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Kusina is the only Filipino restaurant in Canberra and it is a family owned restaurant. Kusina means Kitchen in Filipino. I have never tried Filipino food before so I was so excited about the visit.
Kusina Restaurant (My Rating: 8/10)
The service is extremely friendly here. The menu is not extensive, it is listed on just one page with dessert selections on another menu. We found it a bit tricky to choose which dish to order as the dishes on the menu are so unfamiliar to us and everything looks interesting.
|Pritong Talong $8
|Chicken Inasal $20 & Garlic Rice $3.50
Chicken Inasal was a dish of grilled chicken marinated in lemon grass, garlic, ginger and came with a bowl of their special soy sauce. I was not sure whether it was half chicken portion as it was not stated on the menu and I was too busy enjoying to pay attention to it. The chicken was so tender and was full of aromatic spices.
|Inihaw Na Isda $22
The spicy mango salsa consisted of cubes of ripened mangoes, lime juice, chopped red onion, baby eggplants and spring onion. The salsa was so fresh and complimented the snapper really well. The poor fish was left only with bones even the head part as my favourite part is the cheek. Chinese do consider fish cheek as a delicacy!
|Bicol Express $18.50


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Arthur Baldwin Turnure
Turnure, a former art director of Harper & Brothers, became Vogue's publisher; Harry McVickar, its art director and cover illustrator. The first editor in chief, Josephine Redding, chose the magazine's title on the basis of its definition in the Century Dictionary: "The mode or fashion prevalent at any particular time."[2] In the debut issue, Turnure boasted, "Vogue represents leading merchants and a class of trade of the highest order."[3] Its backers included Astors, Whitneys, Van Rensselaers, and Stuyvesants.
Unlike other women's publications of the day, which typically offered advice on the homely arts of sewing, cooking, and household economy—alongside illustrations of the latest hats and redingotes from London and Paris—Vogue was, in the early years, a slim weekly gazette that chronicled everything of interest to the Social Register set: weddings, debuts, parties, engagements, and club meetings. It also, of course, directed readers toward the best sources for the accoutrements of chic, with columns like "Seen in the Shops" (written by an assistant named Edna Woolman Chase, who would later become editor in chief) and "On Her Dressing Table." And it devoted much space to two other eternal Waspy preoccupations: athletics (Turnure's wife, Elizabeth, and sister-in-law, Marie Harrison, were champion golfers) and animals.
In its second issue, Vogue noted the engagement of Princess May of Teck to Queen Victoria's grandson the Duke of York, pronouncing the bride-to-be dowdy. It had no such reservations three years later about the new Duchess of Marlborough. Consuelo Vanderbilt's marriage to the duke was a sensation, and Vogue had detailed coverage and sketches ("No trousseau ever made in America has excited such interest in the world of fashion."[4])In 1904, the magazine began to struggle, and Turnure, who had recently been a heavy loser on the stock market, borrowed money from his mother's estate to keep Vogue afloat. One evening in the spring of 1906, he left his office feeling ill. Two days later, at the age of 49, he died suddenly of pneumonia. In his will, he left three things to his family: his Manhattan town house, a few hundred dollars, and Vogue. The magazine remained without a publisher until 1909, when it was bought by a young Midwesterner who was not part of the society circle but had a keen sense of quality and class: Condé Nast.
Arthur Baldwin Turnure born in New York City to David Mitchell Turnure and Mary S. Baldwin.
Graduates from Princeton and becomes a lawyer with the New York firm Vanderpoel, Green & Cummings. After a time he will quit practicing law to become art director of Harper & Brothers.
With eight others, founds New York's Grolier Club, dedicated to "the study, collecting, and appreciation of books and works on paper, their art, history, production, and commerce."[5]
Marries Elizabeth Harrison in New Rochelle, New York.
Leaves Harper & Brothers to found Vogue with friend Harry W. McVickar, an accomplished illustrator and great-grandson of Stephen Whitney. The journal costs ten cents an issue, and its 250 shareholders and subscribers include some of the richest and most connected members of the Four Hundred.
His wife and sister-in-law are pictured holding clubs in a story about society's new craze, golf.
A March issue is devoted to another fad, the bicycle. The magazine is now available at newsstands in cities around the world, where copies often sell out.
Son David Arthur Turnure born.
Fires Josephine Redding (who had never been a big fan of fashion, sports, or club news). As Harry W. McVickar had earlier departed, Turnure is left as the last of the original team, largely helming the magazine himself.
Introduces special fashion-themed double issues, twice a year—with color covers, and costing 25 cents each—to attract more fashion advertising. Hires his sister-in-law, Marie Harrison, to become Vogue's second editor in chief.
Vogue, celebrating its tenth anniversary, has 25,000 readers; by contrast, mass-market competitor Ladies' Home Journal has one million.
Ad man Condé Nast enters into negotiations to buy Vogue. (Nast sees it as an opportunity to test his theory of niche publishing—that more money can be made not by going after a larger circulation, but after a more selective one.)
Dies of pneumonia on April 13. Two weeks later, a Vogue editorial explains its lack of biographical data by stating, "No mere record of the events in the life of Arthur Turnure can adequately do justice to his character and personality."[6] Ownership passes to Turnure's widow and son. Marie Harrison and her young assistant, Edna Woolman Chase, keep the magazine running. "The going was often wobbly," Chase later writes, "but we managed to maintain and improve the property."[7]
Marie Harrison has few clear plans for Vogue's future. Negotiations with Condé Nast stall.
Circulation falls to 14,000. After four years of bargaining, Condé Nast becomes Vogue's new owner and publisher. Within five years—and with the acquisitions of House & Garden and Vanity Fair—Nast will have proved himself right about the commercial viability of "class" publishing.
In an article for the magazine's 30th-anniversary issue, Walter G. Robinson (the "Him" of Vogue's early "As Seen by Him" column) recalls Turnure as "a charming fellow" who "gathered about him an editorial staff that was socially 'in the know' " and later "reorganized Vogue on a sounder and more businesslike basis." Writes Robinson, "In short, Vogue kept up with the movement of the times, was always at the very front of the procession. . . . [T]he dernier cri of the week was always to be found in its pages. Never did it make a mistake in picking the modes, the manners, and the sports that were destined to become accepted."[8]
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"Statement," by Arthur B. Turnure. Vogue, December 17, 1892. http://archive.vogue.com/Desktop/#/18921217/16
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"Vogue." Vogue, December 17, 1892. http://archive.vogue.com/Desktop/#/18921217/2
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"Statement," by Arthur B. Turnure. Vogue, December 17, 1892. http://archive.vogue.com/Desktop/#/18921217/16
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"Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt's Trousseau." Vogue, November 14, 1895. http://archive.vogue.com/Desktop/#/18951114/317
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"A Brief History of the Grolier Club." GrolierClub.org. http://www.grolierclub.org/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=268768&ssid=136857&vnf=1
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"An Appreciation." Vogue, April 26, 1906. http://archive.vogue.com/Desktop/#/19060426/666
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Always in Vogue, by Edna Woolman Chase and Ilka Chase. New York: Doubleday, 1954.
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"And Now the Makers of Vogue," by Walter G. Robinson. Vogue, January 1, 1923. http://archive.vogue.com/Desktop/#/19230101/74


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The Louisiana Tobacco Control Program (LTCP) is a state program within the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) Office of Public Health's (OPH) Health Promotion Team.
This document was prepared to partially fulfill the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Public Health, Center for Environmental Health Services (CEHS) reporting obligations under U.S. Environmental Protection Agencies (USEPA) BEACH grant program, Federal Assistance Agreement Numbers CU-97606401-0, CU-976992-01 and CU-96667101-0.
This annual report summarizes Louisiana Tuberculosis cases/rates by parish.
This report describes vital events data reported on Louisiana's Vital Event Certificates of Live Birth, Spontaneous Fetal Deaths, Induced Termination of Pregnancy, Death, Marriage, and Divorce. Data collected on these certificates are used to describe year 2008 status and trends by race, gender and age groups.
Monitoring the health status of a population is an essential step in evaluating the effectiveness of various health programs and in developing programmatic policy for the future. Monitoring the status of a population relative to certain health indicators over a number of years is an especially effective tool for health planning. Act 985 of the 1995 Louisiana Regular Legislative Session, enacting R.S. 40:1300.71, requires that the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals annually prepare a report card relative to health and health-related issues.


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Joba continues rehab program, throwing off half-moundBy
Via the AP, Joba Chamberlain has started throwing off a half-mound as he continues his rehab from Tommy John surgery. He's been throwing off flat ground for a few weeks, but now he's starting to get elevated. He's right on schedule based on Mike Dodd's classic TJS article, and should begin throwing breaking balls pretty soon. Joba figures to return to the team in mid-June, a year out from surgery.
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And is expected to be stretched out right? Alright I will let it go…maybe.
I had the same thought. It's almost like, oh what is that phrase, a reset button?
I was wondering how many comments before a "Joba-back-to-the-rotation" comment would be made. I let it go last year, but now I'm back on the bandwagon.
How about a "Joba in rehab" comment?
/just kidding Joba-lovers
This may be a ridiculous question with a very common sense answer, but how is throwing off flat ground vs. mound anyone or less stressful for the arm?
Just a guess, but I would think the downward angle of the mound might be more stressful on the arm than simply moving your arm on flat ground.
This may be a ridiculous question with a very common sense answer, but how is throwing off flat ground vs. mound any more or less stressful for the arm?
can someone explain why its harder to throw off a mound than flat ground? i would have thought that throwing off a mound would be easier because of the gravity advantage.
Throwing off a mound puts more stress on the arm to "catch up" to the body, especially the lower half, as opposed to flat ground… That is why pitchers are able to throw harder on a mound than on flat gound, the mound forces more arm speed from the pitcher.
When Cashman was on with Francessa last week he said we shouldn't look for Joba until "…after June." I get the feeling Joba is not any kind of priority item for the team at this point. I don't think he'll be fast-tracked.
With all of the things the Yankees can do wrong, their approach to injury, surgery and rest is usually refreshingly conservative. I'm sure Joba's glad he's not rehabbing on the Mets. They'd probably pencil him in as the Opening Day starter.
At least he would be viewed as a starter.
Yes, it's essentially beating a dead horse, but I still see no reason why they wouldn't give Joba a shot to start. My guess is by June their bullpen will still be looking rock solid, and they'll have tons of arms available to fill any bullpen spot they may have.
If Joba is essentially an extra arm, why not give him some rehab starts in the minors and see what he's got? It's not like they'll be urgently needing his services in the bullpen when he's better.
The fact that everyone's thinking about returning Joba to a SP must mean that the front office and coaches have at least thought about it too right?
I'm sure they have even if they know it's not going to happen. That's just based on everyone not always agreeing on a certain thing.
Yanks have 7 SPs for a 5 man rotation. Do the math! Joba had his best days in the pen. Any Questions?


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The French minor may be gained while pursuing studies in Quebec through the New England-Quebec Program. Students may also satisfy requirements for the minor by taking upper-level independent study courses (FRE-4910) or FRE-3010, "Culture and Civilization through Correspondence and Conversation."


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Buying, hiring
If the federal government lowers tax rates on corporations, House Speaker John Boehner (CNN, Nov. 9) said, "We know that we will get more economic growth." This assertion is based on the claim that lowered business taxes will provide needed capital, which companies will invest in new employees to make new products, which people will buy, which provides more capital to make more products, and on and on. This is the wonderful business cycle. But it can work only if people have money to buy. Not enough people do.
But companies do have money. Many are awash in cash. They are not hiring because they do not have not enough customers. Therefore, rather than cut corporate taxes, as Boehner suggests, government should cut personal taxes. This will allow people to buy things and that will stimulate new hiring. And the cycle will start again.
Could it possibly be this simple?
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Heyns, Carvin Win At World Cup In Canada -- November 22, 1999
Triple breaststroke world record-holder Penny Heyns of South Africa was an easy winner in the women's 100m breaststroke and American Chad Carvin repeated his triumph in the 400m free on the first day of competition of World Cup II, held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Canada took the four-lap event in 1:07.78, well off her world record of 1:05.57, but more than a second ahead of Australia's Brooke Hanson and China's Qi Hui. Carvin who set an American and US Open record in the 400m free several days earlier at the World Cup meet at the University of Maryland, won again, clocking 3:46.00, to defeat Hungary's Bela Szabados and Canada's Mark Johnston.
Canadian Curtis Myden, the world's fastest 400m medley swimmer in 1999, outlasted America's Robert Margalis, a high school senior, and veteran Tom Wilkens to win his specialty in 4:15.98 Wilken's took the 200m breast in 2:12.94.
Canadian swimmers won five of the men's events and two of the women's. Mike Mitenko took the 50 fly in 24.33, Mark Versfeld won the 100 back in 53.74, Ryan Laurin edged teammate Mark Johnston in the 100 free with his 49.34, while Shamek Pietucha's 1:58.10 led a Canadian sweep of the 200 fly.
Kelly Stefanyshyn dominated the women's 200m backstroke, her 2:08.06 more than four seconds in front of Spain's Nina Zhivanevskaya in second, while Karine Chevrier led another Canadian sweep in winning the 100m fly in one minute flat.
Zhivanevskaya, a former Russian national champion, took the 50 back in 28.31.
Romania's Beatrice Caslaru continued her ownership of the 200 IM, winning handily in 2:11.84, well in front of world record-holder Chen Yan of China and Commonwealth record-holder Marianne Limpert. Britain's Alison Sheppard won the 50 free (25.69), Sweden's Josefin Lillhage took the 200 free (1:58.73) and Holland's Carla Guerts emerged the winner in the 800 free (8:37.36).
Men's winners included world record-holder Mark Warnecke of Germany in the 50 breast (27.89) and Peter Mankoc of Slovenia in the 100 IM in a fast 55.40.


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Supernatural Episode 710
"Death's Door"
Written By: Sera Gamble
Directed By: Robert Singer
Original Airdate: 2 December 2011
In This Episode...
The boys rush Bobby to the hospital. Doctors don't have a good prognosis, but they finally stabilize him. The bullet is lodged in Bobby's brain, but it didn't shatter - the best case scenario in a worst case scenario.
Bobby's consciousness is flitting around crazily through his own memories. He comes face-to-face with his reaper who tells him he can't run from him. Bobby gives it a try anyways. He finds Rufus, who has faced the same comatose state. Rufus tells him the only way to find the door out is to go into the deepest, darkest memories, the ones he buried beneath all the other crap until he forgot it was there. They can't stop the reaper, but they can slow him down a little, by trapping him a symbol. Their first visit is to Bobby's wife, Karen, and a horrible fight they had just three days before she was possessed. She wanted kids; he didn't, and it broke her heart. Bobby says that, more than having to plunge a dagger into her heart, his deepest regret is this fight, and not being able to make amends for it. We see a happy memory, too: Bobby taking young Dean out for a game of catch instead of weapons training. Of course, John later gives him hell for it. Then Bobby confronts that deepest, darkest memory: a drunk, abusive father and a frightened mother who blamed her husband's behavior on Bobby. But it wasn't the memory of his father that was his darkest; it was the memory of murdering his father that was. When dad grabs mom by the hair and drags her to her feet, young Bobby levels a shotgun at his dad. When dad taunts his son, Bobby pulls the trigger, hitting his dad in the forehead, the exact same place Bobby was shot.
The reaper comes for Bobby again, but he rushes for the door and is absorbed into light. Back in the real world, Sam and dean are spending a few moments with Bobby before he is rushed into surgery. Bobby wakes, and writes his all-important numbers on Sam's hand. Back in Bobby's head, the reaper tells him it is his last chance. The darkness that had been spreading across the dream world was closing in; this was the bullet killing off his brain cells and with it, his memories. The reaper promises Bobby that the boys will be okay without him; this house is his last remaining memory. "Then I'm glad it's a good one," Bobby says, and sits down on the couch with Sam and Dean, who are bickering about snacks on movie night. Bobby smiles at the two... then they fade away. The reaper opens up his pocket watch: "Stay or go?" The watch ticks as the picture fades to black.
Dig It or Bury It?
I hate it when shit gets real. Tonight, it got real. The only upside is that, in Supernatural, no one is ever really dead. Rather, just because a character dies doesn't mean they will never be back. Half the characters on this show are dead.
This was my least favorite episode this season. Partly because I don't like dealing with "feelings" and "emotions." Yeah, I'll admit it - it was sad. But also, I found it a little chaotic, choppy, and frankly tiring.
Spooky Humor
Well, not so much funny as it is sweet and fitting: Bobby's last word to the boys. After he wakes and writes the numbers on Sam's hand, he murmurs "Idjits" with a smile before he flatlines.
Sibling Rivalry
Dean plays the protective big brother when a hospital rep pulls him aside to speak to Mr. Singer's next of kin about what they want to do with his organs. This infuriates Dean, he tells off the nerdy administrator, and goes outside to cool off. When Sam asks Dean what the administrator wanted, Dean tells him the guy was just an "insurance mook."
On a more lighthearted note, in one of Bobby's memories, the boys are arguing over who is a better action hero. Dean says Chuck Norris; Sam says Jet Li. Personally, I'd go with Schwarzenegger.
Supernatural is down until January. I suspect that the boys will grieve over the break, then when we come back they will obsess over the meaning of Bobby's scribbled numbers. Then apparently they take on film noir vampires.


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Semiauto Action
Kalashnikov, Gas
Operated, Rotating Bolt
RPK Type with Extra
20.5 (520mm) Long
Hammer-Forged, and Chrome-Lined
Overall Length
39.75 (1000mm)
9.0 lbs. (4082 grams)
Feeding Devices
Detachable Box Magazines
and Drums
Nylon with Glass Fiber
Scope Mounting
Scope Mounting Bracket on
Left Side. Scope Mount Not Incl.
Although the VEPR II is billed as a hunting rifle I am pleased to report it takes all of the available high capacity magazines including drums. These rifles have there receivers and other major components manufactured overseas they are then shipped to Robinson Arms who assembles them and adds high quality American made parts to comply with ATF regulations. Because it uses the required number of American parts, surplus foreign made magazines can be used The resulting rifle is in my opinion the best-stamped receiver AK-47 variant currently available. Why is it so much better you may ask?
Well to start with the stamped receiver they use is not actually an AK its a RPK receiver. The RPK is the heavier barreled machinegun cousin of the AK-47. The walls of the receiver are 50% thicker. In addition during the assembly a longer and reinforced trunnion is used. It is my understanding that the trunnion is the part that mates the barrel to the receiver. So all of the heavier duty (thicker and reinforced parts) make for a more stable action which makes for much greater accuracy, as well as significantly adding to the overall service life of the rifle. AK-47 type rifles are most deservedly know for their reliability, which is a function of their simplicity. However they are nearly as well known for not being very accurate. My SAR1 I think was a shinning example of this it suffered no mechanical failures and only twice did it ever fail to fire in approximately 3,500 rounds. Both times magazine problems were the issue. It was fairly accurate for the first two or three rounds when fired cold. After these initial rounds though it went down hill from there.
The VEPR II however appears to be consistently much more accurate. I purchased the rifle on a Friday afternoon, and was field testing early in the afternoon the next day. I had loaded up 140 rounds with which to test my new rifle. After a thorough cleaning. I began with checking the sights from a distance of 7-10 yards. With a friend to call out where I was printing on the paper, I fired a few shot strings at this distance it was firing low. As I raised the sights I began to start seeing my shots hit the lower portion of a six-inch pie plate. I could see the first two or three shots that hit the plate. I took aim again trying to regain the center of the plate and raise up a bit to strike the dead center of the plate, but what happened was I had not compensated enough I had found center but was still low. My observing friend called to me after a little hesitation he remarked that I was making the center low hole from my first shot string into one ragged hole. By this he meant that I was firing through the same hole. We decided that the sights were on as far as windage was concerned so we doubled the distance and fired a few more shot strings. Happy with them we backed up to 100 yards. After a few volleys at 100 yards I was still hitting low so we decided to adjust the sights.
The VEPR II has adjustable sights the rear can be adjusted for both windage and elevation. We moved it from its rear most setting to what we thought was the 100-yard mark. With the sights adjusted it seemed to printing fairly tight groups however I noticed that they were stringing vertically. I had been informed that this is fairly common ailment and that it is due to improper breath control. This is something I need to work on. Before to long I had depleted all the rounds I had loaded. The only ammo I had on hand was some hunting rounds I had bought the day before. The last group of the day proved that the gun had maintained it's accuracy. After being warmed up nicely, I had managed to get five out of eleven on a six-inch pie plate at 100 yards. The hits were vertically strung from the top to bottom of the plate. They were less than an inch from dead center and the distance between the outer most two of the group was only 1.75 inches. I was very happy.
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Maryland lost, but the college football world kept on spinning. Here's our ballot for who should be where in the top 25. And yes, a lot of the stuff doesn't make sense. Rank Team D...
Much like last week, I didn't spend too much time on this week's ballot. So again, please critique and tell me where I got it wrong. Rank Team Delta 1 Florida 2 Alabama 1 3 ...
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High marks to the authoritarian statists for their victory this past Tuesday.
Whatever else one may say about the Democratic Party, it is a cunning operation. Its representatives, apologists, and courtiers managed to identify and convince just over half of the electorate that top-down government intervention in nearly aspect of economic and personal life is forward progress, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. That electorate has embraced that against which our forefathers rebelled.
Perhaps nothing better encapsulates our future of federal government-managed life as the New York City office of the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA). Despite not being able to solve the basic problems that are afflicting our countrymen in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, a sign last week hung on its door reading "Closed for the Weather." This is the type of institution to which we wish to transfer power and authority? Can you imagine a sign on the door of the barracks at Valley Forge reading "Closed for the Weather"? What have we become? We have become lazy, dependent, and meek. Well, some of us have.
If those cheering the election of the likes of Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren as if the Patriots had won another Super Bowl believe that constitutional conservatives will go meekly into the night in the face of such sloth and powermongering, they have another thing coming.
The statist agenda relies and depends upon the compliance of the citizenry and state and local governments. Governors and legislators must protect themselves from the encroachment of the federal government as the 10th Amendment permits them to do. The individual states must, for example, resist the creation of exchanges to implement the all-encompassing and devastating health care legislation rammed down the country's throat by Obama and a Congress that was booted out in 2010. Otherwise, as Justice Anthony Kennedy correctly warned in June, the fundamental relationship between the citizen and the government will become inalterably changed – and not for the good. Dictated regulations and judge-made law should not be respected. Do not comply.


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By Shirley Ramsey
The Norman Transcript
NORMAN — Southern homes and buildings often served as hiding places for goods or money, buried by soldiers afraid of being captured. Sometimes family members hid belongings to keep them safe. Many never found the goods thereafter.
Monica wishes to refinish an old travel trunk dating back to her great-grandmother's travels. Her aunt, who lives alone in the old family home, never cares about what is in the storage shack. Monica searches through the old travel trunk, hoping to empty it. To her surprise, she finds an aging map.
"I found this stuck to the bottom of the old trunk," she tells her aunt. "Do you think it means anything?"
"I doubt it. Someone hid their money and already dug it up. Don't you think so?"
"What if it shows you have buried treasure somewhere around here?"
"May be your great-grandmother, since it was her trunk."
Monica decides to follow the "X" on the map. She digs a deep hole. She almost quits. Then she sees something. She quickly digs it up. It's a rusty box. The lock comes off easily.
Monica catches her breath. Gold and silver coins, even expensive jewels. She sifts them through her fingers. Unbelievable. She shows her find to her aunt.
"That box might have a curse on it," Aunt Minnie says. "It could be Indian gold and jewels. Maybe it belonged to a fleeing jewel thief. I wouldn't feel safe a minute keeping it, would you?"
Monica shivers imagining all that. She buries the box in the same hole and hides the map.
Monica refinishes the old trunk and sells it for a good price. She decides to look for the tin box again, thinking maybe the box has value. She is scared when the tin box with its contents is missing.
Her Aunt knows nothing about it.
"Probably a ghost from the past," she comments. "Or someone was watching you."
Shared experiences matter. Even when the unexpected happens, most folks hope not to be alone.
Claudia and Martin travel home to visit relatives each summer from California. One time, they decide to drive by the place a youth center once stood that they helped build. Even though had been warned, they were shocked to see it completely destroyed.
"We moved the church and youth center to a brick building after the big storm," her dad explains. "That 'big one' flattened the former church and pushed it over onto the center."
Claudia cries to hear that.
"It's sad to think of all the hours everyone spent building and finishing the center. All of it gone in a matter of seconds."
"Yes, it's a sad thing," Martin agrees.
"Anyway, as the saying goes it's an ill wind that blows no one any good," her dad says. "When the old building blew over onto the center, it unearthed a great deal of money in bags. Talk about surprise. But no one claimed it, so we built the new church with it."
Go figure.
Shirley Ramsey, a retired professor of journalism, lives in Norman.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Retail foot traffic between Thursday and Sunday rose 8.4% to more than 594 million store visits, signaling retailers' earlier promotions and longer store openings may have paid off in the kick off of the holiday season sales on Black Friday weekend, ShopperTrak said on Tuesday. In another positive note, retail sales also rose 2.7% to $22 billion from $21.4 billion last year even though Friday sales were down. The four-day weekend last year represented 8.6% of the total industry holiday sales in November and December last year. ShopperTrak said traffic also rose Monday through Wednesday before Thanksgiving. "This indicates that some retailers are turning 'Black Friday' into a week-long event, and more consumers are visiting stores earlier in the week," ShopperTrak's Bill Martin said, adding the four-day weekend marked a strong start to the 32-day shopping period between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Science Date Ideas
- Play a sport that involves science. Okay, so there is science in all sports, but bowling, billiards, and darts allow you to gauge momentum and consider trajectories and all that fun math stuff. Ice skating involves friction and angular momentum and possibly some experience with the effects of gravity.
- Play a science-y board game together. My personal favorites are Nuclear War and its add-on, Nuclear Annihilation. Risk and chess are other great choices.
- Visit a museum, zoo, or planetarium, or catch a laser light show.
- Experiment with cryogenic materials together. Dipping flowers in liquid nitrogen is romantic, right? Pretty much anything involving liquid nitrogen or dry ice is fair game. If that sounds dangerous, you could always enjoy Dippin' Dots (dry ice temperature) ice cream together.
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In honor of Wayne's homecoming, Timbaland unleashed a lost verse he'd recorded for "Talk That," a track he did with T-Pain. Boy I talk shit like I swallowed a bathroom. Perfect is a fine line and Wayne forever tiptoes the right side of it. He's a monster, every day is Halloween, etc.
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The Ultimate Hot Rodder's Garage Package from Costco for a garage like Jay Leno's
Auto-enthusiasts and collectors have been known to pour multi-million dollars to create a garage where they can safely park their expensive and exotic cars. And this becomes very much apparent after seeing Jay Leno's The Big Dog Garage, which is not a mere garage but a gallery, a museum and a giant archive of the best-of-the-best cars. Now for the likes of such car enthusiasts and Hot Rodders who would like to upgrade their garages to a professional level, Costco.com offers the Ultimate Hot Rodder's Garage Package. Billed as a dream come true garage package, it features the Motofloor Garage Tiles for your garage to give it more of a professional garage look, and a 2-ton capacity breakdown engine crane with high-tech jack stands and a jack, along with all handcrafted aluminum Kirkham Motorsports 427 KMS/SC component vehicle to park in your high-end professional garage.
Speaking about the Kirkham Motorsports 427 KMS/SC roadsters, these beauties were originally developed in a former Polish MiG fighter factory, where skilled craftsmen had generations of experience in fabricating high-performance fighter jets. But it should be kindly noted that this powerful ride doesn't include an engine and transmission.
The Ultimate Hot Rodder's Garage Package notably includes a NewAge 6pc garage cabinet system, 456 sq. ft of black & white Motofloor Garage tiles, with the choice of color, one BigHorn 36 ECB safe, one FlowWall ladder hook, a Racor Extreme ladder lift, and one Trinity 41" stainless steel toolbox, along with one 2-ton capacity breakdown engine crane, jack stands and one 3.5 ton capacity low lift height jack.
Besides, we have also seen some of the most expensive garages, including the Britain's most expensive garage which was listed for $847,820, offering 6-meter space in Knightsbridge, an ultra-expensive residential area, and the $6 million Subterranean garage which has a built-in hydraulic lift, and the 'Autospace' garages for your coveted cars, to name a few.
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Are we witnessing Hermentum? Hermantum? Hermanentum?
Herman Cain thinks so. And for once, he has some numbers to back him up.
The latest Gallup poll, released Thursday, showed Cain, the former honcho of a pizza chain, outpolling, among others, Tim Pawlenty, the two-term governor of Minnesota, and Michele Bachmann, the fiery congresswoman from Minnesota, among Republican presidential aspirants.


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Well The old Murry lasted 13 years it still mows but not to well. So My wife and I went to tractor supply becuase the cub dealer desided to take the weekend off and I got a brand new GT 1554 for my aniversery. I hear alot of you say that the 1000 series are junk and go to the 2000 series or up but I just could not aford that . I did however make sure I got the GT instead of the LT model. And hopefully if I take care of it like I did the murry it will give me years of mowing enjoyment. I have about 2 + acres of straight hills to mow. Any advise on anything to do to her while shes new. Coat the deck or anything like that. I am going to go through and check all the bolts, Nuts and greese fittings along with deck ride height and such and give the steel a good coat of wax first. But how about the fiberglass,Tires ,Seat and like that any recomendations?
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Campaign funds
I find it amazing that during the last election the Democrats and the media — oops, that's one and the same, sorry — complained about all the money coming in from superPACs and the Supreme Court allowing such groups to contribute to candidates. Yet the Democrats have been taking money from the unions for years. What's the difference? At least with the superPACs the contributors know to whom the money is going and agree with that. But the union membership has no say at all.
Stop whining
Regarding the comment "Take their money": What part of the title does the Sound Off caller not understand? It is their money! It doesn't matter how much they have or if they are keeping it in paper bags in the closet gathering dust. It is their money, not ours or yours. People, who for some reason or the other just have not done well, seem to think that the fact that someone has more than they do means the government should take it away. Why? So, yes maybe 1 percent of the population has a lot of bucks. So what! I wonder if the writer wins the lottery he would give it all to me! You think? It doesn't matter how old you are, stop your whining make some money of your own. Look at the Kennedys. Bootlegging was their way and look at them now.
Public unions
The unions in this country especially the public unions should be appalled at their savage behavior to the Fox News commentator in Michigan yesterday. The unions of today more accurately represent the Communist Party, which will use force, intimidation and violence to get what it wants. The public unions have come to no good in this country and should all be abolished. They all are over-compensated for what they do and public unions continue to drain the taxpayers with all their unreasonable demands. They are truly outrageous organizations.
Good God, there is no accounting for American stupidity. The Justice Department antitrust monopoly breakups included Standard Oil and AT&T. A&P was not among them. Neither Wal-Mart nor A&P will be broken up because there are thousands of other choices for food and household goods. A&P self destructed by staying with small neighborhood grocery stores while other companies jumped on the self-serve supermarket concept. A&P got on the bandwagon when it was too late. They still exist as a much smaller footprint in the New York City/New Jersey trading area. They pulled out of Boston and Cape Cod in the 1980s.


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MANATEE -- Trailer Estates Park and Recreation District has sent a property owner a cease and desist letter regarding a website used to provide information to residents of the mobile home community on Sarasota Bay.
The letter, authored by Fred Moore of Blalock and Walters to Daniel Smith, is dated Aug. 16.
In response, Smith said he is willing to turn the site over to the district -- if it pays him $40,000.
In the letter, Smith, who has owned a Trailer Estate property for 13 years, is told to transfer ownership of his www.trailerestates.org website to the district.
Using his personal resources, Smith said, he created the website three years ago "to provide information to the residents of Trailer Estates about activities, events and conditions in their area."
The website lists public documents related to Trailer Estates, weather conditions and other news about the area.
The letter also demands Smith quit using "Trailer Estates" in any domain name as well as "other items that could confuse the public into believing that your website is an any way affiliated with Trailer Estates," such as logos.
Smith said the district, which is a public governmental entity, had no official website three years ago, so he created one at the request of fellow residents. The district recently launched its own site using the address of www.trailerestatesfl.com.
"I put it together with the idea to turn it over to the board," Smith said, adding that he offered to train people to operate it.
He said the board showed no interest in the website until recently when it became a point of discussion at meetings. Smith said the website does not criticize or editorialize in its content.
The developing interest may be due to the website publishing court documents from a recent civil suit filed by two residents and won by the district regarding open meeting laws, he said. Smith's wife was one of the co-plaintiffs on the case, but he said he was not involved with the suit.
"My feeling is they don't like the fact they can't control it, even though it's nothing critical," Smith said, adding that there are several ongoing issues at Trailer Estates.
Smith, who resides in Michigan during the summer, sent a letter of response dated Aug. 31.
Smith denies using the domain and website in "bad faith with the sole purpose of being to harass the officers, directors and agents of Trailer Estates," as alleged in the cease and desist letter.
Smith states he should not be prohibited from using a legally owned domain name containing the generic words of "trailer" and "estates."
Smith concludes that he "should not be coerced into giving over private, legally owned personal property through the intimidation and threat of legal action."
No direct contact was made to Smith regarding concerns about his website prior to the cease and desist letter, Smith said.
"The thing that really surprised me, and the thing that makes me the most angry is they're not only asking me to stop publishing it, they're asking me to turn over the rights to them and they're doing it with the threat of a lawsuit," he said.
Smith said he refuses to be bullied into forfeiting his right to free speech.
"If they follow up with a lawsuit, I'm skilled enough to make the initial answer on my own," said Smith, who did ample research before drafting his six-page response to the cease and desist letter. "It's going to very quickly get more expensive than I can handle. I will fight it as long as I can afford it."
Smith plans to seek help from First Amendment organizations and the ACLU as he awaits the district's next step.
After reading his response and getting his side of the story, Smith believes the attorneys may realize charges against him are unfounded.
Moore said that decision will be left to the board. Chairwoman Gail Opper deferred comment to attorneys.
Moore said Smith "has got every right to publish and discuss what's going on there," but the similarity between the two websites creates confusion, which is the board's overall concern.
Moore would not say why the issue is being brought up three years after Smith's website was launched.
Smith makes assertions of his own in his response, stating the district is trying to defame him with accusations that he stole the website he bought, created, and later offered to the district free of charge.
As a proposed solution, Smith said for a one-time sum of $40,000 he would transfer all rights and information associated with the website to the district.
The offer stands until Sept. 15.
Elizabeth Johnson, Herald crime reporter, can be reached at 941-745-7041. Follow her on Twitter @EJohnsonBHcrime.


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Tim Kaine Expected to Broaden Democratic Appeal as DNC Chair
Party officials say he's likely to build on Howard Dean's model of expanding the Democratic base.
By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers
Expectations that Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine will be installed as chairman of the Democratic National Committee by President-elect Barack Obama suggest strongly that the party headquarters will continue the move by outgoing Chairman Howard Dean to expand the party beyond its old 18-state model. Party officials say Obama's pick of Kaine indicates that the new president both wants to reward and recognize support from traditionally GOP states like Kaine's Virginia and to expand the party's march into Republican territory. Kaine backed Obama very early in the Democratic primaries and helped to turn the home of the Confederacy into a Democratic state that backed Obama in the general election. The officials said that Kaine would be the second party chairman to move away from the old, urban-state-based approach of sustaining support in 18 key states to a more expansive approach that is likely to include outreach in southern states and traditional Republican strongholds like Texas. One official said that like Obama and Dean, Kaine understands the value in toning down the harsh partisan rhetoric while reaching out to new voters. Dean's move was controversial four years ago, but now even his critics give him credit for rebuilding the party in all 50 states, a move that the Obama campaign was able to piggyback off in its 2008 victory.


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You wouldn't know it just from seeing Robert Griffin III's six carries for 63 rushing yards on Sunday's stat sheet from the Redskins' 28-18 win over Dallas, but he obviously still is hobbled by the mildly sprained lateral collateral ligament in his right knee.
"I was a little disappointed yesterday because he only averaged 10.5 yards per carry," coach Mike Shanahan joked Monday. "I was hoping he would average a little bit more."
Shanahan made his point well. It's not that he believes Griffin is operating at full capacity; it's that Griffin is still effective despite being unable to cut and run as explosively as he could before the injury.
Those limitations probably result from a combination of factors, including the injured knee ligament and the brace he must wear on his knee.
"The doctors say he's 100 percent," Shanahan said. "We don't have to worry about him re-injuring that LCL. The brace helps him at least mentally know that he's not putting too much pressure on it. I think sometimes that's why he looks a little bit different when he does cut. I think it bothers him just a hair, but it's something that he has to wear."
Griffin will be four weeks removed from the injurious tackle when the Redskins host Seattle in the Wild Card round of the playoffs on Sunday. That's a significant amount of time to heal, especially for a Grade 1 sprain, which is the least severe. But for now, at least, it remains an issue.
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Produced by DreamWorks Theatricals and Neal Street Productions, Shrek The Musical is based on the story and characters from William Steig's book Shrek! and the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation. (Here are 5 Things You Didn't Know About the 'Shrek' Series.)
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Man, Don Trip's "Letter to my Son" is the depressing train that just keeps chugging, huh? Here it is in its newest iteration, with an added hook from Cee-Lo. Circa 1995, this would be the exact kind of song that he would sound at home on, but now it seems weird. Like, this dude judges people's singing skills on that one show, and now he's back doing this! Still, if Cee-Lo is looking for inspiration for that rumored next Goodie Mob album, he could definitely do a billion times worse than hanging out with Don Trip.
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Frank Henenlotter is a dirty old man - and I mean that in the nicest, most complimentary way possible. Best known for directing cult trash like Basket Case and Frankenhooker, he now puts most of his energy into finding and preserving classic sleaze with Something Weird Video. Genial and the first to laugh at himself, Frank is one of the most knowledgeable people I have ever met on the subject of grindhouse cinema. On the eve of the release of his own trash treasure Basket Case on Blu-Ray - something which still boggles Frank's mind - Frank graciously took time from editing a new documentary to speak to me about Basket Case, Something Weird Video, and the sleazy days of 42nd Street.
What are you editing?
A documentary on sex education films. Forty years of non-Hollywood sex in the cinema, from theatrical releases to peep-show loops. It's monstrous and rather hilarious. The whole thing is made up of exceptions to the rules, rather than the same old boring shots. We have found stuff that is unbelievable. There is nothing stranger than seeing a beautiful naked woman, indoors, wearing a scuba mask and flippers. I don't understand it, but we've got it!
When will this project be ready to go?
I am hoping I will finish it by the end of this year - before it finishes me - and hopefully it will go out to the festivals next year. I think it's gonna do great. MGM used to have a saying: "More stars than in heaven." No one remembers that saying, but if they did, I would have called this film More Tits Than in Heaven. I think that is the way to sell this. The amount of crackpot nudity is what makes this work. You sit there going, "I don't get it... why is she fondling a paper skeleton?" The film goes from 1929 and finishing at the birth of porn - which we don't want to get into.
Where did you find all this stuff?
It's all in the archives of Something Weird Video. I don't think people are aware of the amount of stuff we have. We have all these peep loops from the original negatives. It's just amazing.
Are you surprised at the long-running popularity of Basket Case?
I have always been surprised, and I continue to be surprised. Honestly. [When I made the film] I told everybody, "Don't worry; it cost $35,000 to make the film. We'll make our money back." We were making a movie that was going to be shown on 42nd Street [the infamous strip of Times Square in New York that was the birthplace of grindhouse, sleaze, and midnight movies before the state cleaned it up in the early 1990s and "Disney-fied" the area to be more tourist-friendly], and then it would be forgotten about. And that was fine with me. It was easier than thinking I had a legacy in front of me. When it played the Waverly Theatre here in New York at midnight, I thought "Uh-oh." I would walk past it every day... for two and a half years! And each time, I would shake my head and say, "I don't get it." I still don't get it. I'm not complaining, but I really don't understand the lasting popularity of the film. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that we would be doing a high-definition release.
What kind of work went in to putting this Blu-Ray together?
A lot. Most of the work went into finding a lab that was comfortable with what I wanted, and to let me sit in on it. It's the first time I ever transferred one of my own films, and I sat there with the colorist. I don't know why no one asked me [when re-releasing Frankenhooker] to comment on a couple shots in that thing. But I never get asked. I own Basket Case, so I can put my foot down and do it my way. The lab understood what I wanted: the film is a cartoon, and I wanted to colors really pumped up. Mostly what I wanted was to restore the film to the way it first looked when we made the first 16mm prints. I remember shooting a film that was very bright and colorful. I was horrified when I saw the 35mm theatrical prints, which were dark, murky, dirty... I couldn't believe it was the same film. It certainly wasn't the film I made. I hated the look of the film for years. I hated the theatrical prints, I hated the VHS release. It wasn't until we did the first digital master that I was able to put some of the color back in. But now with this release... I found the original 16mm negatives. They are missing a couple pieces that were taken out for the sequels. I also found one of the 16mm release prints, missing the first reel. But we were able to take this stuff and compare it to the 35mm positive, which was virtually identical. What a relief! The negatives looked identical except for the size. As we were doing the [conversion], any time we had a question, we would just go right back to the 16mm and match it.
Back when I had just finished Basket Case, I was editing it and I was unhappy with the night scenes. I shot them wrong. So I asked the lab if they could put in a subtle blue tint. They did, and it looked great! Then somehow when we did the 35mm blowup - because it wasn't built into the negative, it kind of disappeared. So now it's back. I didn't change anything in the negative, but I changed everything on the negative. Dirt on top? Got rid of it. On the other hand, if there are shots where you can see a hair sticking out or dirt in the gate - I didn't touch that. That was there since day one, so that is the film.
That's awesome. You're not George Lucas-ing it.
Nope. I will not do that. I will not remove grain or add grain. That's it - that's the film. All I wanted to do was preserve it, and bring it back to what it looked like when I finished it in 16mm. That's the film. Everything else - the way it looked theatrically, the way it looked on VHS - that was tampering with it. Just keep polishing that turd!
For someone who doesn't "get" the appeal of his film, you sure speak of it with passion and joy.
Oh yeah! That is an extension of me. I didn't want a career in films, but that is my personality in films. Don't misunderstand - I am happy with the film. The fact that anyone else is, baffles me! I can't imagine why someone else would like the film or think its funny. I wasn't trying to make a film that appealed to everyone. I wasn't trying to go mainstream. I was trying to make it commercial, but commercial and mainstream are two separate things. It just has to make money for it to be commercial. For it to be mainstream, it has to be watered down. "We have to sell Belial dolls, so we need a PG rating so the kids can see it." Now I wish we had manufactured Belial dolls - we could have made some money! That's what made George Lucas rich - not the damn films, but the merchandise.
It's never too late! Your core audience are the ones who buy the most toys nowadays.
Well, maybe. I don't know. I took time off from filmmaking for 16 years. I got my toe back into it with Bad Biology. So the recluse has at least opened the door. A bit.
Why did you take so much time off?
I don't really have good answers for my life. I never intended to just walk away from it, but I didn't like where things were going. When I quit, the exploitation film market was dying. The theatres were closing up.
That was when they cleaned up Times Square, right?
Yes. Early 1990s. The company that financed me died a year after Basket Case 3. For me to continue to make films commercially, I would have to make mainstream films, and that was at a point when I wanted to go crazier. So I figured it was time to take off and do something else. I didn't abandon film, though, because I got involved with Something Weird Video. So I was happy restoring other people's films - as happy as I was making one. I don't know, I just don't think about things like that. It wasn't like, "Gee, I haven't made a film in a while..." By the same token, me coming back to do Bad Biology was as earth-shatteringly casual as making Basket Case. When I was making Basket Case, it was Edgar Ivans who said, "Hey, let's make a commercial film." And I said, "Okay." So when R.A. Thorburn came to me and asked if I wanted to make another commercial film [Bad Biology], I said, "Okay." If I was writing my own story into a film, I would have to embellish.
Do you feel that exploitation filmmaking has come full circle in a sense? When you started, exploitation was a huge moneymaker, then it died out, but now there is a resurgence.
It's not coming back, but there seems to be some interest now. Films are so mainstream now; there has to be people out there who want to look at something different. Not too many, but enough to sustain another release of my idiot films.
I can't believe Basket Case is still selling. I can't believe it is going to have a high-def release. I got [the disc] in the mail two days ago. I looked at the box and just thought, "Oh my god, what the fuck is wrong with this picture?" And I know I'll do the same with Frankenhooker: shake my head in bewilderment.
Did the blu-ray come out the way you wanted it to?
Oh yeah. Very much so. Every shot in the film, I would ask if we could tweak this way or that, and most of the time, the answer was, "No, Frank, that's how you shot it." I accept that. But there were plenty of times I would say, "What about this?" and they would say, "Yeah, that'll work." I was very happy with how it came out. I really was. It looks like the film I shot. Talk about a long birth process! I finished it in 1981, and now, 30 years later, it looks right.
Well, that can be good and bad.
Part of the problem was that we didn't even know where the negative was! We lost it! I've made a career with Something Weird Video to find lost films. Then I turn around and lose my own? What the hell! It's very embarrassing. Edgar and I have been looking for the negative for years.
Where did you find it?
At my mother's home. One of my brothers called me up and said, "Did you know you've got some film boxes up here?" I got really excited and asked if it was Basket Case. He said it was labeled Brain Damage. I told him I'd come out and look at them next time I was out there. So I do, and it says X amount of cans of Brain Damage. I'm looking at the box, thinking it was awfully big for only four cans of Brain Damage. I reach in and feel 35mm, 35mm... then, I feel 16mm! I tore it out and screamed, "YES! I found it!" So that is why we were able to [restore it]. Last time I was out in Los Angeles, visiting with Image Entertainment, I told them I wanted to do a high-def transfer of Basket Case. Everyone in the room got quiet. I said, "Yes, I know! But I have the 16mm negative." And everyone relaxed.
So that's that. It's out. It's selling. It's cheap.
Just like the original.
The list price is $17.95 - what's there to complain about? And The Godfather of Gore comes out the same day. Actually, so does the Blood trilogy! That's a lot of absolutely worthless film for your valuable money.
When I was first getting into exploitation films, it was the mid 1990s, and I read every book and magazine I could find on the subject, but it was incredibly hard to get copies of the actual films. I had my stash of illegal bootlegs of course. Now the films are so easy to get... but a little part of me misses what I'm sure you miss about 42nd Street - the griminess and seediness.
Yeah. I have a thousand and one wonderful stories about 42nd Street, but ultimately, all that really matters is the film. It doesn't matter if you saw it on 42nd Street or if you are seeing it now. For years and years, I was too young to see those sexploitation films, and then they disappeared - where could you see them? So I've been thrilled that, with Something Weird, we've been able to find them. Mike Vraney, who runs Something Weird, didn't see these until we got them! That's half the fun of it. We have this huge film vault now with all these abandoned films. Films that were going to be tossed out. Nobody cared, nobody wanted them, the companies are gone, there are no copyrights on them... all just sitting there, rotting away. Somebody had to take them! I remember the excitement of going through those titles, telling Mike, "I've got a film here called The Monster of Camp Sunshine! Does that sound like a horror/nudist camp movie to you? Could we be that lucky?" Then I would look in other tins and I found The Curious Dr. Hump. It was very exciting. We were in this one vault for two days.We loaded up a truck with a couple hundred films. We didn't think we left anything behind, and just as we are walking to the door, I look back... and I see the negative for Cotton Pickin' Chicken Pickers. If I didn't save it, no one would - despite the obvious: that no one did want it. I can't let any exploitation die, not even Cotton Pickin' Chicken Pickers.
What are some of the other films that Something Weird has coming up that you are really excited about?
We don't know yet. We have a list of titles we are playing with because we have the negatives. We have to make a decision by November. Every day that Mike and I talk, we change our mind about what we want to put out next. I know we want to do Bloody Pit of Horror and Horror of Spider Island. I know we want to do Godmonster of Indian Flats and She-Freak. I know we want to do The Wizard of Gore and The Gore-Gore Girls. We don't have negatives on either of those, so we have to find the best-looking theatrical print, and of course there will be people who will complain that [lowers voice secretively] there is a frame or two that has a scratch.
[For the remaster of Two Thousand Maniacs] we went back to the negative - as soon as we opened the can, we smelled vinegar. The original negative of Two Thousand Maniacs is no more. That is why we had to go to a print. So if you don't like scratches, maybe we should have just not put it out. Of course, every person who ever saw Two Thousand Maniacs at the drive-in saw tons of scratches. That's what film is! Emulsion on plastic!
Especially with exploitation films - you want and expect that "dirtiness."
It was a part of life. I think we've gotten to a silly stage of denying what film is. Can you imagine, back in the day, if I was on 42nd Street and went running to the manager, demanding my money back because I saw a speckle? He would have had the ushers throw me out! It's just unrealistic.
So far the advance numbers on these three discs have been exceedingly good, so we are hoping we can keep going for a while. Put some masterpieces out on HD. At the same time that we are losing negatives - turning to vinegar and whatnot - we are finding stuff. You know, like a lab will put a negative in the wrong can, or it gets separated. We found two Dave Friedman films that we never put out because we didn't have the negatives. Starlet and Thar She Blows. That would make a great double feature. Then Image wants us to do the Chesty Morgan films. They were best-sellers for the company. So there are lots of rancid and despicable entertainment coming up.
I'm looking forward to it - those are my two favorite genres.
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John 8:6
They said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
Don't you find it remarkable Jesus didn't leave behind one written word! John 8:6 is the only indication of Jesus writing anything and we can assume whatever he wrote in the sand soon disappeared.
If you were God's son, wouldn't you leave behind a signed document outlining your wishes for your followers?
Not a single word. No signature. What do you make of that, especially in light of the church's fixation with written words, with its many versions of Bibles from its manuscripts, with its grand talk about the Word of God, with its frequent dishonesty about its scripture?
Some scholars, like John Dominic Crossan, indicate Jesus most likely was illiterate, despite stores which depict Jesus as reading scripture. More recent scholarship questions the level of ancient illiteracy others assume. Regardless, surely God could have equipped his son with the ability to write. If not, what does that indicate for the church and its words and its approach to its book, the Bible?
He left no written words behind. Mainly he left behind oral stories about healing, friendships with the marginalized, disputes with religious leaders, a cross, and Easter resurrection joy.


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