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THE cinema may or may not be dead, but film almost certainly is. Celluloid-based entertainment will become either a dim memory or a boutique specialty within the next few years, as the major studios continue to phase out bulky, old-fashioned (but oh so beautiful) 35-millimeter prints in favor of Digital Cinema Packages (DCPs, for short) delivered to theaters on hard drives or through high-speed Internet connections.
Which is why it is both creepy and poetically just that Bill Morrison's "Decasia," a work precisely centered on the unexpected glories of decaying film stock, has now been released on the living-room equivalent of the DCP, the Blu-ray disc. Distributed by the independent company Icarus Films, "Decasia" has now escaped the fragile world of celluloid for the eerily immaterial realm of the digital, where the scratches, dust mites and flaking emulsion that give film prints their character and physicality are a thing of the 20th-century past.
Academics have recently come to identify those unintended physical aspects of film technology as the "haptic" element of the cinema — those seemingly tactile qualities, like the cue marks that once appeared in the upper-right-hand corner of the frame to warn projectionists that the end of a reel was approaching, and the time for changing over to the second projector was nigh. (When they were missing, projectionists used to make their own cue marks by burning them into prints with lighted cigarettes, not a great idea given the explosive potential of nitrate-based celluloid in use for much of the first 50 years of cinema.)
In today's digital cinema, cue marks are a thing of the past, as are the dangerously unstable nitrate prints, which were eliminated in the early 1950s in favor of acetate stock, which was less inclined to burst into flame or, over time, decompose into a gelatinous mass and eventually collapse into powder.
"Decasia" seizes on those transitional moments, when the readable images of nitrate film are slipping into the many odd and curious distortions caused by the decay of the physical medium. Some images seem to flake away; some blossom into glowing effects that suggest the solarization that was a popular technique for evoking the psychedelic experience of the '60s; others suffer distortions like those of a fun-house mirror; still others seem to be invaded by swelling masses of bacteria, like something you would observe in a petri dish.
Mr. Morrison's film is founded on an enduring paradox: that decay produces its own kind of beauty, and even functions as a kind of creation. Originally assembled as a component of Ridge Theater's "multimedia theatricalization" of a symphony by Michael Gordon, first performed in Switzerland in 2001, "Decasia" has gone on to become that rarest of birds, an experimental film with crossover appeal.Continue reading the main story
On one level the film is a kind of Rorschach test in which the decaying images become animated inkblots, open to whatever identifications the spectator chooses to impose on them, from garden gnomes to genitals. On another, the film provides a kind of "2001" psychedelia, a rush of abstract images linked to the trance-inducing drone of Mr. Gordon's score. As the base reality of the images buckles and bubbles away, at least some members of the audience will experience some mild 1960s flashbacks.
But "Decasia" is by no means a randomly assembled collection of footage. Mr. Morrison has clearly logged a lot of hours at film archives — including the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress and George Eastman House — in pursuit of particularly evocative instances of decay. Some shots seem almost too good to be true, as when an early-20th-century boxer spars with the shifting mass of nitrate rot that has erased his punching bag, or when explorers discover what looks like a blobby space alien pulsing in the depths of a cave. An airplane, crossing what once had been a clear blue sky, finds itself in a mighty contest with the elements as great, dark thunderclouds of rot rise around it, suddenly illuminated by bolts of lightning, or perhaps artillery shells fired by an unseen enemy.
Conceived as a homage to Disney's "Fantasia," "Decasia" also moves through a series of distinct movements. In the chapter headings of the disc they are identified as "creation" (the sea, emerging land masses, swirling speckles that might be spermatozoa); "civilization" (buildings sway and collapse, schoolchildren struggle to stay in orderly lines, narrative fragments emerge, along with fleeting close-ups of early movie stars like William S. Hart and Mary Pickford); "conundrum" (images so deteriorated that they are only fitfully readable); and finally "disintegration and rebirth," in which images, largely of the natural world, seem to form themselves out of the dark chaos of decay.
Unifying the various sections are repeated newsreel images of film being processed in an industrial laboratory — the moment of birth for a movie, as it emerged from the amniotic fluid of the developing tank — as well an emphasis on circular images, like a Sufi whirling dervish, or an Indian homespun weaver at work at his wheel. No simple nostalgist, Mr. Morrison comes to emphasize the cyclical nature of creation. The new devours the old, which will be devoured in its turn.
Digital technology does not mean an end to this cycle. It may even mean an acceleration of it. The zeros and ones of digital recording may exist outside the physical world, but the media used to disseminate those binary streams is still very much limited by material reality. The magnetic surfaces and optical discs used to fix digital information are just as vulnerable, if not more so, than celluloid. (The glue that holds iron oxide to tape flakes away, the light-sensitive dye that makes DVD-R recordings possible eventually fades into nothingness.) In these cases the resulting decay has little poetry about it; the sounds and images are either there or not there. At the moment there are few if any major archives that regard digital media as a reliable standard for preservation, while, properly cared for, the new acetate film stock will endure for hundreds of years.
"Decasia" is a wonderful experience on Blu-ray, but it is as celluloid that it will survive. (Icarus Films, $34.98, not rated)
PITCH PERFECT Anna Kendrick is a college freshman who joins a women's a cappella singing group, which turns out not to be free of personality conflicts. With Brittany Snow, Anna Camp and Rebel Wilson; Jason Moore directed. The movie is "loaded with the plotting conventions of the Disney Channel's tweener shows," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The New York Times in September. (Universal, Blu-ray/DVD combo, $34.98; DVD, $29.98; also available through Movies on Demand; PG-13)
RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION Paul W. S. Anderson directs the fifth installment in this resourceful series, starring Milla Jovovich as a leather-clad agent battling legions of zombies and a sinister corporation. "A zombie plague may have laid waste the world, but apparently supplies of black leather unitards have yet to be exhausted," Jeanette Catsoulis wrote in The Times in September. (Sony; Blu-ray 3-D, $45.99; Blu-ray, $35.99; DVD, $30.99; R)
ARBITRAGE Richard Gere as a hedge-fund operator whose shady practices, in both his business and private life, are catching up with him. Nicholas Jarecki wrote and directed; with Susan Sarandon and Brit Marling. " 'Arbitrage,' a sleek entertainment about how very good greed can be, is a fairy tale masquerading as a tragedy," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times in September. (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, $24.99; DVD, $19.98; also available through Movies on Demand; R)
KILLER JOE A dimwitted Texan (Emile Hirsch) hires a highly competent hit man (Matthew McConaughey) to murder his mother in this black comedy of mass dysfunction directed by William Friedkin from the play by Tracy Letts. With Gina Gershon and Thomas Haden Church. The movie is "a story featuring a family of white-trash clichés and the murderer cum preacher who's there to bring the peace," Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in July. (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, $24.99; DVD, $19.98; also available through Movies on Demand; R)
LOOPER In the future professional assassins will have access to time travel, which sets up all kinds of paradoxes in this thriller starring Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt. Rian Johnson directed. The movie is "an obstreperously entertaining, bullet- and attitude-ridden science-fiction pastiche," Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in September. (Sony, Blu-ray, $35.99; DVD, $30.99; also available through Movies on Demand; R)Continue reading the main story


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ORDER: Plaintiff's motion to supplement the record 19 is granted; Plaintiff is awarded $8,651.47 in pre-judgment interest on the $233,910 award of damages; the Clerk shall enter judgment in favor of Plaintiff for the total amount of $242,561.47. Signed by Senior Judge James A Teilborg on 7/15/16. (REW)
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Yea. I've got a tip for your mom.
The tip of my penis.
For her - your mom's - vagina.
Like, I'll take the tip and put it in and be like, "How's that, Carol?" and she'll be all like, "It's so big!" and I'll be all like, "That's just the fuckin' tip, fool!" and then she'll be all like, "Oh, my!" and then I'll give her the rest millimeter by millimetre so she feels as full as a Mexican truck heading for the border.
See? That there at the end? That's a stupid, tasteless, harmless joke. That's not actual racism. When you call a whole culture rapists, that's fuckin' racism.
By the way, anyone who asks me about Donald Trump from now on is going to be disappointed in the answer they get, and they will also be putting their mom's rump in danger. I'm not wasting any more of my time explaining what level of twit that guy has achieved. If you haven't yet been convinced you're an asshat for thinking, 'He's saying what everyone else is thinking," then you'll live the rest of your life with no concept of your epic asshattery.
Short Answer: You shouldn't be rewarded for telling the truth. You're supposed to tell the truth. So let's stop making allowances for what words he's actually saying and how harmful they are, just so we can say it's refreshing that he isn't lying his ass off. (Oh, and by the way, he's lying his ass off. So he's a double-sided douche. The worst kind!)


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So I just wrote out a whole essay and accidentally erased it, so now you will get a highlights package.
1. Haven't got permission to publish Cell C, Cosmo or FHM yet
2. A paper in Australia wants to publish my portrait of Oscar
3. Did a story for Essence Magazine based in New York. It invlolved:
-Malaak Rock (Chris Rock's better half)
-Her charity initiative called 'Journey For Change'
-A really nice lady called Wendy from Essence
-30 Kids from under privileged homes in Brooklyn New York
-30 mentors from around America
-Hundreds of kids from SA
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"Pedro's tears are once again flowing like waterfalls!"Just as the human body contains gallons of highly pressurized blood, it also contains an equal amount of tears, at a similar pressure. Under the proper emotional stimulus, these tears can emerge as cascading sheets, actual waterfalls, or even firehose-like streams, all emitted from the eyes (of course). Some characters require less stimulus than others. As a visual trope, this is Older Than Television; older American animation had a number of minor characters (who were usually minor in the sense of age as well) who would begin high-pressure crying at the drop of a hat (sometimes preceded by Puppy-Dog Eyes, though that was more typically a signal for a poignant single glistening teardrop). Often called the "Fire Hydrant Wail" in the case of the more extreme versions. Compare Sparkling Stream of Tears, Manly Tears, Tender Tears. Contrast Trying Not to Cry, Single Tear, Inelegant Blubbering (both of which involves rather fewer and rather more realistic tears), Fireball Eyeballs.
— Pedro, Excel Saga
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- British advert for Walkers Crisps, playing on footballer Paul Gascoigne's famous tears at the 1990 World Cup, fits him with a couple of hoses for a rare Live-Action version of Ocular Gushers. Here you go.
- In an advertisement for IHOP's endless stack of pancakes, a man is so saddened by his empty plate, a HUGE tear builds on his cheek. It gets sucked back in by the arrival of a new stack.
- The Old Spice commercial "Tree", where several mothers are atop a tree, playing this trope straight.
Anime & Manga
- Axis Powers Hetalia:
- Nearly everyone in Azumanga Daioh does this in at least several points of the series. Worth mentioning is Mr. Kimura, who, in the last episode, spouts a literal waterfall of tears that traces down the contours of his suit.
- In the manga of Battle Royale, this is a constant occurence with practically every character. Generally the steady-stream of thick rivers of tears.
- Randou Rino of Best Student Council does this often, usually while glomping her friend Ayumu.
- Bleach:
- The administrator at Ichigo's school, who called several students in anime episode 11 to berate them for their misbehavior at Don Kanonji's TV show filming in episode 10.
- Kon and several of Ichigo's male student friends (especially Keigo) have done this repeatedly.
- Being the light-hearted parodies of the Nasuverse they are, these show up in Carnival Phantasm and its predecessor Take Moon from time to time. For example, when Rin Tohsaka finds out she wasted ten years of her life preparing for a Holy Grail War that's now a Japanese game show.
- In Episode 23 of Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z, the entire city of New Townsville literally cries a river after the kabuki monster impairs everyone with his misery rays. This is also reference to how Lou Gubrious sets his misery rays on Townsville.
- In a later episode, Momoka cries these during a childish tantrum; her tears fill the screen right up momentarily.
- In an episode of Dragon Ball, when Chi-Chi sees Gohan's blonde hair (at this time, she doesn't know what a Super Saiyan is), she acts shocked and cries because she felt that Gohan became a "punker."
- Virtually everyone in Elfen Lied ... at least while they are not violently disemboweling someone. Considering what happens to everyone throughout the story, it's not surprising.
- Excel Saga:
- Pedro in the anime (as the opening quote attests).
- In the manga, this literally happens to Ropponmatsu II; crying caused the little robot girl to spring a leak.
- Also happens in Excel Saga's Spiritual Successor Puni Puni Poemi. "This is making me cry waterfalls!"
- FLCL. During the final episode "FLClimax", Commander Amarao has one of these during the final confrontation between Atomsk!Naota and Haruko.
- Fairy Tail:
- At one point, local water mage Juvia starts crying and nearly drowns several mages around her.
- Lucy does this in the episode when she becomes invisible.
- Fullmetal Alchemist:
- Occurs occasionally in the 2003 anime version, even to Alphonse, who has no tear ducts◊. Or eyes, for that matter. Especially gets ridiculous when he questions moments where Ed won't cry for him when they're both in despair.
- In the 25th episode of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, May Chang is anxious about her pet Panda after she and it are separated during an intense fight with the enraged homunculus, Gluttony. In one scene, she actually cries a jet of tears which almost puts out the burning coals she used to warm herself.
- Every human who's freed from a Zonder Core in GaoGaiGar has these. Makes sense, since being purified appears to relieve whatever stress led to them being a Zonder target in the first place.
- Haikyuu!! usually portrays realistic crying, but there's one notable example of Ocular Gushers: when Shimizu, the team manager, digs up Karasuno's old banner and wishes the team good luck in the upcoming tournament. The 3rd and 2nd years just stare blankly for a moment... then tears suddenly start splurting out. It must be seen to be believed.◊
- Hanaukyō Maid Tai. Chief Technology maid Ikuyo Suzuki is prone to these. Taro does it in episode 13 and 14 and La Vérité episode 7.
- Haré of Haré+Guu has to put up with so much grief from the titular Adorable Abomination, it's no wonder he does this at the drop of a hat.
- Eriko from High School Girls is prone to this.
- Kagome's grandfather in Inuyasha.
- Mako from Kill la Kill takes this to its logical extreme at the end of her fight with Ryuko by having her entire eyes turn into pools of water before spewing forward like a busted hydrant. Like everything in that anime, even the crying is done to the extreme.
- She does it again when Gamagoori gets knocked out protecting her, making an otherwise dramatic scene fairly Narm-y.
- Love Hina:
- Keitarō is well known for this, at the drop of a hat, of the cascading sheets variety, with at least one of firehose-like streams.
- Shinobu comes in second for frequency.
- Ken Akamatsu almost always depicts himself in this fashion in illustrations.
- Practically everybody in Lucky Star fall into this trope at the drop of a hat.
- Izuku Midoriya, the protagonist of My Hero Academia, often turns this trope Up to Eleven. In one instance, his tears shot upwards with so much pressure that his feet were buried into the ground from the recoil◊. His mother is also equally prone to crying up literal rivers while watching the tournament on TV; apparently she fainted five times during the tournament, two of those times being from dehydration!
- The fact that this is turned Up to Eleven has made fans joke that Izuku isn't actually quirkless and his ability to do this trope IS his quirk.
- Naruto:
- Rock Lee and his sensei Might Gai are notorious for the waterfall-of-tears look.
- Naruto and Inari perform some Ocular Gushing when they say goodbye to each other at the end of the Land of Waves arc despite being determined not to.
- Kurami, after losing to Sora in the Real-Time Strategy equivalent of a chess game in No Game No Life, cries in this matter. It's oddly adorable too.
- One Piece tends to use the cascading water effect when characters are extremely upset. Oddly enough, it uses a somewhat subdued version for dramatic effect. The logical conclusion ends with a giant, whose tears are compared to a deluge.
- Frequently in Ouran High School Host Club, both anime & manga, by Tamaki (almost every other frame) and the Hitachiins in response to any example of Haruhi's "cuteness". Honey also, for Moe points.
- Pokémon:
- This happens occasionally with the Team Rocket trio whenever they witness the Pokémon they're supposed to catch face hardship or do something emotionally significant, such as when Pikachu almost agreed to evolve into a Raichu with the Thunderstone in hopes of winning against Gym Leader L.T. Surge's Raichu.
- This is a Running Gag for Ash's Torkoal.
- One of Pikachu's cuter moments was after its ketchup bottle got slashed open by a Scyther. The next scene showed it doing this, holding the open bottle.
- Cute crybaby Ash tends to do this a lot in the early seasons.
- Solgaleo, at least only as an infant Cosmog, cries like this.
- Sasami in the Pretty Sammy series on occasion.
- Ranma ½
- Sōun Tendō. In fact, one reading of his name in Japanese means "Crying Man".
- And in the manga, when Happōsai needs Ranma's tears for a Fountain of Youth potion, poking a pressure point on Ranma's back causes him to literally blast a torrent of tears out his eyes, so that Happōsai has to catch them in a bucket.
- Saikano has this happen to most characters dozens of times in every chapter. No-one is resistant to this trope. The most notable gusher is actually the robot girl/"Ultimate Weapon" Chise, who seems to cry even when she's simply surprised.
- The title character in Sailor Moon. Usagi will do this at the drop of a hat, but the most common trigger is being called dumb, usually by her mom, Shingo or Rei. The very first episode of the anime is called "The Crybaby: Usagi's Beautiful Transformation"!
- Sonic the Hedgehog:
- In Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie, Sara does this when wrongfully accused by Knuckles of piloting the Metal Robotnik robot. It is rather unfortunate that Robotnik/Eggman is sitting in the path and attempts to jump away from the cascade.
- Or, if you are watching Sonic Bastardized, accused by Knuckles for Going Commando.
- Charmy Bee does this◊ in episode 59 from Sonic X.
- Certain Super Mario Bros. manga books would usually have certain characters do this over silly things.
- An example is in this panel,◊ where Yoshi, because of his grown weight, makes Mario, Peach, Luigi, and even his mother do one.
- The World God Only Knows:
- Keima at one point claims he's not crying, he's enjoying a hot spring! Complete with Keima suddenly being in a small hot spring filled by his tears. Which other characters apparently see and comment upon. Unless he really made one instantly...
- In Chapter 78, Keima cries a river after losing to Diana in a shogi match.
Eastern Animation
- TuTu and XiaoGuai both do this in an episode of Da Er Duo Tu Tu when they are reunited after XiaoGuai (TuTu's pet cat) gets lost. The steady stream of tears wash off XiaoGuai's dirty body.
Films — Animation
- Almost every Hayao Miyazaki film has at least one instance where a character will cry massive gobs of tears the size of golf balls.
- The Lion King:
- Timon and Pumbaa. At any slightly emotional moment.
- In the sequel, Simba's Pride, they cried at the marriage festival between Kiara and Kovu until they drenched a disgruntled Zazu.
- Daredevil Dan from Foodfight! projectile "cries" (supposedly) chocolate tears in an early scene, but the terrible animation makes them look like... something else.
- In Pixar's Inside Out, Sadness played this trope when she jumped onto a cloud while Joy was searching for her.
- She also play this trope on short clips (e.g. Sadness cries a lot of tears after Joy shows a flower to her.).
- Happens in The Legend of Rah and the Muggles when the title character's brother sails away with a band of miscreants, to the extent that a flood is triggered that swamps the boats. Intended as a Tear Jerker, came out as just Narm.
- Alice in Wonderland has a chapter called "The Pool of Tears". When Alice becomes a giant after eating the cookies marked "Eat Me", she starts crying piteously, flooding the room with her tears. When she drinks from the bottle marked "Drink Me", she shrinks so small that she nearly drowns in the pool of tears she shed as a giant.
Live-Action TV
- Mirai in Ultraman Mebius streams tears when Ryuu speaks about their "friendship," and it's hilariously epic. Also doubles as Ho Yay.
Ryuu: Mirai, you dork.
- Penn & Teller: Bullshit! uses this trope during its episode on recycling, parodying the "crying Indian" PSA with a statue of a Native American spraying water out of its eyes all over the place.
- Liz Lemon of 30 Rock developed the ability to cry waterfalls after some off-brand laser surgery from Dr. Spaceman... except that the tears came out of her mouth.
- On the Sesame Street game show sketch: "The Crying Game Show". The contestant who cries harder will win the game. Originally, Pierre Blue cried harder than the others and was the winner and wins The Sonny Friendly Teddy Bear. But Sonny gets upsets and about it and cries even harder than him and made Sonny Friendly the winner. And caused Pierre Blue and the other contestant sob in failure after the announcer blurts that There is no consolation prize.
- Parodied and invoked at one point in the French Canadian series Le Cur a ses Raisons, with Ashley who is seen "crying with the intensity of a character of a Japanese cartoon", as she puts it.
- Absolutely (Story of a Girl) by Nine Days, "This is the story of a girl/who cried a river and drowned the whole world."
- In the Genesis song, "Squonk", the title character, weeping for its own ugliness and ostracization, dissolves into a "pool of tears" while captured in a huntsman's sack. The myth of the Squonk involves this trait.
- "Lost In The Harbour" by Tom Waits from Alice.
And then I will fill the ocean back up with my tears
- "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall" of Mylo Xyloto by Coldplay certainly invokes this trope.
Myths & Religion
- The Ten Brothers Chinese myth takes this trope Up to Eleven - the youngest brother can literally cry a river. The details of the story (including the number of brothers) vary, depending on the version, but the story revolves around a set of brothers with superpowers fighting against an evil antagonist and trying to avoid causing their youngest brother to cry.
- As a literary trope, Ocular Gushers go back to The Bible. The prophet Jeremiah wants this, saying, "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" (Jeremiah 9:1) Both his books (Jeremiah and Lamentations) are somewhat depressing.
- This seems to be based on a Japanese bunraku puppet technique used to show mourning, in which ribbons would flow from the eyes. It was also used in the musical version of The Lion King.
Video Games
- Hatty Hattington of BattleBlock Theater provides a shining example of this after his Heroic B.S.O.D..
- Super Princess Peach, where this is an ability. To clarify, its main use is to let you run really fast, but you can water buds that grow into gigantic vines with your tears (without any negative effects from all the salt in those tears) and aids in defeating a boss.
- Luigi does this often in the Mario & Luigi series.
- Toads in Paper Mario: Sticker Star cry that way.
- Street Fighter has Dan Hibiki, who has them when happy almost as often as when sad.
- The Worms-style MMO Gun Bound has certain vehicles (particularly the Triceratops) that will cry like this if they are defeated and respawning is not enabled.
- Rise of Persona 4 does this a lot, but only when it's tears of relief, so it helps lighten the mood. When Teddie started crying like this too, they hugged each other for support... until Teddie tried to cop a feel and Rise decked him.
- Several cases in the MMORPG Ragnarok Online:
- The Dumpling Kid's death animation doesn't really involve its death ... just this trope.
- The /sob emote displays a word balloon (not so) smiley face crying two streams of tears, with a torrent of teardrops falling down.
- In Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, the titular team sports a MANLY version of this in the break scenes of each game's final stage.
- In The Binding of Isaac, two items can achieve this effect: the Sad Onion and the Torn Photo. The Sad Onion is obvious enough, while the Torn Photo is a more classic emotional example, with less pronounced gushers than the Onion.
- In Snoopy's Grand Adventure, after Snoopy defeats King Totem in the "Temple of Bunnies" world, King Totem cries so hard, he floods the temple with his tears. This gives Snoopy the opportunity to swim in them up to Linus so he can rescue him.
- In Holy Umbrella, numerous characters, including the Big Bad, spray jets of water out of their eyes when saddened.
- Such fate befalls the Miis afflicted with the "Crying" status in Miitopia. Some enemies like Banshees can also do as such in order to inflict said condition on the player's party.
- Happens whenever Moe cries in The Legendary Starfy.
- Ace Attorney:
- Larry Butz has a tendency to do this.
- Detective Bobby Fulbright in Dual Destinies does this in the final case when he's (correctly) accused of being an emotionless international spy known only as the phantom. Therefore, his exaggerated emotions make sense since he's overcompensating. Apollo lampshades this by pointing out that "he's literally crying us a river over there."
- Ellen Wyatt, the defendant in the Spirit of Justice DLC case "Turnabout Time Traveler," also does this often. She actually carries a frying pan with her to catch the tears before they hit the ground!
Web Animation
- Peach does the full-on Fire Hydrant Wail after the recounting of Sonic's tragic Back Story in Super Mario Bros. Z.
- In RWBY Volume 2 Episode 2, Ruby does this after Yang kicks her butt at a Magic: The Gathering-style card game. Weiss later joins in after Yang creams her as well.
- In the Death Battle episode White Tigerzord vs Epyon, After defeating Tommy, Zechs is shown crying over the remains of Noin and the Gundam she was piloting as she was accidentally blown up by Tommy Oliver's White Tigerzord before the battle. Zordon also cries like this so hard his tank starts flooding, and he isn't even aware of it.
Web Comics
- The Ragnarok Online-based webcomic Ragnarok Wisdom has Zelse, whose constant stream of tears is his defining trait. In fact, not only have his tears flooded the world, but on one occasion, he used them to attack someone. One April Fools' flash even sees Zelse and Kakashi flood the universe this way.
- Wapsi Square: Jin.
- Ma-ri cries like this in Orange Marmalade when she's injured and Jae-min is carrying her to the hospital. Due to her vampire nature, she's acting like she's drunk because she's weak.
- In Housepets!, Sasha has, as the episode title puts it, "Eyes Like Faucets."
- In Trixie Vs Trixie does this, after recounting various pets she lost during her childhood and stating that she's sticking to a pet rock for now, it will not die on her. Guess what somehow happens.
Web Original
- Freddie Wong does a hilarious live-action version of this at the end of the action short "Gun Size Matters" when the Action Girl played by Shenae Grimes leaves him for a guy who pulled a 360 No Scope on the last Mook with a Barrett sniper rifle before landing into his car. According to the Behind the Scenes vid for the movie, Freddie and crew used a garden hose for this effect, primarily inspired by the old Bugs Bunny cartoons.
- The "Your tears are delicious" meme usually depicts people or characters enjoying getting blasted with streams of water, implying that the recipient of these images is doing some gushers.
Western Animation
- Occasionally seen in Pucca and, in the case of Pucca herself, her waterfall tears possess waterfall force which sends anybody she looks at while crying flying away from her. There is actually a moment where Garu walks up to a waterfall looking for Pucca, looks up, and it turns out the waterfall is really Pucca's tears.
- Lots of people cry like this in Codename: Kids Next Door.
- Numbuh Three has broken down crying, complete with Ocular Gushers, more than a few times during the series, usually as a way of working on another character's sympathies.
- And in "Operation: C.L.U.E.S.", it's revealed that this is a trait she shares with her father, Kani Sanban.
- Lizzy sometimes indulges in this too, usually to guilt-trip Numbuh One into going out with her.
- Toiletnator opens the gushers in "Operation: F.L.U.S.H." after being denied by the other villains.
- In "Operation: P.O.O.L.", the Mirror Universe counterpart of Father, the series' Big Bad, Daddy, also does this on one occasion.
- Dude, That's My Ghost!
- Frequently a large part of Billy's diva tantrums, although whether it's a side effect of being a ghost (he tends to be more cartoony than the other characters) or he's always been able to do it has yet to be shown.
- SpongeBob SquarePants tends to play with this trope a lot, producing such ocular-gushing gems as:
- SpongeBob spraying Ocular Gushers into a mug, then drinking the contents before spraying again, spraying teardrops like a garden sprinkler, complete with sound-effects, and a few which seem to have the force of a firehose on full blast.
- On one memorable occasion, SpongeBob cried so hard that the tears flooded his house, and when Squidward opened the front door, the resulting stream of water knocked him over.
- When his grandma ignored and didn't coddle him because he wanted to be treated as an adult, he eventually snapped and cried until his tears flooded her entire house. Later Grandma pulls a plug on her house's floor to drain the tears away.
- The movie includes a scene in which SpongeBob and Patrick are spraying streams of water directly into each others' mouths, much to the disgust of Princess Mindy.
- And in another scene where Mr. Krabs loses his millionth dollar to a giant clam, he cries so much in one scene he literally forms faucets from his eyes.
- Also Pearl. An early episode use the waterfall example when Pearl approaches her father in tears flooding the Krusty Krab after her prom boyfriend dumped her.
- Occurs with Sandy when she cries: her helmet gets all filled up and she pulls the handle to flush her tears.
- SpongeBob once made Squidward a sweater out his own tears. It Makes Sense in Context (not a whole lot of sense, but some).
- ... and keep in mind that this is all underwater.
- Eduardo, the highly emotional Gentle Giant from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, does this often.
- Surprisingly, this happened to Batman in an episode of The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians when the Scarecrow forces him to have a flashback of his parents' death.
- The Ren & Stimpy Show. Stimpy cries so hard his EYES POP OUT OF HIS SKULL!
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
- Illustrated above: in "Friendship is Magic, part 2", Pinkie Pie is so touched by the reunion of Princess Celestia and her newly reformed sister, her tears form twin waterfalls... until she realizes this is the perfect opportunity for a party, that is. She's completely back to her old self before the last of her tears hit the ground.
- In "Dragonshy", the dragon's tears are about average-sized to him, but for the ponies below it might as well be raining heavily.
- In "Baby Cakes", Pinkie agreed to babysit her bosses' twin babies. After spending an entire episode trying to be responsible, it becomes too much for her and she breaks down crying.
- Pinkie does it again in "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" when it looks like the Apples have lost their farm.
- And again in "Ponyville Confidential", when the column claims that "Pinkie Pie is an Out-of-Control Party Animal." She breaks down and screams, "It's true! I do have a problem!"
- Fluttershy does the same thing in the episode after being humiliated by an articles which claims she gets tail extensions.
- Sweetie Belle does this in "One Bad Apple" when Babs Seed, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon take over the Cutie Mark Crusader clubhouse. Apple Bloom even breaks out an umbrella to shield herself from Sweetie Belle's tears.
- Poor Pinkie Pie gets another one in "Magic Duel" after Trixie removes her mouth and she is unable to eat cupcakes.
- It appears to run in Sweetie Belle's family; Rarity also does this in "The Cutie Map" when she realizes that her tastes in curtains have changed.
- "To Where and Back Again Part 2": Several of the changelings disguised as Fluttershy produce cascading streams of tears to better guilt-trip Discord.
- Rainbow sheds massive gobs of tears (although not in the waterfall variety) in "Tanks for the Memories" when she doesn't want Tank to hibernate.
- Spike in "Over a Barrel" after it seems that Chief Thunderhooves died from a pie to the face.
- Wakfu:
- Ruel's Gobbowl friend, Tolot, springs a leak in Season 1 Episode 10.
- Lady Glagla also sports a pair of gushers in Season 2 Episode 14.
- The Powerpuff Girls:
- The episode "The City Of Frownsville" has Lou Gubrious, a very miserable scientist who cries fountains of tears channeling his sadness into a ray set upon Townsville that makes everyone--even the Powerpuff Girls--cry tears to the point where it threatens the city. Upon being the happiest person in Townsville at that point, he changes his name to Hal Larious, only to succumb to tears again after Bubbles (in a vain attempt to make a crying pigeon laugh) drops her banana and Hal slips on it, causing everyone to laugh at him.
- Bubbles cries these pretty often.
- Buttercup of all people cries until she makes a puddle in "Cover Up" after her blanket was lost.
- Ed, Edd n Eddy: Any time Ed cries turn out like this. In "Who's Minding the Ed?", for example, Ed bawls like this after he realizes Rolf took back his animals.
Ed: Come back little ones! I MISS MY FURRY FRIENDS, GUYS!!!!!!
Eddy: Aw, you're better off without 'em, blubberpuss!
Ed: Don't talk to me.
- Justified in a way in I Am Weasel. Ocular gushers come from a disease that keeps the person constantly crying like this. Weasel cures the disease, but this has the side effect of drying up all the rivers and oceans, so he purposefully gives himself the disease to keep a constant supply of water up.
- Laney Penn of Grojband does this in the episode "One-Plant Band" when Corey calls her out on always being right while he's under the influence of a parody of Audrey II.
- A Running Gag with Penny Ling in the 2012 Littlest Pet Shop, the first and most noticeable time being in "Penny For Your Laughs" when she has a breakdown when Pepper makes the mistake of targeting her for her insensitive comedy routine. It's taken Up to Eleven as her tears literally flood the day camp area and almost drown Pepper. It's managed to carry over into the toys, as in the franchise's Spring 2014 line there's one set that comes with a figure of her with molded, transparent streams of tears.
- Guy Hamdon of SheZow when his sister Kelly takes him to see a chick flick. It's so intense that he briefly floods the theatre.
- Happens at the end of the Merrie Melodies cartoon "The Coo-Coo Nut Grove" (1936, Freleng).
- Happens to Bimbo in the Screen Songs cartoon "My Gal Sal", complete with his eyes turning into faucets.
- These are the norm for the toddler kids on Peppa Pig when they're really upset or scared about something. If there was a prize based on this trope, George would win it.
- In "Get the Gimmies" on the PBS Kids The Berenstain Bears series, young Papa Bear cried these to get his parents to get him a toy truck he wanted, though he ended up donating it to a boy in a needy family.
- In the first episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Special Sonic Smash & Search Squad), Dr. Robotnik briefly does this after Sonic pulls at his moustache.
- In the episode "Big Daddy" Boom-Boom the baby gorilla does this throughout the episode.
- On Peg + Cat, the small purple alien Richard, who is prone to self-esteem issues, sometimes cries these.
- Being Animesque, Totally Spies! is rather prone to this. The biggest example occurs here in the second-to-last episode of Season 5.
- A Running Gag on the PBS animated Curious George series involves George imagining Bill crying these due to being upset about some mischief that he caused.
- In a Mickey Mouse cartoon The Nifty Ninties from Disney, Minnie Mouse,who cries massive gobs of tears during watching an emotional slideshow.
- Minnie also did this in Mickey's Surprise Party after she failed to bake cookies for Mickey.
- The Powerpuff Girls (2016):
- Bubbles wept massive gobs of tears in "Little Octi Lost" after Octi was stolen by Packrat.
- Bubbles wailed waterfall tears in "Tiara Trouble" due to stage fright, as a possible nod to the "bawling" Emoji.
- Bubbles cried waterfall tears of happiness in "Princess Buttercup" after Buttercup comes to save her and Blossom.
- The Loud House: In "11 Louds a Leapin'", Lisa cries this way after Lincoln tells the girls about how Mr. Grouse is unable to see his family for Christmas.
- Almost any time on Kaeloo when somebody cries, they'll have Ocular Gushers.
- Steven Universe is another show that draws a lot of inspiration from anime, including Ghibli style tears of ludicrous size.
- Yellow Pearl cries these when she's hit by Blue Diamond's Emotion Bomb during "The Trial"; unlike the others, who just shed a Single Tear instead of going full waterworks.
- In "Back to the Kindergarten", the puddles on the floor of Steven's bathroom are implied to be Peridot's tears.
- In "Llama Llama Shopping Drama" on Llama Llama, after Llama Llama has his tantrum in the middle of the store, in front all the shoppers, a hedgehog kid cries these and an adult male deer standing next to him immediately does so as well.
- Uni Kitty has these as well, thanks to the star. On the episode "Sparkle Matter Matters", Unikitty, Puppycorn and Dr. Fox have escaped from Richard, whose extreme joy thanks to the happy serum that went awry and now threatens to destroy their castle. When Unikitty thinks using some negative sparkle matter would reverse the effects, Dr. Fox tries to get this by having her watch a video of a sad kid who was now eating alone because nobody came to his birthday party. When the sad kid is shown to be Puppycorn, Unikitty goes into a literal Heroic B.S.O.D. with a Big "NO!" and she starts crying waves with tons of negative sparkle matter coming from her; she only stops after Puppycorn trips over a negative sparkle matter bit and jabs her in one eye, causing her to go into a shut-up-and-die rage.


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In the hope of understanding my neighbours and this neighbourhood better, I have read quite a lot related to human trafficking and prostitution. Through what I've posted previously on this blog that might have already been obvious, but it seemed good to acknowledge that.
It seems appropriate then to share what I've learned with
others, partly because knowledge is for sharing and partly because
putting what I've read down in words helps me process things. And
processing is necessary, as the topic of prostitution can often
be overwhelming. What is most overwhelming is how complicated it is and,
other than my (Christian) belief that prostitution is not part of God's
ideal world, very little else is straightforward or clear when it comes
to prostitution here in the Red Light District. But it can not be ignored, and I hope that my thoughts might be a way for me to show respect and care to the women working here
The blog entries with regard to prostitution and/or the Red Light District will be labelled with "prostitution" and/or "de wallen." Click on the link(s) to see more of what they are. More books about prostitution, primarily studies written in English that I read a number of years ago, can be found on brendahey2.blogspot.com under the label "prostitution lit."


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Shortest possible instructions
For people who can't even read READMEfirst
Here is the shortest possible instruction set to get hdf5 and then se
installed. A slightly more detailed discussion is available at
1. make and go to some scratch dir
$mkdir tmp
$cd tmp
2. get hdf5:
$ wget https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/prev-releases/hdf5-1.8/hdf5-1.8.3/src/hdf5-1.8.3.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf hdf5-1.8.3.tar.gz
3. make sure you have a target directory. I recommend using
/opt. create it if you don't have it. you may use
$sudo mkdir /opt
on al Linux box may have to do as superuser, or alternatively use
$HOME/opt to install everything into your home directory, works
equally well
then make a directory for your hdf where the libraries go:
$mkdir /opt/hdf5-1.8.3
3. compile
$ cd hdf5-1.8.3 (directory in which you unpacked the tar.gz)
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/hdf5-1.8.3
$ make
$ make check
$ sudo make install
4. then you go to se/trunk, and you make a target dir for se:
$ sudo mkdir /opt/se-1.2
$sudo mkdir /opt/se-1.2_gfortran
5. finally compile and install se:
The config statement for se must be told which fortran compiler to
use. If you have only one on your system config may find out, but you
may want to specify:
for ifort:
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/se-1.2 F77=ifort --with-hdf5=/opt/hdf5-1.8.3
or with gfortran:
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/se-1.2_gfortran F77=gfortran --with-hdf5=/opt/hdf5-1.8.3
then the usual:
$make check
$ sudo make install
(see sudo comment above)
That's it.


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Thursday, May 15, 2014
While craving beef jerky due to this new hi-protein diet, i started searching just what is out there to make into jerky. I found you can use just about any type of meat! So after shopping for the cheapest cut of meat and finding a nice pork hunk, i think its like a carnita or small roast i froze it and thinnest sliced it to dry in my dehydrator. wow.... it turned out so good i may NEVER go back to beef jerky! I am currently looking for a small beef pot roast to repeat and see how i like that! You can use chicken breast, turkey breast, pork and of course the beefy stuff. Just a note. Anything you get pound wise will be only half the amount you start with. so 1lb will only hydrate to 1/2 lb.
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Kerala HC Refuses Sessions Judge's Plea To Expunge Critical Remarks Made Against His Approach To Criminal Trial [Read Judgment]
"None of those observations shall stand in the way of career progression of the judge in any manner," the bench clarified.
A division bench of Kerala High Court has refused a judge's plea to expunge certain remarks made in a judgment in which some critical observations were made against him, though it clarified that none of those observations shall stand in the way of career progression of the judge in any manner.
The bench comprising of Justice PR Ramachandra Menon and Justice A Hariprasad while setting aside a trial court judgment had made serious comments against the trial court judge who had found the accused guilty by referring to the case diary statements of the witnesses, which were either deviated from or not proved at the trial.
The bench had termed such an action on the part of the sessions judge as the height of illegality possible in a criminal trial. "We express deep anguish for the lack of legalistic and justice oriented approach on the part of a senior judicial officer in the subordinate judiciary," the bench had said. Read the Live Law report here.
The judge then approached the high court seeking to expunge remarks made in the judgment against him and also a declaration that the said observations are not to be relied upon to the detriment of his judicial career.
The bench, refusing to expunge the observations, said: "We frowned upon that practice as it is prohibited by law. In the light of apprehension of the petitioner, revealed from the averments in the petition, we once again carefully read our judgment. We find nothing personally castigating the judicial officer."
The bench added that no observation in the judgment was intended to affect the career advancement of the said judge. "What was intended is only to send a clear signal that a judicial officer engaged in criminal trial should correctly understand the scope of the statements recorded under Section 161 CrPC and for what purpose it should be used," the court said.
"We clarify that none of the observations, which now the petitioner says that it may work against him, was intended to harm the officer, but they were made only to inform and educate the judicial officers engaged in criminal trials," the court said disposing of his petition.
Read the Judgment here.


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This is the piece which I submitted to #OffBeige, a recent pop up exhibition in Brighton organised by Collate Presents.
I think ideally when producing works like this in future I would prefer to work in silk rather than cotton and polycottons, but currently finances dictate such decisions!
Here is my artists statement:
I am interested in making art that reflects the season and place it is meant for. This is because of my interest in and practice of Japanese traditional crafts and kitsuke (kimono dressing), within which, harmony with time and place are of great importance.
I am interested in the place where different languages and cultures meet.
I work in textiles and additional materials such as wire and acrylics. I use folded fabric techniques inspired by the Japanese traditional craft of tsumami kanzashi to make the three dimensional fabric forms seen in my work.
For the Off Beige brief I was inspired by the many different formal shades of beige in Japan, which are numerous and which have names usually taken from the natural world and which evoke a feeling of the seasons. I felt this contrasted strongly with my immediate reaction to 'beige' which was "beige equals boring, swirly, old people's carpets, stagnation and death"
The shade of brown called 'pale fallen leaves' in Japanese seemed to fit with the time of year so I used this as the starting point for the piece. I chose to work with a horse chestnut leaf motif because the Brighton streets in the area near the gallery are lined with this kind of tree and it will be a familiar symbol of autumn for many local people. As languages and cultures are forced to find common ground when they meet, I looked for the common ground between my idea of beige and the Japanese image of 'pale fallen leaves'.
Link to Collate Presents: http://www.collatepresents.com/previous-exhibitions.html


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Brown Mr.Laurence Islam
Winter 1990, second daughter of Laurence Brown was born. But her daughter suffered serious health problems, there was narrowing of blood vessels aortanya arch, so that the baby is not smooth blood circulation. Brown witnessed how her tiny daughter's body was blue from the chest to toe and should be treated in intensive care for newborns. As a surgeon, Brown is well aware of what medical action would be against her daughter's doctor. There is no way other than doing emergency surgery in the chest, although it does not provide medical treatment for his daughter's big chance to survive.
When a consultant cardio-thoracic surgeon who will handle her daughter arrived, Brown mixed feelings among the sad and scared. "There are no friends except fear, and not a place to share their grief while I wait for the results of the consultant. I then went to the room where praying in the hospital and sit cross-legged," said Brown told her confusion at the time.
He acknowledged, was the first time in his life he prayed sincerely and earnestly. "As an atheist, that's when my first time, with half a heart, confess to God. I said half-heartedly, even in a panic situation, I do not fully believe in God. I just pray with skepticism. God, if God exists, God will save my daughter, I promised to find and follow the religion most pleasing to him, "said Brown.
About 10 to 15 minutes later, Brown returned to the intensive care of her daughter and was shocked to hear the explanation consultant surgeon who said that her daughter would be fine. Consultant's words proved, within two days, the condition of Brown's baby daughter show progress without having given the drugs and surgery. Baby girl named Hannah Brown was subsequently grow normally like other children.
After his daughter are healthy, now turn to Brown who must fulfill his promise before God, when he prayed for Hannah's safety. He said, as an atheist, it is easy for Brown to rebuild the disbelief of the existence of God, and submit a recovery on the doctor's daughter and not on God. But Brown does not do that. "In the covenant, God has shown his kindness, and I feel also have to do the same. God has granted my prayer," said Brown.
For several years Mr Brown tried to meet the "agreement" with his God. But he feels like he failed to find religion hug. Brown studied Judaism, various streams of Christian, but never felt that he had found the truth. "For a while, I went to various streams of Christian churches. The longest, I had a congregation of the Roman Catholic church, but I never formally embraced it," said Brown.
He pleaded not been able to choose Christianity for the simple reason: he could not find kesesesuaian biblical teachings about Jesus with the teachings of various other Christian sects. Because do not find religion to suit his heart, Brown finally chose sitting at home and read a lot. In times of that, Brown knows the Quran and the biography of Prophet Muhammad PBUH. written by Martin Lings, entitled "Muhammad, His Life Based on Earliest Sources."
From Al-Quran is read, Brown found that the Muslim holy book that teaches that God is only one, and the prophets like Moses and Jesus (Prophet Isa) also taught about the oneness of God. A different concept that once he knew the religious teachings of Judaism and Christianity that he had learned many years. After reading the biography of Prophet Muhammad PBUH. Brown also began to believe that Prophet Muhammad was the last prophet.
"Suddenly everything as absurd, along with the confidence that grew it. The continuity of the chain of prophecy, revelation, only one God the Almighty, and the full revelation of God in the Qur'an, all of a sudden create the perfect taste. This that made me become a Muslim, "said Brown.
Until now, already 10 years old Laurence Brown became a Muslim. During that time, he learned one thing, that "Out there are many people who are smarter and intelligent than himself, but people were not able to know the truth of Islam," said Brown.
"Most important is not how smart a person, but an epiphany like that affirmed God that those who believe in Allah's religion, still will not believe, though if given a warning will be a sin to deny the existence of God. If so, God also will ignore them and keep them away from His righteousness … "
"Therefore, I am grateful to Allah who has given a clue, and I reinforce it with a formula instructions are simple: acknowledge the existence of God, to worship only Allah, solemnly promised to seek and follow the truth of His teachings, and receive guidance- Him, "said Brown. (Ln / oi)


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my phone makes me angry, yes i can post from it as long as the app for my phone works. problem, my phone doesnt want to FUNCTION with too many apps, and that is one that it doesnt want to support.. GRR..
If my tax return would ever get here i could get my new phone...
So... i was pregnant again.. and so far i still am :) today i am 24 weeks and 4 days pregnant, baby boy, and we are naming him Jackson. he is an active little guy who has some incredibly strong kicks even if the kicks arent that frequent. he likes to roll. i dont know how to explain that sensation but thats what he does. i am so excited for my little baby. September 1st cant seem to come fast enough.
Married life: no different than single life with a partner. i really have such an amazing husband. a weirdo, a goober, a complete riot who looks at me on a daily basis and accepts my quirky little things... like when i told him i wanted to alphabetize all of our movies by genre(drama, action, comedy, tv, ..etc.) he just stared at me and told me he loves me. i settled for movies in one section, tv on dvd on another, and when Jack gets here there will be kids movies in another section. i have been trying to nest for probably 5-6 weeks, but i feel like that seems to early considering i was only halfway through. i want my house clean, i want my room clean, and when my roommates dont do their part it drives me CRAZY. the joys of sharing your household... i have a plan that should have Hubby and i either renting our own apartment or buying a home within 3 years... but this depends on school for both of us. his plan is welding and i want to go into something for the medical field, and both of us should be done pretty quickly... well, before we are 30. mostly me... because i am a tiny bit older than my husband. 30. no more roommates, financially stable and paying off mountains of student debt. all while trying to provide our son with the best life we can possibly provide him with and all the love a child should have.
"Simple Man"- Shinedown (Lynyrd Skynyrd originally but i am a sucker for acoustic)


text: >Why does'nt everyone just forget the cheasy trick's and worthless single >pass conversions and just buy a proper intercooler.... Any one that >tells you otherwise is just yanking your chain I agree, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a sorta-right way to get the job done. Buying the correct intercooler and prefabricating the proper housing, duct work, etc, are not always within the scope of everyone on the list, therefore the mickeymouse method, if safe, is a viable alternative. Since I'm building a car from scratch, everything will be based on math. Lots of math. Hopefully correct math. Frederic Breitwieser Homebrew Automotive Mailing List Bridgeport, CT 06606 http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/4605/index.html 1989 AG Hummer 4-Door 1993 Supercharged Lincoln Continental 2000 Mid-Engine Sports Car <smile> Seeking Info on: GM Tubular Upper and Lower A-Arms ---


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Post by Chris Mellor (thank you) over at El Reg
Cisco has no SAN/filer legacy to escape from and, in a storage world where the hyper-converged server/storage/networking system is only getting trendier, it has a major opportunity on its hands.
Consider the mainstream storage vendors – Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, HDS, HP, IBM and NetApp – their storage product line heartland is the shared, networked array.
Read on here


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Closing the chapter on Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick
If you haven't heard yet, Kwame Kilpatrick resigned today, ending an eight month long text-messaging scandal that has ravaged Detroit and the entire state of Michigan. I am too tired to explain all the minutiae of these cases because it is too emotionally draining but if you want to learn about it, go to the Detroit Free Press.
To be frank, I didn't want to write about this story until it was over because I knew that 1) The text messages would be the downfall of the mayor and 2) I choose to focus and work on far more important issues that deserves attention like foreclosed homes, the lack of a quality transit system, failing schools, sky-rocket car insurance rates, just to name a few.
Here is the thing, I don't believe in kicking a man when he is down. Kwame is out of office and while there needs to be healing for the citizens of Detroit, I rebuke anyone who claims to seriously care about Detroit that will harp on this situation as a reason why they won't fight the good fight. But let's keep it really real, I really don't care about what you think about the court cases. I care about whether you care about the citizens of Detroit. This is where I stood before the scandal, during the scandal, and where I stand today.
So as we look towards the future, there are a couple things to keep in mind. Just because Kwame is out of office does not mean that you have to run for mayor next year. Many folks have said today that this is a unique opportunity for Detroit to make a turn for the better. Those opportunities are present every single day and if you are waiting for the next scandal to sort-a-kinda get involved, don't talk to me. And don't wallow in despair. So when someone says it's a sad day in Detroit, tell them that you look towards the hills from which cometh your help.
Stay up fam,
Brandon Q.
3 responses to "Closing the chapter on Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick"
Edward says :
You are so right. This is a unique opportunity for our fair city. Citizens of Detroit do have to care about themselves and demand more from their government and each other in order to fix the problems that plague us. I certainly hope we can find a new dynamic leader that can galvanize the city. Unfortunately that leader has not revealed himself or herself yet. That leader certainly cannot be found in this current cast of characters. But I will stay optimistic for today……
Garlin II says :
B, I am 100% with you on this. I would, however, like to challenge an assumption made by many (not you) in this whole debacle: the immediate impact this has on short-term investment in Detroit and in Michigan, a claim made here.
Isn't there a certain level of inertia present with this sort of investment? Have construction projects stopped or been pulled due to this madness? Maybe there have been some, but I haven't seen this as a trend.
Yes, there will probably be a slow-down in new investment, but this is distinct from existing projects being completed and all of the things that come with those. Is it unreasonable to expect that the inertia will carry development through the next election next year?
Just a thought.
One Love. One II.
Brandon Q. says :
Thanks for the comments fellas,
Edward, I think the problem is that the leaders we need are already here but too often, politics is viewed as an activity you need to have superhuman abilities before you can ever consider running and that mentality has to stop. Conversely, we have too many self-appointed leaders that think their ambition is they key to saving Detroit.
Garlin, you are very much on point when you talk about the slow down investment because the two biggest things business needs are predictability and stability. Now not only is Council going to spend nearly 3 million dollars to hold a special election in February, we are scheduled to have another regularly schedule election next November. So essentially, the interim nature of the city's business won't be settled til November 2009.
That translates to nearly two years of political instability because Ken Cockrel (and whoever wins the special election) are going to be care takers that will be hard pressed to put their own stamp on Kwame's projects causing unnecessary confusion and political posturing. BTW, Monica Conyers is going be the City Council President.


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CNBC has this article up this morning decrying the politics of foreclosure. Yes, it is political. But look at the nonsense of his argument.
Yes, the process is flawed because the banks clearly aren't equipped to handle the numbers.
Yes, there may be some loans that could have been saved, but the vast majority can't.
Still lawmakers want to freeze all foreclosures to make sure all of them are fair because, as Speaker Pelosi writes, "People in our districts are hurting."
The question is, how much would a foreclosure freeze hurt the greater housing market?
What do these questions have to do with it? Either there is a legal process and the banks spend the money to follow it, or they bear the consequences. That is free market capitalism. So far, no one has proposed a new law or regulation. They are just asking the banks to follow the laws that were in place when these mortgages were originated and sliced and diced into securitized assets. If it now costs more to process the risks that were in those portfolios, the folks that made the bets should pay the costs. Simple and elegant.
I asked some mortgage mavens and got the following responses:
Josh Rosner, Graham-Fisher: With REO sales being a large part of supply we would see home prices artificially and unsustainably rise, foreclosure volumes paint a false picture of stability and investors in MBS would be further harmed as their losses grow. Once the moratorium ended prices would fall and foreclosures would skyrocket. But, it would paint a prettier picture than reality heading into mid-term elections. 14 here. This is nonsense. Nothing much will change before the mid term elections. Red Herring.
Guy Cecala, Inside Mortgage Finance: Instead of having a ton of mortgage borrowers who haven't made any payments in at least a year, we would have a ton who haven't made a payment in a year-and-half. Keep in mind we will have new problem loans entering the system throughout any moratorium whether we acknowledge them or not. Do we seriously believe that a foreclosure moratorium can change the outcome of potentially 5 million or more homeowners losing their homes over the next two years? Ultimately, if we don't do something to handle distressed properties more efficiently (and faster), the housing market is going to remain stuck in limbo with no recovery in sight. 14 here. So we trample legal rights to process distressed assets efficiently? That is a slippery slope.
Janet Tavakoli, Tavakoli Structured Finance: Banks are vulnerable to lawsuits from investors in the [securitization] trusts. This problem could cost the banks significantly more money, which could mean TARP II.
Is this really so bad that we will need TARP II? That seems like fear mongering. The lawsuits will drag out for years and will not cause a sudden collapse of banks unless people figure out the banks are not solvent anyway, in which case we need to clear the banking market the way they suggest we clear the real estate market. Then we can capitalize a new banking sector. If $700 Billion were put into capitalizing new banks, we would not need to old banks at all. Let them wind down.


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Bubbles & Bites, December 10th
Join SHADE Foundation of America for the Second Annual Bubbles & Bites in Boston on Wednesday, December 10 at the Omni Parker House Hotel…
Shonda Schilling and her husband, Red Sox star Curt Schilling along with the Shade Foundation are hosting a holiday event you won't want to miss…
Champagne, celebrity chefs, gourmet cuisine and a silent auction will be held Wednesday, December 10th at the Omni Parker House.
Proceeds from the event will support SHADE programs, including Mayor Menino's initiative to plant 100,000 trees in the city of Boston.
Last year's inaugural Bubbles & Bites event resulted in SHADE planting 100 trees and donating 10 SHADE structures along with sunscreen to the city of Boston!
Billy Costa and Chef Todd English are but a few of the local celebrities who will be helping to raise awareness about skin cancer and the sun.
A Celebrity Apprentice package, and tickets to Regis & Kelly are but a few of the auction items you can bid on.
Husband Curt Schilling will be winging his way in from Iraq and the Persian Gulf where he's been supporting our troops.
Melanoma rates among young women jumped 50% between 1980 and 2004, according to the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.
Skin cancer is on the rise. A potentially deadly disease, it can also be quite disfiguring. One person dies per hour from skin cancer.
Most skin cancer is preventable and when detected early, can have a 95% cure rate.
The SHADE foundation is dedicated to educating the public about sun safety, and providing the most up-to-date medical information available.
Protection is key. There are now many more products available to protect our skin from dangerous UVA and UVB rays.
A young mother in Scottsdale, Arizona has spent the past 5 years formulating a terrific new product that protects the scalp – Sun Shadz.
It's a translucent, micronized powder that you simply brush on your scalp and go! All natural and with SPF 15 protection, it's safe for kids as well as for those boomers who might be experiencing thinning hair. Not greasy, or oily…it's one of the new innovative products designed to protect against skin cancer.
The founder of Sun Shadz, Monica Sanders, lost her mother to melanoma of the scalp and set as her mission inventing a product which would be easy to use, and potentially life-saving.
Sanders has also created Hair Shadz, which offers the same sunscreen protection, but comes in colors which can be used for roots regrowth and blending.
Introducing Hair Shadz and Sun Shadz the first powdered
Sun protection designed specifically for your hair and scalp!
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As I was reading over my last post, it occurred to me that the jist of it was primarily self-deprecating. "I experimented with a slew of tools last year but none of them worked." However, I neglected to do something that, as a mentor teacher, I often have to remind my Resident Educator to do: I forgot to consider what worked.
That being said, I'm going to practice what I preach and put in writing those things I was able to accomplish last year.
* Collaborated with freshmen English teachers to create independent reading projects that culminated in multimedia podcasts, book trailers, and original musical scores. Students really enjoyed learning to use Stupeflix, Animoto, Soundation, iMovie and Garageband to express and enhance their learning.
* Increased membership in my Media Club, a club driven by the interests of its members. This group's focus: Blogging about books and movies, creating podcasts linked to the library catalog, and organizing Open Mic afternoons and Lunch Jams for students to share music, poems and artwork. Both students and staff appreciate the Jams!
* Created a social presence for the library on Facebook. (Students are much more interactive here than they are on the school's library page, which is buried in links on the district site!)
* Provided faculty in-service on Moodle and created several "converts" to the platform
* Organized a faculty YA book club utilizing Moodle and Facebook to communicate between face-to-face meetings
Ok. That feels a little better. So what if my staff didn't really "take" to (or in many cases, even open) my clever video Tech Tool updates. So what if I failed to get district administrators to see the value in opening up ANY blog sites, or to realize that Twitter can be a valuable professional development tool, not just a place for Lindsay Lohan to spew narcissistic rants. So what if I registered for a hundred different online tools and services, only to find several blocked at school, while several others were abandoned for lack of time.
At least I have the above meager threads on which to cling.
This year, I will exhale. I will slow down. I will concentrate on improving on my small successes while adding just a couple of new, manageable goals. In short, I will focus on the Follow-Through.


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Photo blogging again.
Lots of pics, lack of text... hahaha
First off, this was taken from a Japanese newspaper I was umm.. going through last week.
Yup! Kurosagi! *points at the blurry image of Yamapi*
Hahaha... I just realized Yamapi makes quite a few appearances in my blog when he is not my most favourite J.E artiste actually. ^^;
There were a few other Jdorama shown, i.e: Attention Please! Nurse Aoi... etc.
Next! More ferry-trip photos.
First up, by the harbour of Penang.
Yup, look back and took a photo. That is a very dark Penang. *didn't make an effort to install Photoshop therefore photo is not edited at all* ohohoho
These are where rich people place their yatch whatsoever... haha
As we reach to the other side, land ahoy~! Waiting for the 'bridge' (don't know what exactly the this thing is call -.-) to come down, open the gate and let us through.
Thus, a text minimal post this weekend!
waiting for the water to come back


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Not too long ago, remote workers in the IT industry were being used for peripheral tasks only, such as copywriting, translating and proofreading. While the flexible aspect of remote work is still highly useful, the advances in technology mean that remote workers can be used for more significant and integral tasks. This requires a much higher level of monitoring of remote workers' activities, specifically the monitoring of what work was done and when it was carried out.
The infrastructure for finding skilled workers is still not especially developed, with most search engines based around listings linked to major cities, somewhat defeating the point of remote work, and a relative lack of skilled workers. However, remote workers show a great propensity to learn how to make this kind of work productive and successful, showing a willingness to learn first labour discipline, and later the specific forms of online testing used in our company. Instead of a job interview process, we developed a questionnaire which the applicant must fill out to show what skills they possess. Many candidates fail to complete the form on the first or even second attempt, and so it is easy to narrow down the selection pool in this way, as it would be difficult to establish a remote working relationship with negligent or even obstinate providers.
Once applicants have been accepted, we make use of Big Brother, a piece of software for tracking working hours, which allows for the monitoring of activity and traffic as well as search engine use. This amounts to a flexible and accurate solution. Big Brother can be used to set penalties and restrictions based on various violations. For example, a 15 minute delay at the beginning of the working day may be tolerated once, or even twice, but after that there could be a dismissal. In a competitive market, lapses in concentration and long breaks cannot be accepted, and the software prevents this without requiring the constant attention of a manager. Managers can track situations where a particular provider is being underutilized, and send them specific or urgent tasks accordingly, maximizing the usefulness of remote employees. The kind of work performed during working hours can also be controlled, so that employees do not visit restricted or undesirable websites, and sensitive information is protected. Preventing all of these deviations means that working time paid for is performed as efficiently as possible, saving money. This allows for the full and proper utilization of remote workers. Furthermore, rent and equipment costs can be minimized in this way, as the cost of a programmer in capital is twice as high as elsewhere in the country, making the hiring of remote workers an ideal solution.
Time-keeping software for use with both standard and flexible working schedules. The system records work session start and end times as well as user activity. Personal smart cards are used to monitor when users clock in and out. On the basis of the data collected, scores are generated for employees in terms of: standard hours and overtime worked and lunch break duration. Events are recorded in a secure format and cannot be edited. In case of a failed server connection, the system saves the information locally. Once the connection to the server is re-established, the data is transferred.


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California would be the eighth largest economy in the world if it were a independent nation.
California's once-booming export sector is continuing a deep slide, according to an analysis of federal data by the University of California's Sacramento Center.
The weak international economy is dampening demand for California's agricultural products and other goods, Jock O'Connell, a consultant to the UC center said.
California exports totaled $9.5 billion in May, 25.2 percent below the $12.7 billion in goods the state shipped abroad in May of last year. "The May export numbers offer no encouragement that economic recovery will be a near-term thing," O'Connell said. "These were the lowest California export totals for the month of May since 2004."
California's manufactured exports fell by 28.0 percent in May, while agricultural goods and other non-manufactured exports shrunk by 23.3 percent. Re-exports of goods previously imported into the state were off by 15.4 percent.
On a year-to-date basis, California exports are down by 22.6 percent compared to last year when the state's exports totaled $59.9 billion. So far this year, the state's exports have amounted to just $46.4 billion.
Imports through California ports have been hit even harder. The UC analysis of Commerce Department data showed that the value of foreign goods entering the United States through California dropped by 31.7 percent in May.
Economists define a depression as a 10% decline in GDP from peak to trough. We know California's trade is already in a depression since exports are down 25.2% and imports are down 31.7%.
In addition to imports and exports being down significantly, California's tax receipts are down approximately 11%. The drop of over $10 Billion dollars is the largest drop EVER!
Government spending makes up a material part of California's economy. Due to declining revenues, massive cuts and government shut downs are foreseeable.....the impact on the economy will be unprecedented and will likely confirm California's economic Depression.
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These are two very powerful words but here is my perspective on my Love and Hate of weekends.
First, the obvious, I Love that I have a day off of work! But for me this is usually just another day of work but only it is at home. Am I the only one that punishes myself this way? Why do I insist on leaving all the household chores for the weekend? My loving sister is always telling me that I should spread these chores out during the week so that I have my weekends free to do what I want, but do I listen to her, NO!
Second, I love not waking up to the alarm clock and I can sleep in! But, am I really sleeping in when I get up at 6 a.m.? For me I don't think this is so bad, who wants to sleep away the best part of the day when I can get up early and start my household chores, well on second thought, this is kind of going back to the my first love and hate.
To sum up this story I really do not have any hate for the weekend at all! I just started it that way to get you to read this story. Okay, enough playing, I've got work to do.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Love and Hate
3 comments:
- Jules said...
If only you would listen to your sister....she sounds like she knows what's she's talking about. ♥
- May 1, 2010 at 11:55 AM
- Photos by Julee said...
Hope you had fun doing your chores! Although the sun was shining, it wasn't very nice outside with all that wind anyway. There is always tomorrow!
- May 1, 2010 at 7:39 PM
- Rita said...
So how do you reward yourself when all that work is done?? Do you do the yucky jobs first like I do, saving the sluff-off ones for last? I know the answer-- take a long hot shower, slip into your jammies, put your feet up, and have a glass of wine!!Okay, now enjoy life-your Mom says so!! This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24
- May 4, 2010 at 8:19 PM
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IRB InvIT Fund made its debut on the NSE with a premium of 1.5%, after successfully closing its initial public offer earlier this month. The stock of the company opened at Rs 102.50 per share on the NSE.
The IPO of IRB InvIT Fund, the first in the InvIT space, was subscribed 8.57 times. The institutional investor's category was subscribed 10.81 times and other investors 5.89 times.
The offer had a price band of Rs100-102. The issue was open to bidding on 3-5 May. InvITs or infrastructure investment trusts are those debt instruments that will be traded in the market and can act as investment vehicles for sponsors. IDFC Bank, Credit Suisse Securities and ICICI Securities were the lead managers to the offer.
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In the Netherlands, multiple persons can together be regarded as a VAT group. In practice, the economic link condition raises the most questions, as it is more difficult to measure than the financial and organizational links, which are also both conditions for a VAT group.
In its judgment of October 11, 2013, the Supreme Court extended the scope of the economic link, thereby making it easier to create a VAT group. This is particularly important for exempt VAT taxable persons working together as a group, such as care and educational institutions, banks and insurers.
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1: You may walk out of the grocery store, only to find your trunk lid up, panic feature blaring, and people staring at your vehicle. (Not that this happened to me or anything...this morning, at Safeway, around 9:20am.)
2: Car keys are dirty, gross, yucky. (This is just common sense.)


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Ending Poverty - The Goals of Millennium Project
Posted: Mon, September 22, 2014 | By:
The Millennium Project has identified a series of "Quick Wins" here - priority actions that can be taken immediately to save and improve lives. Brighter Brains Institute supports all these measures.
1. Eliminating school and uniform fees to ensure that all children, especially girls, are not out of school because of their families' poverty. Lost revenues should be replaced with more equitable and efficient sources of finance, including donor assistance.
2. Providing impoverished farmers in sub-Saharan Africa with affordable replenishments of soil nitrogen and other soil nutrients.
3. Providing free school meals for all children using locally produced foods with take home rations.
4. Designing community nutrition programs for pregnant and lactating women and children under five that support breastfeeding, provide access to locally produced complementary foods and, where needed, provide micronutrient (especially zinc and vitamin A) supplementation.
5. Providing regular annual deworming to all schoolchildren in affected areas to improve health and educational outcomes.
6. Training large numbers of village workers in health, farming, and infrastructure (in one-year programs) to ensure basic expertise and services in rural communities.
7. Distributing free, long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed-nets to all children in malaria endemic zones to cut decisively the burden of malaria.
8. Eliminating user fees for basic health services in all developing countries, financed by increased domestic and donor resources for health.
9. Expanding access to sexual and reproductive health information and services, including family planning and contraceptive information and services, and closing existing funding gaps for supplies and logistics.
10. Expanding the use of proven effective drug combinations for AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. For AIDS, this includes successfully completing the 3 by 5 initiative to bring anti-retrovirals to 3 million people by 2005.
11. Setting up funding to finance community-based slum upgrading and earmark idle public land for low-cost housing.
12. Providing access to electricity, water, sanitation, and the Internet for all hospitals, schools, and other social service institutions using off-grid diesel generators, solar panels, or other appropriate technologies.
13. Reforming and enforcing legislation guaranteeing women property and inheritance rights.
14. Launching national campaigns to reduce violence against women.
15. Establishing, in each country, an office of science advisor to the president or prime minister to consolidate the role of science in national policymaking.
16. Empowering women to play a central role in formulating and monitoring MDG-based poverty reduction strategies and other critical policy reform processes, particularly at the level of local governments.
17. Providing community-level support to plant trees to provide soil nutrients, fuelwood, shade, fodder, watershed protection, windbreak, and timber.


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DèItaliano Style Italian Bread Walmart Shopping Sandwiches Toast Breakfast Lunch Snacks Diabetes Sugar Carbs Counts
the idea girl says
true I change brands back and forth for my white bread due to the price. I find one type stays fresher and longer in the fridge. the other one tends to go really DRY in the fridge and toasts faster.
I use setting #5, if on the counter at room temperature
I use setting #3 if from the fridge.. sTRANGE i know 🙂
serving 2 slices
*** I reduced my carbs by eating only 1 slice each day for breakfast now***
35 g carbs (HOLY !!!!!)
2g sugar
another sneaky sneaky one.
with one slice I am at 17 g carbs.. mucho better especially if I am adding a teaspoon of skippy peanut butter to it!


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And coming to you live from Colombo it's dD!
One of those rare occurrences in life where everything kind of comes together and your actually happy.
You think to yourself, hey this is cool, I don't make depressing posts on social media anymore. Not like the ones I made in England. Not even close.
So I forgave for my freedom, but however costly emotionally, however lonely I maybe in the motherland.
I am happy!
I know death's coming soon. I welcome it.


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You see, general markets are selling off today too, and even oil has lost $6 per barrel since Thursday.
The U.S. dollar has maintained strength, probably thanks to speculation market in the U.S. Federal Reserve may end its quantitative easing sooner than previously expected volume. Thats may hurt commodities and other products which all priced in U.S.D's.
There are also be a considerable amount of selling of gold ETF s holdings, which has forced those ETF managers to sell their physical stock . That has temporarily added supply to the market, which helps push gold' to down price to this extream
And also seen an Upward trend in speculative short positions for gold futures on the COMEX exchange, lead by a decrease in speculative long positions in .
So those are the important pressures on gold. Now let's look at the other side of down trend
The other reason is that Chinese demand has been and remains very strong, along with considerable and growing demand from a group of other central banks, mostly from the developing world
Despite of all this issue,.carefully crafted statements from the Fed about potentially ending quantitative easing sooner than expected, the reality is that's highly unfavourable for gold. Their requirement of higher inflation and lower unemployment status are a long issue . Banking crises (like Cyprus), overhanging sovereign debt in UK,US,Japan etc intensifying currency wars will also remain a reality for some time to come in demand
Please Remember that bold headlines from major mainstream news and financial media, raising the specter of an end to the gold bull, also help in decline gold price..


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The Razor's Edge
Dwarf that likes to arm wrestle
He isn't a martial person, but sometimes serves as a guard.
Left-handed Dwarf that Daeson and Ash met at Tyneman's Tournament. Krindle is always in the beer tent. Like most of the people at the Tourney, he already knew Ash.
He throws a big rock at all dwarves that walk into the tent. If they don't catch it, they have to buy a round of beer.
Daeson said to throw the rock to him next time.


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Firefighters discovered the spill at Thermakraft Industries on Turin Place in Otara after responding to an alarm about 9.50am.
The boiling bitumen covered an area about 15m by 25m inside the factory and leaked to an area about 10m by 10m outside, fire service communications shift manager Megan Ruru said.
"The fire service has attempted to contain the spill by covering it with dirt," she said.
"We weren't told of any persons inside the building at the time or whether any persons were hurt or injured.
"A check of the premises was done to confirm that the air inside the building was within the safe exposure limits, which it was, and then we've handed the scene over to the Department of Labour, the city council and the building owners."
It is not known what was inside the building or if any damage was caused by the boiling bitumen.
A pollution response officer from the council is at the scene, where temporary containment barriers have been set up to prevent further pollution reaching waterways.
Ms Blatch said the bitumen, which solidifies "reasonably quickly'', was believed to have been contained.
Ms Blatch said the bitumen that had entered a nearby stream had solidified.
"We don't know exactly how much [reached the stream] but the bitumen is contained and is currently being removed from the stream,'' she said.
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The Nutcracker – A Christmas Tradition
The Nutcracker has long since been a traditional Christmas performance attended by Americans since the 1940's. The Nutcracker made it's worldwide debut in 1892 in St. Petersburg, Russia. As many are familiar with the composer, Tchaikovsky, the original choreography was conceived by Marius Petipa. Petipa became very ill in the middle of composing the choreography so his assistant, Lev Ivanov aided in the completion of the dance.
Pop Culture | Kylie Jenner and Australian Singer Cody Simpson Eligibly Dating
For any of you who have been living under a rock for the past month or have absolutely no interest in pop culture, the Kardashian's have been all over the news. Kim Kardashian, daughter to Robert Kardashian known most famously for representing OJ Simpson in his murder trial, got married and divorced to NBA star Kris Humphries. The Kardashian family has built an empire including reality television, clothing, perfume, and even weight loss supplements – to name a few.
"Sister Wives" Changing America's Views on Polygamy One Episode at a Time
Sister Wives premiered on TLC in 2010. It showcased the lives of the Brown family residing as a polygamist household. Kody Brown is married legally to Meri, his first wife. After Meri, Kody proceeded to have a spiritual marriage with three other women. These marriages are not recognized by the government of the United States but are recognized through their practiced religion as fundamentalist Mormons. Although Kody is not legally married to all four women, as soon as the show premiered the family went, and still is, under investigation for bigamy.
Wilson Ramos, Major League Catcher, Abducted near home in Venezuela
Wilson Ramos is catcher for the Washington Nationals. Ramos, 24, was born in Valencia, Venezuela on August 10, 1987. On Wednesday, November 9, Ramos was Abducted by four men near his home and was taken off in an SUV. Thankfully, he was only held for 2 days and was freed on November 11.
Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Visit Tokyo For Brad's "Moneyball" Premiere
Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and their 6 children were photographed at the Haneda International Airport today, November 10. The family was photographed Japan after Brad Pitt's "Moneyball" premiere.
The ING New York City Marathon Attracts Runners From Over 75 Different Countries
This year was the 41st annual ING New York City Marathon.