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|Written by Hank Tolman
|Tuesday, 29 November 2011
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DX10: 3DMark Vantage
3DMark Vantage is a PC benchmark suite designed to test the DirectX10 graphics card performance. FutureMark 3DMark Vantage is the latest addition the 3DMark benchmark series built by FutureMark corporation. Although 3DMark Vantage requires NVIDIA PhysX to be installed for program operation, only the CPU/Physics test relies on this technology.
3DMark Vantage offers benchmark tests focusing on GPU, CPU, and Physics performance. Benchmark Reviews uses the two GPU-specific tests for grading video card performance: Jane Nash and New Calico. These tests isolate graphical performance, and remove processor dependence from the benchmark results.
3DMark Vantage GPU Test: Jane Nash
Of the two GPU tests 3DMark Vantage offers, the Jane Nash performance benchmark is slightly less demanding. In a short video scene the special agent escapes a secret lair by water, nearly losing her shirt in the process. Benchmark Reviews tests this DirectX-10 scene at 1680x1050 and 1920x1200 resolutions, and uses Extreme quality settings with 8x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering. The 1:2 scale is utilized, and is the highest this test allows. By maximizing the processing levels of this test, the scene creates the highest level of graphical demand possible and sorts the strong from the weak.
3DMark Vantage GPU Test: New Calico
New Calico is the second GPU test in the 3DMark Vantage test suite. Of the two GPU tests, New Calico is the most demanding. In a short video scene featuring a galactic battleground, there is a massive display of busy objects across the screen. Benchmark Reviews tests this DirectX-10 scene at 1680x1050 and 1920x1200 resolutions, and uses Extreme quality settings with 8x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering. The 1:2 scale is utilized, and is the highest this test allows. Using the highest graphics processing level available allows our test products to separate themselves and stand out (if possible).
It may be better to just swallow the $30 or so dollars and pay up for a 570. On the plus side, this will probably force retailers to offer people a reason to buy a 570, so it may actually bring the 570 and AMD's 6950 down in price a bit.
The reason why I asked was because a friend of mine is looking for a replacement GPU for his old HD 4870. I'm at a bit of a conflict on what advice to give him. A 580 or 6970 is probably out of his budget, barring a major Christmas discount.
I myself own the 560TI Hawk, and if I were to get a card today, it'd be another one.
The other variable is that the new generation of cards is around the corner, which makes things a bit more debatable. I told him to see if he could get a good Christmas deal - else, wait it out if he could.
Link for bit-tech review:
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This card freakin ROCKS!! i put it in a kinda old system that was getting a best score of 7706 from 3DMark06 to a 10110 score with only one of these cards compared to my old SLi set up!
mine currently OCs to a very stable 950 core 1900 shader and 2010 memory speed and stayed below 55 deg Cel with fans @ 60% durring 3DMark06 benchmark.
Cant wait to see my score once i get a 2nd card in SLi and my new Asus MoBo and i5 2500k CPU in a couple weeks! i will post on here and give an update once i do.


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SHOPPERS will have a treat in store when Jenny Whelan holds her annual table top stall at Knutsford's Booths supermarket.
This year in addition to jewellery and a collection of paperweights, she also has a selection of vintage Barbie dolls, all in mint condition and boxed.
Jenny said: "Once again I have been overwhelmed by the generosity of people to enable me to hold the stall, the proceeds of which will go to my charity, East Cheshire Hospice.
"I would also like to take the opportunity of thanking Booths supermarket, and look forward to the all-day sale on Thursday, November 22."
Jenny said any items left over will be available to view at her home at 5 Beeston Drive, Knutsford on Friday, November 23, between 11am and 2pm.
- For further details please phone Jenny on 01565 632895.

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Thanks to Tom, and Richard for the advice. I will build an index against the expression. I thought of a third possible solution. What I forgot to mention was that the query was part of a pl/pgsql function, and that the client only accesses the database through server side functions. So I have the ability to break the start column into start_date and start_time columns as long as I concatenate the two on the return value. However the advice of creating an index against the expression is more elegant, and less intrusive on the existing database. --- David Gardner, IT The Yucaipa Companies (310) 228-2855 -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 6:29 PM To: David Gardner Cc: Novice Postgresql-list Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Index on timestamp fields David Gardner <David(dot)Gardner(at)yucaipaco(dot)com> writes: > I have a timestamp without timezone field in one of my tables that is used = > in the where clause of one of my queries: > WHERE date_trunc('day',"backupReports"."start") = current_date If you can change the query, it'd be better/more efficient to spell this as WHERE "backupReports"."start"::date = current_date Either way, you need to build an index on the expression, not just the raw column, to make this search fast. regards, tom lane
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Anyone here see this movie?
Obligated to see this w/ my bosses this evening. I really don't go to the movies too much. Last movie I've seen in the theater was Wall Street 2.
Just want to know if it's good or not.
Money well spent.
I strongly recommend this movie to any guy w/ a set. The acting was ok but you really can't expect much from actual Navy Seals.


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Here's how I think we're actually going to solve the productivity/procrastination problem.
I'm a person with the problem:
Hi, my name is Visa and I'm a horrible procrastinator. I've procrastinated all my life. I played a lot of video games. I can spend hours on social media, Twitter, Tumblr, you have it. I enjoy those things, they get me off. I can spend hours arguing with people online, because that gets me off, too. Unfortunately, I've never really been able to commit to working consistently at things that matter to me. My progress as a musician has been slow, shaky, and in pathetic bursts. The thing I do best is writing, and this comes from a childhood of severe book addiction… and lots of arguing on the internet.
I've tried the solutions and they all suck (for me):
I have some things I feel very strongly about. I've tried many, many productivity apps. They all suck for me. I don't know if they work for you, but they suck for me. See, the thing about Pomodoro is… I click on one or two, and then I stop clicking. I get distracted and I stay distracted. To-do lists don't work for me. I either make massive lists that I don't get through, or whatever. I've tried keeping a calendar and scheduling stuff, but that doesn't work for me, either.
My problem is a lot more fundamental. It's deep-rooted, pathological. I need help that no other human being can provided, perhaps not even myself. I need the power and force of something relentless to keep me focused on the things that matter, while not allowing me to weasel my way out of things.
I think some dating sites have partially figured this out.
I was looking through a couple of dating sites today. I'm happily married, but I was studying social media (the resulting blogpost: What Is Social Media?) and trying to make sense of how to define it. In particular, I was curious about the pub/sub dynamics on dating sites.
I noticed something interesting. On Nerve.com and HowAboutWe.com, the sites attempt to game/modify your behaviour by getting you to come up with little bits of content that get published. They prompt you. What did you do last night? They prompt you. What books have you read? You start thinking, oh, golly. I better read an intelligent-sounding book so I can make an intelligent-sounding comment and snag myself an intelligent-sounding partner.
Wait-a-damn-second. Prompts affect thought. Control your thoughts and you control your actions, your destiny. Prompts modify behaviour. Prompts are the answer. I need to be constantly, incessantly reminded of what I'm interested in, what I'm excited about. I can't ask my friends or loved ones to do this for me, that's just a little pathetic. But maybe I could build something that did it for me. Maybe I could have an app or some sort of routine where I'm forced to build something, level up something.
Periodical Prompts To Solve Procrastination
Something that asked me every 30 minutes, what the hell are you doing with your life? How are you getting from where you are to where you want to go? What little action have you taken towards your dreams? Have you done [your 1000 words] today? What do you care about? What's one little thing you could do to feel beter right now? What's the last thing you did to [get fitter]?
That's what I need. I need a constant stream of prompts reminding me to breathe, to sit taller, to write a blogpost, to meet somebody interesting. When was the last time you met somebody interesting? When was the last time you had a great conversation with someone? When was the last time you felt inspired? When was the last time you read a good book? Prompt me. Prompt me, damn it.
The problem with to-do lists… is that they're trying to help me fill a bucket. A bucket of things I'm supposed to do. This doesn't make sense at all. When I'm in the zone, I don't need a to-do list. I'm writing this like crazy when I'm on fire because I saw something earlier (I was on a dating site, thinking about social media), and then I read a few lines from Founders at Work while having a coffee downstairs, and then I was thinking about productivity and procrastination (a lifelong addiction and anxiety for me).
I don't need something to help me fill buckets better. I need something to set me on fire.
Somebody please direct me to something that systematically, periodically reminds me (or gets me to remind myself) of what I care about, what's important, what I ought to get pissed off by, what ought to put my ass to work.
The nitty gritty to-do list is like giving me a list of monsters I need to kill. I don't kill monsters because they're neatly ordered in a list. I kill them because I want to build my hero into someone amazing, and because I want the glory of conquest, the treasure at the end. THAT's what I need to be reminded of. I need to be reminded of what's at stake. Put me in a state regularly, like that, and I'll be the most productive bastard you know.
If somebody can build this for me, I'd pay $100 for it. Hell, give me a free trial for a month, and if it works, I'll pay you $100/month for it.
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." – Willam Butler Yeats
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Build me something that lights fires, not fills pails. Don't drum me up to collect wood, make me long for the sea. Force me to say it. Make me say that I'm choosing to spend time clicking through tumblr instead of building my dreams.
I don't care if I don't get the credit for this or whatever, I just hope this idea is useful to somebody. Cheers and love. It's back to work for me.
EDIT: Hello, HN! Several people have been asking me if I'm serious about the $100! Wasn't expecting this to catch on, but here's what I'm going to do- I'm going to try out every solution that people send or suggest, and I'll document it in my blog, and I'll paypal the $100 to whomever's solution works best for me. 🙂
Here's a followup non-directed rambly blogpost
"I designed the book to raise the energy level of the reader without the reader knowing that's the plan. If I succeeded, which is an admittedly rare situation, readers will simply feel good while reading it. And that energy can be useful for whatever you hope to achieve in life."" – Scott Adams, describing something I'd call firelighting. I experienced similar things from reading Carl Sagan's autobiography. I think I need to make a list.
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In this short article and film Andy talks about his latest work: a set of over 100 special bits of artwork that he has created to accompany special editions of the DVD of the film. The artwork will be on show at the Kendal Mountain Festival.
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No time to party for Mariners in A-League
With the premiers' plate wrapped up, Central Coast coach Graham Arnold has challenged the Mariners to show in the A-League finals they really are a better side than Brisbane Roar this season.
In a repeat of last season, the competition powerhouses resume their ever-growing rivalry in the first leg of the major semi-final at Suncorp Stadium on Saturday night.
While the Roar were hot favourites then after a season of domination, the tables have turned in 2011/12 after the Mariners sealed the minor premiership with a 2-1 win over Wellington on Sunday.
Arnold and his charges have barely had time to celebrate the feat and the coach has urged his players to quickly switch their focus to going one better than their heart-breaking grand-final defeat last season.
"I can only commend the players for what they've done over 27 rounds, but finals is a totally different ball game," Arnold said on Wednesday.
"We want them to refocus. It (finals) is a four-week comp against the six best teams in the league and we need to show why we are the best team in the league this year.
"It all starts on Saturday with our great rivalry with Brisbane and, fortunately, we've got 22 players that are fit. We are confident and happy and healthy."
While the Mariners thrived on their underdog status in 2010/11, Arnold denied they would be feeling the pinch of being competition frontrunners this time.
"I don't think there's more pressure - there's nothing between us," Arnold said.
"It gets down to who performs best on the day and who takes their chances.
"... Obviously they wanted to hold on to (the) plate and be (the) first team in history to go back-to-back so they'll want to come out on Saturday at home and try and make a point.
"We've proven in two years that we are definitely up there with them. We've been as consistent as they have been and it should be great game."
While Arnold has stressed the Mariners quickly moved on from the disappointment of last year's grand-final defeat, teenager striker Bernie Ibini admitted the players have not forgotten it.
"There's always going to be a little bit of disappointment there, so it gives you that bit of motivation to go that one further this time," Ibini said.
"I think it's more equal this year. With the run Brisbane had last year, it made them look a bit invincible but definitely it's a more level playing field now."
The match comes amid a heavy playing schedule for both sides due to Asian Champions League commitments.
While Arnold expressed concerns over the schedule earlier this year, he felt two recent draws in the ACL had helped play the Mariners back into form ahead of the finals.
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The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia invites you to save Sunday, Nov. 4, for a very special Evening with Jay Leno, when our most dedicated Jewish community members can stand up and be counted, while enjoying the very best in stand-up comedy.
Just two days before this year's presidential election, the event will provide the rare opportunity to get an in-person, world-class-comedic perspective on the election and the candidates.
The evening, to be held at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown in Center City Philadelphia, will begin with a dessert reception and also feature the presentation of Federation's Community Leadership Award to Stephen B. Klein for his outstanding philanthropy.
Leno is an acclaimed TV late night show host, admired stand-up comedian, best-selling children's book author, in-demand corporate speaker, TV and movie voice-over artist, pioneering car builder and mechanic, as well as a philanthropist.
Leno's late night television ratings domination has included 15 years as host of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in which he won every consecutive quarter during that period. Since resuming hosting the 11:35 p.m. program, he has made it once again the consistent ratings leader for late night, surpassing all of the most recent quarters. In the process, he has been honored by the Television Academy with an Emmy for "Outstanding Comedy, Variety or Music Series." The Tonight Show has also taken home the trophy for "Favorite Late Night Show" in the annual TV Guide Awards determined by voting viewers.
Leno has also succeeded in the online entertainment arena. "Jay Leno's Garage" — at Jaylenosgarage.com — has gained an international following on the Web, not to mention an Emmy Award and two additional nominations for Outstanding Special Class–Short-Format Nonfiction Programs. Leno produces the NBC creation with Robert Angelo.
Leno loves to test his humor live on audiences across the nation, performing over 100 appearances in nightclubs, theaters and stadiums each year.
In addition to bringing together the community to enjoy Jay Leno and honor Stephen B. Klein, the evening will raise vital funds for the most pressing needs in the Jewish community. A minimum individual gift of $500 to Federation's 2013 Campaign is required to attend this event. The funds raised will help to meet local Jewish community members' basic needs; engage local children, families, college students and young adults in Jewish life and learning; and strengthen Israel and our communities connections to our Jewish homeland.
This event is being sponsored by Blank Rome.
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Regis Philbin and Fast Money's Guy Adami, or as Regis calls him, "the guy who has the stare," were spotted having dinner at Campagnola on Manhattan's upper East Side last night.
This morning on their show, Regis and Kelly talked about the dinner and the stare.
Kelly: "Why was I not included so I could Tweet pictures of the two of you staring at each other?"
Regis: "I swear to god, the middle of the evening, he stopped talking, and I looked up. And he was staring at me!"
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A driver was injured Saturday morning after the vehicle he was driving struck a utility pole on Ocean Heights Avenue in Hamilton Township, police said.
Sgt. Joe Guerrier said the accident happened at about 7:15 a.m. about a quarter mile from the intersection of Somers Point-Mays Landing Road.
There was no damage to the pole and one lane was closed for about 30 minutes.
The driver, whose name has not been released, was transported to a hospital with unknown injuries.
No one else was in the vehicle.
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After graduating from Queen Margaret University Edinburgh with a Master of Arts degree in Arts and Cultural Management, Annika worked in ticketing and box office management for the Festivals Edinburgh Momentum Programme and Underbelly Ltd at Edinburgh's Christmas and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Most recently she has worked with Rare Management Ltd on delivering events such as the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Fort William.


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The Smith will be the place to be this weekend for anglers looking to get in some late-season steelhead action. According to reports, the river is full of fish, including a bunch of bright, hatchery steelhead. And the DIDSON fish counts appear to be confirming these reports. According to Zack Larson of the Smith River DIDSON Study, the preliminary count of adult steelhead passing the Smith River DIDSON station from March 9 through March 19 was 554 upstream fish and 180 downstream fish. The season total of net upstream adult fish passing the station (Chinook/Coho/steelhead) from October 1, 2011 through March 19 is 32,059. "During the last few weeks we've observed an increase in numbers of fish migrating downstream, which are very likely to be steelhead kelts. But there's still a large number of steelhead in the system, and combine those with the fish still coming in - there's plenty of good fishing to come," Larson added. The DFG Fisheries Restoration Grants Program, Steelhead Fishing Report and Restoration Card, and Smith River Alliance fund the DIDSON Study.
Abalone season opens April 1
Abalone season will open on Sunday, April 1 along the North Coast from the San Francisco Bay north. John Corbett of Eureka's Pacific Outfitters passed along a few helpful hints as well as the 2012 regulations for breath-hold divers.
Season and times: The season runs from April 1st through November, excluding the month of July. Diving is legal from 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunrise.
What you'll need:
1) Fishing license (not required for 15 years old and younger)
2) Abalone report card (must be in your possession while diving. Also required for those 15 years or younger)
3) Fixed caliper measuring device
Limit and size restrictions: Three per day, three in possession and no more than 24 per year. Must be seven inches or larger. You must keep any legal abalone you pull from a rock and if it is not legal, you must stick it back on the same rock from where it came. Only your hand or a legal abalone iron can be used to pry them from the rocks.
General regulations: As soon as you get out of the water or step foot in a boat, you must tag your abalone. The tag needs to go through the siphon holes and held together with some type of string or zip tie. The shell cannot be removed until preparation begins for cooking or eating.
Best places: Russian Gulch area in Mendocino County and Shelter Cove.
For more information, visit www.dfg.ca.gov/marine/invertebrate/abalone.asp
Surfperch tourney coming in April
The Samoa Peninsula Fire District will be hosting their 3rd Annual Perch'n on the Peninsula Surfperch Fishing Tournament and BBQ fundraiser on April 21. This is a fun-filled family oriented fishing event that benefits the Samoa Peninsula Fire Districts Volunteer organization. The tournament and BBQ will be held at the Peninsula Elementary School, 909 Vance Ave. Samoa, (directly across the street from the Samoa Cookhouse). Entry donation for the tournament is $20 and you must register before going fishing. If you pre-register you will not be required to check in at the elementary school prior to going fishing on tournament day. Pre-registration is available at Mad River Tackle, Pacific Outfitters, Englund Marine, Grundman's Sporting Goods or by contacting Charlie at 707-499-7088. Tournament day registration will be available at the elementary school in Samoa beginning at 6 am.
Salmon Fishery Management Alternatives meeting reminder
There is a public hearing on Tuesday, March 27 at the Red Lion in Eureka. The meeting will start at 7 p.m. and the Council will hear comments from the public on the proposed ocean salmon fishery management alternatives adopted.
The Rivers:
Chetco River
The rain has once again put the Chetco on the rise reports guide Val Early of Early Fishing Guide Service. "We've had some pretty good rain the last couple days and the river is high and muddy. I'm hoping we'll be able to get on the water towards the end of next week and get a few days in before the season ends," Early added.
Smith River
According to guide Mike Coopman of Mike Coopman's Guide Service, the Smith fished really well early in the week before it blew out on Wednesday. "There were a lot of fish around on Monday and Tuesday and the few boats that were on the river were doing well. There are still lots of fresh fish around, including some nice hatchery fish. It's been an amazing year already, and the fish just seem to keep coming. Once the river drops back into shape this weekend, the fishing should be fantastic." Coopman said.
Eel River (main stem)
Paul Grundman of Rio Dell's Grundmans Sporting Goods reports the main stem Eel is starting to turn, but there's still too much water. "The color is changing ever so slightly, and I'm thinking it may be fishable by early next week," said Grundman. "A lot will depend on how much rain and snowmelt we get the next few days."
Eel River (South Fork)
The South Fork in the Benbow area was fishable as of Wednesday reports Darren Brown of Brown's Sporting Goods in Garberville. "The section above the East Branch was green and below it was just starting to turn. The Miranda area was still dirty, but just a few days away from fishable if we don't get more rain," Brown added.
Van Duzen
According to Grundman, the Van Duzen is still running high, mostly likely due to the snowmelt. "It will be a little while before it drops back in," Grundman said.
Mad River
Gary Blasi of Mad River Bait, Tackle & Guide Service in Arcata reports the Mad is still big and muddy and very few, if any, anglers are still fishing. "Whether it gets back to a fishable level will depend on how much rain and snowmelt we get," Blasi added.
Upper Trinity
Steve Huber of Steve Huber's Guide Service reports the steelhead fishing on the upper Trinity is still going strong. "Most of the anglers are targeting the water downriver from the Old Lewiston Bridge due to the fact that's where the Browns are holding. But there's still quite a few wild steelhead around and the river is in great shape all the way down to Pigeon Point. The fishing pressure has been light, with a few boats out each day along with a few fly fishermen," Huber added.
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2face Idibia Joins Nollywood Celebrities At Make A Move Premiere
May 30, 2014 – Tuface Idibia Joins Nollywood Celebrities At Make A Move Premiere
At the premiere of Ivie Okujaye's movie, MAKE A MOVE (MAM) at the Galleria. Ivie had lots of support from her colleagues from the AGN president to all her colleagues in the industry, the cast and crew. They indeed supported this young producer and can't wait for her to take another giant stride. Ivie has truly made a move.
Make a move features legendary 2face Idibia, Omawunmi Magbele, Denrele Edun, Majid Michel, Beverly Naya, Tina Mba, Wale Adebayo and Ivie herself. According to Ivie, "MAM has an appealing factor to just about every class, the market women who like to watch drama and action, sophisticated crowd who would like to see something more classic and then those who are driven by sensitive issues too".
Make a Move is the story of two sisters, emancipated and healing and moving on, finding love and building a new life for themselves through dance. It's not a dance movie,it's about two sisters that found dance. Ivie said the topic of women, children and abuse inspired the movie. MAM focuses on how to escape from abuse through arts and digging deep into one's talents.
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Credits for script and pencils confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (May 2007). Schwartz kept records for Robert Kanigher who edited this issue. The records show Andru as inker, but it is believed that Mike Esposito actually inked the story.
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My Day of the Locust
On the 13th of next month, a movie based on a book I wrote will be released in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and about 16 other cities not including Dallas. The birthing of this movie, a five-year process, was a big deal for me.
Called Bully, the movie is directed by Larry Clark, a renowned still photographer who was the director of the controversial independent film Kids in 1995. The screenplay was written by David McKenna (Blow); the movie stars Brad Renfro (Apt Pupil). A month ago, after I watched a preliminary version on videotape, I thought about changing my name and moving to Ohio at midnight.
Then I admitted to myself that much of the really rough sexual content and violence in the movie is there because I put it in my book. In fact, the movie is so uncannily faithful to the book that I find I have little moral wriggle room in which to deny responsibility. I can't exactly sigh and swoon over this, in other words.
I'm square about movies. I have passed the tape along to Dallas Observer/New Times movie critic Robert Wilonsky so he can tell us whether this is a good movie or a bad movie, moviewise.
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I found the sexual content of the movie very tough to watch. I have to say, there is no inkling of an effort to make the sex arousing or titillating, as in a porn movie. Probably you could show this movie to kids as a way of turning them off from sex. The director uses sex as an especially devastating window on the vacuousness of the characters' lives, but you definitely do not want to look through this particular window on a first date.
Don Murphy (Natural Born Killers) produced the movie. Fernando Sulichin, the proprietor of a prominent studio in Paris, was the money. In the money, there is truth. Allow me to give you my amateur theory of Hollywood.
My literary agent, Janet Wilkens Manus in New York, is a genius at the marketing, re-marketing and re-re-marketing of literary properties. She sold options for the movie rights to my book, Bully (William Morrow, 1997), half a dozen times.
The money goes like this: For an option, I get small money. If they make a small independent movie, I get modest but OK money. If someone had made a major motion picture, instead of this column from me you would be reading a postcard with palm trees on it.
My book was an account of the true story of a bunch of ne'er-do-well white suburban teen-age slugs in Fort Lauderdale who savagely murdered one of their own in 1992. I chose to write a book about it for a number of reasons, many of which were crass.
At that point in my life, I was writing "true crime" books for a living. It was a period when true crime books, if well-published by major houses, were able to cross over into the mainstream book-reading market. A few authors--Ann Rule, Jack Olsen, the Observer's own Carlton Stowers--wrote books that both sold well and achieved critical acclaim. I got some good reviews.
Manus, my agent, was incredibly good at keeping her ear to the ground for exactly the story line that both Hollywood and the New York book world were shopping for during any given week. And it did change, week to week. She told me at one point, "Young suburban white kids involved in an inexplicably horrific crime."
The phenom of the week! The mysterious story of suburban white kids gone wrong!
That night I found the Fort Lauderdale story.
The next morning Manus sold it like a hot cake: instant book deal at Morrow, instant movie deal (option) at Touchstone, which is Disney.
In addition to making the first of many trips to Florida, I also embarked on a small reading project in criminology, trying to see what the experts said about why white middle-class kids would behave in such an unexpected way. They said not to unexpect it.
For at least the last 15 years, the answer in just about everybody's research (see Michael R. Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi, A General Theory of Crime, Stanford University Press, 1990) had been coming back consistently the same: It's not about class, they found. It's not about ethnicity. It's not even about education. And it is not about physiology in any way anybody can prove beyond the level of ridiculous superstition.
The sociologists, who probably were all about my age and went to the University of Michigan and feared that people would think they had been kidnapped by the Christian Right if they used certain words, talked all around the one word that did answer the question. They talked about "lack of self-control," "lack of impulse control" and so on.
But the word here is moral. Crime flows from moral choice. Crime is an expression of evil. And whatever is wrong in this country, if there is something wrong, it operates at a level far deeper than class or ethnicity or geography. Ain't nobody got no morals worth bragging about, rich or poor.
That's what I found in the Florida story. There was no excuse for these kids. It wasn't the parents' fault. It wasn't society. They used their inherent gift of free will to choose to do and to be evil. Because they could.
Hollywood hated it. Studios would buy the option to my book, because it was about young, good-looking white surfer kids on the beach with hardly any clothes on most of the time who did a scary thing, in between having sex a lot. Then, in a dismal process they call "development," the studios would try to think how to make my story into a movie.
Development is really the process of pitching the story to a star. Stars sell tickets. Stars bring money into the deal. Back then, everyone wanted to pitch this one to Drew Barrymore. But Hollywood stars always play the same basic character in every movie. The way you "develop" a story, then, is to change the main character into Drew Barrymore, so that you can say to her agent: "Lisa, in Bully, is totally Drew."
Six weeks into every option, some twentysomething would call me from a Quonset hut in Culver City. I had the timing down. Six weeks? They've reached page 160 of my book: the murder, in which the kids try to shoot their teen-age beach buddy, then stab, gut, slit his throat, crush his skull with a baseball bat, drag him still gurgling and alive into the Everglades to feed to the alligators, then leave him to be eaten alive by crabs.
The development people were always irate: "Drew would never do this!" "That bat thing is so totally un-Drew!" "What were you thinking?"
To be fair, they live in a place they honestly believe to be reality. And I bite my tongue. I wanted them to make the movie so I could write the postcards.
In the instances in which studios actually commissioned full screenplays to be written, they all insisted--until Don Murphy got the project--that the screenwriters invent excuses for the kids. But you don't call it an excuse in Hollywood. You call it "motivation."
Believe me. It's an excuse. The goal is that you, dear viewer, shall say to yourself after the movie, "Gosh, Drew shouldn't have allowed that poor young man to fall headfirst on that oddly up-ended baseball bat and then stumble into the Everglades and accidentally plunge into the gaping jaws of an alligator like that, but she's so darned cute, I forgive her, and I will definitely go see her next movie."
The excuse-making doesn't express a philosophy. That gives it way too much credit. It's part of a market-driven business logic that happens to rest easily on the audience's mind.
One poor young screenwriter kept calling me, begging me to come up with a "motivation" that did not have the words moral or evil in it, which, in spite of trying, I never could do. He lived on a houseboat somewhere and was very serious about organic food. Finally, he decided the kids in the story probably had done what they did for chemical reasons linked to food additives. He wound up with a formula that always reminded me of the poisoned apple scene in Snow White, but in this case it was Mom, cackling and whispering to Drew, "How about a little microwave pizza, Dearie?"
Munch-munch. Up with the scary music, out with the bats and knives.
The theater owners, who make all their profit at the concession stand, would have nixed it. Never got made anyway.
Don Murphy, who finally did get this movie made, had produced a wonderful movie in 1998 called Permanent Midnight, starring Ben Stiller as a heroin-addicted screenwriter. That movie manages to tell a very tough story without any preaching, with great humanity and even humor, and with no excuses.
In order to get Bully made, Murphy had to go to Sulichin in Paris and get French money. This is really a French movie. The Hollywood money just would not do it.
Beyond writing the book, I wound up with no creative influence on the movie at all, which I offer as fact not "motivation." I think the movie Murphy et al. have made is ferociously honest. Larry Clark has given the film a raw literal focus from which he allows absolutely no escape. My book was tough. This is tougher.
I firmly believe that the truth this movie tells operates in fundamental opposition to what we insist on telling ourselves about crime in our society and about ourselves.
This movie is a moral horror story. It tells us that the real horror of our dilemma cannot be posited safely on the other side of some social railroad track. The horror is in us all.
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I was barely halfway through a 90-foot route when I used the last of my breath to wheeze Take! Blood from my skinned elbows leaked through my shirt, and sweat dripped into my eyes when I realized I simply couldnt climb anymore. The route was the classic 5.9 offwidth Chrysler Crack in Red Rock, Nevada, and I was stuck. I wasnt lacking strength, or even persistenceit was technique. I had zilch. This borderline-shameful experience encouraged me to hone my offwidth methods, because hereas in all climbing technique and style matter. I decided to climb only offwidths in Red Rock, Vedauwoo, Wyoming, and Indian Creek, Utah, until I could easily send Chrysler Crack. When I finally finished it, there was no yelling, bleeding, or crying to myself on the hike out.
The intimidating world of wide cracks is often regarded as more work than fun. Although they do require elbow grease, the challenge also provides a satisfying reward. No matter your skill level, learning and honing the following skills will improve your chances of reaching the chains (without puking). Tape up and pull on a pair of canvas pants, a long-sleeve shirt, and some comfortable hightop shoes, and tackle that crack.
Heel-Toe Cam
Heel Toe Cam
This technique is essential for offwidths of any difficulty because it provides a secure jam on everything from a 5.9 squeeze to a 5.13 invertand like all types of climbing, having good footwork can make or break your ascent. Unlike a conventional foot jam (where you stick your toe into a crack and twist your knee to lock it in place), the heel-toe is oriented horizontally with your toe on one side and your heel on the other. To start, decide which side of your body feels more comfortable jammed in the crack. Then, with your inside leg, bend your knee slightly and point your toe downward, smearing against the crack. Lower your heel until it is jammed on the opposite side, and push down to tighten the jam. You can do the same with the outside leg, but establishing this jam with the inside leg first will orient your body securely in the crack. The outside foots purpose is to make vertical progress by pushing your body upward, whether its using footholds in the crack or out.
Arm Bar
These two techniques require the use of your full arm and are essential for those in between sizeswhen the crack is too wide for hand stacks but too narrow to fully squeeze inside.
This move works best on vertical terrain; it involves placing your inside hand deep into the crack. With your body oriented sideways, press your palm against one side of the crack, thumbs-up, and your elbow against the other side. Use opposing force to get a secure jam. Press your outside hand (with your thumb down) on the outer edge of the crack (the side your inside palm is pressed against). This will keep your upper body jammed in the crack as you move your feet up, generally to a higher heel-toe cam. Try to move slowly and in a controlled manner to avoid unnecessary physical exertion. Focus on relaxing the muscles you arent using, rest when you find a comfortable stance, and dont forget to breathe.
Chicken Wing
This is similar to an arm-bar, but its a little harder to execute. Advantage? Chicken-wings are better for copping a rest. Place your arm into the crack, elbow first, with your arm bent, hand pointing toward your face, and palm facing out. Put your palm against the outside edge of the crack and push the back of your arm against the other side. Push down and outward on your chicken-wing, and it should cam your elbow and arm into place. Your bodys natural direction of push out of the crack should cause the jam to get tighter and force your palm and elbow against the sides of the crack. This technique can stress your shoulder on steep terrain, so use some caution when trying for the first time
Hand Stacks
Hand Hand Stack
Use both of your hands to jam a crack that is too large for a regular hand jam. This method is used on narrower offwidths and is often preferred over arm-bars and laybacks because its more secure, a fall is less likely, and its less strenuous. There are three common configurations. Typically, as a crack becomes wider, the stacks become less secure and harder to use.
Hand/Hand (aka the Butterfly Stack)
Place the backs of your hands together and insert them into the crack fingers first with your thumbs up. Cup your hands to the sides of the crack and pull. This is essentially a double hand jam and works great for cracks just wider than your fist. To remove your hands, establish a calf, knee, or foot jam to hold your body as you uncup your hands and slide them upward to a higher jam.
Hand Fist Stack
Hand/Fist Stack
One hand will be in a fist against the back of the other hand that is open and cupped in a hand jam position. Place the open hand palm-first against the crack, and then the fisted hand between the crack and the back of your open hand. Generally, its more secure to cross your arms at the wrists (rather than normal left/right orientation); crossing also allows you to reach farther into the crack.
Fist Fist Stack
Fist/Fist Stack
The widest (and most difficult) of the hand stacks, this requires precision and hand strength, but once you master it, youll be jamming joyfully in those six-inch-wide splitters. Make two fists and cross your arms at the wrists; the hand with the thumb facing you should be underneath and the other thumb facing away. Flex your fists against each other and the crack, and then pull down. Dont move your fists as you pull down on the jam; any subtle movement can cause it to shift and feel unstable. It may be necessary to arrange your hands differently on unique terrain, so experiment, be creative, and figure out what works best for you.
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Mail delivery faces axe
New Zealand Post is proposing to reduce mail delivery to as little as three days a week to cope with falling volumes.
Communications Minister Amy Adams today released a proposal from the state postal service. It had told her that ''it considers changes are needed to ensure a sustainable postal service in the 21st Century''.
As well as cutting the number of days mail is delivered to a minimum of three days a week, the proposal included introducing more self-service kiosks.
''During the last 10 years mail volumes have dropped considerably, with 265 million fewer items being posted each year compared to 2002. Within five years, mail volumes are forecast to be nearly half what they were in 2002,'' Adams said.
''In light of those significant reductions in mail volume, New Zealand Post is seeking to make changes to the Universal Service Obligations it is bound by.''
Adams said the changes would require Government approval and public feedback would be sought.
"In deciding whether to accept or reject the proposal or seek to negotiate a compromise, I will look to balance the interests of postal users with the need to ensure a financially-viable postal service."
Minimum service requirements for New Zealand Post are set out in the deed of understanding it signed with the Crown in 1998. The deed has not been significantly reviewed since it was signed, Adams said.
New Zealand Post said its last deed was signed before ''the digital revolution'' which had led to an unprecedented drop in mail volumes.
'That revolution has resulted in the rapid expansion of internet-based products and services which have fundamentally changed the way people communicate, do business and shop,'' the state owned enterprise said in a statement.
''There was 24 per cent less mail posted in 2012 than a decade before in 2002. Within five years mail volumes are forecast to decline further, to just over 600 million items.''
Chief executive Brian Roche said the current deed was in ''urgent need of a revamp'' to ensure its services remained sustainable.
"The time is now to make the necessary decisions for the future. Every postal system around the world is facing similar challenges and they are beginning to act. We cannot stand still and simply hope the problems will go away.
"We are seeking an agreement that gives us the flexibility and certainty to be able to plan for that future. Without that flexibility, standard letter mail and postal outlet services will incur significant losses," Roche said.
"Not gaining flexibility will leave us with some challenging and unsustainable options - asking for taxpayer funded subsidies to prop up the letters business; operating the postal business at a loss which will degrade the business over time; or cross-subsidising from other parts of New Zealand Post, denying the business the opportunity to grow and invest."
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A woman is believed to have saved her seven-month-old grandson from being killed or seriously injured when a quad bike hit her while she was pushing his pram.
The 51-year-old is thought to have pushed the pram out of the way as bike hit her at a bus stop on Ferrand Road, Bierley, Bradford.
The woman is currently in Leeds General Infirmary being treated for her injuries, which include one arm broken in 27 places. The baby was left with minor injuries and bruising but kept in hospital overnight.
The rider of the quad bike, a 28-year-old man, was taken to Leeds General Infirmary with a serious head injury. He remains in hospital, but police said his injury was not believed to be life threatening.
Police are now appealing for witnesses to the incident, which happened on Thursday at 2.35pm, and are keen to speak to a second quad bike rider who may have travelling with the one involved in the crash.
The baby's mother, the injured woman's daughter, said police believe she had pushed the baby's pram out of harm's way just before the quad hit her.
The woman, who lives nearby but who family members did not wish to be named, remains in hospital being treated for broken ribs, a fractured pelvis, bruised lung and broken collar bone.
Her arm is due to be fixed with metal plates and pins later today, and doctors have told her that she may never regain full use of it.
The grandmother and grandson had been waiting for a bus when the bike, which police say was "road legal," hit them.
The baby's mother said: "She pushed him out of the way, so luckily he has a few bruises but that's it."
She said the police had told her that her mother had "heroically" pushed the pram out of harm's way in time.
PC Andrew Richardson, of Western Area Roads Policing Unit, said: "I would urge anyone who witnessed this collision to call the Western Area Roads Policing Unit on 101. From those who we have spoken to already there is suggestion that there may have been another quad bike travelling with the quad bike involved in this collision. If this is the case I would urge that rider to come forward as a witness."


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quote:Originally posted by SasakuWhats your opinion on the place?
quote:Originally posted by zataarWe are a family of people who have worked in the food world for a living for decades. My daughter worked for Panera while she was in high school and had only this to say: Be afraid, very afraid....
quote:Originally posted by GooseI know I haven't been around here all that long, but haven't you guys had this very same discussion about every single chain in the USA? Chili's, Krispy Kreme, Panera, McDonalds, the list is endless. And every time it's the exact same discussion. Might it be time to give the chain talk a rest?
quote:Originally posted by GooseMight it be time to give the chain talk a rest?
quote:Originally posted by Brent KulmanSundancer makes a very interesting point.While Panera may not be up to the standards of artisanal bakeries in metropolitan/cosmopolitan communities, in certain areas of the country it is a tremendous leap in sophistication....So while it is easy to cast stones at chains of any type, Panera would be at the top of my list of chain food places and, one of the few that I would frequent in communities where it is available.


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SPORTS >>Cabot earns two big wins against Conway
By JASON KING
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Both games were dramatic, and both ended up as big wins for Cabot teams Tuesday night against visiting Conway.
The Lady Panthers avenged an earlier loss to the Lady Wampus Cats with a 63-58 win that went down to the wire, and the boys closed out the night by breaking a six-game losing streak with a 50-46 win.
The girls game was tied at 55-55 with 1:50 to play in the game when Lady Panthers post player Shelby Ashcraft scored inside and drew the foul from Chelsea Sublett. Ashcraft hit the foul shot to put Cabot up by three, and then blocked a shot attempt by Sublett on the other side of the court that resulted in a jump ball, giving possession back to the Lady Panthers. Sublett fouled Ashcraft again, but this time, Ashcraft missed the one-and-one shot, and Shambree Maxfield pulled down the board for the Lady Cats.
Conway put the ball in the hands of leading scorer Sidney Stewart, but Stewart was called for a charge as she went up for the shot, making contact with Ashcraft.
Rachel Glover appeared to have put the game away for Cabot with 45 seconds remaining when she hit both ends of a one-and-one that gave the Lady Panthers a 60-55 lead, but Katy Ashley Pauley quickly put it back to within two for Conway with a three pointer with 37 seconds left.
Glover almost got a five-second call on the inbound pass, but Cabot coach Carla Crowder called timeout before the call could be made, and the Lady Panthers retained possession. On the next in-bounds attempt, Chanel Irvin stole Glovers pass and got the ball to Stewart, who went for the game-tying shot. The attempt fell short, and Sublett fouled Ashcraft while going up for the rebound. The sophomore missed the front end, but made the second attempt to give the Lady Panthers a 61-58 lead with 15 seconds left.
Stewart had one last shot to tie the game, but her flawless outside shooting from the first three quarters had faded, and Ashcraft came up with another board. Glover was fouled with six seconds remaining, and hit both shots to set the final margin.
We were really proud to get that win, Crowder said after the game. The kids played hard. I think towards the end, we started rebounding better, thats what you have to do to beat a good team like that. The win ties the two teams for second place in the 7A-Central standings.
Senior Maddie Helms led the Lady Panthers in scoring with 16 points. Glover finished with 12 points, and Jamie Sterrenberg added 11 points for Cabot. Ashcraft, Lauren Walker and Leah Watts all added eight points for the Lady Panthers. Helms scored eight points in each half for an all-around solid performance, but most of Ashcrafts contributions came late in the game after early foul trouble had her on the bench for most of the first three periods.
Stewart led all scorers for Conway with 24 points. The win improves the Lady Panthers record to 16-4 overall and 6-2 in conference.
The Panthers traded the lead back and forth with the Wampus Cats in the fourth quarter of the boys contest. Cabot had held the lead throughout the entire first half, going up by as much as nine points at the 3:06 mark of the second quarter at 19-10. The Cats were able to cut into that deficit by the end of the frame to trail 22-18.
A goal from Ammon Martin with 2:36 left in the third quarter tied the game for Conway at 29-29, setting the stage for the fourth-quarter shootout.
Conway took its first lead of the game at the start of the frame with a three-point shot for a 32-31 advantage. Junior forward Sam Bates answered for Cabot with a layup that put the Panthers back up by one, but Terry Tidwell gave Conway the advantage once again at the 6:51 mark with a jumper for a 34-33 lead.
Senior post Alex Sharp tied the game with a foul shot at the 6:37 mark, but missed the back end, and Codell Selvy pulled down the rebound for Conway. Selvy then made a basket to give the Wampus Cats a 36-34 lead, and got another quick basket to increase the lead to four.
Justin Haas cut the deficit to two for Cabot with a backdoor shot assisted by Jacob Trammel. Sophomore Austin Johnson got the lead back for the Panthers moments later with a three pointer at the 4:14 mark that made the score 39-38, but the lead would change hands two more times in the next minute.
Adam Sterrenberg hit a basket to put the Panthers up by three, and Johnson made two free throws to put Cabot up by five, but Conway had one more weapon to contend with late. Martin had been relatively quiet offensively through the most of the game, but developed a hot hand from the outside in the final minute.
Martin hit a 32-footer with 1:01 left to cut the lead to two, but Sharp found the goal inside for Cabot on the ensuing possession to stretch the lead back out to four.
Sharpes goal would prove to be Conways biggest mistake down the stretch, leaving the 67 senior under the goal all alone as Trammell inbounded the ball on the left side following a foul. Sharp easily layed the ball in, to give the Panthers a two-score advantage for the first time in the quarter.
Johnson followed that with a steal on the inbounds, and hit the front end of his free throw opportunity. Haas added two more foul shots moments later for a 50-43 Cabot lead, but Martin nailed another tre to cut the advantage in half. With only six seconds remaining, Conway had to make something happen under its own goal on the inbound, but Sterrenberg eluded the Wampus Cats defenders and ran out the clock.
I was concerned when we went down by four in the fourth, Cabot coach Jerry Bridges said. But we came back and made some plays. It was just a good team effort. We needed it. With those three losses we had by a total of four points, its been hard to come back and go to work every day like these boys have, and Im proud of them.
As the cheers and chants from the Panthers locker room got louder behind him, Bridges began to get emotional.
This dressing room has not been fun lately, Bridges said. I take it all personal. Im not a good loser, and I love those kids. But hearing them do that, thats why its fun to coach.
Sharp led Cabot with 15 points. Sterrenberg added 11 points, and Johnson finished with 10. For Conway, Martin led with 14 points. The win improves Cabots record to 9-12 overall and 2-6 in the 7A-Central Conference.
Cabot played on the road against Catholic and Mt. Saint Marys last night, and will travel to North Little Rock on Tuesday night.


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Some high school football teams would lose hope after giving up an 80-yard touchdown run early in the game, but not the Willow Glen Rams.
Despite a long touchdown run by Independence speedster Jojo Valenzuela in the first quarter, the Rams rallied from behind went on to roll to a 42-26 win over the 76ers in the Friday night game on the Sixer field.
With the win, the Rams improved to 1-2 in the Mt. Hamilton Division of the Blossom Valley Athletic League and to 3-3 overall.
This week Willow Glen hosts Leland in what is sure to be a difficult battle. The Chargers head to Willow Glen on Oct. 19, 7 p.m., coming off of a tough 37-22 loss to rival Pioneer. Leland had opened division play with a pair of wins.
The Rams will be looking for another big night from junior quarterback Matthew Toscano, who had a monster game in last week's win at Independence. He completed 10 of 17 passes for 169 yards, including a 68-yard touchdown pass to Jayson Kadlecek as an answer to the 80-yard run from Independence. Toscano also ran the ball 20 times for 209 yards and another three touchdowns.
The Rams defeated Independence, but it was anything but easy. The 76ers struck first on the long run, but Willow Glen answered back with the 68-yard pass to Kadlecek. Then the Rams scored again on a 10-yard run by Hakeem Mays.
But again Independence broke a long score with a 79-yard kickoff return for a touchdown to tie it up. The 76ers stole the lead on a 49-yard pass to go up 20-14 in the third quarter.
Willow Glen went on a tear after that, though, rallying for 28 points. Toscano broke a 33-yard run for a score and followed that up with a 39-yard touchdown run. Mays scored from 18 yards out before Toscano scored again from seven yards away. The Rams' 28-point run–which included four of David Guardanapo's six extra point kicks–helped them defeat Independence, who scored one more time but it wasn't enough.
Mays ran the ball nine times in the win for 80 yards, Gabe Donoso ran for 16 on 5 touches and Grant Hoffman gained 11 yards on four carries.
Kadlecek caught one pass for 68 yards, Josh Landers pulled down four passes for 50, Andrew Mejia Morin caught two for 24, Calvin Owen two for 17 and Mays one for 10.
Lions top Bruins
Lincoln also fell behind in the first quarter last Friday, but rallied to roll over Branham 49-20. The Bruins scored on a 35-yard pass to take a 7-0 lead after a successful kick, but Lincoln answered right back with a 26-yard touchdown run from Cristapher Ortez. Then the Lions found the end zone again on a 2-yard run by Jacob Avery.
Branham scored again to tie the game, but Lincoln was able to put up seven more points when Jesse Galvan caught a 10-yard touchdown pass from Izaiah Gonzalez to end the first half 21-14 in favor of the Lions.
In the second half, Lincoln came out strong with two touchdowns in the third quarter. Ortez broke a 60-yard run for a score and Avery followed with a 45-yard touchdown run. The Bruins scored on a 75-yard pass in the third but missed the extra point.
It was all Lincoln in the fourth quarter with the Lions scoring two more times and allowing nothing from Branham. The Lions gave the ball back to Avery who ran it in from seven yards out and then Gonzalez connected with Jacob Hoekstra on a 31-yard pass for a touchdown.
Santiago Huerta was perfect, knocking seven extra point attempts through the uprights.
The Lions are 3-0 in the Santa Teresa Division and 4-1 overall. They are tied with Gunderson and Silver Creek for first place in the league. This week the Lions head to Live Oak on Oct. 19, 7 p.m. The Acorns are 2-1 in league and are coming off of their only loss of the season, 41-14 to Silver Creek.


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PROS - Used it several times to fill out laugh lines and a little on the upper lip which has gotten a bit thin (I'm 45). Really nice results and lasts a good length of time.
CONS - It travels! Each time I've done it, around 3 months later, I get bumps in different areas of my face--temples, cheek etc. (They really sullied my complexion) The only way to get rid of the bump is to lance it and out comes the substance.
But I will still use it because the pros outway the cons.


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Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Couples Therapy - Trailer online
I directed 2 episodes of this fun new web series coming out from Twinzies. Very excited to see the series released, they have a ton of awesome guest stars lined up, some of whom I got to work with. For now, check out the trailer and subscribe to Twinzies on Youtube!
Saturday, February 1, 2014
THAT GUY DICK MILLER to open the 2014 SXSW Film Festival
THAT GUY DICK MILLER, which I've been shooting and co-producing since Summer 2011 is going to make its world premiere at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival. I couldn't be more proud of this film, and the whole team is very excited to be opening the festival, with our first screening at 6:00PM on March 7th. It's been an honor to work on this project with Elijah Drenner, Lainie Miller, Jim Kunz, Stephanie Paris, and of course Dick Miller himself, a living legend we all grew up with and cherish.
Friday, September 13, 2013
PRAY WITH US: wrapped!
Just wrapped up on a great new project, PRAY WITH US, a short horror film written by and starring Mary Czerwinski, also with Manu Intiraymi and Andy Mackenzie. The film was shot by John Champion on the new Digital Bolex camera. Will be posting more information as we head into post.
Thursday, August 8, 2013
8/21/13 Tickets to CUDDLE now available!
Want to see CUDDLE on the big screen at the historic Chinese Theater? Tickets are now available to purchase via TuneStub. The screening is at 2:00 PM on Wednesday, August 21st. Come join us!
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
8/13 CUDDLE world premiere at HollyShorts!
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UPPER DIR, Jan 28: Forty-seven children have died of measles and pneumonia in Kohistan area of Upper Dir district since Jan 15, according to district health officer Dr Abdul Wakeel.
Mr Wakeel told Dawn on Monday that the deaths from measles and pneumonia were reported in Thal, Kumrat and Lamoti areas, which were mostly inaccessible due to heavy snowfall. He feared that the number of deaths could be more than what they had reported. "We're facing problems in ascertaining the exact number of deaths due to heavy snowfall, which has covered the entire mountainous area," he said. Dr Wakeel said health workers had already been in the areas affected by the epidemic outbreak of measles and pneumonia to control the situation. "More than 1,500 children are being vaccinated against measles and pneumonia. We've been working hard and are hopeful of the early management of the crisis," he said. The DHO said children in Kohistan suffered from malnutrition and therefore, a nutrition centre was being established at Thal to address the problem in line with the health department's directions. He also said a separate ward had been formed at District Headquarters Hospital, Upper Dir to efficiently handle the situation.


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|Proquest LLC
In a release, the company noted that the investor group comprised of
The transaction, which is expected to close in the second quarter of 2013, marks another success in the disposition of AIG's non-core assets. At closing of the transaction, AIG will retain at least a 10% ownership stake in ILFC, allowing it to continue to participate in the growth of ILFC's franchise, including the benefits that the investor group will bring to the company.
"This transaction creates a solid and strategic partnership for ILFC," said
The transaction is subject to required regulatory approvals, including all applicable U.S. and Chinese regulatory reviews and approvals, and other customary closing conditions. When the transaction meets the criteria for "held for sale" accounting treatment, AIG expects to record a non-operating loss of approximately
Weng Xianding, Chairman of
Under the new owners, ILFC will retain operational independence and continue to be headquartered in
Upon closing, a new Board of Directors for ILFC will be appointed, including Benmosche from AIG. The balance of the Board will be comprised of representatives of the investor group. The Board will continue to uphold "best practice" governance standards and practices.
"This is an exciting new chapter for ILFC that will position the company for robust future growth,"
ILFC is an independent aircraft lessor.
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The Scarlet Season: MAC Cult of Cherry Lipglass
MAC Cult of Cherry Lipglass
The Scarlet Season: MAC Cult of Cherry Lipglass
MAC Cult of Cherry Lipglass ($14.00 for 0.17 oz.) is a semi-opaque ruby red with gold shimmer laced throughout. When worn alone (on my lips), it actually brings out the natural pink in my lips while adding some redness to it. It isn't a bright, true red, though, even though it may look so in the tube. I love to layer Cult of Cherry over other red lipsticks, though, because it really makes the lipstick pop. For instance, one pairing I like a lot is Queen's Sin + Cult of Cherry! This was a limited edition shade available from the Cult of Cherry launch back in 2008, but you may be able to find it at a CCO or eBay.
What about you? Would you wear this red?
The Scarlet Season is a series of posts showcasing and featuring my favorite shades of red lips–from glosses to lipsticks that runs through December 2009. You can sure expect to see a lot of red this holiday season!
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A new clinical resource has launched on epgonline.org, the website for healthcare professionals. The Transplantation Knowledge Centre is intended as a learning tool to provide online access to information on a variety of topics related to transplantation, including surgical procedures and future developments in the field.
Although short term survival of transplantation surgery is excellent (>90%), long term survival rates are poor due to recurrence of disease, development of chronic rejection or complications related to long term immunosuppression¹. Global reports for 2013 estimated that more than 117,000 solid organs were transplanted. These comprised: kidney, 78,952; liver, 25,029; heart, 6,270; lung, 4,834; pancreas 2,474; and small bowel, 174. The total number of organs transplanted globally increased by around 2.6% from 2012. However, this represents less than 10% of the global need for transplantation².
The Transplantation Knowledge Centre is available in four European language editions: English, German, Italian and Spanish. It can be accessed in full and at no cost to registered epgonline.org members: https://www.epgonline.org/transplantation-knowledge-centre/en/index.cfm.
The resource is divided into two main sections. The 'Transplantation Overview' provides fully referenced information on the epidemiology of transplantation, surgical procedures, long-term outcomes, immunosuppression and future developments in the field of transplantation. It has been reviewed for clinical accuracy by experts Gary Levy and Markus van der Giet.
The 'Congress Highlights' section hosts video discussion highlights, which took place during a major Transplant Congress held in Boston, USA in June 2016. Faculty experts gathered to discuss hot topics from the event. Expert commentary is delivered by Friedrich Thaiss and Franco Citterio for the English version of the video discussion. The other language editions feature: Franco Citterio, Paolo Grossi, Mario Carmellini, Markus van der Giet, Friedrich Thaiss, Duska Dragun, Gavela Martínez and Sonia Pascuale who represent their respective countries.
Dr Toby Galbraith, Director of Content Strategy for epgonline.org, said: "We are delighted to provide this exciting new resource for physicians interested in transplantation. The field is at an exciting stage and we look forward to supporting healthcare professionals with quality medical content." The Transplantation Knowledge Centre has been developed by epgonline.org, supported by an educational grant from Novartis Pharma AG, who provided a review for clinical accuracy.
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Wellness: Healthy Living
Fats are the major source of energy for dogs, the energy they supply is a more concentrated source (2.5 times) than either protein or carbohydrates. Not only do they supply energy but they also help keep skin and coat healthy, and foot pads supple. Nutritionally, fatty acids aid in the absorption of vitamins because they transport fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, K and E) into the body from the intestine. They also play a role in cell structure and function, including vision and learning abilities. Plus, they make food, both manufactured or homemade, tastier and more palatable.
Fatty acids are a specific type of polyunsaturated fat and are classified into omega-3s or omega-6s. Essential fatty acids (EFAs) are those that the body cannot make for itself, and needs to be supplied daily in the diet, hence they are considered to be essential (this essential status is species-specific). For dogs, the EFAs are omega-3 and omega-6 acids, which are required for them to thrive. In other words, if a body (animal or human) does not receive sufficient amounts of EFAs, critical body functions can be severely disrupted.
While both are important to a diet, it is thought by many nutritionists that commercial pet food (similar to commercial human food) contains too many omega-6s and not enough of the "good fat", omega-3s. Omega-6s can be found in meat products, egg yolks, whole grains and vegetable oils, while the best source for omega-3s for dogs is cold water fish. Fish oil provides the long-chain omega-3s (EPA and DHA), that are used for metabolism. Another complication is that fatty acids are very unstable and fragile, and tend to oxidize very quickly. They are easily destroyed by heat, light, and oxygen, thus they break down during processing and storage. It is important to note that the only way you can assure that your dog is getting sufficient amounts of EFAs is to either provide fish, such as mackerel, sardines, tuna, salmon, etc., in their diets or add an EFA supplement yourself. If using a supplement, ideally it should be guaranteed-fresh source packaged in an oxygen-free container, such as soft gel capsules that prohibit air from contacting the oil.
Composition and sources of Omega-3 fatty acids:
- EPA (Eicosapentaenoic acid) cold water fish and their oil.
- DHA (Docosahexaenoic acid) cold water fish and their oil, eggs from chickens fed omega-3.
- ALA (Alpha-linolenic acid) found in flaxseed oil, canola, soy beans, navy or kidney beans and walnut oils, plus green leafy veggies.
It is important to note that, unlike humans, dogs cannot convert ALA to the all-important EPA and DHA, so plant oils are not an ideal source of omega-3s for them. ALA from plant foods are often the primary sources of omega-3 found in dog food. While they are still important, this does mean that your dog's diet may be lacking in EPA and DHA, causing them to miss out on certain health benefits.
Composition and sources of Omega-6 fatty acids:
- LA (Linoleic acid) that can be found in corn, canola, safflower, sunflower oils, whole grain and body fat of poultry.
- GLA (Gamma linolenic acid) in black current seed oil, borage oil and evening primrose oil.
- AA (Arachidonice acid) found in the body fat of poultry, lean meat, egg yolks, some fish oils.
- DGLA (Dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid) found in organ meats.
Benefits of Omega-3s:
As many veterinarians, including Karen Becker, DVM, have noted, "omega-3s have tremendous potential to positively impact your pet's health." Here's a list of what omega-3s contribute to a dog's health and vitality:
- Support normal neural development, cardiovascular and immune systems, healthy reproduction, and skin and coat health.
- Therapeutic benefits and aid in managing chronic inflammatory disorders, like colitis, obesity, inflammatory bowel disease, joint pain due to arthritis and allergic skin problems.
- DHA is important for development of a healthy nervous system and proper development of the retina and visual cortex in fetuses and newborn puppies.
- Manage stress and improvement of brain health and cognitive functioning, especially in senior dogs.
- Support skin and coat health and relieve dry and itchy skin.
- Omega-3s fatty acids have been shown to slow the development and metastasis of certain cancers, while omega-6s have been shown to stimulate tumor development.
- Fish oils have been shown to decrease the levels of triglycerides and cholesterol in the blood.Not All Fish Oil Is Created Equally
With the rising popularity of fish oil for both the human and canine health, there are many different manufacturers making a variety of claims. So when selecting which omega-3 oil to purchase you need to consider a few factors including, purity, freshness, potency, bio-availability and sustainability.
Purity: The oil must meet international standards for heavy metals, PCBs, dioxins and other contaminants. You need to check with the manufacturer's Certificate of Analysis (CoA) to receive third-party verification. Many oils come from areas of the ocean that are heavily trafficked and/or polluted by deep sea oil rigs. Make sure you know what part of the world the fish was caught.
Freshness: EFAs are susceptible to oxidation, which turns them rancid. Look for verification about the freshness from the CoA, and for companies that use smaller vessels. Ask how the fish is kept fresh once it is caught, and how long does it take from the "catch" to the processing plant. The product should be available in an oxygen-free container, such as soft gel capsules that prohibit air from contacting the oil. Freshness is measured by oxidation as shown in the CoA's anisidine and peroxide values, that should be less than 5 meq/kg.
Potency: The oil must contain DHA and EPA. DHA provides most benefits to dogs, so it should exceed the levels of EPA.
Bio-Availability: The oil must be in a natural form not a synthetic triglyceride which many fish oils are.
Sustainability: Many fish oils are made from fish that are endangered. Choose products made from fish that are certified by organizations such as the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s (GOED).
It's important to look for or request a Certificate of Analysis (CoA) from the maker before you buy a fish oil product and if you have any questions, the company should be available to address those in a timely manner.
Omega-3s and omega-6s are indeed essential fatty acids, not only because they need to be added to a diet, but because they are essential to overall health. However, as they also add calories, attention needs to be given to the overall caloric count that is provided to a dog in both their food and supplementation. Consultation with your veterinarian is also recommended.
News: Guest Posts
Sponsored by Sleepypod
"I haven't even allowed myself to imagine the loss I would have suered had I decided not to purchase the Clickit that day"
For a while I was contemplating purchasing the Clickit harness from Sleepypod. My dog and I go everywhere together and so she is in the car 40 minutes each day.
I thought, "I'm a safe driver, maybe I'll hold off until my next paycheck to purchase the Clickit." Well finally, one day when browsing Sleepypod.com (for the hundredth time), after measuring my dog four different times to be sure, I decided to do it. I purchased the small Clickit harness in orange! Little did I know, this would be the most important purchase of my entire life.
Fast forward about a month, I am driving through the same intersection I drive almost every single day with my dog. This intersection is very busy, and the speed limit is 45 mph, so I'm always very careful. As I'm driving along, going 45 mph, a car suddenly turns in front of me. I didn't even have time to apply pressure on the breaks before we collided. My car spun wildly, and I ended up crossing three lanes, landing on the opposite side of the median. My car made some funny noises before it died, smoke pouring from the hood. Immediately when my car settles, I look back at my dog. Her doggy bed that she lays on was tossed from the seat. The leashes I keep in the back are strewn about the car. My dog is sitting on the seat, wide-eyed and confused, perfectly unharmed. She was just sitting there. I immediately start crying. I couldn't believe it … she was actually okay!
My boyfriend came to the scene as the police arrived. He took our dog out of the car, and she hopped right down as if nothing had happened. When the EMT's strapped me to a board, she came over and jumped up to see if I was okay, whining for me, tail wagging.
I suffered a fractured sternum, and had to be transferred to a special hospital overnight. The first thing I did when I came home from the hospital was bring my dog to my veterinarian. I had to be sure she was definitely okay. My vet checked her over and gave her a clean bill of health.
I seriously owe all of this to my Clickit harness. Without it, my entire world would have been turned upside down. I haven't even allowed myself to imagine the loss I would have suffered had I decided not to purchase the Clickit that day.
News: Guest Posts
Quick access to list of foods our pups should avoid.
Although we're inundated with apps these days some information is worth carrying around with us for quick access. The newly released Dog: Food Hazards app (android, free) is a very simple app dedicated to one topic, as you might have guessed, hazardous foods dogs should avoid.
Featuring a simplified layout for quick navigation, one can refresh their knowledge of dangerous foods for dogs and get information on symptoms caused by each featured food type. As a bonus they've prominently placed access to ASPCA's pet poison hotline so it is quickly accessible too.
Unfortunately, the list of food hazards is limited, so it may not be helpful for people looking to delve deeply into the topic. While Dog: Food Hazards is a fairly barebones app, we enjoy the peace of mind that comes with its ease of access to information that every dog owner should know.
Dog's Life: Lifestyle
CPS finds only one car restraint system that passes their tests
Keeping dogs safe in the car has long been a concern of mine. Previously I wrote about the crumple zone in the back of the car, which made me consider moving my pups to the safer back seat area using harnesses since I can't fit my crate in the passenger area. However, I was not impressed testing or lack of standards on car restraints, so I stuck with my crate (To be fair, crates don't have much testing either. There is only brand one on the market, Variocages, that is crash tested and designed with the crumple zone in mind, but they come with a hefty $1,000+ price tag!).
The results of a new study on canine car restraints doesn't exactly boost my confidence in these "doggy seat belts." A study by the Center for Pet Safety (CPS) and Subaru found that only one of the eleven systems they tested provided adequate protection to the dog and passengers of the vehicle.
CPS designed their crash test on the standard that is currently used to certify child safety seats. The testing occurred in two phases. First, each harness was subjected to a preliminary strength test. Only seven passed and continued to the crash test portion. The systems were tested using specially designed crash test dummy dogs in three sizes: a 25 pound Terrier mix, a 45 pound Border Collie, and a 75 pound Golden Retriever.
Only one system passed all of the tests, the Sleepypod Clickit Utility, meaning the dog remained restrained during every test and offered protection to the passengers.
Klein Metal AllSafe, Cover Craft RuffRider Roadie, RC Pet Canine Friendly Crash Tested, Bergan Dog Auto Harness, Kurgo Tru-Fit Enhanced Strength, and IMMI PetBuckle did not have optimal performance. Some allowed dogs to launch off of the seat or did not control the pet's rotation (something I wouldn't have even though about). The worst products, IMMI Pet Buckle, Kurgo, and Bergan, allowed the dog to become a full projectile or to be released from the restraint.
CPS plans to use the data from their study to help develop standards for performance and test protocols of restraint systems since there are currently no industry guidelines.
Founded in 2011, CPS is a registrered non-profit research and advocacy organization dedicated to companion animal safety. They are not affiliated with the pet product industry and do not endorse products. I can't wait to see what they have in store next!
News: Editors
What's This Have to Do with Dogs?!
We've taken some criticism on Facebook for our post earlier this week on Jason Collins and his dog, Shadow. Some people have taken exception with our use of the word "courageous" in connection with Collins' announcement that he is gay (a first for an active, professional male athlete). Others, have questioned "what does someone's sexual preference have to do with dogs?" I wanted to take a moment and express The Bark's curatorial perspective when posting content to Facebook and to our other social media channels. It has been our goal since we began publishing The Bark 16 years ago, to explore the world of dogs in as varied and expansive a manner as the topic itself. It not only includes the traditional subjects of health, science and the arts, but also how dogs touch nearly every aspect of our lives from social issues to cultural events, and increasingly, their presence in the media. We don't claim to cover every worthy story on dogs, but we try to mention the ones that interest us, the stories we feel are important. This is why we wrote about Jason Collins. As one reader wrote "thanks for finding the humanity in a dog's story … and the dog in a human story." Collins himself expressed his revelation thus: "I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation."
The Bark is happy to engage in that conversation and others we deem meaningful, and we welcome your comments—both supportive and critical. We think that the diversity of ideas makes for a richer community.
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Top Methods Used During Bed Bugs Removal Singapore
If your home is infested with bed bugs, you will live a miserable life. Bed bugs are small animals that suck your blood at night as you sleep. They cause irritation and smell bad. Therefore, you have to do anything to remove them. There are various bed bugs removal Singapore - http://advancedpest.com.sg/bed-bugs-solutions.html companies that employ different techniques. Though they are expensive to hire, it is a worthy investment.
Reasons for the bug exterminations
It is mandatory that you carry out bed bugs removal Singapore because failure to do so means they can bring different effects. First, they can suck blood to cause anemia. They make your sleep difficult because they bite and make the skin itchy. In this regard, their bites cause body rashes and skin infections. In some people, they cause allergies and skin infections.
Places to check them in your house
Before the removal starts, there are many places that need checking. The first place is of course the mattress, then on places such as crevices and cracks on the bed and sofa frames. They also reside in carpets, beddings, clothing, curtains, rugs and linens. They also love to live in warm places.
The bedbug management
The best method of exterminating the bugs is to use exterminators who have the skills, knowledge and equipments.
The exterminators who specialize in bed bug removal carry out vacuuming in all parts that have signs of bed bugs. The vacuuming exercises remove the live bugs and debris such as feces, eggs and cast skins. The exterminators in Singapore use high-efficiency particulate air filters.
High heat systems
One of the applied methods of removing bed bugs from a client house involves application of high heat systems applied on the creases, seams, tufts and folds. This is applied to the infected mattresses and box springs, footboards, and bed rails. There are top machines that produce superheated dry steam.
Cryonite Freezing is another method applied during bed bug extermination. It is applied in areas such as tufts, creases, and seams and on the mattresses.
This is the best method used on items such as mattresses. Here, the exterminators place external cases on the mattress to protect the bedding from attacks. Since there is no space allowed, the bugs encased inside die since they will not have space to come out.
There are many chemicals available today. The dust is applied to areas suspected to house bugs such as the cracks and gaps. One such dust commonly available is the diatomaceous and silica gel dusts.
Simple home remedies
If you cannot afford to hire the bed bugs removal Singapore Company, there are many home remedies to use.
This includes rubbing alcohol by spraying it in the infected areas. You can also apply the lavender oil that repels the bugs naturally. Lavender oil tests and smell bad, thus repelling the bugs. Using steam and hot water is also an ideal home remedy for killing bugs.
Having a clean environment and washing the linens is a better idea for preventing the bug attacks. But when infected, use recommended chemicals available in local shops.


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Digital technologies are pervasive in every aspect of Higher Education, and though their use is undoubtedly common in learning development activities, this field is underreported as an area of expertise.This Special Edition of the JLDHE focuses on ways in which digital technologies are used in the work of learning developers, academic teaching staff or other practitioners seeking to improve student learning. This focus has been chosen because of the large number of technology-related submissions we receive.
Table of Contents
|Helen Beetham
|A University Conversation: Using Cloud Technology to Generate Open Institutional Policy for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching
|Nicholas James Almond
|Digital technology, human world making and the avoidance of learning
|Alan Bainbridge
|'You've been frameworked': evaluating an approach to digital and information literacy at the Open University
|Katharine Reedy, Robin Goodfellow
|Using phenomenography to inform curriculum development in the areas of Digital Curation and Digital Sustainability
|Tony Reeves
Case Studies
|Open Badges: Exploring the value, potential and practicalities of a new way of recognising skills in Higher Education
|Anne Hole
|A set of online virtual experimental scenarios for teaching developmental biology
|Daniel Levin, Keith Brennan, Adam Hurlstone, Kathryn Hentges
|Case Study: The 24/7 Study Advice Workshop
|Michelle Reid, Kim Shahabudin, Sonia Hood
|The use of IPAD technology to give multi-modal feedback to British Sign Language /English Interpreting undergraduate students
|Thaïsa Whistance
Opinion Pieces
|Embedding Technology Enhanced Learning at Universities: A collaboration between University of Cumbria and Newcastle University
|Ann Thanaraj, Steve Williams