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Bad blood in the Victorian Liberal Party over state preselections has flared again, with a frontbencher seeking to have the head of his own policy committee removed after she accused him of being lazy and incompetent.
Opposition police spokesman Kim Wells has written a formal complaint urging the party not to reappoint Di Livett, the convener of the State Opposition's police policy committee.
This comes after Mrs Livett sent a scathing letter to party headquarters about Mr Wells, who was embroiled in a branch-stacking scandal at the time and fighting to keep his seat of Scoresby after a bitter preselection challenge by the so-called "Young Turk" Michael Gidley.
Her letter, leaked to the media in April and signed by four other members, accused Mr Wells of underperformance, laziness, and failing to have any impact on his Government counterparts.
Mr Wells this week urged Liberal Party officials not to reinstate Mrs Livett to his committee when positions are renewed later this month. The pair would have to work together devising law and order policies in the lead-up to next year's state election.
Mr Wells has urged that a Victorian police officer, Stephen Reynolds, be appointed instead. Mr Reynolds is immediate past convener of the Opposition's small business policy committee.
"As it stands, we currently have a totally unworkable and serious situation that must be resolved," Mr Wells' letter says.
"Mrs Di Livett, the immediate past convener, along with four other members of the committee, recently signed a letter which made certain erroneous, disparaging and totally unwarranted, almost defamatory allegations with respect to my character and performance as shadow minister for police and emergency services," Mr Wells writes.
We have a totally unworkable . . . situation that must be resolved."
Kim Wells, State Liberal MP
"Given that the letter has been widely distributed within the media, it would seem an awkward and particularly difficult situation for the party if Mrs Livett was to retain the position as convener of the police, emergency services and corrections policy committee.
"For her to be elected as convener for 2005 would no doubt cause further negative media comment which is something we should try and avoid at all cost."
Mr Wells has been under the public spotlight this year after he was forced to defend his seat in a bitter preselection brawl with Mr Gidley, a member of the so-called "young Turks" group of eastern suburban Liberals.
Supporters from both sides had accused the other of stacking the Scoresby branch to shore up preselection support, resulting in the party's administrative wing - including Opposition Leader Robert Doyle and state president Helen Kroger - taking the unprecedented step of suspending the branch for six months.
Mr Gidley eventually pulled out of the race after brokering a deal with Ms Kroger and Mr Doyle to contest the marginal, Labor-held seat of Mount Waverley instead.
Mr Wells would not comment yesterday other than to say: "The steering committee makes the decision on appointments of policy assembly conveners and I will wait for the decision to be handed down."
But Mrs Livett said she believed she had already been reappointed as police policy convener.
She said her letter was not supposed to have been leaked to the media and was not meant to be vexatious.
When asked if she could have a decent working relationship with Mr Wells, she said: "I've been a member of this committee for about 15 years and I have no problem with anybody on the committee."
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Mr. Korine is a strangely unique director that uses this film to bore
you into understanding how a generation growing up with MTV and girls
gone wild has deeply mutilated the pursuit of happiness with nihilistic
extremity however his satirical exploration leaves you uncertain
whether to laugh, cry out in horror, or stare in disbelief at its
overwhelmingly artistic beauty.
I watched this opening night and was shocked at how good of a movie it had turned out to be. I wasn't really sure what to expect when I walked in so it turned out to be a nice little treat, but to my disbelief when I got home I began reading up on it and all I could see were tweets and posts about it being the "worst movie ever made" and "absolutely disgusting soft core porn". I couldn't believe that these people watched the same film I did.
As far as performances go there isn't much here other than Franco. The four girls do a decent job, the most notable being Selena Gomez although her character wasn't in it for a lot of the highly regarded scenes. James Franco is the star of this film. His performance is dark, uncomfortable and most of all hilarious. He hits it out of the park in the movie managing to make people unsure whether to be uncomfortable or laugh. His character is narcissistic and insane, yet you like him. He brings so much humanity to a place it shouldn't be.
Aesthetically, this movie is absolutely brilliant. The cinematography is fantastic. No matter how you feel when you leave this movie there is no denying how well shot it is. The lighting is beautiful and adds this feeling of darkness you might normally find in a well made horror film. Normally I wouldn't appreciate that very much but it was so properly executed with the great editing and slo-mo sequences. No surprise from the sound department either; the sound design and music brought to us by the brilliant Clint Martinez (Drive) makes what seems like a never-ending soundtrack that compliments the visuals masterfully.
Under all that the movie still manages to hit its theme, just in a way that a lot of people will miss and I believe this is the key to enjoying the film. It's meant to be boring. The use of repetition is so excessive it leaves a mark. No matter how much fun these girls are having it feels very dull and boring. This is the point! If you think for a second what you're seeing on screen is supposed to make you feel excited than go watch Project X. You're not intended to feel how the girls feel because they don't understand. Throughout the film you should feel uncomfortable, disgusted and at times sad. This film (to the right audience) should be as much a horror film as it is a dark comedy.
Spring Breakers is a unique experience featuring lots of depth and style. This film will most likely be the most hated and underrated film to come out this year. I apologize on behalf of the general public Mr. Korine.
On a side note:
The film has been said to support rape culture. I know it can be hard to understand for some people but sometimes film - like a person - uses sarcasm. This is the case. The film shows lots of naked females having fun, very much trying to replicate spring break culture in Florida however the film isn't a mockery of spring break, it's about the marginalized kids who have been brought up on Disney princesses and MTV. The kids who grew up with role models like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. The film isn't meant to focus on girls losing their innocence but instead girls searching for something and realizing it isn't what they thought it was.
Spring Breakers is going to cause a lot of disagreement regardless. After reading this you will love or hate it all the same; what I won't stand for is people being unwilling to look past the surface and see this film for what it really is.
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I don't even know where to begin...
Harmony Korine is a true artist. That might be where to start, because everyone seems to diss this film and its director, and I'm here to disagree. He kept his style, and that's why I loved it! Most people who went to see this probably didn't know anything about him and also probably didn't care about who he was or what he had done before... The guy wrote the 1995 drama "Kids" directed by Larry Clark, which was the most controversial film of that year, dealing with hard and difficult themes to portrait on film (such as teenage, sex, drugs, street life etc...) and treating of problems people didn't want to face. But Larry Clark's documentary and realistic style made the movie look like an open critic of this generation to the world, and was therefore more accepted by critics. In 1997 Korine then directed the very strange independent film "Gummo", which didn't really have any scenario, just a presentation of a little town in Ohio and its very bizarre set of characters... But the movie was still pretty good because of its weird and sentimental atmosphere mixed with documentary-style filming. He also made other independent films, but all of them always stayed in the "weird" and "unknown" section of DVD libraries.
Here Korine has grown up and gained more experience with the years. This is by far his most accomplished work, but unfortunately by distributing this movie to a bigger audience, he encountered a lot of criticism and hate, just because more people saw and discovered his style. I am afraid that most people today just watch films to have something to watch. Movies nowadays are being more consumed and less actually watched and thought-over. The poster and the trailer for this film were a parody of these easy-selling films that the Hollywood industry makes every year, who don't have anything particularly original (and that's on ALL levels : directing, script, acting, score are all very similar to any other film made by the studio), but instead of seeing the parody of these posters with those good-looking girls, people took it seriously and thought this was just going to be another teen movie about spring break with some fancy action scenes and a seen-before plot. But no, this was something NOBODY could've see coming... or at last not general, ordinary, image-dose seeking spectator.
Now lets actually talk about the film, I kind of got lost here! First things first : the cinematography and the look of this film are amazing. Even if you didn't like it, you can't say that this wasn't beautifully shot and crafted. The camera work is probably the best I've seen in a long time, and the neon colors add a really good look, which contributes to the atmosphere the film is trying to have. Then, the acting is great. James Franco totally takes his character to another level, even thought Korine has done an amazing job with this one, as he often never disappoints when it comes to characters. The girls are good too, and I was really surprised by Selena Gomez. Now comes the score and music : noting to say, absolutely brilliant! All songs fit perfectly to the scenery of spring break, blending Skrillex with hardcore hip-hop but also getting on the sensitive and emotional side sometimes with a Britney Spears cover (seems like she actually made some good songs) an awesome atmospheric score by Cliff Martinez, as always (he did the score for Drive and Only God Forgives) and of course putting Ellie Goulding's Lights in there, just brilliant!
Now, some parts of this films aren't perfect, this isn't the best movie ever made or anything, but it is true work of art and not just a mix of drugs, sex, profanity and violence made by a crazy director in order to sell it. No, this is a very well-thought film, made by a director who actually has the balls to keep his own style no matter the audience is, and who uses sarcasm and reversed psychology in its storytelling in order to transmit its message, which (lets be honest) isn't the most common way to do things in modern American cinematographic industry...
To sum it up, this was an extremely underrated movie, mostly watched by a lot of dumb teens and young adults who thought it was just going to be another Hollywood style flick starring old Disney actresses who want to break their image, but instead of that they got a weird art-house film that didn't follow the "rules" of the filmmaking industry and therefore disappointed them because it wasn't particularly funny in the way that most films are, and it showed sex, drugs and violence in a real, strange, and (too) explicit way for them to enjoy. Hopefully there are still some real cinema lovers out there who recognize the true value of this film. To them I say keep good and interesting movies alive but watching them, and to Harmony Korine, I just want to say thank you and bravo, for having the guts to put out on screen such a wonderful nightmare!
I was a big fan of "Kids" and expected the same amount of intellectually subtle social commentary in this movie. I could not wait to get out of the theater.. If I had not paid so much for my ticket, I would have gotten up and left halfway through the movie. IT IS AWFUL! It is astonishing to me that this generation finds a movie this horribly scripted, filmed, and thought-out to be good. It is not controversial, racy, or thought- provoking. It gives no insight, message, or underlying theme. It isn't that I do not like controversial, bad-ass, or vulgar films.. I do. This film offered none of that! I love films that give insight into a generation or group of people that others do not generally interact with; but this movie did not even accurately portray these things. I want this movie to get buried forever.
I rarely write reviews it's been ages since the last one but am writing
this to vent out some frustration. To think this film currently has a
6.3 rating and generally favourable reviews elsewhere is really
strange. There is booze, sex and drugs but you need something of
substance to make even a half decent film, this doesn't even come
Acting is poor, girls are largely annoying and there is nothing happening whatsoever, it makes no sense, it just dwells on the over importance of spring break, there is no character development and it's a total waste of time, I was bored. It plods along pointlessly for an hour gets decent for 10 minutes and finishes off with a meaningless ending.
I haven't seen After Earth and yes it may be disappointing but it will never be this bad, it's a shame a film like that would get such bad reviews, I mean at least they have tried something, Spring Breakers doesn't even do that, the plot has more holes than a string vest.
If I was to think about a top 10 worst films list this would most likely be on it, it is definitely one of the worst I have seen in years I would have gave it a 1 but it does have a catchy soundtrack for the younger crowd, some scenes are well shot and James Franco does pretty well for his part which does however start becoming repetitive like everything else due to the poor script. Very overrated not everyone will agree but I'm sure some will, especially if they have seen or watch after this review.
Spring Breakers highlights the mindless popular culture that surrounds
youth of this generation. The reason for its controversy stems from the
fact that its target audience found its plot to be pointless, even
though that was the point. This film depicts the shallowness of the
modern definition of what is 'cool', like idolizing people that suck,
those that contribute nothing to society but cheap entertainment. This
sort of fascination blindly controls youth, the main reason so many did
not understand the meaning behind this movie: they are blind to its
influences. They think week long drinking binges, whoring themselves
out, and having no goals is cool, because YOLO. However, this film is
based off of these components and its audience deems the plot as
pointless. Funny. Spring Breakers is like this generation looking
itself directly in the mirror.
Overall, Spring Breakers is full of outstanding graphics, bright colors, provocative scenes, and young Disney turned Hollywood stars. It was fun yet hard to watch, depending how serious of a reality check you need (assuming you even understood that it was one)
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Want to see a film about Spring Breakers turning into hard core gangsta
b*****s? Right, neither did I. And yes, the slang spelling of gangster
is totally mandatory in this situation.
If you haven't heard of Spring Breakers, I'm sure you will soon largely due to the hype it's generating because of its cast. Spring Breakers follows Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine on their spring break in sunny Florida. In order to get there, the girls rob a local restaurant and the trip that follows is a bit more outrageous than the girls expect. Yes, it contains your typical 'spring break' parties, but along with the drugs and alcohol, the girls find themselves in the company of a local arms dealer (James Franco). The path that follows isn't what the girls had planned, and may be a little too much for some of them.
Now, I wanted to like this movie. Honestly, I really did. But there were too many things I couldn't quite handle, like a strange musical moment where Franco serenades the girls with an oh too popular Britney Spears song. Yes, that did happen, and no I will not get back those 3 minutes of my life.
I will give the film credit in a lot of areas. Personally, I found Director/Writer Harmony Korine unique and the film pushes most of the cast members (Hudgens, Gomez and Benson in particular) out of their stereotypes, and in a strange way, that worked. The problem was I wasn't sold on the plot. As the girl's 'adventure' with Franco continues, I lost interest. Yeah, I could buy the coming of age bits, but the whole 'party girls turning into James Franco's hardcore gangsta b*****s' bit was too ridiculous for me. I understand that there are probably a lot of 'deep' factors in this film that a lot of critics are going to obsess over, but personally, I couldn't overlook the ridiculousness of some moments enough to appreciate that other side of the film.
Basically, if you want my advice, this movie isn't for your average film goer. If you want something you can sit and enjoy, skip this in theaters, and ignore it by the time it pops up on Netflix. And if you were curious about it because your buddy told you Vanessa Hudgens boobs are in it, you were lied to my friend. Completely lied to.
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I can't describe the elation I felt leaving Spring Breakers--truly one
of the best films to hit mainstream cinemas in a long time. It was a
breath of fresh air amidst all the cookie cutter romantic comedies,
dramas, action films, and horror movies that plague modern cinema. The
stamp of a good film is the impact factor--how long it stays with you
when it's over. Spring Breakers was a film that stayed with me long
after leaving the theater. It didn't evaporate from my mind as soon as
I hit the parking lot. This film affects you and leaves you in a mood
long after the credits appear.
Those seeking a fun "party film" will be disappointed. The TV ads, poster, and cast have probably misled some viewers into thinking this is a cross between The Hangover and Project X. Don't let the cast or the marketing fool you--this is not a "feel good" movie. It's a dark, exciting, tragic look at modern youth culture that doesn't so much as revel in the pop culture sensory overload as hold up a mirror to the audience so we can see some of ourselves in these kids. And if you're like me, you'll find this kind of self-reflection very disturbing. More than once, I was disgusted and enthralled with these characters, not knowing whether I should feel amused, angry, or sad. This is truly the best deconstruction of modern culture I've seen.
The movie starts with our main quartet of female characters struggling to find a way around the fact they don't have enough money to travel to Florida for that much-hyped, almost mythical annual rite of passage nearly every college kid in the country has to face at some point: spring break. Selena Gomez is easily the most likable member of the cast--a young girl struggling to balance her Christian faith and values in the moral wasteland that is college life. One moment we see her praying in church, and the next she's passively condoning the fact that her friends have just robbed a restaurant in order to obtain the rest of the money they need to make it to Florida. In one poignant monologue, she speaks of the monotony of life and how everyone is depressed because they wake up and see the same things every day. Her desire to go on spring break is almost spiritual in nature--a soul-searching journey in which she just wants to be someone new and be free.
The spring break party scenes are manic--loud music, hypnotic imagery, and disorienting colors all come together like some kind of dream. The fun soon ends once the girls are arrested for using narcotics at a wild party. They have two options: pay a fine, or remain in jail for another two days. Out of money and unwilling to call their parents, the girls languish in jail until a mysterious visitor posts their bail. Enter James Franco as Alien, a white gangster with gold teeth, dreadlocks, and a ton of money and guns to go along with his criminal tendencies. Franco truly breaks out in this performance, becoming someone I never could have imagined he'd be able to pull off back in his Spider-Man days. His intentions are murky and the film never misses an opportunity to make us feel uncomfortable witnessing his interactions with the girls. It's at this point that the film takes a drastic turn into even darker territory, the trip slowly proving itself to be more than a few of them bargained for. Thus begins the tragic slide into the dark nature of these characters, as they find themselves participating in and doing things bound to seduce the audience into an awe-struck state more than once.
Not that any of this is told through a conventional narrative. The whole film feels like one crazy, hypnotic dream, from its use of colors to its loud, insane score that ranges from romping party fun to atmospheric, moody pieces that underline the darker moments in the film. The narrative jumps around in time and space, pasted together through flashbacks, flash forwards, and repetitive lines that linger in the back of the viewer's mind like a broken record. The cinematography is flat out excellent and the filmmakers make perfect use of the beautiful Florida scenery amidst all the sheer depravity we witness on screen, with more than a few shots of the beautiful Florida sky and sunset to remind us of our humanity.
By the time the film reaches a delirious montage of violence set to the unlikely tune of Britney Spears' song Every time, Korine has us hook, line, and sinker feeling a sense of revulsion and pity for ourselves and the world at large. Any film that can provoke this type of uncomfortable self-contemplation deserves to be praised.
In the end, I left the theater feeling like I'd just come off an intense acid trip into the darker recesses of modern culture, emotionally exhausted and ready to get in my car and drive home in silence, reflecting on what I'd just seen.
If you're not expecting to have fun and aren't afraid to look inside yourself to that aspect of your personality that craves materialism and vapid entertainment at the expense of losing some of your humanity, go and see Spring Breakers. It's truly one of the best films of 2013 (so far) and will no doubt be a cult classic in years to come. Just don't blame me if the film haunts you long after it's over.
I have to say, that watching this movie was a total spur of the moment
decision on my part and I walked into this completely unaware of what I
was getting into. While watching it, I felt my senses were assaulted,
but there was more to it than what I was able to discern viscerally.
Therein lies the greatness of this movie. It makes you think about what
images are being thrown at you and why. The image is obviously that of
what the youth of our age are sold as 'the good life': money, drugs,
sex and partying. This is the American Dream. This movie follows 4
girls who do despicable acts, who behave with such depravity and who
are shallow to the core, that watching this can be painful at times.
But that is the whole point and people who walk out of this feeling as
though they have had their time robbed of them or are too disgusted by
what they see are missing the point. I am not an elitist movie critic
in no sense of the word either, but I know a shock movie when I see
I have to say that visually this movie is beautiful (and no, I am not referencing the nudity here, ha-ha). It is a dark, dreamy, neon- nightmare. I give credit to the movie for this because it is candy for the eyes. Production wise this movie is solid, as is the direction. You feel as if you are in a dream, with it's poignant use of slow motion, and I suppose that is the effect they were looking to achieve. In this aspect they succeeded with flying colours - literally. There's also a beautifully crafted scene during their robbery of a restaurant that features one of the girls rolling the car around the building, catching glimpses of what they were doing inside. A very good piece of cinematography.
The cast were great too. I can't really say too much for the female cast as they did all act well in their respective roles. James Franco on the other hand really stood out and delivered a superb performance in what I would say is one of his more challenging roles, because the character himself is just so unlikable and unlike anyone he has portrayed before. He definitely made this movie, and without him in it it would seem to be missing a magic ingredient. Time and again Franco proves his worth as one of the great actors of his generation. He obviously knew that this movie's worth exceeded the majority of our expectations.
It seems the point of this film is lost upon most, which is a shame, though I can understand why. On the surface this appears to be a shallow and uninspiring piece of crap theatre with no motive beyond showing us some tits and ass. It is so much more. I love movies that make me think, even if they are at the time disturbing to watch. Well, this is what we are supposed to enjoy watching, after all. This is what our media, our 'culture', our idols depict as the epitome of what constitutes the good life. We are told to live our youth to the full. Is this not what they do throughout the movie? Are you not entertained? No?
Isn't that just it though? The truth hurts. This is the truth of what our youth aspire to. Sad, ain't it. Maybe I should give this a 1 star rating. I'm sure that's what the director would want me to do.
This was a terrible movie and I cannot I believe i wasted 94 minutes of my life watching it. The acting was terrible and all you see is boobs and naked butt. There is no plot and no reason to watch it. If you want to waste time you could do it doing anything but watching this stupid movie. I thought that since this movie had a lot of well known actors like James Franco, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, and Vanessa Hudgens that it would have some sort of quality but I was wrong. After completing this movie I sat in silence for 10 minutes wondering that it was that I just watched. It just kept dragging and dragging for no reason. There is no way to write a summary to this movie because the movie has no substance. I cannot believe this movie even came out in theaters, it is one of those movies that should have gone straight to DVD. Looks like a horny teenage boy wrote out his fantasy and turned it into a movie.
Faith, played by Selema Gomez, and her three very close friends plan to
escape their boring college dorm lives to attend a massive Spring Break
party. In order to pay for their getaway, her three friends commit an
unthinkable act of terror. Their Spring Break vacation turns out to be
a non-stop party of drunken drug use and sexual perversion that lands
them in prison. This is when Alien, played by James Franco, bails them
out and a new type of party begins.
With a dub-step softcore porn music video opening sequence, it is uncertain if Spring Breakers is glorifying the demoralizing activities portrayed or if it is a satire. Even when the film is not flashing to what looks like stock footage of a Girls Gone Wild Spring Break special and we are with the girls, the framing seems to have been done by a sex addict. This will be one of the most uncomfortable experiences Selema Gomez's fans will ever experience. For parents, this will be an absolute nightmare. Younger male audiences, on the other hand, will think they've found their new favorite movie. When the girls are introduced to Alien the film feels like it gets a new director. The feeling of a Girls Gone Wild narrative feature film is lost and we are filled with a great sense of dread. Who is this guy who calls himself Alien? We even find ourselves afraid to find out what he has planned for these young girls he has bailed out of prison.
As we continue through the second half of the film, it becomes very clear that we are in fact watching a satire. A horrific and effective satire. This is done though exposing the character of Alien and much credit must be given to James Franco, this is him at his best. Through the course of the film we go from fearing him, to laughing at him, to feeling sorry for him. The film is worth watching just for Franco's performance. The girls do an excellent job as well. These are easily two of the most frightening female characters ever put on-screen.
Spring Breakers is written and directed by Harmony Korine, the writer of Kids and director of Gummo. If you've seen anything he has written or directed you already know what you are in for. It has the core of a Natural Born Killers story wrapped in layers of what would be if Terrence Malick directed Girls Gone Wild.
What ends up becoming an annoying distraction is the repetition of dialogue we hear over and over again, playing in a loop. It's understood we are in the girl's shoes, things are spiraling out of control and the editing helps get that across. Some of it works but in the end, we've heard the same things so many times it is as if Korine is hammering the message of his satire into our heads, almost desperate to prove it has a point. Through the story it's meaning is made clear, no reason to over-use certain Malick-like editing techniques to over-state what the story has already made obvious.
The core story is genius. The way in which the story is told is split between things that play out like a master at work and a new filmmaker still experimenting.
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I'm aware of the Rubicon having better axles, transfer case and rear disk brakes plus skid plates. I would still spray the floor and add a 2" lift. Which model is the better deal?
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Hands down, the rubicon is the better deal all the way around what with less milage and all, you could never add all of the rubicon options to the sport for 1000 dollars.
Take the rubicon. Doesn't say the axle on the other. I'd put an old man emu and a body lift add 33's. Be set to o jeepin. 1000 for lockers and 44's, 4:1 transfer case nice!
Go with the rubicon and make me jealous ;)
I have a 98sport with d30/35 and 3.07's and wish I had better gears.
I'll go with the rubi
Thanks everyone. The 2001 model has the stock axles and gears. Owner said it needs to be re geared.
I'm having the Rubi inspected today. Hope everything checks out. I was leaning that way since it's stock other than the wheels. This let's me choose what I want. Plus it's a stronger platform.
I have the 01 sport.I voted for the Rubi. Go for it.
From what I have learned, better to get the one closest to stock and build it yourself... BUY THE RUBICON!
not even looking at the model i would still get the 03 because of mileage and stockness.
i recently bought my 99 sport, and i really regret not waiting and finding a rubicon for the axles ( i didnt know anything about jeeps then :P) and lockers
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As promised, here is a summary of what was done to my GT two days ago after the cold-weather incident 9(-27.5 C, -17.5F) previously described in this thread.
Symptoms: Drivetrain error message (with inability to start) low battery warning, 'battery discharged/charge battery' message, check engine light on. After about 25 minutes I was able to start the car but lost it twice. On the third attempt, I kept the accelerator pressed down to keep the revs up until it settled out and then drove straight to my dealer.
The battery was addressed first based on the symptoms above and the belief that all error indications stemmed from it. It was put on fast charge as it only held 8V. After five hours, it still read 8V. That led to the decision to replace the battery (under warranty). I would also explain why there was a problem after I had put the battery on a 6-Amp Fast charge for 14 hours and somehow started the vehicle but ran into difficulty starting and the drive train and discharged battery messages after a 3-4 mile trip where I shut the car off. Even with new battery I now just leave the vehicle running and lock the car doors if I am just 'in-and-out" for a takeout coffee as I was that day.
The Check Engine light was still on after the battery change and that was traced to a defective VANOS solenoid. It too was replaced under warranty.
I almost two days I have had no problem and yesterday after considerable city driving I put the battery charger on after arriving home and saw immediately that the battery was charged and the charger stayed in Maintenance Mode so I left it on the Trickle setting.
One other point - when the battery gets low for any reason the system shuts down selected non-essential systems like the heating system (except Defrost), A/C (though I didn't care about that) and any other electrical load it is programmed to in order to save power for starting.
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Manchester United will go to Munich for the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final with Bayern boosted in confidence after a 1-1 draw on Tuesday.
United surprised many with arguably their most competent performance of the season at Old Trafford.
Skipper Nemanja Vidic put them ahead in the wake of a battering on the possession counter, only for Bastian Schweinsteiger to level for the defending champions.
There was much to admire about United's display, though, and they now have something to build on.
"It was a tough game and a good result," Vidic told ITV.
"We felt we had good positions and were solid, but one mistake was punished and they showed what a good team they are.
"They had a lot of possession but we accepted they would and we tried to counter attack.
"I think it will be the same game next week. They will have the same possession, especially as it's their own ground, but if we keep the shape we can hurt them with our pace."
Former United captain Roy Keane, often a critical voice, was watching for television and saw positives.
"They've got a chance," he said.
Manchester United v Bayern Munich player ratings
Manchester United v Bayern Munich player ratings
1/27 David De Gea - 6
Rarely tested despite Bayern's dominance –saved well from a bending Robben effort and commanded his area well but could do nothing about Schweinsteiger's thumping equaliser.
2/27 Phil Jones - 7
A solid performance at right back – fought hard all night and did his part in a strong defensive unit.
3/27 Rio Ferdinand - 7
Put in a strong performance alongside Vidic to limit Bayern to very few clear sights of goal.
4/27 Nemanja Vidic - 8
Made countless vital interceptions as he led the United defence and topped his man of the match performance with a fine headed goal.
5/27 Alex Buttner - 7
A doubt before the game – the Dutch youngster lasted 74 minutes as he competed gamely and fought well against the double threat of Robben and Rafinha.
6/27 Michael Carrick - 7
Helped to prevent Bayern being given too much time on the ball around the United box and distributed well when given the occasional opportunity to set United on the counter.
7/27 Marouane Fellaini - 6
A shocking first half as he gave the ball away far too regularly in dangerous positions as he struggled to cope with Bayern's pressing – better after half-time as he won and retained possession more successfully.
8/27 Ryan Giggs - 6
Struggled to make a huge impact on the game as Bayern dominated but retained possession well for his side - withdrawn at half-time with a groin strain.
9/27 Antonio Valencia - 7
Showed great energy as he flew up and down the right wing helping out his defence and looking to provide an outlet when United countered – lucky not be sent off for a reckless lunge on Boateng having been booked early on.
10/27 Shinji Kagawa - 6
The man who has never lost to Bayern Munich was bright after replacing Giggs at half time – won the corner from which United took the lead.
11/27 Danny Welbeck - 7
Posed a threat to the Bayern defence with his athleticism – unfortunate to have an early strike ruled out for a high boot but should have done better when presented with United's chance of the game as he tried to dink the ball over Neuer.
12/27 Wayne Rooney - 7
United's classiest performer again – Rooney often grabbed possession for his side when he had no right to do so and drove his side forward whenever possible – Delivered the corner from which Vidic gave United the lead.
13/27 Ashley Young - 6
Brought on for the final 15 minutes – managed to deliver a couple of dangerous crosses.
14/27 Javier Hernandez - 6
A cameo performance from the Mexican saw him almost break through on goal as Javier Martinez was forced to haul him down and take a yellow card.
15/27 Manuel Neuer - 6
A spectator for much of the game but was off his line swiftly to save when Welbeck was allowed through on goal in the first half – powerless to stop Vidic's pinpoint accurate header.
16/27 Rafinha - 8
His continuous raids up field from right back allowed Bayern to pull United from side to side – finally provided a telling contribution when his delivery led to Schweinsteiger's equaliser.
17/27 Javi Martinez - 6
The Spaniard was rarely tested but appeared vulnerable when faced with the physical threat of Welbeck and then hauled down Hernandez late on to pick up a yellow card that will see him miss the second leg.
18/27 Jerome Boateng - 6
The former City man had little defending to do as he returned to Manchester but was exposed when Welbeck shrugged off his challenge to go through on goal.
19/27 David Alaba - 7
Spent more time attacking than defending as he helped to stretch the United defence – did a solid job against Valencia and then Young on the defensive end.
20/27 Philipp Lahm - 6
The Bayern captain helped his side to control the game from midfield but like many of his teammates failed to produce a real moment of quality going forward and faded a little in the second half as the hosts grew in stature.
21/27 Bastian Schweinsteiger - 7
Played a key part in Bayern's first half dominance and provided a telling contribution as he finished in style from Mandzukic's knock down – however his night was ruined late on as he was sent off having picked up a second yellow for bringing down Rooney.
22/27 Arjen Robben - 8
Bayern's biggest threat all evening - came in off the right flank to cause problems for the United defence and almost added to his collection of Old Trafford goals on a number of occasions.
23/27 Toni Kroos - 6
A quiet evening for the man who has been regularly linked with a move to Manchester – neat and tidy but will have failed to convince the United faithful he is worth big bucks on this performance.
24/27 Franck Ribery - 6
Outshone by his partner in crime Robben – the Frenchman floated around the pitch testing United's defence but never really threatened the goal.
25/27 Thomas Muller - 6
Drifted from his centre forward position – perhaps as part of Guardiola's plan – but failed to impact the game before being replaced by Mandzukic.
26/27 Mario Mandzukic - 7
Made an instant impact off the bench as his delightful cushioned header enabled Schweinsteiger to draw Bayern level.
27/27 Mario Gotze - 6
The youngster had little influence on the game after being introduced for the final 15 minutes – will hope Schweinsteiger's suspension will allow him to play a greater part in the second leg.
"It's a fair result, the manager, players and fans played their part. You can't begrudge Bayern their equaliser, but Manchester United are more than capable of scoring in the away game.
"We've seen United not turn up in big games, so they should go to Bayern with their confidence boosted."
Manager David Moyes was happy with his side but urged caution too.
"The players played really well, I'm delighted," he said. "I'm disappointed we conceded a goal, but it was really gutsy and I'm really pleased.
"The players had a real determination to make sure we did well. It's a competition we have a good history in and the players realised we were playing a good side.
"We know we have to score a goal. At the moment, if the scores say the same, Bayern win and we know we have to do something about it. But we've given ourselves a great opportunity."
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Technology update
Jul 30, 2014
Magnetite self-assembly: competition yields surprises
Complex nanoscale architectures of inorganic materials have a range of potential applications, but they can be extremely challenging to produce. Now researchers in Israel have, for the first time, identified conditions for the self-assembly of magnetite nanocrystals into helical structures. To do this, they, exploited the interplay between competing van der Waals and magnetic forces. The development may be useful for catalysis and nanotemplating, as well as optical and magnetic nanotechnology.
"We focused on cubic magnetite nanoparticles because we thought the shape may be special - the cube is the simplest shape that can be magnetised along an axis that is unfavourable for maximising van der Waals forces," says Rafal Klajn of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. "We thought this might lead to some interesting assemblies but we did not suspect it would lead to a helical structure."
According to Klajn, magnetite is the most abundant magnetic material on Earth and magnetite nanocrystals have been studied for decades. They're even found in organisms such as birds, helping them to orient themselves with respect to the Earth's magnetic field. "A recent paper describes iron oxide nanoparticles created nearly 5 billion years ago that have been found in a meteorite – that would make them the oldest known nanoparticles, and now we find they have these interesting properties for self-assembly."
Helical advantage
Although their potential applications have not yet been investigated, Klajn suggests that the optical and magnetic properties of these helical magnetite nanostructures may be interesting. The structures may also prove useful for templating and catalysis.
Helices are chiral and can twist to the right or left; the two mirror-image versions cannot be superposed on each other. The chirality of a molecule can affect how it interacts with other chiral molecules. This is particularly common in living organisms as many of the molecules in the body are also chiral.
"A few colleagues have suggested that since these structures are chiral they may have applications in asymmetric catalysis [where one chiral product is produced in preference to the other]," Klajn tells nanotechweb.org.
The right concentration
Klajn and his colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of Illinois in the US formed the helical structures by dropping an organic solution of relatively monodisperse magnetite nanocubes onto the surface of diethylene glycol in the presence of a magnetic field. When the concentration of nanocubes at the surface was low, the nanocubes assembled into parallel arrays of one-dimensional belts. However when the concentration was increased, helical structures formed. Klajn suggests that the transition is the result of increasing effective magnetic field as the nanocube concentration increased.
Generally the van der Waals interactions between faces of the nanocubes dominate over corner-to-corner attraction. But magnetite nanocubes can be magnetised so that the magnetic forces preferentially align the cubes corner to corner so that the competition with the van der Waals forces, which preferably align the cube faces, is more evenly matched. "We tested lots of different magnetite shapes but only the cubic shapes have this property," said Klajn.
Next steps
The study gives guidelines for the design of this type of material; Klajn suggests that nanoparticles of other magnetic materials, such as octahedral particles of iron, may also have this property. The researchers plan to investigate the self-assembly of different nanoparticle shapes of iron, nickel and cobalt, as well as the effect of functionalising the surfaces of magnetite nanocubes.
Full details of the research are reported in Science Express.
About the author
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I have a little flash drive. I know where to install it on my tower. Can you tell me how I can tell what's on it? Can you give me simple steps?
Plug it into a USB port, open "My Computer" and look for "Removable Disk".
Whatever is on it will be shown there.
Where can I find "My Computer"? And what drive would that flash drive be considered? I know that "C" is the permanent one.
In Windows, the "My Computer" icon should be somewhere on your desktop. The drive letter assigned to your flash drive will be whatever the computer decides to assign it, which I believe is the first letter available in alphabetical order after "C". So it's not possible to tell you what drive letter it is.
With the computer running, if you plug the drive into the USB port, you should automatically get a pop-up with a list of options. If you do, choose "Open folder to view files". That will show you the drive letter, as well as the contents of the flash drive.
It's a Windows-based PC. So when the computer comes up and it shows all those icons on a bue background, is that considered the desktop? When my husband plugged in that flash drive earlier today, no, nothing came up. So I'm wondering if maybe that means that the flash drive is empty. But if it did have something on it, then maybe something would come up on the screen?
Windows should recognize the drive the same way whether it's empty or not.
go to start button (lower left) then to "my computer", insert flash drive and it will create it's own drive letter, empty or full.
Thanks, DM. I'll give it a try.
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Do bay area activists "fetishize the criminal"?
In this excerpt from his new book "99 Tactics of Successful Tax Resistance Campaigns" (Picket Line Press, 2014) David Gross criticizes San Francisco activists for making a fetish out of getting arrested and concentrating on that rather than on effective action.
The California State Supreme Court ruled in 2009 that California voters had been properly exercising their Constitutional prerogatives when they outlawed same-sex marriage by passing "Proposition 8." A hundred supporters of marriage equality expressed their outrage against this decision by getting arrested for blocking a city street in San Francisco.
This is a peculiar and nowadays popular form of protest. It bears some resemblance to civil disobedience, but is really its own, distinct phenomenon. In civil disobedience, one of the following two conditions hold:
So, for instance, people violating the Fugitive Slave Act by operating a station on the Underground Railroad were breaking a law that they believed was itself an immoral law. On the other hand, people who are arrested at blockades usually are not opposed to laws against trespassing or blocking traffic or whatever they end up being charged with—rather, they are violating those laws incidentally while trying to prevent some greater harm.
But in the case of the people who were arrested blocking the street in San Francisco—and much the same is true of most other so-called "civil disobedience" actions I've seen in recent years—they were neither asserting that laws against blocking traffic were immoral, nor did they believe that blocking traffic would prevent some greater harm that would be caused by allowing that traffic to proceed as normal.
Instead, getting arrested—whatever the charge and whatever the action leading to it—was itself the point, and seemed to be mostly a way of publicizing and amplifying one's sense of outrage, anguish, or commitment. Less like a civil disobedience action, it was more like the action of a mourner who wails and covers himself in ashes, or a penitent who whips himself with a lash. Being arrested has become a sort of government-sponsored method of certifying the strength of one's opinion.
Here are some excerpts from a newspaper article on the arrests:
None of this is necessarily bad, though it is a little weird when you pause to think about it. No weirder than sackcloth & ashes or self-flagellation, though, I suppose. Maybe I'm reading too much in to this, but I'm struck by the phrase "Mintz received her citation" in the above excerpt—a description that would apply equally well to a summons to appear in court for a violation of the law and to an official commendation of praiseworthy action.
While this sort of thing may seem mostly harmless, I am worried that people have come to confuse this theatrical arrest-as-protest sort of thing with genuine civil disobedience. If so, they may forget the practical power that well-crafted civil disobedience campaigns and actions have. I've also seen activists lose sight of important goals and practical means of achieving them because they get distracted by pursuing opportunities to be arrested.
For example, I attended the strategy meetings of a group that was planning an action to disrupt the San Francisco headquarters of the military contractor Bechtel as part of an anti-war action in 2006. When the group was discussing what sort of action to do, the questions of "do we want to do an action where people risk arrest?" and "who here is planning to risk arrest?" came up before any talk about what goals the activists hoped to accomplish with their action (unless, that is, being arrested was their goal).
Eventually I asked "what is the goal of the civil disobedience action—to get arrested, or to inconvenience Bechtel, or to get press coverage, or what?" The consensus seemed to be that inconveniencing Bechtel—or "shutting down" Bechtel if you allow for hyperbole—was the goal.
But later, two women at the meeting said that they once had tried on their own to deliver a message to Bechtel's CEO. Bechtel's security, realizing that some sort of protest was in the offing, then started their standard procedure for such things—which was to shut down the building and let nobody in or out (even employees). Two people, not intending to be arrested, managed to shut down the Bechtel home office for 45 minutes one day just by showing up and asking to speak with the boss.
But because the activists at the meeting were more intent on getting arrested than on the ostensible purpose of their action (to "shut down Bechtel"), they did not attend to this information but instead they planned an action in which they would lock arms and conduct a sit-down blockade of the building's doors until the police hauled them away.
As it turns out, this blockade would prove to be ineffective at either shutting down the building or preventing the people who worked there from coming and going (indeed, the police didn't even find it necessary to arrest any of the door-blockers). However, when one of the activists walked into the lobby, towards the tail-end of the action, and began protesting there (though this was not part of the previously-agreed-upon game plan), the building's security did shut the building down—until they managed to have the protester hauled away.
I bring this up to encourage you to evaluate the techniques you read about in the remainder of this book primarily on how effective they might be in meeting the goals of your campaign—not on how hard-core they appear, how much disregard they show for the law, or how much risk they involve for their practitioners. None of those things are dependable proxies for effectiveness.


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2011 wrx - want to get the subaru extra -s 75-90 gear oil in my trans/front diff and rear diff. ( for better shift feel and added protection)
1.) what the heck is in there (diffs/trans) from factory?? I suppose a non synthetic 75-90 valvoline...... (someone told me that my car ALREADY comes with extra s from factory.... I doubt that.) Although Sti's have it, I think...
2.) front diff and trans SHARE their respective gear oil?
3.) the diffs and trans for WRX all use the same extra-s ?? (unlike Sti which uses a different oil for rear diff)
4.) has anyone with 11 wrx done this upgrade? is it worth it?
5.) I notice a spinning noise prior to gear engagement (while driving, not standstill)... could this be the normal sound of synchros spinning? I have KB bushings and S/S btw. Many have told me this is normal, especially with KB S/S and bushings..
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There are many reasons to watch the hauntingly atmospheric French drama The Returned on Channel 4, and prime among them is Jenna Thiam. The show gripped audiences in France, Sweden and the UK by asking what it would really be like if the dead came — quietly and discomfitingly — back to life. Thiam, 23, became the show's breakout star as 19-year-old Léna, a wild and impulsive concoction of red tresses, hurt eyes, porcelain skin and uproarious hormones, who reacts to the reappearance of her dead twin Camille after four years with a combination of rage, guilt and jealousy. Not least because she was shagging the boy her sister loved when Camille died in a coach crash.
'I think the theme is universal,' says Thiam, pondering the show's popularity. 'Nobody knows how they will deal with grief, and we see each character react in a different way. What was interesting about the part of Léna is that she rejects the situation completely. Having her [Camille] come back is almost humiliating. I think if it happened to me, if I lost someone, I would react in the same way if I hadn't finished grieving.' Her voice is a warm purr, her English idiosyncratically good — the influence, presumably, of her English grandmother, augmented by a slight transatlantic curl to her sentences from her brief stint studying in New York.
She thinks the show's 'peculiar ambience' helps make it 'intriguing', too. Creator Fabrice Gobert carefully orchestrated the story on an intimate, human level across eight episodes — 'it wasn't a huge army of zombies devastating the forest' — and devised the show's bleached, cinematic look with his director of photo-graphy Patrick Blossier. 'We shot every day between 4pm and 9pm because Fabrice wanted it always to be dusk,' says Thiam. 'There was such attention to the light, to detail and minutiae. We shot it like a film. That time of day began to feel like an event every day, which added to the tension of the series.'
The show was a revelation in France where 'we have a history of very, very poor TV series, and the quality is still pretty low' and a second series is already planned for 2014. She's not giving anything away about this ('Fabrice is keeping it to himself'), or about the mysteries of series one. Why is the level of the lake dropping? What is the mysterious lesion on Léna's back? And will there be repercussions to her impetuous decision to have ill-advised sex with the cannibal serial killer Serge?
Thiam was still studying at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in her native Paris when she was cast in The Returned. She got the part late in the day, three months before shooting began, and immediately formed a sisterly bond with 18-year-old Yara Pilartz, who had been cast as Camille six months earlier. The two had to convince as twins physically as well as emotionally, and they share fairly exotic looks. Pilartz is French Lebanese. And Thiam? 'I am a real Parisienne but I was born in Brussels,' she says. 'My mother Martine is half Belgian and half Armenian. My father Sydney was born in Dakar: he is half Senegalese, a quarter French and a quarter English.'
Sydney is a percussionist who performed with Les Négresses Vertes and once toured with Nina Simone ('I am very proud of him for that'), but he also looked after Jenna when her mother was commuting between Brussels and Paris as an agent for small fashion brands. Later, her mother got a job in Paris, where her younger brother Maxim, now 15, was born. Jenna's English grandmother came to live in their Montmartre apartment, as did Jenna's cousin, whose mother worked for the UN and was therefore away a lot travelling to trouble hotspots such as Bamako, Chad and the Congo. The Thiam men are dark-skinned: Jenna says her cousin suffered racism at school in Paris and would 'spend an hour in the shower trying to scrub off his skin'. She, conversely, was the subject of curiosity on family trips to Dakar because she was white: 'But there, you are part of the family whatever your skin colour and wherever you live.'
The decision to become an actress came at a young age. 'My father took me on tour with him when I was really little,' she says. 'I knew at four years old that I wanted to be on stage, and I am really not a good musician, so I started doing acting classes. At four I also started modelling in Paris for the children's clothing company Bonpoint, and carried on with that, so there was enough money in my account for me to rent a tiny apartment when I was 18 and I decided I needed to live alone.' She hated modelling, though: 'It was really a traumatic, awful experience. I was "a little too fat", or whatever. You know how they are. It's like hell. You are considered less than an object.'
She wasn't overtly bullied or preyed upon, she says, but the constant small humiliations wore her down. At around this time, she planned to spend a year studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in New York. 'But I only stayed about two months,' she says. 'I had been to New York several times, but when it came to living there I suddenly panicked. I really didn't feel comfortable — maybe I was too young. Suddenly, New York felt like Babylon.' So she came back to Montmartre and spent a year at the private drama school Cours Florent, supporting herself by waitressing and selling shoes: 'You got to do what you got to do, right?' After that, she managed to blag her way into the elite Conservatory because she was 'too naïve and innocent' to realise what a big deal the audition was.
Now, thanks to The Returned, it's all kicking off, and fast. She's doing three movies before the second series starts filming: ES's photo shoot took place near the Alpine locations for Claude Lelouch's Salaud on t'aime (Bastard, I Love You), in which she plays one of four daughters with different mothers gathering at the bedside of their elderly, wastrel dad, played by the veteran pop star Johnny Hallyday. (Thiam's father once toured with Hallyday, too.) She'd love to work in America or the UK — she thinks our TV drama is better and our film industry 'less snobbish'. But for now she sees her future in Paris, where she is recognised but not hassled, and where she would like to act on stage.
She only graduated from the Conservatory three weeks ago, and is moving to a new apartment in the 19th arrondissement next month. Her private life has had something of a Léna-style upheaval, too. 'It is kind of complicated,' she says sheepishly. 'I was with someone before for three years and then I fell in love with someone else, so my intimate life is very hectic.' When did this happen? 'Errr, a month ago. It's a long story. So I am rearranging my whole life. He is an actor and a musician, and he writes. His name is Clément Bondu.' Will they be sharing her new apartment? 'I don't know yet...' Don't worry, I reassure the very young, very beautiful and very talented Jenna Thiam. In every sense, it's early days. ES
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San Diego-based online video sharing web site VMIX.com said today that it has named a winner for its "Create Our Commercial" content sponsored by JVC. The JVC and VMIX promotion awarded $2500 to a user of VMIX, who created an ad which will be broadcast on national television. The award wen to Martin Whittier of Perryville, Maryland.


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Fire pit problem
I have a problem with my DIY propane firepit. It is at ground level, with the pan approximately 4" off a gravel base. When testing, it burns wonderfully. When I then fill the V-shaped pan with base rock to the opeenings, then cover in a thin layer of glass, I get burn from under the pan. I've checked for leaks and can't find any. Should I fill in the area under the pan to prevent gas accumulation?
Welcome flyover, to the best DIY'r site on the web.
A picture of your fire pit would be helpful, if read your description correctly you are covering the top with glass? If so, the flames have to get oxygen from somewhere and the bottom seems to be the likely place, hence the fire out the bottom.
It's only an inch or so covered. In most firepits I've seen, this looks about average. Would filling the space below the pan with gravel solve this you think?
Again flyover, a picture is worth a thousand words, not sure what you mean by covered only by an inch, an inch thick, an inch of the center, an inch of the parimeter?
A question for you as well, is the glass going to be subjected to heat and if so is it tempered glass, if not it will undoubtedly crack.
Fire pit glass. Small tempered pieces of glass that is often used to cover fore pits for aesthetic reasons. Post should have read "less then an an inch thick". Sorry working now so can't send a pic.
Thread revival! I'm experiencing the same issue and havent seen a clear answer on this... I have a 24" diameter brick fire ring with 18" propane burner set in a 23" burner pan. small rocks (not gravel size) surround the burner in the pan and 1" of fire glass sits above on metal mesh screen. Propane accumulated (it seemed) on the bottom and quickly flared out from under the ring.
There is one vent between the bricks, below the pan. Should I add another for more air flow? Would my fully open air mixer under the pan be to blame? No leaks in the line by the way.
That's what finally solved my problem. I made sure I had good air flow to the venturi valve and voila-- problem solved.
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Mexico's planned return to the Formula One calendar next year is looking doubtful, FIA president Max Mosley said on Thursday.
"From what I've read, it doesn't look very likely to me," he told reporters when asked about media reports that a land dispute in the Cancun region could prevent the circuit from being built.
"But I wouldn't be surprised to see a race in Mexico within the life of the current Concorde Agreement, before 2008."
Local organisers announced last October that the Caribbean resort would host a race for five years starting in 2006, marking the country's return to the calendar for the first time since a Grand Prix in Mexico City in 1992.
India has also been interested in hosting a Grand Prix in Hyderabad, although a recent initiative foundered after the chief backer of the project was voted out in regional elections last year.
However, the arrival of the country's first Formula One driver, Narain Karthikeyan at Jordan, has revived talk of a future Indian race.
"It depends on the local politicians," said Mosley. "One minute there is great excitement and then they lose the election and it goes away again. I suspect that if Karthikeyan goes well, then you will see one in India."
This year's calendar is already an unprecedented 19 races and Mexico would have been a 20th unless one of the European venues was axed.
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MATT Bloomfield believes Wycombe should target stability on and off the pitch next season.
An impending takeover of the club from the hands of millionaire Steve Hayes to the Wycombe Wanderers Trust has already seen big changes at Adams Park this summer.
The prolific Centre of Excellence has been shut down, backroom staff have left and a transfer embargo means boss Gary Waddock has been unable to tinker with his squad.
Promotion back out of League Two was the obvious aim after their relegation was confirmed last season but expectations among fans are being lowered as off-field issues dominate the headlines and with bookmakers pricing them 5/1 to win promotion – nine clubs are shorter odds.
And Bloomfield, who signed a new deal at the club yesterday, insists the players will be able to concentrate fully on football when the season kicks off on August 18.
He said: "The off-season is always a weird time for a footballer with players coming and going and things changing. Obviously this summer it has been a bit different with all the off-field situations and everything going on behind the scenes.
"A lot of that doesn't really have anything to do with us as players. We talk about it amongst ourselves and are aware of it but we are employed to play football and that is all we should concentrate on.
"Next season could be a year for stabilising. But we are all ambitious and are not interested in being second best. We have tasted success at this level before and want it again.
"But we will be able to properly assess where we are once the summer is over and we can see who has come into the club."
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