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Is the Ford EcoSport with its high and wide go-anywhere stance with the exterior package being clothed in SUV-style sheet metal and yet drives like a front wheel drive hatchback? We take it for a nice spin around Goa to give you a more in-depth analysis
Nothing better suggests the very concept and build of the newest Ford in India than the spanking EcoSport which is ready for a mid-June launch, more than a year and a half after we first saw a full size mock-up at the last Auto Expo. It hasn't always been to Ford's great strength in using its SUV-experience in the US to try and develop an SUV-ish vehicle for emerging markets and even though it did try once to come close with the Fusion, the smallish alter-hatch flattered only to be deceived on the pricing front. Mind you the Fusion was delightful but priced out of reach and this impacted and/or signified most moves Ford has made in India so far. But then this is not about Fusion or the past but about a new move forward and thus EcoSport.
First off the very basic aspect of the visual is the strong retention to the original concept and here Ford certainly has broken new ground for a car that has much riding on it. Never before did Ford ever launch an all-new car in India (well we could be forgiven for saying this but then this car is also made in Brazil) but this time round the timing and the basic proposition are spot-on, even though we do not as yet know the pricing. Additionally, the onus on the technology applied plus the all-new thought on downsized engines should pay off big (on operational costs) as well without skimping on the pleasure-to-drive aspect which is so fundamental whether it be an entry-level hatch or a big bore sports car!
It is a proven fact the world over that everyone and his or her grandmother aspires to drive and own an SUV. If that weren't so why would Chidambaram and his cabinet buddies impose a blatantly arrogant tax on cars which are ideal to traverse broken down roads which the very same bunch have apparently not mended? But this is not the time to digress and yes there did always exist a sweet spot for small compact automobiles which could have that high and wide go-anywhere stance with the exterior package being clothed in SUV-style sheet metal and yet drive like a front wheel drive hatchback.
If anything Premier Automobiles found this spot but the Rio hasn't exactly found the sweet bit as yet! And therein lies the gap between it on one hand and the Renault Duster on the other and one has to see how Ford positions the EcoSport in this band or beyond it (yes they can do it as they have demonstrated so ably to their chagrin in the past!). Price positioning on value will be key because that may make or break this model which has been hyped for so long.
Employing Ford's kinetic design philosophy, if ever a car screams go-anywhere so stylishly then it has to be the EcoSport. From its large Aston-clone grille dominating the front end to the excessively raked windscreen and sculpted sides plus that obviously wedgey glazed area culminating in a wrapped up rear windscreen, this is surely a finely turned out offering, stylish without being an overt dandy and looking substantial the way an SUV is perceived to be.
Even with its high squat stance riding on ample 205/60 R16 tyres, the EcoSport means business but without sacrificing its aerodynamic efficiency. If anything the EcoSport shows the value of time spent doing ample CFD work and in the wind tunnel tweaking the exterior and also the underfloor area has resulted in it having one of the most finely tuned exteriors able to cut its way through the wind. An aerodynamic co-efficient of drag of just 0.371 marks the EcoSport as a most slippery performer, even though it might not appear overtly to be so!
Riding on a 2520mm wheelbase, the EcoSport is just a millimetre shy of nudging the 4-metre mark and that is of course sans its tailgate mounted spare wheel. And this spare mounted for all the world to see further adds to the go-anywhere perception of the vehicle. Mind you the tailgate which is hinged sideways has obviously been designed with countries which drive on the right hand side in mind, as it swivels open from right to left.
This obvious glitch aside as also the wiper and indicator stalk switches on the steering column for the right hand drive roads, everything else about the EcoSport falls naturally to hand. Open the doors to step in or out and the ease with which you do the deed highlights natural form to make things easy for kids, women and the old. It is, however, when you get into the cabin that you realise how compact this 'SUV' really is.
A well-designed steering wheel with audio controls and brushed aluminium inserts sets the tone while the pronounced dashboard lifted straight from the Fiesta but with slight detail changes looks pretty much par for the course. The angled air con vents on the central panel as well as on the extremes of the dashboard have been made to be both functional and add to the visual delight, much the same as the rotary switch console for the climate control system.
Analogue instruments thankfully find favour in the EcoSport but there is a driver information display placed venally atop the dashboard which spews out real-time data should you need to keep tab on driving distances, mileage, etc. The quality of the materials employed is not flashy but functional and the fit and finish is impressive, from the door pads to the roof lining, from the form of the seats to the way the tactile bits feel reassuringly good.
There is an element of feel good about the front end of the cabin which has been carried over at the rear as well but only if you want to seat two in reasonable comfort! Mind you the wide stance one makes of the EcoSport from the outside disappears within thanks to average shoulder space which rules out comfortable seating for three.
If you want to see a paragon of space efficiency then look no further than the Honda Amaze but the EcoSport can only have a small child wedged between two adults and that too with none of them being comfortable in the least bit! I think that some of that design flourish on the exterior has been carved at the expense of the useable width in the car as if to reflect on the compact SUV theme!
However, there is ample leg and head room at the rear for two adults but then again the lack of a central armrest plus the glaring lack of grab rails on the ceiling do make us ask as to is this it or is it still WIP - work in progress? I asked one of the Ford boffins at the media drive about this and he also had a valid point - what to do if shoulder and head air bags were to be specified? I think the whole point of his argument was lost because those specifying the air bags would be the rarest of rare - in India that is, but those cursing Ford for not keeping grab rails would send across loud and clear signals, maybe using colourful colloquial language to ram home their point!
The good thing though is that it is not just about the visual drool appeal that has us excited but for sure what is under the hood and how that works to move the mass is the one key area where Ford has made the biggest advance to seduce the mind! And that too most emphatically ever in its second Indian foray beginning since the early 1990s.
So many speak about small engines being loaded with top-drawer physics to do the impossible but here we have a small sub-one-litre triple with turbocharging and direct injection plus a few smart yet logical thoughts punching above its weight. Mind you others have also made three-pot motors but here the thought is to make virtue out of a packaging solution even when you have the odds stacked up against you. I will not repeat what I have said about the new technological marvel that is the 999cc EcoBoost motor suffice to say that it works brilliantly in doing more with less!
Ford will be offering the EcoSport with three engine options which include the 999cc EcoBoost plus the 1.5-litre petrol and diesel engines which do duty in the Fiesta. All three engines come mated to the standard 5-speed manual gearbox also employed in the Fiesta though the 1.5-litre petrol can also be specified with the six-speed Ford PowerShift automatic transmission. We haven't had an opportunity to drive the larger engined EcoSports but then the paradigm shifter EcoBoost makes such talk redundant. It might not have four-wheel drive but even with front wheel drive Ford has equipped the EcoSport with enough tech to ensure that it apes an SUV in certain situations - Hill Launch Assist is one where it helps the driver make a start on an incline in utmost safety.
Before I move on to the actual driving assessment, a mention must be made about the structure and the suspension. The overall monocoque is a pretty robust yet well thought out piece of engineering which makes do with normal suspension aggregates (MacPherson struts up front and torsion beam set-up at the rear) to deliver a good balance of ride and handling. Special boron steel along with other grades of ultra-high-strength steel have been used to make the super-structure not just light but strong with high levels of impact resistance to dissipate crash forces away from occupants.
First things first and that is all about the way the three-pot motor has been mounted in the vehicle along with the clever out of sync thought to cancel the primary vibes which afflict most such triples. Having to make do without a balancer shaft necessitated many new innovative thoughts and all of them were in the direction of reducing NVH and that is one of the strong aspects of the drive experience - refined, relaxed and comfortable. How many can attribute this to the performance aspect I don't want to wade into suffice to state that to get to doing more from less has begun with exceedingly low levels of NVH from the design stage itself and this is a big strength of the EcoSport.
The engine fires up whirringly with none of that primary rocking and yet gets into a steady idle straightaway. Once on the move as you go up through the 'box, what strikes you is a seamless stream of torque which is thick yet not obtrusive, and all the while hinting that there is more to come should you need it. Of course there is a way to modulate your right foot on the loud pedal because this is where it can reward you big, both on performance and also on fuel efficiency and this lightness of foot has to be the way to getting more from less!
I like the surge of the engine when needing to overtake on tight Goan roads or on the highway where dropping a cog from fifth produced a good burst to move past long artics and then hold steady at around 2200 to 2400 rpm. This is the modern way of the petrol engined world, one which engineers have tried to make it ape a diesel without sacrificing the feel and refinement plus zest of a spark ignition offering.
I think that it rewards in very many ways and should one perfect the light-of-foot approach to driving then you will have the pleasure sans the pain. Speaking of which I was happy with the way the simple turbo spooled up quickly with barely any lag except of course if in time honoured Indian driving habits of lugging it from way too low engine speeds in too high a cog then the inevitable does result. So while Ford's engineers have revisited the basic tenets of the internal combustion engine, many a driver would do well to re-approach the way he or she drives to get the best out of this brilliant motor. Of course we haven't been able to put it through the test regime but overall the feel and the delivery mark it out as ultra capable. Just for the record, the ARAI test has pegged the EcoBoost-powered EcoSport at 18.9 kmpl.
The manual 5-speed gearbox is delightful in not just its cog swapping action but also in the feel and the short throws which provide a sporty edge to the pleasure. If that is not all, the surety of precise steering from the EPAS electrically assisted steering gear is another delightful detail - unobtrusive but highly effective. This also has the Pull-Drift Compensation system incorporated within to sense out road surfaces and deliver the correct steering inputs for better directional stability. The Active Nibble Control built into the steering system further cancels out vibrations and other details from spoiling the steering feel without cancelling the feedback to the driver. The EcoSport delights with its 10.65 metre turning circle making it a highly manoeuvrable animal in the urban environment.
Ride and handling is an area where the EcoSport has got a good balance going. Many a time I have heard many so-called proponents suggesting Ford makes the best driver-oriented cars only for them to come croppers when it comes to all-round family usage. The EcoSport is one car where the car delights with good manners in the handing department yet tops it without compromising on the ride element. For all round family usage this is critical and maybe Ford has heard this for long and acted on it to a degree. I made it a point to be driven while seated at the rear on the rutted Goa roads and I was impressed enough with the way the EcoSport rode the bumps and the craters yet remained composed without unsettling me in the back. Made me aware of the lack of grab rails though!
Another very important feel good detail on the car is the climate control system though it can take time to cool the rear. We had the top line Titanium trim version where it came with 16-inch alloys wrapped in MRF rubber, rear parking sensors, keyless entry, leather seats (would have much preferred good quality fabric stuff here for India) and steering wheel, push button start, a slew of air-bags and of course SYNC, the new gen connectivity platform that it has engineered with Microsoft. This is the first expression of this system in a Ford car in India and uses voice commands from the driver for activating music, making calls, etc. It is also hooked up to 108 helpline should it detect the air bags have been deployed or the fuel pump has been shut off, both cases indicating a mishap or such making quick rescue aid attempts possible.
I could go on and on about this delightful little gem but knowing Ford and the way it has worked in India so far, I would like to see it play off its price positioning for this vehicle and also to see how well it delivers in the real world in the long term. These are key indicators of which one would be answered by mid-June while the latter and more telling aspect would only be revealed some months down the line. Whatever be it though, the die has been cast. Small triples can never stay as they have been, it is the EcoBoost manner or nothing is the way forward.


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PhotoVault v4.0.4
Requirements: Android OS 1.5+
Overview: Hide pictures behind a password. Nobody can see the pictures you hide.
With PhotoVault, privacy is no longer an issue. You can show your photo gallery to all the friends, family, and strangers on the bus that you want because the embarrassing, the secret, the private photos are all hidden from view, tucked away in your Private gallery. In fact, when in Public mode, those hidden photos aren't even part of your photo gallery--their very existence is hidden. And more than just hidden from other people, they're hidden from other apps.
You can even set PhotoVault itself to open in Public mode, so it appears just like a standard photo gallery to any who might pick up your Android or be looking over your shoulder. Until, that is, you enter the password.
You, of course, have complete access to the photos in your Private gallery. You can manipulate them; share them via e-mail, messaging, Facebook, and other social networks; give a slide show; and more. You can do anything with them that you can with those in the Public gallery. The photos are easily transferred from Public gallery to Private gallery and back again with just a long-click on the photo's thumbnail.
If you ever have any questions on how it all works, there are instructions in the app and links to online support and FAQs. Best yet, the developer is actively working on PhotoVault, adding new features and taking requests.
Never be nervous about the privacy of the photos on your Android again with PhotoVault installed.
It is best in this category. The key features are:
- Simple hide/unhide one picture at a time by long hold on the picture thumbnail.
- Multi-select to hide/unhide group of pictures
- Multi-select to delete group of pictures
- Simple hide/unhide a whole folder of pictures by long hold on the folder
- View single picture in full size on both public and private side.
- Slideshows on both public and private side
- Share picture on both public and private side
- Organize private pictures into different folders.
- Create your own private folders.
- Set app into Public mode, which disguise the app as a regular gallery, no private pictures showing. And no password is asked till click on menu->"Change Mode" to enter password to enable all features
There is no other app on the Market can do all of these.
What's in this version:
Fixed multi-select icon color to be more noticeable.
Please upgrade database to migrate all your private pictures. Otherwise, they will remain hidden
If you lost pictures after upgrade, remember to run rescue missing private picture tool
Contact us if you have any questions. We can't respond to problem through the market reviews.
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Browsing places within 10 miles of Southdowne
Rustic Riddle. Day = cafe, dinning room and bakery. Evening = restaurant, bar lounge. Anytime on site and online = gifts.
Rustic Riddle, Manor House Farm, West End, Ulrome, East Yorkshire, YO25 8TN (6 miles, 10 km)
tel: 01262 469300
On an evening we open the Parisi Restaurant, you can relax with a drink while browsing our fine dining menu with optional tasting menu, we will then show you to your table in the the building we used to call the arches.
Rustic Riddle, Manor House Farm, West End, Ulrome, East Yorkshire, YO25 8TN (6 miles, 10 km)
tel: 01262 469300
We provide freshly prepared dishes using the best ingredients and with views overlooking the fabulous South Bay the restaurant provides the perfect venue for you to enjoy your evening.
South Pier, Bridlington, YO15 3AW (1 miles, 1 km)
tel: 01262 400355
At Rustic's we offer the ultimate and unique dining experience.
30 Queen Street, Bridlington, East Yorkshire, YO15 2SN (1 miles, 1 km)
tel: 07557402374
The Lobster Pot is situated on the gateway to Bridlington town centre on the A165.
184, Kingsgate, Bridlington, East Yorkshire, YO15 3NG (0 miles, 1 km)
tel: 01262 602834
It has an extensive authentic menu with a full range of pasta and meat dishes plus the chance to watch your own pizza made with fresh homemade dough and quality toppings.
Italian Cuisine
Manor Court, 53 Main Street, Carnaby, Bridlington, YO16 4UJ (2 miles, 3 km)
tel: 01262 606468
Family-run country hotel and restaurant. Situated 100yds from sea with excellent reputation for food, service and atmosphere.
The North Star Hotel, North Marine Road, Flamborough, East Yorkshire, YO15 1BL (5 miles, 9 km)
tel: 01262 850379
JC's Restaurant serves traditional dishes with great service. Children's menu available.
19 - 20 Queen Street, Bridlington, YO15 2SH (1 miles, 2 km)
tel: 01262 606031
The Old Star at Kilham is a Family owned pub, which conveniently the family also have a farm where our beef and logs come from. We use local business to supply us with everything else we need.
The Old Star, Church Street, Kilham, East Riding of Yorkshire, YO25 4RG (7 miles, 11 km)
tel: 01262420619
Buffalo's is an American 'Western' style restaurant in the centre of Bridlington. We sell exotic meats including Wild Boar, Kangaroo and Crocodile, please call to check availability.
1 - 2 Regent's Terrace, Bridlington, YO15 2PB (1 miles, 2 km)
tel: 01262 400090
Small family run restaurant providing a warm and friendly atmosphere. Good home cooked food is served using local produce where available, we serve a wide selection of English Continental cuisine.
Fresh Fish
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73 High Street, Bridlington Old Town, YO16 4PN (1 miles, 2 km)
tel: 01262 673210
Located just two miles outside the busy tourist town of Bridlington, the Ferns provides the best of both worlds, serene and quiet countryside on your doorstep and the bustling sea side town just a few minutes away.
Ferns Farm Hotel, 29 Main Street, Carnaby, East Riding of Yorkshire, YO16 4UJ (1 miles, 2 km)
tel: 01262 678961
"The Lamp Restaurant is located in the heart of Bridlington's historic Old Town, in a grade II listed Victorian building, the restaurant takes its name from the original Victorian gas lamp that is situated in the rear courtyard.
55 High Street, Bridlington, YO16 4PR (1 miles, 2 km)
tel: 01262676305
110, Quay Road, Bridlington, East Yorkshire, YO16 4JB (1 miles, 1 km)
tel: 01262 674592
Yip's Restaurant at Yip's Resaurant
Yip's Resaurant, 12 South Marina Drive, Bridlington, YO15 3BZ (1 miles, 1 km)
tel: 01262 605338
Emperor Ming
1 Landsdowne Road, Bridlington, YO15 2QU (1 miles, 2 km)
tel: 01262 673829
25 Cliff Street, Bridlington, YO15 2NJ (1 miles, 2 km)
tel: 01262 401054


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Liberty and Coastal Carolina are the favorites in the Big South Conference�s annual preseason poll for the 2013 season in a vote of the League�s head coaches. (See accompanying poll list.)
In addition, the coaches voted Campbell All-America second baseman Michael Felton and Radford standout shortstop Jeff Kemp of Radford the Conference�s Preseason Co-Players of the Year. Right-hander Aaron Burke of Coastal Carolina (seven saves, 1.58 ERA) was named the Big South Preseason Pitcher of the Year.
With a record 12 members in 2013, the Big South will have divisional play in men�s baseball for the first time in league history. Liberty is the preseason favorite to win the North Division with Coastal Carolina earning the plaudit for the South Division.
Defending Big South Champion Coastal Carolina was a unanimous selection to win the South Division as it received all 12 first-place votes. Rusty Stroupe�s Gardner-Webb squad was tabbed second, ahead of ahead of Charleston Southern
Defending Big South Champion Coastal Carolina was a unanimous selection to win the South Division as it received all 12 first-place votes and 72 points. Gardner-Webb placed second with 48 points, ahead of Charleston Southern who picked up 42 points.
The Flames received seven top votes and 67 points to take the Northern top spot, followed by Campbell with one vote for first place and 55 points. High Point�s four No. 1 votes and 53 points rounded out the top three in the North Division.
The Big South baseball season begins on Friday, Feb. 15 with 11 teams in action.
The Runnin� Bulldogs open the season with a four-game series at home versus Dayton on Feb. 15.
Gardner-Webb has high hopes in 2013, with seven returning position starters and its entire compliment of starting pitchers returning from a 33-28 campaign a year ago.
The 2013 Big South Baseball Championship runs May 21-15 at the Liberty Baseball stadium in Lynchburg, Va.
2013 Big South Baseball
Preseason Poll
Northern Divison
Place, Team (1st -place votes) and total points
1. Liberty (7) 67
2. Campbell (6) 55
3. High Point (4) 53
4. Radford 39
6. Longwood 16
Southern Division
1. Coastal Carolina (12) 72
2. Gardner-Webb 48
3. Charleston Southern 42
4. Winthrop 36
5. UNC Asheville 28
6. Presbyterian 26
Note: points based on a weighted system. First-place votes in each division received 6 points, followed by 5 points for second-place, etc.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio State University says Heisman Trophy winner and former Tennessee Titans star running back Eddie George is returning to his alma mater as assistant vice president for business advancement.
His new duties at Ohio State include promoting health and wellness initiatives, helping with fundraising and alumni relations, and mentoring student-athletes about professional development. The school announced George's role Tuesday.
He says it's an honor to work for the university and apply what he has learned as a student, an athlete and the head of multiple companies.
George has a degree in landscape architecture from Ohio State, where he won the Heisman Trophy in 1995. He played for the Titans from 1996 to 2003 and finished his NFL career as a Dallas Cowboy for one season.


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Repairing Plaster Walls
Restoring Plaster Walls - Setting Type Joint Compounds
If you have ever owned an older home, you must surely be aware of the pluses and minuses of plaster walls. Their durability, smoothness, sound deadening qualities and sheer mass make them very attractive. Plasters only negative, as I see it, is that it tends to react like glass when subjected to stress. In other words, plaster cracks.
Random or Systematic?
Cracks in plaster happen for a variety of reasons. Lumber shrinkage, seasonal moisture changes, wind forces, foundation movement, expansive clay soil movement, excessive loading, etc. all can cause cracks in plaster. Some cracks can be traced directly to a certain cause while some are tougher to diagnose.
It is important to try to determine the cause of cracking prior to repair. The reason being that if your house, wall or ceiling is mobile or in a state of motion, the crack will undoubtedly reappear. Certain cracks are very interesting. These are the ones that plague many houses in climates that experience wide humidity changes from summer to winter.
Wood - Like a Sponge...
Wood expands and contracts in response to changes in the humidity of the air that surrounds it. In other words, wood is a hygroscopic material. Plaster, on the other hand, is very stable. It is very strong if you try to squeeze it, however it is very weak if you try to bend or stretch it.
Thus, if the wood framing members of your house begin to stretch or expand, the plaster can and will pop. There is very little you can do to prevent this, other than trying to maintain a constant indoor humidity level.
Plaster and Old Age
Remember your body and skin when you were 10 years old? I'll bet it was smooth and virtually blemish free. What do you think your skin will look like when you are 70 or 80 years old? Well, a house is not much different.
Houses develop joints just like your elbows and knees where they bend to relieve stresses. Walls and ceilings also react to the force of gravity over time, just as our skin. Thus, it is not unreasonable for an older house to exhibit wrinkles, cracks, and other blemishes.
Fixing the Cracks
OK, so now that the plaster is cracked it is time to fix it. Time after time I have seen homeowners struggle to fix a crack using spackling compound. They are told to chisel the crack into a V shape and fill away! Well the patch looks fine until the house or wall moves the next time. The crack reappears.
The most long lasting repairs are made when you bridge the crack with a material that can absorb the periodic movement that most cracks experience. This is achieved by using either a standard drywall paper tape or a fiberglass mesh tape. The crack is coated with a compound that adheres to the plaster and coats the tape at the same time.
In all but the worst cases, cracks repaired with tape remain smooth for a long period of time.
The Gop
One of the first jobs I did after I got married was the rehabilitation of an old farm house. I was helping some friends. Marcy was helping me apply some premixed drywall joint compounds onto new drywall. She used to call the material Gop. I feel it is a very fitting name as it sounds much like the product appears and reacts when dropped. Premixed joint compounds are wonderful products. For all intents and purposes, they are simply water soluble glues mixed with fillers. These premixed compounds work fine for drywall. However, for serious plaster repair you need to use either real plaster or a product that has the properties of both plaster and premixed joint compounds.
The Stuff
You can purchase some wonderful plaster patching compounds that come in 25 pound bags. They are powdered setting type joint compounds. These products actually grow tiny crystals as they dry. These crystals lock into the coarse texture of the plaster base and/or the smooth white or top coat plaster. You can even add sand to these mixtures if you wish to create a textured look.
These compounds come dry because when they are mixed with water they begin to harden. Some of these products contain higher amounts of gypsum. These tend to set up or get hard within 30 minutes of mixing. You can buy mixes that take up to two hours to harden.
An additional advantage of using these products is that in one day repairs are possible. Premixed joint compounds can take a day or more to dry. Repairs can stretch out. I have used the setting type joint compounds and repaired a plaster hole from start to finish in as little as two hours!
Where Do You Get Them?
That is one of the most frequently asked questions. Homeowners miss out on tons of great products. These special dry setting joint compounds are found at drywall supply houses or building supply houses that sell plaster supplies. Only on one occasion have I seen them in a giant home center store.
If you want to get some of these great compounds, you will have to find out where your local builder or remodeler buys drywall.
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4 Responses to Repairing Plaster Walls
Tim, while reading about repairing plaster, which I've done too many times, a pop-up appears, "Expert advice for your home". I've signed up many times for this....and yet it continues the pop-ups. Is there a way to bypass this? It makes it difficult to read articles.
Tim I have used these products several times and always found them at the Big orange Home center. I personally like the fast 20 min set compound when I want to do the job in a few hours.
Up here in Canada we buy our products from "Winroc". I'm not sure they're in the USA.
There are fast setting compounds called west rock 30, 45 and 90. Indicating the setting times. IE west rock 90 sets up in 90 minutes compared to West rock 60 in an hour. For deep holes try a compound called con fill. This has fibre glass in it and can fill 1" deep. Although I've found by coating all of these products with a premixed finish afterwards makes the final sanding a lot easier as the powdered compounds tend to not sand smooth without a lot of hard work.


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According to the results of our recent survey on what working mothers really want for Mother's Day, the gifts that most busy moms treasure most are the ones that their children make for them. Here are five ideas for fun and quick crafts kids can make for Mother's Day:
- Decorate a picture frame. You can make a cute frame out of practically anything, but unadorned wooden frames are available at most fabric and craft stores, and you don't need to get too fancy -- just let your little one have fun!
- Capture a moment in time. A plaster cast of your child's handprint makes a wonderful gift for mom. After all, in just a few years she'll be wondering if her kid really was ever so tiny. (It's less messy that you'd expect, too.)
- Make a bouquet of photo flowers. Regular flowers fade quickly, but these are sure to please for quite a while. (Photo from Kaboose.com.) There are plenty of free-print deals from online photo processors like Artscow.com, Kodakgallery.com, and Snapfish.com -- put them to good use!
- Give her a spa day at home. Our survey results showed that many working mothers would love half a day at the spa, but we have no doubt that all of them would adore a basket of Bath Ice-Cream Bombs made by their kids as well! (Too over-the-top? Scent and dye Epsom Salts and layer them in a pretty jar with a sea-shell for a scoop.)
- Don't feel crafty? Ask your children to list the things they love about their mom, and write them down on pretty paper for her to read (and re-read, over and over again).
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Charles K. Bowman, 86, a lifetime resident of Wabash County, passed away at 3:30 a.m., Tuesday, March 5, in his home in LaFontaine.
He was born to the late Walter and Frances (Sprong) Bowman on April 29, 1926 in Wabash County. He was a 1944 graduate of LaFontaine High School. He married Norma Jean Wendel on Jan. 27, 1950; they were married for 63 years. He was a lifetime farmer and President of Bowman Agri Corp in LaFontaine. He attended The Chapel of Fort Wayne.
Along with his wife, Norma Jean; he is survived by two daughters, Diane Curless, Houston, Texas and Mrs. Kenneth (Joy) Parson, LaFontaine; three sons, Dan Bowman (Georgann) and Kevin Bowman (Kymber), LaFontaine, and Kerry Bowman (Melissa), Indianapolis; eighteen grandchildren, Jennifer Curless, Brandon Curless, Trisha Curless, Rob Curless, Danielle Shaw, Laura Langebartels, Lindsay Bowman, Michael Bowman, Amber Bowman, Kyle Bowman, Evan Bowman, Amy Bowman, Ryan Bowman, Zac Bowman, Levi Bowman, Grace Bowman, Aaron Parson, and Ashley Parson; two sisters, Jeanette Fisher, Huntington, and Mrs. Richard (Miriam) Wright, Scottsdale, Ariz. He was preceded in death by three brothers and two sisters.
Funeral Service will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 9, at McDonald Funeral Home, LaFontaine Chapel 104 S. Main Street, LaFontaine, Indiana 46940. Burial will follow in Grant Memorial Park in Marion, Indiana.
Visitation for family and friends will be from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. on Friday, March 8, at the funeral home.
Preferred memorials are to The Great Commission Fund of The Christian Missionary Alliance in care of the funeral home. Online condolences may be sent to www.mcdonaldfunerals.com.


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In October, fall sports entered the heart of their OVC schedules and men's and women's basketball prepared to begin their seasons. Tennessee State garnered a number of awards, broke records, won games while also building character outside the playing field.
In case you missed them, here are a few TSU highlights from the past couple of months.
Tigers Win Thriller Over Belmont, 3-2
Gilliam and Dent Finalists for Black College Football HOF
Butler Named to CFPA Freshman of the Year Watch List
TSU Football Shoots Video on "Why Music Matters"
Tigers Run by Southeast Missouri, 40-16
Tigers Shoot Video to Raise Vaccine Awareness
Rod Reed Speaks Out Against Domestic Violence
Men's Basketball to Play Belmont on ESPNU
Hitting Lights Out, TSU Blitzes by TTU, 3-0
Burgett 1-Under, Stepp Even as Tigers Move Up in Standings
Fitzpatrick Named OVC Defensive Player of the Week
Wells Named OVC Offensive Player of the Week
Tigers Rally to Stun Memphis in Five Set Thriller
Broughton, Fitzpatrick Named HSRN Players of the Week
Men's Basketball Holds "Blue and White Scrimmage"
Tigers and Tigerbelles Register Season's Best Times at Front Runner Invitational
TSU Athletics Mourns the Loss of Coach Sam Whitmon
Moss Records 4,000th Assist; TSU Drops Tough Match to Southeast
Back-to-Back Honors, Fitzpatrick Earns OVC Defensive Player of the Week
Follow My Lead, Tigers Take in Leadership Course
2013-14 Women's Basketball Predicted Order of Finish Released
Miller Named to OVC Preseason Team, TSU Tabbed Fifth
Fitzpatrick Earns Pair of Player of the Week Awards
Lady Tigers Hitting Their Stride as Season Nears
Will to Win, Tigers Sweep Gamecocks 3-0
TSU Drops Homecoming Game to EIU, 34-16
Wells Earns OVC Co-Offensive Player of the Week
Spicer Shoots Career Low on Day One of Evansville Tournament
Williams Speaks at Coaches Versus Cancer Luncheon
Tigers Set School Record on Final Day of Fall Season
Covington Makes Houston Rockets Final Roster
Rodgers-Cromartie Earns AFC Defensive Player of the Week
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Q: Am trying to decide whether to use pressure-treated decking or composite as a replacement for my deck, which is 11 years old. Being in the "elderly class," we do not use the deck with any great frequency. The pressure-treated compared with composite is expensive. I understand Rust-Oleum has a product that you use as a preservative/semi-transparent stain, which is applied a year after the deck is installed, with a life span of 10 years. I also understand that pressure-treated wood varies in quality. How would I know which is the best?
A: In my opinion, there is nothing better than a quality treated wood or natural wood product when building a deck. If you're looking at a less-expensive composite material, you should be aware that many of the composites on the market today simply do not withstand the elements as well as a wood deck. What I have found is that composites fade and have to be maintained using harsh chemicals and lots of scrubbing. A wood deck, on the other hand, can be treated using stains or sealants, which are applied with a roller, brush or sprayer and a lot less labor.
Another issue I have found is that composite materials do not have the structural stability of wood. Typical floor joists for a wood deck are set 16 inches on center and, depending on the length of the joists, will hold a 40-pound live load (the same loads the floors in your home are designed to hold).
A composite joist set 12 inches on center might bow under its own weight before you even apply the decking. With composites that contain wood fibers, mold has become an issue that most manufacturers disclaim in their warranty. You may see moss on some wood decks that have been stained or sealed, but I have never heard of mold being a problem with a wood deck.
With wood there is very little expansion and contraction of the materials, but some composites can expand or contract by as much as 2 to 3 inches. This is important to know when designing and installing joists, decking and fasteners.
What kind of wood should you use? Most pressure-treated lumber is either pine or fir. Because the pine and fir are not "old-growth" lumber, the grains in the wood are widely separated and the lumber tends to twist or bend when exposed to the weather. Sealing the wood at the time of installation will reduce the twisting, splitting and cupping of the decking.
Redwood and cedar are two types of wood that can be exposed to the weather without being treated and tend to remain stable in all seasons. I would recommend using pressure-treated lumber for your deck, and as the seasons go by you can replace any of the decking boards that succumb to the weather. Treat the wood as recommended using any stain or sealer of your choice.
C. Dwight Barnett is a certified master inspector. Contact him through the Evansville Courier & Press, PO Box 268, Evansville, IN 47702, or through his email address, email@example.com, or website, www.barnettassociatesinc.com.


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On Saturday, March 18, 2017, I will present Great Association Websites on behalf of the Washington, DC Chapter of the Community Associations Institute.
Please contact me if you are interested in attending. As soon as I have the final flyer, I will post it here.
The Northern Virginia Association of REALTORS ® (NVAR) engaged Ursa Major Consulting to provide Joomla! expertise in supporting the transition to a new website. A usability study and brand design was done by WM Design Group. Ursa Major supported the high-traffic, high-content site in Joomla! for several years before its recent transition to integrate with a membership management soution.


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Facial Indicators to health and Disease
2 responses to "Facial Indicators to health and Disease"
anka blankendaal
July 3rd, 2012 at 12:10
What a great idea, this tastes like more. Maybe you could draw the major homeopathic remedy types? I'm sure your portraits gonna be great.
July 4th, 2012 at 12:10
Groetjes Anka
I sort of already done that through my artalbums posted on homeopathic fb sites. But there was not much response,I presented it like a 'game'
Name this constitutional type (i would post one of my drawings/paintings)- Maybe i will start it again………thanks (heel bedank)
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Monday, July 14, 2008
"Story of a Writer - Part Sixteen"
(Though I'm unbeatable in Roman Numerals. I help Dr. M with them when she does the crossword puzzle. Five hundred is "D." Just so you'll know.)
While reading my show biz reminiscences, the question may have crossed your mind, "Earl's memories seem so detailed and precise. Did he keep a diary of his experiences?"
The answer is no. How do I remember all this stuff? It's my life. What else should I remember?
It's obvious I don't remember everything. I covered sixteen years of my career in twenty-one posts. I clearly left a lot of stuff out. For many reasons. The main reason being I didn't keep a diary.
A lot of my experiences were boringly repetitive, though I'm aware that the writers out there would like me to go into detail about story meetings and how scripts were developed. I mentioned this interest to a writer friend of mine named Lloyd (who has a wonderful blog at lloydgarver.com) Lloyd offered a single – and I agree with it –recollection of story meetings.
"They were long."
Lacking a diary, I am required to work entirely from memory. It's interesting about memory. (A "Duh" observation is coming up now.) We only remember what we remember.
The rest we forget.
Double duh.
The things we remember, and the things we don't. It's a fascinating phenomenon. How to explain what memories we decide to do what with? I think it has something to do with the way we like thinking about ourselves. The memories that don't fit with our vision of ourselves, we leave out. What's left is consistent. And that becomes our story. I think.
After returning from The Cosby Show, I went into a fog and a funk. A funky fog. Or a foggy funk – your choice. But it was one of those. A trained professional might call it Depression. Or, if they're promoting a book on the subject, "Post Traumatic Sitcom Syndrome." (Or P.T.S.S. Make the call. Operators are standing by.)
Because of my post-Cosby Show fog-funk, I'm at a loss to remember exactly what happened next. I have a feeling, at least for a while, nothing did. My ignominious exit from The Cosby Show had me feeling that I'd never work again. My career was careening precariously toward "You may want to consider alternate employment."
I'm so blocked concerning the post-Cosby Show era, I had to Google my resume to find out what I wrote.
It wasn't that much. But it was interesting. For example, I wrote two episodes for Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories. (I remember I did it. It was my Spielberg credit. I just didn't remember when.)
Both episodes were from the first season. One's called "Mummy Daddy", where the wife of a movie actor starring in a horror film suddenly goes into labor, and unable to get his costume off, the husband races to the hospital in full "Monster Mode", accidentally terrorizing the community.
The other episode's called, "Fine Tuning." In that one, High School students, working on a science project, build a television set that can pick up programs from another planet, and discover that the other planet has appropriated American sitcoms and is broadcasting a robot version of I Love Lucy.
My favorite moment in the episode happens when the show biz-crazed planet sends two aliens to kidnap comedian Milton Berle, and they decide to find out where he lives by taking a guided bus tour of the Stars' Homes.
I wrote this into the script: The aliens are like human (well, alien) Polaroid cameras. Being typical tourists, they're continually taking pictures. But they do it by blinking their eyes, there's a whirring sound, and then the picture is ejected out of their mouths.
The moment was filmed impeccably. I was delighted. Being a four-camera comedy guy, I had little contact with the magic of moviemaking. The First Class execution really made me happy.
I guess this was my "single-camera" period, because I also wrote an episode for a single-camera PBS anthology comedy series called Trying Times. The star of my episode was Steven Wright, one of my favorite comedians. Wright specializes in deadpan-delivered one-liners like,
"My friend is a disc jockey. And when he walks under a bridge, you can't hear what he's saying."
I liked writing single-camera episodes. It's like writing a movie, which I never got to do, at least not a produced one. Movie writing suits my natural abilities, more honest storytelling, naturalistic dialogue. I would have been good at.
A further Google investigation revealed that I consulted on another ambitious anthology, comedy series called The George Burns Comedy Week. I got to give notes to one of my writing heroes, Bruce Jay Friedman, who had adapted one of his most hilarious short stories, "The Mission", into an episode for the series. (The script came out short and needed some expanding. I helped with that.)
It was a thrill meeting show biz icon George Burns, though things didn't end well. When I was ushered into his trailer, I found Burns wearing a shirt and no pants. (Vaudevillians kept their pants off until they went on, so they wouldn't get creased.) George Burns reminded me of my grandfather, and like with my grandfather, we immediately got into a fight.
I could hear myself thinking, "Why are you arguing with George Burns?" But I couldn't help it. He was wrong.
Along with scriptwriting and consulting on series, I also wrote some pilots, sometimes for money, and sometimes on "spec."
Did I hear someone ask, "Where do series ideas come from?" Thank you.
They come from everywhere.
Sometimes, they come from your life. After The Cosby Show, I found myself at home a lot, with my infant daughter. From that came the idea for The Home Team, where a former star baseball player who, forced into retirement by injury, becomes an unexpected househusband, as his wife pursues her suddenly flourishing career.
(You catch the parallels there? I couldn't write about a retired show runner, because back then, the networks ruled: "No show biz-related series!" The audiences wouldn't identify. Too "inside."
Yeah, well, The Jack Benny Program. Yeah, well, The Dick Van Dyke Show. Yeah, well, That Girl and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Yeah, well, Seinfeld, later. But you know network executives. They know what they're talking about.)
A series idea can walk past you in an airport. Once, waiting for a plane, I noticed a passing black family that apparently employed a white maid. "That's a show," I remember thinking.
Sometimes, you do a twist on what's already there. I used to like this English series called, To The Manor Born, in which a genteel member of the British aristocracy had fallen on hard times and was forced to sell her country estate to a nouveau riche (Jewish) businessman, and move into the gardener's hut. Needing money, she ultimately accepts a job as the new owner's social secretary.
I noodled with the "menial in the house they used to own" concept, and turned it into The Actress and the Dentist.
Backstory: A journeyman actress captures a recurring role in a long-running television series, playing an irreverent secretary to a Mannix-like detective. With her now-regular paycheck, the actress purchases a small house, a stabilizing anchor in her perennially gypsy-like existe
Flash Forward: The detective show has been cancelled, and since she can't keep up her mortgage payments, the actress is forced to sell her beloved house. On the day the new owners, a recently divorced dentist and his sullen son, move in, the actress is still there, refusing to leave. When the actress demonstrates an ability to "reach" the sullen son, the dentist allows the actress to stay, in exchange for her serving as the family's housekeeper.
(Remember Eileen Brennan from Private Benjamin? She would have been perfect for the actress.)
Another series idea came from two sources: an old television dramatic series, and me winning the Humanitas Prize.
There was this series in the Sixties called Run For Your Life, an anthology about a guy who's informed that he has a terminal illness, and determines "to squeeze 20 years of living into one year, or two." The episodes found him in exotic locales, enjoying death-defying adventures, and affecting people's lives.
I decided to do a paralleling comedy anthology, which I called Mr. Sunshine. I called it, that, because as a result of being told he has a terminal disease, my character dedicates his remaining time to bringing "sunshine" into other people's lives with the message: "Life is short. Live it to the fullest!"
This "message" comes directly from my Humanitas Prize-winning Mary Tyler Moore episode, "Ted's Change of Heart." The comedy in the series would arise from the misfires and misunderstandings arising from encouraging people to change their lives.
I imagined one story about an elderly man and woman who sit on separate benches in the park, never interacting, until our terminal Cupid brings the couple together. He nurtures their relationship, hoping these geriatric loners will fall in love, only to discover at the "Act Break" that the elderly lady is already married.
None of those shows ever became series. I never even wrote the script for the white-maid-for-a black-family idea. Too chickenshit. But it could have been something. Beulah backwards.
Somehow, as often happens in my life, my fog-funk lifted. In time, I careened back from show biz oblivion and entered what would turn out to be the most successful – at least financially – period of my career.
(If I run out of stories, it will be because of the way I'm doing this. I just covered four years in one post.)
Somebody mentioned somewhere that I wrote about my experiences on The C0sby Show. If you're looking for that, click the arrow beside "June" and check "Story of a Writer - Part 15, 15B, 15C and 15D.
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Hey, I think you could always tell us stories you may have forgotten while doing the life of a writer thing... I LOVE stories.
You didn't mention the thing that George Burns was wrong about...
Was it about boxer shorts matching socks, vs. socks matching pants? tee hee... I remember seeing him this way in one of his films... maybe he liked the visual effects of his knobby knees...
- July 14, 2008 at 8:16 AM
You had to go and mention another writer's blog. Just great. Between you, Ken and now Lloyd, I'm never going to get any work done.
- July 14, 2008 at 10:51 AM
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- July 14, 2008 at 6:41 PM
- Max Clarke said...
Keep writing your Story Of A Writer posts, Earl, they're great.
I've often had the suspicion that tourists visit us from other planets, and when they blink, they're actually taking a photo. I thought of that last week up in Marin County, actually, when I was taking some photos, so maybe it's true.
- July 14, 2008 at 6:46 PM
- Lloyd Garver said...
(Speaking of "long,"), you wrote for Milton Berle! A far more impressive credit than writing for Spielberg.
- July 14, 2008 at 10:14 PM
Okay, myth debunking time. Since you worked for Milton Berle, I'll ask. Did he really have a big...uh...well...you know? And if YOU know. How?
- July 16, 2008 at 5:58 AM
- Rob Bates said...
Great post -- and that Steven Wright show on PBS was really terrific, and had an awesome message (really!) I wish it was available on video.
- July 19, 2008 at 4:38 PM


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Google Fiber is coming and the tech titan will have an important message to deliver on July 26, Google announced today.
The announcement, which came in the form of a blurb on the Google Fiber website, which simply says, "Google Fiber is coming on July 26. Look out for an announcement at google.com/fiber on July 26," and lets users sign up for a mailing list to be the first notified.
Google Fiber is a project we first wrote about in February, when Google was reportedly building a high-speed Internet service in the Kansas City region that would give the area both video and phone service. If Google's goal is to compete with the cable and satellite TV market, it's a lucrative one. So far, the market makes $150 million a year.
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News from around the country and around the globe
Although no pricing or channel lineups have been announced, Google has been revamping its Google TV product and its recent creation of original content for YouTube channels seems to indicate it's heading in that direction.
Once Salar Kamangar, Google's senior vice president for YouTube and video, said last month that YouTube was looking into paid subscriptions -- it all seemed to make sense. Although he claimed there was no announcement then, he did say that cable channels with smaller audiences will likely migrate to the Web and be "available on an a la carte" basis.


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The streets of the Alcaicería and Zacatín, and the adjacent alleyways, make up the old Arabic and Jewish quarters of Granada. This is a perfect place to go if you want to buy typical gifts and souvenirs. In this part of the city, near the Cathedral, you can buy traditional and modern ceramics, silver and alpaca objects, rugs from the Alpujarra region and woollen carpets and the famous marquetry objects inlaid with ivory and bone geometrical patterns.
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The care and feeding of a professional barista. It takes education, dedication and some serious skill-building effort to be a really good barista. To be a great barista requires exceptional sensory skills, lots of experience, gobs of personality and really thick skin. Here's a few tips that your barista will thank you for knowing:
- Don't get in the line until you have a pretty good idea what you want. It's just rude to hem and haw and dither while the queue behind you grows.
- Hang up the cell phone for a few minutes will ya? Or if you simply must take that call, step out of the line.
- Unless it's on the menu, don't order a ristretto or a lungo... both require the barista to adjust the grinder for your drink, which is not cool in a busy espresso bar. [Sure, the barista could "cheat" a pull to make it... but that's not what a pro wants to do.]
- If the shop is busy, it's probably not a good time to riddle the barista with a hundred questions about beans, blends and roast styles...
- Don't ask your barista to "reheat" your drink for you.
- Let your barista know when you've had an especially good drink. Sometimes that means more than dropping something in the tip jar. Especially if the barista's boss in in hearing range.


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Title: Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) IMDb
Company: Disney Animation
Directors: Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise
Voice Actors: Michael J. Fox (Milo), James Garner (Rourke), Cree Summer (Kida), Leonard Nimoy (the King of Atlantis)
Score Composer: James Newton Howard
Length: 95 minutes
Rating (US): "Rated PG for action violence."
Spoiler-free Synopsis: "A young adventurer named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis." (IMDb)
Reason for Watching: Vaguely I remembered seeing it when it came out, and thinking it mediocre. Since then I've heard the soundtrack and loved it, being as it is by James Newton Howard, and wanted to give the rest of the movie another chance.
Movie Re-watchability: While not among the great Disney classics, this is still a movie I would readily watch again, primarily for the beauty and energy of the animation itself.
Director Re-watchability: Trousdale and Wise also directed Disney's Beauty and the Beast, which is among the great Disney classics. My guess is, these guys are re-watchable.
Recommendation: If you've the slightest interest, it is worth a watch. It won't emotionally affect you, or leave you with deep thoughts to think afterward, but it does an excellent job of entertaining.
Key Thoughts
It's refreshing to watch a movie with a lean hour-and-a-half run time. While I have a soft spot for true epics—like Spartacus, Lawrence of Arabia, Gandhi, The Lord of the Rings—today's casual movies have grown bloated and overlong, often taking two-and-a-half hours to tell a ninety minute story. Atlantis: The Lost Empire does not overstay its welcome; rather, it takes you on a quick and bumpy adventure where the sights and thrills are delivered with polish and professionalism. If the plot has gaping holes (which it does), and the story lacks depth (ditto), we forgive them because the animation is beautiful and energetic and the characters are fun.
Princess Kida: You are a scholar, are you not? Judging from your diminished physique and large forehead, you are suited for nothing else!
Milo Thatch is the perfect Hollywood hero-nerd: conventionally slender and handsome, wears glasses, is an absent-minded but otherwise brilliant professor (in all but title), smiles a lot and sometimes goofily, is clumsy in a manner both endearing and startlingly destructive, likes to ramble quickly about arcane matters which bore everyone else to tears, and in the end gets the exotically gorgeous magical princess. And has the minor triumph of discovering a lost magical civilization, thus justifying all his years of esoteric research and theories.
Gosh, I'm so close to being him, so close. I just need some good looks, a princess, and success!
Milo: Will you look at the size of this? It's gotta be half a mile high, at least. It-It must have taken hundred- No, thousands of years to carve this thing.
[Vinny sets off the TNT at the pillar's base, and it falls down over a chasm]
Vinny: Hey, look, I made a bridge. It only took me like, what? Ten seconds? Eleven, tops.
What enlivens the movie apart from its fast pace are the sharply-drawn cast and their snappy dialogue. Everyone's role is predictable and clichéd, but I smiled at the artifices and relaxed because the protagonists are so likable and the villains appropriately charismatic. The voice-actors are all well cast, and even the celebrities like Michael J. Fox and Leonard Nimoy add to their characters rather than distract from them. Vinny Santorini, the demolitions expert voiced by Don Novello, is my favorite, with the quip above, and this one after seeing the Atlantean flying vehicles that are designed like fish: "You got something sporty? You know, like a tuna?" Everyone gets some fun dialogue. It's not Joss Whedon (or maybe it is, since he is one of seven credited writers), but it's a bit more innovative and energetic than your standard Hollywood fare, or even your standard animated fare.
I like the whole design aesthetic, too. The movie is set in 1914, and features a truly nifty Jules Verne-inspired submarine. The scale of the underwater scenes is impressive, with massive sea creatures (actually magic robots built by the Atlanteans) guarding the abyssal caverns that lead circuitously to the hidden city. Our heroes move through these awesome locales by a series of dangerous events and little time for rest or reflection. It's pure pulp adventure, and lots of fun.
Amateur musician and music-lover that I am, I must always mention the music as well. James Newton Howard is one of my favorite composers, specializing in themes that are elegantly magical. His work here complements the artwork very well, adding the extra layer of depth and mystical atmosphere that the movie's fast pace sometimes works against. Listen to "The Secret Swim" and the action-packed "Leviathan."
Princess Kida: We are not thriving. True, our people live, but our culture is dying. We are like a stone the ocean beats against. With each passing year a little more of us is worn away.
My main complaint boils down to the fact that Atlantis: The Lost Empire features too little of Atlantis itself. The only scenes that take place in the city proper are in the King's courtyard or a place or two at its outskirts. I wanted to explore the island, its culture, and the ways the Atlanteans have survived the millennia. Exciting glimpses are given to us by the design team: a towering central mountain ringed with Mayincatec-style buildings, lush terraces, and stone vehicles that fly by magic. But the plot itself is all about explorers and their loyalties/greed/self-respect, and has little to do with Atlantis or its wonders. Relatively few of the legendary people are actually seen, despite our heroes frequently walking through the bustling city's center, and none beyond Princess Kida and the King have any dialogue or personality. To be fair, it makes sense that Atlantis would have a small population; we are told that they have lifespans of hundreds of years, and with only one underwater island on which to live probably do not reproduce much (although some children are seen). Still, Atlantis is all artwork and no personality.
Some other elements annoyed me. For instance, the mercenaries take over Atlantis far too easily. The Atlanteans are shown with some weapons, and Kida clearly has lightning quick reflexes and a willingness to kill; after the mercenaries reveal their violent purpose, she jumps on one of them and whips out a knife, and is only prevented from slitting his throat by Commander Rourke shooting the knife out of her hand. And yet the mercenaries are able to walk through Atlantis with guns displayed, the princess captive, with apparently no one noticing until they get to the king's dais. I'd expect Atlantis to have an army. An army with flying vehicles. Kida couldn't get her vehicle to work because she misunderstood one little part of the instructions. Ergo, the flying vehicles are not disabled, and Atlantis likely has a defense army that can use them. So where are they?
Also, no good reason is given for why the Atlanteans themselves have not found the Heart which powers them. Rourke finds it so easily: in the pond before the king's throne is a symbol, and if you stand in the center of the symbol, the ground lowers like an elevator to take you to the floating Heart of Atlantis. Are we to believe that in ten thousand years no Atlantean ever stood on that spot, even by accident? And how could they forget such an important detail of their city's livelihood? Must they be that dumb? And speaking of that, why is it so easy to get to after all? It's barely hidden at all.
But these complaints are ultimately inconsequential, belonging as they do to some other, more serious, movie in my imagination. True, I may have preferred a more deeply mythical atmosphere, like Hayao Miyazaki might have given it, to the slapstick gags that the Disney company loves so much. But that's not what the filmmakers chose to make. Instead, Atlantis: The Lost Empire is a fast-paced kids' adventure with beautiful animation and a happy helping of wit and personality.


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Holly Warlick embraces challenge of replacing Pat Summitt
- Warlick to begin her tenure Nov. 9, coached under Summitt for 27 years
- Warlick 'always wanted to be' following the legendary Summitt and is not intimidated by the task
- Former Vol Holdsclaw: 'No one's more deserving than coach Warlick'
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Tennessee's Holly Warlick insists she doesn't feel much pressure replacing one of the greatest figures in the history of women's basketball.
Warlick views becoming the Lady Vols' head coach as stepping in for her mentor after a long apprenticeship.
Still, Pat Summitt's legacy casts a big shadow.
Warlick, 54, played for Summitt and worked on her staff for 27 seasons. They won eight national championships together. Warlick now takes over for the winningest coach ever in Division I men's or women's college basketball. Her tenure begins Nov. 9 when the Lady Vols travel to Chattanooga.
"I know everybody says nobody wants to follow a legend, but this is a place I've always wanted to be, what I've seen myself doing," Warlick said. "Pat and I have talked about this. We just didn't talk about it in this manner, how it evolved."
That makes this transition particularly unique.
Summitt coached the Lady Vols last season after being diagnosed with early-onset dementia Alzheimer's type, but Warlick's role expanded as Tennessee went 27-9 and reached a regional final. Warlick considered it the equivalent of a season-long job interview. Summitt stepped down in April after winning 1,098 games in 38 seasons, but she remains on staff as head coach emeritus
Summitt has moved out of her old office -- which Warlick now occupies -- but the former coach is just down the hall in her new space.
"I've been with Pat for so long, I see this person outside this iconic women's basketball coach," Warlick said. "I see her as a great friend of mine who's been very successful in basketball. My perspective of Pat is probably a little different from everyone else's."
Warlick's debut season already has included a distraction.
According to an affidavit released Oct. 3 as part of former Lady Vols media director Debby Jennings' lawsuit against Tennessee and athletic director Dave Hart, Summitt said Hart told her before the 2012 NCAA tournament she wouldn't return as coach this season. Summitt said in the affidavit that Hart later told her she'd misinterpreted his comments.
Summitt issued a statement two days later saying she never felt forced out and that she stepped down on her own.
"It's for the courts and outside the basketball court to decide," Warlick said. "I've been focusing on recruiting and focusing on this team."
Summitt isn't giving interviews as she focuses on her health, but she said at an April news conference that "Holly had earned this opportunity and I'm still going to be there for her and support her in every way."
Warlick expects to have Summitt at every practice this season.
Several former Lady Vols support Warlick's promotion.
"No one's more deserving than coach Warlick," said Chamique Holdsclaw, who led Tennessee to three straight national titles from 1996-98. "She's been by coach Summitt's side consistently. She played at Tennessee. She knows about the tradition. She knows about the expectations, and she's learned from the best."
That feeling is echoed by Tennessee's current players.
"I don't think there would be anybody else who could step in and handle it like she's doing it," junior guard Meighan Simmons said.
Warlick must maintain that continuity while showing she's in charge now. One person familiar with this challenge is Bill Guthridge, who replaced Dean Smith as the North Carolina men's basketball coach in 1997 after working on his staff for three decades.
Guthridge led North Carolina to two Final Four appearances the next three years before retiring. Guthridge said he benefited from frequent contact with Smith. He believes Warlick's friendship with Summitt could help in a similar manner.
"We continued to talk basketball through those three years, and he was very helpful to me," said Guthridge, who doesn't know Warlick personally. "Dean Smith was very smart. I'm sure Pat is very intelligent in how they handle everything. My guess is it's probably similar to what Tennessee has."
Warlick has much in common with her predecessor, but that doesn't mean everything's staying the same. That will be apparent whenever an official makes a call that would have brought out one of Summitt's trademark glares.
"I don't have a stare," Warlick said. "I'm not going to try to imitate Pat."
Los Angeles Sparks forward Candace Parker played for Summitt and Warlick while leading Tennessee to national titles in 2007 and 2008. Parker said both are outstanding communicators, but they make their points differently.
Parker remembered during her Tennessee career that Summitt might discipline a player in front of the entire team, whereas Warlick would take her aside.
"Do I think she's going to be like Pat and give the death stare and all that stuff? No," Parker said. "But it might be something different. She's not like Pat. If that's what you're looking for, that's not the hire. It's not necessarily a bad thing, either. It's definitely fun to have someone who's within the program but also a little bit different."
Warlick emphasizes rebounding and defense, the hallmarks of Summitt's best teams. Tennessee's defense hasn't been as sharp lately, which helps explain why the Lady Vols haven't reached the Final Four since 2008, their longest drought since the NCAA began running the tournament in 1982.
"I think the last couple of years, defense has not been a priority to our players, for whatever reason," Warlick said. "It's going to be a huge priority here. Our recruiting's going back to getting kids who can play defense - obviously who are skilled players but are athletic and can play defense."
Warlick put her foot down recently by sending the team on an hour-long punishment run at 5 a.m. Senior guard Taber Spani couldn't recall enduring anything like that before.
"It's definitely different from the Holly we've known previously, but I think as a head coach, you have to have that and you have to kind of lay down that line," Spani said.
Spani offers experience to a Tennessee roster with only two seniors and one junior. The Lady Vols have nobody who started an NCAA tournament game last season.
Warlick said the mission remains the same.
"We want to go and win a national championship, regardless of whether we went last year, four years ago or whatever," Warlick said. "It's the same amount of expectations, maybe a little more since we haven't been (since 2008). That's our goal and what we're recruiting to do."


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Three female teachers were recently arrested for allegedly having sex with their students in completely unrelated cases. (They were all, coincidentally, located in the Tampa Bay area.) Stephanie Raguza, 28, is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy in her apartment and in the back seat of her Lexus. Mary Jo Spack, 45, is charged with having sex with a 17-year-old male student in a motel room where she and the guy's friends had been drinking together. And Lisa Marinelli. 40, allegedly had sex with a 17-year-old boy on 10 different occasions — mostly in her car. But are women who prey upon young males taken as seriously as men who have sex with underaged girls? Newsweek reports that some guys have a "high five" attitude about the cases: Banging the teacher is a well-established male fantasy. Val Halen wrote a song about it.
While morning radio is not exactly a bastion of morality, The Buckethead Show on a rock radio station has established a "school pool" — listeners win prizes for correctly guessing the site of the next sex scandal. The contest is promoted with the slogan: "We'll give you the cash for new school supplies and maybe some 'private tutoring' of your own ;-) ." Would a radio station ever get away with mocking a cases in which female students were the victims?
Among the evidence that resulted in the arrest of Ms. Marinelli were text messages to her victim. One read "How about a quickie 2 morrow afternoon :-)?" while another stated, "Ur car looks awesome! Al u need is a hot milf sittin next u and ud really b in business." Not appropriate communication between teacher and student, to be sure, and not just because "ur" ≠ "your." But honestly: Is it as creepy as if a 40-year-old man were writing to a 17-year-old cheerleader?
It's easy to think of situations where a 17-year-old dude would be psyched to get laid by an older woman. The term MILF and the plot of movies like Loverboy sum up the general thinking when it comes to the sexual psyche of teenage males. Gordon Finley, a psychologist and professor at Florida International University says, "Female sex predation is not a victimless crime. It is male victimization. They suffer to some degree the same consequences as female victims." But do we really believe it? Are these women — teachers who have overstepped extremely clear boundaries — taken seriously as criminals? And are the boys taken seriously as victims?


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Moderator: Cartographers
[*]I need to add bridges / attack routes between the islands.
cairnswk wrote:[*]I need to add bridges / attack routes between the islands.
Perhaps you could add the bridges as they exist on the google map.
you know...Arthur Ravenal Jr bridge
and the 526 and 17 highway bridges etc.
Ruben Cassar wrote:Does the legend follow some kind of order? I don't think it starts from a region and moves clockwise does it? I am finding the order a bit confusing.
Kaplowitz wrote:I really like the trees, and the map in general...but i dont like the bridges.
TaCktiX wrote:I know you're excited to get updates out and all, but exercise a little version patience.
Incandenza wrote:I like the idea of Fort Sumter being able to bombard surrounding coastal areas, it'll give the map that little something extra...
Ruben Cassar wrote:Does the legend follow some kind of order?
ZeakCytho wrote:Could you make the water a bit darker? More...water colored? Keep it lighter closer to land and darker farther away, but darken the whole thing.
ZeakCytho wrote:Could you flip the colors of north and south St. James Island?
There's a typo in the East Ashley in the legend.
TaCktiX wrote:Separating John's Island Park (add those apostrophes and fix the spelling mistakes I noted last post, fool!) from its own continent is bad gameplay in the making. Perhaps change the trees to separate Miller Hill from John's Island Park?
Sorry man - I would have liked it also, but I just couldn't get it to work.edbeard wrote:I kinda miss that boat you had on the old version
Optimus Prime wrote:I think the trees are a pretty good start for the impassable borders. Although, perhaps mix them up just a little bit as far as color and style are concerned. Make it look more like a real forest, a few with pointy tops, a few with rounded tops, and a variation of different shades of green perhaps? Nothing too drastic, just break up the repetitive round shape of the tree-tops a little bit.
TaCktiX wrote:That's the shape of the state, and is good. I think the star could be less prominent, as it gives a "cheese" look to the map that doesn't really suit Charleston's historic character. Perhaps age that?
AndyDufresne wrote:The words "Charleston, South Carolina" have no hook for me. --Andy
natty_dread wrote:I was wrong
RjBeals wrote:Hmmm.. Maybe change the title to Low Country ? Or are you speaking of the actual city. Charleston is not as famous as LA or New York, but if the game is fun, you're down? Any comments so far on the style? Or I guess your style is to wait until the foundry picks it over, then comment
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I continue to read with great interest all of the letters, AP stories, syndicated columnist stories and blogs about how unfair and socially tone-deaf our Republican legislature is. Progressives are the only people who truly care for the poor, uneducated, under-educated, unemployed, under-employed, women, men who wish to be women, men, women who wish to be men, Latinos, blacks, girls who wish to be promiscuous and not have to deal with any consequences, disabled, uninsured, under-insured, etc.
I now see how wrong I have been.
1. We do not need to worry about our debt. It will take care of itself just as our own personal credit cards do. �The check is in the mail!� A national debt of $17 trillion is nothing. We have that much in reserve in gold, silver, platinum stashed at Fort Knox, right? The president is absolutely correct that by borrowing and spending a few more trillion dollars will make our economy explode.
2. All businesses are �too big to fail.� We need to take over all fast-food restaurants, both �big-box� home improvement stores, Walmart , etc. Our government has shown how well they can run things. There is no place in these United States for small business, stock shares, free market or boards. Get government control and appoint a tsar. If necessary -- do it by force.
3. It is absolutely a must to seize all weapons that are in private hands. This will allow our federal government to send in troops with no resistance (Hollywood exempt). To get public sentiment, simply run a few more �fast and furious� campaigns. Our new federal troops will need the weapons from the private citizens to save on arming expenses of the troops who now need to gain control of all gas stations, oil depots and refineries.
4. We must use every single federal tax dollar available to supplement and bolster solar and wind power. To do this, we need to tax oil and gas to prices where even the evil �rich� cannot afford it. If we give enough money to Solyndra and Fiscars , they will succeed. Batteries will get better and stop exploding and starting fires. Let our EPA and Parks Service buy any and all land where there is the possibility of finding natural gas or oil.
5. All workers in the United States must be unionized. Since all companies are federally owned and there is no public interference, we must put into place a new system where there are no �poor.� Even those who are bedridden can serve some purpose, such as answering questions at a call center.
6. Federalize all hospitals, doctors, nurses and PAs. Socialized medicine is the right of all. Appoint a federal board to oversee all aspects of medicine: schooling, medications, equipment, prosthetics, insurance, etc. If someone dies before they are able to wait-out a six month away appointment, that will help with point number five! Make sure to �Liberally� pass out contraceptives to girls as young as 12 so that we don�t need as many pediatricians. Get women into abortion clinics as soon as possible so that the number of new patients is easily taken care of. We have already paid in Massachusetts for a convicted felon to go from male to female so this will save some money.
7. Make the �minimum wage� $20 per hour. These are all our companies. Tax the low wage-earners at 25 percent and the upper-end at 80 percent. This will ease the stress of someone actually trying to break into our group of the �upper echelon.� Provide mass transit to each and every area. Since folks won�t be able to afford a personal vehicle, we will need to provide a �riders chit� as part of an employees pay. Pay Hollywood stars and executives well for any and all propaganda. Offer tax incentives and invitations to the White House and exclusive parties.
8. Force all children to attend school from the age of three to the age of 21. We can easily pay for this. Let the teachers in the upper grades decide what our children will do for a living. If a child is athletic, they will play pro sports. If a child is good at math, they go to Citizen�s Microsoft. Good at science? You are one of our new doctors. No attorneys, except for the ACLU as they serve a vital function.
9. No more churches. These institutions only cause despair and dissent. Provide community �activities� such as sports or seminars.
10. Eradicate all state lines. There are too many people running too many places. The Progressives can ably run everything. Remove all borders. This will eliminate the need for a drivers license and photo IDs. This will not matter as there will be no need for voting! No other country will want to attack us because all will be welcome! If the Chinese want California and New York as payment on our debt, let them have it. Their system is not much different than ours will be and it will cement our friendship!
Now, do you see how simple this all can be? Yes GOP ... you are outdated and will be assimilated.
James E. Bodenheimer is a resident of Stanley.


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Remember that? Seemed that every laundry detergent commercial talked about it. I remember some woman narrating and/or being in the commercials saying "ring around the collar" in a deep, raspy, smoker's voice.
Whatever happened to ring around the collar?
7 Responses to "Whatever happened to ring around the collar?"
ronlc1 Says:
October 13, 2011 at 2:29 pm |
It's back now that the Enviro-Goons have eliminated phosphates.
Tom Freeman Says:
October 15, 2011 at 12:56 pm |
Very true!
- Tom Freeman Says:
DaveK Says:
October 13, 2011 at 3:41 pm |
I could tell you but it is an ancient Chinese secret.
AZ Warrior Says:
October 13, 2011 at 8:14 pm |
Reference to a Johnny Carson skit spooofing the commercial.
Joe Says:
October 14, 2011 at 9:57 am |
dry cleaners still offer a special collar and cuff treatment.
Dave in Tucson Says:
October 14, 2011 at 11:45 am |
Seemed that every laundry detergent commercial talked about it.
Wasn't it just Whisk? Did a search on youtube, found an old version of it. Just as annoying as I remember :-p
56Coop Says:
October 15, 2011 at 9:36 am |
An old country preacher once told me that only men get ring around the collar because they were made from clay. Since women were created from Adam's rib, their collars remain stain free.
This also goes to prove that Adam was definitely not a black man. Ain;t no brother gonna be sharing his ribs.


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I am ashamed to admit, that despite my many electrical (mis?)adventures.. I have no idea how to use a multimeter. I have installed automobile sound systems, central air air-conditioners, and every kind of lighting, computer, telephone, etc. blah blah blah that you can imagine… and well, have just sort of "avoided" ever REALLY needing to use one. I have one, there have been times I would have liked to use one, and I'm sure there have been things I have in reality, needed one for.. But I really don't get them.
Can anyone recommend a reliable, relatively concise (yet comprehensive) source of training on electrical testing, multimeters, basic wiring diagnostics, etc? (I'm hoping for suggestions that are freely available, and convenient. think YouTube videos, etc?)


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Fish 'n chimps: Forty-Five's hapless fools
I'm trying to decide what I like best about George Singleton's new collection of short stories. It might be the title, The Half-Mammals of Dixie, or it might be the jacket cover– a portrait of a creature that is, indeed, half-mammal (a mer-monkey, to be specific) bearing a nest with two large eggs in one hand and flourishing a Latin inscription in the other ("Happy is the man who knows the cause of things"). The back flap is equally appealing, showing a garrulous-looking author standing in a port-a-sauna, with only his head and cigarette protruding.
But these are just the superficial charms. I'm also quite taken with the content-– with Singleton's frequent use of double contractions ("you'd've thought"), the laser accuracy of his metaphors, the preponderance of stories in which a kid and his dad are left by a mom in search of a singing career, and the fact that there are an average of two and a half punch lines per story that I don't get. I like the feeling that a story is happening in real time, so you can't back up to analyze the humor.
Singleton lives in Dacusville, South Carolina, which may or may not be about the size of Forty-Five, South Carolina, the fictional town where much of the action in The Half-Mammals of Dixie takes place, and whose name, if it doesn't derive from an actual population, would certainly be representative of the smallness of the place.
In one story, downtown Forty-Five is referred to as a place to get a "pound of fatback or advice from any one of its residents on how to hot-wire a car, poison a dog, or make a poultice to cure black lung." In another, it's "an entire town of adults who still have first names ending in –y, -I, or –ie."
Singleton's work, and many of the stories in The Half Mammals of Dixie, have appeared before in literary journals and in the magazines Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and Book. But these are stories that belong together, and they should be read in large doses.
Singleton's characters are all manifestations of the same hapless fool who wears his dunce cap as a badge of honor, and then flaunts his jester clothes to the envy of us all. From all appearances, they are the oddballs of life. They are absurd, unexpected and surreal, differing from the strange creature on the cover only because they are so deeply human.
George Singleton will read from The Half-Mammals of Dixie (and I sure hope he picks "How to Collect Fishing Lures") on October 2 at 5:30 pm at New Dominion Book Shop. 404 E. Main St. on the Downtown Mall.


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Right behind body odor on the "Excuses Excuses!" hit parade is clothing. "My clothes will get messed up."
The easy solution is to keep a garment bag at work. My situation is trivial because I don't sweat much, so I wear my dress shirt on the ride to work. The garment bag stores five pair of pants. Every once in a while I'll drive to work and take them all home to be washed. You can also take home one pair at a time, if you never drive.
When you arrive at work, change your pants in the bathroom. Done.
Note that cycling clothing, while fashionable on the bike, is well, er, a bit racy in the office. You can buy some mountain bike shorts that look like cargo pants, in place of racing shorts. Of course, if you like looking racy in the office, go for it. Rest assured, you will get comments.
You may have issues with a long commute and sweat a lot, preventing you from wearing your work shirt on the ride in. In that case, bring in a week's supply of shirts, or longer time period, on your Monday drive in. Drive home on Friday and take your clothes with you.
What you don't want to do is wear slacks! I tried that and it wasn't long before I had holes in my pants. When I see a professional photo of a cyclist wearing a suit, I roll my eyes. Let's get real here!
Women, unfortunately, may feel hemmed in by fashion. How you live your life is your choice, but many noted women cyclists, such as Jacquie Phelan, Denise Caramagno, and many others, rewrote the rules on women's fashion and haven't let clothing considerations get in the way of enjoying life on the bike.


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After several cancelled flights, I am finally on my way to Egypt to join my CODEPINK colleagues who are already there. We were supposed to be leading a delegation to Gaza right now, traveling through the Sinai to get to Gaza's southern border. The Rafa crossing into Gaza has been closed, our delegation is unable to leave Cairo, and we have been caught up in the breath-taking people's movement that is sweeping Egypt. CODEPINK's Tighe Barry has been out on the streets of Cairo all week long. You can hear a compelling report from him here.
When CODEPINK was in Cairo for the Gaza Freedom March last year, we led and participated in small, peaceful protests that were set upon by hundreds of riot police at the behest of repressive Mubarak regime.
But now there has been a seismic shift. There are not 50 people rallying in Cairo, but hundreds of thousands protesting across the nation. Dozens have been killed; hundreds have been wounded.
But the Egyptian people will not be turned back. They feel their power and are determined to seize the moment.
The US has given Egypt $68 billion since 1948, and since 1979, Egypt has been the second-biggest recipient of US aid after Israel. Our government currently gives $1.3 billion a year of our tax dollars in military aid to the Mubarak regime.
Join us in telling President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the U.S. Congress to stop funding the Mubarak regime now, to call on Mubarak to resign, and to expressly say that our government stands with the Egyptian people. After all, in his recent State of the Union Address, President Obama declared: "The United States stands with the people of Tunisia." Shouldn't we also stand with the Egyptians?
Sign here to stand in solidarity with people who are giving their government, our government and the world a lesson in democracy.
Mubarak is refusing to leave. But our government can—and must—break its ties to this dictator. As courageous Egyptian citizens are being assaulted with U.S. tear gas and other Made-in-the-USA weapons, we must say: Enough.
In solidarity,
Medea Benjamin
Monday, January 31, 2011
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Lisa Simone Kelly, daughter to iconic singer Nina Simone, did not fulfill her mom's dying wish to donate money to music schools in Africa.
Instead, Kelly, trustee of the late singing legend's estate, stands accused by the California Attorney General of keeping $1.5 million of her mom's money — reportedly allotted for music schools in South Africa, Liberia and Ghana — and funneling the fortune into her personal company without authorization, reports TMZ.
Further, due to the alleged fraud, she has been pressured to step down as trustee and may face legal repercussions.
Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon. She collected a considerable musical catalog in her career that include hits like "Sinnerman" and "Strange Fruit" (the latter of which was sampled by Kanye West for Yeezus). In 1993 she moved to Southern France and passed away in her sleep there in 2003, following a lengthy battle with breast cancer.
Zoe Saldana will star in her biopic on the big screen. The casting met with enormous controversy over the Dominican actress's lighter skin tone. Earthy singer India Arie was among the critics who posted on Simone's website.
"So today I saw the images of Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone … AND I THINK THEY ARE RIDICULOUS," she wrote. "Yes there should be a movie made, and YES they should have chosen someone who LOOKS like Nina Simone, ESPECIALLY since her RACE played such a PIVOTAL role in WHO, WHAT and WHY, she was."
Kelly, who took similar issue with the casting told Ebony, "As an actress I respect her process, but I also know that there are many other actresses out there … who would be great as my mother."
Like her mother, Kelly is also a performer, and is noted as, "her own woman: a singer, songwriter and performer whose ability to transcend genres echoes the tradition of her mother, musical icon Nina Simone," according to her Facebook page. She recently performed a handful of shows in France that wrapped Sunday (Nov. 24).


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May 17, 2011
PIANY to NYSID: Agents vital key to insurance exchange success
GLENMONT, N.Y.–Volunteer leaders of the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. attended and gave testimony this week at a series of public forums on New Yorks health-insurance exchange, held by the New York State Insurance Department as it considers implementation of the federal Affordable Care Act. PIANY turned out across the state as a demonstration of strong support for a set of core principles to protect consumer interests, preserve agent and broker involvement, and to ensure their fair compensation with regard to reform. The NYSID forums are taking place in Albany, Monday, May 16; Syracuse, Tuesday, May 17; New York City, Wednesday, May 18; and in Rochester, Thursday, May 19. An additional call-in forum is scheduled for Monday, May 23.
Speaking on behalf of PIANY at the New York City meeting, member Gary Slavin said, "Insurance agents and brokers are trusted pillars of every community in New York state, and they are established contributors to the states economy. They understand the needs of their clients, who trust and depend on them to help navigate their current insurance policies. It makes sense to utilize this established, effective and regulated system, which can be educated efficiently to best serve our states insurance-buying public as we incorporate the nuances of the Affordable Care Act into our health insurance requirements."
Slavin and other PIA representatives also voiced PIAs support of the core principles, arguing that the most efficient way to market the exchanges is through licensed agents or brokers who have taken continuing education course on the Affordable Care Act, and that anyone advising health-insurance consumers or conducting business associated with the exchanges should be required to hold a valid New York state insurance license.
"The Affordable Care Act is a complex piece of legislation and to ensure that every insurance agent and broker is up-to-date on the legislation and coverages, the NYSID along with PIANY, should develop continuing education to ensure that New Yorkers have the most educated brokers or agents on this subject," Slavin said.
PIANY is a trade association representing professional, independent insurance agencies, brokerages and their employees throughout the state.