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There are two main factors that separate a beginning rider from an advanced rider; experience and confidence. My guess is that there are some people who have ridden for years but who are still at a beginning skill level because they don't ride that often or don't have a wide range of riding experience. An advanced rider hasn't been endowed with any magical powers; he simply has ridden a lot, in a wide range of circumstances. Advanced riders realize the importance of the basics, many of which I outlined in "Motorcycle Safety And How To Ride Safely."
They anticipate potential hazards, manage risk and maintain as much control over their situation as is possible. They also understand that not everything on the road is within their ability to control. So they practice the skills that could save their lives, such as emergency braking.
Straight Line Braking
There will be times when you need to stop quickly, like when a car turns in front of you at an intersection or an animal darts into the road. The first time this happens to you your initial reaction may be to slam on both brakes. But doing that may cause more problems for you. It's important to understand the dynamics of your motorcycle and how they change under hard braking. The goal is to apply both brakes to the maximum without losing traction or locking up one or both wheels, causing you to skid. When you first apply the brakes the weight of the motorcycle shifts to the front. This means your rear tire will have less traction available while the traction available to your front tire is increasing. Take advantage of that increasing traction by increasing the pressure on your front brake. I've seen this theory referred to as "brake staging" or "progressive braking." What it really means is that you keep squeezing the front brake lever with increasing pressure as the weight of the motorcycle shifts forward.
Because your rear tire has less traction available under hard braking, you should apply the rear brake a little more gradually than the front brake. The rear wheel is more likely to lock up and skid, causing it to slide out of line. If this happens, steer or lean slightly into the direction of the skid. But don't release the rear brake if it locks up. This can cause a high-side. And that's very bad. A high-side usually happens when the rear tire loses traction and then suddenly regains traction, like when you lock up the rear wheel by over braking and then let go of the brake pedal when you notice the skid. When this happens the bike will violently begin to straighten, so much so that it throws you off the bike on the high side, or the side of the motorcycle furthest from the ground.
Now your bike is riderless, but still in motion and heading in the same direction that you are. Pretty soon your motorcycle is riding you. The easiest way to avoid this scenario is to not lock up the rear tire in the first place. But in an emergency situation it's easy to slam on the brakes a little too forcibly. If that happens and your rear wheel starts skidding and fishtailing on you, get the bike straight as quickly as you can, but do not release pressure on the rear brake pedal.
If you lock up the front tire by over braking your response should be the opposite. Release the brake. Once the tire begins to roll again you can reapply the brake, but do it a little more gradually this time so you don't lock it up again. When you lose traction and begin to skid, and you can't regain traction, you're in for a low-side. This can happen when you lock up your front wheel or go too fast around a curve. The tire, or tires, begins to slip out from under you and you lay the bike down on its side. While this is bad, it's not nearly as hazardous as a high-side.
Braking In A Curve
We've already seen that when you brake, the weight of your bike shifts frontwards. As the weight shifts the front suspension will compress and both of these events will affect your ability to steer. For this reason, whenever possible, get your bike perfectly upright before braking. If you happen to be leaned over into a curve and suddenly need to brake hard you have to apply the brakes more gradually. As you brake in a curve get the bike upright as quickly as possible and then apply full pressure to both brakes.
Because some of the traction available to your tires is being used to turn your bike into the curve, it's not available for braking. So with less traction available you're more likely to experience a skid when braking hard in a curve. For that reason you need to apply the brakes more gradually, while getting the bike straight as quickly as you can. It's also a good reason to slow down before you enter a curve. Curves present all kinds of opportunities for mishaps. Having less traction available for braking is one. Another is that on some curves your sight distance is limited. You need to enter a curve slow enough that you have time to stop within the distance you can see.
Downshift While Braking
Let's say you're riding along and suddenly a car pulls out of a driveway in front of you. You apply both brakes to the maximum without losing traction or skidding and come to a complete stop with a couple of feet to spare. What about the guy in the car behind you? Was he paying as much attention as you? Can he bring his much heavier vehicle to a full stop as quickly as you? If you've managed to downshift into first gear while bringing your bike to a stop you can quickly accelerate to safety. But if you're in neutral or second you may have just traded a front collision for being rear ended. Always shift into first gear when you're coming to a stop, whether it's for a stop sign or in an emergency. Always. If you make it a habit then you're much more likely to do it in an emergency, and that could save your bike and your life.
Let's recap. To get your motorcycle stopped in the shortest amount of time and distance you apply both brakes. To take advantage of the increasing traction available to the front tire, thanks to the forward shifting of the weight of your bike, you apply more pressure on the front brake. You do this gradually, though in reality it's only going to take a few seconds. Your application of pressure on the rear brake should be more gradual, to compensate for the smaller amount of traction available to the rear tire. Keep the bike straight, or if you're in a curve, straighten it as quickly as possible to give your tires more available braking traction. You squeeze the clutch lever and downshift until you're in first gear. The only difference between performing an emergency stop and a normal stop is how much pressure you apply to the brakes and how quickly you apply that pressure.
Practice Exercises
To be sure that you're able to successfully execute an emergency stop when you absolutely have to, it's a good idea to practice. And practice often. I've read studies that show that once you learn or practice a skill it's good for about six months and then it begins to deteriorate. So if it's been awhile since you last practiced emergency braking, it's time to head to a nice big parking lot.
If you can, use a parking lot with lines outlining the parking spaces. Most parking spaces are about 10 feet wide and provide a wonderful set up for practicing. If you can't find a lot with marked spaces bring a tape measure and some chalk. You'll also want to bring a few objects to use as markers. Two-liter bottles with some sand in the bottom work well, as do those bright neon colored tennis balls cut in half.
For the first exercise set one marker at the beginning of one parking space and another marker at the end of the third space, or at 30 feet. Get on your bike six parking spots, or 60 feet, away from the first marker. Ride across the lot toward the first marker, getting your speed up enough to shift into second gear, say 15 to 20 mph. Keep looking straight ahead and keep the bike heading in a straight line. As you pass the first marker begin applying both brakes, squeeze the clutch lever and downshift. The goal is to come to a complete stop by the time you reach the second maker. If you overshoot the second marker try a little more pressure on the brakes next time. If you lock up the rear tire keep the rear brake engaged until you come to a stop, but on the next pass try a little less pressure on the rear brake. Run this exercise until you can stop right at the second marker five times in a row.
Next we'll move that second marker a little closer to the first one, say to 25 feet or the middle of that third parking space, and gradually increase the speed of your approach. Start off from the same place, 60 feet from the first marker, and get your speed up just high enough to shift into second gear, say about 10 mph. As you pass the first marker begin braking and downshift to first. The goal on this exercise is to come to a complete stop before you reach the second marker. Once you've accomplished this at 10 mph five times in a row, go back and increase your speed to 15 mph. Then do it at 20 mph.
The final exercise will be stopping in a curve. It'll be helpful if you can use a portion of the parking lot where there are two rows of parking spaces where cars would park head-to-head. Put your first marker on the outside edge of one of the parking space lines. Put another marker, we'll call this one number three, on the opposite end of the same line, or the end of the parking space that abuts the first space. Place another marker; we'll call this one number two, on the line that separates the two rows of spaces, two spaces or 20 feet away. Start about six spaces, or 60 feet, away from the first marker. Get going fast enough to shift into second gear, about 10 mph for the first couple of attempts. Position yourself so that you'll ride on the outside of the markers, or that you'll ride by them with the markers on your left. As you pass the first marker begin to lean into a curve, so that you'll ride past the second and third marker as tightly as you can. Once you've got the curve down try it again, but as you pass marker number two begin to straighten the bike, apply the brakes and downshift to first. See how wide of the third marker you are? This is why it's so vital not to enter a curve going too fast. Try this exercise at 10 mph until you can get the bike stopped close enough to the last marker that you wouldn't be going off the road if you were actually out in traffic.
The key to being able to successfully execute an emergency braking procedure is knowing the limits of your bike, being aware of road conditions and remaining vigilant the entire time you're riding. Practice is big factor. The longer you ride, the better you'll get. And you'll be able to minimize your chances of needing to use this skill. But it sure will make you feel more confident knowing you can do it if you ever need to.


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Saturday, 14 May 2011
London Calling
Things I love about London:
Delicious boys in well cut suits
Falling (fleetingly) in love on every tube journey
Snoozing in Green Park
The South Bank in the sun
Frozen yoghurt shops
Brick Lane bagels
On Wednesday I hopped on another train to London (yes, twice in a week!) and spent a far-too-short 27 hours in our nation's capital. Every time I visit it gets harder and harder to leave. Sigh. As much as I adore Manchester (and I really, really do), part of me just thinks that maybe there's more out there...
The rest of this week has included Leon (still my favourite film), fish curry and Bombay potatoes (homemade, of course), resenting work, eating healthily with minimal alcohol consumption (loving it) and the buying of far too many things for the house. Tonight is a Eurovision party at my friend A's and tomorrow is the 10K RUN OF DOOM. Wish me luck!
How are your weekends treating you, my treasures?
8 comments:
- Eloise said...
ah i love London too, i went for three nights with my boyfirend last christmas and it was amazing, went ice skating in hyde park's Winter Wonderland, perused camden, and went in the dungeons - didn't want to leave!
- 14 May 2011 at 21:47
Best of luck with the 10k!
- 15 May 2011 at 00:14
- amongthechimneypots said...
Leon was the first film I ever projected (on a past career path). Best of luck with the run!
- 15 May 2011 at 09:30
- Lizzie said...
Totally jealous that you had a SNOG - I crave those!!!
- 15 May 2011 at 12:14
- Filipa said...
Good luck with the run!
- 16 May 2011 at 16:15
- Kitty Hates Everything said...
I think these people agree with you vis a vis falling in love on the tube
- 16 May 2011 at 17:16
- Sarah said...
London loves YOU! I do love how you write. I so agree about falling fleetingly in love on the tube. I then start fantasising that it's mutual, and in one of those columns, I will appear 'I was in a suit, you were in a red cardigan on the Northern Line. Drink?' SIGH.
- 16 May 2011 at 22:26
- Harriet said...
Snog is the bestthing ever! I am so obsessed with frozen yoghurt!
- 19 May 2011 at 19:42

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Old Globe Theatre's SAMMY Begins Previews 9/19
Old Globe Executive Producer Lou Spisto presents the world premiere of Sammy, a new musical based on the life of Sammy Davis, Jr. with book, music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, and additional songs by Bricusse and Anthony Newley. Directed by Keith Glover with choreography by Keith Young and music supervision by Ian Fraser, Sammy will run in the Old Globe Theatre Sept. 19 - Nov. 8. Previews run from Sept. 19 - Oct. 1. Opening night is Oct. 2 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets to Sammy are currently available by subscription only.
Single tickets go on sale Aug. 23 at 10:00 a.m. and can be purchased online at www.TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE or by visiting the Box Office.
"The opportunity to work with Leslie Bricusse and tell the story of the great Sammy Davis, Jr. was something we couldn't pass up," said Spisto. "Bricusse contributed to Sammy's canon of hits more than any other individual songwriter. Who better to give us an insightful book and a new score which includes the classics that helped shape this legendary entertainer? Though Sammy crossed many boundaries throughout his multifaceted career, there was much more to him than his iconic public persona. Our aim with this new work is to both honor Sammy Davis, Jr. for those who knew and loved him, and to also introduce this one-of-a-kind performer to a new audience."
Sammy moves from Sammy Davis, Jr.'s beginnings in vaudeville through the Rat Pack years with Frank Sinatra to ultimate recognition of his lifetime contribution to American culture. Featuring the classic tunes that helped to make Davis an icon - "The Candy Man," "Mr. Bojangles" and "What Kind of Fool Am I" - Sammy traces the highs and lows of the ultimate triple-threat singer, actor and dancer. Davis was one of the greatest performers of his generation, paving new ground while struggling with issues of identity, race and a turbulent personal life.
As previously announced, Broadway veteran Obba Babatundé headlines as Sammy Davis, Jr. The cast also features Heather Ayers (May Britt/Ensemble), Ann Duquesnay (Rosa Davis), Mary Ann Hermansen (Kim Novak/Ensemble), Adam James (Frank Sinatra), Troy Britton Johnson (Dean Martin/Cohn/Jennings/Ensemble), Ted Louis Levy (Sammy Davis, Sr.), Keewa Nurullah (Lola Folana/Ensemble), Perry Ojeda (Eddie Cantor/Ensemble), Victoria Platt (Altovise Gore/Ensemble), Lance Roberts (Will Mastin), Alonzo Saunders (Murphy/Ensemble) with Jenelle Engleson, Stephanie Girard, Lauren Haughton, Anise Ritchie and Sarrah Strimel (Ensemble).
The Sammy creative team also includes Alexander Dodge (Scenic Design), Fabio Toblini (Costume Design), Chris Lee (Lighting Design), John H. Shivers (Sound Design), David Patridge (Sound Design), Ned Ginsburg (Orchestrator), Rahn Coleman (Music Director/Conductor), Dominique Kelley (Assistant Choreographer), Tara Rubin Casting (Casting) and David Sugarman (Stage Manager).
The multitalented Keith Glover returns to The Old Globe having previously directed his own work, Thunder Knocking on the Door, winner of the American Theatre Critics Association's Osborn Award. He authored a new adaptation of the Sammy Davis, Jr. vehicle, Golden Boy (based on the original by Clifford Odets and William Gibson) and has directed many of his own plays including In Walks Ed which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Dancing on Moonlight, produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival, Coming of the Hurricane, a finalist for the American Theatre Critics Award for Best Play, The Rose of Corazon, Jazzland, Dark Paradise, Shooting Star, Clandestine Crossing and The Sword of Kazaran. As an actor, he has appeared on stage, television and film. Glover received an Outstanding Writing in a Feature Film/Television Movie Image Award nomination for Life is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story.
Keith Young choreographed the recent Broadway revival of On the Town. His regional credits include Crowns, Thunder Knocking at the Door and Cheer. His film credits include Nancy Meyer's upcoming feature It's Complicated with Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin, The Baster with Jennifer Aniston, Rent, Something's Gotta Give, What Women Want, Dark Streets, The Holiday, Rat Race, Affair of the Necklace and The Parent Trap. On television, his work has been seen on The Academy Awards, The Emmy Awards, The Grammy Awards, The NAACP Image Awards, "Pushing Daisies," "The Unit," "So You Think You Can Dance," "The Drew Carey Show" (Emmy Award), "Seinfeld" and "Christopher Reeve: A Celebration of Hope" (American Choreography Award). Young has staged both live concerts and music videos for Madonna, Babyface, Bette Midler, Josh Groban, Outkast, Phil Collins, Clay Aiken, LL Cool J, Talking Heads, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gladys Knight and Natalie Cole.
Like his mentor Sammy Davis, Jr., Obba Babatundé has been entertaining audiences since he was a child. A skilled actor, singer and dancer, Davis once said of Babatundé that "I feel safe knowing that with cats like Obba, when I get out of this business I am leaving it in good hands." Babatundé was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance as C.C. White in the original Broadway cast of Dreamgirls. His additional Broadway credits include the revival of Chicago, Grind and Timbuktu! He also created the role of Jelly Roll Morton in Jelly's Last Jam. On television, Babatundé delivered an Emmy-nominated performance in Miss Ever's Boys, received a NAACP Image Award nomination for his performance as Harold Nicholas in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and has appeared in 60 made-for-television movies. His theatrical films include Philadelphia, That Thing You Do, After the Sunset, The Manchurian Candidate, The Notebook and the upcoming Moneyball opposite Brad Pitt.
An accomplished showman and songwriter, Adam James was chosen by Tina Sinatra to portray her father, Frank, in Sinatra Remembered, the first-ever musical theater production about his life. James also co-starred Off Broadway in Our Sinatra at New York's legendary jazz venue, Birdland, and covered the role of Sinatra in the North American premiere of London's West End production of The Rat Pack. James replaced fellow Canadian crooner Michael Bublé as the vocalist/emcee for the American tour of Forever Swing. He performs internationally with symphonies and big bands starring in A Toast to Ol' Blue Eyes, a show he co-created with conductor/arranger David Martin. He has also appeared in concert with Liza Minnelli, Tony Bennett and Ray Charles. James was named "Best Vocalist" by Jazz Report Magazine, was a finalist at the Montreal Jazz Festival and was nominated for a 2004 Genie Award (the Canadian "Oscar") for singing and co-writing the theme song for the film, Mambo Italiano. Following the autumn release of his debut solo recording, Adam James, he will perform in Vancouver during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games and compose songs for Twyla Tharp's Come Fly With Me.
Tony Award winner Ann Duquesnay most recently starred in Sheila's Day in Johannesburg, South Africa and at Crossroads Theatre, New Brunswick, N.J. Her Broadway credits include Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk (Tony Award, Drama League Recognition Award and Grammy nomination (co-composer/lyricist)), Hot Feet, It Ain't Nothin But the Blues, Jelly's Last Jam, revival of The Wiz, and Blues in the Night. She has appeared Off Broadway in Our Leading Lady (Manhattan Theatre Club - AUDELCO Award nominee), Cookin' at the Cookery (Melting Pot Theatre - Drama Desk nominee and Drama League Recognition Award), and Spunk (New York Shakespeare Festival - AUDELCO Award).
Emmy Award winner Ted Louis Levy's professional training began in Chicago with Finis Henderson II, Master Tap Dancer and former manager of Sammy Davis, Jr. Levy collaborated with George C. Wolfe and Gregory Hines on the choreography of Jelly's Last Jam, for which he received a Tony Award and Drama Desk nominations, and the Outer Critics Circle Award. Levy also appeared on Broadway in Black and Blue and as Papa Jack in Susan Stroman and Harry Connick, Jr.'s Thou Shalt Not. He received a Helen Hayes Award for his portrayal of The Mikado in The Ford Theater's production of The Hot Mikado. He directed Savion Glover's Dancing Under The Stars at the New York Shakespeare Festival's Delacorte Theater and contributed to the choreography Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk on Broadway. Levy made his film debut in Spike Lee's Malcolm X, appeared with Gregory Hines in Bojangles and received an Emmy Award for his television debut performance in the PBS Special "Precious Memories." He is the recipient of the 2008 Gregory Hines Humanitarian Award.
Double Oscar and Grammy winner Leslie Bricusse has written more than 40 musical shows and films, and has collaborated with an array of musical talents, including Anthony Newley, Henry Mancini, John Williams, John Barry, Jerry Goldsmith, Jule Styne, Quincy Jones, Andre Previn, Frank Wildhorn and Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky (whose Nutcracker Suite he adapted into a song score). He has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, nine Grammys and four Tonys, and in addition to his Oscars and Grammy, has won eight Ivor Novello Awards. His stage musicals include Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd, Pickwick, Harvey, The Good Old Bad Old Days, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Henry's Wives, Scrooge, One Shining Moment, Sherlock Holmes, Jekyll and Hyde and Victor/Victoria. Bricusse has also written songs and/or screenplays for such films as Doctor Dolittle, Scrooge, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Superman, Victor/Victoria, Santa Claus - The Movie, Home Alone I & II, Hook, Tom & Jerry - The Movie, and various Pink Panther films. His better-known songs include "What Kind of Fool Am I?," "Once in a Lifetime," "Gonna Build a Mountain," "Who Can I Turn To?," "The Joker," "If I Ruled the World," "My Kind of Girl," "Talk to the Animals," "You and I," "Feeling Good," "When I Look in Your Eyes," "Goldfinger," "Can You Read My Mind?" (the Love Theme from Superman), "You Only Live Twice," "Le Jazz Hot!," "On a Wonderful Day Like Today," "Two for the Road," "The Candy Man," "This Is the Moment," "Crazy World," "Pure Imagination" and "Oompa-Loompa-Doompa-Dee-Doo." In 1989, Bricusse received the Kennedy Award for consistent excellence in British songwriting, bestowed by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and was inducted into the American Songwriters Hall of Fame - only the fourth Englishman to be honored - after Noel Coward, John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Anthony Newley garnered three Tony Award nominations (Best Actor, Best Musical Author and Best Composer and Lyricist) for Stop the World-I Want to Get Off and two Tony Award nominations (Best Director and Best Composer and Lyricist) for The Roar of the Greasepaint-The Smell of the Crowd, both written with his longtime collaborator, Leslie Bricusse. After the worldwide success of these two hit musicals, Newley ventured into film with roles in Doctor Dolittle and Sweet November. Other film credits as director, actor or producer include Summertree, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, Mr. Quilp and Can Hieronymous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? His collaborations with Bricusse also produced the score to the television production of Peter Pan which starred Danny Kaye and Mia Farrow, the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and the London stage production of the Good Old Bad Old Days. Together they created such standards as "What Kind of Fool Am I?," "Who Can I Turn To?," "Goldfinger," "Once in a Lifetime" and Sammy Davis, Jr.'s international hit record "The Candy Man." In television he played opposite Joan Collins in the "Tonight at Eight Thirty" series, "Red Peppers" and "Fumed Oak." His final television appearances were in "Eastenders" and "The Lakes." Newley devoted his time in later years to personal appearances in nightclubs and cabarets around the world performing his highly acclaimed one man show. During the last five years of his life he achieved enormous success in the musical version of Scrooge culminating in a record breaking season at London's Dominion Theatre.


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The way I understand is that Dependent Origination is applicable to the whole world except Arahants. This include human, animal, plants, cells, Devas, Demans and any animate or inanimate thing.
What are your thoughts?
For the benefit of the beginner, The Dependent Origination is the 2nd Noble Truth. Please see the link below
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Originally posted by TK1028:
Has anyone seen this thing on a screen used prop or costume?
I asked a million companies for expansion screws, hoping to get one of the kinds that was used on the Fett left Gaunt,
but they sent me the Spring Tension piece because that was all this one company had.
Chris Skidmore
"I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe"
Visit the Board That is Nuthin But Fett


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I set out to identify two of the greeblies on the ESB DH17 and a greeblie on the Jabba's Palace blaster. After two weeks of staying up until 3am researching more model kits than I would ever want to shake a stick it... I found them, plus another greeblie that I wasn't even looking for!
I was surprised and delighted that all four come from the same model kit.
Missile on side of the ESB DH17 (Sidewinder)
Greeblie above trigger guard on ESB DH17
Rocket shape on the Jabba's Palace blaster
Greeblie on the side of the Boba Fett ROTJ blaster
And the donor kit is...
Vintage Revel 1/32 scale F-4E Phantom II.
Make sure its this variation as not all the F-4Es have the same weapons racks.
These kits seem to be very rare but the same parts (or very similar) are probably found on other kits. Tamaiya also made a similar kit.


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Reopened in 2009, the new game room contains big screen televisions, multiple gaming systems, popular arcade games and classic tables such as table tennis and billiards, for meetings and programmed events. The decorations for the room center on student life and Wittenberg traditions. The room now serves as a window into the past, highlighted by countless pictures of Wittenberg students, guides to famous campus traditions, and a mural with 3,000 student portraits spanning 60 years.
Doppelgängers is a German word referring to any double or look-alike of a person and it symbolizes the other half of the Wittenberg student. The renovation was led by Student Senate in an effort to provide students with an additional space on campus where they can use to relax and unwind. Please contact Student Involvement if you or your club would like to reserve Doppelgängers for a meeting or event.


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'Flynn (6'1", 185 lbs., 7/26/1988) recently completed a four-year collegiate career at the University of Maine. During his senior season, Flynn appeared in 40 games and recorded 48 points (18+30), along with 37 penalty minutes and a team-leading plus-18 rating, while serving as captain. His 48 points ranked second on the team and ninth among all NCAA Division I skaters, earning him Hockey East First Team honors.'
Sabres Agree To Terms With Forward Brian Flynn To NHL Contract
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Tar Heels Continue Homestand Against Stony Brook
• No. 1 North Carolina will host Stony Brook this weekend as the Tar Heels continue their seven-game homestand to open the season.
• The Tar Heels are coming off a 3-0 weekend with a pair of wins over Seton Hall and a 7-1 win over Coastal Carolina on Monday.
• Stony Brook enters the weekend 0-3 after getting swept at FIU last weekend. The Seawolves are coming off the school's first College World Series appearance in 2012.
North Carolina-Stony Brook Series History
• Friday's meeting will be the seventh between the two clubs and the third weekend series in Chapel Hill.
• Carolina holds a 6-0 advantage in the series.
• The last time the clubs met was the third series of the 2011 season when Carolina took all three from Stony Brook - 5-1, 18-4 and 11-6.
• The teams also played early in the 2007 season when Carolina held the Seawolves to five runs in the weekend series.
Early Season Success
• Carolina has racked up the wins early in the season throughout the years and especially under head coach Mike Fox.
• Since Fox took over prior to the 1999 season the Tar Heels are 100-14 before March 1.
• The Tar Heels have been even better at home during the stretch posting a .918 winning percentage (78-7) at home before March 1 since 1999.
Bolt Off To Hot Start
• Freshman outfielder Skye Bolt entered Carolina as one of the top prospects in the country and the Woodstock, Ga., native has lived up to the reputation through the opening week.
• Bolt is leading the Tar Heels with the bat so far with a .667/.833/.714 slash line through the first three games. Bolt also leads the ACC in batting average and on base percentage.
Rotation Returns
• Carolina is one of a few schools in the country that returns its entire weekend rotation that closed out the 2012 season.
• The Tar Heel trio of junior Kent Emanuel (8-4), sophomore Benton Moss (7-2) and junior Hobbs Johnson (7-1) combined for 22 wins a year ago.
• The 22 returning wins are tied for the second most returning in the country with Louisville. Florida State returns 25 but sophomore Mike Compton is set to miss the 2013 season due to injury after winning 12 games in 2012.
Most Starting Rotation Wins Returning in 2013
1. Florida State 25
T2. North Carolina 22
T2. Louisville 22
T4. Cal State Bakersfield 20
T4. Georgia Tech 20
T4. Saint Louis 20
(courtesy of Saint Louis University)
Johnson To Miss Start
• One of the returning rotation members will miss his scheduled start this week as a precaution.
• Junior left-hander Hobbs Johnson left his start Monday after four and a third innings of work due to forearm tightness.
• Johnson had been battling occasional tightness in the preseason but is expected to miss only one or two starts as a result.
Munnelly Gets The Call
• Senior right-hander Chris Munnelly will be called upon to make the spot start for the Tar Heels on Sunday.
• The start will be the 33rd of Munnelly's career after starting eight games a freshman, 14 as a sophomore and 10 a year ago.
• The Winston-Salem, N.C., native made an appearance out of the bullpen on Monday and delivered a 1-2-3 inning with a punch out.
Emanuel Continues Dominance
• Junior left-hander Kent Emanuel did something no other Tar Heel had ever done last Friday when he became the first pitcher in UNC history to throw a shutout in the season opener.
• Emanuel held Seton Hall in check all night long as he surrendered just four singles and struck out five batters over his nine innings of work.
• The Pirates managed just one runner past second base in the contest as Emanuel recorded his second career shutout.
• The shutout was the first thrown by a Carolina pitcher since Emanuel closed the door on Texas in the 2011 College World Series.
• Emanuel lowered his career ERA to 2.06, the sixth-lowest mark in school history.
• The Woodstock, Ga., native needs six strikeouts to reach the 200 mark for his career.
Probable Starters
Carolina Starter
Stony Brook Starter
3 p.m.
LHP Kent Emanuel
RHP Brandon McNitt
GoHeels.com (Audio)
(Jr., 1-0, 0.00 ERA)
(Jr., 0-0, 7.20 ERA)
Live Stats
1 p.m.
RHP Benton Moss
RHP Frankie Vanderka
GoHeels.com (Audio)
(So., 1-0, 1.80 ERA)
(Jr., 0-0, 0.00 ERA)
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text: Two MTA members among 10 winners of game-based learning contest When given a chance to voice their thoughts on how gaming can be used in student learning, educators have an unlimited number of ideas. To highlight some of the best, the NEA Foundation, in partnership with Microsoft Partners in Learning and the U.S. Department of Education, is recognizing Gerol C. Petruzella, a philosophy professor at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, and Adeline M. Bee, a journalism teacher at Attleboro High School, selected by their peers and a panel of experts to receive the NEA Foundation's Challenge to Innovate (C2i) Gaming Award, and $1,000. Petruzella's idea, "Dungeons & Discourse," offers a collegiate take on the popular "Dungeons & Dragons" board game, by introducing the major branches of philosophy through an immersive role-playing game. Students explore a fictional world through a variety of quests and guild memberships. He sees the game as a way to help them prepare the thinking skills necessary to achieve the most "epic wins" against the global challenges they will face in the future. "This course engages students in the critical investigation and reflective analysis of such fundamental philosophical questions as freedom and moral responsibility, the nature of being and knowledge and individual rights and social justice," Petruzella said. "The mental and social habits gaming encourages and the sense of motivated optimism it cultivates are exactly what we as educators hope to encourage in a fully-engaged student." Bee's "Crime Scene Reporters" would use journalism best practices and game-based learning to visit historical or imaginary crime scenes and act as reporters or investigators. She envisions students interviewing witnesses, victims, and police officers, in a video game. If they fail to ask enough in-depth questions, they cannot proceed to the next level. Ultimately, students write up their findings in an article. Whether historical or fiction, each scenario provides students with the inside scoop on events such as the John F. Kennedy assassination or literary giants such as Edgar Allen Poe. "By using an interactive video game approach, students learn by playing and enjoy the classroom lesson(s) more," said Bee, who serves as president of the Attleboro Education Association. "Students want more hands-on materials, teachers want more creative teaching techniques and businesses want more highly skilled graduates; all of this can be achieved if the gaming industry teams up with innovative educators." "Game-based learning and interactive technology like this can help build technological and communication competencies valued in the workplace and the 21st century economy. So we asked educators to share, discuss, and evaluate ideas about how to use these tools to support classroom instruction," said Harriet Sanford, President and CEO of the NEA Foundation. "We discovered educators who are using technology in fun, creative ways. By initiating this discussion and knowledge sharing, we hope to help educators better equip their students with the skills they'll need to be successful in college, work, and life." The NEA Foundation uses crowd sourcing on the Department of Education's innovation portal as a way to ensure that educators have a voice in determining new instructional strategies. Continuing a multi-year partnership, the Foundation partnered with Microsoft to solicit and share ideas on how gaming could be integrated into the curriculum to meet students where they are highly engaged while improving their learning. Petruzella and Bee are also members of the C2i community, over 1,000 educators and others, that is hosted on the Department of Education's Open Innovation Portal, and who are helping the NEA Foundation and its partners identify and solve education's most pressing classroom problems. Their winning entries were selected by their peers and a panel of educational experts from a pool of 157 ideas from 38 states and five countries. Read the profiles of the top 10 award-winning ideas. The NEA Foundation The NEA Foundation is a public charity supported by contributions from educators' dues, corporate sponsors, and other supporters of public education initiatives. We partner with education unions, districts, and communities to create powerful, sustainable improvements in teaching and learning. Visit www.neafoundation.org for information.


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Grab your sleeping bags and warm clothes for the 2nd Annual National SleepOut UST on Nov. 10-11. To promote awareness about homelessness in Houston, the students, faculty, staff and Houston community are invited to sleep outside at 7 p.m. on Nov. 10 to 7 a.m. on the Academic Mall, 3800 Montrose Blvd. The event is part of the University of St. Thomas' 2nd Annual Social Justice Weekend, which works to encourage empathy, understanding and action among community members.
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University President Dr. Robert Ivany said feeling the chill of the evening and the hard ground will give our students an appreciation of the plight of the homeless.
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That was fast: Denmark to abandon "fat tax" enacted last year
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I'm honestly surprised. If progressive regulation isn't working, the usual solution is to regulate further. Which is precisely what happened in Denmark — until now.
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Foods containing more than 2.3% saturated fat – including dairy produce, meat and processed foods – were subject to the surcharge.
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The Danish tax ministry said it was also cancelling its plans to introduce a tax on sugar, the AFP news agency reports.
The ministry said one of the effects of the fat tax was that some Danes had begun crossing the border into Germany to stock up on food there.
According to one study, a fat tax needs to drive up the price of food by at least 20% in order to affect consumption. Before Tuesday I would have taken this as a sign of hope that nannyism in the U.S. is at high tide and set to recede, but if there's one thing these election results stand for, it's the idea that Americans refuse to absorb hard lessons already learned by Europeans.


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Here's a list of common camping and fishing related items that you can and can't bring on a plane:
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Got bored of having to run 'make install' when hacking on Evolution, partly because libtool insanity makes it take too long — as for some reason it relinks everything as it installs it. Perhaps that was needed for FORTRAN77 programs on OSF/1, but it isn't needed on my modern Linux system. I hate libtool. But even without that, re-running 'make install' every time you change a line of code is a pain.
For a while I took to manually symlinking the libraries and executables I was working on, from my build directory into their installed locations. But I kept missing some out and that was a pain too.
My current solution, which excited mbarnes sufficiently that I felt I ought to share it more widely, is to re-run autogen.sh with the --enable-fast-install argument, then build it and run 'make INSTALL=install_symlink.sh install'. Then all files get installed as symlinks instead of being copied, and all I have to do is hack code, type 'make', and run evolution again.
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I've used "rust mort" waaaaay back ...before ospho....its the only other rust treatment product I've used...the ospho is so much better I forgot about that stuff...but ,by all means try them both...
Thanks Dinger, I never would have thought of splitting this in to two threads.Great idea!!! This way we can save EVERYTHING....
I'll get back to this just as soon as I can,I got caught up in some unexpected remodeling at a rental property and it'll take a few days to finish but I have three more tests to do that wont take much time coming right up..
.One involves 1/8"quares insted of 1'' squares
then bondo on both 1" and 1/8" squares and knocked off.
if that dont do it. I'll try to scrape it off with a razor scraper but,
One way or another that primer is coming off the hood even if I have to sand off ....That way we can see which side feathers better,treated or untreated...Either way it works out, I gotta say that dang epoxy is a lot tougher than I thought...I really dont think the others I've used would have made it this far......You guys have been great...Thanks.....Mike O.
my best advice,,,contact SEM who makes Rustmort for how to remove the white stuff...
no it is not zinc phosphate,,,it's the result of the acid reacting with the good steel and the white stuff is not bonded well to the steel....
to zinc phosphate surface coat something there has to be zinc mixed in with the acid (like PPG 520)
Rustmort msds says it is just acid and alchohol:
been awhile,,,hope all is well with you!!!
Keep going Deadbodyman! I'm waiting for the part on heavy rust.
I'm using a product called Rustmort, which is a mix of phosporic acid and alcohol. Directions say to wait 24 hours and rinse with water.The product is sold as a rust converter, not a remover, which Ospho also advertises itself as, as far as I can read. Am I wrong?
I'm using it on the bottom of my pickup box, which was heavily rusted. It left a sticky residue on what paint was left. I also found it left a heavy white residue, which I'm thinking now, that the metal had a zinc coating, and the acid made zinc phospate. It's proving a b...ch to get off. I just spent 3 hours wire wheeling it and not finished yet. Any help there?
If you CAN still get it, you might want to get more than you think you need, in case the next time you need it, it's been outlawed.
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I wonder if I can get that stuff here?
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Hey Barry,
Like it or not it your name always comes up as soon as the word ospho is brought up.... I tried not use your name or your company ,even covered the SPI label with tape.
But when you make statements like, do not not use ,you bring it on yourself.
I was hoping you would chime in and help me with an aheasion test.I thought you would be the best one for advice...After all it is SPI epoxy I'm using...
I'll post any links or old threads I like and at will, to make my point....Like I said before I was using this stuff twenty years before you even read the directions*************and take the good with the bad your epoxy is my second favorite product and everyone knows that too.
Anyone can pm me. I give my number to anyone that wants it...always have
No things don't change Cobalt, first read what I said follow instructions, I used it under lacquers years ago and it stated rinse with water, don't anymore.
Also see the statment, "rinse with water", It was stated in other post I use it for small parts and use 2 rinse buckets like the e-coaters do.
I still tell peopel it will work if nutalised.
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The following was asked on 11-15-05:
Having read most if not all the threads here about ospho and similar rust conversion treatments, I have seen a lot of learning has been done; those who would say one thing at one time, have changed their minds due to their having learned things. Exactly how this knowledge has been attained, and how that "knowledge" has affected the veiled endorsements- I know not. I seem to remember that there was something said to the effect that things change over time.
I would have thought that the partial, conditional "endorsement" of the product would have been sufficient. Apparently, the "knowledge" that was gained in the interim has negated the proviso-laden statements, to the point that ospho has now been relegated to the "don't use" category.
It is interesting to see how the positions have morphed over time. At least DBM's position on the subject- right or wrong- has been steadfast throughout. No waffling.
Please, do not use my name in your tests and please do not quote me unless you use the whole statement I made.
A while back in the other threads I posted what the acid film will do to three different chemicals, related to just three different products, it was lost and buried with bs add ons, so no need for me to bring it up again as it gets proven over and over again here that facts tend to get buried for other personal gains.
None of your test addressed the factual chemical reaction and most important in that companies own tech sheet it saysWorks best under oil based paintswho uses oil based paints? That should sum the stuff up right there.
I have posted elsewhere that I get over 100 failure calls a year related to acid film and all but about a half dozen of these were other products because if they used SPI, they would have seen all the warnings and called for directions first.
I help these people best I can as usually they worked two years on their project and killed the family budget to buy the paint and it kills me, to tell them, start over and its really not my problem, since they used another brand.
Do all the homemade tests you want but do not associate me in anyway.
SO post your phone number and I will send these people to you, just keep my name off this stuff.
Hwy, It may be hard to believe, but that old Plymouth is the SOLE reason were having this discussion today.
My son came down to Ga. to live with me and had an interest in cars so I started searching for a cool looking one we could build from the ground up that was was in very rough shape because I hate chopping up a valuable rare car.
I saw an ad for a 48 ply biz coupe and thought we would go look at it (I always wanted a biz coupe)Well, from the road (1000') it looked Sooo cool I didn't think THAT was the one for sale.
Anyways when I saw the look on my boys face (a 15yr old future hotrodder ) he said : That cant be the one!!!! HE loved it too.
Well, it WAS the one... we bought it and the change in him overnight was simply amazing.
He went from sleeping till noon and getting waited on hand and foot to waking me up at 5:30 every morning and making breakfast for us,just to go to the shop and work on that hopeless rust bucket.We got very close that year ,we got it sub framed and running using junk yard stuff I had laying around (mostly camero stuff)(below is one of the first pics of the car after a years work)
well, his old girlfriend called and wanted to hook back up again, she called him every night and he got Love sick and moved back to NY.
I worked on that car every spare minute I could (in secret) to show him what can be done if you stick to your dream and don't give up.
two years later we were talking on the the phone and I told him I had been working on that car all this time and it was in primer now.I had just got a deal on a fresh 350 so I got in and started it up with the open headers.He got all excited ,he couldn't believe I was working on the car all this time and never told him.....
Well to make a long story a little shorter ..He wanted me to join the human race and get an email address to send pics and vids ,I did, but for some reason I wasn't able to send them (files to big) So he told me to join www.streetfire.net and I started learning how to use the computer.One day I pecked in "Hot rod" and stumbled onto this site...I joined and right off I got into an argument with Barry an a few other members about Ospho,got suspended for two weeks and the rest is history.that was a year ago
I saved the thread to remind me from time to time.http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/mast...ml#post1114939
keep in mind I had no idea who Barry was. I came onto this site recommending ,mainly two things SPI and Ospho...Shine told me who it was I was telling didn't know what heck he was talking about...LOL ...ONE thing's for sure Barry and Shine and I might just be the three most stubborned dinos here.at least NOW I can use this thing a little better ,,,no machine will ever get the best of ME,LOL....BTW, my wifes friend said it looks like the police were dragging a lake for a body and this was pulled up.thats when I got the unusual nickname DBM.....I hope Ya'll liked my little story,long in the tooth as it is...
Here's an old thread (5yrs ago).look at post#3 http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/comp...pho-74054.html
At the time of this thread I was already using Ospho for over twenty years...
He got so many complaints he just recommends NOT using it.(I asked him the same question a year ago)
I know Barry gets swamped with phone calls about this stuff,But if he so negitive with his comments on the subject I never would have wrote this.
It's just mt attempt to set the record straight...Hopefully this will help HIM as much as it helps the DIYs
As you guys can see its not that hard to use and adhesion is NOT an issue if used properly.
Personally,I believe the primer sticks BETTER with Ospho....But his primer is also very good....so far I just cant PROVE it sticks better...
But thats NOT why I use it... as you can see ..it does stick at least AS good.
Its very important to wipe off the excess and sand before primer....
The first thing you'll notice is how much more filth comes off the metal after you think it's clean (sanded with 80 gt) that alone amazes me every time I use it.
I can't speak for Barry but I would guess that most people don't use it properly and it has caused him much grief.
Hey Dead,
That's a cool ride you have there , what's the engine for it? RED was right, we probably should refrain from adding comments until you're finished; I couldn't resist. Should we have another thread called "ospho solution questions and comments"?.... Just a thought ...Anyway, Great job and a sincere thanks for your time....after all YOU already know how to make it work, lol.
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The 50 greatest westerns
We count down the greatest westerns of all time
7 Women (1966)
Dir John Ford (Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Mildred Dunnock)
It's a difficult position…
John Ford's direly underrated swansong sees him doing for women what he did both for African Americans in 'Sergeant Rutledge' (1960) and for Native Americans in 'Cheyenne Autumn' (1964): requesting forgiveness for helping to fuel unconstructive stereotypes in his earlier classics. Not a western in the strictest sense, its setting and story still play through some of the timeworn conventions of the genre, notably a strenuous search for moral equilibrium when defending against a common foe. The film is set in a Christian mission in deepest, darkest Mongolia and it's hard-drinking, hard-smoking and hard-swearing Doctor Cartwright (Anne Bancroft) who has to fight the hard humanitarian fight in the face of Margaret Leighton's head missionary, a woman who'll take death before besmirching the holy sacraments. Surprisingly, the two warring women never bury the hatchet, even when the fate of the mission hangs on the whims of a hoard of sweaty Mongolian barbarians. As Cartwright eventually gives her life over for the good of her colleagues, she utters the immortal final line, 'So long, you bastard!', which can also be read as Ford's defiant parting gesture to his dwindling audience. DJ
The Naked Spur (1953)
Dir Anthony Mann (James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan)
Love comes in spurs
Ben Vandergroat (Robert Ryan) is a cocky son of a gun, on the run with fancy woman Lina (Janet Leigh) in tow and wanted for the murder of a marshal in Abilene, Kansas. Bad luck for him that Jimmy Stewart's inexplicably determined gentleman mercenary, Howard Kemp, is on his tail and has a beady eye on collecting the not-insignificant bounty on his head. Anthony Mann's mighty 1953 film – his third in collaboration with Stewart – offers a ridiculously taught, dynamic and satisfyingly hectic yarn that is less interested in chronicling the capture of the crim than the logistical nightmare of returning the man to civilisation and administering his deathly just desserts. Lina is the key player, and the only person able to reach out emotionally to Kemp, a man subsumed in anger, regret and the sub-conscious recognition that his reasons for taking on this perilous mission may be dubious to say the least. Mann, along with scriptwriters Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom ask, 'Is a buck still a buck if it's sodden with blood?' DJ
Rio Bravo (1959)
Dir Howard Hawks (John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson)
Oh, Dino
The wordless tableau that opens 'Rio Bravo' is a vicious little parade of cruelty as Dean Martin's pathetic drunk, Dude, is publicly humiliated and beaten, and an innocent bystander gets a gut shot – in close-up – from laughing villain Joe Burdette. Everything you need to know about Howard Hawks's siege western is contained in the scene. The inspiration for John Carpenter's 'Assault on Precinct 13' has barely an ounce of fat on it and any gabbing – let alone exposition – is reserved solely for women and Mexicans. The plot is a ticking clock: John Wayne and his dipso deputy Martin hold Burdette for the US Marshal while the murderer's henchmen gather in town like crows on cattle wire. Wayne's love match with Angie Dickinson's shady gambler misfires, with even the sparky dialogue from Leigh Brackett, who scripted 'The Big Sleep', unable to overcome the faintly queasy May to December vibe. But as the fragile, self-pitying, alcoholic Dude, Martin was never better. And in 'My Rifle, My Pony and Me' and 'El Guello', we're treated to two of the most atmospheric western theme tunes in cinema. PF
The Ox-bow Incident (1943)
Dir William Wellman (Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn)
Nice day for a lynchin'
A brilliant morality play with a literal killer twist, William Wellman's simple admonishment of 'the angry mob' and sloppy information gathering – based on the 1940 novella by Walter Van Tilburg Clark – may be the definitve Iraq War movie. It presents a workaday Wild West situation and runs it through to its depressing natural conclusion. Nevada, 1885: the patrons of a local saloon discover via messenger that some cattle rustlers have killed a local rancher and so take it as their God-given duty to tool up and hit the dusty trail in search of retribution by rope. They find three men who've bedded down in the Ox-Bow Canyon: they've got steer and no receipt and so a kangaroo court swiftly sentences them to death by hanging. But were the men really guilty? It's an extremely worrying movie, and its conjectures on the nature of truth and influence still hold plenty of water. DJ
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Dir Sergio Leone (Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale)
Heap big trouble in the land of plenty
'Looks like we're shy one horse!' 'No, you brought two too many…' After 15 minutes of dripping water, squeaky windmills and buzzing flies, Sergio Leone has Charles Bronson dispense a line that's not only one of the coolest ever delivered in the history of the Wild West, but one which reassures us that what he's got in store will be well worth the wait. Bronson's existential zinger also hints at the film's thematic preoccupations. This is an iron-horse opera: the railroad is presented as an implacable force that will eradicate the cowboy way. There's no rerouting, delaying or impeding Leone's locomotive. The characters all play out their roles as bystanders to the rush of progress – killing, bribing, seducing, deceiving each other even while the railhead pushes inexorably on, regardless of the human collateral. Even the tycoon behind the venture doesn't make the distance. The sweep of modernity through the Wild West has never been so pitiless, nor, in Leone's vision, more terribly glorious. ALD
Django (1966)
Dir Sergio Corbucci (Franco Nero, José Bódalo, Loredana Nusciak)
Coff-coff-coffin on heaven's door
If the Man with No Name is the Elvis of the spaghetti western, then Django is the genre's Jerry Lee Lewis – volatile, tormented and given to acts of dismaying self-destruction. The first 'Django' starred steely-eyed non-actor Franco Nero as a sun-baked Angel of Death arriving in a corrupt Mexican border town lugging a coffin full of high-calibre surprises. Drenched in delirious violence and unbridled sleaze, it was a dirty, nasty, despicably enjoyable film that spawned a raft of dubious sequels and baffling rip-offs. The totally unhooked 'Django, Kill!' (1967), starring passive pretty boy Tomas Milian in the lead, for instance, featured a gang of black-clad homosexual 'muchachos', vampire bats, plenty scalpings and a heavy dose of psychedelia. The less said about 1968's 'Nude Django' the better, but 1971's 'Django's Cut Price Corpses' surely deserves a mention for its title alone. These spurious spin-offs aside, the original maintains a dusty grip on the imagination that shows no sign of letting up. ALD
Shane (1953)
Dir George Stevens (Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin)
Father, son and holy gunslinger
For so long considered the lodestone of western mythology, George Stevens's elegiac sod-buster melodrama is a less potent experience than it must have been in 1953, perhaps because the drifting gunslinger in search of redemption has been improved upon many times since. To a generation of western fans raised on 'Pale Rider' and Sergio Leone's flawed and dirty heroes, Alan Ladd as Shane lacks the light and shade to intimate the violent past that brings him to the Starrett farmstead. Nevertheless, there's a dark realism in Loyal Griggs's Oscar-winning photography and little in the way of concession to audience expectation. This is a grim Wild West, a place where the living is meagre and achieved by backbreaking toil or at the barrel of a gun and where, unlike back east where grown men gorge on pulp cowboy novels, only a boy like Joey Starrett might elevate a man like Shane to heroic status. A profoundly depressing film that remains somehow deeply satisfying in its hopelessness, 'Shane' inverts the western ideal of reinvention, suggesting, as Ladd rides down among the tombstones, that a man carries his sin with him wherever he goes. PF
Stagecoach (1939)
Dir John Ford (John Wayne, Claire Trevor)
This wheel's on fire
The classic mismatched-travellers tale was given a western twist in this evergreen cinematic wonder, John Ford's first sound film in the genre and the beginning of his creative love affair both with Wayne and with the towering prehistoric landscape of Monument Valley. And if the plot and cast of characters – the gentleman gambler, the boozy doc, the Southern belle, the blowhard banker, the green-around-the-gills young outlaw out to prove himself – are overfamiliar, that's only because 'Stagecoach' has been remade, ripped off and roughly homaged every which way in the seven decades since its release. But what never gets old is Ford's extraordinary handling of tone: that any film which contains a massacre, a pitched battle, a backwoods birth and, very nearly, a brutal mercy killing could remain so breezily entertaining without ever seeming in poor taste is simply astonishing. Its dubious depictions of marauding bloodthirsty Injuns aside, 'Stagecoach' still feels remarkably modern. TH
Seven Men From Now (1956)
Dir Budd Boetticher (Randolph Scott, Lee Marvin, Stuart Whitman)
The brave little lawman
If there's one job you really wouldn't want in the Old West, it was the driver of the Wells Fargo stage, its cargo of bullion and paper money so often a magnet for any dirty outlaw in the vicinity. Budd Boetticher casts Randolph Scott as Ben Stride, a melancholy ex-sheriff who's taken to the prairie to administer lead-flavoured justice to the seven men responsible for his wife's death during a bungled bank robbery. On the way, he links up with a lovable couple doing the manifest destiny thing by heading to California and quickly becomes their de facto protector. For a film that barely clocks in at 80 minutes, Boetticher crams the material with ironies, ambiguities and moral conundrums. But the slow release of information and the tentative building of friendships (and enemies) mean that the stakes change minute by minute. Lee Marvin delivers a stupendous, proto-Liberty Valance supporting turn as a man always open to taking advantage of a yeller-belly, and in one near-unwatchable scene, proceeds furtively to humiliate the husband with the aim of fleeing with the wife. Scott, of course, sees to it that he doesn't. DJ
El Topo (1970)
Dir Alejandro Jodorowsky (Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfonso Arau)
Six-gun psychedelia
And so the 'acid western' was born: Sergio Leone meets Federico Fellini meets Pier Paolo Pasolini, with Timothy Leary on vibes. From the former, Alejandro Jodorowsky took his interest in violence and his gift for widescreen composition; from the second, his madcap circus sensibility and sense of daring; from the third his scattershot political nous; and from the latter, his ability to fuse all this into a counterculture-friendly psychedelic pop stew. The result is one of the first 'midnight movies', and a genuine underground smash: perhaps the most artistically successful of that brief end-of-the-'60s flowering of well-funded experimenta, a film whose commitment to mind-expanding beauty and eye-opening social comment is never allowed to get in the way of its delirious, all-embracing strangeness and inescapable, if inexplicable, emotional impact. TH


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Ok so I'm having a severe choking problem. I wasn't sure of it was the vest, or the collar armor, so I took the vest off and just did the jp harness and back/collar. It is still happening, so not the vest. I know my current harness is junk, but it's what I have for now. As you can see in the pics below, it happens when I just have the back plate on without the jp. When the jp is on, it's ridiculous.
Any suggestions? Am I doing something wrong?