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Downtown has its share of ugly buildings. They're on prominent display for all to see. In Belltown, it takes a bit of exploring, unless, of course, our more prominent landmarks like the Darth Vader Building really get your aesthetic hatred going. Me, I love the Vader. It's absolutely wonderful, with its seventies-style modernism and earnest disavowal of convention. No, to find Belltown's ultimate ugly building, you have to go a little further afield.
Tucked into a quiet block on 4th Avenue there lurks a monster. Its shape defies description. Its style of architecture has no name other than "modern." After 19 years in Belltown, I only noticed this building's eyesore status late last year. Its unsightliness and that of other neighborhood buildings like it became the cornerstone for my sucky blog, Hideous Belltown. Although I've already written about it there, I feel the need to revisit the scene. Here it is:
The Bayview Tower stands on 4th Ave., between Vine & Cedar. Judging from the general design, it was probably built in the late sixties or early seventies. Its neighbors include the venerable Stonecliff Apartments and Rollerball Building.
There it is, in all of its 13-story glory. I'm using photos from early spring, because 4th Avenue's majestic trees tend to cover a myriad of sins in the warm months. But we're here to view the sins, so pardon my journey back to the Time Before Leaves. First impressions, it looks like the least comfortable place to live anywhere. A friend of mine said that it looks like a giant multi-story public restroom. I can't argue with him there.
Another angle yields another unpleasant view. You know, with the building's height and the way its windows point, I think calling it the "Bayview" is just wishful thinking. They probably see as much of Elliott Bay as I do, which is zilch, because I face the wrong direction.
Around the back, things aren't any better. In fact they're exactly the same as the front! At least in the back, you can smell all the yummy diner cooking from the famous 5-Point. Honestly, all that this place has going for it is that it's a 20-second walk to some of the best diner food in Seattle.
And finally, the Bayview Tower's elevator shaft and equipment gives it a prominent hump. So not only is it ugly, but it's also a hunchback – not a good hand to play in our crazy modern world.
The Bayview is run by Seattle Housing Authority, which is known far and wide for doing very good work. But there's nothing to be done with this building. It's just so hopelessly ugly, with its pale, cheap-looking bricks and pointless angles. It's clear that it was built at a time when so-called "public housing" was consciously designed to be unattractive so that people wouldn't stay there too long. In the minds of those architects, there was no greater stigma than living in a gruesome-looking building. And in the Bayview Tower, you see the fruit of that thinking.
Of course, if the EMP were in Belltown, that would get the nod as Belltown's ugliest. Heck, it's one of the most unsightly buildings in the world. But it isn't, so that honor falls to the Bayview Tower.


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Last Wednesday I went to represent Saint Pius X Catholic School at the cluster rugby tournament. It was held at Point England Reserve. There were so many schools we had to compete against other schools. I played half back and first five. Our first game was up and I was so nervous and scared that I might freeze.
When I got the ball, I ran like a cheetah. I saw a huge guy getting ready to tackle me so I hand off his face and he kiss the ground. As I got to the try line I dived on the ground and I scored a try!!! I was so happy. We won our first game.

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In memory of John Blake Infant son of Thomas And Gertrude Allen Of Cherry Orchard, Shrewsbury Died 8th February 1864 Aged 1 year & 5 months
Sacred To the memory of Charles Wainwright Who died 25th December 1854 Aged 57 years.
Sacred to the memory of Alexander Logan Moffat M.D. Of Sundaywell Dumfrieshire Who departed this life The 3rd March 1855 aged 42 years Also of Susan Maxwell Daughter of Robert Maxwell Esq. Of Castlehill Dunfrieshire Who died 5th November 1856 Aged 78 years.
Sacred To the memory of Ernest Agustus Youngest son of Edward & Mary Heycock died December 27th 1832 Aged 7 years & 11months "of such is the kingdom of God" Also Jane wife of Henry Heycock (Manchester) who died July 5th 1860 Aged 62 years.
Sacred To the memory of Maria Catherine daughter Of Sanford Joseph and Christina Charlotte Storey Who departed this life 18th March 1853 aged 20 months Also Christina Charlotte The dearly loved wife of Sandford Joseph Storey Who departed this life on the 24th May 1889 aged 66 years "Her children arise up and call her blessed her husband also, and he praiseth her" Also Sanford Joseph Storey Who entered into rest October 27th 1891 Aged 74 years "and his end was peace".
In loving memory of Margaret Emily Who died December 29th 1922 Aged 1 year & 9 months Also Henry Died December 1909 Aged ?.
Sacred To the memory of Mansell Edward Only & beloved son of Edward & Susan Collings Of Birkenhead Who departed this life 24th March 1856 aged 6 years & 6 months "of such is the kingdom of Heaven"
Sacred To the memory of Henry Landers Brown Son of Jamie & Mary Ann Brown Who died 1st September 1862 Aged 4 years & 10 months Also of John Robert Brown Brother of the above Who died on the 22nd May 1866 Aged 16 years & 3 Months Also of Captain James Brown Of the P&O service Father of the above Who died on the 17th November 1874 Aged 67 years Also of Allen Brown Second son of the above Who died April 6th 1875 Aged 23 years.
Sacred to the memory of Margaret Mary Brierly Who died 10th September 1856 Aged 80 years Relict of the late Benjamin Brierly of Manchester Also of Anne Berry Brierly Daughter of the above who died 23rd April 1857 aged 58 years Also of Sarah Booned Brierly? Born December 28th 1800 Died 5th October 1882 Also of Mary Hamilton Watkin Daughter of the above Margaret Mary Brierly And widow of John Watkin Of Salford Manchester Who died 17th November 1883 Aged 70 Years.


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The Home of Golf and many legendary Open Championship golf venues. Links golf is Scotland is a pilgrimage for all golfers.
The Europe Hotel & Resort is a five star Hotel in County Kerry.
This Killarney Hotel is set in beautiful grounds, where the waters of Killarney's largest lake, Lough Lein, reflect the wilderness of Kerry's magnificent McGillycuddy Reeks Mountain range in the scenic South West of Ireland.
The hotel also includes the luxurious ESPA at The Europe, one of the top spas in Killarney. Here, you can enjoy a range of leisure activities on the grounds of one the finest luxury hotels Ireland has to offer. The spa includes sixteen treatment rooms, a gym, a Tai Chi studio, pool, and more, making whoever visits it never want to leave.
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ACADEMY POLICIES | PARENT TIPS | MANAGING MY ACCOUNT | FAQs
We are here for you. If you have any questions regarding your child's progress, our policies or golf in general - please do not hesitate to contact us. Our goal is to be a place where the entire family feels welcome, enjoys their time and of course, improves their golf.
The U.S. Kids Golf Academy will always strive to be an inclusive, welcoming, safe, and enjoyable atmosphere. To make sure that each student and parent feels welcome and that we can provide the optimal learning environment, we ask that everyone abide and respect the following policies.
Rain/Weather: The instructor in charge will determine whether classes will be conducted on days of inclement weather. If any class is cancelled, the instructor will email students via their contact info on file.
Dress Code: Appropriate golf attire is encouraged.
Cancellation: Students may cancel their reserved spot in a class up to 24 hours in advance. If within 24 hours of the class, cancellations or no-shows will count as a class attended. To cancel a class, login to your account and click "Reservations".
Cell Phone: Students are not to have a cell phone out while class is in session. Parents/observers are asked to put ringers on silent and move away from class if conversations must take place.
Tobacco: There is no smoking or any use of tobacco allowed by coaches, parents, or students at the U.S. Kids Golf Academy.
Behavior/General Etiquette: It is important to remember that the Academy is above all else, a learning environment. Any rude or disruptive behavior will not be tolerated.
Parents play a critical role in the development of a junior golfer. From the correct preparation for class to the all-important engagement of establishing goals and the progression towards them, we rely on you to provide the encouragement and support that is so significant in determining the success of your child's love of the game. We are happy to offer some basic tips for parents on how to best support your child towards their goals as they take part in the U.S. Kids Golf Academy.
Golf Clubs: As the world's leaders in youth golf equipment, we will provide properly fit clubs and training aids for our students while on site. Please do not purchase golf clubs prior to coming to your first class. Improperly fit golf equipment can have significant detrimental effects on the success of a developing player. Many of our students already have equipment, which we will assess for proper fit. Our coaches are available to discuss your clubs and our recommendations.
Be involved: Our philosophy is that golf is best learned and loved when parents are involved. Once you're logged in, go to "Manage Results" and track the progress. Most of all, communicate with our coaches about your successes and challenges so we can best serve you.
Be a Second-Goal Parent through PCA: The U.S. Kids Golf Academy is proud of our partnership with the Positive Coaching Alliance. Our commitment to parental involvement carries the disclaimer that it must done in an encouraging and supportive manner. Though not a requirement, we strongly urge parents to complete the Second-Goal Parent course. Register with voucher code USKidsGolfAcademyLL to reduce the cost to $15.
Provided by the U.S. Kids Golf Academy. Learning Program booklet, hat, bag tag, learning scoreboard. Golf tees and practice balls available during class sessions.
I purchased a membership, now what?
Welcome to the Academy! The next step is to "Reserve" the classes you wish to attend. Classes can be reserved a few different ways:
Select the class you want to attend from the Academy calendar. (If you are not already logged in, you will be prompted to do so). Simply select the blue "Reserve" button under the class information. Reserving for a family member, no problem! Select the family member from the drop down then select the blue "Reserve" button.
In your account profile, select "Reservations" from the menu. You will see a "Reserve Class Times" link at the bottom of the page. Click on this link to view the Academy calendar. Select the class you want to attend from the calendar and simply select the blue "Reserve" button under the class information.
Download the Mobile App, Zen Planner. Enter your Academy login information to access the class calendar. Select "Reserve" next to the class you wish to attend.
How do I see my schedule? Your reservations can be found in your account profile, in the section "Reservations." All upcoming reservations are listed. If you are inquiring about your child or additional family member, select "My Family" from the menu, select the family member and then select "Reservations" from the menu.
You can also view reserved classes on the calendar in your account. Each reserved class is denoted by a star next to the class name. You can also use the calendar to toggle between the family members in your account to see each individual's reservations.
How do I cancel my membership? To cancel or change memberships, you will need to contact the Academy Director, Jim Hardy. Cancellation fees will apply.
How do I cancel my class reservation? Your reservations can be found in your account profile, in the section "Reservations." All upcoming reservations are listed. Select the class you wish to cancel from then select the red "Cancel" button under the class information on the next page.
How do I "Check-in" for my class? You can "check-in" for your reserved class at the IPad Kiosk located in the Longleaf Golf Shop. Simply type in your name and select "check-in." If you're unable to "check-in" prior to your class please let your instructor know.
Where do I "track my progress?" You progress through the curriculum can be found in your account profile in the section "Manage Results." If you are tracking the progress of your child or additional family member, select "My Family" from the menu and then "Manage Results."
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Do you hold class if it's raining? If it is raining we will go inside and work out and utilize indoor training methods. If the weather is dangerous, we may cancel prior to class and notify you via the contact info we have on file.
What's the dress code for students? Dress code is golf course attire which would include collared shirts for the boys, a collared shirt or shirt with sleeves for girls - and comfortable soft soled shoes.
Can I split a package of classes among my children? Unfortunately when you purchase a package, it is assigned to one student.
Is it ok if I watch and listen as you teach my child? Of course! I want you to be a great co-coach and echo the message the coach is teaching.
Is it ok if I drop my child off and run some errands? That's fine too! You'll be able to track your child's progress online.
Do you provide drinks/snacks? Water is always nearby for hydration. We will not typically provide food, although we might have offer a healthy snack on special occasions. We will not provide any sugar-based drinks or snacks.
How do I know if my child should go through the intro class or the advanced class? The player may skip intro class if they can shoot scores of better than double par consistently from an appropriate tee. If they have not played enough to know, then they should start an intro class. If the instructor sees that that they are ready for advanced class, we'll tell you.
My child has a teacher that they see already, is it ok to enter a USKG academy too? Absolutely! Our instructors teach using ball flight and results. (For example, if the task was to pitch a ball in the air and the student can only roll the ball, we will teach them to hit it in the air) Occasionally, we may say something differently than their teacher or have a different method we prefer but we are all after the same goal. Your child's teacher can contact us anytime in order to be on the same page.
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A new AUD$110 million, 42-level Sheraton hotel has been proposed for Perth's CBD, with the city this week assessing an application for the development.
The combined hotel and residential development would feature 196 rooms and 89 apartments and would be built on the site that's currently home to the 10-storey New Esplanade Hotel, which would be demolished.
The proposed hotel would also include a ballroom and meeting spaces.
A development assessment panel was reviewing the application yesterday (Feb 4), with the City of Perth recommended the project be approved, according to local news sources.
If approved, the property would be one of three new Starwood hotels being developed in the city, alongside new Westin and Aloft properties.
When contacted by HM, Starwood could not confirm the project, but in a statement the company said it was in talks with developers in Perth.
"Starwood Hotels and Resorts is always actively seeking the right partners and the right locations to expand its footprint in Australia and Perth is a key city in are overall growth strategy," a spokesperson said.
"At present we operate a Four Points by Sheraton hotel in the city and will open The Westin Perth and Aloft Perth Rivervale in 2017.
"In line with Starwood's multi-brand growth strategy however we strive to have all our brands represented in key markets and cities such as Perth and we are currently in talks with potential developers regarding growth opportunities," the spokesperson told HM.


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running behind a little preoccupied lately . . . But here are the kids in the aprons and chef hats that I sewed (sewn?!?) Freshly washed from the flour and icing mess that took place the other day ♥ Very plain, but they were my very first try. I especially love the chef hats.
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- Cathi said...
Nothing short of fantastic! I love the aprons and hats, and especially the kids.
- January 23, 2009 at 9:42 AM
- Anonymous said...
Super cute!
- January 23, 2009 at 3:29 PM
- Erin Cassidy Photography said...
Those are wonderful!!
- January 24, 2009 at 3:41 AM
- Sylvia & Rah said...
I love all your pictures!!!
Great Job sewing the aprons!!!
I love the Black and whites of Obama, gourgeous!!
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The recent record-breaking discovery of over US$22 billion dollars of gold in one of the vaults in the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala again raises an interesting debate.
Religious figures including the Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy publicly declared that the gold will remain with the temple as it belongs to the Gods while intellectuals, including former Supreme Court judge Justice VR Krishna Iyer have suggested it be used for the public good such as education and infrastructure in the poorest of poor areas of the country. While each side has its merits, the debate does raise an interesting point. Why is it that most civilised nations naturally choose to return gold to the state, which in turn would be used for welfare, a majority of Indians, particularly Hindus, choose to return it to the Gods, who in turn will protect and reward them at some juncture in the future.
I first started to analyse the situation by putting the question to my parents. My father, a Hindu by birth, had a less conservative approach that the gold must go to the Reserve Bank of India to be added to the national gold reserves but must continue to be held as gold out of respect to the Gods. My mother, a practicing Christian, on the other hand argued that the gold must be immediately liquidated and the money spent to open schools, hospitals and roads in less developed parts of India because clearly, that's what God would have wanted. I clearly wasn't going to get a consistent answer from them so I decided to analyse the situation through independent research.
Within India, a majority of religious practices such as Hinduism are transactional. People give to God and anticipate an out-of-turn reward such as forgiveness or increased wealth and happiness. It is not only tolerated, but encouraged leading to a perception that God rewards those out of turn that shower him with gold and other gifts. Indian leaders such as Karnataka minister G Janardhan Reddy fortify this behavior by publically gifting the Gods a crown of gold and diamonds worth Rs 45 crore (US$10m) to seek His blessings for the Brahmani Steel Plant that he has set up in Andhra Pradesh.
From a macro economic perspective, this can be viewed as a parallel fiscal system in the economy wherein an additional contributory tax is collected from those more successful. After all, what's wrong with a system that increases revenue collection on a voluntary basis (assuming it is from legitimate sources)? The more money religious institutions collect, the better they are able to serve society, correct? Indeed, only if the money and gold collected were put to public use instead of lying in vaults for the gods. Himachal Pradesh for example has come out with a provision that allows temple trusts to melt tons of gold and silver lying in their coffers and convert them into coins and mementoes for sale enabling the Temple trust to direct funds to social causes. Perhaps Kerala could follow a similar lead but religious and populist politics will ensure that this never eventuates in the near future.
On the flip side, there is a bright side to this notion of stashing away gold in Indian temples and perhaps Hinduism should be given more credit than meets the eye. Gold standards have been the most common basis for monetary policies throughout history until it was displaced by fiat currency or paper notes in the late 20th century. However, every country continues to manage a portion of its currency reserves in the form of gold bullion as gold offers a good hedge against inflation or other economic disruptions when paper contracts such as currency notes lose their credibility.
During economic turmoil, the price of gold increases inversely to other instruments such as stocks since it is often referred to as "fear metal" in that you buy it when you are afraid of every other investment, similar to religion in that you turn to god in times of fear.
Given the conflicting views of religion and economics, the best possible solution to the problem lies in transforming the gold into an economic asset without physically moving it out of the temples. This can be accomplished by formally valuing the gold in the temples and including the value in the country's gold currency reserves. This ensures that the gold remains in the hands of the Gods while it significantly boosts the nations currency reserves eliminating the need for the country to buy gold from the IMF to boost its reserves as it did in 2009 for $6.7 billion.
I'm sure the Gods would agree.
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Sylva, NC (July 25, 2015) – Harris Regional Hospital and Swain Community Hospital recently announced that Melanie Batchelor , MHS, RD, LDN, CDE, Wellness Coordinator & Diabetes Educator has been recognized as the hospital's 2015 Mercy Award winner. The Mercy Award recognizes one employee from each of LifePoint Health's more than 60 hospitals, including Harris Regional Hospital and Swain Community Hospital, who profoundly touches the lives of others and best represents the spirit and values on which the company was founded.
The Mercy Award program is an annual recognition that was established in 2002 to honor the life of Scott Mercy, LifePoint's founding chairman and chief executive officer (CEO). The Mercy Award is considered the highest honor a LifePoint employee can receive.
"At Harris and Swain, we share LifePoint's commitment to making communities healthier, and we recognize that this is supported by the good work and service of our employees on and off the job," said Steve Heatherly, CEO of Harris Regional Hospital and Swain Community Hospital. "We are extremely proud to recognize Melanie for her efforts on behalf of our patients and our community. She goes above and beyond each and every day to ensure that every person she encounters is treated with the highest level of care and compassion."
Batchelor is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Diabetes Educator and true wellness advocate, playing a significant role in teaching community members how to manage diabetes and live a healthier lifestyle. Her community endeavors include implementing the Blast Off! program that targets childhood obesity. It works to change how families approach fitness and nutrition by making healthier food and exercise choices. Younger participants enjoy fun activities such as yoga, Zumba and CrossFit. The program for teens is designed to teach them how to be health advocates through education and team building. She also encourages hospital staff to take part in events such as wellness screenings and 5k runs. She hosts learning sessions that include free lunch to encourage participation. Working within the framework of the Humana Vitality wellness program, she uses a variety of tools and incentives to keep employee interest high; for example, she puts on events like the Wellness Cooking Contest, held during National Nutrition Month.
Each hospital winner, including Batchelor, will be considered for LifePoint's 2015 company-wide Mercy Award. The company-wide winner will be announced this summer and honored during a ceremony in Nashville, Tenn., in August, to which Batchelor and all hospital winners are invited to attend.


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Vienna is famous for its waltz and now The Palais Hansen Kempinski Vienna is getting right in the swing of things with its Finally Ball Season package. Timed for the traditional ball season, running January through March with hundreds of dance and music events, the package includes ballroom dance instruction through the city's Elmayer Dance School, with lessons on everything from the slow waltz to the foxtrot, cha-cha and polka (and, yes, the Viennese waltz), plus a hair and make-up session in preparation for your own dance debut. Dinner, in-room breakfast, snacks, a half-hour massage and limousine transfers are included as well. Prices start at about $2,400 per couple with two nights' accommodation, and ball tickets lead in at about $365 per person. See kempinski.com (click on Vienna under Destinations, then click on Special Offers).
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Expedition cruise specialist Adventure Canada is offering savings of 25 per cent on second sailings when you book back-to-back voyages in Eastern Canada, to destinations in Newfoundland, Labrador and Sable Island. The deal applies to the June 2-12, 2014 Newfoundland Circumnavigation and the June 12-20, 2014 Sable Island cruise, as well as the June 20-28, 2014 Sable Island cruise with the June 29-July 12, 2014 Newfoundland & Wild Labrador voyage. Sable Island, a 41-kilometre sandbar located 300 kilometres off the coast of Nova Scotia, is known for its wild horses and grey seals. See adventurecanada.com.
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The Shop, Sparkle, Celebrate package at the JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square includes a VIP Shopping Experience at the city's Bloomingdale's, with a 15-per-cent, all-day savings certificate, a free Bobbi Brown makeover and a Bloomingdale's gift with $200 (all prices U.S.) minimum purchase. With one night's accommodation, the package is available through Jan. 5, 2014, based on availability (black-out dates may apply). See marriott.com (promo code ZH4).
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Air Canada Vacations is offering savings of up to $250 per passenger on group bookings made by Dec. 31, 2013, for travel Feb. 1-Oct. 31, 2014 to Mexico and the Caribbean. When you're travelling with friends or family, a group of 10 can come together fairly quickly, and 10 is the magic number for discounted group pricing with ACV. See aircanadavacations.com/promos .
Kathryn Folliott is a Toronto-based freelance writer. Prices quoted are subject to change and availability.
Picks of the Week
Sunquest: Samana, air & hotel, $992 (Jan. 16). sunquest.ca
Air Canada Vacations: Six-night Paris, air & hotel, $1,366 (Apr. 5). aircanadavacations.com
Nolitours: Cozumel, air & hotel, $997 (Jan. 3). nolitours.com
Signature Vacations: Cancun, air & hotel, $1,242 (Jan. 2). signaturevacations.com
Transat Holidays: Varadero, air & hotel, $619 (Jan. 5). transatholidays.com
Hola Sun Holidays: Cienfuegos, air & hotel, $548 (Jan. 12). holasunholidays.ca
Bel Air Travel: Eight-night London, air & hotel, $1,264 (Jan. 10). belairtravel.com
Sunwing Vacations: Three-night St. Pete's, air & hotel, $584 (Jan. 27). sunwing.ca
Sell Off Vacations: Aruba, air & hotel, $1,215 (Jan. 13). selloffvacations.com
Tour East Holidays: 16-day China, air, hotel, cruise, most meals, sightseeing, $2,749 (Mar. 10). toureast.com
itravel2000: Manzanillo, air & hotel, $1,257 (Jan. 6). itravel2000.com
WestJet Vacations: St. Lucia, air & hotel, $1,668 (Jan. 16). westjetvacations.com
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Everybody Votes Channel on Wii
by Steven Williamson on 14 February 2007, 10:29
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A brand new channel launches today for the Wii Menu providing a quick, easy and fun way to cast your answers to a multitude of different questions. The Everybody Votes Channel allows you to compare and contrast your opinions with those of friends, family and people from across the globe. With a regularly updated supply of new questions to ponder, this is a great way to discover not only differences between you and your family, but also between your country and others!
″If you have ever wondered whether many other people share the same opinions, preferences, likes or dislikes as you, then the Everybody Votes Channel is a quick and easy way to quell those curiosities″ says Laurent Fischer, Marketing Director, Nintendo of Europe. ″From whether people believe in aliens to what they would do if they had 1 million Euros, this quirky but addictive channel lets you find out what others think as well as being a great discussion starter with family and friends!″
Cast Your Vote
This latest addition to the Wii Menu features different general poll questions for users to answer. Three questions will always be offered. These will then closed after a week and updated with new ones. When accessing the main page of the Everybody Votes Channel, users will be greeted with the current polls open and can then register their votes by clicking on their chosen one.
Within hours of the poll closing, the latest regional results of the poll will be made available and will be displayed for each region of the relevant country. Vote ratios for each question will be displayed on the Channel using hundreds of Miis to represent the different votes.
The previous twelve polls that a player has voted on are archived so they can check back on them after they have closed. Each time a new poll closes, if the user has voted on it, it is added to the archive and the oldest one on there is deleted.
In addition to casting a vote, users can also predict the outcome of the poll. Every correct prediction will be added to the player's profile and used to calculate how tuned in they are with general public opinion, which is shown in the ″How Tuned In Are You? ″ section.
Fun For the Entire Family
Users are able to register a total of six different players on each Wii console using Mii data and names from the Mii Channel, meaning that each member of the household can have their own say on a poll. The Everybody Votes Channel records all of the votes cast by a player and allows them to check their opinions against those of their family using vote results as well as their ″How Tuned In Are You?″ results. This allows users to compare numbers of consecutive wins and overall wins versus losses recorded.
Worldwide Polls
As well as providing three different sets of general poll questions each week, the 'Everybody Votes Channel' also features worldwide poll questions. These are set twice a month and run for approximately two weeks, with live result updates appearing just hours after the vote closes.
Miis illustrate the global vote ratio and a bar graph shows the results for each different country globally. Players can sort these results by vote percentage, country or in order of prediction accuracy.
Have Your Say
An additional feature of this channel is the ″Suggest a Question″ section, which allows players to suggest a poll topic they would like to see on the service. Each player is allowed to make up to one suggestion a day, the best of which may be converted into a poll question by Nintendo.
Everybody Votes Channel is the latest addition to the Wii Menu and can be downloaded for free from the Wii Shop Channel. The Wii Menu is the starting point for all of the console's functions and offers a gateway to a rich variety of entertainment options. When connected to a TV, the Wii Menu offers a simple interface letting users pick games to play, receive news and weather reports, view and send photos or even create playable caricatures of themselves to use in actual games. Additional functions allow users to download classic games to Wii's Virtual Console.


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Denim on Denim
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I have everything I need in my closet to re-create this outfit! I would have never thought to put Denim on Denim together, but this is so cute!ReplyDelete
Those jeans! I have that pair as well and I am obsessed and constantly reaching for them. I'm normally not a jean wearing person because I find them to not be comfortable, but this specific J.Crew pair is my absolute favorite and ridiculously comfortable.ReplyDelete
Love your denim on denim look, especially with the blush cardigan and neutral bag.
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Better known for his one-of-a-kind voice, the front man for not one but two world famous rock bands, and his Sheffield roots, Joe Elliott of Def Leppard and Down N Outz spoke to the Yorkshire Evening Post after getting back from a co-headline tour with Kiss over in the USA during the summer.
"Playing live now matters more than it ever did before," he says.
"When Def Leppard first came about, we were competing with the likes of Michael and Janet Jackson and the Princes, but then again, the infrastructure was in place back then.
"The music industry is a shadow of its former self, and you have to change and adapt with it, which is why live performances matter so much now.
"These days you put out a record to promote a tour, which shows it has completely gone backwards.
"Not many people want to hear new material any more; I mean if Paul McCartney goes out on tour, people don't want to hear his new album, they just want to hear Beatles songs, and that's just the way it is if you have been around for a long time."
Down N Outz – the band 55-year-old Elliott formed with members of The Quireboys, Raw Glory and The Union to perform the songs of Mott the Hoople and its various offshoots – are touring the UK this month, and released their second album earlier this year, so I was eager to find out how it all came about.
"Well, Mott The Hoople were a relatively successful band, but unfortunately not as successful as Def Leppard, so when I was asked to help out with a show in London, they were pretty flattered when I agreed.
"I don't know – maybe it was the underdog thing or something, also maybe I was in the right place at the right time, I was only 12 when All the Young Dudes became a massive hit, so I was the one jumping up and down in the school yard saying I told you so when everyone was still talking about Led Zeppelin. That was Mott's fifth album!
"I have met them all over the years – I mean, Ian Hunter was at my wedding, so we are very good friends. His wife, Judy asked me to help out with the last show of their tour, and I thought she meant introduce them, but she suggested opening up for them in London.
"The promoter suggested the Quireboys as my band, and they agreed, so what was supposed to be a one-off 45-minute performance turned in to this – two albums in and now a touring band."
Down N Outz play at Fibbers, York tonight and at Corporation in Sheffield on Thursday. http://www.downnoutz.net/


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Laser scanning is quickly becoming a necessary function prior to quoting or preliminary layout. It's also replacing the traditional "field trips" for survey and manual measurement. 3D laser scanning facilitates the ability to capture data points that can be utilized in 2D or 3D CAD or web based viewers. This provides users with "as-built" math data. With point clouds, engineers can find themselves immersed in a 3D as-is environment with a clear view of everything that wasn't on the 2D drawing – not to mention this can be done from anywhere on the globe with web viewers.
With the same data accessible to everyone, you can confidently answer questions like: "will the equipment fit in another area of the factory?" or "Have we got room for a mezzanine?" The point cloud has the information on which to base an accurate proposal.
In addition to saving time and money over traditional methods, 3D scanning affords decision-makers with a tool to evaluate as-built conditions, perform assessments, and manage large asset portfolios. In many ways, 3D scanning lays a solid foundation for the overall management on projects.
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Adrian Peterson has agreed to a plea deal in his child abuse case meaning that his reinstatement to the NFL, depending on the decision of Commissioner Roger Goodell, could be on the horizon.
However with his subsequent off-the-field issues and the negative attention that would be obtained by a franchise having the running back in their ranks, his future with the Minnesota Vikings in particularly shrouded in mystery.
Many factors will contribute to the decision of the Vikings to whether they keep Peterson to his current deal or whether they release the once MVP of the NFL, and you know who will be ready to swoop in if he becomes a free agent, how 'bout them Cowboys?
Peterson who was born in Texas has many ties to the Dallas franchise, it was only recently that speculation was sparked over a possible future with the Cowboys after interactions between the running back and the Dallas owner Jerry Jones emerged.
The Vikings may want to keep Peterson despite the large contract they must honour, the Cowboys also have the NFL's leading rusher in DeMarco Murray, even so the possibility of AP landing with Dallas is to enticing a thought to pass up.
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NFL insider Peter King has broken down the situation involving Peterson and his reinstatement to the league and believes that a move to the Cowboys is definitely on the cards:
"It just makes sense to me, If I had to go put money in Vegas on where Adrian Peterson would play, I'm not sure I would put it on Dallas. But sometimes you just get a feeling about things, about where you think something is headed."
King continued:
"I just think Adrian Peterson, before he retires, is gonna be a Cowboy, I just do. I've always thought it, and long before Jerry had that silly flirtation with him last year. He's a Texas guy. It strikes me as something Jerry would want to do. I have no inside information whatsoever. But if you ask me my gut feeling, if Adrian Peterson is out there on the street and the Cowboys have some cap room, I think the Cowboys will be interested in him."
There are lots of opinions of the brazened way in which Jerry Jones conducts his business in the NFL but one thing is for certain, the Cowboys owner loves a redemption story, and if Peterson were not to be given a second chance with the Vikings, Jones would definitely take a flyer on him.
What about Murray?
The main issue on hand with Peterson wearing a famous Cowboy helmet is that they already have the most productive back in the league, DeMarco Murray.
King also explained the situation with Murray in reference to Peterson:
"And everybody will say, 'Wait a second. That's crazy. DeMarco Murray. They have to sign him.' There's no question about it. But I don't think the Cowboys are going to pay DeMarco Murray anywhere near what he wants to be paid. I think they'll end up reaching some agreement with him when push comes to shove. You're silly to pay running backs half of quarterback money in my opinion."
The speculation involving Peterson and Dallas is all ifs-and-buts at the moment due to the Vikings holding all the cards, they are the team who currently have the contract of the running back and will likely decide the future of the player.
However we still have the rumblings of a major news story involving the Cowboys once again, they could possibly poach the best running back in the league straight off the free agency market.


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Craig Charles sat in a chair on the set of Red Dwarf season 5. "What are you doing next?" he asked Andrea Finch, who was doing his makeup.
"Oh, I'm going over to America with Robert [Llewellyn]."
"What for?" Charles asked.
"To do the Red Dwarf American show."
"…The what?!"
It was true. Red Dwarf creators Rob Grant and Doug Naylor were flying to Hollywood to sit on a team of writers working on the American remake of their cult hit show, and they were bringing with them Robert Llewellyn, who played Kryten in the original show and was now cast in the same role in the new version, and Andrea Finch to do his complicated robot makeup. But no one had told the rest of the British cast.
Craig Charles, who plays the lead role Lister in the original, hoped that it would fail. He had nothing to worry about. After two separate pilots, with slightly different casting, the show never got off the ground.
Red Dwarf is a sci-fi sitcom about the two lowest members of a space crew, two soup vending machine repairmen, one of them dead. It's meant to be everything Star Wars and Star Trek isn't. Instead of following handsome Hans Solo or Capt. Kirk around the universe as they rescue damsels and blow up aliens, we follow the slobbiest man in the universe around his sleeping quarters as he eats vindaloo and watches The Flintstones. The first mistake the Americans made was casting the handsome Craig Bierko as Lister. No one would believe that he was meant to be the slobbiest man in the universe. Bierko was a fan of the show and was well aware that the original was brilliant and "boy, did America crap on it" (interview with Kevin Pollack).
The second mistake the Americans made was the script. The pilot episode was close to the original: Lister is put into statis for bringing a cat on board, he wakes up to find himself millions of years in the future after the crew had been wiped out by a radiation leak, the senile computer Holly brings his annoying bunkmate Rimmer back to "life" as a hologram, and they find that Lister's cat had bred a whole race of cat people, one of whom is still on board. They added Kryten, who doesn't appear until season 2 of the original series, and pulled a future echo moment from a later episode. But they didn't change the dynamic between Lister and Rimmer, which is rooted in a clash of class, very specific to the British caste system. Because they didn't adjust it to fit the American class system, the strange relationship doesn't quite work. Grant and Naylor recognized this. They rewrote the script overnight, fixing the clunky British-to-American translations, and presented it to the American writers in the morning. The writers refused it. Grant and Naylor went rogue and slipped the scripts under the actors' hotel room doors. Recognizing Grant and Naylor's script as superior, the actors rebelled against the American script, and the American writers conceded.
Filming began. Chris Eigeman played a weak, two-dimensional Rimmer that makes you better appreciate the skill in Chris Barrie's portrayal of such a complicated character. Cat was played by Tony Award-winning singer/dancer Hinton Battle (who might be familiar to any Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans out there), to match the dancing skills of his British counterpart, Danny John Jules. Although John Jules was awestruck that they cast someone so renowned to play his character in America, Robert Llewellyn once caught Mr. Battle moping because he didn't feel he was doing as good a job as Danny John Jules. And despite being an American show, they cast a British Holly, and a female one at that (Holly doesn't become female until season 3 in the original show). As with many productions, the script was tweaked along the way. There was so much pulling and pushing of this script that by the time it was shot, it was almost the same as the original script the actors has forced them to chuck out.
Ah well. The footage went into edit and everyone went home to wait to hear back.
When they finally did hear back, it wasn't that NBC loved it and wanted to pick it up for a six season contract. It wasn't that they hated it and they were going to scrap the whole idea. No. They were going to film another one. Another pilot. This time, it would work. This time, they would do it right. That meant re-casting everyone but Craig Bierko with the actors who played in the original. Unfortunately for the Americans, Chris Barrie was scared away by the six-year binding contract, and Danny John Jules was unavailable. Unable to find anyone as talented as Danny John Jules to play the Cat, they re-imagined the character as a female warrior, casting Terry Ferrell to play the part. There were now no black people in Red Dwarf. They shot teasers from episodes like "Marooned" and "Backwards," showcasing the hilarious Wilma Flintstone scene between Lister and Cat (now Rimmer and Lister) and revealing the hilarious story of how Lister lost his virginity on a golf course at age twelve. Brilliant moments. They couldn't possibly screw them up….right? And yet, all we have more than 20 years later are those two pilots, meant for NBC's eyes only, leaked into fan conventions and eventually YouTube.
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Anyone want to share your current favorite quotes?
Anyone want to share your current favorite quotes?
"Let your life speak". Its a long time favorite.
Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
'The impossible just takes a little longer' was DH's favourite saying.
Gandhi: Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony .
With the midterms coming up I remember my dad used to say, "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely".
"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you', it will be enough." Meister Eckhart
"Oh, earth, you are too wonderful for anyone to realize you!" Thornton Wilder (Emily, Our Town)
"Until we go beyond our notions regarding the true nature of life, we will never realize how totally secure we really are, and how all the fighting for individual survival and self-security is a waste of energy." Bernadette Roberts
"To thine own self be true." William Shakespeare
"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined." Henry David Thoreau
"Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion."
― Thich Nhat Hanh
"The greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us." Anthony de Mello
"There will be an answer. Let it be." Paul McCartney
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every, every minute?" Emily Webb, Our Town
"We're all just walking each other home." Ram Dass
I have two that have accompanied me through most of my life. One is pedestrian, useful in a sort of nose to the grindstone way. The other is philosophical and more like a mantra for my life. It gets down to the real truth of living as far as I'm concerned.
Calvin Coolidge
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not: unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
I had that quote displayed prominently on my wall behind my work desk. Many a criminal sat down in front of me and failed to take that into consideration. The ones that challenged me learned about my persistence and determination the hard way.
Paul McCartney
"And in the end...the love you take is equal to the love you make."
Yeah, a "Beatle" is the source of my life's mantra. Fitting.
I actually have a file on my computer called favorite quotes. Many are from movies and tv...
Ed, you're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why. Because it feels sooo good. (The Green Man to Ed, Northern Exposure).
Associate yourself with men of good quality...for 'tis better to be alone than with bad company. (George Washington)
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf. (Will Rogers)
In the end there were no simple answers. No heroes. No villains. Only silence. (from the movie, Never Cry Wolf)
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. (Groucho Marx)
Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask...We are willing to help Lord, but what, if anything is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding. (a sermon from A River Runs Through It).
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I saw one today "If you raise your children you spoil your grandkids. If you spoil your children you raise your grandkids."
Besides the ones below in all my posts, I recently re-discovered this - supposedly Einstein's Theory of Happiness: A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. - Anon.
Be nice whenever possible. It's always possible. - Dalai Lama
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*DISCLOSURE* What I write below is based on my opinion of the market that I serve, the East Bay Area (Tri-Valley)
If you still read the paper like I do (or the online paper) you are constantly seeing reports on the housing market. Most of the headlines go as such:
"Low inventory causing home prices to skyrocket!"
"Is the "Bubble" about to burst?"
"Housing pressure continues."
When we are constantly bombarded with headlines like this, it is hard not to worry. The problem with what is being reported is that it is always just a little behind what is actually happening in the market place. Yes, the inventory is low and yes prices are still high, BUT, we have actually seen a little bit of slow down in general activity. Why is that? There are multiple reasons I assure you, and plenty that I haven't thought of, but based on conversations with fellow agents and my own personal experiences, here are a few:
- Inventory is low. Yes I just said that again, the same thing that you've read over and over. Basic supply and demand, when supply is low, demand is high…Econ 101. So while these homes are moving fast, there just aren't a lot moving at all, because there are none to move. Does that make sense? If I tell you that 30 homes sell in my neighborhood in July and then only 15 sell in August, did the market slow down? Your first instinct might be to say yes but really, if there were 30 homes available to sell in August, then we would've seen 30 homes sell. Alas, there were only 15 available to sell…so that's how many sold. This lack of inventory has caused a general sense of slow down in agent activity.
- Buyers are timid. When I meet with potential buyers, or just friends in general, the first question is always "How is the market?" The very next questions are typically, "Are we are the top of the market?" or "When is the market going to go down?" Right now, the interest rates on home loans have dipped back down to the low 4's for a conventional (30 year fixed) loan. Given these rates, you would think that buyers would still be ready to jump in, but they aren't. Buyers are so afraid of buying at the top of the market and experiencing what happened in 2008…that they have a real fear and believe me, I get it. My counter is always this; if you think you are going to live in the home for at least 5 years, you will be fine. Of course this isn't a guarantee but even after 2008…the prices around us (*see disclosure at beginning of article) were back up to their previous levels by 2013-14 and in many cases, earlier than that. Low inventory usually causes a larger buyer pool but the fears of a bubble burst have tempered that pool just a bit.
- Buyers are tired. When you've made an offer on 10 different homes and keep getting beaten out, it's understandable to want to take a break for a little bit. I've seen and heard of this happening more recently with frustrated buyers.
- Time of the year. This one is a little harder to explain. September/October in the East Bay is normally a wonderful time to buy/sell a home. Looking back at my personal numbers, some of my busiest months have been in the Fall, but this year as been different. We always see a little lull right around Labor Day when kids are getting back to school or going on final vacations. Then we see it snap back the first few weeks of September with a new batch of inventory and folks back out on the streets. I feel like the factors mentioned above are slowing the typical amount of business that we see this time of the year.
Given these reasons, the question is, "Is this a good time to buy/sell?" The answer is always, "What will work best for you?" If you are going to be uncomfortable with the fact that the market could go down in the next few years and can't get over that hump…might not be a good time to buy. If you need to sell your home but don't know where you'll be able to rent or buy? Maybe you should hold tight. Buying and selling a home are huge personal commitments on both sides so it's really up to you.
Looking at a market perspective though, yes it's a good time to sell and yes it's a good time to buy. You shouldn't have a trouble selling your home for a great (fair market) price with inventory at these lows. If you are looking to buy something that you plan on staying in for a long time, yes, go ahead and buy. The historical data will show you that you are safe.
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|John C. Reilly: The only thing resembling a human being.
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Scr. Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein, Derek Connolly
Sty: John Gatins
Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson,
John Goodman, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly
Review By Greg Klymkiw
Why it took four writers to come up with the lame, dull Kong: Skull Island screenplay is beyond me. Then again, given the sheer emptiness of most studio pictures these days, it shouldn't surprise anyone since it takes a whole lotta boneheads to generate a whole lotta stupid. An American President called Donald Trump is proof of that.
If truth be told, I can almost even forgive inept imbecility. What I can't forgive is tedium and this mostly horrendous reboot of the Kong franchise is nothing if not mind-numbingly boring for most of its interminable 118-minute length. Much of what makes the movie dull are the missed opportunities it took four writers to conjure up.
Things begin promisingly enough with the pre-credit sequence. It's WWII and two soldiers - one American, the other Japanese - crash on the remote Skull Island. Ah, tantalizing! Perhaps we will be afforded a lovely action-packed nod to John Boorman's Hell in the Pacific? But, no. We're handed two dull anonymous actors - no Lee Marvin or Toshiro Mifune here. Jesus, I'd have even settled for something resembling Peter Sellers/Burt Kwouk Pink Panther martial arts slap-schtick shenanigans. That, however, would be too politically incorrect by contemporary standards (and sadly, the movie's endlessly shoe-horned P.C. sensibilities are another big problem with the picture). So instead, we get a dull sprint up a mountain and our warring soldiers meet with a far more formidable enemy - Yup, you guessed it, King Kong, the big hairy ape. (But don't worry, ain't nothing too Eugene O'Neill about this hirsute monkey.)
Our movie launches into an annoyingly wham-bam credit sequence detailing American history from the last Great War and eventually leading up to the turbulence of the 1970s. Thank God it stops here - a real decade. Alas, the period detail, in virtually every respect, is woefully inadequate - most annoyingly with the contemporary-speak of the dialogue and the decidedly 2017 timbre of the delivery of said dialogue.
Of course, this being 2017, in spite of the movie being set in the 1970s, we don't get to meet a cool adventurer seeking passage to Skull Island, say along the lines of showman Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong in the 1933 version, Jack Black in Peter Jackson's 2005 entry) or even a delectably sleazy oilman like Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin in 1976). What we get is the supremely unimaginative, ineffectual government hack Bill Randa (John Goodman) and his earnestly plucky African-American geologist Houston Brooks (Corey Hawkins). Randa is such a useless schmo that it takes his right-hand Houston to convince a Senator to bankroll the expedition.
Welcome to 2017. And not that I have a problem with this smooth young Black male weaselling dough out of the Senator instead of boss man Whitey, but it might have been far more interesting to have a character like Randa, written-for and played by someone with some balls, like Laurence Fishburne for example. The role of this character, or character-type, requires - Nay, demands someone in his august years (or at least in the case of 1976's Grodin, one of those 30-something guys who feels like he's in his 50s or 60s) and more importantly, someone who has the smarts to squeeze oil out of an empty drum.
But, I remind you - it took four writers to generate this screenplay.
|Can't go too wrong with a cute prehistoric muskox.
So, off to Skull Island we go. Randa assembles a stock, boring team that includes former British Special-Ops mercenary James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston, a great actor in a nothing role), gung-ho army dude Colonel Preston Packard (Samuel L. Jackson, a great actor, but more boring than usual in this stock role), looking for more carnage now that the Vietnam War is over and perhaps most sickeningly, Mason Weaver (Brie Larson, a great actress with a completely idiotic role), a self-proclaimed "Anti-war photographer" (whatever that's supposed to mean). Of course the team is replete with other soldiers, scientists and bureaucrats in order to provide ample food for the monsters.
The movie plods through all of its uninspired machinations as our team essentially needs to get off the island as soon as they land on it - there are monsters, after all. Our leading lady is, of course, not the "beauty who killed the beast", but rather, the beauty that the beast thinks is kind of okay and not a danger to him. Our leading man is boring and does little more than argue with the gung-ho army guy and acquiesce to the madman's needs to kill monsters to avenge the deaths of his soldiers. Of course, the ineffectual adventurer Randa is so useless that we almost forget he's in the movie until he gets eaten. Then, we get to forget about him all over again.
Happily, the movie introduces us to Lieutenant Hank Marlow (John C. Reilly, playing the older version of the American soldier introduced at the beginning of the movie). Marlow has been living on the island since WWII in the protective custody of the island's indigenous Native population. Thank God! A real character with an irascible sense of humour. Reilly not only makes us laugh, but he's really the only person we care about. Stupidly, the writers have relegated Marlow's Japanese counterpart to that of a corpse - someone who is talked about fondly, but whom we don't get a chance to know. It would have been amazing to have a great veteran Asian actor quipping with Reilly and doing battle with the monsters, but you know, there were only four writers, so you can't expect creative miracles.
Even more boring than most of the film's non-characters are the island's tribesmen. What a ho-hum lot. They appear to be pseudo-Buddhist types who do little more than cast inscrutable glances every which way. This is strangely even more ethnocentric (and perhaps even downright racist) than the previous incarnations of "ignorant", "bloodthirsty" "savages" in the 1933 and 2005 versions. At least those people had something resembling "life" infused in their ooga-booga personae.
|Kong looks forward to some yummy octopus tentacles.
Other than Reilly's delightful performance, the only thing else left are the monsters. I won't bother attributing any of the picture's "success" in this regard to the by-rote direction of Jordan Vogt-Roberts (his boring nods to Apocalypse Now notwithstanding), but rather, all the magnificent SFX geniuses who designed the myriad of creatures. Kong's battles with the other behemoths are pretty damn spectacular and perk things up ever-so thrillingly. There's a phenomenal aquatic cage match twixt Kong and a humungous octopus which culminates in a wonderful moment in which Kong slurps up a few tentacles. One can, I suppose, attribute this to one of the four writers. Kudos, dudes!
That said, all previous incarnations of the Kong story were a whole lot more than just the monsters. They had, uh, characters, a solid story arc and were chockfull of wonder. They were sheer magic. There's nothing like that here - just a whole lotta tedious expository (and stupid, 'natch) nonsense to setup the inevitable sequels and franchise "universe". I'm coming to hate that word. "Universe" should conjure up feelings of expanse and possibility - not more of the same.
THE FILM CORNER RATING: *½ One-and-a-Half Stars
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