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What started in May of 2012 as an idea came to life on Friday evening in Lockhart, Texas at the Home Town Cinema, when the 'Become One' karting documentary premiered to a large audience just prior to the start of the Lone Star Grand Prix this past weekend. The creation of John Shofner and his dedicated crew is a documentary on the sport of karting, as John and his Shofner Films staff visited a number of karting events throughout the 2012 season with the sole purpose of producing a film that would introduce the sport to people around the world.
The project began officially with the support of industry members and karting enthusiasts, as they stepped up to raise money to fund the project. Through his Kickstarter page http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1415102938/become-one-karting-documentary ), over $40,000 was pooled to help support the financial costs of producing a film of this nature. The list of industry members who stepped up to back the dream included eKartingNews.com, Superkarts! USA, DRT Racing, One RaceGear, Bondurant SuperKart School, HPD/Honda Racing Development, MG Tires and many others.
The premier of the 'Become One' film was held in conjunction with the Lone Star Grand Prix, taking place on the Friday evening with EKN's Rob Howden on hand. Things didn't go as smoothly as they had hoped over the final day, as Shofner had to battle through some major production issues to get the Blue-ray disc to the theatre on time. As a result, the curtain call was postponed slightly, until a little later in the evening. It was well worth the wait.
There were also a couple issues with the projector and the formatting, but the imagery and the content was there. The film is the most incredible piece of karting promotion that I've seen in my 20 years in the sport. The footage is incredible, and the interviews with promoters, racers, parents and shop owners perfectly support the message and add personality to the presentation. There's so much real emotion in there. I can't wait to be able to watch the film at home on my big screen. This is the film that you are going to be able to use to show your friends who just don't quite get what you do. You tell them about karting, and they still can't get past the images of rental putt-putt karts or the indoor version of the equation. Once they sit down and see this film, they'll have a feel for the excitement, the passion, the people, the commitment, the physical demands and the thrill that karting provides us all. This film will educate the masses. It's that good.
The film will be made available to everyone by April 1. The people who stepped up and supported the film on Kickstarter will be provided with their download copy by March 15. For the rest of the karting community and the public, Shofner is working a film distribution website that will handle the sales of the film download, as well as products like the movie poster and the 'Become One' hat. Stay tuned to EKN for more information, and a One-on-One interview with John about the trials and tribulations of producing this important film. To keep you entertained, here is the trailer once again for your viewing pleasure ( http://youtu.be/EcVQ0RCnPHw ).


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Tuesday, 27 September 2011
We're standing in a line and she walks up and down. Her face is inscrutable, by which I mean it's on its default setting of pissed off, and we're wondering which of us is for the chop. I say which of us, but I know I'm safe, though some of the others are definitely not leaving on time tonight.
"Kate Simpson, Hannah Jones, you two stay behind. You've not even made an attempt to hide the fact you're caked in blusher".
She then gets a cotton wool pad, dips it in toner and begins wiping down our lashes - looking for that tell-tale black smear that denotes Rimmel's finest. Some girls are ahead of the game though - as well as the wondrous White Musk perfume, the Body Shop sells a clear gel mascara to foil such fascist tactics. Granted, its gluey formula makes them look like startled kittens with conjunctivitis, but it's guaranteed not to leave an inky trace.
As we wait our turn, it doesn't seem to occur to any of us that this is, if not an infringement of human rights, at least a violation of personal space, but it's a more innocent, less litigious time. And after another couple of girls get hoicked out of the line, the rest of us breathe a collective sigh of relief, and get our bags, and traipse home.
Like I said, I was never in danger of detention this way. I was the classic Tartrazine kid - you just had to show me something brightly-coloured and all around my mouth would bloom an angry, red rash. I resembled Bluto, Popeye's nemesis, which isn't the best look for a small, brown girl. It meant no ice lollies, no felt tips, no crayons, no Plasticine, no make-up, no fun.
My mother has never worn cosmetics, so it's not like they were constantly around me, but my dad's mother and sister were a good deal vainer, so whenever we'd visit them back in Mandalay, I'd linger by their dressing tables, entranced by the pots and bottles and lotions and potions which jostled for space.
My aunt gave me my first lipstick at the age of eight; it came in a fuchsia floral tube, smelt of cherries, and bizarrely the lipstick itself was green. But as soon as you swiped it over your lips, some kind of magic happened - the swampy green would blossom into pinkish red and I'd be left with the perfect rosebud mouth.
For a few moments, I was transformed into a princess, the prettiest girl around. Then I'd feel my skin start to tingle and itch and blister, and I'd grab a wad of tissue, wipe it away, and be back to being me.
Because of this unfortunate propensity, my fixation soon transferred from the perfumed contents to the trappings that surrounded it. The fuchsia floral tube of that first lipstick became supplanted by the sleek, navy lines of Max Factor, and then the shiny purple packaging of Maybelline, and then the matte black of Chanel.
It was utterly pointless - I couldn't wear any of it, but I was beginning to be consumed by the need to own as much beautiful make-up as possible, even as it began to moulder and go stale.
When the novelty cosmetic came onto my befuddled radar, I was really done for. Dior was a favourite - every season they'd reveal a new must-have, an immediate sell-out: the knuckleduster ring that swivelled to reveal a lipstick, the eyeshadow compact corsetted with black velvet ribbon, the blusher disguised as a smart leather purse.
I started stalking the counters in Selfridges, ready to pounce as soon as the next limited edition trinket was revealed. My acquisitions became manic - I even found myself bidding on eBay for the sold-out silver Dior dogtag with two contrasting shades of lipgloss (of course I had the gold one already).
Meanwhile, new formulations began to come in. Make-up brands began to cotton on to the fact that there was a whole world of face cripples out there like me, and they swapped out whatever the hell it was that was causing us so much pain and replaced it with a gentler version.
It was too late for me though - I'd become disassociated to the extent that I wouldn't dream of actually using the stuff - but I kept on buying. And buying. And buying.
I can't remember when the turning-point was. I must have caught a glimpse of myself in a mirror one day and realised that somewhere along the line the face that stared back at me wasn't a scrunched-up, awkward child, or a badly-fringed teenager, but that of a woman - a woman who had neglected her appearance somewhat. Who owned most of the make-up in the Western hemisphere, but hadn't the faintest idea how to apply it in any way.
I bit the bullet; I took myself to the Lancome counter and asked them for a full makeover. 45 minutes later, the lady stuck a mirror in front of me. A wonky Barbarella was staring back - sickly pink cheeks, lavender eyelids, powder peach lips. I stammered a thank you, left the counter and then scrubbed it all off with a wet wipe.
This was when I realised that the odds were still stacked against me - the make-up artists around hadn't a clue what to do if you weren't Caucasian, and none of the shades were really designed for an Oriental complexion anyway.
So I sighed and resolved I would try to sort myself out. I needed to start small though, and I decided I would just find a lipstick that suited me. It had to be long-lasting but moisturising, sexy but discreet, and most of all it had to be flattering. How hard could it possibly be?
Very hard. I think there's a special level of hell reserved for people who devise new make-up products - I swear all they do is come up with increasingly ludicrous claims before laughing and taking every penny I have.
Swayed by bold promises of "24 hour staying power", "collagen-plumping", or "skin adaptivity", I'd test all the colours on the back of my hand, excitedly buy the one that was The One, only to try it at home and find it did nothing of the sort. That it bled at the corners, or looked dire away from the shop lights, or smeared after a cup of tea, or faded to an ugly ring.
And never, ever, ever was it the perfect shade, the perfect red, the perfect one for me.
I don't know why this is in the past tense. I'm still looking for the right lipstick. And as soon as I do, it will be like that old cliche - when the straight-laced librarian undoes her bun and takes off her glasses, and everyone is in awe of just how beautiful she is. And at how they'd missed what was under their noses all along.
One swipe and it will turn me into a princess again. Into the prettiest woman around.
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I discovered as a kid of the eighties that, at that time, the make up houses weren't really aiming their shades at brown women, or at least, they'd started trying but not with great success.ReplyDelete
Luckily for me, crazy shades of silver and bright bright colours were in, and they actually looked better on my brown skin than they did on my white friends' faces.
So I did wear make up and nailpolish for a while, in my early teens with vague enthusiasm.
Though not to school, just for social events.
But I lost that interest really quickly... for a start, being so strongly myopic means my glasses make my (fairly large) eyes look teeny tiny. And mascara makes my lashes feel strange against the inside of my glasses.
For various reasons I can't wear lenses.
And I'm lucky with skin so never ever bought or used any foundation stuff.
And suddenly, by the time I was an adult, it had switched to me only wearing (rudimentary) make up for very special occasions.
Now, even for weddings, I'll sometimes grab my lone lipstick. It's symbolic really, as I eat it off within half and hour and seldom reapply even if I've thought to take it with me.
The brown eyeliner pencil I used as shadow is used less and less often.
I sometimes feel that friends think I'm less of a female for NOT having a vast collection of make up that I fuss over and carry subsets with me wherever I go. But I'm sure it's my reading thoughts that are not even there.
I'm make-up inadequate.
- Miss Whiplash27 September 2011 at 10:46
I'm not sure it's all down to brownness or lack thereof... Makeup (and particularly lipstick) looks extreme on people who don't wear it.ReplyDelete
I wear makeup on stage. And, very occasionally, on high days and holidays... To the outside world, it probably looks fine, but, to me, and anyone that knows me in normal life, I look like a clown or a painted lady.
And I definitely don't know how to wear lipstick. It's just too extreme. And I have no idea how not to just eat it off straight away.
I think that maybe, for some of us, it's just not meant to be.
And, in all honesty, I'd rather have the extra ten minutes in bed in the morning :-)
- Miss Whiplash27 September 2011 at 10:47
Of course, it doesn't stop me actually *buying* it... I'm still human ;-)ReplyDelete
@Kavey - I have lots of bright eyeshadows and eyeliners which are also slightly pointless on me because I don't really have eyefolds, but when I blink you can see the flashes of colour. Eye makeup makes me much happier. Foundation is something I've had to worry about more recently - my skin has been terrible for the past year or so :(ReplyDelete
@Miss Whiplash - Oh, I'm not suggesting people who aren't brown don't have problems finding make-up that suits them - I just mean we have a few more ;P
Apart from special occasions I've largely stopped wearing make up. I don't have a problem applying it, it looks nice when it's on but taking it off is the problem.ReplyDelete
3 years ago I realised I had become allergic to virtually every eye make up remover (and sadly YSL touche eclat too) going. They either make my skin go bright red or irritate my eyes badly.
I had my eyelashes tinted once and it gave me a delightful condition called "giant pippillary conjunctivitis" which is basically bumps under the eyelids that only the option can see if they turn your eyelids inside out (nice experience).
Oh yawn and I get terrible heat rash in the sun... and I'm allergic to spray tan and fake bake creams.
Good job I'm not a footballer's wife really....
I dont often wear make-up but when I do, the lipstick is my first port of call!... loads of it!... love the new look blog! xReplyDelete
If you are sensitive mineral make is your friend. Lily Lolo do all shades and there is (or at used to be) a salon on the Edgeware Road where they would colour match you.ReplyDelete
My skin is horrible at the moment, wretched rosacea which I thought I had fixed.
Make up manufacturers are better now at creating ranges for different ethnic groups/ skin tones than they were, from what my relatives tell me...ReplyDelete
MiMi I really like when you wear that thin line of bright bright turquoise colour on your eyes. Sabrina wears it too. It suits both of you, I think it's gorgeous and almost tempts me to give make up another go.
But I'm lazy at heart and wearing makeup would be the least of the things I should address if I want to make myself look visually better.
- Anonymous27 September 2011 at 14:52
I look like a distressed panda whenever I try to wear eye make up but I love a good lipstick. I actually found a site recently that sells only red lipstick, and only in 4 shades- which for me is actually perfect as I get so confused when confronted with endless rows of slightly differing colours :SReplyDelete
I chose the 'Rockette Red' which is good for paler skin but it says the 'Hot Rod Red' and 'Roulette Red' are good for darker skin tones. Maybe one of those would work for you?
(PS- I really hope I don't sound like I work for these people or something. I just wanted to share the spoils of my quest to find a great red lipstick!)
@Sarah, Maison Cupcake - I think we're very glad you're not a footballer's wife! Ooh, that's bad being allergic to make-up remover. Baby lotion is what I use.ReplyDelete
@Dom @Belleau Kitchen - Oh thank you! Also - pictures please? :)
@Helen - I've not heard of Lily Lolo. Will Google the salon too, thank you.
@Kavey - Awww, I do like that eyeliner - it's Bourjois Nightclubbing! ;P
@Anonymous - I think I read about them recently somewhere - thanks for the tip! :)
sigh... I am a makeup shopping addict - its about the only thing I have patience for (shopping wise)!ReplyDelete
I used to do makeup for The Body Shop when I was 16 - 18 every Saturday. I must admit, I made some women look like they stepped out of Rosemary's Baby (and myself too).
Maybe we can go together one day, I am quite good at it now, would love to suggest some things to you if you would let me x
I cannot fathom how anyone gets lipstick to stay on! Other than dyeing your lips I guess?ReplyDelete
My mum used to work for the Avon factory and the 25p eyeshadows, mascaras and nail polish is the reason I love make up, but mainly cheap make up. We had the biggest make up collections as teenagers.
@LELUU - Oh, yes please - I'd love for you to take me make-up shopping! xReplyDelete
@Deepa - Lipstains are the closest - I also like the staying power of Max Factor Lipfinity - though the one shade I liked (103 Powerful) got discontinued! Lucky you re Avon :)
- LaFlafster27 September 2011 at 22:36
I remember that lipstick! I had some too! (sorry v excited punctuation)ReplyDelete
Also for a fellow non-pink skin, have you tried Bobbi Brown? I finally have a concealer that blends in. AND they were amazingly flattering (and I spent a fortune) ooh look, this makes you look SO pretty. And it did, like myself but with 100 years more sleep.
- Anonymous27 September 2011 at 23:12
Love this post - looking forward to more non-food stuff :)ReplyDelete
BTW, did you see Sali Hughes' post in the Guardian a couple of weeks ago about 'six lipsticks that suit everyone'?
Like Kavey, I am make-up inadequate. The few bits I do own are probably out of date. I'm just awful at putting it on. And lazy. If I ever get my eyes lasered, I might start wearing eye make-up again. I'm a bad one for getting mascara on my eyeball though, so that might not be the best idea.ReplyDelete
Love the mental image of startled kittens with conjunctivitis!
@LaFlafster - Hehe, a Vietnamese lady told me the same thing! Weird we all had the same first lipstick. 100 years more sleep is exactly what I want but everything in Bobbi Brown just seems so dull to me (I'm a magpie).ReplyDelete
@usingmainlyspoons.com - Aww, I'm glad - I thought people would be put off. Have bookmarked that list, thank you!
@Suzler - I at least can wear contacts - but like you and Kavey I don't bother with eye make-up when I have my specs on.
- Miss Whiplash28 September 2011 at 09:17
I bought a Tom Ford lipstick yesterday... I am a junkie :-(ReplyDelete
- Anonymous30 September 2011 at 05:41
Don't stop buying lipstick, or any other cosmetics for that matter! You're the reason I have such a vast makeup collection myself. And I'd be much less inclined to actually go to a counter and buy it myself.I've benefited from your rejects for years!But I do hope you find that perfect shade one day.(Magayle)ReplyDelete
@Miss Whiplash - Whoa, Tom Ford lipsticks are uber-expensive!ReplyDelete
@Anonymous - Awww :) x
Coming out of retirement to say that that is an absolutely brilliant post. It's the female equivalent of me at 16 liftng weights, shifting crates around as a Summer job and then thinking "why?"... I had muscles all over ....ReplyDelete
My personal fetish is buying spices; I buy far too much and far too many... Also moisturisers...


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In a typical mortgage rate pricing pattern, you will usually see a spread of around 1% in a rate comparing a 30-year fixed rate mortgage with an adjustable-rate mortgage such as a 5/1 ARM. For example, borrowers on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace are currently being quoted rates of 3.24% for 30-year fixed mortgages and 2.4% for 5/1 ARMs.
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Switching to a fixed-rate loan would allow you to rest assured that your principal and interest payments would remain consistent throughout the life of the loan, whether you own the home for another three years or 30.
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The Ocala City Council by a vote of 4-0 on Tuesday bumped up slightly the city's tentative 2013-14 tax rates on most properties in order to collect the same amount of revenue it did this year.
The Ocala City Council by a vote of 4-0 on Tuesday bumped up slightly the city's tentative 2013-14 tax rates on most properties in order to collect the same amount of revenue it did this year.
The council set the tentative 2013-14 millage rate for the basic city at the rolled-back rate of 6.2502 mills, or $6.25 for every $1,000 of taxable value. That is a 1.6 percent increase over the current rate of 6.1502 mills, or $6.15 per $1,000 of taxable value.
The millage rate is the rate that is used to calculate property taxes. A mill is equal to $1 for every $1,000 of taxable value.
At the rolled-back rate set tentatively by the City Council on Tuesday, a person who owns a home valued at $150,000, minus a $50,000 homestead exemption, would pay $625 in city property taxes, or a $10 increase over the current tax.
The council also set the tentative 2013-14 millage rates for the three downtown development districts at the rolled-back rates.
For District A, that rate is 1.5967, for District B it is 1.7013, and for District C that rate is 1.2810 per $1,000 of taxable value.
District A's tentative rate for 2013-14 is lower than the current rate of 1.6461 per $1,000 of taxable value. The tentative rates for District B and District C are higher than the current rates of 1.6542 and 1.2332 respectively.
These rates, which were recommended by the city staff, are only tentative rates.
The City Council also set two public hearings to adopt the millage rates and a tentative budget. The first is on Sept. 3. The second and final hearing will be Sept. 17. Both hearings will be at 5:05 p.m. in City Council chambers on the second floor of City Hall, 110 SE Watula Ave., Ocala.
"The rates the council sets today is the ceiling," Cindy Kelley, the city's deputy director of budget and finance, told the council. "Council has the option to reduce that rate at the first public hearing in September."
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You can choose one or both of the two songs to remix. The original tracks were produced by Cab Canavaral. All styles of entries are welcome – we don't want to limit your creativity! The deadline to send in your remix is august 31st!
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Gold futures closed near a one-week high on Wednesday after U.S. senators reached a deal to end the government shutdown and raise the nation's debt limit.
Gold for December delivery GCZ3, +0.95% climbed $9.10, or 0.7%, to settle at $1,282.30 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange after slipping 0.3% on Tuesday. That was the highest settlement price since Oct. 10, according to FactSet data.
December silver SIZ3, +0.00% rose 17 cents, or 0.8%, to $21.37 an ounce, following a loss of 0.8% a day earlier.
Gold prices saw the bulk of their gains Wednesday afternoon, buoyed by the "gold market's confidence that the global economy will not experience a negative shock from a U.S. debt default," said Jason Rotman, president of Lido Isle Advisors. "This global growth could potentially further drive demand for the precious metal, especially at these levels below $1,300."
However, the latest Federal Reserve survey released Wednesday showed that about a third of the country was experiencing slower growth in September and early October. The survey, also known as the Beige Book, was released shortly after gold trading closed on Comex.
Gold climbed on Comex despite some strength in the U.S. dollar, "which is unconventional" and shows that gold may be at oversold levels, Rotman said. The dollar index DXY, +0.36% rose on the back of hopes for an end to the government shutdown and debt-ceiling issue, then pulled back.
U.S. senators announced a deal Wednesday that would finance the government until Jan. 15 and raise the borrowing limited until Feb. 7, with lawmakers required to hammer out a long-term budget plan by Dec. 13. The Senate and House still need to vote on the agreement.
Media reports said House Speaker John Boehner will bring to the floor whatever bill the Senate passes to open the government and lift the U.S. debt ceiling.
If the U.S. Senate extends the borrowing limit until February and funds the government through mid-January, as has been reported, "the uncertainty will thus continue for the foreseeable future, although risk assets could nonetheless benefit from a relief rally," said Fawad Razaqzada, technical analyst at GFT Markets.
A temporary fix would also imply the Federal Reserve may hold off tapering quantitative easing for another few months at the very least, which should give risk assets a further boost, Razaqzada said in daily commentary.
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Meanwhile, in their physical form, precious metals continue to find solid demand, he said. "China and India remain the major forces in this regard" despite the continuing intervention by the Indian government, which has raised the import duty on the metals many times in the past several months. "Ahead of the festival and wedding season in India, physical premiums are continuing to rise which point toward higher import levels," he added.
Gene Arensberg, editor of the Got Gold Report, said the market is seeing too much buying of physical gold in Asia.
"Premiums in India shot up to near record levels" recently and "I am coming to the conclusion that the confusion in Washington is not playing well with holders of U.S. dollar denominated debt, so gold is a beneficiary of their fears."
Couple that with general knowledge on the street that some of the big commodity-trading banks have a very public short position on gold, "and you have the makings of a squeeze play trying to get started," said Arensberg.
A fall in confidence among U.S. home builders in October to the lowest level in four months failed to provide any support for gold. Prices for the metal fell immediately after news Wednesday that the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo housing-market index fell to 55 from 57 in September.
On Tuesday, gold nailed down its fifth loss out of six sessions as traders mulled the lawmaker tug-o-war, holding on to hopes of a deal getting hammered out this week.
On Comex Wednesday, December high-grade copper HGZ3, +0.00% closed little changed at $3.31 a pound but January platinum US:PLF4 rose $14.80, or 1.1%, to $1,398.20 an ounce and December palladium US:PAZ3 tacked on $7.25, or 1%, to $713.55 an ounce.
In afternoon dealings, metals mining stocks traded lower despite a broad rally in equities. The Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index XAU, -1.39% shed 0.7%. The gold-backed SPDR Gold Trust exchange-traded fund GLD, +0.07% slipped 0.1%.
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"My Fair Lady," long considered the "greatest musical of all time," will return to the Laredo stage after a 50 year absence when the Laredo Theater Guild International (LTGI) opens the finale of its fifth season at TAMIU's Center for the Fine and Performing Arts (CFPA) Theater.
"My Fair Lady" begins its general run Friday, July 18 through Sunday, July 27. It will debut with a an Ascot Gala Premiere on Thursday July 17, with a special catered reception sponsored by Women's City Club of Laredo and the Fernando A. Salinas Charitable Trust, Javier Santos Trustee in the following the show.
Tickets for the Ascot Gala Premiere are $50, which includes the post-show catered reception, with proceeds toward LTGI programs and scholarships. Tickets for the rest of the run are $20 for general admission and $15 for students and seniors (65+) with valid ID, with 8 pm curtain on weekdays (no show Monday) and Saturdays and 3 p.m. on Sundays. All tickets are available for advance purchase at Blue Top located at 101 Hillside Rd #11; at Primped, The Style Bar, 7718 McPherson Road Suite #1, and at the TAMIU Bookstore, as well as at the box office one hour prior to each show, assuming the show is not sold out.
Producer Arciniega noted the show's history for Laredo audiences.
"The last time My Fair Lady was produced in Laredo was almost 50 years ago when former LTGI Board member, the late Sam Johnson, produced and directed it starring Hortense Offerle and Stanley Keilson, with Elmo Lopez, Sr. as conductor of the orchestra. That performance inaugurated the Laredo Civic Center Auditorium. In honor of that and of them, we are going all out with the most sumptuous costumes and stage sets that we have ever displayed, and a cast of Laredo musical theater favorites to thrill our theatergoers," Arciniega said.
The much revered Broadway musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion is set in Edwardian London. It focuses on Henry Higgins, an arrogant, self-centered professor of phonetics who decides on a bet to prove his theories of linguistics by transforming the speech, appearance, and manner of a rough Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, into a refined young lady that others assume to be "of royal blood."
My Fair Lady, starred Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews in 1956, but remains within Broadway's top 20 longest running musicals of all time. The motion picture starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn premiered 50 years ago in 1964, and is a global film favorite today.
LTGI and producer Joe Arciniega have gathered Laredo's top production talents, with Veronica Ramirez (Cinderella) as director, LPO maestro Brendan Townsend as musical director and conductor of the live orchestra, Cristina Greco as choreographer, Dr. Joe Crabtree as choral director, Vernon Carroll as technical Director, Teena Arciniega as costumer and Telissa Lueckenotte Molano as stage set designer. All lend their talents to make this a grand musical spectacle like LTGI's past musical triumphs Hairspray, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, and Annie.
Starring are Kristelle Martin (Cinderella) in the title role as Eliza Doolittle, Vernon Carroll as Colonel Pickering, John Maxstadt as Alfred P. Doolittle, and returning to the stage as a performer in a musical for the first time since 2010's The Sound of Music, Joe Arciniega as Professor Henry Higgins.
Also in the cast are Dawn Kellerman, Armando Elizondo, Carllyn Walker, Daniel Castillo, Margaret Medellin, Irma Reyes, Cindy Stewart, Cecilia Castillo, Hector Rios, Joseph Carnes, Karol Batey, Ricky Castillon, Gayle Akers Rodriguez, Leti Cantu, Brian Manning, Margo Paz, Margaret Sharp, Martin Beckelhymer, Bianca Ibarra, Michael Gonzalez, Alejandro Mejia, Yarisely Benero, Andrea Briones, Sofia Briones, Kathryn Carroll, Rebecka English, Rodolfo Gonzalez, Debbie Hernandez, Kelsey Jimerson, Ruby Marcelo, Angel Ortiz, and Mauricio Vargas.
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Greenwich beats Trumbull behind strong defense to reach FCIAC volleyball semifinals
By Emery Filmer
TRUMBULL — It has probably been said a million times in regard to the major team sports: Good pitching beats good hitting; a strong defense willstop a high-scoring offense; a hot goalie can shut down a top offensive team.
Well, it's true in volleyball, too, as was the case in Tuesday's FCIAC quarterfinals. Greenwich's defense was indeed the difference in the Cardinals' 3-1 victory over Trumbull.
"We are one of the top offensive teams in the FCIAC but they returned everything," Trumbull coach Tamara DeBerry said after Greenwich's 25-16, 25-9, 23-25, 25-16 victory. "Their defensive play really frustrated us, and when we got frustrated our communication went down, and when that happened our game suffered."
Led by Mirei Kato, Xanthi Katsigiannis and Ebba Mark, the fifth-seeded Cardinals (15-4) now get another shot at undefeated Darien (19-0), which beat Ridgefield Tuesday, in Wednesday's semifinals.
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Greenwich and Darien will meet at 7 p.m. at Fairfield Ludlowe today with a share of the league title at stake. Thanks to Hurricane Sandy, which pushed the playoffs back one week, the semifinal winners will be crowned co-champs because the state tournament will begin Thursday, with the pairings announced today.
"If our defense is as good against Darien as it was today, we will certainly give them a good game," Greenwich coach Steve Lapham said. "This was our best defensive effort of the season today. Trumbull was pounding the ball at us all day and we kept returning it. That had to frustrate them."
Kato had 14 kills, 11 assists, 11 service points, 13 digs and three aces for Greenwich, which lost to Trumbull 3-2 on Oct. 10. Katsigiannis had 28 assists, 19 service points, nine digs and four aces while Mark had 11 kills, three digs and two aces. Liza Johnson added 10 service points, eight kills, three aces and two blocks and Jenny Cespedes had six blocks and three kills.
"They just outplayed us," DeBerry said. "They wanted to redeem themselves after we beat them and they had the momentum on their side. They also didn't have No. 9 (Kato) the last time we played them. She is one of the best players in the state."
Greenwich jumped out to a 12-2 lead in Game 1 behind Katsigiannis, who had 11 service points, and never led by fewer than eight the rest of that game. The momentum carried over to Game 2, which was never close.
Trumbull (14-5), the fourth seed, was led by Kylie Moser (10 kills, 18 digs, 13 service points, two aces), Christy Halls (nine kills, five digs), Caitlyn Longwell (16 assists, 12 service points, five digs, three kills) and Anna Bivona (eight service points). The Eagles grabbed a 10-5 lead in Game 3 and hung on for the two-point win. They were within 12-10 in Game 4 and another five-game match looked to be in the offing, but Greenwich's Gennifer Pflug served for five consecutive points, and the Cards were on their way to the semifinals.


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Deval Patrick says he would not resign as governor to become President Obama's attorney general
Governor Deval Patrick said today he would not resign his current office to become US attorney general for President Obama's second term.
"No,'' the governor told the Globe when asked the question after he participated in a forum for an audience of Boston business leaders.
"I like what I do, and I have more that I want to accomplish in the next two years,'' Patrick added. "And then I promised [my wife] Diane that I'd go back into the private sector, and I'm going to keep that promise.''
Obama, Patrick, their wives, and about a dozen others shared what was billed as a "social dinner'' last Friday at the White House. The president had been reelected three nights earlier, and Patrick had served as a surrogate campaigner.
The governor said the evening "was about laughing and drinking and telling stories,'' but there was no conversation about him joining the Cabinet.
Patrick's term expires in January 2015.


text: I thought I would share an unpleasant experience - surviving a double disk failure with raid 5. We have >1000 core cluster, 130TB lustre setup and obviously a lot of spindles. Our lustre is a "cheap" scalable setup, 30 oss's with software raid 5. So what happens when you get a double disk failure in an OSS? Well the md device drops, lustre on the OSS obviously can't write to disk and clients start getting errors. In Australia we say "it's gone balls up". How to recover without losing (much) data? Well first let me say I generally hate hardware raid solutions. Have a double disk failure and your stuffed. Rebuild the lun, rebuild you fs and say sorry to your clients/customers. It isn't fun, trust me, been there done that. Not fun at all. I love software raid. First you get a real CPU and lots of memory behind your raid controller and a real os which allows you to recover from double disk failure. Ok. So what did we do? First we noted which sectors gave the error and shutdown. Then remove one of the failed disks and put in a new one. Boot up and your md device won't start - you have 1 failed disk and 1 new disk. Ok. This is where Linux is great. Find the bad sectors and check they are faulty with dd, by reading a few mb around the failed sectors. Make sure you know the smallest block of corruption. Now dd over the top of the corruption causing the disk to reallocate those sectors. Ok, now force assemble the raid device and rebuild/resync onto the new disk. Sure you will not have a coherent fs any more but you will have most of your data. Once the raid rebuilds your new disk should be a byte for byte replica of the first disk you removed except for the area you dd'd over. Now shutdown and remove the failed disk and put the first failed disk back in and reboot. Stop the raid device (which should have started in degraded mode) and dd the appropriate sectors from the failed disk to the new disk replacing the corrupt-rebuilt area (hopefully this works, and you didn't suffer the dubble failure at exactly the same place on both disks). Then shutdown again and put another new disk in. Reboot and rebuild/resync your raid device onto the 2nd new disk. Now, of course, a fsck and lustre fsck and you are back in action. Possibly with a MB or two of bad data. File system recovered. Restart lustre and all you clients go through recovery and hopefully overwrite any bad data in your file system. Jobs which failed, rerun and again hopefully overwrite the small area that may have been corrupt. Hopefully all is ok. What are the lessons learnt? Well with software raid Linux is both your friend and enemy. The behaviour of md got us in this mess. When md gets an error on read it recovers the data from the other disks and re-writes the blocks to the failed disk hoping the disk will reallocate. You do get a warning saying that md encountered a recoverable error. So you think it is ok. BUT the disk still failed on read and you haven't swapped it out. Some time later when another disk fails hard and you get a failed read on your other dodgy disk md sees 2 failed disks. And it's all over. My advice: don't let Linux collude with the disk vendors and reduce your reliability. Swap any disk that gets a correctable error on read. Reallocation on write is fine not on read. The disk has failed. Tim, your a genius. Thanks mate. Once I land back in the country, cold beers all round. -- Stu Midgley sdm900 at gmail.com


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Has anyone heard of a filterless system. Apprently, its a new technology. It can be installed on the incoming water pipe/loo externally and is just an electrical gadget. It does purify but only uses electric energy to remove impurities. They say this is good as it does not remove minerals from the water and is also economical as it does not waste any water.
I heard it can be bought for approx. $300. Anyone heard of it? Any details?


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A Student in Arms
Editor of The Spectator
E. P. Dutton & Co.
THERE is nothing in literature rarer as there is nothing more attractive than the note of originality. We can all of us now make fairly good copies, but unfortunately a copy, however accomplished, is always a copy. In literature, moreover, we do not merely have first-hand copies of great models, but copies of copies of copies. Smith does not model himself on Stevenson direct, but upon Jones, who again copies from Robinson, who derives through Brown, White, Black, Green, Thompson, and Jackson. What the reader of these Essays, if he has any instinct for letters, will at once observe is the absence of the imitative vein, not only in the presentation of the thoughts but in the thoughts themselves. The Student in Arms cannot, of course, find essentially new subjects for his pen. It is far too late to be ambitious in that respect. Besides, in dealing with war and the men who go forth to battle, he must necessarily treat of the great fundamental and eternal realities---of life, death, the love of man for his fellows., sacrifice, honor, courage, discipline, and of all their effects upon human conduct. It is in his handling of his themes, in the standpoint from which he views them. that the Student shows the originality of which I speak. The way in which he manages to escape the conventional in word and thought is specially noteworthy. Most men nowadays can only achieve freedom here at a great price---the price of persistent effort. The Student in Arms, like the Apostle, had the felicity to be born free. Nature appears to have endowed him with the gift of seeing all things new. He perpetually puts things in a fresh light, and yet this light is not some ingenious pantomime effect. It has nothing forced or theatrical or fantastic about it. It is the light of common day, but shed somehow with a difference.
I would rather leave it at that, but if I must try and push my analysis farther, I should say that the special quality of mind that the Student in Arms has brought to his anatomy of the mind and soul of the British soldier---the Elizabethans would have called his book The Soldier Anatomized---is his sense of justice. That is the keynote, the ruling passion, of all his writing. There is plenty of sternness in his attitude. He by no means sinks to the crude antinomianism of "to understand all is to pardon all." His ideal of justice is, however, clearly governed by the definition that justice is a finer knowledge through love. He loves his fellow man, and especially his fellow soldier, even while he judges him. That is why his judgments, though they are meant to be and are practical reports on the mind of the soldier, are in the best sense, works of art. They have in them the essential of all art---passion. It is not enough to say there is no art where there is no passion. Wherever there is passion there is art.
Beyond this originality of view, this finely tempered sense of justice through love, and this passion and so creative force, there is a genial sense of humor and a scholarly feeling for words, which sent the Student in Arms forth wonderfully equipped for the task he has chosen. He is the critic in shining armor who stands guardant regardant beside the soldier in the field.
What is his task? Consciously or unconsciously, I know not which it is, to interpret the British soldier to the nation in whose service he has laid down his life, and dared and done deeds to which the history of war affords no parallel. One rises from the Student's book with a sense that man is, after all, a noble animal, and that though war may blight and burn, it reveals the best side of human nature, and sanctifies as well as destroys. A passage from one of the articles will show what I mean better than any attempt to anatomize the anatomizer. Here is a picture full of humor, friendliness, and power, of how the "lost sheep" in a Kitchener battalion, what the uninspired and unseeing man would call "the wastrels," take their training---
Kitchener battalion."
They plunged headlong down the stony path of glory, but in their haste they stumbled over every stone!, And when they did that they put us all out of our stride, so crowded was the path. Were they promoted? They promptly celebrated the fact in a fashion that secured their immediate reduction. Were they reduced to the ranks? Then they were in hot water from early morn to dewy eve, -md such was their irrepressible charm that hot water lost its terrors. To be a defaulter in such merry company was a privilege rather than a disgrace. So in despair we promoted them again. hoping that by giving them a little responsibility we should enlist them on the side of good order and discipline. Vain hope! There are things that cannot be overlooked, even in a "
We see the men before our very eyes in the light of the camp. Now see the Student's revelation of them as they stand in the glory of battle
what could they do but smile?
Then at last we "got out." We were confronted with dearth, danger, and death. And then they came to their own. We could no longer compete with them. We stolid respectable folk were not in our element. We knew it. We felt it. We were determined to go through with it. We succeeded; but it was not without much internal wrestling, much self-conscious effort. Yet they who had formerly been our despair, were now our glory. Their spirits effervesced. Their wit sparkled. Hunger and thirst could not depress them. Rain could not damp them. Cold could not chill them. Every hardship became a joke. They did not endure hardship, they derided it. And somehow it seemed at the moment as if derision was all that hardship existed for! Never was such a triumph of spirit over matter. As for death, it was, in a way, the greatest joke of all. In a way, for if it was another fellow that was hit it was an occasion for tenderness and grief. But if one of them was hit, O Death, where is thy sting? O Grave, where is thy victory? Portentous, solemn Death, you looked a fool when you tackled one of them 1 Life? They did not value life 1 They had never been able to make much of a fist of it. But if they lived amiss they died gloriously, with a smile for the pain and the dread of it. What else had they been born for? It was their chance. With a gay heart they gave their greatest gift, and with a smile to think that after all they had anything to give which was of value. One by one Death challenged them. One by one they smiled in his grim visage, and refused to be dismayed. They had been lost; but they had found the path that led them home; and when at last they laid their lives at the feet of the Good Shepherd,
With all sincerity a Commander of today might parody Wolfe and declare that he would rather have written that passage than win a general action.
The Spectator Office.
THE articles which follow owe their existence mainly to two persons, of whom one is the Editor of the Spectator, and the other is---not myself, at any rate. It was the second who made me write them in the beginning, and it was Mr. Strachey who, by his constant encouragement and kindness, constrained me to continue them. If there is, as he says, any freshness and originality in them., it is the result, not of literary genius or care, but of an unusual point of view, due to an unusual combination of circumstances. So let them stand or fall ---not as the whole truth, but as an aspect of the truth. In them fact and fiction are mingled; but to the writer the fiction appears as true as the fact, for it is typical of fact---at least in intention.
My thanks are due, not only to the Editor of the Spectator, who is godfather to the whole collectively, and to nearly every article individually, but also to the proprietors of the Westminster Gazette, to whose courtesy I am obliged for permission to include "Kitchener's Army" and "The Cockney Warrior."


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Castillo a fascinating add to Boston's 2015 lineup
The Red Sox got better and more interesting on Saturday. In the end, that's all that matters, right? As for sorting out who plays where, forget about it. That's the fascinating part in all of this.
The Nation should love watching Cuban outfielders Rusney Castillo and Yoenis Cespedes play together, hopefully for a few years. Here's what John Farrell's lineup card might look like on Opening Day next April:
The Red Sox got better and more interesting on Saturday. In the end, that's all that matters, right? As for sorting out who plays where, forget about it. That's the fascinating part in all of this.
The Nation should love watching Cuban outfielders Rusney Castillo and Yoenis Cespedes play together, hopefully for a few years. Here's what John Farrell's lineup card might look like on Opening Day next April:
1. Rusney Castillo, CF.
2. Dustin Pedroia, 2B.
3. Yoenis Cespedes, LF.
4. David Ortiz, DH.
5. Mike Napoli, 1B.
6. Allen Craig, RF.
7. Brock Holt, 3B.
8. Xander Bogaerts, SS.
9. Christian Vazquez, C.
This could be a nice upgrade for a club that has been one of the worst offensive teams in baseball this season. But this lineup has just two left-handed hitters -- Holt and Ortiz -- so Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington might have more significant moves in mind.
He has plenty of options. Third baseman Will Middlebrooks and center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. are still young guys and might yet be the impact players the Red Sox once projected them to be. Shane Victorino, Mookie Betts and Daniel Nava could also end up in the mix.
If Craig ends up the odd man out and the Red Sox have an outfield of Bradley, Castillo and Cespedes, it would be one of the best defensive groups on the planet. Regardless, Cherington has roster flexibility he didn't have a few weeks ago. He will attempt to add a veteran starter to his rotation -- Max Scherzer? James Shields? -- and probably make a decision on whether he thinks Clay Buchholz can still turn his career around while with the Red Sox.
Just a month ago, Cherington looked at his roster and wondered how it would generate enough offense to get back in contention in 2015. He could see quality pitching depth -- Anthony Ranaudo, Brandon Workman, Allen Webster, etc. He couldn't see runs.
Cherington has had himself a gutsy, productive few weeks, trading his top two starting pitchers, Jon Lester and John Lackey, to acquire Cespedes and Craig. In doing so, he did one of the toughest things any organization can do. First, he made a blunt assessment that the Red Sox would not be going back to the playoffs in 2014. Rather than pretend otherwise, he aggressively began remaking his baseball team.
Even with the addition of Joe Kelly in the Craig deal with the Cardinals, Cherington created two huge holes in his rotation. But he saw an offseason free-agent market that has quality starting pitching available, and very little offense.
On Saturday, Cherington acquired another offensive weapon by signing the 27-year-old Castillo to a seven-year, $72.5-million deal. Considering the immediate impact of three recent Cuban signees -- Yasiel Puig (Dodgers), Jose Abreu (White Sox) and Cespedes -- it's easy to get excited by seeing Castillo play.
Scouts say he's more a top-of-the-order guy who will not hit home runs the way Cespedes and Abreu have. But he might hit double-digit home runs and will play very good defense. Seeing how he has added 20 pounds since 2012, the last time he was in live competition, there are plenty of questions about what kind of player he'll be.
But the intensity of the bidding speaks volumes about the productivity teams think Castillo is capable of bringing to a winning team.
Cespedes and Castillo will both impact games, probably in different ways. Castillo is a speed guy who might hit double-digit home runs. He should be an above-average defensive player capable of playing either center or right.
Cespedes is a middle-of-the-order presence who can change games in an instant, and because of that, he could impact almost the entire lineup.
Whatever other moves Cherington has in mind, a No. 1 starting pitcher should be at the top of his shopping list. So even after a month of impressive work, there's more to do. But he's off to a great start.
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U.


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|16th May 2012, 20:45
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Wow, there is a lot to digest......
Like any new endeavor it is easy to get overwhelmed early on. I am re-discovering this after a lifetime of being overwhelmed initially by new projects. This undertaking, I knew up front, would be much the same if not actually worse!
I had heard the part about dust and grit on your tracks and this does concern me somewhat because I have a dusty house. Hey, I am a bachelor. Dust is part of our life. It's part of our caves. It's part of our cooking. Heck bachelors understand dust and realize that if we leave it alone and make no sudden movements it will lie there quietly. Now I find with N Scale I will have to re-assess my relationship with my domestic dust! Not too bad until you look under my sofa....... that's gonna take some dust bunny negotiations!
Anyway, I didn't post this to try to be funny. I wanted to know something about track considering my re-learning this dust thing....
I've bought some track off of eBay and a single pack of Bachman straight track, the kind that comes with a plastic road bed attached. The eBay purchase is Atlas track I think.
My question is, does mixing track brands cause difficulties?
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Re: Wow, there is a lot to digest......
First - be VERY careful with some of that Bachmann track. You do not want the track made of steel. Only use nickel silver. Steel is hard to keep clean and doesn't conduct electricity as well.
Generally speaking, most brands of track should work well together. The only thing you need to be concerned about is rail height - usually expressed as "code" - such as code 70, or code 55.
And while the initial warnings about N scale were valid, you should know that a lot of people use it very successfully and I would be willing to bet many of them are worse housekeepers than you.
Do not be scared away from this hobby. It is very rewarding. Dioramas are great, but in this case you will be building dioramas that actually move. It can't be beat.
|17th May 2012, 00:05
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Re: Wow, there is a lot to digest......
Did I mention I sometimes have a tendency to exaggerate?
I'm probably here to stay unless I come up on something that just completely distracts me from this like Particle Physics or Quantum Mechanics........ LOL
One thing I have never feared is a new undertaking. I've finally learned over many years and many other undertakings that there is a very organized methodology to learning.
Dive right in and make mistakes. But know they are coming and document! LOL
|17th May 2012, 02:34
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Re: Wow, there is a lot to digest......
The track with the roadbed varies from brand to brand. Mainly, the ends are all different and incompatible.
However, most of them have ends (rail joiners) that will mate with the plain track if you prop the plain track up on some roadbed. There may be one or more that don't have railjoiners and use brass electrical contacts. I waver in my opinion whether the differences are caused by patent considerations or plain cussedness.
The same problems come in HO and O.
Most of the sectional track is code 70; for code 55 you probably will have to use flexible or hand-laid track. Peco makes "code 55" track with rail the height of code 70 but enough of it buried in the ties, so they can be used together.
Some of us feel that if the sides of the rails are painted a dark colour they become less obvious and we can getaway with larger rail. Some of the wheel flanges are large enough to bump along the smaller track.
Don't worry too much about dust -- there are track cleaning cars, and blocks, and fluids, and Flitz, and ...
|29th September 2012, 20:30
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Need advice on track code for HO. I've heard that I should go with code 100 to avoid having to re-work trucks on rolling stock. Others have said 83 works fine. I don't think I want to chance code 70 but would like to "look" as prototypical as possible w/o having to buy all new wheelsets.
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I have a mix of Peco 100 and 75. Plus a few weird things.
I don't have problems with modern wheels on the code 75. Most of my problems are from British trains bought before 1980, possibly before 1970.
There have been cheap N. American prototype wheels that don't like it -- they have what we called "Pizza cutter" flanges. On most stock (except locomotives) the wheelsets can be popped out and replaced.
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You can touch the dust, but please don't write your name in it.
I find a little naturally settled dust on a layout tones down bright colours in the scenery and takes the gloss of things which shouldn't be glossy anyway. Running at least one train a day helps to keep the track clean but if that's not possible you can always lay dust covers gently over the areas you want to keep clean.
Mixing track brands has never been a problem for me, I often use second hand track from numerous sources, but the earlier mention of steel and nickel silver is an important point. Steel will corrode if there's the slightest bit of moisture in the air so it is best to avoid it completely if possible. Also steel is not as easy to solder as nickel silver so electrical connections need more care.
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