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I have come to realize over the last few years in particular, that movies have been used to push political issues and gain support for entirely different reasons than that of what the scripts appear to be made up of.in their face value, or on the surface. I'm sure that present day issues will be most likely included in movies as time goes on.
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Emma Watson: I avoid social media comments for sake of my sanity
The former Harry Potter star said she ignores online trolls' attacks.
Emma Watson has said she does not read social media comments for the sake of her sanity.
The former Harry Potter star, 27, is playing the lead role in The Circle, the adaptation of Dave Eggers's dystopian novel about an internet giant.
The actress, who has frequently been targeted by online trolls, said she strictly shuns their comments.
At the film's New York premiere on Thursday, she told E! News: "For my sanity, I cannot, I just cannot even go there. I have to create some distance because I'm human.
"I think there's this way where technology can dehumanise and it's like they are saying something about someone who isn't there. But I am there and I am real so I have to create some distance.
"Retaining your sanity in this industry is everything, so I care about it a lot."
Watson was targeted by trolls after the death of Alan Rickman, who starred alongside her in the Potter franchise as Severus Snape.
In The Circle, the British actress plays Mae Holland, a university graduate who quickly rises through the ranks of the technology company getting caught up in its totalitarian ambitions.
Watson also said working with Tom Hanks, who plays one of the company's co-founders, did not leave her heartbroken because he lived up to all her expectations.
"He is so generous and funny and easygoing and he is all the things you would want him to be," she said.
"It would have broken my heart if Tom wasn't Tom… He's like a hero, you know? You want people to live up to what you hope they are going to be."
London actor John Boyega also stars in the film, which was released in the US on Thursday, as does Bill Paxton in his last role before his death in February.

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Cliff Lee vs Matt Cain Tilt Ends in San Francisco 1-0 Win
San Francisco got a shutout performance from its pitching staff en route to a 1-0 victory over Philadelphia on Wednesday at AT&T Park.
The Giants were a -103 underdog in the win. The combined score dipped UNDER the total, which closed at 5.5.
San Francisco got 9 innings from Matt Cain, who gave up 0 earned runs on 2 hits, while striking out 4. Clay Hensley earned the victory, while the Giants got 1 RBI from Melky Cabrera in the win.
Philadelphia's starting pitcher Cliff Lee worked 10 innings, giving up 7 hits and 0 earned runs while striking out 1 in the loss. They got 1 hit from Hunter Pence in a losing cause.
The battle of the bats favored San Francisco as they had 9 hits, while Philadelphia only had 4.
San Francisco looks to continue its winning ways next game with a battle against New York. Philadelphia will aim to get back on the winning track at San Diego.


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Windex for Removing Lint from a Oil Painting
My new favorite painting trick for removing lint in a Layered, Indirect painting is WINDEX! It lifts up lint between paint layers and prepares the new layer to accept the oil out "couch" without resist.
Here's how:
I squirt a bit of windex onto a makeup sponge, then I wipe a thin layer on my dry layer of paint (2 days dry), and rub with my finger.
It easily removes the lint/dust sitting on the surface, and with a bit of rubbing also pulls up lint from previous layers. It works as well as wet-sanding but without taking up paint. I used to use 600-grit sandpaper and oil medium on every layer, now I rarely sand at all.
Windex is also great with the problem of "resist," when the new layer of oil beads up on a dry surface. The ammonia "etches" the surface a bit, so I apply a swipe of windex, let that dry a few seconds, and then apply the couch (oil medium layer, applied with a new makeup sponge), and the couch grips nicely.
It's changed my life already - I used it just the last couple weeks of my most recent painting, and it lifted out tons of lint and texture. After the new painting dries in a few months I plan to swipe on a layer of windex before varnishing, so the varnish sticks.
This tip is NOT in my instructional video, because I just learned it, but I'll be including it in future video lessons.
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Deputy Prime Minister's message for Holocaust Memorial Day
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This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The Deputy Prime Minister has recorded a message to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
The full transcript is below:
A few months ago I had the opportunity to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau with 200 students.
The site of unimaginable suffering, on an unimaginable scale.
A place where each day, thousands of human beings were sorted and processed on their way to death, in ways that were not only cruel, but chillingly precise.
The things I saw, the stories I heard - they will stay with me forever.
And I realised that we cannot remember and re-remember these horrors enough.
In fact, the more time that passes, the more we need to remember.
Today, Holocaust Memorial Day becomes more important with each passing year.
Forgetfulness is hate's greatest friend.
Forgetting allows prejudice and division to rise again.
But the lessons of history are the best antidote to anti-Semitism and extremism of all kinds.
So today we remember.
Today we pay tribute to the victims of the Holocaust.
We think of the victims of other genocides: Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur.
We unite, in solidarity, with all those suffering war and violence around the world today.
And we pass those lessons on to our children too.
We can never undo what happened all those years ago.
But we can keep those memories burning brightly, and we can use them to light our way.
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The Share Hunter: Sainsbury's could see Argos gamble pay off
THE UK's second biggest supermarket chain, Sainsbury's, released a trading statement covering the nine weeks to March 11, last Thursday.
Sainsbury's released a trading statement covering the nine weeks to March 11
With Mother's Day and Easter both absent from Q4 this year, like-for-like sales in Sainsbury's Retail division dropped 0.5 per cent, with the fall most apparent in General Merchandise.
However, including another positive contribution from Argos, which delivered like-for-like sales growth of 4.3 per cent, the group managed to grow total like-for-like sales 0.3 per cent.
Argos has been part of the group since September's £1.4billion acquisition of Home Retail.
Back then, sales growth in the catalogue retailer was negligible, which makes the recent results all the more impressive. There are already 41 Argos stores in Sainsbury's supermarkets, and the group plans to open more in its bigger superstores in the future.
Argos managed to grow total like-for-like sales 0.3 per cent
Sainsbury's CEO Mike Coupe clearly understands the challenges presented by the deal
As Sainsbury's supermarkets swallow up nearby Argos stores, the store-within-a-store model should help reduce annual costs by £75million per annum.
The combined group is targeting overall savings of £500million a year by 2017/18. The integration has other benefits, too.
With over £4billion of annual sales, Argos offers Sainsbury's the chance to increase its exposure to the non-food market.
Its delivery network could boost the group's online offering, and it could also drive footfall to the group's superstores.
Yet recent events mean its supermarkets are in need of a boost.
Sainsburys has struggled to compete with rivals such as Amazon
While online and convenience offerings have proved popular, its larger stores have struggled.
Market share is being lost, particularly to Aldi and Lidl.Sainsbury's has seen operating margins drop over the past few years. It trimmed the dividend in 2015 and 2016.
Another cut in full year results in a few weeks' would be no surprise. But the Argos deal is no magic bullet.
It has struggled to compete with rivals such as Amazon. Sterling's weakness, raising the cost of imports, brings another headwind.
Sainsbury's CEO Mike Coupe clearly understands the challenges presented by the deal.
So far, it seems to be going well, but investors will want to see tangible improvements in the core business.


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Simon and I stopped in Canmore this past summer to two of our friends. Friends who graciously allowed us to shower and do a load of much needed laundry. We asked about a great/quick hike to do while we waited for our laundry to get the mud and dust of Yellowstone out of our clothing and they suggested Ha Ling Peak.
It was a great choice and a perfect challenge after a few days off from any sort of exercise. The hike was basically a scramble up the south side of the peak, as the north side is a sheer cliff.
A steep, and somewhat challenging climb, I ended up shimmying up toward the top peak on my bum, while Simon, the mountain goat, quickly footed his way to the top.
The view of the town of Canmore was quite rewarding at the top, just be very careful when you have a peak (pun intended), it's really just a sheer drop on the other side. Sadly, we learned just after we completed the hike that a young man died the morning before.
Ha Ling Peak
Altitude: 2,408m (7,898 ft)
Elevation Gain: 700m (2,296 ft)
Time: We basically ran it, going up and down in 1.5 hours, but to enjoy the hike, I would say it takes 2-3 hrs.
Location: Access is from the far side of the road from Grassy Lakes parking lot. You can see the trail start beside a little wooden building.
Notes: Watch the weather, it can change quickly. We ran the hike mainly due to a sudden dark and angry looking cloud approaching. Just missed the downpour/lightning!


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Nissan has tapped Derrick Hatami, general manager of Hyundai Motor America's 12-state western region, to become its vice president of US sales effective January 13, 2014. The hiring of Hatami is part of Nissan's bid to reorganize its North American management structure. Hatami will report to Fred Diaz, Nissan senior vice president for U.S. sales, marketing, parts and service, Nissan said in a statement.
Hatami will be in charge of sales, vehicle operations, light commercial vehicles and fleet functions under Diaz. Hatami helped Hyundai increase its market share in the region from 4.5 percent market share to 7.8 percent. Nissan is aiming to capture a 10 percent market share in US and surpass Honda as the No. 2 Asian brand in the country.
Nissan started reorganizing its management team late 2013 after Nissan chief executive Carlos Ghosn expressed frustration that it was not making quick enough progress. Nissan Division had a 7.3 percent U.S. market share for 2013, up from 7.1 percent in 2012.
Under the new management team, Diaz reports to Jose Munoz, chairman for Nissan in North America. Hatami also helped Hyundai formulate its growth strategies in the past decade. Sitting on corporate posts in strategic planning and sales planning, Hatami played vital roles in setting Hyundai vehicle prices, incentive programs, long-term business plans and certified pre-owned efforts.


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You always end up reviewing albums I become smitten by, so I assume I'll love this just as well. I put 'In Memoriam' on while reading this and the first thing I thought 'this sounds like Butch Walker' (way to back up that claim).
Happy 100th. Pos'd. I shall look into getting this soon enough.
Album Rating: 3.5I almost bought this album a few times, Meat Market is a great song.
Good review, I might reconsider getting this.
Century mark! (h5)
Great review. I listened to the first song up there. It was good.
It's true - the vocalist reminds me of a hybrid of Butch Walker and Max Collins.
Album Rating: 4.0Those two tracks sound like a better version of the Plain White T's.
That's a horrible comparison.
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Album Rating: 4.0
That's a horrible comparison.
impeccable tastes ranging from the classic 60s pop of Ray Davies and The Beatles through Motown and Stax to power pop giants The Raspberries and The Romantics
Album Rating: 4.0Well yeah, which is why I said it sounded like a better version, at least of their last album. I'm not sure what you've heard of All That We Needed, but that was a good album.This Message Edited On 04.09.07This Message Edited On 04.09.07
Everything they've done is generic. All That We Needed (I own it and rated it) is 2.5 at best.
Album Rating: 4.0Ah, I agree that it's not original, but I do like it/think it's well executed. But yeah, I can see where you're coming from now.
Album Rating: 4.0Damn this is good. This is all I've been listening to from my way to school and back.
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Album Rating: 4.0Ah, like that. I think it might have sounded better if they hadn't done that, you?
Album Rating: 4.0I just found out that the singer/guitarist was in the Push Kings, I still need to get their albums, supposedly even better than this.:eek:
Pleasantly surprised by this. Not as good as I was hoping, but still great.
Album Rating: 3.5Woot, finally got a hold of it. It's good, the frist 5 songs and "Without You" seem to outdo the rest, as they tend to get a bit repetitive.
Album Rating: 4.0I dunno. I really wore this out but I can't say I got tired of it. I'll up this to a 4.
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Who needs a Saint Teresa of Calcutta anyway' The Roman Catholic Church does as much as the Missionaries of Charity does. Sceptics like Christopher Hitchens, Tariq Ali and Germaine Greer told us that Mother Teresa herself, more than anyone else, not only needed sainthood but actually exploited Calcutta and its poverty to try to attain it. Her life and work, said Greer, epitomized the blinkered charitableness upon which we pride ourselves and for which we expect reward in this world and the next.
The diminutive nun, whom the world had known as the saint of the gutters long before her death, would have agreed. Her faith even gave her sainthood models. When Malcolm Muggeridge asked her in that now-famous BBC interview of 1968 if she had taken her name after St Teresa of Avila, she laughed, Oh, no. I have not called myself after the big Teresa, but the little one, Teresa of Lisieux. I am not big enough for the big Teresa.
Those who have worked with her or known her for long say, however, that she had much in common with St Teresa of Avila who was as consumed by the holy passion but who also showed as much toughness and determination in founding the reformed Carmelite convents as Mother Teresa did to found the Missionaries and work her way through a heretical world. The Catholics would now see the other obvious similarity when St Teresa of Avila was canonized in 1622, only forty years after her death, it was a rare break from the Vatican tradition of starting the beatification process at least fifty years after a candidates death.
She has actually broken all sainthood records the beatification coming only six years after her death. But whats there in it for Calcuttans, the Indians or the poor anywhere in the world, expect the obvious media story' She has gone her way to beatification and possible sainthood and we go our different ways.
Thousands of Indians were going to Ayodhya to rediscover their very own Lord Ram, even as the Catholic devout were converging on Rome for the beatification of Mother Teresa. It is impossible to miss the irony in the coincidence that the day the Vatican makes her Blessed Mother Teresa, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad observes a Bharat bandh to protest against the Mulayam Singh Yadav governments refusal to allow the kar sevaks to have their Ramlala darshan.
So, as the world media attention is once again focussed on India on the occasion of the beatification of Mother Teresa, the images that dominate the picture will be of Ayodhya, Gujarat and the widow of Graham Staines. It is the image of the murdered Australian missionarys widow, her dark glasses keeping the tears away from the public view but her stony face speaking of her determination, that alone could tell the story of the saffron-coloured resurgent India at the time of Mother Teresas beatification.
It could also be the image of the six-month-old child whose brief life was snuffed out by the collective callousness of a society, of which the insensitive staff of a Calcutta hospital and irresponsible politicians are only dark symbols. The Calcutta tragedy would be particularly relevant to the irony of Mother Teresas beatification because the poor, little Shabana Parveen was exactly like the children that peopled her world.
But there is a much bigger story out there both in the VHPs Ayodhya march and the death of Shabana Parveen that should cause more serious concern than maudlin sentiments. That story goes beyond the Ayodhya marchers or those directly responsible for Shabanas death.
That big story involves a far greater number of Indians who may not have marched to Ayodhya but who justify it in the name of so-called cultural nationalism. It involves all those who may not be saffronites themselves but who defy their political loyalties when it comes to saving Hinduism from enemies within and outside. One hears their voices, not on the roads to Ayodhya, but in book-lined drawing rooms of middle-class homes.
It involves ruthless politicians who exploit the poor in their relentless pursuit of power. But it also involves those who hate the politicos but also hate the poor. There were always people who knew nothing of poverty and wondered if poverty really meant not having a coloured television set at home. But there is now an expanding body of the educated middle class which, in its race for social climbing, apes the rich peoples contempt for the poor.
Let alone doing anything to reduce poverty or disseminating awareness about it, the new elite finds it infra dig to even talk about it. Crude ideas of market economy have convinced them of a perverse Darwinism that in the struggle for the survival of the fittest, the poor stand no chance and there is no need to give them a hand.
Yet Mother Teresa thought this was the most terrible thing that could happen to the poor. It is not often they need things, she told Muggeridge, ...I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience...For all kinds of diseases, there are medicines and cures. But for being unwanted except there are willing hands to serve and theres loving heart to love, I dont think this terrible disease can ever be cured.
This may be a saintly Catholics missionary position, for the poor do need things as much as they need love. But, first of all, they need society to be aware of them, but not to treat them as political pawns or perennial subjects for seminar papers or to dismiss them as unmentionables in civilized conversations.
The irony is that it is the same people who hate to talk about the poor, let alone talking to them, who would once again make a show of lay piety. As in life, so in her death and now in her beatification, Mother Teresa will remain a glamorous icon especially because she was a white woman for the leisure class.
It would be unfair, though, to blame her for what the vanity fair makes of her. It would be churlish too to complain that her work had done little to reduce poverty or alleviate the sufferings of Calcuttas poor. She never claimed to aim at or achieve that, let alone change the world. Even if she served the poor to become a candidate for canonization, it would be supercilious to dismiss its effect on the lives of the poor, no matter what their number was.
The beatification of Mother Teresa can be meaningful outside her order and the Catholic church if it helps in any way to bring the poor back to the societys serious agenda.


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There are plenty of reasons why it's difficult to be envious of the generations born in the 1990s that are coming of age in the new millennium. This rings true when it comes to obvious real-world issues, but also applies to some sports franchises that were, up until right around Y2K, only associated with a rich history of success.
The Edmonton Oilers reached the postseason an astounding 20 times in their first 26 seasons, absolutely spoiling any young Wayne Gretzky fan who grew up in the dynasty years of the 1980s before seeing perennial playoff berths later on. After 1990's Stanley Cup title, it took another nine playoff berths before the Oilers reached the finals again, falling to the Carolina Hurricanes in seven games.
That was 2006. And they haven't returned since.
This shocking drought looks at the moment to continue another season with the Oilers currently sitting in third-to-last place in the Western Conference but, at third in the Northwest Division, the Oilers players know exactly how much ground they need to make up.
Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal was with Oilers captain Shawn Horcoff when asked if he thought 55 points were the magic number to make the postseason (Edmonton is currently at 29 points with 19 games remaining).
"OK, then, if that's what they say, around there. Fifty-four, 55 points," laughed Horcoff. "I don't want to focus on what we'd need to get there because I'd hate to do that, then reach, say, 55 and have that not be good enough. All I know is we've changed our focus and intensity. When you start getting close (to the playoffs), teams get better. That's a given."
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