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UPDATE: Traffic disruption after collision in Weymouth
Updated 5:40pm Saturday 14th June 2014 in News
THREE people have been treated for minor injuries after a car went into a lamppost in Weymouth.
It happened on Littlemoor Road, Weymouth, about 4.30pm and the road has been partially blocked.
Police said a silver Toyota Rav 4 registered to a West Yorkshire driver collided with the post near Bincombe Bumps roundabout.
Three people in the vehicle were checked over by paramedics as a precaution but it is not thought anyone has been seriously injured.
Southern Electric has been alerted to the damaged lamppost.
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If the assumers put their energy into moaning about the state of our roads, perhaps a positive outcome would happen
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This particular road is relatively new, no potholes or other obvious defects, I use it myself several times a week, so what 'positive outcome' do you expect to happen?
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The Philippine National Police (PNP) envisions to evolve into a highly-professional, dynamic and motivated organization working in partnership with a responsive community towards the attainment of a safe place to live, work, invest and do business. Therefore, there has never been a better time for you to join the Philippine National Police and be proud to be part of one of the many noble professional organization .
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In order to insure the quality of personnel entering the police service and strengthen the foundation of the police organization, a standard procedure for recruitment and selection of PNP uniformed personnel is hereby established:
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* A citizen of the Philippines;
* A person of good moral conduct;
* Must have passed the psychiatric/psychological, drug and physical tests to be administered by the PNP or by any NAPOLCOM accredited government hospital for the purpose of determining physical and mental health;
* Must possess a formal baccalaureate degree from a recognized institution of learning;
* Must be eligible in accordance with the standards set by NAPOLCOM;
* Must not have been dishonourably discharged from military employment or dismissed for cause from any civilian position in the government;
* Must not be convicted by final judgment of an offense or crime involving moral turpitude;
* Must be at least one meter and sixty-two centimetres (1.62 m) in height for male and one meter and fifty-seven centimetres (1.57 m) for female;
* Must weigh not more or less than five kilograms (5 kgs) from the standard weight corresponding to his or her height, age, and sex; and
* For new applicants, must not be less than twenty-one (21) nor more than thirty (30) years of age: except for the last qualification, the above-enumerated qualifications shall be continuing in character and an absence of any one of them at any given time shall be a ground for separation or retirement from the service: Provided, That PNP members who are already in the service upon the effectivity of RA 8551 shall be given at least two (2) years to obtain the minimum education qualification and one (1) year to satisfy the weight requirement.
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Brooklyn Nets selected Duke forward Mason Plumlee with the 22nd pick in the NBA draft as they worked to acquire Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce from the Celtics.
The 6-foot-10 Plumlee played four seasons for the Blue Devils and improved his scoring average every season, topping out at 17.1 as a senior.
The draft was just a footnote for the Nets on Thursday night. Brooklyn was trying to make a huge trade with Boston. According to a person familiar with the situation, the Nets were attempting to acquire veterans Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Jason Terry for a package of players and draft picks that includes Kris Humphries.
The person confirmed the talks to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the details were to remain private.
AP Basketball Writer Brian Mahoney contributed to this report.
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New Orleans, La. — The Orleans Parish District Attorney will prosecute 20 alleged gang members under the state's racketeering law. It is the kind of case that we normally see in federal court.
The suspects are accused of not hesitating to kill even if small children were in harm's way.
"They don't show any breaks to the people of this community -- we're going to give them no breaks, either," said DA Leon Cannizzaro during a Thursday afternoon news conference in his office.
The suspects named in the 30-count racketeering indictment are allegedly members of the so-called 3NG gang, supposedly named for the intersection of Third and Galvez Streets.
The gang "conspired to distribute illegal narcotics and used violence to gain and maintain control over its area in which it operated," Cannizzaro said of the drug operation.
The investigation into the gang involved the local and federal Multi-Agency Gang Unit, known as MAG.
"It is an understatement to say that this is a dangerous group of people," said New Orleans Police Supt. Ronal Serpas.
Sixteen of the suspects named in the indictment were already in custody, and two others were arrested early Thursday morning. Two others, identified as Kentrell Hickerson and Kevin "Pee Wee" Lynch, remained at large Thursday afternoon.
Serpas said 10 of the 20 indicted men have been arrested for murder in the past. Three of the suspects are allegedly responsible for the murder of two-year old Keira Holmes of New Orleans, and one suspect is linked to the 2010 murder of local rapper Renatta Lowe, known as "Magnolia Shorty."
"Keira Holmes, another baby killed at the ruthless, reckless, cowardly behavior of these gangs," stated Serpas.
Cannizzaro admits that using the racketeering statute makes investigating and prosecuting such cases more difficult. But he said it is necessary to paint a complete picture of the violent crimes the suspects were involved in for a long period of time.
Cannizzaro scoffs at criticism of the approach he is taking in prosecuting the suspects. "If the question is if these are too complicated cases for the public defenders and the courts to handle, I simply say that's too bad because we're coming with these kinds of cases," he said.
"It piles a lot of different charges on a lot of different people," said FOX 8 legal analyst Joe Raspanti of racketeering cases in general.
He said Louisiana's racketeering law is seldom used. "RICO makes it easier for the prosecution to get in evidence that would have been considered hearsay otherwise in a single person trial. So he's showing them that he's going to use the resources, and it isn't just the feds who can do these big groups," said Raspanti.
Clearly some of the accused are middle-aged. "These people aren't for rehabilitation, they've made their choice -- they're criminals," said Serpas.
"And maybe that's been a part of the problem, that's why some of these guys appear so old on this poster... is because maybe they've been skating through this system for far too long," added Cannizzaro.
Tulane University criminologist Peter Scharf said research findings are mixed on whether these kinds of sweeps really put a dent in violence.
"This is not crime penicillin, you know, it really isn't," said Dr. Scharf.
He said oftentimes when members of one gang are taken off the street, other gangs try to move into the area, spawning violence. "When you take out a whole gang group... so it isn't like this vacuum and all crime stops in the neighborhood. What you can have is more feuds among multiple groups fighting for their place on the street corner," he said.
Chief Serpas urged the two suspects who have not been caught to turn themselves in.
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The American Hockey League today announced that Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins forward Steve MacIntyre has been suspended for four (4) games as a consequence of his actions in a game at Springfield on Mar. 11.
MacIntyre will miss Wilkes-Barre/Scranton's games Wednesday (Mar. 14) at Norfolk, Saturday (Mar. 17) vs. Worcester, Sunday (Mar. 18) vs. Binghamton and Mar. 23 vs. Adirondack.
Meanwhile, the teams fighting for eighth place in the Eastern Conference are idle tonight. Here are the teams in the battle to make the playoffs in the East:
7. Manchester 65 points, 13 games remaining
8. Albany 64 points, 15 games remaining
9. Worcester 63 points, 16 games remaining
10. Adirondack 63 points, 15 games remaining
11. Portland 62 points, 15 games remaining
12. Springfield 62 points, 14 games remaining
13. Providence 61 points, 13 games remaining
14. Syracuse 60 points, 15 games remaining
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fresh flowers {anyone know what these are called?}. new coffee table.
watching mad men. i have seen the first 6 episodes & love it.
seeing this little face under my desk.
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A school bus carrying at least five students was involved in a rollover in Hartford Tuesday evening.
The crash was reported in the 100 block of Bloomfield Avenue at about 5 p.m.
No serious injuries were reported in the crash, police said.
Bloomfield Avenue is expected to be closed while police investigate the crash and crews clean up the debris.
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So just a quick update, today we went out to MrBrayne's and ordered our chickens and a couple of ducks. June 11 is our deadline to be ready. Here come a few crazy weeks! Wish us luck!
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Schuyler Mill/Ford Soybean Plant Complex
555-600Michigan Avenue, Saline - Washtenaw County
Property Type
grist mill
Historic Use
INDUSTRY/PROCESSING/EXTRACTION/manufacturing facility
LANDSCAPE/street furniture/object
RECREATION AND CULTURE/outdoor recreation
Current Use
DOMESTIC/single dwelling
LANDSCAPE/street furniture/object
Greek Revival
David Schuyler Haywood
Henry Ford
Significant Person
Henry Ford
Narrative Description
The Schuyler Mill/Ford Soybean Plant Complex is situated in a park-like setting of trees and manicured lawns in Saline. Set upon this expansive lawn is a modern Greek Revival-inspired house built around an 1856 one-room, Greek Revival school building which Ford moved to the site in 1943. Near the small house is an intake for the mill race. The water wheel is gone but the intake and the fieldstone lined race remain unchanged. There are four buildings erected by Henry Ford in the district; a Greek Revival style extractor plant, a pump house, and on the school property, two storage buildings. At the Mill Pond, Ford constructed a dam and spillway and then added a swimming pool to benefit local residents. The oldest and most impressive building on the site is the mill, an imposing Greek Revival style timber -frame, clapboarded, gable-roof building with a three-story main section and a narrower, two-story wing flanked by a smaller, one-story wing at each end. The mill was built in 1845 by David Schuyler Haywood.
Statement of Significance
Since 1845 the Schuyler Mill has been a landmark in the City of Saline and has been associated with Henry Ford since the early 1930s. In 1845 the mill was constructed and work generated at the mill spurred the development of the nearby town of Barnegat. By 1865 business began to decline and the mill was soon closed. In 1938 Henry Ford revitalized the failing farm by establishing one of his Village Industries Program sites at Schuyler Mill. Ford re-opened the mill and established a soybean-extractor plant. In 1943 Ford moved the Hoyt-Sumner school onto the Saline property. Following Ford's death in 1947, the property was sold by his company to private owners and the mill was subsequently changed to the Sauk Trail Inn.
Period of Significance
Significant Date(s)
1845, 1938, 1943, 1947
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Harold Ramis chats with Capone about YEAR ONE, the Dalai Lama, and those pesky GHOSTBUSTERS III casting rumors!!!
Hey folks. Capone in Chicago here.
This has been a really good week for me. As you know, I'll drop the name of my fair city pretty much anywhere I can, but I especially like to do so when I'm talking about either a film that was shot in large part in Chicago (thank you DARK KNIGHT) or a filmmaker who is a native. This week, I got to interview two of my all-time-favorite Chicago-born directors. I'll have my talk with Michael Mann for you closer to PUBLIC ENEMIES July 1 release date. But I also spoke with Harold Ramis, a National Lampoon, Second City, SCTV alum who went on to be one of the most successful writers and directors of comedy the world has ever known. His films as writer and/or director and/or actor include (stand back, this might get big) ANIMAL HOUSE, CADDYSHACK, STRIPES, MEATBALLS, GHOSTBUSTERS I & II, VACATION, CLUB PARADISE, BACK TO SCHOOL, GROUNDHOG DAY, ANALYZE THIS/THAT, STUART SAVES HIS FAMILY, MULTIPLICITY, and the wrongfully overlooked THE ICE HARVEST. If you had only half of these films on your résumé, you'd have something to brag about.
His influence can be felt quite deeply on the current crop of Apatow and Apatow-like movies dominating the comedy film scene; it's no coincidence that Apatow cast Ramis as Seth Rogen's father in KNOCKED UP. Ramis is capable of writing a scene about oil wrestling with the same passion and conviction that he constructs a film that honors the Buddhist belief in reincarnation.
Somehow in the 11-plus years I've been writing for AICN, I've never met Harold Ramis. I've sat in the same room with him on more than one occasion, usually at a lecture for film students. Sample advise: "Identify the most talented person in your class; if it's not you, go stand next to the person it is." Sound words of wisdom from the man whose latest film as director and co-writer is YEAR ONE, starring Jack Black and Michael Cera, along with a veritable who's who of great comic actors. I'll give you thoughts on the film later today, but for now, even those of you who can't stand the film, I think will be thoroughly entertained by Ramis, the great and generous conversationalist. He began right off the bat by telling me that he digs AICN and that one of our writers (I'm guessing it was the late Moriarty) came to visit the set during shooting last year. Ramis has just delivered this shocking bit of news when I finally got my recorder running.
Capone:…Is that true? I didn't know that.
Harold Ramis: They came to the set. Yeah, I forgot who came. I can't remember his name, but I'll tell you my Ain't It Cool story.
Capone: Okay.
HR: I met--I forget, what's his name?
Capone: Do you know Harry?
HR: I had met Harry at the Austin Film Festival. He's a trip. It was like when I met Larry Flynt--wheel chair moguls.
Capone: [laughs] Yes, just like that.
HR: Yeah, anyway, so…Someone came to the set--I wish I could remember his name, it's disrespectful not to remember…
Capone: There's only a couple of choices, so…But, unfortunately, we all kind of look the same, so you couldn't describe him to me.
HR: Yeah
Capone: Well, knowing his relationship with Judd Apatow [producer on YEAR ONE] it was probably Drew.
HR: Last name?
Capone: McWeeny. He wrote under the name Moriarty
HR: He was a big guy.
Capone: That doesn't really narrow it. It was probably Drew.
HR: He came to Santa Fe. Really nice guy. Big fan.
Capone: Yeah, that's probably Drew.
HR: I had the habit, during production, the editors would send me back cut footage within a few days of shooting a big sequence. And, I had big blocks of cut footage, and he happened to be on the set when I got a DVD with the last 20 minutes of the movie, roughly cut together.
And, I always used it to kind of keep the cast enthusiastic. I would say, "Hey, guys, you want to see some cut footage?" "Yeah!" And, everyone would gather around the monitor, cast and crew. So, I forgot he was sitting there, and I showed, like, 20 minutes of the movie, while we were still shooting it. And, I thought, "Fuck, Ain't It Cool is here." And, I turned to him, and I said, "Omigod, what the hell am I doing?" I said, "You may not write about this," you know. He said, "Don't worry. I won't, and I love it." He said, "I think it's incredibly good." And, he didn't write about it. But, he wrote a really favorable, nice thing about me. I think we had Internet spies a couple of times. I think we were reviewed twice, or maybe even three times, on Ain't It Cool at different times during the tuning up period of the film. I think two of them were good, and the one in the middle was not.
Capone: Speaking of the end of the film, I thought I knew what my lead-off question was going to be, but then, after seeing YEAR ONE, I wanted to ask about the two songs that you have in the end credits…
HR: I can't even tell you the names of those songs…Oh, "Message in a…"?
Capone: "Message in a Box." I know them. They're on my iPod. I know and love those songs. That was the second song, by World Party. And, then, Cracker, "I See the Light." I was really hoping you had picked those songs, because I wanted to pick your brain about why you chose those two. "I See the Light" actually seems most appropriate to the story, because it's really about going for this sort of transcendental moment or spiritual moment in your life, and then, actually the light at the end of the tunnel is a train coming right at you. That's what the song's about, so that seemed fitting. I just love both of those songs, so…
HR: Yeah, well, here's the thing…You try to go out on something that will characterize the movie and have a good feeling. And, people's taste in music is even more diverse than their taste in films, right? So, you ask 20 people for their ideas for what would be a great ending song, and you get everything, you know. I mean, it's so wide.
So, I was, like, trying Bob Marley in there, I was trying Traveling Wilburys--"It's Alright," you know, some feel-good songs.
Capone: What's that…"End of the Line," that song?
HR: "End of the Line," yeah, yeah.
Capone: Yeah, that's the one.
HR: And, I've been trying to use [Bob Marley's] "Coming in from the Cold" on every movie I've ever made, I think. But, in the end, because I don't listen to contemporary music and have not for decades, literally decades, I usually delegate some younger people to start making lists, and then we just listen to songs, one after another.
Capone: Those songs are 15, 20 years old, so it makes me feel much older than I usually do.
HR: They pretty much came from the Judd camp, though, I think.
Capone: Okay, okay. They're great songs. I mean, I just kind of wondered if they were inspired choices, or you just sort of said, "Eh, that sounds good."
HR: They inspired somebody--I'll put it that way--and they sounded good.
Capone: We've actually been in the same room before. I've just never been able to sit down and talk before. I saw you do the Q&A after THE ICE HARVEST screening at Columbia a couple of years back, and you kind of had the germ of the idea for this film. I remember you talked about it in very loose terms. Where did this idea start? Where did you kind of get this--other than the bible?
HR: Yeah, well, so, so long ago, I mean, when I look at the whole gestalt of it now, you know, I can go back to probably things I don't even remember from my childhood. I'm sure Abbott & Costello did something in the ancient world or Roman soldiers somewhere, I don't know. But, the first really memorable thing to me is Mel Brooks' THE 2000 YEAR OLD MAN. My college roommates and I memorized every word of it. And, to this day, if someone…if I hear a certain phrase or word, you know, the whole Mel Brooks routine will come back to me. I did a pilot for Paul Reiser that he wrote and produced, and Paul, same thing, loved Mel Brooks. We would just trade 2000 YEAR OLD MAN stuff. So, that was it--someone with a contemporary consciousness talking about the ancient world. Funny.
And, then, I did an improv with…We were putting a National Lampoon show up in New York--Bill Murray, John Belushi, Brian Murray, me, Joe Flaherty, and Gilda Radner. And, we worked through improv, we just brought our Second City style to the Lampoon. And, I'd been watching a documentary about CroMagnon and Neanderthal, and I didn't realize that they coexisted on the planet. So, I imagined a meeting between CroMagnon and Neanderthal, with Bill playing CroMagnon and John playing Neanderthal. It seemed like a natural, you know? And, Bill played him like a contemporary street hipster, and it was very funny.
I filed that away. We never got a scene out of it, but I filed it away, and then came LIFE OF BRIAN, HOLY GRAIL--just doing comedy in a convincing historical period, they really went out of their way to give it a convincing feeling--something Hollywood movies didn't have, you know?
Capone: It does feel like a Mel Brooks movie that Mel never made. It does have that quality to it, which is very different than what you've done before. It's more of just the traveling guys. It reminded me a little bit of HISTORY OF THE WORLD and sort of going from place to place.
HR: Yeah, HISTORY OF THE WORLD didn't have continuity, though..
Capone: True enough.
HR: It was a sketch movie, and we were dealing with the fact that the Old Testament is episodic by nature. So, by conflating the time span of Genesis, I was able to actually turn it into a road trip.
But, there's the picaresque novel as a model for that kind of journey. I thought, rereading Genesis, it's one epic journey after another, because people were in movement, crossing throughout the Near East and the Middle East at that time. So, it seemed appropriate to the literary basis of it, the book of Genesis, and to the actual anthropology and history of it.
So, I wasn't thinking of anyone's movies in particular, but I looked at every movie for a style, for a tone. I looked for lighting. I mean, I looked at every Cecil B. DeMille movie and went and looked at Pasolini's THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW, just everything, John Huston's movie THE BIBLE. So, just want to see what's out there, you know, what are we doing. And, in the end, I thought, alright, we're going to make it look like an illustrated children's bible.
Capone: You've cleverly put some very interesting little messages in the film. I actually wrote them down, because they kind of threw me. Right at the beginning, Michael Cera says, "It's not about the fruit. It's about doing what you're told." I mean, that's religion, and then there's talk about maybe God doesn't exist, and there's the big speech at the end--maybe you don't need to follow anybody, maybe you should think for yourself. I mean, these are kind of heavy-duty issues that you've tucked away in this film.
HR: Yeah. Well, in fact, it's why I made the film.
Capone: I remember you talking about that aspect to it back at Columbia a couple of years back.
HR: My rule of thumb--and I may be wrong--is that we can be funny about anything, I mean, any subject, any period, any place, any person, any situation. And, you can find people who will give you a good…a funny script about it, and the right actors will create enough shtick and physical business, you'll laugh. So, the real burden I feel as a filmmaker is, Why am I doing this? That becomes the big question.
I'm done just kind of, forgive me, jerking myself off by pleasing other people. [laughs] I've had the rewards, you know. I kind of knew what it all was by the time we had finished GHOSTBUSTERS. Well, alright, this is what that is, you know. This is what big fame and big success and big money feel like. Alright, so I'm still miserable, so what now? [laughs] And, then, I made a film everyone responded to spiritually, you know, GROUNDHOG DAY. Alright, now I've got another kind of respect, you know--psychiatrists, Buddhists, the religious people. It was so embraced by the thinking audience that…Alright, now I've got that. Now, they think I'm real smart, okay. So, I have money, I'm smart, I got laid, I'm famous. Alright, now what? So, for me to do a movie now, I have to find something I actually believe in passionately enough to sustain me for a few years. I started this in '05.
Capone: A friend of mine who is a long-time practicing Buddhist gave me a copy of Shambhala Sun. What a great piece. I learned a lot about you, about other things. I was not aware--maybe because I was just too young when GROUNDHOG DAY came out--that the spiritual community had embraced that film until many years later.
HR: So totally, I mean, it was amazing. But that Shambhala Sun piece, I have to say, it proves to me that even Buddhists are capable of hype. There's Buddhist hype in that thing. [laughs]
Capone: Yeah. Well, in CADDYSHACK, when Bill Murray says that he caddied for the Dalai Lama, did you ever realize so many years later you'd be sponsoring a visit of his to Chicago?
HR: Well, it was so funny, my wife…as a 50th birthday present, my wife said, "This year, I want to meet the Dalai Lama." So, she pursued it--a present to herself. We connected with some people who said, "Oh, we can make that happen." So, we went to Washington, and we did have a private audience. We saw him at a big public gathering where he spoke. And, then, we saw him at a smaller benefit dinner.
But the Buddhists started saying to me that they all loved GROUNDHOG DAY, because of its spirituality. But, they all started saying, "And, what's this CADDYSHACK thing? His Holiness doesn't play golf." I said, " I…I…I know, I know he's not a golfer, but…that was just an idea we had."
Capone: Has the Dalai Lama seen GROUNDHOG DAY, do you know?
HR: Sounds crazy…The morning after his Grant Park talk here, my wife said, "Get up. We're taking the Dalai Lama to the airport," which really meant that the friends of ours were going to see him off, the people who really sponsored the event. And, they were inviting us down to the Palmer House to come up to the suite and say 'goodbye' to him. And then, they said, "Do you want to ride to the airport in the motorcade?" He had a Secret Service motorcade. So, we rode with his translator, who we'd seen every time the Dalai Lama spoke, he speaks for the Dalai Lama. He is himself a trained Buddhist monk, but Oxford educated. And, I said, "So, does the Dalai Lama see movies?" And, he said, "Oh, yeah. I love movies." And, he was a fan of GROUNDHOG DAY. And, he said, "His Holiness enjoys movies, but he prefers nature films." He said the last film he saw was MARCH OF THE PENGUINS. That's very sweet, picturing the Dalai Lama looking at nature.
Capone: So, you've sort of now with this film become, I think, fully incorporated into the sort of Apatow group of players and filmmakers. But, clearly, his career owes a lot to the path that you paved. Has he ever mentioned that to you?
HR: That's how we came together, I mean, his acknowledgement of that got my attention in all his interviews and stuff, as he came to prominence. And, I thought, Well, that's so nice. The guy's mentioning me specifically in big interviews. Then we met at a film festival in France, the Deauville, and, we bonded. He went out of his way to be nice to me, and then hired me to play Seth's [Rogen] dad, and I was developing this. And, after we had a draft, I thought, Well, it's crazy not to make this alliance. Judd can bring me back. It's not like I'd left the business; I can still get projects going virtually whenever I want to, someone will buy my stuff. Comedy always happens in groups, you know. It's a group experience, and I didn't have a group anymore. I'm not at Second City or Upright Citizens Brigade or the Groundlings or SNL.
And, Judd is in that world. He's totally wired into it. He's one of the hubs in that world. So, I thought…And, he had tremendous credibility with the studios. I thought, Well, this is an alliance that will be so beneficial to me. And, in a way--I swear--I became his student. I mean, he's doing something so right. And, he has powerful gifts of character--determination and courage, and clarity. He's less fearful than I am and more energetic. I kind of drafted off him in a big way.
Capone: That was another question I had, about working in groups. You have done that over the years. Are there any pitfalls to that? Or, do you think that the benefits outweigh whatever the pitfalls may be in working with a lot of the same people from film to film.
HR: Well, for me, there are two models. Woody Allen is the comedy auteur. He can go up and write a script by himself--he collaborates sometimes, but we know he's fully capable of generating a beautiful screenplay that is actually a work of literature. He's a brilliant filmmaker. He surrounds himself with the best designers and cinematographers, and his films are…they're artful. Some of them don't work, but, for the most part, when we look back at that body of work, I think, he's a genius, he's a master.
Capone: Oh, sure. I'm going to see his new film [WHATEVER WORKS] right after I leave here.
HR: Yeah, and I'll love it, I know I'll love it. And then, there's the rest of us, who do…For us, comedy is hanging around with a bunch of goons and trying to make each other laugh, and people getting loaded on whatever, and watching TV until something strikes us as really funny. That's how comedy gets written, funny people sitting around together. That's not Woody's experience, although he did it to some extent, very young, I guess, on "Your Show of Shows." But, most people now have grown up "in the room," either in an improv club or on a TV staff, writing staff, sitting around in a room being funny with other people.
Capone: Speaking of writing with other people, your cowriters on this film obviously have a script--that other people are talking about as well--for GHOSTBUSTERS III. Where is that now? Do you know about where that is?
HR: Yeah, we wrote a story together. We hammered out the story together. I've been their supervisor. Ivan Reitman and Dan Aykroyd consult. The studio has approved the story, and they're writing the script in their hiatus from "The Office."
Capone: They're still writing, okay. So, we've been hearing all sorts of wild casting rumors about younger…
HR: No, none of that's real. There will be young ghostbusters, but no specific casting is real, and no director is committed.
Capone: And, for the four main cast members…
HR: Everyone said they'd be in it.
Capone: Okay, it's strictly a verbal thing at this point?
HR: Yeah, because there's no…The studio does not want to commit to us at this point. It's very…When everyone says 'yes' that will trigger a very expensive deal for the powers that be.
Capone: Right. It's interesting that this week, the BluRay of the first film and the video game are hitting, so for a lot of younger people the first time they are exposed to this material. Is that sort of terrifying and exciting?
HR: Well, I gotta say, parents go out of their way to show their kids GHOSTBUSTERS as soon as they're old enough to watch it, seven, eight years old. I hear this anecdotally everywhere I go: "I just showed my kid GHOSTBUSTERS." Or, the parents will say, "That's him! That's Egon from the movie you saw." And, the kids will look at me and go, "No." [laughs] And, I have to tell the kid, "Look, come on, kid, I gained 50 pounds. What's the problem?"
Capone: I'm sure you've commented on this before, but I've never read it. What did you think of Michel Gondry's 'sweding' of GHOSTBUSTERS [in BE KIND REWIND]?
HR: [laughs] I just saw a little bit of that, well, because…it's funny, Jack [Black] was in that movie [BE KIND REWIND]
Capone: That's right. I was going to ask you if Jack had brought that up.
HR: I didn't watch the whole movie. I like his work, but I haven't seen the whole show.
Capone: But, have you seen that segment of it?
HR: Parts of it, with them running around in their aluminum foil suits.
Capone: Is YEAR ONE only the second time that you've worked on a period film, outside of ANIMAL HOUSE?
HR: I didn't direct ANIMAL HOUSE.
Capone: Right, but I mean in terms of just any film that you were involved with.
HR: There was a period segment in BEDAZZLED. Brendan Fraser wishes to be president of the United States, and the devil makes him Abe Lincoln on the last night at the play at the Ford Theater. And, that was fun, re-creating that. That was great.
Capone: It just struck me as I was watching YEAR ONE that you always seem to work in the here and now.
HR: Yeah. No, I don't think I've done any period film.
Capone: It looks like they're cutting us off. Thank you so much for talking to us.
HR: Nice to talk to you, take care.
-- Capone
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June 19, 2009, 7:09 a.m. CST
Thought Ramis would be hiding......
by Aloy
...with the reviews he's had so far on this turkey. Bet it makes bucks though...
June 19, 2009, 7:19 a.m. CST
Please no "Tits Out For Attention Girl" tomorrow!
by NeilF
June 19, 2009, 7:24 a.m. CST
Ramis, stop slumming an break out..
by colinjbooth
..of your creative prison. What happened to the Groundhog Day dude, dude? I love cera /Black, so will deffo watch Y1, but by the hammer of Thor you'd better bring meat to the GBIII table!
June 19, 2009, 7:29 a.m. CST
This trailer made me laugh...
by DoctorWho?
Had no idea ramis was involved. Book my ticket now.
June 19, 2009, 7:33 a.m. CST
Please no 'NeilF' whining about Script Girl...
by duct tape wallet
oops, too late. Sod.
June 19, 2009, 7:33 a.m. CST
Everyone is in it??
by Dharma4
Wait, do you know if RICK MORANIS is coming out of retirement to be in it? That dude has been picky about coming out of retirement...
June 19, 2009, 7:33 a.m. CST
by Marxeffect
Fuck off cunt! I like seeing boobies, go rim your boyfriend!!
June 19, 2009, 7:41 a.m. CST
by ScottinDC
June 19, 2009, 7:45 a.m. CST
Ooops...reply to Dharma
by ScottinDC
Yes - Rick Moranis has said he'd be interested (despite the rumors he wasn't). The main leads (including Ernie Hudson) are all interested...the only person who TRULY hasn't responded yet is Sigourney Weaver and that's likely because the script isn't done so she'd have to know there was a part for her. But as for Rick Moranis (and Annie Potts)...both have publicly said recently that they'd do a third if the script was good and the whole cast was back. All rumors about Rick Moranis refusing due to 'retirement' are entirely baseless. Rick Moranis did a voice for the movie Brother Bear in 2003 and 2006...Rick did pass on doing the video game; and that provided a whole lot of the ammo about him passing on the movie (but he has said the movie's a possibility). Brutha gotta eat!
June 19, 2009, 7:47 a.m. CST
If you're told to think for yourself...
by GaiustheBrave
are you still thinking for yourself?
June 19, 2009, 7:48 a.m. CST
Cera plays the exact same character
by GaiustheBrave
in every movie! I'll wait for the TBS showing in a couple of months.
June 19, 2009, 7:57 a.m. CST
by rfid
"Sound words of wisdom whose latest film as director and co-writer is YEAR ONE,"<br /><br /> Um...what?
June 19, 2009, 8:06 a.m. CST
Capone, what was his tone when
by Ogmios_the_Eloquent
he told you that he didn't direct animal house? Was he insulted or playful?
June 19, 2009, 8:07 a.m. CST
"It was like when I met Larry flynt...."
by Verbage
"wheelchair moguls" <p> That's hilarious. That might be the most honest description of meeting Harry by any of these celebrities so far.
June 19, 2009, 8:11 a.m. CST
The trick to not seeing Script Girl
by Lemure_v2
is to not click on the link. If you do not click on the link you do not have to see Script Girl. Personally, I turn the sound off and enjoy.
June 19, 2009, 8:14 a.m. CST
" Parts of it, with them running around in their aluminum foil s
by Paulseta
Parts of it must be one of the most evasive and disingenuous answers ever given in an interview. Bravo for not pursuing it.<P> Oh, and if Sony must have a deal with Murray now that at the very least is Play Or Pay... because the original cast deal (which no doubt is what is required to approve what will be a huge budget) will require that Sony have this in the pocket before forking out 100-150 million before prints and advertising.<P> And the cast, for what it is worth, need a hit. Year One is DOA, (have you read the review? Jesus wept - or in the case of the funny in Year One - Jesus Farted), Murray is off in "Let Me Prove I am a REAL Actor" land (always very very sad, as being funny is way harder than acting dramatically) and Acky is...well, fat and shit, frankly.<P> If GBIII is any better than GBII and somewhat better than any of the Star Wars prequels, I will be happy, but by God it's going to be hard to capture that fantastic throwaway sardonic wit and amazing love of New York.<P> One other thing that no-one ever mentions EVER which drives me nuts... <P> Elmer's score the first film MADE THE FILM. It's gold, and if whomever makes III doesn't get the rights, they're a fool pissing money away. Try asking a few real people what they loved and get beyond the Huey Lewis ripoff (albiet a good one) in the title track, and I'll bet lots of people remember the music as being great.<P> Unlike the screaming abortion that needed a shotgun to the head of the second one.
June 19, 2009, 8:14 a.m. CST
Cera plays the exact same character
by TheExterminator
in every movie! waaah
June 19, 2009, 8:15 a.m. CST
NeilF and wampa are the
by TheExterminator
biggest tools on this site...even first douches are less annoying than them
June 19, 2009, 8:20 a.m. CST
Jack Black
by FUCK_YOU_GEORGE_LUCAS
Will be in Ghostbusters 3. Mark my words and I'm fine with that.
June 19, 2009, 8:23 a.m. CST
by Juggernaut125
great point about the score. I picked up the GB video game this week, and instantly remarked to myself how the music in it, even more than the cast voices truly puts me in the world of ghost busting.
June 19, 2009, 8:26 a.m. CST
Late moriarty?
by Lucidz
I guess I don't read the site enough, what happened to moriarty?
June 19, 2009, 8:30 a.m. CST
by Verbage
Moriarty died in a tragic accident. He was at home trying to suck his own dick, and his neck snapped, and he died instantly.
June 19, 2009, 8:50 a.m. CST
Yeah, yeah, yeah whatfuckingever.
by alucardvsdracula
Ghostbusters 3 sounds great until you stop and think about it for a second. All the original cast are too fucking old and rich to give a shit. They'll turn up for their cameos, read some shitty lines, get paid shit loads then fuck off and let some teenage cocksucking shit stabbers hog the movie. Count me the fuck out of this abortion of an idea.
June 19, 2009, 8:51 a.m. CST
by alucardvsdracula
Yeah, I tried that. Hurt like fuck. But well worth it for a mouthful of your own pure juice.
June 19, 2009, 8:53 a.m. CST
No disrespect meant by this, but I'm curious: are there
by CreasyBear
any Jewish people in Hollywood that are actually Jewish, as far as their beliefs? Or is it just a bunch of people with Jewish last names who are actually atheists, Buddhists, whatever?
June 19, 2009, 8:53 a.m. CST
by NeilF
...sorry your dad is busy...
June 19, 2009, 9 a.m. CST
Ghostbusters 3....I'm hopeful for it.
by Hint_of_Smegma
If they do indeed get all the originals back, all they need to do is follow the lessons from the first movie and from, believe it or not, the game that just got released - fuck me, it's perfect. Same score, same feel, same humour, wonderful stuff that really takes me back to being a teen in that theatre watching GB's for the first time. Fucking amazing. They've proved with the game that the feel can be captured again - they just need to really work on a good script and not pull a Kingdom of the Craptacular Skull a la Lucas and Spielberg. Difference is, I have a feeling Ramis, Ackroyd, Moranis, Potts, Hudson and even Murray actually give a crap about making it good. So out of all the remakes/sequels on their way, Ghostbusters is the ONE I really reckon is going to delight us all.
June 19, 2009, 9:20 a.m. CST
If you only had half of the films on your résumé, you'd have som
by Harry Weinstein
If only RAMIS only had half of those films on his resume...
June 19, 2009, 9:22 a.m. CST
by Marxeffect
Im sorry I understated your genius for a fully iridescent response - I should have known better
June 19, 2009, 9:35 a.m. CST
I just watched his Bedazzled last night
by David Cloverfield
That's a pretty good movie. color me surprised
June 19, 2009, 9:41 a.m. CST
Marxeffect - Thanks!
by NeilF
...I must admit I had trouble matching up to your epic insult. Suggesting I was homosexual... By God! The sheer genuis of it! How did you come up with that?<br> <br> But then you do appreciate Tits Out For Attention Girl, so maybe it's not quite so surprising after all...
June 19, 2009, 9:42 a.m. CST
FUCK_YOU_GEORGE_LUCAS - Jack Black...
by NeilF
...now that could actually be a good idea :)
June 19, 2009, 9:45 a.m. CST
Two in the box!<br><br>Ready to go!
by Nasty In The Pasty
We be fast and<BR><BR>THEY BE SLOW!
June 19, 2009, 9:49 a.m. CST
Go fuck yourself, Exterrminator
by GaiustheBrave
Find the dildo you were shoving up your ass last night while your boyfriend and dad gave you double-head and use that one, you stupid, pasty, limp-dick fuck.
June 19, 2009, 9:52 a.m. CST
by Marxeffect
It's spelt 'genius'
June 19, 2009, 10:03 a.m. CST
Please don't let Jack Black in GB3, Mr. Ramis.
by JuanSanchez
June 19, 2009, 10:20 a.m. CST
Seems like a really sweet, smart guy. Shame Year 1's
by Mr Nicholas
supposedly not so hot.
June 19, 2009, 10:50 a.m. CST
Will we ever get Multiplicity 2?
by The_Ritty
I don't care what ANYONE says next Eddie Murphy's Nutty Professor perfomances I've never seena better comedic performance (only difference being Keaton had no makeup)... Brilliant (even if it wasn't the best comedy of all time, brilliant job by Keaton [as always])
June 19, 2009, 10:57 a.m. CST
Multiplicity was good
by ballyhoo
But I think a sequel would be a mistake.
June 19, 2009, 11:03 a.m. CST
The problem I had with Multiplicity
by skimn
was that the personality clones were SO overboard. The effeminate sensitive clone, the retarded buffoon, the macho macho guy...Granted Keaton played off himself very well. A technical stunt that must have been difficult, even moreso than Murphy's multi-characters.
June 19, 2009, 11:12 a.m. CST
by Harold-Sherbort
I think that was the point.
June 19, 2009, 11:44 a.m. CST
GB3, please no...
by Logan_1973
It's going to be right on par with Indy 4. You just can't go home again...
June 19, 2009, 11:44 a.m. CST
"There will be young Ghostbusters"...
by moonlightdrive
Dear oh dear. What a monumental pity.
June 19, 2009, 11:48 a.m. CST
Dude! This site is for fatties!!
by JacksonsPole
Now I get it. I should've guessed by Harry's obscene fatness. But, this all makes sense now! You have to be a fat, ugly bastard to agree with the dumb opinions on this site! All the writers are fat. It all makes sense now. No wonder I never agree with any of you...
June 19, 2009, 12:21 p.m. CST
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
I swear to fucking God, all kidding aside, I was going to check out Year One this weekend. It was going to be the first comedy I've seen in the theater in a long time. But after that "I became his student" comment....no fucking way. <p>Not to try to sound like a badass or promote my Apatow hatred or any of that shit. That just really put a bad taste in my mouth. I'll wait for this thing to hit cable.
June 19, 2009, 12:31 p.m. CST
No Jack Black pleeeeeeeeeease
by Rufferto
No Will Ferrel. No Shia lebeouf nobody from the last 10 years of SNL and no Ben Stiller. And please if you have to have a young ghostbuster just make it Oscar. They were never really that young to begin with.
June 19, 2009, 12:33 p.m. CST
I can always dream anyway .......
by Rufferto
June 19, 2009, 12:34 p.m. CST
It'll happen no matter how badly you don't
by Rufferto
want it to. :/
June 19, 2009, 12:36 p.m. CST
And Year One looks as funny as Dudley Moore's
by skimn
Wholly Moses! Beware of films with exclamation marks.<p>Will this become a future drinking game..take a drink every time Black does some business with his eyebrows?
June 19, 2009, 12:43 p.m. CST
gaius has cocks on the brain
by TheExterminator
oh you big homo chill out haha
June 19, 2009, 1:01 p.m. CST
Dali Lama says, "Year One Blows!"
by mistergreen
June 19, 2009, 2:41 p.m. CST
"Everyone said they'd be in it."
by Dr. Egon Spengler
Knowing that those six words came from Ramis's mouth himself made me wet the front of my shorts...a little.
June 19, 2009, 2:50 p.m. CST
great stuff
by Beniffer
Year one looks ok .. but I love this guy .. too good
June 19, 2009, 3:43 p.m. CST
"That's Egon from the movie you saw!"
by mraig
"No." <P> "Look, come on, kid, I gained fifty pounds. What's the problem?" <P> Just fifty more and you could be a writer for Ain't It Cool News!
June 19, 2009, 3:52 p.m. CST
Cast for new ghostbusters movie.
by mraig
I'm not going to comment on what the cast SHOULD be, but here's what it will be: <P> Jack Black and Ben Affleck just will be in it. They just will. <P> There will be one young cute girl Ghostbuster and one trendy non-threatening black guy Ghostbuster. Let's just say Megan Fox and Mos Def, with a margin of error of Jessica Biel and Wyatt Senack from the Daily Show. <P> Bill Murray's name will be at the top of the poster, his picture will be the biggest on the poster, he will get paid the most of any actor in the thing, and he will have less than 30 minutes screentime. <P> The CGI ghosts will be very expensive, but look worse than in the old movies. <P> There will be a joke involving the Ectomobile being a brand of car that will be product-placed in the movie. TV will be saturated with commercials from that car company. <P> The big villain will be a very famous actor camping it up. <P> There will be lots of ghost farting jokes.
June 19, 2009, 4:39 p.m. CST
we want the ORIGINALS!!!!!
by BillyMayesHere
... WE DON'T NEED A BATON PASSED! fuck.
June 19, 2009, 5:40 p.m. CST
I agree with focus on the original Ghostbusters
by theyreflockingthisway
I just love the original the Ghostbusters - they work so well as a comedic trio. I'm not discounting Winston here, he's a great character too, but the original three really have a great chemistry to them. <br><br> You can never pass the torch to new Ghostbusters. If it's not Peter, Ray and Egon I don't think anyone will want to know. I mean you could "pass the torch" in the third movie and people may accept it if it has the original Ghostbusters in too but why pass the torch unless you want to make more seqels? When those sequels come, and the old guys have retired, no one will care for them. I'm a huge fan of Ghostbusters and I really find it hard to get excited about a seqel without Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis. <br><br> I've said this before but if you want to have a new ghostbusting team I'd like to see a rival business taking on the originals. Training new recruits? We saw that in the original film with Winston, the sequel (well sort of with Louis) and now in the Ghostbusters game. I don't think I could take it again!
June 19, 2009, 5:44 p.m. CST
ScottinDC re Moranis
by myspoonistoobig
You are incorrect about Rick Moranis. Unless you can provide a link to an interview in which Rick Moranis is either mentioned by name by someone being interviewed or Rick himself is interviewed, I am pretty sure this is not true. Proton Charging, one of the web's foremost Ghostbusters authorities, interviewed him several years back and he stated flatly that he didn't have any interest in making a third one should it ever happen because the 2nd one was so unsatisfying. Admittedly, this interview is very old -- the game wasn't announced and the movie looked like it would never happen anyway -- but I doubt his sentiments have changed. Most of the recent press about Moranis potentially being in the movie can be attributed to an Entertainment Weekly article with Ramis where Ramis says "everyone will be back" and the interviewer/article writer INTERPRETS that to mean Moranis, but Ramis does not use Moranis' name nor is Moranis interviewed. If Ghostbusters III happens, don't expect Rick Moranis to be in it.
June 19, 2009, 5:47 p.m. CST
ScottinDC re Moranis PS
by myspoonistoobig
I mean, there's this 2009 animated TV show "Bob & Doug" about the Strange Brew characters: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430652/fullcredits#cast and Moranis isn't involved with that either, even though Dave Thomas is. Dave Coulier is doing the Moranis character.
June 19, 2009, 5:57 p.m. CST
by HaterofCrap
what a stinker this one looks to be...even ebert hates it, and he's so happy to be alive he loves almost everything.
June 19, 2009, 10:55 p.m. CST
by cookepuss
I laughed my ass off at your post. Not because it was stupid, but because - in the wrong hands - you'd probably be 100% right. That's pretty much the state of these things nowadays. So sad and true that its funny. =)
June 19, 2009, 10:57 p.m. CST
The PS3 game is so damn funny
by cookepuss
I'm about an hour and a half into it and the writing and voice acting are spot on. The game itself is just really fun. I've heard that it's short, but I'm gonna enjoy every minute.
June 19, 2009, 11:30 p.m. CST
Is Slimer in the game?
by lockesbrokenleg
Or is he just at the scene at the hotel?
June 19, 2009, 11:39 p.m. CST
by Gabbo_the_Great
is all you need
June 20, 2009, 6:49 a.m. CST
Kid Idioteque has a review of Public Enemies
by Mavra Chang
June 20, 2009, 8:55 a.m. CST
Glad people on this site do...
by ClarenceBeaks
not work in the movie industry. Your casting and writing suggestions are pathetic. Stick to posting on the internet especially this site. Please don't go anywhere else.
June 20, 2009, 10:44 a.m. CST
Where will GB3 fit in the series?
by Nix_Cadavre
I mean, if they're all in it it's going to be based in the 2000s (If they base it in the 90s, they'll have to explain away their advanced age as an effect of dealing with ghosts, I suppose) but the game is considered canon now, and was supposed to be a direct sequel to Ghostbusters 2... So will the game lore fit in with the new movie? <p> I hope so, because the game rocks and the story in it is great. It would have been an awesome Ghostbusters 3 if they'd ever made it as a movie.
June 20, 2009, 1:56 p.m. CST
by mraig
If you are referring to what I posted, you do understand the difference between SUGGESTIONS and PREDICTIONS right?
June 20, 2009, 11:08 p.m. CST
National Lampoon's Vacation
by Buzz Maverik
Man, Ramis is good! And ANIMAL HOUSE. I just learned that Ramis was up for Boon. That would have been cool and different, although Peter Reigert is one of the great, unrecognized character actors who his generation who makes every movie he is in better.
June 21, 2009, 8:43 p.m. CST
Watching "Ghostbusters" right now. DAMN IT'S GOOD
by FeralAngel
Even given the cheesy effects...because unlike most of today's fantasy films, the effects don't rule the film - THE ACTORS DO. (Something George Lucas has completely forgotten). And during the film's commercial breaks there have been some mini-interviews with some of the film's principals, and yeah, Ramis....hasn't aged well. He's gone from skinny to Santa Claus. Ah well. The movie still kicks ass. I'd love to see more ghostbustin', and happily this new film has the involvement of those people that made the first film great. And we could all use a good plain fun funny popcorn movie these days. Right on, Egon! You rule.
June 22, 2009, 1:59 a.m. CST
I reckon
by thesubstream
there'll be enough goggle eyed people that loved the first movies so much that they'll be able to see beyond the faults of this one. Or it might actually be good. More Harold Ramis for your lucky lucky eyeballs http://beta.thesubstream.com/node/340
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Okay, I know, it sounds vile. But it's a really delicious dessert, and if you have kids, they'll LOVE the idea of putting a bowl of Ghost Poop on the table. Whip this up the day before so the marshmallows can get nice and soft. It's not a true mousse, but comes out the same texture. This makes a great (and super-sweet) addition to your Samhain menu.
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- 1/4 C. chopped walnuts (optional)
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Once your whipped topping is the right revolting color, add the marshmallows, nuts (if you're using them), coconut, chocolate chips and candy corn.
Cover the bowl and refrigerate overnight, so your Ghost Poop can firm up.
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Apologies are being offered 75% off at DKNY. That's no bargain.
PRNewser alerted us to a story of a screw up by fashion outfit DKNY, an ensuing social media crisis, and a half-hearted response.
Some time later Stanton stumbled across a photo of a window display of a DKNY store in Thailand displaying many of his images which he says were used "without (his) knowledge , and without compensation."
Rather than take to the courts, Stanton took to social media. Using Facebook he laid out his case and asked DKNY to make good by making a $100,000 donation to the Bedford-Stuyvestant YMCA.
In a flash, the photog's fans hit "like" more than 38,000 times and shared his posting another 37,000. A short while later DKNY answered up saying in part:
Problem solved? Not likely. DKNY's parent company did $36 billion in revenue last year. So the $25K (tax deductible) donation they made to the YMCA is decimal dust to them. But because they skimped on their response -- they have earned thousands of additional comments on Stanton's Facebook page -- most of which are highly dissatisfied with the company's peace offering. By making amends on the cheap -- DKNY has kept the negative story going.


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Suzlon Energy on Monday said that it had bought out IDFC Private Equity's stake in its forgings subsidiary. In exchange, Suzlon would allot shares to IDFC Private Equity.
The Rs 2 Suzlon stock was up a little over two per cent on NSE on Monday, to close at Rs 58.75, after touching a high of Rs 60.30.
In an announcement to the stock exchanges, Suzlon said its board approved a proposal to buy 4.12 crore shares of Rs 10 each, held by IDFC PE in SE Forge Ltd, a subsidiary of Suzlon, where the sale consideration would be met through an issue of equity shares in Suzlon to IDFC PE.
The deal
The board approved another proposal to allot 3.19 crore shares of Rs 2 face value in Suzlon to IDFC PE. After the allotment of these shares, IDFC PE will hold a 1.8 per cent stake in Suzlon.
IDFC PE had invested Rs 400 crore in September 2008 for a 17.1 per cent stake in SE Forge Ltd, which had forgings and foundry facilities in Coimbatore and Vadodara.
A press release issued then said: "The move is planned to establish a separate and independent entity of SE Forge for its customers, investors, and allow the company to grow with a business plan to cater to the demand for specialised components for the wind industry and also other sectors outside the wind energy sector with a dedicated professional management."
Suzlon's holding had then dropped to 82.9 per cent. With this buy-out, SE Forge would become Suzlon's wholly-owned subsidiary.
New plans
Suzlon's board also decided to seek its shareholders' approval, through a postal ballot, to increase its authorised share capital from Rs 445 crore to Rs 700 crore; issue securities up to Rs 5,000 crore; and, increase the borrowing limits from Rs 7,000 crore to Rs 10,000 crore.
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Now, the FDA has approved a new, small home dialysis unit that promises to make life easier for those folks. It requires just 2 hours a day for 6 days a week. But patients can easily travel since the unit is portable.
Even though medicare generally pays for kidney dialysis in this country, getting the federal program to pay for this home unit is a tough sell. Patients must show that they have unstable blood pressure, congestive heart failure or coronary artery disease on conventional dialysis before medicare will pay for it.
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Get the rest you need with the help of these new iPhone apps. They provide calming sounds and melodies, breathing exercises, snore detectors, and more, turning your iPhone into your personal sleep assistant!
DDB's Stockholm agency promoted Volkswagen's environmentally friendly engine technology with an integrated effort featuring videos-turned-virals such as "Piano Staircase".
Apparently Google installed napping pods for their employees. This adds another reason why you might want to work at Google—I mean with all the free food and massages it's a wonder anyone ever goes home!
Auckland agency Special Group has been awarded a Cannes Grand Prix for their campaign for their client Orcon Broadband. Play Live with Iggy Pop called on musicians to audition online for a chance to help Iggy Pop record a new version of The Passenger.
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An article in today's Financial Post—Sweeten sales with social media tools—mentioned how effective Social Media tools can be in getting your company some exposure and allowing you to interact directly with your customers. Another thing the article mentioned was that these tools are FREE to use. We've always been advocates for Social Media, and this article really does a great job of profiling a company's best efforts in utilizing Social Media tools and channels.
If you haven't already seen Kwon Soon-geun's inpiried drumming performance on YouTube, check it out—the video went viral some time ago and has already been viewed over 500,000 times. It just goes to show you how much influence YouTube and other Social Media channels have. Kwon was even featured in yesterday's National Post.
Home Depot's gift cards now have an interactive side to them, much like the Augmented Reality post we did a while back. You can use your gift card with your webcam and you'll be provided gift suggestions from Home Depot—it's a cool (and smart) way to tie marketing, fun and technology together.
David Perez is a recruiter with Leo Burnett in Chicago and next week he'll be part of the David on Demand experiment where you can tell him do do anything at all via Twitter and he'll do it wearing a pair of webcam-enabled glasses. He's asking people to be kind… we hope they are, for his sake.
Tiffany & Co. have developed an iPhone app that allows you to pick and choose you (or your fiancée's) engagement ring—everything from style, cut, carat size, etc. The app even has a tool to help you choose your ring size. Check out the video here.
For all you Xbox 360 fans out there, I'm sure you're awaiting the November 2010 release of Microsoft Kinect, and with good reason, because it looks like a lot of fun. Microsoft also has their E3 Keynote today which you can follow via a live blog here.
I stumbled upon this video today about an iPad and Velcro. While it's very well done, I think the title should be "What NOT to do with your iPad". If you've got an iPad, would you be brave to do this? I sincerely hope not.
A lot of our clients often ask if Social Media is 'here to stay'. We found an interesting piece of information that may help answer that question: 79% of the top 100 Fortune 500 Companies are using Social Media to communicate their brand, grow their networks and push out their products and services.
We took some time this morning to get all of our deliverables for all of our clients up in front of us—it's a great way for us to hold ourselves accountable and stay in tune with our clients and their needs at the same time.
Imagine you Google your name and the first result is a sponsored link asking you to hire someone. Well, that's the approach Alec Brownstein took when he was looking for work. It's probably the most creative way to apply for a job that I've ever seen. Has anyone got any other great creative, 'out-of-the-box' stories?
Disney has created a new Facebook app that allows you to purchase tickets to Toy Story 3—you can even invite your friends along. This new Facebook app adds to the social media promotion that Disney has already done for the new Toy Story movie along with some 'vintage looking' tv commercials. I guess it won't be long before other movie studios start doing the same thing.
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It's been estimated to far that anywhere between 75 million to 162 million litres of oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since April. It truly is hard to imagine that devastation, but I came across an interactive map created by Paul Rademacher that helps to illustrate just how big the oil spill is.
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Andrew Slear was burned on his torso and face during a science experiment gone wrong at Wilson Middle School Wednesday. He and Justin Yuen were flown to Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore yesterday. Yuen was released yesterday, Slear was released today.
Michael Slear said he's disappointed that something like this happened at school.
"You send your kid to school and you think they are safe," Slear said.
Rebecca Helsin had a different outlook on the incident.
"It was an accident. Things happen," she told abc27 over the phone. "Of course I was scared, but I don't put blame."
Her 13-year-old daughter Rose was burned on the face. She was treated and released from Carlisle Regional Medical Center on Wednesday.
"Her face stings and hurts today, but the hardest part is dealing with what she saw," said Rebecca Helsin.
Carlisle Superintendent John Friend would not comment on the status of the teacher involved in the incident James Redington. Friend would only say "we continue to think about the kids."
The investigation into what caused the fire inside an 8th grade science
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that rubbing alcohol was the only chemical involved. It was originally
thought that the teacher was combining two chemicals when the fire
"We are hoping to talk to the teacher and the school district today," Heberlig said today.
Regular classes were held at Wilson Middle School on Thursday. Counselors were made available to students.
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Your Letters: March 18
Healthcare bill flawed
Congress needs to say "no" to HR3590, the Senate-drafted healthcare bill that the House is voting on this week. It is a terrible bill for Americans.
We want to see real healthcare reform, but this must come from a new discussion that involves legislators and constituents interested in fiscally responsible solutions that respect the rights of individuals and families to choose whether to buy insurance, what type is right for them and where they wish to purchase it.
Enough with the federal government crafting deals with insurance companies while speaking of them as the "enemy," tacking unrelated spending provisions onto the bill and, at the same time, making unrealistic promises about cost savings, all in an attempt to force another expensive, eternal, bureaucratic program down the public's throats.
We don't need a national takeover of healthcare. HR3590 cannot be fixed — not now, and not with phony assurances of reconciliation after it becomes law! I'm urging our representatives to vote no and to start over. Reasonable people know there's a better way, and we deserve it!
— Diane Hawkins,
Newbury Park
Models do exist
As someone who is opposed to abortion, and concerned with human life both born and unborn, I have examined the healthcare bills currently in Congress and am convinced that they are abortion-neutral.
Like many compassionate people, I have always been concerned with the numbers of uninsured people with little or no access to healthcare in a country as wealthy as the U.S.
I find that the healthcare plan(s) under consideration will not affect people that are currently insured in any appreciable way — except that they will soon be able to sleep at night knowing that the rest of their fellow citizens now will have a means to similar healthcare!
Unfortunately, I overhear many people who seem to have bought into many vicious untruths being spoken about the legislation such as death squads, government takeover and socialism being among the most dishonest terms being thrown about.
I have experienced the healthcare systems in other countries and find it shocking that Americans are so reluctant to simply look for inspiration among other countries with superior healthcare. While our care for the insured is excellent in many ways, if expensive overall, these countries cover more of their citizens at a far less cost per capita than we do.
— Chad Kominek,
Reform decisions
Re: DeAnna Brown's March 11 letter, "Decision is ours":
Brown stated that if healthcare reform passes, "some faraway government employee will be making our healthcare decisions for us." If any of the healthcare reform bills currently extant contain any provision that would allow this to happen, I have not found it, and I have read at least legislative summaries of the current plans.
If she has some specific source in any pending legislation that refutes that, she should share it with us. If she does not, perhaps she would withdraw her comment.
— Todd Terres
Pot smoke screen
Re: Sheriff Bob Brooks' March 14 column, "Marijuana legalization":
Sheriff Brooks paints a picture of how harmful marijuana is to your health. Well, I won't argue with some of that, but compared to other drugs, marijuana is a far safer drug. I have never heard of anyone overdosing on pot, yet with all other drugs it is possible to do so with deadly results.
Millions and millions of people all over the world enjoy smoking pot and you are not going to stop that, ever.
Keeping pot illegal to keep people from smoking it is a joke. Keeping it illegal keeps the price of the weed sky high, which is exactly what the drug lords and drug dealers want.
Legalize it, and the price will drop drastically, and crime rates connected to the drug trade will also drop.
It is well known that there definitely are medical benefits from pot for some people who are dying from cancer and other diseases. Brooks says that legalizing pot will encourage much greater use of the drug. I don't buy that argument. That didn't happen in the Netherlands when they legalized it.
— Roger Edgerton,
Marijuana a safer choice
During my 18 years as a police officer, I responded to zero calls for service generated by the use of marijuana.
Yes, marijuana is no play toy as my colleague Sheriff Bob Brooks pointed out. However, compared to alcohol use (which generated about 1,300 calls during my career), marijuana is a much safer choice for the user, their family and the community. Following Brooks' reasoning, he must be advocating the prohibition of cigarettes and alcohol.
Always keep in mind our failed strategy of drug prohibition generates huge overtime checks for Mr. Brooks and the prison guards. They will defend their cash cow at all costs.
— Howard Wooldridge,
Washington, D.C.
(The writer is a drug policy specialist with the organization Citizens Opposing Prohibition. — Editor)
Pot dispensaries
Recent news reports have focused attention on the number of medical marijuana dispensaries. Use for other than medical purposes is what dominates the market.
Marijuana is an addicting drug. The U.S. government ruled marijuana illegal due to its permanent dilatory effect on mind and body.
Pot shops are not interested in the need for marijuana for medical purposes but for the marketing gain from the volume of recreational users.
Pot shops give no thought relative to the drug's degenerative effect on our society and the cost to the taxpayers for providing care and treatment for the addicts that most users become.
As the availability of the drug becomes more common, use will continue to rise in the hedonistic segment of our society, leading to the degeneration of our communities which, in the past, set an image for the world to emulate.
— Richard Green,
Thousand Oaks
(The writer retired as a captain in the Los Angeles Police Department and was chief of the Los Angeles Unified School District Police Department. — Editor)
Prohibition fails
If health outcomes determined drug laws instead of cultural norms, marijuana would be legal.
Unlike alcohol, marijuana has never been shown to cause an overdose death, nor does it share the addictive properties of tobacco.
Marijuana can be harmful if abused, but jail cells are inappropriate as health interventions and ineffective as deterrents.
The first marijuana laws were enacted in response to Mexican immigration during the early 1900s, despite opposition from the American Medical Association.
Dire warnings that marijuana inspires homicidal rages have been counterproductive at best. White Americans did not even begin to smoke pot until a soon-to-be entrenched federal bureaucracy began funding reefer madness propaganda.
Marijuana prohibition has failed miserably as a deterrent. The U.S. has higher rates of marijuana use than the Netherlands, where marijuana is legally available to adults over 18.
The only clear winners in the war on marijuana are drug cartels and shameless tough-on-drugs politicians who've built careers confusing the drug war's collateral damage with a relatively harmless plant.
— Robert Sharpe,
Washington, D.C.
(The writer is a policy analyst with the organization Common Sense for Drug Policy. — Editor)
An insult to the Gipper
Re: Lou Gates' March 12 letter, "Conservative coverage":
Frequent contributor Gates asks why The Star did not cover the recent presentation by right-wing talk show host Mark Levin at the Reagan Library. In the letter, Gates also cites the "enlightened" likes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham, among others, as the future of American conservatism. I can hear old Ronnie rolling over.
Like him or not, Ronald Reagan's conservatism was the product of years of experience, reflection and evolution. Although I oppose almost everything Reaganism stood for, I never heard or saw anything from Reagan that was cynical, snide or otherwise disrespectful to anyone, let alone his political opponents.
Reagan's memory is disgraced by the likes of Levin, Limbaugh, Beck, Ingraham and the many others Gates cites as "enlightened."
Just listen to Levin once and you will hear him act like a petulant middle-schooler, interrupting taped clips of his political enemies (his words, not mine) with shouts of "Jerk," "Idiot," "Imbecile," "Communist," etc. Pretty "scholarly" huh?
You want to know why Levin's talk wasn't publicized? It's because he was only there to sell books!
It's because he and the others mentioned are nothing but hack voices of division and hate who make millions by taking advantage of the real fears and insecurities of Americans who have fallen victim to the recent economic downturn. They offer nothing to the national dialogue, they promote nothing but themselves, and they foster hatred merely as a means of cashing in.
If Mr. Gates and his Tea Party compatriots want to get fired up listening to these folks, by all means have at it.
But to try to pass them off as "scholarly" and "enlightened" and to use their names in the same sentence as Ronald Reagan's is an insult to the Gipper's memory and to the country they claim to revere.
— Gary E. Murphy,
Simi Valley
Metrolink madness
Re: your March 13 editorial, "Trouble ahead on the rails":
Your editorial is on point, but is not entirely factually correct. As it turns out, the notice put out by Metrolink to its ridership noted that one of the options on the table for consideration includes termination of service by trains 102, 104, 106, 113, 115 and 119 from Moorpark to Camarillo, Oxnard and Montalvo. This option would cease all Metrolink service to these three important destinations. And, unlike the other counties in the Metrolink network, Ventura County does not enjoy any weekend service now, and will probably not get any in the future.
This mentality points to a fundamental problem with the Metrolink management. Instead of concentrating on ways to cut service by reducing trains and increasing fares, the management should look at ways to increase ridership. Metrolink does a terrible job of advertising its service, especially in Ventura County.
For example, Metrolink provides direct service to Burbank Bob Hope Airport, the only airport in California that has both Amtrak and Metrolink service within walking distance from the airport terminal.
But Metrolink spends no money on advertising this service. Few people know that they can avoid the hassles of driving and parking when planning their flights from this major airport, by using Metrolink service.
While hundreds of thousands of Ventura County residents fly out of Bob Hope Airport each year, only a small fraction take advantage of Metrolink.
Until the Metrolink management gets on board with the notion of increasing ridership in these difficult times, they will continue to make recommendations that only further exacerbate its demise.
— Dan Feger,
(The writer is executive director of Bob Hope Airport. — Editor)
Blowing smoke
Re: your March 3 article, "Military seeks to clear the air for troops":
Gee, I am sleeping better at night now knowing that our goofy government is spending so much money to help our soldiers quit smoking.
Smoking a butt can relieve so much stress in the foxhole. Leave them alone and let the Marlboro's continue. This is not what the military should be focusing on. It's the war, stupid.
— Kathryn Ellison,
Edison's expenses
Re: your March 15 article, "Kids protest chopping of trees on Loma Vista":
"Under its franchise agreement with the city, Edison can request to remove — at its expense — any tree citywide interfering with overhead lines," the article said. "All 10 trees will be replaced with more appropriate trees, at city expense."
Why doesn't Edison cover the expense to replace them?
— Wayne Saddler,
Dissecting the Pledge
Re: your March 12 article, "Court upholds use of ''under God'":
Once again a federal appeals court has ruled that "under God" cannot constitutionally mean what it says; it must be a mere exercise in earthly cheerleading — the very definition of using God's name in vain.
The Knights of Columbus agree that "under God" means something else, and it should know — the Knights invented it. It supported adding "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance to "give voice to a principle of American government — namely, that the fundamental rights guaranteed by our Constitution are 'endowed by our Creator.' " (See "Resolution in Support for Pledge of Allegiance," from the 126th Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus.)
One wonders why the Knights didn't go for clarity and add "with fundamental rights guaranteed by our Constitution" instead. Of course, the Constitution does an excellent job of giving voice to our fundamental human rights, and it does so in completely human terms, without any reference to God, Jesus or the Bible.
The Knights, apparently, like the Constitution as it is, inasmuch as it left it alone and hijacked a poem instead. And as for my creators — David and Susan — they are great folks, but it glorifies no one to call them gods.
Thanks to the Knights of Columbus, reciting the pledge is, literally, the least that you can do to glorify God.
— Chris Habecker,
Thousand Oaks
Getting it right
Re: your March 12 article, "Court upholds use of 'under God' ":
The Star got one right. The ruling by a federal appeals court upholding the use of "under God" was correctly placed above the fold on Page One.
The so-called mainstream media have ignored the story as far as I can tell. But riddle me this. Why do The Star's editors and headline writers so often give the impression they're chug-a-lugging Kool-Aid when, with Orwellian logic, they go along with such imbecilic statements as Vice President Joe Biden makes, saying losing 36,000 jobs in a month is "good news!"
Or when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says, "We have to pass the healthcare bill to see what's in it." Or write a headline such as "Jobless numbers highest since '68," with the subhead, "Local experts remain confident on economy."
Just asking.
— John Millrany,
Westlake Village
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05-11-13 USCA Urges Calls to Policy-Makers on COOL…
Posted by Brian Allmer on May 12, 2013
USCA (May 10, 2013) – The United States Cattlemen's Association (USCA) today is urging supporters of country of origin labeling (COOL) to call their U.S. Representatives and Senators and direct them not to consider any legislation targeting the current COOL law. Farm bill markup sessions are set to begin in both chambers of Congress next week and USCA leadership says calls should be made as quickly as possible to remind Congressional delegations not to tamper with the existing law. Specifically, supporters of COOL must call their members to oppose the inclusion of Section 12104 Country of Origin Labeling which directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to issue an economic study on COOL 180 days following passage of the Farm Bill. This language essentially acts as a marker by which the issue may be brought up in Conference, at which time those in opposition to COOL will seek to gut the program.
The following statement can be attributed to Jon Wooster, USCA President, San Lucas, California.
"We know from experience that the groups who oppose COOL will take full advantage of the Farm Bill process to achieve their agenda. COOL supporters need to take a proactive approach and make contact with policy-makers urging them to preserve and protect COOL as written. The U.S. COOL law was challenged at the World Trade Organization (WTO) by Canada and Mexico and that challenge is on the cusp of being resolved. USDA has published its amending rule to bring the law into compliance with the WTO ruling and we expect that rule will be finalized before the end of the month. It is imperative that we allow the WTO process to play out without congressional intervention, but those who have opposed COOL from the beginning are pressuring lawmakers to pass legislation in the new Farm Bill that would gut the law. The remedy is simple: get involved by calling your U.S. Senators and Representatives and urge them to reject any effort to change COOL.
Lawmakers who should be contacted first are those assigned to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees, which will begin the Farm Bill mark-up process the week of May 15th. A list of those individuals can be found here and here. USCA will be monitoring this process closely and we will be issuing member and media alerts as needed so the process is as transparent as possible. I urge every COOL supporter to become engaged and make contact with their elected officials just as soon as possible."
Established in March 2007, USCA is committed to concentrating its efforts in Washington, DC to enhance and expand the cattle industry's voice on Capitol Hill. USCA has a full-time presence in Washington, giving cattle producers across the country a strong influence on policy development. For more information go towww.uscattlemen.org.