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Having �just returned from a seaside vacation, I thought I might pick a "beach movie" to recommend for my classic movie pick. � I began racking my brain to recall one I enjoyed, one that is considered a true "classic". � The alarm bells went off in my head when I remembered having watched about 1 year ago on Turner Classic Movies, Spanish/Mexican director Luis Bunuel's Robinson Crusoe, made in 1952 but not released to English speaking audiences until 1954.
Bunuel was an unfamiliar director to me, so I did �a bit of research into his life: Born in Spain on Feb. 22, 1900, made movies in France, Spain, left Spain for the US right before the Spanish Civil War ended, made movies in the US, �then moved to Mexico and ultimately made that country his home. � He received many nominations and won awards for his work: �best film, or director, or screenplays at Cannes, The Academy Awards, the �Venice Film Festival, and the Berlin Film Festival. � He died in Mexico on July 29, 1983.
When I began watching Bunuel's version of Robinson Crusoe, the story captured me immediately. �I was vaguely familiar with the plot of Daniel Defoe's book, but had never read it. �Bunuel's screenplay was quite faithful to the book and he co-wrote it with Phillip Ansel Roll, beginning in 1950. � The producers of this film wanted Orson Welles to be cast as Crusoe, but director Bunuel told them no, that Welles was too loud for the part and too overweight. �300 actors were considered and Bunuel wanted Dan O'Herlihy for the lead, who had in fact, just finished co-starring in Orson Welles's version of Macbeth, playing the role of Macduff. �With Bunuel's direction and O'Herlihy's skill as an actor, O'Herilihy won an Academy Award nomination for best actor in 1955. �The other pivotal part in the film is Friday, the native who Crusoe saves from cannibals, and who becomes Crusoe's friend. �Jaime Fernandez was cast as Friday. �He was working as a grip on a film when Bunuel discovered him and he was also the younger brother of Emilio Fernandez, who at that time was a movie star in Mexico. �Jaime knew no English, so he learned to speak it on the set, in much the same way Friday learned to speak it in the movie! �The film was shot in technicolor, and two versions were shot: English and Spanish. �The English version was released in 1954 and the Spanish version in 1955.


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If it's "spin" to back up your arguments with bogus facts and statistics, and to dismiss numbers that don't fit in with your preconceptions, then Bill O'Reilly's Fox News Channel show isn't, as he repeatedly claims, a "no-spin zone"--it's Spin City.
During an interview with National Organization for Women president Kim Gandy (O'Reilly Factor, 2/5/02), O'Reilly claimed that "58 percent of single-mom homes are on welfare." When Gandy questioned that figure, O'Reilly held firm: "You can't say no, Miss Gandy. That's the stat. You can't just dismiss it.... It's 58 percent. That's what it is from the federal government."
But by the next broadcast (2/6/02), O'Reilly was revising his accounting: "At this point, we have this from Washington, and it's bad. Fifty-two percent of families receiving public assistance are headed by a single mother, 52 percent." Not only is that a different number, it's the reverse of the statistic he offered the previous night-- not the percentage of households headed by single mothers that receive welfare, but the percentage of families receiving public assistance headed by single mothers. That's a distinction that O'Reilly did not attempt to clarify; he seemed unapologetic about emphatically putting forward an inaccurate statistic the night before.
The following night (2/7/02), O'Reilly came up with more solid figures, but they bore no resemblance to his original numbers: About 14 percent of single mothers receive federal welfare benefits, he now said--less than one-fourth of his earlier claim. (He suggested that food stamps ought to be considered a kind of welfare, but that only gets him to 33 percent--still 25 percentage points short.) O'Reilly explained that "it's really hard to get a stat to say how many single moms percentage-wise get government assistance," though he'd found it easy enough to pull one out of the air just three nights earlier.
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There's a valuable lesson here for Factor watchers: When O'Reilly is most certain, you should be most skeptical. On another show (2/26/01), O'Reilly explained to Florida state senator Kendrick Meek that, thanks to Gov. Jeb Bush's "One Florida" program, 37 percent of students at Florida universities were black: "Thirty-seven percent. That's much higher than the population, the black population, of Florida. Bush is doing a good job for you guys and you're vilifying him." When Meek challenged those numbers, O'Reilly insisted they were "dead on."
Dead wrong is more like it: Total minority enrollment for the freshman class entering in 2000 was 37 percent (Florida Times-Union, 8/30/00)-- black enrollment was about 18 percent.
Sometimes a guest who sticks to his or her guns can keep O'Reilly's audience from being misinformed. When the host claimed (5/8/01) that the United States "give[s] far and away more tax money to foreign countries than anyone else. . . . Nobody else even comes close to us," Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies was thankfully on hand to explain that U.S. contributions per capita were lower than those of any member of the European Union. "That's not true," O'Reilly inaccurately responded.
Actually, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, in 2000 the U.S. gave only 0.1 percent of its Gross National Income as official development aid--less than Italy, the least generous EU nation. Denmark gave 10 times as much on a per capita basis. Even in real terms, Japan in 2000 gave away a third more aid, even though its economy was less than half as large.
O'Reilly rewrote diplomatic history during an interview with James Zogby of the Arab American Institute (4/2/02). After Zogby argued that Israeli settlements were an obstacle to peace between Israel and Palestine, O'Reilly countered that during the Camp David negotiations in July 2000, the offer made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak "would have given 90 percent of those settlements back"--an idea he credited to "what every single American expert who has seen that says."
In fact, O'Reilly got the proportion of settlements Barak was prepared to give up almost backwards: He promised Israelis that any deal with the Palestinians would involve "80 percent of the settlers in settlement blocks under our sovereignty" (Jerusalem Post, 9/13/00). When Zogby pointed out O'Reilly's error, the host said he would welcome any former diplomats who could prove him wrong: "I'll put them on tomorrow," he said--but didn't.
O'Reilly frequently refuses to believe his guests--even when they cite a source. When one Factor interviewee remarked (3/1/02) that "60 percent of all people will live in poverty for one year of their life," O'Reilly shot back: "Not in the United States.... No, that's bogus. I mean, that's a socialist stat. You can believe it if you want to, but it's not true." When the guest explained that the number comes from research at Cornell University, O'Reilly shot back: "Well, what more do I have to say?"--as if any information coming from an Ivy League institution had to be wrong.
O'Reilly can be quite fond of a statistic, however, when he thinks it makes a point for him. "Here's the statistic that tells me American society and the system we have in place works for both blacks and whites," he told the NAACP's Walter Fields (5/15/01).
That stat--which O'Reilly has brought up on at least three further occasions (3/25/02, 3/27/02, 4/3/02)--is actually out of date; the latest census figures (Current Population Reports, 1999) show that black married couples make 87 percent of what white married couples do. But O'Reilly's idea that blacks overall are poorer because they have chosen not to marry doesn't hold water; black single mothers make only 65 percent of what white single mothers do, even though they have the same family structure. And the notion that living in the South explains blacks' lower incomes is a fantasy; blacks in the South, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, actually make more money than blacks in the Northeast.
Even when O'Reilly has a source, he's prone to distorting numbers. ABC's John Stossel came on the O'Reilly Factor (1/26/01) to claim that $40,000 in government money is spent annually on anti-poverty programs for each poor family. The stat appears to derive from the Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector, who deceptively includes expensive programs that go to non-poor families--like Pell grants, reduced-price school lunches and Medicare--in his tally.
A few days later (1/29/01), O'Reilly was garbling the already misleading figure: "We're paying $40,000 per person who [is] on government assistance now"--quadruple the amount of spending Stossel was claiming.
"This is personal"
O'Reilly's got something against National Public Radio--namely, they're not interested in him. "This is personal, this is absolutely personal," he said on his January 7 show. "I've had two No. 1 bestsellers. . . . Not one NPR invitation." He's not one to take an offense lying down, so he lets them have it, attacking the network's "left-wing point of view" (3/6/02): "I've never heard a right-wing person on NPR anywhere," he charges (1/7/02). "You never hear a pro-life person on NPR. You never hear an anti-global warming person on NPR. They don't get on there."
Conservatives, of course, appear regularly on NPR, both in commentary (e.g., Weekly Standard's David Brooks, Heritage Foundation's Joe Loconte) and as sources in news stories. Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who as a global warming skeptic represents a tiny fraction of the scientific debate, was on NPR three times last year; the network quoted Douglas Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee 11 times in 2001.
You'd think O'Reilly would at least get right what people say about him. "Every time you write about me, you put a little pejorative adjective in front of my name," he remarked to a gathering of TV writers (St. Paul Pioneer Press, 1/28/02). "In the Boston Globe the other day, it was 'the conservative hatchet man.'" He also complained on his show (1/14/02) about "the Boston Globe calling me a conservative hatchet man." In fact, what the Globe actually called O'Reilly (12/7/01) was "an attack dog on Fox's the O'Reilly Factor." Perhaps what they should have called him is "unreliable."
Terror and Ecstasy
On February 4, Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance questioned whether casual drug users were really funding terrorism, as O'Reilly seems to argue. When Nadelmann pointed out that marijuana and Ecstasy were not involved in Afghanistan, O'Reilly responded, "Well, Ecstasy is," adding that "most comes from Holland."
To Nadelmann's retort--"and are the Dutch involved in terrorism?"--O'Reilly said, "No, but it's not run by the Dutch, it's run by Middle Eastern guys." When Nadelmann expressed incredulity, O'Reilly challenged him to a $100 wager, which the drug reform advocate accepted.
Later in the show, Nadelmann again asserted that the casual use of drugs like marijuana and Ecstasy has "no link to the terrorists." "You're wrong about the Ecstasy," O'Reilly insisted. "You'll send me the check, and I'll be very happy.... It's controlled by Middle Eastern people out of Holland, that's where it comes in here from."
The following night (2/5/02), O'Reilly gloated that he had won the bet: "OK, here's what the Office of the National Drug Control Policy says, and we quote, 'Drug Enforcement Agency reporting demonstrates the involvement of Israeli criminal organizations in Ecstasy smuggling. Some of these individuals are of Russian and Georgian descent and have Middle Eastern ties.'"
O'Reilly seized on this mention of "Middle Eastern ties" to claim that federal drug officials backed up his claims. But the statement made no mention of Afghanistan or terrorism, the aspects of O'Reilly's claim that Nadelmann had most taken issue with. Is O'Reilly really claiming that Ecstasy users are supporting terrorism by giving money to Israeli mobsters? More likely he's just demonstrating once again that he'll clutch at any straw to avoid admitting that he's wrong. —P.H.


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Celebrating creativity and achievement made this spring a semester to remember at the Mount.
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Jennifer Lopez performs during a concert in Panama City, Panama, June 14, 2012. Mattel released a limited edition Jennifer Lopez Barbie, featuring her Zuhair Murad bodysuit from her 2012 tour. "Silvery ankle boots, curly locks and JLo's megawatt smile complete this electrifying look," Mattel says. The release date was Nov. 4, 2013.
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Barbie Gets Tattoos, Pink Bob
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Thirteen balls, one run. If there's not an impending Gaylestorm the Windies are gone.
"The Australian cricket captain is the Prime Minister Australia wishes it had. Steve Waugh is that man, Michael Clarke is not." - Jarrod Kimber
RIP Fardin Qayyumi and Craig Walsh - true icons of CricketWeb.
Incredible start from Sri Lanka.
RIP Philip Hughes - 1988-2014
Potential hater of abilities. Blocked on twitter by Michael Vaughan, Brad McNamara and AtlCricket for my hard hitting truths.
This is what happens when you let Johnson Charles start things off for you in an international final. It's always going to be a long way to climb.
Definitely wouldn't have bet on Gayle scoring 3 (16).
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What a limited over cricket team. Always consistent, always applying pressure. Fantastic.
What a remarkably bad start.
Rate still below 3.
SL actually have a really good limited overs bowling attack, wicket to wicket seamers, mystery spinners and of course Malinga. Couldn't be more different with the test team.
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You should never say never in sport, anything can happen.
Having said that, this is over. West Indies are not winning this.
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As is obvious from how long it has been since the last post to my blog, the group never really got going for running the "Lost Caverns of Tsojcnth" campaign for the second group. As usual, had half the people that said they wanted in, not show for scheduled game sessions even after saying that they would be able to be there on that particular day. After the third time that we only had half the players show, the other 4 pllayers and I agreed to wait until we could find 4 other people that
And the good news is that at this time there is now 8 players signed up for the campaign. This will allow for all the characters to be involved from the beginning. One player will have to leave earlier than the rest to go to work, but that will be able to be "written" into the game.
Stay tunned for the campaign log to follow......
This campaign will be started on October 21. At this time there are 5 players signed on. If nobody else signs on, I will be running one of the clerics as an NPC. Both of the clerics and 1 fighter are the characters that are still available. I am preparing everything to allow for all 8 characters but will be able to easily adjust for as low as only having 5 plus the NPC cleric. This game will be looking at having one session per month, so that means there will be one log entry per month. If for some
At this time there are 5 people signed up to play in the new (second) running of the "Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth" campaign. Hopefully between now and Aug. 25th, we will get the other 3 seats filled and be able to start this on that day. Anyone interested can send me a PM or post on the campaign thread in the Find or Advertise a Game section of the Forums. Again, this will take a very long time to complete, so be prepared for a game that won't be done in just a handfull of gaming sessions.
(as taken from the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth game module by Gary Gygax. I have added the chest with items donated by the March of Bissel as well as the wagon and two horses and the barrels with two weeks feed for the horses.)
Your party has been gathered by agents of the Margrave of the March of Bissel. He tells you that there are "political considerations," which he does not explain, that prevent him from searching for Iggwilv's trove himself. However, it is vital


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quote:He was our most consistent player last year, and we trade him for a back a number 2 pencils
quote:why did we trade Jack again?
quote:...we could have stayed with those guys and be stuck in mediocrity, or move on and try to achieve something great.
quote:Worst move Dell's made since he's been here
quote:All that stuff sounds so great I'm just really not sure how much truth is there
quote:I thought 100% after the year Jack had, and his favorable contract, that they would no doubt move him. But, I didn't think they'd move him for literally nothing. Blah, blah freed up cap space to sign Lopez. Jack was worth a pick in the 20s. Worst move Dell's made since he's been here - and that's a somewhat compliment to Dell
quote:4 years, 20 million isn't a bad deal for someone who would be arguably the best 6th man in the league there's my point
quote:the whole thing is ridiculous, because the situation worked out great for us. Vasquez has been more than what anyone had hoped for.
quote:Jack's a good player. Vasquez is better, especially all things considered
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Last 10: St. Louis 6-3-1; Phoenix 4-4-2
Blue Notes: Ryan Miller will make his debut in goal, while Steve Ott will debut on a line with Derek Roy and T.J. Oshie.
Season series: This is the third and final game this season and the first at Jobing.com Arena. The St. Louis Blues and Phoenix Coyotes split the first two, with T.J. Oshie scoring twice to lead St. Louis past Phoenix, 2-1, in the most-recent encounter on Jan. 14. St. Louis has won three straight in the desert.
Big story: Goaltender Ryan Miller will make his Blues debut on Sunday.
On Friday, the Buffalo Sabres dealt their longtime franchise player, along with Sabres captain Steve Ott, to St. Louis in exchange for goalie Jaroslav Halak, forward Chris Stewart, a prospect and draft picks.
"I'm very excited for the opportunity to have a new adventure, a new opportunity," Miller told reporters Friday. "I have a strong sense that they have a special team, that they work hard. I know some of the guys on the team with the USA [Olympic] program, and they have a very strong competitive spirit."
St. Louis captain David Backes, who played with Miller in the past two Winter Olympics, talked raved about the organization's winning mentality.
"The management and ownership is really committed to winning, and winning now, and that's partly shown in the move we've made," Backes said. "Ryan Miller is an all-world goalie that has shown it time and time again."
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Blues: Miller should bolster the NHL's third-best defensive unit (2.27 goals-allowed per game) and Blues management no doubt hopes he can help St. Louis over the postseason hump. On Sunday, though, the Blues will be focused on avoiding their first three-game losing streak of the season. The Blues have not scored since NHL play resumed, dropping back-to-back 1-0 contests to Western rivals Vancouver Canucks and Anaheim Ducks.
"We've just got to put a couple in the net and we'll get going," defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk said.
The Blues' recent inefficiency lies in contrast to their Olympic lead-up, in which St. Louis went 6-1-1 and scored three or more goals six times over that stretch.
Coyotes: Phoenix has lost three straight games, all away from Jobing.com Arena, to drop into a crowded group vying for the final Western playoff spots. The eighth through 11th-placed teams – the Dallas Stars, Canucks, Coyotes and Winnipeg Jets – are separated by two points, and Phoenix is a point behind Vancouver for fourth place in the competitive Pacific Division.
In their most-recent outing Friday, Phoenix fell 4-2 to the Colorado Avalanche. The Coyotes outshot the Avalanche 42-33, including 19 shots in the third period, but were unable to close the gap.
"We're in the winning business and when you don't win you have to find ways to win," coach Dave Tippett told reporters after the game. "That's where we're at right now."
Who's hot: Miller is 6-0-0 with a 1.15 goals-against average in his career against the Coyotes. … Shane Doan scored twice Friday in Colorado and has 48 points (21 goals, 27 assists) in 69 career games versus St. Louis.
Injury report: For the Blues, defenseman Jordan Leopold (ankle) and Vladimir Sobotka (knee) are day-to-day. … Phoenix is boasting a healthy lineup.


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The Sitges Studio's walled entry courtyard draws on local tradition.
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With the larger door open, the entry courtyard becomes available for large family gatherings.
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The Sitges Studio's door-within-a-door is a clever piece of ironmongery, but it's no mere parlor trick. The smaller "pilot door" is the building's primary entrance, explains architect Tom Kundig, FAIA. The larger door opens the entry courtyard to the house's living space for large gatherings. "One door is for landscape use and one is for access use," he says. With a second, private courtyard on the opposite side of the house, "the circulation flows from landscape to interior to landscape." Our jury called the assembly "a contemporary take on the Renaissance idea of two scales of door—one for guests and ceremonial use, one for every day."
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Former Sanford Mainer gets classic baseball experience
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SANFORD—Former Sanford Mainer and University of Maine graduate, Jonathan Balentina, thought his baseball career was over due to injuries he had sustained. Doctors recommended that he walk away from the sports: however, the Netherlands native wasn't finished just yet.
Although many of these players were people that Balentina looked up to, he said his time on the Mainers prepared him for the experience.
Balentina showed no sign of intimidation over the course of the World Baseball Classic. For him, his time as a pitcher with the Mainers and at the University of Maine prepared him for this level of baseball.
When asked if the World Baseball Classic was worth it, with all of the missed school, the long hours, and the tiring travel schedule, the graduate student did not hesitate to answer. "I would do it again. I was on a team with 28 guys in a world tournament with only 16 teams. Lets do the math," he said as he took out his phone to calculate. "I was one out of 488 players in the world. It was a once in a lifetime experience." |


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My favorite reptile since childhood, the Eastern Box Turtle is a neat little package of terrestrial turtle that, while not quite a tortoise, can range far from water – and infrequently far across the countryside. Experts suggest a happy, well-fed specimen can spend its 100-year life on a piece of turf the size of a football field, and I have one in my tiny back yard area that's thrived for 20 years.
Too often, though, the Eastern Box Turtle falls victim to mindless automotive traffic, large range or small, a major factor in making it a "species of Special Concern" in my home state of New Jersey. Thoughtful drivers can and do assist turtles across the Garden State Parkway when they see a vulnerable target. Sometimes one can't see it, or see it in time.
All that goes for trains, too, but here the news is better. Trains can't stop on a dime, true, but thanks to far narrower rights-of-way, and the marvel of steel rail itself, my favorite turtle is a lot more likely to survive crossing the railroad tracks than it is a major highway, or even a county road.
Arriving back at Railway Age's New York headquarters after a pleasant sojourn to Montreal and the 2014 APTA Rail Conference, resplendent with beaucoup references (always earnest, often earned) to clean and green, I opened my email to find an example of Box Turtle Standard, courtesy of Cape May County resident and trusted confidant Paul Mulligan, who also assists short line Cape May Seashore Lines (CMSL).
The shot at right, taken in Tuckahoe, N.J., by Curt Hudson, shows a fine specimen (I'm guessing female, but I can't be sure) of my favorite turtle species getting some human attention as a locomotive waits in the background, after setting off freight cars in Woodbine, N.J. CMSL personnel indeed are attuned to doing this; I was aboard one train a few years ago that stopped in a similar circumstance. I'm told crews of CSX consists in the neighborhood often do the same.
That's gratifying, but I often argue those turtles have a better-than-average chance of surviving even if the train passes overhead. If they're not actually on the railhead, as this individual was, the turtles benefit from a superior, green, fixed-guideway form of transport. And even their absolute danger zone atop the railhead is, or should be, mercifully brief. You can't say that about major highways, try as one might.
What's more green? Railroads, by far. Who benefits? Lots of species, humans among them. And Box Turtles, in the running now for about 15 million years and counting. Or so I hope, and I'm counting on railroads to help stretch the success of both species a bit longer.


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Readers of Modern Drummer Magazine or Drum! Magazine, have been seeing a brand new Vater Ad that features Mike Johnston. The new ad entitled: "When You've Found The Right Stick, It Really Hits You!" has been gettting a lot of attention and creating quite a buzz already! The most heard comment is: "Is that picture REAL!?" And the answer is: YES! The ad is pictured below and there is also a brief video with great info and footage on how photographer Sasha Leahovcenco capured the shot that you see in the ad.
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"So about 2 months ago I did a shoot for a new VATER Drumsticks ad at this scary abandoned sugar mill. It was definitely the scariest location I had ever been on, lol. My photographer, Sasha Leahovcenco, had this idea that he wanted tons of sticks just floating around me and flying right at my face, and me looking as non frightened as possible right before they all hit me, lol. The concept of the ad was to show every model of stick that VATER makes flying in the air and for me to be holding my signature sticks. We wanted to show that with the huge variety of sticks that VATER makes, there is one model that is just right for you. In my case it's the 2-4-5-1's but I want everyone to find their "perfect stick". Sasha is very big on doing shots that look fully Photoshopped, but doing them for real. Here is the shot. Hope you like it! " -Mike Johnston
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