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"He got up on Easy Red beach,. and he yelled 'there are only two types of men on this beach - those who are dead and those who are about to die, so let's get up off this beach and die inland' - and that officer I give my steel hat to any day."There's few genius auteurs who are legitimate tough guys: survivors of war, genuine witnesses of fucked up shit like liberating concentration camps and Warsaw ghetto uprisings and whatnot. I can only think of two offhand, and both are, interestingly enough, Jewish: Roman Polanski and Samuel Fuller.
This is isn't a post about Jewishness, but more of a reference to tough cigar chomping war vet Sam Fuller's auteur character's qualities, which are miles from the saintly self-righteous sheepishness of Spielberg's authorial avatars in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and SCHINDLER'S LIST. Perhaps this is because the real survivors of war and oppression are free from having to depict anything but their firsthand observances. Those of us who come after can only nose amongst the wreckage and monuments like guilty bystanders, imagining what we would have felt and done were they there, which is impossible to predict. Fuller barely mentions his own Jewishness when addressing the horrors of the concentration camp he helped liberate - for him it's a crime against humanity... There's no time for flag waving or religious assertion. He's capturing the necessity of fraternal closeness when living month after month in the maw of death. All illusion and false worries turned down effortlessly as the only way to sharpen and survive is the now. Even a prayer for a balding man to grow hair is a fleeting precious glory.
Think of RYAN for a minute, a film I used to love but is starting--with the passage of time--to seem ridiculous: nervous pisher Jeremy Davis hides in the rear during combat but then runs up like the ghost of liberal future, trying to stop Hanks from shooting prisoners and Ed Burns almost deserts because "this mission is FUBAR!" Dude, what mission wasn't FUBAR? Both men should have been shot too. RYAN was the movie that made FUBAR a household name. Well my buddy John's bar was called FUBAR and it was destroyed by a falling crane, Mr. Spielberg! Look at this picture I have in my hands.
I actually admire Spielberg's directorial skill and desire to tell an important story, I was as furious as anyone when ENGLISH PATIENT won the Oscar instead of RYAN, but we don't watch and love Spielberg's harrowing D-Day action set piece for deep analysis of memory and observational detail, we love it for duplicating the sickening trauma of actually landing at Omaha or getting us as close as anyone has yet -- we presume. Fuller's D-Day (in THE BIG RED ONE) is the trauma of remembering it, one dogface's experience, zig-zagging along Omaha beach, ducking machine gun fire and hopping over the corpses of bodies washing in and back out in the tide, looking for ammo or medicine or other officers. Fuller didn't feel the need to 'duplicate' the experience in our minds, as much as record it. He didn't have a chance (or the budget) to get all fluid with elaborate interwoven big scale group action. His war films, such as STEEL HELMET, FIXED BAYONETS and THE BIG RED ONE are chronicles of remembered anecdotes and observations. Like any good journalist he trusts these copious real details will be enough to garner the 'right' response from the audience: that war is more complex than mere conservative patriotism or liberal ashen dismay can encompass.
Then there's the issue of a character acting his biological age: these guys who died on the beach or survived were young and in Fuller's films they act their age: they talk trash while acting courageously, saintly in deed, foul in speech, not the reverse. And you see how survivors have battles have their trauma volume turned way down. You can see this in the voracious way Gene Evans devours a melon while debating whether to retrieve a set of dog tags from a fallen soldier in a minefield. That's how it has to be, if you are to survive, ala NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, forgoing the dubious comfort funerals (and liberal hand-wringing). You can imagine Spielberg deciding Evans is the bad soldier for not crying and pounding the sides of the foxhole when he realizes his buddy is dead, dead dead! Instead, Evans just lights another cigar, and finishes his melon. But it's only because he knows pounding the sides of the foxhole will only draw the attention of the enemy and is useless, and without that toughness survival is unlikely. Evans and his ragtag group of stragglers could be wandeirng through zombie infested Pittsburgh for all we or they know - it gets to the same core of why we love those films, the escapism when we're reminded how easily all our paltry problems and obsessions are just a distraction, a sleepy curtain, veiling this raw simple real of whoever's on your team vs. whatever else comes along.
Fuller's actual war experience makes his spirituality move far beyond religions or borders, or even life and death. When Sgt. Zack (Evans) watches his young war orphan guide Short Round (Spielberg used the name for Indy's sidekick in TEMPLE OF DOOM) turning a Buddhist prayer wheel or singing "Auld lang Syne" which is also the Korean national anthem, for example, you can feel Zack's respect for even this simple gestures, he knows they are so much more important than things like dog tags, burials and objectives and rank. Fuller's awareness of the power that little motions like this can have--butterfly wing tsunami-style--in the greater scheme of war. In a situation where every movement might be your last, everything is imbued with profound significance, and in this the American soldier of Zack's strange integrity begins to understand how the Asian Buddhist mentality works.
But none of this is enough to make Zack 'break' in the emotional manner of Spielberg's "The Mission is the Man" heart-bleeders. I think there is a lot of great moments of emotional group acting in RYAN, especially in the scene when they're gathered around the dying medic played by Giovanni Ribisi, and Tom Sizemore's character seems inspired a bit by Sgt. Zack, though the idea of lugging around 'dirt' from different countries in an already heavy pack seems like something made up by a screenwriter.
For Fuller, though, humanity outflanks mere respect for each others' differences - especially around the varied reactions to the Buddha statue in the temple where the second half of the film plays out. Though eventually when Zack jumps on the the statue and uses at as cover during the climactic firefight, you realize that when push comes to shove, it's just a statue. That's the difference, again, between Spielberg's queasy sentiment and Fuller's iron-clad compassion.
I love the casual way these guys bump into each other, light matches off each others' helmets, using them as hand railings when climbing over each other like a litter of puppies, sticking cigars in each others' mouths, guiding their progress with hands on their chests, saying cool stuff like "I'd be crossing the Army if I brought you luck to live." - a whole code of issues about the best jobs to have and various companies are seamlessly integrated into daily talk. I noticed this when having lunch with a bunch of Rangers headed for Iraq about five years ago. Their favorite word was 'jihad' - "I'm putting a jihad on this waiter if she doesn't bring us more coffee" -- Zack has that same hard-won, hard-bit sense of humor too, as with his insistence on the splendor of infantry life. When a soldier in his ragtag outfit complains, "when I get out I'm gonna join the air force, no more beetle-crushing for me," Evans replies "in war there's nothing like Infantry. You get hit and, dead or alive, at least you're on the ground." It's a good point that indicates knowledge of countless stories of drifting at sea on life rafts for weeks, or getting eaten by sharks, or burning to death in a plummeting B-17. To a soldier for whom every minute of life is a grace (the hole in his helmet a reminder he should be, and maybe is, already dead), the presence of the ground beneath his feet is a constant reassuring miracle.
In war normal boundaries are dissolved and boundaries between soldiers seems (in Fuller's films at least) the first thing to go, as when Zack comes tumbling into a ravine with a bunch of pinned down soldiers, all clumsy and awkward, then pops up completely relaxed, like a love-in version of a mosh pit. The one bow to Christianity is the mock-solemn way Evans examines and blesses his crew, Short Round particularly, finally tapping their helmet in the third eye, like a benediction. This kind of hands-on camaraderie creates intimacy without weakness. Like a good 70s dad, Evans creates the space for the others to enjoy and relax, he keeps Short Round alive and even paints him some dog tags; he takes pride in making some sense of safety possible, without bothering to participate in it directly. His natural grumpiness serves him well. His love is tough, and if it wasn't, he and his charges would already be long dead. Or die inland, like Short Round does.
Never try and fight with a veteran! No 20th Century Fox mogul can ever hope to be scary to a guy like Fuller unless he's got a fleet of Panzers or German 88 artillery. The end result of it all was worth the fight; there are things here about war you will learn nowhere else. Evans' relative anonymity helps his Sgt. Zack character resonate as 'real'- as does his no nonsense authentic veteran movements. Neither Evans nor Fuller needed military experts to tell them how it really was, and if, after all that gritty authenticity, Evans still emerges as a hero it's an honor due not just our medal-winners but every survivor of war.
At the end of RYAN, Matt Damon's elderly grandfather asks his wife "am I a good man?" While I never fail to cry at that moment, it's earned no matter how sentimental. I still think it's not a question Sgt. Zack would ever ask himself. War is not a place where dying for a friend requires a pre-agreement to 'earn it.' War is just a fucking bloody mess, and the idea of 'earning it' implies a core sanity or rightness which is the death of true courage. "Buddha bless you," Zack snarls to his dying prisoner, and the gruffness somehow makes it all the more effective - you feel it like a kick to the back of the head.


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I know I researched this for single layer DVDs a few years back and it seemed like both DVD-R and DVD+R were compatible with most players, but DVD-R was slightly better. So I went with DVD-R. Now I'm looking at getting a dual layer capable burner and I'm wondering if I should go DVD+R DL or DVD-R DL.
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Braking Issue
My focus has 48,000 miles on the original suspension and brakes. I've noticed that when I am under heavy braking the back end seems to "buck" up and down. Also, when braking from about 60+ mph, the steering wheel shakes pretty violently.
Has anyone encountered this problem? Any idea what could be causing it?
Just passing through; my quick guess; inspect your rotors and engine mount. (a combination of these two makes braking super scary, may just be time for rotors) . just an opinion to get the ball going =]
This sounds like a great time to visit your dealership so they can assist. I recommend making an appointment so they can perform an inspection and get this concern resolved for you. Let us know how things turn out.
Sounds like its time for new brakes and suspension :) Shaking wheel while braking is usually a sign that rotors need to be replaced. As far as the "bucking" it could be weak rear shocks. It's recommended to replace shocks/struts every ~60k miles (and maybe more often depending on the condition of the roads you drive). It's a bit hard to tell just from a description of the problem but that's what it sounds like.
i see you drive a 2010 se. do you know if that was ordered with abs?
ive got 130k on my factory equipment and a recent inspection has showed ive only used half of the pads and the rotors have no scarring and thats with "spirited" driving and some track use. so your mileage should have nothing to do with it.
now as for the rear end bucking there could be a few things to look for. a bad absorber or a bad control arm bushing. the latter is hard to diagnose and to find out you need to remove it from the car. not a hard job- you should be able to do it in the driveway but remember that there is a great deal of spring pressure on it so you may want so coil compressors. you can get that at harbor freight for $16 or borrow it from autozone for nothing...
a shaking steering wheel could be from a warped rotor but that alone will not make your wheel shake as you have floating calipers. the rotors could be heavily warped and as long as the caliper can follow the profile you would never notice any performance loss.it is when the caliper binds up on its slides that you feel the shaking. grab a can of caliper grease and brake cleaner then disassemble the caliper. remove the slides and wash them with the cleaner and make sure to clean the wells where the pins ride in. then grease everything up and reassemble. there are also some stainless slides for the pads scrub those down and slap some grease on them too but make sure not to put too much on as the excess will get squeegeed of and most likely will end up on the rotor
If they are not adjusted properly it alone can cause the bucking you describe. With such low mileage you shouldn't need rear brakes yet unless you do lot's of stop and go traffic and live on a dirt road.
I have about 150 000 km or 93205.68 miles on my stock rear brakes and suspension. I had pretty bad front brakes before i replaced them around 120 000km.. The only thing i noticed was the peddle pulsated under braking, didn't move the steering wheel at all. I have a pooched Right Front strut and don't notice any bucking, I also feel as tho my rear struts are "tiring". Hopefully my information can possibly help you narrow down the problems with your car
*Also I do not have abs
Sounds like warped front rotors, check how much pad life is left in the front and if needed change your front pads/rotors, grease up the slide pins with dielectric grease and use brake clean on the caliper bracket to eliminate any brake dust.
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AJK31 I would check your front pads and see how thick they are and also check rotors for high and low spots. Such has middle or something not being same height as the rest of the same rotor. Have them machined and replace pads if needed. I had a similar problem on my car I checked rotors and they weren't smooth as the rest in the middle had them machined at oreily for $20 and my problem went away.
As for rear moving up and down I have no idea what is wrong.
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Chapter1 (v.1) - Dreams of a Military Wife
As I sit on the bed reading a book and sneaking glances at your photograph a wave of tiredness over comes me, so I snuggle up to your pillow with your sent still lingering on it and try to sleep, I
miss you so much it hurts and I pray everyday that you will come home safely. Slowly I begin to drift off to sleep with images of you in my mind. You standing at the end of the aisle smiling the
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I wake to find you by my side reading a magazine, "hey honey," you say as if it's no big deal that you are back home. I look at you in wonder and crawl over to hug you and kiss you, I snuggle up against you and cry, I cry because you're here and you are save, I cry because I won't need to do this all alone any more. "What's wrong? Why are you crying?" you ask me. "How long have you been home? When did you get in? Why didn't I get a notification? I could have picked you up!"
"Oh don't worry about it Hun, I'm fine." You answer; you really think it's no big deal. You're acting like it's just a typical for you to just suddenly arrive home from deployment. Then I look closer, this isn't you. Who is this man? What is he doing here? Why is he acting like he is you?
"Baby, it's me, are you feeling alright?"
"Honey we have gone over this a thousand times, Eli is gone, you married me. Remember 2 years ago next Wednesday?" just then a small girl with pig tails and a face with ice blue eyes and a protruding, pink, bottom lip runs into the room crying and screaming, I try to pinpoint the resemblance in her face but I just can't think who she looks like; she runs straight to me and exclaims "mommy I pinched my pinker in the door!" just then the man pulls her off of me, "Navy sweetie, are you okay?" she nods and pouts a bit more "Avy momma's not feeling well right now can you go play for a while longer then I will come back and check on you?" she nods hugs the strange man tighter then and runs off on her pudgy little legs tripping slightly then catching herself.
The man turns back to me with a smile lingering on his face.
"Do you remember now honey?" I try quickly to gain a calm composure,
"Yes, yes, sorry. Would you like something to eat?"
"I was just about to start supper, you want some help?"
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I wake gasping for breath in a panic, where is she where's the little girl! Where are you? I have to find you! I spring off the couch in a hurry only to collapse on wobbling legs. So I crawl. I crawl to the kitchen to see if she is still there and find nothing. Really, nothing. No knife, no blood. No corpse. Nothing. I collapse in a heap on the ground and sob. It was just a dream. Just a dream nothing more.
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Please sign petition against the Gov't pay by mile proposal
The government¹s proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it.
The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a delivery driver.
A non working Mum who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in one month.
On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit you can expect an NIP with your monthly bill.
If you care about our freedoms and stopping the constant bashing of the Car/Van/Bike User, please sign the petition on No 10's new website: "
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im staying well out of this one.... after the agro that followed thr London Congestion Charge thread, i think my views on such matters are well and truly the minority (even among people who dont even live in the UK)
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Sorry, but i'm all for it, i do an average of 3,000 miles a year, at the moment i'm paying £140 tax to do that when someone travelling 100-200k miles pays the same.
If we really want to change things lets start a one horse political party, 'justice for drivers', if you take enough seats at local elections the gov will have to bow down and start listening to UK motorists.
You only need a few policies to get people on your side
1) Removal of all speed camera's that are not located in accident black spots or have been proven not to reduce injury/death.
2) More traffic police on the roads
3) Fuel consumption based taxation, no road tax, just a disk to show your vehicle is mot'd.
What will happen to this devise when you accidentally put it in the microwave and switch it or or 'accidentally' leave a very large magnet sitting on top of it
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Is making it too expensive to drive the goal over there? I understand that congestion and polution is a reall problem but is this the best way?
I think you missed the point here, the proposal isn't just for road tolls, reduced camera's, but you will have to place a tracker in your car that means they can always now where you are and how fast you are travelling - AKA Big Brother is watching you, wheres my freedom of movement gone, I'll be living in a police state soon
Secondly this won't dramatically help congestion or climate issues, but it will fund government spending on another round of intrusive legislation, etc etc but not on roads & transport.
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Man that is just ridculous.
Frankly, I don't care if anybody knew the places I go, since I've nothing to hide. But there are some people I'd LOVE to have their every move watched. How about sex offenders hanging out in their cars by schools etc. But it is a little creepy. Couldn't they just make it a odometer device that just tracks mileage?
DO you carry a cell phone now? You've probably already given up your freedom of movement.
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Granted, I'm not privey to the intricacies of British driving habits and all, but this certainly seems like the current administration is trying to drive the economy down the crapper! If people have to constantly pay just to drive their car, they might sell it and focus on mass transit, or not even decide to go to work at all because it would cost more to travel than what they pay!
As if insurance, congestion taxes, pollution taxes, fuel costs and expensive registering costs aren't enough... Come over hear across the pond guys! All you need to drive is money for gas, insurance and any monthy payments currently made on your car!
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the worse part about this is the road tax will not be abolished and fuel duty is already 80%. it's just another ripp off the motorist
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i have t say that the comments posted so far, without wanting to offend anyone, are extremely narrowminded to say the least
does anyone actually realise that something like 80% of car journeys in the UK are less than 3 miles!?
i reckon this is a good proposal, but there HAS to be concessions....
the system will not work if fuel duty, road tax and road tolls remain unchanged, and the government will be essentially commiting suicide if they proceed without ammending other factors of motoring to compensate
maybe i am with drg23 on this, and am the eternal optimist, but to think that this is a personal attack against drivers is just naive. think about it. why would the government choose to ostracise (spelling? sorry) themselves from probably the single biggest demographic, as well as the huge income potential of the motorist?
from what i know of the situation (and without bragging or causing offence to anyone here i do know a little more of this than some), if we do not start to think about the bigger picture, not only are we not going to have the economics that will allow us to afford the luxury of driving cars (coz it is really, everyone actually has an alternative, albeit not necessarily as convenient!!), but we wont have the space or capacity on the roads to drive in the manner that we are used to!
3 years ago when i started my curent job, it would take 35 to drive the 19 miles to work, accross the city centre then 10miles motorway. now, it never takes me less than 50 minutes! is this progress? hardly
ps, i car share with 2 other people
This is just crazy. I cannot believe that people would allow this. What is the point of this device other than to generate cash and keep track of everyone? What is this tracking information going to be used for?
You would love to say that it would be used for sex offenders or some other benevolent reason. In reality the innocent are always easier than the guilty for the government to prey on. The information will be used against the vast majority of innocent road users because you have more to lose. Johnny sex offender is probably going to be poor and wouldn't care if he had more jail time. Some times the security of prison life is better than the insecurity of life on the outside in which people shun you economically and personally.
Just for talking purposes, what would happen if everyone in the UK simply refused to put the boxes in their car? What could the government really do? Sure they could issue however many millions of tickets, but that in and of itself is a task that would be impossible. There isn't enough jails for everyone in the country nor enough courts to process all the cases either.
If fuel is already taxed, which it is, then mileage is already being taxed. I mean, it's even more fair, becuase if you drive more vehicle, you usually get worse mileage, and pay more tax per mile...
Or they could have installed an odometer device that doesnt track position or speed. However, this could probably be fooled easily (Ferris Bueller method? Oh wait, that didnt work..)
I would not be happy about this one if it were happening to me. Seems like too much potential for ulterior motives. In the US, they'd probably just make the proposal to Congress really long, and paper clip a 'rider' to the back that allowed them to use the device for speed infractions, etc.
I took a bus from London to Amsterdam, and the bus had a mileage tracking device on teh bus that would tell an officer if the bus driver had travelled too far or too long or if they had been speeding. This translated into a much longer bus ride for us (45 minute break required every 4 or 5 hours, NO speeding) But it forced the driver to obey the law.It made sense with ~70 lives hanging in the balance. For a personal vehicle? Heck no!
hooh-bloody-rah..... let me buy that man a cup of lovely tea
at last, someone that can think outside the box
if thi were to be implemented, despite the fact that i LOVE driving my car, and am probably the only one who gets to work with a smile on their face, i would gladly save myself the moeny and get the train to work.
yes it takes longer....
yes i would get a wet *** when riding in the rain
it wouldnt be the end of the world (no pun intended ) however
grrr.. *** = bottom!
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wow that is insane! I feel so sorry for you guys
That would suck sooooooo much.
You English lot deserve it. You've all had it easy for far too long.
Remember to vote.
I have some very selfish, but serious objections to all of the government ideas about screwing the average UK citizen/worker where it hurts.
I drive to and from work every day on the only road into and out of the village I live in, in the correct direction onto the ring road around manchester - this would undoubtedly be a high rate road, after which I take the only road from the ring road that will take me anywhere near where I work, all of these heavily congested as they are routes that people take as there are no other options.
Anyway my daily commute works out to be around an hour to 1.5 hours a day dependant on traffic, and costs me maybe £5 a day in fuel (ignoring the robbery that is road tax to quality of roads etc etc etc) if I were to take public transport as I have done in the past my commute is increased to over 6 yes that is SIX hours, takes me around three times the distance, makes more pollution per person and costs double what it would to use my car. (and involves 3 types of vehicle not including the couple of miles of walking each direction)
Yes, I will gladly switch to public transport when I don't have to leave my house at 5.40 am to get to my office at 9:10am and then returning home after 8:30pm after finishing work t 5:30pm...
The way this country is run, and how it works makes me very angry sometimes.... so apologies for the rant, just this sort of thing winds me up.... (along with the unlicenced, uninsured, unmot'd drivers/cars on the road, and the fact that i pay a significant amount of my wage to exist in tax, for which i rarely see anything in return - except of course police forces that can't be bothered, an nhs that has no money, roads that have big holes in, and all of the other gripes grumbles and etc that keep us british)
In reference to the odometer tracking idea, what about all those c900s that have busted odometers?
They could somewhat implement that, our inspection stickers show the mileage at the time of inspection, all they would need to do is tally it up, as seen here on our receipts
I do agree that maybe people convicted in DWI cases and other risky cases should be tracked, but I dont agree with everyday people who've done nothing wrong having to be tracked everywhere. And its my guess that it'll be you innocent folks who will be paying for this new wild infrastructure
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It's stupid... they already have that, it's called "gas tax". More miles more gas more money in tax. Added sideeffect if you drive a heavier car, that is harder on the road surface, burn more gas, pay more tax.
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There is no way for me or my girlfriend to get to work from where we live via public transport. We chose to move to our location as it was equidistant from each of our jobs (well nearly!) and the nearest city.
We do have buses, they only go to Derby. I work in Burton, taking me 20-25 minutes to drive. My significant other works in Ashby, taking 10-15 minute. If I went via public transport it would mean bus to Derby (45 minutes), train to Burton (15 minutes) and walk from there (30 miuntes) = 1.5 hours! I don't know if my girlfriend could even get to Ashby, maybe via Swadlincote, but it would take forever!
Some of us need our cars. I would love to use public transport if I could, the rat race to work and back does my head in, but I have no option. Well other than to move house!
Just quickly on the subject of speed cameras, road taxes etc etc (oh and the withdrawal of the 25 year free tax rule ), who voted for this idiot? Not me!
And that's enough politics from me, sorry.
What do they do with the road tax and fuel tax now? What about places like Milton Keynes that were designed for car usage? There is no transport system here worth using. Im sick to death of this poxy lot "running" this country. Personally I find this Government sinister - thats my rant -and im sticking to it,until I can emigrate- f*** 'em
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Modeling S Cometary Fluorescence Spectra
C. Laffont (Observatoire de Besançon), D.C. Boice (Southwest Research Institute)
We present synthetic cometary fluorescence spectra of the system of S , calculated as a function of exposure time of the molecule to the solar irradiation. The model S molecule contains 36 vibrational levels. To solve the 36 evolution equations governing the population of these levels, we used the Gear method for still differential equation systems where time constants vary by many orders of magnitude.
The initial population of the vibrational levels is obtained with a
Boltzmann temperature of about 200 K, typical of expanding gas at the
surface of a cometary nucleus in the inner solar system. We calculated
fluorescence spectra as a function of time after release of the molecule
from the nucleus, from very short times (several ns) to the steady
state (about 700 s). The synthetic S spectra obtained using this
method are compared to previous modeling efforts and to IUE spectra
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Another old mani using Illamasqua Devotee (candy pink with a rubber finish) and Color Club Revvvolution (black holo) on the tips and accent.
Such a nice shade of pink! Love this one! And Revvvolution, such an oldie but goodie holo.
Another old mani using Illamasqua Devotee (candy pink with a rubber finish) and Color Club Revvvolution (black holo) on the tips and accent.
Such a nice shade of pink! Love this one! And Revvvolution, such an oldie but goodie holo.
Illamasqua has released five speckled nail polishes in their newest collection Imperfection.
This is Illamasqua Speckle which has black glitter in a lilac base. I applied a thin first coat, and a much thicker second coat. I expected it to be thick from the get-go, but instead it applied a bit sheer on the first coat. The opacity builds up easily on the second coat though.
The glitter was not a problem. There's just tons of it.
So how does this compare to the DIY version that I did here? I think that the same look can be achieved using the DIY way. You just have to coat more glitter with polish to achieve that "drowned glitter" look. Or have a polish that is sheer enough to do some sandwiching, but that's opaque at the same time so that it doean't have too much of a jelly look. Ok I might be rambling. Hope you enjoyed the swatch!
P.S Happy Easter everyone! I wanted to try out some bunny nail art, but no time.
Illamasqua Faux Pas is a blue violet shade of purple with a rubber finish. It is very creamy and pigmented and one coat is almost good enough to cover the whole nail. I wore it with and without topcoat below.
On my index and middle finger is the rubber finish. It looks matte but with a satin sheen to it.
On my ring finger and pinky, I added a coat of Seche Vite for a glossy finish.
Glossy looks much better in my opinion. The rubber finish tends to look a bit dull after a while.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and after reading this post on thesubtleshimmer, I wanted to show my support by painting my nails pink on every Monday in the month of October.
Today I have Illamasqua Loella on my nails. It is a bright candy pink with a purple shimmer which looks beautiful from the bottle but does not translate well on the nails. This took 3 coats as it was still a bit streaky on the second coat.
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These are a couple of goodies (the others being nail polishes that were on sale at the time) that I ordered online from Illamasqua in early April, but which I received only recently due to, what I think is, some shipping error. It took me about 2 months before I noticed that something had probably gone wrong with my order since it hadn't been delivered. Besides, another order which I had made around the same time had already reached me a month before that. So I emailed customer service and after a very long and frustrating email exchange (where they kept referring me to some other tracking references that had arrived in Australia and some other unknown place), they finally decided to resend me another package at my request. I wouldn't have had it any other way, it was that or a full refund.
So anyway...here is what was inside the black box (besides the nail polishes).
The Neutral Palette from the Naked Strangers Collection
"Create sculpted highlights and stark contours anywhere on your face and body with these four pivotal Powder Eye Shadows. From our new antique gold shade, Vintage - exclusive to this palette - and matt shades Stealth (creamy buttermilk) and Wolf (rich chocolate brown), to the smoky charcoal depths of new shade Obsidian (rich black), express your inner light and darkness with riotous glamour."
Powder Eyeshadow in Bronx - described as a pale bronze gold (it was on sale too for half the price!)
All of them are very pigmented, soft and smooth, finely milled and they blend well. They might look kinda boring and all, but I like the simplicity of it. I am a fan of neutrals, so I am very pleased with all the colours.
MAC Tres Cheek is a collection of six powder blushers and the one I bought is called Modern Mandarin (described as a red-orange with a satin finish). It has good pigmentation as compared to some of the others I swatched which didn't show up too well on my skin. I
These days I don't go crazy over blushes as I used to, which is a good thing really.
Some blushes in the same colour family that I found in my stash!
(click for bigger swatch pic)
All the goodies here were bought during sales, 20% or 25% off at different times and I wanted to receive everything before doing a collective haul entry.
So what do we have?
Everything unboxed:
Bronzer in Writhe (golden tan)
"Shape, define, tempt and tease. Illamasqua Bronzer contains crushed pearl powder, for a smooth, even finish that leaves skin begging to be caressed. Apply to face and body for a beautiful bronzed glow that will last until dawn."
This was on sale at 30% off in the Summer Shop. Very very fine powder and super glowy.
Another 3 blushes for my collection!
Thrust - Deep Magenta Pink
Nymph - Warm Candy Pink
Panic - Deep Cherry Red
The first pic is closer to how it looks like in real. The second pic brings out the "cherry" tone of the colour.
Liquid Metal in Enrapture (Molten Bronze), also 30% in the Summer Shop
This is just one swipe of Panic! It's so bloody intense and pigmented.
And a little comparison between Illamasqua Panic and nars Exhibit A, both reddish matte blushes.
They don't look the same at all. Panic has more pink in it and Exhibit A has more orange, even though the latter is officially described as a Brilliant Red.
Again, only one swipe of Panic and like 3 swipes of Exhibit A.
Toxic duo box. Love the illustrations.
Woohoo! My first Illamasqua nail polishes!! Exciting for me cos I've always wanted to try them out but always found them a tad bit expensive (U.P: £13.50 each). I finally decided to take the plunge and go for the Toxic Duo in Radium & Stagnate during a 20% sale and it came down to £16.80 after discount. Force was on sale at 30% in the Summer Shop.
Force - Deep Electric Blue
Looks darker in real, almost a blurple. Couldn't pick up the colour with my camera. This could be a one coater if you like to apply your polish thick. If you apply a second coat, be careful of uneven layers because it has a tendency to settle fast as the formula is quite thick.
Radium - Acidic lime, shimmer finish
Applied a bit streaky, but a second or third coat will cover the streaks and bald spots. I have nothing like this in my collection and I think it will attract a lot of attention if I wear this to work because it is so bright.
Stagnate - Grey Mauve
Lovely application, had no problem at all and once again, could be a one coater if you apply thickly, but two coats will bring out the intensity and depth of the colour.
Hope you liked the swatches! :)
I bought some Illamasqua stuff on ASOS recently. The main reason was because they were on discount (~30% off or more) and it was just too tempting, especially with free shipping thrown in. It was also a good chance to get items that I wouldn't normally buy, like the liquid metal. So far, I've only ordered clothes from ASOS and these come in big plastic bag types of packaging like below.
I wasn't sure how they'd package makeup since it was my first time getting makeup from ASOS. I was scared the eye shadow would reach me in pieces. And so, in that same order, I bought a dress, thinking that if everything was shipped together, at least, the dress would help to protect the makeup and act as cushioning against shocks. Well in the end, this is what I received. A small box with air packs (what are these called?) to fill up the empty space, which is also how Benefit packages their stuff sometimes. The dress, which I received a few days later, was mailed separately.
So what's in the box?
Liquid metal in Superior (metallic sapphire)
UP £17.50 - on sale £11.03
Powder Eye Shadow in Preen (rich royal purple)
UP £15.50 - on sale £7.88
Precision Ink in Alchemy (antique gold)
UP £17.00 - on sale £10.35
Sheer Lipgloss in Electrify (iridescent baby pink)
UP £13 - on sale £9.10
I've got some more Illamasqua blush swatches for you. The boxed items below are from a spree organized by Jo and Hyd (click here to request for sprees and join the mailing list). The rest were bought from Farah's blogsale a while back. <3
L-R clockwise: Matt Primer, blush in Chased, Excite, Create, Tremble
Chased - Bright Rose Pink
Excite - Vivid Apricot
Tremble - Soft Lilac Pink
Create - Warm Peach Honey
Swatches on my inner arm:
Matte Primer. Milky consistency, spreads easily, smells sweet. Kept the oilies at bay for a few hours before I had to blot.
My first intense lipglosses! Bright, bold and glossy! Comes in a squeezy plastic tube. I find it a bit hard to apply. What's the best way? Straight from the tube or with a brush or with my finger?
I've been trying all morning to get the colour right on these pics, but hmm, they look like they photographed the same (especially sin and kiss which are both plum colours). Anyway, hope you enjoy the swatches.
I bought Beg and Sin off sg_beauty, so they're second-hand. Upon examining them, Beg was only slightly used and Sin looked like new. There were no marks or signs of use on its surface. Such a good deal!
The next four were bought online with the help of Farah (http://chocfull.onsugar.com/) during a recent sale. Expose, Kiss and Unrequited were going at 25% off, and Rumour was 50% off. I love SALES!
Swatches on inner arm:
And just for fun, I pulled out some of my more orangy colours for comparison swatches.


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Documenting The American Landscape
Landfills and prisons and dams, oh my! Visitors to the Land Use Database (ludb.clui.org) will find these and a lot moreâ€"bombing ranges, nuclear test sites, UFO sighting spots, the World's Largest Thermometerâ€"all cataloged with location information, links, and brief, often pithy descriptions. The database is a creation of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), a Los Angelesâ€"based research and education organization that since 1994 has been documenting the reshaping of the natural landscape in the United States...Part sober documentation of the man-made environment, part slyly humorous conceptual-art project, it's an enterprise that can take a while to wrap one's head around...Ultimately the emphasisâ€"despite CLUI's nameâ€"is on documentation, not interpretation.


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AN AUSTRALIAN model, allegedly caught with two ecstasy tablets on the way into a dance party in Bali, is facing up to 15 years in prison.
Michelle Leslie, 24, from Sydney, refused to answer police questions yesterday and appeared distressed.
An intelligence officer from the Bali drug squad, Major Mardiaz Kusin, said police had searched a car carrying Leslie and two friends to a dance party at Bali's GWK park the site of the first anniversary commemoration of the Bali bombing. Inside her Gucci bag they found two pink tablets wrapped in tissue paper. Major Kusin said one of the model's friends had asked her what she had; Leslie replied that two friends had given the pills to her at dinner.
He said Leslie told her friend she did not know what the tablets were. However, a contradictory police information sheet said that she had bought them in the street for $20 each.
The outdoor party, run by Jakarta nightclub Vertigo, is part of a new trend in Bali's lively nightlife. The all-night parties, popular with both wealthy locals and tourists, are known for their drug use.
Police intelligence had suggested there would be a large amount of drugs at the party, Major Kusin said. Many people escaped arrest, he said, because few cars were searched.
He said the raid was a routine operation and Leslie's car was the subject of a random search. Four Indonesians were also arrested with ecstasy pills during the raid.
He denied that foreigners were being targeted over drug use in Bali, but added: "We apply selective priority because we have limited police officers."
A test of Leslie's urine had not shown any drugs, Major Kusin said. The tablets themselves are still being tested.
The model has been arrested for possessing psychotropic drugs, a charge that carries a minimum term of four years and a maximum of 15. The final sentence is at the judge's discretion, and could amount to months.
Leslie, who has worked for clients including Myer and Antz Pantz underwear, arrived in Bali six days ago. Her arrest follows Schapelle Corby's 20-year conviction for marijuana smuggling and the arrest of nine Australians for allegedly attempting to smuggle heroin from Bali.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Leslie's arrest should serve as a warning to all Australians travelling overseas. "People should understand that if you are going anywhere in Asia you should never have drugs with you the consequences can be quite dire," he said.
Australian officials have visited Leslie in the Denpasar police cells and are also advising her family in Adelaide, who refused to comment yesterday.
Leslie's questioning is likely to take place today, after she has engaged a lawyer.
A second Australian was also reportedly arrested on drugs charges over the weekend.
Graham Payne, a teacher working in Medan, Sumatra, was arrested allegedly with a small amount of crystal methamphetamine.
He is facing drug possession charges which carry a potential jail term of nine years.
His interrogation was continuing last night.
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Beaches of free access in the area of Glyfada, Attica
The coast of Glyfada, from the area of the Olympics' installations within the former International Airport, up to the beach of Asteras, is composed by marinas alternating with patches of beaches with free access. You have at least five points suitable for swimming; in some of them you will find basic facilities, such as showers.
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In case of emergence you should address to the corresponding services of Glyfada.Access to these beaches is possible by every means. You will reach them by bus, with frequent service to and from all directions, by taxi (radio-taxi), as well as by rented or private car and motorbikes. If your lodging is near by, you may also get there on foot.
Asteras of Glyfada beach, Attica
The beach of Asteras (meaning "star" in Greek) starts just behind the old nightclub "Asteria" and is extended all along the small peninsula southern to Glyfada. It is situated only a few hundred meters far from the center of Glyfada and some 20 kilometers from the city center of Athens.
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What does the typical homeless family in your community look like? Most likely, the families and individuals in the programs in your community are coming from a pool of households who cannot or who can barely afford to pay rent.
According to HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R), those households typically look like a minority family with two children, most often headed by a single mother or a husband and wife. This family has work earnings as its primary source of income, but their low wages place them below the poverty line and in the "extremely low income" category, earning less than 30 percent of Area Median Income (AMI).
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Ahead of QLogic's earnings call three months ago, I wrote about the company's slacking financial performance and the market's rather surprising response. The networking equipment maker posted major declines for several consecutive quarters, but many analysts stuck with their view that the firm's strong OEM relations will be sufficient to reverse the downward trend.
QLogic's second quarter results eventually came through, but there was little reason to celebrate. The company fell short of the more optimistic predictions and the market's hopefulness cooled down for a stretch, right until Friday last week.
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Curtis Granderson, bullpen help Mets beat Padres, 3-1
NEW YORK – Daisuke Matsuzaka left after one inning Sunday because of what the Mets termed "severe stomach discomfort."
But the Padres were the ones who appeared queasy and weak-kneed after Mets relievers Carlos Torres, Vic Black and Jenrry Mejia got through with them.
Torres, who hadn't gone longer than 36 pitches or 2ª innings this season, allowed one run in four innings of emergency relief while throwing 63 pitches as the Mets made an early lead hold up and beat San Diego, 3-1, at Citi Field. The Mets somewhat soothed manager Terry Collins' stomach by winning two of three from the woeful Padres. They went 3-3 on their homestand and begin a seven-game road trip today.
The Mets have won only three of their last 12 games, but they were fortunate enough to be matched up against a team playing even worse. San Diego has lost six of its last seven and 10 of its last 13, and has been held to one or zero runs a major-league high 21 times in 2014.
Still, despite the quality of the opposition, there was a high degree of difficulty to this game because of Dice-K's condition. Torres, a jack-of-all-trades of the bullpen who has recorded two saves and has pitched the eighth inning several times, said he knew two hours before the game he might be getting an early call when he saw Matsuzaka emerge from the bathroom after vomiting.
Matsuzaka felt sick after eating breakfast. He said through a translator that he felt stomach pain and then vomited.
"I knew I wasn't physically fit to fulfill the starter's role," he said, "but I wanted to do as much as I could. That ended up being only one inning, causing our bullpen to [pitch] longer than they really wanted to."
"He told the trainers after he got sick he thought he could pitch," Collins said, "and then got sick in the bullpen again warming up. The first pitch of the game was 84 mph. I knew that wasn't going to work."
Matsuzaka, who was feeling better after the game, said he might be able to pitch in relief tonight to help out the tired bullpen. As for Sunday, Matsuzaka got through a scoreless first inning on 17 pitches, then Torres entered.
Torres said he didn't know how long he would pitch when he went to the mound.
"My job was to go out there and pitch one inning at a time and see what happens," he said.
Consecutive singles by Carlos Quentin, Yonder Alonso and Rene Rivera to begin the second cut San Diego's deficit to 2-1. But Torres (3-4) regrouped and allowed only two baserunners after that. Black and Mejia each pitched two scoreless innings.
"We're here ready to do our job," Torres said of the relievers. "This was obviously an extreme circumstance, something that doesn't happen every day."
The Mets getting a homer to lead off the game is pretty unusual, too. Curtis Granderson (left calf) returned to the starting lineup for the first time since Wednesday. He led off the bottom of the first with his ninth homer, crushing a 1-0 fastball from former Yankee Ian Kennedy (5-8) into the upper deck in right. It was his first homer leading off a game since he did it for Detroit on Sept. 27, 2009 against the White Sox, and the first for the Mets since Mike Baxter at Philadelphia on Aug. 30, 2012.
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A decision support system for sustainable urban development : the integrated land use and transportation indexing model
Dur , Fatih, Yigitcanlar, Tan, & Bunker, Jonathan (2011) A decision support system for sustainable urban development : the integrated land use and transportation indexing model. In Green Technologies : Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications. IGI Global, Hershey, Pa, pp. 388-403.
Broad, early definitions of sustainable development have caused confusion and hesitation among local authorities and planning professionals. This confusion has arisen because loosely defined principles of sustainable development have been employed when setting policies and planning projects, and when gauging the efficiencies of these policies in the light of designated sustainability goals. The question of how this theory-rhetoric-practice gap can be filled is the main focus of this chapter. It examines the triple bottom line approach–one of the sustainability accounting approaches widely employed by governmental organisations–and the applicability of this approach to sustainable urban development. The chapter introduces the 'Integrated Land Use and Transportation Indexing Model' that incorporates triple bottom line considerations with environmental impact assessment techniques via a geographic, information systemsbased decision support system. This model helps decision-makers in selecting policy options according to their economic, environmental and social impacts. Its main purpose is to provide valuable knowledge about the spatial dimensions of sustainable development, and to provide fine detail outputs on the possible impacts of urban development proposals on sustainability levels. In order to embrace sustainable urban development policy considerations, the model is sensitive to the relationship between urban form, travel patterns and socio-economic attributes. Finally, the model is useful in picturing the holistic state of urban settings in terms of their sustainability levels, and in assessing the degree of compatibility of selected scenarios with the desired sustainable urban future.
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