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What would you say to seeing Roscoe Parrish return punts for our 'Boys?
What can be questioned, however, is whether or not Parrish - a gadget player and elite punt returner and little more - is too luxury for a team like the Bills. Considering the amount of money he's due to be paid and the amount of playing time that's no longer open to him, don't be shocked if the team looks to trade him. As many of you have astutely pointed out, keep an eye on Kansas City as a possible landing spot
That's from http://www.buffalorumblings.com/ at Buffalo Rumblings, our Bills counterpart. They're doing a series evaluating the state of their wideouts now that TO is in the fold.
I don't know if the Bills brass is thinking of moving Parrish, and have no clue what they'd want for him. But with 11 picks (potentially) to play with, I'd love it if Jerry explored this idea. Jerry, if you're reading this, find out!


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Person responsible for arson attack on three cars sought (From Yeovil Express)
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12:30pm Thursday 9th January 2014 in News
AN ARSONIST responsible for setting three cars alight in Keinton Mandeville are being sought by police.
The arson was committed at around 7.30pm on Saturday December 21, 2013.
The vehicles were parked in a communal car park in Manor Place when someone has poured an accelerant over two of the vehicles and set them alight.
Extensive damage was caused to a Bentley, Jaguar XJ and a Honda Prelude.
An investigation has begun to identify the person responsible for damaging these cars.
Enquiries have established that a man bought a plastic petrol can from the Esso petrol station at Wirrell Park in Glastonbury and we would like to speak to this person to eliminate him from our enquiries.
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Can't Keep A Good Man Down
by Nathan Empsall, Wed Sep 09, 2009 at 12:38:04 PM EDT
From the Salon War Room, the Center for American Progress is giving Van Jones an office:
The New York Daily News reported Wednesday that Jones, who'd served as an advisor on green jobs, was heading to a job at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank run by Obama transition chief John Podesta. If that was true, it would be very interesting, as a sign of how the progressive establishment generally -- it doesn't get more progressive establishment than Podesta -- is still embracing Jones.
The story, though, is apparently not true -- but it's not entirely false, either. Jones isn't getting a job with CAP, a spokeswoman told Politico. But, she said, "we have offered office space for him to work out of while he figures out what he wants to do next."
Not quite the endorsement that an actual job would have been, but not far off, either.
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A warning tonight about puppy flipping.
It's a new term for an old practice. Thieves steal your pet, then turn around and sell the animal.
Online marketplace sites like Craigslist are making it more common.
But animal control experts say there are ways to make sure your furry friend doesn't get taken.
Jane Brundage is Vice President of Pets, Inc.
"People really miss the importance of microchipping....a visible color and tag is critical to getting your dog back...quickly...but it doesn't protect you from flipping."
Experts also recommend keeping your pets indoors or confined, and keeping a close eye on them when they are outdoors.
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Woman pinned after crashing SUV on Eastex Freeway
Published On: Feb 25 2014 07:00:05 AM CST
A woman is in the hospital this morning after flipping her SUV in northeast Harris County.
According to Harris County Sheriff's Office, the woman crashed Monday night on the northbound feeder of the Eastex Freeway near Mt. Houston.
Deputies found the victim pinned when they arrived and had to pry her out.
Life Flight flew to the scene, but an ambulance transported the victim to Ben Taub General Hospital in good condition.
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Alright so considering no tablet has gotten traction in the 10 inch tablet space besides the iPad, let's compare it with the iPad.
Ipad has a much higher screen res than 1280X 800. It has the same storage as an ipad at the same price value. And it costs $200 for the goddamn keyboard. How the hell are windows tablets so suppose tot sell above $500 dollars. No consumer is going to buy a windows tablet over an iPad, while the iPad has so much mindshare. I feel like Microsoft and OEMs are really fucking this up. They have a real shot to adapt to the market but they are screwing themselves with such high prices.


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STYLE ADVICE OF THE WEEK: The Bold And BundledStyle Advice of the Week
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To the Editor, The Guide:
I agree with your article in "Baltimore Voices" in the December 7th issue of The Baltimore Guide. I can do without the Saturday delivery of bulk (read junk) mail from the U.S. Postal Service. I can also do without the large amount of junk mail received on Tuesdays. However, I understand congress controls much of the USPS practices.
What sacrifice is Congress making in order to improve the USPS efficiency and reduce costs? All I see in the plans to cut back on USPS services, are consumer services. In 2007, the Congressional Research Service prepared a report for Congress advising representatives that the "franking" privilege had cost taxpayers $113.4 million in current dollars from 1988 to 2007. House members spent more than $45 million in 2009 on taxpayer-funded mass mailings. Senate mailings are far fewer and represent only 13% of all mass congressional mailings from 2000 to 2007. However, the cost of Senate mailings averages about $4 million per year. So much of these congressional mass mailings are to brag to their recipients on what a wonderful service their representative is providing and to say "oh, and by the way, please elect me again".
Also, why not increase the cost of junk mail? We certainly receive more junk mail then we do first class mail. This would not only serve to eliminate a large amount the junk mail we receive, and throw out, but also eliminate the fat cat lobbyists who prey on our susceptible congress people by providing, gifts, junkets and money.
Why should congress benefit when we must have our services cut?
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Ex-Navy man who pointed rifle at officer sentenced to probation, ordered to continue treatment
SAN DIEGO - A retired Navy petty officer who was shot by a San Diego policeman after raising a military assault rifle in his direction was sentenced Tuesday to probation and ordered to continue counseling and treatment for mental health issues, including a form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Esteban Nandin, 25, pleaded guilty last July to a felony charge of brandishing a firearm in the presence of a peace officer. Judge Timothy Walsh suspended a yearlong jail term as long as Nandin successfully completes three years of probation.
A motion to reduce the felony conviction to a misdemeanor was denied.
Defense attorney Jeremiah Sullivan told reporters that Nandin spent quite a bit of time serving as a guard at one of Iraq's most dangerous prisons.
Sullivan blamed the episode of PTSD from Nandin's time as a guard at Camp Bucca in Iraq -- a place he called "hell on earth."
Sullivan said Nandin heard noises and wanted to secure his apartment building -- flashing back to his time in Iraq -- when the gun-pointing incident in San Diego happened on Oct. 14, 2012.
"He has no recollection of the actual event. But having gone through this process over the past year, he is someone who has a strong moral compass and he feels terrible that he would actually endanger the public or endanger an officer, for that matter," Sullivan said.
Deputy District Attorney Robert Eacret said the rifle raised by Nandin at the officer wasn't loaded.
San Diego police Officer Charles Marciniak testified that he had no way of knowing there was no ammunition in Nandin's weapons. The veteran officer said he was forced to shoot Nandin in the wrist when the assault rifle was pointed in his direction.
"I feared for my life. This person was standing there with a rifle and tactical gear and he pointed the rifle at me. At that point, I feared it was either me or him," testified Marciniak.
The officer told prosecutors that he sympathizes with Nandin and his mental health issues and did not wish for him to go to jail.
Eacret said Nandin will continue his mental health treatment through the military. Nandin plans to continue therapy in San Antonio, Texas, where he has family support.
San Diego police officers were called to a six-story residential unit above commercial space shortly before 3 a.m. on Oct. 14, 2012.
Someone inside 606 Third Ave. told a 911 dispatcher that a man wearing a tactical vest and carrying a military-style assault-type weapon was in a first-floor corridor.
Officers entered the lobby and spotted Nandin with a gun. He saw the officers and began to raise the barrel of the weapon toward them. The officer closest to Nandin -- an 18-year veteran of the department -- responded by firing two rounds from his duty weapon.
Nandin retreated into the stairwell and a SWAT team was called. About 50 minutes later, Nandin -- bleeding from his chest and arm -- emerged from the building unarmed and was taken into custody.
A military-style assault rifle, gas mask, handgun and a body armor vest were found in the stairwell, police said.


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A woman driving home after work in Springfield helped police capture two armed robbery suspects.
Police say Daevon Ramsey and Ashawn Whyte allegedly jumped a man who was walking on Island Pond Road around 2:30 Thursday morning.
According to police, during the assault one of the men pulled out a knife and robbed the victim of his cell phone.
A 34-year-old woman driving by the attack as it was happening stopped her car, flashed her high beams and blared her horn.
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Thanks for everybody that suplied thier scores for these fights. Both were very easy fights to judge although i still cant believe 1 judge only had Stieglitz winning by 4 rounds.
McPhilbin though proves - its never over till its over
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A DeWitt County woman who was offered a 12-year jail sentence in a plea agreement turned down the offer and was sentenced by a judge to 30 years instead.
Diane Musachia, 54, had pled guilty to possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, but chose to go before District Judge Pat Kelly instead of taking the plea offer, said DeWitt County District Attorney Michael Sheppard.
"The DeWitt County Sheriff's Office did an excellent job making this undercover buy when they got complaints that there appeared to be drug deliveries going on at Musachia's house," said Sheppard.
"We were very pleased with Judge Kelly's sentence and thought it was very appropriate considering all the surrounding facts and circumstances."
Those facts included Musachia's history of three prior convictions and evidence that she involved her 19- and 20 year-old children in the drug-selling business.
In addition, while out on bond awaiting trial on the meth case she picked up a state jail felony charge of possession of Oxycodone, Sheppard said.


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When Disaster Strikes: How My Set Fell Apart at the Last Minute and What We're Doing About It
Filmmaking is a logistical nightmare. This much we know to be true. Every department has to be on top of its game and meeting its deadlines, and the entire cast and crew has to be in-sync for a set to work properly. With so many independent, yet crucial variables that have to come together in seamless fashion, it's amazing that people are as successful as they are making films. But that's not to say that things don't occasionally go terribly and utterly wrong, and that's just what happened today to a production that I'm DP'ing. Read on for both the story, and what my production team and me are doing about it.
So I show up to set this morning. It's 5:30am, and I'm all bleary-eyed and yawning, just itching for the crafties to whip out some coffee and pastries. That's when the director and the producer pull into the parking lot. I can immediately tell that something is terribly wrong when I see the director's solemn face as he gets out of the car. He shoots me one of those looks (you'll know the look when you see it), then comes up to me and proceeds to tell me that our lead actor, the one who's scheduled to be in every single shot of the day, has dropped the film for some unbeknownst reason. It's the worst case scenario, and there's really nothing that we can do to salvage the day or the production schedule, so we call off the shoot.
At this point in the morning, it's clear that we have to formulate some kind of backup plan, and we have to get said plan into motion quickly because time and money are running out (aren't they always). What we ended up deciding might seem like the obvious choice, but compared to some of the alternatives, I absolutely believe that it was the right one. Instead of deciding to nix the project or put it on a lengthy hiatus due to a lack of resources, we decided that we would recast our lead and continue with the film as planned, but in a much more independent and low-budget way. We'd use the production equipment already available to us for cheap or free, and we'd use locations to which we'd have periodic access (aka our homes and apartments).
Sure, production value is likely to suffer, and the film might not have the technical quality that it would have originally. But as the recent, Oscar-winning documentary, Searching For Sugar Man taught us, story is king, and as long as your audience is engaged in the story and the characters, they're more likely to forgive a film's technical shortcomings. My team and I are going to take this theory to the bank and make sure that the script is as tight as possible, that the actors are fully in tune with the project, and that once-complicated lighting and camera moves are simplified to the point of being highly utilitarian. And while this last point makes my inner DP cry a little bit, getting this film made and telling this story are more important than snapping off some killer shots.
It's unfortunate, but occurrences such as this one are all too common in no/low budget filmmaking, and they can very easily kill even the best-laid plans. The cast and crew are getting paid very little, if anything, and people are donating their time and efforts in hopes of being part of something cool and having new material for their reels. Oftentimes, life just gets in the way. There are bills to pay, kids to take care of, family emergencies, and all sorts of things that just have to take precedence over filmmaking. That's just the way it is, and we, as filmmakers, have to learn to make the best of these trying situations. Hopefully, that's what our team did this morning, and hopefully the project will come out the other end stronger than ever.
Have you run into these types of worst-case scenarios in your filmmaking journeys? How have you solved them? Tell us about your filmmaking disasters and solutions in the comments.
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Yup, Been there… done that. Seems like if you 'move forward with plan B' of if you punt, the hardest part of the day is 'letting go' of plan A.
Kenneth Merrill on 03.9.13 @ 12:43AM
Wise words.
Darren Orange on 03.8.13 @ 7:23PM
And why does the loss of this actor cause your budget to suddenly disappear? The actor was that valuable? So now because he's gone everything is going to become cheap or free? Very confused on this.
Robert Hardy on 03.8.13 @ 7:36PM
Well, our production basically falls into the category of no budget, perhaps bordering on low budget on a good day. Because of this, we had cast and crew that were working for free, very graciously I might add, and most of our money was tied up in the equipment rentals (both from our school and from third parties) as well as catering and craft services for the weekend. So now we've got a whole bunch of equipment that we've already paid for, for a weekend where we won't be able to shoot.
Andrew Smith on 03.9.13 @ 6:59AM
You can't afford to pay people but you can afford to rent equipment? Priorities are out of whack. Apart from probably attracting better actors and crew, you'll also have a better (professional) working environment. Nothing worse than having the people whom you rely on and have no contractual obligation with resent you.
I also think pizza is probably the worst thing you can serve. You'll notice everyone is slightly less sprightly and bloated afterwards, and alot of people don't find that sort of food acceptable especially if they've been on their feet all day. You can easily prepare something nice and healthy the day before and keep it in an ice box. If you've access to power you can also get cheap portable electric hobs to reheat it.
Steve V on 03.9.13 @ 8:38AM
Its very common here for the same thing. When folk are talking rentals its only like $100-200 a day. You can't really pay a crew on that.
Tyler on 03.11.13 @ 10:08PM
You can get cheaper actors but you can't get cheaper equipment.
Darren Orange on 03.9.13 @ 9:15PM
If that is the case, then why did you not shoot all of your reversals on that day? You can cheat the new actor in later and pick up shots that blend the two together, this would of allowed the day to be productive and not have it be a complete waste.
Robert Hardy on 03.10.13 @ 1:35AM
Honestly, there were only supposed to 2 or 3 clean singles in the entire film because the director and I decided to keep a wider and more open aesthetic. We probably could have gone and shot a few half-scenes with singles only, but I'm not sure that the director would have been pleased by the result.
How dies one get in on a recasting session? Pics and resume available on my site.
marklondon on 03.8.13 @ 8:22PM
I've had that, on quite a large production. The second actor that took the part (on a day's notice) won an award for it, so it ended well. :-)
Worst no-budget story was being arrested (in the classic London violent fashion) for trying to shoot in one of Her Majesty's parks. This was before the days of DSLRs.
Glad you decided to plow on. Good luck!
Robert Hardy on 03.9.13 @ 1:08AM
Getting arrested in London makes my "disaster" look like a dainty little hiccup haha. I guess sometimes everything becomes clearer with a little bit of perspective.
Long story short: morning of the shoot, my lead actress was in a car accident. (She was fine eventually, but too shaken & injured to shoot) I re-shuffled scenes, got on the phone with as many friends as possible, & was fortunate enough that a playwright had an actress who had the following day off. I e-mailed the script to her & she showed up the next day & proceeded to knock the ball out of the park.
I subscribe to the mantra of Jack from "Lost". Allow yourself five seconds of complete panic, then get over it and get to work.
moebius22 on 03.8.13 @ 9:44PM
When you can't afford to pay the actors, they tend to be more likely to flake.
Robert Hardy on 03.8.13 @ 10:54PM
Most of the actors and the crew we hire tend to be people who are still learning their craft, and therefore are glad to work for free as long as they get a copy, credit and food. I mean, building a reel so that you can land paid work takes a ton of time and effort. I'm definitely still working on it.
Kenneth Merrill on 03.9.13 @ 12:47AM
I said to some colleagues on our shoot tonight: free work goes a long way. Someone who will work hard for free is in my good book forever, and I will do them favors in return. Favors are often the currency of the super underground indie scene.
I completely, and respectfully disagree. I've worked in the industry in LA, NY & Boston and can't recall a single person I've talked to who's gotten a good paying gig out of working for free, myself included. Yes, everyone promises future work or a great recommendation, but honestly, how many really follow through? I think that way of doing things, and that mentality, has only hurt our industry (ie: those craigslist posts we're all too familiar with). In what other industry can one be expected to perform a specialized task for 8-12 hours and not get paid? If you're working on a school project, or just getting a few friends together, that's one thing, but if you're renting equipment and there's a director, producer, DP and actors coming to set at 5:30 in the morning, then everyone should be getting paid something! With good DSLRs available to buy for $500 there's really no excuse now. You don't need to be renting a $2000+ camera for a project maybe only 2000 people are going to see. And Robert, no offense, but I do cringe at the thought of all those $5 pizzas. I think I might have had pizza on set once, and that was in CT and it was good pizza (CT has the best). On a micro or no-budget shoot you can easily have a PA run to Subway (or even the grocery store) and get enough sandwiches for everyone for an even better price – and their insides will thank you later. Huge packs of water, healthy fruit snacks, crackers & cheese and other snacks can be bought at Costco, BJ's, Sam's Club or Super Walmarts for $5-$15. Pizza on set just tells me that someone is lazy and doesn't understand the real cost of food. If you want to be a professional you have to act and plan as one. There's no excuse for shitty food and cast & crew not getting paid if money is going towards equipment. Everyone should also be signing a contract or release form. These things don't always solve the flaking problem, but they will surely help.
Elias on 03.10.13 @ 2:21PM
I've worked with crew in NYC where everyone was more than willing to work for free (all professionals, mind you) and of course on my paying directing gigs I get everyone in for a paying gig. I'll fight with the line-producer to hire my crew, even. It's only fair plus you're already a well-playing team and will save time and headache.
It occasionally does work.
I'm also amazed at how many professionals are eager to work with you for free if your reel is promising enough…
Joe Marine on 03.10.13 @ 4:06PM
I've gotten a number of well-paying jobs (worth thousands of dollars) thanks to people with whom I'd previously worked for free. You have to pick and choose the right people, and you have to be doing it on your own terms. I have mixed feelings about the practice in certain circumstances (like with productions that are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars), but I've developed connections I just would not have developed any other way.
Another example besides the paying jobs – there is a place local to me where I can walk in and grab thousands of dollars worth of equipment for free at almost any time of day assuming they aren't using it (and 99% of the time they aren't). Without these connections I never would have been able to make a feature for $2,500 – which happened to be one of my thesis films in school.
To me it's about being savvy enough to work for the productions you know will benefit you down the road. It may not be in the form of paying gigs in the future, but it could be in the form of personnel and equipment, which may be just as valuable to you.
You guys make some good points, but I feel that your experiences may be the exception rather than the norm. You are definitely right Joe; you gotta be savvy and work for free on your own terms, if at all, and make sure you know who you're working for.
Robert Hardy on 03.11.13 @ 1:41AM
Hey John, I have to agree with Joe on this one. It really is a matter of picking your battles in terms of which sets you work on for free. There are definitely a ton of people out there with no intention of hiring the people who work for free, but there are also great connections to be made on sets, and those connections can definitely lead to recommendations for paid work since the industry is very much a "word of mouth" industry. It's really just a matter of watching out for the people who are more likely to take advantage of you, and learning to say no when you think there's a chance that might happen. So it definitely goes both ways, but it mostly comes down to being smart about who you work for.
Also, believe me, there are no $5 pizzas on my sets. That shit is disgusting, and it's a terrible thing to give to your crews. There are no two ways about it. But lord almighty have I been on a ton of sets where that's been the norm. Hopefully the dog days of $5 pizzas are over for me :)
Julian Terry on 03.8.13 @ 9:50PM
I had my first short film to shoot and I had everything planned. It had a boat race and multiple extras. I was ready to film when my lead actress dropped out the day before…. Stupid model. Anyway, I thought quickly and called this girl I met a month ago and she said she could act. So then my producer and dp never showed up and I took over the project. It was a lot of fun and that girl who filled in became the love of my life. This is the project:
Kenneth Merrill on 03.9.13 @ 12:48AM
That story ended surprisingly well.
john jeffreys on 03.8.13 @ 9:58PM
Actors always flake. Pay them (or at the least, feed them well and drive them around and stroke their egos), and they'll stay. Good thing, though, that you can throw a quarter in LA and it will hit at least 4-5 starving SAG talent, the place is teeming with them. I always have 2-3 backups on call in case our lead drops out.
I love set-horror stories. On our last shoot, our monitor fried within 20 minutes of the first scene and the DP had to pull focus at 1.4 in a dim room off the camera's onboard monitor, and do the same when we shot a drug-deal scene in a sketchy alleyway a few hours later. He was not happy (to say the least), but I bribed him with delicious pizza and it worked.
If it's one thing I learn on every project, it's that everybody has a price. Pizza and money, that shit makes the world go round.
Robert Hardy on 03.8.13 @ 11:01PM
Yep, pizza and gas-money are the keys to keeping film folks happy on low/no budget sets. But if you knew how many of those Little Caesar's $5 pizzas I've had in the past two years, you'd probably cringe haha. Also, buying your crew a beer or two when you wrap is a total crowd-pleaser :)
john jeffreys on 03.9.13 @ 12:03AM
Wrap parties are the best parties
Working on an action sport piece for broadcast and my lead just injured themselves. We are re-wrapping the story line a bit to adjust. What we had scripted was air tight, but now it is forcing us in a slightly different direction. Such is life….. we role with it.
Same here. I was producing and directing my short film, an actor dropped out 2 days before the shoot, after we had costume fitted, and it was period costume. I managed to get a friend who fit the costume, to agree to do it the night before the shoot! I had to frantically rewrite some dialogue to make it work the next day, which wasn't ideal, and I still regret the bits we had to change because of the actor dropping out.
Then we suffered from the bane of all low budget filmmaking…weather!
Day 1, Saturday, beautiful blue sky, not a cloud to be seen all day, it made for amazing light.
Day 2, awoke to fog and rain! I was SO gutted.
Only had those 2 days to do it, wrangling that many cast and crew for those 2 days. Luckily it stopped raining about Noon, which allowed us to keep filming, but the light was different, the grass colour was different, and shooting on dslrs meant there was little that could be done in post to match it, as I was doing it all myself.
Luckily, it turned out ok. Not as good as it could have been due to the lost shooting time with the rain, and the original actor would have worked much better, but you work with what you have.
This is the film
Just wanted to say I loved this short regardless of your setbacks.
Dude, I love this one. That's damn funny stuff. I love the delivery on the "Some would say that was reason enough, sir…" line, so if that's the guy who filled in, big kudos to him. Honestly couldn't tell who was the stand-in. Laughed quite a bit throughout this one, and I almost immediately forgot I was supposed to be watching for out-of-color shots. Never really noticed.
Oh, and that huge tree is awesome!
Ben Howling on 03.9.13 @ 6:43AM
Did you manage to use the hired gear to at least knock off some b-roll or 2nd Unit shots?
Steve V on 03.9.13 @ 8:37AM
I think this shows what mature well organized (semi) professional crews would do. I especially like the part where the shots will be simplified. If you are working with complete amateurs the same thing will turn into a nightmare (like my cousin can act), etc.
Worst moment? 7 or 8 years ago.
A 48 hour film challenge with interiors to be shot in a (so called) 'fully equipped broadcast studio' a friend had arranged. While we shot ext. the art director, gaffer and assistant went ahead to prep the 'studio'.
An hour in, the art director called to say they'd be running late because they had to go out and buy protective gloves, face masks and overalls before starting to to clear up the mess left by the previous days porn shoot.
Worst moment was arriving with the camera crew and two actresses to discover it wasn't a wind up. And was even worse than they'd said. I'm broadminded with a strong stomach, this was fucking grim and I felt responsible.
After immediately giving everyone the option to quit, nobody wanted to. We talked through the options and decided to scale back the shoot (especially the build) and spend time on the clean up.
Just as we finished cleaning up, the studio owner arrived to say he'd changed his mind. We 'negotiated' a couple of hours, simplified further and fit the idea around what we could get in the time.
The edit didn't go to plan but relatively speaking…
We finished film to meet the 48 hour deadline and placed in the top 20..
Shortly after my 18th birthday, my best friends and film crew set off to create a 2 minute teaser trailer for a zombie-style flick we were in the process of putting together. We had heard about this abandoned supermarket not far out of town and decided to check it out.
You'll have to keep in mind – I was (and my crew kinda was) the most passionate group of filmmaker kids you could ever meet – and we knew nothing about "the proper way" things were to be handled. If I wanted to shoot it there – I was gonna shoot it there. Guerilla was the only way to go in those young and naive days – and nobody on my crew was going to challenge that. We had already shot a 45 minute short film in an abandoned warehouse just two years before – so nobody was scared of possible consequences.
We scouted the location. Got lots of great shots to pour over before we return to shoot the following weekend.
We must have been in that place for 5 or 6 hours. We ate, played cards, laughed – all was wonderful.
The following weekend we purchased a few hundred dollars worth of essentials – like raw meet and food for the cast and crew. We once again stepped over the orange snow fence they had decided to put up around the supermarket… and before we even got our bags unpacked – boom. Five squad cars.
They could clearly see that we weren't doing anything wrong nor did we have anything on us that would have gotten us into any trouble… but uhoh… We're suddenly in hand cuffs. Every single one of us.
I was possibly the youngest one on location that day… and I watched as all my older friends were put into squad cars and I eventually ran into them in the drunk tank an hour later. One by one everyone gets bailed out. I refused to have anyone spend a cent on my release.
Anyway… they try to explain to us that an orange snow fence is a "No trespassing sign"
I was always under the impression a No trespassing sign was a sign that said "No Trespassing"
Suddenly – the city suddenly fenced off the supermarket and erected a sign (after 3 years of utter abandonment, just to try and nail us) I proved with our footage in court that the only thing there at the time was an orange snow fence – and since they couldn't prove their fence meant "No trespassing" we all had our money returned to us.
I can't say I learned anything for sure… other than the fact that these police officers had nothing better to do and were totally allowed to arrest us for no reason. I'll stay away from a no trespassing sign – but an orange snow fence is never going to stop me from doing what I want to do if I've already decided.
…raw meat. *
On a shoot for my short, our 16mm camera just stopped working towards the end of the day when all the rental places have closed up shop. Apparently the fuse blew out. Also, the building manager apparently called the cops because of complaints about our light stands being outside. All this happened at the same time. Scary stuff. But then we hauled ass and packed the mambo stands away while the DP (Dan Witrock: http://danwitrock.com/) macguyver'd the camera. We were up and running in 15 minutes.
Here's a trailer for the short: https://vimeo.com/41775338
Dheep' on 03.14.13 @ 5:05PM
Man , you try to tell a story about the pitfalls of film making and what do you get ? A lecture on Morals & Healthy Living. As the old saying goes " It Takes all kinds" But does it really have to take all kinds over every and all story/ story / Pipedream / Etc ? Really ?
The themes and emotions in this post/comments are perennial. Whether we're trying to get our films made, find our way onto our first productions, or moving onto sets with higher level experience, attitude and timing are often what make the difference.


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Technology: The New Addiction?
We can't deny that technology is a growing addiction, nor should we ignore it. But before we panic and take away young people's mobile phones, let's see how we can use technology to bring people together and create well-rounded future employees with social skills that extend far beyond social media.


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The BFSI industry in India is still contemplating a formal BYOD policy, given its informal prevalence, some organizations have already introduced it while ensuring the security of sensitive corporate data.
In an interaction with CIOL, Naveen Chopra, Director for Vodafone Business Services shares his insight to latest trends in BFSI industry and how the Vodafone's recently launched Secure Device Manager can accelerate BYOD phenomena.
CIOL: Why organizations in the BFSI industry have been apprehensive to allow BYOD?
Naveen Chopra: Banks and financial institutions are entrusted by billions of individuals with sensitive personal and financial information. If this data is compromised, it can jeopardize an individual's financial well-being and the institutions reputation.
BYOD promotes the use of personal devices at workplace, employees carrying unsupervised devices may expose the financial institutions IT eco-system to trojans/viruses/sniffers etc. Unless closely governed and regulated via stringent mobile device security polici
es, BYOD may pose a security threat to BFSI operations. In the absence of credible solutions to manage their device fleets BFSIs have been apprehensive to fully adopt BYOD.
CIOL: What is the security challenges being faced by the industry while implementing BYOD?
Naveen Chopra: The biggest threat to any organization is accidental data loss OR planned information theft.
With BYOD, smartphones & tablets access corporate information from the same data-centres as personal computers (PC) do.
On the one hand organizations spend heavily on PC security, on the other they mostly leave personal mobile devices unsecure; they are seldom monitored OR managed by the organization. BYOD can be a big threat; it has the potential to expose corporate data centers and information stores to cyber-attacks / data-theft.
jackpresno Thu Jan 24 at 11:38 PM
Very interesting interview, and I agree that BYOD offers big productivity gains and big security risks. Like healthcare, banks have a lot of fear from BYOD and especially with employees using thier own devices, but I think privacy concerns are still the biggest challenge for all big BYOD employer device systems. We were looking to bring in a larger MDM system for BYOD at our hospital, but the doctors (who own the hospital) felt it was to intrusive since they all wanted to use their own devices, but didn't want IT to have total control over them. Still, they wanted the ability to send HIPAA compliant patient info (mostly text messages) to admin and other doctors. We changed our stratagy and started looking for individual apps to deal with the various security issues. Example to allow for HIPAA text messaging, we got an app (Tigertext) which is HIPAA compliant, and installed it on all the doctors devices. It auto-deletes the messages after X period of time, and IT can still wipe the device if it is lost or stolen, but the doctors didn't feel it violated thier 'privacy' which made it acceptable to them.


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Delphos Raiders CheerleadersThe Raiders cheerleaders (top right), coached by Elena Rahrig, have, front left to right, Avery Mueller and Ava Hershey; middle - Makenzi Coffey, Addison Mueller and Xandra Houx; and back - Kendall Schrader and Kaylin Wreede.
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Natural Gas Markets
PESD has investigated the geopolitical consequences of the world's increasing dependence on natural gas. Two studies modeled potential demand in the new gas markets of China and India.
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- Liquefied Natural Gas from Indonesia: The Arun Project
Fred von der Mehden, Steve Lewis
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper #25 (2004)
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Mark H. Hayes, David G. Victor
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2004 - The coming of Robbodildo
Some of the most powerful Shamans of the rainforest - had in dreamtime a meeting about how to reach the heart of young rebels, and awake new forces of power. How to get humans back to the spirit of nature again, and liberated love - the most essential energy of the universe?
So one of the Shamans contacted Leona and Tommy, in the form of a plastic robot from the 80s - To inspire to actions and reaction - and maybe, in the end, even unity. So lets see if this stupid modern humans are able to take their challenge.
The game beguines!
2004 - Get support from the Norwegian government to get started!
FuckForForest.org got created with help from the Norwegian government, who gave us money for half a year to start the project. They later, after media wrote about it in the news, regretted giving FuckForForest support. In this time, in Norway, showing close-ups of fucking or lovemaking was forbidden. So the Norwegian state was quite frustrated about helping to build such an indecent ecological organization. They even tried to get the money back, failing, after using even more money on lawyers to find out - that we all the time did what we said we would do.
2004 - FuckForForest rocks the world!
FuckForForest got international attention after FFF and The Cumshots, a rock band from Norway, made a show together on the Quart festival in Kristiansand, Norway. Enjoying their bodies and sexuality, they tried to put focus on what is happening to the earth's nature.
The last hundreds of years, humans have managed to destroy over half of the earths original forests. How far would you go to actually change something? So go forth and FUCK!
This was a festival located in an area of Norway called the "bible belt", a highly traditional religious place. After the concert, even if the police found it un-necessary, the politicians of the city made a court case against our action. So FFF goes to court!
2005 - FuckForForest in court.
FuckForForest and the band "The Cumshots" had all to go to court for their sexual ecological contribution. FFF claimed all the time that this clearly is under the freedom of expression. The band was a bit more confused, and just wanted to get out of the shit, as fast as possible, by admitting their mistake - and paying the punishment of about 1300 Euro each.
In the end we all got sentenced for indecent behavior or participation, and got sentenced to pay a fee of together 10000NOK, around 1233Euro each - or go to jail for 20 days. Just punish the lovers! When is our society starting to punish the people poisoning our air and water?
Tommy is dropping his pants in court...
During the trial Tommy wanted to demonstrate the beauty of nudity by dropping his pants in court. It was as he described it; a short moment of love between him and the media.
2005 - Getting turned down by ecological groups.
The rainforest foundation had earlier said they would accept a donation from FFF. Suddenly they did not want to receive any donation from FFF anymore. The reason; the stage performance, and fear connected to that we got way too much attention.
FFF then, for fun, tries to donate money to WWF, who also refuses to accept a donation from FFF. The reason; WWF do not take donations from certain sectors of industry. So if you are a sex worker, even if it is allowed in your country, you are not qualified to save nature, or? Is this not some kind of serious sexual discrimination?
FFF contacted "nature and youth", an ecological groupe in Norway, to find out if there were any place in Norway where it would be important to do an action. We just wanted to give attention to what is happening to nature. The "Nature and youth" refused to give us information, telling us that if any action were going to happen, it would happen after their rules. Monopoly activism? And the world just gets weirder!
2005 - won price for best web page.
The winner of the best webpage of the year is FUCKFORFOREST.org - given from the Charity erotic awards!
This award is a part of the "Night of the senses". This beautiful event promotes sexual freedom, and collects money to help disabled people to get a better sexual life. Here you can find great inspiration for a more openly sexual planet! After this, FFF has always been welcome to this great sexual corner of the world.
2006 - FuckForForest on Troma festival.
The free "Troma trash Film Festival" in Berlin. A great event where FFF were making a kind of surreal, recycled, shamanistic, trash show! We did that with pleasure... Great inspiration and fun for us!
2006 - FuckForForest & Nada Njiente performing together at the Kit Kat Club, Berlin.
Together with our friend Nada Njiente, FuckForForest made a performance at Kit Kat Club. This is a sex positive club in Berlin, where you can live out all you fantasies, as long you respect and communicate. This is a place where FuckForForest is always welcome, to feel safe and at home. A nice hideout!
2006 - FuckForForest & Wild Climax refuge.
FuckForForest helps a small local organization in Costa Rica called Arbofilia, with buying land to make protected areas, and also support work with reforestation in the area.
FuckForForest made a protected natural area from the land, close to Carrara national park. The area is now called the FFF - Wild climax refuge.
Later FFF got kind of pushed out from this cooperation because of another ecological organization from Holland called "International tree founds" They were founded by conservative religious groups, and they in the end told Arbofilia that if they receives any more money from FFF, they would stop their foundlings. And since they had more resources than us, we had not too much to say.
Funny how one group working to save nature, can sabotage another, based on different sexual moralistic views.
There is a lot more to read about the ecological projects FFF supports in the "Eco Project" part.
2006 - Supporting the project Seedsdream in Ecuador, Amazon.
This is a project started in Ecuador by the Shuar indigenous community. They see that the forest is plundered; some plants do not come back. So they wanted to start to reforest the Amazon with plants that is disappearing, and create a seed network between the different tribes. Also to show how important it is to keep this culture connected to nature, making the tribes stronger with their culture, so they do not get tricked to give away the land to commercial interests. They started the project Seedsdream...
The project is focusing on reforestation, and to help make a cultural center for the exchange of knowledge - about natural balance, medicine plants and shamanism. Reclaim your nature! The Shuar is a tribe that traditionally practiced headhunting rituals. Why?
Well, they could see that the human consciousness was not developed enough to be too many. Then they would destroy too much nature and kill too many animals. So when there were too many people they made ritual wars, where they captured the head of the people on the other "team". This was actually all to regulate population. And to say in a way, that humans are a part of nature, not superior to it. And since they belive that everything in life is one changing energy, why be so attached to your human form?
More to read about this project in the Eco Project part
2007 - Fuckforforest Charity party.
FUCKFORFOREST IS MAKING A CHARITY PARTY ON KIT-KAT CLUB, BERLIN. Visitors: ca 200 and many had great sex on this party! FFF collected on the entrance: 1000Euro. This we used for the project in Costa Rica
Performing artist: fuckforforest.com and friends + Nada Njiente + Reverse escape goat. Nice party, on a nice club, with nice people! Thanks for all support!
2007 - Exhibition: The freedom of expression, where is the borders? How free is free?
The Nobel peace price center of Norway made an exhibition about freedom of speech and expressions. So where is the border?
Fuckforforest was invited as a part of this exhibition. They where showing clips from the rock concert where Tommy & Leona from FuckForForest.org had sex on stage. They showed the clip uncensored, in an open space where also children could see it. It was actually a nice moment to feel, that even in all our horniness and playfulness, someone also took us kind of serious.
FuckForForest was in the category: Using the body as expression.
2007 - Sex party in the FFF base.
SEX, DRUGS & ecology (& ROCK n ROLL)
For a greener and sexier planet!
2008 - Liberate the animal instincts, Berlinale.
FuckForForest went to the film festival Berlinale - to try to help "Knut" the ice bear to find back his lost animal instincts, and most important, his sexual instincts. The story was, that all the media hysteria and stress around the pore ice bear in the Berlin Zoo. had made the growing wild animal kind of psychotic.
But our work could not be done, because the Berlinale called the police for assistant, to catch Knut and the 2 half naked girls protecting him. Then they assist them away and kick them out.
We were able to stay at the Berlinale for about 15 minutes before the police surrounded us and made us follow them out to an open space.
It is sad that a film festival as Berlinale let this happen, while many people in the film industry try to fight for freedom of expression in their movies. Anyway, showing bodies, and trying to make the ice bear happy, was too much for the Berlinale.
Maybe we are all a little bit like Knut, trapped in a cage and afraid of out instincts? Anyway the Berlin police had no problem with the ice bear or the naked girls, and actually told us they were sorry for what they had to do. So we could walk untouched out in Berlins streets. Stupid to have a job, where you cannot follow your own beliefs.
2008 - Attack of paint in the hallway!
A group of kids, or people not totally agreeing with FFF and our actions, re painted the new renovated hallway outside the FFF base. Fuck The Forest... hmm what do they try to say with that, is this the kill as much forest as possible front? Anyway we were happy, since we like it trashy, and we did not totally agree with the newly renovated hallway. And now it was kind of a FFF commercial. Our house lord was not too happy, but what to do? Anyway it stayed like this for a long time.
(FuckForForest also got "Hausverbot", in many bars and house projects during this time. Hausverbot is a German way to say you are not welcome here anymore.
Some people in the political left oriented scene of Berlin suddenly got ideas about that FFF is sexists. Why? Because we play with sex? Is not judgment a big part of sexism? How can we know? We just try to have fun!
We will tell you more about our experience with the anti sexual front, here.
2008 - Masturbate-a-thone Copenhagen
The idea is totally surreal and funny, is not meant to be serious at all! Made by sexy people in San Francisco, to try to make people feel more secure with their body, and not take masturbation or body pleasure too serious!
Masturbation- a-thon should be a great place to get together to celebrate that act of self-pleasure. We need this to liberate ourselves from the prison of sexual taboos that keeps us from developing as a sexual living creature on this planet.
But we found out that in Denmark this event was quite a serious competition!
2008 - Universo Parallelo + Performance
FuckForForest got invited to make a performance on a big trance festival in Brazil. This was a great adventure that went madly out of control. It was just to many people that wanted to see the FFF people having their show this night!
In contrary to many European trance parties, where they many times are a bit afraid of promoting FFF, the Universo Parallelo crew promoted FFF on their program. It ended up with a total overfull stage with people hanging from the trees to get a look. This while "team FFF" tries to play out a sexual story, based on suppression of mind and body through time.
2009 - World Social Forum Brazil
Natty and Tommy (lost without Leona, who got electrocuted by a lamp and had to go back to Berlin) representing FFF together with other FFF friends at the world social forum Brazil. 1000000 people gathered to party and try to figure out how to change the world, or get their hands on the natural recourses in a "clean" way. Without Portuguese knowledge, FFF was a bit lost. But they still could figure out that many organizations, which claimed to wish to protect nature, were sponsored by big companies and banks. A bit scary. When did they start to care about anything else than profit?
But here we also met the people from the Escolar de Mata Atlantica for the first time. They later created the "Chama" project. They work to replant a piece of land by a river, and spread information on how to life in harmony with nature. Now with help of money collect through FFF.
2009 - Natty kidnapped by cannibals in the Amazon?
In a Berlin newspaper you could one day read: Berlin girl lost in the Amazon rainforest. Went with some kind of crazy ecological sex cult to Brazil and has not reported home in long time.
Roomers say she was first kidnapped by cannibals, but managed to work herself up in the tribe - from food, to sexual goddess. After receiving the information she wanted she kind of returned to Berlin again. With a different look in here eyes and with knowledge she still keeps in here heart.
When will the power be released?
2009 - How to organize Anarchy?
Berlin anarchistic congers presents - "how to organize Anarchy". What the fuck is that? Is not anarchy more like - no organization?
So 3 people from FFF decides to make a nude action during this anarchistic congress, to represent FFF and our right to be naked if we wish. In the end this created so much confusion and anger that the naked FFF people kind of got threatened with violence (violence against nudity!) and the organizers the next day decided to close down the whole congress. The reason for closing- FuckForForest got to much sympathy, with too many people. . Hmm
When did Anarchism become politic and rules?
Happy hippie hater day!!!!
Read more about how FuckForForest experienced this event, here!
2009 - Supporting project in Slovakia
FuckForForest starts to support - VLK Lesoochranarske zoskupeniei, a project in Slovakia - to protect the last wild forest and animal life there.
More to read about this project in the Eco Project part.
2009 - FuckForForest meets the "Off-Enders".
The "Off-Enders" is an anti society group of outcast superheroes. They are fighting against injustice in the world, maybe by unmoral means, but with love full hearts. The members of the super hero group are: **The rapist - The Whore - The off-ender - The sexist - The flasher (flashing himself for ethnic minority groups only), Super cunt & Scared mouse.** Together they are using their sexual skills, gifts and superpowers, to bravely offend the world - and to fight suppression and prude behavior, wherever it can be found.
They also often battle the evil super villain "Moralium", who wish to enslave humanity with his suppressive moral ray. The Off-Enders, by any means necessary or un-necessary, is always trying to help to create a more tolerant planet. It is said, that some of them came from a planet far far away, in another dimension, where suppression and serious creatures does not exist. They came to earth to learn about how to take things mores serious, something not known it their dimension. So the Off-Enders from the dimension far away have teamed up with some of Earths natural offending talents. Together they are - The OFF-ENDERS!
After the Anarchistic congress in Berlin, roomers say the Off-Enders contacted FFF. There are also rumors saying they are now part of fuckforforest. That itself is quite offending for a minority of people. What could happen in this cooperation? This roomer has already created countless counter strike superheroes and groups, mortal enemies, who wish to fight The Off-Enders. Like; The Anti Sexists - Dr Prude - Censure Man - Restrictionia, Irony girl and The Religionator.
We in the fuckforforest crew wish to clearly state - the Off-enders has not fucked for forest yet and we do not have any connection to this group what so ever, even if we some times post web blogs about their actions on FFF.
2009 - Practicum for crazy scientist working with Orga Urkult.
FuckForForest have got a new practicum worker in FFF. He makes research on how to make reforestation easier and better. And on how to make plants grow in areas where the earth is dead, without much water??
There are 2 ways he has been investigating in: Terra Preta and Orga-Urkult. FuckForForest took part in the research connected to Orga-Urkult, a project connected to earth magnetism and sexual energy.
So we went, Tommy, Natty, David and me - and of course Harald, the FFF practicum and crazy scientist. We all went to a small farm, not far from Berlin. To try out this theory about making plants grow faster and bigger. First we had to look for the perfect place. We where looking for something like an energy vortex in the earth.
2009 - Selling our bodies to get Tommy out from jail.
After Tommy tried to get a new passport in Norway, the police gave him the ultimatum - go to jail the 2 of November, or pay the 10 000 Norwegian money to the government. This is what he got sentenced to pay for Fucking on stage, and still had managed to avoid. Leona has still not paid this. But Tommy had now no passport, the police stole it, and we needed to go to Brazil. So what to do?
We really did not wanted to pay any money for something we still believe was necessary to do. We think our way of expressing love for nature should not have been put down on as something criminal, but rather be rewarded.
So we got the idea to contact a commercial porn magazine in Norway. We wanted to make some photos; to get the money for paying Tommy out, without using any of the FFF collected money. We fuck and are naked anyway all the time, and it is kind of nice to make love to solve problems. And since making love was what put us into trouble in the first place, this felt exciting.
So we kind of prostituted ourselves to get the money for getting Tommy a new passport. So the state gets their porn money. But is not prostitution forbidden in Norway?
2009 - Protecting forest and a Indian community, Brazil.
End of 2009 we got an E-mail from a girl called Valeska. She wrote and told about how 5.300 squares kilometers of forest and an Indian community were under threat to become a rice farm, if no one did something.
She found out about FFF from a friend who had been at the world social forum. FFF decided to donate the missing money to protect this land and the people living there.
More to read about this project in the Eco Project part
2009 - Still many walls to brake down!
The German wall fell on this day, 20 years ago. And whole of Berlin is celebrating. FFF is on a mission to inform people that cloths can be walls too, and that there are still too many walls in our minds.
So we ended up getting told by the police that we were very welcome to express ourselves, but please without the sign, it would block their view. They did not seem to care much about some of us showing our tits, or pussies (Thanks Berlin!!). They refused to arrest us, and after some time we went again with the flow, 200m to the left where signs were allowed again.
2009 - Supporting new project called "CHAMA", in the Atlantic-rainforest, Brazil.
On the world social forum in Brazil 2009, Tommy and Natty met a group of people working with a project called Escola de Mata Altlantica.
Later after a nice long E-mail and telephone conversations, we agreed on helping them with FFF funds to buy a piece of land.
The land was next to a land EMA just had bought. It is for reforestation, protection and research.
More to read about this project in the Eco Project part
2009 - FFF on exhibition called independent fuckers, FFF "art" getting destroyed by girl
FFF was invited to make an exhibition in an art gallery in Berlin called the Photo Shop. We made a small installation with deco, photos and a video.
During the opening of the exhibition one of the visitors decided it was in here right to destroy one of the FFF photos in the exhibition. The reason was - that the photo showed a boy getting a blowjob by two girls suppressive for the women and obviously sexist, right?
Well, the story behind the photo was different. The photo was of our guide in Costa Rica, a very sweet young boy, who both Leona and another friend had used weeks to hunt down. He was very shy, and the two girls almost dragged of his clothes and really used all their time trying to catch him.
If any borders were crossed here, it was on the term of the pore boy, not the girls. Strange how people can analyze a situation they do not know and justify their actions based on prejudgment and own issues.
Well, art are supposed to get reactions, so for us the night was a success!
2010 - FuckForForest at PRO LIFE march.
God sent us out for a new adventure in Berlin. The 1000 crosses march, an event for trying to get abortion and euthanasia forbidden in Europe. They called it a "PRO LIFE" march.
Walking with 1000 crosses! (For you who did not know, the cross is a old executing device. And before Christianity - a symbol representing the crossing of the material and spiritual world.) Now to symbolize the death of 1000 unborn children each day, or as Natty found out, trees that got killed for becoming crosses. No one seemed to care too much about natures right to live.
Tommy and Natty tried to get a cross, as well as many others, but ended up having to fight for one, almost getting beaten up by some kind of aggressive Christian bullies. Then the police showed us the way, away...
2010 - Performing as robots!
The story; three emotionless robots making researching on how to find the human life-force energy. I = Robot want to become a human?
Finding a porn magazine and comparing what they see in it with there own dead human looking body, trying to find out what love is...Error?
2010 - FuckForForest get support from "Suicidal Teens" an underground movement of suicidal teenagers.
There philosophy is, if you any way want to kill yourself, you might as well do it funny or for a purpose.
Teens joining the movement do not wish for anything else than to die. They think there is nothing to live for. They can just see the dark side of the world full, of misery and sadness. Depressed and domed to a miserly life - they have decided to take their life. But not just at home at a rope in the wardrobe, but out there on the streets - to show their frustration against the state of our world, and maybe make people feel the sadness they felt. To get the people to wake up from their sleep, and maybe realize that something - is serious wrong!
FuckForForest got contacted in 2010 from some of the teens telling that they like FFF and would join in, but are way to depressed and disgusted by life to have any sexual apatite at all. But they would help in any action where we need sexy teens killing them self to show how stupidly serious people take life and sex!
After getting contact with the Suicidal teens, FFF are posting some of their actions and event on FFF to help them spread their message - If you want to die, why not for a cause.
P.S Also good to know - the teens just kill themselves, and never anyone else. This is not suicide bombers that want to kill as many people as possible, including them self - but peaceful suicide teens who wish to make the world a better place for you and me.
2010 - Won a DINGSDABUMS on the No Dogma- 3 Freigeist-kurzfilmfest
FuckForForest won this great price for the movie from the 1000 crosses march. Documentation from a FuckForForest real life experience!
FFF also met a lot of nice people doing a lot of interesting work and activism in Berlin. So now we got some new inspirations and connections to more people going wild, in this great city. A great, free event!
See movie in movie part!
2010 - FuckForForest on stage with Frank Znort Quartet.
It was a big mess in the garden of Heden, this night as always:)
It all started in the garden, where God created life!
The band was playing, the creation became alive...
After good created life... yes, I guess you know... you are part of this mess as well... so I guess you know as much as me about what is going on...
2011 - FuckForForest Invited to hold a speech on important meeting in Paris.
FuckForForest got invited to Paris to hold a 20 minutes presentation on a meeting where the concept of way forest is impotent was presented.
It was the suiters sitting and listening, they where invited to learn about way forest is impotent. They are the people in our world that take the decision what should be done in our world.
Tommy and Natty with clown noses and Leona with a pen and paper entered the stage.. Sitting on the floor and talking about the concept of free nature and body. That we have to be able to be free with our body and sexuality and our fear for body and sex has some thing to do with our disconnection to nature. Ended with Tommy and Natty getting naked.
We where told not to show any sexual images and there for we showed animals fucking in the back ground during our speach... How can people that are not are able to see grown up people fuck be able to change the world to something better ?
2011 - Doing Pecha Kucha
20 images x 20 seconds a event founded in Japan that now also had spread to Berlin. Where FuckForForest suddenly got invited to join. It Sounded like fun so we made 20 sexy photos from us and friends.
Naked on stage with a microphone and a carrot we started the presentation connecting the 20 photos to one story
This is some of them...
2011 - Porn Clowns on 1 may
A group of Porn Clowns trying to have fun on the 1 of may Berlin. Tradition of punk music concerts and in the end fighting the police. Far back in Time actually with a purpose now the only purpose of this tradition is for the police to learn how to control big groups of people.
The sexy Porn Clowns only manage to make a rabbit come out of the pussy before a drunk punk made another magic trick called a flaying bear bottle.
The Porn Clowns will return again with more rabbits and more umbrellas to fight angry bear bottles ...
2011 - Sex in Bible & FFF action in the Oslo Cathedral
In 2011, Einar Gelius lost his job as priest in a state church in Oslo,Norway. The main reason for the bishop Ole Christian Kvalme´s choice of firing Gelius from his job, was Gelius authorship of the book "sex in the Bible".
Some worried people connected to FFF got engaged in the case, where it could seem as the freedom of expression and personal sexual freedom was under suppression by a religious regime.
So on the Ascension Day 3 activists from FFF entered the Oslo Dome and during the mess undressed and went to the alter. [See the movie]
FuckForForest wishes to reclaim nature through love. We wish to thank Einar Gelius for his contribution of thoughts on this important subject. We wish with this act of love to express our feelings about Bishop Ole Christian Kvalme´s sexual harassment and suppression of a free world!
2011 - Liberating the nipples
Natty & Danny meet up by the blue stone to continue there mission of liberating the nipples and make people more relaxed with nudity in public.
Our wish is to make people aware about that it is actually NOT legal for women to be topless in public, It is totally accepted for a boy to be topless, It should be equal rights. We do not wish for boys to have to dress up we wish for woman tits to also get accepted and allowed to show. Women breast are the first food source for human beeings. Why are we afraid of nature?
2011 - THIS IS A SLUT WALK not a BITCH walk
The SlutWalk protest marches began on April 3, 2011, in Toronto, Canada, and became a movement of rallies across the world. Participants protest against explaining or excusing rape by referring to any aspect of a woman's appearance.
"Slut or slattern is a pejorative term applied to an individual who is considered to have loose sexual morals or who is sexually promiscuous." -wikipedia
Sadly I must say that this slut walk in Berlin do not accept all groups to take part... We had to fight for beeing able to carry the FFF sign in the slut walk. Telling us that we can not take part because some people have a problem with FFF and in sympathy to them we have to go.
The political party "Die PARTEI" got bitched out and had to leave... we where lucky and had many friends that could bitch back so that we could stay
Throwing water on us be course the FFF poster only showing hetrosexual sex... girl giving a boy a blow job and a girl getting fucked from behind... so when did hetrosexuality became something bad.. I thought we where fighting for all sexual freedom...
2011 - FFF followed by "documentary" film team
We invited this two freaks, lets call them Camera guy and Sound guy into the life of FFF to document and make cinema movie out the project.
Giving them total freedom of expression to make this movie as they wished. Lets see what they will make out of it... making a product of a project and philosophy...
2011 - FuckForForest demonstration for freedom to express
In Berlin we where 21 friends and lovers, police protecting us and many tourists and strangers around us! Slowly we started, legally allowed from the police to be topless, at least something!
Maybe one day it will be allowed for everyone to be naked or wear whatever they want. In demonstrations in Germany it is forbidden to wear the same uniform while the police needs to be there, in uniforms. Why do we have so many strange laws? Hopefully one day love will be the only law.
2011 - Monster Children
10 Monster children... arriving with a boom! To entertain on a sex swinger club in Berlin
It was an adventure! Instruments, sounds and masterbation and fucking... the show was devided in 2 parts and the audians was getting on stage and taking part in the show.. It was amazing and funny...
2011 - FFF bringing sexy entertainment to jungle town
Bringing sexual madness to this lost jungle town in the amazon jungle of Peru. Trying to show humans lost in confusion and bringing the subject of free love to the surface.
Becoming really popular and wanted in many different clubs to entertain with sexy erotic shows. pushing the borders until we finally could have sex on a bar disk with a lot of people around wanting to see more of the juicy details.
2012 - Supporting hippie comunity in Peru
after visiting their community some times. maybe too much hippie stuff for us to be able to stay there for a long time. But the fact is that they do try to make a change... That counts a lot!
"We are an International Ecological Rainbow Community dedicated to living in a self- sustainable way in peace & harmony with Mother Nature. As an open circle of brothers & sisters, all are welcome to join the family, share their unique gifts & essence with the whole, & co-create ONE TRIBE of many colours."
More to read about this project in the Eco Project part
2012 - Porn rock Musical
The play was called the Strangers in Paradise !
A musical created by a crazy mind in magic inspired from life and FFF. The place was full... never had they sean something like this.. or did they... We had fun and hope the people watching also did !
Some days later we heard that they had special plenums = meeting to discuss the show, if this was over the line... is this a danger for the people and children... ?
2012 - FFF doing performance on the SexxBoxx party
Starting with a flower boy read a poem ending with singing hysteria wile the flower boy got his big dick sucked.
2012 - Invited to a birthday Party
Every body want to see sex... The world have made it a bit complicated to actually have the pleasure to see some one else have sex.. feel the energy and be allowed to watch it... if you have this desires you could get stamped as a pervert...
We got invited to make some sexy entertainment on a private birth day party in Oslo, Norway... we where bored and wanted to go to Norway so we left Berlin for new adventures
Last on stage that night was FuckForForest... Making a erotic show, this time it did not contain sex.. but we masturbated and in the end Tommy came in his hand and then he eat it
2012 - FuckForForest make a police report
For helping arranging a birth day party for his friend Sverre with FuckForForest as entertainment... costed Vegard his job on Norwegian children television where he was suppose to be the host for "melody grand prix junior".
Fuck For Forest made a police report about sexual discrimination from NRK when they fired Vegard...
we believe is an criminal offense is that NRK chose to dismiss Vegar Olsen his job as a host for "melodi grand prix junior" be course he was part of arranging "fuck for forest" to the private party.
The basis for NRKs choice is that there opinion is that it was wrong by Vegar Olsen to be contributing his friend get pas "fuck for forest" as private entertainment, be course "melodi grand prix" is a children program, and that he can not have the ability for freedom to get his private live shamed, be course he is working with children.
"fuck for forest" want to report NRK for sexual discrimination and harassment, be course we believe Vegar Olsen have been exposed for a ugly violation by his employer, and that he all the right to his own relationship to his sexuality and how he wants to live this out on his free time.
2012 - Sexual Disorder
Do you have a sexual disorder ? What is a sexual disorder... Doctor Stickitin or doctor Valiumas she is called by her patients, working in the psychiatric clinic in Berlin with a group of sexual misfits. There sexual drive is high and they are acting it out in abnormal ways. Her work is to get them back to the normal society and to behave as the rest of the people. After a year in her hands she took 6 of her patients out for field study to see how of them that can get set free in the real world again.
Hmm it went kind of ok... One of the patients made some people a bit afraid when she all the time rubbed her pussy on her pet and then made them smell it... (but they did smell it).. One of the other patients claimed he was jesus dressed as the devil and all the time looking for a virgin so that he could "rape" and so that she could give birth to the... There was also one that claimed it was horny cat and wanted to rub it self on people all the time.. then there was the sweet shy girl with the wipe... and the fairy boy that liked to show his genitals to people...
2012 - Right to exist - FFF demo
We where around 40 people together... with a lot of police protection... many busses full of police people following us around... Telling us that we can not have sex or be totally naked.. One girl got told by the police many times to drag up her dress to cover her nipples, ( probably because they where not painted or made into art)... wile others could show there tits with big dick hanging between her tits or painted... nature it self is not art enough for the police...
With sex party and total madness after the demo in FFF head quarter
If we do this one more time we will get totally naked and see what kind of art we can make out of it!
2012 - FFF make Action outside Berlin Zoo
The last wild humans has been captured and are supposed to be kept in the Berlin Zoo for civilized humans to enjoy for just a little bit of money. This made that a grope of activists had to make a stand against this inhuman zoo event.
2012 - Halloween
Dear friends and lovers, We all know the fest of halloween when the undead rise from their graves. This year we invite you to a special dinner served only for you. Fitting dress is apropriate. Welcome to the madhouse!
2012 - Hectic Lovers
Only memory left from this fucked up night... It was fun and also horror night !
2012 - FREE the Tigers
celebrating the international tiger day!!!
celebrating with sex and chanting FREE THE TIGERS
Goal save the tigers make people aware of that this magical animal is disiparing due to humans stupidity... There is not more than around 3,200 tigers existing in the wild today... Save the Tigers !!!
2012 - The RelationShits
The RelationShits new debut album will soon be out... with the hit song Sterni of course, as well as Fuck and Fuck 2 then the newest hits Better bladder & war whore !
Sex drugs and rock en roll and some broken harts is of course the main ingredients in the band! More from this soon!!
FuckForForest also took part at many festivals, demonstrations, events and exhibitions - freaking out themselves and others, during this imitation of time.
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And why the confusion?
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But for Bryan Murray, one of his off season priorities will be tracking down a guy who can play the role of back up next season.
A late season waiver wire acquisition, Curtis McElhinney did an admirable job as the team's number two. He bounced around a lot last season but certainly looked comfortable in the starts he got with Ottawa down the stretch. A UFA heading into next season, McElhinney will definitely be one of the options Murray considers.
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Ottawa will be looking for a backup it looks like. It would be a good move, cheap and I am sure fans would love to welcome back as a backup Patrick Lalime. He wants to play in Ottawa and last free agency he waited around to see if Ottawa would pick him up again. After they signed Auld he went to Buffalo. I think Lalime should be a consideration to back up Anderson.
Lalime is a UFA at the end of the season and would definitely be an affordable back up. Ottawa looked at bringing him back in the past so you would assume he would still be interested. Lalime was a fan favourite during his time in Ottawa and as his NHL career nears the end, would likely be very receptive to the idea of coming back to the Nation's Capital.
Murray will have a few options when he goes shopping this summer. Here is a list of some of the other guys that will be available. Who do you like?
-Giguere, Roloson, Smith, Hedberg, Osgood, Conklin, Turco, Garon, Harding, Theodore, Auld, Boucher
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Don't tase me, bro!
Just read the Nevius column today - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/22/BALD1HQB6C.DTL - and must say, I'm eager for the debate regarding San Francisco police using tasers. Like Nevius says, I believe tasers (in theory) are good, as there should be a middle ground between a "police baton and a firearm." And, tasers are (for the most part...) nonlethal but powerful and are thus a happy (well, for some probably not) medium. Kind of like the phrase, "guns don't kill people, people kill people," the tasers themselves aren't as much of a problem as the training, or often lackthereof, on how to use them. Of course we remember the tragic situation involve Oscar Grant and Johannes Mehserle, where Mehserle thought he was grabbing his taser but instead grabbed his gun. Proper training is difficult and time consuming, but it beats the alternatives. In order to protect San Franciscans, the San Francisco Police Department needs all the tools available, including tasers. But they just simply HAVE to be trained well enough to use them. OK, am I advocating for a police-state here or does this make sense?
Makes sense.....I don't think
Makes sense.....I don't think you're advocating for a "police state'...you have to wonder if we eliminated tasers, would officers go for the guns more often? Lots of implications either way....
San Francisco Should Encourage Police Taser Training
Im in favor of anything that is a viable alternative to a firearm.
I completely agree, Ben, that the heart of this taser debate is whether we can adequately train our police force to use tasers the right way. As a city, can can create our own standards for police training that may exceed what the state requires. Would this discourage cops from working in SF? I don't know.
The recent taser abuses in the news are not acceptable, but I see why we are having this problem. I do not have any police training, but I can imagine that if I was a cop in a position where I had to choose a weapon with which to defend myself - a taser is pretty appealing. It is more powerful than a baton, completely debilitating, and leaves no lasting harm on the subject. Basic psychology will indicate that most cops would, when threatened, go for the weapon that is the best bet in securing themselves. So this would leave me to believe that tasers are highly useful - and liked by cops.
That leaves the question, do we want to give our cops this option? Because in the face of harm and real threat, it is rare to find someone who will opt to defend themselves with the least harmful weapon available to them.
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I'm confused on this subject. Is the proposal for Police to have tasers instead of guns, or in addition to?


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Parts of Long County may be on their way to a designated smoke-free status.
Georgia School Superintendent Dr. John Barge announced Thursday that the U.S. Department of Education granted Georgia a waiver from No Child Left Behind.
With new technology in hand, local students may begin to see science in a different light.
A recent $265,000 federal grant will help get the city of Ludowici's pond filtration system on the road to being up to standards.
Hinesville Director of Inspections Steve Welborn spoke to Hinesville Rotary Club members about code issues during their Tuesday meeting.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A Georgia university plans to ban smoking on its Savannah campus later this year.
The Ludowici City Council recently approved several changes during its first meeting of the year.
If you think traffic on Flemington's Old Sunbury Road is unbearable, you're not alone.
Plans to redesign Bradwell Park moved forward - if only a little - following a two-hour meeting at Hinesville's city hall council chambers Thursday.
The Liberty County Development Authority approved refinancing one bond debt into a tax-exempt bond at a lower interest rate and an $8,125 bid for repairs to one of its Hinesville Technology Park facilities during its meeting Monday.
The YMCA of Coastal Georgia is launching Priceless Gifts, its' annual community support campaign.
ATLANTA - The Georgia Department of Labor announced Wednesday that the preliminary unemployment rate in metro Hinesville rose to 9.2 percent in December, up three-tenths of a percentage point from 8.9 percent in November.
The construction phase for the new high school was approved at the Long County Board of Education's January meeting.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation autopsy on a Walthourville toddler who was found dead in a canal Jan. 15 declared homicide the cause of the child's death.
McIntosh/Holmestown residents recently approved land-use changes for their community for the 2040 Liberty County Comprehensive Plan. The Liberty Consolidated Planning Commission made the changes after meeting with community members last month.
Members of the Ludowici Police Department on Wednesday took the Ice Bucket Challenge to help raise awareness and money for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research.
Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., will hold a town-hall meeting at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Hinesville City Hall. The legislator said he wants to hear from and talk to veterans and military community members about issues important to them.
The city of Hinesville recently was named the winner of the Sister Cities International 2014 Innovation Award - Economic Development for a city with a population less than 100,000. The announcement was made during the SCI's 58th annual conference Aug. 2.
Maj. Gen. Mike Murray, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division and Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield, joined Hinesville Rotary Club members Tuesday for their weekly meeting.
The Liberty County Board of Commissioners on Thursday passed a resolution to accept the Fleming and Lake George fire stations for county management.
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MattMao said
Nissim_Payoneer saidHi, what are the 200+ countries?
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Matt is not saying about LBT he informed us about transfer from CARD to Bank. Isn't it?