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Dark Blue – CBR600RR 09-12
795 reviews
€ 579.20 – € 718.56
€ 579.20 – € 718.56
This kit is designed for use on a racing track. It has the same parts as the road kit, but with a few changes. We close off the front and back lights, and we attach the back seat cover directly to the bike's tail, which means there isn't a seat for a second person.
Jaelyne B
The site was a little glitchy, but I'm excited to see what's to come
Sidney D
I've had nothing but great experiences with their customer service team! They've answered every question I've had an then some.
Alvin B
So far so good.
Jordan S
Quick and easy shopping experience
Maurice T
I highly recommend buy from monster fairings there the best fit and great customer survice.
Joe C
Smooth easy to navagate
Kavin S
Monster fairings is always going to be my go to when it comes to custom fairings. They have a massive selection for a lot of popular bikes. High quality plastic and paint that makes for an easy install. And they truly have the best customer service
Frederic D
Easy shopping
Jaylen J
Great quality a lot of options
Enrico R
You always get a competent answer to your question in the shortest possible time. They are helpful and the quality they produce is excellent
Stephanie H
Excellent quality, craftsmanship, product. Customer service, communication and follow up are exceptional. Fairings look amazing. They go above and beyond to help.
Jade R
I loooovee my new fairings. My bike has never looked so cool! I've have nothing but good things to say about Monster Fairings. The process went so smoothly! They kept me up to date with every single step and included pictures for approval and did not move on until they had my approval. Their customer service is amazing! I definitely recommend them when you want to change up your look. Will be looking at getting a new set once I upgrade my bike 。^‿^。
Keimon P
I have a 2016 S1000rr and wanted to give the bike a glow up! With a super simple process and a few email I was able to get the perfect color combo I wanted and make my dream build come to life! Can promise this is the best change you can make to any motorcycle!
John W
Awesome products
Katie L
Quick easy fun
Dustin B
A lot of selection, and no confusion over whether the color matches my current fairings.
Lucas O
Coupon for free fairing bolt kit did not work.
Anthony B
Easy and quick to use
Carlos T
There could be some more ease of use with the website, however they were highly communicative to ensure all else was satisfactory
David C
Your check out system is hot garbage, I tried several cards and my bank blocked me out several times. I ended up having to go to PayPal to do it. Please get a better system.
Quinton S
Overall great experience so far but I would like to have seen the options on a bike. Some fairing have pics on bikes but most require imagination to see it. Overall good experience though.
Nelson R
It's not that bad, you will enjoy!
Steven S
Love it great site
Tyrell E
Super excellent customer service
Jamal L
East to navigate website
Jason Y
Speed matters... your site is very slow...
Kevin M
Selecting the right fairings was simple and easy. Checkout process was almost smooth just had to confirm with my bank the order was me.
Roger L
Easy to use
Parron B
No military discounts, should consider using affirm or after pay.
Justin A
Could not find how to customize my order with decals etc.
Kiano R
It was a good purchase and i like the fairings
Ryan E
Website is easy to use. I'll write other review once I receive the fairings.
Levi L
Fantastic xoxoxoxoxo
Daniel L
Not sure about the expedited shipping charge that couldn't be changed to standard
Philip P
Safe reliable great experience
Luke r
Wish shipping wasn't so long but i get it
Steven L
J'adore la facilité de transaction de votre site web ainsi que la livraison gratuite au Canada! Super j'ai déjà hâte de recevoir mon nouveau fairing! Merci Monster Fairings
Rashid A
Great job l
Ethan r
Everything is convenient and simple.
Jeremy P
Very easy process great support helped me get my order in
Reed E
Easy to get through site
Scott W
A +++ easy to deal with
Colin F
My experience with monster fairing has been great everytime I've used them. They stay in touch an aren't afraid to help you out if needed.strongly recommend
Anthony M
Had an issue where a fairing got damaged in shipping, they gave me a discounted price and very fast shipping! Would recommend to anyone!
Toby B
Quick and easy
Liam W
So far everything has been pretty good. The emails from the team when talking about the kit has been helpful
Jasir C
Quick and easy
Erich M
I ordered these fairings about a month ago and I'm very impressed with the quality and design of them. They look amazing and I would recommend Monster Fairings to anyone looking to get fairings for their motorcycle. They have great customer support as well, very quick to respond to any question
Chad G
To start off I'd like to say,from the start of my purchase things were somewhat a pain. It's states 30-45 days from start to finish,well that's not true. It took almost 3 months to finally get my fairings, when I finally did receive them they looked great I was happy but after installing them( by a pro) I may add. The fairings didn't fit right anywhere,they had to be cut,shaved,bent,heated to get them to fit right.Finally they looked good after hrs of work. Now the gas tank,it has to be painted,so I contact Monsterfairings to get the paint code,well that is when all the bs started. I've been getting the same email over and over. ( We have our fairings installed by pros and they usually have the paint matched By computers). Well I'm a pro and I don't have a color matching computer or software. So how can I get the code I ask. Again same answer ( we have it done by computers. Well if u have been sailing fairings for x amount oof years and there always the same,wouldn't u be able to tell me the color of my fairings I paid almost 900$ dollars for? So here I sit almost a year later still don't have my tank painted. I suggest people ask for a paint chip code with there purchase,maybe this won't happen again to anyone else
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Cleveland -- Jurors should be allowed to hear about alleged sexual "counseling" of Amish wives by a man charged with masterminding beard- and hair-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio, prosecutors told a federal judge Friday.
Prosecutors outlined the strategy in a legal brief in the case of 16 Amish defendants facing trial Aug. 27 in Cleveland before U.S. District Court Judge Dan Aaron Polster. The government brief said alleged sexual "counseling" of wives by alleged ringleader Samuel Mullet Sr. shows the control he had over followers at their eastern Ohio farm complex.
"His ability to convince those women, as well as their husbands and parents, to permit him to do so, establishes the extent of defendant Mullet's control over the community," the government said.
Based on that, the government said, the jury can conclude that Mullet was aware of last year's attacks and approved.
In addition to the sexual conduct issues, alleged paddling rituals and punishing members by sending them to a chicken coop "are not inflammatory; they are undisputed facts" that the jury should hear, the government said.
Defense attorneys argued in earlier briefs that there is no proof of such sexual conduct and said mentioning it at trial would be prejudicial. They also asked the judge to bar any reference to the chicken coop punishment or "self-deprivation" such as cold showers or sleeping on boards.
The sexual conduct issues would bias the jury and lead to a "trial within a trial" unrelated to the charges, the defense said.
Cutting the beards and hair of men and hair of women would be considered deeply offensive in Amish culture. The Amish believe the Bible instructs women to let their hair grow long and men to stop shaving once they marry.
Mullet previously said he didn't order the hair-cutting but didn't stop his sons and others from carrying it out. He said the goal was to send a message to other Amish that they should be ashamed of themselves for the way they were treating him and his community.
"They changed the rulings of our church here, and they're trying to force their way down our throat, make us do like they want us to do, and we're not going to do that," Mullet said late last year.
The government said victims were attacked because they "lawfully expressed their disagreement with the practices in the Bergholz community" by leaving, by urging relatives to do likewise and by defying Mullet's rulings on religious issues.
The defendants face charges including conspiracy, assault and evidence tampering in what prosecutors said were hate crimes motivated by religious differences.
Members of the group living in Bergholz carried out the attacks in September, October and November by forcibly cutting the beards and hair of Amish men and women and then taking photos to shame them, authorities have said.

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Greedo, son of Greedo | |
Star Wars character | |
Homeworld | Tatooine |
Species | Rodian |
Gender | Eunuch |
Affiliation | Greedo |
Portrayed by | Greedo |
Voiced by | Greedo |
Greedo was a weird alien who worked for Jabba the Hutt as one of his bounty hunters. He is most notable for attempting to kill Han Solo for bounty. During the attempt, Han shot first, leaving Greedo dead. During his life, he succeeded in mocking Anakin, being green, and dying. Unsuccessful ventures included doing something with his life, and collecting the bounty for Han's life.
Early Years[edit | edit source]
Greedo grew up with his full Rodian family on Tatooine. He is the son of Greedo, a bounty hunter, and Greedo, a dancer. While growing up, he went to the Rodian Refugee School on Tatooine, where he met Greedo and Greedo in Greedo's art class. Greedo, Greedo, and Greedo would be friends for years to come. At the age of 37, he met Anakin Skywalker. Right away, Greedo hated Anakin and vowed to make fun of him forever. When Anakin was preparing for a pod race, Greedo made sure to get extra dirty in his insults. Upon failing at even that, he went home and cried to Greedo. He knew, even then, that he was a waste of the green rubber used to make his face.
After Anakin left Tatooine, Greedo had no direction in his life. He tried various odd jobs, such as working in a Pizzaria, and as a womp rat exterminator. He wound up following in his father's footsteps to become a bounty hunter. He sent his resume in to Jabba. Right away, Jabba knew he was a failure at anything that would be useful to him. Instead, Jabba hired Greedo to portray a bounty hunter who killed smugglers in the movie that Jabba had hired George Lucas to create about his life.
The Incident[edit | edit source]
Greedo's first job came up thirty years later, when Greedo became notorious for appearing in the third rerun of the first draft of Star Wars, of which Jabba was executive producer. In the scene that made him infamous, he was accidentally sodomized by Han Solo. Because of his inability to mate, thus destroying the noble line of Greedo, he exiled himself to the planetary system of Brazil. It was here that he would later became a male stripper at a Brazilian bikini wax salon.
The initial version of the scene was released onto the VHS version of Star Wars, however director George Lucas, also know as Darth Hitler, was unhappy with it. Electing to modify the films at a later date to "match his vision, he had Greedo return to the studios to refilm the scene. This time, Greedo was shot instead. At an even later date, Lucas decided that the alien shooting first, then getting shot by Solo more closely matched his vision. But, by then, the movie was already out, for like 25 years. The movie was out, you moron! How can you change a movie that was already out?!
The incident generated bad publicity for Greedo, who was portrayed as an actor with no morals who would do anything to further his career.
The later years[edit | edit source]
After some unsuccessful ventures in the sitcom format, such as the shows Was that my wife on TV? and Hey, That's NOT my Penis!, Greedo finally regained face when he grew a beard and became Alf. The show ran for many seasons and was much beloved by American viewers who were dead inside. Most eventually committed suicide or died of natural causes.
See also[edit | edit source]
- Booth Shot First
- Han Solo
- Anakin Skywalker - Surprisingly one of Greedo's childhood friends


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Hello, hello! How's the day going for you?
We spent most of our days this week in Chicago and returned home late last night! Yeah… it really doesn't feel like Thursday around here.
I shared the highlights of the Bulls vs. Pistons game this morning and have a whole batch of pictures and stories to share with you this afternoon. Ready?
Scenes from Chicago – Nov. 2014 Edition
Since it was Veteran's Day (and a big belated THANK YOU to all the honorable vets out there for serving our country!) and Scott and I were technically on vacation (for the day), Barry took the day off as well and we all enjoyed a lazy morning followed by brunch at a new-to-all-of-us restaurant called Wildberry Pancakes and Cafe.
We picked this spot because it was walking distance to some of the famous sights of Chicago neither Scott or I had ever seen in person, despite visiting the city a handful of times before.
They are known for their pancakes, but I have to give their omelets a fair shout out. They were huge and loaded with egg-quisite (quoted from their menu… so punny) ingredient combinations!
I ordered the Espanola with egg whites, jalapeños, avocado, onion, cilantro, mushrooms, cheese, and bacon instead of the chorizo on a bed of corn tortillas. I made sure to list every single ingredient out because I want to remember this meal and recreate it as soon as possible. You should too!
It came with a side of hash browns and pancakes. I ordered the gluten-free honeycakes and put forth my best effort to eat about half of everything.
It was a fabulous meal, but the company was even better. Joining the three of us was a long-time blog reader and now real-life friend, Tanya!
She and I are mutual friends of Barry's, and I remember the day I got a random text from him saying she casually mentioned reading my blog in one of their conversations. At the time, she was totally unaware that he was friends with Scott and I. Crazy small world, right?
Anyways, we left overly full and Barry ran off to an event while Scott and I were left to explore the city. Before we set out, Tanya offered to take us up to her office in a high rise building to see the views without having to wait in line to visit the Willis (Sears) Tower. Um, yeah!
We were forty-seven stories high and made our way up to a few different floors to take the best of it in.
It was chilly and rainy outside, so I was very thankful to take her up on the suggestion to sight see from the inside.
Thank you so much for the tour and access to the views, Tanya!
We made our way back downstairs and followed her directions to go see next point of interest on my list: The Bean.
I couldn't believe that neither Scott or I had seen it in person before.
Being there was pretty neat.
We wanted to get a picture in front of it and lucked out by finding someone snapping a ton of photos on his own. He had a fancy looking set up and knew exactly what he was doing!
The Bean (also known as the Cloud Gate) is located in Millenium Park and has tons of things to do and see nearby. The two of us moseyed along and stopped to capture this 39-foot head statue. We found a group of new friends there and took turns taking pictures for each other.
Props to the girl who got this one on the first try, twice in a row!
(One for us and one for her friends…)
We were thoroughly impressed.
A short walk took us to the Red Bull Art of Can Chicago exhibit next.
Literally everything in the exhibit was made out of cans of Red Bull. Can you believe some of these details?
That's a heck of a lot more patience and talent than I'll ever have.
We had a couple more hours to kill before meeting another friend for dinner, so we walked and cabbed all around the city. We heard Macy's was putting up their Christmas decorations and wanted to see them.
Better yet, how about this Tiffany Mosaic Ceiling inside?
Remember that tiny Tiffany window Scott and I saw at The Whitney? That one piece was worth more than $6 million, so I can't even imagine what this bad boy is valued at. It was gorgeous!
We walked down the rest of State Street and stumbled upon famous sights.
ABC7 Chicago State Street Studio
Then we shopped a little…
(Why didn't I buy these when I had the chance? Seriously.)
We popped in to the Museum of Contemporary Art wanting to see the David Bowie exhibit, until we found out the tickets were $25 each.
(And we had already been here before…)
We finished up our afternoon with a couple of sweet stops on Michigan Ave.
(Of course Scott bought this ridiculously large bag of Twizzlers.)
We had already been to both of these places before as well, and sadly, weren't hungry enough to try anything this time. I assure you that the hot chocolates are wonderful and worth a trip!
Before long, it was time for us to Uber over to Grand Street to enjoy the buzzed about Coalfire Pizza for dinner.
We had heard great things about this place and wanted to try it out with a friend of ours. You might remember Kelley coming to visit us at the end of last year, almost a year ago to the date!
It was so great to see her and her mommy-to-be belly!
We all decided to split a pizza and salad and left it up to Scott to order the Caprese Salad and Pepperoni & Whipped Ricotta pizza.
The whipped ricotta was no joke, y'all.
It was all very good! After dinner, we made our way back to Barry's and got ready to explore the city more with him.
Our first stop was at Underground Wonder Bar for some live jazz music. Tuesday certainly drew in an interesting crowd!
I ordered a fruity specialty drink (couldn't even tell you what it was, but super calorie and sugar dense I'm sure) and Scott ordered a virgin bloody mary. It was a small place, and we could see the potential for a great time.
The music on this day of the week, however, was very… eh, unique. Coming out and "hitting the town" on a Monday and Tuesday night proves for some epic sights and sounds… let me tell you.
We bounced around as the night went on and our friend Katlyn met us out after she finished up her dance practice. It was a fun time!
And we were all stars.
Thanks for hosting us, friends! We can't wait to come visit again on the weekend next time. Until then… stay classy, Chicago!
See you bright and early in the morning for Friday Favorites! <3


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I am using mysql as my backend database. Here is the use case;
A HolidayPackage
is configured with some default offerings
. These default offerings can be up/downgraded based on the options provided. Each offering belongs to different types of variants
- Hotels
- Origin city
For starters, I want to design the use case of Origin city:
There is a GOA package. It can be offered in 3 variants based on Origin city;
- From New Delhi to Goa
- From Bombay to Goa
- Goa itself ( Land package )
(Bold implies default selection)
a. and b. User can fly from either New Delhi or Bombay to GOA.
c. Goa is a Land package, where a user can reach Goa by himself and is a standalone holidayPackage.
Also, we need to further support the following use cases with a variant category (Origin City):
- one of the options in a variant can be marked as default by the admin, which will be a part of the offered inclusions (e.g. Bombay to Goa)
In the database, I need to model these relationships. Here is what I have in mind.
has MANY to MANY relationship with Destination
(read origin city). This will take care of options like:
- From New Delhi to Goa
- From Bombay to Goa
My concern:
- How do I handle Land packages only i.e. "Goa itself" and we don't have a travel leg ?
- How can I mark an option for a package,
at the database level ?


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Mozilla plots Firefox interface overhaul
'Dated' UI gets cross-platform makeover
Mozilla has detailed plans to revamp and simplify the user interface of Firefox.
The visual update for the Windows version of the open source browser will occur in two phases, coinciding with the release of Firefox 3.7 and 4.0, with early changes set to include hiding the menu bar and merging the "stop" and "reload" buttons.
Mozilla also wants to completely rethink bookmarks, creating a bookmarks "widget" that replicates the bookmark menu functionality and integrating that with a bookmarks toolbar.
Phase one - hiding the menu bar on Firefox 3.7
Mozilla explains the visual overhaul is needed so the browser does not look dated on machines running the latest versions of Windows, among other reasons.
Firefox feels dated and behind on Windows. Especially Vista and Windows 7. These issues include absence of Glass, anemic purple toolbar color on Vista, tall and bulky UI footprint, element overload, inconsistent toolbar icon usage/style, lack of a tactile look & feel and perhaps too great of a divergence between the look on XP and Vista/7.
Changes due to come with Firefox 4.0, which is pencilled in for release late next year, are more in flux but will include a continuation of the bookmarks revamp with proposals to hide the bookmarks bar. The proposed spruce-up also includes combining the browser's address and search bars.
Other changes will see browser tabs moved towards the top of the display, similar to the "tab-on-top" look of Google Chrome.
Phase two - 'tab on top' for Firefox 4.0
Mozilla denies it is copying Chrome or other browsers in this or other aspects of the redesign, arguing that since browsers are all aimed at addressing similar problems then similarities in designs are inevitable.
We are not trying to make Firefox look like any other browser. Firefox is Firefox. Similarities between browsers are unavoidable. They all have shared lineage and are based off of their predecessors. The basics of what a browser does and how it does it is already established. Browsers are all trying to solve the same problems so evolutionary ideas that are similar are inevitable.With that said, just because an idea didn't originate here doesn't mean it isn't a good idea. Platform trends and conventions are sometimes good to follow. There are plenty of ideas being worked on for Firefox that are innovative and novel.
Mozilla is also planning to make the look and feel of its browser more consistent across different operating system platforms. Firefox 4.0 for Linux, for example, will also feature a "tabs-on-top" interface like its Windows cousin.
Plans for the Mac version of Firefox fall broadly along the same lines but may include the integration of a Web-style interface recently introduced with the Mac version of iTunes. Mozilla reckons the Mac version of Firefox needs far fewer changes than its "dated" Windows relative.
More details on the Firefox UI revamp plans, along with screenshots, can be found in a discussion document on Mozilla's developer wiki here. ®


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Banning handheld phone use by drivers had NO effect on accident rate - study
Some new ban obviously in order. Radios? Children?
Recent legislation banning the use of handheld phones by drivers had basically no effect on the number of road accidents, according to a new study.
"If it's really that dangerous, and if even just a fraction of people stop using their phones, we would expect to find some decrease in accidents," says professor Daniel Kaffine, who worked on the analysis. "But we didn't find any statistical evidence of a reduction."
It seems that Kaffine and his colleagues took steps to iron out at least the most obvious extraneous factors. We are told:
The researchers chose to look a relatively narrow window of time to reduce the number of other variables that might have an impact on accident rates, including the possible introduction of safer cars into the market, an economic recession that leads to a drop in overall driving, or other changes to state traffic laws.
They also corrected their data to account for precipitation, which can cause more accidents; gas prices, which can affect how many vehicles are on the road; and other unobservable factors that may have influenced accidents.
Once all these corrections had been made, the effect of banning handheld phone use at the wheel was found to be ... zero.
"Our results suggest that simply banning hand-held cellphone use may not produce the desired increase in traffic safety," comments Kaffine, bluntly.
The ban in question was the one brought in for California in 2008, but obviously the study would seem to have implications for other bans in other major car-using jurisdictions with broadly similar levels of road safety, law enforcement and compliance with laws and regulations.
Possible reasons for the complete failure of the ban to achieve anything useful could include it being totally ignored by all drivers, but this seems unlikely based on previous studies: at least some people pay attention to such bans, and so a noticeable number of accidents should be prevented.
It could also be that most who obeyed the ban switched to the use of handsfree equipment, which some believe is just as dangerous as handheld. Or it might be that those who obeyed the ban turned from nattering on their phones to groping about below the windscreen to manipulate their car audio systems, satnavs etc.
But it has to be at least possible also that actually using a phone while driving just isn't that dangerous. Various academic studies have put it on a par with drunk driving, but Kaffine and his team note that many of these studies were lab based and may have failed to reproduce the way people actually behave behind the wheel.
The new study can be read here, in the journal Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. ®


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1934 Chevy Coupe Build - See The USA In Our Chevrolet: Part I
2006 PPG/Street Rodder Road Tour '34 Chevy Tours The Country In Style and Comfort, A testament To Today's Street Rod Aftermarket
When a street rodder is faced with filling out a tech sheet on his car so it can be featured in a magazine, he's usually at a loss to sum up the years of work in a few pages of notes and still have room to thank all the friends and others who helped along the way. Ours is much the same dilemma in trying to encapsulate the story of this year's annual Road Tour car from beginning to completion.
This is STREET RODDER's 11th such vehicle, built by a professional shop using all the great components from the street rod and performance aftermarket and demonstrating its quality/safety/performance through a whirlwind 25,000-mile tour of this summer's national rod events. Although the annual Road Tour car is assembled and finished by a professional shop, all the components and techniques utilized are available to the homebuilder. Our rod this year is nominally a '34 Chevrolet standard coupe, yet there isn't a single 1934 Chevrolet part on the car, nor any part that isn't available new today. If our Road Tour continues to prove anything over the years, it's that there has never been a better time to build a street rod! Often the hardest part of building a car today is dealing with the myriad of choices. You have the luxury of selecting the make, year, body style, and all the running gear and accessories that make it your own automotive statement.
For 2006, our builder of choice was none other than Boyd Coddington, whose three-decade career as a machinist, designer, wheel manufacturer, car builder, and television star ("American Hot Rod") has made him a household name, even in non-rod households! If you've seen his TV show, you know his exceptional crew is always facing tight deadlines, yet consistently produces a stunning end result. Our car's editorial deadlines and event schedule for the summer really put the pressure on, but the Boyd Boys came through 110 percent on our three-window, as you can see by the photos.
Professional builders, just like street rodders at home, have a wide choice of products to select for assembling a car, and our '34 had the benefit of quality gear from the cream of the aftermarket suppliers, many of which have been selected for previous Road Tour vehicles as well. Products you can bolt in and use with confidence--from chassis and suspension to bodies to engines and transmissions, accessories and more--make life easier for amateur and pro builders alike. As with any car build, after the decisions of make and year were made, the chassis and suspension was the first big selection. Our '34 Chevy boxed frame from the Roadster Shop has the right dimensions for any '34 Chevy standard body (they also make chassis for the larger Master Series cars) and the strength to handle any drivetrain we might have chosen. Coupled with the smooth-riding, great-handling independent front and rear Superide suspension from Heidt's Hot Rod Shop, we had a superior foundation for our hot rod coupe. Wilwood disc brakes and adjustable Aldan aluminum coilover shocks are used all around to complete the chassis.
What was to sit on top of this state-of-the-art chassis would be a brand-new reproduction fiberglass '34 three-window body from Outlaw Performance, who also supplied the fenders, running boards, dash panel, grille shell, gas tank cover, and splash panels to complete this rustproof coupe. Even better, it's already chopped and fitted with power windows on delivery!
Once these two major components of our Road Tour car were delivered to Boyd Coddington's Hot Rod Shop, the body was bolted to the chassis, and roll-around tires and wheels were installed so the rest of the work to be done could be visualized and planned. While some members of the team worked on fitting the fenders and running boards, others began the drivetrain installation and the fitting of the many other pieces that make up the puzzle of a complete vehicle. You've seen the bumper stickers that say, "One day at a time," right? Building a car, regardless of the size or complexity, can be tackled one part at a time. If you have a trained crew with you, you can install, modify, or paint perhaps three or four pieces at a time, as long as everyone isn't working in the engine compartment all at once! Homebuilders and pros alike rely on good note taking and a written to-do list to work against, upon which each checkmark becomes a satisfying step toward the completion of the car.
We combined the 1 hp/ci power of a GM Performance Parts Ram Jet 350 engine with a completely reworked 200-4R overdrive automatic from Gear Star Performance Transmission Inc., who offers a 2006 Road Tour package to STREET RODDER readers. This bulletproof transmission/converter/cooler/cables/fluid package can handle twice the power of our GM-warranted fuelie motor, and the Ram Jet is the easiest EFI motor to hook up that you've ever seen. It comes complete with a simplified and very clearly marked harness and its own compact computer, plus a palm-size code reader if any troubleshooting is ever needed. You can enjoy the mileage and performance benefits of EFI without hassles.
Great packaging in compact spaces is just one of the benefits of the Vintage Air Front Runner accessory drive system we added to our engine with low, fixed alternator and compressor mounts, a single serpentine belt, and an OEM automatic tensioner. The polished pulleys and 706 Sanden compressor complement the performance of the Gen II SuperCooler (heat and cool unit) to be mounted behind the coupe's dash.
With the bulk of the powertrain and suspension bases well covered, the coupe project had to take a few steps back before moving forward. After Boyd's bodymen had finessed every body panel, including the new three-piece aluminum hood crafted by the artisans at Marcel's Custom Metal Shaping, the phase began where everything must be labeled and disassembled. The chassis could be stripped and sent out for powdercoating, the exhaust components went their way for thermal coating, some parts were chromed or polished, and the body parts received a double-dip at the hands of Greg Morrell, Boyd's painter for the last 12 years. Two-part PPG products were used throughout the process of painting our coupe, with Lion's Mane metallic/pearl basecoat, followed by four coats of catalyzed clear. (Vibrance color Lion's Mane, DLV 8007 primer, DLV 8087 sealer, 908325 ground color--three coats; 908325/2 mid color--three coats; DC 4010 clear coat--four coats.) Following the rubout of the cured paint with fine wet-and-dry paper and buffing, the body was shiny, slippery as a wet bar of soap, and ready for final installation.
The work frenzy that followed is the time when extra helping hands are really important if you're trying to make an event deadline. Technicians were all over the finished frame: tapping holes here; attaching suspension components and the Flaming River steering; and installing the engine and transmission, radiator, driveshaft, fuel tank, shifter, and a host of other items that are easier to bolt down at this phase than after the body is installed, which was the next plateau to climb to. All the labeled bags of fasteners could finally be installed in their exact-right application, for good!
As the last of the polished Wilwood calipers was installed, all of the brake components and attendant stainless steel brake line plumbing could be attached to the chassis, running from the master cylinder out to the front and rear lines. With all the lines and fittings snugged up, Thomas and Dan bled the brake system with new fluid.
Bolting on the rolling stock of Wheel Vintiques Lakester Series 88 wheels and fresh rubber finally brought us to the "real" rolling chassis stage that meant our coupe was ready for the powertrain and body. These and other final phases of construction on our 2006 Road Tour '34 Chevy coupe will be covered in the final part of this saga in next month's STREET RODDER, where you should be able to view our PPG-bronzed beauty in full color!
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Life generally and Jewish life particularly, is unpredictable, surprising, mysterious and enigmatic. Yaacov expects that after his encounter with Lavan and Eisav the worst is behind him. But the fun is just about to begin. Who could predict that after the sibling controversies between Yishmael and Yitzchak, Yaacov and Eisav that the greatest sibling controversy in Jewish history would now begin?
All sorts of mysterious and inexplicable events conspire to bring this story along. Why does Yaacov give Yosef a special tunic and show such favoritism in front of his other children? Why does he send Yosef on such an apparently dangerous mission to find his brothers? Who is the mysterious man that leads into the lair of Shimon and Levi? And why is the final result of all of this the sale of Yosef as a slave destined for Egyptian bondage?
Later in the parsha, how does Yehuda commit such an apparently immoral act and why is he nevertheless rewarded as being the ancestor of Jewish royalty and messianic destiny? And why does Peretz push his way out of his mother's womb ahead of Zerach?
The Torah grants us no answers to any of these fantastic events. Midrash offers various comments and interpretations to help us somewhat understand this chain of events. But at the end of the story, it all remains one great enigma wrapped in heavenly mystery. I am very poor at solving mysteries or explaining very difficult, complex torah issues and biblical narrative. Therefore I content myself with observing in wonder the story that the Torah relates to us.
The prophet Yeshayahu taught us that God's ways are not our ways and that his guiding hand in all human affairs remains invisible, mysterious and most wondorous. This is the basic thrust of how Jewish tradition viewed not only Biblical narrative but all of Jewish and human history.
In our time the Holocaust was unforeseen unbelievable and even after its occurrence it is still subject to denial by millions of people. Who could have imagined a Jewish state emerging in the Land of Israel against internal and external odds, expectations and predictions? And how, after millennium of Torah tradition and ritual observance would that State bring forth as an apparent bastion of secularism and even atheism?
Yet all of this has happened, and the wonders of Jewish life continue to expand before our very eyes. Israel has become much more of a Jewish state than a socialist one. Anti-Semitism has never been stronger and yet the Jewish people have never felt as emboldened and strong as it is today.
The enormous rebirth of Torah scholarship and study within the Jewish people the world over and especially here in Israel is perhaps the greatest surprise of our time. All of this should make us wary of expert predictions, all-knowing politicians and other savants who claim to know our future and what is really in our best interests. Mysteries of the parsha are themselves the message of the parsha.
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Berel Wein
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Moving VuFind to Zend Framework 2: Part 3 — Theme Inheritance
One of VuFind's most important features is its theme inheritance system, which allows users to customize the interface by creating sub-themes that only override the templates that need to be changed. This helps isolate user changes from the core code and simplifies upgrades.
The Zend Framework 1 Solution
Since theme inheritance is such a core feature of VuFind, it was the first challenge I tackled when adapting the code to Zend Framework. Fortunately, the list8d project had already solved the problem for me and documented it in a very helpful blog post, so I was able to implement the feature quickly. Although VuFind's implementation adds some features and changes a few details, it hasn't strayed too far from the original list8d code.
Differences from VuFind 1.x
The biggest difference between VuFind 1.x themes and the list8d solution is that in VuFind 1.x, you had to create a comma-separated list of themes in the configuration file to specify how inheritance worked. In VuFind 2, with the list8d-inspired system, inheritance is controlled by a "theme.ini" file within each theme which tells VuFind whether or not the theme has a parent. The VuFind 2 approach is preferable for two reasons: it makes the config file more concise and easier to understand, and it prevents users from creating illegal inheritance chains by entering invalid comma-separated sequences.
Moving to Zend Framework 2
Now that I am moving from Zend Framework 1 to Zend Framework 2, I have again started by tackling the theme problem. Fortunately, the list8d solution still works, though it requires a few significant adaptations. The remainder of the article will highlight key changes. All of my code is available through Git on VuFind's Sourceforge project; feel free to borrow anything that you find useful.
Change 1: Exposing Public Resources
The list8d article talks about creating a link under the public webroot to expose theme resources. I instead opted to handle this through Apache configuration:
AliasMatch ^/vufind/themes/([0-9a-zA-Z-_]*)/css/(.*)$ /usr/local/vufind/themes/vufind/$1/css/$2 AliasMatch ^/vufind/themes/([0-9a-zA-Z-_]*)/images/(.*)$ /usr/local/vufind/themes/vufind/$1/images/$2 AliasMatch ^/vufind/themes/([0-9a-zA-Z-_]*)/js/(.*)$ /usr/local/vufind/themes/vufind/$1/js/$2 Order allow,deny allow from all AllowOverride All
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Through the magic of regular expressions, this ensures that only Javascript, CSS and images are exposed to the public, while other theme elements (like PHP templates) remain private. So, for example, the styles.css stylesheet in /usr/local/vufind/themes/vufind/blueprint/css becomes visible at the URL http://[your-server]/vufind/themes/blueprint/css/styles.css.
Note that the actual file path to the themes may be subject to change. I'm still debating whether themes belong inside or outside the VuFind-specific module (right now I chose outside, since this allows multiple modules to share the same Apache mappings) and whether or not the themes folder needs to be broken into subdirectories for disambiguation (that accounts for the current redundant "vufind" in the path, but I might decide to eliminate it for simplicity at risk of clashing with other modules). Feedback is welcome.
Also note that VuFind comes with an install script that automatically customizes the Apache configuration to adjust VuFind's base URL and installed path, so you don't actually have to edit all of this stuff by hand if you use non-default settings.
Change 2: Initializing Themes
The list8d solution proposes setting up themes by implementing a base controller that all other controllers inherit from. This controller's init() method is then responsible for reading in the theme.ini file and setting everything up (which mostly consists of manipulating the framework's search paths so it finds the appropriate templates and helpers in the appropriate places).
When I adapted this for my initial ZF1-based VuFind prototype, I tried to make it more stand-alone by creating a Zend Controller Plug-in to do the work rather than embedding it in a base class… but this didn't really change anything significantly; it just moved the logic from one somewhat obscure place to a different somewhat obscure place.
Fortunately, Zend Framework 2 has a more comprehensible event-driven architecture for plugging things into the workflow. Rather than using base classes or weird plug-ins, you can hook events from a module's bootstrap method. This allows much better separation of concerns: I was able to create a VuFindThemeInitializer class which does the actual theme startup, and then I attach different methods of the initializer to appropriate events as part of VuFind's bootstrapping process.
Change 3: Custom Template Injector
One of the features of Zend Framework 2 is that, if no template is explicitly specified, the framework injects a default template name into the view model. This default template name is the namespace of the module containing the controller, then the name of the controller, then the name of the action. That interferes with the theme system — we don't want the namespace on the template name. I created a custom template injector that eliminates the namespace and (due to my own personal preference) also makes sure that URLs are case-insensitive by stripping out dashes caused by camelCase action/controller names. This is set up as part of the theme initialization routine (see the configureTemplateInjection method).
Change 4: View Helper Loading
The original list8d theme solution simply injects helper paths into the helper broker. The framework then searches up the theme inheritance tree until it finds a matching helper. This is easy (no configuration necessary) but it is also slow (every helper initialization requires a search of the file system). Because ZF2 deals with helpers a little differently, I decided to make helper configuration more explicit. Each theme.ini file now includes a helper_namespace setting which specifies where helpers live, and a helpers_to_register[] array which lists all of the helpers that need to be made available. This explicit configuration is obviously less convenient than "magic" auto-loading, but since adding helpers is a relatively infrequent task, the performance benefits seem to justify the change.
I initially set things up so that themes had their own unique namespaces and the theme initializer found the active Zend Autoloader and informed it how to find the helpers in that namespace under the themes directory. I eventually decided this was unnecessarily overcomplicated and scrapped it — now all of VuFind's view helpers live in the namespace VuFind/Theme/[theme_name]/Helper (which means their code is inside the VuFind module rather than under the theme directories) and take advantage of the default autoloader settings. I'm reasonably happy with this solution, but it's not hard to change if a better layout is determined in the future.
Change 5: The Tools Class
As I already mentioned, I set up a VuFindThemeInitializer class to do the work of setting up themes. The initializer in turn needs to know a few things: for example, the base path of the application and the place in the session to persist theme settings (to reduce redundant file accesses). Rather than hard-coding these details into the Initializer, I created a VuFindThemeTools class which provides these details to the Initializer's constructor. This provides an opportunity for using dependency injection to change default behavior and implement unit tests. It also reduces redundancy, since other classes that need access to the same resources (i.e. theme-aware view helpers) can pull data from the Tools class rather than duplicating the dependency initialization.
Ideally, I should probably define a ToolsInterface to guide implementation of alternate tools classes. It may also make sense to split this class into separate pieces to handle different sets of functionality. For now, I'm just using a single catch-all Tools class to keep things simple; it's always possible to refactor when all the use cases become more clear.
Change 6: The ResourceContainer Class
In the list8d implementation of themes, you can specify CSS and JS files in your theme.ini file to ensure that they are loaded on every page within a given theme. The VuFind implementation extends this to support favicons as well. In the Zend Framework 1 version of all of this code, the theme initialization not only loads these settings from the configuration file but also parses it and configures the framework appropriately.
This is potentially inefficient — some controller actions won't ever render a page; others will forward from action to action, causing redundant work to be performed.
When I reimplemented this in ZF2, I added an extra layer. The VuFindThemeInitializer loads the settings from the configuration file into a VuFindThemeResourceContainer object provided by the VuFindThemeTools object. The settings are not actually processed until it is actually time to render a page. At that point, a call to a new HeadThemeResources view helper causes the files to get loaded. As with the changes to helper loading, this extra explicit step is slightly inconvenient, but the performance benefits should outweigh that disadvantage — creating a new layout is an uncommon activity, so adding one step to that process shouldn't inconvenience anyone too severely as long as the process is well documented.
Change 7: View Helpers
The list8d solution provides a custom HeadLink helper that searches the themes in inheritance order to find the best matching CSS file. VuFind's solution adds a similar custom HeadScript helper and also adds an ImageLink helper which finds the most appropriate image file. Since all of these helpers use similar logic to locate files, they rely on a shared method in VuFindThemeTools to do the bulk of their work.
Future Work
This is a very young solution, and it's entirely possible that I'll run into problems that will require some changes and refactoring. I'm also aware that my class names and file locations may not be ideal, and I'm open to feedback on possible improvements there. Finally, it may eventually make sense to build a stand-alone ZF2 ThemeInheritance module and further separate VuFind-specific behavior from the generic theme-related tools. I don't think this would actually be a huge amount of work, though for now my first priority is to finish the VuFind 2.0beta prototype. Once that is done and the code has been more thoroughly exercised, it may be worth revisiting whether it can be further modularized for better sharing.
I'm grateful to the list8d team for sharing my work, and I hope that my additions and changes will be of use to others. This has been another long, rambling post, and I'm sure there are some details I failed to touch on. Let me know if you have questions about anything.
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Comment by Mohamed Sharaf — April 18, 2014 @ 6:04 PM
i think better to think theme as zf2 module
the idea will be that just handling parent child theme approach think can be done through module load order
Comment by dkatz — April 19, 2014 @ 8:34 AM
One of the reasons I found the module approach difficult to work with was that themes can override other themes' static resources (images, JS, CSS). Right now this is implemented by a predictable file path for theme files in combination with a fairly simple regular expression match in the Apache configuration. It seemed to me that approaching this with modules would be more difficult — though perhaps I am overcomplicating my thoughts on the matter.
In any case, I'm certainly open to pull requests, pointers toward existing modules, etc., though at this point, I am unlikely to change unless there is a strong reason (or very easy migration path) simply because I don't want to break backward compatibility for the existing installed base.
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Donald Trump returned to his campaign roots Thursday in his first major public appearance since Election Day, resembling the pugnacious, brawling campaigner more than the traditional president-to-be as he held court in front of thousands of adoring fans — and even announced a Cabinet pick from the stage.
Trump's first stop on this "Thank you" tour to salute his supporters was in Ohio and, ever the showman, he made the surprise announcement that he will be offering the post of Defense Secretary to retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis. Trump said he was supposed to unveil that Monday, so he jokingly warned the Cincinnati crowd to "not tell anyone."
The raucous rallies during the Trump campaign road show often had the feel of a rock concert, and Thursday night in Cincinnati had all the hallmarks of a reunion tour: Trump took a veiled swipe at fellow Republicans. He remembered his general election foe by joking, "We had fun fighting Hillary, didn't we?" He boasted about size of his victory and repeatedly bashed the media. Protesters briefly interrupted the proceedings. And the crowd chanted "Build the Wall" and "Lock Her Up."
The president-elect had eased up on those campaign promises recently, suggesting the U.S.-Mexico border wall could be part-fence and indicating no willingness to pursue criminal charges against Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.
Perhaps befitting an encore presentation, the downtown arena that Trump packed in October — drawing a crowd that was one of the loudest of the campaign — was only about half-full Thursday night. But the thousands who were there cheered Trump as he declared to restore American to greatness, saying, "Now is not the time to downsize our dreams."
"Never again will anyone's interests come before the interests of the American people. It's not going to happen," Trump thundered. "The old rules no longer apply. Anything we want for our country is now possible."
Trump did nothing to downplay expectations before he takes office, declaring that "America will start winning again, big league." Much like he did during the stretch run of the campaign, he read from teleprompters, but he was bombastic as ever, spending more than a dozen minutes bragging about his victory before outlining his economic plan.
He boasted about his wins in Midwest states that normally vote Democratic, declaring he didn't just "break the blue wall, we shattered it." He veered off-script to make fun of a protester, saying she was being ejected from the arena so "she could go back to Mommy." He repeated his recent threat that, despite Constitutional protections, "if people burn the American flag, there should be consequences." And he repeated many of his signature campaign promises, including a pledge to "construct a great wall at the border."
And he stunned his own aides when he announced the Mattis pick from the stage. Mattis, nicknamed "Mad Dog," is considered one of the foremost strategic thinkers of his generation but to gain confirmation as Pentagon chief, he would need Congress to waive a requirement that a defense secretary be a civilian for at least seven years before taking up the post.
Mattis retired as chief of U.S. Central Command in 2013 after serving more than four decades in the Marine Corps. There is no sense of strong opposition to his nomination in Congress.
Trump, who has long spoken of feeding off the energy of his raucous crowds, first floated the idea of a victory tour just days after winning the election but has instead prioritized filling Cabinet positions. He is also expected to hold rallies in Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina and Michigan in the coming weeks, though details have yet to be announced. His supporters were thrilled that he had hit the road again.
"That he wants to do this, to take time out of his schedule to fly out here and personally thank the people … shows what kind of man he is," said Josh Kanowitz, 43. "He's one of us."
But while Kanowitz largely praised Trump's initial moves as president-elect, he visibly recoiled at the suggestion that he might pick Mitt Romney as secretary of tate, saying the 2012 Republican presidential nominee was "someone we should leave behind as we move forward."
Others at the rally also expressed some hesitancy at Trump's picks, with a few suggesting that choosing former Goldman Sachs partner Steven Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary was not exactly fulfilling Trump's campaign promise to "Drain the Swamp" and eliminate corruption and elitism from Washington.
But most were inclined to give the president-elect the benefit of the doubt.
"He's a businessman. He'll pick talented people to work for him and then keep them in line," said Jaime Bollmer, a 28-year-old teacher from Lockland, Ohio. "He's a leader. That's what leaders do."
The rally in Cincinnati was the second stop on a victory lap through the Midwest on Thursday, coming hours after Trump saluted workers, owners and himself at a Carrier plant in Indiana. There he declared that a deal to keep a local plant open instead of moving operations to Mexico was only the first of many business victories to come.
Some questions remain about the extent of the victory at Carrier, which announced this week that it will keep an Indianapolis plant open. In February, the heating and air conditioning company said it would shut the plant and send jobs to Mexico, and video of angry workers being informed about the decision soon went viral.
"Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences. It's not going to happen. It's simply not going to happen," Trump said to workers at the Indianapolis plant.
During the campaign, Trump had often pointed to the Indiana plant's moving plans as a result of poor Obama administration policies, and he pledged to revive U.S. manufacturing. Officials said this week that Carrier had agreed to keep some 800 union jobs at the plant.
Seth Martin, a spokesman for Carrier, said Indiana offered the air conditioning and furnace manufacturer $7 million in tax incentives after negotiations with Trump's team to keep some jobs in the state.
Associated Press writers Julie Pace in Washington, Lisa Cornwell from Cincinnati and Brian Slodysko from Indianapolis contributed reporting.
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DARPA wants microscopic atom clocks on chips
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The Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC) effort is - of course - a brainchild of DARPA, the US military brainbox collective where dreams come true. Assuming that you dream of hypersonic spaceplanes, portable rayguns, mighty globe-roaming Z-wing stratocruisers, invincible semi-intelligent battle computers and things of that sort, anyway.
Why does DARPA want a super-accurate teeny clock on a chip?
Well, duh. For "such applications as nano/pico satellite systems, underwater vehicles, [robot aircraft], sensors, metrology instruments, etc".
God knows what a "metrology instrument" is, but the rest of that stuff sounds pretty impressive. And wait, there's more.
[The] aim is to leverage Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC) technology and other atom ensemble manipulation technology in general in developing MEMS/NEMS ...
MEMS stands for Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems, and NEMS is the nano version. DARPA's MEMS effort is perhaps most famous for its known aspirations to borg up live creatures, implanting controlling machine cores into them and using the hapless brainchip-zombified slaves for various purposes - spying and so on.
Tellingly, the CSAC nanoclock programme is being kicked off by DARPA's top MEMS boffin Dr Amit Lal, who says:
"Animal world has provided mankind with locomotion over millennia. For example we have used horses and elephants... [the] program is aimed to develop technology that provides more control over insect locomotion, just as saddles and horseshoes are needed for horse locomotion control ... The realization of cyborgs with most of the machine component inside the ... body will provide stealthy robots..."
Research thus far has mainly focused on chipping-up moths for use as covert surveillance platforms, or perhaps to deliver devastating strikes against al-Qaeda linen cupboards.
(There has, however, been related research in Belgium in which sexy robo-provocateur infiltrators were able to influence large groups of unsuspecting cockroach dupes into acting against their own best interests.)
One of the key snags in handling an everyday cyborg zombie slave is that of knowing where the hell it is - moths not being navigationally gifted - and also communicating with it. This is where a suitably microscopic clock mounted inside the fluttering bug-bug's head comes in handy, as it would be a building block towards equipping the moth-drone with an ultraminiaturised in-bonce satnav.
A more perfect microsystem developed for navigation, time keeping, and communications would include a near-perfect clock with high accuracy and stability. Ability to keep 1-10 ns time accuracy over days to a few microseconds over a year will allow new capabilities for handheld or ground-based sensors, GPS/GPS-denied navigation, and spread spectrum and data-packet communications.
Download the whole solicitation from DARPA here. If you want any money you'll need to be packing a few "micromachined ion traps", or alternatively a miniaturised Stern-Gerlach experimental apparatus mounted inside a Ramsey interrogation cavity. We used to have one but the wheel came off. ®


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The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. The project's efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. The project is widely known for the developers' insistence on open source code and quality documentation; uncompromising position on software licensing; and focus on securityand code correctness.
OpenBSD supports binary emulation of most programs from SVR4 (Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, BSD/OS, SunOS and HP-UX.
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How To Get A Healthy Skin Glow
If you care for your skin today, you will enjoy healthy and beautiful skin well into your golden years. You can cultivate and maintain glowing, youthful skin for the rest of your life. This article is packed with helpful tips to help you maintain the look that you desire and keep your skin healthy for many years. Some of your most sensitive skin can be found on your lips. You want to use both chapstick and lip balm often. This keeps your lips moist and sun's damage away. Try the exfoliating benefits of alpha-hydroxy products to enhance your skin. Alpha-hydroxy acids are a natural product, commonly found in some fruits and milk. Alpha-hydroxy will desegregate protein bonds on a cellular level and help dead skin release from the body. By breaking these bonds, the dead skin can easily be scrubbed away gently to revel healthy skin underneath. For skin that's healthier and more moisturized, you should warm up your moisturizer before applying it. This will improve the quality of the


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The Smalls SAL is hosted by Heather from Stitching Lotus
This year I have two Small Challenges:
For the Hallowe'en Blog I have done something a little different this year, I've chosen a band sampler by Just Nan called Counting Bats and each band corresponds to the monthly themes on the blog. June was a Free Choice and I stitched this band which has a variety of spooky motifs:
Here is the whole piece so far:
The theme on the Christmas Ornie SAL blog was Animals and Pets and I decided to stitch three more of Daffycat's cute little reindeer freebies.
Stocking Reindeer
Ribbon Reindeer
Star Reindeer
Here are all six together:
And here's what I made them into:
I mounted each square on some thin card and then whipstitched them into a cube. I threaded some beads onto a piece of cotton thread to make a hanger and then the other ends of the thread to make some beaded tassels at the bottom of the cube.
Regular readers will know there has been a lot of Just Nan recently. In fact, since the last Smalls post I have started three of her freebies and complete two of them:
My Fair Ladybug
Beehive Violets
Big Bee, Little Bee
not quite finished yet!
You Were Hatched by Teresa Wenztler is a little bit big for a true "small" but it's not too big. I have stitched all the blue and all the green now:
stitched on 28 count lilac evenweave.
which never looks lilac in any photo!
I also did do more spending in June! Where has my willpower gone? I don't know but it's a good thing I'm not doing Stitch from Stash this year.
Crafty Kitten Fabric | £19.20 |
JN October's Eve | £6.98 |
JN 2 Mice | £21.52 |
Beads | £1.27 |
JN Charms | £1.52 |
Chatelaine | £22.75 |
CSC Subs | £8.72 |
Monthly Spend | £81.96 |
The fabric was an impulse buy, she was having one of her One-Off Pieces Auctions and I bid on a few but said "only let me win one, draw again if I get more than one". I got a nice piece of 32 count Belfast called Nebula:
Here are the three Just Nan charts I bought:
And here is the image of the Chatelaine Gardens of London:
Which I got for 20% off
Time for some pie:
June was dedicated to Dragons and Just Nan!
Finally and unbelievably we are half way through the year already so here's how the Pie looks so far:
It is the year of Nora Corbett so far with Just Nan and Brooke's Books some way behind her.


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It feels like an eternity since Radiohead rush-released The King Of Limbs, but today the band's eight album finally makes a physical appearance.
The Universal Sigh
Not to be confused with The King Of Limb's special 'Newspaper' edition, Radiohead have put together another newspaper called The Universal Sigh, available for collection from various locations around the world, free of charge.
It has, of course, already been uploaded as a PDF (WARNING: contains lots of poetry about trees), and put up for sale on eBay (just the one so far in the UK - £41 at time of writing). Authors include the band (presumably), Robert MacFarlane and Jay Griffiths.
Head over to TheUniversalSigh.com for pictures of some of the proud owners.
UPDATE: We're told that Thom Yorke has been handing out copies of The Universal Sigh in person outside the Rough Trade East record shop in London. This Is Fake DIY have some nice pictures of him doing just that.
24-bit FLAC 'better-than-CD' format
A 24-bit FLAC version of The King Of Limbs is also available for the first time today exclusively through 7digital. It marks the first 'better-than-CD' digital release of its kind from a major artist, and Apple is rumoured to be in talks with labels to make this a regular feature.
Should please audiophiles, anyway - yours for £8.99.
Album stream and artwork
You can read our track-by-track review of The King Of Limbs here. Or if that's not enough to convince, head over to The Guardian to stream the album in full.
True to Radiohead-form, there's also some nice accompanying artwork.


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The 10 Most Anticipated Blockbusters Released in 2018
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Let's get a list going of the 10 most exciting prospects in big budget land.
10. Venom
The story is about a man who develops superpowers after becoming a host to an alien.
9. A Wrinkle In Time
Meg Murry and her little brother, Charles Wallace, have been without their scientist father, Mr. Murry, for five years, ever since he discovered a new planet and used the concept known as a tesseract to travel there. Joined by Meg's classmate Calvin O'Keefe and guided by the three mysterious astral travelers known as Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, the children brave a dangerous journey to a planet that possesses all of the evil in the universe.
8. Solo
Through a series of daring escapades, young Han Solo meets his future co-pilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.
7. Ant Man and The Wasp
As Scott Lang balances being both a Super Hero and a father, Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym present an urgent new mission that finds the Ant-Man fighting alongside The Wasp to uncover secrets from their past.
6. Avengers: Infinity War
Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk and the rest of the Avengers unite to battle their most powerful enemy yet, the evil Thanos. On a mission to collect all six Infinity Stones, Thanos plans to use the artifacts to inflict his twisted will on reality. The fate of the planet and existence itself has never been more uncertain as everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment.
5. Ready Player One
When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. Wade Watts finds the first clue and starts a race for the Egg.
4. Deadpool 2
Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles ninjas, the yakuza and a pack of aggressive canines as he embarks on a new adventure.
3. Aquaman
Arthur Curry learns that he is the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, and must step forward to lead his people and to be a hero to the world.
2. The Predator
Major Dutch Schaefer is the leader of a military rescue unit looking for allies captured by guerrillas in the Latin American jungle. At first it seems like any other mission: Schaefer and his team of seasoned combat veterans spot a guerilla camp, destroy it, and find the men they were sent to rescue executed. But when Schaefer attempts to lead his unit out, with a captured guerrilla in tow, something horrifying and inexplicable begins to happen: One by one the men are killed by a mysterious adversary, a predator from another world.
1. Black Panther
After the death of his father, T'Challa returns home to the African nation of Wakanda to take his rightful place as king. When a powerful enemy suddenly reappears, T'Challa's mettle as king, and as Black Panther, gets tested when he's drawn into a conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk. Faced with treachery and danger, the young king must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and secure the safety of his people.


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Me and my friend made a hefeweizen a time ago and this beer had a strange behaviour, when we open the bottles the foam grows up fast until get out of the bottle.
The beer is ok, in fact it tastes great, but we don't know what we could made to this strange foam behaviour happens.
We have never experienced this on our batches, only on this hefeweizen.
Someone have an idea what causes big foams growing up after open the bottle?


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I recently brought home a funky fabric from Fabrix. This piece is a rather heavy, crinkled, stretch cotton, black-and-grey, plaid. The plaid has a silver metallic thread shot through. On one side of the plaid, the fabric has been overprinted with a sort of faux-camouflage design. The kinda-sorta camo print is dark gray and cream and, where present, makes the fabric difficult to pin.
Plain plaid on the left, reverse side of fabric (with the kinda-sorta camouflage overprint) on the right.
The kinda-sorta camo print seemed odd to me, but I liked the reverse side of the fabric, even though I am not a big fan of metallic in my plaids. You see, I remember all too well back when I worked retail in the early 80s and I wore those oversized plaid shirts with metallic threads shot through - it was quite the fashion - you would roll the sleeves up and then hold them in place with a button tab. I had to shake off the memory - I decided that the fabric was neat enough that I could live with the silver thread. :)
But what to do with this fabric? I couldn't see it as a top. I couldn't see it as pants. I couldn't see it as a jacket. I washed it and tossed it onto my bed, where I keep other fabrics with which I am communing...
Then, one night I had horrible insomnia and during those hours of trying to sleep it came to me. The fabric wanted to be a funky skirt! It might have occurred to me sooner, except I haven't been wearing skirts for the last several months. For me, skirts are more of a fall/winter garment, worn with boots, or tights/leggings.
This skirt is inspired by a RTW skirt I saw about a year ago. I was lucky that I had bought 3.5 yards of this fabric (it's fairly wide) because I had requested 3 yards and was asked by the clerk if I wanted the last half yard. Good thing I said yes, because this skirt used pretty much all of it.
Self-Stitched-September is getting very close, so I really need to buckle down and make those jeans I have planned. Do I have enough discipline? We shall see. I don't actually wear jeans all that much anyway, so I guess it isn't the end of the world if I don't get them made. ;)


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This Dawn FC (framing camera) image is centered on Vibidia crater, which is roughly 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter. There is a distinctive distribution of bright and dark material around Vibidia crater. There are bright rays that extend for roughly 15 kilometers (9 miles) in a circular pattern around Vibidia. These rays cut across older craters and some younger craters have been formed on top of them. The dark rays are mostly inside of the crater and some extend for short distances outside of the crater rim.
This image is located in Vesta's Tuccia quadrangle and the center of the image is 26.6 degrees south latitude, 220.4 degrees east longitude. NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image with its framing camera on Oct. 21, 2011. This image was taken through the camera's clear filter. The distance to the surface of Vesta is 700 kilometers (435 miles) and the image has a resolution of about 70 meters (230 feet) per pixel. This image was acquired during the HAMO (high-altitude mapping orbit) phase of the mission.
The Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington D.C. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. The Dawn framing cameras have been developed and built under the leadership of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, with significant contributions by DLR German Aerospace Center, Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, and in coordination with the Institute of Computer and Communication Network Engineering, Braunschweig. The Framing Camera project is funded by the Max Planck Society, DLR, and NASA/JPL.
More information about the Dawn mission is online at http://www.nasa.gov/dawn and http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov.


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Myles Garrett, Helmet A 'Weapon,' Banned For Rest Of Season
Nov 15, 2019, 4:56 PM
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — Myles Garrett is done playing for the Cleveland Browns this season. The NFL isn't saying when the star defensive end will play again.
He was suspended for at least the rest of the regular season and postseason — if the Browns qualify. The league discipline Friday came hours after Garrett swung an opponent's helmet and used it "as a weapon" by striking Pittsburgh quarterback Mason Rudolph in the head.
The violent outburst in the final seconds of Thursday's nationally televised game against the Steelers resulted in the longest suspension for a single on-field infraction in league history. Tennessee's Albert Haynesworth was suspended five games in 2006.
The league's No. 1 overall pick in 2017 was also fined an undisclosed amount. Garrett must meet with Commissioner Roger Goodell before his reinstatement is considered.
Until then, the defensive end's career is on hold.
After wrestling Rudolph to the ground as the Browns were closing out a rare win over their rivals, Garrett ripped off the quarterback's helmet and clobbered him on top of the head, triggering a brawl that capped another physical game between the AFC North teams.
"I made a terrible mistake," Garrett said in a statement Friday. "I lost my cool and what I did was selfish and unacceptable. I know that we are all responsible for our actions and I can only prove my true character through my actions moving forward. I want to apologize to Mason Rudolph, my teammates, our entire organization, our fans and to the NFL. I know I have to be accountable for what happened, learn from my mistake and I fully intend to do so."
Rudolph, who suffered a concussion earlier this season, avoided serious injury and said after the game the attack was "cowardly and bush league." That sentiment was shared across the league and sports world.
The NFL said Garrett "violated unnecessary roughness and unsportsmanlike conduct rules, as well as fighting and removing an opponent's helmet and using it as a weapon."
Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey, who was trying to separate Garrett and Rudolph, was suspended three games without pay and also fined for punching and kicking Garrett. Browns defensive tackle Larry Ogunjobi was suspended for one game. He shoved Rudolph to the ground from behind during the melee.
The suspended players have three business days to appeal their penalties.
The Steelers and Browns were fined $250,000 each.
Browns coach Freddie Kitchens met with Garrett at the team's training facility Friday and said the 23-year-old expressed more remorse.
"He understands that he let himself down, he let his teammates down and he let his organization down," Kitchens said. "We look at our team as a family, and in a family, sometimes family members make mistakes. You support them in every way that you can, even if it is an egregious mistake. We know who Myles is as a person. We know who Myles is and the character that Myles has, and that is under no circumstance what he wants to be portrayed as. We will support him."
There was a ripple effect to Garrett's act, causing embarrassment to the league and both teams.
"There is no place for that in football and that is not reflective of the core values we strive for as an organization," Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam said in a statement. "We sincerely apologize to Mason Rudolph and the Pittsburgh Steelers."
Added Steelers President Art Rooney II: "We must always maintain composure, no matter what happens. After a hard-fought game between two rivals, it is a shame the game ended that way."
Rudolph's agent, Tim Younger, said he'll explore legal action against Garrett. Cleveland police say no police report or charges have been filed.
"There are many risks an NFL QB assumes with every snap taken on the field," Younger wrote on Twitter. "Being hit on your uncovered head by a helmet being swung by a 275 lb DE is not one of them."
The brawl overshadowed a big 21-7 win for a Cleveland franchise just a few years removed from a winless season. The Browns (4-6) have moved into the playoff race but will now be without their best defensive player. They are 2-0 in their division for the first time since league realignment alignment in 2002, the last time they made the playoffs.
This was not the only nasty hit in the 135th game between Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Browns free safety Damarious Randall delivered a helmet-to-helmet shot on Steelers rookie receiver Diontae Johnson, who left with a concussion. Randall was ejected.
The Browns and Steelers play again in Pittsburgh on Dec. 1.
Although Garrett has been fined more than $50,000 this season, first for punching Tennessee tight end Delanie Walker and then for two late hits on New York Jets quarterback Trevor Siemian, this sort of attack was out of character for the self-proclaimed pacifist and poet.
Last month, Garrett didn't retaliate after a fan wanting a photograph punched him in the face while stopped in traffic downtown.
The loss of Garrett is a devastating blow to Cleveland's defense. He's one of the league's edge rushers and the Browns are already missing end Olivier Vernon, who missed his second game Thursday with a knee injury.
But beyond the football, the Browns have taken a shot to their image.
They have been one of the league's most penalized teams under Kitchens, and the Garrett episode came just a few hours after the team released troubled wide receiver Antonio Callaway, who was suspended by the league for another violation of the substance abuse policy.
Further, the Browns recently released safety Jermaine Whitehead after he posted threatening messages on Twitter following a loss. And the Browns were criticized for signing running back Kareem Hunt, who was suspended for eight games this season for his actions off-field conduct while with Kansas City. In one case, he shoved and kicked a woman.
Kitchens wants his team to learn from what happened.
"We are always searching for ways to improve the way we are viewed as an organization, as a coach and as a player," he said. "Especially in times like this, of course. Myles wears the Cleveland Brown jersey so we are all in it together."


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