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Heart, Humor Converge in Iron Man's Best Chapter Yet
- Christa Banister Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
- 2013 2 May
DVD Release Date: September 24, 2013
Theatrical Release Date: May 2, 2013 (check local listings for select 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 and midnight screenings) May 3, 2013 (nationwide)
Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence throughout and brief suggestive content)
Genre: Superhero/Action
Run Time: 130 min.
Director: Shane Black
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Jon Favreau, Ben Kingsley, Ty Simpkins
While Iron Man 2 made a boatload of cash back in 2010 - more than $624 million worldwide - it was still a pretty disappointing sequel. With too many meaningless subplots and a cartoonish villain that not even the larger-than-life presence of Mickey Rourke could save, it simply lacked the sparkle of its predecessor. Even the shamelessly self-assured Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr., Due Date) looked a little self-conscious and bored when saving the world - and himself - from impending doom.
But thanks to a new director (Shane Black of Lethal Weapon fame), a clever script that crackles with humor and a surprisingly human showcasing of the man behind all that metal, the Iron Man franchise has officially found its footing again.
Before picking up where last summer's The Avengers left off, Iron Man 3 makes a quick detour to 1999. On the eve of Y2K, Tony was in Switzerland doing what a playboy does best, romancing a woman with promises he never intends to keep. While making his move on Maya (Rebecca Hall, The Town), a whip-smart scientist he mistakes for a botanist, he bumps into someone else he should've paid more attention to, the socially awkward but brilliant Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce, Lawless).
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Hoping the well-funded Tony will take a look at his cutting-edge nanotechnology, Aldrich may lack networking finesse, but he's smart enough to hand Tony a business card. Annoyed with his incessant pleas to chat, Stark eventually shoos the over-eager scientist away by agreeing to meet him on the roof in 20 minutes to go over the particulars. Of course, Tony being Tony, he has no intention of showing up. And after sleeping with Maya, he forgets both of them altogether. Big mistake.
Now back in 2013, Tony is back on his beachfront property in Malibu. He's not only having trouble sleeping but is more paranoid than ever. Skittish at the very mention of anything that went down with his fellow Avengers in New York, panic attacks are his new normal. While he's crafted some pretty cool technology in his newfound downtime (his new Mark 42 armor actually responds to his mental commands), Tony is in constant fear that he won't be able to protect his true love, the intrepid Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow, Contagion), from danger.
Adding to Tony's fears and the nagging sense of doom and gloom he's carrying around with him is the increasingly unsettled state of the world at large. With a mysterious terrorist known as the Mandarin (a bearded Ben Kingsley, Hugo) on the loose, random acts of violence are on the rise. The Mandarin is determined to "teach the United States a lesson" in the most alarming ways possible. As such, Tony is feeling the weight of being a superhero more than ever, hence all those sleepless nights.
Lest you think that Tony has lost his edge or that Iron Man 3 is more of a bummer than fun, the writers made sure to inject plenty of lightness into these heavier proceedings. Never one to shy away from a snarky one-liner, Stark is given plenty to work with here. Whether it's his random interactions with the fanboys who can't get over the fact they're meeting Iron Man himself (!) or the witty interchange between him and a young boy who helps him during a mission in middle-of-nowhere Tennessee (Iron Man's list of demands is entertaining all by itself), it's these small moments that stick with you.
For lovers of big explosions and tightly choreographed, over-the-top action sequences, Iron Man 3 won't let you down there either. Actually making the most of 3-D technology, there's an inspired sense of mission in all the fighting, and the set pieces themselves are nothing short of spectacular, too.
And for anyone who feels that big-budget comic book movies have become too lazy, tired and predictable, genuine surprises and meaningful character development keep Iron Man 3 from growing stale, a tall order when you've been sitting for more than two hours.
Speaking of patience, a worthwhile surprise awaits if you don't leave immediately after the credits start rolling…
- Drugs/Alcohol: Social drinking in several scenes. A prostitute is clearly drunk as she lies on a couch.
- Language/Profanity: Two exclamations of God's name, plus a single use of god-a--. As-, bit-- and he—(which a pre-teen also says) are used from time to time.
- Sex/Nudity: A large stuffed rabbit that Tony buys for Pepper has very large breasts. Tony and Pepper live together, and we see them in bed together (although not in a sexual sense). Some flirtatious innuendo between Pepper and the Iron Man she assumes is Tony (it's one of his doubles). Pepper suggests that Tony should join her in the shower. References to Iron Man's past reputation as a major playboy (in a flashback scene, we see him take a woman he met at a party back to his hotel room). Kissing. A couple of double entendres of a sexual nature. Two women are shown in bed together at the Mandarin's hideout. Later we see them playing ping pong in very skimpy bikinis. Pepper is shown in a sports bra and undies, and Tony says she should dress more like that at home.
- Violence: Although the violence is largely bloodless, there is plenty of it, in varying degrees of intensity, throughout. There's some footage of terrorists acts the Mandarin is responsible for, including people being lined up and shot. Several characters die of gun-related injuries, including one who's shot in the head (we see blood flowing from around the wound) and another who's shot in the chest. Many people are killed on a plane, and several passengers are thrown off the plane but eventually rescued. Explosions are often used, and the final battle is particularly fierce (to say more would venture into potential spoiler territory). The mutants in the story wreck havoc on practically everyone they come into contact with—characters are burned, choked and one ends up in a coma as a result. The President of the U.S. is threatened and finds himself in perilous circumstances in several scenes.
Christa Banister is an author and full-time freelancer writer, specializing in music, movies and books-related reviews and interviews and is the author of two novels, Around the World in 80 Dates and Blessed Are the Meddlers. Based in Dallas, Texas, she also weighs in on various aspects of pop culture on her personal blog.
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Sarah Jones wins $338,000 from website for defamation
Months after a jury deadlocked on the question of whether a website defamed her, a new jury heard former Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones' case against thedirty.com, found in her favor, and awarded her $338,000 in damages.
According to the Associated Press, the jury found that 2009 postings on thedirty.com about Jones were "substantially false," and that site proprietor Nik Richie "acted with malice or reckless disregard in posting anonymous submissions."
The website has appeal rights, and it would be a surprised if they aren't utilized.
After, and unrelated, to the posts made at the website, Jones pleaded guilty to having sex with a student while she was working as a high school teacher.
The jury deliberated nearly six hours on Wednesday before returning to court Thursday and reaching a unanimous verdict.


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Gynecologic Health
OB-GYNs, or obstetrician-gynecologists, are highly-trained doctors who work with women to maintain the health of their reproductive systems. Often they provide well-woman health checkups and general women's health services.
OB-GYNs, or obstetrician-gynecologists, are highly-trained doctors who work with women to maintain the health of their reproductive systems. Often they provide well-woman health checkups and general women's health services.
As a woman, you have different health needs at every stage of your life. Our providers are dedicated to providing a range of services to meet these ongoing needs. From your yearly check-up to maternity care and menopause treatments, we are here to support you at each and every stage.
Services include:
At some of our locations, residents are part of your care team. Residents are doctors who work alongside our obstetric-gynecologic faculty to complete three years of training in treating patients.
We provide a full range of healthcare services, including:
Other services include:
It is important to see your provider at least once a year for an overall physical. This appointment is about preventive care and lets your doctor find potential health problems before they become a health problem. For women, basic gynecology care should be included in the overall wellness visit along with breast screenings, immunizations, and the appropriate guidance for the patient's stage of life. Gynecology care includes pap smears and sexual health testing for women of all ages, from pre-hormonal ages to post-menopausal.
We provide family planning services so you can achieve your desired number and spacing of children. Proper amounts of time between pregnancies are important as they increase the chances that a baby will be born healthy. During this visit pregnancy testing and counseling will be offered, assistance in helping you achieve pregnancy can be addressed, basic infertility services evaluated, and sexual health screenings reviewed.
A hysterectomy is the surgical removal of a woman's uterus. While some hysterectomies are performed due to cancer, the vast majority is performed for non-cancerous conditions, such as fibroids, abnormal uterine bleeding, and prolapse of the pelvic organs.
Your case is unique, which means your treatment will be designed to fit your needs. Often we will recommend treatments based on best practices that have worked for other patients, consideration of your specific illness, the results of any tests done, as well as your personal preferences.
We provide treatments for these general conditions:
Abnormal vaginal and uterine bleeding is defined as bleeding that occurs at a time other than your normal monthly period. However, if you have extremely heavy bleeding during your period, it may also be considered abnormal. In fact, the most common type of abnormal uterine bleeding, known as Menorrhagia, is characterized by heavy and prolonged menstrual bleeding, lasting more than 7 days. Women who have menorrhagia may bleed enough to soak through one or more tampons or sanitary pads every hour.
Endometriosis is a common gynecological condition where tissue from the lining of your uterus may grow on your ovaries, in your pelvis, and even on your bladder. When you menstruate, this tissue swells and bleeds resulting in pain and scar tissue. This condition is particularly found among women of childbearing age. It affects an estimated two to 10 percent of American women in this age group. Endometriosis can be a debilitating disease for some women who experience ongoing pain, while others may be asymptomatic. It is also a factor in infertility.
Fibroids are the most frequently seen tumors of the female reproductive system. Fibroids, also known as uterine myomas, leiomyomas, or fibromas, are firm, compact tumors that are made of smooth muscle cells and fibrous connective tissue that develop in the uterus. It is estimated that between 20 to 50 percent of women of reproductive age have fibroids, although not all are diagnosed. Some estimates state that up to 30 to 77 percent of women will develop fibroids sometime during their childbearing years, although only about one-third of these fibroids are large enough to be detected by a healthcare provider during a physical examination.
Uterine Fibroids (Uterine Myomas)
Infertility is classified as the inability to conceive a child. There are various causes and types of infertility. Our providers work with you on a case-by-case basis to understand what type of infertility may be affecting you and what treatments may be available.
Learn more about infertility.
When a woman permanently stops having menstrual periods, she has reached the stage of life called menopause. Often called the change of life, this stage signals the end of a woman's ability to have children. Many healthcare providers actually use the term menopause to refer to the period of time when a woman's hormone levels begin to change. Menopause is said to be complete when menstrual periods have ceased for one continuous year.
An ovarian cyst is a fluid-filled sac that forms on or in the ovary. Most cysts are harmless and occur because of ovulation, or the releasing of an egg from the ovary. Most are asymptomatic, meaning they don't cause any symptoms.
Pelvic pain is a common complaint among women. Its nature and intensity may fluctuate, and its cause is often obscure. In some cases, no disease is evident. Pelvic pain can be categorized as either acute, meaning the pain is sudden and severe, or chronic, meaning the pain either comes and goes or is constant, lasting for a period of six months or longer.
Perimenopause refers to the transitional period of time before menstruation actually stops. This is often marked by changes in the menstrual cycle, along with other physical and emotional symptoms. Perimenopause can last two to 10 years.
Polycystic ovary syndrome (also called PCOS or Stein Leventhal syndrome) is the most common hormonal and reproductive problem affecting women of childbearing age. It's estimated that about five percent of women in the U.S. have this disorder. PCOS occurs when there is an imbalance of hormone levels in a woman's body and this causes cysts to form in the ovaries. PCOS can cause changes to a women's menstrual cycle, hormone levels, heart and blood vessels, affect fertility, and even change a women's appearance.
Urinary incontinence (UI) is the loss of urine control, or the inability to hold your urine until you can reach a restroom. According to the National Association for Continence, approximately 25 million adult Americans experience temporary or chronic urinary incontinence. UI can strike at any age. Women over age 50 are the most likely to develop UI.
Clear or white, thin or thick, without an odor or itching is a sign of normal vaginal discharge. Changes that may signal a problem include a change in the color or smell of the discharge, an increase in the amount of discharge or irritation, itchiness or burning in or around your vagina. A discharge that's stained with blood when you're not having your period could also be a sign of a problem.
Getting screening tests and vaccinations is an important part of maintaining your health. Find out which tests are recommended for your age. Use these guidelines when discussing a disease prevention plan with your OB-GYN. You may need a plan that is different, depending on your situation.
This is fast and noninvasive screening, which assesses your risk for osteoporosis and bone loss.
You should start mammogram screening for breast cancer at the age of 40 or 50. Screening tests are recommended at a minimum of every two years.
A procedure in which cells are scraped from the cervix for examination under a microscope. It is used to detect cancer and changes that may lead to cancer. A Pap smear can also show conditions, such as infection or inflammation, which are not cancer. Also called Pap test and Papanicolaou test.


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Fire Chief Shot by Police in Court!!!!!
By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press Writer Jon Gambrell, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 27 mins ago
JERICHO, Ark. – It was just too much, having to return to court twice on the same day to contest yet another traffic ticket, and Fire Chief Don Payne didn't hesitate to tell the judge what he thought of the police and their speed traps.
The response from cops? They shot him. Right there in court.
Payne ended up in the hospital, but his shooting last week brought to a boil simmering tensions between residents of this tiny former cotton city and their police force. Drivers quickly learn to slow to a crawl along the gravel roads and the two-lane highway that run through Jericho, but they say sometimes that isn't enough to fend off the city ticketing machine.
"You can't even get them to answer a call because normally they're writing tickets," said Thomas Martin, chief investigator for the Crittenden County Sheriff's Department. "They're not providing a service to the citizens."
Now the police chief has disbanded his force "until things calm down," a judge has voided all outstanding police-issued citations and sheriff's deputies are asking where all the money from the tickets went. With 174 residents, the city can keep seven police officers on its rolls but missed payments on police and fire department vehicles and saw its last business close its doors a few weeks ago.
"You can't even buy a loaf of bread, but we've got seven police officers," said former resident Larry Harris, who left town because he said the police harassment became unbearable.
Sheriff's deputies patrolled Jericho until the 1990s, when the city received grant money to start its own police force, Martin said.
Police often camped out in the department's two cruisers along the highway that runs through town, waiting for drivers who failed to slow down when they reached the 45 mph zone ringing Jericho. Residents say the ticketing got out of hand.
"When I first moved out here, they wrote me a ticket for going 58 mph in my driveway," 75-year-old retiree Albert Beebe said.
The frequent ticketing apparently led to the vandalization of the cruisers, and the department took to parking the cars overnight at the sheriff's department eight miles away.
It was anger over traffic tickets that brought Payne to city hall last week, said his lawyer, Randy Fishman. After Payne failed to get a traffic ticket dismissed on Aug. 27, police gave Payne or his son another ticket that day. Payne, 39, returned to court to vent his anger to Judge Tonya Alexander, Fishman said.
It's unclear exactly what happened next, but Martin said an argument between Payne and the seven police officers who attended the hearing apparently escalated to a scuffle, ending when an officer shot Payne from behind.
Doctors in Memphis, Tenn., removed a .40-caliber bullet from Payne's hip bone, Martin said. Another officer suffered a grazing wound to his finger from the bullet.
Martin declined to name the officer who shot Payne. It's unclear if the officer has been disciplined.
Prosecutor Lindsey Fairley said Thursday that he didn't plan to file any felony charges against the officer or Payne. Fairley, reached at his home, said Payne could face a misdemeanor charge stemming from the scuffle, but that would be up to the city's judge. He said he didn't remember the name of the officer who fired the shot.
Payne remains in good condition at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. He referred questions to his lawyer.
"I know that he was unarmed and I know he was shot," Fishman said. "None of that sounds too good for the city to me."
After the shooting, Martin said police chief Willie Frazier told the sheriff's department he was disbanding the police force "until things calm down." The sheriff's department has been patrolling the town in the meantime.
A call to a city hall number listed as Frazier's went to a fax machine. Frazier did not respond to a written request for comment sent to his office.
Alexander, the judge, has voided all the tickets written by the department both inside the city and others written outside of its jurisdiction — citations that the department apparently had no power to write. Alexander, who works as a lawyer in West Memphis, resigned as Jericho's judge in the aftermath of the shooting, Fairley said. She did not return calls for comment.
Meanwhile, sheriff's deputies want to know where the money from the traffic fines went. Martin said that it appeared the $150 tickets weren't enough to protect the city's finances. Sheriff's deputies once had to repossess one of the town's police cruisers for failure to pay on a lease, and the state Forestry Commission recently repossessed one of the city's fire trucks because of nonpayment.
City hall has been shuttered since the shooting, and any records of how the money was spent are apparently locked inside. No one answered when a reporter knocked on the door on Tuesday.
Mayor Helen Adams declined to speak about the shooting when approached outside her home, saying she had just returned from a doctor's appointment and couldn't talk.
"We'll get with you after all this comes through," Adams said Tuesday before shutting the door.
A white Ford Crown Victoria sat in her driveway with "public property" license plates. A sales brochure advertising police equipment sat in the back seat of the car.


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Fourth of July Weekend Celebration Schedule for New Hampshire and Vermont
Here's a list of all the 2013 July 4th weekend celebrations near Rabbit Hill Inn. If you plan your July 4th getaway right, you can actually take advantage of all three July 4th celebrations, and see three fireworks shows!
Danville, VT – Wednesday July 3
Fireworks will launch at dusk over Joe's Pond
Barton, VT – Thursday July 4
From the Orleans Country Fairgrounds – Fireworks display at dusk
Lincoln and Woodstock NH – Thursday July 4
Get your flags ready for the Patriotic Parade at 2:00 pm. Starting in North Woodstock and continuing on Rt 112 through Lincoln. At 7:00 pm, head over to the bandstand at Soldiers Park in No. Woodstock for the free concert of Patriotic music. At 9:30, the fireworks display in Lincoln light up the sky.
Danville, VT – July 5
Sugar Hill Campground – Fireworks at dusk
Burke Mountain, Burke Vermont – Friday July 5
Party starts at at 6:30 pm – enjoy a fun Barbecue, scenic chair lift rides ($5 per person), and live music (6:30 -9:30). Fireworks display begins at 9:30 pm. Parking – $10 per car.
Franconia, NH – Saturday, July 6
Old Home Day Celebration & Parade, & Fireworks. Head on over to the historic village of Franconia NH and experience an old time Fourth of July celebration. Enjoy the parade on Main Street, shop the Artisans Sale, the flea market & book sale. Compete in the famous Rubber Duck Race along the scenic Gale River. Don't miss the BBQ at the Franconia Town Hall. You also may want to check out the bargains at the Garnet Hill Outlet Store. In the evening, relax to live music at the gazebo (7:30 – 9:30). At 9:30, enjoy the fireworks display at Dow Park.


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In order of importance, my list of the most important things to work on are Wiki, test roms, LLE/Improve Project64 Video, 64-bit, and Create basic open source audio plugin.
It's not possible to have accurate RNG while using netplay. They intentionally made it non-deterministic (which makes sense).
It would not be difficult to make PJ64-Video more accurate than it currently is .
The situation is currently so bad that I resorted to using LLE software renderers to actually improve performance.. Something clearly isn't right. After working on HW renderers for a bit and figuring out how to improve performance for bottlenecks like copying frame-buffer from video memory, I realized that hardware renderers can do a lot better than what it's currently doing. I may be able to help improve the video plugin. I'm going to look into finally learning Hardware rendering for real this time .
The entire page for Mischief Makers would/should be a list of bugs and "use GLideN64 or Angrylions" as the solution for them all. Games like Body Harvest would read "unplayable broken -- use GLideN64 or Angrylion's".
Using the wiki for game compatibility listings is pointless. The RDB has the same problem. I overhauled it with Glide64/PJ64-Video in mind, but I didn't anticipate that it would be used indefinitely.
That said, maybe the wiki could be useful for documenting just how broken Jabo/Glide64 are currently because there's a lot of "looks fine to me" sentiment that still floats around. Demonstrating otherwise has some merit. I mean, Glide64 can't even render Mario 64 correctly. It gets the texture filtering mode wrong on the HUD. It just gets worse from there.
Sorry if that comes across as too negative.
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My idea would be to document functionality that a game requires, like TLB, or FrameBuffer effects, and to also document recommended plugins/settings.
For instance what i would write for Smash Bros, is that it doesn't use TLB and that it needs framebuffer copying for the results screen in 1 player mode. That way, users would know that they can turn off framebuffer copying if they never play 1 player mode. They could also disable TLB to get a CPU performance boost. Then for graphics, i would say that only Angrylion's and GLideN64 get that intro effect right. Then also mention that most HLE plugins have graphical glitches and mention that Z64gl, Glide64, and Jabo 184.108.40.206 are decent alternatives for people who can't use Angrylion's or GLideN64.
It would be good to mention games that are noticeably less accurate in HLE.
I think being able to provide the next best alternatives is great. It would be good to highlight cases where other HLE plugins actually 100% work better than GLideN64, like those Culture Brain games. It would be nice to mention that SD Hiryuu, for example runs fairly decent in Glide64 and that Rice Video would be the next best alternative, if Glide64 is too slow. This way, people know what to use to get the best experience per-game.
A way to play N64 FPS games with better mouse aiming would be great. i know about that injector program but would be a nice addition to have by default.
Getting games to run on a better framerate would be awesome. Even just getting some of them to a consistent 30 would be quite a step up, and 60fps would be even better.
Netplay would be mostly for those games which are exclusive to the n64, so check out if they pile up a big enough number to justify starting some work on netplay right now.
Sounds like you need to vote for the enhanced version in the poll.
Book recommendation!
Man how ya'll be
I forget which if it was one of the v2.1x er v2.2x , the one when Glide essentially became PJ64's plugin and integrated I could not adjust any settings @ all nothing saved throughout the whole emulator
Also sad to see the site doesn't have any of the legacy builds either no more
Thanks for all your hard work ! Playing over AQZ input netplay plugin is a real treat !
EDIT: Brain exhausted I'm not in the right thread sorries
Hi there, new here!
I think the list of planned improvments for the next version of Project64 is great, but the one thing which is most important for me would be a much more improved Input Plugin.
Overall i wish it would be much more like the one from Dolphin. The biggest problem i have with the Input Pluging is that the controlls don't save properly and changing them turns into a huge hassle, especially if i try to set it up for splittscreen multiplayer. When i got some friends over and we want to play Goldeneye for example, then it turns always into me battleing the Input Plugin. When it doesn't work out, we mostly play some Nightfire or Timesplitters instead, because i don't have these problems with Dolphin at all. There i don't have to set up the controls most of the time, i don't remember the last time i had to do that with Dolphin actually. Its like start the emulator, start the game, BOOM lets play! And i wish it would be the same with Project64 because there are still some classics which would be great in multiplayer.
Here are some Bulletpoints of the exact improvements i wish for the Input Plugin:
- Fixed saving / improved Profile system
- Improved Deadzone / Range options
- Improved / more Streamlined layout of the options menu
- Better working Rumblepack / Memorie Pack for Xinput and other input devices (possible to combine them? I remember owning a hybrid Rumble Memory Pack for the original N64, but i'm not sure if it worked at the same time)
- Be able to choose the exact device for each controller input (like Xinput/0 for player one and Xinput/1 for player two etc)
- No extra layout just for Xinput, just one for all devices
- multiple key bindings
- maybe an additional option to be able to save input changes for all four controller inputs at once (without changing the dedicated device to each input of course, like Xinput/1 stays for player 2 after the change etc, you know what i mean)
I know this is a lot to ask for but if these improvements would be in place, then the N64 emulator would be almost perfect and maybe for others too. So please take these into consideration.
conker bad fur day error : camera error 4 players
that you fix the screen of four player in conker bad fur day because you can not play it, hope you fix it to play it with my cousins please fix it I would really appreciate it and that error makes it move alone and we're dizzy conker is one of my favorite 4-player games please arrange
camera error 4 players
fix the camera of conker bad fur day 4 players
that can be played by 4 players without lag
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The first group of protestors at Occupy Wall Street publically delivered 23 complaints, outlining the ways in which corporations control our daily lives. Number four asserted, "They have poisoned the food supply through negligence and undermined the farming system through monopolization."
How we feed ourselves and each other is the backbone of how, historically, we have organized our communities and societies. The ways in which we arrange our agricultural systems make evident our larger worldviews. Food literally and figuratively connects us to each other, to our ancestors, to our cultures, and to the earth. Maybe all food should be acknowledged as soul food (with a low bow to Southern cooking) because it is, in fact, that deep.
A movement is afoot to put food, land, and agricultural systems back in the hands of citizens. One element has long been considered the overarching essential around the world, though it is only beginning to make an appearance in this U.S. This is food sovereignty, a combination of farming practices, marketing systems, and policy choices which together allow every people to make decisions about, produce, and consume its own local, healthy, and culturally appropriate food. Food sovereignty calls for the democratic participation of the population in shaping food and trade policies. It promotes the right of small growers to have control over their land and production, to grow for domestic consumption under local control. It also promotes ecological agriculture.
Food sovereignty is rooted in the daily work of every small farmer, rancher, fisherperson, landless farm worker, and everyone else involved in local food production. Yet no matter what they produce, their ability to survive is affected by international market forces. The movement, therefore, also includes community, national, and international activists working for just trade and economic systems. It promotes tariffs on food imports to protect local markets, and an end to international trade agreements and financial institutions that interfere with the sovereignty and sustainability of food systems.
The principles of food sovereignty challenge the neoliberal economic model – basically free-trade, corporate-driven, global capitalism – that governs food systems in much of the world. Agriculture in that model demotes government and community's planning, investing in, or intervening in food and agricultural systems. Conversely, it promotes agribusiness corporations ability to invest wherever they like, favoring the import and export of large quantities of food across borders.
The neoliberal model assumes that a low- or middle-income nation's best option is that of fitting into the economic position allotted to it by richer countries and financial institutions. If the American Midwest can grow massive amounts of corn, the rationale goes, then it should grow corn for the world, while Colombian farmers export coffee, Brazilian farmers bananas, and so on. Along with industrial-scale farming goes monocropping and massive inputs of fuel, fertilizers, and pesticides. Much more than large farmers, the primary beneficiaries are the corporate middle people who consolidate, arrange, package, and ship the food around the world.
The proponents of this model are the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Trade Organization (WTO), governments of industrialized countries, large landholders, and corporations. They insist that global South countries lower agricultural tariffs on food coming into their countries so as to open their markets to foreign trade. They also pressure countries to eliminate agricultural subsidies, even though many high-income countries like the U.S. maintain large subsidies of their own. These measures undermine local production and the livelihoods of the world's small-scale farmers who cannot compete on an uneven playing field with corporate giants.
A food system that depends on importing and exporting goods around the globe leaves everyone more vulnerable to the whims of global market forces. When oil prices rise, for example, communities and countries who can't afford the resulting price spikes in food, or who no longer have their own strong agricultural systems in place, are left hungry.
The most powerful international coalition promoting food sovereignty is Via Campesina, an alliance of approximately 150 groups from 70 countries, representing around 200 million small- and medium-size farmers and food producers, landless people, indigenous peoples, and rural women. The coalition includes groups as wide-ranging as the Indonesian Peasant Association, the Confederation of Farmers' Unions in Turkey, and the U.S National Family Farm Coalition. Via Campesina takes strong stands around trade and financial institutions and policies, and opposes any intervention of the World Bank, IMF, and WTO on questions of food and land. For each critique, the coalition advocates specific alternatives. Via Campesina provides a network in which groups can work together on global campaigns, international days of action, country-specific mobilizations, public education, and demonstrations at prominent venues such as climate talks and WTO meetings.
Another important grassroots force for food sovereignty is the Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations (CLOC by its Spanish acronym), whose members are both farmers and farmworkers. CLOC represents the Latin American branch of Via Campesina, but it also takes independent positions and actions. CLOC pursues its vision of a future without hunger through three primary campaigns: challenging free trade agreements, promoting agrarian reform, and creating food sovereignty. More recently, its focus has expanded to oppose biotechnology. CLOC members develop their political program through lobbying, popular education, protests, mass mobilizations, international campaigns, and international tours.
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Feeling inspired? Read on for a list of actions, resources, and organizations to get you started.
- Help introduce the idea of food sovereignty to your local food group, community organization, or educational institution. Order copies of Grassroots International and National Family Farm Coalition's booklet explaining food sovereignty (or download here: www.grassrootsonline.org/publications/fact-sheets-reports/food-sovereignty-explained-simple-language-newbooklet) and use them to start conversations. Host a workshop about food sovereignty in your community, with the help of "Food for Thought and Action: A Food Sovereignty Curriculum" (download here: www.grassrootsonline.org/publications/educational-resources/food-thought-action-a-food-sovereignty-curriculum).
- Join the US Food Sovereignty Alliance, which is bringing together groups from around the country to build a national movement for food sovereignty, and to connect national initiatives with the thriving international movement. Have your organization join (www.usfoodsovereigntyalliance.org).
- Organize a local campaign to protect your community from corporate farming and other corporate takeovers of natural resources:Ask your Congressperson to oppose the harmful effects of large-scale factory farming, such as requesting that he or she support the Livestock Marketing Fairness Act. Food and Water Watch's website can keep you updated (www.foodandwaterwatch.org/food/factoryfarms).
- The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund helps people get started in challenging corporate takeover of their communities (www.celdf.org);
- Corporate Accountability International's webpage connects you with an abundance of ways to challenge corporate control of food (www.stopcorporateabuse.org/food-campaign).
- Learn about and get inspired by Via Campesina, the world's largest coalition of small and medium-sized farmers, women, and landless people calling for food sovereignty the world over. Watch their most recent video (www.vimeo.com/27473286).
- Get involved with international campaigns such as those to halt the expansion of the WTO, stop new trade agreements and renegotiate existing ones, end Fast Track, and cancel global debt:Learn more about what you can do to stop the WTO from continuing its tremendous damage to agriculture. The "Derailer's Guide to the WTO" by Focus on the Global South is a helpful resource (www.focusweb.org). Use the Tools for Activists from The Bank Information Center, which has put together a comprehensive toolkit on both understanding and challenging the World Bank (www.bicusa.org/toolkit).
- Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, www.citizen.org/trade;
- Our World is Not for Sale global campaign; www.ourworldisnotforsale.org;
- Citizens Trade Campaign, www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/about-ctc;
- Democracy Is for People campaign of Public Citizen, www.democracyisforpeople.org; and
- Jubilee USA, www.jubileeusa.org.
Download the Harvesting Justice pdf here, and find action items, resources, and a popular education curriculum on the Harvesting Justice website.
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1967 to 1979 Mustang Resource - The Marti Report
Kevin Marti's Ford Production Database Is A Wonderful Resource For '67-'79 Mustang Owners, But The Information Didn't Just Fall Into His Laptop
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We can all thank Kevin Marti's mom for an "accident" that sent her son down the path to obtaining Ford's '67-and-later production data and providing us with the Marti Reports. Those coveted sheets of paper tell us if a special Mustang is real or fake, how many were made, what options were on the car when it was built, and a myriad of other facts and figures. Today, the term "Marti Report" has become part of the Mustang vocabulary. You see them displayed in show-car windows, and buyers of high-dollar Mustangs use them to document a potential buy before putting down a deposit. You even hear about them during Speed's coverage of the Barrett-Jackson auction.
Beyond documenting Mustangs (and other Fords-Kevin's database includes all '67-'79 Fords, with '80-'98 coming soon), Kevin's data and programming provides fascinating production numbers, not only for specific models but also for options. Want to know how many '70 Mustangs came with a tach? Kevin can type it into his computer and it will spit out the numbers. Weird color combinations? Yes, Ford built a few yellow cars with blue interiors.
The information within Kevin's database includes every Mustang built from 1967 through 1979. He has been able to confirm the VINs of many important Mustangs, including the pair of '68 fastbacks that were used in the movie Bullitt and the hardtops that became Shelby's Trans-Am race cars in 1967. In fact, Barrett-Jackson has contacted Kevin about producing a special report to document Fords sold at the auctions, a move to avoid the rare but embarrassing situation when a consigner tries to sell a fake car.
The info has also unraveled mysteries. When a customer requested a Marti Report for an early production '71 fastback, Kevin not only discovered that it was the only '71 Boss 302 ever built ("The Last Boss," Feb. '08, p. 32), he also found information about other '71 Boss 302s that were scheduled but never built.
As Kevin points out in the following interview, Ford's production database didn't just fall into his laptop. Several factors came together to make it all work. Otherwise, the information would still be buried at Ford.
Always fascinated by numbers, Kevin's engineering background provided the computer knowledge to create programs for translating and analyzing the data. Through Marti Auto Works, his company that produces replacement dataplates and reproduction items, Kevin had a working relationship with people at Ford, and more importantly, with Ford licensing. He was also fortunate to have a relationship with Lois Eminger, the retired Ford employee who sold copies of original Ford invoices for many years. In fact, Kevin ended up purchasing the invoices from Lois and plans to resume offering copies as part of his services in the future.
Kevin is the stereotypical numbers guy. He still has every car he has ever owned. He collects stamping machines and vintage Ford technical analyzing equipment. He even admits that he tried to lean to the right side of his brain by learning how to play piano but gave up because if he made a mistake he couldn't just go back and fix it, he had to start all over again from the beginning.
Because of all this, Kevin is the right guy doing the right thing for Mustang owners. "I have so much fun coming in here every day," he admits. "Sometimes I just play games. I'll think, If I could've ordered a car back then, how would I have ordered it? For example, I'll program the computer to say I would've wanted a yellow Boss 302 with intermittent wipers. Then I see if they built any. Well, yeah, that car exists out there somewhere. Someday maybe I'll come across it."
Mustang Monthly: How did you get interested in Mustangs and Cougars?
Kevin Marti: It was an accident. When I first started driving in 1973, I was interested in Camaros and Chevelles. I had a paper route, so I had more than enough money to buy a decent car. One Sunday, my mom pulled out the newspaper and said, "Well, let's find a car for you. What are you looking for?" I said, "Camaro or Chevelle." At the time, the Phoenix paper listed cars alphabetically. So she started circling Camaros and Chevelles. We picked out a few and went looking. After about the 10th or 11th car, all junk, we looked at the next one on the list and she had accidentally circled a Cougar. I said, "Not [a] Cougar, Mom." But she insisted we look at it. When I saw the back of the car, I remembered the sequential turn signals. Suddenly I had to have it. My whole life turned on that accident. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been involved with Fords at all. I bought that '67 Cougar. It's the one under the cover back there.
MM: How did that lead to you starting Marti Auto Works?
Marti: After graduating from college, I went into the aerospace industry as a mechanical engineer. On the side, I was fixing up my cars and going to junkyards to find original date-coded spark plug wires with Autolite stamped on them. I'd put them on the counter and sometimes the owner would kick me out thinking it was some kind of joke.
As that stuff became scarce, I started figuring out ways to make it. I'd go to car shows and someone would say, "Can you make me one?" I wasn't married at the time and had extra time after work, so I started making them.
What really started Marti Auto Works is my Cougar Eliminator. I advertised in Hemmings Motor News for a stripe kit and all I got were calls from other people wanting to know if I had found two so they could buy the other one. I started thinking that maybe Ford still had the tooling. I spent more than six months calling Ford and 3M, the company that had made the kits. I finally found the right department at Ford, and the guy said, "Yeah, the tooling is sitting right over there." We got Ford's permission to reproduce the Eliminator stripes, which is when my relationship with Ford started.
Next, someone-I believe it was Tony Branda-asked, "Can you do the '69 Boss 302 stripes?" And I found out that we could. Then Ford discontinued the '70 Boss 302 kits, so we started running those. Some guys wanted to build Trans-Am cars, so we did some white Boss stripes, then the '69 Mach 1. By around 1983, I was selling so many stripe kits that I quit my regular job.
Then I started doing radiator hoses and getting stamps made so I could mark them with original logos and dates. At the time, I'd go down to NAPA and buy five hoses. After a while, I needed 20 hoses and the local store didn't carry that many, so I started going to the distributor and buying 100 hoses. Eventually, I went straight to Goodyear. They needed a 10,000 minimum, and I said, "Not a problem." Now Goodyear backs a truck to the door and we unload pallets of hoses.
MM: That eventually led to reproducing door dataplates and tags, right?
Marti: I needed a door data label for one of my '70s so we reproduced that. I eventually got into doing the metal plates because I needed one for a '68. With time, I got into doing the carb, engine, and axle tags. Almost all of it was based on "I need this for my car." Once I made one, I could make others.
MM: You seem to be fascinated by numbers.
Marti: That's right. I still know my phone number from when I was 6 years old. I know the license plate number from my mom's old '64 Galaxie. At my 30th high school reunion, I went up to one friend and said, "Does PAN 334 mean anything to you? It was the license plate number on the Nova you drove in high school."
MM: How did you end up dealing with Ford to obtain the production database?
Marti: In the '80s, I sent a letter to Ford Customer Service asking about my car's serial number, but all they did was decode the dataplate. Then I heard someone else had gotten information about options. So I thought, They must have the data. Having already established relationships at Ford, I began searching for the right department. By then I knew the infrastructure well enough to understand the responsibilities of each department, so I figured out the right guys to talk to and asked, "Would it be possible to do this?"
The different departments had to sign off, such as accounting, marketing, legal, and data processing. They all treated me with suspicion. Why would anyone want this? Each had a different angle. For example, starting in 1969 they preserved the pricing information. So the accounting department said, "You could write a program to figure out how much money we collected on every car and add it all together." Well, yes, I guess I could, but the information is 30 years old. Would it help Ford's competitors? These were the kind of arguments we were running into. That's one of the reasons I can't have anything newer than 10 years.
Each department eventually signed off except legal. They were the most skittish about it. Amazingly, there was one guy there who had heard a lot of the bellyaching about Ford's licensing program when it started in 1993. There was one thing I had done different from everybody else. In my advertising, I put "Proud to display this symbol" below the Ford Licensing logo. Unbeknownst to me at the time, that guy appreciated the fact that we did that and also that we never gave him any problems. He turned out to be the lawyer in the right place at the right time for us. He said, "I know this company, and these guys have always been supportive of us." So he convinced the legal department to sign off. That was the last hurdle. From there it was, "Fly yourself here and we'll do the data transfer."
MM: Were you telling them that you wanted the data as a service to owners?
Marti: There was actually a two-fold reason. There was the business standpoint of selling the data. But because we were working on the Mustang Museum at the time, I thought it would be cool if visitors could enter a VIN on a console and it would pop up a picture of the car. Let's say it was a '67. It would show a picture of a '67, then paint the car the right color, put the right hubcaps on, add foglights if it were a GT, and so on. Basically, it would be a picture of the car as it looked new. Unfortunately, the museum never went anywhere.
MM: What year did you get the approval?
Marti: Around 1997, and I got the data around 1998. The first reports came out in 1998 or 1999.
MM: What was it like obtaining the data?
Marti: I went to Dearborn. The guy I interfaced with downloaded it from a mainframe onto the PC on his desk. I went out and bought a Zip drive. We'd plug in the Zip drive, upload 100 megabytes worth of data, unplug it, plug it into my laptop, and transfer that 100 megs. Then we'd go back and take another 100 megs. It was a slow process back then, back and forth between machines. We spent two days transferring the '67-'73 data.
MM: Did you know the information only went back to 1967?
Marti: Not at the time. There was a specific reason why they had 1967 and later, and we can thank Ralph Nader. As he was fighting the auto industry, the Federal Motor Vehicle Act of 1966 specified that car companies had to start keeping records for '67-and-later vehicles for recall purposes. Prior to that, they were allowed to throw the information away. In fact, I talked to a Ford computer programmer who said, "I'm the guy who pushed the button that erased all the '66 data." You kind of hope there was a backup copy, but no-it all went away.
MM: Were you able to start spitting out reports as soon as you got the data?
Marti: Not at all. I think some people are under the impression that I received some type of data and programming package, but what I really got was raw data that was never planned to be used this way. The format wasn't even compatible with modern computers. So with my engineering background and my love of numbers, I created a translator to take the data and put it into a format that would be usable by modern PCs.
At the same time, we had to use Ford's decoding information [points to a row of large spiral notebooks]. Let's say in column 58 there's a code 3. That means the car had an AM/FM radio. All that information had to be put into the database.
It was morning, noon, and night. At the time, my son was in Little League and I'd be sitting in the stands with my laptop and these notebooks. I'd be typing away, and my wife would say, "OK, Rob is coming up to bat." So I'd stop to watch him. As soon as he was done, I'd be back to typing.
MM: Did the decoding information come with the data?
Marti: No, I had to photocopy all that stuff. I lived at the copy machines at Ford, and I was constantly interrupted because the rule was, if someone needed the machine to copy something, I had to back away until he was done. I probably copied 50,000 pages worth of documents. I had to have the data and the decoding manual information. One was no good without the other.
For example, the raw data had the dealer numbers but Ford didn't have the dealer directories. Think of it like phone books. Who kept their phone book from 1967? The only thing that made that work was my relationship with Lois Eminger. She had the invoices with the dealer names and addresses.
As we move into the '81 model year, the way I wrote the original program won't work anymore because Ford went to 17-digit serial numbers. Again, Ford never meant for the data to be used this way, so each year it would change the computing method. Now we're doing a complete revamp to make it compatible for all years, short of the last 10.
MM: When you were pursuing the data, did you realize you would be able to find many unique cars?
Marti: That thought never crossed my mind. What happened was, on the flight home from Detroit, I pulled the data up for the first time on my laptop and looked at the '67 Mustang information. And I saw serial number 100001, 100002, and so on. I started scrolling down, and I thought, There are 472,000 records here! I was overwhelmed by the immensity of it-and that was just one year for one car line. I wasn't even thinking about the special cars that were within this. What I did know was that column 15 had the paint code. I recognized code M-oh, it was a white car. There's a Candyapple Red car. The second car in '67 was Lime Gold. The first car was a fastback, then a hardtop, then a convertible. That makes sense-one of each bodystyle.
When I got home, it was one of those things where you wake up in the middle of the night thinking, I wonder if I could do this? It took weeks to start realizing the potential and figuring out the best way to present the material. I had so much that I didn't know where to begin.
Then someone asked, "Do you have the Shelby information?" I hadn't even thought about Shelbys. So I ran a report on a Shelby. With time, we started thinking, What about the '67 Shelby Trans-Am cars? All of them were there. Someone asked if I had information about the first '68 Cobra Jets. At the time, I didn't know much about those first 50 cars. So I looked it up and saw they were identical. The only difference was some came with sealer delete. But there they were, all 50 of them. And each dealer. And the day each car was built. And which one was built first. The first serial number wasn't the first one built. After a while, I started realizing that cars weren't built in order. A lot of times, serial number 1 was built two months later.
MM: How did you come up with the Basic, Deluxe, and Elite reports?
Marti: I thought about the old Sears strategy, "good, better, best." There are some people who are thinking about buying a car and they just want the basic information, which is why we call it a Basic Report. They just want to know if the door dataplate information is correct and which options came on the car. If you want to move up from there, the Deluxe information adds statistical figures-important dates about the car and so on. The Elite Report shows how the window sticker looked and how much the car originally cost.
MM: How does it feel when you're watching the Barrett-Jackson auction on TV and the announcer says that a car has been documented by a Marti Report?
Marti: I didn't create the name. Just like Lois didn't create the "Eminger Invoice." People just started calling them "Marti Reports," and I went along with it. To me they were always Basic, Deluxe, and Elite Reports, not Marti Reports. There's an awkwardness seeing my name like that. Friends joke about me being a celebrity. I'm not.
MM: You're providing an important service to not only help people document cars but also to keep people from buying bogus cars.
Marti: Every week we turn up several fake cars. The worst was a guy in Australia who ordered reports for his two '68 Cobra Jets. I had to tell him that both started out as 289 two-barrel cars. He'd spent all this money for the cars, and in his case, he also had the bad exchange rate, transportation by boat, and 50 percent import taxes. I really hate telling someone the bad news-unless it's before they buy the car.
MM: And then there's the side where you get to tell a guy that he owns the only '71 Boss 302 ever built.
Marti: That's the fun part. In that particular case, we also had the invoices and discovered the notes and telegrams in the packets stapled to them. Some of that information exists only on a piece of paper with a handwritten note.
This isn't a Mustang story, but one guy ordered a report for a 427 Cougar, a '68. His serial number seemed awfully high, so I double-checked. I called him personally to tell him that he had the last production 427 Ford ever made.
MM: You also have information about cars that were scheduled but never built, right?
Marti: Yeah. We have all the serial numbers for canceled orders, too, cars that were planned but never built. For the Shelby program, they were going to build more than 200 Boss 302 Shelbys. They only built one ("The Boss Shelby," Mar. '08, p. 32) and canceled all the others. But we have the data on how they were going to build them, which doesn't really mean anything. It's just interesting the things they thought about doing.
MM: Can you think of any other special cars, such as the Bullitt cars?
Marti: The two Bullitt cars were identical with consecutive numbers. There are also the Boss 429 Quarter Horses and Bill Cosby's '68 Shelby. A purple '69 Shelby had some interesting paperwork. It was built for the wife of Goodyear's president at the time. She wanted a Thunderbird color. The car was already painted Grabber Blue, so Shelby painted over it. The invoice says Grabber Blue, then there's another invoice that shows special paint.
In 1969, Ford's pilot plant built 16 Mustangs and five of them made it to the public.
It's interesting that only one Boss 429 was built with a rear deck spoiler. Even stranger, there were three black '70 Boss 302s-yes, with black stripes. I know at least one of them is out there because we pulled a report on it. The car had already been painted several times and the owner wanted to know if it originally came with white stripes. There were no white stripes from the factory. They couldn't put black on black, could they? Yes, they did.
Speaking of weird, one guy had a green Boss 302 with a Vermillion interior, the only one built that way. There are a few yellow cars out there with blue interiors. The vehicle order image has a special column, where if a dealer wanted to override the system and order something out of the ordinary, Ford would put a code in column 77. Basically what that said was, "Mr. Dealer, when you submit this order, this is a nonreturnable car."
MM: Can you think of any other interesting things that come from the data?
Marti: There are always the people who become enamored with a car because it was built on their birthday or anniversary, or some kind of meaningful date.
There's also an interesting period during the UAW strike from September 6 to November 6, 1967. Of course, cars were scheduled to be built because Ford didn't know when the strike was going to happen. My wife's '68 convertible is an example. Her car was scheduled to be built on September 11 but by then the assembly plant had shut down. So her car just sat on the line, along with all the other cars, for two months. Then it finally got built in November. I've had customers report that a lot of oddball things happened on those cars.
Four Shelbys were built one day before the strike: a GT350 convertible, a GT350 fastback, a GT500 convertible, and a GT500 fastback. It's like they knew they had to get those cars built so they could get them completed as Shelbys for promotional purposes.
Another funny thing is what happened to a lot of cars that were built in early January. One of the dates we give on the reports is the release date. That is, after the car has been built, it goes through the inspection process, then they release it, which appeared on weekly and monthly reports about how many cars were built. A lot of early January cars have a release date of December 31 because they fudged the data to make the calendar year look a little better.
MM: Interesting. It's great that Ford allows you to do this, otherwise the information wouldn't be available to anyone.
Marti: As hobbyists, we should be grateful to Ford. They don't need to do this. To me, it's serious money when I write the royalty check. But to them, it's a drop in the bucket. I really am thankful that they were willing to do this.
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Fraser Makes It Number 4
Eric Wohlberg (Canadian National) made the race happen in today's 8th stage of the Trans Canada Tour, but another Canadian - Gord Fraser (Mercury) - took the glory with his fourth stage victory.
The 146 kilometre stage, from Vaughan (north of Toronto) to Hamilton, began slowly. Some tentative attacks in the first 60 kilometres did not go anywhere, and the peleton settled down to an easy ride. Wohlberg finally enlivened things in the last 50 kilometres with a decisive attack that took him well clear of the pack. A few kilometres later, Jan Hruska (Wustenrot-ZVVZ) bridged up and the gap started to grow. "I know this area", said Wohlberg, who lives locally. "It was very hard, with the wind in my face. When Hruska bridged, I thought it would work." And it nearly did.
Both excellent time trialists, the duo reached a maximum gap on the field of 2:30, before the chasers reacted. Even then, the field did not reel the leaders in immediately. Said Fraser "Eric is a fantastic time trialer, and very dangerous. We couldn't let him get too far away. The team car came up (with about 10 kilometres to go) and said 'it's time to make your move, work with Maipei' ".
Mercury and Mapei did work, first sporadically, and then, for the last 5 kilometres, hard. They almost left it too late, swallowing up the breakaway pair within sight of the finish line. At that point Mercury provided a textbook lesson in how to set up a sprint. The train of four team members, with Fraser at the rear, picked up the pace, and then picked it up again. As the field bore down on the line, Fraser's leadout riders peeled off and he shot through to take his fourth stage win. Fred Rodriguez of Mapei tried to get on Fraser's wheel, but it was in vain as Fraser had enough of a gap to straighten his jersey and raise his arms as he crossed the line. Sven Teutenberg (Gerolsteiner) took second and Josef Christen (Ericksen) third. Rodriguez finished fifth. There was no change on the General Classification, with Jean-Cyril Robin (Francaise des Jeux) still leading Guido Trentin (Vini Caldirola) by 27 seconds.
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- the finish line was next to a cemetery. All funerals were cancelled for the day, so that they would not interfere with the race.
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Purported next-gen iPhone front panel has centered FaceTime camera
The image was published on Monday by Taiwanese website Apple.pro (via Google Translate). While it's hard to tell the length of the display without a side-by-side shot, the accompanying report says the panel has a width identical to the current iPhone while the screen is slightly taller.
Aside from the taller screen and a slight move for the FaceTime camera, the front panel purported to be from a pre-release white iPhone looks largely unchanged from the current design, with space for a circular home button below the display and a proximity sensor to the left of the earpiece.
The original source of the images is a Photobucket account that previously obtained the rear panel for Apple's third-generation iPad before the tablet was announced. That person revealed that the new iPad would be slightly thicker than its predecessor, the iPad 2.
Leaked parts alleged to be from Apple's next iPhone come as the handset is said to now be in production. Over the weekend, another report said Apple's suppliers are building the next iPhone ahead of a fall launch, and that the handset will feature inlaid glass on the back, between top and bottom edges made of metal.
Industry watchers suspect that Apple will release the next iPhone in September or October, or about a year after the launch of the iPhone 4S. That launch window would allow Apple to take advantage of the lucrative holiday shopping season, which helped result in record breaking sales of the iPhone 4S at launch last year.
Multiple reports have indicated that Apple's next iPhone will feature a slightly larger 4-inch display, representing the first time Apple has ever changed the size of the iPhone's screen. The taller display is expected to feature a 26 percent larger 16-to-9 aspect ratio that would retain the ability for users to operate the device while holding it with just one hand.


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The Liberal government has announced a multi-million dollar fund to restore wild salmon habitat and support fisheries in B.C. amid steep declines in wild stocks.
Minister of Finance Bill Morneau announced the $105-million funding initiative and a separate $30-million Quebec Fisheries Fund as part of the federal government's Nov. 21 economic update.
During his speech in the House of Commons, Morneau said the money will "help sustain Canada's wild fish stocks and the communities that rely on them."
Happy to see that two new #fish funds were introduced in the economic update yesterday. These will benefit our fishers on both coasts! pic.twitter.com/cbEjPkfeen— Jonathan Wilkinson (@JonathanWNV) November 22, 2018
New Democrat MP Rachel Blaney said she's hopeful the program will help restore salmon habitat, an issue that many constituents have raised with her office.
"I hope we actually see the money flowing into the community in a meaningful way," Blaney said from Ottawa, where she represents the North Island-Powell River riding.
The new fund for B.C. includes an investment of $100 million over the course of six years, along with a one-time contribution of $5 million for the Pacific Salmon Endowment Fund, according to a statement from the federal government. The province is also expected to announce contributions in the coming weeks.
The program is modelled on a $400-million Atlantic Fisheries Fund that was unveiled last year for the fish and seafood sector in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.
That fund has bankrolled projects including the testing of ropeless gear by a seafood company to protect whales from getting entangled, said Jocelyn Lubczuk, press secretary for federal fisheries minister Jonathan Wilkinson.
Various stakeholders – including private companies, Indigenous groups, NGOs and academics – will be able to apply to receive funding for specific projects, Lubczuk said.
"There will be parts of this $100 million that go towards salmon habitat, restoration and protection," Lubszuk said. "Part of that will also go towards industry, the folks who are creating jobs in this sector, to ensure that they have the most sustainable organizations and are positioned well for the future."
Asked whether funds would be available to aquaculture companies, she said the money is meant to benefit the fish and seafood sector writ large.
"We're not at a stage where we're going to exclude one sector," Lubszuk said. "It's an inclusive pocket of funding."
The BC Salmon Farmers Association (BCSFA) and the Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance (CAIA) – two organizations representing fish farmers – both issued statements in support of the new funding.
"B.C.'s salmon farmers have long supported efforts to study and enhance the health of both wild and farm-raised fish," said Shawn Hall, a spokesperson for the BCSFA.
The money comes at a time when wild stocks are experiencing a major decline, said Brian Riddell, president and CEO of the Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF).
A $5-million capital boost for the Pacific Salmon Endowment Fund will result in roughly $250,000 in new money generated annually in interest, which the PSF will then distribute to various community groups dedicated to wild salmon conservation, Riddell said.
He said there's an "unlimited amount of work to do for salmon conservation and for protecting and restoring their habitat."
Salmon stocks are hard to calculate with certainty due to the multitude of streams and species in B.C., but the overall abundance of wild salmon has declined since the 1950s, according to a September report by the BC Wild Salmon Advisory Council.
That decline ranges from 20 to 45 per cent on the north and central coast, while southern B.C. has seen sockeye decline by 43 per cent and chum decline by 14 per cent, while pink salmon have increased by about 24 per cent in southern B.C., according to PSF data included in the report.
Those numbers represent the long-term average from 1954-2016 compared with data from the past decade.
Southern chinook have also experienced a "widespread decrease in productivity, but these rates are highly variable between years and rivers," the report states.
The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada said on Monday that of 16 chinook populations assessed in southern B.C., eight are endangered, four are threatened and one is of special concern.
Only one chinook population studied – located in the Thompson River – was found to be stable. Not enough data was available to assess the other two populations. There are 28 chinook populations in southern B.C.
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Well howdy-do. Today is a quilting day! I know there are many of you out there who are on the edge about learning to machine quilt. Well, I want you all to know that you can do it! Once you know the basics, it's all about practice practice practice. I'm going to show you how I machine quilt. I'll also show you my favorite products and tools, and what works best for me. There are always many different and equally effective ways to do things in quilting. There are no rigid rules! So I recommend taking in as much information as you can, and then do what works best for you.
The first thing to do is baste your quilt. Most people use lots and lots of safety pins to baste their quilt. This is a perfectly wonderful way to baste. The only down side is that you have to repeatedly remove the pins in the area you're quilting. I'm a spray baster. I feel like I just said a bad word. Spray. I did it again. I like this because you have no pins to remove. It makes me feel so free! Weeeeeeeeeeeee! Sorry, I get carried away... There are a few different kinds of spray baste. It is very important that you don't skimp on quality here. The best spray baste out there, in my humble opinion, is 505 Spray and Fix. It's a temporary adhesive, so it washes out. Now, if you are making a quilt that you never plan on washing, I would recommend basting with safety pins. Anyhoo, you might be tempted to get some cheapo Walmart spray adhesive. Please don't put yourself through the torture. You have to use so much more of that stuff to get it to stick well, and the FUMES ARE TERRIBLE! With the 505, there are almost no fumes at all, and a little goes a long way.
So first, find yourself a nice place to lay out your quilt. I recommend a nicely swept garage or patio. Lay out your backing face down. (Please be sure that your backing and batting are a couple inches larger all around than your quilt top). Then tape it taut, but not too stretched all around the edges. I do the four corners first and then along the edges. Next lay your batting on top of that. My all time favorite batting is Warm and Natural. It's 100% cotton and is so soft and not too fluffy. If your goal is a nice, puckery antique looking quilt, this is the perfect batting. It comes in packages or on a roll that you can have yardage cut from.
It's so soft and pretty!
Once you have your batting layed out onto your backing, make sure it's all smoothed out and where you want it. Then sit in the middle of your batting and fold it back a few times toward yourself. Then spray some adhesive onto the batting, and fold it back down, smooth it out, and repeat until you have one side done. Then turn around, fold back the other side, and repeat the process. Apparently I forgot to take pictures of this part. But you do the exact same thing with the quilt top, and I took pictures of that!
Here's my backing taped down, and my batting already basted on. Now I have my quilt top all smoothed out nicely. Next I folded it back a couple of times, and sprayed the batting, and then smoothed the quilt top back down.
With one side done, I fold back and spray the other side, section by section. You have to do it in sections like this. If you just sprayed the whole thing and then tried to lay out the quilt top evenly you would have problems, and maybe start cussing like a sailor, and I don't want to be responsible for that. Remember how I recommended doing this outside?
I baste in my kitchen. Woops! I've done this so many times, I can do it without getting overspray all over my floors. And if I do get some wayward spray, I can just use my trusty swiffer mop to clean it up. That's the beauty of "temporary" adhesive. It washes out. Or of course you can use a towel or old sheet to block off the floors from the area you are spraying. Also, if when you're done you notice a part of your quilt top isn't laying nicely, you can lift it up and reposition it.
Now, once the thing is basted, lift off the tape and turn it over. Check for any puckers or loose spots. If there are, just smooth it out with your hands, that usually works just fine.
Now you're ready to start quilting! (It's a good idea to make up some mini quilt sandwiches to practice your quilting on before you tackle your first quilt).
It's always a good idea to quilt in the ditch around your borders first. I recommend using a walking foot for all 'straight' line quilting. They look funny, but are so helpful when sewing multiple layers. Here's mine.
See this little fork looking thing. Well it's important that you slip it over the screw thing that you tighten and loosen to remove your sewing machine needle. If you don't the thing won't do what it's designed to do.
That black screw thing there is what I'm talking about.
Here she is all hooked up. The walking foot works by letting the feed dogs grip the bottom layer, as they always do, and by gripping the top layer with the walking foots....well...feet. The 'feet' are the yellowish rubbery things there. They move up and down as you sew with the needle and nudge the fabric along.
This picture shows the feed dogs, those jagged little things coming through the machine bed there. Those move along the bottom fabric, and the walking foot grippers help push along the top layers.
Now, I like to bring up my thread when I start quilting. It's nice to be able to hold both your top and bottom thread when you take your first few stitches, that way you can keep them out of the way and not worry about tangles on the bottom of your quilt.
Find where you want to start quilting around your borders. Hold your top thread taut. Now bring your needle down and then back up again just once!
When the needle is back up, pull up on your thread until you see the bottom thread pop through to the top.
Then grab the loop and pull it all the way through.
Now hold your threads for the first few stitches, back stitch a couple of times to secure your stitching, and quilt away!
Once you've gone all the way around your borders, it's time to do some free motion quilting! If you're not quite ready, you can just sew stripes or a grid with your walking foot, that looks really nice! But, for the brave, have a glass of wine, and let's get to it.
First, you need a machine quilting foot, or a darning foot. They are essentially the same thing, the machine quilting feet are generally plastic, or have an open toe, the darning feet are usually all metal. I use both, depending on my mood. Because I don't want any of them to feel left out.
Aren't they just darling? Here's how they look all hooked up and ready to go.
It is kind of nice to use the clear foot, but if you don't have one and your particular machine came with a darning foot, that will work great. Now, it is very important to lower your feed dogs. My machine has a button just for that purpose.
Dogs up.
Dogs down.
You don't want these guys gripping your quilt at all. You will be moving it with your muscley arms. If you don't know if you can lower your feed dogs, get out your manual and check it out. Some machines have a lever near the bobbin area to lower them. Some you have to get your screw driver out to lower. If there is absolutely no way to lower them, just cut yourself a little square of thin card board, from a cereal box or something, and tape it over the dogs. You don't have to worry about your stitch length. The movement of the feed dogs is what determines the stitch length anyway. But, some people like to give the dogs a break and set their stitch length to zero so they can rest down there.
Now, find where you want to start. I like to start my meandering near one of the corners, to the inside of the borders. I always quilt the borders last. I also am a bit of a weirdo and meander in a spiral until I come to the center of the quilt and stop. THIS ONLY WORKS WELL IF YOU'VE SPRAY BASTED WELL AND YOUR QUILT IS TAUT. Sorry to yell, but I get some messages that advise me not to tell you to quit this way. Most people go from side to side, top to bottom. I like to go round and round, it helps me to manage the bulkiness of the quilt and I like it. So there.
***Now, if you have basted with safety pins, it's a good idea to start meandering in the middle of the quilt, and work outward in a spiral. This keeps the chances of any of the backing or quilt top ending up bunched up in the middle non existant.***
Pull up your thread like we did earlier. Also if your machine has the feature, set it to 'needle down'. That way, when you stop to take your many quilting breaks, for redistributing the bulk of the quilt and such, your needle will hold your stitch place. If the needle stops 'up', your whole quilt can shift and when you start stitching again you can have some zig zaggies that you don't want there. Here's my needle down button.
Also you must have some quilting gloves. Some inexpensive gardening gloves that have little rubber dots on the palms work wonderfully. They really help you to grip your quilt so you can move it easily under the needle. I won't attempt to quilt without them.
It's also a good idea to load up a few bobbins, you'll go through these pretty fast.
Now, when you've pulled up the thread, take a few stitches in place to secure your stitching, and then speed up. The best way to do meandering, free motion quilting is to use pretty good speed, and move the quilt along in a random meandering pattern. The key is to use good speed, almost as fast as it will go, but not to move your hands too fast. Sometimes when we hear the machine going so fast we get all crazy and want to move the quilt really fast too. But that would make your stitches way too long. You want nice even stitches that aren't too long or too short. By moving your quilt along smoothly you'll end up with nice soft curves. It takes a little getting used to, but I promise with some practice you'll get into a nice groove and it will seem more natural to you. Remember, don't sew too slow, and don't move your hands too fast. That's a good rule.
You'll have to stop a lot to redistribute the bulk of your quilt. You'll quilt one section, and then notice it's getting harder to move the quilt. It often gets hung up on the edges of the table of your machine. It's a good idea to try to stop and start on a fabric that matches your thread well. With this quilt, the taupe thread blends well with the light colors and the greens, but shows up really brightly on the brown. So I like to stop and start on the lighter colors, so it won't show up any wonky spots too well.
The idea with meandering is to squiggle around without crossing over your previous stitching. When you're stitching, try not to stare at the needle, look ahead a bit so you can plan where to go next. If you do get stuck in a spot where you have to cross over your stitching, just cross over and move on. You won't even notice in the grand scheme of things. Just take your quilt section by section and before you know it you'll be done! I hope this helps some new quilters out there. Please ask any questions that are on your brain in the comments section. I'll do my best to answer them, I was a beginner once too! Happy quilting. x


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The researchers used data from the US Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) for 1996 to 2008. This is operated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and records all fatalities arising within 30 days of a traffic collision.
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When broken down by gender, obese women were at even greater risk. At level I they were 36% more likely to die; at level II they were more than twice as likely to do so; and at level III they were almost twice as likely to die.
Interestingly underweight men were also more likely to die in a collision than their normal weight peers.
There were no significant differences among different types of vehicle, collision or use of seat belts, although almost a third of drivers who sustained a fatal injury were not properly belted.
The authors point to other research, showing that the lower body of obese drivers is propelled further forward on impact before the seatbelt engages the pelvis, because of the additional soft tissue which prevents the belt from fitting snugly, while the upper body is held back.
They also suggest that obese drivers may be more likely to have underlying health problems, which may contribute to their greater risk of death. But car design may need to change, they venture.
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