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1916 - 1957
D. Napier & Son
At the start of last century, Napier held the position that was later occupied by Rolls-Royce. David Napier, the founder of D. Napier & Son, was the second son of the blacksmith to the Duke of Argyll at Inveraray, and was born in 1785.
His cousins became shipbuilders but, after engineering training in Scotland, David came south in 1808 to make his career in London, and soon set up a business in general engineering in Lloyds Court, St Giles. By 1824, he had designed and manufactured a printing press with the excruciating name of 'The Nay-peer', and he sold several of these to Hansard, the government printer, and other machines to newspapers.
By 1836, he had moved to a new works in York Road, near what was to be the site of Waterloo Station and on ground later occupied by the Festival Hall. His younger son, James, was born in 1823, and James joined his father in the business in 1837, just before the height of the firm's 19th century prosperity, which came between 1840 and 1860.
By this time, between 200 and 300 men were employed in a well-equipped works which not only turned out printing machines, but many standard machine tools such as lathes and drilling machines, bullet-making machines for Woolwich Arsenal, coin-weighing and printing machinery for the Bank of England, cranes for the railways and even telescopes and a Captain's Registering Compass.
James Napier
In 1867, James succeeded his father as head of the firm and three years later his fourth son, Montague, was born, and it was he who was destined to bring about Napier's connection with motor cars. James Napier was a peculiar character, a very good engineer and a prolific inventor, but was not a business man. Although he travelled abroad in connection with the export side of his business, he was not an easy man to get on with and considered that any form of salesmanship was brash and undignified, which was why he preferred to stick with government contracts, both at home and abroad.
As time went on, it was apparent that he had no interest in the further expansion of his firm so long as it gave him a reasonably comfortable income. In fact in 1877, four years after the death of his father, he considered selling the firm, but his plans fell through and, within a few years, so little business was being done that there were seven workmen where there had been two or three hundred and there was dust and rust on everything.
Montague Napier
In 1895, James Napier died, and his son, the 25 year old Montague, took over. Montague inherited all the traditional Napier engineering talents but, although determined to be the master of his own business, he was not as autocratic as his father and easier to get on with. In appearance, he was bearded and misleadingly ascetic, 'like an apostle' in the words of a contemporary. Once he was in charge, he continued the manufacture of coin-classifying and printing machinery, but he also made machine tools for the cycle industry, and produced some peculiar Ritter roller skates.
These were designed by his foreman of the same name, and the skates had large wheels, being intended for travelling long distances on the open road. To promote sales, these were demonstrated in the streets of Reading by a gentleman named 'Fish' Smart, the ex-Champion Road Skater of England, but they did not make Napier's fortune. Instead it was through a hobby of Montague Napier's that his business was led to prosperity. In the late 'eighties and early 'nineties, he was a racing cyclist and, as a member of the Bath Road Club, he came fourth in a race over a hundred miles of the North Road in 1892. Curiously enough, in later years he did not enjoy driving cars, and hated being driven fast.
Selwyn Francis Edge
One of the members of the Bath Road Club was an ebullient Australian, Selwyn Francis Edge who, in the late 1890s, was manager of the London branch of the Dunlop Tyre Company. Edge was a bombastic character with great energy and a natural sales technique. He soon took an interest in the infant motor-car industry, and in his spare time worked for H. J. Lawson (then trying to monopolise the British motor industry) and also raced motor tricycles.
In 1899, he bought from Lawson the 6 hp Panhard-Levassor car 'Old number 8' in which Merkel had finished second in the Paris-Marseilles-Paris race of 1896. A mutual friend in the Bath Road Club, Waiter Munn, suggested that Montague Napier was the man to carry out some improvements to the car that Edge had in mind, as Edge himself was not an engineer. These improvements consisted of converting the car from tiller to wheel steering and later fitting pneumatic instead of solid tyres; the engine lubrication system was also altered.
This is the car that John Cobb used to set the all-time circuit record at Brooklands. It is the Railton powered by a 505bhp broad-arrow Napier engine.
1914 Napier 30/35hpp limousine.
1913 Napier 30/35hp, fitted with a 4.7 liter six cylinder engine.
1914 Napier with 2684cc four-cylinder engine.
1905 Gordon Bennett L48 Napier, which finished 9th.
1911 Napier Landaulette, with coachwork by Baker.
Napier being used on railway tracks, circa 1904.
Miss Ellaine Terris on a 16hp Napier, circa 1902. The car was powered by a 4.9 liter four cylinder engine which featured triple automatic inlet valves.
Dorothy Levitt would take the British Ladies' Record over the flying kilometre at 90.88 mph.
The Motor Power Company
But Napier was still not satisfied with the Panhard engine and asked Edge if he could fit an engine of his own design. Edge was enthusiastic about this as he had visions of an improved version of the Panhard which would sell well on the market. The engine Napier designed in 1899 was an 8 hp vertical twin. From the very first, Napier would have nothing to do with hot-tube ignition, as found on the Panhard, and all his engines had electric ignition. Meanwhile, Edge had persuaded his old boss at the Dunlop Company, Harvey du Cros, to join him in financing a firm called the Motor Power Company, with premises at 14 Regent Street.
Although Edge's new firm held agencies for one or two French and German makes, he undertook to sell all the cars (based on the Panhard) Napier could make. The first agreement was for an order of six cars, three with two-cylinder and three with four-cylinder engines, the latter utilising two twin-cylinder blocks. The aluminum bodies were to be built by Mulliners of Northampton, and the cars were to be delivered, unpainted, by 31 March 1900. Edge was paying Napier about £400 for the 8hp cars and selling them for about £500, a handsome profit.
An 8 hp two-cylinder car was entered by Edge for the 1000 Miles Trial of the Automobile Club in the spring of 1900. This car had been bought by a fox-hunting squire from Market Harborough called Edward Kennard, who agreed to the car competing before he took delivery of it. The car set out in company with 64 others (with Edge at the wheel, fourteen-year-old St John Nixon on the floorboards beside him and Edward Kennard occupying the single passenger seat at the rear) on a circular tour over the roads of England and Scotland, stretching from Newbury in the south to Edinburgh in the north.
Excellent publicity was gained when the Napier won its class and a bronze medal. Very little trouble was encountered, in contrast with the experience of Edward Kennard's wife, a well known novelist, who over-turned her De Dion voiturette whilst trying to avoid another vehicle on the tramlines of Nottingham. Thirty-five cars completed the course, but only twelve, including the Napier, managed to average the required speed of 12 mph in England and 10 mph in Scotland.
The four-cylinder Napier, known as the 16 hp, owed a little less to the Panhard design than did the 8 hp twin, and eight cars had been ordered by June 1900. Edge took one of these chain-driven cars up Porlock hill to win a bet of £50, which brought more useful publicity. In July 1900, Edge entered a 16 hp Napier for the Paris-Toulouse-Paris race with the Hon C. S. Rolls as his mechanic. The side-valve engine had a bore and stroke of 101.6 x 152.4 mm (4.9 liters), with triple automatic inlet valves, coil ignition and chain drive. The lubrication system boasted two hand pumps on the dash for the Hon Charles to cope with, and there was a 42-gallon petrol tank behind the seats for the net racing distance of 837 miles. Unfortunately the car retired from the race due to troubles with the ignition coils and the cooling system.
The Fastest Car in England
St John Nixon stated that when the 16hp Napier first took to the road it was the fastest car in England, but Edge and Rolls found its speed did not match up to that of the continental racing cars. However, it was a very successful touring car and was highly praised by that indomitable novelist, Mrs Edward Kennard. For 1901, Montague Napier went to another extreme and designed a monster racing car to ensure that, whatever faults it may have had, at least lack of speed was not one of them. The engine, which weighed some 6tcwt, was a 165.1 x 190.5mm, 17,157cc, side-valve four-cylinder with the usual triple automatic inlet valves; it produced 103 bhp at 800 rpm.
Several sources give the wheelbase as being 6 ft 9 in, which is the same as that of a 1933 Austin Seven, so the alternative figure of 9 ft 7 in seems more likely. The weight of the car has also been controversial, Edge, in his reminiscences, giving it as 3t tons, which must have been another Edge hyperbole. The Autocar gave the unladen weight as 28t cwt, and W. F. Bradley confirmed a figure of 35* cwt, presumably all up weight, and these/figures are much more credible than Edge's. There was a four-speed gearbox, with final drive by side chains. Known as the 50 hp, the car was actually catalogued at £1500 and, although four cars were announced as being under construction for customers, including Rolls, in October 1900, it appears only two or three were actually completed.
Edge on a 50 hp was entered for the 1901 Gordon Bennett race, run in conjunction with the Paris-Bordeaux race, on 29th May, but the car was not completed until 25th May, and Edge could only test it on the road from Boulogne to Paris after coming off the ferry; Montague Napier had bravely volunteered to be his riding mechanic. Alas, it was found that the performance was too much for the Dunlop tyres and, for the race, Edge decided to fit French tyres, which disqualified the car from the Gordon Bennett part of the contest, for which all parts had to be British.
In the Paris-Bordeaux contest, Edge and Napier got as far as Couhe-Verae, about three-quarter distance, before retiring with clutch trouble and a hole in the petrol tank. This tank held 50 gallons of fuel to cope with the 4 mpg consumption. Edge was a prolific writer to the motor papers, as this was a cheap way of giving free publicity to Napiers, and he had many excuses for the failure of the car. Later, in the following month, he was timed in the 50 hp Napier at 66.93 mph over five miles of road near Chartres and in November, both the Edge car and private owner Mark Mayhew's 50 hp won their classes at the Gaillon hill-climb between Mantes and Rouen, Mayhew running in the touring category. Edge's car was actually the one originally ordered by Rolls, painted red. The engine was later transferred to a motor boat.
The Gordon Bennett Trophy
The 1902 Gordon Bennett Trophy race was part of the Paris-Vienna contest, but the Gordon Bennett competitors were only timed as far as Innsbruck. Only two countries took part in the Gordon Bennett, France was represented by Girardot (CGV), Fournier (Mors) and de Knyff (Panhard) and England had one representative: Edge on a Napier. This year there was a 1000 kg (approximately a ton) weight limit, and the car Montague Napier designed had a four-cylinder, side-valve, 127 x 127 mm (6t-liter) engine, still with automatic inlet valves. Known as the 30 hp, it actually developed 44.5 bhp. The engine was placed in an armoured wood frame, and there was a three-speed gearbox with direct drive on top, all the intermediate gearwheels being out of mesh; shaft drive replaced the former chains. The all-up weight of the car was 933 kg.
After pre-race problems with cylinder heads and gears, Edge, accompanied by his cousin Cecil Edge as mechanic, was the sole finisher and therefore the winner of the Gordon Bennett Trophy, even though he suffered ignition and tire troubles, the latter due to the atrocious roads that had to be traversed. Edge was such a master of the terminological inexactitude, however, that after describing how he and his cousin changed tyres with their bare hands after losing their tool box, he later retracted this statement and said he used the same set of tyres throughout when he wanted to put in a good word for Dunlop.
The Napier, which averaged 31.8mph, was painted green and this was the first great British victory in an international race, and the last until Segrave's win for Sunbeam in the 1923 French GP at Tours some 20 years later. The winning Napier came to the US, where it survived until sometime during the 1920s. The Gordon Bennett win did much towards boosting Napiers' profits from a mere £19 in 1900-1901 to £18,117 in 1904, and in 1903 they built new premises on a little over 3 acres of land at Acton. It is said that at this time the firm's messengers used to travel between the old works at Lambeth and the new ones at Acton Vale on Ritter road skates, which were equipped with brakes.
Acton was also to become the home of the next successful British Grand Prix challenger after Segrave's Sunbeam, the Vanwall of the 1950s. Back in 1901, an American called Charles Jasper Glidden, who had made his fortune out of pioneering telephones with Bell and then from banking, bought a Napier and began a series of world travels with his wife over the next few years, always with Napiers, and partly on railway tracks, for which purpose Napiers made him special flanged wheels. Glidden was responsible for the famous events in America on rally lines known as the Glidden Tours, and it was partly due to his exploits that a factory to build Napiers was set up in Boston.
Napier Become The First To Wear The British International Racing Color
From 1906 to 1909, Napiers were being sold under the name of San Giorgio in Italy, emanating from a factory in Genoa, which had been set up under the eye of Arthur McDonald from the Acton works. Nothing very much came of either of these foreign projects, however. On 16 October 1903, Edge announced that a six-cylinder Napier would be introduced early the following year and, although Napier was not the first firm to produce a car with a six-cylinder engine, it is fair to say that they were the first to make one that was a commercial success. The 18 hp engine, with a four-inch bore and stroke, was remarkably smooth and flexible, and Edge thought it would decrease rear tire wear. The valve arrangement was inlet over exhaust, mechanically operated, and the chassis was chain-driven by a three-speed gearbox.
The success of the six-cylinder Napier was a notable milestone in motoring history. The engine was made up of three blocks of two cylinders, and the amount of air to the carburetor was controlled by the flow of the cooling water, weakening the mixture as the revs increased. Initially, some trouble was experienced with broken crankshafts, but this was later overcome. Because of Edge's win in the 1902 Gordon Bennett race, the 1903 contest had to be held in the UK, and a course in Ireland, south of Dublin, was chosen.
After some eliminating trials, England was represented by three Napiers, all painted green, and thus the Napier team was 'the first to wear the green', which was to become the British international racing colour. Two of the four-cylinder Napiers were 45 hp (7708 cc) and were driven by Charles Jarrott and J. W. Stocks, whilst Edge had a bigger So hp (13,726 cc), known as the Type K5. The cars' engines had aluminum blocks with iron liners. Both Jarrott and Stocks crashed, while Edge was dogged by tire trouble and was eventually disqualified for receiving outside assistance. All these Napiers had honeycomb radiators, shaft drive and automatic inlet valves. A 35 hp Napier, driven by Lt Col Mark Mayhew in the famous Paris-Madrid race of 1903, was also unsuccessful, hitting a tree when its steering broke near Libourne.
Napier employees worked a 50-hour week, 7 am till 12 noon and from 1 pm to 6 pm, with a wage of one penny farthing an hour, with time and a half for overtime! The whole factory was housed in one building and on one floor, with no interior walls or divisions. Every part of each car was fitted by hand and it took several weeks to finish one vehicle. In the case of the four-cylinder 12 hp, which had mechanically operated inlet valves and a Clarkson tubular radiator, the frame was of armoured wood, with a quarter inch steel plate each side of the ash frame. When fixed in position, the plates stood proud of the wooden frame by about one-sixteenth of an inch, and this proud metal was filed down flush with the wood by hand file.
Edge was unsuccessful with the 80 hp KS in the Gordon Bennett in Germany, but an interesting new racer was taken over for trials. This was an inlet-over-exhaust 158.7 x 127 mm six-cylinder of just over 15 liters with shaft drive and a gearbox with only two speeds, known as the L48. It had a honeycomb radiator and artillery wheels, but by September, when it was driven by Arthur McDonald to make the fastest time of the 'Velvet Strand' in speed trials at Portmarnock in Ireland, the former component had been replaced by a streamlined nose with the long copper pipes of an external radiator running along the sides of the bonnet.
In January 1905 Arthur McDonald 'a reserved young Scotsman' from the Acton works, who had been riding mechanic to Stocks in the 1903 Gordon Bennett and to Edge in the 1904 race, took the L48 to Ormonde Beach, Daytona, for the Speed Trials, and broke the mile record. For a short while, he held it at 104.65 mph until it was beaten by Bowden's Mercedes, although the latter's speed of 109.76 mph was subsequently disallowed due to the twin-engined Mercedes' excessive weight. McDonald drove the wire-wheeled L48 in the 1905 Gordon Bennett English eliminating contest in the Isle of Man, and it was raced by the works tester, Clifford Earp, in the 1905 Gordon Bennett in the Auvergne.
Dorothy Levitt
It proved light on tyres and finished 9th, despite the hilly circuit and its gearbox having only two forward speeds. In 1906, Dorothy Levitt, Edge's attractive young secretary, drove the L48 at Blackpool Speed Trials to equal Edge's time in the same car, and set up a British Ladies' Record over the flying kilometre at 90.88 mph. She had also successfully driven the 100 hp development of the 13½-liter KS Gordon Bennett car at both the Blackpool and Brighton Speed Trials in 1905, as well as driving other Napiers at Shelsley Walsh and South Harting.
Also in 1905, Cecil Edge drove a six-cylinder Napier touring car from Brighton to Edinburgh, using top gear only. The opening of the Brooklands track in Ig07 brought more publicity to Napiers, commencing with Edge's celebrated 24-hour run in June in a 60hp 7.7-liter 127 x 127 mm six-cylinder car at an overall average of 65.905 mph; this record stood for 18 years. The Napier engineer H. C. Tryon, driving a 40 hp, won the first race ever held at Brooklands where, in the first two seasons, the L48, nicknamed 'Samson', became famous. With its stroke lengthened to 178 mm, it covered the half mile in 1908 at 119.34 mph, driven by Frank Newton, another Napier engineer.
Victory in the 1908 Tourist Trophy race in the Isle of Man went to a Napier (entered as a Hutton), driven by Liverpool motor dealer Willy Watson. The car was called after the nominal sponsor, J. E. Hutton, a well known foreign-car importer, because the car had a four-cylinder engine, to comply with the regulations and, although Napier sold four-cylinder models, their reputation rested on their six-cylinder image, which Edge wanted to retain, hence the alias.
1908 was the company's last racing year, and in 1912 Edge and Napier parted, with an agreement that Edge would stay out of the motor trade for a seven-year period, which led to him taking up pig farming. After producing a complicated range of cars from 1907 to 1911, only six models were catalogued for 1912. By now, all models had shaft drive, and a great Napier feature was the tall radiator filler. Some of the early six-cylinder Napier models had the radiator placed ahead of the front axle, giving them a rather heavy appearance, but the later cars were better.
The Napier Lion Engine
During World War 1 the Napier company built aeroplane engines, the most famous of which was the twelve-cylinder 'Lion' with three blocks of four cylinders in broad-arrow formation and, after the war, Montague Napier decided the future of the firm was in aero engines, the' manufacture of motor cars being resumed more or less as an interim measure. The last Napier was designed by A. J. Rowledge, who was responsible for the 'Lion' engine, and who went to Rolls-Royce in 1921. The car was the six-cylinder 102 x I27mm 6177cc 40/sohp. It had an alloy engine, with a detachable cylinder head, a single overhead camshaft, a seven-bearing crankshaft, duel magneto/coil-ignition and twelve plugs and a Napier-SU carburetor with an auxiliary carburetor for starting and slow running.
This brilliant engine was put into an Edwardian-type chassis with cantilever rear springs which was hardly worthy of it and, on early cars, brakes on the transmission and rear wheels only; bodywork was normally by the Cunard company, then a Napier subsidiary. An intriguing feature ofthe engine was that the number six cylinder had a lower-compression piston than all the others to overcome rough running which otherwise occurred when pulling at low revs.
By 1924, 187 40/50s had been sold, the end of a line of 4258 private cars built by Napier, and the firm continued with aero-engine production. The Napier 'Lion' engine triumphed in the racing-car world, powering Campbell's earlier Bluebirds, Segrave's Golden Arrow of 1929, John Cobb's Napier-Railton car, which ultimately held the Brooklands lap record, and his twin-engined Railton Mobil Special, land-speed record holder from 1939 to 1964, and capable of over 400 mph. In 1942, D. Napier & Son Ltd became a subsidiary of the English Electric group of companies.
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Why You Need To Stop What You're Doing And Watch "Orange Is The New Black"
Netflix's latest is one of the year's best offerings on any platform. Why Jenji Kohan's gripping prison drama makes for essential, addictive viewing.
The year's best television series have so far emerged from some very unlikely places, whether it's the searing Sundance Channel drama Rectify, BBC America's upcoming gut-wrenching murder mystery Broadchurch, or Netflix's superlative prison drama Orange Is the New Black, from Weeds creator, Jenji Kohan. (That two of these shows deal with issues of crime and punishment — and specifically imprisonment — is not surprising, given our societal preoccupations at the moment, though these weighty issues are handled extremely differently within Rectify and Orange.)
Orange Is the New Black, released by the streaming platform under its now standard pattern that incentivizes binge watching, is the first Netflix show that truly warrants such obsessive speed viewing. The important choice you have to make is whether you want to burn through the 13-episode first season in a weekend (comedian Patton Oswalt said of the show, "Now I know how mid-70's NYC heroin addicts felt.") or space them out over a few weeks. But regardless of which viewing method you employ, what is certain is that you will fall under the spell of Orange fast and hard. It's the type of television show that comes around rarely these days, one that exerts an almost gravitational pull on the viewer, so authentic and funny and poignant and tragic that it's impossible to look away from the screen. Or, indeed, to forget about the well-drawn characters — carefully and exquisitely crafted from different races and ages — that exist within the drab walls of this run-down prison environment.
The reaction to Orange Is the New Black — based on the memoir by Piper Kerman — has been intense, from among both viewers and critics. But its place of origin is not the thing that is most surprising about the show. Orange, after all, is a show that features a primarily female cast — made up of mostly unknown actors, with a few exceptions — and an unlikely protagonist in Taylor Schilling's Piper Chapman. She is often selfish and unlikable, but she provides an entry to a world that (I hope) few of its viewers will ever see: inside a New York women's prison.
Prison in this case is a microcosm for the outside world, a place of tribes and alliances, of enmity and secret assignations. It is a world of extreme harshness and yet also of unexpected beauty, where a small act of kindness can seem like an enormous thing. Piper, the sort of naïve hipster who makes artisanal bath products for a living and who loves to tell anyone who will listen that her products are carried in Barney's, is instantly out of her depth. She's a newcomer to an incredibly rigid system that doesn't allow for pushback and which, in an almost Victorian sense, rewards those who know their place in the machinery. That Piper — who once carried a suitcase full of drug money for her then-girlfriend, Alex Vause (Laura Prepon) — has voluntarily surrendered, choosing to relinquish her freedom, makes her initially an object of curiosity and of scorn among her prisonmates .
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That new existence forces Piper to come to terms with her own preconceptions and animosities, putting her face-to-face with the woman who sent her away, her former lover, Alex, and sitting alongside people with whom she never would have consorted in her old life. Strangely, it's prison that also seems to liberate her from her ingrained way of thinking, with her old ways of living.
The women that Piper encounters inside have their own contradictions and backstories, which are smartly teased out in flashbacks that reveal their lives before committing the crimes that landed them inside Litchfield's minimum-security federal penitentiary. The innate complexities of these women — from prison cook Red (Kate Mulgrew, who is so steely and intense that the scenery seems like it will burst into flames every time she walks onscreen) and Piper's severe cellmate Miss Claudette (Michelle Hurst), to snaggletoothed Bible-thumper Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett (Taryn Manning), and ex-junkie Nikki (Natasha Lyonne) — provides more than enough grist for the show's story engine, one that will hopefully last for years.
These characters resonate so strongly because of the level of commitment to reality that the actors bring to the roles. Each of these women is a virtual matryoshka, each layer concealing an infinity of others. Lyonne, in particular, deserves special praise for her brave and bravura performance, as does transgender actress Laverne Cox, who portrays the struggle of trans prisoner/hairstylist Sophia Burset — who committed credit card fraud in order to become a woman — with immense dignity and grit, never shying away from the complications of her situation with her son and her wife.
Moments like Sophia's, presented both in terms of flashback and in heartfelt conversations in prison, are where Orange truly shines, capturing a reality that tests the viewers' own preconceptions about female criminals and women in general. Suzanne (Uzo Aduba, a breakout here), aka "Crazy Eyes," who hopes that Piper will become her prison "wife," is filled with more layers than a cronut; she pees on Piper's cell floor out of anger, but then can recite Shakespearean dialogue at whim. The show hasn't shown her full backstory yet, but viewers are given a small glimpse of her parents, an elderly white couple she calls "Mommy and Daddy." As the season progresses, she transitions from comic relief to become a tragic character in her own right. And that goes for most of the prisoners as well: Their stories of rage, heartbreak, and love push the show into unexpected areas.
That includes a smart and sophisticated handling of racial issues, which deserves commendation. (And should be expected after Kohan's tenure on Weeds, which also featured a number of various people of color.) While the prison is clearly a segregated place — Piper is placed in "the ghetto" with the African-American prisoners to the horror of the white prisoners — Orange wisely focuses on each of these racial groups, giving them appropriate depth and distinction. In turn, the show both gently mocks the way that these groups break off (there's even a group called "Golden Girls/Others," a catchall that includes both the elderly and the few Asians in the mix) and revels in their individual sense of identity in small but meaningful ways. These explorations go beyond Taystee and her friends demanding hot sauce in the cafeteria or the Secret Santa gift-giving performed by the white inmates, instead opting to explore the way in which identity is as powerful a commodity in prison as a stick of chewing gum or a pair of shower flip-flops. As one inmate reminds Piper, this isn't bigotry, but tribalism. Belonging to a particular crowd, it seems, isn't limited to high school.
Schilling and Prepon are sensational as star-crossed lovers Piper and Alex, whose sense of attraction and hatred for one another is fused together into something jagged and barbed. Their unfolding relationship is brutal and beautiful, as are several others that flare up and die out over the course of the season. The sisterhood that is discovered here, divided down strict tribal lines, is explored in terrific and riveting detail, whether it be the strained romance between Piper and Alex, the enduring friendship between high-flying Taystee (Danielle Brooks) and her confidante, Poussey (Samira Wiley), or the splintering bonds between Nikki and cherry-lipped prison driver Morello (Yael Stone).
A prison seems an unlikely place to explore both the nuance of female dynamics as well as the seemingly eternal wellspring of feminine strength. But that's part of Orange's unlikely charm: The surprises that are embedded within the narrative mirror the viewer's own experience in encountering different and often contradictory aspects of these characters. Those who at first appear to be good or bad will often commit acts that are contrary to what appears to be their nature. (That rubric applies to Piper as well.) Characters that you should hate become objects of admiration and even love. (While love isn't a word I'd apply to Pablo Schreiber's sadistic prison guard, George "Pornstache" Mendez, even he displays an unexpected soft side.) Likewise, characters who initially appear sympathetic exhibit streaks of cruelty or selfishness that is shocking and heartbreaking to watch.
The season ends with a brutal cliff-hanger, which I won't spoil here, but it confirms Piper's realization in the end. Prison does force one's true nature to emerge; ultimately, she surprises herself by what depths she's willing to travel to in order to survive, a psychological underworld that is so far away from the trappings of privilege with which she grew up. That sense of revelation is an integral part of why Orange Is the New Black is quite so mesmerizing and electrically charged. This show seemed to come out of nowhere and its very unlikeliness is what keeps us craving more. For a show that deals with the pressures of addiction and criminality, it is only fitting that Orange should cast out such an intoxicating, palpable lure.
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Magnus Lund might be the black sheep of the blond flankers' club for tucking his hair away under a nondescript scrum-cap but in every other way his talent is burning bright for all to see. England have picked the Sale open-side for the first time - they leave for the tour to Australia tomorrow - and if he continues to play like he did in this one-sided Premiership final, they will never let him go.
Lund's dad, Morten, is a Norwegian who played basketball. Magnus is a Mancunian by birth and there's no chance now of him emulating his brother, Erik, and turning out for Norway, at rugby or anything else. Lund has had a storming and indeed eclectic season, picking up a Commonwealth Games silver medal at sevens and now this ultimate domestic honour in XVs. There was a seminal moment 10 minutes into the second half when he bore down on Andy Goode behind a line-out, putting the Leicester fly-half in such a flap that the ball passed embarrassingly through his hands.
It was the kind of pressure Sale exerted throughout. It turned the Tigers into pussycats, and a long line of light-haired back-rowers - Back, Neary, Rives, Winterbottom, Waugh, Burger - would have been purring. Well, perhaps not Neil Back, who is a technical coach these days with Leicester.
Lund wears identical blue-and-black headgear to that of his team-mate Chris Jones, making immediate identification somewhat tricky. A bit more so given that Lund, not the second row Jones, was the safe recipient of three out of the first four Sale line-out throws - a valuable extra skill which Sale value highly and England may do too.
We thought the astonishing energy Leicester's Lewis Moody brings to the field was unrepeatable. But Lund was bouncing on his toes like a middleweight boxer to the final minute, putting Chris Mayor away for the fourth Sale try, with Moody chasing so gamely you wanted to cheer him for that alone. England's preferred combination of late has been Joe Worsley or Pat Sanderson at six, Moody at seven and another Tiger, Martin Corry, at eight.
Corry is taking a rest and not going Down Under, which opens a window of opportunity. Lund might have been selected for the A team to Canada for the Churchill Cup, in which case he would have been a Viking among the Saxons, and who knows what upset that might have caused. Instead, he will be among the big boys.
He has grown since joining Sale from Broughton Park in 2002; literally so in the past 12 months, with extra conditioning work planting upper-body muscle in his 16 and a half stone frame. If Back was the epitome of the diminutive down-and-dirty breakdown merchant, Lund is entirely from the other mould, 6ft 3in and quick with it.
Sale have great tacklers and ball-carriers in Jason White, Sébastien Chabal and Ignacio Fernandez Lobbe. A great openside needs to be a follower and forager. And no better example of the first of those qualities could have been found than in Lund's try after 16 minutes. From the fulcrum of Chabal's tap-down at a line-out, Lund had his eye on one thing - the ball.
Sale's scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth was waylaid in his chip-and-chase by Harry Ellis. Then Goode fumbled in the rain. Lund was there to shin it on and score one of those tries that look inevitable but are the result of clever anticipation and a burning desire to be where it counts.
Leicester packed down at the scrum with Shane Jennings and Moody left and right, whereas Lund stayed classically open throughout. Sale's well-balanced back row has served them well this championship-winning year. With England, if Moody or A N Other can be happy on the blindside, Lund can ride all the way to the World Cup. It is sad that injury has stalled the other wannabe back-rowers, Tom Rees and Ben Skirving. Their loss is Lund's gain. He will turn 23 just after he returns from Australia. The timing for this Anglo-Norwegian, with France 2007 in mind, looks Swiss-made.
So we reflect again on the four-team Premiership play-offs, an absolutely nonsensical way to conclude a 12-club, 22-match, nine-month competition. It is no justification for the system that, this time, the best team from first to last took the title.
Still, with a Magnus around, what Sale had started, they were determined to finish.
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CHARLIE HODGSON It's an amazing feeling. I can't describe how good it feels. If you sit at the top of the league and don't win you are going to be disappointed but we will enjoy this moment.
BRIAN KENNEDY It's not about money, it's about the team. Effort, tenacity, from the coach at the top to the players, to these fans. The league is fantastic but the play-offs are what it's all about.
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SAINT-ANDRE It will be a very long weekend, I can tell you. It's also special for me to win in Twickenham, you know, because I lost all the time here as a player.
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1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
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4 ounces crumbled feta cheese
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2. Meanwhile, place pie crust in oven and bake 10 minutes. Remove and set aside until ready to fill.
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Nobody said a steady 3G connection was required for this sort of use, or that for every person using the app, they had to own the device.
Even an iPhone 4 is a ton more mobile than a phoroptor, and a lot less expensive, since phoroptors clock in around $5,000 and take a trained professional to use.
A sole traveling, untrained, non-optometrist Peace Corps kid with an iPhone 4 and a box of donated used glasses could make a big damn difference.
Think Doctors Without Borders able to travel to more remote villages without carting along huge pieces of equipment.
This could allow even a doctor in a poor country to provide prescription glasses (through mail order) with a much smaller investment (one smartphone, even without service, and the $2 attachment.)
Yea, easier...
Lets bring heavy, delicate equipment out to a harsh environment that in all likelyhood lacks either repair parts or appropriate tools, and spend a fortune in time and energy moving the fucker around.
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An anonymous reader writes "I am a systems administrator for a mid size state agency. We currently offer Blackberries to our staff, but we are migrating to Android devices in the near future. Since phones have sensative data (email, documents, etc.), what is a good choice for encrypting that data? Options abound, like OS-level encryption from Motorola and Samsung, 3rd party apps from GoTrusted and even a LUKS port for Android. Does anyone have experience managing encrypted Android devices? What are the important features I should be looking at? Many thanks in advance." (And, for that matter, are there good options for doing the same with iPhones? Other options to consider?)


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Video: PlayStation Move Mystery Game Datura Hits PSN on May 8th
Plastic Studios Game Director Michal Staniszewski has made available a video today unveiling the PlayStation Move mystery game Datura, which hits PSN on May 8th 2012.
To quote: Hello, I'm Michal from Team Plastic and we are really happy to bring you Datura, which we can confirm today is coming to PSN on May 8th.
Datura is a spicy mixture between an old-school adventure and a modern interactive experience. The game has a couple of interpretation levels, so it's up to you to experience it on your own and share your thoughts afterward with others.
From a technical standpoint, Datura brings you a novel gaming mechanics based on the PlayStation Move motion controller. We created a virtual hand that you can operate and touch nearly everything in the game.
If you don't have a motion controller, you can still play with a DualShock 3 controller. For an even greater experience, Datura also fully supports stereoscopic 3D.
The game was designed to have a film like narrative and we encourage you to play through it in one session to really experience as one. We are excited about releasing it and will be happy to read your reactions afterwards.
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This game look cool, but it would be even better if you could have 2 hands with 2 move controllers.
04-28-2012 #3
looks good too i agree. i had datura plant when i was young.. LOL
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Apparently this game is very short. It's designed to be experienced in full within one session. It's less than 2 hours long or something.
So I wouldn't watch this vid if you want to get the most out of the game. (Looking forward to it though.)


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Red Tooth Fairy Strings
It struck me when I noticed that we were probably talking about the same thing...
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- yoni r.November 24, 2009 9:35 AM
Red strings are probably worse, since they have no purpose, and thus smack of at least chukat hagoyim. The tooth fairy is at least a story told to calm nervous kids about losing a tooth (and give them money).
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Anon 10:50AM,
In the laws of chukat hagoyim, it is usually acceptable to do something if it has a purpose (for example, putting up a tree in your house at the end of December has no purpose, but using a baseball glove does). Things which are assur for other reasons (such as avoda zara) are not OK even if they have a purpose.
I also think there is a big difference between calming a child who is already nervous by distracting him with a story about the tooth fairy on the one hand, and on the other hand making up some nonsense about red strings according to which it can directly affect the source of nervousness of adults.
As a side point, Eddie Murphy had a very funny sketch years ago on SNL as the tooth fairy. Can't check youtube from work, but worth looking for. Here is the story about the lady.
This is the only place I could find it with google news Hebrew. The whole thing is her personal account. If I was more skeptical, I would say that she was trying to drum up her karate lesson business :). Seriously, I am glad she is OK. Too bad the arabs got away. They should publicize this more, so the arabs know not to mess with RBS moms!- yehuditNovember 24, 2009 3:43 PM
Actually, since the Tooth Fairy custom is a leftover from the offerings of 1st lost teeth made to a Roman avodah zarah(another of those "neutral", harmless, cute practices like decorative wreaths on doors), I'm pretty sure its no better.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousNovember 24, 2009 7:45 PM
The kid was negotiating the amount of money the fairy was going to leave for him - for some reason he thinks I am the tooth fairy.
I'm the fairy in my house. Um, the tooth fairy, or money fairy, that is :-)
Mark - shaya gNovember 25, 2009 7:01 AM
"my mother who is still here visiting"
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Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
Tester hopeful his stalled forest bill will soon pass Congress
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester's long-stalled forest bill, which would newly designate acreage for both wilderness and logging in three Montana forests, could be finding some new momentum, the senator and bill supporters say. "I feel better now about its position than I ever have in the past, and significantly better," Tester, a Democrat, said in an interview late last week. He said there's a growing understanding in Congress not only about his bill, but also that something needs to be done to improve forest management in the West. Tester and the bill's supporters, which include timber-mill owners, wilderness advocates and scores of recreation businesses, also are hoping a new player in the political mix – Republican Congressman Steve Daines – might provide a bipartisan push that's been missing. In past weeks, Daines' staff has met with both supporters and opponents of the Tester bill, and Daines himself has been talking often with Tester about the measure. Yet while Daines said he and Tester appear to share a common goal of "finding ways to unlock the gridlock we have today on increasing timber harvests in our national forest," Daines has yet to sign on to the bill. "We're working well together and we share some common goals," he said in an interview. "I think there are ways to take what Jon has and make some improvements on it, to make it more beneficial for Montana and the timber industry and jobs." Daines also is co-sponsoring a House bill that mandates far more logging, on all forests nationwide, and makes it harder to legally challenge a timber sale – a measure strongly opposed by conservationists and most Democrats...more
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I need pretty much everything for the suspension on my 65 GT. I was looking into the Mustang Plus starter kit. I was wondering if anyone has used this before, and what your thoughts are on it? I would like better handling from my car, but at the moment I don't want to spend much more than it would cost to set it up stock. Mainly I don't have the money for the fancy suspension set ups at this time. I am doing the shelby drop already. So would it be worth spending money on this, and which combination would would best for a street driven car that like to visit the autoX and drag track once in awhile? A little bit of a rough ride does not scare me. Link to the kit: http://www.mustangsplus.com/xcart/1965-1973-Super-Starter-Kit.html
For $879+, it doesn't do anything for upper control arm shafts/bushings, upper ball joints, lower control arms/ball joints tie rod ends, idler arm and strut rod bushings. You need to plan on and budget for ALL of these items, although if you can afford to take it all apart before ordering, you may get lucky on a few of these parts. Personally, if I were in your shoes, Iwould seriously consider what they list here as the "New Kit": http://www.classicperform.com/NewProducts/2006/NewFiles/NovaSubFrame.htm I would then add to it with front and rear springs of my choice, tie rod ends, idler arm and roller spring perches. When all is said and done, you will have upgraded your suspension, significantly, and EVERYTHING will be NEW, for considerably less $$$ than buying the Mustangs Plus kit and adding the parts I first listed, just to stay OEM style. Going your way with the Mustang Plus stuff you will likely be in the $1250-$1500 range when all done, where as my way you'll come in about $1000 or less. Just My $.02, Gene
if you are not in a hurry. just plan what you need/want to replace and look on ebay. you will save some money.
At this moment my car has nothing but spindles and 9" that still needs to be shortened. The old parts that were on it when I started restoring where ripped off the car by hand because of how rusty they were, so I'm starting right from the beginning. I am liking that kit though. any recommendations for sway bars and springs?
P.S. I would also like to know if removing the strut rod brackets might hinder later modification to different type of suspensions?
Just get the upper and lower A arms complete. I would agree with the Shelby drop. Also the roller perches are worth the money. 1" sway bar is fine. With poly links and bushings. Rear springs are going to control ride quality so you have to choose wisely. Use heavy duty rear shackles with poly bushings. This really helps keep the rear in place left to right when cornering. I personally like the 4 1/2 mid eye spring with KYB Gas shocks. If the ride is to stiff you can soften with different shocks. Replace the tie rods and don't for get an export brace as a minimum. You will most likely have to spread the front shock towers to get it in and the bolts to line up. This will get you a great street car that will hold its own on the twistys


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- According to the article, wheat output in Australia is forecast to reach 23.7 million metric tons this harvest, up over 80% from last year's drought-reduced crop of about 13 million tons.
There is only one way for this Savings Rate to go from here. The implications for the US consumer spending are daunting.
Ask Paul Volcker and Team Obama where they think interest rates are going next.
Hopefully someone asks Pandit about his tactical leadership approach in selling Citigroup shareholders his hedge fund, Old Lane, then imploding it.
Wall Street likes to pay people who "make money". It's how you "make money" that counts.
Hedgeye Statistics
The total percentage of successful long and short trading signals since the inception of Real-Time Alerts in August of 2008.
So what was it this time that freaked everyone out? Democrats can blame Hank Paulson's intraday "covered bonds" speech. Republicans can blame Barack Obama coming home from his world tour to host a Paul Volcker sponsored "economic summit". Portfolio Managers can blame their analysts. Traders who bought into the "buy the banks" call from last week, can blame themselves. John Thain can blame himself.
The reality is that it is month end this week, and we have an oversupply of "Fast Money" chasing weekly and monthly performance. What happens to fast money when oil and fertilizer stocks stop working? Buy the Financials? Nice try. All of a sudden nothing is working, and the market factor that remains most misunderstood is that which you will not see until it has unwound. Do people out there legitimately think that this bear market is not going to take down a massive equity levered hedge fund? C'mon. Tail risk in this market continues to intensify.
It's time to get real here. Even Bush and Obama will agree with each other now on that. Bush called Wall Street "drunk" last week, and Obama called it "irresponsible" this week. Make no mistake – this is the brave new world of US Election year populism. In the end it's going to equate to higher cost of capital and less access to it. Re-regulation will follow. After that's all said and done, the market's headlines will be littered with 30 something year olds who blew up hedge funds, alongside 50 something year old sell siders like Vikram Pandit who launched his and did the same.
Obama is too young and naïve to be President, but the 51 year old Pandit Bandit is old enough to run America's largest bank? Tech wrecks, Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman weren't good enough to keep their respective stock prices from falling, but now they're good enough to advise team McCain on solving this economic mess? Whitman is 51 and Fiorina 53, fyi. Volcker is the only one in this political circus who is older than John McCain. He and McCain should team up – together they're 151 years old!
This has nothing to do with age. Going forward, this is going to have everything to do with integrity and sound judgment. Who is going to mark their assets to market? Who is going to put the principles in their business ahead of principal? When a handshake means something again, we'll all be better off.
Don't look for that from Merrill's new CEO, John Thain, who assured investors on his July 17th conference call that ``we believe that we are in a very comfortable spot in terms of our capital''. This morning Thain has Merrill taking another $5.7B write-down and raising $8.5B worth of stock. Are you kidding me?
Asia took that Merrill news and pounded both stocks and currencies. Chinese equities (which I am long) were down -1.8%. Japanese equities (which I am short) closed down another -1.5%. There was no economic news out of China, but Japan reported its highest unemployment rate since September 2006. Japan is re-entering the dark hole of negative real growth. Meanwhile India raised rates by a higher than expected 50 basis points to 9%, and investors ran for the exits again, closing the BSE Sensex down a sharp -3.9%. Taiwan lost -3% and Korea was down -2%. A crisis of confidence in the leadership of the US banking system is not going to help any asset class, globally.
John Thain now joins Vikram Pandit (Citigroup) and Dick Fuld (Lehman) as the current CEO flag bearers of Wall Street. In a 'You Tube'-less and internet-less world, where transparency wasn't such a powerful real time accountability tool, they may actually have gotten away with this kind of 'say one thing - do the other', behavior. Now, the rules are changing, and the whole world is watching. Who do you trust?
I guess not. The stock closed down on the day despite the upgrade. Even in a lousy tape – this is a bad signal.
Granted, the call sounded something like "We think the quarter is ugly, and the stock is probably headed lower, but we're taking the month of August off and want to be in print as having called the miss, and telling everybody to buy into it." I was a little surprised by weakness of the call itself, as I think the analyst there is one of the better ones in this space. But it's still a Goldman Sachs upgrade and should have decent impact in itself.
One of the key factors that people hit me with is that DKS is cheap. But they said it was cheap at $30. Then $25. Then $20. Read my 5/22 post for the full thesis on DKS. There's no reason why 6.5-7x EBITDA needs to be trough value for a name like this – especially if cash flow growth slows and/or goes negative over the next year.
Again, I was hoping for the Whack-A-Mole opportunity, as I fully understand that no story is linear (either up or down). Short interest is 21% of the float now – up from 6% about $15 ago. I'd love nothing more than to see this mole pop on a sandbagged quarter.
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Tobacco Road doesn't offer much in terms of serenity. The hostile eight mile stretch along the "Fifteen Five-o-One" country road has been stamped by the "Just do it" travelers. It reminds all that one thing is for certain: Nike is boss. Whether you are a Dukie or a Tar Heel, you have the power of the swoosh behind you. Although intense rivals, both universities rep the color blue and whole-heartedly back Nike (NKE).
This Nike euphoria allows foes from rival schools to be friendly. Michael Jordan, a product of UNC basketball, stands as Nike's poster child while Coach Krzyzewski of Duke University currently represents NKE on behalf of the USA Olympic Basketball team. Interestingly enough, 11 of the 12 NBA players selected to the team are endorsed by NKE and will be wearing the blue NKE Olympic jerseys. That's a whole lotta blue power for NKE.
So how can UA compete against this blue wave? The answer… break tradition. After sitting through the Under Armour 2008 Investor Appreciation Day call on May 29th, I strictly remember UA stating that they would keep advertising consistent with the specialty idea "Protect this House". It gives people a mantra… no star athletes. No athlete is bigger than the brand and UA stands by that. Well apparently the case of the SWOOSH BLUES is just too contagious.
Under Armour will now be teaming up with The Sports Authority and Chicago Bear's star punt returner Devin Hester on ESPN. Devin Hester is well known throughout the league for breaking the NFL record of most punt returns in a season. He is a star. Oh, and by the way, he also wears a blue jersey for the Chicago Bears. Stealing a page out of Nike's blue history book… I think so.
Only time will tell whether UA's new footwear additions will help win over some of that blue Nike (NKE) market share. At Research Edge, we think that UA will gain share but it will come right out of Adidas' and Reebok's pockets. For the meantime, UA better hope Devin Hester doesn't run out of bounds at only the 25 yd line.
Some recent Nike market share statistics:
• Nike is up 4.9% for this month's Year over Year change, while its ASP is up a whopping 11.7%.
• While the Athletic Low Performance Industry is down (21%) Year over Year for the month, Nike's Low Performance category is a positive 24%. (45 point swing Nike boasts over the Low Performance Industry).
• Nike is gaining upward of 3% YoY total market share for the month of July.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Lendperk Dress Rentals
So Sew Mama has partnered with Star from Lendperk to bring you an awesome giveaway!
Do you often find yourself buying a dress to wear only once? Wouldn't you like to be able to rent an outfit? I know I do.
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There are three plans available - $20/month for 1 dress rental, $34/month for two dress rentals, or $49/month for an unlimited number of dress rentals.
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Dish Announces Hopper Pricing, Availability: Free, Now!
The Hopper multi-room HD DVR solution introduced by Dish Network at CES is now available, and for some customers it's free!
read moreThe Hopper multi-room HD DVR solution introduced by Dish Network at CES is now available, and for some customers it's free!
read moreRichard takes a look back at this year's CES, sharing videos, pictures, and opinions, and stating emphatically why CES still matters.
read moreMoCA, the technology that piggy-backs network traffic onto your existing Coax infrastructure, gets a boost from increasing demand for multi-room entertainment solutions.
read moreRichard has arrived home after a long week in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show! Amazingly, he wasn't sick (yet) so he and Josh were able to recap the rest of the news that made this year's CES so interesting. The guys started off with general themes that they found at the...
read moreWe're taking a close look at Ceton's "Q" entertainment platform, including a video preview of the on-screen experience. This multi-room media solution has the potential to popularize and improve upon one of the best home media platforms available today.
read morePower conditioning is one of the most overlooked and under-appreciated aspects of home theater, but Acoustic Research may likely change all of that with a new line of power solutions available later this year at affordable prices.
read moreIn our interview with Ceton, we discuss the exciting technology preview of the "Q" 6-tuner media hub, Media Center Extender, and companion apps.
read moreHow does Dish Network manage to record six programs with three tuners on its new Hopper whole-home DVR? Dish walks us through the new feature and explains everything.
read moreSennheiser gives The Digital Media Zone readers a video preview of the new RS 220 wireless headphones.
read moreZOTAC continues to deliver hot new products to us home theater PC enthusiasts. Yesterday we showed you their new Intel D2700 based Mini-ITX motherboard, and today we have a new PC to check out. This is the ZBOX Giga ID70 Plus. This isn't just a beautiful new case, it's a full home...
read moreWhen it comes to building tiny home theater PCs it's hard to beat the Mini-ITX form factor of motherboards. Zotac has been one of the go-to manufacturers for Mini-ITX boards regardless of whether you're looking for an Intel Atom, Intel Core, or AMD ION solution. Their newest offering,...
read moreFeedback? You can call us at 1-877-856-4933 or visit our Facebook page. Here's the rundown of this week's show: This week we eschew our normal format as we look at the deluge of news to come out of CES. Specifically we talk Ultraviolet, new TVs, and some of the other...
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"Bom ba ba bom, ba bom ba bom bom...ba dang a dang dang, a ding a dong ding..." Jay's arrangement starts soulfully, then kicks into doo-wop style for this pop classic, as recorded by The Marcels back in 1961. "Dip di dip di dip." This is fun! Highly recommended!
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ANZ is currently trialling ePOS, an app that will allow merchant customers to take payments from their iPhones.
The app, jointly developed between ANZ and Deloitte Digital, was "very inexpensive", according to the bank's general manager of innovation, Peter Dalton, who believes the app is a "differentiator" for ANZ, stating: "From what we've seen, we're the only major bank to provide a merchant app."
Dalton declined to comment on whether the app would also be available on the soon-to-be-released Apple iPad; however, he did state that the company was constantly on the look out to make banking simpler.
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Since Some Boy came around, life has been filled with wondrous new things. Baby giggles. Miniature versions of pants and tiny little spoons. Postpartum hair loss. A shortened attention span. Wait...what? Let's face it, not everything in the postpartum world is entirely adorable. Nails start … [Read more...]
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One thing nobody bothered to tell me before Some Boy was born is how dang difficult it is to breastfeed. The concept is simple enough: boob, mouth, milk. What could possibly go wrong here? Everything. Let me tell you: everything that could go wrong...did. The first 12 or so hours of his life, … [Read more...]


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I found Sundome while looking in the related section of Nana To Kaoru, a manga where a perverted boy convinces his childhood friend to have short, soft S&M sessions with him. As i enjoyed Nana To Kaoru, i thought i'd give Sundome a go.
The plot follows a high school student, Aiba, who is part of the school Roman club.
The club is basically a small crowd of otaku, or nerds, who are interested in aliens, ghosts, most paranormal things. There is one rule, you cannot have sex. If you stick to this rule, the OB (who run the club) will pay for your tuition fees into college/university. If you break the rule, however, your out of the club.
This may sound easy enough, but every so often the OB send in "assassins" to seduce the boys and get them to lose their virginity. To try and abstain from sexual desire, some members choose to develop strange masturbating habits, or even weird fetishes.
These fetishes are what, i believe, make the characters so original. The strange anal fetish of one of the members had me laughing quite a lot, as he was often found with his hand down the back of a fellow members pants while asleep.
Following the rules is easy for Aiba at first, since he has never been too into girls, and stuck to his too-often masturbating routine.
Enter Kurumi Sahana.
Kurumi is placed next to Aiba in class, and, at first meeting, reaches down to pick up her pen. Unfortunately for poor Aiba, he gets a front seat view down her top, and his manly instincts begin to kick in. Her hand rubs against it, but she doesnt seem to realise, and he thinks he got off easy.
After school that day, Kurumi follows Aiba to Roman club, and decides to join. When they get a moment alone, she tells him she knows what happened in class and she knows what she felt.. and in fact.. she did it on purpose.
From then on, Kurumi takes almost total control over Aibas life, including when he can and cant masturbate, and they have a secret, very complicated, relationship.
The artwork in this manga seems fairly simple on most pages, but on some, particularly when Kurumi and Aiba get a moment alone, it becomes a lot more detailed and dark. It looks amazing.
I guarentee all those who enjoy comedy, romance, or sexual manga will enjoy this. Hell, try it even if you dont, im mainly into Shounen anyway and i loved it. Sundome will keep you entertained for hours. It will make you laugh, and cry.
Sundome literally means "stopping the moment before". A brilliant title for a brilliant manga.
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The Gelato Maker Opens in Scottsdale
It's going to hit 90 in the next couple of days; doesn't some gelato sound good right about now?
That's what Yaron Cohen is hoping. The Israeli native and his Argentinian relative, Leo Faria, just opened their new shop, The Gelato Maker, last weekend. The two trained in a gelato shop in Barcelona, Spain, before starting the business. Now, they're serving up freshly made, preservative-free frozen treats made in a glass-framed kitchen, so customers can watch the magic happen.
There are 32 diffferent flavors, and some pretty novel ones among them. Think mojito with fresh mint leaves, spicy chocolate, royal chestnut, avocado (!!!), and crema catalana, made with cinnamon, eggs, and caramel.
Head over between 2 and 5 p.m. on weekdays for their "happy hour" and get half off. A good way to indulge in twice as much gelato, I think!
The shop is located next to Goldie's Sports Bar at 10135 E. Via Linda in Scottsdale, and is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily (to 11 on Fridays and Saturdays). Call 480-767-2287 for info.
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