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To better understand the meaning of DENIED, certain examples of its usage are presented.Examples from famous English prose on the use of the word DENIED
"He neither confirmed or denied it, but bent to light the fire"
"Her womanly love must content itself dressed in rags; beauty is denied her"
"Nature has denied them strength it is thus that they try to enfeeble others"
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"Sternly denied its burning wish to hasten" - This term denied was used by Emily Brontë in the Poem Remembrance.
"Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;" - This term denied was used by John Masefield in the Poem Sea-fever.
"Access denied" - This term denied was used by Seana Haughey in the Poem Old drum beats - poem.
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November 28, 2010 - John Stack
When the term 'tax breaks' gets thrown around, what does that really mean? Right now, the biggie at the federal level is the income tax structure, or the so-called 'Bush tax cuts'. The fight there is to extend the income tax cuts on the higher income earners or not. Then there are local and state sales tax breaks. There are also big electricity discounts, like the $58 million in electricity discounts for a Yahoo data center in Lockport, or the $ 96 million in electric subsidies for a Verizon data center in Niagara County over the next 15 years. And then there is the Mac Daddy of tax breaks, the real property tax breaks. Ostensibly, the tax breaks are to create jobs. And looked at in one way says that these two projects are 'spending' $2.1 million and $3.1 million for each job created.
Allison Duwe, executive director of the Coalition for Economic Justice, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization says these are "a colossal misuse of resources,"and "Any rational person should question if this is the right way to do economic development and bring about a shared recovery,"
Its true, these data centers are very low labor intensive jobs, and therefore don't have the huge economic multiplier effects like a car factory might. But I would say the actual tax dollars 'spent' are misrepresented. Yes, the electric discounts are tangible, but its from low cost low polluting hydro plants which are currently begging for customers in western New York. I don't know, but is the power company at least breaking even on the break? If so, to bring in a $3.4 billion dollar investment and the power is a wash, go for it.
But, I'm looking more at the real property taxes, which is my personal bailiwick. Estimates put the Yahoo and Verizon property tax deals $120 million in added property tax revenues over the next 20 years. But, opponents say they amount to the two companies paying only about 15 percent of what they would if fully taxable. In other words, they see that they are somehow losing out on the 'lost' $800 million in property tax dollars. I say bullpucky. Its not like the region is somehow special and the companies would come anyway. They could just as well relocate to Tennessee, Ohio or Virginia without blinking an eye. Now, if they were going to build here anyway, 'No tax breaks for you!! Like a McDonalds. They would locate in Saranac Lake regardless of a tax break, or the fiasco a couple years ago when the Marriott Hotel was slated to get a huge tax break – after they had all ready started to build in Lake Placid! Tax breaks are there to help US, the taxpayers out, if it doesn't why grant it? Anyway.
The two data centers would ostensibly skip out on $800 million in property taxes. What if they didn't get these tax breaks. Then, the localities would be out of EVERYTHING the data centers would bring. All the jobs, all the investments, everything that comes along with the centers. Hundreds of millions in money spent on local labor in building these centers. Is it a overall plus for the region?
What do property taxes pay for? They pay for our schools, our roads, our police and fire. These data centers wouldn't be bringing in a huge influx of people, so its not like the schools would be out anything, and some of the taxpayers would now have jobs, and good paying jobs. For the schools- a complete win over what they have now. Counties? One of their biggest expenses are on social programs. Seeing these places aren't likely to cause more social programs to be needed, pretty much a complete win for the county. Towns? Well these places need roads and fire service. Other than some extra cost for the extra usage of roads around the plant, not much is spent there for roads. Fire? Police? These are places that probably have very high security as well as self contained fire systems. A win win for the towns too . Everyone wins. Why are people complaining then?
Because they equate what they are NOT getting as money they are actually losing. It not like the companies are getting $800 million dollars of services and only paying $120 million. In fact, even at only $120 million, the municipalities are milking these as cash cows, getting much more out of them than they put in.
I liken the detractors to what a local guy attempted back in my home town. He bought up a dilapidated mansion, and wanted to turn it into an old folks type of home. IF approved, he would have been able to make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. The permits and OK for the project never came through. He was lamenting that he had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Actually, he had lost no money whatsoever; he had lost possible future income. Heck I lost millions yesterday, only because I didn't pick the right numbers for Powerball.
My point being, be very careful when you see estimates on 'lost property tax' dollars. If a place was not going to build there, offering incentives that at least are a wash for the community is a good strategy. Offering tax breaks to those who would locate there anyway, that is losing tax dollars.
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In an interesting move that reflects the growing interest in both digital art and the online purchase of fine art editions, French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker Christian Boltanski has chosen to sell one of his films as an online edition. The new project, titled Storage Memory, will consist of monthly installments of ten one-minute movies, made each month using a small HD camera, which will be transmitted to buyers via the internet.
The videos can be watched separately, but will together make up, little by little, in the way of a jigsaw puzzle, a kind of self-portrait depicting his emotions and sensations, half way between the "postcard" and the "diary", a record, as time goes by, of the transformations in his life. The artist's wish is, by relying on Internet facilities, "to achieve contact with a large number of individuals all over the world, mach beyond the familiar circle of art fans. Buyers will receive ten films each month for twelve months."
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I'm rolling down the stairs, too drunk to fuckPar-tay! Par-tay! Par-tay! A mainstay of the classic teen comedy movie, but usually seen at least once in every Sitcom that has a teenaged character, this is the inevitable result of mixing one or more teenagers with a house devoid of parental figures. It almost always results in wall-to-wall teens, loud music, underage drinking, and property damage. (And, in R-rated movies, a lot of sex in the bedrooms and/or bathrooms.) Sometimes this is by design, and sometimes a small party for a couple of friends spirals completely out of control. A popular variation of this is that the host only invited over two or three friends and the party just shows up out of nowhere. Someone they did invite brought one more person, and so did another. Then someone they never met shows up at the door. Fast forward ten minutes and a college football team shows up with a keg and there's somehow full disco lighting in the living room. The host will still get in trouble for this, and the show may still play it as an Aesop. Another variation is when two teens live in the same house, and one plans a party without consulting the other, who has to study for a test or do something else where peace and quiet is necessary. The second teen usually will not find out until they come home to see the party already underway. The Wild Teen Party usually experiences at least one, and often more, of the following complications:
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- 1/4 cup prepared horseradish drained
- Kosher salt to taste
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Peel cucumbers and slice into 1/3 inch rounds. Pit avocados and scrape into a bowl. Add salt to taste, dill and the juice of one lemon. In another bowl, combine sour cream, horseradish, salt to taste and the juice of one lemon.
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I'm wondering if maybe I am having a supply issue. It seems that sometimes (mostly at night) I don't have enough milk to satisfy my LO. Up until a week or two ago he was only feeding off of one breast per session, but has since stepped it up and takes two breast most feedings.
Twice now he's emptied both breast and cried for more. When this happened I tried to keep him on the breast thinking that maybe it would stimulate another let down, but no luck.
We've been going through the 4 month wakeful for weeks and this is just making it so much worse. He's up starving every hour or two. I know he's hungry, because if I just try to comfort him he latches on to whatever he can (last time was my cheek) and sucks vigorusly.
I don't know what to do. Of course my mom is telling me to start cereal, but that sounds like a good way to make my supply dip even lower right?
I'm confused and exhausted, any input is appreciated.
It does sound like a growth spurt (nurse, nurse, nurse). About that time too, I started noticing the difference between morning milk (height of supply) and evening milk (basically on empty). Try drinking more water through the day to help...and continue offering both breasts if he's emptying them...maybe oatmeal for breakfast.
LC's can do a weight-feeding check to see how much he's getting at a time if you do think it's low supply related. I don't think cereal would help that much...as it's mostly empty calories in the beginning...milk has much more to satisfy him with the carbs and fast in it. We started cereal practice at 4.5 weeks because she was showing all the physical signs of being ready (holding head up, watching us eat and reaching, opening and closing her mouth as we ate, etc)...but if anything she slept lighter for a while until she really started eating meals at 6m.
It sounds like a growth spurt to me too. Don't worry, your breasts will eventually catch up and meet his demands. I can recall several nights when my LO would wake and nurse ALL night (I truly mean all night too) and leave me completely dry the next morning. It was a good thing I had a few bags of milk stored in the freezer for his day care provider or I wouldn't have had anything to leave for him!
If he's 4 mos, you can definitely introduce the cereal. Mix with a little BM to start and see how he takes it. Pump and store the milk to keep your supply up while feeding cereal. In the meantime, drink plently of fluids, keep taking a vitamin and continue to take care of yourself. My LO is exclusively BF but the one thing that I'm noticing now that he's alittle older and eating more, is that my supply is becoming less and less. Not to mention the mouthful of new teeth (6 to be exact) he now has. So I've decided to slowly wean him. Needless to say, I completely understand your frustration (and exhaustion).
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As you can no doubt tell, PC Perspective got a HUGE and much needed facelift recently to what we are internally calling "PC Perspective v4.0". I know there are still some kinks to work out and we are actively addressing any feedback from our readers in this comment thread.
But we want to celebrate the launch of the new site in style!! Some of our site sponsors have very generously offered up some prizes for us to give out throughout the coming days...
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Couldn't be easier: post a comment in this post thanking Corsair for its sponsorship of PC Perspective as well as an interesting feature or addition you would like to see in future speaker sets. Be creative! You should probably have a registered account or at least be sure you include your email address in the appropriate field so we can contact you!
Thanks Corsair for sponsoring Pc Perspective.
Thanks for supporting PCPer Corsair. They look like a really nice set. As for features that might be nice to see included in a future speaker set, the only thing I can think of is to change the wired controller to a wireless controller.
Thanks Corsair. I really like the black/blue theme you got going on those speaks.
Thanks for the giveaways pcper.
Thanks for supporting pcper.com Corsair. The setup look dope!
Thanks corsair, my old speakers are dying and i need new ones
Cool stuff Corsair! Thanks for the support of my favorite hardware review site.
Too bad the controls aren't wireless.
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Dont hate me but,the remote looks a little on the cheap side(IMO).
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Thank You Corsair for sponsoring Pc Perspective.
Thanks corsair! Finally making the rest of the pc speaker market go, "whoa! we gotta get our act back together!" What i'd like to see is a bigger badder setup from corsair with dual 4in cones per satellite and 10in sub powered by a 200watt amplifier. A clean...efficient one of course.
Thanks Corsair for the sponsorship. Great job!
Thanks Corsair. Perhaps I'll be a lucky winner?
Thanks Corsair for sponsoring PC Perspective. I think an interesting feature for future speaker sets would be a foot massager integrated to the top of the subwoofer.
Are winners for these contests announced anywhere, or is it all secret?
Thanx a bunch Corsair. By bunch, I mean a full product line.
Thanks again Corsair!
I would actually appreciate winning this as I could use a new set of speakers!
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Thank You Corsair for sponsoring this awesome giveaway. I could really use a new set of PC speakers.
Thanks Corsair! You are awesome, love my Dominators and HX850! I wold like to see USB connectivity with like a integrated sound card to bypass shitty onboard ones in your future speaker sets.
Thanks Corsair! i love the new speakers. i have read lots of reviews and they are all giving amazing reviews.
Thanks Corsair for sponsoring PC Perspective. I think some kind of wireless play or DLNA support would be cool.
I love Corsair products and I have no doubt this one is also awesome.
Not sure what to suggest feature wise... perhaps it would be cool if there was a mechanism to expand this 2.1 system to a 5 with a simple add on package. Would be a cool upgrade path.
thx a lot to Corsair for its sponsorship n also thx to PC Perspective for your big hands :)......this speaker sets awesome as well nice louder looking...i think there is need pen drive support for song or music file direct play to usb device....also Dlan support for wireless music play as well as... hope see on next speaker
Hey thank a lot Corsair for all the sponsorship ;)
Would love to see more 5.1 Sound Systems in the nearly future from you guys
Thanks corsair for your support n your great products
Thanks Corsair for sponsoring PCPerspective!
Thank the lord that corsair cares about non headphones, non 7.1 audio. 2.1 is good enough for my setup and if it gives exceptional sound quality all the better.
Thanks Corsair for sponsoring the ever-awesome PCPer, wouldn't mind pairing my PSUs and RAM with matching speakers! :)
As far as suggestions go, stereo (or 2.1) is the sweet spot for 95% of computer connected setups out there. A very nice active pair could be a good idea.
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Park district changes how it looks at possible illness risks to swimmers
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At Foster Beach in Chicago, many people came out to enjoy the cool lake waters in the 90 degree heat. The Chicago Park District has a new method on reporting contaminated waters on the lakefront. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times
What is E. coli?
Escherichia coli is a type of bacteria that often lives in the intestines of healthy humans and animals. But one powerful strain of the bacterium produces a powerful toxin that can cause severe illness.
Many people infected with it develop severe diarrhea and painful abdominal cramps, although some people show few or no symptoms. The illness usually resolves in five to 10 days.
In some more severe cases, particularly children younger than 5 and the elderly, the infection can lead to destruction of red blood cells (hemolytic anemia) and acute kidney failure (also known as uremia).
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The Chicago Park District this summer has yet to ban swimming at any of its beaches because of high levels of bacteria in the water.
That's notable because swimming was banned 36 times last year. And because the Fourth of July marks arguably the busiest day at the beaches every summer.
With those beaches set to get even busier thanks to the ongoing oppressive heat in the city, does that mean swimmers can assume the water is simply cleaner than it used to be?
Not really.
What happened? In the last year, the park district changed the way it looks at the possible risks of illness to swimmers from that nasty stomach bug, E. coli.
Instead of banning swimming when E. coli levels appear escalated in daily tests, the park district is using new methods to determine the risks to swimmers and then simply issuing advisories to warn them.
After that it's up to you whether you want to dip your feet into Lake Michigan at any of Chicago's 25 beaches.
Erma Tranter, president of Friends of the Parks, a nonprofit park watchdog group, said she has no problem with the new tactic.
"We know Lake Michigan is not the cleanest," she said. "It's much better than it was 10 years ago, but I think it's fair enough that [the park district] is being clear in posting everything — even those visible flags — to get the information out there."
White boards at beaches will be updated to show bacteria counts and results from the previous day. When those levels are elevated, a yellow flag will be posted in the sand to warn of a swim advisory.
And on the website cfmstage.com, beachgoers can check for advisories before a trip to the lake.
On Tuesday, the only beach under advisory was the 57th Street Beach, though early in the afternoon a green flag was still flying at the beach — a sign that all was clear.
Abby Hymen, director of the summer program at the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, was part of a group of about 65 kids and 10 staffers enjoying one of their regular outings to the beach. She was shocked to hear of the E. coli advisory.
"I thought they let people know. There's usually a sign they put up," she said.
Later, after lifeguards were told of the discrepancy, the green flag was replaced with a yellow one.
Lifeguard captain Nick Ramirez, 25, said swimmers were not at risk.
"It's not dangerous. Either way, the people can still swim," he said.
Changes in attitude
Last year, the park district banned swimming when tests detected 1,000 colony-forming units of E. coli per 100 milliliters of water.
Spokeswoman Zvezdana Kubat said that practice was "self-imposed" and not required by the EPA. Instead, now the city now issues swim advisories when 235 or more colony-forming units of the bacteria have been detected.
"This year we're issuing swim advisories so we allow people to make their own decisions," Kubat said.
A spokesman for the state health department said that philosophy passes muster because it abides by EPA guidelines.
You won't see bans unless the Chicago area experiences severe weather or if lightning strikes, the park district said.
The only time water quality should lead to a ban is when heavy storms force the city to open its locks and allow sewage to flow into the lake in an attempt to avoid flooding.
"When sewage gets dumped into the lake, we impose a mandatory swim ban at all beaches. Same thing with severe weather," Kubat said. "If we see lightning like we did in Sunday's storm that came so fast, they have to get the people out of the water. But a ban from E. coli based on water quality? No."
The increased E. coli levels that in the past have forced swimmers to stay on the sand is from birds, not sewage, Kubat said.
"When you're seeing any kind of rise in E. coli [in Chicago], it's from the gull population, not from any sort of human waste."
That has been an issue at the 63rd and 57th Street beaches. But the park district has brought in border collies to chase away the gulls from dusk until dawn at those beaches.
New ways of measuring risk
Along with the changes in how the park district views elevated levels of E. coli, it has taken a new approach to judging how much of the bacteria is in the water.
Under the old system, water samples were taken daily at each beach and taken to a lab to monitor the growth of bacteria in them. But sometimes it could take as long as 16 hours to get results. That meant by the time a swimming ban would be issued, the bacteria levels could have returned to normal.
The park district now uses new technology that looks at numerous variables such as wind speeds and air and water temperatures and places them in an equation that helps measure the risk — in real time.
"In looking at that, we noticed we can do away with bans. It's actually safe to swim in the water," Kubat said.
At the 57th Street Beach, the advisory was not dissuading the small crowd who came out in Tuesday's sweltering heat.
Several people said they didn't check for a water-quality advisory before heading to the beach. They had other priorities.
"It's hot, I'm trying to stay cool," said South Sider Carrie England, 37.
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He told a news conference the city will review its helipad policy following Tuesday's crash that killed the two people in the chopper and badly injured a man in a car. The two who died were a pilot and a former KOMO-TV news photographer.
The KOMO helicopter went down at a busy intersection and hit three vehicles, starting them on fire and spewing burning fuel down the street. The accident site is in a heavily-trafficked area of the city for vehicles and pedestrians.
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Exclusive: TheMacPak to Reveal 'the Amazon of Mac Software' Today
I have been hearing rumors around the developer community for a while now about a supposed "iTunes for MacApps", and today I got the evidence I had been waiting for. The image below is a screenshot of a very early alpha build of a new program sent to me by Mark from TheMacPak, a well placed group in the Mac community.
Now some of you may remember TheMacPak – it was a website that sold a nice bundle of Mac apps at a reduced rate. Well it seems it has, or rather will be, reinventing itself as a piece of software much like iTunes, but exclusively tailored for distributing Mac software.
According to Mark this app will be available sometime around Q1 2008. Aww that's no fun right? We don't want to wait! Well I have good news. Today around 9AM PST a web based version of TheMacPak's one-stop application shop will be revealed, and at the end of this article I will dish you a coupon code to save you some skrill.
Now back to the application pictured above. Looks to me like a fairly neat solution, and I think this could be a fantastic addition to the platform and could even help a lot of developers. Curious, I headed over to the website which was empty except for a chat link. I was lucky enough to speak to Mark with TheMacPak and I hurled a couple of questions his way and here is what he had to say:
Me: Ok I'm confused. Am I right that you will have a new Mac pak released today?
Mark: Not a pack, a whole new retail venture. The image I gave you actually gives people a first look at something we're doing in the near future, which will be the OS X native program for distributing software applications.
Me: Yeah this program sounds really ambitious. Can you give me any numbers on how many titles we can expect?
Mark: We hope to have over 1000 Mac software products on sale by years end 2008.
Me: Jeez that's a lot. getting back to the web based app released today. How many apps can we expect to see there?
Mark: Hopefully there should be around 250 apps within the next 2 weeks.
Me: Any word on savings for the community?
Mark: Well that is tough to say because of different deals with developers but it should fall between 5-50%.
Me: So will there be bundles or will people just be able to buy whatever apps they like individually?
Mark: Eventually we will have bundles but with TheMacPak people have always complained they wanted to just buy certain software individually that was not part of any bundle. The new project will resolve this by allowing purchases of your favorite applications individually.
Me: Sounds good. Can you give me any of the developer's who's products we can expect to see up for sale?
Mark: Pangea, BeLight Software, and Koingo Software are some of our biggest launch partners. We have all their apps, not some of them
Me: Okay so this is 100% digital distribution. That's great but what about those folks who insist on a physical CD?
Mark: All orders will be available as custom shipped CDs for people who like backups, or who have bad internet connections. We'll ship those CDs anywhere in the world for $10. For the first time, you'll be able to get all your favorite Mac software on CD.
Me: Sounds good. Anything else you feel like adding?
Mark: Uhh well we're giving away an iPod Touch. You will see that soon on our website.
me: Nice! So how about that coupon code?
Mark: Your readers can use the coupon MACAPPER at checkout for 3% off. Oh, and coupon code's are stackable, so you can use more than one. The code will only work until October 21st.
Thanks Mark! You can bet the entire Mac community will be interested in the web based shop appearing today. Mark told me his companies vision it to have every Mac application available on one website (and eventually via an OS X based front end). Very ambitious. Will be interesting to see how this project develops and I will keep you all updated with news and developments when I hear more. In the mean time keep your eyes peeled over at TheMacPak for the release of something exciting around 9AM PST today!


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DVD Review: "The Grey"
A group of tough guys led by Liam Neeson plane-crash in the frozen wastes of Alaska and have to try to make their way back to civilization while being harried by a pack of vicious wolves. Let me be honest, there's virtually no way they could make this movie so I wouldn't enjoy it. They would have had to do something utterly childish, despicable and self-destructive like, I don't know, include a shot of George W. Bush's severed head on a pike, to alienate me from a story that — as a lefty friend said to me, rolling his eyes — "sounds right up your alley!"
But hurrah, they didn't ruin it. The film is everything it oughta be and more. It's tough, exciting and full of the sort of macho wisdom about struggle, strength, leadership, life and death that Hollywood seems to have all but forgotten. There're no women who unrealistically prove themselves to be as tough as the men. There are no speeches about how wolves are really nice and only harm you if you drill for oil. There are no sub-plots about tolerance. In fact, there's no tolerance at all — these are men, after all! There's just gritty, exciting, bloody action punctuated by more or less realistic reflections on what matters in life.
Neeson is his usual great self, but kudos especially to director Joe Carnahan who has been going after the testosterone-fueled set with fun but not-quite efforts like Pride and Glory and Smokin' Aces. This time he hits the target. Makes me look forward to his upcoming adaptation of Mark Bowden's excellent book Killing Pablo.
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1. TedJ
Liam Neeson has become Hollywood's "Man's Man". I have enjoyed his movies for awhile now. I am glad to see the rise of the action genre sans the PC nonsense that pervaded the late 80′s and the 90′s. The Grey was intense and dramatic. The only thing it really lacked was a clear cut message based upon a universal truth. What is the big take away from this movie, that nature is unforgiving and that Man's only saving grace is his wit and determination? That is very Hobbs-esque, maybe its a lesson we have forgotten though.
I think we can chronicle the fall of the manly action movie by taking a look at Sly Stallone's career arc. In 1976 Stallone starred in and directed Rocky. Where does he go from there? He continues his role as Rocky for the next 6 years and then he takes on the role of John Rambo. Its 1982 and the manly action film genre is still alive and kicking. Then something strange starts to happen. In 1985 Sly has two more movies come out, Rambo II and Rocky IV. The "tone" is noticably different in these movies and the lead role changed. John Rambo and Rocky are hairless, oily, tan, and hard bodied men. These guys looked like they were citizens of Venice Beach, not inner city Philladelphia or some small town in Oregon. These characters have gone from tormented, believable men and have turned into caricatures of men that were dubbed action heroes. Sly does Lock Up in 1989, a campy period piece about a prison fighter that is not very believable, more evidence the decline has already started. After Lock Up we see Sly in Tango and Cash, Rocky V, Cliffhanger, Demolition Man, The Specialist, and then Judge Dredd. That is a bad run of overly commercialized caricatured leads. The last role he does as an everyman is in Cop Land in 1997, otherwise his films have been a sea of flotsam that also includes The Expendables movies, another Rambo movie, and another Rocky movie. In summary, he was a strong lead as a "Man's Man" from 1976 until about 1982. Though, I think it is more of him being a victim of the period. Not for a lack of talent on his part. The period of the action hero had begun by 1982 and we had plenty of them. What made these movies especially unbearable was the PC message that got intertwined into them during the 80′s and 90′s. They say art imitates life, some say life imitates art. Maybe we got to comfortable in the 80′s and 90′s and forgot about the struggles of life. Maybe, for a brief period of time, we allowed ourselves to cloud our minds with fantasies of utopian asexual societial roles and forgot about how hard life really is.
Should we applaud the return of the "Man's Man" to Hollywood or should we see it as a harbinger of our struggles to come?June 20, 2012 - 9:07 am Link to this Comment | Reply
2. Agim Zabeli
Wow, Mr. Klavan. I had a really different reaction. From my blog:
"Are you a self-absorbed baby boomer? Have things have gone so poorly for you, you've decided the universe sucks? Do you roll your eyes when simple-minded religious types talk about things like "faith"? This is the action flick for you."
Whole review is here: http://two-masters.blogspot.com/2012/01/grey-nasty-brutish-and-shoulda-been.htmlJune 20, 2012 - 11:16 am Link to this Comment | Reply
3. hoban washburne
" There're no women who unrealistically prove themselves to be as tough as the men. There are no speeches about how wolves are really nice and only harm you if you drill for oil. There are no sub-plots about tolerance. In fact, there's no tolerance at all — these are men, after all! There's just gritty, exciting, bloody action punctuated by more or less realistic reflections on what matters in life".
Dear Klavan on the Culture:
You have a way with words. I won't try to compete with your eloquence, but I will state that adding Liam Neeson makes anything better. So Batman Begins and Taken are incredibly entertaining. And Neeson should get the lion's share of the credit for the entertainment value of the latter and a nice chunk for the former. Of course with Star Wars 1, I guess I'm claiming that it would have been even less bearable without him (that one's harder to prove or even claim). And you've reminded me to add this movie to my Netflix queue.
JohnJune 20, 2012 - 11:21 am Link to this Comment | Reply
4. Mike Walsh
Give me a break. This was an utterly silly movie (albeit well-acted and tightly plotted; it was diverting). I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were in a really credulous mood. Macho wisdom? Liam muttered every silly bromide short of "what doesn't kill me makes me stronger." I was really rooting for that one.
To anyone who knows anything about North American wildlife or wilderness survival, this film is beyond stupid.June 20, 2012 - 12:34 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
5. Smashmaster
One of my favorite movies is Rob Roy.
"Honor is a man's gift to himself."
That, and cutting your foe from the shoulder to the navel with a heavy, mostly sharp weapon.June 20, 2012 - 4:03 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Agree … ROB ROY was/is one of my all time favorite movies … and Liam was perfect for the star role.June 22, 2012 - 4:29 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
6. Tim Powell
My wife hated this movie. I loved it. To Mr. Walsh, remember that it was a movie, not a documentary. Check reality at the door and let the entertainment ensue.June 20, 2012 - 4:11 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Mike Walsh
I did grant that the acting and plotting made it at least nominally diverting. But it was still stupid. Maybe your credulity is more flexible than mine, as I found there were just too many howlers –and I don't mean wolves– for me to really enjoy this film.June 21, 2012 - 4:12 am Link to this Comment | Reply
7. gangnet
"Liam Neeson has become Hollywood's "Man's Man"."
Generally, yes. When he's not saying Aslan is Muhammad. I'm STILL trying to figure that one out.June 21, 2012 - 7:14 am Link to this Comment | Reply
8. J. Lambie
Mike Walsh, my joy, right on , right on. Far too many dumb things to list them all. Biggest: A. You NEVER leave the plane if it's out in the open. Especially if it is a source of shelter, fuel and tools. B. If you've got duct tape, a bunch of guys and everyone has a knife, SPEARS!….and form a circle. Then it's wolf steaks until help arrives. Geez. But as you say, literally every choice our alleged outdoor expert made was preposterously wrong rendering a willing suspension of disbelief impossible. My wife, who is a big fan of spooky films and Liam Neeson, enjoyed this. It was all I could do to keep my mouth shut and not ruin it for her. Disturbing the beloved's blissful ignorance sometimes requires manly restraint bordering on the heroic.June 21, 2012 - 9:15 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Sorry Sir, I disagree.
Action ? yes . And no metrosexual preaching ? yes.
But the preaching is not there because the story itself is … metrosexual.
Review the very last scene.
He fell into the wolves' den, he's done. The last of many errors.
All of them lose their minds, make colossal mistakes, give up.
The movie says "fighting is useless".
Somehow, I am not in the mood for that kind of message.June 21, 2012 - 9:34 am Link to this Comment | Reply
10. Troy
I haven't seen the movie yet but since Neeson's movies have always been good, I will watch and decide on my own if this one is also good.June 21, 2012 - 3:42 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
11. jac
I missed Grey… but your review makes me wish I hadn't. Now I'll have to wait for it to b/c available on Netflix and see at home.June 22, 2012 - 11:48 am Link to this Comment | Reply
12. vic@PRNC
I had a slightly different take as well. I hate a movie that insults my intelligence, and the idea of the surviving group roaming away from the plane made no sense to me. The airlines would have missed the plane and gone looking for it, sometime. With the black box as a homing beacon, it wouldn't have taken long for help to arrive.
The wolves were unrealistically aggressive, given man not being a normal prey for them. I don't believe they would have attacked a group of people, loners maybe. Wolves attacking people probably happens, but it is a somewhat rare occurrence.
It kinda reminds me of another movie I watched recently, can't remember the name, but the players were seeking to cut power to a building, and were digging in a phone distribution box. But hey, they were wires!June 24, 2012 - 9:46 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
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Britain's oldest and biggest yew hedge, which is 400ft long, 30ft tall and 30ft wide....The hedge's location is a closely-guarded secret but it is near Milton Abbas in Dorset.
Closely Guarded eh? Not to Mr Google, five minutes and here is the same hedge in 1955.
Not so much a secret as unfindable, according to Dorset Life:
Melcombe Bingham is part of the confusion caused by place names in this area. A mile away is Bingham's Melcombe; at one time they were one place and Bingham's Melcombe was just the name of the manor house next to the church. Melcombe Bingham is also known as Melcombe Horsey or Lower Ansty, since it runs into the village of Ansty to the north. Properly speaking, Melcombe Horsey is the name of the deserted village to the west of the present settlement.
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EAU CLAIRE — The original songs of Eau Claire native Matt Wahl will begin the penultimate week of the University Centers Summer Events series Monday, July 21, at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
The singer-songwriter will begin his free outdoor concert at 7 p.m. on the Central Campus Mall (rain site: the Cabin, Davies Center). The audience is invited to bring lawn chairs, blankets and a picnic to the concert. Free popcorn will be available.
Matt Wahl wins fans everywhere he goes with his deep baritone voice and upbeat, insightful, original songs and humorous introductions. His show is a look at "the fun side of life" — fantasies of life as a superhero, how to handle a job in cubicle hell, pickup lines, distracted drivers, college housing and a different kind of fake ID. Now living in the Washington, D.C., area, Wahl plays between 150 and 200 shows a year in all sorts of venues around the country.
The Summer Events series also presents the continuation of the Summer Shorts film series — presenting local, regional and international short film compilations — July 22-24, with "The World According to Shorts." Culled from the best short films to screen internationally in recent years, this 2006 sampling will screen Tuesday and Wednesday in Davies Theatre and Thursday at the Eau Claire Regional Arts Center Gallery in downtown Eau Claire. Films will be shown at 11:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. each day. Admission is free and open to all.
"Sidelined at film festivals and ignored by most moviegoers, short films are often slighted as little more than the training wheels of the film industry," wrote The New York Times. "Yet mastering the form demands technical and narrative skills most feature directors lack, and for audiences exhausted by today's bloated extravaganzas, 'The World According to Shorts' is an eclectic palate cleanser."
The six short films making up the collection are intended to reflect a diversity of visions in contemporary short filmmaking and include a broad range of styles and genres, from animation to fiction to semi-documentary and experimental. Between them, the films have been honored with numerous awards from all over the world:
With the theme "Welcome to Our Backyard," University Centers Summer Events continue through July 31. A complete schedule is available at the Service Center, 715-836-3727, or online.
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The only museum of its kind in Bulgaria featuring some exquisite Roman mosaics!!!
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The Museum of Mosaics in Devniya displays early-Byzantine mosaics from Marcianopolis.
The town of Marcianopolis was built near the springs of the Devniya river after the Second Dacian war, from the Roman Emperor Marcus Ulpius Trajanus(98-117).
According to an old legend, one of Marciana`s slaves dropped a golden vessel in one of the springs. After a while it emerged on the surface again. The emperor was told about the miracle and decided to build a town there in accordance with the customs of the time. It was named Marcianopolis after his sister.
The Museum is built partly on the ancient foundations of a building erected at the end of the 3 century the beginning of 4 century (the time of Constantine The Great) on the location of earlier buildings been destroyed during the Gotts invasions of 250 251.
The walls of the residential rooms were covered by coloured paint and murals of plaster. Five of the buildings rooms and porticoes are covered with multi-coloured
floor mosaics, one of the best examples of the Roman mosaic art of that period found in Bulgaria.
Three of these mosaics are displayed in the rooms where they have been found and the rest were transferred to a new carrying base following their conservation and partial restoration.
The mosaics were made in the classical techniques opus tesselatum and opus vermiculatum out of small cube-
shaped stones (tesseras) of marble, limestone, baked clay and coloured glass (smalta), in 16 colours. The mosaics
depict mainly personages and scenes of the Greek and Roman mythology, exotic animals and birds, floral and geometric shapes.
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Portland-based BrandWatch Technologies and France-based, Prooftag, recently announced a partnership to create a sophisticated set of protection and marketing tools for the wine and spirits industry. The goal is to help domestic wineries and distilleries overcome the problems of counterfeit product and authentication in overseas markets. It seems that the Chinese market is recognized by the wine and spirits industry as both a huge market for potential growth and a hotbed for counterfeiting problems.
It is unfortunate for businesses, but China is becoming practically synonymous with intellectual property theft, piracy and counterfeiting. On top of that, many technology companies are learning that doing licensing deals with the Chinese means they turn over the technologies and as soon as the Chinese corporation is capable of employing the technology the sever the relationship and then compete against American companies with American technology, they just don't have to recoup the research and development costs and they have a cheap labor force.
To combat counterfeiting in the wine and spirit industry, BrandWatch Technologies is now offering Prooftag's Bubble Seal™ technology as an integrated component to its multi-layered protection solution. The Bubble Seal™ has been especially developed by Prooftag to solve problems associated with counterfeiting and parallel markets for products and counterfeiting and forgery of documents. In combination with Bubble Seal™ technology BrandWatch can offer innovative new brand protection solution that include overt security features (such as microtext, packaging design features), covert security features (such as holograms, OVDs, intaglio ink, copy prevention), coding (such as encrypted bar codes, human readable codes, RFID), and forensic technologies (such as DNA, elements, nano-particles).
Essentially, defeating counterfeiters has gone high-tech. Such high-tech solutions are required given the amount of money that is involved in counterfeiting and how organized crime and terrorist affiliates are seeking to turn to intellectual property crimes to fund operations because the profits are exceptionally high and if caught jail time is minimal compared with drug related crimes, for example.
The partnership between BrandWatch Technologies and Prooftag also provides brand owners with an iPhone app that enables distributors and consumers to verify the product they are holding is authentic. The iProof app uses the phone's camera to take a picture of the Bubble Seal™, which then cross-references an online database of products to confirm authenticity. Instant offline authenticity can be achieved with the BrandWatch Reveal detector. The mobile app also opens marketing possibilities for manufacturers, as customers can use their phone to sign up for promotional deals, receive news or special offers.
"Our partnership with Prooftag enables North American wineries and distilleries to more confidently sell into new markets," said Steve Delepine, vice president of business development at BrandWatch Technologies. "The technology we are providing with our partner, Prooftag, can be deployed as efficiently on a $10 bottle of red table wine, as on a $10,000 bottle of French Bordeaux."
"BrandWatch Technologies' reach in North America and multi-layer protection solutions, takes our Bubble Tag™ product and creates a unique fraud protection system," said Franck Bourrières, co-founder of Prooftag.
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Appliance retailer Lowe's Companies, Inc. reported net earnings of U.S. $704 million for the quarter ended July 30, 2004, a 17.9-percent increase over the same period a year ago.
Diluted earnings per share increased 18.7 percent to $0.89 from $0.75 in the second quarter of 2003. For the 6 months ended July 30, 2004, net earnings grew 14 percent to $1.16 billion, while diluted earnings per share increased 14.2 percent to $1.45.
Sales for the quarter increased 17.3 percent to $10.2 billion, up from $8.7 billion in the second quarter of 2003. Comparable store sales for the second quarter increased 5.1 percent. For the 6-month period, sales increased 19.4 percent to $18.9 billion. Comparable store sales increased 7.2 percent in the first half of 2004.
"Robust housing turnover, record home ownership, attractive mortgage rates, and improving consumer confidence highlighted a solid performance in the second quarter, where our stores delivered record earnings," explained Robert L. Tillman, Lowe's chairman and CEO.
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EAU CLAIRE — Two young Israeli refuseniks, Noam Bahat and Shimri Zamaret, will speak about their decision to refuse service in the Israel Defense Forces at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8, at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire's Schofield Auditorium.
Bahat and Zamaret are among a group of five students released this past September from an Israeli prison, where they spent nearly two years for refusing, after high school, to enlist in what Bahat refers to in his court testimony as an "army of oppression." The two are members of Shministim, a group of more than 300 high school seniors who have announced they "refuse to be soldiers for occupation." Their collective statements, the "High School Seniors' Letters" can be viewed online.
The Refuser movement has its roots in Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, when 168 servicemen were jailed for refusing to serve in the campaign. Israel's response to the first Intifada generated many refusers, 200 of whom were jailed. In January 2002, in the midst of the second Intifada, the Refuser movement again grew when a group of 50 Israeli reserve officers and combat soldiers decided that fighting in Gaza and the West Bank was not protecting the lives of their friends and family but oppressing the Palestinian population and jeopardizing the security of the State of Israel through colonial expansion. Their belief that the occupation is inflicting pain and suffering upon millions of innocent civilians led them to draft a letter that became known as "The Combatant's Letter." The soldiers became known as refuseniks and established an organization called Courage to Refuse. This past year, Courage to Refuse was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Muli Linder, a physician and officer in the Israel Defense Forces who became the 67th refusenik to sign "The Combatant's Letter," spoke at UW-Eau Claire last April. The text of the letter can be viewed at the Courage to Refuse Web site.
Courage to Refuse currently has 628 signatories. According to the Web site of the Refuser Solidarity Network, the total number of refuseniks now exceeds 1300, and they are playing an increasing role in shaping peace and policy debates in Israel.
The presentation is free and open to students, faculty and the public. Voluntary donations will be accepted and related materials will be sold to support the efforts of the Refuser movement.
Bahat and Zamaret's tour is sponsored by the Refuser Solidarity Network and the American Friends Service Committee. Sponsors of the local event include the National Peace Foundation, the UW-Eau Claire Center for International Education and the UW-Eau Claire Geography Club.
Bahat and Zamaret also will speak at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7, at the First Congregational Church of Christ in Eau Claire.
For more information, contact Paul Kaldjian, assistant professor of geography, at (715) 836-2321 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Updated: October 27, 2004