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Maraea is being bullied at school.
There are three different girls that are targeting her.
Really, ladies? It starts this early? I figured I'd be dealing with this at some point in her life but not in pre-K for goodness sake.
Girl #1 - let's call her Zeze - has actually gotten physical with my daughter. She's punched her in the arm, tugged at her shirt and her hair, they get into screaming and pushing matches. Clearly two personalities that clash. The teachers are thankfully all over the situation and manage to keep them separated for the most part. To cover all our bases, we talked to the center director about it, who assured us that she was aware of it at her level as well, and that "the process" (of documenting behavioral incidents and issues) was already well underway. Unfortunately, it turns out that Zeze has something going on at home. The director was obviously not at liberty to elaborate, but it sounds like some drastic change and now Zeze is acting out at school. It's very sad and Zeze I'm so sorry but could you keep your paws off my kid please?
Girl #2 - let's call her Nene - has also gotten physical. The most recent incident happened yesterday. Maraea is the line leader this week, and apparently when you're standing in line you're not allowed to talk. So Nene was standing behind Maraea and was trying to tell her something, and Maraea was not responding (because she's not allowed to talk). Nene kept bothering Maraea, so Maraea covered her ears, which prompted lovely little Nene to punch Maraea in the throat. WTF IS WITH THESE GIRLS AND THEIR PUNCHING. FOR FUCK'S SAKE, I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO PUNCH. Anyway. The teacher asked Maraea why she didn't just tell her that Nene was bothering her, and Maraea said "I'm not allowed to talk in line". My kid, following instructions. Grrr. There have been other physical incidents in the past too.
Girl #3 - let's call her Lele - has not gotten physical but is highly manipulative. Maybe she's not really bullying Maraea. But it's one of those - "Hey Maraea, I really like your ____________ maybe you should let me have it." And then Maraea comes home telling me that Lele now has all her stuffed animals at nap time and she needs to bring in more, and that Lele is stealing food from her lunch, and when Maraea tries to tell the teacher, Lele covers Maraea's mouth and holds her in her seat so she can't tell.
Real gems, all three of them.
I'm shocked that this started so early. And what's really frustrating is that I can't tell my daughter how to fight back against these little shits. She's not old enough to understand when it's ok to fight back and when it's not.
I tried telling her - with Zeze - to look her straight in the eye, and be very brave and strong, and say "Zeze, LEAVE ME ALONE." Loud enough so her teachers could hear. Sadly that turned into her taking that stance with me sometimes. She'll get an attitude with me, because she doesn't know that it's ok to stand up to Zeze but not to mommy like that.
She's been throwing ridiculous temper tantrums since this all started about 3-4 months ago. RI-DIC-U-LOUS. Like, thrashing around kicking and screaming, hitting and kicking me and Aaron, hyperventilating and throwing things. All over the smallest things - she doesn't want me to brush her hair. She doesn't want to go potty before bed. Last night, it was because she asked me "Mommy, was I on punishment last night?" and I answered her "Yes". She flew off the handle. And for what? The day was already over. It was in the past. She wasn't on punishment anymore. WTF?
Awesomely enough for me, so many of these tantrums have happened in my presence only. In the mornings, trying to get her out of the house for school. In the car on our way home. One day she sat in the backseat kicking and screaming at the top of her lungs for about 40 minutes straight - threw things at me from the backseat, reached up and around and smacked me on my chest. Such a treat. An awesome treat.
We're supposed to be past the temper tantrum stage.
We are trying to talk it out with her as much as we can. When we see her starting to head down that path, we try very gently to get her to talk about what might really be upsetting her. Sometimes she bites, sometimes she will furrow her brows at us and stomp her foot and be defiant.
If you ask me, it all ties back to this bullying shit.
You ever want to scare another kid that's fucking with your kid? Sometimes I daydream about going into that classroom and twisting Zeze's or Nene's or Lele's ears and getting on their level real close to their face and telling them to leave my kid the fuck alone. Haha. We all know that won't solve anything though.
When it first started we tried being very diplomatic about it. "If so-and-so doesn't play nice with you, maybe you should play with some other kids." Because you know how kids can take something you say and completely misinterpret it and then go into school and spit it back out. By now, I'm straight up telling her to stay away from those 3 girls. Don't play with them. They're not nice girls. The sad thing? She still thinks they are her friends. After Lele stole her Doritos from her lunch one day, Maraea said "Lele is still my best friend though." And I had to get real with her. I said "You think Lele is your best friend? Do friends steal from each other? Would you steal anything from Toni (her BFF that lives next door)? Friends don't hurt each other and friends don't steal from each other. Lele is not your friend at all."
I'm kind of at the point now where I'm ready to move her to a new school. There's a place by me that's much cheaper, it's closer, they have longer hours, Aaron could pick her up if needed, I would get my car rides to and from work back to myself again. Sure, she may run into some shit kids there too. But maybe not. I suppose you never know. I'm just tired of paying $285 a week and my kid is coming home and telling me about all these kids that pick on her and punch her and are mean to her.
Nothing makes me want to move to the middle of Oklahoma and homeschool her more than this.


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Operating continuously since 1946, Cygnet Bay Pearls is the oldest entirely Australian and family-owned pearl farm. With 65 years of production from a single site, Cygnet Bay Pearls also represents one of the country's longest running aquaculture ventures. Situated on the productive, sheltered waters of King Sound, Cygnet Bay Pearls continues to lead the industry, harvesting the largest fine quality South Sea pearls in the world. Originally established for mother-of-pearl collection, Cygnet Bay Pearls went on to produce cultured pearls in 1960, and has continued across three generations of the Brown family at the forefront of Australian and global pearl industries.
In the quest to culture the only gems created by living creatures, our pearl aquaculture is both a science and an art. Natural unpredictability across all phases of the culturing process reflects the dynamic nature of the marine environment our pearl oysters inhabit. Thus, the nutrient rich, pristine Kimberley waters in which Cygnet Bay's pearls are harvested are our most valuable asset and monitoring their condition forms an integral part of our operations and management. Since the early days, our successful pioneering of the cultured pearling industry has come as a result of intensive, sustained marine research efforts. Today, our on-going productivity, sustainability and longevity go hand-in-hand with continual monitoring, increased understanding and subsequent protection of our unique local marine environments. As a natural progression of this existing research facet, in 2009 Cygnet Bay Pearls further extended its enterprise and established a collaboration with the Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI) to further promote truly independent research of the Kimberley coastal and marine region. In true pioneering spirit, this led to the successful establishment of KMRS in 2010 as the first marine research station in the Kimberley.
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Via The Globe & Mail:
Understanding the insurgents is a basic part of reporting on the Afghan war, but it's a remarkably difficult task. I've had several meetings with individual Taliban since I started covering Afghanistan, but personal contacts with the insurgents are growing more dangerous because they have started kidnapping journalists.
So we decided to try an unscientific survey.
I've been working with a researcher in Kandahar since September of 2006, meeting with him regularly for long sessions of tea and talk. He's a close friend of The Globe and Mail translators in the city. I often send him on fact-finding trips to places that would be off-limits for anybody without strong connections to the insurgency, and over many months he has learned basic journalism skills. This project involved tasks at which he's already proven reliable: Find a specific person, point a camera at them, ask questions from a list and, most challengingly, listen to the answers and formulate further questions. He's still learning the art of follow-up questioning, but otherwise he appeared to be fairly disciplined about obeying the rules described below.
The Taliban researcher was asked:
To find small groups of Taliban and try to speak with them individually. They don't need to show their faces or give their names. (Persuading the insurgents to speak by themselves proved difficult, and clusters of three or four interviews often contain answers that echo each other, as apparently Taliban waited to hear what their comrades would say.)
To visit as many districts as possible. (He visited five: Zhari, Panjwai, Maywand, Arghandab and Daman. Access to each district was negotiated by him and a Globe and Mail translator.)
Ask a standard list of 20 questions, in the same order every time. (He largely followed this request, with a few exceptions: He sometimes felt it would be dangerous to push insurgents for answers about their loyalty to Mullah Omar, for instance.)
Try to get enough elaboration that the interview lasts a minimum of 10 minutes. (This improved during the course of the project, with durations varying from four to 15 minutes.)
The researcher's work was supervised by a long-time translator for The Globe and Mail, who watched the videos and did the rough translations.
I debriefed the researcher as he returned from his visits to the districts. A professional service was contracted to provide a second verbatim transcript in English, with coding for subtitles, so that we could publish all the material online.
The interviews began in August of 2007 and finished in November. In months that followed, the videos were circulated privately among sources in Kandahar and Kabul to gather opinions about the authenticity of the material and reaction to the Taliban statements.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Talking to the Taliban (Part 1)
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I have no quarrel with our mayor. Well... there's the... and there's HER... but yeah ok fundamentally I have no beef with the guy. He's our neighbor (supposedly) and he has been my husband's boss, and all that.
But driving downtown today I couldn't help noticing the mayor's sort of Irish pub-going reputation sprouting from the facade of City Hall.
Am I the only one to see a resemblance?


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Love it or hate it, writer-director Darren Aronofsky's six years in the making labor of love The Fountain has officially reached its 10th Anniversary since its theatrical release in 2006. Opening to divisive reviews and dying a tragically quiet death at the box office, the film gradually attained cult status over the years and is now regarded as the director's most personal work to date. Whether you're behind Aronofsky's undeniably impeccably crafted piece of cinema, what stands out most of all alongside the fine performances by Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz and the breathtaking cinematography by longtime collaborator Matthew Libatique is the haunting and ethereal original score by former Pop Will Eat Itself frontman turned distinguished film composer Clint Mansell. Prior to what would be the biggest and riskiest endeavor taken on by the Aronofsky team yet, Mansell's evocative, unforgettable and somber score for Requiem for a Dream became a game changer for the possibilities of film music and found it's central theme being reused in more trailers and commercials than any other piece of music in recent memory.
That Aronofsky's team would mutually top their already monumental achievements on Requiem with The Fountain seemed unthinkable, yet here we are with what is easily composer Clint Mansell's finest hour. Reuniting with the Kronos Quartet who provided the evocative strings on Requiem with Scottish rock band Mogwai adding their own unique guitar strumming over Mansell's mixture of electronic music, ambience, minimalism akin to Philip Glass with heartfelt strings akin to Bernard Herrmann, the score is an overwhelming listening experience that ranges from tranquil to terrifying, mournful, grief stricken and finally exultant. Like Requiem, the sadly underrated and little seen The Fountain soon found the score's greatest track, Death is the Road to Awe, cropping up on trailers for films including I Am Legend and The Mist. Equally prolific are the sheer numbers of video compilations made online by fans for films like The Lord of the Rings set to Mansell's music. Like the film or not, the score is magnificent and truly breathtaking to hear, yet nearly a decade went by without the soundtrack ever receiving a proper release on vinyl, until now.
In the revealing liner notes, I learned not only was David Bowie attached to the soundtrack at one point with an original song written for the end credits but that Mansell himself suffered a personal tragedy when his girlfriend at the time came down with an undisclosed illness that ultimately claimed her life. Stuck in a clinical depression for over a year while working on the score for Black Mirror, Mansell performed the score for The Fountain in concert whereas he found out for himself just how powerful a piece of music Death is the Road to Awe really was. Coming out of his depression, Mansell said it was the first time a piece of his own music actually helped him get through the difficult period and as such is regarded by many as a healthy emotional expression of coping, grief and finally closure. Hearing the soundtrack with this new bit of knowledge in mind can't help but place the whole album in a new light for me.
Though sadly this pressing sold out very quickly, seemingly within the week of its debut in fact, I'm proud to have this staggering, profoundly moving piece of film music in my collection with arguably my personal favorite soundtrack to any film of all time. No The Fountain still isn't for everyone, with many still evenly split on both sides of the fence, but with this exquisite vinyl package in hand, it's undeniably something everyone should listen to at some point in their lifetime.
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To my sweet baby. If God gives me the sweet gift of swaddling this baby boy up and holding him close. Here's the story I will tell him-
Your Daddy, your sister and I wanted you so much. We prayed and prayed for you. I cried tears for you. I felt such sorrow and deep pain over the loss of babies that were not you. I wouldn't change anything about how God designed you to come into our lives. Not the sorrow, the loss, the waves of bitterness, apathy, and deep faith. Because although I wanted those babies so much, God wanted me to meet you. Though there has been great pain in getting to finally hold you, the baby we have been aching for, there is great joy for your daddy, sister and I in knowing that our kind Father in Heaven had you in mind to answer all our prayers.
The best thing of all about God giving us so much time with you is that I have seen that in all my longing, in all my unmet desires of wanting a bigger family, wanting to be a mommy all over again, He is really what I'm longing for. So, while there is so much joy in the anticipation of knowing you, feeling you kick in my belly, watching you grow and learn and meet milestones, Jesus is what makes all of that so great. I know that you won't understand that for a long time. And I know from parenting your sister recently that I'll explain how great Jesus is to you thousands of times and feel like it's over your head, or that you just don't care (or often with a lack of conviction in my own heart.)But I'm praying, praying, praying that one day, God will grab hold of your heart and allow the fullness of the joy and sorrow of Jesus to grab you as He has grabbed me.
I love you so much,
Here is a picture of our Henry.
[And to you, mamas in longing. Mamas without their babies,
I want you to know that in 3 miscarriages, and even in a so-far-healthy pregnancy I have learned a lot about how to be sensitive to those that are struggling. I know the unintentional hurt and stinging pain from joyous Facebook announcements of new babies and Instagramed growing bellies. There is no doubt that there is such joy for us in seeing this little life grow inside me. But I also want you to know that I am thinking of you. The moms who have lost babies. The moms whose wombs are empty, again. There are tears that come to my eyes when I think of your pain. I want to weep with you for your lost dreams and hoped for prayers. Know that you are thought of, even in the joy of this great gift from God. ]
Thanks, friends, for praying and rejoicing.


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Champagne is not an ordinary wine. Its light, delicate flavour and distinctive bubbly consistency make it the beverage of choice for high-end social events such as parties and weddings. Champagne is unique in the fact that it is infused with tiny bubbles, giving it the nickname "bubbly." Champagne is served in tall, thin glasses, also known as flutes, which must be held properly for maximum enjoyment.
Wash the champagne flute before use. It should be washed in warm water without soap. Soap can leave behind residue that interferes with the taste of the champagne.
Place the champagne and flute in the refrigerator to chill them. Champagne is best served between 6.11 and 8.33 degrees Celsius, which can be achieved by refrigerating it for three to four hours.
Remove the champagne from the refrigerator and wrap it in a towel. Pull the foil from the top of the bottle to expose the wire cage and twist the end of the wire gently with your fingers to loosen it. Slide the towel over the neck of the bottle and grip the cork in your hand, turning the bottle slowly to loosen the cork. Apply firm, upward pressure to remove the cork from the bottle.
Set the flute on the counter and add approximately two finger widths of champagne. Allow the bubbles to rise to the top and diffuse slightly before filling the glass two-thirds of the way full.
Pick up the flute by the stem, which is the long piece between the base and the bottom of the bowl. The stem will be cold, but refuse the urge to move your hand up the stem to the bowl. If you move your hand, the heat from it will quickly warm the champagne and change the flavour.
Wrap your hand around the base of the flute if your fingers become tired holding the stem. The further down the flute you place your hand, the less heat will be transferred from your hand to the champagne.
Keep the champagne cold between servings. An ice bucket is an acceptable cooling vessel, or you can simply stick it back in the refrigerator.
Never put your flute in the freezer. The thin glass can crack if it becomes too cold.


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The Meghalaya government would soon launched an "aquaculture mission" to make livelihood in the rural areas attractive by creating and ensuring opportunities thereby minimizing the migration of the rural population to urban areas of the State."The government is preparing to launch an Aquaculture Mission for the State of Meghalaya which envisages major investment in the fishery sector," Chief Minister Mukul Sangma announced at the workshop on "Development of Inland Fisheries in Meghalaya: Problems and Prospects" organized by the State's Fisheries Department. Sangma also released a discussion paper on "Meghalaya State Aquaculture Mission" on which people can give their comments and feedback after which it will be finalized and begin its implementation from April 2012."The government will make substantial investments in the Fishery Sector in the State so as to improve the GDP of the State and also to provide substantial livelihood to the poor and marginalized sections of the rural society," the Chief Minister said. He said the government has allotted Rs 37.40 Crores under the Special Plan Assistance in 2010-11 to give a fillip to the department's ongoing activities and also to provide a new thrust.Informing about the State's Integrated Basin Development and Livelihood Programme, Sangma said, "efforts are on to make livelihood in the rural areas attractive by creating and ensuring opportunities thereby minimizing the migration of the rural population to the urban areas."Exuding confidence that with the cooperation and sensitization of the people and all the stake holders, the Chief Minister said, "fish farming will be one of the sectors that will contribute to the State's economy and also emerge as one of the major fish exporting States in the country." However, Chief Secretary, W M S Pariat said there is a substantial gap between the demand and supply of fish in the State which he felt that if aquaculture is promoted aggressively in the State it will definitely promote economic growth.National Fisheries Development Board Chief Executive P Krishnaiah assured that the NFDB will provide all necessary support and assistance to the Government of Meghalaya in terms of grants, infrastructure, human resource development to both officials and fish farmers. He said that to promote the fishery sector in the State, intensification of productivity, diversification of species and disease management are of utmost importance which the Government should consider.
Ikato Y Kiho, first Naga to join National School of Drama in New Delhi
I must be the perfect role model: Ikato Y Kiho is the first person from Nagaland to study in the prestigious


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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
More Cultural References
And how do Harry and Pippi know about Hamlet? I thought it was all because of that wonderful song - The Three Minute Hamlet. And that certainly played a part. But how could I have forgotten this little gem. That's right. Remember when Gilligan's Island performed a musical Hamlet? I could never listen to the song Carmen again without hearing the "new" words.
So, now we will read the real thing - but compared to Seamus' song and the Gilligan's Island version I don't know how well it will stand up.
So, now we will read the real thing - but compared to Seamus' song and the Gilligan's Island version I don't know how well it will stand up.
Posted by Christine Marciniak at 5:21 PM
Labels: kids, Shakespeare
3 comments:
- Brian Mandabach said...
How can even the immortal Bard stand up to Gilligan & the gang? But what I love about "No Fear" and others like it, is the blindingly obvious brilliance of Will Shakes when juxtaposed to the same thing in updated language. Do you read both with the kids, or turn to the latter only when baffled?
Am I too protective? Not sure that I'd do Hamlet with a 7--murder, madness, suicide. (Which I'm all for, btw, but my older child would have been too sensitive at that age.)
But you inspire me, becuase she's ready for it now!
- HipWriterMama said...
Love Hamlet. Tag. You're it!
- Christine M said...
Brian - we read both side by side. We read the "plain English" first so the kids know what is going on - then go on to the true Shakespeare - we do one page at a time that way.
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Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Where My Molinas At?
Where My Molinas At?
*Bengie Molina re-signed with the Giants this offseason, but with Buster Posey ready to take on full-time duties behind the plate that left the eldest Molina as an unneeded piece in San Francisco. Just a few days ago Bengie was shipped to Texas, where he'll do the bulk of the game calling for the Rangers. His numbers are down a bit this season (.256/.636), but being 35 years old and catching in his 13th MLB season that's to be expected. He did hint around earlier this season that this one may be his last.
*Middle brother Jose Molina has managed to remain gainfully employed as a backup backstop, this year with the Toronto Blue Jays. Jose is the lighter hitting of the three amigos, but his catching skills remain sharp and therefore he remains a valued commodity in the game.
*The younger Molina, Yadier, is still with the Cardinals, his only employer. Despite having a down year offensively (.229/.611), the fans voted him into his 3rd straight All-Star game. Yadier's defense is his biggest attribute and he's in line for a 3rd straight Gold Glove as well.
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- tamtam said...
AHAHAHAHA! Our favorite family of catchers :)
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An elderly socialite was convicted of swindling would-be investors yesterday – but the verdict was immediately cast into doubt because of an 11th-hour legal fiasco.
Elizabeth Kummerfeld – who helped Elizabeth Taylor found AmFAR to fight AIDS – sat expressionless behind large sunglasses as the guilty verdict was read out in Manhattan federal court.
Kummerfeld, 70, helped friend Carolyn Mintus get millions of dollars from investors who were promised massive profits of up to 5 percent per day.
But the verdict came just as Judge Kimba Wood was trying to decide if she should declare a mistrial because Mintus had paid for the lawyer of one of the other defendants, Mark Capozzi.
Just as the trial ended, Capozzi wrote a letter to the judge criticizing his lawyer, Charles Ross.
Ross had apparently been paid about $50,000 by Mintus to defend Capozzi, but toward the end of the trial he allegedly learned that Mintus was not going to pay him another $30,000 she had promised.
In his closing arguments, Ross painted Mintus as "a fraudster," but insisted Capozzi was still clean.
Capozzi's new lawyer, Gary Becker, argued that Ross may have had a serious conflict of interest by arguing against the person he thought had stiffed him on a legal bill.
Ross told the judge that because his client had raised a serious ethics question about him, he wanted to consult with a lawyer before he said anything about the billing question.
The judge called the issue "a can of worms" and spent hours hearing arguments from all sides on the issue.
But before they could find a solution, the panel returned with a verdict.
Mintus and her cohorts were convicted of all 26 counts stemming from the investment-fraud scheme – and Mintus was ordered held without bail out of fear the 70-year-old woman might flee the country with a 20-year prison stretch looming.
Mintus' lawyer, Kerry Lawrence, said the questions surrounding Ross make for a strong appeal, and that his client believes she will ultimately beat the case.
Kummerfeld faces up to five years in prison. Her husband, Donald Kummerfeld, is a former budget director for New York City, and also worked in the '80s as a high-ranking executive for News America, a sister company of The Post.


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Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Review of LONDON HAS FALLEN: Bodyguard Bravado
Three years ago, Antoine Fuqua had a film entitled "Olympus Has Fallen" which introduced us to the charmed duo of US President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) and his very capable chief of security Mike Banning (Gerard Butler). In that film, Banning single-handedly outwitted and disposed all the bad guys, averted a nuclear attack against the US in the nick of time, and rescued the President from certain death. It was a fantastic adrenaline rush of a film that was a surprise hit at the box office despite receiving mixed review from the critics.
In the sequel "London Has Fallen," President Asher is again in dire peril and Banning is left single-handedly protecting him. This time, their enemies have a bigger playground -- the whole city of London. The setting was the funeral of the British Prime Minister where all the leaders of the world have come to pay their respects. A Middle Eastern terrorist launches a major catastrophic attack against everyone in attendance. Every leader there dies, except (no surprise, of course) the eternally lucky US President Asher, thanks to his never-say-die bodyguard Banning.
There were a number of scenes when either Asher or Banning should have already lost their lives, but miraculously don't. However, the script made sure they would always escape by the skin of their teeth, or that the enemy will inexplicably tarry with the killing blow and give them a chance to fire back. The suspense the director creates in these scenes is so maddeningly manipulative in its sheer predictability. And these are by no means spoilers for a formulaic film like this.
Like the first film, the American patriotic fervor is stoked here with appropriate imagery and words. The key American leaders were all so well-cast. Aaron Eckhart, with his chiseled countenance and cleft chin, makes President Asher a handsome martyr whose broadcasted torture can certainly inspire tears from his people the world over, especially among his countrymen. As Vice President Trumbull, Morgan Freeman can read the phonebook and make it sound deeply inspirational. Of course, we all know what Gerard Butler can do as an action hero. Despite the fearless and superhuman things we see him do here, Butler still manages to convince us that he really can do these deeds of derring-do and save the day.
Just like the first film, writers Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt again cook up a suspenseful yarn with the same impossible hi-jinks that made their original one a hit. Replacing Fuqua as director is Iranian Babak Najafi in his big Hollywood debut. Everyone's focus will be on that initial attack, and Najafi was able to deliver a solid, heart-stopping sequence of shocking terrorism, albeit being over-the-top with unconvincing special effects. After that initial salvo though, the rest of the film becomes a prolonged (and even repetitive) series of car chases and gun battles we have already seen before. Everything builds up to a conclusion we all knew would happen right from the start. 5/10.
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This is one my hubby and I want to see on date night. Anything with action and thrills and he is into it. Maybe I should bring a book, LOL?ReplyDelete
I saw this movie at the mall I was at in QC yesterday. Was wondering if it was like an alien/apocalyptic/invasion movie.ReplyDelete
I will give this movie a miss, nothing great and exciting in it.ReplyDelete
- Elizabeth O.March 25, 2016 at 2:00 PM
What's amusing with action movies like this is that you could already predict what's going to happen next and of course the fact that the leads always seem to survive the danger that comes their way. I won't mind watching this for entertainment though.ReplyDelete
I guess they run out of exciting scenes since they use the same plot lines. It would still be a good watch though.ReplyDelete
The next in series would be Moscow then they'd come up with Sydney... Its gonna get boring. I'm not surprised at your 5/10 ranking!ReplyDelete
I am not going to watch this though hubby wanted. Doesn't seem to very interesting or anything different than the usual.ReplyDelete
I would still watch this, thanks for the heads-up Fred. I really enjoy reading your review :)ReplyDelete
sounds really interesting! I love a good political suspense action movie, and this one really fits the bill.ReplyDelete


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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Film Review #42: On SISTERS IN LAW *** Producer/writer/director/cinematographer: Kim Longinotto *** Co-director: Florence Ayisi *** Documentary, 2005 (104 minutes) *** Cast: Vera Ngassa, Beatrice Ntuba, Amina Abubakari *** Kim Longinotto's SISTERS IN LAW had its US theatrical opening on April 12 at Film Forum in New York City's South Village. Opening night featured a Q & A with Longinotto after the 8 p.m. screening, which played to an overflow audience, with some standing in the aisle. *** SISTERS IN LAW was my fourth movie that day and – therefore counter-intuitively – by far the best. Shot in mostly poor, mostly Muslim Kumba Township in the southwest corner of Cameroon over three and a half months in 2004, SISTERS IN LAW follows several cases involving women and children plaintiffs through the local justice court. Young Sonita was raped by a neighbor. Amina seeks divorce, fearing her husband will kill her if she's sent home. Six-year-old Manka bears torso scars from coat-hanger beatings by her custodial aunt. Longinotto profiles prosecutor Vera Ngassa (also a judge and university law professor) and district court judge Beatrice Ntuba as they investigate and resolve these cases. Both women are entirely clear about the stakes for community and petitioners alike. *** At several points the camera rests on that universally-recognized scowl of bafflement some men wear when they are thwarted by women for the first time. The opening night audience laughed aloud at those moments, though Longinotto says for her that laughter is more "dark and bleak" than comedic. Speaking by phone last week from Colorado, the filmmaker said those men "didn't mind being filmed – they didn't see their behavior as wrong." She recalled how one seemingly "urbane and educated" fellow acknowledged he beat his wife and added, "But I gave her medicines." *** A handful of positive media reviews in early April paved SISTERS IN LAW's way to Film Forum. This theatrical release follows 120 festival appearances world-wide, with lots of prizes and accolades. Stella Pence, who runs Telluride's Film Festival, calls it "one of the best documentaries of all times." But SISTERS IN LAW is destined for classic status more for its women and their solutions than for exposing comfortable and clueless men as cads. *** The specific quality of justice portrayed here makes SISTERS IN LAW uncommon and instructive. Once, Vera leans over to softly ask a beaten down wife, whose purchase price was a pig – who was not, according to Longinotto, "even at her own wedding" – "Oh, Madame, what shall we do with these two men?" In another scene, a policewoman attached to the court investigates the child Manka's family situation. Manka's aunt claims the girl's parents live in a countryside village, but then the officer also asks Manka, she reveals her parents are dead – so she is quite at her aunt's mercy. While Longinotto calls this type of exchange "Vera's democratic instinct," any acquaintance with treating abuse would tell you that such direct questions – and believing the answers – also constitute the first intervention on the road to healing trauma. *** Longinotto takes the time as well to intersperse several short interludes in which Vera plays with her own son in her office. She attentively talks with him, touches him, teaches him colors and gently corrects his wrong answers, tickles him. Rather than have a narrator intone a list of policy solutions, Longinotto shows us specifically how the new men of Kumba are raised. From Colorado, she said the boy's name is Moses, and that Vera adopted him when his young mother came to court's attention because she tried to kill her baby. *** Lack of back-story and context crop up as the most common complaint about SISTERS IN LAW. Longinotto and her co-director for this film, International Film School Wales lecturer and native Cameroonian Florence Ayisi, shot in strict cinema verite style. A big fan of narration and context myself, I was surprised to notice that, this time, that complaint simply dropped away for me. Indeed, imposing such conventions would interfere with SISTERS IN LAW's capacity to connect as film. *** Having watched "practically all" of THE SOPRANOS, Longinotto notes that the HBO series' viewers don't expect history or statistics on the Mafia. She herself was aiming for "the power of fiction – the sense of danger and of immediacy and of freshness" that generate identification and emotional connection. The riveting experience of watching SISTERS IN LAW is one of the more striking arguments for this style of documentary that I have encountered. *** SISTERS IN LAW is also her third courtroom film and as such makes use of a genre that connects well with film audiences in the West if one's aim is universality. She made DIVORCE IRANIAN-STYLE (1998) with co-director Ziba Mir-Hosseini, author of a book on Iranian divorce courts, to fill the gap between a surge of European films about Middle Eastern "fanatics" and "graceful, poetic" Iranian films such as those of Abbas Kiarostami. THE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET (2002) follows a group of Kenyan schoolgirls who seek human rights workers' help to escape genital mutilation. Trained in England's National Film School, Longinotto has been making verite docs for a couple decades, often traveling outside the U.K. and Europe to do so when not writing for TV. *** Probable next trip is Pakistan, with a friend born there who's writing a novel and wanted company, but also in response to what she sees as an "anti-Muslim crusade" in the West. As always, she'll seek stories about women that might make a film. *** SISTERS IN LAW's limited theatrical release in the US through the end of May includes San Francisco, Boston, Seattle & Chicago. Check screenings at Women Make Movies' website, http://www.wmm.com/. Hear Nancy's interview with Kim Longinotto on Women's Voices Radio, WAER Syracuse 88.3 FM on June 1st at 8 p.m. EST via web-streaming at http://www.waer.org/. This review was written for Stylusmagazine.com & published there on 5/3/2006. [Text = 938 words]
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Saturday, April 15, 2006
Film Review #41 - On ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN * 1968 – 69 min., Director - Peter Lennon * 2005 U.K. DVD Release from Soda Pictures includes THE MAKING OF ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN (2004 – 27 min., Director – Paul Duane) * * * As Ireland celebrates the 90th anniversary of its historic 1916 Easter Rising on Monday, April 17th (the actual anniversary date is a week later on April 24th), one of cinema's foremost responses to that short-lived but far-reaching rebellion is now widely available on DVD. I picked up Peter Lennon's 1968 documentary, ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN, during a recent trip to Dublin at the Irish Film Institute's bookshop, where it was centrally advertised with a huge hand-lettered sign – a far cry from nearly four decades of effective banning. The DVD includes the 1968 film, restored in 2003 by the Irish Film Board, and an excellent MAKING OF… companion documentary from 2004 directed by Paul Duane. Sometimes compared now with filmmaker Michael Moore, Lennon narrated ROCKY ROAD himself. In the midst of 1960's cultural and political ferment, he argued that the "weight of heroes and clergy" had nearly sunk Ireland and long since hi-jacked the aims of 1916's "poets and socialists." He was explicit that a "republic" required a society to match its politics. ROCKY ROAD's central question – "What do you do with your revolution once you've got it?" – becomes the film's refrain, paralleling the popular pub song by The Dubliners that gives the film both its title and its musical backbone. Lennon has not mellowed; in a GUARDIAN article from last year, reprinted as the liner note, he called the Catholic Church "Ireland's KGB." Although I would prefer brisker editing in some spots, ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN has a sure and graceful look that it comes by rightfully. Lennon wanted a "personal" look with hand-held camera and minimal lighting. French New Wave cinematographer Raoul Coutard shot ROCKY ROAD in 1967 during his spare time, between work on Truffaut's THE BRIDE WORE BLACK and Godard's WEEKEND. Such openness to participating with new filmmakers on edgy projects was characteristic of the vibrant French film culture that exhilarated Peter Lennon, an Irish journalist working as a junior correspondent in 1960's Paris. Lennon had never made a film before, but he grasped that the French used film as English-speaking writers used the pen – "cinema-stylo," they called it. Already Lennon's visits home had produced a controversial series of 1964 articles in THE GUARDIAN examining Irish censorship, cultural isolationism and the clergy's grip on education and family life, which he developed in the film. ROCKY ROAD establishes its satiric bent at once, opening with footage of Christian Brothers students reciting rote Catechism answers about the human condition with dour certainty: "Because of Adam's sin we are born without sanctifying grace, our intellect is darkened, our will is weakened and our passions incline us to evil and we are subject to suffering and death." One feels a peculiar vertigo; it is so easy to imagine these twelve-year-old boys morphing into pinched-faced old men with a whiff of Taliban about them – and just then the film cuts to The Dubliners' rollicking title song. Later a list of writers, poets and playwrights banned in Ireland scrolls down a black screen, accompanied by tolling church bells. My Irish grandmother would call such juxtapositions "instigating," and you can see right away that Lennon had insider knowledge about how to infuriate the earnest. ROCKY ROAD combines commentary, stills and archival footage, juxtapositions of music and segments, cinema verite slices of Irish life – class-based sports competitions (hurling and horse shows), life in pubs, street scenes and landscape, grim-faced couples at courtship dances and wedding receptions, a college discussion of censorship – with a series of telling interviews. These include writer Sean O'Faolain on Ireland's "society of peasants," a Gaelic Athletic Association spokesman explaining why it banned even watching "English games," an elderly member of the censorship board, film director John Huston, and an extended visit with the "progressive, modern" priest the Church – incredibly – offered to Lennon for the film ("What was in their mind?" I can hear my grandmother asking). We first meet Father Michael Cleary performing his own syncopated version of "Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy" for a small hostage audience of patients and nurses in a women's hospital ward, whose faces register either a creepy transport close to swooning or that singular stiff resignation present when endurance is the only option. The camera lingers drolly on the priest's thigh jouncing as he keeps time. Father Cleary also orchestrates a wedding reception's every turn, chats with grave-diggers, and acknowledges to Lennon with apparent energetic candor that, "Sure," celibacy is hard, "but I had seven years to think about it." As revealed in the DVD's companion MAKING OF… special feature, Cleary was already sleeping with his teenage house-keeper during that interview. University College Dublin film lecturer Harvey O'Brien also writes in his 2004 history of the Irish documentary, THE REAL IRELAND, that she later published a sensational memoir about their affair and child "which turned out to be true." But the really arresting Father Cleary scene is that insinuating, self-infatuated hospital performance. I knew I'd seen it somewhere before. There's a priest singing at a party in the opening scene of Peter Mullan's film about 1960's Ireland, THE MAGDALENA SISTERS (2002). His seductiveness, the damp-cheeked response of the women, and the arousal of the men watching – all cross the room visually in waves, leading to the back-room rape of a cousin that begins Mullan's fictionalized account of the Irish Church's wide-spread practice of simply locking up potentially wayward women for life in their chain of commercial laundries. It's tantalizing to wonder if Mullan had seen ROCKY ROAD and made use of this emblematic scene. Entered independently at Cannes in 1968, ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN was the last film to screen before Truffaut, Claude Lelouche and others closed down the festival in solidarity with the student strikes in Paris. Those same students then screened ROCKY ROAD at the Sorbonne during the riots, launching the film's outlaw popularity on the continent and in a few North American university film programs. Much of Ireland was furious. Although the film was never officially banned, theater managers simply refused to book it; most Irish critics attacked it. Following an initial Dublin screening, a tumultuous incident at Ireland's Cork Film Festival and one packed, seven-week run, ROCKY ROAD sank from sight on home ground, stored in the Irish Film Archive until the Irish Film Board and Loopline Productions agreed to restoration in 2003. Paul Duane's 27-minute MAKING OF…provides much of this invaluable context and more. I might be tempted to call his the better documentary, if only because it avoids ROCKY ROAD's several claustrophobia-inducing lengthy sequences. But perhaps Lennon and Coutard knew what they were doing after all, since those segments manage to convey the lock-down of their subjects' existence. In the intervening years that ROCKY ROAD slept - at least on Irish soil - Ireland's own film culture has blossomed. It boasts the second highest film attendance per capita in Europe and an international cinematic literacy and perspective the US should envy. A good scene for a home-coming. * * * If you're not in Dublin yourself, you can get the U.K. DVD of ROCKY ROAD... (including the 27-minute companion doc) on-line at the Irish Film Institute's bookshop (www.irishfilm.ie). The US distributor, First Run/Icarus Films (www.frif.com), sells the two docs separately or together. * * * This review is also published at www.Stylusmagazine.com (4/21/06).
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Recovered Film Review #29-A: "Poof! You're a Movie! On the Screen Adaptation of David Auburn's Play, PROOF" * Nancy Keefe Rhodes * Broadcast on Women's Voices Radio, WAER Syracuse 88.3 FM on 10/20/2005 And now "Poof! You're a Movie!" – a look at what happened to David Auburn's award-winning play, PROOF, on its way to the screen. You might be among the fortunate here in Central New York who saw The Redhouse's wonderfully well-directed & acted stage production of this play about a year ago. It isn't that you won't recognize what's on-screen out at Manlius Cinema, but there is good news & bad news about that transformation. I'm going to start with the bad news so you will fully appreciate the good. PROOF is the story of a young Chicago woman, Catherine, who must bury her brilliant but quite crazy father Robert on her birthday. Catherine has been rattling around in the house caring for Robert & neglecting her own life & talent. She & those around her fear she may have inherited his instability. Her claim that she has authored an astounding new a mathematical proof is disbelieved by both Robert's graduate student, Hal, and Catherine's sister Clair, who has flown in from New York for the funeral to get everybody in ship shape. That PROOF began life as a play means that putting it on-screen to begin with presents a problem. As you can see in this case, it isn't just the basic problem that plays showing up on-screen suddenly seem way more talky than they ever did on-stage, but let's start with that. The first rule of screen-writing is that showing trumps telling, because the ways movies & theater approach telling stories are just fundamentally different. Stage abstracts & enacts. It treats background differently than film does, so that the characters stand out & are enhanced. I had misgivings when I noticed that David Auburn's co-author on this screen adaptation was Rebecca Miller. Two months ago I reviewed her film, THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE, here, a film with memorable & tremendously moving moments – also about the heart-wrenching, costly & misplaced love between a father & daughter, & a film with many of the same flaws that PROOF has. Yes, I blame Rebecca Miller for those flaws, though I can't for the life of me figure out what turned David Auburn's head so that he abandoned several of the finest parts of his meticulously constructed play. After a while it dawned on me that PROOF the movie is fiercely anti-stage. First, it abandons the porch upon which the play's entire action occurs – that domestic outpost, that architectural metaphor for the border between our public & private lives. Then there are the times the film literally loses its characters in the camera's frenzy at being free to wander about Chicago. It took me a moment to find Catherine & Clair in one crowded street scene – very distracting – & Catherine's ride home from the airport near the end – she's not in it. These are major mistakes & you'll have to spend a lot of energy staying focused on what really are fairly nuanced actions. The other major metaphorical abandonment is that here in the film, Hal who seduces Catherine rather than the right way round. Theater not the only thing that travels poorly to the screen. Think about how genius travels, especially the sort that most of us can't understand. Numbers make my eyes glaze over. When Hal & Catherine make cocktail chat out of prime numbers theory, that mostly leaves me in the dust. In Catherine's surprising but plausible seduction of her father's student, David Auburn provides a glimpse of how her mind might also be capable of moving – decisively, brilliantly, hiply – well, with genius. The film version takes the wind out of her sails as both a woman & as a prodigy. Now she is merely angry at times, although her anger is part of the good stuff. As in the scenes with her sister. Rarely has sisterly bickering had more bite & huff than Gwyneth Paltrow & Hope Davis bring it here. What the camera can do, when it settles down, is pay attention to some extraordinary acting at close quarters, especially from Paltrow, who also starred in the London stage production. So, is Catherine's genius really any less exotic to us than such current movie characters as Domino the bounty hunter-model, MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, or Pocahontas in the forthcoming NEW WORLD? I wonder. But most of us do understand losing our grip. I'm grateful beyond measure that somehow Robert's own final proof survived to the screen – though now it has a reading in a cozy study instead of the frigid winter-night lawn where it belongs. Here is what he's been scribbling: "Let X equal the quantity of all quantities of X. Let X equal the cold. It is cold in December. The months of cold equal November through February. There are four months of cold & four months of heat, leaving four months of indeterminate temperature. In February it snows. In March the lake is a lake of ice. In September the students come back & the bookstores are full. Let X equal the months of full bookstores. The number of books approaches infinity as the number of months of cold approaches four. I will never be as cold now as I will in the future. The future of cold is infinite. The future of heat is the future of cold. The bookstores are infinite & so are never full except in September." I felt sorrow & pity, which I guess is proof they still managed to pull it off. * [914]
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Ok, so the beauty of the post-season is that I don't even have to constrain my sarcasm to the division anymore. The entire league is my oyster, now. One and all better run and hide from my verbal wrath...or like, have a pop tart or something. It's nothing really.
Anyways, I just want to point out one thing about the headline above...DUH!
Um, am I wrong, or aren't the teams from each conference that were seeded #1 by virtue of having the best records in their respective conferences supposed to be the Super Bowl favorites?
What, like if you didn't clarify, people would think it was the Cardinals or something?
Be serious.
Although, if you ask Collinsworth, it's the Panthers. Not the Giants. And who would know better than Cris Collinsworth?
Also, one more quick one this morning...
Ah, well that explains letting Drew Bress go to New Orleans, and letting Michael Turner go to the Falcons, and firing Marty Schottenheimer in favor of Norv Turner. Alright, fine. There's nothing funny about dementia. Unless it's Al Davis' dementia.
I think if I ever get dementia, I'm going to have someone drop me off in the middle of some resort island and tell me I'm a millionaire. Shit, if I'm gonna be out of my mind, I might as well enjoy it, right?
Anyways, Vegas may favor the obvious, but OFTOT likes the underdogs, like these links...
This beer cooler scooter is severely badass [PSaMP]
Dude, The Bus' life is all around us [Sean's Ramblings]
Oh Mangina, your child will never forgive you [Hockey, Football & Stiletto Shoes]
Cowher not into Jets...because he can't bring Kevin Colbert with him, basically [ESPN]
10 guys who don't get enough play because their teams blow [The Legend of Cecilio Guante]
Great post on earning your way into the blogosphere...recent entrants into this wild and crazy world take heed. And just so you know, if I were to write a post about this, I'd be saying basically the same thing [Moondog Sports]
Mangina to the Browns? Seriously, why doesn't Cleveland go after another Patriot alum [NY Daily News]
December 30, 2008
AFC North Headline Of The Day...
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Feeling A Little Blue
According to the latest polling data, President Bush has a net positive approval rating in only three states (Idaho, Utah and Wyoming). His approval rating in Texas is an anemic 42%, compared to 56% disapproving (once again, I am accidentally in the majority); with a majority of men, women, all age groups, independants, moderates, and even those who "attend church regularly" disapproving. His approval rating among whites in Texas is only 50%, with 49% disapproving. His approval rating among those who identify as pro-life is just 52%, with 46% disapproving. His lowest approval rating is in Harris County (33% approval, 62% disapproval), but just behind that is East Texas, with a 39% approval, 58% disapproval. Even in West Texas, Bush is behind the eight-ball, with 46% approval and 52% disapproval. These numbers are absolutely mind-blowing and indicate just how badly the political slats under this Administration have rotted away.


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I'm loading these two stinkers into the car and heading out of here early tomorrow morning. Yes, you guessed it, back to Alabama we go. It is a sort of last minute trip.
You see, for weeks now it's been, we're going, we're not going, we're going, we're not going. And then a couple of days ago my Friday tutoring student rescheduled to next week, and I got the word that Sarah will be home from New Orleans, and Kate will be in town, and Ann (who, have you heard?, is pregnant with her FOURTH!!! There is nothing like the excitement of brand new life!!) will of course be there, since she lives there, and the original reason for going was for a baby shower for Esther Bratton's little Charlotte (due to arrive very, very soon)
We're going.
And that's where we'll be 'til Monday.
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Does it complete for your Kancil L5 overhaul purpose?
With the Daihatsu JB-JL or JB-DET full set gasket, it is not come with the flywheel oil seal with the meal housing, and some also need piston ring to complete the engine overhaul process, but still, if include the main bearing, con-rod bearing, piston, and engine valve, it may make it more perfect.
Honda ZC Cylinder Head Gasket
Honda ZC engine, the engine code of ZC actually is quite unique in Honda existing engine code pattern, but the list of Honda model that using ZC engine is not too short.
Let's see what we have the model list for ZC engine.
Honda CIVIC 1.6 EF2-300, EF5-100, Integra 1.6, Concerto 1.6 D5A-100, MA2, MA3, actually this is under SOHC engine, but the common DOHC ZC engine also having on CIVIC 1.6 EF3-100, EF3-120, EF3-110, EG5-100, under Integra 1.6 DA1, DA2, AV-130, and the CR-X 1.6 AS100, AU100 and AT100.
Monday, May 27, 2013
Honda SM4 Intake Manifold Gasket
For some Honda old model like SM4, SV4, CRV which using the F20A, F22A, B20A engine, you may noted that their intake manifold gasket may have one of the whole, is strengthen with the o-ring seal.
There must be some reason why they need to design a o-ring seal at that area, but to include the high quality seal on this area, this gasket cost will be much higher compare to those without it, so you may found those local manufacturer making the gasket without the seal.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Super GT Girl at Honda roadshow
While walking in the MidValley shopping mall today, just pass by a Honda roadshow which they showcase their latest CRV and Jazz Hybrid, surprisingly 2 Super GT girls turn up on the roadshow and having a chance to take some photo of them.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Nissan Latio 1.6 Head Set Gasket
A head set gasket for Nissan HR16DE engine, in Japan, found in Nissan Tiida model, in Malaysia, it is on the Nissan Latio 1.6 and Nissan Grand Livinia 1.6 model.
The latest Nissan Almera 1.5 in Malaysia market which using HR15DE engine, use most of the same gasket as in the HR16DE engine, oh yes, in such case, not to forget the Nissan NV200 van in Malaysia market, is power by HR15DE engine as well.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
SAAB 9000 Disc Brake Pad
Today job done on sourcing SAAB 9000 front disc brake pad for customer, looking forward to get some sourcing job tomorrow.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
A glance on Chery Eastar Full Set Gasket
The China made MPV Chery Eastar is selling in Malaysia, and it seem they put in their own China made engine, unlike for some model they may still using the old type of Japan made engine.
So since this is their own made engine, the OEM parts such as engine gasket will be China made as well, as you won't see this under the Japanese application catalog.
Friday, May 17, 2013
For all my fellow Parts Lover
Friday, May 10, 2013
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Toyota 1RZ Engine Oil Pump O-Ring
Some overhaul gasket set include oil pump o-ring in it some not. For Toyota 1RZ engine overhaul set gasket, it may have a reason to not include the oil pump o-ring in the gasket set.
It is because it may have 2 types of oil pump install on this engine, one of them have 8 holes on the oil pump itself and the other one having 9 holes, and for that using 9 holes oil pump, this oil pump can be seen on the 3RZ engine as well.
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Pet Sitter in Leicester
Hello, Need someone to walk/play with your dog while you work or go away on vacation? Having your dog at home alone when you have a 9-5 life can lead to a guilty conscience or a bored and unruly dog when your not home. You may also come home to an accident if your dog needed to use the bathroom and no one was home. This is why I am willing to break up that time by offering a service to walk, run, play with, let out, and possibly teach your dogs tricks for an hour every day you need me. Puppies are OK too. Why me? I have three dogs of my own; a Malamute, Husky, and German Shepherd. I walk and run them regularly, so I am experienced with big dogs and know how to deal with high-energy types. I have concern for high energy dogs who have to stay in all day; I know what kind of destructive behavior this can lead to. Also, my German Shepherd is about ten months old and I have taught him sit, stay, lay down, up, speak, drop it, shut the door, turn off the light, pick it up, say your prayers,wake him/her up, play dead, roll over, go to your mark, paw, spin around, and we are working on a couple of others. Helping a dog to learn to walk on a leash properly is also something I can aid you with. I have watched other people's dogs before too, and currently have several clients. If it is raining out I will be happy to play with your dog/puppy indoors for an hour and/or try and work on trick training. My price varies by your needs, such as how many times a day I need to come to your dog, if I need to take him/her home, etc. We can wok out a fair price. If you need a pet sitter while you go away on vacation I will be happy to either take your dog to my home (if the dog/puppy is friendly with other dogs) or spend a couple of hours each day with your dog, for breakfast/lunch/dinner, letting him/her in and out et cetra to which I am negotiable with prices. I can cater to the needs of those around the Leicester area, including Worcester, Auburn, Oxford, Paxton, Spencer, or Holden. Multiple dogs are OK, but realize an extra charge may be applied, how much so depends on the size of the dog(s) for I will either have to spend two or more hours if I cannot walk/play with them at the same time. If interested, my name is Johanna, feel free to e-mail or call/text me for pricing based on the job, details, questions, etc. If I do not answer a phone call please text or e-mail me.
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On a brighter note, this week we will be completing the first half of our curriculum! I can't believe we have made it half way through our first year already! We finished up The Family Under the Bridge a week or so ago and are currently reading Dr. Doolittle. I don't remember if I ever read the book when I was little or just heard the stories, anyway, it is a fun read (and I think the kids like it too :).
We finally made it through the Judges and are onto the Kings now, with David having just been anointed by Samuel. It is funny, reading through the judges, with every judge it said, "and the people followed God until (fill in judges name) died, and then they forgot what God had done and began worshiping idols again" and Regan would say "They started worshiping idols again!" She just can't figure out what is wrong with those Israelites! I guess that would be the time for me to mention that fact that she just did the thing that I told her not to do ten minutes ago, again. It is nice to think that we are better than the Israelites, always turning back to idols, but a quick inventory of our heart will tell us we are the same. The same except one thing, we have the fulfillment of the law, Christ, when they had only a promise of Him.
Regan and Micah are both making great progress on their reading. Regan just completed the 2nd of 3 readers for the year and Micah is reading through book 1 now. We are a little slower on Math, something I need to pick up the pace on, but Regan seems to have a pretty good handle on it and is doing well with our current curriculum. First grade math is proving a little too challenging for Micah, mostly in his ability to pay attention and not in his ability to figure it out if he tries. That is okay though, he does not need to do 1st grade math. Besides, he enjoys the math workbooks from the Dollar Tree just fine!
We started slow in Science, but are quickly catching up. Right now we are trying to grow carrots using carrot tops. So far nothing has happened, but it have been pretty overcast this week and I am having a hard time finding a sunny place to set them. I should use Regan's new camera and take some pictures for you all, they actually are not too bad as long as no one moves and the light is right. Next time.
I think that pretty much sums up where we are at. I will try and get some more pictures on soon.


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"The girl is taken to a shrine or a cemetery in the middle of the night, her finger nails are cut off, her pubic hair is shaved, a menstrual pad containing her blood is taken away, and then a piece of her clothing is removed," he said.
Is this:
(a) the latest Brazilian trend in grooming
(b) a planned challenge for VH1's "Charm School"
(c) sorority hazing
(d) part of a 'voodoo curse' used to force Nigerian girls into prostitution
If you guessed (d), you're sadly right:
Experts said the women were scared into submission because of a vow they were forced to take on the graves of their ancestors before they left Nigeria.
It's too bad this voodoo magic fell into unscrupulous hands, as one can easily imagine Nigeria being a much nicer place if ancestor-grave vows were used to commit people to
- Not blowing up oil pipelines
- Refraining from 419 scams
- Voting peacefully
- Not taking hostages
- Not stoning gays
However, since it's never going to get used for these things, I have no qualms about pointing out to Nigerian voodoo-believers that their religion is false.
Now, like anyone else writing a book, I hope to become rich and famous enough to own my own island and gold-plated rocket car. But if I can convince just one Nigerian girl that her religion is false and that no voodoo ritual can "destroy her soul" (since there's no such thing) and that she shouldn't listen to shamans trying force her into prostitution, it will all be worth it.


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Today - more than ever - food has become a central focus in our culture. It seems there are restaurants, delis, convenience stores, hot dog stands, and food trucks on every corner. A multitude of television shows are devoted to food, even several whole channels! Our culture's obsession with food is very complicated. Another post for another day.
On a personal level, I have always loved food. In grammar school, I would watch my mom prep dinner until she shoo'ed me out of the kitchen to do my homework. Growing up in a Chinese family, I could not avoid being a "foodie" if I tried! There is a Chinese or American holiday almost every month in which I gathered with my seven cousins and brother and aunts and uncles and grandparents to feast! In middle school, my enjoyment of cooking and baking went to a new level as I watched the CIA and Martin Yan cooking shows on PBS every Sunday from 3-5. In high school, I even contemplated attending culinary school! My emotional connection to food, driven by my meals with my extended family, is very strong. Eating is comfort in tough times and the mode of celebrating in good times.
Although I have luckily never had a severe weight problem, I can get carried away with food when I am stressed or unhappy. I'm sure you can relate - it can be a downward spiraling staircase. Eating when unhappy leads to jeans being a little tighter or unwearable which causes more unhappiness and leads to more eating.
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By Rabbi Howard Siegel
Source: Houston Chronicle
In every generation the same question is asked: Where is God? Seldom is there a satisfying answer. We celebrate a birth by proclaiming God's divine presence, a wedding by crediting God with a "match made in heaven" (even though reportedly 50% fail!), and we comfort mourners with the notion their beloved has been returned to his/her divine maker. So, is God "here" or "there" or "everywhere"? The simple answer is "yes" to all three. Still, I'm left asking, "Where is God" now?


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Telstra to dominate parliamentary week
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The Telstra sale will dominate parliament this week with the government planning to push through laws to sell its remaining stake in the telecommunications giant within the next fortnight.
But leadership tensions should be on hold for at least a week, with Treasurer Peter Costello out of the country for a visit to tsunami-ravaged Indonesia and the APEC finance ministers' meeting in Korea.
However, potential leadership aspirant Tony Abbott may come under fire for some insensitive jokes he made about John Brogden within 24 hours of the former NSW Liberal leader's apparent suicide attempt.
Mr Abbott has offered to apologise for telling a party function that the government "would be as dead as the former NSW Liberal leader's political prospects".
He also told a branch meeting that he had never made inappropriate jokes, pinched a woman on the backside or made inappropriate gestures to women.
Mr Brogden was rushed to hospital last Tuesday night, a day after resigning as leader after admitting to making inappropriate approaches to two women and calling former premier Bob Carr's Malaysian-born wife a "mail-order bride".
Meanwhile, Communications Minister Helen Coonan will introduce the Telstra sale legislation into the Senate.
She has no plans to allow the vote to be delayed by sending the legislation to a Senate committee for examination.
The government holds a one-vote majority in the upper house and should be able to have the legislation passed after winning Nationals support with a $3 billion package of sweeteners.
"They'll be introduced this week and I would think they will be debated for some considerable time. That's what the government expects," Senator Coonan told the Ten Network.
"But I'd certainly like to get a vote on the sale legislation and indeed all the other legislation, particularly the big spending packages that are attached to it that are going to look after consumers, by the end of the second week."
Opposition Leader Kim Beazley said Labor's strategy would be to hold the government accountable and maintain pressure on the Nationals.
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TM2885 : Roadsigns on the B1062 Flixton Road
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The inside with the bird pin cushion, the needle book and two zipped pockets, as well as some pockets for pens, scissors etc. The leather string can hold several thread spools.
Turned around and the back pocket is visible. A handy little bag and I'm happy to have it finally finished.
But it does need some sort of decoration on it, don't you agree? So since I had my felt and embroidery paraphernalia out anyway, that's what I did! The hardest part was to sew the felt to the plastic rim, but I managed it in the end (pricking myself in the finger a few times).


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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Sew Day Showoff
Tracey's Selvage wall hanging, LOVE the red.
What a fantastic day with a room full of creative, energetic, positive women. I wish I could have stayed until the end, but another group of friends came calling. Isn't it great when you have too many things to do with friends and not enough time?
Life is great!
6 comments:
- Barb said...
thanks for sharing so many wonderful project!
I love the embroidery
- October 17, 2012 at 6:00 AM
- Janet O. said...
So many wonderful projects! I'm seeing lots of selvage quilts on blogs lately, but nothing like that tree. Very unique!
How could you not slide down that CW Legacies vortex? : ) The shops around me never do BOM projects that I want to do. I think that one would have grabbed me!
The batik house is gorgeous!
Did I miss something? What were you working on?
- October 17, 2012 at 7:57 AM
- Jan said...
Great projects. Love the tablerunner! Would so like to find the center fabric. Such a great idea - must look at my stash of border prints to see what would work.
- October 17, 2012 at 12:23 PM
- Mimi said...
Wow...those are some talented ladies. Lucky you!!
- October 17, 2012 at 5:13 PM
- Tonya Alexander said...
Great fun! Glad you could join us Sharon!
- October 18, 2012 at 11:37 AM
- Linda O said...
What great projects! How did you resist those tiny BOM blocks? Soooo tempting.
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Recently Waitahuna School had an exciting trip to Dunedin to Sleep-Over at Otago Museum.
There were many new learning experiences including taking part in a lesson which complimented their classroom learning on the topic of 'minibeasts'. The children also had an Olympic challenge which involved much creativity and co-operation. At tea time they had pizza before spending time in Discovery World. Then supper was spent with the butterflies in the butterfly house. Later when it was dark they crept through the museum to the Animal Attic where they listened to Mrs Blackmore reading 'The Lawrence Lions' book. Sleeping bags were then rolled out in preparation for a good nights sleep at the Museum. In the morning they awoke to a very quiet museum with Waitahuna School being the only visitors. The children, teachers and parents were then allowed to spend the next hour on a Scavenger Hunt in the museum before packing cars and leaving for the Botanical Gardens. Our last stop was McDonald's for lunch before heading back to Waitahuna School.
We would like to thank the parents who accompanied us on the trip for their encouragement and ability to help and guide the children.
Thanks also goes to Southfuels and our local Southfuels sponsors—the commission we receive funded the cost of the sleepover.
Regards Vicki and Clare
Below is a report from the Senior Room of their experiences during the Sleep-Over at Otago Museum
1. CredeOn Thursday afternoon we were very excited as we travelled to Dunedin for our adventure.When we were all there we took our bags into the big room and unpacked them. Then we all had afternoon tea. After afternoon tea we had mini beast lessons. First we all had to get a plastic insect and had to find its real home at the displays in the Museum. Then some of us were going into a rock cave and there was a little statue of a man. Later we went to the Animal Attic to look at the spiders, insect legs and we got to do an activity on the ipad and look at minibeasts up close. We all had a go on the ipad and we had a look at big and microscopic insects.
2. AbbyThe games in Discovery World are the Bubble makers: you pull the string and the shape came up as a bubble, Mind ball: you have to think of nothing and you win. BUT! It was strange that player 1 always won, The giant piano: you step on the A, B, C, D, E, F, and G keys and you can play music like Congo (Congo, Congo, Congo and Congo was his name oh. The bottom less hole: you looked into a short hole and it looks HUGE! The air cannon: if you bang on the black leather air comes out the other end. Make your hand: if you put your hand in the bed of nails it will print on the other side. In discovery world we made lots of discoveries.
3. JakeThere we were in Otago Museum at 6.30 at night. I found Egyptian masks, Egyptian people of the past. But the scariest thing about the Egyptians is the one… the only… MUMMY. It was wrapped up in fabric. Then we did a group activity. We were all given a certain country that competes in the Olympics. We had to make an anthem, new game or event, and our country's new costume for the Olympic Games. My team had Greece and we invented a sport called 'Nile swimming'. It was very hard especially making an anthem. The different countries were Egypt, Congo, Japan and Greece. Afterwards we had to parade and show what we had made to the parents and teachers.
4. RebeccaAfter the excitement of the Olympic Challenge we had another surprise. We went to the Tropical Forest. As soon as we walked in it felt like it was one hundred degrees. There was a gecko sitting on a post and an Atlas moth. The Atlas moth does not have mouth so it can only stay alive for three days. I thought the Tropical Forest was very cool because the design is based in the inside of a volcano.
5. JackLater in the night we went for a nightwalk. We held on to each other's shoulders. We made a single file line about 10 metres long. I was at the back and I was creeped out. On the way to the Animal Attic I could make out a body. I screamed inside my head, we carried on. We walked past the People of the World exhibit, the Mummy coming to life popped into my head. We were now in the Animal Attic. We sat in the centre of the room in the dark. I felt 10 000 eyes watching me because- there were! The Museum Teacher read a story then… Rooarr! Screeamm! Howlll! scream! ooo aaa! screeaam!patter, patter patter! scream! I was so scared because we were in the pitch blackness with lots of screaming and I was right at the back of the pack. Then the lights turned on and then the story ended. We realised the noises were coming from the adults. Then we had a look around the Animal Attic. My favourite creature was the Japanese spider crab.
6. TyAfter Hannah the Museum Teacher read us the scary story, Mrs Blackmore read us another story. It's called The Lawrence Lions. Mrs Blackmore read us the story when the Attic was quite dark. People started to calm down. The story was true and Sultan and Sonia the Lawrence lions got to hear it in the Museum at night. We are the first kids who have read the story to the lions at night. Then we got our mattresses out and our pillow, sleeping bag, (some of us got our teddies). Some people got to sleep in 20 or 30 minutes, but I got to sleep in an hour.
7. BrynIt was Friday morning, a new day. We had breakfast then we went to the tropical forest. Then Jack, Jake, Lochie, Jayden, Paige and I went on a Scavenger Hunt. We found a Sri Lankan mask, yellow-eyed penguin, the mummy, the badilack stone, a great white sharks jaw, a Maori warrior and a boat. It was challenging but fun. Ms J was helping our group and she was good at the Maori questions
8. Hannah
Then we packed our bags and hopped in the cars. We went to the Botanic Garden to look at the aviary. There were lots of birds and there was even a cockatoo that could talk in English! But my favourite bird was the Golden McCaw. Then we went for lunch at McDonalds and then we went back to school.


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For our next prompt, I'd like you to write about a wedding. The wedding can be fictional or real; the only requirement? That a wedding appears at some point during your piece.
This is another segment from my novel, November Rain. For more, and to see where this fits in with the other segments I've posted, visit the page above.
The strangest scene played before Justice, and a faint, deadly tune was its soundtrack. A funeral?
No, there was no casket. But is sounded like a funeral. It felt like one. There was a congregation, but she wasn't a part of it, and every person sobbed. She stood before them, at the front of a chapel, and a priest was there, too. And so was Lily, Russell's sister that Justice had only met a few times. She and Justice were matching in dark purple gowns, the material stiff and constricting.
A wedding? The preacher started to speak, the deadly, funeral-like song still lingering in the background, and she looked around in order to find where it was coming from.
That was when she saw Raegan. Justice couldn't see her face, since Raegan was shrouded in a black veil, but there was no question in her mind that it was her best friend. Justice sensed her, sensed her familiar dismal energy that had a long time ago killed her sunny soul. Her dress was heavy and black, unfitting for the matrimony she was clearly a part of, but fitting for the person who wore it.
Even stranger was the man, Lucas, standing with her, his large dog loyally at his side. Lucas's hands grasped Raegan's tightly, and he looked desperate. Happy, but desperate.
Just as the preacher was about to ask Lucas if he took Raegan as his wife, Raegan shuddered with a sob and ran from him, down the aisle and through the large church doors. Justice wanted to go after her, but she couldn't move. And that music…
That damn tune still played in the background, and none of it made sense. Then her surroundings appeared hazy, the picture slipping away and leaving blackness in its place.
Still, the tune played.
She lay in her bed now, slowly coming to, and forced herself awake. Her phone was on her nightstand, coming to life with Raegan's personalized ringtone. A few months ago, Raegan had stolen Justice's phone and set it in an attempt to be morbidly funny: Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor—or better known as the Funeral March.


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Friday, 20 January 2012
You have to laugh!
I was just on the phone to Swiss about a flight we have booked with them. You should have heard the carry on- the man I was talking to was German and we both were getting really mixed up with German/English pronunciation of letters. it was really funny :0)
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