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Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is hitting theaters on March 5th and what better way to celebrate the release than with glitter, glue, paper, fabric, stamps (pick your creative poison) and of course...tea! :)
Huzzah! I am hosting a Wonderland themed craft swap and sign ups are now open! I'm so excited to see the newest version of this magical story and I'm hoping I'm not alone! lol This swap is a chance for you to share your fabulous little creations with someone else and it's all about Wonderland!
You will be paired with a swap buddy and send them a box of Wonderland themed creations. You can use people, places or things from the story, that is entirely up to you. You can make jewelry, ATCs, layouts, cards, altered art, boxes, bags, frames, crowns, jars, whatever Wonderland inspires you to make - the possibilities are endless! Just make sure that the box contains things you yourself would like to get, put your best artistic foot forward! You could even include crafty supplies or maybe some treats such as *ahem* chocolate. (Just no potions or cookies that make you a giant or shrink you smaller than a flower please. ;)
The Details:
-This is open to everyone, everywhere! U.S., outside of the U.S., on the moon if that's where you live. :) Please let me know if you are willing to ship outside of your country. If you are not, that is okay, I just need to know how to pair people.
-In order to participate in the swap, you MUST complete the following questionnaire:
Mailing Address:
Blog Address:
Favorite Wonderland Character:
Are you willing to ship internationally (yes/no):
Then e-mail it to me at justaddglitter at gmail.com by Midnight on Sunday, February 7th.
-I will pair everyone up and you will receive your partner's information by Midnight on Monday, February 8th. Please take time to visit your partner's blog. This could help you decide what to create for them and it's a great way to get to know other creative bloggers like yourself!
-Your box should include handmade items with a Wonderland theme. This is open to artistic interpretation and can be any thing based on any version of the story HOWEVER it must be your best work. Make sure to send things that you are proud to share with another person. Feel free to also include crafty type supplies and edible treats.
-You will mail your box by Friday, March 5th. This is the release date of the movie and what better way to celebrate than to have Boxes of Wonder zipping all over the world!
-Once you receive your box, please take a picture of the goodies inside and post it to your blog so we can all see! I will also have a Flickr group ready to post your pictures there if you prefer.
-If you would like to ask questions before signing up, please feel free to e-mail me anytime (before the deadline!) at justaddglitter at gmail.com.
Here's a little button, feel free to grab the code and display it on your blog!
I hope that you will sign up and join us, this is going to be a great swap!
And now I leave you with a little peek into the film:
Remember, in order to sign up, please e-mail me your completed questionnaire by Midnight on Sunday, February 7th. Don't be late or it's off with your head! :D


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When news of Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant's finger injury broke on Monday, the Cowboys indicated the fate of his season would depend on the results of his visits to doctors to assess the severity of the injury.
Specifically, coach Jason Garrett said that Bryant would be shut down for the remainder of the year if the "medical decision" pointed in that direction. Owner Jerry Jones had a slightly different take during his weekly radio show on Tuesday.
"I know he wants to play," Jones said on KRLD, via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "Dez will be the ultimate decision-maker on surgery or playing with some kind of padding."
Bryant is on the longest sustained stretch of success in his career with 35 catches for 525 yards and seven touchdowns over the last five games, four of which have been Dallas wins. Losing that kind of production from the lineup would be a major blow to the Cowboys' playoff hopes.
Bryant was able to catch a key touchdown pass in the fourth quarter after hurting the finger on Sunday, something that could impact that ultimate decision he has to make about the rest of the year. Jones also said that Bryant would risk permanent stiffness in the finger if he played through the injury and waited on having surgery, which also figures to play into the final call.

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(A) These rules set forth procedures for the Domestic Violence Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County. They are a supplement to the Domestic Violence Act, the Civil No Contact Order Act, the Stalking No Contact Order Act, the Code of Civil Procedure, the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963, and the Rules of the Illinois Supreme Court, and are designed to facilitate the adjudication of cases heard in the Domestic Violence Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County.
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Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy
Clear, effective thinking is absolutely essential for dealing with the complexities of the modern world. The study of philosophy helps students perfect analytical and critical reading, writing and reasoning skills through an examination of the works of the world's most celebrated philosophers. The ultimate goal of this study is an understanding of issues fundamental to our nature and the nature of the world we inhabit, including the structure of reality, knowledge, truth, rationality, value, obligation, human nature and the existence of God. The philosophical study of these theoretical and practical problems typically enhances the prospects of those students who wish to pursue law, business, journalism, library science, education or medicine, among other disciplines.
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A month or so ago, I asked on a local vegan forum whether anybody'd used avacado powder.
Most seemed to think it was a wierd or ridiculous idea. They never heard of it at the local Huckleberries natural food store. I thought it would be good because I live in an isolated rural town with nearly no vegan produce and am often stranded during the harsh winters. Also, it'd just be convenient like any other dried/powdered food---refried beans, protien powder, etc.
I've done a little research and found a few brands. Only one I found was vegan and healthy. The others had hydrogenated oil and/or dairy in it.
I read an info page on it on the Web, but it was "mechanically translated" from Spanish, so hard to read, and contained more info than I really needed.
Has anybody here tried avacodo powder? Do you know of the best brand for the best price? How does it compare in price and nutrition to avacados? A "small" avacado in my area ranges from about 50 cents to $1.50. But as you know, they can spoil fast.


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By Constance Garcia-Barrio
Leor Winston lives so attuned to the earth that she seems a green sprite in human guise. "I fell in love with farming when I interned at Weavers Way Farms last summer," said Leor, 20, a Haverford College student who's living in Mt. Airy. "It's wonderful to work with children and plants."
An experience two years ago helped draw Leor to the Weavers Way Farm Education Program. "I spent a week at the Bread and Puppet Farm in Vermont," said Leor, originally from Boston. "It's a radical theater group that makes giant puppets out of papier mache. Some are so big that it takes many people to move them."
Leor cooked and performed in shows at the Bread and Puppet Farm, whose audiences not only see theater but also share the farm's fresh bread free of charge. "The bread helps to create community. I also gathered apples, picked vegetables and cleaned the kitchen."
Puppetry and politics played a role in Leor's decision to attend college near Philadelphia. "Philly has a lot of do-it-yourself puppeteers involved in radical politics. There's also a queer community with lots of young people," said Leor, who helps to staff the farm stand at Weavers Way in Chestnut Hill.
The internship with Weavers Way Community Programs (WWCP) fit Leor's goals of both learning and furthering a commitment to social change. The Co-op founded WWCP in 2007 as a separate but allied nonprofit organization to strengthen the local community, one of the cooperative principles. WWCP has three programs.
Through the Mt. Airy Bike Collective, volunteers promote bike riding, safety and maintenance. "Our School Marketplace consists of school-based mini-co-ops that students run with guidance from their teachers and WWCP staff," said Mira Rabin, president of WWCP's board. "Middle and high school students can buy healthful, affordable snacks and learn about running a small business."
The third component, WWCP's Farm Education Program, teaches students about ecology, farming and nutrition and takes place at Awbury Arboretum, Saul Agricultural High School and Stenton Family Manor. "Our interns learn about different kinds of community work," Rabin said. "We hope they're inspired to continue in nutrition, urban agriculture or similar fields."
"My mom's a huge fan of gardening," Leor said of her mother, Karen Sauer. "She knows a lot about plants. I wasn't interested until a few years ago."
Now Leor soaks up plant lore. "I love seeing how plants in the same family are similar. Take the solanaceae, or nightshades. Tomatoes are the most common members, but you also have tomatillos, ground cherries, peppers and eggplants. Deadly nightshade is poisonous and causes delirium, and it's related to tomatoes. That may be why people in America considered tomatoes poisonous for a long time. The leaves of a tomato plant actually are poisonous. We can only eat the fruit."
Leor both peels back layers of the land's secret and finds joy in the physical work of farming. "Being raised as a girl often includes messages from society to think of one's body aesthetically rather than functionally. I see how the physical work I do makes a physical difference in the land and how working on the land affects my body. It's awesome. I have to remind myself to take a break every few hours."
Leor recently gave a tour of Awbury Arboretum's medicinal plants to Drexel medical students, who want to return and stay longer. "That's a high compliment," Leor said.
Children's visits kindle a special joy. "They renew my passion. I teach them how vegetables, herbs and flowers grow. They taste fresh produce."
WWCP's Hope Garden at Stenton Family Manor, a homeless shelter for families, helps to meet a pressing need. Residents and volunteers grow produce for shelter meals. Part of the crop is also sold at local farmers markets. Fresh food makes a difference in the residents' diet, but the garden seems to nourish the children in other ways as well. "A few of them are nonverbal, but in the garden you can communicate through other senses," Leor said. "For example, you can take children by the hand and give them something to taste, or you can give them a flower to hold."
Even when Leor is at the farm stand in Chestnut Hill, needs in other parts of the city seem to loom. "Sometimes I wish we could circulate this produce to areas where it's normally less accessible. A lack of fresh wholesome food of any sort is a huge problem in many parts of Philadelphia."
The next few years promise a deepening relationship with the land. "I'm taking the semester off, but I'll go back to school as a junior in January," said Leor, who also bikes and plays the ukulele. "I'm looking forward to working on farms in other parts of the country. I'll give myself some time off after graduation and then return to farming or farm education."
WWCP relies on grants and community support. For more information, contact Carly Chelder at 215-843-2350, ext. 319, or email@example.com. The farm stand at 8424 Germantown Ave. is open Tuesdays from 3 to 6 p.m.


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Speaking of which...as we sit here brooding about the injustices we've wrought upon ourselves with spectacularly-poor decision making skills regarding our aspirations for success in the import/export field, we sometimes try to convince ourselves that, while life is a b#tch, it's often difficult to forever escape karmic retribution, even if you've won more Tours de France than anyone else. Everyone eventually gets what's coming to them - hopefully.
Nevertheless, the mantra that "what goes around, comes around" is a limp and frigidly ineffective comfort when considering the case of former Irish national champion Nicolas Roche of the Ag2r-La Mondiale cycling team. It's the great travesty of the 19th and 20th of July that most of the English-speaking cycling world cries crocodile tears on behalf of a Christ-like Andy "Preying Mantis-head" Schleck, while nary a thought is spared for the one rider who was truly, positively wronged during yesterday's fifteenth stage of the Tour de France.
Recent converts to the anti-Alberto brigade complain furiously about the Spaniard's supposed violation of cycling's "unwritten" rules, but it was Roche who was egregiously and violently shafted by his French teammate John Gadret (unfortunately a favorite of friend-of-Pappillon, Bobke Strut) in a glaring display of rule-breaking. If it's not codified in Ag2r's contracts as a written clause, it should be, but everyone knows that if you're being paid to ride on behalf of a team leader, one of your principal responsibilities is not only to wait for him should he suffer a mechanical incident, but to give him your wheel or even bike if the situation requires it and he can't continue on his own machine.
Everyone heaping scorn on Alberto Contador for trying to win the Tour de France should instead refocus it on John Gadret, especially if you're Irish!
Why target Gadret for the most epic, grassroots-catalyzed ball-breaking in the history of Internet-followed Tour de France racers and fanboys galore? I'll let Nicolas explain in his own words:
"...Six kilometres from the top of the climb [the Port de Bales], just as the pace began to increase at the front, I punctured a front wheel. I pulled over to the side of the road and as [John] Gadret was riding behind me, I asked him for his wheel as he rode alongside.
This is a perfectly normal request if the team car is not around. To save time, a team-mate will often give his team leader a wheel or even his bike if necessary. I have done it plenty of times over the years, as have most cyclists, amateur or professional, at some stage in their careers.
As our team car was No 11 in the cavalcade and it would take a lot of time for them to get to me through the streams of dropped riders, I asked Gadret -- who was there to help me -- for his wheel. I couldn't believe what happened next. He just shook his head and said 'Non'. At first I thought he was joking, but soon realised he wasn't when he kept riding past me..."
As my team manager, Vincent Lavenu, in the car behind shouted into Gadret's earpiece to wait, I took my wheel out and waited for a new one. All the time the group -- including Gadret -- was riding up the mountain, away from me..."
Is it any wonder then that Roche started his latest column for the Irish Independent with the following lead? "If John Gadret is found dead in his hotel room in the morning, I will probably be the primary suspect."
Why choose sides in a baseless and completely overblown fake-drama concerning a botched shift, when you can choose sides in a serious and legitimate scandal concerning a front wheel puncture and shameless disloyalty and selfishness! You can join the FaceBook group "Don't Ride Like John Gadret - a Shameless and Disloyal Opportunist" to share your displeasure at John Gadret with like-minded individuals.
Quote of the day: "Very angry!!! Puncture happens but being left behind by attacking team mate is other!" An annoyed Nicolas Roche took exception to AG2R team-mate John Gadret's ill-timed attack - just as Roche had punctured at the foot of the Port de Bales. The Irish-Frenchman removed this tweet shortly after putting it up online. - H/T Blazin'Saddles
UPDATE: Expert Analysis - Pappillon asked the victim's father, Stephen Roche (himself a Tour winner - from the "Golden Age" of modern pro cycling, no less), for his thoughts on the stage. We're happy to share them here:
"The highlight of the day would have been the attack of Contador, which in actual fact was the attack of Schleck. People are putting too much emphasis of the fact that Contador attacked Schleck, when in actual fact Schleck attacked first and Contador basically came after him and went by him. I think it was very unfair to say that Contador attacked Schleck, when in actual fact it was the other way round.
The fact that Schleck had mechanical trouble – that's his problem. It's all just part of the race. You can't just stop the race if some guy makes a mess of his gears, or his gear change or chooses the wrong gear or has a mechanical problem, that's just the way it goes. Contador was actually hesitant to go on, he looked around a couple of times before he actually put his head down, and he was with Menchov and Sanchez so what was he expected to do? Should he have backed off and said "I'm sorry, my good friend down the road there has had a problem and I'm going to wait for him"?
Schleck was blessed with the stage into Spa where Cancellara actually cancelled the race so Schleck could get back on again. At the end of the day, it's all part of bike racing. If the guy had been on the ground, and had a fall, or an injury or whatever, you'd say yeah okay, it's not the in thing to attack – but the race was in full flight and Andy Schleck launched the race himself.
I didn't hear his comments at the finish, but for me I have no problem at all with the way Contador rode and I think we should look at the thing from the mechanical cycling point of view rather than that of a journalist who just sees the guy attacking, he doesn't see the actual mechanics of the thing. People believe what journalists say, like Contador shouldn't have attacked – but that's just coming off the top of the journalist's head, whereas if he analysed what happened he would have to change his view because Schleck attacks, first of all, then Contador comes after him and goes past him – as he's going past him, Schleck has a problem.
Contador was in full flight, so he can't stop. Well, he could have stopped, but they're in the middle of a war and you don't stop the battle because a guy's chain has come off. They're professional bike riders, it's not a game they're playing – these boys are getting paid for what they're doing in a professional sport and we all love to see the attacking and the spectacle.
Andy Schleck rode a brilliant race to get back and only lose 30 seconds because he came back to earn 12 seconds on top of the climb. It was a great ride by Andy Schleck, and that's what makes champions. Contador could have said "Andy, I'll wait for you because I'm going to take the Yellow Jersey off you anyway, in Bordeaux" and then we would all have said Contador is no tactician, he has no panache, he's just relying on the final time trial. I think what happened today was great racing and don't focus on the fact that Schleck had a chain problem as it's all part of bike racing."
Final Thoughts: Thanks to Nicolas Roche himself for the follow on Twitter - we promise to restrain our tweeting so as not to flood your inbox. Click here to follow Roche yourself, and to show your support for Irish cycling (and Team ag2r-LaMondiale). And of course, you can follow Pappillon on Twitter, where we post links to shocking direct evidence of doping every time another 50 followers are added.


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July 22, 2003LOS ANGELES — Renowned social commentator and Anderson School professor emeritus James Q. Wilson received the nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, at a White House ceremony on Wednesday, July 23. Among those joining him in receiving this honor was longtime UCLA basketball coach John R. Wooden, who was head coach for 27 seasons (1948-49 through 1974-75), led the Bruins to a record 10 NCAA National Championships, including seven in a row from 1967-1973.
This was the first time two members of the UCLA family were recognized in the same year. Past UCLA recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom include Ralph J. Bunche (1963), Jackie Robinson (1984), Arthur Ashe (1993) and Cruz Reynoso (2000).
"John Wooden and James Q. Wilson embody the spirit in which this extraordinary accolade is presented," said UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale. "By achieving greatness in their respective professions, they have inspired countless others to pursue their own intellectual and personal goals. The UCLA family is honored to see that their service to society was deemed worthy of recognition at the highest level," he added.
Since beginning his distinguished career as a professor of government at Harvard University in the 1960s, Dr. Wilson has earned a reputation as a criminologist, economist and political analyst. He joined the faculty of The Anderson School at UCLA in 1984 and was soon after appointed holder of the James A. Collins Chair in Management, a title he holds today in emeritus status. He also held a joint faculty appointment in UCLA's political science department.
Prof. Wilson was a gifted, dedicated and well-respected teacher. In 1986, he won the Executive MBA Program Teaching Award. Courses he taught at The Anderson School and in the political science department covered a variety of topics, including, The Political Environment of Business, The Morality of Capitalism, Bureaucracy, Public Administration and Public Policy, and The Manager and Business/Society Relations.
In addition to writing dozens of academic journal articles and editing and contributing to scores of books on urban problems, government regulation of business, and the prevention of delinquency among children, Prof. Wilson authored or co-authored 12 books, including, "The Moral Sense," Free Press, 1993; "American Government," D.C. Heath, 5th Ed., 1992; "Drugs and Crime," The University of Chicago Press, 1990; "Crime and Human Nature," Simon & Schuster, 1985; "Thinking About Crime," Basic Books, 1975; "Political Organizations," Basic Books, 1973; and "Varieties of Police Behavior," Harvard University Press, 1968.
Prof. Wilson was also prolific in the popular press, having written nearly 100 articles on such subjects as crime, bureaucracy, urban affairs, politics, criminal justice and economic regulation in such publications as Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Public Interest, The New Republic and New York Magazine. Additionally, journalists worldwide continue to seek his thoughts for articles they are preparing on business, political and public policy issues.
Prof. Wilson has served on a number of national commissions concerned with public policy. He was chairman of the White House Task Force on Crime in 1967, chairman of the National Advisory Commission on Drug Abuse Prevention from 1972 to1973, a member of the Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Crime in 1981, and a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1985 to 1990. He has also served as a consultant to the RAND Corporation since 1986 and is currently on the board of directors of the New England Electric System and the Institute for Educational Affairs.
In 1990, Dr. Wilson received the James Madison award for distinguished scholarship from the American Political Science Association, an organization for which he later served as president.
Dr. Wilson grew up in Southern California, attended University of Redlands, from which he earned a bachelor of arts in political science in 1952. After college, he joined the United States Navy for three years, serving as a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and on the USS Tarawa. After he left the Navy, he continued his academic pursuits at The University of Chicago, from which he received his Ph.D. in political science in 1959. Over the years, he has been awarded honorary degrees from six universities.
Established in 1945 by President Harry S. Truman, the Presidential Medal of Freedom originally recognized notable service in the war. In 1963 President John F. Kennedy reintroduced it as an honor for distinguished civilian service in peacetime.
Other recipients of this year's award include Van Cliburn, Julia Child, Charlton Heston and Václav Havel. Click here to read The White House news statement about all of the honorees of this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom.


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In last month's issue, we began the buildup of our LS3-based 416-cube stroker by addressing the short-block. With the block machined and assembled with a bulletproof forged rotating assembly from Lunati and Wiseco, it's time to shift our attention to the top half, which comprises parts from Comp Cams, Racing Head Service (RHS), and Fuel Air Spark Technology (FAST).
We ordered aluminum Pro-Elite LS7 heads from RHS and, along with all the other engine components, had them delivered to Grimes Automotive Machine for the machining and buildup. Made from 355-T6 aluminum, these heads feature a raised intake-runner design with rectangular ports (instead of the narrower cathedral-port design found on earlier LS heads), as well as a six-bolt configuration (up from four on the stock head) for maximum clamping force. While the latter arrangement will work on a standard block, such as our LS3, to take advantage of the added bolt holes, you'll need to either use an RHS block or modify your own block to add matching bolt-mounting points.
Although the heads came CNC-ported, fully assembled, and well-deburred, the first order of business was to disassemble them and check all the critical dimensions. As with the bottom end, absolutely nothing was left to chance. Once the heads were apart, each of the valves was "lapped in" by putting a small ring of abrasive paste around its surface, then using a suction-cupped tool to spin it in its seat. This is important not only for valve seal, but also for heat transfer from the valve to the head: If there's insufficient surface area on the seating surface, the valve can't shed enough of its heat when it makes contact.
The heads were then cc'd and machined to make sure that they were true, ensuring the best mating surface possible. I'd never seen heads cc'd before, and the process was fascinating: A clear Plexiglas plate was sealed over one of the combustion chambers, leaving a small opening near the upwards side of the chamber, and fluid was slowly poured into it from a graduated cylinder. When the chamber was full, the amount emptied from the graduated cylinder was equal to the volume of the combustion chamber—a crucial measurement for calculating the engine's final compression ratio.
Once the combustion chamber was emptied and the heads cleaned, the valve-stem height was measured. The valvesprings were tested for tension when compressed to that height, and again when brought to full compression. These measurements were also used to shim the springs. To maintain consistency from cylinder to cylinder, it's important for the springs to be the same height. From the factory, the seated spring heights were all within 0.005-inch of one another, which is pretty impressive considering the possible tolerance stack of valves and both springs and valve seats.
The valves were then lubed and reinstalled with new valve seals, which completed the head work. That may only take a few paragraphs to describe, but it was a solid half-day's work. Once done, though, it was time for the heads to seal up the top end of the block.
During the head work, Merlin, who handled that part of the engine build, commented on how much air the heads would move, and how much horsepower they'd support. Without jinxing myself by repeating it here (since at this writing, we haven't dyno'd the engine yet), the rather high expected power number I'd been hearing came up again.
"Am I going to kill myself in this car?" I asked him.
"It's an option."
After sliding a multilayer steel gasket over the head studs, the heads were seated on the block and the nuts torqued down. As with the bottom end, we used ARP fasteners and studs instead of the factory-style torque-to-yield bolts.
While the Comp roller cam featured a grind that's proprietary to Grimes, I can say that it has 0.605/0.615-inch lift, a duration of 238/248 degrees, and a 112-degree lobe-separation angle. Garry Scott, who assembled the top end, slipped it carefully into place in its bearings, then installed the timing set and began the painstaking work of degreeing it. Basically, degreeing is the process of ensuring that the crank and the cam "agree" with one another about what should be done at what time.
Typically, a degree wheel is bolted onto the crank, a lifter is dropped into its place in the number-one cylinder, and its travel is measured with a dial indicator until that cam lobe's centerline can be found. Joseph Potak's book How to Build and Modify GM LS-Series Engines gives an in-depth explanation of the procedure, and reading it before starting the engine build helped me better understand what I was seeing as everything went together.
Once the cam was degreed in and the fasteners were tightened to lock it all down, the roller lifters (which had previously been soaked in solvent to remove any oil or grease) were dropped into place and secured with factory plastic lifter trays.
For the rest of the valvetrain, we used a set of shaft-mounted aluminum roller rockers from Comp. The rockers are paired together on the shaft around which they pivot, so if service is needed, they can be removed one cylinder at a time, instead of having to pull an entire bank's worth. We installed the base and one pair of rockers, checked the valve stem to see where the rocker tip would contact it, and shimmed the base to get that contact area in the optimal position. After that, we measured for correct pushrod length, then slid the rods into place and installed the rockers on top of them.
With the valvetrain in place, we moved on to induction, starting with an LSXR LS7 manifold from FAST. Made of lightweight polymer, the LSXR is designed with raised rectangular intake ports that match the ports in the head beautifully. It also has runners that are easily removable for porting, molded-in bungs for nitrous use, and an opening for a 102mm throttle body.
Speaking of throttle bodies, FAST also supplied a beautifully machined Big Mouth 102mm unit, which bolted easily into place with its included throttle-position sensor. By my math, it's about 28 percent larger than the opening on a factory 90mm throttle body. Since airflow matters, it's no surprise FAST advertises power gains of up to 26 rwhp on big-cube LS engines.
The Big Mouth also features an offset blade pivot designed to give quick throttle response, and a thicker throttle blade to eliminate the chance of blade deflection when used with a turbo or supercharger. For those wishing to retrofit the 102mm throttle body on a C6 or other drive-by-wire (DBW) car, the cable-operated Big Mouth will require the addition of a throttle cable and possibly a computer change (the factory E38 computer only works with DBW). We avoided that situation by using a FAST XFI computer, which we'll talk about next month when we dyno and tune the engine.
After lubing the O-rings on a set of 65-lb/hr FAST injectors, we plugged them into the intake and assembled the bright-red billet fuel rails, also provided by FAST. To put those together, we screwed in the male/male AN adaptors at either end of the rail (-8 AN up front for the braided steel crossover, -6 for the in/out at the rear of the rails) and screwed on the brackets that mount them to the intake. The instructions were a little hazy on the proper orientation for the brackets, so we made an educated guess after looking at the pictures, and it worked.
Once bolted up, the gleaming red rails against the gray manifold added just a touch of flash to what was rapidly becoming a very businesslike motor. For a little contrast, we added a set of tall black-crinkle-finished valve covers that were high enough to clear our valvetrain.
The finished motor—with its raw aluminum, its matte-gray-and-black top end, and its brilliant red fuel rails—is truly a thing of beauty. And when it goes on the dyno, we'll find out exactly how beautiful it is.


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I was wondering if someone might start a thread at the Smoker about the issue of transferring programs. It was a recent topic at Leiter's blog and there have been a few interesting replies, especially with regard to the acceptable reasons for doing so (faculty member A, who is the only person working in the AOS of the student, seems to be an acceptable reason...but not much consensus beyond that). I'm not necessarily suggesting piggybacking on the Leiter thread, but something on the perceptions of transferring students would be appreciated.Emphasis added. So, Smokers, what do you think the perceptions of transfer students are?
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Sol Stern has been on the case of Bill Ayers for the past few years, not for his work as a terrorist in the Weather Underground but for his work as an educator at the University of Illinois-Chicago. In 2006, Stern devoted a long City Journal essay to Ayers in "The Ed Schools' Latest — and Worst — Humbug." Now Stern returns with an online column on "Obama's real Bill Ayers problem." Stern holds the work performed by Ayers in his day job against him:
Ayerss politics have hardly changed since his Weatherman days. He still boasts about working full-time to bring down American capitalism and imperialism. This time, however, he does it from his tenured perch as Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Instead of planting bombs in public buildings, Ayers now works to indoctrinate Americas future teachers in the revolutionary cause, urging them to pass on the lessons to their public school students.
The Chicago Tribune reviews Ayers's take on his terrorist past. Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future:
Ayers was born to wealth in Glen Ellyn, and, like thousands of other young people, was moved to political action by the Vietnam War. He and Dohrn were founding members of the Weathermen, a splinter group that claimed responsibility for about a dozen bombings and the 1969 protests in Chicago known as the Days of Rage.
Ayers and Dohrn have since become a respected part of the city's establishment. Mayor Richard Daley was among those who came to Ayers' defense after the debate.
But, Ayers writes on his blog, he has never escaped his past. Nor has he ever explicitly apologized, saying the times and his actions need a more nuanced rendering.
"I hear the demand for a general apology in the context of the media chorus as a howling mob with an impossibly broad demand, and on top of that I'm not sure what exactly I'm supposed to apologize for," he wrote. "The '68 Convention? The Days of Rage? The Pentagon? Every one of these can be unpacked and found to be a complicated mix of good and bad choices, noble and low motives."
"Some read my failure to apologize as arrogance, stupidity and recalcitrance, or worse," he wrote, "but I think, or I hope, that I'm holding on to a more complex, a truer read and memory of that history."
At the same time, Ayers wonders if his account of those years will really be heard. He writes in a passage that may also hit home with the Obama campaign: "It's all part of the endlessly-repeating official account, the echo that grows and grows as it bounces off the walls. How can it ever be effectively denied?"
You didn't know Bill Ayers had his own blog? He does, and he's still singing from the same songbook in time present: "Ive never advocated terrorism, never participated in it, never defended it. The U.S. government, by contrast, does it routinely and defends the use of it in its own cause consistently."
UPDATE: Andrew McCarthy responds to an element of Stern's column that I ignored in the post above.


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Your work is vital. We are raising funds to support it.
currently we use citrix xenserver web version for 25 users, to run their apps. But when we get a snow day everyone works from home, granted not many people need to access the server at once but with about 75 users it is challenging with licensing. What other inexpensive options are out there, oh and a good portion of users have Mac's. Getting the citrix client is challenging for some users to get it working on their home computer.
What I would really like to do is to create some sort of employee portal.
LogMeIn has a free version that allows you to remote your work machine from home. So if everyone created there own account and installed the client on the work machine = less admin work for you. No need to maintain Citrix infrastructure.
I would consider purchasing LogMeIn Central (its usually $299 a year). This would allow you to control who had access to the computers and when. You can also create a deployment package that contains an email link for users to do a self install of LogMeIn Free on their PC and their access is controlled by their work email account. You can still use the LogMeIn Free as a good method of granting access to work PCs for staff - but placing LogMeIn Central on top of it makes it much nicer for an administrator.
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Hi Andrew, both Carlos and Chris give some good advice. If you are looking for something a bit more elaborate, there are appliances readily available to set up web portals. Our org has a Sonicwall SSL vpn appliance that users can access via a web browser. (Cisco and Barracuda offer a similar device.) They hit our address, log in, and have bookmarks to where they are authorized. We give all users Outlook web access and some get bookmarks to their desktops. Our IT staff have bookmarks to all the servers and important equipment. It has worked great for us for the past 3 years. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
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This is a very current issue for us as we had a very old apple computer used as remote access but it died. Our issue is that we have large graphic files that our designers would like to access. Does LogMeIn handle large file transfers, or is that more a matter of our internet service? (Can you tell I'm rather low in the tech understanding hierarchy?!)
Thanks for any assistance
LogMein free doesn't allow file transfers, but LogMeIn pro does. As you probably know LogMeIn is for remote access. Your internet service is just the pipe that allows the connection. I hope this clarifies things for you a bit. If you have any further questions on this, please don't hesitate to post them.
For remote access, I'm actually planning on utilizing PPTP VPN on my pfSense Router (free) along with remote desktop (available Free on Mac & PC) Anyone see a problem with that?
We use pfSense for VPN over PPTP, but would like to move to OpenVPN option due to data compression availability. I love pfSense as a firewall with all built-in or free add-on management features and packaged software. Highly recommend this to anyone wanting to save money. Setup any PC or Server with 2+ NICs and as memory as you can do and you are golden. www.pfsense.org There is a great support forum and paid support if you need it.
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Cheap Jeep, Part 2Posted in Project Vehicles on September 23, 2005
With the worn-out street tires in the garbage pile, it is time to take care of some things that may become problems on the trails. The oil leak is creating puddles everywhere I park the FSJ, but adding another quart of oil and one more bottle of Stop Leak is keeping the pressure steady - at least that's what the gauge says. Just in case, I stocked up on some cheap 10W-30 at the Pep Boys in Reseda.
My trip to the parts store left my wallet about $50 lighter, but I gained two bags full of fun, so I felt like a winner - plus every time I play that ATM game outside Bank of America, cash comes out. Man, I should go to Vegas! I bought an air horn because it cost a dollar less than one for under the hood (plus, the package says I can take it to hockey games). I also bought some carb cleaner to help the G. Wagon keep chugging, reverse light bulbs, two lugnuts, interior cleaning wipes and a cupholder (because in 1986 trucks came with ashtrays built into the back door panels, but no drink holders). To keep costs down, I snagged the fire extinguisher from my daily driver.
Before "fixing" the rear window, I had to take care of the sloppy seatbelt for the driver seat. First, I popped off the housing (by breaking it off the B-pillar). That revealed a spring that had busted through the casing. I tried to feed it back in, but that didn't work, so I grabbed some clippers I found in the trunk and snipped the band. I was able to push the end back into the mechanism, and started turning the gears with a screwdriver to tighten the belt. After jumping into the seat a few times, I got it tight enough to keep me in place - which works a lot better than the Velcro wrist band that had been used to take up the slack.
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Now that I felt safer, I moved on to the back glass. The tailgate would not open with the window up, and the glass was real loose, so I wanted to put it down for the Cheap Truck festivities. I removed the interior panel, and then took off a metal plate to access the window motor. It actually works, but the bar that is supposed to attach to the glass is rusted and badly bent. So what is holding the window up? Turns out some rope and a hand-made hook was all that kept the glass in place. With those removed, I was able to slide the glass down and drop the tailgate for the first time since I got the keys.
With that done, I moved on to some comfort features. I found a 6 1/2 inch 3-way speaker in the trunk and put it into the hole in the driver door panel using wood screws I found on the floor. Luckily, the wiring worked, so the tunes are now in stereo - except when the passenger speaker cuts out (which is often). I installed the cupholder, and I also put about 25 orange-powered auto wipes to work on the interior. As you can see, the center armrest and door panels are grimy, and the steering wheel was worse.
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On Tuesday morning MNT, I will have a call with Michael. The main topic will be international shipping. However I want to start getting a list of other topics which can be put to him. Initially by e-mail, but the goal will be to get into a two way conversation as required, rather than just weekly updates.
I have already asked about domestic shipping of filament and change of address requests.
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After 29 hours of working without break, followed by presentations and a tense six hour wait for results, Agam Saran excitedly announced on Facebook that his team was one of two winners of the Water and Sanitation Hackathon Pakistan.
The 21-year old student at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, on a team with four friends, was one of 106 students, aged 21 to 26, who spent the December 1-2 weekend in Lahore, developing mobile and web based applications for water and sanitation utilities in Pakistan. They came from various universities across the country to participate in the Sanitation Hackathon 2012.
Twenty five teams presented 27 solutions to 13 problems that covered various water and sanitation problems (read the problem statements). Similar events were held simultaneously in 14 cities in South Asia and around the world, in which 1151 coders participated, working on 125 problems, and presented 181 solutions.
The Pakistan event was organized by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) in partnership with the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) and the Urban Unit, Government of Punjab. The Hackathon was groundbreaking in that it was the first time a code fest was arranged to tackle development challenges in Pakistan.
The coding began at 8 AM on Saturday continuing without break till 1 PM on Sunday. The teams of hackers worked through the night as they debated and designed their applications.
After six hours of intense and interesting presentations, the judges announced the results. Team FAST INNOVATERs from the Foundation for Advancement of Science and Technology National University and team PROTOTYPE from COMSATS Institute won the coveted first and second place, while team BNU took third. FAST INNOVATERS and BNU both used codes provided by tech partner SMSall.pk. FAST INNOVATERS designed an application to improve the monitoring of complaints redressal using mobiles in the Peshawar Development Authority's jurisdiction. PROTOTYPE developed an application to facilitate municipalities in certifying Open Defecation Free status in rural areas of Pakistan.
Twitter, Facebook, and SMS played a vital role in communicating with participants. Beginning weeks before the event, with over 100 updates and SMS through participant groups, all relevant communication was shared with participants and organizers alike. It was also an integral part of participant feedback.
The winning teams will now work with Peshawar and Punjab municipal institutions to implement their developed solutions, and have won a six month incubation contract under PITB's PLAN 9 incubation program. Two participants will also be selected as IT Ambassadors for Water and Sanitation by the WSP to promote the use of ICT in Pakistani utilities.
The Hackathon also helped forge relations between university programmers and government departments. The faculty and administration of most participating universities have expressed a desire to continue working with the PITB, the Urban Unit, and WSP to develop a culture of research and development in their respective departments. With 121 million mobile connections in Pakistan, the ICT sector provides enormous potential for applications to development problems beyond water and sanitation to other sectors, especially health, education, and energy.
At the World Bank, our Water and Sanitation unit hopes to further use the relationships built and ideas generated over that weekend in Lahore to continue our work on finding innovative solutions to Pakistan's development problems!
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Top 7 teams were promised contracts with PITB too, however no news has come from them. It's been 14 days and they still haven't uploaded detailed results. Wasn't expecting this much laziness from World Bank at least.
PS: I was one the members of team BNU.
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Hey there this is kind of of
Hey there this is kind of of off topic but
I was wondering if blogs use WYSIWYG editors or if you have to manually code with
HTML. I'm starting a blog soon but have no coding know-how so I wanted to get advice from someone with experience. Any help would be enormously appreciated!
I appreciate to the efforts
I appreciate to the efforts of Mr. Masroor Ahmed Khan, he tirelessly worked to represented Pakistan, and topic of the open defecation is one of the very sensitive and actionable , in the world of modern technology we are still stuck in this petty issue, everything needs sincerity and intention because without intention and priority nothing can be possible .
But I am confident later or sooner one day this issue would be resolve.


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5 Great Holiday Coffee Blends
The holiday onslaught is officially upon us, and whether you're looking for something new to sip after a gigantic meal, on a sleepy post-gigantic-meal morning, or simply deciding what to pack to survive at your tea-only relatives' house, America's boutique coffee roasters have heard your silent call. These limited-time seasonal blends are balanced for taste and packaged for giving as gifts, and we've selected a few of the finest to ease—or propel?—the stress of the holiday season.
Olympia Coffee Roasters Holiday Blend
This annual warm-up blend from award winning Olympia Coffee Roasters is comforting but lively: sweet, mellow notes from the Colombia San Sebastian coffee are given punch and power from the tart fruit components of the Costa Rican Llano Bonito. Tasting notes emphasize cherry and port wine, but we get a little brightness and spice as well, and a long long chocolate finish. The roasters have found a lovely way to make comforting winter-weather flavors feel fresh and not heavy.
Counter Culture Coffee Holiday Blend
Counter Culture's holiday offering delivers an approachably pleasant coffee in a high-concept feel-good package: the recycled-material, plant-based-ink-printed box holds a Latin American/Ethiopian blend (in a valve bag) and will donate $1 of each pound sold towards producers in Burundi who are working toward shifting their processing practices to more sustainable, organic methods. The handy box also encourages you to use it as a bank, perhaps to save up to improve your own East African coffee washing station. We love the charitable angle and handsome package as much as we love the balanced, dark-fruity, smoothly sweet coffee, but lest you think a whole $1 of your $14.25 purchase goes directly to the charitable contribution, bear in mind—these boxes are only 12 ounces.
Intelligentsia Coffee Celebration Blend
For years, coffee snobs caught up in the reverence for single origin coffees have guiltily mumbled to me that Intelligentsia's holiday blend is really wonderful this season, and this year's no different, even if you're not typically a drinker of blends. But really, why wouldn't you be? Roasters know what they're doing when they build a carefully balanced recipe of beans meant to evoke an end picture that hits all the targets. Intelligentsia's 2013 Celebration Blend does that once again, marrying two East African coffees with one from Costa Rica to bring out a combination that's zesty-sweet and spice-filled but comforting: think a goal of cozy but not too weird—just how you prefer your holidays, right? Bonus points for easily being the best looking package of the season. Way to make an X look festive!
Equator Coffee Holiday Blend 2013
Marin County roaster Equator gets better and better and better, and this year's holiday offering lives up to their trajectory. Roaster Ted Stachura has been creating the holiday blend for Equator for the past three years, and says that this year the blend features coffee processed in three different methods: natural, washed, and honey process. "I could go on about how the blend is better than the sum of its parts but, honestly the coffees in the blend actually taste really great individually and easily stand on their own," says Stachura. But give them a try together before, during, and after your holiday festivities and see how nicely this hits the mark.
MadCap Coffee Holiday Fusion
Grand Rapids and Washington DC roaster MadCap take things just a step further than the usual holiday blend and offer this "fusion" (how '90s!) that's 80% composed of a bright, pleasingly acidic, complex Kenya Gatomboya and 20% of a lush and smooth chocolatey tart-berry-forward coffee from Guatemala. It's a delicious winter-weather meeting of lively East Africa in a cozy little Guatemalan coffee mitten. Food pairing suggestions on the bag include mixed nuts, and I'll take their word for it.
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text: After an operation in Istanbul ends in disaster, James Bond is missing and presumed to be dead, and the identities of every active undercover MI6 agent are leaked onto the internet. In the aftermath, questions are raised over M's ability to run the Secret Service, and she becomes the subject of a government review over her handling of the situation. When the service itself is attacked, Bond's sudden reappearance gives M the pretext she needs to seek out Raoul Silva, a dangerous villain claiming a personal connection to both of them – but as he follows a trail from London to the South China Sea, Bond soon finds his loyalty to M challenged over secrets from her past.


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Thursday, October 15, 2009
I hate the blahs. I've grown to learn they have a way of appearing prior to a race. All I want to do in the week leading up to a race is eat and sleep, sometimes cry. On my runs I typically feel slow as hell. Overall I tend to feel like a lazy slob and worry about being out of shape for the race. But I've also learned that this is how my body prepares, so that race day I am rested, fueled, and energetic. It still sucks getting the blahs. At least it is temporary. Tomorrows race should prove to be the cure.
Yesterday I realized that I needed to fucking knock off the blahs. Saw the chiropractor in the am, did some pilates, yoga, got a massage, went to the city, picked up my race stuff, met Kara Goucher rather randomly, watched a play, and woke-up in a much better mood. Today I decided with my bit of anxiety that I would take a yoga class. It was the best thing ever, not because of the physical aspect, but because it made me mentally relax. The teacher started talking about the drive to be perfect, our human desire to achieve a goal, to achieve the spectacular, but maybe spectacular is simpler. Maybe spectacular is tying our shoelaces, laughing, smiling. Maybe it is seeing how we are already perfect. Seeing that no matter how many races we run, how fast we run them that it is the challenges during the race that make us the strongest. That it is the experience that makes us alive. That no matter what we know, we can always know a moment when we sink into it, except it, and nourish it. I am not saying goals aren't good, that becoming better isn't good. But there will always be goals, we can always be better, and we shouldn't wait to get somewhere, we should experience every step of our lives. Ultimately we should strive for experiences that allow us to be better people and the finish line will come, and then there will be another, and another, and another... (you get the drift). So where am I going with all this, who knows, maybe just rambling.
I know that I will cross a finish line tomorrow. My goal = to experience every single moment until I get there. In what time, who knows, in what place, who knows. When I get there I will not judge, not be a self-critic, but instead embrace the fact that there will be several other finish lines, many more goals, and in the end accomplishments do not create a better life. Embracing who I am, becoming a better person in every moment, loving people, and experiencing every second even when there are blahs, that creates a better life. And ultimately not trying to be anywhere else than where I am at this very moment. So I guess I am sharing this because people have asked me about my training, what I do, etc. At some point I will put out a sample of a week, but really the one thing I have done consistently for every race this year, I have not set expectations. I just go get lost in the moment. I fall in love with hearing my breath, feeling my heart beating, and enjoying different experiences. More to come...
4 comments:
- kate said...
- October 17, 2009 at 7:19 PM
- Roy said...
- October 18, 2009 at 6:21 PM
- Gus said...
Wow, just looked at the Examiner's brief write-up of the race.... man oh man women, you are definitely a genetic mutant. Insanity!!!! Primal!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRR - !! Keep on killing it - and keep enthusiasm around.
- October 18, 2009 at 8:36 PM
- Sara said...
Whoo hooo, Congratulations!! Just saw a photo of you with KG and JBS - What a moment!
- October 19, 2009 at 6:23 AM
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We pitched our idea to Hemant at GC -- and I don't think we did a great pitch (it was our first pitch to a VC firm) so needless to say we did not get funded. I don't get the feeling that they were ready to act in our space but they are shopping and studying the market - so when they do see something exciting they can move ahead more quickly jump in to the game. This is just being smart as a buyer goes - there were no promises about coming in to pitch them and walking out with a check. By the same token - as we have to be smart buyers of the VC's services we would be bringing in a very long term partner in the early stages of running and building a company so the onus is on both of us to make sure that we sell our company to the right partner and they buy into an idea and company that yields a partnership that is right for them. That is the whole idea of the pitch and I don't think Hemant lead us to believe any differently. The fact that he met us and gave us honest feedback about his concerns over our pitch and company was more helpful than not.PRIVATE: Members Only (550 Characters)


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The big-budget "World War Z" (directed by Marc Forster from Max Brooks's novel) is first and foremost an old-fashioned zombie movie. It makes no rotting bones about it. In the 45 years since George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" — whose influence on the genre will never be equaled — there have been a surprising number of really good zombie films (some of them also by Romero).
I say "surprising" because, compared to (for instance) the werewolf, vampire and Jekyll/Hyde genres, these films fail to tap into truly basic human fears and conflicts. They are easily the least sexual of these myths, unless you have issues around necrophilia; even Frankenstein has some sexual undertones. These other horror staples are rich in subtext; but zombies aren't a metaphor for anything. They are clumsy and stupid; all they have going for them is implacability. Romero's groundbreaker was powered by the notion that your BFF, your child, your mother, might turn instantly and (more or less) invisibly into the terrifying Other.
Brooks's bestseller distinguished itself from shelves of zombie books by a very clever narrative device: It followed the structure of Studs Terkel's nonfiction "oral histories" (like "Hard Times," "The Good War" and "Working"). It gained verisimilitude by disguising itself as history or reportage.
It also made the book seemingly unfilmable, more so than other recently "unfilmable" books like "Life of Pi" and "Cloud Atlas." Each chapter is a different voice; there is no central protagonist to bind together the "plot."
It's understandable why the project (which started shooting almost two years ago) was delayed by rewriting and reshooting. Rather than trying to develop a way to convert the structure into filmic terms — like the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer did for "Cloud Atlas" — the filmmakers simply gave us a hero and jammed the unusual narrative into a very usual form. Pitt plays the hero (duh!): he is Gerry Lane, a former U.N. inspector pressed into finding the source of the plague and from that a cure. His role in the movie is much like Tom Cruise's in "War of the Worlds"; he's who we identify with. His primary motivation is one of the most universal; he wants to reunite with his family.
In the film's chronology, it appears that small zombie outbreaks have been occurring for a while — unbeknownst to the public — and have reached critical mass. For much of the world, normality is crushed within hours or days; the zombie incubation period is variable, but often as short as a few moments. If each zombie were to bite two people each hour, it would take roughly 30 hours for the human race to vanish.
Pitt is excellent, as is Fana Mokoena as his former U.N. coworker. Because we are almost always with Gerry, none of the other actors get much face time: David Morse shows up in only one scene, albeit very effectively; veteran actors like Peter Capaldi and Moritz Bleibtreu get to do a little more in the story's final quarter. And I'm still not sure where Matthew Fox was.
There are some impressive visual effects: the way the zombies attack an Israeli compound makes no sense whatever, but it sure looks cool. Still, too many of the scare moments are just by-the-book recreations of overly familiar devices — sudden loud noises and lots of false alarms leading up to a real one. That doesn't ruin the fun, but it makes it a lot less memorable.
One generally tries not to review the budget, but it's sometimes hard to avoid. "World War Z" reportedly cost about $200 million — 1,600 times the budget of "Night of the Living Dead." Even adjusting for inflation, that's a lot less bang for the buck.
ANDY KLEIN is the film critic for Marquee. He can also be heard on "FilmWeek" on KPCC-FM (89.3).


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Former Baltimore City Firefighter Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison For Sex Trafficking Of A Minor
Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Jamar Marvin Simmons, a/k/a "Mar," age 31, of Baltimore, today to 15 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for sex trafficking of a minor, in connection with a prostitution business he ran with co-defendant Franklin Coit. Simmons was a Baltimore City firefighter at the time of the offense. Judge Russell ordered that upon his release from prison, Simmons must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Stephen E. Vogt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Commissioner Anthony W. Batts of the Baltimore Police Department; Chief James W. Johnson of the Baltimore County Police Department; and Baltimore City State's Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein.
According to their plea agreements, Simmons and Coit operated a brothel in Baltimore City on Madison Avenue. They also rented hotel rooms and a residence in Maryland for prostitution. Simmons and Coit falsely advertised online for exotic dancing and an escort service to recruit females, including at least one minor female, from Maryland and other states. They arranged to transport the women from Delaware, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, South Dakota and Virginia to Maryland to engage in prostitution. Many of the women recruited by Simmons and Coit were in financial distress, had no place to live, or were otherwise vulnerable.
Simmons and Coit took sexually explicit pictures of the females they recruited, and posted the pictures on the escort section of an online advertising website along with phone numbers to call to schedule a "date," or sex. Simmons set the pricing for the sex acts, and instructed the females on how to arrange "dates" over the phone and how to avoid detection by law enforcement. Simmons and Coit shared the cash proceeds of the prostitution business, and used a gun to protect the business and its cash proceeds.
Franklin Roosevelt Coit, a/k/a "Frank," and "Nitty," age 35, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to the same charge and is scheduled to be sentenced on December 17, 2013 at 2:30 p.m.
The case was investigated by the FBI-led Maryland Child Exploitation Task Force (MCETF), created in 2010 to combat child prostitution, with members from10 state and federal law enforcement agencies. The Task Force coordinates with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Maryland State Police Child Recovery Unit to identify missing children being advertised online for prostitution.
MCETF partners with the Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force, formed in 2007 to discover and rescue victims of human trafficking while identifying and prosecuting offenders. Members include federal, state and local law enforcement, as well as victim service providers and local community members. For more information about the Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force, please visit www.justice.gov/usao/md/Human-Trafficking/index.html.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein commended the FBI, Baltimore City and County Police Departments and Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office for their work in the investigation, and Baltimore City Assistant State's Attorney Aaliyah Muhammad who assisted in the prosecution. Mr. Rosenstein thanked Assistant U.S. Attorney Rachel M. Yasser, who prosecuted the case.


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Deer Park: A fabulous place to die.
I had heard about all the rumours and news reports but went anyway thinking it couldn't be too bad. I parked at the bottom and walked up the path following two German tourists and a car. hadn't been there more than a minute when four 'nasty's' walked out of the forest looking like nasty's do. Everything changed the two whities in the car now sitting on the table were looking nervously at each other, but didn't want to show it. My flight or fight instinct kicked in and I made a hasty rereat back down the road, not caring what anyone thought, despite my willingness to use my panga. The German tourists not realising straight away what had happened then soon followed me down the road with a little more grace. What is the point of this tale, I don't know, guess just another reminder to go in large groups or not at all. What a shame.
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]Funny thing that hey, 10 000 years of evolution and we still have a fight or flight reaction – there might be hope for mankind (..and woman kind….don't want to go starting something now!)
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More targeted federal budget cuts needed
Outrageously, in the end, they couldn't get it done. They couldn't agree to anything resembling a balanced deal, and so the "sequester" cuts are being implemented, and for our federal leaders, it's on to the next crisis, the next fiscal deadline.
Meanwhile, the political uncertainty continues and the hopes for a stronger economic recovery have to wait — again.
It's maddening and counter-productive. When will public service trump politics and political wrangling? At some point — perhaps by the end of this month — President Barack Obama and Congress are going to have to get beyond the predictable talking points and reach a much more enlightened agreement. The House of Representatives and Senate are expected to debate rival budget plans soon, but the most important date to keep in mind is March 27. That's the deadline to prevent a partial shutdown of government agencies. A six-month stopgap funding bill (the federal government seems incapable of doing anything but run on stopgap measures these days) runs out.
Already, deep budget cuts are taking hold, and there's no movement by federal officials to reverse the $85 billion in reductions.
Surely, the federal government should be cutting expenses, and spending reductions of some sort are not the worst thing in the world. The trouble is the cuts are across-the-board to vital domestic programs and, thus, don't give the administration or Congress the ability to transfer any of the pain to lower priorities.
As sequestration takes hold, the ramifications will become more apparent, with federal employees being ordered to take furloughs, with Medicare reimbursements being reduced for doctors, and with school aid being scaled back as well.
President Obama and Congress have stumbled from crisis to crisis, piecing together temporary agreements when a long-lasting one is needed. They did get together as the new year began to avoid going over the "fiscal cliff" by making certain tax cuts permanent. In that battle, President Obama pretty much got what he wanted, but he is going to have to compromise more this time around for the sake of a more balanced approach. That broad deal should include a simplification of the tax code to get rid of loopholes, a sensible reduction in some big spending areas, including military spending and farm subsidies, and realistic plans to curb the growing costs of the country's biggest programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. That plan, in short, must be much more strategic than is possible under the sequester law. For example, rather than just cutting Medicare reimbursements, the government should be leveraging its considerable buying power to negotiate lower prescription drug prices and, where appropriate, expand the access to less-expensive generic drugs.
While there is no sign a comprehensive deal will emerge soon, federal leaders have plenty of reasons to broker one. They have kept the federal government's budget situation in a state of suspended animation for too long, and the country greatly needs clarity.
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Berlusconi Still the TV Star
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Thursday walked into the lion's den and emerged unscratched.
To the surprise of many, the media billionaire took part in La7 broadcaster's current affairs show hosted by one of his biggest critics, Michele Santoro.
Many were expecting Mr. Berlusconi to walk out of the "Servizio Pubblico" show, but he stayed firmly put. He kept a cool head and gave back to the anchorman as much as he got without losing his characteristic smile and sway.
In fact, the only time it turned into a shouting match it was mainly Mr. Santoro that was doing the screaming. Mr. Berlusconi, who pushed out Mr. Santoro from state-owned television while premier in 2002, even mocked the presenter by asking if he was going to walk out of his own program.
No doubts Mr. Berlusconi went through some serious coaching to prepare for the fight. The media mogul-turned-politician proved that he is still the perfect salesman and the most eloquent speaker among Italian politicians.
Mr. Berlusconi, who is trailing the center-left bloc and has been on a media offensive to bring back some of his disillusioned supporters into the fold, probably managed to bag some new votes for next month's general elections from Thursday's TV performance.
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Orioles avoid sweep by outslugging Rays
St. Petersburg, FL – J.J. Hardy and Adam Jones both finished with three hits and two RBI as the Baltimore Orioles outslugged the Tampa Bay Rays, 10-7, in the finale of a three-game set from Tropicana Field.
Nick Markakis and Alexi Casilla also drove in a pair of runs, while Manny Machado added an RBI and scored twice for the Orioles, who avoided a sweep thanks to a 16-hit attack.
"The American League East is tough," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. "You've got to play nine innings, which our guys did. They kept adding on, or trying to, because it's hard in the major leagues. Things are going to happen."
Chris Tillman (6-2) tossed six innings and gave up three runs -- two earned -- on four hits with five strikeouts. Jim Johnson recorded the final out of the ninth for his 21st save.
Sam Fuld hit a two-run homer, Ben Zobrist added a solo shot and Jose Lobaton knocked in a run in the ninth for the Rays, who won the first two in the series by a combined 10-1 count and nearly rallied from a 9-1 deficit on Sunday before falling short.
Matt Moore (8-2) was tagged in defeat for 12 hits and nine runs -- all but one earned -- in five full frames.
"The 8-0 start is obviously gone," Moore said of his early domination. "It's something that, maybe, was a bit misleading. My record is more indicative of how our whole team is playing."
The Rays trailed by a 10-3 score with two more turns at the plate, but managed to make things interesting.
In the eighth, Jose Molina greeted Brian Matusz with a single and Fuld followed with a blast to right which made it 10-5. Matt Joyce followed with a single, and Evan Longoria added a two-out hit in front of Luke Scott's base hit that brought in Joyce for a four-run spread.
Fuld then reached on a fielder's choice in the ninth against Tommy Hunter and Joyce singled, bringing on Baltimore's closer Johnson. Lobaton delivered a pinch-hit RBI single to bring the hosts within 10-7, but Kelly Johnson popped out to end the contest.
Baltimore jumped on top in the first inning thanks to back-to-back one-out RBI doubles from Hardy and Jones.
Danny Valencia began the second with a double, went to third on a Steve Pearce hit and scored on a Casilla fly to right. Machado and Hardy followed with consecutive run-scoring doubles once again as the O's took a 5-0 edge.
Desmond Jennings plated Longoria with a dribbler near the mound in the home second, but the Orioles added three more in the top of the third courtesy of a two-run single by Casilla and a sac fly from Markakis.
Both clubs hit a solo shot in the fourth, with Jones doing it with one out in the top half and Zobrist leading off the bottom portion.
Zobrist walked with two down in the home sixth, went to second on a passed ball and scored on a Kelly Johnson single for a 9-3 game.
The Orioles hit double digits in the seventh, as Casilla singled with two down and came in on a Markakis double.
"Today we decided to come out aggressive and it worked," Hardy noted.
Game Notes
Sunday's victory marked the fifth time that Baltimore scored at least 10 runs this season ... Zobrist's homer was his first since May 1, while Fuld's was his first since May 27, 2011 against Cleveland ... Pearce finished 3-for-4 and scored two runs ... Both clubs are back in action on Tuesday, as Baltimore kicks off a seven-game homestand with a matchup against the Angels and Tampa Bay welcomes Boston.


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Bolsinger's mom lends support sight-unseen
CHICAGO -- For Mary Bolsinger, it was a real thrill to see her son, Mike, wearing a big league uniform for the first time last month.
As for actually seeing him pitch in that uniform, well, Mary tried not to.
CHICAGO -- For Mary Bolsinger, it was a real thrill to see her son, Mike, wearing a big league uniform for the first time last month.
As for actually seeing him pitch in that uniform, well, Mary tried not to.
"Oh no, no, no," Mary said when asked about watching her son pitch. "I get too nervous."
This is not a new development in the Bolsinger household.
"It started in high school," Mike said. "She won't sit down and watch a game."
Mary wishes she could sit and watch her son, but when things don't go well for Mike, it is just too hard on her.
"I'm a nervous wreck," she said. "I guess it's because if he does something wrong, I can feel it. I feel it worse than him probably."
A 15th-round selection by the D-backs in the 2010 First-Year Player Draft, Mike worked his way through their Minor League system for four years before getting called up to the big leagues for the first time last month.
"I don't think I slept more than two or three hours a night the first week," Mary said of the excitement in the Bolsinger household.
In his first outing -- a three-inning relief stint against the Mets at Chase Field -- Mike allowed a pair of runs on six hits.
"When he pitched against the Mets, we were at our friend's house and they bought the [MLB] package right away so we could watch the game," Mary said. "I was in the garage."
Mary got to see Mike in uniform at Dodger Stadium when he started against the Dodgers on April 19. She and her husband came down near the D-backs dugout prior to batting practice and spent some time with Mike.
Once the game began, so did Mary's anxiety.
"At Dodger Stadium, I walked [the concourse] six times from one end to the other," she said. "I got my exercise."
His first big league appearance and first big league start were big deals, of course, but nothing could compare to what came next when Mike started against the Cubs at Wrigley Field.
The Bolsinger's are from Chicago, Mike's dad grew up near Wrigley and Mike lived the first 10 years of his life not too far from the historic ballpark.
Needless to say, there was a large contingent of family in the friends at Wrigley that day.
"You've never seen 30 or 40 people who are die-hard Cubs fans rooting for the Diamondbacks like that," Mary said.
Mike had his finest outing to date, as he allowed just one unearned run over 6 2/3 innings.
Mary spent the game in the Stadium Club trying to avoid watching, which was a challenge.
"It was nice except for all the TVs," she said. "I said do you have to have all these TVs on the game?"
After the game, Mike hurried to get dressed in order to say goodbye to his family and friends.
"I did have a little bit more nerves being closer to home," Mike said. "Every once in a while I had a tendency to look over and seeing my family and friends over there cheering me on."
And, though he couldn't see Mary, he knew that no one was rooting harder for him. He wishes she was able to relax and watch him pitch, but Mike is just glad she's there.
"I'm definitely blessed to have a mom like her," he said. "A lot of my friends they look to my mom as mom figure to them, because she's just so nice to everyone. She's really compassionate and good hearted and I think that's what I love most about her. She's awesome. All my friends call her 'Momma B.' She's special."
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB.


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Watch it ! The Pirates of The Caribbean landed in KK on 29 Aug 2012. See all the smiling faces? They have seen their target ! Captain Hook came with sword and HOOK. Where is Captain Jack Sparrow and Blackbeard, the most feared pirate of all?? Missing Pirates are Loi, Diana, Janet , Amanda, Jeanie and Margaret Sinsua, Fung
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"I woke up yesterday morning with severe neck pain that radiates down my right arm to my hand and I can barely move my neck without producing the shooting arm pain." Or, "...for the last few months, I've had this nagging pain in my neck and when I look up, my arm goes numb." Or, [..]