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Atlas Copco's stainless steel motors enlarge the field of applications to areas where the environment is corrosive.
This can be in the food processing industries where corroding detergents are used or in the chemical industry where the atmosphere as such is corrosive.
Stainless steel motors are also ideal in explosive environments, the reasons for this are that air motors don't generate electrical sparks and stainless steel reduces the risk of mechanical sparks.
Atlas Copco's stainless steel motors have a clean design with no dirt collecting corners or cavities. The motors are equipped with double seals in flour rubber at the shaft end to prevent water or cleaning detergents from entering the gears. The planetary gear is greased with food grade grease approved according to USDAH1. Atlas Copco's range of stainless steel motors is available in lubricated and lubrication free versions.
The material used in the back head, casing and front part is stainless steel with the designation:
- ISO 683/XII Type 17, SS 142346,
- DIN 17440 X12CrNiS188.
The material used in the outgoing shaft and gear rim has the designation:
- ISO 683/XII Type 9b, SS 142321,
- DIN 17440 X22CrNi17.
Atlas Copco air motors, LZB, are approved for use in explosion risk areas, zones 1 and 2, in conformance with standard EN 1127-1 (November 1996) designated EXII 1 GT6.


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Ape Latina Colosseo has been the best money value of 2014!
We always apply the best price of the average ones of the season in town .
It 's the best located guesthouse in this range of price ( check on the map ! )
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Colosseum at 500 metres, in a very elegant area of the city.
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It's located in via Angelo Poliziano, on the Colle Oppio area ( Domus Aurea ), very very close to the Colosseum and the Imperial Forums .
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Ape Latina doesn't accept any underage reservation .
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Skull, The (US - DVD R1)
Gabe found an awesome and free ornament at Peter Cushing's estate sale...
Dr. Christopher Maitland (Peter Cushing) collects items of occult interest, but is generally an unbeliever in the supernatural. One night Maitland purchases an unusual skull from his usual black market source. The merchant swears that the skull belonged to the Marquis De Sade. Maitland soon realizes that the merchant stole the skull from friend and fellow collector Sir Matthew Phillips (Christopher Lee), who claims to be happy to be rid of the cursed cranium. Phillips tries to warn his friend of the skull's power, but it's too late.
If it wasn't made by Hammer Studios, Mario Bava or Roger Corman, but you swear it was, it's probably an Amicus production—at least that's my general rule of thumb. Mixing a delightfully campy script, which was based on a Robert Bloch short (Bloch wrote a few other Amicus features), an evenly effective pulp gothic atmosphere, and some shockingly understated acting work from two of the kings of the horror, The Skull is pretty much a must see, and one I am ashamed of missing all these years.
The Skull is s slightly too slow moving piece for most modern tastes (including my own I have to admit) that seems like it would've worked better as a short part of an anthology, which was becoming quite popular at the time, and is my personal favourite brand of early '60s Euro-horror. There's quite a bit of simple camera movement, but the staging, pace, and performances look and feel more like a medium budget stage play then a motion picture. Some theatrical, weird and garish stuff happens about half way through, but quickly we revert back to relatively familiar Amicus territory. It's still good stuff, but it's not quite classic stuff.
Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are the big draws, but fans of British horror (a subgenre to which I'm not entirely familiar) will also be happy to see Patrick Magee and Michael Gough. Only Donald Pleasance is missing. It's always a pleasure to look back on these films that used to be considered campy and violent garbage and enjoy such class in performance. It's especially nice to see Christopher Lee in what basically equates to a good guy, after hundreds of colourful villains (Cushing gets to play the whack-job this time around). The film's tone will strike modern horror fans unfamiliar with the melodramatic and pulpy British style as quite silly, most likely, and there is a distinct lack of graphic violence, but sometimes this brand of over-stated theatrics is just what the doctor ordered.
Fans of the Amicus studios should be excited at the prospect of a widescreen presentation of this as of yet unavailable feature. The anamorphic enhancement is another plus. The fact that the video quality is generally good is the best gift of all. There's some grain and low-level noise smeared over the entire run time, and you will notice a bit of print damage, but the overall clarity is plenty impressive given the age of the feature. The occasionally gaudy colour schemes appear a bit dulled and washed out, but the relative naturalness off the more natural tines is effective. Blacks are impressively deep, but there is a noticeable line of edge enhancement around sharply contrasting tones.
This Dolby Digital two channel Mono track is aged like cheese—it's a little funky, but overall a solid representation of the sound of the era. There aren't a lot of sound effects, but the music and dialogue is clear enough. There's a hint of hiss on the vocal track, but screams and other high volume noises don't distort as easily as comparable tracks. There's some inconsistency between scenes, and some pops and cracks scribbled throughout.
The film was scored by one Elisabeth Lutyens, who I admittedly hadn't heard of before looking into this film. Lutyens wasn't famous for her work scoring films (she almost exclusively worked for Amicus), but she was apparently a very important player in early avant-garde music. I'm not a good enough film music historian to really gage the level of her influence, but the score is very strong and utilizes some rhythm techniques that weren't very popular at the time. The music mix is flat by modern standards, but for a mono track it's effective. The biggest problems, as far as distortion, come from the occasional use of organ, which oddly enough isn't even that loud.
Nothing but a trailer is present here.
The Skull is an occasionally flamboyant, slight gothic thriller that balances class and cheese more effectively than most. It's not going to win over any modern converts specifically interested in stuff like the Saw movies, and it isn't as good as many other British horror films already available on DVD. Amicus fans will want a copy for their collections, and those of us looking to complete our British horror educations will want to find time for a rental viewing at least.
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I haven't seen this one. I know another one where Lee was a good guy was in The Island Of The burning Doomed (Cushing is also a good guy with some flaws).
Christopher Lee is an amazing actor. Definitely the only one who could bring Saruman's character to life the way he did.
Chris Johnson wrote: Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee are so cool.
Agreed. Lee is boss.
Agreed. Lee is boss.
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee are so cool.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 3rd June 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, single layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono English
Subtitles: None
Extras: Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Freddie Francis
Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Patrick Wymark, Jill Bennett, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee
Genre: Horror
Length: 83 minutes
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Yesterday we reported that the Motorola Atrix and Xoom were headed to Sprint and now we have an image to back up half of that claim. This morning an image of a Sprint-branded Xoom appeared on the fan site SprintUsers. It came from well known forums member r0fl who leaked previous unreleased Sprint devices (like the EVO Shift), so we have every reason to believe this is the real deal.
No hard evidence was provided about the Xoom's network support, but we heard it will operate on Sprint's 4G WiMAX network. The Verizon Xoom will eventually support 4G LTE, but we have no idea when that upgrade will happen so there is a chance that Sprint could have the first Xoom tablet with 4G speeds.
Now that the Xoom has been confirmed, I expect we will see Sprint's version of the Atrix 4G leak out next. There is a small chance that these devices might be announced next week at CTIA in Orlando, but our original tipster said that Sprint was waiting until next month to make the announcement.


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Matt Swanson
In the current economic climate, college graduates across the nation are worried about finding a career worthy of their new diploma.
But not the Class of 2009's Matt Swanson.
Having just earned a business management degree from Washington College, he is already on his way to Cincinnati to work for Procter & Gamble, the company responsible for such household products as Febreze, Old Spice, Downey, Olay, Gillette, Pampers and Iams.
How did Matt manage to secure such a solid job opportunity? He started early. Two summers ago, Matt interned for the company in Philadelphia, on a basic sales level. "I think I really stood out because I came from Washington College," he says. Many of the interns came from large campuses, but Matt took a nontraditional route by applying online from a small school, "and that made me unique to them."
That summer, he got the sales experience necessary to be invited to intern the following summer in Ohio as part of a multifunctional team that makes sales presentations.
By graduation, P&G had invited him to work at the company headquarters in Cincinnati as an account executive in customer business development.
His time at Washington College certainly prepared Matt for his career of choice. The Senior Capstone Experience, required for all students, taught him how to use all of the necessary "charts and tools, including forecasting with the benchmark" in order to perform an in-depth analysis of a particular company and its current business environment. "Knowing the industry is even better than knowing the company itself," Matt emphasizes.
Matt was first attracted to Washington College for its strong business program—and baseball, which he played throughout his four years as an undergraduate. "I believe that life is a competition," Matt explains. "Baseball helped me stay competitive and to build teamwork, which is so important in business."


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- League of Peoples, Book 4
- Narrated by: Adam Henderson
- Series: League of Peoples, Book 4
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 10-01-12
- Language: English
- Publisher: Audible Studios
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
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For the children of Admiral Alexader York, perfection wasn't just expected, it was guaranteed - written into their DNA before they were born.
But while Samantha grew into the physical and mental marvel their father had bought and paid for, her twin brother Edward proved a disappointment. Genetic tinkering had raised Sam above the common herd, but Edward's faultless body housed a faulty brain.
It took all the Admiral's influence to get Edward commissioned in the Outward Fleet Explorer Corps - a fiercely independent band of misfits who referred to themselves proudly as Expendables. Accompanying Sam on a mission to the troubled planet of Troyen, home to the alien Mandasar, Edward found himself in the midst of a civil war. There, in an instant of horrifying insanity, Sam was killed, along with the alien hive-queen.
For the next 20 years, Edward was exiled to a lonely outpost on one of Troyen's moons, blamed by the Admiral for Sam's death - and blaming himself as well. But when escalating violence forces the evacuation of the system, Edward embarks on a perilous journey home that will lead hin into a forgotten past - and, with the assistance of another ex-Expendable, the greatest Explorere of them all, the legendary Admiral Festina Ramos, into a future thick with conspiracy and betrayal. For there lurks a dark secret powerful enough to bury the hopes of human and Mandasar alike...or give them a new and brighter beginning.
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Worthy of a good review!
I shied away from this Audible book because there were no reviews posted and I regret waiting so long to listen. I was in need of a book for a weekend of travel and figured I'd try the next book in the League of People series. I can honestly say that I enjoyed Hunted, so much so that spent several hours Monday morning finishing the book.
I must say up front, I did not initially like the narrator. He reminded me too much of a radio announcer reading news he found uninteresting. After a couple of other characters were introduced I understood Edward was telling his story as a simplified report of the incidents of his life on Troyen from his 'faulty brain' and a lifetime of low self-esteem. My opinion of the narrator changed 180 degrees as I focused on the exquisite, imaginative, plausible worlds created by James Allen Gardner and his description of the Mandasar (natives of Troyen) race. While the story is sometimes predictable but there are still plenty of twists and turns including the Explorers and their Admiral Festina Ramos in all their outcast glory keeping humans in-line with the League of Peoples.
If you enjoyed the previous books of the Leagues of Peoples series I'm sure you will enjoy Hunted (just give the story ((and the narrator)) long enough to grow on you - like moss). You may note that I gave the performance four stars because I believe the initial dislike of the narrator's performance was a producer decision and not a reflection of the otherwise stellar job.)
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The following figure illustrates how DN renaming is performed by Directory Proxy Server.
In Figure 17–2, the client contains the dc=example, dc=com database. The LDAP server contains the dc=example, dc=org database. The Directory Proxy Server renames the DNs.
Attributes that contain DNs must also be renamed if those DNs are in the portion of the DIT that is affected by the original DN renaming. In Figure 17–2, the group attribute contains a list of the DNs of group members. When dc=example, dc=com is renamed to dc=example, dc=org, the DNs in the group attribute must also be renamed.
For information about how to configure DN renaming, see To Configure DN Renaming in Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 Administration Guide.


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Save the date - 6th December! Christmas in the Spa is back
Sat, 6th Dec 2014
Come and join our "Christmas in the Spa" event on 6th December.
Book a date with your girlfriends and come along to the Spa for some serious pampering before Christmas begins.
One hour of pure bliss!
Your luxurious 60 minutes treatment will include:...more
Arrowtown Long Lunch
Fri, 5th Dec 2014 - 1pm - 5pm
The Arrowtown Long Lunch is back on the 5th December 2014 with an afternoon of delicious food and lively entertainment. Held on Arrowtown's Buckingham Street, the event features a line of tables running from one end of the street to the other. Diners view the menus on the event website and pick a seat with one of Arrowtown's excellent eateries....more
Queenstown International Marathon
Sat, 22nd Nov 2014 - 8.00am
A new international running festival incorporating 42km, 21km, 10km and 3km kids run options....more
Queenstown Jazz Festival 2014
Fri, 24th Oct 2014 - Sun, 26th Oct 2014
The Queenstown JazzFest is a community owned event that has grown from humble beginnings in 1978 to become Queenstown's premier springtime event. Held over Labour Weekend each year, our vibrant town plays host to some of the finest Jazz artists, in a celebration of live music at venues throughout Queenstown and the surrounding district. The Festival is a key event on the Queenstown arts event calendar and is a cornerstone of the spring shoulder season, specifically timed to benefit local businesses. It provides local and visiting audiences with an exciting programme of top quality entertainment featuring national and international artists. The event also offers performance opportunities for local musicians to showcase their talents and raise public awareness and appreciation of their music. The Queenstown JazzFest has a significant youth focus, providing development and performance opportunities for young aspiring musicians, encouraging them to learn new skills and interact with both their peers and professional musicians. The Festival offers a wide range of musical styles and has broad appeal to music lovers of all ages. The music is supported by a variety of other Jazz related artistic activities which can include art, dance, film, theatre, wine and food, all held within the stunning backdrop of the Wakatipu basin. ...more
Brought to you by Woman's Day - Chelsea Winter's book launch at Millbrook Resort
Wed, 22nd Oct 2014 - 6pm - 8pm
Chelsea Winter's new cookbook, Everyday Delicious is going to launch at Millbrook Resort on the Wednesday 22nd October.
Chelsea's warm, fun and fresh approach to food has seen her quickly become a household name in New Zealand and beyond. With her delicious recipes using everyday ingredients, Chelsea inspires people of all ages and experience levels.
Chelsea's first book, At My Table, was a sell-out success; and her new book Everyday Delicious is another treasure trove of amazing recipes.
Join Chelsea for an intimate round of demonstrations from her cookbook, learn more about her wonderful life and experiences, hear about the inspiration for Everyday Delicious and sample some of the delicious recipes from within.
You'll also receive a complimentary glass of bubbles from her friends at Kim Crawford, a beautiful array of gorgeous edible treats, a copy of Woman's Day magazine and a goodie bag full of some of Chelsea's favourite brands!...more
Gay Ski Week QT
Sat, 30th Aug 2014 - Sat, 6th Sep 2014
The week-long extravaganza features plenty of outrageous fun from gourmet dining, dancing, and cabaret shows to on-mountain action and adventure activities!...more
NZ Skiing Masters - Coronet Peak
Fri, 8th Aug 2014 - Sun, 10th Aug 2014
There is something exhilarating about clicking into those old planks, tucking into a crouch while wearing a wind resistant figure hugging suit, and racing down a ski slope as fast as you possibly can....more
NZ Mountain Film Festival
Thu, 10th Jul 2014 - Fri, 11th Jul 2014
The NZ Mountain Film Festival is a five day event in Wanaka, July 4 to 8, and two days in Queenstown, July 10 & 11. ...more
Queenstown Wedding Fair
Sun, 6th Jul 2014
We are different because we have a mix and limit of all categories so you will find everything for your special day in one place without being bombarded with too many of one thing. You can also be guaranteed that we keep up with the times and the trends...more
Sat, 5th Jul 2014 - 3pm
THOMAS BROWN GALLERY - SPEARGRASS FLAT ROAD, LAKE HAYES, QUEENSTOWN...more
Mountain Scene's Thriller in the Chiller
Sat, 28th Jun 2014 - 7pm
Now in its fifth year and still going strong, Mountain Scene's 2014 instalment of Thriller in the Chiller promises to be a real humdinger!...more
Downtown Day
Wed, 25th Jun 2014
Join the amused and bemused crowds for the year's best lunch break: Downtown Day at the American Express Queenstown Winter Festival. Watch a tasty twist on the good old egg and spoon race with the Cup & Cake Challenge, before the QRC Hospitality Race sees one Queenstown top hotel be crowned the 'Hosts with the Most'....more
Comedy Night
Tue, 24th Jun 2014
Nothing warms the soul like a good ol' giggle. So if it's cold out, this is right where you want to be....more
American Express Comedy Debate
Sun, 22nd Jun 2014
Come and join the American Express Comedy Debate: 'Forty is the New Thirty' as part of the 2014 American Express Queenstown Winter Festival....more
American Express Festival Street Parade
Sat, 21st Jun 2014 - 12:00pm
This year's American Express Festival Street Parade is extra special, marking our 40 year milestone and 25 years of partnership with American Express....more
American Express Queenstown Winter Festival 2014
Fri, 20th Jun 2014 - Sun, 29th Jun 2014
The multi award-winning American Express Queenstown Winter Festival will take centre stage in Queenstown, New Zealand, from 20 to 29 June 2014....more
Black Tie Event
Sat, 7th Jun 2014
Black Tie Charity Dinner and Auction. In support of Queenstown Lakes Family Centre....more
Katherine Smyth: Zoomorphic
Sat, 3rd May 2014 - Wed, 28th May 2014
Katherine Smyth invites a menagerie to the table in Zoomorphic. Polar bears, hippos, and crocodiles are welcomed to afternoon tea, and these 'wild things' find their place alongside more familiar creatures, their everyday names assurances of a newfound domesticity.
Smyth references a long tradition of the figurative in ceramics, and these pieces recall the spare, suggestive lines found in pottery from Neolithic to Ancient Egyptian to 10th-century Persian ceramics.
See more at: http://www.queenstownnz.co.nz/information/eventDetail/index.cfm?eID=322&occID=1853#sthash.WLT3N6u6.dpuf...more
Songs & Stories from Holly Arrowsmith
Wed, 30th Apr 2014 - Sat, 31st May 2014
Songs & Stories from Holly Arrow Smith with Ciaran McMeeken...more
Queenstown Blues & Roots 2014
Sat, 26th Apr 2014 - 11:00am - 22:30pm
A new music festival in Queenstown is set to be a standout event on the South Island entertainment calendar....more
Arrowtown Autumn Festival 2014
Fri, 25th Apr 2014 - Sun, 4th May 2014
The 2014 festival runs from Friday 25th April to Sunday 4th May and features more than 50 events over the 10 day programme. There is a street parade, arts and craft market, ball, daily street entertainment with the Arrow Miner's Band and Arrowtown's Can Can girls The Buckingham Belles, guided historical walks, Pie and Pint Festival, aerobatic display, art exhibition, vintage car rally, jazz, gold panning, lots of live music, workshops, a variety concert…and much more. You'll find lots of fun for all the family and something for everyone in the line-up....more
New World Tour de Wakatipu
Sat, 19th Apr 2014
This event is entering its sixth year....more
Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow
Fri, 18th Apr 2014 - Sun, 20th Apr 2014
The 2014 Warbirds over Wanaka event will be held at Wanaka Airport at Easter weekend, the 18th, 19th and 20th April 2014....more
Queenstown Bike Festival 2014
Sat, 12th Apr 2014 - Sun, 20th Apr 2014
Grab yer bike and helmet, and head to Queenstown this Easter for the Queenstown Bike Festival. It's an exciting 10-day event for all ages and abilities, and it gives you the chance to check out Queenstown's world-class cycle tracks, trails, roads and spectacular lake and alpine scenery.
Whether you're a biking novice, recreational cyclist or serious biker, there's plenty of action. Events range from the Tour de Wakatipu, Dirtmasters Downhill, Super D and Peleton road bike ride to a Kids Ride, Wine Trail ride and an Around the Mountains ride on the far side of Lake Wakatipu. Don't miss it!...more
Gibbston Wine and Food Festival 2014
Sat, 1st Mar 2014
2014 will see the new Gibbston Wine and Food Festival step up to truly showcase the regions fantastic wine and local produce. This wonderful festival provides a fantastic opportunity for the public to get to know the faces behind the wines that we love to drink. Talk to the winemakers, they love to tell you about any special blends that they have just created. Make the most of some of the world's bests Wineries right on your doorstep only 25 mins from Queenstown....more
New Zealand OPEN 2014
Thu, 27th Feb 2014 - Sun, 2nd Mar 2014
Hosted at two spectacular golf courses - The Hills and Millbrook Resort - the tournament incorporates a unique Pro-Am format that brings together a prestigious blend of Professional and Amateur golfers....more
Gibbston Valley Winery Summer Concert 2014
Sat, 15th Feb 2014
A Kiwi support artist will kick off the show followed by 10cc at 1pm, Starship at 3 p.m. and Lynyrd Skynyrd at 5 p.m. Note that these times are subject to change.
Refreshments: A wide range of quality food, beer and award winning Gibbston Valley wines will be available at each event but concert-goers are also able to bring their own food and non-alcoholic beverages.
Tickets: $99 +bf with children aged under 14 free.
Local ticket prices for residents are just $89 and available from Thursday, 5 September at i-site Queenstown, i-site Wanaka, A Taste Of Gibbston – Arrowtown and Gibbston Valley Winery . Numbers are limited so get in quick!
Central Otago Pinot Noir Celebration 2014
Thu, 30th Jan 2014 - Sat, 1st Feb 2014
Queenstown, New Zealand, will again play host to the Central Otago Pinot Noir Celebration - an event that has established itself as a must-do date on the international Pinot Noir calendar....more
Glenorchy Races 2014
Sat, 4th Jan 2014 - 11am - 4pm
Races range from the Walk Trot Gallop, Relay Race and highly entertaining Double Banking Race to the Open Gallop, Quarter Mile Sprint and the hotly contested Stockmans Race. Although anyone with a horse can register, the races are not for the faint hearted or inexperienced - many local horse trekking staff and stockmen/women enter each year so the competition is fierce!...more
TSS Earnslaw New Year's Eve Cruise 2013
Tue, 31st Dec 2013 - Wed, 1st Jan 2014
TSS Earnslaw New Year's Eve Cruise 2013...more
New Year's Eve Countdown 2013
Tue, 31st Dec 2013 - Wed, 1st Jan 2014 - 7:30pm - 1:00am
An excellent line-up of entertainment has been booked, live bands for the main stage, DJs to entertain the younger revellers and a spectacular firework display to light up the night sky and bring in 2014 with a cheer...more


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- Cruise Breakfast, hosted by the Ramblin' Oldies of Denham Springs, every Saturday from 7-9 a.m. at Berry's Burgers & Seafood at Florida Blvd. and Flannery Road. All gearheads welcome. For more information call (225) 665-3609.
- Rotolos Pizzeria Cruise-In, 2324 False River Drive, New Roads, on the second Sunday of every month from 4 to 7 p.m. Air-conditioned plus an outdoor patio. Hosted by the Old Car Guys of New Roads. Call Ray at (225) 718-4583.
- The Naughty or Nice CENLA Autocross (Solo II) at Circuit Grand Bayou/No Problem Raceway near Belle Rose. For registration and more information visit www.dlbracing.com or www.cenla-scca.org.
- Hearts Car Show Benefit from 1 to 4 p.m. at Hearts, 9945 Airline Highway. The event will include '50s Rock-N-Roll music by Homer T. There is no registration and everyone is asked to bring canned food or money. All proceeds will go the East Baton Rouge Food Bank. For more information call Dave at (225) 927-7122.
- Baton Rouge Area Sports Car Club of America (CENLA) monthly membership meeting at George's, 15321 George O'Neal Road, at 7:30 p.m. The board meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. Anyone interested in sports cars or local motorsports competition is welcome. For more information call Matt at (225) 485-8452, Mike at (225) 603-3528 or visit www.cenla-scca.org.
- Southern Cruisers Riding Club, Live Oak 531, monthly meetings at Ryan's Restaurant on South Range in Denham Springs on the second Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. For more information call Tommy at (225) 278-1600.
- Christian Motorcyclists Association, Peacemakers Chapter 369, meeting at LaFleur's Seafood Restaurant, 6865 Magnolia Beach Road in Denham Springs, at 7 p.m. on the 2nd Thursday of each month. For more information call Wilson Chaney at (225) 275-2582.
- Baton Rouge Corvette Club meeting at the East Side Fire Station, 15094 Old Hammond Highway, at 7 p.m. on the 2nd Thursday of each month. All Corvette owners and potential owners are welcome. For more information and club events visit the Web site at www.brcc.us.
Send your car club information to: Cruisin', WHEELS, The Advocate, P.O. Box 588, Baton Rouge, LA 70821, or email to firstname.lastname@example.com or fax to (225) 388-0129.


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Phoronix: OpenSolaris 2009.06 Performance
Sun Microsystems released OpenSolaris 2009.06 on Monday as a key update to this Solaris desktop operating system used on both servers and desktops. The 2009.06 release introduced better codec support, SPARC support, improved hardware support, numerous enhancements to the Image Packaging System, and plenty of other changes we talked about in our article on Monday. Today though we are here with some benchmarks from this new OpenSolaris 2009.06 x86 release as we compare the performance to its predecessor, OpenSolaris 2008.11.
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Originally posted by etacarinae View Post4. "Shortly we will have a new round of Ubuntu Linux vs. OpenSolaris testing." On OpenSolaris 32bit apps are generated by default by the compiler so you have to set CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS to "-m64", as comparing 32 bit apps to 64 is not exactly fair.
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Some questions:
1. For the Java tests (incl. Java2D, etc..) why is OpenSolaris 2009.06 + gcc 4.3 listed as an option ? I think it doesn't make sense if the compiler is not involved.
2. Building the Threaded I/O Tester on OpenSolaris 2009.06 seems to lead to a huge regression in its latency performance when it comes to four threads of 64MB writes." Hmm, there is such a difference when building with gcc 4.3.2 vs 3.4.3 ?
3. "The C-Ray ray-tracing performance had regressed when being built with GCC 4.3.2 -- it took 56% more time to build." More time to build ? Or to run ? I'm confused as to what's being measured here.
4. "Shortly we will have a new round of Ubuntu Linux vs. OpenSolaris testing." On OpenSolaris 32bit apps are generated by default by the compiler so you have to set CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS to "-m64", as comparing 32 bit apps to 64 is not exactly fair.Last edited by etacarinae; 06-04-2009, 07:19 PM.
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I find the results very strange with the bork metric. Its a pure java based
metric, gcc wouldn't be used here at all atll. So why does it show almost
a 4 second difference between the opensolaris 2009.06 gcc3.4 and gcc4.3
runs ? How many runs were done and whats the standard deviation with them ?
For benchmarks the number of runs done and the standard deviation are
very important with comparing two or more samples like here.
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with 2gb of ram?
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I have this feeling...we just loaded their hearts with doubt. Their psyche is crushed. All week, the radio shows in San Francisco are going to demolish that team. All the pressure in the world is on Kaepernick to not lose that Cardinal game.
Hopefully the Cardinal defense can win it...because, needless to say, Ryan Lindley...yuck.
Also, I don't see it as outside the realm of possibility that Minnesota beats Green Bay next week, too.


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Jennifer Lawrence: award season with Nicholas Hoult
Thank you so much for your emails and tweets yesterday. It was a 10,000 word day and Duana and I worked overnight. So to receive your messages, shouting at us, cussing our asses, disagreeing and agreeing and sharing your thoughts, it kept us going and motivated. We love award season as much as you do. It's like we're all at the same party, judging and bitching and fighting and swooning all at the same time.
Many of you wrote to express irritation about Jennifer Lawrence. I guess that's what happens when someone keeps winning – the backlash. Is it her…or is it us? Is she really that annoying or is it that we can't stand to see someone so successful? It happens in sports too. When a team or a player just keeps dominating the game, people start to turn. Some of you are sick of Lawrence's "schtick" – the clumsiness, the aw-shucksy-ness, the Jennifer Lawrence-ness of Jennifer Lawrence. I didn't love her dress. (Duana called it her Worst of the Globes yesterday – click here for a refresher.) And I certainly didn't love her assertion a couple of months ago that we shouldn't get all critical on fashion porn because blah blah blah. BUT I still love Jennifer Lawrence. I don't see Anne Hathaway in Jennifer Lawrence. I don't see Taylor Swift in Jennifer Lawrence either. Maybe it's because Jennifer Lawrence is so great at disappearing. She can go deep undercover when she needs to – and she wants to quite often – which tells me that she understands, she gets it. So no, I'm not giving up on her. Not yet. And I'm certainly not giving up on her now that she and Nicholas Hoult are making their way through their first award season together.
They broke up last year just as her campaign was beginning. He wasn't digging the pressure, the scrutiny. That may have been the smartest decision for them in the long run – she went through it on her own, experienced the craziness, then retreated, and they worked it out in Montreal in the summer while shooting the X-Men sequel. He was sitting beside her at the Globes on Sunday. She kissed him when her name was called. Some asshole had to get in the way of the shot, although we managed to get another one later on:
Then they went to the parties together. On their way home, while waiting for the car, he gave her his jacket. Look at them. They're adorable. Also the guy with them is kinda hot too.


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Among other distinctions, Wachusett Mountain Ski Area is an incubator for people doing cool and important things in the snow sports business.
That phenomenon was brought home Saturday night at Wachusett's 50th birthday bash for friends of the Princeton ski and snowboard magnet, among whom were members of the Eastern Ski Writers Association, a group I belong to and which also is celebrating its 50th this year.
The spacious Granite Room in the base lodge was packed for the gala with more than 275 guests, including plenty of industry notables, many of them who have close ties to the "Wa," as fans fondly refer to the Central Mass. resort.
Here are some of the Wachusett-bred ski luminaries who were on hand (apologies to anyone I missed):
•Dave Ingemie, longtime president of the influential ski manufacturers trade group Snowsports Industries America, started out his career in marketing and public relations at Wachusett in 1969. A Fitchburg native, Ingemie later jumped to the executive directorship of the Mount Washington Valley Chamber of Commerce in New Hampshire.
•Molly Mahar, vice president of New Hampshire's Loon Mountain Resort. A native Princetonian whose mother worked at the mountain, Mahar grew up skiing at Wachusett.
•Tim McGuire, general manager of Burke Mountain Resort, the rapidly expanding northern Vermont destination, started out as an environmental engineer at Wachusett.
There are also plenty of other important players in the ski business with Wachusett roots. Some of them are:
•Kerry O'Brien, head snow groomer at Sun Valley, Idaho, one of the world's premier ski resorts. O'Brien is the brother of one of Wachusett's first general managers, Joe O'Brien, under original owner Ralph Crowley Sr. Of course, three of the late Mr. Crowley's five siblings — Jeff, David and Caroline — now run Wachusett.
•Jamie O'Brien, Joe's son and Kerry's nephew, a former ski boot fitter at the Wachusett shop and star junior racer. Jamie runs mountain operations at Stowe Mountain Resort, the classic, steep and backcountry lovers' paradise in northern Vermont.
•Wachusett general manager David Crowley's son, David Jr., works in lift operations at Wyoming's gnarly Jackson Hole, the prime U.S. resort for steep and deep riding. David's daughter, Trudi, worked in snowmaking at Vermont's Sugarbush resort.
•Matt and Kathryn Crowley are former star racers of Sun Valley. They are children of Ralph Crowley Jr., president of Polar Beverages, Wachusett's sister company and the country's largest independent bottler. Ralph's daughter, Sarah, is the newly appointed events director for the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation, the resort's prestigious racing academy.
•Courtney Crowley, daughter of Wachusett president Jeff Crowley, is working in an internship at Stratton Mountain Resort in southern Vermont.
•Nick Krause of Northboro is the first and only Wachusett-bred skier to make the U.S. Ski Team. Krause, a 20-year-old grad of the Stratton Mountain School ski racing academy, is competing on the prestigious Nor-Am race tour right now.
•Bob Magnoine, an early Wachusett general manager and later ski school director, is now technical ski school director at Mohawk Mountain in Connecticut.
•Princeton native D.J. Hart is a ski instructor at Sun Valley.
•James Moore, former snowboard technical director at Wachusett, now has the same job at Mount Snow in West Dover, Vt.
•Former Wachusett ski instructors now teaching skiing at other areas: Mark Conlon, originally from Fitchburg, now at the upscale Beaver Creek resort in Colorado; Boylston native Craig Spooner, now at Snowbird, the Utah powder mecca; Kevin Beech of West Boylston, at Mount Snow; Massimo Cavalli, at Grand Targhee, Wyo.; Shawna Reilly, at Smugglers Notch, Vt.; Dan Hogan, kids program director at Smugglers Notch; Gordon Flett, Alpine Meadows, Calif.; Andrew Buffard, snowboard freestyle director, Killington, Vt.; Diane Hurvitz, Winter Park, Colo.
At the party, Ralph Crowley, the oldest of the five Crowley siblings (an avid skier based out of Stratton), remarked with his usual blunt wit about the some of the younger generation Crowleys. There are 18 younger Crowley cousins in all, most of them in attendance in the Granite Room.
"We have kids in the ski biz working at dumps like Jackson Hole and Sun Valley," Ralph said, noting as well that while it is Wachusett's 50th anniversary, Polar (controlled by Ralph and the fifth older generation Crowley sibling, Chris, of Southboro) has been in business for 130 years.
By the way, this was the first time anyone could remember seeing all of the Wachusett and Polar Crowley siblings on stage, with speaking roles, at the same time. It continues to be remarkable how well the siblings — who have a history of family discord among the siblings of their father's generation — get along and collectively manage both companies so well.
For the record, this is a big year for 50ths in the snow sports community across the country.
In addition to Wachusett and the Eastern Ski Writers group, others celebrating their 50ths include Vail and Steamboat Springs, the elite Colorado mega-resorts; Telluride, Copper Mountain, Loveland and Eldora, four more great Colorado ski areas, and Pats Peaks ski area in Henniker, N.H.
Tom Meyers, Wachusett's creative marketing director, surmised that something must have been going on in the '60s in the ski world.
"Nineteen sixty-two must have been the baby boom of the ski industry," Meyers said.
Saturday — Berkshire East Ski Area, Charlemont, scheduled to open for season.
Saturday — Wachusett Mountain Ski Area, Princeton, 50th anniversary celebration and opening of Sun Drop Big Air Bag, freestyle ski, and snowboard training feature that allows safe landings for jumps.
Saturday-Sunday — Stratton Mountain (Vt.) Ski Area, Heavy Metal Boardercross Camp with Vermont Olympians Lindsey Jacobellis and Ross Powers, for riders ages 10-18.
Dec. 28 — Mount Snow, West Dover, Vt., DC Pop Up Jam, snowboard rail jam at Carinthia terrain park.
Dec. 28 — Waterville Valley, N.H., ski demo day.
Dec. 29 — Waterville Valley, meet and greet with Olympic gold medalist freestyle mogul skier Hannah Kearney.
Dec. 28-29 — Crotched Mountain Ski Area, Bennington, N.H., kickoff nights of "Midnight Madness" skiing and riding until midnight.
Jan. 2 — Wachusett Mountain, opening night, Night Race League.
Contact Shaun Sutner at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @ssutner.


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LOS ANGELES, April 29 (UPI) -- Naya Rivera has reportedly been "written out" of Glee just weeks after rumors began that she was feuding with costar Lea Michele on the set of Fox's hit series.
PopWrapped's co-founder, Zachary Jaydon broke the news about Rivera's firing in a tweet on Thursday.
"I have CONFIRMED that Naya Rivera WILL NOT be appearing in the #GLEE Season 5 Finale' as originally planned. Stay-tuned for more details," Jaydon wrote.
Reports of Rivera's firing began two weeks ago after she reportedly got into an argument with producers over Michele's diva behavior. Sources close to the situation told New York Daily News that while Rivera did go off on set "it had nothing to do with Lea."
"One costar would not have any power in whether another returns to the show," the source said about rumors that Michele had a say in Rivera's firing.
Reports of Rivera's departure from Glee come three weeks after rapper Big Sean ended his engagement to the actress.
The 27-year-old star has played the role of Santana Lopez since the musical comedy-drama debuted in 2009.


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Need help on a scenery quilt
I am presently working on a scenery quilt of Lake Superior. I am finding that the edges of my trees, leaves, rocks etc are starting to fray. The stated I'm suppose to sew along the edges of each piece, which I am starting to do. This does not help the fraying. How do I stop this without using fray check? Has anyone else had this problem? The kit was bought through Nancy Notions and everything was included. I was really happy with the way it was coming out till the fraying started. Not I'm kind of bummed out. I stopped working on it for awhile to take a break. I'm hoping someone has a solution for me.*


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Basmati rice (white) - 3 1/2 cups, cooked
Grated coconut - 3/4 cup
Urad dal - 1 tsp (optional)
Curry leaves - 4-5
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Dried red chilly - 1 medium
Cashewnuts - 6 whole unsalted
Chopped cilantro - a few sprigs
Asafoetida - a pinch
Salt - 1/4 tsp or to taste
Groundnut or vegetable oil - 1 tbsp
Heat oil in a skillet big enough to hold the rice.
Add the mustard seeds.
When they start to crackle, add asafoetida, urad dal, dried red chilly, curry leaves and cashewnuts.
Saute for a minute or two until the cashewnuts and urad dal are light brown.
Toss in the shredded/grated coconut and fry for a minute more.
Mix in the cooked rice and stir until mixed well and heated through.
Adjust the seasoning by adding salt as needed.
Sprinkle the chopped cilantro and mix well.
Serve hot with Indian curries.
- I used frozen grated coconut after thawing.
- We had it with curd, pickle and pappads.
Once again its award-time. Rachel of Tangerine's kitchen passed me two beautiful awards - The Yummy Blog award and the Rocking Girl Blogger award. At this time, I am dedicating and awarding these two awards to all of you - especially my fellow rocking bloggers, my lovely readers, all my friends and family who are encouraging me everyday to keep up the blog! Love ya all!! Again, wishing you all a great weekend!!
I am also sending this to EC's "Mixed Rice Varieties" event at Simple Indian Food. I am also sending this to Archana's "One Dish Meal event" at Archana's kitchen.


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|2007-02-15, 22:58
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Toronto, ON
I do not hate Naruto, but Kishimoto has yet to shown that Naruto has truly become a formidable opponent for Kakashi. This is just another plot device to make Naruto's growth seemingly vast. In essence, this is a variable repeat of when he first learned the Rasengan. He has only learned an amazing jutsu, yet he did not improve much on any other aspects of his skills.
Whereas Saskue seems to have gained a wealth of new skills, Naruto continues to rely on his shadow clones usage + a high power jutsu. I would like to see more versatility in Naruto's abilities.
|2007-02-15, 23:18
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Join Date: Sep 2006
offtopic: I just saw an American Naruto toy commerical for the first time. It featured some kid dressed as Sasuke fighting a guy dressed a Zabuza. "Zabuza" was swinging an authentic plastic zanbato while "Sasuke" threw a plastic shuriken which defeated Zabuza. After which Sasuke exclaimed "Victory is mine!".
Classic stuff. I laughed for about 5min straight. I found myself wanting to go out and buy the set though
|2007-02-16, 04:13
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Naruto has gained a unique jutsu, but it's an evolutionary jutsu rather than a revolutionary jutsu. While it's immensely powerful, they whole execution of it was rather tame.
In the manga, Naruto has mainly won his victories from a disadvantaged position, as an underdog. In the past Naruto would use his last ounce of energy to save those who mattered. This time round however, he's defeated an opponent while not necessarily "dumbed down" but most definately weaker than he originally was. Add the fact that Naruto had four people to back him up in case something bad happened, it made for a somewhat one-sided encounter and climax to a what was an interesting battle.
For sure it does highlight Naruto's growth, but his battle tactics have become even more one-dimensional than that prior to the time-skip: Kage-bunshin + Rasengan = Defeated Enemy.
This is Kishimoto's fault.
Maybe he is getting bored of "Naruto" and wants to write "Sasuke", if he does it would be a disappointing end to what has been a very good manga.
|2007-02-16, 04:16
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In other news, I agree wholeheartedly with ShirukenJay. I can accept two Akatsuki members dying, and I can accept that Shikamaru and Naruto doing them in, but I've got a hard time accepting that they couldn't put up a good fight. They weren't in Sasori's league at all in that department. And I think it's bizarre that we haven't had Hidan's ability explained to us, are we just supposed to accept it as is? That's about the only thing that makes me cling to the hope of seeing Hidan again.
|2007-02-16, 04:56
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All I know is the series is going to get A LOT more interesting from here on out. So many things have yet to be revealed and Sasuke and Naruto will only get stronger and more fun to see advance.
I really don't care if Naruto advances slower because I know in the end he's going to do something spectacular, a WTF moment almost. In the Valley of the End arc I had that WTF moment where Naruto went into nine tails mode and then Sasuke went into Curse mode lvl 2 or w/e it was. Twas awesome.
So I know that there will be more moments where we get to see OMGWTFBBQ moments of unleashing of awesome power.
I dunno about everyone else, but I cant think to myself that I'm disappointed with each new chapter...because I cant be...I don't know whats going to happen next which makes me glad about the chapter when it comes out.
I enjoy reading the Manga and thats about all there is too it.
|2007-02-16, 05:15
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Ooooo Sasuke is back and he looks nice too.
And yes, his appearance is pretty much the only thing at this time that can make me read a chapter of Naruto. Sad? Yes. Shallow? For sure. Understandable? Definately.
|2007-02-16, 07:36
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i'm interested with the fact that kishi refuse to turn sasuke into a really bad/evil character. Sasuke didnt kill any one of the defeated shinobi just proved it! i think this is a strong hint to us that sasuke will comeback to konoha someday!
As for the chapter, does everyone satisfy with the king revelation? i dont think so!! after being hype up about the king, *theres many thread about it in many forums in the net*, that the answer we gat? kishi must be kidding!!
About the pregnancy of kurenai, many fans have foreseen it , so its no suprise!! so, in conclusion, this chapter is a bit frustrating!!
|2007-02-16, 08:22
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Age: 35
personally, i dont understand how people can spend hours arguing over power levels... but the the fighting has never appealed to me much, its the characters that i love, and i loved this issue. Finally some resolution and character development. Kurenai is pregnant, how tragic and beautiful at the same time. I just hope the manga is ending soon... i hope this will be the last arc coming up. Everything seems so final. seriously tho... 2 years just to kill off 3 akatski?? wtf??
|2007-02-16, 08:30
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All of the people who think that he acted retarded seem to miss something. When someone is being totally overpowered, he doesn't look good, cunning or strong. He simply loses. That's how it works in real life and that probably is how it works in this manga.
I for one are happy to see naruto finish up with an enemy without looking like a mormon...err..moron. Sorry =( He finally got this feeling you got with sasuke pretty much from the beginning: he's strong.
|2007-02-16, 09:30
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@Note about Naruto defeating Kakazu
I'm pretty sure this is the first time Kakazu fought a "Naruto-type" character + abilities. So, even with his vast experience if he haven't fought someone with such similar abilities then it would kinda useless in some levels.
On Topic:
Sasuke arc? Interesting to see there's some "light" in Sasuke's being.
|2007-02-16, 10:11
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People don't seem to understand that this wasn't a 1 on 1 fight; but a 1 on many fight. Kakuzu specialises in wide destruction jutsus and he is fighting someone who can do the same, if not more than him. However, Kakuzu doesn't have any one else on his side to worry about. Logic would dictate to attack the other people who he, I and everyone else on this forum knows can't defend against his attacks either forcing Naruto to watch them die (which we all know he won't since he already saved them with Yamato), or to let the real Naruto jumped into the open to save them which sooner or later will give Kakuzu the opening he needs to win the fight. Yes, Kakuzu doesn't have an endless supply of chakra; but he didn't have to. Even ignoring this, there was absolutely no reason for Kakuzu to leave himself totally defenseless knowing that there are ninjas out there in the vicinity who already destroyed his hearts and can easily finish the job if given the chance.
Naruto's strength is not in question here, nor his tactics and skills. It is simply the way how Kishimoto dumbed a ninja like Kakuzu who should had known waaaaaaaaay better.
Have everyone noticed though that out of the akatsuki members that died so far, we haven't seen their ultimate jutsus? Sasori let himself be killed before revealling his 2 most powerful jutsus. Hidan, well speak for himself; and Kakuzu still had his real heart and own jutsus that he didn't use (he was using the hearts/jutsus of others). Would this trend be continued?
|2007-02-16, 10:52
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Hahahaha Kurenai really is pregnant... Cant wait to see Naruto's new completed jutsu and Naruto vs Sasuke. Now that we seen people from Konoha kill so many Akatsuki members, maybe next we ll see Orochimaru's team kill a Akatsuki member either Orochimaru or Sasuke. Thats why Kishi showed the last part of Sasuke training, maybe.
|2007-02-16, 11:07
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Attacking the others would'nt be a prudent tactic for Kakuzu considering that this would cause him to take his attention off Naruto leaving himself open for attack. You could say otherwise about Ino and Chouji, but Yamato and Kakashi aren't rookies and aren't innocent bystanders that Kakuzu could exploit as hostages. Attacking them and bringing them into the fight would've just created unecessary trouble for Kakuzu.
Kakuzu wasn't retarded, he was fighting defensively. He learned from his first mistake and adjusted, however Naruto had already accounted for this. His main flaw was that he tried to fight Naruto head on with power rather than using deception and cunning. In situation like that, a ninja like Oro or Itachi would've used bunshin of their own or at least have been prepared to use a kawarmi. Given the situation, they might've simply retreated. It seems like more of a matter of pride that got him killed not necessarily dumbness, though it is still a less than satisfactory defeat
I'll also give kudos to Naruto for using a minimal amount of clones. Naruto could've easily created dozens or even hundreds of clones and rushed at Kakuzu. However, in seeing this Kakuzu might've been overwhelmed and changed his tactics or decided to retreat. By using only 3 clones at a time, Naruto kept Kakuzu thinking that he was still in control of the fight.
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|2007-02-16, 11:16
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|2007-02-16, 11:27
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The only interesting things this chapter was that Asuma has a son. And that Sasuke isn't really following Orochimaru's intentions. I personally don't think Kishimoto did a very good job in showing how nartuo go 'stronger' than kakashi. Specially since Sakura vs Sasori was a much more impressive battle.
The Sasuke angle was an interesting reminder that Sasuke's still too selfish to submit to anyone (that includes naruto, oro, and itachi). This kinda reminds me back to when sasuke was still cool. He had the curse seal and surpressed it with his own will power just so he could fight how HE wanted to. That was cool. Maybe this new sasuke will do something cool like completly defying oro's possesion jutsus or something, cuz all of his exploits after he learned chidori sucked. The battles might have been cool, but sasuke was not an impressive character.
|2007-02-16, 12:41
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Didn't the highly skilled Jiraiya, who might have deserved a place among s-ranks if he were to be an outlaw, fall for one of the simplest tricks, the seduction trick?
For the Itachi vs Kakashi case, mainly because Itachi was not skilled enough to use a very powerful move at light-speed, does not mean Naruto had to act the same... Or mainly because Itachi preferred to not use a good jutsu at high speed (in order to ???) does not mean Naruto should have acted the same way. Itachi combined his signature move, sharingan, with his speed to overpower his opponents, and Naruto used his signature move, kage bunshin (and related techniques), with his speed to overpower his opponents. The only difference here is one is Itachi, the person *you expect to succeed*, and the other is Naruto, the person *you expect to fail*. If you can get rid of your superstition, you might be able to re-evalutate that attack.
And I truly believe that you should really get over this.
You can use the following as supporting points: Naruto has at least double the chakra (plus Kyuubi chakra), he can gain speed beyond Kakashi's with a little help from Kyuubi, he has an incredibly powerful incomplete move, that is beyond what Kakashi's Raikiri can do, and he has enough strength to use a move that Sharingan can do nothing about.
And, if you wait from Naruto a chess/shogi game, good luck, it will never happen. You can barely handle a not very intelligent character winning with pure strength, you cannot handle an intelligent character that has enough chakra capacity to take on all the powerful ninjas in the world alone, and can still win.
Let me first remind you that Itachi was probably as strong as Oro when he was Sasuke's current age. And, Oro, who put his faith in Sasuke, as the man who can surpass Itachi, wouldn't mind training Sasuke with the hopes of helping him reaching Sasuke's level before the time expires.
And, as you might know that, Sasuke didn't initially go to Oro, just so he can spend highly pleasurable nights with Oro. He wanted to become stronger, strong enough to beat Itachi alone, on his own power. Even though, he realized he cannot do alone, do you really think he would stop training?
Let's look at from both Sasuke's point of view, and Oro's point of view. First, Sasuke is most probably thinking like this: "I will try to close the gap as much as possible, and in the case that I cannot close that gap (which is highly probable), I will not mind giving my body to Oro." Now for Oro, to successfully do his body exchange, he needs complete surrenderence from his future host. Do you really think, Sasuke will surrender without reaching as far as he can go? Most probably, you haven't really understood Sasuke's character. Secondly, for Oro, do you think that he would have desired something more than preparing his future host to satisfy his demands completely - meaning training it to the level that he can get a complete body when he transfers?
Also, I haven't included Akatsuki, but, it is even possible that Oro didn't want to waste a single second in preparing Sasuke for future battles, as even though they may not be the one to initiate those battles, they may be the one facing unwillingfully against those opponents. And, in that case, it is always better to be ready.
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|2007-02-16, 12:47
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Turkey
Age: 36
and on the very high end orochimaru will waste a lot of time to train that body...even if oro s senses are perfect he can predict attacks and so if the body cant react in time it would be deadly for him...think about 30 year old soul ind 3 year old baby s body...even if you know how to run that body wont allow you...simple as that.
|2007-02-16, 13:07
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: In Florida
I don't know I actually thought this showed alot of smarts on naruto's part. He made his clones use the tech. to get Kakuza to believe that the clone was naruto since the clone had that whirl wind shuriken thing. He then went for the obvious target. This was Kakuza's mistake. He either did not believe Naruto could have done the technique a third time or thought only a fool would risk his own body by disguising it as a clone. Kakuza did not become retarded. He just underestimated Naruto, since at this point he believed that Naruto was reckless. I think this actually shows that Naruto has grown, which I thought was good. Sure I thought the fight was a bit short, but then one would expect Naruto to be able to defeat a person faster then Sakura. The technique is only half way completed so it'll be interesting to see what the completed version is.
I think the best scenes though were with Shikamaru. We now know who the king is and I'm not surprised I though Kish. made it obvious from the beginning. It's cool to see that Sasuke isn't totally controlled by Oro. So I guess the only Akat. left are Itachi, Akat. Leader, Tobi, Kisame, the chick with the clay, the venus fly trap dude, and the person with the flower in hair. Then there is still Oro.
|2007-02-16, 13:19
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: もう東京ではない
Age: 37
But I don't really see the point about an emotional fight, why can't we expect more out of Kishimoto even though we might not delve into the sad backgrounds of various characters? The way Naruto fooled Kakuzu was simply too unimaginable, I can't believe that's supposed to be a plot twist worthy of chapter number 342.
I don't really understand your point about Deidara's win either. Gaara didn't lose because he was stupid but because Deidara was smart. The same can't be said for Kakuzu unfortunately.
I guess we all value different fights differently, but for me these two coppout fights were something of a lowpoint in the series so far...
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Dallas Cowboys Weekly Poll Results
What should the Cowboys do with Greg Ellis?
Last week we asked you what you thought about the Greg Ellis situation and the results were quite surprising as only 31% of you felt we should even keep him. Or to put it another way, Ellis has got a disapproval rating of close to 70% dissatisfied Cowboys fans that either want him released, traded or retired. (And George Bush thought he had problems!)
This week we would like your opinion on a somewhat debatable issue.
In light of all the recent season-ending, pre-season game injuries around the league…
How long should our first string players play in the last two pre-season games?
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Father Frank Pavone announced today that Dr. Alveda King, full-time pastoral associate of Priests for Life and the niece of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has been selected to receive the Cardinal John J. O'Connor Pro-Life Hall of Fame Award.
The award is bestowed each year by Legatus, the organization of Catholic business professionals founded by Tom Monaghan.
Dr. King is the fifth member of the Priests for Life team to receive this award. Previous recipients are Father Pavone, national director; Janet Morana, executive director and co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign; Dr. Theresa Burke, co-founder of Rachel's Vineyard, and Jerry Horn, senior advisor for media.
"This award for Alveda recognizes the tremendous progress she is making in awakening the African-American community to the violence of abortion," Father Pavone said. "We thank Legatus for this honor and for their longstanding friendship to us and to the entire pro-life movement."
Dr. King said the Cardinal O'Connor Award is an "encouragement, not only for this recipient, but for all the pro-life warriors who are inspired by the legacy of Cardinal O'Connor. The award comes with marching orders: Go forward with the message of life, liberty and justice for all, born and unborn!"
For more information on Dr. King's work with Priests for Life, visit www.africanamericanoutreach.org
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An open call for a Postdoctoral position in the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences in Sopot, Poland
Deadline for application: 30 September 2017.
This is an open competition Call and its results will be announced by 30 October 2017.
We invite outstanding young scientists interested in cooperating with researchers from the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences in the area of marine physics, marine chemistry, and marine ecology. The research will be conducted within the activities of the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences (IO PAN; www.iopan.gda.pl).
The Grantee is expected to conduct research within a research team he or she will join. There will be opportunities to teach at the postgraduate level. Particular duties include:
Experimental characterization of climate-relevant issues.
Application of state-of-the-art measurement methods.
Theoretical interpretation of the experimental findings. Collaboration within the group and external project partners.
Qualification Requirements
In the appointment process, special attention will be given to research skills. The assessment of research skills will focus primarily on merits within the subject area of the position. A general assessment criterion is the ability to work with other people, as well as other general abilities required to perform ones duties.
Candidates, maximum of 5 years after earning Ph.D., are invited to send their applications by email, including a statement of research activities, a cover letter, a CV, as well as name and address of two referees who could provide a recommendation. Proficiency in English and good writing skills are a prerequisite.
A candidate should have a documented running collaboration or/and a project planned with a scientist/scientists from the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences.
Visit completion
The visit should be completed with a written report, in which the grant recipient clearly states the accomplishments resulting from the stay in the IO PAN (preferably publication draft or application for a research grant).
Terms of Employment
This is a 3 to 6 month grant and it must be completed by the end of June 2018. We offer European level salaries. The IO PAN strives to be a work place that is free from discrimination and with equal opportunities. In 2016, the IO PAN had received the HR Excellence in Research award.
For further information applicants may contact the following persons:
Assoc. prof. Tymon Zielinski; Email: email@example.com; Marine physics, climate issues.
Assoc. Prof. Monika Kedra; Email: email@example.com; Marine ecology, climate issues.
Dr. Karol Kulinski; Email: firstname.lastname@example.com; Marine chemistry, climate issues.
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The sign greeted me as I crossed back into Ontario and headed to Hwy. 40 or Pembroke St. E.
I had visited Pembroke briefly a couple of days ago so I sort of knew where things were including the Econo-Lodge where I had chosen to stay.
It was not to hard to find on the left. Once settled in my room it was now time to get a good hardy dinner. I had a few ideas but discovered a Boston Pizza in the shopping center just a little ways from the Econo-Lodge. I had been in one in Kelowna when I visited my cousin there just a few weeks before this trip. He is a Brown descendant and that is my mother's family. My reason for being in Pembroke was my father's father's family.
I was going to be in Pembroke for a couple of days so what follows are some of my experiences.
There was a Walmart and several other businesses in this shopping mall but no wine anywhere to be found. I learned later that Ontario has the LCBO stores where you get everything. They also have Beer stores for beer only. Most of the time you can get just about any type of alcohol in a restaurant, pub or bar. I do like a nice glass of wine. At least they didn't call it a "package store" like they do in Massachusetts. You have to take a look at the LCBO's website. They have recipes for drinks, a store locator. http://www.lcbo.com/main/en.shtml?promo=3
As a result of my search for the wine store I became acquainted with the Santa Fe Restaurant that was on Nelson St. the following evening. You cannot miss it because there is a big water tower next to it with a mural painted on it.
http://www.santafepembroke.ca/menu It is now closed 10/18/2016
Pembroke is a city that is mixing the old and the new. It curves itself around the south side of the Ottawa river and is quite long. I was in search of souvenir T-Shirts and went from where I was on the east side of the city to the west side where Zeller's was located. This took me through the downtown area of Pembroke.
I found where the Pembroke Library was located but I did not have the time to go in and check out its holdings. I had studied its catalog and they had some items that might have been interesting and newspapers. I had been a bit concerned because a lot of the library websites in Ontario talk about membership and fees to use their services. So I emailed the Pembroke Library and they explained the policy. Since I was not going to do anything other than cruise the stacks or maybe use a microfilm I did not have to pay this fee. http://www.pembrokelibrary.ca/
The Champlain Trail Museum and Pioneer Village was not far from the Econo-Lodge and so I stopped and wandered around among the buildings. It was closed by that time but that was okay with me. http://www.champlaintrailmuseum.com/
I felt comfortable in Pembroke and soon got into the flow of the traffic along the main street. Tomorrow was a big day for I would be visiting the Upper Ottawa Valley Genealogical Group Library.
I was liking this Econo-Lodge that I had checked into but I was to learn they are not all created equal.


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Jordan Kovacs + Greatest walk-on college football players
Jordan Kovacs is on my mind after reading a previous thread and some other U of M football news. It got me thinking about where he may rank in terms of the all time great walk-on college football players. It seems to me like walk-ons are the epitomy of what makes college football great, and why for me at least, it is so much better than it's professional counterpart. Walk-ons have to pay their way through (at least part of) school, didn't join the team with money on their minds, and really do everything for the love of the game, epitomizing that cliche.
I came across this very interesting article while researching other great walk-ons.
Kovacs does not have the same pro potential as many of those players (he is just not athletic enough, sadly), but depending on how well he performs this year, I think his college career could put him on that level. What do you guys think?
Do you know of any other walk-ons who had major success on the collegiate and/or professional levels not mentioned in that article? /Discuss.


text: 3. The General was Director of the International Centre, Goa for nearly six years after retirement. He served two terms in the National Security Advisory Board. He has been continuously engaged in social and literary pursuits and has also been delivering talks on strategic issues. He was on the Executive Council of Goa University for seven years and in the Managing Committee of the Goa Chamber of Commerce. He is also a long standing Member of the Goa Planning Board and in the Board of Governors of the Goa Institute of Management. General SF Rodrigues, PVSM, VSM was appointed as the Governor of Punjab and Administrator, Union Territory, Chandigarh on 8th Nov 2004.


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Now that the government has permitted Taiwanese banks to offer yuan-denominated deposit accounts, some banks are seeking to lure customers to open such accounts by offering annual interest rates as high as 2 or 3 percent. However, these high interest rates cannot be maintained forever — they will eventually be reduced significantly, especially when more Chinese currency becomes available in Taiwan.
The interest rates that banks offer on yuan accounts will eventually be decided based on how much Chinese currency they need. A bank may have many channels through which to clear yuan, some that may be legal and others, not yet approved, that are on the margins of the law.
For example, banks could lend yuan to businesses operating in China — including Chinese state-run and private companies, as well as those owned by Taiwanese and other overseas investors — or they may invest the currency in bonds issued by Chinese state-run companies or banks. If so, the banks may seek to attract yuan deposits by offering high interest rates on yuan accounts.
If, on the other hand, a bank has no legal channels for clearing yuan — which at present is true for most Taiwanese banks — it will eventually have to cut its interest rates in order to avoid incurring a loss.
Given that an increasing number of people are expected to open yuan deposit accounts, and that businesses which have deposited their yuan funds in Hong Kong banks may move some of that money to Taiwan, the reserves of yuan available to Taiwanese banks is likely to increase. This would reduce Taiwanese banks' need for yuan, so they would have to lower interest rates on yuan accounts.
In addition, even banks that have viable, legal channels for clearing yuan may not offer very high interest rates on Chinese currency accounts, because what these banks want are large deposits of yuan, for which they will be willing to negotiate the interest rate.
Small deposits are just a drop in the ocean compared with the amounts of money that banks need for their lending services, so they have little reason to offer high interest rates on private, individual yuan accounts.
As yuan is a foreign currency, it carries foreign exchange risk. For members of the public, the difference between the buying and selling prices of foreign currency can be as high as dozens of basis points.
Generally, banks that offer very high interest rates tend to have bigger differences between the buying and selling prices in their posted exchange rates. When dealing with such banks, people find themselves buying yuan at a high price and then selling the currency to the bank at a lower price.
In other words, banks may give people an attractive offer in terms of interest rates, which are highly visible, while customers end up paying it back to the bank through the difference in exchange rates, which are not so easy to compare.
If people choose to buy their yuan from banks that offer low selling prices and then transfer the funds to other banks that pay high interest rates, one might think that they would get a good deal on both the exchange and interest rate.
However, banks usually charge a handling fee for transferring and releasing funds, so people who adopt this strategy may not benefit from it.
Besides, some banks may only pay interest on deposits above a certain amount, or may insist that customers buy other wealth management products.


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TV executives spoke a strange language in New York this week.
"We are eventizing our entertainment slate," Fox Entertainment Chairman Kevin Reilly told media buyers at the network's annual "upfront" presentation, where it formally presented the fall schedule to advertisers. Reilly was just following on the heels of NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt, who boasted how his network was "obsessed with trying to eventize everything."
No, "eventizing" is not a dance craze but rather the latest corporate buzzword. And puzzling as it may be — "That's not a word!," sputtered "Bones" show runner Hart Hanson when The Times asked about eventizing — all the weird coinage means is that the brass wants dazzling projects that will hopefully get people to watch TV live — or at least within the three-day window for DVR viewing that advertisers will currently pay for. It's all about creating an "urgency to view," as Reilly put it.
Sports, specials and year-round premieres? Those things are absolutely in.
Repeats, midseason replacements and burned-off episodes of failed series? Out, out like 2013.
The ultimate goal is to stand out in a world cluttered with cable hits ("The Walking Dead"), online series ("House of Cards") and countless YouTube video shorts.
Broadcasters know they have to raise their game or risk obsolescence. "By creating an event, it will hopefully get more viewers involved in a show and then encourage them to make comments on social media to attract more viewers," said Brad Adgate, an analyst for ad firm Horizon Media.
The stakes are high. Many analysts and executives foresee a tepid upfront ad market, where the bulk of TV commercial time is sold in advance, starting right after the schedules are unfurled. Last year about $8.5 billion changed hands — and most projections are for a flat performance this year.
None of this means a wholesale retreat from the scripted series that have been the networks' bread-and-butter for 60 years. NBC, back on top this season in the critical 18 to 49 demographic, according to Nielsen, after a miserable string of seasons at the bottom, is relying on some familiar faces to supply new hit shows. Among others, there is the whodunit "The Mysteries of Laura," with Debra Messing of "Will & Grace" fame. .
In a bold nod to eventizing, the network will offer another live performance of a Broadway favorite later this year with "Peter Pan," which follows last year's surprise hit "The Sound of Music." The network also announced it will strike up the band for a live production of the classic "The Music Man."
But far more attention was devoted to a returning show: "The Blacklist," which was the top new drama in its freshman season. The James Spader crime thriller — which has aired on Mondays — will replace the long-struggling NBC comedy block in the 9 p.m. Thursday hour starting in February.
As the No. 1 new show this season, "The Blacklist" was ready for a promotion — and indeed NBC is giving it the plum post-Super Bowl slot to ensure the maximum number of viewers are exposed to it. But now regular episodes will get sandwiched between "Biggest Loser" — a reality contest now creaky with age — and "Parenthood," a ratings-challenged family drama entering its last season. "Blacklist's" performance in that spot may test how much traditional TV scheduling still matters in an age when most viewers can record whatever they want for later.
Speaking of Thursday, CBS — the most-watched network, although its audience has long skewed older than many advertisers would prefer — will experiment with putting NFL games there in the fall, thus delaying the launch of some fall series.
It's a risky move, given that the football rights cost $250 million and the games will delay the launch of CBS' regular Thursday shows — including the final season of the sitcom "Two and a Half Men" — by six weeks. But in a world of eventization, sports have become key. Just look at NBC, where Sunday night football games consistently rank No. 1 throughout the fall. Perhaps best of all: The early season delay means the scripted shows can air without repeats once they start.
"Sports is really a bright spot in television right now," said Catherine Warburton, chief investment officer of the media agency Assembly and a former Fox Sports executive. "When it comes to live viewing of television, sports is where it's at. Ninety-seven percent of all sports is viewed live."
For new fare, CBS ordered the Sunday political drama "Madam Secretary" (which NBC will counter on Mondays with its "Scandal"-esque "State of Affairs" with Katherine Heigl) and the spinoff "CSI: Cyber." The latter will be paired Sundays with "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," which is losing its key Thursday berth for the first time since 2001.
But CBS executives surprised the industry — and contradicted early media accounts — by passing on "How I Met Your Dad," a supposed shoo-in as a spinoff to "How I Met Your Mother." CBS Entertainment Chairman Nina Tassler said she was "heartsick" after realizing "HIMYD" wasn't gelling creatively.
For Fox, which used to build its upfront presentations around "American Idol," the game has changed. "Idol's" ratings are but a meager echo of what they once were, so the network will dramatically scale back the singing show's hours starting in January. Instead, Reilly and his crew are placing perhaps some of the boldest bets on new shows. That includes "Gotham," a "Batman" prequel that will be paired on Mondays with "Sleepy Hollow" — a mix of historical fantasy and crime thriller that became Fox's buzziest new show last fall.
Fox also has "Utopia," a "Survivor"-like social experiment that films 15 people trying to build their own idyllic society in a remote region. Reilly characterized it as the network's biggest bet in reality TV in years.
As for last-place ABC, it is continuing its effort to rebrand itself as the Shonda Rhimes Network.
Thursdays will be given over entirely to Rhimes, the writer-producer behind the new legal drama "How to Get Away With Murder," starring Viola Davis of "The Help" fame. The show will join two other returning Rhimes originals, "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scandal."
Lacking the high-rated NFL games seen on its sister network ESPN and dogged by sagging ratings for "Dancing With the Stars," ABC needs the biggest boost from new series of any network. Its hopes rest on a diversity strategy that ABC Entertainment Group chief Paul Lee said will "reflect the changed face of America." Examples include "Black-ish," a sitcom about a black family starring Laurence Fishburne that will run right after ABC's sitcom smash "Modern Family," and "Cristela," starring the Latina comic Cristela Alonzo.
Whether the American viewer will consider all of this sufficiently event-ized remains to be seen. No matter what the day's buzzword is, the TV business still operates on a widely understood word that has been around for a long time: hits.
As Adgate wryly noted: "What a network considers an event and what a viewer considers an event may be different."


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The Michael Dowse directed comedy Goon released early On Demand last month, ahead of it's big screen release. As I rarely pass up the opportunity to watch a hockey movie, and as a fan of Jay Baruchel and Seann William Scott, there was no hesitation on my part to rent the movie through iTunes. I was not disappointed. In fact, the simple, but funny, occasionally bloody and strangely charming comedy may end up being one of my favorite movies this year.
Written by Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg, Goon stars Seann William Scott as Doug Glatt, a bouncer who makes up for with a generally sweet nature what he lacks in the book-smarts of the rest of his family. His ability to take and deliver a punch lands him a spot on a minor league hockey team, serving as the team enforcer or "goon." The clip below (via iTunes) demonstrates Doug's place on the team fairly well...
The way he waits for instructions before delivering exactly what he's asked to do in the most literal sense is almost Forrest-Gump-like, except he's hitting instead of running. What the clip doesn't show is what a decent guy this character actually is. Doug Glatt is great to watch, both on and off the ice, and Scott plays him perfectly, successfully managing to make Glatt both likable and a fierce physical opponent. And those who like Jay Baruchel will find him serving as the goofy but supportive best friend.
Goon hits theaters on March 30, but if you don't want to wait until then, it's available on iTunes now. More information, photos and videos for the film can be found in our Blend Film Database. ?


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The recording of Pieter Bustijn's 9 Suites (the complete known works) made by the founder of onclassical.com and harpsichordist, Alessandro Simonetto, was completed last week. The disc will soon be available at a major international record company (we'll keep you updated).
Though Pieter Bustijn is not well known, he is a fascinating Baroque composer whose music is of great interest, and indeed he was known to J.S. Bach, Walther and other composers of the time.
Good information about Bustijn can be found at wikipedia.
And I hope you'll like the video that onclassical.com has prepared for its forthcoming release. Enjoy!


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Sheriff Inexplicably Continues to Conceal Information More than 40 Years After Event
LOS ANGLES, CA – Today MALDEF filed a petition for writ of mandate to compel Sheriff Lee Baca to release public records relating to the death of Ruben Salazar. Sheriff Baca has refused to release the complete files despite waiving exemption rights when he made the records available for public inspection in March 2011.
Salazar was a Mexican American journalist killed by a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy during the national Chicano Moratorium in August 1970. The role of the County and its Sheriff's department in the death of Salazar has been the subject of public controversy in Los Angeles, in great part as a result of the secrecy surrounding the event. MALDEF's legal action comes as the Sheriff and County continue to withhold these records, more than forty years after the incident.
The petition was filed on behalf of noted documentary filmmaker Phillip Rodriguez. The writ of mandate seeks access to records referring to Salazar's death and autopsy, and the ensuing investigation. The documents were initially requested by Rodriguez in 2010. Over the past two years the Sheriff's Department has justified its refusal of full disclosure by claiming the documents were exempt from public records requests or otherwise subject to limitations on reviewing and copying. However, Baca allowed public inspection of the records – thus waiving exemption rights – then refused to provide copies of the unredacted documents he allowed to be inspected.
"There is no reason, in logic or law, why the Sheriff should continue to withhold information that he has already allowed to be reviewed by members of the public, related to a case that is over 40 years old," stated Thomas A. Saenz, MALDEF President and General Counsel and lead attorney on the case. "The Sheriff should understand that the community, including law enforcement, would benefit from greater knowledge and understanding about Ruben Salazar's tragic death."
Rodriguez is a filmmaker and fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. He is the producer of the "Ruben Salazar Project" and has spent over 2 years seeking access to records as part of his research for the documentary film that tells the story of the life and mysterious death of the prominent civil rights era journalist.
"Unresolved issues remain about the controversial killing of journalist Ruben Salazar by an L.A. deputy sheriff. My documentary will address those unresolved issues, and the Sheriff's files are vital to presenting a full account of Salazar's life and death. We've tried repeatedly to gain access to the files for more than two years, and we finally felt compelled to take this legal action," stated Rodriguez.
The documentary has received funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS, Latino Public Broadcasting, The California Council for the Humanities and the California Community Foundation. The documents were requested under the California Public Records Act. Article I section 3(b)(1) of the California Constitution guarantees that "the people have the right of access to information concerning the conduct of the people's business."
Prior to filing the petition, MALDEF sent numerous written requests to Sherriff Baca for information and materials involved in the Salazar incident. The requests specifically sought the documentation without redactions.
For a copy of the writ of mandate, click here.
Founded in 1968, MALDEF is the nation's leading Latino legal civil rights organization. Often described as the "law firm of the Latino community," MALDEF promotes social change through advocacy, communications, community education, and litigation in the areas of education, employment, immigrant rights, and political access. For more information on MALDEF, please visit: www.maldef.org.


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Justin Lamar Sternad, a hotel worker and father of five, just wanted to be somebody in the eyes of his family. So he set his sights on a seat in Congress.
"I wanted my wife, children and family to be proud of me," Sternad, 37, told a judge Thursday in Miami federal court.
Despite his good intentions, Sternad admitted in so many words that he allowed GOP campaign consultant Ana Alliegro and her close friend, then-U.S. Rep. David Rivera, R-Miami, to recruit him as a straw candidate to challenge Rivera's political enemy, Joe Garcia, in the 2012 Democratic primary. Garcia went on to beat Rivera in the final election.
"I hate to admit that I was naive," Sternad told U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga. "I hate to admit that Ana Alliegro and David Rivera were able to take advantage of me."
Sternad, who had pleaded guilty last year to violating election laws, issued an apology but asked the judge for lenient punishment: home confinement. Showing some sympathy, Altonaga sentenced him to seven months in prison — less than the eight-month term recommended by the U.S. attorney's office because of his cooperation. Under sentencing guidelines, Sternad had been facing up to one year in prison.
"You did begin with good intentions but were led astray and used by Ana Alliegro and others," Altonaga said, without referring to Rivera by name.
The judge ordered Sternad, whose wife wept in the courtroom while a few of his children waited outside, to surrender to prison authorities on Sept. 26. She also gave him one year of probation after he completes his sentence and ordered him to serve 100 hours of community service.
But Sternad could see his prison sentence reduced further because he has been helping authorities, including pledging to testify against Alliegro at her trial set for late August.
"I think he should be given credit for what he has done to date," prosecutor Thomas Mulvihill told the judge, adding that he would recommend another sentence reduction for Sternad after Alliegro's trial.
Sternad has told prosecutors and the FBI that Alliegro — a Rivera confidante who was his de facto campaign manager during the 2012 Democratic Primary election — helped steer illegal campaign contributions to him.
The federal elections investigation has featured all the plot twists of a soap opera: Sternad had no political experience before he was recruited by Alliegro to run for Congress in the Democratic primary. Sternad worked as an $11-an-hour, night-time hotel worker on Miami Beach, commuting by bus from his home in Cutler Bay.
His campaign manager, Alliegro, a "self-described Republican bad girl," fled to Nicaragua to avoid FBI agents and prosecutors who wanted her to dish the dirt on her close friend, Rivera. Although she was arrested in March, it remains to be seen whether she will be of any help in nailing Rivera.
As for Rivera, the suspected mastermind behind Sternad's doomed candidacy, he lost his congressional seat to Garcia. But earlier this year, while under investigation, Rivera announced he will be seeking his post again in the November 2014 election. He has denied wrongdoing in the past election.
Rivera said in a statement: "Mr. Sternad is a pathetic convicted liar with no credibility whom I have never met or spoken to in my entire life."
Sternad didn't have to say much in the courtroom back in March 2013, when he pleaded guilty to accepting illegal campaign contributions, making a false statement and conspiracy charges.
"I was taken advantage of and used by others," Sternad said in a statement, hastily handwritten on a yellow legal pad and read by his lawyer, Enrique "Rick" Yabor, outside the federal courthouse.
"This is not an excuse, nor do I want this interpreted as an excuse," Sternad said.
The FBI launched its investigation in November 2012 after campaign vendors told The Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald that Alliegro and Rivera helped steer tens of thousands of dollars in unreported cash and checks to Sternad's Democratic campaign for Congressional District 26, which stretched from Kendall to Key West.
The federal documents in Sternad's case only say that "co-conspirators" helped direct the secret money, at least $81,486, in less than three months during the summer of 2012. The cash promoted Sternad's candidacy as he attacked Garcia, a fellow Democrat and Rivera rival.
In court Thursday, Mulvihill, the prosecutor, mentioned Alliegro by name, but not Rivera, as being among Sternad's co-conspirators.
"Every dime that that was spent on his campaign was funneled from Ana Alliegro and other outside sources," Mulvihill told the judge. "Almost all of it was paid for in cash."
Sternad's campaign produced at least a dozen separate types of high-quality campaign mailers that targeted a broad array of voters and, in one case, attacked Garcia over his divorce. As a political neophyte and unknown who had never run for office, Sternad didn't have the background to produce such sophisticated campaign work.
And Sternad's campaign reports showed he received no money to pay for it all. Also, his financial disclosures indicated he didn't have the cash to self-fund his campaign.
Not only were Sternad's campaign finances suspicious, his campaign manager was as well. Alliegro was a hardcore Republican, making the operative an odd choice to run a Democratic campaign.
As a close friend of Rivera's, Alliegro was ostensibly working against her own pal by representing Sternad, who would have faced the congressman had he won the August 2012 Democratic primary against Garcia and others.
Sternad lost the primary to Garcia, who went on to beat Rivera in the November general election.
But by then, the damage was done to Sternad.
Early on, Sternad said he just wanted to run for Congress to make a difference. He found out how tough it was as an unknown.
Sternad first complained to The Miami Herald that he wasn't getting coverage. He couldn't really fund-raise. And he struggled to get the signatures needed to qualify for the ballot.
Then, just before the qualifying deadline, Alliegro called him and said she would back him and run his campaign. Suddenly, $10,500 was deposited into Sternad's bank accounts, federal records show.
The money enabled him to pay the qualifying fee that the state requires in lieu of the tough-to-gather signatures to qualify by petition.
The money then poured in to help Sternad. Almost none of it was reported.
On Thursday, Sternad took responsibility for his crime, but also pointed fingers at Alliegro and Rivera.
He told the judge: "All I wish now is that I'd never heard the names Ana Aliegro and David Rivera."
Miami Herald staff writer Marc Caputo contributed to this story.


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