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President Trump, truth-teller
Wed, 2018-01-31 09:12 — AllenN
One of the biggest surprises has been his honesty. The media has tried to paint a portrait of Trump as a liar, but when you think about it, the most important promises--those made as a candidate prior to the election--have been fulfilled, or he has attempted to fulfill them. And from his speech, he is not done. This is an incredibly refreshing remake of "normal" politicians of both stripes who have shown they can't be trusted.
Unlike his recent predecessors, there are true bipartisan compromise positions that Trump has staked out. Take the immigration debate. Mainstream Republicans are absolutely against the "pathway to citizenship" for "dreamers" because it rewards illegal acts, and it possibly helps bring voting rights to a large block of voters who might be more likely to support Trump's political opponents. Yet Trump showed flexibility by agreeing to compromise on this issue. Despite his talk of bipartisanship and bringing America together, I can't think of a single instance when former President Obama compromised, unless you count how he compromised his ethics.
Trump pointed out that his compromise would give 1.8 million "dreamers" a path to citizenship, which is three-times as many people as Obama's DACA order covered. But he wants a secure border and he wants to stop "chain" migration except for the immediate family.
Here is another compromise that Trump has offered. He is willing to keep spending money regardless of its effect on the deficit and debt. I think this is a huge mistake and not something I would support, but it shows that Trump is thinking of solutions. If I had to guess, I think his advisors would say that we need to put off tackling the deficit until our economy is growing fast, our trade deficits have been reversed, and the weakness ushered in by previous administrations are turned around. And maybe this is why I'm not a politician, because "kicking the can down the road" is not going to make this problem go away or get better. So while Trump promises to spend more on the military, infrastructure, and tax cuts, our debt keeps going up as interest rates seem ready to rise.
Trump also talked about helping inner cities (not even on the former President's radar, despite living in Chicago), spending $1.5 trillion on infrastructure, expanding the child tax credit for low-income Americans, and having paid parental leave. All of these are closer to the Dems position than the Republicans.
The most emotional part of Trump's speech was when he introduced the two sets of parents from Long Island who lost their two daughters to MS-13 gangsters. The Dems would have you believe that there are no costs to illegal immigration, or that the "work" these people do somehow make up for their actions as a group. It is clear that while relatively few people are directly affected by crimes committed by these illegal immigrants, the effects for these victims are disproportionate considering that the crimes would not have happened had they been refused entry. Unlike say a job, which is going to be filled by an American or an illegal immigrant, a criminal act is simply not going to be committed if the criminal isn't here.
President Trump alluded to the savings Americans will have on their federal taxes, and how companies are rewarding employees with bonuses and raises because of their tax reduction. Some companies are bringing back billions of dollars that were earned overseas but faced a high tax bite if transferred home. Other companies are building new plants in America instead of lower-cost countries. Trump said we've created over 2 million new jobs including 200,000 jobs in manufacturing in the last year. These are all good signs which could well accelerate as our economy picks up steam and we keep spending money.
One of Trump's biggest reversals of previous policy is his rejection of the climate-change myth. The Left believes the story that in order to save the planet, we need to stop digging coal and burning fossil fuels, while our political adversaries can keep doing so virtually unabated. This reversal of policy has made America an energy exporter which helps our allies and hurts our adversaries. And, as if I had to say it, makes zero difference to "climate change."
Even those who disagree with his policies have to give Trump credit for trying to fulfill his campaign promises. Isn't that what we want politicians to do, and isn't doing so admirable? After all, what else are elections for?
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Thu, 2018-02-01 14:12 — doug williams
Thu, 2018-02-01 13:48 — doug williams
I salute him -- and his strong supporters -- for accomplishments and efforts to date. Note DJ that I offer my name (Doug Williams) rather than a set of initials (DJ).
Thu, 2018-02-01 11:33 — DJActon
The climate change "myth"" 99% of scientists worldwide agree
Another Acton resident/taxpayer
Thu, 2018-02-01 12:39 — AllenN
More on Paris accords
But after responding to DJ's comment, I decided to look it up. Evidently, I am right. A group from MIT took the promises in the accord and carried them out 75 years. They estimated it would make a 0.2 degrees Celsius difference over that period of time!
"Assuming the proposed cuts [under the Paris Agreement] are extended through 2100 but not deepened further, they result in about 0.2°C less warming by the end of the century," the report said. (See factcheck.org: https://www.factcheck.org/2017/06/will-paris-tiny-effect-warming/)
Case closed.
Allen Nitschelm has lived in Acton since 1998 and writes about fiscal issues at the
local and state level. He is a former member of the town's Finance Committee
and is an Associate Publisher of Acton Forum.
Thu, 2018-02-01 11:45 — AllenN
"Climate change" is a religion, not a fact
The climate change "story" told by the Left is an ever-evolving tale which continues to evolve as contrary evidence comes to light. So when you say that 99% of scientists agree, do you mean today, last week, last year, or last decade?
Because it wasn't too long ago (maybe 30 years) when global cooling and another possible ice-age was being predicted. What percent of scientists agreed with that assessment?
I'm not denying that the climate changes (it does that every season), nor am I claiming that there are no large changes that may be taking place. I am just a skeptic and don't swallow the entire tale without critical analysis.
My two major problems are pretty simple. First, is the entire chain of reasoning likely (no), and second, is "the world" going to act to stop it if it is in fact happening (no).
So long as countries like China and India continue to burn fossil fuels, and continents like Africa are going to increase their usage in the future, there is nothing we can do in America unilaterally to stop what may end up happening. And if you think the "Paris Accords" were going to significantly cut the carbon output from the rest of the developing world, you may want to do more research on that.
Allen Nitschelm has lived in Acton since 1998 and writes about fiscal issues at the
local and state level. He is a former member of the town's Finance Committee
and is an Associate Publisher of Acton Forum.
Thu, 2018-02-01 11:29 — DJActon
What you are is about the most disgusting type American around
Hello, reality, we've got a guy who loves money over actual facts here, and he's living in Acton Massachusetts !!
This guy thinks Trump tells the truth? Trump doesn't regard Putin as an enemy of democracy, Trump doesn't believe in the science of global climate change, Trump appoints people to the judicial bench who actually think religion has a place in making judgments.
OKAY, we have a loony living in Acton! AND he publishes a web site where people can read his opinions, double stupid idea, but very very helpful for those of us in the majority here in Acton: at least we know who the money-loving, completely without ethics or morality enemy is.
I'm starting my own web site, a contrarian view to this old man who loves his money over his love of his freedoms... I won't reveal the web site here, but those of you who actually live in Acton, or neighboring towns, or somewhere in the USA who want it.. I'll be glad to reveal the web site to you..just email me.......but, of course, Acton Forum will NOT allow me to post my email address here..so much for freedom of speech.
Just take the first letters of my name here....D and J and add the name of the town, Acton... and find the most popular American email address.....my site is free, I welcome all opinions....and I am not in this for the money....heaven knows...no good liberal/progressive ever makes money on good ideas but those good ideas translated into the 40 hour work week, the weekend, vacations, quality education for our children, good medical care around the corner, and good EMT's to take us there in an emergency... actually each and everything we love about living where we do.
So, Allen, will you publish this letter? Will you continue to support Trump for being such a Russian/Putin kiss-up?
No, I hate your opinions, hate your way of rationalizations of absolutely historical destruction of the USA all in the name of you paying lower taxes. I think you will probably meet your fate, either through natural death or through the eventual re-affirmation of the Constitution: I.E. we do NOT countenance collusion with Russia in our elections, and we do NOT think that rich people, (like you), should run a web site supporting a traitor, Donald J. Trump.
Get a life, Allen, get over your money and learn to love someone, or maybe you're too old to do that.
Another Acton resident/taxpayer
Thu, 2018-02-01 11:56 — AllenN
Clinton and Russia
I have seen no evidence that the Trump campaign "colluded" with Russia. I do believe the Russians may have tried helping Trump, just like many countries tried helping Obama get elected.
Frankly, I think the Russians are more interested in causing us to fight and roil in turmoil than help one candidate or the other. Clearly, Trump's agenda is not "pro-Russian" and he is clearly no tool of the Kremlin. But he is disrupting American politics and maybe that's why the Russians backed him. So even if Russian involvement were shown, I don't think it was collusion.
As far as taxes go, I want everyone to pay lower taxes, not just me. I think that is better for the entire country, our economy, and our future. And if you want to know the truth, I believe I will pay higher taxes under the Trump plan. But I still support it.
Trump's judicial picks have been great. He is not using a "religious" litmus test, he is using a "Constitutional" litmus test, meaning he wants the courts to interpret the law, not create it. You may disagree, but that is mainstream conservative thought. Compare that to the previous Presidency which decided to take unconstitutional measures to advance its agenda rather than go through Congress. Perhaps you would prefer that Trump operate like Obama, by fiat?
By the way, good luck with your website. I know, Liberals and progressives never make money on their ideas. Just think about Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, the mainstream media, Hollywood...
Have a great day!
Allen Nitschelm has lived in Acton since 1998 and writes about fiscal issues at the
local and state level. He is a former member of the town's Finance Committee
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Welcome to the San Jose Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. We are pleased to have you with us, and hope our website will help you learn more about us.
The American Guild of Organists (AGO) is an organization that serves anyone interested in the organ and choral music fields. Founded as both an educational and service organization, the Guild seeks to set and maintain high musical standards and to promote understanding and appreciation of all aspects of organ and choral music.
The AGO San Jose Chapter is comprised of members in and around San Jose, California. Explore our website and learn more about us and other nearby AGO Chapters. Then join us at local performances found on our calendar. And if you have the same love of organs as we do, why not become a member?
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Are you in need of substitute organist? We have several organists available to work as a substitute. Check out our recently updated Substitute Organist List. This list is always available in the Links section of this web site under Member References.
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Are you looking for an organ teacher? Several of our members are qualified to teach organ. We maintain a listing of Organ Teachers that are located in San Jose and the South Bay area. Feel free to contact any of the listed organ teachers and join us in the wonderful world of the organ.
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Arkansas man hurt in Hwy. 112 wreck
(Local News ~ 01/23/16)
An Arkansas man was injured Saturday in a wreck at 6:50 a.m. on Highway 112, 1.5 miles east of Seligman. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report, Jose Mandujano-Sandoval, 21, of Rogers, Ark., was driving a 2005 Dodge Neon eastbound when his vehicle slid off the left side of the roadway, then struck a utility pole, a fence and a tree...
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You probably know already that starting from Android 5.x (Lollipop) compiled roms (aosp,cm,stock) are not compressed anymore the way they used to be on previous android versions. On previous versions all content inside /system folder that has to be extracted within our device was either uncompressed (simple /system folder inside our flashable zip) or compressed in a system.img file, which it is a ext4 compressed file; both of these, anyway, were readable and we could see all system files (app,framework, etc).
The problem comes in >=5.0 versions, this method is not used anymore. Why? Because roms started to be always larger, so it is necessary to compress them even more.
What does new Android zips (full roms, but also otas) contain?
New Android flashable zips are made this way:
boot.img (kernel)
file_contexts (selinux related)
META-INF (folder containing scripts)
system.new.dat (compressed /system partition)
system.patch.dat (for OTAs)
system.transfer.list (see explanation below)
What does updater-script contains then?
The updater-script uses a brand new function: block_image_update(), this method basically decompresses necessary files inside the device. Let's study it.
From google git source code, if we go inside the new file /bootable/recovery/updater/blockimg.c, we find at the end of it the registration of the function block_image_update() as the method BlockImageUpdateFn() which starts at line 254. Here finally we find all information we need to know about the decompression of the .dat file(s). First file we analyze is system.transfer.list which Google tells us:
The transfer list is a text file containing commands to transfer data from one place to another on the target partition.
But what each line means?:
First line is the version number of the transfer list; 1 for android 5.0.x, 2 for android 5.1.x, 3 for android 6.0.x, 4 for android 7.x/8.x
Second line is the total number of blocks being written
Third line is how many stash entries are needed simultaneously (only on versions >= 2)
Fourth line is the maximum number of blocks that will be stashed simultaneously (only on versions >= 2)
Fifth line and subsequent lines are all individual transfer commands.
Ok, but how to decompress the system.new.dat file?
All instructions are below. sdat2img, rimg2sdat and img2sdat binaries are involved. Please read carefully step by step.
NOTE for OTAs
If you are looking on decompressing system.patch.dat file or .p files, therefore reproduce the patching system on your PC, check imgpatchtools out by @erfanoabdi.
You can use/modify these files and/or include them in your work as long as proper credits and a link to this thread are given.
If you have questions or problems write here
Are you building from source and want to revert to the old flashing method without DAT files?
Do this (thx @Elluel):
1 - Delete this line
2 - Make sure you have this commit
- howellzhu & luxi78 - for initial source codes
- all contributors from github


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Madagascar: A Journey Diary
Madagascar: A Journey Diary is an extraordinary animated short film by the French animator Bastien Dubois. The film is completing quite an impressive festival run, which has included playing at Sundance, winning at Ottawa and winning at Annecy. Madagascar has just been short-listed for the 2011 Academy Awards in the Animated Short Film category.
Madagascar unfolds in the form of a travel notebook, where the pages turn and drawings come to life for us to discover the extraordinary customs and rituals of the Red Island, in particular the cult of the reversal of the dead. The film is deeply appealing for the same reason travel documentaries succeed, our intrinsic captivation with other places and other people. Along the way, the style of the piece, the jumble of half-finished looking sketches and images across multiple styles, recreates that often overwhelming sense of being fully present and stimulated that one gets when placed in such a rich, yet foreign environment.
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We decided to craft a little (and admittedly throwaway!) response to Redbook's diet-and-image obsessed July 2007 cover, in light of, well, our earlier post! Check it out after the jump. Have any of your own you want to share with us? Email us, or put 'em in the comments.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
SourceForge CVS Configuration Tips
Here are a couple good links if you're needing to get access to SourceForge's CVS system. I haven't found any plugins which interface CVS to Visual Studio, but there are a couple good workarounds. Haacked uses TortoiseCVS for his interface. (via James) SourceForge's Survival Kit and their Introduction to CVS Services are great helpers too. SF's examples use WinCVS which is a somewhat confusing, overly complex interface to CVS. Hmmm... CVS often seems somewhat confusing and overly complex, so it's actually a good pairing. It's been a couple years since I used CVS. It certainly takes a bit of getting used to again.
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Yeah, I found WinCVS too confusing. TortoiseCVS takes a little getting used to, but once you do, you don't even care that it's not integrated into VS.NET.
Except for when VS.NET rewrites your code. ;)
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The star of 'Mock the Week', 'Live at the Apollo' and 'Crackerjack' embarks on a brand-new show, in this, his last tour EVER!!! See him before he heads off... INTO THE PUNSET.
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Dr. Mae Jemison was the first black woman in space. Now, she's leading a wildly ambitious project: to achieve interstellar travel in the next 100 years. She's with us.
Think Star Trek and you won't be far off. A new Pentagon project is putting out seed money for interstellar travel. Humans, rambling around among the stars. It's called the 100 Year Starship project. It's as wildly ambitious as just about anything you can imagine.
The spaceship, its energy source, its passengers' survival – full-blown or just as DNA… all giant challenges. Not to mention that we're sort of broke and not even flying space shuttles right now. Leader of the new effort: astronaut Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space. She's with us.
This hour, On Point: the 100 Year Starship.


text: Wow! After being on a bit of a hectic hiatus for the past month I am hoping I can get into the groove of my new schedule enough to start posting regularly here again. I truly enjoy sharing my photographs with you all and doing so helps me to be a more happy inspired person but as I have mentioned before life can occasionally sweep you up leaving no time for the things you truly enjoy. Another factor has also been that my hosting bill is due this month and our funds have been a bit tight lately to justify spending extra on a hobby when we desperately need the essentials. And part of me didn't want to get too invested in something that I love but could expire at the end of the month. So if you like this site and want to see it continue on I would be super appreciative if you clicked on my banners as you do your holiday shopping. I am truly honored to have such supportive readers who brighten my days with kind words and insight.


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Is Change
And boy, do they change things where taxes are concerned. Every year the forms and rules change so just when you think you have it figured out, you have to relearn it over again.
While this year has been fairly quiet in terms of tax changes, there are a few new items that taxpayers should be aware of.
Family Tax Cut
We've covered this one fairly extensively already, but some of you still have questions regarding it.
Designed for couples with minor children, it allows them to get a tax credit of up to $2,000 based on the net reduction of federal tax that would be realized if up to $50,000 of an individual's taxable income was transferred to the individual's eligible spouse or common-law partner. Although any couple with kids can claim the Family Tax Cut, it will most benefit those where one spouse has a much larger income than the other.
For example, Jake makes $65,000 a year; Sandra makes $25,000. Jake is taxed at a Federal marginal rate of 22 per cent, Sandra at 15 per cent. By shifting $20,000 of Jake's income to Sandra's tax return, all of the family's income is now in the 15 per cent tax bracket. This reduces the amount of taxes due. Provincial taxes are not affected because this is only a federal credit.
Note that pensioners cannot split their pension and claim the Family Tax Cut at the same time, but this probably won't affect most of you out there…
Applying for the credit within TaxTron couldn't be easier:
- Create a linked return for the couple (Both spouses must file their returns to get the Family Tax Cut.)
- Report their incomes as well as information regarding their minor dependants
- Open form S1A to bring Schedule 1A on screen
- Check the box confirming you are claiming the Family Tax Cut
That's it. The software will do all the calculations and send the resulting tax savings to Schedule 1 on line 423.
It's always been true that NETFILE was only for the current year, and if you wanted to electronically file a previous year's return you needed a tax professional to do so, assuming it could be done at all.
With the CRA initiative to move toward "e-services", this is perhaps the biggest change this year. NETFILE users will be able to electronically file their previous year's return as well as the current tax year. So not only can you file your 2014 return right now, but also the 2013 return as well.
We tell you every year to not wait until the last minute and file early. And most of you are sharp enough to do so, especially those of you reading this. But there are always some stragglers, and now fewer of them will have to resort to printing and mailing their returns than ever before.
Where'd my GST/HST credit go?
Astute readers out there will have already noticed that the Identification form is missing the customary GST/HST question. In truth, it's been of limited value for a while.
In the past, it's not been harmful to claim the credit in almost every case. The only real snag was with married or common-law partners both trying to claim the credit at the same time, which would result in "double-dipping". And then there were the few people who might have qualified for the credit, but neglected to claim it for whatever reason.
Now with the 2014 return, you no longer have to manually apply for the credit. When you file your return, Canada Revenue will automatically determine if you are eligible for the credit and advise those eligible of the amount of credit that they receive. And in the case of couples, since the credit can only be claimed by one of them at the same time, it goes to whoever filed their return first.
Easy, no mistakes, and no forgetting to claim the credit.
Direct Deposit is coming…
Yes, you read that correctly. Now of course the first thing many of you are thinking is that direct deposit of payments from CRA has been around for quite a while, so what's the news?
Well, the news is that soon it's going to become mandatory. The days of getting that cheque in the mail are soon going to be history.
This won't be a surprise to many of you. After all, Revenue Quebec has done this with the Solidarity Tax Credit for quite a few years now, and some of you out there may already have gotten notices in the mail from Canada Revenue advising you of the change.
Thankfully, many taxpayers have already made the switch, so they won't be affected. For the rest, this change avoids the potential issue of cheques getting delayed or worse still, lost in the mail, or having to actually go to the bank to cash the cheque, which for many people is increasingly inconvenient in our busy lives. The money is already there waiting for you.
And in case you were concerned, setting up direct deposit does not mean CRA can see how much money you have in your account, nor can they take money out of your account.
Like we said, there aren't a ton of new changes, but the ones that they've added are designed to make things smoother and easier for taxpayers just like you.


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MAMMA MIA! returns to Philadelphia for a limited engagement beginning Feb. 25 – March 2 at the Academy of Music as part of Broadway Philadelphia, presented by the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and the Shubert Organization.
Tickets ranging from $20 to $105.50 can be purchased by calling 215-731-3333, online at kimmelcenter.org/broadway, at the Kimmel Center box office, Broad & Spruce Sts. (open daily 10 am to 6 pm) or at the Academy of Music box office, Broad & Locust Sts., (open during performances only). Groups of 10 or more will receive discounts for select performances by calling 215-790-5883 or 866-276-2947. Performances include: Tuesday – Thursday evenings at 7:30 pm; Friday & Saturday evening at 8:00 pm; Sunday evening at 6:30 pm; and matinees Saturday at 2:00 pm and Sunday at 1:00 pm.
Leading the cast of 30 of MAMMA MIA! is Georgia Kate Haege as "Donna Sheridan," the independent single mother whose carefree past catches up with her on the eve of her daughter's wedding. Bride-to-be "Sophie Sheridan" is played by Chelsea Williams; her fiancé "Sky" is played by Chris Stevens.
Gabrielle Mirabella and Carly Sakolove play Donna's best friends and former back-up band, "Tanya" and "Rosie," (respectively) who reunite with their best friend on the island for Sophie's wedding. The three men from Donna's past and Sophie's possible dads are Michael Colavolpe ("Bill Austin"), Mark A. Harmon ("Harry Bright") and Don Winsor ("Sam Carmichael"). Sophie's & Sky's best friends are played by Antoinette Comer ("Lisa"), Kyle Dupree ("Eddie") Emily Price ("Ali") and Neil Starkenberg ("Pepper").
MAMMA MIA!'s ensemble features Francesca Arostegui, Ken Arpino, Meghan Glogower, Andrew J. Koslow, Bonnie Kramer, Grace Leszynski, Danny Lopez, Rebecca Mason-Wygal, Royce James McIntosh, Tyler McKenzie, Alex Mendoza, Brynn Smith, Joshua LaMonte Switzer, Carly Wielstein, Jennifer Wingerter, Vince Wingerter, P. Tucker Worley and Lauren Wright.
Seen by over 50 million people around the world, MAMMA MIA!, is celebrating over 5,000 performances on Broadway and is the 10th longest running show in Broadway history. The original West End production of MAMMA MIA! is now in its fifteenth year and has celebrated over 6,000 performances in London and the international tour has visited more than 74 foreign cities and been seen by over 4.3 million people. The blockbuster feature film adaptation of MAMMA MIA! is the most successful movie musical of all time grossing $600 million worldwide.
Seen in 38 productions in 14 different languages globally and with a worldwide gross of over $2 Billion, MAMMA MIA! is acclaimed by the Associated Press as "quite simply, a phenomenon."


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Displaying 31 - 39 of 39 1991 Mitsubishi 3000GT reviews.
1991 Mitsubishi 3000GT 2 Dr SL HatchbackReview
3000gt Performance Is Beauty — The problem about the car is the weight, but then again it still can pick up and go. so i think its a good thing that its heavy you wont go flying some where lol. other than that everything on it is perfect and any real car person should own one.
Pros: Looks and all the gadgets, plus its a rare find now that they stopped building it in 99
Cons: The cost to fix it now that i think about
1991 Mitsubishi 3000GT 2 Dr SL HatchbackReview
I Wish I Still Had The Car! — I loved this car so much but im looking forward to the next one even more!!! My old car was black. I bought it with and exhaust system and a 12" sub. I put a few parts on it including: green neon and air intake. This car was a lot of fun to drive around town and show off its sweet looks! It was built with great quality. I would recommend this car to a friend because it was so much fun to drive around and get people to look as i went by! I cant wait until the new car rolls in my driveway cuz its going to be a lot faster and a lot more fun to drive around!!
Pros: Lots of fun to drive, great car to have fun with!
Cons: The only thing i can think of is that i dont have it anymore.
1991 Mitsubishi 3000GT 2 Dr SL HatchbackReview
Mitsubishi 3000gt — I love everything about the 3000gt. It is one of the most innovate cars Mitsubishi has ever put out. As well as its counter part the Dodge Stealth. Very advanced for its time. I only wish mine was the twin turbo.
Pros: Strong engine, Well made, Lasts a long time, Looks amazing.
Cons: Automatics are slow stock, extremely heavy, not a large aftermarket selection
1991 Mitsubishi 3000GT 2 Dr VR-4 Turbo AWD HatchbackReview
The Best Car;-d — Well, I love this car very much. I think it's the best car I've ever drove. The car has 4WS & 4WD, ECS, Active Aero & Twin Turbo Intercooler. The handling is pretty good, even better if you drive with the Active Aero. Active Aero helps the car to have a good roadgrip. When you pass 80km/h there is a spoiler beyond your frontspoiler that lowers down, the spoiler on your hatch raises, when you go below 50km/h the spoilers goes back to normal positions. The ECS system makes the car stiff. There are airbags on top of every suspensions, that are filled with air when the ECS system is on. This to make the car get a better handling.
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1991 Mitsubishi 3000GT 2 Dr VR-4 Turbo AWD HatchbackReview
Fast And Fun — great car if you can find one. theres still a lot of parts in stock for them. and lots of helpful people online!
Pros: goes 165 that i know of. maybe faster... 65 around the rotary.
Cons: oil pumps wear out fast, most of the tires end up on parking lots at the beaches. easy to get in trouble...
1991 Mitsubishi 3000GT 2 Dr VR-4 Turbo AWD HatchbackReview
Love/hate Relationship — Granted my car was never in the best of condition, but it was VERY expensive trying to restore it. That being said... I've never felt so much pride owning something before. The car made high school a blast. Always fun to cruise, pick up girls, and destroy cars costing five times as much. While the weight isn't as bad as most make it, it is enough to impact braking and turning. Other then that, it had blistering fast acceleration, amazing looks.
Pros: Very fast. Looked great. Many unique features. Amazing performance potential. Limited number.
Cons: Service, parts, gas- Everything about the car was expensive.
1991 Mitsubishi 3000GT 2 Dr SL HatchbackReview
1991 Mitsubishi 3000GT 2 Dr VR-4 Turbo AWD HatchbackReview
Best Buy!! — Its an Evo without the price tag. I love this car. It has included options my EVO X didn't even have available. Its very quick and the interior design couldn't be better. The car has never seen snow or ice, that rating is an "expected" rating. Lots of performance and styling parts are still available on the internet for this model... which really isn't all to surprising since its such a nice machine. This one- 52K no winters and only a few days of rain... Spotless!!
Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)
Pros: Its a loaded sports car.
Cons: Outdated styling. This is an easy fix with a body kit.
1991 Mitsubishi 3000GT 2 Dr VR-4 Turbo AWD HatchbackReview
Fun Car That Still Turns Heads — Excellent power right out of the box. Way too much fun to drive, turbos still rock 20 years later. Styling still looks current, even though the car is so old. Cost to operate is a bit high, I only use full synthetic oils in it to prolong turbo life, 3k mile oil changes. Only downside is you had better be a mechanic if you own one, or be willing to become one, as getting anything fixed at a dealer/shop is outrageous.
Primary Use: Commuting to work
Pros: Power & Styling
Cons: Maintenance costs
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Reviews From Other Years
1999 Mitsubishi 3000GT Reviews
Do Not Buy A Mistubishi
Beautiful car, awesome interior. WORST ENGINE. Do not buy a mitsubishi same goes for eclipse. spent 6 of its 9 months in an engine bay. The dealer got tired of fixing it after 3 times in shop, needl... Read More
In the 6 years that i have owned this car it has never let me down and has always gotten me to where i need to be, it would be better though if they still made these cars and kept the classic style. Read More
1998 Mitsubishi 3000GT Reviews
F-22 With Wheels
This is hands down the best, fastest, most beautiful car I have ever owned. It makes you want to drive. Good on gas, good in snow, faster than most production cars and looks like it is from the future... Read More
Bad Ass
Great Acceleration, not bad breaking, handles like a rock. it sucks to work on. cant get to anything and breaks things all the time. looks sexy. get horrible gas mileage. But its a wonder to drive. i ... Read More
1997 Mitsubishi 3000GT Reviews
Great Sports Car For The Money
This car turns heads especially in red. The 3000gt handles well but could use a little more power. Hatchback is good for long items such as sporting goods. My paint has held up very well but it was ke... Read More
its a great car, handles well. accelerates well. the downside to it is the FWD system. the car would be alot more fun if it was RWD. overall it was built pretty well, and the leather interior is gre... Read More
1996 Mitsubishi 3000GT Reviews
very nice car had one ,, want one soon Read More
This car is nicely styled and still commands many compliments. The power driver seat makes it a very comfortable vehicle for long drives and the power lumbar support and wrap around sides of the seat ... Read More
1995 Mitsubishi 3000GT Reviews
Open-air Motoring
Appearance: Must have extra time whenever you take a car like this out because someone will always come up to say they have never seen one on the road and want to talk about this car. Maintenance: Nee... Read More
Nice, Cool Looks, Its Very Rare Car Everyone Loves It
First of all the Mitsubishi 3000 GT is very similar to the 350Z, the only differnece is the small space in the back for passengers and the cargo space. The gas compared since the 350 is a newer car th... Read More
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Hertz UAE experienced a 35% increase in online bookings for daily and weekly car rentals in 2011 over 2010, according to a recent company press release.
The company sees this growth as a part of a regional boom in addition to increased brand awareness. Online shoppers in the UAE (United Arab Emirates), Saudi Arabia and Egypt spent a total of $1.01 billion on Internet retail sites last year, according to the press release.
"We ran various inbound and outbound campaigns on Hertz.ae and Hertz.com and used collateral, indoor and outdoor media, and direct marketing to promote both websites," said Nigel Johnson, managing director of Hertz UAE.
In addition, Hertz UAE was recently awarded "Superbrands" status by Superbrands UAE for its achievement in branding. Superbrands UAE is an independent branding organization that analyzes the strength of brands through a panel of about 2,500 business leaders in the region. This is Hertz UAE's third consecutive year winning the title.


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The Dr. Oz Show
Airdate: November 20, 2012
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' 4-Hour Energy-Boosting Plan
- Boost energy all day in the first hour of the day with Tim Ferriss' simple tips
- Morning and afternoon energy boosters from Tim Ferriss
- Super energy tonic
- Tim Ferriss cooking tips
- Tim Ferriss makes comfort food healthy
- Cook with supplements to boost nutrition and flavor
- Tim Ferriss' bonus tips
Learn how to jump start your body and boost your energy in record time with Tim Ferriss' 4-Hour plan. Save time, save money, and support weight loss with Tim Ferriss' tips.
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Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' 4-Hour Energy-Boosting Plan
Tim Ferriss, author of the hugely successful 4-Hour books: 4-Hour Workweek, 4-Hour Body, and the newest 4-Hour Chef, is called the human guinea pig because he tries everything out there and shares his experiences in his blog and books. He takes the guess work out of a healthy lifestyle by testing everything so you don't have to.
Today, Mr. Ferriss is addressing a common complaint: lack of energy. To boost energy levels, he learned how to cook like a pro. By studying how food can build energy and learning to how cook in a time efficient way Mr. Ferriss says you can get the most energy while supporting weight loss.
In his books, Mr. Ferriss focuses on the minimum effective dose in all his endeavors to get the greatest benefit from the least amount of work. To illustrate, he showed Dr. Oz the easiest way to cut slices of a chocolate cake. With a bit of dental floss, gently cut a photo-shot perfect slice of cake with the least amount of effort.
Mr. Ferriss says he knows many people who have been able to lose 100 to 150 pounds lost in one year without exercise but with smart food choices.
Last year, Mr. Ferriss presented the 30/30 to Dr. Oz and his audience and it has resonated with many people. Mr. Ferriss' dad adopted this simple rule and he was able to go from 5 pounds of fat loss in four weeks to 17 pounds of fat loss in the next four weeks.
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' Morning Energy-Boosting Plan
In the first hour of the day you can build energy for the entire day with Mr. Ferriss' simple energy boosting tips.
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' Morning Energy Booster: Go Blue
Dr. Oz brought a fan onto the stage to demonstrate how blue light can build energy. By looking at a blue light for as little as 10-15 minutes a day Mr. Ferriss says you can gain as much energy as you would from drinking a cup of coffee. Small blue lights are available in stores and online. Sit in front of the light while you eat breakfast to build energy for the entire day.
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' Morning Energy Booster: Coffee with Grapefruit Juice
Grapefruit juice may help extend the energy boosting power of caffeine in your morning coffee. Instead of drinking several cups of coffee in a day, drink a shot of grapefruit juice before drinking one cup of coffee
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' Morning Energy Booster: Black Beans
Boost your breakfast with black beans. Mr. Ferriss says his favorite breakfast is scrambled eggs, black lentils (or beans) and spinach. This balanced meal fits into his 30/30 Rule.
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' Morning Energy Booster: Eat Dirt
To get the energy you crave, Mr. Ferriss says to eat dirt! Not real dirt, but edible dirt. From the Europeans, Mr. Ferriss says to blend together almond milk, cocoa powder, and coffee [and several other ingredients] and dig in. Click here for Tim Ferriss' Edible Dirt recipe on DoctorOz.com.
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' Afternoon Energy-Boosting Plan
To beat that afternoon energy slump, Mr. Ferriss has some more simple tips to keep you going all day.
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' Afternoon Energy Solution: Natto
Support digestion with natto, or the enzyme nattokinase, a fermented soy product. When the body is able to digest the food you eat the body can utilize nutrients to produce more energy. Enjoy a tablespoon or two of natto first thing in the morning to support digestion all day and the utilization of nutrients for maximum energy. Natto can be found in many health food stores or Asian markets often in the refrigerated dairy section. Natto can be an acquired taste, if you don't care for the taste then opt for the supplement form.
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Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' Afternoon Energy Booster: Basil Bowl
Holy basil can be utilized as an aromatic to boost energy. Take the leaves of fresh holy basil, pour hot water over it and breath in the scent for an easy energy boost.
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' Afternoon Energy Booster: Plaintain Weed
Not to be confused with plantain bananas, plaintain weed is available in a topical ointment to support the body in healing when applied to bruises and it can support a good night's rest when applied to the temples at night.
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' Energy Super Tonic
Tim Ferriss recommends a new type of "coffee" for a non-caffeinated energy boost anytime of day.
Dandelion root supports digestion, eases stomach discomfort, is a diuretic and supports the liver. It's high in a form of potassium that supports the removal of excess water, making it popular with competitive body builders.
Mr. Ferriss says you can buy the supplement form of dandelion root and open the capsules to make the tea or just buy the tea form if it's available. Brew the dandelion in a coffee maker with a filter as you would a cup of coffee but watch out it's bitter! Although supportive of the liver, bitters are not as enjoyable as sweet flavors. Add coconut milk and cardamom to camouflage the bitter flavor.
1-2 tbsp dandelion root powder
1/4 cup water
Coconut milk, to taste
Cardamom, to taste
Brew in a coffee maker and add coconut milk for sweetness
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' Cooking Tips
Cooking is easy when you know all the tricks of the pro chefs. Mr. Ferriss spent time with professional chefs and at culinary schools to learn how they make healthy foods in no time. The goal was to learn how to prep healthy meals in about 9 minutes without making a big mess in your kitchen.
Using a sharp knife not only reduces prep time it allows for all the nutrients to get into your meal instead of being left on the cutting board. To illustrate, a professional chef showed Mr. Ferriss what happens to parsley if you chop it with a butter knife. The leaves of the parsley are torn to shreds and the cutting board turned green because all the nutrients were squeezed out and left behind.
Instead of butter use ghee to reduce the fat in cooking. Ghee can tolerate higher heat cooking than butter.
Use a veggie peeler to create ribbons of zucchini to use in place of pasta and cut the calories of your favorite pasta dish. [The Hungry Girl, Lisa Lillien, knows this trick too and shared it on The Dr. Oz Show last week. Click here to read the post from that episode.]
In Mr. Ferriss' latest book, 4-Hour Chef, he says you can learn to cook like a pro chef in just four hours. He shares some of the tips featured in his book with Dr. Oz.
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' Kitchen Tip #1: Herb Pairings
Boost the flavor of meat with herb pairings that bring out the natural flavors. Instead of filling your spice cupboard or produce drawer with products, learn these herb pairings so you know which herb pairings go with which meats to create a flavor-filled meal anytime.
- Fish can be paired with fennel to support digestion and ease constipation.
- Beef pairs well with rosemary and the herb keeps brain cells young which can support mental performance.
- Eggs go really well with tarragon which contains antioxidants to slow aging.
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' Kitchen Tip #2: Flavor Combinations
Olive oil on ice cream? Instead of hot fudge or caramel, pour some olive oil on your frozen chocolate treat for a decadent dessert. Dr. Oz was amazed by how wonderful it tastes and you can boost omega-3 intake supporting cardiovascular function as well as brain function.
Shake black pepper on top of watermelon to remove excess water from the body. Many people like to sprinkle salt on watermelon but the pepper can support a boost in the metabolism too.
Top a hamburger with almond butter? Sounds strange but Dr. Oz says it's pretty good. The almond butter plays a role in balancing blood sugar levels.
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' Kitchen Tip #3: Stack Your Food
Fancy restaurants impress customers with foods stacked on the plate. Mr. Ferriss says you can do this same trick at home to make your meal visually appealing while cutting calories too. Take a paper coffee cup and cut off the bottom, use the cup as a mold for your fancy meal.
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' Healthier Comfort Food
Fried chicken is a popular comfort food but it takes a long time make, makes a mess of the kitchen and it's filled with fat, calories. A typical home-made fried chicken meal can start at about 560 calories and can easily jump from there.
Mr. Ferriss' loves comfort food but knows they aren't very healthy. He's made over fried chicken to reduce the calories and increase the nutrition.
Instead of break crumbs, use a mixture of sesame seeds and coconut flakes. Skip the peanut oil and deep frying and bake the chicken.
Dr. Oz says Mr. Ferriss' Baked Sesame Coconut Chicken has only 224 calories per serving.
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss' Powerful Supplements
Boost nutrition and power pack your meals by incorporating supplements into your cooking.
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss Supplement #1: Ascorbic Acid
Also known as Vitamin C, ascorbic acid keeps veggies and fruits from turning brown or oxidizing when exposed to air. Wake up citrus-based foods with a sprinkle of ascorbic acid to bring out the flavor.
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss Supplement #2: D-Ribose
A secret of BBQ pros, a sprinkle of D-Ribose on meats before they hit the grill brings out the character of the meat. D-Ribose has few calories, a sweet flavor and supports energy production.
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Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss Supplement #3: Whey Protein Isolate
Whey protein isolated is pasteurized whey where the protein has been isolated. This is what Mr. Ferriss' father used for his morning protein shake when he worked toward losing 90 pounds. It can be used for your breakfast but it can also put used for Mr. Ferriss' dessert wine. Sneak health into a dessert with dark chocolate and wine both of which are high in antioxidants.
Hot Chocolate Dessert Wine
1 1/2 cups dessert wine
6 ounces of dark chocolate
1 ½ cups skim milk
1 tablespoon of whey protein isolate
Dr. Oz: Tim Ferriss Bonus Tips!
Throughout this episode, Tim Ferriss shared quick bonus tips between segments. I've combined all the bonus tips into one section.
Dr. Oz Tim Ferriss Bonus Tip #1: No Artificials
Mr. Ferriss says to avoid artificial sweeteners which can destroy the beneficial bacteria in the digestive tract and weaken the immune system. Use cinnamon and vanilla extract instead to increase the flavor of drinks.
Dr. Oz Tim Ferriss Bonus Tip #2: Exercise
Using kettle bells, or filled gallon containers, swing the bells 50-75 times to build muscle, activate the hips, create a firm butt, and burn fat.
Dr. Oz Tim Ferriss Bonus Tip #3: Garlic Spatula
Place a clove of garlic on a fork and gently brush the garlic on a pan when cooking foods to get the immune benefits of garlic.
Dr. Oz Tim Ferriss Bonus Tip #4: Avocados
Hard,unripe avocados may take up to a week to ripen just sitting out on the counter. Mr. Ferriss says you can ripen avocados in only hours by placing the hard avocado in a paper bag.
Dr. Oz Tim Ferriss Bonus Tip #5: Lemon Juice
Boost flavors of meals with a drizzle of lemon juice instead of salt. Bring out the flavors and reduce the glycemic index too.
Dr. Oz: Keep Foods Fresher Longer
Dr. Oz asked audience members to share their tips to keep foods fresher longer and share with everyone.
Dr. Oz: Fresher Food Tips #1: Wrap Veggies in Newspaper
Take produce out of the plastic produce bag and wrap them in newspaper. The produce will last up to two weeks when stored this way. Dr. Oz said that's how he used to buy produce, wrapped in produce. You can also place paper towels in the plastic bag to reduce that moisture too.
Dr. Oz: Fresher Food Tips #2: Butter up Cheese
Keep cheese fresher longer by spreading a tiny amount of butter on the cut end of a cheese wedge. The cheese will not dry out and it will keep for about two weeks.
Dr. Oz: Fresher Food Tips #3: Upside Down Pineapple
Keep pineapple fresher longer by cutting off the top leaves and turn the pineapple upside down into a bowl and refrigerate to allow the sugars to redistribute throughout the fruit.
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If you've ever asked yourself just why your web site or web app doesn't perform as well as you've thought it would, since you've given a lot thought into the design of the page and user interface, then you might ask yourself – are you the proper person to be judging the design?
In comes usability testing. It's giving the end user a chance to work with your product (in our case, a web page or application) and having a system measure the user interaction – how long it takes them to locate a certain function, where they have the most difficulty identifying a certain feature, finding information, etc. There's already great software that does exactly this (Morae, for example), but the problem here is that you still need a lab to conduct such experiments.


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Fluxus is just beginning
An interview with Jeffrey Perkins and Jessie Stead
Up until today, George Maciunas, the Lithuanian-born artist, graphic designer, and architect – a man of many trades – had remained an enigmatic and mythic persona behind one of the most radical experimental art movements of the 20th century – FLUXUS. And in all likelihood, things would have stayed that way if another artist, Jeffrey Perkins, hadn't made a movie about Maciunas.
Described by Nam June Paik as being "the Fluxus underdog," Perkins – like Maciunas – has taken on many roles. Having worked in relative obscurity for over five decades, in the 1960s he collaborated with (and would remain close with) many Fluxus artists (including Yoko Ono, Alison Knowles, and George Maciunas himself), as well as: co-founded the premier rock and roll concert light show The Single Wing Turquoise Bird; has been associated with Anthology Film Archives in New York since 1986; completed his first feature documentary The Painter Sam Francis in 2008; and worked as a cabbie, having chauffeured most every avant-garde star around New York City – to name just a few of his life's highlights. Perkins has been best known for light projection performances and his work Movies for the Blind, which was based on sound recordings of interviews with passengers in his taxi. Up until 2009, that is, when he started working on a portrait of the founder and impresario of Fluxus; it was titled George. The story of George Maciunas and Fluxus.
From its conception, George was not meant to rehash the clichés of standard documentary movies about art and artists. Adventurous yet tragic, the life of Maciunas – which was fully dedicated to Fluxus – was far from boring. The movie follows Maciunas' life path from birth to his untimely death of cancer at the age of 47, including his establishment of Fluxus in 1962, the creation of the first artist co-ops in the New York City neighborhood of SoHo, losing his eye when he was nearly killed by gangsters, and his attempt at establishing a Fluxus colony on a remote island in the Caribbean. Throughout George, the question of "What is Fluxus?" takes on perpetually new dimensions as the subject is explored in discussions with nearly 40 different artists (including Jonas Mekas, Yoko Ono and Nam June Paik) and scholars across the world, along the way revealing the inherent complexity of both Fluxus and Maciunas himself.
In order to bring the intellectual nature of Fluxus into the dynamic form of a film, Perkins hired Jessie Stead (a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist from a younger generation and also known for her band Hairbone, together with Nathan Whipple and Raúl de Nieves), whose spirited and vigorous way of editing, sound design and motion graphics brought a unique dimension to the movie.
After nine years in the making, George. The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus premiered last February at Doc Fortnight 2018: MoMA's International Film Festival of Non-fiction Film and Media, where – for the first time in the history of this event – it was awarded the whole week of screenings.
I met Jeffrey Perkins and Jessie Stead shortly before the European premiere of George at Art Basel (15 June 2019) to talk to them about their collaborative process and why Fluxus is so important for contemporary artists working today.
Jeffrey Perkins: I conceived this movie about George Maciunas in 2009, just after I finished my film about the painter Sam Francis. I decided to do this because I needed a job. I knew that there had not been a portrait made of him yet. I felt confident that I could do another film about an artist, and I knew that Maciunas was an unknown star, a secret star in the art world.
Jessie Stead: A lot of people I know who went to art school don't know who he is. I actually knew of him through Sonic Youth, when I was much younger, which is interesting. They reference him on occasion. I learned here and there about Fluxus and Dada in art school, but I think Maciunas himself has been kind of lost. A lot of people would say, "Fluxus? I don't really know what that is."
JP: When I thought of making the film I didn't see Fluxus so much as performance art. I thought that it had a kind of dry sensibility, and much of what I knew about Fluxus was as an intellectual art in text form. How could that be made dynamic, as a movie? [Addressing JS:] I emphasised to you that the text was very important. What you ended up doing was not particularly focused on text, but your montage is dynamically structured in cinematic layers.
JS: [Addressing JP:] There were about 40 interviews that you had shot around the world and a gigantic collection of images of artworks. As I went through them, I would think, here is an image of an artwork and it's nice. I can also look it up online, I can look at it in a book, but what a movie can bring to it that other media can't is movement and a soundtrack. The sound part is easily overlooked but crucial, because a lot of important Fluxus works are audio works. It also encourages an overlaying of different artists' works mixed together, briefly creating something new. So it's generative, and this harmonises with Maciunas's vision, which emphasised networked collaboration and also entertainment. The montages have stylistic differences depending on the scene's content and the works themselves. The George Brecht scene, for example, is very austere. I think that his work was as well.
JP: There were these dry pictures, which were photographs by Maciunas. An example of how your talent carried the film is the one sequence using the Brecht piece Ball puzzle / Observe the ball rolling uphill, and you animated it.
JS: The piece is an "event score" with a ball bearing, so I simply performed the score. It was fun. There are different dynamics according to the works themselves, and how they could be re-purposed to illuminate biographical points in Maciunas' life.
JP: That's a perfect example of collaboration with another artist.
JS: Several artists even. It's me, you, Brecht, Maciunas. I love that about the film. We are working together, resurrecting the dead.
JP: It felt from the beginning that the film should be a collaborative process, and it was. Besides you, there were other people involved from the very early stage of making George, like Cassidy Petrazzi, and Liz Dautzenberg who lives and works in Amsterdam. And there were several others involved in the various stages and times of the productions, too many to mention here. I researched in three archives in three different parts of the world. That was the palette for the movie, and you invented several things.
JS: And there is music and audio, many of which are original recordings of Fluxus pieces. It is easy to forget that the sound design is constructed from actual Fluxus artworks, some of which are comparable sonically to traditional Foley sound effects. The music soundtrack is also really cool. It includes Sonic Youth – they generously lent some tracks from their album Goodbye Twentieth Century, which consists of seminal avant-garde scores, some of which are Fluxus related.
JP: There is quite a bit of Henry Flynt, Takehisa Kosugi, Yoshi Wada, Ben Patterson, Mieko Shiomi.
JS: Charles Curtis recorded some medieval music specially for George. Maciunas was a big fan of music from that period. There are Maciunas's own compositions performed by the Apartment House ensemble, and of course Alison Knowles, Joe Jones, as well as some tracks by my contemporaries. Nathan Whipple from my band Hairbone recorded some music. Jack Name, Zach Layton, and Sergei Tcherepnin also lent us tracks, some of which are worked with in layers much like the motion graphics.
JP: To simply show the works would be another dry example of a standard approach to a documentary film about an artist.
JS: I wanted the discussion topics and the artworks to resonate with each other. There were times when I couldn't find something in the art archive that worked well, so I looked elsewhere. Maciunas loved Soviet culture, so I looked online at Bolshevik films and used a couple as B-roll in addition to the Fluxus works. That adds another layer. All that stuff was in his head. In the interviews, people talk a lot about how much he loved Soviet revolutionary aesthetics, and cartoons. There is an old Betty Boop cartoon with a chess board, which resonates with Duchamp and John Cage, who significantly influenced Maciunas. I found it online, and it's easy to imagine Maciunas doing this himself if the internet were around then. He often used magazine cut-outs in his graphic design; sampling from the internet is very similar.
JP: In fact, an important reason for hiring you was your age. And I thought, she will edit this film for her generation.
JS: Or younger than me.
JP: That was an important motivation. I wanted to sell it to a young audience.
JS: It's very topical. The discussions of art and politics happening now and Henry Flynt's critiques of Maciunas' motivations in the 1960s are one of many points of comparison. And their early protests Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture, and Action Against Cultural Imperialism are especially relevant today and deserve a revisit.
JP: At the early stage of editing, I wasn't sure if we had enough material. And now when I am watching the movie, the edit is insane. It's an insane story.
JS: He was insane. A lot of documentaries now are made about people who are still alive. It's easier to shoot and interview the living. I thought a lot about how we have to bring him back to life, physically, and the challenge of how to do that with only scraps of archival media, very little sync sound. There is Jonas Mekas' film about George, Zefiro Torna, but very little else is time-based. That's why we used his audio interviews a lot; his voice is a strong structural element that evokes his presence.
JP: In both of those interviews, the Charles Dreyfus' and the Seattle radio one, Maciunas lays out the chronology of him in and as Fluxus.
JS: He was preoccupied with art history and wanted to influence Fluxus's place in it. He describes many art works in detail, but he is also laughing at them all the time. He is very clearly so entertained by it all. I wanted that to be palpable.
JP: It became a driving element in the film, the laughing. It became an inspiration to your editing.
JS: The interesting thing is that only a very small amount of him laughing was recorded, and that's what is beautiful about it. Compared to today and how audio is recorded near constantly.
JP: Editors are called cobblers, you know?
JS: Really? I didn't know that. A cobbler, like a shoe fixer?
JP: Exactly. I think it's a kind of inside slang.
JS: I don't know. I am not a career editor. I am an artist, and maybe this ties into the film. Was Maciunas an artist or not? The artist as a designer of other artists' works – is that art? Or, are you not an artist if you work on somebody else's art? These questions are discussed in the interviews. Some of them say, yes, he was clearly an artist, he made his own work, and others disagree. It gets personal at times. Can an impresario or producer also be an artist? What does that look like? And if not, why? Maybe you can view editing in a similar way. Maybe it's art sometimes, maybe it's in the service of art other times and not art. I don't know. Some people need to codify more than others.
JP: I think art has a special audience. You suggested MoMA's Doc Fortnight International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media to premiere the film instead of more mainstream film festivals. So we had a theatrical premiere at MoMA last year.
JS: It made a lot of sense considering you sourced a lot of material from the MoMA archives.
JP: They have the largest Fluxus collection, the Silverman Collection. And now we have the European premiere during the Art Basel art fair in Switzerland in June.
JS: Maciunas would probably roll over in his grave if he knew about that [laughs]. Okay, I take that back, I'm not sure. But it's very interesting to wonder what he would think about the art fair scene now. It's totally market driven and the antithesis of his communist-inspired ideals, but he also might have seen it as a networking and branding opportunity, which was also a large part of Fluxus for him. There was such a different landscape then. Marketing, branding, capitalism— artists continue to have paradoxical relationships to these systems today. Art fairs are a global network, which is something else that he really wanted to establish but in the name of a revolutionary, anti-capitalist ideal. So it's interesting to try and imagine him in this scenario.
JP: I don't think that if he were alive he could stand himself if he played along with it.
JS: It's hard to say if he would protest it or not – in the way a young Henry Flynt might. Maybe he would participate – he was very opportunistic. In the 60s and 70s, Maciunas was unique in his milieu to be mixing together art, design, publishing and marketing. Many of his contemporaries were highly skeptical of this, but it is normal now, applauded even.
JP: I remember that when I was trying to raise money for George, I showed a producer the short reel. He thought that the film's main purpose was as a portrait, the persona of George Maciunas. Because of the dynamic flow of your edit, this is achieved. If you didn't know anything about him, would you still be interested in the movie?
JS: There are many facets of his life story relatable to any human, and the art is very much interconnected with his life's significant drama – his poor health, World War II and his family's displacement. The art flows out of his life events in a specific way. It's definitely not an insider's movie. Maciunas himself was fierce in his manifestos encouraging anti-elitism in art. The film will teach you about art. There are early scenes where Maciunas himself explains Fluxus's predecessors and influences – John Cage, Dada and Duchamp, primarily. His obsessive art historical preoccupations were foundational to Fluxus and are visualized in his chart works.
JP: Part of the definition of Fluxus is that art is basically life itself. Fluxus as a kind of philosophy, I believe, or, it is a philosophical approach to art. Do you think that's true, by the way?
JS: Jonas Mekas quotes George saying that "Fluxus is not an art movement, but a way of life", adding that "it has a touch of religion". Jonas also said "Fluxus is only just beginning". It's one of film's closing statements.
JP: I think Yoshi Wada said that as well, and Ben Patterson.
JS: The film is not only about Maciunas but also an international association of artists. Maciunas's emphasis on community and anti-individuality is relevant now, or would be in any time. What is the group? The group can be made to symbolise something. He was constructing an ideology for the group that different members had widely varying opinions about. Some of them agreed with it, some didn't care, some strongly disagreed. I think group identity is very interesting in art. On occasion, I've been discouraged by gallerists from collaborating with other artists.
JP: Really?
JS: It happens in some situations. It's easier to market singular names, the individual genius stereotype. To kind of force the group identity of Fluxus into circulation was maybe how Maciunas in his revolutionary imagination was actively retaliating against the Western art cannon, the dominating "great male" name, I think.
JP: The film was made out of this collective dynamic.
JS: Filmmaking is a multi-faceted balancing act that in itself is a collaboration between images, sounds, and language in addition to a social and professional collaboration. You're always doing several things at once, like maintaining historical chronology while introducing larger conceptual points. I think The New York Times said that George is "a bit overstuffed, but perhaps by design". That made a lot of sense – he had an overstuffed life.
JP: There could be another kind of movie about Maciunas; a dramatic film would be interesting. But this documentary sustains itself as art history, an important art film that people will refer to in the future.
JS: There is a lot of lost history it recovers. Many people in the New York art world don't seem to know about his unintentional role in the gentrification of Soho – the Flux Houses, for example. It's an early version of a now-familiar story about complications between artists, real estate and gentrification, which have, of course, accelerated since 1964. The Flux houses were meant to be a group of industrial lofts he envisioned operating as an integrated artist network; the resulting 10-year tumult is spiritedly discussed in the film with many who worked in SoHo alongside George— Yoshi Wada, Milan Knížák, Shigeko Kubota, Ay-O, and Richard Foreman to name a few. Foreman still lives there.
JP: Maciunas had an idea to create a utopian community right in the middle of New York City. Then there's the Ginger Island story… still, when I watch the film again, I think, wow, who is this person? This is crazy.
JS: It's not boring. I personally think that George is one of the best movies about art and an artist ever made. I really do. I think it blows away any other documentary I have seen about art and artists. That was our goal and we did it.
Jeffrey Perkins – director / producer
Jessie Stead – edit / sound design / motion graphics
Liz Dautzenberg – production manager / assistant to the director
Cassidy Petrazzi – associate producer / researcher


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The nice thing about pregnancy is you know there is an end in sight; I knew my doctor would never let me go past 42 weeks. I just needed to wait for my body (either on its own or with a little help) to do its thing. I could take comfort knowing that it was in my child's best interest to stay in there the full 40 weeks and that I was meeting every one of his/her needs in the meantime.
The adoption timeline, however, is wide open and dependent on two governments, three agencies, and more social workers, translators, and coordinators than I can count. Our agency estimates the adoption timeline for South Korea to be about 2-3 years. When we entered into the program, the estimated wait from match (seeing a photo of your child for the first time) to custody (child in your arms) is 11-14 months.
During the "paper-pregnancy," every day that passes feels like another day missed out on as a family. Comfort only comes in the form of sporadic updates about your child and pure grace from God. Trust me, Jesus is in the wait.
I've outlined our adoption timeline in two different formats below, first is the "quick and dirty" milestone dates from application and below that is slightly more details with what was going on during that particular month from the very beginning.
Adoption Timeline
August 6, 2018: Applied online to the Korean program with our agency
August 7, 2018: Accepted into the Korean program
August 29, 2018: James' physical
August 30, 2018: Emily's physical
September 4, 2018: Emily's psychological evaluation
September 11, 2018: James' psychological evaluation
October 20, 2018: Completed all required online adoption training
October 23, 2018: Home study visit #1
November 1, 2018: Home study visit #2
February 21, 2018: Home study approved
March 8, 2018: Applied for I-600A
March 13, 2018: Home study sent to Korea
March 26, 2018: Request/ receive file of a waiting child
March 28, 2018: Said "yes" to proceeding with adoption of the waiting child
March 29, 2018: USICS Biometrics appointment
April 3, 2018: Received "the call" we are officially matched
April 20, 2018: I-600A approval / Acceptance sent to Korea (ATK)
May 11, 2018: Dossier is sent to Korea (DTK)
October 31, 2018: EP Submission
November 15, 2018: Applied for I-600
November 27, 2018: Notice of I-600 Transfer
December 10, 2018: EP Approval
December 21, 2018: Court Submission
January 24, 2019: Notified of Court Date
February 9, 2019: Flight to DFW – ICN
February 11, 2019: First Meeting at Agency
February 13, 2019: Second Meeting at Agency
February 14, 2019: Court Hearing
February 18, 2019: Third Meeting at Agency
February 27, 2019: Fourth Meeting at Foster Families Home
February 28, 2019: Provisional Approval
March 6, 2019: Fifth Meeting at Agency
March 13, 2019: Sixth Meeting at Kid's Cafe
March 21, 2019: Custody
March 26, 2019: Visa Appointment
March 28, 2019: Flight from ICN – DFW
Detailed Adoption Timeline
October 2015 – Our previous church home announces our new church mission: "Reaching spiritually disconnected people with the gospel, equipping them to lead their family, and defending those in need."
November 2015 – Pastor Doug preaches about 'Defending Those in Need' and shares his testimony of adoption (he was adopted domestically as an infant). James and I have a conversation about adoption after church.
December 2015 – Ian is born. We are both 100% at peace knowing we will not have any more biological children. We continue to discuss adoption for the next few months.
May 2016 – We talk to our first potential agency. After a series of conversations, we are greatly disheartened by this agency and their approach. We decide this is not the agency for us and take a step back from the process altogether.
June 2016 – We suddenly decide to sell our home and move to the country. We trust where God is [physically] leading us, but continue to wonder if adoption is a part of that plan.
During the next year, life happens. Isabella starts a brand new school. Sophia starts pre-school. We [finally] discover Ian has a dairy sensitivity. We work to make our new-old-house a home. We celebrate an anniversary and birthdays and holidays. James' mother passes away suddenly. I have a major surgery. We continue to talk often about adoption; but never feel peace about committing to the call or closing the door. Life becomes messy and growing our family gets put on hold.
June 2017 – We revisit the conversation and both agree to wait until the new year to make any decisions. We also find a new church home.
July 2017 – I can't shake the feeling that our family is not complete and God is
asking telling me to move NOW. I obsess over adoption blogs and bookmark potential agencies. James and I watch "The Drop Box" on Netflix. Halfway through, James says we need to change the conversation from "if" to "how".
August 2017 – I experience a "God wink" at the airport and feel at peace about our decision to move forward pursing international adoption. We officially submit our application to adopt from South Korea. We begin the paper chase and complete our physicals.
September 2017 – We complete our psychological evaluations and send all our completed documents to our local agency for the home study.
October 2017 – We complete all of our online training requirements. We have our first visit with our social worker for the home study.
November 2017 – We have our second visit with our social worker.
February 2018 – We are officially home study approved.
March 2018 – Our file has been sent to Korea, we are officially a waiting family!
April 2018 – We are matched with a waiting child: a one-year-old boy. He is precious and we are thrilled that the boys will be close in age. We completed our acceptance paperwork and finalize our dossier.
May 2018 – Our dossier has been sent to Korea where it will be translated and sent to various departments.
October 2018 – We received EP (Emigration Permit/ Exit Permit) Submission on Halloween.
December 2018 – We received EP Approval and are submitted to the family court in Korea.
January 2019 – We are notified of our court date and can finally start planning travel.
February 2019 – We meet Eli and have our court date. The court hearing took less than 5 minutes and our hour with Eli felt just as long.
March 2019 – We have extra meetings with Eli because we are able to stay one trip. We also take custody early and fly home!


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Congratulations to the winner #16 – Sand!
Since we launched ReadMe–our monthly literary series–last summer, I have been exposed to bilingual books and publishing houses that I didn't even know existed. The good news is that there is a lot of really great stuff out there, which you probably already knew if you've been reading these entries since we began. One of the things I like the most is that many of these books not only showcase our Latino culture and values, but usually they also have other messages like friendship, perseverance and self-esteem – important issues to discuss with our children.
"The Best Mariachi in the World," is a perfect example of this. It tells the story of Gustavo, a little boy that comes from a family of mariachis, but still hasn't discovered his place in the band. I absolutely love the first sentence, "Gustavo was the worst mariachi in the world." Strong, but completely captivating.
"I think the book is more than anything a fable or parable about discovering your strengths and finding out who you are," said the author, J.D. Smith via an email interview. "For most of us, like Gustavo, the process involves a lot of trial and error, and it is important not to become too discouraged along the way."
I thought it was curious that the author, who's not a native speaker of Spanish–he started learning Spanish in high school–would chose the topic of mariachis for his first children's book. But it turns out that it has to do with the fact that he was born in a city outside Chicago which has a large population of people from Jalisco, considered the birthplace of mariachi.
"The whole thing started as a bit of a capricho. After a couple of failed attempts to write for children, I decided to try again. I also wanted to try a premise that would take me out of my comfort zone and not directly involve my own experience," Smith explained. "I am not a singer or musician, and I am not of Hispanic ancestry, but as my mind drifted I came up with the fairly wacky sentence that in edited form became the beginning of the book: "Gustavo was the worst mariachi in the world." I then had to follow the idea and see where it led."
It lead to a great story about how Gustavo eventually does find his place in the band using his ability to sing which he discovers one morning when he wakes up before dawn and, inspired by the beauty of the desert in front of him, he just has to cantar.
"The story can also be read as a valentine to Hispanic culture in general and Mexican culture in particular, especially in regard to the importance of family and community and in regard to nourishing and being nourished by the arts," Smith said.
The book, published by Raven Tree Press, is bilingual in the sense that Spanish words are embedded throughout the story. Although this option doesn't really work in our home–Vanessa prefers that I read to her only in Spanish–I can see how it can work wonders for those using the OPOL method. It is also a great way to star introducing Spanish to kids because even though they might not understand every word, they can usually figure out meanings just by following the story. Plus, there is a vocabulary page at the end of the book which includes a bit of history about mariachis. The book is also available in Spanish-only format.
"I think the book can be used in a variety of ways. The most obvious are vocabulary, particularly in music, and in the grammar of Spanish and English. To move on from those basics, parents can ask their children in either language to describe what they see in the illustrations and how they feel about the story," according to Smith. "Parents and children can also use the book as a point of departure for having children discuss, again in either language, what they like to do and what they are good at—what is for them in the way that singing is for Gustavo."
Although Smith didn't grow up bilingual–he started learning Spanish in high school–he understands the importance of speaking more than one language.
"Having more than one cultural frame of reference seems to offer the additional benefits of encouraging empathy and limiting rigid thinking," he said. "While I will never be mistaken for a native speaker of Spanish, I have greatly enjoyed traveling in Spain and Latin America without needing an interpreter, and sometimes I have served as an interpreter for others."
Here's the rest of the interview with J.D. Smith:
As a writer, can you talk about the importance of books/reading when raising bilingual children?
"I am not an expert in this area, but I can offer a few thoughts. Since we learn language largely by imitating models, I think it's important for children to see models of the languages they are learning in books as well as in speech. That way they are less likely to think each language belongs to only one area of life, such as the home or school, and they will be able to develop a wide range of skills and a large vocabulary in each language."
How and why did you become a writer?
"I have been writing since I was in grade school, and writing has always felt like something I had to do. I've sometimes tried to push that to the background, thinking I should be more "practical," but that has never really worked. At this point in my life I've made peace with knowing that I am unhappy if I don't write and that I have to keep trying new projects, some of which will turn out well and others not well at all."
Describe your experience working with Raven Tree Press?
"It has been fun. Working with a smaller press means having regular contact with the people editing and promoting my work, and in my case I even got to see Dani Jones' initial black-and-white sketches before she moved on to the color illustrations."
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After the hectic time at Lakkar Bazaar we went to the hotel and kept our packets at the room. Then we had lunch and had some rest. The children were sad that we had to go back the next day. They so enjoyed the visit to Shimla that it was impossible for them to think of going back to Delhi and get busy with their studies. That day evening we went to the Sankat Mochan Temple Shimla. We asked at the travel desk about the Sankat Mohan Temple and were told that it was only about 5 km from the hotel. They arranged a cab for us to visit the temple. We got ready in the evening and went to offer our prayers at the temple.
The view of the temple was breathtaking with lush green surroundings and the mighty Himalayas as the backdrop. The temple is located on the Kalka-Shimla Highway. The atmosphere here is calm and quiet, ideal for those who would like to spend a peaceful time. The temple was built in 1966, and is dedicated to Lord Hanuman. It is said that praying to lord Hanuman relieves one from all worries. There were also idols of Lord Rama, Ganesha and Shiva in the temple. It is such a calm and quiet place that it is perfect for anyone who wishes to meditate peacefully without any disturbance. There is a separate temple here built for Baba Neeb Karori Ji Maharaj, who initiated the making of the temple here and spent 10 years here meditating.
We were told that when the temple was built, it was a small one, but with the increasing flow of devotees to the temple it has now increased in size and spreads over a large area. The huge hall at the three-storey building in the temple premises was used for conducting marriage ceremonies and for many other religious purposes. The charges for this are very low and affordable by the common man. You get Prasad here on Sundays. We also visited the Ayurvedic clinic at the temple and bought a few ayurvedic products.


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