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Android to Add Soft Support for Onscreen Keyboard
Do You Prefer a Physical or a Touchscreen Keyboard?
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When a new smartphone comes out, one of the first things I look for is whether it has a touchscreen keyboard or a physical keyboard. When T-Mobile's G1 came out, I was mildly surprised that it was physical, rather than onscreen, because I thought it may be closer in design to the iPhone.
Not to be outdone, it looks like Android will devise an onscreen keyboard for the G1 as well, leaving you with both options to type. Nice compromise!
In the meantime, tell me which one you prefer, since I know that becoming accustomed to the physical keys of a phone like the BlackBerry deterred a lot of people from the iPhone because of its touchscreen.
What do you like to type on?
agrepina 5 years
i have the htc touch and while im very happy..i hate txting since its soo hard to do so with a touch screen
kristints 5 years
I learned how to type on my iPhone really quickly, after like a week, I could type faster on it than I can on my computer (and I'm a SUPER fast typer!)
kcwebgirl 5 years
i hate the touch screen keyboard. i'm always hitting the wrong keys and it annoys me.
ilanac13 5 years
i have an iPhone and i think that it's a bit more challenging to text from it compared to what it was like with a physical keyboard. i'm a BIG TIME texter so this was kind of frustrating when i first got the phone, but i guess i'm learning how to adapt.
MissMarisol 5 years
I am an iphone user and it took me a while to get used to the touch keyboard. I had a BB Pearl and hated the keyboard.
Pink-Crowns-90 5 years
im a physical keybored kinda gurl, BIG fan of the pink blackberry curve!
krissycake 5 years
i have a samsung blackjack and really enjoy the physical keyboard...it's not that i don't like the touch keyboard (BF has a iPod touch) and they're both equally user-friendly, but there's just something about having a 'rea'l keyboard...
Phasekitty 5 years
My LG Voyager has both which I love, but I prefer the physical for almost all my texts and e-mails. It's just easier.
postit 5 years
Well I have an iphone 3g but it was not the phone I wanted. For my birthday I asked for a new blackberry since mine was a year old, but my dad surprised me with a iphone. Which I really like but I'm very into texting which is very hard on the iphone due to the virtual keyboard.
celestegc 5 years
Well, I like both! I have an iphone and I love it! I mean, it was kind of difficult at the beginning, but now I'm a pro texting fast with the touchscreen! and I do have big hands! so, I think it depends on each person
LilGlamDiva 5 years
I had a touch screen on my Treo then I switched to a Blackberry and will never go back. I've tried the iphone and it is just too finnicky for me.
neko 5 years
I like both if they're done well. I have an iPhone, and I love the touch screen. I've never really had an issue with hitting the wrong keys, and each one pops up when you hit it (then again, I don't have big hands or fingers. I've had friends with big hands who can't stand the iPhone). Also, you can choose to text or e-mail in complete silence. I've tried other touch screen phones, and hated them. I think the iPhone is probably the best touch screen phone available. I also like physical qwerty keyboards if they're well designed. I hate phones where I have to press hard on each key to get it to register.
gemsera 5 years
Physical definitely. My beau has an iphone but i hate using it :(
inertia 5 years
Physical keyboard all the way, preferably one with keys which are slightly concave instead of convex. I have extremely tapered fingers and long nail beds, so that no matter how short I keep my nails, I have the same "no fingertips" problem as women with super-long nails. Even though my fingers are tiny, the tapered shape makes touchscreens more difficult for me than for my husband whose hands are twice as large. Recently I had the chance to try a friend's iphone and although I liked it as a browser, it was impossible to type on. It would be nice if hardware designers would look at the shape of *women's* hands before settling on a design.
EvilDorkGirl 5 years
I'm with most people on this one; I own an iPhone and I miss the physical keyboard on my Q so much. Plus the predictive text feature on the iPhone SUCKS. But the web browsing is so much better so I'll deal for now.
psantiago11 5 years
I have the iphone and the G1. I type well with the soft keyboard, but the physical one is better for longer messages and lower errors. I think apple can be a bit stubborn once it decides to go in one direction. They ought to create a suite of iphones to appeal to everyone. That said, the iphone is a game changer for many other reasons.
KristinDaBomb 5 years
I've only had an iPhone and I like the touch screen. My sister had a keyboard phone, and I used it, which was good, but I still like the touchscreen better.
HeidiMD 5 years
I cannot STAND touch-screen technology. Aside from how annoying it is to begin with, I think the screens get disgusting.
BellaEdward4ever 5 years
I have an iPod touch, and it hasn't taken me long to get used to it. Also I have really thin fingers...lol
tiabia 5 years
Physical keyboard for me...I am a Blackberry Curve owner.
ldsims 5 years
I love the touch I can't go back after the iphone.
devils 5 years
Physical. I don't like that whole touch thing. I tried to play with the iPhone at the Apple store and it was pissing me off lol.
marinewifey 5 years
I thought I would hate the virtual keyboard on the iPhone, but I'm so used to it now I love it! Plus if I make a mistake it automatically corrects it for me.
lovely2190 5 years
I have a sidekick, and I like the physical touch. However it isn't like i am opposed to virtual keyboad but i do think it is easier with a physical keyboard (because that is what i have =])
bethinabox 5 years
I don't have a smartphone (yet!), but although I really would prefer a physical keyboard, I think I'd rather give that up to have the iPhone. I played around with a friends iPod Touch once, and found that after only maybe half an hour of typing notes back and forth with her, I was getting much better at the on-screen keyboard, so I think I could adapt pretty well if I got an iPhone. :)
TawniRo 5 years
I have the G1 and I love the keyboard. It will be nice to have the option to use the touch screen as well tho.
simplysteen 5 years
i had the option between iphone and blackberry. the physical keyboard is one of the reasons why. i love my blackberry.
SusanTeufel 5 years
I like a physical keyboard myself. My husband has an LG Voyager, and I find it really annoying to dial and do extensions or something with it (Press 1 for this..) because it locks after you dial...ugh...then you have to unlock it and stuff. I dunno. I like clickity clicking.
antancia 5 years
Physical keyboard all the way. Nothing beats the tactile sensation of clicking real buttons. This is the only reason I haven't considered getting an iPhone.
star54 5 years
The touchscreen keyboard is the one major reason why I 100% refused to get an iPhone. Well, that and I really REALLY wanted the BB Curve. But I would have definitely considered the iPhone if it weren't completely touchscreen. Oh well, I'm in love with my pink Curve and wouldn't trade it for the world...
ChicBookFiend 5 years
The iPhone's touchscreen isn't so bad, but the others I've tried were horrible. So even though I have an iPhone, I prefer a physical keyboard.
esmerb 5 years
I'm quite use to the touch screen now and love it.
estrela 5 years
I don't have an iphone but when I was playing around with my sister's I found the touch screen keyboard difficult to use, I kept on hitting the wrong letters, and I don't have big fingers..
t-and-co 5 years
I had to switch from the iPhone to the BB Curve. The touch screen was horrible. I'm so much happier now. :)
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Qualities of a Jivanmukta as a Spiritual Practice
Q&A with Swami Swaroopananda
This article is from one of Swami Swaroopananda's spontaneous question and answer sessions. To hear more of his teachings from the Bhagavad Gita, come to the Advanced Bhagavad Gita Certification Course March 11-March 21.
What is it like to become realized? Does something obvious happen?
Answer: At the end of his text the Tattva Bodha, the great Adi Shankaracharya poses the question, "What are the signs by which we can identify a jivanmukta, a realized soul?" He then answers, "There are no external signs. There are no external signs." Does this mean there are no signs that show us a person has attained realization? No, it means there are signs, but that these signs manifest internally.
This is why Arjuna asks Lord Krishna, in the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita: Oh Lord, please describe to me the qualities of a person who has attained steady wisdom. How does such a person sit? How does such a person walk? How does such a person talk? Please describe to me the signs. Why? Because Arjuna is so confused that he is even in doubt about himself. Later on in the Gita, he tells Lord Krishna, I am not sure whether I am a divine being or a demoniacal being. Because he has these doubts, he asks the Lord, Please tell me, what are the qualities of demons, and what are the qualities of divine beings. Why? Because he is going to fight and kill his own relatives, and this is a demoniacal type of action. This is the mind of Arjuna, and he wants to be reassured that he is not a demoniacal being. In the same manner, he wants to know, What are the qualities of a liberated soul? And in the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna describes to him the qualities of a person with steady wisdom.
Jnaneswari will recite a few verses.
Jnaneswari: Qualities?
Swami Swaroopananda: Qualities.
"When a man completely casts off, O Arjuna, all the desires of the mind, and is satisfied in the Self by the Self, then is he said to be one of steady wisdom.
"He whose mind is not shaken by adversity, who does not hanker after pleasures and is free from attachment, fear, and anger, is called a sage of steady wisdom.
"He who is everywhere without attachment, on meeting with anything good or bad, who neither rejoices nor hates, his wisdom is fixed.
"When, like the tortoise which withdraws on all sides its limbs, he withdraws his senses from the sense-objects, then his wisdom becomes steady. "The objects of the senses turn away from the abstinent man, leaving the longing behind; but his longing also turns away on seeing the Supreme.
"The turbulent senses, O Arjuna, do violently carry away the mind of a wise man, though he be striving to control them.
"Having restrained them all, he should sit steadfast, intent on Me; his wisdom is steady whose senses are under control.
"When a man thinks of the objects, attachment for them arises; from attachment desire is born; from desire, anger arises.
"From anger comes delusion; from delusion loss of memory; from loss of memory the destruction of discrimination; from the destruction of discrimination he perishes.
"But the self-controlled man, moving among the objects with the senses under restraint and free from attraction and repulsion, attains to peace.
"In that peace, all pains are destroyed; for the intellect of the tranquil-minded soon becomes steady.
"There is no knowledge of the Self to the unsteady and to the unsteady no meditation is possible, and to the unmeditative, there can be no peace, and to the man who has no peace, how can there be happiness?
"For the mind, which follows in the wake of the wandering senses, carries away his discrimination, as the wind carries away a boat on the waters.
"Therefore, O Mighty-Armed Arjuna, his knowledge is steady whose senses are completely restrained from sense-objects.
"That which is night to all beings, in that the self-controlled man is awake; when all beings are awake, that is night for the sage who sees.
"He attains peace into whom all desires enter as waters enter the ocean which, filled from all sides, remains unmoved; but not the man who is full of desires.
"That man attains peace who, abandoning all desires, moves about without longing, without the sense of mine and without egoism.
"This is the Brahmic seat, O Son of Pritha. Attaining to this, none is deluded. Being established therein, even at the end of life, one attains to oneness with Brahman."
Swami Swaroopananda: These are the signs of realization, and these qualities of a jivanmukta in the second chapter are also spiritual instructions. The meaning, the yogic teaching, is that what is an attribute for a realized person is a practice for an unrealized person. I repeat: Whatever is an attribute for a realized person is a practice for an unrealized person. You see? So when Lord Krishna describes to Arjuna the attributes of a person of steady wisdom, He's also teaching Arjuna the practices that Arjuna has to undertake in order to attain that realization. Because those attributes of the jivanmukta, which for the jivanmukta are just his nature, for Arjuna these are practices. And also for us, because the Bhagavad Gita was not given only to Arjuna; the Bhagavad Gita was given to the whole world. So this teaching is very, very precious.
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Licensure of a Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis Adsorbed and Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine and Guidance for Use as a Booster Dose
On June 24, 2008, the Food and Drug Administration licensed a combined diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed (DTaP) and inactivated poliovirus (IPV) vaccine, DTaP-IPV (Kinrix, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rixensart, Belgium). Kinrix is licensed for use as the fifth dose of the DTaP vaccine series and the fourth dose of the IPV series in children aged 4 -- 6 years whose previous DTaP vaccine doses were DTaP (Infanrix, GlaxoSmithKline) and/or DTaP-Hepatitis B-IPV (Pediarix, GlaxoSmithKline) for the first 3 doses and DTaP (Infanrix) for the fourth dose (1,2). DTaP-IPV administered to children aged 4 -- 6 years would reduce by one the number of injections needed to complete DTaP and IPV immunization. This report summarizes the indications for Kinrix and provides guidance from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for its use.
ACIP reviewed data on the safety and immunogenicity of DTaP-IPV (Kinrix). On the basis of these data, expert opinion of the ACIP Combination Vaccines Workgroup, and feedback from ACIP liaison organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Physicians, ACIP endorsed the licensed indications and offered the following guidance for use of DTaP-IPV. On June 26, ACIP voted to include DTaP-IPV in the federal Vaccines for Children Program.
The individual antigens (diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis toxoids, filamentous hemagglutinin, pertactin, and poliovirus types 1, 2, and 3) contained in combined DTaP-IPV are identical to the antigens contained in GlaxoSmithKline's DTaP (Infanrix) and DTaP-Hepatitis B-IPV (Pediarix) and have been described previously (3). DTaP-IPV contains no preservatives. DTaP-IPV is administered as an intramuscular injection, preferably into the deltoid region. Two clinical trials conducted in U.S. children aged 4 -- 6 years showed that combined DTaP-IPV and separately administered DTaP and IPV vaccines had comparable safety and reactogenicity profiles, with or without a co-administered second dose of measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine (3,4). The immunogenicity of all antigens was similar between the treatment groups, with or without a co-administered second dose of MMR vaccine.
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DTaP-IPV (Kinrix) is indicated for use as the fifth dose of DTaP and fourth dose of IPV in children aged 4 -- 6 years who received DTaP (Infanrix) and/or DTaP-Hepatitis B-IPV (Pediarix) as the first 3 doses and DTaP (Infanrix) as the fourth dose (1,2). This vaccine should not be administered to children aged <4 years or >7 years; however, if DTaP-IPV (Kinrix) is inadvertently administered for an earlier dose of the DTaP and/or IPV series, the dose should be counted as valid and does not need to be repeated provided minimum interval requirements have been met (5). Data are limited on the safety and immunogenicity of interchanging DTaP vaccines from different manufacturers (6). ACIP recommends that, whenever feasible, the same manufacturer's DTaP vaccines should be used for each dose in the series; however, vaccination should not be deferred because the type of DTaP previously administered is unavailable or unknown (6).
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Eric Fisher. Yes, I'll go ahead and mention Fisher separately from the rest of the line. To answer the early question: No, I'm not yet truly worried about him. It's just two preseason games. But he's been banged up, dealing with hand and shoulder injuries. Friday's game against the 49ers was not a good one for him, injury or not.
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Wide receivers. Dexter McCluster has caught a pass so it's not a complete shutout but Dwayne Bowe and now-former Chief Jon Baldwin have seen just four combined targets in two games. Bowe hasn't caught a pass. The closest one came when Baldwin dropped a gimme over the middle. Alex Smith and Andy Reid have both said that Bowe's lack of targets is a result of the defense moving the coverage his way. At some point, the Chiefs have to pass to their wide receivers. Is it too early to be worried about this? That's the debate here.
Chiefs preseason record. No, preseason does not matter. But that doesn't mean I don't want to see a win once in a while. The Chiefs are on pace to record their fifth winless preseason in the last 10 years. Since 2004, the Chiefs are 7-31 in preseason games. Ugly.
The Chiefs are 5-30-1 against the spread over their last 36 exhibition games.— SB Nation Football (@sbnfootball) August 23, 2013


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Some Common Sense ATM Security Tips.
ATM services can enrich your life. You can get cash, make deposits, do transfers, check your balances ad more. Because ATMs are so versatile, it' good to keep your own security in mind when you use them.
You use good "common sense" around your home, shopping areas and outdoor places already. We ask you to use the same sensible principles at walk-up ATMs.
Staying Safe On Foot
Stay in well lit areas. When you're going to an ATM at night, it makes sense to be in bright places to transact your business. And have your ATM card out and ready to use. If you see a light out at an ATM, please report it so the situation can be corrected.
Stay in Sight Of Passers-by. Or Bring A Friend.
Keeping in view of other people is always a good idea. Try to avoid being isolated. And particularly after sunset, why not bring a friend or family member along for the ride?
Avoid Suspicious Situations.
Just as you do in most other situations, if something looks at all suspicious, it's a good idea to cancel your transaction, put your ATM card away and leave! The same goes whether you're at a walk-up machine or a drive-up machine.
Safety On The Move.
Be just as cautious at drive-up ATMs. Keep your doors locked and your windows up prior to and after your transaction. If you leave your car, turn off the engine and take your keys with you.
Your ATM Card Needs You To Protect It.
Your ATM card is like any valuable card or document, so make a habit of keeping your ATM card in a secure place. If it's lost or stolen, report it immediately.
Your Secret Code. Keep It Secret.
Your PIN (Personal Identification Number) is your assurance that ho one else can use your ATM card. Memorize your number, and if you do write it down, keep it in a separate place from your card. And don't let anyone else know what your secret code is. Because then it's not a secret anymore.
Stay Close To Your Cash.
Avoid displaying cash you get from your ATM. Put your money and receipts away before leaving the ATM and wait to count your cash in the safety of your car, home of office.
Save Your Receipt.
Just as you save a receipt when you make purchases, it's a good idea to keep your ATM receipt. It contains private account information you might not want someone else to know. And you can use it to help check against your monthly statement!


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Your own Japanese Garden, part two
In my previous article I wrote about considerations and decisions to be taken when you are going to build your own Japanese garden. In this article I'll elaborate on that. As the Japanese garden evolved over 15 centuries it is … Read more →


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Tuesday, Dec 19, 2006
Industry & Economy - Petroleum
Essar Oilfields to invest $400 m to acquire rigs
Our Bureau
Mumbai , Dec. 18
Essar Oilfields Services Ltd (EOSL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Cyprus-registered Essar Shipping and Logistics Limited, will be investing $400 million for acquisition of onshore and offshore oil drilling rigs. EOSL has been formed to focus on international and Indian onshore and offshore oil and gas drilling businesses.
EOSL's investment plan includes acquisition of a diversified fleet of rigs, for inland and offshore drilling.
Essar sees significant opportunities in this segment, as oil exploration and production activity around the world, including in India, has seen rig utilisation rates in excess of 98 per cent. This demand for drilling rigs is likely to sustain over the next three to five years.
EOSL, whose operations are run out of its office in Dubai, will be employing the rigs for Essar's E&P activity and contract drilling for third parties.
Mr Sanjay Mehta, CEO, Essar Shipping and Logistics Ltd, told Business Line that the rigs, which would be delivered within a month, would be employed in India and in the overseas markets. He said while the offshore rigs commanded a price of $3,00,000 per day, the onshore variant fetched a daily hire rate of about $60,000 per day.
Essar Shipping and Logistics Ltd has four operating companies under its umbrella Vadinar Oil Terminal Ltd, which set up a 32-million-tonne terminal at Vadinar, Essar Logistics Ltd, Essar Shipping Ltd and EOSL.
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KIERAN Slater has been named in Great Britain's squad for the European Outdoor Youth Championships in Ljubljana, Slovenia, taking place next week.
Following a selection shoot of the UK's top youth archers at Lilleshall the 19-year-old, who grew up in Stinchcombe and is a Bowmen of Minchinhampton member, has been selected in the junior team alongside Ashe Morgan, 19, and Jack Grogan, 19, for the shooting recurve event, which is an Olympic sport.
Rio 2016 hopeful Slater will compete in both the individual and team events.
Great Britain is sending the third largest team to the Championships and will compete with over 300 archers from all over Europe at the Stožice Hippodrome, which is situated outside Slovenia's capital city Ljubljana for the 14th European Outdoor Youth Championships.
Slater and Morgan are on the Archery GB World Class Program, which is supported by UK Sport and lottery funding.
Lloyd Brown, Olympic coach of Archery GB said: "We have high hopes for our recurve archers at this event. It gives them a chance to shoot against the best archers in their age group, which will tell us exactly where they are at and whether the training in the off season at the regional performance academies has paid dividends."
Following the qualification round, the archers will compete in a head to head event, run in the same format as the Olympics and Paralympics, with a 70m target for the recurve archers and a 50m target for the compound archers.
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Category — Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT)
POWER's Peltier: MACT's Missing Intellectual Justification
"EPA's politically appointed leadership believes that the perversion of science is a 'minor evil' committed to achieve the 'greater good' of ridding the nation of coal-fired power generation. Science may be the first casualty in the EPA's war on coal, but all of us are its victims."
- Robert Peltier, "MACT Attack," POWER, July 2012, p. 6.
Robert Peltier is no ordinary participant in today's important energy debates. He is editor-in-chief of POWER magazine, which covers all technologies relating to electricity. He is a professional engineer with a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. Peltier in a previous life was a tenured professor. He has worked in manufacturing and for a public utility. And before that, he was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy.
It is his job to study the technological possibilities with an eye to competitive viability in electric generation. When examining regulation—past, present, or proposed—he considers the peer-reviewed literature as well as personal opinions to get to the essence of things.
Utility Mercury and Air Toxics Standards
Enter the recent Utility Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (Utility MACT) rule issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the subject of Peltier's 'Speaking of Power' editorial in the July 2012 issue of POWER. It is worth reading in whole. [Read more →]
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Hassling Electricity: EPA's Proposed MACT Rules
Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised that his policies would cause electricity rates to "skyrocket" and "bankrupt" any company trying to build a coal-fired generating plant. This is one promise he and his über-regulators are keeping.
President Obama energetically promotes wind and solar projects that require millions of acres of land and billions of dollars in subsidies to generate expensive, intermittent electricity and create (really centrally plan) jobs that cost taxpayers upwards of $220,000 apiece – most of them in China.
His Interior Department is locking up more coal and petroleum prospects, via "wild lands" and other designations, and dragging its feet on issuing leases and drilling permits.
Meanwhile, his Environmental Protection Agency is challenging shale gas drilling and fracking, and imposing draconian carbon dioxide (CO2) emission rules, now that Congress and voters have rejected cap-tax-and-trade.
Across agencies, the war is on against the dense, reliable energies that were part of the Industrial Revolution (see the posts on W. S. Jevons for more) and are behind modern society today.
The beat-down of carbon-based energy goes on. Oil, gas and coal provide approximantely 84% of the energy that keeps America humming, but the administration is doing all it can to reduce each and all. American voters, consumers and workers may want more drilling, mining and use of hydrocarbons, to get the economy going again. But the administration has a different agenda.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has unveiled another 946 pages of regulations that she claims will protect public health. The regs cover 84 "dangerous pollutants" that are already being scrubbed out of power plant emission streams by a host of innovative technologies. In fact, coal-fired generators now emit a fraction of what they did just 40 years ago.
The most frequently cited of these pollutants is mercury. Higher doses cause well-known ill-health effects, from severe neurological damage to brain damage and death. However, it has been all but eliminated in herbicides, light switches, thermometers and other products.
Its presence in coal and power plant emissions is likewise minimal and declining. [Read more →]
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EPA's Utility MACT Proposal: Negative Economics for What?
[Editor note: This new white paper by the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council (ERCC) is summarized by director Scott Segal (full bio below). ERCC is a coalition of power companies that works with labor unions, consumers, and manufacturing and service businesses on clean air issues.]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has now signed a proposal to advance a new maximum achievable control technology (MACT) standard for the electric utility industry, known as the Utility MACT.
Back in 1998, the EPA made a finding regarding the need to regulate mercury emissions from power plants. At the time, EPA made clear that there were no incremental benefits associated with addressing any other hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) from the power sector other than mercury. Specifically, no health benefits were found from addressing non-mercury HAPs such as acid gases.
Such controls are extraordinarily costly with profound impacts on electricity supply and price, and job creation. In the intervening years, no additional data has been added to the Agency record that asserts any specific benefits to regulating for non-mercury HAPs. And yet, in the proposal issuing from EPA, the Agency seeks to regulate these non-mercury HAPs at great expense for no incremental benefit.
A Wave of Regulations
EPA admits the pending proposal will cost at least $10 billion, making it one of the most expensive rules in the history of the Agency. And this cost does not include indirect costs nor does the Agency attempt to estimate the total cost associated with overlapping rules due to be adopted at or around the same time. Even focusing primarily on Utility MACT itself, other credible analyses have found direct cost estimates literally an order of magnitude higher than EPA, at or near $100 billion. These other analyses make more realistic assumptions about technologies likely to be required to meet the terms of proposed rule. [Read more →]
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|Lawyer spits on cop
|Lawyer spits on cop
|Written by Mark Nichols
What do you call 1,000 lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean? A good start. And it's not hard to see why that old joke is still funny when you consider the case of one Lewis B. Moon. Moon, an attorney, stands accused of being drunk, driving the wrong way in a fast-food drive-thru lane, impersonating law enforcement and then spitting on a police officer.
Unbelievably, the man got off with probation.
According to a recent article posted on the website NewsOK.com, Oklahoma County District Judge Kenneth C. Watson for some reason decided to dismiss the two felony charges that Lewis Moon was facing. Those were spitting on a police officer and impersonating a law officer.
Moon's sweetheart deal involved pleading guilty to two misdemeanor charges. He copped to "having actual physical control of a motor vehicle while intoxicated" and "resisting arrest."
Moon is required to submit to one year of drug/alcohol outpatient treatment under the terms of the deal.
Moon and another attorney were arrested about 1:40 a.m. back in September at a Whataburger location. The restaurant manager told police the driver of a
Cadillac Escalade almost hit another car in the drive-thru lane when he allegedly drove up to the take out window in the wrong direction.
The manager said the driver and passenger appeared intoxicated, police said.
When police arrived, Moon flipped out.
First the lawyer spit in an officer's face. Then he pulled out a badge from the Oklahoma County sheriff's office and claimed to be a deputy, police said.
A sheriff's spokesman said the badge is actually known as a sheriff's "eagle badge." The badges are given to people who "support the sheriff's department."
They're not official law enforcement badges.
On a videotape made at the Warr Acres Police Department, Moon is shown asking over and over to be taken to "county" and cursing at the officers that responded.
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At the bye week, the Syracuse Orange football team is 4-2. It's an extraordinarily ugly 4-2, but 4-2 nonetheless. We could sit here and spew plenty of negativity. If Wake Forest hadn't pulled their (in hindsight) healthy QB, we likely wouldn't have come back to win. We only beat FCS Rhode Island by 7. We beat Toledo with the benefit of a horrific PAT call. And it took a last second FG to beat Tulane. These near-losses make Orange fans all over nervous (or maybe throwing and breaking things), but there's more to look at to truly understand how we should feel about this team.
Looking at least year's football team, they went 7-5 in the regular season, and after the Pinstripe Bowl, we lost a large group of experienced impact seniors (Doug Hogue, Delone Carter, Derrell Smith, Andrew Lewis, Damon Merkerson, Mike Holmes, etc).
Now, let's quickly compare this year's Non-conference to last year's. Last year, SU played Akron, Washington, Maine, Colgate, and Boston College. This year we played Wake Forest, Rhode Island, USC, Toledo, and Tulane. By my estimation:
Wake > BC
Tulane > Akron
USC > Washington
Toledo > Maine
URI = Colgate
And I think there could be a strong argument made that URI is better than Colgate. That's a unanimously more difficult out of conference schedule than the Orange played last year. Last year, SU went 3-2. This year, with a less experienced team and a tougher schedule, they went 4-1. It wasn't a strong 4-1, but I'll remind you of SU Alumnus Al Davis' quote "Just Win, Baby!" Winning pretty is the goal, but for now, an ugly win is better than a loss.
Now, we're at the bye week, with two weeks to deal with all the issues that have plagued this team. There is time to get healthy (Chan Jones, Phil and Shamarko Thomas, I'm looking at you). Every time a Doug Marrone coached SU team has had extra time to gameplan, the result has been a victory. His first season, we played Akron after the bye. Last season, he had the bye before defeating USF, and then extra time before the Pinstripe Bowl. I'm not saying we'll beat West Virginia (I don't think we will), but this team will come out of the bye better than they went in, that I'm sure of.
Finally, let's look to the Big East schedule. Last season, SU went 4-3 in conference. I look ahead at the schedule this year, and see winnable games. Louisville has lost to Marshall and FIU this season; UConn has losses to Western Michigan, Vanderbilt, and Iowa State. Those are road games, but games SU can win. I see USF and Cincinnati coming to the Carrier Dome, and I think this team is good enough to win one of those two games. Then, I see Pitt and West Virginia, likely two losses, but two games we can be competitive in.
There are negatives, Ryan Nassib hasn't developed the way SU fans would like. The receivers haven't been consistent enough. Bailey may or may not be an "every down back." The defense laid an egg against Tulane. But let's look at it this way:
If SU wins 2 games out of Louisville, UConn, Cincy, and USF, they'd be bowl eligible. If they pull out an extra win or a win against Pitt or WV (unlikely), they'd match last season's win total. With a young and injured team and a fairly difficult schedule...6-7 wins would be a great job by Marrone.


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The first leg of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Tournament has ended with Antonio Silva and Sergei Kharitonov advancing to the next round. While most people have pegged the winner of the upcoming Alistair Overeem vs. Fabricio Werdum bout to be the tournament favorite, Dana White thinks otherwise. According to Dave Meltzer (Subscription Required), the UFC President has predicted that Josh Barnett will win the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix:
Silva will face the Overeem vs. Werdum winner while Kharitonov faces the Josh Barnett vs. Brett Rogers winner. For the record, Dana White is predicting Barnett, who he hates, to run the table. He believes Werdum will catch Overeem on the ground, but Barnett, who has never been submitted, will be strong enough to avoid Werdum's strength.
Certainly Overeem vs. Werdum is your classic match dependent upon whether or not Werdum can get it to the ground. Rogers has a good punch, but unless Barnett has slipped a lot, and we don't know because it's been years since Barnett was in with elite competition, he has to be the favorite.
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In the 1972 Olympics a cold war grudge match was fought on the basketball court. An unbeaten USA team teeming with NBA stars faced off against the might of an experienced USSR side.
At the end of the game, in highly controversial circumstances, victory went to the Soviets. Now I know little to nothing about basketball so won't try to explain the complex rulings that led to this situation, but I know this much, the USA refused to accept their silver medals. It's the most high-profile refusal of an award I know of, and the lack of class and sportsmanship displayed was remarkable.
On that note I choose to offer this point of view; Manchester United should not contest next season's Europa League tournament.
I don't say this in a fit of pique or petulance, I legitimately believe this 'award' is one that would not benefit the recipient or the giver. We've been here once before after suffering expulsion from the Champion's League group stages (since when was defeat a means of qualification for anything?) and despite the manager and players making the right noises about going out there to try and win the trophy, we did in fact produce a few insipid performances that quite rightly curtailed our progress. The Europa League is a waste of time for a club of United's stature. I thought the same when Liverpool were playing in it. It was all just so damned undignified.
Before the CL swelled to its current size we had three European trophies, all with relative charms, and I'll never forget that night in Rotterdam when we beat Barca to lift the cup winners' cup. However, once the big leagues started sending three or four clubs to contest the main prize it's been obvious to all that Europe's second trophy has been devalued considerably.
So, must we really maintain the charade that we even want to show up? Picture this, our rivals spend half of midweek on the long-haul to Turkey or Russia, meanwhile Juan Mata has had a productive training session, a nice cup of cocoa and is tucked up in bed at 9pm. Most of the squad having spent June in Brazil will now play ten fewer games during 14/15 and are raring to go as the season reaches its climax. Everyone is focused on the domestic, getting our house in order, rebuilding the squad and achieving results on the home front. Essentially making sure we get to play in Big Europe the following season.
The downside? Bad press of course. It unquestionably projects a bad image on the club. 'Manchester United think they're too good to play in this tournament'. Revisiting FA cupgate of 2000 but potentially worse. We were accused of permanently ruining the sanctity of the cup then, the same will happen now, but do we care? Can we get fined for declining to contest? It's the Europa League, it had no credibility in the first place, us ambling through a group stage before meekly kowtowing to Hajduk Split is disrespectful anyway.
It smacks of a lack of class I'm sure, just like the US basketball team's refusal to accept their silver medals, but the difference is I do not believe we are obliged to contest something just because we have qualified for it. It may even send a message to UEFA that the tournament is deeply flawed, and surely having a straight two leg knockout format all the way to the final would make for a better contest.
Sorry Monsieur Platini, those Ferrero Rocher are mighty tempting but unfortunately I'm washing my hair that night.
What are your thoughts on possibly competing in the Europa League next season?
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Archive for Business
Improving Your Business Cash Flow
Lots of things are pulling for your business dollars, from purchase orders to employee salaries. A steady cash flow is part and parcel of a successful business; and this is often a major source of troubles for many owners, not an actual lack of money. Many factors may contribute to this cash flow issue, from extending credit and waiting on customer payments to poor management of inventory. Luckily, it is not a problem without a solution. It simply requires taking a fresh look at how you are running your operations and identifying opportunities to turn things around. Here are some important tips for improving business cash flow.
Giver Your Finances a Good Looking Over
This tip may seem obvious but it is easy to just fall into certain patterns of behavior, and continue doing things as you have always done without ever stopping to consider if there is a better way, if there is somewhere you may be dropping the ball. Go over your finances with a fine-tooth comb to see where the problem areas may exist, to see what may need to be fixed, changed or eliminated. If you are looking to improve your cash flow, you have to start with an examination of your current situation.
Stay on Top of Receivables
Poor management of receivables is a major contributor to many a businesses' cash flow problems. You have a right to timely payments, and you must get on customers as soon as they come past due. You need not be aggressive, but you must act. Develop a set process to be followed every time, with every invoice. Haphazard, random efforts will not work. Invoice clients immediately. Depending on your line of work, request at least a deposit before beginning a project.
Consider Factoring Invoices
Invoice factoring is an alternative financing option to help get cash in the door more quickly. You sell your receivables to a lender at a discount, and you get the money within 24 hours. Clients then pay the factoring company directly and you get the remainder. This can be very helpful, but ultimately used as a temporary solution, not a long-term strategy for increased cash flow.
Use Credit Cards/Line of Credit
Credit cards and a line of credit can come in handy when it comes to improving cash flow. Being able to pay for something with a card or line of credit, and holding onto much-needed cash to meet other needs until those invoices get paid, for example, is a great way to keep everything flowing. But, you must be disciplined about paying them off as necessary and not just piling up a huge amount of debt unnecessarily.
Don't Pay Bills until They are Due
While paying a bill as soon as it is due is a great feeling, you may be unnecessarily impeding your cash flow. Don't get rid of money any sooner than you need to; of course, there may be some exceptions, such as getting discounts for early payments that really add up to significant savings .
4 Tips for Picking a Cloud Service Provider
As businesses grow and demand for storage increases, the cloud continues to become a strong alternative for expanding enterprises. The complex nature of the cloud requires you to engage in disciplined due diligence to find a cloud service provider which fits your unique needs. Partner only with companies which make serving you the number one priority of their business and choose providers which can meet your growing needs as your organization expands. Make a confident choice by using each one of these tips.
Gauge the Expertise of Cloud Service Providers
Seek out experts rich with experience in operations management, architecture and industry best practices on design. Many businesses either do not have access to or cannot afford costly in-house skills for short term engagement. Your business can stand out from the crowd by accessing the collective knowledge base of cloud experts instead of outsourcing to an average third party which can only provide mediocre service for your business needs. Demand that your online service provider shares a community forum and frequently asked questions page with you to gauge their expertise.
Determine the Type of Cloud
Since clouds differ in type determine the type of cloud which best benefits your organization. Clouds developed open proprietary models will be different than clouds build on open source code. Open source models prevent vendors from locking-in, meaning that you can shift your workload between multiple open cloud vendors or perhaps even run your own open cloud model. Seek out support and service from open source providers to make your life easier.
Demand Reliable Uptime
Customers need information now through your website. Clients might make their buying decision based on engagement through your website. If your site frequently goes down you might lose big business and even go out of business if you are at a critically important stage of growth. Websites which go out during holiday periods like Christmas lose a small fortune and potentially prospering customer relationships which reap tremendous rewards in the future. Research to find out your potential cloud service provider's uptime history. Check out their track record to see how well the provider serviced former and current clients. Gauge how they handle crises like outages, check out their guarantees and observe the frequency of outages to make a firm, confident decision on whether or not you will choose their services. Sign up only with cloud service providers who make service their number one priority.
Research Deployment Models
Think about scale before you choose cloud service providers. Start up businesses might be wooed by just about any provider but dwell on the future growth of your company to get a clearer picture of the perfect match. Ask yourself if the provider can meet your needs after your company has grown at an aggressive rate. Big businesses would rarely place their full data center and workloads on the public cloud. Consider using a cloud service which could provide you with a public cloud for certain workloads and a private cloud for other workloads running in a colocation center.
About the Author:Kelli Cooper is a freelance writer who enjoys blogging about all things tech; if you are looking for a company that will support your business as it grows, Togglebox lets you scale your cloud servers, making it a good choice for your cloud computing needs.
5 Steps for Attending a Temp Agency Interview
Temporary work can improve your resume while providing you with steady cash flow for a sustained period of time. If you want to pursue contract work prepare yourself to successfully complete an interview with your potential temp agency.
Prepare Yourself to Stay Late
Some temporary agencies will send a link to your provided email address for completion at home. Most agencies provide you with an in office test on their computers to ensure that you are proficient in typing and processing information online. Factor in any extra time you might spend to complete these tests in addition to your interview. Since temporary agencies place a heavy emphasis on completing simple processing tasks you might spend more time finishing these tests versus the time you would spend at a corporate job interview.
Be Prompt
Some potential temp workers disqualify themselves from positions by arriving late to their interview. Wake 1 hour earlier than usual if you have an early morning interview. Factor in an extra 45 to 60 minutes to ensure that you arrive early to your temp agency interview. You need only set your alarm earlier to account for heavy traffic or any other inconvenience which would delay you. Be prompt to avoid any of these problems and arrive to your interview on time.
Dress Professionally
Wear a suit or business appropriate dress shirt and skirt to make a positive impression during your interview. You will be a representative of the temporary agency should you get hired. Fitting in at the client company will be important so dress the part to increase the likelihood of being hired. If you cannot afford a suit wear a shirt, tie and dress pants to make a favorable impression. If you expect to be taken seriously you must play the part of a serious employee.
Ask Questions
The skilled interviewee asks questions of the agency to show their interest in the organization. An interviewer wants an inquiring, informed person to work for their agency. Do your homework before showing up for your interview by researching your potential agency online. Ask questions about the organization and the companies they partner with to snag the interviewer's attention and increase your chances of landing a position with the agency.
Get Enough Sleep
Show up to your interview alert and ready to answer any question directed your way by getting enough sleep the night before your special day. Try to get 7 to 8 hour's worth of sleep to look good, feel good and maximize your chances of nailing the interview. Resist the urge to stay up late and please do not party the night before an important interview with a temp agency. Image is everything. Well-rested workers convey a positive self-image and demonstrate their responsibility.
Honesty Is the Best Policy
Tell the truth during your temp agency interview to avoid any problems down the road. With the proliferation of online fact checking services as well as social media websites potential employers can find out about your past. Making false claims to boost your qualifications will catch up to you down the road. Lying is a terrible idea because you will damage your reputation with your temp agency and any future employer who works with the agency. Honestly share your qualifications. If you need to improve your resume take classes or simply patiently add to your skills by working new jobs.
About the Author: Ryan Biddulph can help you find temporary positions in Kansas City and other major job markets.
4 Tips for Choosing the Right Business Vendor
Before praising a vendor as the perfect business partner or giving underperforming suppliers the boot set up a clear and easy to use system for choosing the right vendor. Using metrics helps you objectively assess whether or not you should choose or release a potential business partner. Severe relationships with poor vendors quickly to make room for new, prospering relationships with quality suppliers.
Build a Plan to Evaluate Vendors
Use software applications, system metrics, surveys and forms to rate a vendor. Build an intelligent plan to evaluate vendor performance effectively. Ask employees to rate vendors via software packages and do audits to see who is up to the task. Track customer complaints due to bad vendor service, product returns due to a vendor's inability to meet specifications and list each corrective issue you encountered to gain a better understanding of how vendors can improve their performance and how they stack up against competitors. Build reports running through the purchase point on through the vendor and supplier relationship to pick the right vendor for your needs.
Classify Your Vendors
Applying the same strict standards and surveys for similar vendors can help you organize potential long term partners. Categorize each vendor based on their level of importance to your organization. You can use levels 1, 2 and 3 to gain a better understanding of which vendors you truly need to grow business. Check to see what percentage of vendors handle your overall volume of work. Typically 20% of your vendors handle 80% of vendor business. Trim the fat to streamline your vendor relationships and grow your business.
Set Up Performance Indicators
Decide what characteristics your vendor needs to embody in order to continue your relationship. Track vendor metrics on an annual, quarterly and monthly basis to spot trends which might be helping or hurting your business. Observe the financial stability of the company as well as complaint history, quality management systems, number of certifications and size of the company to determine if you have a good fit between a vendor and your organization. Determine how quickly vendors respond to quote requests, how frequently your business receives a quality product from vendors and the percentage of on-time performance. Does the vendor have a system for handling complaints or products? Check for corrective or preventative protocols to effectively handle crises.
Gauge Your Red Flags
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A PEO serves as a co-employer. While you continue to manage the day-to-day aspects of your business, such as customer service, product development and the like, a PEO takes over the administrative tasks associated with human resources, such as payroll, benefits and worker's compensation.
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There are numerous advantages to outsourcing your human resource functions to an employee services company. First and foremost, it allows you and your staff to focus on the activities that directly contribute to growing revenue. Payroll taxes can be complicated and mistakes can be expensive; and with a PEO, you have the experts handling it. Because the firm serves as a co-employer, much of the liability and risk related to employees is shifted from you to them. Because the PEO handles all human resource functions, companies typically have no need to pay in-house staff, or are able to maintain a very simple infrastructure.
Since PEO firms act as co-employers to hundreds or even thousands of employees, they can offer benefits packages that would normally be out of reach for your company. This co-employer relationship also means that smaller businesses with less than 50 employees, can offer protections and benefits to workers that normally would not apply. While hiring is still ultimately in your hands, the PEO can provide valuable services to help you recruit and maintain quality employees. All of these aspects can give you a competitive edge in hiring.
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Much of the terminology used to describe employee leasing carried over into tasks that are now considered the purview of PEO firms. For this reason, there is often confusion about exactly what these companies do and whether it is similar to employee leasing. These two services are very different, however. Employee leasing involves staffing firms providing workers to a company, either for a specific project or set amount of time. Once the work has been completed, these workers go back to the staffing service for new assignments. PEO firms do not provide employees, they simply manage the ones a company already has.
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Raven McCoy Digs The Violence and Brutality of SAVAGES!!
Hearing announcements about Oliver Stone's upcoming films has never really excited me. While he's put forth some great films like SCARFACE and JFK, others like WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS and ALEXANDER were absolutely boring and NATURAL BORN KILLERS was just plain fucked up. It wasn't SAVAGES came my way that I was genuinely interested in seeing one of his films beforehand. I've always been drawn to films that delve into drug wars. The stories twist and turn with the various factions fighting for control as they use any form of violence and politics to win, all while trying to avoid being caught by the cops. It's dangerous and fascinating to maneuver through such a world and SAVAGES looked like it fit right into that category.
You've got two pot growers, the pacifist Ben (Aaron Johnson) and the hot headed ex-Navy SEAL Chon (Taylor Kitsch), who grow some of the best weed in the world and run a relatively peaceful business. But when a Mexican drug cartel, led by Elena (Salma Hayek), tries to hoard in on their business, they politely decline.
Now no one says no to a Mexican drug cartel so Elena goes after their one weakness, their shared girlfriend O (Blake Lively). Elena's trusted assassin/associate, Lado (Benicio Del Toro), kidnaps O and Chon and Ben do everything they can to get her back.
A lot of the first half of the movie is driven by the love between Ben, Chon and O and their love story is pretty straight forward. These two boys love each other in a bromantical way while they have a shared love for O as their girlfriend. Many of the characters and myself wondered how does all that work without someone getting jealous or how did it even came to be is something? Where did this fierce love for her come from? It's never stated beyond the initial introduction but I would've liked for their relationship to have been more developed so we could understand that dynamic more and care about them. Because even though I felt for Ben and Chon, their love story didn't seem fully realized and it took a backseat to more interesting storylines.
Their love story gets pushed to the background as the power struggle within Elena's cartel begins to take over. Elena struggles to maintain her empire as she's trying to take over Ben and Chon's business but she's also worried about another Mexican competitor known as El Azul. She's also got a weakness that prevents her from acting rationally and the boys exploit that with the help of a crooked DEA agent played by John Travolta. Lado doesn't want to remain under Elena's thumb and tries to make his own moves to become top dog by any means necessary but still covering his tracks so he doesn't get caught. With so much going on in the cartel, this story was so much more tense and exciting than the love story. On top of that the drug cartel had better actors. There's Del Toro who is fantastic, completely losing himself in Lado and coming off as such a ruthless but super chill maniac. Hayek's Elena will fuck a bitch up without a second thought but she also displays a vulnerable side and almost all too easily gives into that vulnerability. Demián Bichir has a small role as one of Elena's representatives but is in one of the film's most memorable and bloody scenes. Travolta is great as the conniving, frantic DEA official who's stuck between a rock and a hard place.
And the violence that comes with the cartel is just brutal! There is plenty of it, as Stone doesn't shy away from showing bloody torture chambers, severed limbs and gory shootouts, most of which comes at the hands of Lado. Even though the violence doesn't reach NATURAL BORN KILLERS level and I can handle a lot of violence and blood, at some points I just had to turn away. With every scene there is the constant threat of violence giving a sense of unpredictability and it all leads to a white-knuckle climax that had me wrecked with anxiety. That is until SAVAGES absolutely ruins itself. The story builds and builds to this tense standoff that had a tragic but beautiful Shakespearean ending that I was more than willing to accept and be at peace with. But then they decided to cop out of it and give a much more conventional ending that was just infuriating to me. With all the brutality and action that I had witnessed throughout the movie, the ending made sense to me. I really enjoyed the movie up until this point. This was the kind of bloody shoot out that I look forward to in these drug movies and then they just absolutely ruined the whole feel of the movie by sticking to some Hollywood convention.
With more and more emphasis being put on the cartel, it became clear that Johnson, Kitsch and Lively couldn't carry the weight of the movie themselves, especially with the other exceptional actors involved. I became more considered with who was going to take over the cartel, if Elena would still be in charge or if Lado was going to try and usurp her or if El Azul was going to get rid of the two them than if Ben and Chon were going to rescue O and give up their business.
Despite being outshined by the veteran actors, Kitsch and Johnson still gave good performances. Johnson was great in KICK-ASS but he's definitely grown as an actor since then. He shows maturity as Ben and is given the chance to develop his character beyond being a hippy, philanthropist. When Ben's brought over into Chon's violent world, he's forced to shed that innocent do-gooder mindset but is pretty shell-shocked by the whole experience. Kitsch hasn't had the greatest roles this year but he plays a one-dimensional angry, violent guy pretty well. Chon is all violence, all the time and Kitsch always has his angry eyes in, a scowl on his face and looks more than comfortable roughing people up. Lively definitely looks the part of a SoCal girl and she wasn't bad as the damsel in distress but she also doesn't do much beyond being locked up and gagged. I also could have done without her narration throughout the movie. Occasionally she is useful provided background details on characters but most of the time she's delivering all these lame, pseudo-enlightening lines like "He doesn't have orgasms. He has wargasms." and contemplating the ways of life. Just stay bound and gagged please.
SAVAGES could've been a real top notch drug war film had they stuck with the original ending, cut out O's narration and developed the love story some more. While I had my issues, it was still an exciting, sexy and gruesome film with some great performances that gave a modern take on the drug world.
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July 6, 2012, 3:56 p.m. CST
by professor murder
End it now!
July 6, 2012, 3:57 p.m. CST
Picture #1 makes me think of:
by professor murder
Bring out the Gimp
July 6, 2012, 3:57 p.m. CST
Picture #2 makes me think of:
by professor murder
Wow, those are nice Selma, and I can't even see them.
July 6, 2012, 4:01 p.m. CST
by 1919
I don't think anything can be done with this genre now that Breaking Bad has done about everything and more.
July 6, 2012, 4:14 p.m. CST
Scarface wasn't a great film
by mr.underwater
And Oliver Stone didn't make it
July 6, 2012, 4:20 p.m. CST
Oliver Stone
by professor murder
He wrote the screenplay from the book. It was basically directed from his translation.
July 6, 2012, 4:50 p.m. CST
It wasn't "UNTIL" SAVAGES ...
by Anthony Torchia
Jesus guys, almost every review on this site has a typo, and usually several I think "until" is what's missing but whatever And Scarface again? It's a De Palma film, I don't think it belongs in the conversation Anyway, I didn't read past the first paragraph and I love Natural Born Killers end of line
July 6, 2012, 4:51 p.m. CST
Scarface was a great film...
by Darth Macchio
...and Oliver Stone wrote it.
July 6, 2012, 4:57 p.m. CST
Do we need 3+ reviews of this fucking thing here?
by TheGangBangTheory
Slow movie week? Anyway, I'm mostly curious how raped the blond Cali girl gets by the greasy Mexican. And they don't even take her tits out? Bah, I'll check it on Netflix for a cheap thrill around the holidays.
July 6, 2012, 5:01 p.m. CST
What's the ETA on the Savages banner ad?
by Garbageman33
Tonight? Tomorrow?
July 6, 2012, 5:20 p.m. CST
I might rent this just to see the infuriating ending.
by Adelai Niska
Reviews are consistent about how shitty the happy ending is. Makes me oddly curious
July 6, 2012, 5:26 p.m. CST
So the ending is like 'Wisdom' then...?
by googamooga
Look it up, infants.
July 6, 2012, 6:40 p.m. CST
by MorganLeafy
Hooray for drunk posting! Hooray for Oliver Stone! World Trade Center! Fuck that shit!!!!!
July 6, 2012, 6:41 p.m. CST
Stone didn't make "Scarface". He wrote it. DePalma made it.
by Kirbymanly
Therefore, this guy's opinion means nothing to me.
July 6, 2012, 6:42 p.m. CST
Natural Born Killers is amazing. I stopped reading your tripe immediately.
by golden tribw
July 6, 2012, 6:52 p.m. CST
Here, here, goldentribe!
by Kirbymanly
One of the best movies of the 90's. I would even dare to put "Nixon" in that same category.
July 6, 2012, 6:58 p.m. CST
I despair
by Baryonyx
This site just gets worse and worse: awful reviews from illiterate people with no real film knowledge.
July 6, 2012, 7:29 p.m. CST
NATURAL BORN KILLERS rocks in so many ways
by brightgeist
maybe it's too much beyond the pale for you? did you also not like FIGHT CLUB? or V FOR VENDETTA? those are the kinds of movies that show people that it's okay to think outside the box. and no, i don't mean to say that it's okay to kill people. those are metaphors, obviously.
July 6, 2012, 7:57 p.m. CST
There's a new Judge Dredd trailer up on Apple....
by D o o d
it looks rubbish!
July 6, 2012, 8:31 p.m. CST
Dug the film. My lingering question is wether or not Chon and Ben are gay for each other or is that brotherly love. Elenea said they loved each other more than they loved O
by rocky
July 6, 2012, 10:08 p.m. CST
Blake Lively has no idea how much she wants to blow me.
by Queefer Sutherland
I wonder if Salma allows guys to titty-fuck her.
July 6, 2012, 10:10 p.m. CST
Offtopic: First Dark Knight Rises review is out!
by Paul Hanlin Jr
July 6, 2012, 10:42 p.m. CST
Of course Salma gets titty fucked...
by ThulsaBoom
...but it's all for her, titties allegedly have a lot of nerve endings.
July 6, 2012, 10:48 p.m. CST
@googamooga, Wisdom. Nice...
by ThulsaBoom
...when it comes to Emilio I'm more of a Repo Man guy, but *SPOILER* the ultimate cop-out of an ending in Wisdom always brings me back to thinking about it. It would never work again, and probably didn't work many times before, but that shit kinda works for Wisdom. Who needs another Bonnie and Clyde? How about, I've just been smoking a stoge in the safety of my own bathtub? It's all good!
July 7, 2012, 12:16 a.m. CST
by Fico
How's it going? Anything new on your end? What are you doing this weekend? Maybe we could get together...who knows, could be fun!!
July 7, 2012, 2:55 a.m. CST
Translation: "It was all O's idea!"
by MARCEL_THE_NEGRO_PROJECTIONIST
July 7, 2012, 3:01 a.m. CST
d o o d
by Baryonyx
That DREDD trailer looks just fine. Megacity 1 doesn't look the way it does in the comic, but I like the way the action is photographed in this trailer.
July 7, 2012, 9:38 a.m. CST
Weakest reviewer on AICN
by cloudyP
There are some really fine reviewers on AICN, but "Raven McCoy"'s stuff is like a junior-high english paper. Come on AICN, at least hire a copy editor. And what's with "With all the brutality and action that I had witnessed throughout the movie, the ending made sense to me. I really enjoyed the movie up until this point." She liked the ending, no, she didn't?? Huh??
July 7, 2012, 1:14 p.m. CST
by Marc Cerasini
So if someone is "thinking out of the box" and blows you up or kicks your head in, it's just a metaphor. Do you even know what a metaphor is?
July 7, 2012, 1:29 p.m. CST
Did Stone also make Conan and Midnight Express?
by mr.underwater
Because I thought they were made by John Milius and Alan Parker respectively. Yes he wrote them, but ask any screenwriter how much that actually has to do with the making of the film.
July 7, 2012, 9:11 p.m. CST
Nice movie, but...
by coosawatchie
where the hell were Mary-Louise Parker and Kevin Nealon? First episode of Weeds I have ever seen without them showing up at all
July 8, 2012, 7:55 a.m. CST
I found it to be pretty weak
by smackfu
Almost every aspect of the film looked good on paper but had almost no impact. I felt very little motivation to care about what happened to these characters, and as a result the villains were less scary, the violence was less disturbing, and the betrayals uninteresting. I found the same with U-Turn, but even though I couldn't care less about Sean Penn's character, it was at least fun to watch him get jerked around by this weird little town. This movie didn't even have that. Just a bunch of people I didn't like in a conflict with some other people I didn't like. At least Del Toro was good for a laugh or two I guess.
July 8, 2012, 10:10 a.m. CST
Stone's Lack of Balls
by Guy Steele
OMG, Did Stone really Scewed-up a great Novel!!! Of all the big serious directors around you would think Stone would be the one to have 'BALLS'! But no he is a EUNUCH here! Go Figure! Sure Del Toro, Travolta and Hayek have grand fun. They are great to watch in action though I would have liked a little more form Demian Bichir, a very fine actor as well. Here he has really one grand scene early on. Now the three leads or ok. The narration wasn't needed and whew, that ending... or endings. Sweet G, why make this movie and let that happen? Part-n-Part of what made Winslow's novel so Hip, Smart, Now and Great, was his unflinching story telling. Sure its Funny, Hip and Cool but its also very Brutal, Cruel and unrelenting and its finish is a real bloody, tear soaked mess of 'Real World' sadness. That Winslow had a hand in the screenplay bothers me, but perhaps his hand was part-in-part to what made those scenes with Del Toro sparkle and hum. I would almost go out on the limb here and say that Del Toro should at least be considered a 'Best Supporting Actor' nod for this. He wouldn't win, but his performance is out-of-the-park. And speaking of out-of-the-park... how about that one weird thing during the terrible ending... that strange visual reference to 'Traffic' and Del Toro, that was strange and slightly unsettling.
July 8, 2012, 4:34 p.m. CST
Fun movie
by Hipshot
Except for the whole "sacrificial negro dying for the white woman" routine. Jeeze, you guys get off on that shit.
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---- — It was Oct. 20, 1947 — two years after World War II ended.
Hemingway had taken back Paris. Patton died in a car accident in Germany. The occupation of Japan kept the U.S. Armed Forces busy in the Pacific Theatre.
In Manhattan, Eddie Stellerman celebrated the end of the war with the beginning of something people couldn't wait for: Loud, sizzling, jazz and blues, sung and played from the guts up.
That is how Paul Prue wants "The Eddie Stellerman Show,'' his new play, to debut Oct. 20 at Archie's Little River Ale House, 27 Lafayette Square.
The show will focus on post-war New York City jazz and music, with performers dressed in period clothing playing music from that era by Benny Goodman, Glen Miller and others.
"It's something that's always been in the back of my mind," Prue said. "I've always liked music from that era. I heard stories about what it was like in New York then, before and during the second world war. So I wanted to bring it all together as something that happened as the guys came home and the country settled down."
Prue is best known in the Merrimack Valley for his two talents — one as a blues musician and the other his business in custom stain-glass restoration. He wrote the one-hour play.
Prue is well known in Haverhill for his musical performances. He has jammed with other musicians and singers in all corners of the city — in Bradford Common, at downtown concerts, in lounges and even at high school class reunions. His musical play will feature appearances by several other well-known Haverhill area musicians.
Diners will hear local musicians and singers — including Elle Gallo, Rick Campbell, Michael Casati, April Anamisis, Hoban Sanford, John Schiavoni and Peter Chase — all introduced by Prue, who will play Eddie Stellerman.
Prue didn't want to say much about the show before it opens, but his email invitation describes the musical as a "play that takes place in a lower Manhattan jazz club called Eddie's." Prue describes the opening scene as the announcer, Eddie Stellerman, walks to the mic: "The house lights go down, and ...."
"The Eddie Stellerman Show'' is a dinner show. Meals will be served is at 5 p.m. The show will start at 6 p.m. Admission is free, as is parking next to the building.
"We have 70 sittings reserved in a room for 150," said Tom Archambault, owner of the ale house, the building that once housed J.P. McBride's.
Prue produced and directed the play with the following cast:
Peter Chase, who has played nationwide with The Waterfront Blues band. He is the front man and harp player for the renowned Still Breathin Band. He runs a blues jam every Tuesday night at Archie's.
Rick Campbell, a master of the electric guitar, who has played in several bands over the years and is working on a new project — a new band with his daughter on bass, which will be playing soon.
Mike Cesati, a saxophonist well-known in New England, with a reputation as one of the best jazz players in the area.
Elle Gallo of Bradford, who sells out local music venues regularly in the Merrimack Valley and on the North Shore. She has opened for Travis Tritt, Blondie, Grace Potter and The Nocturnals. Gallo was named Best Female Vocalist in New England for 2011 by Limelight Magazine.
John Schiavoni, the lead vocalist for the Coupe Deville band, who helps run a blues jam every Tuesday night at the Roma restaurant in Bradford.
Hoban Sanford, the lead singer for many bands going back to the 1950s.
April Anamisis, the youngest member and currently a singer for All Rights Reserved, known for her strong voice and stage presence.