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Kizmet Dubai Opera: The Esquire Review
The world of gastronomy is in a bit of flux at the moment.
Fine dining establishments are going the way of the dodo (too stale, perceived as being very expensive) while family-style sharing restaurants are quickly upping their game in an attempt to grab (and keep) the attention of the same food snobs who previously turned their noses up at fine dining.
And so, for each proper restaurant that closes its doors another two pop-ups in its place. But instead of serving proper plates, they instead spoon a few mouthfuls of food onto a small piece of grey slate, garnish it with whatever hipster-approved sustenance that is currently in vogue (smoked avocado mousse) and proceed to serve it at the table using some form of Instagram-worthy gimmick (dry ice, perhaps).
Kizmet is certainly the latter, boasting a menu that is 'a little bit of everything', ideal for sharing and – most importantly – serves plates of food that would make the perfect addition to your Instagram feed.
It's very on trend then. But does its food stand up to scrutiny?
Kizmet Dubai Opera: what's the Vibe?
Kizmet is set over two floors in one of the buildings directly adjacent to the opera house. Both floors are rather small (when compared to many of Dubai's 300-cover restaurants) but not in a bad way. It gives the place a buzz, even when there are a few tables occupied.
Upstairs you get a small bar that specializes in cocktails with 'cool' monikers, such as "peaches be crazy" and "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee". They're not bad, despite the bitter taste you're left with after saying each name out loud.
Kizmet Dubai Opera: how's the food?
The menu is substantial but fits on a single piece of pink paper. Dishes are meant to be shared and vary in size; some have just a few portions (such as the arancini balls) while others are more substantial like traditional main courses (such as the crispy whole sea bass).
The cuisine was inspired by the type of food the restaurant's chefs grew up with, and so there's a real mix of flavours to be had. The smoked duck pizza with goat cheese and chilli is more Asian than Italian, while the lamb shoulder, with eggplant and tahini, wouldn't go amiss in a good Moroccan restaurant.
Honestly, everything on the menu is delicious. And in this case, the smaller portions (which aren't over-priced) let you order more dishes to the table than you might otherwise be comfortable with. But again, that's a good thing. More is definitely more at Kizmet.
And fortunately, while the slightly awkward naming conventions continue here (an avocado dish goes by the name of "my girlfriend is not hungry"), it has been dialled right back.
Kizmet Dubai Opera: the verdict?
Kizmet is a rare restaurant here in Dubai, one that seems to have tried very hard to be on trend for Dubai's current posh foodie scene. But as long as each comically-themed dish is backed up by flavour, we'll be coming back for more.
Kizmet Dubai Opera: where is it?
Kizmet sits alongside Japanese restaurant Kohantei, just in front of The Dubai Opera's main entrance.


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At Caliroots, short for Californian Roots, you'll find the latest sports shoes and casual streetwear from hip brands. In addition to an abundance of sneakers for children and adults, the range also includes boots, sandals and skate shoes. When it comes to fashion, the shop from Sweden relies on a mix of popular classics and trendy labels. For the big names in the industry, there is a special premium area with selected and sometimes extravagant fashion highlights and special accessories. The one-stop shop with its three store segments has existed since 2003 and is considered by connoisseurs to be a popular place to go for cool styles. The huge variety of brands and low prices ensure the growing success of Caliroots.
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Rest In Peace is the saying when someone dies and leaves this human form…but what about when we are alive? Why do we wait until we die to actually rest?
Are we ever able to rest in peace?
This morning I began writing a piece about this because I have been searching and searching for a place that would be quiet enough so I could find some peace. But I cannot turn off the noise that is running around in my head like a kid in a panic over who knows what.
Here we go I believe and know this to be true, that we are to rest in the darkness. Why? Because you cannot always live in the light, if you did you would end up being burned or simply just dry out. You need the darkness to rest. But this is what ends up happening instead. We get scared and try to get out and or avoid it and be worried about the darkness. This could be a situation that is bothering you. A thought you are having that is causing you stress, sadness etc.
Instead we should just rest.
At night in the dark what do we do? We are to rest while we sleep.
Whoa… wait a minute is what this RIP really means?? We see it on head stones in cemeteries and use it as an expression to someone who has died. But what if we we are to Rest in Peace even when we are alive.
A plant needs to rest and will do so when it's dark . All things need to rest.
We have compliantly lost what that means and even how to do it. Meaning we have been taught how to do so.
During a stormy time in your life when things seem dark – you should be resting in peace. Perhaps sit calmly and just breathe, trust, believe there's a purpose and you will come out of it. You'll come through it into the light. But we end up getting stuck trying to fight the darkness, racing to solve the puzzle first, to get a ahead to consume all we can.
We have forgotten to rest. Stop resisting what is right now. Live in the light, that is where our attention should be. Stop giving the darkness all your attention. All this darkness we have all around us is demanding for us to stop and rest. It's getting louder and louder and yet we don't listen, we don't understand what is really happening.. what it really means . It's only going to get bigger and louder until we have no choice but to rest because we'll be so broken. Think about it when someone breaks down or even breaks a bone..what happens?
They are to rest.
We will get so beat up and feel so broken that there will be nothing left. We will then be searching for a darker space to hide so we can finally rest.
Picture a hurt and wounded animal they'll wander off and hide in the shadows to rest and heal.
All this wisdom we've learned from all these years and have passed down and we've missed this one.
But hey we've created this magic paper to chase we call money. And how it can control people.
That's helpful to who??
May you Rest in Peace because resting in any other way is not really resting.
I would have to say that this is why there's a world calling for meditation and prayer. It's a way for people to know and to experience what resting in peace really means.
What if the RIP we read on tombstones are really a message from the other side…


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An appendix considers the post-tax profitability of companies and the returns earned on equity capital.
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- B.S. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, IDS Social Sciences, 2007
- M.A. Candidate, University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, International Studies, 2015
Katherine Hill graduated from Michigan State University in 2007 with a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Health Studies, with a cognate in Anthropology and a certificate in Bioethics and Humanities. As an undergraduate student, she spent a semester at Lady Irwin College, Delhi University as well as completing an internship in the rural Himalayas with an NGO providing horizontal community health care. She served as a committee chair of MSU's Women's Initiative for Leadership Development, a campus-wide endeavor to engage university women in leadership roles. After graduating, she re-located to South Korea where she served as an ESL instructor for several years before accepting a position as a University Relations Advisor with ProWorld Service Corps, working to bring together US universities and NGOs from communities in 14 countries to meet self-determined development goals in health care, education, environmental conservation, and sustainable development. She also served as the Education Abroad Advisor for the Michigan Association of International Educators, working to prepare university students in Michigan for a role in the global community, as well as promote the retention of international students in the state of Michigan.
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One of my favorite soups for a chilly autumn day is featured in my first Daisy's Tea Garden mystery--MURDER WITH LEMON TEA CAKES. Daisy serves Potato and Leek Soup in the tea garden and I would like to share the recipe I developed with you.
Daisy's Potato and Leek Soup
3 tablespoons high heat sunflower oil
1 cup onion
3 leeks, diced (about 2 cups)
1 cup celery chopped
1 clove of garlic
3 tablespoons flour
1 quart chicken broth (I use Swanson 100% Chicken Broth/99% fat free)
2 1/2 to 3 cups potatoes in small chunks
2 cups carrots, sliced
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 cup milk
2 cups carrots, sliced
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 cup milk
What is your favorite soup for a chilly fall day?


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Laboratoria Talent Fest: A new way to identify female talent for tech
Finding and selecting talent is not an easy task for any company. It demands a considerable amount of time, money and human resources to build a talented tech team. We recently ran a survey at Laboratoria with 52 companies in Latinamerica and discovered that they spend between 1 and 3 months to recruit a candidate, and they need to involve at least 3 people in the process to understand if the candidate is suitable for the job. Without a doubt, this is an expensive and time-consuming process.
This happens because tech talent is scarce. There is significantly more demand than professionals ready for work, that is able to manage the latest skills needed in the market. Women are especially needed, as the sector lacks diversity, as evidenced on the Stackoverflow survey among +55.000 developers, programmers, and engineers around the world, where only 6% of them are women.
In Laboratoria we are transforming the way companies identify tech talent. We are building an ecosystem with tools and dynamics that significantly improve the hiring process.
We are a social enterprise that exists to give thousands of Latin American women from low-income backgrounds a career in tech, transforming their future and the industry that receives them.
Since 2014 we have trained over 800 developers, and we aim to train more than 10,000 women by 2021, becoming the main source of female tech talent from Latin America to the world.
To accomplish this mission, we need to become the best at spotting talent, training world-class developers and placing them in the market.
To do so, we've developed a thorough selection process that looks for talent where nobody else is and identifies the potential for learning over prior experience. Among young women from low-income backgrounds interested in our program, we look for particular cognitive and socio-emotional abilities that have proven to be good indicators of a candidate's potential to succeed in this career.
In the classroom, we keep trying to find better ways to teach and help our students become confident self-learners. For this, we tested the idea of applying the most common principles in software development to our education and came up with the Agile Classroom. It has an awesome methodology to help our students organize and prioritize their work while strengthening their abilities to communicate and work effectively in groups, always reflecting upon their learnings.
We also love data. It is a powerful tool to constantly learn and make our work better. It is also a huge advantage for employers. Throughout the program, we extensively evaluate each of our students on different tech and socio-emotional skills, gathering a lot of data that we then make available to companies interested in hiring our developers. So in addition to their experiences meeting potential candidates, they can also leverage all the data we gather on each of our students during 6 months.
To place our students in the best job opportunities in the market, we've tried to think about creative ways to facilitate a matchmaking process. This is how our Talent Fest was born.
The Talent Fest
We have been placing female tech talent for +2 years already, in Perú, México, Chile, and EEUU. In Perú, where we started Laboratoria, over 50 employers we recently surveyed rate our graduates' performance at work at 4.5/5, and over 95% of them want to rehire from us. This time, on our 5th graduating cohort in Lima, we focused on simplifying as much as possible the hiring process for them (and for us). This is why we created Laboratoria's Talent Fest, a better, cheaper and faster way to find female tech talent for companies.
The Talent Fest was a 36-hour hackathon with 10 employers from around the world, and 40 Laboratoria students ready to work as frontend developers from Peru, Mexico, Chile. The participating employers were:
Each company was assigned a squad of 3 to 4 students and had to present them with a real-live technical challenge. All companies had access to our tech and life skills tracking tool with the data on our students' performance since their application to Laboratoria.
We also provided access to a LIVE evaluation tool that was used by all companies to asses the performance of students in their squad for both tech and life skills during the event.
These gave companies a hands-on opportunity to identify talent among our students who are about to finish their training process as Front-end Developers.
Dynamics that facilitate connection
To help companies and students identify the best possible match, we had a few special dynamics during the Talent Fest.
- Challenge Introduction: Every company had 10 minutes to introduce their challenge to all attendants.
- Coffee breaks: We had three breaks where companies could invite a student from a different team to a 20-minute interview, and one break for students to invite companies.
- Company Pitch: Each company had the opportunity to make a selling pitch. This was a great way to share with our students why they are a great place to work. When the companies finished their pitch, students had the chance to ask questions about their culture, team structure, and hiring process.
Watch the video and get a vibe from the fest
Recruiters, employers and students were extremely satisfied with the experience. Here a couple of great testimonials from the companies that participated in the Fest.
"A talent fest has never been part of a recruitment process before, and helped us to get to know them better than in a regular interview".
Maria del Pilar Gamarra, Tekton Labs
"We identified a lot of developers with really powerful technical skills …and we as Thought Works are interested in hiring them".
Claudio Bustamante, ThoughtWorks
Important conclusions of the event
- 10 companies were able to access a pre-selected and well trained pool of talent, and identify potential in just 36 hours; something that usually takes multiple weeks in interviews.
- 4o talented female coders, who are just starting to explore their job opportunities in tech, were able to get to know 10 of the best places to work in town and abroad.
- Companies tested students with real live project, which helped them understand if the coders have the right skills and cultural fit to be part of their team.
- Laboratoria's evaluation tools played a key roll in providing context about our students, making it easier to identify developers that fit with companies' needs.
- Urbaner's team got the 3rd place with a tool that emulated their users interphase to create a transaction in their platform. Freddy Cahuas, their Lead Developer, said that Laboratoria's coders completed a key task in the integration of their API in just 4 hours.
- Tekton Labs' team got the 2nd place in the event. They proposed the most complex challenge in the Fest. However, students responded really well, they completed 80% of the work in 2 days by using their self-learning and research skills.
- Lyft's team won the Talent Fest with a web app built with their external API that calculated the rate in a ride. While our students manipulated the API they discovered a bug that was reported to their tech team in San Francisco. The end product was so good that Joseph, the Lyft engineer in town, considered using this prototype for production.
- Employers qualified the event with 9/10 overall rating.
Laboratoria´s Talent Fest was a great success. We look forward to organizing this event all over Latin America, always looking to improve the experience and create more value for our network of employers and students. This event demonstrated that hiring talent for tech can be more efficient and more enjoyable too. We are pretty sure our fest will be part of transforming the way companies identify the talent they need, and together we will continue to work hard to build a bigger, better and more diverse tech scene in Latin America.


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Special Collector's Edition
Not Rated
Running Time: 118 minutes
Starring: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
Screenplay by: Ian McLellan
Hunter and John Dighton
Directed by: William Wyler
Studio: Paramount
Retail Price: $24.99
Features: Remembering Roman Holiday Documentary, Restoring Roman Holiday Featurette, Edith Head - The Paramount Years, Photo Galleries, Teaser Trailer, Theatrical Trailer, Re-Release Trailer
Specs: 1.33:1 Full Screen, English Mono, French Mono, English Subtitles, English Closed Captions, Scene Selection (18 Scenes)
Released: November 5th, 2002
I'm sure that we all remember the first time our eyes beheld the magnificent creature known as Audrey Hepburn, whether it was on the big screen, the small screen or as a photographic image in some magazine. Her beauty is not easily forgotten: the saucer-sized eyes, the aquiline chiselled nose, the incredibly high cheekbones, the giraffe-like neck atop of the gazelle-like body of a dancer. Call her "gamine," call her "elfin," call her a "waif;" each word is true. And truly, in her first American film, "Roman Holiday," Audrey captured the hearts of many audience members a decade earlier than my admiriation of this actress occured. My unrequited love for Audrey did indeed begin with her Eliza Dolittle in "My Fair Lady," but with that film and that performance, I was converted to a lifelong Audrey fan. Audrey is the kind of actress that the camera truly adores, designers go wild for (Givenchy without Audrey? Unthinkable) and directors longed to work with. She was a magical presence, and never has that magic been more apparant than in William Wyler's "Roman Holiday."
Audrey's Academy Award winning performance was certainly no fluke, Wyler holds the record for leading the most actors/actresses to the golden statue. Though the film around Miss Hepburn is restrained - it's what might be called a thinking person's love story - Audrey brings a luster to the screen that virtually defies any man NOT to fall in love with her. Princess Ann (Hepburn) is young and discontented with all the responsibilities that come with royalty, and after being slipped "a mickey finn," she slips off into the Roman night, to find herself being taken care of by an American man, who has reasons of his own for taking care of the princess. Joe Bradley (ever stalwart and dependable Gregory Peck) is an American News Service Correspendent, and it would seem that the scoop of the year has literally fallen into his capable hands. Peck's performance is in the same league as Hepburn's, moving from comedic antics (watch him try to put his charge to bed without breaking a smile) to true poignancy, courtesy of an ending best not given away. These two, Ann and Joe were meant to be together, and what better place for love to happen than that romantic titular city? It isn't called "Roman Holiday" for nothing; for Rome, the city, is as much a character in this charming tale as its two lovers. Location lensing adds a layer of crediblity that could never be acheived on a Hollywood soundstage. The brilliant black-and-white photography gives viewers a grand tour of the Rome - not just traveloguery, but actual Roman streets and hideaways, the often sung about Trevi Fountain, ("Three Coins in the Fountain," anyone?) and The Mouth of Truth. Ann's freedom from royalty allows her journey through Rome and romance to resonate with the veiwer, as well as allowing her character to grow (with the knowledgable cultivation of Joe) from mere girl to beautiful woman in a believable manner.
"Roman Holiday" has not lost its charm, its vivacity or its innocence. With its delightful screenplay by black-listed, therefore uncredited, Dalton Trumbo (whose name as screenwriter would not surface on a film until "Spartacus") which combines wit, whimsy and romance, to the undeniable charms of the two leading players and able support provided by Eddie Albert, to the glorious location cinematography right on down to William Wyler's sure-handed direction, I dare you to watch "Roman Holiday, and NOT feel the love tonight.
Paramount's release of "Roman Holiday" features its original 1.33:1 full screen aspect ratio, all in glorious black and white. The image is quite sharp, and everything seems to be very well saturated, all in place and cleaned up quite nicely for this release. Detail is very nice too, while the only major flaws I could find with the transfer is an abundance of noise, some edge halos and a piece of dirt here and there. The film looks sparking and fresh despite it's age of nearly fifty, and that makes it very impressive. No major complaints here. This is one of the best transfers for an older film I've seen on DVD. You should all enjoy this.
Given the limitations of mono, there really isn't too much to say here, but I must say that the English mono track for "Roman Holiday" did surprise me. Fidelity was much higher than I expected, and everything just sounded so smooth. Dynamics aren't obviously much, but the music sounds nice and all the dialogue is very clear and easy to hear. It all comes together, and it certainly is all rather strong - especially for a mono mix - when it does. Pleasant and fulfilling - just the way I like them. Also included is a mono track in French, English subtitles and English closed captions.
Probably since the film is so beloved, Paramount labeled it a Special Collector's Edition, even if they have packed more on other discs. Still, there are some nice features here that fans of the movie are sure to enjoy. Remembering Roman Holiday is a documentary that lasts a solid twenty-five and a half minutes. Presented in full frame and maybe slightly cheesy, this is still strong and worth watching. New interviews with producer Catherine Wyler (William's daughter), Edward Albert, Paramount producer A.C. Lyles, Eddie Albert, film critic and author Molly Haskell are included as they discuss director Wyler's career, events in the 1950s involving one of the screenwriters, the production of the movie and different aspects of the production and how it all just blended together. It's a bit uneven, but certainly interesting... but I thought there was a bit too much on Wyler (this isn't bad, I just would have liked a bit more focus on the film). Old interviews and footage are included, plus stills and clips from the movie. Very nice stuff overall.
Restoring Roman Holiday is a featurette that lasts nearly seven minutes. This isn't for everyone, since it is a bit technical and the appeal of restorations won't exactly be for the casual fan. Still, if you're interested in how old films are restored and who as well as what it takes, this is certainly worth watching. Examples from the new transfer and old masters are included (what a difference), you get a peak of behind-the-scenes of Paramount's library, DVD mastering place and Lowry Digital Images and learn what restoring and what preserving are. Interviews with Paramount Pictures senior Vice President of Operations Phil Murphy, executive director of Broadcast Services and Film Preservation Barry Allen, head of DVD mastering Ron Smith, head film librarian Steve Elkin, president of Lowry Digital Images John Lowry and project manager for Lowry Digital Images Ryan Gomez are here to guide you. Interesting and nicely put together.
Borrowed from the To Catch A Thief release, Edith Head - The Paramount Years features film clips from her in Paramount films, stills and assorted interviews (the late Rosemary Clooney gets some words in here too) for this nice lookback at the actress. Even if it might seem condensed, you might be surprised of how much of a history and background is given on her. The detail is impeccable and it's a very nice featurette to watch, especially for those who are familiar with her work and the classic films she starred in. It's definitely a strong thirteen minutes and forty-two seconds.
We also have three different trailers: the Teaser Trailer, the Theatrical Trailer and a Re-Release Trailer plus four Photo Galleries filled with some nice stills that are broken down into "Production," "The Movie," "Publicity" and "The Premiere."
"Roman Holiday" is a superb film and a great love story. With it's wondrous direction from William Wyler and sly performances from Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, it's nice that Paramount has released this classic on DVD for a whole new generation to enjoy. The transfer and mono track is quite nice, while the supplements are sure to please. If you're a fan of fine cinema then this is a must see and a must have for your collection.


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My study examines the importance of gender within online self-presentation, particularly how gender identity creates different experiences for men and women on Instagram. The purpose of this study is to explore the social implications of Instagram, one of the newest and trendiest social media applications, and the interaction between social media and the offline world. More specifically, how do college students, who live in an environment where substantial overlap between the virtual and online community exists, perform gender? In addition, I seek to determine whether membership in monogender sub-communities (i.e, Greek letter organizations) influence students' gender presentation of self on Instagram. I conduct a content analysis of a total of 1.493 photographs that are collected from Instagram accounts of 108 participants. The participants are first split into male and female groups and then divided further based on Greek Life affiliation. The result confirms that not only women produce self-presentations online at a much higher frequency than men, but also women put much more thought and effort into their Instagram posts, which often exhibit clear markers of femininity, than men do. Furthermore, monogender group affiliation does not appear to influence gender performance on Instagram. Regardless of Greek Life affiliation, all women on Instagram express similar symbols of femininity in their pictures.
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Tilberry, Stephanie, ""Do it for the Instagram" - A Story of Gender and Social Status" (2016). Senior Honors Theses. 2.


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13 Holiday Pajamas You Can Wear All Year Round
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There are a lot of reasons to love the December season, but if you're a fan of sleepwear, then you know that this time of year means cozying up in your favorite holiday pajamas and partaking in all kinds of festive activities. From baking cookies and watching marathons of your favorite holiday movies, to opening presents and sipping on hot cocoa, there isn't a more appropriate attire for the holidays than your comfiest, cutest, and merriest pj's.
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The North Carolina men's lacrosse team powered its way to two undefeated national championships in 1981 and 1982. Despite these dominating seasons many Carolina supporters view 1986 as the Tar Heels sweetest, if not its most dramatic, NCAA title run.
The Tar Heels entered the NCAA tournament seeded fifth, carrying a record of 8-3. The three losses came at the hands of first Maryland, followed by Johns Hopkins, and finally Virginia. En route to winning the NCAA title UNC would avenge all three of those losses… and they would do it in the very same order they lost to them in the regular season.
The Heels were seeded fifth going into the tournament. No team seeded lower than fourth had ever made it to the championship game, and no team lower than third had ever won the title.
Carolina opened their previously unprecedented run with a 12-10 quarterfinal victory against Maryland, a team that had defeated the Tar Heels at home early in the season. The win propelled Carolina to Delaware, site of the first ever true NCAA Lacrosse Final Four. Never previously had four teams competed at the same location on the same weekend to crown a national champion.
The Heels semifinal opponent would be the two-time defending National Champions, Johns Hopkins University. Carolina had been on the losing end of a lopsided 16-4 score at Johns Hopkins earlier in the season, but this time the Heels would not be denied. The Tar Heels broke a nine all regulation tie with senior Mike Tummillio's goal off a Gary Seivold assist two minutes into the extra session.
Fittingly, the title game two days later provided the drama indicative of the Tar Heel title run. UNC and Virginia traded the lead throughout the contest, with neither team establishing more than a two-goal advantage at any time. Another overtime period was required to settle the issue and Gary Seivold, the tournament's most outstanding player, came through for the Heels with a score 1:50 into the extra session.
The win earned Carolina and Head Coach Willie Scroggs a third national championship, at the same time avenging Carolina's most recent regular seasons loss, an 11-9 defeat to close the regular season.
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A 1987 romantic teen dramedy written by John Hughes and directed by Howard Deutch, Some Kind of Wonderful is the last in Hughes's acclaimed cycle of teen films in The '80s.
The protagonist, Keith (Eric Stoltz), is a working-class student, who's in love with popular girl Amanda Jones (Lea Thompson). Meanwhile, his tomboyish best friend, Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson), is in love with him, but Keith doesn't notice that. Keith eventually asks Amanda out, right after she broke up with her jerk of a boyfriend, so, mainly out of spite, she says yes. Watts's jealousy causes conflict between her and Keith, but they reconcile, and Watts chauffeurs Keith to his date. At first, Keith and Amanda hit it off, but Keith realizes that he loves Watts. Amanda tells him to go to her, and they get together.
The film is similar to Hughes and Deutch's previous collaboration Pretty in Pink, with genders switched and the ending changed. Some Kind of Wonderful had a surprisingly good (but hard-to-find) young-adult novelization that really fleshed out the characters.
Contains examples of:
- A-Cup Angst: Watts jokes how she got "lucky" and never got big breasts. Or breasts at all.
- The Alleged Car: Watts' Mini. Keith is humiliated when he borrows it to give Amanda a ride home, and it won't start.
- All There in the Manual:
- According to the first draft of the script and the young-adult novelization, Watts's first name is Susan. Also, her parents are both dead and she lives with two neglectful older brothers.
- One annoying plot hole is also filled in by the novelization: in the movie, we have no idea why Keith is waiting at a club in the hopes that Amanda will show up. In the book, it's explained that she told him she was a big fan of the band who was playing.
- Alpha Bitch: Subverted with Amanda; she runs with the rich and popular crowd, and Watts tries to stop Keith from dating her because she thinks Amanda is the Alpha Bitch, but she's actually a very nice girl (and working-class, like Watts and Keith).:Keith: She's not big money. Do you know where she lives?Watts: Yeah, in our sector. But she runs with the rich and the beautiful .. .which is guilt by association.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Keith's sister, Laura. She has a habit of breaking into Keith's room to the point where she does it even when he's inside and she could just knock.
- Bifauxnen: Watts in the last act.
- Badass Boast: Duncan, Keith's skinhead delinquent friend, to Jerk Jock Hardy:Duncan: I'm here to wipe the floor with your ass, and you know it, and everybody here knows it, and above all, you deserve it. In fact, I think it's safe to say that this party is about to become a historical fact.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Amanda is set up to be this, but really isn't. Hardy is this.
- Boyish Short Hair: Part of Watts' masculine look.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Keith and Watts have known each other since preschool.
- Deadpan Snarker: Watts is almost constantly quipping at people.
- Fingerless Gloves: Watts wears a pair of red leather ones in pretty much all her scenes.
- Flushing Toilet, Screaming Shower: Keith has a Delayed Reaction to this when his dad flushes the toilet while he's in the shower to bring him out to talk.
- Hypocrite: Hardy is perfectly capable trying to woo two different girls within single minute, telling both how "Trust is the basis of any relationship".
- If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Him...: As Watts tells Amanda, "You break his heart, I break your face."
- Is That a Threat?: When Watts is in the changing room, a girl mocks her for wearing boxer shorts:Girl: I've just never seen a girl wearing boy's underpants before.Watts: (takes out a drumstick) You ever seen a girl with a drumstick shoved up her nose?Girl: Oh, is that some kind of threat?Watts: It's some kind of a warning.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Amanda telling Keith to go to Watts in the end.
- Jerkass: Hardy Jenns ("With two 'N's!"). He's, like... the perfect asshole.
- Jerkass with a Heart of Gold: Duncan, Keith's skinhead/biker friend, is actually quite nice and polite and does his best to look out for Keith and Amanda.
- Jerk Jock: Amanda's boyfriend, Hardy. See Manipulative Bastard for how he gets away with it.
- Just Friends: Keith and Watts, for most of the movie. They apparently knew each other since before school.
- The Lad-ette: Watts. Before the Practice Kiss, she even says to Keith: "Pretend I'm a girl."
- Last-Name Basis: Everyone calls Watts on her last name. Her first name is never spoken in the film (according to the novelization, it's Susan).
- Last Minute Hookup: Watts and Keith eventually end up together after he realizes how he feels about her.
- Lovable Alpha Bitch: Amanda, as it turns out.
- Love Epiphany: Keith, after an elaborate date with Amanda, realises that he really loves Watts and always did, but it only clicked in right there.
- Manipulative Bastard: Hardy. He easily projects an affable persona, manages to turn people's insecurities back on them with ease, and even manages to con people who should know better.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Watts and Keith. She is a tomboyish drummer, he's a shy and sensitive artist.
- Mistaken for Gay: Watts. At the beginning, a guy tells to her that she has "a little bit too much up front to be a guy" so she has to be a lesbian.
- Oblivious to Love: Keith doesn't realise Watts's feelings for him, and his for her, till right at the end.
- Oh, Crap!: Hardy gets a massive one at the end when Duncan, Keith's new biker/skinhead friend, shows up at his party with a bunch of his fellow delinquents. Of course, the Oh, Crap! moment, and preventing Hardy from throwing Keith a beating, was the entire point of showing up to Hardy's party in the first place.Duncan: (to Keith, as Keith is leaving with Amanda) We're gonna bring this party up to a nice respectable level. Don't worry, we're not gonna hurt anyone. We're not even gonna touch 'em. We're just gonna make 'em cry a little... just by lookin' at 'em.
- One of the Boys: Watts. She's tomboyish enough for everyone to assume she just has to be a lesbian.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Inverted. While Duncan is named in-story, in the credits he's listed as "Skinhead" instead.
- Open-Minded Parent: Clifford, Keith's father, is eventually revealed as one. While he has shades of Fantasy-Forbidding Father, being obsessed with sending his son to college and one that will give him a steady, white-collar job, he still in the end allows Keith go with his plans for the date and blow his money, saved for quite some time to pay the tuition. He just doesn't want his son to end up like him, working his ass off due to inadequate education, and cares for and supports the boy.
- Operation: Jealousy: Watts tries this on Keith at one point, asking Ray to act as if she liked her. He has no problems with doing that.
- Practice Kiss: Keith is convinced by Watts that he should kiss her for practice before he goes out with Amanda. Following it, Keith looks like he's been hit by a train.
- Raised by Grandparents: Watts talks a lot about her grandma, but her parents are never mentioned or seen and it's implied they are dead. However, in the novelisation, she was raised by her older brothers.
- Same Story, Different Names: Some Kind of Wonderful and Pretty in Pink.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Averted; Watts doesn't change her tomboyish style, and still gets the guy. She does dress up in the last act, but she puts on a male chauffeur's uniform, not a dress.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Amanda lampshades this after Keith shows her his painting.
- This Explains So Much:Ray: If you wanted to, you could be a girl...like that!Watts: Ray, this is 1987. Did you know that a girl can be whatever she wants to be?Ray: I know, my mom's a plumber.Watts: That explains a lot about you, Ray.
- Theme Naming: Keith and Watts are both named after members of The Rolling Stones, and "Miss Amanda Jones" was the title of one of their songs.
- Titled After the Song: Ironically, the song is never used in the movie.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Watts and Amanda.
- Tomboyish Name: Watts uses her last name.
- Triang Relations: Keith wants Amanda, who doesn't even acknowledge his existence for most of the time. Watts has serious feelings for Keith, and he eventually realises he loves her too.
- Uptown Girl: Keith and Amanda's romance is a subversion. She comes from the same poor neighbourhood, but surrounds herself with rich people, borrowing their things and thus appears to be well-off herself.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Watts, sorta. She usually only wears t-shirts or tank tops, loose jeans or shorts. She even gets teased by other girls for wearing boxers. At the end of the movie, she wears a very fancy chauffeur's suit.
- You Never Asked: Watts tells this to Keith.
- You Watch Too Much X: Inverted during the "kissing practice" scene:Watts: She'll probably do this. (puts her arms around Keith's shoulders)
Keith: How do you know all this?
Watts: (getting annoyed) ... I watch a lot of TV.


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Black Orpheus / "Orfeu Negro": The Movie 1959 music by Vinicius De Moraes (brief intro part 1) extracted from Wikipedia
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Black Orpheus / (Orfeu Negro)
Directed by Marcel Camus
Produced by Sacha Gordine
Written by Marcel Camus / Vinicius de Moraes / Jacques Viot
Starring Breno Mello / Marpessa Dawn / Lourdes de Oliveira / Léa Garcia
Music by Luiz Bonfá / Antonio Carlos Jobim
Cinematography Jean Bourgoin
Editing by Andrée Feix
Distributed by GAGA Communications
Release date(s) June 12, 1959 (France)
Black Orpheus (Portuguese: Orfeu Negro) is a 1959 film made in Brazil by French director Marcel Camus. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which is an adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, setting it in the modern context of Rio de Janeiro during the Carnaval. The film was an international co-production between production companies in Brazil, France and Italy.
The film is particularly renowned for its soundtrack by bossa nova legend Antonio Carlos Jobim, featuring songs such as "Manhã de Carnaval" (written by Luiz Bonfá) and "A felicidade" that were to become bossa nova classics. According to Time magazine, it played a crucial role in the life of Ann Dunham, the mother of American president Barack Obama. [1]
Black Orpheus won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival[2] as well as the 1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the 1960 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film (in those awards the film was credited as a French production; only in the 1961 BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film was Brazil credited together with France and Italy).
In 1999, the film was essentially remade as Orfeu by Carlos Diegues, this time with a soundtrack featuring contemporary Brazilian pop singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso.
The movie opens with images of white Greek statues that explode to reveal black men dancing samba to drums in a favela. Orpheus (Breno Mello) is a trolley driver in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as well as a playboy. Although engaged to be wed, he does not seem very enthusiastic about the concept of marriage and spends the majority of the film trying to avoid his fiancée, Mira (Lourdes de Oliveira).
The film begins with Orpheus and his fiancée going to get a marriage license. The clerk at the courthouse makes reference to the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, causing Orpheus's fiancée to get jealous and assume that there is another woman in his life. After they get the license, Mira agrees to loan Orpheus the money to buy her own ring because Orpheus wants to get his guitar out of the pawn shop for the carnival. When Orpheus gets home, he finds that his neighbor Serafina's (Léa Garcia) cousin named Eurydice (Marpessa Dawn) has been visiting. Death (the man in the skeleton suit) is after Eurydice. This is shown in a scene in which the man chases her down and Orpheus gallantly goes to her rescue.
Orpheus, upon seeing Eurydice, wins her graces by playing her a song on his guitar. He is impressed upon her telling him the story of Orpheus and Eurydice and letting him know that she knows he knows of it also because of the song which he had just been playing. Orpheus is a pleasant break from the insanity of Carnival, which seems to agitate Eurydice's already frightened state. The two of them fall in love, yet are constantly on the run from both Mira and Death, both of whom wish to kill Eurydice.
On the day of Carnival, Eurydice dresses in Serafina's costume in order help Serafina spend more time with her navy man; the costume keeps Eurydice's face concealed. During the festival, Orpheus uses every excuse to be able to dance with Eurydice (who is supposed to be Serafina) rather than with Mira. He consistently tells Mira to get back to her place.
Eventually, Eurydice's identity is revealed and she is forced once again to run for her life from both Mira and Death. This time she is not so lucky and is killed accidentally by Orpheus in his own trolley station when he turns the power on and electrocutes her. Death says "Now she's mine" before knocking Orpheus out. Despite the obvious fact that she is dead and the less obvious fact that he is the one who actually killed her, Orpheus looks for Eurydice within the Bureau of Missing Persons. The janitor there tells him that the place holds only papers and that no people would be found there. The illiterate janitor asks Orpheus if he can read, then tells him his reading ability will not help him find his love. The janitor, taking pity on Orpheus, takes him down the stairs and to the place of a Macumba ritual, a regional form of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé.
At the gate, there is a dog named Cerberus, after the three-headed dog of Hades in Greek mythology. At this ritual, Orpheus is able to channel the spirit of Eurydice through the body of an old woman. Orpheus calls out to her and asks to see her, but Eurydice begs him not to look toward the voice, lest he lose her forever. When he looks back to see Eurydice, her spirit leaves the woman and he loses her forever (This is in direct correlation to the Greek myth in which Orpheus is able to save his love Eurydice but loses her forever when he looks back at her).
Orpheus wanders in mourning for the remainder of the film. His wanderings take him to the City Morgue, where he retrieves Eurydice's body. He carries her in his arms across town and up the hill toward his home. (The Greek Orpheus also wandered around after Eurydice's death, refusing all other women until he is killed by Thracian Maenads in the heat of Dionysian ritual.) Like the Greek Orpheus, this Orpheus is killed by a group of apparently crazed women. As we see Orpheus' and Serafina's shack burning (a fire set by Mira, no doubt), Mira flings a stone that hits him in the head and knocks him over a cliff to his death as he carried Eurydice's limp body.
There are two children, Benedito and Zeca, who follow Orpheus around throughout the plot. They believe that it is Orpheus's guitar that causes the sun to rise in the morning. After Orpheus death, Benedito insists that Zeca pick up the guitar and play so that the sun may rise again. Zeca plays, and the sun does rise. A little girl comes by, gives Zeca a single flower and the film ends with the three of them dancing.
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In this picture there is a wooden fence in the front of the picture, and behind that there is a stone fence that is broken in one place. Behind the stone fence are two trees. There are yellow flowers growing in front of the wooden fence.
The yard is closed in by a tall wall. There's a large tree that looks good for climbing. It looks like someone made a swing in the tree a long time ago, but now the ropes are broken and the yard is overgrown.
In this picture, there's a house with two windows on the side that we can see. There's also a big nice tree next to the house, and a stone fence behind the tree, and then, at the edge of the picture, a wooden fence begins.
There's an old broken-down shack and the door is coming off the hinges. It's overgrown with vines and the yard is grown up with weeds.
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Lately my life has been a blur of work and wedding planning that it is hard to find the correct wording for everything. So here are some picture to explain what I've been up to.
When someone complains about not getting a plus-one to my wedding:
When I'm driving to work and I'm pretty sure I hear my tire's hubcap scraping the pavement:
What I resort to when Adam isn't there to scratch my back:
When a customer at the bar turns to walk out of the bar without leaving me at tip:
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When people say I make the best Bloody Mary or Old Fashion:
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What's the real story behind E10 fuel and its effects on the boating angler? There is certainly a lot of misinformation out there and there is also a lot of good information out there. And if you decide that E10 fuel and your boat are not a good fit, how do you find service stations that sell simple unleaded fuel?
Well read on and we'll discuss the pros and cons of E10 fuel, show you where to find service stations that sell unleaded fuel and have a brief discussion on high octane unleaded fuel and its benefits or lack of for your boat and motor.
Before we delve into this rich subject, I'd like to acknowledge that this article was the result of the industry helping me out a lot. Every engine manufacturer went above and beyond with their help in regard to research and information provided. Also Gary Fooks, considered by many as the research expert for outboards in this field, helped enormously. To all, a special thanks.
With that said, let's get into it.
E10 is a blended ethanol fuel that reduces the amount of actual fuel in the mix to around 90%. Ethanol is a by-product of broad acre crop farming (especially sugar cane in Australia) and many years ago Peter Beattie mandated that most service stations in Queensland had to reduce their sale of unleaded petrol in lieu of E10 or similar fuels.
On the surface this sounded fine, especially for the farmers who stood to make extra money from the same crop. However Beattie's advice did not take into account the entire boating market and the effect E10 fuel has on fuel storage components and the fact that E10 fuel will separate into ethanol and unleaded petrol if exposed to moisture or condensation. So in a nutshell Beattie sold the Queensland boating industry up the river, literally, to secure votes and now we, the boating public, are paying for it with reduced options on where to buy appropriate fuel, or being forced to buy inflated price, high octane unleaded petrol that really only benefits larger, high performance outboards that were built in the last five years or so. It has even forced many boat owners to evaluate their current fuel storage and delivery systems, in some cases leading to very expensive retrofits of existing componentry.
But enough of the history lesson, let's look closely at how E10 fuel interacts with boats by answering some common questions.
1 My outboard manufacturer says my engine will cope with E10, so there's no problem?
If your outboard manufacturer confirms that your engine is built to standards required to accept E10 type fuels then you should not have any problems as far as your outboard is concerned. But, and this is a very big but, you need to ask the question is your boat ready? By this we mean do you know if the fuel tank, fuel lines, seals, primer and filter are all E10 ready? If not, find out immediately as E10 damages fibreglass and aluminium tanks and melts many of the hoses and fuel system components. These dissolved components pass through the best filters, and get deposited inside engines and have been shown to destroy expensive engine components. No engine warranty will cover the sort of damage experienced from this event occurring.
2 Ethanol boosts octane, so my engine will go better and/or faster.
High octane fuel, no matter how the octane is boosted, won't do a thing for your engine unless it has been designed to take advantage of high octane. That means that high octane fuels (especially E10 and higher octane unleaded like Premium 95 and 98) usually require a high compression engine to make any difference. There certainly are engines on the market that will undoubtedly perform better with higher octane fuel use but most mainstream outboard give little advantage to the user in terms of performance or fuel economy from high octane fuel. There is a fact box hereabouts taking a look at high octane fuel and some engines that are designed to take advantage of high octane fuels.
3 V8 racing uses ethanol so it must be great.
V8 racing was under pressure to become more environmentally responsible and converting to E85 (85% ethanol) was as much a PR exercise as it was an environmental footprint solution. These high performance cars now have a shorter range with more fuel stops because they don't get the same mileage from E85 as they did from regular unleaded petrol. The same has been shown to be true for outboards running E10, as E10 has about 3% less energy than regular unleaded petrol.
4 E10 is 3cpl cheaper, so why not buy it?
Most petrol companies charge less for E10 fuel, but the difference in price between standard unleaded and E10 varies widely. Another factor to consider is that E10 has 3% less energy per litre, which gives about 3% less range. As an example, if fuel is $1.40 per litre then E10 needs to be 4cpl cheaper JUST to break even in terms of kilometres per litre obtained. You actually end up paying more for E10 as you use more over the long term.
5 E10 is better for the environment.
Yes, however the jury is out on that. E10 is renewable because it comes from crops and not oil fields however the energy and effort needed to make the ethanol component in E10 fuel may well outweigh the environmental benefit. There is also the impact of increased pesticide, fertilizer and other chemical use to consider, something rarely mentioned. E10 will reduce some emissions, which is important in crowded cities, but it uses a lot of fuel and energy and pesticides to produce, something not so good for our marine and coastal environments as most of the pollutants get washed into the rivers and creeks during rain periods.
6 There is an additive that will fix any problems with E10.
No additive claims to fix paint peeling, melting fibreglass or phase separation of ethanol and unleaded in stored or moored boats. All the claims made by these expensive additives are necessarily vague and we would suggest that it be a case of buyer beware.
7 If E10 wrecks my boat can I claim for the damages?
The Qld and NSW governments have warned against E10 use in boats, so has BP (a sticker on every pump) and others as well, along with the odd boat manufacturer. Your chances of winning a legal or insurance claim from damage caused by E10 fuel to your boat fittings or engine are next to nil as you have been adequately warned.
8 I've heard about phase separation. What is it and can't I just shake up the petrol tank to remix it?
Phase separation is a most serious issue and commonly occurs when E10 fuel is left to sit idle for an extended period and moisture has entered the fuel system. Phase separation is when the ethanol and unleaded literally separate from one another in the presence of water creating two layers of different fuels. No amount of shaking, mixing or magic additive use will blend the two back together. They are like oil and water once separated.
Ethanol is heavier than unleaded petrol and sinks to the bottom of fuel tanks. This is all fine while the unleaded fuel is running through the motor although motors will typically underperform due to the octane level of the unleaded fuel being lower than it should be. Serious issues occur once the highly reactive ethanol enters the motor and is run through the fuel system components such as hoses and filters that can at best cope with 10% ethanol. You think E10 is a good solvent, try almost 100% pure ethanol! This is why most motor manufacturers advise against using any ethanol fuel, and certainly not blended fuel that has undergone phase separation.
As I was researching this article and reading reams of interesting and frightening reports, articles and releases, it occurred to me that the E10 issue is much bigger than I first imagined.
A quick overview of what I've discovered shows some alarming points that boat owners, boat manufacturers and boat users really need to get their head around.
Starting at the top, with ethanol being such a good solvent.
The nature of ethanol means that it is a stronger solvent than ordinary fuel. This may lead to particles in your fuel storage system and fuel lines being dissolved, loosened or disturbed allowing these particles to enter the fuel headed for your engine. At best the dissolved particles are caught by your fuel filter, at worst they make it into your engine and start to accumulate in all sorts of strange places. Ethanol can also damage gel coats and fibreglass around fuel intakes. Even the Queensland government advises boaters to clean up ethanol blended fuels spills immediately and thoroughly!
But it gets worse, even aluminium fuel tanks and boats are at risk due to ethanol's ability to conduct electricity. The extra conductivity of ethanol can lead to an increased risk of galvanic corrosion, reducing the structural integrity of fuel tanks and boats and promoting those unsightly corrosion blisters under your paintwork, especially near your fuel inlet.
The very worst are fibreglass tanks. If they were not built to E10 standard any ethanol will immediately start to dissolve the tank. That means a weakened tank that has the potential to fail and leak. But before then the dissolved fibreglass chemicals will pass through the best of filters and coat the inside of sensitive engine components. This has led to engines being damaged beyond repair.
Then we look at the storage life of E10 fuel. Some say a week is about long enough in a warm environment, others say 2 weeks, others still refuse to speculate. I work in the industry and I can say for a fact my boat does not hit the water every week and I would hazard a guess that most boats don't either. So the fuel is likely to go off and lose its octane rating leading to engine pinging and underperformance. Tips for storage of E10 include completely emptying fuel tanks or using a fuel stabiliser. So just how do you go about removing all the fuel from your in-built tank? Fuel stabilisers are great so long as the fuel stabiliser is added to new fuel; they will not stabilise old fuel or rejuvenate old fuel.
Yet more problems arise if your fuel tank is almost empty when stored, even for a short period, as it leaves more air space in the fuel tank for water vapour condensation to occur, which leads to phase separation of the E10 fuel. To stop phase separation it is recommended to fill the fuel tank virtually to the top to reduce condensation. Fine, but then the E10 fuel will go off if left to sit for 2 weeks. And fuel also expands with heat, and you do not want E10 fuel leaking from the fuel vent onto your boat. A no win situation.
Are you frustrated yet? I am.
So is it any wonder that all fuel sellers in Australia have warnings about the use of ethanol blended fuel in boats? It's a warning boaties should heed.
For starters the easiest way to avoid the problems of E10 fuel is to not use E10 fuel for your boat ever! E10 really is a bad idea for boaties.
Failing that, and at times you may not be able to avoid E10 fuel, you should completely drain the fuel tank and mechanically clean it to remove any traces of rust or aluminium oxides and then dry it thoroughly to minimise the presence of any water.
If your boat was built pre-1990, seriously consider replacing the fuel tank, fuel line components and get a fuel filter that is at least 10-microns. And carry spare fuel filters too and change them every 3-6 months!
Just about all outboard manufacturers recommend that a fuel stabiliser should be used (regardless of the fuel) to ensure the fuel does not lose its octane rating. A lowering of the octane rating in your boat fuel will lead to a host of problems with performance. It was expressed several times though that these fuel stabilisers will not fix phase separation or increase octane levels of old fuel and they should be added to fresh fuel only.
If you must use E10 fuel, it is highly recommended to fill your tank to around 90% of its capacity, leaving as little air space as possible. It is not recommended to fill the tank full as expansion of the fuel when heated through the day will lead to the fuel leaking from the overflow or fuel vent, exposing your fibreglass or aluminium boat to the dangerous E10 fuel. Again another compromise you must make with E10.
So there are a few tips and tricks if you have to use E10. But keep in mind and make no mistake about this, the industry as a whole recommends you DO NOT use E10 fuel for boating purposes unless you absolutely must.
I hope the above has helped you make some little sense of the E10 debate. Boat manufacturers, component distributors, outboard importers and distributors are all working hard to make products that will be capable of dealing with E10's limitations in a marine environment, but not one of them can solve the big issues of phase separation and fuel going off in such a short period.
Outboard Manufacturers say:
Evinrude: Evinrude motors can tolerate up to 10% alcohol in fuels.
Honda: Honda engines are designed for good performance using petrol containing up to 10% ethanol.
Mercury: Mercury engines will withstand up to 10% ethanol in fuel
Suzuki: Recommends the use of pure petrol without ethanol, but can use up to 10% ehtanol if necessary.
Tohatsu: Recommends use of fuel up to only 10% ethanol. Use of fuels with more than 10% ethanol voids the warranty for all alcohol-fuel related malfunctions.
Yamaha: All 2008 and later models are suitable for use with E10 blended fuel. Models prior to 2008 are not suitable for Ethanol blended fuels.
Check your components
Now that I realise E10 fuel is more a hull/fuel system issue it was important to find out what was happening in this regard. Not surprisingly Queensland-based The Haines Group (Signature boats, Traveller boats, Suzuki Outboards) were well ahead of the ball.
As Greg Haines explained, "We have been well aware of the challenges of ethanol fuels and especially their effects on GRP (fibreglass) hulls. By late 2009 we had abandoned fibreglass fuel tanks and changed over to moulded plastic tanks with E10 resistance. At the same time we verified that the fuel hoses and fittings on every one of our boats were manufacturer specified to withstand E10 fuels.
"Even so" the second generation boat builder added, "we are concerned about phase separation and short fuel life so we don't recommend E10 for any of our boats. That's in line with the warnings of fuel companies and State governments."
That's when Greg pointed out the permanent labels on every boats' fuel filler warning that E10 is not an option.
Before you buy a new or second hand boat, please take a moment to consider its suitability to E10 fuels.
Fuel Stabilisers
Fuel that is stored either in the can or in the engine fuel tank starts going stale immediately, resulting in hard starting, poor performance and reduced engine life.
Fuel stabilisers aim to keep fresh fuel as fresh as the day it was bought. That basically means the fuel stabiliser will maintain the octane rating of the fuel. However most fuel stabilisers also inhibit moisture uptake, which is a very handy extra result if you were to use E10 fuel either accidentally or deliberately.
There are many brands of fuel stabilisers in Australia and following are some recommended by the outboard industry for use in Australia.
When added to fresh fuel, STA-BIL stops the formation of gum and varnish in fuel system components. It contains corrosion prevention additives to fight the damaging effects of ethanol in fuels and cleans fuel injectors and carburettors restoring performance.
Honda Australia uses STA-BIL products to maintain their fuel and recommend it to their customers. Marketed for over 40 years in the USA it is recommended by more than 100 engine and equipment manufacturers. STA-BIL is safe to use in any petrol engine and will not harm any engine or fuel system components or catalytic converters.
Yamalube Fuel Stabiliser & Conditioner PLUS
Yamaha strongly recommends Yamalube Fuel Stabiliser & Conditioner PLUS for anyone using E-10 fuels.
The alcohol-free formula helps prevent fuel oxidation and phase separation from moist, rich air. When used continuously, it keeps fuel fresh, potent and free from gum and varnish for up to one year of storage. Its metal filmers, provide extensive protection for steel and aluminium components and is available in 385ml and 946ml bottles from retailers of Yamaha products.
Mercury Quickstor
Added to fuel before storing or when the engine is not being used for extended periods. Prevents regular and ethanol-blended fuel from breaking down and oxidizing.
Mercury Marine recommends boat owners only buy fuel from trusted sources, routinely inspect fuel tanks for water sediment, regularly check their fuel filter and carry a spare fuel filter in case of sudden blockage. One bottle of Mercury Quickstor treats 227L of fuel and is available widely at many boating outlets and chandlery stores.
A Bit on High Octane Fuels (Premium Fuels) and Outboards
Higher octane ratings correlate to higher activation energies . Activation energy is the amount of energy necessary to start a chemical reaction. Since higher octane fuels have higher activation energies, it is less likely that a given compression will cause autoignition.
It might seem odd that fuels with higher octane ratings are used in more powerful engines, since such fuels ignite less easily. However, an uncontrolled ignition is not desired in a spark ignition engine.
A fuel with a higher octane rating can be run at a higher compression ratio without causing detonation. Compression is directly related to power and to thermodynamic efficiency, so engines that require higher octane usually deliver more motive power and do more work for a given BTU or calorie of fuel. Engine power is a function of the fuel, as well as the engine design, and is related to octane rating of the fuel. Power is limited by the maximum amount of fuel-air mixture that can be forced into the combustion chamber . When the throttle is partially open, only a small fraction of the total available power is produced because the manifold is operating at pressures far below atmospheric. In this case, the octane requirement is far lower than when the throttle is opened fully and the manifold pressure increases to atmospheric pressure, or higher in the case of supercharged or turbocharged engines.
Many high-performance engines are designed to operate with a high maximum compression, and thus demand high-octane, premium fuel. A common misconception is that power output or fuel mileage can be improved by burning higher octane fuel than a particular engine was designed for. The power output of an engine depends in part on the energy density of its fuel, but similar fuels with different octane ratings have similar density. Since switching to a higher octane fuel does not add any more hydrocarbon content or oxygen, the engine cannot produce more power. Therefore an engine specifically designed to take advantage of high octane fuels is necessary to get the most from high octane fuel use.
There are scant few outboard motors in Australia that can really take advantage of high octane fuel. My preliminary research shows that it is only the high end of the market where boaters can take advantage of high octane fuel, regardless of the claims made by the fuel providers. Two models have the ability to use high octane fuel to its maximum: Mercury 250hp Pro Verado and Mercury 300hp Pro Verado. Both these engines have been designed to provide the high compression rates needed to maximise the extra octane levels in Unleaded 98 and others. This is a very important point as many fuel suppliers now only have Premium (high octane) unleaded and E10 pumps only. Unless you have specific information from the engine manufacturer that your outboard will perform better on premium fuel, there is absolutely no need to use it unless your only other choice is E10, which should be avoided at almost any cost.
Finding Fuel
Simply follow the link, click on the unleaded fuel button and then search. This will bring up all Caltex stations with unleaded fuel in Australia, however you can zoom in to any area you are interested in.www.nowwhere.com.au/caltex/austlocator/caltextripplanner.aspx
Follow this link and you can download the entire list of all Shell service stations in Qld and all that they offer. Not only can you see unleaded fuel, you can also see restaurants, toilets, showers and more.
Follow this link, however unlike the other sites, you will have to type in a suburb as well as clicking on Advanced search and then select Unleaded 91 to find service stations that sell unleaded fuel. To make the list a little more refined you can choose to locate the 20 nearest stations or the 10 nearest stations to the suburb of your choice.
Alternatively you can do a trip plan and do an advanced search, clicking Unleaded 91 and so forth. This will give you a route to follow plus if you click on the numbers on the screen you will have all the information pertaining to that service station available in a pop up box.


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Innovative Yamaha Venova YVS-100 Casual Wind Instrument
Friday, 7 April 2017 by Lizanne | Bax-shop
At this year's Musikmesse trade show in Frankfurt, Yamaha presents their latest development in Casual Wind Instruments, the Venova YVS-100!
The future is now
If you're wondering what kind of instrument the Venova is, Yamaha has placed it in their own special Casual Wind Instruments category. It plays like a recorder but has a unique sound that is a bit like a saxophone. The mouthpiece is also similar to that of a soprano sax, in fact. The YVS-100 is made of ABS plastic, which means it's lightweight and durable enough to provide enjoyment for years to come!
For more information about pricing and delivery times, keep an eye on the product page.