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Title: Movie Review: Running Scared
Posted: March 17, 2008 (02:32 AM)
If I remember anything about "Running Scared" a year or two from now, I hope I remember that it was the worst movie I've seen this millenium and that I should stay far, far away from it for the rest of my life. It's incredible, really. I didn't think major Hollywood studios still made movies this spectacularly bad. It turns out that they do. They really do.
"Running Scared" is the story of a guy named Joe (played by Paul Walker of "The Fast and the Furious"). At the beginning of the movie, he's one of several people counting drug money in a room. There's a lot of money. There are a lot of guns. Then there are a lot more guns as masked men break into the room brandishing automatic weapons. They dmand the drug money, they force gangsters to the floor and treat them poorly. In general, it's a nasty scene where people say 'fuck' a lot and then say it some more, then add in a few sentences that are made up of almost nothing but 'fuck' for good measure. It's kind of a theme for the movie.
In seconds, though, the tables turn. The guys that were counting money before the assault slice one of the gunmen's ankles and he goes down like a horse shanked by a wolf. It's an all out gunfight. One guy gets his penis blown off at close range, people are diving behind mattresses and taking shotgun blasts to the chests. It's bloody and when it's done, the gangsters find that the thugs who assaulted them... were dirty cops.
Joe is tasked with hiding the guns that killed the cops, but he screws up somewhere along the way and his son's friend, the next door neighbor kid, grabs the gun and takes a few shots at his abusive father... who also happens to be a kind-of sort-of member of some faction of the Russian mafia.
Double oops.
From there, the movie focuses mostly on Joe as he chases after the Russian kid and the gun, through one improbable scene after another while people say "fuck" a lot and visit places like a strip club--where full frontal nudity abounds but you wish it didn't because it just ain't pretty--and a park, where druggies are shooting at each other and a hockey rink (where there's a lot of shooting and more swearing).
Lest you think that my problems with the movie all stem from gratuitous profanity, let me assure you that I am fully aware some people talk this way. I just don't want to see it in a movie, that's all. Or I want a break from it. The stream of profanity throughout "Running Scared" just went over the top, then kept going and going. But no, that's not the end of my complaints.
At least as offensive as the profanity were the cheap cinematography tricks and the absurd plot points. There are "Matrix"-style slow-motion sequences, just because. Do they add anything to the movie? No. Do they occur consistently enough to feel stylish? No. They just feel stupid.
And the plot points I mentioned? Something like 5 or 10 minutes of the film deviate from the main story to cover the adventures of Joe's wife as she discovers a husband-and-wife team of pedophiles. Those are some of the most entertaining moments of the film, but they have nothing to do with the story. In fact, they jeopardize its continuity.
I will stay away from spoilers in case some of you still want to see this train wreck of a movie, but let me just say that there are some moments that contradict each other quite badly. Then there are moments that seem so spectacularly sappy that they have to have been thrown in to appease a hypothetical audience of people who care about emotional endings. Ugh! If you can imagine something cliche or stupid or otherwise damaging to a film's value, "Runing Scared" probably does it at least once... probably twice.
So in the end, my recommendation is pretty clear. Stay away from "Running Scared." Far, far, far away. It's 122 minutes long and around two hours of that isn't even worth watching.
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Title: Movie Review: Absolute Power
Posted: March 02, 2008 (03:03 AM)
There's something about Clint Eastwood. I watch him on-screen and I can't help but care about the characters he portrays. Perhaps it's the way he makes everything look so effortless.
That's what he does in "Absolute Power," a movie in which he starred (and a film he also directed). Taken from what I have every confidence was a best-selling novel, the movie tells the story of an aging thief, estranged from his daughter and about to pull a big heist. Then the night of the event has arrived and he's on the job. Everything is going great... until some serious crap goes down. Suddenly, he's an accidental witness to a murder committed by the President himself. Suddenly he's the annoying fly in the ointment that prevents the cover-up from being perfect.
Eastwood's character isn't perfect, though. His first inclination is to run, but of course that changes and the other characters in the movie develop more (with help from other fine actors like Gene Hackman, Laura Linney and Ed Harris). All around, there are strong performances here and I got the feeling as I watched that I could have been entertained if everyone had simply sat around the table talking about the weather. That's the kind of direction Eastwood brings to the picture.
So what is there to say, really? What is there to critique? Well, the movie does sometimes drag on a bit, but never in a way that made me wish it would end. Quite the opposite, actually. It's just over two hours but when it finally wound down I was wishing it didn't have to. I wanted to see Eastwood's character get into more scrapes, and to escape from them relatively unscathed.
"Absolute Power" is an achievement. There have been other movies touching on similar material. There have been thrillers with dynamic leads and Gene Hackman has even stepped in for an appearance in at least one of them ("Enemy of the State" comes to mind), but there really hasn't been another movie quite like "Absolute Power." It's a must-see if you like slow-paced thrillers that take the time to explore the characters, to really build depth to them so that you care about the little things so much that the explosions don't have to level a city block just to hit you in the gut.
Watch "Absolute Power" the next time you have two hours to spare. If you're anything like me, you won't regret doing so.
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Title: Woo hoo! I got a job!
Posted: February 29, 2008 (03:11 PM)
Today, when I was paying the minimum amount due to keep my cable Internet from going away (because I am broke and have more bills right now than I can possibly pay), the other line beeped in and it was the local restaurant calling.
I'd gone in for an interview earlier this week, and I went away thinking that I wanted the job and that I would probably get it. The interview, I thought, went really well.
I was right. I start orientation tomorrow morning at 10AM. My required outfit? Jeans and tennis shoes. They seem like really great people. I'll be training mostly for stuff around the restaurant, it sounds like, but my regular gig will be delivery driving. That's right: I'm actually excited about delivering food.
Of course, that excitement is because I've been without work for months. I'm running out of games I can sell on eBay without bursting into tears. Bills are mounting. It's not pretty, not at all. So having work now (plus I will get tips on top of an hourly wage) is really exciting. Besides, I like what I've seen of my new employers. They seem like really great people.
The job could still blow up in my face at this point. That's certainly possible, but I hope it won't. I can't afford to spend another few months looking for a different job. My health won't take it. So even though by many people's standards my new job will sort of suck, be happy for me and stuff. I'm back in the work force!
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Title: My grandmother has passed.
Posted: February 15, 2008 (08:18 PM)
Tonight I was driving and my cell phone rang. It was my mom. I asked if I could call her back, because I was driving. She said that was fine. I'm not one of those idiots that gets in wrecks because he didn't know when to get off the dang phone.
So tonight, I got home and I called my mom. The reason she was calling was that my grandmother was 'on the brink,' so to speak. Between the first call from my mom and my opportunity to return it, 'on the brink' became 'no longer with us.'
My mom couldn't talk about it long on the phone, because it was her mother that had passed. And of course, it was hard for me to hear that kind of news and it was hard to hear it from fighting tears.
Death sucks, but I was expecting to get a call like this any day so it didn't honestly hit me all that hard. The worst part is how much I know it hurts my mom, even though she was expecting it too. Worse is that her dad is still alive (in a different home; my grandparents were divorced years ago but remained fond of one another) and probably doesn't have a terribly long time to live on his end.
Anyway, I'm not sure why I'm posting this except sometimes talking about things in a public sort of forum makes me feel better about things.
One final thought: mortality sucks.
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Title: Movie Review: Tideland
Posted: February 14, 2008 (08:29 PM)
Before so much as a single frame of the actual movie "Tideland" begins, director Terry Gilliam takes a moment to set the stage for his potential audience. "A lot of people won't like this movie," he tells us, but he unearths a bright side on the other side of the coin: "Fortunately, a lot of people will." The rest of us, he predicts, won't know what to think.
After seeing the movie myself, I find myself in that last group. "Tideland" is the story of a young girl named Jeliza-Rose, portrayed passionately by young actress Jodelle Ferland (who, if her performance here is any indication, will surely go on to become one of the greatest actresses of her generation). She lives a life that generously might be called 'hellish.' Her mother and father are junkies prone to frightening mood swings and it quickly becomes clear that of the lot of them, the 7-year-old (just a guess on the age, by the way) is the most mature.
Before long, mommy dearest (Jennifer Tilly) is convulsing from a bad drug trip that leaves her a corpse. Jeliza-Rose's father (Jeff Bridges) is frightened and proposes a flaming monument in her honor, a suggestion Jeliza-Rose warns him doesn't make much sense. He relents and the two head off to escape the scene. They arrive eventually at an old house out in the middle of a sprawling countryside, where the rest of the movie will play out. Before long, Jeliza-Rose meets a mysterious woman and her 'mentally challenged' brother. Since Daddy is a non-factor back at the house, Jeliza-Rose makes the best of a bad situation and forms an uneasy acquaintance with the two strangers.
Most of the movie is about that relationship, and about (as Terry Gilliam notes in his introduction) the resiliancy of children. As he says, they have a tendency to bounce back. That's what we as an audience are expected to greet with interest: Jeliza-Rose subjected to one horrific encounter after another. We're supposed to chuckle at her wide-eyed innocence throughout the film as she mixes drugs for her junkie father, as she engages in debates with doll heads and as she begins to search for fulfillment in the inept young man who lives in the house across the way.
Entertaining some may find "Tideland," but it's hard for me to do as Gilliam instructs and put aside prejudices. It's hard to say that a child's wide-eyed innocence is inherently good and beautiful, to accept that as a constructive message from a film like this.
And quite frankly, when the movie isn't shocking a person with uncomfortable situations, it's rather dull. A little girl talking to her dolls hardly makes for thrilling cinema. As remarkable as the performances are, this amounts to a movie you watch when you want to find yourself challenged but not particularly entertained. Then the credits are rolling with as close to a fairytale ending as a grim production like this can manage, and you're presumably supposed to kick back and say "Now that's entertainment!"
Well, it wasn't entertainment for me. It felt a lot like watching "Schindler's List," really. I was challenged and left both movies thinking, only in the case of "Tideland," I'm not sure what I was even supposed to be considering. That children escape into imaginitive worlds to escape the harsh world around them? I didn't need a film to tell me that, and I don't need "Tideland." Odds are pretty good that you won't, either.
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Title: A way to promote your blog...
Posted: February 02, 2008 (03:45 PM)
This thread is the result of me deciding to promote my blog a bit more. It's something I encourage you all to do, if you're interested in getting more exposure for the stuff you post (I realize that not all of you are, so ignore this post if you don't want your blog to reach audiences outside HonestGamers).
Anyway, there's a popular site called Technorati that apparently does a lot to promote the various blogs around the Internet. You can find it here.
Signing up is free, and once you've done so you will be able to create a profile and then 'claim' your blog. Part of that means making a new post in your blog that contains an HTML link (which the Technorati) site provides. Here is my link:
Technorati Profile
Technorati then spiders your blog and will eventually link to it from the service, which other users can then apparently search by topic. So for example, my movie reviews might now reach a much larger audience, plus any news I choose to share in my blog about the HonestGamers site.
For me, that's obviously a big bonus, and maybe it even is for some of you. My personal hope is that as more people browse Technorati and find out about HonestGamers and its blogging system, they'll feel inclined to join and share in the fun. It's just one way to promote our content and services (not to mention my reviews, in my case, since my blog links from them). I'm all about that!
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Title: Some links have moved...
Posted: February 02, 2008 (12:13 AM)
If you've been to the site's main page lately, you may have noticed that some links have moved. This has prompted some of you to ask what's going on, and to suppose that I was "just being a dumb dick." However, that is not the case. I actually had a good reason for moving things around.
"But Jason," some of you may say, "we were used to the links in their old places."
I know. I know. I was the same way. Then I saw the light. Then I came to understand the (potential) value of rearranging. Did I do it for the money? No, I didn't do it for the money. Or did I?
The reason the links has to move comes down to Google. As you know if you've been reading my blog, I'm looking for ways to bring more traffic to the site. I've come to the conclusion that the way to do this is to make sure that Google has a good idea just how much great content we offer. Our problem isn't a lack of content, not by a longshot. Rather, it's the limited traffic.
So basically, the time is always right to optimize the site for search engine performance. And as you might know, search engines like Google place less emphasis on meta tags than they did five years ago. That's because unscrupulous webmasters spam words that have nothing to do with the site, just in hopes of attracting an audience and satisfying advertisers. Therefore, search engines now pay particular attention to content, and particularly the content that first appears when a page loads.
For a site like HonestGamers, that content is the text that appears in the very top bar of the site. So basically, for awhile we've been giving Google mixed signals by promoting the different systems we cover. That's good, but it's more important that the site deliver a consistent message about its focus (which is less about a few systems listed in that bar and more about the reviews, guides, cheats and other content we offer).
So basically, switching things around was something I felt needed to be done for Google... so that we can bring in more users and share our excellent content with the people who will want to see it but don't know that we exist. As an added bonus, the consoles we cover now catch the eye more prominently as a person loads the site, so that should in theory improve the amount of interest from casual visitors.
These changes aren't necessarily final, but everything I checked online seems to indicate that within 3 or 4 months, this move will result in significantly improved traffic. It's worth trying, I figure, so I hope you'll understand why I made a change that must have been perplexing to many of you. I'm not just screwing around on the site for the heck of it. I'm making the changes that will have the best long-term impact possible. This was one of those changes.
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Title: The feel of gaming
Posted: January 31, 2008 (04:52 AM)
I spent something like an hour tonight, locked in half-hearted debate (on both sides, I'm sure) with bluberry. He was arguing that the Xbox 360 provides varied experiences beyond what I called 'testosterone-fueled' fare, while I was of course asserting just the opposite.
The discussion ended with bluberry going to bed, pretty disgusted (I think) about having spent most of an hour in that fashion. I shared his disgust, but that's how my evenings sometimes go when I'm coding on the site and there's not much better to discuss. Toward the end of the conversation, though, things turned in a direction that got me thinking about my history with games, and just how much of it comes down to feelings.
As I told bluberry, I used to think that my distaste for Genesis games during the 16-bit era was just me being a Nintendo fanboy. Certainly, I could for the most part only own one system and that happened to be the Super Nintendo. I did buy a used Genesis after awhile, but then I sold it because I didn't find enough games that interested me. I figured my Nintendo loyalty was blindsiding me. Now I own a Genesis again and have for a few years. I've played more games on the system and I've looked into a lot of its classics. And though I can easily go back and play the right retro games for the first time and love them--no nostalgia entering the picture at all--I usually find that isn't true of old Genesis titles.
I've realized recently that it comes down to their general 'feel.' I just don't enjoy what they have going for them. Take a game like Contra: Hard Corps, which I believe may be the best in the series from an impartial sort of perspective (if one can even exist in these matters). To me? It looks completely blah. I just don't like the visual style at all and it just doesn't look like the sort of game I can really care about. Contra III? Love the visual style.
This may prompt some of you to shout "Graphics whore!" in my general direction, but I can assure you it's nothing technical. I love a beautiful new game and I love a really old retro game that by today's standards looks like crap. It's all about aesthetics, and the unique effect they have on me individually. Castlevania IV? Doesn't look good to me. Castlevania: Bloodlines? Looks pretty okay. Castlevania: Dracula X? Looks awesome! Obviously, the actual gameplay on these titles doesn't necessarily match, but those aesthetics have already spoken. Zelda III? Looks fantastic to me. Hard to imagine it looking better. Ys I & II? Doesn't look bad. Doesn't look particularly good, either. Again, it's nothing to do with gameplay. I like playing both games, but there's that aesthetic constantly in the back of my mind as I play Ys and it does impact things for me.
So basically, the color palette or the design sensibilities of Genesis third party developers... something about it meant that most Genesis games just genuinely did not appeal to me. I didn't really have any deep hatred for the system, when I look back... just indifference. It was that other system and sometimes really cool stuff like Shining Force II came along--awesome game--but then I'd forget about it for a year or so. That's how it always went.
That's repeating with the Xbox 360. I own one and I like it. There are good games sometimes. But most of them, those same games I called 'testosterone-fueled', don't appeal to me. I play something like Dead Rising and I have fun with it, but it can never truly be that game that makes me praise the Xbox 360 as a fantastic system. It's not as bad as things were for the Genesis, of course. I can name three or four Xbox 360 games I'd definitely miss if the system disappeared, and for a long time I couldn't say that about the Genesis. But still, it does feel a bit like a repeat.
And the Wii? The Wii is home to the games that I'm having fun with. It's home to the games that have that certain 'feel' for me, the sense of wonder that games provide for me when they're doing things right. No, it's not a technical thing. But the games FEEL right. I have fun playing them and I'm not being disracted by the atmosphere or some vague variable I can't even put into words. I like the Wii better than the Xbox 360. I like it better because it feels better. As vague as it is, as stupid as it sounds and as stupid as it looks when I type it as an entry in my blog, that's what it really comes down to. I guess it'll have to be good enough for me.
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Title: Someone thinks we're dumber than we are...
Posted: January 24, 2008 (06:27 PM)
Today, I got an e-mail about a scam repayment program the Nigerian government is offering. The problem--the e-mail explained in very broken English--is that many Nigerian con artists (in the e-mail called 'hoodlums') have been taking money from foreigners in various e-mail scams. Primarly Americans were affected, it reported, with 60% of the thefts based in that area. The Nigerian government is so ashamed that it is now offering $100,000 to each victim. Apparently, I was named as a victim by one of those people arrested in connectino with the scam, and now I can receive compensation by simply forwarding my bank details to the gmail address from whence the message came.
On the one hand, this scam is genius. The people who have been frauded are probably very sore about it, and I can imagine some stupid old rich woman saying "Well, finally they'll get what's coming to them and I'll get what's coming to me!" After all, anyone who receives this message and responds has likely proven a capable victim once. Why not twice? It's just... insulting. Are people really so stupid that this newest scam will work? Unfortunately, there's a good chance the answer is "Yes."
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Title: Movie Reviw: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Posted: January 24, 2008 (02:47 AM)
Clint Eastwood has been making movies for a long, long time. Several of them I saw as a kid. Then there were some I didn't, like "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," which is in theory the best one to ever bear his name. I say "in theory" because I haven't seen every movie he's ever been in, and because "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly," while an interesting film, isn't always my cup of tea.
For starters, there's the plot. I've heard it summarized as the story of three guys looking for a cache of gold, and certainly there's that element. Many of the scenes we see revolve around that, but there's a lot of other stuff going on. There's (rather pointless) commentary on the Civil War, too. Then there are a bunch of scenes that build character and are perhaps interesting on that level, but that don't really add a whole lot to the movie as a whole. They're the reason it lasts three freaking hours.
As the movie opens, some nasty looking cowboys are creeping up on a building to ambush the man inside. However, things go wrong and the nasty dudes wind up on the floor with lead in their stomachs as their quarry jumps out a window. The story switches next to some guy in his pueblo about to sit down for a meal when a stranger shows up at the door. From there, the owner of the pueblo tries to talk his uninvited guest out of killing him, but it proves a pointless endeavor and the body count is really going. Most of the movie proceeds about like that, following separate threads as three cowboys--"The Good" played by Clint Eastwood and two other guys played by no one I recognized, what with this being a spaghetti Western--are true to their names. There's lots of double crossing, a little bit of gunplay and a lot of the same main song being repeated until it is ground into your skull.
So, what does the movie have going for it? Well, the cinematography is at least interesting, though the land is barren enough that looking at it gets old after awhile. There are some unexpected funny bits, too, which keep the audience engaged in some instances where things begin to lag. The actor playing "The Ugly" provides some nice comical relief with a few funny lines, though not in an in-your-face sort of way. Clint Eastwood is also very quiet and is addressed as "Blondie" throughout most of the film. All of those things will either appeal to you or they won't, and that's where for me the movie faltered.
I guess I just like a movie with forward momentum. At three hours, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is hardly the longest movie I've ever seen, but there were times it felt like it was. That was really my biggest issue. There simply were too many scens that drug on a bit longer than they needed to, and there were some moments--even some with action--that didn't really do much of anything for the movie. I kept feeling like some careful scene cuts would've shortened things up by a half-hour and made for a much more watchable film.
As it sits now, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is an interesting movie that most people might do best to watch in two sittings. The second half really picks up nicely and is an interesting movie, but people like me will probably find their spirits broken about halfway in. I'm glad I watched it through to its conclusion--since not doing so would've caused me to miss most of the movie's truly great scenes--but this is definitely a case where there's too much of a good thing. With a clearer focus, this could have been a truly fantastic movie. Instead, it rambles too much... sort of like this review. At least I can end the review early without missing anything, though.
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GREGORY -- New Gregory Police Chief Jesse Garcia is cracking down on a huge problem in town, a high number of junk cars. Police have counted 181 so far. It's an issue that's been driving officials crazy for decades.
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Videos: Elaine Aron on the trait of high sensitivity
Video: Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D., summarizes the trait of high sensitivity:
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See listing of videos, including documentary "A Talk on High Sensitivity" by Shari Dyer, on Elaine Aron's site hsperson.com
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You can also purchase another DVD: Elaine Aron: A Seminar on Learning How to Thrive as a Highly Sensitive Person. A Guide to Understanding your Sensitivity and Creating a Fuller, Richer Life.
Review: "Dr. Aron succinctly discusses the trait of high sensitivity while providing new guidance and inspiration for those who are familiar with the subject. In a lively and practical manner, Dr. Aron answers a variety of questions from some of the five hundred participants who attended her landmark seminar in Copenhagen in Spring 2010." [Amazon.com]
"This DVD will not only be invaluable to the highly sensitive but extremely beneficial for their partners and parents, as well as professionals working with this population" - Ted Zeff. Ph.D. Author of "The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide" and "The Strong, Sensitive Boy."
Elaine Aron, PhD is author of the book The Highly Sensitive Person.
Also see the Self-Test on her site.
See more titles on page: Books, Products and Programs for Highly Sensitive People.
See another video and quotes by Dr. Aron in article:
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To help maintain the emphasis of Stanford CME upon high quality education.
Use of the Stanford Campus
Educational programs are most effective in settings which are designed to foster learning. For this reason, the School of Medicine encourages faculty to hold continuing medical education courses in the rich academic environment of the Stanford campus whenever practical. The administration is committed to making attractive and functional venues available including the new Li Ka Shing Center (opening in Mid-2010).
Off Campus Continuing Medical Education Activities
The School of Medicine recognizes that to best serve the educational needs of practicing physicians and to advance the careers of our academic faculty it may be appropriate to hold selected CME courses at off campus locations within our primary medical catchment area. For this reason, it is permissible to use certain types of off-campus facilities within Northern California. Proposals to hold a Stanford CME activity elsewhere will be considered on a case-by-case basis only if they possess exceptional educational merit and have a compelling reason for use of a more remote venue.
The School encourages use of not-for-profit conference centers and moderately priced hotels. School policy does not permit use of venues which are primarily vacation destinations (e.g. ski, golf, and beach resorts; casinos).
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The policy is in effect immediately for courses not already on the CME calendar. For already scheduled courses with venues selected, the originally planned venue will be permitted until the end of 2010. Exceptions beyond this date will only be considered if cancellation of an existing venue contract would incur exceptional expense.
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Be happy with what you have while you work for what you want - Hellen Keller
If we never had problems, how would we learn to cope? If we never had pain, how would we learn resilience? If we never had loss, how would we learn appreciation? If we never had struggles, how would we learn strength?
While it's hard to see infidelity and divorce as a blessing, the silver lining is that it teaches us a hell of a lot.
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New Yunnan restaurants
Lotus Blue and Yunnan Kitchen introduce New Yorkers to the delicate flavors of southwestern China.
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Rating: 3/5 Yunnan Kitchen: 79 Clinton St between Delancey and Rivington Sts (212-253-2527). Subway: F to Delancey St; J, Z, M to Delancey–Essex Sts. Mon, Wed–Sun 5–11pm. Average small plate: $9.
Rating: 3/5 Lotus Blue: 110 Reade St between Church St and West Broadway (212-267-3777). Subway: 1, 2, 3 to Chambers St. Mon noon–3pm, 5–10:30pm; Tue–Thu noon–3pm, 5pm–12:30am; Fri noon–3pm, 5pm–1:30am; Sat 5pm–1:30am; Sun 5–10:30pm. Average main course: $28.
Photograph: Virginia Rollison
Fried potato balls at Yunnan Kitchen
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Charred eggplant at Yunnan Kitchen
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Lamb meatballs at Yunnan Kitchen
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Crispy whole shrimp at Yunnan Kitchen
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Yunnan Kitchen
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Yunnan Kitchen
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Fried potato balls at Yunnan Kitchen
The quaint era when Americanized Indian and Thai food passed for exotic gave way long ago to more authentic regionalization. Oaxacan, Isaan Thai and South Indian spots are the new norm in New York, featuring flavors that tend to rock our perceptions of their countries' cuisines. Chinese food, too, has made a specialized shift to tongue-numbing Szechuan, lamb-centric Xian and snacky Shanghai cuisine.
The rain-forest cooking of the southern province of Yunnan is the latest addition to New York's polyglot Chinese-food landscape. Until recently, the only place offering a taste was a takeout cubbyhole—Yun Nan Flavor Snack—out in Sunset Park's Chinatown. But Yunnan cooking has suddenly arrived in a big way, with two up-market venues, Lotus Blue in Tribeca and Yunnan Kitchen on the Lower East Side, opening within weeks of each other. Both serve food so distinctive—fruity, floral, occasionally spicy—that the uninitiated might not identify it as Chinese at all. With essentially no competition (that Brooklyn joint serves only noodle soups), you might have to take it on faith that this is what real Yunnan food tastes like.
Yunnan Kitchen is the brainchild of former Standard Grill manager Erika Chou, a Chinese-American who's spent some time in the region. Before opening the place, she returned with her chef Travis Post, who spent the past five years cooking locavore pizza at Franny's. He's developed chefly renditions of the tastes he encountered on that trip, more impressionistic than truly authentic—which works out just fine, given his pitch-perfect palate and skills with a wok.
Post and his team, working in an open kitchen, create a real racket stir-frying dinner, as if proving themselves by the amount of noise they can make. The percussive performance echoes through the votive-lit dining room, a beautiful, lofty space appointed with antiques from the region and a bit farther afield (framed Yunnan jewels, a Tibetan tiger-print rug).
In Yunnan the food is as bright and lively as it is in neighboring Vietnam, featuring plenty of wild herbs and greens and fresh potent chilies. Raw chrysanthemum leaves, peppery like arugula, are drizzled with cool sesame dressing in a light, palate-stirring salad. Charred baby eggplants are just as zingy, soaked in black vinegar and topped with crushed peanuts and slivered red chilies. Crispy whole shrimp have a great citrus tang, thanks to a dusting of lime salt and a sprinkle of lime leaves deep-fried like chips.
Post highlights bold flavors—his super-succulent lamb meatballs are seasoned with an Indian-style spice blend (cumin, coriander and cardamom). But there are subtle tastes, too. Mashed-potato puffs, as delicate as French pommes dauphines, come with a light soy-vinegar dipping sauce. Silky scrambled eggs are folded around jasmine buds and cherry tomatoes.
Despite the clamorous soundtrack of metal on wok, all of this food is as spare and elegant as the space it's served in.


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This recipe comes from my mom, and is an excellent one to put together for unexpected guests. For me at least, the ingredients are those I commonly have on hand (more or less), making it a pantry-recipe par excellence.
servings6-8 Servings
Ingredients1 lb. mild Italian sausage (or turkey sausage), casings removed
1 Tblsp. olive oil
2 large onions, chopped
3-4 cloves garlic, minced
2 15-oz. cans chicken broth (or equivalent)
2 15-oz. cans diced tomatoes (or one 28-oz can)
2 15-oz cans cannellini or other white beans, with liquid
10-oz. package fresh or frozen spinach, chopped
1-1/2 cups tiny pasta, any shape (orzo, shells, elbows, etc)
Fresh or dried basil to taste (~ 2 tsp)
Fresh or dried oregano to taste (~ 2 tsp)
Fresh or dried parsley to taste (~ 1 Tblsp)
Salt and Pepper, to taste
Optional: add zucchini, celery, carrots and/or flat Italian green beans
PreparationIn a large, heavy bottom pot or Dutch oven, scramble the sausage in hot olive oil until no longer pink, and slightly browned. Add onions to sausage and continue to cook until onions are translucent. Add garlic, chicken broth, tomatoes, and beans (including the canning liquid). Simmer 20 minutes. Add spinach and bring to slow boil. Add tiny pasta and cook gently, stirring often to prevent sticking. Season well with basil, oregano, parsley, salt and pepper. (If a thinner soup is desired, add another can of chicken broth, or some water). Serve with grated Parmesan and some good Italian bread.
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type: Kid-Friendly
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Decisions, decisions. A magnificent Middle-Loire Valley red wine – the "Expression" St. Nicolas de Bourgueil from Joel Taluau, an empty skillet, potatoes and carrots pan-roasting off to the side with duck fat (and apologies to my cardiologist…)…ah, what the heck…duck breast it is! Wowser!
bourgueil and the empty skillet
farm, fisherman, squab, and silky rhône
Domaine de la Citadelle Gouverneur Saint-Auban Lubéron has a deep purple color, saturated right to the edge. The nose unfolds with ripe wild black cherries, crushed raspberries, and wonderful secondary aromatics, including dried figs, fresh fennel, and melted dark chocolate. On the palate the wine is all concentration and succulence, with luscious flavors suggesting black raspberry preserves, sweet Provençal herbs, and ripe black olives, all seasoned with buffering graphite minerality and sweet spices (like a great northern Rhône Syrah).
As always at Moore Brothers, this beautiful, handcrafted wine was "SHIPPED AT 56º," so on a recent Sunday at Josh […]
the farm and fisherman…and champagne (with a "capital C")
I'd been thinking a lot about Champagne recently, and in April, Terry and I will attend the annual "Terres de Vins et Champagne" symposium in Aÿ, to taste the new vins clairs of more than twenty small growers, all friends and colleagues of Raphaël and Vincent Bérêche. So their electrifying, mineral-saturated Champagne Brut Réserve seemed like a natural choice to bring to the Farm and Fisherman on a recent Friday, when Sue and I got our signals crossed about what to do for dinner before the orchestra.
The restaurant is only four blocks from the Kimmel. But […]
matyson and brunello
A recent Sunday at Matyson in Philadelphia. Alongside the grilled berkshire pork rib-eye, with fingerlings, brussels sprouts, leeks, and bourbon jus you see in the photo above, the Lambardi Brunello di Montalcino was as fresh and compelling as any wine you'll ever taste in Maurizio Lambardi's own cellar in Canalicchio. – Greg Moore
"Bistro" déjà vu.
I'm chagrined to admit that it even though it's only a short walk from our home in Fitler Square, it was our first visit to Patrice Rames' terrific Provençal restaurant, Bistro St. Tropez, since spring.
Patrice and I worked together at "Le Bec-Fin" in its glory days, more than twenty years ago (he was badly missed when he left to open "Bistro"). And over the years, Sue and I have celebrated more than few family milestones with him, so I can't explain why the restaurant had been flying under my radar recently, other than my naturally roving eye, and […]


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Another noob question. (My camera is the Panasonic Lumix GH2)
I took my camera out at the weekend for it's first proper go, and it became obvious very quickly I would need an ND filter.
I use the camera about 80% for video, 20% for photos.
From reading on various forums, the "Light Craft Workshop Fader ND Filter - Mk II" seems to be a really good one. But pricey.
On my camera, I have the pancake lens (46mm), and the kit lens (52mm).
Would I be best to go for as big an ND filter as possible and then use step-down adaptors, to future proof myself against bigger lenses?
Is that how it works?
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I've given you guys details on three wedding ceremony and reception venues that we're planning to visit while in Asheville, and you can expect fully detailed, single-dedicated-post reviews and photos to be dedicated to each one in the future. (Whether you want them or not. HAH!) :) But I recently added one more to the list of Asheville wedding venues, and I'm not sure, but... it might be.. maybe... "the one." It's called "Hidden River Events," and is located just outside of downtown Asheville. Continue Reading
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Carmelo Anthony announces he'll stay a New York Knick
On Sunday, in a message posted to his website, Carmelo Anthony announced that he would remain a Knick, confirming earlier reports:
A few years ago I dreamed of coming back to New York City, the place of my birth, and on February 23, 2011 that became a reality. This organization has supported me and in return, I want to stay and build here with this city and my team. At this pivotal juncture in my career, I owed it to myself and my family to explore all of the options available to me. Through it all, my heart never wavered.


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From community foundations to private family foundations, funders are taking a renewed look at capacity building grants. Building capacity is needed now more than ever to counter-balance the impact of severe budget cut-backs, both in state/federal grants, and the reduction of other sources of revenue, such as gifts by private individuals and other philanthropic sources. Consequently, there is a growing recognition that investments are needed to ensure a strong foundation for future sustainability. (Examples: helping boards and staff understand their own financial model, and board training so that board members understand how to read financial statements and participate in resource development).
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We were approached to create an exciting celebration event for the much-anticipated launch of BT Sport, the company's new sports television channels.
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Open Technologies provided an Iowa County with a thin client solution to help them streamline their desktop management and provisioning process.
Managing approximately 100 dispersed desktops throughout the various county government offices was a bit overwhelming. In order to simplify desktop maintenance, patching, and recovery, Open Technologies helped this customer design and implement a thin client device solution to a small set of its office workers.
The pilot proved successful and within six months they replaced nearly 40 PCs with thin clients. These devices are installed in traditional office locations as well as the county maintenance sheds. The maintenance team used to take up to 30 minutes to boot-up their laptop computers, login to the system, and make changes to some of their remote devices.
With the switch to thin clients and Java card technologies, it now takes seconds for the workers to login and make their changes.
Another benefit is the ability to create and store user profiles and templates. In one instance an end-user's computing session got infected by a virus. With a PC, it normally took the IT staff upwards of three days to rebuild the PC back to it's original state. With our thin client solution, they were able to delete the infected session, then create a new one using the users template. This process took about 15 minutes.
The implementation of the thin client environment helped streamline the maintenance of this customer's desktop environment that now allows the IT Department to focus on key initiatives that help generate income for the County.


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Social scientists are tracking the things we do on the internet, including website searches, Twitter messages, Facebook and blog posts, as well as the digital location trails generated by billions of cell phones. This isn't simple spying--or so they say (NOTE: subscribers can still listen to this show), but instead it's a way to predict future human behavior, including political crises, revolutions and social and economic instability.
In the October 11th edition of the New York Times, John Markoff quotes researcher Thomas Malone as saying, "We have vastly more detailed and richer kinds of data available as well as predictive algorithms to use, and that makes possible a kind of prediction that would have never been possible before." And it's not just sociologists who are interested in this: the government (as you might expect) is interested in the ides too. (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show too). The three-year experiment, which will begin in April, is being financed by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), which is part of the National Intelligence agency (NSA).
Speaking of spies, in his incredible book "The Omega Point," Whitley Strieber describes a mental institution which is actually filled with ex-CIA type agents who create a painting that is a time machine. This book is out-of-print, but YOU can still get a copy (along with an autographed bookplate designed by Whitley) from the Whitley Strieber Collection.
And HERE'S another book you won't want to miss: "Solving the Communion Enigma," Whitley Strieber's first nonfiction book about UFOs in a decade! You can pre-order it NOW and if you do, you can get a special bookplate for that too. Once you have purchased the book, you'll need to either forward the e-receipt or send as a jpg, screenshot (etc.) to the publisher. You will then receive an autoresponse that will include a link to a page where you can input your address. Tarcher will send a special "Communion Enigma" bookplate out to the recipients shortly before publication date. To learn more, click here.
All you have to do is Google your own name & damn near every comment you ever posted on various sights is listed. I now have 254 results & this one will be #255 next week as it already is A BRAVE NEW WORLD whether you like it or not. Here is a tip put a piece of tape over your camera until you need to use it or you will have unwanted pictures in a more private file of horny scientist or Globalist Moron.


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How about an ABC? 2 of everything is simple and delicious.
2 cups butter
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Cream butter & shortening well - up to 10 minutes. Add about 1/3 or the sugar; cream 10 minutes; add another 1/3 of the sugar and the flavoring; cream 10 minutes. Add remaining sugar and cream another 10 minutes.
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You've heard it a million times: "My computer crashed! Is it Mercury Retrograde?"
For the uninitiated, Mercury Retrograde comes approximately three times a year. This is the phase when Mercury, the planet of communication, data, messages and travel begins to slow down in its orbit.
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The first Mercury retrograde phase of 2014 arrives on February 6, but there's a two-week to ten-day "shadow phase" that comes before the exact day that the planet of communication stations retrograde. That's why we already felt the impending retrograde phase during the last week of January, and possibly why Gmail went down on the same day that the shadow phase began.
This is instructive for all of us because if a mammoth web presence like Gmail can go down, well, we're probably in for it too. The good news is that when it comes to a retrograde, a little bit of prep can save you every time. Even though we're already in the shadow, there's still plenty that you can do to ready yourself for the upcoming (and every other) Mercury retrograde phase.
Start by backing up your computer. If you have time, run a backup every day for the month of February -- or at least every other day. If you use Cloud for backup, make sure your service is robust. If you don't understand any of this, get a techie to do it for you -- STAT! You don't want to lose all your precious data, do you?
Make sure that your batteries are fresh for all your gadgets -- including your tablet and cell phone. Look at that pile of papers on your desk, go through and make sure you're not missing something that must be dealt with immediately. Things like this can easily slip through the cracks as Mercury Retrograde approaches.
Try not to buy any electronics during the retrograde phase. If you simply must expense a new iPad, try to do it before the retrograde begins on February 6 -- or wait until well after it ends on the 28th.
When it comes to your commute, know before you go! Don't get caught with unexpected delays and end up late for work and that important, can't-miss meeting.
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ITV has poached BBC drama executive and Bleak House producer Laura Mackie, making her its new controller of drama.
Currently the corporation's head of drama series and serials, Mackie will report to director of drama Nick Elliott and will be jointly responsible for commissioning all new such productions for the network and for running the large ITV slate of some 680 hours with its £320 million annual budget. She will take over from Elliot when he steps down at the end of 2007.
He said: "I've worked with Laura both when I was at the BBC and when we worked for LWT. Her track record in television drama speaks for itself and I am very much looking forward to working with her again. The really exciting project for Laura and I is to work together to launch a new era in ITV drama. Over the next two years we will use our traditional strengths to consolidate ITV's position as the leading channel for popular drama. And we will be introducing fresh thoughts and talent to ensure that we move with the times and find the hits for tomorrow."
Mackie has worked on a number of BBC hits including, Cutting It, Silent Witness, and Waking The Dead. She started her career in drama at the BBC in 1982 and worked as a script editor, producer and executive producer on a variety of programmes including Making Out, Casualty, Out of the Blue, Born to Run and Undercover Heart. She left the corporation in 1997 to join LWT as deputy controller of drama where her work included London's Burning, The Knock, Forgotten, Hero of the Hour and A Christmas Carol.
She said: "I have been lucky enough to be involved with some of the most original BBC dramas during the last five years and am grateful to all the talented people I've worked with. The challenge of taking on a commissioning role is hugely exciting and I'm very much looking forward to working along side Nick on a fresh, exciting and varied portfolio of drama for ITV."


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|Evaluation of an environmentally friendly anticorrosive pigment for alkyd primer
|Martí Barroso, Mireia; Fabregat Jové, Georgina; Azambuja, Denise S.; Alemán Llansó, Carlos; Armelín Diggroc, Elaine Aparecida
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|Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Química
An alkyd formulation containing zinc phosphate (10 wt.%) was prepared and subsequently modified replacing the latter anticorrosive additive by a very low concentration of conducting polymer. Specifically, three modified paints, which contain polyaniline emeraldine base (undoped form), polyaniline emeraldine salt (doped form) and an eco-friendly polythiophene derivative (partially oxidized), were formulated. The properties and corrosion resistance of the four alkyd coatings have been characterized. Among the three modified paints, the one containing polythiophene shows the best adherence and the highest corrosion resistance. This has been attributed to the fact that the miscibility of the polythiophene derivative with the alkyd formulation is better than that of polyaniline. Furthermore, accelerated corrosion assays and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements revealed that the corrosion resistance of the paint with polythiophene is several orders of magnitude higher than that with zinc phosphate. The polythiophene derivative has been found to induce the formation of a passivating and well-adhered layer between the coating and the surface, preventing the access of chloride anions and oxygen to the substrate.
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The modern name of the island is 'Hispaniola'; it is home to the Dominican Republic. The country offers a variety of natural treasures which are unique in the Caribbean: lush, subtropical vegetation, mountain ranges up to 3175 meters (10,400 feet) high, fertile valleys, and hundreds of kilometers of its famous palm-lined white sand beaches and shimmering turquoise sea.
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Hispaniola which belongs to the Greater Antilles is after Cuba the second largest island of the Caribbean. In the north, the island borders the Atlantic Ocean, in the south the Caribbean Sea. Hispaniola hosts two countries, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The Dominican Republic covers two third of the island.
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