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=== EDIT === Answer: Sellers generally don't specify that a plant is micro (<3") or super-mini (3-4"), so read the descriptions on their regular miniature plants. Some sites that do a decent job of describing which plants stay smaller are: * Rob's Violet Barn ====== ORIGINAL POST ====== I've searched this site, and almost everything I've found is very outdated. The recent post I found only looks for names, not where to get them from (and even at that, nobody who replied was able to give any true super-mini names). Any help is appreciated. :) Thank you! == Where I've looked on these forums == Super Mini African Violets (2013) has the names of two miniatures, but no super-mini, and no place to buy them. Micro mini violets (2009) has people who have micro-minis and who list a few along with one very nice picture, but not where to get them from. Working on a list of micro minis (2008) has, unsurprisingly, a list of micro-minis that the poster found, but even with those names, I can't find where to get them from. Two micro-mini varieties (2007) has a picture of two micro-minis, but no buy location. WANTED: Micro Miniature Violets (2006) and WANTED: Looking for Mini's and Micro's (2009) would have been great! Except neither have any replies. :p |
This post was edited by bttrflii on Wed, Sep 4, 13 at 10:45
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- Posted by ultra_violet (My Page) on Tue, Jun 18, 13 at 21:50
Any AV that generally grows up to 6 inches is indicated as "Miniature" in their official description regardless of whether it maxes out at 2 in. or 6 in. I assume you already looked The Violet Barn or Lyndon Lyon Greenhouses but I'd look again, they usually add extra descriptive comments in their listings to give buyer a clue as to how small or smallish a miniature really is (ex. "this plant stays at 2 inches for us" "cute tiny foliage"). Unlike you, I read between the lines so I DON'T buy a midget since I have more success with semis and standards :) Also I bet they'll be more than happy to guide you over the phone. A lot of the tiniest AVs are trailers, but can be groomed to grow as a single crown. This Violet Voice forum gives some names. I would try eBay for most of the varieties mentioned, eBay is hit and miss but sometimes a variety you just must have DOES pop up after weeks or months of trying! |
This post was edited by ultra_violet on Tue, Jun 18, 13 at 21:56
Thanks ultra_violet, I'll go look again and read the descriptions. I realize that no officially-sanctioned recognition is given to the micro and super-mini sizes, but I (obviously) wrongly assumed that they were still have those keywords *somewhere* searchable. I would actually prefer the 3-4" super-minis since from what I researched, those seem to be easier to care for than the <3" micro-minis, even in their own little "mini" group. I wouldn't have room for enough of the 6" size to keep myself happy; I like variety, and combining that with my limited space for these african violets means that if I can get four 3-4" violets instead of only two 6" violets, then I'm all for it! As to searching on ebay... I've been looking for two weeks, so I guess I'll have to just keep doing so. :p I would dearly love a single resource that listed plants that fit into the different categories *and* had a picture. That would make finding which plants I actually want a lot easier, and then searching for only those plants instead of a list of 50 or more names? That would be awesome! |
- Posted by ultra_violet none (My Page) on Wed, Jun 19, 13 at 17:02
*Under my growing conditions* Rob's Loose Noodle, Rob's June Bug, Rob's Chilly Willy, and Rob's Love Bite grow up to approx. 3.5 inches at maturity. They can be found at The Violet Barn. A word of caution, I personally find smaller varieties to be more delicate than others in general. Good luck! |
You may want to check out some of these. Lyndon Lyon Violet Barn Shanti's African Violets |
thank you both for the recommendations! i've decided to order from the violet barn since i fell in love with one of their chimeras; in that vein (haha), i'll be trying out loose noodle and twinkle blue. if these go well, i do believe i'll be trying out some plants from shanti next, as i've heard that tiny moon goddess is fun and quirky. :D |
Did you place your order yet? You may want to check out Texas Teen, available at the Violet Barn. There was once a vendor called Violet Venture that carried many small cultivars. Bloomin Jungle has since acquired all of those plants and for a limited time you can purchase leaves here. http://www.bloominjungle.org/whatisforsale.htm They usually only sell plants I think. Tundra Snowflake (also sold by Shanti) I'm sure there are more. It's probably just best to ask vendors for plants in the size range you want. If you can help, I'd like to see how big the plants actually are when they are shipped to you. Good Luck! |
i did see their texas teen, but i'm not big into the red flowers. maybe someday! i'll add bloominjungle to my list of shops to watch when i'm ready for some more. i currently have eight plants and have ordered six more, so i'll be kept busy for a while. :) are you curious about sizes from all places, or only bloominjungle? i obviously can't give a picture yet for the violet barn, but i can from an ebay seller called "jack's violets". the astute will see that i don't have as many plants in these pictures as there were tubes in the box -- quite right! coworkers and i have been ordering together (there were actually two boxes from jack's) in our own small AV club, and those ladies took their plants almost before i could see them! :) |
I'm just curious to see how big the plants will be when they are shipped to you since the ones you ordered won't grow very large to begin with. Thanks for the picture link though. I've never bought leaves/plants before over the internet so it's interesting to see how things are kept together during shipping. |
jack's violets were my first, and i was very pleased with the packaging. :) i unfortunately (for trading purposes, anyway) live in a rural state, so i'm not able to go to the trade shows that others are able to attend. |
sorry for the slow posting of pictures for the violet barn order; i've been away for a few days. - i've also made two terrariums for the two smaller-than-usual minis i have. hopefully this will meet their greater need for humidity, but if nothing else, they look great. :p [edit: updated album with both terrariums] |
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- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Tue, Jul 2, 13 at 16:09
Just a note-I have always been happy with Jack's Violets! Linda |
That chimera looks awesome! I'm quite fond of your moss collection as well. It looks like everything arrived in good condition. |
i am once again requesting some help with this, as i have lost a part of my sanity between two frustrating sellers and my not being able to search the web with any success. i'm going to assume that i'm SOL, but i also figured that it doesn't hurt to ask... i am looking for three specific plants and have paid two separate sellers to get some of these plants only to find out that 1) the first seller must be out of business and didn't bother to update their site, meaning i have to go through my credit card to get a refund, and 2) the other seller took my money but then told me a week later that oh sorry but they don't actually have the plants and it would be two months before i'd get anything. if anyone could tell me any place they might know of to get these plants, i would appreciate it so much. if anyone has them already and would ship a plant or some leaves, i'd compensate you over postage costs for the time and trouble. note that shanti's violets and lyndon's greenhouse are not on the table. thanks so much for any replies. - Lil Periscope [edit: oops, spelling mistake] |
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I take it the sellers in question were LLG and Shanti's? I had similar concerns with LLG but received call from Paul, apologies, etc. I called first this time. I just placed an order with Shanti's yesterday and got a tracking link right away. Did you get this too? Jodi |
This post was edited by jlm303 on Mon, Aug 26, 13 at 16:59
yes, they were. shanti's is the one i have never gotten a response from other than a "we got your payment" email. i ordered from them july 16th. if you've ordered from them and gotten a tracking number... do any of her(?) emails to you have a phone number on them? i would like to try to call her if possible, but that field was blank on the emails i received. maybe my emails are getting blocked? i would really prefer to have the plants instead of my money back! lyndon's greenhouse was an august 20th order and i got a call this morning saying that they don't have either of the two plants on my list in stock and it would be at least a month and a half before they'd have anything. i told the caller to please understand how frustrating it is to order something and then be told that what i specifically ordered doesn't exist. [edit: corrected wrong order date] |
This post was edited by bttrflii on Mon, Aug 26, 13 at 17:14
No, no phone number, just this firstname.lastname@example.com. |
I ordered five violets from Shanti's on July 25. I paid by Paypal and got an automated accepted order notice. I have yet to hear or receive anything. The email goes unanswered. She sells yarn on Etsy and has a notice posted there that due to health she's closed. I'm hoping she will straighten out her violet business soon and perhaps issue refunds. I've since ordered from Bloomlovers and the Green Mule on Ebay and been very pleased. They're both very nice. You could contact them to ask about minis. Suz |
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i actually had a minor miracle happen when i was ordering tiny moon goddess from fancy bloomers. i had requested information about the availability of a certain out-of-stock plant and had tacked on a side note about also looking for pip squeek and lil periscope. to my utter amazement and delight, an "I did just acquire Lil Periscope and Pip Squeek last fall, and I now have babies ready to be separated" was sent back to me. i might have gone a little overboard in my enthusiastic reply to her, but she made me a very happy person. the plants are in the mail and on their way to me as i write this. :) i'm updating my OP links. |
followup on the order from fancy bloomers... please note: due to the post office being slow in my area, my post office not following specific instructions to leave my plants outside my door, and the post office being closed for labor day monday, my order from fancy bloomers took a week to get to me instead of the two days it should have. because of this extremely unfortunate and frustrating ship time, the two micro plantlets, which had only *just* been separated specifically for me, were not equipped to deal with the unhealthy ship time they went through. their unhealthy arrival was entirely the post office's fault. the plants arrived packaged very well and were extremely healthy (not counting the two planlets) even after a week in a hot box. five of the six were even already blooming! i would highly recommend this seller to anyone else and am more than excited about how great they look. donna at fancy bloomers is a very supportive seller and provides timely replies to questions. most definitely A+. |
I finally had to ask PayPal to open a file on my order to Shanti's after all my inquiries went unanswered. |
i did the same. it passed through and i got my refund request accepted on sunday. i hope she's ok and is able to settle up with those remaining. |
I had the refund come through less than two hours after filing with PayPal. I, too, hope she's OK. |
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Rangers: Lee McCulloch says loss at Stirling was 'low point'
Captain Lee McCulloch has described defeat by Stirling Albion as the most disappointing result of his Rangers career.
The 1-0 defeat by the Third Division's basement side leaves Ally McCoist's side still looking for their first away win of the season.
McCulloch, 34, told the club website: "The heads are away down and it's not a nice dressing room we've got just now.
"We need to roll our sleeves up and stay positive."
Rangers, currently third in the Third Division, one point behind leaders Queen's Park, have failed to win any of four away league games.
The defeat by Stirling follows draws with Peterhead, Berwick and Annan, with McCoist's side struggling to a 1-0 Scottish Cup victory at Forres Mechanics.
Rangers have encountered no difficulties with their home league form, recording three wins and scoring 14 goals in the process.
Midfielder McCulloch admitted that their away form was a cause for concern.
"While the press are telling us differently, it is still early days in the season and we have only played a few games so we aren't panicking," he said.
"We can turn this around. There are a helluva lot of points left to play for and a lot of games left and the old saying is that it's a marathon, not a sprint.
"I wish there was a game tomorrow for us to put things right in and it's a long time now to our next match."
McCulloch empathised with the supporters' frustrations but urged patience until the players arrest their poor away form.
"We need to remember there are a lot of youngsters in the squad who don't have a lot of experience but have been doing really well," said the Ibrox skipper.
"This is a reality check and we know we owe the fans after this. We've given them a few ups like the win over Motherwell but this is a big downer.
"If the fans can keep a happy medium like the players are trying to do, we will deliver for them.
"We've all got to keep encouraging these boys and not let the lads at 17, 18 and 19 go back in their shells again.
"It's important for me, the other experienced players in the group and the fans to get behind them and help them."
Rangers' next league game is at home to league leaders Queen's Park on 20 October.
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10th October 2012 - 22:30@121 I have a job thanks. What makes you assume I don't?
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10th October 2012 - 20:18I was up in peterhead in august(im from essex)and saw the 2-2 draw its the best game ive seen all season. rangers will be back sooner or later.
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10th October 2012 - 20:15I love the way sevco fans prey for the failure of Scottish football, failing to notice that if it goes, they go down the tubes too.
Totally warped attitude.
Nobody is trying to argue against trophies Rangers won. The EBT era titles may be removed, but the rest are locked in history with the old club.
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10th October 2012 - 19:04I sounded a little mystical there. I meant "So the stars will stay" not "say". Although in fairness, if there is any cosmic justice we will be back beating Celtic and playing in CL sooner rather than later. Scottish football certainly hangs in the balance.
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Should have been, "Dealing with firearm issues: guest, family, & touching a gun w/o permission."
I'm 35. My mother is 69.
My mother is a hunter. She dislikes handguns (though she has owned one and keep it loaded for years).
I own my own house and I am married. I love my parents, and live three streets away from my parents (and four for from my brother). We are a close family, we all live around 3 miles from each other.
A few weeks ago, I was up at the family farm (parent's retirement home). Not the Kennedy compound, but 50+ acres of woods attached to several other relatives with land and farm.
I had shot several rounds (750+) and wanted to clean my guns. I waited till almost everyone was asleep and began to prep for cleaning.
Earlier in the day my mother began to lecture me on CC with one in the barrel or chamber. She felt strongly this was an unsafe method. I listened, but would not argue other then one statement, "A firearm should be treated as if it is load. For this reason, and because of SD reasons, my carry would be armed and ready."
So as I began to clean she took it upon herself to strike up the one side conversation again. As it was two AM, I started to pack up my firearms. It was crazy enough to clean at two AM, but I would rather deal with cleaning when I got home then during an argument.
I had everything about packed up, when she figured out I was not going to argue, and was prepping to put everything (but my carry) in the trunk of my car.
On the table I had my Glock, pointed toward an outside wall, unloaded. I begin to load a mag, and she sat down in front of the barrel of my gun. She grabbed my gun and moved it.
I told her to never touch a firearm I was working with unless I provided permission. She told me it was her house and she would do what ever she wanted. She "knew" more about fire arm safety then I did. In addition I was not allowed to have a loaded firearm in her house.
Understand, my mother has a .22 LR revolver loaded in this house (a stupid SD caliber I know, but at 69 it is what she felt she was comfortable with) along with a loaded double barrel shotgun.
I put the unloaded Glock (no mag) in my IWB holster. Put the loaded mag in my pocket, put the guns away. I stated my wife and I would be leaving for home shortly. That I felt that a firearm should always be considered loaded and it was improper for her to touch my firearm with out permission. That I would CC a firearm with one in the chamber, and that anytime she observes one of the firearms I own she should assume it is loaded, ready to fire, esp if it was in a holster.
She told me not to threaten leaving, I told her it was no threat. That the hypocrisy of her having loaded weapons (and her demand that I should not) combined with her lack or respect for my firearms, was a deal breaker.
She unhappily relented and said I could have a loaded piece, that she felt I was disrespectful, but would not make any demands concerning a firearm I had holstered and was in possession of.
She had me on the disrespect part, but let me make this clear, she made it about being in her home, but the real issue is that she believe no one should carry with a round in the chamber. She even stated that police don't carry with one in the barrel (ya right!). She is living with memories of one bullet Deputy Barney I think.
My mother is wonderful, giving, intelligent, people smart, and street wise (maybe not about firearms, but she has gotten herself out of a lot of jams). She is also my mother, and feels the need to not let an issue go if she feels strongly about it (esp it concerns her authority).
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About 50 municipal employees in Scottsdale and Tempe would no longer be able to extend health benefits to their domestic partners if activists succeed in their efforts to ban municipalities from offering such public benefits.
Tempe offers domesticpartner benefits to 32 employees, while 19 Scottsdale workers take advantage of the benefits. Neither city would give specifics about the number of those employees who are in same-sex or opposite-sex relationships.
The conservative Center for Arizona Policy, which opposes same-sex marriages, announced Thursday it would seek an amendment to the Arizona Constitution to define marriage as being between one man and one woman. The initiative, targeted for 2006, also would prohibit domestic partners from receiving public benefits, including those offered to unmarried employees in heterosexual relationships.
Officials in both cities expressed concern that any change in the law would undermine local decision-making authority. They are the only East Valley cities to offer such benefits.
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"It is extremely important to us and our overall compensation strategies, and obviously important to the 19 employees and their domestic partners who have elected that benefit," said Neal Shearer, a Scottsdale assistant city manager who oversees the Human Resources Department. "This is one of those general areas of local control."
Cathi Herrod, a lobbyist for the center, said the amendment would not discriminate between hetero- sexual or homosexual relationships, but rather would ban unmarried couples from receiving benefits should their employer be a public agency, such as a city.
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Backers of the amendment would need more than 183,000 valid signatures to place the amendment on the ballot.
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This was of course the first of the BEAM Robot Games, which were founded by Mark Tilden. It was held at Humber College in Etobicoke (now part of Toronto), Ontario, began on Friday, November 1 1991 and ran through Sunday, November 3, 1991. This first of the official BEAM Robot Games was held in conjunction with the annual Canadian Micromouse competition held
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Supreme Court Hears Argument in Case, Death Penalty Clinic is Counsel for Amici On December 6, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in Thomas Miller-El v. Dretke, a case in which the Death Penalty Clinic and Sidley Austin Brown & Wood of Washington, D.C., are counsel for amici curiae, former judges and prosecutors. Amici include former federal appellate court judges, a former deputy U.S. attorney general, a former FBI director, former state attorneys general, former assistant U.S. attorneys, and the former district attorney of Boston. On behalf of their clients, the clinic and the Sidley firm have filed four briefs in the Court in support of Miller-El, who was sentenced to death by a Texas jury in 1986.
The Court will decide whether the prosecution intentionally struck African-Americans from Miller-El's trial jury in violation of the rule established in Batson v. Kentucky . The clinic has been involved in the case since 2002, when, weeks before Miller-El's scheduled execution, the clinic and the Sidley firm filed their first amicus brief in support of Miller-El's petition for a writ of certiorari in the Supreme Court. In 2003, by a vote of eight to one, the Supreme Court ruled that Miller-El's evidence of discriminatory jury selection required review by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which had previously refused to hear the case. The Fifth Circuit then denied relief and Miller-El, supported by another brief authored by the clinic and Sidley Austin, again sought Supreme Court review.
The Court took the unusual action of agreeing to hear the case a second time, and the clinic and the Sidley firm filed their fourth brief of amici, urging that Miller-El's conviction and death sentence be reversed. Former Boalt students Portia Glassman '02, Rachael Turner '03, and Jessica (Goneau) Simbalenko '04 worked with Death Penalty Clinic Director Elisabeth Semel on the amicus briefs. For more on the Miller-El case, please read The New York Times article and listen to NPR Morning Edition (Real Audio required). Please visit the Death Penalty Clinic's website to read the full story. (12/7/04)
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Pat YasinskasTAMPA, Fla. -- Gerald McCoy's season is over, but that doesn't mean the Tampa Bay Buccaneers All-Pro defensive tackle has stopped talking. McCoy, who will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury, held court with the media Thursday and he ta...
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Gruden's scouting report on Mike Glennon
Pat YasinskasWith Wednesday's news that the Buccaneers are benching quarterback Josh Freeman in favor of Mike Glennon, it's time for a scouting report on the rookie. Let's turn back to this Insider item I did with ESPN's Jon Gruden during Gruden's QB Camp in t...
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Only fans innocent in Saints' scandal
Pat YasinskasI know there are a lot of New Orleans Saints fans out there celebrating the fact that the player suspensions in the bounty saga have been vacated. That's good for the fans because they're the innocent ones in all this. And innocence is an importan...
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Highlights of Paul Tabliabue's bounty ruling
Pat YasinskasI just finished reading the entire order by former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue that vacated player suspensions in the New Orleans Saints bounty matter. Tagliabue's ruling is very lengthy (22 pages), so if you don't have time to read it all, le...
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NFL walks away from Saints fight
Pat YasinskasLet me get this straight. Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue has found that current commissioner Roger Goodell was spot on in his finding of facts in the New Orleans Saints bounty saga? But Tagliabue has vacated all player discipline? That'...
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NFC South afternoon update
Pat YasinskasIt's been a fairly quiet day in the NFC South with the Falcons taking an extra day off after a Thursday night game, Tampa Bay coach Greg Schiano saying the team still is awaiting test results on an injury to kick returner LeQuan Lewis and New Orleans...
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Statistical superlatives on the Saints
Pat YasinskasWith some help from ESPN Stats & Information, let's take a look at some statistical superlatives from the New Orleans Saints' 38-17 victory against the Oakland Raiders on Sunday: The Saints have won five of their last six games after starting the...
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Reflecting on Drew Brees' big day
Pat YasinskasWith some help from ESPN Stats & Information, let's put Drew Brees' performance on Sunday into perspective. Brees threw for 377 yards and four touchdowns in a 35-28 victory against the Buccaneers. That gives Brees 16 career games with at leas...
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Goodell's letter to Jonathan Vilma
Pat YasinskasWe already shared with you part of a letter from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to New Orleans defensive end Will Smith, explaining the decision to uphold his four-game suspension. Goodell also decided to uphold the season-long suspension of New O...
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Around the NFC South
Pat YasinskasCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Temporary NFC South Blog headquarters are set up back in the Queen City, where I soon will start looking ahead to Thursday night's game between the Panthers and Giants. But, first, let's take a look at the headlines from around ...
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Good perspective on Drew Brees situation
Pat YasinskasThere were a few reports last week the New Orleans Saints and quarterback Drew Brees were close to finalizing a long-term contract. To date, there's been no announcement of a deal, so it appears those reports were premature. I've said before that ...
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Sharper: Brees situation unprecedented
Pat YasinskasDrew Brees and Darren Sharper aren't teammates anymore, but the former New Orleans safety went to bat for the Saints quarterback in this interview with WWL Radio's Bobby Hebert. "It still baffles me every day I wake up and I don't see, on the bott...
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Attorney disputes Vilma's statement
Pat YasinskasAn attorney from the private sector who advised the NFL during the Saints bounty investigation disputed linebacker Jonathan Vilma's claim that he did not intend to pay bounties for knocking Kurt Warner and Brett Favre out of playoff games in the 2009...
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Bounty defense a conflict for NFLPA?
Pat YasinskasThere have been so many subplots to the New Orleans Saints' bounty program that some significant ones have gotten lost in the shuffle. Thanks to Jeff Schultz for bringing attention to one of them. In this column, Schultz writes about the role and ...
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Jonathan Vilma issues statement
Pat YasinskasNew Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma, who was suspended by the NFL earlier Wednesday, issued a statement through his attorney a few minutes ago. Here it is in its entirety: "I am shocked and extremely disappointed by the NFL's decision to su...
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Why each player was suspended
Pat YasinskasSay this much about NFL commissioner Roger Goodell -- he's consistent. Goodell was harsh when he issued punishment for the New Orleans Saints organization, coaching staff and front office for roles in a three-year bounty program. Saints coach Sean...
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Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev met Christian Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Istanbul Thursday.
"We prayed for the soul of the late Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim. We prayed for the Bulgarian people and Church, and for the swift election of a new patriarch," said Bartholomew after the meeting.
"The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is the first spiritual sister of the Constantinople Patriarchy and has always been deep in our hearts," added he.
>>>"We prayed for the soul of the late Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim. We prayed for the Bulgarian people and Church<<
You probably prayed that he go to hell and for misfortune to befall the Bulgarian people, you and your church is the enemy of our nation, even before the Turks. Always worked against us at every turn, even today.
Too bad the useless Turks didn't finish the job so we would be spared your ghost church for a ghost empire that can't get it through their thick skulls that we are never going to be Greeks. Go to the pages of history and stay there, stop making statements, useless old fool.
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The American Council on Exercise (ACE) conducted a survey and discovered that for most fitness professionals, this career was not their first job. Many had pursued other avenues only to find that the fitness industry was where their true passions lied. It assumed that many find their love for fitness later in life. Many in the business will tell you that since they were devoting the hours of a full time job to their own fitness, they decided they might enjoy getting paid along the way.
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- John
- July 31, 2012 - 23:49
It wouldn't take 5 months to beam a CBC signal to that area. The problem is Eastlink don't want to lay out some cash to do it. This is not a CBC problem, Eastlink fumbled the ball. Eastlink weren't ready and they knew months ago this was going to happen. There are numerous ways to do this but Eastlink have opted to wait five months.
- July 31, 2012 - 16:07
This whole thing has been horribly handled by CBC. It's not just small cities that are losing service. I'm in London, Ontario, the 11th-largest city in Canada, and we're losing service tonight. Regina, Fredericton, St. John's, Halifax, Windsor, Thunder Bay, Lloydminster, and Charlottetown are all keeping service, and those are all smaller cities than London.
- David
- July 31, 2012 - 10:10
The primary, fundamental reason fro the existence of the CBC television is to serve all Canadians. Using it's limited-but-still-substantial budget for discretionary things, including producing unwatched, third-rate TV shows, is a very low-priority luxury. The CBC must retain its universal signal, even if that means it does little else. BTW....this is hardly a "free" signal ----- it's part of the enormous cost we are all required to bear for CBC.
- David
- July 31, 2012 - 10:22
I'll go further and say that if the CBC brass can come to the decision that serving the Canadians, and especially those in remote locations of the country, is no longer a priority, then the fundamental reason for the existence of a national broadcaster is a every expensive lie. So close it down, and let us all buy satellite service with our tax savings.
- Brian Williams
- July 31, 2012 - 09:56
That is a very good point DonII makes, they will roue the day. And lets not forget the CBC and Eastlink customers on the North coast of Labrador (some times called Nunatsiavut), a good percentage of those low income folk only have free to air analogue.
- Brian Williams
- July 31, 2012 - 09:53
That is a very good point DonII makes, they will roue the day. And lets not forget the CBC and Eastlink customers on the North coast of Labrador (some times called Nunatsiavut), a good percentage of those low income folk only have free to air analogue.
- Don II
- July 31, 2012 - 09:11
Developed nations like Canada and the USA should maintain a functioning EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM which can broadcast television and radio signals that can be received by analog TV and Radio sets using an actual or improvised antennae.The day will come, perhaps during a major environmental or military emergency when cable systems have been disrupted or destroyed that the CBC and the Government of CANADA will wish that they had not decommissioned the analog transmitter system! This policy is penny wise and pound foolish like everything that Government does.
- Tim
- July 31, 2012 - 08:11
What signal is coming from Halifax? If an analog signal is required for these customers to receive CBC(NL) and ALL CBC analog signals are being shut down at the same time, how will this work??? Or is it just Newfoundland analog signals being cut?
- July 31, 2012 - 15:55
The CBC Halifax feed gets here via another source such as satellite, fibre, etc.
- Mark Noel
- July 31, 2012 - 07:33
I live in St. John's & receive a digital signal from CBC... well, sometimes. Last night, for instance, was too foggy! No big loss, really.


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"English speaking researchers will be at ease searching the online catalogs of Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom and its former possessions. However, most of the online catalogs in this section do not offer an English interface. For many it is a wonderful opportunity to use newly acquired or long forgotten language skills; for others it is an insurmountable obstacle. Friends, colleagues, and library staff may be able to help. The best time to make a connection is when the foreign library is open but not in heavy use locally - easier said than done. Generally, try to avoid searching on the weekend because many systems are not available."
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I often discuss the globalization and complexity of our food supply to highlight both the wonderful diversity of our yummy foodstuffs but also the challenges from contamination. Recently, architectural students in California provided a vivid example when they deconstructed a taco from a street-vendor to see the origin of each of the ingredients (see article) — from local cheeses to international spices and rice, which collectively travelled 64,000 miles to Juan's Taco Truck in the San Francisco's Mission District. State and federal public health officials do the same thing whenever there is a food-borne outbreak — identify the likely suspect and trace it back to its source — whether it be the grocery store, food distributor, factory, slaughterhouse, or farm. This is easier with what are called commodity outbreaks: ground beef or spinach, for example. Tracking down the source is extremely difficult, however, when the contamination is an ingredient that may be in many different foods.
The recent outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo is a great example of this complexity (see CDC investigation update). The outbreak started last summer (2009) and thus far has affected 252 people in 44 states and the District of Columbia. An epidemiologic study found salami packaged by Daniele International, Inc., to be the most likely food vehicle. Laboratory testing by the Rhode Island Department of Public Health and by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found that the black and red crushed pepper used on the meat was contaminated with the same Salmonella as the outbreak strain. These ingredients were traced back to two companies — Wholesome Spice in New York (red pepper) and Mincing Overseas Spice in New Jersey (black pepper). Recalls of contaminated products are under way.
New Tools for Investigations
One of the new key tools used in the Montevideo outbreak investigation was the use of shoppers' cards from ill individuals. With permission from the ill patients and in conjunction with local public health authorities, Casey Barton Behravesh and her state health department colleagues in the investigation were able to view which common products were purchased. While the case-control study helped determine that salami was probably the food vehicle, it was the information from the shoppers' cards that pointed to the specific brand consumed by each of the ill patients. CDC provided purchase information from consumers' shopper cards to the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). This allowed FSIS to determine lot information for salami products that had been purchased by people before they got sick. In addition, FSIS was able to identify multiple lots of pepper that were used during the production of those salami lots. This information was shared with FDA, which traced pepper lots and investigated spice suppliers.
More recently, Salmonella Tennessee has been detected in the commonly used flavor enhancer, hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP), made by Basic Food Flavors in Nevada (see FDA press release), and this has led to the recall of hundreds of products. A customer of Basic Food Flavors found Salmonella Tennessee during routine product testing and notified FDA officials, who investigated the facility and found the same Salmonella strain in the processing environment. Purchasers of bulk HVP products from this company have been encouraged to recall and either destroy the goods they have or recondition them (using procedures to kill Salmonella) so that the food is safe to eat. Fortunately, this strain was detected before people became ill.
Lessons Learned
So what do we learn from this? We learn that as the food production and delivery systems become more complex, we also need our food safety systems to similarly evolve. This translates into new tools — such as shoppers' cards — in combination with the current testing and investigation practices we use to protect public health. By combining these strategies, we can do the best possible job of ensuring the safety of our nation's food supply.


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(10-23-2012 07:10 AM)elberson Wrote: Lmk if you see anything for the Ryan, thanks
(10-23-2012 09:09 AM)dbroockerd Wrote: You need a Schmidt? I may have an extra Slaughter too. Looking for these still. http://www.beckett.com/forums/thread-1507841.html And these http://www.beckett.com/forums/thread-1513518.html
(10-23-2012 09:25 AM)greekgoony Wrote: I don't need a Schmidt, but could use the Slaugter. Unfortunately I don't have any of your wants.
(10-23-2012 09:28 AM)dbroockerd Wrote: Hmmm...you messaged me a while back and had two. As a matter of fact your response is in the non-baseball thread with pictures of what you had. Oh well! Thanks anyway!
(10-23-2012 09:48 AM)greekgoony Wrote: Yes I did. One was a McGrady auto, but it does not look like you need it anymore. The Howe I decided to keep


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When Brandy was alive, out visiting one of her friends at night, he would lie awake, listening for her footsteps, waiting for her tap on the window to be let back inside. Now when he sleeps, he swears he still hears her footsteps and jumps out of bed to greet her. "But nobody's there," he says.
Harder still are the nights when his sleep is interrupted by cries from Brandy. "Grandpa, help me, help me." But after he's awake, there is only silence as he lies still, listening.
April 28, 1999
It had taken the prosecutors just one day to state their case. Their attempt to bring a Denver Gang Unit officer to the stand to testify regarding Danny's position in the gang's hierarchy was thwarted by the defense; attorney David Lindsey argues that while the rules of evidence regarding hearsay are relaxed at sentencing hearings, the officer's testimony about what other gang members say would conflict with Danny's constitutional right to cross-examine those witnesses.
So after investigator Simmons went through the evidence for the judges--describing the various photographs, pointing out where Brandy's blood was found on the backseat of Sammy Quintana's car--the prosecution rested.
The following day, it is the defense team's turn. Danny enters the courtroom looking tired, as though he didn't sleep well after the previous day's emotional testimony. He asks supporters if his mother is in the courthouse and smiles only after he's told that she is waiting in the hallway.
It is up to the defense to present step two in the death-penalty process, to discuss any of the eleven statutorily allowed "mitigators" that apply. Mitigators are essentially anything in the defendant's favor that might excuse his behavior somewhat and balance out the aggravators--such as the defendant's age, whether the defendant was under duress, or whether the defendant's participation was relatively minor, though not so minor as to be a defense from prosecution.
While aggravators must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, there is no burden of proof regarding mitigators, which can include the rather open-ended "any other evidence, which in the court's opinion bears on the question of mitigation." The only caveat is that the evidence is supposed to be relevant to the defendant's character, background and the circumstances surrounding the crime.
It is this last point that comes into contention after Lindsey calls defense investigator Pamela Ferguson to the stand and asks her about death-penalty statistics that she obtained from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Sargent objects, saying the information is not relevant to Danny. But Lindsey counters that such statistics provide a "moral sense" of what has occurred. Anderson, who as the trial-court judge rules on the nitty-gritty of this hearing, calls for a recess to confer with the other two judges.
Back in session, Anderson overrules Sargent's objection and allows Ferguson to make her report under the "any other evidence" portion of the mitigation statutes. The statistics, Ferguson says, show that of the 6,331 people sentenced to die since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, only 76 were "non-triggermen."
If Danny needed anything, he'd ask me. If I needed anything, I didn't even have to ask. We were just there for each other."
Danny's sister, Raquel, clutches a tissue as Lewis gently guides her through his questions. The hearing has reached the stage where the defense is trying to highlight Danny's good qualities while emphasizing his difficult childhood.
Raquel is Danny's older sister. She works for a communications company and has three children. She clearly loves her brother despite the crimes he's been convicted of, and it isn't difficult for Lewis to wring out the tears--particularly when he shows her photographs of Danny with his twin sons.
There are more tears when Lewis mentions the time when they were children and their mother placed them in foster care while she straightened out her own life. Danny and Raquel had been sent to one home and their baby brother, Antonio, to another.
"We lived terrible," she cries. She and her brother were kept in a basement, sleeping on mats, and forced to use containers when they had to go to the bathroom. If they got into trouble, they had to lie on the ground while their caretaker spanked the bottoms of their feet.
The ordeal didn't last long. Raquel managed to relay the abuse to a social worker, who placed them in the same home as Antonio. "I never talked about it with Danny," she says. "I don't know if he remembered."
Once reunited with their mother, they all moved into their grandmother's house, at 2727 California Street in Five Points. It was a neighborhood in which crime and drug use was rampant. Both of their parents were users. There was a brief reprieve when Theresa married Bill Rollins, a good man who was the first decent role model the boys had known. "That's my dad," Raquel tells Lewis. But her mother's drug problems cost Theresa that marriage.
As Danny grew up, he got involved with gangs and selling drugs. No, Raquel says, she wasn't aware that he sold drugs to his own father. But yes, she did know he sold them to his uncle Jimmy.


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8 Ridiculously Elaborate Faked Deaths In Movies
Movie News By David Christopher Bell on August 8, 2013 | Comments (1)The best part about faking your death has to be getting to decide how it will all go down. Instead of a bathroom heart attack, you can have fun with it and get mauled by a bear or spontaneously combust. The following characters know exactly what I'm talking about, as when it came time for someone to "die" they all had a bit of fun with it. Without a doubt, spoilers ensue, but even mentioning what movies they're for would spoil them for you, so if you're concerned at all, just don't read.
Boiling Point: The 2012 Oscars – Everyone That Should Have Won and What's Wrong with the Whole Picture
Boiling Point By Robert Fure on February 27, 2012 | Comments (16)The 84th Academy Awards have come and gone: let the bitching begin! As someone who is more of a genre fan than anything, I've never really cared too much about the Oscars, but that sure as hell doesn't prevent me from complaining about them. Granted, over the years, some great films have won. I'm a big fan of Unforgiven and I dug Shakespeare In Love. I just think far too many good films are ignored in favor of "Oscar movies." I can't say that I was particularly impressed with any of the films nominated this year, but there were a few categories were I feel like the little golden man statue when to the wrong film. Luckily, the internet exists and I can complain about it!
Boiling Point: Revisiting 10 Things I Thought I'd Hate in 2011
Boiling Point By Robert Fure on January 2, 2012 | Comments (2)Way back in January of 2010 I crafted a list of ten things I figured I'd hate in the following year. I tried to predict my own hatred, which can be difficult. Hate is the most wily and evasive of emotions, prone to erupting without warning. I made a few safe choices on the list, a couple of generalizations, but there were some surprises. Hell, one of the things I thought I'd hate I loved, while a few never even made it to the surface. Anyway, let's take a look back at my look forward and see how things panned out.
The Best Films of 2011: The Staff Picks
2011 Year In Review By Neil Miller on December 30, 2011 | Comments (14)As you may have noticed, this final week of 2011 has been almost completely taken over by our third annual Year in Review. It was born in 2009 out of our love for lists and your thirst for reading, discussing and ultimately hating them. And each year the entire project gets a little bigger, a little bolder and slightly more absurd. With that in mind, I'm once again proud to present you with The Best Films of 2011: The Staff Picks. Each of our 14 regular staff writers, contributors and columnists, almost all of whom have been with us the entire year, were asked to present their top 5 films, in no particular order (although many of them placed their top film at the top, as logical people tend to do), each with an explanation. Some even included curse words as a bonus to you, the reader. Read: The Best Films of 2010: The Staff Picks | The Best Films of 2009: The Staff Picks Once again, the Staff Picks are a testament to the diversity we have here at Film School Rejects, with picks ranging from the likely suspects (Take Shelter, Hugo, Shame) to the slightly more nerdy (Attack the Block, Super 8, The Muppets) to several movies that may not yet be on your radar (see Landon Palmer's list for those). And once again, it's with a deep sense of pride that I publish such a list, the best of 2011 as seen through the eyes of the movie […]
Year In Review: Harry Potter Takes the 2011 Reject Report Bowl
2011 Year In Review By Jeremy Kirk on December 28, 2011 | Comments (1)Here's how the Christmas weekend broke down: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – $29.5m (+130.7%) $61.9m total Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – $20.2m (-48.9%) $79m total The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – $12.7m NEW $21.1m since Tuesday release Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked – $12.5m (-45.9%) $49.5m total The Adventures of Tintin – $9.7m NEW $17.7m since Wednesday release We Bought a Zoo – $9.3m NEW War Horse – $7.5m NEW released Christmas Day New Year's Eve – $3.3m (-54.7%) $32.6m total The Darkest Hour – $3m NEW released Christmas Day The Muppets – $2.1m (-39.1%) $75.7m total Yes, we usually save this chart for the end of the recapping Reject Report, but this week is about the year, not the weekend.
Year In Review: 11 Movies You People Wouldn't Shut Up About In 2011
2011 Year In Review By FSR Staff on December 28, 2011 | Comments (4)This started out as a list of overrated movies, but we ("we" being Rob Hunter and Kevin Carr, rabblerousers) decided fairly quickly that "overrated" is an overused and abused term. Who are we, or anyone, to tell you that you like a movie too much? It's a rude thing to say regardless of whether or not we're right. But thanks to the internet sometimes one person's exuberance can find a virtual megaphone in all the tubes and anonymous users online, and that misguided praise can become deafening. And yes, we're just as guilty as the rest of you…especially in regard to our first pick below. To be clear, most of these are not bad movies. The majority of them are actually good. But none of them deserved the near-constant accolades that seemed to echo from one corner of the web to another ad nauseum. So without further ado, pomp, or circumstance, here are 11 12 movies (in alphabetical order) you people wouldn't shut up about in 2011. (**Note, there may be a few minor spoilers below.**)
Boiling Point: The Hash on Rehashes (or The Dangerous Double Dip)
Boiling Point By Robert Fure on November 14, 2011 | Comments (2)Hollywood is a business. A big business. A ten billion dollar box office per year kind of business. While that is an impressive number, you also have to remember that I said "box office," which is ignoring the home video market. If you include direct sales only, that's another $5 billion. I swore that I would never do math again after college, so I'm not going to bother with rentals and licenses and all that shit. Suffice it to say, Hollywood is a big business. And they want to be bigger, like all businesses. Enter the shady world of rehashing. The repeated raping of your wallet. There was a time when it was as simple as releasing a Special Edition or Collector's Edition of a movie. Now, films have two theatrical releases, get remastered in 3D and sent to theaters, and are then released on three to four separate DVD releases. As a super-fan, I'm excited to get Collector's Editions – I'll even double dip now and then, but the process has gone too far and offers too little.
Movie News After Dark: R-Rated Firsts, McQueen's Shame, The Rocketeer, The Raid, Posters, Blu-rays and The Most Interesting Cat in the World
Movie News By Neil Miller on September 9, 2011 | Comments (8)What is Movie News After Dark? It's nothing more than a nightly film news column that keeps fighting the good fight. The one that celebrates movies, good, bad and otherwise interesting, and is generally optimistic. It doesn't attack other websites that smear its name. Though if /Film's Page 2 keeps mean-mugging it, that bitch is gonna get smacked. That's how we settle things in the streets. As you are about to see, this week's final News After Dark edition comes on a very slow news night. So it's all posters, future Blu-rays and articles I found interesting. Including this AV Club Q&A about first R-rated movies. Like AV's Josh Modell, I'm fairly certain — almost completely certain — that my first R-rated film was The Blues Brothers, a film that has remained part of my beating, movie-loving heart ever since. What was your first R-rated movie? Feel free to let me know in the comment area below and we'll have some fun discussing. Or not, whatever. I see how it is.
Labor Day marks the end of summer, and like every other year the online bitching and moaning about how bad of a summer it was at the movies has already begun. Twenty-one rejects got together for our bi-weekly bake sale/FSR office cleaning day, and we got to thinking. That's just bullshit. Because there were actually some surprisingly solid and entertaining movies that hit theaters over the past four months. From comic book heroes that soared above the competition, to legendary directors who returned with their best work in decades, to R-rated comedies that made us wet ourselves, to prequels that proved going backwards can sometimes be a genius move, this summer offered up plenty of bang for the buck. So we each jotted down our five favorite films of the summer, assigned a point value to each rank (5 pts for 1st, 4 pts for 2nd, etc), and fed the raw data into our Commodore Vic-20 office computer. It finished processing eighteen hours later, and we ended up with the results below. So screw the haters… let's embrace the movies that made us laugh, gasp, applaud, and sit up and take notice this past summer. Here are FSR's Favorite Movies of Summer 2011!
When A Billion Dollars Is Not Enough: 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' Coming Back to IMAX
Movie News By Kate Erbland on August 23, 2011 | Comments (9)In the least shocking move of possibly the entire summer season, Paramount has announced that they are re-releasing Michael Bay's opus, Transformers: Dark of the Moon (or as I call it, Trannies: Pink Floyd Kinda), back into IMAX theaters for an extended two-week run. No less than 246 IMAX theaters that previously thought themselves free from the metallic clang-clangs of robots and the screams of innocents piercing through their giant speakers and splashed on their giant screens will be subjected to the bloodshed (oilshed?) all over again, for yet another two weeks. The re-release kicks off this Friday, August 26, and will run until Thursday, September 8. The film has already grossed over one billion dollars in the worldwide box office, with just $59.6m of that coming thanks to IMAX. With the re-release of the film to IMAX 3D, that number will be jacked up exponentially, guaranteeing that audiences who previously missed (avoided?) the spectacle have no excuse to not see robots and humans going at it on a screen taller than most people's homes. Optimus!! Buuuumblebeeee! There are currently three films playing in IMAX: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Cowboys & Aliens, and Final Destination 5: More Final-er. With the next new IMAX film opening not set until September 9 (that would be Contagion), Potter nearing the end of its run, and Cowboys underperforming, it's no surprise that IMAX would push out a proven winner to end the summer strong. Now, who do I talk […]
Can you even imagine? A world overrun by Reject Reports? It's like there'd be no movies, but we'd still report the weekend box office. While I stew over the quandary that's just created, the world outside is still running smoothly. Blockbuster movies are still hitting. Small indie flicks are dividing audiences around certain parts of the country. Transformers are raking in a billion dollars. But this week, like it or not, belongs to the apes. Not Nim. I looked into it, and he's safe, but the other ones are about to rise up and start fight back. Let's see just how well those apes can handle themselves against the collective force of Smurfs, Captain America, and Jason Bateman.
Now, before I even get close to making a point about where the love is in the film critic world, I know how absurd it may seem to talk about love in a column about hate. But as the saying goes, it's a fine line between love and hate and all of my rage comes from a place of love. I love movies and film and art and entertainment. I get enraged when things I love are threatened. Whether it's Evil Dead or the actual theater-going experience, I try to only get mad for reasonable things. I mean, I get unreasonably mad, that's true, but generally with good intent in my heart. But it seems these days it's hip to be an asshole. It's cool to shit on things before we know anything about them. It's one thing to get mad early once in awhile – like against the new Evil Dead – but it's another to get mad about everything early. It seems like every day my Twitter feed is full of two things. First, news. Second, people hating it. Where is the love?
The Reject Report Attacks Crazy Stupid Aliens
Box Office By Jeremy Kirk on July 28, 2011 | Be the First To CommentSome aliens are stupid. Other aliens are crazy. Some aliens are just in love, but we usually don't see these aliens between May and August. No one wants to see alien love in their Summer blockbusters. They want explosions and people shooting those aliens with well-placed bullets. Which brings us to this weekend, where two films about aliens getting blasted by pesky humans find release. Of course, one is having a much larger opening than the other, and neither of them feature Smurfs. That's right. I said Smurfs. We'll talk about them here, too. Enjoy this week's Reject Report, and if you want loving aliens, come back in November.
Movie News After Dark: Comic-Con Advice, A New Marvel Movie, In-Flight Cinema and The Google+ Movie
Movie News By Neil Miller on July 19, 2011 | Comments (1)What is Movie News After Dark? It's a nightly movie news column that brings together all the most interesting stories and articles from around the web. It's also fully immersed in Comic-Con week. Thus, another night of leading with an image of cosplay brilliance and advice from Comic-Con veterans. In our continued effort to get you ready to attack Comic-Con this week right alongside our own hit squad, here is another guide full of useful tips. Movies.com has put together a list of 10 Things Everyone Should Do at Least Once During Comic-Con, including one of my personal favorite things, "buy something new in Artist Alley." Just remember that Twilight isn't the only thing happening at SDCC, support those artists.
Box Office: Harry Potter Casts the Record Breaker Spell
Box Office By Jeremy Kirk on July 17, 2011 | Be the First To CommentSo now Harry Potter's patronus is in the shape of a giant dump truck loaded with million dollar bills. Is there such a thing as a million dollar bill? There probably should be. And while you're at it, go ahead and put Alan Rickman's face on it. In J.K. Rowling we trust. Okay, I'm done with all that. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2, the last film of the 10-year series, has demolished all kinds of box office records. After breaking advance day records with $32m in tickets sales, it went on to make $43.5m in midnight showings. It wasn't a shock to anyone when the Friday numbers came in and Deathly Hallows 2 had beaten The Twilight Saga: New Moon's $72.7m opening day with its own $92.1m. But the young wizard wasn't done there. No, satisfaction was not met at the defeat of New Moon, though we're all pretty thankful for it. Deathly Hallows 2, and probably Warners had something to do with it, too, had its eyes set on that opening weekend. Another Warners film, The Dark Knight, was holding the #1 weekend slot for three years with its $158.4m three-day take. Now that Sunday's numbers have come out, Deathly Hallows 2 has pretty much swept the floor with that record, too.
The Reject Report Who Lived: One Final 'Harry Potter' Box Office Prediction
Box Office By Jeremy Kirk on July 14, 2011 | Be the First To CommentThe Reject Report who lived now comes to die. Wait, that's not right. This isn't the last Reject Report. It's just the last one wherein we'll be talking about a new Harry Potter movie. I know. Sadness entered my soul just typing that, too. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 in 3D and IMAX All Across the United States of America and in Certain Parts of the Great Land of Canada – I think that's the full title now – hits theaters this Friday. Millions upon millions of eyeballs will be gushing tears as the credits roll, but Warner Brother will be hap-hap-happy about each and every one of them. Not because of the disinfecting costs on all the 3D glasses but because it's sure to be another glowing mark in their box office books. What's causing all this Harry Potter success? Magic. That's what. And don't you question it. Let's take a look at just how badly HPATDHP2I3DAIAATUSOAAICPOTGLOC is going to trounce the competition.
Box Office: 'Transformers' is Prime Once Again
Box Office By Jeremy Kirk on July 10, 2011 | Comments (1)The fireworks continued a week after the 4th of July, and Chicago was once again decimated in thousands of screens across America. Poor Chicago. I hope the IMAX screen on Navy Pier stayed intact. Oh, lord. And Giordano's Pizza, too? I'm suddenly beginning to understand all the hatred towards the Decepticons. But moving past that Windy City digression, Transformers: Dark of the Moon came out in the top slot for the second weekend, not a surprise considering the next big blockbuster of Summer 2011 doesn't hit until next weekend. The bosses that are horrible and the keeper of the zoo were no match for the second wave of battling robots, massive Michael Bay explosions, and Ken Jeong. That's right, we're still counting him as a factor in all this. Dark of the Moon still sits at the bottom of the Transformers franchise totem pole. It has to best $319.2m in order to overtake 2007's Transformers, $402.1m to beat out Revenge of the Fallen. The first of these seems likely. The second, not so much.
The Horrible Reject Reportkeeper
Box Office By Jeremy Kirk on July 9, 2011 | Be the First To CommentThe Reportkeeper. It's kind of like a Trapper Keeper 2.0. There's an image of a ninja lion flying an F-15 jet fighter over an ocean of robot scorpions on the front of every one. That's what makes it horrible. Plus the fact that it doesn't hold papers or pens worth a damn. Also the Velcro to keep it closed is loops on both sides, so that doesn't work. Basically this thing is a POS. I'm telling you NOT to buy the Reportkeeper when they go on sale over in the FSR store* later next month. Also, this is my way of telling you the new movies this weekend aren't all that interesting as far as box office goes. It's going to be Transformers: Dark of the Moon for the second weekend in a row. Press play on your Pink Floyd album of choice right…now. *Note: There is no FSR store. You can stop looking now.
Ten Not-So-Heroic Heroes in Recent Movie History
Cinematic Listology By Jack Giroux on July 5, 2011 | Comments (17)While enduring the mild pain caused by Transformers: Dark of the Moon, I thought to myself, "Man, this Sam character is a real prick. What type of people actually like this person? This is the best savior we could get?" I then realized that I often find myself thinking this nowadays. We rarely get great, likable heroes or genuine badasses on film anymore. Most are either mopey, passive, or do morally questionable acts. I'm not referring to anti-heroes — although, I do include one on the list — but, rather, the unintentionally lame mainstream characters that aren't the most compelling or charming. A few of these not-so-heroic characters aren't due to bad acting. As you'll notice, Leonardo DiCaprio made the list for Inception, where he gave a solid performance. While I wouldn't say that most of the actors featured here impressed anyone, DiCaprio and a few others certainly did. Here are ten mainstream characters that exhibit very little heroics:
Culture Warrior: Forget the Box Office
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on July 5, 2011 | Comments (3)I'll be the first to admit that the title of this post is a tad hyperbolic. The box office should not necessarily be forgotten, and it does, to an extent, matter. Predicting openings, percentage drops, and analyzing receipts present an interesting way to interact with movies as well as provide one of many ways to attempt an understanding of audiences in terms of evolving trends and patterns, as our own Jeremy Kirk does so astutely twice a week. Waiting until the early afternoon every Sunday to see the weekend's estimations has been part of my weekly Internet routine for as long as I've been a movie nerd. Box office is, simply put, a part of the conversation. But we aren't movie executives. Our investment is the box office is tied only to our social, emotional, and intellectual engagement with the films that sell tickets. The amount of tickets sold to see the product should never be confused with the product itself, and box office has severe limitations and problems in terms of understanding audiences' relationship to a film. My concern with the ways we interact with and form conversations around box-office is not in regard to whether we should have such conversations at all, but the problematic meanings we routinely extrapolate from these numbers. To be frank, unless you work for a movie studio, a movie's worth is never measurable in numbers. I concede that this is an obvious point, but unfortunately the box office continues to disproportionately dominate so […]
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Scuderie del Quirinale
It took a decade to build the Scuderie del Quirinale (1722-1732) in Rome. Located next to the Quirinale Palace, it sits atop the ruins of the Roman Temple of Serapide and serves as an event, educational, and exhibition space. Spanning more than 3,000 square meters, this 18th-century stable hosts temporary exhibits of high-profile artists, such as Filippino Lippi, Sandro Boticelli, and Caravaggio in its wide-open, plain exhibit spaces. The facility was remodeled in the late 1990's by architect Gae Aulenti, and audioguide tours are available in Italian and English.
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I had the chance to speak with Nappy Boy Entertainment's One Chance. They shared with me their relationship with T-Pain, their view on their mixtapes, and what to expect from them in the future.
Who are the faces behind the group One Chance?
The Faces behind One Chance are Michael, Jon, Courtney, and Rob 4 guys from the south side of Chicago who came together and weren't put together.
How long have you guys been putting out music together?
We have been putting out music together for about 10 years.
Do any of you have any solo projects you work on?
Currently No one has any solo projects being worked on. Although we do dabble in writing for other artist.
How did you guys go about working with T-Pain?
We got to working with T-Pain when we happened to be at one of his summer pool parties. Someone told us to come to the party & there we ended up telling Pain that we were free agents. He then asked us to hear some of the music we had been working on and was blown away! Immediately wanted to sign us.
With features from Usher & being acclaimed by fellow artists like Drake what is next for One Chance?
What's next for One Chance is putting out more music and also putting more visuals with the music so that we can build a greater awareness all over the world! And of course doing shows!
I see you've done a nice amount of work with the BLKDMNDS. How do you like working with them, and will we be seeing more collaborations between you two?
We love working with BLKDMNDS! They are very talented. They have a great vision. They have the ability to turn nothing into looking like a million dollars! We will continue to work with them for the long run!!!7. We are currently working on a new mix tape. We haven't decided on a title yet. You can expect to hear real music. Music that can touch all emotions. Also fun music that you can have a good time to! We hope to release the new mix tape soon. We just want to make sure all the music is perfect.
Last year you dropped Ain't No Room For Talkin' and there is word you are working on another mix tape for this year. What can we expect on your next project and when will we be hearing some music off of it?
Right now we are more focused on putting visuals to the music we put out so that we can create a greater buzz. As for an album we record every song as if it is for an album. We want our mixtapes to have that album feel. So our mixtapes are our albums!
To find more from One Chance visit them on Twitter via @OneChanceMusic, and at their official site at www.OneChanceonline.com.