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POMONA, N.Y. – Rockland commuters, brace yourselves; things are going to get a wee bit complicated around the Thanksgiving holidays.
Transit schedules were released this week by the county's Department of Public Transportation and County Executive Ed Day.
First, the highlights:
Thursday, Nov. 24: Transport of Rockland (TOR) buses will operate on Sunday schedules; TRIPS paratransit buses will operate A.D.A. service only and TAPPAN ZEExpress (TZx) buses will not operate at all on Turkey Day.
Friday, Nov. 25: TOR and TZx will operate regular service and TRIPS will operate A.D.A. service only.
And that was the easy stuff.
Wednesday, Nov. 23:
• TOR, TZx, TRIPS, Spring Valley Jitney and Clarkstown Mini-Trans buses will operate regular weekday service.
• Metro-North Hudson Line trains will operate early getaway service, with several trains cancelled or combined. Go to www.mta.info for the Metro-North Special Thanksgiving Weekend schedule.
• NJ Transit trains on the Pascack Valley Line will operate an early getaway train from Penn Station at 2:51 p.m. and Hoboken at 2:58 p.m. To accommodate this train, the 7:08 p.m. departure from Penn Station and the 7:20 p.m. departure from Hoboken will not operate. An additional late night train to Rockland will depart Penn Station at 12:34 a.m. and Hoboken at 12:45 a.m.
• NJT Main/Bergen Line train that normally departs Penn Station at 5:43 p.m. will depart earlier at 5:34 p.m. The train that normally departs Penn Station at 6:03 p.m. and Hoboken at 6:15 p.m. will not operate.
• Coach USA Rockland Coaches will offer earlier Rockland-bound express buses from Port Authority bus terminal. Express route #45 will begin service at 1:30 p.m., route #47 at 2:15 p.m. and route #49 at 2 p.m.
• Coach USA Express buses from the Exit 14 Park & Ride lot will operate a modified schedule in the morning and in the afternoon. Early getaway buses from Manhattan will be added at 2:00, 2:30 and 3:00 p.m. from 56th St. & 5th Ave. and at 2:30 p.m. from Wall Street. For more details, call (800) 631-8405 or go to www.shortlinebus.com .
• The Haverstraw-Ossining Ferry will operate an early getaway ferry from Ossining at 4:01 p.m., connecting with Hudson Line trains departing Grand Central Terminal at 2:51 p.m. and 3:11 p.m. A ferry will also connect with the train departing Grand Central at 6 p.m., arriving at Ossining at 6:53 p.m. Ferries that normally depart at 6:49 p.m. and 7:20 p.m. will not operate.
Thursday, Nov. 24, Thanksgiving Day:
- TOR buses will operate Sunday schedules: No service on TOR #94, #95 and #97; no TOR #91 service in New City, Yeager Health Center or Helen Hayes Hospital.
- TZx buses, Coach USA Express from Exit 14 Park & Ride, Clarkstown Mini-Trans, Spring Valley Jitney and the Haverstraw-Ossining Ferry will not operate.
- TRIPS paratransit buses will operate A.D.A. service only.
- Coach USA's Rockland Coaches buses and Coach USA's Shortline buses will operate Sunday schedules.
- Monsey Trails buses will operate reduced schedules. For more information, call (845)-510-5100, or go to www.monseybus.com .
- Metro-North Hudson Line trains will operate a Sunday schedule, plus special service to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Go to www.mta.info for details.
- NJ Transit trains will operate weekend schedules on all lines.
- For those heading to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Port Jervis Line will offer a 7:39 a.m. departure from Sloatsburg (7:46 a.m. from Suffern) arriving in Hoboken at 8:30 a.m. (A connection at Secaucus Junction arrives at Penn Station-NY at 8:39 a.m.) To get home, there's a 12:21 p.m. departure from Hoboken (12:14 p.m. from Penn Station-NY) that operates express to Suffern, then makes all stops to Port Jervis, serving Suffern at 1:02 p.m. and Sloatsburg at 1:09 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 25:
- TOR and TZx will operate regular weekday schedules. TRIPS paratransit buses will operate A.D.A. service only.
- Clarkstown Mini-Trans will operate regular weekday schedules.
- Spring Valley Jitney buses will not operate.
- Rockland Coaches will operate a regular Saturday schedule on local routes with modified express service on routes 45 and 47. Go to www.coachusa.com/rockland or call (201)-263-1254 Ext. 7414 for details.
- Coach USA Express bus service from the Exit 14 Park & Ride lot will operate modified service in the morning and evening. Go to www.shortlinebus.com or call (800)-631-8405 for details.
- Metro-North Hudson Line trains will operate a special schedule, using a Saturday schedule as a base, plus extra trains. TZx bus connections at Tarrytown station may take a few minutes longer than normal. Call 511 or go to www.mta.info for train schedules.
- NJ Transit trains will operate a regular weekday schedule.
- The Haverstraw-Ossining Ferry will operate a special schedule to coordinate with a modified Metro-North Hudson Line train schedule. Go to www.mta.info or call 511 for more information.
Go to www.rocklandbus.com for TOR and TZx schedules, links to other transit systems or to sign up for Transit Alerts.
For trip-planning assistance, call the Transit Information Center at (845)- 364-3333, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. The center will be closed on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day.
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Psalm 33
The Greatness and Goodness of God
Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous.
Praise befits the upright.
Praise the Lord with the lyre;
make melody to him with the harp of ten strings.
Sing to him a new song;
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For the word of the Lord is upright,
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He loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.
By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
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He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle;
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Let all the earth fear the Lord;
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The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
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The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord,
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The Lord looks down from heaven;
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The war horse is a vain hope for victory,
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Our soul waits for the Lord;
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Our heart is glad in him,
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Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,
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Ps 33:1-22. A call to lively and joyous praise to God for His glorious attributes and works, as displayed in creation, and His general and special providence, in view of which, the Psalmist, for all the pious, professes trust and joy and invokes God's mercy.
1-3. The sentiment falls in with Ps 32:11 (compare 1Co 14:15). The instruments (Ps 92:3; 144:9) do not exclude the voice.
3. a new song—fresh, adapted to the occasion (Ps 40:3; 96:1).
play skilfully—(Compare 1Sa 16:17).
4-9. Reasons for praise: first, God's truth, faithfulness, and mercy, generally; then, His creative power which all must honor.
6. In "word" and "breath"—or, "spirit," there may be an allusion to the Son (Joh 1:1) and Holy Spirit.
9. he spake—literally, "said."
it was—The addition of "done" weakens the sense (compare Ge 1:3-10).
10, 11. In God's providence He thwarts men's purposes and executes His own.
heathen—literally, "nations."
12-19. The inference from the foregoing in Ps 33:12 is illustrated by God's special providence, underlying which is His minute knowledge of all men.
13. looketh—intently (Isa 14:16).
15. fashioneth—or, "forms," and hence knows and controls (Pr 21:1).
alike—without exception.
considereth—or, "understands"; God knows men's motives.
16, 17. Men's usual reliances in their greatest exigencies are, in themselves, useless.
17. On the war horse (compare Job 39:19-25).
a vain thing—a lie, which deceives us.
18, 19. Contrasted is God's guidance and power to save from the greatest earthly evil and its most painful precursor, and hence from all.
20-22. waiteth—in earnest expectation.
21. his holy name—(Compare Ps 5:12; 22:22; 30:4). Our faith measures mercy (Mt 9:29); and if of grace, it is no more of debt (Ro 11:6).


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It's no secret. I love taking photos of Beach Boxes. Different times of day, different times of the year, different seasons, multiple visits, with friends, by myself, a whole day out, or just a quick half hour managed in between a busy schedule. There is something about heading to the beach that just makes me feel better. It doesn't matter if it's hot enough for swimming and there are people everywhere, but I do prefer it when the beaches are not packed with people. Autumn & Spring are just perfect times for walks with a little bit (or a lot) of photo taking thrown in. Even a trip in Winter is always worthwhile (as long as I don't get caught in the soaking rain, which has been known to happen a couple of miles from my car). I am so lucky to live just 10 short minutes away from the most photographed part of Melbourne Bayside beaches. The Brighton Beach Boxes are a must on any tourist agenda when visiting Melbourne. Whenever there is an out of town, interstate, or international friend, or for that matter, any friend who wants to look around Melbourne, this place is at the top of my list – hopefully on a late sunny afternoon to catch that perfect light.
I am actually in the process of putting an album together of photos I've taken since my "obsession" with collecting Beach Box photos began. I'm going to order page prints so I can keep adding to the project as I discover more beach boxes, and then, there are always those that are repainted. You see, there are not just those at Brighton Beach, that is just where they "start". From Brighton Beach, all along the Beach Road towards the heads of Port Philip Bay at Portsea, they are scattered, or grouped together. In various conditions and in various colours. Some with fabulous artwork – others with just gorgeous striped colour combinations. The doors, the hinges, the windows and the finials, I love each and every part of them, right down to the rusty hinges and locks. So, this project will never be finished, as long as I live in this area, I will always enjoy exploring and loving where I live.
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Discussion in 'Misc. Comics Films' started by AVEITWITHJAMON, Aug 21, 2013.
MOS votes right now is yet another Jesus reference.
MOS and KA2 came out on top in the best comic of the summer category on a yahoo poll. Always interesting to see the different outcomes.
^That is interesting, especially as not many people seemed to see KA2 based on the BO numbers.
But yeah, this is another example of how wrong the critics were with those two movies. They have been way off too many times this summer for me, and I normally agree with them on the majority of movies.
What do you mean they were wrong?
Alot of people like those two flicks and disagreed with the low critic rating.
I don't think critics were wrong with those two. I haven't seen Kick-Ass 2 yet but I will someday. But the critics were right with Man of Steel. Its obviously liked by the general audience because of the action.
Oh yes. But that doesn't mean they ere wrong necessarily. I mean, are they right only when people like what they like?
At least watch a movie before you say the critics were right.
I know alot of people who loved MOS for reasons other then action. I have my problems with it as well. But it had a strong reception from alot of fans and audiences.
Yeah, I was thinking the same. Most people really liked KA2, besides critics everything is usually positive. Worst thing I've seen said alot is it's not as good as the first but still good.
Can't be wrong about an opinion, but a majority of viewers opinions against critics def shows for something. Kick-Ass 2 and Man Of Steel got A- and B+ Cinema scores, much better then their RT critic scores. Who should you listen to as a viewer when it comes to seeing a film? The audience a film is made for or critics? If you liked a film someone said sucked you would probably say they were wrong.
I disagreed with a heck of alot of critics opinions on KA2, as did a majority of audiences. So Yeah Im gonna say they judged it unfairly and were way too harsh on it.
And yet I've seen from sites and even in this site, that the lukewarm word of mouth and the critical response of the movie caused the movie to collapse after the big opening weekend.
LOL. Obviously, for some people thats the case! When I happened to like a movie that the critics didn't like or if it got a RT rating lower than 60%, I usually don't say "the critics got it wrong" "don't listen to the critics".
Yeah, third highest grossing movie of the year domestic and fifth WW for a non sequel. Really did horrible compared to the other blockbusters of the summer haha.
I didn't say that. Even a film grossed more than 1 billion, it doesn't mean the critical response from the audience is automatically positive. With Man of Steel, I feel like response for that movie is mixed. X3 even got a B+ audience consensus in X3 in Yahoo Movies before but that didn't stop the press/sites to say that people weren't that pleased with that movie.
No you just say critics are not wrong without even seeing a film. You wanna debate if they were right about KA2? Go see the film and debate it in the KA2 thread. You have no argument otherwise.
I've seen more positive from MOS. So what if the press says that. I've seen you argue that the GA likes X3 more then a few times so I have no idea where your going with this. You wanna discredit sites and cinemascores feel right ahead. I've argued this bs enough with you in other threads.
I've said that the GA didn't hate X3 but I never said the that film was received very well. It just wasn't Hated by the GA like some posters here said before. And you were using Yahoo Movies as an evidence that MOS was really well-liked and a lot of superhero films are well-liked in that site including X3.
And you keep arguing with this bs with me, because you keep replying on my posts. Something tells me that you do it just for the sake of it.
The critics were well of with both KA2 (honestly, go see it, its a good sequel) and MOS. I dont think MOS was liked just because of its action either. It had some really good character scene's for me, and it got characters like Superman, Lois, Perry, Ma Kent and Jor-El pretty damn spot on.
I thought the story was emotional at the right points as well. Many people say the action was a little too much in MOS and I am inclined to agree. So no, I dont think people liked MOS just because of the action.
So, looks like we will have no clear winner for CBM of 2013 until after Thor 2 comes out, MOS and The Wolverine are neck and neck for the summer CBM's.
Man Of Steel easy. The wolverine was so boring I couldn't make it through the movie. I quit halfway through.
Looks like the Man of Steel is the best CBM of the summer 2013! LOL!
Nope. TW has come back again and its all even, I dont think there is going to be any clear winner, it doesnt seem that way anyway.
Once Thor 2 is out I will do a best CBM movie of 2013 poll and we will see what wins then. All the others should be out on BD by then, with the exception of KA2 maybe, which I still believe should have gotten more votes.
MOS did not deserve it at all
It deserves so much more.t:
Personally I consider MOS the best this year so far, so for me it does deserve to win, but it hasnt anyway, its still neck and neck between it and The Wolverine.
Where's the Lone Ranger?
I rank 'em,
The Wolverine
Iron Man 3
The Lone Ranger
Man Of Steel
And as I've said before,Star Trek Into Darkness was my favorite of the summer.I'd agree with the consensus that there really wasn't a breakout favorite among CB movies this year.Each was lacking in some way or other,but they were all enjoyable to some extent.
The Wolverine is leading the poll again!
Yep, at the moment its looking like it'll be the winner until Thor 2 comes out, i'm surprised, MOS looked it was going to run away with it near the beginning.
What do you mean by the beginning?
Well a lot of people thought MOS was gonna be the best CBM of the summer 2013 and The Wolverine as the worst. But for me, I expected the opposite.


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Bit of a shocker this week as a police officer who intervened in what seemed to be a domestic dispute ended up with a face-full of bear spray. It seems that the perpetrator had flagged the officer down whilst chasing another man down a street in Barrie shortly before midnight Wednesday. When the two caught the fleeing man, the first man cut loose with the chemicals. Unfortunately for him, he hit the police officer with it.
Unfortunately for the officer, too. Bear spray is pepper spray, more or less - it just tends to come in concentrations, quantities and delivery systems less appropriate to subduing greasy hippies screaming anarchist slogans and more suited to discouraging a 500-pound ursine predator from killing and eating you. Some of the more popular commercial formulations contain relatively high percentages of the active ingredient, oleoresin capsaicin (OC to chemical weapons aficionados), and come in pressurized delivery canisters containing hundreds of grams of the concentrated pepper extract dissolved in alcohol or some other organic solvent. Instead of having dispersal mechanisms designed to dispense a fine mist of agent, bear sprays tend to have nozzles designed to hit a relatively small target up to thirty feet away. This is necessary because aggressive or hungry bears often need a lot of persuading, and unless you hit them in the eyes, nose and mouth, they probably won't even notice the stuff until it's too late. For you, that is.
Figure 1 - Bear Sprays and how they work
Figure 2 - Oleoresin Capsaicin: structural formula
OC, incidentally, is a magnificent empirical proof of evolutionary adaptation. Birds do not have the molecular receptors for capsaicinoids, and thus feel no burning sensation when they ingest the peppers. Birds also don't have molars. Bird feces are the primary means of spreading chilli seeds. Mammals, by contrast, have molars, which destroy the seeds by grinding - and mammals also have capsaicinoid receptors, meaning that they feel pain from ingesting OC. Production of OC is a defensive mechanism that evolved to deter only creatures that ingest and destroy chilli seeds, not creatures that ingest and then spread them. It's fascinating to note that tarantula venom also activates precisely the same pain pathways - an example (one of the only ones known) of a plant and an animal evolving separate chemical mechanisms for targeting the same mammalian vulnerability.
How hot is OC, anyway? Well, that's a good question. Pain measurement is a science still in its infancy, and unlike other systems of measurement, there is no precise objective scale; pain, in other words, is a subjective experience, and is different for everyone. The piquance of chili peppers is measured on the Scoville Scale, using Scoville units (SHU). The scale is 99 years old this year, having been invented by Wilbur Scoville in 1912, although modern measurements, using concentrated pepper extract dissolved in organic solvents in liquid chromatography, have come a long way since the days of laudanum and radium pills. Scoville's original method was entirely subjective; capsaicin oil from various different peppers was dissolved in alcohol and the strength of solution gradually increased until heat was detectable orally by a panel of five tasters. The dilution ratio at which heat is first detected is the Scoville rating. Using this system, sweet or Bell Peppers have no measurable piquancy at all (and thus a Scoville rating of zero), while the hottest of commercially cultivated peppers, like Habaneros or Scotch Bonnets, have a rating of around 200,000. In other words, the capsaicin oil that these peppers produce must be diluted by a factor of 200,000 before their heat becomes undetectable by humans.
Figure 3 - Red Savina Habanero pepper (ripe)The hottest naturally occurring capsaicin oils are produced by the Red Savina Habanero pepper, which has a Scoville rating of about 580,000. Pepper spray, however, uses either concentrated extracted capsaicins from the hottest peppers available, or synthetically-produced capsaicinoids. Here's a comparison.
· Banana peppers: 100-500 SHU
· Jalapeno peppers: 3,000 - 6,000 SHU
· Habanero peppers: 100,000 - 350,000 SHU
· Red Savina habanero peppers: 350,000 - 580,000 SHUFor those who want to kick it up a notch and meet the Space Coyote, there's the Naga Viper, the Naga Jolokia or Ghost Chili, the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T, and the appropriately named Infinity Pepper, all of which clock in at 855,000 to 1,463,700 SHU. Chilly Chillies, a specialty hot stuff company which used to have a shop on Sussex Street in Ottawa in front of the US Embassy, used to sell concentrated Infinity Pepper oil in a small glass phial with a wax-sealed stopper shaped like a skull. You had to sign a waiver to buy it. My eyes started watering every time I went in there.
Beyond this point we cross into the realm of law enforcement-grade pepper spray - pure, concentrated capsaicin oil either extracted from the hottest natural chillies, or produced in laboratories by organic synthesis. Pure OC comes in at around 5,000,000 on the Scoville scale. One cup of this stuff dissolved in an Olympic-sized swimming pool of alcohol would still be detectable. From the point of view of getting a face-full of highly concentrated OC, the difference between natural Habaneros and cop-quality Pepper Spray is like the difference between a 5 kt or 5 Mt explosion - it doesn't really matter how big the bomb is if you're at ground zero. Where it does matter is when you're hosing down a crowd, because even the slightest hint of mist from a dispenser putting out 5,000,000 SHU spray will be enough to temporarily incapacitate whoever's on the receiving end, whether it's some angsty teenage anarchist with an iPhone, an iPod, an iPad, an autographed copy of Naomi Klein's NoLogo in his designer backpack, Nikes on his feet, and a "Down With Capitalism" sign scrawled in orange Highlighter on a Wal-Mart box...or an angry bear looking to score lunch.
Speaking of the NoLogo crowd, if you're planning on crashing the next G8 summit, you should know that, like CS, OC isn't soluble in water and can't be washed off no matter how hard you try. Rubbing affected areas merely pushes the oil into the skin, prolonging the discomfort. Anarchist groups have circulated recipes for home-made "pepper spray decontaminant" (including ingredients like Maalox, lidocaine gel and milk) but none of these really work. Ambulance attendants report that washing affected individuals with baby shampoo seems to work well - but in fact any soap would work against the oil, and baby shampoo simply has the virtue of being low-irritant on areas most likely affected by OC, like the eyes and other mucous membranes (Johnson and Johnson's "No More Tears" might be a good bet). Unlike CS, OC isn't deactivated by sodium metabisulfite - but unless you're a passionate home wine-maker, you probably don't have any of that around the house anyway.
Putting on my CWC-bore hat for a minute, it's worth noting that OC, like CS ("tear gas") isn't on the Schedules of Chemicals and thus isn't "controlled" per se by the Chemical Weapons Convention. However, like CS, it does meet the definition of a "riot control agent" (RCA) under paragraph 7 of Article II ("Any chemical not listed in a Schedule, which can produce rapidly in humans sensory irritation or disabling physical effects which disappear within a short time following termination of exposure"), and thus is subject to declaration requirements under Article III, paragraph 1(e) of which requires each State Party, "with respect to Riot Control Agents", to "specify the chemical name, structural formula and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) registry number, if assigned, of each chemical it holds for riot control purposes."
Which introduces something of a conundrum. You see, this declaration requirement does not include RCA held for "law enforcement purposes", and the language in the "purposes not prohibited" definition (paragraph 9 of Article II) refers to "law enforcement, including domestic riot control purposes" as a "purpose not prohibited". In other words, the Convention text specifically contemplates "domestic riot control" as a subset rather than the totality of "law enforcement" (this was done to allow member states to continue to use chemicals for judicial execution), which means that there is the acknowledged possibility that States Parties may use OC, CS and other RCA for "law enforcement" purposes other than "domestic riot control". One example would be, subduing unruly arrestees. The declaration requirement also does not include "military training purposes"; and since the Canadian Forces (to take one example) do not have "riot control" as a specific defence task, technically speaking we do not have to declare any of the tear gas or other RCA we hold (e.g., OC held by the MPs, or bear spray held by range control authorities at rural military bases), so long as we don't use it, or intend to use it, as a "method of warfare", which is prohibited under paragraph 5 of Article 1.
Of course, none of this means you can blast a cop in the face with bear spray and just walk away. The fellow in the story cited above has been charged with possession of a dangerous weapon and (surprise, surprise!) breach of probation. All of which, to paraphrase a former giant of Canadian politics, means that the best place for pepper is probably on your plate.
Piquantly yours,//Don//


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He brought back Travolta. He revived Pam Grier. Can he resuscitate himself?
No man was ever more appropriately named than Quentin Tarantino. Seventeen-year-old Connie Zastoupil christened her infant son in 1963 by mixing high art with low and then infusing the blend with an arrogant, here-he-is-and-he'll-change-the-world bravado. "I wanted a name that would fill up the entire screen," she told Vanity Fair in 1994. "A multisyllable name: Quen-tin Ta-ran-ti-no." His first name was lifted from William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, but it was also inspired by the Burt Reynolds character, Quint, from Gunsmoke. And his last name? She made it up. It just sounded cool. Can it be so perfect? Quentin Tarantino's mother named him with the same spirit that permeates Tarantino's movies: Lift the good stuff, no matter where you find it. Make up the rest, as long as it's cool.
Next month comes Tarantino's long-awaited Kill Bill, his fourth movie as a director and his seventh as a screenwriter (counting Natural Born Killers, for which Tarantino declined to take screenwriting credit, but not the movies he has script-doctored). Almost 10 years after Pulp Fiction, and six years after Jackie Brown, it's easy to forget the Tarantino craze that struck the nation—and the world—in the mid-1990s. For several years after Pulp, you couldn't attend a movie without hearing the characters yammer about the finer points of mass culture. (The nadir may have been the animal-crackers exchange between Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler in Armageddon.) Even before Pulp, Tarantino exerted a wide influence, and not only in Hollywood: To cite just one example, Kurt Cobain thanked him in the liner notes for In Utero.
Now, for the first time in his wunderkind career—at 40, he's actually past the wunderkind stage—Tarantino is facing real questions about his skill as a writer and a director. Like: After Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix movies, will yet another kung fu movie choreographed by Yuen Woo-Ping seem tired? Given Tarantino's time in the wilderness and the middling box office gross for Jackie Brown, are there enough Tarantino fans left to make Kill Bill a big hit? How will it fare in the Oct. 10 critical face-off with the Coen brothers'Intolerable Cruelty? Is Tarantino becoming a cult director, or will he again achieve mass appeal? But the most interesting question has gone largely unasked: Will this movie finally put to rest the whispers that Tarantino can't write a screenplay by himself?
Kill Bill, after all, may be the first Tarantino movie that's pure Tarantino. Jackie Brownwas an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch, and much of Tarantino's early work is alleged to be a collaboration with his fellow former video clerk, Roger Avary. In the 1997 book Killer Instinct, Natural Born Killers co-producer Jane Hamsher charges that Tarantino and Avary co-wrote an 400-page script called Open Road and that Tarantino cannibalized it for his Natural Born Killers and True Romance screenplays, as well as the screenplays for the first two movies Tarantino directed, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.On his Web site, Avary doesn't go that far, but he grumbles about receiving only a story credit for the Pulp Fiction screenplay. He says Open Road was an 80-page script; that he considers True Romance "to be partially mine," though he received no credit; and that Open Road "had many bits that came and went into other scripts—like so many info-kernals [sic]that would eventually find their way into Natural Born Killers, Pulp Fiction, and probably several other, as yet unproduced, Quentin Tarantino films." Avary also claims to have written the bit about the homoerotic subtext of Top Gun that Tarantino was acclaimed for in his cameo in Sleep With Me. As for Reservoir Dogs, Avary says, "I couldn't even tell you what I wrote. Just blather."
Tarantino's defense of himself for using Avary's material hasn't been stirring. In Pulp Fiction, "There is only one scene that has pure Roger dialogue," Tarantino told Los Angelesmagazine in 1994. "It is the scene in the bathroom, where Bruce [Willis] explains everything he's going to do. I love that scene. I suppose Roger has little lines interspersed throughout that story. But that's the only full-on Roger scene." And as far as that Top Gun speech goes, well, yeah, it was Avary's idea, but Tarantino told the magazine that it was a collaboration. "We would do the routine at parties together," he said. "Anyway, a lot of the things I talk about in Sleep with Me were my ideas." Not exactly heartening from an artist who was accused of plagiarizing City on Fire, a 1987 movie by the Hong Kong director Ringo Lam, for his film debut. (Tarantino admits being influenced by City on Fire, but he denies ripping it off.)
To be fair, no one disputes that Tarantino is an immensely gifted writer and director. Even Avary writes on his Web site, "Quentin is without question a genius." In a 1994 Playboy interview, Tarantino displayed the observant sensitivity that marks his writing and his movies. He described the tension between a man and a woman when a man walks behind a woman on a city street:
Is this guy going to do something? What's going on here? They're feeling it. And guys feel it too. I feel it. And I'm like, Hey, I'm just walking down the street. I just happen to be going the same way. I'm walking behind this woman, and she's thinking I'm a rapist. And now I'm feeling guilty for being a rapist when I haven't fucking done anything. So now I'm feeling guilty and feeling a little angry because I'm minding my own business. Like, I'm sorry I'm walking behind you. And she's thinking, Why the fuck can't I just walk down the street? All of a sudden there's this tension and anger about nothing.
It's that kind of careful attention to the quotidian and the banal that led critic Ron Rosenbaum, in a 1997 Esquire article, to herald Tarantino as a 1990s F. Scott Fitzgerald. "His tough-guy act, his tough-guy actors, and his blam-blam moments may disguise it, but Tarantino is an aesthete, a Fitzgeraldian observer of the delicate dance of social interaction," Rosenbaum wrote. "Because, at his best, in the interludes between the blam-blam, he's a genuinely curious philosophic investigator of manners and morals, more akin to a novelist of manners such as Jane Austen, say, than even to Fitzgerald."
But Jane Austen never made a kung fu movie. Unlike Tarantino's first three movies, Kill Bill is said to have a minimal amount of the stylized dialogue that has become his hallmark. Beneath the violence and the cool soundtracks, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown were mature stories about loyalty, about forgiveness and redemption, and about love. How will Tarantino achieve his goal of merging "sophisticated storytelling with lurid subject matter" (as he told the London Times in 1994), when the characters hardly talk? (Daryl Hannah, who has a role in Kill Bill, has made an oblique statement that "the story evolves through the fight scenes and grows and changes. It's hard to explain, but that's what I noticed. It's really striking.") Tarantino is so enthusiastic about movies that it's often hard to figure out what he doesn't like, and that enthusiasm bleeds into his work: He's notorious for not wanting to cut stuff from his films, which may explain why Miramax head Harvey Weinstein recommended that the three-hour-plus Kill Bill be divided into two volumes; the second half will be released in February.
In an interview with Charlie Rose during the peak of Pulp Fiction fever, Tarantino asserted that his key strength as a filmmaker is his storytelling, which comes from an intuitive understanding of what the audience wants. "Because you're a writer?" Rose asked. "More as a viewer," Tarantino said. "I was betting there were other people like me out there." Kill Bill is Tarantino's double-or-nothing bet.


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Water resistant to 100m, Cartier Copy Watch is also now boasting magnetic-resistance qualities for the Santos. Though this has more to do with the movement than the case. Devotees of the Santos watch will immediately see that even though the overall presentation of the 2018 Santos is similar to previous versions, there are many changes. Perhaps the most visually obvious is the bezel. No longer is it totally square, but now has "lips" on the top and bottom which are designed to visually connect the bezel with the bracelet design. More on the bracelet shortly. The new bezel is going to be a hit with some for sure, but I can certainly understand some people preferring the outgoing square-style bezel design.
Luxury Cartier Replica Watches keeps legibility very high on the new Santos watches because it retains the use of a white dial with black markers and blued steel hands. I have a feeling Cartier will introduce more dial colors in the future, but I doubt any of them will be as legible as this color and texture combination. The blue color of the hands is complimented by the blue spinel cabochon in the crown. Cheap Cartier Replica has for a while stopped using sapphire crystals for the crown cabochons with the exception of of their really high-end pieces.
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It's time for the much-anticipated annual CMT Awards, held tomorrow night on Country Music Television. But even those who don't know much about country -- or think the whole thing is little more than a red state conspiracy -- are likely raising eyebrows at this year's choice for a co-host, the excruciatingly adorable Kristen Bell.
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Born as Cher and Sonny Bono's daughter, Chaz later changed her gender, and sashayed his way into America's hearts on Dancing With the Stars last year. But despite his dance-floor chops -- and his pop band Ceremony's hit "Could've Been Love" -- country music is pretty far out of his jurisdiction. And Nashville doesn't seem quite ready for a transgender star.
5. Kanye West
He dons Air Yeezys and Louis Vuitton rather than cowboy boots and Wranglers, sure, but even worse is his penchant for jacking the spotlight from country stars. Then again, we'd love to see him try to pry the microphone from Blake Shelton's massive paws, or even just see him storm out of the auditorium à la his 2004 loss at the American Music Awards to country darling Gretchen Wilson. (By the way, great call on that one AMA!)
3. Tegan and Sara
They once criticized Tyler, The Creator for being misogynist; imagine how they feel about Jason Aldean, who's nominated at the CMT awards. (If you're unfamiliar with him, this should give you a good sense of him.) We suspect their distaste for modern country would be rivaled only by modern country's distaste for them.
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I just came up a thought about how to be a better friend or relative. It's a quite simple one so hear me out.
I have friends and family members I like doing certain things with or they only enjoy doing certain things yet I don't always want to spend an entire day with them so sometimes I just don't make plans;so starting today I am going to make a list of all the things I and they like to do together. This coming year I will be sure to ask each one of them to do this special something at least four times.
Here are some examples:
One of my friends always seems to want to go to the movies. She doesn't like just sitting and eating or talking in person. I will ask her to go to the movies four times this upcoming year.
One of my family members loves food as I do so I will ask her to go out to lunch or dinner or come over for a meal at least four times this year.
One of my other friends loves going to stores to buy candles and magical things so I will ask her to do that at least four times this year.
Another family member just likes sitting at home and having tea/coffee so I will do that four times this year.
Other friends just enjoy talking on the phone or instant messaging and I am already very accommodating with that because I enjoy that also. I enjoy all the above things also but I don't always take the time or effort to plan them but for now on, I will.
I realized more than ever through my trying times this year who is there for me and who is not. We learn a lot through difficult times. I want to be sure I'm there for them too but not just when they need me to talk to but also to be with.
Doesn't that sound like a good idea? I thought so!!!!!LOL
It sounds like a great idea. It's something I need to do.
On Chirstmas eve I made a commitment to be a better wife/friend/mother, with no concrete plan for doing so. Doing something like this would be exactly what I was thinking about.
Hooray!!!!! Always glad to help with ideas.. makes me feel good to do that... LOL
Great ideas Marion!! I have a group of friends like that. They all like to do certain things. So I will try to do the same thing with mine.
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Thanks I thought so too .. that's why I just had to share with my favorite ladies......LOLOLOL
Your ideas made me realize that I need to work on being a better person. Thank you for so much for caring and sharing!
Awww Linda.. thank you... You are welcome!!!!! It's all about all of us constantly learning, teaching, growing and improving.. Hooray!
I pondered this a lot yesterday, trying to come up with specific things I can do.
For hubby- I'm going to make it a point to cook him steak once a month. He loves steak and I don't cook it often because it's expensive. I'll also cook him his boring old plain hamburgers more often(I hate hamburgers).
For my daughters who I failed to teach the basics of house cleaning- I will clean their front porch once a month.
For my son, I will take him to the drag races at least once this summer.
Hooray for you!!!!!! Good for you for thinking about it and setting plans.. hooray!!!!!
And I'm also writing this stuff down in my planner so I actually REMEMBER to do it! LOL! I always have good intentions,but I can't remember anything.
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This is a little sad for me, Marion, because it seems I have always been the one to make the time for others, and it is rarely reciprocated to me..but this year, I will only make the time for those in my life that are important and want my company.
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With the emergence of casters like Baldur2 arm skew and Wurmwood, I imagine Haley2 might often have to play vs Circle. One of the more problematic casters for her to face I believe is Kromac1. I wasn't sure how bad this was so I was eager to try it out.
:: Lists ::
(Haley 2) Major Victoria Haley [+25] (Fuel Cache)Opponent:
- Thorn [13]
- Stormwall [39]
- Squire [5]
- Ironclad [12]
Journeyman Warcaster [4]
- Firefly [8]
Captain Arlan Strangewayes [4]
Lanyssa Ryssyl, Nyss Sorceress [3]
Storm Lances (min) [12]
Kromac the Ravenous - WB: +26
- Kromac the Ravenous (BEAST FORM)
- Druid Wilder - PC: 4
- Feral Warpwolf - PC: 0
- Pureblood Warpwolf - PC: 9
- Warpwolf Stalker - PC: 19
Swamp Gobber Chef - PC: 1
Reeves of Orboros - Leader & 9 Grunts: 16
Reeves of Orboros - Leader & 9 Grunts: 16
Sentry Stone & Mannikins - Leader & 3 Grunts: 5
Sentry Stone & Mannikins - Leader & 3 Grunts: 5
:: Pre-Battle Thoughts & Deployment ::
The scenario was Recon and Circle got first turn. They deploy symmetrically with the bg in the middle and the Reeves on one flank each. I weigh my lines a little to the right, intending to perhaps threaten a scenario angle, depending on what happens.
:: Game ::
Circle move up. The forest on the right side, the sentry stones and the fuel cache cloud blocks a huge part of his forces from my LoS.
The Feral was extremely eager to get up behind the house. It had warped speed so I had a feeling it might be within threat range of my Ironclad. If I could kill that thing right off the bat I'd be willing to feat. Indeed it was well within my maximum range so I started counting up the focus. Haley might end up having to camp 0 but I'll take it, considering Thorn is more or less a huge waste of points once Kromac comes further up the field.
The trick works well and Lanyssa lands the Mark so the Ironclad goes in on full focus + free charge + temporal acceleration. The Feral dies and I have a good start.
My opponent looks for assassination angles but since Haley2 got lucky on her TK roll on the Feral (no boost needed), I was camping 1 on top of being in the trench. He decided against going for this and instead set up for a longer game. The Reevers on the left got a little lucky with their columns and took out the Ironclad's Cortex. Kromac followed up with Rifting said Ironclad so I was pretty much stuck.
In his eagerness to buy himself some space and time, my opponent moved up the Pureblood within 12" of my Stormwall. A bit of a rusty mistake and I would gladly capitalize on this. I ensured that various mannikins were taken out so as to minimize their impact, the Lances moved up centrally and the Stormwall took out the Pureblood.
Circle could not find any openings barring a crazy assassination run (I had Deflection up and camped 2 focus). It failed and my opponent conceded the game.
Victory to the Swans!
:: Evaluation ::
A couple of rusty mistakes from my opponent allows me to move ahead in terms of attrition. Normally, I can't expect to get these angles.
As with Skorne's Rasheth I think this is a very hard matchup for Haley2 to play. The Sentry Stones and ranged presence from the Reeves make it even harder. Once Circle learns how to deal with Haley2 this might be heavily in Kromac's favour.
The Sentry Stones are really powerful and I find myself lacking a decent reply to them. For my next game vs Circle I have a couple of ideas.


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Our body talks–If only we'd listen
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The fourth commandment still lives within us
I've started reading The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Cruel Parenting by Alice Miller.
Alice talks about the fourth commandment where we're commanded to love and respect our parents despite how they treat us from childhood on. She comments that this goes against our own body's innate wisdom.
How can we love our mother or father when they've abused us? Our hearts can't actually physically love them, but society tells we're supposed to. Our bodies are therefore in conflict.
How can we respect our abusive parent(s) when they act in ways that don't inspire respect? We're supposed to be respectful nonetheless while our bodies scream at us to express our true feelings. And when we don't, or can't, what happens then?
Alice maintains that instead of openly discussing the effect cruel parenting has on our physical and psychological wellness, researchers often instead claim that physical and mental illnesses are linked to our genes. The subject of abusive parents being responsible for their grown children's illnesses is still very taboo.
Christiane Northrup, author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, doesn't believe our genes define who we are. And I don't either. Christiane says we should forget all we've heard about being doomed to get the same diseases as our ancestors. She believes we limit ourselves based on these false beliefs, and I agree.
I believe that it's the abusive patterns that continue within families from one generation to the next that cause similar illnesses generation after generation.
Forgiveness doesn't heal
And we've all heard that without forgiveness we cannot heal.
Alice Miller doesn't agree. She believes forcing ourselves to forgive also goes against our body's innate wisdom.
And when you think about it, what she says makes sense.
When growing up, would it make sense to forgive the class bully who torments us and frightens us daily? No. And no one would suggest we do.
So what happens when we go home and are bullied and frightened by our mom or dad, or both? Why are we supposed to grow up and eventually forgive them? Isn't their behaviour even more cruel based on the fact that they're tormenting an innocent child, their own child? I would argue yes.
And so where did the idea that only through forgiveness we can truly be free come from? I even quoted it in a previous blog by the Mother Teresa.
I can't answer my question. Maybe some of you can. I'd love to hear your thoughts. I will keep reading and maybe I'll find the answer. But I know that these ideas are stirring something within me.
I'm not sure exactly what it is yet, but I do believe that listening to my body is the only way I'm going to be healthy, and stay healthy. And that's an excellent place to start.
If I start believing the truth of what my body tells me then I'm not sure how I can go wrong.
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BigCommerce has moved out of the spotlight somewhat over the past 18 months, during which sentiment among investors towards e-commerce businesses not named Amazon has cooled.
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Hey hey! I'm so sorry for not posting these past few days, but I've been having some internet issues. I've recently bought this new L'Oréal lipstick. It's supposed to be a lot like the YSL glossy stains so I deciced to give this one a go. The colors are very similar to the YSL ones and the price was about half of the others. Wasn't too happy with the color pay-off though. It's way too light and becomes a lot darker than it should on the lips. However, the consistency is amazing and I love how it feels on the lips. This color in particular is the number 400, but there are about 8 colors in the range to chose from. Hope you liked this beauty post.
Olá olá! Peço imensa desculpa pela minha ausência mas tive alguns problemas com a internet aqui no Algarve mas agora já está tudo resolvido. Recentemente comprei este novo batom da L'Oréal. É suposto ser muito parecido com os da YSL que fazem um efeito "envernizado" nos lábios e como tal decidi exprimentar. A cor é bastante semelhante e metade do preço dos outros. A única crítica negativa que tenho a fazer sobre ele é a tonalidade. A cor fica muito mais escura do que pretendia , gira na mesma. No entando, a sua consistência e duração são óptimas. Esta cor em particular é a 400, mas existem 8 (penso eu) por onde escolher. Espero que tenham gostado de mais um post de beleza.
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Another great guest piece, this time written by the mysterious Mr A. Fan.
It is only fitting at a screening of Michael Haneke's Benny's Video (1992), to mutter the title of another psychological Austrian cinematic gem, Angst (1983).
In 1983, Angst was distributed theatrically by Cine – International, totally uncut and only in its native country of Austria. Written and directed by Gerald Kargl and starring Das Boot (1981) actor Erwin Leder, the film forces the viewer on a journey alongside a convicted killer, who upon release from a ten year stretch, immediately wishes to indulge in more sadistic and unprovoked violence towards the local community, with one intention, to kill as many people as he can.
You are presented with a cold, detached and alienating character that is only driven by the lust to kill. This un-named character is not portrayed as an unstoppable Hollywood killing machine, as in the form of Michael Myers, nor is he depicted as an intelligent and charismatic cannibal like Hannibal Lecter. Instead, he is presented as clumsy, prone to mistakes and somewhat unplanned in his mission of misery. This invites the viewer to playfully believe in him for 80 minutes; believe that he could actually exist, as his human error, is all too familiar.
The film is carried along by the internal monologue of the killer, his unnerving descriptions of past childhood events and his previous violent shenanigans are extremely powerful; mainly due to the fact they have been lifted from documented confessions of actual serial killers from the viewer's world. From the beginning, the film moves slowly but creepily along, initially free from extreme violence and at a pace that is unheard of in mainstream violent horror movies. However, the film turns its head and snarls at the viewer, particularly in one scene, influential and comparable to the extreme underpass assault in Gasper Noe's Irreversible (2002).
If you pray at the alter of Gaspar Noe you may be intrigued to hear that Angst has been cited by the man himself in several interviews, as an influence on his film Seul Contre Tous [I Stand Alone] (1998). Noe saw the French distributed version of Angst in his youth (re-titled as Schizophrenia which was distributed on VHS by VDS Video). The rare opening scene of Schizophrenia (sadly edited from Angst) serves to the viewer a presentation of photographic stills (similar to Noe's movie), comprising of the protagonist's family portraits, and the photographic evidence of the weapons used in our character's previous murder; all this combined, connotes a documentary style fable. The viewer of the French version is also treated to the footage of the original killing that imprisons our character in the first place, prior to his release in the opening of Angst.
But there is light?
There is a surprising four-legged presence of humour in this film, in the shape of a dachshund dog, which is owned by one of the victims, and whose performance when it comes to loyalty (and a pair of false teeth) is incredibly funny.
What helped this film stand out from the usual 80's stalking 'slasher' movies, found on the DPP list, are the excellent performances delivered by all parties involved (including the dog). The camera work is suffocating, the use of a body attached camera, at times gives the impression that you are hovering above the killers shoulders, in an almost spirit fashion. The camera, attached to the actor's waist, swings and tilts about, creating a drug induced visionary experience, not too dissimilar to the bar scene in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973).
The only problem I have with this film is that it is still unavailable officially in the UK, the US and basically everywhere, except Germany. The two-disc DVD box set of Angst (distributed by Epix Media), can be picked up from the German Amazon site, however, sadly there are no English subtitles included. Also to rub salt in, I discovered on this release, there is an interview with the actor Erwin Leder and Klaus Schulze (the composer of the soundtrack, known to many as a member of the German Prog-Rock group, Tangerine Dream).
I might add that this film suffered terribly from distribution right from the start. In the 80's, British video distributors didn't touch it due to the video nasty fever that was sweeping the nation, and in the US it was suggested that if distributed, it should carry a XXX rating, which would force Angst on to the shelves alongside pornographic material.
I suggest, when searching the World Wide Web for more information (if you catch my drift); do consider searching under the title of Schizophrenia. You need to view the film in its original cut; and again, the official German DVD release of Angst still has the opening scene missing.
Come on Gerald, the rest of the world is ready for some Angst…
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. A Fan.