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Millions of Southland residents and millions more across California are expected to "drop, cover and hold on'' Thursday, October 18, as part of an annual earthquake preparedness drill aimed at ensuring people are ready for the "big one.''
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Nearly 2.9 million people in Los Angeles County have registered to take part in the fifth annual ``Great California Shakeout,'' which is scheduled for 10:18 a.m., simulating a magnitude-7.8 or larger quake along the southernmost area of the San Andreas fault.
About 9.3 million people have registered to take part in the drill statewide, including more than 926,000 in Orange County, according to ShakeOut.org.
At 10:18 a.m., participants will ``drop'' to the ground, take ``cover'' under a desk, table or other sturdy surface and ``hold on'' for 60 seconds, as if a major earthquake were occurring. Participants are also asked to look around during the drill and envision what might be occurring during an actual quake, what objects might be falling, what damage could be occurring and will there be a way to escape the area afterward.
Government workers and students are among those expected to take part in the drill.
"Participating in the Great ShakeOut drill is a great way for your family or company to think about a plan on how to prepare for big earthquakes,'' Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster said. ``This annual drill reminds us that we should all be ready no matter where you are when an earthquake hits -- at home, school or work.''
Under the quake scenario, a tectonic shift would produce waves of movement for hundreds of miles, over four minutes. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, some 2,000 people would die, tens of thousands would be injured and more than $200 billion in damage would result from the catastrophe, which would have 50 times the intensity of the Jan. 17, 1994, Northridge earthquake.
Hundreds of aftershocks would follow, a few of them nearly as big as the original event, according to the USGS. Californians should be prepared to be self-sufficient for 72 hours following an earthquake or other major disaster. That includes having a first- aid kit, medications, food and enough water for each member of a household to drink one gallon per day for at least 72 hours, according to local and state officials. Homeowners and renters should also know how to turn off the gas in their house or apartment in case of leaks.


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High Demand for Free Flu Shots in Orange County
January 30th, 2014 | WMFE, Orlando- High demand for free flu shots left some Orange county residents without vaccinations Thursday morning.
[Waiting for a free flu shot. Photo- Alicia Mandigo, WMFE]
The Orange County Health Department made free flu shots available at Barnett Park near the Fairgrounds from 10am to 1pm.
"I'd say about 20-30 people extra that have been coming in looking for the vaccine and so we're referring them over to our event tomorrow and there's one on Monday"
One of those turned away was Eddie Banks.
At 11:00, Banks was just too late for a shot.
"I didn't know there was going to be a limit on it, and I understand there is, so they are probably out, I understand they are out of shots," says Banks.
Health Department Spokesman Dain Weister says 100 doses will also be available at the next two events.
"These flu shot events are specifically for
those folks who cannot afford it, who don't have insurance, we're taking care
of the most vulnerable and needy with these events," he says.
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While the media is playing up the fact that the Libby jury felt that Libby was a scapegoat for the real criminals in the CIA outing scandal, keep in mind Libby is a PNAC member. Libby was part of the cabal that wrote about invading Iraq before Bush was even in office. This is one of the guys who were part of the crew who wrote about how a "new Pearl Harbor†would help speed up their agenda. You know…a new Pearl Harbor…like 9/11!
Sure there were bigger fish and bigger criminals than Libby. I have said from the moment TvNewsLIES.org hit the web that Cheney was the ground zero of corruption in the Bush administration and with each day my claim becomes more valid. But Libby is not simply the fall guy here. He was part of a group that had been hell bent on going to war with Iraq and there was nothing that was going to interfere with their once in a lifetime opportunity to advance their agenda. Nothing.
Libby just a scapegoat, I think not!    Think about it!
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Look, if your vehicle is under warranty, take it in to the dealer. This isn't supposed to happen. It has not happened yet to my 2006 SEL, in 1.5 years, and I swap CD's a lot.
However, they are all "bought" CDs, not "burned" CDs that I created myself.
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We're often told that we live in a "toxic environment." This term was coined by the Yale professor and director of the Rudd Center For Food Policy and Obesity at Yale.
Wikipedia notes, Brownell uses the term "toxic" to describe:
[U]nparalleled exposure to high-calorie, high-fat, heavily marketed, inexpensive, and readily accessible foods. The toxic environment is the result of ubiquity of unhealthy, processed foods, an increasingly sedentary lifestyle in which individuals spend more time watching TV and using computers than they spend exercising, the explosion of fast food restaurants, the enormous growth of portion sizes, the power of food advertising and marketing, and the junk food industry's take-over of schools by selling unhealthy items in vending machines, cafeterias, and through school fundraisers.
Leave aside the fact that the country has seen obesity epidemics in the absence of this "toxic environment" (Gary Taubes opened his recent cover story in Newsweek with this very observation), and focus on sedentary lifestyle as a causal factor in our nation's obesity epidemic.
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which is a survey research program conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States, and to track changes over time - in comparison of 1975 to 2006 - showed that the number of inactive people has diminished in this period from 50 to 24 percent, and looking at studies on North America and Europe, we are expending more energy than we used to while the obesity epidemic has been growing.
We've been told that we live in a toxic environment where we avoid exercise at every turn, yet the data doesn't support this observation. Health club industry revenues, for example, were $16 million in 1972. Today revenues are closer to $20 billion, a twenty-fold increase.
In 2007, The World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research (WCRF/AICR) published a large report entitled Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective.
Here is a small summary and recommendations for preventing cancer:
- Be as lean as possible within the normal range of body weight
- Be physically active
- Maintain a healthy weight
- Sedentary ways of life are a cause of cancers and of weight gain, overweight, and obesity
In other words, sedentary behavior is carcinogenic. By this logic, if you're reading this, it's causing cancer (unless you're multitasking on the treadmill), and in this way it's ostensibly no different from smoking cigarettes. That this notion is obviously absurd (but a natural consequence of the conclusions by the WCRF/AICR) should be a clue that this is flawed logic and the idea that sedentary behavior causes obesity is equally flawed.
We have always had plenty of relatively sedentary children. We haven't always had plenty of obese children. When a child is a "bookworm," it may not be a great idea to keep him away from the classics and point out that the latest edition of Harry Potter causes cancer. And, it might be interesting to note that Potter himself, his fellow bookwormish friends, and the common stereotype portrays these people as bespectacled and slight, not obese.
Why would the inactivity of computer games, for example, (have you seen someone play Modern Warfare? I wouldn't exactly call this a sedentary behavior) or watching SpongeBob be any more fat promoting than the inactivity of reading books, back when books were the choice for indoor entertainment?
So what happened to Fat Albert? Was he sneaking in games of Halo, which produced his corpulence despite being otherwise active?
The authorities have turned to a toxic environment of sedentary behavior to help explain the obesity epidemic, but they seem to pick and choose what's toxic, or causing cancer, and what's not:
- Watching Family Guy: TOXIC
- Reading: NON-TOXIC?
- Surfing the Internet: TOXIC
- Studying: NON-TOXIC?
- Playing video games: TOXIC
- Surfing the Internet for School: NON-TOXIC?
- Sitting on the couch: TOXIC
- Watching a video for school: NON-TOXIC?
- Sitting in your car: TOXIC
- Sitting in Class: NON-TOXIC?
- Dozing off in Class: TOXIC
- Sleeping: NON-TOXIC?
Using the logic of the WCRF/AICF, and presumably the various organizations that believe sedentary behavior causes obesity, all of the above are TOXIC and cause cancer, weight gain, and obesity.
Being active is important part of a healthy lifestyle, but being sedentary is not a cause of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, rather it's a side effect of an underlying disorder of excess fat accumulation.
As Susan Sontag wrote more than 30 years ago: "Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about a disease."
When you're trapped in a foolish paradigm, your conclusions are going to look foolish, too.
Bob Kaplan holds advance degrees in exercise physiology and business, an undergraduate degree in nutrition, is a nationally certified personal trainer, and owns six Get In Shape For Women locations in Bedford, Wayland, Wellesley, Westford, Weston, and Winchester.
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Woman forced to live with squatter in her Detroit home
Heidi Peterson could not believe what was in her Detroit home when she returned after being away for a year.
A woman named Missionary-Tracey Elaine Blair was living there.
Blair refuses to leave the home, and Peterson doesn't have the means go elsewhere.
In a bizarre twist involving legal issues, both women are living in the same house: owner and alleged squatter.
"She thinks that this is a program in Detroit to take people's homes and fix them up, and then she gets to keep them," Peterson told MyFoxDetroit.
Peterson said Blair changed the locks, replaced the appliances and reworked the plumbing in the older home. Peterson purchased the home in the historic Boston-Edison neighborhood of Detroit for $23,000, she said. She left last year when it was in need of repairs.
Blair, a former tenant at Peterson's house, said she was evicted in February 2011. "We had to vacate because the boiler was damaged," Blair said. "I took all my books and my writings, but my (furniture was) still left in (there)."
Blair says she is not squatting and has a lease.
While a squatter has no legal right to the property, the homeowner cannot remove a squatter by force,
Um, I don't think so...
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If you have a garden, just about now it's going to really start pumping out the produce (sometimes it's hard to keep up, right?). Why not take some of that summer bounty, and make this super-fresh sauce for gnocchi? Sliced zucchini are sauteed with plump cherry tomatoes and finished with some fresh basil. It's sure to become a go-to dish in your house.
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There's so much spring produce in this dish that we put "spring" in the name. See Everyday Food editor Sarah Carey teach you how to eat for the season.
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Once you've made your own pizza at home, you'll wonder why you ever called for delivery. This savory pie topped with asparagus, artichokes, and tomatoes will have everyone lining up for seconds.
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All the ingredients in this salad can be cooked ahead of time, so you're ready to eat ASAP. Everyday Food editor Sarah Carey shows you how to toss everything together for a delicious salad.
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JOHN CURTIS - Daily Union Sports Editor
Shelbyville volleyball defended their home court to open Shelbyville 2A Regional play on Monday night, notching their 20th win as the handled Teutopolis, 25-16, 25-14.
"I am glad to get this one out of the way," said Ram coach Lisa Peifer. "Being a Monday, I thought we started a little sluggish. We weren't transitioning very well and it put us in the position where we made too many errors. I'm not sure the girls ever felt that they didn't have control, so we were content to just play. We did play solid enough to win, but will have to turn the intensity up a notch against Pana."
The Lady Rams opened the match with Taylor Wilcox serving six straight points, including two early kills by Brandy Smith, and forcing an early T'town time-out.
Madison Boone killed off a block to put Shelby up 7-1 and Smith delivered an ace to go 9-2. Brooke Eisenbarth rocketed a shot across the net and the Shoe dig ricocheted a free ball to the net were Boone could slam it to the floor, 10-3.
Eisenbarth sizzled another kill on the back line to fuel another 5-point Ram run. Lindsey Eigsti kept serving as Wilcox killed through a block, Eisenbarth tipped a point, and then followed with a BK Whopper to the corner. Teutopolis had to call their second time-out, down 15-4.
At 16-6, the resilient Shoes had their own 5-point run, bringing a Ram time-out.
Wilcox broke the run with a tip and Smith swung for a kill for a 19-11 lead.
Back and forth inched the Rams closer to winning game 1. At 23-16, Eisenbarth sent another BK Special missile down the line. Eigsti served game point and Teutopolis hit it out.
After the Ram dominance in game 1, game to began as a closer affair. The two teams tied at 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, and 5-5.
Sammy Hendrix served a short ace to break the tie. Hendrix served a 7-point run. Eisenbarth had a free kill and Hendrix served another short ace for an 11-5 lead, forcing a Shoe time-out.
Eisenbarth blasted a kill cross-court and gave Eigsti the ball at the line again. Eisenbarth killed again, then Wilcox blew the ball through a Shoe block.
At 15-8, Wilcox had a lefty tip that fooled the Shoes. Wilcox got the serve at 17-10 and Boone had another block. After a Shoe tip miss, they had to call time again, 20-10.
Back and forth point for point brought the cliff closer to the Shoes and the Rams to the win.
At 23-14, Eisenbarth rocketed a kill again. On match point, Wilcox delivered an ace that ricocheted into the crowd, 25-14.
Eisenbarth led the Ram attack and a balance Ram defense. She swung for double-digit kills, 11 of the 23 kills, and had a team-high five digs of the 24 team total. Brandy Smith followed with five kills, Taylor Wilcox with four and Madison Boone with three.
Hendrix and Smith followed Eisenbarth with four digs each and Maggie Bosgraaf dug three.
Three Lady Rams were double-digit performers at the line, two of them the X-Girls. Hendrix served up 13 points and delivered four aces. Wilcox also served 13 points with one ace. Lindsey Eigsti served 10 points. Maggie Bosgraaf quarterbacked the offense in the dominant win by dishing 17 of the 21 assists.
Shelbyville (20-16), the #4 seed of five teams, then had to defend their home court against #1 seed Pana on Tuesday night.
Shelbyville 2A Regional
Shelbyville def. Teutopolis, 25-16, 25-15
Ram stats: Taylor Wilcox 13 points, 1 ace, 4 kills, 2 digs; Maggie Bosgraaf 5 points, 17 assists, 3 digs; Brandy Smith 5 points, 1 ace, 5 kills, 4 digs; Madison Boone 3 kills, 1 dig, 1 block; Sammy Hendrix 13 points, 4 aces, 4 digs, 1 block; Alex Johnston 1 assist, 1 block; Brooke Eisenbarth 2 points, 11 kills, 5 digs; Alissa Hudson 1 assist, 2 digs; Lindsey Eigsti 10 points, 2 assists, 2 digs; Rachel Fox 2 points, 1 dig


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Sexual Assault Victims No Longer Need to Fear Punishment for Treatment
DNI overturns restrictions on those who sought counseling.
Women who have received treatment for sexual assault while in the military will now be able to obtain security clearance easier.
Receiving treatment for a sexual assault will no longer harangue the process for getting or keeping a security clearance, the U.S. government's top intelligence official said Friday.
All executive departments, including the CIA and the military, will not require those who have received mental health counseling for sexual assault to answer "yes" to Question 21 on the standard form for security clearances, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper announced Friday morning. This question is designed to weed out recipients of counseling who might not be capable of protecting classified information.
[PHOTOS: President Obama Signs the Violence Against Women Act]
Treatment for sexual assault now joins other counseling that does not preclude an applicant from passing the "Questionnaire for National Security Positions," such as for family, grief or marital counseling, or stress from combat service.
"We are trying to get away from the fact of mental health counseling, and getting to an individual's ability to function in the work place," said Charles Sowell, deputy assistant director for Special Security at the ODNI. "That's what we really care about: Can you protect national security information?"
This facet of guarding security clearances has changed roughly 10 times since the 1950s, Sowell told reporters Friday morning, to keep up with changing stigmas toward mental health treatment. Question 21 used to encompass a broad range of mental health afflictions, including hospitalization, "which is far more severe," he said.
Then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in January 2012 that as many as 19,000 sexual assaults actually take place in the military per year. Just over 3,000 were reported in 2011.
[READ: Sen. Boxer's Daughter Behind Film on Sexual Assault in Military]
Roughly 4.9 million people hold security clearances in the federal government. Those with a top secret clearance must be reinvestigated every 5 years. Secret clearances must be re-upped every 10 years.
Answering "yes" to Question 21 did not preclude an applicant from maintaining a clearance, Sowell added, but rather flagged that person for individual review. Only about .002 percent of those who answered "yes" because of mental health treatment for sexual assault became ineligible for a clearance, he said.
But a stigma persisted throughout the Pentagon and other top security positions that an affirmative answer to the question would torpedo any chances of keeping a clearance.
"The longer this went on, the more clear it was we needed to do something to create relief for the victims of sexual assault," Sowell said. ODNI has worked with the Office of Personnel Management, the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of the Vice President to institute the change, along with multiple members of Congress.
Much of the awareness of the issue has been championed by the Service Women's Action Network, which focuses on eliminating discrimination, harassment and assault from military culture.
"This change is a huge victory for survivors of military sexual assault," said Anu Bhagwati, SWAN executive director and a former captain in the Marine Corps.
"From numerous calls we receive on our Helpline, we know that Question 21 has kept survivors from seeking the critical mental health services they have needed to heal in the aftermath of sexual assault," she said, according to a media release. "We applaud Director Clapper and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for making this sensible correction to an unjust protocol that served to further traumatize survivors, and will keep a close eye on implementation of this change."
Friday's announcement comes during Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month at the Department of Defense.
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"Each of us must help the department eliminate the scourge of sexual assault from the military," Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in a video statement on Tuesday. "Servicemembers, civilians and leaders at every level must work every day to instill a climate that does not tolerate or ignore sexist behavior, sexual harassment or sexual assault."
This story was amended to include comment from the Service Women's Action Network.


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Changing China
Giant on the move
The school of hard knocks
Luis Yanez, a pocket-sized 19-year-old from Duncanville, Texas, wipes his sore nose with his bandaged hand and catches his breath, showing off a string of broken down teeth.
Grandly nicknamed the Latin Legend, he has been working at a Mexican restaurant in the Dallas area since the age of 13.
Before coming here, he went through strenuous daily workouts at the U.S. team's year-long residence programme in Colorado Springs. He went missing at one stage and was kicked out of the team before being reinstated in appeal.
The night before Friday's draw, he had found his best friend and team mate Gary Russell Jr. unconscious in the room they share. Russell had collapsed after struggling to make his weight. He is okay now but his Olympics are over.


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Pityriasis rosea
Pityriasis rosea is a rash of unknown cause which lasts about six weeks. Pityriasis rosea most often affects teenagers or young adults. In some cases there are no other symptoms, but it often follows a few days after a upper respiratory viral infection (cough, cold, sore throat or similar).
What does pityriasis rosea look like?
A single scaling patch (the herald patch) appears one to twenty days before the general rash. It is an oval pink or red plaque 2-5 cm in diameter, with a scale trailing just inside the edge of the lesion. The herald patch is often mistaken as ringworm. It can also be confused with psoriasis.
A few days later, more scaly patches (flat lesions) or plaques (thickened lesions) appear on the chest and back. A few may also appear on the thighs, upper arms and neck but they are uncommon on the face or scalp. These secondary lesions tend to be smaller than the herald patch. They are oval in shape with a dry surface. Like the herald patch, they may have an inner circlet of scaling. These lesions follow the relaxed skin tension lines (Langers lines) on both sides of the upper trunk so that the rash has been described as looking like a fir tree.
Pityriasis rosea may be very itchy, but in most cases it doesn't itch at all. In white skin the patches are pink or red, but in darker skin they may be pigmented or they may appear white due to the scale.
The inverse variant of pityriasis rosea
The lesions of pityriasis rosea are sometimes more prominent in the skin folds than elsewhere on the trunk. A herald patch is followed by oval pink scaly or moist plaques appearing in armpits and groin.
What causes pityriasis rosea?
Pityriasis rosea may be set off by a viral infection but it does not appear to be contagious. Herpes viruses 6 and 7, influenza viruses and vaccines have been associated with pityriasis rosea in some cases. The rash may be a reactive response to these or other viruses.
How long does pityriasis rosea last?
Pityriasis rosea clears up in about six to twelve weeks. Pale marks or brown discolouration may persist for a few months in darker skinned people but eventually the skin returns to its normal appearance.
Second attacks of pityriasis rosea are uncommon, but another viral infection may trigger recurrence years later.
Treatment of pityriasis rosea
General advice. The rash is irritated by soap; bathe or shower with plain water and bath oil, aqueous cream, or other soap substitute. Apply moisturizing creams to dry skin.
If the rash itches, treatment with a steroid cream or ointment usually brings prompt relief. The steroid probably does not speed up clearance of pityriasis rosea but it reduces the discomfort.
Extensive or persistent cases can be treated by phototherapy (ultraviolet light, UVB).
Oral erythromycin has also been reported to help, probably because of a nonspecific anti-inflammatory effect. There have been some reports that aciclovir may be effective.
Related information
- Drago F, Broccolo F, Rebora A. Pityriasis rosea: an update with a critical appraisal of its possible herpesviral etiology. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2009 Aug;61(2):303-18.
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Other websites:
- Pityriasis Rosea – Medscape Reference
- Pityriasis Rosea – British Association of Dermatologists
- Patient information: Pityriasis rosea (The Basics) – UpToDate (for subscribers)


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Would trample rights
"Free speech for me, but not for thee." Judging from its rant against corporate speech (Sept. 13 Record-Eagle forum,) that should be Move to Amend's motto.
What is Move to Amend, if not a corporation? And a dangerous one at that if anyone takes them seriously. They would trample our First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and association — the exact same rights they're exercising trying to repeal them.
As for the Citizens United decision, the hyperventilation about corporate personhood is completely irrelevant. The Constitution doesn't grant just citizens the right to free speech. The Constitution is not a limit upon citizens, it's a limit upon government. It says that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech...". What part of "Congress shall make no law" is so hard to understand?
Give Move to Amend some credit; at least they admit they want to give up our rights. But what's wrong with the Record-Eagle editors? The Record-Eagle is a corporation that routinely practices political advocacy. Do they aspire to be the only voice? Does it not occur to them that they might be vulnerable, too?
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I support Tim Werner for City Commissioner. I have worked with Tim on school committees and I am impressed by his work ethic, his steadfastness and his common sense. Tim is what our city needs — a rational thinker.
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Yep that is funny how many miles do you have on your truck and how old is your girl
Its a bolt over billet grill. Don't know exactly who makes it, it was on the truck when i bought it
I've seen them installed under the front seats a lot. It helps cut down on the amount of wire that you have to run which is great for A) the cost and B) the distance the current has to travel. But, under the front seats requires removing the seats so that you can mount it. So if you're not up for that, then there is always under the rear seats.
The amp I got was an Alpine booster pack for the door speakers. It's the KTP-445:
It's small enough that you can actually mount it inside the dash, which is where mine it. It definitely adds a good bit more power! And kinda surprisingly enough fo it's size too. I mean it puts out 45Wx4 when there are some full size amps that can't put out that much power. Pretty awesome little amplifier.
Hey man! Ya, I got the speakers installed last week and they were sounding pretty good. Today, I just got my Alpine head unit installed and a 45Wx4 amplifier and they sound even better! Even with that amplifier, setting the head unit to "loud" mode, and cranking it all the way, they still stay VERY clear! I'm very pleased.
glad to hear(no pun intended) it c m i hope ur as pleased as i am with them
Hey bud! I just installed my speakers in my truck today. I managed to install the SPS-600 speakers in the rear doors too. I thought you might like to know incase you wanted to still put SPS-600 speakers all the way around. What I wound up doing was using the stock mounting ring that was on the stock speakers and just drilling 4mmx30mm sheet metal screws into it to hold the alpine speakers in place (same screws that come with the speakers to mount the installation rings to the doors.) They had plenty of clearance and the door panels went back on with out any problems.
i bought it that way, it looks like just a leveling kit was put on
hey what did you to raise your truck my front sets way lower than the rear
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The Lack of a Small Unified Database
Many desktop users do not have the skills or, frankly, any real need to install and manage a multiuser database server. They still need, however, to use and exchange SQL databases. Unfortunately, many developers fail to see this situation as a problem and dismiss it, at least initially, with any combination of these responses:
It now is so easy to install PostgreSQL, MySQL or any other RDBMS server, desktop users should install one of them.
Program X also is available for Windows/Mac/whatever, so just install it.
If anything, we only need to improve the interface and/or the documentation to do the above.
Nothing technically is wrong with these arguments, but they simply don't apply to the niche sector of soho and corporate users. Nobody in this sector is whining because installing a server requires two or one mouse click instead of zero. But there is a huge difference between a perfect, completely documented install wizard for any SQL server and what those users currently are getting.
Everybody says how great file sharing is. Okay, so answer this one: how can a Linux/KOffice geek share his book or recipe database with his aunt, who is running Windows/OO.o? How can an employee send a product database from his MAC/OO.o desktop to a potential corporate customer running Solaris/KOffice? What if the receiver has no root password or permission to install extra software, the standard situation in most offices? In general, in the real world, the "just install and configure this" attitude doesn't make sense and doesn't help information to flow freely. This attitude can be just as impractical, if not impossible, as having to install a new font or print server simply to open a text file.
Currently, free software users are missing a single-file SQL standard format, which may be a tar or ZIP archive, that contains everything needed by a generic frontend to let people work: schemas, data, indexes, forms structures and so on. Such databases could be copied immediately, uploaded to a Web server or sent by e-mail, the same as any other file. Users would have the certainty that the receiver immediately could access all the data, queries and forms, even if they might look different. Above all, it would be great if such a file format became an OASIS standard, because it would make it much easier to accept in corporate or government scenarios.
In the text/spreadsheet/presentation space, the Right Thing already is happening. The two most popular free office software suites, OO.o and KOffice, are converging on the same default file format, which is an OASIS standard. This means being able to write, read and share such documents today between OO.o KOffice and tomorrow with any other OASIS-compliant application--transparently. This level of standardization also gives much more credibility and strength to Free Software.
Wouldn't it be really great and isn't it time to do the same thing for simple SQL databases? Without, of course, preventing anybody who wants a full blown RDBMS daemon from using it? Today, such databases are not covered or influenced by OASIS. I say that they should be. The rest of this article proposes a way to achieve this goal.
The first two applications that should converge on this database standard are OpenOffice.org (OO.o) and KOffice. OO.o has data sources, meaning it can connect to external RDBMS servers and can use single-file databases in dBase format, whose features simply are too limited. When I started to investigate this matter, I learned that OO.o developers already have begun working on improving support for a server-less database engine. Standardization, however, simply isn't among their objectives right now, though. What they anticipate today to include in OO.o 2.0 (alpha snapshot available here) is a database file format that is XML-based and that contains everything except the actual data (forms, reports, queries and administrative information).
When I asked, I was told that the most probable file format choice is HSQLDB, mainly because it supports more features than its competitors do. Personally, I am against this choice for four reasons. The first is performance (read more here and here), especially considering that OO.o doesn't need to remain as heavy as it is today. The second reason is HSQLDB requires Java, and I don't like the idea of depending on third-party elements, as it makes it more likely that these single-file DBs don't work in practice when moved from PC to PC. The third reason is many other application and languages in the free software arena have partially converged on something else (more on this in a moment), so I think OO.o should be a good community citizen and follow suit. Hence, my fourth reason: by not proposing a portable standard in OO.o, OO.o users would be in the position of saying to everybody else "yes, we are using this so called "free" software, but if you want to share small databases transparently, please force yourself to freely install OO.o, HSQLDB/Java or any combination of the above".
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I think it should be mentione
I think it should be mentioned (a long time after the release of this article) that koffice is now standardising on the same format as OO. I presume that this will mean they will naturally move to the same native database format. So the standardisation is happening. Maybe this article helped?
Re: The Lack of a Small Unified Database
You forgot to mention that there's already a native OO.o 1.1.x
SQLite driver available (alpha-version, only tested on Linux).
More information here.
Re: The Lack of a Small Unified Database
I submitted this article some time ago. As far as I remember (should check
my notes at home to be sure), that page had not been mentioned back then by any
of the developers I spoke with, but I might be wrong.
Thanks for pointing it out, of course it helps to reach the unified database
Marco F.
unified database
In the DOS world I used to use a simple integrated package called Alpha Works. It had spreadsheet, database, word processor, communications, shell access all in one piece of software. The database format was dBase III+. When I moved to Windows, I began using Microsoft Works. The database service (or should I call it the "table" service) provided filtering, sorting, some formulas that were similar to what was available in the spreadsheet, table reporting and a form view. I have been using it for years and it has become my favorite application. The spreadsheet is more than adequate (most users aren't plotting space craft trajectories or performing complex matrix algebra). Excel has more than most users need and so does Word. Oddly enough, Works was free with the computer but I have yet to find anybody around me who uses it. They all went out and bought Excel and Word and the fact is they do far less on their systems than me. I am a sales rep handling multiple companies and multiple customers who buy some lines but not others. The database files aren't large 2 - 3000 records. The MSWorks program works totally in memory so sorting and filters are instantaneous. I can cut and paste records easily into the spreadsheet and into my Windows version of Open Office which I used to set up the order forms that my companies require (each requires a different order form). I use Open Office for this because the Works spreadsheet doesn't allow the embedding of graphics my orders often require graphic representations of what I need. I export the forms to pdf and email them to the various companies. So what is Linux missing ? (I'm writing this on my Linux system now) Something like Microsoft Works. A full integrated set of applications that isn't overloaded with features most people never use, allows easy cutting and pasting as well as database field embedding in form letters, has a small footprint, runs in memory and can export and import all the basic file formats (as Microsoft Works can). Then I would ditch Windows for good. Not that everything would be great with Linux. There's still the problem of driver support especially wireless USB and printers. My laptop's Linksys USB 1.0 802.11.b wireless network device is not recognised and my workhorse cheap Konica Minolta laser printer has no drivers for Linux. I know there is a ton of software available for Linux but the average user doesn't need a ton. A Swiss army knife with a couple of good blades, a scissors and a screwdriver covers alot of needs. Keep the corkscrew and the toothpick.
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iOS 7 completely changed the face of iOS by bringing major UI modifications and revamping the way the new iOS looks. There were a lot of features (mostly for design and animations) introduced for developers to make their apps look more compatible with iOS 7 design. It also brought in new animation system for creating 2D and 2.5D games which makes us spend less time on building cool animations in relatively shorter time frame.
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Entire iOS7 is based on simple and flat design for better user experience. Apple has completely overhauled its design but its so much easy to get used to and love the new design. You can say its a complete facelift which was well awaited by a lot of users – Visually everything has changed. Starting from lock screen, its pretty elegant and clean. The Lock screen is so much smoother – which is true for all the animations.
The top swipe is for a clean and useful notification center which is divided into three tabs – "Today, All and Missed". The Bottom swipe is Control center which is pretty new to iOS. This is what most of iOS users have longed for – It helps to toggle various settings pretty easily and quickly like AirPlane mode, Wifi and others. Airdrop is something new that has been introduced here which lets you share things among other AirDrop users. A bunch of most used apps have been integrated here which include the Torch, Clock, Calculator and the Camera app.
Every stock item has been updated, flattened and given a cleaner look. The new color palette – they are vibrant, vivid and shades of neon and pretty translucent. The wallpapers are given a 3d effect – when you move your phone the background moves in opposite direction giving an impression that icons are moving. Folders have changed from having 16 icons to have 9 at one time but are paginated. Spotlight search has been removed from the first screen and now you can just pull down on the home screen to get the search. Its pretty difficult to get to since we are not used to it. But using it more often will get you used to it and see why its been build here.
Siri also have changed to look pretty nice and clean. Camera app has more options and has swipe to change options. Most of the stock apps have been modified to make them look and blend into the new design. Overall – the new redesign in iOS7 is pretty awesome and makes user experience the best.


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Motion to approve Jan 13 minutes: MAC1, MC2. passed unanimously
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Susan did a month's worth of bills before leaving
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Wendy reconciled the Oct-Dec ledger from Accountant's office with our records. Things have gotten much better since last summer.
The town administrator recommended our budget less the money we're saving on the director's salary.
Wendy has trouble getting to the start of the Wednesday FinCom meetings. David will go to the Feb 18th FinCom and Bill will go to the Feb 25th. It may be that they'll be so riveted to their chairs by the excitement that they won't even slink out when Wendy arrives.
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The printer computer's monitor fried. Wendy replaced the monitor with a donated one from the basement.
Patrick came and met the staff and ate food Monday Feb 2. All went well.
Of the two trustees whose term is up: Richard is not running for reelection. Bill is. Perhaps Richard can visit as a citizen in connection with the fund raising letter which lapsed due to our directorial turmoil.
Discussion of Director's contract for next year (fiscal 2005). The issue is salary. Assuming he is a "keeper", a reasonable raise a year from his start date would translate to roughly a 1% increase for FY05. Thus:
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About the proposal: This proposal recommends expanding the network of state recreation areas in the Delta and Suisun Marsh, including units of the California State Parks system and other state outdoor recreation lands and programs.
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The proposal informs the Delta Stewardship Council, which may consider it as it prepares its plan for the Delta. The proposal will also inform the Delta Protection Commission, which is charged with developing an Economic Sustainability Plan, an important part of the overall Delta planning process.
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Washington is on edge over gun violence and possible new gun laws, which means there will be a lot of talk over the next few months about the business of selling and owning firearms, violent images in the media, the influence of the National Rifle Association, gun culture, hunting ducks--you name it.
In the swarm of verbiage that has already graced the newsprint and airwaves, a few concrete ideas have emerged about regulating guns: expanding background checks, banning assault weapons, and limiting high-capacity magazines.
Polling indicates that there is at least a slim majority of public support for each of those ideas. Since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn., last month, the public is tilting toward tighter gun laws. A United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll conducted last week showed 51 percent of respondents favor controlling gun ownership over protecting the rights of Americans to own guns. That's up from 47 percent in July, days after the mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., and up from 45 percent last April.
Every lawmaker has a disclaimer when it comes to proposals like this—the devil is in the details. Here are four sticky issues that could bedevil Congress and the Obama administration as they delve into an effort to craft legislation:
"The List." Almost everyone is in favor of background checks, with polls showing anywhere from 85 percent to 95 percent of respondents saying would-be gun purchasers should undergo a background check before they can walk out of a store packing heat. But a check against what? Did the person commit a crime? Or is the seller checking to find out whether the buyer at one point sought medical treatment for substance abuse or has been accused of stalking by a former (perhaps crazy) spouse? Who gets included on "the list" of people who can't own a gun?
Checking a potential buyer for a past crime is a no-brainer. An oft-cited poll from of Republican pollster Frank Luntz, conducted on behalf of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, says that 74 percent of NRA members favor "criminal background checks." A CNN/Opinion Research Council poll in December found that 95 percent of the public favored "a background check on anyone attempting to purchase a gun in order to determine whether the prospective buyer has been convicted of a felony." Of course they agree. It's easy when you put it that way.
It's also easy to agree with the notion that people with mental illnesses shouldn't be allowed to buy guns, as 80 percent of respondents told the Pew Research Center last week. But how do you identify them? Privacy and civil-rights questions pop up when lawmakers start discussing a national list of people who shouldn't own a firearm. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia recently upheld a lower court's decision barring a man permanently from buying a gun because he was fined $100 in 1968 for a misdemeanor assault in a street-gang scuffle. The man did no time for the incident, but because the state law didn't impose a time frame for the charge, he is on the list.
Defining Mental Illness. FBI guidelines on mental illness have yet to be updated and still refer to an "adjudicated mental defective" as a person who should be denied a gun purchase. The definitions of mental "defectiveness" are relatively narrow—involuntary commitment to a mental institution or being found not guilty in a criminal case by reason of insanity. That leaves out an array of people who probably shouldn't be sold a gun—suicide risks, for instance.
Lawmakers already are concerned that a shoring up the national database of people currently barred from owning a gun because of mental illness might run afoul of health care privacy laws. And that's with a narrow standard of involuntary commitment or being labeled by a judge as insane or incompetent to stand trial.
Lawmakers who are less friendly to the idea of new gun restrictions are asking why the current laws aren't first being fleshed out. "Before we look for political answer, let's find legal answers," said Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., who pointed out that the federal government does not prosecute most of the people who try to buy a gun and are turned away after a background check. Moreover, he said, the government hasn't used the few mechanisms it already has for easily finding out who is mentally incapable of owning a gun.
Defining the "Bad Guns." President Obama will include an assault-weapons ban on his list of To Do's for the Congress and the administration on guns. Gun owners like to point out that it's not entirely clear what an assault weapon is, other than that it looks scary.
"Good guns and bad guns. That's the problem with how we focus the issue. The appropriate question is, 'In whose hands are the guns?' " said Richard Feldman, president of the Independent Firearm Owners Association.
Even the most committed of gun-control advocates will admit that handguns are a far more prevalent problem in the United States than the semiautomatic firearms that are generally thought of as assault weapons. Yet banning handguns is out of the question, especially after the Supreme Court's 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller decision unequivocally stating an individual's right to own a firearm.
That leaves Obama and Democrats stuck with pushing for an assault-weapons ban, even though the last ban (from 1994 to 2004) grandfathered in existing assault rifles and allowed manufacturers to change a few specs on their new rifles to dodge the standards. It hardly seemed worth the effort.
It will also be tricky to determine just how many automatic bullets should be allowed in a rapid-fire magazine clip. Three? Ten? Twenty? Democrats in favor of restricting high-capacity magazines say that three bullets is enough to kill a duck or a quail. Fair enough, but gun enthusiasts say that 10 or 20 rounds makes more sense for people who possess firearms for self-defense purposes. How do negotiators strike a deal on that one?
(Feldman also is quick to point out that one can easily double the available rounds by simply owning two guns.)
Who's Gonna Pay? Any efforts to shore up safety in schools or take care of people who have mental disabilities or simply prosecute more unlawful gun buyers will cost money. And money is in short supply these days at both the federal and state levels.
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., pointed out in an op-ed on Tuesday that even the most commonsense ideas for curbing gun violence cost money. If you want to see a huge drain on a state or local treasury, try increasing the federal prosecutions for gun crimes, rather than using more lenient state laws, and incarcerating more of those those found guilty for longer. When Kaine was Virginia's governor, that's exactly what he did, as well as paying for strengthened standards on mental-health treatment and an expansion of community services.
Even the NRA's proposal to put armed guards in schools would cost money. NRA Executive Director Wayne LaPierre suggested that such funding could come from local communities and volunteers. However, it isn't at all clear that the communities that need the assistance the most would have the resources or the volunteers to put such a squadron together. In the tight budget setting of Capitol Hill, any costs associated with gun-related changes will have to come from somewhere else, and the chances are good that the guardians of that "somewhere else" will protest.
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Increasingly though, the cosmetic differences between the bikes are not very subtle at all. I have mentioned Armstrong's custom painted bikes a few times. Mark Cavendish's Scott Addict with fighter pilot graphics has been getting a lot of attention as well. As CyclingNews pointed out in a tech article today, personalized bikes at the Tour are becoming more and more commonplace. I have heard a little bit of talk about this trend lately. Some people enjoy seeing the variety of paint jobs and graphic schemes. Others believe that team bikes should look like team bikes… with identical graphics and paint, unless the rider earns the right to ride a custom painted bike (yellow to match the maillot jaune for instance). Personally, I enjoy seeing some of the team leaders on different looking bikes, but I can see how the trend might get out of hand. If every rider in the peloton had a bike painted with his national colors, or just favorite colors for that matter, it would probably get pretty confusing. So what do you all think? Is the personalization of bikes in the pro peloton a good thing, or is it just a distraction?
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---- — In my job, I spend a good part of the spring tracking down all the farmers markets in the Adirondack region.
The rising popularity of farmers markets — up nearly 25 percent over 2011 — demands that we keep our information current and accessible. There are plenty of places to find local, fresh food this year.
As I compile the information about the markets I have to pay special attention to documenting benefit programs in which the markets may participate. There are currently three types: Farmers Market Nutrition Program (FMNP) checks, Women, Infants and Children Vegetables and Fruits Check Program (WIC VF), and Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards. Because these three excellent programs are often under used at the farmers markets, I wanted to clarify them and encourage anyone who qualifies to make the most of the benefits.
The FMNP program has been in use at the markets for the longest period of time. It was established by Congress in 1992, to "provide fresh, unprepared, locally grown fruits and vegetables to WIC participants, and to expand the awareness, use of, and sales at farmers' markets".
These benefits are not to be confused with the WIC VF checks, which I will cover later in this column; these are part of a Special Supplemental Nutrition Program within WIC. Families who qualify for and participate in the WIC program are issued a packet of checks to use throughout the season specified for use to purchase local produce. New York State has nearly 4 million dollars in grant funds allocated towards FMNP checks — the largest allocation in the country.
Senior citizens may also be issued packets of FMNP checks. To determine if they are eligible to receive these checks, seniors should contact their local Office for the Aging.
These checks are a wonderful opportunity to increase the purchase and consumption of fresh, local food in our region. In 2011, 77 percent of the senior checks were redeemed in the tri-county area, but only 50 percent of those isseud to WIC recipients. If you are a recipient of these benefits, be sure to get to your farmers market and collect your produce.
Most farmers markets have at least one farmer participating in the FMNP program — they must meet state requirements for producing at least 50 percent of what they sell, and they're issued a stamp to be able to redeem the checks. A 2009 Journal of Nutrition article revealed that "farmers gain 7—9 percent more than the coupon redemption value through additional purchases" so this program benefits producers nicely.
The Women, Infants and Children Vegetables and Fruits Check Program (WIC VF) is relatively new on the scene, implemented in 2009. This program provides WIC moms and kids with regular WIC checks that can be used at either farmers markets or grocery stores to purchase fruits and vegetables. For farmers to redeem these checks, they must undergo an application and training process that is much more rigorous than for the FMNP checks, so fewer farmers participate at present. Check with your local market to see if the WIC VF checks are accepted there.
Lastly, Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards are being taken at some markets in our area. An EBT card is issued through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly the Food Stamp Program. Folks with EBT cards are welcome to use their benefits at markets that are set up with an EBT machine, which requires electricity and good cell service — not always available at rural markets.
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- Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
- Release Date: Dec 19, 2012
- Starring: Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant
- Summary: Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.
- Director: Michael Haneke
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance
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Positive: 42 out of 44
Mixed: 2 out of 44
Negative: 0 out of 44
This is an unforgettable love story set at the close of day, as tragic and beautiful in its way as "Tristan und Isolde," and a portrait of the impossible beauty and fragility of life that will yield new experiences to every viewer and every viewing.
Michael Haneke's Palme D'Or winner is uncomfortable, uncompromising, unflinching... and utterly unmissable. Old age may not be a reality you wish to confront, but you must see this film.
More arduously, Riva is obliged to act out the physical decline while still registering a full spectrum of emotions. Remarkably, she does it all, even when reduced to communicating with her eyes alone. Hers is, in every sense of the phrase, a nakedly honest performance.
What makes Amour so strong and clear is that it allows Haneke to anatomize his own severity.
This may sound depressing and, in a sense it is, but these things are part of life and Haneke conveys them with a simplicity that is heartbreaking.
Nov 12, 2012This isn't the work of a newly moral or humanistic filmmaker, but another ruse by the same unscrupulous showman whose funny games have been beguiling us for years.
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Positive: 33 out of 43
Mixed: 5 out of 43
Negative: 5 out of 43
Feb 11, 2013Georges and Anne love each other. However, the film director gives us a mixed-up message regarding their relationship. At the beginning of the film, when the couple is at the kitchen table, Georges sees that the sugar bowl is empty, complains to her and gets upset. Moments later he gets irritated with her when she does not understand something he is talking about. Then they start to argue. Days later, when she is sick and he tries to give her some water, she gets angry and reacts in an unexpected manner. Georges response to her is shocking. Is this the first time, or has he done it before? This couple loves each other in their own particular way. They are not physically affectionate, I don't think they kiss during the whole movie, I could be wrong. They don't have either a loving extended family. Georges caresses a pigeon to get the tenderness he does not have. Georges face expression does not change the whole movie. He has a permanent expression of concern and numbness. He is empty, he is not, in the true sense of the word, alive. He is simply performing the task that has been handed to him. The title of the movie is "Amour" (Love). However when you leave the movie theater the last feeling you have is a loving feeling. You feel numb, empty, like Georges. It is like he has come out from the screen and swallowed you and you have become part of him. I think that this is an outstanding achievement of the director of the film. To have the ability to put the audience in such a mood. I think a very important aspect of the movie is to make you feel what Georges is feeling. Everything is going slow, you are most of the time in the corner of one room or at the bedside, there is almost not furniture, it is kind of dark.… Expand
Jul 3, 2013The story is so masterfully told, it's not even funny. It's heartbreaking, depressing, beautiful and lovely. It's told in the most stylish of ways and it's just masterful. Its beautifully crafted, and radiantly acted.… Expand
Jan 17, 2013Ultimate cinematic perfection ! this film is the symbol of life and love. Not only is it beautifully crafted but the acting is impeccable highlighting the honest and true nature of the screenplay, in my eyes film can get no better .
Haneke is the best director of 2012 and produced the best film too.… Expand
Feb 6, 2013In a perfect world Emmanuelle Riva would win the Oscar for Best Actress but then, in a perfect world, her co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant would at least have received a nomination for Best Actor and he didn't. In "Amour", the movie they costar in, they are not actors creating roles but real people you believe in, understand, feel for and identify with, no matter your age.
"Amour" is a mass of contradictions showing all sides of life and love and that neither life or love, or both, mean 'happily ever after'. The film is a depressing one but, at the same time, shows you how two people can love each other without saying the words. We know how the movie will end because it starts with the police breaking into an apartment and finding Anne, (Emmanuelle Riva) dead in bed surrounded by flowers. After that the title is announced, the credits start and the next scene shows Anne and Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant), retired music teachers, at a concert given by a former student and then the following morning, when, at the breakfast table, she starts staring off into space and suffers a stroke caused by a blocked carotid artery .
The screenplay by Michael Haneke, who also directed, tells the story from the male point of view when half of a devoted team becomes a caretaker and watches the partner he has loved for so long deteriorate. At first he tries to handle it alone but it becomes too much and he hires two nurses but finds one treating his wife like a baby and taking away her dignity so with much rage showing in his eyes and controlled voice he tells her to get out. Their daughter Eva (Isabelle Huppert) lives overseas, very much involved with tensions between her and her husband, and has drifted from her parents though she remembers walking in on them when she was young and they were having sex, making love and enjoying it closing out the rest of the world, including her.
Watching Riva and Trintignant expressing love with touches, looks, smiles and memories makes you forget you are watching a movie with actors being told where to stand and what to say. You feel you are looking into a world very few couples ever experience and the consequences of life no matter how much you love someone.
"Amour" is a very slow moving movie but every moment counts and you get so caught up with the couple there are two points that you will involuntarily gasp as the whole audience does and when the movie ends you want it to go on. The ending caused many controversies between moviegoers as they walked out of the auditorium.
This is a special love story showing what can happen at the end rather than at the beginning of mating for life, for 'better or worse'.
A MUST SEE MOVIE--HOPEFULLY WILL WIN OSCAR FOR BEST FOREIGN MOVIE!… Expand
Jan 15, 2013This is a typical movie that film critics love but is hard to like. The wife of an elderly couple gets a stroke, and from there it goes downhill. The film is incredibly slow but also realistic and as the woman's health and mental state deteriorate it becomes more difficult for the man to cope with the situation and also for you as a viewer more irritating to watch. Watching this film is like spending time in a retirement home, it's depressing, you don't wanna stay longer then necessary and you're glad when it's over.… Expand
Jul 14, 2013Sweet Jesus, the only one that deserves an award is the audience, and being able to sit through this without...falling........asleeeeeppppp....
This movie is completely lifeless, void of any dynamic, the characters are far more boring than anyone can ever be in real life, and you will have a hard time not wishing for them to just die so the movie can end. I am not sure who exactly is sitting on that Cannes jury, but they seem to have forgotten that the one main element that makes a movie good is whether or not the audience is entertained.… Expand
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