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HOUSTON - A Houston man was arrested and charged with improper photography after, police said, he hid inside a stall of the women's restroom at a restaurant and took pictures with his cellphone.
Felix Flores, 21, was arrested Thursday night at the McCormick & Schmick's in Town & Country Village. A representative for the restaurant said Flores was hired as a busser less than a month ago.
An 18-year-old female employee said she noticed Flores in the stall next to her while she was using the restroom and she spotted a cellphone near the floor of her stall. She told the restaurant manager who, according to the representative, found Flores still in the stall in the restroom.
The manager called Houston police. Officers said they confiscated Flores' cellphone, which, they said, had several pictures of the female employee in the restroom still stored on it.
Flores doesn't appear to have a prior criminal record. McCormick & Schmick's fired him on the spot Thursday night.
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Mountain Wheels: Back to the future with the racy 2013 Ford Mustang
August 10, 2012
Served up in a coat of Race Red paint, the new Mustang elicited the kind of online enthusiasm I'd personally reserve for an ultra-exotic like a Pagani Zonda. But I've been a little spoiled this summer and it seems, to their credit, Ford's continually re-invented sports car classic instantaneously conjures collective memory of high school parking lots and Mellencamp and Metallica.
The 2013 'Stang I drove wasn't even one of those all-out psycho Godzilla beasts with 662 horsepower (that's the new Shelby GT500), but even the plainest jane of the Mustang line is now equipped with 305 horsepower – plus the good looks and long tradition of the Mustang marquee.
Many were also surprised that Mustang's new, standard 3.7-liter V6 does not exactly roar like a monster – the exhaust and engine note is pretty sedate, unless you're going 95 miles an hour – but that horsepower figure is absolutely true, presenting a cash-to-horsepower proposition that's pretty impressive.
The 2013's minor facelift details also serve to pump up the volume a bit for one of the most successful of Detroit's retro products. The nose is a little more aggressive and there are nicer body-colored rocker panels; get it with the performance package and you not only get a quicker limited-slip axle but you also get blackened side mirrors and impressive, dark gray 19-inch wheels.
In the rear, there's now a glossy black backing around the license plate and six tall, LED light-infused and smoked brakelamps, and up front, both the headlamps and the foglamps have LED inserts.
Those are just aesthetic details, of course: the primary mission of the Mustang is a cool driving experience, and the car provides that in droves, even with a less-than-insane number of horses. Acceleration response is quite nice, even in the six-speed automatic I drove, and the bigger wheels and tires help impart a grounded, sporty feel in the corners. Mine even had Eagle F1 rubber, which used to be the domain of police interceptors.
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I didn't get to do the full track test, but in a safe environment you might be able to maximize boost on the six-speed automatic by using the new thumb-activated toggle to switch and hold gears, right up to the redline.
You can jaw all you want about the Paleolithic-era live axle in the back end, but that's part of Mustang's old-school charm. It will do little to spoil even your most energetic outing. For, if you are like I was for my week in the car, you'll spend most of the time with the windows down and the eight-speaker Shaker audio system blasting inconceivable material from Warrant and WASP. And a gigantic, stupid-looking smile on your face.
Mustang's interior is no slouch, as well. Lit-up sill plates, deep, race-ready bucket seats with white offset stitching, plus a leather wheel and emergency brake shroud are all impressive touches. Rear seating is still miniscule; it's still a Mustang. That's the drill. You can also order the Boss 302 and GT500's Recaro seats if you'd like.
The retro-futuristic thing does falter in a few spots. Those seeking to avoid prosecution will be flummoxed by the 1960s-faithful analog speedometer, which is situated in a deep pot and is hard to read, even if you do have the option to change the display colors.
You also have an overly sophisticated "Track Apps" display on the color instrument screen that can measure your 0-60 times, your G forces and even the gas-air mix being sucked into that engine.
Mustang's long, flat hood does tower a bit over your outside view but overall visibility is pretty decent.


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The Season in Pain
This piece includes the following: the word nutshot, repeated; the acknowledgement of death; allusion to a misdirected limb; and a conversation about farts. If you are sensitive to any of these things, be warned.
There is a component of pain in most sports that is intentional. In cycling or any endurance sport, the ability to withstand pain is explicitly the point. In football, boxing, or any contact sport, the ability to inflict pain is at least implicitly and often explicitly the point.
In theory, baseball is supposed to be closer to bowling, or golf. Any pain is accidental. In execution, baseball is closer to football. It's pretty much all pain, all the time. Success is about winning the war of attrition; careers are daily ended or upturned because of injury; we hold our breath on every play, or should. Somebody threw what was basically a friggin' rock at Jason Heyward's face this year. Somebody threw what was basically a rock at Yasiel Puig's face this year. It's just rocks on rocks on rocks, all going at faces. You'd bet on Andrew Luck playing at an elite level for another decade before you'd bet on Jose Fernandez.
Can't talk about baseball without talking about pain. So this is the year in pain. Their pain, our pain.
X-Mo Pain
We also know, intuitively, that we are no baseball bat. We are so frail. We literally lose to paper. Baseballs cause terrible pain, then, and when that pain is caused we have slow motion/high-speed cameras to properly convey it:
Trivia question: How much would I have to pay you to let Doug Fister throw a fastball at your chest? And, follow-up trivia question: How much would I have to pay you for you to actually let it hit you in the chest, without flinching or dodging or ducking? Answer at the bottom.
The Pain That Makes You Sick
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The Slapstick Pain
It was, Alan Sepinwall wrote, "as broad a moment as this show has had," but it was also an instigating event in what turned into "something much darker, and deeper, and tenser." That's not by chance. Slapstick is incredibly dark. The three stooges were a complete horror story, start to finish. The Simpsons hid behind slapstick to tell one of the darkest, most disturbing stories in modern television. And Rickie Weeks stepped on his own bat for some reason, turned momentarily into a QWOP, fell on his face and…
hasn't played since.
It's really funny to watch, especially the moment when he looks down and sees the bat. Then you realize that this is his livelihood and it's not funny at all. But then you remember that none of this really matters, and it's not as though he has brain damage or anything, and he's still getting paid, and of course he'll be able to walk and do everything awesomely in no time, and so it's funny again. But then you realize that Rickie Weeks, like all athletes, has the shortest window to do the one thing that makes him special. And you're not sure whether it's saddest that these days are being stolen from him, or that his window is so short in the first place, or that your window is so short in the first place, and here you're wasting it all laughing at baseball players' misfortune.
The Disruptive Pain
some jerk hits you, or, worse still, you're the jerk and you hit them. Nothing is guaranteed, you realize, and for weeks you're scared, probably more scared that you need to be.
The Nutshot Pain
I think it not reckless to surmise that the very first "joke" was likely a shared merriment at accidental flatulence — probably during the late Cenozoic era, when our human forebears began to intellectually distance themselves from more primitive hominids such as australopithecines and Neanderthals, establishing a de facto classist society where the notion of cultural sophistication, as a normative model, first arose. Ergo, unintentional deviations from this new concept of "dignity" exposed our pretensions, giving rise to mirth.
The girl I know is two, so she barely knows anything. She thinks my name is [her name], and she thinks all stickers are Band-Aids, and she thinks tractors are bigger than dump trucks. She's nuts. I personally have a hard time thinking she is responding to the notion of cultural sophistication. So why farts? And, similarly, why nutshots?
Really, why nutshots? Why do we laugh at nutshots, and why do we cringe so badly at them? Partly we're uncomfortable because we know they hurt, but pulling a hamstring hurts and we don't cringe at it; getting hit in the jaw with a baseball hurts but we don't laugh at it. Do women laugh at nutshots? Do toddlers laugh at nutshots? What the heck with the nutshots?
The Endpain
The most painful moment of the 2013 season:
So long, Ramon Ortiz. Though you are gone, we will all follow shortly, and be together again. Kawasaki's got your glove.
Trivia answers: 1) $920,000 2) There is no amount
Sam Miller is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @SamMillerBB
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Kyle Matte
He's the definition of replacement level on the field but god damn I love Muni Kawasaki
Oct 10, 2013 06:05 AM
What exactly happened to Ramon Ortiz? Did something pop and he was just angry about it or did he just hit a mental wall after slipping on that pitch?
Oct 10, 2013 07:15 AM
John Carter
Sam Miller: pure treasure.
Oct 10, 2013 07:31 AM
Ape - he blew his elbow out and pretty quickly realized it was probably the last pitch of his career. brutal.
Oct 10, 2013 07:51 AM
You know the joke the punchline to which is "It's turtles all the way down"? Well, this is weird (and funny) all the way down. Thanks, Sam.
Oct 10, 2013 07:51 AM
Saw that Ramon Ortiz injury live. Shit was heart-breaking. Even the San Diego crowd was stunned and silenced.
Oct 10, 2013 09:45 AM
Kawasaki seems like the best teammate in the world. The tenderness with which he cradles Ortiz's glove is heartwarming.
Oct 10, 2013 10:12 AM
You screwed up the exponential notation. The exponents are negative so putting one over them turns them into large numbers.
Oct 10, 2013 10:39 AM
Mike Gianella
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I will never forget getting hit square in the nuts with a tennis ball off of a wooden bat when I was 10 years old. My eyes rolled up into my head, I collapsed to the ground, and I saw white for a good 10-15 seconds. Can't even imagine how much getting hit with an actual baseball would hurt.
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Apple's MacBook Pro: Using it as a Mac and a PCby Anand Lal Shimpi on April 13, 2006 12:00 AM EST
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Rosetta vs. Boot Camp vs. VT
When the Intel based Macs were first introduced, the only option for running non-native binaries was through Rosetta, a binary translator. As we showed in our iMac Core Duo review, performance using Rosetta was pretty horrible, but that was compared to an iMac G5. Would someone upgrading from a PowerBook G4 really notice the performance difference between an application running natively on their G4 and an application running on top of Rosetta on a MacBook Pro?
To find out I ran the same MS Word tests I ran a couple of months ago on the iMac Core Duo, and compared the results between the native version of the application running on the PowerBook G4 and the Rosetta powered MacBook Pro. As an additional pair of reference points I also ran the same benchmark using Word 2003 on a Windows XP partition using Boot Camp as well as Parallels' Workstation VM.
Although Rosetta on the MacBook Pro wasn't that much worse than the G4 in opening the test document the HTML conversion process was significantly slower. What's truly impressive is how much faster everything is under both Boot Camp and running under Parallels' VM. Although we can't explain it, the VM consistently posted slightly faster times than under Boot Camp, although it wasn't perceivable other than by stopwatch.
What these tests show is a very interesting alternative to Rosetta - simply running the non-native application in Windows instead. While you don't get all of the benefits of running something in OS X, you do get a huge increase in performance. It's also quite impressive to see that the VM solution truly is basically as fast as running Windows XP natively using Boot Camp.
I dug a little deeper to see how the Boot Camp and VM offerings stood up to one another in a couple more tests. The first being a script that Intel uses to measure performance using Adobe Photoshop CS2 (if I could run the script under OS X I would, but it is not supported).
Once again the Parallels' Workstation VM manages to be a bit faster than Boot Camp, which doesn't exactly make sense but the results were consistent.
I wanted to run both sets of Winstone benchmarks but Business Winstone 2004 consistently failed to complete running in the VM. The applications themselves didn't crash but I suspect there may have been a timing issue related to the VM. Luckily, I could at least get Multimedia Content Creation Winstone running and got a set of results from it:
While Boot Camp is slightly faster, the difference is hardly noticeable. This is quite an important benchmark because it shows that disk as well as CPU performance isn't hampered by running Windows XP on a virtual machine. Unfortunately what these benchmarks don't measure is the responsiveness of the UI, which truly does suffer under the VM option.
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Visual - Thursday, April 13, 2006 - linkyou have some borked page 18 after the "final thoughts" page showing up in the dropdown.
in printarticle.aspx it shows up as a duplicate of page 17 for some reason
as to the article itself - good job :)
my guess as to why the vm is faster than the real thing is because the hdd emulation works somewhat like a ramdrive - its a file on the apple hdd but it probably gets cached up by osx or by the vmsoftware itself.
plinden - Thursday, April 13, 2006 - link
my guess as to why the vm is faster than the real thing is because the hdd emulation works somewhat like a ramdrive - its a file on the apple hdd but it probably gets cached up by osx or by the vmsoftware itself.
That could be - I have maxed out at 2GB RAM in my iMac, and I get wired RAM is close to the max and a hefty number of Page Outs (up to 210,000 last time I looked. before it setayed below 5000 even after being on for a week) while running Parallels VM. Reply
ibisbowti - Thursday, April 13, 2006 - linkI been using the 1.83 Core Duo for about a week now. I think it is one of the latest builds according to the serial number. No problems at all, other than it does get pretty warm. Heat issue seems better after latest firmware update. I think the aluminum is designed to be a big heat sink! I thought the Front Row software would be a little gimmicky, but it is pretty cool, especially when sitting the unit on a coffee table and watching the HD movie trailers, IPhoto pics, etc with others. It's an awesome machine so far. Reply
artifex - Thursday, April 13, 2006 - linkSince you say you ran the same tests as in your earlier review, I'd like to see graphs comparing the results of the Intel iMac vs. the MBP. and add in ones for the Intel Mini, if you can. I suspect we'll see iMac > MBP > Mini, but it would be nice to be sure.
Also, if you could slap Parallels on the Mini and tell us how much of a hit the virtualization takes because the hardware virtualization is disabled for that line, that would be really interesting.
Thanks. Reply
AppaYipYip - Thursday, April 13, 2006 - link"Apple quality control at it's best"
That comment bothers me. Overall, there are no other manufacturers that come even close to Apples quality, design, and workmanship. Yet, you find one key that sits slightly off and suddenly feel the need to make such a blanket statement. If it bothers you so much, take it back and Apple will repair it for you, in record time. Reply
Calin - Thursday, April 13, 2006 - linkThe IBM thinkpads (before the Lenovo deal) were regarded as the best business laptops (or at least PC laptops) as quality and workmanship. Too bad they were designed with cramped keyboards (at least the models I saw) and no trackpad. Reply
Ryan Norton - Thursday, April 13, 2006 - linkI'm a PC guy but I like Macs a lot and will probably buy a Macbook Pro, either now or when Merom ones come out. I figure Anand probably is too. Yet I work with Mac zealots who give me endless shit about the unequivocal superiority of Apple everything over PC (except for games, which they concede). So when someone like me finds a glaring flaw that seems like something that should have been spotted before it got to the end user, it's easy to take a cheap shot at Jobs =^) Reply
Sunrise089 - Thursday, April 13, 2006 - linkIf I had my dream review of this product, here's how I would have you test gaming performance:
Test performance in Windows mode. Then compare it to other Core Duo notebooks. Then see if there is any game written natively for OS-X under Core Duo, and run the OS-X version and the Windows version to see the difference in OS on performance on the same machine.
Other than no gaming info, terrific review. Reply
Calin - Thursday, April 13, 2006 - linkThis could be thanks to slower drivers in BootCamp Windows XP, or slower hard drive access/speed. Everything else is a disadvantage for VM: one more level of indirection in disk access, less memory, running the OS X behind the VM.
Could you do some disk speed comparation between VM and native XP? Reply
BigLan - Thursday, April 13, 2006 - linkI think it's going to be hard drive speed throwing off the benchmarks. The BootCamp partition is going to be at the outer edge of the disk, with much slower speeds than the VM client virtual drive which is on the faster Apple partition.
I'm not sure if it's possible to assign the entire HD to a windows partition using Bootcamp, but that's about the only way i can think of to level the playing field. Reply


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BBC journalists have staged a 24-hour strike in protest at job cuts, preventing the transmission of many television and radio programs.
Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) walked out at midnight on Sunday over compulsory redundancies expected to affect BBC Scotland, Radio 5 Live, the Asian Network and the World Service.
The strike was called at the world's biggest broadcaster after union leaders and managers failed to agree the redeployment of 30 staff facing the axe.
Picket lines were set up outside studios across the country as Radio 4's flagship news shows Today, World at One at lunchtime and PM in the afternoon, and television's BBC Breakfast, were replaced by pre-recorded shows.
The NUJ claims the British Broadcasting Corporation has lost more than 7000 jobs since 2004 and it plans to cut a further 2000 jobs as it slashes its budget by 20 per cent.
The budget cuts are being driven by a fall in the revenue the corporation gets from the licence fee, which is paid by everyone in Britain with a television.
NUJ general secretary Michelle Stanistreet said her members were striking "to defend jobs and quality journalism at the corporation", saying they want talks to resume over the redundancies as well as a moratorium on job cuts until April.
"They are angry and frustrated at the poor decisions being taken at the top of the BBC - decisions that are leading to journalists being forced out of their jobs and quality journalism and programming compromised," she said.
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Poor Lance, he needs a second chance.
After all, he was only lying when he denigrated former teammates and others who questioned whether he was cycling clean. He was only cheating for years, and apparently leading the way in the performance-enhancing cheating, all the way to the finish line. He was only the total opposite of the inspirational figure he was touted to be.
I'm tired of second chances for phony sports heroes. So, I have less than zero sympathy for Armstrong, if that's possible.
But I'm willing to look for a silver lining and this is it: We're another step closer to the end of sports hero worship.
All of our sports heroes let us down when we build them up too high, thanks to their universal character flaw of being human.
Wednesday afternoon, the strange tale of Notre Dame's Manti Te'o and his fictitious girlfriend surfaced, the most bizarre story in the fabled history of Notre Dame football.
This unfolding saga isn't quite as easy to digest as Armstrong's performance-enhancing drug use, but it reinforces the fact that things aren't always as they seem off the field, either.
Too many contradictions exist to easily believe Te'o was simply a naive victim of an online hoax. Maybe he exaggerated his "relationship" with an online girlfriend and couldn't figure out a way to take it back once it grew into a legend by the media too quick to mythologize a college kid. Maybe he flat out lied. We know this for sure: Things were not as they seemed, or as he led us to believe.
Put athletes on a pedestal and they'll eventually fall off it, one way or another.
Sports heroes have been letting us down in one way or another for our whole lives, no matter how old we are, from Mickey Mantle to Pete Rose to Magic Johnson to Tiger Woods to Armstrong. They can all do one thing better than 99 percent of the rest of us and we hold them up as if they're superhuman. They're not, as we're reminded time and again.
It's unrealistic to think children will give up sports hero worship, and certainly not as long as ESPN "Top 10 Plays" is part of the morning or evening ritual. I'm a sports fan as well as a writer. I've watched a lot of sports with my kids. I'm still awed by incredible plays and moves by LeBron James or Robert Griffin III or whoever displays some skill far beyond most of our capabilities.
Children get a pass on blind adulation, to a point. But it's up to us, now more than ever, to gently guide them into marveling over the feat without worshiping the person.
Sports admiration is fine. Appreciate how Justin Verlander can throw a baseball, how Reggie Wayne can catch a football with one hand and keep both feet in-bounds, and how LeBron can fly.
Stop the process at admiration of the skills. Don't cross over to considering those players as superior people. The three I just mentioned all seem like decent men, unlikely to appear in a police blotter or a drug scandal or any other image-tarnishing (or worse) situation. But there are no guarantees in sports any more than there are in entertainment, politics and our neighborhood.
It's a fine line as a sports fan, embracing skills admiration but rejecting hero worship.
Maintaining perspective has been easier for me as I've been privileged to cover sports at all levels and I've seen the beginnings, highlights and sometimes sad endings of careers. Today's heroes are often forgotten once they're out of the public eye. Building them up into something larger than life can hurt them even more than it hurts us. We should back off the hero construction, although that's a tough task with 24/7 sports coverage.
Being angry at Armstrong's fraud is a legitimate emotion many people feel. I'm not sure if 2 � hours with Oprah changes anything. He was a hero. Now he's disgraced.
The tale of Te'o, a false one inflated by the media without the media doing its job to fact-check, seems destined to leave everyone feeling a little ill. Depending on how it eventually shakes out, we could feel duped once again.
Let's remember athletes are mere humans before making the next guy a hero for his sports skills. Sooner or later we have to get burned for the last time. Don't we?


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BWW Interviews: Christopher Sieber Talks LA CAGE AUX FOLLES Tour & More!
Christopher Sieber is currently playing the role of Albin/Zaza in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES on tour. Christopher's career has been unique and diverse. He has been on TV and Broadway and brings his own life's experiences to the role of Albin/Zaza. Christopher was also priviledged to play the role of Georges on Broadway. He is the only actor who has ever played both lead roles in LA CAGE. He shared with us his experiences and lessons he has learned over the years as a performer and details of his current role as Albin/Zaza.
You have done so much in your career in show business from TV roles to Broadway. Each role seems so different from the last. Tell us about some of the most memorable characters you played over the years. How do you prepare for each role?
Some of my favorite roles? Well, I loved being in Spamalot. That was heaven and playing Sir Dennis, Galahad, Prince Edward's Father, the Black Knight; all of that; they were just absolutely ridiculous to be able to do that. And then of course Lord Farquaad in Shrek. I'm very proud of that one because I helped to create a lot of that part for the Broadway production. That was a lot of fun. So much of me went into those parts. The great thing now as you see it is done around the country and regional theatres, there's a part of me that is now with those productions which is really kinda cool. As far as preparing for the part, I kind of like to see it, read it and throw out some ideas. During Spamalot, I had this opportunity to work with Mike Nichols and Eric Idle; he is of the Pythons and remember early on him saying, "Don't tell me what's funny, show me what's funny." You just throw things out there. It's almost improv in a way but if something strikes you, just do it. If it sticks then great, but if it doesn't work, abandon it. I like to throw things out there and see where it heads and make big mistakes. I like to fail because you can't be brilliant unless you fail and I like to try things and stink up the place for a while and see what works and see what sticks.
Who are some of the most memorable people you have worked with?
I would have to say David Hyde Pierceis one of my favorites to work with because he is just so good in everything. Not only is he really funny on stage and screen, he is so generous and wonderful as a person and just to be with him, he is gracious to everyone he meets. He is truly an amazing person. And Hank Azariabecause he was so much fun to work with as well. He is like a twelve year old. We always had to stop him from going off somewhere. He was a lot of fun to work with. Sara Ramirezwas terrific. She was so much fun to play with. Judith Light. I loved working with Judith Light. She was so wonderful. There are so many more positive people that I've worked with over the years, more than negative. I think there are two negative people that I have worked with in my career that I never want to see again. The good thing about working with great people is that you get to take an essence of their performance of who they are. It's not like you are stealing or anything, it's that there's something about them that you take away. Every great person I've worked with has contributed to where I am now because I was able to take something from them; that essence that they have and I've been able to use that in every part that I do even further.
You are currently playing Albin/ZaZa in the tour of La Cage…you have also played the other lead role of Georges. You are the only actor on Broadway to ever have accomplished this. Do you find one role more challenging than the other one? How does each character differ?
When I went into LA CAGE on Broadway, I was Georges and I had seven days to learn the part. I went into it very quickly; although I do like to work fast. I work really, really fast, that was really fast but, the thing about Georges is that he does drive the show. He is the one who is the ringmaster of everybody. He is the father, he's the husband, he's the business owner, he's the director, he's the producer, he's the peacemaker; he's all these things and he has to keep all these things up in the air all the time…keep going, keep going, keep going. It is a difficult part to play. As I played it, it was a difficult part to play. You have to realize that as Georges makes one decision, it affects another part of his life as producer, director, husband, father. It's like a house of cards where he has to keep all these cards from falling down. So, it is a challenge because you have to portray it to the audience. Then Albin is a wounded, not necessarily wounded, but very needy and a very powerful force to be reckoned with but very insecure. As much fun as Albin is to play, it's a very challenging part because there are so many things about the part. There are so many different characters that Albin has to be. He has to be mother so there is a lot there. I would say that Zaza and Albin are definitely more difficult to play. It's a lot more fun but there is a lot to do. But, they are both fantastic parts. I love them both. I really do love them both.
Which one was your favorite one to portray?
I really did like my time as Georges on Broadway. I really did like that. I am enjoying as Albin and Zaza. I don't really have a favorite. Although, sometimes I would like to go back to Georges just because I'm exhausted. You have to sing and belt out these songs. I think I have six songs in the show. It's a lot to keep it going. It's a lot of work physically, mentally, emotionally; vocally exhausting. I live like a nun. I don't go out. I don't drink. I go to bed after a show. I'm boring. I'm really boring. But, you have to do that in order to get through the part because it's so demanding.
You are onstage for almost the entire show with many costume changes not to mention the demands of the role. How do you keep up your energy night after night?
It's three and a half hours of non-stop. From when I arrive at the theatre, I begin make-up and then get in the costumes and then I go, go, go, go. No intermission either. I don't even have an intermission so I get to go to the bathroom once because then it's straight back into the make-up and the hair and all the crazy costumes and whatnot. When I leave the stage, I'm not just sitting back there doing nothing, I'm doing costumes and hair and all that stuff. To keep my energy up, I think I built that into the show. When I rehearse, I normally do it full out every time to build my stamina early on. Then there is a performance level that you have to keep it at which once you get the stamina up it's not that difficult to keep it up. Also, caffeine helps.
What do you do mentally to prepare to go onstage every night? Do you have any routines or rituals?
I'm not one of those actors. I really like to just like to jump in the pool. I just go. I don't get nervous. Well, I do get nervous, that would be a lie if I said I don't get nervous before a performance. I'm not one of those guys who cares who is in the audience. Some people want to know if there is a celebrity in the audience. I don't care. The only one I care about is my husband Kevin. If he is in the audience I think, "Well, he is there, so I have to be good now or he is going to tell me about it later." But, as far as rituals go, I stretch before a show so I don't injure myself and just make sure that I have the voice to do it. I'll do a quick little tiny warm up; a ten second warm up and that's it.
What do you enjoy most about touring with LA CAGE?
The greatest thing about doing a national tour is that you get to bring Broadway to people who sometimes can't afford the tickets and the restaurants in New York City to see a Broadway show. We are able to bring Broadway to them. This is what we have, it's a Broadway show that I did and it's on the road. It looks exactly the same and it's terrific. That's the obvious opportunity to bring Broadway around the country which is terrific. Also what is great about it is to see cities around the country. Not a lot of people get to do that. Not too many people get to go from city to city for a year and see the great nation that we have here. Every city's unique and the local restaurants are great and I love it.
What are some of the cities you found most interesting?
Memphis was awesome. I loved Memphis. West Palm was very nice because I went scuba diving there. I know I love San Antonio. I can't wait to be there. I love that city. I had a great time twenty years ago there. Washington, DC was terrific. We had a lovely time there. We were there for four weeks. Des Moines, Iowa, oddly enough; we had a nice time in Des Moines. The people there were really good to us and we had a great time. Dallas is pretty nice too. I'm looking forward to getting to San Antonio.
What do you plan to do when you come to San Antonio?
There's the Riverwalk that I just can't wait to see. Last time I was there they had drained it. It was drained so it didn't look like the beautiful Riverwalk that was on the brochures. It was more like a ditch so I'm looking forward to seeing that. There's the Alamo; it was twenty one years ago when I was there. I'm going to have to refresh my memory and eat some great tex mex while I'm down there which I'm really excited about.
What advice do you have for someone considering a career in theatre?
There are a couple of things. First, I would say if you can do anything else, do it. Please do. If you find yourself being really good at something else other than this, do it. This is not an easy career to do. You've gotta be strong and you gotta believe in yourself. But, you also have to know and get used to a lot of rejection. It looks glamorous but when you start doing it, it's not glamorous, it's just work. It's a lot of work. It never stops. When you get a Broadway show, it doesn't mean that you made it at all. You're not done. You need to go to the next Broadway show. You've gotta keep going. You are never safe. So, consider before you want to jump in head first. But if you have the bug and if you think if you couldn't do it, you'd probably die then you probably should be in theatre. But, the good thing is there are other careers to do. If you turn out not to be an actor, there are so many things to do in theatre as far as stage management and crew and press people. You can always be involved in it. If the talent doesn't work out for you, there are other things to do. There are always opportunities. It doesn't necessarily mean you would need to be onstage to be part of it. Other than that, just keep going. Be truthful, be honest, be sincere, be nice to everybody because the person you were rude to at the last audition is probably going to be the next director or composer or musical director or casting director or producer; you don't know. That has happened to me many times but I'm always nice to people. Keep going, you gotta keep going. Keep believing in yourself . Yes, it will be discouraging sometimes.
If you had not become an actor, what career would you have pursued?
I have no idea. I have no other skills. I don't know actually. I have to figure that one out maybe because I'm getting old. Maybe I would be a spelunker, a cave dweller. Maybe I would work on a cruise ship. I don't know what I would do if I didn't do this. That's the problem. I got the bug because I'd rather die than not do this.
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES tells the story of Georges, the owner of a glitzy nightclub in lovely Saint-Tropez, and his partner Albin, who moonlights as the glamorous chanteuse Zaza. When Georges' son brings his fiancée's conservative parents home to meet the flashy pair, the bonds of family are put to the test as the feather boas fly! LA CAGE is a tuneful and touching tale of one family's struggle to stay together...stay fabulous...and above all else, stay true to themselves!
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES will be coming to San Antonio's Majestic Theatre from May 8-13, 2012. Tickets are available by going to ticketmaster or Majestic's website.
Age Appropriateness: ages 10 and up (Contains adult themes and language. Parental discretion advised.)
PHOTO CREDIT: Paul Kolnik


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Presentations, Resolutions, and Proclamations
Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director of Public Affairs
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May 4, 2007
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to Recognize Residents and Staff, Adopt Resolutions and Issue a Proclamation
Note to editor: A downloadable photo and synopsis of each presentation will be posted on the county's Web site at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/opa/presentations.htm on Monday, May 7. These photos will remain on the Web site until the next board meeting with presentations on Monday, May 21.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, at its meeting on Monday, May 7, scheduled to begin at 9 a.m., will recognize residents and staff, adopt the following resolutions and issue a proclamation. For more information, call 703-324-3187, TTY 711.
Police Week in Fairfax County
The Board of Supervisors will issue a proclamation to designate May 13-19, as Police Week and May 15, as Peace Officers Memorial Day in Fairfax County. Law enforcement agencies serve the residents of Fairfax County by safeguarding life and property, protecting against violence and disorder, and defending the innocent against deception and the weak against oppression. Mention will be made of those Fairfax County police officers and sheriff's deputies who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to the community, including Deputy Sheriff George A. Malcolm, Police Officer Karen Bassford, Special Police Officer Hendrik "Sandy" Gideonse, Captain Tommy Bernal, Detective Vicky Armel and Master Police Officer Michael E. Garbarino.
The Community Reaches Out
The Board of Supervisors will recognize the Fairfax Coalition of Police Local 5000, Glory Days Grill and the Koons Automotive Group for their efforts to support the Armel and
Garbarino Family Trust Funds. Detective Vicky Armel and Master Police Officer Michael Garbarino died as a result of gunshot wounds received in an ambush outside the Sully District Station on May 8, 2006.
Diamond Jim Dazzles the Show
The Board of Supervisors will recognize Ch. Felicity's Diamond Jim, also known as James, for being named Best In Show from more than 2,600 entries at the 2007 Westminster Kennel Club dog show in Madison Square Garden, New York. James, an English springer spaniel, fulfilled the highest standards for his breed, which include general appearance, temperament, coat and color. The 6-year-old canine has won more than 50 Best In Show awards and is a certified therapy dog.
Gone Fishin'
The Board of Supervisors will recognize Judith Jackson, principal of Franconia Elementary School, Alexandria, for more than 25 years as an educator and school administrator with Fairfax County Public Schools. Jackson, who is retiring and is known for her commitment and enthusiasm, initiated programs to prepare students for the challenges of the 21st century through skills, technology and the arts. She has been the principal of Franconia Elementary School for the past decade.
Reston Children's Center Celebrates 40 Years
The Board of Supervisors will adopt a resolution to congratulate Reston Children's Center on the occasion of its 40th anniversary. Founded in 1967, the center was the first nonprofit, parent-owned cooperative in Reston dedicated to the developmental and educational needs of children and providing quality support systems for families. In 1988 it was the first after-school program in Reston honored with national accreditation and the fourth in Virginia to be accredited by the national School Age Care Alliance.
Iona Levin – An Instrumental Voice
The Board of Supervisors will recognize Iona Levin, of Springfield, for nearly 12 years of service on the Community Action Advisory Board. Levin was an instrumental voice for community action in the reorganization of human services and served a term as chair of the Community Action Advisory Board.
James Lafley Served With Distinction
The Board of Supervisors will recognize James Lafley, of Alexandria, for nine years of service on the Board of Equalization of Real Estate Assessments. Lafley served during a time of rising assessments and increasing caseloads, culminating in serving as chairman during his last term.
Playing Hoops and Mentoring Youth
The Board of Supervisors will recognize Wendell Byrd, of Reston, for 23 years as the basketball coach at South Lakes High School in Reston. With Byrd's leadership the South Lakes Seahawks achieved six regional basketball titles and recently led the team to the Northern Region first-round playoff game. In addition, Byrd founded Readers Are Leaders to improve student reading skills. The program has expanded to six area high schools.
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The discussion on water begins anew in Dixon, with the City Council set to consider funding a water systems operations and maintenance analysis at its Tuesday meeting.
The request on the table is to set aside $75,000 from the city's General Fund to pay for research.
A consultant's analysis will help council members make a more informed decision about what costs and other issues are involved in providing water to the 2,600 residents who receive water from the Solano Irrigation District from the Dixon-Solano Water Authority.
SID had had a partnership with the city to provide the water by way of the DSWA, but later told officials that it was operating at a critical deficit and needed to raise rates in order to begin shoring up its finances. Some council members then pushed for DSWA's dissolution, saying that the city could possibly provide water to constituents at a much lower rate than SID suggested.
Last July, the council debated the feasibility of terminating the DSWA.
A month later, the dissolution process was authorized. It will take two years to dissolve. In the meantime, SID will continue to provide clients with water.
The council in November began talks regarding assuming ownership and operation of the system. Officials acknowledged the need to boost rates and authorized a two-year hike, boosting rates by 67 percent the first year and 10 percent the next.
Members also approved going out to bid for a consultant to advise the city about equipment, staffing and more.
City staff have drafted a request for proposals and, with the council's OK, will begin the bid process.
The Dixon City Council meets at 7 p.m. in the City Council Chamber, 600 East A St.
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Axford feels stronger, but success remains elusive
PITTSBURGH -- Reliever John Axford's late-inning struggles continued Tuesday night against the Pirates. Axford coughed up a 3-2 lead, giving up a run in the eighth inning. The Pirates eventually won the game, 4-3, on a walk-off home run by Andrew McCutchen in the 12th inning.
Axford exited the game 0-3 with a 9.20 ERA and three blown saves.
"I definitely am frustrated," Axford said. "I can't lie about that, but I feel strong, I feel good and that's where I've got to keep building off of. The first four games of this season, that wasn't me, and that's something I can get a wash too and brush that away. I felt different; my mechanics weren't quite right.
"Since then, my mechanics have been more on par, and I felt great, I felt stronger, my velocity is better, my breaking pitches are better and that's the guy I want to be for the rest of the year. I've just had a couple of tough breaks in there, too, so I've got to just keep fighting it and keep doing what I'm doing right now. That's the pitcher I want to be, hopefully with some better luck."
Axford's problems have put Brewers' manager Ron Roenicke in a bind.
"I don't know; it's hard to figure out," Roenicke stated. "We still have confidence in him, and nothing seems to go right. So we'll see."
George Von Benko is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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In December, the mayor sent an ordinance to council asking them to approve both the "necessity for takeover" and the "condemnation" phases of the Aqua Indiana utility takeover. This ordinance was set to be discussed by council this week. During the necessity for takeover phase, the city would make offers to Aqua Indiana, and follow other "negotiation" steps, to agree on a price tag to purchase the company. City Council should give the mayor this authority to negotiate, and by doing so would signal agreement that an attempt to take over the utility should be made.
This first phase (necessity and negotiation) triggers a chain of events, likely to include multiple independent appraisals of the utility and its assets, giving council a better understanding of what the utility might cost in the future. For the sake of transparency, this phase should be carefully looked at by City Council before proceeding. Then, if and when an agreement cannot be reached (agreement is unlikely because Aqua Indiana has little incentive to sell), the second phase is condemnation.
During condemnation, a judge would decide the value of the entire utility company, and the city would then have the ability to take over by purchasing the company (IC 8-1.5-2-15 & IC 32-24).
City Council could pass the ordinance as written this month, then, in some amount of time (the process could take years) it will be asked to approve financing for the condemned utility. If City Council passes the ordinance as is, they would be giving the mayor power to condemn Aqua Indiana before having any estimates as to what it may cost to purchase the utility in the future. City Council would be surrendering all of their oversight power until the very end of the process, after a judge has determined a price.
By then, it will be too late for oversight on cost, council will be all but forced to approve. They could of course vote "no" to financing the purchase, and the takeover would fail. After years of negotiation and thousands in legal fees from both sides, the residents on the southwest side would be the big losers, and council would certainly be painted as the "bad guys" by the mayor's office.
Negotiation and condemnation authority should be granted separately by City Council. By asking for both powers now, the mayor is asking for a blank check from the city's fiscal body. While it may make the process more expedient from the city's perspective, it certainly undermines the value of the people's voice on City Council and regard for taxpayer dollars.
At the risk of being politically demonized, City Council should use their constituent-given power to control the final price tag as much as possible. The entire city, which this council represents, will no doubt be forced to pay for the takeover in some fashion, further expanding the need for transparency.
Most agree the utility should be taken over by the city, but we should not write a blank check to the mayor for acquisition of a poorly performing utility. City Council should approve necessity and negotiation only, and if no agreement on price can be found, the mayor can return to council and ask for condemnation approval. At that point, council will have a much better estimate of cost.
The council will be portrayed as trying to slow the process, but by splitting the ordinance into two parts, City Council can proceed retaining the most oversight and acting responsibly on behalf of all city taxpayers. The mayor's strategy to combine the two phases is both for efficiency and political good standing. If the council prudently chooses to split the two processes in order to have more say in the final cost, they will no doubt be painted as "impeding progress."
No matter what, it presents a unique and difficult decision for Councilman Mitch Harper, who has said he plans to run for mayor in 2015. Nearly all of Harper's constituents are served by Aqua Indiana. This southwest part of the city, Harper's district, is a must-win for any Republican candidate and a sought-after district for Democrats.


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Spring is coming early thanks the creative minds behind Prairie Farms Dairy's latest seasonal milk flavors.
The Illinois-based dairy announced three seasonal flavors of their Old Recipe milk, including favorites Chocolate Marshmallow and Easter Egg Nog. The dairy has also added a new flavor sure to raise many eyebrows and pique plenty of interest – jelly bean.
"Consumers are looking for new and exciting flavors of milk. Old Recipe Seasonal Favorites put a new twist on Easter's favorite candy flavors – Jellybean and Chocolate Marshmallow by combining real milk with just the right amount of flavoring to create tasty, fun treats that also provide essential nutrients like protein and calcium," Rebecca Leinenbach, Sales Program Director for Prairie Farms Dairy, said in a news release. "Our newest flavor creations capture the essence of spring and are sure to become family favorites for years to come!"
Unique flavors, such as Prairie Farms Dairy's jelly bean milk or Missouri-based Shatto Dairy's apple pie milk, have helped make milk more appealing. And with milk consumption on a steady decline, these innovative flavors make kids and adults alike eager to take a sip.
As one Dairy Herd Management commentary pointed, we need Hamdi Ulukaya-like passion for fluid milk. Ulukaya, founder and president of Chobani, Inc., is passionate about growing the yogurt category, and we need a similar passion to grow the fluid milk category. Read more here.


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It's been a while since the last blog post — Pete and Ash were off at E3 while I was getting hitched and enjoying Costa Rica. With E3 in the rear view mirror, there's plenty to catch up on. Shall we get started?
Last week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, SNL vet Jason Sudeikis reported on the events taking place at E3. The clip is pretty hilarious, and actually includes Eliza Dushku and Mickey Rourke, who were on hand signing posters and meeting fans for WET and Rogue Warrior, respectively. There's even outtakes for both Eliza and Mickey.
Want more video coverage of E3? Revision 3's Matt Chandronait discusses Brink and chats with Todd Howard about Fallout 3 DLC in one of their E3 specials. Brink discussion starts at the 17:10 mark and is followed by Todd's interview.
Elsewhere, Todd appeared on 1Up's ListenUp podcast on the final day of E3 — joining a roundtable discussion about the show. Todd literally walks onto the podcast around the 24:10 mark — head there to get his thoughts on the show. In non-E3 news, a few weeks back Todd shared one of his laws of Gaming AI at Kotaku.
In other news, at the start of E3, Pete wrote a blog post for Edge discussing our plans for the show. Here's a snippet:
"I guess key to that message is the reveal of a title we have been working on with the folks at Splash Damage for some time now, called Brink. We felt it was the right time to announce this game and start talking about some of the new and different things this game is bringing to the shooter space. I think folks will be impressed with what Paul Wedgewood and his team have come up with."
Speaking of Pete, yesterday he sent me this fan video on YouTube, titled Oblivion in real life. Props to Wiggler for a hilarious video. If you enjoyed this video, you may also want to check out these posts: The Real World: Oblivion and Getting Dressed with Oblivion.
Finally, my Google Alerts brought me to some great a fan art — a papercraft version of the Fallout 3 Alien Blaster. I wonder if they've got plenty of papercraft ammo to share. 🙂


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The following were compiled from reports prepared by the Ukiah Police Department. To anonymously report crime information, call 463-6205.
MOTORCYCLE RIDE WANTED -- Caller in the 500 block of North State Street called 911 at 9:16 p.m. Thursday to request a motorcycle ride. The caller was advised not to call 911 for such matters.
TRANSIENT ON PORCH -- Caller in the 200 block of North Pine Street reported at 10:55 p.m. Thursday that someone was sleeping on a porch and requested extra patrols at night.
STOLEN CAR -- Caller in the 500 block of North State Street reported at 1:03 a.m. Friday that her car was stolen, then later called back to report that she found it parked near a restaurant on West Standley Street.
DUI ARREST -- An officer stopped a vehicle in the 200 block of North State Street at 1:21 a.m. Friday and arrested Cameron Lenhart, 24, of San Diego, on suspicion of driving under the influence.
PHONE STOLEN -- Caller in the 1100 block of South State Street reported at 10:18 a.m. Friday that her cell phone had been stolen out of her car. An officer responded, but the caller later found her phone in her car.
The following were compiled from reports prepared by the Ukiah Police Department regarding calls handled by the Fort Bragg Police Department.
WOMAN DUMPING TRASH -- Caller on West Pine Street reported at 8:58 a.m. Friday that a woman in a yellow Mercedes Benz was dumping trash in the alley. An officer responded and spoke with the woman.
PEPPER SHAKERS STOLEN -- Caller in the 300 block of North Main Street reported at 2:40 p.m. that pepper shakers had been stolen. An officer took a report.
Those arrested by law enforcement officers are innocent until proven guilty. People reported as having been arrested may contact the Daily Journal once their case has been concluded so the results can be reported. Those who feel the information is in error should contact the appropriate agency. In the case of those arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of an intoxicant: all DUI cases reported by law enforcement agencies are reported by the newspaper. The Daily Journal makes no exceptions.
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How would be the best, easiest, cheapest way to make two tubes adjustable?
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A shipping store if you have them in the east will carry some immediate
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And how to fix one lens on right by pressing two segments to hold
using magic tape to fit tight.
While on left a slide tube focus with green segments holding objective lens.
What are these reactants and products?
If they both need the strength of PVC or something sturdier than paper, try to find two sizes where the smaller fits inside the larger with a smallish gap between and build up the outside by gluing on layers of something until it's a sliding fit.
As a child I had a balloon pump- two cardboard tubes that made a sliding fit with a nozzle and one-way valve on one end, so it worked a little like a simple bicycle pump. If you can find one of these in a toy shop it could work.
Paper maybe will work for you. After made the tube with some turns and vinylic glue, you can permeate it with vernice or so to give it more stiffness.


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No one who cooks can live in Texas and ignore the plethora of spices and fresh ingredients that make up the basics of Tex-Mex cuisine.
I have eaten many sliders but I never created a slider. This is my attempt at creating my very first slider from my BBQ grill.
This burger was created for the great Peach State of Georgia. Slightly sweet, slightly tangy, and slightly spicy Peach-Mustard Glaze on a deep seasoned Pork burger.
Growing up on a hog farm in Iowa I have always had a love of all things pork and I find the big bold flavors of Jamaica to be palate pleasing!
This burger puts the flavors of Miami on a bun. Citrus and garlic pork, jicama and plantain chips for an unexpected sweetness and crunch.
I was born and raised in Indiana, which truly is the heartland of America. I've definitely tried to bring together a lot of great Indiana-based ingredients in this Big Ten burger.


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|June 11, 2012, 09:38 AM
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Wheel bearing grease
Am thinking of putting a dab of wheel bearing grease in the cylinder bolt notches on my Ruger GP100. Seems it might make a smooth double action even smoother.
Has anyone ever had a problem with putting grease in revolver bolt notches!
|June 11, 2012, 10:33 AM
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Wheel bearing grease will become hard and waxy when left exposed to the air and will pick up grit which will cause more wear than running the cylinder dry. The cylinder locking notches don't really "need" any lubrication and when run dry don't add any drag to the cycling of the gun. The bolt that drops into the notch will become polished smooth in fairly short time and friction will be minimal. I would just keep a drop of oil on the pin the cyclinder rotates on and on the internal parts. While grease may sound like a good idea in practice it causes more problems than it solves.
|June 11, 2012, 12:04 PM
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If your cylinder needed to be lubed like that it would have a grease fitting.
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|June 11, 2012, 04:22 PM
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I would not put anything in the cylinder notches. It may cause something to get stuck and stop it from locking into place, causing problems.
I use Mobile 1 synthetic grease on the rails of my semi auto pistols and Mobile 1 synthetic motor oil on everything else. I have never seen Synthetic oils get crusty or anything else.
I don't buy into special oils.
My rifle and pistol are tools, I am the weapon.
|June 12, 2012, 05:45 AM
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Wheelbearing Grease is designed for high temp application , and is totaly unsuitable for firearms !
|June 12, 2012, 06:30 AM
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What attribute of wheelbearing grease makes it unsuitable for firearms? What would happen if you used wheelbearing grease in a grease fitting other than a wheel bearing or on a firearm?
Why is wheelbearing grease considered a high temperature application? I though Rykon (red grease), was for high temperatures.
I would like to learn these things.
|June 12, 2012, 08:14 AM
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Wheel bearing grease is hi temp due to proximity to a cars brakes, which can get quite hot.
That said, there's nothing wrong with using it on the rails of a semi auto. Overkill, but it won't hurt a thing.
Using it in other places would depend on a number of factors that the lubrication industry calls LETS, an acronym for load, environment, temperature and speed. In other words, you'd need the tech data sheet for the grease you have, and using LETS, compare it to the application to know if it's suitable. Using the wrong grease in an application will lead to any number of unpleasant consequences, all starting with failure.
Ignore the color of any lubricant, it's not an indication of any attribute other than that was the color the mfr chose to use. The color is there due to the manufacturer putting dye in it so they can identify it in house (in a natural state, most greases look alike), not because of any quality formulated into the lubricating properties.
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Gun makers do use oils and greases .For me I've used RIG for many years as a rust inhibitor and lube .I also use turbine oil which has all the specs needed for guns . Mobil 1 has been shown to be an excellent oil and I assume Mobil grease would also.
And Watson , bring your revolver !
|June 12, 2012, 09:20 AM
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All that being said, I think it is a bad idea on the cylinder notches. It seems like it would attract grit and grim and as mentioned before it could possibly impede lockup. Never mind the mess in your holster.
|June 14, 2012, 08:02 AM
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I have always been a fan of Reslone and Marvel Mystery oil and Automatic transmission fluid, then there are lubes that reduce friction.
Color? There was a wheel bearing grease that was black, marlex, lithium, and a shock absorbing ingredient called?????? Now I remember, lead. The way that stuff was advertised, there was no argument against using it.
Unless, the Internet is being used , the U- tube link is about packing or smearing?
High heat? The purpose of a lube is to reduce heat by reducing friction. In a wheel hub there is no way for heat to be removed AND there is little to no circulation of the lube to circulate. Air cooled, and then there is a problem when heat is applied the disc.
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Freese plays six innings in return to hot corner
TAMPA, Fla. -- David Freese was back at third base Monday for the first time in a week, starting and playing six innings at the hot corner in the Cardinals' 4-0 loss against the Yankees.
Freese, who was limited by a sore tailbone he injured when he fell trying to catch a ball on March 4, went 1-for-3 with a strikeout and snared a hard-hit line drive off the bat of Yankees shortstop Eduardo Nunez in the fourth inning, the only defensive play he had to make all game.
"That was the plan," bench coach Mike Aldrete said. "Stayed with the plan, we were able to. I think David came through it nicely. Put a couple nice swings on the baseball in his second or third at-bat. Positive day overall for David."
Freese won't be making the trip to Disney with the Cardinals on Tuesday, as he'll head back to the Spring Training complex in Jupiter. St. Louis has an off-day Wednesday, so Freese will have at least two days in a row off before his next game at third base.
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. Adam Berry is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @adamdberry. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Panik's dislocated left pinkie recovering well
CHICAGO -- Recovering nicely from a dislocated left pinky, Giants second baseman Joe Panik was expected to be available to pinch-hit if necessary during Tuesday night's series opener against the Chicago Cubs.
Panik, who was injured Sunday, tested his finger by participating in pregame batting practice -- he homered during his first round of swings -- and taking about 25 swings off a tee. Joaquin Arias replaced Panik at second base, batting seventh.
Still on day-to-day playing status, Panik could return to the lineup as early as Wednesday.
"It's not going to be perfect," Panik said. "But it's getting better."
Panik hit .419 (18-for-43) in his previous 12 games to lift his batting average from .203 to .282.
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They do exactly what they say - they are centres and they are excellent: the most suitable facilities, riding and staff for your choice of course.
Each country has its own Centre of Excellence, showing the very pinnacle of cycle course provision available.
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Former Kentucky star Derek Anderson knows the physical pain and mental anguish of rehabbing a torn ACL. He had to do it twice.
So he's now using his experience to guide Kentucky big man Nerlens Noel through the surgery and rehab process.
"Because, trust me, when I hurt my knee, that was the most miserable time of my life," Anderson told the Lexington Herald-Leader this week. "Man, it was like, 'I'm alone. The players are gone. They're practicing. They're playing.'
"It was just the emotional and mental aspect I couldn't grasp for a while."
Noel tore his ACL Feb. 12 at Florida, landing awkwardly after blocking a shot. He is expected to have surgery soon to rebuild the knee.
"He was very excited, very upbeat," said Anderson, a member of UK's 1996 national championship team. "We started talking and we became like brothers in a sense. He was like looking up to me.
"You can still have an NBA career ... but you have to build your body up so it's eventually strong enough to finish (the rehabilitation)."
Anderson, who tore his ACL in 1994 while at Ohio State and then again while at UK in 1997, went on to play 12 years in the NBA.


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A MEMORIAL dedicated to Ashley McKinnon is on the verge of becoming a reality as fundraising friends approach the target needed to create a bench in his honour.
In just two weeks, friends, led by Ashley's former girlfriend Atlanta Holmes and her mother Paula, have raised £1,269, with £1,400 the final target.
Brunel Newsagents, of Havelock Square, has offered up the final £140 needed, but Paula is reluctant to take advantage given the shop's generosity in already donating £200.
"He's donated so much already, I said to him to hold on and see what the rangers at Queen's Park say before I go back to him," said Paula, of Manor Road.
"I don't want him to keep donating after already giving so much already."
Paula has appealed to staff at Queen's Park, where the bench will be placed, for a final donation to take them to their target.
There is also a chance the money may come from an alternative source at the council, with Coun Stan Pajak (Lib, Eastcott) agreeing to meet Paula at the Civic Offices tomorrow.
Should council-backed rangers choose not to put up the final donation, Paula said she will go back to the newsagents and bring two weeks of dedicated fundraising to a close.
On Saturday, March 15 a group of 15 led by Paula and Atlanta called on the town centre's shoppers for donations towards the bench.
More than £770 was raised as people showed their interest and support for the cause, which remembers Ashley, who fell from the top of Wyvern Car Park on February 13.
"We did another fundraiser in the town on Saturday and the kids were a bit disappointed. "We only ended up doing half a day because people were being quite narky with them," said Paula.
"It's called determination, though. That's how we've done it."
Paula put the newsagents' generosity down to its relationship with Ashley.
Atlanta and their friends used to socialise in the vicinity of Havelock Square.
"I know he knew Ashley. All the kids used to hang around the statues near his shop and that was where they went to get their drinks and stuff," she said.
It has now been more than six weeks since Ashley fell to his death at the age of 17, but Atlanta, 16, said her memories of him are what have driven her to get out amongst shoppers and ask for money.
She said her emotions have not changed and her loss has not become any easier to bear.
"I feel the same really," she said. "I just miss him. He will never be far from my thoughts. I am so proud of all of us for raising what we have.
"Ashley was quite a popular person and that's why so many have donated when asked."


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'Everybody tried on the new pads and none of them liked them. Biron said, "After we put the pads on we found out they are not safe at all." He added, "you could tell that if you were looking straight on at the shooter, you'd have part of your leg exposed on either side. As a goalie, I'm excited they aren't going to change anything." Biron said, "They should back up the net and try to create more scoring chances. That's the way to go."'
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Each spring the choir presents a major choral-orchestral work as part of its MasterWorks Concert series. Past MasterWorks Concerts have included performances of Bach cantatas, F.J. Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, Honegger's King David, Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Requiem, Mozart's Grand Mass in C minor, Bach's Magnificat, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Vaughan Williams' Dona nobis pacem, Duruflé's Requiem, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Mendelssohn's St. Paul, Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem, and J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor. This April will feature a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's monumental work for double choir and double orchestra -- the St. Matthew Passion.
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The Concordia Master Chorale performs under the direction of Dr. Michael Busch, who is conducting his eighteenth season with the ensemble. Dr. Busch serves as Director of Choral Activities at Concordia University in Irvine, where he supervises the choral program of four choirs in addition to teaching choral methods, theory, and conducting.
The Concordia Master Chorale is dedicated to excellence in the performance of sacred choral literature. They perform annually for thousands of people each year in the beautiful acoustics of the Concordia Center for Worship and Performing Arts. Recent performances include such works as Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Durufle's Requiem, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Mozart's Requiem, Vaughan Williams' Dona nobis pacem, and Bach's B-minor Mass.
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Philip Rivers will be hearing new voices with varied ideas and fresh critiques and a different way of teaching.
Replacing the head coach who was also the Chargers' offensive coordinator is a new head coach who has been an offensive coordinator and a new offensive coordinator who has been a head coach. Additionally, the Chargers on Friday hired Frank Reich as their new quarterbacks coach.
The face of the franchise is going to be working entirely with new faces.
And he's excited.
As much as he respects Norv Turner and lamented his firing, Rivers is ready to move on.
"It's good," Rivers said. "There are going to be a lot of the same coaching points, the same teaching, the same routes. But it will be (presented) different, and there will be different things. It can be rejuvenating, in a sense. There can be a freshness that is well received."
When it was facetiously suggested to him that Whisenhunt was the man chosen to come in and "fix" him, Rivers responded first with an extended and good-natured chuckle.
He believes he has to fix some things, not be fixed.
He knows he needs to get back to consistency in the pocket, to work on his mechanics and, really, focus on the basics after a couple years of focusing on survival. (My words, not his, as he protects his offensive linemen from criticism better than some of them often protected him from opposing defenders.)
With Turner as his mentor and guide, Rivers was among the best in the NFL for an extended time and also among the worst for stretches of the past two seasons.
His "fixing" would be greatly accelerated by the arrival of a capable left tackle and more consistent left guard. But Rivers also needs to get his head right – get back to that calm in the pocket, consistently brilliant recognition and decision making that made him the NFL's highest-rated passer from 2008-10. (Rivers' 35 interceptions the past two seasons are two more than he threw from '08-10 combined.)
In comes Whisenhunt, who prior to his stint as head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, was the Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator from 2004 through '06.
Whisenhunt said this week he hasn't studied Rivers' recent games enough to assess him. And while there is truth to that, rest assured he wouldn't have taken this job had he not thought the Chargers had a winning quarterback.
In Pittsburgh, Whisenhunt worked with Ben Roethlisberger well enough that the Steelers went 34-14 over three seasons and won Super Bowl XL. In Arizona, with Kurt Warner as his quarterback, Whisenhunt took the Cardinals to Super Bowl XLIII.
Rivers had a few days earlier been talking about his excitement over new head coach Mike McCoy being due in part to McCoy having worked as the Denver Broncos' offensive coordinator with some success with three extremely different quarterbacks – Kyle Orton, Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning. (Come on now, even if you can't give McCoy credit for Manning's comeback season, you can't hold Manning against MCoy either. While Manning has more input than most QBs, McCoy was in charge of designing a Broncos offense that scored the second-most points in the NFL this season while featuring significant differences from what Manning ran in Indianapolis.)
"The variety of schemes and places this staff has been, the players they've been around and worked with speaks for itself," Rivers said. "And the success they have had speaks for itself."
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NEWENT will return to Twickenham after they summoned up all their spirit to win 27-20 at Harrow in the RFU Senior Vase semi-finals.
The physical London outfit boasted five consecutive promotions and four defeats during that time, which even bettered Newent's proud record.
But the Gloucester Premier Division champions prospered to book a final with West Yorkshire outfit Yarnbury at Twickenham on Sunday, May 4, at 1pm, just a season after winning the Junior Vase against Baildon.
Newent coach Andy Addis said: "We're very lucky to have people at the club helping us out because we've got nothing.
"We rent the recreation ground off the council and we've got no clubhouse.
"It just makes it difficult and any help we get we receive gratefully. We try and pay people back with performances like that.
"They're not the best facilities by a long shot but it's the heart and desire that has done it – hearts of lions I would say. They are fantastic, every one of them."
Newent's discipline at the breakdown shone through, while Harrow were serial offenders at the ruck.
Centre Ross Webb continued to impress, including with his kicking in place of the injured Joe Goatley.
But the visitors' pack were penalised early on and full-back Christian Witney kicked the penalty.
Newent levelled swiftly when a break from scrum-half James Dean was halted by a high tackle and Webb landed the three points.
Then Webb and Barney Goatley sucked in defenders with probing runs before winger Brett Gardner took advantage of quick ruck ball and finished by the posts.
Webb's conversion gave Newent a 10-3 lead on 15 minutes.
Harrow were denied by full-back Richard Merrett's crucial tackle but the hosts did claim a try through Adam West with Witney's conversion hitting the post.
However, the visitors extended their lead three minutes into the second-half when Barney Goatley broke to score a converted try by the posts.
Harrow roared back with hooker Shane Togher's effort and Witney's conversion brought the score back to 17-15.
But Webb kicked a penalty and then hit the upright with another attempt only for winger Dominic Matthews to follow up for a converted try.
Number eight Christopher West dived over for Harrow but Newent's superb defence ensured they held on by seven points.


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Middle Eastern Bean Salad with Parsley and Lemon (Balela)
Makes 4 generous servings, recipe adapted from Middle Eastern Bean Salad at MeleCotte who adapted it from the Balela Recipe at Relish.)
1 can (15 oz.) black beans, rinsed well and drained
1 can (15 oz.) garbanzo beans, rinsed well and drained
1 cup chopped green onion (or less)
1 1/2 cup chopped fresh tomato (about 6 small tomatoes)
1 cup finely chopped fresh parsley
Dressing Ingredients:
3 T fresh-squeezed lemon juice
1/2 tsp. garlic puree (or use finely minced fresh garlic)
4 T extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 tsp. salt
fresh ground black pepper to taste
Despite the fact that tomatoes shouldn't be refrigerated, this was actually very tasty even after being in the fridge for a few days. If you know you won't eat it all right away, you could mix together everything but tomatoes and add them each time you eat some.
Low-Carb Diet ? Low Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
More Great Salads with Beans and Parsley:
Barley and White Bean Salad with Parsley, Lemon, and Capers from Kalyn's Kitchen
Za'atar and Mint Butter Bean Salad ~ An Edible Mosaic
Carrot, Parsley, and Garbanzo Salad with Cumin from Kalyn's Kitchen