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Pig Ugly Fabric
Close-up, yes this really was the piggy ugly fabric....
Let me start by saying - I sure do hope that this is not someone's favourite fabric if it is please do not read what follows, and I do not wish to offend pigs. Like many of us I belong to a couple ( well a few too many actually) lists and when someone on one of the lists I belong to proposed an ugly fabric challenge because he simply could not live any longer with this fabric in his stash I bit ( I don't do many challenges- what do you do with the things afterwards???). I was intrigued as to what his interpretation of ugly- uggo- might be and I have to say we are of like minds! For a start i don't like pink, and cute is not my strong suite and this fabric is soooo"cute" that it defies words. What to do??? Well for a start ,see if I can get rid of the pink sort of- although I did want to keep a little to the challenge of actually using this fabric- and then disguise those pigs!!!! Anyhow I then ended up with a pinkish, piggy, blackish tie dyed fabric- my goodness no inspiration arrived and the muse abandoned me- so then I asked myself "What would Matisse have done???" When really really stuck I try and think how a favourite artist might have resolved the issue. I can see Matissse sticking his fingers down his throat in the background as he looks at this and gagging, even his love of fabric would not surmount this or would it? - but hey I did the challenge!
Someone asked about the elastics I use to tie with. The elastics are about half an inch across and I buy them in the Newsagents in bulk- and there is no special way of tieing- just get it on and as tight as you can- I have a grazed finger for my efforts as the elastic rubs across the top of the first joint of my forefinger.
And Sandy.... I am still walking-- have only missed three days- the first day back, Easter friday and one day last week.
The fire chopper with its bucket, has been going back and forth all day- there are a couple of fires up on the ridge and one in the valley- there is no immediate danger near our house and thankfully the wind is quiet, but the air is smokey. Fire restrictions went off yesterday- and today was hot hot hot- so keep away wind- keep away and fire stay away . Collin is going to Apollo Bay to play a gig tonight and will stay overnight rather than drive back and we have still not bought another car- so I am not entirely happy about being here without a car. It is unbelievable that we should have fires at this time of year. Collin would normally be out on a fire like this ( he is in the voilunteer fire brigade- known as the CFA) except he is working, but they must be anxious to put out fires before the forecast wind arrives- hence the chopper.
Posted by Dijanne Cevaal at 6:15 PM
2 comments:
- Lynne said...
Thanks for the info on the rubber bands - I've been disappointed with the results of some tie dying, probably the bands weren't tight enough.
I like the finished ugly - it looks like blue ring octopi now!
- smarcoux said...
Dijanne really glad to hear that your keeping up with your walking that is great news .. i have been moving my walking time up to 1 hour ...found that the half hour was bit to easy..
Hows that wine thing going ?
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Scientific publications
Genetic variation in APOE cluster region and Alzheimer's disease risk
Cervantes S, Samaranch L, Vidal-Taboada JM, Lamet I, Bullido MJ, Frank-García A, Coria F, Lleó A, Clarimón J, Lorenzo E, Alonso E, Sánchez-Juan P, Rodríguez-Rodríguez E, Combarros O, Rosich M, Vilella E, Pastor P.
Neurogenetics Laboratory, Division of Neurosciences, Center for Applied Medical Research, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; Department of Neurology, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, University of Navarra, School of Medicine, Pamplona, Spain.
Magazine: Neurobiology of Aging
Date: Jul 11, 2011Neurology [SP]
We report the fine mapping/sequencing results of promoter and regulatory regions of APOE cluster genes (APOE, APOC1, APOC4, APOC2, and TOMM40) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk as well as in the progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to AD. Long-range sequencing in 29 MCI subjects who progressed to dementia revealed 7 novel variants.
Two potentially relevant novel variants and 34 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were genotyped in a large sample of AD, MCI, and control subjects (n = 1453). Globally, very little association signal was observed in our sample in the absence of APOE ε4. Rs5158 (APOC4 intron 1) and rs10413089 (3' to APOC2) showed a trend toward an increase in AD risk independently from APOE ε4 associated risk though it did not survive multiple test correction (uncorrected p = 0.0099 and 0.01, respectively). Interestingly, rs10413089 showed a similar effect in an independent series.
The analysis of the discovery sample showed an association of TOMM40 single nucleotide polymorphisms with progression from MCI stage to AD (rs59007384 and rs11556510), as well as with a shorter time to progression from MCI status to AD (rs10119), though these results could not be replicated in independent series.
Further studies are needed to investigate the role of APOE cluster variants in AD risk.
CITATION Neurobiol Aging. 2011 Jul 11
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Idlib Governorate
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Idlib Governorate
مُحافظة ادلب
Map of Syria with Idlib highlighted
|Coordinates (Idlib): 35°42′N 36°42′E / 35.7°N 36.7°ECoordinates: 35°42′N 36°42′E / 35.7°N 36.7°E
|Manatiq (Districts)
|• Governor
|Kheir Addin al-Sayed
|• Total
|6,097 km2 (2,354 sq mi)
|Estimates range between 5,933 km² and 6,097 km²
|• Total
|• Density
|250/km2 (640/sq mi)
|Time zone
|• Summer (DST)
|ISO 3166 code
|Main language(s)
Idlib Governorate (Arabic: مُحافظة ادلب / ALA-LC: Muḥāfaẓat Idlib) is one of the 14 governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is situated in northwestern Syria, bordering Turkey. Reports of its area vary, depending on the source, from 5,933 km²[1] to 6,097 km².[2] The Governorate had a pre-war population of 1,464,000 (2010 estimate). The provincial capital is Idlib. In 2011, the Governorate was taken over by rebel militias, who have controlled it since then. In 2017, the governorate territory came under the nominal control of the Syrian Salvation Government, with Tahrir al-Sham becoming the dominant militia in the region.
The governorate is divided into five districts (manatiq):
These are further divided into sub-districts (nawahi).
Modern Syria (1946–2011)[edit]
In early 1980s the Idlib Governorate was one of the focal points of the Islamist uprising in Syria. Jisr ash-Shugur was the scene of a mass killing by Syrian security forces in 1980. On 9 March 1980, against a background of anti-government protests across Syria, inhabitants of Jisr ash-Shugur marched on the local Ba'ath Party headquarters and set it on fire. The police were unable to restore order and fled. Some demonstrators seized weapons and ammunition from a nearby army barracks. Later that day, units of the Syrian Army Special Forces were helicoptered in from Aleppo to regain control, which they did after pounding the town with rockets and mortars, destroying homes and shops and killing and wounding dozens of people. At least two hundred people were arrested. The following day a military tribunal ordered the execution of more than a hundred of the detainees. In all, about 150–200 people were said to have been killed.[3]
Syrian Civil War (2011–present)[edit]
The Idlib Governorate clashes (September 2011 – March 2012) were violent incidents involving the newly formed Free Syrian Army (FSA) and government-loyal forces, during which the FSA took control of Saraqib, Binnish, Sarmin, Ariha, Zardana, al-Bara and Taftanaz. This included the 10 March Battle of Idlib (2012), a government victory. This led to the April 2012 Idlib Governorate Operation in which the government unsuccessfully sought to regain control. A consequent cease-fire attempt lasted from 14 April to 2 June 2012. This was followed by the Idlib Governorate clashes (June 2012–April 2013), in which the FSA took or regained control of Salqin, Armanaz, Harem, Sarmin, Darkush, Kafr Nabl, Maarrat al-Nu'man and Taftanaz, while government forces maintained control over Jisr ash-Shugur, Fu'ah, Idlib city, Abu al-Duhur airbase and Khan Shaykhun and recaptured Ariha. The Siege of Wadi Deif military base from October 2012 through April 2013 was also broken.
The 2014 Idlib offensive was a series of operations conducted by the rebels against the Syrian Government. The clashes were mostly concentrated around Khan Shaykhun and on the highway towards Maarrat al-Nu'man, and resulted in rebel victory. In the March Battle of Idlib (2015), al-Nusra Front/Army of Conquest-led rebels retook Idlib city from government and Hezbollah forces.[4]
In the Battle of Maarrat al-Nu'man (2016) on 13 March 2016, fighters from the Salafist jihadist groups al-Nusra Front and Jund al-Aqsa launched an overnight attack against the FSA's 13th Division headquarters in the town of Maarrat al-Nu'man to crush local protesters and demonstrations.[5] The battle resulted in a victory for the jihadis. The October 2016 Idlib Governorate clashes were violent confrontations between Jund al-Aqsa and the Syrian rebel group the Ahrar al-Sham, the latter supported by several other rebel groups.
The Idlib Governorate clashes (January–March 2017) were military confrontations between Syrian rebel factions led by Ahrar al-Sham and their allies on one side and the Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (later as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham) and their allies on the other. After 7 February, the clashes also included Jund al-Aqsa as a third belligerent, which had re-branded itself as Liwa al-Aqsa and was attacking the other combatants. The battles were fought in the Idlib Governorate and the western countryside of the Aleppo Governorate.
The Khan Shaykhun chemical attack took place on 4 April 2017, on the town of Khan Shaykhun, then under the control of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).[6][7] The town was struck by an airstrike by government forces, which was followed by massive civilian chemical poisoning.[8][9] The release of a toxic gas, which included sarin, or a similar substance,[10] killed at least 74 people and injured more than 557, according to the Idlib health authority.[11] The attack was the deadliest use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war since the Ghouta chemical attack in 2013.[12]
The United Nations, the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, France, and Israel, as well as Human Rights Watch have attributed the attack to the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.[13][8][14][15] The Assad government denied using any chemical weapons in the air strike.[16] The Idlib Governorate clashes (July 2017) were a series of military confrontations between Ahrar al-Sham and Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham. During the clashes, Tahrir al-Sham attempted to capture the Bab al-Hawa Border Crossing.[17] As a result of the clashes, HTS took control of Idlib city, the border crossing, and most of the areas along the Turkish border in the Idlib Province. Clashes resumed in July 2017. In September 2017, the Syrian government and its Russian allies intensified bombing raids against rebel-held towns in Idlib, with multiple casualties.[18] Officially, the campaign to capture areas held by ISIL and the rebels began in October. A Turkish military operation in Idlib Governorate took place in October/November 2017.
As of August 2018, following the end of the Siege of al-Fu'ah and Kafriya, which had been government-held until July 2018, the governorate is almost entirely under the control of the Syrian rebels (primarily the National Front for Liberation, which has over 50,000 fighters) along with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, with estimated numbers of fighters between 12,000 and 30,000).[19][20][21] In September 2018, a demilitarization zone was created on the front between the government and the Turkish-backed opposition, temporarily freezing the conflict.
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- ^ SOHRkhan (14 February 2017). "اشتباكات هيئة تحرير الشام وتنظيم جند الأقصى تخلف نحو 70 قتيل بين الطرفين… والأخير يخسر 9 بلدات وقرى خلال الـ 48 ساعة الفائتة". Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
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The warplane dropped three conventional explosive bombs – and a fourth that made little sound on impact but produced a cloud of smoke.
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- Olly Lambert (April 9, 2013). "Syria Behind the Lines". Frontline. USA: Public Broadcasting Service. (Film about Syrian Civil War in 2012 in the Idlib area)


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In line with our environmental policy Brit Rem Services introduces a mortar repellent injection cream via the mortar bed into the affected wall. The product has been designed with the environment in mind.
The formulation is water based and is low hazard, non caustic and non inflammable. Once installed it uses the moisture contained in the damp wall to diffuse where it is most needed before curing to form a water-repellent resin.
Electro-osmotic Damp Proofing
Electro-osmosis has found increasing acceptance as an alternative to fluids and physical damp courses. Electro-osmosis systems give observably the fastest results and there are few restrictions on the type of property into which it can be installed.vc
Moisture rises from the earth by capillary action. The principle is that interference with an electrical potential developed naturally between the wall and the earth can depress the rise of moisture. The system runs on very low voltage and minimal amperage's (mA range), and as a result its operation is completely safe for people, animals and plants with the added benefit of being CHEMICAL FREE.
A control power unit is automatically adapted to the degree of dampness in the wall. The electrical voltage remains constant and thus guarantees an optimal drying process which can be easily monitored via our logging system. Anodes (2) and earth rods (3) are installed to complete the system
Although the installation of the damp proof course will prevent the passage of moisture from the ground and therefore cure the problem it is essential to combat the resultant salt contamination within the plaster by its removal (generally to a height of 1 metre) and replace it with a water resistant salts inhibitive plaster.
The sulphate cement we apply is suitable for use with waterproof additives and is designed to prevent any further passage of ground salts or salts caused by lateral penetration i.e. Sulphates.
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by Borrie la Grange - The Times, 08 Jul 2008
The murder of a restaurant patron has drawn attention to a growing crime trend — armed robberies at restaurants.
A family outing to a restaurant ended in tragedy when a gang of robbers gunned down a young father-to-be at the Lion Park, north of Johannesburg, on Sunday afternoon.
Kurt Huppe, 27, was shot in the chest when he happened on the fleeing gang, which had just held up about 50 customers.
Huppe was shot as he was returning to the restaurant's dining area after visiting the toilets.
His pregnant fiancee, Stacey Woolley, and her daughter, Tyla, were waiting for him with Woolley's mother, Francis.
Minutes before, the gang had ordered customers in the restaurant to lie down while they took their handbags, cellphones and wallets and looted the cash registers.
The incident was the latest in a spate of restaurant robberies that has forced an industry body to classify some Gauteng areas as high risk .
In the 2007-2008 financial year, restaurants reported 600 incidents (300 robberies plus theft and fraud) to the Restaurant Association of SA.
The association has 3 000 members in Gauteng, the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. This means that about 20percent of the association's members were hit by criminals.
Wendy Alberts, chief executive of the association, said: "The situation is getting worse. We have had up to five robberies reported in a week."
Restaurants and take-away outlets were still "soft targets" for armed gangs, despite the sophisticated security measures some members of the association had put in place, Alberts said.
Last year, Durban builder Marc Joubert was gunned down at the popular St Tropez restaurant when a robbery turned a birthday party into a nightmare. Three other patrons were also injured during the robbery.
The gang robbed patrons of cash and jewellery before firing their weapons randomly in the restaurant.
Alberts said the latest reports from members of the association suggest that gangs usually strike on Sunday afternoons or evenings, knowing that by doing so they will get to the cash before the weekend's takings have been banked.
Alberts said a recent spate of robberies at restaurants in Pretoria and in the Kempton Park area, on the East Rand, had forced the association to classify them as "caution areas".
A take-away restaurant in Johannesburg's northern suburbs has been targeted almost every Sunday, presumably by "the same gang, week after week".
Police statistics released last week indicated a massive 47.4percent surge in business robberies — from 6689 to 9862 cases — for the 2007-2008 financial year.
This includes restaurant robberies.
Yesterday, Kurt's father, Dieter Huppe, said his son and Woolley were expecting their first child in December and were "settling down and planning a family".
They had been "inseparable" for the five years of their relationship, he said.
"He was like a father to Tyla; they were very close.
"She knows that something is wrong and is asking Stacey questions," Huppe said. He said he had spoken to his son while he was on the way to the Lion Park.
"He sounded happy. It was a total shock when two hours later I got the call that he had been shot.
"It is as though there is no respite from the violence.
''It's like this violence is becoming more frequent," he said.
Police spokesman Inspector Odette van Staden said detectives were hunting the eight-man gang responsible for Huppe's murder.
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Monday, August 1, 2016
An Ode to my Grandmother
The elegant blonde in the picture above is my grandma. (The smirking infant is me.)
A few days ago I downloaded a few Maria Callas songs on Spotify, because, let's face it, if anyone can make opera fun, it's Maria Callas. And as I listened to them, I thought of my grandmother.
My dear old grandmother has beaten genetics (both her parents died when they were 50-something) and life. She was born a working-class girl and once told me as a giggly secret that when she married, she knew that what she wanted to do with Grandpa was eat, travel, and get rich. A Chilean Holly Golightly but without the slut part (not that the slut part is bad.)
I write this ode because as of late her mind has been wandering, and it refuses to wander with us. It breaks my heart, and has my mother all fidgety about her own genetic destiny.
This woman infused into my family love for literature, for music, for beauty, for nature, for enjoying oneself, all in great style and with a brilliant sense of humor. This is an ode to a woman who treated life like a fine delicacy and her loved ones like true works of art.
I love her, and I'm going to make sure that her future years are a constant reminder of it. That will be the greatest ode I can give her.
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CDC is one of the UK's leading Construction NVQ Assessment Centres, providing quality assured construction NVQ training programmes and qualifications across the country to Operatives, Supervisors, Site and Project Managers at highest possible standards.
We've helped thousands of workers and professionals across the Construction Industry to achieve their right NVQ Diplomas & CSCS Cards in order to become fully compliant with the current legislation.
With the ability to deliver any NVQ nationwide, by choosing to work with CDC, you'll enjoy an absolutely first class service, with researched and up-to-date information, from highly experienced professionals in the industry, such as ex Project Managers and CIOB Members (MCIOB).
Our tailored assessment & payment plans are very well developed in order to suit your needs and adjust to your busy schedule.
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As an innovative, creative and motivated entrepreneur, Andrei is leading CDC's way of delivering excellence via vocational qualifications (NVQs) in a dynamic, transformative and challenging sector: Construction Industry.
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Now on to the La Femme blush swatches!
Have you tried out the La Femme blushes? Any favorites?
Nice haul. <3 I like purple passion. :)
very pigmented!
Never tried them but after your swatches I really want to! They look super pigmented and I love these shades!
I ordered from them twice. It's been a month and I still haven't gotten my Terracotta or Cinnabar from my first order over a month ago =(
I do agree that their packaging is horrible, that little manila card case with a piece of tape on the end... O_o
the second and purple one look pretty! i never really heard of this brand, or should i say check out their products...
Cinnbar is my GO TO blush!!! Ive done many FOTDs using it. I love it...I also love Terricota...I have dusty rose but I dont use that on myself...its in my makeup kit and is a great color also but I prefer it on my clients...you CAN NOT go wrong with LaFemme blushes I own so many...I have violet but I think I'll try Purple passion now!
Nice colors. I've never seen a purple blush.
Love the colors. So gorgeous. My fave is purple passion.
I've never even heard of that brand, but the colours are really pigmented!
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Franklin Electric Co. has completed the acquisition of a majority stake of Pioneer Pump Holdings Inc. (PPH, the holding company for two wholly owned subsidiaries, Pioneer Pump Inc. (PPI) of Canby, Ore. and Pioneer Pump Limited (PPL) of Rattlesden, England, UK.
Pioneer manufactures large, engine-driven centrifugal pumps used for dewatering in oil and gas, municipal, construction and mining applications. PPH"s 2011 consolidated net sales were approximately $70 million.
Franklin Electric acquired a 35 percent equity interest in Pioneer Pump Inc. in 2005. The investment had a carrying cost of about $11 million as of Dec. 31, 2011. With the recent transaction, Franklin Electric"s equity interest in PPH has increased to 70 percent and PPH will now be consolidated in Franklin Electric"s financial statements.
Franklin Electric has also definitively agreed to purchase the remaining minority shares of PPH in the first quarter of 2015.
Scott Trumbull, Franklin chairman and chief executive said, in a prepared announcement, that Pioneer's growth as a manufacturer of mobile pumping systems over the last six years is in part due to the growing use of their products for mobile pumping applications such as hydraulic fracturing for oil & gas extraction. He said Pioneer"s presence in the oil & gas market will also compliment Franklin"s initiative to introduce submersible pumping systems in this market.


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An hour rain delay couldn't slow down the Sterling Xpress Tuesday evening. The Xpress put together a pair of four-run innings to defeat the Golden Grizz 9-2 in the Rocky Mountain League tournament.
With the win the Xpress extended their winning streak to 10 games. They'll play in the second round of the RMBL tournament on Friday at 5 p.m. against the Colorado Sox or the Boulder Collegians.
Lucas Lingreen led the charge offensively for the Xpress with three hits and three runs batted in. JJ Bissell hit his 13th home run of the season in the sixth inning to put an exclamation mark on the victory. Riley Baasch recorded two hits. Eddie Sanchez picked up two RBIs.
Yuan Liu got the start on the mound and recorded three strikeouts in three innings of work. Jay Kiel pitched two innings and recorded two strikeouts.
By winning the regular season league title the Xpress have already qualified for the National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita in August.
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Mark Wahlberg, ex-convict and Oscar-nominated actor, talks for the first time about his bruising encounters with Martin Scorsese on the set of 'The Departed'. By John Hiscock
There were hugs, kisses and handshakes all round when The Departed took the major honours at this year's Oscars ceremony. The Best Director winner Martin Scorsese embraced his Best Supporting Actor nominee Mark Wahlberg and they announced that they will be working together again soon.
Amid the euphoria and congratulations of the post-ceremony parties, all the arguments and disputes that had roiled the set of The Departed, which also won the Best Picture Oscar, were forgotten. Now they are the best of buddies.
They are a volatile couple: Wahlberg, the ex-convict and former street thug from the rough side of Boston, and Scorsese, the outspoken Italian-American former seminary student; and they both had firm ideas of how Wahlberg's scenes should be shot. Unfortunately they were very different.
"Marty and I were constantly in this struggle," recalls Wahlberg, revealing for the first time the behind-the-scenes dramas. "I had problems with Marty."
Wahlberg, who won his nomination for portraying Bryce Dignam, an abrasive police sergeant, had squeezed in his role in The Departed between filming Four Brothers and Invincible. "I was only supposed to do a couple of weeks on the Departed so I was able to grow my hair for Invincible. But then the schedule changed and four months later I'm still working on The Departed so I wouldn't cut my hair and Marty was pissed off," he says, remembering their expletive-filled exchanges. "He was like, 'You've got to cut your f***ing hair,' and I was, 'I don't give a f***.'
"He was, 'I'm Martin Scorsese... da-dee da.'
"I said, 'Well, I'm not getting paid for this... da-dee-da. What the f***?' He was pushing me in different ways. There was one scene at the end where I come back and shoot Matt Damon. I asked Marty, 'Why can't we do it right now because the set's there.' And he's like, 'Oh, I'm not creatively there yet.' "
Wahlberg throws up his hands in exasperation. "All I got to do is walk in and shoot the guy in the f***ing face. So I ask to talk to Marty and he sent his assistant over. I ask where Marty was and the assistant said, 'Marty said everything's great, you're doing a good job but we're not shooting that scene.'
"Marty liked to play that game but he didn't like it at seven o'clock in the morning when he still needed a little rest and I'm out there yelling and screaming and he comes out of his trailer and says, 'What the f***'s going on?' He only wanted it at nine o'clock when we were ready to roll."
Wahlberg can laugh now. "But it wasn't just Marty. The whole time I was in the character so I was mad at everybody. It was Leo [DiCaprio], Matt [Damon] and Jack [Nicholson]. F*** Jack, too."
But, as is usually the case in Hollywood, when there's money to be made, all differences are put aside. "We were able to laugh about it afterwards and we have a great relationship now and we're going to do other stuff in the future," he says.
Wahlberg and Scorsese are already talking about teaming up again on both a prequel and sequel to The Departed. The film's Oscar-winning writer William Monaghan is working on a script. All the major cast of The Departed are expected to return for the prequel, while the sequel will star only Wahlberg as the cop investigating the murder he himself committed.
"I've never made a prequel or sequel to any movie I've done before and they will have to be better than the first one, but obviously, with a guy like Marty it seems like a pretty safe bet."
I meet Wahlberg in Los Angeles before the première of his new, Antoine Fuqua-directed film, Shooter, which he describes as "a red-state [Republican] movie with blue-state [Democrat] politics". In it he plays a former Marine sniper who is pressed back into service but finds himself double-crossed and the subject of a nationwide manhunt.
"It was a huge physical and mental challenge," said Wahlberg, who went through intensive boot-camp training sessions to get him in top shape for the demanding missions of a sniper scout. "This is a character who has to go through so much just to prove his innocence and open people's eyes."
As the only major star, Wahlberg carries the movie and he readily credits the Oscar nomination to which Scorsese steered him for having a galvanising effect on his already rapidly rising career.
"I've probably had 10 phone calls from some of the top directors in the business all saying they would love for me to do their next film, so I think that's pretty cool," he says. "It's been remarkable how drastically things have changed."
His personal life has undergone an even greater metamorphosis. One of nine children, he was frequently in trouble with the police in the tough Dorchester neighbourhood of Boston where he was born and raised. He was arrested several times for stealing cars, mugging drunks and dealing drugs until, at the age of 16, he went to jail after a robbery in which he gouged out the eye of a Vietnamese refugee with a metal hook.
His year in jail proved to be the beginning of a new life for him. "Obviously I didn't like going to jail so I was like, 'Please God, I'll never do anything wrong again,' " he says. "Like most people, I turned to God when I was in trouble, but it's been a number of events, not really one thing, that changed my life. It's just been a lot of bumps and struggles along the way and I found the more I tried to do good and live a clean life, the more I was rewarded for it by having good things happen to me personally. I've made bad decisions and bad choices and a lot of mistakes but I've learned from them."
Over the years, he has turned more and more to religion and now, at the age of 35, he is a devout Catholic and, unlike the dangerously hot-tempered teenager who was known for racially-motivated street violence, he is polite, politically correct and rigorously controlled, although his speech is still freely sprinkled with one particular four-letter word.
He has rosary beads tattooed around his neck and rows of beads dangle from the rear-view mirrors of his cars. He tries to attend Mass every day and his life now revolves around his girlfriend, the former model Rhea Durham, and their two children, three-year-old Ella and Michael, aged one.
"From the age of 15 on, I've thought I was a man but I didn't really become a man until I had my little girl, which was the key ingredient to helping me become a well-rounded person," he says. "I don't have a problem showing a sensitive side. I like to see guys kick ass when necessary and I'm still a guy's guy, but when I had my little girl that kind of changed everything."
He shrugs off suggestions that it is something of an anomaly for a devout Catholic to father two children and live with their mother without being married.
"No sin is worse than the other and you have to make your own choices and live with them, and I can live with this," he says. "Rhea is a wonderful mother and a wonderful person and we're continuing to build our relationship. She was never baptised until recently so she's going through all the proper steps so we can be married in a holy Catholic union and the whole deal. It's a growing process and we're trying to grow together."
The actor spends much of his spare time working with the Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation, which he formed to help inner-city children, particularly those from his old Boston neighbourhood.
"I get the opportunity to meet a lot of rich people now so I take their money and give it to people who really need it," he laughs. "That's part of the deal. Anybody wants to work with me, they got to kick in a little bit for the 'hood. I wasn't put in this position to forget about where I came from. I think I was put in this position to try to make whatever difference I could and help young kids who were faced with the same choices that I was."
He began his showbusiness career by briefly joining his brother Donnie in the boy band New Kids on the Block, but soon dropped out. On his release from jail, with the help of his brother he recorded and released the hip-hop-pop album Music for the People using the name Marky Mark. The record went platinum on the strength of the singles Good Vibrations and Wildside and the rapper's thuggish charm.
To his chagrin, he began to become known as a model and celebrity more than a musician so he moved into acting and in 1994 Danny DeVito, impressed by Wahlberg's cocksure attitude and thick urban accent, cast him in his first film role in Renaissance Man.
The following year, he managed to steal scenes from Leonardo DiCaprio in The Basketball Diaries and then in 1997 his role as the unusually endowed but pathetically deluded porn star Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights established him as a serious actor.
His films since then include Planet of the Apes, Charade, The Italian Job and Four Brothers, and he is also executive producer of the television series Entourage. He and his fellow Bostonian Matt Damon are currently planning a film together based on the story of the big-hearted Boston boxer, "Irish" Micky Ward.
Ironically, both Wahlberg and Damon worked hard to lose their Boston accents but find themselves continually having to return to their verbal roots. "We both spent all this time trying to lose our Boston accents and the last thing we wanted to do was play Boston guys," says Wahlberg.
"All I wanted was to play English and Matt wants to play Australian, yet the best roles we've gotten were playing guys from Boston - The Perfect Storm and The Departed for me and Good Will Hunting and The Departed for him; so we both said, 'What the f*** are we doing?' We're wasting all this time, man. We'd better just embrace it.' "
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It looks like Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Lea, and the rest of the Star Wars gang has a new force to reckon with—BB-8.
The beloved space droid takes center stage in a surprise newly-released international trailer from the makers of the upcoming episode, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. This is the first time fans have witnessed the droid in so much glory, appearing in almost every scene in the 1:52 piece.
Along with Finn and Rey, we also get additional glimpses at Carrie Fisher's Leia, Anthony Daniels' C-3PO, Adam Driver's Kylo Ren, and the distinguishable Harrison Ford reprising his iconic role as Han Solo.
One character once again missing from the pack is Luke Skywalker, who is set to be portrayed by series veteran Mark Hamill. It appears we may need to wait until the film rolls on the silver screen to see the final member of the original trio make his grand return.


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Over the weekend at the BET Awards there was a reported altercation between Charlamagne Tha God and Busta Rhymes. The two give their perspectives on what went down.
From HipHopDX, Power 105's Charlamagne Tha God and Busta Rhymes got into a heated exchange at the BET Awards. This morning while on The Breakfast Club, Charlamagne said that the tension between the two stems back several years. The radio personality says that Busta was upset over comments Charlamagne made about Bus-A-Buss' music several years ago while on The Wendy Williams Show.
Charlamagne refutes he said anything then about Busta's music, but would be happy to discuss his current music. "If you want me to talk about your music being wack in 2012, let's talk about that," Charlamagne said. "He goes, 'You need to stop acting like a tough guy.' I said, 'Busta, you need to stop acting like a tough guy before it gets crazy in here.' So he told me to put my drink down."
The two never actually came to blows as Charlamagne left with Angela Yee before things got too out of hand.
When reached for an interview Busta says his pride was on the line "As a man, if there's an issue, I'll discuss it. And that's it," said Busta. "I'm not out here trying to hype things on these platforms and social networks and act like something that I'm not. I'm not no gangsta, I'm not no tough guy, I'm just a man, and I live by certain morals and I live by certain principals and if they get compromised, we're going to have to have a discussion. It's as simple as that."