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Boomerangs are the in choice of weapons in the games. Below is a list of boomerangs.
There is of course, the standard boomerang. They might not be the fanciest 'rangs in your arsenal, but these beauts have gotten you out of more than one fix. You always have a pair of them at hand to sling at baddies or use as makeshift wings. These trusty Boomerangs are TY`s standard weapons and are at hand at all times (unless they've been thrown of course).
Special Boomerangs
Aquarang: This is the only 'rang that you can use underwater. Its hydrodynamic design lets it slice through the water like a normal boomerang flies through the air. Use a pair of these as fins and you yourself can zip through the deep blue like a greased-up platypus.
Chronorang: This is the last technorang in Ty 1. Using Julius` latest Invention, the Trans Temporal Transistor, the Chronorang can affect the time field around Cass` henchmen causing them to slow down.
Deadlyrang: This long-range 'rang lives up to its lethal name. On impact it sends up a big mushroom cloud that sends any creature caught up in it to the great beyond. You cannot purchase this 'rang until you have purchased all the standard 'rangs. This Boomereang cannot be bought in the first game.
Flamerang: Harnessing the power of the Fire Thunder Eggs, the Flamerang handles the same as a boomerang with some obvious extra features. It can melt ice, create fireballs on impact and burn away spider webs.
Doomerang: Like the Deadlyrang, you can only purchase this 'rang once you have purchased all the standard 'rangs. Simply put, this is the most powerful boomerang ever created. With this 'rang in your paws, Boss Cass and his minions don't stand a chance! In the first game, this boomerang was only usable in the final battle; in all other cases, it was held by the non-playable Sly.
Freezerang: The Freezerang`s powerful icicles instantly put the deep freeze on bad guys. This Boomerang`s chilling power is so potent, it can even put out blazing infernos. Like the Frostyrang, this `rang also can form stepping stones of ice on water.
Frostyrang: Using the energy from the Ice Thunder Eggs, the Frostyrang can put out fires, freeze enemies and can create ice stepping stones in water.
Infrarang: This ingenious 'rang lets you see things you wouldn't normally be able to see. Switch to it to reveal hidden objects, spies, even fake ghosts, It also flies a lot farther than your average boomerang.
Kaboomarang: This rang is made from the rare outback element Exploderium. Fire off two of these boomerangs and watch as they cross paths and trace out a graceful figure-eight pattern. When they finally collide, not much will survive the resulting explosion. Good for busting open metal crates, too!
Lasharang:Get to those hard-to-reach places by latching on to special hooks and swing your way across chasms and gaps. You can also spin enemies into the ground. The more you spin them, the more opals you get.
Lavarang: When mere fire is not enough, unleash the volcanic power of the Lavarang. Like the Flamerang it can burn objects and obstacles, but it also creates a large spurt of lava on impact and burns up any enemy in the splash radius. The lavarangs devastating firewall creates an impact strong enough to even defeat Cass` Uber Reptiles.
Megarang: Using Julius` patented Super Seeking Technology, the Megarang can target up to three baddies in a single throw. It is ideal for those highly populated areas, and great fun to watch bouncing from one confused frill to the next. While the Mk1 was an exceptional rang, Julius felt that it could do with a bit of a spruce up and hence the Mk 2 was born.
Multirang: The Multirang is just like a normal boomerang, but it can`t be thrown as far. What`s the payoff? TY can throw up to four at a time from each hand! What it lacks in distance it sure makes up for in speed.
Omegarang: If you thought the Megarang was powerful, get a load of this beast. Fire Omegarangs off at enemies and crates as fast as your paws can fly then let the special ricocheting action do the rest. This rang is equiped with Julius` New and Improved Super Duper Seeking Technology. Just throw it at a bunch of enemies and watch it seek them out in turn.
Smasharang: If your normal boomerang isn't getting the job done, switch to the Smasharang for some extra muscle. This tough customer can bust through doors, walls, even metal crates. And of course, it does a nice little number on baddies, too.
Thunderang: Stun Boss Cass's henchmen with a burst of thunder. A blast from this 'rang sends out a concussion wave that knocks bad guys to the ground. The bigger the enemy, the quicker they recover from the shock.
Warperang: The Warperang upgrades the Lasharang's low-tech rope with a Trans-Dimensional warp coil. In addition to swinging from rings, you can also target special crystals to teleport through fences, onto high-up platforms, and to other hard-to- reach places.
X-rang: Like the Infrarang, the X-rang reveals hidden objects. Unlike the Infrarang, however, you don't have to switch to TY's View to see those objects. It also reveals Madame Mopoke's secrets in the Mini-Map (if you've bought maps from her).
Zappyrang: Shock the bad guys into submission with the Zappyrang. However, that's not the only thing the electrifying power of this 'rang is good for. You can also use it to jump-start old equipment such as broken-down generators.
Zoomerang: With a built in telescopic sight, the Zoomerang has the longest reach of all the rangs. You can use it to zoom in on far away objects. It is very useful for allowing Ty to snipe large groups of foes from a distance to avoid a large brawl.
Doom Chassis: The Doom Chassis offers ultimate manoeuvrability combined with above average upgradeability. Four upgrade slots are more than enough with the Doom Chassis pin point precision.
Duo Chassis:The Duo Chassis is the first available upgrade from the Mono Chassis. It has the capacity for two stones which makes it the cheapest opportunity to mix and match.
Lash Chassis: With slots for 3 rang stones, the lash chassis brings upgradeability to the lasso style rang. Finally TY can swing through the outback whilst devastating the fallen fauna.
Mega Chassis: The design of the Mega Chassis was based heavily on the Megarang. It retains the ability to hit multiple targets, but with four upgrade slots, it is more powerful than ever.
Mono Chassis: The Mono Chassis is the base for all of the rang chassis`. It contains just one upgrade slot and is in the shape of a standard boomerang.
Ring Chassis: The Ring Chassis contains more upgrade slots than any other chassis. Weighing in with a massive six slots, the Ring Chassis circular shape is the key to its huge upgrade capacity.
Shadowring: The Shadowring is the chassis of an ancient weapon hidden by Gooboo Steve in a very hot place. When combined with the Shadow Stones, it creates a weapon with enough power to defeat the Quinking.
'Smash' Chassis: With a whopping five upgrade slots, the Smash Chassis has the potential to add even more oomph to the already dangerous Smasharang. Caution must be used when throwing this rang.
- Krome Studios received a lot of angry messages because in Ty 1, the Doomerang was only used in the Final Battle, and they nerfed the Doomerang controls in Ty 2.
- In Ty 3, the player can put special Bunyip stones into slots in the rangs. This can either give them special abilities, or improve their performance. For example, put one Fire stone and one Mega stone into a Mega Chassis to get a cross between a Megarang and a Flamarang.
- In Ty the tasmanian tiger 3 when you throw the Shadowring / Shadow chassis it looks likes Shadow the hedgehog icon.
- The Shadowring / Shadow chassis is the only chassis that you cannot put Bunyip Stones in.
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Need a suggestion on stripping
I'm still working on my '46 Chevy Panel trying to get it ready for painting. I'm working on stripping the front inner fender panels down to bare metal now and its taking a longer and harder time than I want. They have surface rust on them but under it is what looks like a black or dark brown paint of some kind. I've been using the sander and 3M stripper wheels and drill, which I've already burned one up, it works good just takes a long time. I tried some Klean-strip Aircraft stripper on a spot, left it set for an hour+ and didn't hardly get any of it off. Took some Lacquer thinner to it and made it nice, clean and shiney, but didn't take any off. Any ideas?? Anybody??
Dude...are YOU ME?
I've been through 2 cheapy drills with 3M pads in my quest to strip my panels. Your best bet really...is to just find a place locally that will sandblast the panels, and have them do it. Alternatively, if you have a compressor, buy a sandblaster and do it yourself.
I can say without a doubt that using any kind of power tools, or even pneumatic tools will take an ungodly amount of time. I've been using a D/A Pneumatic Sander with 80 and 40 grit disks to strip some of my panels...and it takes waaaaay too long, and I go through waaay too many discs.
I think I am going to take my own advice and find a place with a sandblaster.
I've been working a 29 Willys and old cars do have some tough stuff on them. The Aircraft brand stripper is pretty good stuff and I've found that if it's put on real thick and then covered with plastic it'll stay wet and can be left overnight and you'll get your monies worth out of the stripper.
Another thing to consider is to block sand with 80 grit and leaving that old paint/whatever there. If it's on that good it'll stay on for another 75 years or so.
Damn pepoz. I used my 3m abrasive grinding wheelz on the die grinder with the 5 hp compressors. My 7 layers of paint came off in a heart beat. ONly let the Paint stripper sit on for like 30 mins cause it starts getting crusty.(at least in las vegas) THe die grinder helps alot though.
If you scratch the surface of the old finish with some 40 grit sandpaper it allows the stripper to penetrate better. Brush the stripper on heavy in one direction and walk away, let time work for you. When you come back bring along a stiff wire brush and some # 4 steel wool pads. And trust me on this one, cover your eyes and as much skin as you can. Good luck
I've tried to remove that undercoating also. I found that if the stuff is stuck on real good and doesn't chip off with a paint scraper then your best bet is to leave it. If it doesn't come off easy then it did its job and protected the metal underneath and the metal is good. Unless you plan on seeing the areas that its on then just leave it and POR-15 right over it and around it.
If you plan on seeing the area then good luck in getting it off. Sand blasting takes forever and you run a good chance of ruining the metal, stripper works only a little at a time and you'll need alot, and the grinding disks just clog right up fast.
Maybe a hot putty knife will scrape it off easier.
Listen to Richie and the others with simular comments. I just stripped a 51 ford. I started by washing the car,let it dry, with purple power, I then put a 50 grit sanding disc (heavy duty)from the welder shop, not from the hardware or paint store on my sander. It will go to the metal prettty quick. I then took air craft stripper and put it on thick (rub only one way, not back and forth) to get the rest of the paint off. I stripped my door, in about two hours completely from start to finish.
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Thanks for all the info guys. A lot of info to work with now. Tomorrow when I get off duty its back to work time hopefully easier.
My advice for stripping, is to always take off your top first, don't show the downtown till last or you won't get the most tips.
seriously though, I started stripping my malibu a few years back and ran into brown stuff all over that roof. my dad informed me that its fiberglass they used to fix hail damage back in the early eighties. There was no bare metal cept in sparce places.
a very good idea that i guess not many know about cause i haven't heard it on here before is to take a regular die grinder with a cutting wheel set up on it and take off the cutting wheel. then take some BROWN scotch brite and cut two 4 inch squares out of it. put them together where there are 8 corners and poke a hole in the center. put it back together in the place where the cutting wheel (used) to go. --be sure and turn down the power (rpms) on the die grinder-- if not it will just sling off the scotch brite. hook up the air or plug it in and adjust the rpm.
sound crazy? try it. it will take off anything. FAST!
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This season has been a disappointment thus far for UC. Some people in my live chat during the WVU game were asking who the last team to go from BCS to not making a bowl were. The truth turns out to be it happens more often than you think. To say the Bearcats are alone in struggling after a BCS bowl bid would be wrong.
Regardless of what happens the rest of this season, a pressure certainly has been amped up to return to top of the Big East next year more than it would have been if UC owned a better record right now.
But it should be noted this year has been one of the worst for teams who were in BCS bowls the previous season. I went back through the last five seasons and found records of the BCS participants the next season.
This year, three teams are at .500 or worse with UC, Georgia Tech and Texas those taking a step backward.
Jones mentioned Texas in a press conference earlier this year and his points are well-founded. This can happen to anybody. Sure, it's disappointing, but is Mack Brown a terrible coach all of a sudden, because of a dip in performance? Has Texas lost it?
It's unfair to compare UC's developing program to the history, tradition and recruiting classes of Texas, but the principal holds true: No matter how good the program -- even as recent as a year ago -- it all runs in cycles.
Remember, Texas played for the national championship last season.
Notre Dame went from BCS to 3-9.
Two of the recent Big East powers to cycle through and endure coaching changes were West Virginia after Rich Rodriguez left, they went 9-4 the next year under Bill Stewart.
Louisville after Bobby Petrino left went 6-6 under Steve Kragthorpe.
In all, seven of 48 BCS teams finished .500 or worse the next season.
Fifteen of 38 returned to the BCS (Ten this year TBD)
The average record of a team one year after the BCS is: 9.2-3.2
The overall record is 404-154.
Here is the individual breakdown
BCS teams - Next season record
-- B before record stands for return to BCS bowl game
Alabama 8-2
Texas 4-6
Georgia Tech 5-5
Iowa 7-3
Boise State 9-0
Florida 6-4
Cincinnati 3-6
Oregon 10-0
Ohio State 9-1
Florida B13-1
Oklahoma 8-5
Texas B13-1
Ohio State B11-2
Utah 10-3
Alabama B14-0
Virginia Tech 10-3
Cincinnati B12-1
Penn State 11-2
Ohio State B10-3
Kansas 8-5
Virginia Tech B10-4
West Virginia 9-4
Oklahoma B12-2
Georgia 10-3
Hawaii 7-7
Illinois 5-7
Florida 9-4
Ohio State B11-2
Notre Dame 3-9
Louisville 6-6
Wake Forest 9-4
Boise State 10-3
Oklahoma B11-3
Michigan 9-4
Texas 10-3
Penn State 9-4
Florida State 7-6 (.500 in reg season, won bowl game)
West Virginia 11-2
Georgia 9-4
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There are some things which I consider to be a must if you're serious about turning visitors to your website into customers.
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Email subscribers are worth their weight in gold to small businesses. If you don't run a regular email newsletter, it's time you started.
There are potential customers out there who are happy to receive information on your products and services, but you have to be able to let them sign up to get it.
Putting an email signup box in a prominent place on every page of your website is a good way to attract people who are interested in what you do. You can then keep in touch through a regular and professional email using a platform such as MailChimp or ConstantContact which will allow you to track your results.
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Do you have your company contact details on every page of your website or just tucked away on your contact page?
It makes sense to make it as easy as possible for people to contact you. Not everyone will make a decision to buy or contact you at the same point on your website. Don't make it hard for people to get in touch with you – if you had an offline shop would you hide through the back when there were customers waiting?
It may seem simple, but people are very fickle online and will go to another website if they can't find what they're looking for quickly and easily.
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Having fresh content to link to is also useful for any social media sites you're on such as Twitter or Facebook rather than just retweeting other people's blog posts all the time.
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The EPA has found synthetic hormone-disrupting chemicals in shampoo preservatives and many of them can be found in products that claim to be 'natural' and 'organic.'
The most disturbing of these is antimicrobial preservatives, called parabens, which have proven to disrupt your endocrine system.
The endocrine system regulates every function of your body. The hormone, estrogen, is secreted by ovaries and regulates fertility, pregnancy, menstruation and fat cell activity. Too much estrogen can cause problems including weight gain, fluid retention, and depression.
So what can you do to avoid these parabens?
Check your product labels for these terms:
- Propylparaben
- Parahydroxybenzoic acid
- Parahydroxybenzoate
- Methylparaben
- Ethylparaben
- Butylparaben
- Benzyl-parahydroxybenzoic acid
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- Propyl-parahydroxybenzoic acid
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Sodium Lauryl Sulfate
The same ingredient which produces all that foam and lather when you shampoo your hair is also the ingredient used in car washes and garages as a degreasing agent!
In the medical journal Cancer's 2007 review of mammary carcinogens, dioxane was identified as one of the 216 chemicals which was linked to breast cancer in rodents.
You've been told to avoid MSG in your food, but MSG is more than likely in your shampoo, often hidden and referred to as amino acids, yeast extract, nayad, glutamic acid, or glutamates.
Propylene Glycol
This active ingredient is found in engine coolants and antifreeze, airplane de-icers, tire sealants, rubber cleaners, polyurethane cushions, paints, adhesives, enamels and varnishes. Despite the fact the material safety data sheet warns users to avoid skin contact with propylene glycol as it is a strong skin irritant and can also cause liver abnormalities and kidney damage, it's probably in your shampoo.


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The Toshiba Encore is an 8in tablet that runs the full version of Microsoft's Windows 8.1 operating system
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The ASUS Vivo Tab RT has build quality issues, a cramped physical keyboard and limited Windows RT apps
Microsoft says the decision to drop the 'RT' branding from its second generation Surface tablet was a move made to address consumer confusion between the scaled down, tablet-optimised operating system and its regular Windows 8.1 OS.
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Mine got a 32" LCD TV, bunch of DVD movies and standing orders to get her CCW class or else
This is a discussion on What did you get your other half for Xmas within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Just curious to see what all the married men and women got their other halves for christmas. I got the soon to be wife a ...
Just curious to see what all the married men and women got their other halves for christmas. I got the soon to be wife a 25" teddy bear and 25 fresh red roses to be delivered one a day all the way up to christmas and a new diamond necklace.
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Mine got a 32" LCD TV, bunch of DVD movies and standing orders to get her CCW class or else
You have to make the shot when fire is smoking, people are screaming, dogs are barking, kids are crying and sirens are coming.
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Ego will kill you. Leave it at home.
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Well I gave mine a few items for xmas
1) Travel Cosmetic bag with travel items
2) 2 new beach towels
3) New scrapbooking things with a few things already in the book
4) Plane tickets and boarding passes for our surprise cruise I am taking her on in may...
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mine got a cruise to Jamaica, grand Cayman and Cayman islands. A digital camera and a gift certificate for a massage.
I bow to one king, and serve only one kingdom
2009 Subaru Forester 2.5X Limited with all the goodies. She got it early of course. Can't hide it in the closet or wrap it and put it under the tree. Unlike the year she got me a Porsche 1:64 scale of course.
Procrastinators are the leaders of tomorrow.
Mine has been mentioning for a couple years that she'd like a TV hooked up in the bedroom. Our room is big (24x25, I think), so the tv would be pretty far away and I don't really want a huge one in the room so I bought a storage chest that goes at the foot of the bed, and put a 19 " TV that raises up automatically when you lift the lid. If I had more time (All my good Ideas come at the last minute) I would have motorized the lid too. Maybe for mothers' day?
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My wife was the recipient of:
- A range bag
- More magazines for her Sig Sauer
- New electronic ear muffs
- AND she spent some of the money her father gave her on a new holster!
Looks like we'll be going to the range again!
The "war dept" is getting a 22k gold bracelet. In return I will get something even a guy as old as I am always enjoys.
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I'm sure she will want additional lenses, but then I can turn the question on her: "You have a camera lense, why do you need another lense?"
Mine is getting some fleece sleepwear (I know, not romantic like Victoria's Secret stuff - it gets cold in NE and she likes warm sleepwear), $150 gift to Kohls for the big after XMAS sales, and the Nintendo Wii that she has been wanting.
I in turn got a new Stihl MS361 chainsaw for cutting wood for the woodstove to keep her warm. Got it early because my old one crapped out on me.
I am looking to get her the Kahr PM9 in the spring for EDC as she wants something lighter than her SP101 or my XD40SC that she has taken from me.
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I got mine, and don't laugh 'cause she actually loves this stuff, a food sealer, food dehydrator and some extra mylar bags. I also got her a box set of Celtic Hymns and we will be going to pick out a pistol for her after Christmas.
"Don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep." - Theodore Roosevelt
I got mine a 37" flat screen HDTV. I added in a Blu Ray player as well.
Wife insists I did it for myself..... Jeez, men just can't get a woman a gift without being scrutinized...
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I gave money to her favorite charity, and bought her some chocolate stocking stuffers and a new wool stocking cap
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We decided that we would go together and buy eachother an eliptical excersize machine for the basement. Picked it up 3 weeks ago and I'm already down 5lbs.
Then I picked her up a new Carhart arctic lined coat, and a couple books (Nascar for dummies and one about mountain snowshoe trails).
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The mother of an 18-year-old Liverpool fan killed at Hillsborough says attention must now turn to unlawful killing verdicts at a new inquest following the publication of a damning report on the disaster.
Joan Hope, from Holywell, in Flintshire, lost her son John McBrien in the disaster in April, 1989.
Mrs Hope, 72, said: "The inquest should be reopened and the accidental death verdict should be quashed and it should be unlawful killing."
A report by the Hillsborough Independent Panel that examined a wealth of previously unreleased material on the tragedy concluded South Yorkshire Police had conspired to blame the 96 dead in order to shift responsibility from themselves.
The report found that 164 police statements were altered, 116 of them to remove or alter "unfavourable" comments about the policing of the match and the unfolding disaster.
The panel said there were a total of 41 victims who were either alive after 3.15pm, or who suffered injuries which were inconsistent with the findings of the pathologists. The coroner at the original inquest ruled that by 3.15pm all the victims had received fatal injuries, which meant that it did not examine the chaotic response after that time.
Mrs Hope, a former teacher, said the findings of the panel had reopened many of the wounds she's been struggling with for the last 23 years.
"It makes me feel quite sick. After 10 years I felt I'd suffered so much I was going to try and live my life. But you can't because it's always coming back."
The Taylor report of 1990 concluded the main reason the disaster occurred was a "failure of police control".
Meanwhile, Sir Norman Bettison, the most senior serving police officer who was involved with South Yorkshire Police's discredited Hillsborough operation, said he had "nothing to hide".
Sir Norman, the current Chief Constable of West Yorkshire, has faced calls to quit following the publication of an independent report into the tragedy in which 96 Liverpool fans were killed.
In a statement he described his role on April 15, 1989 and added: "I never altered a statement nor asked for one to be altered."
Sir Norman was an off duty police inspector when he attended the game and was involved in an internal inquiry held in its aftermath.
He said: "I really welcome the disclosure of all the facts that can be known about the Hillsborough tragedy because I have absolutely nothing to hide.
"I read the 395 page report from cover to cover last night and that remains my position.
"The panel, in my view, has produced a piece of work that will stand the test of time and scrutiny. Whilst not wishing to become a conducting rod for all the genuine and justified hurt and anguish, I would invite anyone to do the same as me and read the document and the papers online."
Sir Norman said that by the time he was involved in his force's internal inquiry, on behalf of then Deputy Chief Constable Peter Hays, West Midlands Police had taken over the formal investigation into the tragedy.
He said a second team was created by South Yorkshire Police to "work with solicitors who were representing South Yorkshire Police (SYP) at the Taylor Inquiry and to vet statements from its officers that were intended to be presented to the Inquiry".
"Two South Yorkshire Police teams have been conflated in the minds of some commentators," Sir Norman added.
Elsewhere, Mayor of London Boris Johnson said he was "very, very sorry" for comments he made in a 2004 article about Liverpool fans being partly to blame for the Hillsborough disaster.
Mr Johnson went on: "I'm glad that this independent report has finally nailed the myth that drunken fans were in any way responsible for the deaths of 96 people.
"That was a lie that unfortunately and very, very regrettably got picked up in a leader in the Spectator in 2004, which I was then editing.
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HT4100 4.1, 4.5, 4.9 Discussion, 1993 Deville power steering pump failure in Cadillac Engine Discussion; My wife called me today when she got home for lunch, and said that the power steering in her car ...
1993 Deville power steering pump failure
My wife called me today when she got home for lunch, and said that the power steering in her car ('93 CDV) had stopped. She said that when she had gotten to the end of our street, she couldn't steer the car very well. That, and it was making some awful noises!
I came home, popped the hood and saw the problem immediately! The first thing I saw was that the serpentine belt was half on the power steering pump pulley. The pulley was pushed out, and rubbing against the A/C condenser lines!
I took the pump off, and the pulley and the shaft it's attached to popped right out! The inside of the pump has a bunch of metal shavings and some parts of it inside looked cracked. When I took the pump back to AutoZone, the guy tapped it on the counter and the clip that holds the shaft in came out in pieces. So I have no idea how, or why, but that clip snapped, and allowed the shaft to come out a bit.
Oh yeah, I bought the last rebuilt PS pump on February 23rd! So it didn't even last a month before it crapped out! I asked the guy if this one would last at least a month, and he said I hope so!
The water pump is making noises, so I'm going to change that first, along with the two radiator hoses and the T-stat before putting the "new" rebuilt power steering pump on! I have a new AC Delco water pump, so I shouldn't need to change that for a long time.
Re: 1993 Deville power steering pump failure
I'm not crazy about autozone rebuilt parts, Ive had my share of troubles with them. I generally deal with Napa now and no more problems like that.
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Re: 1993 Deville power steering pump failure
Any other warning before it died? Mine squeals a bit and the last day or 2 the car has been pulling pretty hard to the right. Its either about to die on me, or my alignment went to crap.
And our NAPA just closed down haha, only autozone and a few others now lol
Re: 1993 Deville power steering pump failure
I don't know if you guys have them in the states, but up here I use Raymac parts, they are NASCAR certified for durability.
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Re: 1993 Deville power steering pump failure
I was given the wrong pump by Advance went back and got the one with the correct shaft diameter. They loaned me the puller and installer. The adapter which was a dealer only part was the problem, I spent more on that than the pump. It was avery easy job, but you do have to bleed the pump when you are done.


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Prince Charles and Camilla Take a Ride on the London Tube
Posted on January 30, 2013Prince Charles and wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, headed to the subway in London to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground system. The royal couple were given cards and shown how to operate the turnstile. Camilla has clearly been on the Tube before, but Prince Charles has not -- although he did drive a subway car last year. The couple also took a look at Platform 9 3/4, where Harry Potter caught the train to Hogwarts. The exhibit is marked by a trolley that's halfway inside the wall. Take a look:


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Providence Man gets Life in Prison for Murder
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) _ A Providence man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing another man during a robbery last year.
Thirty-year-old Michael Tully was sentenced Thursday by a Providence Superior Court judge for the shooting death of 26-year-old Ralph Joseph at the Manton Heights development on May 30, 2012. A jury convicted him of first-degree murder and conspiracy in April.
Prosecutors say Tully and an unindicted co-conspirator set up a drug deal with Joseph with the intent of robbing him. When Joseph showed up at the meeting place, authorities say Tully and the other man pointed guns at him and demanded money. Joseph started running away, but Tully shot him in the head.
State Attorney General Peter Kilmartin said Tully has no regard for the law or human life.


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I'm about to buy an upper half for an AR lower I have. PSA has two uppers that I'm torn between, one carbine length, the other mid length. The carbine has the FN Hammer forged "machine gun steel" barrel while the middy has a regular FN barrel. Is one going to be better than the other?
This is going to be a range/zombie rifle, and maybe an occasional class.


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Many parents have a specific way of doing things in their kitchens. And many parents way of doing things specifically does not include their children. Other parents don't have time to prepare a full and balanced meal for their family every night and resort to unhealthy fast food. At Playing Kitchen we have an alternative. Invite the kids into the kitchen. Prepare your family's food together with your kids. If you need help thinking of how to make cooking fun for kids, check out our helpful articles, we have tons of cooking ideas for kids.
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Key to a successful mobile data offloading strategy is ease of use as well as a seamless user experience, which means that end-user interaction should be minimized while, at the same time, security is maximized. SIM-based authentication is a very powerful tool for achieving these goals. This is the method whereby mobile/cellular devices that utilize a SIM card use the same SIM card to authenticate the device for use in a Wi-Fi network.
SIM authentication using existing mobile infrastructure
A mobile service provider can leverage the existing infrastructure for HLR/HSS by adding a dedicated EAP-SIM/AKA authentication function.
The Aptilo SMP SIM Authentication™ provides a means for authentication with the subscriber credentials contained in the SIM card. It provides EAP-SIM/AKA (SIM/USIM-based) authentication for Wi-Fi users based on the Information retrieved from the existing HSS over the Diameter Wx interface (supporting 3GPP Release 7 and onwards) or from the HLR over the SS7/MAP D'/Gr' interface (supporting 3GPP Release 6).
By utilizing the Aptilo SMP SIM Authentication™, the existing mobile infrastructure can be reused independent of HLR/HSS vendor and regardless of system generation.
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One of the key benefits of using SIM authentication is that both the authentication process as well as the content must be encrypted in the Wi-Fi network. Hence, the Wi-Fi network becomes as secure as the mobile network, learn more technical details in our in-depth page.


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Let's say you read Fifty Shades of Grey, or another erotic, provocative novel like Story of O. You enjoyed these fictional accounts of dominance and submission, power and lust, pleasure and pain, hot sex and incredible orgasms. Let's say you enjoyed them a lot. Where do you go from there? Tristan Taormino lays out the best ways to make your fantasies into reality in 50 Shades of Kink, her newest primer to erotic exploration. It's both the perfect beginner's guide and a wonderful refresher course. Whether you want to get up close and personal with blindfolds, crops and paddles or are just looking for some inspiration to keep things fresh in the bedroom, 50 Shades of Kink is your playbook.
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Sports and social media have collided recently, with athletes and their tweets drawing major media attention. New Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari broke the news that Jodie Meeks would remain in the NBA draft on Twitter. On Tuesday, Minnesota Timberwolves rookie Kevin Love made a rookie Twitter mistake — tweeting that his coach, Kevin McHale, wasn't returning to the team before the organization was prepared to go public with the news.
We saw Duke basketball coach Michael Krzyzewski ("Coach K") at the 68th Annual "Father of the Year" awards lunch in New York today, and asked for his thoughts. "It's an individual choice," he tells WebNewser. "I do not choose to be a part of that."
Coach K did say "People on our staff" are active on the micro-blogging site, but he wasn't budging.
"I still want to watch the news at night and be surprised," he said.


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Sheriff Runs for Office
Sheriff Milner will step down at the end of year and is running for the District 12 State House Seat. There are already five candidates who want to take over as Bradford County Sheriff.
Three of the candidates are republicans and two democrats; all have ties with law enforcement.
Captain Randall Zipperer and Starke Police Chief Gordon Smith are two of the candidates.
"I think I am qualified in-fact i think I'm best qualified candidate, I hold a masters degree in education, my military background and i have the law enforcement, corrections and probation experience so i bring to the table a wide variety of experiences leadership and management experience that i think will benefit the public the best," says Capt. Randall Zipperer with the Bradford Co. Sheriff's Office.
"I want to get more community involved. Getting our officers not only who patrol and work our streets, but getting them involved in our churches through athletic events, through school, our kids go to school here. School is a priority we need to take care of our kids and our elderly," says Starke Police Chief Gordon Smith.
There are three other candidates running as Republicans, David Barnes, J.J. Etheridge, Mike Juliano.
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The Lavarn???Way
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Courtesy: Don Leypoldt, Manchester Silkworms
Some observers felt that Yale sophomore catcher Ryan Lavarnway couldn???t duplicate his attention grabbing 25 game hit streak during this past spring.??They were right.
Lavarnway opened his summer for the Manchester Silkworms of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) by tallying safeties in a mere 20 straight games.
So much for the conventional wisdom that says the NECBL???s wooden bats are adverse to hitters.
???You always have to go out and work hard every day,??? says Lavarnway on the streaks.?? ???It never really carries over, as much as some people like to think it does.??It takes a level of concentration that I didn???t know before this year.??You need to focus on every pitch on every at bat.???
Lavarnway???s focus in 2007 has been uncanny.??Simply put, his past spring was one of the greatest seasons in Ivy League history: He led the NCAA in batting average (.467) and slugging percentage (.873), set Yale single season records in those two categories plus hits (70), home runs (14), RBIs (55), doubles (17) and total bases (131), earned All-American honors from Baseball America and PingBaseball.com, was a semi-finalist for the College Baseball Foundation???s National Player of the Year and won the Ivy League Player of the Week three straight times.??
And to think that Yale was the only school that offered the Woodland Hills, California native an official visit.?? There is a reason that the Elis have their academic reputation.
Lavarnway explained, ???I wanted to get away from Southern California for the college experience.??I went to a showcase at Stanford, which required a certain GPA.??All of the Ivy League schools were there.??I got home from the showcase, had a few messages on my machine and Yale was one of them.??I think I jumped so high that I think my head hit the ceiling, I was that excited.??I loved it from the day I stepped on campus.???
For Don Leypoldt's full feature on Yale standout Ryan Lavarnway as seen on www.ManchesterSilkworms.com, please click here.


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Will.i.am and Britney's "Scream & Shout" Remix: Listen Here!
After the original topped the charts in over fourteen countries, Will.i.am and Britney Spears are hoping the remix of "Scream & Shout" takes off too.
The revamped version features added flavor from Diddy, Lil Wayne, Waka Flocka Flame, and Hit-Boy in addition to the former "X Factor" judge.
Though there's already a music video for "Scream & Shout," Will.i.am felt so strongly about the power of the remix that a video will also be made for it.
Speaking to MTV News, he explained, "It's turnt up, amplified, maximized, screaming, shouting--I never thought that a remix could be this freaking crazy. Remixes have always been important, but this one...it's so freaking fresh that we had to do a video for it. Usually a remix just comes and it's a part of the initial but, this one needed a freaking video." Check out the explicit version of the "Scream & Shout" remix below.
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There's a handsome young chap wading through the snowdrifts dressed in a raccoon hat, complete with furry, ringed tail. I didn't know these existed outside Hanna-Barbera cartoons. He's headed for the campervan-sized smoker/ barbecue, painted a jaunty red, that sits outside the low-slung, snow-frosted wooden building. He peels back its vast canopy to reveal rows of ducks and about a dozen or so piglets, deconstructed so that their bellies sit below their heads.
Curiously, their burnished mushes appear to be grinning, the happiest decapitated porkers I've ever seen. But that's maybe because they've lived privileged lives here at the Pied de Cochon Cabane à Sucre, snuffling among the trees, fattened on litres of some of the finest maple syrup in the world. They died drunk on sweetness: a feeling with which we're about to become very familiar.
This whole cabane à sucre – aka sugar shack – tradition is entirely specific to its Quebec terroir. But it's as alluring and irresistible as tire sur la neige: ribbons of hard-boiled maple sap trickled over snow until they turn into gooey, chewy lollipops. The shacks first started appearing at the start of the 19th century, dedicated to the short season of 'sugaring off' in a province that produces more than three-quarters of the world's maple syrup. Back then, producers would throw open their kitchens to the labourers who had stoked up an appetite by manually tapping the trees of their precious sap and transporting it back in buckets, through waist-deep drifts of snow. These days, diners are locals in for a mammoth feed: for Québécois, it's every bit as much a family tradition as Christmas or Thanksgiving.
The sugar shack menu has never been a sophisticated one; it's the food of trappers and manual workers. If a dish can feature maple sweetness in its DNA, then it will: thick split-pea soup, rammed with maple-cured ham hock; baked maple beans; sweet, fruity ketchups; a rough, unevolved pork pâté called cretons; tourtière: a stout meat pie; oreilles de crisse – 'Christ's ears': like chicharrón, puffy fried pork rinds, yes, often doused in syrup, as are rough, country-style sausages; pancakes; pickled beets; fat, oven-baked omelettes with various stuffings. All topped off by sugar pie, an almost unbearably sweet tart made with syrup and cream. Delicate, it ain't.
There are about 200 of these rustic, maple-punting outfits in Quebec. But, in 2008, when one of Montreal's favourite sons, chef Martin Picard, got a hold of the tradition and bent it to his own subversive will, the sugar shack got more than just a shake-up. Picard may not be anything like a household name over here, but in Canada he's a legend. On his TV show, Wild Chef, he shambles about the wintry Quebec landscape like a genial, eccentric grizzly in search of its native food.
Montreal's foodie reputation has been growing steadily and is now firmly on the gastro-tourist map. But it's a relatively new scene, and when Picard opened the original Au Pied de Cochon in 2001, his off-strip restaurant created waves of Richter-scale proportions. He orchestrated a nightly party of delicious, raucous excess: reinventions of Québécois trash-food hero poutine (fries, gravy, cheese curds) with lobes of foie gras dolloped on top and doused in foie sauce. (If he can put foie in it he will, and like his chum Anthony Bourdain – who has said of Au Pied de Cochon that it's "defiantly transgressive" and "one of my very favourites in the world" – has no truck with the goose-liver deniers.) Or whole pig's heads stuffed with lobster; or duck cooked in a tin can. His flavours are massive, but his technique is entirely classic. It's a frighteningly seductive combination.
Picard's Cabane à Sucre is just far enough away from the city to deter the coach-trippers: it's the stuff of pilgrimage. In his 'sugar bush', he has 4,000 tapped trees; it takes, on average, 40 gallons of sap to make one of syrup. Real maple syrup – as opposed to those bottles of brown gunk you get in the supermarket over here – is a revelation: subtle, caramelly, with a nutty, smoky fragrance and a pure, bright sweetness that, remarkably, doesn't cloy. Like every other natural product, there are degrees of excellence: experts can tell the difference between syrup harvested at the beginning of the season when the sugar water is light, and the darker, sappier stuff that arrives as the trees are about to shut down their bounty.
Our first glimpse of the Cabane verges on the magical. It's entirely snowbound, the eaves of the long wooden building (made from maple wood, of course) dripping with icicles so perfect they look positively Narnian. A 20-minute stroll through the snow brings us to the stomping ground of those well-fed pigs currently bronzing in the smoker.
Inside, the shack is noisy, organised chaos. As a sad pair, we're perched at the bar facing the curing room, festooned with sausages and hams and serried racks of lacquered, plump ducks. The tables are colonised by extended families and large groups, plaid-shirted and puffer-jacketed, corralled into a semblance of sanity by gorgeous, Adidas-clad staff.
And oh, dear Lord above, the food. You're going to have to put up with a lot of repetition of the words 'maple' and 'syrup': it features in every dish, meat or seafood, kicking off with a surprisingly unsickly maple daiquiri and climaxing with an orgy of desserts. The only thing it doesn't appear to star in is a bizarre, chunky take on sushi – fried sturgeon wrapped in nori on sushi rice, crowned with oreilles de crisse and real gold leaf for bling. But wait. Those crisp pork curls are sweet…
The servers trundle dishes out on wheeled trolleys. There's cretons, the rillettes-ish pork studded with sweetbreads and cubes of boudin noir, its mustard and whipped goat's cheese accompaniments syrup-spiked. Even the blamelessness of a token fennel salad is pleasurably defiled by maple-candied pecans. Then maple-pickled herring and onions, a whole fish, with maple mayo. Omelette soufflé, a skillet the size of a regular frying pan, probably a dozen eggs and a whole lobster, rich with duck fat, crowned with fleshy layers of Montreal's beloved smoked beef and glazed with syrup-laced brown butter.
On it comes: half a Frisbee-sized tourtière, buttery pastry oozing meat (these sell at a rate of about 200 a week). The sturgeon sushi. And these, my friends, are just the starters.
There are those ducks, varnished into gleaming bonbons by being regularly spritzed with water and syrup during its two-hour roasting. The classic sugar shack fêves au lard (baked beans) turn out to be laced with confit duck. On a vast vol-au-vent laden with a whole lobe of foie gras, béchamel, cheese, ham and more of the oreilles de crises sits a tangle of watercress. They're joking, aren't they? Like anything is going to make this reprehensible confection even remotely healthy.
There's more. Much more. To tell you that the puddings feature syrup would be otiose: cinnamon buns, eclairs, tiny cones of marshmallow and caramel, ice-cream and that tire sur la neige. The final flourish – straw? – is provided by fluffy, syrupy pancakes fried in duck fat. By this point, over-sugared children are bouncing off the walls – those padded jackets come in handy – their excitement fuelled by vast clouds of barbe à papa: syrup candy floss.
In case you infer – with a good deal of reason – that this is some kind of punitive, outré, grande bouffe, every table is automatically furnished with logoed, brown-paper doggie bags. Sure, it's excessive, but like our own Christmas dinner blow-out, it only happens once a year. And what the rowdy groups are taking home in tin-foil trays is likely to feed them in some style for the next few days. Although it has to be said that the salad crowned with pork rinds, the only dish to appear on the menu since the shack launched and which tastes like pork scratchings for seraphim at the time, doesn't look quite as appetising the next day.
Picard's Cabane à Sucre book has just been published. Of course, it's no ordinary how-to manual. Recipes for squirrel sushi, beaver and Canada goose jostle with a doomy short story about the last surviving woman on Earth eating herself to death, a treatise on maple syrup production written by two biologists, and arty shots of pastry chef Gabrielle Rivard-Hiller naked in a bath of syrup. Before you cry 'sexist', those photographs are the work of Marie-Claude St-Pierre. She's also dishing out those daiquiris from behind the bar.
I don't think that Picard sets out to be outrageous or shocking but rather, a bit like the unruly toddler he occasionally resembles, he's got the biggest new train-set in the world, one that makes gallons of syrup, lovely lovely syrup, and he's never had so much fun. And he wants to share the fun with all his new chums. The result is the most rarefied of culinary experiences – even more so now that global warming is threatening production.
Like a folksy, syrup-soaked Brooklyn Table, it's almost impossible to get a reservation here without some serious dedication. Booking lines open on 1 December at midnight Canadian-time and you need an RSI-proof dialling finger to get on the case – the whole season's bookings sell out in less than a day. And it's worth that dedication, oh hell yes it is. It will be a long time before I get that tourtière off my mind, its crisp, golden pastry, the rich, offally filling, the curious coalition of stodge and artistry. And probably a lot longer before it disappears from my arteries. But hey, what a way to go.Reuse content


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At 7:30 p.m. April 12 a performance will take place at Woods Chapel United Methodist Church, 5725 N.E. Lakewood Way, Lee's Summit. Tickets are $10 each or $6 for students and seniors while children 5 and younger are free.
This is the fifth year the show's proceeds will benefit the Kansas City Ronald McDonald House, which provides free housing for families whose seriously ill children are being treated at nearby Children's Mercy Hospital. For eight years, the chorale donated about $28,000 in spring show proceeds to Habitat for Humanity.
Chorale members will be in yet-to-be-determined tropical garb while the show's long-time emcee, Kansas City radio personality Dick Wilson, will be dressed as a pirate and his narrator lingo will match. Wilson has emceed the shows for years and does so for free, even mentioning the show on air.
Johnson said while "community colleges aren't known for great ensembles," her group differs because of pairing the anchor singers found in the community with the "freshness" of students coming and going. The 40-member chorale accepts members by audition and has even been known to include several family groups. Community members pay $25 per semester to sing with the group while students pay for one hour of tuition and receive college credit.


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The World Achitecture Festival Awards shortlist has been announced, and four London developments are among the final 14 in the Future Projects: Residential category.
The capital is by far the best-represented city in this category at the world's largest international architectural event, with twice as many shortlisted entries as its closest competitors, Vancouver and Dubai. All the other rivals, including Sydney and New York, have only one shortlisted project each.
The London designs in line for the top prize are:
• 190 Strand - by GRID architects
• Battersea Power Station Residential Homes
– by Michaelis Boyd Associates
• One Blackfriars – SimpsonHaugh and Partners
• Quadrant 4 (off Piccadilly Circus)
– by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Take a tour of the shortlisted London designs...
World Architecture Festival Awards: London's forthcoming developments
World Architecture Festival Awards: London's forthcoming developments
1/8 Quadrant 4: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Just off Piccadilly Circus, Quadrant 4 will transform an existing 1930s Art Deco building into 48 luxury apartments. (Scroll right...)
2/8 Quadrant 4: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Due for completion in summer 2016, The top seven floors of the Regent Palace Hotel's former annex will be refurbished and remodelled - including the rebuilding of the top two floors to provide views over the rooftops of Soho. The apartments will range from studio flats to three-bedroom family homes, including double-height living spaces and materials such as bronze, timber and marble.
3/8 190 Strand: GRID Architects
This new City block, due for completion in 2017, will sit between London's historic Strand and the River Thames in an attempt to re-populate a part of London where few people have lived for many years. (Scroll right...)
4/8 190 Strand: GRID Architects
Office buildings will be replaced by 200 apartments, new shops and leisure facilities as part of the architects' plan to bring meaning back to urban design. The design involves relocating mature trees, removing a street, and re-creating relationships with neighbouring Grade I-listed buildings.
5/8 One Blackfriars: SimpsonHaugh and Partners
The urban design strategy at One Blackfriars will equate active street frontages and a new public plaza. The proposals include a 170m tower at the bridgehead that joins the landmarks along the Southbank, a public plaza at the heart of the development, a three-storey retail bulding and a six-storey hotel in Rennie Street. (Scroll right...)
6/8 One Blackfriars: SimpsonHaugh and Partners
Due for completion in 2017, with interiors to be completed in 2018, the development will have 274 apartments,161 hotel bedrooms and 6 retail units. The tower has a double-skin façade, the outer leaf is a transparent glass surface while the inner skin is 60% opaque, made up from insulated panels faced with back painted glass. There are 15 colours, with lighter tones at the top to reflect the sky more.
7/8 Battersea Power Station Residential Homes: Michaelis Boyd Associates
This iconic, decommissioned coal-fired power station is located on the south bank of the River Thames. Plans for the site include provision for 255 residential units alongside multi-storey offices, leisure facilities and a retail centre, all to be contained within the existing industrial fabric. (Scroll right...)
8/8 Battersea Power Station Residential Homes: Michaelis Boyd Associates
The development with offer a range of homes, from studios to large four-bedroom penthouses and future inhabitants of Battersea Power Station will have the unique experience of being enveloped in a living monument to the past.
The capital's finalists all agree that the biggest challenge is providing homes to meet the needs of a diverse population - with the young and lower-paid workers being of particular concern in a city where renting looks set to be the future for the majority.
"It's vital that new residential developments create a sense of community and do not become insular and disconnected," says Tim Boyd, founding partner of Michaelis Boyd. "The success of a residential development is as dependent on the occupants as the architecture... providing housing for all income bands is also important for the future of London. It must retain its inhabitants as well as welcoming new settlers."
Fortunately, London conditions are ripe for innovative architecture. "The combination of an economically attractive world capital, an internationally orientated design community and a focused local government policy, together with a competitive marketplace, have led to London's contemporary architecture being at the forefront of housing design," says Christian Male, a partner from SimpsonHaugh, designers of One Blackfriars.
Craig Casci from GRID architects believes the future of London housing is flexible designs that accommodate lifetime changes and better space standards. He says: "Amenity spaces have become the new gardens and these are supported by high-density development - roof gardens, shared entertainments rooms, music rooms and gyms make the loss of house accommodation and gardens more acceptable and more affordable."
The future of London housing is also in technology, according to Paul Finch, the festival's London programme director and editorial director of The Architects' Journal. "The future is more remote controls... Digital technology will allow home management from near and far, and smart materials will help produce intuitive internal environments," he says.
Londoners got the first glimpse of the full shortlist and attended talks at the festival's free London exhibition, at the University of Westminster, as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
A total of 338 projects are shortlisted from 46 countries across 31 categories in the World Architecture Festival awards, ranging from small family homes to large commercial developments and landscape schemes.
The UK has the second-highest number of shortlisted projects, behind Australia. The winners will be chosen by six distinguished jurors from across the globe, including Sir Peter Cook from the UK, and announced in Singapore in November.
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STEM is Aligned with Common Core PrinciplesDiana Wehrell-Grabowski on May 6, 2013 in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education, Teacher Training Workshops Comments Off on STEM is Aligned with Common Core Principles
For the past three years the majority of my teacher training consulting contracts have been STEM based. Consistently I have found that teachers question whether they have the time to implement STEM philosophy, practices, and content. The reality is STEM practices and content is naturally aligned with Common Core principles. STEM practices and content allows students to be creative, develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills, these skills are the foundation of the Common Core. Project and problem-based learning experiences allow students to engage in interdisciplinary thinking, and make real-world connections.
In simple terms STEM relates to the Common Core Principles by its design:
- Reading, writing, and vocabulary are at the forefront (reflective journaling, science notebooks, etc.)
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Asian markets rose Tuesday after the eurozone and the IMF agreed to unlock 43.7 billion euros ($56 billion) in loans to Greece and grant significant debt relief for decades to come.
Tokyo closed up 0.37 percent, or 34.36 points, at 9,423.30 on the news, Seoul rose 0.87 percent, or 16.69 points, to 1,925.20 while Sydney ended 0.74 percent, or 32.6 points, higher at 4,456.8.
In afternoon trade Hong Kong was up 0.33 percent but Chinese shares were down 0.98 percent on concerns over the strength of recovery in the domestic economy.
Shanghai's Composite Index was trading below the key 2,000 point level for the third time in a month, reflecting investor disappointment at a lack of government action to boost China's economy.
The Eurogroup of currency partners penned the Greek deal at its third late-night meeting in two weeks, agreeing to the release of the funds in December after months in which Greece was starved of bailout financing.
Greece, struggling to stay afloat despite a series of unpopular austerity measures, has been waiting impatiently for an injection of international loans for several weeks to avoid defaulting on its upcoming debt repayments.
Greece's public creditors agreed to take measures to bring down the country's debt-to-GDP ratio from an estimated 144 percent to 124 percent within eight years in exchange for the billions in loans.
After 13 hours of talks, finance ministers, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank agreed that the money would be paid in four installments from December 13 through until the end of March.
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said the agreement represented a fresh start for his beleaguered country.
"Everything has gone well," Samaras told local media in Athens. "All Greeks have fought (for this decision) and tomorrow is a new day for every Greek person."
ECB President Mario Draghi said: "The decision will certainly reduce the uncertainty and strengthen confidence in Europe and in Greece."
Ahead of the announcement US markets were feeble in the first session after a slow Thanksgiving holiday week, with the jury still out over how strong the crucial Black Friday holiday sales were for retailers.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished down 42.31 points (0.33 percent) at 12,967.37.
The broad-market S&P 500 lost 2.86 (0.20 percent) to 1,406.29, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 9.93 (0.33 percent) to 2,976.78.
On currency markets the euro was stronger in Asian trade as investors breathed a sigh of relief over the Greece agreement.
The 17-nation currency bought $1.2984 and 106.69 yen in Tokyo trade after earlier briefly topping $1.30 for the first time in about a month.
That was up from $1.2971 and 106.38 yen in New York trade late Monday, although the euro eased slightly after the Greece announcement with investors taking profits and the focus turning towards a budgetary impasse in Washington.
Dealers are monitoring the so-called fiscal cliff of spending cuts and tax hikes due to come into effect on January 1.
Unless a bitterly divided US Congress reaches a new spending deal that date could see the United States thrown into recession.
The dollar gained to 82.22 yen from 81.98 yen.
On oil markets, New York's main contract, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for January delivery, bounced 36 cents to $88.10 a barrel and Brent North Sea crude, also for January, jumped 22 cents to $111.14.
Gold was at $1,749.975 at 0615 GMT compared with $1,734.47 late Monday.
In other markets:
-- Taipei rose 0.31 percent, or 22.83 points, to 7,430.2.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co gained 1.05 percent to Tw$96.3 while leading smartphone maker HTC was 1.00 percent lower at Tw$248.5.
-- Wellington was flat, falling 2.42 points, at 4,009.61.
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Second teacher from LA elementary school identified as child molester
posted at 12:31 pm on February 8, 2012 by Howard Portnoy
When elementary school teacher Mark Berndt was arrested for sex crimes that included feeding his students his own semen, it was reported in this space that police suspected additional victims might turn up. It appears they should have been looking for additional villains. ABC News reports:
Prosecutors in Los Angeles have filed lewd-acts charges against a second teacher for allegedly fondling at least one student at the beleaguered Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles.
Martin Springer was charged Tuesday with committing three counts of committing lewd acts on one girl, according to the Los Angeles Times, which reported that a law enforcement officer said that a second girl recanted her accusation against the teacher.
This time, the Los Angeles Unified School District took quick and decisive action and fired Springer. They also took the additional (some will say disproportionate) step of transferring out the school's entire 128-person staff and transferring in teachers who had been laid off.
The district also reports by way of assurances to parents, who are understandably vexed, that they will check "fingerprints, backgrounds and personnel files of those individuals who are interested in coming back to temporarily teach … to ensure that they have no record of inappropriate behavior with children." But does that suggest that such checks were not run initially, and if so why?
Another question that cries out for an answer is why suddenly accounts of pedophiliac teachers are coming out of the woodwork. The same day the story about Springer broke, the New York Post reported that a teacher's aide at a school in Brooklyn was arrested by the FBI for the second time in two weeks for "offenses linked to illegally possessing films of underage children engaged in sexual acts." Taleek Brooks was charged this time with making pornographic videos of students he was assaulting.
The warning signs of child predators are well-documented. Usually perverts are males who appear to be hard-working and family-oriented and—this may be key—among the most popular teachers in school. Are school administrators ignoring the signs because of the stigma associated with profiling? Or are they just uniformly bad at the jobs they are paid, often lucratively, to do?
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I purchased a set of Tim's armor recently, received them today. Just thought I'd do a progress thread for you guys.
Overall, I'm very satisfied with this stuff. In fact, in comparison to the trash can armor I had, it is almost a perfect match up in size to my body.
Here is it right out of the box:
After shaping it to my body (heatgunned):
Painted silver. I bought Krylon hammered finish silver, as I thought it would be cool to have this look to the silver, almost like it was scraped/dented in.
I'll post more as I go along.