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I don't blame the guy. What with the reports that he'd suffered a terrible allergic reaction to the make-up pretty much his entire time filming the LOTR trilogy.
I just got a flash email from Sideshow that The Hobbitt is officially in production...why no big "to the general public" announcements??
"In my experience there's no such thing as luck."
EDIT: They mentioned the cast today, so who knows?
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With all these casting and location woes they should just scrap the whole thing.
While they're at it, they should go back in time and stop the productions of the other ones and spend that money on something entertaining.
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Mummy of the raincoat is a gigantic trollop.
Casting news:
Warner Bros. just released the following press release, confirming Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins and revealing a slew of other actors:
Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Rob Kazinsky, Aidan Turner, Graham McTavish, John Callen, Stephen Hunter, Mark Hadlow and Peter Hambleton have joined the ensemble cast of the The Hobbit, it was jointly announced today by Toby Emmerich, President and Chief Operating Officer, New Line Cinema; Alan Horn, President and Chief Operating Officer, Warner Bros.; Steve Cooper, co-Chief Executive Officer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., and Peter Jackson.
Since The Hobbit films received a green light on October 15, pre-production has been in full swing. Set for release in December, 2012 and December, 2013, we can confirm that Martin Freeman (The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Hot Fuzz) will play Bilbo Baggins, the hero of the story. Richard Armitage (UK TV's MI-5 and soon to appear in Captain America: The First Avenger) is set to play Thorin Oakenshield, the leader of the Company of Dwarves which sets off to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from a thieving dragon.
"Despite the various rumours and speculation surrounding this role, there has only ever been one Bilbo Baggins for us, says Peter Jackson. There are a few times in your career when you come across an actor who you know was born to play a role, but that was the case as soon as I met Martin. He is intelligent, funny, surprising and brave - exactly like Bilbo and I feel incredibly proud to be able to announce that he is our Hobbit.
He adds Richard is one of the most exciting and dynamic actors working on screen today and we know he is going to make an amazing Thorin Oakensheild. We cannot wait to start this adventure with him and feel very lucky that one of the most beloved characters in Middle-earth is in such good hands."
Rounding out the Company of Dwarves are Aidan Turner (TV's Being Human) and Rob Kazinsky (TVs EastEnders) who play Kili and Fili, respectively. Jackson comments "Rob is an extremely talented young actor with a huge career in front of him, I'm thrilled that he has agreed to take on the role of Fili. Besides his talent as an actor, Rob is also a champion sword fighter; I'm looking forward to seeing the damage he can do to a horde of marauding Goblins!" He continues, "Adian is a wonderfully gifted young actor who hails from Ireland. I'm sure he will bring enormous heart and humor to the role of Kili."
The remaining dwarves will be played by Graham McTavish (Secretariat and TV's 24) as Dwalin; John Callen (TV's Power Rangers Jungle Fury) as Oin; Stephen Hunter (TV's All Saints) as Bombur; Mark Hadlow (King Kong) as Dori; and Peter Hambleton (TV's The Strip) as Gloin.
Jackson notes, "Graham is a terrific actor, with a great depth of experience, which I know he will bring to the role of "Dwalin. I have worked with Mark Hadlow on many projects; he is a fantastic actor. I am thrilled to be working with both of them on these movies. He adds, "I am also proud to announce the casting of New Zealand actors as Peter Hambleton, John Callen and Stephen Hunter. Fran and I know that they will bring great depth and talent to our Company of Dwarves."
The two The Hobbit films are being co-produced by New Line Cinema and MGM, with New Line managing production, Warner Bros Pictures handling domestic distribution and MGM distributing internationally. Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Carolynne Cunningham are producing the films, with Phillipa Boyens serving as co-producer and Ken Kamins as executive producer.
The Oscar-winning, critically acclaimed LOTR trilogy, also from the production team of Jackson, Walsh and Cunningham, grossed nearly $3 billion worldwide at the box office. In 2003, Return of the King swept the Academy Awards, winning all of the 11 categories in which it was nominated, including Best Picture - the first ever Best Picture win for a fantasy film. The trilogy's production was also unprecedented at the time.
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Now add labor union problems to the slate of delays. Looks like Eastern Europe & not New Zealand will be the filming locale. Personally, I thought New Zealand was like another character in the LOTR trilogy. It would be a huge mistake not to return there.
"In my experience there's no such thing as luck."
Yeah it's too bad NZ isn't the place they'll be filming, but if you think about it, other than the trip to Rivendell everything else takes place in different surroundings. Eastern Europe has a lot of neat unspoiled places and old growth forrests. I would think that NZ wouldn't even have the kind of creepy old forrest like Mirkwood.
I was surprised that many of the places in LOTR looked a lot like Colorado and western US more than the foggy English countryside I envisioned while reading the books. There's a lot of story in the Hobbit before they even get to the Misty Mountains that involves different terrain. Though a lot of it is covered well in LOTR, I think it could be done better.
I didn't think they had said anything official yet about NZ? I do hope they stay in NZ, but like said above, there are plenty of beautiful locales in EU that could work and I'm sure PJ will try to stay true to the look of the films as possible.
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Ubisoft's PC series that are not ports are the Settlers and Anno series, which are high strategic real-time city-building games that SimCity abandoned long ago because they realized there is no market. That demographic probably is mainly advanced users.
That being said, I hope Ubisoft does not give up on those series, as those are my favorite types of games. I have every Anno game despite the incredibly shitty DRM.If Ubisoft gets out of this market the only thing left of the genre is Tropico, which isn't doing so well as 4 was just a psuedo-expansion of 3 and didn't even add new music.

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This step involves identifying the underlying causes behind the priority performance challenges identified in the prior analysis step.
Root causes are statements that describe the deepest underlying cause, or causes, of performance challenges and they become the focus of major improvement strategies.
In general, the process for determining root causes can be thought of as a funnel, starting with the broadest thinking possible about causes related to each prioritized performance challenge and systematically narrowing and deepening the collective understanding until the team arrives at a root cause.
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Histrionic personality disorder is a mental health condition in which people act in a very emotional and dramatic way that draws attention to themselves.
Cause of histrionic personality disorder is unknown. Genes and early childhood events may be responsible. It is diagnosed more often in women than in men. Doctors believe that more men may have the disorder than are diagnosed.
Histrionic personality disorder usually begins by late teens or early 20s.
People with this disorder are usually able to function at a high level and can be successful socially and at work.
Symptoms include:
Histrionic personality disorder is diagnosed based on a psychological evaluation that assesses the history and severity of the symptoms.
The health care provider can diagnose histrionic personality disorder by looking at the person's:
People with this condition often seek treatment when they experience depression or anxiety from failed romantic relationships or other conflicts with people. Medicine may help the symptoms. Talk therapy is the best treatment for the condition itself.
Histrionic personality disorder can improve with talk therapy and sometimes medicines. Left untreated, it can cause problems in people's personal lives and prevent them doing their best at work.
Histrionic personality disorder may affect a person's social or romantic relationships. The person may be unable to cope with losses or failures. The person may change jobs often because of boredom and not being able to deal with frustration. A person with this disorder craves new things and excitement, which leads to risky situations. All of these factors may lead to a higher chance of depression.
See your health care provider or mental health professional if you or someone you know has symptoms of histrionic personality disorder.
Blais MA, Smallwood P, Groves JE, Rivas-Vazquez RA. Personality and personality disorders. In: Stern TA, Rosenbaum JF, Fava M, Biederman J, Rauch SL, eds. Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry . 1st ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Mosby; 2008:chap 39.


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Beach Bod Week 2: Experts Weigh in on Tips to Get You Set for Summer
The only thing more idiosyncratic than our sexual proclivities is how we choose to spend our money. When it comes to beauty, even women who readily shell out a small fortune to keep a star stylist on speed dial can be found channeling their inner Scrooge in the drugstore aisles. Whether it's out of convenience, love, or plain old penny-pinching, women of (major) means and fashion mojo from New York to Paris all have their favorite ways to save.
Fashion designer Rachel Roy, who counts Kate Hudson and Michelle Obama among her fans, thinks nothing of spending $100 a week for an in-office manicure and pedicure: "Nails are like a great shoe or handbag, something you invest in. Your hands are the skeleton of your looks." She has even been known to slather her hands with Crème de la Mer (from $150 per ounce). But the buck stops there. Roy has her eyebrows done regularly for $8, at a Perfect Shape Threading Salon in a New York City subway station. "It used to be $7," she laments. "And I save money on my hair. I wash it once a week, and I use Aquaphor Healing Ointment (from $5.99) on everything from my feet to my hair. It's perfect for taming flyaways."
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Pekka Rinne was apparently playing hurt this season.
Erik Karlsson said that his foot is virtually back to normal, which is why he didn't have a problem talking about his injury on Sunday.
Tyler Seguin underwent shoulder surgery earlier this week to repair a torn labrum.
Bruce Cassidy has officially become Boston's 28th head coach.
Joe Thornton (knee) is expected to be ready for the start of the 2017-18 season.
Patrice Bergeron said he played through a sports hernia in 2016-17.
Tyler Toffoli has undergone a minor surgical procedure on his left knee.
Travis Green will be hired as the next head coach of the Vancouver Canucks, according to Sportsnet.
Mikael Granlund had been playing through a broken hand in the playoffs.
Eric Staal sustained a concussion on Saturday against St. Louis when he crashed into the boards, but he is feeling better.
Erik Karlsson has revealed that he has been playing for nearly a month with two hairline fractures in his left heel.
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In the instance of the AVMA coming out against raw diet, the real story behind the matter was that a person on the executive board of the organization that requested that the AVMA institute a formal policy regarding raw diet just so happened to be a Marketing Director at Purina. hmmm.
Does anyone have the references to the studies allegedly showing that raw is harmful? I'd like to read some of them.
It is hard for me to imagine that there is much risk to raw when our dogs love nothing better than rotten road kill.
I'm sure there is SOME risk to eating raw, but the question to me is whether raw is worse than the alternatives.
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I see it as the AVMA doing their job. Vets are should be practicing what is based in science and if you as the owner want to try something different then that is your right. But veterinary practice is an industry based in science and much of the homeopathic treatments just do not pass the test. I guess what I'm saying is... Should homeopathic/alternative treatments be prohibited - no. But neither should the right to prohibit unproven, unscientific and possibly ineffective or even dangerous treatments in an industry like vet medicine (among its members). My wife is a vet and a phd student and trust me, there is no grand scheme to only do studies and publish what the big pharmaceuticals want. If it works on a consistent and proven basis, it would not be considered homeopathic, it would be considered science.
For what it's worth, I feel that the reason so many veterinary organizations or individual veterinarians are against things like homeopathy or raw diets is because the majority of what is seen in practice are animals with problems (for the most part, you see these patients far more often than a healthy patient just there for annual exam/bloodwork/vaccines/etc). If those problem cases are on homeopathy or raw diets, it is automatically assumed that they are ineffective or simply not being used correctly. JMH(not scientifically-proven)O.
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LIFE IS GOOD. "Do what you like, like what you do."
I didn't completely understand the difference between Homeopathic and Holistic but certainly do now. Even though it is one small area, it is in the same lines as the 'raw pet' food diet decision. One less tool in which to treat our dogs.
I'm sure the 'raw food' issue can be a whole long thread in itself, but anytime you are preparing food there is a chance of contamination. Just look at the chicken jerky treats from China, now why doesn't the AVMA go the next step and declare dog treats harmful to your dog's well being.
Yes, it is very political and the well being of our dogs is not the #1 issue anymore. Awareness of these issues by the pet owner is critical when you have a sick dog, especially when it is a competitive dog.
Tammy Bell
I agree that the AVMA is doing there job. As I see it "there job" is to promote the parctice of conventional veterinary medicine. I don't know that there is a "grand scheme to only do studies and publish what big phamaceuticals want." However, I do think TBell makes a good point about where the funding for most studies originate.
For example, Hill's Science Diet is "vet recommended" and sold at many vet offices (including mine). When my wife worked at Purdue U's School of Veterinary Medicine they sold Science Diet at a discount to the employees (40 lbs. bags cost $12 in the late 1980's). IMHO Hill's Science Diet is CRAP and in my experience veterinarians don't know crap about canine nutrition. What do they recommend 99% of the time? Hills, Purina, or Iams/Eukanuba. Who funds companion animal nutrition research? Hills, Purina, or Iams/Eukanuba. Coincidence? I don't think so.
Want an example from human medicine? How about high LDL cholesterol? Statin drugs like (Lipitor and Crestor) are amoung the most widely prescribed drugs in our country. They are proven to lower you LDL cholesterol. But, what about the disclaimer at the end of the of the commercial? It goes something like this: "The use of ________ has not been shown to lower the risk of heart attack and stroke." Then why the heck is your doctor prescribing the drug? To get a number down? IT DOESN'T SOLVE THE PROBLEM! It only tweakes a blood lipid value that isn't going to improve your cardiovascular health significantly. What should you do? Eat a Primal Diet (read that as "human appropriate diet") and exercise (like a caveman, move frequently and lift heavy objects on occassion). A Primal Diet is high in protein, moderate in fat (including saturated fats which have been unjustly demonized) with some carbs from fruits, vegetables, and nuts (but none from grains, sorry big Agriculture!). This type of Primal diet along with moderate exercise (especially weight training) will "cure" most cases hyper glycemia (high LDL and triglicerides), type II diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity! These are the symptoms of Metabolic Syndrome which is caused by a high carb diet. Is the medical community too dumb to figure this out? Or is it that big Pharma and Big Agri don't fund research that might hurt their bottomline?
What if we all did this? You know, eat fresh, whole nutritious meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and berries (note the absence of "healthy whole grains"!). People would be MUCH healthier! They wouldn't need so much conventional medical treatment or pharmaceuticals. That's bad for the bottom line for the medical community, Big Pharma, and Big Agriculture. This isn't rocket science. Not even Brain surgery! It's proven common sense! Why don't we know? No Profit in the truth!
Sorry for the diversion from dogs. The same principles apply to canine diets IMHO. Dogs aren't farmers. They didn't evolve living with farmers. They don't need a diet rich in grains. In fact, they probably shouldn't eat a diet rich in grains! What is the first ingredient in Hill's Science Diet? Whole Grain Corn! "The Number One Choice of Veterinarians for their Own Pets!"
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I missed the connection between this rant and the AVMA's stance on an unproven and controversial type of medicine whose principals were adopted 200 years ago when the average lifespan was twenty years less than today, when infant mortality rates were high, and before the discovery of the germ theory of disease. Any pet owner is not prohibited from using homeopathic agents, they are not considered drugs and are readily available to anyone who wants to purchase them.
People who object to the funding of research projects should understand that without those sources there would be no research. Find a cure and make a profit, is that not the American way?
I'll admit I'm out in left-field. Seems like I live out there! The human medical analogy was used as an example of how sometimes there may be no profit to finding the cure!
I am not defending homeopathy, nor am I trying to impugn modern veterinary medicine. I am trying to suggest that there are incentives for companies with a profit motive to protect their interests. That is also the American way!
Perhaps I'm too cynical. Hard not to be in this day and age.
Jeff Swackhamer
There is certainly a connection due to the first post of the thread regarding the resolution by the AVMA to discredit a RAW diet, or ancestral diet (primal diet).
Swack goes on to say that the foods vets are recommending to their clients are primarily grain, not exactly what was on the ancestral or primal diet list. Is this because the pet food companies are so well connected to vets and vet schools? I'm sure you haven't seen Hill's Science Diet funding a study that compares a raw food diet to their high carbohydrate foods.
Swack is very much correct in saying that a 'real food' diet for humans would cure many diseases, and the same can be said for our dogs. The nutritional analysis of the ancestral diet shows that animals obtained 49% of their calories from protein, 44% from fats, and the other 6% from carbohydrates. Hill's Science diet contains 25% protein 16% fat and 51% carbs! Now where is the science behind that?
Now just go try and find the carbohydrate value on a bag of dog food! They don't have it for a reason. You have to figure it out for yourself.
Yes, there is much that the dog food companies aren't telling us and this includes the AVMA by the dismissal of a raw diet.
I am also not defending homeopathy, but trying to create awareness to AVMA decisions that affect our dogs.
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With Black Sunday, Mario Bava not only directed his first film (if you don't count Riccardo Freda's The Vampires, which Bava photographed and finished directing when Freda gave up on it), he also made what many consider to be the definitive Gothic horror film. Adapted from a short story by Nicolaj Gogal, Black Sunday was banned in Britain for eight years, due in large to the brutal opening sequence where Barbara Steele has a mask with spikes inside it forcably fixed to her face.
The diabolical Princess Asa (Steele) and her fiendish servant, are put to death as punishment for her witchcraft and vampirism, and interned in the crypt of her ancestors; but not before she vows to inflict vengeance on the future generations of her family.
Two centuries later, the wheel of the coach carrying the doctors Andre Gorobec and Thomas Kruvajan to a convention buckles, and they are temporarily stranded outside an ancient crypt. Which of course they decide to explore. Kruvajan cuts himself while fending off a giant bat, and his blood trickles into the coffin of Princess Asa, and unbeknownst to the intrepid physicians, begins to revive her putrid corpse.
Leaving the gloomy vault, Kruvajan and Andre met Princess Katia (Steele again) outside. Steele looks resplendent against the backdrop of the ruins and the unsettled matte skies beyond as she wields two Dobermans on leashes, and demands to know what the inquisitive doctors think they are doing. As soon as he sees her, Andre falls in love. The sap.
Meanwhile, back inside the crypt, Asa is almost completely rejuvenated and using her dark powers, resurrects the decomposing body of her servant so he can aid her in carrying out her dark desires once again.
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Black Sunday is a film of immense visual finesse and poetry. The cobwebbed and mist shrouded ruins in which Asa dwells, are a particularly astounding set piece. When Kruvajan and Andre enter the vault, Bava's camera glides wraith-like through it, making an impressive 360 degree spin and taking in every inch of the ominous set.
The special effects utilised are subtle and created in camera, using make-up, lighting and editing trickery. A few memorable images occur when the devil mask fastened to the faces of Asa and her servant is reflected in a glass of wine, and when two eyes appear in the dark and empty sockets of Asa's corpse. When Kruvajan ventures out into the night to smoke a cigarette, he stands by a little pool and throws a stone into it. As the water ripples the face of Asa slowly appears in the darkness, beautiful and dreamlike and more than a little unnerving.
When the spectral horse and carriage gallop in slow motion through the forest to abduct Kruvajan, it is reminiscent of Harker's journey to Castle Dracula and just as creepy. Amando De Ossorio would appear to have been rather touched by this imagery as he would famously, and just as breathtakingly, recreate it in his Blind Dead films.
One of the most memorable scenes unfolds when Asa's servant is resurrected and begins to claw his way out of his burial place. The camera floats to a window in the barn where a young girl is hiding and looks out at a creepy cemetery. We suddenly jump cut to the heaving earth under a tombstone as the corpse rises, still wearing the hideous and startlingly sinister mask. The stillness of this scene is also disconcerting; no music accompanies the chilling imagery. Bava makes impressive use of creepy sound effects such as the eerie winds that seem to constantly howl and the guttural wailing that emanates from the family vault.
Usually horror films are not renowned for their beauty or aesthetic quality, but Mario Bava (and later Dario Argento) would take a radically different approach to depicting scenes of terror. Murder and death is eroticised and twisted into something that is darkly beautiful. When Asa's coffin rumbles open, revealing the wide-eyes and seductively heaving bosoms of Steele inside, the scene is immensely disturbing in its erotic intensity.
A sort of dream logic comes into play as the film nears its climax, particularly in the scene in which Constantine becomes trapped in the secret passageway behind the fireplace and is menaced by Asa's servant who appears from nowhere and forces Constantine into a hole that just as suddenly appears in the floor.
Tim Burton would pay homage to this film in Sleepy Hollow – as much of a love-letter to old Hammer Horror films as it is to Black Sunday. The scenes in which Depp's Ichabod Crane has flashbacks of his mother's demise inside an iron maiden echo Steele's ghastly fate in this film, and her later emergence with a multi-punctured face.
|'We're in the presence of some unnatural mystery.'
While it does contain many clichés associated with the gothic tradition, such as the secret-passage riddled castle, the superstitious locals, the helpless and swooning heroine, the stiff upper-lipped hero and rather quite baffling dialogue such as 'The river! Can't you see he's dead' or 'He seems to be a lot calmer now' – well, he IS sleeping!), Bava conducts this symphony of moodiness with such aplomb; it is never anything short of captivating.
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"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
That's a worse picture than Gooser in the bubbles! lol
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I'd call that a little more pimp than hemp.
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That is one of the funniest, weirdest most outrageous things I have ever seen! And I used to go to biker rallies!
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Class of 1984 graduates Valerie Kelly (left) and Rhett Dunaway are among the nearly 25,000 Princeton University alumni, family and friends expected on campus for Reunions 2014. The event began Thursday, May 29, and will run through Sunday, June 1.
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From bandanas, pants, class jackets, socks and shoes, Princeton alumni show off their orange and black colors in countless ways.
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Alumni reconnect and celebrate at Reunions 2014
Posted May 30, 2014; 05:00 p.m.
Nearly 25,000 Princeton University alumni, family and friends converged on campus Friday, May 30, for Reunions 2014 to catch up with classmates, attend panel discussions with faculty and alumni, and celebrate Princeton traditions. The event began Thursday, May 29, and will end Sunday, June 1.
Alumni traveling from across the world reconnected as they walked around the sunny campus Friday. Class of 2013 graduates Siofra Robinson, Chloe Ferguson and Mohit Manohar traveled from France, China and India, respectively, to attend their first Reunions as alumni.
"Even though my time as an undergraduate is over, it's nice to know I'll always have Reunions as a reason to be at Princeton," Robinson said.
Class of 2009 graduate Davion Chism said she was excited to see friends after missing last year's Reunions.
"This is the longest time I've gone without seeing Princeton people," said Chism, who flew in from Los Angeles. "I can't wait."
From left to right: Class of 2013 graduates Siofra Robinson, Chloe Ferguson and Mohit Manohar traveled from France, China and India, respectively, to attend Reunions.
On Thursday afternoon, President Christopher L. Eisgruber helped kick off the event at the Class of 1959 Reunion Seminar, where he spoke about the value of a liberal arts education. His remarks were followed by comments from H. Vincent Poor, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Keith Wailoo, vice dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
"We are engaged in higher education and at Princeton in a long-term enterprise," Eisgruber said. "We are investing in our students with the idea that in 20, 25 or 30 years after their graduation they are going to make a difference in the world in a way that justifies the extraordinary investment that this university makes in them. And they are going to make that difference in ways that we can't possibly predict right now."
Before the seminar began, Class of 1979 graduate Mimi Chen couldn't resist snapping a photo of herself with her phone as she sat among the rows of wooden desks in McCosh Hall, Room 50.
"I never could have taken a 'selfie' in class before, so figured I'd do it now," Chen said with a smile. "It's fun to feel like a student again."
"Princeton Alumni in the Service of All Nations" was one of the many alumni-faculty forums taking place during Reunions. From left to right: João Biehl, the Susan Dod Professor of Anthropology and co-director of Princeton's Program in Global Health and Health Policy; George Hritz, a Class of 1969 graduate and counsel at Kaplan, Fox and Kilsheimer; Christine Brady, a Class of 1979 graduate and president of The Americas Foundation; University Trustee Jaime Ayala, a Class of 1984 graduate and chief executive officer and founder of Hybrid Social Solutions; and Philip Zabriskie, a Class of 1994 graduate and managing editor of publications and web for Doctors Without Borders.
At the alumni-faculty forum "Princeton Alumni in the Service of All Nations" on Friday morning, panelists spoke of how their continued connections to alumni and current students have benefited their work with humanitarian aid and other service organizations. University Trustee Jaime Ayala, chief executive officer and founder of Hybrid Social Solutions, said Princeton students often serve as summer interns with his organization to help provide solar energy to rural communities in the Philippines.
"It's fantastic the number of students today going out and spending time on the ground," said Ayala, a Class of 1984 graduate. "If you want to help people, you really have to get out there and see it for yourself."
President Christopher L. Eisgruber helped kick off Reunions on Thursday afternoon at the Class of 1959 Reunion Seminar, where he spoke about the value of a liberal arts education.
Outside the New South building, alumni were engaged in hands-on service work packaging meals for the Kids Against Hunger Coalition. The community project was organized by the Class of 1989 in collaboration with the classes of 1979, 1999 and 2004.
"I think it's extremely important to find a way to give back as part of Reunions," said Class of 1989 Reunions co-chair Christie Coates.
Event organizer and Class of 1989 graduate Bernard Hooper added: "Princeton in the nation's service is being realized right here. We are very proud of this effort."
Across campus at the Friend Center, current students and alumni gathered for the PrincetonEN Business Plan Competition. Entrepreneurs showcased their startup businesses and projects, and networked with fellow entrepreneurs and investors.
"It's great to host an event like this at Reunions because a lot of alumni entrepreneurs are already on campus. I get to see my friends and pitch my idea," said Andrew Ng, a member of the Class of 2016. Ng is co-founder of Chess Academy, a personalized, online curriculum for learning chess.
The fun and festivities will continue throughout the weekend. Highlights will include:
- A conversation with President Eisgruber at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Richardson Auditorium;
- The P-rade throughout campus beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday;
- Alumni-faculty forums and department open houses Friday and Saturday;
- Evening performances by student groups Friday and Saturday; and
- the University Orchestra's lawn concert at 8 p.m. Saturday on Finney and Campbell fields, followed by fireworks at 9:15 p.m.
Class of 1994 graduate Nicholas Lee traveled from Seattle with his wife, Joanne, and daughters Jillian and Audrey to attend his 20th Reunion.
All alumni and University representatives are required to have wristbands for entry to all Reunions headquarters sites for evening entertainment as well as for alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Wristbands are not required for alumni attending lectures or performances, watching the P-rade, or attending the concert and fireworks.
Faculty and staff members may register for a wristband for themselves and one additional guest. The wristbands are not transferable, and applicants and guests must be 21 or older. Online registration for wristbands closed earlier this week, though individuals may purchase wristbands for $60 each in East Pyne, Room 111, through Saturday.
Reunions attendees can access event schedules and other key content via the Reunions 2014 website and the Reunions Mobile website for mobile devices, as well as call 609-258-1900 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Binh Dang (left), a Class of 2009 graduate, talks with Katie Hughes, a Class of 2008 graduate alumna, at the PrincetonEN Business Plan Competition in the Friend Center. The event brought together student and alumni entrepreneurs.
Class of 1989 alumni and their families help package meals for the Kids Against Hunger Coalition as part of a Reunions community service project.
Class of 1954 alumni Richard Schulze (left) and Eric Wohlforth stroll through campus in their class jackets on Friday, May 30.


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This turns casual and innocent drug users into liars
My thoughts exactly. It sucks having to bold-faced lie about my marijuana use for fear of being branded or otherwise discriminated against.
Off topic - I hate the idea of corporations winnowing their pool of prospective employees by using psychological tests. I can't even land a minimum-wage job at Blockbuster without lying about how much "I love being in big crowds." =/
If a "hacker" reads this, please explain what it is that "Anonymous" intends to accomplish by releasing the private info of Czech gov't officials publicly. It seems stupid.
These acts will most likely provoke paranoia and promote web censorship. How is this furthering the agenda that "Anonymous" supposedly has? Is "Anonymous" just a few script kiddies stupid enough to risk imprisonment over a misguided sense of morality?
Or maybe I'm missing the point. Please enlighten me.
It's debatable whether or not perfect pitch is a blessing or a curse. The Western tuning system (I can't speak for other tuning systems found in different cultures) is not perfect and in fact requires unconscious ear training before the music "makes sense." Ever listen to traditional Chinese music? It can sound pretty alien because our ears are not accustomed to their different method of slicing up an octave.
I read a great book in high school (given to me by my music teacher) called, "Temperament" and it detailed the history of how the piano came to its current form. It's quite interesting to see the weird pianos that were invented before its current incarnation was finalized (along with our tuning system).
Fascinatingly enough, early musicians had big problems while tuning pianos (or precursors to the piano, such as the harpsichord). They initially started with an absolute note (such as C) and tuned subsequent notes perfectly in harmony to this starting note. The result was that any piece in C sounded wonderful, but if the musician were to try to modulate or transpose the piece to an alternate key, the tones did not resonate very well and sounded like "howling wolves." After much struggle and experimentation, the final system that was decided upon (and is still in use in Western tuning today) is a system where an octave is equidistantly sliced into twelve parts. Because of this slight compromise in pitch (that is, the fifths, fourths, and octaves are no longer "perfect"), world-class singers and classical instrument players can purportedly have difficulty staying in tune with a piano.
My whole digression is to make the point that individuals with perfect pitch might notice all the little tuning inconsistencies that most people automatically and unconsciously adjust to the nearest expected pitch. I can't imagine being bothered by every little out of tune pitch I ever heard... not to mention I would probably get speeding tickets -- "Officer, I know I was doing 80 in a 65 zone, but my fifth gear RPM is exactly A 440 at 80 MPH and, well, I can't stand it when my transmission is flat."
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the period goes inside the quotes. nice try
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Corinthian Colleges (COCO) was falling 4.3% in after hours trading, following the for-profit educator's disclosure that it received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 6.
The SEC said is conducting an investigation into the company and requested documents and communications related to student recruitment, attendance, completion, placement, defaults on loans, along with information on other corporate and financial matters.
Corinthian said it plans to cooperate with the investigation.
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Family: Caprifoliaceae, Honeysuckle view all from this family
Description This viburnum is a shrub or tree, usually growing to 18 ft. but sometimes taller. Glossy, dark-green, deciduous leaves turn a variety of warm hues in autumn. White flower heads, 4-6 in. wide, are followed by blue-black fruit.
Habitat Mountains, Canyons & valleys.
Range Texas, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Florida, Plains, Great Lakes.
Comments Slow-growing. Hard to propagate.
Exposure Preference Partial sun.
Flower May - June
Native Distribution Virginia to s. Ohio, s. Indiana, s. Illinois & Missouri, s., except in mts., to Florida & Texas
Site Preference Dry, rocky woods; thickets; stream banks
Soil Preference Dry soils.
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The raindrops fell from the gray clouds above and rode the face of a wind that rumbled over the peaks and valleys of the Sierra Madres. Out where low is high and high is unbelievable for a flatlander like me, there lives a quiet that's owned a piece of my imagination since we first met. If the ocean irons the wrinkles out of my soul, the mountains take what remains and fold it neatly away.
Hustling upward with a purpose before the sunrise is more than a promise, shambling back down with another day's adventure salted away, the silence and permanence this upheaved land owns extracts a certain respect, and returns a quiet calm. Knowing places like this exist often carries me through the times that pass when I'm away. Long after I've gone, part of my soul remains.
Maybe worries ride air molecules and concerns spring from background noise because, up where there are few of one and none of the other, they can't find me. What the onshore breeze at the beach blows away finds no breath to speak up high.
At the kiss of rain, meadow grass and pinyon pine rustled to life. Pockets of canyon-heated air flew before the cold front and both washed over us, leaving us chilled and warmed and chilled again. One carried the scent of earth and sage, the other the icy north. Their movement marked the heels of summer's final passing. Time changes the weather, the weather colors the land, but the land remains ever the same, at least in our dreams.
Geologists tell us the Rockies were formed by collisions in the plates of the planet's crust, an upward-folding of soil and stone millions of years in the making. The glaciers that followed carved the valleys we walk, cut and padded our passageway into nature's cathedrals, houses of worship where aspen groves paint open hillsides, where sarvisberry grows thick and tall, where elk and grouse and mule deer thrive. The steepest slopes, dressed in rockslides and shale, meet in shadows between the mountains. They grow tall in trees that defy gravity and mock passersby who, like themselves, are barely hanging on. When every step is a great struggle that brings into sight even greater rewards, the give and take of the outdoors has never been so clearly defined.
In our frequent pauses, when we lift up our eyes from the hills from whence our challenge comes to look through tree tops gold and green into a sky as blue as forever and as perfect, then we know why we walked this way. When the sun sets and the blanket turns clear and the Milky Way girds the heavens with a broad band of light from stars flung ever outward into the void, even the wind lies hushed in awe.
There are a lot of special places in this world, silent places and noisy places, some overflowing with animal life, some home to little more than plant and stone. The footprints we leave there call us back and, the more we leave, the more we're called it seems. I've left some of my favorites along the Colorado-Wyoming line.
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Lindemann is an avid Festival of Sails fan. The regatta reminds him of his dinghy days but on a grand scale, a time when he and fellow Laser crews raced all day followed by the obligatory tall tales and camaraderie on the dock and back at the yacht club. He's noticed at other events some crew bypassing this long held sailing tradition and heading straight back to their apartment after racing, something he and his Altona Yacht Club mates won't be doing at Geelong!!
In 2013 and 2014 Australia Day falls on the weekend. Taking on board competitor feedback, the RGYC will wrap up racing on the Sunday to give crews an opportunity to attend the trophy presentation early on the Monday morning and still allow interstate and overseas visitors time to travel home on the public holiday before the school term starts (Tuesday for VIC and NSW schools, check your Department of Education website for other states).
Entries received by November 30th will be eligible for an early bird discount of $50 off the regular entry fee, which will apply from December 1st to January 11th, 2013, and a late entry fee of $100 thereafter. The message is, get your entry in this month before the price rises.
Notice of Race available at: http://festivalofsails.com.au/sailing-regatta/race-documents
Enter the Festival of Sails here http://festivalofsails.com.au/sailing-regatta/online-entry-2
Entries for the Audi IRC Australian Championship, awarded in 2013 to Festival of Sails organisers to be staged in conjunction with the country's largest keelboat regatta, opened some weeks ago to strong interest.
In preparation for their standalone regatta at Sandringham Yacht Club following the Festival of Sails, Australia and New Zealand's growing fleet of TP52s is expected to stage one almighty battle while larger fish, such as the Queensland 66 footer, Black Jack, are also aiming to be right among the mix like they were at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week in August.
As Black Jack's skipper Mark Bradford cautions, to have another crack at the IRC championship at Geelong first they have come out the other end of the Sydney Hobart unscathed.
The RGYC welcomes other Rolex Sydney Hobart boats considering detouring or returning to Victorian ports and extends a warm invitation to enter the IRC Championship or the Festival of Sails.
Stephen Ainsworth's pedigreed RP63, Loki, sadly won't be among the starters at Geelong with Ainsworth announcing he's hanging up his sea boots (for now) and taking a well-earned break after he attempts to defend his 2011 Hobart overall win.
With Marcus Blackmore's multi-year near-perfect scorecard with his TP52 Hooligan, and given he'll be seeking to vigorously defend the IRC champion's mantle awarded at Hamilton Island Race Week less than five months prior, there's the real potential for back-to-back wins for Blackmore and his all-star crew.
Enter the Audi IRC Australian Championship here
The 2013 Festival of Sails will reach out to regatta participants and festival visitors in a new and exciting way.
It may be the oldest sporting event in Victoria and the history is proudly embraced, but equally organisers are moving with the times and even further into the wonderful world of social media.
The 2013 festival will see an even more active social media presence, enabling savvy yachties to share their stories and images through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and be part of competitions and promotions.
Event organisers are inviting all social media lovers to join the festival's online community and share their 2013 experience, as well as past experiences, with the chance to pick up prizes via promotions which will soon be announced.
Following the Festival of Sails via social media will put fans in the heart of the action with up-to-the-minute information and updates from the water as well as reminders about entertainment and shoreside activities.
This will assist sailors and their families to plan their visit to Geelong and make the most of what's on offer.
If you aren't already following the Festival of Sails, here are the links;
Instagram: @festivalofsails
If you are wondering how the Royal Geelong Yacht Club plans to cater for over 300 boats and 3,000 crew plus their supporters, and the sort of service competitors can anticipate, check out these handy FAQs http://festivalofsails.com.au/sailing-regatta/frequently-asked-questions.
Here you'll find lots of information on berthing (free for competing yachts), secure compound storage for trailers, opening hours, living aboard your boat on the marina during the regatta, special regs, and the register offered by the club's sailing office to match up owners short of crew and vica versa.
For enquiries regarding the Festival of Sails contact RGYC sailing manager, Rodney Hagebols, on +61 (3) 5229 3705 or email email@example.com.
For a different way to entertain clients or sponsors (current or potential), the Festival of Sails also offers corporate hospitality packages http://festivalofsails.com.au/sailing-regatta/corporate-hospitality.
If you haven't yet booked your accommodation the best website to visit is www.visitGeelongbellarine.com.au.
We suggest you don't leave it too late to check out the wide range of nearby accommodation as it's a very busy time of year with the Australian Open on in Melbourne and other holiday delights on offer in and around Geelong.
More information to help you book your stay will be coming shortly, in the meantime it might be helpful to know that Avalon domestic airport http://www.avalonairport.com.au/ is the closest airport and you'll need to book flights with Jetstar http://www.jetstar.com/au/en/home. Tullamarine is the nearest international airport.
The extensive Shoreside Festival designed to complement the on-water program warrants an entire newsletter of its own. Keep an eye out for details of the heady program of activities guaranteed to keep your shore crew and family entertained all day, and running well into the evening for the grownups.
The traditional Australia Day celebrations and fireworks at night on Saturday 26 January will be a cracker!!


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This is the Chapel of St. Joseph of Arimathea of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC, USA. It is located on the lower level of the building, directly under the crossing of the upper level. According to the Cathedral brochure, the use of the Romanesque style of architecture (rounded arches and a "...


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According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel's Omar Kelly, impending free agent DeAngelo Williams "has surfaced to the top of the must get list" for the Dolphins.
"He's a mold of what [the] Phins want in 2011," writes Kelly. The Dolphins certainly make sense as a landing spot for Williams, though his age (28) and failure to stay healthy through 16 games in a committee attack are impediments to a mega contract.
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Reality Check: Is State Government For Sale?
Republican Governors' Association Claims 'Misleading' and 'Need Clarification'
MADISON, Wis. - The latest attack ad in the spirited race for governor compares state government under Democrat Gov. Jim Doyle to an auction house. The ad implies state contracts are up to the highest bidder.
But, a WISC-TV analysis of the ad, showed the claims "need clarification" and one is "misleading."
The Republican Governors Association ad starts with the voice of an auctioneer coupled with pictures of rows of cows.
"I got $20,000, do I hear more?," says the auctioneer. An announcer adds, "It's almost like an auction."
The group picks up where other ads have left off by attacking Doyle over convicted former state employee Georgia Thompson.
"A top aide to Doyle got a felony conviction for steering a state contract to Doyle campaign contributors," said the announcer in the ad.
This claim "needs clarification," according to a WISC-TV analysis. Georgia Thompson wasn't a "top aide to Governor Doyle." She was hired when Republican Scott McCallum was governor. Thompson worked in the Department of Administration.
But, there's no record of any direct contact between Thompson and Doyle. However, the ad points out correctly, she was convicted of steering a state travel contract to a Doyle contributor.
Milwaukee-based Adelman Travel executives gave Doyle $20,000 for his campaign. Prosecutors said she steered the contract because it would please her bosses. However, there was never any evidence she was told by top level administrators or the governor to give the deal to Adelman.
Here's the next claim. The ad announcer points to a February Associated Press report that said seven companies donated to Doyle's re-election around the same time they received no-bid contracts.
"They gave Doyle $30,000, they got $36 million in contracts," said the announcer in the ad. This claim needs clarification, said WISC-TV.
Of the $36 million, most of it was with one contract, $29 million to Oracle to renew computer software contracts with the state. The state has been using the software and signing similar contracts since at least 1994 under both Govs. Tommy Thompson and Scott McCallum.
A WISC-TV analysis also found there have been no charges in any of those cases. In fact, there are no known investigations into any of those seven contracts. This, despite what the ad goes on to say.
"Now, the state Ethics Board investigates the widening Doyle scandals," said the announcer in the ad.
WISC-TV finds this claim "misleading."
Ethics Board legal counsel Jonathan Becker said, "No, that's not an accurate statement."
Becker said the board is looking into one case in which Philadelphia-based attorney Richard Schiffrin gave $10,000 to Doyle after meeting with a top Doyle aide. Schiffrin wanted state business, but didn't get the contract.
The Ethics Board is looking to see if any promises were made in exchange for campaign donations. A decision is expected in the next week or two.
But, WISC-TV found, to say the Ethics Board is investigating a "widening" scandal is inaccurate.
The ad is running in Madison and other media markets in the area at least through this week.
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Good luck.
Feel free to PM for any more info.
Good luck.
Thanks Jerry. I'll pass that on to him.
"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained through the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment." Mahatma Gandhi
the last time I searched Grady it was odd...
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I have also noticed that sometimes when you click on a dog's event history, it brings up another dog all together. Definitely some gremlins in the database.
But then click on "Event History" and I get this:
Now I don't know this Ike dog that comes up, but there seems to be some errors. I am sure he is a fine dog, but I am pretty sure he didn't win the NETNRC open at less than a year old, run a few more opens until he was about a year old and then go back and start running JH tests. Very strange.


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Not too worried about Gator basketball though. We have some good experience coming back this year. Probably would have won last night if half the rotation wasn't suspended. Gonna be fun to see how they stack up against Kentucky's class of rentals for this year.
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2010 Iron Bowl...But my son goes to Auburn,after 3 generations of my family going to Bama....but he wants to cut his own path..I'm ok with that.
I LOVE Alabama,but I love my son more....It's better for the Iron Bowl for Auburn to be good.
Thanksgiving will be interesting at my house this year.
And the icing on the cake for this nightmare season:
Jeff Driskel will be granted a medical redshirt and an extra year of eligibility.
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Apparently Jameis Winston is a rapist. Not at all surprising, though I figured men was more his flavor.
Penn State vs UCF. Wow, just wow. Hell of a football game.
Justin Holman straight balling.
I thought it was sloppy and boring until the 4th. Nice back-back drives at the end. Hackenburg is going to be a solid QB
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Those all look pretty sweet, any pics of the K't'inga?
Also, any word if SW will have a limited one?
Those all look pretty sweet, any pics of the K't'inga?
Also, any word if SW will have a limited one?
"Hokey packaging and ancient gimmicks are no match for good detail on your figure, kid."
"I am a Klingot from Oklahoma in human boy form."
"We came, we saw, we conquered... We, woke up!"
Nope and nope, LT. I haven't seen the K'Tinga or heard any details of the SW limited edition... yet...
McCoy: What do those super sensitive ears make of that, Mr. Spock?
Spock: Wood. Rubbing on some kind of leather.
does anyone know if the Jedi vs Sith set is going to be electronic like the other series pieces....?
Looking for CW 2010 Sidious and TX-20...if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. thanks
...from the looks of the base, I'd say a def. YES. It will go with the Obi & Luke and Obi-Wan Vs. Anakin diaramas they've done in years past. The Han stormie looks pretty good.
"In my experience there's no such thing as luck."
Amazing...all of the main characters done and yet still no Lando! Personally, I'd also like to see a Snowtrooper thrown in there as well.
"I take orders from just one person - ME!"
Hallmark's put up some pics of the Landspeeder and others...
That speeder looks nice... gotta give it the edge over Kenner's
If I collected figs, I'd get Robby for sure... and the Indy Idol one's kewl.
McCoy: What do those super sensitive ears make of that, Mr. Spock?
Spock: Wood. Rubbing on some kind of leather.
Think I'd rather have the Robby Robot than the landspeeder. My Titanium will suffice. I'm more of a capital ship kinda Hallmark fan. Wouldn't that be cool next year? I'm thinking lights and magic Muulificent Frigate or Republic Attack Cruiser!
I do have quite a few SW Hallmarks though from prior years. And other onaments like mostly space ships, locomotives, and airplanes.
btw: I gotta see what your spouse does with your ships at X-Mas DT!
"Ohh, maxi big da fish! Well dat smells stinkowiff"
"No time to discuss this as a supercommittee.... I am not a supercommittee!"
I like the Han in Trooper gear, plus the "cheap" little 2-piece set (Anakin and Ahsoka) is always a getter, and that Landspeeder looks cool (but $23?!?). I plan to get the Indy (wrong music playing... the "Raiders March" while he's weighing the idol?) and probably the Sidney Crosby one. A good crop for '09.
But still, NO SNOWTROOPER?!? NO HOTH HAN?!? NO HOTH LUKE?!? NO HOTH LEIA?!? For holidays in WINTER TIME?!? For shame, Hallmark.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
Yes...the wrong music but that dramatic cue isn't gonna sell ornaments as much as the iconic "main" theme the public identifies with the character. The Ep. 1 set really looks cool...I have the two others.
"In my experience there's no such thing as luck."
If there is a limited SW one this year, it should follow the same pattern as being from the same movie, in a closely related scene. R2 w/Jawa get Tusken Raider. Palpy on Throne, get Royal Guard etc. So let the speculation begin...
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I saw the call for this thread so I thought I'd post it even though I don't plan to see the movie for about 36 more hours from the time I'm writing this.
I saw the call for this thread so I thought I'd post it even though I don't plan to see the movie for about 36 more hours from the time I'm writing this.
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It's an okay movie. It is not however a good Superman movie.
If they would have been called 'Sentry' and been made by Marvel.... then it would fit.
AGENTS OF ATLAS - Returns in Early 2009.
I liked it a lot actually. It's easily within my top 5 of best superhero movies ever made. It might even be as high as #2 or #3. I think they got Superman right on just about every level and I actually found him to be a relatable character for the first time ever. Plus, they managed to wash the stink of Superman Returns away completely and that in itself is a monumental feat.
On to the spoilers because I've been dying to talk about these:
1. Why did General Zod's people demand to take Lois Lane along with Superman? Supes was surrendering to them willingly so what did they need Lois for? I understand that filmmakers want to keep female characters involved in the story these days; but they never really explained what the Kryptonians expected to get from Lois and their decision ended up completely working against them in the long run.
2. I wasn't really happy with the way Clark's dad died. He just stood still for several seconds doing nothing while a giant tornado was bearing down on him. I think Clark could have easily come up with a creative way to save him without revealing his identity. If it was supposed to be a situation where there were no options other than Pa Kent's death, then they should have done more to establish that. As it is, it was something that would really only happen when a movie is trying to force an emotional reaction from the audience. There is no way those events would play out that way in real life. Especially when Pa Kent dies trying to rescue the family dog.
3. This is the big one. Superman kills General Zod by snapping his neck. I actually don't have a problem with this one at all, because I've never really understood the hang up with superheroes who kill villains. With everything Zod had done to Earth, I think he deserved to die and I'm glad that Superman was the one to do it.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
Well I for one like heroes to kill a lot of people. ( GREEN) ARROW on the CW is one example.
This was the best Superman movie ever in my opinion however it lacked the of keeping continuity with estalished cannon.
They could have done this and kept the action but kept continuity.
I prefer the cast from Smallville above all others.
Though iit like him best Batman would have been lost in dealing with the Kryptonians.
Voice to text can spell Kryptonians!
I'm at the mall outside of the movie theater soaking in some Sun.
Krypton should have turned to ice from something they did. The flying dragon was cool.
Joe-El Was awesome and Russell Crowe owns him.
Actually Kevin Spacey owns Lex Luthor Except for Michael Rosenbaums portrayal on Smallville.
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Well, since it's a reboot, then there isn't any established canon.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
I haven't seen it, but I think BigB asked for this thread because of my comments in another, so I'll chime in.
I thought the casting was a little wonky. Russell Crowe, Amy Adams, and Kevin Costner especially seem like weird choices for the characters they play. But I love Michael Shannon and wanted to see it just for him.
The first trailer, I thought was a bit weak. Not bad, just weak. I found it a bit odd that so many people who'd complained about "emo Superman" in Returns seemed to like it, since it was just Supes brooding a lot.
I think it was the second one where something really, really bothered me: Jonathan Kent placing Clark's secret over the lives of others. It's so out of character with every previous version I'm familiar with. Since Jonathan and Martha are Clark's moral center, this bugged me tremendously.
Still hoping for the best, I looked up some spoiler-ish reviews to see if maybe the line had been taken out of context and saw that, not only was it not, Jonathan goes even further by refusing Clark save his life. Jonathan should know that this would severely **** up Clark for life; he simply would not go out like that. He'd be the first to tell Clark to save someone else before him, but here he's putting the secret identity above human lives and Clark's future emotional stability.
And then in the same review, I saw the bit about him breaking Zod's neck, and the movie ceased to be a Superman movie for me, and I no longer wanted to see it. I'm not some prude who is against violence (I've got Richard Harrow as an avatar, right after he killed about twenty mobsters and still has their blood on his face), and don't mind heroes who kill. But some heroes do not intentionally take lives, and Superman has always been one. He has allowed some people to die, he has failed in rescuing people, he's inadvertently caused death through his actions, and he's beaten a nonsentient being to death and died in the process. He's even sentenced alternate-universe villains to death and left them in a situation where they were almost certain to die. But he's never been the one to directly take a sentient life.
It's especially odd since they made a point of this in Batman Begins, where his refusal to kill is a major plot point. But to make this concession with the hero who is supposed to represent the perfect ideal to which all humanity should strive (even if it's impossible to achieve it) is too radical a departure. It's like making a movie where Batman dresses in drag and prostitutes himself to get information from crack addicts, or Spider-Man is a time-traveling elderly woman, or Bumblebee is a hardened warrior who can't talk but pees oil on people (oh, wait, that last one happened and isn't just a bad dream).
I don't care if anyone else wants to see it and likes it, I just don't have any interest. To me, it's a movie based on Rob Liefeld's Supreme, a character who has less than zero appeal to me.
One last observation: it's funny and annoying at the same time that so many people who thought when Superman Returns came out that it was flawed but not awful (and I'm not referring to anyone here, just what seems to be the general internet consensus) now think it's the worst movie ever and that Bryan Singer should never be able to touch superheroes again. These people need to watch real crap, like Caligula or Mac & Me or Manos: The Hands of Fate (without the help of the crew of the Satellite of Love) so they can appreciate true garbage. It's not the worst movie. It's not the worst superhero movie. It's not even the worst Supeman movie (because it's pretty tough to sink lower than Superman IV). And that crazy Singer guy may not have made a perfect Superman movie (I still like it, but not as much as I used to, because it really does kinda drag in several spots), but he did make the first two X-Men movies, which are damned close to perfect, and whose success is largely responsible for all the other big budget superhero movies since.
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I'm one of the people who thought Superman Returns was horrible from the first moment I saw that they had cast Brandon Routh. I skipped seeing it in the theater and rented it when it came out on DVD. As I was watching it, it just felt like every single decision made in the movie was wrong. I literally hated everything about it.
I'm actually a little bit more forgiving of it now, even though I don't consider it a good movie at all; but that's really just because I'm relieved that they will not be continuing on in that specific Superman universe.
The funny/ironic part about all this, though, is that I found it very much out of character for Superman to be spying on Lois Lane with his x-ray vision and listening in on others' conversations in Returns. It made Superman seem like a voyeuristic peeping-tom. However, I don't have a problem with Superman snapping a villain's neck at all, in MOS. Probably because Zod deserved what he got, but Lois Lane had done nothing wrong that justified Superman spying on her.
Either way, I'm glad that Singer's version of Superman can be swept under the rug and forgotten about.
Speaking of X-Men, though, I thought that X-Men 1 and 2 were okay at best. X-Men 3 was actually worse than Superman Returns. First Class was good; but I really want them to reboot the entire X-Men film franchise and make something that at least somewhat resembles the characters from the comic books. As it is now, the movie characters resemble their comic book counterparts in name only. Not even their powers are the same for most of them. Unfortunately, as long as Hugh Jackman is willing to play Wolverine, that will never happen.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
X-Men 3 was the one Singer had no involvement in, because the studio didn't want to delay it until he finished Superman Returns. And it is one of the ripest turds ever released to theaters.
Agreed on the x-ray vision being creepy. I just see a world of difference between Superman being a creep and a killer. I don't doubt Zod does deserve to die in MOS, but making Superman actively kill him sacrifices what makes him Superman, at least to me.
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It's not just Zod that's an issue. Superman goes flailing and punching villains through populated buildings in both Smallville and Metropolis. So not only is he a killer of Zod,... even though they could have found a more "Supermanish" solution. He's also responsible for countless deaths. Clearly when Pa Kent suggested that "Maybe he should let people die", he encouraged the psycho version of Superman we have in this film.
AGENTS OF ATLAS - Returns in Early 2009.
No one seems the least bit concerned over how many Kryptonians Jor-el and Lois took out. Just saying.
In the film, Jonathan lectures Clark about needing to decide what kind of man he wants to be and I feel that provides an impetus for the rest of the film. By connecting the dots from all the flashbacks, we're supposed to see that the tornado scene set him on a path of constantly navigating between going all out to save others but having to hide in the shadows and never getting any credit for his bravery and sacrifice.
As far as representing the perfect ideal of humanity, the world that MoS is set in is not a perfect world. It's not golden age or silver age at all. Even rescuing kids in a sinking bus, rescuing oil rig workers comes at a price for Clark but he does it with an innate belief in the greater good he is doing. He should not have to spend his 20's, 30's wandering from menial job to menial job just to keep his ear to the ground and find where people need saving. But that's the world they chose to construct for this film.
And I have to disagree about your "psycho version of Supes" statement. He pleaded with, begged Zod to stop the heat vision blasts. Trying to look for the good in Zod as his parents would have wanted him to. Since he had never encountered Kryptonians before, there's no real way he could've known he might actually harm Zod. I saw that more as an act of desperation. Of wanting so much to not see those innocent people perish, he was willing to do something which pained him very much.
Just as I said earlier, that's the world depicted in this film. Even victories come with a measure of defeat.
I think a lot of the discussion thus far can be boiled down to whether you are more intrigued by Superman the ideal or Superman the person. Since the film emphasizes the journey of Clark towards ideals, embracing itself with detours and dilemmas, this may not be a Superman for everyone but still compelling, IMO.


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I thought there were only going to be 3 figures, then another droid shows up.
If Yoda is capable of kicking someone's @$$, imagine what a muppet could do!
It's been rumored that 6 figures will show up and there are current reports of the Starspeeder 3000 being made in figure scale also.
So far we've seen 4, so only time will tell.
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Rebelscum is saying that we may end up with as many as 9. We will atleast get six, because the DL-X2 droid is the first figure from the second assortment.
MTFBWY and HH!!
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AGENTS OF ATLAS - Returns in Early 2009.
Once upon a time...
A poster at Ringofcollectors.com and toymania.com/toybuzz posted that he had inside info on a planned set of 3 waves of 3 figures based on the Star Tours ride, along with the Starspeeder vehicle. The figures would be exclusive to Disney.
Back then, the figures were dismissed as a rumor. (the figs were too obscure, disney's too exclusive, etc). Then as time passed, even more people thought is a rumor.
Now, a year later, BAM! Star Tours figures. So, if we go back to that original, dismissed rumor:
Wave 1: Has "Collection 1" on the card
Starspeeder Pilot Droid - new
G2 Mechanic Droid - new
R2 repaint
Wave 2: Has "Collection 2" on the card
Repair Droid - new
R2 Repaint
Protocol Droid Repaint
Wave 3: Has "Collection 3" on the card
R2 repaint
G2 Mechanic repaint
NEW droid
And a 3-3/4 inch scale Star Speeder.
Well, wave one was dead on: Rex (the pilot), G2 (the mechanic) and R3 (a PotJ R2 repaint)
Then, wave 2 so far we have DL-X2 (new repair droid).
Based on this, I think we can expect those last 5 of the 9 figures to include the rest of the original list:
Wave 2:
R2 Repaint
Protocol Droid Repaint
Wave 3:
R2 repaint
G2 Mechanic repaint
NEW droid
Unless Hasbro changes everything again
Only time (and sites like ssg and the scum) will tell...
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I could see 3 waves of 3. Basically we just have to wait and see.
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After Dear Leader it will be nice to have an adult in the White House again but Newt isn't going to be that adult. He isn't electable.
We live in Cuba now.
After Dear Leader it will be nice to have an adult in the White House again but Newt isn't going to be that adult. He isn't electable.
We live in Cuba now.
We are stuck with Obama for the next 3 1/2 years. Unless you have other ideas on how to get Obama out of office and who would do a better job of replacing him, I'd say we will have to wait until the next election to see if the next canidate has a better solution.
In this media driven age, Gingrich would not be able to stand up to the scrutiny about his personal life, look at what they are doing to Sarah Palin,they will do whatever it takes to bring her down because she was a viable , marketable option and that scares the living heck out of the left. I wonder how all the GM, Chrysler and Ford guys in Michigan that voted for BHO feel now since many have lost their jobs and their companies..
The thing we agree on is apparently that most affairs of the heart should remain mostly a matter of private conscience, with emphasis on "most" and "mostly"--I think it can be an indicator of integrity, but isn't necessarily a litmus test.
What we don't agree on is that we'd both be voting for Mr. Gingrich (that's the remotest possibility around, though, I am trying very hard to look at big pictures these days and keep an open mind).
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But it's nice to be able to agree on something around here.
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Bought It For the Bottle Opener
....but got way more than that. This rack is the solution. It's heavy but not too heavy when I go to take it off and put into storage for the winter. Otherwise, it stays on all summer and I can't say I ever notice it until I need it. The engineering is simple and straightforward, meaning everything is easy from the setup on. I sometimes wish I didn't have to bend down to pull the release knob but we can't all live like kings, right?
Nice rack
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have nothing but good things to say about this rack. I previously had a hitch rack that I had to buy an anti rattle/locking pin separately, but was pretty happy that those things came standard on this rack. I know my bike won't move when I'm on the road and if I need to make a pit stop, I don't have to worry about my bike thanks to the integrated bike locks for each tray. A lot of racks feel cheaply made but not this one. This baby is sturdy.
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Simple and versatile
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I've been using this rack for a few years at this point and have yet to be disappointed. It might be on the heavy end of the spectrum, but that means it's ultra-sturdy and limits unwanted bike movement in off-road situations. The ability to mount up the 2 bike add-on is a solid plus. It attaches with only one bolt and a cotter pin to allow 4 bike transport. Keep the 2 bike on for everyday use, and slip on the add-on for desert trips with the crew.
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Simple and Effective
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I assembled this in less than 20 minutes, it works great, it's a touch hard for my bride to get the bike on, and battening down the hatches takes a few seconds, but I love the locks, and 0-80 mph in 15 seconds and the bikes are still on the back...anyone got a better test? Plus, fold it up and it really doesn't take much room.
Looks good
I bought this rack mostly for aesthetics. Let's face it, all hitch racks really do the same job - they carry our bikes. No need (for me) to compare weights or added bells and whistles. I think this rack looks the best with my black Outback because the color doesn't stick out and the wheel trays fold inward when not in use, so its a little more compact looking as well. Previously, I was a T2 Classic owner. The T2 was a lot more labor-intensive to put up and down - having to reach in for the leaver. This rack pivots a little easier with a more simple button that you pop out or push in at the hinge. The only downside is that when angling the rack down, with bikes on, to access the hatchback - that the door doesn't quite clear the bikes if you're looking to extend it all the way upward. Just a minor thing though, but worth noting.
Simple and Great
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I'm on my second HoldUp. Had one for years on my 4runner, which got sold with the car. When I decided to get a new rack for my new truck I went right back to the HoldUp. I've used most of the other options that friends have, and while all of them seem to get the job done just fine I saw no reason to stray from the Yakima. Getting bikes on and off is quick and simple, the built in lock works great to run through the fork and secure my bike while driving around doing errands, and it doesn't hurt that the all black paint job looks good and blends in pretty well. I don't have much experience with the competition in this respect, but with the HoldUp the threaded bolt that goes through the hitch receiver works great to keep the rack from wobbling at all, and the locking cap on it is another nice bonus to keep things secure.
I used my first one for two years without any issues, and am going on year 2 with my newer one.


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