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Rated: PG for rude humor including some reckless behavior and language
Stars: Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Ed Oxenbould, Kerris Dorsey, Dylan Minnette
This bright, wholesome and bland Disney comedy might have been a little more funny if it had been a little more, terrible, horrible, no good and so forth. Plenty of disastrous stuff happens to the Cooper family on this "Very Bad Day," ranging from major minivan destruction to a rampaging crocodile, but none of it has much impact. There's very little sense that anything significant is at stake here—and meager stakes result in meager laughs.
Not reviewed
Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of warfare, vampire attacks, disturbing images, and some sensuality
Stars: Luke Evans, Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper, Charles Dance
When his kingdom and family are threatened, Vlad the Impaler (Evans) makes a deal with supernatural forces that barters his soul for power. Commercial director Gary Shore makes his debut with the supernatural thriller.
Not reviewed
Rated: R for language including some sexual references
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Vera Farmiga, Robert Duvall, Billy Bob Thornton
A big-city lawyer (Downey Jr.) reluctantly returns to his hometown to represent his estranged father (Duvall) when he is charged with murder. David Dobkin ("The Change-Up") directed the drama.
Not reviewed
Rated: R for language and drug content
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Sheen, Ray Liotta
After exposing the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine, a reporter (Renner) is driven to the point of suicide by a smear campaign. Michael Cuesta ("Roadie") directed the drama.
Rated: R for language and brief sexual content
Stars: Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine
It's a bit overlong and a bit overstuffed with subplots and minor characters, but this based-on-fact dramedy about an unlikely coalition between gay activists and striking coal miners in Thatcher-era England is a real crowd-pleaser—mostly thanks to its terrific cast. In spite of its over-reliance on things like cute little old ladies at gay pride parades saying "Where are my lesbians?"
★★ 1/2
Rated: R for some sexual content, language and brief drug use
Stars: Hilary Swank, Emmy Rossum, Josh Duhamel, Jason Ritter
A shameless tear-duct-dredging weepie with a side order of empowering life lessons, "You're Not You" might not be particularly subtle, but it's almost guaranteed to please if you're merely in the mood for a couple of sobs. Double Oscar winner Swank suffers bravely Kate, a perfectly put-together former classical pianist living a perfect life with her perfect husband (Duhamel) until she's suddenly stricken with ALS. Rossum is the sassy young hot mess of an aspiring singer/songwriter she hires as a caretaker. Next thing you know, they're BFFs. Though not exactly forever.
★★★ 1/2
Rated: R for a scene of bloody violence, some strong sexual content/nudity, and language
Stars: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris
Creepy, cold-blooded and not exactly encouraging regarding its outlook on marriage and romantic relationships in general, "Gone Girl" is nonetheless a smart, satisfying thriller that more than lives up to its hype. After the disappearance of his rich and famous wife (Rosamund Pike in a shocking performance) on their fifth anniversary, a grieving husband (Affleck) becomes the object of savage media scrutiny—and a police investigation. Is he what he seems to be? Is his wife? Is anything? Director David Fincher ("The Social Network") keeps us guessing throughout—right up to the truly perverse finale.
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Rated: G
Stars: Christina Ricci, Sean Astin, Owen Wilson, Rosie Perez
A group of crayons join forces to defeat a monster threatening their city—and the imagination of children. Frank Gladstone makes his directorial debut with the animated family adventure.
★ 1/2
Rated: PG-13 for some thematic elements, violence/peril and brief drug content
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Lea Thompson, Chad Michael Murray, Cassi Thomson
Surely one of the dullest end-of-the-world movies ever made, the evangelical-Christian-targeting rapture drama "Left Behind" does its best to dramatize the pandemonium that ensues when true believers around the world mysteriously disappear. Cage, believe it or not, plays an airline pilot whose copilot vanishes at 30,000 feet—forcing him to land his crippled plane on his own. The role's epic blandness qualifies it as one of the weirdest of his career.
Rated: R for strong sexual content including graphic dialogue throughout—some involving teens, and for language
Stars: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner, Emma Thompson, J.K. Simmons
This dire, dour and dreary cautionary tale about the Internet is appearing about 10 years too late to qualify as a fresh topic, but timeliness isn't the main thing that's missing. The sharp, cynical wit that characterized co-writer/director Ivan Reitman's first films ("Thank You for Not Smoking," "Juno," "Up in the Air") is nowhere in evidence. Without it, the melancholy air of those first efforts degenerates into mere dismalness. Sandler is a standout as a sad dad in a sexless marriage who seeks solace from online call girls—part of a loosely connected group of teens and parents are all falling afoul of the interwebs in various sordid ways.
★★ 1/2
Rated PG for action, some peril and mild rude humor
Stars: Ben Kingsley, Nick Frost, Tracy Morgan, Richard Ayoade
Though produced by the makers of "Coraline" and "Paranorman," this disappointing stop-motion family adventure scores roughly equivalent points for weirdness, but without nearly as much charm or humor. Raised as a cardboard-box wearing troll in an underground cavern, a young boy (Isaac Hempstead Wright of "Game of Thrones") ventures to the surface to confront the evil, cross-dressing exterminator (Ben Kingsley) who plans to wipe out the trolls. Adults may find that it has its moments, but don't be surprised if younger children find it disturbingly freaky.
Rated R for strong bloody violence and language throughout
Stars: Denzel Washington, Chloe Grace Moretz, Bill Pullman, Melissa Leo
Washington brings his usual gravitas to the role of a retired CIA super-spy assassin who's found something more interesting to do with his spare time than play golf. Namely, coming to the rescue of ordinary folks being oppressed by major-league bad guys "because he can." Director Antoine Fuqua (who also directed Washington's Oscar-winner "Training Day") delivers the mayhem with stylishness to spare and a touch of literary appreciation as our deadly yet bookish hero distills life lessons from his reading of "The Old Man and the Sea" and "Don Quixote."
★ 1/2
Rated R for language and some brief nudity
Stars: Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette, Stellan Skarsgard
Essentially an even more vapid version of "Eat, Pray Love" for over-privileged middle-aged men, "Hector" features a midlife-crisising psychiatrist (Pegg), who takes a break from his passion-free existence for a globetrotting journey in search of the meaning of true happiness. The best way to be happy in the short run? Give this one a miss.
★★★ 1/2
Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, some partial nudity, disturbing images and brief strong language
Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver
Despite the slow pace, "Tracks" is a journey well worth taking. Wasikowska ("Jane Eyre," "Alice in Wonderland") is particularly good as Robyn Davidson, a young woman who trekked 1,700-miles through Australian desert in the 1970s, with no one for company but three camels and a dog. Oh, and Driver, as a National Geographic photographer/romantic interest who frisks around puppy-like during occasional meetings and clearly annoys our hero no end. See it for Wasikowska's strong, lone-wolf performance and for the stunning images of Australia's Outback.
Rated R for language
Stars: James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis
It's a way too slow and it goes on way too long, but, if you stick it out, "Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby" might eventually draw you in with its detailed examination of the agonized aftermath of a wrecked marriage. A distillation of two companion features subtitled "His" and "Hers," "Them" opens with a quick flashback to the happy romance of Eleanor (Chastain) and Conor (McAvoy), then abruptly changes moods when Eleanor attempts suicide — then lets us spend the next two hours trying to sort out what went wrong. Fortunately, there's one very touching scene near the very end that arguably makes it worth the effort.
Rated PG-13 for thematic elements and intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, including some disturbing images.
Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter
Though it might seem the last thing anyone—including this film's target audience—needs is another post-apocalyptic young-adult fantasy adventure, "The Maze Runner' has a secret weapon. It's actually pretty good. Debut director Wes Ball draws a surprising amount of excitement from this tale of a "Lord of the Flies"-like community of teenage boys imprisoned by a giant maze—and the newcomer (O'Brien) who helps them escape.
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Rated R for language, sexual content and some drug use
Stars: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda
After the death of their father, four estranged siblings are forced to spend a week together in their old family home. Shawn Levy ("Night at the Museum") directed the comedy.
Not reviewed
Rated R for some disturbing violence/gore, language and sexual content
Stars: Justin Long, Michael Parks, Genesis Rodriguez, Haley Joel Osment
An obnoxious podcaster (Long) is taken captive by an eccentric recluse he intended to interview and ridicule. Kevin Smith ("Zack and Miri Make a Porno") wrote and directed the horror comedy.
Not reviewed
Rated R for strong violence, disturbing images, language and brief nudity
Stars: Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour
A private investigator (Neeson) is hired by a drug kingpin to find the men who kidnapped and murdered his wife. Screenwriter Scott Frank ("The Wolverine," "Minority Report") wrote and directed the crime drama.
Not reviewed
Rated R for language and some sexuality/nudity
Stars: Christoph Waltz, David Thewlis, Melanie Thierry, Tilda Swinton, Matt Damon
A computer expert (Waltz) is assigned by all-powerful Management (Damon) to perfect a theorem proving that everything adds up to nothing. Terry Gilliam ("Brazil") directed the futuristic fantasy drama.
Rated R for language, some sexuality and drug use
Stars: Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Luke Wilson, Ty Burrell
Suicide is right up front as a thematic element in this Sundance festival prizewinner, along with parental abandonment, marital infidelity and sexual seduction of a minor — awkward topics for a movie that's going for laughs, sort of, roughly half the time. So it's kind of remarkable that "The Skeleton Twins" works as well as it does as often as it does, though the natural chemistry of former "Saturday Night Live" cast mates Hader and Wiig, as estranged twins getting to know each other again after mutual suicide attempts, has a lot to do with it.
Not reviewed
Rated PG for some mild thematic elements
Stars: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Harry Connick Jr., Nathan Gamble
Years after saving the life of the rescued dolphin Winter with a prosthetic tail, the Clearwater Marine Hospital comes to her assistance again when her surrogate mother dies. Director Charles Martin Smith returns for the sequel.
Not reviewed
Rated R for some strong violence and pervasive language
Stars: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini
A Brooklyn bartender (Hardy) becomes involved when the bar owned by his boss (Gandolfini) is robbed while holding money for the mob. Michael R. Roskam ("Bullhead") directed the drama.
Not reviewed
Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence, menace, terror, and for language
Stars: Idris Elba, Taraji P. Henson
An escaped convict (Elba) terrorizes a suburban mom (Henson) and her family after she lets him into her home to make a call. Sam Miller (British TV's "The Bill") directed the thriller.
Rated PG for thematic material and smoking
Stars: Blake Rayne, Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta
Not just bad, but double bad, "The Identical" offers an evangelicized, milk-and-cookies version of the Elvis story times two — sort of. Former Elvis impersonator Rayne stars as debut as thinly fictionalized rock 'n' roll superstar Drexel Hemsley and his identical twin brother Ryan — separated at birth when Ryan is given to a traveling preacher (Liotta). Despite adopted daddy's desire for him to enter the ministry, Ryan, unaware of his origin, heeds another call: to become a clean-living, true-believing Drexel impersonator. Film features 20-some pseudo-Elvis songs ("Bee Boppin Baby," "Boogie Woogie Rock and Roll") that would have killed rock dead before it began.
★★ 1/2
Rated R for some sexuality and language
Stars: Kevin Kline, Dakota Fanning, Susan Sarandan
Whatever hard lessons Errol Flynn learned in the last 17 years of his life, staying away from very young girls after his 1942 statutory rape trial clearly wasn't one of them. The final major scandal of the aging former swashbuckler (Kline, perfect) involved dying in the company of his 17-year-old fiancée (Fanning) after their two-year affair — condoned by her fame-obsessed stage mother (Sarandon). Writer/directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (Sundance festival winners for "Quinceañara") take a surprisingly sympathetic approach to everyone involved in the romance, resulting in blandness — a little more lechery and lust wouldn't have hurt.
★★ 1/2
Rated PG for thematic material, a scene of violence, and brief smoking
Stars: Jim Caviezel, Michael Chiklis, Alexander Ludwig, Laura Dern
Considering that the De La Salle High School Spartans are the winningest team in high-school football history, if not the winningest team in any sport, ever, it's interesting that "When the Game Stands Tall" is essentially a movie about losing. Not flat-out, over-and-done losing, but losing as an opportunity to learn moral lessons, as in winning is less important than teamwork, brotherhood and faith. The Christian-themed film spotlights the 12-year, 151-game winning streak of the De La Salle High School Spartans football team — and what happened when these Goliaths ran into their David.
Not reviewed
Rated R for bloody violence/terror, and language throughout
Stars: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge
A team of explorers finds something very scary dwelling in the catacombs beneath the streets of Paris. John Erick Dowdle ("Devil") directed the horror.
Rated R for language, some sexual content and violence
Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Yasiin Bey, John Hawkes, Tim Robbins, Will Forte, Isla Fisher
Striking the proper balance between light humor and genuine threat has always been a problem for adapters of Elmore Leonard crime novels, but "Life of Crime" basically gets it right. Possibly because the late author also served as executive producer. Bey (a.k.a. Mos Def) and Hawke play kidnappers who expect crooked real-estate developer Robbins to hand over a million dollars for his trophy wife Aniston — only to learn he's filed for divorce and isn't especially eager to see her again.
Not reviewed
Rated R for strong violence including a sexual assault, language, sexuality/nudity and brief drug use
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey, Olga Kurylenko
An ex-CIA operative (Brosnan) returns to the fray for a fracas with a former pupil involved in shady goings-on in Russia. Roger Donaldson ("The Bank Job") directed the espionage thriller.
Not reviewed
Rated R for sexual content and drug use
Stars: Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon, Nikolai Kinski
The life and career of the famed French fashion designer (Niney) is explored in this biographical drama. Jalil Lespert ("Headwinds") directed the bio-drama.
Rated R for language
Stars: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei
Despite the travails and tragedy in "Love is Strange," you'll have to look a long time to find a film that's a better endorsement of long-term relationships. Lithgow and Molina (both at their best) star as a newlywed, long-partnered gay couple who essentially become homeless when a Catholic school fires one of them in reaction to their marriage. It's a minor-key movie, achingly sad at times, but understated, true to life and ultimately quite moving.
Rated R for language, drug use and some sexual content/nudity
Stars: Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Poehler, Laura Ramsay
There are times when "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner's feature debut seems like two films at once: a standard-issue whacky bro-mantic comedy with two-dimensional characters and an attempt to mine their personal struggles for maximum dramatic impact. It doesn't really work. Wilson and Galifianakis are more or less typecast as Steve and Ben, a charming, womanizing, shallow TV weatherman and a borderline-crazy hermit. When Ben inherits a farm in Amish country, Steve tries to help him collect. True-romance and deepened self-knowledge ensue.
Not reviewed
Rated R for some language, sexual references and drug use
Stars: Earl Lynn Nelson, Paul Eenhoorn,
A pair of 60-something former brothers in law (Nelson and Eenhoorn) embark on a road trip through Iceland in search of their youth. Aaron Katz ("Cold Weather") and Martha Stephens ("Passenger Pigeons") co-wrote and directed the comedy.
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Bill Maher – yes, I'm opening a piece about why fighting does not need to exist in hockey by referencing something Bill Maher said, but bear with me – once was discussing what it would take to get equal rights in America for the gay community. He quoted a statistic that showed how people who are against gay marriage are very old while people who are for it are very young.
His hypothesis was that eventually gay marriage would be legal in all 50 states, but we would have to wait for all of the old voters and their long-held ignorant beliefs to die first. Once you get past the harshness of the idea, it makes sense. For change to occur, people in power need must be replaced by people who aren't burdened by the notions of "that's how it's always been" in the world.
Before we get to hockey, let's talk about the NFL. I know, but I assure you this all builds to a point.
On Sunday, the New York Giants were playing a football game against the Carolina Panthers. The Giants were thoroughly dismantled, 38-0, in a game that wasn't as close as the score indicated. The contest ceased to be in doubt by, at the latest if you're an optimist, the middle of the third quarter. It was a woodshed beating in which Giants quarterback Eli Manning was sacked seven times.
There was a play that occurred earlier in the game before it got out of hand. Giants defensive back Ryan Mundy delivered a devastating – and legal, although a flag was thrown at first – hit to Panthers wide receiver Brandon LaFell that jarred the ball loose, resulting in an incomplete pass. LaFell was about as defenseless as it gets. It was an extremely violent collision in an extremely violent sport.
At the conclusion of the third-down play, no one on the Panthers ran over to Mundy to challenge him to a fight. Heck, no one on the Panthers had anything to say Mundy in the aftermath of the hit. No one on the Panthers felt the need to "stick up for a teammate" because of the hit. In a game that was over with about 20 minutes left, Panthers coach Ron Rivera did not send out his toughest player to fight Mundy or exact revenge by having a linebacker engage in a fight with a Giants wide receiver.
Suffering one of the more embarrassing losses in team history, no one on the Giants felt the need to "set the tone" for the following week's game by fighting someone on the Panthers. No one on the Giants felt the need to "fire up the boys" while down 10-0 by starting a fight.
What's the difference between the NFL and NHL, two extremely violent sports whose players pride themselves on toughness? Quite simply, fighting has always been part of the NHL culture while the NFL does not tolerate it. Fighting in hockey gets you five minutes in the penalty box and the admiration of your teammates and coach. Fighting in the NFL gets you a minimum fine of $26,250 for a first offense and is doubled for a second offense.
If the NHL adopted that policy, Brandon Prust would be filing for bankruptcy by January. Or, more likely, fighting in the NHL would eventually disappear and, after a while, no one would miss it.
There are many reasons why in 2013 hockey is the only sport that tacitly condones fighting, but the biggest reason is the fact that it's institutional; it's something that has always been there since skate blade first touched ice. Changing any long-held standard or practice in any institution is always extremely difficult, as it is all anyone around that institution has ever known. It's been taught and passed down from generation to generation. It's a systemic problem.
It seems every argument for fighting being necessary in hockey has been gutted like a deer that has been shot with an arrow by David Booth, but we have to go over some of them again for educational purposes.
The argument that always seems the most convincing when it hits your ears is fighting is OK when a player on the other team is playing recklessly and taking liberties with players on your team. By having an enforcer on your team, that reckless, liberty-taking player will be taught a lesson about how to play the game properly and with honor, and that lesson will be taught with fists.
People accept this rationale despite the fact that fighting and reckless, liberty-taking players have co-existed since the beginning of hockey time. Having a fighter to defend a teammate does absolutely nothing to deter that type of thing, as nearly 100 years of hockey has proven.
That bleeds into the deterrent theory, that having a well-known fighter who enjoys bashing faces will prevent players on the other team from throwing hits, dirty or clean, on your star players. This is apparently a belief of the front-office of the Edmonton Oilers, which is lined with men who suited up in the NHL about 30 years ago. They signed Steve MacIntyre, who serves no other purpose than to break faces in battles of fisticuffs, this week in the wake of Sam Gagner having his face broken by the carelessly wielded stick of Canucks forward Zack Kassian.
After Gagner's injury, a million voices cried out that if the Oilers had a true enforcer, a defender of hockey liberties, Gagner's face wouldn't look like one of those walkers in Return of the Jedi that gets crushed by the two Ewok logs. That's what known, scary enforcers do – they deter violence against others, especially those that can't defend themselves.
Yet 24 hours later, the brawl between the Leafs and Sabres blew that theory to bits.
The Leafs' Jamie Devane, a large man, kicked the hell out of the Sabres' Corey Tropp, a man who is not anywhere nearly as large as Devane. This upset the Sabres because it broke the code, a nebulous idea about fighting that can be used to create an excuse for any fight that occurs later in the game or until the end of time, really. Pick on someone your own size and all that. Devane took a liberty with a smaller player, and he had to pay.
Here's the problem – the Sabres have John Scott, who is basically a bear on skates. He is not only a bear, but he is a bear who knows how to throw a punch. And skate. There might not be a more intimidating fighter in the NHL than Scott. If you play in the NHL, you are aware of his existence and you know what he will do to you if you step out of line.
Yet Devane took his liberties on Tropp — although Tropp was clearly a willing participant — anyway. Devane didn't care. Why? Because the idea of fighting as a deterrent is about as silly as the idea of a bear on skates throwing punches.
Consider the death penalty. It's existence is designed to deter murder. But the problem with murder is that most of them occur in the heat of passion. You're not thinking straight, which clearly is the case because you are in the process of murdering someone. Your adrenalin is pumping and your emotions are raging and oh look this person is dead and now you're thinking about the consequences.
It's the same problem in hockey. Your heart is pumping. You are filled with a mix of fear and excitement, and that same adrenalin is rushing through your veins and oh look you've swung your stick violently and broken the jaw of a player who you intended to hit across the chest but you instead severely injured him. The concept of fighting as retribution to that action doesn't enter your mind because it requires thinking clearly and no one is thinking clearly in the midst of a high-speed, violent sport.
The notion that we should let players "police themselves" is the highest of high comedy, as if Cam Janssen is a modern-day Wyatt Earp, dispensing justice on the hockey frontier when referees can't get the job done. The people on Reno 911 are more equipped to police illegal activity than hockey players.
Blame for fighting in the NHL doesn't fall squarely on players and coaches and GMs and front-office types who continue to promote this machismo-fueled need to show one's toughness and willingness to do anything for a teammate – it falls just as equally on the NHL. If suspensions for dirty hits weren't comically low and ventured into the 10- or 20- or 30-game range on the regular, there would be fewer dirty hits and fewer reasons for players to fight. If referees weren't lax in enforcing rules, offering either a wink/nudge or turning a blind eye to vigilante justice, hockey players would feel less compelled to fill the justice void.
Of course, if the NHL moved into the 21st century and outlawed fighting, there would be no fighting at all and no debates over what the intentions of the coach were when he put three bouncers on the ice against actual hockey players. There'd be no discussions about which enforcer has hockey skills and which enforcer is most likely to hold his stick upside-down for an entire shift without realizing it.
Of course, that will never happen as long prehistoric thinkers like Randy Caryle, Brian Burke and Craig MacTavish hold places of power and influence in the NHL.
Consider the NFL again for a second. Just like the NHL, the NFL has a major problem with brain injuries. In both sports, they will always be part of the game, collateral damage and an inevitable outcome of large humans traveling at a high velocity into other large humans.
But to the NFL's credit, they are at least trying to do something and are willing to go to drastic measures to help minimize the amount of brain injuries, flimsy financial settlements with former players not included.
Leading with the crown of the helmet outside the tackles is now a penalty and fineable offense. Destroying defenseless receivers with your helmet, even if it's unintentional, is a no-no. If a defender even grazes the helmet of a quarterback, it's 15 yards. Remember kickoff returns? I barely do. But the NFL recognized that an abundance of injuries were occurring via speeding kickoff coverage teams crashing into wedge blocks. So wedge blocking became a thing of the past and kickoffs were moved up 5 yards, which means just about every kickoff goes out the back of the end zone.
The NFL essentially did away with kickoff returns in an attempt to make the game safer. Kickoff returns!
What's the NHL doing for player safety? Hey, before you two guys punch the hell out of each other for a minute, do not take your helmets off because we care about your long-term health and if your unconscious head bounced off the ice and you died that'd be bad PR for us.
Dinosaurs and Cro-Magnons that defend fighting will tell you that getting rid of it will result in the game getting soft. "If you don't like fighting why don't you go watch tennis with your girlfriend's box of tampons and then watch One Tree Hill in your skirt with your mom!"
Why can't toughness exist without fighting? Football players are some of the toughest people around, and they somehow find a way to live with not fighting that linebacker who hit their wide receiver with an illegal hit. Football players reach deep within themselves to swallow their pride and accept the 15-yard penalty and fine that linebacker will receive. Football players choose restraint over the personal satisfaction of punching someone else in order to quash the feelings of "not being man enough," and isn't that true toughness? The more you know.
I'm like everyone else with human DNA – I absolutely love watching two other humans beat the life out of each other. It's in all of us to an extent. Those UFC knockout highlight shows are incredible. A roundhouse kick to the jaw of a guy who is out cold on his feet? Brilliant. Milan Lucic and Joel Rechlicz punching each other for a full 60 seconds? I'll click that link.
But you know what I love even more? Hockey. Man do I enjoy watching talented people saucer pass a puck over and through three sticks for a back-door goal. I enjoy watching a hockey player one-time a rocket under the crossbar. I enjoy a forward undressing a defenseman in a 1-on-1 situation and stashing a backhander through a goalie's legs. I enjoy a defenseman catching a forward with his head down and cleaning his clock with a shoulder to the chest.
Two things I don't enjoy are 1) talentless goons stumbling around the ice for 7 minutes a night, seeking out the other goon for a cranium-destroying session, and 2) the idea that the NHL isn't willing to ban fighting in an effort to at least minimize the opportunities for preventable head injuries.
If the NHL banned fighting and instituted monster fines and suspensions for fighting and reckless hits, the game would instantly be safer and better as players learned to adjust. Despite all the goons in the NHL, all the codes and all the players "policing themselves," it took rule changes and threats from the league of lengthy suspensions and perhaps a lifetime ban to get Matt Cooke to change his game.
If Matt Cooke can figure it out, anyone can.
That brings us back to the Bill Maher theory on equal rights for the LGBT community. It's going to take years for them to be welcomed into modern times and it's going to take time in hockey too. That's not to say we need to wait out the deaths of Brian Burke, Randy Caryle and the Oilers front office — but we do need to wait out the exit of their kind from the sport. We need more people to recognize that talent-laden clubs like the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings are winning Cups without trained face-punchers and other teams can do the same, and that will eventually happen.
Will fighting be wiped from hockey before gay marriage is legal in all 50 states?
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I found this in my local garden centre and with this flower I couldn't help myself and bought it even though it hasn't a name, and even though normally I don't go for complex Paphs. It would have probably come from a Dutch pot plant nursery. I think it may well have Paph Emerald in it somewhere. |
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Where: Oakland,
When: Started in June 1998
When he worked as a teaching assistant at the University of California, Berkeley, John M. Barrie, 35, saw firsthand the problem academic dishonesty posed to educational institutions. So after he graduated in 1998, he and a group of eight friends launched a Web site designed to help teachers catch dishonest students. Today, four of Barrie's co-founders remain in the business--Christian Storm, 31; Emmanuel Briand, 33; Melissa Lipscomb, 31; and Todd Huddleston, 34.
Called Turnitin.com, the system scans high school and college students' work for plagiarism. Students submit a digital version of their term papers online, and Turnitin.com screens the papers against three databases. The business got off to a good start, thanks to $2 million in start-up capital raised from family and friends.
Today, the antiplagiarism system has been adopted by the University of California system, every university in the United Kingdom, Cornell, Duke, Rutgers, and thousands of high schools worldwide. Sales for 2003 are expected to exceed $5 million.
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By Jerry Riley
It is possible. Let's explore – as only I can, or maybe only I will. I received my first email of this election season that a celebrity has announced his campaign for office – it does not matter which office As in the past many years, we may have to just vote for the lesser of the two evils – And, yes, what a revoltin' development that is!
Don't vote for that constitutional amendment. I, too, would like to be able to oust a dud governor, but this bill is rigged. It takes 500,000 signatures (something that is doable), but then there has to be a mix of Rep and Dem legislators agree to put it on the ballot. Either party can nix the people's desires….just like now.
We may not be happy about it, but the major party candidates are probably the only candidates who have a chance of winning, at this time. Casting your vote for a celebrity, unknown, or even one of a minor party, or tea party candidates, may make you feel better about not voting for someone that may not appeal to you, but, the way things are structured now, would it be a wasted vote? They may be a local, or even regional favorite, but, may be stopped if the election covers a larger area. Yes, you are making a statement against a major party candidate, or the major parties, but will that have any impact when the election is over and the votes are counted?
What can we do? What's the problem? Let's not add to it by guessing.
Let's not scrap an entire system if all it needs is a new part. Does the system need replaced. Or just the people within the system?
If the system needs to be replaced, what do we replace it with? Looks to me, that it might be more practical to replace the people who work within the system. We, the people, have always had the power. We call it voting – and it is time we use that power.
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Forum experts please help me out! We decided to go with a stainless steel backsplash for our kitchen (over the cooktop). We also have a potfiller installed in this region. So, basically we need to drill a 5/8 inch hole in the backsplash for installing it. The backsplash is made of 19 guage 304 quality stainless steel as per the manufacturer. We are DIYing the kitchen remodel - so I am wondering how to drill this hole and what kind of tools we need (I assume we need special drill bits etc). Since we are new to metalworking, any tips will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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You can drill it with a good quality Bimetal Hole - saw, with a pilot drill. Konrad |
Clamp the piece between two pieces of wood as brickeye said but the top pieces of wood should only be next to the hole so the surface of the sheet where you are drilling can be seen as you drill thru, use a good metal cutting hole saw it will have a finer tooth count than a bimetal but costs more(A quality blade is the key here, some of the cheapo bimetal blades will not cut the SS)You will also need a good variable speed drill motor, also use plenty of cutting fluid squirted on the blade, the problem that most people run into on SS is that they try to drill it at too fast of a cutting speed, and they overheat the blade. Drill at a slow speed (some people use a start/stop method) and stop if the bit gets hot and apply plenty of cutting fluid. Caution: try your cutting fluid choice on a scrap piece to be sure it wipes off clean, some fluids will leave a stain on SS! You might want to drill a scrap piece just to get the feel of how it drills out. Oh yeah and don't forget to measure twice and drill once. Good Luck |
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taste everything, Bailey asserts. "Everything looks wonderful on paper, or pretty in design, but is it to your taste?" A good caterer or restaurant will oblige that request. But if you don't ask, says Bailey, they won't offer.
The element of surprise is the most enchanting aspect of a party. And for it to be truly memorable, creativity is required. "You have to be clever with surprises. Many of my clients have everything and they've seen everything." Bailey does, however, offer two suggestions.
- Destination surprise: "Tell 10 to 20 of your closest friends to meet you at the airport with a bag packed for the weekend with warm-weather or cold-weather clothing, and take them to a wonderful all-inclusive resort. In their rooms they should be greeted with flowers and a tote bag which contains an itinerary and all the items they will need to enjoy their stay."
- Transformation surprise: "This can work well with a small or large group. On a more intimate scale, we've totally gone in and transformed a house, creating different color schemes, adding columns, putting up retractable walls and temporary floors, surprising a spouse, family members, or close friends on their return for the party. On a larger scale, we've taken tents and created glass houses within them, or taken a stodgy ballroom and created a nightclub or dance club atmosphere."
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In A Deluge of Consequences, the first World Policy e-book, intrepid journalist Jacques Leslie takes us along on a mythic, spell-binding trip to the bucolic kingdom of Bhutan, where the planet's next environmental disaster is set to unfold.
The World Policy Institute understands that policymakers and opinion leaders need creative ways to catalyze innovation and engage wider coalitions in solving some of the world's biggest challenges. By working with artists focused on the same issues, this cross-cutting initiative seeks to build a new, collaborative model for social change.
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The Cuba Project occupies the cutting edge of educational outreach on the domestic and international repercussions of the unilateral US embargo against Cuba. The project, created by Senior Fellow Lissa Ree Weinmann in 1997, focuses on examining the impact of US sanctions on state and society in Cuba and the United States.
The project organized National Summits on Cuba in Washington DC in 2002, Miami in 2003, Tampa in 2004, Mobile in 2005, and Newark in 2006, underscoring World Policy Institute's commitment to bring fresh voices on global policy issues to new audiences.
Newspapers and radio programs across the United States and abroad have interviewed and quoted project personnel on numerous occasions. DVDs that capture more than 80 prominent American leaders' points of view on U.S. Cuba policy at the National Summit on Cuba events have been catalogued by the Library of Congress and other prominent national repositories and are available through the project.
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Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
TVET is concerned with the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes for the world of work. In the past, various terms have been used to describe elements of the field that are now conceived as comprising TVET. The second International Congress on Technical and Vocational Education held in Seoul in 1999 decided that the best, most comprehensive term to use is Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).
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The Vanuatu TVET Sector Strengthening Program has been funded by the Australian Government since 2009. The program is aiming to develop new systems and approaches to better link training to economic outcomes for trainees within a nationally-recognised training system. It is currently operating in two provinces, SANMA and MALAMPA, which were selected by the Government of Vanuatu following a competitive selection process in which all provinces participated.
Implementation is focused on the development and localised management of two provincial TVET Centres. These TVET Centres are designed to offer a range of services to facilitate better targeted training, business development, and employment growth through an incentive-based and contestable Employment and Training Fund (ETF).
The Program works within the regulatory framework of the Vanuatu National Training Council (VNTC) and the Centres operate alongside the decentralised arms of the VNTC, the Provincial Training Boards (PTB). The PTB functions as a skills advisory body for the TVET Centres and are comprised of representatives of key productive sectors.
With a bottom-up approach, the Program is seeking to demonstrate at the provincial level what an effective national system might comprise. It is modelling on a small scale how the TVET system could work through a dual focus on a) provincial demand-driven service delivery and b) improved horizontal and vertical coordination between central agencies and their decentralised operations within a national framework.
The TVET Program is supporting the Australian Government's broader Education priorities in Vanuatu to promote economic growth, develop leaders and contribute to peace and prosperity.
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- Accredited Training Services Accredited short-course training – demand-driven trainings delivered by local registered training providers in line with provincial economic development priorities;
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- Employment Services An advisory and networking service that provides a link between people seeking employment and potential employers;
- Training Provider Support Services (TPSS) Support for training providers to become registered and to develop and deliver accredited short courses that are targeted to provincial development and economic outcomes;
- IT Services, providing access to computers, internet, printers and photocopiers to TVET Centre clients to reinforce the effectiveness of the other services.
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Two years ago I planted my Sambac Jasmine in the ground. It flourished and gave me over a hundred flowers every day. Last year, it did not have much new growth, but still had flowers-- about half as many as the year before. This year, most of the leaves have fallen even though it still tries to bloom. It is getting as much, if not more, water than the first year. It gets part sun. It's got fertilizer. It is mulched. Can anyone point out to me what's wrong?
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Have you tried pruning it? Perhaps a little trim to take out old branches and encourage new growth will get it back on track. Riz |
When the leaves died off, I cut off the smaller branches, leaving only the thicker ones. So far, I have not seen new growth. |
- Posted by azngrnthumbs Zone 7/8 PNW (My Page) on Tue, Jul 25, 06 at 16:07
Don't be afraid to cut into the thicker stems to encourage growth from them. It's the new growth and younger stems that produce buds and bloom. Make sure they are watered regularly and fertilized as they are actively growing. Good luck! R |
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Some one made these from verticle blinds a couple of yrs ago and posted. I tried it and really got hooked making them. Can not find any of my pics but this one. You can search for German Stars and find a lot of directions with good pictures.
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- Posted by roseofsharon2008 (My Page) on Thu, Sep 18, 08 at 14:12
Hi...these are soooo cool! We break these blinds on a regular basis around here...off to find the instructions! |
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- Posted by souperwoman 6 (My Page) on Thu, Sep 18, 08 at 23:41
excellent idea! i think they look great! |
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Oh Wow, those are awesome! I don't remember seeing the first post on this Twomonhts. If someone finds the instructions, please post it, I'd love to make these. I think these would be so awesome hanging from an outdoor Christmas tree. Sal |
Oh Wow, I love these. I'd like to know how to make them too. |
http://www.highhopes.com/3dstar.html white paper directions (I printed out this and a colored paper one and it is easier for me to follow the colored one) I mess up all the time...but I just go with it cause they come out different....or fall apart, lol. Be sure to bend the end of the blinds to see if they will fold without breaking before you get started. If they break, they are too old and brittle. I used some regular blinds and some of the vertical ones. I have cut them into smaller strips as well as use whole. And if there were ends cut off, I used them for smaller ones...and kept on until they were too small to cut and fold, lol. I am posting these here cause they are curb finds and I used them as garden junk. I am going to go over under the crafts forum and post some more there on the Paper Crafts site. Since they are paper and ribbon directions. check them out also. Colored directions below. Notice this person folded the bottom right strip and the other directions show starting with the top right one and rotating. |
Here is a link that might be useful: paper stars
I had to go thru Home Decorating, then Crafts to get to Paper Art. Sending the link. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Paper crafts
I made them 2 or 3 years ago and posted on one of these websites.. trash to treasure, or Kitchen table.. lol very fun to make! They ARE heavy though! this is from the verticle blinds I took off the tv room wall... it measures around 16 to 17 ". |
- Posted by tennesseetrash 7 east tenn (My Page) on Thu, Oct 9, 08 at 8:45
Twomonths & Kat ... those are so pretty! What a great way to recycle those old blinds that usually just end up in the land fill. thanks for sharing this idea ~tenderlee |
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longbow713 Posts: 6I installed new battery few months ago. Since then, the auto start (dealer installed when car was new) will not work. Dealer says costs 100$ minimum to reset the remote start on key chain. They did quick check and said it is problem in dash and cost depends on how bad.
Any thoughts on how I can try to reset the auto start? I have hard time believing this is problem in dash.
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sai_questions Posts: 1Coincidentally I have the exact same issue - but mine is different in some respects.
Did not drive for 3 weeks. Dome light might have been on. The battery was drained completely. Jump-start worked twice. The first time I drove around 100 miles - still it would start with a lot of difficulty.
The second time I drove 7 miles(20 mins) and turned it off in the shopping lot of a parking lot. Came back and tried to start - the dashboard lights came on, but the car won't start. My friend tried the ignition too many times and the dash lights dimmed too. Tried jump-start: got a few strong sparks when the negative terminal was being connected to metal part on the engine. The headlights shone bright but the car won't start. Dash lights did not turn on. Next time I tried to jump-start no lights go on - neither the ones on dashboard nor the headlights. It's been dead since then. Another thing to add - the brake became really hard after this jump-start attempt.
I suspected the battery was absolutely bad and replaced it. But it still is completely dead after connecting the new battery too. No clicking sound, no lights. Could you point me in the right direction? do you think it would be an electrical/fuse problem? Or do you guys reckon there might be something else wrong? -
joecorolla99 Posts: 4Folks,
If the car will not start and the battery checks good, more than likely it's the starter.
Sometimes you might get one "click" but no start. Then it might start on the next try.
I've heard it called the "corolla click". Over time the contacts wear out in these starters and you can have the starter replaced or get a replacement contact set. Starter replacement is the more costly option. The contact replacement is less expensive, but in both cases the starter has to be removed.
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markgm Posts: 3Hi,
I'm just starting to look at this on my car. The first thing I noticed was that the power windows wouldn't go after I started the car. I thought maybe a wiring problem somewhere, since the front passenger door sometimes doesn't work.
Next, I have to get going. The gear shift won't get out of park.
Next I look at what is not right electrically. The fan motor won't go (dash) and the wiper motor won't go.
There is in the main fusebox one socket for a 50A fuse called "FL ABS" next to one called "FL ALT" (100A) that is missing, or maybe it originated that way.
The horn works. The headlights work. The blinkers do not work. I think I'm o=unable to move with the gear-shift issue!
Any help is appreciated!
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taz_sa Posts: 1Three months ago, battery died and had it replace. Short time after, power lock on drives side door stopped working. 2 months later, power lock on drives side stopped working. 1 month later, rear door on passenger side when out. Now fan blower is acting up. It works sometimes. When it does work, speed fluctuates on its own; stops, then starts again. It still cools but the fan has a mind of its own; works when it wants. I was thinking an electrical short but have no clue at this point. I will need professional help, however, trying to get an idea... because I don't want to get railroaded. Help!
hopeful13 Posts: 12010 corolla, 72K miles. Installed HID lights, and removed them cause system couldnt handle. Have added prestige remote start/security system.(they insist it draws very little juice) Removed trunk light.
Symptom: When rolling down express power window gets to bottom, slight shudder from the engine when window motor coming to a stop (draws a bit more current before it stops) or when the battery was low at one point..., stepping on brakes causes a shudder (shudders are when waiting at red traffic lights durng idle)
My battery dosent hold up for two weeks during Sandy superstorm when car was not used. I installed dash mounted solar panel to trickle charge battery every day (150mils- very little but to compensate) I think something is draining the battery.
Suggestions for most likely culprits?? The solar cell was a quick fix (connected direct to battery)
Installation of the HID lights ccaused some wire heating just under the steering wheel so I uninstalled them, but electrical drains are usually shorts, not past heated wires.
Or maybe the alternator isnt bad but going? Rolling down power auto express window shouldnt
have any affect on idle or make even a slight shudder when at light....
I did remove the trunk light, but wondering if there are any other culprits? The security system
does keep a security code on all the time, but I popped the led.
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seattlehiker Posts: 4I'm taking the car in Monday to have it looked at. It seems odd that none of the fuses, when pulled out, will make the lights go out.
I'm tested the ones for the headlamps and when pulled they make those go out. There are some fuses labeled "fog" and "tail light" and when pulled they don't make the lights in the front side go out and tail light doesn't make the light in the back go out? -
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arki Posts: 108 Corolla S.
I noticed my dashboard lights, tail lights, license plate lights and the side headlights were not coming on when I drove at night. I tried a couple if things like checking the fuse box and changing out the multifunctional switch out and the problem still persists. I'm totally clueless where to look next. If you can give me a step by step procedure on how to tackle this problem that would be amazing-- maybe even a video?
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St. Anthony Regional Hospital and Nursing Home Announces Friday, 05 October 2012 (Pictured in the front row, from left are: Honorary Chairs, Bob Woodhouse, Jean Knobbe, Urban Knobbe, Joan Badding, Dr. Frank McCabe. Honorary Chairs not pictured include Charles and Mary Heider, Bob Badding, Ruth McCabe. Back row, from left are Campaign Co-Chairs, Peg and Jim White, Deb and Jim Auen, Mary and Jim Greteman.) When a patient comes to the hospital emergency department, the environment is often rushed, with many people looking for answers to questions – doctors, family members, friends and patients. Family and friends gather to wait for impending news of the patient's health. The time is often one of angst as people mill about, busily attending to the needs of the patient and, at times, there is a sudden moment of grief if a person passes away quickly, unexpectedly. 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I should have kept better records but it seems that I recall planting clemson 80 and got unexpected poor production. I know what websites say about it but I would love to hear from anyone who has some actual experience with these 2 cultivars. Thanks |
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Clemson spineless did well for me and always has. Don't know about clemson 80 |
I have never planted Clemson 80. I find that Clemson Spineless is very productive here in Central PA. Matter of fact won't plant it this year as we have plenty from last year. |
"80" is an "improved" version with pods that can get longer without getting hard/woody and a (slightly, imo) more vigorous selection compared to the traditional CS. The main advantage, imo, is you can let it go to 4-5" without it becoming tough, whereas you the traditional CS is better harvested at 3-4"...though I'd still harvest at 3-4" for either type unless you like wide pods. I find the wider the pod, no matter the tenderness, the easier it loses it's seeds when you cook them...I prefer the sweet seeds hold onto the pods rather than cooking out. |
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- Posted by chrisb_sc_z7 7 (My Page) on Tue, Jan 29, 13 at 8:27
Apparently, it matters how close you plant them. I've read that if you have plants in a row 6 or 8 inches apart, each plant will grow straight up and only produce pods on the main trunk. But if you thin, or just plant to 3 or 4 feet between plants, each plant will branch out and produce more per plant than they would if in a row because each limb will produce as many as the main trunk. |
Thanks all for your responses. You're right about the spacing. I plant 18" apart and always end up with okra "trees" with thick trunks and sometimes I can't get the roots up even with shovels and spade forks. They produce lots of branches. I think I will go with the Clemson 80 and keep better records. |
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