text: DeLorean Solstice In Doubt After Fisker Buys Old GM PlantMatt Hardigree10/27/09 12:30pmFiled to: CarpocalypseDeLorean Motor CompanySolsticeSkysaturn skyPontiac SolsticeDeloreandelorean solsticeCarpocalypse Now27EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink News of Fisker buying GM's shuttered Wilmington Assembly plant is good news for Fisker, but bad news for the DeLorean Solstice, which the new DeLorean Motor Company hoped to build at the plant. DMC and an undisclosed partner had hoped to restart the 3.2 million sqaure-foot Wilmington, Delaware plant with renewed production of the Kappa-based coupes, which were the last vehicles built at the plant. Advertisement Advertisement This turn of events put those plans in question."I'm glad to see some progress with Fisker's project and glad to see some of the DOE/ATVM money used to support green cars and green manufacturer," said James Espy, Vice President of the DeLorean Motor Company in a quick chat with us today. "I still hope there's a future for a Solstice/Sky product to carry on and until we hear otherwise we'll continue our efforts towards that end."How much hope is there? According to Fisker, production likely won't begin until late 2012, which means the plant will sit, tooled for building Solstices, until renovations and retooling starts. Sponsored It's possible Fisker could consent to making money off the plant and putting people back to work immediately by starting limited production on Solstice vehicles before all the tooling is scrapped, but we've yet to hear anything confirming this as a possibility.In the meantime, Solstice/DeLorean fans will have to wait.Reply27 repliesLeave a reply


text: Sue far as something to go through I would suggest maybe a tree tunnel. I dont know if youve seen one. But the are like very cool and creepy. You could make them like silhouettes on plywood. you could stagger them left to right so you dont have to make so many. But 6 to 8 maybe 10 would look awesome as you leave your cemetary. You could have red eyes up in them or an owl or buzzard or maybe a raven. A hangmans noose. You could have them as tall as 8ft. Its just an idea. Hope you like it and can maybe use it. And it would be something cool for the customers to walk by or under.

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VIDEO: Sneak Peek - ANNIE'S SEARCH FOR SANDY on NBC
ANNIE's SEARCH FOR SANDY, a 30-minute television special about the nationwide search to find the canine star of Broadway's new production of the Tony Award-winning classic musical, Annie, will air on Saturday, October 27 and Sunday, October 28 on NBC stations around the country, including the 10 NBC-owned stations serving the following markets: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco Bay Area, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Washington, D.C., San Diego and Connecticut, as well as the NBC affiliate in Nashville. "Annie's Search for Sandy," hosted by Al Roker, has been produced by Al Roker Entertainment and Annie The Musical LLC, in partnership with PEDIGREE Food for Dogs. Get a sneak peek below!
In this reality show, Bill Berloni, a Tony Award honoree for his work as Broadway's preeminent animal trainer, searches shelters across the country to find just the right dog to become Broadway's newest Sandy. Berloni discovered Broadway's first Sandy at a shelter in 1977 and has since been committed to finding all of his Broadway stars in local shelters. With the help of PEDIGREE, who share the belief that every dog deserves a loving home, Bill searches the country to find just the right rescue dog to become a star and Annie's beloved best friend.
Berloni eventually discovers Sunny, a two-year-old terrier mix from the BARC Municipal Shelter in Houston, only 24 hours before she was scheduled to be put to sleep as an unwanted shelter dog. In "ANNIE's Search for Sandy," find out how Sunny got the job as Broadway's newest four legged star; watch how Bill Berloni works with Broadway's Annie, Lilla Crawford, on preparing Sunny for the stage debut; and learn some valuable training tips on how to make your dog a star in your own home.
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ANNIE, the new production of the Tony Award-winning musical, is now in previews and opens Thursday, November 8 at the Palace Theatre (Broadway at 47th Street). Annie features a book by Thomas Meehan, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin, with all three authors receiving 1977 Tony Awards for their work. Annie is directed by Pulitzer Prize and three-time Tony Award-winner James Lapine and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Andy Blankenbuehler.


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Hunza (hŏnˈsä) [key], former princely state, 3,900 sq mi (10,101 sq km), NW Kashmir, administered by Pakistan. Declared a British protectorate in 1893, Hunza acceded to Pakistan after the partition of British India (1947). Local control stayed in the hands of the prince, or mir, until 1974.
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Our Neighbours - Poem by Oskar Hansen
In the darkness of the Ramallah night there is a light
An ember of hope, as the world is lowly and begins
To see that suffering is not one sided.
There is fear on both sides of the eyesore walls one
For losing what they have acquired, the other for losing
The little they have left. The victors are sensing they are
Prisoners too and might be on the wrongs side of
The walls as they sink into the ennui of misplaced hubris
Semitic people they are both Moslems, Christians, and
Jews, not fundamentalist in the rising tide of intolerance
Both sides in the world of chaos can find common ground,
They share the same culture, relatives lost in history.
May they overcome strife and find neighbourly peace as
The wind blows bitter dust in the Persian gulf.
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text: Angelina Promises Return To Iraq; Amy Winehouse's Day In Court Is DoneDodai Stewart7/24/09 9:00amFiled to: Dirt BagAngelina JolieIraqGerard ButlerTom CruiseDavid BeckhamVictoria BeckhamKate Majorjon gosselinamy winehouseRobert PattinsonKristen StewartBreaking dawntwilightMegan Foxmary j. bligemichelle trachtenbergGossip GirlMichael JacksonDemi MoorekelisNasSolangeBonokendra wilkinsonHugh HefnerLiza Minellidelta burkeDrop dead divaPaula Abdul120EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkAngelina Jolie, as you may know, was in Baghdad yesterday. Saint Angelina walked through a makeshift settlement where 20,000 displaced Iraqis live, and said:"It is lacking in all of the basic things that you would need, they don't have. They just started to have clean water. They're sleeping on dirt. They have built these areas out of brick by hand. 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The tried-and-true approaches that worked well to stamp first-generation steels are not as effective for stamping advanced high-strength steels (AHSS). Tests were conducted to determine optimal punch-to-die clearances, shear angles, and punch angles. Test results indicated that 12 to 15 percent punch-to-die clearances and -15- to +15-degree shear angles provided the longest punch and die life, and a 7-degree conical shear angle created the smallest burr growth.


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2011 maserati granturismo Model Overview
Drive a Maserati GranTurismo coupe or convertible and you're at the helm of one of the most eye-catching automotive designs in the world — at any price. Designed by Pininfarina, the GranTurismo provides a grand touring experience in a package that's arguably more alluring than even the Mercedes-Benz SL.
Power for the coupe comes from the same Ferrari-derived 4.2-liter and 4.7-liter V-8s shared with the Quattroporte sedan. The convertible only receives the 4.7-liter unit, which produces 433 horsepower. Maserati says the canvas-topped convertible can comfortably seat four adults.
The GranTurismo coupe is offered in base, S, and S Automatic trims. The GranTurismo S increases the rearward weight bias to 47 percent front and 53 percent rear while fixed-rate dampers provide 10 percent more damping than before.
GranTurismo S models have new aerodynamic extensions at the front end while all coupes now have darker headlight surrounds. For 2011, a wood steering wheel is now available and a few trim changes have been made on the interior. Maserati can now prepare the GranTurismo with a matte paint finish in three colors.
Bodystyles: Coupe, convertible
Engines: 4.2L V-8, 4.7L V-8
Transmissions: 6-speed automatic, 6-speed auto-clutch manual
Models: GranTurismo, S, S Automatic, Convertible
Matte paint is available in one of three existing Maserati colors. All coupes now come with darker headlight surrounds; the feature is optional on convertibles. GranTurismo S models get an aerodynamic extension in the front fascia. Otherwise, there are a number of minor trim changes in the interior, two new leather colors are available, and a wood steering wheel is offered.
In coupe and convertible bodystyle, the GranTurismo is an attractive Pininfarina-styled vehicle. Coupes with the 4.7-liter engine benefit from 20-inch wheels and all coupes have sporty, darker headlight surrounds.
The GranTurismo's interior is very customizable, from the six dashboard colors to the new leather hues, new wood and leather steering wheel, and new Grigio Dark Chrome trim. Padouk wood trim is newly available.
Base GranTurismos have an automatic transmission with five modes to fully exploit the capabilities of the 4.2-liter V-8. Gear changes can be made up to 7200 rpm. Maserati's Skyhook system — shock absorbers that continually adjust the damping — is optional. GranTurismo S models have a fixed-setting suspension with springs and 10 percent stiffer dampeners. A thicker rear anti-roll bar increases performance.
The GranTurismo features six airbags and a brake assist system designed to start braking before the driver does, and the convertible's roll bars can be deployed in a scant 190 milliseconds in a rollover situation. Electronic brake force distribution, a Brembo braking system, and the Maserati Stability Program, which is designed to integrate stability and traction control, are also available.
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I am no trainer. I have taught my son for about 8 months now. He's made great progress, he started on the tennis team, made it to varsity doubles, then at the end singles, which is cool, BUT HE CAN'T SERVE and I don't know how to teach him. He can hit forehand flat, top, slice, same with BH, he runs beautifully around his backhand and shoots to his opponents BH, but HE CAN'T SERVE. I entered him into a USTA Tourny, first one, and well one guy just killed him, but the other, and I saw at the USTA website the other kid had played at a higher level, but he lost 6-3, but it was because of his SERVE, or lack of it. I told him "Listen to your coach", and the coach had him doing a western grip, throw the ball up a couple feet and just pop it over, the other kid killed him on that. So how do I do it? He understands the mechanics of moving the feet, the hips, the shoulders, then arm in quasi bicep pose slice the ball, but he just can't get it, it's unbelievably frustrating as he's pretty good in every other department. I have him every day throwing the ball up to practice a good throw. Any help is appreciated, I'm not going to let him get massacered in a USTA tourney again until he can serve. Serve is one of my best assets, I mean you know we are supposed to win serve, it's a liability with him, I just don't know how to teach it.
Have him look at vids of LeytonHewitt/JuanCarlosFerrero serves. Make sure he stands the same, closed stance, feet just wider than shoulder width. You should have him hit conti grip, pronating to hit flat, slicing for second serves to begin with.
I am in favor of keeping the mechanics as simple as possible for someone learning. Here's what helped my daughter go from a frying pan serve with no pronation to a respectable serve. The first thing was to simplify and go to a non-loop takeback. Basically a Roddick like motion where you take the racquet straight up rather than a big loopy backswing. The girl in this "serve doctor" video has nice simple takeback also. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixx-MCC7D88 The next big help was to get her to hit a slice serve. Hitting a flat serve she was always "palm up" at the top which kills your ability to pronate. Learning a slice and having to carve around the right side of the ball forced her to be in the proper position at the top. It only took a couple of months and she developed a very reliable slice serve. From there it was relatively easy for her to learn to pronate and flatten it out. She has the proper motion now and is working on developing more power (leg bend, push up, shoulder rotation, etc.).
Thanks, going to save that video, I kind of teach him that way, just not the stretching the chest muscles, that's smart because he can feel it. You know it's weird, I could always just serve, but stopping and thinking "How DO I serve"? You know explain every little thing is weird. Thanks!
Show him this video. Sarah practicing serve.She is 8 years old. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L7q-bFA3vY&feature=related No way he'll let Sarah out serve him. Separate out the pronation aspect of the serve by doing the following pronation exercise. McCraw explaining a serve pronation exercise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iONY6fcqZGg Starting on the service line, instead of the baseline, as Coach McCraw describes, takes the pressure out of trying to get the ball in, and instead allows him to concentrate on the motion. Start with no more than 25 serves of this exercise so as not to cause undue arm soreness. Make sure that when he drops the racquet it is well out to his right side - the "back scratch" position is not in the middle of the back but well out to the right [assuming he is right handed]. If you don't start with the racquet well out the right in the racquet drop, you can't rotate it right to left in the pronation movement (pics 10-20). Pronation is not apparent to those learning to serve, and you as his teacher will have to make sure he is setting it up and executing it correctly. Standing in back of him may give you the best perspective. Good luck!
Thanks for the kind words on other thread. Believe me she is still a work in progress Definitely, get your son in the continential grip first. He probably won't like at first and will say it feels funny, but you have to make sure he sticks with it. The above posts are excellent advice. Please remember it is going to take a lot of work, patience and repetition. The reason we are focusing heavy on serve at a young age is because of its importance. I see some many times during USTA tournaments kids with great groundstrokes lose partly because of a weak poor mechanic serve. IMO I feel that there is such an advantage if you take the time to learn the serve properly and build on that with tactical serve placement.
Yea he uses a Eastern Grip I taught him, it's kind of Continental, but yea we use that, I was just saying the school coach wanted consistancy so she made him do it Western. Yea, he would pop it over the net, I felt so bad for him, I mean the serve was basically hitting a high slow shot to his opponents forehand, the other kids just killed it, so yea no point doing another tourney until he gets a good serve. I think it also will come naturally once he gets the idea so to speak in his head. For example once he got a slice, he was like "This is easy", so he practiced it and got better with it, at least I hope it will be that way with the serve!
Run, don't walk, away from that Western grip for serving. I don't care what the school coach says. She is doing him a dis-service (pun shamelessly intended), by encouraging a Western grip or an Eastern grip serve. Have him adopt either an semi-continental or a full continental ASAP (or sooner). .
Well yea school Tennis is over. It's a matter of can't win for losing, if I insist he do it my way I'm a bad domineering dad, if I say do it her way its bad, coach was not very good. Yea he uses basically Continental on everything, I started him with Eastern but it's devolved or evolved into Continental, he can rally like no bodies business, but serve? No. He'll get it, thanks. Also I'm going to have him serve with this Wilson 9.6 oz Blitz or whatever it is, I had him serving with a K-Factor 95, about 12.3 oz strung, shouldn't make that big a deal, I started with a heavy 75 inch wood racquet, but oh well, just want him to GET the mechanics.
It angers me that a coach would instruct anyone at any level to use a western grip when serving...and I understand what you mean about being a "domineering dad"...but your son should use a Continental grip when he serves. You obviously love and care for him a great deal...a father's opinion means a great deal to a son, and if you are kind and let him know that you really feel that the Conti is best for him, I don't think he will view you as domineering. Enjoy your son's tennis...these memories will last!
I went thru this a bit too and know what you mean. Just told my son that he had to get to the conti sooner or later....and sooner would help everything. Plus I mentioned that any serious Jrs would be smirking behind his back if he used that hackers grip for serving around them Nobody wants to look bad, right?
Yea it's amazing how strangers think, not you but people up here. If you don't teach they say you don't care, you do teach they assume you are a drill sargeant Oh well, we have a BLAST, every day "Daddy can we play tennis". He isn't the greatest natural talent (I think it will come), but he's COURAGEOUS, I mean more than me when I was his age. I was at the center, and Justin Bower was there, he has the second highest winning streak next to Fed, went to 2nd round Wimbledon, beat Mardy Fish, just a monster, so I wanted to play against him, you know so I could talk about it. He was very nice and let me hit with him. I was very nervous, after I was exhausted he asked Mick who was watching, and Mick hit with him, just no fear, so I guess that's a great trait he has Sorry I find myself talking to strangers about my son since he was born!
Yeah, don't worry about the labels. The only thing that matters is that your son developes a serve. And on this issue, you are 100 percent correct. He must make the switch. Developing proper mechanics such as, external/internal rotation of the shoulder, supination/pronation, racquet head speed, spin production etc etc. are all centered on having the correct grip. It is an absoulute fundamental.


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House Speaker John Boehner gave a spirited reply when asked recently about whether his party's resistance to middle-class tax cuts risked making Republicans appear to be lackeys of the rich.
"I've got 11 brothers and sisters on every rung of the economic ladder, all right?" Boehner said. "My dad owned a bar. I know what's going on out in America."
So Boehner has his finger on the American pulse because his deceased father owned a saloon? What strange brew have they been pouring in the speaker's office?
Whatever advice Earl Boehner has been giving his son from the grave, it doesn't appear to be working. On Monday, the bar owner's son aligned himself with House conservatives in opposition to a broadly bipartisan plan to extend a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans.
This new position, essentially reversing the one Boehner voiced a mere three days earlier, proves anew that the old-school speaker is less a leader of his caucus than a servant of his radical backbenchers. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say he's their barkeep.
Three times at a news conference last Friday, Boehner was asked whether he could support a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut, as Senate Democrats and Republicans were planning. Three times, Boehner declined to state an objection to the two-month extension (he objected to a different part of the agreement, about an oil pipeline, which the senators subsequently changed to his liking).
"I just gave you an answer. How much clearer can I be?" Boehner said, refusing to take issue with the two-month extension.
And so senators passed the extension, 89-10. Tea party heroes Pat Toomey and Marco Rubio voted for the compromise. The fiercest budget cutter of them all, Sen. Tom Coburn, voted for it. Republican lions such as John Cornyn, Jon Kyl and Mitch McConnell voted for it. Only seven Republicans voted "no."
McConnell, the Senate Republican leader who negotiated the compromise, kept Boehner informed at every step — and was confident enough in Boehner's acquiescence that his office sent out a notice saying there would be no more legislative business in the Senate until 2 p.m. Jan. 23. But Boehner's backbenchers — particularly the tea party freshmen — had other ideas, and, in a Saturday teleconference, made clear to Boehner that he would have to abandon the compromise.
The House Republican freshmen have become a bit tipsy with power, and freshman Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., on Monday boasted at a news conference that his class is "performing more like sophomores now than freshmen."
Actually, their performance is more sophomoric than anything, but they've been able to deliver a string of insults to Boehner, most notably the July revolt that forced the speaker to pull his debt-limit plan from the floor.
If Boehner needs any more evidence he's out of style in his party, he can ponder the rise in the presidential race of Newt Gingrich, the man Boehner tried to depose from the speakership in 1997, losing his leadership position in the process.
On Monday, Boehner had the unpleasant task of going before the cameras to explain why his House Republicans, after championing tax cuts for millionaires, would be voting against a tax cut for ordinary Americans.
"You know, Americans are tired of, uh, Washington's short-term fixes and gimmicks," Boehner began. He complained that "the Senate Democratic leaders passed a two-month extension" — omitting mention that Senate Republicans, with Boehner's knowledge and tacit support, had agreed.
So rather than pass a two-month extension, he's willing to have the tax cuts lapse entirely when they expire at year's end?
"I don't believe the differences between the House and Senate are that great," Boehner said, by way of reassurance. But this only confirmed that his side was making a big stink over nothing.
Why didn't he raise warnings earlier about the two-month extension? "Uh, we expressed our reservations about what the Senate was doing," he said.
What did he make of the fact that 90 percent of the Senate supported the compromise? Boehner, in reply, demanded to know why "we always have to go to the lowest common denominator" — which is exactly what he had done in letting his backbenchers lead him.
The speaker denied the obvious truth that he had encouraged the compromise before opposing it. He licked his lips, gave a "thanks, everybody" and disappeared.
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Are Almond Oatmeal Cookies Healthy?
Cookies have long been considered as nothing but tasty treats, however, does that hold true for almond oatmeal cookies? Almonds are popular as the memory enhancers and oatmeal is a known source of several wholesome nutrients. It is obvious to assume that anything prepared using these as the key ingredients would be healthy, or is it! Read on to find out the truth…
Nutritional composition of almond oatmeal cookies
Several forms of almond and oatmeal cookies are available with many recipes combining other ingredients like chocolate chip, peanuts, raisins, etc. to the cookie mixture. The values given here are for standardized oatmeal and almond cookies prepared using flour, butter, and sugar as the main adjuncts. For ease of discussion, the other varieties have not been included.
Total calories – 165 kcal
Total fat – 4 gm
Saturated fat – 1 gm
Cholesterol – 23 mg
Total carbohydrates – 30 gm
Sugar – 8 gm
Dietary fiber – 5 gm
Protein – 6 gm
Sodium – 63 mg
The calcium, potassium, and iron content of the cookies can vary from 1% to 15%.
Health benefits of almond oatmeal cookies:
Good for brain development and function
Almonds are a rich source of essential fatty acids, which are important for brain development and cognition. Oatmeal is a good source of carbohydrates, which is the primary source of energy to the brain. These 2 ingredients together enhance brain activity and cognitive functions.
Prevents lifestyle related diseases and disorders
Both oatmeal and almonds are a rich source of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and dietary fiber. These nutrients help prevent a medley of diseases including CVD, diabetes, and cancer.
Helps reduce weight
The abundance of soluble fibers in the cookies provides very high satiety value. This helps curb sweet cravings and junk food addiction. Almonds have a naturally sweet taste, which helps reduce the amount of sugar added to cookies. If prepared using the right adjuncts, these cookies can actually help maintain weight loss regimen.
Good for skin
Almonds are rich source of tocopherol / Vitamin E: a nutrient known for preventing premature aging, wrinkles, and promoting supple skin. Irregular bowel movements is purported to cause acne, the high fiber content of these cookies helps prevent this malady as well.
Disadvantages of eating almonds oatmeal cookies:
- Even though almonds and oatmeal healthy ingredients, they make up for less than 50% of the cookie recipe. Adjuncts such as butter or shortening, white flour, and sugar are essential to prepare this dish and responsible for making them not so healthy after all. As is evident from the nutrition profile given earlier, these add unnecessary calories and free sugar to the baked dish. Moreover, while the key ingredients help reduce cholesterol, fat used to prepare the cookies add direct cholesterol to the diet. Sugar and white flour cause a sudden peak in blood sugar levels, which negates the presence of dietary fibers in oats and almonds. Thus nullifying the health benefits brought about by almonds and oats.
- Apart from the additives added the processing that the key ingredients endure ends up damaging several of their virtues. Most antioxidants are heat labile and so are the vitamins present in these foods. Unless fortified, the cookies may not provide any of the antioxidant and vitamin benefits of the raw ingredients.
- Certain studies have shown that over consumption of almonds can cause hair loss problems and hence, must be consumed in moderation.
- People with almond and/or tree nut allergy must avoid consuming almonds in any form. Consuming any food product that has come in contact with and/or contains almonds can cause fatal anaphylactic shock among these people.
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Shannon's character is the dark gun-toting version of Alice from Alice in Wonderland.
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Ages: both are 19
Occupations: Marina-Student, Jasmine, Kohl's employee
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Larry Goldings' organ trio started out 20 years ago, tweaking a classic idiom in Smalls, a New York basement jazz club. Now each musician combines high-profile tours and session work with their own band-leading projects. Goldings is based in LA – he has played piano with singer-songwriter James Taylor since 2001 and has a growing list of film credits – while guitarist Peter Bernstein and drummer Bill Stewart are equally in demand in New York.
But they always manage to squeeze a dozen or so gigs a year into their busy working schedules, and clearly relish the chance to deliver the no-nonsense grooves and subtle interplay, crisp beats and flowing solos that the organ trio form demands. At this packed-house gig, they delivered hard-swinging modernism and funky boogaloos, lush ballads and lounge-lizard blues with the informality of old friends making up for lost time – there were even brief between-numbers discussions about which tune to play next.
Once in gear, though, the band played with the intensity and creative spark to enthral as well as excite. Goldings and Bernstein have a seemingly telepathic sense of each other's sounds and textures, while Stewart's steady pulse comes with a sharp supportive chatter. As a unit, they balance a warm heart with percussive bite, and sound terrific.
Neither set strayed too far from organ-trio orthodoxy. The first opened with a hard-boiled swinger, the second with a loping swish of brushes. Both featured a mid-set ballad – a rare Jobim waltz, "Beleza", in the first, "Stairway to the Stars" in the second. There were sensuous fades and funky beats, dazzling trades and the constant ebb and flow of tension and release.
But this was no retread of well-worn themes. Long solos flowed with purpose and were laced with the blues, but here they were supported by a fine mesh of harmonic intrigue and whiplash cracks from Stewart's snare. And each tune had a highlight surprise – an odd whirligig organ intro on Rod Argent's "Time of the Season"; Stewart rolling seamlessly round his kit on "The Acrobat"; Bernstein's singing tone turning to grit on the finale, a down-and-dirty boogaloo called "The Dragonfly". After some coaxing, they returned for a final modernist romp on Hank Mobley's "Breakthrough".


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Though Derek Walcott in "What the twighlight says" says "that being poor we already had the theatre of our lives" it would still be nice to turn up the lights at the opera and really feel connected to what I am watching. I starting thinking of this after one of my readers directed me to this video and that got me thinking of Kanye's song seen in a different light. What if it were slowed down, broken apart and really shone a light on? For sure there would be an audience for it, just look how many twitter followers he has, how many albums he's sold, why not re-contextualize hip-hop rather than knock it or get bored with it when it becomes a broken record about how much money, fast cars and girls a hip-hop artist can get. I do agree with Sheikha Mozah on that note.
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A young lady in middle school replied to a Buzz about what you think about Buzz. Her response?
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So, Google just took control out of the hands of parents in one fell swoop. The young lady was allowed to have email, but her parents had no idea she would be signed up for a micro-blogging service with absolutely no notice at all.
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Granite Construction still wants to build a mine in or near Riverside County, despite selling Temecula-area land for its proposed Liberty Quarry this week.
Meanwhile, a lawyer for a group suing to block the county from fast-tracking surface mines said that litigation will continue. Temecula officials are considering what to do about their two quarry-related lawsuits.
Quarry opponents Friday, Nov. 16, were still celebrating the demise of plans for the open-pit mine. The 7-year quarry fight ended Thursday when the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians agreed to purchase 354 acres of land slated for the quarry from Granite for $3 million.
The tribe considered the Liberty Quarry site sacred and said the quarry would have destroyed land comparable to the Biblical Garden of Eden. Should Granite find another quarry site, Pechanga agreed to evaluate it for possible impacts to tribal cultural and historic resources.
Pechanga also agreed to pay Granite $17.35 million to settle the quarry dispute. From now until 2035, Granite agreed not to own or operate a mine within a radius stretching from six miles north to three miles south of the former quarry site.
Granite and Pechanga started talking in July. âBasically (the deal) is a good situation for both parties involved,â said Granite spokeswoman Karie Reuther.
Granite hasnât found another quarry location and thereâs no timetable for doing so, Reuther said. The new quarry site could be in Riverside County or San Diego County, she said.
âWe still feel this market needs an aggregate facility because thereâs trucks having to import the aggregate,â Reuther said, calling the practice of hauling aggregate over long distances ânot economically or environmentally sustainable.â
In making the case for Liberty Quarry, Granite said the southwest region needed a local source of aggregate â" tiny rocks used in construction projects.
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Isaac Munoz, 24, of 639 Clark St., told Judge Ruth Ann Franks that he shot and killed Jesus Madera, 32, after they argued over money Mr. Madera owed one of Munoz's relatives.
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When President Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown meet tomorrow, one of the main items on the agenda will surely be the economy and economic policy. I'm skeptical about pundits who predict what two government leaders will talk about, and I make no claims about my predictive ability. But there are policies I wish they would talk about and–if they are really Keynesians–that they should talk about, such as reducing the minimum wage. I would also like them to talk about why Britain faces a less dismal fiscal future than the United States because of some reforms that Margaret Thatcher initiated. Unfortunately, there are also policies that I fear they will talk about, such as forming a tax cartel.
Why should Obama and Brown, as good Keynesians, talk about abolishing or reducing the minimum wage? It goes back to the economic model that John Maynard Keynes presented in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Because Keynes' best-known work is so unclear, there is a small cottage industry in economics that looks at what Keynes really meant. Although we still don't know for sure, we do know what modern Keynesians mean. Most of them believe that wages are inflexible and that this causes problems. When "aggregate demand"–that is, the demand for goods and services–falls, the demand for labor falls but wages don't. The result: higher unemployment. Modern Keynesians have agreed that if wages could fall quickly, there would not be a need for tax cuts or increases in government spending to raise aggregate demand: The lower wages would price workers into jobs. These Keynesians despair, though, about whether wages will fall quickly.
But there is one area where the government could get out of the way and let wages fall: the minimum wage. In the United States, the federal minimum wage is now $6.55 an hour and will rise to $7.25 in July. In Britain, the minimum wage ranges from (at current exchange rates), $5 an hour for those under age 18 to $8.11 an hour for those aged 22 or higher. For workers between age 18 and 21, there is a "development rate" of $6.75 an hour.
As economists have long known, and as Keynesian economist Paul Samuelson and the late Keynesian James Tobin have pointed out, the minimum wage destroys jobs for unskilled workers. Economists' consensus estimate is that a 20% increase in the minimum wage destroys 2% to 4% of youths' jobs. These job-destroying effects have been more severe for black youths. As Samuelson wrote in his 1970 textbook, Economics, about a proposal to raise the minimum to $2: "What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting a job?"
Moreover, notice the term "development" in the British minimum wage law. It's both an explicit recognition that workers need time to develop their skills and an implicit recognition that setting the wage too high will price out vulnerable unskilled workers. What about workers who "develop" more slowly? The British government's answer: tough.
Last month, President Obama said he would listen to alternate plans for creating jobs. Here's one: Reduce the U.S. minimum wage by 25%. This would create jobs for 400,000 to 800,000 youths. And the cost to the government would be zero.
I also wish they would talk about how to reduce the growth of spending on government Ponzi schemes, more commonly known in the United States as Social Security. President Obama could learn a lot from British reforms that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made in the 1980s. Before then, the Basic State Pension (BSP) was indexed to wages. Over long time periods, real wages rise, which means that wages rise faster than prices. Mrs. Thatcher indexed the BSP to prices, thus reducing the rate of growth of expenditures in this government program. President Obama would achieve a lot by indexing Social Security benefits to prices instead of to wages.
My guess, though, is that Gordon Brown sees that President Obama has destroyed, in a little over five weeks, the economic legacy that President Reagan in the early 1980s and President Clinton with the Republican Congress of the mid-1990s worked so hard to achieve. Reagan reduced taxes as a percent of GDP, and Clinton and Congress reduced government spending as a percent of GDP. President Obama admits, in his own budget, that government spending will grow from its current level of 21% of GDP in fiscal year 2008. It is projected to be 27.7% in FY 2009 and 24.1% in FY 2010. Gordon Brown may be seeking political cover for the same "turnaround" in Britain.
And while they're at it, they might discuss a global tax cartel. Various European governments want to "harmonize taxation," their euphemism for agreeing to keep tax rates high so that high-income workers and investors have less incentive to seek out countries with low tax rates. This high-tax strategy is hampered by small countries, often former British colonies, that have the gall to keep tax rates low. In the past few years, the OECD has pushed vigorously to blacklist such countries, with the idea of imposing sanctions on them. In their book, Global Tax Competition, Cato Institute economists Chris Edwards and Daniel J. Mitchell write that Gordon Brown "has a long track record of undermining the interests of the U.K. territories that are on the OECD blacklist."
Edwards and Mitchell also point out that in 2000, when Lawrence Summers was President Clinton's Treasury secretary, he claimed that tax competition among governments was "the dark side to international capital mobility." Fortunately, with the Clinton administration on its way out, Summers put little effort into supporting the OECD's anti-tax-competition agenda. But now Summers is President Obama's main economic adviser. In case you think Summers has forgotten his agenda, he hasn't. In a paper published in January, Summers and co-author James Hines recognized that the increasingly global economy makes people and capital more mobile and, therefore, will make government hesitant to increase corporate and individual tax rates. But they identified a way to avoid this problem: reduce tax competition between countries. They wrote:
"International agreements have the potential to play significant roles in these strategies. It is already the case that governments cooperate in international settings such as the World Trade Organization to promote international trade and investment, and bilateral and multilateral tax agreements and initiatives serve the function of facilitating tax enforcement and avoidance of double taxation of international income. Doubtless governments will come to rely more heavily on international agreements in the years to come, but it remains to be seen whether they will accelerate or offset the recent trend in the direction of expenditure taxation."
It does remain to be seen. Will the meeting on Tuesday be the opening round in a discussion of a tax cartel? If it is, will we find out?
David R. Henderson is a research fellow with the Hoover Institution, an associate professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School and the editor of The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (Liberty Fund, 2008).


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Graduate Studies, University of Southern Maine: http://usm.maine.edu/grad/
Note that graduate degree program listings below are alphabetical except for programs in Lewiston Auburn College, the Muskie School, the School of Education and Human Development, and the School of Nursing and Health Professions, which are listed together.
Applied Medical Sciences: Master's program
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Business Administration: School of Business MBA, and joint programs
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Husson College graduate degrees: http://www.husson.edu
Maine College of Art Master of Fine Arts degree: http://www.meca.edu/
Maine Maritime Academy Master of Science in Global Logistics and marine Management: http://www.mainemaritime.edu/
Thomas College Master of Business Administration: http://www.thomas.edu/grad/
University of New England graduate degree programs: http://www.une.edu/cas/graduate.cfm (includes programs in biological sciences, education, and marine sciences).
University of New England College of Pharmacy Doctor of Pharmacy degree program: http://www.une.edu/pharmacy/
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Well..... since going with cordless, I avoid screwdrivers all together. Dont remember what it was but a while back the cordless wasnt available and I was 'forced' to drive a screw by hand and was swearing the whole time....... smh. Ive gotten old, lazy, and soft.....
A coworker once told me that Sears did a survey to determine if their customers would prefer quality or price.Craftsman has made a 50+ year journey from excellent to good to junk. Most people want junk. I have some 20 year old Craftsman screwdrivers and they are pretty good.
Price won.
So we can blame it on the customers that answered the survey.
I have worked with many people who feel a low price is more important than if the tool shaped object will work well at its purpose.
Often people will buy a tool for onetime use.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
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To me tools honestly are not really tools. They are more like objects from which i derive satisfaction. Neither my life, safety nor income will ever depend on anything as trivial as a screwdriver, much less a smoothing plane or dovetail saw They really are toys for me. If I didn't like them I'd buy cheap ones.
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OK, I got my Wilde pry bars from Eppsteins today. $35 shipped and I get this huge box. These things are gigantic. Granted the are the sizes advertised but that didn't register well in my mind. They'll come in handy for sure, but now I need to find what must be classified as a mini-prybar for all those former screwdriver-as-prybar jobs! They feel really nicely made too.
I must have USA-made Stanley. I bought a set of 8 black-and-yellow handled Stanleys about 20 years ago and they've held up fairly well. That said, for a while I switched to using a yellow-handled multi-driver (similar to the LV, but not ratcheting) from ACE (purchased about 15 years ago) and intermittently used that instead. Never had a problem with either.
I also have a single clear yellow handled Stanley #2 phillips that has a partially melted tip from where I inadvertently touched both terminals on the garbage disposal (it was a tight area to work in, and I didn't remove the screwdriver before turning to readjust...learned that lesson QUICK!). It has performed excellently for over 20 years.
Regarding Craftsman in general, I have a cman socket set that was a gift from my brother just over 20 years ago. Had to swap the 1/4" ratchet because it broke at least one tooth, but otherwise have had no problems with it. (The swap was painless, as well.)
I'm thinking more and more that I'll have to buy my father a new set of tools and steal all his old ones.
Not all chemicals are bad. Without hydrogen or oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
Wera, top notch. I have several sets. Where I work we are a distributor for Wera and periodically they offer screwdriver sets at promotional pricing. At my cost they are very cheap so I have stocked up. It is hard not to buy something when the flyers come out.
Here's a link to an example set on Amazon.
The really tough ones are the Kraftform Plus 900 Series, The Chiseldriver as they call it. They actually show and describe it in the catalog as having an impact cap on the handle. They extend the shank through the handle to a striking cap on top of the handle. The handles are black with yellow grip inserts. You can find them on the internet for around $50 for a six piece set and rack.
We sell quite a bit of Wera in the industrial market. Most of it are insert bits and the quality and durability is much better than the market leader who seems to have fallen down on quality.
All Wera items are pricey but they are top quality.
Tim just cost me $36.36...even got free shipping. $6.06 per quality screwdriver..that works for me...and the math was easy, too.
I got a box of Wera and Felo screwdrivers in the mail the other day and I like both brands. I think the handles on the Wera are more comfortable.
So I didn't replace my Craftsman Torx screwdrivers because I don't use them that much. I had occasion to use the smallest (T7) this week and does the head strip? No! The handle snaps right in half in my hand. Wihas on order...


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Sign me up. Opening night. Grauman's Chinese Theatre. See you there. I'll bring the popcorn, Canseco will bring the juice.