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Thandie Newton doesn't think her character in "The Pursuit of Happyness" is a bad mother because she left her husband and child.
Newton says she doesn't judge people. She knows life is tough and can be painful.She says she "really, really felt for" her character.
She says if you have a problem with her character in "Happyness," it might be because you have a problem, yourself.
She says there are a lot of people who look at her character in the movie starring Will Smith and "judge her harshly." She says those who do are "bringing something to the party" because they have their own personal axes to grind.
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the original discovery took place in 2003, and was confirmed last january after further data could be analyzed. details about the planet's size are still unknown, but it is estimated to be about 1.5 times larger than pluto. there is currently no name for the planet, discovered by michael brown, a planetary scientist at the california institute of technology, and two colleagues, david rabinowitz of yale university and chad trujillo of the gemini observatory, but one has been submitted for approval. brown did not release the proposed name.
read more on this topic from the associated press article and the inquirer.
christopher's opinion
see, hackers aren't all bad; some of them are just out for the greater good and discovery. i wonder how long mr. brown would have held on to the information before releasing it if the hacker hadn't stumbled across his findings?
in the greater scheme of things this hacking won't have a profound impact on things scientific. i would like to think that the scientists were merely waiting for all the data and confirmations to come in before they released the news. i can't see why else they would sit on the discovery.
it does seem like they should spend a little more time securing the websites and a little less time staring into space, though. i wonder if brown will pay homage to the hacker and name the planet "hacked" … but i doubt it. "plant brown" doesn't have a good ring to it either …
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|seems (10:56am est tue aug 02 2005)
e.t. phone'd home – by dahrk geek
|new name (11:05am est tue aug 02 2005)
since pluto has been taken already, how about minnie, or goofy, or even mickey? disney world? walt? minnie… that sounds appropriate. – by crash
|hacker's are all bad (11:13am est tue aug 02 2005)
even crimminals do a good deed once in awhile, usually by accident. but they are still crimminals.
astronomers are some of the most conservative scientist. they spend years sometimes even decades to confirm their findings.
if this hackers was interested in real science and not just acts of cyber-vandalism he could apply his skills to discovering his own planets instead of hijacking someones else's life work. – by hackers-r-scum
|nah, i am sure the name will be (11:13am est tue aug 02 2005)
well thaught out, , if he has any sense. and it sounds like he is carefully thinking it over, naming a star in some off the way galaxy is one thing, , naming a planet in your own solar system is another. i for one think they will go with the current naming scheema that is already in place for the solar system and name it something like zeus or something. – by eric the red.
|hacker (11:17am est tue aug 02 2005)
i think the planet should be named hacker. – by cracker
|re: hackers-r-scum (11:22am est tue aug 02 2005)
spell check. tard. – by george w.
|hacker (11:25am est tue aug 02 2005)
the only useful thing he did was to point out that one more web site needed better security. – by bob
|it has to be something dark (11:28am est tue aug 02 2005)
since pluto is the ruler of the underworld …
didn't they float sedna before?
– by zerberus
|"10th planet's" name.. (11:35am est tue aug 02 2005)
the name that was proposed was "xena" the iau has yet to approve it. planets in our solar system may only be named after roman gods – so if it's considered a full fledged planet it will have to take the left over roman god names such as vesta, bacchus, minerva, vulcan, and juno –
kinda funny though – i think someone misheard "hack the planet" as "hack teh planetssssss" and went apedung on caltech's servers. – by jephyrr
|about sedna… (11:43am est tue aug 02 2005)
sedna (2003 vb12) was another object found way out there past pluto. it was discovered and identified in 2004. being smaller than pluto, it was immediately dismissed as being a planet by most. at the time of 2003 vb12's discovery, it was the most distant object known in the solar system. that distinction is now held by 2003 ub313 (xena?)
if they wanted to follow with the tradition of naming those far out desolate worlds in our solar system after underworld gods, vulcan would be the most suitable remaining name. "welcome to planet vulcan, hope you enjoyed/survived your 55 year flight!"
(sry for double post k thx) – by jephyrr
|the name needs to be like uranus (11:50am est tue aug 02 2005)
urass, icup – by lol
|uranus an venis (11:51am est tue aug 02 2005)
both have been taken…
ps, never mix the two together – by ha-har
|zeus taken (11:55am est tue aug 02 2005)
there is already a planet named zeus. well, since zeus was the greek name for the roman god jupiter that is (or vice-versa). – by .d.
|all the posts above mine are not worth a read… (11:57am est tue aug 02 2005)
unless you have time to waste.
i am glad that this info came to us sooner rather than later. to have more knowledge, albeit very little more, about our galaxy is a great find for space exploration. finding a 10th planet just goes to remind us again how limitless god really is in creating.
we thought we knew what was in our galaxy and then we were forced to think again. – by 10th from the sun
|re: hackers-r-scum (11:58am est tue aug 02 2005)
what a narrow-minded point of view! hacker is a broad term.though there are many who do it for criminal reasons, there are also those who do it for other reasons, such as the strong belief that there is a lot of information kept from the people – even when they have a right to be informed.
nowadays we are drip-fed information as and when it suits the people who own it. this is often to influence peoples' opinions to and to amass money and power.
whether or not this 10th planet is a case of this is beside the point. information should be free. – by hacker_n_proud_of_it
|re george w. (12:03pm est tue aug 02 2005)
planet hacker sounds about right .hackers are the new explorers finding new planets.there hero's and should get the medal of honor.hacker's make your computer's more secure.i mean the gov and big business would be all in your computers.but hackers exposed the doors and now you have securety like firewalls.so thank you hackers everywhere. – by neo
|sorry…some post above mine are worth a read (12:07pm est tue aug 02 2005)
[quote]all the posts above mine are not worth a read… (11:57am est tue aug 02 2005)
unless you have time to waste.[/quote]
hmmmm..seems someone snuck in a few good ones before i got to post my last thought.
on the idea of a hacker helping to get this info out i support what he did. some times you may have to do what is considered wrong to get the right thing done. – by 10th from the sun
|re george w. (12:09pm est tue aug 02 2005)
my reply was for hackers-r-scum not you. – by neo
|neo (12:16pm est tue aug 02 2005)
if there were no stupid dick hackers we wouldn't need firewalls, would we? – by duh
|room 42 (12:21pm est tue aug 02 2005)
the job market needs more hackers.be all that you can be. a hacker.bill gates wants you. jobs jobs jobs become a hacker . – by black hat
|re duh (12:25pm est tue aug 02 2005)
the goverment and big business they would be your stupid dick hackers .and run your computer and you wouldn't be aware duh. – by neo
|suspicious… (12:28pm est tue aug 02 2005)
i honestly find this report rather suspicious…what is there to gain for forcing a scientist to release the information (especially considering that this new planet really wasn't *news*…anyone who follows astronomy closely would remember when this came up in 2003…)
i don't really see how this promotes *productive* hacker activity… – by /dev/null
|great (12:43pm est tue aug 02 2005)
trying to learn to hack on a microsoft windows machine or any other closed-source system is like trying to learn to dance while wearing a body cast.so all hackers use linux.which proves what i been saying all along.linux users are smarter than windoze users. – by king tux
|approved names (12:43pm est tue aug 02 2005)
approved by whom?
i think if some committee comes up with a weird or ambiguous name, the general public should ignore them and call it what they want. maybe someone could do a reality tv show where people could vote on a name. afterwards, we can send paula abdul off in a spaceship to visit the planet.
vulcan is an interesting name. if it should be selected, then leonard nemoy will need to change his will so his ashes can be shot onto the planet's surface. – by jrink
|10th planet's name (1:01pm est tue aug 02 2005)
how does "nova" sound? – by stingrae
|that's not what it says on mike brown's site… (1:03pm est tue aug 02 2005)
i've just checked out mike brown's site:
a secure website wasn't hacked – the info was freely available to google, for those who looked lol.
as to the comments about the "do-gooding-hacker" – are we really naive enough the think the hacker wouldn't be out to the steal scientific glory for himself?
– by stargazypi
|hackers good crackers bad (1:24pm est tue aug 02 2005)
hackers are the people who realy enjoy using there computers to explore and create.crackers are the evil side.the word hacker is used by the press in neg when the so called hacker is realy a evil cracker.may the force be with you. – by sith
|re: sith (2:38pm est tue aug 02 2005)
and also with you – tard. – by itopher
|math should have proven this a while ago (3:04pm est tue aug 02 2005)
god must have slipped a new planet in over the past decade. – by ds
|lightning in a vacume (3:10pm est tue aug 02 2005)
so someone with a bit of curiosity managed to sleuth, *not hack*, the info available off of the astronomers database.
stole some thunder in their planned announcment.
just think of the nasa hacker from the uk that was looking for area 51 and ufo data. he found that boeing has been working on anti-gravity devices recently. he will be made an example of, but there are all kinds of folks with all kinds of agendas looking through obscure data all the time.
this was not a *hack*, the data was not even password protected, google gave it up – just like that. – by zeke
|not new information (3:13pm est tue aug 02 2005)
i remember reading about this planet a long time ago.
this story is not accurate.
|re: averagejoefly (3:22pm est tue aug 02 2005)
long as in less than a week ago?
you must have the lifespan of a fly if you think a few days is a long time. – by bee keeper
|secret file (3:31pm est tue aug 02 2005)
this planet was not to be made public.it was hacked this planet has a 3,500 orbit around the sun.scrolls tell of such a planet from which gods come from.in other words are creaters .there coming back. aliens – by the x
|cant we just name it planet bob? (3:48pm est tue aug 02 2005)
i'd like to see a planet named bob, and if i had the cash, id be pushing for it. – by planet bob
|we shout beat hackers to death (4:03pm est tue aug 02 2005)
like they did with that spammer in russia. if the penalty was high enough most of them would stop risking it.
giving a hacker credit for anything benificial is like giving a graffiti tagger credit for a new paint job. it was not the act of vandelism that made the improovement. it was the cleanup effort after they made the mess.
|stop smokin crack people (4:23pm est tue aug 02 2005)
god damn, how many times does it need to be pounded into you tiny skulls? let me count from above… 1… 2… uh 3 times already, now make it four.
this was not a hack! ya silly bastards.
read the article, cruise browns web page, read.
not only was this not a hack, this was not a previously divulged find.
go ahead, take another puff on that crack pipe and tell us how facts don't matter and how we should lynch mob to our hearts content. – by i see stupid people
|kill a hacker (4:47pm est tue aug 02 2005)
wether they technically "hacked" this info or not they are still scum and deserve to die. every two bit hoodlem here has a different personal definition of what "hacking" really is or is not.
if a "hacker", theif, vandle, or whatever you want to call these assholes breaks the law and hurts your property, your research, your livelyhood, or just your reputation. i'm all in favor of some vilgilantee breaking the law when they finally catch up with their worthless ass. if the hackers get to live outside the law, then they don't deserve the protection of the law either.
this isn't as radical as it 1st sounds either. in the state where i live i can legally defend my person and my property w/ deadly force. we need to start doing the same thing w/ our personal cyberspace. after all we pay for that space just like we pay for our homes, businesses, and vehicles. leaving my door open doesn't make it legal for you to help yourself to all my stuff, same with my webpage. if i can kill a thief invading or vandalizing my home or business or trying to get me in my car or anywhere else. i ought to be able to extend this legal use of force to my chunk of cyberspace as well. – by wack-a-hacker
|jeezus (5:06pm est tue aug 02 2005)
they have been going one about this 10th planet for a couple of years now, how long will this be news. how many "10th" planets are they going to find and who cares really.
also, why would this data be secured and not divulged? why should a hacker be necessary for this information to be released? people are just upset because they couldn't control the information and have a time to invent some stupid name for a ball of ice. – by topher
|re[wack-a-hacker (5:08pm est tue aug 02 2005)
you are a complete asshole when god was making assholes he made you number one.your stupit ass wouldn't do anything you want some vilgilante to beat up the bad hacker for you. well forget it pussyface nobodys going to listen to your dumb ass.go hide under the rock you were born under.slimeball. – by planet bob
|degraded conversation (5:26pm est tue aug 02 2005)
geez, this line sure has gone downhill in the last few posts. as far as naming goes, a long long time ago, when sailors found new islands or land masses, the discoverer got the privilege of naming that particular piece of real estate. it had to be passed back to the map makers for approval not because of the name given, but the discovery had to be validated & not someone elses discovery already being investigated.
yes, whack a hacker, eat a cracker, eat dirt & die. commit mob violence. whatever. when you have i.m. & such, who wants to wait a month or two to get notified about a whole new planet? – by crash
|re: sith (6:11pm est tue aug 02 2005)
hehe – by itopher
|re crash (6:26pm est tue aug 02 2005)
who are you the conversation police.if you don't have something interesting to say then just shut your big pie hole you fool. – by wack-a-hacker
|new name (7:01pm est tue aug 02 2005)
larry niven postulated the name persephone for the 10 planet many years ago. i always thought that would be a good name…
– by cfjr
|astronomers (8:00pm est tue aug 02 2005)
astronomers are the real criminals. they're in league with the devil, spying on the heavens with their witchcraft devices. back in the day, we use to burn anyone who looked up at the sky and squinted, and now we can't even beat our own children. what kind of monsters have we become? – by mcdoogle
|burnt them too (8:12pm est tue aug 02 2005)
is that what the visions in your head show you? are you claiming to be clairvoyant, in possession of the devil's eye, eh? you're no better than an astronomer. – by mcdoogle
|re cfjr… names (8:24pm est tue aug 02 2005)
persephone is already used by an asteroid, number 399 i think. most the roman god names were used up on asteroids before they changed the rules and made such naming strictly for larger bodies. now i think it must be a planet, no planetoids or smaller.
i like skadi, the viking goddess of winter and the hunt. it was one heck of a hunt to find this goober and i'm probably safe to say it is pretty cold on that rock. she was married to the god of the ocean, which might tie into a closer original orbit probability – an ejection from the inner regions by neptune, (or uranus – god of sky).
regardless, time to ditch the roman gods, lots of other cultures in the world with a heafty amount of mythology to draw on. – by zeke
|re: retired at 31 (8:39pm est tue aug 02 2005)
– by zeke
|wipe it barehanded imole phat (9:07pm est tue aug 02 2005)
i knew calling out the irony of comparing today's "criminal" hackers and the "criminal" astronomers of 500-2400 years ago would be so far over the heads of the 10 year olds that one would have reach puberty, or *gasp* stand on a kitchen chair to reach it, but i am too subtle in my remarks. next time, i will put this at the front: *warning: subtle identification of irony, do not interpret literally or liberally*
i'm just kidding, i know only the devil holds your attentions and your tongues (fingers).
|houd han (9:27pm est tue aug 02 2005)
mcdoogle, your intricacy is illicit, your nuance is scandalous and *your* subtlety is criminal.
i know no devil but that which is man. that man is mcdoogle.
call for bloody mary three times in the mirror of a darkened room. you can then see the devil. it is only within your mind, but is animated by your flesh – by your will. – by ў щ
|rejected (9:46pm est tue aug 02 2005)
i was already rejected by the scientologists, who not only knew about the 10th, 11th, and 12th outer planets of our solar system, they've long since named them, and have regularly schedualed spiritual trips there on tuesdays and thursdays.
and incidently, all the planets are really named after warriors who died in the battle against xenon millions of years ago, which only coincidently happen to be the exact same names as these roman gods everyone loves so much. – by mcdoogle
|raining on your parade (10:32pm est tue aug 02 2005)
this is ancient news. – by rainman
|old news is good news (10:38pm est tue aug 02 2005)
have you seen news recently? there's nothing going on nowadays. what we need is to bring back remake old news. just think how awesome it'll be to see everyone freak out when they announce the president's been shot, only to find out it's a rerun of the lincoln assassination. the first moon landing would be good again, maybe in hi-def color. it would cause confusion, outrage and panic, the only states of mind nature intended. – by mcdoogle
|reemcdoogle (11:10pm est tue aug 02 2005)
check this out – by merlin
|re: all the posts above mine are not worth a read… (1:34am est wed aug 03 2005)
i agree whole-heartedly… and who nos, ig god put that chuck of rock that far out there, who knows where other planets may be hiding. perhaps, there is a whole bushel of planets in wierd orbits out there, that we can't see because of puny telescopes and a limited viewing area. it's like trying to understand a movie, while only seeing the upper 1/3 of the screen. – by nonamecommenter
|opps (1:37am est wed aug 03 2005)
forgot a couple things. and "ig" should be "if". the planet should be named alpha-omega, in honor of god, the alpha and omega, beginning and end, creator of everything. – by nonamecommenter
|i don't care about that name (2:12am est wed aug 03 2005)
that name of the planet don't interest me, i would like to see more info on the planet itself – by nearcry
|meow (3:34am est wed aug 03 2005)
hackers are good people and you fools are silly :) – by ninja_hacker
|skadi is nice (5:06am est wed aug 03 2005)
with linux a hacker is a good thing, that is why all the windoze folk have been brain washed by bill's propoganda into thinking hackers are evil.
this was not even a security break in, it was an open system, linked from several sites and easily accessed by the internet. no black hat wonders, not even close.
this planet find is interesting because it is so far out and still has a decent size. it is still very difficult to observe due to the vast scales. if the sun were the size of a soccer ball this planet would be a .4mm pencil lead at 3km. the earth would be a bb at ~30 paces.
all about perspective. – by tom
|planetoid naming fun (6:37am est wed aug 03 2005)
as far as naming the planet[oid?] goes, i'd go with the norse goddess freya – she was their version of aphrodite, but the name still sounds good for such a cold place.
another possibility is ull, who was the norse god of winter. (it might be a little too deadpan, though.)
another possibility is hel, the norse goddess of the dead. (this name may rub christians the wrong way, though.
i think missed an opportunity with the planetoid sedna. considering its crazy orbit that takes it way out into the middle of nowhere and back, i would have called it lazarus. (if it's an oort cloud object, you figure they could have gotten away with using a different naming scheme.) – by mike
|more names… (12:10pm est wed aug 03 2005)
it's a shame they've run out of roman names – it'd be good to keep them similar, and i've always thought persephone would suit the 10th…
skadi's got a nice ring to it, but i agree hel would be great. very apt.
lazarus isn't out of the question for this one either – it's got a nuts orbit just like sedna…
i quite like loki for this one, if it really is larger than pluto – the trickster, but required to bring about change. – by stargazypi
|quit bitchin (6:11pm est thu aug 04 2005)
all of yall need to quit bitching and complaining about this planet. it's a great discovery for our nasa ppl so they can go explore and find crap that doesn't matter. we will never see this stupid planet.. let alone any of the others. so quit griping about "the hacker made me feel sad" crap.. and just appreciate the information you received- hacker or no hacker… and the planet should be named "hacked". – by kelsey richardson
|just kidding! (7:33pm est thu aug 04 2005)
wait… it doesn't need to be named "hacked"… i looked up the definition of the roman god names and i believe now that the only satisfying name to everyone would be "ate", meaning "goddess of mischief". the planet was discovered and released due to a hacker mischief, right? it's perfect! i'm so freakin smart! :) – by kelsey richardson
|i got it.. (2:11pm est fri aug 05 2005)
what about morpheus?
morpheus was a greek deity, so you can keep the current naming-scheme.
he was the god of dreams – according to this description, "he lies on a dim lit bed in an ebony cave". sounds pretty appropriate for the new planet.
also, you have the hacker tie-in, with morpheus also being a character from the matrix.
i think it would be perfect.. – by mike
|name of 10thplanet (11:30pm est sat aug 06 2005)
dear sir,
the name of the 10th planet should be nabiru based on the summerian tablet. – by halimkarim
|the only problem is.. (1:39pm est tue aug 09 2005)
.. we have no idea if this planet(oid) is the same one the sumerians claim sideswiped the earth. which is why i'd avoid that name like the plague. i was under the impression it was a planet with moons they felt clunked the earth. (the notion of another planet thudding with the earth isn't that far-fetched – astronomers think it may be how earth got its moon.) – by mike
|the international astronomical union (2:25am est thu aug 11 2005)
1. "xena" was a joke. it was never intended as an actual suggestion.
2. i, too, like "goofy" or "mickey." "bob" would also have been good.
3. since we already have a planet called uranus, one suggestion was mianus. it has not met with favor with the international astronomical union, the bunch who will actually do the naming.
4. in any case, iau rules require that since it's a kuiper belt object that isn't a plutino (don't ask), it be named after some deity of creation. the iau is said by dr. brown to be in a graeco-roman mood. "apollo" or "minerva" might well get the nod.
5. it really *should* be called "bob," though. – by bob
|ok (2:20am est fri aug 12 2005)
1.) not all hackers are interested in trashing stuff. anyone who says they are is completely naive, and belongs in the early colonial witch burning days. they need to do some more research on the subject before they make blatant general statements that reinforce ill-informed stereotypes. it's the same as saying all people of the jewish faith are cheap. while some hackers do wrong, alot don't. it is a completely ridiculous thought that someone hacked this information with the intent to claim credit for it, that would so not work, it isn't even funny. as far as keeping this hidden for reasons of confirmation, that is also a retarded notion. all said astronomer would need to say is "hey we found something out there, we are pretty sure it's a planet, but not positive yet. either way it's pretty neat."
2. this has been common knowledge for almost 10,000 years if anyone knew where to look. ancient civilizations, who also discovered many other planets well before anyone modern "discovered" them, knew this planet existed, knew it's approximate relative size, and had it's orbit plotted. but noone will ever want to talk about that.
flame away, guys. – by atrijata
|what do you call (2:32am est fri aug 12 2005)
a person who forces his way into another person's or government's computer without that person's knowledge or permission for purposes of obtaining information?
a hacker.
what if that person is working for the united states government or state government or a police force or the nsa which not governed by any of these?
oh wait you mean that's different? that's ok?
what if that person is working for another government and doing it to a us citizen, or our own government?
what's that? that's wrong? act of war? now that is hypocrisy in action my friends. – by think about it
|10nth planet (9:28pm est sun sep 25 2005)
hey i'm very confused because they say they have a planet named sadna n another planet named quaor r they both the same n is very cold there – by mike
|tenth planet (9:35pm est tue oct 11 2005)
mike brown should have also released the proposed name when he relesed the information. it's so amazing how there are so many objects in space. there are probably a tons more of objects out there in the universe. what's also amazing is how these incredible microscopes can see so far. – by abe licoln=dead
|to kelsy richardson (9:39pm est tue oct 11 2005)
you better shut the hell up because its none of your buiseness – by sdfd
|dear hacker (9:47pm est tue oct 11 2005)
dear hacker,
please eat a cracker
you did us a favor
so let us give you a shavor
your name may be cupid
but we don't really care
because inside you're just really stupid – by dr. suess
|about the planet sadna (11:58am est tue feb 14 2006)
actually first i thought that there wont be any tenth planet but in our school they asked us to find the radius,gravity around the planetand it's density . so i logged on to many websites i was not able to find .let's see who finds it and when???
– by lakshmi @sudharshini
|amazing??!! (12:00am est tue mar 07 2006)
people are wondering if there is a 10th planet??!!the answer is absolutely yes its because the universe is very large and it only composed of 9 planets only?its to very imposible….20 yrs from now there were a new discovery about the 11th and 12th planet or shall i say new solar system. – by jayraine24
|name??? (12:04am est tue mar 07 2006)
i prefer to name the planet as "akbar" or my surname payag.plzzz – by bwahaha


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I know, I know. Ranting about, reflecting on, and rationalizing this year's Oscar nomination snubs is so last week. But as I ponder the selections in the acting categories, it occurs to me that this year, perhaps more so than any in the recent past, the Academy's choices all seem particularly slanted toward the straightforward: fine actors delivering dialogue well, if not especially inhabiting or transforming the material. In a year filled with top Hollywood talent—and a few critical darlings—delivering full-bodied, immersive performances in rather unorthodox roles, it's hard to not be disappointed that the Academy didn't take more risks in compiling their shortlists.
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Kerry King of Slayer Compares "The Big Four" to "The Expendables"
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Slayer guitarist Kerry King is quite happy about the Southern California location of America's one and only "Big Four" show on April 23.
"I live there so it's fucking hella easy for me," laughs the legendary axeman. Annihilating one of the biggest metal crowds that the United States has ever seen will also prove "easy" for King and his cohorts.
Slayer stand at the top of their game. 2009's World Painted Blood remains a landmark in their catalog, burning with a refined thrash violence that could only be honed via 30 years of experience in the studio and on the road. "Americon" bludgeons with a deafening groove, while the warp speed pummeling on "Snuff" was meant for war. These new cuts, as well as classics from Slayer's revered discography, always make for a "Hell" of a show, and that's precisely why their "Big Four" performance right before Metallica is bound to be a timeless one.
While in the midst of destroying Europe, Kerry King sat down with ARTISTdirect.com editor and Dolor author Rick Florino for an exclusive interview about "The Big Four" being like The Expendables, why "Devil" was actually pretty good, what's next for Slayer, and so much more…
"The Big Four"—Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax—hits Indio on April 23.
What does "The Big Four" mean to you?
It means, "I wish there were more!" [Laughs] I would love for it to pick up and be a touring entity and not just do a week in Europe. Obviously, one show in the United States is far from enough. That's my take on it. I'd even take two weeks in a row!
What was it about Southern California that fostered this type of heavy metal in the '80s?
It's hard to say because a lot of people think that the Bay Area is where it was at. That area had a great scene as well, but Metallica definitely imported themselves there. For us and Megadeth, you have the Metallica connection there. We all liked the European stuff. To this day, I'm a huge fan of early Venom. I think they probably shaped us more than anybody—except for maybe Judas Priest or Iron Maiden. We were all into the same thing. It was a little nucleus of people with the same ideas trying to get the same info because back then we were far from Internet [Laughs]. It was about going to a mom and pop store and seeing what kind of imported magazines or imported vinyl they had.
Did you share many of the same influences?
I knew Metallica and, of course, I played the first five Megadeth shows. Metallica and Slayer never really talked much though. We weren't buddies; we were acquaintances. Since "The Big Four" shows last summer, I consider them friends now because we actually got time to hang out, have food, have drinks, just be dudes, and not be talking about each other in the press. That was really cool. That was the biggest thing that I got from Europe. It was fun for me. Up until then, we did a show with Metallica back in the day at The Woodstock in Orange County. They might've been signed already, but we weren't. We've done a random festival here or there over thirty years. We finally got to do a proper "tour" with them, and it's really cool.
You each have your own thing in terms of thrash, but it works together.
Right now, but in the beginning it was a lot closer. It's like we all started out as some sort of beast that grew four heads, and every head is individual from the other [Laughs].
You've all grown immensely too.
I've definitely dissected Megadeth's last record, Endgame, because we've been touring with them so much. In the day of iPods, you don't have the CD anymore and you're not staring at the lyrics. I don't know any of the fucking titles, but they're playing a really cool song off the new album, and it's got a great guitar riff in it.
Is it more fun now than it was back in the day?
Probably! At this level, everything's handled for you. In the old days, we were still booking our own shows [Laughs].
How different will "The Big Four" setlist be?
It's hard to say because we came through the LA area at the Long Beach show and at the Gibson Amphitheatre. I've got to take into consideration what we played and give the California people something other to check out than they might have checked out this past summer. I've got to think about that. It's shorter than a Slayer set too; I think we're only playing 65 minutes.
You're right before Metallica, and there's no doubt you're going to give the crowd a good beating…
[Laughs] It's like beating them over the head with a sledgehammer.
Indio has had Coachella with all of the hippies and hipsters, but it's never been invaded by metalheads.
It's going to be awesome! The Spanish faction of our fans is just sick and insane. Being out there in the desert close to Arizona and Mexico, it's going to be crazy. Plus, I imagine there are people flying in from all parts of the country because it's the only "Big Four" show.
When did it you realize you'd be in Slayer as your career?
When I was 25-years-old, I didn't think I'd be doing it when I was 40. As your heroes get older and you see other people do it, you're like, "Man, I don't feel old." You get a different perspective on age when you get there, at least I do. I don't feel like I did when I was 20, but I certainly don't feel 46 either. Touring and the stage time keep me in shape. If I didn't drink, I'd be a little skinny bastard, but that's self-medicating to get you through the tour.
Have you been writing new music at all?
Not really, I've got a couple riffs married together. That's just me messing around though. I've definitely got things I want to accomplish with these riffs floating around in the back of my head. I tape them on my iPhone so I don't have to carry around a recording device. It's good enough to remember a moment in time. I don't care what it sounds like; I just have to remember where it is.
If "The Big Four" were a movie, what would it be?
The Expendables! [Laughs] It's just a big dude movie. It has all of the big action stars from when we first started. There's that connection. They blow up shit throughout the entire movie, and there's going to be all kinds of carnage when all of us play so I think it's perfect.
Which of The Expendables is Slayer?
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin, dude! He's just a fucking brawler!
As a movie fan, Insidious scared the living daylights of me.
Don't tell me! I'm gone too long and I can't see it [Laughs]. You know what I saw that I didn't expect to be good but I did like? Devil! I liked that one. It was really cool. I got the plugged pulled on me when we went on tour five weeks ago [Laughs].
—Rick Florino
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The ongoing fires along with weather conditions have forced Sunrise Park Resort to cancel its Fourth of July celebrations.
A statement from Sunrise Park Resort's Facebook page said the fireworks were canceled but other activities were still planned:
Do to Fires in the Rock Creek Area and in recognition of the current weather conditions, Sunrise will be cancelling the July 4th Fireworks Display over Sunrise Lake. The 3D Archery Shoot-Out will still be held on July 5th, 6th & 7th. Scenic Lift Rides will be available to all contestants and the general public.
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LeWitt meets his match in two strong exhibitions
Artist's abstractions find echoes at Gardner Museum, Harvard
LeWitt and Mozart. On the face of it, pairing them is ridiculous. Mozart's lush harmonies, his subtleties of tone, and his palette of musical emotions, from exuberance to grief, seem to have little to do with the geometric abstractions of a conceptual artist such as Sol LeWitt. Mozart makes you feel. LeWitt makes you think -- as you can see in two local exhibitions.
Yet the two artists have a good deal in common, and the fit they make together, with the deft and passionate contribution of flutist Paula Robison leading a quartet of chamber musicians, verges on the sublime.
Curator Pieranna Cavalchini of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum introduced LeWitt to Robison in the late 1980s. She has masterminded ''Variations on a Theme by Sol LeWitt and Paula Robison," in the museum's contemporary gallery.
The artist and the composer each use particular building blocks -- in Mozart's case, melody, harmony, and rhythm, and in LeWitt's, color, line, grid, and environment. Like architects, they erect structures with their blocks, each with a rare sense of nuance and a master's versatility. And each conveys instructions for how the work is to be executed. Mozart left scores. LeWitt gives oral and often written outlines to assistants, who produce the material art. This is one of LeWitt's hallmarks as a conceptual artist -- that the art is purely in the idea rather than in the mark of the artist's hand.
Step into the contemporary gallery, and it's clear LeWitt (with master drawer Takeshi Arita and local assisting artists April Gymiski and Reese Inman) has created a space that welcomes Mozart. Eight ropes of color snake and whip brightly over the gallery's walls. They tangle loosely in their rise and fall; they drop off the picture plane at floor and ceiling, then swoop back in. They'reclassic LeWitt, with the flat tones and clean lines of high modernism, but without the arch intellectualism some associate with modernism and conceptual art. Instead, there's roller-coaster-ride fun.
Robison and her quartet play once a day, at random hours that can be discovered ahead of time by checking the Gardner's website. She and LeWitt have chosen four Mozart flute quartets for ''Variations on a Theme." When I was there, the group played Mozart's Quartet in A major (K. 298).
Velvety tones filled the gallery. Particular lines of music seemed to coast along LeWitt's vivid lines of color -- the impassioned viola resonated, somehow, with the purple, the round tones of the flute with the blue. Themes overlapped and repeated themselves, just as the gestures on the wall twined and arched. A more representational work would have competed with the music's own narrative. LeWitt's exultant geometric abstraction is the perfect complement.
Off the 'Grids'LeWitt's strict formalism often leads well beyond the intellect. ''What appears rational has a mystical component," says Linda Norden, associate curator of contemporary art at the Harvard Art Museums and curator of ''Quantum Grids," a small LeWitt-inspired exhibit in the Carpenter Center's Sert Gallery.
''Quantum Grids" looks at four artists who start with a grid and go off in wildly different directions. LeWitt's 1978-'79 ''Four-Part Geometric Structure" sets five long, white panels parallel to one another on the floor, each supporting four geometric sculptural shapes chosen from an assortment of five. Each panel has a different sequence and array. There's a riddling logic to the piece; it compels you to search for meaning in its order, but there's no clear answer (perhaps there is to a mathematician or a code breaker). The meaning is in the search itself.
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, LeWitt's contemporary (they are both nearing 80), shows up here with one of her trademark paintings, ''Accretions II" (1967), in which the grid is so flowing and looping it resembles the scales on the skin of a coiled snake. The grid is more than just scaffolding upon which to hang a larger idea; it is in itself a twisting, spinning cosmos.
Cai Guo-Qiang and Fred Tomaselli, the other artists in the show, follow LeWitt and Kusama by a generation and layer social commentary over the grid. Cai, from China's Fujian province, a center of gunpowder production, uses the explosive as a medium to reflect on war and violence. ''The Century of Mushroom Clouds" (1996) features a chilling and oddly lovely grid of small explosions.
In ''Guilty," Tomaselli's grid mimics a sheet of LSD tabs, over which he has made a digital print of a New York Times front page clip from last March, reporting the fraud conviction of Worldcom chief Bernard Ebbers. The artist drew a wild, Mardi Gras-style mask over the photo of Ebbers and his wife. Like LeWitt, Tomaselli conjures the mystical with his grid, making pointed ties between hallucination and a real world no less bizarre. In the face of that, it's comforting to have something as basic as a grid to lean on.
Variations on a Theme by Sol LeWitt and Paula Robison
At: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, through Nov. 13. 617-566-1401, www.gardnermuseum.org
Quantum Grids: Cai Guo-Ciang, Yayoi Kusama, Sol LeWitt, and Fred Tomaselli
At: Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, through April 16. 617-495-9400, www.artmuseums.harvard.edu


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Can't Make Black Icing Black Enough
Baking By KerrieD Updated 21 May 2010 , 5:32pm by tony_sopranos_ebony_girl
I'm trying to make black icing and seem to keep adding Black Americolor gel but its only a very dark gray. (I started with chocolate buttercream)
In the past, I used Wiltons and used alot which then left a chemical/burnt taste so I guess I'm afraid of the same thing happening.
I'm using about 2 cups of the chocolate buttercream. How much color would it require...5 drops...half a bottle...or just till its "black"?
(Red is another tough color to achieve)
Let it sit overnight, it darkens
When I did my son's birthday cake in a black and white checkered flag, I did the same thing as you, starting with chocolate icing. I bought one tube of the Wilton pre made black and mixed it with about 2 cups of the chocolate and ta da! Nice and black with a good chocolately taste.
I just give it a squirt...........I've NEVER tasted anything chemical or bitter or ANY flavor at all from americolor gels and I've painted on cakes and cookies with gobs of it straight out of the bottle and there is NO flavor!
To make black I use wilton gels. Equal amounts of red, blue and green. I did this to color white fondant (mmf) black. It's in my pics (bee hive) - Works great!
Ursula40 - I purposely made it last night thinking the color would intensify and it was still dark gray. This morning I added a little more black color and I'm letting it sit until tonight when I'm ready to use it. I'll see if it got any darker. Hmmm we're thinking alike!
Chasey - I'm going to Michaels now and I'll pick up the Wilton black icing...just in case!
KHalstead - That's what I wanted to hear...No Taste! It says right on the Wilton bottle that using too much will give it an "aftertaste" (Not sure of their exact wording)
hynest - Good to know that "recipe" starting from white.
You could try using a ready made dark chocolate/fudge frosting and add black colour to it.
I suggest coloring the icing in smaller batches. I start with white icing and add the Americolor black to icing in a small bowl. It does take more black than other colors to achieve the desired color. However, I get the perfect black when coloring in smaller portions.
I add blue to my black and it really helps getting a truer black.
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Nokia launches X6, X3 and N97 mini at Nokia World 09Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Nokia World 09 in Stuttgart Germany is really heating up the fringing airways.
Earlier today Nokia announced "the launch of the new Nokia X6. Capable of playing up to 35 hours of music, the Nokia X6 is a powerful entertainment device, combining 32GB of on-board memory with a slick 3.2″ finger touch interface."
The hard working boys and girls at Nokia also announced the launch of the Nokia X3 which "is designed for music lovers and is the first Series 40 Ovi Store-enabled device. The Nokia X3 is a sleek and compact music device that comes with stereo speakers, built-in FM radio, and a 3.2 megapixel camera."
Both the X6 and X3 are sold as comes with music devices.
If that was not enough, Nokia further intorduced the Nokia N97 mini. The N97 mini "packs 8GB of storage, a 3.2-inch touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard into its 14.2mm thin frame."
These great new handsets from Nokia will soon be available and we can't wait to welcome them to the fring family.


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Taraji P. Henson tried the leather trend on for size at Chaka Khan's birthday party in NYC in a peplum top and flare skirt in the edgy texture, offset with a pair of $65 Wolford Cheetah Tights and $1,138 Givenchy Wedge Ankle Boots:
Her tights are a great way to uplift even the simplest look, covered in a feral cheetah print.
Her sold-out wedge ankle boots take on the fashion house's popular shaft styling with glossy leather and suede.
The leather peplum top doesn't do a thing for this look: a simple tee would have sufficed. Nevertheless, the tights and boots are hot and Taraji's hair and makeup are on point!
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When he stopped working in 2005, Sun City Center retiree Dan Tackitt thought his expectations for his retirement investments were perfectly reasonable.
"I said, 'If stocks can continue to do 7 percent, I'll be okay,' " he said. After all, as a former stockbroker, he knows stocks have returned an average of 11 percent a year for the past 50 years.
But averages don't offer much comfort when you're watching the balance drop in your account. "If it declines for another six months, I'm going to cut back dramatically," said Tackitt, who is 63.
Investors are feeling the pain of the current bear market rather acutely, with stocks off 19 percent from their October highs. But the problem is bigger than one bad year.
The 2000s are shaping up as the worst decade for stocks since the Great Depression. We may remember it as another lost decade.
Stocks have zigged and zagged and now are back where they started, weighed down by skyrocketing oil prices and mortgage market mayhem. If they don't recover by decade's end, they'll have an unusual 10-year loss.
If you look at every 10-year stretch in the past 80 years (researchers refer to these as rolling 10-year periods), stocks lost ground only about 3 percent of the time, according to Vanguard research.
If you're still in the mode of saving for retirement, the decade probably has felt worse than it's actually been for your portfolio's future. Because you're buying shares at lower prices, you're likely to come out ahead once stocks recover, assuming they do.
"I look at this for most investors as a decade of opportunity," said Bob Doyle, who heads Doyle Wealth Management in St. Petersburg. "This is a good time to start picking up those stocks that are on sale."
Of course, buying more stocks is about the last thing most investors want to do in a market like this one.
"When your losses start getting into tens of thousands, it's a wake-up call," said Largo CPA Scott Lamer, 43. While he's still adding to the stock funds in his retirement plan, he sold stocks in his taxable account and used the money to pay off his mortgage.
"You sneeze and the market goes down," he said. "But what do you put it in to make more money? If you start moving everything into nonrisk things, you don't make any money."
Extended periods of subpar returns are particularly damaging to investors in the early years of retirement. They have to sell more shares to produce the same retirement income. If they don't adjust withdrawals, they could run out of money.
"Whoever said your expenses are less when you retire was wrong," said Kenneth Kastor, 72, of Seminole, who retired last year as a appliance repairman. He said he won't give up on stocks entirely, but he is thinking about moving to 50 percent cash.
"I want to stop as much bleeding as I can," he said. "Do I have enough time to wait five, six, seven, eight years and let it work itself back up again?"
T. Rowe Price ran computer models to see what would have happened to someone who retired Jan. 1, 2001, with a portfolio 55 percent in stocks and 45 percent in bonds, and who planned to follow a typical withdrawal strategy — withdrawing 4 percent the first year of retirement and increasing the dollar amount each year by the rate of inflation. At a bear market bottom in 2002, the plan's odds of success would have dropped dramatically. But simply stopping the annual inflation adjustment for a year or two would have restored a high probability of success. The worst possible scenario: switching to 100 percent bonds at the bear market bottom.
"Your first instinct is to protect whatever you've got left, so you sell out of your stocks and stock funds when they're low," said Christine Fahlund, senior financial planner with T. Rowe Price. "But to have a 4 percent withdrawal rate, you've got to have some exposure to the equity market. That's the only way you're going to grow the portfolio."
Clearwater financial planner Ray Ferrara, president of ProVise Management Group, said very few people actually run out of money; they change their lifestyle instead. They cut back on vacations, eating out and visiting the grandchildren.
"Running out of money is often more about perception than about reality," he said. Ferrara says it's important to understand the risks involved in stocks and then to take the least amount of risk needed to support the lifestyle you want.
Working a few additional years also can make a dramatic difference in the viability of your retirement plan. For those still working, Ferrara says, "the three magic words are 'save, save, save.' "
Helen Huntley can be reached at [email protected] or (727) 893-8230.


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Egypt's Foreign Minister Mohammed Hassan el-Zayyat believes that a psychological moment for peace has arrived in the Middle East and should be seized despite the apparent difficulties. The visiting diplomat from Cairo made that remark at a luncheon given in his honor yesterday by Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home and at several meetings with news men since his arrival here Sunday.
He reportedly told Sir Alec that Egypt was looking to Britain and the Western European countries united in the Common Market to make a decisive contribution to Middle East peace. Zayyat, who served for two years as Egypt's Ambassador to the United Nations before he was named Foreign Minister by President Anwar Sadat earlier this month, is regarded as a diplomat with leanings toward the West. His predecessor, Foreign Minister Murad Ghaleb who was fired by Sadat, was regarded as closer to Moscow where he had served as Egypt's Ambassador for ten years.
Responding to Zayyat's remarks at the luncheon, Sir Alec observed that some progress had been made toward peace in the Mideast in the last few years and hinted that it was now up to Israel to carry that progress forward. Sir Alec said that Egypt has publicly accepted a commitment to peace which included the idea of demilitarized zones and UN guarantees. Premier Golda Meir of Israel has re-stated Israel's willingness to negotiate a withdrawal in advance of a final settlement, Sir Alec said.
He added, "I hope that it may be possible for Israel to go further and say that she does not desire to annex Egyptian soil, though she would require adequate arrangements in Sinai to safeguard her security. Such a statement could unlock the door to a settlement." Sir Alec stressed implementation of Security Council Resolution 242 of Nov. 22,1967 and called for "every government to outlaw terrorism."
The Israeli Embassy welcomed Sir Alec's stress on action against terrorism and his call for a peace settlement preceded by communications between both sides. In a statement issued today, the Embassy said Israel was seeking an agreed peace settlement and secure borders but was also willing to negotiate an interim settlement including a measure of withdrawal in advance of a final settlement. But first Egypt must renounce its support of terrorism, the Embassy said.
The Egyptian visitors disclosed here that the Soviet military personnel ousted from Egypt by President Sadat last summer took with them their SAM-3 and some of their SAM-2 anti-aircraft missile batteries. They said the SAM-2s left behind were not accurate and were not provided with ammunition or spare parts. The Egyptians say they are seeking mainly defensive weapons here. British sources have reiterated several times that British policy is not to do anything that would disturb the military balance in the Mideast.


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GAINESVILLE - The Gainesville City Council met in regular session Tuesday night just as the polls for the General Election were closing, and two commissioners expressed their dismay in what turned out to be an extremely low turnout for a municipal election.
Councilwoman Myrtle Figueras told fellow council members she had hoped for a better response at the polls, especially since this was the first time Gainesville voters elected a mayor. (Historically, elected council members have rotated to serve in the mayor's post.)
"It does really dishearten me because so few people will choose to go vote." said Figueras. "That bothers me drastically."
Four people ran for mayor in the first-ever contested race and 1,850 registered voters out of 13,814 cast ballot - a 13.4% turnout. Danny Dunagan, a former city councilman who has served in the mayor's post, won the election with almost 62% of the votes.
Councilman George Wangemann said he wished the mayor's election was the same year as statewide or national elections.
"I can just about guarantee that you'd see the numbers of people who vote go way up if you had the city elections in the even-numbered years."
Wangemann pointed out that state law sets municipal elections during the "off-year," and it would take a move of the state legislature to get things aligned differently.
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Why Should the Church Care About Reaching Men?
I was interviewed the other day by a newspaper reporter on the topic of men and the Church. She mentioned the statistics about how men are leaving the Church or not attending church in the first place and then asked, "Why does it matter? Why should the Church care about reaching men?" The essence of the question was: If men don't want to go to church, so what? It wasn't asked negatively. The reporter followed up with great questions. But the initial question had that undertone of why should the Church try to reach men if men don't want to be reached by the Church? Perhaps a better sense of the question was this: Why should men go to church? What difference does it make for them? What difference does it make for the Church?
My initial response (which I didn't verbalize) was: If the statistics were reversed and women were dropping out of church, we wouldn't ask, "Why does it matter?" The first question or two would probably be: "Why is that happening and what do you think the Church needs to do about it?" It would be seen as a major crisis for the Church.
My first verbal reply was that it had to do with the message of the Gospel and the Christian belief that God's grace is for everyone, male and female. We believe that Jesus comes to call all of us to follow him; that life is found in him. So we want men and women to hear that message and follow Jesus through the local congregation.
My follow up answer had to do with men and culture. Men without a vision for good, noble manhood tend to end up either violent or passive. I talked about the fact that over 90% of those in prison are men; how almost every day we read a story about another man doing harm to others. Or we see passive men: giving up on fatherhood, their wives, living lives focused on Fantasy leagues and 24-hour-a-day sports and video games (at the risk of over-stereotyping.) With fewer and fewer young men attending and graduating from college, with no strong skills for liveable wages, these passive and/or violent men will be a huge burden on society.
The Church can offer men a vision for good manhood. Jesus not only models that manhood but calls men into it, forges it in them, and empowers them to live it out.
In other words, the Church should care about reaching men because society needs good men—men who are good husbands, dads, employers, employees, citizens, and churchmen. When the Church gets it right (and that's another issue) the Church can offer a compelling vision for that kind of manhood that, over time, can help build a better society.
Why should the Church care about reaching men? Because the world needs good men. Because Jesus can forge men into good men. And because Jesus died and rose again to empower men to be good men.


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Utah firm wants Italian isotopes
The Northwest Compact just turned down Energy Solutions' proposal to bury some of Italy's nuclear waste in the fair state of Utah. Why is that important? Because it's going to set off serious fireworks of drama this summer. Just you wait. Here's the back story: Last fall, EnergySolutions a nuclear waste disposal company that's been accused of some shady dealings in the past, applied with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license to import 20,000 tons of low-level nuclear waste (LLW) from Italy for burial in their nuclear waste dump in Clive, Utah. LLW isn't the bubbling containers of green …


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The Mirror reports The X Factor's Simon Cowell was so concerned about the break-up of One Direction's Harry Styles and Taylor Swift hurting the sales of One Direction in the US, that he forced Harry to reach out to her and clear the air.
According to a source: "Harry still really likes Taylor but, like anyone who has gone through a break-up, he's found it difficult to speak to his ex. After flying back to the UK, Harry's been trying to figure things out and in order to do that he decided to initially avoid her calls. Simon gave Harry a friendly warning that any animosity between him and Taylor could jeopardise One Direction's popularity in the US. They're two of the world's biggest music stars, and Simon knew that, although things didn't work out between them, they were bound to meet at various events and awards ceremonies. Harry spoke to Taylor on the phone while on a trip to Ghana with the One Direction boys this week for Comic Relief. Taylor was keen to meet face to face and talk things through but Harry felt there was nothing left to be said. Plus the boys' schedule meant it wouldn't have been possible as they were due to fly to Japan. Harry told Taylor he didn't hold grudges and hoped things wouldn't be awkward when they saw each other. Taylor seemed to listen but insisted there were still things they needed to discuss. The air has been cleared between them… and they're due to see each other at next month's Brit Awards, although friends think Taylor may pull out."


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A Journey into Steinbeck's California by Susan Shillinglaw shows readers how towns like Monterey and Salinas influenced the author of The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row.
Of Mice and Men, according to the author of A Journey into Steinbeck's California, 'is, perhaps, the book that makes readers out of more high school students than any other.' Known for classic novels like The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, East of Eden, The Pearl and The Winter of Our Discontent, as well as some great non-fiction includingTravels with Charley, A Russian Journal and Once There Was a War, John Steinbeck was a worthy winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
The author of A Journey into Steinbeck's California, Susan Shillinglaw, knows her subject intimately. As well as being Professor of English at San Jose State University, she is the Scholar in Residence at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas. John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, and lived in various places throughout the state which influenced his writing so much.
Shillinglaw traces Steinbeck's personal and literary journey through California, and while this is in no way an in-depth biography of one of America's favorite authors, the reader gets to know Steinbeck in a more personal and intimate way. The book is fully illustrated throughout, and we get to see Steinbeck's houses, the view through his window, see the landscapes he saw, the places he worked, meet his wives and his friends.
A Journey into Steinbeck's California is no dry academic study or biography, but a warm portrait of a man by someone who has the ability to see California through his eyes, to show us its influences on him, and to recreate the times in which he lived.
Steinbeck isn't particularly thought of as an author who turned his life into fiction, but his works like The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Of Mice and Men and especially Cannery Row did come out of the writer's personal life and his loves and friendships. In these pages we meet the characters who inspired him – personally as well as creatively in his work. 'With Steinbeck,' writes Shillinglaw, 'we can pay attention to the slant of afternoon light, catch some of the region's layered past, and get a glimpse of small human stories tucked into inland valleys.'
It's those glimpses of 'small human stories' which make Steinbeck such a great writer, whose work will last longer than many of his contemporaries who were more interested in shouting about their own lives than in quietly describing the lives of other people. To Steinbeck ordinary people were extraordinary.
Susan Shillinglaw is a skilful and evocative writer herself. 'Steinbeck,' she writes, 'never again lived in the Salinas Valley once he left home at age seventeen. But the smells and sounds and sights of his home valley never left him.' For those of his readers who have not yet visited Steinbeck's California, this book in the impressive ArtPlace series from Roaring Forties Press is the next best thing.
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It's easy to miss the amendments in Luke Zeller's three-point shot.
It's about more than moving one foot in reverse to fit college basketball's expanded arc.
After a summer tuning his long range game, sometimes getting off 800 attempts per day, Zeller's form features a subtle shift that may pay a dramatic dividend for Notre Dame this season. Instead of using the senior as a last resort from distance, Zeller may find himself higher up the food chain.
In Notre Dame's 94-58 rout of USC Upstate on Sunday night at the Joyce Center, the 6-foot-11, 245-pound senior connected on 4-of-6 three-point shots and finished with a career high 18 points in just 19 minutes. Instead of taking a three simply because he was open, Zeller had the look of a player shooting because he knew he'd make it.
"I think every shot he gets off is going in right now, that's how he's played in practice," said head coach Mike Brey. "I'm shocked when he misses."
Zeller connected on barely 30 percent of his three-pointers during Big East play last season, making 16-of-52 attempts. If his opening act is any indication, he'll more than double that production this season.
As much as practice has helped push Zeller closer to perfect, confidence may be the biggest bump in his game even if he won't admit it. The former McDonald's All-American no longer looks over his shoulder for a quick hook.
The Irish lost just one starter from last season in Rob Kurz, but that opening fits Zeller perfectly. When Brey met with Zeller after last season he predicted a strong senior year in the brief sitdown. There was no need for over-analysis, a sporting crime of which Zeller has been guilty during his career.
"Sometimes he second guesses himself before he shoots it, he thinks about it and it throws him off," said point guard Tory Jackson. "Don't think, just shoot it."
That showed in the final seconds of the first half last weekend when Zeller took a Jackson pass and drained a three-pointer as time expired. Instead of the Spartans entering the locker room within shouting distance they went in down 44-33. The Irish opened the second half on a 15-2 run to blow the game open.
Zeller claims there's no secret to his potential success.
"It's just a lot of hard work," Zeller said. "There's not really any mental part to it, it's just a lot of hard work, a lot of repetitions. I'd like to be able to shoot 1,000 if I can, it just depends on how much time I've got and how I'm feeling.
"I just go in, knock it down. I just do my job."
But there's no doubt Zeller appears more qualified for that work. He admits there's a change in his three-point technique, even if he can't fully explain it.
"It's not something you really notice overnight, but over the course of time it definitely feels comfortable," he said. "(The coaches) see the same thing. I guess you're noticing, I guess that counts."


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Japanese Mini-LP with obi-trip.
This 1961 date is another greasy serving of Lou Donaldson's alto sax soul-funk, though not exactly his most memorable. Highlighted by the slow-rolling vamp of "Gravy Train" (located at the slinky intersection of Bobby Timmons' "Moanin'" and his own "Blues Walk" from 1957), Donaldson is backed by a tight band including familiar face Herman Foster on piano (who provided the swinging vamps on "Blues Walk"), another long-time Donaldson regular, drummer Dave Bailey, and big-toned bassist Ben Tucker. The Latin-flavored "South of the Border" and swinging "Avalon" get a slight boost from the extra percussion Alec Dorsey's congas provide, but the pace remains in the mid-tempo range throughout, with the exception of the treacle-piece "Polka Dots and Moonbeams." Donaldson tries to imbue it with a little soul grit, but the melody remains too precious and predictable and the altoist's attempts fall short. He has more luck with the gentle swing of "Candy," and closes the 9-minute-plus piece with a lengthy solo that picks up heat and intensity as he nears the finish, clean long lines eventually slipping into glissando flurries and runs packed with fresh ideas. The record closes with "Twist Time," another bouncy blues (Foster swings hard with his solo), and a rather pedestrian take on the equally pedestrian mid-tempo blues, "Glory of Love." Not Donaldson's greatest record, but enough here to still recommend it.
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