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Communicating With Your Farrier
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Communication is a two-way street. Showing an interest is the first step in educating yourself. Make every effort to be there when your farrier works on your horse and speak up if you have a question or comment.
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If you're anything like me, you find farriery a bit of a mystery. After years of horse ownership, I can give an antibiotic injection prescribed by my veterinarian without flinching, I can spot a slipped stifle at 100 paces, and I can hitch up my trailer all by myself--yet when my farrier puts that last hoof down and begins to pack his gear away, I confess that I have a tendency to write out the check meekly without really being sure that the job he's just done on my horse is everything it ought to be.
Why is it so difficult for owners to communicate with farriers? Part of the problem, I suspect, is that shoeing is an intimidating art, and we often feel we don't know enough about it to ask an intelligent question. Rather than look stupid, we keep our mouths shut, and so we don't learn anything new. And part of it is that the average farrier (and forgive me for evoking a stereotype here) is a man (or woman) of few words, not particularly given to volunteering information about the job that's being done with hoof knife and rasp. "Don't ask; don't tell" is a syndrome which has left many an owner uninformed, and many a farrier unsure of whether he has a satisfied client or not.
Still, for the benefit of our horses, we owners really ought to be knowledgeable enough to spot a good shoeing job when we see it, as well as be able to identify problems before they become crises. In order to do that, we need to learn from the source--the person whom we've charged with the responsibility of our horse's hoof health. We ought to be able to speak frankly with our farriers--who are, after all, performing a service for us and our horses. Here, then, are some tips for forging (sorry) a productive information exchange with your farrier.
Communication 101
Communication, of course, is a two-way street. Both parties must be interested in an idea exchange in order for it to occur.
Frank Lessiter, editor/publisher of the American Farrier's Journal, notes that there are a couple of schools of thought among farriers. "Some guys think that owners should leave farriery to farriers," he says, "and not interfere with the job being done. But the really good farriers are happy to have the owners involved, and want to educate them about the anatomy of the foot and the type of shoeing being done."
That applies to owners as well. "It's a lot like going to your doctor. Some people want to know everything about their condition, while others prefer to know as little as possible; they just want it treated." But, says Lessiter, an interested and informed owner is a benefit to the farrier because he or she will be able to recognize a shoeing problem, and will call right away when one surfaces, rather than procrastinating for weeks on end.
Certified Journeyman Farrier Wes Goff, whose Bethany, Ontario-based shoeing business concentrates on sport horses, says, "I try to educate my clients, because if I can educate them, that client is usually a 'keeper.' I want people to ask questions--but some owners are intimidated. Sometimes, too, I run into trainers who feel they should know what they're looking at, and they don't want to lose face by admitting they don't!
"Some clients just want what I call a 'plumber'--a guy who just comes in and fixes the problem with no discussion. Others want to be able to go over all of the options.
"Most shoers are nice people, who want to please their clients," Goff continues. "It's important to realize that farriery is hard work--it's demanding both physically and mentally, and on top of it you have to be a public relations genius, too. No one works this hard to do a bad job, and have a shoe come off or a horse go lame. But some farriers are more comfortable with communicating than others."
Showing an interest is the first step in educating yourself. Make every effort to be there when your farrier works on your horse, and speak up if you have a question or comment. Part of your "edge" as the horse's owner is that you know what's going on with his feet on a day-to-day basis. If your horse forges on circles but not on straightaways, if he tends to pull his front shoes off only in downward transitions, or if he feels like he moves a little "short" with his right hind on one posting diagonal, that's all valuable information your farrier will need in order to shoe your horse most effectively.
Certified Journeyman Farrier Randy Luikart, of Mansfield, Ohio, notes, "The input you can provide as the horse's rider is invaluable. You're the one working with the horse on a daily basis; you're the one sitting on his back. But you have to be able to explain the problem clearly to your farrier--remember that many farriers don't even ride."
For his part, Luikart says, your farrier should be willing to watch your horse move, both on the lead shank or lunge line, and under saddle (or in harness). "Some farriers will tell you they don't have the time to do that, but that's just garbage," he says. "They should make the time to watch the horse work... and also to examine the wear patterns on the shoes the horse has worn. The shoes can tell you whether the horse breaks over to the inside or outside, whether he's bearing all his weight on too small a surface, whether he's sound or sore." That, coupled with the details you, as owner, provide, can help your farrier perform the best possible shoeing job for your horse.
Because farriery can be such a complicated science, it can be difficult for farriers to explain some of the concepts to their clients. "I tend to use little analogies whenever I can, to make it easier to understand," says Luikart. "One explanation will not always work for all people, either--some are just wired differently, so I have to find another way to describe it." Lessiter tells of farriers who tote VCRs on their trucks, so they can show their clients videotapes of particular shoeing techniques. And Goff finds the use of visual aids, such as anatomical models of the equine foot, particularly valuable. He points out that a farrier who's used to educating others--someone who does Pony Club or 4-H lectures, teaches farriery to others, or has a background in public speaking--can find it much easier to talk with clients about the finer points of farriery. "It's very awkward and uncomfortable for most farriers at first--I think it's a little like asking a hockey player to expound on world politics!--but I think it's really useful (for farriers) to learn to speak to a group, or an individual, about what you're doing and why. I love the stimulus of teaching--it keeps me on my toes."
"A good basic knowledge of hoof anatomy is a great help in communicating with your farrier," says Lessiter. "You can learn it elsewhere, in books, or you can ask to be shown (by your farrier)--but establish that understanding somehow, so that you and your shoer can be on the same wavelength."
A Little Knowledge
Sometimes, a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. "Farriers tell me they really hate it when an article with shoeing tips comes out in a general-interest horse magazine because they know they're going to be bombarded with questions, most of which run along the lines of 'why aren't you shoeing my horse like this,'" says Lessiter. "Well, there's no one answer with horseshoeing. What's appropriate for one horse isn't necessarily appropriate for another. It's the farrier's responsibility to be able to explain just why a particular shoeing technique is, or isn't, the best approach for the client's particular horse."
Goff notes that a certain amount of diplomacy is appropriate in this circumstance. "Particularly with new clients, I have to help them sort all the information they receive, and guide them as to what's appropriate for their horses. If their horse's conformation dictates a certain approach, I should be able to explain why. And it's my responsibility to keep up-to-date with the new information and techniques that develop, so that when owners start asking questions, I'm prepared."
Then, too, it's important to recognize that farriers aren't mindreaders. Says Goff, "Some problems--forging, for instance--can have several causes, and what works for one horse won't necessarily work for another. To solve the problem, I need to have more information. Does he forge when he's lengthening at the trot, when he moves downhill... all the time, or just when he's tired? The more specific you can be, the better a chance I have of helping your horse. If I don't fix the problem the first time, rest assured I'll keep trying different approaches till I find what works. And if I don't have the answer to a question, I'll find out for you."
When a farrier is treating a specific problem (such as laminitis or a quarter crack), most owners will want to know the details of the treatment and the expected recovery time. "If there's a medical problem," Luikart says, "one of the most important things a farrier should know is when to recommend to call the vet."
The Vet-Farrier Dynamic
One of the most difficult situations an owner can find herself in occurs when both a veterinarian and a farrier are involved in consulting on a horse's hoof problem and they can't agree on diagnosis or treatment. It's uncomfortable, and by no means rare, for an owner to feel caught in the middle, unsure of whose assessment is the more accurate or reasonable. Professional egos, on both sides, can sometimes prevent veterinarians and farriers from working together.
Lessiter suspects part of the problem is that the average veterinarian gets relatively little education in veterinary school which focuses specifically on hoof health and that may engender either a lack of respect for the farrier's knowledge, or a certain amount of insecurity about it. The American Farrier's Association, in conjunction with the American Association of Equine Practitioners, does have a "Hoof Day" program that provides extra education at veterinary colleges across the United States, but financial limitations mean that the program can only visit three or four schools a year. Much of the responsibility still falls on individual farriers. "I do try to subtly educate vets," says Goff, "but I'm careful not to do it in front of the client."
Also, because certification is not yet mandatory among farriers, the level of knowledge from shoer to shoer can vary a great deal. As AFA certification becomes more universal, however, and as farriers become motivated to increase their knowledge and the level of their certification, these tensions will likely ease. Many farriers are becoming more interested in learning from veterinarians, as well. Certainly the governing associations of both "camps" feel that each has much to contribute to the other. Recently, the AAEP and AFA jointly issued a set of "Guidelines for Professional Conduct" with suggestions on how veterinarians and farriers can work together productively. The document emphasizes respect for the farrier's knowledge and education, and the value of ongoing consultation between the two groups of professionals, while concluding that when it comes to medical problems, the ultimate responsibility is the veterinarian's.
If your veterinarian and farrier aren't working together, the guidelines should be required reading.
"I think, as a whole, that the triangle of vets, farriers, and owners doesn't communicate as well as they should," says Luikart. "Everyone should make a concentrated effort to work together--because the ultimate beneficiary is the horse."
The Care And Feeding Of Farriers
At the heart of it, the owner/farrier relationship should be based on good business principles and mutual respect. "I think it's interesting," says Goff, "that some farriers don't really appreciate just how much we are in (a client's) personal space when we shoe a horse. For many owners, their horses are more important to them than their spouses, and the barn is their special, private space-and yet there we are, often virtual strangers, with a huge influence over the health of that horse."
The moral, according to Goff, is this: "You want someone whose advice you can trust." Check your farrier out; make sure he is AFA-certified and that he is a reputable businessman. (Word of mouth is still the best recommendation.) It's a great help, too, if your farrier is familiar with the type of work you do with your horses. Though basic principles of hoof care are much the same, the intricacies of shoeing a Standardbred racehorse vs. a reining horse vs. a Tennessee Walker are vastly different. Your farrier doesn't have to compete in your particular discipline himself, of course, but it helps if he understands the type of footing your horse will have to deal with, and the specific requirements of the sport.
And, of course, you want to seek out a shoer who is willing to explain just what he is doing and why. Says Goff, "You have the right to ask questions. You're paying him for his knowledge, so you should be able to pick his brain." Lessiter agrees, "Most farriers have no trade secrets they want to hide. The more talented they are, the more willing they should be to share their knowledge. A farrier who doesn't want to talk or answer questions is perhaps not the best farrier for you--unless you're just looking for the cheapest shoeing job, instead of the best."
A competent farrier also should be able to run his business on a professional level. One of the most frustrating scenarios occurs when a farrier doesn't show up when he's scheduled. Of course, shoeing is not an exact science, and circumstances might often make a farrier run late, but in that case, Lessiter says, the farrier has a responsibility to call and inform the owner. In the age of cellular phones and pagers, communication has been streamlined considerably, and a farrier who doesn't take advantage of this technology will inevitably lose clients.
You, as an owner, also have responsibilities in this relationship. For instance, it's your mandate to ensure that your horse is well-trained before the farrier darkens your door. Your horse should stand calmly in cross-ties and be used to having his feet picked up and handled. "Or, if your horse is not trained, at least be honest enough to tell me that over the phone," says Goff. "Then I can make the decision as to whether I want to deal with him or not. It's not my job to train your horse, and one of the worst things a client can do is ambush me with an ill-mannered animal."
It's equally important for owners to make sure their horses are ready to be shod at the appointed time. Don't expect your farrier to fish old Rusty out of the field himself; have him available in a stall, and clear a space in the barn that's free of commotion and accessible to the farrier's truck. "If I've been considerate enough to come on time," says Goff, "then don't keep leading horses by while I'm trying to work, or feed everyone else in the barn so that the horse I'm working on gets tense. A horse who's leaping around will get me hurt and if I get hurt, I can't make a living."
A little consideration--and a hot cup of coffee--go a long way. "Don't bring me an extra horse on late Friday afternoon, when I'm tired, and don't set me up for failure by bringing me the most difficult actor at the end of the day," says Goff. "Sometimes people don't realize just how much driving I do in a day, and how physically demanding shoeing is. It's a one-man business, for most of us--we do all the booking, the organizing, and the accounting, and it can take a lot of juggling to fit all of my clients in, particularly those in remote locations or those who have just one horse."
This might sound obvious, but part of the care and feeding of a good farrier is prompt payment of your bills. "Treat me right and I'll treat you right," says Goff. "Within reason, I'd really like a check when I'm done with the job."
For his part, Goff says that whenever possible, he arranges future appointments for his clients on a regular schedule (usually every six weeks), and will call to confirm dates and times; he also makes a point of doing follow-up calls when trying to fix specific problems. "The bottom line is really this: Is the horse sound? Do the shoes stay on? Does the job look professional? And is the client happy?" he says.
And if your horse's good shoeing job means that he travels straighter or sounder, a thank-you phone call to your farrier can go a long way toward encouraging and maintaining a good relationship, says Lessiter. It's a little thing--but it might just mean a lot. After all, as Luikart points out, the ultimate beneficiary is the farrier's real client, the horse.
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When we launched Channel 9 five years ago we weren't sure what to expect from the community and from Microsoft. What would developers think of this non-corporate, free wheeling website designed by and for geeks and developers (and one great designer, David Shadle - designer of the 9 Guy and first iteration of Channel 9)? Did we do the right thing? Will Channel 9 be taken seriously? Are we crazy? Well, history has answered these questions and the next five years will be very interesting indeed. I thought I'd pay a visit to my friend, fellow Niner and co-conspirator Jeff Sandquist. I don't think I've ever really interviewed him. 5 years!!! Wow.
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wow what a line up: anders, eric, brian, mark, larry, eric lippert, bill, soma and even his awsomeness the Gu its really great to see that channel9 is as popular inside microsoft as it is with us niners speaks volumes of your, jeffs and the teams work on channel9
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Ritzi sure did! But I see your point. My fault. I set up the BDay interviews and wanted to stick to 9 C9 stars + Jeff for symmetric reasons ( 9 on 9).
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You know what could be great fun, Charles, is to get all the non-Microsoft niners together that've got something to say about Channel 9 and what it's meant to them over the past five years, and put it in one place.
I remember the first video I watched, besides the intro, and even before that it was called "VB TV". I'm so happy you guys didn't give up. I consider C9 "youtube for geeks".
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5years! well congratulations guys, its good to see c9 has kept true to its original vision... and I have to say c9 has been a good bar to come to for general MS product discussion and errm vented feedback ...and its also good to see abit of that old video style you did for the start of the vid(office drop in style)
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To the previous poster, I wasn't in WM_IN but I'm a woman program manager interviewed on the 9 twice so far so maybe that counts . And I've been stoked to see Ch. 9 and the little 9 guy succeed throughout its whole tenure (which sorta coincided with my entire tenure at Microsoft, come to think of it).
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You most certainly were in WM_IN, Betsy!
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The young photographers in 2008's Expanding the Walls exhibition, Eye Notes, approached documentary art in a variety of ways as they presented their work alongside a selection of James VanDerZee's classic Harlem portraits. Expanding the Walls is an eight-month, photography-based program that uses the VanDerZee archive as a springboard for conversation and art-making. Continuing the influential artist's exploration of community, identity, history and culture, each of the 2008 participants examined their relationships to these enduring themes through subjects that range from retro kids, public housing and reenactments, to transracial relationships, memory and performing bodies.
Responding to the themes of reality and imagination, as well as publicity and privacy, implied by VanDerZee's work, each Expanding the Walls participant shared a particular way of seeing. They reflected on the changes to photography's social role since VanDerZee's pre-digital time, and paused to think over their relationships to visual culture and image-making. In an age of camera-phone snapshots, ever-changing MySpace pages and homemade YouTube videos, these young creators carefully considered how images acquire meaning, move in virtual and physical space and can be reshaped by an active author. Using many techniques, including figuration, surrealism and abstraction, they offered personal truths and perspectives.
The participating artists in the 2008 program were Alani Bass, Michelle Figueroa, Sofia Flores, Ivan Forde, Chanelle Joseph, Christina Pardes, Christeen Penon, Nicole Rodriguez, Keisha Streeks, Tempestt Watson and, or course, James VanDerZee.
Expanding the Walls is supported by New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; Colgate-Palmolive, JPMorgan Chase Foundation; The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation; and Time Warner Inc.
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Posted on 10/09/2012 4:30:59 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Republican nominee Mitt Romney has surged into a lead in the Real Clear Politics average of recent polls, the first time he has done so since October 2011.
The average, which measures the average of six polls, gives Romney a 0.7-point lead over President Barack Obama, his largest lead to date in the RCP average dating back to February 2011. In the five polls, Romney gets an average of 48.2 percent of the vote, compared with 47.8 percent for Obama.
It's Romney's first lead in the RCP average since Oct. 11, 2011 almost exactly one year ago when Romney held a 45.9 percent to 45.3 percent average lead over Obama in what was then still a hypothetical matchup.
The average reflects the bumps Obama has taken in national polling since his consensus flop in last week's first presidential debate. Two of the polls included in the average were taken primarily or entirely before the debate, and they both give Obama a slight lead.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
He's going to stay in the lead and become the 45th POTUS.
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"Compassion is that which makes the heart of the good move at the pain of others. It crushes and destroys the pain of others. Thus, it is called compassion. It is called compassion because it shelters and embraces the distressed. - Dp.A.193"
Anyone know if this is Dhammapada-atthakatha (Commentary to the Dhammapada)? and if this compassion is karuna?


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1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee *Price Drop $2750*
1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo: 144,xxx miles
This is my daily driver and has been a great car since I've had it. I bought it to daily drive instead of my wrangler, but I drive 170 miles per day for work so I need something a little better on gas. The jeep is in great condition for a '97 with very little rust. It is not in perfect shape and does have some minor scratches and dings, but overall very good shape. It has never been offroad since I have had it(or at all to my knowledge). It could use a few little things that just havn't bothered me enough to fix, which I will list below.
The Good:
-Relatively low milage for the age
-4.0L inline 6 still runs good
-New muffler
-Very little rust
-Interior is in good shape (all power windows, seats, and locks work)
-Roof rack goes with it
-Great daily driver or project vehicle, it is ready to go and really needs nothing
-Extra set of wheels and tires go with it (2 good tires, 2 are not good)
The Bad:
-Trunk lift gate supports could be replaced. They are like $23 for new ones. (I just prop the truck open with a broken hockey stick)
-Muffler should be welded or clamped better(I replaced the muffler at school and had minimal tools and a couple of the clamps were not the right size so it sounds like the muffler is bad but it's just not a good seal from the muffler to exhaust pipe)
-Only bad rust is on the front of the hood(shown in pics)
-AC needs a recharge (I prefer windows so I just havn't bothered)
I would like to get $2750 for the jeep including the extra set of wheels and tires. I would consider partial trades for guns (looking for a 1911 or AR15 in particular) or Jeep TJ parts.
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Oh, it's amazing, all right … just maybe not in the way they think it is. The link leads to an ad for Rick Barber, a candidate for a House seat from Alabama who did well enough in the primary election to force a runoff. In it, he apparently has traveled back in time to speak to Founding Fathers George Washington, Ben Franklin and Samuel Adams. It begins mid-conversation with Barber saying, "And I would impeach him" -- an apparent reference to President Obama -- and, after Barber presents his case against the IRS and "what they call a progressive income tax," climaxes with one of the Founders ominously declaring, "Gather your armies."
The fact that Washington implemented the first federal tax and authorized militias to enforce it notwithstanding, this is catnip to the residents of Fox Nation. (Barber, meanwhile, is spinning the ad's implied endorsement of violent revolution, insisting that "It's definitely not an inciteful call to arms.")
You know who else loves Barber's ad? Pam Geller. She calls Barber a "Great American" and endorsed him in the primary. Geller goes on to say, "I love this guy. He gets better and better."
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Jordan: Al Qaeda behind killing of U.S. diplomat; Two suspects arrested
Jordan said on Saturday it had detained two members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network for the killing of a U.S. Diplomat in Amman in October.
Laurence Foley was shot dead in front of his house in Amman on the morning of October 28 as he was walking to his car. He was the director of the U.S. Agency for International Development programs in Jordan.
Jordanian Information Minister Mohammad al-Adwan told CNN television: "Our security authorities arrested some while ago the two main suspects, the killer and his accomplice. They both belong to al Qaeda network."
A government statement, quoted by CNN, named the two men as Salem Sa'ed Salem bin Suweid, a Libyan national, and Yasser Fathi Ibrahim, a Jordanian.
The statement said bin Suweid "underwent military training in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan" and that he entered Jordan a few months ago "using a forged Tunisian passport." It said bin Suwdeid and Ibrahim confessed to being members of al-Qaeda and were affiliated with a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden known as Abu Musa'ab Al-Zarqawi.
Zarqawi left Jordan in 1999 and has been convicted in absentia with a plot to bomb tourist hotels in Amman during the millennium celebrations.
He reportedly fled Afghanistan after U.S. operations started there, going first to Iran, then Iraq, where he was said to have received medical treatment. (Albawabaa.com)
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Spring Water
I never thought water would make that much of a difference in how my hair comes out....I'll have to post a pic...anyway, water got shut off on my street. Of course it was on day 4 of no wash so I absolutely had to wash my hair and scalp. I went to the store and ended up buying a few gallons of spring water until the waterline repair was made. I did a quick wash over the sink using the same shampoo and conditioner and then styled using the same process and products and my hair came out the best it's ever been! Even after sleeping on it I still have root curl! I also used a little less product and still got wonderful curl definition! I may be investing in a filter or will purchase bottled water just for my hair. The cheap stuff was 88 cents and since I only wash twice a week this is a pretty cheap investment in my hair. I always new I had hard water but didn't realize just how much it effected the way my hair came out!
Do you mean distilled water? I tested the jug spring water from the grocery store some time ago and it tested hard.
The bottle was labeled Spring Water. I'm not sure what the different may be compared to my city water but my hair came out 100xs better than normal using the same exact products and method.
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Need some IFS advice. No Limit, Fatman or TCI?
I have a 58 F100 that I am starting on and I have decided to install an IFS instead of clipping the front end. I plan on running the stock suspension in the rear, with the flipped axle and c notched frame. I like a little rake in the stance, so a fixed height drop in the front is fine. I am looking for about 3 -4 inches of drop.
I have looked into the various kits and other than price, I can't really see a big difference between the No Limit Wide Ride, the Fatman and the TCI Kits. No Limit claims to be different than a MII kit, but from what I have read, it looks to be the same basic kit.
So, I'd like to hear from you folks. What do you guys think? Is there one that is significanly better than the others? Is there one to avoid?
All comments are appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I have a TCI MII under my '56 F100. I first had power rack but the GM pump mismatched and even with a heidt's pressure-flow reducer it still was very twitchy on the highway.....so I went with a manual rack and now is ok...a little "heavy" when standing still. If you only want a 3-4" drop I would go with stock spindles...not the 2" dropped spindles.
Installation and alignment are critical in liking or disliking any MII.
As for the other manufacturers: I dunno.
Rob @ No Limit is great to deal with and hell of a nice guy. They do make a kit that is not based on Mustang II geometry as does TCI(Custom IFS). The Custom IFS from TCI has been doing very well in their autocross shop car. Those types of kits are more performance driven than comfort and budget driven like the Mustang II. The Mustang II front end is used by many manufacturers because it is easy to adapt to many different chassis's. They are cost effective and there is a ton of aftermarket support. You won't find much difference between all the manufacturers as far as design is concerned when comparing them. The differences will be in the details, like what replacement parts they are using, ball joints, brakes, bushings, rack, etc etc. Some manufacturers will cheap out on these parts to come in at a lower price point.
Check this guy out:
He's small enough to be helpful, large enough to have good quality, cross members are 1/4in. instead of 3/16. My buddy has installed about 40 of his M2 units and swears by him. He's also a couple of hundred cheaper for the entire package.
"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not." - Mark Twain
$1699 for the base kit
Power Rack & Pinion (Manual Rack is standard) add $100.00
2" Dropped Spindles add $50.00
Anti-sway Bar 1" dia add $200.00
That is $2049 for what has to be his most common package.
Those same options from TCI are $1669. I'm not sure if he covers freight for that price but most of the big name guys do as long as it is within the lower 48.
It's pretty cool that he is using 1/4" plate for the crossmember but I think it is overkill. Especially when you take into account that the crossmember is still being welded onto a frame that is more than likely less than .150".
I never installed a No Limit front end, (although I have bought stuff from them in the past, and they are alright, as stated by slow4dr). I just checked their website, and the F100 front end I saw looked pretty cool, and I really liked this little bit of info:
The TCI kit is strong, but the eccentric upper adjusters kinda suck...not alot of adjustment, and they move around unless you tack weld them. The last TCI custom IFS I installed had to be reworked, as the upper a arms were in the wrong place, and I could not get the proper camber settings once installed and mocked up, (no, not installer error..it's a fully assembled crossmember, with all suspension geometry points welded in from TCI), but TCI did eventually straighten it out by making us new upper a arms..on their nickel...So they are still ok in my book, although it took about 10 emails, a bunch of questions designed to make me out to be the fool, a bunch of pics, and dimensioned drawings ,a bunch of unreturned calls to Evan and Sal and Shelly who all let it go for over a month until I threatened to put everything up here...( Praise the power of hotrodders.com).
Then George from TCI's R&D department got involved, and made it right in a matter of days..
But that's the way it always goes, with any of those big manufacturers.sheet happens....I'd still use thier stuff.
(slow4dr- you can check back in the TCI records...look up sales order 0314366, dated 7-7-09)
The TCI custom IFS does make the truck way low, I actually installed a couple about 1" lower in the frame because of it.
Fatman is ok, and the price is right, but the a arms and lower attachment points are a bit weak, IMO, for an f100...The 5/16 crossmember is way heavy, but the lack of width at the inboard mounts of the A arm makes them unsuitable for a heavy car. I know they actually made them bigger, after having a few failures, but they are still not big enough.
Heidts is another option.
So is Jim Meyer Racing..Those guys make some really nice stuff, and it is NOT MII at all..They use 78-88 Impala spindles, brakes and ball joints, which are much better suited for a heavier rod, like a F100.
No matter which front end you use, make sure you check the sheet metal for wheel centerline BEFORE you go to weld that crossmember in, as the F100s are known for having the stock axle centerline back too far..last one I did I had to move the crossmember forward 1 1/4" to get the wheels centered in the front fenders.
Later, mikey
my signature lines...not really directed at anyone in particular..
BE different....ACT normal.
No one is completely useless..They can always be used as a bad example
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I noticed Evan was the name on the order so George and him must have conversed at one point to get you straightened out. I hear you though, I worked the tech department for close to 2 years before moving over to purchasing. Evan and Sal are both very busy guys, sometimes almost so busy that I can't even get a moment with them.
I have had pretty good luck with the eccentrics. They have been making the tolerances between the eccentric and the outer tubes much tighter the last 2 years so that has helped a bunch.
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Late summer is a great time to harvest and enjoy homegrown melons. Knowing when to harvest is important for maximum taste. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach horticulturists share tips on ways to optimize the melon experience. To have additional questions answered, contact the ISU Hortline at 515-294-3108 or email@example.com.
Watermelons should be harvested when the underside or "belly" of the melon turns from a greenish white to buttery yellow or cream. This color change is especially pronounced on the dark green-skinned cultivars. In addition, the fruit tends to lose its slick appearance on top and becomes dull when ripe.
For most individuals, thumping or tapping the melon is generally not a good indicator of ripeness. Rapping an immature melon with your knuckles produces a metallic ring. A ripe melon gives off a hollow or dull ring. While experienced home gardeners may be able to determine the maturity of watermelons using the "thump test," most individuals will have difficulty differentiating between the sounds.
When harvesting watermelons, leave two inches of the stem on the fruit. Watermelons can be stored at room temperature for about one week and for two to three weeks at 50 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
The fruit of muskmelon or cantaloupe are mature when the stem pulls (slips) easily from the melon. The melon is not ripe if the stem has to be forcibly separated from the fruit. Other indicators of maturity are based on touch, appearance and aroma. The flower end of the melon (the end opposite the stem) should be slightly soft. The skin between the netting turns from green to yellow at maturity. Finally, a ripe melon produces a strong "muskmelon" aroma.
Muskmelons can be stored in the refrigerator for up to two weeks. The optimum storage temperature is 32 to 36 degrees Fahrenheit. Before refrigerating, place the melons in a plastic bag to prevent the muskmelon aroma from flavoring other stored foods.
Unlike muskmelons, the fruit of honeydews do not slip off the vine when mature. The best indicator of ripeness is a slight softening of the blossom end of the fruit. There may also be a subtle change in the color of the honeydew. Honeydews can be stored for two to three weeks at a temperature of 45 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit.


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Krokorok (Japanese: ワルビル Waruvile) is a Darkness-type Stage 1 Pokémon card. It is part of the Dark Explorers expansion.
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|Krokorok - Desert Croc Pokémon
|3'03" (1.0 m)
|73.6 lbs. (33.4 kg)
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|They live in groups of a few individuals. Protective membranes shield their eyes from sandstorms.
|すうひきで むれを つくる。がんきゅうを カバーする まくが すなあらしから めを まもる。
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In Japan, this card was first released as one of the BW-P Promotional cards, and was awarded to participants of the Victory Cup events held over the course of Battle Carnival 2011. The Battle Carnival took place at the Mydome Osaka, Osaka between November 5-6, 2012; and at Sunshine City, Tokyo between November 19-20, 2012. It was subsequently released in the Japanese Dark Rush expansion. The one English release was in the Dark Explorers expansion.
Mud-Slap is a move in the Pokémon games that Krokorok can learn. This card's Pokédex entry comes from Pokémon Black.
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Din Tai Fung, one of Taiwan's most celebrated restaurants. Famous for their delicately steamed dumplings, Din Tai Fung founded in 1958 in Taiwan, currently operates 82 locations worldwide with strong Pan-Asian representation in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and Korea.
Din Tai Fung's popular dishes include shrimp and pork wontons with spicy sauce, shrimp fried rice and sautéed string beans with garlic. Their beverage selection offers a wide-variety of teas and smoothies. Alcoholic offerings are wines by the glass and bottle; domestic and imported beers, and a selection of unique Din Tai Fung cocktails, such as a pear & lychee martini, ginger mule and the black dragon, made with a Taiwanese oolong tea infused syrup.
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Aus 189 Designs von 47 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We are a new Safari Travel company, that will do things differently than other companies. 'Search' is going to be a major thing on our website.
Therefore we want to have a good looking logo.
Plan Your Safari
We are starting a new company called "Plan Your Safari .com" (without the spaces of course :)).
I am not going to limit you guys/gals on what it is that I want, the company will be web2.0, new, contemporary, etc.
We want to use the logo for our website (not ready yet), for our businesscards and for promotional items like t-shirts etc. So please provide me with the necessary files to be able to use them for these.
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The Mitford Girls: The biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary Lovell. Little, Brown, 611 pp., £20, 20 September 2001, 0 316 85868 4
Nancy Mitford: A Memoir by Harold Acton. Gibson Square, 256 pp., £16.99 and £9.99, 13 September 2001, 1 903933 01 3
Either you love the jokes or you don't, with the Mitfords. The biting, ferocious 'teases', the flippancy, the apparent inability to take anything particularly seriously, are everything, not least because they encapsulate all that used to be good about Englishness, and all that is grotesque also. The jokes, always cruel, both charm and repel; without them, you're left with girls in pearls living borderline tragic lives, or with the po-faced, lumpen Unity Mitford - galumph, galumph - who, unlike her five sisters (in descending order: Nancy, Pam, Diana, Unity, Decca, Debo; there was also a brother, Tom), had little talent for levity. So the jokes are crucial. One occasionally gets the impression, from Mary Lovell's compelling, fluent and problematically sucker-uppy biography, that she isn't always entirely sure whether the jokes are funny or not: she quotes the tried-and-tested ones over and over and leaves out the new ones thrown up by Nancy Mitford's enormous, enormously funny correspondence, or by Jan Dalley's recent biography of Diana Mosley. You rather imagine her, nose pressed up against the glass, longing to roar along with the Duchess of Devonshire (whom, she informs us, she once met at dinner), but not quite knowing how.
Of course, some people miss the joke altogether - posh girls sniggering: what's funny about that? - or disapprove because the joke is inevitably a small, casual cruelty, small casual cruelties being the one thing at which the Mitfords, in their varying ways, all excelled: small cruelties, and larger ones, too. So, for instance, some people don't think it's at all funny that, throughout her life, Nancy Mitford called her sister Debo (said Duchess of Devonshire) 'Nine', this supposedly being her mental age. Diana was 'Bodley', because of her large head; Pamela was 'Woman', or 'Woo', because of her love of domesticity; Jessica was 'Susan' as well as 'Decca'; Unity was 'Bobo' or, later, 'Heart of Stone'. Nancy once wrote to Unity in Berlin to tell her that she'd done some research into their family history and had discovered a great-grandmother Fish, which made them one-sixteenth Jewish.
Some of the funniness is verboten because it still glitters with privilege of the kind that is now actively welcomed only by Daily Mail readers, which leads to the gruesome possibility of the Mitfords eventually being appreciated only in Surrey. Nevertheless, it is still funny that Nancy's aesthete Oxford friends, invited home for the weekend, should be "shaken like rats" by Lord Redesdale (the father), told they were "hogs", "sewers" and "damned puppies" ("I'd rather take a housemaid shooting than you, Lord Clive") and swiftly ejected from the house while the three smallest children broke into a melancholy chorus of "Oh, we don't want to lose you, but we think you ought to go." And that Nancy once pointed out to the three youngest sisters that the middle parts of their names were "nit, sick and bore". (To Debo: "Everyone cried when you were born.")
There are many reasons for loving Nancy Mitford: there still hasn't been another female fiction writer as cleverly, mercilessly, relentlessly funny. Unlike the people who can't glimpse a Nancy Mitford novel without moralising about class, jeunesses dorees and the demerits of froth, Nancy - who was nearly, non-U-ly, called Ruby, and whose family weren't nearly as thick or rich as they're supposed to have been - didn't lecture, and didn't much mind about anything. There were exceptions: her friends, her sisters, books, gossip, parties, jokes, and later, in Paris, the love of her life, Gaston Palewski, de Gaulle's right-hand man, who used to follow women around at parties murmuring "J'ai envie de vous," and never loved her back quite enough - she died broken-hearted, her cancer setting in shortly after he married someone else. Although her sister Diana Mosley always accused her of being a ballroom pink - "synthetic cochineal" - she was not without a social conscience: declining, in Yiddish, an invitation to celebrate von Ribbentrop's appointment to the German Embassy in London; denouncing Diana, which resulted in Diana's long incarceration in Holloway ("I regard her as an extremely dangerous person. Not very sisterly behaviour, but at such times I think it's one's duty"); satirising both her sister Unity and her brother-in-law Oswald Mosley (whom she always called TPOL, The Poor Old Leader) in her early novel Wigs on the Green. "I don't quite know what an Aryan is." "Well, it's quite easy. A non-Aryan is the missing link between man and beast. That can be proved by the fact that no animals, except the Baltic goose, have blue eyes." Mosley banned her from his home for four years.
From childhood onwards, her gaze was always fearless. "There isn't a pin to put between Nazis & Bolshies," she wrote to a friend after she'd spent time tending to Spanish refugees in Perpignan in 1939. "If one is a Jew one prefers one & if an aristocrat the other, that's all as far as I can see. Fiends!" All this, of course, after having briefly flirted half-heartedly with Mosley's British Union of Fascists herself. 'Prod' - Peter Rodd, her quite fabulously dull husband - "looked very pretty in his black shirt," she wrote to Evelyn Waugh years later, "but we were younger and high-spirited then, and didn't know about Buchenwald."
Fans of Nancy Mitford have her novels, her journalism, her delightfully spiteful biographies and two vast volumes of correspondence to sustain them, the latter brilliantly annotated by Charlotte Mosley; as well as Selina Hastings's clear-sighted, of-the-milieu biography. Harold Acton's knowing, gossipy, intimate memoir, long out of print and now reissued, is a welcome readdition to the canon: it makes you weep with laughter on most pages. Or scream, perhaps. That Nancy and her sisters never laughed at jokes, but rather "screamed", "howled" or "shrieked", as if in pain, is not merely to do with the argot of the time: the Mitfords bared their teeth when they laughed, and bit first. Acton, one of the Oxford arch-sewers, always got the joke. Diana and Decca both wrote volumes of memoirs, and in both cases you were left wondering about the gaps. Lovell's book makes it clear that where Diana omitted, Decca invented: she simply made things up for comic effect, including the duration of her apparently interminable teenage despair. The letters reproduced here, to her father, were supposedly written at the height of her angst, but they are bursting with gaiety, happiness and affection (although she did have her pocket money withheld at about the same time for calling her father "the feudal remnant"; family nicknames for Redesdale also included "the poor old male" and "the poor old sub-human").
The glacial Diana's A Life of Contrasts merely added to her own sinister froideur, but Decca's Hons and Rebels turned the mildly eccentric Lord and Lady Redesdale (he took his mongoose to work to catch rats; she wouldn't countenance anything made from pork) into braying grotesques. True, Nancy's novels hadn't helped, but they at least pretended to be fiction. Decca, by virtue of her moral courage and her politics, is usually exempt from the opprobrium so casually heaped on her siblings: in some quarters, she is considered quasi-saintly. Lovell shows she wasn't; more, she shows, with commendable clarity, that everything that was remarkable about Decca - that fearlessness, a clever, comical, unsentimental way with words, a very deep love of jokes and advanced social skills, though she herself wouldn't have put it quite that way - was the product of the class, family and upbringing which she tirelessly ridiculed all her life. Who else would nickname their second child - the first, Julia, did not survive - 'The Donk' and their third 'The Mong', or, decades later, when the fatwa was declared on Salman Rushdie, wear a giant home-made badge saying 'I AM Salman Rushdie'? Like it or not, the joke is pure Mitford (as was Decca's voice, described by Philip Toynbee as "a curiously cadenced sing-song which would have been grotesquely affected had it not been even more grotesquely natural").
Decca's moral courage is present also, less appetisingly, in Diana, whom Lovell never quite pins down satisfactorily. She is incapacitated by her oily admiration for Lady Mosley, who is loyal, beautiful and has a terribly pretty house. "However", you want her to say. But the 'however' never comes: here is Diana, routinely sexually betrayed by the man she's given up her reputation for; here she is in Holloway, ill and dirty, but uncomplaining and ravishing ("Voici la Grece," someone once said, watching her come down the stairs); here she is with her beloved children, still unbowed and still beautiful ("the only one of us who has a face") - isn't she marvellous?
In a recent interview, Diana Mosley suggested that perhaps the Jews could be moved to Uganda, which is practically empty and has a marvellous climate. This, you could say, has the ring of the diehard 'tease' about it; nevertheless, the remark, and others like it, is absent from Lovell's book. Instead, we get a great deal about how it was "difficult" for those present at the first Parteitag in Nuremberg "not to be emotionally affected . . . Many young Englishmen who visited Germany in the first part of that decade were moved to support Hitler's regime." It's true, they did - and Harold Nicolson was Oswald Mosley's campaign manager, too. However . . . Lovell also writes that "somehow, Mosley did not recognise that his methods, and his rousing speeches, attracted to his standard every working-class tough spoiling for a fight," which is absurd. Mosley was no naif and knew where the East End was. The fact that Diana remains fascinating doesn't mean one has to drool over her.
In early childhood, Decca was best friends with a sheep called Miranda, whom she took to church and snuck into her bed, and to whom she wrote poems: "Me-rand-er is my little lamb/She is a ewe and not a ram/Me-rand-er, Me-rand-er/She has such lovely woolly fur." Miranda loved chocolate. Post-Miranda, the "unfailingly kind" Diana became Decca's favourite sister, a position later filled by the monstrous Unity. A visitor to Swinbrook, the family home, reported that the second anyone put their foot through the door, Decca and Unity would appear, demanding: "Are you a Fascist or a Communist?" When this particular guest answered, "Neither - I'm a democrat," they sniffed in unison, "How wet!" and wandered off.
Interestingly, after the war, Decca was only able to soften her heart towards Unity, whom she called "my Boud". I'd always wondered whether Decca and Diana, once Favourite Sisters, ever saw each other again: they did, Lovell reports, over Nancy's sickbed in Paris, after 35 years. "We don't of course talk about anything but the parsley weeding and Nancy's illness; God, it's odd," Decca wrote to a friend.
Although Decca visited and corresponded with her mother, who never quite got over Hitler ("such very good manners"), she never saw her father again after running away aged 19. She'd saved up money since the age of 12 ("Dear Madam, We are pleased to acknowledge receipt of your ten shillings to open your Running Away account. Passbook no. 437561 enclosed. We beg to remain, dear Madam, your obedient servants, Drummonds"). The rupture is curious, since Lord and Lady Redesdale effectively separated over politics: from early on, he considered the Nazis "a murderous gang of pests". His wife revered them, and continued to do so for the rest of her life. Nevertheless, Esmond Romilly, Decca's cousin and first husband, called Redesdale "the Nazi Baron", and Decca somehow became convinced that this was justified. Family members said that Lord Redesdale's dramatic physical decline could be dated back to the day Decca ran away, though surely Diana's marriage to Mosley and Unity's stalking of Hitler and subsequent suicide attempt (she shot herself in the head on the day England declared war on Germany; the pistol she used had been a gift from the Fuhrer) can't have helped. Redesdale, fastidious to a fault, later couldn't bear the brain-damaged Unity's table manners, or indeed her incontinence: he eventually moved hundreds of miles away to escape.
Unity Walkyrie, born in 1914, was conceived in Swastika, Ontario. Whereas Diana was sharp enough to draw blood, it's always seemed possible that Unity wasn't quite all there but that no one likes to say so. Lovell skirts around this issue, but I find it hard to tell whether she's dropping hints or I'm imagining too much. She was odd-looking - 6'1" and "large-framed", Lovell says, and photographs show she had a very large head and glassy, vacant eyes. (Lady Redesdale: "Oh dear, poor Boud, she is rather enormous.") She had a "dumb insolence", Lovell writes: her idea of fun was throwing tiles off the roof, or eating all the strawberries before a big lunch party. She sulked continuously between the ages of 14 and 18. Coarse, immune to jokes but fond of the crude gesture - as a deb, she took her pet rat, Ratular, or her grass snake, Enid, to dances, and set them free when she got bored: hugely entertaining if one were 11; less so, surely, at 18 or 19 - she is both clearly portrayed by Lovell and just out of reach. She was an obsessive, and at one point - before she discovered Jew Suss at 15 - liable to become obsessively religious. After her suicide attempt, when she had a mental age of 11, she returned to religion and roamed about London, attending services of all denominations. She also conducted services in the ruined chapel of her mother's remote Hebridean island, Inch Kenneth, and enjoyed planning her own funeral (her gravestone, chosen by her mother, reads: "Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth").
Having stalked Hitler for ages - she would sit at a table in his favourite restaurant, waiting, and shake uncontrollably as soon as he came in - Unity finally met him in 1935. He told her Cavalcade was the best film he had ever seen. "I am so happy that I wouldn't mind a bit dying," she wrote to her father. "I suppose I am the luckiest girl in the world." Hitler, unfamiliar with the ways of the English peerage, asked Unity her father's name and at first assumed she was illegitimate. She called him "Wolf", he called her "Kind", they became close (but not that close: Unity either died a virgin or had a brief relationship with Janos von Almassy, a Hungarian count with an interest in horoscopes). Also in 1935, she wrote her letter to Der Sturmer: As a British woman Fascist . . . The English have no notion of the Jewish danger . . . Our worst Jews work only behind the scenes . . . We think with joy of the day when we shall be able to say with might and authority: England for the English! Out with the Jews! . . . PS . . . I want everyone to know that I am a Jew hater. Later on, in 1939, Hitler obtained an apartment for her: "it belongs to a young Jewish couple who are going abroad," she wrote to Diana. And so on and grimly on, until she shot herself in the head in Berlin's English Gardens. Because there's always a Mitfordesque chiaro to the scuro, Lady Redesdale also met Hitler; on the first occasion, she felt compelled to lecture him at enormous length about the health benefits of wholemeal bread, Unity sullenly translating ("it sounded stupid"). Presumably Lady Redesdale refrained from sharing her other dietary rules ("as dictated by Moses in the Old Testament"): none of the Mitford children was ever allowed pork, rabbit, hare or shellfish, or medication of any kind, or vaccination ("pumping disgusting dead germs into the Good Body!"). Pamela ("most rural of them all", as her would-be suitor John Betjeman had it, for which read "sweet and dull") met Hitler, too. Asked about him later, she said: "Very ordinary, like an old farmer in a brown suit," but went into ecstasies over the delicious new potatoes that had been served at lunch.
The shadow of the war hovers over Lovell's book, not unreasonably, and it has its uses, not least when it comes to shedding some light on Diana and Unity (you get to rather love the D of D, too). But the best parts concern the girls' childhood and adolescence - the hours spent playing Slowly Working Away (scratching the same piece of skin with a nail until the scratchee could no longer endure it), and entertaining wild, hopeful fantasies about being captured by white slavers ("Don't answer him," Decca told Debo of a man who greeted them politely every morning, "or you'll wake up in Buenos Aires and be distributed'"). These vignettes aren't new, but the aerial view helps, as does Lovell's portraits of the parents, here finally rehabilitated as loving, bewildered and eventually broken-hearted. From adulthood onwards, the six sisters' stories all contain elements of galloping tragedy: even the sainted Decca died a recovering alcoholic. Life ends no better for girls in pearls than for anyone else; what sets the Mitfords aside is that they were all so very good at laughter in the dark.
- India Knight writes a column for the Sunday Times. Her second novel will be published in May.
- To read more online essays from the current edition of the London Review of Books visit the LRB. The extensive online archive of essays from past includes John Lanchester on the rise of Microsoft, Alan Bennett's Diary and much more.


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Top 10: Movie Remakes
Number 5
Cape Fear(1991) This could easily be the most controversial selection on this list, as the 1962 version of Cape Fear remains one of the more memorable thrillers of that era. But with legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese behind the camera and a tour-de-force performance from frequent Scorsese collaborator Robert De Niro, it's impossible to deny the power of this 1991 remake.
The story revolves around Max Cady (De Niro), a vicious rapist who's just been released from prison after a 14-year stint behind bars. Convinced that his lawyer (played by Nick Nolte) hid a document that could have kept him out of jail, Cady embarks on a campaign of intimidation and violence against his attorney's family. Scorsese ratchets up the tension considerably, aiming for the jugular from the get-go. The fact that the film was the inspiration for one of the best episodes of The Simpsons further cements its status as a contemporary classic.
Best quote: "Come out, come out, wherever you are!"
-Max Cady
Number 4
Shaft (2000)It was a no-brainer, really. Asking Samuel L. Jackson — one of the coolest actors of his or any other generation — to play an iconic figure like John Shaft is just one of those ideas that seems obvious. And as smooth and suave as Richard Roundtree's original Shaft was, he can't help but come off as a clumsy oaf when compared with Jackson's super-slick take on the character. Director John Singleton effectively brings John Shaft into modern times without sacrificing some of the more outdated aspects of his personality, while Roundtree himself makes a cameo as Shaft's uncle (even though the actor is only six years older than Jackson!)
The plot is almost irrelevant next to Jackson's stellar performance, but Singleton — along with cowriters Richard Price and Shane Salerno — nevertheless offers up an intriguing storyline revolving around Shaft's attempts to bring two nefarious criminals to justice. Said criminals are played by noted scene stealers Christian Bale and Jeffrey Wright, which is yet another reason why this version outranks the 1971 original in virtually every way.
Best quote: "It's my duty to please that booty."
-John Shaft
Number 3
The Fly(1986) The Fly marked cult director David Cronenberg's first really big hit, and it's not difficult to see why. Based on the 1958 film of the same name, The Fly follows quirky researcher Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) as he develops a teleportation device that actually works. But while he's testing it for the first time, the titular insect flies into the chamber, transforming him into an unprecedented hybrid of man and fly.
The concept is slightly different than that of the original, which featured the scientist's head atop the fly's body (and vice versa). And while that film had a memorably grim conclusion (the scientist, shouting "Help me!" in a tinny voice, is eaten by a spider), it certainly feels like a product of its time. Cronenberg's version, however, remains relevant today — thanks primarily to some exceedingly brutal special effects and a typically entertaining performance by Goldblum, who easily overcomes his gregarious persona to become a genuinely sinister figure.
Best quote: "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
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Heidi Montag May Have Split From Spencer Pratt
Only time will tell if this split is actually for real, or if it's another one of the couples publicity stunts. That's kind of sad, isn't it? The twosome have become such punchlines that we can't believe Heidi Montag's own breakup announcement.
TMZ reports that the main reason that Heidi split from Spencer Pratt was that Spencer is so controlling he isolated her from all her friends. What apparently really made Heidi see the light was when Spencer Pratt called the cops on her mother when she stopped by the house. Plus, Heidi is saying, she wants to break into acting but says people in Hollywood don't want to work with her because she has "a loose cannon of a husband."
So the real reason finally comes out. It's all about her career. What makes this whole story even more suspect is that fact that Heidi is moving in with her friend Bunny so they can film their new reality show. Gee, how convenient.
I wish Heidi and Spencer all the best. Scratch that. I really don't. Just go away.
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No it is not, my mother is to ill to go for herself, it is not fraud.<quoted text>
It is fraud to use someone else's card.
Food Stamps
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#21 Feb 8, 2013
#22 Feb 8, 2013
Conmed, oil company and walmart all pay taxes, workmans comp, health benefits. The freeloaders using the ebt cards pay nothing. They only take from the system . They should only allow stores such as aldi for purchases.
#23 Feb 8, 2013
Hey, maybe she doesn't have the time to be making her own from scratch with all of her time being devoted to finding jobs shes unqualified for so they wont hire her! give her a break lol
#24 Feb 8, 2013
And if she gets caught buying ingredients to cook by someone from the welly office, they'll assume she can cook and could possibly get a job doing so. Better not to risk it!
#25 Feb 8, 2013
just give blacks free guns with the free food, they'll wipe each other out and save the country.
#26 Feb 8, 2013
I love programs like JCTOD welfare recipients hate it. Why. They give you a beautiful, furnished apartment, all the food you need, counseling and parent support, plus activities for kids. But you have to contribute with mandatory volunteer hours and can't have people at your apartment all hours of the night. Yet these people in need complain so much about this place, god forbid you give a little back for all the free stuff and you can't have random guys hanging out all hours of the night wjen your supposed to be taking care of your kids.
#27 Feb 8, 2013
Damn business. Thing is he probably is working minimum wage and is still able to collect because you don't make enough on minimum wage. But let's not raise it. Let's keep it that low and then bitch about some one that collects foodstamps because they can't live on minimum wage and in this area that's all that your going to Get. Raise minimum wage and maybe some of the people will be able to live. How about people like the president and Congress go and get jobs after their terms are up instead of collecting their salary the rest of their life. And when they reach retirement age collect social security like the rest of America. Maybe then social security will get fixed. Because you know if they have to collect it they will be damn sure it gets fixed. Why do you think social security don't get fixed. They have their own social security that we all pay for. Why??? They bleed a different color than the rest of us?? They don't fix it and don't care to fix it because they don't have to rely on it like the rest of us do. So before you judge look in the mirror and ask, what can I do to help change this downward spiral America is in.
#28 Feb 8, 2013
I remember years ago when my family needed help after my Dad passed away. My Mom used to have and go stand in line at the fire station to get cheese,rice,powdered milk,butter,and other essential food products. To me that would make more sense becuse that would assure that the families were getting things they needed instead of using the money for other things.I know that there were cases of smaller corner grocery stores that were cited for selling things that were not to be bought with food stamps,going back to the old days would eliminate this.
#29 Feb 9, 2013
75% of the people that work at walmart get foodstamps and medacade same thing goes for conmed. They dont pay there help enough to even feed their self. So the tax payers have to . Most people on foodstamps work every day. THEY JUST WORK FOR GREEDY CORPORATE ASSHOLES. BUT LETS BLAME THE POOR AND NOT THE RICH WHO GET THAT WAY PFF THIER LABOR!
#30 Feb 9, 2013
I get food stamps I work 35 hours a week and do not pay enough to support me and my daughter we shop at aldis and yes some stuff at walmart. We do not get enough food stamps for the month. I do not drive a fancy car welfare doesnt pay my rent or my lights. Not everybody is taking the system for a ride there are some of us that need the help and are greatful its there.
#31 Feb 10, 2013
You are the reason food stamps are a good benefit. To help working people who need a little boost to get by. It's the generations of abusers that wreck the system and give public assistance a bad name.
#32 Feb 12, 2013
i was at the store today an checking out was a lady in front of me with two carts full of foodused two different cards to pay cashier neve question y she used to different cards.it just so happened she was right next to me in the lot,she was driving a very nice hummer an talking on the phone saying i have some meat for sale later all me.
#33 Feb 12, 2013
I totally agree the system is highly flawed there are way to many ppl out there who abuse it to many the get assistance and should not and then there are those who could use it and cant get it!! Ii have a pretty good job work 40 hours plus a week i have said nice things mentioned in other posts cloths phone etc etc. Not a nice car lol but a car none the less But also have alot of bills national greed, lol rent car insurance , cell phone bill which i also double as home phone health insurance which i also have to pay the taxes on out my checks.!! But i could use some that assistance example food stamps or ebt snap whatever it is called nowdays. Could i get it no and a lot of months with said bills allthough some being considered luxuries it gets scarce for food and i allow be4 any bills the grocery allowence. Still i run low on food at times but cannot recevie assistance my working and tax paying pay for it how come i cant take advantage of.it also?? And as stated in previous posts useing someone elses card is not against the law in certin cases i work in the health care feild and one of my mentally challenged physically handicapped clients i do shopping for and am that guy in line nice coat cloths cell phone etc paying for groceries with food stamps and when needed cash back but this is not for me yet i get the looks. The mumbled whispers when ppl dont know the situation!!
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#34 Feb 13, 2013
I am a social worker and I find fault with the whole program. There is no consideration for a family that is working to keep them selves just above the FPL. These folks are one pay check away from being homeless but because they 25k instead of 24k I have to wait until they are evicted from their home and lose a job before I can assist. Meanwhile there families living in the PJ's who know damn well that if the found a job instead of bouncing a ball all day they would employ themselves out of a free home, free food, and free electricity. These are able bodied folks who simply choose not to work. Surely I am not speaking for all of them. I frequently make home visits and many of them are elderly and infirm. Yet because there is so much abuse of welfare dollars the truly needy are lumped into the same tenement with dead beats when they should be in a health care facility. There needs to be some serious reform. Social Services shouldn't be based solely on income anymore. I BHO wants to improve the infrastructure of this country and save our national treasures he should be looking at these leaches of society to do the work instead of asking for volunteers from successful families and retired vets to do the work. WPA and CCC were very successful in building our country but that was long ago. Folks have become to accustom to the government providing services while giving nothing back in return. It used to be that if you were a young man and needed money but were too reluctant or feeble to join the military then you packed your bags, got on a bus, and headed to a work camp and built parks, bridges, schools, and all the other things we now contract out for. These young people were given food, shelter, and learned a trade. While the pay was meek it was subsidized by free health care and basic requirements while you were enrolled in the program. Once a program was finished the alumni would then have a marketable skill and a work ethic to go along with it to go out and get an actual job. Americorps is just a lingering fart of what used to be and it has been so burdened with bureaucracy that it is hardly accomplishing anything anymore other than baby sitting young twenty-somethings that refuse to grow up. While I applaud these folks for getting involved I curse the government for selling them short. Captain John Smith, upon founding settlements in the new world declared, Those of you who will not work shall not eat. This is the movement we need to be working towards if we are going to have sustainable social services that actually provide to those downtrodden individuals that actually NEED assistance. If you heard Marco Rubio last night then you know what I am talking about. Broad sweeping social programs and big government cost money and the only way to get that money is to tax. Obamacare has tied the hands of many small business and prevent them from hiring folks. Think about it. If you owned a business that was making a good profit, but not huge, would you rather insure your staff or pay fines for your 52 employees or just lay off three of them to avoid such penalties? This is big gov't being big bullies.
#35 Feb 13, 2013
Sounds good -BUT - many of the Churches food banks are supported by their parish which are also being impacted by loss of jobs, loss of finances; just like the rest of us.
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#36 Feb 13, 2013
Blame the pisspoor education system in NY and the massive taxation all the welfare and public service layers eat up. It's all welfare if you look at what they actually produce.
#37 Feb 14, 2013
You are right. Government is to big and people like you are the problem we should get rid of half of the state and county workers cut yoir pension off and give the poor the jobs of handing out our tax dollars
#38 Feb 14, 2013
Blessing Doner didn't little chips running around an they knew their baby daddy.
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#39 Feb 14, 2013
Or you keep my pay the same but you give me the tools to do actual case management for those actually in need instead of having me handout assistance to everyone who knows how to fill out an application with the correct answers to get assistance. Let me weed out the non-deserving so I can focus my time and efforts on the folks who really need it like the 75 year old widow who has no family or the disabled vet who is living on the streets but still working as a parking lot attendant or shoveling driveways to keep himself fed. The decision to help or not needs to be down here at a local level, not decided in the Capitol Buildings.
#40 Feb 14, 2013
yeah I kinda like your solution a little better than just feeding scum and letting working ppl fend for theirselves in tough situations. Its called life, and shit happens, maybe there are ppl who need help tht have jobs because they had to bury a parent who had no or little med/life ins and they need help to feed their kids while paying off these bills. I get it, these are the ppl that really need the help and would be off them in a short time freeing this money up for someone else in a similar situation.
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