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Philanthropist and art collector Michael Audain is donating $5-million to the Emily Carr University of Art + Design, to create the Audain School of Visual Arts at the university's planned Great Northern Way Campus. Mr. Audain, who has donated millions to various art institutions – and is building his own museum in Whistler to house his extensive personal collection – calls Emily Carr "indisputably" the best art school in Canada.
"I believe that Emily Carr is one of the world's leading art schools," said Mr. Audain on Thursday. "And I also think that it's been a major contributor to Vancouver becoming an important centre for the visual arts."
In January, the B.C. government announced $113-million in funding for the planned $134-million Great Northern Way facility. The lead gift from the Audain Foundation for the Arts helps narrow the funding gap to about $16-million and could be key in triggering interest from other potential donors, according to university president and vice-chancellor Ron Burnett.
"In talking to a lot of fundraisers, one of the things that has come up is that in today's climate, $5-million is an enormous amount of money," said Dr. Burnett. "He's leaving an amazing legacy throughout B.C. He's a remarkable philanthropist."
Emily Carr's current facility on Granville Island was designed for 800 students, but the university's registration has grown to 1850. In addition, some 3000 people attend part-time continuing education courses each week. The new facility will be able to accommodate up to 2200 students.
"I had a tour of the school not long ago and I noticed how cramped the present facilities are," said Mr. Audain, who has made his fortune as a home developer, and spent much of it on art and supporting visual art institutions.
"I think Emily Carr does contribute to the creative economy in Vancouver ... and [the creative economy is] surely got to be our future here, so I think it's pretty important that we have an art school of which we can be very proud," said Mr. Audain. "I think it can serve the whole province in that regard."
The Audain School will encompass the Faculty of Visual Art + Material Practice and house studio-based areas of study, including painting, ceramics, print media, illustration, photography, sculpture and drawing – areas which Dr. Burnett says are core elements of the curriculum.
"It's interesting that the generation that one assumes is entirely devoted to the virtual, rushes into these material practices with delight and sticks with them quite deliberately," said Dr. Burnett. "This generation does not want to see [these disciplines] disappear. We have a metal shop that people use as actively as our digital labs."
Mr. Audain's extensive art collection includes works from many artists who have attended or taught at Emily Carr, including Ken Lum, Brian Jungen and Sonny Assu, in addition to works by the university's namesake.
"They have [always] attracted a very distinguished faculty and that's the great thing about the school: You've got these very important artists who are prepared to work with the students and challenge them and it just seems a great place," said Mr. Audain. "If I were starting over maybe I would have applied to go there."
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Barack Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe recently circulated the following complaint:
In an increasingly desperate effort to slow Senator Clinton's slide, the focus of the Clinton campaign has moved from Barack Obama's kindergarten years to his teenage years.
On Wednesday, their top advisor in New Hampshire tried to recycle old news by smearing Barack for experimenting with drugs as a young man — something Barack candidly wrote about years ago in his memoir and has since talked about with young people in an effort to teach them the lessons he learned from his mistakes.
The following picture, however, says more about Mr. Obama's character than anything the Clinton campaign can possibly dig up or even fabricate out of whole cloth.
This picture was taken this April at Al Sharpton's National Action Network, the same organization that shouted racial and anti-Semitic epithets at the Jewish owner of Freddy's Fashion Mart in Harlem in 1995. The National Action Network quotes Mr. Obama as saying, "Reverend Sharpton is a voice for the voiceless, and a voice for the dispossessed. What National Action Network has done is so important to change America, and it must be changed from the bottom up."
Sixty or seventy years ago, it was socially and politically acceptable for Robert Byrd to correspond with the notorious segregationist Theodore Bilbo while promoting the Ku Klux Klan. As recently as 1963, George Wallace didn't worry about losing many votes for vowing to "stand in the schoolhouse door" to exclude Black children. Those days are long gone. By appearing with, praising, and therefore enabling a prominent hate monger, Barack Obama has flunked a basic entry-level test of personal character: no mainstream candidate promotes racism or anti-Semitism in 21st century America. The Clinton campaign and other detractors can say all they want about Obama's lack of experience, but a candidate's experience or lack thereof becomes irrelevant when the candidate disqualifies himself before the starting gate even opens.
It is irrelevant that Sharpton was probably not spewing hatred of white people, Jews, or others during his actual appearance with Obama. The appearance of a credible Presidential candidate with this hate monger sanitizes and enables him. It gives the hate monger and his organization credibility, and therefore empowers them instead of relegating them to the lunatic fringe with the other bigots. When the Ku Klux Klan tried to endorse Ronald Reagan, Reagan rejected the endorsement on the spot. Reagan, unlike Obama, did not need that kind of vote badly enough to associate his name with a hate group. Reagan, again unlike Obama, most certainly did not endorse a Klan leader while praising what the Klan has done to change America. We recall Aesop's fable about birds of a feather flocking together, and Obama's decision to preen Sharpton's feathers leads to some very unsavory conclusions about Obama himself.
Al Sharpton's History, For the Record
Mr. Obama is easily old enough to remember what Al Sharpton has done, but here it is for the record. (We lived in Wappingers Falls in 1988, so we know all about Al Sharpton's list of white people whom he said raped Tawana Brawley.)
Fred Siegel's "Democrats Embrace 'Impresario of Hatred'" at http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004192
It would have taken no great effort for the reporters covering the Apollo debate to have walked across 125th Street from the theater to visit Freddy's Fashion Mart, where in 1995 eight people died in a murderous rampage inspired by Mr. Sharpton. Mr. Sharpton is best-known for the Tawana Brawley hoax, in which he insisted that a 15-year-old black girl had been abducted and raped by a band of white men practicing Irish Republican Army rituals. In fact she had made up the story to protect herself from her violent stepfather. But at Freddy's, Mr. Sharpton was even more malevolent. He turned a landlord-tenant dispute between the Jewish owner of Freddy's and a black subtenant into a theater of hatred. Picketers from Mr. Sharpton's National Action Network, sometimes joined by "the Rev." himself, marched daily outside the store, screaming about "bloodsucking Jews" and "Jew bastards" and threatening to burn the building down. After weeks of increasingly violent rhetoric, one of the protesters, Roland Smith, took Mr. Sharpton's words about ousting the "white interloper" to heart. He ran into the store shouting, "It's on!" He shot and wounded three whites and a Pakistani, whom he apparently mistook for a Jew. Then he set the fire, which killed five Hispanics, one Guyanese and one African-American—a security guard whom protesters had taunted as a "cracker lover." Smith then fatally shot himself.
The National Action Network, the very same organization at which Mr. Obama made his appearance, screamed about "bloodsucking Jews" and "Jew bastards" while making an arson threat that was later put into effect with the loss of seven innocent lives. Al Sharpton, with whom Mr. Obama posed arm in arm, personally added "white interloper" for good measure. There is no identifiable difference between the NAN's conduct outside Freddy's Fashion Mart and that of Ku Klux Klansmen who once intimidated Black people who moved into the "wrong" neighborhoods.
"Power Dem" by Jay Nordlinger (http://www.nationalreview.com/20Mar00/nordlinger032000.html) adds,
August of 1991 saw "Crown Heights," the period of madness that began when a car driven by a Hasidic Jew careened out of control, killing a seven-year-old black child, Gavin Cato. Riots broke out. A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, was lynched. Over a hundred others were injured. The city was on the verge of breaking apart. And here is what Al Sharpton had to say, in one of the most vile orations of his career, noxious with slanders familiar and novel:
The world will tell us that [Gavin Cato] was killed by accident. . . . What type of city do we have that would allow politics to rise above the blood of innocent babies? . . . Talk about how Oppenheimer in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights.
…Sharpton's rhetoric could also be rather less high-flown. "If the Jews want to get it on," he said, "tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house."
…But the torching, so to speak, continued. In 1995-four years into the putative New Sharpton-there was another, fatal case in which Sharpton had a guilty hand: Freddy's Fashion Mart. In Harlem, a white store owner — no, worse: a Jewish one — was accused of driving a black store owner out of business. At one of the many rallies meant to scare the Jewish owner away, Sharpton charged that "there is a systemic and methodical strategy to eliminate our people from doing business off 125th Street. I want to make it clear . . . that we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." Sharpton's colleague, Morris Powell, said of the Jewish owner—Sharpton's "white interloper"— "We're going to see that this cracker suffers. Reverend Sharpton is on it."
Al Sharpton's Blood Libel of Jews
Jeff Jacoby's "Al Sharpton: the Democrats' David Duke" (http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2411) adds,
1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt. Sharpton races to pour gasoline on the fire. At Gavin's funeral he rails against the "diamond merchants" — code for Jews — with "the blood of innocent babies" on their hands. He mobilizes hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, "No justice, no peace." A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, is surrounded by a mob shouting "Kill the Jews!" and stabbed to death.
The image of Jews "with the blood of innocent babies on their hands" is an ancient slur known as a blood libel. During medieval times, whenever anti-Semites wanted to incite a violent pogrom against Jews, they would claim that Jews used the blood of Christian babies to make bread or matzos. Noting that Sharpton's mob yelled "Kill the Jews!" and then did so after Sharpton's remark about "diamond merchants with the blood of innocent babies on their hands," little has changed. A professional hate monger spewed an anti-Semitic blood libel, and a violent pogrom ensued.
Obama's appearance with Sharpton is not only a deliberate and willful insult to all of us "crackers" and "bloodsucking Jews" (as Sharpton & Co. call us), it also shows total contempt for African-Americans. Racists and anti-Semites appeal universally to the absolute dregs of the societies they claim to represent. No decent white person would want to live next to the kind of Caucasian whose vote someone like David Duke (KKK) or Tom Metzger (White Aryan Resistance) can deliver, and the class of African-American whose vote Sharpton can deliver is self-evident.
Res ipsa loquitur means, "The thing speaks for itself." If Mr. Obama has any conceivable excuse or explanation for the picture and the statement on the first page, he and his staff are welcome to post it for the benefit of our readers. We do not expect any response, however, because we cannot conceive of any excuse or explanation for enabling racial and anti-Semitic hatred as part of a mainstream candidate's political campaign. An unconditional apology to the entire country might, however, be a small start toward restoring Mr. Obama's credibility as a member of mainstream American society, let alone as a candidate for any office of public trust or responsibility.
Tags: Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, Crown Heights, David Plouffe, Hillary Clinton, Tawana Brawley, Yankel Rosenbaum


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A collaboration between the National Center for Genome Resources, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Marine Microbiology Initiative, and the international marine microbial eukaryote research community sequenced the transcriptomes of 678 samples from hundreds of diverse organisms
Marine microbial eukaryotes are found in all major eukaryotic branches of the evolutionary tree. They perform a diverse range of functions in marine ecosystems-including photosynthesis, predation and parasitism. Despite the great abundance of microeukaryotes in the ocean, their importance as absorbers of carbon dioxide and their critical contribution to marine food webs (among many ecological roles), the gene content of these microorganisms is only beginning to be explored because their genomes can be structurally complex and many gigabases in size. This program is intended to increase the research community's baseline of scientific knowledge by creating catalogues of genes that specify how these organisms thrive in diverse marine habitats and how they influence marine ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles and the composition of the atmosphere.
The National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's (GBMF) Marine Microbiology Initiative (MMI) are engaged in a new research collaboration with the international marine microbial eukaryote research community to sequence the transcriptomes of approximately 750 samples that are expected to represent hundreds of diverse species and strains. Transcriptomes will be generated de novo using the Illumina HiSeq 2000 platform.
This project aims to significantly enhance the research community's ability to:
- Explore the physiology of diverse marine microbial eukaryotes;
- Interpret metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data generated from marine ecosystems; and
- Illuminate the evolutionary relationships among marine microbial eukaryotic clades and within the overall eukaryotic tree of life.
MMI and NCGR are soliciting nominations for transcriptome sequencing from the international scientific community, which will be reviewed by a panel of five experts. Sequencing nominations may target diverse microeukaryotes for which little or no gene content information exists and/or include comparative transcriptomic experiments.
To meet the project aims noted above, the expert panel will consider nominations that:
- "Fill in the blanks" on the evolutionary tree of microeukaryotes using transcriptome sequencing of cultured organisms; and
- Target deeper exploration of marine microeukaryotes that are known to play important ecological roles.
A very limited number of non-marine microeukaryote nominations may be accepted should the proposing researcher make a strong case for how the transcriptome sequencing will significantly increase the research community's understanding of marine microbial eukaryotes. However, nominations for environmental metatranscriptomic sequencing (e.g. of a flow sorted population) or whole genome sequencing will not be accepted.
Time Line:
|December 20, 2010
|Nominations due via NCGR on-line nomination portal
|February, 2011
|NCGR notifies researcher of decision
|3 months following notification
|Sample submission to NCGR*
* Time extensions may be requested due to organisms that are known to grow slowly and/or if a researcher has many samples to prepare. Samples will be placed in NCGR's sequencing queue and processed on a first-come, first-served basis.
For accepted nominations, specific instructions for submitting RNA and the time line for subsequent sequencing-related milestones (e.g. sample quality control checks; completion of sequencing) will be provided to the researcher by NCGR at the time of notification.
For samples accepted into the project, environmental and experimental metadata must be submitted to NCGR before sample submission kits will be sent to a researcher's laboratory. Transcriptome sequence datasets, assemblies, annotations and associated metadata will be deposited in the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA) and the Short Read Archive at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Because the data generated for this project will serve as a resource to the entire the research community, all sequence information and associated metadata will be made publicly available six months after the researcher who submitted a sample receives his/her data. Please see Resources for details on accessing data.
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05 September 2009
On the road - Roseburg, Oregon
Delfino Vineyards, Roseburg, Oregon
On our way back up the coast my daughter found a little cottage on the grounds of a winery to break our journey. Five dogs to greet us, a hot tub, a bottle of wine in the fridge and a beautiful walk up the hill to a meadow. It felt like a complete vacation. Maybe I won't come back home.
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You'll have to commute, you know. We need more of your Charleston photos!ReplyDelete
Bet there aren't too many Black Cabs in Roseburg, either....
Keep on enjoying the vacation!
Joan, your photos are fantastic! I love your deer. It looks like he is looking right at you for the picture. Too cute! Glad you are having such a good time. Enjoy!ReplyDelete
looks beautiful!ReplyDelete
I will forward this post to my own daughter, for her "things to do with mom when I'm done college and making more money than she is" file.ReplyDelete
intelliwench - it worked for me!ReplyDelete
shadow - Shame it all has to end. Sniff.
Caroline - It was!
Jacob - and houses ain't selling. :(
I just love these! No wonder you want to stay!ReplyDelete
Egads - THE DEER! THE DEER! What a great shot, that moment of recognition before you see the white tail bounding away into the woods...ReplyDelete
Joan, Thanks for posting the photos and sentiments about your stay here. MrScribbler, the grape photo is of Tempranillo, a spanish varietal, but we do have Cabernet Sauvignon too. The smaller grapes have no seeds to provide hormones for growth but they still ripen and provide extra character and flavor to this wine. firstname.lastname@example.com


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Hello everyone-
At the request of many of the long-time forum members, this thread is being created to serve as a place to rate the various G60 tuners one has to choose from when looking for a rebuild.
Please post in this thread to allow others to know about your experiences, good or bad, with rebuilders you've worked with. But, please post ONLY in the format indicated below. ALL other posts will be deleted or modified. I want to keep this clean and easy to read through.
Also, PLEASE try to keep this factual as opposed to emotional. Expressing unhappiness or happiness is fine, but I don't want this to degenerate into a pissing match full of emoticons and bad language.
Please post Yes/No or short answers to the following questions. Make multiple posts if you've worked with multiple rebuilders. Please do NOT post anything that does not fit this format. Feel free to leave questions blank if they don't apply. Periodically, I'll tabulate the numerical answers to the last two questions so that we can have a quick-glance "score" to look at.
Also, please enter your answers with corresponding questions so we know what you're talking about. You can copy and paste the questions into your new post, then just type your answers between them.
Rebuild Services:
1) Who did you send your charger to for a rebuild?
2) What was the turnaround time? i.e., how many days from when you sent it out did you get it back?
3) What rebuild services did you have performed? Standard rebuild, performance options, paint, etc.
4) Were any repairs needed at the time of rebuild, such as apex strip groove repairs?
Customer Satisfaction:
1) In General, are you happy with the quality of materials/workmanship?
2) Are you happy with the rebuilder's customer service?
3) Was there an improvement in charger performance (i.e. boost level) as a result of the rebuild, or as a result of the performance upgrades?
4) Did the rebuild come with a warranty? If so, have you had to return the charger for warranty work? If not, why not?
Overall Rating:
1) On a scale of 1 to 10, rate the quality of work.
2) On a scale of 1 to 10, rate the quality of customer service.
Thanks everyone, I look forward to seeing the results of this thread!
PS - for informational purposes, the three rebuilders that get the most reccomendations on here regularly are, in alphabetical order:
1) Bahn Brenner
2) Kompressor Kanada
3) ORZ-Motorsport
And although this thread was created with the intent of providing a rating method of sorts, it's important to realize that a low number of responses regarding a given rebuilder doesn't necessarily indicate that they have a bad reputation.
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1993 Isuzu Amigo Problems
RepairPal has identified the most common problems with the 1993 Isuzu Amigo based on complaints from actual vehicle owners. We'll tell you what the problem is and what it'll take to fix it.
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The air conditioner may stop working due to icing up of the evaporator, generally caused but a faulty evaporator thermostat. Replacement of the failed evaporator thermostat will be required to correct this concern.
An oil leak may develop from the distributor shaft. Our technicians tell us that affected distributors will require replacement to correct this concern.
A knocking noise may be noted from the steering column, commonly caused by a faulty steering shaft joint. Replacement of the failed part will be required to correct the condition.


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Went nuts with a bit of my tax return Koni's are up for sale
Went nuts with a bit of my tax return Koni's are up for sale
Did the headliner this weekend. Not too happy with the results, but it's good enough.
I actually returned the previous threads and picked up this. Not a stretchy, but I love the dark plum color!
Starting the pillars. You can see the difference of the color the way the sun hits it.
Making a mess!
More or less the final result. Color looks really light in pics. I'll have to take some with my dslr when I get the chance
I have so much respect for upholsterers after doing this job. I honestly don't think I'd do this again.
1k OEM+ Build Thread << On Hold until I have a garage to pull it apart myself.
5 Feet or 5 Miles an hour.
VRalliance #93
excellent work. i will be going to joann soon to do my fabrics.. although i dont realy know what fabric to choose front
On another note, the last thing I ordered for my air setup was the first thing to ship! Go figure!
While I was out washing my car for the first time probably this year (I know, I know), my UPS driver Robin showed up, and the first box arrived. All of my orders were placed on Friday, so to bagriders shipping department.
As far as the gauges are concerned, when I was piecing everything together, I was dead set on the podi double psi gauges, but after seeing a pic of them installed on a car Dorbitz did, I couldn't justify spending that kind of cash on gauges that had back light like that. If you're not sure what they look like when photographed with a flash see here. Unfortunately, Podi couldn't get back to me in time to confirm that they only look like that when photographed with a flash or when seen in direct sunlight. I was kind of bummed when I saw that because I knew I wouldn't go through the trouble of returning the viair gauges I bought, but none the less, they are ridiculously expensive and I can always upgrade; I'll definitely be keeping my eye on the classified threads.
My 42DD dual gauge pod arrived a while ago; I bought it because they discontinued them (actually they never even released them). Anyway, for $20 I figured I couldn't go wrong, and I really like the idea of a dual gauge pod as opposed to a triple. Anyway, the gauges wouldn't fit what so ever, so I brought out the dremel and soon realized a good old file as the way to go.
Sitting pretty
[QUOTE=jarlsberg;76247153]Thanks, Joey. I'm not sure this thing will every truly be done though
it never is with a vw theres always a new idea
Installed this bad larry! Loving it! Now when I get rid of my upper-din-cd-thing I won't have to install an aftermarket head unit to listen to cd's (yes I still listen to cd's )
Also! This was waiting for me when I got home from work last night!
The only thing I'm waiting on now are the compressors. Not sure when I'll have time to get everything installed. I really only have sundays, and monday/tuesday nights to get it done. I think I'm going to try and take two days off in the next couple weeks to get everything installed. My boss will probably think I'm taking vaca to work on my car lol
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...my first time coming upon this thread. I read every post of yours and loved it. Mad props to you for being reedonkulous and doing all that in the street! Love it! ( used to live in Grafton, MA... now in Stamford, CT).
Keep going! I've always thought about air. Make sure to take lots of pics. =)
awesome build. for bag riders
Props for such an awesome build, especially because your doing it all out in the street!
Quite the eventful weekend, lemme tell ya.
I'll precede the weekend's events with this little tidbit: I bumped into someone on Wednesday night. Didn't think there was any damage. All of a sudden I hit a big bump and the guides on my bumper went rattling away. I didn't even think to go and pick them up, but anyway, it forced me to put on my beat votex bumper; this things needs paint bad; they guy I bought it from had a really bad paint job done on it and it's attracts rock chips like my oil pan attracts cracks (more on that bellow o_o)
So anyway, this whole past week has been my spring break so I didn't have class on Saturday. I took the opportunity to have my new tires mounted on the RH's!
At the shop
Still on steelies, waiting for them to get mounted =)
A semi pulled in for some hid's lol Now that's a ****ing bag!
When I bought this set, they had p-sports and were wayyyy too big for my set-up. None the less I did what any rational person would do and still mounted them. The rears are ok, tread-wise and I plan on selling them, but this was the outcome of the fronts:
Gave em a decent clean
Finally some good stretch! Went from a 245 to a 215 on the rears! 9.5" wide
And of course, as all things seem to, something went wrong! I lost 2 of the bolts for the adapters. It must have happened in my frantic, get the car back on the road (while I was shaving the bay) mode. When I bought my rh's, luckily, the guy gave me a bunch of random bolts; some of which were actually conical, which I needed for my adapters. So I cut them shorter to fit inside the adapters.
Didn't even have to take much off, and they "torqued" down fine. Now I just have to carry two wheel locks lol
Buddy of mine showed up with this; ahhh it's nice out again =)
Of course, I went to take a few pics. I just found my CF card reader, finally, so from here on out, I vow to take mostly pics with the dslr!
While I was taking pics of the car, an older gentleman with a small dog and a Harley Davidson hat asked me if I had just gotten into an accident because I was taking pictures. I told him, no, but he continued to get closer. Long story short, he loved the car. I don't know why I don't ever expect older guys to get the whole, "form over function" thing, but he did, and it was nice hearing some positive comments.
Anyway, all of this was done on St. Patties day! A few of my friends had got a hotel room for the night, so the shenanigans started there. Eventually we ended up in Allston, and I drove home later on. I wasn't hammered by any means, but I'm beginning to believe that any slight bit of alcohol I drink messes up my perception on pot holes/ speed bumps. The next day, I noticed a small puddle forming under the car, and sure enough, it had happened again o_o
This time I'm going with a steel pan. Hopefully I'll have time to weld some reinforcing steel on it and create a flywheel cover in time for my Saturday class. Other than bike/ taxi, there will be no other way of getting there, so I might end up just throwing it on, and addressing the other objectives later on. I'm taking vacation on the 2nd and 3rd to try to get everything together; hopefully that'll be enough time.
As always,
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Wheels look good!
how many oil pans is that now for you??
So I opted for an mk3 pan this time. It came today, but the gasket isn't in the box! I paid the guy extra for the gasket and he didn't send it!
More down time
I started off the weekend right with fixing the oil pan yesterday, and just in time to get my car inspected! I tried going last Saturday, but he wouldn't even test me because I'm not running a front plate. I told him that that was the only time I could do it because I have a class on Saturdays, so he said he could do it as early as 7AM; so I got it done today! I'm just super relieved because this was the first time since the doing my bay. This guy actually checked my washer fluid! I told him I had a broken pump =P
Once class finished up today, I swung by the dealer to pick up my LCA bolts to get ready for these guys =)
I also dropped off the spindles to press in the new hubs and bearings.
Oh! And I finally got my acceptance to UMass Boston! Jesus they take forever!
Looks good dude! respray that rear bumper though


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David Lawrence is found not guilty
The family of David Lawrence and the defendant himself wept Thursday when Judge Charles C. Currier read the not guilty verdict. After having deliberated for one hour, the jury acquitted Lawrence on a charge of criminal sexual contact.
The charge stemmed from an incident that allegedly took place Feb. 4, 2011, when Lawrence, a coach and teacher at Goddard High School, reportedly let a 17-year-old student into his home.
Lawrence was the primary witness for the defense. He told the court Thursday he [auth] had no idea who was at the door when he opened it the day of the incident.
"My wife … buys the biggest floral arrangement she can find … We have frosted glass on the front door. I saw a silhouette, that's all," he said.
Lawrence said his reaction when he opened the door and saw the student so late at night was, "what was wrong?" He said he was concerned. "I've played that back every night since it happened. … There was no car and it was freezing out."
He denied any wrongdoing and described his relationship with the student as strictly platonic. Lawrence quoted the victim as saying that night: "I wanted to see if you are going to take this situation any further." He then replied to her, "There is no situation."
When Assistant District Attorney Debra Hutchins asked why he had not reported the incident to the school, he said: "This was a pretty embarrassed young lady. I saw no reason for taking it any further."
He categorically denied ever seeing the note from the victim that principal Andrew Sweet found in his desk.
After the trial, defense attorney S. Doug Jones Witt said, "This (verdict) had everything to do with credibility. She had no credibility."
Speaking for the prosecution, Assistant District Attorney Flori Nunez said, "Obviously, we are disappointed, but we presented the evidence to the jury and we respect the jury and their decision."
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WOW!!!! Some things never change….
Mr. David Lawrence was a teacher when I attended Goddard High School until I graduated in 2002 and has always been an upstanding individual. I believe in his innocence and pray that his family is able to move forward in peace and that the Lord blesses and keeps them whole.
Mr. Lawrence has taught thousands of students and made a difference in the lives of countless individuals and I, being a former student wish him and his family the best and am glad the ordeal is over for them.
Best Wishes and God Bless.
Awesome Julie101…. we all know the truth:) Amazing man
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I came home from a yoga class today and I was craving something light and earthy to drink. I threw together a juice using everything green I had in my kitchen, plus some ginger.
3 celery stalks
1 (large) green apple, quartered
1/2 of a cucumber (I used an English one)
1 in chunk of ginger
a handful of basil
place ingredients in a juicer, and juice. serve immediately.
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text: It is amazing to me that Nelson Mandela is still alive. This is a man who is 94 years old and I feel like he has lived everyone of those 94 years and then some. To think of where he was 40 years ago and where his country was and to see what happened, in large part, because of him and you have to be in awe. What he has done for his country and for the world is something you probably will never see happen again in our lifetimes. His family says that he is in critical condition after being admitted two weeks ago for a lung infection and that they will let God decide when it is time for Nelson to die and will not take him off life support.


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As an atheist, this whole "giving thanks on Sundays" thing is, well, frankly, kind of odd to me. It's not that I find the concept of a day for rest and relaxation odd (no, seriously, HUZZAH for rest and relaxation – even though my weekends are never as rest and relaxation-filled as I would like them to be), nor that I find the concept of giving thanks odd. It's just the whole "giving thanks on a day of a rest and relaxation thing" that I find odd…no matter. I'm going to use today to do that anyway.
Seeing as how I've been busy running around doing a billion other things lately, I feel like I've neglected to give the proper thanks to the people I believe deserve it, so I thought I'd take a moment this morning and give a shout-out to all of the wonderful people who have helped to support me and Antigone Awakens in my endeavors over the last few months.
In no particular order:
Katie Speak: If you aren't already following her blog, or listening to her speak on Hal Sparks radio show on Saturday, START. Like, yesterday. I originally met Katie on the twitterz, and we were finally able to meet up in person during a recent trip to New York, where we spent three days smashing the patriarchy and plotting business plans whilst celebrating the anniversary of my birth. She's a kick-ass human being and I can.not.wait for her book. Thank you, Katie, for your encouragement (…and for the language from your site I borrowed encouraging people to follow you – you really do have an awesome way with words).
ClinicEscort: Oh, CE – you and I will always be bitter old feminist hags together, won't we? 😉 Yet another twitter pal, CE may or may not have followed and unfollowed me several times before I solemnly swore to stop .@ tweeting crazy antis. We finally met up at a Board of Health hearing around VA's trap laws, so I can now verify that she's just as awesome in person as her online persona would make her seem. Thank, you, CE, for being the amazing repro health advocate / women's rights advocate you are, and for making the world of social media activism seem like child's play.
Nikki Liz Murray: Nikki, well, I don't know what to say about Nikki. Yet another tweep I met whom I discovered IRL at a DCAF fundraiser, Nikki and I have become…well, what have we become, Nikki? A crazy prochoice feminist activist duo? 😉 If I ever need someone to vent about how my plans to smash the patriarchy aren't working out exactly the way I intended, or about how the universe seems to hate me again today, or about how wordpress can suck it right now, Nikki is there. Plus, she's a kick-ass writer of her own accord, does AMAZING repro health work, and is, in general, an awesomesauce human being. She just started up her own blog here, and I highly encourage you to follow her.
Robin Marty: Rockstar RHReality check writer, and now author of a frequently sold-out awesome book, Crow After Roe. Robin, THANK YOU, for giving me the courage to believe that I actually COULD start writing some of these investigative pieces. I'm still learning, but without your nudges, I don't know that I would have ever moved beyond my 1Flesh crusade. So thank you.
DrJaneChi: One of my honest to FSM, true-life heroes. I could NEVER do the work that Dr. Doe is doing, and I kind of want to follow her around every day giving her a standing ovation. Plus, have you read her tweets? The woman's intersectional analysis is to die for! Jane, you, my dear, kick some ass. Please to keep doing so.
LeahNTorres: Another one of my real life heroes, with the patience of a saint. How you can provide the amazing care you provide to women each day and still fight the vitriolic filled nonsense spewn at you every day on twitter while maintaining your composure is beyond me, lady. But I salute you for it. Andplusalso, you make a great partner in crime when it comes to Hard Rock parties. Can't wait for you to make it back to the DC area!
GynAndTonic: Yet another of my real life heroes. (Are you noticing a theme yet?) Dr. Tonic falls into the same category as Jane and Leah, and therefore has my greatest and utmost respect. Plus, your sense of humour has me reaching for my inhaler every time we talk (what with demons causing mirth-induced asthma). Also, like Leah, your Hard Rock party escapades are legendary! 😉 Can't wait to see you again!
BlackDove78 – BlackDove is yet another prochoice tweep who I haven't had the privilege of meeting in person, but who I HAVE had the privilege of conversing with. She's an amazing repro health worker, mother, friend, fellow atheist, and generally awesomesauce human being, who still finds time to fight the idiocy she finds antis spewing on Twitter. BD, darling, you rock! 🙂
BrazenQueer – BQ, I know we just officially "met" a few weeks ago, but I'm adding you here because, well, I feel like you're already a member of my family. 😉 BQ is another awesome repro health advocate who has been there for me during my recent trials and tribulations with a certain crazy. Plus, she kicks ass when it comes to talking about queer theory AND she's an awesome blog post author collaborator. Check out this post to see what I mean.
To any of the other lovely people in my life whom I've forgotten, my sincerest apologies. Please know that I adore you, too. Also, my apologies for any misspelling or grammar mistakes in the post above, but I wanted to get it out there before I left for the day. Again, THANK YOU to each and every one of you. I wouldn't be where I am today without your help. You are all absolutely amazing people, and I consider myself incredibly lucky to have met you, let alone to have you as part of my life.
Thank you for being my inspirations.
Till next time,
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Contrary to the swirling report suggesting Khloe is 2-month pregnant, a source close to her and husband Lamar Odom insists that the reality TV star is not expecting a baby.
No baby on board for Khloe Kardashian and her Los Angeles Lakers star husband Lamar Odom. Following swirling rumor mentioning the couple is expecting their first child, a source close to them told to Hollyscoop that Khloe is not pregnant.
The story was first reported by Radar Online which claimed that Khloe is two months pregnant. The site reported that Khloe was so in love with her sister Kourtney Kardashian's baby son, Mason Dash Disick, that she wanted one of her own.
"Khloe was inspired by Kourtney having a baby. Lamar is happy and ecstatic," a source close to the family told the site. The source further said, "They're really happy, but Lamar is a little weary of exposing his baby on TV. He already doesn't like his life being played out for everyone to see eight months of the year."
Khloe was further said opting to keep the announcement secret until she passed through the vital first trimester. Then, she would announce the news on her reality TV series "Keeping Up with the Kardashians".
Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom married on September 27, 2009 at a ceremony held on the grounds of the home of music mogul Irving Azoff, a family friend, in Beverly Hills. Lamar himself already has two children, Destiny and Lamar Jr., from his previous relationship with Liza Morales.


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great topic idea, guys! EGM was probably the only magazine I used to read cover to cover, and I'm still sad about losing 1UP.com. I'm getting used to US Gamer, but it's not quite the same.
Woo-hoo! I'm really going to enjoy this one.
Cool topic, guys.
I was never a huge reader of video game magazines; I would read them on and off if I could get my mom to buy me one at the grocery store or something as a kid, but I never had a subscription of any sort. In fact, the first subscription to a gaming mag I ever had was Game Informer a couple years ago, when I signed up for whatever rewards program it was GameStop had at the time. (I quickly figured out it was an industry mag and, as such, had to be read through a certain filter, and then, about two months later, just stopped reading it altogether.)
Probably my strongest memories of any gaming magazine would be things like poring over my friend Mike's Nintendo Powers, the two of us drooling over the pre-release screenshots of the original Final Fantasy, thinking it looked like the coolest thing ever, and how awesome it would be if one of us actually managed to win a crystal orb in that contest they were holding. Or, in the early- to mid-90s, reading GamePro — I think; was GamePro the one with the little head mascot that looked like the guy from Atomic Warheads candy? — on a fairly regular basis, really the first time in my life I had had such an opportunity. The Mortal Kombat movie was coming out around that time, and I can remember all the slightly breathless coverage, including Christopher Lambert giving an interview talking about how faithful Raiden was going to be to the games. I also remember thinking, even at the time, that Raiden really should have been played by David Carradine, who was enjoying a bit of a renaissance in public awareness due to having a new Kung Fu-themed show on, I think, the WB network at the time. I think it was on around the same time the Hercules television show was just getting started, though I wouldn't swear to that.
Another strangely tangential memory of GamePro: the only review I specifically remember from that magazine was their Earthbound review, which I'm fairly certain was just crazily, over-the-top negative. I think the game got something along the lines of a 2 out of 10, with the graphics in particular being singled out as looking closer to bad NES-era graphics than what we should have expected of a latter-day SNES game. I think the naming convention of the towns was also a bone of contention, with Onett, Twoson, and Threed being too childish to bear for the reviewer. The review was so bad it was actually years before I ever gave Earthbound a chance; when I finally did, I couldn't believe what I had missed out on thanks to that bizarrely negative review. I wish I could find that review to confirm my memory, but the best I can find is an old Role-player's Realm feature on the game someone helpfully archived at earthbound central.
Oh man, I have a storage closet full of video game mags in my parents' basement. Devoured every magazine I could find back in the day, though the fanboy in me still maintains they were all "biased" against Nintendo.
The devolution of Next Generation always interested me. It started as this impossibly pompous high-brow look at video games, and some of its in-depth features still stand out to me — I remember long interviews about the Jaguar and Tom Zito at Digital Pictures that were bonkers in retrospect.
Great topic, Retronauts! So…um…are you guys gonna do another year of Retronauts? The original Kickstarter launched this week last year.
Excellent episode. Great overview of the many forms of gaming media that came out from 80's to now. I can't believe you even mentioned the Sunsoft letter–hardcore!
One item of mention was the Turbografx-16 VHS video that was mailed for free that showcased their upcoming games (that and the free Turbo Touch 360 shows the amount of disposable income companies had back then). That video completely fueled my hype for that system, mostly because it also showed a bunch of games for the PC Engine that some "bros" claimed was "totally rad!"
But Valley-speak aside, all of your perspectives towards each magazine honestly reflects almost exactly the way I felt about them. From the soulless Game Players 80's mags to (I also can't believe you mentioned) the zany PC Accelerator, your coverage was in-depth and entertaining.
Protip: http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/threads/33808-The-GameFan-history-thread?pp=30 Here is a no holds barred remembering of GameFan which blew my mind and I would imagine will probably do the same to Matt.
Wonderful, wonderful episode guys. I don't know where I'd be without the gaming magazines of the 90's. I probably wouldn't be as good a reader as I am today! Like you guys, I too learned words I had never heard before by reading these magazines.
My closet is stacked full of magazines like NextGen, GamePro, Tips and Tricks, Nintendo Power, PSM, OPM, and, quite possibly my favorite (and so tragically short lived) was 1up's GMR magazine. Jeff Green's 'Game Geezer' editorials in the back were among the best columns in any game magazine.
They say nostalgia makes us look back more fondly on things that weren't in actuality so nice, but there was something a lot more inciting about games media back in the halcyon magazine days. Every scrap of news was interesting, because you had to wait 30 days (or more!) to get the next batch of information. So every issue was a cover to cover affair.
Now today there is so much news flooded to my RSS every day that I barely bother to read a tenth of it, if even that! Myabe I'm missing out on something I would've otherwise found interesting. Who knows! There isn't enough time in a lifetime to go through all of that stuff today.
Oh well, as said, it's probably better today, with the access of information to anyone, with it being able to come from anywhere, but, nothing today compares to opening your mailbox to a pile of magazines.
Thanks guys!
Thank you, guys. This episode was wonderful.
I echo many of the sentiments others already have said. Game magazines in the 80s and 90s were really special. Something about them and the state gaming at the time made each new issue feel like a gift. I could read and re-read the same issues several times. And that new magazine smell…oh I miss it.
I really feel this kickstarter season of episodes is as good or better than any other single season of Retronauts. And, while I'm certainly a bit biased here, that was just about the best episode of Retronauts I've listened to.
Hoping you guys end up doing another season. Would absolutely contribute to another kickstarter campaign. Retronauts is a treasure.
Interesting that you mentioned in some detail that Christmas '90 issue of EGM that provided such detail about the Super Famicom release of Super Mario World. I think it was my brother showing me that issue that converted me from a causal video game player to the 'hard core' -the year of '91 saw deep investments in the TurboGrafx-16, Genesis and finally the SNES launch. But it was devouring those issues of EGM and GamePro during work hours that made the hobby a genuine passion.
And yet, all that being said, the first magazine that I came across that was devoted to video games, and I bought nearly every issue of from the premier onward, was JoyStik. Looking back on it now, that magazine's design couldn't have been more aggressively 80s if it was staffed by the members of Devo and edited by Max Headroom. It was much more arcade-centric than console focused, though it was the magazine that made me aware of the Atari 5200, and built hype for the ColecoVision. Some of those photos you find in JoyStik take on new meaning in a post King of Kong world; some very familiar names and faces. I managed to find a physical copy of the DK jr issues at a thrift shop some years later, but I think the entire run of JoyStik has been scanned and can be found online now.
JoyStik was what I came here to mention, oddly enough. I remember that magazine vividly from when I was six or seven; I didn't really have anything approaching the skills to execute the patterns they described, but I thought it was awesome that half the point of the magazine was to show you what you needed to do to play a near-perfect game of Dig Dug. I also loved the super-detailed inflated pictures of all the sprites…though some of them were inflated to the point that I had no idea WTF they were supposed to look like at that size and standing still. (Particularly the Humanoids in Defender, which at magazine size, with space between pixels, look not even a little like a person.)
When I read the episode title on my iPod I kinda expected this to be an episode about video game storage mediums, which I guess would be a pretty weird theme, but reminded me of an old computer game, I think it may have been for the Spectrum, that came on a cassette where the data was on one side, and there was regular audio on the other, which was intended to sync up with the gameplay once you started. It was some kind of quick time event-ish sci-fi game that I can't remember the name of anymore.
When it comes to game press there's this weird website I've been wondering about for years, called Coming Soon Magazine, available at csoon.com, it hasn't been updated since 2000, and even then the last coverage is of E3 1997. I didn't know about it when it was active, and I have no idea if it ever had a print equivalent or something, and the little that remains of their editorial content doesn't seem to be of terribly high quality, but none the less I find that site incredibly fascinating. Is that a page or magazine any of you know anything about?
I found some UGP content online at one point, because I was starting to think I had just imagined the whole magazine since my terrible friends don't remember it at all. At the time I loved every part of it, mostly the humor and personality. But sadly, I didn't find it had aged too well. Maybe because most of YouTube "nerd humor" today is a pale imitation, but it seems very dated now.
Great episode. Makes me regret losing all my Nintendo Powers. We subscribed from about issue 3 (the live action Zelda cover) through the N64 era or so. I had a brief subscription to OPM and EGM but never really got a big collection of either.
I assume the guest that couldn't make the show was the Mag Weasel himself, Frank Gifford? I'd still love for him to Skype into the show at some point to talk about pretty much anything. Matt was no slouch in this episode though, kudos to him.
All this talk of great fansites and websites makes me nostalgic and want to read it now! Any recommendations for sites like The GIA these days? I read and like Hardcore Gaming 101 and Rock Paper Shotgun
This was a great episode. It brought back some great memories.
I really loved this episode guys, especially once you moved into the early gaming website era. I enjoyed hearing about all the gaming magazines too, but that subject has been covered often. I feel like the early web days rarely get spoken about, so it was great to hear it.
I never expected to hear something as obscure as Camp Hyrule pop up on this. I spent way too much of my youth hanging out on Nintendo Power Source, both it's AOL hub and once it migrated to the web. I still have a handful of internet pals I've kept in touch with over all those years that I met through NPS.
I knew Jeremy did some work for TheGIA but never realized that he did the artwork! I can remember they had some sort of contest about redesigning those two characters at some point. I submitted an entry to it, and I can remember sitting at my drawing table looking at a print out of those two characters and thinking "how can I really do this better?" (I didn't). Pretty cool to look back and realize I was looking at your artwork.
I'm actually somewhat surprised CapScott's N64HQ.com wasn't brought up once you guys really started rolling along and name dropping all these sites, but you guys covered tons of ground.
This episode was lots of fun. Thanks for putting it together.
Good show guys even if it got me alittle sad thinking about how much i miss the days of coming home from school to find a gaming mag sitting on my bed where my mom would leave it as as a suprise. The only mag i ever got in the mail as a kid was Nintendo Power but the weird thing was i never signed up for but remember getting it for years and it wasnt till a few years ago i found out my grandma was in some magazine sweepstakes scam so she was ordering it for me to get more sweepstakes entries but she never told anyone about it.
Great episode. Really glad you guys brought up Ultra Game Players. All of the stupid in-jokes and subversive humor really made it feel like a predecessor to Giant Bomb, which I adore today. It would really be cool to hear from some of those guys that used to work on that magazine today.
When I was 11-12, I remember VG&CE feeling much more like it was an 'industry magazine' (which it wasn't, of course, and that's obvious in retrospect) than a magazine actually FOR gamers. I liked it a lot, but I didn't see it often (basically only Waldenbooks carried it in my part of Texas, the grocery stores and gas stations stuck to EGM and Gamepro.) I think I bought Game Players twice, and regretted it both times.
On the subject of industry mags, my uncle was with a distributor in the pre-crash era, servicing jukeboxes and arcade machines in non-arcade settings (7-Eleven, bars, etc.) all over town. He used to lend me his Play Meter every month for a week or so; it went WAY over my head (I would've been five or six at the time), but it was cool to see what was coming out in six months, find out what was REALLY the most popular game in terms of money, and see ads targeted at owners rather than gamers. (I remember being super excited for MACH 2 and I Robot…)


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Famous people usually worry about their legacies. But not Brigitte Bardot, the erstwhile sex kitten of France. "It is not important how people remember me in the future. The most important thing is what happens today. When I am dead and gone I do not care what people think of me."
Bardot, who turns 72 this year, may or may not have been sincere. But what she could never deny is that in this life she has been talked about almost all the time. Hers has been a journey from sex icon to an animal rights champion and occasional socio-political provocateur who has attracted as many foes as friends.
Hers, in fact, has been a life in two acts. During the second, she has not only courted controversy with support for animals rights - not least this week when she returned to Canada to batter its government for allowing its annual cull of harp seals - but also veered close to political pariahdom, falling foul of the French courts two years ago for inciting racial hatred with a book that lamented the "Muslim over-running" of France and aired other explosive views, including about homosexuals.
Act One, - 'Lust' - is more affectionately remembered by most of us. The world first began to hear about blonde Bardot in the mid-1950s, when she began a modelling and acting career that saw her make 48 films, most of them fluffy enterprises that became vehicles for the camera to adore her curvaceous physical gifts.
Her heyday as a sex symbol came in the swinging 1960s, when she established St Tropez as the chosen resort of European sun-worshipers and hedonists. The South of France was about flesh and fun and Bardot epitomised the times.
Her career was peaking at roughly the same time. Propelled to the top rung of European starlets with her 1956 film 'And God Created Women', made by her then husband Roger Vadim, Bardot went on to ride the new wave cinema movement in France.
After a period of reclusion, she starred in a series of glossy 1960s crowd-pleasers while continuing to model and dabble in pop music, most notably with the saucy boy of French pop music, Serge Gainsbourg.
Bardot was, in those days, Europe's answer to Marilyn Monroe. Both became portraits painted by Andy Warhol. And both had timultuous private lives. After divorcing Vadim, Bardot went on to three other marriages, not to mention all the rumours of torrid affairs with the likes of Gainsbourg and another pop star Sacha Distel.
With husband number two, the actor Jacques Charrier (1959-62) she had her only child, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, from whom she is estranged. (She once referred to him as a "tumour".) Her subsequent husbands were the German millionaire playboy Gunther Sachs (1966-69) and a French right-wing politician, Bernard D'Ormale, with whom she remains after their marriage in 1992.
Mention Bardot today, and for some, the image of those pouting come-hither years remains untarnished. The kitten of St Tropez may have become an ageing cat - one, by the way, that has publicly eschewed the lure of plastic surgery - but still we associate her with those burnished beach photographs in the now antique pages of Paris Match.
Bardot turned her back on cinema and everything else that created her bosom-heaving persona over 30 years ago. Her last film was in 1974. "I've made 48 films of which only five were good. The rest are not worth anything. I will not make another," she told one interviewer at the time.
With Act Two, Bardot has successfully parlayed her celebrity to become Europe's most indefatigable - and controversial - saviour of the animal kingdom, relentlessly campaigning for the end of mistreatment of animals. While the US-based PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is an organisation that repeatedly recruits film-stars and models as ambassadors to the causearound the globe, she has been a one-woman band.
And it has hardly been a flash-in-the-pan crusade. In 1986, the actress put up most of her worldly goods - from jewelry to her fancy spread in St Tropez - for auction. With the 3m French francs (£300,000) the sale raised, she moved her headquarters to Paris and called her organisation the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals.
With her new-found resources she set about launching legal challenges to strong-arm governments and other institutions to acknowledge the rights of animals. She took on the meat industry in France, demanding less cruel means of slaughter and pressuring her countrymen , with only limited success, to jettison their taste for horse meat. She has lobbied Vladimir Putin to end dog-fighting in Russia, campaigned for the end of bear-dancing in Bulgaria and fought to preserve families of wolves in Hungary.
"I have spent my entire life trying to make people respect all animal life," Bardot said in a recent interview. "The respect of their lives is as ours, essential to the ecological system as well. It has been my experience that almost everyone does not care about this issue and I cannot be everywhere. The human race makes me feel so upset. It is money that rules this world and leads to the worst possible atrocities."
Her sometimes incendiary political views can arguably be traced back to the 1992 marriage with Mr D'Ormale. It brought her into the orbit of the political right and led to associations with National Front leader and voice of the anti-immigration movement in France, Jean-Marie Le Pen. The link encouraged Bardot to lay bare some private thoughts on the policies of French governments that surely were better left unsaid.
The trouble she has generated has also proved an unfortunate distraction from her animal rights campaigning.
It first surfaced in 1998, when a court found her guilty of inciting racial hatred after making public comments about civilian massacres in Algeria. Only four months earlier, another court had fined her for claiming that France was being overrun by "sheep-slaughtering Muslims".
Such reprimands had little effect. In 2003, she published a book entitled 'A Scream in the Silence', that brought more accusations of both anti-Muslim and anti-gay bigotry. She denounced interracial marriage, called homosexuals "fairground freaks" and assaulted the government for being over-generous to the unemployed and to immigrants.
Fining her £4,000 this time, a court said that in her book, Bardot, "presents Muslims as barbaric and cruel invaders, responsible for terrorist acts and eager to dominate the French to the extent of wanting to exterminate them".
While not present for the verdict, she had tearfully defended herself to the court a few weeks before. "I was born in 1934; at that time interracial marriage wasn't approved. There are many new languages in the new Europe. Mediocrity is taking over from beauty and splendor. There are many people who are filthy, badly dressed and badly shaven."
She later made an attempt at social rehabilitation at least among the gay and lesbian community of France with a letter to a French gay magazine that may or may not have been well-advised. "Apart from my husband - who maybe will cross over one day as well - I am entirely surrounded by homos," she wrote. "For years, they have been my support, my friends, my adopted children, my confidants."
In Canada this week, however, Bardot has returned to her true calling for the past three decades by tackling the new conservative government of Stephen Harper over the imminent seal cull in the Gulf of St Lawrence.
It was in Canada, that it all started. The last time she travelled there was in 1977 and the cause, as now, was the protection of the harp seals. She was famously photographed embracing a seal pup, a blatant attempt to win over public sentiment against the eastern Canadian hunting industry.
"I am not crazy," a tearful Bardot told a packed press conference in Ottawa, the Canadian capital, earlier this week. "I am pleading with you. This will likely be my last visit to Canada before I die. I want to see this barbaric massacre stopped before I die." Her appeal followed a similar visit to Canada last month, also in the name of the harp seal, by Paul McCartney and his wife, Heather Mills McCartney.
The Bardot pilgrimage has already heated some normally cool Canadian tempers. She asked for a meeting with the newly elected Prime Minister Harper, who turned her down. That was after she delivered him an impassioned letter, wrapped in a photograph of a bloody seal after its killing. In it she implied he had a closed mind to the arguments of animal campaigners, asserting, with a striking lack of the courtesy due a head of government, "only idiots refuse to change their minds".
She has backing from animal rights campaigners in Canada and around the world - a demonstration in her support was planned for yesterday, for instance, outside the Canadian consulate in Dublin - but if she was hoping to melt hearts in the Canadian government, she appears to have failed. The Fisheries Department in Ottawa has raised the quota for this year's cull to 325,000 seals, an increase of 5,000 over last year. Officials insist the seals , who compete with fishermen for cod in Atlantic waters, have risen in number to at least five million, roughly three times higher than in the 1970s.
"It's the most legislated and regulated hunt in the world, and still these animal rights groups continue to use the beautiful seal to raise millions of dollars," insisted Edward Picco, Education Minister for the Nunavut aboriginal tribes that mostly hunt the animals. The only cruelty here is the cruelty being inflicted on aboriginal Canadians."
This time, Bardot will surely return to France disappointed. And, as she says, this was probably her last ever voyage to Canada and her last stand for the harp seals. With her foundation, however, she will continue to seek justice for animals. As for the epitaph she will one day earn, it is unlikely to be blank as she once suggested. Rather it will be crowded and complicated.Reuse content


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We are going to paint our stucco clubhouse with elastomeric paint. Was going to use Kelly Moore, but hear it fades quickly. My paint contractor and Kelly Moore says the lower grade doesn't fade so fast, but am concerned about the quality. Can anyone recommend brands to use. Also, should we use the top quality, or are we OK with the medium? The building has some cracking, but nothing serious.
If you want it to last always go top quality.
I am in west florida and use scott paint plastiflex. It has a 5 yr mildew proof warranty.
Sherwin sherlastic is an excellent national brand.
Thanks Sgt Baldy
I appreciate the input. I'm in California and don't recognize the Smith brand, but we do have Sherwin Williams. I'll talk it over with my painter.
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Bulls Can't Get Past Irish at Home
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TAMPA – The No. 56 Bulls finished off their regular season with a 5-2 loss to No. 25 Notre Dame on Sunday at the USF Varsity Courts.
Loreto Alonso-Martinez and Paula Montoya won their singles matches before USF saw its two-match winning streak come to an end.
Alonso-Martinez rallied past Jennifer Kellner, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, while Montoya handed Katherine White a 6-3, 6-4 loss in the No. 5 singles spot.
USF went 7-3 on its 10-match home stand to finish the regular season and gets to stay at home for the Big East Championships that take place April 18-21.
No. 25 Notre Dame 5, No. 56 USF 2
Kellner/McGaffigan (ND) def. Vasenina/Alonso-Martinez (USF), 8-6
Sabacinski/Sanders (ND) def. Rizzolo/Mills (USF), 8-1
Fracassi/Montoya (USF) vs. Gleason/White (ND), DNF (5-4)
Britney Sanders (ND) def. Katie Vasenina (USF), 7-5, 4-6, 6-3
Loreto Alonso-Martinez (USF) def. Jennifer Kellner (ND), 2-6, 6-3, 6-4
Quinn Gleason (ND) def. Danielle Mills (USF), 6-2, 6-0
Chrissie McGaffigan (ND) def. Fanny Fracassi (USF), 6-4, 6-7, 6-3
Paula Montoya (USF) def. Katherine White (ND), 6-3, 6-4
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On this page, I hope to chronicle what it is like to live 365 days a year with a chronic disease – Type 1 diabetes (diabetes365). There is no cure yet, but every ounce of awareness and every dollar donated brings us one step closer to a cure. This is a year of living with diabetes in 2012.
I previously participated in this project from October 2007 – October 2008 and this is the video compilation from that year.


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It is important to be able to recognize information that PubMed records contain, as this can help you immensely in both locating information and citing it. Like CINAHL, there are two types of records that you'll encounter: the simple, or results page record, and the detailed record.
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Authorities in northern Ontario planned to use an industrial strength magnet to pick up roughly $3 million in coins after a crash sent two people to hospital with serious injuries, and scattered money and candy all over Highway 11.
A Brinks security truck was travelling south at 4 a.m. on Wednesday morning between the communities of Ramore and Kirkland Lake when it crossed the centre line and hit a rock-face in the opposite ditch, said Const. Marc Depatie of the South Porcupine OPP.
The driver and passenger from the truck were taken to nearby hospitals with life-threatening injuries.
The security truck's cargo — slightly more than $3 million in uncirculated loonies and toonies — spilled out onto the highway and surrounding area, roughly 300 kilometres north of Sudbury.
A tractor-trailer travelling northbound then hit the security truck, which was then hit by a minivan.
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Any 1st year problems with the 2011 X3?
I am thinking about buying a used 2011 X3. Since its a 1st year design, are there any known problems with the car such as design issues or rattles? Thank You.
Just minor trim items ie loose tailgate rattle, and the sluggish throttle response. We've put on 25,000kms on ours in a year and a half and haven't had any other complaints at all. Although we did buy at the tail end of the production year (Sept 2011)
Mine was delivered April 2011
3.5i. It has been great! Actually trading it in in a few weeks for a 2013 X5 Diesel. Whoever gets my car will be thrilled.
No issues. Aug 2011 production.
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How Do You Opt Out of the Office Holiday Gift Pool?
Q: The administrative assistant in our office always organizes an effort to get everyone in our department to contribute to a Christmas gift for our boss. I love our administrative assistant, and understand that with everyone being budget-minded these days, a $5 contribution from 20 people gets a nicer gift. But I would rather get our boss something on my own, and plus, the choice of gift the last couple of years has been a little lame. What do I do?
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The festival was not only a realization of its own goals, it was also a meaningful moment for the Trinity Groves project in general.
DALLAS â" More than 50 breweries from around the nation, and some from right across town, were represented at Trinity Groves in West Dallas Saturday afternoon at Dallas Untapped, the ï¬rst-year event that intended to blend indie rock and indie beer into a brew of weekend entertainment.
Theyâre two things that typically go hand in hand anyway -- live music and beer -- but rarely in this much quantity and quality. The best part of Untapped was the fact that the entire event was set up for exploring spectators. Sure, there were some proven favorites present, but the real charm of Untapped came in the form of ï¬nding those pleasant surprises in both bands and brew.
One of those surprises came early on in the form of the Denton group, The Birds of The Night, who joked with the crowd during their stellar set and asked if anyone knew where they could ï¬nd a Zima, much to the delight of the decidedly pro-craft brew crowd. They were the ï¬rst part of the musical acts that alternated sets on two stages and featured a mix of local favorites as well as some more nationally known acts like Givers.
Among the other standouts were Dallasâ own Blackstone Rangers and their own brand of power party rock. Not surprisingly, The Burning Hotels of Fort Worth ï¬at out rocked the local crowd, too.
Though, as much fun as it was to bounce back and forth and compare bands, it was nothing compared to the fun of bouncing from booth to booth comparing beers. The best bet was to get hooked up with a specialty shot glass from Untapped and go around sampling the suds one ounce at a time.
The Deep Ellum Brewing Co. booth took the crown as the most popular destination for beer drinkers throughout the afternoon and evening, sporting a green tea IPA and their too-good-to-be-true Dallas Blonde Ale.
Lakewood Brewing Co. out of Arlington offered up a delicious IPA called Hopp Trap that was my personal favorite, but really, how could anyone choose? There was so much good beer at every turn.
Some taps were too precious a commodity to last, like the elusive 120 Minute IPA on tap from Dogï¬sh Head, which didnât make it past 3 p.m. before the keg ï¬oated. Sam Adams' New World Tripel didnât make it much further.
For the most part, though, the music, the beer, the food, and the merch was all there for those willing to look. The Dallas Untapped festival was not only a realization of its own goals, but it was also a meaningful moment for West Dallas' Trinity Groves project, a new development that will have shops, art studios, and restaurants at the base of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.
Hundreds of musicians, brewers, and mobile restauranteurs catered to a sold-out crowd at Untapped. That seems to be exactly what was originally envisioned for the area, and thatâs exactly what was happened on Saturday.


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MassDOT Registrar of Motor Vehicles Rachel Kaprielian joined local officials and announced the availability of driver's license permit testing at the Attleboro RMV Branch, located at 75 Park Street.
The Attleboro Branch is one of two express branches in the Commonwealth that provide limited license and registration transactions. The availability of the permit testing in Attleboro will help the RMV manage an anticipated influx of test takers during the busy school vacation period.
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Governor Deval Patrick this week visited the MassDOT Highway Operations Center (HOC) to thank employees for their continuing role during the Blizzard of 2013. Operator stations and the MassDOT Storm Desk were manned 24/7 during blizzard. The Storm Desk is tasked with logging the equipment, personnel and snow plow vendors working to treat and clear highways across the Commonwealth. Before and during the height of the storm, the HOC worked to program highway message boards around the Commonwealth to provide critical travel information. Operators continue to monitor storm recovery operations and are dispatching snow removal crews and taking reports from the public on sections of highway still requiring attention.
The HOC is charged with detecting roadway incidents, receiving reports of roadway incidents, and coordinating traffic operations, maintenance and emergency response activities with MassDOT personnel and other agencies such as the State Police and local fire departments.
When Governor Deval Patrick signed an executive order banning vehicle traffic on all state roads in advance of the winter storm, MassDOT crews were already pre-treating roadways and preparing to respond to the storm, as seen at the Hanover Depot, above.
More than 4,000 pieces of equipment are available upon call to treat and clear state roads, and more than 3,600 were in action simultaneously during the peak of the heavy snow.
Message boards were activated notifying drivers of the impending storm. MassDOT live online traffic cameras displayed current conditions on major state roadways.
MBTA buses, Red, Blue, Orange, Green, and Silver Lines and commuter rail suspended operations through early Sunday afternoon in a successful effort to keep employees and the public safe while working 24/7 to reopen most services by Monday morning's commute.
The MBTA Government Center Station Project construction is scheduled to begin in spring 2013 with site preparation and work zone set up in support of the full station closure in late summer.
The $91 million, three-year Government Center Station Project will bring the new station, seen at left, into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and combines improvements to the Green Line Station, Blue Line Station, and Cambridge Street/Government Center Plaza.
The project includes reconstruction of both the Green Line and Blue Line platforms, new elevators from the surface to the Green Line level and from the Green Line level to the Blue Line level, a new headhouse structure as the primary entrance to the Station, and reconstruction of Cambridge Street and City Hall plaza in the vicinity of the station.
The result will be a new station fully accessible, customer-friendly and efficient that creates an accessible route to Boston City Hall and surrounding public sidewalks. The reconfiguration of the plaza is consistent with the City's initiative of greening City Hall plaza.
The project will close Government Center Station to patrons for 24 months during the construction period by diverting passengers to other nearby stations.
Temporary closure of the station to patrons eliminates the need for a temporary headhouse, avoids numerous weekend and nightly closures, and allows construction to proceed more rapidly, reducing the overall construction schedule.


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Chris Brown… Are You Still Angry?
Miranda Lambert and other critics unloaded on Grammy Awards producers for inviting him to perform at music's big night on Sunday. Now Chris Brown has started to fight back… but not with Rihanna this time.
The R&B star performed twice and picked up a Grammy for the Best R&B Album. Many of the industries executives, fans and stars felt he shouldn't have been there on the third anniversary of his now infamous fight with then girlfriend Rihanna. The throw down landed him in court on assault charges and resulted in five years probation and an order to stay away from her, which has not really worked seeing as how they were both at the Grammys.
Outspoken Lambert was one of many stars who tweeted to express her disgust at seeing Brown onstage at the Grammys. Miranda Lamberts parents ran a shelter for abused women when she was growing up. She takes this seriously and tweeted "Chris Brown twice? I don't get it. He beat on a girl… Not cool that we act like that didn't happen."
Brown isn't about to let all the criticism ruin his big Grammy night, he later tweeted this on Tuesday:
He later deleted that and followed it up with a oops shouldn't of posted that kinda tweet.


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In the world of social engineering there are numerous attack vectors. Some involve a lot of technology others contain none at all. Included here is a short list of the most common attack vectors in social engineering. This list will grow with research and contributes from the SE community.
Here is a nice article which talks about common social engineering attack vectors.
The end result with any social engineering attack is the same… loss of data. The solution is also the same – being aware, educated and


text: NEW YORK, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Electricity Intelligence - The Global Power Infrastructure Market (Transformers, Switchgear & Substations) Ed 1, 2012-2016 http://www.reportlinker.com/p01083646/Electricity-Intelligence---The-Global-Power-Infrastructure-Market-Transformers-Switchgear--Substations-Ed-1-2012-2016.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Electronic_Component_and_Semiconductor Global Power Infrastructure Market (Transformers, Switchgear & Substations) Report and Database T&D networks are growing rapidly, causing demand in the power infrastructure market sector to grow. This NRG Expert market research report has been written to accompany the database, to provide an analysis of the global power infrastructure market, with a particular focus on electrical power transformers, electric switchgear and electrical substations. It provides insightful analysis and forecasts on the transmission and distribution market, electrical supply industry and T&D companies. This analysis is essential for identifying the opportunities in this sector. The Database The Global Power Infrastructure database contains important forecast information and current figures on this sector. It consists of a global data set with the following sections: • Annual Demand• Capex• MVA Capacity What's in the Global Power Infrastructure Market Database? The Annual Demand section includes 2011 actual figures and forecasts for 2012-2016 in 2011 United States Dollars (USD) for: • All Power Infrastructure Equipment• Electrical Power Transformers• Electric Switchgear• Electrical Substations The Capex section includes 2011 actual figures for the entire T&D section, 2011 actual figures for the Infrastructure market and 2012-2016 forecast figures for the infrastructure market. Data is presented both by regions and by individual nations. The MVA Capacity section includes 2011 actual figures and 2012-2016 forecast figures. Data is presented both by regions and by individual nations. The Report The Global Power Infrastructure Report provides valuable context and additional insight into this market and consists of several sections. A detailed historical overview discusses the origins of the electrical supply industry, which provides the basis for a discussion of today's market factors and the future of the infrastructure sector. Our definition of the infrastructure sector is also included, along with an illustration of our annual demand data (forecasted to 2016) and intelligence on infrastructure companies.


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