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About Kristen talking about him on the Late Night with Seth Meyers. :)
If you're going to have someone defend you, it doesn't get any better than Kristen Stewart:
http://t.co/0ETJ5cwKl6— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) January 18, 2015
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Transcript: "I love her. She's the best girl in the world. She is so talented and so soulful and cares about her work so much. I've known her since she was 12 years old. She's a great person. I don't know where this reputation came from because I've never seen any evidence of it. She is a wonderful actress and a wonderful person. So great in 'Still Alice'... so so good. I just love her. And honestly my husband cast her in a movie when she was 12... and he would come home everyday and say 'this girl is amazing. She's going to be a huge star.' And she is." ♥
Richard Glatzer's and Wash Westmoreland's Still Alice features a trio of powerful female performances from TFF alums Julianne Moore (The English Teacher, TFF 2013), Kristen Stewart (Fierce People, The Cake Eaters, TFF 2005 & 2007) and Kate Bosworth (While We Were Here, TFF 2013). Moore received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Alice Howland, a linguistics professor diagnosed with early on-set Alzheimer's disease. Stewart and Bosworth play her two daughters who must deal with their mother's diagnosis as well as their own genetics.
Tribeca Film Festival: Q: So you got to be another fantastic addition to this acting ensemble.
Kate: Of course! I've known Julie [Moore] throughout the years on a personal level, and she's such an extraordinary woman. I admire her so much. She's someone I look up to in all areas of life. I felt very fortunate to be able to work with her on a professional level. I also had the opportunity to watch her craft her character, which was something of a marvel to behold. I loved performing with her and Kristen [Stewart]. It's rare you get the opportunity to work with two women in such a complex manner. I feel the three of us connected so well.
We were able to explore this family of women together, and we each brought something different to our perspective roles. It isn't something I get the opportunity to do often. Normally—with being the female—you're kind of the lone wolf on set [laughs], so it was really lovely to connect with them in that way.
Q: Anna is the dutiful, responsible daughter as opposed to Kristen Stewart's free-spirited Lydia. How did you approach that dynamic?
Kate: We really didn't discuss it that much. Every actor has a different approach to his or her work. I don't like to rehearse very much. I like to have the camera roll and see what happens. Because of timing, that's how we worked on Still Alice. There wasn't a lot of time for discussion or rehearsal. Kristen inhabited her character so effortlessly and beautifully. I think, given the difference in our ages, there already was a different dynamic in place between us.
I don't know if my character Anna had every gone through a soul searching experience or had a need for that sort of self-discovery. I feel like she always knew what college she wanted to attend, what kind of degree she would get, what kind of man she would marry, when they should have a baby and so on. She was probably always targeted in that way. I like to think that Anna likes to feel and assume the grown up position more than Lydia, even though she too is struggling. I can definitely identify with that.
Growing up, I think I created armor for myself so that I would not be too vulnerable [laughs]. I love being at the age I am now. I feel like I've left all that behind. It was really nice to work with Kristen and see how she utilized this transitional/coming of age aspect of Lydia's life to make her more open to her mother's Alzheimer's disease. That kind of openness makes Alice and Anna uncomfortable because they are women who like to think they are quite together. The switch happens when Anna is unable to deal with her mother on an emotional level and Lydia is able to come in and take over in that sense.
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Here's a commercial for 7UP that ran for two months before it was taken off the air. A charming young black salesman opens with: "They say if you're gonna sell something, get yourself a captive audience." Cut to prison bars and slamming cell doors. He walks along the cellblock handing out cans through the bars and then drops one. Mugs to the camera: "Ooo, I'm not picking that up." Then with a grizzled biker-type cellmate: "When you bring the 7UP, everyone is your friend." Cellmate turns meaningly toward him: "That's enough being friends." Cell door closes and cameras begin to pull back: "Hey, where are you goin'?"
The target "demographic" for this ad is members of the 12-to-24 age group, who are therefore assumed to "get" the joke about rape as a constant and reliable feature of American prison life. (Take the catchy slogan "Make 7UP Yours" and remove the first word and there might be a real thigh-slapper in there somewhere.) Late-night comedians make frequent use of "Don't drop the soap" jokes, and I have seen a bail-bond advertisement built entirely around a sequence of a nerdy young guy being propelled into a prison shower room.
It might not take a visitor from another planet, or even another country, to detect something warped in a culture that not only takes rape for granted but expects its children to find it amusing. Here is a case history or two where in order to see the funny side you would really have had to be there:
"X claimed me as his property and I didn't dispute it. I became obedient, telling myself at least I was surviving.… He publicly humiliated and degraded me, making sure all the inmates and gaurds [sic] knew that I was a queen and his property. Within a week he was pimping me out to other inmates at $3.00 a man. This state of existence continued for two months until he sold me for $25.00 to another black male who purchased me to be his wife."
This is one of the more printable first-hand accounts from the "Slavery" section of a Human Rights Watch report entitled "No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons." And, as a description of the state of affairs in many jails, the term "slavery" is no exaggeration. An inmate who has been "turned out," as the saying goes, may become the wholly owned subsidiary of an individual, or even a gang. Not only is he a slave in the appalling sexual sense of that term, but he is compelled to turn over all his property, any gifts or money from "outside," and then be rented or hired out for tasks that might be described as demeaning: from cleaning toilet bowls to doing laundry before being subjected to recreational beating or coercive intercourse.
This re-emergence of the plantation culture in publicly funded American institutions does have a relationship to our racist past, as well as to our racist present. An unprotected person of any age or sex or ethnicity can become a victim, but there are clearly some violent black offenders who derive an additional thrill from imposing the master-slave relationship on a white boy. And this form of "payback" is precisely, if paradoxically, what the white supremacists encourage. Take the case of John William King, a young white burglar, slight of stature, who was shoved into a Texas penitentiary a few years ago.
By all accounts, the "white power" gang leadership in the place urged the warders to put King in the "black" part of the system. Since he weighed no more than 140 pounds, King soon found himself being savagely sodomized by packs of black prisoners. He was thus forced to appeal to the white racists for protection, which was their recruitment plan in the first place. Upon release, a somewhat morose and twisted (and indoctrinated) King teamed up with two other characters and fastened the late Mr. James Byrd to the back of a pickup truck before dragging him to death.
The Texas prison system is said to be the worst in this respect, and grimly goes on churning out victimized psychopaths bent on sharing their concerns with the rest of us—but this is not just a southern phenomenon. The man whose story I quoted above was in Michigan. And it was a spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Correction, Anthony Carnevale, who when questioned about rape in the system replied, "Well, that's prison … I don't know what to tell you."
The widespread view of prison rape—what one might call the "Shit happens" view—is wrong in several respects. First, it suggests that an occasional bit of unpleasantness in the showers is unavoidable. Second, it implies that those to whom the shit happens are either getting their just deserts or indulging their own desires. Third, it concedes that the authorities themselves are well aware of what goes on.
The last of these points is in a way the most shocking one. The guards can't be everywhere at once, let's agree, but there is no possible way for them to be unaware of the actual traffic in flesh that goes on. And the evidence is that this knowledge amounts to collusion. Rape establishes a hierarchy in jail, and some lazy elements among the warders and wardens find that this hierarchy makes their job of control an easier one.
Bad enough as that is, it works against the impression that people are getting what they deserve. The gangs are run by the most violent and antisocial elements, while the victims are overwhelmingly nonviolent and are often in prison for offenses that hardly merit jail time at all. Much attention was briefly generated by the suicide of a young man named Rodney Hulin, who was given an astonishing eight years behind bars for his first offense, the prank/crime of setting fire to a Dumpster. He was 16 and weighed about 125 pounds when he went in, and he was ready to kill himself by the time he was 17. A later inquiry uncovered written appeals from him, to the authorities, to be placed in protective custody. Though doctors had found tears in his rectum, these appeals had been ignored. When his mother appealed for help, according to her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the warden told her that Rodney needed to grow up. "This happens every day," he said, "learn to deal with it. It's no big deal."
Rape, if committed on the outside against anyone of any age or gender, is an extremely serious crime. Crime does not lose its criminal character by being transferred to the prison system: a murder or a stabbing in jail is treated as a murder or a stabbing. It is not the job of the forces of law and order to ignore crime, let alone to collaborate with it. And this collaboration, which may well extend to actual payoffs between gangs and guards, has a coarsening and corrupting effect beyond itself. Only when it was much, much too late did we begin to ask, about Abu Ghraib prison, outside Baghdad, "How long has this been going on? How many people are involved? How far up does it go?" Two of those accused, it now turns out, had been well known as sadists and bullies when they worked in American jails. How surprising is that, when the system itself operates on the principle of using the worst prisoners to discipline and control the most unoffending ones?
None of this is happening, as Abu Ghraib also makes plain, in a universe detached from our own. The State Department delayed release of a report on U.S. efforts to promote human rights and democracy in other countries out of sheer embarrassment at events in Iraq. If that condemnation and shame aren't bad enough, consider what the scale of a report on American prisons might involve. "One out of every 140 Americans is now in prison," says Lara Stemple, the brilliant former director of Stop Prisoner Rape, a national human rights group based in Los Angeles. "This is now the highest proportion per capita of any country in the world. New laws on mandatory sentencing have pushed the numbers up and led to overcrowding and the incarceration of many nonviolent offenders. The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 has made it harder for inmates to sue. And one out of every 10 male prisoners has been raped."
Stemple, now a human rights professor at the U.C.L.A. School of Law, goes on to tell me, very coolly but decidedly, this is a disaster for the rest of society not just because it makes hardened criminals out of previously moderate ones, and not just because it intensifies racism and segregation, but because it's an almost perfect way of spreading the AIDS virus. "If you were looking for a good definition of unsafe sex," she says, "forcible unprotected anal penetration would probably be it." We don't have good figures on the transmission of the disease, but that's because it's hard to get any answers at all from a system where sexually inflicted injuries are often found only at autopsy.
You might describe Lara Stemple as a feminist lawyer or as an attorney with a strong commitment to "women's issues," and based on her track record you would be right. But she thinks that it's now possible that the number of male rape victims in America rivals the number of female victims. (The Department of Justice reported that more than 66,000 women were raped in 2003.) She also argues very well against the false idea that this is "gay rape." "There are obviously gay men in the prison system. But the hierarchy of rape has 'straight' men at the top and the bottom. The rapist will preserve his heterosexual 'identity' as the boss, while it's the victim who is 'feminized' and called 'pussy' or 'bitch' or 'queen.'" A single very poignant example from the Human Rights Watch report helps bear her out and show that very familiar and traditional modes of domination are being reinforced here. "Of course rape is a crime of hatred," says one much put-upon inmate. "I'm ugly as a mud fence; why would [he] want to have sex with me?"
But please do not believe for a moment that women, once incarcerated in the United States, are safe from rape, either. Some women have sarcastically said that if jailed at least they'd be free from violent husbands or drive-by shooters. But you couldn't prove this by one of Lara Stemple's lurid examples: the fate of the 24-year-old Jackie Noyes at Taycheedah "Correctional Institution." Some circumstantial evidence is very powerful, as Henry David Thoreau said about finding a trout in your milk. If a female prisoner becomes pregnant, therefore, you can be reasonably certain that something is, or has been, going on. Swift action was taken in this case: when the mentally disturbed Ms. Noyes was impregnated by an officer of the jail, she was sentenced to nearly a year in solitary confinement. And the guard was let go. This was in liberal Wisconsin, a state that at the time had no law banning sexual relations between inmates and guards. Leafing through some of the similar reports makes one want to be part of another species: eager guards show up with cosmetics, money, food, and even promises of a visit from the children, in return for a few appalling moments with the cell door closed. Just to keep it to the Midwest, Cindy and David Struckman-Johnson of the University of South Dakota have published unrefuted research about a prison where one in four women has been sexually abused. You may have been nauseated by pictures of women soldiers humiliating Iraqi males in Abu Ghraib, but there are jails in this country where male officers are not prevented from supervising female inmates, in the showers and in the lavatories, and making whatever comments or gestures they feel like making. This kind of thing just doesn't happen in comparable countries, where there are conjugal visits, inspections, and openness to drop-bys from human-rights organizations.
One way to think about rape, as an act of cruelty and violence rather than as a degraded version of sex, is to picture it (actually you can't picture it: let's just say imagine it) as happening to someone other than yourself. A pack of taunting louts holds someone down, kicks this person around for a bit, violates every part of the victim's privacy in turn and by turns, and then defecates on the person afterward. You would prefer this to happen (a) to your wife, (b) to your husband, (c) to your daughter, (d) to your son, or (e) with your tax dollars. Cross out, with emphasis, any that do not apply.
This isn't a losing struggle all the time. Some prisons are adopting the panopticon, where all cells are built with transparent material and are arranged around a central tower where everything can be seen at all times. This "direct supervision" policy is now in use in the San Francisco area, where it began to be implemented after the rape of a young man named Billy Besk. Even in Texas, at the Carol S. Vance unit in Sugarland, it has been discovered that inmates behave better, and have a chance of minimal rehabilitation, once they feel reasonably safe. They are in prison, after all, as punishment, not for punishment—and certainly not to become crime victims. Congress made progress with the Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2002, sponsored by Senators Ted Kennedy and Jeff Sessions and Congressmen Frank Wolf and Bobby Scott, which attempts to hold states accountable if they fail to comply with clear standards about reporting and combating the practice. But the awful thing is that it is a practice.
Christopher Hitchens is a Vanity Fair contributing editor. Send comments on all Hitchens-related matters to email@example.com.

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I needed to record a video of me playing my song Creation, but needed to do it from above. And wanted it to be steady. Gina researched different smartphone adapters to mount my phone on her tripod. This is the video we found:
So I made one:
We already had a few butterfly clamps but I did buy the wing nut for $0.30 at Ace Hardware.
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Golden State Warriors guard Andre Iguodala's status for game four took a negative turn.
The Warriors guard was upgraded to questionable for Tuesday's matchup in the Western Conference finals against the Houston Rockets after being listed as doubtful with knee soreness on Monday.
However, Steve Kerr announced Iguodala would miss game four.
Iguodala appeared to injure his knee during game three on Sunday and was forced to leave the game midway through the fourth quarter.
"I think he's OK there," Kerr said after the game, via SF Gate. "He got banged on the knee. I think it was like a knee-on-knee type of thing. He said he would be all right."
Iguodala finished with 10 points on four-for-six shooting to go with three assists and three rebounds as the Warriors took a 2-1 series lead with a 126-85 rout of the Rockets.
"When we're playing how we are supposed to play, Andre's right in the middle of it," Kerr said of Iguodala. "His defense and being smart, making good decisions. Andre is one of the guys who seems to set the tone for us, and I thought he did a great job of that tonight."
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Former Joy Division man to pay homage at FAC251
Peter Hook has revealed details of his forthcoming tribute night for his late Joy Division bandmate Ian Curtis.
The bass player will perform Joy Division's classic 1979 album 'Unknown Pleasures' in full at the show, which will take place at Manchester's FAC251 club. The club is on the site of the former offices of Factory Records – Joy Division's label.
Hook will be joined his band The Light and guests likely to include former Happy Mondays singer Rowetta for the show.
See Factorymanchester.com for venue details and more information. Ticket fees will include donation to the Mind charity and the Keith Bennett Appeal.
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All in all, reports on the health front (save for my mother, who is stronger and in better shape than anyone I know) are not pretty. Welcome to middle age. The line for minor tranquilizers is to the left; narcotics to the right.
It's enough to make me take up smoking again. This afternoon, I could think of nothing more satisfying than to have a cigarette. So I did.
I took one from the half-emply pack that I stored in the freezer the day I had my last cigarette, in mid-October 2002. October 14, 2002 was the day I received Serena's e-mail announcing that she had undergone cancer surgery and would have her baby delivered early, by C-section, so that her chemo could commence.
Smoking may not have been the most constructive activity I could have undertaken this afternoon; however, short of making love, it was the most comforting. (Later in the day, still shaking, frightened, and unnerved, I asked an old friend to visit, and we had a great time in bed. Sex took his and my minds away from real life for a greatly needed interval.)
I react, however belatedly, to illness with self-destructive behavior, to death with life-affirming sex.
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Near Hartselle in Morgan County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)
Skirmish at Woodall's Bridge
April 7, 1864
An estimated 600 Confederate and Union troops skirmished on this site on April 7, 1864 for control of crucial troop movements south of the Tennessee River during the Federal occupation of North Alabama.
Confederate Brigadier General James Holt Clanton led forces based in Danville against a Federal cavalry from the garrison at Decatur for control of Woodall's Bridge.
The bridge was the primary route for east-west movement in Morgan County after an important river bridge at Decatur was burned two years earlier. Troops needed access to Woodall's Bridge to move across the county and defend their picket positions.
The Confederate strength was initially 40 men, with another 200 becoming engaged. The Union forces were estimated at 350 men. The Confederates chased the Union cavalry back to Decatur after the skirmish.
The next day smaller cavalry units of both forces skirmished on this site with the Confederates again chasing the Union forces back towards Decatur.
Erected 2014 by Hartselle Historical Society and the Alabama Tourism Board.
Location. Touch for map. Marker is located on the east bank of Flint Creek just before crossing the bridge. The modern highway bridge is located in nearly the exact same spot as the wartime Woodall's Bridge. Marker is at or near this postal address: 2236 Hwy 36 W, Hartselle AL 35640, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 11 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. City of Hartselle, Alabama / Hartselle Facts (approx. 2.9 miles away); Our History (approx. 8 miles away); The "Katy-Did" Crash (approx. 8.2 miles away); Battleground (approx. 9.6 miles away); Jesse Cleveland Owens (approx. 10½ miles away); James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (approx. 10.6 miles away); Recreation and Refreshment (approx. 10.7 miles away); Health and Civic Welfare (approx. 10.7 miles away).
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Desperation: The Queen of Swansea
|October 18, 2016
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Written by Gary Collins
Published by Flanker Press
Reviewed by Michael Wade
Publication date: September 2016
This book is inspired by the true events of the final voyage of the vessel "Queen of Swansea" that was headed for Newfoundland back in 1867 and encountered a gruesome ending on the rocks of Gull Island.
This is a story that is both inspiring and eye opening. While we hear of loss of life at sea over the years, it was amazing (and heartbreaking) to realize how close these people were to land and yet, tragically, still starved to death on a desolate rock. Desperation: The Queen of Swansea is a must read.
For more information about this book, please visit the publisher's website here.
2 Responses to Desperation: The Queen of Swansea
Hi Michael,
A pleasure indeed to read your favorable review of my work.It is always encouraging and inspires me to continue. Thanks to my faithful readers and people like you, I have already begun research for another manuscript.
I hope you crest any storms in your own life.
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Thank you Gary. I always look forward to you book arriving in the mail.
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Eternal Samhain are a band from Italy that plays a very symphonic and gothic form of black metal and this is a review of their 2016 album "Storyteller Of The Sunset And Dawn" which will be released at the end of October by RNC Music.
Atmospheric sounding synths start off the album along with some spoken word parts a few seconds later and after the intro the music goes into more of a heavier ad symphonic direction along with some grim black metal screams and the riffs also bring in a great amount of melody and when the music speeds up a great amount of blast beats can be heard.
At times the riffs can be very melodic and throughout the recording you can hear a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and the faster riffs also use a great amount of tremolo picking and all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them and the vocals also get deep in some parts of the songs.
You can also hear a touch of goth in the bands musical style and the guitar leads are done in a very melodic fashion and clean guitars can also be heard in certain sections of the recording and they also bring in a brief instrumental before returning back to vocal tracks and as the album progresses violins can be heard on a few songs..
Eternal Samhain plays a style of symphonic black metal that is very heavily rooted in the 90's and also brings in a touch of goth, the production sounds very professional while the lyrics are written in a mixture of Italian and English and cover dark themes.
In my opinion Eternal Samhain are a very great sounding symphonic black metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Cathedral" "Vespri" "King Of Yourself" and "Storyteller Of The Sunset And Dawn". 8 out of 10.


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This crispy soy chicken recipe is delicious and quick to prepare. It is a straight forward recipe only needing a few ingredients you most likely already have in your kitchen.
The key step to this recipe is the boiling of the chicken with the marinade ingredients. The perfect combination of the ingredients gives the chicken a bit of saltiness from the soy sauce and some sweetness from the brown sugar. Just boil the chicken for 30 minutes under medium heat.
Let the chicken rest before deep frying. Let it rest for about 10-15 minutes. You want to let excess liquid drip out of the chicken.
Deep frying the chicken shouldn't take long as the chicken is already cooked. Deep fry until it turns crispy and skin turns brown color. This step should only take about 10 minutes. Serve with hot rice!
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Crispy Soy ChickenPrint This
- Chicken Leg Quarter 1 Piece
- Chicken Stock 2 Cups
- Light Soy Sauce 1/4 Cup
- Dark Soy Sauce 2 Tbsp
- Rice Wine 2 Tbsp
- Brown Sugar 2 Tbsp
- Garlic 1 Tbsp
- Ginger 1 Tbsp
- Black Pepper 1/4 Tsp
- In a pot, combine all marinade ingredients (chicken stock,light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, rice wine, brown sugar, garlic, ginger, black pepper). Let it boil.
- Add chicken into the marinade and boil for 30 minutes under medium heat.
- Take out chicken and let it rest for 10 minutes.
- Deep fry chicken until color turns golden brown.


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Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have shot dead two suspected armed robbers in the Ijebu Ode area of the state.
The police said the incident followed an intelligence report received by the command that a robbery gang from Onitsha was in Ijebu Ode to terrorise the residents.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said as soon as the information was received, the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, directed the officer in charge of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Uba Adam, to go after the hoodlums.
He stated that policemen went after the suspects, adding that when the hoodlums sighted the cops, they engaged them in a gun battle for about 30 minutes.
Oyeyemi said, "At the end of the encounter, two of the robbers were shot dead, while two gang members escaped with bullet injuries.
"Items recovered from them are one AK-47 rifle, two pump action guns, 57 rounds of 7.62mm live ammunition, 32 rounds of live cartridges and an unregistered Toyota Previa."
The PPRO said Iliyasu expressed satisfaction at the performance of his men and ordered that a manhunt be launched for the fleeing members of the gang.
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I have to stop thinking that Saturday is my only off time because it isn't. I have been outside cutting shelves for my back book room/ classroom/ whatever it will be called. It has been slow as all get out but it is getting done. My wife is out on the back porch replanting her plants.
Yesterday I had both left arm PT and leg PT. The arm lady said I need to get the muscles back working, use them all the time I need something done – button buttons – I wear pullovers but my wife wore a button up PJ shirt to bed and I unbutton all those buttons this morning - clean the table, use it to type which I am doing right now. It has been slow and I am making a ton of mistakes but I can see more work coming out of that hand right now.
My leg is getting better and I tend to walk around without a cane when I can. All of this is getting better but I just have to do things different than before. Emailing and typing on here is slow but I am getting stronger. I just need to think more about what I need to get do so that I can get back to my students. They need me – I hope.
I take my BP every morning before anything, I take my BS before I have breakfast – which the needle stick is getting old – but I need to put it in an excel sheet for my doctor. I weigh myself each morning but the weight has not changed much – it fluctuates up and down about three pounds no matter what my wife fixes or doesn't fix.
I look over the excel sheet and things have been the same for the past month. The numbers just have not changed – that's good and bad – good in the sence that I am at my normal weight and that won't change and my BP and BS is very stable but bad because I want all of it to come down somewhat.


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Allow me to present a simple, free to grab three-month chart on your favorite and mine, gasoline prices. Look at this diagram. What catches your eye?
Source: Gasbuddy
Here are the things that jump off the page to me, with a bit of an unfair competitive advantage in having read every single macro report (per the usual) in the past month...
- The average U.S. household (demo: $100,000 combined annual income) was ill-prepared for July's spike in gas prices. My mom and her friends can't easily sell a share in their home to capture rebounding values (still below 2007 levels), and have no idea of the ins and outs of their 401k (so that is dead money), to help pay a $40 increase in the monthly fuel bill. Woopsie Mr. Wonky Economist. So the consequence of that is reduced consumption in discretionary areas, such as was evidenced at Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Brinker's (EAT), and yes Family Dollar (FDO) where not every piece of foreign sourced merchandise is priced at $1.
- Personal income, as conveyed by our pals at the BEA, rose a hearty 0.3% in June, setting up the consumer poorly for navigating July's gas tab (as seen in the above diagram).
- Average workweek fell in July according to the employment report; overtime didn't cushion the increased outlays for dinosaur fuel.
- Assessment of future conditions, broadly, weakened in July as pointed out in the Conference Board confidence reading.
The end result of this analysis? That notoriously lagged impact of gas price creep on consumption patterns of humans has arrived, right in time for the back to school shopping season. Be careful in believing the glass will be half full forever in the markets. It simply is not as easy as seeing strong ISM manufacturing/non-manufacturing readings and thinking all the households that comprise an economy are poised to flourish and spur surprising corporate earnings.
No cause for panic yet as I articulated to clients on Tuesday, but watch how the market digests these dark, incoming clouds in a slow newscycle.
4 Randoms to Watch
- A downgrade of IBM (IBM) this early on in 3Q13 leaves me wondering if we are moving towards a host of other similar rating chops to multinationals in coming weeks, in spite of the perceived stabilization of the EU and dollar at a six-week low.
- Consumer staples logged some relative outperformance week to date; too early to tell if this is a rotation into defensive positioning as we peer into September.
- Retailers that brought in back to school merchandise, namely Target (TGT) and Wal-Mart (WMT), in the hopes of luring in consumers now have egg on their face. Thank you American Eagle (AEO) for reaffirming my suspicion on 3Q13 retail sector guidance.
- You can keep Coach (COH) as an investment. I believe it will take close to a year before new execs begin to drive improved results. As that process is happening, Michael Kors will likely continue to steal market share and Tory Burch will have publicly generated funds to further put a dagger into Coach's heart. Basically, to become bullish on Coach, you will have to see something at the store level that stands to reverse the horrid 11 quarter same-store sale trend on display below.


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Portugal 1-0 France (AET) – Eder strike earns Portugal maiden win
Much to the surprise and disappointment of many, Portugal – without the injured moth-catcher, Cristiano Ronaldo for 95 of the 120 minutes – won their first ever-major tournament thanks to an extra-time winner by Swansea flop, Eder.
The match, like John Major and Edwina Currie, was a dour affair, which became a common theme for games involving Portugal with the Hungary draw the only exception.
Chances were few and far between with Rui Patricio pulling off a couple of fine saves. The tournament's top scorer, Antoine Griezmann, headed over from close range during the second half while 78th minute substitute, Andre-Pierre Gignac saw his injury-time effort rebound off Patricio's near post.
But it was Portugal's 79th minute sub, Eder who scored the winner with just over ten minutes of extra-time remaining. Not bad for a striker without a goal in 13 appearances for Swansea last season.
Eder and Gignac had contrasting fortunes despite spending the same amount of time on the pitch. The now Lille forward not only scored with a great low-drive but also bought his side some time by earning five free-kicks – more than any other player – around the halfway line as he held the ball up well.
One of France's more disappointing performers was Paul Pogba who struggled to have an impact in the attacking third. This may have been down to his new role as one of the two central midfielders along with Blaise Matuidi. The opening few games saw a midfield three which included N'Golo Kante but following his suspension, Moussa Sissoko came in with Pogba dropping deeper. This move did bring out the best of Griezmann while Sissoko was arguably man of the match against Portugal.
Sissoko's performance would have frustrated many a Newcastle fan following his inconsistent outings for the relegated side. He's likely to get a move away this summer and his value has probably increased by a few million following his efforts in Paris.
The comparison between this final and Newcastle's last match before they were relegated shows he misplaced more than twice as many passes against Aston Villa and only had two successful take ons compared to his six for France. This is based on normal time to make it a fairer comparison and whilst the argument that he has better players around him is a valid one, the opponents are relative and having weaker players doesn't justify so many unsuccessful passes or a lack of take ons.
France attempted more than three times as many crosses as Portugal but Pepe and Jose Fonte were more than up to the challenge. The centre-back duo managed 11 out of 12 headed clearances while Portugal blocked nine crosses to France's zero.
In fact, Portugal had an 86.4% success rate with their clearances compared to France's 64.3%. Furthermore, the vast majority of Portugal's clearances took place within their penalty area.
In terms of chances created, France had two and a half times that of Portugal's six with most of the host's opportunities coming from the left flank, which was the side Dimitri Payet occupied. Meanwhile, a third of Portugal's chances were the result of corners taken from the right.
In spite of the statistics, it is only one that matters most and that went Portugal's way. Their tournament run has been about as inspiring as a stubborn grey cloud but they won't care as they achieve redemption following the narrow defeat they suffered by Greece when they hosted the 2004 Championships. Let's just hope Ronaldo doesn't go on about it…


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There's an old notion of getting a visit from the tax man. As if today's income tax is some reverse Santa Claus taking a percentage of toys from boys and girls based on income level and number of dependents. We should be so lucky. There is no gentleman knocking on our doors and handing us a bill. It's up to each individual to recognize that it's that time of year. They have to do their own math to figure out what they owe (or pay someone to determine what to pay). Most importantly, everyone needs to have the pertinent information available in order to prepare their taxes.
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The real key to avoiding stress at tax time is to be prepared in advance. Throughout the year, keep all tax information in some sort of file. Track deductions throughout the year with a planner rather than try to go back through old receipts and figure out which purchases are applicable. This helps in the event of an audit as well, as that kind of documentation is hard to forge in hindsight when planners from the previous year go out of stock. If you're filling out the forms by hand, you'll also want a calculator, a reliable pen with anti-alteration features, and, let's not kid ourselves, correction tape.
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Nebraska Farm Bureau urges state to broaden tax base
The president of Nebraska's largest general farm organization called on Gov. Pete Ricketts and members of the Nebraska Legislature to pass legislation initiating state tax reform that would broaden Nebraska's sales tax base as a means to offset and reduce the reliance on property taxes. Read More »


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Yesterday was National Cheeseburger Day and Google rewarded my search for pics of Elvis enjoying a big one with news that Presley culture has i nspired a chain of international diners. Here's their spiel. Look for one rocking your town if you live in Eastern Europe or the Middle East. The rest of us have to settle for Five Guys.
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Recently Alex and Eugene saw The Wackness at Nova. Alex really liked it. Eugene didn't so much. They both went away and tried to write their thoughts on the picture. Here is what they came up with.
The Wackness: A Review – by Eugene Ford.
Personally I find the early nineties to have been the best time for both music and film, with Nirvana, Sonic Youth, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols all being amongst my favourite bands, whilst pictures such as Heavy, Poison, Kids, Clerks, Welcome to the Dollhouse and of course, Pulp Fiction can all be praised for their original, hard and cutting edge vision. The Wackness, a feature from writer/director Jonathan Levine, won the audience award at this years Sundance Film Festival, which is due somewhat to its perfect capture of a New York in the early nineteen nineties, a period characterised by flannel, 'lost youth', Rudolph Giuliani and the 'weird' music and films mentioned before.
Seventeen year old Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck), is a hip-hop obsessed white kid, dealing weed out of his 'ice-cream' cart to an assortment of clients, including the hugely underrated Jane Adams, a surprisingly good Mary-Kate Olsen and Luke's shrink Dr Squires (Ben Kingsley) who is payed for his sessions with pot. When Luke begins a relationship with Stephanie (Juno's Olivia Thirlby) another client who happens to be Dr Squires step daughter, Dr Squires moves past his doctor/patient relationship to begin a friendship with Luke.
The film is hard to characterise because it uneasily blends the drama and the comedy. The relationship with Stephanie, who seems both genuine and insincere, is handled in a way that is honest and real. They begin a friendship that is natural and spontaneous, they go to her parents beach house for some fun in the sun, he tells her he loves her, and they arrive home and break up soon after, a chain of events that is significant for some young people. This dramatic part of the story is done well.
Yet it's blended in with the relationship between Luke and Dr Squires, an element that is meant to be both funny and poignant. They get drunk together, they try and pick up, they graffiti a wall, they get arrested, they take drugs, and then one feigns suicide whilst the other tries to talk him out of it. In the midst of this are 'jokes' which are there to lighten the mood, although they work better at stopping the film being what it should and could have been, an honest, unflinching, and effective look at a depressed adult and teen.
Whenever I watch a film from the makers of 'adult comedy', i.e. Knocked Up, Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and so on, I'm always struck by really good ideas and themes that are lurking just below the surface of the picture, because the 'jokes' are dominating the film. Similarly I think this is what annoys me most about The Wackness, although it has taken me awhile to realise it. It tries to work as both a comedy and a drama, films which do this successfully would include Fargo and No Country for Old Men (in fact anything by the Coens). The really funny elements of the early 90's are lost because the picture wasn't a complete comedy, whilst the dramatic elements of the same era are lost because it wasn't a complete drama.
That is not to say that the film isn't good on other levels. It's certainly original, if not purely for the story line alone, the performances are great, especially Ben Kingsley as Dr. Squires, and I love how the relationship between Luke and Stephanie is not 'cut and dried' and typically romantic. Yet the film is burdened with being set in a pre-nine eleven New York, an element that – in my mind – overshadowed the whole film, and guaranteed any of the jokes to be followed with my uneasy laughter.
The Wackness: a close analysis – by Alex Lagerwey.
New York is arguably the worlds most photographed and documented city, yet filmmaker Jonathan Levine chose not to flood the screen with typical aerial views of the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, etc. in his 2008 film 'The Wackness'. Instead we see it from the ground up; its inhabitants pound the streets speaking of it like a hard-boiled film noir anti-hero. "The city is a lonely place." – a line that could sound clichéd if it wasn't so obviously true for the three lead characters, especially the wise-beyond-her-years character Stephanie played by Olivia Thirlby whose popularity and sexual proficiency belie a deep-seeded loneliness and an inability to communicate. The city, we are told, is going through many changes, a fickle mistress who is looking to reform. Ben Kingsley's pot smoking and jaded psychiatrist Dr. Squires laments this change, longing for the cities heady days of his youth. Yet these days appear to be a fictional nostalgia, his adolescence spent as a confirmed nerd. Thus he sees the films lead Luke Shapiro as his invitation to the missed and oft heard of party. However the roles have changed. Luke makes his living peddling dope out of an ice cream cart, a cover so laughably thin one wonders just how hard Mayor Giuliani – an icon where all hatred is directed – is trying to clean up the city. He wryly labels himself "the most popular of the unpopular" with weed being so common, the ability to deal it has no special status attached. He has been relegated to loser and forever thinks of himself as such. It takes the advice of his unhinged self-medicating psychiatrist and best client to force Luke into action.
"You don't need medication, you just need to get laid." Squires delivers with the tone of the world-weary bequeathing a hard-learned truth to an incredulous younger generation. It is a slogan perhaps many within the synthetic drug happy world of 1994 can live by.
The film also evokes a certain nostalgia. Although the world of 1994 seems minutes ago, it is apparent we have changed irreversibly. Luke's slavish devotion to hip-hop is telling of a scene about to boom right out of its box, still on the cusp of popularity, the phenomenon of rap not saturating the airwaves and televisions until several years later.
The city, like its characters, are in a transitional phase, waiting for something unexpected yet inevitable. Luke waits for his last summer of adolescence until he pushes off to college, Stephanie looking for a distraction before she too decides what to become and perhaps the most potent change of all is Dr. Squires, discovering his marriage is a shambles and his career as a psychiatrist pointless and unfulfilling. As he sits pretending to crush his diplomas with his hands, it is his life personified, his training and hard earned certificates crumbling in on themselves to reveal a shell of a man who uses drug, legal and otherwise, as a crutch.
Being only six years old during the summer of 1994 and having never been to the city of New York, I feel somewhat unqualified to talk about the overall tone of the film and its accurate representation of a city in the midst of a change from old to new, nor is my love of nineties hip-hop profoundly insightful. Nevertheless my enjoyment of the film wasn't diminished by this lack of understanding and I felt welcomed into this snapshot in time, being able to wholly relate to Luke's outsider status, wry observations and a general hopelessness in defining what he wants to be. The subtle shift from comedy to tragedy suited my sensibilities with the climax of the film being an attempted suicide by Dr. Squires and an impassioned plea for life by one yet to live his. Luke's half sobbed-monologue, struggling in the open sea to save his mentor as the picture is sapped of any colour and warmth, the waves a dull grey slapping against his chest, pulling him back to the sand, is genuinely touching. However, as the film looks like it might be heading in a more serious direction, Squires is sloppily reborn from the sea stating matter-of-factly to Luke, "That was really fucking corny what you said." The fact that Dr. Squires attempts to kill himself three different ways and fails spectacularly each time is perhaps the message the film wishes to leave the audience with, sometimes it's right to do the wrong thing.


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My friend & classmate Rebecca told me this story, sometime last year. Rebecca is very pretty so obviously I didn't draw her well. But Rebecca is also very cool so I'm sure she won't mind my drawing. heheh. And I have no idea how Rose & her cats look like.
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Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop & Turn presents more than 50 examples of action-packed constructions and inspired works of art spanning 500 years. We hope exhibition visitors will experience these rarely seen treasures as their creators intended—as remarkable works that calculate, educate, entertain, and amaze.
The Dance of the Tunnel Book
Tunnel books or peep shows are a series of cut-paper panels placed one behind the other, creating the illusion of depth and perspective. Often, these are engineered like an accordion, with the two boards pulling apart and the illustrated panels lined up and viewed through a front peep-hole or viewer.
A recent purchase by the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum Library is an 18th century tunnel book attributed to the engraver and print-seller Martin Engelbrecht (1684-1756) of Augsburg, Germany.


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Just in case you missed it Microsoft made Azure Active Directory Sync Services (AADSync) build 1.0.0470.1023 available on the 27th October 2014. The download URL is the same as before. This version supersedes the RTW version (1.0.419.911). The list of changes can be found here. In short, the following features have been added:
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What a busy day. It's my day off, but I was busy. First thing I did after waking and showering and dressing was toss a load into the washer. Then, after I dropped Daniel off at school I went to the bank for my weekly grocery money and then to Walmart. Once I got to Walmart, I handed over the cash and my Walmart Card and asked her to put the usual $250 on. Miss Pauline counted the money and announced that I was $50 short! So I immediately called the bank and they said that the teller would … [Read more...]
Exhausted on a Friday Night What a week. I'm still not feeling 100% even though I've been on my second antibiotic since Tuesday. It made me so nauseated the first day so I got some of that acidophilus (did I spell that right?) and am taking it twice a day with the antibiotic. Worked hard today! It wasn't very busy but I found stuff to keep myself occupied When I got home my feet were killing me and I had a headache and so I begged to be taken out for dinner. Yay! We went out. I had BBQ … [Read more...]
Happy Monday!
Wow, what a busy day this has been. Woke up early and delivered posters for the Community Blood Center of the Ozarks blood drive next week. Then we went to the library downtown and I typed up a news release for the blood drive and emailed that to the local newspaper. Afterwards, went to the bank and got money out for the week and ran to Walmart and then to Subway for lunch. Then went to my mom's so that Daniel could mow her yard. That took four hours (it should have only taken maybe two). … [Read more...]
Two days to go
I'm almost packed and ready to go. Ready? I don't know about being READY for surgery, but I'm ready to go to the hospital at least LOL I've done some grocery shopping and laundry to keep up. Tonight we're taking Daniel out to dinner and a movie to celebrate his birthday; he wants Chinese food. Also we're going to see Night at the Museum, the new one. Should be fun! Tomorrow I have to: go to the library and return a ton of books and pick up a few about menopause get Daniel a … [Read more...]
Hello, it's Wednesday!
So far this morning, I've: 1. woke up, showered and gotten ready for the day 2. gotten Daniel up and ready for his day 3. delivered him to school 4. gone to Walmart for juice and cereal 5. eaten a bowl of Mini Wheats 6. downloaded over 100 pieces of email (most of it JUNK mail) 7. gotten one load out of the dryer 8. tossed one load into the dryer 9. filled the dishwasher 10. taken chicken wings out of the freezer to thaw 11. plucked my eyebrows 12. read two chapters of … [Read more...]
Hello, Saturday Evening!
We have all been busy today. Hubby helped a friend move, then went onto Springfield to do some shopping. Daniel and I cleaned all day. We're all tired now. Hubby came home and napped and Daniel and I just finished supper (eggs and sausage links, toast and bagels, grape juice and milk). Also Daniel played next door for a couple of hours, which gave me a chance to run to get groceries. Spent over $100 and still have to pick up the ham on Wednesday. Ordered it … [Read more...]
Saturday Afternoon…..Whazzup?
Not much here, anymore. I am just about finished for the day LOL So far today, Daniel and I cleaned the living room, went to get groceries for next week and I have fried chicken for dinner. All I need to do is make some mashed potatoes and open a can of corn. The chicken is in the fridge. My guys like COLD fried chicken. Daniel wants to make gingerbread cookies after dinner. Maybe we will, maybe we won't.....depends on my mood, I guess. Right now, Daniel and the … [Read more...]
Hello, Friday Night!
It's Friday night...did anyone shop today at the mall? Not me, I didn't go near any stores. We went to the library, though. That's it. Oh and we had lunch with dh at the office.Dinner tonight was Thanksgiving leftovers. Yummy! My medicine (Byetta) didn't let me pig out like I did yesterday, though. See, yesterday we ate early and it was too soon for my Byetta shot, so I was able to be a piggy. Tonight, though, there was enough time for me to take … [Read more...]
It's Wednesday!
I've been at the library two mornings in a row, typing up the minutes to this past Monday's Parish Council of Catholic Women meeting and to the last Region 2 Council of Catholic Women General meeting that was held in September....I'm only a bit slow! And now I've copied the minutes and have the envelopes all addressed and stamped and ready to put in the mail. Next week is our Region 2 Board meeting in Aurora. And then in December we'll have another General meeting, in … [Read more...]
Did anyone get the number of that truck that hit me?!?
I woke up this morning feeling like a truck hit me. It started in the shower (slightly dizzy) and got worse when I brushed my teeth (very nauseated). I had to go back to bed for a couple of hours and am just now feeling better. Wow. My dh wondered if my blood sugar was off but I didn't check it, I was too dizzy and had to lay down. I wonder if something was wrong? After I slept a couple hours, I woke up and ate something little, then took my sugar and it was 153. It's supposed to be 150 … [Read more...]


text: Light painting is a technique where the camera shutter is open for a long time in a dark setting. The light painter is a person holding a light source (flash light, small portable lamp, etc) who enters the frame and paints (moves around) with the light source. The setting must be dark so it doesn't overexpose and the light painter must wear dark colors so he/she will not be visible. This is a really fun one.


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France, Germany concerned over Trump's moves to limit refugees
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel say they are concerned over U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to limit refugees as they meet in Paris. Rough Cut (No reporter narration)
ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION France and Germany voiced concern on Saturday (January 28) over U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim countries, and they reaffirmed a firm line on Russian sanctions. Speaking at a joint news conference in Paris with his German counterpart Sigmar Gabriel, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said many of Trump's decisions worried the two U.S. allies, including new immigration restrictions. Trump on Friday signed an executive order that will curb immigration and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries and he separately said he wanted the United States to give priority to Syrian Christians fleeing the civil war there. "Welcoming refugees, who flee war and oppression, is part of our duty. We must ensure it happens in a fair, correct way and also in solidarity. And ensuring the way we do it - that's why European dialogue and European solidarity must continue to play a role and clearly play a role, and that each nation must play its part - so that societies are not unsettled but that they fulfil their commitments and that they are faithful to our values. Clearly - you ask me a question on a recent decision - this can only worry us," Ayrault told reporters. Germany has taken in more than one million refugees and migrants, mainly from the Middle East, since 2015. Although traditionally open to asylum seekers, France has taken in far fewer refugees than Germany since the migrant crisis erupted, with some in the French government, mostly ex-premier Manuel Valls, criticising Berlin's open-door policy. "The United States is a country where Christian traditions have an important meaning. Loving your neighbour is a major Christian value, and that includes helping people. I think that is what unites us in the West, and I think that is still a common foundation that we share with the United States and we want to make that clear," Gabriel, who was on his first trip abroad since his nomination as foreign minister, said.