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A chronologically-challenged collection of some socko Johnny Weissmuller Tarzans...at the right price. In the mouthful-titled Turner Classic Movies Greatest Classic Films Collection: Tarzan - Volume 2, Starring Johnny Weissmuller (phew!), Warner Bros. has gathered together Loin-Clothed Johnny's last two Metro efforts (1941's Tarzan's Secret Treasure and 1942's Tarzan's New York Adventure), and his third and fourth outings for RKO (1945's Tarzan and the Amazons and 1946's Tarzan and the Leopard Woman). By now, any self-respecting Tarzan fan knows these Warner compilations are just re-releases of the 2004 Tarzan box sets, sans extras, so double-dipping isn't necessary. However, these smartly-priced retreads are just right for someone new to the series...even if this one is out of whack, title-wise. Let's look very briefly at the four films here.
"Swim!" Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) orders to his adoring, obedient family, as first he, then his common law wife Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan), and then their adopted boy Boy (Johnny Sheffield), high-dive off a huge tree into the crystal clear waters of their jungle lagoon. There, down in the sand, Boy finds big, shiny nuggets that Jane explains are gold, a valuable metal found in abundance on Tarzan's vast African estate―a valuable metal that no one from the outside world must ever known is there, that is, lest they come and destroy Tarzan's precious Eden. Boy, intrigued by Jane's talk of the outside world and civilization, decides to visit there the next day...on his own. Cheetah comes along, and after a harrowing escape from a pursuing lion, Boy and Cheetah save native boy Tumbo (Cordell Hickman) from an attacking rhino. Returning to Tumbo's home, Boy sees the village is plagued with fever...and he's promptly blamed for bringing the disease. Sure to be roasted by the superstitious natives, he's saved by a safari, consisting of kindly dope Professor Elliott (Reginald Owen), slimy operator Medford (Tom Conway), suspicious-sounding Vandermeer (Philip Dorn), and even more suspicious-sounding blarney-maker, Dennis O'Doul (Barry Fitzgerald), the Irishy-est Irishman this side of Dublin. Tarzan agrees to help the safari in their quest for the elusive Van-usi tribe (since they saved Boy), but as soon as Boy spills the beans about the nuggets, everyone gets gold fever, and jungle mayhem commences.
I grabbed this collection of Tarzan films mainly to see if my eight-year-old boy would respond to them the way I did at his age. The Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan flicks were as ubiquitous on the tube as Abbott & Costello and The Brady Bunch when I was growing up, and they were always a welcome, go-to viewing experience that never seemed to suffer from repetition. Happily, despite the claims by people involved in making movies and TV for children today, these ancient adventure movies can still deliver the goods to a modern kid who's grown up on PS3s and the most expensive CGI; after watching Tarzan's Secret Treasure, my son asked to watch all the films...before he went tear-assing down the hall, trying to imitate the Tarzan yell. Not bad for 70+-year-old movie.
Watching Tarzan's Secret Treasure and the three others here after I don't know how many years, I was most impressed by the sense of physicality and freedom the filmmakers and actors got across on the screen. Of course, many before have commented on Weissmuller's and O'Sullivan's beauty and elegance (and frank eroticism) in their early pairings together. And while 1941's Weissmuller is no longer the remarkable, even startling Adonis he was in Tarzan, the Ape Man, nor is still-trim and lovely O'Sullivan as dewy fresh and achingly sexual as she was in Tarzan and His Mate, there's a heightened awareness for the viewer of their physical presence, of their bodies in motion, that seems almost subversive compared to 99.9% of studio fare from this same time period, when actors and actresses were encased in voluminous suits and unyielding dresses as they moved stiffly in their own no-touchy bubbles. There's a scene early on in Tarzan's Secret Treasure where Tarzan and Jane lean on their tree house railing contemplating the moon, their backs to us, that looks as natural and sweetly, innocently sexual, as any shot I've seen in an early Hollywood film, and that's just because Weissmuller, in his loin cloth, and O'Sullivan, in her one-piece, are so casually free in their own skins. Not confined by modern clothes, nor restricted by the more conventional storylines of M-G-M's then-contemporary dramas, Tarzan and Jane and Boy (and even Cheetah), constantly move in their frames with a fluid grace that's palpable, and wonderfully alive. No wonder kids like me pictured these characters in their minds when they jumped off their bunk beds, screaming the famous Tarzan yodel, or when they swam around in pools, wrestling blow-up rubber rafts, pretending they were alligators, or when they climbed a tree, looking out silently over their neighborhoods, imagining in vain for their own escarpment that rose from the plains to support the stars.
That being said, Tarzan's Secret Treasure is a fast-moving, fun entry in the series. Cheetah of course gets the biggest laughs here, including one of his best scenes in the series where he tangles with some sticky film emulsion and then gets drunk, rolling out somersaults in slow motion. I know various monkeys played Cheetah over the series, so whoever this one was, he's delightful, particularly when he does that hilarious "laugh take" when he pelts Buli the elephant with an eggplant (wasn't that sound bite borrowed from the Hal Roach studios?). Tarzan and Jane have a lovely moonlight swim where afterwards, Jane teases Tarzan about how civilized men would court her...which amuses the primitive, savage Tarzan no end ("Too much talk―Tarzan's way better!" he grunts as he pulls a willing Jane to him). If you're Irish, you may find Barry Fitzgerald's usual shtick entertaining...and then annoying as hell after about five minutes, while the action scenes are beautifully designed by director Richard Thorpe and Metro's top-flight crews. Tarzan's boat-flipping finale is a series' highlight, with the cool action going underwater, too, as Tarzan tries to kill as many natives as possible before he rescues a drowning Boy in the nick of time (the sequence looks pleasingly large-scale, particularly with the surprising number of real elephants used in the coordinated charges).
Critics always like to point out these films' degrading stereotypes aimed at African natives, but these same critics never complain about the rather strident anti-West (and by extension, anti-white), anti-progress, anti-civilization, anti-human versus animal, and pro-socialist messages that underlie some of these Tarzan films because let's face it...they probably agree with those sentiments. When Boy expresses any interest in the advances of civilization, imperious Tarzan shuts him down pronto (in fact, any time Tarzan gets nervous about where Jane or Boy are going in a conversation with the dreaded outsiders that's not under his control, it's a fierce, "Jane! Boy! Home!" and off they scoot). Tarzan laments any time a white outsider comes to his private Eden...but he's a white outsider on land that belongs to him because we assume he took it (you're telling me there aren't natives out there who'd like their own back-40 plot on the escarpment with a little split-level bungalow tree house?). I'm not knocking Tarzan for taking what's his, I'm just saying own it, jungle boy, and ditch the hypocrisy. And when Jane starts sighing about not knowing why men in the so-called civilized world have to pay for food―a problem, she laments, that's been plaguing civilization for hundreds of years while atomic-sized food falls abundantly at her fingertips...that is, when near-slave Cheetah isn't pressed into food service―we start sighing at the unintentional humor of her socio-economic grief...and start searching the credits for Writers Guild of America members (you think Tarzan's going to adopt orphaned Tumbo at the end of the movie? You must be forgetting the southern theatre owners). All that phony progressive/New Deal hokum falls by the wayside, though, when the elemental pleasures of the film play out.
Big shiny metal bird fall from sky, bring white devils to piss off Tarzan. After Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) helpfully educates Boy (Johnny Sheffield) with the charming thought that all outsiders are bad (only white ones ever show up, but I would imagine any race would be unwelcome to this clannish lot)...some bad outsiders show up: animal trapper Buck Rand (Charles Bickford), kindly pilot Jimmie Shields (Paul Kelly), and aw shucks circus wrangler Manchester Montford (Chill Wills). Their purpose on the escarpment? Capture lions for Colonel Sergeant's (Cy Kendall) circus back in New York City. But hold on a second: those lions are Tarzan's (Johnny Weissmuller), and he tells the white "vultures" to high-tail their asses on out of there before morning. However, the arrogant Rand isn't going to let Tarzan tell him what to do...especially when Rand wants to snatch elephant-trainer Boy and sell him to a circus. Thankfully, a tribe of Jaconi head hunters happen by (how come Tarzan doesn't say all head hunter outsiders aren't welcome?) and they snatch the whole group. Tarzan and Jane try to come to Boy's rescue, but their grape vine is hacked off in mid-swing (and mid-Tarzan yell, amusingly), and they fall, presumably, to their deaths...or at least that's what Rand hopes. He hops back on the plane with Boy, and they're off to New York, with Tarzan and Jane in fast pursuit. Once there, Tarzan, Jane, and of course, Cheetah, navigate the wilds of the Big Apple, with Tarzan in particular an amusingly large fish out of water.
A particular childhood favorite Tarzan because it's designed as much to be a comedy as an action adventure, Tarzan's New York Adventure was always a good switch-up on the Sunday morning Tarzan Theatre out of Detroit when I was growing up. Running a scant, fast 71 minutes, Tarzan's New York Adventure resembles nothing more than a comic book brought to life, with Big John Weissmuller looking like hell in a few rather startling insert shots (I always wondered if Louis B. Mayer saw the rushes for one of those scenes and decided then and there, "That's it―86 the jungle boy."). Tarzan is his usual imperious self here (I love Bickford quite rightly saying, "Where'd you get the idea you run Africa?"), until he goes all soft in the city, bowing to Jane's superior social skills ("Jane be boss here," he paternalistically allows at the hotel desk). Once he figures out the "law" ain't so good when it comes to custody suits and specifically, the chiseling lawyers who peddle them, he appropriately flips out, tossing the offending Charles Lane into the jury box before he crashes out onto the concrete jungle in a terrific action sequence where Tarzan scampers around the New York skyline.
Every couple of minutes there's a good comedy bit, such as the (unintentionally) amusing scene where Jane worries about Tarzan's, um..."strength" being sapped by the big city (she really is a tramp, isn't she?), or the racial humor of both Willie Fung as a frustrated Chinese tailor and paralyzingly funny Mantan Moreland, giving it to a crank-calling Cheetah, with the film's funniest line, "You ain't getting' fresh with me is you colored boy?" (if the lack of political correctness in these scenes makes you nervous, just remember it was jittery P.C.-conscious producers who put the brilliant Moreland out of work in the 1950s and 60s). Weissmuller yodeling in the shower (perfect sound editing there) and bouncing around the taxi cab are funny moments, but nothing tops Cheetah in probably her/his best bit of the series, where she destroys Jane's packed-away things in her hotel room. When Cheetah executes perhaps the funniest double-take I've ever seen―humans included―(when she sees herself in the vanity mirror), all minor sins of Tarzan's New York Adventure are forgiven, as indeed they are again during the fantastic finale, where director Richard Thorpe choreographs and frames the elephants blocking Bickford's car's path like giant toys in some monstrous child's playroom. Speedy comic-book fun.
Finally through batching it now that Jane (Brenda Joyce) is returning from England and the war effort, already hen-pecked Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) gets Boy (Johnny Sheffield) to sweep out the family tree nest before they both head to the local trading post where Jane is soon to arrive. On the way, Tarzan rescues Amazon Athena (Shirley O'Hara) from a rampaging panther. Ordering Boy to stay put, Tarzan takes the injured Athena back to her forbidden city Palmyria, where Tarzan, alone among all other men, enjoys free passage because he has guarded well the secret location of the deadly matriarchal society for its Queen (Maria Ouspenskaya). What he doesn't know is that Boy followed him to Palmyria, learning a secret that will soon threaten his life. Reunited (rather chastely) with Tarzan, Jane introduces Tarzan to her friend, Sir Guy Henderson (Henry Stephenson), an archeologist leading an expedition into the jungle with kindly Splivens (J.M. Kerrigan) and not so kindly Ballister (Barton Maclane) and Anders (Donald Douglas). When Henderson eyes that Palmyria bracelet that Cheetah stole off Athena, he believes he's discovered a lost tribe, but Ballister can only see the money behind such a beautiful golden bauble, and he wants more...and Boy will take them right to the treasure trove.
A terrific, pulpy entry in the Tarzan series marred somewhat by its lower RKO budget, Tarzan and the Amazons was Weissmuller's third effort for producer Sol Lesser. I know there's debate among M-G-M and RKO Tarzan devotees over which Weissmuller series was better, but I find them equally entertaining for different reasons: M-G-M for the first-rate production values and the sex (at least in the first two efforts), and RKO for their speed and cartoony atmosphere. Tarzan and the Amazons doesn't offer much in terms of further character development for the principles...but then again, few of any of the Tarzan films did that, so who's complaining? Hinging again on that familiar dynamic of Boy wanting to stretch his experiences to the outside world and Tarzan jealously grinding Boy's inquisitive mind into the ground, the movie seems to focus more on Boy and the Amazons and the greedy explorers rather than on Tarzan. He mumbles a few "jungle platitudes" as one of the explorers amusingly notes, such as "Sun like gold: too much sun make people blind," while cowed Jane and Boy sourly look on, and that's about it until the end. It's great to see Boy finally throw Tarzan's controlling b.s. right back in his face, but we've seen that dynamic play out way too many times before in this particular part of the jungle.
New director-to-the-series Kurt Neumann does keep the ball rolling at a good clip, though, including some nice touches such as the iconic upward pan of Weissmuller's still-impressive physique as he poles his raft to Jane (that's not a euphemism), and Boy's "nature boy" lyrical moment as he lolls on the raft, dreaming, trailing his hand in the water (aided immeasurably by composer Paul Sawtell's beautiful music). Neumann keeps the Amazons mostly silent and deadly, and that's cool (their costumes are pretty close to comic book Amazon, Wonder Woman), particularly when they're one-by-one zapping the craven, fleeing thieves looting Palmyria. But the low budget prevents us from seeing more of the Amazon kingdom, including the money shot (for all those 1945 closet pervs) of those statuesque dolls whipping the bejeesuz out of their male slaves. The same goes for the final barter between Tarzan and the Queen; we never get to see him negotiate for Boy's life by returning the stolen icons―a pretty important moment that leaves the viewer somewhat deflated after the zippy climax. As for our new Jane, Brenda Joyce, she's certainly a dish in her one-piece buckskin, but you can tell the producers want Tarzan and Jane to play Ozzie and Harriett here; there's almost zero sexual chemistry between the two stars (watch that first awkward kiss on the boat...), with Jane used as just another prop in the familiar plot machinations.
With the province of Bugundi soon to come under the governmental control of the British, faux-assimilated native Dr. Ameer Lazar (Edgar Barrier) is quietly planning his next move on the Western imperial forces contaminating his native land. Teaming up with Lea (Acquanetta), the High Priestess of the Leopard People, Lazar schemes for his first attack on the caravans leaving Zambesi for Bugundi. One survivor returns to Zambesi, though, telling the British Commissioner (Dennis Hoey) and Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) that leopards killed the entire party. Tarzan is skeptical that leopards would only use their claws to kill, but the Commissioner isn't having any of it, and organizes a safari to flush out the leopards. Tarzan, Jane (Brenda Joyce), and Boy (Johnny Sheffield) go along, but Lea is too smart for them; tipped off by her little brother/spy Kimba (Tommy Cook) that Tarzan doesn't buy the leopard jazz, Lea arranges for real leopards to attack the hunting party, thereby humiliating Tarzan. But Tarzan know better. Tarzan smart. When Tarzan goes after the four knock-out schoolgirls who are captured in a Leopard Men raid, Jane and Boy have to deal with little liar Kimba, who wants to cut out Jane's heart to earn his warrior status.
Completely ridiculous fun. Like an article come to life from one of those men's adventure magazines from the 1940s (I Escaped from the Island of Flesh-Eating Leopard People!), Tarzan and the Leopard Woman is my favorite of the RKO Tarzans, just because it's so straight-faced in its overripe campiness. After all, we're nonsensically introduced to Tarzan this time out wrestling in the Arab city streets with "King Kong" Kashey as Tongolo the Terrible, a nod, perhaps, to the wrestling craze that was sweeping America at the time, but a character development that makes no sense at all (since when does Tarzan hang out in the city? Or have regular buddies he wrestles with there?). Even funnier is harried Tarzan's domestic situation, where Jane, like Blondie to Tarzan's Dagwood, is yapping and complaining about how the tree house is going to "wrack and ruin" because Tarzan is too lazy to get up off his ass and fix the giant clamshell shower. I guess when there's no sex, the nagging naturally follows (Weissmuller and Joyce might as well be brother and sister here).
Much better are the villains, including Nazi-like fanatic Dr. Lazar (he's constantly throwing out a leopard high-five that looks suspiciously like the ol' "Heil Hitler") who despises the decadence of the invading West (if his exploits were reported today, CNN and MSNBC would label him a "freedom fighter"), the scheming little psychopath Kimba, who does everything but rub his hands together and chortle when he's snowing Tarzan and Jane about his intentions at the tree house, and of course, Acquanetta. Stacked like you wouldn't believe, Acquanetta had an easier air about her than her main rival, the much better known Maria Montez...as well as I'm guessing about a cup size on her Universal rival. She's quite entertaining in her best-remembered role here, although no one can hold a candle to Anthony Caruso as Mongo, throwing his hands up in mock-kitty-cat fashion, calling for his followers to dance the dance of the Leopard Men as several extras don rather sparse skins and shuffle about on the small, grimy little cave set. Director Kurt Neumann keeps the scenes short and sweet, with the "big" finale pretty satisfying in its action: Kimba and Ameer get squashed a little by Tarzan doing his Samson bit (pulling down the support beams for the cave) before little Kimba carves up Ameer, who then shoots Kimba with his last breath. Can you imagine the kids in the matinees, hollering for more of that?
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Drunk / Shaking Camera
Started by CCPD, May 02 2013 10:37 PM
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Posted 02 May 2013 - 10:37 PM Edited by CCPD, 04 May 2013 - 01:43 PM.
Purchased a bundle of GTA IV and EFLC from Steam at New Years. GTA IV is fine but TLAD and TBOGT seems to trigger the "drunk" / shaking camera (piracy precaution). To people who didn't read it properly I PURCHASED THE GAME FROM STEAM. The only thing I use is the commandline.txt trick to be able adjust graphics settings. Could this be the reason? If yes, is there a way to be able to play without shaking and on good graphics? If no, what could be the course of it?
Posted 05 May 2013 - 04:45 AM
First update your GTA IV to the Latest Patch #7
Update your GPU drivers.If it is NVIDAI then click here. If it is of ATI/AMD then click here.
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Posted 05 May 2013 - 11:30 AM Edited by CCPD, 05 May 2013 - 11:41 PM.
I found the solution. After some research I found out that my Antivirus/Firewall Bitdefender was blocking SecuROM. After disabling Active Virus Control I was able to play EFLC without any problems. Hopefully anybody having similar problems can find this solution helpful. Watch this video.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Saturday's game against San Diego State at Qualcomm Stadium may be just what the doctor ordered for Utah quarterback Jordan Wynn.
The sophomore, who is from nearby Oceanside, Calif., is a perfect 3-0 at the facility — winning twice in high school, including the CIF San Diego Section Finals in 2008, and once in college while earning Poinsettia Bowl Offensive Player of the Game honors.
"He's had an excellent career in that stadium," said Utah coach Kyle Whittingham. "I believe he's undefeated in that stadium and he feels very comfortable there."
Getting Wynn and his teammates back on track after back-to-back losses to TCU and Notre Dame, he added, needs to happen quickly. Utah's offense has scored just one touchdown over the past nine quarters. The last eight quarters came in the consecutive setbacks that marred an 8-0 start to the season.
Returning home has brightened Wynn's outlook as he deals with consecutive losses for the first time in his career.
"It'll definitely be nice. San Diego State is a good team. We've got to play well," Wynn said. "I've had some good times back at Qualcomm and hopefully Saturday is one of those."
Utah's recent shortcomings on offense followed a stretch where the Utes ranked among the nation's elite. They averaged 44 points per outing over the first eight games.
Whittingham isn't blaming Wynn for the woes, adding that he's hopeful that it's never been implied or insinuated.
"It's a combination of things. The QB is just under the spotlight. It's inherent with the position and that will never change," Whittingham said. "Most of the time they get far too much credit and far too much criticism, depending on the situation."
While acknowledging that Wynn was still the starter at this moment and time, Whittingham noted that it's still a competitive situation. Senior Terrance Cain, who is 9-1 in his career as a starter, is the other viable option at quarterback, and he's only seen limited action in recent weeks.
"Nothing is set in stone. Everything is subject to performance and production," he explained. "That goes across the board. There's nobody that is immune from that."
Wynn understands how it works.
"The bottom line I've got to go perform," he said. "That's the name of the game and that's just what I've got to do."
Whittingham appreciates Wynn's approach.
"Anybody that's got a lot of pride and competitiveness to them puts a lot on their shoulders," he said.
Quarterbacks coach Brian Johnson also believes that Wynn's mindset is right. He said Wynn just needs to understand that things don't always go right for a young guy in a program with extremely high expectations.
"The key for Jordan is to understand that right now the pressure is on and everyone is watching to see how you respond," Johnson said. "And I'm confident that he'll respond the right way."
Wynn's focus is on the present, not the past.
"Right now it's all on San Diego State," he said. "That's where it's got to be. I've just got to keep moving on."
The Utes need a win, Wynn added, and they need it badly.
As such, center Zane Taylor and his teammates are determined not to dwell on the negative. They just want to get the job done.
And it'll take more than one guy to do it.
Taylor acknowledged that Wynn is under a lot of pressure, but hopes the young quarterback knows that the recent lack of explosiveness and effectiveness isn't attributed directly to him.
"It's a team effort. Everyone on the offense has something they need to work on. It's not one person that's not making things go," Taylor said. "I know there's plenty of things that I can do, personally. There's plenty of things the whole line can do. Every position has work to do.15 comments on this story
"We are nowhere near where we need to be to accomplish the remaining goals we have this season."
Taylor has reminded Wynn to keep his head up during the adversity.
"By no means is anyone on this team thinking that our lack of effectiveness on offense is his doing. We let him know that 100 percent," Taylor said. "We're all behind him. We all have just as much to work on as anyone else. I think he realizes that."
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Eckrich wins Slocum 50 at 34 Raceway
WEST BURLINGTON — Denny Eckrich of Tiffin took the checkered flag in the first 2013 Deery Brother Summer Series event held at West Burlington's 34 Raceway on April 6.
The Fifth Annual Slocum 50 Memorial race honors former late model racer Brent Slocum and contributed $1,335 to the Brent Slocum Scholarship Foundation, as $1 for each paid grandstand admission went to the fund.
Forty-six late models competed for the 24 spots in the 50 lap feature through five heats and two B-Mains.
Before the start of the main event, drivers did a four abreast parade lap in "missing man" formation, leaving an open spot on the front row in memory of Slocum.
Fans rose to their feet, giving the familiar Slocum "High Five." Family members of Brent Slocum were on hand, with daughter Isabelle presenting the trophy to the winner.
Coming up this Saturday, April 13, will be the MOWA (Midwest Open Wheel Association) 410 Outlaw Sprints. Along with the 410 sprints will be the Pepsi IMCA Stock cars, I Connect You/Louisa Communications 4 Cylinders, Mod Lites and 4 Wheelers and Pit Bikes.
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Surrounded by artwork in the heart of the borough's cultural headquarters, state Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Little Neck) presented a $5,000 check Friday to the Flushing Queens Museum's ArtAccess program to benefit individuals with autism.
The money, Weprin said, was raised in April at the Illuminate the Unisphere in Pink and Blue fund-raiser in conjunction with the United New York Early Intervention Providers to raise awareness of autism in the borough.
"We know how much this program depends on additional funding sources and hope that these funds will help the museum keep the program going," Weprin said of the donation. "We are grateful to those who contributed and for their continued support for the program."
Weprin hosted the Illuminate the Unisphere benefit in April and said the first of its kind was a great success. The autism awareness project was created by Annette Schroter, autism advocate and parent of an autistic daughter, and Leslie Grubler, who founded UNYEIP.
"Children with autism are exceptional children. We chose to donate this money because we are already familiar with the great work the [ArtAccess] program does," Grubler said. "We look forward to more of the exceptional work this program does with such exceptional children."
Weprin joined with state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Whitestone) and officials from the Queens Museum to acknowledge the new funds.
"Arts are usually the first things cut when school districts try and save money," Stavisky said. "We are looking forward to working with folks from the community and colleagues in government to keep programs like this going."
People with autism often require individualized therapy to meet their needs, Weprin said, so raising money to support the Queens Museum's ArtAccess program guarantees that children will maintain the opportunity to receive the care they deserve.
"This is one of the programs we are most proud of," said Tom Finkelpearl, executive director of the Queens Museum of Art. "To see how the instructors work with both the kids and families is incredibly moving."
Michelle López, senior coordinator of the ArtAccess Library Programs & Autism Initiatives at the museum, said every penny contributed to the program goes a long way.
"We really need the support. Fund-raising is very important to keep projects like this moving," López said. "We really appreciate all of the help."
In addition to the $5,000 check, Weprin said he would propose making April 2013 Autism Awareness Month to the Assembly.
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Analysis: The Likud Rebels Are Committing Political Suicide Gleefully
The MKs may be ending their own career, but if they are going down, Sharon is going down with them.
Everything the Likud rebels have touched so far has turned to failure; they couldn't stop the disengagement, or even stall it. They couldn't make Ariel Sharon noxious; he has never been so popular. They couldn't prevent the Labor Party's entry into the government, and the formation of the evacuation compensation coalition.
But this streak of failures appeared to have come to an end on Monday.
It seems extremely likely that the rebels, led by their captain Benjamin Netanyahu, are about to register an impressive success: With their own hands, they will cut short the Knesset's term and their party's days in office, without a shred of political logic, simply to wreak vengeance on the chair of their party. Some will not return to the Knesset to contribute their wisdom and profound thoughts. As the famous saying goes, they will cut off their noses to spite their faces. It's not every day, a senior Likud member said Monday, that you see people committing suicide so gleefully. Like whales swimming ashore, someone from another party once said.
"This is the first time," Sharon said on Monday, "that a ruling party voluntarily forgoes an entire year in power." Sharon didn't wait for the Likud tribunal decision to reach this dismal conclusion. He knows he has lost hold of his party: the rank and file are hostile toward him, the central committee loathes him, and the tribunal treats him like an ordinary member of the movement.
God knows what he's looking for there. Maybe he's waiting for the penny to drop in the central committee. After all, nobody in the Likud has an interest in curtailing their party's tenure: not the central committee members, who feed off their proximity to power, not the MKs, some 16 of whom will not be returning to the 17th Knesset, not the heads of local authorities, who are dependent on their representatives in the government, nor the ministers whom nobody promises will retain their posts.
Unless a veritable political miracle occurs in the coming month, the Likud Central Committee will decide on September 26 to advance the primaries - which would push up Knesset elections, perhaps to as early as February-March 2006. What a stable democracy Israel is: Five elections within 10 years, since May 1996. That's once every two years, on average.
Netanyahu, the man behind this maneuver, can't wait anymore. As far as he's concerned, the premiership is just around the bend. If the polls are correct, he's making the mistake of his life. Likud chair he will be, perhaps, but prime minister he will not.
Sharon gave a relaxed - he would say coolheaded - interview on Monday on Channel 10's London & Kirschenbaum program. He still doesn't know what he'll do next month; will he fight in the central committee against advancing the primaries, or will he give in? And if he loses, as all assessments predict, will he still take Netanyahu on with the rank and file, or take advantage of the shrill and sanctimonious central committee convention to give the speech of a lifetime, the speech of disengaging from the Likud and embarking on a new path?
Sharon doesn't know it, but some are preparing a surprise for him in the Likud faction if he chooses that option. If he announces his withdrawal, the Likud faction might decide the very next day to present a motion for no-confidence in the government. It is estimated that between 27 and 30 Likud MKs would join, in an effort to speed up elections and prevent Sharon from ensconcing himself in a new party.
The central committee convenes a few days after Sharon returns from what promises to be a praise-laden visit to the United Nations. Sharon will use the time to meet donors. If he intends to embark on a new path in October, he will need a lot of money, and where are the big bucks if not in the Big Apple?
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Determining the structure of materials -- such as protein crystals -- is currently performed using X-ray diffraction. However, many small structures used in nanotechnology have not been accessible to crystallography, so their structures remain unknown.
"Nature is full of objects that cannot be easily crystallized, including many proteins and nano-sized objects that lack a periodic structure," said Jian-Min (Jim) Zuo, a professor of materials science and engineering at Illinois and corresponding author of a paper to appear in the May 30 issue of the journal Science. "Our technique has the potential to image nonperiodic nanostructures, including biological macromolecules, at atomic resolution."
To demonstrate the effectiveness of their imaging technique, Zuo and his colleagues recorded and processed the diffraction pattern from a double-wall carbon nanotube.
"Carbon nanotubes are of special interest because the mechanical and electrical properties of a nanotube depend upon its structure," said Zuo, who also is a researcher at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory on the Illinois campus. "However, only the outermost shell of a carbon nanotube has been imaged by scanning tunneling microscopy with atomic resolution."
Because carbon possesses few electrons, the scattering from an electron beam is inherently weak and typically results in an image with low contrast and poor resolution, Zuo said. Imaging carbon atoms has been a special challenge.
"While conventional electron microscopes can achieve a resolution approaching1 angstrom for many materials," Zuo said, "the resolution limit for carbon in nanotubes is only 3 angstroms."
To image a double-wall carbon nanotube, the researchers first selected a single nanotube target in a transmission electron microscope. Then they illuminated the nanotube with a narrow beam of electrons about 50 nanometers in diameter. After recording the diffraction pattern, they used an oversampling technique and iterative process to retrieve phase information and construct an image with a resolution of 1 angstrom.
"Since this process does not use a lens to form the image, the resolution is not limited by lens aberration," Zuo said. "Lens aberration is the factor that has been limiting the resolution of the best electron microscopes. It's like the blur when you look through the bottom of a wine bottle."
The complexity of the nanotube image was surprising, Zuo said. "The double-wall nanotube consists of two concentric nanotubes of different helical angles. Like two screws with different pitch, sometimes the nanotube structures line up and sometimes they don't. This results in a complicated pattern of both accidental coincidences and mismatches."
The ability to generate images from nanoscale diffraction patterns offers a way to determine the structure of nonperiodic objects, from inorganic nanostructures to biological macromolecules, much like X-ray diffraction does for crystals, Zuo said. "Since diffraction is a standard method for determining structure, our nanoarea electron diffraction technique opens a door to examining the structure of individual and highly irregular molecules and nanostructures like clusters and wires."
In addition to Zuo, the team included visiting scientist Ivan Vartanyants and postdoctoral researcher Min Gao at Illinois, and researchers Ruth Zhang and Larry Nagahara at Motorola Labs. The U.S. Department of Energy funded the work.


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by Alyssa Oursler | December 2, 2013 12:03 pm
Cyber Monday is in a unique situation, as the popular online shopping day is becoming more important and less important at the same time.
On the one hand, Cyber Monday continues to grow in size. Adobe Systems (ADBE[1]) predicts that today's total Cyber Monday 2013 sales[2] should hit nearly $2.3 billion, which would mean the highest online sales in history.
But online shopping is increasing in popularity across the board, making Cyber Monday par for the course as opposed to special. Sure, countless bargain-hunters are tracking the best Cyber Monday deals today … but e-commerce was also the modus operandi for a good chunk of the early-bird bargain-hunters that began their prowl on Thanksgiving and Black Friday.
Adobe actually predicted record e-commerce days not just for Cyber Monday 2013, but for Thanksgiving, Black Friday and the overall shopping season. And so far, online shopping has been off to a hot start. Bloomberg noted that online sales[3] boomed by 20% on Thanksgiving and 19% on Black Friday 2013 vs. a 2.3% gain at brick-and-mortar stores … adding that increased online shopping could have been part of the reason foot traffic actually declined on Friday.
Click to EnlargeOf course, just as increased online shopping during the holidays is hardly exclusive to Cyber Monday, increased e-commerce overall is hardly exclusive to the holiday months[4]. As you can see in the chart to the right, e-commerce sales have been growing at a steady clip for the past decade.
This is where things get interesting, though. While the clear upward march for e-commerce didn't surprise me when I saw this chart, the actual percentage did — especially considering all the hype around online shopping. In the third quarter of the year, e-commerce sales[5] represented just 5.9% of total retail sales on seasonally adjusted basis.
Sure, that's a solid percentage point higher than the year-ago period and triple the percentage of a decade ago. Plus, the growth has taken place as overall sales chug higher. But 6% hardly sounds dramatic — especially when we so often hear about the "explosion" of e-commerce and how names from Walmart (WMT[6]) to Staples (SPLS[7]) to JCPenney (JCP[8]) to Target (TGT[9]) are all trying to improve their online shopping status.
If we dig a little deeper, though, several factors explain why we should believe the hype about e-commerce for Cyber Monday 2013, the entire holiday shopping season and years beyond … despite the fact that it remains a sliver of the pie.
Here are three such factors that help explain why the percentage of online sales is still relatively low now … and why it will keep growing.
Why the percentage is still low: To start, remember that total retail sales — the denominator in our percentage equation — includes … well … everything that is sold. The total includes things like personal care items, groceries and booze that most of us pick up at the store during our day-to-day routine, along with sales at gasoline stations and motor vehicles dealers. In fact, gas and vehicle dealers made up 35% of total retail sales in the most recent monthly report[10]. If we assume that ratio is pretty steady and back out 35% of our denominator in the equation, the e-commerce percentage already jumps to just under double-digits.
Why it will keep growing: At the same time, consumer staples like groceries and other household items haven't traditionally been sold online because of cost and freshness. Most household staples are too big or too cheap to be worth the cost of shipping. Expect that to change. Internet juggernaut Amazon (AMZN[11]) has been investing in the infrastructure[12] necessary to roll out Amazon Fresh[13] — its same- and next-day grocery delivery service — across the country. Meanwhile, other startups are eager to get a piece of the relatively untapped market. Boxed, for example, is a mobile app[14] that allows users to order light household items in bulk and on the cheap.
Why the percentage is still low: Most of us may take broadband access for granted, but as of earlier this year, the Pew Research Center reported that 30% of Americans were still lacking broadband access[15]. Meanwhile, Susan Crawford at Wired[16] added out that some slower download speeds lumped in the broadband category were "absurd" — meaning the percentage of Americans lacking Internet fast enough for online shopping is indeed significant.
Why it will keep growing: Broadband rollout and adoption across the country should be be a tailwind for online shopping. And we can't ignore the smartphone factor. PCWorld noted this finding[17] from the aforementioned Pew study: "While black people and Latinos are less likely to have home broadband than white people, their use of smartphones nearly eliminates that difference." Once mobile security[18] catches up to Internet security and more retailers tailor mobile apps to e-commerce, the increased adoption of smartphones could also bridge the digital divide and boost e-commerce.
Why the percentage is still low: Finally, Baby Boomers still have the largest purchasing power — and they are far less likely to shop online. Many don't trust Internet security, many are set in their ways … and many old folks are the ones that don't have Internet in the first place. In fact, 80% of adults ages 18-29 have high-speed broadband vs. just 43% of seniors 65 and older.
Why it will keep growing: Demographics will clearly shift with time. In fact, the purchasing power of Millennials will surpass that of the Boomers in 2017 or 2018, depending on the source. That shift by itself should be a huge boon for e-commerce, as this group "has grown up embracing the deep discounts and convenience offered by online shopping," as eMarketer put it[19]. In fact, a recent survey showed that 40% of males and 33% of females in the 18-to-34 age group said that ideally they would buy everything online.
The potential for e-commerce is both real and huge, despite the fact that online shopping only makes up a small slice of the overall pie now. These three under-the-radar factors are just a few that are both holding the current percentage back now — and could boost online sales in years to come.
As of this writing, Alyssa Oursler did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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ADM to Double Capital Expenditures; Projects Include Renewable Fuels and Biodegradable Plastics
13 June 2006
|Nationwide demand for E10 would outstrip US production capacity. Click to enlarge.
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is preparing to double the size of its capital spending on a range of projects, including ethanol and biodiesel expansion, coal co-generation and bio-degradable plastic.
Speaking at the Deutsche Bank Global Retail and Consumer Conference in Paris, ADM CEO Patricia Woertz said that the company will spend between $3.5 to $4 billion over the next two to three years, doubling its capital expenditures from the last three years.
With about 25% market share, ADM is currently the largest producer of ethanol in the US. The company is already adding 550 million gallons per year of new ethanol production capacity that will be online by 2008.
Ethanol demand in the US could far exceed the amount mandated by the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, Woertz said, noting that a nationwide demand for E10 would be about double current and announced production capacity. She noted that ADM is not basing its capex plans on such a surge in demand, but did note the distinct possibility of such an increase, assuming that the price for ethanol drops below that of gasoline.
ADM's four primary crops are corn, oilseeds, cocoa and wheat. Although it has announced no plans in this direction, the company is watching the production of ethanol from sugar cane, according to Woertz.
Questioned about the prospects for the US dropping its $0.54/gallon tariff on imported ethanol, Woertz said that she thinks that action unlikely.
Both political parties are more aligned on this subject than almost any other one, and that is to support a renewable fuels industry in the US, so even though there has been a fair amount of talks it doesn't seem like there is interest in removing those tariffs at the moment.
ADM has been partnering with Metabolix to commercialize the Metabolix proprietary PHA (polyhydroxalkanoate) technology. The plant will have an initial annual capacity of 50,000 tons per year.
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Why drop that tariff. Make it so foreign ethanol would cost roughly the same as domestic. Then national E5 or E10 could be achivable. Even make it adjustable to mean ethanol price in US.
But that would be to obvious for our politicians.
For our politicians everything need to be either black or white.
"Both political parties are more aligned on this subject than almost any other one, and that is to support a renewable fuels industry in the US, so even though there has been a fair amount of talks it doesn't seem like there is interest in removing those tariffs at the moment."
Guess who is funding both political parties. Blatant protectionism at its finest.
A stopgap could be sweet sorghum. Sweet sorghum, yielding 600-700 gallons ethanol/acre (sources indicate as low as 400 to as high as 900 gallon/acre), needs more nitrogen than corn (crop rotate with Soy/legume), but a little less water (10-20% less). It has a range of 3.4-6.1 in its energy balance due to irrigation considerations.
____If celluostic ethanol yields 1,000 gallon acre with high to very high energy balance (min 7, objective 10+), then maybe we can start to talk about moving to green energy on ethanol.
____Until then, algae oil (5,000 gallon/acre) looks more promising. Sequestation possibilities (via dumping in offshore river sedimentation zones) are also intriguing.
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"We sincerely wish to put an end to bipartisan bickering," said Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. He then pointed his finger and said, "so nobody like those stupid Republicans! They're a bunch of kaka-doody-heads!"
GOP leadership, in the wake of Gibbs' announcement, went stomping off to their rooms to sulk. They came out after nap-time and had cookies and kool-aid.
"Yeah, well he started it!" said Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele, pointing at President Obama. "He keeps pickin' on us!"
"It wasn't me," said President Obama, "I just said what she said!" He then pointed at Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
"You big poopy head!" Pelosi said. She then kicked the President in the shin. By this time, eerybody was looking at her. "What are you all lookin' at me for," the Speaker said. "The GOP are a bunch of kaka-doody-heads! They won't let me just push the healthcare bill through!" She then stomped off to her room.
As a precautionary measure, the rest of the Obama Cabinet was sent to bed early and will spend the rest of the week with no TV.


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Sasha Stone has been around the Oscar scene since 1999. Almost everything on this website is her fault.
How about this one: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:85th_Academy_Awards_Poster.jpg
thanks, Armando!
added to the page above.
I like the minimalist one better.
Golden Lining Playbook!!! luv the second one
Ew ew ew.
Would it be that hard to take a picture of McFarlane with an Oscar. Why did they photoshop his head on to someone else?
When do they go on sale???
After Tina and Amy, he'll probably look very weak in comparison. Next year, they'll be back with Crystal.
@The Dude – I agree conpletely. Who is MacFarlane? Tina and Amy were just superb.
I'm sorry, but MacFarlane looks so smug. Here's hoping he treats the ceremony with the respect it deserves.
Not impressed at all :/
But it's just a poster after all.. It doesn't mean that the show is going to be awful already! Let's hope for the best
'I'm sorry, but MacFarlane looks so smug. Here's hoping he treats the ceremony with the respect it deserves.'
that's doubtful. I know it's about lighening up the self-importance of the ceremony etc…and lord know it needs it.
But I kind dread watching these comics do their silly, over-the-top gags and jokes about films like Lincoln, Pi, ZD30….
It's one thing to mock the celebrity culture of it, but when they start dressing up as Lincoln or Bin Laden, no thanks.
It can't be worse than Crystal's vaudeville act…that was a cringe fest.
I find it diminishing and insulting to the work these people put into it.
He looks like the Leaning Tower of MacFarlane. lol
I hope he does a great job. Tina and Amy surprised me with how good they were. So they set a high bar.
I totally agree: who's MacFarlaine?
He sucks!
This awards season will partly be remembered for Tina and Amy.
Well, I'm going against the grain and predict that MacFarlane is going to surprise you guys and turn out to be a terrific host. Unfortunately, reading over my predictions, I also guess that he'll be the best thing about the evening for me.
What's going on with the base of the Oscar statuette in this photography?
I can't figure out why it's scrunched up that way. What am I missing?
Is it an "S" that is supposed to stand for Seth?
If so, I'm not liking it.
What's going on with the base of the Oscar statuette in this photography?
I can't figure out why it's scrunched up that way. What am I missing?
I thought it was meant to represent the foundation of the Oscars eroding away the past two years.
Does anybody know if there will be an "85 Years of Oscar poster" available after we all know what the 85th Best Picture is? My 70, 75, and 80-year posters crave company.
This poster apparently has been created for Seth McFarlane, and Seth McFarlane alone.
I fear the same will be the case for the Oscar show itself.
you know, this guy is bright and clever and all (i enjoy his input on Bill Maher's show) and FAMILY GUY has a big following, but there will be LOTS and LOTS of people out there that don't know who the hell he is. i think it will hurt the show. it's as though they'd picked Matt Stone and Trey Parker to host the show.
Funniest is, he is a nominee and has a real shot at winning
The first one is awful. The Oscars is about Oscar not the host. The second one is okay but it's still lacks the "regal" feel of past Oscar posters.
I like the minimalist one better but not by much. This is the best they could come up with for Oscar's 85th year? The "Seth portrait" one is good for publicity in magazines, bus terminals and such but it just doesn't strike the right tone for the "Big Daddy" of movie awards shows. Where's the sense of regal and reverence? I say "Epic Fail".
Where can we purchase an 85th Oscar poster?


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2004 brought Confessions, Usher's first #1 album, and his most successful to date. The third album also features the most hit singles of any Usher album, as "Yeah!" (featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris) "Burn," "Confessions Part II" and "My Boo" (featuring Alicia Keys) all reached #1. In 2008 Usher released his fourth album Here I Stand, which spawned "Love in This Club." His latest albums are the 2010 LP Raymond vs. Raymond, featuring "OMG" and "Hey Daddy"; EP Versus; and 2012 studio album Looking 4 Myself.
Usher is the recipient of numerous music industry awards, including five Grammy Awards. He has collaborated with other R&B artists, including Beyonce, Trey Songz, and Jay-Z. Additionally, he helped launch the career of young R&B star Justin Bieber. Usher's venutres outside the music industry include part ownership of the Cleveland Cavaliers.


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District drags its feet while students face the loss of another year of education
Talk about a gang that couldn't shoot straight. What is it that the Buffalo School District can do right?
Its approach to complying with state directives appears to be just as parent leader Sam Radford describes it: Do as little as possible with as little effort as possible and hope the problem goes away. But the problem isn't the state's relentless demands for improvement, it is the futures of its students that the school district is sacrificing with its unwillingness to act with commitment.
The latest evidence of the district's deficiencies arrived Monday in a letter from the State Education Department to Buffalo Superintendent Pamela C. Brown. In it, Assistant Commissioner for Education Ira Schwartz rejected the district's plan to allow families who want to transfer their children from a low-performing city school to one in good standing.
Parents have that right of transfer, but so many Buffalo schools are substandard that there are few slots available. That doesn't matter, the Education Department ruled in May. It demanded then that the district submit a corrective action plan by the end of June documenting how it would achieve that requirement.
On June 28, the district submitted a plan, all of seven pages long, to allow those transfers. On Monday the Education Department sent the plan back, concluding that it "lacks sufficient detail in terms of goals, progress targets, activities, time lines, documentation and measurement strategies for the department to conclude that the BPS plan" will bring the district into compliance with the state's directive.
Those are significant shortcomings, and are right in line with the district's approach to other requirements set down by the state, including an agreement on teacher evaluations, plans for school improvements and other issues. The district's failures are chronic and, evidently, unique.
Just last week, the Education Department intervened at East and Lafayette high schools, noting that the district had failed three times to produce acceptable turnaround plans for the distressed schools. And while some school officials complain that the state is picking on Buffalo, King retorted: "If they can't figure out how to submit an approvable plan for improvement in these schools, then they are unlike other districts around the state that have figured that out."
The requirement to hammer out a teacher evaluation system was similarly snake-bitten, though in that the efforts of the dysfunctional district were hampered by its collusion with the dysfunctional teachers union. In the end, the district produced a plan that contained a poison pill: a secret side agreement with the union pledging that evaluation results would not be used in making employment decisions.
Under pressure from the state, the district backed out of the agreement, and later so did the union. That leaves the district in limbo, and under threat of losing millions of dollars in government assistance.
Radford, president of the District Parent Coordinating Council, said on Monday that despite the district's ongoing failures, he believes it now has all the tools it needs to turn around the district. Those tools include help from private-sector groups such as Say Yes to Education and the arrival of a new School Board whose freshman members seem committed to breaking the pattern of non-achievement – by students, by the administration and by the School Board.
The first task has to be to deal with educational requirements correctly the first time. That would demonstrate not only professionalism, but a public commitment to the hard work of improving student performance.
To do that, the board and administration need to aim their efforts carefully before they pull the trigger. In that way they can shoot straight with the Education Department, with parents and with students who today are the district's unwilling targets.


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Do you actually read the shit you write (and notice when a sentence is being cut off), or do you just hit "publish" without giving it a second look?
Never mind. I think I've answered my own question. But kudos to you for at least making this FAIL Hump Day-related. That takes true talent!
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One of the toughest races in North America, the Tour de Beauce is back, the UCI 2.2 stage race starts tomorrow TuesdayJune 15 and ends six days later after 762 kms (474 miles) of racing. With hardly a mile of flat roads, and generally rough tarmac, the Tour de Beauce offers some stiff racing miles for any team. For its 25th edition, the organizers have revamped some of the stages, notably the new downtown circuit in Quebec City which follows the same course as the upcoming ProTour race in September. Also, the traditional Friday evening crit in St Georges has been removed.
Last year's winner Scott Zwizanski is not returning as his Kelly Benefit Strategies team has chosen to race at Nature Valley Grand Prix, which conflicts on the North American schedule once again. But have no fear, quite a few returning champions are coming back in a competitive and high-caliber field. 2005 winner Nathan O'Neill (Bahati Foundation), 2006 winner Valeriy Kobzarenko (Team Type 1) and 2007 winner Ben Day (Fly V Australia) are all returning and are all contenders for the overall once again.
After crashing hard at the Amgen Tour of California, Day seems to be back on form as proven by his win at the Chrono de Gatineau, the UCI time trial this past weekend. Having just married a native of the area (who he met at the race years ago), Day does have an affinity for this event. The Australian team can also count on Darren Lill as a contender and of course native Charles Dionne who always aims for the Quebec City stage.
On the hunt for a sponsor, the Bahati Foundation is extra motivated for the race. Watch Cesar Grajales on the Mont Megantic stage where skinny climbers always shine, and a good candidate for the KOM. Team Type 1 is counting on not only Kobza but Chris Jones and Mike Creed for the overall while the other squad members watch for opportunities.
The BMC team is bringing an interesting mix of GC contenders and stage hunters. Third overall in 2005, Jeff Louder should be in the mix especially as Louder typically gets stronger as thelatter part of the season. Chad Beyer is one to watch when the road goes up and should be in the running for the KOM once again.
UnitedHealthcare p/b Maxxis split its roster between Beauce and Nature Valley this year. Marc de Maar who just won the overall at Mt Hood after finishing top 15 at the Amgen Tour of California should be in the mix. Another one to watch is Max Jenkins anytime the road goes up, especially on the Mont Megantic stage.
One cannot talk about a Canadian race without mentioning the Spidertech powered by Planet Energy team. François Parisien and Ryan Roth are the two riders aiming for GC while Lucas Euser, who had a strong showing in California at his first stage race since his accident, could surprise.
The Felt-Holowesko Partners-Garmin U23 team can always be counted to be aggressive as his the Canadian National Team led by Will Routley with Marsh Cooper. Other teams include Garneau Club Chaussures, DCM, Restore Cycling Team Holland, Amore & Vita -Conad, Sc Wledenbruck 2000, Global Cycling Team, Heraklio-Murcia, Ckt Champion System, Équipe Québec and Team Spirit-Cibc Wood Gundy. (See full roster)
Five jerseys at play in the race. The yellow jersey sponsored by Desjardins for the GC leader, the white jersey sponsored by Hydro-Quebec for sprint leader, the polkadot jersey sponsored Rocky Mountain for the King of the Mountain (KOM) leader, the red jersey sponsored by Georgesville for the Best Young Rider (U23) leader and the blue jersey sponsored by Quebec City for the winner of the Quebec City stage,
The stages. The traditional opener of the race continues to be the 165 km (102.5 mi) Lac-Etchemin / Lac-Etchemin stage which takes place north in the region of Bellechasse on Tuesday June 15. (See cheat sheet)
Redrawn this year by the organizers, stage 2, the Thetford Mines/Thetford Mines stage should again give the riders quite a challenge in the first half of this 160 km (99.4 mi) stage that highlights the lakes and mountains of the towns surrounding Thetford Mines.
Next, the competitors will have to face the monster climb of Mont Megantic to finish stage 3 on Thursday June 11. Starting in St-Georges and culminating at an observatory perched on top of the highest paved road in Quebec, the 154 km (95.7 mi) route has been slightly tamed this year with a few modifications. The final 5-km climb to the finish line has an average gradient of 7.9%, a leg killer.
A brand new route for the ITT this year in St-Rene. An out-and-back 20 km (12.4 mi) course which goes downhill to the turnaround and a 100-meter climb back to the finish line. Riders will start at one minute interval with the last 10 riders off every two minutes.
Saturday brings the Quebec City Circuit Race. A new 11.6 km circuit in downtown Quebec City, the same circuit as the Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec Pro Tour race in September. The downtown loop, covered 11 times, will lead the cyclists down the Gilmore hill and along the river before attacking the Côte de la Montagne Street. A total of 127.6 km (79.3 mi) that day.
The race ends on Sunday with the traditional circuit race in downtown Saint-Georges, 12-km course for a total of 135.3 km (84.1 mi) that day. It's a tough one with a climb every loop to the start/finish line.


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TEHRAN, June 3 (UPI) -- Israel will collapse and surrender to Islamic fighters, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted Sunday.
"We will witness the destruction of this regime in the near future," Ahmadinejad said in commemorating the death of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Ahmadinejad said the countdown to Israel's destruction began when Israel invaded Lebanon last year, the Jerusalem Post reported.
"With the help of all the Lebanese and Palestinian fighters, anyone who works for God and believes in the power of the people will prevail," Ahmadinejad said.
Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki urged Hamas and the Islamic Jihad to continue to fight Israel. "The Palestinian people are a mighty people and there is a need to continue with the resistance," Mottaki said.


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Christmas in Indian River
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Join the fun in downtown Indian River for this fun family event held every year on the Friday following Thanksgiving.
Santa Claus arrives in a parade, story time by Mrs. Claus, free soup and hot dogs, tree lighting, pictures with Santa Claus, Indian River businesses open late with specials. The fun begins at 5pm.
Indian River is on the shores of Burt Lake near I-75, about 25 miles south of Mackinaw City.


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Meet WOW Instructor, Dave Raffel
When Dave Raffel (in blue shirt, left) teaches in Bradley's World of Wonder (WOW) summer camp for gifted and talented youth, he is pushing the boundaries for his students – and himself.
"I want to make sure I make [the students'] experience in my classroom the best possible one they can have."
Raffel, an 8-year veteran of the WOW program, is one of 15 teachers who annually join the staff of the World of Wonder.
"I'm always amazed to meet the other teachers and learn from them. I get to work with the best of the best," says Raffel.
Raffel has taught a variety of WOW classes – writing, math, theatre, history – and with each experience, he is reminded that gifted kids don't usually have the same opportunities to improve academically as their athletically talented counterparts.
"A good athlete can go somewhere in the summer to get better, but there are not opportunities [for gifted kids] to explore and do things in areas they excel in," explains Raffel. "In Central Illinois there is no better place [for them] to go. World of Wonder is the best."
Dave agrees that being an instructor for WOW has made him a better teacher during the rest of the school year. "I truly believe all kids are gifted, and our job as teachers is to find that."
Sometimes this means you have to be open to working with children who may be smarter than you, says Raffel.
"You have to be comfortable in your skin as a teacher, because you're going to run into students who know a lot more about a topic than you…A good teacher finds ways to push [students'] learning…to help them learn on their own – more facilitating than dispensing knowledge."
Still, even a conscientious teacher like Raffel can have self-doubts. "I'm always thinking, 'what could I have done better for those students?' But then I come back the next day, and I hear kids talking about what I was doing in class or what they were learning, and I realize I AM reaching these kids."
"I see them grow intellectually and socially as people and feel 'maybe I've had a hand in that.' "
Dave Raffel, and 14 like-minded teachers, will join World of Wonder this summer at Bradley University. A one week program for gifted and talented youth, WOW meets twice: June 18 – 22 and August 6 – 10.
Your child won't want to miss it!
Dave Raffel, a behavior intervention specialist in Germantown Hills School District 69, was recently promoted to be the district's Junior High Principal.


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Writing Resources for Naming Your Characters
Have you ever read one of those epic fantasy novels in which the magical characters can gain total control over any living being (or non-living object) simply by discovering its real and true name? I've read about ten of those novels.
What do you think is more perplexing, the fact that authors continue to use this rule of magic (even though it's tired and ready to be retired) or the astounding number of unique names that writers come up with for all the characters in these stories?
Dubworthy or Dubless?
I have been known to spend hours pondering names and wondering how a writer managed to choose a name that so perfectly fit a character, especially characters that are iconic: Holden Caulfield, Harry Potter, Hamlet, Hanibal Lechter. And they don't all start with the letter H: Ebenezer Scrooge, Mary Poppins, Sherlock Holmes, Gollum, Cinderella, Willy Wonka, Scarlett O'Hara. The list goes on and on. And it doesn't stop with literary characters. Remarkable character names can also be found in movies, comic books, and on TV.
Think about the most famous, unforgettable, and compelling characters. They have names that are memorable, names that resonate with the character's energy: Bond. James Bond. How do you forget a guy like that?
You don't.
But here's a better question. How does a writer come up with a name like that?
The Name is the Game
Let me be blunt. I suck at coming up with names. I can't begin to tell you how many hours I've spent pondering great names and trying to come up with handles for my poor, nameless characters. But names elude me. They do. So, what do I do when my fiction writing antics require me to name a character? Well, if I'm already in the throes of writing, I generally write the characters' names generically and in all caps:
GIRL is walking down the street and freezes when she spots ANIMAL sitting in the middle of the road.
But I can't avoid naming forever. The story is never finished until everybody is named, and I find that I can't get very deep into the tale when I'm working with nameless characters. So, I do what any resourceful writer does. I turn to my handy-dandy writing resources.
Enter, Internet
The internet is always my first choice for research. I use an online dictionary and thesaurus. When I need a quick fact, I've been known to obtain it from Wikipedia (judiciously, of course) and I also use the open-source, online encyclopedia as a starting place to look for more credible research (they often have excellent annotations). And when I need a name, I've engaged the power of Google (a search engine that happens to have a fantastic name of its own).
I've googled boy names and girl names, exotic names, and androgynous names. I've done it in reverse too, and searched for names by their meaning. I've gotten lucky a few times and found just the right name for a character. You can also find online tools that generate character names, which is awesome if you can use a name like Magaga Dawntracker.
But looking for a name on the web is like looking for a song in your iPod when you can't remember the title or artist. It takes forever. And you find yourself endlessly perusing, clicking, and nodding your head (or shaking it, as the case may be). I guess the benefit is that all those names you peruse might spark ideas for other characters, but what about the character you've already created? The one whose lack of a name launched you into this quest in the first place?
It's not like this was a one-time ordeal. Name searching became a major time-suck for me. And fiction writing started to feel more like climbing Mount Everest than a creative experience. I went through this ridiculous cycle more times than I care to recall.
And then one day, I was happily browsing through my favorite bookstore, a local and independent bookstore, and this book popped out at me:
A World of Baby Character Names
Okay, so technically, the title of this book is A World of Baby Names. But I'm not naming any babies. This is strictly about naming characters.
Even though this was the first name book that I noticed, I checked out several others before buying this one. It had some features I thought might be useful. Turns out I was right. I've used this book a lot. A whole lot.
What I like best about it is that the names are separated by country of origin. And there are tons of names in this book that my American self has never heard before. I can look at the Hindu names and the Polish names, and then I can get creative and start combining them.
The names are also sorted by gender. That makes looking for an androgynous name a little challenging, but on the other hand, there's a nice index, so I can scroll through every single name in a few minutes — a great method for finding a name that pops out at me. I can then navigate to the name page and find out what it means.
Each section also includes a written introduction about names in various cultures, which is pretty cool.
If you struggle with naming characters the way I do, then you should seriously consider getting this book or one like it.
A Few, Final Tips and Resources for Naming Characters
Readers have made tons of excellent suggestions since this article was first published. Here are their additions to the ever-growing list of resources for naming characters:
- Visit Behind the Name to peruse names and their meanings. You can browse by gender and/or nationality.
- Keep a special notebook (or a page/section in your notebook just for names. Make sure you jot down interesting names whenever you come across them and when you need a name, you'll have your own stockpile!
- Do you have a smart phone or tablet? Search for "baby naming" or "character naming" apps. Tip: check the ratings and read the reviews to make sure you pick the best apps available.
- Want to choose names based on data and statistics? The U.S. Social Security Administration shows most popular names by year, decade, state, and territory!
A Rose By Any Other Name
How do you come up with character names? Do you have a name book? Is there a website you use? Do you have a knack for choosing names using nothing more than your own brilliant imagination? What are some of your all-time favorite character names? And finally (here's a question for the most creative souls out there), can you think of any other good uses for a baby name book, other than naming babies and fictional characters?


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best way to remove sludge from the engine?
hey guys. i just picked up a steal of a ZJ, and long story short, its got some serious sludge. so much infact, a clogged pushrod went right through a rockerarm. anyway, whats the best way to clean this stuff out?
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brake cleaner works good I know that... lol
Had that happen on a Chevy 305. I ran a quart of Gunk engine flush right before the next oil change and that got about half of it. Did another flush right before the next oil change and that got the rest. The flush is hard on the oil pressure sensor though, I've had three fail within a couple months of a flush so probably a good idea to remove or replace it. The sludge went away but the flush also loosened a bunch of hard deposits on the inside of the valve cover that ended up falling down and clogging the oil drains in the head. I had to take of the valve cover and remove the hard stuff by hand. If you follow the directions on the can it's safe to use, run engine till hot, add flush, idle for 5 min, drain and add fresh oil. Don't rev the engine or you can scuff a bearing since the flush thins the oil and reduces its film strength.
Seafoam will do the trick. The main (working) ingredient in seafoam is Kerosene. If you talk to old-timers, a lot will actually tell you to dump your oil, throw kerosene in the engine (instead of oil) and run it for a minute or two at a decent RPM (2500 or so). The problem with that is kerosene is much thinner than oil and does not create the barrier the way that oil does so you definitely do not want to overdue it. With seafoam you just add a little bit into your valve cover and a little bit you suck in through your brake booster vacuum line (you can also dump a half a can or so into the gas tank, however, that will make you smoke badly for a while). Run that for around 50-100 miles and then do an oil change. Repeat if needed.
You can get SeaFoam at any auto parts store. It will be near the fuel addatives/brake clean/etc.
I also run Pennzoil high mileage and that seems to do me pretty well. They advertise it as 80% sludge gone in the first oil change if I remember correctly. :dunno: It's keeping mine clean though.
I planned on using seafoam anyway. It's an amazing product. But it's really gummed up in there and I was wondering if anyone had any tricks. I poured some kero down pushrods to clean up the lifters. I guess I'll use Pennzoil oil changes for the first few miles. Thanks guys!
If you have that much sludge you probably need to clean your TB also. I'd pick up a can of TB cleaner while you're at it.
Too bad it's not silly. It really can cause premature engine damage. MOST additive packages will be fine when mixed, however, not all additive packages will mix without causing premature engine damage.
This isn't coming from some random garage mechanic, this is coming from my world class technical school education.
I'm not saying that if you mix pennzoil and royal purp your engine is going to implode and cause a black hole that will suck up the earth.
It can cause premature engine damage (mainly gaskets and seals) though.
The best way is to have motor professionally vatted and cleaned. Sludge gets burned in. Doubt you can get all it with flushing.
I will believe what I want which are facts.
:lol: That article is about the effects of mixing synthetic oil with a petroleum based oil. I am talking about the additive packages. Two different things.
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Use Internet Explorer? You're Probably Dumb, Study Says
By Jonathan Walczak
Seattle Weekly
July 29 2011
People who use Internet Explorer have lower IQs than people who use other browsers like Firefox or Google Chrome, a new study finds [ http://www.aptiquant.com/IQ-Browser-AptiQuant-2011.pdf ].
AptiQuant, a Vancouver, B.C., company founded in 2006, administered 101,326 IQ tests to people who visited their website over a four-week period. Researchers hypothesized that since tech-savvy people are typically smarter, those who adopted new browsers in recent years probably had a higher IQ. They were right.
"A significant number of individuals with a low score on the cognitive test were found to be using Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) versions 6.0 to 9.0," the study found.
Visitors to AptiQuant's website arrived via search engines and ads looking to take a free IQ test. The company told them it was collecting some personal information for a study, but didn't reveal the nature of the study.
"The comparison clearly suggests that more people on the higher side of [the] IQ scale have moved away from Internet Explorer in the last five years," the study says.
AptiQuant founder Leonard Howard explained the motivation for the study in an e-mail to Seattle Weekly. "We were just trying to add some features to our website, and found IE 6.0 and 7.0 to be extremely difficult to work with," he said. "So we thought of doing this study."
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