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Islanders farmhand Bobby Hughes has been arrested on first-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree criminal sexual act charges filed in Albany. The 21-year old Hughes, acquired by the Islanders from Carolina in August and playing infrequently for the Sound Tigers, was arrested after Bridgeport's game on Wednesday.
Hughes, who is from the Toronto area, starred with the Kingston Frontenacs a few years back and was a fourth-round pick of the Hurricanes in 2006. He has played sparingly so far in his AHL career, but did play in Albany in 2007-08 and 2008-09 which would appear to be tied to what's happened here.
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LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - The national debate surrounding health care reform hits the high plains. New Mexico Democratic Senator Jeff Bingaman hosted a town hall meeting within a two hour drive of Lubbock -- in Clovis.
The town hall meeting was scheduled Monday and word spread that the senator would be in Clovis and nearly 350 people showed up to discuss health care reform. Bingaman serves on the Health Education and Labor Committee and the Finance Committee both have jurisdiction over the health care system. He said he wanted to hear everyone and they had plenty of questions.
"We wanted Clovis to be able to come out and tell the senator how they feel about healthcare," adds Runyon. And they did, Senator Jeff Bingaman arrived took off his coat, and was ready to talk health care.
"It's the citizens who are expressing democracy by coming here today wanting answers," says Kim Runyon who drove 60 miles to Clovis to get some answers. Every day for the past two weeks she had called Senator Bingaman's office.
"If you like it you, keep it," says Bingaman about the proposed legislation. He spent about ten minutes discussing his take on the current state of health care in Washington and says the system is broken.
"New Mexico is second worse state to Texas as far as uninsured citizens go," says Bingaman.
Bingaman opened the floor for questions and comments and hands shot up. "Why can't federal government leave us alone," says one man. "Everyone is going to buy insurance and ya'll haven't even begun to show us the financial cost and it's not free," says Runyon to the senator. The exchange became heated. "Let me answer as fast as you are yelling the questions at me," says Senator Bingaman to the crowd.
Runyon says she was pleased with the level of discussion at Tuesday's town hall meeting. "I know Washington is under a lot of pressure to pass a bill," says Runyon.
The senator answered questions for a little over an hour and could have been there all night.
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WASHINGTON Schools and libraries must begin using Internet
filtering software next year to protect children from pornography or risk
losing federal money thanks to a mandate approved by lawmakers before they
left town.
The requirement is raising concerns among free-speech advocates who
say it violates the Constitution and, perhaps ironically, from software makers
worried that filtering technology is not a cure-all for protecting kids.
"This is a mandated censorship system by the federal government,"
said Chris Hansen, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, which plans
to sue in an effort to block the law.
After the law takes hold, "no adult anymore can read what they want
at the library," Hansen said yesterday.
Supporters believe the law will withstand a court challenge and
provide a reasonable way to protect children from Internet smut.
"We drafted it to make sure it was constitutional," said John
Albaugh, chief of staff for Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., who helped push the
At issue is the Children's Internet Protection Act, which was
unexpectedly attached to a $450 billion federal spending bill Congress passed
on Dec. 15 before recessing for the year. President Clinton is expected to
sign the bill into law.
Any school or library that refused to install filtering software on
its computers would lose vital federal funds for technology upgrades.
The measure's appearance in the larger spending bill, House
Resolution 4577, surprised those who had been following the issue some of
whom didn't discover it until Dec. 18. Several versions of the
mandatory-filtering plan had floated through Congress in recent months.
The ACLU has made successful challenges to similar laws passed to keep
kids from seeing objectionable material online, including the
Communications Decency Act,
Children's Online Protection
Act and several state measures.
But censorship concerns are only part of the argument against the
Opponents also say the filtering programs don't work, blocking more
Web sites than they should while letting some pornography sites through.
Recently, anti-filtering groups have shown top filtering programs to
block out sites belonging to the human rights group Amnesty International,
House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, and a digitized copy of the novel
"Jane Eyre."
Supporters of the bill, including the office of Sen. Rick Santorum,
R-Pa., acknowledge the programs aren't perfect but say that any protection is
better than nothing at all.
The ACLU's Hansen disagrees.
"The First Amendment doesn't have a 'good enough' requirement
as part of it," Hansen said. "Suppose we said it would be better than
nothing for someone to go into Barnes and Noble and burn every tenth book. That
sort of casual insensitivity to censorship is disturbing."
The legislation states that the filtering software can be disabled by
a library administrator for adult use only for "bona fide research or other
lawful purpose."
An official with the company that makes the most popular Internet
filters also disagrees with the bill.
"Things that mandate specific technologies probably aren't the
best solution here. Let the free market decide, and let us improve these
products all the time," said Susan Getgood, a SurfCONTROL vice president, in
an interview.
SurfCONTROL owns the two most-used filtering tools, CyberPatrol and
SurfWatch. Its technology also powers America Online's Web filter.
"My chief criticism is that I don't think it's necessary because
schools are already doing what they need to do to protect their students,"
Getgood said.
Some conservative groups also object to the bill because it takes
local control away from communities who run schools and libraries and doesn't
provide new money to buy or maintain the software.
Earlier this year, the town of Holland, Mich.,
decided in a local referendum not
to use filters in their library. The federal legislation would override that
The Clinton administration tried to soften the measure, offering more
choice to communities, but faced stiff resistance in Congress. Presidential
aides decided the concerns weren't worth jeopardizing the entire spending
The ACLU plans to file its suit next year after President-elect Bush
is in office.
Maine librarians first to join suit against Net filtering law
American Library Association, People for the American Way also to challenge federal law requiring that public schools, libraries install blocking software.
Free-speech, privacy advocates band together to fight new Internet filtering law
Groups say federal Children's Internet Protection Act places too much stock in unreliable technology that blocks legitimate sites.
Internet filtering plan misses mark, critics say
High rate of erroneously blocked sites highlights serious free-speech issues with software pushed by Congress, says head of anti-filtering group.
Congress close to vote on Internet filtering for schools, libraries
But groups opposed to proposal say it is a bad way to stop minors from viewing online pornography.
Senate passes competing Internet filtering proposals
Bipartisan panel now must develop compromise measure as lawmakers grapple with how to best monitor Web in schools.
'Tools' fail as strategies to keep kids away from Net sex at libraries
Ombudsman Paul McMasters testifies before National Research Council that effort to combat 'harmful' material does more harm than good.
Arkansas legislator introduces Internet filtering bill
Measure would require public schools, libraries to install software to protect minors from harmful online material.
COPA commission expresses concern with Net filtering systems
'The safety of our children does not come at the expense of the First Amendment,' concludes commission member Al Ganier.


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There is a possible bantamweight number one contender eliminator match being discussed between former featherweight top contender Jeff Curran (29-10-1) and the undefeated training partner of Urijah Faber, Joseph Benavidez (9-0), for WEC 40 in Chicago, Ill., on April 5.
Curran's last two fights for the Zuffa-owned promotion have been in the 145-pound featherweight division. In those two matches we saw him lose to former champion Urijah Faber by submission at WEC 31 and then fall to reigning division kingpin Mike Thomas Brown via decision at WEC 34 in June.
After the losses he decided to make the move down to the 135-pound division and fight as a bantamweight. Since then he's been pushing hard for a shot at current champion Miguel Torres, but has yet to make his debut in the division.
Perhaps the promotion felt Curran needed to get his feet wet at 135 pounds before it went and just gave him a shot at the title. In short, he may find himself only one win away from getting the fight with Torres that he's lobbied so hard for.
The man standing in his way, Joseph Benavidez, is one of the most dangerous young fighters in the organization. He was supposed to have his coming out party against "Kid" Yamamoto (17-1) on the DREAM 5 card last summer, but instead had to settle for Junya Kudo (7-2-2) when Kid pulled out with with a knee injury.
Faber was a guest in the announcer's booth during the match and raved about his training partner the entire time. Benavidez came through with the goods, too, submitting Kudo in the opening minutes of the first round. This will be his second start in the WEC -- he beat Danny Martinez by unanimous decision at WEC 37: "Torres vs. Tapia" in his debut.
And Benavidez will more than likely give Curran all he can handle on April 5.
WEC 40 features Miguel Torres in the main event, defending his title for the third time against undefeated American Top Team product Brian Bowles on his home turf. The winner of the fight will likely lock horns with either Curran or Benavidez at a later date, ensuring there is a lot at stake for the 135 pounders at WEC 40 in Chicago.
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PJS Note: This sent in from a reader who watched Royce White and his Hopkins teammates take on Osseo over the weekend in high school tournament play.
I have to say that I haven't spent a lot of time watching Hopkins and Royce White play this year and I am by no means an expert on Minnesota High School basketball but my first impression of Royce White is leaving a bit to be desired.
With White being a top 25 recruit, I tuned in tonight expecting to see a player who would be able to have his way with the Osseo Orioles. In the first few minutes, he took a baseline pass and rose up for an impressive quick dunk, but as the first half ticked away, I was still waiting to see him assert himself. Setting aside the dunk and a few rebound put backs aside, the first half was filled with poor shot selection and bad misses and did not live up to my expectations for a supposed future superstar of the Big Ten. As a die-hard Gophers hoops fan, my thoughts are that not only is he not a difference maker in leading us to a 2010 Big Ten title next season but he's probably not even a starter as a Freshman. Damian Johnson and Paul Carter are both highly similar players who at this point are more experienced and polished. White may be a talent, but come October, there is no way he surpasses either of these two on the depth chart.
As the second half got underway, I started to see a few layups and was most excited to see him step back and hit one from beyond the arc. He stayed in for close to the first 12 minutes, was fouled a few times, had another impressive dunk in the lane, but overall still seemed content to let the game come to him. As my only real interest in the game, I watched White almost at all times and he doesn't really seem to move much without the ball. This may be a product of playing on a 30-0 team where most drives by teammates result in layups, but the Gopher offense this year struggled to get open in the half court and seemed to lack movement away from the ball. Royce really doesn't seem to bring us to another level in this department. Another weakness of the current Gopher team is a lack of players who can create their own offense. If White can't create his own shots vs. Osseo, it is hard to imagine that he will be doing so against Michigan State. My problem in watching his game is that he seems to be an athletic kid with good skills, but is prone to standing around and watching far too often. It reminds me somewhat of Ralph Sampson during the first half of the non-conference schedule before he started adjusting to the Division I pace, only White was playing in the biggest game of his life and didn't seem to be enthused about it in the least.
After a rest close to the eight minute mark, Royce checked back into the game around 6:30 and about 4:30 I finally saw a glimpse of the raw talent I've heard so much about when he took a pass on the wing and made a strong drive and one handed finish to give Hopkins a 60-53 lead. He then made another strong drive from the top of the key and finished with another lay up to make it 62-55 after an Osseo jump shot. This put Royce at 20 points and 7 rebounds for the night, which would be his final line earning him player of the game honors.
As Hopkins shot fouls a few minutes later to clinch the win, my impression had not wavered much. Before the game, without much information, I had viewed White as a sure fire bet to make the starting lineup next year and be a large part of moving the Gophers into the upper echelon in the Big Ten. I think it's clear that his position is Small Forward for Minnesota and right away I don't see his game bringing a whole lot more to the table than added depth. He is a similar player to Damian Johnson or Paul Carter, meaning that he has good size and versatility but would never be mistaken for a great shooter or slasher on the offensive end. He is not near the defender or shot blocker that Johnson is and lacks Carter's tenacity. Although he handles the ball well for a 6-7 high school kid, I don't think he does this well enough to consider him at the 2 with Westbrook, Joseph, Cobbs, Nolen, Hoffarber, and possibly Allen already penciled into the backcourt next year. The other option would be at the Power Forward position which is where many have him projected down the road. He will certainly get some time here, but it would seem that he lacks the size of Sampson or Iverson and Trevor Mbakwe joins the team next year as a potential force on the boards making minutes at the 4 look sparse.
Royce White certainly has talent but Gophers fans should strongly temper their hopes of this kid as the cog that will propel us to elite status in 2010. As I admitted at the outset, I haven't been watching him play game-in and game-out all season and might be a bit of a pessimist, but most of the night I was thinking about how great Osseo Star, Sam Dower would look in Maroon and Gold next season.


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Father, son reveal personal story of how they battled drug abuse
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - David Sheff and his son Nic can smile again after Nic's 10-year battle with drug abuse. They were chosen to be the featured speakers at Tuesday night's Message in a Bottle fundraising event for Kansas City's First Call.
First Call provides alcohol and drug prevention and recovery services in the greater Kansas City metro. First Call President Molly O'Neill and the Sheff's were guests on 41 Action News Midday on Tuesday.
David talked about how his family didn't recognize the early warning signs that Nic was having a problem. They also said they didn't know where to turn find help once they realized they needed help to know what to do.
Nic talked about his struggles as a teenager and feelings of insecurity that led to his drug abuse. Now in his late 20's, Nic is sober and happily married.
They praised the First Call organization for being a place of refuge for families who are alcohol and substance abuse.
If you would like to contact First Call for information, assistance, or to make a donation, click here to visit their home page at http://www.firstcallkc.org/.
You can also call, 816-361-5900
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History of Gaiam founded in Boulder, Colorado in 1988. Gaiam is a provider of information, goods and services to customers who value the environment, a sustainable economy, healthy lifestyles, alternative healthcare and personal development. Gaiam believes fitness should be fun, and that being healthy shouldn't be a fad - it should be a way of life! Gaiam offers a wide variety of fitness products, including media and equipment for yoga, pilates, walking, strength-training, cardiovascular health, and your overall wellbeing. Achieve better health and wellness and have some fun while you're at it.
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Trudie Styler's Sculpt & Tone Ballet DVD offers two ballet workouts to choose from!
Barre Routine (25 Minutes)
Since studying ballet as a child, Trudie Styler has long admired the ageless art of ballet as well as the extraordinary strength and grace of ballet dancers. Together with classically trained dancer and fitness guru James D'Silva, Styler delivers this ballet-based barre workout designed to improve strength, balance and posture.
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With all the grace and poise one would expect from a ballet-based routine, this 25 minute workout goes through traditional and modified ballet moves with just enough commentary to keep you on task. Choose from the barre workout or select the same routine demonstrated with chairs instead of the barre. If you're unfamiliar with ballet, you'll find a footwork tutorial to get you started.
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Filmed at Trudie Styler and Sting's beautiful, eco-friendly Tuscan villa, II Palagio, the program features the beautifully hand painted old chapel belonging to the house, and is set to music composed and performed by David Hartley, frequent musical collaborator with Sting.
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"When a defensive team sets the edge well, they make it seem hopeless for an offense to even run to that side. In my opinion, there's a lot of value in that - arguably more than a CB who "takes away half the field." I am not saying that rushing the passer is unimportant. It is very important, but it has to be seen in the overall context of the game. The objective for a defense is to prevent the opposing offense from scoring points. Sacks help do that, but since they're fairly rare events, they have less impact than they're given credit for. This is where I run into problems with draftnik-types. They always want to trade up, and trade down, and stockpile picks, and worry about reaches and sleepers, and whether or not you should take a front-seven guy who isn't a major pass rusher 18th overall. They think in terms of draft picks, and extrapolations based upon scouting reports, but not in terms of what players actually end up turning into a few years out. Once the pick is exercised, worrying about what else could have been done with it is worthless."


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Louisville Cardinals quarterback Teddy Bridgewater joined SportsCenter on Wednesday morning for a video interview. ESPN allowed fans to lob a few questions at the star passer through Twitter by using the hashtag, "#AskTeddy."
Interestingly enough, the show took a question from a Kentucky Wildcats fan.
Bridgewater is expected to be taken first-overall in the 2014 NFL Draft, just like the top pick in 1998, Peyton Manning. Comparing himself to one of the game's great shows that Bridgewater has some pretty lofty goals.
Below is video of his answer regarding Manning. Then, check out @TouchdownUK, Michael Moyer's simple rationale about why he hoped to speak with a Louisville player in the first place.


text: Surprisingly it seems as if Pat McAfee has been invited to an MLS tryout. I for one did not think McAfee was that athletic. Then again he did make most of the tackles on our sh*&^y special teams. Good for McAfee for actually pursuing a sport off the field other than midnight drunk swimming in a canal. Do you guys think the Colts should care about potential injuries to McAfee, if he somehow makes it onto a team?


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Marguerite Louise Fields, 82, Oldenburg, passed away Monday, Oct. 21, 2013, at St. Andrews Health Campus.
The daughter of Herman and Marguerite Koors was born Aug. 26, 1931, in Greensburg. She was a 1949 graduate of Greensburg High School and then furthered her education attending Marian College, University of Cincinnati and IUPUI. On April 24, 1954, in Greensburg, she married Paul Fields, who passed away in 1991.
Marguerite taught first and second grades at St. Mary's Catholic School for 30 years. She was a member of Holy Family Parish in Oldenburg, a lay associate for the Sisters of St. Francis, a eucharistic minister and also taught CCD and RCIA. The avid sports fan enjoyed traveling, needlework and spending time with her grandchildren.
Survivors include three daughters: Paula Johnson, Cincinnati, Jane (Doug) Weigel, Oldenburg, and Connie (Gary) Johnston, Windsor, Colo.; eight grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren.
She also was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters: Marianne Schroeder and Frances "Liz" John; and three brothers: George, Bill and James Koors.
Visitation will be held Thursday, Oct. 24, from 2 p.m. until the 4 p.m. funeral Mass at the Sisters of St. Francis Chapel, Oldenburg. Interment will be Friday, Oct. 25, at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Greensburg. Memorial contributions may be given to the Associates of St. Francis or Sisters of St. Francis. Arrangements are being handled by Gilliland-Howe Funeral Home, Greensburg. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.gilliland-howe.com.


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Lindley Estes writes about Spotsylvania County schools, King George County Schools and other issues of interest to the community.
You can also follow her on Twitter @SpotSchoolNews
House bill would keep teacher performance private
House Bill 1889 is being offered to ensure that a teacher's performance indicators are kept private unless the teacher wishes to share the information.
Below is the text of the proposed addition to state statute 22.1-295.1 , which deals with personnel files of public school divisions, and is before the General Assembly for the 2013 session.
Teacher performance indicators, or other data used by the local school board to judge the performance or quality of a teacher, maintained in a teacher's personnel file or otherwise shall not be made available to the public except pursuant to court order, for the purposes of a grievance proceeding involving the teacher, with the teacher's consent, or as otherwise required by state or federal law. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit the release or to limit the availability of nonidentifying, aggregate teacher performance indicators or other data.
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I love Halloween!!!! Here are 27 ideas to add a little Halloween festivity to YOUR home!! Spooky Halloween Crystal Ball Candlesticks at Flamingo Toes How to Make Perfect Caramel Apples at Lil Luna Candy Covered Marshmallow Pumpkins at The Happier Homemaker … [Read more...]
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Trick or Treat {Smell my feet give something more to create!} Pumpkin Cupcakes & Cinnamon Coffee Buttercream @ Sweet Treats & Good Eats Chevron Thumb Tack Pumpkin @ Oops I Craft My Pants Pumpkin Round UP @ The V Spot A Pumpkin with Dentures @ Crafty Scrappy Happy … [Read more...]
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Hi Tatertots and Jello FABULOUS readers!!! I am Desirée Campbell from The 36th AVENUE... I can't even put into words HOW EXCITED I am to be here today sharing with you the first Halloween Project that I've done this year... Thank Y♥U Jen for having me. ....... For this project you'll need: Old foam or plastic pumpkins, leftover fabric, Mod … [Read more...]
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Find out how to make these Fab Shimmery Pumpkins @ Frugal with a Flourish Paint your pumpkins for Fabulous Fall Decor @ Madigan Made Create a Fantastic Whimsical Pumpkin Topiary @ Our Southern Nest Spell Out something Meaningful with Pumpkins @ This Blessed Nest who can resist polka dots? these Polka Dot Pumpkins are fun @ Make the Best of Whats Around Create Beautiful Bronze … [Read more...]
Fall Project — Ruffled Fabric Pumpkins!
Who says pumpkins have to be orange? I have loved seeing the fabric pumpkins floating around blogland right now. I wanted to make some fabric pumpkins and add some ruffles. Everything looks better with ruffles, right? LOL. Here's what I came up with. I love how bright and happy they are!! Here's what you need: Fabric -- I used Canvas for two pumpkins, … [Read more...]


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'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Policy Questioned
Posted Aug 9, 2007 10:43 AM CDT
By Martha Neil
Although there hasn't been any express change in the controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy concerning gays and lesbians serving in the U.S. military, changing societal attitudes may be promoting at least a subtle shift in the way it is applied.
A firestorm of criticism following a recent comment by the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, that allowing gays to serve openly would condone "immoral behavior," has prompted a number of mainstay Republican lawmakers to think that it may be time for a change in the policy, reports the Los Angeles Times. And, in a more tolerant approach, the incoming chairman, Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen, says he supports the "don't ask, don't tell" policy but is open to having Congress change it.
Meanwhile, some 500 openly gay and lesbian members of the military are serving without objection, according to Steve Ralls, a spokesman for Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. The nonprofit represents military personnel affected by the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
"So far, no legislation that would lift the ban exists in the Senate, but a House bill has been slowly gaining support," reports the Times. "Last week, it gained an important co-sponsor in Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), a retired Navy vice admiral."
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"Botox" is the brand name for a toxin produced by bacteria called Clostridium botulinum. As the last part of that term suggests, the toxin can cause botulism - a condition that is known to lead to bad cases of food poisoning. It can also lead to paralysis in extreme cases, and this is a factor which scientists have been able to leverage. Finding that the toxin could weaken muscles, the FDA approved Botox's treatment of conditions such as belpharospasm (uncontrollable blinking) and strabismus (also known as "lazy eye") in the late 1980's. Since then, Botox has been implemented for cosmetic procedures such as wrinkles and frown lines. Botox works by preventing nerve signals from reaching muscles, thus eliminating muscle contractions. It is administered via injection in a very short procedure, and requires a period of three to seven days for the toxin to affect the specific area. This area will be affected for anywhere from four to six months, until muscle action is able to fully resurface. (Medicinenet.com)
The medical use of botulinum toxin has two classifications - Botox and Botox Cosmetic. The former designates strictly medical uses of the toxin and the latter refers to its implementation as a facial procedure. Typically, both are referred to as just Botox. (Source: Mayo Clinic)
Botox procedures have a reputation of being very safe when performed by a trusted doctor. However, there are a variety of conditions that can occur after the procedure has been completed. Mild symptoms such as bruising, pain, redness, itchiness, nausea, headache and abnormal body sweat should be reported if they do not subside. Rarely the botulinum toxin can spread to other areas and cause botulism-like complications such as a weakness of the muscles in all parts of parts of the body, visual impairment, difficulty with speaking, breathing and swallowing, and bladder control loss (Mayo Clinic)
Parkinson's disease (PD) refers to a collection of motor system disorders which result from a decrease in the brain cells that produce dopamine. PD victims suffer from bodily tremors, facial and limb trembling, uncontrollable rigidity in posture, limb and lower-body stiffness, delayed movement, as well as poor balance and coordination. Often seen in individuals over the age of 50, PD can advance gradually or quickly. There is currently no way to screen for or diagnose PD, so diagnosis is reliant upon past medical information and a neurological examination. Lab tests and brain scans can be requested to rule out the possibility of other diseases (Source: www.ninds.nih.gov).
Currently, no cure for PD exists, but there are a variety of treatments to help patients with the symptoms. A common prescription is a combination of levodopa and carbidopa, which helps the nerve cells to restore the brain's amount of dopamine. This treatment is unable to relieve all of a patient's symptoms, so other treatments such as anticholinergics are also prescribed to control bodily tremors and rigidity. There are also drugs like bromocriptine, which mimic the functions of dopamine in order to trick the necessary neurons to respond as they would to dopamine. (Source:ninds.nih.gov)
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- It's the same old story for the hot-and-cold Northwestern Wildcats.
Ahead by nine points in the first half, they were outscored 30-8 over a 10-minute span and never recovered in falling 76-60 Wednesday night at No. 24 Ohio State in a game marred by a late skirmish.
"We were playing well offensively, but where the game was lost was what we lacked on defense," said Drew Crawford, who led the Wildcats (12-15, 5-9 Big Ten) with 22 points. "We were making shots but we weren't getting stops. And it has to be both."
LaQuinton Ross scored 16 points for the Buckeyes (21-6, 8-6) before he was ejected along with Northwestern's Nikola Cerina after a late-game scrum.
The fracas late in the game delayed play for several minutes while the officials deliberated penalties for the players. Cerina also was ejected and will be suspended for the Wildcats' next game on Saturday at home against Indiana for taking a swing with a closed hand at Ohio State's Amir Williams.
The teams shot 10 free throws -- a double foul, two technicals against Ross and one against Cerina -- as a result of the shoving match.
"Things happen," Cerina said. "I don't really know. I have to look at the tape and see what actually happened."
Ross was not suspended, but was disqualified for picking up two dead-ball contact technical fouls.
Northwestern, which has had incredibly big wins at Indiana, Minnesota and Wisconsin but has wilted at other times, had played well until everything fell apart in the final 7 minutes of the first half and the first 3 minutes of the second.
Down 15-12 at the 11:34 mark, the Wildcats went on a 13-1 run. Crawford led the way with five points on an 18-foot fadeaway under pressure and a long, high-arcing 3.
But then it was Ohio State's turn. The Buckeyes scored 21 of the 29 points the rest of the half to take a 37-33 lead. Ross was the main culprit, at one point scoring all the points in a 7-0 run.
They then ran off the first nine points of the second half to build the lead to 46-33. The lead was never threatened again.
"Ohio State earned this game," Northwestern coach Chris Collins said. "We got off to a really good start. I was really pleased. We had good energy. We had a hot start shooting the ball -- for us, we haven't been a team that has shot the ball that well and scored that well. It got into our defense a little bit. We thought we could just score."
Collins said things changed when the Buckeyes -- the top defensive team in the Big Ten -- started making stops.
"They turned up the heat defensively as the half wore down," he said. "Then we had a very poor start to the second half."
Tre Demps added 14 points for the Wildcats, who have not won in Columbus since an 83-72 victory on Feb. 24, 1977 -- a string of 33 consecutive losses.
Aaron Craft and Lenzelle Smith Jr. each added 14 points for Ohio State. Sam Thompson, who had not hit double figures in his last eight games, had 11 for the Buckeyes, who have won five of their last six.
Kale Abrahamson, scoreless in 11 minutes, said the Ohio State run was too much to overcome.
"We kind of got lost on a few switches," he said. "A couple of people made shots that they don't normally make. Thompson was making 3s, something that's not really in our scouting report."
The shoving match took place at the 5:24 mark with the Buckeyes leading 66-50.
"I didn't see it," Collins said. "I saw a lot of bodies. Sometimes you see a lot of pushing and grabbing. I personally didn't see any punches, but that doesn't mean there weren't any thrown. I trust what the referees said. They got the fouls on us, the fouls on them -- and then we played on."
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When Water and Political Power Intersect
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Technology Might Return Journalism to Its Roots
Two books set forth causes for concern about U.S. news media, and one of the authors speaks to the Internet's possibilities for rejuvenating journalism's promise.
By David DeJean
We aren't living in a Golden Age of journalism, as evidenced by the fair number of books being written today telling us just how ungolden a time this is for the press and how it got this way. But if there is any good news to be found in the midst of all of this criticism it is that there are still some who are feisty and fractious enough to say some pretty tough things about the press—things journalists might not like to hear, but should.
Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media
Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols
Seven Stories Press. 128 Pages. $9.95 pb.
An indictment of the press is made very forcefully in "Our Media, Not Theirs," a slim volume subtitled "The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media" by two practicing media critics, Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols. The press, they write, was intended by the Founding Fathers to be a "stern watchdog," and freedom of the press was the only guardian of the people's liberty. Things haven't worked out that way. That watchdog has been transformed into a lapdog, and the nature of its coverage is "uncomfortably close to that found in authoritarian societies with limited formal press freedom," these authors contend.
McChesney, who is a professor in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, and Nichols, who is the Washington correspondent for The Nation and associate editor of the Madison, Wisconsin Capital Times, are impassioned about their subject as they argue forcefully against conventional assumptions of conservative conspiracy or liberal bias. The real issue confronting the press, they argue, is profit.
Modern supernational media companies have the ability now to generate profits that go beyond those garnered by almost any entity in history (other than absolute monarchies) when they integrate journalism into a marketing machine for their other products, such as movies, books, TV networks and shows and licensing revenues. This has resulted in the creation of a "media system" that relies on the government and mainstream journalism as smoothly functioning, reliable components of a system built on three things: media concentration, corporate ownership, and unquestioning reliance on official sources.
This system didn't happen by accident, and it isn't working for the greater good. In their book, McChesney and Nichols focus on two main points. The first is that "the current media system is the direct result of explicit government policies and that these policies have been made in a corrupt manner with minimal public participation." On this point, they write, "there is virtually no debate." And their second point flows from the first: "… the existing media system in the United States operates in a manner that is highly detrimental to the requirements of a democratic and self-governing society. The system works to advance the interests of the wealthy few, rather than the many."
The authors issue a clear call to action: "It is imperative for Americans who care about democracy to come together and organize a mass movement for reform of the media system."
Supporting Evidence
To support their argument, the authors of "Our Media, Not Theirs" cite well-known but still depressing facts about media concentration in the United States, with its media landscape dominated by fewer than a dozen corporations, some of which have annual revenues of up to $35 billion and followed by a second tier of another dozen smaller, less integrated companies. This concentration has been abetted, the authors write, "by a collapsing commitment on the part of the federal government to serious antitrust prosecution, a diminution of the federal standards regarding fairness, and government 'deregulation,' most notably the 1996 Telecommunications Act."
Equally well-known (and perhaps more personally painful to many of us) is the pressure corporate owners have put on newsrooms to cut budgets and join the rush to the bottom in journalistic standards—reshaping coverage away from the controversial and the complex and toward celebrity-driven drivel.
As tough as McChesney and Nichols are on owners and managers, they don't spare journalists in their criticism. Freedom of the press was not written into the Constitution to protect an objective, profit-hungry journalism, according to McChesney: In the Founding Fathers' day there was no such thing. Most newspapers were closely linked to political parties, and the First Amendment was intended to protect the diversity of partisan viewpoints that were competing for popular support.
It was only 100 years ago, at the turn of the 20th century, that the increasing effectiveness of advertising turned newspapers into money machines and drove a major consolidation of media. The new profit-centric ownerships were faced with a problem: how to create a new business model for newspapers in the midst of a drastic reduction in the diversity of opinion as cities with a dozen dailies now had only two or three dailies—a situation that threatened to damage the credibility and thus the profitability—of their properties. So they turned to a "professional" journalism of objective reporting and the use of qualified sources as a solution.
The result, after a century of even more radical consolidation, says McChesney, is that journalism has come to rely almost entirely on official sources. What this means is that corporate and governmental spokespersons too often dictate the story. Reporting has become "stenography." (McChesney has produced a sort of executive summary of their argument that appears as a chapter in another recent book, a second edition of "Into the Buzzsaw," edited by Kristina Borjesson.)
Other works echo these conclusions. For a decade, Project Censored (founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen and now headquartered at Sonoma State University in California) has issued an annual Censored volume that rounds up stories neglected by the "media system" ("Censored 2005" has recently been published). As a title, the word "censored" creates some confusion. These are not stories you haven't heard about because they have been repressed, but rather many of them have been "underreported" or "benignly neglected" but neither of these characterizations express the urgency of this "news that didn't make the news." The top "censored" story in 2004 was "The Neoconservative Plan for Global Dominance." In the 2005 volume, it is "Wealth Inequality in 21st Century Threatens Economy and Democracy."
The common thread that runs through these press criticisms is the media system's willingness to accept official sources rather than devote time and resources to doing independent reporting. To choose this other route might be expensive, embarrassing to the government, or disagreeable to corporate media owners. But to not do this reporting is to, in effect, remove these sensitive topics from the public agenda and shield the special interests they benefit from the public view.
The work done by Project Censored provides the supporting detail that McChesney and Nichols leave out of their brief book. On the "official sources" point, just as one example, in her introductory essay in "Censored 2004," Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman cites a Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) study that found 92 percent of all U.S. news sources interviewed on the nightly network newscasts in 2001 were white, and in those more than 14,600 reports, six-tenths of one percent of the sources were Latino—a hardly accurate reflection of the actual population of our country.
Who Owns the News?
We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People
Dan Gillmor
O'Reilly. 304 Pages. $24.95.
What McChesney and Nichols call the "media system" Dan Gillmor labels as Big Media in his book "We the Media." Though the authors express similar views about the origins of media concentration and the role of government and corporate interests, Gillmor is less interested in Big Media's causes than its cures, and he's extremely upbeat about those: one cure, he writes, has already been found, and it is the Internet. Gillmor recently left his job as a technology columnist for the San Jose Mercury "to embark on a new adventure, a project to help bring online grass-roots journalism to more people and communities," as he explained in his farewell column.
Gillmor's book is as expansive as McChesney and Nichols' book is dense. He has axes to grind, as they do, but he also brings to his writing a good reporter's sense of when and how best to use a story—and he has years of reporting behind him that he uses to illuminate his topic. He shares interviews he's done with technology figures and also writes about the impact of Howard Dean's Web-based presidential campaign. For those who have not been paying close attention to the Internet, "We the Media" provides a valuable tour of its most active edges, both in its technology and its culture. If Weblogs and Wikis, open source and creative commons are not familiar words or phrases, then Gillmor is a chatty and informative guide.
He is also a true believer in the possibility that the Internet can save journalism—and thus democracy. How? By turning Big Media back into its true self, like the potion that reforms Mr. Hyde back into Dr. Jekyll, making reporting once again more responsive to the public's right to know than the corporation's right to profit. To be sure, the Internet will, he says, have profound effects on what journalism is—how it is regarded, defined and practiced. His long-time experience as a blogger leads him to forecast an amalgamation of journalists, newsmakers and the audience, in which "journalism" is seen as more of a technically aided conversation, rather than a top-down monologue.
McChesney and Nichols regard the Internet as a glass that is nowhere near half-full. They acknowledge changes that the Internet has made in our lives "… but," they write, "the Internet has yet to be proven successful as a platform to launch commercially viable competition to the media giants; again and again, the market trumps the democratic potential of the technology. This tends to marginalize dissident Web sites. And the Internet is hardly some autonomous force in society. Legislative, regulatory and judicial determinations regarding copyright, antitrust and access issues will decide exactly how progressive a medium it will become."
Gillmor doesn't disagree and, in fact, devotes considerable discussion to intellectual property and copyright issues such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as Big Media abuses of the free flow of information in society. He fears intellectual property claims might eventually be used by corporate interests to limit the wide-open information flow on the Internet itself. (This topic was covered in depth in another recent book, "Free Culture, How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity," by Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig.)
What's the Solution?
Gillmor turns rather pessimistic in the closing chapters of "We the Media." He enumerates several threats to the Internet, efforts that would use technology to reverse the freedom that was created by technology in the first place. He discusses loss of privacy, filtering to control access to particular Internet sites or content, an unrelenting war being waged by media companies against any kind of peer-to-peer data exchanges (which would be, by definition, beyond intellectual property controls), and a sellout by the technology industry—the makers of computers and networking hardware—to Big Media.
The only bright spot in this gloomy picture is the possibility that digital technology might fundamentally disrupt the economics that shapes the broadcast media. "In the case of radio, television, cable and satellite TV," write McChesney and Nichols, "governmental agencies grant monopoly rights to frequencies and/or franchises to private firms at no charge. Whoever gets these licenses is essentially guaranteed a profit. The value of this form of corporate welfare over the past 70 years is mind-boggling. It is certainly in the hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars. Nearly all of our huge media giants today are built on the backs of this corporate welfare, though you would never know it by listening to their rhetoric."
If spectrum space were not scarce, on the other hand—if there were no effective limits on the number of TV channels or radio stations individuals could receive—Big Media would face greatly increased competition, and its advertising revenues (and stock prices) would be greatly reduced. This is what Gillmor sees coming as broadband, high-capacity cable and wireless Internet connections spread—technologies for streaming media that could deliver endless amounts of content—and have the potential to make every Internet user a producer as well. (Just since Gillmor's book was published the emergence of "podcasting" has added substantiation to his view.)
If scarcity were no longer an issue, Gillmor admits, "we have a lot of work ahead to fix a hopelessly broken regulatory system." But if the regulatory system can be fixed, he says, "the sky is literally the limit for future communications." There are dangers: "Open systems are central to any future of a free (as in freedom) flow of information. Yet the forces of central control—governments and big businesses, especially the copyright cartel—are pushing harder and harder to clamp down on our networks." Still, Gillmor writes, "I've no doubt that technology will eventually win, because it is becoming more and more ubiquitous. I also have faith, perhaps misguided, that public officials will ultimately pay proper attention to the interests of their constituents and not just to the industries that pad their campaign war chests."
Rather surprisingly, McChesney and Nichols sound similarly optimistic: "The question is what will tomorrow's media system look like," they write. "And it will be answered as we decide the sort of regulation the government will provide— and in whose interest and according to what values that regulation will be asserted. Media corporations want more of the same: greater concentration of ownership, bigger monopolies, less responsibility to inform or enlighten, and more profits. Most Americans, if they were given the choice, would opt for something different."
The difference between Gillmor's message and that of McChesney and Nichols is that the media critics are convinced that technology can't win by itself and the regulatory system will resist fixing. They contend that it is going to take a massive grassroots movement to reform U.S. media. In a chapter worthy of the Censored series, they survey media-reform movements around the world and share stories that many Americans probably have not heard before, such as the emergence of the "Third Left" movements that are focused on media issues in several countries, Sweden's ban on advertising to children, and the struggles over the privatization of broadcast media in New Zealand and Australia.
McChesney and Nichols drive home a familiar argument as well: "The fundamental challenge at this point is not convincing people that something should be done about media structures that do more harm than good. The challenge is to convince people that something can be done. That simple leap of faith, if it is taken by enough Americans, will provide us with a base that is strong enough to challenge corporate control and radically reshape the media landscape in the United States."
This notion alone—that there is a need to laboriously build a case for the mere possibility of change in our media landscape—is by itself the strongest argument for how badly such a movement is needed and ought to point the way to where journalists' responsibilities reside.
David DeJean, a 1978 Nieman Fellow, has worked at the intersection of journalism and technology for 25 years as the editorial director of a newspaper's videotext service, a consultant to online services, a computer trade paper and magazine editor, a freelance technical writer, and a Webmaster. He is the editor of Systems Management Pipeline, a Web site for corporate information technology managers.
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To have one giant money losing tentpole is unfortunate. To have two starts to look careless, and that's what's happened to Taylor Kitsch. The actor, who broke out on TV's "Friday Night Lights," was seen as Hollywood's next great hope, picked out to star in two great big blockbusters with a combined cost of half-a-billion dollars. But when "John Carter" arrived in March, the film wildly underperformed, with Disney taking a hit of at least $100 million on the project. And after this weekend, it looks that his other film, "Battleship," is going to lose similar amounts.
The film, Universal and Hasbro's adaptation of the board game and directed by "Hancock" helmer Peter Berg, had taken the unusual step of opening everywhere else in the world six weeks ahead of the U.S., in the hope of bagging lucrative foreign coin and building buzz for the U.S. release. But while the film did OK abroad, it's only $15 million ahead of "John Carter," and opened with a mere $25 million on its opening weekend in North America, $5 million less than the Disney picture. While "Battleship" likely cost a little less than Disney's hugely expensive sci-fi film, the company will still likely write off close to nine figures on the project. And, while we never root too hard for a film to fail, it's hard not to feel a little gratified when audiences reject a film as thoroughly rotten as "Battleship."
Of course, the pair are far from the first films to end up in the red: there's a long, glorious tradition of flops that have lost eye-boggling amounts of money. In honor of the miserable failure of "Battleship" (and the fact that we got through this whole pre-amble without a single nautical pun), we've picked out ten of the most memorable flops in Hollywood history. They're not all terrible films, and they're not necessarily the ten biggest money losers, but they're some of the most interesting, and for the most part still proved to be more expensive than setting fire to a bank. Take a look below.
"Cutthroat Island" (1995)
What It Cost: $115 million
What It Made: $18 million
What It Lost (Adjusted For Inflation): $148 million
Why It Flopped: Few films can claim to have entirely bankrupted the studio that produced them, but then few films can claim to be the Guinness Record Holder for the biggest flop of all time, and to have lost more money than any film in history, taking back only $18 million on a $115 million budget, equivalent to $147 million when adjusted for inflation. Over a decade before Disney brought back the swashbuckler with "Pirates of the Caribbean," Carolco Pictures, who'd become a major force in independent film thanks to the success with films like the "Rambo" series and "Terminator 2," decided they'd bring back the pirate genre, with a script (eventually credited to six different writers, including Robert King ("The Good Wife") and Marc Norman ("Shakespeare in Love")) entitled "Cutthroat Island," and attached Michael Douglas to play the lead role. For the director, they picked out Finnish helmer Renny Harlin, who'd just had a blockbuster hit for the studio with Sylvester Stallone vehicle "Cliffhanger." Harlin had recently married actress Geena Davis, and persuaded the studio to let him cast his wife as the love interest in the project, and given that she'd starred in hits like "Thelma & Louise" and "A League of Their Own" in recent memory, it seemed like a fair move. But Harlin reworked the script to make Davis' character a co-lead, and Douglas, who was promised $15 million to make the film, bailed. Virtually every actor in town was offered the gig, including the unlikely likes of Charlie Sheen and Tim Robbins, and it got far down enough the list that it was Matthew Modine, who wasn't that much bigger a star then than he is now, that got the gig (Frank Langella would play the bad guy). All of this because Carolco head Mario Kassar had begun construction on sets after the first draft of the script was handed in: the boulder had already started rolling downhill, and there was no way of stopping it. Carolco were already said to be in financial troubles, and even Harlin claims he knew it was a bad idea, saying in an interview last year "At that point I was left there with my then-wife, Geena Davis and myself, and a company that was already belly-up. We begged to be let go. We begged that we didn't have to make this movie. And I don't think I've ever said this in any other interview. We begged that we not be put in this position." Carolco couldn't really afford to make the movie, but they certainly couldn't afford to market it, and combined with rightfully eviscerating reviews, the film was an absolute trainwreck when it opened on December 22nd, 1995: it took only $2 million, opening in eleventh place, behind "Dracula: Dead and Loving It," and only just above what "The American President" (starring Douglas) made in its seventh week. The fim would eventually crawl to $10 million domestically, and another $8 million abroad, but that still left a deficit of cool hundred mil. Given that it came hot on the heels of another disaster, "Showgirls," it was the final straw for Carolco, and they declared bankruptcy soon after.
"Mars Needs Moms" (2011)
What It Cost: $150 Million
What It Made: $29 Million
What It Lost (Adjusted For Inflation): $121 Million
Why It Flopped: Disney might have had a Martian-themed film money loser earlier this year with "John Carter," but that film (which has at least taken $272 million worldwide) was a positive triumph compared to the one they had last year. After the success of "The Polar Express" over at Warner Bros, Disney became the home for Robert Zemeckis and his Imagemovers Digital banner, which was dedicated to the 3D performance capture animation that Zemeckis was convinced was the future of filmmaking. But 2009's expensive "A Christmas Carol" was a disappointment, and it was announced that the company would be wound down only a few months later, in March 2010. As it turns out, however, it wasn't the Jim Carrey vehicle that caused it solo: new studio boss Rich Ross had screened the company's next film, "Mars Needs Moms," directed by Simon Wells, and had clearly decided that he no longer wanted to be in the mo-cap business. Clearly there was little confidence in the film, based on Berkeley Breathed's book and following a pair of kids who set out to rescue their mother from aliens, but even Disney weren't expecting it to do as badly as it did: the film, which the studio admitted cost $150 million (which likely means it cost significantly more) even without marketing, made only $6.9 million in its opening weekend. Things didn't pick up, either; the picture topped out at 21 million in the U.S, and only managed 39 million worldwide. Even given that the studio had cut back on marketing, that's still probably a loss of at least $150 million. So, what happened? Some put it down to 3D fatigue, but it's more likely that the never-hugely-popular motion-capture technology looked especially creepy here, and the title and premise were both potentially terrifying for kids, and supposedly off-putting to boys (leading to Disney idiotically concluding that it was the 'Mars' putting off their audience, rather than 'Moms,' and taking the 'Of Mars' off "John Carter"). A cast led by the not-exactly-megastar likes of Joan Cusack and Dan Fogler, and tough competition from "Rango" and "Hop" around the same time likely didn't help. In the end, it sealed the coffin for ImageMovers (Disney cancelled Zemeckis' "Yellow Submarine" soon after, and even the director seems to have given up on his baby as a result: his next film, November's "Flight," is in good old live-action.
Jimmy W | July 23, 2012 12:35 PM
Rihanna is going to kick ass and save the World! Need I say more? Hollywood is patronizing its audience and I'm not buying.
Michael Passe | July 22, 2012 8:03 PM
I wonder how many big-screen TV adaptations were bombs, at least relatively so (Dennis the Menace? Get Smart?). Many of these might have made some bucks on their first weekend and then went away. Re-making old TV like "The Avengers" or "Speed Racer" doesn't really work, despite a few exceptions like "The Adams Family," because they are products of their time. Trying to re-invent them misses the point. How would audiences today be able to grasp the psychedelic, everything-English-is-cool zeitgeist of programs like "The Prisoner," or "The Avengers?" It also smacks of exploitation. Fans old enough to recall the shows may stay away for that reason, while younger viewers attracted by the camp value of laughably-innocent shows like "Leave it to Beaver" know full well the re-make won't have such charm. And to re-make already-dumb shows like "Get Smart" is just pointless. This seems like a losing gambit, but studios still try it. Why, when the results, despite a few successes, are far more hit than miss?
Fairlington Blade | June 5, 2012 8:54 AM
An interesting list, but I'd add Waterworld to the list. The Kevin Costner vehicle memorably earned the nickname Fishtar. Evidently it made up most of the losses with world wide sales. Still, it's pretty bomb worthy.
Zippy | May 27, 2012 9:37 AM
"...while we never too hard for a film to fail, it's hard not to feel a little gratified when audience reject a film as thoroughly rotten as "Battleship."
Need an editor much? This kind of amateurish writing doesn't even belong in a high school newspaper. Don't you hacks ever proofread a thing you write?
Brian Hutton | May 24, 2012 5:22 AM
The truth is this....the studios need to wake up....they have spent the past 40 years or more treating audiences like idiots. And the audience have said we are not morons ..I dont care if its 3D..I dont care how good the CGI is....gives us a plot, an intelligent script and people who can act. There is market for smart indies and smart Blockbusters....look at the Avengers...smart director, smart script, character based story that works along with the CGI action.
testington | May 23, 2012 4:28 PM
As much as people hate to say it, I do think Taylor Kitsch is a major reason these films didn't make money. Audiences do not like it when the industry tries to declare that people are stars before they've eared it. Anybody with a few big films under their belt could have made these films succeed. It's like a few years ago when Sienna Miller had several starring roles that all flopped in a row, you can't just say somebody is a lead if they haven't proven it. In contrast look at the success of The Hunger Games, which stared Jennifer Lawrence who had already earned her critical cred with Winter's Bone and played a supporting role in a block-buster with X-men: First Class.
Mariah | May 23, 2012 3:15 PM
Interseting article, but I thought the same thing the other poster did. Who edits these articles? I found multiple grammatical errors.
Here are just a few samples:
1) ..."while we never too hard for a film to fail..." This makes no sense.
2) "An needlessly expensive comedy." The word "an" only goes before vowels.
tom | May 23, 2012 3:04 PM
Having seen John Carter (of mars)a few weeks aog,to a packed house in dublin,i cannot see how it was preceived as a flop..in America the "of Mars" part of the title was omitted..why? plus in was badly marketed..i belive it will do well on DVD..the film itself,well made,good special effects,good character actors essentially playing julius caeser,with a leading man who acted quite well..being familiar with burroughs works,and the john carter of mars books,i was hopeful that this would have been the start of a series...Disney,fire whoever handles Marketing,and replace them with someone who isnt afraid to aim for a demographic who has some intelligence..
gwen killerby | May 23, 2012 5:30 AM
I have always liked Cut Throat Island a LOT, idk why it flopped, it's a Female Hero swashbuckler, with very good action scenes, nice story, good balance between overly complicated and boring.
scrnwrtr17 | May 22, 2012 5:01 PM
For anyone interested, one of the best insider books about the disaster that was 'Heaven's Gate' is former UA exec Steven Bach's excellent "Final Cut". I believe it was first published in 1986, and later reissued in '96 and then '99. It may no longer be in print, but if you can find it, it's well worth a gander.
OldFart | May 22, 2012 3:59 PM
I enjoyed the article, but does no one edit these things? The piece is a series of ridiculously long run-on sentences, and there are numerous typos, redundant word choices, and basic grammar mistakes. Sheesh!
Cde. | May 22, 2012 11:34 AM
Speed Racer is a great film. I'm always heartened when I hear someone else loved it.
Huffy | May 22, 2012 1:17 AM
Anyone interested in the history of American film should check out Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate. It's a documentary available on Youtube and it really goes in-depth into the film's production. Fascinating stuff, both on the creative side (Cimino's method was absolutely insane) and the business side. It's also got Willem Dafoe narrating and goddamn does he do a good job.
Stevo the Magnificent | May 21, 2012 10:18 PM
Always had a soft spot for 'The Avengers' (1998), it had a wonderfully surreal, esoteric, and oh-so-very British sensibility to it, but the trouble that ultimately sunk it was; firstly, director Jeremiah Chechik never wanted Uma Thurman but rather Nicole Kidman (she was unavailable due to 'Eyes Wide Shut'), there was a personnel change at Warner Bros and the person who hated the project became head of production, a test screening before a mainly Hispanic audience - who thought it "too British" - led to the film being butchered by the studio from an original 115-minute cut to the eviscerated cut we have today, and then they pushed it back to August to basically let it die a death, and so it did, but it could have been a decent little movie if things had been different...
jimmiescoffee | May 21, 2012 6:23 PM
yeah, i was serious. very fucking serious. its already made about $50 million over its reported budget and likely will do another $150 ww. believe me, they'll be OOOK. so, how much does a translation cost these days? thanks for the info though.
cirkusfolk | May 21, 2012 4:44 PM
One flop that has always boggled my mind is Town and Country. I'm not sure why a dramedy starring Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn and Garry Shandling cost 90 million to begin with (or who was stupid enough to finance it) but apparently it only made back 10 million worldwide. Ouch. Or what about The Adventures of Pluto Nash. Cost 100 mil. and made back a whopping 7 mil worldwide!!!
bob | May 21, 2012 3:37 PM
"Pictures at a Revolution" is a great book.
So You Know | May 21, 2012 2:11 PM
210 + domestic P&A, plus international P&A, plus splitting costs with theaters (studios dont get the net of what they gross)... lots to go... to break even.
jimmiescoffee | May 21, 2012 2:04 PM
defining a flop is an inexact science nowadays considering that 'battleship' has already made back its budget globally.


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Awarded annually, the prize recognizes the achievements of people and organizations that have improved the lives of people throughout Asia.
Truong Gia Binh, 56, the chairman and CEO of FPT Corp., the largest information technology company in Vietnam, received the award in the category of regional growth. He not only contributed to the development of his own company but also to the development of IT business in Vietnam. He set up a software industry organization and a university to foster IT experts.
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Nikkei is accepting nominees for the Nikkei Asia Prizes 2014.
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The prizes target individuals and groups in northeastern, southeastern, southern and central Asia, excluding Japan. The selection committee is chaired by Fujio Mitarai, honorary chairman of Nippon Keidanren.