"We are promoting volunteering across ministries in order to join efforts and resources and influence public policies."This year marks the tenth anniversary of the International Year of Volunteers, and a number of national and global organizations are working together towards common objectives. As part of this effort, the Quito meeting aims to strengthen the volunteering agenda and boost the development debate in Latin America, and will be followed in April and May by further regional consultations in Turkey, the Philippines and Senegal. Representatives at the regional meeting are being invited to formulate regional recommendations on volunteering for peace and development. Bringing together the diverse range of Latin American organizations will also strengthen partnerships and synergies in the region, and give representatives the opportunity to share a multitude of ideas and experiences."Volunteers play a role in their communities from the delivery of basic services to taking active stands in shaping their livelihoods and ultimately their societies," said UNV Executive Coordinator Flavia Pansieri in her address to the participants gathered in Quito.
"As we devote the year to celebrating volunteers and the spirit of volunteerism, we will be showing that all truly human society is one where individuals and communities engage constructively towards a better future for all."The meeting in Quito, organized by the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme with the financial support of the White Helmets Commission of Argentina, brings together people from across Latin America: Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Uruguay are all represented.At the end of the year, two plenary sessions of the United Nations General Assembly in New York will be dedicated to volunteering.Contact:
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The Chicago Fire is the first Major League Soccer team to commit to playing in the 2013 Carolina Challenge Cup.
The weeklong tournament, which features three MLS teams plus the Charleston Battery, the defending USL Pro champions, will be played on Feb. 16, 20 and 23 at Blackbaud Stadium.
The Fire played in last years event, going 1-1-0. The Battery have played the Fire two times in the U.S. Open Cup, falling both times.
Carolina Challenge Cup tickets will go on sale Dec. 3. For information call 971- 4625 or visit www.charlestonbattery.com.
Chicago Fire's Patrick Nyarko (top) battles with the Battery's Stephen Armstrong in the first half of the Carolina Challenge Cup at Blackbaud Stadium Saturday. (Alan Hawes/postandcourier.com) ¬ ¬ Published Caption 3/13/11: Chicago Fire's Patrick Nyarko (top) and the Battery's Stephen Armstrong battle for the ball in the first half of the Carolina Challenge Cup on Saturday night.×


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Washington, D.C. – Rep. Steve King, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Joni Ernst, Rep. Dave Loebsack, Rep. Rod Blum, and Rep. David Young are asking the top House and Senate committee leaders to retain Iowa projects in the final version of the Water Resources Development Act of 2016 for potential congressional consideration later this fall.
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Washington, D.C. – Congressman Steve King released the following statement after submitting his substitute conservative Continuing Resolution (CR), H.J. RES. 99, that would set the discretionary budgetary level at $1.04 trillion, and will include defunding fourteen of President Obama's unconstitutional major policies and programs:


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The Museo Casa del Virrey Liniers is housed in the Residencia, the Jesuits' original living quarters and workshops. Entered through an ornate Baroque doorway on Plaza Manuel Solares, the town's main square, the beautifully restored Residencia, with its colonnaded upper storey, forms two sides of a cloistered courtyard. Exhibits consist mainly of furniture and art dating from the early nineteenth century, but there are also some magnificent examples of colonial religious paintings and sculptures. Perhaps the most interesting sections of the museum are the painstakingly re-created kitchen and the herrería, or forge, the oldest part of the estancia. The church adjoining the Residencia, though in pitifully poor repair, is used regularly for Mass; it lies immediately to the south.
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The four siblings fell in love with dominoes years ago when they watched their father head off to try his luck at what their mother termed Hereford's most "sinful" business.
1st: Bill Myers and Dewey Pierce, both from Clovis, N.M.
2nd: Sharon Goar and Lacye Comer, both from Amarillo
3rd: David Goodwin and Jimmy Dexter, both from Bowie
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"Mama would get so mad," recalled Faye Keener, now of Portales, N.M.
Their mother forbade the four from tagging along when their father headed off to the domino parlor to play for money. Instead, they sat around the kitchen table with their other three siblings playing dominoes in a much more laid-back manner.
The four - Bob Noyes, of Lake Bridgeport, Beverly Wynn and Edna Faulkner, both of Amarillo, and Keener - revived their dominoes tradition Saturday at the Tri-State 42 Dominoes Tournament at the Amarillo Senior Citizens Association Center.
Between them, they brought more than 155 years of playing experience.
The game of 42 is similar to that of the card game spades. Players compete with a partner and use domino tiles to bid on how many points they can take and count tricks, said Layce Comer of Amarillo.
The first team to collect seven tricks wins the round, and the team with the best record at the end of 10 rounds wins.
This is the second year the tournament has been hosted in Amarillo.
"This gives local players a chance to play against the pros," said Jerry Whitney of Clovis, N.M., the tournament coordinator. Whitney, the 2009 Texas Tournament of Champions winner, said local tournaments like the one held in Amarillo give other participants a chance to learn strategy, develop their skills and pick the brains of other players. Tournaments take place at various locations around the state and participants have been known to travel long distances to compete in an attempt to qualify for the state competition.
"I drove 300 miles to do this," Noyes said.
"To get whipped," Wynn quickly bantered back in a most sisterly fashion.
But it was a clearly a rough morning for Wynn and Keener, who were playing partners. They joked that the tournament needed a trophy for the team that wins the least.
"We just have fun," Wynn said.
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When I began this column, I originally intended to devote it to the teen actors who filled my childhood days with adolescent longing – cute youngsters like 3 Ninjas star Michael Treanor, the subject of last week's post – but watching the Olympics this weekend got me nostalgic for a certain figure skating romantic comedy that earned multiple replays in my VCR throughout the mid-90s. In a weekend filled with thrilling hockey games and the opening rounds of the pairs figure skating competition, I couldn't help but think back to the movie that combined the two ice sports in glorious fashion in the spring of 1992: The Cutting Edge.
My Movie Crush: Doug Dorsey in The Cutting Edge (1992)
Played by: D.B. Sweeney
The Cutting Edge opens with a prologue set during the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, where hockey player Doug Dorsey (D.B. Sweeney) and pairs figure skater Kate Moseley (Moira Kelly) are hungry athletes going for the gold in their respective fields. Both Doug and Kate leave Calgary with uncertain futures; he's lost much of his peripheral vision, eliminating his chances of playing in the NHL, and she takes a tumble on the ice thanks to her malcontent partner. Two years later, Kate and her new coach, Anton Pamchenko (Roy Dotrice) have exhausted all prospective male skaters; in a last-ditch effort, they enlist Doug – rough and untrained, but desperate for another shot at the Olympics – and the unlikely pair make their way to the 1992 Winter Games, falling reluctantly in love along the way.
As far as sports movies-slash-romantic comedies go, The Cutting Edge was a trailblazer. Its formula has since been copied many times over – including in two subsequent sequels, both of which I dare say are watchable, as well as the figure skating satire Blades of Glory – but few films of this subgenre come close to matching its wit and energy.
Continued after the jump... Much of the credit goes to the pairing of Moira Kelly and D.B. Sweeney as the bickering opposites who s-l-o-w-l-y come together on the ice and, in classic screwball romance tradition, in romance. Their respective journeys make for compelling standalone stories: she's the poor little rich girl who must ditch her pride in order for a shot at success (and love); he's a hard-headed athlete who allows himself to embrace, and excel at, a sport his beer-swilling working-class community considers effeminate. And while Kelly's fine turn as the prim and snooty Kate is admirably multidimensional, it's Sweeney who really made it work for me and captured my teenage heart as the roguish Doug, who gradually falls for Kate despite her flaws.
Because in 1992, D.B. Sweeney was a hunk.
The 30-year-old Sweeney had come off of a string of supporting turns in films like Eight Men Outand Memphis Belle and had appeared on the mini-series "Lonesome Dove" by the time he landed the lead in The Cutting Edge. His Doug Dorsey was cute and cocky; more importantly, in a sport filled with sequins and spandex, he was a man. And though Doug was a virile charmer (check that "morning after in the Olympic Village" opening scene), despite the fact that he totally hooked up with that Lorie Peckarovski skank, we knew his heart belonged to Kate because of the way Sweeney looked at Moira Kelly when she wasn't looking. Moreover, Doug may have come from the tough and masculine world of hockey, but in The Cutting Edge, he was the one who said "I love you" first. (In a way, The Cutting Edge was a reverse Pride & Prejudice, with Doug at times playing the Elizabeth Bennett role and at others, the pursuing Mr. Darcy.)
The banter in The Cutting Edge was comprised of classic opposites-attract, prissy girl vs. lunkhead boy exchanges, usually concerning Doug's steep hockey-to-figure skating learning curve. ("Toe pick!") As a tomboy, it was gratifying to see a female character in a position of athletic superiority over her male counterpart, even when the crux of the story and its central romance depended on whether or not Doug was strong enough to twirl Kate around, her head inches from the ice, and hurl her into the air in the dangerous Pamchenko Twist. (She only trusted him to do it without killing her when he told her he loved her. How sweet!)
I'm reminded of the training drama, the naked ambition, and the romance of this perfectly paired odd couple every time the Winter Olympics roll around. Which of these competitors are the Kate Moseley and Doug Dorsey of these Olympic games? (Perhaps the USA's Amanda Evora and Jeremy Bennett, who are dating each other... and competing in the Olympics with other partners!) Which team will bust out the cheesiest outfits imaginable? (Germany's Savchenko and Szolkovy, AKA Team "Send in the Clowns," hands down.) Most importantly, who's going to bore me to tears with another fluffy, classical number and who will be the rebels who dare to kick a little ass?
Where Are They Now?
In the 2006 sequel The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold, Christy Carlson Romano plays Jackie Dorsey, the grown daughter of Kate and Doug who has her own ambitions for Olympic gold and, like her mother did before, must mold a rascally non-figure skater into a prospective pairs partner (and love interest).(Kelly and Sweeney do not reprise their roles.)
In real life, D.B. Sweeney popped up in films like Fire in the Sky and Spawn but had more success on TV ("Strange Luck," "Life As We Know It," "Jericho," "Crash"). Co-star Moira Kelly followed suit, appearing in '90s films like With Honors and voicing the adult Nala in The Lion King and its sequels before popping up on "The West Wing" and "One Tree Hill." Meanwhile, Terry O'Quinn, who played Kate's father, went on to befuddle my every waking moment as John Locke on "LOST" and writer Tony Gilroy penned flicks including Dolores Claiborne, Armageddon, the Bourne films, and Michael Clayton – none of which, I'd argue, achieved quite the sparkle and magic of this, his screenwriting debut.
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Lisa Kravetz moved toward the start line of Pat's Run Saturday morning, the crowd packing in tightly around her. This was the moment she had been fretting about since Monday.
As the seconds ticked toward the start, Kravetz's heart beat a little faster, her muscles tensed a little more. Her iPod, which typically never misses one of her many races, was left behind for this one; Kravetz wanted to be a little more aware of sounds around her.
Five days earlier, on another beautiful day that dawned with similar promise, the 50-year-old Scottsdale woman had finished the Boston Marathon, clocking a time of 4:08:30.
Only 73 seconds later, as the marathon clock read 4:09:43, the first bomb exploded; another followed seconds later. And Kravetz found herself looking for her husband, deep in the midst of a panicked crowd of people who had no idea what was happening.
"I thought, 'Oh, my God.' People were screaming. It was so chaotic," Kravetz said.
Even after finding her husband, Gary, safe — he left the finish line 20 minutes before the bomb went off — and returning home to Arizona, Kravetz wondered if she would be in a good mental state to be among huge crowds just a few days later.
But the spirit of Pat's Run persuaded her to compete. After all, she thought, it honors Pat Tillman, a man who stepped up in the face of tragedy.
And seconds before the air horn sounded Saturday, launching the first thousand runners through the streets of Tempe, Kravetz — who wore her Boston Marathon shirt again — found serenity.
"My daughter was beside me, and I realized just how wonderful that was," Kravetz said. "I was given another opportunity to run with her. I was able to race one more time. I realized how lucky I was to be here."
Kravetz was just one of 28,000 participants in Pat's Run Saturday, just one of 28,000 stories.
But her story also tells that of the week; of the attack on the Boston Marathon, a beloved celebration of Patriots' Day; of a city grieving for those killed and hurt, amid reminders of 9/11; and of an intense manhunt for two brothers that would end, finally, in the death of one, the capture of the other.
Honoring Pat Tillman
On its own, Pat's Run has become one of the most anticipated annual races in the Valley. It celebrates the life of Pat Tillman, who walked away from a lucrative NFL career to join the Army not long after 9/11 because he believed he could make a bigger impact in the military than on the field. He died while fighting in Afghanistan, succumbing to friendly fire on April 22, 2004.
But the run also has become a symbol of those who rise to the occasion in the most dire of circumstances.
While veterans and the Tillman Foundation Scholars take the lead role, this year's race also was about Boston, if not West, Texas. Or Newtown. Or Aurora. Or Tucson. Or any of the other places where tragedy strikes without warning, where people emerge as heroes among the fallen.
Across the nation last week, any runner who had registered for a race — from the Diablo Trails Challenge 5K in Walnut Creek, Calif., to the Blue Ridge Marathon in Roanoke, Va. — likely had Boston in his or her thoughts. Perhaps there were those who considered staying home, especially before suspects in the Boston bombing had been named.
Many, however, felt exactly the opposite.
"We're Americans," Kravetz said. "Part of that is being out and enjoying life and not letting fear make decisions for us."
David DeLorenzo, 39, of Phoenix, had signed up for Pat's Run weeks ago. He decided shortly after the bombs exploded that he would show his support for Boston. On Saturday, he wore a Boston Red Sox T-shirt and a smile.
"The entire race, I had this grin on my face," DeLorenzo said minutes after finishing, sweat soaking a shirt not meant for distance running. "I smiled at other runners, at people we passed. People at the aid stations probably wondered if there was something wrong with me. But they smiled right back. Amazing day."
Gary Stotts, 43, of Scottsdale, wore the Run Boston shirt he ordered online Wednesday. He paid extra for overnight shipping to have it in time for Pat's Run.
"I probably paid way too much, but I wanted to show my support," Stotts said. "It was something I felt pretty strongly about."
McKenna Contreras, 22, of Phoenix, pinned a laminated "Runners Unite for Boston" sign on the back of her Pat's Run T-shirt. She said watching events unfold over the week strengthened her desire to let people know Boston was in her thoughts.
"You never think something like that is going to happen at a race," she said. "It's not the memory you want to have. I think about all the people who were hurt, the ones who died. Maybe this will remind them there are still a lot of people who care."
Kravetz felt free as she ran, her 17-year-old daughter, Brookelynn, keeping pace at her side for the 4.2 miles. Her bad memories did race across her mind at one point, though, as she passed a multilevel parking structure.
"I looked up and wondered who was up there watching us," she said. "Maybe security, and that was a good thing. But I did hesitate a little."
Then it was gone, almost as if it never happened.
Kravetz ran with delight. She ran with passion. And as she approached the finish line, she ran with love.
She reached for her daughter's hand, the two raising their arms as they crossed.
"Tradition," Kravetz said. "We do that every time we race."
They turned and watched the waves of runners coming behind them, watching for Gary Kravetz, Lisa's husband and Brookelynn's dad. Hundreds of runners had paused after crossing the 42-yard line of Sun Devil Stadium — the traditional Pat's Run finish line, honoring his jersey number. And soon there were thousands, exchanging smiles and nods, enjoying their mutual accomplishments.
Among them was Angela Gohlke, 38, of Phoenix, who wore a yellow Boston Marathon shirt identical to that of Kravetz.
Gohlke had finished the marathon just a few minutes behind her friend. When she heard the first explosion, she thought perhaps a large metal trash bin had been dropped.
"People are screaming and crying," she said. "But what I remember is how residents came out with crackers and water. Trash bags, too, that we could put on and keep warm. The people in Boston were incredible. There were so many positive things that happened as well."
Gohlke was happy to be running again, and she and Kravetz spoke of how they'd be back in Boston next year. "Without a doubt," Gohlke said. "And it's going to be amazing."
Ten minutes later, Gary Kravetz, 49, crossed the line and joined his family in a group hug. Less than a week ago, Gary had feared for his wife, wondering if she were among the hundreds injured. There was no greater moment, he said, than when he saw his wife running toward him in Boston.
Saturday's race also meant something more to Brookelynn, who had been at school when a friend told her about the explosions at the marathon.
"After that, I don't take my parents for granted anymore," she said. "Something like that makes you realize anything can happen, and they can be taken from you in an instant. It meant a lot to run with Mom today."
As the family headed for the exit, Lisa Kravetz reminisced about the last time she had a personal brush with tragedy.
The US Airways flight attendant was high above Arizona when the World Trade Center towers fell on 9/11, on one of the last planes to land in Phoenix before all flights were grounded nationwide. She didn't know what happened until her plane was safely at the gate.
Kravetz is still flying today, but not always on a plane. Saturday it was along 4.2 miles of pavement, her daughter there at every step.
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Goodell Gardens' 2013 lecture series will start on May 5 at 3 p.m. with a session titled Make & Take Worm Bins. Master gardeners Judy Vespoli and Maria Blakeslee will explain the value of worms in the garden as well as how to use and take care of worms, how they make compost and how to compost kitchen scraps.
The speakers will help attendees build a working worm bin.
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Thanks to everyone who entered the drawing for "Fresh & Healthy D.A.S.H. Diet Cooking," by Andrea Lynn. The winner, chosen in a random drawing from all entries received, is Angie Huntley.
Thanks, also, to everyone who entered the drawing for "Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit." The winner, chosen in a random drawing from all entries received, is Deborah Snoke, of Harborcreek.
Here are a few great-looking apps for parents, drawn from a list developed by Daily Candy.
- Next Issue, like Netflix for magazines, combines titles and articles (including back issues) for a monthly fee.
- Bookboard lets you rent kids books on your iPad. Includes a read-aloud option.
- Memmee gives you a private space for you to journal. Includes writing prompts in case your mind is blank.
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A capsule look at Joe Paterno's weekly press conference.
Opponent: Eastern Michigan (2-1)
Last time vs. Penn State: The Nittany Lions won, 52-7, at home in 1992
Kickoff: Saturday, noon, Beaver Stadium
Television: ESPN2
Line: Penn State is favored by 29
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Watch Cory Giger and Neil Rudel discuss all the Penn State news in the weekly Paterno Presser video at altoonamirror.com.
Fourth-down confusion: It was widely reported after Saturday's game that most of the assistant coaches wanted to go for it on fourth-and-1 at the Temple 3, a decision that helped PSU win the game. JoePa remembers it differently and gave all the credit to his son, the quarterbacks coach. "Everybody wanted to kick the ball except Jay Paterno," he said. "We would have kicked that ball if it wasn't for Jay. Jay said, 'No, we'll put it in, we'll get it in.' And he said something to the quarterbacks about, 'Hey, you tell those guys they've got to get it in.' And we got it in."
Walking the walk: Paterno did not have to use a cane to help him walk to and from his press conference Tuesday and appeared to be in better shape with his recovery from last month's collision with WR Devon Smith. It's still doubtful he will be able to coach from the sideline this week, however, given that his mobility remains limited.
Having trouble talking the talk: Paterno's hearing has been a lot better this season, but he struggled to understand numerous questions Tuesday. He was told by one reporter that Eastern Michigan's coach had said PSU's offense has done the same things for years, and Paterno thought it was a reference to something he had said and became confused for a few moments. There were other instances when he couldn't understand questions about WR Derek Moye -- he thought he was being asked about someone named Roy -- and when asked about Adam Taliaferro running for political office, Paterno got confused and started talking about how Taliaferro recently got married.
Realignment roundup: Paterno said switching to the ACC is "a good move for Syracuse and Pitt" and noted that it "would not only be a big asset to them football-wise, it can't hurt their basketball." JoePa then talked about Penn State's place in realignment. "There might be even some speculation that Penn State maybe ought to get into something different, or we ought to try to go out and get some people from the East to come into the Big Ten," he said.
Not so fast: The Associated Press contacted PSU president Graham Spanier about Paterno's Big Ten comments, and Spanier made it clear nothing is in the works for the league. "The Big Ten does not contemplate a change and feels very secure in its current arrangement," Spanier wrote to the AP. "This applies to all of our 12 members, including Penn State."
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...In other news, how in God's name is Alligator due for a raise? The guy led (and still does) the playoffs in penalty minutes, is a minus player, and contributed a measly 6 points. I never understood the love for this guy. Oh, I'm sorry, he "sometimes tries to hit things". We might as well have kept Downey then and gave him a raise....at least Downey freakin fought. Man o man I scratch my head at this stuff sometimes. ...
I'm fairly sure that under the terms of the CBA, he's due a small increase up to roughly 890k. Hopefully that would be the extent of it, for now.
Automatic raises are for qualifying offers, but we could sign him for less if he agreed to it. Also, I believe the raise is based off actual salary from the last year ($710k in this case). That would mean a 5% raise to ~$745.
That said, he's a good young player that should develop into a solid 3rd liner. Good defensively, decent offensive potential, pretty good size, not slow, likes to hit, will drop the gloves on occasion. (Funny that you complain about his penalties, then praise Downey for fighting. 26 of Abby's penalty minutes were either fights or scrums sticking up for teammates. Only one of those penalties resulted in an opposing PP. And that was late in a game we were losing 5-1.)
$900k-1M would be a good price for him.
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Rock band demands apology from Wilson
Steely Dan sought an apology. Owen Wilson didn't deliver one.
Bandleaders Walter Becker and Donald Fagen posted an open letter on their Web site last week, asking Wilson's brother Luke to speak to Owen to get him to attend Steely Dan's concert in Orange County.
Becker and Fagen felt Owen Wilson's character in his latest pic was ripped from their song "Cousin Dupree," which details a layabout who sleeps on his aunt's couch and has a growing infatuation with his cousin. They felt Wilson had borrowed that characterization for the film "You, Me and Dupree" and requested the thesp appear onstage and apologize.
In return, Becker and Fagen would call off the lawyers and hit man and provide Wilson with plenty of Steely Dan merchandise.
Alas, neither of the Wilson brothers attended the show.
"What we suspect," the Dan leaders wrote, "is some hack writer or producer or whatever they call themselves in Malibu or Los Feliz apparently heard our Grammy-winning song 'Cousin Dupree' on the radio and thought, Hey, man, this is a cool idea for a character in a movie or something."
The letter, reading like something one would find on the Onion Web site, continues, "We're like totally out in the cold on this one — no ASCAP, no soundtrack, no consultant gig … no phone call, no muffin basket, no flowers, nothing."
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Breaking News: Shortwave News Broadcasts and U.S.-Japanese Conflict on the Eve of the Pacific War
Michael A. Krysko, Dowling College
In 1939, the U.S. shortwave station W6XBE began trans-Pacific broadcasts to an enthusiastic American audience in East Asia. However, controversy soon enveloped the station. Japan jammed American news broadcasts for their presumed bias against Japan's expansionist objectives in East Asia. This paper explores audience and diplomatic responses to W6XBE's travails. It examines how culturally based notions of "objective" news informed American reactions to the station's troubles. Capturing shortwave broadcasting's potential as a divisive force in international relations, W6XBE's difficulties became intertwined with the broader deterioration of Japanese-American relations that resulted in the pacific War of 1941-1945.
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At conference, CFOs note flow of financing dollars
A quartet of local broadcast CFOs predicted a spate of station deals in coming months as financing loosens up and private equity firms look to cash out their holdings.
"Two years ago you couldn't borrow a dollar. Today you can't get out of the way of the money," said Sinclair Broadcasting's David Amy at the Gabelli & Company Movie & Broadcasting conference in New York – uniting two somewhat overlooked sectors in the investment universe these days.
Sinclair made several sizeable acquisitions late last year – of the Four Points Media and the Freedom Communications station groups for close to $600 million in total. In between those deals, Scripps acquired McGraw-Hill's stations for $200 million.
Private individuals may get into the mix as well as companies. On Thursday afternoon, Young Broadcasting announced that its CEO Tony Cassara is leaving to pursue outside interests, "including the ownership of other broadcast stations."
LIN TV's chief financial officer Rich Schmaeling said his group is looking for multiple stations in the same markets. Belo Corp.'s Carey Henrickson said, "We are a believer in consolidation in the industry. We just haven't found the right deal for us… but banks are willing and open to give us cash when we find it."
Execs stressed the importance of being number one or two in a market since it's extremely hard to move stations up in the ratings without significant investment that may belie attractive multiples for potential buyers.
The group defended local fare as key to a healthy ratings mix and, naturally, touted broadcasting as the most effective medium and one that's seeing a resurgence in key advertising like autos and anticipating a big political year, at least for stations in key battleground states.
"Whatever happened to Oprah? She leaves broadcast television, she goes to a cable channel, and where does she go? What's happening?" said Amy, referring to OWN, the Oprah Wifrey and Discovery network that's been struggling since its launch early last year.


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Reverse Link Performance of DS-CDMA Cellular Systems Through Closed-Loop Power Control and Beamforming in 2D Urban Environment
The interference reduction capability of antenna arrays and the power control algorithms have been considered separately as means to decrease the interference in wireless communication networks. In this paper, the authors propose Smart Step closed-loop Power Control (SSPC) algorithm in Direct Sequence-Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA) receivers in a 2D urban environment. This RAKE receiver consists of Conjugate Gradient adaptive BeamForming (CGBF) and Matched Filter (MF) in two stages and finally, the output signals from the MFs are combined and then are fed into the decision circuit for the desired user. Also, they present Switched-Beam (SB) technique for enhancing Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) in network.


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''Fascination," a nominal erotic thriller whose story I still can't decipher, does raise a few important questions. For instance, when two suspected spouse killers get married, who dies first? And can things bode well for the new family when his daughter and her son slip out of the wedding ceremony to make love on a slanted roof in a sudden rainstorm?
I'm afraid this is one of those movies, one where ''plot" is another word for ''gratuitous sex scene." Here, the young lovers are Scott (Adam Garcia) and Kelly (Alice Evans), brand new stepsiblings who do indeed go about their consummation on the day of Mom and Dad's nuptials. He's miffed that his mother, Maureen (Jacqueline Bisset), has agreed to marry Oliver (Stuart Wilson) so soon after his father's mysterious death -- and while on vacation! (''What is it about cruise ships?" Kelly wonders.)
Oliver, meanwhile, is a widower himself. His wife died mysteriously, too. And eventually, we find out -- well, I found out (you, reader, should stay away and just take my word for it) -- that the deaths bear some relation to each other. Figuring this out, though, requires the two kids to sit around Maureen's Puerto Rican Shangri La and have numerous expository conversations. Kelly, it seems, is already trying to plant seeds of suspicion in her new lover's head. Scott's dad was a silver-medalist swimmer in the 1964 Olympics, ''but he died in a swimming accident. It's weird," she says. Then she tells a story of how her father might have been mixed up in her mother's death. What is Kelly up to?
Scott confronts his mother with his doubts about her new husband. She's taken aback: ''For someone as young and for someone as artistically inclined as you are, you've become quite judgmental." Who can say what one thing has to do with the other, but what more can you expect from a movie whose production notes make no immediate mention of a screenwriter?
Some digging around does reveal that the German-born, first-time director Klaus Menzel got ahold of Daryl Haney and John Jacobs's ancient script (it's from 1989). ''Now came the hard part: making it my own," the notes quote him as saying. So perhaps we have only him to thank for a line like ''Let me kiss you through the pain," which Kelly whispers to Scott before their sopping wet, rooftop tryst gets underway. (Thank you, Klaus. Thank you so much.)
It's believable that the screenplay was originally a parody, but it was written at a time when erotic thrillers had a certain sleazy seriousness. Say it with me: ''Wild Orchid." (Incidentally, that movie also starred Bisset, as a woman filled with lust and danger whenever Mickey Rourke was around.) Fifteen years later, it's possible that Menzel's flaccid movie just feels parodic, because no one says ''I want you to dig up my father's grave" anymore and means it.
Garcia, who was Piper Perabo's charismatic boy toy in ''Coyote Ugly," once seemed bound for minor stardom. So much for that. Here he seems to be strangling his native Australian accent in order to speak in a flat American-ish voice. Evans is worse. Whenever she delivers a line, her face twitches and contorts as though she were having an allergic reaction to her dialogue. There's better acting in the display windows of some department stores.
Garcia and Evans have the sort of chemistry that could be used at middle schools across the country to encourage abstinence. The couple enjoys one long, unsexy dance at a nightclub on the beach that will make you never want to go near that stepsibling hookup fantasy again.
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The First Nations University of Canada and the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy are pleased to announce that registration is now open for Moving Towards Justice: Legal Traditions and Aboriginal and Canadian Justice, the national conference on the challenges and issues of Aboriginal justice.
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whats so special about the HK P7?
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> whats so special about the HK P7?
January 15, 2010, 10:18 PM
Every time I see this pistol mentioned, people rave about it. It looks kinda odd to me. What makes this guy so good?
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January 16, 2010, 12:18 AM
I carried a P7 as an off duty weapon over 25 years ago. At the time it was the smallest, lightest 9mm on the market. It was extremely accurate and dependable and the trigger pull was very good. I wish I still had mine.
January 16, 2010, 12:47 AM
The ones who rave about it are the vocal minority. Generally speaking it is not that popular. Those who own them though praise them highly. As an owner of one myself, I agree with all the praise.
You can click my sig line to learn more about them. It is slightly biased towards the P7 but there is a great deal of information about their shortcomings as well.
Peter M. Eick
January 16, 2010, 06:46 AM
As others have pointed out, you either love them or hate them. I love mine. I have 3 of them. They are accurate, reliable and safe for carry. The key thing is that they used to be very expensive. Over $1000 used for a nice one. So folks that hated them, hated the price not the gun. Now that they are cheap because of the imports are flooding in, you have to wonder how many of those folks would have a different opinion.
Handle one some day. Feel the quality. They are lifetime investments in machined steel, not some injected modeled piece of plastic that some folks rave about yet I consider worthless.
See the difference?
January 16, 2010, 07:24 AM
whats so special about the HK P7?
It's very thin, thus easy to conceal.
Small and compact, yet duty worthy.
It's very accurate, points naturally, thus makes shooting well easier.
It's very reliable.
It's very well made, quality material and machining.
Nice trigger.
Quiet, I've never seen that ad before...nice find and post.
January 16, 2010, 09:52 AM
Well, they sound very practical and being sig, quality. I'm going to the indoor range today and hopefully they have one I can shoot.
Thanks all for the info. Also, it appears that theres another thread very similar to this one in the autoloaders so I am going to go read that one as well... :D
January 16, 2010, 10:00 AM
Well, they sound very practical and being sig, quality.
You mean HK quality, right?
January 16, 2010, 10:11 AM
I think those who have them know what they are, and those that dont, or who havent spent any real time with one dont.
The only things about them I found lacking, were that you pretty much have to dedicate yourself to the platform if you want to use it as a weapon. Its really not something you want to be switching back and forth with. Holster selection was the other, but that isnt as much of a problem today as it was when I had mine. You do have to make sure the holster covers and doenst contact the mag release though. If not, you'll keep finding the mag that was in the gun, on the front seat of your car (or worse, clattering to the ground just outside) when you get out.
Other than that, they are great pistols.
January 16, 2010, 10:39 AM
And the concern for having the mag. accidentally released is only a consideration in the P7M8.
As I'm sure you know the mag. release on the P7 is in the European "heel" style, and cannot be accidentally released as can those of the P7M8.
I believe a considerable number of folks new to HK P7 ownership came by their P7's when the surplus Lower Saxony Police imports hit the market last year.
I know I could never afford a P7M8, but CDNN made it possible for me to get my first "A" grade P7, and my appreciation for that pistol encouraged me to "thin the herd" somewhat to finance another two.. :D
As good as the P7 is, and I'd be the first to say it is very, very good. I have found, for my needs, the HK P2000sk is a better daily carry choice..
I think any "gun lover" (who loves the 9mm platform) needs to at least check out the P7, or P7M8.. Some folks instantly fall in love with the "squeezecocker", some absolutely hate it.
But you never hear anyone who has actually held, and shot one, say it's not a top quality pistol.
No offense,
January 16, 2010, 10:49 AM
No, your right, the straight up P7 or PSP has the heel release.
Mine was a P7M13.
It wasnt expensive at all either, I only paid $450 for it new. :neener:
January 16, 2010, 11:41 AM
An interesting thread.
I have been an HK fan for a long time so when I was in the market for a new pistol I looked at the P7. I remember when it came out it was highly praised. I guess the big deal was that the pistol had the trigger pull of a single action but you could still carry the pistol with a round in the chamber. This was in the days when law enforcement carried revolvers and folks were afraid to carry a 1911 cocked and locked. However, in the years since the P7 came out a lot of other pistols have come out in more calibers. For instance, I don't think Glock was around nor the .40 S&W. Although I ended up going with another pistol (I have since purchased a Browning High Power and a Glock) the P7 still intrigues me and I'd like to shoot one sometime.
January 16, 2010, 03:58 PM
There is a current P7 discussion in the autopistol forum here on THR.
January 16, 2010, 04:58 PM
I hate to say it but I have been underwhelmed by this pistol. I heard so many things about it, then I shot a friends and it was just another gun. I understand the innovations it made at the time it came out but the only difference I noticed is "squeeze cockin".
I think it is just one of those things, it's either that special kind of cool for you or it isn't. For me it isn't but I will say it's a well made gun. Thing is, there are a lot of well made guns I would rather have. If it does it for you then all the more power to you.
To the OP, put your fingerprints on one and see how it feels for you. Just my two cents.
January 16, 2010, 06:32 PM
I don't really care for the operation, and swapping mags with the heel release is a pain.
HOWEVER - it is CRAZY accurate, and very obviously well-made.
January 16, 2010, 07:39 PM
As others have pointed out, you either love them or hate them.
I guess there are exceptions to every rule because while I like this design concept in theory, I can't say that I strongly "love" it or hate it. Admittedly, I've never fired a P7, but since I could never get completely comfortable with grip safeties on other handguns, I seriously doubt that I'd find squeezing the cocking lever any better. It's a personal thing, but the concept is still a good one and very practical for many people, in my opinion.
Handle one some day. Feel the quality. They are lifetime investments in machined steel, not some injected modeled piece of plastic that some folks rave about yet I consider worthless.
See the difference?
Funny, I used to detest the very notion of plastic pistols until I tried several and ended up buying one that I've been very happy with ever since. :)
January 16, 2010, 07:52 PM
My P7 is an excellent gun, capable of better accuracy than I am, well made, good looking, and just fun to shoot
January 16, 2010, 08:18 PM
I am a primary revovler shooter. The transition to the P7 took nothing at all. Depressing the cocking lever is not something that needs to be learned if you do in fact squeeze on the grip when firing any pistol.
The fact that the cocking lever functions to cock the pistol, decock the pistol, act as the slide release, and is a manual safety is where confusion in the manual of arms starts to set in. It is nice that you can take it off safe and cock the striker at the same time as well as decock it and put it on safe at the same time and with the same motion. It is truly a slide release as opposed to the slide lock lever that is typical on other pistols. It is the only pistol that has a slide release that is designed to be used as a slide release unlike on another pistol where the slide lock lever CAN function as a slide release but in a cumbersome way. Most do not know it but these pistols are designed to be slingshotted after inserting a fresh magazine and not by pressing down on the slide release lever.
The P7 method is faster and easier. Like I say though, there also is a host of disadvantages that can be read up on elsewhere. Like clicking the link below.
Or this one. (http://earlthegoat2.blogspot.com/2009/08/exceptions-in-exceptional-pistol-hk-p7.html)
January 16, 2010, 08:46 PM
Depressing the cocking lever is not something that needs to be learned if you do in fact squeeze on the grip when firing any pistol.
Well, sort of. You do have to "cock" the pistol, which initially takes extra effort than just a normal grip. Once you pass that break point, it takes no effort at all to keep the gun cocked.
This is one reason I think its not a good idea to switch back and forth between the P7's and all others. With the P7's, your brain needs to be wired for that initial cocking.
January 16, 2010, 08:51 PM
I had mine refinished by Robar in Phoenix. I consider the $ have in it comparable to a high quality pistol such as a current HK or Sig model. I don't think the $700 I paid + $300 for the refinishing to be outrageous. It will definitely outlast me.
January 19, 2010, 12:19 AM
The P7 is definitely and interesting gun. I would love to have a P7M13 or even an M8. I don't think I would bother with the A models and the odd magazine release. I've fired my friend's P7M8 and it is a sweet pistol. I've always been an HK fan, so I'm probably biased. But even so, I wouldn't carry the P7. I never fel comfortable with the squeeze cocking. Despite the ever-so-slight amount of pressure it takes to keep it cocked, I found it distracting and annoying. I'd still like to have one, as they are a landmark in firearm innovation.
January 19, 2010, 12:38 AM
I'm another who was not impressed.
I was a working gunsmith when these were introduced so I had no trouble getting range time with one. Nicely made, but it just didn't hit me with the "gotta have one" stick.
January 19, 2010, 12:46 AM
I've never been quite sold enough on them to fork over the money for one, but I played with the half dozen my last unit had in our foreign weapons set whenever I got the chance. I thought they were remarkably accurate and fast handling, though the manual of arms took a little getting used to. Much more interesting than HK's pistols since they discovered polymer frames and such.
January 19, 2010, 01:06 AM
A more elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
January 19, 2010, 08:19 AM
Just fire a couple of magazines thru a P7 or P7M8 and the unbelievable little pistols will speak for themselves. No words will be necessary except where a fellow might find one. :D
Longhorn 76
July 23, 2016, 08:30 AM
Best carry gun for me ever invented.
July 23, 2016, 09:45 AM
Shot from out of the box with NEVER a single problem.
Not one problem.
I have owned my HK P7M8 since 1985 and never had a jam, failure to feed, stove pipe, failure to eject or anything like that, and I've used all sorts of crazy ammo in it.
The magazine release is the easiset I've ever used.
It's completely ambi-dextrous for firing.
I also think the sqeeze-cocking mechanism is the most ingenious thing ever invented for a handgun, BASICALLY giving my P7M8 a smooth single-action trigger pull.
I been shooting it since 1985, I've never had a single failure with it.
I also thought it was the best answer ever for the safety debate. I didn't worry about having to remember to take the manual safety off, on the other hand I didn't have to worry about it being cocked on a live round. The trigger is great - I never had to deal with DA/SA or DOA issues. I can't say enough about the HK P7M8, I wish they still made em.
Brilliant design
Superb German engineering
July 23, 2016, 10:15 AM
Well 3 dot sights and positive ejection of course!
By the looks of the advertisement, or whatever that was in post 2, these are especially noteworthy traits. Guess they help the P7 stand out from all those guns with 4 dot sights and negative ejection?
July 23, 2016, 10:45 AM
Last night on the news, I'm pretty sure I saw a Munich cop with a P7. It was too far away to tell for sure, but those things are distinctive to say the least. Not something that gets mistaken for something else very often.
ETA: I just looked it up, and according to Wikipedia they're still used by federal German police and the Bavarian state police. You gotta love the Germans. Don't fix it if it ain't broke.
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