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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM), first published in 1974, is a work of philosophical non-fiction, the first of Robert M. Pirsig's texts in which he explores his Metaphysics of Quality.
The book sold 5 million copies worldwide. It was originally rejected by 121 publishers, more than any other bestselling book, according to the Guinness Book of Records.
The title is an apparent play on the title of the book Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel. In its introduction, Pirsig explains that, despite its title, "it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles, either."
The book is generally regarded as an American cultural icon in literature.
The book describes, in first person, a 17-day journey on his motorcycle from Minnesota to Northern California by the author (though he is not identified in the book) and his son Chris. They are joined for the first nine days of the trip by close friends John and Sylvia Sutherland, with whom they part ways in Montana. The trip is punctuated by numerous philosophical discussions, referred to as Chautauquas by the author, on topics including epistemology, ethical emotivism and the philosophy of science.
Many of these discussions are tied together by the story of the narrator's own past self, who is referred to in the third person as Phaedrus (after Plato's dialogue). Phaedrus, a teacher of creative and technical writing at a small college, became engrossed in the question of what defines good writing, and what in general defines good, or "Quality". His philosophical investigations eventually drove him insane, and he was subjected to electroconvulsive therapy which permanently changed his personality.
Towards the end of the book, Phaedrus's personality begins to re-emerge and the narrator is reconciled with his past.
In a 1974 interview with National Public Radio, Pirsig stated that the book took him four years to write. During two of these years, Pirsig continued working at his job of writing computer manuals. This caused him to fall into an unorthodox schedule, waking up very early and writing Zen from 2 a.m. until 6 a.m., then eating and going to his day job. He would sleep during his lunch break and then go to bed around 6 in the evening. Pirsig joked that his co-workers noticed that he was "a lot less perky" than everyone else.
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In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Pirsig explores the meaning and concept of quality, a term he deems to be undefinable. Pirsig's thesis is that to truly experience quality one must both embrace and apply it as best fits the requirements of the situation. According to Pirsig, such an approach would avoid a great deal of frustration and dissatisfaction common to modern life.
In the book, the Narrator describes the "Romantic" approach to life of his friend, John Sutherland, who chooses not to learn how to maintain his expensive new motorcycle. John simply hopes for the best with his bike, and when problems do occur he often becomes frustrated and is forced to rely on professional mechanics to repair it. In contrast, the "classical" Narrator has an older motorcycle which he is usually able to diagnose and repair himself through the use of rational problem-solving skills.
In an example of the classical approach, Pirsig explains to the reader that one must pay continual attention: when the Narrator and his friends came into Miles City, Montana he notices that the "engine idle is loping a little," a possible indication that the fuel/air mixture is too rich. The next day he is thinking of this as he is going through his ritual to adjust the valves on his cycle's engine. During the adjustment, he notes that both spark plugs are black, confirming a rich mixture. He recognizes that the feel-good-higher-altitude-mountain-air is causing the engine to run rich. New jets are purchased, and installed, and with the valves adjusted, the engine runs well again.
With this, the book details two types of personalities: those who are interested mostly in gestalts (romantic viewpoints, such as Zen, focused on being "In the moment", and not on rational analysis), and those who seek to know the details, understand the inner workings, and master the mechanics (classic viewpoints with application of rational analysis, vis-a-vis motorcycle maintenance) and so on.
The Sutherlands represent an exclusively romantic attitude toward the world. The Narrator initially appears to prefer the classic approach. It later becomes apparent that he understands both viewpoints and is aiming for the middle ground. He understands that technology, and the "dehumanized world" it carries with it, appears ugly and repulsive to a romantic person. He knows that such persons are determined to shoehorn all of life's experience into the romantic view. Pirsig is capable of seeing the beauty of technology and feels good about mechanical work, where the goal is "to achieve an inner peace of mind". The book demonstrates that motorcycle maintenance may be dull and tedious drudgery or an enjoyable and pleasurable pastime; it all depends on attitude.
Pirsig examines the modern pursuit of "Pure Truths", claiming it derives from the work of early Greek philosophers who were establishing the concept of truth in opposition to the force of "The Good". He argues that although rational thought may find a truth (or The Truth) it may never be fully and universally applicable to each and every individual's experience. Therefore, what is needed is an approach to viewing life that is more varied and inclusive and has a wider range of application. He makes a case that originally the Greeks did not distinguish between "Quality" and "Truth" – they were one and the same, arete – and that the divorce was, in fact, artificial (though needed at the time) and is now a source of much frustration and unhappiness in the world, particularly overall dissatisfaction with modern life.
Pirsig aims towards a perception of the world that embraces both sides, the rational and the romantic. This means encompassing "irrational" sources of wisdom and understanding as well as science, reason and technology. In particular, this must include bursts of creativity and intuition that seemingly come from nowhere and are not (in his view) rationally explicable. Pirsig seeks to demonstrate that rationality and Zen-like "being in the moment" can harmoniously coexist. He suggests such a combination of rationality and romanticism can potentially bring a higher quality of life.
It has been noted that Pirsig's Romantic/Classical dichotomy resembles Nietzsche's Dionysian/Apollonian dichotomy as described in The Birth of Tragedy. For example, in his book The Person of the Therapist, Edward Smith writes, "In his popular novel, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig (1974) also addressed the Apollonian and Dionysian worldviews, naming them respectively classical understanding and romantic understanding."
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Descendants of Robert Adams: Generation 10
Henry Shaw24 Adams (John Frederick23, John22, Joseph Henry21, John20, JOHN19, ISRAEL18, SARAH17, ABRAHAM16, ROBERT15, ROBERT14, RICHARD13, JOHN12, JOHN11, JOHN10, THOMAS9, ROGER8, JOHN AP7, JOHN AP6, THOMAS AP5, JOHN AP4, WILLIAM AP3, JOHN AP2, JOHN AP1) was born 09 June 1877 in Haverhill, Essex, MA and died 09 July 1962 in Chester, SC. He married Marie Clifford 21 September 1909 in Union, South Carolina, daughter of John Clifford and Mary Schofield. She was born 09 January 1881 in Union, South Carolina and died 06 June 1950 in Chester, South Carolina.
Notes for Henry Shaw Adams:
From letters of Henry Shaw Adams 1960, 1961, 1962 and information supplied by Amie Batcheller Kelly Adams in her handwriting, in the file of Gareldine A. Adams, Albuquerque, NM. Henry was named for a family friend, Henry Southworth Shaw. For many years before his retirement, Mr. Adams was a vice president of the Springmaid Cotton Mills in Chester, South Carolina, where he lived in a lovely 'Southern' home.
Children of Henry Adams and Marie Clifford are:
|Henry Shaw25 Adams, Jr., b. 20 May 1911, Union, South Carolina; d. 13 February 1986, Granby, CT; m. Virginia Belknap, 07 September 1940; b. 16 October 1916
Notes for Henry Shaw Adams, Jr.:
From the local paper in Granby, CT: "Henry S. Adams, 74, of 19 Intervale Road, Granby, CT, died Thursday (February 13) at a local nursing home. Born in Chester, SC, lived in Avon, moving to Granby 2 years ago. Graduated from Antioch College in 1932 and was employed by IBM in New York 9 years where he met and married his wife, Virginia. During World War II, he was employed by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division of United Technology, East Hartford, retiring in 1976 after 29 years, from the Emhart Corporation., then in Bloomfield where he was a supervisor of the data processing department. An avid tennis player, he was a member of the Granby Tennis Club and for many years was active with the Boy Scouts of America in Granby. He leaves his wife, Virginia."
|Amie Marguerite Adams, b. 20 June 1919, Chester, South Carolina; d. About 1997
Elizabeth Rand24 Adams (John Frederick23, John22, Joseph Henry21, John20, JOHN19, ISRAEL18, SARAH17, ABRAHAM16, ROBERT15, ROBERT14, RICHARD13, JOHN12, JOHN11, JOHN10, THOMAS9, ROGER8, JOHN AP7, JOHN AP6, THOMAS AP5, JOHN AP4, WILLIAM AP3, JOHN AP2, JOHN AP1) was born 21 January 1879 in Haverhill, Essex, MA and died 28 March 1968 in Plainfield, NJ. She married Fred J. Cox 10 October 1905 in Haverhill, MA; son of Charles Cox and Ann Trask. He was born 25 September 1880 in Maine, and died 08 February 1958 in Plainfield, NJ.
Notes for Elizabeth Rand Adams:
Information about this family was supplied by Elizabeth Adams Cox. The letters with this information are in the possession of Gareldine Adams, Albuquerque, NM. She taught cooking in the Haverhill schools before her marriage (1904).
Notes for Fred J. Cox:
President of the Boynton Bros. Insurance Company of Perth Amboy, New Jersey at the time of his death. He was a Civil War Buff and directed that his ashes be scattered over Gettysburg National Battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Children of Elizabeth Adams and Fred Cox are:
|Elizabeth Rand25 Cox, b. 24 October 1908, Perth, Amboy, NJ; d. 09 November 1950, Plainfield, NJ
|Robert Trask Cox, b. 04 June 1911, Perth, Amboy, NJ
|Richard N. Cox, b. 23 April 1916, Perth, Amboy, NJ
John Amos24 Adams (John Frederick23, John22, Joseph Henry21, John20, JOHN19, ISRAEL18, SARAH17, ABRAHAM16, ROBERT15, ROBERT14, RICHARD13, JOHN12, JOHN11, JOHN10, THOMAS9, ROGER8, JOHN AP7, JOHN AP6, THOMAS AP5, JOHN AP4, WILLIAM AP3, JOHN AP2, JOHN AP1) was born 10 January 1883 in Haverhill, Essex, MA, and died 27 July 1968 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, NM. He married Helen Belle Shields 16 July 1914 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, NM; daughter of John Shields and Isabella Leech. She was born 31 May 1891 in Jemez Pueblo, Sandoval, NM and died 07 January 1980 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, NM.
Notes for John Amos Adams:
BIOGRAPHY: Notes from John A. Adams, Frederick S. Adams.
DEATH: Certificate in possession of Gareldine Adams.
John was named for his father and his maternal grandfather, Amos S. Kelly. Raised and educated in Haverhill where the family resided at 35 Highland Avenue and No. 7 Richmond Street. Both these houses are still standing and in good condition. The people who now own No. 35 Highland took Gareldine & Fred S. Adams on a tour of it in the summer of 1983. They are attempting to refurbish it in the style of 1883 when the house was built.
Mr. Adams graduated from Haverhill High School and attended Harvard College, but did not graduate from there.
The house at 21 Windsor Street, where John and Helen Adams lived when their son, Frederick, was born is still standing and in good condition.
His early employment included work in Haverhill as a clerk and draughtsman. Other employment over the years included working at a General Electric company of Schenectady, NY; The Lewis Fales Company of Walpole, MA; Western Electric Co., Chicago, IL; American Brass Co. of Waterbury, CT; Haverhill National Bank, where his father had worked before him, and the Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Co. of Newport News, VA during WWI. Hard times of 1907 found him unemployed and jobs were scarce. Through a family friend, Ira A. Abbott, of Haverhill, who had been appointed Territorial Judge in Albuquerque, Territory of New Mexico, he learned of the opportunities in the West and was encouraged to go to New Mexico.
Early in 1908, he traveled to the Territory and landed a job doing ranch work on a ranch on the east slope of the Magdalena Mountains. After a short time, he returned to Albuquerque and got a job with a sheep outfit run by Evan Vogt and financed by Mr. Tabor, who ran a store in Glorietta. He spent the winter with a band of sheep west of Albuquerque in the Rio Puerco country and when the sheep were brought to the Rio Grande Valley near Albuquerque (now known as Corrales), he took advantage of this to take a government examination for Forest Ranger.
While waiting a call for employment, he returned to Chicago to work for Western Electric Co. He shortly received notice that an opening was available and returned to the West to enter the Forest Service as a Forest Guard on the Tonto National Forest in May of 1909. The following year, he was assigned to the Experiment Station at Fort Valley, Arizona and in the fall of 1910 was assigned as assistant Ranger on the Coconino National Forest. The next few years brought assignments on the Tusayan (later to be named Kaibab), Sitgreaves, Tonto, Apache and Coconino National Forest of Arizona and the Arkansas National Forest. Much of his work during this time was devoted to surveys and map compilation, as well as timber surveys and routine administrative work.
One of his interesting recollections of experiences while doing survey work on the Arkansas National Forest was of finding corner stakes which had been set by George Washington. These stakes were approximately three inches square, of cedar, and marked with the initials 'G.W.'. During this work in Arkansas, Mr. Adams' party had copies of Washington's original notes, which they used to re-trace the early survey.
In April of 1912, he was assigned to the Jemez National Forest of New Mexico in charge of a reconnaissance party making maps, logging reports and timber estimates. It was during this assignment that he met Helen Belle Shields, daughter of Dr. John M. Shields, a medical missionary for the Presbyterian Church at Jemez Springs. John Adams and Helen Shields were married on 06 July 1914 at the First Presbyterian Church, Albuquerque, NM by the Reverend Hugh A. Cooper.
The spring of 1914 brought assignments on the Carson and Prescott National Forests of Arizona and promotion to Deputy Forest Supervisor of the Apache national Forest in Springerville, AZ. In the fall of 1918, as the outcome of his disagreement with general policy and a desire to return to the East, he moved his family to Haverhill, MA and lived at No. 21 Windsor Street. He is listed in the Haverhill City Directory of 1919 as a clerk at the City Five Cents Savings Bank. He went to work for the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. However, within six months it was obvious that this was not the life for them and in June of 1919, they returned to Arizona where he was assigned as a Forest Ranger at the Mormon Lake Ranger station 25 miles southeast of Flagstaff.
Mr. Adams recalls that when he left to go East, he had left his horse in Springerville with the Beckers, owners and operators of the General merchandise stores in the New Mexico and Arizona Territories, and upon his return to Arizona, he traveled to Springerville and rode his horse back to Mormon Lake – a trip of 130 miles as the crow flies, but considerably longer and more arduous over this rough country on a horse.
After this brief trip to the East, he continued his career with the Forest Service until retirement. He served as Deputy Supervisor for the Coconino, Flagstaff, AZ; Supervisor of the Manzano and Cibola National Forest, Albuquerque, NM; represented the Forest Service as a member of the interdepartmental Rio Grande Committee, spending much of his time in Washington, D.C. during assignment. Following this, he worked several years until retirement in Recreation and Lands under the Regional Forester with headquarters in Albuquerque.
He retired from the Forest Service in 1946, after a career spanning 37 years of Forestry and devoted the years until his death to active interest in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. He is buried next to his wife in the Jemez Community Presbyterian Church cemetery in Jemez Springs, NM.
Notes for Helen Belle Shields:
She was born at the Jemez Indian Pueblo, Jemez, New Mexico, where her father was a medical missionary. At one time, she was postmistress in the town of Jemez Springs (then called, Perea, NM). Helen attended a private girl's high school in Santa Fe, NM, along with her sister, Bessie. The school was started by Martha Allison who came from the same town in PA as Dr. Shields. Helen was fluent in both Spanish and Tewa, the language of the Jemez Pueblo. After her marriage, she lived in Springerville and Tucson, AZ and later in Albuquerque, NM.
Until the death of her husband, they had a summer home in Jemez Springs and all her grandchildren enjoyed spending summer vacations with them. Helen played the organ for many years each Sunday in the little church her father established. She started playing for the church at the age of 11.
BIRTH/DEATH: Birth recorded in the Bible of Isabelle Ruhama (Leech) Shields, in possession of Frederick S. Adams, Sr., Albuquerque, NM. Death certificate also in possession of Frederick S. Adams, Sr.
Children of John Adams and Helen Shields are:
|John Amos25 Adams, Jr., b. 27 March 1915, Albuquerque, Bernalillo, NM; d. 25 August 2001, Albuquerque, Bernalillo, NM; m. Lucille Simmons, 28 June 1940 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, NM
|Edward Milton Adams, b. 13 October 1917, Springerville, Greenlee, AZ; d. 20 October 1917, Springerville, Greenlee, AZ
Notes for Edward Milton Adams:
His birth is recorded in the Bible of Helen Belle Shields Adams, in the possession of Frederick Shields Adams of Albuquerque. No trace of a grave in Springerville, AZ has been found.
|Frederick Shields Adams, Sr., b. 11 February 1919, Haverhill, Essex, MA; m. Gareldine Anderson 16 January 1944, Long Beach, Los Angeles, CA
Paul Henry Adams, Sr., b. 16 October 1922, Flagstaff, Yavapai, AZ; m. Harriet Withers 12 July 1947 in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, NM
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I do not know how the information at the link below affect your Adams family, if at all.

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Lakers guard Nick Young sprained his ankle in practice on Thursday, putting his availability in question for the Lakers' first two preseason games on Saturday and Sunday.
"Nick tweaked his ankle a little bit today, so I don't even know if Nick's going be there Saturday," said Coach Mike D'Antoni.
The Lakers start their exhibition season in Ontario on Saturday, playing host to the Golden State Warriors. They play the next night at Staples Center against the Denver Nuggets.
Young isn't expected to practice on Friday.
"He'll probably sit out tomorrow," D'Antoni said after practice Thursday. "We'll see about Saturday."
The Lakers are without Kobe Bryant as he works to recover from a torn Achilles' tendon.
Options at shooting guard Saturday could be Jodie Meeks, Wesley Johnson, Steve Blake, Jordan Farmar and Xavier Henry. The Lakers also have Darius Johnson-Odom and even forward Marcus Landry, who played at shooting guard in a Thursday scrimmage.


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HARRISONBURG, VA — Sports drinks with protein may be a better option for long workouts, suggests new research. The protein may help with endurance and muscle repair, although more research is needed.
The study pitted Accelerade, a brand of sports drink containing whey protein, against protein-free Gatorade in a battle of endurance. Results were published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
The study had 15 cyclists guzzle a sports drink every 15 minutes while pedaling on a stationary bike to exhaustion. The next day, cyclists performed another more demanding ride. One to two weeks later, they performed the whole process again, except with the other sports drink.
Cyclists lasted 29 percent longer during the first ride and 40 percent longer in the second workout when they drank the protein drink. The cyclists' blood levels of creatine phosphokinase — an enzyme muscles release under stress — were lower when cyclists drank the protein drink suggesting that the added protein helped with muscle repair.
While the results are promising, researchers caution that the extra calories in the protein drink may have contributed to the results, and for moderate exercisers water is usually enough for a workout.


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Sorry, this is my really rambling way of writing when I'm super anxious.
So, I have always known that I have to go back to work, but I'm really upset about it. We have been over all of the other options and it just doesn't work any other way. I was on leave for 10 weeks and will be going back part time for 2 weeks on Monday then full time following that. I am lucky to have a work environment that is very supportive of pumping at work and my shared office (shared with 2 others) has a bathroom I can pump in. Also, my DH will be home with her for 2 months then she will be with her Grammy's.
Even with the initial 2 weeks of part time, the supportive environment and knowing she will be with people who love her I am freaking out! I don't want to leave her for even a little while never mind for 9 hours every weekday. There are many logistical things that I could be worried about such as will I be able to pump enough, will she take the bottle (has only taken 1/2 oz so far), will she have nipple confusion or start to prefer the bottle and so on, but I can't even get that far because I am just so horrified that I have to leave her. I know that there are millions of well adjusted people out there whose mothers went back to work, but knowing that doesn't seem to help. I want her to have the best of everything and I know that her needs are best met when I can breastfeed her on demand and maintain the connection throughout the day, everyday. I just don't know if I am strong enough to handle being away from her every day.
I always knew that becoming a parent would change how I think about things, but I didn't know how much it would change me. I always took pride in my work, worked hard to get my masters so I could do the work I love and now I could care less. I'm sure it will get easier, but it is so hard to handle right now. This is just such an important time in her life. My DH is great, but men aren't made with the proper equipment.
Okay, better stop now. I guess I needed to vent.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 277 diseños de 52 diseñadores freelance.
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August, 1970 was busy for Bill Graham, and mid-month concerts ranging from blues to acid rock and including big-names and no-names had to be scheduled and promoted. Singer found the large triptych to be a useful vehicle, and arranged the performers around another classical-style collage. Scheduling and anticipated audience size caused Van Morrison's show to be held at the Berkeley Community Center and Led Zeppelin's to be held at the Oakland Coliseum.
Our vintage concert handbills feature performances from the Fillmore, Fillmore East, Winterland, the Avalon Ballroom and more.
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During his Fillmore era, from 1969-1971, Singer created more posters for Graham than any other artist. Singer's posters are notable for his use of collage, incorporating thousands of images clipped from magazines spanning several decades. He developed a format that included a stunning variety of lettering styles, applying them in close relation to the theme or subject of a poster.


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Deadly Blessing (UK - BD RB)
Marcus gets called an Incubus by his neighbours while reviewing this Blu-ray.
The 1981 Wes Craven Dead Blessing begins with the tale of happily married Martha (Maren Jensen) and Jim Schmidt (Douglas Barr). They run their farm in Eastern Pennsylvania right alongside a group of Hittites and the divide in how things are done on the farms adds to the growing tension that already exists, largely because the Hittites are Jim's family that he turned his back on for love.
One night Jim is killed by an unseen attacker in his barn and Martha's friends Lana Marcus (Sharon Stone, in her first speaking role) and Vicky Anderson (Susan Buckner) arrive on the farm to support her. But when the Hittite family, led by Isaiah Schmidt (Ernest Borgnine) becomes more intense and the odd neighbour, Faith (Lisa Hartman) also begins to act more strangely, Matha's life on the farm goes from bad to worse.
The opening credits offer up a picture very much like an old grain filled VHS but as soon as the credits stop the image gets a bit better. The look of the film is very much that late 70s/early 80s washed out look. There's a lot of TV stars as well so your mind immediately draws similarities to 80s TV looks or feature length TV movies of the era even though this is a full big screen project. It really doesn't help that the tone is a little TV feeling too. The image holds on to a gritty textured looks throughout with fairly muted colours in the overcast surrounding but edges are fairly sharp and details in costume are solid. Black levels are deep enough and only occasionally slip into deep blues and only the odd bright red slips into a pinker tone.
Interior scenes hold up better than exterior scenes with only a slight softness to them. Close ups on faces reveal a certain amount of texture but it's never striking (probably due to the large amount of 80s style make up) and while this is a noticeable HD upgrade, the film never really escapes its origins.
The opening score from James Horner, fills the stereo track well and is more akin to a down to earth family western than a soon to turn nasty horror. Given the limitations the ambience of the film stll makes everything feel alive. Exteriors have plenty of weather, nature and men and work noises filing out the front speakers. Interior scenes has plenty of footsteps on wooden floors and dialogue gets a good crisp ring to it.
It's not the subtlest of track, with the score telling us how to feel pretty much all of the time but it's still a track that presents the film's original audio feel pretty well. Its small and sometimes muddied but this are small setbacks in a largely solid audio presentation.
Michael Barrymen provides a 34 second introduction to the film to get the ball rolling and here he confirmed the remake of the 1981 film being made.
The commentary with Wes Craven is a simple track with the director as he sits with a sidelined co-viewer who raises questions about specific scenes. Craven often expanded on facts within his answers but the track has a casual feel of two guys just chatting about the film as opposed to anything structured. They also seem to get quite distracted by just watching the film sometimes and it can lead to small segments of silence before one of them realises they are there for a reason.
The Wes Craven interview (12:25 HD) has the director speaking about his early legacy in the film industry and the Michael Berryman interview (28:45 HD) has the striking actor talk about his career and some of the bitchiness between the female stars on the set of Deadly Blessing.
Deadly Dersires (14:24 HD) is an interview with Glenn M Benest, the Writer / producer of the film and his insight into the film's origins and the disc wraps up with the original trailer.
Deadly Blessing does a good job at feeling eerie and despite its horror claims is more of a conventional who-dunnit thriller with a slightly darker tone. The film feels dated, thanks largely it its TV stars of yesteryear and a very young Sharon Stone in attendance and the twist ending will no doubt sway just how much you did or didn't enjoy the film. The disc is simply put, okay. The image is clean but suffers due to the films old school film making techniques and the audio has much the same limitations. The extras are pretty great, with two solid rounds of interviews and a laid back commentary.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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Shame this was Maren Jensen's last film. I always liked her on "Battlestar Galactica" back in the day.
Suitable only for persons of 18 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 25th March 2013
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
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There's little to come home to in West's 'Zone 3'
WEST — Jean Smith hesitated outside the entrance to her home of 36 years Saturday morning, readying herself to enter it for the first time since the deadly fertilizer plant explosion just 250 yards away that devastated this town 10 days ago.
There was nothing to block her way. The heavy pink-trimmed front door had been blasted about 10 feet into the insulation-strewn hallway, its deadbolt curled like a beckoning finger. But she needed a moment before surveying firsthand the destruction she had been warned she would encounter.
"This is all so surreal," the doctor's wife said after finally stepping forward, glass crunching underfoot. "I'm wanting somebody to please wake me up from my nightmare."
Smith and her husband, George "Doc" Smith, a doctor of osteopathic medicine, were among the 160 residents who lived in what has been deemed "Zone 3" — the hardest-hit area of the April 17 explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. plant that killed 15 people and injured hundreds more.
The vast majority of homes in the Zone 3 blast area, as well as a nursing home and an apartment complex, have been deemed uninhabitable. Running water is not expected back until next week.
Authorities have kept guard on the area, not allowing residents in until Saturday, and even then only during daylight hours so they could begin to survey and salvage. The public and the media are still restricted from the area unless invited and accompanied by a homeowner. Zones 1 and 2 were opened to residents last weekend; however, a curfew remains.
As the Smiths began to comb through the house, sifting through piles of wallboard and other rubble to look for family pictures, paintings, medications, Harry Potter books on CD and clothes, close family friend Daniela Ranzinger tried to relieve some tension.
"I hate to tell you this, but your housekeeping sucks," she said in a deadpan tone, eliciting a smile from Jean Smith.
Items such as Christmas lights that had been stored in the attic hung down from the now open rafters — large chunks of the ceiling having settled in deep piles on the beds and furniture. Some of the home was entirely blocked off by debris. City inspectors have forbidden entry in some parts of the home because the outer brick wall was crumbling.
All along the quaint street, garage doors were detached and folded like napkins, screens were strewn across lawns, and jagged openings where windows and doors once stood invited in the elements.
Next door to the Smiths, pharmacist Mike Sulak's home also appeared damaged beyond repair. He said that just days before the blast, he had cut a $20,000 check for the first renovations to the home since he moved in 25 years ago.
"I'm tired," his wife, Jeanette, said as she took a break from surveying their own home to visit with the Smiths. "It's just too overwhelming."
The day after the explosion, Mike Sulak spent long hours at West Drug issuing weeklong supplies of medications to friends and neighbors who, like himself, suddenly found themselves homeless. The couple have moved in temporarily with their adult children.
"We're just kind of stumbling around — stumbling through," he said. "We're not used to being on that end of help."
The Smiths and the Sulaks consider themselves lucky they were not home when the blast occurred.
But Doc Smith, 65, who in addition to his private practice serves as West's medical director, wasn't at all out of harm's way when the blast occurred. Immediately after learning about the nearby fire over his emergency scanner, Smith became worried about toxic fumes and headed immediately to neighboring West Rest Haven.
His wife, not yet realizing the magnitude of the situation, decided to take a break from paying bills so she could assist him if needed.
She sat in their truck outside the nursing home.
George Smith had just finished evacuating the building's 127 residents when the shockwave hit, causing walls of the nursing home to collapse on top of him. Bleeding from his face and back, he pulled himself up from the rubble — not realizing that his glasses were no longer on his face — and immediately began to triage survivors. That was about 7:50 p.m. By about 4 a.m., he finally heeded the advice of other emergency responders and left for a hospital to get his own wounds treated.
With the immediacy of the emergency and the numerous funerals that followed, concerns about their home didn't surface until later.
"Here, Draco!" George Smith repeatedly called out Saturday to his 14-year-old cat, the only one of their three pets that is still missing.
He treaded as lightly as he could through the dark home, calling out warnings to his wife such as, "Watch where you step. That's a wedding picture."
Already a respected member of the community, Smith has since the explosion garnered a reputation as one of the town's most heroic survivors. At a town hall meeting last week, fellow residents gave him a standing ovation.
"We can thank God for this man right here," one neighbor said as he stopped by, describing him as the "one person who had the presence of mind" to immediately spearhead the evacuation and triage.
"Doc will tell you he's not a hero; he just did what he was trained to do," said tow truck driver Ronnie Perry, who stopped by to help remove the couple's battered conversion van. "But he's my hero."
Sweating profusely after hours of climbing and digging inside the house, Smith sat astride an old wooden chest, filled with family Bibles that he had placed on the sidewalk, to take a breather. Officers from various jurisdictions, troopers and game wardens patrolled North Davis Street, occasionally calling out to make sure he and others were doing OK.
The last week has been "a living hell," but he's "now starting to sleep a little bit," Smith acknowledged.
Soon thereafter, he changed the subject, alluding to the smell of rotting meat from the freezer to again tease his wife about their housekeeping.
"If you haven't got a little humor, you'll cry yourself to death," he said.
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If your religion doesn't stand up to the hard questions...what good is it?
Can an individual have the willingness to question the doctrines and practices of Orthodox Christianity while still remaining an Orthodox Christian?
"That everyone is allowed to learn to read will in the long run ruin not only writing but thinking, too."
Obviously then there are those matters of faith which hold such a level of authority that they cannot so easily be questioned...
Please elaborate. How do we realize the limits of human knowledge without first asking every possible question?
Therefore, being cautious as not to fall into a kind of philosophical skepticism, a dangerous slippery slope which believes in nothing, the church, saints, fathers, scripture and tradition as emissary of the divine was capable of establishing certain truths with a particular level of certitude...Perhaps other matters have not been so well established while some clearly have been...
What if one desires not to be skeptical of church doctrine but seek evidences to reinforce church doctrine? Descartes may have questioned everything, even his own existence, but ultimately it only strengthened his commitment to Christ. I would like to know, as a student of philosophy, whether my academic pursuits are antithetical to my religious faith.
What may also be antithetical is the presupposition that philosophical enquiry maybe entirely sufficient in order to be able to grasp divine mysteries...
Whether you like me or not, almost every question I ask on this forum has merit, even if I don't ask it in a satisfying way. It would be better for you to follow the rules of logic and Christian charity rather than insinuating personal attacks.
I'm drinking Corona right now. With a slice of lime inside of it.
Would you agree then that a formal education in philosophy can actually be helpful for one's faith?
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BBC CiNA 3D Crosswords 2011
Hello Everyone.
The May competition with clues set by Pasquale to a Sirius grid was won by Simon Long. The puzzle celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Robert Johnson and a little mischievously, a Royal Navy Marine career - Royal, Navy, and Marine all being 'blues'. The photograph on the May title page is evocative of the Mississippi Delta. RJ was an extraordinary Blues musician whose influence persists today. There isn't a very large body of recordings but there is a wealth of ideas and a world of spirit.
George Heard posted at the following link on winning the April competition
http://georgevlistener.wordpress.com/20 ... -april-is/
A date for diaries. Saturday August 5th. Venue to be decided.
The 3D Crosswords World Championship Is something of a marathon requiring stamina, enduring determination as well as brilliance, cracking a series of slightly whacky puzzles in an excellent cause. It is rather like winning the League after a long season. Then there is the romance, the glitter and the glamour, the mystique and magic, the heartache and hysteria of .....
the Cup! [/b]
So we are going to have a one-off event that combines all of those marvellous things with an opportunity to meet other solvers and setters and have a very nice time. The puzzle will be the August 3D crossword which will then appear on the website after the event.
The atmosphere will not be that of the examination hall with the creaking invigilator's squeaking step disturbing the scribbling silence and exasperated exhalations of clueless breath. We will have an individual section for those who prefer to grapple with grids in solitary satisfaction. But there will also be a section where people can pair up as well as having a team section.
Could a team of village footballers beat Manchester United? Could Sarah Montague beat Venus Williams? Of course they and she could. This is the Cup. I also reckon that five thousand pub footballers could crowd the pitch at Wembley and restrict Barcelona's intricate passing game and with thirty goalkeepers probably outwit even the most creative free-kicks. Personally I think Goalies are too skinny these days.
The serious point is that the occasion can accommodate the complete range of solvers, from the 2 min 53 sec solver of The Times to people like me still splashing around in the shallow end trying to finish off the Andy Pandy word-search 1953. Rules have yet to be finalised but will be formulated to ensure puzzles are solved and enjoyed by all. At different times.
A collection will be taken at the event in support of RNIB's new home and school on the edge of Coventry – The Pears Centre for Specialist Learning.
The trophy will be The RNIB All-England 3D Crosswords Cup. This leaves the way open for other competitions in other countries where a 3D crossword competition could raise useful money for a 'local' good cause. Do contact me if this particular possibility interests you.
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He wound a path to power through countless backyard barbecues, old-fashioned bakeries, and neighborhood block parties, making him an uncommonly intimate figure in a time when urban politics and American cities have become anything but.
And when Thomas M. Menino grasped power, he did it like nobody else. He held it longer. He wielded it more forcefully. And he used it to orchestrate every last detail of the city — from the top of a tower in the Back Bay to a rattling pothole in Roslindale, at once an urban mechanic and something of a downtown monarch.
His laser-like focus on street-level minutiae provoked frequent criticism that he lacked a broader vision for a city forever trying to position itself as a world-class metropolis. But through countless disparate acts — new libraries, endless ribbon-cuttings, reclaimed parks — a new city emerged, one with a notably different look and an attitude less burdened by the darker chapters of its past.
"Sometimes we get caught up in the grandiose," he said in 1994, shortly after taking office. "My vision is jobs, a better school system, community policing, health care. When I leave this job, I want the city to be in better shape than when I took it over."
With his mangled syntax and swallowed words that made him an easy target for mockery, Menino seemed an unusual fit for a highly educated city. He did not get his college degree until he was 45 and entered a program that awarded him credit for his "life experience" as a city councilor.
None of it hurt his political standing or popularity. It may have actually helped, all of it adding to the image of a man who boasted he was "no fancy talker," but would "get the job done."
"I'm not good looking. I can't speak well. I'm not smart. I'm driven,'' he once said. "I have the opportunity to change people's lives.''
Famously thin-skinned and a notorious micromanager, he delved with relish into the greasy machinery of city government, obsessing over blown street lights, jagged potholes, and unplowed streets with an intensity that reflected his schooling as a neighborhood city councilor.
"Visionaries don't get things done," Menino once said.
After Kevin H. White churned out urban policy experiments and sought to raise Boston's profile in the 1970s, and Raymond L. Flynn worked to heal racial wounds in the 1980s, Menino eschewed lofty goals in favor of brass tacks.
By dedicating himself to what he called the "fundamentals of urban life," he brought stability to a city that had endured decades of urban renewal and racial violence.
Menino's tangible, even visceral, connection to the electorate was all the more striking as Boston, in 2000, became a city where more than half of its residents were not white. But rather than be swept aside in neighborhoods that look less and less like him, Menino evolved beyond the parochial politics that had defined Boston for a century and earned some of his strongest support in the city's gay, minority, and immigrant communities.
Never one for introspection, he attributed his enduring popularity in a changing city to his frantic schedule of community events. "It's just a lot of elbow grease — being out there, talking to people and listening to them and trying to be of service to them,'' he said in 2009 — an assertion he repeated Thursday at his Faneuil Hall address.
It all began almost by accident. An unpolished and unpretentious politician who never left his native Hyde Park, Menino became mayor when his predecessor, Flynn, was named ambassador to the Vatican by President Bill Clinton in 1993.
Backed by a vast and vaunted political operation powered by loyal city workers, he has trounced every political challenger since, and was often feared by developers and neighborhood activists who saw in him a penchant for nursing grudges and retaliating against enemies.
In the decades Menino has held office, the city experienced a building boom, from new office towers downtown, to a shopping plaza in Roxbury. He made his biggest imprint on the city's landscape in South Boston, where he helped turn the faded industrial waterfront into a growing area with a convention center, and now, an art museum and high-end restaurants.
Savvy developers knew the success or failure of a project often hinged on pleasing Menino.
When Edward Linde, chief executive of Boston Properties Inc., proposed building a 36-story tower in the Back Bay, Menino took one look at the architectural renderings and shook his head.
"I said, 'Guys, flat roofs don't make it,' " Menino said.
So Linde and his architect returned to City Hall, armed with the miniature tops. When Menino came into the Eagle Room, a wood-paneled hall near his office, they placed each top on the model, until they reached one that resembled a king's crown.
"He said, 'I think this one would be great,'" Linde recalled.
And so it was built.
Menino also proved a deft manager of the city's finances, avoiding the massive layoffs that plagued other cities during the economic downturn of the late 2000s. City Hall was free of serious corruption.
He made spottier progress in other areas. City schools struggled with flat graduation rates and racial achievement gaps, despite Menino's declaration in 1996 that voters should "judge me harshly" if he failed to improve the education system.
Crime has fallen overall, but gangs continue to bring violence and fear to pockets of the city.
Menino was also given to making grand promises that he never fulfilled.
In an attempt to seal his legacy with a project on par with White's construction of Quincy Market, Menino floated but never realized plans for a 100-story skyscraper in 2006, calling it "a stunning statement of our belief in Boston's bright future." In perennial attempts to enliven the barren plaza around City Hall, he suggested everything from misting fountains to a 150-foot wind turbine.
His devotion to local concerns meant he cut less of a profile on the national stage than some other big-city mayors.
His biggest moments nationally came when he brought the Democratic National Convention to Boston in 2004. He also worked with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York to push for tougher federal gun laws.
But he will be remembered for smaller things that, altogether, made a bigger imprint.
On his morning car rides from Hyde Park to City Hall, he would call his city services director every time he spotted torn pavement, graffiti, or an overflowing dumpster. "When the mayor leaves his house in the morning, he'll call 10 times from 10 different corners," Michael Galvin, the chief of basic services, said in 1994. "'This is out; this needs fixing.' You can actually map him from Hyde Park to the office."
He traveled to 11 playgrounds in 2001, vowing to improve sandboxes and seesaws. "It's tough on mothers to do goo-goo ga-ga all day," he said during one such visit, to a South Boston park. "We need to get a play fund started here. Get these women — I don't know — crayons, stuff like that."
When he leaves City Hall next year, he will depart as one of the last of a handful of mayoral titans, men who towered over their cities for years, their names synonymous with urban power. He was part of a cohort that included Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago, who was in office from 1989 to 2011.
But unlike some of those larger-than-life leaders, Menino only rarely dwelled on his place in history.
"If, 100 years from now, they look back at my election, I hope what they see is the beginning of a century of inclusive politics," Menino said in 1994. "Throughout my whole career I have tried to be an open door to people left out of the mainstream."Michael Levenson can be reached at mlevenson@
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From pandas to panthers, ladybugs to lions, and baby animals to birds, our animal section for preschool to second grade is full of eye-catching books about the animals in our world. With such a great amount of books to choose from, this was a hard one to narrow down. All these books and more are located in the E Room on the wall with the windows. Look for the giraffe-patterned sticker!
E 599.789 RYD - Panda Kindergarten by Joanne Ryder. School is in session! But this is no ordinary kindergarten class. Meet 16 giant panda cubs as they romp, rollick, play, and--just like you--learn! Preschool+
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E 591.568 DOW - North: The Amazing Story of Arctic Migration by Nick Dowson. Soft, beautiful full page illustrations accompanying this calming look at the droves of animals heading up to the arctic for the summer. Kindergarten+
E 591.47 ARN - Wild Tracks: A Guide to Nature's Footprints by Jim Arnosky. The father of nature in picture books, Arnosky presents life-size animal tracks including hoofed, small, bear, canine, feline, reptile, and bird tracks. Includes interactive fold-out pages, allowing a sense of uncovering and discovering. 1st grade+
E 591 JEN - Actual Size by Steve Jenkins. I absolutely love the concept of showing children the actual size of animal features. Not only does it shock and awe, but it provides an accurate representation of our world. Accompany this book with a tape measure because Jenkins provides the length, heights, or wingspan which you can measure out from the image provided. Preschool+


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Double crushing will only improve efficiency if the crush was poor to begin with. Is there anything that makes you think you're losing efficiency due to the crush?
True, if the crush was poor, but also if the crush was simply moderate.
Gotcha. And you brew, what, 1 or 2 gallon batches? I'm doing 3 gallon batches with mash/brew in a bag method. Haven't done the full volume mash yet, been doing it almost like regular brewing with batch sparging in a cooler, but with two kettles. Next batch, though, I'm going to try out the full volume thing, like it's intended to be done.
Mashing in a bag you can set your mill gap tighter also, so you don't need to double crush. My mill is set at .030" and I'm getting 75-80% mashing in a bag.Don, you shouldn't be getting astringency, must be something going on there.


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A child prodigy who started training at the age of 5, Eugene Novotney studied on a jazz drum set and became a percussionist, composer, conductor and recording artist who is enjoyed around the world. Classically trained in European orchestral traditions, he branched out into the steel band music of the Caribbean when he was in graduate school at the University of Illinois.
Less than a year after he began teaching at Humboldt State University in 1985, Eugene moved boldly to expand the school's musical horizons. He founded the Humboldt Calypso Band, without a penny of outside funding.
How did he do it? He sold his "rust-colored and rust-infested" 1974 Chevy Nova for about $1,100 and got in touch with a former teacher, Clifford Alexis, of Trinidad & Tobago. Alexis has been honored by Trinidad's government as one of his island nation's "50 Living Legends" for his work as a brilliant craftsman of steel drum instruments. Eugene paid him $750 and used the rest of the cash to defray shipping costs.
And that wasn't the first time Eugene sold his car to exalt his soul. Seven years before, when he was starting college, he hocked the first car he ever owned, a 1971 AMC Javelin, for $1,500. It financed a $1,400 marimba, which remains his favorite instrument to play. "Ask any of my students," he says. "Even though I'm known for the steel band by the general public, I think my students see me more as a marimba player."
As for selling off his assets to buy instruments, he dismisses the notion that he did anything unusual. "Go to New Orleans and ask any musician if he ever sold anything to purchase an instrument. I think you'd get more yes's than no's," he says.
Eugene's long-term dream is to establish a Center for World Music at Humboldt State, and he's off to a great start. In 2006, he was the recipient of a prestigious Wang Award, a $20,000 prize named for an accomplished California family and issued through the auspices of California State University. The professor and his wife promptly flew to Bali to explore the musical culture and purchase instruments for a 12-piece Balinese Gamelan (Gamelan is an Indonesian word that signifies an orchestra or ensemble of gongs and metallophones). Eugene's gamelan gleams with lustrous reds and gold leaf fretwork that are nearly as pleasing to the eye as the gongs and metallophones are to the ear.
What was the appeal of Bali? Eugene says divergent world societies forge their cultural images of percussionists in very different ways. "Growing up a drummer in the United States, you're the nuisance of the neighborhood," he jokes. "People ask, 'Why couldn't you play the flute?'"
But meeting musicians in other lands, he discovered perceptions were far different. "In Ghana, if you're a drummer, that's a very prestigious thing to be. In Java and Bali, the primary means of making music is on percussion instruments — percussion dominates. And the first time I encountered the music and the first time I saw the instruments of Indonesia, I said, 'Before I die, I'm going there.'"


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Man accused of shooting W.Va. sheriff bought multiple guns
CHARLESTON, W.Va. A prosecutor says a man accused of killing a West Virginia sheriff bought several guns not just one after he had been determined legally ineligible to own them.
Mingo County Prosecutor Michael Sparks says the purchases were made after February 2010, when 37-year-old Tennis Maynard was deemed ineligible. Sparks hasn't said why Maynard wasn't allowed to own a gun, but the suspect's father says his son had mental problems and had been institutionalized.
Federal law prohibits the sale of firearms and ammunition to certain individuals with a history of mental illness.
But a state database that shares such information with a national background-check system wasn't operational until January 2011.
- Mingo County W. Va. sheriff dies after being shot outside courthouse
- Suspect in W. Va. sheriff's killing shot, taken to hospital, police say
- Slain W. Va. sheriff waged war against drugs
Sparks says Maynard's purchases were made before then, including the weapon used to shoot Sheriff Eugene Crum in Williamson.


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OSNews sat down with Ian Seyler, the Founder and Lead Programmer at Return Infinity, the maker and sponsor of Baremetal OS, a 64-bit OS for x86-64 based computers written entirely in Assembly. Editor's note: We'd love to do similar interviews with the people behind other alternative or hobby OS projects. If there's a project that you'd like to learn more about, let us know.


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My Buggy Buddy clip is an essential item that allows you to safely and securely carry bags on a pram. Simple to use, the loop shaped device simply snaps on to the pram handle and is held in place using a metal clip.
Multiple bags, including shopping bags, changing bags and handbags can be strung onto the loop before the clip is locked back in place. It puts an end to the frustrating and potentially dangerous practice of steering prams with one hand while holding bags with another. Obviously common sense is required so that you don't overload your buggy.
The foam coating ensures that the clip doesn't mark or damage your pushchair. The Buddy Clip won a 'Loved by Parents' silver award in 2011.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 24th Jul 2013 21:51 UTC
Microsoft will allow self-publishing on the Xbox One - Every Xbox One will be a development unit. "Our vision is that every person can be a creator. That every Xbox One can be used for development. That every game and experience can take advantage of all of the features of Xbox One and Xbox LIVE. This means self-publishing. This means Kinect, the cloud, achievements. This means great discoverability on Xbox LIVE. We'll have more details on the program and the timeline at gamescom in August." No matter how much Microsoft screwed up the initial PR around the new Xbox, this is just awesome news.
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The Angels and the Rangers took their rivalry to new levels tonight as Angels outfielder Kole Calhoun took on Rangers Robbie Ross in the annual cow milking contest.
Calhoun, an eager "volunteer" for the contest, had a lot of pressure to perform. After all, the Angels had been victorious in their five previous competitions.
Each contestant was given two minutes to milk a cow and then switch for two more minutes on the other cow. At the halfway mark, the competition was close, but, upon making the switch, Calhoun surged ahead. In the end, Calhoun crushed Ross, having milked 2 lbs in 4 minutes compared to Ross's 1/4 of a pound, foreshadowing an Angels win on the night.


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Edwards Tops Cup Qualifying at Michigan
BROOKLYN, MI (AP) - Carl Edwards has topped qualifying for the first time this season with a lap of 202.452 mph at Michigan International Speedway on Friday.
Edwards was given the pole in May at Talladega as well, but that was because qualifying was rained out and the field was set by practice speeds. He's second in the Sprint Cup standings.
Kurt Busch was second in qualifying, followed by Kasey Kahne. Points leader Jimmie Johnson was 17th.
Edwards started second last weekend at Pocono, but finished 18th.
Last June, Marcos Ambrose won the pole on the newly paved surface at MIS at 203.241 mph, the first time since 1987 the 200 mph mark was broken during Sprint Cup qualifying.
Edwards showed the track is still plenty fast. Earning the pole also earned Carl Edwards a spot in the 2014 Sprint Unlimited.


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Eaters: Rise of the Dead (UK - DVD R2)
Marcus gets to see what the zombie outbreak did to Spain on this new DVD
It's been a few years since the zombie apocalypse kicked off and a small group in a remote region of Spain struggle to survive in their womanless world. Experimental Doctor Gyno (Claudio Marmugi) feels he's about to make a break through and may have found a way to use the undead to for reproduction and a key to the human survival. He sends out Alen (Guglielmo Favilla) and Igor (Alex Lucchesi) to get him some fresh zombies to work one but we soon find out the doctor just wanted them out of the way for him to take his experiments to a whole new and twisted level.
In a lot of ways Eaters has a lot in common with 28 Days Later. It shares that real world feel and its low budget enables it to keep hold of it. This almost feels like the world of 28 Days Later but a few years in, when the world's really lost the battle against the undead and all that's left is small bands of misfits whose goal in life isn't clear and where the varying degrees of insanity is just common place.
This all works well and despite the low rent make up and model work for the zombies (and even though it's low rent, some of it is pretty grim—oodles of blood and raw meat is always effective in low budget after all) Eaters never loses grip of its sensibilities and keeping the focus on the two leads' mission to find some more walking dead for the increasingly crazy doctor to experiment on never really gets old, especially as Igor and Alen are quite fun to travel around with. As they go from place to place this begins to feel like a series of short stories showing the pockets of crazy characters after the zombie uprising as Alen and Igor try to rustle up some eaters. This makes it less about horror and more a depiction of a world gone mad, making everything a little more interesting than the usual "Run!! There's a zombie" approach. In fact the zombies are so damn easy to kill in this they are less of a threat and more of an annoyance—like a bee or something.
Anyway, I won't go into too much detail but as expected it all comes to a head with the crazy doctor and while I wouldn't say the wrap up was all that clean and felt a little like a Resident Evil plot, I still enjoyed the movie as a whole. It felt like something a little bit new, despite never getting much more than arm's length away from the ever increasing zombie movie catalogue. The pacing was more laid back, the central characters were a good pairing (I especially liked Igor. Anyone who boxes a zombie is good in my book) and the background to the infection was fresh enough to give Eaters its own little place in the genre.
Shot digitally Eaters always has that clean, warm and pretty sharp feel to it. In fact the colour palette here lends itself to looking a little more HD than DVD in places and despite the low budget visuals, Eaters can look quite impressive (other than the background elements of driving in a car, they look truly awful).
The deep blacks are also very effective and raise some of the visuals out of the budget restrictions and the presentation really shows off some natural looking skin tones in places. All in all, I thought Eaters was a pretty great SD transfer.
Most of the Dolby Digital 5.1 track lives in the front speakers and even when the electric guitar and electronic score expands into the rear speakers the whole affair still feels a little hollow.
There is the odd atmospheric sound that shows off. There's a scene with a layer of heavy breathing and that adds quite a lot to the mood. The doctor's computer beeps can often fill the track in the echo filled lab/slaughterhouse and dialogue is generally good, especially when Igor sings "wake me up before you go-go" and calls Wham "a great band".
The Making of (33:39) is a great introduction to the project telling us the director's background in short films, the ideas for Eaters—a great companion piece to the movie.
The 'VFX Breakdown' (03:48) is the usual show off of the layers of digital effects throughout the movie and lastly we have the trailer (02:21).
Eaters was way better than I thought it would be. I expected a mess of zombies, bad acting and low budget boredom but what I got was a well-paced story with good characters and a semi detailed look at what a world after a zombie apocalypse might be like. It's all pretty routine stuff but Eaters has enough of its own thing to stand out amongst the crowd and I'd imagine fans of the zombie genre will appreciate that.
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Ramphele: Agang funding comes from SA not US
"The decision to establish this party is a decision that is also accompanied by a determination that this must be a South African initiative, supported by South Africans," she told SABC Morning Live in an interview on Tuesday.
She said the financial support behind the party, which was launched in Johannesburg on Monday, was not from Americans, as had been insinuated.
Earlier on Tuesday, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe reportedly said the new political platform could possibly be used to destabilise the country.
"The worry that we are raising ... is that when these initiatives were announced, the founder was in the United States and announced that she is raising funding," Mantashe said.
Last year, Ramphele visited the US to speak at Brown University.
She said that on her way back, she had met South Africans at a friends' cocktail party – as she had in other parts of the world.
"I went to Australia last year and briefed South Africans living in the diaspora ... They are as much South African as we are," she said.
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"The money we are currently using comes from South Africans, right here at home."
Ramphele said she intended using Agang SA to contest the 2014 national elections.
After Ramphele's speech at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg, the ANC said in a statement issued on Monday night, together with a release on a national working committee visit to Limpopo that it hoped "the pumping of foreign funds in South Africa will not undermine the further democratisation and transformation in our country".
The ruling party also slated the "undefined party political platform" for not clarifying its intentions.
"It is also a disservice to the people of South Africa for those who are behind such formation not to have given clarity of what it is, that is new that they want to bring to the political terrain."
The Democratic Alliance (DA) merely "noted" the announcement and expressed a willingness to engage with her in the coming months.
"Dr Ramphele shares the DA's core values of non-racialism and constitutionalism, and her move is another step in the long process of realigning South African politics around these values," it said.
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THOUSANDS of cheering spectators lined the streets of York as the Olympic torch relay made its way through the city.
Glorious sunshine added to the carnival atmosphere as one-by-one, the lucky few chosen to carry the flame made their way from York College in Tadcaster Road, along the Bar Walls, through the city centre and on to Knavesmire, where the flame was carried on horseback by Olympic showjumper Harvey Smith.
The torch arrived in York late yesterday afternoon and was escorted by a 200-strong team of cyclists, all dressed in red.
One of those to ride with the flame was Anna Hogan, 27, who said she and her fellow riders were "very excited."
"We are proud to be British and proud to ride through York," she said.
Caroline Rose, a spectator whose Bishopthorpe Road home was on the route of the torch said: "It's very exciting. The atmosphere is brilliant and there has been perfect weather."
Jean Haw, 75, from Fulford, whose husband Terry is due to run with the torch in Aiskew, near Bedale, today said: "I am here today to do some practise cheering. The atmosphere is wonderful."
In the centre of York, hundreds gathered at the corner of Shambles and Pavement, many waving Union Flags, as a band played tunes such as Land Of Hope And Glory and Danny Boy outside St Crux Church. Some onlookers even climbed a nearby tree to secure a better view.
Glenn Marshall, 41, from Fulford, said: "It's a massive day for York to be playing a part in the Olympics and it's great to see so many people out to see the torch."
Naomi Cullen, 29, from Haxby, said: "Everybody who's been here to see the torch will be able to tell their children about the day it came to York and show them the pictures years down the line.
"Seeing everybody cheering and smiling shows what the Olympics are about and how it means much more than sport."
Susan Peters, 66, from Holgate, likened the occasion to the Pope's visit to York in 1982 because of the feeling of "togetherness and happiness" in the city.
She said: "However far the torch goes around the country, I bet it will not get as big a welcome as it has had in Yorkshire."
In Selby, fire-breathers and local choirs entertained the crowds, which included hundreds of schoolchildren as well as residents and local workers, ahead of the arrival of the torch procession.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Solid pitching performances by freshman K.J. Parent (Knoxville, Tenn.) and junior Aric Dama (Winfield, Ill.) carried MIT past UMass Boston, 3-1, in a non-conference baseball game at Briggs Field. The Engineers have now won nine of their last 10, improving to 20-14 with the victory. The Beacons fell to 17-14-1 with the loss.
UMass Boston sophomore Lucas Ilges (Gloucester, Mass.) retired the first two hitters in the bottom of the first before MIT came up with two runs. Sophomore Creed Mangrum (Sandy, Utah) extended his hitting streak to 15 games with a single to left to start the rally. The inning was then extended on an error on the Beacon third baseman and the Engineers took advantage, getting consecutive RBI singles off the bats of senior Bryan Macomber (Los Altos, Calif.) and freshman Hayden Cornwell (Newport Beach, Calif.) to take a 2-0 lead.
It turned out that would be all of the runs that MIT would need. Parent baffled the UMass Boston hitters in his five innings on the mound. He allowed just two hits, striking out three without issuing a walk as he picked up his fourth win of the season. Dama came out of the bullpen and tossed the final four innings and picked up the save. He surrendered three hits and struck out four while walking one.
UMass Boston picked up its only run of the game in the third without the benefit of a hit. Senior Mike Mattei (Spencer, Mass.) led off and reached first when his shallow pop fly to right was dropped. He was sacrificed over to second and then came around to score when freshman Jack DeBiase's (Prospect, Conn.) ground ball got past the MIT first baseman for another error.
MIT picked up an insurance run in the sixth, again with the aid of an error. With two away sophomore Sean Karson (Winter Park, Fla.) singled thru the right side and then proceeded to steal second. Mangrum reached on an error, sending Karson to third. The Engineers then executed a double steal, with Karson breaking for home and scoring on the throw down to second.
Ilges went six innings for UMass Boston, giving up all three runs on nine hits, walking three hitters. Sophomore Tyler Kane (Wilbraham, Mass.) and junior Jeff Thomas (Redwood City, Calif.) each threw a shutout inning in relief for the Beacons.
Macomber and Cornwell each had 2-for-4 days with an RBI to lead the 10-hit MIT attack. Jamill Moquette (Boston, Mass.) was 2-for-4 to lead UMass Boston.
MIT will be off until next Wednesday, May 2, when the Engineers will play their final home game of the season against Rhode Island College at 4:00 p.m. UMass Boston will return to Little East Conference action on Saturday when the Beacons travel to Plymouth State University for a doubleheader beginning at Noon.