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Travis remains mute, until he utters that first word to his brother, Walt: �Paris.� He asks to go. �It�s a little out of the way,� Walt replies. Travis means Paris, Texas, which he deduces is the town he was conceived. Instead, they go to Los Angeles, a city of many soul�s misguided rebirths. It�s there where Walt (Dean Stockwell) lives with his wife (Aurore Cl�ment) and Travis� son, Hunter (Hunter Carson), who has a head of blonde hair like his mother.
Much of what follows is, in the broadest sense, a road movie, with Travis (Harry Dean Stanton in his best performance) and Hunter embarking in a pickup truck to locate Jane (Nastassja Kinski) who, you figure out from the promotional art, plays a significant role in the film.
For the first two hours of Paris, Texas, we wonder why Travis needs to see Jane. To apologize? To stitch their wounds? To seek advice? Even a personal moment between Travis and 8mm home movies reveals nothing. Nor will this review, except to say that the curtain is pulled in one of the greatest monologues ever penned (by screenwriter Sam Shepard), delivered through a two-way mirror in a shady peep show booth.
Paris, Texas stands as Wim Wenders� masterpiece, an organic and beautiful narrative about being found and lost, accentuated by a hypnotizing Ry Cooder score. This is a film about journeys: the one with Walt and Travis back to civilization; the one with Travis and Hunter to Jane; the one of Travis and Jane�s love and destruction; and the countless travels Travis has taken and will take.
When I�m asked what my favorite film is, I, like any true film geek, round off at least twenty without catching my breath. One of the first is always Paris, Texas. Anyone who appreciates what it says or leaves mute could never ask, "Why?" That would spoil the strongest connection made.
Interview with Wim Wenders (28:59): This 2001 interview conducted by journalist Roger Willemsen features Wenders discussing Paris, Texas (calling it a �great love story�), with focus on the style, the character of Travis, and screenwriter Shepard.
The Road to Paris, Texas (42:42) is paved with interviews (conducted in 1989) with cast/crew such as Wenders, composer Ry Cooder, and actor Harry Dean Stanton, as well as Dennis Hopper, Samuel Fuller, and author Patricia Highsmith. This piece is a fascinating collection of insight from many renowned figures, who go into length about Wenders� work.
Claire Denis (20:28) and Allison Anders (25:15): Both women (Denis served as first assistant director, while Anders was a production assistant), now filmmakers themselves, reflect on their time working on Paris, Texas in these 2009 interviews. Denis sits with critic Kent Jones while Anders occasionally reads excerpts from the journal she kept on the set.
Cin�ma Cin�mas (12:20): This episode of the French television program, titled �Wim Wenders Hollywood April �84,� features footage of Wenders and composer Cooder in the studio working on the score for Paris, Texas.
Deleted Scenes (23:38) and Super 8 (7:00): The former offers several discarded scenes, while the latter contains extended footage from the Super 8 home movies seen in the film. The deleted scenes are presented with an optional commentary by Wenders, while the Super 8 footage can be accompanied by Travis�s monologue.
Also included on this disc are Galleries and a Trailer.
Also included with this Criterion Collection Blu-ray is a 44-page booklet with an essay titled �On the Road Again� by critic/journalist Nick Roddick, interviews with Sam Shepard, Nastassja Kinski, and Dean Stockwell, and an excerpt from the preface of Wenders� book of photographs, �Written in the West.�


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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Chocolate may be a harmless treat for humans, but it could land a competitive racehorse into trouble with officials.
Researchers at Ohio State University found that three horses fed a vending-pack of M&M's® chocolate-coated peanuts every day for eight days showed detectable concentrations of the stimulants caffeine and theobromine -- substances that are banned for horses that compete in races.
"We would advise that trainers avoid feeding chocolate to racehorses," said Richard Sams, professor of veterinary medicine at Ohio State.
Caffeine and theobromine are banned for racehorses because they have been thought to give horses a competitive edge in races. Trainers whose horses test positive for these substances can lose their winnings and have their horse disqualified.
However, Sams said he doubts the amounts of caffeine and theobromine found in the horses he tested would have given theanimals a real advantage over other horses.
Sams began the research, which was published recently in the Journal of Analytical Toxicology, after a Florida racehorse trainer sent a horse's urine sample to Ohio State for testing when another lab found caffeine in the sample. Sams said the trainer questioned if the M&M's® he fed the horse caused the positive findings.
The chocolate in a vending machine bag of peanut M&M's® contains six milligrams of caffeine and about 50 milligrams of theobromine. Both substances stay in a horse's system longer than a human's.
"This study helped us learn the way horses eliminate drugs, and by extension the way all animals eliminate drugs," Sams said.
While caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant in horses, as it is in humans, it would take several grams of caffeine to affect the performance of a 1,000-pound racehorse, according to Sams.
Sams and Timothy Dyke, a senior researcher in veterinary medicine, fed three mares each 20 peanut M&M's® -- the average amount found in a vending-machine pack -- on a daily basis. This allowed the researchers to determine accurate concentrations of both caffeine and theobromine in the horses.
Urine samples taken five to six hours after eating M&M's® on the eighth day of feeding showed caffeine concentrations around 0.05 parts per million and theobromine concentrations at about 9.5 parts per million, enough to show up using current testing methods and enough to disqualify a horse.
"Caffeine and theobromine in these concentrations probably do not physically affect horses," Sams said. Four days later, any trace of caffeine was undetectable while theobromine concentrations were extremely low -- about 0.75 parts per million.
The Association of Racing Commissioners International (ARCI), the association for many regulatory agencies for horse racing in the United States, classifies caffeine as one of the drugs that has the greatest likelihood of affecting performance.
"Virtually every drug is prohibited under the rules," Sams said. "The ARCI drug classification system gives officials who generally have little knowledge of pharmacology some guidance as to what kind of penalties to impose.
"Yet racing regulators are beginning to realize horse racing is not well-served by issuing positive reports for drugs that are present in concentrations that can't reasonably be expected to affect performance in any way," he added.
While officials are gaining knowledge about drug concentrations and becoming more comfortable with making decisions about penalties, the rule remains that any foreign substance in a sample collected from a horse is a violation.
"Although the Florida trainer was eventually exonerated, he may have spent a few thousand dollars on testing," Sams said. "There's no guarantee that another racing commission won't penalize someone for the same kind of infraction."
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15/10/2009 - After a broken nights sleep on the train, we arrived at Denver station at 7am and made our way to our hotel, where we had arranged for an early check-in. We caught a few hours sleep before waking up to have a walk around and grab some lunch. It was a beautiful sunny day and a lot warmer than Chicago had been. The main downtown street (16th) has a free bus that travels up and down, which we took full advantage of. We stopped for lunch and browsed the shops. We found a lovely independent book shop called the Tattered Cover, where we spent an hour or so searching through the books and stopping to read some on their cozy couches.
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The lead story in Tuesday's Herald read "Murder while on bail - 23 cases revealed". The story reported that between 2006 and 2010, 70,000 defendants committed new crimes while on bail.
The number of people convicted of offending on bail was presented as a five year total - but the number on bail was just a one year total. This mismatch had the effect of magnifying the offending.
Those who offended were about 17 per cent of the total pool of about 390,000 defendants on bail over that five-year period.
The combined total of 9085 people who committed violent offences of some kind also needs to be contrasted with the 390,000.
Many of those violent offences will be for lesser offending, common assaults where there is no injury.
This is not to undermine the importance of the issue. Any further offending while a person is on bail is a matter of public concern. We are right to be outraged if someone on bail commits a murder or other serious offence.
Such concern has led to the Bail Amendment Bill, which is being debated by a parliamentary select committee and which may have prompted the Herald's Official Information Act request.
One of the proposals under consideration is a reverse onus for some serious violent and sexual offenders and for Class A drug dealers. This could be a good idea, but it would not be sensible to jump from the headline numbers on offending on bail to such a policy position.
The rationale for singling out these two groups, is, ostensibly, because they are more likely to offend on bail. It is correct that measured in simple terms higher proportions of those defendants offend on bail, but again it is misleading.
Their offences that take much longer to pass through the courts; they are simply on bail for much longer. The average time on bail for those accused of Class A drug dealing is 371 days. Any fair comparison should adjust for this effect. There will be a number of high volume offences for which the average time on bail is less than 30 days.
Collectively the two groups targeted in the bill account for only about 1.6 per cent (1158 of 69,087) of offences committed on bail. Any reduction in bail for these offenders will not make much difference to total offending.
The maximum possible 1.6 per cent reduction would be achieved only if all the offenders were remanded in custody the whole time.
The Ministry of Justice believes that for Class A defendants, the bill will result in a 6 per cent reduction of those on bail.
If that holds true for the serious violent and sexual offenders, then the actual reduction is likely to be about 70, or one tenth of one per cent.
The chance of avoiding a more serious offence becomes ludicrously small.
These issues are not simple: important human rights are at stake, including the fundamental right to be treated as innocent until proven guilty. Pre-trial detention raises the risk that people who are not convicted are nonetheless punished.
This is not just a theoretical risk. Over the five years from 2006 to 2010, 442 people (36.5 per cent) remanded in custody on Class A or serious violence or sexual offences were not convicted of the offence.
Our collective power as a society was used to detain these people. They are not compensated for the time lost; collectively we expect them to accept it as a cost of being part of society.
It is because of this kind of effect that the bill has a negative cost-benefit. According to the estimates, it will result in annual benefits to the Government and the public of $672,000.
This is the value of the harm avoided by reducing offending on bail.
Conversely the costs are estimated to be $3.77 million.
These are costs of providing additional prison beds for people who are remanded in custody and not convicted and those who are convicted but the offending is determined to not warrant imprisonment.
While the benefits include the avoidance of harm to the public, the costs cover only the cost to the Government and ignore the cost of the harm to the people remanded and their families.
The bill will simply do more harm than good. It is a misplaced reaction to the dreadful crimes that take place. It is very unlikely to avoid any significant number of those crimes, and does so only by the use of unreasonable detention against a substantial number of people who do not deserve it.
Wayne Goodall is doing a PhD in criminology and is a member of Rethinking Crime and Punishment.


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Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Colton parolee in the slaying of an 83-year-old woman, one of two Rialto homicide cases investigators say were solved after months of gaining the trust of reluctant witnesses.
Bryan Roy Thomas, 28, also known as "Youngster," was arrested Thursday morning by police and state parole agents in connection with the death of Elizabeth Benson, Rialto police Lt. Joe Cirilo said.
"We're confident we have the person responsible for the brutal death of Miss Benson," Cirilo said.
Thomas is the third suspect in a Rialto homicide investigation to be charged by the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office in less than two weeks.
Keandre "Key-Ray" Windfield and Michael "White Chocolate" Canizales, both 20, were charged Aug. 11 with murder and attempted murder in the July 2008 killing of Leica Cooksey, 26, of Upland. Police say Cooksey, a college student, was visiting friends in Rialto in the 300 block of West Jackson Street when she was caught in the crossfire of a gang shooting.
Relatives from both families attended a news conference Tuesday at Rialto City Hall, where they had a chance to thank detectives who never gave up on either case.
Cindy Davis, Benson's daughter, said she's lived in fear knowing her mother's killer remained on the loose.
"It's been 14 months and I'm thrilled today," she said.
Police said they suspected Thomas in the killing early in the investigation, but it wasn't until they obtained enough information from witnesses that they were able to get him charged.
A neighbor found Benson brutally killed in her home in the 500 block of East Huff Street the morning of June 19, 2009.
Investigators found evidence that Benson had struggled with her attacker. But Thomas, a 220-pound man who is 6 feet 2 inches tall and was armed with a knife, quickly overpowered Benson, who was about 4 feet 11 inches tall, they said.
Police said Benson's home had been ransacked, but it was unclear if anything had been taken.
Four months later, Benson's family posted a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Benson's killer.
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8 days after surgery one breast does not look right: Could the implant deflate, leak? (Photo)
the left breast is smaller and feels fluffy. the implant is 290cc rated saline with overall fill of 350cc. the breast implants where both filled the same amount. both are round high profile saline implants.
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Implant issue
It looks like you may have a hematoma in the right high breast. Best to be seen by your surgeon to see what the problem is.
An implant leak after 8 days.
An implant can leak after 8 days but based on your photos a leak might be low on the list of possible. You should let your surgeon see you right away.
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Right Breast Problem
You definitely have a problem with the right breast assuming there was no pre-existing asymmetry prior to the operation. You either have a hematoma or a large fluid collection, which will need exploration and drainage. Call your plastic surgeon ASAP.
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Good morning. Today, Wednesday, November 3, 2010 is the first day of the 2012 Presidential Campaign.
Who just said, "UGH!"?? C'mon, now, the World Series may be over, but the Great American Past-time continues! That would be the seesaw between the endlessly changing mind of the American voter and the politicians who rise and fall on that constantly shifting balance.
Let's see. How many times have we seen this 'brand new day,' this 'morning in America,' this 'change we can believe in,' this 'bridge to the future' and etc. etc. etc. ?? In just the last six years, the balance of power has shifted dramatically three times. Americans clearly are sending a message, and it's not about party loyalty. In fact, party identity may be the most important victim of the electoral mood, and that's not entirely bad. People really do make decisions based on the issues they perceive to be most urgent for them. Or, as Karen Tumulty wrote in this morning's Washington Post, "This election was less a mandate for Republican ideas than a brake on Obama's."
Yes, this election will definitely put the brakes on the Obama agenda and just about anything else. Congress is now officially divided, with the House now in Republican control while the Senate remains barely Democratic. Some political seers believe that divided government actually can work better since it drives everyone to reach compromise somewhere in the middle. But let's not forget the government shutdowns after the Gingrich Revolution in 1994. What really happened then was a shift in political strategy by President Clinton, who managed to win a second term as president even though he lost the House in the mid-term elections during his first term.
True students of political history know that yesterday's election could actually help Barack Obama's chances of winning in 2012 by forcing him to shift his agenda to those actions that voters actually want — focusing on the economy and jobs, and moving away from ideological reshaping of government mandates. Consequently, the opposition will be more intensely focused on preventing such a shift in the White House agenda — and, therefore, progress will be even slower in solving the problems that are most urgent for most Americans.
So, what does all of this mean for 2012? Who knows? The economy will continue to be the prevailing issue — but so much of what happens in the economy is actually beyond the control of government. The collapse of the banking industry that sparked the recession was a consequence of private corruption. True, government might have intervened earlier with better regulatory controls, but in fact, too much government regulation is what has fueled a large part of voter antipathy. It's a real conundrum of political behavior that at the same time as voters are decrying the size and scope of government, they are also demanding solutions from government that will require even more control.
That paradox is one of the big reasons why no politician is ultimately safe from voter anger — voters can't decide between wanting a great deal of protection or a great deal of freedom. We can't really have both.
Two years ago, millions of people flocked to the mall in Washington to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama. Most likely, many of those people are now unhappy with the direction of the government. The question today is who will stand on the mall two years from now — not only on the grass, but also on the podium. Whether any progress can occur in improving the economy will determine who claims that ground in 2012.
Like it or not, the next election season is already underway!
See: Ruth Marcus, Obama's message for the day after
See: EJ Dionne, The Next Battle
See: New York Times Editorial, "will either side draw the right lessons from this mid-term election?"
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Well from my way back from work, I stop behind a red mustang GT.....I do not know any model year but it was the one before the 2002 model...I guess......
The guy had some chrome wheels and had 4 tips on his exhaust....like each pipe had 2 tips..even had a guage pillar..funny and rice as hell but I continue......next light we are at the line side by side.......and I look at him kinda smilin' ( I know I can't beat a GT but I'll try..:)
So we go at it, I start 1st and 2nd already ahead (which I supposed would happen) after 3rd and he still hadn't catch up yet...I then shift at 6,000 into 4th and I glimpse around too see where he is and he's right at my back window level. I hit 95 and he was still being with a car on his lane so we stopped..............Hilarious......I had a grin on my face.....:)
And I thought I was gonna get killed ........:)
^^bump myself.....:)
Ok, I'll bite. Wasn't a GT. Most likely a V-6. or a GT with 2 dead cylinders.
Probably.....I suppose it was a GT 'cause the back bumper was engraved so.....opposed to the regular model of that year where only "mustang" is engraved............
Unless he bought the bumper and also the dual exhaust pipe, it was a mustang gt..........
nice kill..
come on vassili.. you know its like when honda ex put on a si badge.. this guy could have been the same way.. lol
Is your Focus stock? What are your mods? If the Mustang indeed happen to be a GT, then nice kill and congrats. Its just with the HP and TQ, well the number are in favor of the GT.
I guess you could be right......I was just hoppin the early 90 models weren't that fast...even with a gt..........I guess I just killed a regular mustang........:)
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actually if it was the 5.0 they werent all that fast, stock they ran 15s, but thats still slighty faster than a car that stock runs 16s
could have been (since he had 4 tips on there) a fake GT, in other words a V6 that had exhaust. wouldnt be suprised that you beat them.
It was probably a v6. Nice kill anyway!
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I now have all trans. and starter problems fixad with everyone's help THANKS TO ALL! I think I now have a rear end problem, the vette was sitting on the driveway at home with a slight slope, we were trying to push it inside
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Hello all
My boat has an epoxy barrier coat that was applied 10-12 years ago. The boat is out of the water for the summer and I want to tackle several projects including sanding off the anti-fouling paint. I also have a minor blister problem that needs to be addressed as well as several thru hull's that have been removed and need to be glassed over. I would like to remove the anti-fouling paint this summer and not apply the new paint until several days before drop in next spring. My concern is that if I remove the anti-fouling paint now the epoxy barrier coat will be exposed to the sun and yellow over the summer. Is this a concern?
Most of my blisters are between the epoxy barrier coat and the hull, so by removing the anti-fouling paint now I hope to find other potential problems and fix them. Area's where the epoxy is not adhering to the hull.
Good, bad or other wise I thought I might sand off the anti-fouling paint now and fix the problem areas. To "protect" the epoxy barrier coat I would paint latex house paint over the hull after all repairs are done. The logic being that it would prevent the epoxy from yellowing and would be much easier to sand off in the spring. A good idea or not so much?
My problem is that I live in Canada and to wait until spring to remove the anti-fouling paint can be an issue. Doing this before April is not a possibility and April can be a tough month to get work done. Again the thought being that removing a single coat of latex paint in April will be much easier that removing 10 years worth of anti-fouling paint.
Re: epoxy barrier coat sun exposure how long is too long?
A tarp "skirt" would keep UV off hull
Re: epoxy barrier coat sun exposure how long is too long?
In the spring sand with 60 or 80 grit and apply a new coat of barrier paint within a week of when you will apply anti-fouling.
Re: epoxy barrier coat sun exposure how long is too long?
If you have more than just a few hull blisters (behind the barrier coat) you may have a damp hull. If this is the case you really need to strip the barrier coat now as well so the hull can breath for a year and dry out. If it is just a few isolated spots then that isn't necessary.
If it is just a couple, I would tarp the hull once the paint is gone. Putting latex paint over epoxy may be fine, I have never done it, but a $5 blue tarp from Wal Mart will do just as good a job at keeping the epoxy in good shape, and be a whole lot easier to remove.
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DO NOT paint that nice epoxy coating with latex house paint. Do like Stumble say's and buy a tarp. In 1993 I coated my hull with 5 coats of WEST SYSTEM and the alluminum additive and it's still rock solid. We don't yet know the life span of modern epoxy's because they are still holding strong. You'll greatly compromise the integrity of your epoxy coating in the process of removing the latex. Hell, buy the 40 dollar tarp from Home Dope and cover the whole boat.
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Hello all, thanks for the replies.
I am of two minds right now.
1) Sand down just the blisters and remove the anti-fouling paint.
If I do this I don't want to tarp off the hull as I want the sanded blisters to be exposed to the sun and wind to help the drying process.
So perhaps I sand down the blisters, let them dry for the summer and remove the anti-fouling paint late into the fall. Then tarp the hull.
2) Remove all of the existing barrier coat and start from scratch.
I am leaning in this direction. My only concern is that it is going to be a mother of a job containing the dust I mean. I have been doing some sanding over the last several nights, both with a palm sander and a grinder with a flap disk. The palm sander isn't up to the job(full barrier coat removal) where as the grinder is. My concern with the grinder is dust collection. So I guess I tarp off the full boat and spend a few days grinding.
Any thoughts on a power tool up to a full hull sanding that also has a reasonable amount of dust collection? Regardless of the hp I don't see a orbital sander up to the task. But I am open to being corrected on this.
Re: epoxy barrier coat sun exposure how long is too long?
Take it down to the gel coat, do the glass repairs. fair it all out, and wait till you drop her in the drink. Two weeks before launch start the epoxy show.While your last coat of epoxy barrier coat is still tacky, apply the first coat of anti fouling, let harden and re apply ..l.Food for thought
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I am doing my bottom right now. Previous owner applied barrier paint over gelcoat cracks and blisters. My boat has be covered on land for 3 years now. Kind of stupid to put it back in the water without fixing the problem. You are right about the orbital and flap disk sanders not being up to the task. I have been using a Ridgid 3" x 18" belt sander with 36 grit. I have it attached to a Ridgid 4 gallon shop vac with a paper filter bag. I also have the heavy duty hose accessory which is far better than the standard hose that comes with the vac. It fits loosely on the sander dust port. When it starts falling off the bag is filled. So far I have filled 5 bags! There is some dust, wear a respirator and googles. However it is far far less than without the vac.
This is brutally hard work. I can only do it for about 6 hours. So far I have about 5 days in it, and should finish my 26 ft boat in about 2 more 6 hour days. Buy lots of belts, I've gone through about 12 already and will use at least 8 more. Knowing what I know now, I'd have gladly paid $1000 to get it sand blasted, and in the water!
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The one job I refused to do when I worked in a boat yard was stripping bottoms. Couldn't pay me enough to make it worth the pain of holding a sander up above my head all day.
There are a few, very few highly skilled guys that can strip a boat with a hand planer. Unless you have a few bottoms to ruin while learning how don't try it, but it is the best way to strip a boat.
These days though I doubt there is a yard anywhere that is using sandpaper to remove the bulk of old bottom paint. It is massively labor intensive, an environmental nightmare, and well known to cause health problems to anyone who breathes in the dust (remember bottom paint was designed to kill living things). At least around here most yards wont even allow you to sand your own bottom, let alone do it themselves.
If you have to strip the boat yourself chemical strippers are the way to go. They are much easier to clean up since the residue can be scraped into a bucket, and take a fraction of the work. Soda blasting is easier, and cleaner, but the machines are rarely rented.
Figure about $40/foot for chemical or soda blasting. For sanding, well again I wouldn't consider it so I have no idea. But it should be pretty cheap since all you are buying is sand paper.
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In the late nineteenth century cyclones were named after annoying politicians. Following objections they were then variously named after the politicians' wives, as most women were assumed to be temperamental and unpredictable. In 1977 after protests by various women's rights groups the American meteorological organisation NOAA allowed a name selection that alternated genders. 1979 was the first year cyclones became subject to a fairer naming list.
To qualify for a name a a tropical depression must sustain winds strengthening to between 39-73 mph (62-117kmh), when it becomes a tropical storm, receiving a formal name and becoming a named storm. This degree of wind turbulence is best produced when the Moon is close (perigee) and rising over the equator.
Another factor is the king-tide in the air that occurs at the same time as the king-tide in the sea, caused by the Moon, and which allows for a lowered height of the atmosphere when the Moon is out of the sky. Because the air insulates the earth like a blanket, preventing too much heat from either entering or leaving too quickly, any lowered air height can expose the earth to extra radiation from the Sun.
The period from full moon to last quarter in the summer months is the time when tropical cyclones most develop. With the Moon and increased air height are absent from the hot afternoon sky (because the full moon does not rise until susnset) the Sun can beat down more strongly and the seas can reach the 26-28degC required for the massive evaporation that cyclone formation needs.
This usually occurs when the Sun is over a particular hemisphere and close to or past its solstice position of that tropic, which will allow sufficient time for the Sun's rays to heat the sea to that critical temperature.
The reason there are no cyclones off Brazil is probably due to the very large volume of cold fresh water from the Amazon that keeps the temperature of the adjacent oceans below that required for a cyclone to form. Where conditions are warm enough for cyclonic development the heating process will continue after the Moon has crossed the equator and into the other hemisphere.
The build-up of heat will be speeded to that level during a full moon phase and into the Last Quarter because that is the time for the low atmospheric tide, both from the Moon being a night moon and because the Moon is over the opposite hemisphere.
Also, if the Moon is at perigee, the atmospheric tide will be even lower because of the greater gravitation effect from the Moon in that period. Occasionally the new moon will also cause a TC to form, due in part to the increased gravitational pull occurring, the timing of another king-tide and especially if the Moon is at or near to crossing the equator at this time.
The season always runs from November to April and about every 9 years a destructive cyclone revisits with the Moon in a similar position in the sky. To observe the pattern it only depends on how far back we wish to look, and we can see cyclonic weather appearing in historical records going back to 1820.
Sydney recorded 140mm over 3 days on 30 April 1864 that was probably cyclonic. Auckland records taken from Albert Park only continuously go back to 1869. These show what would have been cyclonic falls at each of the 9-yr dates after that, for example 21 Feb, 1873 (90mm in 3 days), 2 March 1882 (100mm over 3 days with 60mm on one day), 4 April 1891(37mm), 24-25 March, 1908 (80mm), 3 Feb, 1917 (141mm), 19/20 May 1926 (160mm) and the 120mm on 15 Feb 1935 two days before full moon.
The pattern is very regular. 50mm fell in Albert Park on 20 Feb 1944, 70mm on 15 Mar in 1944, in April's first week in 1953 Albert Park recorded 100mm, then on 23 Feb 1961 (within two days of full moon) came 53mm. On 11 April 1979, 100mm fell over 4 days, as full moon crossed the equator heading south.
After that came 7-8 March, 1988 within a week of a close perigee. Auckland at that time received 36mm and Gisborne suffered 70mm with gale-force winds. Over 7 days Auckland received nearly 200mm. That was Cyclone Bola. 9 years later in 1997 we endured another called Cyclone Dreena.
Some of the heaviest cyclone years are when the perigee-moon days in the cyclone season occur when the Moon is rising over the equator, because these are years when perigee is averagely closer. Some these years have been 1979/80, 1984, 1988/89, 1993, 1997, 2001/2, 2006/7, 2010/11, and 2015.
The last heavy cyclone period was 2009-10, with the perigeal moon averagely rising above or slightly aside the equatorial band. Lately perigees have been drifting south, reaching southern declination in July 2012. The whole cycle takes 8.85 years to return to a starting position.
In 2013 perigees are currently around southern declination, quite out of range of cyclones that would be strong enough to be destructive. They usually form north of Fiji but in 'fizzer' years such as this, peter out by the time they reach NZ. We have between 1 to 2 years of relative reprieve.
By 2014 most perigees occur between southern declination and the equator. Then in 2015 and 2016 perigees will be at or near the equator and in 2017 between the equator and the northern declination. This makes 2015-17 the next phase of heightened cyclonic activity.
We may as well say it is the same cyclonic pattern revisiting every 9 years but under different aliases. It means that in two years time a Bola/Dreena system can be expected to return to our shores, potentially affecting similar areas, and wearing a new name tag.
Ken Ring of www.predictweather.com is the author of the Predict Weather Almanacs for NZ and Australia for 2013, publisher Random House.


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Gary Goldsmith, the younger brother of the Duchess' mum Carole, bought her the expensive accessory when she was a girl.
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Kate is well-known for her stylish outfits and has been lauded for mixing high street fashion with high-end clothes.
Mr Goldsmith told Hello! magazine his niece was a "confident, clever, caring girl" who "has taken her responsibilities in marriage and job incredibly seriously".
The 47-year-old said that Kate worked hard at everything, while in contrast, everything came very easily for her sister, Pippa "Pip" Middleton.
He also defended Pippa, calling on people "to give her a break".
"I feel so defensive about Pippa," he told Hello! "She gets absolutely slaughtered for not working, and then when she does get a job, she gets attacked for doing that too.
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In the interview, he recalled how he met Prince William for the first time at a dinner party with Kate.
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When asked if Kate and Pippa have similar characters, he revealed: "They are different. Kate works really hard at everything.
"She is brilliant at whatever she turns her hand to, but works at it, throwing herself into everything. Whereas Pip, everything seems to come very easily."
The Middleton family suffered scandal in July 2009 when Mr Goldsmith was filmed allegedly offering hard drugs to an undercover reporter and offering to arrange high-class prostitutes.
He also bragged about a holiday William and Kate had taken at his £5 million villa La Maison de Bang Bang on the island of Ibiza.
But Mr Goldsmith was said to have reformed his ways and was later invited to William and Kate's wedding in April 2011.
He told Hello! magazine how his sister Carole called him after the sting broke to offer her support and how Kate's brother James Middleton turned to him for advice before delivering his reading at the royal wedding in Westminster Abbey.
Describing his pride at seeing Kate marry William, Mr Goldsmith added: "She is this confident,
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think everyone thinks she's sincere, in love and doing her job to the best of her ability."
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Mr Goldsmith also talked about Kate's split with William in 2007 and how she went to stay in Ibiza at the time, when Mr Goldsmith's then wife Julia was there.
"She said Kate was very low, spending a huge amount of time on the phone, walking around the pool," Mr Goldsmith revealed.
He described the home as a very relaxing place, adding he hoped the break helped Kate.
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Original post made by Judy, Midtown, on Nov 27, 2011
Here are two solutions. First move the Young Fives program into the facility. Secondly, lease the site; however, that's assuming they will be able to find a tenant.
One of the reasons the School District sold off elementary school sites in the past was because they could not find tenants. School facilities attract a very limited kind of suitable tenant. The School District should research the possibility of finding a prospective tenant before setting up any kind of Committee.
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Honestly, it's clear this school district can't win. If they didn't have a committee half the population would vilify them for that. They want to have a committee, they get vilified for that. Why don't you run for the school board if you think it is that easy.
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I think the story your read is here - Web Link
It sounds like they know pretty well what they want to do and probably have tenants lined up. But my understanding is that state law requires that to lease any school facility, the district needs to have a "7-11" committee review alternatives, reflect community views, etc. As the article says, it is probably overkill for a short-term lease like this one, but they are being conservative.
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The School District has leased other elementary schools in the past and has never formed a Committee to decide their future. This must be a new State law since Garland and Fremont Hills were leased.
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on Nov 27, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Not sure how long it has been around, but if you google it you'll find many California "7-11" committees out there. The education code section 17388 reads:
The governing board of any school district may, and the governing board of each school district, prior to the sale, lease, or rental of any excess real property, except rentals not exceeding 30 days, shall, appoint a district advisory committee to advise the governing board in the development of district wide policies and procedures governing the use or disposition of school buildings or space in school buildings which is not needed for school purposes.
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Me Too: Very interesting, I just wonder how this applies to the Cubberley lease with the City given the fact that the City sub-leases many of the rooms at Cubberley.
I don't remember the School District forming a district advisory committee for either the original lease agreement with the City, or a district advisory committee for any of the sub-leases between the City and their tenants although Cubberley is owned by the School District.
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The operative word in code section 17388 is "may", and the board seems to have chosen that approach. I wonder how long it will take to finalize a recommendation. In Palo Alto this can take 6 to 18 months.


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Interest rates have been falling once again. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury, which acts as a global benchmark of sorts, dipped as low as 2.44 per cent last week, which is well below where rates began the year - and lower than at most points throughout the 20th century and into the first decade of the 21st.
At no point between 1961 and 2011 were rates as low as they are now, and for most of that time, the yield on the 10-year was above 6 per cent.
One of the consequences of this period of extremely low rates is that anyone who wants or needs higher returns has started to look elsewhere. Hence the widespread appeal in recent years of emerging market bonds that were once seen as speculative at best. This also explains the flood of money into a category once seen as dicey at best: junk bonds.
Junk bonds are back, though in truth they never went away. In polite company and tony investing circles, they are now known as "high-yield bonds" for the simple reason that their level of purported risk demands higher rates to entice investors.
"Junk bonds" evokes images of 1980s corporate excesses, so perfectly captured in Connie Bruck's masterpiece The Predators' Ball. Junk in the '80s was the purview of Drexel Burnham and Michael Milken, and when scandal engulfed both at the end of the decade, junk bonds saw an already shady reputation get shadier.
Flash forward 30 years to today. Now, bond funds looking for outperformance are putting more assets into junk bonds, which yield several percentage points more than their more staid sovereign and corporate brethren.
A more vanilla set of high-grade bonds - let's say, German government bonds and G.E. - might return 2 per cent to investors in today's climate. Junk bonds returned nearly 7.5 per cent in 2013.
But all this money pouring in - $2 trillion at last count - will inevitably raise concern about a bubble, or if not that, then at least a market that is setting up for some nasty surprises. Jeffrey Gundlach, a leading bond manager who has ridden the junk wave quite profitably, now believes that too much money is sloshing around the space. He has begun to pull back, concerned that a correction or worse is on the way.
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The larger point is not whether these investments turn sour. Maybe they will - that possibility is always part of the spectrum. The animus and anxiety, however, are part of a market psychology that still veers toward an assumption that things are out of whack and bubbles are forming here, there and everywhere.
Step away from the short-term market call, however, and the movement of money into junk bonds makes eminent sense. Or rather, it makes sense if you believe that the financial system is not on the verge of another collapse.
If that happens, then yes, many of the companies that have issued junk bonds will default and implode, creating a world of pain for investors left holding the nearly worthless debt. But if that implosion doesn't happen and the financial system remains stable, then today's returns on what is classified as "junk" might seem not only reasonable but even high in comparison to what they might be in a few years.
We've lost track of what these bonds actually were and are: Instruments that allow riskier ventures to be funded. Historically, risk didn't necessarily mean financial risk.
The rise of modern Las Vegas was facilitated by junk bonds because traditional banks wouldn't lend to an industry considered to be (for good reason) the playground of the mafia. There aren't many more surefire business ventures than owning a casino in the right location. But they just couldn't get funding.
Today, with so many banks chary of risk and forced by a new regulatory framework to be more diligent than they were in the early 2000s, the only way more speculative, untested and creative companies can finance themselves is by turning not to banks, but to the marketplace.
When these companies raise debt, they are first graded by a ratings agency such as S&P, Moody's or Fitch, which assigns the debt a rating based on an analysis of the company's debt, metrics and its chances of meeting its obligations under a variety of scenarios. Companies that are seen as riskier get a lower grade, and then lower ranks are considered "junk."
It might come as a surprise that companies rated "junk" include the likes of Sprint, T-Mobile and Chrysler. They're rated junk because they all require massive amounts of spending and take on high levels of debt. These are hardly sketchy companies.
Companies rated "junk" include Chrysler. Photo / AP
In a world where the cost of capital is cheap and perhaps getting cheaper, however, the primary risk is not that rates will spike and a business won't be able to meet its debt payments. The primary risk is that the business itself will fold. And on that score, most companies that successfully raise debt in public markets have passed enough scrutiny that they can repay their debts.
There is very little equivalent in the bond market of the almost non-existent lending standards that existed in the mortgage markets in the early 2000s. Firms whose bonds are rated junk, therefore, may be riskier than GE or US Treasuries, but they are likely to be much less risky than the market thinks.
The statistics bear that out. The default rate for junk bonds - 1.7 per cent - is the lowest since 2008, and far below the 4.5 per cent average since the early 1990s. You can view this the calm before the storm.
Through that lens, low levels of default are simply a product of too much easy money, thanks to central banks still providing too much easy money. If and when that dynamic changes, so the thinking goes, rates will spike, and we will see a wave of defaults that will more than justify the moniker "junk."
We won't know until we do, but it may be that the markets and investors have it just about right: Absent crisis or a sharp, sudden rise in rates, capital is cheap and many companies are being treated as riskier than they are.
This is happening only because of the expectation that we are in a lull rather than a new, long-term trend of cheap capital and low rates, which markets can provide more than traditional banks can.
If that's the case, then it is time to stop viewing these investments as junk and start viewing them as simply one more investment opportunity - one with perhaps more risk, but hardly one giving signs that the herd is galloping toward the cliff. And if the financial system does implode again, it won't be because of junk bonds - how they perform will be among the least of our worries.
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Ok giving me problems now. Last night downloaded MSN 6.1, maybe this is the cause :(
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I don't know what MSN is - but I believe in solidarity, so I hate it too!
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MSN messenger will not let me in no matter what I do! Even MSN tech support can't help. I am told that I don't exsist , which is odd because I thought I did. I have updated all info and confirmed it. Today I deleted Messenger 6.1 from the puter and downloaded fresh. It will not let me in!. I HATE MSN!! (btw, I have been useing 6,1 for months with no probs)
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No, that I haven't done, but I'm willing!!! It's only messenger that is the problem. I have no prob with hotmail.
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According to the service status located here (http://messenger.msn.com/Status.aspx?product=wm) they are having some problems. I searched a few tech forums, some people are having problems, some aren't. It may depend on your location. I signed in with the XP version of messenger with no problems whatsoever. One place said "they are having server problems again" so give it some time it may clear up. People have been able to get connected via Trillian believe it or not.
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