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This article and the video are inaccurate. There was no 360 degree scanning involved. At no time did the phone or the image review go beyond 180 degrees. They never scanned all the way around the item or the person.
You must actually make a 360 degree scan to call it 360 degrees.
The plastic model shown of the dude's head had a jagged, rough chunk where the back of his head should be.

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I have quoted the great Zen poet Basho many times to you: "Sitting silently, doing nothing, the spring comes and the grass grows by itself." As far as upanishadic methodology is concerned, even doing nothing is not needed. And what are you going to do even if the grass grows by itself? Whether you sit silently or not, it will grow. Whether you sit silently or not, the spring will come. You are unnecessarily taking the credit for the grass growing by itself - because you have been sitting silently, doing nothing! Even when you were not, the grass used to grow; when you will not be here the grass will continue to grow. It has nothing to do with you. The upanishad does not even ask you to sit silently doing nothing. Even doing nothing is a doing.
The whole approach of the upanishad is so totally different. The disciple is available, the master is overflowing, and something transpires. Nobody is doing it. Nobody can take the credit for it. Hence I say the way of the upanishad is the most mysterious way in the whole human consciousness and its evolution.
Zen is mysterious, but yet it can be understood. Upanishad is simply mysterious; there is no way of understanding it. You can have it, you can dissolve into it, but there is no question of explanation - only experience.
All over the world there have been mystery schools. In Greece, Pythagoras founded mystery schools. In the religion of the Jews, Baal Shem founded a mystery school called Hasidism. In China there is the mystery school of Tao, and when Buddhism reached China a new mystery school, a chain of new mystery schools opened, ch'an. The same mystery school, ch'an, reached Japan with the name zen. But the word zen or ch'an, or the Buddhist word jhan are all different forms of the Sanskrit word dhyan.
In India dhyan has been known for centuries - that mystery school was there before Gautam Buddha ever meditated.
There was the mystery school of Tantra. There were the mystery schools of different types of Yoga.
I have gone through all these schools not as a scholar - that is not my approach - but as an experiencer. I can say to you: nothing rises higher than the mystery school of upanishads - because it is the shortest. Nobody is expected to do anything, and yet the miracle happens.
Osho,What is the difference between religious scriptures like the Gita, the Koran, the Bible, etc., and the Upanishads?
First, the Upanishads are not religious scriptures. They are poetic expressions of those who have known.
They are not Hindu, they are not Buddhist, they are not Jaina; they don't belong to any religion. They are the experiences of individuals sitting at the feet of their master - and when the experience overwhelmed them they danced, they sang, they uttered strange statements. And these were not made by their minds; it was almost as if they were just hollow bamboos. Existence has made them flutes; it was existence itself singing a song. That's why no upanishad carries the name of its writer.
The Koran belongs to Mohammed, the New Testament belongs to Jesus Christ, the Gita belongs to Krishna, the Dhammapada belongs to Gautam Buddha; Ishavasya Upanishad belongs to no one.


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In researching my own geneology I came across a Capt. Laughton. He operated a steamboat (1844) called the "BEAVER" formally called the "COLBOURNE"(1832). He was partners with a man named Charles Thompson. They ferried new immigrants to Canada mainly via Lake Simcoe. You might find something more about this man if you check out the history of Simcoe County. I am in this area so if I can help out drop me a line. Don't know if they are one in the same....but I thought I'd let you know. Good Luck!!!
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The government has announced the results of its consultation with the public and other interested parties on plans for "smart" energy meters to be installed in all British homes and businesses. The most controversial aspects of the devices - the fact that they will effectively allow remote control of a home by energy companies …
Oh good...
I was so bored of having to make all those tedious "energy management" decisions myself. I'll happily entrust this complex and difficult task to a group of people including the Government (who've led us into bankruptcy), the energy companies (who have managed to get one in three bills wrong-in their favour), and the green lobby (Read Orlowski for full details of their most recent triumphs).
Are we really going to have another six months of this before an election?
However, whilst we wait for the election, shall we pass the time by suggesting some campaign slogans?
"Labour: It's not fascism when we do it"
Sky box in charge of your house
Wll, they never asked me what I want, and I dont want.
Didn't ask me either. Anyone out there that they did ask?
They did ask
There was a full public consultation.
No point in moaning just because you were to lazy to get involved.
No there wasn't...
I saw no posters, heard nothing on the radio, and no one ever said anything about tv ads about this, also if there was it would have been picked up on this site before hand!
I dont want either
... so I look forward to various 'work arounds' if these things are pushed upon me.
...it was on this site.
They even gave a link at the end of the article taking you directly to the consultation. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT???
I'll repeat. Just because people were too lazy (thick?) to partake is not a valid reason for them to complain.
claiming here was a full public consultation.
is not justified by a single link to a story on one site! pull your head out of your arse.
Where was it announced?
In the name of god...
...what do you want them to do? Come down your house, do the questionnaire in person - taking dictation?
It was all over the press, it was fully publicised. One person claimed it wasn't even on this site and it takes about 30 seconds to prove that it was. You want me to trawl round ever paper and get a link for you? No wonder you never heard about the consultation if you think everyone should do your work for you and hand it to you on a silver platter.
You obviously weren't paying attention/didn't care and now it's all some one else's fault that you didn't know about it. Learn to take some responsibility would you?
I'm not the most clued up person on the machinations of UK politics, but even I managed to send in a reply on the consultation. It can't be that difficult if I can manage it!
Oh goody!
Leaving privacy aside for a second.
They'll have some shitty development team involved from EDS! Which will no doubt result in an entire street of explosions. Someone leaving the gas on, the meter cutting the power, then coming back, thus flooding the house with gas. Owner walks in, lights on, boom!
I bet the gov can't wait, getting complete control over every house's amenities? Knowing when you flush the kharzi to when you get up in the night and get a cold drink from the fridge! All these gov snoopers are wetting themselves at the prospect all that data and all that control!
Might be time to follow Mother Shipton's example and bog off to some cave in the middle of nowhere!
How about a ...
Android OS for the meter?
A remote cut off?
That seems incredibly risky, what if there is some sort of software fault, or the system becomes compromised. It would be intresting to see what happens if for some reason half the country was commanded to switch off and then switch back on again, I don't think we'd be left with much functioning infrastructure!
Though I agree that load balancing should be part of future smart meters, but implemented in such a way that only compatibe appliances respond to its requests. So you'd buy a modern fridge with a chip in it and it would adjust its compressor run times depending on the available energy, in return you's get a slight reduction in £/kwh. This sort of technology can make wind power feasible for more than a small percentage of installed capacity without having to build dozens of Dinorwig type stored energy plants.
All of this can be implemented without any sort of snooping of your usage patterns.
,,,what if there is some sort of software fault...
..its not a case of IF, but WHEN.
I don't see the problem
Really, if you don't pay your bill then you can expect to get cut off anyway.
What's more interesting is, will it be able to handle spikes in demand, for instant, half time on FA cup final day, or half time during the World Cup final, or the end of a blockbuster like Kylie and Jason's wedding in Neighbours a few years back, etc, etc, etc.
Yes for reasonable steady consumption, it will be a benefit, I believe so anyway. As for the fears of direct marketing from the data, surely people have heard of the Mailing Preference Service by now, or at least know how to mark unwanted email as spam.
Nasty intrusive, unwanted, unnecessary
"What's more interesting is, will it be able to handle spikes in demand, for instant, half time on FA cup final day, or half time during the World Cup final, or the end of a blockbuster like Kylie and Jason's wedding in Neighbours a few years back, etc, etc, etc."
That's not handling spikes in demand, that's forcing the user to eliminate the spikes. How do you plan to do that? Presumably turn off some non-essential appliance during the spike remotely.
Non essential appliance, being what? Do you know better than I do, what my non essential appliances are? No! No you don't. So remote cut off should not be in the hands of the electricity companies. NANNY electricity company DOES NOT KNOW BEST.
"As for the fears of direct marketing from the data, surely people have heard of the Mailing Preference Service by now,"
Go away. Nobody has the right to violate my privacy, a spam filter is not the fix for the privacy violation.
IMHO, What should happen is the electricity companies provide multiple supplies (down the same cable). e.g. reliable, intermittent, cheap rate.
The user decides which device it connects to which supply at which time. Each supply may be from a different provider, it's all just software so it makes no difference.
The box get the info and the power is drawn from the device. If it can't get the power according to the config, then the device is switched off.
None of this configuration data is any business of the power companies, only the usage of each bank of electricity.
None of my personal usage pattern is any business of the power companies. All that matters is that there was 2khw at cheap rate from provider A, and 3kwh of intermittent power from provider B, and 1k of continuous, etc.
Privacy of the usage data needs to be protected by law, and THAT INCLUDES THE POLICE. So I don't want to see doors kicked in and kids terrorised just because some jackass in ACPO thinks that houses with high overnight usage are growing pot and fancies grabbing the data with a RIPA request.
If you do not pay the bill?????
One time as a boy I remember our electrical utility bill always arrived late.
So we pay by mail and they say they never got it.
So then my mother religiously sent it via certified (costs $1)which means a person has to sign it
as proof of being delivered.
Then my mother got another notice that it was not paid again and this time She has proof that she did.
Sometimes the bill dept is so messed up I wonder how far the billing design processed has improved if any.
Oh really?
A short while ago my mother was a day late paying her paper bill, having been a customer of the same newsagents and paid on time for thirty five years, the very next day there was no paper.
Fairly trivial, but thats just the sort of crappy 'customer driven,, shite this society is been driven into by accounting retards who know the price of everything and the value of nothing such as customer lolalty.
Pay up and fuck off.
Needless to say she gets the paper from another shop now.
why not add cameras?
Add cameras in every room and then the govmint could monitor all activity in the house and not just activity that uses energy. They could also add controls to the TV and radio so that they can send us important announcements. While they're at it lets rename the country to "Airstrip One".
So how do you .....
Reboot your meter ?
Is it like an Amstrad Sky HD box ?
Do you have to pull the power out of it and wait for ten seconds when it bricks itself ?
Oh god, what if Amstrad get the contract for the meters, we're all doomed !
A little more high tech...
but I'm pretty sure Winston Smith would recognise the principles at the root of this.
As for being able to turn gas supplies off and back on remotely! You have GOT to be fucking joking. Even restricting the flow of gas into a property may result in reduced pressure at the appliance, inefficient combustion and an increase of toxic combustion products, ie, Carbon Monoxide.
Of course, if you're a member of the Inner Party, there'll be no worries about fuel supplies for you. ("Throw another prole on the fire on the way out Jeves, there's a good chap!")
Maybe that's the deal?
"Even restricting the flow of gas into a property may result in reduced pressure at the appliance, inefficient combustion and an increase of toxic combustion products, ie, Carbon Monoxide."
Vote Labour or we gas your family?
It's a strategy, isn't it? If you vote for us, you get a free laptop, broadband and money (have they announced that one yet?) if not, it's lights out for you and everyone you hold near and dear.
Granted, it's not subtle, but surely it's justified if they are going to hold onto some of those tricky marginal seats occupied by such scary people as Ed Balls.
Icon for the obvious.
Not as bad as it sounds
Surely this will open up the chance for the energy companies to offer cheaper tariffs to those that agree to be restricted to a certain maximum load level. If people want to run more stuff, they can switch to energy saving bulbs, etc.
Light saving bulbs
As if anything other than those awful, yellow, dull, lifeless depressingly dim bulbs (with a moronic three pin socket) will be available in a couple of years.
Would be useful...
...in detecting Dope farms, though!
Wonder if there is any scope in setting up a company to sell 'filter' plugs that would stop the meters querying intelligent devices through the mains wiring.
Mind you, the data would be a thieves delight if the system was broken. Remotely knowing nobody was home without having to be parked outside could be very useful.
Really? When did you last hear of a dope farm that *hadn't* bypassed the meter?
...errm not really
...as had been reported dope farm managers tend to bypass the meter to run their lamps and heaters, so no amount of tech in any form is of any use - thats what pisses the power companies off.
So you guys are saying...?
They're not paying for the juice at Parliament but the LEB hasn't sussed yet?
mass lawsuits anybody?
Turn my gas off and making me and my family freeze, or killing the electricity powering the lights midway coming down the staris with baby and I'll take the bastards to court for trying to kill me and my baby.
Will they also replace my entire freezer contents when it goes off when they've decided to cut power to my freezer for hours or whne there system screws up and crashes? My PC will they recover all the data and replace the hard drive when they kill the power and crash my PC?
Sounds like a plan that asks for lawsuits countrywide!
@SimonB and his mass lawsuits
What you forget is that New Labour is big business's bitch.
You don't seriously think they would bring this in without including legislation that completely indemnifies the energy companies for any suits for any action, inaction or outright incompetence on their part do you?
Well at least they're planning for when out nuclear reactors go off line, they'll just manage it with rolling powercuts using their new fandangled smart meters.
They've left building new power stations way too late, they have no contingency plans for the fossil fuel peak that the International Energy Agency freely accept are on the way, but at least they can turn the lights out for us so we don't have to worry about that when the demand starts to exceed capacity.
Is there anything this government WONT try and take control over?!?
How about ...
Hard to regulate for sure.
On radio 4 news a couple of days ago, they were at pains to point out that:
1) The meters will not network back to the individual energy company, instead there will be a central meter management company who will collate and pass information to back to the individual energy comapnies.
2) The energy companies will not be able to make the decision to cut someone off, they will have to get a court order and present it to the management companies, in much the same way that they have to get a warrant to enter your property to cut you off at the moment.
As for active energy management - It won't apply to Gas, except in that your gas boiler may be able to be sent a signal to tell it not to switch on. Your fridge/freezer/washing machine/tumble drier will have to have extra hardware or be a specifically enabled type of device to get the 'switch off/don't switch on' command. You will also be able to override any 'switch off', if required.
So yet another QUANGO with their snouts in the trough is supposed to re-assure us?
And I will have to buy a bunch of much more intelligent 'smart' appliances and network them all together for the sole benefit of these energy companies?
And I have to trust that this new management QUANGO isn't completely incompetent and that they don't contract out the development of the new (and expensive) management systems to a bunch of incompetents. Because Government outsourcing has such a history of outstanding success.
And I have to trust that, unlike my mobile 'phone company, some corrupt employee won't sell on my personal information to some unethical marketing organisation?
And I should trust that the government won't do what they've done with every other piece of legislation: extend it to cover cases they specifically said wouldn't be allowed. For example the tailing of so-called school-place cheats using terrorist legislation?
I wouldn't trust any Government with that level of control and access let alone New Labour that has repeatedly shown itself to be corrupt.
"2) The energy companies will not be able to make the decision to cut someone off, they will have to get a court order and present it to the management companies, in much the same way that they have to get a warrant to enter your property to cut you off at the moment."
At which time, somebody in a call centre miles from where you live (quite possibly on another continent) miskeys the reference number for someone who is due to be disconnected, and you get unplugged instead. Can you honestly say this won't happen? When half of the companies on the internet can't even get my postal address correct because I live in a flat and it confuses the postcode lookup, do you really think the triply-outsourced-by-a-quango monkeys who will be operating this system will get it right?
wish I'd caught that one
Normally I'm glued to the radio while working, must have been out when it was aired. shame.
Not going to be a QUANGO
It's highly unlikely that the meters would be looked after by a QUANGO, the chances are it'll be a PFI like the Gas Safety Register (formerly CORGI) or run along the lines of Northern Rock, the nationalised rail companies or something like that.
A QUANGO is an organisation that some of the function of government has been devolved to, usually a regulator or somthing like the Press Complaints Commission etc. The company
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There is just as much chance of that happening as there is of someone mis-keying information at the moment and having you cut off.
So, yes there is probably a vanishingly small chance that someone could get cut off by mistake, in very much the same was that there is currently. I don't hear of people being mistakenly cut off left right and centre though, do you?
How about...
I sent that link to my sister at the time, as they were seriously threatening her and she wasn't even with them!
Power to the smart meter...
So who pays for the power that the smart meter uses to run? :)
Never be more than 10% implemented.
Typical FUD.....
For this to be anything more than an exercise in job cutting by getting rid of the army of meter readers requires either the cooperation of every manufacturer of electrical equipment on the planet or for the power companies to extend their responsibility beyond the meter/main fuse which would cost them a fortune !
Under the current system/legislation all they would have is their smart meter/controller across the main feed to your house and would be able to see how the usage for the whole house is changing. Yes they could assume if they saw an increase equivalent to a 2.8KW load that you have turned the kettle on but you could also be taking a shower or be using an electric fire. There would be no way to implement remote control.
To extend beyond this would require every piece of electrical equipment to have some form of comms built-in which is pretty much impractical. Anything over the mains is too easily disrupted by a simple filter, wired networking is easily unplugged and also requires the power company to assume responsibility in the home, wireless is again easily blocked or disrupted.
Lets assume that the technical difficulties are overcome and the full capabilities are realised consider the following example - your elderly parent comes home from hospital and now has a respirator and some dork at the ministry of power compliance sees the load has gone up substantially the last 2 weeks, decides you're a bad person and shuts it down during peak ! So we now have to start informing the power companies of changes in our private lives so they don't kill us inadvertently.
Ok it's an extreme example but it's the sort of thing ( and much more ) they would have to manage if they wanted to take the proposals to their ultimate end.
The cost involved is phenominal and would also require substantial changes to current legislation.
I suspect all you'll ever see is remote meter reading and a better way to see your usage in real time than the current spinning wheel.
nothing to do with Lord Truscott, then?
What happens if...
What if I'm in the middle of some electrically-powered medical process, like, say, I live in an iron lung? And the Powers That Be decide to limit my electricity usage for a while?
For that matter, what if I'm running on a treadmill and they cut the power -- can I sue for damages?
If you're running on a treadmill why haven't you hooked that up to a dynamo?
re: What happens if...
"What if I'm in the middle of some electrically-powered medical process, like, say, I live in an iron lung? And the Powers That Be decide to limit my electricity usage for a while?"
Because that's not how "smart" meters work. The meter asks a smart device to turn itself off (or otherwise reduce power). The capability has to be built into your appliance/device. I don't see anyone building an iron lung with this sort of power management capability...
The New Labour dictatorship strikes again.
How can anyone be surprised?
New Labour are hell bent on controlling our lives and pandering to the slightest twitch of big business (and they know that pays off: look at Tony Blair).
Gordon Brown has less of a public mandate than even Adolf Hitler had. It's time for him to go.
Gordon Brown's mandate
Is the same as John Major's was in 1990. You don't vote for a Prime Minister, you vote for an MP. MPs choose the Prime Minister and they could pick a new one every week if they wanted.
And don't expect anything different from the Tories if they win, pandering to big business is practically their manifesto, but at least they're honest about it. Of course, Gordon Brown may follow John Major's example and form an unpopular minority government at the next election...
I don't really see the problem. What good can it possibly do for my energy supplier to dick around with my supply? They can already cut it off they need to.
As for the government wanting to know what I get up to - nah. You might like to think you're important enough for the government to care but it's unlikely.
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A little extra information on a vaccine's label--like the duration of immunity offered by the product--can help cattle producers select a respiratory vaccine that best fits their herd health program.
"Duration of immunity label claims can help give producers confidence that their cattle will be protected against respiratory disease throughout the high-challenge periods," says Jon Seeger, DVM, Pfizer Animal Health Cattle and Equine Technical Services.
Vaccines with demonstrated duration of immunity claims--based on disease challenge studies--help offer protection against the specific pathogen for at least the number of days stated on the label. Historically, duration of immunity data has not been required. This means, for example, that a label that reads "annual revaccination" may not denote disease protection for 12 months, Dr. Seeger says.
He adds that since not all vaccines have the same, or any, duration of immunity label claims, producers should choose one that covers the desired phase of production.
"Producers need to think about the challenges and periods of stress cattle face on their operations," Seeger says. "Once they work with their veterinarian to determine their needs, producers can match this with the vaccine that has the capability to help provide protection for the entire production phase. The duration of immunity may be longer than what they need--it's most important that it doesn't fall short."
When managing respiratory disease challenges, Seeger recommends producers work with their veterinarian to develop a vaccination program that includes a respiratory vaccine such as Bovi-Shield GOLD 5. It helps provide the protection needed to help prevent respiratory disease through each production phase--allowing for maximum flexibility in timing vaccinations to when producers are handling cattle.
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In Minaj's eyes, Wayne's own experimental antics provide her comfort in what she does on and off the microphone.
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The rapper also described the sacrifice to privacy she has subscribed to since becoming a Young Money star.
"Yeah, of course it gets harder, but it's one of those things. It's the price that you pay. Everyone knows when they get into this game, they kind of know that they're bartering their privacy and they're bartering peace of mind in order to win. None of this comes for free. It's an exchange; you're always exchanging one thing for the other. Obviously what I've gotten so far outweighs the things that I've had to trade in." (Hip Hop DX)
Not only a risk taker in music, Minaj's stylist Niki Schwan recently revealed her fearless approach in physical appearance.
"She never takes herself too seriously, which makes this outlandish fun style really approachable and that appeals to women and girls in a huge way. She incorporates tons of humor into her style and is fearless in her approach, which I think people really admire and appreciate — as an artist, a woman, and a rising icon. She really pushes women and girls to have fun with their style, to be unique unto yourself…which sums up her statement, in a way, without even really trying." (Ottawa Citizen)
This week, Young Money's Shanell aka SNL discussed Weezy's overall trust and motivation for signing each artist.
"Wayne's reason for choosing each and every one of us, [in] Young Money, is that we are talented in our own way and we do know how to create our own music and create our own world," Shanell revealed in an interview. "It's the only place that I've seen where you can actually do that. I think what I am for Young Money is that tool to sort of go outside of the norm. That's my challenge and my responsibility is to be able to go outside of what Young Money is comfortable with, bring in a new audience and bring in new people to work with." (Billboard)
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Remakes often get slagged, and for good reason. The very concept is a stick in the eye of originality, and for every "Ocean's Eleven" that manages to take a clever concept and execute it better, there are dozens of crass and pointless efforts like the 2011 version of "The Thing," which could not possibly have improved upon John Carpenter's 1982 masterpiece (itself actually a remake of the 1951 creeper "The Thing From Another World!," which was inspired by John W. Campbell Jr.'s classic 1938 novella Who Goes There?). But remakes have been around since the beginning of cinema, particularly where adaptations are concerned — Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist had been adapted three times already before David Lean got ahold of it in 1948 (four more adaptations have followed, with a gender-switched version, "Olivia Twisted," in development).
So, it's not terribly surprising that this Valentine's Day, Friday, February 14, three remakes will compete for audiences: "Robocop," "Endless Love" and "About Last Night," which is based on David Mamet's breakthrough 1974 play Sexual Perversity in Chicago. But the question remains: Can a remake truly be justified? We here at Word & Film would like to give it a try, so we've decided to pitch half a dozen adaptations that we genuinely think could benefit from a new take.
A Wrinkle in Time
A pillar of mid-century science fiction, Madeleine L'Engle's award-winning 1962 young adult novel is a spooky and inventive head trip that seems to find its way into the hands of each new generation of readers. It took forty years for anyone to get an adaptation on screen, and that turned out to be a little-seen TV movie that ABC put together in 2003. With its complex, relatable female hero and franchise potential (there are four other books in the series), L'Engle's book is deserving of a serious film version with today's special effects. As it happens, ABC's parent company, Disney, has been developing a big-screen movie for years, though it's doubtful that the Mouse House would produce a faithful adaptation that retains the novel's spiritual complexity. Here's hoping the rights lapse and get snatched up by a smart and gutsy producer.
The Color Purple / Breakfast at Tiffany's
Many people champion Steven Spielberg's 1985 version of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel, adapted for the screen by Menno Meyjes. And it did draw eleven Oscar nominations that year. But it didn't win any. And while it's certainly a well-made film, Spielberg made the same shameful omission that Blake Edwards and George Axelrod did with their much-loved 1961 adaptation of Truman Capote's famous 1958 novella: he removed the gay. Spielberg didn't yet have the clout or the chops in 1985 to retain the lesbianism of Walker's harrowing story, and industry censors in 1961 would never have allowed a "Tiffany's" narrator that was explicitly gay (Capote himself kept it very subtle). Both works deserve film treatments that reflect the current gay-friendly times. Of course, Edwards also ditched many of the grittier elements of Holly's story and tacked on a Hollywood ending that subverted the whole nature of the story and its characters. A modern retelling could correct those mistakes, too — and think how great it would be to wipe Mickey Rooney's cringe-worthy portrayal on Mr. Yunioshi from the collective conscience?
Philip Roth's third novel, published to not insignificant uproar in 1969, is as hilarious and filthy as they come. Brilliant screenwriter Ernest Lehman, who turned the book into his directorial debut in 1972, was no stranger to difficult and scabrous material, having adapted Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and his own short story "Sweet Smell of Success" into great, classic films. But his "Portnoy," which starred Richard Benjamin and Karen Black, was a mess and pretty universally loathed (you could say there were a lot of complaints). To be fair, translating Roth's acid satire, Jewish caricatures, long narcissistic rants, and graphic sex would be difficult under any circumstances. But 2014 is not 1972, and 21st-century independent cinema is rife with daring filmmakers who could (and should) turn the story into a blisteringly funny black comedy.
Two versions of Joseph Heller's classic 1953 satire about the absurdity of war have been made: a 1973 ABC TV movie starring Richard Dreyfuss, and the 1970 film made by Mike Nichols and Buck Henry that starred Alan Arkin, Art Garfunkel, and Richard Benjamin (poor Richard Benjamin!!). Heller's novel, about a World War II bombardier sabotaged by his own sanity, is a sprawling book with challenging time shifts and a tightrope tone. Nichols managed to botch most of it with jarring tonal swings, unnecessary oversimplifications, and a chronological structure. Twenty-first century audiences are much more attuned to the use of fragmented narrative and shifting perspective, and the themes of the story resonate with each new generation and each new conflict. A more sophisticated interpretation of Heller's loopy cri de coeur would provide a fascinating commentary on the era of the war on terrorism.
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Brian De Palma's 1990 adaptation of Tom Wolfe's biting, serialized 1987 bestseller is usually cited as one of the top five most disastrous cinematic outings of modern times. Critics typically point to the ludicrous casting, but pretty much the whole enterprise is clumsy and misguided. So just for pride's sake, Hollywood should give Wolfe's book another shot. A clever filmmaker could take the spirit of the book, which focused on the excesses of the '80s, and turn its satiric lens on the gross income inequality of the 21st century, with its fat cats and bailouts and failure bonuses and subprime loan scams (as well as the digital-era media that covers and colludes with it). As a bonus, a "Bonfire" plot applied to the post-2008 economic meltdown would make a telling corollary to the voracious malfeasance of "The Wolf of Wall Street."
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In a blog entry last week we mentioned that the Vikings still had a shot to finish the regular season with the #1 rushing defense, which would've marked the 4th consecutive season they accomplished such a feat.
At the time, they were 4th and right on the heels of the Bengals (#2) and Steelers (#3) and about 5.0 yards per game behind the Packers (#1).
As it turns out, the Vikings were indeed able to close the gap on all 3 teams ahead of them, but they weren't able to vault up to the #1 spot. The Bengals surrendered 257 rushing yards to the Jets on Sunday night and fell all the way to 7th while the Steelers allowed Miami to net 99 rushing yards, which dropped them to 3rd.
All of that allowed the Vikings to jump up to #2 after holding the NY Giants rushing attack to just 35 yards on Sunday afternoon. The Packers, playing at Arizona against a barely-trying Cardinals club, held the home team to 48 net yards rushing and were able to hold off the Vikings for the #1 spot.
In the end, Green Bay finished the regular season allowing 83.3 rushing yards per game and 3.6 yards per attempt, while the Vikings finished close behind at 87.1 rushing yards per game and 3.9 yards per attempt. Even though the Vikings weren't able to finish atop the league again in rushing defense, it was good to see them finish the season on a strong note by holding a Giants team that normally runs the ball well to just 35 net yards.
And, after all, boasting the 1st, 1st, 1st and 2nd-best rushing defenses in the last 4 years is nothing at which to scoff.
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By rap99 on Jan 6, 2010 | Reply
if we want to advance in the playoffs, the pass D, and pass rush better turn it up a few notches.
By Dennis on Jan 6, 2010 | Reply
A few points scored by our defense for a change certainly wouldn't hurt the effort as well
By brad on Jan 6, 2010 | Reply
i agree we need to work on the 'pass defense". the cornerback better start reviewing some previous games…arizona and greenbay…as either of them can be our next opponent .
By Vernon on Jan 6, 2010 | Reply
If we could come up with some better blitz packages we could be more successful.
By paul on Jan 6, 2010 | Reply
The Giants team last Sunday was not the one that normally runs the ball well, this was there 3rd. string unit.
Get use to being #2
By richard doricchi on Jan 6, 2010 | Reply
Way to go Vikings you are the best team out there. i am looking forward to you kicking some butt. Congrats on all the Vikings making it to the Pro Bowl. but i know they arent going to play in it when we are going to the Super Bowl a week later. anyway GO VIKINGS GREAT Job so far lets finish it up V.W.O.
By Lito on Jan 6, 2010 | Reply
Well done Vikings. Keep it up. Just three more wins for a potential new stadium, Otherwise, the club might become the LA Vikings. it's been about 3 decades and Vikes have yet to win it's first SUper Bowl win. Good luck!
By VikingsFanatic on Jan 7, 2010 | Reply
Well being top ranked or near the top in run defense is an odd stat. Good teams who have early leads will usually be up there because they force the teams trying to come back to bandon the run and thus give up fewer yards per game. So i dont really put much into that. How about Percy? Listen to that young man speak with such poise after winning the rookie of the year bodes well for his future. Hes all about T_E_A_M.
Hopefully everyones getting rested. I agree with Vernon as far as better blitz packages being needed. I know were a 4-3 team but we can still overload blitz with a linebacker and a safety. And the corner blitz is being under utilized. Well we got a lil more time to rest and watch other teams beat the snot out of each other this weekend. Lets hope we have a good start out of the gate in the post season and that our road ends with some big smiles iin Miami. GO VIKES!!
By CA Norwegian on Jan 7, 2010 | Reply
If you only count home games, what are the stats?
By Canadian Viking on Jan 7, 2010 | Reply
I think it is impossible for us to play the cardinals in the next round, they have the worst record of the four teams left which means if they win they will play the Saints. But if Green Bay and Dallas win who do we play? Or for that matter if Green Bay and Philly win who do we play? Three teams tied at 11-5 with the same amount of conference wins.
By jj on Jan 7, 2010 | Reply
it goes by seed, not record, the only team the vikes will not face will be th eeagles (6th seed)
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that is incorrect the Eagels are the last seed and they play the # 1 seed Saints
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I apologize I read the comment incorrect. GO Vikes, no matter who you play
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Thanks guys
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guys vikings 10-0 in dome this year two games till super bowl both in domes hmmm good sign?
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If dallas win they go to minn no matter what.
If phil wins they go to saints
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go vikings all the way….favre will lead the way!!!!
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It should not matter who the other team is that they are playing if you want to be the best you have to beat the best, thats the bottom line that why you get to hold up the trophy at end of the final game!
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'Entitled' to drive distracted
Distracted drivers are a national epidemic. They are rapidly becoming public enemy No. 1.
According to a recent Harris Poll, fully three-quarters of cellphone users admit they use their cellphones to talk while driving. Two-thirds regularly use hand-held devices while driving, despite laws banning that activity.
Non-compliance rates are soaring. More than 50 per cent of 16- to 17-year-old drivers admit they talk on cellphones while driving and 34 per cent admit to texting while driving, according to the Pew Research Foundation.
"Dangerous practices of talking on cellphones or text-messaging while driving have become common and carry deadly consequences," writes researcher Erin Barmby in the McGeorge Law Review.
"Texting while driving is much more hazardous than talking on a cellphone while driving," concludes Fernando Wilson and Jim Simpson of the UNT Health Science Center. "Distracted driving is a growing public safety hazard -- the dramatic increase in texting volume appears to be contributing to an alarming distracted driving fatalities."
According to Heidi Nemme and Katherine White at Queensland University, distracted driving is "one of the main causes of road traffic accidents, responsible for one-quarter of all vehicle crashes."
They added the "risk of being involved in an accident increases by up to nine times if (a driver) is using a mobile phone."
Psychologists say texting or talking on a cellphone while driving is anti-social behaviour.
According to the Harvard Center of Risk Assessment, drivers using cellphones cause more than one million vehicle crashes in North America each year.
Nemme and White confirm 75 per cent of drivers aged 18 to 24 admit they text or receive text messages while driving. A recent study by A. Zhou and C. Wa at Trans Research indicates males are more likely than females to text while driving.
According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, text-messaging makes a vehicle crash 23 times more likely to occur.
"It is quickly becoming one of the top killers," the NHTSA confirmed.
Drivers who text while driving are six times more likely to cause an accident compared with drivers who do not do so.
A recent American Medical Association report says "the Federal Motor Carrier Association found texting while driving has the highest odds ratio for causing a vehicle crash relative to 16 other (distraction) activities."
Remarkably, texting or talking on cellphones while driving is acknowledged to be dangerous by 98 per cent of cellphone users, yet the activity persists and is on the rise. A Harris Poll found 26 per cent admit the activities are "very dangerous," 24 per cent "dangerous" and 33 per cent "somewhat dangerous."
Researchers say it is almost inconceivable that the activities should be so rampant despite knowledge of the inherent risks.
Accumulating research suggests these activities are so prevalent due to the "selfish entitlement mindset" of the so-called Entitlement Generation.
"There is a healthy sense of entitlement and mobile-phone technology fuels the entitlement problem," explained psychotherapist Randall Meadows. "The gadgets associated with mobile-phone communication technology have become status symbols."
The Entitlement Generation apparently feels it is entitled to use cellphones while driving because it is their birthright, regardless of the inherent risks to their passengers, other motorists and pedestrians.
According to K.A Braitman and A.T. McCartt of ARRB Group, the entitlement mindset is why "laws banning texting while driving have little effect on curbing texting while driving in any age group."
According to Eric Nelson and Paul Atchlen at the University of Kansas, laws "may not change patterns (of cellular use) while driving."
Meanwhile, Janet Roester of the National Safety Council cautioned that the pertinent risks are just as high if drivers use hand-held or hands-free devices, because "it is the minds, not the hands, of drivers that are adversely affected."
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Wish it was based in town! Although thebus service isn't too bad. Some of the bureaucratic controls in place can seem counter-productive but I guess it's more or less the same in enterprises of this size.
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