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This is taken from the pool looking towards the Caribbean. Where the sea meets the sky. One view of the resort. Benches that had butt imprints on them. They didn't "fit right". This is often what I was looking at during the day. My view from the beach lounger.
Another wing of the resort. I swear, this is what this guy wore to my son's wedding. Rehearsal for the wedding.
We did have a couple scary moments. Here was one of them. The laugh of the second photo is enhanced by it appearing that he is scratching his butt. The swim up bar. I don't think Balota believed me when I told him there was a swim up bar. The bartenders were great drink mixers and entertainers. Never a dull moment there. Hahaha, I just noticed that is my youngest son in the foreground with his arms up. How dare he get in the way of my swim up bar picture.
My oldest son's plate full of little octopi that he ate. His stepdaughter ate one, too. Brave little girl. This picture was taken from the balcony of my son's room where us ladies had our hair and makeup professionally done for the wedding. Almost looks pretty enough to be a postcard. These were the guys who were banned while us ladies primped.
My son, the groom. The best man and my youngest son.............from left to right. Handsome, isn't he? I love this guy!! The best man and my son, the groom. I find this picture funny.
The reception on the beach at night. We partied hardy. Strobe lights and a DJ. Me dancing with the DJ. He didn't want to see anyone just sitting. The woman dancing next to me is the bride's great aunt. We had very, very many laughs together. We were like two peas in a pod.
Getting ready to send up sky/wish lanterns.
My travel buddy. I couldn't talk anyone else into going with me. The Pengie has never let me down. The Pengie had fun spitting water on the little ladies. The new cousins. The Pengie basking in the sun. He gets crazy when he gets drunk. Anyone else host him and notice that?
Just a funny, candid photo of the best man and his pregnant wife. I thought this was so cute.

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be honest. if this freak was only armed with a HANDGUN......a 6 shot REVOLVER......
he would have been able to kill just as many people. maybe 4 or 5 less....MAYBE ..........but nothing tragic would have been prevented. get real
the problem is society and nutjobs
In my school we drill for these types of emergencies every month. The reality is that we can never truly be prepared if this type of tragedy occurs. With that said, the type of gun that is used could make the difference between a few tragic deaths or a classroom full of slaughtered victims. If there is even a 1% chance that a gunman could be apprehended before more blood is spilled isn't it worth it?
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You must be 21 to purchase a machine gun in the US. The following states allow private ownership of machine guns if registered with ATF: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IN, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, WV, WI, WY. Some states have their own registration requirements, but most just say you have to have it registered with ATF.
Any machine gun that can be privately owned has to have been manufactured and registered prior to May, 1986.
Yeah, the other difference between your average hunting rifle say a Remington 7400 30-06 and a Bushmaster AR-15 is that you can't take a Remington and strap up a couple of belts each with a dozen or so fully loaded 30 round banana clips like you're ready for a war. Likewise you can't accessorize a hunting rifle with a 100 round drum. The Remington 7400 and similar semi-auto hunting rifles also do not come in an automatic version that defines itself from the semi-automatic version by the design of single part that can modified by any reasonably intelligent person with a bench vice, a metal file and information that can be readily obtained off the internet.
Hopefully this day will be the one that draws the line in the sand with the idiot politicians who really should feel like they need to take a long shower by now after aligning themselves with the like of the NRA. These weapons, and you now exactly which ones I'm referring to should be outlawed on a federal level.
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22 kids stabbed in china, 0 dead
I'm very ignorant of guns, I know enough to know I like most people don't have the temperment to own them and I'm not afraid for my life either walking down the streat or in my home unarmed. That said It's much less likely for someone to walk into a public place with a shotgun then a concealed weapon or a semi-automatic or automatic rifle.
It's the knowledgable gun nuts like yourself who have promoted the legal purchase with virtually no background checks of semi-automatic hand guns that are easily concealable and assault rifles that continually fall into the hands of the mentally deranged or those who simply don't have the temperment to carry or have access to deadly force who are slaugtering the innocent multiple times a year in this country.
The secondary market for guns are virtually unregulted and they easily move from state to state.
It's about time we called out those who feel the need to arm themselves to the gills and let these arms fall into the hands of criminals and the insane for what they are, freigtened pusseys to afraid to face their neighbors without deadly force available 24/7.
If you sort by homicides and look at the numbers the US is much lower in the list. More than half of the "Total Firearm related Death rate" in that list attributed to the US is suicide.
Do we know that these guns were legal and registered to this nutjob? I know it is not possible to legally get a gun in NJ without a background check.
Here are the NJ gun laws simplified you can refer to all the sections that are bolded that state rarely issues that make me think that if he had an "assualt weapon" it wasn't legally his.:
New Jersey
Main article: Gun laws in New Jersey
Subject/Law Long guns Handguns Relevant statutes Notes State Permit to Purchase? Yes Yes Lifetime purchase card required. Different one for handguns.
Firearm registration? No No* *Police record of transfers.
Owner license required? No No Purchase card is for purchase only
"Assault weapon" law? Yes Yes 15 round magazine limit. Assault weapons are allowed with license but are rarely issued unless you are a law enforcement officer or show specific need. LEOs are issued Assault weapon licenses for personal weapons as well.
Carry permits issued? *Yes Yes New Jersey is a "may-issue state by law. Although it rarely issues carry permits to any applicants unless you are a law enforcement officer or show specific need.
Open carry? No Yes Licensed open-carry allowed. Licenses rarely issued.
State Preemption of local restrictions? Yes Yes
NFA weapons restricted? Yes Yes Almost all NFA weapons are restricted. Allowed with license but rarely granted unless you are a law enforcement officer or show specific need.
Peaceable Journey laws? Yes Yes
There needs to be a tighter check in place to purchase guns. If one is mentally unstable or lives with someone who is, they should not be allowed to buy guns or ammo.
What's wrong with making a psychological profile a requirement?
What other Constitutional rights can we take away for being "unstable"?
How about Speech? Or Religion, that'd be a good one.
I've suffered from Depression twice in my life. Should I be barred from my rights for that, you think?
The problem is there is no easy, simple solution to this issue. Even a full 100% ban will not stop this, as a man willing to blow away a room full of kids will be willing to get a gun illegally.
And I would meanintain that 30,000,000 legal and law abiding Americans cannot and should not lose their rights because 1 man did something horrible. The precedent that sets is not one I wish to see....
The last refuge for the tiny balled.
Here is a example, some people require the use of medication to be a productive part of society and are violent without the meds. Those people should not be allowed to own guns.
I'm all for responsible gun ownership, but those who are mentally unstable need to be prevented from gun ownership.
I'm worried about you brofist. Your level of anger and loathing and wargarbl of late has been....concerning, to say the least. I hope you and yours are ok.
Suffice to say, gun ownership and testicle size have nothing do with each other. 30,000,000 legal, responsible and absolutely law abiding gun owners shouldn't be vilified because of the actions of one distrubed man our of 350,000,000 Americans.
I've already stareted hearing (from the other side) how gaming and Hollywood are to blame as well, an equally silly claim.
As I said above, there is no easy, simple answer to humanities penchant for violence and outburst.
So can we revoke those "needs medicine to not be violent" peoples speech rights and religious rights and legal representation rights too?
Just curious, it's important to be specific, and when discussing the revoking of rights, we should be very VERY clear about it.
I'll be honest, I'd prefer to seethe second Amendment amended/removed. And a new Amendment written to more accurately, clearly and intelligently provide gun ownership rights, while providing more clear-cut ways to limit and regulate such ownership and what kinds of guns can be owned.
I'm happy to find a middle ground solution, a compromise, but only if it's done right. Doing it right is not yet more gun laws that won't work and are ignored, it's going to the core of the issue and fixing that first, then re-writing the laws from there.


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Almost Human: Are You Receiving? (2013)
Series started well, but by 3rd episode is just going thru the motions
First of all, people who like this show should try to get hold of the Swedish show "Real Humans", currently in its 2nd season, which "Almost Human" seems to be a derivative (though bigger-budget) rip-off of. Just saying.
The first episode of "Almost Human" was quite impressive. Lots of interesting themes introduced, and a long-running plot line which I hoped to see developed a bit faster than at a glacial pace. The 2nd episode was not quite as good, but deserves kudos for tackling the sexual aspect of hubots (oops, that's me using a term from "Real Humans" there).
Episode 3, however, is just passing time. Do we get any deeper into the A.I./robot theme? Negative. Is there any shred of development to the main plot with the terrorist group that Kennex's ex joined? Negative. Just some action with a twist ending that has no impact on anything! That's weak. By now the show has just settled into the same old groove that almost all TV shows quickly settle into: paaaaasssing the time slooowly without offering any interesting ideas or storytelling, lulling us to sleep with inconsequential tripe when we're actually sitting here waiting to be blown away by cool ideas, new angles and thought-provoking comments on present and future society! What is this apparent law that says writers can't put a proper amount of IDEAS and STORY into television shows? Man! I guess we just live in a world of clueless TV producers whose mission in life is to bore us the hell to death.
Sorry if I sound bitter, but it's the cumulative effect of having experienced this TV tendency time and time again.
A show about A.I./humaniform robots should explore what this technology means to society, and which other ways it has been implemented. Give us moral quandaries! Revelatory ideas! Edgy angles on this complex issue! Please. THAT's why we're watching. Not to see another Die Hard rip-off, which we've already seen a hundred and seventeen times.
Oh well, I'll watch a few more episodes. Who knows, maybe it'll pick up. Probably not, though.
Trance (2013)
Look up "convoluted" in the dictionary, and there'll be a description of this movie
(Yeah, there are spoilers here, so don't read this unless you're seen the movie, or don't care about spoilers.)
I was saddened that the plot of TRANCE ended up being completely implausible. The biggest blunders:
1. Simon only hides the painting AFTER he's hit on the head, and THEN can't remember where it is? That's not how amnesia works. Or did Elizabeth have him under post-hypnotic instruction not to remember it? This was not specified. Also, the time-frame seems wildly off here. After he's hit on the head, he stumbles outside, is hit by a car, kills the girl (in broad daylight, on an open street in a posh neighborhood and no one notices), drives away to hide the body and the painting, and only then comes back for treatment for his head injury. WHY doesn't he get in trouble with the police over this long absence right after the theft?
2. Elizabeth has just finished erasing Simon's memory of her, in order to get out of an abusive relationship with him, oh, and then she tells him to steal a £25 million painting for her as a goodbye present?! That's hilariously crazy and completely unbelievable. She must have known that this could very easily get very complicated, as indeed it does.
3. The movie doesn't tell us WHY she was interested in that particular Goya painting; WHY it has special significance for her. We need to know that in order to understand her motivation.
And there are many other things I could criticize, all involving plausibility. A deeply insecure gambler with plentiful criminal connections happens to work at a classy auctioneer house? And after trying to foil the theft he is hailed as a hero despite the painting being gone? And then he happens to go see the exact hypnotist he used to have a relationship with, and then she happens to want in on the multi- million dollar crime, and then she starts a relationship with another violent guy despite having worked hard to extricate herself from one abusive guy?
And don't get me started on the sex and nudity stuff; most of it made very little sense and was poorly done (plotwise, I mean - no disrespect to the actors).
This movie, from now on, will stand as a prime example of *CONVOLUTED* storytelling, far outdoing ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (not a bad movie, but certainly a convoluted one). It tries to wrap its plot into shapes and angles that it doesn't really fit, in order to pull a fast one on the audience. And it gets TOO convoluted and is unable to unwrap itself in the end. It got away from the screenwriters and one day I hope they admit it.
A disappointment. 4 stars out of 10.
Yi dai zong shi (2013)
The price of revenge...
The Grandmaster is a good movie. I am a big fan of Asian cinema; especially Asian action cinema. The Grandmaster is not a typical action movie; in fact, you could argue that it's not an action movie at all. It will disappoint people who are just looking for fast-paced action. Myself, I have a foot in both camps. My consumption of Asian movie are predominantly action-oriented, but I also like the more philosophical, slower, slice-of-life and auteur productions.
What we have in The Grandmaster is a highly characteristic Wong Kar Wai movie; compare with 2046 and you're seeing almost the same movie. Even with the same actors in the key parts! And focusing on the same themes of having by-passed the chance to achieve a happy ending, and having to accept one's fate. My initial difficulty with this story was the rather unspecified vow that Gong Er took, never to marry and never to teach. What's the point of getting the skills back from the bad guy if she can never pass them on? But it dawned on me that the movie is a commentary on the revenge theme that permeates most other martial arts movies. Gong Er understands that revenge is morally wrong, but she can't suppress her passion for it. So she decides to go through with it on the condition that she pays a very high price for it: never to marry and never to teach. Letting these particular skills die, so they can't be used for revenge ever again.
So, although The Grandmaster in some ways reads like a thematic remake of 2046, it does actually also provide a meaningful statement on the martial arts movie genre - and it does so with beautiful cinematography throughout. The movie was, in some places, a little bit slow for my taste, and considering that many of the themes were the same as in Wong's previous movies, it did feel a little bit repetitive. None the less, it was a very good movie.
My rating: 8 stars out of 10.
Dexter: Remember the Monsters? (2013)
A great show - a shame about the ending :-(
Endings are hard. I mean, hard to write. To get right. If you try to do something different and unexpected, it's a huge gamble that is likely to go wrong, unless it makes some special kind of sense. The ending, remember, is what communicates the writers' point about the whole show; their judgment.
I liked the ending of "Lost" - for me, it worked on an artistic level. But shows that have criminals as protagonists are still a new genre, and the writers/producers apparently can't get past the moral judgment - past the idea that if people do wrong (even in such a thing as having too many wives - see "Big Love"), they should be punished. Generally, that principle is sound, but some people also deserve a second chance. Some people can reform. And in works of fiction there is most often a symbol scheme at work which means that the protagonist is not just a real and regular person, but an embodiment of a set of themes and representations.
"Dexter" was just about my favorite drama show of all time. Right up until the penultimate episode, it was deftly told. When in the second- to-last episode Dexter actually finds out that he is no longer a killer, I started hoping for a happy end. But of course I had predicted that, at the very least, they would kill off either Deb, Hannah or Harrison - to get away scott free, Dexter would have to sacrifice something. But they chose to have him react crazily to Deb's death, letting it overshadow the good things he had to look forward to. But abandoning his loved ones is no solution - when you start a new life, a new job, you are bound to get involved with people again; it's unavoidable. If he's just sitting around staring into thin air whenever he's not at work, he might as well kill himself. The moral is clear: he is in the equivalent of hell. And he chose it himself - maybe because he got "sane" enough to see that it was what he deserved. But it's only what he deserves according to old- fashioned and preachy values. Before Deb's death, he actually started to reform. There was hope for him.
But this ending showcases the problem with having "bad-guy protagonists" - you can't really sanction their actions, so you can't give them a happy ending (just look at "Weeds"). But the audience has been (kinda, sorta) rooting for this protagonist since day one! Does that count for nothing? The thing to do in a show like this is to show development, maybe repentance, even. Some sort of evolution of character. And so his ultimate fate should also be open and fraught with possibilities. Because he represents something different than what he appears to be. Dexter represents, to a meaningful extent, justice and righteousness. Reason, even. Misunderstood and having to hide, and going through a bunch of problems, but he does symbolize rationality applied to ethics, and there's no deep point in having him end up as he does in this final episode.
So, I thought that was a weird and somewhat nonsensical ending. But, everything that went before was pretty great!!
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Argh, so disappointing! Loved the first one, wanna forget this one.
I am a comic book collector, and love superheroes, although I never actually read the G.I. Joe comic. When the first movie came out, the reviews were so bad that I first decided not to see it, but a woman friend whose judgment I found reliable told me that it was very comic-book like and that I would probably like it. So I went anyway, and loved it. Last night I watched it for the fourth time, and it has me smiling and chuckling throughout! I enjoy it more every time I see it. It is very consciously high-camp, and its production values are precisely as slick and gorgeous as the recent Marvel Studios movies (Captain America, the Iron Men, The Avengers). I don't know exactly how much it references the comics, but I get a big kick out of the jokes that refer to action figures, like the mention of the kung fu grip, and "Duke wasn't born; he was government issued!" :-)
But mostly, it's the characters. In the first movie there are many distinctive characters who are all very enjoyable. In the second movie the entire G.I. Joe outfit is reduced to three people (well, plus Snake Eyes), one of whom (Flint) is completely anonymous and has nothing to do! All the slickness and sci-fi coolness is just gone. The box office page here at IMDb claims that the sequel had an (estimated) budget of 135 million dollars; if that is the case, this is the cheapest-looking big-budget movie I have ever seen. It seemed like all the money was used on Bruce Willis (probably 20 mil just for him), the mountain side sequence and the urban blow-up, with nothing left to make anything else look good, nor to craft a coherent story. The big blow-up had zero consequences; we saw NO reactions at all! It wasn't even clear whether the Joes knew what was going on!
In Retaliation, I found none of the characters compelling, with the partial exception of Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow (whose survival from the first movie went unexplained - impaled and drowned; how did he live?!). Adrianne Palicki sure was eye-candy, but she didn't have that much to do. She could not compete with the amazing Rachel Nichols. I also missed Marlon Wayans. I am actually a big fan of Dwayne Johnson; he should have been to his generation what Stallone or Schwarzenegger were to theirs. But he has never succeeded in getting any properly great roles! He was pretty good in The Scorpion King, Walking Tall, and Doom, and I loved him in Be Cool, but besides those I have been bored and disappointed by virtually all his movies (still haven't seen Snitch, though). Not his fault; the fault of the projects he is offered. Sigh!
There is this Hollywood rule of thumb that, if the execs believe a sequel can gross 60% of what the original did, then they greenlight it. To my eyes, it seems like they must be using a goddamn manual for creating a sequel which has *exactly* 60% of the budget, 60% of the plot quality, 60% of the acting, 60% of the entertainment value, and 60% of the visual effects. It just feels so utterly and unashamedly commercial. And in this case, more like 40%.
Retaliation may have had more references to the comics, but the tone never felt anywhere near as inspirational and enthusiastic to me as in the first movie. But I must acknowledge that it did have some entertainment value. I liked the idea of the whole nuclear thing at the culminating summit (it was also effectively comical, for a bit), but I don't think it was played up to anywhere near its proper potential. So I'm sad. But grateful that we had *one* movie I can rave about.
4 stars out of 10 for the sequel. 10 stars for the first movie.
Jin yu liang yuan hong lou meng (1977)
Good, but not as good as the 1962 version
The Dream of the Red Chamber is based on the great medieval Chinese novel of the same title, and has also been turned into a much longer TV series. It is a love story about the noble Bao family, whose young son Bao Yu is in love with a childhood friend, Lin, from another wealthy family. But Lin is sickly, so Bao Yu's family wants him to marry his cousin instead, and sets up a wedding where Bao Yu thinks he is being married to Lin, but is in fact being married to his cousin. Much lamenting ensues, performed in the Huangmei musical genre, which is characterized by lightly comical and stylized acting and singing mixed with serious drama.
This story is interesting in terms of gender history because it is almost entirely about women, which is unexpected for a tale of the medieval Asian aristocracy. Even the one major male part is played by a woman in the various film productions.
This version of the tale from 1977 is not quite as good as the previous version from 1962, although the two versions are much alike. The storytelling and the dramatic acting is of higher quality in the '62 version, and the songs are longer and in a more classical style. The two movies seem to follow almost identical scripts, although there are a few scenes that have been changed (the whole episode with the naughty book is cut out of the newer version). In general, the character relationships, esp. that between Lin and Bao Yu, are much more clear and elaborated upon in the '62 version, while much of the storyline in this '77 version seems rushed, even to the extent of being confusing to viewers if they weren't already familiar with the previous version. Repeatedly, various scenes and details of the plot which were shown better in the previous movie are cut short. Here, too, Lin isn't shown to be all that sick (at least not until the end, where it is mainly out of love), while in the '62 version her obvious sickness and frailty greatly contribute to the tragical situations. The drama in the '62 version is significantly more heightened and stylized (but also caricatured) than in this version, probably because the actors and producers were more used to this sort of material. It must be admitted that the dramatic end sequence of this version is very effective, however. Some scenes are modeled very closely according to the '62 version, while the lamentation of Bao Yu after Lin's death is in a more modern, explicit and convincingly anguished style than the older version, which is very moving.
Ultimately, though, I feel that the 1977 version gives the impression of being a largely unnecessary remake of the 1962 movie. This is the last hurrah of this genre; a late-comer and an also-ran which doesn't quite live up to the peak productions of the '60s. But of course it is warranted in that it treats us to the delectable looks of Brigitte Lin, Sylvia Chang, Kara Hui and several other beautiful actresses, and also because, being from 1977, it is perhaps easier to restore for DVD than the '62 version, the available DVD of which is of inferior crispness.
I rate the '62 version 8 - possibly 9 - stars out of 10, while this '77 version gets 7 stars. It certainly has very good sequences, but on the whole it is not as good as the version from 15 years before.
Dexter: Surprise, Motherfucker! (2012)
One of the weaker seasons
Dexter is a tremendously exciting and watchable show; one of my favorites ever. Season 8 has had some great things, but all things considered I have to classify it as one of the weaker seasons. It's all to do with how Deb's discovery of Dex's true nature was handled. It wasn't handled in a convincing manner that was true to Deb's character. She would not have been able to just basically turn an accepting and blind eye to what Dexter was doing. She would at the very least have demanded that he tell her everything he's doing, and every detail about any case he'd had a hand in before, because this would be the only way to run damage control on his activities. She would have understood that, if they didn't share all this knowledge, things would soon spiral out of control, as indeed they did.
So why did the writers not handle this more realistically? It's not because it would have ruined the potential for new and cool stories. I must attribute it mainly to laziness and lack of imagination. It's a shame that they didn't want to take the character portrayals to their logical consequence, and it hurts the show. It underscores its lack of realism.
Then there's the ending. Were anyone in doubt that Deb would shoot LaGuerta? Not really. If she had shot Dexter, *that* would have been unexpected. And, of course, what we want from a truly good and exciting story *is* the unexpected. So yeah, I was rooting for her to shoot Dexter, and disappointed when she didn't. I often have a problem with the main character being killed at the end of a show for no proper reason other than moral preaching (as in Big Love, for instance), but in Dexter's case, with a lifestyle that was always getting more and more extreme and indefensible, it actually makes sense, is just, and provides closure, to kill him off. And for his sister to be the one to do it would have been excellent pathos. But no. I guess he had to be kept alive for the next season. Well, then, we'll have to wait another season for his inevitable demise. I will, of course, keep watching.
But, I repeat, this was one of the weaker seasons, and it did not have me as excited as most of the previous ones.
San De huo shang yu Chong Mi Liu (1977)
Below average
Well. I have to say I am rather amazed that this movie has a 7-star rating at IMDb. I was looking forward to Iron-Fisted Monk, but it strongly disappointed me. The plot and the characters are staggeringly formulaic, and far, far too much time is spent on the bad guys raping and massacring people with impunity (of course, this doesn't mean that there aren't several idiotic comedy scenes in it, also, complete with the worst sound effects in cinema history). There is also far too long between good fight scenes. The last ten minutes are satisfying, but everything else is decidedly below average. A very poor and disappointing effort from Sammo Hung, who has done so many other cool movies. I thought Iron-Fisted Monk would be one of his landmark efforts, but it's more of a landmark failure. It's just not in good taste, and does not deserve a rating above 3 or 4.
Weeds: It's Time, Part 2 (2012)
A comedy show which is wrapped up with a straight drama story? I am a huge fan of Weeds, but this ending did not work well for me. It was pretentious and preachy and had almost no humor. Sure, there were good actors and a bunch of other cool stuff, but it was too neat and tidy, while also being too moralistic. Until now we had an irreverent left- wing show with a protagonist, Nancy, that admirably dared to lead a different lifestyle. This ending makes a U-turn, telling us like some narrow-minded conservative that the wages of her off-beat lifestyle is that she can never achieve happiness. She is described as being pretty much a failure as a human being, having alienated her two eldest sons and lost the man she really loved, but whom she kept stringing along without consummation for years. The irony is that the reason she had such a not-really-relationship with Andy is purely that this was one of the plot-points that kept the story rolling, i.e. the fault of the show's writers. Meta-like, that narrative design element has now turned into a tragic and in my view nonsensical culmination of the character drama.
Shane's part in the tragedy is no less; his character was always extremely cool and destined for some form of greatness, but he fell in with a crooked alcoholic cop and then became one himself. That utterly sucks. This was always a lighthearted, fun and provocative show, and then they give us a somber, down-beat ending that caters to establishment values? NOT okay in my book. Yes, I know we are expected to edgily embrace the unexpected and reject happy endings like the well- pierced goths this show is mainly aimed at, but... Nah. This pessimism doesn't work for me. It's not fair to the characters that we have come to see as so cool and out-of-the-box. And it's not fair to the progressives in the audience, who had every right to expect something rather more radical. Nor is it fair to the various writers of the show, who have gone out of their way to write intelligent anti-establishment satire, and effectively spawned those two other cool shows with bad guys in the spotlight, Dexter and Breaking Bad.
The Hollow Crown (2012)
A visual spectacle, but no poetic grandeur
As I watched these Hollow Crown episodes, there was something about the delivery of the dialogue that seemed off to me. It was strangely flat and naturalistic, spoken like ordinary dialogue in historical fiction. Then it hit me: the verse is spoken in prose. This is a huge problem. We have amazing production values; sumptuous settings; virtuoso directing; good actors and visual splendor enough to knock anyone's socks off - and we also have Shakespeare's story and words. Tragically, however, without the verse delivery of the lines, we have none of the grandeur of the language; no poetry in the performance. The artfulness of Shakespeare's work has been excised.
There is little to criticize about these versions besides this, but this point of criticism is an all-important one. Reducing Shakespeare's poetry to straight-forward prose is a terrible idea which takes away the audience's joy of the beauty of the words, and also deprives the actors of doing the kind of Shakespeare they want to be doing. I assume it was done to make Shakespeare's language more modern and understandable to an audience that is not weaned on Shakespeare, but to drag Shakespeare down to this level is artistic sabotage. I am deeply against it, and I hope they won't do it in the other upcoming BBC Shakespeare installments by producer Sam Mendes. Sadly, they probably will. Sigh. :-(


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Done right, the charred tips of smoked beef brisket are like juicy nuggets of barbecue bliss wrapped in a deliciously smoky blackened bark.
Here, purists eat them straight-up, sans sauce. But you can also get burnt ends stirred into baked beans, piled high on a sandwich, or even atop a heaping plate of spaghetti.
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"To me, it's supposed to represent the vibrancy of Brooklyn," said David Berliner of Forest City Ratner. "I mean, the idea is to create a piece of public work that's going to respond to people emotionally and intellectually, and get people really excited about being here at the Barclays Center."
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NBA Finals: Manu Ginobili sparks Spurs to Game 5 win over Heat
June 16, 2013, 11:02PM
Manu Ginobili had 24 points and 10 assists in a surprise start to spark the San Antonio Spurs to a 114-104 victory over the Miami Heat in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night, pushing the Spurs one victory away from their fifth championship. Full story »
New York Knicks win Game 6 of NBA playoffs, 88-80, ending Celtics' season
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Carmelo Anthony scored 21 points and the New York Knicks held on after blowing most of a 26-point lead to beat the Boston Celtics 88-80 in Game 6 on Friday night and advance in the postseason for the first time since 2000. Full story »
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Filming of the "Green Invasion" was a turbulent one. What follows are a few "Making Of" snaps from our film set:
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Jan Joswig painted as an Indian by the hair-and make up artist Kristin Belger
Arturo and Alejandro – responsible for pictures of "Green Invasion"
From left to right, from up to down: hair- and make up artist Kristin Belger, photographer Marlen Stahlhuth, survivor Magneto and a little man actor Ulf Seibicke
Model Friedrich Schaller in conversation.
Totem of the artist Pablo Fernandez Zapata.
Photos: Marlen Stahlhuth
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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -Wide receiver Malcolm Kelly will skip his senior season at Oklahoma and enter the NFL draft. Kelly was the team's second-leading receiver this season with 49 receptions for 821 yards and nine touchdowns, helping the No. 8 Sooners finish 11-3. His 21 career touchdown catches rank second in school history behind Mark Clayton's 30. ``We're excited for Malcolm and his family,'' coach Bob Stoops said in a statement Thursday. ``He was an outstanding player in our program and we appreciate all of his efforts.'' Kelly said he discussed his options with his family and several friends who are playing in the NFL before making the decision. ``OU and the coaches there gave me the best opportunity to reach the pro level,'' Kelly said. ``Going to OU was really the thing that put me in the position to be able to make this decision.'' As a sophomore last season, the 6-foot-4, 219-pound Kelly had 62 catches for 992 yards and 10 touchdowns. |


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How well does your team or organization operate today? Are performance targets met or exceeded regularly? And, at the same time, do leaders and staff treat each other and customers with honor and respect during every interaction?
Recently, a client asked me to help them with their corporate culture. This manufacturing facility is very successful (i.e., they're making very good profits) from a dedicated core of long-time customers.[…] Continue Reading »
When I ask senior leaders how they spend their time in their work environment, they report three things more frequently than any other activities.
- Meetings with direct reports.
- Evaluating and analyzing performance data.
- Addressing performance problems.
Certainly, these are important behaviors for senior leaders. But are these the most beneficial activities senior leaders can engage in? I don't think so — and will explain in a few paragraphs why.[…] Continue Reading »
If you somehow missed it, a media frenzy erupted after Yahoo announced that it will bring telecommuters home to the office.
Much of the noise came from the working-mom contingent upset at Marissa Mayer, a new mother and CEO in charge of bringing Yahoo back to life. However, for leaders to learn the true lessons of this brouhaha, we have to look beneath the headlines.[…] Continue Reading »
How civil is your workplace? Recent research from Weber Shandwick indicates that more than 4 in 10 Americans have experienced workplace incivility, and 38% of Americans believe that the workplace is becoming more uncivil and disrespectful than a few years ago.
Workplace civility is a global issue. For example, in 2006, a British court awarded a Deutsche Bank employee £800,000 in damages for a "relentless campaign of mean and spiteful behaviour designed to cause her distress."
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CareerBliss.com recently released its list of the 50 Happiest Companies in America for 2013. CareerBliss receives thousands of independent employee-provided reviews each year. These are analyzed for key factors which affect work happiness, including work-life balance, boss relationships, co-worker relationships, company culture, compensation, and control over the work they do each day.
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February's Community Cinema film is Soul Food Junkies. This documentary delves into the historical and controversial relationship between the African American community and soul food. How does our affinity for soul food and its dietary restrictions affect the health of the African American community?
After the film, we'll discuss issues of food justice with local activists and initiatives including Cultivate Kansas City and The Beans&Greens Mobile Market.
Community Cinema is a free monthly screening series presents fascinating documentaries from the Emmy-Award winning PBS series Independent Lens followed by lively discussions that connect films to local organizations and resources. Films are shown from September to June every second Saturday of the month at 11am.


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Can anything make three of summer's greatest ingredients-corn, greens and garlic-easier to enjoy? We tested the ol' tried-and-true (knives to cut kernels, paper towels to wash greens and lemon juice to rid of garlic-hands) against newer inventions to see how they stacked up.
We tried a serrated knife and two kinds of corn strippers.
Once the kernels are off the cob, use them to make:
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We tested paper towels against a classic salad spinner and a newer salad spinning bag.
Once your greens are cleaned, use them to make:
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We tested lemon juice against foaming cleanser and steel soap.
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Come March 29th anyone staying or living in Camden will be able to sit and visit with hall of famer Larry Doby and statesman Bernard Baruch. Not with the actual men of course, but with beautiful bronze statues of these influential men from Camden.
The Kershaw County Recreation Department is currently registering for the Youth Baseball Leagues. Boys and girls must be four by May 1, 2013 to play baseball. Girls must be seven by May 1, 2013 to play softball. Girls must be 10 years old by Jan. 1, 2013 to play Fast Pitch. Registration Fee is $32.
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Having been a soldier, artist Dot Goodwin has a knack for combining the worlds of creativity and discipline. Her past military experience includes service in the U.S. Army as an arts and crafts specialist after having completed basic training. She then continued her work in the Army as a civil servant in the Army Recreation Services division.
The Kershaw County Recreation Department is currently registering for the Youth Baseball Leagues. Boys and girls must be four by May 1, 2013 to play baseball. Girls must be seven by May 1, 2013 to play softball. Girls must be 10 years old by Jan. 1 2013 to play Fast Pitch. Registration Fee is $32. Registration dates and locations:
The following real estate transfers were recently recorded in the Kershaw County Assessor's office:
Chronicle-Independent Sports Editor Tom Didato will be the subject of this year's Black History Month multicultural exhibit at the Kershaw County Library. The exhibit will be on display starting Friday through the end of the month. A reception in Didato's honor will be held from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory in effect until 1 a.m. Saturday for Kershaw County, along with Fairfield and Newberry counties. The hazard types include freezing rain and sleet, but only expect ice accumulations of less than .05 inch. Rain will freeze on contact in locations below freezing and lead to hazardous travel conditions. Bridges and overpasses will be especially vulnerable to ice accumulation. Temperatures are expected to be in the lower 30s overnight.
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The Kershaw County Forest Landowners will hold their quarterly meeting today at 7 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Clemson Extension Homemaker's Building located at the corner of DeKalb and Church Streets in Camden.
Dr. Lonnie Randolph Jr., president of the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, will be the guest speaker for the Camden-Kershaw County NAACP's Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service program today at 5:30 p.m. at Camden First United Methodist Church.
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is scheduled to roll into South Carolina at the end of March, but several local children got to see a small preview of the fun Wednesday at the Kershaw County Library. "Gigi" the clown appeared at the library and read the children a book about the circus, showed them how to juggle and spin a plate on a stick, and performed a magic trick.
Earl Suttle, an author and motivational speaker with Leadership Success International, shared various ways leaders can improve the overall atmosphere in their workplace during a mentoring training/workshop hosted by the United Way of Kershaw County (UWKC) on Monday. Suttle's topic, "Enjoying Excellence: Becoming the greatest you can be," focused on creating "happiness in the workplace." He explained that a happier atmosphere provides employees with more energy and focus to complete their jobs. The training/workshop took place at the historic Robert Mills Courthouse.
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3 Players Who Must Step Up for the Washington Redskins to Earn a Playoff Berth
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The Washington Redskins have reached the tipping point for this season and will shape their future these next few weeks. After a 3-4 start, the Redskins have shown flashes of greatness and complete failure. In order to reach the postseason, key players will need step up in the second half of the season.
Under rookie sensation Robert Griffin III, the Redskins offense has transformed into a dynamic attack that can score at any moment. The late drive against the Giants capped off by a Santana Moss touchdown is a perfect example of the offense's prowess. Despite all of RG3's talents, he will not be able to carry this team entirely; help needs to come in the form of other players.
If the Santana Moss touchdown is an example of the offense's new-found power, the following Victor Cruz touchdown is an honest depiction of the defense. Jim Haslett's defense, and particularly the secondary, have been a complete letdown so far. Currently, the Redskins pass defense ranks as the worst secondary in all of football.
Here we will focus on three key players who need to step up and increase their production. The Redskins have been riddled with injuries but these players will need to contribute if there are any hopes for the Burgundy & Gold to reach the playoffs.
Madieu Williams needs to step up for the secondary, and this picture really says it all. Coming in to Sunday's game, Williams was the most consistent player in the Redskins' secondary, but this mistake cost them a win.
It is hard to know exactly who to blame for Cruz's touchdown without more information. Was this a blown assignment by Williams, or a poor coverage call by Haslett? Clearly, Josh Wilson lost Cruz right from the snap, but the question comes about over the top help.
Through seven games Williams is third on the team with 49 tackles and one interception (returned for a TD). Despite these numbers, the secondary has continued to look porous, giving up 328 pass yards/game.
At this point people know what to expect from Wilson and Hall at corner: good but not great. Improvements to this unit will need to come from the safeties. If this secondary is to rise from the dumpster, Williams will need to improve his consistency and become the reliable coverage player that is so desperately needed.
Tyler Polumbus is the biggest liability on the offensive line currently, and it's not close. Polumbus routinely gets mauled and beaten by pass-rushers. With many games against elite pass-rush defenses remaining on the schedule, Polumbus needs to rise to the occasion.
Heading into the second half of the season, the Redskins will need to face meat of their schedule. Six games against elite pass rush teams remain (Steelers, Eagles twice, Cowboys twice, Giants). With some of the NFL's best coming after RG3 (D. Ware, Harrison and JPP to name a few), Polumbus will certainly have is hands full.
The offensive line, as a whole, has surpassed expectations this year particularly in the run game. However, RG3 continually finds himself under pressure, and the right side is to blame.
Polumbus was not expected to be starting at right tackle for the Washington Redskins, but Jammal Brown's early injury forced him into action. With Brown not expected to come back until November, Polumbus needs to improve immediately. If Polumbus can provide a solid pocket along with Trent Williams, there is no telling how many plays RG3 can make and how far this team can go.
Pierre Garcon showcased his abilities in the Redskins offense Week 1 against the Saints. Since then, he has not been heard from, and it may be time to put out an Amber Alert. Garcon is missing, and fans are concerned or more likely frustrated.
Garcon was the monster free-agent acquisition this past offseason, signing a five-year, $42.5 million contract. However, Garcon has failed to live up to the billing this year, sitting out a majority of games with a nagging foot injury. The Redskins cannot get Garcon back fast enough, and hopefully this injury does not linger much longer.
The Redskins lost their leading receiver for the year on Sunday in Fred Davis. Chris Cooley has been brought back to replace Davis, but it is hard to now exactly what his role will be in this offense. Garcon needs to return to action and bring the receiving unit back to full strength.
Garcon was brought in to be the deep, No. 1 threat for the Redskins on offense. Leonard Hankerson and Aldrick Robinson have not shown themselves to be reliable deep threats, and the losses are beginning to pile up. If the Redskins hope to make a run at the playoffs this season, Pierre Garcon needs to step up and return to his electric Week 1 form.