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2012 Events
Lunch + Activities with the Mayor
Liecht Park, 128 Dousman Street
Kids, have a free lunch with the Mayor and check out the Green Bay Fire Department, Police Department, Parks, Recreation, & Forestry, Metro and Public Works vehicles on display.
Lunch provided for the first 2000 people by Green Bay Area Public Schools at 1130am. Adult lunches are $2.00.
- Meet local celebrity guests – autograph signing
- Dental Associates Booth (Enter to win great prizes including $50 gift cards and a Nintendo DS Game System)
- Randy Peterson will perform, kids will receive a free goody bag, clowns and face painting.
- Remote Control Helicopter Demonstration (weather dependent)
- City Forestry Department is offering a kid's tree climb and a 10th anniversary tree planting – NEW!!
- Wildlife Sanctuary will have animals on display
- Decorate hats to encourage sun safety.
- PMI will provide a variety of huge inflatable games for children to enjoy from 11am-2:00pm.
- NWTC Artisan Center – Community Mural – NEW!!
- Foxy Lady Cruises has free tours of the boat and meet the Captain – NEW!!
- Bike Safety Booth
- Kohl's Cares: The Great Safety Adventure teaches basic home safety skills to children, parents and communities in a fun and interactive way; children and families get the chance to walk through Rover the Safety Hound's 1,000 square foot 5 bedroom home and point out potential dangers. Safety topics covered include falls, poisoning, fires and burns, choking, and drowning. NEW!!
1st Annual Kids' Day Fun Run/Walk – NEW!!
Start your day with a Run/Walk at the ShopKo Landing on Green Bay's CityDeck. A 1 or 2 mile run option to get your motor going.
Stretches with Belin XL at 8:45a.m.
Run/Walk begins at 9:00a.m.
Wildlife Sanctuary
Nature Center Amphitheater
1 free bag of corn to kids with wristbands 10a.m.-3p.m. at the Observation Building.
Live Mammal Program– How do you pet a porcupine and skunk? Well, in the wild you don't, but we'll give you the chance. Learn fascinating information about these two mammals and the others that call Wisconsin home: 3-3:45p.m.
Live Animal Release– One of the Sanctuary's goals is to rehabilitate wildlife and return it to its natural surroundings. After spending some time being cared for at the Sanctuary, it is now time to release an animal back into the wild: 3:45-4p.m.
Birds of Prey Program– Many owls, hawks and falcons are found throughout Wisconsin and even right here in Green Bay. You'll get an up close look at live birds of prey. Learn what they eat, where they live and what habits they have: 4-5p.m.
Free popcorn provided by Three Corners Neighborhood Association 3-5p.m.
Green Bay Swimming Pools
Kids can enjoy free admission to Colburn, Joannes and Resch Pools all day. Hours of operation for Joannes & Resch are 12-7p.m. Colburn Pool hours of operation 12:30-4:30p.m. & 6-7:30p.m.
Bay Beach Amusement Park
FREE RIDES ALL DAY. Park Hours: 10-9 p.m. Free rides all day including the Zippin Pippin roller coaster. Pony rides will be free from 10-2 p.m. weather permitting.
Marcus Cinema
Features: Puss 'N' Boots, Smurfs, and Rio. All features will be in 2D and held at matinee times to be determined.
Brown County Library Program
Central Branch, 515 Pine St. - Celebrate Green Bay Kid's Day by 'voting' to hear red, white and blue stories. Then do the bubble wrap stomp to fireworks music with Olivia the Pig. Craft from 10:30-11:00am.; make a tinsel "sparkler"
East Branch 2255 Main St. – Mayor's Kids' Day Campout: Help build a campfire, participate in sleeping bag races, & listen to spooky stories. 6p.m.
Southwest Branch Library , 974 Ninth Street - Lego Block Party. Make creations with our Legos and show off your building skills. 1p.m.
The Children's Museum – NEW!!
The Children's Museum will be open from 10a.m.-2p.m. Children will get in free with a wristband. Adults will be $8.00. To register visit our website www.gbchildrensmuseum.org. Space is limited.
Neville Public Museum
Join us for the Far Out Football Fantasy Day. Free admission for kids with wristbands. 9a.m-5p.m. www.nevillepublicmuseum.org
Disc Golf
Meet the "Disc Dude" Lessons & Demo's:
Triangle Sports Area: Free Disc Golf all day.
Green Bay Bullfrogs
Join Mayor Schmitt at 7:05 pm at Joannes Stadium. Watch the Bullfrogs take on the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters. Enjoy a night of family fun events: speed pitch, family bouncy bog, the great base race, catch the fly and dizzy bat spin.
Packer Hall of Fame
Free admission to Packer Hall of Fame for kids with wristbands. Adult admission is $10.00. www.packers.com.
Riviera Lanes
Free bowling or bumper bowling and shoes from 10-11 am or 11-12p.m. Adult bowling is $2.00.
Green Bay Botanical Garden
Special activities and crafts will be held in the Children's Garden, visit www.gbbg.org for more information. All children receive free admission to Green Bay Botanical Garden on Green Bay Kids' Day. The Garden is open from 9a.m.-8p.m.
Green Bay City Band
Relax and enjoy the City Band at St. James Park starting at 7:30p.m. Titletown Brewing Co. will be serving rootbeer to all kids with a wristband.
Green Bay Metro
Free bus rides all day for Green Bay kids and adults accompanied by children.
Downtown YMCA
Free admission to kids and families with wristbands from 5a.m.– 9p.m.

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I've been looking for non electric equipment for my garden, and I'm coming to the fact that I need a plow, some kind of plow. First a hand plow of some type, later an electric or gas powered one. I've read of Breast Plows that are used with a wood plate against your stomach to push with, those are just for turf to be dug up, then the cultivators, which only work if soil is loose, and I guess hand tillers are the same as cultivators.
Are there any type of plow that a man can pull instead of using an animal? They are arranged for a man to view from the back while it being pulled, but is there one built for a man to control from the front while pulling his/her own plow for a small garden area? What are the limits of a plow? Hard soil like hardpan mixed with some clay sometimes depending on how deep. If anyone has any ideas of what kind of plow can be pulled successfully by a woman, please let me know. Goat plows are small, do I look for a plow made for a small animal? |
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- Posted by slowpoke_gardener (My Page) on Sun, Dec 26, 10 at 10:55
The only small plows I have seen are the push type of garden plows which may be ok for cultivating. I use to use a spading fork and hand tools when I was younger, but no way could I do it now. I have a troy bilt horse 7 hp. and a poulan pro 6.5 hp. I think the small tillers would be great but they cost a lot for their size, and if you have clay and hardpan, as I do, I dont think they would last very long. I bought an attachment to go on a line trimmer to cultivate with about 2 years ago and it lasted about 2 or 3 hours and the worm gear was stripped. The soil had been tilled with the poulan a month or two before but was still too heavy for the small tilling head. In short, I am too old to go with hand tools to break ground ground. I till the soil well and plant close and mulch and run a pvc tube along the row with holes in it to water with. I am not man enough to do it any other way. Best of luck to you and happy holidays. Larry |
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I think, your best bet would be to have somebody first turn the sod, and do a good plowing of the garden plot, to your liking, and then it would be much easier to do the rest as you describe. Once really plowed well, then the following years, the ground will still be pliable. But, for you to try to till it by hand and back and foot--well- you will be very surprised, and not get very far! If it was easy, the old timers wouldn't have used oxen aand horses to break the sod! |
Your question brought back memories of my wife's grandfather, who, well into his 80s used a manual cultivator, strapped to his body, to cultivate his very large, life-long garden. Easily 2000+ sq. ft. I'd see him hoeing and cultivating with his bib overalls and felt hat, the same outfit he wore at his viewing at the age of 96. Every row had a string line so he could run his hand along the line and push the cultivator with his body and the other hand. He was totally blind at the age of 30. So, woman, you can do it! |
- Posted by scarletdaisies 6b (My Page) on Thu, Jan 6, 11 at 21:50
Those stories are so sweet! I have a tall hill, and I don't think I can get a 200 pound tiller up there. I have a digging fork, shovel, even a 2 and 1/2 pound pick mattock. The soil is soft mostly because I pile leaves on it at the end of the year, if wet, it is soft enough probably for the cultivator, but because it's mostly hardpan, if dry, it's solid. I was just thinking what the best option would be, I see I may be doing it already. I even did the double dig method on one of the 10x10 areas, it grew the worst. I didn't even get a beet out of it, so I guess I'll just do as normal, turning it with a digging fork. Thanks for the advice. I dreamed of the 8 horsepower rear tine for forward and back, it will even cut through tree root, but really it won't make it up the hill. If I can't get 20 gallons of water up there on a wheelbarrow, a tiller won't make it up there. I got the most of 15 gallons, weighing 8 pounds per gallon, 120 pounds, it was a killer, I won't try a plow. I think I'm moving anyways, but wanted to check the options out. |
- Posted by farmerboybill 4 WI (My Page) on Fri, Jan 7, 11 at 17:43
Hi Daisies, Unless the path is very narrow or has steps in it, a tiller should be able to climb a hill. Predictably, I recommend a BCS or Grillo as the best machines on the market, but any tiller should be able to make it up there. If you really want to plow, a BCS or a Grillo can pull one. Here's a pic of my two way plow for my 850 BCS - You can also buy a rotary plow for it if you're looking to break up really hard ground. They're expensive, but very effective. I plan on buying a two way plow this spring In the interest of full disclosure, I am a dealer in Grillo tractors and have been playing around with fixing up and reselling used BCS machines for a couple years now. This may color my opinion... |
Here is a link that might be useful: Earth Tols in Owenton KY site
- Posted by slowpoke_gardener (My Page) on Fri, Jan 7, 11 at 21:14
Earth Tols thanks fo posting, I learned something today. I will try to read more. |
- Posted by farmerboybill (My Page) on Fri, Jan 7, 11 at 23:03
Hi Slowpoke, Earth Tools isn't mine. Joel Dufour owns Earth Tools, and he happens to have the best site regarding BCS and Grillo tractors and attachments. |
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Trimble (TRMB) announced today that it had acquired RFID reader company ThingMagic and will consolidate the operations into the Advanced Devices unit. With over $1 billion in annual revenue and $275 million in cash, Trimble has the resources to build ThingMagic quickly as RFID adoption accelerates. Two questions immediately arise:
We saw Sirit acquired in March by Federal Signal which had some market segment overlap and financial stability to help the company grow. With reader volumes low in 2009, the Sirit acquisition timing seemed right for a good deal. Similarly, we have seen ThingMagic release some employees recently and suspected the team would need additional capital to execute its business plan. We won't speculate today whether this was a good deal for Trimble, but this is good for the industry.
While estimates for Thing Magic's fixed reader volume is low, its modules have a good reputation for performance and provide customer choice in a narrowly served market. Continued funding from a well-capitalized parent should provide ThingMagic customers with confidence about its long-term viability.
The key issues in the RFID reader market today are scale and distribution. If Trimble's capital can enable ThingMagic to expand manufacturing volume and cut marginal unit cost, the market should react favorably. Module pricing needs to come down, but do so in a way that manufacturers can still make money.
The flip side of this coin is the approach the company will take to expand its distribution. If you are making more units, you need channels in place to sell them. This is a big constraint for many reader manufacturers today and has been the biggest determinant in success in 2010.
The question is whether the ThingMagic acquisition is the start of a trend. We have seen RFID companies shut down over the past year and others acquired. What companies do you see as likely acquisition targets in 2011? Leave your comment below.
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Does anyone have these in their kitchen? I've looked at Shiloh and Greenfield and I like the finish on Greenfield better. I've done some searches and can't seem to find out who has these in their kitchen. Unless Dutchwood comes in around the same price, I'm probably getting Greenfield. |
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Home Depot (Home Depot) and Los cabients income level. Looking for more solid build wood / particleboard cabinet back (not hanging rail) and Atsugi / particleboard (rail or plastic corner) angle brackets. Do not be swayed by color or style of door. Make sure you're looking at construction. This may not be the most interesting part of the cabinet choices, but if you want to stay a few years, you do not want to have a problem. Also, do not let them do the installation. Them their work, you will have problems. |
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Best Places To Get Alternative Wedding Cakes In Baltimore
It's not just about the food at the wedding! Local vendors add unique flavor to alternative wedding desserts.
Sweet Valentine's Tradition Continues In Southwest Baltimore
It's a Baltimore tradition that started nearly a century ago, and it's all for Valentine's Day.
Local Bakery Takes Its Cupcake Truck On The Road
You're starting to see quite a few mobile food trucks on the streets of Baltimore. Now there's one that has some of the most delicious desserts you'll ever taste.


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Does Xanga suck?
I've been away from Xanga for a while. I haven't been really happy with Xanga's buggy system. Random tags show up and don't show up depending on whether you are signed in or not even though they aren't private or anything and that's really important for my organizational system. Comments are always messed up because Xanga can't format worth anything. The editor is always screwing stuff up in ways that are really, really hard to fix in the html coding. This thing always double spaces when I don't want it to and there doesn't appear to be a way to turn it off. Etc. Maybe I just don't know how to work this thing, but it didn't use to be this tedious. It also seems like no one even knows what Xanga is outside of Xanga and when they do they often seem to miss that you can comment without having an account.
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First Roll of Sunset Strip shot in an Olympus XA then Cross Processed at a CVS lab (explaining the grain) I really like the colors and overall vibe of this film and camera.
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Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die
Musical Instruments (1381 comments)
Despite all the advances in in technology and manufacturing, old musical gear still reigns supreme in many areas. A vintage Neumann U47 mic (like the Beatles used) fetches a tidy sum and sounds better than most anything made these days. They don't make the exact replacement vacuum tube for it anymore, but there are close substitutes.
And speaking of tubes - the rich nonlinear sound of a tube amplifier hasn't yet been replaced by a more modern equivalent, especially for electric guitar. I think one of the articles mentioned vacuum tubes.
Piano, horns, guitar - most all acoustic instruments have nice sounding synthesized sampled versions that can be had at a fraction of the cost. These can be played from your computer or a keyboard. Yet the physical instruments, as expensive and potentially out of tune as they are, will probably always be preferred because of their human interface. Similarly, drum machines, which do not show up late or steal your girlfriend, are not replacing human drummers playing acoustic drums, except in 80's music and certain "techo" genres.


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I obviously didn't have enough light for this film. You can really see the difference between the photos with enough light and the ones without. Even with my Fritz the Blitz up high!
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Greenfield - The Whitnall School Board has confirmed it is open to the concept of a disc golf course in what is known as the nature pod near Whitnall high and middle schools.
With its unanimous vote Monday, the board gave the official go-ahead for Whitnall senior Clayton Anderson to begin filling out the details of his plan.
Anderson, 17, has started developing plans for a disc golf - similar to golf, except that players throw flying discs like Frisbees toward a metal basket on a pole - on the 5.4-acre nature pod, a district-owned wetland parcel science classes use for their studies.
On par with interest
Clayton managed to dispel doubts about whether there was enough interest by presenting a petition signed by more than 100 Whitnall students supporting a course.
Whitnall School Board member Quin Brunette, who had voiced that concern, said the petition was pretty convincing. He added that Clayton's efforts have attracted a lot of interest from adults as well.
One of them is a woman who helped another school district create a disc golf course. She may be able to knock the estimated price tag down while still doing the project right, Brunette said.
Cost and other concerns
Currently, the cost is estimated at less than $15,000, and that's the biggest outstanding the issue the board will still have to address.
"It's what we need to know before we vote," Brunette said.
In addition to a financing plan, the board called for more information on how the neighbors feel about the idea and what the city's perspective is.
But the location isn't a problem for the schools themselves. The disc golf and science classes could co-exist easily, some science teachers said at last week's Finance and Facilities Committee meeting.
Some even said the native plants that they try to show their students there could be more visible if the buckthorn and other invasive species are removed for the disc golf course.
Another concern was whether there were deed restrictions on the land. But Clayton's research found none.
The hoped-for result
Board member T.J. Anderson, Clayton's father, said his son was pleased with the vote.
"He's very happy," said Anderson, who added that his son had wanted to gauge the board's interest before he invested a lot of time and work in the project.
But there is a lot of work to do before the discs start flying, Anderson emphasized, noting that he personally will abstain from voting when the issue returns to the board.
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I have a few pieces of Le Creuset cookware that are Flame and Red. I saw this paper which pairs a lightish turquoise blue with orangey red and green (link below). Do you think this sort of color would look good in my kitchen? Any idea of what blue paint would look good with the orange Le Creuset? |
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- Karl Rickels, MD
- Michael E. Thase, MD
- Marna Barrett, PhD
- Bijan Etemad, MD
- James Findley, PhD
- Philip Gehrman, PhD
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- Chang-Gyu Hahn, MD, PhD
- Falk W. Lohoff, MD
- Michael Perlis, PhD
Karl Rickels, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Stuart and Emily B.H. Mudd Professor of Human Behavior and Reproduction
Dr. Karl Rickels is the founder of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Section at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a professor in the department of psychiatry and the Stuart and Emily B.H. Mudd Professor of Human Behavior and Reproduction. In 2008, he was also awarded the William Osler Patient Oriented Research Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement for research in which the investigator directly interacts with human subjects. Dr. Rickels is known throughout the world as the leading expert in the treatment of anxiety disorders. In his 575 publications and 9 books over more than 40 years, Dr. Rickels has made so many contributions to this treatment that he is recognized as the Dean of Psychopharmacology of anxiety disorders. As a testament to his extraordinary intellect, in his 80s, he remains an active researcher. As founder of the Penn program in the department of obstetrics and gynecology which treats and recognizes the special needs of women with mental health issues, his contributions continue to affect the lives of his many grateful patients.
Michael E. Thase, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Michael Thase joined the faculty of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in January, 2007 as Professor of Psychiatry after more than 27 years at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. Dr. Thase's research focuses on the assessment and treatment of mood disorders, including studies of the differential therapeutics of both depression and bipolar affective disorder. A 1979 graduate of the Ohio State University College of Medicine, Dr. Thase is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, and Vice Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance. Dr. Thase has been elected to the membership of the American College of Psychiatrists and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. Dr. Thase has authored or co-authored more than 500 scientific articles and book chapters, as well as 15 books.
Marna Barrett, PhD
Research Project Manager
Clinical Associate Professor
Marna S. Barrett, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her main research interests are in the area of therapist characteristics, attrition, and psychotherapy outcome. Her current studies include investigations of factors predictive of early engagement and attrition in community mental health settings, cultural influences on mental health service use, and the use of a modified motivational interviewing to increase commitment to treatment. In addition to her research efforts, Dr. Barrett supervises PGY4 psychiatry residents in psychotherapy, teaches the residency ethics curriculum, and maintains a clinical practice where she specializes in the treatment of depression and Bipolar disorder.
Bijan Etemad, MD
Medical Director of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Section
Dr. Bijan Etemad has over 40 years of psychiatric experience with Penn. Before joining as the Medical Director of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Section, he served as the Medical Director of Geropsychiatric Clinical Services for the University of Pennsylvania Health System. He is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Geriatric Psychiatry. He is an active member of several professional societies including: the American Orthopsychiatry Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Geriatric Society, Pennsylvania Psychiatric Association, and the Association of Mental Health Administration.
A native of Iran, Etemad earned his medical degree in 1960 from the Pahlavi Medical School in Shiraz, Iran, where he also completed an internship. He came to the U.S. in 1961 to complete an internship at Hamot Hospital, in Erie, PA. He also completed a residency in general psychiatry at the Philadelphia General Hospital in 1965, and received a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Philadelphia General and Hahnemann Hospitals in 1967.
Dr. Findley received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, with a specialization in Behavioral Medicine, from West Virginia University. He completed his graduate training as a Resident at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and Jackson V.A. Consortium. Dr. Findley has been a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine since 2005. He was the Coordinator and Clinical Coordinator of the Comprehensive Pain Management Center of the V.A. Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven Campus, and a Clinical Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry, Yale Medical School. Most recently, Dr. Findley was a Psychologist/Sleep Medicine Specialist at Gaylord Sleep Medicine in North Haven, CT, and in private practice in Hamden, CT, while serving as a consultant for insomnia research at the Yale School of Nursing.
As part of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program, he provides Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) to patients at the Penn Center for Sleep as well as participants in clinical insomnia research. In addition to providing insomnia treatment, his current interests include methods for improving the assessment and treatment of insomnia.
Dr. Gehrman completed his undergraduate training at the University of Pennsylvania and completed his PhD in clinical psychology at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. His clinical internship was at the Durham VA Medical Center in North Carolina. After completing a post doctoral fellowship in sleep medicine at Penn he was on the faculty of the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. He came back to Penn as part of a new program in Behavioral Sleep Medicine (BSM) in August of 2008. Dr. Gehrman's research is focused on understanding the underlying mechanisms of insomnia, with particular emphasis on the stress response system. He is also involved in studies examining both cognitive behavioral and pharmacologic treatment of insomnia. He is director of the clinical BSM program at the Penn Sleep Center and is in the process of setting up a BSM program at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.
Laszlo Gyulai, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Laszlo Gyulai is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychiatry. He graduated with his M.D. Summa Cum Laude from Semmelweis Medical University in Hungary in 1973. His research focuses on Bipolar disorder, with his most recent study focusing on Bipolar disorder in geriatric patients.
Chang-Gyu Hahn, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Chang-Gyu Hahn is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his M.D. at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea and his Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Physiology at the University of Connecticut. His thesis work focused on activity dependent gene regulation of neural cell adhesion molecules. He subsequently completed his residency in Psychiatry and a research fellowship in Neuropsychopharmacology, both at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hahn directs the Neuropsychiatric Signal Transduction Program within the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior in the Department of Psychiatry. The program has a special interest in developing new research paradigms that address clinically relevant questions for psychiatric illnesses from molecular and cell biological perspectives. Currently, his laboratory program has two major avenues of research. First, he employs the olfactory epithelial biopsy approach to investigate intracellular molecular processes associated with the pathophysiology and treatment of mood disorders and psychiatric illnesses. Second, he investigates protein-protein interactions in the post-synaptic density with a focus on neuregulin 1 - erbB4 signaling in postmortem brain tissues of patients with schizophrenia. His research has been supported by Stanley Medical Research Institute, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, Pharmaceutical Companies and National Institute of Mental Health.
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Dr. Lohoff joined our team in August, 2007. He is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his clinical work with research patients, Dr. Lohoff is working with the team at MADS to establish a clinical psychiatric pharmacogenomics program investigating new biomarkers that predict treatment outcome. His research interest include the genetics and pharmacogenetics of mood and anxiety disorders. Dr. Lohoff has expertise in the identification of molecular genetic targets of complex psychiatric diseases. His focus is on human genetic association studies with translational aspects using in vivo/vitro systems and animal models to verify identified risk alleles. This includes current investigation of presynaptic vesicular monoamine transporters as targets for novel drug development.
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Perlis is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of the Upenn Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program.
His areas of expertise include sleep in psychiatric disorders and neurocognitive phenomena in insomnia, the mechanisms of action of sedative hypnotics and the development of alternative treatments for insomnia. His clinical expertise is in the area of Behavioral Sleep Medicine and he is the principle author of the first text book in this field (Treating Sleep Disorders: The Principles and Practice of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, Wiley & Sons) and is the Senior author of a textbook on The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia.
He has authored and co-authored a variety of papers and chapters on the assessment and treatment of sleep disorders and published more than 60 empirical or theoretical papers on sleep related topics and his is on the editorial boards of The Journal Sleep and The Journal of Sleep Research.
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2013 and earlier BMW 3-Series Prices Paid and Buying Experience
mhegde Posts: 1Hey, I have an offer to buy 2012 328i for $39,499. The MSRP is $44, 499 for this alpine white/coral red interior with tech+premium+sport package. Since it becomes almost an year old model in 2013, would like to know if the price is right.
Sorry if it is a repeat question that someone already asked.
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vnguyen3 Posts: 2I was looking for 2012 model on 328i, I found a private seller who wanted $34,200, the car has 9,000 miles and it comes with premium and technology package. no cosmetic issue. Doing a price research on KBB, this car seem like a good price but when I compare it with Edmund TMV, the car should only be from $30-32K. Is this a good deal before I jump on this?
soapdish616 Posts: 31I want to help people out who might be in the market for a 328i (2013) Sedan. Here are TWO deals that were offered to me yesterday (Chandler, Arizona).
2013 BMW 328i Sedan (12/20/12 build date)
Alpine White / Venetian Beige Dakota Leather
ZPP Premium Package
494 Heated front seats
4AB Dark Burl Walnut wood trim
508 Park Distance Control
609 Navigation system
MSRP: $44,745 (including destination of $895)
Offered @ Invoice: $41,745 + $300 = $42,045. Subtract Feb $1000 cash offer = $41,045
2013 BMW 328i Sedan
+ Premium
+ Navigation (not Tech)
Sale Price: $40,950
Rebate: -$1000
Balance: $39,950 pls TTL & Doc fee
What I ended up doing was picking up a 2011 328i Sedan, CPO, only 12k miles, manager demo. Fully loaded @ MSRP of $44k, got it for $30k... AND BMW FS @ 0.9% for 48 months... the numbers and the car are just too perfect to pass up this one. I know it's not the new car but meets all my needs and I personally love the inline 6! -
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newtooca Posts: 10Hi all first time luxury car buyer...actually didn't had any car for last 5 year (living in nyc) .....
one dealer has given me quote for following car
2013 BMW 328i Sedan
Jet black
Premium Package
BMW Assist
37,500 + tax+ dmv
Is this a good price?
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jwalls Posts: 302013 328i Black Sapphire Metallic, cold weather package (ZCW), premium package (ZPP), BMW Assist (6NL).
MSRP 42,645...dealer offer $38,350
36 month lease with .00130 LMF....we will put down $5000 which will leave a balance of $26,866 at the end of the lease.....Dealer said the residual value is 63%
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shabadoo25 Posts: 216That's a lot of money to put down on a lease. You should always try to get your down payment as close to $0 as possible since it is likely that you will never get that $ back should you suffer a total loss on the car (accident, theft).
Talk to your CA about doing MSDs instead--multiple security deposits. These are refundable at lease end and they bring down your money factor (interest rate).
Of course, all of this assumes you want the option of turning the car back in at lease end. If your payment strategy is aimed at eventually paying off and owning the car, then that kind of dp makes more sense. -
jerseyal Posts: 5No, no, no, no, no. jwalls, shabadoo25 is correct. you should NEVER put that much money down on a lease. If the car is totaled, you will lose all that money, and you would be out of luck. MSDs are definitely the way to go. I would highly recommend that you see if you can modify the deal, where your car equity goes towards the fees/etc, and the cash that you put down, goes towards the multiple security deposits. They can issue you a credit for the difference between the fees and what your car is worth. Sure, your payments will be higher, but that sure beats losing all that money if your car gets totalled.
As long as you did not take delivery, you can change the deal, and if they refuse, just cancel the deal altogether. -
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qbrozen Posts: 17,8361. That's most certainly not true across all dealers.
2. Even if a dealer did such a thing, that would not exclude negotiating because the salespeople aren't selling units for themselves, they are selling for the dealership management/owner, and it is those folks who need to move units. If they want to move a unit, they will negotiate.'14 CTS Vsport; '15 Fit LX 6-spd; '98 Volvo S70 base; '14 Town&Country Limited
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murphy143 Posts: 2Here is what we were offered:
Sale price: $49,000
Customer cash: $4,751.99 (includes adv payment, upfront charges of $3,161.51 and total cap reduction of $2,756.30
Total rebates: $1,750
(Since we are looking at leasing another BMW, they offered to take another $750 off, which is not included below)
36 months/15,000 miles
$584.18 a month
Options include:
Cold weather
Drivers assistance
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seanh2o Posts: 27First of all, thanks to all who have posted. The discussions were really helpful. I have been shopping around for 3 and found that most dealers are willing to offer at invoice in addition to cash back incentives (1k for financing with BMW and 750 for loyalty). However, what I am concerned is that the MF is 0.0013, which is over 3%. Comparing to others, it seems pretty high. Did BMW MF ever go close to 1%? I'd like to know if this is really the best time to lease one.
Thanks! -
roadengine Posts: 5I am looking to buy 2013 328i xDrive in PA and below is the price I got from dealer.
Wanted to check if its a good deal or I can negotiate further.
This is first time I am buying a BMW.
Sale price: $40,795
Total Rebates: $1000.00
Base Monthly payment : 458.61
Tax : 41.27
Monthly Payment: 499.88
term : 36 months
Residual Amount: $27370.35
Money factor/rate: 0.00135
Mileage Program : 10,000
Advance Paments: $499.88
Upfront Charges: $550.93
Total Cap Reduction: $1,149.19 (I didn't understand whats this. Can someone tell me whats this?)
Due on Deliver : $1200
Car has heated front seats,navigation,moon roof, BMW Asst with USB
Thanks in advance! -
insidecarbuy NYCPosts: 95Some dealers configurer deals different ways. He should have just structured it first month and bank fee out of pocket and it would have come out to $1,143.04 plues DMV. With that being said on a car with that MSRP you should have a monthly payment of $418.04. Doesn't look like he is giving you such a great deal. See the details of what the deal should look like below... Good Luck!
Customer Name: Inside Car Buying, LLC
Sale Vehicle: New 2013 BMW 3 SERIES 133* 4dr Sdn 328i xDrive w/AC , Automatic , Odom: 0
Payment Details
Term 36
Base Payment 383.52
Total Payment 418.04
Purchase Option 27,370.35
Est. Miles Per Year 10,000
Disposition Fee 250.00
Excess Mileage Charge 0.20
Amount Due at Signing
1st Month Payment 418.04
Acquisition Fee 725.00
Total Inception Fees 1,143.04
Rebate as Cap Reduction 1,000.00
Total Drive Off 2,143.04
Total Cash Required on Delivery 1,143.04
Tax Information
Customer State: Pennsylvania Customer County: ADAMS
Type Amount Rate Paid
Cashdown Tax 65.25 9.0000 Capped
Monthly Tax 34.52 9.0000 Capped
Fee Information
Description Amount Paid
Temporary Plate Issue Fee 5.00 Capped
Transfer Fee 6.00 Capped
Encumbrence Fee 5.00 Capped
Online Dealer Fee 14.15 Capped
Online Reg Fee 16.85 Capped


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Our highly popular summer basketball skills camp is once again scheduled at Valley Catholic High School. With a primary focus on basketball technique and skills development for players of all abilities and experience levels, the camp also features recreational games, lunch, swimming, and a ton of fun for all! This camp has side benefits for campers and parents in that it's a great place for participants to meet players from other schools, while the program hours are ideal for working parents in the summertime. Just drop your camper off on the way to work, and pick them up at 4 p.m. The Valley Catholic High School coaching staff looks forward to working with all youth entering grades 1-8 in the fall. Joel Sobotka, Head Coach for Valley Catholic's Men's Varsity team, will direct the camp. Whether you're a beginning player or seasoned veteran, you'll be ready for CYO Basketball at the end of camp. However, you do not need to be a CYO basketball player to register. See our website for more information before the start of camp. A complimentary t-shirt is included.
This exciting program features hands-on lessons for beginning swimmers. Emphasis will be on helping participants foster a love for the water through development of "face in the water" comfort and relaxed aquatic body positioning. Basic swim techniques including front crawl with side breathing, fundamental back float, and the backstroke will be presented. Swim instructor: Mark Lee, CYO Director of Swimming. A complimentary t-shirt is included. Open to camper ages 7-14.
This program is designed for "intermediate" swimmers (participants must be beyond beginner level and comfortable with their face in the water prior to camp) with program activities geared to build upon existing basic swim skills. Swimmers will review the fundamentals of body position and stroke mechanics to become more competent swimmers. Components of all four competitive strokes (Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke, and Butterfly) will be covered during the camp. Attention will be given to each individual, working through a personalized progression that fosters confidence while pushing to new skill levels. Games will be incorporated into the water activities to ensure that all campers are having fun while learning new life-saving skills to benefit a lifetime. CYO Director of Swimming, Mark Lee, will teach the camp. A complimentary t-shirt is included. Open to camper ages 7-14.
This may be one of the highlights of your summer if you choose to join Joanne Kollman for a week of Art Camp where you will experience the fine art of portrait painting. Joanne Radmilovich Kollman is a widely experienced painter whose work ranges from commercial illustration to fine etchings and oil paintings. For the last 20 years, she has produced hundreds of illustrations for magazines, children's books, and commercial clients, while maintaining a steady practice in creating original gallery art and graphics. Joanne has a lyrical style and unique eye for design.
This camp will be held on the campus of the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon (Valley Catholic School) in Beaverton. In addition to time learning portrait work with Kollman, the basic elements of art will be studied including the construction of a color wheel.
Camp will begin at 9:00 am each day and conclude at 4:00 pm. It is designed to give each child a day filled with art opportunities and convenience for the parent. Lunch and snacks will be served. Bring your swimsuit and a towel because the art clinics will be surrounded by breaks, including swim time at the campus pool and other recreational activities.
Portrait Art Camp with Joanne Kollman is open to all youth who have completed first through eighth grades. Your artist will end the week with the beginning of the budding artist portfolio and a portrait to hang. This is a "do not miss" for the "passionate about art" child. Space will be limited so be sure to sign up for this "once in a lifetime" opportunity.


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You Can Still Be a Harry Potter Fan and Not Want to See 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'
Features By Kate Erbland on May 20, 2014 | Be the First To CommentLast year's news that the Harry Potter franchise isn't over, not really, should have been music to the ears (perhaps played by The Weird Sisters?) to each and ever Potter fan on the planet. In September, word slipped out that author J.K. Rowling was hitting the page again to develop her Potter supplement "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" into a new, kinda-prequel to the Potter world we all love that would focus on magizoologist and fictitious author Newt Scamander. Earlier this year, that news was majorly beefed up by the news that Warner Bros. was looking to turn that single, forty-two page book into a trilogy of "megamovies" that zip the Potter-verse seventy years back in time to center on the escapades of the young Scamander in New York City. The latest news? Per Nikki Finke's Twitter account (really?), director Alfonso Cuaron is in "deep talks" (ouch) to helm at least the first film in the new trilogy. Cuaron is, of course, no stranger to the Potter world — he previously helmed Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. As Finke tells it, that's a "perfect pick," and it really just might be, so why does it seem so hard to muster up any excitement for this new trilogy? Just because we're returning to the world of Harry Potter — or, you know, the world that Harry Potter will eventually be born into — doesn't mean that only magic will be there, or that we even need it. It's okay, you can still be a hardcore Harry Potter fan and […]
2014 Oscar Prediction: Best Director
Academy Awards By Landon Palmer on February 28, 2014 | Comments (2)Best Director is a strange category, particularly because of its tenuous relationship to Best Picture. Does it refer to the best cohesive film, under the assumption that the director is responsible for overseeing nearly all aspects of how that film comes to be? Or does the award refer to a film's most conspicuous control of visuals, tone, and style – the things that we most associate as evidence of a director's guiding influence? The vague sense of what qualifies someone as worthy of honor in this category (we, of course, only assume what the director did by virtue of the finished product) is perfectly on display in one of this year's most heated competitions: between Alfonso Cuarón's enthralling real-time spectacle of a woman lost in orbit and Steve McQueen's intricate, decade-long depiction of one man's harrowing subjection. But let's take a look at how the five nominees shake out, with my surprise predicted winner in red…
This Year's Split Between Best Picture and Best Director Could Be the Ideal Equivalent of a Tie
Academy Awards By Christopher Campbell on February 16, 2014 | Comments (8)It's not definite that this year's Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director will go to different movies. But it is very likely that Alfonso Cuaron is going to win the latter and that his movie, Gravity, is not going to be crowned the former. Odds in favor of Gravity for the top Academy Award are increasing of late, but I still see us having the first back-to-back split since 1953. Last year, of course, Picture went to Argo while Director went to Ang Lee (Argo's director, Ben Affleck, wasn't nominated for the latter). This year the film that may trump Gravity for Best Picture is itself split between two contenders, American Hustle and 12 Years a Slave. Both of those movies won their respective Best Picture categories at the Golden Globes earlier this year. Hustle for comedy/musical and Slave for drama. Not that this means either has to follow with the Oscar (only 4 of the past 10 Oscar BPs were Globe BPs). Hustle also won the top award at the SAG Awards, that honor being for Outstanding Performance By a Cast in a Motion Picture. Not that this really means anything either (only 6 of the past 10 Oscar BPs were SAG Best Casts). Slave, meanwhile, tied for the top award at the PGA Awards — with Gravity. This is where it might mean something. The Producers Guild is currently six for six in predicting the Oscar BP, and in its history they're 17 for 24. If they go […]
This Year's Best Director Nominees Were Especially Good With Their Actors
Academy Awards By Christopher Campbell on February 2, 2014 | Comments (2)What makes a great director? Is it more about the technical visual achievement that we can see on screen? Is it about getting exceptional performances from the actors? For a great director, it's both. For a Best Director of any given year, as so named by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, one or the other might do. This year, for instance, Alfonso Cuaron is the frontrunner for the Oscar, and his recognition is mostly based on the film being "an absolute technical marvel in every possible way," as our own review from Kate Erbland puts it. Like James Cameron before him, Cuaron will be honored for work where the performances from the cast weren't as much a priority as the performances from the camera and special effects. Yet also like Cameron, Cuaron has been paired with a Best Actress nomination for his leading lady. Sandra Bullock has won an Oscar in the past for her acting, but she still surprised many with her performance in Gravity. Do we have Cuaron to thank for that? It's hard to tell. He's never really gotten bad work from his actors before, but he's certainly not thought of as an actor's director in the way his four companions in the category are. This is his first instance of directing an Oscar nominated performance. Including this year's additions, Martin Scorsese has 22 under his belt, David O. Russell has 11, Alexander Payne has 7 and Steve McQueen has 3 — of course, […]
Movie Of The Year: The Infinite Aperture of 'Gravity'
Best of 2013 By Scott Beggs on December 19, 2013 | Comments (3)Back in November, Alfonso Cuaron was asked by Esquire about "unique experiences" in cinema. They'd framed the conversation as TV vs. Film, and Cuaron remarked that TV rarely produces brain-searing moments. Scenarios? Characters? Sure. But if you're looking for a better batting average on memorable moments, cinema is holding the big stick. At least, as Cuaron amends, cinema outside the mainstream. For a filmmaker who's delivered gargantuan imagery and scenic epinephrine, his go-to for a unique film experience this year is telling. "It depends on what you call a unique experience. I just saw the Woody Allen film [Blue Jasmine], and I thought it was just amazing. It's not that it's going to give you a roller coaster of a ride. It's just an amazing film. But definitely there are directors, even in the mainstream cinema, in Hollywood, people like [David] Fincher and Wes Anderson and David O. Russell and Guillermo del Toro, who are doing really exciting mainstream cinema." Gravity might be the polar opposite of Blue Jasmine. One is unrelenting high concept with a sprinkle of backstory, the other is a piercing dramedy with rounded characters. On the other hand, they both feature towering performances from focus-monopolizing actresses playing struggling women. They'll also collide in some way on the road to Oscar, creating a convenient story of thematic similarities and structural antitheses to consider when we think about what movies we hold above others at the end of a calendar year.
The 12 Most Insane Genre Transitions Made By Directors
Cinematic Listology By David Christopher Bell on December 11, 2013 | Comments (8)By no means are directors expected to make the same movie over and over again – but they also don't tend to fly genre to genre like some kind of bipolar carnival game either. Here are a few directors who – if they were to put on an autograph signing – would find themselves in the midst of a very polarized crowd of fans.
Short Film: Lonely 'Gravity' Tie-in 'Aningaaq' Tells the Greenland Side of the Distress Call
Features By Scott Beggs on November 21, 2013 | Comments (1)Why Watch? Meanwhile, on earth. Aningaaq is the companion to Gravity that fills in the visual space on the other end of Ryan Stone's last-grasp radio call, and it breathes cold air into an isolated, unhappy story. Directed by Jonas Cuaron, it has the potential to be powerful, but probably not for anyone who hasn't seen Alfonso Cuaron's feature. Some have said that it should have been included in the movie — either at the very beginning or in real-time — but I just don't see it. Part of what made Gravity so powerful was that we were never allowed to escape the environment. There was no safety release valve of flashing down to Houston to see what they were up to and no breather in the form of exposition from Stone's past life. Including this short (or any shots on earth) would have broken the spell. Luckily we get to see it regardless. It's also interesting that the team is submitting this short for Oscar consideration, meaning that it has a shot at making history alongside its all-but-guaranteed-a-nomination big brother. It's a melancholy bit of storytelling with its own thoughtfulness and purpose, to be sure, but on the awards front there are plenty of other shorts that surpass it. Granted, I watch thousands of short films a year, but the buzz on this is coming purely from the depth of the feature film's popularity. At any rate, it's a beautiful bite of snow that also represents an encouraging shift in […]
The Morning Read: Defending 'Speed Racer,' God Gets Involved with 'Pulp Fiction' and The Persistence of Movies
Features By Scott Beggs on November 21, 2013 | Be the First To CommentThe best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya?
Battling Our Debris: The Real Struggles of 'Gravity,' 'Captain Phillips' and 'All is Lost'
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on November 19, 2013 | Comments (2)Captivity/survivor narratives are hardly unfamiliar to our movie screens, and such films tend to come in bunches. Three years ago, for instance, both Buried and 127 Hours boasted solo or near-solo performances from two rising Hollywood stars who spent the duration of their films as the solitary face we see. But last month brought a prominent and concentrated group of such films, all met with overwhelmingly good reviews, promising major performances from their leading survivor types, and coasting on significant awards buzz. While each film explores near misses, false moments of possible redemption, the necessary instance of despair, and ultimately an incredible optimism in the possibility for human beings to survive a conflagration of elements that work overwhelmingly against them, each of these films go about this differently. Yet the major factor connecting J.C. Chandor's All is Lost, Paul Greengrass' Captain Phillips, and Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity is that they all stage humans' fraught relationship to nature through the problems and failures of human commerce and its attendant production of waste. Their respective fights with or on the landscape of nature, in other words, are inaugurated by the failure of humans to wield their own devices.
'Gravity' and The Welcome Return of Grounded Spectacle
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on October 8, 2013 | Comments (8)A weird thing happened on my way home from a matinee screening of Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity. I cried. Like, actual tears down my face, shortage of breath, no control crying. The pitiful kind of crying you hope nobody else sees. I'm pretty embarrassed to admit it – not because I see any shame in crying, even (or especially) over a film, but because for the life of me I couldn't understand why on earth I was crying over this film. Gravity is no doubt an impressive technical achievement and an entertaining 90 minutes, but it hardly registered anywhere in the ballpark of emotional profundity for me. I found the trauma that Sandra Bullock's character must overcome to be both forced and rudimentary, realized through some of the most on-the-nose thematic dialogue this side of Mad Men season 6. And don't get me started on the 3D tears. I'm not trying to be cynical, but rather am attempting to illustrate the incredible gap I experienced between the character's emotions onscreen and my belated visceral response to the film. I've seen many great films that have left me silent, even catatonic – films far "better" than Gravity that have asked me to walk away from them emotionally shattered or existentially crippled. But no film has ever elicited this type of reaction, and taken me so completely by surprise in doing so. I finally realized I wasn't emptying myself over emotional resonance, character identification, or poignant thematics, but something a bit more abstract: […]
The Morning Read: Laws of 'Gravity' and the Dramatic Migration
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Trailer Remix: 'Gravity' as a Romantic Comedy
Features By FSR Staff on October 4, 2013 | Comments (1)George Clooney as a dashing pile of handsome, Sandra "Miss Congeniality" Bullock and a meet-cute that's out of this world? You can't tell us that Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity isn't a romantic comedy. Weightless in Seattle. Or maybe Romancing the Moonstone. It's in an unconventional location to be sure, but the vacuum of space can't keep sparks from flying. Naturally, we turned to our old pal Sleepy Skunk to put together a trailer that sells the movie for what it really is. With a little help from Old Blue Eyes, he was up to the task:
'Gravity' Review: A Technical Marvel That Must Be Experienced
Movie Reviews By Kate Erbland on October 4, 2013 | Comments (5)"Life in space is impossible." Before we even hear a word from Alfonso Cuaron's staggering Gravity, a thin line of text already tells us everything that's going to happen within its slim, unrelenting ninety-minute runtime. Life in space is impossible. But is survival possible? It's a normal day for the Explorer team, one that sees Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) working on his space walk time (he's eager to break a previously-established record by another astronaut) while Shariff (Paul Sharma) tinkers outside the station and Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) attempts to repair some malfunctioning equipment so they can finish the upgrade they are tasked with completing. Things are relatively peaceful, the only hitch in an otherwise unremarkable excursion being Dr. Stone's jumping stomach and her frustration at getting her work done – until the formerly relaxed Houston team suddenly demands an emergency evacuation. Not just for the three space walkers to go inside the station, but for them to get the hell out of their general location. A Russian satellite has exploded and its debris (moving around Earth at a pace faster than a speeding bullet) has begun knocking off other satellites, setting off a chain reaction of zinging space shrapnel that won't just bust open a spacesuit, but an entire space station. The evacuation doesn't happen.
Broken Projector: Alfonso Cuarón's Space Odyssey
Broken Projector By Scott Beggs on October 4, 2013 | Be the First To CommentDear sweet lord it's finally here. Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity hits theaters which is bad news for Sandra Bullock's astronaut and great news for everyone else. Drew McWeeny joins us for a little Interrogation Reviewification where he explains the mind-evaporating nature of the movie without spoiling it. Plus we chat with Rob Hunter about the best of the best coming out of Fantastic Fest (and where you can find them), and I harangue Geoff with a brief history of banned books being adapted to film. You should follow Drew (@drewathitfix), Rob (@fakerobhunter),the show (@brokenprojector), Geoff (@drgmlatulippe) and Scott (@scottmbeggs) on Twitter for more on a daily basis. And, as always, if you like the show (or hate it with seething fervor), please help us out with a review. Download Episode #36 Directly Or subscribe Through iTunes
With less than a week left before Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity hits theaters, you're likely to see an increase in the already heaping mound of raves claiming it's the best original sci-fi film of the year, if not years. The problem is that this is not sci-fi. I've been having minor debate about this for weeks now, and there are numerous critics and non-critics, both people who have seen and haven't seen the film yet, on each of the two sides of this argument. At the end of the day, you can say I'm being too stubbornly semantical. That the genre doesn't even matter these days. But this is a movie involving science, and science itself deals a lot in classification and semantics, so I feel it perfectly appropriate to stand firm on genre categorization with this one. And I keep cringing every time I see the term sci-fi or words science fiction applied to this film. Gravity features no aliens, no interstellar space travel, no time travel, and it doesn't take place in the future. In fact, given that it involves a space shuttle as its method of travel into space, it would seem to be set in a past. And while I don't know all the technological accuracy evident on screen, I do know the production aimed for this to be a realistic film of the world and science that is or was existing. To me, that's not sci-fi. Just like Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff, never mind their […]
This 'Gravity' Trailer is Unreal, or Too Real
Movie News By Neil Miller on September 5, 2013 | Comments (1)In the early hours of last evening, just as the stars were starting to come out in various parts of the country, Warner Bros. unleashed the full trailer for Alfonso Cuaron's upcoming space thriller Gravity. It's perhaps the most intense 2-minutes you're going to have today, assuming you don't have a heart attack later. Or during the trailer, for that matter. See for yourself, because that's what it's going to take.
Early 'Gravity' Reax: Jaw-Dropping, Awe-Inspiring, Breath-Taking
Features By Scott Beggs on August 28, 2013 | Comments (1)It's tough to miss a film festival where a highly anticipated movie is playing, but it's a lot easier to handle when the reaction bursting out of the theater is roundly positive. Excitedly positive. None of this, "It was okay, but…" nonsense clouding the expectations game for something we want to blow our minds. Enter Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity. With stratospheric hopes, the new partnership between the Children of Men director and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki lands in theaters in early October, but Venice Film Festival goers got an early look, and apparently their eyes are completely dilated.
Two More 'Gravity' Trailers to Give You an Ulcer
Movie News By Nathan Adams on July 25, 2013 | Comments (2)Don't have enough tension and worry in your life? No problem, because the marketing of Children of Men director Alfonso Cuarón's new space thriller, Gravity, seems intent on freaking us all out to the point where we'll all be sent off to the nuthouse for some decompression before we ever even get a chance to see the movie. Just yesterday we posted a new trailer put together for the film subtitled "Detached," which was a single-take shot, reminiscent of the most famous sequence from Children of Men, that put you right in the middle of the action of a space walk gone wrong. Was that closing image of Sandra Bullock drifting off into nothing enough to fuel your nightmares for the next few months on its own? Then maybe you won't want to click through this one, because today we've got two more sequences from the film that are equally as likely to make your brain glitch and your body go numb with fear.
Single Take 'Gravity' Trailer: Alfonso Cuaron's Panic in the Cosmos
Movie News By Scott Beggs on July 24, 2013 | Comments (5)This is when the real panic sets in. Stunning in its execution, the new trailer for Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity does its duty in evoking Children of Men's most famous scene. The abject terror, the immediacy of profound danger, the single-take-ness. If you're not standing and clapping by the time it's over, it's probably because you still can't breath:
Alfonso Cuaron's 'Gravity' Gives Comic-Con Crowd Anxiety
Comic-Con By Neil Miller on July 20, 2013 | Comments (1)As the afternoon rolls on in San Diego, the Warner Bros. presentation has been the marquee event for the 120,000+ attendees of Comic-Con. With a great deal of announcements expected — some coming a bit early — about the future of DC Comics adaptations, WB has also been showing off movies that are not only announced, but will actually screen for audiences before the end of the calendar year. One such tale is Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, which hits theaters October 4. The Children of Men director took the stage in Hall H to provide attendees a first look at what it's like to experience his 3D space thriller, explaining that he wants people to feel what it's like to float in space. According to reports from the ground in San Diego, they are not only feeling the floating sensation, their nerves are being tested. We've culled together a group of some of the initial reactions to the footage shown. Warning: you are about to enter the hyperbole zone.
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"Don't get overexcited," trainer Joe Smith cautions Fallon Fox before slipping his sweaty palms into padded mitts. "I need you to focus," he says. Fox grinds her left heel into the mildewed carpet below and unleashes 10 shin-cracking, rapid-fire kicks into Smith's gloves, forcing the trainer to scuttle backward to absorb their intensity. "Nice!" Smith shouts over an electro remix of the Doors's "Strange Days" blasting from the gym's speakers. A $50 drop-in fee at an overcrowded LA Fitness center in suburban Miami has afforded the pair one last training session before Fox's Friday night fight in three days at the BankUnited Center in Coral Gables, Fla., on May 24.
Later, booted from the mirrored weight room by an evening Zumba class, Fox and Smith squeeze into the only open space inside the clogged gym: at the lone punching bag by the bathrooms. Floppy men with pink skin, women shrink-wrapped in neon, and soggy teenagers dazed by their Apple gadgets on their way to the toilets have to leap and dart out of Fox's way as she charges at Smith, hissing through her teeth, with a flurry of precise, thwacking jabs. A gaggle of pubescent boys, slick with sweat and sebum, clump together about 10 feet away from her, peering and whispering.
A ninth grader with a fake diamond stud in his ear: "She's famous, huh?"
"Yeah, she's, like, an MMA fighter from Colombia or something?" the friend responds.
"Her body is mad right," adds Diamond Ear with a lewd smile.
They all exchange a questioning look, the silent shorthand shared among young boys for "Would you or wouldn't you?" Their grins and nods suggest that, yes, they all would.
Fox bounces more punches off Smith, sweat pearling on her body.
"Banging," one of the boys concurs.
Fox throws a brutal knee blow, the same one she had thrown at the Coral Gables arena in March, knocking out her last opponent, Ericka Newsome, after just 39 seconds. But that fight belongs to another life. That was before a reporter from the website MMA Junkie called Fox's manager demanding to know if she was really a man. It was before the state of Florida put her fighting license under review for not disclosing the gender reassignment surgery she had undergone in Bangkok seven years earlier. It was before she called Smith, her longtime trainer, and told him she was not born a woman. It was before an ex-lover sold old pictures of her to TMZ, a shade of facial hair covering her chin. And it was before Fox, a 37-year-old single mother from Toledo, Ohio, who goes by the nickname Queen of Swords, came out as a trans woman -- the first and only one working as a professional cage fighter.
Her upcoming fight against Allanna Jones on Friday marks the first time in MMA history that an openly trans fighter will step into the cage. And it will be the second elimination round in the Champion Fighting Alliance's all-female tournament. If Fox is victorious, she will go on to the final round and compete for a $20,000 purse, the highest bounty for which she's ever fought. To some -- perhaps even to many -- Fox's upcoming fight is historic in another way: It's the first time in MMA history a man will be allowed to fight a woman.
"What gives me the advantage over my opponents?" Fox asks and grimaces, repulsed by my opening question. She picks at her late-night dinner of brown rice, vegetables, and overcooked white fish. Next to her, Smith sucks down his cola silently, keeping his eyes on his samosas. "I'm a better fighter," she says. A slight pause, then her stony face cracks into a smile.
Finally, at 10 p.m. on this damp Miami night, Fox begins to thaw. Throughout an overpacked day of press calls, photo shoots, and pantomiming for a local TV news crew, she seemed tense and gloomy -- anxious about the energy spent off the mat educating reporters about the state of her genitals. Meanwhile, Jones, her opponent, was likely pummeling a stand-up bag, free from questions about estrogen levels and bottom surgery.
"At first, I thought my medical history was no one's business," Fox says. Instead of responding to MMA Junkie's queries about the sex change, her manager offered Sports Illustrated the exclusive. But it was something Fox and her team felt cornered into doing. "I knew it was going to come out at some point, I just didn't…" she trails off. The blow-by-blow of their reasoning for going public is something Fox doesn't like to rehash -- sometimes it makes her go damp-eyed.
Fox's announcement prompted the Florida State Boxing Commission, the regulatory body that licenses fighters, to put her under review. The MMA scene quickly polarized around Fox's status, and that's when things got grim.
"You can't fight chicks, get the fuck out of here," said Joe Rogan, the MMA color commentator, last March. "You're out of your mind. You need to fight men, you know? Period. You need to fight men your size because you're a man. You're a man without a dick."
Then, in April, NFL linebacker-turned–UFC fighter Matt Mitrione went on an unsolicited rant about Fox during an MMA Hour broadcast. "I haven't seen a man beat a woman like that since Chris Brown beat Rihanna," he said of Fox's fight against Newsome. "That is a lying, sick, sociopathic, disgusting freak," he continued. "And I mean that, because you lied on your license to beat up women. That's disgusting. You should be embarrassed of yourself." He then compared Fox to Buffalo Bill, the fictional pre-op trans serial killer from The Silence of the Lambs. (He received a temporary suspension for his comments.)
Elsewhere, Ronda Rousey, UFC's first and current female bantamweight champion, added to the rabble around Fox in April, telling the New York Post that she had researched the topic extensively and concluded "[Fox] can chop her pecker off, but it's still the same bone structure a man has. It's an advantage. I don't think it's fair."
"Male to female transsexuals have significantly less muscle strength and bone density, and higher fat mass, than males," Dr. Eric Vilain, a geneticist and director of the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, told Time magazine last May. Vilain helped the International Olympic Committee and the Association of Boxing Commissions compose their policies on post-op trans fighters. By their standards, which also inform state licensing commissions, Fox meets the criteria of womanhood: completed anatomical surgery on the genitals, including a gonadectomy and hormone therapy administered through a licensed endocrinologist for at least two years after the surgery. This would offset any male hormone advantage an athlete had, Vilain argues.
But what if Fox's 30 years as a biological man made her stronger? She could be stronger, Vilain said, "but sports is made up of competitors who, by definition, have advantages for all kind of genetic reasons. And no one complains about it." In other words, Michael Phelps is not disqualified from swimming the 100-meter because he has freakishly long arms. Professional sports are made up of one genetic anomaly getting the advantage over another genetic anomaly.


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If you don't even know the facts, then how can you form any opinion? Oh wait, you had make your own facts I still remember the 98% fact.
This is exactly why BMW is at the top, they don't ignore any potential threat. Caddy has been the loudest taunting BMW in the past year or two, they need to shut them up, while at the same time convince people like you they could care less about the ATS. Not a difficult thing to do with fanboys, but BMW knows they need to sell non-fanboys.
Of course there are other things to consider. But the CLA is not necessarily targeting the exact same market. Yes there will be cross shoppers between F30 and CLA, but if BMW is really serious about the CLA, they would have worked on a new 4-door 1 series model, but FWD. I think they will though. From the intial impression, the CLA could grab a lot of drivers moving up from Camry, Accord, Altima, Civic, Corolla and VWs...who don't know what is the point of an RWD.
I know how much you like to make everything about the ATS, but be real. The thing isn't selling. It's a pig. A pig for 80 year old women.
When your primary competitor drops a $30,000 el-cheapo luxury car into the market, you have to react. BMW saw the CLA, knew that it could hurt the 3 Series, boom, 320i. Hit a few buttons, ship 'em south of Canada, MB threat neutralized.
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Help ! How to change back to English....
I updated the firmware to ICS and now my Novo 7 ADV is all Chinese, how do I change the language settings to English ?
Many thanks
12-23-2011 02:39 PM #2Beta
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Easy fix, open your app drawer, click settings (it'll be a square with blue switches on it near the end of the list).
Scroll down to the picture that looks like "A..." in a square.
click the first option under that A... menu and it'll bring up the language list.
Good luck!
Yup I had to do that too.
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