text: Subaru Scott 162 Report post Posted November 17, 2012 (edited) Hey all! I've popped in here periodically for awhile but have just now registered and started posting. I'm an old Subaru hack from WAY back and have realized that I should be involved here, not for what I can learn, but for what I can contribute. I've been into Subys since '79, when I went to work for my high school auto mechanics teacher during the summer in Indianapolis. He was a former Sub dealer tech and had quite a little business on the side working on roos. I was a down and devout Ford man at the time but I was definitely intrigued by this flat, all aluminum engine. Even though it was not NEARLY enough displacement for me at the time… it was obviously a superior design. The first car we had to work on was a 74-75 sedan that needed the engine pulled to do head gaskets, and I was thinking, we're gonna be here all day. 20 minutes later, the engine was on a stand and we were pulling the heads! I have been hooked ever since!! We were test driving that car less than 3 hours later, and yes, we reshimmed the wet liners… if anybody remembers those. Since then I've owned many great Scoobydoos, of note: my first was a '73 orange sport coupe I got from the junkyard and slapped a 1600 in. That thing had these awesome "gator belly"seats… sure wish I'd kept that one! '82 GL 4x4 D/R wagon, what a great car!!! I couldn't wait for sunset to fire up that dashboard… and I still have the passing light. In '89 I transplanted an EA82 turbo into an '86 4x4 D/R hatch… just a re-drill on the flywheel, a little hammer work on the frame-rail, and a lot of extra wires… easy! That was a bad-rump roast car with the front axle shafts removed, Peugeot 15" wheels and a brake spring on the wastegate (12 psi). Then, around the turn of the century (I've always wanted to say that), in need of a truck and my Brat was too rusty to be trusty. I sat wondering what I could put together that would last more than a few years in the salt belt. I had a pile of heavily galvanized steel from a power substation I helped take down, and a wrecked '91 Legacy mail car that someone had given me. So I pulled out the welder and the big drill, and made a frame off the legacy dimensions. I didn't have any good Suby front clips to use for a cab, so I cut the front off my dad's old Civic, slapped a piece of plywood on the back, treated decking for a bed, and Frankentruck was born! Aptly named because all the parts were salvaged from the boneyard or given to me. I literally had $40.00 in it at first which was for brake lines and a plexiglass rear window. It now has over 305k miles and still going strong. Other than oil, plugs, brakes and belts, I replaced the clutch once (with a good used one), cam belt idler pulleys and front axles at 250k, and 1 injector coil went bad at 300k. Still on the same alternator, starter, water pump, fuel pump, (I'm a little nervous about that) and original Subaru fuel filter! Yeah, I know, that's really being cheap, but if it aint broke… :brow:think about it, as a filter collects particles, the filtering actually gets better up to the point where it cant pass enough fuel anymore and then you know it's time to change it. The factory fuel injection filters are made with very fine stainless steel mesh so you don't have to worry about paper elements getting old and disintegrating. And I'm leery about the aftermarket or even SOA filters being of comparable quality. Any car I've had with the factory FI filter, I have left on and never had to replace. I did have one finally stop up on me with my latest project (other than normal circumstances), but I just backflushed it. More about that one later… don't want to be a windbag. I was a Subaru dealership tech during the 80's and 90's and some of that experience and information is still in my brain somewhere if anyone wants to pick it I will be more than happy to help. Glad to be a part of this cool community!! Wish we had this 20 years ago... wouldn't have felt like such a weirdo Edited November 17, 2012 by Subaru Scott Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Nicholas Corsetti of National Grid says that his company has the potential to save their customers $10 million by 2014.
Through the Rhode Island Energy Challenge Find Your Four!, a statewide energy efficiency campaign that will challenge all Rhode Islanders to save energy in their homes through simple actions such as unplugging items when they are not in use or using LED bulbs.
The campaign, which was launched at a luncheon Wednesday at Roger Williams Park Casino in Cranston, is a partnership between National Grid, Opower (a Washington, D.C.- and San Francisco-based company that promotes energy efficiency) and SmartPower (a non-profit aiming to help Americans make smart energy choices).
The Rhode Island Energy Challenge is a first of its kind challenge because it is community-based, both online and in the community.
"People are going to be able to go online and see their energy usage versus their neighbors," explained Matt Ray, outreach manager for SmartPower. "Then they can challenge their neighbors."
National Grid and SmartPower were on hand to help those at the event start finding ways to lower their energy cost. National Grid is providing sign-ups for free home energy audits through the EnergyWise program. A representative from National Grid will come to examine all the areas of one's house for energy use and provide a printed report of recommendations to save money on energy.
They will also provide information on rebates and loans, should the home require expensive improvements such as insulation and air sealing.
Just for having the audit, the homeowner will also receive compact fluorescent light bulbs and advanced power strips for free.
And it is not just individual residents who can get in on the fun. The campaign encourages businesses, non-profit organizations and even municipalities to create custom challenges. Those employers or officials can invite their employees/constituents to sign up for Find Your Four! and race to be the first to get 5 percent of their residents, members or employees to reduce their energy consumption. Citizen's Bank and Banneker Industries in North Smithfield are two businesses in the competition and Rhode Island Interfaith Power and Light and People's Power and Light are two non-profits.
Cranston Mayor Allan Fung and North Smithfield Town Administrator Paulette Hamilton were at Wednesday's event to announce their towns' intention to take part in the challenge. They are the only municipalities to do so thus far.
"We are committed to helping all of our residents, citizens and businesses alike, save on energy costs," said Fung. "And believe me, Cranston intends on winning."
The friendly rivalry could be seen as Hamilton explained how her town is already incredibly committed to the environment with one of the largest green and clean days in the state, among other environmental causes.
"It's already part of the culture," said Hamilton. "I do echo the sentiments, but I gotta tell you Allan, we're gonna get there first."
All joking aside, Fung said the 5 percent goal was reasonable and he was committed to helping his residents become "energy champions," the honor bestowed on those who find their four.
"I can personally say I am committed to finding my four," said Fung. "Saving money – who doesn't like that?"
Although Warwick is not yet involved in the campaign, Mayor Scott Avedisian could join the race, too.
"Giving [residents] four easy ways to accomplish energy savings is just perfect. I look forward to working with Mayor Fung and Town Administrator Hamilton on this issue," Avedisian said in an e-mail.
He explained Warwick is already very dedicated to saving energy through a program from the University of Rhode Island. Warwick, South Kingston, East Greenwich and Johnston are working to change all of the light bulbs on public property, change traffic lights to LED bulbs and have energy appliance trade-ins. The city also encourages residents to have energy audits.
"This incentive has been well received by our residents," said Avedisian.
For the Rhode Island Energy Challenge, Ray said that the "four" participants need to find are four simple actions around the house that can reduce one's energy consumption.
He said it can be as small as unplugging the charger from the wall as opposed to just disconnecting it from one's phone or laptop.
"It's the small stuff. The stuff you may not think about," said Ray. "We'd love you to do more than four, but the goal is four."
Brain Keane, president of SmartPower, said many homeowners may not realize the biggest energy drain in homes. He said it used to be the refrigerator because it needed to be on all day, every day, but that is no longer the case.
"It's the flat screen TV," said Keane, explaining that most flat screen TVs still use energy even when they're off. "It's about $100 a year per TV."
SmartPower provided a list of some easy actions and savings they can result in.
Washing laundry in cold water can save 63 kwh and $9 a month. Having a programmable thermostat and lowering the temperature between 6 and 8 degrees at night and when no one is home will save $16.50 each month. Also, turning off lights, appliances, stereos and computers when not in use will save customers $9 a month.
To find out more information or to register for the challenge, go to www.FindYourFour.com.

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Posted on 11/29/2011 2:34:02 PM PST by Graybeard58
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- The headlines stunned the nation. The accusations of child sexual abuse by former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky have outraged an entire country. We were shocked by the alleged evil of a seemingly respectable man, sickened by the unthinkable abuse of his victims, and incensed by the moral cowardice of those who didn't do enough to stop it.
Like Israel in the time of the Judges -- in the dregs of their moral bankruptcy -- we too have asked, "What is this wickedness that has occurred among you?" (Judges 20:12). As reprehensible as the allegations of abuse are, what is perhaps even more incredulous is the ever-increasing number of people who, though they did what was legal, failed to do what was right. Where was their courage to intervene on behalf of the powerless? Where were the valiant?
Tragically, this same injustice is a life-long reality for millions of children across the world. They are children like Prema, who, according to YWAM's booklet "30 Days of Prayer for the Voiceless," was just 11 years old when she joined the other girls in a Mumbai brothel. For the past two and a half years, she has been forced to degradingly dance for and "service" the international customers. Her family needed the money and promised to buy her back when they could. I knew of the global evil that is child prostitution and heard about the staggering enormity of the human trafficking industry. I knew of the grieving reality that children worldwide have been victimized, traumatized and enslaved. But it wasn't until reading about little girls like Prema that the statistics had a name.
Human trafficking is the largest slave trade in world history and is on the verge of outgrowing the illegal drug business. Each year, according to UNICEF, 1.2 million children are either kidnapped, coerced by a family member, or lured by a man that seems romantically interested, only to be sold into prostitution. Approximately 10 million children have been forced into some aspect of the sex trade, becoming among the nameless, unaccounted-for commodities in a crowded brothel, city street corner or tourist "massage parlor." In the time it takes you to read this article, at least two children will have been exploited. Today, in Thailand alone, thousands of young girls between the ages of 10-12 will be forced to have sex at least ten times, some as many as 30 times each day. Eighty percent of human trafficking victims worldwide are females and up to half of them are under 18 years old.
Poverty is a significant factor in a child's vulnerability to sexual exploitation, which is perhaps why it is so prevalent in countries like India where Prema lives. Their fathers aren't able to come after and rescue them like Liam Neeson did in the movie, "Taken." In fact, for many of them, their fathers sold them into sex slavery to pay for food. Their hopes for a hero were squelched and stolen -- along with their dignity.
Human trafficking isn't just a problem in the crowded streets of Bangkok or the war-torn nations of Africa. It's happening within your city. Christianity Today reported that anywhere between 100,000 and 300,000 American children are trafficked and exploited each year. While some of our government leaders have been working to end child prostitution in the U.S., one advocate told Christianity Today, "Maybe it's not [God's] plan that the government do more; maybe it's his plan that his church do more."
God's Word contains numerous commands about the responsibility of His people to exact justice and provision for the widow and the fatherless -- women and children that are unprotected and vulnerable to oppression (Exodus 22:22, Deuteronomy 27:19, Isaiah 1:17). In Deuteronomy 24, God charges His people to care for the fatherless as His representatives on earth, reminding Israel that they used to be slaves themselves but were bought out of bondage. Because He redeemed them out of slavery, they were to take up the cause of the oppressed and administer justice on the behalf of those who would likely fall through the cracks of society. This same responsibility is given to God's people today, His Church (James 1:27). We, too, were once slaves (John 8:34). But because Christ redeemed us and bought us back with His sacrifice on the cross, we are no longer in bondage, but heirs of God and charged to be His representatives on earth. Micah 6:8 says that the Lord requires us to "do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with your God." Jeremiah 22:3 commands us to do justice and deliver others from the hand of the oppressor. In a world where 10 million children are trapped in sexual slavery -- both across an ocean and across a highway -- will we have the courage to intervene on behalf of the powerless? Will we be among the valiant?
After hearing of children like Prema, the daily concerns of my all too-comfortable life suddenly seem trivial and embarrassingly small. Few issues are as desperate as this one little girl, an image-bearer of God, buried in a brothel, perhaps never to be rescued -- much less ever hear of the Jesus that could rescue her soul. We may never get to snatch Prema or any of the other millions of children out of their bondage, but we can do something to fight against it. We can pray that God will raise up Christian men and women in our generation that can reach these children by working in international safe-houses -- the more rescuers there are, the more that can be rescued. Maybe it will be you. Maybe it will be me. We can give to organizations that are dedicated to rescuing victims of sex trafficking and introducing them to the restoring hope of Jesus Christ. And, we can pray that the men who are funding the demand for child prostitutes will be redeemed out of their own bondages, crippling and eliminating the entire trafficking industry.
May we remember that, because we have been rescued (Colossians 1:13), we have been charged to do justice for the enslaved and oppressed -- not just for their physical life, but, ultimately, for their spiritual rescue. May our daily lives be altered by the urgency that we have been redeemed, in part, to carry out a gritty command: to deliver others from the hand of the Oppressor, Satan, the author of exploitation; and bring the presence of the Deliverer against humanity's bondage to sin, the ultimate slavery. May we take up the church's mandate to be the agent of redemptive change and intervene on behalf of the powerless. May we be among the valiant!
"Child sexual abuse, a worldwide epidemic"
Nooooooooooooooooo? Really?
That is why those places are called third world countries.
And unfortunately as long as there is poverty and lots of parent-less kids, dont expect the predators to stop.
It apparently takes a village......
The third link reminds one of Islam.
Not sexual abuse but religion is being practice by all and the world's leaders are involved or know it is going on and do nothing but mask it till they feel the time is acceptable to pull off the covers. These demonic acts against children are part of their satanic religion. Freedom of religion being twisted to allow this. Blood drinking, human sacrifices, etc it all continues to show it's ugly head. The practitioners of this old world religion dressed like sheep, taunting Christians that persecution is coming - they being the ones themselves lusting and salivating for it.
Wow. BLEAK. Rough childhood!
In the forties, fifties, and sixties Americans wanted to believe the US was a relatively safe place.
Sure, hundreds of thousands of kids "left home." They were called "runaways". People figured they'd be back, and some did come home.
Others did not come home, they turned up in brothels or with street pimps...in a life that was for them...just like home.
Thousands and thousands of others were simply gone. Many show up today only we don't call them "runaways" anymore. Now we call them "unsolved mysteries" and "cold case files."
People quit expecting missing children to show up again alive. We are a bit more aware and a lot more realistic now.
Human trafficking isn't just a problem in the crowded streets of Bangkok or the war-torn nations of Africa. It's happening within your city. Christianity Today reported that anywhere between 100,000 and 300,000 American children are trafficked and exploited each year.
Each year, that is truly an astounding number.
Jesus said that "Many will come in my name, but only a few will attain Heaven."
Translated, the great bulk of humanity has either been scum or ok, but not exceptional people. True saints are not very easy to come by.
You have a good point that the Western world in the second half of the 20th century was a unique time that we may never see again. For most of history, people have lived under grinding poverty and repression.
Go to an African country or something like that. They're closer to the norm of human existence (ie. short, nasty, brutish lives marked by war, disease, and famine) than the United States of >1945.
Everything is pandemic, epidemic, cataclysmic. The world will surel end in a couple of weeks. /sarc>
Everything is pandemic, epidemic, cataclysmic. The world will surel end in a couple of weeks. /sarc>
Everything is pandemic, epidemic, cataclysmic. The world will surel end in a couple of weeks. /sarc>
Everything is pandemic, epidemic, cataclysmic. The world will surel end in a couple of weeks. /sarc>
Everything is pandemic, epidemic, cataclysmic. The world will surel end in a couple of weeks. /sarc>
The most probable pedophiles in order are:
Protestant ministers
Priests are way down on the list.
So if a father is a teacher of mid-high history, coaches the girls basketball team and is a youth minister at his church on weekends/Sundays watch out! He would be much more prone to pedophilia that any priest.
Sexual Abuse of Children by Protestant Ministers
Report: Protestant Church Insurers Handle 260 Sex Abuse Cases a Year
Abuse by Protestant Ministers of Every Denomination
Child Sexual Molestation by Various Protestant Clergy
"Yeshiva" of Brooklyn also Guilty of Child Abuse
Teachers and Pedophilia - In YOUR Backyard
Washington Post -- D.C. school officials reported 220 abuse allegations against teachers
Sex Abuse by Teachers Said Worse Than Catholic Church
OPS (Omaha Public Schools) didn't report abuse allegations
Forgotten Study: Abuse in School 100 Times Worse than by Priests
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Too old for why? For this much fun?
I am 30 years younger than she is and I don't think I've looked like I've had this much fun in years.
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RonK wrote:It seems the Royal Mail is one of the most efficient and inexpensive postal services in the world. Even the stores in Germany cannot match the UK shipping arrangements.
Ron, I quite liked your theory RE: shipping prices from the UK being subsidised by Royal Mail (very neat really), except CRC used DHL Express for my order.
I did some, albeit brief, research on Royal Mail and subsidisation by the UK taxpayer... couldn't find much on the topic. I believe Royal Mail is similar to Australia Post - government owned corporation. I did find that the UK government plans to sell 90% of RM in 2013-14. 10% will remained owned by RM staff.
So I'm still quite curious as to how shipping is so cheap UK to Aus. My vote would be on economies of scale... but that does not explain the UK vs US differential... is there more to it?


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The combined change log is below.
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Abortion Common Ground: A Pro-Choice Agenda
What pro-choicers can learn from the Princeton abortion conference.
Yesterday I described highlights of a recent abortion conference at Princeton University. The conference brought together pro-lifers and pro-choicers for an open-minded discussion of their differences and possible areas of collaboration. It illuminated various steps each side could take to advance a common agenda. In yesterday's article, I suggested some lessons for pro-lifers. Today I'll sketch some ideas for pro-choicers.
1. Admit the value of the fetus. At the conference, several pro-choice speakers conceded truths that have been hard for their allies to admit. Rachel Laser, a pro-choice activist who has worked with pro-lifers on abortion reduction legislation, noted that her colleagues were inching closer to admitting the significance of the fetus. Peter Singer, the philosopher often maligned as an abortion-rights radical, called the fetus a "human being" and "unborn child," and he agreed with pro-lifers that abortion is killing. Robin West, a Georgetown law professor, added:
I have many, many students who are against the criminalization of abortion, who are pro-sex, pro-birth control, and morally opposed to most or many or even all abortions because of their belief in or their commitment regarding the moral status of fetal life. That's a perfectly coherent argument shared by many. It's no longer an unusual position within the pro-life and pro-choice community.
These pro-life, pro-choice young people are the voice of the future. Listen to them. Speak for them.
2. Embrace abortion reduction. Pro-choice leaders often point out that they're pro-choice, not pro-abortion. Prove it. Show that our high rate of abortion can be sharply reduced within a framework of free choice. At Princeton, Sarah Brown, CEO of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, explained how: by targeting factors "upstream" from abortions. Brown said of abortions: "I would prefer that we have fewer, not by making it illegal or inaccessible or shameful, but by reducing the incidence of the unplanned, distressing, stressful pregnancies that are behind the vast majority of abortions." Likewise, Dawn Johnsen, an Indiana University law professor who used to represent the National Abortion Rights Action League, called for policies that "reduce abortion through means that help women and their families avoid unintended pregnancy and choose healthy childbearing."
3. Treat contraception as a moral practice. Pro-choicers hate to moralize about sexual behavior. At Princeton, as elsewhere, most of them talked about contraception purely in terms of access: steep co-pays, lack of health insurance, inadequate Medicaid reimbursement. But pro-lifers didn't let them off with these excuses. The Rev. Joseph Tham of Regina Apostolorum University pointed to studies indicating that promotion and availability of contraception haven't reduced the rate of unplanned pregnancies. Terry McKeegan of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute noted that half of unintended pregnancies involve couples who claim to have used contraception.
These challenges forced some pro-choice panelists to admit that contraceptives fail because people don't consistently use them. Brown, in particular, stressed that couples must be "diligent" in using birth control. West proposed "a pro-contraception campaign that emphasizes the moral duty to use birth control." If contraception is going to work, this is the way its proponents must think and talk about it: not just as an option, but as a responsibility.
4. Reclaim stigma. The dirtiest word in the pro-choice lexicon is "stigmatize." Several times at Princeton, pro-choicers fretted that an abortion-reduction campaign might "stigmatize" abortion. One panelist warned that drawing a distinction between abortion and family planning might cause a woman to be labeled "bad" if she "ends up being pregnant when we know she shouldn't have" because she "had these tools available to her." A pro-choice attendee refused to "judge women for making decisions about their reproductive lives that are best for them."
Come on. Just because judgment and stigma have been crudely applied in the past doesn't make them obsolete. They're essential methods of transmitting culture. We judge people and their conduct all the time. Why should sex be exempt? Rape is bad. Infidelity is bad. And, yes, having sex without contraception when you know you can't handle a pregnancy is bad. That goes for both partners. Frances Kissling, one of the conference's organizers, faces this fact squarely in her review of its lessons:
[P]ro-choice folks need to attend to our own house. We could start by not apologizing for or excusing women and girls who are sexually active and do not use contraception. Making babies is serious business, and sex is a pleasurable and meaningful activity with social consequences.
5. Target repeaters. In her presentation, Brown delivered this brutal observation:
About half of all abortions are to women who have had at least one previous abortion. Half. That suggests not only the family planning systems, but also the people who provide terminations, are not doing enough to prevent additional unintended pregnancies, including such things as immediate post-abortion IUD insertion.
That's a scandal. One unintended pregnancy should be enough to warn you—and the doctor who vacuums out your uterus—not to risk another.
6. Reconsider the legality of second-trimester abortions. This is the part I don't like. I hate the crudity of bringing criminal law into such personal matters. But people with stronger pro-choice credentials than mine have been thinking about it for some time. At Princeton, one of them, historian David Garrow, infuriated pro-lifers by equating Roe v. Wade with civil rights and by attributing much of the pro-life movement to "feelings about sex" rather than life. Then he said this:
The discussion that I would like to have in a setting like this is: How negotiable should the legal status of the second trimester be? … I quite frankly am not morally capable of having a discussion that doubts women's fundamental right of access up through at least 12 weeks. Now, having said all that, I'm perfectly willing to discuss everything about [weeks] 12 through 22. … It is imaginable, as a pro-choice person … to entertain the question of whether [week] 12 forward should be subject to the sort of hospital-committee regime that we saw in abortion law history in the late 1960s. … That is a moral concession I'm willing to entertain as a possibility, even though I view it as a potentially dangerous slippery slope.
After the conference, pro-lifers assailed Garrow for disrespecting them. They ignored his remarks about the second trimester, which represented by far the most significant offer from anyone on the pro-choice side. They should take him up on it, and pro-choicers should think seriously about following his lead.
Imagine a deal—I'd call it the Gushee-Garrow Compromise—in which pro-choicers accept restrictions on second-trimester abortions in exchange for pro-life support of contraception. Both concessions would hurt, but that's what makes the deal fair. Many stalwarts on both sides would reject the trade—most notably, the Catholic Church—but their cooperation might prove unnecessary. Abortion would remain safe and legal, but it would be rarer. And in exchange for a 12-week deadline on elective abortions, women would get better options for avoiding pregnancy.
I hate half of this proposal, but I think I could tolerate it. If you feel the same way—and the other side does, too—we might have a deal.
(For what pro-lifers can learn from Princeton, see yesterday's article.)
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Gliding through turbulent revolutionary times with an air of inquisitive detachment, and with a sheaf of his latest drawings under his arm, young Gilles, played by newcomer Clement Metayer in "Something in the Air," is the latest screen portrait of an artist as a young man. It's a good one too, rich and assured, even if writer-director Olivier Assayas is more successful at creating atmosphere than at making his romanticized younger self a three-dimensional being.
Still, a major filmmaker can achieve a lot in two dimensions. Assayas is best known in the U.S. for "Summer Hours" and "Carlos." A strong early feature, "Cold Water," included an authorial stand-in, also known as Gilles. Assayas has explored the recesses of his own adolescence and early adulthood throughout his filmmaking career, even if the personal elements were often confined to remixing elements of the movies he grew up loving. (Assayas worked as a critic for a time.)
His films have been stimulatingly all over the place: some nutty genre exercises, some docudramas, some Chekhovian reveries. "Something in the Air" has trappings of all three, but mainly — like the recent David Chase rock 'n' roll cine-memoir "Not Fade Away" — it's an attempt to recapture a roiling period of change. Assayas starts in 1971 when Gilles, graduating high school and living in a leafy Paris suburb, has become radicalized (up to a point) by the hunger strikes, the police riots, the revolutionary fervor in the air. Within minutes the director throws us into the thick of an excitingly staged melee involving student protesters and police.
The stakes rise. Gilles and his fellow student revolutionaries graffiti-bomb their school and, pursued by civilian guards, one of their pursuers ends up seriously injured. Assayas puts all this into place and then allows Gilles, the sometime firebrand, to redirect the story's focus toward love amid the ferment.
Gilles' first love, Laure (Carole Combes), leaves for London and calls off the budding relationship. Enter Christine (Lola Creton), part of the student collective laying low after run-ins with the police. Gilles joins them in the sunny climes of Italy for a summer. Christine likes this boy, but he's a tough one to read. "Sorry, but I can't tell if you love me," she says in a line destined to get roughly 50 percent of any audience nodding in recognition.
As Gilles' friends navigate their half-formed lives, the filmmaker-to-be (the son of a screenwriter, as is Assayas) goes his own way. Assayas never lets "Something in the Air" (initially titled "Apres Mai," meaning "After May," meaning after May 1968) become too messy. The filmmaker favors the discreet fade-out or cutaway just when things between friends, or lovers, grow a little heated or confrontational. Even when you want more from it, "Something in the Air" is extremely accomplished. "I'm afraid to miss out on my youth," Gilles says at one point, in a reunion with the one that got away. She envies his career focus; his guarded heart, meantime, still twinges when she's near. At the start of Assayas' remembrance, Gilles is a sponge, ready to take on the juices of the world around him. By the end, he knows what he wants. Even if he doesn't yet know whom.
'Something in the Air' -- 3 stars
Running time: 1:56
Opens: Friday. Also available VOD via Sundance Selects.


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A son of the great sire of beauty Versace (Fame VF x Precious As Gold by *El Shaklan) out of the Padrons Psyche daughter DA Love (x Magnifficaa FA by Echo Magnifficoo), DA Valentino is part of a fine breeding legacy. A proven show horse with an unbeaten record in the national arena, DA Valentino has been a 6-time national champion in America and Canada, and both Scottsdale Champion Stallion and Supreme Champion.
His first two registered foals were born in 2006. His 2007 foal crop was ten foals and his 2008, 48 foals, for a total of 60 registered offspring. Over half of all of these offspring were entered at the 2009 Scottsdale Show. Not surprisingly all were shown in Halter divisions.
Three of those shown at Scottsdale were champions at the show including, DM Valencea (x HED Caramba) in the SSS Auction Championship Yearling Filly AOTH, Eccentric Valentino (x Amelia B) in the SSS Champion Two-Year-Old Colt ATH, and Valori TRF (x Satin Chall LL), who won the Purebred Yearling Senior Fillies and went on to be the 2009 Scottsdale Junior Champion Filly. Offspring sired by DA Valentino won a total of 10 Top Ten titles and two first place awards at the Scottsdale show.
D Noor (x Starshah) was Reserve in the Purebred Yearling Senior Fillies, DM Valencea and DA Elegantra (x DA Magnafire) were Top Ten in the Purebred Yearling Senior Fillies, and Orabella CBA (x Affecshahn) was Top Ten in the Purebred Yearling Junior Fillies. Emperor Valentino (x KH First Prize), Valentino Rossi UA (ATA Savannah Bey) and Onitnelav (x Royal Ghazallah) were Top Ten in the Purebred Yearling Senior Colts, and Vitorio TO (x Sol Natique) was a Top Ten in the Purebred Yearling Junior Colts.
Valentinah PA (x Bey Challina JD) won the Purebred Yearling Senior Filly AAOTH and Mi Bella Rosa (x Tequila Rose MTC) - one of only two registered Half-Arabian offspring of DA Valentino - was a Top Ten HA Stock/Hunter Yearling Filly. Onitnelav was also a Top Ten in the SSS Yearling Colt/Gelding ATH, Valora CBA (x Ashton Bey) was a Top Ten Purebred Yearling Junior Filly AAOTH, and Power of Luv (x ROL Snap Shot) was a Top Ten in the SSS Yearling Filly ATH.
Of the successful bloodlines represented, two are out of Magnum Psyche daughters, two are out of Magnum Chall HVP daughters and a number feature line breeding to Bey Shah. All seem to have considered heavy type in their selection for characteristics. Even the Half-Arabian filly, Mi Bella Rosa is really a 7/8 Arabian out of a Legacy of Fame daughter out of a *Padron/Quarter horse cross.
It is interesting to note that of the DA Valentino offspring shown at Scottsdale all were yearlings except for the two-year-old colt, Eccentric Valentino. Several were quite successful in the Scottsdale Signature Stallion competition. In fact, this first year representing their sire in that prestigious and very competitive program they won a total of $73,194.33 for their owners.
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Edinson Cavani says he is angered by persistent rumours surrounding his future as he looks to fire Uruguay to victory in their Confederations Cup third-place play-off against Italy on Sunday.
The Napoli striker has been linked with a whole host of clubs across Europe, with Real Madrid and Manchester City both reported to hold a strong interest in acquiring his services.
But the 26-year-old has grown tired of the persistent rumours and has refused to discuss his future anymore in a bid to focus on his next international test.
"Your talking at the beginning didn't disturb me but now I have to confess these rumours are bothering me," he told reporters.
"You're talking too much about things you shouldn't be talking about now. I'm still engaged in this competition and just thinking about the next game [versus Italy].
"I play in Italy, I know all of them. I was expecting them to play a great tournament, so I must congratulate them. But tomorrow, we want to win. I want to raise my country in the world standings as much as possible."
Oscar Tabarez echoed his striker's words: "We are facing a strong side but at this stage anything can happen. We want to try to the end and finish this competition in the best possible way."
Luis Suarez and Diego Godin then revealed they would be using the clash with the Azzurri as an opportunity to exorcise their demons from losing the World Cup 2010 third place play-off to Germany.
"Every time we pull on the Celeste shirt we want to win and claiming third place would really mean a lot to us," Suarez revealed to Fifa.com.
"What's more, it still rankles that we didn't finish on the podium at South Africa 2010, when we lost to Germany."
"It was really painful for us all, because we came so close to reaching the final," Godin reiterated. "All we're thinking about now is beating Italy. Finishing fourth is not the same as finishing third."


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BP announced the opening Tuesday of two new deepwater drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP announced the opening Tuesday of two new deepwater drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
The announcement brings the company's fleet of deepwater drilling rigs to nine, the most the company has ever had. They are two of 15 new deepwater rigs contracted for installation in the Gulf by 2015.
Oil production from deepwater wells is expected to surpass the all-time record set before BP's Macondo oil well disaster in 2010 prompted a deepwater drilling moratorium.
Chett Chiasson, executive director of Port Fourchon, which services 90 percent of deepwater rigs in the Gulf, said the opening of new rigs is nothing but good news for Fourchon.
"This is just more of what we understand is coming," Chiasson said. "It's always good for the port when there are more rigs in the Gulf."
An ultra-deepwater drillship named the West Auriga is under long-term contract to BP from Seadrill Ltd. and is capable of operating in up to 12,000 feet of water.
The second reconstructed drilling rig replaces the original rig on the platform on the Mad Dog oil and gas platform that was badly damaged and left inoperable by Hurricane Ike in 2008.
"The addition of these two rigs reflects the vital importance of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico to the future of BP," said Richard Morrison, regional president of BP's Gulf of Mexico operation.
BP said it anticipates investing on average at least $4 billion in the Gulf of Mexico each year for the next decade and plans to concentrate future activity and investment in the Gulf on growth opportunities around its four major operated production hubs — Thunder Horse, Na Kika, Atlantis and Mad Dog.
The London-based company said it holds the most acreage in the Gulf and was the leading deepwater oil producer in the Gulf in 2012.


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Odds of Adult Mortality Lower in PEPFAR Focus Countries Compared With Non-Focus Countries, Study Shows
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"In an attempt to assess the impact of U.S. international assistance for AIDS, researchers from Stanford University carried out a review of the relationship between U.S. support provided through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and adult mortality in PEPFAR focus countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and whether there were differences in outcome between these countries and other African countries which did not receive PEPFAR support," NAM's Aidsmap reports (Alcorn, 3/8). Presenting the results at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle on Wednesday, Eran Bendavid said "[s]tatistical analysis found that adults living in focus countries between 2004 and 2008 had about a 20 percent lower odds of mortality compared to adults in non-focus countries," the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" writes, adding, "Evidence for unintended health effects with respect to adult mortality is inconclusive, Bendavid said, but the likelihood of PEPFAR interventions eliciting unintended harms is low" (Mazzotta, 3/7).
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TummelVision 52: Paul Ford asks why wasn't I consulted?
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Writer Paul Ford (a.k.a., Ftrain.com) joins Kevin and Deb to talk about the Egyptian revolution, whether Arianna Huffington is a tummler, and the ultimate question of the entire Internet: Why Wasn't I Consulted?
Paul on Twitter: @ftrain
Quote of the Week: "There is a new role for individuals in the web who serve as 'antennas' who collect and feed back to the crowd" – Paul Ford
More links and comments from this episode:
- Danah Boyd on Orkut and flag-waving
- Egyptian Google executive Wael Ghonim's electrifying interview
- UK Open Rights Group pledge conversation
- Cory Doctorow responds to Evgeny Morozov's The Net Delusion – We need a serious critique of net activism
- Douglas Rushkoff says "we'd write for free for Arianna, but not AOL" – Huffington Post and AOL: the end of Web 2.0
- The leaked AOL "master plan" memo – The AOL Way
- Farhad Manjoo in Slate echoes Paul Ford's doubts about the Huffington Post business model – HuffPo's Achilles' Heel
- Paul Ford's instantly influential post that pegged "Why Wasn't I Consulted" as the fundamental question of the web – The Web Is a Customer Service Medium
- Paul says The Awl looks like a blog, but it is actually an important magazine about culture on the web [not that blogs aren't important]
- Readability, an incredibly useful tool with a new model for rewarding producers of great writing
- See also Longreads, Arts & Letters Daily, and the collective highlights of Instapaper
- Kevin Marks recommends Among Others by Jo Walton to "understand how books can love you back"
- Paul Ford's entertaining and informative Ftrain FAQ


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I am concerned with the recent NBA trend of a few teams possessing vast amount of talent. While the season outcome is hard to determine, it is clear the championship will be won by one of roughly 4 teams. While teams like Chicago and Oklahoma have a couple superstars with a really strong supporting cast, the real competition will be between Miami and Los Angeles. Los Angeles has a small edge as it has been able to attract several veterans who have been willing to take a big salary hair cut in hopes to win. While Los Angeles has built a powerful team, having a team of old veteran players may backfire as it did with the Kobe, Shaq, Malone, and Payton.
There are several types of teams that lose in this environment: Teams in big markets that don't have a long term anchor superstar like the Denver Nuggets, Indianapolis Pacers, and Philadelphia 76ers, teams in smaller markets but have been competitive in the past like the Atlanta Hawks, New Orleans Hornets, Utah Jazz, and the Portland Trailblazers, and then there are the teams who have no chance like the Charlotte Bobcats, Washington Wizards, and the Sacramento Kings.
The real tragedy is when teams like the New York Knicks, the Los Angeles Clippers, and the Dallas Mavericks who have been able to attract a considerable level of talent but have performed at a sub-par level. The Knicks epitomize this more than any other team with its lackluster performance during the 2011-2012 season: I have never seen a more talented group do so little. How many teams could benefit from the likes of Tyson Chandler, Amare Stoudemire, or a Jeremy Lin? I am not sure Carmelo or JR Smith add much value to team cohesiveness but are still great players that could help most teams be somewhat competitive.
I miss the days when there were several contenders at the beginning of every season with one or two favorites. It is clear Miami will dominate for several years to come and the primary competition will come from the likes of Los Angeles and Oklahoma City. I hope talent spreads throughout the NBA to make the season and championship less predictable.
The only thing that should be predictable in sports is the experience: close parking at the New Orleans Arena, or the great public transit near Madison Square Garden. Proximity to the city, means easy access to shops, One Touch Ultra Mini retailers, and restaurants for when you're done with the game.


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Chelsea have been allocated a reported £100m budget to spend in the summer transfer window.
Here are three players who could eventually join the Blues in their race for the title next season.
Andre Schurrle | Bayer Leverkusen
The 22-year-old Germany international has been heavily linked with a move to Chelsea, reportedly for a fee between €20m and €25m.
The forward would supplement Fernando Torres and Demba Ba. Schurrle recently stated in an interview: "I'd like to think this was my last game for Leverkusen."
This might be a "trading deal," as Chelsea are willing to sell young winger Kevin De Bruyne to Bayer Leverkusen. However, Borussia Dortmund have shown interest in buying De Bruyne from the Blues.
Xabi Alonso | Real Madrid
Alonso has been linked to Arsenal and Chelsea as he seeks a move away from the Bernabeu. With Jose Mourinho out as manager at Madrid, he seems likely to follow wherever his manager will end up.
Mourinho has a spot open at Chelsea, which it seems very likely at this point that Mourinho will take. However, Chelsea have recently offered Frank Lampard a new contract, so it looks as if the holding midfielder role will be occupied by either Lampard, David Luiz, and John Obi Mikel.
Cristiano Ronaldo | Real Madrid
Also rumoured to be following Jose Mourinho is Cristiano Ronaldo, who could be a major part of next year's success at Chelsea.
Manchester United are reportedly keen to bring Ronaldo back to Old Trafford, yet Chelsea have plans to spoil the Reds' tactics. Although the move is unlikely to occur, this long-shot deal could propel Chelsea to a Premier League title.
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Police are appealing for witnesses after a teenager was held at knife-point in Chesterfield.
An 18-year-old man was walking along a footpath leading from Wheatbridge Road to St Augustine's Road carrying a skateboard when he was stopped by a man.
The man took a knife from his pocket which he held up to the victim's face.
The victim hit the man with his skateboard before running to a family member's nearby address. The victim suffered a small cut to his face.
The incident, which took place at around 3.50pm on Tuesday, January 21, was reported to police several hours later.
The offender is described as about 18-years-old, 5ft 9ins tall, of average build and wearing jeans, a hooded top with the hood covering his face.
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Homer's home movies
All "Simpsons" – all the time.
We are about to be slammed with a donut pile of promotions for the upcoming "The Simpson's Movie."
You've seen that the 7-Eleven at Third Avenue and Broadway became a Kwik-E-Mart Sunday morning. Now you can watch a five-minute movie about Springfield, CO at thesimpsons.usatoday.com. Fourteen Springfields in the country were picked to enter three-to-five-minute movies about their burg — touting the town to host the only Springfield-based premiere on July 27. Vote for Colorado!
I've just seen our movie — and the production values are a little cheesy, but, in truth, all of them are. Still, each one is a short portrait of small-town America that might even touch the cold heart of Comic Book Guy.
The Colorado Springfield flick shows history teacher Sharla Lasley touring the town, interviewing various characters about Homer, Marge, Lisa and Bart.
Says Denver Post film critic Lisa Kennedy after viewing the 14 films, "You won't be seeing any of these entries at next year's knockout showcase the Aspen Shortsfest."
Town manager Jodi Ricker says she thinks the mini-movie turned out well. "We tried to make it as humorous as possible, to come across as a fun-loving, good-natured, little town."
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text: [ The following conference may be of interest to TYPES readers for two reasons: (1) the presence of sophisticated type systems in many theorem proving systems; (2) the application of theorem proving technology to reasoning about type-theoretic and semantic situations (an area of considerable recent activity). ] CALL FOR PAPERS: TPHOLs 2001 The 14th International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics Edinburgh, Scotland Monday 3rd - Thursday 6th September 2001 ***************************************** * http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/TPHOLs2001 * ***************************************** The 2001 International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics will be the fourteenth in a series that dates back to 1988. The conference will be held Monday 3rd September through Thursday 6th September in central Edinburgh, Scotland. TOPICS The programme committee welcomes submissions on all aspects of theorem proving in higher order logics, and on related topics in theorem proving and verification. This includes, but is not limited to, the following topics: o Hardware and software verification, refinement and synthesis o Verification of security and communications protocols o Formal specification and requirements analysis of systems o Industrial applications of theorem provers o Advances in theorem prover technology o Comparisons of various approaches to theorem proving o Proof automation and decision procedures o Incorporation of theorem provers into larger systems o Combination of theorem provers with other provers and tools o User interfaces for theorem provers o Development and extension of higher order logics SUBMISSION Submissions are invited in the following categories: o Category A: Full research paper o Category B: Informal progress report Submissions under category A will be fully refereed, and accepted papers will be published as a volume of Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html), which will be available at the conference. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submissions under category B will not be formally refereed, but their content and relevance will be reviewed. Those submissions accepted will be published in a technical report, which will be available at the conference. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present a brief outline of their work at the conference and to prepare a poster for display at the conference venue. Unless otherwise requested, submissions rejected under category A will also be considered for inclusion under category B. Papers should be no more than 16 pages in length and should be written using LaTeX2e and the LNCS style file, which is available from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The TPHOLs web page should be consulted for further details on preparation and electronic submission. Important dates are: Category A Category B Submission deadline: 23 Feb 2001 18 May 2001 Notification of acceptance: 30 Apr 2001 25 Jun 2001 Camera-ready copy due: 1 Jun 2001 27 Jul 2001 RELATED EVENTS TPHOLs 2001 will be co-located with the 11th Advanced Research Working Conference on Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods (CHARME 2001), which will run from Tuesday 4th to Friday 7th September 2001 and will be located at the Institute for System Level Integration in the nearby town of Livingston. A joint half-day session is planned for Wednesday 5th September. Further information on CHARME 2001 is available at http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/CHARME2001. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Mark Aagaard (U. Waterloo) Paul Jackson (U. Edinburgh) David Basin (U. Freiburg) Sara Kalvala (U. Warwick) Richard Boulton (U. Glasgow) Michael Kohlhase (CMU & Saarland U.) Albert Camilleri (HP) J Moore (U. Texas, Austin) Victor Carreno (NASA Langley) Sam Owre (SRI) Gilles Dowek (INRIA Roquencourt) Christine Paulin (INRIA Roquencourt) Harald Ganzinger (MPI Saarbruecken) Lawrence Paulson (U. Cambridge) Ganesh Gopalakrishnan (U. Utah) Frank Pfenning (CMU) Jim Grundy (Intel) Klaus Schneider (U. Karlsruhe) Elsa Gunter (NJIT) Henny Sipma (Stanford U.) John Harrison (Intel) Konrad Slind (U. Cambridge) Doug Howe (Carleton U.) Don Syme (Microsoft) Bart Jacobs (U. Nijmegen) Sofiene Tahar (Concordia U.) CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION The conference is being organized jointly by the University of Edinburgh Division of Informatics and the University of Glasgow Department of Computing Science. The organizing committee is as follows: Conference Chair: Richard Boulton (U. Glasgow) Programme Chair: Paul Jackson (U. Edinburgh) Local Arrangements Chair: Louise Dennis (U. Edinburgh) Local Arrangements: Jacques Fleuriot (U. Edinburgh) Publicity Chair: Simon Gay (U. 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Free produce for UC Davis students? Why, yes, don't mind if I do! Stop by to pick up your free fruits and veggies (first come, first serve), 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. every Tuesday and Wednesday.
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|Sesame Street
|September 27, 2010 (4213)
|December 7, 2010 (4256)
Sesame Street's 41st season began production in September 2009; episodes premiered on September 27, 2010.[1]
The season continues the show's two-year initiative "My World is Green & Growing," an initiative embracing a robust science and mathematics curriculum. For season 41, Sesame Street will address the processes of scientific investigation, with 13 shows focused on this topic. One of the main curricular goals is to encourage children to think scientifically and to model the scientific process.[2]
The 4th Annual aniBOOM Awards, aniBOOM Awards 4 Sesame Street, decided a new educational, animated short that will debut this season,[3] a stop-motion remake of "Pinball Number Count".[4] The other finalists also appear during the season.
A new segment, Super Grover 2.0, debuted this season and alternates with new segments of Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures with each episode. Abby's Flying Fairy School returns from last season with three new segments. What's the Word on the Street and The Word of the Day also return with 25 new words.
The segment "I Love My Hair" went viral in mid-October 2010, getting a large amount of press coverage, for encouraging positive attitudes amongst African-American viewers towards their hair. Earlier in the season, Katy Perry's parody of her song "Hot n' Cold" attracted negative attention, due to controversy over her outfit; it was removed from the broadcast season.
Parody segments this year include "The Elmo Slide" ("The Cha Cha Slide"), "The Closer" and "True Mud" (True Blood).
Episodes 4213 - 4256 (44 episodes)
- Episode 4213 -- The Camouflage Challenge
- Episode 4214 -- The Happy Scientists
- Episode 4215 -- Chicken When It Comes To Thunderstorms
- Episode 4216 -- Ironing Monster
- Episode 4217 -- What's That Noise
- Episode 4218 -- The Furry Four
- Episode 4219 -- The Woosh & Vanish Mystery
- Episode 4220 -- Music Magic
- Episode 4221 -- Bert's Pigeon Search
- Episode 4222 -- Up in the Air
- Episode 4223 -- Snuffle Sneeze
- Episode 4224 -- There's An App For That
- Episode 4225 -- A Team
- Episode 4226 -- Where Is Itsy Bitsy Spider?
- Episode 4227 -- Fetch The Letter I
- Episode 4228 -- Rahki Road
- Episode 4229 -- Puddle Jumping
- Episode 4230 -- Saved By Superfoods
- Episode 4231 -- Twins Day On Sesame Street
- Episode 4232 -- Veggies Revolt
- Episode 4233 -- Sesame Street Fairy Tale Science Fair
- Episode 4234 -- Rock, Rock Band
- Episode 4235 -- Zoe Loves Rocco
- Episode 4236 -- Dirtballs
- Episode 4237 -- Grouchy Mothers Day
- Episode 4238 -- Abby Tries & Tries Again
- Episode 4239 -- The Golden Triangle of Destiny (repeat)
- Episode 4240 -- Telly's New Shoes (repeat)
- Episode 4241 -- Sock Chaos At The Laundromat (repeat)
- Episode 4242 -- Firefly Show (repeat)
- Episode 4243 -- Max the Magician (repeat)
- Episode 4244 -- Elmo and Zoe's Hat Contest (repeat)
- Episode 4245 -- Telly the Tiebreaker (repeat)
- Episode 4246 -- Curly Bear Chases Birthday Cake (repeat)
- Episode 4247 -- Number 6 Games (repeat)
- Episode 4248 -- Abby Thinks Oscar is a Prince (repeat)
- Episode 4249 -- Elmo Steps in for Super Grover (repeat)
- Episode 4250 -- Abby's First Sleepover (repeat)
- Episode 4251 -- Three Cheers for Us (repeat)
- Episode 4252 -- Elmo Wants to Be Like Gordon (repeat)
- Episode 4253 -- Mine-itis on Sesame Street (repeat)
- Episode 4254 -- The Cookie Touch (repeat)
- Episode 4255 -- The Help-o-bots (repeat)
- Episode 4256 -- Annual Triangle Toss (repeat)
- This was Bill Sherman's first season as music director.
- An episode filmed during the season's production period, titled "Don't Wake the Baby," did not make it to air and instead aired as a part of Season 43.[5] The season highlight reel features a short clip of Grover with hip-hop attire from the episode.
- This is the first season since Season 32 to have repeats.
- There are no new Elmo's World segments this season.
- Big Bird, Mr. Snuffleupagus, Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Zoe, Rosita, Cookie Monster, Grover, Baby Bear, Telly Monster, Oscar the Grouch, Prairie Dawn, Ernie, Bert, Murray Monster, Ovejita, Count von Count, Curly Bear, Barkley, Baby Natasha, Mr. Johnson, Anything Muppets, Alligator, Chickens
- Maria: Sonia Manzano
- Alan: Alan Muraoka
- Gordon: Roscoe Orman
- Gina: Alison Bartlett
- Luis: Emilio Delgado
- Bob: Bob McGrath
- Susan: Loretta Long
- Gabi: Desiree Casado
- Chris: Chris Knowings
- Leela: Nitya Vidyasagar
- Caroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar
- Pam Arciero, Billy Barkhurst, Jennifer Barnhart, Fran Brill, Tyler Bunch, Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, Kevin Clash, Bruce Connelly, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Eric Jacobson, John Kennedy, Tim Lagasse, Peter Linz, Jim Martin, Joey Mazzarino, Paul McGinnis, Tracie Mick, Jerry Nelson, Carmen Osbahr, Frank Oz, Martin P. Robinson, David Rudman, Matt Vogel, Steve Whitmire, Bryant Young
Guest stars
- Oprah Winfrey appears, voicing a cartoon letter O in a parody of her program.
- Executive Producer: Carol-Lynn Parente
- Coordinating Producer: April Chadderdon
- Senior Producer: Tim Carter
- Line Producer: Stephanie Longardo
- Producers: Melissa Dino, Benjamin Lehmann
- Directors: Kevin Clash, Ken Diego, Moses Edinborough, Jim Martin, Ted May, Joey Mazzarino, Scott Preston, Lisa Simon, Matt Vogel, Nadine Zylstra
- Head Writer: Joey Mazzarino
- Writers: Molly Boylan, Annie Evans, Christine Ferraro, Judy Freudberg, J Milligan, Emily Perl Kingsley, Luis Santeiro, Ed Valentine, Belinda Ward, John Weidman
- Production Designer: Bob Phillips
- Film Producer: Christine Walters
- Additional Voices For Abby's Flying Fairy School: Jeremy Redleaf, Jessica Stone
- Abby's Flying Fairy School characters designed by: Peter de Seve
- Puppets, Costumes, Props: Jason Weber with Connie Peterson, Rollie Krewson, Polly Smith, Michelle Hickey, Lara MacLean, Chelsea Carter, Marc Borders, Molly Light, Loryn Brantz
- Music Director: Bill Sherman
- Music Director - Arrangements: Joe Fiedler
- Music Director - Studio: Paul Rudolph
- Music Coordinator: Vicki Levy
- Composers: Joe Fiedler, Chris Jackson, Stephen Lawrence, Mark Radice, Kathryn Raio, JP Rende, Paul Rudolph, Adam Schlesinger, Bill Sherman, Russell Velazquez
- Art Director: Bob Phillips
- Art Direction/Graphics: Rickey Boyd, Pete Ortiz
- Prop Coordinator: Keith Olsen
- Associate Directors: Frank Campagna, Tim Carter, Emily Cohen, Ken Diego, Leigh E. Gallagher, Dylan Hopkins, Benjamin Lehmann
- Sound Effects Editor/Re-recording Mixer: Dick Maitland, C.A.S
- Technical Director: Tom Guadarrama
- Cameras: Frank Biondo, Jerry Cancel, Shaun Harkins, Aaron Medick
- Production Assistants: Geri Cole, Shevaun Gray, Stephanie Maio, Nolan Maloney, Andrew Moriarty, Ashmou Younge
- Vice President of Education and Research: Rosemarie T. Truglio, Ph.D.
- Special Thanks To: Creative Bubble, Hyperactive Pictures, Magnetic Dreams, Misseri Studio, Speakeasy FX, Tony Testa, Yellow Sound Lab
- Taped at Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York
- ↑ Sesame Workshop Press Release
- ↑ Sesameworkshop.org. Sesame Workshop and The PNC Foundation Join White House Effort on STEM Education (archive)
- ↑ Sesame Workshop - Aniboom Awards 4 Sesame Street (archive)
- ↑ Sesame Workshop - aniBOOM Awards 4 Sesame Street Winner is Announced (archive)
- ↑ Evans, Annie. "Don't Wake The Baby" Shoots. Sesame Family Robinson. October 9, 2009. (archive)
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Enthusiasm for Bank Rally Continues to Pile Up on Wall Street
After surging in 2012, bank stocks could still be in line for more gains, analysts are saying in the New Year.
Three more Wall Street stock pickers came out with bullish reports on the nation's banking industry today, citing Congress' ability to stop the fiscal cliff and the still-low valuation metrics of the biggest banks.
As colleague Jonathan Cheng wrote earlier this week, bank stocks significantly outperformed the market in 2012,and some big analysts had already come out to expect a longer rally. Yesterday saw more enthusiasm for the biggest 2012 gainer, Bank of America, though not everyone is on board.
Today's analysts missed December's rally, but aren't shying from calling for more gains.
David Trone, an analyst at JMP Securities, upgraded a host of banks to "market perform" from "market underperform," including J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, noting the biggest global concerns have at least been put on hold.
"With both the EU and U.S. kicking the can down the road and failing to face up to longer-term fiscal/debt issues, the good news is that the economy in 2013 will likely look better than our base case presumed," Trone wrote, increasing earnings estimates by 25% on average.


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Pro Contest: Pro-tec Pool Party 2012
Words & photos by Skin Phillips
Utter carnage reigned in the final of this year's pro contest. Skaters young and old from all parts of the globe met in the Combi pool. While feeding off each others energy the contest reached new heights. In the end it was the straight raw power of Pedro Barros that prevailed, he was out there on his own. There's a grip of young rippers blazing right now, transition skating is in a really healthy place, it was here for all to see this weekend. Check out the Pro video here.


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Taken (US - BD RA)
Gabe has a special set of skills that won't help him in hostage situations...
Retired CIA operative Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) has taken a civilian's life in hopes of developing a relationship with his estranged daughter Kim (Maggie Grace). Kim lives with her mother and stepfather in the lap of luxury and doesn't have much need for her father, until she needs his permission to leave the country. Mills is uncomfortable with his innocent daughter seeing the sights of France without an adult escort, but agrees. Sure enough, Kim and her friend are kidnapped by slave runners, and Mills has to take an unscheduled trip to Paris to kick ass and take names.
Luc Besson really needs to stop writing a script every weekend. He's got a few basically good ideas in mind (ideas that can be easily summed up in a thirty-second TV spot), but he and his co-writers are seemingly obsessed with blatant character clichés (and not just action clichés, slasher and rom-com clichés too), and have no faith in their audience's ability to absorb exposition without it being specifically told by the characters in the most awkward and insulting manner possible. Taken is a much 'classier' movie than the Transporter films, and reasonably realistically rendered by cinematographer turned director Pierre Morel (who directed the Besson produced District 13, which was actually two good action scenes stretched into a feature length film), but it's still incurably stupid, and teeming with unoriginality.
Besson does, however, have a great eye for casting. He doesn't have the most original folks in mind all the time, but he knows how to use them, especially those awesome character actors that don't normally get a chance to shine in a physical role. The supporting cast is filled with familiar faces doing their thing. Liam Neeson is slumming it by participating in this production, let's be honest, but he's really on his game, and seems to have participated in a surprisingly large number of the physical stunts and fights. Save a few reasonably exciting action sequences, and one hard shock towards the end of the second act, Neeson really is the only reason to enjoy the film. I'm not a fan of the movie's teenage girl population (who appear to be in their late twenties), but they don't overwhelm the runtime, so it's easy enough to continue going along for the ride, which is, by the way, reasonably brief.
Taken is shot through surprisingly soft and colourful lenses considering the subject matter and the advertising material, and the majority of the print looks positively fantastic. Cinematographer Michel Abramowicz shoots a lot of the film like a semi-Noirish children's film, including that kind of caramel colouring that Disney movies use (though the number of hues per scene does deplete as Neeson works his way through the underground). The European scenes are a little harsher, and a little muted, but still pretty bright for what's basically an emotionally dark film. The night scenes are a bit hit and miss, but are mostly very high quality, featuring clean colours, sharp details, and an even consistency. The one constant through the entire film are the perfect blacks, which do not bleed or absorb other colours, and do not lead to any noticeable edge enhancement. The film does get a bit grainier and a bit darker as it progresses, but the contrast remains pretty soft throughout. The really dark scenes are definitely noisier than the bright scenes, but overall things remain consistently, relatively clean.
Taken comes fitted with an effective, if not totally overwhelming DTS-HD Master Audio track. There isn't an excess of action in the film, but the sound design is pretty intense when called for. The car chases are the most indelible moments, but the shoot-outs and fist fights are pretty intense too. The track is noticeably lacking in rear channel effects, even when the front channels are pumping with over-the-top, hyper-reality. There's no distortion or hiss to speak of in the mix, the dialogue is perfectly centred, and the overall composition is very natural. Taken features one of the most unassuming and easy to ignore scores in recent 'budget' film history. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but I suppose that ignorable is almost always preferable to obnoxious. The music features several surround and stereo elements, like floating electric drums and strings, and is the main source of heavy bass. The LFE is punchy when it needs to be (gun shots, car crash impacts), but also plenty throbby on occasion (musical bass, explosions).
In the interest of time (I didn't get my review copy until the day after the Blu-ray's official release) I've admittedly skimmed the disc's two commentary tracks. The first, which features director Pierre Morel, cinematographer Michel Abramowicz, and car stunt supervisor Michel Julienne, is dreadfully boring. The whole thing is spoken in whispered French, there's no way to tell the speakers apart due to a lack of inflection, and the information is text book commentary stuff—some days were unpleasant, the actors were amazing to work with, etc. The second commentary, with co-writer Robert Kamen, is in English, and delves slightly further into the behind the scenes story, but still mostly devotes his time to praising the cast and crew, and filling the audience in on obvious aspects of the plot. There's not much mention of what was added for the unrated version either, unfortunately.
The extended cut also features the 'Black Ops Field Manual', a picture in picture, text-based informational essay on some of the real life stuff that inspired Neeson's character. It also keeps track of the distance the character has travelled, the time remaining in his quest, the number of people he's injured, and the number of people he's killed. That part is pretty fun. Spoiler Alert! Final toll: thirty-three dead, thirteen injured, and 11773 miles travelled.
The extras are completed by a trilogy of featurettes and some trailers. 'Le Making-of' (18:20) is the film's European EPK, and it's pretty darn fluffy. Select money shots are cut together with raw behind the scenes footage and interviews with the cast and crew are crammed between. The majority of time is spent describing the plot, teasing the prospective audience with a few exciting visuals, and a bunch of mutual back-patting. 'Avant Premiere' (04:50) is an even more fluffy bit of behind the scenes at the film's French premiere. More back patting is interrupted only by a sad appearance from Neeson's late wife Natasha Richardson. 'Inside Action' (11:00) is a collection of six side by side comparisons of the final film and the filming process.
I was going to say something snide about the presence of baguettes in Taken (it denotes Frenchness), but apparently many critics (including DVDActive's own Scott McKenzie) have already made a deal about it. Well, I suppose I just mentioned it anyway, but that says something about the strangeness of the whole thing. I don't understand why Taken was such a big head in the States, it's pretty generic, and relatively stupid. I suppose I just shouldn't underestimate the drawing power of a pissed off Liam Neeson (though if that were true Dark Man would've been a runaway hit). Anyway, the disc looks great, sounds good enough, and features enough extras to pacify the film's fans.
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Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 12th May 2009
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish, Dolby Digital 5.1 French
Subtitles: English SDH and Spanish
Extras: Director, Conematographer, Car Stunt Supervisor Commentary, Co-Writer Commentary, Le Making-Of, Avant Premiere, Inside Action, Trailer, Digital Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Pierre Morel
Cast: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace
Genre: Action, Crime and Thriller
Length: 93 minutes
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PUBLISHED: 09:13 09 November 2012
Parents in Suffolk should take an interest in their children's school work – but don't need to be an expert in the field to make a difference.
That was the message from keynote speaker Kevan Collins at the second "Raising the Bar" conference hosted by Suffolk County Council at Trinity Park.
Mr Collins is chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) which was set up to invest up to £200 million in educational projects over the next 15 years.
It aims to help boost the achievements of youngsters at a disadvantage, especially those who are entitled to free school meals.
Mr Collins told an audience of 250 teachers, council officials and other professionals that parents and schools needed to work together to improve youngsters' performance.
He said the most important thing parents could do was to take an interest in their children's work and to give them encouragement.
"You don't need a degree in physics to do their homework for them.
"What is needed is for parents to take an interest in what their children are doing at school and to encourage them in their work.
"Just talk to your children about what they've been doing at school, and have a dialogue with the school to see how you can help – that's the most important thing."