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Farsight wrote:Yes, see http://www.cybsoc.org/electremdense2008v4.pdf by John G Williamson (7 years CERN, now Glasgow Electronics) along with the "foundation" paper http://www.cybsoc.org/electron.pdf by John G Williamson and Martin van der Mark (Philips principle scientist).
There's a number of people exploring this area, such as Qiu-Hong Hu at Gothenburg, see http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512265 along with the authors of http://www.physorg.com/news182957628.html.
Farsight wrote:It's backed up by evidence and logic that is so crushingly obvious that it's scarey how people just don't get it. We define our time using the motion of electromagnetic waves, essentially light in the wider sense:
"Under the International System of Units, the second is currently defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom..."
Check out the NIST caesium fountain clock. It employs the hyperfine transition, which is an electromagnetic "spin flip" change to one of the atom's electrons. As a result a microwave photon is emitted with a given "frequency". But imagine you're the detector. You sit there counting the arriving microwave peaks, and when you get to 9,192,631,770 you tick off a second. Since frequency is measured in Hertz which is cycles per second, you haven't actually measured the frequency, the frequency is 9,192,631,770 by definition. So if electromagnetic phenomena proceed at a reduced rate, the second is bigger. In other words, if the light moves slower, the second is bigger, and you use it to measure the speed of light! The metre isn't affected because provided you avoid the radial length contraction, the slower light and the bigger second cancel each other out.
Farsight wrote:It's backed up by evidence and logic that is so crushingly obvious that it's scarey how people just don't get it. We define our time using the motion of electromagnetic waves, essentially light in the wider sense:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity wrote:Irwin I. Shapiro proposed another test, beyond the classical tests, which could be performed within the solar system. It is sometimes called the fourth "classical" test of general relativity. He predicted a relativistic time delay (Shapiro delay) in the round-trip travel time for radar signals reflecting off other planets.[18] The mere curvature of the path of a photon passing near the Sun is too small to have an observable delaying effect (when the round-trip time is compared to the time taken if the photon had followed a straight path), but general relativity predicts a time delay which becomes progressively larger when the photon passes nearer to the Sun due to the time dilation in the gravitational potential of the sun. Observing radar reflections from Mercury and Venus just before and after it will be eclipsed by the Sun gives agreement with general relativity theory at the 5% level.[19] More recently, the Cassini probe has undertaken a similar experiment which gave agreement with general relativity at the 0.002% level. Very Long Baseline Interferometry has measured velocity-dependent corrections to the Shapiro time delay in the field of moving Jupiter.[20][21]
That won't do. I give you a whole heap of observable evidence and you say "wrong" then give an expression? Come on Anthem, try harder.Anthem wrote:First of all, wrong:
You're dismissing observable evidence in favour of "one thing slowing down" that has no supporting evidence. You can't see time slowing down. Nor can you see time flowing. All you can see, is things moving.Anthem wrote:Second, give me an equation that shows that all motion slows down at a rate that maintains, just for example, the perceived frequency (i.e. color) of light. Oh wait, it's time dilation...which means the most plausible answer is that one thing is slowing down, not all things, which is what you maintain.
Good. Now take it to the next level. Understand that the Shapiro delay is there because the light goes slower. And look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapiro_delay and ask yourself what that Einstein quote is doing there.Anthem wrote:Third, no one is denying that the speed of light 'changes'...if you're observing it in another reference frame.
I can show you light. I can show you light moving. Can you show me time? No. Now how do we define time? Using the motion of light.Anthem wrote:It is because the speed of light is constant and time varies that this happens, not because time is constant and the speed of light varies, like you profess.
Huh? Read Time Explained. Time exists like heat exists, being an emergent property of motion. Come on Anthem, put some brain power into this instead of going along with an unthinking conviction that is not supported by scientific evidence.Anthem wrote:Yes, saying there is no such thing as time is the exact same thing as saying it's constant.
Farsight wrote:That won't do. I give you a whole heap of observable evidence and you say "wrong" then give an expression? Come on Anthem, try harder.
You're dismissing observable evidence in favour of "one thing slowing down" that has no supporting evidence. You can't see time slowing down. Nor can you see time flowing. All you can see, is things moving.
Farsight wrote:You're dismissing observable evidence in favour of "one thing slowing down" that has no supporting evidence. You can't see time slowing down. Nor can you see time flowing. All you can see, is things moving.
Baloney. You're dismissing the evidence of the Shapiro delay and the GPS clock adjustment along with NIST fountain clock and the astronauts. And you're dismissing what Einstein said. You haven't even read any of it it have you?PhysBang wrote:Actually, no, what he did was exactly right. So far you have given no observable evidence. Observable evidence requires measurements and you have given no measurements. Anthem suggests that what you have said is contrary to an accepted physical law that is supported by a host of evidence. So you either have to undermine that law or you have to demonstrate that your proposal matches the law. This requires showing the measurement predictions of your proposal and showing that they meet the equation in questions.
Yes, the impedance of space changes. I guess you missed that.PhysBang wrote:Again, you have no evidence here. Not only that, but the evidence for time dilation is not seeing things, it is measuring things. And that the relevant difference is one of time rather than differences in the operation of all possible forces is one of reason. I.e.: if all physical processes slow down, then there must be some underlying cause as to why they slow down.
And I guess you didn't read what I said about proton-antiproton annihilation into pions thence photons. Not very good Physbang. What do I have to do, drip feed it to you piecemeal? Will you ever read it anyway?PhysBang wrote:So far, you have given no measurement evidence saying that all nuclear processes are electromagnetic processes, so we have no reason to suspect that something that slows down electromagnetic processes will also slow down nuclear processes. Indeed, if you claim that electromagnetic processes slow down, then we should see measurements of nuclear processes that demonstrate an increase in their speed. This suggests that your theory is prima facie incorrect. However, actual measurement evidence could possibly show otherwise.
Farsight wrote:Electron spin isn't "intrinsic", nor is the magnetic dipole moment. There's something going round and round in there, and "it's not classical" is about as useful as "it surpasseth all human understanding". Don't buy it. The spin is in two dimensions, that's all. And quarks notwithstanding, the same principle applies to protons, because you can conduct low-energy proton-antiproton annihilation and get two neutral pions which decay in a nanosecond into gamma photons. It applies to neutrons too, because of the evidence of beta decay. A free neutron decays into a proton, an electron, and an antineutrino in about fifteen minutes. So it isn't just that light moves slower, all atomic processes run slower, and all other processes. You are made of electrons, and protons, and neutrons, and so are your rulers and clocks. When you see gravitational time dilation, it means your clock is moving slower. It's like you've plunged a mechanical clock into an oil-bath. The viscosity makes the cogs and gears move slower. Only you're like a clockwork man, and you've jumped in after it. So you don't notice it locally.
Yes, you can see it shimmering on a hot day, and you can feel it blowing through your hair. The air is there, no doubt. Now, can you see time? No. Can you see time moving? Or slowing down? No. All you can see is things moving, and that motion slowing down. That's the scientific evidence, and if you'd rather ignore it, that's up to you.Anthem wrote:You know, it's stuff like this that makes me retire from threads. So I will, after this: Can you see air? Any fourth grader can ask that question. For christ's sake. If you only trust your eyes you're not going to accomplish much. Weren't you the one showing us the optical illusion? Jebus.
Noted. There's a " pulse" issue here wherein one photon is considered to be one wavelength.James S Saint wrote:Not to distract, but for later thought; I think you have made a presumption in the "How Long is a Photon" that invalidates the otherwise logical conclusion. You seemed to have presumed that the energy associated with the wavelength of a photon is equatable to the energy of a sinusoidal EM wave such as to derive the length of the photon from a calculated length of a stand of EM wave of equal wavelength.
Space.James S Saint wrote:1) exactly what is it that is getting twisted;
Space.James S Saint wrote:of what is the space made such that it could be twisted?
Space.James S Saint wrote:2) exactly what is twisting it;
Consider an analogy where a region of space is a cube of transparent elastic jelly marked through with lattice lines. Insert a hypodermic needle, and inject more jelly into the centre. The centre now exhibits a pressure bulge, where the lattice lines are distorted and are no longer straight. This pressure and distortion diminishes with distance from the centre. The bulge represents a photon, the closest thing to "raw energy" we can envisage. But all you've added is jelly, and this jelly is space. This suggests that space and energy are, at the fundamental level, the same thing.James S Saint wrote:why/how is the twisting accomplished? (the words "energy" or "charge" are insufficient).
And that next adjacent point affects the next adjacent point, which affects the next adjacent point, and so on.James S Saint wrote:Again, remember that each point in the universe can only affect the next adjacent points to it.
Space. I can't describe it in terms of anything else, it's the most fundamental thing there is. It seems to behave like an elastic "substance", but it isn't a tangible substance in the usual sense of the word. Light isn't tangible either. You can't "touch" long-wave radio waves. But electromagnetic radiation is a wave in space, IMHO a wave of space in space. And you can make electrons out of photons, and electrons are matter, and you can touch matter. So space isn't made of anything tangible, but tangible things are made of it.James S Saint wrote:So my question is, "of what are those points made such that they have the properties you describe and yet maintain that each point only affects the next point over?"
Distance. Imagine that you are in the vacuum of space. Press your hands together. What's between them? Nothing. Now separate your hands. What's between them? A gap. Space. This space has its vacuum energy, and this has a mass equivalence. It isn't nothing.James S Saint wrote:Perhaps if you began with the thought of absolutely nothing at all then added in whatever components were necessary to establish a "twistable space substance" and whatever would be doing the twisting. What essential components would you have added?
I haven't noticed this myself, but noted.James S Saint wrote:This restriction of only being able to post 1 or 2 posts per day is not very tolerable. I wouldn't think that a forum such as this would have a need to slow traffic down so much. So please contact me email, which I'm certain will be much faster: [email protected] and I would also like to discuss your next book.
I don't know.James S Saint wrote: Why does it move at all (become more dense)?
Why doesn't the "jelly space stuff", affectance, just sit still, quiescent?
Why did it ever begin to move?
Why doesn't it eventually entropy into stillness? - true nothingness.
Because the knot maintains itself, just as a knot in a rubber sheet stays tied up.James S Saint wrote:Even if an affectance knot were maintained without collapsing, why would the space around it be statically altered and not evenly redistribute the density?
For the same reason that a wave in water remains a wave. It's a travelling pressure pulse that appears as a hump, and the hump travels but the water does not. This hump does not collapse because of the nature of water. A wave in space does not collapse because of the nature of space.James S Saint wrote:You seem to be saying that distant bits of jelly must remain at distances and thus any contraction occurring between them causes static density variations. Why wouldn't the distant bits of jelly/affectance merely move closer toward the knot and relieve all pressures and hence remove all gravity?
Because space isn't made of particles. Instead, particles are made of it.James S Saint wrote:If you form a pocket of compressed air or evacuated air space, the air around that space does not form a gradient field aimed toward your pocket, so why would space jelly/affectance do that?
More of the same. But it's all one whole, it isn't made of bits.James S Saint wrote:The implication is that bits of space jelly are being held in place and thus get stretched. What would be holding them in place?
Farsight wrote:Because the knot maintains itself, just as a knot in a rubber sheet stays tied up.James S Saint wrote:Even if an affectance knot were maintained without collapsing, why would the space around it be statically altered and not evenly redistribute the density?
The rubber-sheet analogy is back-to-front. Space has stress-energy, and stress and pressure are similar, both being measured in Pascals. It's a pressure rather than tension, hence a better analogy is a block of pressurised jelly. The edges, if you can call them that, are moving outwards. Since gravity is an additional pressure gradient extending from the centre towards the edge, as the edges recede the slope of the gradient gets shallower, which suggests that the strength of gravity reduces over time as per the Dirac Large Numbers Hypothesis.James S Saint wrote:I think I confused you. I am not challenging the persistence of the knot. Note that the "rubber sheet" analogy requires that the edges of the sheet be fastened in place, else there would be no stretching even with a firm knot. The entire sheet would merely wrinkle. A gravity field persists through indefinite time. The "rubber sheet" stays stretched. For the jelly/rubber-space concept to hold true, there must be an reason as to why the "edges of the sheet" are held in place.
Because light is a transverse wave, and waves travelling through the bulk of a liquid are longitudinal waves. See http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/waves/u10l1c.cfm for something on this.James S Saint wrote:Or another way to ask is, "Vibrations in water and air reflect what happens within liquids. Why isn't the jelly-space liquid rather than jelled?"
The jelly itself doesn't get tied into a knot, instead a stress moving through it does. You tie a "ripple" in a knot, not the jelly.James S Saint wrote:It is important to know because we are talking about a "knot" forming which directly implies that the jelly stuff not only moved, but actually got wrapped around itself where jelly point B got into the position of jelly point D while D is still attached to E and B is still attached to A. How could you conceivably tie jelly into a knot resulting in altered densities?
The knots only keep the waves going round and round, and aren't relevant to gravity. This is why I talked about the photon rather than the electron: energy causes gravity, not matter. And it's the opposite of a compression wave, it pushes outwards rather than inwards. The surrounding space is affected by the "knot", but that takes us into electromagnetism rather than gravity.James S Saint wrote:It seems that it would have to be the waves themselves that form the "knot". But if that is the case (and I'm certain that it is) then why would the surrounding space be affected at all other than the vibrations of the waves within the knot? In effect, you are proposing a scenario of a compression wave of jelly being twisted in such a way that it not only persists in a consistent shape and location that compresses the jelly, but causes the surrounding jelly to be less dense (decompressed) throughout time.
See above re waves and knots. You never see a wave on the sea that's a just a trough, and we don't see negative-energy waves propagating through space. There is nothing real that is negative energy. People talk about holes in this context, but that's when there's nothing there, rather than something there. You'd need a "hole in space" for this, and as far as I know, there aren't any. Hence no anti-gravity. But artificial gravity is feasible. If you can create a strong artificial gravity field above your head, up you go. That's effectively anti-gravity.James S Saint wrote:But then why not a knot that decompresses rather than compresses? Wouldn't such an occurrence cause anti-gravity; a compression of the surrounding jelly-space that pushes other such "objects" away? Wouldn't the anti-gravity objects adhere and perhaps annihilate the gravity objects? Has there ever been any witness to any actual anti-gravity particle for even the shortest time?
Sorry James, I just don't know.James S Saint wrote:Of course, the bigger question would very soon become, "How did this jelly-space ever come to be?"
Farsight wrote:Sorry James, I just don't know.
True, there's always a trough to go with the peak. But the wave conveys positive energy. I don't know of any waves that convey negative energy.James S Saint wrote:You never see a mere positive wave of water either (one of those illusions). And that was my point.
It is rather unique "stuff", and we can only clutch at analogies to try to describe it in an intuitively understandable way. I'm confident however that charge isn't "compression" and "decompression". Take a pair of charged particles, one positive, one negative, and they still cause gravity.James S Saint wrote:I also thought for a while in terms of Einstein's rubber sheet, but found it to be a tempting but misleading notion. My theory was that it is electric charge that is the compression and decompression (negative = decompression), gravity is due to something entirely different, and the "jelly-stuff" is actually more of a truly homogeneous compressed gas (although no real particles within - I call it "affectance" for metaphysical reasons), thus no inexplicable semi-fixed strands getting stretched, no "rubber sheets".
I agree with your sentiment, though perhaps for a different reason. What's a 45 degree impedance spiral?James S Saint wrote:Gravity can never have a negative because a reversed 45 degree impedance spiral is still a 45 degree impedance spiral. There is no negative to the existence of a 45 degree impedance spiral. You either have one or you don't. But that is within a different explanation.
Farsight wrote:Take a pair of charged particles, one positive, one negative, and they still cause gravity.
Farsight wrote:What's a 45 degree impedance spiral?
Scouts honour James, energy causes gravity, not particles. As an illustration, in The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity on page 185 of Doc 30, Einstein says "the energy of the gravitational field shall act gravitatively in the same way as any other kind of energy". You don't need particles to cause gravity. There doesn't even have to be any motion, all you need is a non-uniform energy distribution.James S Saint wrote:Particles always cause gravity and as you point out, it really is due to the energy spinning within. Inertia, gravity, and magnetism are all aberrant effects of that inner motion. But now how do you propose to support the notion that a static charge field (no particle participation) will cause a gravity field?
I don't quite see the spin like this, but nevermind, I understand what you mean and concur with the sentiment.James S Saint wrote:A photon, for example, has a spin in one plane only, thus allowing free flight along its axle (no forward inertia). But now imagine that you are standing as an extremely small being exactly beside that spinning beast. You would have to sense the effect of a positive wave or peak of EM passing near and then very quickly reversing as the spin led the negative wave near. If you had any charge to you at all, you would no doubt be shaken to bits at the speed of light vibrating and rattling your brains in a gamma frequency.
Agreed.James S Saint wrote:But now, if you step back just a bit, the sense of the effect lessens of course. Necessarily what you feel in your new position will be slightly delayed from the true position of the waves within the spinning photon. There will be a phase shift. The further out you go, the more shift there will be.
Understood. I've described the photon as a distortion in a cubic lattice. When you step back the distortion reduces. Step back again, and the distortion reduces further. But distortion is what the photon is. Or if it's passing you: vibration. Yes, I understand what you mean, and agree with the sense of it.James S Saint wrote:The prior traveling wave (and thus energy) concerns led to the belief that the effect of what you would feel from that spinning could not exist at all else energy would be leaving the photon. But that is where the error was. The wave you would feel does not represent an energy propagation (for more technical reasons). The vibrations that you would feel radiating from the photon (or any particle) will be reversing at the rate of the spin which is at the speed of light. But also they are emerging from the particle at the same speed of light (necessarily exactly identical). What that means is the the phase shifting that you sense will be exactly 45 degrees with respect to the distance away from the particle you move.
Their motion is altered.James S Saint wrote:Visually, if you plot the wave fronts, what you would see is a 45 degree spiral wave pattern centered on the particle. Now, forgiving the confusion that I haven't explained yet concerning the energy question, think about the facts that every particle (and every formed mass) is made of that same spinning EM and every particle is causing that same spiral wave front around it. What happens to the particles as they experience the wave fronts of each other?
I'm afraid I can't agree with this James. I rather feel that this isn't gravity you're describing here, it's electromagnetism.James S Saint wrote:Close examination will show that there is an impedance effect that slows the spin within that is closer to the other particle. But there will be less effect on the opposite side. That causes roll and positional shift much like a bicycle tire just beginning to touch the ground as it spins. The interesting thing is that the wave fronts are at exactly 45 degrees because due to that, the roll and positional shift will be exactly straight toward the other particle - exactly. It doesn't matter in which direction the spin might be occurring at any one moment. The spins will shift and compensate due to impedances and always align themselves such as to cause the same positional influenced shift. It doesn't matter how many different directions the waves are coming from, the particles spin immediately compensates (nothing to prevent it) such as to head the particle toward the averaged field direction, the "center of mass". This compensating spin must necessarily take place simply because there is nothing to prevent the EM spin from adjusting to the variance in impedance. Gravity MUST take place, because you cannot stop their spin nor control the direction of their spin while they are under the influence of each other. And trying to reverse the effect is logically impossible. The best you could accomplish would be to magically remove the effect, but there is no reversing of it.
Agreed. Though I'd say that standard model is relatively benign compared to some other imaginings. With an understanding of the underlying reality, such as "quarks are loops", IMHO it can be improved and even completed. Whether this would mean it's no longer the standard model, I can't say.James S Saint wrote:As to the energy question. That is a longer and deeper story and is why metaphysics must be understood before physicists go off wild in their imaginings of "strangeness, bottemness, topness, charm, flavor, colour, strong, weak", and whatever forces and properties.
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Dear Jim, Thank you and the XML Query WG for your detailed review [1] of RIF Datatypes and Builtins. We appreciate the time you put in, finding weaknesses and errors in our draft. Our responses to your comments are inline below. It would be most helpful if you could let us know very soon whether you find these responses satisfactory. (If you are satisfied, we can go ahead and publish as Candidate Recommendation immediately. Best case, we could publish on Thursday October 1.) Our wiki has the latest version (including the changes made in response to your comments): http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/DTB and a diff of those changes: http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/index.php?title=DTB&diff=11377&oldid=11060 > The XML Query WG has completed its review of > > RIF Datatypes and > Built-Ins 1.0 and has developed some comments. Please note that > Sharon and I initially agreed to submit the XML Query WG's comments and > the XSL WG's comments jointly, but my WG objected on the grounds that > they had not yet seen the XSL WG's comments and did not want to wait for > them. Consequently, Sharon will submit the XSL WG's comments > separately whenever they are ready. > > > <comments> > > > 1) Thanks for giving us the opportunity to review this > document. We were very pleased to see that you have based much of > this spec on the Functions and Operators specification that we developed, > as well as on the XML Schema Part 2 Datatypes spec on which we also > depend. There are other W3C WGs whose documents made use of the > F&O functions, but redefined the functions instead of incorporating > them by reference. Your approach is manifestly appropriate. > Thanks! We were glad to be able to reuse so much of your work. (I expect our users and implementors will be glad, too. Several implementors have said they plan to re-use xpath libraries.) > 2) We are slightly concerned by the fact that you state in the Overview > that "A large part of the definitions of the listed functions and > operators are adopted from [XPath-Functions]," but that you define a > different namespace > ( > http://www.w3.org/2007/rif-builtin-function#) for the functions > instead of using the defined namespace > ( > http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions) of those functions that have > been adopted. > > We note that Section 4 uses the word > "adapted" instead of "adopted", which has > significantly different connotations. We have concluded from > additional text in the document that "adapted" is the word that > you intended to use and recommend that you resolve the discrepancy by > correcting the Overview. We believe "adapted" is the more accurate term here, and have changed the document to reflect this. At the end of section 4 (just before 4.1) we added this clarifying sentence: "The differences from the original [XPath-Functions] include the handling of errors, the differentiation between predicates and functions, and a few specific differences noted in the definitions below." The different namespace URIs are intended to allow for these changes, and are also to save users from having to remember which RIF functions are xpath functions and which are xpath operators (for which RIF would have to provide a namespace, since xpath does not) or new RIF functions. (RIF does not have the function/operator distinction.) > 3) In section 2.2.1, we read the statement "since xs:duration does > not have a well-defined value space." We believe that > mischaracterizes the rationale for the creation of the types > xs:dayTimeDuration and xs:yearMonthDuration. The rationale is > actually that the xs:duration data type is not fully ordered, while the > two types derived from xs:duration are fully ordered. It is > unlikely that XML Schema will be able to redefine xs:duration in a way > that is both compatible and fully ordered. It looks like this comment about xs:duration in our draft was based on the XSD 1.0 defintion. As you suggest, it may have been fixed in XSD 1.1. We have decided not to add it, however, since we already agreed to have the same datatypes as OWL 2, which is already at Proposed Recommendation. We have removed the now-incorrect explanation you cite. > 4) Also, in section 2.2.1, since xs:dateTimeStamp is taken from XSD 1.1, > it would also make sense to take xs:dayTimeDuration and > xs:yearMonthDuration from XSD 1.1, rather than from XDM. The definitions > are equivalent by design. (This also affects section 2.3.) We would rather avoid this change, at this point, because it would increase the risky dependency on XSD 1.1. The OWL WG was recently delayed because of such a dependency, and is left with the awkward work-around you see here: http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-owl2-overview-20090922/#sotd-xml-dep If XSD 1.1 makes it to PR before RIF, we can make this change at that point. > 5) > > In section 2.3, the type hierarchy for integer subtypes > appears to be incorrect. unsignedLong should not be a subtype of > positiveInteger (because it allows the value zero). Also the prefix > "xs:" is included or omitted indiscriminately. Thanks for catching this; it's fixed now. > 6) In section 4.3, we learn that "Itruth Iexternal( ?arg1; > pred:is-literal-not-DATATYPE ( ?arg1 ) )(s1) = t if and only if s1 is in > the value space of one of the datatypes in > < > http://www.w3.org/TR/rif-dtb/#sec-data-types>DTS but not in the > value space of the datatype with shortname DATATYPE, and f > otherwise." We believe that means that the predicate > pred:is-literal-not-integer returns f if the value of its argument is not > in the value space of any datatype in DTS! If that is true, then it > is highly misleading, because returning false implies that the value is a > literal of type integer. We recommend that you reconsider this > definition so that the predicate returns true when the value is either > (a)not in the value space of any datatype in DTS or (b)is in the value > space of some data type in DTS but not in the value space of the > specified datatype. We believe the definition as given is correct, but that the intended meaning of negative guards was not clear. We have added this note to the end of section 4.3: "Note: The semantics of negative guards may be surprising. The is-literal-not-String guard essentially asks, "Is this a literal, and (if it is) is it something other than a String?" It could also be read as "Is this a decimal or a float or a double or a date or a dateTime, etc, [for every datatype except string] ?". The negative guards are formulated like this to allow for rules which detect, for instance, some kinds of bad inputs, while still using the open world assumption of some RIF dialects." Hopefully, that's detailed enough to show that the definition is correct. A more-detailed explanation of why we can't provide is-not-String seems out-of-scope for this document. > 7) In section 4.4.1, we discovered the trivial typographical error > "funcitons". We also noticed the trivial typographical > error "ab" (should be "an"). Fixed, thanks. > 8) In section 4.5.1, Numeric functions, it is not clear whether functions > such as func:numeric-add accept arguments of mixed type (e.g. integer > plus double). Although neither sections 1.3, 1.4 and 6.2 of > Functions and Operators nor appendix B of XPath 2.0 are wonderfully clear > on the point, our reading is that the underlying function > op:numeric-add() does not accept mixed arguments; rather, when the XPath > "+" operator is applied to an integer and a double, the integer > is promoted to a double and the function op:numeric-add(double, double) > is called. The operator accepts mixed-type arguments, but the underlying > function does not. (Others may disagree with this reading, as it really > isn't 100% clear.) Thanks for pointing out this omission. We have added text requiring types be promoted in RIF, in the Mapping part of section 4.5.1. > 9) Section 18.104.22.168. Note that for reasons that are entirely > paternalistic, the fn:concat() function requires two or more arguments. > Also, the reference to xs:anyAtomicType seems odd: this abstract type > doesn't seem to be present in RIF. Okay, we've gone with two-or-more, and removed anyAtomicType. > 10) Section 4.11: We suspect there is a fourth difference between RIF > Lists and XPath sequences: in RIF, there is no equivalence between an > atomic value and a singleton list containing that value. (Otherwise, > pred:is-list() would be meaningless). Fixed, thanks. > 11) Section 4.11.1. Is it wise to number positions in a list starting > from zero, while numbering characters within a string (for example, in > the substring() function) from 1? We think this inconsistency will > confuse your readers and users. We struggled with this some more today, but decided to leave indexing as is. It's a really infortunate situation, and we can't see any way forward which wont confuse users. Given that lists are substantially different from xpath sequences, well, hopefully people will understand and tolerate this approach. > 12) Section 220.127.116.11: There is no function fn:union. The link is to > op:union, but the RIF function is essentially unrelated to op:union, as > it is defined on atomic values rather than nodes. Same applies to > 220.127.116.11 fn:intersect and 18.104.22.168 fn:except. XPath contains no > functions to manipulate sequences of atomic values in this way: such > functions can easily be written by users as explained in F+O appendix > E.2. Our sense was that this difference was within the wiggle-room of "adapted from", but I guess we could change it to "inspired by" or "contrast with", if you think that's important. We did want to highlight the fact that xpath does have something with the same name. > 13) Section 184.108.40.206: it's not clear what "in the same order" > means. Order of first appearance, perhaps? Fixed, thanks. > 14) In various places in section 4, we read phrases such as "the > value of the function is unspecified". The discussion early in > section 4 of that term states that implementations are free to do as they > wish, including returning either true or false, as well as aborting > evaluation of the containing expression/query. In the specs for > which we are responsible, as well as some well-known international > standards, the term "implementation-dependent" is used for the > same purpose. You might consider the use of that term instead. Thanks, I agree with you on this, but the group hasn't had a chance to talk it through. I'd like to let addressing this wait until the next round. > 15) Near the beginning of section 2.3 and in Appendix 6, we see three > places where an unexpected character (a hollow square box) appears. There is a community, including some of our editors, who use that box to signal the end of a formal definition. Personally, I find it confusing, and would prefer we use some CSS styling to set off the definition. 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Okay so I think that the thought of football season coming to an end tickled my fancy. The thought of having our nights back and being able to just maybe get a few things done was a good one. The thought of not having 6 practices (3 per boy) a week and 2 games was nice.
Those thoughts slipped away while sitting at the playoff games for both boys.
Zach's game was last Saturday afternoon, I watched him tackle his heart out and get the chance to catch a touchdown pass (if only I would have had the camera prepared!!!). This was a huge deal because all season he has been playing offensive and defensive tackle (he hardly gets a break during the game) but after practice one night the coach was just waiting for parents and throwing the ball around and noticed that Zach has some great talent. They made a play just for Zach and taught the entire team late in the season so he could do this. He was successful and no joke his reaction was absolutely priceless!!! They won the game 21-14. Way to go!
Caleb's game was tonight at PG High School. The team was pumped. We were playing strong the other team scored first but the team stopped them from getting their extra point. We were able to score shortly after and get the extra point. The score was 7-6. We dominated the game from then on. No score was made but the way they held the team was awesome. Caleb had about 15 great tackles. Way to go!
So here comes another week of Football...both boys are going to the Super Bowl! I am so excited for them. They both love this sport and are pumped. Zach's game is Saturday and Caleb plays next week. So the blue and white, Viking Pride can't be put to sleep for another week. It is nights like this that I need to remember so when I have afternoons when the boys are complaining about having to go to practice or not being able to find the second cleat, I can remember it is all worth it!


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A heart murmur is a sound made by blood moving through the chambers
and valves of the heart or through the blood vessels near the heart. The sounds
can be heard through a stethoscope.
Heart murmurs are common in infants and children and are harmless
in most cases. The murmurs usually are not a problem, require no treatment, and
go away on their own. Pregnancy, fever, and some types of anemia can also lead
to temporary heart murmurs. But some adults have harmless heart murmurs that do
not go away.
A heart murmur may sometimes mean there is a more serious problem
with the heart walls or heart valves, such as narrowing or leaking of a heart
valve (stenosis or regurgitation) or an infection of a heart valve
(endocarditis). These problems can cause blood to flow abnormally through the
heart valves or chambers, causing a murmur or other sound that the doctor can
hear with the stethoscope. These conditions require close monitoring and may
require treatment.
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After seeing off the Dutch last week, England are going for back-to-back wins as they host Italy at Wembley tonight for the second friendly of the international break.
Catch all the action here, with coverage from 7:30pm followed by an 8pm kick-off!
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We're entering the final stretch ahead of the World Cup 2018 with preparations continuing this evening as the Lions travel to Amsterdam for a friendly against the Netherlands.
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This year hails the 170th annual running of the Grand National, the biggest National Hunt race of the year. The excitement is building with an estimated quarter of the UK adult population having a flutter so if you can't make it to Aintree, why not watch it in your local pub or bar and cheer…


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On the Smashing Magazine site today there's a new post with an interesting perspective on how writing code (regardless of the language) is similar to writing poetry - a more human spin on something generally thought of as logical and restrictive.
That's an interesting metaphor. Recently, I've written about the different languages used by designers and developers, and also about the relationship between these coding languages and proper human language (specifically, English). As someone who graduated from university with a degree in English Literature and came to Web design in a roundabout way, this kind of thinking has always interested me.
He starts at a high level looking at a superficial similarity in how they're structured on the page and how they can use just the things they need to get their point across. He also talks about the bad code/bad poetry similarities and how purpose, meaning and structure all come into play.
Be sure to check out the great comments for more thoughts on the subject.


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Solutions for that weighty issue
The dreaded 'How to get your summer body back' headline: it's back in full force as we move into the warmer months - perhaps with some extra weight around our middles from one-too-many pizza and pasta nights by the heater.
The best way for that 'summer bod' to return? Not to let it go in the first place, said GP Jill Gamberg of Double Bay Doctors.
Get moving
"Take advantage of gyms offering specials to get more bodies in the gym in winter," Gamberg said. If a past gym membership saw you being a no-show and throwing money down the drain, consider a personal trainer. "This investment may be just the incentive you need."
If the cost of this is too steep, there are now so many free or inexpensive workout plans available, Gamberg said.
"Join an online fitness program, download a fitness app, or follow someone on social media who creates programs you can follow in the comfort of your own home; [in this space] you will also find like-minded people who encourage you to set goals."
New training gear and setting a goal for spring – be it signing up for a marathon or upcoming charity walk - or booking a summer holiday can help motivate you to move your body, Gamberg said.
Don't have a dog to force you to take that walk?
"Get yourself a training partner," Gamberg suggested. "Nothing helps get you out of bed in the morning or turn up for your activity like being accountable to someone, for fear of letting them down."
Get outside
Sunlight exposure, due to its impact on brain chemicals like serotonin, the 'feel-good' neurotransmitter, can help prevent Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) - a depression that is most common in winter, Gamberg said.
"Symptoms include low energy, low mood, difficulty sleeping, appetite changes, and loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed" – all of which can contribute to winter weight gain.
"See your doctor if you think you are experiencing any of these symptoms," Gamberg said. And make a point of exercising outdoors while the sun is out.
Rethink your food
"Keeping the winter weight off does not just involve keeping active; you also have to consider your daily diet," Gamberg said, suggesting keeping a food journal.
"This can help you [really] see what you are eating and keep you accountable.
"People love soups and stews in the colder months but making healthier versions is key. Stick to tomato or vegetable-based dishes instead of butter, flour, or cream-based ones. Protein will help keep you full for longer; legumes, eggs, chicken or fish are good options," Gamberg said, adding that satiating good fats like nuts and avocado, and filling fibre-rich whole grains are also important.
"Stay away from high calorie, highly processed, nutrient-poor foods which are often high in sugar and just put on the weight. A good rule of thumb is to avoid any packaged foods with more than five ingredients" – especially if they're ones you don't recognise.
"Staying well in winter and keeping the extra weight off [doesn't have to be] difficult and may require only a little extra effort on your part," Gamberg said.
Ultimately, "your goals for a healthy body should remain the same at every time of year." No excuses.
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Sacred Heart film program starts rolling in Stamford
Sacred Heart University's new classes in television and film meet in downtown Stamford facility
STAMFORD -- With a hint of fresh paint still hanging in the air, 12 graduate students gathered around a rather plain set of desks recently in Sacred Heart University's new downtown facility. Soon their discussion filled the room with visual imagery -- a bus plowing into a distraught protagonist, a mother and daughter arguing over making tomato sauce in the family kitchen. A single mother learning she has terminal cancer.
These are people who think in scenes and dig into the nuances of dialogue. They are the first class in SHU's Film and Television master's program offered at 3 Landmark square. Some of the 24 students are going straight into the program after earning undergraduate degrees. Some have been in the business and looking to expand their skills and some are returning to school after working in other fields to pursue a passion they've always had for film. The program is still getting equipment delivered in to SHU's new facility, which is in its inaugural year.
Recently, Visiting Professor Justin Liberman was leading half the class as they pitched ideas for short films.
Liberman, a seasoned teacher, is active in the industry today, with a lengthy list of shorts to his credit and several mentorships with directorial luminaries including Michael Mann.
He kicked off the class reading poems and how to convey character.
"Don't get cute," he reminded the students several times. Later he explained he doesn't want the students to get anchored to an idea, he wants them to go beyond the concept as they explore their topics. He also wants them to understand they are obligated as dramatists to get at the truth, which means recognizing and moving beyond what's proper and polite at times.
As an example, he talked about First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's reaction on the day her husband President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, describing how different people portrayed her actions that day. The nice people, the kind people, saw the first lady's scream and scramble onto the back of the convertible limousine as an attempt to go for help, he said.
But then there was comedian Lenny Bruce, who saw it differently, describing it as a human being scared out of her mind "hauling ass to save her ass."
Wednesday's class involved half the students in the program. Their assignment was to come up with ideas for a short film of 5 minutes or so and then pitch the idea to the rest of the group.
Natalie Malizia volunteered to go first, offering up a piece about an Italian mother and daughter making tomato sauce.
Liberman and Malizia discussed what the story is really about. Possibly a conflict between modern and traditional ways of life and how you visually tell that story.
He described subtext in dialogue, pulling up a scene from the new movie Prisoners to demonstrate how subtext conveys a meaning apart from the actual words said. In that example, one character smiles and tells another, "Let me do my job," with Liberman pointing out the message underneath this innocuous statement is "back off."
The point is to tell the conflict without expressly saying it.
During the discussion, Liberman also provided a tip for moviegoers, noting that a character in just about every film who says "I'm a good guy is definitely not a good guy."
The students warmed up to the exercise as the class progressed. Some brought more than one idea and the class voted on which one they liked. During one exchange, a student suggests having a distraught protagonist get struck by a bus to demonstrate life is too short to waste on pining for a woman who has betrayed you.
"The world's shortest movie," Liberman called it.
A key concept, Liberman said, during the discussion is understanding when a story is too internal. In two successive pitches, students offered choices between very introspective stories, rife with internal conflict, contrasted against story lines with external conflicts.
Julie Robinson, a Bridgeport resident, offered several ideas, with the two strongest about an orphan longing to be adopted while also attempting to avoid being abused. Her other story was about a single mother of four who learns she has terminal cancer and must prepare her family for the day she won't be there.
Liberman explained the first story was too internal and would be difficult to show the audience, while scenes immediately jump to mind for the other -- leaving a doctor's office crying, phone calls, dinner with a love interest.
Each student left the class with a more focused project, Liberman said. From there they will continue to work on it and eventually, produce the shorts.
After a year in the program, the students should all leave with experience in script writing and techniques they will need for television and films.
The hope for the program is ultimately greater than turning out great filmmakers, according to Liberman. He wants the program and what it does to become a center for people to explore the art of film. As envisioned, the SHU program will provide screenings and lectures open to the public.


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I was looking through Fearnet.com and saw that they were playing this movie. It made me remember how much I liked it. I went through a stage where I was watching a lot of English/Irish films. Dog Soldiers and Wilderness were a few others. As I have stated before, Dog Soldiers is my very favorite Werewolf movie. Seven Days To Live is like an English version of The Shining. Is it as good as The Shining, no... not really, but it is very entertaining. The theme is different, but the overall sense of the movie is the same. The funny thing is that the woman who plays the wife looks a lot like Shelley Duvall from The Shining. You should check out the trailer below and give this movie a shot... I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
In an old house on the edge of a secluded swampland somewhere in Northern Europe a young woman and her husband try to start a new life after the tragic death of their son. Before they have even settled in, the woman begins receiving eerie messages counting down the days until her death.
Sean Pertwee
Having watched Sean Pertwee in Dog Soldiers, I really became a fan of his work. I've seen four of his movies and all have been well done and highly entertaining. In Seven Days To Live, Pertwee plays the husband who decides to make a move to an old house out in the country after the tragic death of his son. After a few days the wife begins to get "messages" that she only has seven days to live. At first, she doesn't think anything of it, but after a few days, she begins to get scared. Pertwee plays a role very similar to Jack Nicholson in The Shining. He just thinks shes still suffering from the loss of their child, but then he begins to change and act more angry and hateful. This is a good movie and one I can recommend. Give it a try!
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
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I was looking through Fearnet.com and saw that they were playing this movie. It made me remember how much I liked it. I went through a stage where I was watching a lot of English/Irish films. Dog Soldiers and Wilderness were a few others. As I have stated before, Dog Soldiers is my very favorite Werewolf movie. Seven Days To Live is like an English version of The Shining. Is it as good as The Shining, no... not really, but it is very entertaining. The theme is different, but the overall sense of the movie is the same. The funny thing is that the woman who plays the wife looks a lot like Shelley Duvall from The Shining. You should check out the trailer below and give this movie a shot... I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
WE have been on a role the past few weeks with our horror selections. It didn't start off that well with the disappointment of The Broken, but other than that... we have seen 7 decent horror movies with Perkin's 14 and The Butterfly Effect 3:Revelations being the best of the bunch so far.
Which brings us to our latest movie, Splinter. I have to admit that the beginning had a hillbilly, Wrong Turn feel within the first few minutes of the movie. Couple that with the geeky/nerd boyfriend, I thought this movie is going to be a waste of time. However, when we are introduced to the escaped convict, that is when it gets interesting. To be fair, the film kicks into high gear within the first 10 to 15 minutes and really is quite good. The convict character played by Shea Whigham was an interesting study as you move through the film. Not just your average hoodlum. The movie turned out to be very well done and the "creature" that has them trapped in the gas station is an interesting mix of parasite/zombieish, blood sucking, body consuming monster. We get quick flashes of the creature throughout, but not too overdone in my opinion. We learn that the parasite is transmitted through the creatures splinters and it takes over the body. Check out the trailer below and give this one a try!
Toby Wilkins
Shea Whigham
Paulo Costanzo
Jill Wagner
Charles Baker
Rachel Kerbs
Laurel Whitsett
Kidnapped by an escaped convict (Shea Whigham) and his young accomplice (Rachel Kerbs), Seth Belzer (Paulo Costanzo) and Polly Watt (Jill Wagner) are thrust into the fight of their lives when the four of them become the prey of a bloodthirsty splinter parasite. Trapped inside an abandoned gas station, the foursome is forced to band together to thwart the monster's vicious attacks and make it out alive.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The Burrowers (2008)
A horror western... I always find unusual pairings of genres rather interesting. I really do appreciate writers and directors thinking "out of the box". I do hate that business style saying, but it does get the point across. The Burrowers is a western set in 1879 in the Dakotas. A family goes missing and it presumed to be an Indian attack. A posse is set up that includes some area men and the military. The military captain is dead set on finding the Indians responsible and getting the family back. Along the way the towns men are not so sure that Indians are really to blame. The towns men end up separating from the military and going off on their own to find the family. What I really liked about the movie is that you do not see exactly what the burrowers look like till the end of the movie. You are shown quick flashes of them, but nothing definitive. The story moves well and the acting is good. Plenty of tension and gory to satisfy the horror fan.
Clancy Brown
Clancy Brown is an actor who I have really grown to appreciate his work. I first saw him in Shawshank Redemption (one of my all-time favorite movies!)as the "mean" prison guard Captain Hadley. His work spans movie, TV, and animation voice overs. He does a very good job in this movie as one of the towns men in search of the missing family. Because of his deep voice and 6'3" frame, he is usually cast as a villain, but in this movie he is one of the good guys. The Burrowers is a good, entertaining movie and well worth a watch in my book. Check out the trailer below!
When the men on a pioneer homestead are brutally murdered and the women and children go missing, a posse sets out to find them, assuming they've been abducted by Indians. But the truth turns out to be much more horrific. As they find more bodies, it soon becomes clear that something from beneath the ground is brutally attacking humans. Clancy Brown, William Mapother and Sean Patrick Thomas star in this horror film set in the Wild West.
J.T. Petty
Doug Hutchison
William Mapother
Karl Geary
Laura Leighton
Seri DeYoung
Clancy Brown
Sean Patrick Thomas
Jocelin Donahue
David Busse
Brighid Fleming
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations
The "Butterfly Effect" is an interesting concept in the horror/Sci-Fi genre. I liked the first one with Aston Kutcher a lot. The whole idea that someone has the ability to go back in time and "fix" something is really fascinating. The only catch to that gift is you usually make things worse. That is the case in Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations. These movies require you to really think and follow the storyline carefully, because everything ties together at the end. The story revolves around a young man who is trying to figure out who killed his girlfriend and try and catch the killer. However, every time he goes back, someone else dies and the police believe he is responsible... a serial killer. This was a very entertaining movie and well thought out. Once you "learn" the truth, the ending is no secret. However, you do not learn the truth till the last few minutes of the movie. I thought the ending (last scene in the movie) was very cool. It let you know that all is not peaceful and harmonious. I didn't see the second Butterfly Effect because it didn't get good reviews on Netflix. This movie, I can highly recommend... especially if you liked the first one. Check out the trailer below and give this one a shot!
When he discovers that he has the ability to travel through time, teenager Sam Reed (Chris Carmack) uses his newfound power to unravel the mystery surrounding his girlfriend's (Rachel Miner) untimely death. Despite his noble intentions, Chris inadvertently disrupts the space-time continuum and unleashes the wrath of a psychopathic serial killer. Directed by Seth Grossman, this sci-fi thriller also stars Daniel Spink and Richard Wilkinson
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Dying Breed...
We are in the middle of an 8 Movies To Die For mini marathon. This is the fourth movie we've watched and it was pretty creepy, twisted, gory, and sick... so yes, we liked it! Perkin's 14 and Dying Breed are to good movies, and considering the entire series over the past three years has not been all that great... these two were pleasant surprises. It is so much like Wrong Turn and the other cannibalistic hillbilly movies that have been around for a while. I wouldn't say it is as good as Wrong Turn, but it was entertaining. Typical theme and storyline... nothing great or original here. The problem with this series is that we have come to expect the majority of these movies to be crap, that when a few are actually "pretty" good, we are pleased... low expectations, is a sad reality with this series. There is a fair amount of tension and a large amount of gore. The beginning sets up the true reason for this secret "society" that lives in the jungle of Australia. For so many years this society lived off tourist that wandering in the jungle. Will the light finally come to this deep woods cannibalistic "tribe"? You will have to see the movie. Check out the trailer below and see if it interests you! I think it will.
Eight years ago, Nina's (Mirrah Foulkes) sister disappeared in the Australian backcountry while searching for the mythical Tasmanian tiger. With only one clue -- a photograph of a mysterious paw print -- in hand, Nina sets out to continue her sister's work. But something else awaits Nina and her team: cannibalistic descendents of a 19th-century psycho known as "the Pieman." Leigh Whannell (Saw) and Nathan Phillips co-star in this savage thriller.
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
Perkins' 14 (2009)
This movie actually had a good storyline. Tension and gore made for an entertaining movie. It was a little slow at times, but that seemed to add to the tension and suspense. Another of the 8 Movies To Die For and this one did not disappoint. It was visually dark and creepy. The acting was very good for the most part for relatively unknown actors. We have seen 3 of this series so far and this one was actually worth watching. There's a lot of tragedy in this story because of the kidnapping of young children. The main character has had his young son kidnapped 10 years earlier and this has effected his marriage and his job. As a police officer, he tried to find his son with no luck. The 14 children who were kidnapped were presumed dead. However, there was a more sinister plot to the kidnappings. Check out the trailer below and give this one a shot.
Unbalanced by the brutal murder of his parents, Robert Perkins (Richard Brake) kidnaps 14 people from a nearby town and brainwashes them into serving as his band of psychotic bodyguards -- who'll stop at nothing to protect their master. When Perkins's antics land him behind bars, the "Perkins 14" snap and unleash a horrifying reign of terror on the people of Stone Cove.
Patrick O'Kane as Dwayne Hopper
Shayla Beesley as Daisy Hopper
Mihaela Mihut as Janine Hopper
Michale Graves as Eric Ross
Gregory O'Connor as Grodsky
Katherine Pawlak as Felicity
Richard Brake as Robert Perkins
Craig Robert Young as Mitch James
Trey Farley as Scott
CJ Singer as Kyle Hopper
Sean Farragher as Pete
Josh Davidson as The Stranger
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Autopsy (2008)
We watched this movie the other night. I had been looking forward to seeing it after looking at the trailer. The trailer looked awesome! However, the movie was just OK for me. There are a few other movies that it reminded me of, Room 6 being one. The movie was graphic and bloody, but it just didn't stand out in my mind. While it was an entertaining movie, it seemed like so many other "crazy" hospital movies that have come down the pike over the years. Robert Patrick plays the "mad" doctor of the hospital and is doing surgery on the victims so that he can save his dying wife's life. The hospital we find out has been closed for several years and being used by Patrick for his madness. The movie had some tension and definitely gore. It was entertaining and I would recommend giving it a watch if you have lower expectations. Check out the trailer below and see what you think!
The film is about a group of friends that go to a punk concert. One of them is hit over the head with a bottle. Before his girlfriend can call for help, a 1950's ambulance arrives. They are taken to a strange hospital where the injured friend is. The plot centers on their search for their friend in the old hospital where inhumane experiments are being done on the living patients. The tag line, "Autopsy; Not just for the dead anymore" pretty much sums it up.
Robert Patrick
Jenette Goldstein
Michael Bowen
Robert LaSardo
Ross McCall
Jessica Lowndes
Ashley Schneider
Joe Reegan
Ross Kohn
Eric F. Adams
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
House (2008)
We watched this movie last night. I had seen the trailer and thought the movie looked very intense. It's based on a "Christan" novel by Ted Dekker. Why it is considered a "Christan" novel? I don't know, except for the "good verses evil" theme and a brief mention of "light conquering darkness", other than that, who knows. I would imagine the book is much more involved and therefore the "Christan" theme is more obvious. Anyway... The "House" is supposed attract the "guilty", for them to confront their guilt. As the synopsis below states, a troubled married couple gets in a car accident and walks to an old looking inn. There's another couple there who also had car problems. After several minutes, the proprietors of the inn show up and they are creepy. The movie moves very quickly and smoothly. Every character gets an ample amount of screen time to develop their character and give us insight on their "guilt". Michael Madsen is in this movie and plays a major character, but does not have a lot of screen time compared to the others. The "evil" wants to two couples to suffer for their sins and is trying to get them to kill each other as they roam through the house trying to escape. Some of the CGI elements in the film are a little campy, but overall effective. The tension and darkness of the movie kept me in to it throughout, but I thoroughly enjoyed the ending. Not really the most original movie... many elements I have seen before... even the ending. However, it was very entertaining and a well made movie. Check out the trailer below. Also, if you click on the title, it will send you to the movies website. Check it out!
Trying to recover from the nearly marriage-breaking stress following the death of their child, Jack (Reynaldo Rosales) and Stephanie (Heidi Dippold) spontaneously take off on a road trip. But when their car breaks down in a remote area, they find themselves in a horrific nightmare. Seeking shelter in a house, they soon realize that more danger lurks inside than outside in this spine-chiller based on Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti's best-seller.
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Monday, April 6, 2009
The Brøken (2008)
Movies that try to be too "smart" really annoy me. This movie had so much promise. It actually kept your interest and all the way through you thought your questions would be answered at the end... did not happen! It's one thing for a movie to leave you guessing a little at the end because there may be a sequel, but this one left you wondering what EVERYTHING was about. The concept is interesting... a woman sees someone riding in a vehicle similar to hers and the woman looks just like her. Strange events begin to happen after that to make the woman question everything. She's in a very bad car accident and can't remember much about it except for a few short nightmares she has. This is where the movie has many bazaar events that are very creepy. Without giving too much information, she thinks her boyfriend is NOT her boyfriend because he has begun to act strangely. There's a fair amount of tension and a little gore to add to the mix, but the ending leaves you very flat. I wanted to like this movie, but I just couldn't. I needed answers as to the why and how of it and they were not given. I would stay away from this one. It is part of this years 8 Movies To Die For and I hope the others are better. This was the first one I've watched... and I feel "Broken".
From the very first moment Gina (Lena Headey) spots a woman who looks exactly like her driving down a busy London street, reality ceases to exist as she knows it. Tailing her doppelganger, Gina finds herself immersed in a surreal landscape of mind-bending nightmares and inexplicable events. Written and directed by Sean Ellis, this disturbing tale also stars Richard Jenkins and Asier Newman.
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Lately, my son has gotten tired of the same-ol' beans and cereal day in and day out. I don't blame him. That's nearly all he has eaten for 2 solid years. Add to that the fact that he seems moderately allergic to beans, as well as the facts that we are a vegetarian family, and that he is allergic to eggs and dairy and nuts, and, well, you have a problem.
That is, a protein problem. Granted, grains like quinoa and amaranth are complete proteins, as is hemp, which he drinks every day (but not a lot, because it's expensive). But he doesn't get quinoa and amaranth every day. And I don't want to give him the same foods every day, because that will just make him more susceptible to sensitivities to them.
So I've been working on new ways to fix his food. Of course, cooking a batch of cream of rice or amaranth or millet cereal in the morning and adding several cubes of pre-cooked and frozen beans is very simple and easy, but I always knew I would eventually have to start actually cooking and baking for him. Well, the time has come.
The first grain to get changed into something other than cereal was Teff. I invented a recipe for teff pancakes. I'm sharing that recipe on my eczema blog.
We also decided, after much deliberation, to add a little meat to his diet. Right now, that looks like chicken once a week added to shredded yuca (cassava). I am also sharing that recipe on my eczema blog.
However, there are several recipes that I have found that he likes. I love the simplicity of some of them!
This Baked Amaranth Cracker/Flatbread is made from the grain, not amaranth flour, and is very simple to make. I mean, very simple. I added a little basil to the mix, since he can't have the topping (I've never tried pumpkin seeds, but I'm really afraid to). I still need to come up with some kind of topping for them. That is hard, since nuts and avocado are all out, and those make the best creamy vegan sauces. But he will eat these, and he likes them. I served it with some slices of cucumber, and he enjoyed the meal very much.
This GF Biscuit recipe was a real hit. Since he can't have eggs or egg replacer, I used quarter mashed banana, because I only made a half a recipe. You can use 1/2 a banana plus 1/8 tsp of extra baking powder for egg in baking, but I didn't think 1/16 of baking powder was really necessary! I wanted to use a little less starch, so I replaced 1/4 of the starch with sorghum flour (doubling the sorghum called for). They turned out better than the last batch did (where I put in too much banana and otherwise followed the recipe, and now have more whole grains in them. I also threw in a scant tablespoon each of chia seeds and hemp protein for extra protein, and he didn't even notice. Chia seeds are a complete protein and really a powerhouse. Research them sometime. I am very excited to discover that my local WinCo carries them! Manny will eat chia seeds by the spoonful (2 or 3 baby spoonfuls), and they have very little flavor. I think they actually improved the texture as well (since they tend to gel, kind of like flax seeds).
When you can't have wheat or corn, tortillas become almost impossible. Rice tortillas leave much to be desired, as do most GF tortillas you can buy. But these millet tortillas are so easy, especially if you have a tortilla press. I do, but it's in storage, so I improvised with a flat-bottomed skillet. It worked almost as well. Unfortunately, Manny only liked the first two, and then he didn't want more. If there was something I could dip them in or roll inside of them… maybe beans? I'll have to experiment. But he's not very good at eating stuff with toppings… he just licks off the topping! We might make them once in a while for ourselves, though, and they are perfect for those who can't have gluten or corn!
And for dessert, well, this Blueberry Crumb Cake was the bomb! My husband said he couldn't tell it was gluten free! I used the banana/baking powder trick in place of eggs, and it rose beautifully. I made two batches: one as a cake, and one as muffins (which of course cooked in about half the time as the cake). It's good with and without the topping. This site also has many GF cooking and baking tips (it's where I learned about the banana-instead-of-egg idea). I highly recommend browsing it if you are on a GF diet. Many of the recipes are vegan (because the author cannot tolerate casein), though some do include meat (usually with vegetarian variations). She makes GF look so easy! Indeed, this cake was my first attempt at GF baking without a boxed recipe (Betty Crocker has about 3 GF mixes that you can buy at most grocery stores, and I made a couple at a friend's house once), and I really expected it to flop. Instead, it turned out lovely, and my son had a delicious cake for his birthday, and muffins for dessert once a week since!
Lastly, there are these delicious GF Molasses Cookies. Manny wasn't terribly fond of them, and I think it was mostly because of the ginger (which he can't seem to tolerate in the quantity that is in the cookies). They turned out perfectly, though, and I took a dozen to a friend whose son has a lot of allergies. The whole family tried them, and she informed me they are better than store-bought cookies. I totally agree. Granted, they aren't super healthy. I mean, 3/4 cup of shortening (palm oil, not hydrogenated oils) is quite a bit of fat. Maybe I could cut it down by increasing the applesauce. But I usually like to do a recipe the way it says the first time–especially baked goods. Then experiment later. I think Manny would like them better without the ginger. He loves molasses, after all.
I tried split pea soup on him, but he seemed to react to the peas. I had suspected that he would, being legume and all. But he enjoyed it a lot. I think I could make a veggie soup with quinoa using the same seasonings I used in the pea soup (garlic, sweet basil, marjoram, bay leaf, salt). I've been avoiding onions, because touching them and then rubbing his face made him break out. Whether that was an allergic reaction, or simply sensitive skin, I don't know. But for now, I don't feed them to him directly. Though he did eat some carrots I had cooked in a stock made of scraps of veggies used to make dinner (I put 3 baby carrots in the stock for variety), and he loved them, as well as the bits of zucchini my husband didn't eat from his salad. They were cooked with onion, and he seems fine with it. So maybe he is okay. I'm going to play it by ear at this point!
What simple GF recipes do you use? I'd love for you to share them!


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A Miami barber who appeared on MTV's From G's to Gents was a murder suspect in a 2006 South Florida shooting before he made his reality show debut.
Baron "Dirty" Colon is being held without bond on first-degree murder and armed burglary charges after his arrest last week, the Miami Herald reports.
Colon, 24, appeared on the show in 2009 in an attempt to turn his life around, but police say his past caught up to him.
From G's to Gents, hosted by P Diddy protege Fonzworth Bentley and produced by Jamie Foxx, pits a group of "rough-around-the-edges young men against each other to see who can most transform into a "true gentleman."
If his profile on mtv.com is any indication, Colon fits the "gangsta" bill. He claims his mother threw him in the trash when he was a baby, before she died of a drug overdose. He claims that with his dad in and out of prison most of his life, he was a foster child most of his life, going from home to home.
He also said he had a police record as a kid and spent time in juvenile detention throughout his young life.
"I got two kids. I want to be in the gentleman's club because I want to change, for them," Colon said in the opening episode, according to the Herald. "If I don't change, there's only going to be two things: prison, or death."
Prison may be exactly where Colon is heading, now that he's charged with the Jan. 2006 murder of Kendall artist Marcelo Vera during a botched robbery at Vera's home.
According to police, Colon had long been a suspect in the murder but it wasn't until last year, when Colon blabbed about the murder to a confidential informant, that investigators got some solid evidence.
Police say Colon, 26-year-old Stephany Concepcion and two other men known as "Big Killer" and "Crazy Dread" targeted Vero after he had somehow angered Concepcion.
The four had planned on robbing Vero at his home at 14044 Southwest 104th Terrace, but when they got there, the heist went horribly wrong.
Vero was shot and killed, and the three men fled the home, leaving Concepcion for the police. She was charged and later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 15 years behind bars.
Though Concepcion fingered Colon in the killing, police had no other evidence on him. He went about his life, flying out to Los Angeles for the second season of From G's to Gents, where he was a finalist.
But when Colon returned to Miami last year and was caught on tape discussing the murder, including details that only someone who was there would know, investigators had him.
An arrest warrant says Colon described the caliber of the guns used in the killing, and how Vero put up a fight and begged for his life before Colon and one of his cohorts shot him.
Colon is scheduled to be arraigned on Jan. 28.
MTV Show's Miami "G" Charged With Murder
Contestant on reality show faces charges in '06 slaying
A Miami barber who appeared on MTV's From G's to Gents was a murder suspect in a 2006 South Florida shooting before he made his reality show debut.


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Jonathan Davis Discusses Upcoming Korn Album, Electronic Projects
Korn frontman Jonathan Davis recently sat down for an interview to speak about his current electronic solo project, J Devil, as well as his experiments with Killbot that will be revealed in an upcoming EP. Along with that news, however, Davis spoke about writing for Korn's next album and the direction they will take.
Jonathan Davis spoke with Billboard about his history of creating electronic music. "I started doing (electronic music) for fun. I didn't know what was gonna happen with it," says Davis. "Making electronic music and learning to produce and learning my new instrument — laptop, I call it — has been an amazing thing. I'm learning and I'm having fun playing my own tunes. I've really had to retrain myself. It's totally different than writing rock songs."
Davis also discussed how his life completely revolves around music while on tour and what fans can expect from the new Killbot EP. "After every Korn show I come offstage, take a shower and I start writing … [the Killbot EP] is ridiculous. It's the most crazy aural experience you'll have in your life. Two of the songs I'm singing on, the other two are straight-up electronic with me growling and doing other stuff beneath it. It's all over the place."
The frontman finally gave Billboard an update on Korn's current state. "We're getting ready to start writing a new record," shares Davis. "Our motto is to keep ever-evolving. I'm sure there'll still be some electronic influence in there, but I don't think it'll be like the last one and go to all those different guys again. We'll switch it up and try to do something new, 'cause that's how we work."
Jonathan Davis' electronic alter-ego J Devil is currently booked to open for Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson's 'Twins of Evil' co-headlining tour, which begins on Sept. 28 in Phoenix, Arizona.


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Yesterday, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that Pier 21 will become Canada's second national museum outside of Ottawa (the first one will be the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba).
Pier 21 is located on the waterfront in Halifax <www.pier21.ca>.
From 1928 until 1971, Pier 21 saw 1.5-million immigrants pass through its doors - 50,000 War Brides and 22,000 of their children of the Second World War, and more than 100,000 refugees. Of these, a large number were British Home Children.
And Pier 21 is ten years old this year!
What better way to celebrate than to be named a national museum.
Congratulations, Pier 21!


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The Alabama Center for the Arts is a collaborative effort between the City of Decatur, Morgan County, Calhoun Community College, and Athens State University. It has been heralded as a model for institutional cooperation in the state.
The facility will become a venue for college art instruction, community education, cultural events, and will also serve as a catalyst for the region's creative planning and expression.
The 44,000 sq. ft. facility is located at 133 Second Avenue in downtown Decatur across from the Princess Theater. It represents an investment of more than $8.2 million dollars: $3.2M from each educational institution and $1.6M from Decatur and Morgan County ($800,000 each). College courses taught at the facility will lead to Associate of Science and Bachelor of Arts degrees with class offerings that include art appreciation, painting, drawing, computer graphics, sculpture, ceramics, pottery and a teaching major leading to licensure for art instructors.
Non-credit, community education courses will be available to the public. Classes will be programmed to reflect the interests of local citizens. Instructors will include local talent as well as renowned masters.
Calhoun Community College, Athens State University, the City of Decatur and Morgan County unite to appeal for your support of the Alabama Center for the Arts. Funds raised will be used to create scholarships and to support community programs and events.
For more information, visit www.alabamacenterforthearts.org.


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The psalmist said, "Be still and know I am God" (Psalm 46:10). "Be still"…"and know…" In the Hebrew language, when two coordinate imperatives or imperative verbal forms appear together, as in "Be still" and "know" the emphasis goes to the second command. In other words, what the psalmist is saying could be translated to mean, […]
To believe, what does that mean?
To have faith, can you explain?
Faith, the capacity to believe, is an innate gift of Divine grace imparted to you at birth. In other words, you are a believer at birth.
How do I know this?
I was reminded of this as I awakened today. I went to sleep last night, as I have done 21,000-plus times before, knowing…believing…trusting…that I would awaken the next morning. I did.
You did, too.
I am often asked, "How can I trust God will take care of me?" "How might I be a stronger believer?"
Stop trying. Whenever I "try" to go to sleep at night, I lie awake. When I let go of everything, however, I fall into sleep as effortlessly as a skydiver falls through the atmosphere. The more you can let go of trying to control your life…your circumstances…your anxiety over how your going to make it…the more you practice just turning loose, closing your eyes, and then taking the leap, the more quickly you will discover, what I call, the parachute of Divine Presence.
Just when you feel you're falling, you discover you're flying This is what it means to be a person of faith…beyond all beliefs.
This is what Jesus meant when he asked, "Do you believe?" (Jn 11:25-28).


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Hello blogcreatures,
I am not big fan of the sea or spending the summer holiday at the sea, but I really like the new digi designs from Whiff of Joy. For today's creation, I made a tag using two new digi stamps. A pretty simple,but adorable tag for the summer.


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LANCASTER, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fulton Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: FULT) today announced that it will distribute its second quarter earnings news release and accompanying charts on Tuesday, July 16, at approximately 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
The Corporation will host its quarterly conference call with analysts who cover the company on Wednesday, July 17, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. E. Philip Wenger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will host the call. He will be joined by Mark R. McCollom, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
The live webcast of this call can be heard/viewed by going to Fulton Financial Corporation's website, www.fult.com, selecting the Investor Relations tab, and clicking on the link to the webcast. The webcast will be archived on the company's website following the call. You can also dial in to listen to an audio-only version of the call at 844-264-2102, Conference ID 7778196.
Fulton Financial Corporation is a financial holding company that operates banking offices in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Virginia through the following subsidiary banks: Fulton Bank, N.A., Lancaster, PA; Lafayette Ambassador Bank, Easton, PA; and The Columbia Bank, Columbia, MD.
The Corporation's additional financial services providers include Fulton Financial Advisors, Lancaster, PA and Clermont Wealth Strategies, Lancaster, PA. Residential mortgage lending is offered by all banks through Fulton Mortgage Company.
Additional information on Fulton Financial Corporation is available at www.fult.com.
Laura Wakeley


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Manuka Health Manuka Honey MGO 250+ is the only 100% natural food in the world shown to have effective and reliable anti-bacterial activity due to the active compound - Dietary Methylglyoxal which forms naturally in the manuka plant. MGO Manuka Honey is labeled based on the minimum Methylglyoxal content (mg/kg) it contains. As Methylglyoxal is the active compound directly responsible for the antibacterial activity of Manuka honey, the higher the Methylglyoxal content of MGO Manuka Honey, the stronger the antibacterial activity. So far MGO Manuka honey has been the only food in the world found with such a significant Dietary Methylglyoxal content ranging from 20mg/kg to over 800mg/kg. In contrast all other honeys worldwide tested have ranged between 0 to 10mg/kg, other foods range from 0 to 50mg/kg with coffee and cocoa being the highest.
Manuka Health Manuka Honey MGO 250+ is suitable for everyday use and can be used as a long-term maintenance dose. It can be taken by eating or application to the skin surface. You will find it has a wonderful taste all of its own and can be enjoyed the same as any other natural honey.
Today the health applications for MGO Manuka honey have greatly expanded and new areas are continually emerging. As well as providing the well-known benefits of natural honey against winter ills and chills, the MGO Manuka honeys have even proven effective in supporting good digestive health, wound healing and healthy skin.* Demand for MGO Manuka honey as a natural health solution is growing rapidly worldwide.
The higher the MGO Manuka honey rating the higher the level of anti-bacterial activity in the honey.
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MOVIE REVIEW- Get <i>Milk</i> : Penn gives award-worthy performance
Having lived in San Francisco for 15 years, starting two months after the murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, I felt too close to the events and people depicted in Milk to be completely objective; but the fact that the film triggered the flashbacks and emotional responses it did in me is a testament to its authenticity and effectiveness.
Director Gus Van Sant has taken a cue from his subject, the first openly gay man elected to major public office in the U.S., by appealing to various constituencies without compromising his principles. Milk is the out-est, gayest, proudest movie ever made in the mainstream; yet it can be seen and appreciated by anyone, even if they don't agree with it.
Milk is long but well paced, having tons of information to impart to those who have forgotten it or never knew it. It has to introduce a lot of people, issues, the craziness of California politics and even the origins of the gay movement. The credit sequence is a montage of clips of the police raiding gay bars in the 1950s and '60s.
The framework for the film proper is a tape recording Harvey Milk made shortly before he was assassinated, to be played "only in the event of my death by assassination." It includes the line, "If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door." Here the tape becomes a full-fledged memoir, at least of Milk's last eight years.
In 1970 Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) is a New York Jewish insurance man catching a late subway on the eve of his 40th birthday. He gets an unexpected present when he meets Scott Smith (James Franco), a hot young hippie type from Jackson, Mississippi (although Franco doesn't attempt a drawl).
Needing a change of scene to fully leave the closet, Milk suggests they "run away together." In 1972 they're living in San Francisco, where Castro Street is beginning to become a gay haven. Milk opens a store, Castro Camera. Pointedly unwelcomed by the local merchants association, he talks of starting a separate group for gay businesses. He forms an alliance with the Teamsters Union, getting the gay community to support their boycott of Coors beer, in exchange for which they start hiring openly gay drivers.
Among the activists who hang out in the camera store is Cleve Jones (Emile Hirsch), a part-time hustler inspired by witnessing a gay protest in Barcelona that turned into a riot. There are also Dick Pabich (Joseph Cross), Jim Rivaldo (Brandon Boyce) and photographer Danny Nicoletta (Lucas Grabeel of High School Musical).
Dubbed "The Mayor of Castro Street" ("or I may have invented it myself," he admits), Harvey makes his first run for the Board of Supervisors in 1973, coming in tenth in a field of 32 competing for six seats. He loses again in 1975 and once more in a bid for the state assembly in '76, when his opponent, Art Agnos, gives him a good piece of advice (that sounds oddly contemporary) about offering hope in his speeches.
In 1977 the rules change so San Franciscans elect supervisors by district, rather than citywide. Milk is a perfect fit for District Five, consisting largely of hippies (the Haight) and gays (the Castro), but when he decides to run, Scott leaves him: "I can't do another one." They remain friends to the end, always hinting at a possible reunion.
Meanwhile Milk finds a new boyfriend, or rather, Jack Lira (Diego Luna) finds him. Immature, clingy and needy, he's a bad fit for a man with an all-consuming job, and he never bonds with Milk's associates. The latter group expands to include a new campaign manager, lesbian Anne Kronenberg (Alison Pill), who helps Milk get an endorsement from the San Francisco Chronicle, even though the Advocate endorses his (also gay) opponent, the more conservative Rick Stokes.
It's also the year Anita Bryant galvanizes the gay community nationwide with her successful campaign to repeal a gay rights ordinance in Dade County, Florida.
Milk is elected to the Board of Supervisors, but so is Dan White (Josh Brolin), a former policeman and firefighter who represents the city's Irish Catholic old guard. The two men get along on some level, but White lacks Milk's political savvy and begins to resent him. (Milk also mentions he suspects White's a closet case.)
The last big fight is against the 1978 "Briggs Initiative," which would bar homosexuals and their allies from teaching in public schools. It comes down to the wire, and this would have been a good place to cut a couple minutes of footage intended to heighten the suspense.
With that battle won by the gays, Dan White resigns from the Board but tries to un-resign days later. When Mayor Moscone (Victor Garber) refuses to reinstate him, he shoots Moscone and Milk.
It's a lot of history to cram into two hours without sacrificing entertainment value, but Van Sant does it, with the help of a well informed, commercially savvy screenplay by Dustin Lance Black.
With the exception of Dan White (and Brolin's stepmother, Barbra Streisand must be proud of his portrayals of two conservative politicians in one season), the other characters exist only in relation to Milk; so there's only one performance that matters.
If Harvey Milk were alive today he'd come in second to Sean Penn in a Harvey Milk Lookalike contest. Penn's performance encompasses a broad range of moods and emotions, from "40 years old and I haven't done a single thing I'm proud of" to the proudest gay man in America. With a couple of contenders left to see, so far he's the man to beat for Best Actor.
Van Sant's new footage blends seamlessly with a lot of original films of the period, some of which were probably processed through Castro Camera. There's relatively little disco music on the soundtrack, considering how inescapable it was at the time, but a lot of "Tosca."
"Milk" is comparable to "Brokeback Mountain" and "Philadelphia," both in terms of award potential and knowing what the American public is ready to accept. I can't imagine a better film being made on the subject.#


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My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am. Joan Jett
My acoustic guitar has been a canvas of artwork for years. It all started right after I got my S-101 for my birthday, which is my electric acoustic. I took my Yamaha, the one in the pictures, a bunch of colorful Sharpies, handed the guitar to my daughter, Kira, and told her to go to town. This is what she came up with. Recently I added the peacock on the bottom right. I love peacocks, and they have a great symbolism for me. I also added a new bumper sticker to my guitar case. Last week when I was having such a difficult time a very sweet friend of mine was talking to me and making me feel better, she said "If you don't have haters you aren't doing something right". I decided to make a bumper sticker out of it and add it to my guitar case. It meant so much to me that Candi said that! It made me feel better and now it is a permanent reminder of not letting people get to me out of spite, jealousy or whatever wasted emotion they are trying to push on me. So here are the pics, hope you enjoy!
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Cast iron plummer block housings
Cast iron plummer block housings are used in the ball bearing unit series listed in table 1.
Cast iron plummer block housings enable ball bearing units to be relubricated through a grease fitting. This makes them especially suitable for bearing arrangements that operate under any of the following conditions:
- high levels of contamination
- high speeds
- high temperatures
- relatively heavy loads
Four different housing designs are available:
SY(J) series (fig. 1, fig. 2)
→ cast oblong bolt holes
SYH series
→ similar to SY series, but with a lower centre height H1
SYM series
→ similar to SY series, but accommodates a larger bearing for a given shaft size, resulting in a higher load carrying capacity
SYF(J) series (short base, fig. 3, fig. 4)
→ threaded holes in the support base
End covers
To protect the bearing arrangement at the end of a shaft, and to avoid the possibility of an accident caused by an exposed shaft end, cast iron plummer block housings in the SY .. M series are able to accommodate ECY series end covers (fig. 5). End covers are accessories and must be ordered separately. The designations together with the distance A5 that the end cover protrudes from the housing (fig. 6) are listed in the product tables (→ Plummer block housings for insert bearings, Ball bearing plummer block units).
The complete assortment of end covers for ball bearing housings and units is listed the product table.
End covers are made of polypropylene (PP), have good resistance to most chemicals and can withstand operating temperatures up to 100 °C (210 °F). They are mounted by snapping them into the recess of the housing.


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