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It is quite wrong to think of JACKIE BROWN as Tarantino's homage to blaxploitation films -- unless you've never seen blaxploitation films. If you had, you'd know right away that JACKIE BROWN is nothing like all the blaxploitation films we know and love. No, this film is Tarantino's homage to Pam Grier herself. He presented this film to her like a supplicant at the altar of Athena. In fact, Grier famously auditioned for PULP FICTION and was turned down by Quentin because he had bigger plans for her and told her to wait -- in much the same (if upside down) way Fritz Lang told Peter Lorre not to make a movie until Lang had something "truly big" for him; Lorre waited patiently and Lang presented him with the world-shaking "M". Grier waited as well -- one doesn't know exactly how patiently, though -- and retreated to Colorado from an unappreciative Hollywood -- and after a couple years was presented with the script for JACKIE BROWN. She quite correctly saw it as Quentin's appreciative love letter to her and signed on. Thank God, because it simply couldn't have been made without her. No, this is no blaxploitation pastiche. Far from it. The general boneheaded comments from the critics accused JACKIE BROWN of being too slow or too long and lacking all the gross-out screen violence QT was known for. However, everyone I ever talked to in "real life" said they really liked the film. The typical disconnect of movie critics as well as a total missing of the point: I never saw "gross-out violence" as a particular trademark of Tarantino. Sure, he used it but it was a lesser consideration and I never thought of it as one of the major reasons why he wanted to make films. The script of JACKIE BROWN (adapted from the Elmore Leonard novel RUM PUNCH) didn't call for it so it would've been stupid for it to be there. THEN it would've been gratuitous whereas in RESERVOIR DOGS and PULP FICTION is was required and was not gratuitous. Once again, we have critics judging a movie for what it's not instead of for what is IS! And that really gets up my nose! No, quite simply JACKIE BROWN is exquisitely timed and plays like a beautifully composed piece of music (aided and abetted by the equally exquisite use of song on the soundtrack). But no, I'm talking here about perfect timing; every moment of the film is perfectly judged as far as the proper "beats" on the screen. Take for example the killing of Beaumont. From the long discussion in which Samuel L. Jackson's Ordell Robbie talks Chris Tucker's Beaumont into the trunk of the car, we know what's going to happen to him (or at least have a strong suspicion). As Hitchcock once explained, it's telling the audience there is a bomb under the chair and then making them sit there and wait for it to go off. However, there's more here than that. Once Beaumont is in the trunk, the camera pulls back to a far shot and the rest of the scene plays out from a distance (to the strains of "Strawberry Letter 23"). Now, I don't know if Jackson himself was in the car driving but the use of time, of pauses and non-pauses, is jewel-like. Jackson shuts the trunk and climbs back into the driver's seat. He turns the key in the ignition, the tape of "Strawberry Letter 23" starts up and the camera pulls away to a "safe distance". The car is driven, not in a straight line, but in a curving arc. Robbie is not nervous, not rushed. He's taking his good old time. The brakes are hit; we see them from our position now behind the car. The "overheard" music from inside the distant car fades out as the car turns. Then the car comes back into our field of view and the music fades back in too. The car turns in and parks now somewhere over there. Robbie emerges (still from a great distance, now), walks around to the back of the car, opens the trunk and fires the gun at the hapless Beaumont. Trunk closes, Robbie gets back in the car and drives off. Really, the scene plays like a song itself. That's just one instance of the multitude of deft touches Tarantino brings to the film. And JACKIE BROWN is full to overflowing of such scenes.
I first fell in love with Pam Grier sometime in the mid-70's, I guess. Or maybe a tad bit earlier. Probably summertime when I had the run of the neighbourhood. I went to the movie theatre that was in the local mall and got a ticket for whatever was playing. However, I soon lost interest and snuck out of that movie and into the one next door. Lucky me, there was a Pam Grier movie playing. I have no recollection now which one it was (especially since I snuck in after the main titles and missed them) but I'm sure it was probably something like FRIDAY FOSTER or SHEBA, BABY or maybe even the beloved FOXY BROWN. These were the more relaxed 1970's so nobody came along and chucked me out of the theatre for being a 10 year old in a movie which probably featured Pam Grier getting her kit off. But from that moment to this, I've regarded Pam Grier as the bee's knees in the cat's pajamas! So, I was naturally pre-disposed to appreciate exactly what Quentin Tarantino appreciated in Pam Grier and why he wanted to make this movie for her. She was a strong role model who didn't take no stuff but she was also extremely feminine and stunningly beautiful; she had a sense of humour and she had a brain and a conscience. Dream Woman 101. So now, here she was in JACKIE BROWN but she was certainly not COFFY and would not have razor blades in her afro. No, Jackie Brown was a 44 year old flight attendant working for the lowest of the low cheapo airline; she was tired, she was jaded, she had seen life. However, when pushed or cornered the fire in her eye would be revealed -- maybe dimmer from age but still kindled. No, there were not a lot of gunfights and gore in JACKIE BROWN but instead there was a lot of what Tarantino is really known for: dialogue and characterisation. As Dave Sim once said, David Byrne was right when he called his group the Talking Heads because there is very little that is more interesting or involving that two people talking to each other. Car chases and fight scenes can get samey and actually dull; the real meat is when characters reveal themselves through dialogue. LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT has nary an explosion but it's much more gripping than, say, IRON MAN 2! No, JACKIE BROWN is certainly not too slow or too long; in fact I'd say it's the perfect length without a single second that drags. And as I've said it's not an homage to blaxploitation films; in fact, it's an exploration of the humanity of the characters in all their faults and foibles, deceits and kindnesses. And it is also, in the performances of Pam Grier and Robert Forster (both giving the best performances of their lives), a very damn well effective meditation on what it's like getting older -- but still harbouring that younger you somewhere deep inside. I always loved the film but perhaps, now that I am the same age as Jackie Brown in the film, I'm beginning to see that angle much more clearly now than when I first saw the film in the late-90's. As for that cast, it's sheer magic. Robert Forster gives an incredibly nuanced, moving performance and Pam Grier is almost as great. Samuel L. Jackson plays Robbie as a dandy, yes, but he also has a genuine frightening menace which he did not display in PULP FICTION. Robert DeNiro plays the role of a loser wonderfully and its probably the last actual acting he's done in his career. Bridget Fonda immerses herself in the self-absorbed, petty surfer girl; her constant badgering of DeNiro during and after the "caper" are stunningly annoying and one can almost understand why DeNiro does what he does. In these three roles, Jackson, DeNiro and Fonda are not afraid to play unlikeable. To their credit. Of course, Ordell Robbie being the most evil character requires Jackson to also bring that immense charm that's needed for the role as well. Michael Keaton is also surprisingly effective as the twitchy but amiable cop. There's really not a dud performance in the film anywhere in the extensive supporting cast from Tiny Lister's bail-bonds "enforcer" to Sid Haig's cameo as a judge (brought in nicely from his many co-starring roles in Pam Grier's 70's films).
As David Del Valle also points out, JACKIE BROWN is a movie than can be watched over and over and the viewer will get more out of it each time -- sometimes new things one missed the first time around. That's happened with me and that's happened with most others I've talked to about the film (including Pam's old blaxploitation co-star Sid Haig with whom I spoke briefly about the film in 2003 and who felt it was underappreciated). And David Del Valle says that's the very definition of a classic. Who am I to argue? Thankfully, it seems the critics are now finally coming around to our point of view. Thanks, folks. What took you so long?!? And if you, gentle reader, have never seen JACKIE BROWN. . .you owe it to yourself to watch it. And if you haven't seen it for quite some time, you owe it to yourself to watch it again. Go ahead, gang. You're good people. You deserve a treat. As for my ranking of QT's films, here goes:
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After more than a week away from the hard water enough was enough. Myself and several ice fishing forum legend(s) (AlcanRon) met up at Harding Lake. Def a lot more snow there than last time and the ice was a good 20"+. Marked lots of bait fish and several solid "unknowns". I was using my new Jason Mitchell Mackinaw rig and had a great takedown by a nice 31" laker. Def my biggest laker to date. After several good head shakes I got it landed for a quick photo before sending 'em back down into the depths of Hard Luck. Only fish of the day but that's how she rolls. I didn't have room for anymore donuts! Great to get back out on the ice at one of my fav places to hit in the interior. Fish On!!!
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As the table above shows, most users following these celebrities have a very low authority ranking, partly because they have few followers themselves. Britney Spears has particularly low authority followers, whereas Barack Obama stands out within the three groups with followers who have an average authority ranking of 2.4.
Social Media HeavyweightsOur social media heavyweights seem to have a good spread from all sides of the Twitter authority spectrum with their most common ones being right in the middle. This is likely due to them playing a role in the social media community by sharing and conversing with other high authority users and lower authority people trying to learn from them.
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The mail monopoly reports since October it has experienced unprecedented early volumes, already processing more than one million parcels every day in the lead up to Christmas.
Aus Post executive general manager of parcels, Bob Black says it is currently all hands on deck at the company, with a number of measures introduced to ramp up service during the busy period.
"To help our customers receive their online Christmas gifts, we have kept our Post Offices open longer, commenced evening and weekend deliveries, and purchased an additional 10,000 parcel cages – which is around 227 semi-trailers worth of Christmas goodies," he says.
"We are finding close to 30 per cent of all online purchases occur in the three months leading up to Christmas, and that is on the back of a 15.9 per cent growth in online shopping this year."
Black says the online shopping boom means more parcels are being delivered, adding "Of those purchases, fashion, toys and games are the most popular purchases, as we see people get more organised for Christmas."
In October, PIAA director of government relations and former politician Mary Jo Fisher accused Aus Post CEO Ahmed Fahour of 'question dodging' when he faced the Senate Environment & Communications Legislation Committee.
When asked if the cost of sending business letters had increased at a faster rate than ordinary mail since 2011, Fahour responded, "I am not prepared with the exact mathematics."
However, it has now been revealed Aus Post is expected to impose a rate increase on commercial mailing at an average of 3.7 percent from January 3.
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Stuff, we all have it - but where does it come from?
Pete was on an airplane this weekend and brought me a copy of the Sky Mall magazine, talk about stuff! If you are not familiar with the Sky Mall magazine it's usually in the seat-back in front of your seat, in the magazine they have everything that is supposed to make your life easier, like portable inflatable movie screens, anti-snoring nose rings, the ever popular laser hair growth helmets and everything for you pet.
I love stuff but one thing that caught my eye was the stress relief helmet! The helmet promises to release the stress of the day by vibrating your neck and head. You can use the helmet at your desk, on your commute or while watching TV, now if I was sitting at my desk with the helmet on I think it would increase my stress level! There is a caution with the helmet, warning not to use while operating heavy machinery, because it may produce sleep or trance-like states of consciousness. If you are like me you see something like this and say that would be great to have!
You buy it and use it once and it then sits on the shelf after that until you think that you could sell it at your next yard sale. That brings me back to stuff, take a look around your house, how much stuff do you have that you never use? It's amazing how much stuff we accumulate over the years, I get home from work some day's and look around and say look at this stuff, where did it all come from?
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The Chariot continues the subject where we left off with yesterday's 8 Pentacles.
When a card is blocked, you can think of it as signifying that you need to go back to the previous card and work on its lessons a bit more before you can progress on your journey.
Since The Chariot rules the Sevens, I'm taking it to mean that I need to work on being mindful of every step I take. My direction needs to remain focused and I must be vigilant so that I don't drift from my intentions.
The Chariot is full of confidence and ease, but it's a confidence born of mastery of many different elements. That takes practice and discipline.
Recognizing the fears which inevitably arise in me, my Higher Self hands me Mint Bush for smooth spiritual transition, clarity, calmness and an ability to cope.


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Here's what to know: We just finished up with 8/31 on the calendar at the bottom of this page. Does this mean your faithful teacher is all washed up? No. On the contrary, it means that we have been taking our time. We are not running a race--we are building a foundation. So, yes, we can take our time.
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We've learned 15 new words, and started another 5 for the next test.
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I first found out about the remote control cockroach toy when I found out that there are remote control animals being sold and some toy stores also included remote control insects in that mix.
The first time I have seen the rc roach, I was a little bit doubtful that they will create a rc cockroach toy that will look like a realistic cockroach and one that is more appropriate for kids than be used by everyone. But when I have seen the remote controlled cockroach laying there on the ground, I can feel that this remote controlled roach will fool some or most people if it is just laying there on the ground. I can attest to this because even if I have handled other insects before, I am still afraid of cockroaches for some reason. What the cockroach they copied for the remote control cockroach is the american cockroach that is the most commonly known and most popularly known cockroach in the world. The radio controlled cockroach is a little bit bigger than the real thing but it is still small enough that some will be fooled by it.
What I like with the remote control cockroach toy is that it has a function where it will stop for a couple of seconds then run in random directions. This will be great feature if this will be used as a cockroach prank toy or be used as a toy for pets to be mesmerized with. The toy cockroach remote control toy in terms of controls is just like any car rc toy out there. It has the four directional buttons of any rc toys that you might have played before. This is a great thing to have for the maneuverability of the toy.
But aside from being a prank toy, the only other use for this remote control cockroach is to be a novelty toy because you can really do much else with this toy than just make it wander around and hope that someone will get scared or be fascinated with your toy. But in my opinion, the toy pretty much lives up to the price and the features it promised so I think it is worth it to have your own remote control cockroach.


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Anyway, it all depends on the CPU. Used ones are quite cheap, but if Jens will neither 1) sell the card with just the socket, to owners who have a 68060 accel already and thereby a CPU, nor 2) make an exception and source used CPUs, it will never . ever . happen.
Certainly I don't see him making a very expensive (200 EUR+) board at all, and the CPU-less board could actually
the economical risk for him.
I hope he can see the potential for a card with just the socket, I mean the Amiga webshops there are have pretty good contact with the community and can easily deny returns if they swap CPU and it works.
In my opinion he could offer "Trade in your Apollo" coupons for a slight reduction in price
Hey, maybe that's the only thing that could make it possible. Send your old 68060 board to a reseller and they fit the old CPU on the ACA1260.
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text: Greetings Okies! I'm struggling with a conundrum: What shirts do I need to order for N.E.O.C.S.? I've put together a poll that will collect your votes, suggestions, and comments. The poll will close at the end of March, at which time I will interpret the poll results and order shirts. This is your opportunity to tell me what color T-Shirt you prefer and what design you think is best. I appreciate your time. Thanks for your input. The shirts will be 5.3 oz. 100% preshrunk cotton, made by Gilden. They are a crew neck T-Shirt, medium weight, and will be screen printed or digitally printed. They come in adult sizes SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE, X-LARGE, and XX-LARGE. NOTE: The instructions on the poll say to fill out one poll for each shirt you may be interested in. However, I think that people will only be able to take the poll one time. I will work on making a google document. That may be a better way to collect the information I need before ordering shirts. In the mean time, go ahead and take the poll. It will give me some insight into what people prefer.


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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Musaf as therapy
Let me explain that. I'm not saying it's time to fire up the altar, and I don't want to go anywhere near the political ramifications of rebuilding the Temple. I'm not even saying that sacrifice has to involve death. Not like it used to.
Rabbinic Judaism has replaced the Temple offerings with our tefillot, our prayers, which require an investment of time and effort, and if you count synagogue membership and other annual contributions, also money. Musaf is the additional prayer service that represents the additional Temple offering on Shabbat and holidays.
I think about this and I am not certain it is enough. Because nearly everything in life today requires an investment of time and effort and money. What makes our offering to G-d any different than our offering to a political cause or a social cause or a few hours of Internet shopping?
To me, it should be different. It should be special. And so when I reach Musaf and I'm contemplating the role of the Temple in our collective history, I take a moment to reflect on a different sort of sacrifice, my own "addition."
What do I personally need to sacrifice that is standing in the way of my connection with G-d?
What obsolete defenses, inaccurate fears, faulty assumptions have cluttered my life and made it harder to reach my potential? Which of those need to "die" and make room for new life?
Lately I've worked on my fear of loss, my tenuous trust in the universe, my fear of not belonging, not deserving, not having the right to be.
It isn't easy. It isn't painless. Sometimes this blog is part of that sacrifice because there's safety, it seems, in silence, in never bringing these things to light.
Speaking up means I have to think about it, put words to it, talk about it. Hear others' opinions and ideas. Learn from it. Change it. Allow myself to be changed for the better.
It seems to me that is at the heart of Judaism itself.
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- Scraps said...
I also have sacrifices to make. I need to sacrifice my fear of rejection and/or abandonment. I need to sacrifice my instinct to put myself down. I need to sacrifice my need to put everyone else before myself--not because I'm a good, selfless person, but because I don't feel like I deserve to be put before anyone else.
I wish you much hatzlacha on your journey.
- January 3, 2008 at 10:08 AM
- Rivka said...
Scraps: I think many of us need to give that up and it is my experience that some men would rather women didn't. My friend D keeps reminding me that there's a difference between humility (good) and self-degredation (bad), and too often we never learn that distinction.
May your journey also be filled with successes and contentment.
- January 6, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Thank you. This is a sweet and very worthy insight.
I have been lurking at your blog from time to time. You are actually quite a good model for faith and perseverence and genuine-ness. And you have helped me help my wife when her recurring depression brings her to tears, or when her anxiety exagerrates something almost to the point of immobilizing her.
Thank you for sharing your hard work, your bravery, and your honesty. You are really helping others who you don't even know.
May Hashem bless you with strength, emunah, and clarity.
- January 6, 2008 at 10:57 PM
- Rivka said...
Anonymous: thank you! That is really sweet of you to say and I'm honored that it's helpful. It is so essential to have a strong support system and I am glad you are there for your wife. It speaks greatly of your own commitment and strength of character. I truly hope you both are able to find peaceful and happy times too.
- January 7, 2008 at 3:14 PM


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'LHHATL' Season 4 Reunion: Lil' Scrappy Slams Erica Dixon, Bambi Disses Her Hair [VIDEO]
Tensions fan high during the Season 4 reunion special of the VH1 reality show "Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta." Rapper Lil' Scrappy and his ex-girlfriend, Erica Dixon, have been involved in a custody battle for their daughter, Emani Richardson. Naturally, things between the former couple weren't pretty, and Scrappy's current girlfriend, who is known by the mononym Bambi, added to the drama.
When Scrappy called Dixon a bad mother, Twitter users came to her defense.
When Scrappy called Erica a bad mom #LHHReunion pic.twitter.com/ixIHiPe0v3
— I Smoke Kush™ (@Reality_420) September 1, 2015
Scrappy didn't have to go in on Erica like that. She's the mother of your daughter. #LHHReunion
— IG: MrCouture (@MrCouture) September 1, 2015
Nobody is doubting he takes care of Emani. Erica said he's a great dad but he needs to pay that COURT ORDERED CHILD SUPPORT. #LHHATLReunion
— K. Sharice ✨ (@Bella__ReeSe) September 1, 2015
Scrappy, however, maintained that he is a good father after Dixon claimed he owed $46,000. "I'm a full-time dad. I'm not no weekend dad. When the mom come tell me, you take care of the money when she's with you... if I ever needed some, I'll hit you and one day she come back and be like, 'You need to be paying me $40,000' and you'd be like, 'how is that possible?'" he said.
Scrappy said problems arose when Dixon said she wanted $5,000 a month in child support. He said they had agreed to $2,000. Dixon also claimed that Scrappy did not show up for Emani's orthodontist appointment when she got her braces.
Scrappy's mother, who is known on the show as Momma Dee, supported her son. "Listen, my son is the best dad I wish I had. I had a dad like my son [because] maybe I'd been a better person," she said.
While Dixon said that Bambi is "irrelevant" to her, Scrappy's girlfriend took some swings at his ex. She apparently called her "Wesley snipes" and shaded her hair:
I can't believe Bambi said Erica had nappy hair when she has a Trump comeover. Did she also call Erica, Wesley Snipes? #LHHATL
— Love & Hip Hop Fans (@LoveHipHopRW) September 1, 2015
After Bambi's insults, Twitter users generally sided with Dixon:
Erica just need to whoop Bambi
— brittt (@bfor_brittany) September 1, 2015
I just want Erica to storm Bambi one time for the one time
— Shae. (@itgirlShae) September 1, 2015
Bambi need to stay outta scrappy and Erica business. Erica gon be in his life forever, she just there for the moment #LHHATL #LHHATLReunion
— #teambae (@pinkcocayne) September 1, 2015
A clip of their bitter battle has been posted below:
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Cacias house all painted..her blog shows the transformation..this house guys was so beat down and needed love so bad..they have literally turned it upside down..it looks awesome! for a house form the 40's. the house belongs to my grandpa and its located right next to trolly square in downtown salt lake..such a super fun place to live. there stuff going on all the time..this is also the house I grew up in until I was about 5.
evia and coco sharing the butterfly book
So before the wedding we had to do lots ...but we squeezed in a couple fun events like evias 2nd birthday. check out that cake..my sister rocks...I got evia some bedding for her big girl room and when she saw it she screamed OWLS YAY! sooo sweet i just love that girl. shes just like her aunt bree. loves sparklies and girlie stuff.. I see many a fun outing in our futures little one.


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Thanksgiving came early for my side of the family. We celebrated it on Sunday since my parent's are fulfilling a life long dream of going to NYC during the Thanksgiving Holiday to see the beginning of all the Christmas festivities like the Macy's Day Parade. So on Thursday, us girls are all going to be with our hsubands' side of the family.
And wouldn't you know it, I forgot my camera, Big Bertha. So I went back home to get it. And what do you know, the battery was dead. That never happens to me. So I had to rely on my point and shoot Olympus (and that battery died before the day was over). The camera gods were working against me that day. So here are the few pics I got.
Sophia thoroughly enjoyed the chocolate cake.
And watching movies with her cousins.
And dancing with Aunt Robin.
And riding her "bike". She actually was able to reach the peddles and peddle with the aide of a pillow. Almost there! She got it last Christmas by mistake (a mix up on Amazon's part).
The rest of us sat around and watched the Cowboy game.
My battery died shortly after this pic. But hey, did you really want to see more pics of adults lounging and napping?


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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Claude Pepper`s absence from the halls of Congress because of illness has not yet impaired his legislative agenda, colleagues and advocates for senior citizens said on Wednesday.
His allies said they hoped Pepper would make a quick recovery from his own health problems so he could help meet some of the nation`s long-term health care needs.
Pepper has been sidelined from legislative struggles for two weeks while resting and being tested at Walter Reed Army Hospital. His hospitalization came just as debate was heating up over the catastrophic health-care issue.
``I don`t think his absence over the recent weeks has created serious problems, but if it continues and he appears to be absent a long time it could become a problem,`` said Eric Shulman, legislative director of the National Council of Senior Citizens.
Shulman said those fighting for expanded long-term health care would miss Pepper`s presence as ``the conscience of the Congress when it comes to problems of the elderly.``
Pepper, chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee and the Health and Long-Term Care Subcommittee, has been consulting with colleagues by telephone while doctors treat an apparent stomach virus.
U.S. Rep. Joseph Moakley, D-Mass., who has been presiding over the Rules Committee in Pepper`s absence, said he expects the chairman to return to work within about a week.
``He said he could come in (to work) if he had to, but he had a woozy feeling and was a bit nauseas,`` Moakley said.


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Tools Done Right Mod 1.7.10, 1.7.2 adds new types of tools into the game, but not like a boring old tools mod like the thousands available everywhere. This mod aims to be much more professional in its manner. The mod adds a new toolset known as End Tools, which have some very special behaviour compared to normal tools.
All three have 200 uses, harvest at Iron level and are almost as fast as gold tools.
Emerald tools have Looting II or Fortune on them by default.
They are also very highly enchantable.Obsidian
Has 4000 uses, but is also a lot slower and is harder to enchant.
End tools are a lot different. Due to their magical properties, they can do things normal tools can't. They each have 1000 uses.
- Sword:
- The sword can pick up any living entity (Sheep, Skeleton, Chicken for example) and will place it back down when right-clicked again. However, this will use up the durability of the sword.
- Pickaxe, Axe and Shovel:
- These tools will automatically transfer items into the player's Ender Chest when the blocks are broken. This means that you no longer have to carry heaps of cobblestone – just use your Ender Pickaxe and it'll go straight to your Ender Chest, or alternatively, use it just for ores, and all your gems will automatically be safely stored in your ender chest.
- Hoe:
- The hoe will harvest fully-grown crops without having to replant them. Grow some crops, right click them with the Ender Hoe, and the drops for that crop will automatically drop without you having to replant the crop!
This mod adds in two new ores, which are used to craft the topaz and ruby tools:
Ruby, on the left, and Topaz, on the right, both spawn uncommonly underground, below level 32. Both of them can also be converted into their respective blocks, shown above them.
Topaz: A gem used to craft Topaz tools. Drops from Topaz Ore.
Ruby: A gem used to craft Ruby tools. Drops from Ruby Ore.
Sapphire: A gem used to craft Sapphire tools. Drops from Sapphire Ore.
Crafting recipes:
Emerald, Ruby and Sapphire tools are exactly the same as Topaz in crafting, but with their respective base materials.
Tools Done Right Mod Installation
- First you need download and install Minecraft Forge.
- Then download this Minecraft mod file at link below.
- Go to %appdata%. It can also be found by searching for "%appdata%" in your start menu.
- Go to .minecraft/mods folder.
- If the "mods" folder does'nt exist in your PC, you'll need create one.
- Then drag and drop the downloaded .jar (or .zip) file into mods folder.
- Enjoy.


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1967 Lamborghini Marzal concept will be driven in public for the first time since 1967
The Lamborghini Marzal, one of the most iconic concept cars ever built, will be driven for the first time in public after 51 years at the Monaco Grand Prix track this weekend. Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in 1967, the Marzal was driven on the same Monte Carlo track by Prince Rainier III of Monaco the same year. It was the Marzal's only public appearance in action until now. Restored to its original specifications, the concept car will be driven twice on the Monaco circuit on each of the three days of the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique.
2017 Lamborghini Terzo Millennio Concept
Just when you think that you have the auto industry all figured out, it still finds a way to make you question what you know. Very few automakers are as good at doing that as Lamborghini, and after bearing witness to the madness that is the Terzo Millennia Concept, I might as well just throw my hands up and admit defeat. I don't know enough to know what Lamborghini knows because, if I did, I would've seen the Terzo Millennio Concept coming a while ago. But nothing prepares you for this kind of presentation, especially when the Italian automaker is involved. You just sit back, be amazed, and try not to piss yourself in the process.
The narrative surrounding the Terzo Millennio Concept is a pretty straightforward one. The concept is a joint creation by Lamborghini and some smart folks from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was created to showcase the future of the Raging Bull, or rather, the possibilities of what can happen in automotive design and engineering when smart people work together for a common purpose. History hasn't always been kind to this innovative bullishness, but if there's one automaker that has proven to be adept at bringing state-of-the-art tech to life, no matter how ridiculous they may be, it's Lamborghini. All that is why the Terzo Millennio Concept is so intriguing beyond the fact that it proudly wears the iconic Sant'Agata Bull badge. The concept may be defined by tech offerings that don't exist yet, but that's not to say they can't happen, especially when Lamborghini's involved.
Continue after the jump to read more about the Lamborghini Terzo Millenio Concept.
Imagine for a moment that you've gone to an international car show, and on arriving discovered that John Deere has built a car. And not only that, but it is a super fast and exotic grand tourer, designed to take on the biggest names is GT carbuilding. You'd probably have to go home and lay down, but you would have also gotten an important insight into what it must have felt like to be at the 1963 Turin Auto Show. Because that is where Lamborghini, up until that point a company known for building tractors, unveiled the 350GTV. This was the prototype that would lead to the production 350GT, Lamborghini's first production car.
The seed for the 350GTV was planted in 1958, when Ferruccio Lamborghini bought a Ferrari 250GT, the first of three 250s he would own. He liked the car, enough to own three of them, but he found the racing-derived machines to be lacking in interior amenities, and that the clutch would wear out far too quickly. The clutch was an especially big problem, since it required trips back to Maranello to have them replaced. Lamborghini tried to have this addressed, but Enzo Ferrari was famously too proud to listen to criticism, so Lamborghini decided to make his own GT car.
Continue reading to learn more about the Lamborghini 350 GTV.
The chances of seeing a production version of Lamborghini's 2015 Lamborghini LPI 910-4 Asterion concept car are less than great now that the company is moving forward with production of the 2018 Lamborghini Urus SUV.
Lamborghini is in the process of doubling the size of its factory in Sant'Agata, Italy and hiring 500 new employees to accommodate Urus production. The aim is to build 3,000 annually, which would double Lamborghini's current output. Given the massive investment, the bandwidth to produce the Asterion simply isn't there, and Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann now says production in unlikely.
"It was built to show what we would do if the regulations forced us to have 30 miles of electric range as well as high-speed performance," Winkelmann recently told Autocar. "Because of the weight of the batteries, we also took the opportunity to make the car bigger and roomier. We wanted to see customer reactions."
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Although it launched the Gallardo in 2003, it took Lamborghini three years to develop a convertible version of its entry-level supercar. However, the 2006 Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder wasn't the first drop-top iteration of the model. Before it, it came the 2006 Lamborghini Concept S, a show car that featured a divided cabin layout with separate windscreens. It was a modern interpretation of the single-seat roadsters of the 1950s and Lamborghini was rumored to build 100 units for select customers.
The Italians eventually decided to keep it as a styling exercise and came up with the less radical Gallardo Spyder. After 10 years, the Concept S is up for grabs via RM Auctions. The concept car will cross the auction block on November 18th, 2015, in New York. As it is with such vehicles, the Concept S is in tip-top condition and fully operable. What's more, it's also street-legal and it has been driven for only 112 miles.
There's no estimate as to how much it's expected to fetch, but considering we're talking about a one-off factory vehicle in mint condition, it should change owners for at least two million bucks. The auction is still four months away, but we'll be back with the result as soon as the hammer goes down. Stay tuned!
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It would be wrong to describe the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este as a classic car show. It is in a whole other league of classic car event, along with the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, though the Villa d'Este event is much older, and the model on which the Pebble Beach event was built. These events have become so popular that big that manufacturers now bring concepts, the same as they do for big international auto shows. Sometimes these are new concepts, but usually they're cars that have been shown before, brought to give the mega-rich attendees of the event a closer look.
This year, Lamborghini brought the Asterion plug-in hybrid hypercar concept that was unveiled toward the end of last year. The video will give us a much better look at it, and we'll hear the 5.2-liter V-10 (admittedly not a new engine) being fired up. We get some good looks at the details as well, although the somewhat questionable looks of the car are still very much present. But the car does look very much at home on the hotel grounds, which is surely why Lamborghini chose to bring it.
The virtual ink of our review of Zagato's Lamborghini 5-95 hasn't even dried yet and auto-razzi extraordinaire Marchettino already has a video of the supercar getting the superstar treatment at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este. That didn't take long, did it?
It's hard to argue with those people craning their necks to get a good glimpse at the 5-95. The Zagato-built supercar is just that awesome. It has a drastically different design than the Lamborghini Gallardo the car that it was based on.
But the biggest thrill of Marchettino's video was hearing the 5-95 bust out its throaty roar. Sure, it carries the same 5.2-liter, V-10 engine of the Gallardo LP570-4 that produces 570 horsepower and 398 pound-feet of torque. But the sound from its exhaust was not like that of the Gallardo. That's the sound of a true one-off exotic, the kind that only a refined design house like Zagato can build.
There's something to be said for an aftermarket company that can just roll out of bed in the morning, decide that it wants to build a concept model based on a Lamborghini Aventador, and then proceed to envision what it would do with it when it decides to make it.
That's how it goes over at DMC these days. During a recent interview with LamboCars, the supercar tuner was asked what it could whip up should a customer say he wants a heavily modded Aventador without any budget constraints.
And this is what DMC came up with; an indescribable piece of engineering that we don't even know where to begin. It's already been christened as the Lamborghini Aventador LP1200-4R and in true Lambo nomenclature, the "1200" on its name is representative of the 1,200 horsepower DMC is capable of getting out of the exotic's 6.5-liter, V-12 engine. Doing that, though, will constitute adding twin-turbos, as well as increasing the displacement by 1.2 liters to a mammoth 7.7-liter engine.
To be clear, this is still a concept, and there are no hints of it being built and developed in the future. But when the company said that it could build a $2.5 million program for the Aventador and it shows something like this, clearly DMC isn't joking.
But get this; that 1,200-horsepower output it can get out of the Aventador doesn't even compare to what it can do when a customer really wants a missile on his hands. According to DMC, if somebody really wants to push all the boundaries of speed and power, 2,000 ponies is attainable.
As far as the aerodynamics of the car are concerned, DMC has also prepared a list of new components it would want on the project, which includes a new body kit, stronger air intakes, more air vents, an adjustable-fin air brake system, an adaptive ride height, gold-plated intakes and a new set of 20- and 21-inch wheels on the front and back.
All told, the Lamborghini Aventador LP1200-4R is being touted as having 1,200 horsepower and 671 pound-feet of torque, while weighing just 3,473 pounds. When it's fully stretching its legs, the concept is capable of hitting 62 mph in 2.3 second to go with a top speed of somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 mph.
Click past the jump to read about the Lamborghini Aventador
Pretty much everyone in this world has a different idea about a dream job; but everyone who visits TopSpeed probably dreamed about being "racecar driver" some day. Many of us still have that wish.
But racing is not a practical career ambition for most, so what to do?
Being a Transporter like Jason Statham might be fun, but the risk of death from a drive-by shooting is quite high. So what is a real-life supercar and track junky left to envision?
Luckily, there are many other options for how to get paid for driving fast. At least in Italy at the country's famed supercar brands.
Being a professional test racer for Lamborghini or Ferrari is pretty close to the bulls-eye dream job for would-be racers.
Consistency and feedback on every aspect is mandatory, and hard to do. It also really helps if you grew up within walking distance of the Ferrari or Lambo compounds in Italy.
While most of us will only dream about this, Lamborghini's test driver Giorgio Sanna gives us a day in his life.
Sanna is Lamborghini's chief R&D and motorsport test driver, so nothing ships without his settings and preferences applied to production cars. He must be quite busy with the Cabrera still under heavy wraps.
For a peek behind the curtain at one of the world's coolest jobs, Lamborghini's driver profile video is a great piece. It shows his best talents as well as highlighting all the hard work that goes along with burning rubber professionally.
Just when we thought that we knew all there was to know about Lamborghini's 50th anniversary celebration, they go ahead and unveil a completely unexpected one-off model. This new model, which is dubbed the Egoista, was shown to a select group of 350 faithful customers at a special dinner that the Italian supercar builder held.
The first thing that strikes us as odd, sans the wild styling, is the name, which translates to "Selfish;" that's quite an unusual name for a car. The Egoista obviously borrowed a lot of its design language from the recently launched Veneno, with its F1-style nose and angular body.
The Egoista's constructed mostly of carbon fiber and aluminum that is coated in a radar-absorbent material to help keep the cops from clocking you while flying down the highway – fortunately, this is only a concept, so Lambo can do as it pleases with the coating. Orange highlights the car in various areas, including the super-styled wheels and inside the intakes. The oddest of the orange accents is the orange-tinted front windshield.
Click past the jump to read more about the Egoista
UPDATE 5/13/2013: Lamborghini has released additional information and images of the Egoista. See more after the jump.
In 1998, Lamborghini went under full ownership of Audi and the last vehicle to be developed by Lamborghini as an independent company was the Pregunta - a concept car designed in cooperation with the Italian Studio Heuliez-Torino. While all the other models in Lamborghini's lineup were named after famous bulls, the "Pregunta" got a simpler name: "pregunta" is the Spanish word for "question."
With the Pregunta, Lamborghini wanted to develop a vehicle that was "new, original and impossible to confuse with any other." The concept was unveiled in 1998 at the Paris Auto Show and shown again at the 1999 at the Geneva Motor Show.
Pregunta was limited to only one unit and you can imagine that the chance to actually drive one is pretty rare. Now, the concept has been put on sale by British web site classicdriver.com and can be yours for €1.6 million (about $2.1 million at the current exchange rate).
Click past the jump to read more about the Pregunta.
Lamborghini has been planning expand its lineup with a new model for quite some time now, but when it comes to a production version of the Urus concept, Lambo CEO, Stephan Winkelmann, reported that we will have to wait a few more years. However, a set of patent drawings from the leak-happy Chinese patent office revealing the production version Urus makes us believe that we could see the SUV on the market sooner than expected.
As you can see, the production version will remain basically identical to the concept version, with the only updates being the exterior mirrors, which seem to be a little bigger than on the concept.
If built, the production-version Urus will be powered by a 4.0-liter twin-boosted V8 engine that will pump out just about 600 horsepower. Previous rumors suggested the model will be offered as a 2017 model year and will be priced from about $200k.
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We don't know if Lamborghini saw the hype being generated by the expected debut of the Ferrari F70, but whatever their reason is, it looks like they're prepared to bring a showstopper of their own to the 2013 Geneva Motor Show.
It's no secret that Lamborghini is bringing something to Geneva; the only question is what model is it going to be.
Well, according to company CEO, Stephan Winkelmann, the Geneva-bound Lamborghini is going to a be a front-engine, V12 GT.
Talking to Edmunds, Winkelmann alluded that the car will carry two doors, two seats, a V12 engine, and a different underpinning than what was used on the Aventador. All this points to a supercar that will carry a front-mid-engine set-up similar to the Ferrari F12berlinetta.
From these descriptions of the car, we're more than interested now than ever before to see what Lamborghini is bringing to Geneva. If there's truth to what Winkelmann claims that "something truly extraordinary that's based on the V12" is being prepared as part of the company's 50th-anniversary celebrations, then don't crown the F70 as the jewel of Geneva just yet.
Note: Photo is of the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento
With its acquisition spending-spree apparently over – for now – Volkswagen has turned its attention to developing its current models, which are plentiful. Two models, however, are likely receiving the wrong kind of attention, as Reuters is reporting the Lamborghini and Bentley may see their respective SUVs – the Urus and EXP 9 F Concept – delayed.
As we all know, the European market has been ravaged by the crash of the global economy and VW has been one of the handful of European automakers to succeed in these dark days. This delaying of the two limited-production SUVs would help VW stretch its funds farther with its more productive lineups, like itself, Audi, and Seat. VW is planning a spending review and the final answer will not come until November 23rd, so we're stuck waiting on an answer for at least a month.
Also up for a potential delay is the upcoming Bugatti sedan, which, just like the Bentley and Lamborghini SUVs, will only be produced and sold in very small numbers. We'll keep an eye on this situation, as VW inches toward cutting its manufacturing by a reported 300,000 units.
We'll bring you more information as it comes across the wire.
Lamborghini's "entry-level car," if you want to call the $187,000 Gallardo "entry level," is getting on in age and we already know that a successor is due out in 2014. We also know that the Gallardo came in a dizzying amount of formats, trim levels, body styles, and special editions, which tended to confuse the casual Lamborghini buyer and was somewhat intimidating.
In an interview with Car and Driver, Lamborghini America COO, Michael Lock, let us know that the Gallardo's successor, which may be named the Huracán, will be a much simpler lineup to navigate. It's not that Lambo will eliminate all of the options, but rather streamline them into precise packaging. The basic configurations — coupe, convertible, all-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive, and lightweight — will be available, but you will not be able to walk into a dealership and pick a Lamborghini that meets every spec (i.e. convertible, all-wheel drive, and lightweight).
That will be a relief to most buyers, as is the much needed elimination of the aging Gallardo. We will continue keeping an eye out for news on the upcoming Gallardo replacement and let you know as soon as we hear something. We expect to start seeing a lot more details rolling down the pipe by the end of this year and we should see an actual production concept sometime in early-2013.
Also addressed in the meetup was the manual transmission option making a return in the Gallardo's replacement. It was confirmed by Lambo's COO that the manual option will not return in this model, or ever again to the Lamborghini lineup.
As if Lamborghini needed any more help developing super-fast cars that can nearly keep pace with F1 racecars, it is now dedicating an entire facility to developing and researching new cars. Yep, Lamborghini has just opened up its Prototype and Concept Development Center – that's Sviluppo prototipi e vetture pre serie in Italian – to help it develop and test its new concept cars.
An important feature to this facility is that it also houses a miniature assembly line. This allows engineers to monitor exactly how new cars come together and what flaws develop in the manufacturing process. This small assembly line will also be responsible for running off Lamborghini's limited production models, like the upcoming and non-street-legal production Sesto Elemento.
This is truly an impressive show of dedication to manufacturing only the best vehicles that are as flawless as they possibly can be, but also looks like a huge waste of money. Then again, who are we to question Lamborghini's ways? There is obviously reasoning behind this dedicated factory, we just don't see its real-life purpose just yet.
On an aside, Lamborghini reps are also touting the construction of the building itself, as it is the first ever multi-story industrial building that earned a "Class A" energy certification. So, not only will this building build some of the baddest concept cars ever made, but it will conserve energy in the process.
Ever since Stephan Winkelmann confirmed that the stunning Sesto Elemento was in fact heading to production in very limited numbers, very little news about the car has been released. Until now.
Before we get to the juicy details, let's just recap what we have already known for months. First and foremost, we can confirm that the Sesto Elemento will be produced in a run of just 20 units, with each set to feature almost identical bodywork to that of the original concept. Additionally, we've previously confirmed that the car will feature the same 5.2-liter V10 borrowed from the Gallardo which the concept implemented.
Furthermore, we also know that the car should launch from 0-62 mph in just 2.5 seconds, but apart from those aforementioned details, very little is known about the car. However, thanks to a report at Automobile Magazine additional details about the Sesto have finally come out of the shadows.
Previously, it was speculated that the production variant would be road-legal, but if AM is correct, the Sesto Elemento will be limited to track-use and will hit a top speed of 219 mph, rather than the approximate 186 mph figure which was once expected.
Conjointly, Automobile Magazine reports that the Sesto will be priced at just under $2.5 million, rather than the previous $3.44 million rumored figure, although we cannot confirm the legitimacy of that claim.
Finally, the Sesto Elemento is expected to hit production in 2013, meaning a debut of the production variant is likely to be slated for late this year.
Rumors about a Lamborghini SUV were floating around for about five years before Lamborghini finally decided to 'fess up to the fact that the Italian brand was ready to jump headfirst into the SUV market. There was talk that a production Estoque was in the running as opposed to the SUV, but with the Porsche Cayenne's growing sales and Bentley's announcement of a future SUV, there was no way Lamborghini was going to miss out on the SUV honey pot. Now they have bought themselves some time before officially rolling out a production SUV by debuting the Lamborghini Urus Concept at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show.
Like with all other Lamborghini models, the new Urus name comes from the world of bulls. The Urus, also known as Aurochs, is one of the large, wild ancestors of domestic cattle. Urus bulls could measure up to 1.8 meters at the shoulder. How's that for a little Discovery Channel information?
But back to the Urus Concept. The front end is clearly a mark of the Lamborghini brand and features elements already seen in models like the Aventador and the Sesto Elemento Concept. It also features the same red livery as seen in the previously announced Aventador J and the same coupe-like profile as seen on the BMW X6. Under the hood, Lamborghini has placed a 600 HP engine and has been promised that the Urus will offer the lowest CO2 figures of all comparable vehicles.
Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann has confirmed that a production version will arrive in 2017.
UPDATE 02/18/2013: Four grey-colored images have leaked from the Chinese patent office, showing off what we think is the production Urus. Check out the images in the gallery.
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Even though car manufacturers try to conceal names of future models, possible options always manage to leak onto the net, with the latest name trademarked by Lamborghini already finding its way into our hands.
Car and Driver recently broke the news and it seems pretty genuine to us. "Deimos" was trademarked by Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. on March 5, 2012, and the name has left us scratching our heads just a tad. First and foremost, almost all Lamborghini's ever produced (with the exception of the LM002) have been named after famous fighting bulls both Italian and Spanish, but 'Demois' doesn't refer to any bull we're aware of.
In fact, according to Greek mythology, 'Deimos' is a son of Aphrodite and represents terror and dread which seems a little bit strange to name a car after. The terror part does make some sense as this is a Lamborghini and their cars are famous for promoting fear and terror in their competitors, but the term dread seems less appealing.
After all, who would want to buy a car which name literally means 'dread'?
Nevertheless, this trademark by Lamborghini may not actually relate to a future model or concept car as it could instead refer to a new line of merchandise or even a new system which could be fitted to future Lamborghini's. However, with the new Lamborghini SUV (rendered above) expected to be released at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show in just a few weeks, rumors suggest that the successor to the LM002 may be dubbed the Lamborghini Deimos.
Another possibility could be the Gallardo replacement which is currently under development, and with the highly circulated 'Cabrera' name being nothing more than the work of an unnamed source, perhaps this future model could be the Deimos.
Either way, we're excited by the prospect!
The year 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the famous Italian sports car brand, Lamborghini. In 1963, Ferruccio Lamborghini started the company with the intent of creating supercars to compete with models from Ferrari. Now, as a celebration of this event, and as an homage to Ferruccio Lamborghini, Mark Hostler, a transportation design student at Staffordshire university, has created the Lamborghini Ferruccio Concept.
According to the designer, the concept is "a car that takes inspiration from the company's lineage, and also showcases the current design language and innovations of the company in their trademark flamboyant style." The concept's front end, bonnet, and super-wide rear end were inspired by the Countach. The front and rear wings were inspired by the Miura, while the sharp nose and mirrors, and aggressive air intakes across the body and roof take their inspiration from the current Lamborghini design language.
The concept was designed to use a small 5.0 liter V12 engine with two turbochargers and feature direct injection technology.
Hit the jump for a video of the Lamborghini Ferruccio Concept by Mark Hostler.
A few days ago, we reported that Lamborghini was bringing two vehicles to the Geneva Motor Show: the Aventador Spyder and another mystery model. At first, we believed that the company would be arriving in Geneva with the final say on what the third model in their lineup would be, but it now seems we have to rule that out. The good news is that Lamborghini has chosen their third model, but the bad news is that they have chosen to produce the SUV and won't be debuting it until the Beijing Auto Show in China from April 23-24, 2012.
This news comes straight from Italian magazine, Quattroruote.it, which offered the first scanned images of the Lamborghini SUV Concept. From these images we can see that the SUV will adopt some design features from the Aventador supercar. It will most likely feature the same V10 engine from the Gallardo, but most likely, the production version will combine a combustion engine with an electric engine for a total of 700 HP.
The production version of the Lamborghini SUV will arrive in 2015 as a competitor for the upcoming Bentley SUV.
The Lamborghini Marzal is a concept car unveiled by Lamborghini at the 1967 Geneva Motor Show. It was designed by Marcello Gandini of Bertone, and like any other Lamborghini models, it was named after a strain of fighting bull. The Marzal was never put into production, but some of its design cues were used in the future Espada. As this is a one-of model it should not surprise you the fact that it was auctioned for an impressive €1.512.000, or about $2,100,000 at the current exchange rates.
The Marzal is powered by a transversely mounted 175 HP in-line six-cylinder which was essentially half of the Miura engine, the V-12 was cut in half lengthwise, and was mated to a standard five-speed transmission. The concept was built on a modified Miura chassis, extended by 120 mm in order to accommodate the extra two passengers.
A very impressive feature of the concept is a pair of long gullwing doors that were used instead of the usual four-door layout. But Ferruccio Lamborghini wasn't very pleased about this kind of doors: "offer no privacy: a lady's legs would be there for all to see."This feature offered the possibility of using windows which, combined with a lightly smoked glass roof, helped create a very airy feeling inside the cabin. The interior features a a hexagonal honeycomb theme on the dashboard and center console housing most instruments and controls.
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Most New Yorkers today are living on what was once farmland.
As early as the 17th century, before Manhattan formed its famous grid, the island contained farms in neighbourhoods from Midtown to the Upper West Side.
The Museum of the City of New York's online collection reveals what the city looked like at the time. The series, "The Greatest Grid," features illustrations and photos of New York City's former rolling hills, which were later demolished to create a flat streetscape.
Take a look at the city's transformation below.
The Bowery is the oldest thoroughfare on the island of Manhattan. When the Dutch settled there in 1654, they named the path Bouwerij -- an old Dutch word for 'farm' -- because it connected cattle farms and estates on the outskirts to (what is today) Wall Street.
At the time, New York City (then known as New Amsterdam) featured rolling hills, forests, boulders, farms, and spaced-out homes. The 1776 illustration below is of present-day University Heights in the Bronx.
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This 1862 illustration depicts a triangular farm on Manhattan's Upper West Side during the Civil War. High property taxes discouraged landowners from building on their lots, and the area would not see full-scale development until the 1880s.
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'The time will come when New York will be built up, when all the grading and filling will be done, and when the picturesquely-varied, rocky formations of the Island will have been converted into formations for rows of monotonous straight streets, and piles of erect buildings,' NYC landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted wrote at the time.
Patrick and Mary Brennan's farmhouse, pictured below in 1879, lasted until around 1900. Edgar Allen Poe rented a room there. It's where he likely wrote 'The Raven.'
The 1882 photo below was taken from the roof of a mansion that belonged to George Ehret, a successful brewer and one of the first wealthy New Yorkers to move to Prospect Hill (now Carnegie Hill).
The photographer, Peter Baab, captured what he called 'the march of improvement.' New row houses and mansions began to overrun the old factories, squatter homes, and farmhouses that once dominated the Upper East Side.
In the late 19th century, the city pushed to urbanize, and urban livestock -- from hogs to dairy cows -- were seen as a threat to the image and high-brow future of New York. As CityLab notes, many members of Manhattan's elite bought (or took) the city's farmland, often owned by those of lower status, during this period.
Irish pig farmers and German gardeners, as well as the African-American settlement of Seneca Village, worked and lived on the land that's today known as Central Park. To create the park, the majority of their homes were destroyed in the 1860s.
New York's wealthy largely funded the city's parks and public spaces, in hopes of creating places where upper class women could stroll without coming into contact with those of lower status, according to historians.
The newly graded streets attracted residents to upper parts of Manhattan. Within two decades, apartment buildings replaced the farmhouses pictured in this 1998 photo.
New York's street grid became more dense throughout the early 20th century. Though the grid was great for housing, city commissioners soon realised the master plan -- and high land values -- deprived residents of space and sunlight.
The city moved toward a more modern urban plan called superblocks. This required demolishing tenement buildings and constructing larger apartment buildings with spacious green areas in between. But New York City will likely never be as grassy as it used to be.
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35 U.S.C. 112, AIA, America Invents Act, Novozymes v. Dupont Nutrition, provisional patent applications, Written Description requirement
Provisional patent applications. In the world of intellectual property, they have the allure of being the quick, the dirty, the cheap. What's not to love about them? The Patent Office filing fee is relatively low, they don't require drafting patent claims, nor are formal drawings or an application that is formally organized required. But mention your love for provisional patent applications to a patent attorney and you're likely to see furrowed brows and a worried look appear.
Often, a business owner will file a provisional patent application before an important event (e.g. a trade show) to protect the company's product/idea. Although the product/idea at issue may be fully developed and ready for sale (or licensing) the company often files a bare-bones provisional patent application, lured and lulled by the lack of formal filing requirements. The potential patentee has a false sense of security until, well, that brown 'stuff' hits the proverbial fan. More about that in a bit…
No one, however, will deny that provisional applications are an important option in developing a patent portfolio. That rings even truer since enactment of the "First-inventor-To-File" provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (the "AIA") in March 2013. As a first-to-file system, those provisions of the AIA require a filed patent application in order to prove priority of invention. As Dennis Crouch of Patently-O notes, this change is likely to lead even more companies to choose filing provisional applications as a core tactic in their patenting strategies. Dennis summarized in a nutshell every potential patentee's dilemma: with a few specific exceptions, under the AIA, an inventor's early filing date is important because any disclosure by a third party before that filing date will normally be treated as prior art that can negate patentability.
So, there you have it. Provisional patent applications are more important than ever. But let's get back to when that 'stuff' might hit the proverbial fan.
Provisional patent applications, as priority documents, create serious problems when they are unable to provide support for subject matter in a later-filed patent or patent application. This situation might crop up when the patentee is going through the patent examination process at the Patent Office, or, more likely, it might arise during litigation. For example, in litigation, an alleged infringer could claim that the patent-in-suit is invalid because it isn't entitled to the provisional's filing date. If proven, that could be fatal to the plaintiff's case and the patent could be declared invalid.
That's just what happened to Novozymes when it sued DuPont Nutrition for patent infringement in May 2010 (see Novozymes v. Dupont Nutrition (Federal Circuit July 2013)). Novozymes's case was filed pre-AIA, but the lessons there are even more relevant since enactment of the AIA. The Court found Novozymes' patent invalid because the provisional application did not provide support for Novozymes' claimed invention in its patent-in-suit.
Novozymes' provisional application at issue did in fact contain a lot of detail, or "formal textual support" as the Court put it. But the Court also found that the provisional did not explicitly describe Novozymes' actual invention, only a "slew of competing possibilities." In short, the provisional did not provide support for Novozymes' patent in light of the Written Description requirement (35 U.S.C. section 112, paragraph 1 of the Patent Act). That provision of the Patent Act requires that a patent applicant 'convey with reasonable clarity, to those skilled in the art, that, as of the filing date sought, he or she was in possession of the invention.' According to the Patent Office (see USPTO Manual of Examining Procedure, Section 2163), applicants can make this showing by "describing the claimed invention with all of its limitations" via, e.g., describing testing of the invention.
In the Novozymes case, both parties were in the business of developing and marketing enzymes used in commercial manufacturing to break down starches. For example, breweries use the enzyme (alpha amylase) to keep grain mash liquified during the brewing process.
Both Novozymes and Dupont had been searching for the holy grail of alpha amylases; one that could function at high temperature and in highly acidic conditions without degrading. In November, 2000, Novozymes filed provisional patent application No. 60/249,104 directed to, at least what it believed to be, such an improved alpha amylase. Later, U.S. Patent No. 7,713,723 issued, claiming priority to the earlier provisional application. Novozymes had approached its search for the improved alpha amylase by determining that certain sites on the enzyme molecule were useful for substituting a different amino acid for the one present in the native molecule. Novozymes' provisional application included a list of these sites and also a list of possible amino acid substitutions. However, the Court found that Novozymes' provisional application did not disclose which specific amino acids should be substituted at which specific sites to obtain the improved alpha amylase that the '723 patent claimed.
Ultimately, the Court agreed with Dupont that Novozymes' provisional application disclosed only a 'theory' or 'a laundry list of potential solutions', and, as such, did not support the claimed subject matter in the '723 patent rendering it invalid. While it must have been a devastating loss for Novozymes, the provisional application didn't show that Novozymes was in possession of the claimed invention at the time the application was filed.
Stay tuned for Part II, where we'll take a deeper look at the contours of the Written Description requirement and its relationship to provisional patent applications.
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