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jd84 wrote:It's a shame that someone feels chased away, whatever they were wanting to discuss.
Mawkish1983 wrote:The Buddha told plenty of stories with really good Dhammic messages, like the mustard seed. I just don't see the point for a story such as this: not from the cannon, not teaching wholesomeness, adhammic.
I just don't get it and I still don't understand what 'Buddha is fake' even means.
I guess I'm not the target audience.
Wrong thread and subforum friend.arvind tayde wrote:I fail to understand why people are so wary of REINCARNATION although they accept rebirth. I would like to know the views of different people regarding the subject in the light of what the BUDDHA taught.and the reason behind opposition to reincarnation.
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Greetings. May I use a copy of your picture of Greenwood Cemetery in my personal family tree file? I have started using grave marker pictures of members of my family tree as well as pictures of the cemetery my ancestors are buried in as an additional source document. I hope it will help someone in the future with locating a family member's gravesite or a particular cemetery. I will so note that your pictures are from: Find A Grave Contributor: A. Mauriello #46955900.
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Dear Find A Grave; My name is Andrea Mauriello, and this was my page, however I am unable to access it due to my email account being cancelled (because I no longer worked at the organization where my email was based). I thought that I would be able to access my account from home, however it is not working. If anyone knows how I may reactive my page I would appreciate it as my Grandmothers memorial page is very important to me. I have all of the photos and can prove I am who I say I am.
I look forward to hearing from someone that may be able to help me gain access to my account. I enjoyed helping others find their loved ones grave sites and would appreciate any help so I may continue to do so. Thank you for your consideration.
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Sorry it took so long to get back to you.
Thank you for snaping the photo of Edward Warner for me. The date of death is correct, but can you tell on the stone what the first dates are? I can't tell by your photo.
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Please, you don't not have to apologize for not taking the photos yet. Your son is so much more important than my photo requests.
Let him know this old submarine veteran is thinking of him and all the rest of our fine men and women in uniform.
Thank you for your kindness.
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Thank you so very much for all your work. I feared she had no marker. It makes me sad to think that her new husband didn't bother. I know her children living there at the time were dirt poor and could not have afforded it. We will be putting a marker/stone up for her.
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I was born four days after the Oklahoma City bombing; 51 years and five days after the Allied invasion of Normandy. I do not understand after so long how humans can live together, but have every reason to fight.
No. Two hundred years ago, the United States became segregated. At that point, we were plotting the downfall of the very world that Jefferson, Washington, and Franklin had created.
I can only say what I say because I live in America, where freedom of expression is God's given right to any man who sets foot onto this country.
That is not the case for anywhere else. In the rest of the world, drugs are becoming a global currency, terrorism is a virtue and disease has become common knowledge. Where everywhere else, according to America, is a death wish.
But how long will America stand? We were built on terrorism. Disease sweeps 75% of our population every day. And more quickly do we realize, drugs are quickly becoming our national currency too.
But still, our "Mr. President" stands as a proud man, taking on a communistic dictatorship like North Korea. Standing, and taunting. He isn't worried because he has all of the power in the world. Standing tall, as a black man, whose race was not granted the same rights as you and I until 50 years ago -- the same rights promised to all of us by Jefferson, but those rights were taken away from the Blacks.
America, America; land of the free, home to the brave.
Tell me, how free are we, when we face the threat of an invasion? Tell me, how free will we be when health care will be as simple as a chip placed within our hands? How free will we be when our nation suffocates from various disease? How free will we be when replays of Sandyhook and Columbine sweep us?
Tell to me how liberty will stand, when its principles of freedom collapse? What will we do when America dies?
Home of the brave. When those words were mentioned to me as a child, I thought about how cool it would be to salute the president. How cool it would be to have people salute me as I walked down the street.
Of course my views have changed. They've changed immensely.
How can the "home of the brave" be defined when 13-year-old girls are kidnapped and sold as sex slaves? How can the brave be defined, when a man will kill his entire family, to flee fearfully from a certain death?
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STEVE VARNER: It's true I've worked on quite a lot of action figure lines over the years and have enjoyed working on them all. However, the line I have most affinity with is definitely TMNT since I was responsible for creating the look of the first sculpted Turtle back in the late '80s and continued sculpting most of them through the '80s '90s and into 2000.
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FIGS: Your stylish BeGoths have developed a loyal fan base over the years, but word is out that there are no immediate plans to continue the line. Why did you decide to end the series? Is there any chance the BeGoths will make a return in the future?
FIGS: Speaking of BeGoths, you've recently branched out into crafting fine jewelry reflecting the Goth culture. What got you started in this new endeavor?*STEVE: I'm very proud of what we accomplished with the BeGoths and I am extremely thankful to all our loyal fans. I was unhappy to disappoint our fans when we decided to curtail production, however it was a financial decision based on three factors: 1) The high minimums required by our factories, 2) The factories raising the prices every year, and 3) Not being able to pass on those price increases to our wholesalers and retailers.
STEVE: I've always been interested in jewelry making, after all I am foremost an artist. These days mostly what we do is design and sculpt product for other large toy companies - which I realize is what I'm best at - since there's no marketing and sales involved. So jewelry making is a way for me to exercise my artistic expression without heavy marketing and sales involvement.
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FIGS: Making jewelry appears like a radical departure from making action figures. How does the sculpting process differ? Is it more challenging?
FIGS: How do you come up with your jewelry designs?STEVE: Jewelry making has a whole other set of challenges than making action figures do. The thing about jewelry is that it's very small, which is a particular challenge when you're sculpting in the computer creating it on a 30 inch screen. If you're not cognizant of this (size difference) you can get a real surprise when you print it out as a physical copy.
FIGS: What's next for the jewelry line? Any plans for stylish time pieces? My Hamilton could use some good company...STEVE: They are just based on what we're interested in at the time. Some of them are Begoth based, some Steam Punk.
STEVE: I've been tempted to sculpt some watch cases, but haven't so far since I'm not a watch maker. I would be responsible for the reliability of the watch movements I purchased to go inside. So I'm not sure I want to do that. Maybe if I teamed up with a watch maker... if there any left out there.
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FIGS: Toy making technology has really come a long way in recent years, advances Varner Studios have embraced. Do you find modern modeling programs such as Zbrush and Freeform fully replacing traditional sculpting methods? Is there a happy medium?
FIGS: What's your favorite digital sculpting tool and why?STEVE: We've been sculpting digitally for over 12 years. In the beginning we would only do some parts of the projects digitally and then print those parts out and integrate those parts into a physical sculpt we still made with clay and wax. However, for the last 5 years or so we sculpt everything 100% digitally.
I'm a bit of a control freak regarding my clients security so I've acquired all the equipment needed to complete the whole process of making prototypes. We have several 3D scanners to make the physical into digital, Freeform and other programs needed to create the digital sculpt files and several 3D printers to make the digital into physical models. We also do all our own molding, casting and painting. The main reason I've done this is that most of my client's projects are secret. I don't want my client's files to leave my hands until I deliver the files, or the physical prototype, to them. For instance, if I had to send a file somewhere else to be printed over the internet - who knows who could get their hands on it? Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I like it this way.
We havent been asked by anyone to sculpt anything by hand in quite a while.
STEVE: Freeform is still my favorite tool. There are other programs I use, like Zbrush and some others, but I always finish everything in Freeform and create my .STL files for building.
The other thing about Freeform is that if you have the Freeform Plus version, it has a tooling package where one can set the parting lines and take out all the undercuts, preparing the sculpt for tooling. I find clients enjoy this service when the figures or parts are being manufactured in ABS and other hard plastics since they tolerate no undercuts. The alternative is to let the factory remove all the undercuts from the figure, which usually has a bad outcome changing the look of the sculpt.
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FIGS: You have a successful design studio and adventurous new jewelry business. What's next for Steve Varner? Any original sculptures in the works?
FIGS: We thank you so much for your time and wish you the best of luck with your many talented projects. Any parting words for our readers?STEVE: Aside from the jewelry, which I really just do because I like it, I've recently been commissioned by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to do a 12.5 x 12.5 inch bronze relief plaque of Barry Diller and one of Thomas Murphy for a new addition to their Sculpture Garden in North Hollywood. I finished and delivered them this summer. This makes three bronzes I have now done for their Sculpture Garden. The first was in the '90s when they commissioned me to sculpt a life-size Mary Tyler Moore bust: one for the North Hollywood Sculpture Garden and one for the Acadamy Hall of Fame Florida.
A very special "Thank You" to Steve Varner for taking the time for this interview. To find out more about Steve Varner and Varner Studios, visit VarnerStudios.com.STEVE: The toy business has gone through a lot of changes over the last three decades creating quite a rollercoaster ride for the people that make their lively hood in the business and it's very hard to see where the next move will be. However, I'm thankful that I learned hand sculpting from the best back at Mattel in the '70s. Being a studio sculptor who has made the transformation to digital sculpting in the late '90s... I'm prepared to go wherever the industry turns next.
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My 16 yr old son has had gross amounts of blood in his urine. The test showed: UR Creat 143.0 Sodium 140 Potassium 4.2 Chloride 102 Glucose 94 CO2 31 Bun 19 Creatinine 0.90 Calcium 9.4 Total Protein 7.0 Albumin Level 4.3 Bili total 0.8 Alk Phos 99 ALT 68 AST 36 AGAP 7 UR Calcium 3.2
Could you please tell me what these results mean? He does not go back to the doctor for one month. A renal ultra sound today showed a 3.5 cm septated cystic mass in the upper pole of the left kidney.
The blood results all seem to be normal, except for one of the liver tests (ALT), which may be a little high (normal values vary from place to place, so if you have the actual lab report, check the normal values, which should be listed). The kidney tests (BUN and creatinine) are normal for a 16 y.o. boy. It is hard to help with the interpretation of the ultrasound without actually seeing the films.
Cysts are common in adults, but uncommon in kids. A cyst is like a thin, fluid-filled balloon, and is usually benign (not cancerous). However, the one that your son has is apparently a "mass" (which sounds solid, and partly fluid-filled), and is "septated," meaning that it is divided into at least two compartments. This cystic mass could indeed be responsible for the blood in his urine, and could be either benign or malignant.
The next steps in his workup will depend a lot on what the radiologist says about the cystic mass, how solid it looks, and whether it has any characteristics of malignancy. Then depending on the radiologist's interpretation, the next steps will probably be either:
- Watch and wait, repeating the ultrasound in 3-6 months to see if there's been any change.
- Put a needle into the cyst and take out some of the fluid to see whether it contains blood or malignant (or premalignant) cells.
- Do surgery to take a direct look at the kidney and the mass, and perhaps remove the mass, while leaving the rest of the kidney in.
Here are some less likely possibilites:
There is a disease called "polycystic kidney disease," which can cause cysts and blood in the urine. This disease is not present at birth, but usually shows up with development of kidney cysts by age 30. However, if this is the case with your son, other people in the family should have the same disease, because it is genetic.
Finally, there are other causes of blood in the urine that may have nothing to do with the cystic mass. These include (in kids) diseases such as IgA nephropathy, thin basement membrane disease, and Henoch-Schonlein purpura (unlikely unless he also has a rash on his legs). There can also be bladder tumors and "AV malformations" (abnormal blood vessels, not malignant) within the kidney.
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Treating verbs and state-of-being like adjectives
Have you noticed how, many forms of verbs and the state-of-being conjugate in a similar manner to i-adjectives? Well, that is because, in a sense, they are adjectives. For example, consider the sentence: "The person who did not eat went to bank." The "did not eat" describes the person and in Japanese, you can directly modify the noun 'person' with the clause 'did not eat' just like a regular adjective. This very simple realization will allow us to modify a noun with any arbitrary verb phrase!
Using state-of-being clauses as adjectives
- 国際 【こく・さい】 - international
- 教育 【きょう・いく】 - education
- センター - center
- 登場 【とう・じょう】 - entry (on stage)
- 人物 【じん・ぶつ】 - character
- 立入 【たち・いり】 - entering
- 禁止 【きん・し】 - prohibition, ban
- 学生 【がく・せい】 - student
- 人 【ひと】 - person
- 学校 【がっ・こう】 - school
- 行く 【い・く】 (u-verb) - to go
- 子供 【こ・ども】 - child
- 立派 【りっ・ぱ】 (na-adj) - fine, elegant
- 大人 【おとな】 - adult
- なる (u-verb) - to become
- 友達 【とも・だち】 - friend
- いい (i-adj) - good
- 先週 【せん・しゅう】 - last week
- 医者 【い・しゃ】 - doctor
- 仕事 【し・ごと】 - job
- 辞める 【や・める】 (ru-verb) - to quit
The negative, past, and negative past conjugations of verbs can be used just like adjectives to directly modify nouns. However, we cannot do this with the plain non-past state-of-being using 「だ」. (I told you this was a pain in the butt.) The language has particles for this purpose, which will be covered in the next section.
like you can with 「だった」、「じゃない」、and 「じゃなかった」.
You can, however, have a string of nouns placed together when they're not meant to modify each other. For example, in a phrase such as "International Education Center" you can see that it is just a string of nouns without any grammatical modifications between them. It's not an "Education Center that is International" or a "Center for International Education", etc., it's just "International Education Center". In Japanese, you can express this as simply 「国際教育センタ」 (or 「センター」). You will see this chaining of nouns in many combinations. Sometimes a certain combination is so commonly used that it has almost become a separate word and is even listed as a separate entry in some dictionaries. Some examples include: 「登場人物」、「立入禁止」、or 「通勤手当」. If you have difficulties in figuring out where to separate the words, you can paste them into the WWWJDICs Translate Words in Japanese Text function and it'll parse the words for you (most of the time).
Here are some examples of direct noun modifications with a conjugated noun clause. The noun clause has been highlighted.
- 学生じゃない人は、学校に行かない。
Person who is not student do not go to school.
- 子供だったアリスが立派な大人になった。
The Alice that was a child became a fine adult.
- 友達じゃなかったアリスは、いい友達になった。
Alice who was not a friend, became a good friend.
- 先週医者だったボブは、仕事を辞めた。
Bob who was a doctor last week quit his job.
Using relative verb clauses as adjectives
- 先週 【せん・しゅう】 - last week
- 映画 【えい・が】 - movie
- 見る 【み・る】 (ru-verb) - to see
- 人 【ひと】 - person
- 誰 【だれ】 - who
- いつも - always
- 勉強 【べん・きょう】 - study
- する (exception) - to do
- 赤い 【あか・い】 (i-adj) - red
- ズボン - pants
- 買う 【か・う】 (u-verb) - to buy
- 友達 【とも・だち】 - friend
- 晩ご飯 【ばん・ご・はん】 - dinner
- 食べる 【た・べる】 (ru-verb) - to eat
- 銀行 【ぎん・こう】 - bank
Verbs clauses can also be used just like adjectives to modify nouns. The following examples show us how this will allow us to make quite detailed and complicated sentences. The verb clause is highlighted.
- 先週に映画を見た人は誰?
Who is person who watched movie last week?
- ボブは、いつも勉強する人だ。
Bob is a person who always studies.
- 赤いズボンを買う友達はボブだ。
Friend who buy red pants is Bob.
- 晩ご飯を食べなかった人は、映画で見た銀行に行った。
Person who did not eat dinner went to the bank she saw at movie.
Japanese Sentence Order
- 私 【わたし】 - me; myself; I
- 公園 【こう・えん】 - (public) park
- お弁当 【お・べん・とう】 - box lunch
- 食べる 【た・べる】 (ru-verb) - to eat
- 学生 【がく・せい】 - student
- 行く 【い・く】 (u-verb) - to go
Now that we've learned the concept of relative clauses and how they are used as building blocks to make sentences, I can go over how Japanese sentence ordering works. There's this myth that keeps floating around about Japanese sentence order that continues to plague many hapless beginners to Japanese. Here's how it goes.
The most basic sentence structure in English can be described as consisting of the following elements in this specific order: [Subject] [Verb] [Object]. A sentence is not grammatically correct if any of those elements are missing or out of order.
Japanese students will tell you that Japanese, on the other hand, while frothing at the mouth, is completely backwards!! Even some Japanese teacher might tell you that the basic Japanese sentence order is [Subject] [Object] [Verb]. This is a classic example of trying to fit Japanese into an English-based type of thinking. Of course, we all know (right?) that the real order of the fundamental Japanese sentence is: [Verb]. Anything else that comes before the verb doesn't have to come in any particular order and nothing more than the verb is required to make a complete sentence. In addition, the verb must always come at the end. That's the whole point of even having particles so that they can identify what grammatical function a word serves no matter where it is in the sentence. In fact, nothing will stop us from making a sentence with [Object] [Subject] [Verb] or just [Object] [Verb]. The following sentences are all complete and correct because the verb is at the end of the sentence.
Grammatically complete and correctly ordered sentences
- 私は公園でお弁当を食べた。
- 公園で私はお弁当を食べた。
- お弁当を私は公園で食べた。
- 弁当を食べた。
- 食べた。
So don't sweat over whether your sentence is in the correct order. Just remember the following rules.
- A complete sentence requires a main verb that must come at the end. This also includes the implied state-of-being.
- 食べた
- 学生(だ)
- Complete sentences (relative clauses) can be used to modify nouns to make sentences with nested relative clauses except in the case of 「だ」.
Student who ate lunch went to the park.


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The incident closed Highway 101 at the McCullough Bridge on December 3.
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Wootton Bassett go into this weekend's final game of the Wiltshire County League Division One season against third place Urchfont knowing victory will see them win the title, but only if Swindon Civil Service steal a win over top-of-the-table Malmesbury.
Coach Pamphilon said his side face an uphill task after last weekend's shock four-wicket defeat to Collingbourne, who won only their second game of the season.
"We're not in the best place after last week," Pamphilon said.
"That was a defeat we didn't see coming but we haven't had a lot of luck with the toss all season. It's a major setback.
"It's all in Malmesbury's favour, it's theirs to lose."
Malmesbury are on 302 points after 17 games, while Bassett sit 13 points behind in second.
Pamphilon added: "Hopefully Swindon Civil Service can do us a favour.
"Urchfont will be tough. We're two good teams. We're going to have to work hard and play well. It's all about who shows up on the day."
Jack Ward's Malmesbury side are in a strong position to win the division.
But the first team captain said while the team are looking forward to the match, they are nervous, too.
He said: "It's been a long time since we've been in this situation.
"We've got a really young side and a squad of about 14 or 15 who have played and grown together over the last few years.
"I would like to say I'm confident but you only have to look at the Collingbourne-Bassett game last week.
"Anything can happen in this league. We won't take it for granted.
"We aren't over confident, we're nervous, but we've got a good side out."
Malmesbury will be without 17-year-old batsman James Gillespie who has scored more than 1,000 runs in 18 innings this season - but Ward is happy with the squad at his disposal otherwise.
He said he has been impressed with Gillespie and another of the side's 17-year-old's, bowler Josh Langley who has taken 38 wickets during the course of a season which could now end in glory for the whole team.


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greenjuice wrote:Are there any Theravadins, that is- people accepting the Tipitaka, but that don't follow the Mahavihara interpretation, but Jetavana or Abhayagiri?
Or are there people following the Mahasanghika/ Lokittaravada interpretation instead of the Sthaviravada one, and I'm not talking about Mahayana and those who accept extra sutras.
greenjuice wrote:I suppose there are no organisations following their teachings?
Also, are there any Buddhist teachers or groups that accept the Pali canon, without accepting the later Mahayana sutras, but do explicitly accept the doctrines associated with various mahayana schools like citta as the real self, and the notion of Buddha-nature/ eternal Buddha?
Dhammanando wrote:greenjuice wrote:I suppose there are no organisations following their teachings?
There used to be the Altbuddistische Gemeinde, founded by Georg Grimm in Utting am Ammersee. But it had already sunk into hebetude when I dropped by in 1991 while on my way to visit the concentration camp at Dachau. And now I've just learned from Google that it finally folded in 2002:
BlackBird wrote:I'm one of those non-mahaviharan Theravadans. No Abhidhamma or flux or 3-life-time interpretation of dependent arising for me. The commentaries are not seen by me to have been created by Ariyans but by scholar monks, and by their own admission where they differ from the Suttas, the Suttas are to be given primacy, so I do. I don't throw the baby out with the bathwater mind you, but I don't trust the commentaries as being authoritative and I evaluate any point made within the prism of my heterodox ideas.
In essence, I only take the Digha, Majjhima, Samyutta, Anguttara, and portions of the KN (Dhammapada, Sutta Nipata, Udana & Itivuttaka, Theri/Theragatha, Khuddakapatha, & Jatakas) to be Buddhavacana, along with the Vinaya these are the only books I accept to be the historical Buddha's teachings.
BlackBird wrote:I'm one of those non-mahaviharan Theravadans. No Abhidhamma or flux or 3-life-time interpretation of dependent arising for me.
David N. Snyder wrote:Hi greenjuice,
I get the impression from your posts that you are having some issues with the Theravada concepts of anatta, nibbana. You also appear to like the Pali Canon and want something close to the original teachings. Nothing wrong with that, I am sure there a number of people with similar issues.
And then when you make more progress along the Path, you will either confirm those pudgalavādin views or accept anatta fully; through experience.


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Manayunk filmmaker prepares for 'Detonator' movie premiere
We all wish we could hold onto the exploits of youth, but as Philadelphia-born filmmaker Keir Politz explores in his first full-length feature, the temptation to relive younger days can be a dangerous one.
The people who try to "straddle" their younger and older worlds "end up leading a rather dysfunctional existence, and ultimately they crack at some point," Politz says.
"Detonator," written, directed and produced by Politz along with professional partner and fellow Columbia MFA Damon Maulucci, follows Sully, a former punk rock frontman. When a volatile figure from Sully's gritty past intrudes on Sully's new life – his partner Karen, their five-year-old son and an affordable rental in the Philly 'burbs – with a promise to pay back money owed, a violent night in the city engulfs the new family man as he tries to get back home.
"We all have somebody like that from our past, who we want so badly to connect with as an adult, and we want so badly to enjoy these romantic ideas of ourselves as younger people," Politz explains. Because his protagonist is having trouble settling into a typical adult life, his visitor "trips a wire."
A Northwest Philly presence
Politz and Maulucci's film was a few years in the works, and was shot locally over the course of 22 days in July of 2011. Areas like Kensington, West Philadelphia, Roxborough and Manayunk provide the backdrop for the action, including many venues that Philadelphia punk-scene aficionados will recognize.
"I wanted to use this as an opportunity to show a side of Philadelphia that you don't normally see in media," Politz says.
The 37-year-old filmmaker grew up just off Roosevelt Boulevard in the Lawncrest section of Philadelphia. He attended high school at St. Joseph's Prep on Girard, and with multiple screenwriting fellowships, completed his MFA from Columbia University in 2008. He currently teaches screenwriting at Temple and the University of Pennsylvania, and lives in Manayunk with his wife of eight years and their two young children.
Manayunk served as production headquarters for "Detonator," and locals may recognize a variety of locations, including Caplan Bagels at Ridge Avenue and Domino Lane, though in the film, due to time and the constraints of a small budget, it's a stand-in for New Jersey.
The midsummer shoot was challenging as the 2011 temperatures soared mercilessly high –and even nights in the city refused to cool down.
"It's a bad way to introduce people to Philly," Politz admits of sweaty days for the cast and crew. "It was a rough shoot but everybody made it through."
While Politz always imagined the film as set in Philadelphia, he and Maulucci originally set out to make it in Los Angeles because of their industry connections there. "We thought, we can write it for Philly and shoot it somewhere else," he says. But they soon realized that something wasn't right.
"We pulled the plug on it, regrouped, and started production again" in Northwest Philadelphia.
Using punk rock as soundtrack for transition into adulthood
Maulucci wasn't the only longtime associate to join Politz for the project. Executive Producer David Jacovini was a classmate at St. Joseph's, leading actor Lawrence Michael Levine (an accomplished director in his own right) graduated from Columbia with the directors, and a former student of Politz', whose role in the local punk-rock arena has led to over a hundred concerts mounted in his house, appeared in the movie as well as helping the filmmakers get acquainted with the real-life scene.
Punk music plays a key role in the film, and not just because of the characters' stories. Politz himself is a longtime fan of the genre, and sees it as a sort of metaphor for the pains of growing up. "There's something very immediate and just raw and passionate and youthful about punk music," he says. "But often it doesn't age very well. You see these old punk rockers and they either sold out for money or became bitter or they're not around anymore."
To help walk that line between an escaped youth and the life lens that "evolves" as you age, for the soundtrack the filmmakers teamed with local punk satire legend Joe Jack Talcum of The Dead Milkmen, who got their start in 1980s Manayunk.
"They were actually one of the few punk bands who didn't take punk rock so seriously, and really kind of turned it on its head, which I thought was awesome," Politz says of The Dead Milkmen. Now, as a songwriter, Talcum is a true "troubadour" who was "able to allow his heart to evolve as he got older."
Instead of clinging to past glory days, "it's finding this more mature and evolved version of yourself that keeps the spark of youth," Politz says. "Moving into adulthood and older age, it's not the march of death."
For now, the details about the official "Detonator" premiere are still under wraps, but Politz can say that it'll be appearing at a "large film festival" in March. After that, he's hoping a run at multiple festivals can help position the film for future distribution, and in the meantime, screenings are in the works for the New York and Philadelphia areas.


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Some meditators who are not familiar with the Mahasi method report having difficulty observing the abdominal movements.
Actually, the movement of the abdomen is a large object compared to the tip of the nostril. If we relax and breath from the diaphragm and not the chest, the abdominal movement will be clear. It is a physical manifestation of the element of motion that is to be felt rather than merely noted or observed.
If it is not clear initially, take just one deep breath or hold the breath for a few seconds, then breathe normally.
As concentration develops, the abdominal movement becomes more distinct, whereas the breath at the nostrils becomes more subtle.
The abdominal movement is just one object among many that should be observed. Pay attention to the sitting posture and touching sensations too — this will help to ground your awareness in the body.
Always precede a session of sitting meditation with one of walking meditation. In walking meditation there are many objects to note, and it is difficult to walk really slowly if the mind is wandering. Walking very slowly and paying attention to the details movements of the feet will quickly dispel any wandering thoughts.
When you go to sit after at least twenty or thirty minutes of walking meditation, the fog of thoughts that obscures the abdominal movements will have disappeared.
Walking meditation is in no way inferior to sitting. It was with the support of intensive walking meditation that Venerable Ānanda attained to Arahantship in the early morning after walking for the entire night.
Venerable Moggallāna practised walking meditation relentlessly for seven days from the time of his ordination before taking up sitting practice. Due to the powerful mindfulness cultivated during walking practice he was able to attain Arahantship in a short time after being admonished by the Buddha.
Mindfulness of respiration or the touch of the breath can be useful at times when the mind is very wild and distracted, or tired and confused. However, if the mind is calm and serene you should have no difficulty focusing on the abdominal movements — as long as you patiently note the wandering thoughts and other secondary objects they will gradually fade away and the abdominal movements will be clear.


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Amelia, 12, books place at national swimming finals
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10:07am Wednesday 30th January 2013
By James Colasanti
TWELVE-year-old Amelia Barneston shocked her dad by swimming a national qualifying time at a regional meet on the weekend.
The Southend High School for Girls Year 7 pupil clocked 2mins 55.54secs over 200m breaststroke to book her place alongside the country's best at the British Gas ASA National Age Group Championships in Sheffield in the summer.
Ameila, who gave away two years to her competitors in the 14-and-under age group race at the ASA Central Zone meeting at Corby on Sunday, is now ranked fifth in the UK and will bid for glory in the 200m race at Ponds Forge International Pool on July 25.
Dad Alex Barneston, from Westcliff, admitted it was an excellent achievement from the Borough of Southend Swimming club (BOSS) member.
"We thought she might go close to a national time, but it was a shock to see her get it," he said.
"But she's a bit of a battler, and she has a lot of potential.
"She's come through the rankings massively in recent years – she was 85th in the UK when she was 10, now she's fifth over 200m breaststroke.
"She's number one in Essex at 50m, 100m and 200m, and now she has a chance to test herself against the county's best."
He added that Amelia still has room for improvement on her turns where her diminutive size can leave her at a disadvantage bigger girls.
But he said the BOSS coach Will Brogan has done a terrific job improving Amelia's strength and conditioning.
He said: "She was last in the counties when she was nine, but at 10 she was swimming for Rochford and we started to see her potential.
"Last year she joined BOSS and she has continued to make good progress there."
Amelia also recorded a time of 1mins 23.57secs for the 100 breaststroke — 1.06 seconds off a national qualification time. She's ranked ninth in the county over 100m, and is fourth fastest in the UK over 50m.
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WWE wrestling games have been a staple of games consoles since the days of the NES. The evolution of these games has seemingly matched the growth and popularity of Vince McMahon's 'Sports Entertainment' Empire, with both peaking at about the same time - No Mercy for the N64 and the fabled 'Attitude Era' that replaced all-American heroes with foul-mouthed anti-heroes.
Of course, there have been technical improvements on both sides since then, but with WWE '13 it looks like we have a new contender for "best wrestling game ever!™". And that's partly due to it harkening back to the golden age of the Attitude Era with an exciting new storyline mode that revolutionises wrestling games in the same way the Attitude Era revolutionised the real thing.
Are! You! Ready?!
The storyline mode is split into several chapters, each marking the story of the key WWE Superstars of the period, including Stone Cold Steve Austin, Mankind, The Undertaker and D-Generation X. But rather than just be a series of matches to be won, the Attitude Era asks you to recreate the real outcomes of the matches as they happened (well, as real as wrestling is...). This means you get the chance to re-enact Mankind's legendary Hell in the Cell matches and the infamous Montreal Screwjob, although there are a fair few filler matches between these bigger moments.
From a gameplay perspective, however, this means it's no longer enough to simply beat your opponent - you have win the match the way the match was won. Not only that, each match will throw some extra objectives that you have to complete to succeed. Hitting your opponent with a chair or trash can crops up a lot (as it did on TV at the time), but it's not always straightforward. In some cases you need to time this objective right, such as waiting for someone else to introduce said foreign object or risk disqualification. More advanced matches will require more intricate instructions, like pinning your opponent within 10 seconds of performing your finisher. It can get a little frustrating at times, especially as you learn which objectives you need to wait for and which you can just carry out straight away, but it adds a new, challenging element that freshens up the genre for the first time in a long time.
The other great thing about the Attitude Era is the amount of detail that's gone into it. Working in conjunction with WWE themselves, all-new video packages have been created to bring the historical context to life, providing a fun trip down memory lane (just off Know-Your-Role Boulevard!) for those who lived through this Era, and a great history lesson for those who didn't. This attention to detail is spread throughout the rest of the game, too, none more so than the entrances for the WWE Superstars and Legends, which are recreated in their entirety. So, yes, you can enjoy a full five minute dancing entrance for Brodus Clay and his Funkadactyls if you want.
Know Your Role
Which brings us to the roster - which is massive. There are over 50 current WWE Superstars and Divas to choose from, including CM Punk, John Cena, Daniel Bryan and Brock Lesnar. On top of this, there's a pool of nearly 30 Attitude Era stars (although, to be fair, at least 3 of those are Mick Foley!). You'll need to play through the game to unlock a lot of them, and some key stars are missing - TNA-signed the Hardy and Dudley Boyz are sorely missed, and would have made for an excellent additional chapter for the Attitude Era. But this does lay the groundwork for some WWE All-Stars style fantasy warfare, letting you set-up Punk versus Austin, Dude Love against Brodus Clay and even old-school Kane versus contemporary Kane. For long-time wrestling fans, this will be an absolute dream, and finally a chance to play as some of the stars of yesteryear without having to dust off your old copies of Wrestlemania 2000 or War Zone.
But it's not all about looking back - WWE '13 continues to push the series forward, too. One of the best things about WWE games in recent years has been the massive increase in what you can create and, in WWE '13, it's about the sheer variety of what you can now edit. By utilising and combining all of the tools at your disposal, WWE '13 truly allows you to create a WWE Universe that is your own. Of course, there's the usual opportunity to create Superstars and Divas, share them and download the latest Community efforts, as well as the story, move set and finisher creation tools. This entry into the series shines with the host of smaller but worthy additions. Such an example is the facility to create Championship Belts, which makes a long-awaited return to the series.
Here Comes The Pain
Universe Mode also makes a return. This is the career mode that lets you play as many or as few matches as any available Superstar, or as your created Superstar(s). Depending on what happens with in each match dictates your journey through WWE Universe. You can form a rivalry, a friendship and even injure an opponent, with each action having a reaction that influences how your career unravels.
But this is Universe version 3.0. Overhauls mean that you can now edit the types of storyline that go in. Tired of seeing your Superstars sidelined through injury? No need to worry - you can turn the injury storylines off. The same applies for other key parts of Universe - such as keeping tag teams together. You can specify what storylines you'd like to see, so the game knows how you want your Universe to run. But forcing things too much can take the fun out of it a bit, as the naturally formed alliances and rivalries seem to work the best usually culminating in great battles at the various WWE Pay Per Views.
In conjunction with the heavily improved Universe mechanics, the full customisation allows you to essentially build your own promotion. You build your roster, as before, but you can now delete shows and create shows, as well as editing existing shows and PPVs. You can pick the dates, create your own logos and, in conjunction with the massive amount of arenas, start creating your own era of WWE. For example, the Attitude PPVs and Arenas alongside fully edited Attitude rosters will finally allow you to use them to recreate your own Attitude era calendar, complete with a weekly retro 'Raw Is War' and/or SmackDown. You can choose what belts are contested on the show, who appears when and even if the show is a 'Major' or 'Minor' production (anyone up for some pre-PPV Heat?). You can even add and take themes away for PPVs, meaning certain types of match-ups are guaranteed. It works both ways, so if you really wanted, you could have the Royal Rumble every month of the year!
That's The Bottom Line
That said, Universe 3.0 is still far from perfect. In these days of Skyrim, Assassin's Creed and even Black Ops II featuring branching storylines, Universe mode is still very linear - if you could make choices during a promo or the match, be it simple yes or no answers or smacking your partner with a chair mid match to break an alliance, this would make you feel a bit more in control. And if you play as your created character, the diversity of Universe mode isn't really shown until you are a few months of game time in, as you start at the bottom of the pile without enemies or allies.
But niggles aside, WWE '13 is a fantastic package for grapple fans. Chock full of features that enhance almost every aspect of the gameplay from last year's version, and a brand new storyline mode that provides the biggest - and best - improvement to the genre since the inception of Universe mode, WWE '13 is more than just a beat 'em up in spandex and sequins - it's a wrestling game through and through, and one that leaves no Stone (Cold) unturned.
GAME's Verdict
The Good:
- Attitude Era story mode is fresh and challenging
- Improved customisation modes throughout
- Excellent roster of past and present stars
The Bad:
- Universe mode is still too linear
- Some objectives in Attitude Era are confusing and frustrating
- Missing some key Attitude Era stars
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Business challenges
Smart organizations know they can no longer afford to see maintenance as just an expense. Used wisely, it provides essential support to sustain productivity and fuel growth while driving down unneeded and unforeseen overall expenses. Effective Smarter Asset Management aims to do the following:
- Maximize uptime (productive capacity)
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- Minimize costs per unit produced (the lowest cost practical)
- Minimize the risk that productive capacity, quality and economic production will be lost for unacceptable periods of time
- Prevent safety hazards to employees, and the public as much as possible
- Ensure the lowest possible risk of harming the environment
- Conform to national and international regulations on due diligence
In today's competitive environment, all of these are strategic necessities to remain in business; the challenge is how to best meet them. In many companies, you have to start at the beginning- put the basics in place- before your attempts to achieve excellence and to optimize decisions will be successful. The ultimate aim is to attain a high degree of control over your maintenance decisions. Companies are doing this through increased Visibility, Automation and Control.
IBM provides Smarter Asset Management solutions with end-to-end processes, technology and consulting services to increase a company's Visibility, Automation and Control that will significantly enhance the ability to manage and utilize physical assets across the lifecycle and global enterprise
Visibility is the ability for a company to see and understand the state of its assets in real time. IBM helps clients do this by utilizing Key Performance Indicators, Dashboards and Advanced analytics to:
- Improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and reliability
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'80s Board Game Night, 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct 15: All ages. Just drop in to try your hand at a variety of classic board games, including Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary, Battleship and lots more. Free. With refreshments. No registration.
Horrorstor (there's actually an umlaut over the last "o") is a parody and ghost story that looks like a catalog from Orsk, a fictional big-box Ikea store knock-off selling faux Scandinavian furnishings with faux Scandinavian names. Main character Amy is a young woman with failed dreams who works at Orsk along with her gung-ho supervisor Basil, mature co-worker Ruth Anne, attractive co-worker Trinity, and wannabe filmmaker Matt.
Tecchies: Wear your geek status with pride. Come to the Crafternoon program at the Fond du Lac Public Library 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. October 18 and use upcycled computer resistors and capacitors to make Kilobyte Earrings.
International bestselling author Jenny Colgan writes delicious little books that I consider total chick-lit. Similar to author Sophie Kinsella, most of Colgan's novels are set in England or France, and are fun reads filled with terms like "bugger" and "sod" that make the stories that much more engaging to me. The books I have read so far are Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe, The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris, and Sweetshop of Dreams. Each story is unique, and all contain recipes guaranteed to make your sweet tooth tingle.
On Saturday, October 25, kids 12 and under are invited to come in costume for Monster Mash from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the Children's Room. Free. No registration required.
Kids will enjoy games, activities and treats. Costumes encouraged.
This Is Where I Leave You is now a movie playing in theaters, but before it was a movie, it was a book by Jonathan Tropper. In the book, main character Judd Foxman's father Mort has just died and his marriage to Jen has fallen apart after Judd caught her having sex with his boss. Now Judd finds out that his father wanted the family to sit shiva, a Jewish custom in which the family receives condolences at home. He joins his family at the family home in a New York suburb.
In the Fond du Lac Reads pick, Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline, OASIS creator James Halliday worships 1980s culture. We honor that obsession with an '80s Movie Marathon Saturday, October 4, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., featuring seven classic movies.
With '80s refreshments like Jello Jigglers and Cool Ranch Doritos.
At Home Video Arcade Experience at the Fond du Lac Public Library, 1-6 pm Friday, October 3, you'll find:
The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances by Ellen Cooney was definitely a change from my normal reading. Seeing the word dog in the title of the book is what initially caught my eye, but once I started reading I soon realized this was not a cute little dog story, but a tender story of broken people and broken dogs and how they help one another. It took a few chapters to get into the book, but I soon discovered that dogs and humans really are very much alike.
Supple Marsh and its importance to Lake Winnebago and Fond du Lac will be discussed in two upcoming programs at the Fond du Lac Public Library. Both programs are free; no registration required.


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I don't have a huge sweet tooth, but I'm in love with this dessert; strawberries piled on top of a simple Italian-style crostata. It has a creamy vanilla mascarpone cheesecake filling baked into pasta frolla, a crumbly, shortbread-like cookie crust.
Any kind of seasonal fruit would be delicious on this tart. I'm thinking lightly sweetened berries, figs, peaches or nectarines in the summer and sauteed apples, pears or poached dried fruit during fall and winter.
Strawberry Mascarpone Crostata
For crust:
- 2 1/3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 ½ sticks (3/4 cup) cold unsalted butter, cut into ¼-inch cubes
- 1 egg plus 1 egg yolk
- ¼ cup whole milk
For filling:
- 1 cup mascarpone cheese
- 1 cup Greek yogurt
- 2 eggs
- 1 vanilla bean, split and scraped
- ½ cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons unbleached all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 quart strawberries, hulled and sliced
- Sugar to taste
- To make the crust, pulse the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder in a food processor 3 or 4 times to blend; scatter the butter over the flour and process until the mixture looks sandy and you can't see any butter chunks.
- Whisk together the egg, yolk and milk; add to the flour mixture and pulse a few times until the dough just begins to come together (but not until the mixture forms a ball over the blade which will toughen the dough). Add some ice water drop by drop if it seems dry. Remove the dough from the workbowl and knead it gently to form a ball. Flatten it into a disc, wrap in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator about 1 hour until firm but not hard. If the dough gets too cold and seems hard, leave it out for 15 minutes until it's workable.
- Lightly dust the dough with flour and put it on a lightly floured surface (a smooth countertop is ideal). Cover with a large piece of plastic wrap or parchment and roll the dough out to a 12-inch diameter circle. Carefully peel off the plastic wrap, roll the dough onto the rolling pin and unroll over a 9-inch round or square tart pan. Press the dough into the pan and up the sides, trimming the top edges of the dough flush with the pan by running the rolling pin over the top. Put the pan into the refrigerator to chill while you make the filling.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Beat the mascarpone, yogurt, eggs, vanilla bean, sugar, flour and salt in an electric mixer or by hand with a whisk until smooth. Scrape into the tart pan, place the plan on a baking sheet and bake until the filling no longer jiggles in the center, 35 – 40 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack then place in the refrigerator to chill 2 – 4 hours.
- Just before serving, toss the strawberries with sugar to taste and either arrange over the top of the tart or pile them up for a more rustic presentation
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 8 servings
Amount Per Serving
% Daily Value
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.


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TRU-Vu Monitors, a leading supplier of industrial-grade LCD monitors, has added a new 15" model to its family of Sunlight Readable monitors. The new SRM-15 Series monitors feature 1,000 nits brightness, enabling users to see clear, vivid color images even in direct, bright sunlight. The SRM-15 Series are true Sunlight Readable monitors. Cheaper imports may claim this capability, but often only offer half the brightness.
These will not produce suitable video images. The SRM-15 Sunlight Readable monitors are ideal for a wide range of outdoor applications, or in vehicles, where bright sunlight makes standard monitors or laptop screens nearly invisible. Applications include pipeline inspection systems, ticket kiosks, in cars, trucks, helicopters, and trains, on ships and oil drilling rigs, at truck depots and loading docks, security/surveillance systems, outdoor advertisings, and more. The SRM-15 Series are built with industrial-grade components to withstand challenging environments. They feature 1024 x 768 resolution, VGA, S-Video and Composite (BNC) video inputs. They utilize reliable LED backlights for greater durability and longer life than traditional CCFL backlights.
The SRM-15 Series Sunlight Readable monitors are backed by a full 3-Year Warranty. They are also available with touch screens, or in open-frame configurations. A new, even brighter 1,500 nits model will be available shortly.
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M&A Moves Are Electric in This Market
When will companies take their cue from these bold acquirers? On Monday we again saw how positively this market reacts to these bold moves: Shares of VF Corp. (VFC), an apparel maker, reaped a huge gain just on the strength of reports that VF might buy Billabong. The latter is an Australia-based surfing-attire company that's been down on its luck, but has great brands for the fast-growing surfer set. VF Corp. stock started higher as word leaked about the possibility of the bid, and then gained strength throughout the day, ultimately closing up almost 5 points. Remember, VF would be bidding -- not getting a bid!
Billabong is a company that has tremendous credibility among die-hard board fanatics, even as its stock has lost 34% in the last year after sliding 78% the year before, all of which transpired after the company missed a multiple quarters. This darned thing has been crushed, and it now trades at 14% of what it was worth just a couple of years ago -- yet the company is still worth about $500 million....398 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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In the West, warm, dry weather favors a rapid pace of fieldwork and crop development. Slightly cooler air is just starting to overspread the Pacific Northwest, accompanied by isolated showers.
On the Plains, much warmer weather accompanies scattered rain showers in the Dakotas. Elsewhere, very warm, dry weather prevails. High temperatures above 90°F will be common later today throughout the region, even as far north as the Dakotas.
In the Corn Belt, frost and freeze advisories were in effect early today from the Mississippi River eastward. Some of the lowest temperatures were noted in Wisconsin and Michigan, where readings below 30°F were common. Freezes are a concern with respect to fruit crops in Michigan, although development was as much as 1 to 2 weeks behind normal due to persistently cool spring weather.
In the South, cool but dry weather favors planting activities and other spring fieldwork. However, scattered frost was noted this morning across the interior Southeast, including parts of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Outlook: Warmth over the western and central U.S. will expand eastward, encompassing much of the nation by mid-week. Toward week's end, cooler weather will overspread the West, while warmth will be especially notable across the High Plains. Showers will return to the Midwest during the mid- to late-week period, where 5-day rainfall totals could exceed an inch in some locations. Elsewhere, locally heavy precipitation (1 to 2 inches) will affect the Northwest, while little or no rain will fall in the southern Atlantic region and from California to the southern High Plains. The NWS 6- to 10-day outlook for May 18-22 calls for below-normal temperatures across the Plains and Deep South, while warmer-than-normal weather will prevail in much of the eastern and western U.S. Meanwhile, below-normal precipitation across the southern Plains and the West will contrast with wetter-thannormal conditions along and northeast of a line from Montana to Georgia.


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Hey everyone, new to the board and I have a quick question.
Has anyone participated in past promotions for the All-Star voting prior to tip-off for games? This Monday 12/20 the promotion is "First 100 fans to return 100 punched ballots receive a meet and greet with Darren Collison".
I have not payed much attention to All-Star voting, but this sounds like a speed thing once the doors open to the Fieldhouse and a rush to be one for the first 100 people to do so.
Just wondering if anyone has any experience with this and what was it like. Any tips for being one of the first 100? Thanks!


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Ladies and Gentlemen,
Heroes, Villains...sure we've discussed them, we've voted on them, we've had the gull to choose the best ones. However, we quickly forgot about the people who are integral to the organization. The behind the scenes, the second billings, the gophers, the people who hold the slow or stop signs before one lane construction. The right hands, the sidekicks, the person who does the insane bidding of another. Today we celebrate sidekicks as if it were administrative assistant day. Which I think is just another way of saying secretary day, and now that I think about it, what is a sanitation engineer? Why can't we just call stuff what it used be called? Why are we inventing all these names for stuff...what? Oh yeah...the game....anyways, vote on sidekicks...did we change the name for sidekicks yet? No? Okay then...vote on the best sidekicks.
General Rules/Guidelines:
1. One voting post per day. Two [++] upvotes for your favorite; Three [---] downvotes for your least favorite.
2. When a Sidekick reaches zero points, they will be eliminated.
3. The game will be called when we reach a top 5 list.
4. Conversations are highly encouraged, BUT you must play the game.
5. Suggestions to add Sidekicks are welcome, BUT you must to play the game.
6. The winner will receive a cake.
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Blazing Saddles - Gene Wilder as Jim - 10
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Fargo- Peter Stormare as Gaear Grimsrud
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The Royal Tenenbaums - Seymour Cassel as Dusty - 10
Shaun of the Dead - Nick Frost as Ed - 10
Sherlock Holmes - Jude Law as Dr. Watson - 10
Sideways - Thomas Haden Church as Jack - 10
Slave Girl - Broderick Crawford as Chips Jackson - 10
Snatch - Stephen Graham as Tommy - 10
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs- Eddie Collins as Dopey - 10
Star Wars - Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca - 10
Streets of Fire - Amy Madigan as McCoy - 10
Stripes - Harold Ramis as Russel Ziskey - 10
Super - Ellen Page as Boltie - 10
Support Your Local Sheriff! - Jack Elam as Jake - 10
Trainspotting - Ewen Bremner as Spud - 10
Top Gun - Anthony Edwards as Goose - 10
Toy Story - Tim Allen Buzz Lightyear - 10
Unforgiven - Morgan Freeman as Ned Logan - 10
The Usual Suspects - Benicio Del Toro as Fred Fenster - 10
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Withnail and I - Paul McGann as I - 10
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I am always amazed at the newest safety features and convenience gadgets that manufacturers come up with every year, as well as their efforts to increase fuel efficiency.
But, no one wants to be caught standing still, to use a pun. There always has to be something new. Mazda's answer to all that is their Skyactiv Technology, which made its debut on Mazda 3 models in 2012.
Skyactiv Technology is basically a redesign with a focus on fuel savings and performance-oriented driving. Engineers re-tooled the engine so that it would get better performance while using less gas and lowering emissions. They re-examined the frame to cut out pounds here and there. What you basically end up with is a sprightly car that can get around 40 miles per gallon at highway speeds. And, it's not even a hybrid.
The 2013 Mazda 3 received just a few tweaks over what you would find in the 2012 models. It still offers an exterior with a decidedly sporty look. The front fascia and grille has been updated. To this has been added all-new 16- and 17-inch aluminum alloy wheel designs.
On the inside, you're going to find a stylish instrument panel, with satin-polished details to dashboard gauges and ventilation louvers. The shift knob has been moved forward a bit, which makes it just the slightest bit more comfortable to reach. Seats are sporty and supportive.
Standard safety features include six air bags, anti-lock brakes, Electronic Brakeforce Distribution with Brake Assist, Dynamic Stability Control with a Traction Control System, front and rear stabilizer bras and a "crush-able" brake and accelerator pedal which should help protect the driver during an accident.
For 2013, the formerly optional safety feature of Blind Spot Monitoring is now standard. Very nice. I always appreciate it when a manufacturer includes something like this in the base price. With Blind Spot Monitoring, sensors in the rear of the car can detect when a car is within 13 feet of you to the left or right, or within 26 feet in the rear. When a car enters your blind spot, indicator lamps in the door mirrors light up. If you turn on your turn signal when that car is in the blind spot, the indicators flash and a buzzer warns you of a possible unsafe lane change.
Other features that are now standard for 2013 include USB audio input, 5.8-inch full color touch-screen navigation with real time traffic, HD radio, Pandora audio application, Sirius Satellite radio with a four-month subscription, rain-sensing wipers, automatic on/off headlights and Bi-xenon headlights with auto-leveling feature. This was also optional last year, but is now standard. The auto-leveling headlamps give you wider lighting at night, which is especially beneficial while making turns.
While the Mazda 3 is a smaller car, your rear seat passengers won't feel cramped, nor will your cargo carrying options be reduced. There is a good amount of leg and head room in the back, and plenty of room in the trunk.
For commuters and small families, for recent college graduates and empty nesters, the 2013 Mazda 3 is probably a right-sized and budget-friendly solution.


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Konchog1 wrote:RikudouSennin wrote:CrawfordHollow wrote:I just PM'd you the info for the center in Tenn. Your timing is right, the resident teacher just e-mailed me today about going there, so I am sure you can work something out. Yudron is right, there aren't that many centers in the south. I sent you some information on the Garchen Institute in Arizona. There are many other centers in Colorado, California, and Oregon that would probably take you. Just e-mail them.
Since you seem to be interested in Dzogchen, I would highly recommend watching the next webcast, its an open webcast and I think it starts next week. During the last days of the retreat ChNN always transmits a number of lungs for secondary practices. These lungs are actual transmissions of mantras that you can recieve as long as you tune in live. The first one that he always gives is the practice of Green Tara. I think that this practice would bring you much benifit in your situation. It will help to open up these doors. Her mantra can aid you in overcoming obstacles and will bring you much benefit and success. There are many other transmissions such as Tun and Ganapuja that you can recieve that will be of help. And of course ChNN always gives some kind of pointing out or direct introduction.
I am glad we connected. I don't post much here, so it was nice to have this communication. Let me know how things turn out.
All the best,
I have heard many wonders for the Green Tara practice
cant wait unil next week.
http://resources.tsemtulku.com/prayers/ ... lible.html
It requires transmission or empowerment right?