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Gestures are integral components of human and non-human primate communication. In humans, children rely extensively on gesturing before speech develops (Knott 1979) and gestures remain important to communication even after the development of speech (Dunning 1971; Melinger & Levelt 2004). Gestural signaling is also central to communication in other primates, particularly African apes (Pika et al. 2005a). Neurological research reveals structural similarities between key language networks in the brain and manual actions in humans and non-human primates, providing evidence for an evolutionary continuity between language and bodily actions among primates (Kelly et al. 2002; Arbib 2005). Although much has been learned about gestural signaling in primates, an understanding of how and why gestural repertoires vary across species and what role gestures played in language evolution is incomplete. This dissertation investigated how two factors, social dynamics (the nature of social relationships) and positional behavior (locomotor and postural behavior), shaped gestural communication within and across captive groups of western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes sspp.), and bonobos (Pan paniscus). I conducted this research with six captive groups over the course of twenty-four months. Subjects included: 1) Two groups of western lowland gorillas at the Bronx Zoo, NY; 2) Two groups of chimpanzees at the St. Louis Zoo, MO, and Los Angeles Zoo, CA; and 3) Two groups of bonobos at the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Wild Animal Park, CA. I used a Sony Handycam to collect continuous video data of social interactions (from which I coded various aspects of gestural signaling) and 15-minute focal animal sampling (from which I coded frequencies and durations of positional behaviors). While there was some level of inter-group variation in all species, patterns of gestural communication were accurate measures of the unique social dynamics that characterize each species. Gesturing was not restricted by the availability of the upper limbs; rather, positional behavior was often used to enhance certain gestures, particularly dominance displays. These results demonstrate that gestural signaling expresses the kind of behavioral and locomotor plasticity that could have given rise to a flexible, complex form of communication that eventually became language.
Framing property as a socio-historical process and squatters as situated actors within that process, this dissertation seeks to understand how a relatively stable and hegemonic property regime, such as private property in the United States, works and changes. Squatting is an ideal lens for understanding the complex transformation of private property, as it leads us to the times and places where the political and moral economies of property are actively contested and renegotiated. Squatters who make successful claims on property draw our attention to disjunctures between the moral economy and the legal system of property. Squatters had a complex and dynamic relationship with private property, simultaneously using, transforming and challenging the cultural materials that make up the private property regime. New York City in the 1980s and `90s was home to a squatting movement unlike any other in the United States. Squatters on the Lower East Side took over abandoned buildings in the aftermath of New York City's fiscal crisis, occupying land in a neoliberalizing city, in a gentrifying neighborhood, and making claims on it that challenged those ways of being in the city. In a context of austerity, in which city government was shifting its focus from caring for citizens to creating an attractive environment for business and economic elites, squatters simply took what they thought was their fair share of the city's resources and offered their labor in return, using the symbolic social resources of homeownership to make property and citizenship claims. Disentangling occupation, stewardship, and ownership, squatters highlight the tensions between the home as a commodity and source of equity and the home as a shelter for the family, or even a human right. This dissertation shows how the squatting movement successfully constrained the capacity of the city's leaders and investors to create market rate housing on the Lower East Side, at length driving the city to agree to sell eleven squatted buildings, for one dollar each, to a non-profit that would help bring the buildings up to code. The former squats would then be converted to limited-equity low-income cooperatives and the renovation loans would become mortgages. The legalization process was contested and uneven: as of 2013, only five of the eleven buildings in the legalization deal had been converted into co-ops. The struggles of the Lower East Side squatters as they navigated the legalization process reflect the growing anxiety about and precarity of homeownership among Americans today, while also being inflected with their own unique decades of experience living in decommodified housing. Squatters struggled to find a way to become collective homeowners without destroying their collective values: control over one's space and one's time. Counterintuitive as it may seem, the production and circulation of commodities can be an effective means to assert values alternative to those of contemporary capitalism. They debated whether it was moral to profit from housing, how equity was produced, and how it should be distributed. Agreeing to the legalization deal did not automatically protect the squats from being evicted or incorporated into the flows of endlessly profit-seeking capital. They tried to find ways to create security for themselves amidst the real risks of foreclosure and eviction. While individual, private property and collective property are often opposed, this study reveals all that is obscured by that dichotomy. The forms of limited-equity collective homeownership into which squatters entered created new social ties of debt and responsibility while threatening old forms of solidarity based on shared labor, caretaking, and mutual defense. Given the chance to become homeowners, a significant minority of squatters wanted to fully commodify their homes rather than giving up some of their own property rights for the benefit of future low-income owners. Equity, security, prosperity and social mobility were especially tempting after a decades-long struggle to procure decent, affordable housing had left residents depleted and sometimes isolated from the larger economy. However, the public subsidies they received, the intention of the labor invested, and the nature of the social and political claims they articulated as squatters made this impossible. For many, especially those with marketable skills, stable jobs, or middle class privilege, legalization was a boon, but, as was the case in many informal settlements in the developing world where property has been formalized, for the most marginal it ranged from tolerable to disastrous. As each person was required to produce an identical monetary contribution to the cooperative's collective monthly expenses, the squatters' ability to accommodate people who made a diverse variety of contributions, from construction work to political strategizing, and especially to include those who could contribute little but desperately needed housing, was compromised. For those who stayed, this was often an intensely painful process in which they had to choose between protecting the group's collective property and protecting the group's values and weakest members. Squatters attempting to protect their shared property and legacy mobilized the language of the family and the house, as well as the practices of history-making. Today, when the moral economy of debt is hotly debated and cities struggle to make use of housing with no exchange value, the experiences of Lower East Side squatters are particularly valuable. In the context of the current ongoing foreclosure crisis and the uneven, contested, yet pervasive process of neoliberalization and privatization, this study should both give hope and give pause to those seeking to experiment with alternatives to private property. As this study has shown, the decommodification of housing provides a means to house the most vulnerable people in society. Squatters' small-scale and mostly successful battle to shepherd their collective property into the realm of legal ownership without succumbing to the logic of the market shows us that resistance to the financialization of everything is still possible.
Thirty years of neoliberal policies have left New York a divided city, with ever-rising rates of income inequality and widening social disparity. Structural transformations associated with global capitalism have led to divergent experiences for male and female youth coming of age in the 21st century. Girls are experiencing greater social integration and social mobility whereas, boys are facing social exclusion and limited opportunities. As young men precariously forge new transitions to adulthood, young women are constructed as ideal flexible subjects, benefiting from feminist achievements, and advancing in the new service economy. Yet in reality, girls continue to face gendered base violence, sexism, and burdens of responsibilities. Through this lens, I examine how gender operates as an organizing principle in young people's lives today in the Lower East Side (LES) of New York City. This study also documents how people create cultural alternatives that reflect their values and progressive politics and analyzes how this has been down in the past. It offers an organizational case study of The Lower Eastside Girls Club in an effort to increase our understanding of the history and significance of a successful struggle to educate, employ, and carve out a safe space for women and girls in neoliberal New York. It documents how the Girls Club builds upon a legacy of grassroots initiatives in the LES, including the settlement house movement of the Progressive Era and Mobilization for Youth of the 1960's. This study asks: what should an education accomplish in a democracy? (Giroux 2013) It examines the limitations of the Girls Club's engaged practice of uplift and empowerment in relation to its progressive politics and critical pedagogy. I suggest that education is a terrain in the "right to the city" (Lefebvre 1968), and that the Girls Club, in constructing alternative models of education and community engagement, is locally engaging in a broader struggle for social justice, albeit with limited success. This study concludes with an analysis of Girls Club's efforts to push forth a community-led development model that puts women and youth at the center, melding the politics of Jane Addams and Jane Jacobs and offering an alternative urban vision.
Postcrania are a key component of functional analyses of Plio-Pleistocene hominin behavior, but many specimens are unassociated or fragmentary and have thus been largely ignored by researchers. This dissertation examined all relevant Plio-Pleistocene postcranial material to examine whether there are consistent patterns of morphology that characterize Plio-Pleistocene taxa and whether there are different locomotor types represented. Data on all available Plio-Pleistocene hominin humeri, radii, ulnae, femora and tibiae were collected with a microscribe 3-D digitizer and compared to a modern sample of four populations of Homo sapiens, two subspecies of Pan troglodytes, two subspecies of Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus and Pan paniscus in order to make taxonomic and functional conclusion about overall patterns of postcranial variation in the appendicular skeleton of hominins. The most informative areas were the distal femur, tibia, radius, and humerus, and the proximal femur and ulna. In the distal humerus, individuals from Koobi Fora had a more pleisomorphic morphology than all of the other fossils, including those with much earlier dates. The variation present in the proximal femur of A. afarensis was greater than most single modern species. The pattern of variation in the distal femur was tested against an ontogenetic sample of modern humans and chimpanzees in order to assess whether the differences present were caused by heterochronic change; this hypothesis was not supported. There are few postcranial characters that can be tied to specific groups. Among hominins, Paranthropus robustus and Homo habilis sensu lato had the most distinctive patterns of morphology. There was a temporal pattern in the distal tibia with individuals the least like modern humans occurring the earliest in time and those most like them occurring latest, but there were no temporal patterns to any other segment sampled. There was a clear difference in the way that humans and apes covary in the fore- and hindlimb. There was no evidence of developmental shape integration between serial homologues. As a group, Plio-Pleistocene hominins had patterns of covariance that were most similar to modern humans, with the exception of pairings involving the distal femur.
This dissertation examines the contemporary resurgence of libertarianism in the U.S., exploring a rapidly expanding, transnational network of hundreds of thousands liberty movement participants connected through student groups, community organizations, and established institutions, as well as through social media and a vast array of online forums. Grounded in 32 months of ethnographic fieldwork and over 200 interviews, it documents the rise of a profound disenchantment, particularly among millennials, with state-based solutions to pressing contemporary problems and, more broadly, with the nation-state project itself. Drawing on first-hand accounts ranging from elite boardrooms and think tank conference rooms, to political demonstrations and direct actions, to student reading groups and gatherings of cryptoanarchist communities, the dissertation situates the ethnographic study within the broader framework of a reconfiguration of U.S. populism in the era of the security state. The project examines how established libertarian organizations, a key component of the longstanding U.S. conservative coalition, have helped infuse libertarianism with renewed relevance for a substantial part of an entire generation deeply disheartened by a world embroiled in economic crisis and heavily militarized systems of governance. Through the consolidation of a libertarian wing of the Republican Party, parts of the liberty movement are presently shaking up the very conservative coalition that helped usher forth the movement's revival. But libertarianism's resurgence is also powerfully reshaping U.S. political culture beyond formal political processes, giving rise to a proliferation of libertarian spaces that expressly reject effecting change through electoral politics and policy in favor of changing "hearts and minds" by promoting libertarian principles and social organization. Simultaneously, growing numbers of millennials influenced by the liberty movement increasingly challenge its dominant trends, focusing on the experiences of vulnerable and marginalized groups -- from urging the integration of libertarianism with a broader socioeconomic critique as well as antiracism, feminism, mutual aid, and labor solidarity, to revisiting the ideas of 19th century U.S. individualist anarchists. Thus, while the libertarian political establishment is likely to continue to expand over the coming years and secure a firmer place in the Republican Party, the movement simultaneously serves as a siphon -- growing numbers of millennial libertarians are presently breaking from the political right and moving closer to various forms of left libertarianism, market anarchism, mutualism, and even social anarchism. The project thus illustrates the centrality of cultural formations beyond policy and electoral politics to the largest popular movement motivated by distinctly libertarian ideas in the postwar period, as well as to reconfigurations of U.S. liberalism. The dissertation contributes to a burgeoning literature on the resurgence of antistatist theory and organizing in the new millennium. Scholars and activists alike continue to document especially the revitalization of social anarchist traditions permeating numerous contemporary struggles, tracing how the resuscitation of social anarchist thought and activism informs important parts of extant insurgency across the globe. The U.S. liberty movement presents another key but understudied aspect of the present antistate moment. The dissertation also builds on longstanding anthropological approaches to understanding the complex processes through which political ideologies are shaped and constituted. Through an ethnographic lens, it interrogates how deeply ingrained U.S. ideologies of freedom, individualism, and even liberalism itself are interpreted, contested, and reappropriated to both challenge and reinscribe relations of power. The libertarian resurgence represents a crucial struggle over the very meaning and direction of U.S. liberalism in our historical moment.
Much of the extant social research on childlessness in late life employs a "lens of deficiency", where it is assumed that confronting old age without children itself constitutes a precarious or problematic situation. This thesis builds on an emerging critical literature that moves beyond this perspective, and shifts focus to more exploratory considerations of the aging process for adults without children. The text documents specific means by which childless men seek fulfillment in late life, in an urban U.S. context. The study is based on two years of ethnographic research in San Francisco, California, with a total of twenty-five, independently living, white men between 64 and 86 years of age. None of the men had children, and though a few were married or had long-term partners, most lived alone. By focusing exclusively on older men's lives, the analysis redresses a conspicuous gender bias in social research centered on parental or reproductive status, where women's lives have drawn most scholarly attention. For the men portrayed here, weighty questions about identity, family, and ultimately, social standing, remain rather unsettled in late life. Many participants experience significant frustrations addressing such "big picture" questions, and these difficulties are often tied to social and physical environments that cannot offer the proper stage for enacting desired visions of senescence on a daily basis. Nevertheless, the men persist in attempts to establish what matters most to them individually, and seek to project a personal character worthy of respect. To accomplish this, participants work to narrate the parameters of belonging in their lives, and engage in gift/exchange relations to offer up and display their personal values to others. The men reach out to others as they reconcile self-understanding, and some show concern for the quality of interpersonal connections available. However, such extensions are also marked by a strong ambivalence towards developing reciprocal relations, and connections are often left undeveloped in the name of personal independence. Rather than signaling resignation, this tendency to eschew full-fledged connection emerges as part of a process where commitment and desires are re-calibrated, in order to strike a novel balance that might "fulfill" aging.
Restorative Justice (and its practices) has come to represent an increasingly popular `alternative' in the fight towards building safe and healthy urban communities that do not rely on prisons and punishment as a solution to the dislocations of advanced capitalism. This ethnographic study examines the role of race and US collective identity at the intersections of criminal justice, public education and restorative justice. The dissertation examines the use of restorative practices for navigating conflicts among court-involved youth at an urban high school, and the extent to which the restorative framework lives up to one of its central ideals: to bring about a more democratically oriented distribution of power in conflict intervention and give voice to all stakeholders. In probing this fundamental ingredient of the restorative approach the research lens was redirected toward a ubiquitous "politics of denial" in confronting the deeper roots of US social conflicts. The dissertation investigates the emergence of restorative conflict negotiations as a field of practice that claims "neutrality" and "impartiality" in its deliberations, yet at once by and large entirely evades the reality of a politically and economically skewed `playing field.' The research findings reveal the impact of structural violence in the lives of urban youth, and foregrounds the need for full-spectrum, integrated intervention that incorporates various dimensions of trauma (individual, collective, historical) derived from structural violence. The relationship between historical misrepresentation and its attenuated processes, on the one hand, and the human relations and social structures that exist as part of broader society -or collective whole--on the other, are explored. The author argues that the ways in which history has been incompletely represented needs to be a central component of integrated social approaches, including restorative conflict negotiations. For restorative justice to remain true to its democratic processes and participatory dictates, its `practices' must bring to bear the weight of history and how it has placed groups of people at highly differential advantages. The dissertation argues for the deconstructing of an exceedingly slanted (white) historical master-narrative, and the veritable potential of restorative practices for navigating the political and psychosocial effects that this will provoke.
The golden lion tamarin is a small, endangered monkey found in only a few municipalities in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This dissertation explores the project to conserve this rare primate, a project that links together agrarian reform, forest restoration, agroforestry, and conservation biology. Informed by Brazil's social and political history, and drawing from 12 months of fieldwork conducted in 2008 and 2010, this dissertation argues that by looking carefully at and for the tamarin, we discover the interrelated political, social, and animal relationships that weave together to produce conservation in southeastern Brazil.
This dissertation examines the lives of working-class pensioners in post-socialist, Galati, Romania. Its central thesis is that the transformation of Romania from socialism to capitalism beginning in 1989 has led to an "epidemic of stress" among retired, working-class people in the city. Marginalized by their age, class and location in the relatively economically underdeveloped region of Moldova, they have been among the hardest hit by the changes brought about with the introduction of neoliberal capitalism. Long familiar with life in a relatively stable economy, they have faced dramatic changes in this area since the revolution, including massive price instability and widespread unemployment. Used to being cushioned by a social welfare system, today they live with the withdrawal of many of the certainties under socialism, including adequate pensions, access to free or low-cost health care, affordable housing, cost-free education and much more. Anticipating that their kin would be near them and their communities would be a reliable presence as they grew older, they have experienced the departure of family for work in distant places and they have watched as many of the ceremonies and ritual practices that once held their communities together have become rarer. This "social suffering" manifests itself in the stress epidemic, pensioners not only experiencing stress chronically but also making sense of the changes they have undergone since socialism by talking about stress. Retirees respond to these changed conditions by engaging in moral commentary against the people - the newly rich - whom they frequently blame for the decline in standard of living. They cope with the stress epidemic through a range of strategies, including building new social ties, complaining publicly about their difficulties, finding inexpensive or free sources of food, begging, borrowing money, pawning cherished heirlooms and much more. And they mobilize politically to bring about real improvement to their deteriorated situation, testing the limits of their young demoncracy by organizing and speaking out publicly, sometimes winning as a result of such efforts. In spite of such success, working-class Moldovan pensioners cannot be left to fight on their own to improve their standard of living, however. The state needs to step back into the lives of this disadvantaged population, addressing their needs through concrete initiatives, including offering pensions that meet the cost-of-living, pursuing economic policies that bring more secure employment to Romania and tackling high-level corruption that too often robs average citizens of a higher quality of life.
This dissertation examines four Afghan life stories for prevalent micro-historical perspectives on shared Afghan macro-historical experiences. The introduction explains my background, motivations and objectives for conducting life history research in Afghanistan in 2004 and 2005. The first chapter outlines an approach applied to examining life stories that addresses three interrelated questions: first, how the narrator's presentation is related to the memory of the actual events narrated (biographical chronology), second, how a narrative image/s of a person's past is established in relationships to individually significant audience/s (narrative self / audience), and third, how interrelationships between the individual life and the socio-historical context are expressed by troubling or valued dimensions of the past (existential orientation). My examination focuses upon significant historical and interpersonal concerns as they manifest across individual life narratives. Each chapter begins with background on the circumstances of the interview, followed by the interview transcription, and concludes with an extended analysis of the life story. I conclude with ethnographic interpretation of each life story in light of recent Afghan history and speculate about the meanings of violence and the limits of trauma for contemporary understanding of Afghan culture and history.


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JERUSALEM, Israel - Before adjourning for the summer, the Knesset passed a bill banning convenience stores from selling alcoholic beverages between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
The law also allows police to confiscate alcoholic beverages being consumed in public and empty the contents.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put his full support behind the legislation when it was initially proposed in 2009 to curb an alarmingly rising trend in teenage drinking. "According to the World Health Organization, Israel is second in the world in consumption of alcohol by 11 year olds," Netanyahu said, "and the rate of consumption among 15 to 17 year olds is over 50 percent. We are at the onset of an epidemic, and we are in need of this legislation promptly," he said.
The law prohibits convenience stores, gas stations, markets and pharmacies from selling any kind of alcoholic beverages.
Stores caught violating the law will face a minimum 9,000 shekel (about $2,300) fine.
Restaurants and bars are excluded from the after-hours ban.
Study: Teen Alcohol and Drug Use Rising
New Law Would Raise Drinking Age to 21
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(click image to enlarge) Magnolia Pictures has just released the new poster for Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience, starring adult film star Sasha Grey in her mainstream film debut. It's a pretty stunning poster if I do say so myself. Check out the synopsis of the film and much more stunning – albeit a tad less tasteful – photos of Sasha after the jump.
Tonight, we are offered a 3hr salute to a show that set the bar high for the numerous procedural hospital dramas to follow: There would be no George Clooney or more John Stamos if not for this show. It ends it's epic 15 season run tonight. An indispensable ER birth after the break.
On April 10th, Observe and Report opens, and will be the second mall cop movie released within a few months. We're not saying it's a knockoff of Paul Blart at all. But it's another example of the Hollywood tradition for competing studios to release two eerily familiar movies right around the same time of year. Some say both films benefit from the timing. Some say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. You be the judge of which flicks deserve the compliment. Screen Junkies presents – in convenient chronological order, no less:11 PAIRS OF SUSPICIOUSLY SIMILAR MOVIES!!!1989Turner and Hooch vs. K-9
Sound of Music in Antwerp Train Station – Watch more free videos This video been floating around on the 'nets for a little while now, but it only came my way today and I had to share. It's a stunt pulled in an Antwerp, Belgium train station, in which seemingly hundreds of dancers come out of the woodwork and do a number from The Sound of Music. It's actually a pretty astonishing feat, but my cynical side would have liked to see the whole thing get interrupted midway through by a serendipitously scheduled "dancing Nazi raid" stunt in the same station. Run, Von Trapp Family! Run! Thanks to Screen Junkies reader "Mrs. White" for sending.
Yahoo! Movies and ComingSoon.Net posted some new pics and info on the sentient hunks o' metal in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which, if you didn't know, opens June 24th. See more of those bigass wrecking machines doing damage after the jump.
ANVIL! The Story of Anvil! rocked the crowds at Sundance, and now is making its way to a theater near you on April 10th. Check out the trailer after the jump. You will laugh. You will cry. You will rock. And then you will cry harder at the end of the trailer when the string orchestra music comes in and you realize how much these dudes got a raw deal. These guys could have had only the finest European prostitutes snorting cocaine off their boners, and now… they're riding coach. Also, there's a shot of this dude from Anvil biting his guitar during a set and it looks kind of dangerous, so you should watch it.
The new Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 trailer went up today on Myspace, and it's got enough Travolta-on-Denzel action to make Oprah's live audience collectively explode from a freak mass orgasm. The film is slated for a June 12th, 2009. Gentlemen, lock up your wives and girlfriends lest they stampede children on the way to the theater. Check out the clip after the jump to see what we're up against.
Tonight's schedule is playing no jokes on you, just a slightly more foolish 'hump day' with another treatment of Lost, a shot of Scrubs, and a promise from South Park to cross the line yet again. Reno 911! also premieres with some fresh faces and probably an ample amount of short shorts. Your preview after the break.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Wednesday, April 1st backed down from his initial order of 4,000 more military troops in Afghanistan, vowing instead to "still disrupt, dismantle and defeat"…
Zach Galifianakis is still the funniest comedian I've ever seen live. Ed Helms is still the funniest part about NBC's The Office. And Bradley Cooper is still the funniest actor to make out with Michael Ian Black in Wet Hot American Summer. All three guys star in The Hangover, the trailer for which has been out a little while, but we hadn't posted it yet. I'm hoping this movie gives both Mike Tyson and Phil Collins' "No Jacket Required" album the comeback both parties deserve. The fact that they're working together toward that cause is what Sting was singing about on "Synchronicity." Or is that serendipity? Or synergy? Just watch the trailer after the jump and laugh.
MUTANT CHRONICLES starring Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman and MALKOVICH (!!!) is now available on HDNet Ultra VOD and opens in theaters on Friday, April 24. To celebrate, Magnet Releasing and Pressman Films is offering the Ultimate Mutant Chronicles Prize Giveaway! One lucky grand prize winner will receive: – An invitation (plus guest) to the LA premiere and after-party (transportation/hotel/expenses not included) – Autographed MUTANT CHRONICLES poster – MUTANT CHRONICLES Miniature Game Starter Set – MUTANT CHRONICLES Personalized Collectible Dog Tag – Your name to appear within end card on the MUTANT CHRONICLES DVD as a grand prize (subject to manufacturing schedule) 25 additional winners will receive: – Official MUTANT CHRONICLES Poster – MUTANT CHRONICLES Miniature – MUTANT CHRONICLES Personalized Collectible Dog Tag – Your name to appear within end card on the MUTANT CHRONICLES DVD (subject to manufacturing schedule) See how to enter – and some other MC goodies - after the jump!
Via The Playlist, Screen Junkies caught wind of ESPN's announcement that it will launch a program in the Fall called "30 for 30," a weekly hour-long series pairing famous filmmakers with sports subjects they care about. We can expect to see Barry Levinson cover the 1984 defection of the Baltimore Colts to Indy, and a Maysles' Bros. film about Muhammed Ali vs. Larry Holmes in '80, among others. Not all have been announced (including the subjects of films from Spike Lee and Richard Linklater), but ScreenJunkies wondered where this series could go…
Yesterday evening, Wired posted some pretty Trek-tacular recreations of famous Stark Trek scenes. The artist? Frank Elchesen. The medium? Legos. I'd really like to see the Tribbles episode done up, and I challenge Mr. Elchesen to somehow recreate the furry and adorable, yet pesky little buggers with Legos. I say it can't be done. Prove me wrong, Elchesen and I have a Star Trek T-Shirt for you!!!See more of his photos after the jump!
Ozzy has come back with his family, 'reloaded' in the form of what looks to be the family venturing into Candid Camera and MadTV territory, with a dash of Nickelodeon goop. Also check out the 2 hr biography of America's favorite porn star. Your preview after the break.
Where You've Seen Her: AnnaLynne McCord, has made quite a name for herself (as confusingly spelled as it is) as Naomi on the CW's "90210." She also played Eden Lord on "Nip/Tuck" and can be seen in Fired Up and Day of the Dead. We recommend watching AnnaLynne fire a gun in the latter.AnnaLynne Says: "I know you fantasize about me while you're pumping away on little Miss Jenny Craig."See photos of AnnaLynne after the jump!!!
The new poster for Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell has been unleashed from the depths (and ShockTilYouDrop.com). Click to enlarge poster, and if you haven't seen the trailer, check it out here.
5. BATMAN'S TUMBLERMake/Model: Wayne Enterprises Tumbler (Military Grade)In Batman Begins, the Tumbler goes from the back room of Wayne Tech to the streets of Gotham in a matter of scenes, and the only way to describe Batman's badass ride is in the words of the startled Gotham beat cop: "a tank." It's got everything a costumed vigilante would need, including armor plating, boosters and rocket launchers. And in The Dark Knight, it's even got a built in escape vehicle called "The Batpod." You don't get that in your standard Toyota. When Michael Caine says, "The Lamborghini is much more subtle," he actually means it. 4. THE ECTOMOBILE (ECTO-1)
10. THE DEATH MOBILEMake/Model: 1964 Lincoln ContinentalFlounder's brother's car is wrecked when Otter, Boon and some of the other Animal House Brothers take it on an ill-planned road trip. But the enterprising D-Day resurrects it like a fiery phoenix and redubs it, "the Death Mobile." Face it, Flounder. This car is much better off as a nihilistic parade float then it ever was as a chick magnet. 9. THE GENERAL LEE
15. THE MIRTH MOBILEMake/Model: 1976 AMC PacerAhh… the Mirth Mobile from Wayne's World. Never before has such a pedestrian car been given a custom flame paintjob and a tape deck, and been transported into a chariot of the rock gods. You have not heard Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" until it has marched forth from the Pacer's speakers and crushed your eardrums. It will be mine… oh yes… it will be mine. (It would also be stretched into a limo version in Wayne's World 2.) 14. CAMERON'S DAD'S FERRARI
20. BUMBLEBEEMake/Model: 1977 & 2009 Chevy CamaroTransformers Director Michael Bay was accused of "raping our childhoods" when he eschewed Bumblebee's VW Beetle roots for the Camaro, but in the end, it was a stylistic choice that worked. Hell, it got Shia Laboeuf to first base with Megan Fox. Now that's a car worth the sticker price! (If you're into indirectly paying for sex, but aren't we doing that every time we take a date to Chili's and order an extra appetizer?) 19. DOMINIC TORETTO'S CHARGER
25. THE PUSSY WAGONMake/Model: 1997 Chevrolet C-2500 Silverado FleetsideKill Bill Vol. 1's Buck (Michael Bowen) is one lecherous scum sucker, and his nickname for his ride – painted brazenly all over the body – is certainly fitting. It's Buck's disregard for decency and driver's etiquette that puts this truck on the list. I wonder if it's ever run into the Wiener Mobile? 24. COBRA'S MERCURYMake/Model: Customized 1950 Mercury MontereyCrime is the disease. Meet the car that delivers the cure. Marion "Cobra" Cobretti (Sylvester Stallone) puts this tank of a car through war, destroying the Monterey while he demolishes a psychotic gang bent on world domination… This car is best driven with a match hanging out of the driver's mouth. 23. LOUISE'S THUNDERBIRD
30. POLICE SPINNERMake/Model: Mead VTOL aerodyneBlade Runner's celebrated production designer, Syd Mead, came up with the concept of the spinner, a flying car with vertical take-off and landing capabilities. Designer Mead has described the spinner as an aerodyne – a vehicle which directs air downward to create lift, though press kits for the film stated that the spinner was propelled by three engines: "conventional internal combustion, jet and anti-gravity". We recommend test driving one as long as you bring your Vangelis tunes to pump over the stereo. 29. MARCIE'S LAMBORGHINI
35. WALT'S GRAN TORINOMake/Model: 1972 Ford Gran Torino The car isn't actually driven all that much in Eastwood's Gran Torino, but it's the impetus for one of 2008's best offerings when Walt Kowalski's Gran Torino becomes the prize in an initiation for a neighborhood gang made up of Hmong kids. The car is a tough old relic, whose engine growls sound a lot like Eastwood's character every time he opens his mouth. The car spits out a lot fewer racial epithets, though. 34. FREDDY'S CADILLAC
In honor of Fast & Furious, opening this Friday, Screen Junkies wanted to take a joy ride down memory lane and pay homage to what we think are the most memorable automobiles ever put on film. To make this list, you didn't have to be the fastest; you didn't have to be the coolest. Hell, you didn't always have to work. But personality gets the most mileage, and these forty vehicles have enough personality to drive forever. Screen Junkies presents… The Top 40 Cars From Feature Films! 40. THE VW TRANSPORTER
According to MTV's Movie Blog, David Cronenberg is looking to do a sequel to 2007's Eastern Promises. In the original, Viggo Mortensen played a Russian gangster who was actually a spy for British Intel, and, as much as some may try to forget, many will vividly recall the now-famous scene in which Viggo's character teamed up with his exposed genitalia to battle a would-be assassin in a sauna. No reports as to whether or not the pair will link up again in the sequel, but speculation has begun… and Screen Junkies has the exclusive comic book adaptation of the speculation. Click to enlarge.
Further evidence that TV never dissapoints: Tonight's offering includes a Heroes trip to Mexico (Spring Break woooo), a delousing of Jack Bauer (who's now got nothing to lose), and an important history lesson on awesomely brutal Roman war tactics (Caesar-style). Only complaint: not in 3D (3D rocks). Your preview after (the break).
According to Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider, "Emily Browning (The Uninvited) will replace Amanda Seyfried in Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch for Warner Bros. You may remember Emily as "Violet" in 2004's Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. She'll be playing "Baby Doll," an "insane asylum inmate who loses herself in a fantasy world where she dreams about escaping with her fellow inmates."
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This does exactly what it says; it makes your lashes look full and soft!
it's definitely waterproof; one night I went swimming with it because I forgot to remove it before getting into the pool, and although I did not go underwater, I did get water on my face. It only smudged a little bit, gave me little black marks on my face, but not enough to make me look like a panda! (LOL happens with other mascaras)
I wear it to school every day and it still looks fresh after 6.5 hours. I usually keep it on for about 5 more hours, and THAT's the time when it STARTS to smudge.
But even after wearing it for 12 hours or more, it's still extremely hard to rub off or remove...unless I use the remover specially for waterproof mascaras.
If I try other mascaras and they don't work as well as this one, I will definitely use this one again.
I would not recommend this mascara primarily because it does not deliver on two of its claims: it is neither full nor waterproof.
I liked the applicator. One of those bushy "teddy bear" types. I like this type of brush because I feel that it causes less clumping and better lash separation for a more natural look. The mascara gave my lashes a soft, natural look, darker, not longer or thicker.
My biggest complaint is the "waterproof" claim. Not only wasn't this product waterproof, it wasn't smudgeproof. It didn't even last through the day without leaving dark circles under my eyes. I used this mascara twice with the same under eye circle results. Not attractive! This was not under rigorous conditions such as exercise, extreme weather conditions, or even tears. Just a normal low stress day. I expect more from a waterproof product.
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i havent tried this yet, but iam planning on buying it soon, and wanted to know which formula of this stuff is better... the waterproof or regular? i kno with most waterproof mascaras it is hard to remove, but i wanna kno if anyone has tried both and thinks one is better than the other. and does this stuff work better than loreals voluminous? thanx.
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This has become one of my staple everyday mascaras along with L'Oreal Voluminous WP. My lashes are very long already so I don't need any lengthening. What Full'N'Soft does is darken my auburn lashes and give them nice lift and separation. I have received numerous compliments on my eyelashes (from complete strangers!) since I started wearing FNS. I guess you could say it is "my lashes but better".
If I could, I'd give this mascara 10 lipsticks! Dark Brown, waterproof, holy grail. I love how soft and 'un-coated' this makes my lashes feel. I never noticed it before, but now I cannot try another formula without noticing how stiff my lashes feel. I also like that this product is relatively easy to find in 'my' color, dark brown (hooray for Target!)...blacks and brown/black are too harsh for my coloring. I'm fair with blonde hair and blue eyes, and this color/formula makes my lashes look naturally full; any other mascara makes my lashes look fake. Love it, gotta have it!
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This is a really nice mascara when you curl your lashes, I haven't tried it without curling them. IT doesn't look like I'm wearing too much mascara either, its kinda of like Kristen Krueks lashes. I realy like it, I'm scared to try any new mascaras now. Oh yea, I took off one lipstick because if I look up close sorta, it looks a little greyish, but not ugly..this happens with all the mascaras i've tried. Sometimes A TINY BIT also flakes off, then if I rub it I have a line on my skin from the mascara. But I like it so much, that I don't mind.
I know L'Oreal Voluminous and Maybelline Great Lash are always being touted by makeup artists as the best drugstore mascaras, but I prefer this one to both of those. It makes a nice natural day time look - your lashes look longer and fuller but they're not going to look dramatic (Volum' Express is better for that). I wouldn't buy this again because Maybelline is owned by L'Oreal which tests their ingredients on animals. But it is a good product and all things being equal, would probably be my staple mascara.
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A heaven sent and my HG -- after trying a high end from HR and comparing the results to fullnsoft, I must say that FullnSoft performs hell lot better than the HR. It not only gave me beautiful long lashes but also made them soft and voluminous!!! Don't hesistate to buy this! I was stupid to spend so much on the HR. I will never stray from the drugstore for mascaras EVER again...The only thing I do not like is the brush which is a tad too big for me.
Great natural mascara. It isnt waterproof for me, it just doesnt smear (it instead disapears to leave me mascara free) but I have no racoon eyes so no prob for me/ I wont buy this again tho, because I suspect I'm QUITE allergic to this (as in I had puffy eyes along with flaky skin) Too bad, I liked this stuff
I HATED THIS! Like the initial effect but that didn't last long! Hard to remove, smudged like there was no tomorrow, and is definately not waterproof.


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Coronation Lodge4 Stars
10 Coronation Ddrive Queenstown, Queenstown 9197
Lodge Coronation is set on Coronation Drive in Queenstown, less than seven kilometres from Queenstown International Airport. While in this side of New Zealand, tourists can wander around at Queenstown Gardens and play table games at Lasseters Wharf Casino or Skycity Casino.
All deluxe rooms come with flat-screen TV, Wi-Fi access, iPod dock, telephone, coffee/tea maker, mini refrigerator and bathroom. Some units have kitchenette and balcony or patio.
Diners at Coronation Lodge in Queenstown start the day with delicious breakfast at the dining room on site before heading out. Check out nearby restaurants for a taste of local and international cuisines.
After a full day, guests at Coronation Lodge can read books at the in-house library. This non-smoking property also provides tour desk, laundry services and parking for a more convenient stay. In the area, visitors can head to Queenstown Hill Recreation Reserve.
Hotel Facilities
- Cafe
- Disabled Facilities
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- Non-Smoking Rooms
- Photocopying Facilities
- Room Service
- Concierge
- Faxing Facilities
- Laundry Facilities
- Parking Facilities
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- Smoke Free Hotel
- Dining Room
- Internet Access - High Speed
- Laundry Services
- Parking Facilities (At Cost)
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Coronation Lodge Guest Reviews (34)
Stayed one night but if I could would have stayed longer.Very tidy and clean room with all requirements.Handy to all central Queenstown which made things hassle free.Will definitely use again and recommend to others.
RATTY wrote on November 25, 2012
This was great value for money. Great spot for walking into the centre, 2 minutes but quiet too. Clean and comfortable. Will differently use again.
Jenny Hill wrote on January 31, 2011
Attractive, clean and very close to town. Beds were comfortable and room spacious. No view of lake from room as trees on public gardens are accross the road but I was out all day anyway.
Cherry Thompson wrote on January 20, 2011
The rooms are beautiful and clean with some sneaking views of the Lake and mountains. I found the staff quite unfriendly and two of them watched me lug my heavy bug up the stairs with no offer of assistance.
Anonymous wrote on December 12, 2010
Clean and comfortable. Lacking certian ammenities however
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Coronation Lodge Guest Reviews
4 out of 5
Stayed one night but if I could would have stayed longer.Very tidy and clean room with all requirements.Handy to all central Queenstown which made things hassle free.Will definitely use again and recommend to others.Review by: RATTY
Date stayed November 25, 2012
5 out of 5
This was great value for money. Great spot for walking into the centre, 2 minutes but quiet too. Clean and comfortable. Will differently use again.Review by: Jenny Hill
Date stayed January 31, 2011
5 out of 5
Attractive, clean and very close to town. Beds were comfortable and room spacious. No view of lake from room as trees on public gardens are accross the road but I was out all day anyway.Review by: Cherry Thompson
Date stayed January 20, 2011
4.2 out of 5
The rooms are beautiful and clean with some sneaking views of the Lake and mountains. I found the staff quite unfriendly and two of them watched me lug my heavy bug up the stairs with no offer of assistance.Review by: Anonymous
Date stayed December 12, 2010
3.4 out of 5
Clean and comfortable. Lacking certian ammenities howeverReview by: Anonymous
Date stayed October 3, 2010
4.6 out of 5
Excellent location, few minutes walk into town, Hotel room was very clean & modern, nice decor, comfy bed. Would recommend this Hotel, i would stay here again.Review by: Mark Johnston
Date stayed June 7, 2010
4.2 out of 5
great location and good price considering you are in the centre of queenstown.Review by: Anonymous
Date stayed June 7, 2010
5 out of 5
A very comfortable room with the added advantage of only a short walk to the city.Review by: Anonymous
Date stayed April 22, 2010
4.8 out of 5
The Hotel was in a great location and it was goodReview by: Anonymous
Date stayed November 10, 2009
5 out of 5
Very friendly and enjoyable stay, within walking distance to the townReview by: Anonymous
Date stayed March 23, 2009
4.4 out of 5
I would definitely stay here again. It was in a great location - 2 mins to walk into town, but far enough away for a bit of peace, and they had everything we needed in a very pleasant atmosphere. Great price too!Review by: Anonymous
Date stayed January 7, 2009
4.6 out of 5
Very basic, would be better if it had carpet on the floor. Location very good. Price a bit too much for what you get.Review by: Mary Matthews
Date stayed November 14, 2008
4.2 out of 5
The Lodge is in the heart of downtown Queenstown, a block back from the waterfront. No view is available because of the tall trees across the road. Very comfortable rooms. On site parking. Rooms will seem noisy if Lodge has full occupancy. wooden floors convey sound. Not an issue on our visit. We enjoyed our stay there.Review by: Anonymous
Date stayed November 10, 2008
4.4 out of 5
Great location (3 mins walk to lake), fantastic room, lovely big bed and all clean and tidy.. would definitely stay again.. thanks.Review by: Catherine Rowland
Date stayed July 28, 2008
4.2 out of 5
great location within easy walking distance of shops, restaurants, botanical gardens, waterfront. Decor sparse but modern and clean. Can store excess luggage if going on Milford Track walk.Review by: Ruth Cook
Date stayed June 2, 2008
4.4 out of 5
I had a great week stay in May. I found the wooden room very cozy. I liked warm bathroom with heated floor and big warm bed. It was easy short walk from the center. I recommend to stay on the second floor.Review by: Anonymous
Date stayed May 13, 2008
4.8 out of 5
Very clean. Nicely appointed. Great customer service. Excellent location to town (short walk). Some street noise, but otherwise quiet. Coin-op laundry facility was convenient. Nice 2 night stay.Review by: Anonymous
Date stayed March 16, 2008
4.2 out of 5
lovely place. Really helpful staff. Close to town. Free parking was a plus. Wish there would have been a microwave or small cooking facility in the room. Overall a delightful stayReview by: Susan Schenk
Date stayed September 1, 2007
5 out of 5
Beautifully appointed studio apartment. Very close to town and reasonably quiet. Travellers who are used to making their own breakfast should be aware that there is no microwave, toaster, plates etc. but this is offset by a charming and well set up breakfast room. This lodge comes highly recommended and we wouldn't stay anywhere else in Queenstown - it is great !!!Review by: Erica Clark
Date stayed April 29, 2007
3.4 out of 5
Well kept hotel, ten minute walk from Town Centre. You wouldn't want to spend too much time at the hotel, simply because there are very few ameneties.Review by: Roger Kolien
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Live events, with their unpredictable edge and tendency to wander off schedule, do not always suit TV broadcasts. And awards shows are the worst for this kind of thing. All it takes is an unscripted speech rambling on too long, and suddenly the important thing at the end of the night has been compromised by a far, far less important thing earlier on.
And that's what happened at the Brit Awards tonight. After a fairly nondescript ceremony, which saw Ed Sheeran take away two awards (British Breakthrough Act and British Male), Coldplay win British Band (for the third time) and Bruno Mars sing a song with a quiff almost twice the height of his own height, Adele was awarded the Album of the Year trophy.
She had already won British Female Solo Artist, and given a short, sweet speech, and was expecting to be able to stretch out a bit with her second, simply because Album of the Year is THE award. There's the heritage thing that happens with the Outstanding Contribution award, for which Damon Albarn from Blur – this year's rightful winners – had rambled on for quite a while. He started with "last time we were here it was 17 years ago, and it seemed to have a profound effect on our lives," the kind of opener that never leads to a snappy "thank you and goodnight." But that's for the grown-ups, if you need to prove that you are at the top of your tree, Album of the Year is the trophy you want. And who could argue that Adele isn't?
However, as she started to talk about how proud she feels, bring six Grammy awards back to the UK and then winning this particular Brit, the show's host, James Corden, had to step forward, at the behest of the TV producers, and bring her speech to a sudden halt, so he could introduce Blur's performance.
This was a timing issue. Blur had 11 minutes in which to play three songs: "Girls and Boys," "Song 2″ and "Parklife" before the whole show fell off the air and it was time for the news. No matter how big Adele may be right now, her need to thank people for her award was secondary to the issue of timing, and it resulted in a horrible screech of gears, and as you can see from the picture, a rude hand gesture.
Adele, just after what we're now calling Blur-gate. (screengrab from ITV coverage)
UPDATE: There's a clip:
Afterwards, James Corden told interviewers he was gutted that he had to do it, and didn't understand why. For her part, Adele appears to have taken it all in good humor.
Twitter predictably exploded, with people blaming Damon for going on, and Blur for having to have their 11 minutes, but really, it's television's fault. TV often can't remember what's really important at moments of high stress, and can be too busy arranging a pointless chat earlier on to remember to leave enough slack for the heavyweight moments towards the end. And goodness knows there are enough stunned silences in TV awards shows, so it's no easy task.
Not that it really matters. It's only an awards show. There's be another along in a minute.
Fraser has been writing and broadcasting about music and popular culture for over 15 years, first at the Top of the Pops website, and most recently for the NME, Guardian and MSN. He also wrote BBC Radio 1's Chart Blog and reviews albums for BBC Radio 2.
He is Anglophenia's current resident Brit, blogging about British slang and running around the Mall taking snaps of the crowd at the Royal Wedding, as well as reigniting a childhood passion for classic Doctor Who and cramming as much music in as he can manage.
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Madison Rayne
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According to backstage rumors, Adam Rose is clinging on by a thread since key members of WWE management, including Vince McMahon and producer Kevin Dunn, are not big fans of his character. Things might have gotten worse since his match at Money in the Bank 2014 against Damien Sandow was basically ignored by the live audience. Rose could be demoted from television very soon.
July 5, 2014
While he was widely viewed as one of the favorites to win the title at Money in the Bank 2014, Bray Wyatt was actually never in consideration as a champion by WWE. The company was dead set on putting the belt back around John Cena, as they felt that they needed their top star to be the face of the company while they're trying to win back the trust of the investors. Putting the belt on Wyatt might not evoke the same level of trust from people who might not necessarily follow the product as much as fans.
July 3, 2014
While there is still a chance that he was working the audience during his speech at Money in the Bank 2014, the topic of Daniel Bryan require a second surgery to repair his neck is a major issue for WWE. Reports are surfacing that if it is true that he needs to go under the knife again, there is a very good chance that Bryan could miss up to a year of action.
June 30, 2014
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June 30, 2014
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June 30, 2014
Since it has failed to reach expectations, the WWE Network has been a bit of a black eye for Vince McMahon and company. Things might be getting worse really soon, as quite a few subscribers attempted to cancel their service because of technical issues during the streaming of Money in the Bank 2014. WWE was already concerned about how to entice new people to sign up, so that they can finally break that million subscribers mark.
June 30, 2014
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June 29, 2014
To calm down the Money in the Bank 2014 audience, WWE opted to go with another divas match as a filler. Layla El and Summer Rae battled in a match, where Fandango served as the special guest referee. Fans were so disinterested in the segment that a CM Punk chant broke out. In the end, Layla caught Summer with a kick to gain the pinfall. Layla and Fandango kissed after the match, while a despondent Summer looked on.
June 29, 2014
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June 29, 2014
In a very exciting match, Seth Rollins outlasted Dean Ambrose, Dolph Ziggler, Kofi Kingston, Rob Van Dam and Jack Swagger to capture the briefcase at Money in the Bank 2014. WWE wants to continue the war between Ambrose and the Authority, so they had Kane coming out and providing assistance to Rollins. Despite the heel tactic to win the match, the Rollins victory was actually cheered by a good amount of fans.
June 29, 2014
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June 29, 2014
Naomi Knight was given a crack at the WWE Divas Championship at Money in the Bank 2014, but it was Paige that walked away as the reigning titleholder after a DDT and a pin. The match was designed to further the eventual split between Naomi and Cameron, who was at ringside and taking glee whenever her tag team partner was in peril against Paige.
June 29, 2014
Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso had their biggest challenge to date when Erick Rowan and Luke Harper challenged them for the WWE tag team championship at Money in the Bank 2014. The twin brothers delivered by retaining the belt. The Usos performed a double superplex on Rowan before finishing him off with consecutive flying splashes from the top rope.
June 29, 2014
Thanks to the help of Kane, Seth Rollins was able to climb the ladder uninterrupted and win the briefcase at Money in the Bank 2014. The Big Red Monster came to the ring and attacked Dean Ambrose to clear the path. Kofi Kingston, Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger and Rob Van Dam were all laid out on the floor during the finale. WWE power couple Triple H and Stephanie McMahon came out afterwards to congratulate Rollins.
June 29, 2014
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June 29, 2014
As of right now, WWE has a big match between Roman Reigns and Randy Orton penciled in for WWE Battleground 2014. The company could set up the feud during the title match at Money in the Bank 2014. There are some rumors floating around that Orton and Reigns could be battling for the title at Battleground, even though it's a bit early for the big push to begin.
June 28, 2014
Rumors are floating around right now that Cameron will be doing a heel turn at Money in the Bank 2014. She will more than likely cost Naomi Knight her chance at the WWE Divas Championship. There is also speculations that the incident will then lead to a triple threat match at WWE Battleground 2014, which would also feature Paige as the champion still.
June 27, 2014
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June 25, 2014
The rumors of John Cena winning the WWE title at Money in the Bank 2014 just got hotter now that the company has accidentally revealed a poster for Summerslam 2014, which features what looks like a main event match between Cena and Brock Lesnar. There has been speculations over the last couple of months that when the former UFC champion makes his return to WWE, he would be thrown into a title program.
June 25, 2014
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June 30, 2014
A picture of TNA Knockout Madison Rayne in a blue bikini.
June 1, 2014
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May 31, 2014
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April 28, 2014
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April 27, 2014
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April 20, 2014
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April 13, 2014
A picture of TNA Knockout Madison Rayne wearing panties while pulling up her tank top to show her tremendously shaped abs.
April 10, 2014
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April 9, 2014
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April 8, 2014
A picture of Madison Rayne in her panties, and it looks like the TNA Knockouts Champion is about to get naked. Unfortunately, though, it's just a tease, as Madison is a mother now, so no such photos will be taken.
March 21, 2014
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March 4, 2014
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February 26, 2014
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British Gas Bills - sharp prectice - perhaps maybe?
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Posted June 28, 2012 at 8:30PM
I Pay a combinbed energy bill on line and am supposed to reieve a prompt payment discount/ I Get a Meter Reading reminder - which I take on the day and pay immediately on line. When I do this there is a promise of a prompt payment discount.
So I paid my April Bill this way.
Yesterday I ditto the June account.
Got notification Submitted gas and elec readings immediately and in due course got the on line bill
A single figure for the combined energy bill.
No mention of prompt payment discount from the last bill.
So I queried it- Where is the discount?
Oh they wrote back that is £3.75 off this bill.
But I wonder, it is easy to say it should have been higher by £3.75 I like to see the working - as my old teacher used to day.
What do you think?
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Posted June 28, 2012 at 9:11PM
Ask for an itemised bill. This should show the individual gas and electricity prices then the promt payment discount, the sum of the above followed by the VAT@5%. After this will be the total due. Hope this helps
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Posted June 29, 2012 at 10:53AM
I used to get an Email reminder to submit my readings, but this now seems to have been replaced by a Recorded telephone message which I don't always hear because when I pick the phone up to what seems to be a cold call I ring off. It seems that on some occasions these have been British Gas telling me its time to send in my readings.
The Email reminder was much more useful as there was a link to my accounts. Its also impossible so it seems to change back to a paper bill once you have signed up to paperless billing, without jumping through hoops.
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Posted June 29, 2012 at 11:28AM
Big business and sharp practice,you cannot be serious. You only have to pick up your daily paper or watch commercial TV to see that every business is really bending over backwards to insure that us 'proles' get the best deals and service.
And then there are the cartels, businesses working together to bring us the best prices etc.EU.
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Posted June 29, 2012 at 11:58AM
Thank you Chronus for my morning 'laff'
I nearly spilled my coffee in my mirth
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Posted June 29, 2012 at 12:09PM
I'm not seeing what the problem is?
Log in on British Gas website and download your itemised bill .pdf
You can also choose how to be reminded phone/email etc.
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Posted June 29, 2012 at 12:19PM
You are most welcome.
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Posted June 30, 2012 at 3:16PM
I am with Cop Energy. I do not get a reminder to read my meter. Submit my meter readings every month. My account shows the last four readings and shows how much I have paid and whether I am in credit or owe them money. Also get a rebate every twelve months. It is a UK call center and they have been very helpful when I have phoned them understanding my query and giving me the necessary information quickly and simply. Would recommend them as the account is easy to understand. Has been recommended by Which magazine as a good buy.
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Posted June 30, 2012 at 3:52PM
Do you mean Co-op? This one. As I have not heard of them before now.
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Posted July 1, 2012 at 9:11PM
I use british gas for gas & Electric and I find it easier (and cheaper) to pay by direct debit- that way you get maximkum discounts and don't have the hassle of paying manuually.Work out your annual cost and add 5% (for the first year), divide by 12 and that is the cost of your fuel per month.
After the first full year (or any time between) you can adjust the amount you pay.
as Lotvic says log on to british gas and download the itemised PDF of your bill.
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Posted July 3, 2012 at 12:20PM
British Gas are having troubles with online pdf bill. It can't be downloaded and viewed apparently as I found out yesterday. Previous bills are fine.
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