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From Abba, Elvis and the Beatles to Robbie Williams and the Kings of Leon, plus tributes to the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.
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Three incredibly talented female singers on playback, or full 7-piece party band, performing a stellar selection of Motown hits.
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Refreshingly fun party band from Leeds who have performed with Bucks Fizz! The band also offer 70s and 80s themed shows. Additional female vocals and DJ service also available.
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Exceptional tribute band, recreating Beatles sounds and styles with outstanding attention to detail, and with a repertoire covering more than 100 classic Beatles tunes from 1962 to 1970. Duo and premium options available.
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Authentic Abba tribute band from the South West. A fantastic show including costumes and choreography! Also available with 70s and party sets, or as a duo.
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Two fun-loving, energetic female vocalists with a passion for performance take you on an entertaining romp through Abba's greatest hits.
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Englands finest tribute to The Beatles, featuring original costumes, perfect harmonies and replica instruments. A world class act, and the most authentic sound and look since the sixties!
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Warwickshire's most exciting male-fronted 4-piece wedding & party band can also double up as the finest specialist 60s tribute band in the UK, with stunningly authentic performance, vintage equipment and clothes! Low-season rates and DJ service available.
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A sensational Abba tribute duo with an authentic sound, sensational costumes and dance routines - and all things glam! Available as full band. DJ service and non-Abba pop sets available.
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Superb 5-piece band with male & female vocals and retro-synth sounds, capturing the spirit (and dubious fashion sense) of the 80s, in a retro show that's second to none!
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A world-class, dynamic 5-piece 80s tribute show. Whether you're having a wedding, party or corporate entertainment – if you're looking for 80s classics, look no further!
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Celebrity favourites Jump are a 4-piece 80s tribute band from the South East, boasting both male and female lead vocals, authentic costumes and a dazzling show!
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Winners of the coveted Tribute act of the year award, this highly entertaining duo one of the finest tributes in the North West.
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Dressed in snappy suits and circular skirts, this young, high-energy 50s tribute band leap effortlessly from authentic rock n'roll to mellow prom-style ballads.
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Dance your way through a decade of 80s pop with this high-energy, London-based 80s tribute band! Additional musicians available (up to 12-piece).
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One of the UK's very best and longest established Abba tribute bands, featuring stunning all-live vocals, fabulous costume changes, dynamic choreography and a good helping of humour and audience participation.
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Airwave are a hard grooving 80s act whose dynamic show recreates the energy and optimism of the happiest, brightest, most colourful and outrageous decade of them all.
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Boogie on down to 70s classics with this fantastic 6-piece 70s tribute band from London! Additional musicians available (up to 12 piece).
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Fabulous self-contained West Midlands duo with state of the art sound and lighting will treat you to a high-octane performance full of fun, laughs, action and attitude.
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Hugely popular Abba tribute show (duo/quartet available) from the North West with authentic costumes and pitch perfect renditions of all your Abba favourites. DJ service available, also rock 'n' roll, 70s and 80s repertoire.
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Sinatra, arguably the biggest and greatest singing performer of all time, is uniquely recreated in this fantastic special tribute performance. Available soloist (to backing tracks) or with live band.
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Super talented 3 or 4 piece 60s tribute, covering all the quintessential English bands from the era, such as the Kinks, the Small Faces, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. Lulu not included! Available with brass section.
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Two For The Road's talented and established singer can be backed by a 3-piece to 13-piece band, bringing the delights of jazz and swing to any event.
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Incredible 60s band from Leeds transporting crowds back to the golden age of rock 'n' roll with their authentic sound!
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Exciting 5-piece male-fronted rock & roll band from Nottingham playing classic 50s songs, as well as modern hits with a rock & roll twist. Smaller line up and acoustic sets available.
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Compelling 4-piece tribute band celebrating all things 60s, from Beatles to Stones, Small Faces to Kinks, throwing in modern party anthems and indie tunes as needed. Acoustic duo set available.
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First class singer who can turn himself to almost any style - choose between tributes to Michael Buble, the Rat Pack, Robbie Williams, 60s/70s/80s party songs, or mix it up. DJ service available with full DJ rig and lighting system with podiums.
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Superb London tribute to the Beatles faithfully recreate all your favorite Fab Four tracks with authentic costumes and gear. Also available as an acoustic duo.
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Stunning tribute show to the Rat Pack and also featuring songs from Tony Bennett, Bobby Darin, Michael Buble and a smattering of modern classics. Low rates in the Midlands.
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Charismatic sell-out Essex-based Rat Pack and swing singer whose stunning vocals have been featured in Made In Chelsea and TV adverts! Available with backing tracks or full band.
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Infectiously energetic 6-piece funk & soul band, featuring both male & female lead vocals and a fantastic selection of floor-filling grooves. Brass section, extra percussion and DJ service available.
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Entertaining 90s pop and dance band with male and female vocals. This London based band has a repertoire full of 90s hits, as well as music from the 60s, 70s, 80s and today. Smaller line ups available.
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Unique tribute to the "King of Cool": Rat Pack legend Dean Martin. Whether your favourite is Everybody Loves Somebody, That's Amore, Little Old Wine Drinker or Sway, Neil covers them all and many more in his superb show.
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Get your party swingin' and twistin' and shake your tailfeathers to this energetic skiffle band, playing classic rock 'n' roll hits of the 50s and 60s. DJ service and afternoon acoustic sets (duo or 4-piece band) also available.
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The Vee Bees specialise in hip-swinging 50s and 60s classics but can also turn out anthemic floor-fillers by Michael Jackson and Amy Winehouse!
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From Duran Duran to The Smiths, 80s Revival will take you back to the 80s in style, performing a variety of 80s hits with live instruments and backing tracks. 90s tribute also available.
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One of the very best, and most popular Elvis tribute artists working in the UK today, having notched up victories in the 'Best Vegas Elvis' in the Blackpool Contest in 2005 and then outright winner of the 'Best Elvis In The UK' in the Selfridges Contest, London.
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High energy performance of authentic legendary songs with a breathtaking live show.
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One of the UK's top Neil Diamond tributes performing classics like Sweet Caroline, Cracklin' Rosie, Cherry Cherry, Crunchy Granola Suite.
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The North East's most in-demand Elvis tribute! The show is based around the '68 Comeback special, Vegas and the Jumpsuit era. Available with showgirls, backing singers and dancers, 4-piece band and DJ service.
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The ultimate Rat Pack tribute show. Full to the brim with timeless songs, amusing anecdotes, classic comedy and charismatic performances, the Rat Pack Experience truly captures the essence of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr.


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Chardonnay from Limari Valley, Chile
Winemaker's Notes
Clean and bright, light yellow in color with rich and concentrated aromas of tasty pear, fig and toasty hazelnut. Marques de Casa Concha is a full bodied wine with distinct minerality and a core of ripe, opulent fig and pear flavor. This wine is big in the mouth, creamy with crisp acidity and a long, memorable finish.
A delightful accompaniment to white meat, shellfish and fresh cheeses.
Critical Acclaim
James Suckling - "A pretty chardonnay with bright and vibrant apple, lemon and cream character. Full to medium body, with a beautiful, intense finish. Salty. The tiny 10% malo gives this wine some density but leaves it bright. It's all barrel fermented but only about one-third new. Wonderful value."
Concha y Toro Winery
Founded in 1883, Vina Concha y Toro is Latin America's leading producer and occupies an outstanding position among the world's most important wine companies, currently exporting to 135 countries worldwide. Uniquely, it owns around 9,500 hectares of prime vineyards, which allows the company to secure the highest quality grapes for its wine production. Concha y Toro's portfolio includes a wide range of successful brands at every price point, from the top of the range Don Melchor and Almaviva to the flagship brand Casillero del Diablo and innovative stand-alone brands such as Palo Alto and Maycas del Limari. The company has 3,162 employees and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile. View all Concha y Toro Wines
About ChileView a map of Chile wineries (CHEE-lay)Long and thin, Chile has a lot of land north to south. The wine region here is a series of districts based near Santiago. The vineyards are protected by the Pacific on the west and the Andes mountains on the east. This could help explain why the climate changes more from east to west than north to south – also why the country has remained phylloxera free. Quite a few wineries in Chile were founded by large French wine companies. Seeing the potential of the country, vineyards were bought and planted by these French folks and the results tell of a smart investment. Some of these wineries include: Los Vascos, Casa Lapostolle and Cousino Macul. And while the inspiration may have been French, but the wines here are quite Chilean.
Photo of the sun break following morning fog over the vineyards of Veramonte Winery (located in the Casablanca Valley)
Notable FactsThe main regions of Chile include Maipo (pronounced MY-poh), known for reds like Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Carmenere; Casablanca Valley, a region producing delicious Sauvignon Blanc, as well as other whites & some reds; Colchaugua, an inland district creating amazing red wines from Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon, particularly in the Apalta sub-region; and Rapel Valley, settled right under Maipo and producing the same red varietals. A couple of smaller regions to watch include Limari and Elqui, two valleys further north, producing some delicious cool-climate Chardonnay and Bio Bio, an area further south, which is also focused on cool-climate varieties. Chilean wines are growing in exports and more consumers are enjoying the delicious values coming from the country. Red wines of the region, though they cannot be generalized, make the whole gamut of wine quality – quaffable to collectible. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot & Carmenere are the main players, though Syrah is also making a splash. Some of the best reds are blends of the above varieties. As for whites, Sauvignon Blanc is typically crisp, herbal and racy, while Chardonnay is richer in style with full-bodied texture and tropical fruit flavors.
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At Google I/O in the very first keynote at on the very first day was a gigantic announcement set including no less than Ice Cream Sandwich being revealed in bits. The biggest best piece of this announcement was of course the logo – seen here and in the video below. What else does this new version of Android include? Not much thus far, most of the features being noted as available for Android 3.1 Honeycomb now, more than likely moving on with ICS down the line.
See this video for the super fancy logo reveal and stick with us in the heat of the melting sandwich for additional bits. Check with our Google IO 2011 tag at https://androidcommunity.com/tag/io-2011/ for all the info you could possible desire. This is just the first of many announcements that'll be made during this conference, not the least of them to be sure.
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Note: regardless of what you may have heard, not a whole heck of a lot was revealed about Ice Cream Sandwich in this first Google I/O keynote. The logo was revealed, sure, but on the whole, it seemed more like a candy cane than a whole Christmas dinner, if you know what I mean. At least we'll be able to update our forum marker image!
DOUBLE Note: Take a look at everything that WAS detailed in as severe an amount of detail as you could possible want in our Big Ice Cream Sandwich Post.


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I have been using the original Kessler Shuttle Pod for almost a year. The first version used the Kessler Crane truss as a track to roll on.
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As local lounge lizards settle in for two weeks of gold medal hype, Ric Birch, director of ceremonies for Sydney 2000, has handed out a few post-dated medals of his own.
In his soon to be released memoir, Master of the Ceremonies, Birch nominates two chaps for solid gold ``bastardry'' the former Olympics minister and SOCOG president, Michael Knight, and the Olympic Co-ordination Authority chief, David Richmond.
The revival of hostilities is no great surprise given the antipathy expressed mid-Games, but Birch doesn't hold back. He cites various disagreements, including how they excluded his company, Spectak, from producing the closing ceremony's fireworks finale.
``Just another bit of bastardry from Knight and Richmond as far as I was concerned,'' he says.
Birch describes Richmond as an ``intimate'' of Knight who was ``clearly a person going places''.
He says it was ``mutual dislike'' at first sight between the pair and that ``things went downhill from there''.
Richmond, who these days runs Sydney University's Graduate School of Government, said he would have been surprised if Birch hadn't insulted him.
He thought Birch had a ``Moses view of the world ... I would be able to do this if you part the waters''.
``He was obviously a creative genius but the reality was that other people had to implement it,'' said Richmond, adding that when it came to being bagged by the likes of Birch his skin was ``very thick''.
Despite his role advising the Athens Olympic Committee, Richmond is joining the late-night lounge lizards.
He got back from his 12th trip to Athens 10 days ago and is too busy to return for the Games.
While Richmond revealed that he'd seen Knight in Athens, we doubt Knight would be drawn on Birch's book given his proclamation to a Sauce operative. ``I'm no longer a public figure; go and find a politician to speak to,'' he said while observing the torch's progress through Sydney recently.
Birch reveals that the fighting even continued after the Sydney Games closing ceremony. Michael Eyers, Knight's appointee to oversee SOCOG's dissolution, disputed Birch's termination payout and holiday pay. It took a year of legal wrangling to sort it out.
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Gordon Wood's photographer friend, Basquali, was back in Sydney this week to launch his latest exhibition, photos of skid-marked concrete called Tarmac. The Artist Formerly Known As Brett Cochrane said he was in regular email contact with Wood Rene Rivkin's former chauffeur. Wood is again in hiding after being tracked down in the French alps earlier this year amid feverish media speculation that he would be charged over the death of his girlfriend, Caroline Byrne, at the Gap.
Basquali, who is such a true believer that he had a T-shirt printed proclaiming Wood's innocence, is a master of persuasion, as shown by an anecdote he shared with Wednesday's opening night crowd at Gallery Barry Keldoulis.
The New York-based artist said he was so close to broke when he flew to Sydney that he couldn't afford to pay inbound tax.
This was a bit of a problem, as he was carrying 44 framed photos.
``What are the photos of,'' asked a Customs officer.
``Tarmac,'' replied Basquali.
``What are they worth?''
``Not much.''
``If they aren't worth much then why are you bringing them all the way back from New York?'' When Basquali explained they were for an exhibition, the Customs officer asked: ``Who would be bloody interested in buying a photo of a tarmac? What is the value of the frames?''
The pair bonded when Basquali said he'd photographed Cathy Freeman. ``What's she like?'' asked Mr Customs. When Basquali raved about how kind and generous she was ``even when she's never met the person before'', the Customs officer said : ``Yeah she is, isn't she.''
Then he stamped Basquali's papers, declaring there was ``no tax.''
Prof proffers advice
If only Richard Butler had followed the advice of Professor David Flint, oracle of the Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, he might still be king of the castle on Hobart's Queens Domain.
"If Mr Butler wants ... to have no further difficulties, all he need do is remember this simple guideline on how to behave as Governor," wrote Flint in April after Butler denied asking Mark Latham to make him Governor-General.
"All he need do is ask himself what The Queen [his capitals not ours] would do in similar circumstances. If he follows that, he will have no further problems."
Claiming no personal joy at Butler's abrupt exit this week, Flint nevertheless sounded mightily chipper. While he was opining that republicans should not necessarily be precluded from vice-regal office, we asked Flint, a former Press Council and Australian Broadcasting Authority chairman, how he viewed his chances for the Tassie job.
"I don't think it would be realistic, I don't have a wife. It's very useful to have a spouse."
Oh, that skirmish
A pesky wee criminal conviction has come back to haunt Jim Byrnes - aka the big man in the blue suit.
When he's not tied up in myriad court matters, Byrnes runs auctioneer Cromwell's. This week he was in the Administrative Decisions Tribunal contesting the Office of Fair Trading's denial of a vehicle dealer's licence because of his prior form for aiding and abetting a malicious wounding and supplying heroin.
Big Jim argues that a crime committed 25 years ago shouldn't be held against him now. "I have never been convicted of an indictable offence since 1983," he told Sauce. Indeed Robert Hobbs, a former car dealer turned consultant, commented on Byrnes's transformation while attesting to his good character during Tuesday's hearing.
But Hobbs expressed surprise when the Office of Fair Trading's counsel, Andrew Wilson, asked about Byrnes's 2001 conviction for assaulting a bikie.
"It's probably something that Jim might not be proud of so he might not have discussed it with me," Hobbs speculated.
Byrnes's barrister, Paul Glissan, seemed taken aback too, until his client explained that in his affidavit he referred to the bikie as a "motor cyclist".
Byrnes said he had a "minor altercation" with a bikie who abused his wife for changing lanes in front of him. The bikie laid a complaint over the "pushing and shoving" and when it came before court, having failed to appear or enter a plea, Byrnes was convicted of common assault in his absence. He claimed to be confused about court dates and preoccupied with a civil case.
Next week another old chum, medico Dr Joseph Grech, is set to attest to Byrnes's good character. Grech, who sold his red Ferrari Dino to Byrnes, used to have a practice in Kings Cross opposite Joe's Cafe where Byrnes periodically hung out with Rene Rivkin and his motley crew.
Hit lists
This week was the fashion equivalent of the Magic Million, although Myer and David Jones spent much more than that as they took their battle of the tills to the catwalks.
Thanks to shipping in supermodel Linda Evangelista and hosting a swish dinner for 110, DJs likely came out in front on the glamour and spending stakes for the spring/summer fashion extravaganzas.
In A-list obsessed Sydney, the duelling department stores also set a new standard for social stratification.
DJs divided its crowd into a sort of A, B and C list.
After Wednesday night's parade, the As were ferried by limousine to a private dinner at Guillaume in the Opera House while the Bs were ferried to a private dinner at Hugo's Pizzeria in Kings Cross.
The Cs? Well they just toddled off elsewhere.
The VIPs on DJ's A-list shared the top table with supermodel Evangelista, who talked about skiing and flying in a private jet. Her rumoured $US250,000 ($350,240) fee for two weeks work is about the same amount DJs pays for seven weeks of its home-grown Amazonian frontwoman, Megan Gale.
Myer's list, on the other hand, leapt from A to Z.
After spending a small fortune setting up a custom-made black marquee with 250 specially-made seats and an open-air mirrored catwalk in Martin Place, the retailer added a second show.
While the first one at 1pm was for 300 select guests the second one at 5pm was for the public.
"Seating will be allocated on a first in best dressed basis," said Myer publicist Tracy Baker.
In reality the prized front row seats were reserved for fashion folk at ACP Publishing, but when no one arrived by 5pm, lots of ordinary folk took over the prime spot.
But 15 minutes later when a gaggle of fashionably late fashionistas strolled in, the public were duly moved out so the fash mag gals could take their rightful place.
Where there's a will
When Tom Breen died two years ago, the self-made man of the land and sand left a clutch of Rolls-Royces and some of the largest privately-owned tracts of real estate around Sydney.
But, it seems, he also left two wills.
Breen amassed a large fortune after switching from a career as a music, theatre and arts critic with Marxist leanings to a pioneering sand processor owning a large slab of the Kurnell peninsula and other sand and gravel bearing properties elsewhere.
Breen, 88 when he died, had two sons, Thomas Alston Essington and Tobias Essington, to two wives. The first son, Tom, wrote his father's obituary in which he said his father never recovered from his first wife, Charlotte's, death in 1968 after 27 years of marriage. "His belief in himself, particularly after the loss of Charlotte, grew beyond the norm in later years and caused great difficulties with those family members closest to him. This became his personal tragedy."
But Breen had remarried and had Toby. The two branches of his family are locked in a battle of wills in the Supreme Court. Immunologist Sir Gus Nossal is an executor of the first will, which has a generous bequest for cancer research.


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As it is shown in the table, each mounting configuration consists of sets of tracks (straight and/or curved), brackets, splices, and trolleys. Our tracks are roll-formed to be 1.44" wide by 1.25" tall and include safety flanges that provide wheel guidance for the trolleys. Straight tracks are 10 feet long by default but can be cut to any size. Curved tracks create round corners in the system for continuous movement of the curtain. Curved corners, if any, consist of 1 piece of track with a 2' radius 90° bend.
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Gilles Marini's Love Letter to His Wife
By ETONLINE STAFF
December 04, 2012
Gilles Marini is deeply in love with his wife -- and is letting the whole world know it! The actor and two-time Dancing with the Stars alum posted a touching love letter on his Facebook page on Monday night.
The France native and recently naturalized US citizen wrote in his adopted tongue, "To Carole Marini ..
"Mon amour. Tonight I want the world to know how I feel about You!
"[Being] away always reminds me that I am probably the most fortunate bastard in the world. I truly believe that life would [have] been so miserable without you. The joy u bring me and the kids is unbelievable. How stunning [it] is to have you in my life! Gosh when I think about it, it makes my hair on my arms rise.
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"I am so in love with you and I know for a fact no matter what the future brings us, we will always be together. I simply cannot live without you. Can u believe that I am writing this in English? A language that was so unknown to both of us! We [have] come so far, we did so good and there is no way, I would have done that if you have not been around me. U are more than my shining star, you are my life, my universe, my everything. We always hear that people will give their lives for their kids, we would too but also I would give mine for u in a blink of an eye. I am sorry for been so stressed and [worrying] sometimes. It's just the way I am built and you know where I am coming from, I feel like at any time everything can stop and [be] taken away from us.
"Anyway. I love you more [than] what even love is about, the words to explain it are not even yet created. U are just ... My ALL.
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Your husband,
Swoon! Could he be any more charming? And with a few strokes of a keyboard, Gilles only deepened his already dedicated fan base.
Gilles and Carole have two young children together, Georges and Juliana.
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This system uses an electric powersteering pump which is notorious for failing. Keep in mind that often times the pump fails due to overheating. There is a small cooling fan located directly under the electric powersteering pump that should run whenever the radiator fan comes on. I always recommend replacement of the fan when the pump is replaced.
Here is the electrical troubleshooting procedure if you are interested to verify the pump is bad. The wires are somewhat difficult to get to, but it's about a 1200.00 dollar repair and If it were me, I'd wanna know for sure that was the problem. But it's a 90% chance it's the pump. Super high failure rate, super common problem.
1. At the 2-pin connector on the Electro-Hydraulic Power Steering (EHPS) pump unit, check that the Red wire has constant battery voltage from fuse FL4 and that the Brown wire is a good ground. (these are large wires located above the pump)
2. At the 3-pin connector on the EHPS, the Green/White wire should have ignition-on battery voltage from fuse F39, and the Yellow wire should have battery voltage from the D+ circuit on the alternator with the engine running. The third wire, Violet/White, is the diagnostic wire from the EHPS to the car's diagnostic connector. (these are small wires)
3. If the three power inputs and the ground are good, and the pump does not operate, it is bad and has to be replaced.
thanks and let me know if you need anything else. I just did one of these 2 days ago so I am very familiar.
one more thing, be sure to use the special power steering fluid available from the dealer. It shouldn't use much, but regular powersteering fluid or trans fluid will destroy the pump in a hurry.
Thank you. I checked all the power and grounds and they are all good, so I'll replace the pump. I also tried to power the fan on the bench and it is also no good.
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Browns coach Rob Chudzinski met with reporters today to discuss the team's 23-17 loss Sunday to the Kansas City Chiefs. Here is a transcript from the news conference:
Opening statement: "Disappointed about the loss yesterday. It was a hard-fought game. Kansas City is an outstanding team. They out-executed us early and were able to build a lead we couldn't overcome. It's never about one player, one play, one coach; we win and lose together, and we're all accountable. However, there were a number of things that I felt we did well and have improved on and can continue to build on. We've had a tough stretch against some very good teams here. I think the guys have learned that we can be, and when we are on our game and play consistently, that we can compete and go toe-to-toe with anybody. We'll be back in the division against Baltimore. We'll make the corrections today, and then shift our focus to them and the challenge ahead after we're done with our meetings today."
On if QB Jason Campbell will be the starting quarterback going forward: "Jason will be the starting quarterback this week."
On how impressed he was with Campbell's play and his leadership: "I thought Jason played very well. After looking at the tape, he was able to manage the game, was able to escape and get out of trouble, create some plays. He did a good job from a decision-making standpoint, protected the football, and he gave us a lift in that game. We were really pleased with how he played."
On the defense playing one strong half and not two in multiple games this season: "It's something we're looking [at] hard and taking a hard look at. Really, as you break it down, you look for the execution. In yesterday's game, our early execution wasn't very good defensively, offensively either. You go to the specific plays. You look at the first drive had a penalty on it; the 15-yard penalty that hurt us. Then just some breakdowns, some individual breakdowns, we had a multitude of those in the first half. We cleaned them up for the second half, and we were able to play better. Whether it's looking at other games where we played better in one part of the game or the other, it's been different points in the game. The thing that I like about our guys is when you focus them on something to improve that they respond and make the corrections. That's what we'll have to do in this case."
On Campbell's play indicating the quarterback competition was close, as he stated during training camp and the preseason: "We and I believed that all along. These guys going back to April all got better and improved and showed that they were capable so it was close in that way."
On what ultimately led to QB Brandon Weeden being named the starting quarterback to begin the season: "I think the biggest thing in looking at it was Brandon was somebody that we didn't know a lot about, and we wanted to find out more about. He showed well and did well in the practices and in the preseason. The production hasn't been there during the regular season that we would like. But again, his role is different now. He's one play away from playing, and he's still a developing player."
On trading WR Josh Gordon: "We have no plans of trading any of our guys, including Josh. We're not shopping them. As far as any personnel rumors, speculations, those things, I'm really not going to get into."
On the defining factor that led to Weeden being active against Buffalo rather than Campbell: "Again, I think the first few games, there were some things that Brandon had done well. In different stretches and different points, he was out doing the things that you would like him to do. When he was able to get back and be healthy, we felt like his thumb was in good enough shape that he'd be able to play and play in that Buffalo game."
On goals and expectations for the remaining eight games of the season: "We're going to approach it the same way we do every week. We expect and go into every game approaching and expecting that we're going to win. I think that Jason, again, we'll want him to continue to play, and there's some things that he can get better at, as we're looking at tape, that he needs to improve on and we want him to improve on, as [we do] everybody. Really, we're focused on one game. We're focused on one game at a time, and we're focused on each guy, each person, coach, player, everybody getting better every week. That's what I want to see is that sort of improvement every single week."
On a sense of optimism despite a three-game losing streak: "It's been a tough stretch. As I mention before, I think that what guys have learned during that stretch of playing some very good teams is that we've played, whether it's a half, whether it's a quarter, whether it's a couple of series or three quarters of games, we've played very well at times. It's a matter of consistently putting it together for four quarters. That's what the mission is that we're on right now."
On if offensive coordinator Norv Turner opened up the playbook, and if so, was it due to Campbell's NFL experience: "I don't know that it's to that degree that you're talking about, but particularly as the game went on, and Jason was into the game and playing the way he was playing, that we were able to do everything that we would want to do."
On if Weeden still has the skills to be a winning quarterback in the NFL: "Yeah, I still think that he's a developing player, and that he has a good upside, and he needs to continue to work, which is what his approach is right now."
On if Weeden can improve his pocket presence under pressure or if it is more of a naturally occurring ability: "There's some guys that have a better sense for it, but there is some improvements that guys can make on it. There's a lot of drills and things like that that quarterbacks do on a day-to-day basis. A lot of it's getting out there and playing, though, and feeling the pocket and being able to slide and make those adjustments, keeping your eyes downfield and making the decisions on when to run and when to hang in there and throw."
On changes at wide receiver based on WR Davone Bess' performance yesterday and this season: "One thing that I did fail to mention earlier, and I'll answer your question in a minute, (WR) Travis Benjamin tore his ACL, and he'll require surgery.
"Back to your question, I think that Davone is everything you could ask for in terms of a guy working and doing the things to be the very best he can. He's a pro's pro in that way. I have faith in him that he'll make the corrections. I know there's some things from a technical standpoint that he can improve on in that area, and I think some of it is just trying to do it too much before he has the ball secured."
On who will return punts: "Davone. Davone and then (CB) Joe Haden is another possibility, as well."
On other injuries sustained against Kansas City: "Travis was the main injury."
On if there were any surprises with Campbell's play: "I think that his ability to come in in just a short week of practice and be as sharp as he was, also in a tough place with the noise and the difficulty in communication, I thought he did an outstanding job of that."
On Benjamin's development and performance this season prior to his injury: "You saw the growth as a player, as a receiver as well as the obvious that you see as a returner on the punt returns and then some on the kickoff returns, as well. It's a tough loss for us, but we'll have some guys step up. I don't have any of the details as far as when the surgery is or any of those type of things for you, but I'll get those to you."
On how Benjamin got injured: "It was a twist [on the] plant on the tackle."
On how the offensive played did in a hostile environment: "I thought they played the best game they have, as far as protection goes, in that game. It was a big challenge. We knew that a lot of times they were going to be singled up and that they had to man up in this game. They did that, and I think the tight ends, as well as the backs, and Jason getting the ball out were all factors in that."
On if the holding call on OL Joe Thomas during the last offensive drive appeared correct when watching the film: "We're going to submit it for clarification."
On the holding call on the Thomas during a fourth-quarter running play: "Same thing; we're going to submit both of those for clarification."
On how to get consistent play, especially from a young team: "We try to do it from a coaching standpoint, and the plays and the things that we're doing and running. From a player standpoint, we've talked a lot to those guys about mindset and having the same mindset at all different points in the game. Now, they're all human and there's the ebbs and flows of a game that affect those things, but it's about having that consistent mindset and playing [at] the same level [from a] mental and physical standpoint."
On the impact special teams has in a game and how Benjamin's injury will affect that phase of the game: "First of all, I thought our special teams really performed well. We had a few penalties that hurt us in a couple situations, but Kansas City's special teams is one of the best in the league. It was a big challenge, we knew, going into this game. Travis obviously is a big part of what we do and has been in terms of the return game. He's explosive and he has the speed and the ability to make the big play; but we'll have some guys that will step up, whether it's Davone, as I mentioned, Joe Haden, and (DB) Jordan Poyer is a young guy who just came with us who has some experience as a punt returner. Then (RB) Fozzy Whittaker has been showing some of the things he's been able to do as a kickoff returner, and we still have (WR) Greg Little, as well, there."
On if Haden volunteered to return punts: "He's always out there doing it whenever he can get in there and get it, just to show that he's ready."
On adjustments to open up the run game in the second half against Kansas City: "I don't know that it was a lot of adjustments more than better execution and converting on some third downs and being able to get in a rhythm and get some drives going. We had three straight three-and-outs, and then we had a drive where we had two plays and a touchdown and then a two-minute drive. Really, there weren't a lot of opportunities to have any runs in that. We just have to do a better job of executing early and get the ball moving, get some third downs converted. I think you saw that in the second half. When we have that, then we can get a good mix, a good balance going, and get into a rhythm."
On why the offense hasn't been able to establish a rhythm early in games: "We're taking a hard look at it. We've been working on that. You look at this game and the specifics of this game, we had a couple of identification issues from a mental standpoint that caused some problems there. We had some opportunities to make some plays, whether it would be either a throw or catch that we didn't make. It's about execution, and that's what our focus this week is going to be on, executing and doing a good job early of executing."
On increasing the number of receivers available to Campbell: "We're going to have to improve in that area. Those guys will step up, and I'm confident that they'll do that and continue to get balls to (TE) Jordan (Cameron) and Josh and the backs, as were doing. I think when we're playing well, you're seeing the ball get spread around that way."
On some coaches' philosophy to not put a player like Haden on special teams:
"It's not my first choice of doing. Until we find somebody else that can do it and has done it before, Joe can catch and obviously, he can make plays with the ball in his hand, but Davone is going to be our primary returner right now."


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01 year ago (1 year ago)Sekhmet Killing Stalking
Selling, sale #87156 Sold.
03 years agoJimBoni
Very nice figure. I especially like the piano base, it's a very good concept.
05 years agoShizuking ひきこもり
spotted on Mandarake if someone still wants her~ :3
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05 years ago (5 years ago)rubyserpent_720
I'm selling her along with Rin and Len if anyone's interested~
06 years ago (6 years ago)PinkFoxx Ohara's Flower
Surprisingly well made for the price!
Best from this series of figures.
06 years agochubipika
[ext link ] bootleg?!
I think not..the price is that of an original..some china sellers do sell authentic figs together with bootlegs..don't see it either in our local market..
07 years agoragnablade
Since the Good Smile Miku is pretty hard to get nowadays (without paying an arm and a leg), I'll have to somehow get a hold of this less awesome, less expensive one.She sold out at the last anime convention before I could get her, so now I've just got a lonely Rin.
She looks pretty good to me. Her face actually captures her expression in her many music videos better than the GSC Miku in my opinion. I have the Project DIVA Miku by SEGA. It's not as nice as the GSC or Max Factory Miku, but for the price it's pretty good. I think of her swaying at her MikuFES concert.
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not sure how to do either of these things, can you walk me through?
did connect and reconnect
no setting icon...seems to be stuck on sign in page-is there a way to bring it back to square 1?
holding for 1 minute returned I pad to opening page which simply reads
"I pad" No "home" icon was available
Attachments are only available to registered users.
cannot get to that page-log in to ipad is requiring a password to enter the system. is there a way to get past that?
upon turning on the ipad there is a title screen which says "Ipad" and has a slide bar at the bottom
done-goes to "start setup" w/no other choices
gets stuck at "choose a network" selected users internet account-requests password-correct password entered-will not accept- any way around this?
forces a choice of network followed by request for password-only available choices are cancel, enter password or back
goes back to "choose a network"
no. have found correct password-hallelujah-but now is saying "no network connection"
went through all steps...stops at "choose a network"
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Hi, I made a page callback to embed a node form into a ctools modal box. The problem is, the Wysiwyg is not showing on the body field.
Here's the code :
* A modal node/add callback.
function my_module_ajax_node() {
global $user;
$node = (object) array(
'uid' => $user->uid,
'name' => (isset($user->name) ? $user->name : ''),
'type' => 'my_node_type',
'language' => LANGUAGE_NONE
$form_state = array(
'title' => 'Create a node',
'ajax' => TRUE,
'build_info' => array(
'args' => array($node),
form_load_include($form_state, 'inc', 'node', 'node.pages');
$output = ctools_modal_form_wrapper('my_node_type_node_form', $form_state);
print ajax_render($output);
Have you some suggestions about this bug?
Thank you a lot.
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Comment #1cangeceiro CreditAttribution: cangeceiro commented
|» 7.x-1.x-dev
I am running into this issue as well running the latest dev. here is my code for the ctools modal, nothing particularly daunting.
function guided_tour_create_object_reference($parent_node, $field_name, $node = null) {
global $user;
module_load_include('inc', 'node', 'node.pages');
if (!$node) {
$node = new stdClass;
$node->type = 'guided_tour_overlay';
$node->name = $user->name;
$node->language = LANGUAGE_NONE;
$form_state = array(
'ajax' => TRUE,
'title' => t('Guided Tour'),
'build_info' => array(
'args' => array($node),
$output = ctools_modal_form_wrapper('guided_tour_overlay_node_form', $form_state);
print ajax_render($output);
The error that gets reported in the javascript console is as follows:
Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token < en.js:1
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'options' of undefined overlay:50
Resource interpreted as Stylesheet but transferred with MIME type text/html: "/node/310/edit/skins/kama/editor.css?t=C3HA5RM". overlay:16
it is trying to include lang/en.js from the url of the page, same with the editor css as you can see above in the error. So the basePath is getting overridden somewhere. Checking CKEDITOR.basePath in the console yeilds the following
Comment #2cangeceiro CreditAttribution: cangeceiro commented
|Chaos tool suite (ctools)
|» Wysiwyg
|» 7.x-2.x-dev
Moved to wysiwyg module as the error most likely exists there
Comment #3merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commented
It looks like whatever is adding that CSS file is doing so with a relative URL, but because it's happening during AJAX, the relative URL is not what is expected, perhaps?
Comment #4cangeceiro CreditAttribution: cangeceiro commented
I suspect it is something of that nature. still digging thru wysiwyg code to figure out how it is all added. Installed the ckeditor module and it works just fine, thus my suspicion is that the issue lies in wysiwyg somewhere.
Comment #5cangeceiro CreditAttribution: cangeceiro commented
still looking at this with no such luck yet. attached is a test module to reproduce the issue.
Comment #6cangeceiro CreditAttribution: cangeceiro commented
|» Closed (duplicate)
Looks like this is related to how the editor is loaded by wysiwyg. I had remembered that at one point there was another site I had worked on where ckeditor worked in a modal and it dawned on me that I had to patch wysiwyg for it to work. The patch from #356480: Lazy-load editors resolves this issue.
Comment #7omerida CreditAttribution: omerida commented
I ran into this issue where the CKEditor did not initialize within a ctools modal. I fixed by checking if the instance exists first. Attached is a patch.
Chrome console showed an error stating "Error: uncaught exception: [CKEDITOR.editor] The instance "EDITOR_ID" already exists."
Comment #8jide CreditAttribution: jide commented
Thank you omerida, I was close !
Comment #9omerida CreditAttribution: omerida commented
You're welcome!
Comment #10aaronbauman CreditAttribution: aaronbauman commented
This bug does not seem to be fixed for me, using latest ctools and wysiwyg dev versions.
Patch in #7 solved it.
Comment #11TwoD CreditAttribution: TwoD commented
|Needs review
|» Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
The patch in #7 destroys any existing instances attached to a field the editor should be [re-]attached to.
This is simply the wrong approach to fixing the problem since the instance shouldn't exist at all. Either something else created it (could happen if also using the standalone ckeditor.module), or it was not previously destroyed when the field it belongs to was updated or removed (someone forgot to detach Drupal behaviors, or we missed such an event).
I'm afraid destroying an existing editor instance before attaching a new one could result in old content (stored in the editor instance) could replace the contents of the field before the new instance is attached, potentially removing any changes made since the elements belonging to the previous editor instance were removed.
Can you give specific instructions on how to reproduce this issue?
Is the Panels-In-Place-Editor involved?
Is it only happening for some modals?
Can you reproduce it using the test module in #5?
Was there another node form outside/behind the modal?
Which field(s) was the editor active on?
Was an editor instance actually visible when the error happened, or had there previously been a visible editor instance on the a field, but it disappeared when performing a certain action?
Comment #12tim.plunkett CreditAttribution: tim.plunkett commented
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Can you give specific instructions on how to reproduce this issue?
Node form with wysiwyg enabled field and file upload file, loaded in a modal
After uploading file, the wysiwyg field textarea disappears, with this error
Uncaught [CKEDITOR.editor.replace] The element with id or name "edit-field-description-und-0-value" was not found
Is the Panels-In-Place-Editor involved?
Is it only happening for some modals?
All with given scenario
Can you reproduce it using the test module in #5?
Haven't tried yet
Was there another node form outside/behind the modal?
Yes, a different node form with no naming clashes
Which field(s) was the editor active on?
The field 'description'
Was an editor instance actually visible when the error happened, or had there previously been a visible editor instance on the a field, but it disappeared when performing a certain action?
Yes, this exactly describes the problem. The trigger was a file upload, using regular core file fields.
And yes, #7 "fixes" the problem for me.
Comment #13tim.plunkett CreditAttribution: tim.plunkett commented
The theory about someone not calling detachBehaviors sound plausible, I'll look into that
Comment #14tim.plunkett CreditAttribution: tim.plunkett commented
Okay, detach is being called properly, but for some reason the file/ajax callback is not being triggered, and it is instead re-rendering the whole modal. When it renders the modal, CTools calls attachBehaviors again.
So one solution is to call detachBehaviors before rerendering.
The other is to fix the file ajax upload to actually work as intended.
Not sure if this is the same for everyone here, but it describes my issue.
Comment #15tim.plunkett CreditAttribution: tim.plunkett commented
Part of this was my own doing, but #2215857: Behaviors get attached to removed forms and #1907256: modal_display should detach before updating dom were needed to fix it completely.
Comment #16TwoD CreditAttribution: TwoD commented
Could you check if just applying #1907256: modal_display should detach before updating dom fixes it together with the current Wysiwyg 7.x-2.x-dev?
I recently comitted #1757684: Ajax error on Add another item as a workaround since the "upstream" Core and CTools issues haven't received much attention yet - other than from @tim.plunkett, thanks for that =)
If so, I think we could close this as a duplicate.
Comment #17odegard CreditAttribution: odegard commented
I'm a bit behind the curve, but I updated to latest stable ctools (7.x-1.4) and wysiwyg dev (26. june) and now it works for me. No separate patching. No other changes to the system. I tried adding stuff in ckeditor without saving, reloading, tried my best to trip it up but it worked every time.


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Kamal A2Z: Aadu Puli Aattam
by Krish
Cast: Kamal Haasan as Madan, Rajnikanth as Rajni, 'Cheapriya', 'Coconut' Srinivasan and 'Major-Blunder-Rajan'
Director: S.P. Muthuraman
This is a write-up on a not much reviewed multi-starrer. Aadu Puli Aattam is not the first movie that comes up in our mind, when we think of Kamal-Rajni starrers of late 70s. This is the aspect which made me sit and watch the movie (besides being a Kamal starrer) on Vijay TV, a week back. I don't think the movie was commercially successful or critically acclaimed. It might have been an also-ran movie, as there were no big names involved, apart from the two superstars.
The director S.P. Muthuraman wasn't really popular at that time. Nevertheless, it is not an avoidable one. I would say that APA is more watchable than Ninaithale Inikkum or Alauddinum Arpudha Vilakkum. The first 20 minutes are pretty interesting but the story takes some bizarre turns later and falters. Some parts of the movie are engaging.
Unlike the other films these two acted together, this one is neither a family drama nor a romantic movie. The story seems like it is tailor-made for MGR & Nambiar as there are quite a few stunts scenes, two-timing and some punch dialogues too.
Aadu Puli Aattam (translated in English, 'The Goat and Tiger Game') refers to an old chess-like board game played in Tamil Nadu using pebbles. The movie starts with Kamal and Rajini, close associates, playing this game in a bar. When the game is finished, the couple, along with their gang ransack the bar and loot the money.
In brief, this is the story of a young man who dreams of becoming a policeman, but decides to go against the police due to circumstances and heads a gang of thieves. When he comes to know that his associates are much worser than thieves, he joins the police and nabs the criminals.
There are some notable scenes. A prisoner called 'Bhai' who is to be hung soon has a blind son. After Bhai is executed, Kamal who does not want the kid to know the truth & tries to act as Bhai by mimicking his voice. Though not a great scene, it must have been new to Tamil cinema during those days. More recently, a Prabhudeva-Karthik movie was entirely based on this concept. Later Kamal tricking one of Rajni's associates by 'capturing' Major turns out to be a nice scene. I especially liked Kamal's expression when he comes back to Major and unties him.
The bike-car chase between Kamal and Major is also well-shot. Just note the scene when he is shot in his leg. The way he limps is just too natural. No other actor bothers to display the pain and feelings as much as this man. The Sardarji make-up and North Indian accent is a good attempt too. Similarly the climax stunt scene is a well made one featuring Kamal and Rajni in a long drawn fight on a roof top. It is a well picturised stunt scene with very few camera tricks, thanks to Kamal's agility. He is extremely quick, energetic and dedicated. I could not spot a single shot in which he uses a double ('dupe'). But the same can not be said about Rajnikanth. This whole fight sequence was shot with Rajnikanth's double and Kamal Haasan. Yes, even in close-up shots you can see Rajni's double trying hard to cover his face with his palms.
In the second half of the movie, Kamal gets an opportunity to work for the Crime Branch. Kamal, as usual is at ease in these roles. In the investigation scenes I felt, he could have avoided starting all sentences with a 'Well…'. [In fact all wannabe-Kamals appearing in mimicry shows, never fail to copy this.] From here on, Kamal's role becomes more James Bond-like working for the police, two-timing Rajni's associates and finding his hide-outs. In the end, Kamal pushes Rajni from the top of a building, Rajini falls on a bush and loses his eyesight. As expected, the villian mouths the most common dialogue used in a climax…"Naan thirundhitten" (I have turned a new leaf).
The movie has a good number of cliched scenes. The director follows the age-old practice of placing an odd-looking wig on the hero's head in the flashback (to show him as an 'innocent' man!). The flashback scenes are pretty much avoidable (especially Kamal dreaming of his ex-lover, who chases a train in 'slow-motion' is funny). Thankfully there are only two songs and there isn't much romance. I guess the Bhai and his son were straight out of some drama troupe as their acting reminded me of early-80s Doordarshan plays ('naadagams').
Major Sunderrajan is asked to wear the khaki uniform yet another time. I can imagine the outrageous response he would have received from the audience when he mouthed his famous two-liner, "Naan kandippa seyyaren. I will certainly do it!"…;-) There are some good one-liners for Rajinikanth. Especially "Idhu Rajni style" is stylish, indeed. But the way he says 'dost' everytime he meets Kamal is funny. It sounds more like Sivaji Ganesan's 'Thambeeeee', 'Ammaaaaa'…:-). Thengai Sreenivasan gets introduced in a grand manner, as a pipe-smoking Brahmin CID with a double barrel gun. But his role is disappointing. This movie doesn't have any comedy track, either.
Kamal Haasan is the heart of Aadu Puli Aattam. The entire story is about him — his early life, his lover, shattered dreams, gang of thugs, enlightenment and revenge. For most part of the film, he appears in the hippie-style, which was hugely popular in the late 70s. He looks dashing in the intro scene where he rides a bullet. This role is a cakewalk for this extremely skilled actor and he doesn't get a chance to showcase his abundant talents in APA.
The scene in which he goes to Rajni's den and gets a cold welcome is good. Rajni throws a garland on Kamal and calls him an 'Aadu'. In turn, Kamal turns back and throws the same garland on air which falls right on Rajni's neck, and says, "Idhu nanbanukku poatta malai illa", implying that he is the tiger and Rajini, the goat. Like this there are few promising sequences, but overall, the movie is just average. Music is disappointing (neither MSV not Illayaraja) but photography was pretty good, especially in the opening scene. By the way, this is a black & white movie.
When I watched it, I could relate it to several other films which came later. Kamal's own Khaki Chattai, a much bigger success and a better entertainer, can be called a remake of APA. More recently, Kireedom and Pokkiri have some scenes resembling this movie.
Editor's Note:
Krish does a good job of letting us know about a not-so-familiar movie. We have more of 'A' since 'B' is pretty much done. Next week, we move onto 'C'. Very few movies, but a couple of popular ones. Send in your entries!


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Pauline Moreau, a 77-year-old retiree in the Orlando-area, concurred with the affinity for Gingrich.
Pauline was born in Corsica in 1780 with an itch to scratch.
Pauline, played by 90210 star AnnaLynne McCord, has a few issues.
Pauline Phillips, known affectionately to the nation by her pen name Abigail Van Buren, died Wednesday at age 94.
During their first, happy-enough gathering, mother Pauline watches the second generation walk down to the beach.
Only once did John Ash find opportunity to speak to Pauline alone.
Perhaps Rosalie divined this, for she took to another thing—and that was Pauline.
Pauline has been with me several times, and is always delighted to accompany me there.
He is angry that Eugene and Pauline should flaunt their happiness in her sad eyes.
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The Isaacson School for New Media has joined forces with Colorado Mountain College's professional photography and graphic design programs to meet the needs of students.
CMC's Isaacson School for New Media started classes in August, in the form of associate degrees and occupational certificates, as well as non-credit workshops designed to help mid-career professionals and entrepreneurs learn new media skills. The Isaacson School's new media program includes three tracks for prospective students: digital journalism, marketing and media production.
Brian Tinker, director of CMC's graphic design program, said the joining of programs was a natural transition, as the college's curricula in photography and graphic design have been evolving to reflect new media trends.
Tinker said the shift towards collaboration between programs will allow his graphic design students to take new media courses and for new media students to take graphic design courses.
For more information about the Isaacson School, call Colorado Mountain College in Aspen at (970) 925-7740, ext. 2417. Registration is underway for spring classes and workshops.
The Carbondale office of Otak, Inc. has relocated to 1821 Blake St. in historic Lower Downtown Denver.
Principal Kate Schwarzler announced the move, noting that Otak has been part of the regional community for the past 13 years.
"We are also pleased to announce that Linda Schuemaker will remain a part of Otak and will continue serving clients from her home office in Glenwood Springs," Schwarzler said.
Established in 1981, Otak is a full-service landscape architecture, architecture, planning, design and engineering firm based in Portland, Oregon.


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Salisbury, NC — The band Survivor has filed a $1.2 million lawsuit against Kim Davis and Mike Huckabee over the unauthorized use of its hit song "Eye of the Tiger."
Davis, the Kentucky clerk who was jailed after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, was released Tuesday morning, after serving six days in prison, to the sound of Survivor's classic song "Eye of the Tiger." The song played in the background as she, her husband, and Mike Huckabee celebrated her freedom in front of thousands of supporters.
Survivor issued a statement on their Facebook page yesterday stating:
"NO! We did not grant Kim Davis any rights to use 'My Tune -The Eye Of The Tiger.' I would not grant her the rights to use Charmin! C'mom Mike, you are not The Donald but you can do better than that -See Ya really SoooooooonnnnnnN!!!!!!"
Speaking with Billboard, band co-founder Jim Peterik said he was also not pleased with the unauthorized use of the song.
"The song has motivated thousands through the years to reach beyond their limits. Its use for the release of Kim Davis does not support my views or my politics."
Though the million dollar question is: Does Survivor have a chance winning the case?
NBC News spoke with Harvard Law Professor, Paul Horner, who believes Survivor has a strong case.
"Mike Huckabee and Kim Davis had no permission to use the song, bottom line," Horner said. "This whole incident is in the national public spot light right now, and Huckabee is running for president; he should have known better." Horner continued, "I hope Survivor wins their lawsuit, I truly do. But to be honest, the thing I'm most excited about right now is that legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk has come out of retirement and joined up with Pyramid Country. You can put a price on a lawsuit, but you can't put a price on Tony Hawk joining Pyramid Country. Praise Fappy!"
Survivor released Eye of the Tiger in 1982, and it was featured in Rocky III with Sylvester Stallone that same year.
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I had to laugh when reading this: I am currently going through the same situation with Pitney Bowes in the UK, although not quite as long as 3 years in Kit's case!
I decided what the heck when they phoned me about the 30 day trial. The franking machine was delivered to my office, and once I'd opened the box and read everything I actually decided that with the amount of post we send, a franking machine wasn't worth it. This was in May 2006. I immediately phoned the woman I dealt with and told her I was no longer interested and asked her to come collect the machines as I was still within the 30 day trial. She promised someone would be sent out within 5 days to collect the machines. The day after I cancelled, ANOTHER franking machine was delivered. I phoned to tell the woman this, and she again promised that someone would be around to collect them. It is now the 1st August, and once again I have been on the phone fighting with Pitney Bowes to come and collect their 2 huge boxes that are taking up space in my office. Despite numerous faxes, phonecalls and emails and promises from them to 'collect' the machines, I have not yet seen a single delivery man.
I have now told them that if someone doesn't come round tomorrow morning I will be either eBaying the machines or sending them COD to the Pitney Bowes Head office. And despite all this they say to me 'oh we see there are a number of notes on your account' but yet they still carry on sending me invoices! Thank goodness they have never charged me for them. There would be hell to pay if they did. I will never even look at Pitney Bowes again. What a mistake!!!
Yeah, I run a small business and signed up for their tri folder machine + postage meter on a promise from my sales rep that the quarterly fee would only be $200. Sounded like an alright deal for my company since I was sure we where going to use both machines for a while. Anyways, to make a long story short we where billed more then the contract, our rep quit on us without any sort of notification, and we're stuck with two units that didn't work...with no one to get a hold of!
To make matters worse, PB's customer service is the worse we've ever dealt with. Their sales reps are rude/pushy and their technicians don't know their ass from their elbow... overall we recommend everyone STAY AWAY from PB.
Yup, Pitney Bowes is a real piece of work. I work for a company that has a good size office, and 2 smaller offices. We had PB postage machines in all 3, but a year ago we decided to go with Neopost for the large office. They have much newer machines, and your local rep really does take care of everything. We cancelled the one lease, and PB was supposed to come pick up the dinosaur. A year later we still have it! We have now cancelled all of our leases with PB and gotten new machines and real customer service.
Problem is, we are still getting bills from PB for our leases and maintenance, even tho I canceled them 8 weeks ago, at the end of our lease. They know they are canceled, because they called to say they would be picking them up, and sent us a bill for $250.00 for "asset recovery"! I called, and was told asset recovery is so they can refurbish them and resell them. That's a PB business expense, not ours. I called again, got another person (mind you it takes FOREVER to get anyone), and this guy told me the charge is for the courier to come get it! I asked if the courier was the President, and he said I have to talk to the Asset Recovery dept. to complain...I asked for their number, and honest to God he told me they don't have any phones in that dept. I said "WHAT"?, and he said "they are too busy to talk to people on the phone", so they don't have phones, and I would have to write them a letter! I guess opening mail, reading it, and responding to it is faster than a phone call? HELLO!!!
I have to say, we have had a great time making fun of 'Pitney Boobs', but we would lick stamps before ever using them again. I make sure to thank our new Neopost rep for being so wonderful every time I talk to him!
i work for PBGFS and I am sorry you all have had problems but some of us do our jobs and do them well. Do you post about happy customers. We have many of them. I am proud of PB and Proud of the job I do for them. To bad you all could not have talked to me b/c you would have been serviced and taken care of.
Kim, the site is called Cranky Customer, so your question about posting the experiences of "happy customers" is kind of silly. That said, it's nice you're loyal to your company, even when it's rather clear that the experience the original essayist had is not an isolated problem -- comment after comment after comment shows it's instead much more systemic. If you truly give good customer service to your customers, good for you! Keep it up. But it looks to me like people at PB who actually care are quite rare anymore. -rc
I have had the leased machine for over 4 years. Over the years I have called in on a couple of problems and I cannot ever get a good clear answer. We are going to cancel within the next couple of weeks and I hope I will find an address where to ship the machine back to. For about a year the machine doesn't show the complete stamp. I have cleaned it and performed the maintenance on it etc. I have called in many times on this issue with the same response, "Until you can't read the postal code, we cannot do anything." Also the cost of the rental has more than doubled over the time I have had this unit and the monthly cost will go up in January again. I would not and will not recommend this service to any of my business friends! The customer service is very bad.
Funny about the above, I am a courier not in the USA and I have had to retrieve two postage machines from a small business, both from one business. When I arrived, I found two dinosaur pb machines which I had to pick up. I started to talk to the business owner, and he told me the same thing as above, that he had asked them ages ago to return them to no avail. He was so glad to finally get rid of them when I turned up. I think he said he had to babysit them for over a year.
I noticed that one person mentioned not using Pitney Bowes and switching to the deal where you print your own postage. If that involves Stamps.com, I would say be very careful. They are a difficult company to deal with.
First, I accidentally double clicked when shopping for the required labels (unknown to me, hubby had set the mouse to DOUBLE Click when you hit a single glick) and BAM without meaning to I ordered $85 worth of labels (I could've gotten by for 6 months on $3 worth!). I immediately called the company (which was difficult as they don't list their number on their materials and it took a lot of investigation to find the number) and learned that they WOULD NOT cancel the shipment. They told me I had to receive it and THEN send it back. So my $85 was tied up for a total of FIVE WEEKS. And I didn't get back the shipping charges which would've been saved if they'd agreed not to ship the package when I called them, DAYS before they shipped it!
And the process to get it refunded was very involved, if the package were opened, damaged, etc. they wouldn't take it back, there were forms in triplicate that had to be enclosed and filled out correctly, all to keep me from being able to get my money back. Cancelling the subscription to their service not long after was nearly as difficult and the account rep that I finally reached said the reason for the difficulty was "just what you think it is, they don't want to let you cancel."
All you customers have to understand that very often, the reps are in no position to deliver the service you seek because the corporate policy is "Get it signed and f... them". I witnessed countless occasions, when the managers tried to mislead (lie) to the customer, trying to sell something he doesn't need. I was very much ashamed but raising your voice about the subject would mean trouble and possibly lay off. Luckily for me, I found a new job and was extremely happy to leave. Pitney Bowes is the last place to work and the last company to do business with.
I wish I had read the above comments before we got locked into a 3 year contract with Pitney-Bowes. I have had so much trouble with them in the past year that I am honestly thinking it would be better to pay out the contract than have to put up with them anymore.
The last instance was when the meter wouldn't connect to their postage by phone service. This was just before christmas when we had to do a big marketing mailout. They continually told us the problem was the fault of our fax line. After an hour or so of starting the machine and then waiting for it to time out we were then instructed to ring diagnostics. We did that and after a long wait to get through we had more or the same: We were told to turn the machine on and off for another hour or so. They finally acknowledged that there was a problem with the machine and it would have to be replaced. Now this all took about 5 hours in total. They then said we would have to wait 3-4 business days for a new machine. There would be no compensation. They figured out the loss to our business was $1.17 a day. Needless to say our marketing mailout was time sensitive and we needed to get it out that day.
They did deliver the new machine 3 business days later but left the old machine behind with $60.00 credit on it. We are still trying to get them to pick the machine up and we are ready for them to not give us the credit on some spurious reason or other. Once the contract runs out there is no way I will do business with them again. I would rather wait in the Post Office. And the machine is not user friendly in the least. We just tried to change the standard letter rate and it is not working again.
I think there needs to be a way of warning businesses to be very wary of getting involved with Pitney Bowes.
I am a Pitney Bowes rep and first, I apologize for the difficulties that you all have had. I note a couple of things going on with many of you, though, that are very typical.
First, most of the complaints seem to be coming from people that have signed up for our lower end machines that come with a 60 day trial period, though many of the posts refer to a 90 day trial period and other such misunderstandings of the offer. Folks that accept this offer frequently do so as an impulse buy and then come here to complain about it and bring their convenient memory with them; i.e., 90 day free trial when it is really a 60 day trial. I find that customers at this level are usually only interested in paying the least possible for a meter, not in getting a system that will actually do what they need to have done.
If you pay $19.95 for something that doesn't do the job, then that is an expensive purchase. If, however, you pay $200 for something that does exactly what you want and makes you more efficient, that's a good deal. Just try convincing somebody of that, though. Don't focus on the price, focus on the total cost, and your business will run better.
Two of the posts above were from people that were new to their companies and they had no idea what the systems they had were intended for, though they wouldn't admit it. One poster referred to a Documatch as a meter. It's not. Another poster felt that the system their employer had was too much because it had a computer attached to it. Our systems that are linked to PCs are usually shipping management systems and properly used can significantly reduce shipping costs for the user. What happens though, is that we train the original user in how to use the system, they leave the company and the next person in doesn't ask for training and lacks the basic human curiosity to find out exactly what he has. When and if the person does ask for training, they balk at paying for it. Unbelievably, frequently the reason for this is that "it's your system and you should retrain us as necessary for free" as if we never 1) delivered training in the first place and 2) should bear some of the cost for your company's turnover problems.
When these systems are installed, we ask you to sign off on them saying that everything has been delivered as promised, you've been trained and everything is satisfactory. If it's not, don't sign it until it is. Be reasonable folks; it's a business transaction, not a gift. As a company, we expect to pay for our needs and so should you.
Believe it or not, the PB rep wants you to know how to use these systems. He wants you happy and gaining benefit from the use of the system so that he can use you as a referral. We're not trying to take advantage of you, but we do ask that you meet us halfway and actually learn what you have and how to use it properly.
Finally, we have nearly 2 million customers world wide, but only 29 complaints here, apparently among our least knowledgeable users. That is hardly "systemic". If that's all the complaints about us you have, that's pretty good. And you can't cop out by saying you're one small website, because the web site is also available world wide.
RC, we didn't "fall down" on our responsibility to inspect the machines as you accuse in your April 17 post. It's done remotely via modem now. Another instance of not really understanding how things work.
Hey, read this from the April 20, 2006 post by "Shirley": "We called to have someone come and fix it to find out that even though we were paying big bucks for the machine, we did not have a maintenance agreement on it so therefore we were screwed out of help unless we paid for it." So, Shirley got screwed because she didn't want to pay for a maintenance contract? That's like expecting the car dealer to fix your car for free even though you are "paying big bucks for the machine."
I could go through each one of these posts and find something like this, but I have to go find somebody else to not pay attention to what I am telling them.
I appreciate that you posted a response, even if it's not official, and agree that there surely are cases of ignorant customers whining when it really is their fault. But it's also ignorant to say that this "world-wide" connected web site gives all of your customers an opportunity to complain, and thus the 29 complaints here show how great PB is. Bullshit! This IS one tiny web site, and I doubt even 1% of your dissatisfied customers would even THINK of searching Google for a place to complain. And I doubt even 1% of those who do would bother. The Alexa rank of this site is 1.3 million -- compared to our sister site, JumboJoke, which is just a tiny joke site, which has an Alexa rank of 68,000. And that is hardly a big site. And where are the testimonials of satisfied customers who are so pleased they would bother to say, "Oh, you guys have it all wrong!"?
You call dissatisfied customer after dissatisfied customer wrong for being dissatisfied. Me, for instance: I'm "wrong" that PB has "fallen down" on its responsibility to inspect meters because it's now done remotely by modem. Uh huh: and exactly HOW is that done when the meter DOESN'T HAVE a modem? That's right: PB refused to pick up a meter that was old enough not to have one, AND they were not doing what's required by USPS by inspecting it. EVER! So you're wrong about it being inspected remotely AND you conveniently ignore the main point of the essay, which is that PB refused to pick up the equipment for over THREE YEARS!
Clearly, by looking at the posts here, PB does have a "systemic" customer service problem. Deny it if you wish, but I think that's part of the problem. -rc
(Read the article that everyone's commenting on.)


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Flexible working
The University's Flexible Working Policy sets out the procedure to be followed when staff ask to work flexibly to achieve a better work/life balance. The most common reasons for such requests are:
- To fit in with a dependant's care arrangements* (including provision under the Flexible Working Regulations).
- Preparing for retirement.
- Coping with a disability.
- Combining part-time University employment with other professionally-related work (if of benefit to all concerned).
* Eligible carers include carers for children if they are the mother, father, adopter, guardian or their spouse, civil partner or partner (i.e. living as if married or a civil partner). Carers for adults are employees who are married to, partner or civil partner or who live at the same address as the adult in need of care.)
The most common forms of flexible working arrangement are:
- part-time working
- job share
- flexitime
Staff wanting to request a change to their existing working pattern should read this policy and discuss their proposal with their immediate supervisor before applying (using the FLEXAF form if a permanent change is requested or by letter if temporary). They should be prepared to give full details, eg proposed pattern of work and how their duties would be covered, and to attend a meeting with their Head of Institution to discuss their request (accompanied by a colleague or union representative if they wish). The Head of Institution will assess the request, taking into account operational requirements and the nature of the person's job, and write to the member of staff giving their decision. Any permanent change to terms and conditions resulting from the changed working pattern will be confirmed in writing.
Further guidance on flexible working is available from the relevant HR Business Manager.


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They love to play and create innocent mayhem.
They can roll, stack and literally pop up anywhere.
Enjoy these cute CANIMALS stories with your children!