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Galina Voskoboeva won her first-round match Tuesday at the Tashkent Open, while fellow Kazakhstan native Yaroslava Shvedova was sent home early.
The seventh-seeded Voskoboeva posted a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Maryna Zanevska of the Ukraine, while Serbia's Vesna Dolonc eliminated the eighth-seeded Shvedova with a 7-6 (8-6), 7-5 triumph.
Voskoboeva, one of Serena Williams' victims at the U.S. Open, will next meet Israel's Julia Glushko, a 6-3, 7-5 winner Tuesday over Tetyana Arefyeva of the Ukraine.
Shvedova was also ousted by Williams in the third round at Flushing Meadows.
Dolonc, meanwhile, had lost each of her last two first-round matches after a run to the third round at Wimbledon. She'll next face Luxembourg's Mandy Minella, a first-round winner on Monday.
Other winners Tuesday included Japan's Misaki Doi, Petra Cetkovska of the Czech Republic and Spain's Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor.
Doi claimed a 6-4, 6-2 win over Russia's Evgeniya Rodina and will next meet top-seeded Bojana Jovanovski in the second round, while Cetkovska disappointed the home crowd with a 6-2, 7-6 (7-2) victory over Uzbekistan wild card Nigina Abduraimova to earn a second-round date with third-seeded Yvonne Meusberger. Torro-Flor also ousted a native of the host country with a 6-0, 6-3 rout of wild card Arina Folts to set up a second-round encounter with defending champ Irina Camelia-Begu.

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A lawsuit filed by an Arizona-based construction company alleges the state Department of Transportation rejected its asphalt after failing to test it properly, raising questions about the quality and longevity of the new road work.
FNF Construction, which has road construction contracts throughout the state, started rehabilitating a safety corridor on Interstate 40 in the spring of 2009 by installing a concrete barrier and smoothing out dangerous curves. In early February, FNF filed a civil complaint against DOT, claiming DOT made it replace some of the asphalt and, in other instances, left the asphalt in place but made FNF take a 50 percent pay cut for the work.
Department of Transportation District Highway Engineer Larry Maynard, who oversees the project, tells SFR he thought the dispute was being resolved administratively. The civil complaint filed in 1st Judicial District Court in Santa Fe, however, states that all possible administrative remedies have been exhausted. The company seeks a judgment against DOT of approximately $1.28 million, plus costs and interest.
FNF's complaint states that DOT reviewed the asphalt "subjectively" instead of conducting all the appropriate testing and, in particular, failed to test the asphalt's concentration of one ingredient, hydrated lime. State highway-construction specifications list hydrated lime among the properties that should be tested during asphalt evaluation. Maynard confirms that DOT evaluates asphalt based partly on hydrated lime content, but couldn't say why FNF alleged that testing wasn't done.
Mike Robinson, the principal materials engineer for Nevada construction management firm Kleinfelder Inc., tells SFR that the practice of simply making the contractor take a pay cut on sub-standard asphalt, instead of replacing it, raises concerns about the performance and longevity of the resulting work.
"If you think about the 50 percent pay, that's pretty arbitrary," Robinson says. "From a contractor's perspective, I'm only going to be paid 50 percent of what I bid it to be worth—is it only going to perform half as well as the [public] needs it to? If you take 50 percent of the pay away on what's originally going to be a 15-year pavement, am I now going to have a 7�-year pavement?…If you have to go in there in another six or seven years, instead of 10 or 15, obviously it's more inconvenience to the public."
Maynard confirms that if the asphalt quality falls below a certain level, contractors have to accept corresponding price cuts. Under state highway-construction specifications, asphalt testing in a certain range below the quality standard is subject to price reductions, and asphalt falling completely outside that range is subject to removal, unless the engineer overseeing the project agrees in writing to accept it at 50 percent of the original bid price.
Asphalt that has too much binder and not enough aggregate, or rough chunks, can form slick wheel ruts in the road, or crack and retain water, causing vehicles to hydroplane, Robinson says. But Maynard says redundancy is built into the state standards, so for asphalt to fail on one or two measures doesn't necessarily mean it isn't safe to drive on.
Russell Snyder, executive director of the California Asphalt Pavement Association, tells SFR that it's very unusual for a private contractor in the construction business to sue a public entity.
"It is our experience that contractors go to great lengths to avoid lawsuits with public owners because they are costly to pursue and contractors don't want to get on the bad side of a public agency that they will no doubt have to do business with in the future," Snyder writes SFR in an email. "In these difficult economic times, when the bidding climate for transportation projects is very competitive, it is our experience that only the most extraordinary circumstances drive a contractor to take a public owner to court."
Maynard says a contractor that sues DOT wouldn't be excluded from winning project bids in the future. A call to FNF's Arizona headquarters was not returned, and FNF Vice President Jason Sharpe at the company's Albuquerque office says FNF "is not inclined to answer any questions."
Maynard says he still expects construction on the job to pick up again as soon as weather permits.


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Beth Ditto got herself in the middle of a Christopher Kane chain reaction when she flew into Milan to perform at Versus. Leaving the Four Seasons Hotel on the way to her ten o'clock gig in the Versace palazzo, Miss Ditto was spotted in a black leather dress with a neckline festooned with ropes of multicolored enameled chains. Her look was a clue to one edge of the sick-clever collection Kane was about to deliver for Donatella Versace while Ditto rocked at full throttle with her dancers at the end of a neon-luminous runway.
Kane plants a bizarrely unexpected hardware idea somewhere in all his collections—a wickedly playful alchemy that regularly transforms banal into brilliant. It was the Kane chains that did it this time. He used them as trims, laid them horizontally so they came to resemble chain-stitch knitting, and transposed them into print. Then he tied them around necks as chokers and made them into ankle straps on high-heeled sandals—both certain to feature near the top of any girl's trophy-purchase wishlist. As of this minute.
To be perfectly honest, the first few looks hadn't seemed all that promising—short dresses and tailoring in that borderline-cheap azalea pink that has been prevalent in Milan (the taste-jury's still out on that). But then Kane got motoring.
In a collection packed with variety, he dealt with trend after trend, deftly making sense of the sixties for girls whose memories can't possibly stretch back any further than the nineties. He used mini-daisy prints and polka dots, cut mesh miniskirts and motocross jackets from plastic with silver-ring zip pulls, designed jazzy abstracted primary-colored argyle sweaters and cardigans in oversize chain stitch, and threw in a see-through plastic hoodie and a raincoat.
Meanwhile, there were short, fit-and-flare disco dresses galore. That, of course, is the point at which the worlds of Christopher Kane and Donatella Versace converge. They both like a teenage dance and always have—he as a kid in Glasgow, she in her background as a girl growing up in Calabria with her brother Gianni. When they came out together at the end of the show, Kane put his arm around Donatella. And then they went off to dance, while everyone else—including the models—piled toward Beth Ditto with them.


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The conservative case for Obamacare
What a difference 24 hours can make. On Monday night, media conventional wisdom decreed that the high court will uphold health reform. Last night, conventional wisdom decreed that the high court will kill it.
This Etch a Sketch reset was triggered by the events on Day Two of oral argument. And it was quite the bloodbath, as evidenced by the transcript. Basically, the five Republicans on the court (actually four, because Clarence Thomas as usual didn't utter a peep) sliced and diced Obama lawyer Donald Verrilli so thoroughly that the Obama administration should probably sift its resumes for a Solicitor General who can speak more coherently than Rick Perry.
The Republican appointees didn't exactly hammer Verrilli with brain teasers - they essentially asked whether requiring Americans to buy health coverage would set a dangerous precedent, whether it was constitutional under the interstate commerce clause, how the purchase mandate differed from requiring people to buy broccoli, basic stuff like that - but but but (to paraphrase all the stammering) Verrilli seemed incapable of articulating the easy and obvious rebuttals.
Yes, it's a shame that the Obama team can't simply yank Verrilli and replace him with Laurence Silberman.
Because that would arguably be the best way to ensure that the high court (actually, a 5-4 majority with Anthony Kennedy as the swing vote) upholds the provision at the core of health reform. Because Silberman has already made the best case for the purchase mandate - a provision, lest we forget, that was birthed by the conservative Heritage Foundation and later endorsed by Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.
By now you may be asking: Who the heck is Laurence Silberman?
He's a conservative icon, a Reagan appointee to the federal courts, long hailed by the Republican right as one of America's top judicial intellects. Last November, this conservative icon was the swing vote in a 2-1 ruling that upheld the health purchase mandate. He wrote the thumbs-up opinion for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which, high court aside, is considered the most prestigious of all the federal benches.
At minimum yesterday, Verrilli would have been better off simply serenading Anthony Kennedy with Silberman's November opinion.
Silberman eviscerated the conservative claim that the government has no constitutional power to compel Americans to carry health coverage. He rejected the conservative claim that Americans should have the "freedom" to forgo health coverage; and that uninsured sick Americans should have the "freedom" to dump their medical bills on everyone else. (Two decades ago, when the Heritage Foundation was pitching its mandate concept, there was no such talk of "freedom." But when Barack Obama embraced the concept, suddenly it became a "socialist" bugaboo.)
Anyway, Silberman in his opinion stated the obvious: The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the right to regulate interstate commerce, health care is indisputably interstate commerce, and the freedom-loving uninsured adversely affect interstate commerce by dumping their costs on the insured. Therefore, he wrote, the government has the constitutional right, under the interstate commerce clause, to require the uninsured to buy coverage.
Like any principled conservative, Silberman was being a strict constructionist. He checked the text of the founding document, and concluded that the law fit the literal words and meaning.
He wrote: "The health insurance market is a rather unique one, both because virtually everyone will enter or affect it, and because the uninsured inflict a disproportionate harm on the rest of the market as a result of their later consumption of health care services....The right to be free from federal regulation is not absolute, and yields to the imperative that Congress be free to forge national solutions to national problems, no matter how local - or seemingly passive - their individual origins."
Also, like any principled conservative, Silberman showed respect for judicial precedent. The high court has repeatedly upheld laws that seek to regulate interstate commerce. As he pointed out in his opinion, "restaurants and hotels are obliged to serve all customers regardless of race" - a reference to the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act, which was subsequently OK'd by the court. He also cited the famous 1942 case where the court ruled as constitutional a federal program that regulated the amount of wheat farmers could grow for personal use.
All told, he rebuked Obama's conservative foes. In his words, they "cannot find real support for their (legal challenge) in either the text of the Constitution or Supreme Court precedent."
Imagine if Verrilli had simply quoted Silberman. Or if Verrilli had quoted Newt Gingrich, from 1993 ("I am for people, individuals - exactly like automobile insurance - having health insurance and being required to have health insurance"). Or if Verrilli had quoted Mitt Romney, from 2006 (the health coverage mandate is "a Republican way of reforming the market"). Either way, the Solicitor General would've had a better day.
Of course, he may not have been persuasive no matter how well he performed. Some or all of the Republican appointees will likely find (or invent) something in the text of the Constitution, and likely find a way to defy Supreme Court precedent (they've done it before), to whack health reform and ensure that partisanship prevails over conservative principle.
Note that I twice used the word likely. Gaming out judicial rulings is arguably a waste of time; as Fox News legal eagle Greta Van Susteren tweeted yesterday, "Anyone who says he knows if mandate will be struck down or not is fooling you." True that. After all, six months ago, who could have predicted Laurence Silberman?
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The Oxfordshire Transcribed Wills project which is run by the Oxfordshire Family History Society has certainly come along nicely since I last visited the site. I haven't been able to ascertain how many wills are now online, but the number is increasing all the time. Anyone, not just members of OFHS, can contribute a transcript of a will that they have as long as it has some connection to Oxfordshire.
As one would expect from the OFHS, which have high standards in transcribing, the transcriptions can be searched under a variety of surnames not just the person who wrote the will. The headings are ….
Testator – The person whom the document is about, including intestates (in Admons etc) and similar.
- Close Relative – Spouse, Grandparent, Parent, Sibling, Child, Grandchild, Spouse of sibling or of child.
- Other Relative – Nephew, Niece, Uncle, Aunt, Cousin, Kinsman, Kinswoman, Greatgrandchild etc.
- Legatee – Unrelated person with a legacy — Friend, Servant etc.
- Will Official – Witness, Trustee, Overseer, Appraiser, Executor etc.
- Mention – Unrelated person with no legacy — Bondee, Landlord, Tenant, Priest etc.
- Bureaucrat – Any official, clerk or witness involved in the Probate process.
The web page has guides for new users of the project, contributors, a glossary and information on pre 1858 wills in Oxfordshire. Altogether a very useful source of family history information.
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"Hit the CAPSLOCK spastic, YOU"RE SHOUTING AGAIN!"
Popular celebrity Basil Montague Penelope Duck Innards Poultry Blood Tantivvy Tantivvy Brush Hyphen Brush (Pron. Ba-zill Bru-sh) characterised by his well known catch-phrase "Bong Bong, quick pack another one Mr Rodney".
edit A Star is Born - Basil The Early Years
Rumoured to be the love child of Margaret Thatcher and Terry-Thomas, family similarities can be seen in hair colour, accent, jovial sense of humour, love of tweed and their utmost concern for the less well off.
Brother of United States Emperor George W Brush.
Basil Brush is England's foremost investigative journalist, responsible for blowing the lid on both the Iran-Contra Affair and Lord Mountbatten's boat.
First appearing on British television in 1668 just after Great Fire of London, Basil applied the same dogged determination to his television role that he had applied to his earlier career as a medieval rat catcher. This behaviour ensured that in in the late 1970's, he became the prime suspect in a Scotland Yard investigation into his affairs, after the bodies of seven BBC programming executives where found with their throats ripped out in London's notorious "Jack the Fox" serial murders.
Despite formal charges being laid, the presiding judge found the connotations of the media inspired nickname for the killer, "Jack the Fox", predjudiced Brush from a Fair Trial due to his Foxxy ethnicity. The trial was aborted however the accusations and well publicised court appearances became an unspoken blight on Brush's career that appeared impossible to recover from.
Critics argue that Brush missed his best years of work, where, despite the new wave of gritty northern british cinema sweeping the world, continual rejection for roles he seemed born to play prevented him from becoming "The Brando of the British Film industry".
Brush, pushed to the limits of despair, unsuccessfuly fought crippling alcoholism, drug abuse and the lenses of the papparazzi for longer than 20 years. His role in the formation of the SODEMALL party did not help either.
edit Basil Brush Show Comeback (2002)
After a much denied facelift and ear augmentation, Basil returned to the small screen in 2002 with a keenly anticipated new sidekick "Mr Stephen" Hawkins.
Basil's eagerly awaited comeback suffered historically low ratings, primarily as a result of "Mr Stephen"'s obvious lack of education, slow wittedness and difficulty with comic timing, due in part to the delay in his Commodore64 based voice synthesiser.
In episode 5 the BBC (British Broadcasting Commission) embarked on a desperate attempt to improve the situation by changing the style of the programme (program) and introducing an American character named Lucy. This tactic was an attempt to appeal to viewers under 25, who were unaware that any country, other than the United States, had ever produced humour based programmes (programs), and hence were unable to comprehend irony, banter, caricature, repartee or parody.
edit The Tragic Clowns - Where are they Now
Unfortunately, neither the change to situation based style of comedy, nor the addition of a nasally whining voice to the cast improved the ailing ratings. Official figures for episode 5 showed an initially healthy doubling of viewers to 4, however it was discovered that these viewers were all cast members.
As a result, Basil was killed off in early 2004 by a BBC employed hitman using a poison tipped umbrella on a crowded London footpath (sidewalk).
Basil's tail now adorns the aerial(antennae) of Queen Elizabeth's ceremonial horse-drawn landau (buggy).
Lucy went on to star in several of her own sitcoms. The most well known of which "I Love Lucy" still earns the star's estate, in excess of $50.00 per year in repeat royalties from Latin American countries around the world.
The whereabouts of Mr Stephen remain unknown after a simple miscalculation triggered an undocumented encounter with God in a Black Hole of his own making. What can be learnt from history is Mr Stephens is highly likely to return and once again become the supreme leader of the Dalek race fulfilling his destiny as Master of the Universe.


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Rock (drug): A street name given to cocaine that has been processed from cocaine hydrochloride to a ready-to-use free base for smoking. Rather than requiring the more volatile method of processing cocaine using ether, rock cocaine (also called crack) is processed with ammonia or sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and water and heated to remove the hydrochloride, thus producing a form of cocaine that can be smoked.
On the illicit market, rock or crack, is sold in small, inexpensive dosage units. Smoking this form of the drug delivers large quantities of cocaine to the lungs, producing effects comparable to intravenous injection. These effects are felt almost immediately after smoking, are very intense, and do not last long.
Cocaine is the most potent stimulant of natural origin, a bitter addictive anesthetic (pain blocker) which is extracted from the leaves of the coca scrub (Erythroxylon coca) indigenous to the Andean highlands of South America. (From the name of the plant came the name cocaine and its street name coke and Coke as in Coca Cola, which once contained it).
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\WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – Pacing the course with a new school record for a 54-hole tournament, the Lions registered a final tally of 60-over 923 (308-306-309—923) to finish in third-place at the C&F Bank Invitational, hosted by The College of William & Mary, Tuesday afternoon from the Par 71 - 6097 yard River Course at the Kingsmill Resort.
The Lions finished just one stroke behind second-place St. John's and 11 strokes off the lead score.
Saint Leo, the lone Division II competitor, concluded the tournament ahead of 18 other teams, including the likes of Toledo and Boston College.
Individually for the Lions, Clare Connolly earned top honors as she finished in a tie for ninth-place with a 16-over 229 (75-76-78—229), after carding a seven-over 78 on the final day.
Laura Huertas (79-73-81—233) fired a three-day total of 20-over 233 to finish in a tie for 18th, while Heather Petronis (77-79-78—234) and Ragna Olafsdottir (77-78-79—234) finished in a tie for 22nd after firing identical scores of 21-over 234.
Goeun Lee rounded-out the Lions phenomenal day and tournament as she posted a three-over 74 en route to a 30th-place finish at 23-over 236 (83-79-74—236).
Overall, Longwood University took home the team title as they recorded a total 60-over 912 (300-303-309—912). Longwood's Kameron Carter took home individual medalist honors as she shot an eight-over 221 (71-74-76—221), three shots better than Boston College's Katia Joo.
"We played well," stated head coach Erika Brennan. "We started developing chemistry during our practice sessions over spring break, and that momentum continued into the tournament. We've grown tremendously as a team over recent weeks and that dynamic has helped us develop a positive outlook heading into the tournament. We demonstrated our mental toughness against a very difficult field and will need to carry that over when we take on more of the nation's best in Arizona. It really was one of my most enjoyable weeks as a coach."
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How do i get the sidebar on this homepage to be a fixed hight without the hight being fixed on any other of the pages?
so far I've tried: .home page page-id-2.sidebar { height: 500px; } but that hasn't worked
Give the home page a unique Id on the body tag and say #home #sidebar yada
ok do I change the current id's the home page has or add another id? I notice some things have mulitple id's and classes is this ok then?
oh and is the current id not unique?
You can just keep that one if its unique to its page. You can't have two ids on the same tag. You can have a id and a class. Or multiple classes.
so if I can use the one already there what's wrong withthe one i'm doing here:
.home page page-id-2.sidebar { height: 500px; }
have I done that wrone? I notice there's spaces between home page page-id should I only use one or is that all one class?
Just use one. A id or a class. No need to specify both. #id #sidebar {...}
but if I only use #sidebar it will give a height to all of the sodebars in my site and if I only use #home page id it will not give a hight to the sidebar on the home page. I need to know how to correctly reference the sidebar on my home page only and using:
.home page page-id-2.sidebar { height: 500px; } didn't work
Lol. If the home page is the only one with let's say #home on the body tag then no, no other page will use this css rule...
Yours example is not valid. The classes need a preseeding dot. If its two classes then it looks like .class1.class2 {...}
the body tag is like this:
<body class="home page page-id-2 page-template-default logged-in admin-bar customize-support" id="ls-global"
so what should my css rule be? I'm still confused
yea that one worked, so would that one be used because it is the id rather than using the classes tjat come before it? I mean in future do I just look for the id that is above the class that I want to change?
thanks for your help
<body class="home page page-id-2 page-template-default logged-in admin-bar customize-support" id="ls-global">
The body tag shown above has 7 classes and 1 ID. Which do you think would identify that page uniquely? It should be the ID. If other pages use that same ID (the name suggests that they could), then you will have to create a unique classname instead and add it to the list ("unique" meaning one that is not used on any other page). Uniqueness, one-of-a-kind, is the objective.
The correct way to list a unique group of classes in css is to separate them with dots. For example, the above body tag might be identifiable by listing several of its classes:
.home.page.page-id-2.page-template-default.logged-in.admin-bar.customize-support {}
(Note the absence of spaces in the css address.)
This means that ALL of those classes must exist to target the tag that they belong to; in this case, the body tag.


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Where: Tanzania
Grantee: Laly Lichtenfeld
Laly Lichtenfeld is co-founder and executive director of the African People & Wildlife Fund (APW).
The APW's Big Cats Conservation Initiative in the northern Masai Steppe of Tanzania works to save the country's most threatened lion population as well as important populations of cheetahs and leopards. Notable and unique features of APW's program include the following:
Living Walls: This project represents the largest environmentally friendly effort to prevent lion-livestock conflicts in Tanzania. The team constructs living walls by planting native trees and weaving the growing branches through chain-link fencing. Once planted, the trees take root and grow into an impenetrable, natural livestock enclosure. Living walls have eliminated the need for retaliatory killings of lions. As a result, the lion population in the project's focal area is now showing signs of recovery.
Warriors for Wildlife: This project trains and deploys Masai community members into their own villages as community-based conservationists. Their work covers a wide range of community-based wildlife and habitat conservation activities: patrols to prevent illegal deforestation, bush fire management, poaching prevention, lost livestock searches, and the construction of lion-proof bomas.
Environmental Education and Active Natural Resource Management: The APW education team offers programs for local youth as well as adult education seminars in natural resource management, environmentally friendly business development, and watershed protection.
Sustainable Rural Business Development: This program advances APW's long-term vision of an environmentally friendly economy supporting local people on the Maasai Steppe. Microloans for local women's groups enable the initiation and development of small businesses (such as beekeeping) that are designed to withstand rural economic and ecological realities while providing much-needed income.
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NFTS launches Lord Attenborough young filmmakers fund
Sir Ben Kingsley and Lord Puttnam among those to honour the veteran British actor-director at the launch of a young filmmakers fund created in his name.
The Lord Attenborough NFTS Charitable fund aims to raise £1m ($1.55m) over two years to "enable talented young people to achieve their ambition as successful filmmakers through world class educational experiences".
It will go towards offering more film-making scholarships to young people from different backgrounds and improving teaching facilities at the NFTS.
The gala dinner, which was hosted by Stephen Fry at Old Billingsgate in London last night (June 11), was introduced by Lord Attenborough's son, theatre director Michael Attenborough, in place of his father, who was unable to attend.
Michael Attenborough said: "It was thanks to a Leverhulme scholarship to RADA at the age of 17, that my father was able to go on to enjoy a career that included acting in, producing and directing more than 70 Oscar and BAFTA winning films, so he is delighted that this new fund in his name will help young film-makers, from all backgrounds, reach their full creative potential."
He then read a message from his father that said: "I really am deeply honoured by the National Film and Television School.
"I started in movies at the age of 19, and now in my 90th year I am truly proud to be still able to contribute to this magnificent art form of ours…
"This fund will will enable the coming generation of filmmakers to dazzle us with their flair, skill and imagination; thus ensuring that the film industry remains at the very centre of British Culture, which is rightly the envy of the world."
The event, named 'Entirely up to you, darling' after his catchphrase, included video link messages from Steven Spielberg, actor Sir Ben Kingsley, and former Prime Minister Sir John Major.
Spielberg, who directed Attenborough in Jurassic Park said: "He's made some of the best movies of all time he made Gandhi and has made such a contribution to society, to cinema and to everyone whose hearts he has touched with his words, works, his leadership and that divine inspiration that radiates from that wonderful smile.
"He's one of my favourite people on the planet."
Former Prime Minister Sir John Major said Attenborough had played a pivotal role in securing National Lottery funding for the UK film industry, which was struggling in the 1990s.
He recalled a conversation the two of them had had when Lord Attenborough drew the Prime Minister's attention to terminology that inadvertently excluded film production from the new National Lottery Bill.
The correction was made and the UK film industry has since benefitted from between £4.5 - £5billion of funding, helping to finance many films that may never have been produced otherwise such as The Kings Speech, The Woman in Black, and Gosford Park.
Major added: "Over the last 70 years, Dickie has devoted himself to the British Film industry, and it should always be remembered that it was his personal intervention, at exactly the right moment, that ensured that something which might not have happened, did happen. The result has been of tremendous benefit to the whole industry.
"There are many reasons it is right to honour Dickie, but his foresight and crucial intervention over the terms of the national lottery must certainly rank among one of the most important – and will be a lasting legacy to a truly great man."
Sir Ben Kingsley, who was given the lead role in Ghandi by Attenborough before he'd even had a screen test, won Best Actor at the 1982 Academy Awards where Attenborough also won Best Director and the film picked up a further six Oscars.
He said: "Richard's many gifts – his affection, his extraordinary empathy, his love of fellow human beings – was enhanced during his life as an actor and this empathy and deep knowledge of the process of acting shows itself in the film Gandhi. He is one of the lords of life in my experience…Anyone who is in his sphere of influence is deeply enriched as a human being."
Lord Puttnam, the Oscar-winning film producer, NFTS gala chair and long-time friend of Attenborough, said: "It has been an honour to celebrate the immense contribution made by a man who has helped shape our film and TV industries – in fact our entire cultural landscape both in front and behind the camera as well as in the House of Lords where he campaigned for the Arts to be accessible to everyone."
NFTS director Nik Powell added: "We are deeply grateful to Lord Attenborough for the leadership he has provided and his tireless fundraising. This new Fund will ensure we can continue to deliver world class educational experiences to the best current and future film-makers."
A live auction was conducted on the night with donated items, including a pair of glasses worn by Kingsley in Gandhi and many film items from Attenborough's own collection; costumes worn by Daniel Craig and Naomie Harris in the James Bond film Skyfall; a painting by Scottish artist John Bellany and a portrait of Lord Attenborough by artist Bryan Organ.
As well as Gandhi, Attenborough's directing credits include A Bridge Too Far, Chaplin and Shadlowlands among others. He most recently directed romantic drama Closing the Ring in 2007.
He has acted in around 70 films including Brighton Rock, 10 Rillington Place and Jurassic Park.
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A brilliant evening. Everyone in the room was again amazed by Lord Attenboroughs astonishing achievements and humbled by his greatness of spirit. Totally inspiring.
Lord Attenborough, as well as with Lord Puttnam, were early enthusiastic supporters of American Multi Cinema's (AMC now UCI) entrance into the British cinema market in 1984. They embraced and encouraged the late Stan Durwood, founder of AMC and myself as the Managing Director of AMC International to build the first 10-screen multiplex at The Point, Milton Keynes. Without there continued assistance over many years during our development program the cinema industry in Great Britain would not be as robust as it is today.
They are both deeply in my mind and heart forever.
Charles J. Wesoky
An inspirational man, and an inspirational evening. It is truly good news that another generation of filmmakers - and more to come - will be supported in their efforts. The bursaries will crucially allow those from varied social and cultural backgrounds to enter this sector, providing different, representative voices- a point that Michael Caine made very eloquently.
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>Off the Beaten Path>It was 40, err, 46 years ago today...
I've got a fever...
It was 40 years ago today that the Beatles landmark album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released. It was a watershed moment for popular music. At a time when pop and rock music was dismissed as "lightweight" and "kid's music", Pepper came along and redefined what popular art could be. Even classical music critics took notice, almost universally. In The London Times prominent critic Kenneth Tynan described Sgt. Pepper as "a decisive moment in the history of Western civilization." Others including Richard Poirier, and Geoffrey Stokes were similarly expansive in their praise, Stokes noting, "listening to the Sgt. Pepper album one thinks not simply of the history of popular music but the history of this century." [Wikipedia]
Forty years later, it's easy to wonder what the fuss was about. You see Pepper appearing all the time at the top of "Greatest albums of all time." Was it the greatest album ever? I'm not even sure it was the Beatles' greatest album. Revolver was nearly as innovative, and a better collection of songs. Soundwise, Rubber Soul had a more unifed, organic feel to it. Abbey Road showed the band at the peak of its musicianship, and it featured the emergence of George Harrison from out of the shadows of Lennon/McCartney as a true songwriting peer. And the sprawling excess of the "White Album" seemed to cover everything from 1920's music hall to heavy metal and all points in between.
And yet... And yet when you listen to Pepper, you can't help but feel like you're listening to an album that transcends popular music. Some critics say that Pepper hasn't aged well, and that the late 60's psychedelia sounds dated. I disagree -- this album not only doesn't date itself to 1967, it doesn't seem to sound like it's really from any time.
It's billed as the first rock and roll concept album, and while this may or may not be true, the concept is simple. You're listening to a concert performance by some entity called Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. They're introduced at the beginning of the album, they take a bow at the end and do one encore. And in between, they produce an amazing collage of sounds, a symphony of whimsy, fun, and madness.
The Beatles and producer George Martin spent an amazing 700 hours working on this album (as compared to about 10 hours on their debut, Please Please Me). They went out of their way to make everything sound as different and unique as possible. Sounds were played backwards, compressed, and played forwards again. Tape recordings of circus organs were cut into one-inch pieces, thrown into the air, and spliced back together again at random. Martin, as always, was a perfect match for the band. When John Lennon told Martin that he wanted his voice to sound like oranges, Martin somehow managed to do it, on "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds." I have no idea what oranges sound like, but I have to admit, every time I listen to that song, I hear them. And they did it all using only 4-track recording technology.
Almost as notable is what didn't make the album. Needing to issue an early 1967 single, the band released "Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane", probably the most amazing two sides ever put on a 45rpm record (kids, ask your parents what a record is). In those days, singes were singles, albums were albums, and the twain did not meet; once they became a single, they couldn't be on the album.
Listening to the album, you're struck by the unique character of the songs. The intro, with the crowd noises and orchestra tuning in the background. The screams of Beatlemania as it segues into the self-deprecating Ringo on "With a Little Help from My Friends." The orange-ish "Lucy." The Lennon/McCartney counterpoint on "Getting Better:" Paul: I have admit it's getting better..a little better all the time John: It can't get no worse.The lazy melancholy of "Fixing a Hole." The soap operatic "She's Leaving Home." The twisted circus psychedelia of "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite."
[Flip your album over to Side B] The dreamy trance of George's Indian-influenced "Within You Without You." The dance hall whimsy of "When I'm 64" (written by Paul when he was only 16, and intentionally sped up to make him sound younger). The sly sexual innuendo of "Lovely Rita." The jarring poly-rhythms of "Good Morning Good Morning," complete with the aural montage of animal sounds that ends with a clucking chicken that somehow morphs into the guitar of the "Sgt. Pepper (reprise)."
And it all ends with the most amazing song of all, "A Day In The Life." It was mostly John's song, and Paul supplied the middle section and the idea for the massive swelling orchestral crescendos. It concludes with a thunderous E-major chord, played simultaneously on three pianos, and recorded until the very last bit of sound disappeared, about 45 seconds later. That's followed by an 18kHz sound (John wanted something to annoy your dog), and a random collage of sounds meant to play on ad infinitum, intended for folks whose record player arms just stuck at the end of the record and didn't automatically retract. Legend has it that if you play this snippet backwards, it says something very obscene, but I haven't verified that.
The album, like the band itself, is far greater than the sum of its parts. If you don't own it, buy it. If you do own it, try to find 40 spare minutes today to put on a pair of headphones and take another journey through Pepperland. You won't be disappointed. Or as the Beatles put it, "a splendid time is guaranteed for all."
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
If you do own it, try to find 40 spare minutes today to put on a pair of headphones and take another journey through Pepperland. You won't be disappointed. Or as the Beatles put it, "a splendid time is guaranteed for all."
Jeff, I was no aware that it has been 40 years. I still own my dad's original LP that he bought at Woolworth's in Sault Ste. Marie, ON - his hometown, on the day the album came out. I am going to cut and paste your note into a separate email and send it to him. I know he will appreciate reading it. As, of course, did I. There is program director by the name of Allan Cross that does a show called the History of New Music on CFNY (102.1 FM) in Toronto which offers the same type of insightful introspection into a myriad of different styles of music such as you've provided here on the Beatles. You could give him a run for his money...
but I have to admit that when it comes to the Beatles, I wish I could have lived it.
Some runners drag a tire. I drag a Great Pyrenees.
I was study abroad in England a few years ago when I came across an old Sgt Peppers album and bought it for about $10. It's original and still has all the cut-outs figures intact and beeeutyful.
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bump (a day early and 6 years later)...
Funny, it was actually "20 years ago today" when I was graduating college. I remember it being on the news everywhere. 46 years ago, damn.
Great thread, Jeff. HUGE Beatles fan here.
It's hard to imagine the impact it had then, now. As a fan of their whole collection, and having been only 6 years old when Sgt. Pepper came out, the album still stands out as a one of the most unique, cohesive parts of it. It was one of the first concept albums, and would start a wave that led to such albums as Dark Side Of The Moon and Tommy.
Most importantly, it's a great collection of great songs with interesting melodies.
The Beatles showed bands what evolving means. Listen to their studio records from first to last (last one recorded was Abbey Road), and you'll hear life. Growing and changing so much from Please Please Me to Abbey Road, and then disbanding at their peak.
When I was a boy, I grew up on the Blue Album 1967-1970 compilation. So, for many years, I was more into that period. Eventually, I started to delve into their early albums, and they're fantastic. Amazing melodies and energy. Please Please Me is basically their live act on stage, recorded in just 10 hours—tight band. I knew a guy who was in the sound booth when they played at Forest Hills, and he said they were the tightest band he'd ever heard at the time.
Another thing lost today is the impact of their early stuff—how new and alive it was at the time. Producer George Martin had a great pair of ears, and managed to release records that sizzled off the speakers. If you listen to Rubber Soul, you don't hear much of that early reverb so in use back then. Very dry tracks, which sort of pulls them out of time.
What's my favorite album? Don't have one. Though some I prefer more than others. There's a Beatle's record for any mood, really. If you want to try something interesting, listen to the White Album, then watch Apocalypse Now. Makes for an interesting afternoon.
p.s. The Beatles recorded "Strawberry Fields" during the Pepper sessions, but it ended up on Magical Mystery Tour. If "Strawberry Fields" would have been on Pepper in place of "Lovely Rita", the record would have been mind-blowing.
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I have Abbey Road in the rig today. I'll give Pepper a spin tonight under the headphones. Thanks for the bump!
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An 8-year-old girl was in grave condition Saturday after she was shot while playing on the porch of her home Friday night by men who were gunning for a man walking down the street in East Oakland, police said.
The girl - whose 9th birthday is Sunday - was outside with her 7-year-old brother when two men got out of a car on the 1800 block of 66th Avenue and fired as many as 10 rounds. Oakland police Lt. Freddie Hamilton said the girl was hit in the neck. She was conscious after the incident and taken to UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. Family told hospital officials not to release any information, but the girl's condition was grave.
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There has been an increase in Malvern in the theft of catalytic converters recently, which are stolen due to the value of the precious metals they contain, such as platinum and palladium.
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Sergeant Ian Blanchard from the Malvern Safer Neighbourhoods teams, said: "We are doing all we can to stop this spike in catalytic converter thefts in Malvern Hills and we are pleased to say it looks as though our efforts have pushed down the number thefts occurring.
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Fennel is underutilized by many home cooks. I'm not sure why because it's fresh (ever seen canned fennel?), uniquely flavored and super nutritious. Maybe some Fennel 101 will get you stoked:
Fennel belongs to the carrot and parsley family and is a cousin of cumin, dill, caraway and anise (hence its subtle licorice flavor). The bulb is crisp and can be sautéed, stewed, braised, grilled or eaten raw. The bulb is a unique and fresh addition to warm or cold salads, vegetable and pasta dishes and risottos and is an excellent palate-cleanser between and after meals. The leaves (fronds) are delicate and taste somewhat like dill, making them the perfect edible garnish. Fennel seeds are often used to flavor Italian sausages and meatballs.
Like many spices, fennel contains a unique combination of phytonutrients, including the flavonoids rutin and quercetin, plus additional compounds that give it powerful antioxidant properties. But the most fascinating phytonutrient in fennel is anethole, repeatedly shown to reduce inflammation and prevent cancer.
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Now that you know the scoop, here's a recipe to get fennel on your plate tonight. I love to put fennel in salsa. Its anise flavor partners perfectly with sweet tomatoes, fresh cilantro and tangy lime and makes an excellent topping for salmon. Not in the mood for salmon? The salsa also works well with chicken, steak and shrimp.
Roasted Salmon With Tomato-Fennel Salsa
Serves 4
Cooking spray
4 salmon fillets (about 4-5 ounces each)
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 cups diced beefsteak or Roma/plum tomatoes
1 cup diced fennel bulb
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
2 teaspoons olive oil
Preheat oven to 400ºF. Coat a baking sheet with cooking spray.
Season both sides of salmon with salt and pepper. Place salmon on prepared pan and roast 12-15 minutes, until fork-tender.
Meanwhile, combine tomatoes, fennel, cilantro, lime juice, cumin and oil. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve salmon with salsa spooned over top.
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Calories: 169
Total Fat: 7 grams
Saturated Fat: 1 gram
Total Carbohydrate: 7 grams
Sugars: 3 grams
Protein: 20 grams
Sodium: 66 milligrams
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Commissioner Ed Sam said Thursday that some of the area's ice rinks are not equipped to play the Star-Spangled Banner during pregame ceremonies, but the PIHL was working with those arenas to make it possible.
"We're dealing with rinks that might not be used to stuff like this," Sam said. "We'll be having it at every game."
The anthem was not played before Thursday's Quaker Valley/Mars game at Airport Ice Arena in Moon.
"It could be that they didn't have the facilities to do it," Sam said, "but it's coming. It's just taking us time to get everything together."
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A spokesman for the ambulance service said: "The bus was carrying passengers when it was involved in a collision.
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NVIDIA GTC 2010 Wrapupby Ryan Smith on 10/10/2010 12:56 AM EST
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adonn78 - Sunday, October 10, 2010 - linkThis is pretty boring stuff. I mean the projectors ont eh curved screens were cool but what about gaming? anything about Nvidia's next gen? they are really falling far behind and are not really competing when it comes to price. I for one cannot wait for the debut of AMD's 6000 series. CUDA and PhysX are stupid proprietary BS. Reply
iwodo - Sunday, October 10, 2010 - linkWhat? This is GTC, it is all about the Workstation and HPC side of things. Gaming is not the focus of this conference. Reply
bumble12 - Sunday, October 10, 2010 - linkSounds like you don't understand what CUDA is, by a long mile. Reply
B3an - Sunday, October 10, 2010 - link"teh pr0ject0rz are kool but i dun understand anyting else lolz"
Stupid kid. Reply
iwodo - Sunday, October 10, 2010 - linkI was about the post Rendering on Server is fundamentally, but the more i think about it the more it makes sense.
However defining a codec takes months, actually refining and implementing a codec takes YEARS.
I wonder what the client would consist of, Do we need a CPU to do any work at all? Or would EVERYTHING be done on server other then booting up an acquiring an IP.
If that is the case may be an ARM A9 SoC would be enough to do the job. Reply
iwodo - Sunday, October 10, 2010 - linkJust started digging around. LG has a Network Monitor that allows you to RemoteFX with just an Ethernet Cable!.
And x264 can already encode at sub 10ms latency!. I can imagine IT management would be like trillion times easier with centrally managed VM like RemoteFX. No longer upgrade every clients computer. Stuff a few HDSL Revo Drive and let everyone enjoy the benefit of SSD.
I have question of how it will scale, with over 500 machines you have effectively used up all your bandwidth... Reply
Per Hansson - Sunday, October 10, 2010 - linkI've been looking forward to this technology since I heard about it some time ago.
Will be interesting to test how well it works with the CAD/CAM software I use, most of which is proprietary machine builder specific software...
There was no mention of OpenGL in this article but from what I've read that is what it is supposed to support (OpenGL rendering offload)
Atleast that's what like 100% of the CAD/CAM software out there use so it better be if MS wants it to be successful :) Reply
Ryan Smith - Sunday, October 10, 2010 - linkSomeone asked about OpenGL during the presentation and I'm kicking myself for not writing down the answer, but I seem to recall that OpenGL would not be supported. Don't hold me to that, though. Reply
Per Hansson - Monday, October 11, 2010 - linkWell I hope OpenGL will be supported, otherwise this is pretty much a dead tech as far as enterprise industries are concerned.
This article has a reply by the author Brian Madden in the comments regrading support for OpenGL; http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archi...
"For support for apps that require OpenGL, they're supporting apps that use OpenGL v1.4 and below to work in the VM, but they don't expect that apps that use a higher version of OpenGL will work (unless of course they have a DirectX or CPU fallback mode)." Reply
Sebec - Sunday, October 10, 2010 - linkPage 5 -"... and the two companies are current the titans of GPU computing in consumer applications."
Current the titans?
"Tom believes that ultimately the company will ultimately end up using..." Reply
dtdw - Sunday, October 10, 2010 - linkwe had a chance to Adobe, Microsoft, Cyberlink, and others about where they see GPU computing going in the next couple of years.
shouldnt you add 'the' before adobe ?
and adding 'is' after computing ? Reply
tipoo - Sunday, October 10, 2010 - link" we had a chance to Adobe, Microsoft, Cyberlink, and others about where they see GPU computing going "
Great article, but I think you accidentally the whole sentence :-P Reply
Deanjo - Sunday, October 10, 2010 - link"While NVIDIA has VDPAU and also has parties like S3 use it, AMD and Intel are backing the rival Video Acceleration API (VA API)."
Ummm wrong, AMD is using XvBA for it's video acceleration API. VAAPI provides a wrapper library to XvBA much like there is VAAPI wrapper for VDPAU. Also VDPAU is not proprietary, it is part of Freedesktop and the open source library package contains a wrapper library and a debugging library allowing other manufacturers to implement VDPAU support into their device drivers. In short every device manufacturer out there is free to include VDPAU support and it is up to the driver developer to add that support to a free and truly open API. Reply
Ryan Smith - Sunday, October 10, 2010 - linkAMD is using XvBA, but it's mostly an issue of semantics. They already had the XvBA backend written, so they merely wrote a shim for VA API to get it in there. In practice XvBA appears to be dead, and developers should use VA API and let AMD and the others work on the backend. So in that sense, AMD are backing VA API.
As for NVIDIA, proprietary or not doesn't really come in to play. NVIDIA is not going to give up VAPAU (or write a VA API shim) and AMD/Intel don't want to settle on using VAPAU. That's the stalemate that's been going on for a couple of years now, and it doesn't look like there's any incentive on either side to come together.
It's software developers that lose out; they're the ones that have to write in support for both APIs in their products. Reply
electroju - Monday, October 11, 2010 - linkDeanjo, that is incorrect. VA API is not a wrapper. It is the main API from freedesktop.org. It is created by Intel unfortunately, but they help extend the staled XvMC project to a more flexible API. VDPAU and XvBA came later to provide their own way to do about the same thing. They also include a backward compatibility to VA API. VDPAU is not open source. It is just provides structs to be able to use VDPAU, so this means VDPAU can not be changed by the open source community to implement new features. Reply
AmdInside - Sunday, October 10, 2010 - linkGood coverage. Always good to read new info. Often looking at graphics card reviews can get boring as I tend to sometimes just glance at the graphs and that is it. I sure wish Adobe would use GPU more for photography software. Lightroom is one software that works alright on desktops but too slow for my taste on laptops. Reply
AnnonymousCoward - Monday, October 11, 2010 - linkHolodeck? Cmon. It's a 3D display. You can't create a couch and then lay on it. Reply
Guspaz - Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - linkI'm sort of disappointed with RemoteFX. It sounds like it won't be usable remotely by consumers or small businesses who are on broadband-class connections; with these types of connections, you can probably count on half a megabit of throughput, and that's probably not enough to be streaming full-screen MJPEG (or whatever they end up using) over the net.
So, sure, works great over a LAN, but as soon as you try to, say, telecommute to your office PC via a VPN, that's not going to fly.
Even if you're working for a company with a fat pipe, many consumers (around here, at least) are on DSL lines that will get them 3 or 4 megabits per second; that might be enough for lossy motion-compensated compression like h.264, but is that enough for whatever Microsoft is planning? You lose a lot of efficiency by throwing away iframes and mocomp. Reply
ABR - Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - linkYeah, it also makes no sense from an economic perspective. Now you have to buy a farm of GPUs to go with your servers? And the video capability now and soon being built in to every Intel CPU just goes for nothing? More great ideas from Microsoft. Reply


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ONE lucky Dudley dog has been getting plenty of extra cuddles from his relieved family, after he was rescued from a frozen pool by firefighters.
Kelly Warren was walking one-year-old Siberian Husky, Leo around Milking Bank park yesterday morning, when he accidentally ran onto the snow-covered pond and plunged straight into the icy water after falling through the frozen surface.
Mum-of-two, Kelly, aged 29, said: "I had just let Leo off the lead to play with another husky, when next thing I knew he was in the middle of the water. It all happened so quickly and I didn't have chance to warn him.
"He has never gone in the water before, but there was a layer of snow covering the ice, so you couldn't tell which was water and land, so he must have just run over it thinking it was still field."
After realising she was unable to rescue Leo herself, Kelly dialled 999 and within minutes crews from Dudley and Bilston were on scene, before they called for back-up from the service's water support team who attended with a dinghy.
Kelly, who has had Leo since he was six months-old added: "Leo's front paws and head were resting on the ice, but his back legs and bottom were underwater. He kept trying to jump out, but the ice was cracking around him and he was making this horrible squealing noise for help.
"He was in the water for about 45 minutes and I was so relieved when they brought him back onto dry land on the boat."
Kelly and her partner, Kim Sin, aged 37, rushed Leo to the vets, where he was given the all-clear following his ordeal.
His relieved owner added: "I am so grateful to the firefighters who came and helped and incredibly he was fine after being in the water, we were just advised to warm his bottom and back paws with a hairdryer and I don't think we'll be taking him back to Milking Bank for a while.
"But I'm just so glad I didn't have the children with me. There are no barriers around the water so a child could have easily run over it thinking it was still land."
A West Midlands Fire Service spokesman, said: "If a Siberian Husky can get into difficulties in this weather, then anyone can. This story had a very happy ending - but it could have been much worse.
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spannerman replied to spannerman's topic in Ford Mondeo / Vignale ClubI sorted the problem at last. the engine ran on cylinders 3 + 4 only for around 5 minutes, then decided to stop shaking too much on tick over. ran for @ 3 minutes at 2500 rpm, then tick over seemed a little better. took a chance and slowly drove down the road, ran but still shaking. put my boot down, crept up to @ 2000 rpm, let out a large grey / white cloud of exhaust smoke. then took off like a rocket ship. drove @ the block, tick over still a little bit shakey . went around the block a couple of times, now running perfectly fine, with no problems at all. thank you for all the advice given by various members spannerman
spannerman replied to spannerman's topic in Ford Mondeo / Vignale Clubchecked with the scanner, no codes found. tried some easy start - engine started and ran, very badly. pulled the electrical plugs off the injectors, one at a time with the engine running cylinders 1 and 2 have no apparent effect. cylinders 3 and 4 have a noticeable effect. so appears that 1 and 2 cylinders are not firing. checked compression again, all ok, checked heater plugs, all failed. were ok when I started the job, so I may have killed them, with the long cranking sessions. so 4 heater plugs now on order. next might try swapping 1+2 for 3+4, and reprogramming to see if cylinders 1 and 2 run ok ??
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spannerman replied to cliffy 71's topic in Ford Mondeo / Vignale Clubhi there. what gap do you think you have now between the sensor and the timing lugs. I have a similar problem, but do not want to damage my crank sensor. in reply to your own problem, have you thought about a compression test
spannerman replied to spannerman's topic in Ford Mondeo / Vignale Clubvalve timing was spot on. took the head off and found the smallest speck of carbon on the valve on cylinder no4. decided to grind in all valves. did a compression test in garage, all cylinders @ 320 lbs. engine now in the car again. recoded all the injectors again. tries to start, but wont. driving me mad. never had so much problems with a engine
spannerman replied to spannerman's topic in Ford Mondeo / Vignale Clubdown loaded a manual for an x-type jag, fitted with tdci engine. same information about crank setting, i.e. 50 deg before tdc, but in much more detail than the Haynes manual I have now pulled the engine back out of the car. I will double check the valve timing first. I can do a compression test out of the car. do not want to take the head off. unless it is really necessary. might try loosening off the rocker shaft next. just in case a valve clearance is a bit tight
spannerman replied to spannerman's topic in Ford Mondeo / Vignale Clubit took @ three strokes to get the readings. before I rebuilt the engine, cylinder no1 was at 200psi, due to sucking in water and the car put out a white smoke screen for the first 10 minutes of running from cold, with a definite engine shake. not sure what is problem now. I want to be 100% on the correct valve timing before stripping down again
spannerman replied to spannerman's topic in Ford Mondeo / Vignale Clubtried easy start.it ran for @ 5 seconds, but rough. did a compression test originally cranking pressures were :- cylinder 1 200lbs 2/3/4 all 400lbs so had a bent rod, which i replaced now cylinder 1/2/3 around 300lbs cylinder 4 100lbs so I think that maybe timing is one tooth out on the crank. when engine rebuilt it was turned over by hand to check piston / valve contact, and it did not appear to have a problem, so I hope that I have not bent any valves it has a dual mass flywheel with a 5 speed manual gearbox 130bhp. I have used formidable to reprogramme the injectors. no fault codes in pcm diagnostics
spannerman replied to spannerman's topic in Ford Mondeo / Vignale Cluball the injectors are where they should be. I have read in all the codes to the car using formidable, using the codes from the injectors. car will still not start. traced the fuel pump solenoid wiring back to the main engine connection multiplug. checked for continuity from multiplug to solenoid plug on injection pump, all ok. broke into the cables at the multiplug to check for voltage. when cranking no voltage, when stop cranking, I get 12v for @ 2 seconds only. would still like to be sure valve timing is ok I cannot find any information on crank setting, with flywheel having 58 pick-ups, with two missing, same flywheel is listed on ebay as mondeo tdci
spannerman replied to spannerman's topic in Ford Mondeo / Vignale Clubhello tony the two missing lugs are next to each other. I have now set the engine to tdc, then turned back 50 deg, and put the chain on at this position. engine now back in car, tries to start, but wll not run. checked using formidable - according to lap top, two injectors have values, the other two have all zeros. I am now thinking that the two with all zeros are not firing at all ????
spannerman posted a topic in Ford Mondeo / Vignale Clubnew member here. I am rebuilding a 52 plate mondeo estate, 130 tdci engine. it had a bent rod which is now replaced. my problem is the following. ___ set cams as per Haynes manual using 6mm pins fuel pump set using coloured links on chain, I cannot set crank due to the following timing pin should be in flywheel at 50 deg, i.e. crank position sensor hole. manual stated 36 lugs, with one missing for 50 deg position. ???? I have 58 pick up points+ 2 that are missing. engine was running, but smokey, due to low compression on one cylinder, before I started on it. why a different number of pickups and how to set crank to valves, any suggestion / advice please. sorry about the typing in advance
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Adelaide's 24-year wait to benefit from the father-son rule will continue beyond this season, with the Crows missing out on two potential draftees eight years after unsuccessfully pursuing Bryce Gibbs.
The Crows approached the AFL recently to clarify whether Jaidan Kappler and Brayden Maynard qualified to play for the club, given their fathers' lengthy careers in the South Australian league, but were told they could not sign either promising teenager.
While David Kappler played 290 games for South Adelaide, he did not play enough of them in time for Jaidan to be nominated by the Crows ahead of father-son bidding.
Under father-son rules, Adelaide has access to the sons of former Sturt, Glenelg, South Adelaide and Woodville-West Torrens players, provided they notched 200 games before 1990. They can also nominate the sons of Adelaide's own 100-game players.
Kappler would have become eligible had the AFL agreed to a Crows' proposal to include David's representative games in his tally, but the league was not agreeable.
Similarly, Peter Maynard, a premiership player and Hall of Famer at Glenelg after playing eight games for Melbourne in the early 1980s, did not play enough of his 200-plus games before the cut-off for Brayden to qualify, falling just four games short.
Jaidan Kappler is a tall, skinny midfielder in the mix to make South Australia's under-18 squad this season, while Brayden Maynard has made a promising start to the season playing for the Sandringham Dragons in the TAC Cup.
Adelaide protested to the AFL in 2006 after being told the club could not sign Gibbs as a third-round father-son pick because his father Ross had not played enough of his 250-plus games in what was then a 20-year qualification period running from 1970-1990.
The league acknowledged the club's concerns about the fairness of the father-son rule, abolishing the qualification period in favour of the simpler 1990 cut-off, but Gibbs went to Carlton as the No. 1 draft pick.
The Crows are also set to narrowly miss out on quick young midfield prospect Josh Koster, the son of premiership player Kym. Josh, whose father played in Adelaide's back-to-back premiership sides but retired on 95 games for the club, made South Australia's under-16 squad last year but is ineligible for this year's draft. Ben Jarman, the son of Darren, is available to both Hawthorn and the Crows and showed promise as a 15-year-old last year.
Will Paynter, whose father John played 198 games before the cut-off, missed out on being drafted a few years ago and is this season playing for the Crows' new reserves side.


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Update on Boogaard:
"Nope. We're trying to stimulate him, trying to get him moving around, but he still doesn't feel well.
Can he imagine getting him back?
"Very difficult. It would be very difficult (both to guess when, or to actually get him back). Both. It's something we have to wait out. It'll be very difficult as far as a lineup … but again, we'll see what happens. But he's not close."
"Vinny's been skating. Had a good day today, a good day yesterday. No swelling. So he's moving forward. Cally skated with him today."
Updated status on those guys?
"Nope. Cally's a couple of weeks. I'm hoping after the all-star break."
On whether this is a test game tonight?
"You know what? I've had 10 people ask me that. Is this a barometer game, a test game? I don't look at it that way. We know they're a really good team. We feel we're a good team. We want to get back to winning a hockey game after losing the other night. We're trying to be a better team tonight. We're going to have to be. You have to respect them. They're a very good club, but we're going to play, and we'll see what happens after 60 minutes."
On Gilroy playing the power-play point:
"He will. … He's shooting the puck. He's playing well. We've tried a number of different people. We're going to leave (Stepan) alone a little bit and put him up front. So we're going to try Gilly on the right side, with Marc Staal, probably, to start as far as a lead power-play point man."
On cutting down odd-man rushes lately:
"Well, we've defended well. I mean, I think we gathered ourselves after — I forget what games they were when we got sloppy — we've defended well. It's just concentration. We have to defend first, and your offense comes off of that, and that's the next step for us, is creating more chances, and I think rebound chances and chances that aren't coming in numbers as they were earlier in the year. I think we've got to play in the blue a little bit more. But defending, I think our team has grown. We've had some rough spots during the year, but I think for the most part, our defense and our coverage has been pretty good most of the year."
On the power-play problems:
"I don't think it's a single (issue). We don't have an ideal point man. That's very important for a power play. I think Marc's trying to develop into one. We've tried Step — at times he was decent; I don't think he was ever real good at it. I think he'll be better served up front. I think that far outweighs what he's doing on the point. So that's a problem that we're still trying to work through.
"Gabby's a big reason why our power play worked last year. Him not totally dead on; losing Vinny Prospal from the get-go — he's a good power-play guy. So it's a number of things. I think, from a point-man's point of view, and how quick we move the puck … when we start moving the puck and let the puck do the work, I think that's when we have success. I don't think the movement has been quick enough. So those are the two main things. We are what we are. I don't think we have ideal situations, but we have scored some goals. I think we were 13th and 12th at one time in this league. But our puck movement hasn't been quick enough."
On putting a big man in front on the power play:
"I believe in it, sure. I believe in men in front. But we end up struggling getting shots through. And it goes back … we just don't have the big bomb (from the point) where we can say, 'OK, let's shoot the puck.' It is an area of our club … I think the two detail areas where we have struggled all year long is 5-on-5, 5-on-4, our defense getting shots through, and faceoffs. And we work on it quite a bit.
"So I don't want you to think we're looking to tic-tac-toe without anybody in front of the net. We want people in front. In fact, we're trying to stress that as far as a man in the high slot to take some pressure off our points, and then slowly sink down to the front of the net. So I certainly do believe in it. But it's a matter of, are we getting our shots there?"
Is that a role for Wolski:
"I think he's a pretty talented guy with the puck. I'd like to see him with the puck, too. He's a big man, but I look at him as a guy who's going to be able to make some plays, also, and not just stand in front of the net and tip pucks. Everybody has to do that, because you can have your setup on the power play, but within a game it does get scrambly. You end up setting up on the other side, and we do talk about it: 'If it's on this side, then you need to go to the front of the net.' So people are going to be there, but I'll be damned if I'm going to put that guy, with a little bit of skill, to just stand in front of the net to tip pucks. Brian Boyle may get some work there. Fedotenko will get some work there tonight. It's something we're trying to figure out, because it's something that's going to be very important if we're going to be successful in the second half."
On "re-habbing" a player's game (which was Glen Sather's word for what he hopes for Wolski):
"Teaching. I don't even know who he is. I get all these reports from people and I seeked out people's thoughts, some people I respect over in that conference. You hear different things. Every player has warts. No one's perfect. It's a matter of working with them. It's a matter of working with him, understanding him, trying to get to understand him, and him understanding the coaching staff. And teach how we're going to play, teach what we want done, teach our standard of whether it be work habit, turnovers, all parts of the game. Let him know through the tape — and we do a lot of it — what we're looking for from him. Offensively, I'm not going to teach him offense. I can't teach him the skill and creativity. It's the other parts. If I think he's struggling as far as decision-making, we're going to show him that. If I think he's struggling because he's not pushing hard enough, we're going to show him that. So it's a matter of teaching once we get to know him, as far as what his strengths and weaknesses are."
On getting Gaborik going, and whether it's just one of those years:
"No, it can't be one of those years because this team won't succeed if it continues. And I think he's close. I think his legs are moving and that's the most important thing with Gabby — his legs. Not letting the play get caught up to him by gliding and looking for plays. More and more, within his game, he's trying to beat people and skate through the neutral zone with speed and that's the most important part that's come back to his game. So we're going to keep on trying to get him there and I know he wants to do it. Listen, this guy, he wants to do it. It's just a matter of getting through it. Maybe there's a little bit of a mental block. Who knows when they go through a little bit of a slump like this? But I think he's close, I really do."
On not juggling too much just to get one player going:
"You've got to be careful. It's a hard question to answer because it depends on the situation and depends on the player and it's a read by the coaches, as far as robbing Peter to pay Paul or continuing to play him in those situations. That's an ongoing assessment that we make during the year and through games.
"I think he's going to get there. I really do. He's knocking on the door, if I can use that silly term. I think he's close. Tonight would be a nice night, because we're going to need some goals tonight. We're not going to win a hockey game tonight 1-0. We won't. We're going to need some goals. Not just get chances. We're going to need some goals tonight."
Stepan will center Wolski and Gaborik, Anisimov will center Dubinsky and Zuccarello.
Lunqvist (and his three-game point streak) in goal.


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Los Angeles: It appears the campaign to merge Australia and the US to form one nation called Ameristralia is as doomed as the Tasmanian tiger.
Despite an online push in both countries, a petition on the official White House website only generated six-and-a-half-thousand signatures.
The deadline to receive 100-thousand signatures expires on Friday.
The Ameristralia campaign was born on the social news and entertainment website Reddit, where supporters created a coat of arms featuring a bald eagle's body with a koala's head.


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