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Video: GRAND-AM Driver Ian Baas Stars in Latest APR Film Short for TT RS Entitled 'Daydream'
by George Achorn on 22 August 2012 in Aftermarket & Tuner News Video
When APR's Arin Ahnell told us the Alabama firm had gone and hired their own in-house film team we were left impressed. Video has long been a strength of this Audi tuner turned GRAND-AM race team and placing a firm and consistent strategy on the production of film seemed like a solid move. The product of their labor certainly confirms this.
Out of the box the crew released their first spot about an R8 Spyder owned by APR Motorsport GRAND-AM driver Jim Norman and tuned by APR. This month they've enlisted the help of longtime team Audi pilot Ian Baas and used him to show off their dreamy take on the TT RS.
As most TT RS owners already know, the release for the APR Stage III kit for these cars is imminent. To help keep everyone interested in while all the finishing touches are made, this film provides plenty of shots of the car in action. It's the stuff of a day dream really and that's just the point.
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Happy 30th birthday, Britney Spears, and I hope the next decade is less volatile than the last. Remember when she was a Mouseketeer?
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Gymnema Sylvestre is a plant that grows in the tropical forests of central and southern India and in parts of Africa. Gymnema Sylvestre has been widely used for years and its preparations have profound actions on the modulating taste, particularly suppressing sweet taste sensations.
For this reason, Gymnema Sylvestre is known in Hindi as gurmar, or "sugar destroyer". Other benefits of Gymnema Sylvestre include weight loss, anti-allergic, antiviral and lipid lowering activities. Gymnema has been used in patients with Diabetes to control sugar levels because it lowers the sugar available in the stomach for absorption, raises insulin levels and blocks dietary fat absorption.
Side Effects of Gymnema Sylvestre
There have been no documented side-effects at the doses used for taste reduction. Japanese researchers found that there were no toxic effects in laboratory animals treated with Gymnema sylvestre in doses comparable to a 200 pound male taking 40,000 mg a day for an entire year, and each lozenge of Stop-It contains only 50 mg of Gymnema.
Ogawa Y Gymnema sylvestre leaf extract: a 52-week dietary toxicity study in Wistar rats Shokuhin Eiseigaku Zasshi. 2004 Feb;45(1):8-18.
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am I an americanist?
Odd encounter at a conference today (not the one Ange's been blogging, but a much smaller one):
Scholar of contemporary culture, film and fiction #1 (pointing at me): "Is he an Americanist?"
Scholar of contemporary culture, film and fiction #2: "He's a poetry person."
Was that a version of "No"? If not, what was it?
Now socc&f#2 was right: I am a poetry person, both in the sense that term carries within academia– most of the prose I publish concerns poetry– and in the sense it might have in the wider world– I like poetry and read a lot of it; sometimes I even publish it myself.
But socc&f#2 raised a question: if an Americanist is someone who studies and has ideas about American culture, or someone who tries to decide what has made that culture the way it is, can you be "an Americanist" and be a poetry critic these days? Can you be an Americanist and be a poet?
50 years ago the answer might have been "of course": Robert Lowell, Charles Olson, and LeRoi Jones/ Amiri Baraka, who agreed on almost nothing else, appear to have agreed for much of their careers that American poetry could do something to and for some politically significant slice of American culture– indeed, they sometimes described their mission as poets in ways that conflated the making of poems with the useful analysis, the diagnosis or the exorcism of something called America. (Lowell, I think, eventually changed his mind.)
150 years ago the answer would have been (had the term "Americanist" been around) "aren't we all?": poems– not the ones we read now– were everywhere, and some of them were bestsellers.
These days critics who do not define themselves primarily as poetry critics usually ignore poetry entirely; people who ask big questions about the direction of American culture-in-general don't usually look at poetry.
Should they? If they do, what poets should they seek? What poets– this is a different question from the two before it– seem to want to describe something called America, the way Pinsky once did? Does it work? What poets– could it be most poets, these days?– view an Explanation of America as too ambitious to be practicable, or too general to be of much use, or too far from any project we might want our own talents, now, to undertake?
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Being an Americanist today is not only too wide a task, it is also too narrow. It depends, no matter how you cut it, on the idea of a national (ist) poetry. For an outsider, one of the biggest problems with a lot (not all) of American contemporary poetry might be the unthinking persistence, even in some of its supposedly subversive tendencies, of its self-important, taken-fo-granted, inward-looking, even unironic Americanness. The fact that others might be listening is quickly forgotten. It's hard for me to think of this mode as anything but a subconscious imperiousness. It is the palimpsestic notion of America as a kind of beacon.
"English" English poetry, on the other hand (I wonder if you agree) has already taken a beating it cant recover from. An explanation of England could only be conducted in the harsh, self-conscious and intricately specific way that Geoffrey Hill conducts it.
I don't know if I have anything to add to Vivek's comment, but I have to say I completely agree with him — both as a first-generation American mutt and as a former expat. For even so brief a time as I spent living in the Middle Atlas Mountains, it was hard to escape the realization that, indeed, others are listening, and judging.
Just as Vivek, in another Harriet comment, pointed out the difficulty in assuming such a thing as "Indian poetry," it seems too easy to talk about even "a lot" of American contemporary poetry. Moreover, lots of people living in the U.S. are from elsewhere (or their ancestors were), and the least imperious among us worry, and perhaps not enough, about the effects across nations of what we do here. It's perilous to assume a uniformity of American culture, politics or, to use Brian Phillips' term with trepidation, "taste."
"Lots of people living in the U.S. are from elsewhere"—and lots of Americans are not in the U. S., including, of course, one of the current Harriet bloggers, A. E. Stallings. As an American writing poetry in English in Switzerland, where I have now lived for 12 years (and I was in Germany for four years before that), I often wonder whether I really still count as "an American poet."
Vivek makes good points about American poetry, and about the inward-turned attentions of so many people who think about American literature and American poetry as categories. But I don't think he's being fair to the English: indeed,he's encouraging the American tendency to dismiss English poetry (except Hill) without having read any (except Hill). are Denise Riley, David Constantine, Carol Rumens, Michael Hofmann, Alice Oswald, R. F. Langley, Lavinia Greenlaw, John Stammers, and Patience Agbabi all hopelessly unambitious and un-self-critical? (Granted, Riley is technically Scottish, but her growth as a poet took place in England; Hofmann likes to say that he's German– but that may speak to the international attentions you can find, if you look for them, within English verse.)
I too agree with Vivek on how the conjunction of Americanist and poetry person creates a slippery-feeling slope sliding toward nationalism. But interesting to note that Whitman (his name inevitable here) wrote in a time of greater political, spiritual and social upheaval & sectionalism than we have now. His "Americanist" tendencies, including the imperialist, were aspirational, not reality-based. Perhaps the difference is that no one much cares to aspire to such nationalism anymore. The aspiration is out-moded, pretty much intolerable given the political climate and the likely uses it would be put to (if anyone bothered picking it up). And yet, Whitman's writing (which I'd written off for most of the last 20 years, but whose 1855 Song of Myself is worth returning to for the ways it constantly redirects assumptions of meaning) creates such a useful space for thinking about nationalism versus me-ism.
I think the Americanist/poetry-person divide is a live question. Could the most profitable Americanists writing poems now be building senses not within borders (as Whitman tried to, his encompassing reaches), but across them? Thinking here of more recent books by Cathy Park Hong or Claudia Rankine… Or maybe even, Juliana Spahr's "Connection of everything…" These writings, each with an "I" that constantly crosses the nation's geographic and poetry's stylistic borders…
Yes, Americans, like many other nationalities, have a problem with chauvinism, self-aggrandizing narcissism, and ignorance about the rest of the world. American global power tends to exaggerate these problems.
But one gets bored with this typical mea culpa of American shortcomings – so familiar now, so fashionable.
Perhaps someone could do a comparative study of the successes & failures of contemporary multicultural and multi-ethnic coexistence within particular societies. The United States might not fare too badly by such a measure (though we display, of course, deep historic failures in that area, too).
I don't simply want to defend "Americanism", though. What I would like to point out is that the US, like every other country, has its own distinctive history of development and change – its own cultural ecology, so to speak. If one wants to understand our literature, past and present, one should read it within the context of that particular history – rather than dismiss it, reductively, as a parochial epiphenomenon of "global English".
I feel like you maybe caught the opposite of what I was saying. I wasn't dismissing contemporary English poetry at all– I was saying just the opposite, that English poetry can no longer afford to be grandiosely pre-occupied with its own Englishness (unless in the fascinating, complex and self-conscious way of Geoffrey Hill, a poet I admire very greatly, intensely particular but somehow anything but parochial, shot through with global–including, for instance, African– history in a powerful way). The poets I do know on your list– Hoffman, Agbabi, Riley, Langley, Greenlaw– and others like Prynne all, without exception, seem to challenge and subvert the idea of Englishness in so many ways that it seems slightly ridiculous for them to come under the purview of "English Studies". None of them, I think, would be so foolish as to unironically embark on the next Great English Epic. The only person who is doing something sort of like that is Hill, which is why I brought him up as the exception that proves the rule. In fact, a recent link off Silliman's blog linked to a bizarre essay that lamented the lack of "English poets". This, I take to be reflective of the fact that the sun has indeed finally begun to set on the British raj–though the decline is not yet complete and may yet take a few more decades.
I don't mean to romanticise the English poetry scene. It's parochial and inward in its own ways–as all national poetry scenes still are– and personally I find the poetry coming from Manchester on north to the Scottish revival far more interesting and exciting (with a couple of exceptions like Hoffman, Prynne, Riley, etc). But just to say that England cannot make a national mythology for itself anymore, nor would there be many English poets to participate in that project.
You say the US, "like every other country" has its own cultural ecology– but do you take "country" for granted? Why should national boundaries necessarily circumscribe and describe cultural ecology? Why can't we think about the cultural ecology of places or towns or cities, for instance as opposed to nations? That would certainly have a less abstract, grandiose character. Or indeed, what do we make positive use of the placelessness of the net? It seems to me that different kinds of non-national cultural ecologies have now become possible but have not been fully realised, or have been played out in lopsided ways because of the persistence of the nation, and of empire. It's strange to see thousands of American poets come online just to have a dialogue with other American poets– though it's nice to see this at least sometimes subverting the previous dominance of the coasts.
All I'm saying is that our relationship to boundaries, especially national boundaries, should change. And it is changing, even as I type. Kent Johnson and Joshua Clover strike me as examples, only examples, of two American poets who, in different ways, seem somehow inter- or trans-national in their approach. There's Fulcrum, a journal which (full disclosure) I am connected with. Stephen, for instance, you are directly in touch with up to the minute contemporary movements in English poetry in ways that would have been fairly rare for earlier generations of American poets (am I right?); the pages of Poetry and other magazines register this first stage of the shift, the rapprochement across the atlantic. Silliman stated last year that he couldn't "hear" much British poetry, but I wonder, reading between his links, if that's starting to change. Don Share, from the American South, is editing Basil Bunting for the English– how did they let him do that! Just kidding. So this is something. But hopefully the rapprochement across the atlantic ought to be just the first step. Perhaps next it might be useful to just peek over the border to see what's been happening in Mexico all these years after Paz….
I'm not saying that we can wish the nation away, or that we are not all products of national histories in some ways. I'm just saying we should be self-conscious about this and try to imagine the next step after national poetries.
I'm not saying, of course, that nationalism is only a disease that affects the Americans. India is on the rise as a colonial power (the orange juice i drink comes is harvested in nepal by the local branch of an indian company; "we" have an air base in Tajikistan, etc.) and I am extremely wary of anything like an Indian national poetry– the flows that would suppress, block or obscure. The Indian press goes to ridiculous extents to tell the narrative of the rise of Indian literature– even cooking up a whole competition between India and Pakistan for the Booker prize! ( see http://jaiarjun.blogspot.com/2007/10/more-from-journalistic-hyperbole-dept.html and
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/oct/17booker.htm )
But none of this takes away from the fact that it is still possible for some to conduct the business of American poetry and Americanism without reading anyone from anywhere else, while poets from the rest of the world, regardless of what language they write in, will most certainly be reading large chunks of poetry by Americans. When I first came to the US, my dorm-mates would express amazement about how much I knew about American culture, despite having grown up in Africa, with the subtext that they knew nothing at all about where I came from. The answer was simple: I grew up watching TV.
Very sorry for the over-long length of this comment.
I agree with much of what you're saying. Obviously, languages, cultures, nations & borders have always been hybrid, shifting, changing. & the U.S, does have a special, and glaring, problem with parochialism (cf. the widespread ignorance about other languages, other geographies). & on the other hand, as you say, some of the most interesting poetry in English draws on a curiosity about distant and differerent literatures.
All that being said, however, I remain skeptical about arguments which try to link fine-sounding general ideas about internationalism, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, etc. etc. with the concrete and distinct practice of poetry-making. There can be a downside to "globalism" in literature just as in economics. A flattening-out, a sameness : an erasure of the unique by the glib, the superficial, the sophisticated. When global writing is premised on a shallow set of ideologies and inter-cultural rivalries, rather than on a felt knowledge of one's own particular past and traditions, then the stage has been set for more bland "global" art and literature, more translations of translations. Furthermore, it seems to me that a work of art or poetry should be approached and evaluated on its own terms – that is, the language which is its medium of expression, and the aesthetic-thematic materials which are thus expressed – rather than within some current ideological framework of vast global implications (though the particular work may ndeed manifest just such implications).
I wonder what folks make of the recent remarks made in answer to Stan Apps on the subject of avant vs. rear garde over on Tony Tost's blog, e.g.:
"If a contemporary writer believes (as I do) that we're currently in a moment of a vast dilation of American cultural and political and economic assumptions via the process of multinational capital, where what was once taken to be difference will now (and always as a 'now') be seen as a hodge-podge of particular present instantiations of globalization/Americanism (re-framed as an example of the vast buffet of stylistic options available to the contemporary consumer, and that globalization of the marketplace alone makes possible), I don't know how one can't see the rejection of the authority of precedence as not being symptomatic of this larger tendency. If American consumerism owns the present, and seems intent on owning the future as well, a refusal of precedent, or of tradition(s), seems to be a really strong home field advantage for this particular type of standardization."
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SocialPulse Chat is a unique Facebook App to give users ability to chat in 22 (Indic) languages. It also lets you access your wall, groups and post in 22 languages. The photo editor is very intuitive also. You can type up captions in 22 languages and post it on the photo or use various English Fonts with different sizes and save it along with the text and post on your wall or groups, friends' wall or groups. Apart from letting you access your wall, groups and checkins, the app lets you access your friends' wall, groups and checkins.
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ASV Archive
The American Society for Virology Archive serves both to collect and preserve official legal and historical material directly relevant to the establishment and maintenance of the Society, and to store and make available to the public material of general historical interest in the discipline of virology.
For more information or to make contributions to the archive, contact Rich Condit, Chair of the Archives Committee.
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The official ASV archive has both a legal and an historical purpose. Legally, as a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization, the Society is required to keep all business meeting minutes and treasurer's reports. These are maintained in the archive and updated on a regular basis. The archive also contains correspondence and records relating to the establishment of the Society, plus copies of the programs and abstracts for all of the annual meetings since the founding of the Society.
The official ASV archive is housed at the Bancroft Library in Berkeley, California. It was established in 2004 by the then Secretary/Treasurer Dr. Sidney Grossberg. At the time of its creation, Dr. Grossberg provided the Bancroft library with documents dating from the creation of the Society in 1984 up to 2004. In 2009 Dr. Wolfgang Joklik, founder of the Society, provided materials from his personal files to the Archive. Dr. Sondra Schlessinger supplemented the archive with additional materials during her tenure as Chair of the Archives Committee. Anyone can view the archive by contacting the Bancroft library, and the archives committee is attempting to provide on-line access to some of the more interesting documents of historical interest.
How the American Society for Virology was Founded, by Wolfang K. Joklik and Sidney E. Grossberg provides a first hand summary of the founding and early history of the Society.
General interest
Virus Images / Foundations of Virology
Frederick A. Murphy's extraordinarily comprehensive pictorial history of virology, plus an extensive collection of electron micrographs of viruses taken by Dr. Murphy.
Viruses: From Structure to Biology
Created by Sondra and Milton Schlesinger, this site provides a unique perspective on the history of virology featuring numerous interviews with the scientists who made groundbreaking contributions to the discipline.


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Kalam calls for nuclear weapons-free world
Nuclear energy is required for power but nuclear weapons lead to mass destruction and should be destroyed, said Kalam.
Shimla: Making a strong plea for a world free from nuclear weapons, former president A P J Abdul Kalam on Saturday said "universal pressure" should be built to ensure destruction and non-proliferation of such arms.
"Universal pressure should be built for a nuclear-free world," Kalam said while addressing a gathering at the historic Gaiety Theatre in Shimla.
"Nuclear energy is required for power but nuclear weapons lead to mass destruction and should be destroyed," the leader said.
At the 'Fundamental Duties to Strive Towards Excellence' colloquium, he said in response to a question that "there are more than 10,000 nuclear weapons in the world and USA and Russia have signed a treaty for reduction of nuclear weapons and it is hoped that both the countries would abide by the treaty."
Lauding the role of scientists in achieving food sufficiency and raising foodgrains production to 250 million tonnes, the leader underlined the need for a second "Green Revolution" to meet the increased demand of 340 million tones by 2020.
"We need to prepare an exhaustive plan taking into account factors like water, power, fertilisers, pesticides, seeds, crops, finance, storage, warehouse and stakeholders for synchronised action to achieve the target," he said.
Kalam, who also interacted with students, called for a second freedom struggle for "economic prosperity" and said that lawyers, who played an important role in the freedom movement, must take the lead to bring about this change.
Exhorting students to strive for excellence in whatever field they choose for themselves, he asked them to "exploit their full potential, have passion to chase their dream and enhance their capabilities."
On the role of teachers and family in the upbringing of children, he said that parents should be instrumental in giving a "spiritual home" while teachers should be role models and inspire the young.
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The love of the car is often reflected in the details: with dark chrome radiator grille, side window trims and rear lettering in the new design package for the Passat, for example. The anthracite-painted 18 inch Chicago alloy wheels with five double-spoke design and gloss finish are also an eye-catcher. These are combined with a 15 millimetre lower sports suspension which is specifically tuned to match the wheels. Tinted rear and side windows match the dark chrome and wheels.
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This series of notes written by James Dinwiddie begins with a series of questions and answers related to various topics in physics. The notes continue with a series of questions and answers in mechanics followed by expanded notes on gravity. The last section outlines centrifugal forces. This file consists of sixteen pages of notes.


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Thousands join Hong Kong campaign to keep out Chinese motorists
More than 7,000 people were Monday backing an online campaign against a scheme which will allow 50 mainland Chinese cars a day to cross the border and drive on Hong Kong roads.
The group on the social networking website Facebook was set up after the scheme was announced by the Hong Kong government last week.
Up to 50 mainland Chinese motorists will be allowed to drive into Hong Kong every day, up to a maximum limit of 350 at any one time. Drivers from Hong Kong will also be allowed to travel to the Chinese border province of Guangdong.
Those against the scheme claim it will make the city's roads more polluted and less safe as drivers from China will find it difficult to adapt to driving on the left, a legacy of its colonial past, compared to the right in China.
The Democratic Party has also collected 1,400 signatures protesting against the scheme and on Sunday more than 200 people attended a rally in the city's Victoria Park urging the government to scrap the plan.
The protest comes at a time when tensions are rising between Hong Kong people and their Chinese mainland neighbours following a series of cross-border spats.
Many are particularly vexed by the tens of thousands of pregnant mainland women who cross the border every year to give birth in Hong Kong, putting a huge strain on public hospitals.
Earlier this month, a group of Hong Kong residents took out a full-page newspaper advertisement calling mainland Chinese visitors "locusts" in response to comments by a Beijing professor which called Hong Kong people "bastards," "thieves" and "dogs."


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Hi all BMW drivers in the North if Ireland.
Anyone got any idea where i could bring my BMW 540i to see a specialist bodywork person who is creative and is a perfecionist?
I have Eibach suspension, the front bumper is an aftermarket bumper and is a little lower than the rest of the kit. As a result its on 4cm from the ground OUCH. I don't want to remove the suspension nor change the bumper but need advice from a perfectionist of my options and what i can do..
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England boss Roy Hodgson handed Manchester United duo Michael Carrick and Chris Smalling recalls for the crucial World Cup qualifier against Poland at Wembley.
With Kyle Walker suspended, Hodgson was forced to make one change from the side that defeated Montenegro on Friday.
Smalling got the nod ahead of Red Devils team-mate Phil Jones to make his first appearance since the draw in Montenegro last March.
Carrick was the biggest call though as Frank Lampard lost his place.
The midfielder has been used sparingly since confirming his international return immediately after Euro 2012.
However, Hodgson felt the 32-year-old's ability to retain possession could be vital to his side's chances of getting the win needed to secure a place at next summer's Finals in Brazil.
The remainder of the England line-up was the same, which meant a second cap for Andros Townsend, who was so impressive on Friday.
England: Hart, Smalling, Cahill, Jagielka, Baines, Carrick, Gerrard, Townsend, Rooney, Welbeck, Sturridge Subs: Ruddy, Jones, Gibbs, Wilshere, Lampard, Milner, Barkley, Defoe, Sterling, Lambert, Forster.
Poland: Szczesny, Wojtkowiak, Jedrzejczyk, Glik, Celeban, Blaszczykowski, Mierzejewski, Krychowiak, Sobota, Mariusz Lewandowski, Robert Lewandowski Subs: Boruc, Wasilewski, Jodlowiec, Polanski, Zielinski, Klich, Wawrzyniak, Peszko, Sobiech, Rzezniczak, Fabianski.
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Halftime Report: GSW 54 v. HOU 31
It's been a while since I have been able to watch a game and find the time to report and when I started watching this game during the second quarter, I couldn't help but cringe at the 41 vs. 27 score…and it only got worse as Curry and David Lee continued to put in baskets and as Delfino, Lin, and Parsons continued to miss theirs. Harden is the only Rockets with double points and even he has only 11 and it's already halftime!! Curry is leading the GSW with 16pts. Lin does have 7pts and made a 3pter and he is the ONLY Rockets playing at 50% from the field at this time. Both Parsons and Asik have 4pts. They need to really get it together in the locker room and come back strong during the 2nd half…and they can definitely do it!! They have come back strong, like they did Friday against the Timberwolves, and they have played very well against the Warriors before…so no doubt in my mind that this game can still be a Win!! Stick with me, I will update this post after the game. 🙂
3rd Quarter: GSW 75 v. HOU 60
Well I don't know what McHale said to his Rockets during the halftime break but whatever he said worked!! The Rockets came back strong during the 3rd quarter!! Lin made a 3! Harden made a 3 and at one point during the game the gap was closed to within 10pts.
Final Score: GSW 108 b. HOU 78
The beginning of the 4th quarter should have been called Delfino's quarter. Delfino opened up the scoring with back to back 3s!! Both Delfino and Lin continued to play aggressively, but it wasn't enough to close the lead that the Warriors made in the first half of the game. Commentators mentioned that Lin and Harden were the only players who were playing at their usual capacity and I am not sure what was causing their teammates to lag behind, especially Parsons, who barely made any baskets. Jeremy Lin was named Landry's Rockets Player of the Game for his shooting and aggressive playing tonight. These past few games have really not been well for the Rockets and tonight was a very terrible loss…and I haven't been keeping up with my boys as close as I usually do, but I don't think there was a good excuse for being down almost 30 freaking points!! They started out very weak with missed baskets and even though they improved during the second half, it wasn't good enough to win.
Top 5 Scorers:
- Harden: 21pts, 10rbds, 8asts
- Lin: 21pts, 1rbd, 4asts
- Delfino: 12pts, 1rbd, 1ast
- Parsons: 9pts, 7rbd, 2ast
- Asik: 6pts, 11rbds, 1ast
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And this is just my random opinion…but this is the first game I really got to watch with Lin and his mouthguards and I just want to say, that I am not feeling that look on him!!
But I know, I know…I have to deal with it because I don't want any of his pretty teeth to get knocked out or chipped again like last time. Now that would be an even more horrible look on him…sorry Cole Aldrich, you would be so much cuter with your two front teeth. 🙂
And…here is a video link of him trying to talk with his mouth guards in. Jeremy even says himself at the end of this video how he really can't talk well and how the mouth guards are hurting him. (Thanks for the link Cath!!) I'm sorry but I couldn't keep my eyes away from his lips, which look extra plump and juicy, but at the same time they were such a distraction that I had a hard time paying attention to his words…especially with him licking and pursing his lips.
OMG…this video really is kinda hilarious to me!! LMAO!!
Ok…some other fans have brought to my attention that he is not struggling to talk with his mouth guard in, but that actually he is having trouble speaking because he busted his lip. Poor baby is always getting hurt!! Ok…ignore everything I just said about laughing at him…I would never want to hurt your feelings Jeremy!!


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DALLAS The 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid marked the beginning of the Disney renaissance, an era of animated features that reached a new golden age in the 2000s. But it was the stage musical version of The Lion King (1997) that made ticket buyers take notice of the Disney Theatrical Group.
The latter is still the king of the musical jungle because innovative director Julie Taymor transformed it into a theatrical event, with inventive puppetry and design, instead of making it a carbon copy of the movie, a la Beauty and the Beast.
Many Disney films have been re-created for the stage since then ( Aladdin opens on Broadway next month), but nothing has matched the creativity or popularity of The Lion King. Not even The Little Mermaid, which ran on Broadway for less than two years (a dud by Disney standards), starting at the end of 2007.
So whats a popular Disney princess to do? Reinvent.
A reimagined version of Disneys The Little Mermaid has made its debut in North Texas, courtesy of Dallas Summer Musicals. Directed by Glenn Casale, the musicals improvements are vast. Subsequent productions in Houston and Atlanta will follow, in hopes of a return to the Great White Way.
Where the 2007 version kept the sea creatures on the stage floor, floating on skates (or Heelys), this new version makes use of the entire stage box, bounded by the four sides of the proscenium, as the ocean.
Large patches of bubbles float by, and many of the fish/human hybrids, including the title character (Chelsea Morgan Stock) and King Triton (Steve Blanchard), fly through the water (flying effects by Kenneth Foy). So does Scuttle the seagull (Matt Allen) when flying above land. On the shore, the sea creatures bob in nearby pools as others walk on the beach.
It also helps that the original movies music was by Alan Menken, a composer with stage musical cred ( Little Shop of Horrors). On stage, his musical influences are even more apparent, from Kurt Weill (Ursulas fantastic Poor Unfortunate Souls, the best number in the movie) to Richard Rodgers (Prince Erics Her Voice).
Of course, the famous songs from the movie, including Under the Sea and Kiss the Girl, are there. For the 2007 Broadway version, Glen Slater and Howard Ashman created new lyrics; and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright, a Dallas native, wrote the book, and has reworked it some for this new, more cohesive version.
All in all, it makes for a thoroughly entertaining theatrical experience, especially appreciated by kids who love the movie and their parents and grandparents. And as always in Disney movies, the theme of inclusion and tolerance of others is prominent, but never preachy.
A big part of the success in Dallas is the design scenic by Foy, costumes by Amy Clark and Mark Ross, lighting by Charlie Morrison, soundscape by Randy Hansen and hair/wigs by Leah J. Loukas. Theyve done a wonderful job of evoking the underwater fantasy world, as well as with the whimsical costumes, which take the movie several fin-strokes forward visually.
The staging of the evil Ursula is especially amazing, and so is the actress playing her, the big-voiced Liz McCartney, unraveling her tentacles like a giant mink stole.
Also unforgettable is a scene at the top of Act 2 in Prince Erics (Eric Kunze) palace, as spying crab Sebastian (a terrific Alan Mingo Jr.) dodges the antics of Chef Louis (Timothy Shew) and the other cooks. Its a madcap feat of genius comic timing.
As Ariel, Stock has a lovely voice and captures that mix of curiosity and girlish innocence that we know from the movie (and the original Hans Christian Andersen story), and although Kunze is dashing and of fine voice as the Prince, he looks much older in his 30s than Ariel, which is awkward as she is probably 16 going on 17, if that old.
If this returns to Broadway, it should please many with the technical wizardry and stunning, fantastical design. It might even have an outside shot at taking The Lion Kings throne, although that likely wont be vacated for a very long time.


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Iowa City Landfill Fire Update - May 31, 2012
May 31, 2012
The fire at the Iowa City Landfill continues to burn over an approximately 7.5 acre section of the City's newest landfill cell. While the intensity of the fire has diminished over the last few days, City officials believe the area will continue to burn into next week. It is estimated that the equivalent of nearly 1.3 million tires are burning in the 7.5 acre fire area.
Protecting the health and safety of the public and workers onsite continues to be the number one priority for the City and all cooperating agencies. Also of primary concern is keeping the fire from spreading to adjacent landfill cells and to a portion of the new cell that was successfully isolated in the days following the fire's ignition. As weather conditions permit over the next several days, crews will begin to remove the over two hundred truckloads of shredded tires that were successfully isolated.
While the primary strategy remains to allow the fire to self-extinguish, the Fire Department continues to test various extinguishing methods including the use of various specialized wetting agents and burying the smoldering tires with ground cover. The effectiveness of these techniques, as well as the environmental ramifications of applying them to the entire 7.5 acre site, will be carefully reviewed before any larger-scale extinguishing efforts are pursued. The Fire Department has sought out and is applying methods and techniques for shredded tire fires that have been documented by the United States Fire Administration, which is an entity of the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency.
City officials also continue to focus on containment of the runoff created by the burning tires. As the tires burn, they produce an oil-based liquid that is being captured in the landfill's drainage system. This runoff is being safely captured and temporarily stored on-site as City officials, in cooperation with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, identify external facilities that are equipped to process this material.
The Johnson County Health Department continues to monitor air quality in the region and offers the following precautions to the general public:
Persons in the path of the smoke plume should avoid exposure to the smoke as much as possible. Persons who have respiratory, heart or other conditions which may be aggravated by smoke, pregnant women, and the young and elderly should shelter in places with outside sources of air shut off. Most home air conditioning units recirculate air from the interior and should be sufficient. Businesses and other structures which draw in outside air should close outside air sources if the smoke plume is present. Avoid outdoor activities such as exercising if the smoke plume is present. Nursing homes, day cares and other businesses which care for the elderly, very young, and persons with respiratory diseases should take special care to monitor the health of clients and to minimize exposure to the smoke plume.
Household refuse collection continues to be uninterrupted by this incident. Residents are encouraged to follow normal protocols for placing trash and recyclables at the curbside for pickup. Access to the landfill is limited to municipal and commercial haulers, as well as contractors with construction waste.
More information on the status of the fire is available on the City's website at www.icgov.org. On that website there is a continually updated Frequently Asked Questions section and copies of media releases. A photo gallery will soon be posted. The public can also track the event through Facebook by linking through the City's website or searching for Iowa City Landfill Fire. Updates are also available on City Channels 4 and 5.


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Carnival Fantasy
In 1990, the Fantasy became the first of 8 ships in her class. The Fantasy truly lives up to her name. The Fantasy is part of Carnivals "Evolutions of Fun" program with which she will be upgraded to include a Carnival Waterworks water park, a Serenity Adult Retreat and a renovated spa area. Fantasy has a Club O2 for the teens.
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Jeff 44 5 Bahamas14 users found this review helpful.
Its their oldest ship, but well maintained. The experience was overall positive, but the food left much to be desired. Perhaps its not fair to compare to other cruise lines that cost more, but I...read more
Alice Alford 65 6 eastern caribbean16 users found this review helpful.
Very disappointed, We left from Charleston Sc on Saturday afternoon. On Sunday afternoon one of the crew had a massive heart attack, and later that evening the captain decided to double back to...read more
Tammy 44 15+ Bahamas12 users found this review helpful.
This by far was the worst cruise I have ever been on, no dryer in room and could not provide one, they removed the room service menu from the room out of the bound book after my mother ordered one...read more
Allen 27 1 Bahamas28 users found this review helpful.
Ok at best. Events were not to terrible. Shows were really good. Not a lot of events or activities you could do though without paying a bunch of money for. Food was repulsive and how do you get...read more
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Our cruise was planned during spring break. This was my 3rd cruise, my husbands 5th and our daughters 1st. The ship was really nice, the staff was wonderful,except for one of the dealers in the...read more
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Being my first cruise I had no idea what to expect. There were 6 of us all together, 2 of which have cruised before. Boarding and parking were fairly easy and it took hours to get our luggage to...read more
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The worst cruise I have ever taken. This ship is no where close to the wonderful experience I have received on my other Royal Caribbean cruises. The ship was way too crowded, there were no good...read more
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We had a wonderful experience on this cruise. Previous reviews state that the ship is in disrepair, but I just did not see that at all. Everything was beautiful and well groomed. The staff was...read more
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DAD's Truck Stop goes old school with full service
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Most teens spend their summer working at the mall or the movies, but high school senior Chet Ellsworth said he is exercising his passion for cars as a fuel jockey for DAD's Truck Stop.
"On my first day this lady came in with a Porsche 911 Carrera. That was pretty neat," he said.
Chet not only fills cars with gas, he cleans windows, checks the oil, and will even run in and pay if you need him to.
"A lot of people come in and say, 'Man I haven't seen that in 20 or 30 years,'" he said. "Of course it was prominent in the 50s and still is in Oregon, but a lot of people do like it."
Peggy Skinner fills up at DAD's on a regular basis and said this type of dedication to homegrown values is what sets Idaho apart from the pack.
"It's a step back that I think has been needed for such a long time," said Skinner. "It makes people want to come visit. They were treated well when they came here and they want to come back."
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Light Up Alberta Doubles Down on Solar Electricity in Alberta
To Warren Sarauer putting a solar electric system on his roof was a no-brainer but when some innovative electricity retailers in Alberta decided to offer almost double the going rate for his exported solar energy he was ecstatic.
Sarauer is a big solar energy supporter - through his company Evergreen and Gold Renewable Energy he puts renewable energy systems into people's homes. But last year he tackled a project that would set an example for his clients, he built a net-zero office.
Sarauer bought an old, fading grocery store in the east Edmonton neighborhood of Newton and completely renovated it top-to-bottom to build a super efficient, solar-powered office for his company.
Today he powers his net-zero office space with a relatively small 8.5 kW solar system. According to the micro-generation regulation in Alberta Sarauer can sell any excess solar electricity to the grid at the same price as he buys electricity, a price that hovers around $0.08 per kilowatt-hour.
But this year a bevy of Alberta's small boutique energy retailers got together to do something really different. In Alberta's deregulated electricity market they launched Light Up Alberta, a program that offers a $0.15 a kilowatt-hour rebate for solar electricity exported to the grid.
So is it fair that solar should get a premium price? With an electric grid in Alberta that's dominated by coal Sarauer thinks so: "[Coal is] terrible for the environment. It pollutes our water, it pollutes our air and it contributes to our healthcare costs, which we all pay for. As a society we pay a cost, so yes I think it's more than fair that I get paid a premium for offsetting some of that."
Not only that but for a small business owner who is mindful of keeping costs down, the terms are quite attractive.
"I buy power at a little over $0.08 cents a kilowatt hour and I get to sell it back at $0.15 cents a kilowatt-hour. It's a no brainer, why wouldn't I do it?"
Spark Your Power
Light Up Alberta was spearheaded by a small, innovative retail electricity cooperative called Spark.
According to Paul Cabaj, one of the founders, Spark is "Alberta's first renewable energy coop" with a focus on supporting green energy development and providing some of the cheapest baseline power in Alberta. Spark has also promised to use 70 per cent of its profits to support renewable energy projects.
In order to build a renewable energy ecosystem in Alberta Spark joined forces with the other boutique retailers to offer the rebate. "Our purpose is to support green and we actually lose money on this," says Cabaj.
But does it catch the attention of people with small solar systems? Solar is in its early stages of development in Alberta, but when news of Light Up Alberta customers like Sarauer getting a $152 rebate starts to get around people will take notice, says Cabaj.
One of the goals of Light Up Alberta is to catch the attention of people considering solar and they've certainly chosen an effective tactic. This program can shorten the time it takes for a solar system to pay for itself by seven or eight years. It's not the sort of start-up support that will attract solar manufacturing plants to Alberta, but it does help solar energy keeners take those crucial first steps to installing and producing solar electricity.
Support for solar and other renewable energy technologies in Alberta's deregulated electricity market has been spotty at best. Cabaj was involved with groups trying to get a feed-in-tariff going in Alberta just like the ones you see in Ontario, Nova Scotia or Germany. When those efforts went nowhere Cabaj decided to try a voluntary, market-based approach. .
"We think that if we can get to the 10,000 customer range that's a pretty significant lobby group that can make a difference."
Even this small financial incentive could be enough to make rooftop solar a more attractive investment in Alberta. It's also a solid advertising tactic smaller retailers hoping to get noticed.
Cabaj says there are 450-600 micro-producers in Alberta and that Spark hopes to capture as many of those folks as possible. He thinks the solar rebate can help: "Suddenly the economics change, going from a 20-year payback to a 12-year payback. Then I think we'll see a lot more buy-in to this process," says Cabaj.
Ironically, a project like Light Up Alberta is possible because of Alberta's deregulated electricity market. The architects of the now 11-year-old deregulated system envisioned competition and dozens of electricity retailers offering differentiated products. But that hasn't happened and the incumbents, the retail operations of the city-owned utilities Enmax and Epcor, dominate with a little competition provided by door-to-door contract sellers like Direct Energy and Just Energy.
This voluntary feed-in tariff program is still just a small step, but being a small, nimble operation has its advantages. "We can actually be that centre of innovation that pulls the rest forward," says Cabaj.
It was a small municipally owned utility in Germany that started the renewable energy revolution in Germany with the world's first effective feed-in tariff. Can Light Up Alberta be the fuse that ignites Alberta's massive renewable energy potential?
For the full list of retailers offering the Light Up Alberta program see our Quick Facts tab at www.greenenergyfutures.ca.
Pangaea Market purchases electricity from Spark, a small boutique electricity retailer in Alberta that supports green energy. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures
Paul Cabaj is a founder of Spark electricity cooperative. Spark is trying to connect small solar energy producers with energy consumers. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures
Paul Cabaj of Spar, a retail electricity cooperative , talking to one of his clients, Vince Halwa at Pangaea Market grocers in Edmonton. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures
The solar-powered offices of Evergreen and Gold Renewable Energy in Edmonton. The company renovated an old grocery store to make it super energy efficient. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures
Warren Sarauer shows off his solar PV modules that also serves as a window shade to prevent unwanted passive solar heating in the summer. Surplus solar electricity is exported for $0.15 per kWh, double the normal price under a contract with Spark through the Light Up Alberta program. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures
The two-way meter on Warren Sarauer's business measures the electricity he purchases and the solar electricity he generates and exports to the grid. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures
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Nine to compete for Miss Nisswa title
Nine high school seniors will compete for the Miss Nisswa title at the Miss Nisswa Scholarship Pageant at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, at Lutheran Church of the Cross in Nisswa.
Contestants are: Anna Bieganek, Kaitlyn Christianson, Kara Hansen, Megan Hintz, Molly Palm, Samantha Rathman, Elise Runberg, Nicole Traut and Carissa Voels.
The Little Miss Nisswa Contest will be part of the pageant.
The event is sponsored by the Nisswa Area Women of Today.


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It has been a while since I have ventured towards the Graeter's line. I have no idea why besides variety, but after my trip to Columbus with fellow reviewer (Winston), it just reminded me truly how much I have missed the company and their products. Being an individual who thrives off mix-ins and a good base ice cream, Graeter's does nothing but meet those expectations to the best degree in my opinion (and very close to 2nd Street Creamery). Even though this pint (Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough) may seem boring and bland, it does nothing but deliver.
Upon cracking the lid, you are presented with a very fine, rich, and creamy vanilla base. The best part is that compared to a Ben & Jerry's it has a small aftertaste of a cheesecake/cake batter vanilla base, which is divine. Its very good to be honest, and it is perhaps one of my favorite vanilla ice creams (2nd Street Creamery is very close with their Can't Tell Me No! Cookie Dough). Also, if you know Graeter's, they do not short change you with mix-ins and you can even see that on the initial layer. Most ice cream pints you buy you do not see what you are getting into until you dig into the pint for a few bites. Graeter's on the other hand, from top to bottom, you are getting mix-in heaven. This is another reason why I truly love this brand.
The first bite was nothing short of great. A huge chocolate chip chunk (which Graeter's thrive off of) and a good dose of a creamy and cake batter like vanilla base that has a very lasting aftertaste and acts as the perfect compliment to a chocolate chip piece. Now if you are new to Graeter's, you may wonder how large and why these mix-ins are so large? Well that is how Graeter's' is. Some of the chunks I have seen, like when I got a brownie Sundae at a Graeter's Scoop Shop in Columbus, are as long as 1/2"-3/4" in diameter. It's honestly like they took a Hershey bar and failed at breaking it up in their pints or their scoop shops. Don't be surprised when you run into a very thick/dense mix-in. This is a normal sighting and my second piece of a chocolate chip was the exact same way (the one not on my spoon in the picture).
As I ventured my way through the pint, the mix-ins continued to get larger and larger and more profound which is pretty common in a Graeter's Pint. The cookie dough balls are in every other bite, and the chocolate chips are in the bites in between, so every single bite you are leaving with a nice mix-in with a very good base ice cream. What is crazy, is that if you look at all the mix-ins, the pint is nearly 50% ice cream and 50% mix-in (and sometimes even more mix-in than ice cream). The cookie dough pieces are good, but not the best. I would rank 2nd Street's Can't Tell Me No! Cookie Dough superior due to the cookie dough swirl it offers, but the chocolate chip pieces in this really makes Graeter's a close call for my favorite cookie dough flavored ice cream in pint form. The cookie dough pieces are a nice size and remind me of the ones in Ben & Jerry pints like Half Baked and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (Graeter's pints has a better base and better mix-ins than Ben & Jerry's version in my opinion).
Overall though, it tastes like you wrapped some fresh cookie dough right into a small circle and threw it right into the fold. If you are looking for a divine swirl, look to 2nd Street Creamery. If chocolate chips in large masses were up your alley, this pint would be something to highly consider. Again, I would rank Graeter's above Ben & Jerry's base/mix-in wise, but this is very on par with 2nd Street's Can't Tell Me No! Cookie Dough.
Where Bob Found It: Giant Eagle
Bob's Grade: A


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Quote of the Cervidae
This would seem well-nigh indisputable:
For years I've joked that lions don't need to actually hunt deer they could just tie a flashlight to their forehead and run in a straight line through the woods, and the deer would fling themselves into their path.
So says the Nightfly, seeking to comfort Morgan after a close call. (And who but Morgan would title a post "The Deer's Ass," anyway?)


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Tue., April 16, 2013, 6:20 a.m.
Ed task force gets earful in Lewiston
The governor's education stakeholders task force heard concerns about funding, teacher salaries and standardized testing at its public forum in Lewiston last night, the Lewiston Tribune reports; click below for a full report. The newspaper reports that three of the 31 task force members attended the forum, though another report from Idaho EdNews says four task force members attended; tonight, the task force has a forum in Coeur d'Alene, at 6:30 p.m. in the North Idaho College student union building, Lake Coeur d'Alene Room.
Idaho's ed task force gets an earful at meeting
Kevin Gaboury,Lewiston Tribune, Idaho (MCT)
Members of the Idaho Task Force for Improving Education received feedback from several teachers in Lewiston Monday night, ranging from salary concerns to complaints about standardized testing.
Three members of the 31-person statewide task force were in attendance at the meeting at Lewis-Clark State College, including Idaho Sen. John Goedde, R-Coeur d'Alene, and Steve Higgins, president of the Idaho Association of School Administrators and principal at Grangeville High School.
State Board of Education member and task force Chairman Richard Westerberg gave attendees an update on the group's progress. The task force was created by Idaho Gov. C.L. (Butch) Otter after the repeal by voters of the Students Come First legislation in November and has met on four separate occasions since. Seven community forums will be held in cities across the state this month.
A major goal of the task force is to have 60 percent of Idaho citizens ages 25-34 receive some form of postsecondary education by 2020, Westerberg said. Most of the best jobs in Idaho require at least a bachelor's degree, he added.
"It's an economic imperative because that's where the jobs are," he said.
The three focus areas of the task force are fiscal stability, structural change and effective teachers and leaders, Westerberg said. The recommendations and input from citizens will be taken back to the full task force in May.
In all, six people spoke at Monday's meeting. Lewiston second-grade teacher Alex Church raised concerns about the large discrepancy in teacher pay between Washington and Idaho. Principals can make up to $13,000 more per year in Washington, he said.
"Idaho needs to put more money into salaries to recruit and retain teachers," he said.
Lewiston teacher Jill Schmidt said she has taught for 32 years in Idaho, and she has found standardized testing is not the way to measure student proficiency.
"To base it on one assessment is sad and it's wrong," she said. "There's more to children than a test. I implore you that we look at the whole child in what we do."
Idaho Rep. John Rusche, D-Lewiston, said he has watched the Legislature "serially underfund" education for the last nine years.
"Funding is probably one of the major issues," he said. "You can't even get average results with bottom-of-the-barrel funding."
Lewiston kindergarten teacher Melinda Genoway said more focus should be placed on the state's earliest learners, but this cannot be done without adequate funding.
"We're requiring more than we ever have of kindergartners," she said. "With the common core, they're expected to be reading and writing stories."
She added that paying teachers for performance is a "divisive technique."
Ken Krahn, a retired educator from Lewiston, said Idaho ranks near the bottom of the 50 states in education because "we're hiring teachers to be baby sitters, not educators," he said.
Idaho needs to fund education from the bottom up, not the top down, he said.
"I'd like to see the state of Idaho step up and give our teachers the chance to teach," he said.
Gaboury may be contacted at email@example.com or (208) 848-2275. Follow him on Twitter @KevinGaboury.
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Two women working for a PR firm were allegedly harassed and their male colleague physically assaulted by two motorcycle-borne men at south Delhi's Nizamuddin on Saturday evening, police said.
According to police, the duo began following the victims, who were aboard a Toyota Etios car with three of their male colleagues, soon after they had set out from their office on Birbal Road and were headed towards a coffee shop on Mathura Road around 4.30 pm.
"In their complaint, the victims claim that the bikers began following them when they were taking the right turn at the Neela Gumbad roundabout after which they started staring, and passing comments at the women," said an officer.
Minutes later, the victims informed the police, the men intercepted them as soon as their vehicle turned towards the Zakir Hussain Marg, prompting one of their male colleagues, who was driving the car, to ask the duo what they were doing.
It was in reaction to this, the victims claimed, that one of the men got off the bike, approached their vehicle and tried opening the door near one of the women.
"The driver, however, protested and got out in a bid to try and hold off the man. A scuffle ensued during which the driver was assaulted even as the others inside the car tried contacting the police control room and the biker's associate joined him — this time, with an iron rod in his hand," the officer said.
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Awesome stuff Daz!! I'll be sure to put in some overtime at work so I can afford one of these beauties. :jet pack
Awesome stuff Daz!! I'll be sure to put in some overtime at work so I can afford one of these beauties. :jet pack
Haha, he better be painting it for me for that price! It's a great pack, but I just couldn't spend $500 on an item that I made myself for $15 worth of trash cans
Great job DAZ, I hope to see more great work comming from you soon! Do you have any projects you're planning on next?
I love the the stabilizer mini-tutorial!
Awesome job on the pack!
I wonder if the harness comes with the diver buckle? That is, assuming that the harness will go around your waist. That'd be sweet if it did!
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It will not.
It's one of the best looking packs I have seen. I was studying the pics and comparing the MLC v2 to DAZ's new scupt. They are both amazing and very close in detail.
I will say that on Daz's the computer imaging he used to make his sculpts helped out a lot in making the details and edges a tad sharper on the pack. It looks like it was manufactured by a machine it is so precise.
Now it all comes down to preference, and MLC has some competition.
Any chance of us NOT useing first names here??
Well the name used is previous said post, is not the :jet pack makers actual name , Soooo?
Whats the problem dude? I'm Alex, have you something to hide or just in a bad mood? Nothing wrong with first names, as when I last looked it wasn't a secret society!! And Daz's work is always first class, I will be getting his jp when I can afford it!!!!shortimer52 said:
I also dont understand why we cannot write first names... I think that when the same BM post here, always ends writing his name, DAZ. So... what´s the problem ???
Once again, and back to the topic, I will let you know when I received my brand new #2 JP, and take some pics to share with you all !!!
Yea, and the abreviation of BM just makes me giggle every time I read it. I think of my grandparents complaing about being stopped up.
That is one bad mofo! Maybe I will have to sell my MLC to finance a BM.
ahh too late.. man it's a beauty :thumbup
Shorttimer, lighten up bro, Daz isnot his first name btw, and... he himself signs every post here....
If i'm not mistaken is'nt your full name on your public webpage ??? sup wit dat bro ? Cmon, no tudes needed here. We still love ya
Ya Daz is just his nickname. Ive had my first name up since the start though. I guess its all about choice.
Cant wait for mine to arrive!
BM has out done himself this time!
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I think the problem with first names lies in the fact that new people wont know who you're talking about; they know the residents by their screenname, not actual name.
Personally, I can go either way; if you don't know who someone is referring to, you can ask.
That, is a thing of beauty, the one thing that bugs me is how easy he makes it look in his build up.
Publicly announcing names of a prop maker on a forum is just asking for GL to call in the law and get all the cool and neat stuff yanked for good from that maker. Its happened before b/c people loosely used names and it will happen again if people keep it up. So chill out is a great idea, and thats find if yall want to jump on me for making a statement that might be a little harsh. But in the long run the names should be left to PM and not posted in the open.
BTW no my full name is not on my web page, last thing I need is a bunch of yahoos googling me.
Once again, let´s get back to the topic
Amazing JP by Bobamaker !!!


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Olm Facts
Scientific classification of the Olm: Proteusanguinus
Kingdom of the Olm: Animalia
Phylum of the Olm: Chordata
Class of the Olm: Amphibia
Order of the Olm: Caudata
Family of the Olm: Proteidae
Genus of the Olm: Proteus
Species of The Olm: P anguinus
The ancient lineage had an interesting species among the amphibians that has evolved over 190 years and is now popularly known as the Olm. This snake like specie is an inhabitant of caves and subterranean waters and more interestingly, is blind. The adaptation of olm over all these years has inspired several researches and studies on outstanding organ functions of the sole surviving cave living European chordate.
Pictures of Olm
Some Interesting Facts about Olm
Distribution of the Olm
These species are mostly occurring in parts of the southern Croatia, certain parts of Herzegovina and Bosnia.
Description of the Olm:
Among these species, the male and female look almost identical. They can be identified only with their size and cloacae. The males are somewhat smaller than females and have a thicker opening.
Habitat of the Olm
.Food habits Of the Olm:
These species are carnivorous by nature and mainly feed on snails, small crabs, and insects. They simply swallow the food without chewing. It can survive for long hours without food because of their ability to preserve large amount of food in the liver as glycogen and lipid.
Behavior of the Olm:
Adaptation of Olm
It is an interesting fact that Olms are blind. Their eyes are covered with a thin layer of the skin. Hence we can only imagine how difficult their lives must be. However their survival is ensured through their highly advanced sense organs that help them adapt to adverse conditions.
Reproduction of Olm
The Olms are not confined to a particular breeding period. They can mate at any time. During the breeding period, the males retaliate and fight amongst themselves in order to fortify their territories. They also produce a secretion called pheromone to attract females.
When a female enters his territory, the male tries to attract her by biting her tail with his flanks. The female also uses her snout to touch his cloacae. Once the process of mating begins, the male injects spermatophores into the cloacae of the female. This is done several times during the day.
The females usually lay 70 eggs within rocks and stones and always try to safeguard them until they hatch. The tadpoles that come out of the egg are about 2 cm long. They take 4 months to become adults but become sexually mature by 7-14 years.
Life span of Olm
Olm has an average lifespan of 58 years.
Conservation status of Olm
According to the report of IUCN, their lives are in deep trouble. Their existence is constantly threatened due to water pollution. In order to save this rare species it is desired to avoid throwing unwanted waste and toxic materials in water.
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Newsweek and The Daily Beast report that, "In less than the span of a single childhood, Americans have merged with their machines, staring at a screen for at least eight hours a day, more time than we spend on any other activity including sleeping." The effect is not positive.
Newsweek writes that it's "not the technology itself or the content," but that electronic media has become an addition, fueling cycles of mania followed by depressive stretches.
Studies found abnormal white patterns in the brains of excessive Internet users, the article reports, and that "the brains of Internet addicts look like the brains of drug and alcohol addicts."


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