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OK, so, admittedly, I saw the Beastly trailer a few days ago, and I have been wanting to post it ever since but I haven't gotten around to it because I have been LAUGHING TOO HARD. Now it is your turn! Beastly trailer, you guys:
Oh no, that poor jerk! I sure hope that he falls in love and becomes beautiful again at the end but with more compassion towards other people and a focus on what's on the inside rather than what is on the outside! Just kidding, I literally don't care what happens to him at all. I hope he gets UGLIER!
Although, let's be honest, he's not really that ugly? His curse is to be super-ripped and have interesting tattoos? I guess the nose staples are a little weird, but lots of kids in high school experiment with unfortunate body modifications. And also, uh, Vanessa Hudgens wouldn't date him? Sorry. Sorry make-believe asshole cursed by a billionaire teenage shopping mall witch. They really should have done a better job with the casting if they wanted us to believe that some stupid jerk we have no reason to care about finds someone to love him for who he is (which is still basically a jerk, right? But just an ugly jerk now?) than Zac Efron's girlfriend. In real life she would be like, "ew, my bodyguard is going to murder you." And then her bodyguard would murder him.
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Ah nice! I checked my Digi-Dex after I looked up this trailer! I didn't know he had a second stage evolution cus I thought he was a rare Digimon (pokemon? (sp)).
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If you squint, it kinda looks like the Arabic script tattoos say "twilight sucks"
he should look for love with one of these poor girls. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bheJqbeQh78#t=5m20s


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Memorandum 14-024
TO: Honorable Mayor Wythe and Homer City Council
THROUGH: Walt Wrede, City Manager
FROM: Katie Koester, Community and Economic Development Coordinator
DATE: January 22, 2014
SUBJECT: Ordinance 14-01: Marine Trades Member on EDC
The Economic Development Advisory Commission has asked that an advisory seat for the Homer Chamber of Commerce Director be added to the Economic Development Advisory Commission. Ordinance 14-01 does this. In the past Council has discussed extending the same opportunity to the Homer Marine Trades Association (HMTA). The Association has considered this carefully and at their January 16, 2014 meeting passed a motion to request the Homer City Council create a non-voting seat on the Economic Development Advisory Commission for an HMTA representative. At the meeting, which I attended, it was discussed that there is a vacant regular seat on the Commission a member could apply for. HMTA preferred a seat that was dedicated, non-voting and advisory.
If the Council would like to add an advisory seat to the Economic Development Advisory Commission, I suggest the following amendments to Ordinance 14-01:
Line 30 following "meeting." Insert "; and
WHEREAS the Homer Marine Trades Association represents professionals and businesses in the marine trades that contribute to the economic vitality of the community; and
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A violent gangster roaming a city of criminals, raking in the cash, a haul of weapons up his sleeve... remind you of anything? Relax. Fold those preconceptions back into their box, push down the lid and stab it for a bit. Kazuma Kiryu is nothing like Niko Bellic and Yakuza 3 is nothing like Grand Theft Auto - or any of its clones. Yakuza 3 is madness, though in an endearing way that, like Boris Johnson, forces you to forgive its idiocies.
Its cut-scenes stretch so far you could wallpaper a black hole with them, but they're beautiful. And even when you're not watching the story (reading subtitles, which is all the English you'll get, despite the long wait for this Euro version) you spend great swathes of time being nice to children. Yakuza 3 can be amazingly gentle for a crime game, something reflected in those Sega-blue skies, cheerful streets and lush ocean sunsets.
Retired gangster Kazuma (that's you) runs an orphanage on a gorgeous Okinawa beach, but it's no mere front for criminal activities. The game makes sure you recognise each child by sight and name: you play hide and seek, solve their bullying problems, befriend dogs as pets, help kids with their dress sense, guide their budding love lives... be a father figure. It's oddly peaceful.
You have some choice in how much attention / sympathy you give, but we felt compelled, somehow, to be as lovely as possible to the little shits. Thankfully, as Kazuma remains a double-hard bastard despite this philanthropic turn, you can always pop into town and Tazer locals in the eyes.
Just to let off steam, you know. Yet this is a long way from the free-roaming criminal norm: Kazuma is an honourable man. Fights are always started by others, and once it kicks off you're sealed into a small arena by crowds of cheering civilians. What's more the vanquished, instead of bleeding out or coming apart on a grenade, survive. And then they apologise, giving you money or gifts as well. Kids, eh? Feeble.
When you're not 'avin' it with terrifying bosses and their goons in the main story, challenges come from passing yakuza, con men and 'street punks' affiliated with other families, and while some fights can be avoided if you spot the men early, plenty of idiots simply rush up and start calling you 'grandad'. The randomness is rarely annoying, however, simply because there's so much else to the game. The changes of tempo are welcome, as is the chance to hone your skills.
There are tons of blunt and stabby weapons, but combat is more Virtua Fighter than Liberty City. Punches and kicks are the best medicine, while anything you can grab - tables, lamps, bicycles, traffic cones, bottles, people - can be wrapped around someone's face. In fact, if you cause enough hurt to enter Heat mode (where Kazuma burns with a blue flame) an object is vital for the devastating Heat moves. And there's little better than slamming some idiot into unconsciousness with the buckled wheel of a ladies' bicycle.
Actually, one thing that possibly is better is the stranger who implores you to start a blog. Taking pictures of strange occurrences on your mobile and posting them, he says, is the way to learn new Heat moves. The first occurrence involves an old lady falling so in love with a poster she doesn't notice her moped's hit a car and flipped entirely over it. It's a completely ludicrous event that's cut with perfect comedy timing.
Yakuza 3 gradually fades from lazy days of shopping, fishing and headbutting to Machiavellian rounds of golf with local politicians and the darker, meaner streets of Tokyo. And despite the deep core of story scenes and character building - and what fantastic characters, both in design and nature - it never feels as if you're simply a witness.


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Bonner Springs police have released the name of a Bonner Springs woman discovered dead in a Bonner Springs creek Sunday, Jan. 15.
Lt. George Collins said the woman was identified as Ursula Denley-Malton, 44. While police have not determined the cause of death, Collins said no foul play is suspected.
A resident out on a walk discovered Denley-Malton about 4:54 p.m. Sunday in the creek along Springvalley Avenue between Kump and Shadyside avenues.
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A few groups staying at imperial palms and royal palms at the same time questions
I booked our family at the imperial palms and my SIL booked her family at royal palms and if things work as planed her son will book his fam at royal palms also.
I looked that the maps and imperial and royal look to share the same parking lots. Can anyone tell me if they share the same checkin desk? Share the same express market and main pool? It looks like we will be staying across the parking lot from each other, am I correct in that assumption? Also any feed back on the place, is the shuttle really that much of a pain to get to the world center? I don't mind shelling out a few bucks for a cab, can I get liqured up and take a cab from the hotel to my villa? Are there cabs waiting? I'd assume so as I'd expect it to be like any other Marriott hotel. I know there are a few of yeahs that have been here, Dick Taylor, I'd really like your feed back on this if you'd be so kind. How is the golf course there? I have not played hawks yet and plan to. What about fishing the ponds on the course? Anyone done that? How did you do? Thanks in advance for any info .
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The marketplace store is a very small "marketplace express" and is located in the same building where you check in. I like the regular Marriott Marketplace stores but this one wasn't very impressive. Fortunately, the hotel has a bunch of shops - it's about a half to three-quarters of a mile from the furthest Royal Palms building to the front entrance to the hotel (about a 0.3 to 0.4 of a mile from Imperial Palms). Though IP and RP are in the same neighborhood and separated by the access road, RP is the much larger of the two. That means that a couple of the buildings are direct across from IP and the other buildings are a bit further away but it's only a quarter to a third of a mile from IP to the furthest RP building. Quote:
The golf clubhouse is near the hotel's front entrance. I haven't played there but thought that the course looked okay (I'm used to a mix of flat and hills holes so this mostly flat course looked sort of easy). I'd be surprised if they let you on the course to try fishing the water hazards - I'd be surprised if they stock fish in them, too. But it might be worth asking. Dick Taylor
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We stayed at Royal Palms the week between Christmas and New Years in 2010 and took the shuttle over to the World Center. So easy- just stopped into the RP lobby and asked to take the shuttle. We didn't have to wait long and it worked the same way on the way back.
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A previously filed suit concerns the underestimates of floodplain elevation in the Cypress Creek watershed and was filed against FEMA. There is the possibility of an additional lawsuit if the Corps of Engineers grants wetland permits in a jurisdictional wetland based upon inaccurate FEMA floodplain maps. However, there is nothing definite at this time.
Together these suits are extremely significant for regional conservation efforts because they will help define wetland boundaries and mitigation requirements, and influence future development patterns on the Katy Prairie. We have already realized some success with these actions. Segment E of the Grand Parkway was ruled ineligible for federal stimulus funds because it could not secure wetlands permits within the designated time frame. And FEMA has acknowledged the underestimates of Cypress Creek floodplain elevations and is scheduled to issue revisions.
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"She considers me her boy toy," Caldara says, when asked how the Institute got Coulter's seal of approval. "She's a drinking buddy of mine."
Although the libertarian think tank has sent out pitch letters before, it's never done such a massive direct mailing, buying assorted mailing lists and sending out between 10,000 and 15,000 pieces -- one to a Westword writer. "Must have been the Mother Jones or Juggs list," Caldara muses.
The campaign has drawn lots of response -- some monetary, some mean.
"From Ronnie's smiling mug on the stamp to that cunt Ann Coulter's post-it note, I knew you'd be full of baloney as Oscar Meyer," wrote one unhappy recipient. "Take a long walk off a short pier, Jonny-lad."
Wrote another: "In response to your letter of May 2005, my reply, in the words of my Italian grandfather, 'go fuck yourself.'"
Then there was this: "I truly believe that you and Ann Coulter are a danger to America. And I sincerely hope you fail at whatever nonsense you are trying to perpetrate on the American public."
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Caldara's favorite response came scrawled in big, black marker: "I am a liberal and proud of it so get me off your list, mouron."
"I'm just cut to pieces by the sophisticated wit of our ideological enemies," Caldara confesses. But he's not so injured that he won't recover by June 25, when the Institute holds its annual Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Party, with iconoclast Christopher Hitchens as the invited guest. The writer is "a terrific spokesman on how the war on smokers has taken away the diversity of America," Caldara says. "The perfect character to come shoot, drink and smoke."
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Let there be light: We know there's a lot of action in the Platte Valley, what with pricey loft projects popping up every day. What stunned an Off Limits operative looking down from north Denver, though, wasn't all the new stuff behind Union Station, but the sudden disappearance of an old landmark. Union Station looked naked without its Travel by Train sign. Had loft-dwellers complained that its classic neon was disturbing their sleep (not to mention clashing with their decor)?
Fear not. "We're refurbishing both the signs, and doing the back one first," says Scott Reed, spokesman for RTD, which now has official responsibility for Union Station. "We had to take it down using a crane, and the neon gas tubes will be upgraded, the background repainted and the transformers replaced."
He promises that both signs should be back by June 30.
That won't be the case with another sign that left the station. Although the Ski Train moved its office out of the right wing more than a year ago, its orange-neon sign just came down last month and is currently in storage. "We're accepting offers," says Jim Bain, general manager of the train, which starts its summer trips to Winter Park on July 30. "Anyone want to buy a vowel?"
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With the onset of summer, we here at Off Limits wholeheartedly endorse the first-ever National Leave the Office Earlier Day, created by Denver resident Laura Stack , president of the Productivity Pro. By "earlier," though, Stack doesn't mean noon, so we asked her to explain herself:
Q: Why is June 2 National Leave the Office Earlier Day?
A: When we registered with Chase's Calendar of Events, we had to pick a day. So my husband said, "How about your birthday?" And really, who wants to work more than eight hours on their birthday? If you can't take it off, then leaving on time is the next best thing. The idea is that if people can leave earlier just that once, then maybe they can start doing it once a week. Then perhaps they can expand that to two days a week. Typically, professionals work a fifty-hour week. The forty-hour work week is long gone.
Q: What time do you leave your office every day?
A: I leave every day at five. I have three kids, so I have to practice what I preach.
Q: So what time will you leave on National Leave the Office Earlier Day?
A: I'm not encouraging people to play hooky. I don't say leave early, just earlier than the normal ten hours. So for me, it's just a normal day. My goal is to get people who are working over sixty hours a week back down to a reasonable number of hours.


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Sitting in Harusame Japanese Cuisine can feel like spending an evening in a friend's living room. Plush fabric drapes from the ceiling, scrolls hang from the walls, and soft light fills the space from overhead lamps. That feeling isn't accidental—the restaurant's goal is to make customers feel like family, though its menu could feed a small army. It includes more than 35 sushi rolls and dozens of ocean-fresh, sashimi-grade cuts of fish served à la carte. To sample the full array of aquatic delights, diners can opt for the all-you-can-eat menu, digging into constantly refilled rolls and appetizers. A BYOB policy rounds out the room's hospitality, allowing patrons to tote along their favorite tipple to sip on thorough their meal.
The sliding shoji screens and Japanese art decorating Sapporo's dining room strongly hint at the restaurant's trans-Pacific inspiration, but the fully stocked sushi bar and dexterous hibachi chefs remove all doubt. The menu embraces the diversity of Japanese cuisine, featuring grilled and tempura-fried options alongside clean and elegant sushi. The sushi menu features more than 50 different rolls, including specialty maki with everything from mango and salmon to spicy crab and lobster salad. Bursts of flame stand out amid the restaurant's dark wooden tables as hibachi chefs entertain guests, searing entrees of filet mignon, chicken, and scallops.
Toro Sushi Bar invites you to join the bite-sized culinary festivities in a chic modern setting. Its menu features a wide variety of hand-made flavorful treats, from sushi to sashimi to full entrees to tapas. Enjoy the geometric perfection of a Creole Roll with crab, veggies, and seared Cajun tuna ($15) or the insistent adoration of the Loveulongtime Roll, which unites shrimp tempura, crab, avocado, masago and tobiko with a duo of eel and dynamite sauces ($15). If you've chosen to don your "Me and My Sushi and Sashimi – No Two Ways About It" custom tee-shirt, head straight into a carefully orchestrated array of blue fin tuna Maguro, octopus Tako, Hawaiian white tuna Ono, Japanese Red Snapper Carpaccio ($15), and the Kobe Beef Tataki with green onions, garlic chips and crispy red onions ($25). For even smaller eats, peruse the tapas menu for calamari, monkey balls (tempura style mushrooms stuffed with cream cheese, spicy tuna, and avocado), and edamame. You can complement your meal with specialty drinks, sake, wine, and beer.
According to Tricia Hetherington, founder of The Pretty Kitty, the perfect Brazilian wax requires a specific technique that she's developed herself. That's why she personally trains each one of her aestheticians—no simple task, considering that she operates locations in California, Nevada, Texas, and New Jersey—to remove hair using soft wax formulated for sensitive skin. The process takes fewer than 15 minutes, and frees clients to wear the skimpiest of swimsuits and lingerie.
A chandelier casts a glow over the pink-toned interior of the newly opened Montclair location, where a wall stencil depicts a feline casting a sidelong glance. Within treatment rooms, aestheticians wax men's and women's bodies, leaving behind smooth, clean expanses of skin. Hygiene is of the utmost importance to The Pretty Kitty's specialists, who never double dip waxing sticks, reuse wax, or procure it from Madame Tussaud's castoff sculptures.
Like any good buffet, Koki Buffet doesn't lack options. The kitchen staff serves more than 150 dishes, including an assortment of sushi rolls, a mix of Japanese, Chinese, and even Martian entrees, and a dessert section filled with fruit, ice cream, and pastries. On the weekends, the chefs make space on the dinner buffet counter for lobster in chef's special sauce. Even better, all of the feasting takes place inside a stylish interior highlighted by neon accent lighting and pendant lamps with no need for formal attire.


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SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharmacyclics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCYC) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an additional Breakthrough Therapy Designation for the investigational oral agent ibrutinib as monotherapy for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) patients with deletion of the short arm of chromosome 17 (deletion 17p). Patients harboring a deletion within chromosome 17 generally have poor response to chemoimmunotherapy and have limited treatment options. The presence of deletion 17p is one of the worst prognostic factors in patients with CLL.
In February 2013, FDA granted Breakthrough Therapy Designations for ibrutinib as a monotherapy for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and as a monotherapy for the treatment of patients with Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WM), both of which are also B-cell malignancies. Ibrutinib is jointly being developed by Pharmacyclics and Janssen for treatment of B-cell malignancies.
The Breakthrough Therapy Designation is intended to expedite the development and review of a potential new drug for serious or life-threatening diseases where "preliminary clinical evidence indicates that the drug may demonstrate substantial improvement over existing therapies on one or more clinically significant endpoints, such as substantial treatment effects observed early in clinical development." The designation of a drug as a Breakthrough Therapy was enacted as part of the 2012 Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act. Pharmacyclics, together with Janssen, is working with the FDA to determine the implications of this Breakthrough Therapy Designation to the ongoing and planned development and the FDA filing requirements for the use of ibrutinib in CLL pati
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How to lose flu and 'catch' health
A Christian Science perspective on daily life.
News reports are full of people's anxieties about swine flu – the H1N1 virus – and a lot of the fear is not so much about the virus as it is about the availability of flu vaccine and fear of the vaccine itself. Some doubt the value of the vaccine; others fear that it hasn't been sufficiently tested. The Monitor's "Why many Americans are wary of the swine flu vaccine" (Oct. 6) covers many of these concerns. There is another form of immunity: a conviction that spirituality and health are more "catching" than illness. Mary Baker Eddy, who founded this newspaper, wrote in one article on contagion: "People believe in infectious and contagious diseases, and that any one is liable to have them under certain predisposing or exciting causes. This mental state prepares one to have any disease whenever there appear the circumstances which he believes produce it. If he believed as sincerely that health is catching when exposed to contact with healthy people, he would catch their state of feeling quite as surely and with better effect than he does the sick man's" ("Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896," pp. 228–229).
This sincere belief in the ability to catch health isn't a kind of mind game. It rests on the spiritual laws that allow anyone to prove the truth of Christian Science. One of its key points is that each of us is spiritual, the perfectly complete creation of God. Spirit – God – never created matter or elements of mortality such as sickness, disease, death, or evil of any kind. The purity of Spirit rules out any such possibility. Purity and disease never mix.
To put this knowledge of our spiritual nature into practice, one can begin by recognizing that health is actually the norm because God's goodness is present everywhere and for everyone. This means it's possible to reject any feeling or thought of sickness or that flu is inevitable. From my own experience of praying along these lines, I haven't experienced flu for at least eight years. Regular prayer and consistent recognition of my identity as being fully spiritual have made this possible.


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According to Bloomberg, Ameriprise Financial Inc. ( AMP ) is almost in final stages of talks to acquire the majority of the Asian asset-management unit of ING Groep NV ( ING ). ING is under stipulation by the European Union to sell its insurance and investment management division by 2013 as it had been granted a bailout fund by the Dutch government during the financial crisis in 2008. However, ING will not sell its joint ventures in Asia as part of the deal. The asset-management division in Asia is worth roughly €150 million ($194 million). The final announcement of the deal will probably be made in two to three weeks as the companies are still negotiating on the financial details of the transaction. Earlier, potential companies like Nikko Asset Management Co., Manulife Financial Corporation ( MFC ), Macquarie Group Ltd. and United Overseas Bank Ltd. had expressed their interests to acquire ING's Asian asset-management unit. Based in Amsterdam, ING Groep NV is one of the largest financial organizations in Europe. However, during the 2008 financial crisis it had to be bailed out by the Dutch Government. Therefore, under the orders from regulatory authorities, in August, the company announced the sale of ING Direct Canada - the Internet banking division of ING Bank of Canada to The Bank Of Nova Scotia ( BNS ). Further, in February 2012, it completed the sale of its online banking unit, ING Direct USA, to Capital One Financial Corp. ( COF ). The near-term outlook of an economic recovery remains dismal. Moreover, the regulatory landscape in the U.S. is becoming stringent with the Federal Reserve's newly proposed rules. Further, the prevailing low interest rate environment has also marred Ameriprise's financials. In order to mitigate these negatives, Ameriprise has been continuously expanding in Asia through its subsidiary - Threadneedle Asset Management Holdings. We expect the strategic deal with ING to help it recover its financials to some extent. Ameriprise currently retains a Zacks #3 Rank, which translates into a short-term Hold rating.
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This is a MUST if you have never tried a homemade Angel Food Cake. I never liked Angel Food Cakes until the neighbor lady invited me over for coffee shortly after I was married. That was almost 15 years ago, and my children and husband always ask for this for special occasions. Thank you Artie, for being a wonderful friend and for the recipe!
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- 1 cup cake flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 12 large egg whites, MUST be room temperature
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1Note: For those not use to making angel food cakes Don't get any yoke in the whites, if you do throw out and start over. I always separate the egg in a glass first. Then if no yoke pour into measuring container.
- 3I always use a two piece angelfood cake pan.
- 4Heat oven to 375°.
- 5Sift the cake flour and 3/4 cup + 2 Tbsp sugar; set aside.
- 6Combine the extracts in a small bowl; set aside.
- 7Beat egg whites, cream of tartar and salt until it forms peaks.
- 8Add the other 3/4 cup of sugar slowly, then beat on high until stiff peaks form.
- 9If you have a mixing guard for your mixer bowl now would be a good time to attach it.
- 10Beating on LOW, add flour mixture and extracts slowly.
- 11Make sure you fold in the sides and bottom of your mixing bowl.
- 12(You can fold in flour mixture by hand but this way is faster.) Spoon into an angel food cake pan.
- 13Move a knife through batter to remove air pockets.
- 14Bake 30-35 minutes or until top springs back when touched lightly with finger.
- 15Invert pan onto a tin funnel to cool completely.
- 16To remove the cake from your pan run a knife around the rim of the cake pan just to get the 'crust' away from the pan.
- 17Then firmly spank the sides of your pan.
- 18You could use a knife but this sometime tears the sides of the cake.
- 19Invert onto your serve plate then take the knife to the now top which was the bottom of your pan and gently cut cake away from the pan insert.
- 20No need to cut around the center tube as you just give the cake a gently but firm tap or downward shake on to the plate.
- 21Or you can pick up plate while holding onto the pan insert with your thumbs and firmly strike the bottom of the plate onto a folded towel. (Just give it a slam down on the towel/table).
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Serving Size: 1 (54 g)
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- Total Fat 0.1 g
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- Sodium 77.9 mg
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- Total Carbohydrate 27.4 g
- 9%
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- Sugars 20.5 g
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- Protein 3.4 g
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Shelby County's Cache Tomlinson came out scorching hot for the Rockets, but Shelby's defense couldn't contain the Dragons (7-9) as the Rockets (7-10) fell, 73-68, on the road Saturday.
Tomlinson, in his third game back from an ankle injury, lit up the Dragons for a season-high seven 3-pointers on his way to 25 points.
"Cache was hot all night, and our offense was good," SCHS Coach Mike Clark said. "But we just didn't get the stops we needed in the third and fourth quarters.
The Shelby County boys' basketball team continued its string of close losses, falling, 68-64, to visiting Franklin County Tuesday.
The Rockets are now winless in 2009, but each loss has been by four points or less.
"It would be frustrating if the team were not playing extremely hard and executing our game plans," SCHS Mike Clark said. "We played another very good team but just came up short."
Mike Casey wasn't born as an 8-year-old boy in Clark's Station, but that's where his story began. The gangly kid who rose faithfully at 6 a.m. to encourage a bleary-eyed neighbor to stop wasting their summer. The four-boy baseball and football games that started at daybreak and ended only when anxious mothers called through the darkness for their young athletes or explorers or cowboys in the Brush Run Valley along Highway 148.
The Shelby County boys' basketball team blew a 16-point, third-quarter lead Saturday, falling, 61-59, to visiting Clark County.
The Cardinals (12-3) rallied to take the lead after outscoring Shelby 27-10 in the third quarter.
The Rockets (6-8) battled back, grabbing a 3-point lead, 59-56, with 1:20 to play. But Clark County wouldn't stop. Robbie Stenzel was fouled while shooting a 3-point shot and hit all three free throws to tie the score at 59.
When the banners are unveiled and the applause dies down, Terry Davis will again be remembered as Kentucky's 1968 Mr. Basketball.
"It's nice to be remembered 41 years later," he said. "Mr. Basketball gives you an identifying mark in this state. I don't know how many times since then that I've been introduced as 1968's Mr. Basketball."
The Shelby County girls' basketball team got behind early and couldn't dig out, falling, 61-40, to Sacred Heart on Saturday in the Shooting for the Cure classic at the University of Louisville's Cardinal Arena.
"It was your typical Sacred Heart team," SCHS Coach Sally Zimmerman said. "They gave a lot of different looks with a full-court press, and we had trouble advancing the ball."
Though West Middle School completed the sweep of cross-county rival East with a 38-27 victory Monday, the game was a far cry from the first time the two teams met.
On Nov. 20 meeting the Warriors (10-2) raced out to a 30-0 lead and coasted to a 22-point triumph.
But this time East (5-11) didn't wilt against West's full-court pressure. The Missiles kept the game close, down, 10-5, at the end of the first quarter and 14-10 at halftime. East even cut the lead to just two, 14-12, at the start of the third quarter.
When SCHS teacher Phil Bell turned the corner he noticed a lobby full of baseball players, school staff and family - something pretty unusual for a typical Wednesday afternoon.
The group had gathered to surprise and congratulate Bell on being named a to the KHSAA Baseball Hall of Fame, with an induction this weekend in Lexington.
"I knew they had put all the stats together, but when I didn't hear anything, I didn't think about it," he said. "This is a great honor."
Many looked at last Friday's Shelby/South Oldham game as two mirror image teams, but that wasn't the case.
If you watched the opening quarter, or even just the opening drive, you could tell easily the difference between these two teams.
Though both were 0-8, one was determined to get that first victory while the other was just going through the motions.
Shelby County, with a winless record, was quick on its collective feet, hard-hitting, strong-willed and ready to play football.
The SCHS football team was already young when this season started, then the Rockets lost several players early on to injuries.
Most of those players returned by the end of year, but Shelby County never recovered from the loss of quarterback Branden Cresap for the season and several others for key games.
However, despite finishing this year with a 1-10 record, the staff and players are already preparing for next season.


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Kyle Brasseur | Special to ESPNBoston.comMASHANTUCKET, Conn. -- Boston Red Sox pitcher Joe Kelly went on the radio Saturday at the team's Baseball Winter Weekend to let listeners know he plans on winning the American League Cy Young award next season. He didn't back down when asked about...
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AJ MassEven though he has a Cy Young Award under his belt, Corey Kluber of the Cleveland Indians is nowhere near a major league millionaire. As Zack Meisel of the Cleveland Plain Dealer notes, "Kluber is under team control for at least the next four years. ...
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The first batch of century-old baseball cards from the so-called "Portland trove" has fetched about $200,000 at auction in Maine.
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Diane FirstmanIn August, as part of a piece I wrote regarding Justin Verlander's first start after a two-week layoff due to shoulder inflammation, I wondered what the Tigers might need to do with him going into 2015. Verlander, who had three top-three Cy Young fin...
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In this chapter, we've seen a couple of ways to use your iPhone or iPod touch to help you remember to do something. You can create an event in the calendar and set it up so you get an alert before the event begins. You can also set an alarm with the Clock app for an event that's occurring sooner. Also included with iOS 6 is the Reminders app, which is just a simple program for creating reminders and to-do-list for yourself. To use it, just tap the Plus button and type out what you need to remember. Tap Return to enter it and then you can continue typing other items you need to remember.
I'll tap Done and there's my current list. Notice each item has a check box next to it so you can check up items when they're done. That moves the items to your completed list. You can switch between your reminders and completed items by swiping left and right. Here I find my completed list or you can uncheck items if they weren't as done as you thought. You can also assign reminders to be done at specific times or dates and even use a feature called Geofencing which will trigger reminders based on your location. For example, I'll tap my first reminder and here I can choose to remind me on a day, and if I turn that on I can choose which day and time.
And I'll tap done. When that date and time arrives, I'll get a notification on my screen and the reminder will appear in my Notifications area. I'll select my other reminder and here I'll choose to remind me at a location. Now if you've never done this before, you make it an alert telling you that Reminders wants to use your current location. I'll tap OK. Later in this course in a movie on privacy, I'll show you where to manage applications that use your location information. Now once I've allowed that, my phone determines my current location, which in this case is my office. So, if I wanted to be reminded to fuel my car after I leave my office, I can leave it set to the current location.
I can also tap that location if I wanted to choose a specific address for my contacts. I can do so by tapping enter in address to type in address in or I can tap the Plus button to select an address for my contacts. I'm just going to cancel that for now and leave my current location. I'll also leave it set to When I leave. So, now when I leave my office an alert will pop up with of my phone reminding me to stop at the gas station. But be aware that using Geofence reminders can drain your battery more quickly since your phone will be more vigilant about tracking your location to see when you're leaving or arriving at a designated area.
It's probably best to only use Geofencing a few hours or so before you plan on being or leaving somewhere. Each reminder also has a Show More section where you can assign a priority to your reminder. This doesn't actually do anything to the reminder. It's just a way for you to prioritize your reminders for yourself. And if you have any notes you want to keep about the reminder, you can tap notes and type them in there. Selecting a reminder is also where you can find the Delete button when you're ready to remove it from your list.
You can also click the button in the upper left-hand corner to view your reminder list. Here you can view your reminders by the ones you've completed, the ones that are due today or you can view all your reminders by tapping reminders. You can also create a new list by tapping Create New List. The calendar at the bottom also scrolls left and right so you can jump ahead or back to view or add reminders on particular dates. So that's the reminders app built into iOS 6.
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Enclavado en los pliegues de varias montañas espectaculares, Jim Thorpe es uno de los pueblos históricos y pintorescos del país. Nuestro hotel histórico es uno de los tesoros más emblemáticos de nuestra ciudad. Construido en 1849 y cotiza en el Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos, el Inn combina el encanto del viejo mundo con las comodidades modernas. Lo mejor de todo, las tiendas de la pintoresca ciudad, tiendas de antigüedades, galerías, teatro de la ópera, pubs, restaurantes, paseos en tren, rafting, kayak, y senderos para caminatas / ciclismo son sólo unos pasos de nuestra puerta. El Inn ofrece una variedad de comodidades y características de las habitaciones, que incluyen: • Suites con bañeras de hidromasaje y chimeneas • Servicios de Spa • Internet inalámbrico gratuito en todas las habitaciones • Broadway Grille & Pub situado justo abajo • gimnasio y bicicleta de almacenamiento • TV por cable / HBO y teléfonos w / correo de voz • paquetes de aventura, escapadas de spa, parejas románticas se escapa, y el espectáculo y estancia paquetes • salas de reuniones totalmente equipadas (Aprobado por la AAA, 3 diamantes) Recuerde, usted no tiene que ir muy lejos, a sentir muy lejos.
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5 en febrero 18, 2013
My girlfriend and I came to the Inn last year and we loved it so we decided to come again this Valentines Day. Upon arrival our room had to be changed for some reason per the inn keeper which was no big deal at all. We proceeded to our new room and the desk clerk came up with our complimentary bottle of wine and glasses. when she open the door to the room it was freezing! She quickly fixed the tempature and insisted that we stop at the front desk on our way down and gave us drink vouchers to have a drink at the bar while our room came to temp. I believe her name was Renee and she was wonderful. We ended up having not only drinks but lunch as well. Food is excellent and second to none. Not to mention our room was perfect when we returned. Our Valentines dinner was also amazing and the gentlemen that was the host was very nice and even came outside after our dinner to take a picture of my girlfriend and I outside in front of the inn. Our Valentines visit and stay was great and it turned out even better because of the amazing staff you have at the inn. Thank you so much for making our stay great and we can't wait to come again. My girlfriend liked it so much more this time around then the first that I believe we will be coming more often than just Valentines.
4,0 en enero 28, 2013
My girlfriend and I stayed at The Inn at Jim Thorpe in late January for three nights. Our trip started out with a light snow fall that added a nice ambiance to the already quaint town. It's a charming inn that has that old world style feel to it but kept up and maintained to modern standards. Everything was very clean from the lobby, stairwells, to the bed in the room. It was great to be able to walk the town even though it was only 19 degrees outside. Lots of scented soap, handcrafted jewelry, and country curiosities shops. Local eateries were good where we ate :Moya (excellent), Crave (excellent), the Broadway Grille & Pup attached to the Inn was OK, the pub part was a good spot to stop and get a night cap before retiring. We had a hit and miss with the wait staff at the Inn - Becky was excellent. The $7/person breakfast voucher you're given for the inn's restaurant really didn't cover the cost of breakfast. We avoided Molly Maguires because of it's negative reviews (when we asked locals about it we got that look like that mirrors the reviews). Parking no problem. Would definitely go back.
3,0 en octubre 07, 2012
We made reservations at the Inn after realizing that our favorite band would be playing at the opera house up the street. Upon check-in, we went up stairs to check out our room before we headed out for dinner. We were staying in Room 211. As my husband turned the light on the in bathroom, he quickly noticed that the shower curtain had the outline of the person's shadow on it. OK, I'm game for anything, but I'm thinking not everyone would be cool with that. We opened up the curtain so we didn't scare ourselves each time we walked in. I initially thought that since Halloween was coming up, they must have put them up in all the rooms. That was not the case. It wasn't until later that I read in an article framed on the wall that our room was reportedly haunted. I love a good haunting story, but I in no way ever wanted to stay in a haunted room. We ended up leaving the bathroom light on our first night. We were up all night, but it had nothing to do with the paranormal. It turned out that our room was right above the bar and on that Friday evening there was a wedding reception going on. When we looked at the clock after we heard the final guest getting into their car, it was 4:00am. Room 211 not only has the balcony right outside, it is also right on the street. Overall the inn was very nice. You get a $7 voucher, good towards breakfast for each day your are there. The room was very neat and clean. Parking was limited, but we arrived early and they allowed us to check-in early, so we were able to find a spot with ease. If we ever stayed there again, we would probably request a different room.....for multiple reasons.
5 en junio 19, 2012
I read a review from someone who did not like the food they had for Dinner... I have to say that I am a Very Picky person when it comes to good food, and The Dinner we had at the Inn was EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD... Sooo good I wanted the Recipe for Everything we ate down to and including the vegetables lolol... I Highly Recomend the Mussels Appetizer (the Best I've ever had), the cedar plank Salmon, the crab cakes, the Taramisu & the keylime pie... I'm sure the rest of the Menu was Awesome as well but Unfortunaltely we could not eat Everything!! The Inn is Amazingly beautiful, the Staff Extremely Friendly, Our stay was really nice and we will definately be back, as soon as Possible. This is our NEW Annual Vacations spot and if I had my way, we would stay here every month!
4,2 en junio 08, 2012
My husband and I live less than an hour away and we visited Jim Thorpe many times on day visits and I always wanted to stay at the Inn at Jim Thorpe. It looked like a beautiful inn and the balcony looked so inviting. Well, it did not disappoint. We had the opportunity to spend a night and we had a wonderful time. I loved the room and the atmosphere of the Inn, and had a very pleasant time sitting on the balcony, drinking wine and talking to other guests. I enjoyed walking out the front door and visiting the shops and restaurants. We enjoyed breakfast at the Inn the following morning with our $7.00 vouchers. I am looking forward to spending another night at the Inn.
4,6 en octubre 08, 2011
My wife and I had planned on staying here for 2 nights...Due to a family emergency, we left one day early...The folks here were so gracious, they were able to rent our room to someone else , and only charged us for the m1 night, eventhough there was a 2 night minimum...I am very thankful for this and will definately come again! Also, the restaurant on site, The Broadway Grill was delicious for both a late night dinner and for breakfast.. CUDOS to all of you...
4,2 en octubre 05, 2010
My wife and I spent a night at the inn last weekend. We didn't expect much because of the to good to be true cost for a mini suite with fireplace and jacuzzi. We were absolutely blown away by our room! The inn is gorgeous and very well maintained. The staff couldn't have been any more attentive and friendly. The restaurant is beautiful and we had an excellent experience with service but the food is rather crappy. I would stick to basic fare burgers and sandwiches as our lunch and breakfast were fantastic but our dinner was sub par.
4,6 en julio 08, 2010
We had a wonderful stay and would recommend it to our family and friends. The location was perfect. The decor of inn was beautiful.
4,0 en abril 21, 2010
My husband and I just returned from a 2 night stay at The Inn At Jim Thorpe. We went for a relaxing getaway and got the room at "off season" pricing. We were pleased with our room for the price we paid. We stayed in room 315 and it was VERY clean. The jacuzzi was wonderful and the fireplace adds a nice touch. Our only complaint was the bed - not very comfortable! The room faces the street and can be noisy if you want the window open - this is a little town but alot of traffic passes through. The staff was courteous and very helpful. Since we went in the off season there were not many shops - it seemed many have closed their doors but we were not there to shop so we were not disappointed. Our getaway was relaxing and quiet, this is not the place or town for those who want to party.
4,0 en septiembre 22, 2009
Beautiful scenery, great shops, great food, nice people. The inn is like taking a step back in time, peaceful!
Centro, Montañas, Ciudad pequeña, Pueblo
Allentown, PA (LVI-Lehigh Valley International) 25 miles miles
Salga de 74 de la extensión Pennsylvania Turnpike noreste. Siga Rt 209 sur en Jim Thorpe. Gire a la izquierda en el primer semáforo en Jim Thorpe. Inn ubicado a 3 edificios para arriba en el lado derecho de la calle.
Parque de Atracciones, Compra de Antigüedades, Galerías de Arte , Playa, Casino, Sala de conciertos, Cenas Elegantes/Gourmet, De Interés Histórico, Lago, Música en vivo, Cine, Museo, Parques Nacionales, Área natural, Mauch Chunk Opera House, Tiendas Outlet, Teatro, Área de picnic, Servicios Religiosos, Río, Area de esquí , Viñedo, Bodega
Historic Inn
Salas de Conferencia, Fotocopiadora, Fax, Chimenea, Lavadora/secadora, Instalaciones para Bodas , Restaurante y pub irlandés en el mismo recinto
Aire acondicionado, Despertador, Internet en la habitación, Secador, Servicio de Internet, Tabla de planchar, Radio, TV por Satélite/Cable, TV, Teléfono, Wi-Fi
Billares, Pasear en canoa, Pistas para esquí de fondo, Esquí Alpino, Pescar, Jugar al golf, Pistas para senderismo, Cazar, Pasear en kayak, Pistas para Mountain Bike, Área para hacer ejercicio, Comprar, Visitar lugares de interés, Nadar, Tenis de mesa, Salón recreativo, Rafting en los rápidos
David Drury
Los intereses incluyen el canto, composición de canciones, ciclismo de montaña, senderismo, tenis y softball.
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El paquete incluye una estancia de 2 noches, él y ella masajes suecos de 55 minutos *, una botella de vino en su habitación, 2 copas de vino de souvenirs, a $ 30 (por persona) vale para la cena para nuestra Broadway Grille & Pub (ubicado justo abajo) y un $ 7 (por persona) vale para el desayuno todos los días en el Broadway Grille. Disponible sólo en los fines de semana. Noviembre a abril: las tasas de fin de semana / vacaciones comienzan en $ 225 por persona * Mayo / Junio / Septiembre: Las tasas de fin de semana / vacaciones comienzan en $ 259 por persona * Julio / Agosto / Octubre: las tasas de fin de semana / vacaciones comienzan en $ 269 por persona * (... * Habitación estándar, basado en ocupación doble.)
Coge las chicas y disfruta de esta escapada relajante y divertido! El paquete incluye una estancia de 2 noches, Custom Paquete Spa *, a $ 7 (por persona) vale para el desayuno todos los días para nuestra nueva Broadway Grille & Pub (ubicado en la planta baja), a $ 15 (por persona) el almuerzo y $ 30 (por persona) vale para la cena para la Broadway Grille el sábado, una botella de vino con copas de vino de souvenirs, además de descuentos especiales en tiendas de la zona. Disponible sólo en los fines de semana. Noviembre a abril: las tasas de fin de semana / vacaciones comienzan en $ 329 por persona * Mayo / Junio / Septiembre: Las tasas de fin de semana / vacaciones comienzan en $ 339 por persona * Julio / Agosto / Octubre: las tasas de fin de semana / vacaciones comienzan en $ 349 por persona * (... * Habitación estándar, basado en ocupación doble.)
Para irnos de pinta, llamar a los enfermos o simplemente obtener el heck fuera de la ciudad - disfrutar de Jim Thorpe durante la semana. Hay mucho que hacer! El paquete incluye una estancia de 2 noches, a $ 30 (por persona) vale para la cena en el nuevo Broadway Grille & Pub (ubicado en la planta baja), una noche, y $ 7 (por persona) vale para desayunar en el Broadway Grille. Los precios comienzan en sólo $ 119 por persona! El precio es por persona, basado en ocupación doble.
Spend an exciting day on the slopes and return to our cozy Inn for an evening of relaxation. Ski packages include an all day lift pass* to your choice of Blue Mountain, Jack Frost or Big Boulder, $7 daily breakfast voucher, drink coupon and all taxes. *Both 1 and 2 night packages get 1 all-day pass per person. Additional passes are available from the hotel at a discounted rate. Package rates*** start at: One Night Package: Weekdays: Starts at $99 per person Weekends/Holidays: Starts at $127 per person (2 night minimum may apply for some weekends) Two Night Package: Weekdays: Starts at $147 per person Weekends/Holidays: Starts at $193 per person
Romantic Valentine's Weekend Package February 13-15 or February 14-16 Grab your sweetie and celebrate Valentine's in one of America's most romantic towns! In fact, Philadelphia Magazine voted Jim Thorpe, and the Inn, as their "Best Romantic Getaway" a couple of years ago! Our package includes a 2 night stay, a delicious gourmet Valentine's dinner at the Broadway Grille & Pub, a complimentary bottle of wine with souvenir wine glasses in the room, $7 daily breakfast voucher, and all taxes and gratuity. Package prices start at just $229 per person, based on double occupancy.


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Albert Innaurato's "Passione," which put in a boisterous appearance at the Morosco Tuesday evening, is a yard sale of a play. This is less a comment on the littered South Philadelphia tenement flat that is the comedy's setting than on the clutter of characters, dialogue and situations by means of which it lurches its way through two acts. And in spite of its title and liberal doses of a Tito Schipa recording of that name, there is not a trace of genuinely passionate feeling throughout its length.
The comedy, which was presented Off Off Broadway last spring under the direction of its author, has been considerably tightened, given clearer definition (including a new and pleasingly apt finish) and superior staging by the actor Frank Langella, making a promising debut as a director. But while these fresh components help, they cannot rescue a serio-comic work that is wholly synthetic. At those moments, and there are a few, when the evening raises our expectations, the work seems bent on bursting into song. But "Passione" is an opera buffa without a score.
The play takes place on a Sunday when it is the turn of Berto, the eldest offspring, to entertain the family patriarch, Oreste, who is confined to a home for the aged the rest of the week. On these occasions, all members of this Catholic Italian-American tribe assemble. But on this particular Sunday, Berto's ex-wife Aggy, a Southern Protestant who deserted her spouse 10 years earlier, arrives with her friend Sarah after a drive north in a truck.
Ostensibly having stopped by to recover certain belongings, she has really shown up to make certain that she did the right thing 10 years ago. One might suppose she had, since she has earned a medical degree in the intervening years and achieved the middle-class status that was her girlhood dream. But that would be reckoning without the charms of a noisy, excessively demonstrative, screwball household in which unbridled emotion, old Tommy Dorsey and operatic recordings, loose talk, looser behavior, and endless pots of coffee all somehow mingle to form the word "love."
To bolster his spurious magic act, Innaurato has invested each of his characters with one or more peculiarities. Berto, played with a nice mixture of sincerity and helplessness by the squat Jerry Stiller, has no real occupation other than the invention of useless articles, including a soap powder labeled with the Italian word for "surf."
Renzo, the funniest of the lot, and played by Dick Latessa like a rooster with a mild case of sciatica, is Berto's bookie, an occasional after-hours warehouse thief, and father of Berto's (and Aggy's) daughter-in-law Francine, an obese and foul-mouthed young woman who revels in her fatness in a long aria near the end of the first act. Francine and her husband Little Tom, who has twice attempted suicide since his mother's departure 10 years before, have no employment other than appearing as members, Fat Lady and Clown, of a Philadelphia street circus.
Aggy's friend Sarah, a feisty woman with a broad hillbilly dialect and a missing finger, is a pig farmer who likes to earn the act of love by first fighting with a mate, in this case the insatiable Renzo. That leaves the old man, Oreste, who is the butt of several jokes, including a supposed heart attack.
In like manner, Innaurato has thrust his strange collection of characters into a number of situations, visual gags and exchanges of dialogue (Renzo, speaking of his fat daughter: "The first time I took her into the playground, she broke the swing; all of them") that begin to take on the aspect of a doomed TV pilot that is an uneasy mix of farce, comedy and pathos. There's even a pie-in-the-face (well, cream puff, anyway) scene. And so much more.
In addition to those already mentioned, the performances range from the serviceable (by Angela Paton as the ex-wife, Daniel Keyes as the old man) to the outlandish (Laurel Cronin as the fat Francine, Sloane Shelton as the combative pig farmer) to the valiant (Richard Zavaglia in the unconvincing and practically unplayable role of the son). Langella has contributed several nice touches to the broad comedy scenes. Gropman's three-room set is a proper horror, in which William Ivey Long's costumes seem perfectly in place. Paul Gallo's lighting is admirable throughout.
"Passione" is two hours of fake exuberance and phony emotion.
Imagine a Puccini opera with the music filletted out and the libretto totally rewritten by some crazy Italian cousin of Feydeau; set the entire thing in the contemporary miasma of south Philadelphia's Italian district and you might have some slight impression of Albert Innaurato's new moderately funny and immoderately chaotic play Passione, which opened last night at the Morosco Theater. There again, you might now.
Passione seems the ideal title for almost any Innaurato play - for the man writes with passion, at times with a passion almost dislocated from life. Almost everyone in New York will remember, if only through the courtesy of its still ubiquitous TV commercial, the mother in Innaurato's earlier and still current Broadway hit, Gemini, pleading with her son "to take human bites."
In Passione, the playwright does indeed seem to be trying to take human bites, not always with success, but in a very serious fashion. Oddly enough, the man's lack of dramatic order runs against his greatest strength, which is the portrayal of human disorder.
In his earliest plays, this disorder was often seen through the prism of the perverse. In Passione, possibly his most mature work to date, Innaurato advances in the track he first set for himself in Gemini in presenting a verismo view of his dramatic preoccupations, and trying to offer us a slice of life almost if it were a slice of melon.
Nothing too much happens in most of Innaurato's plays. There is no particular story through which characters journey in some voyage of discovery, changing through the events. Innaurato's characters discover themselves in incidents - incidents that hold up sudden mirrors to their souls.
In Passione a Southern-born wife breaks in upon a family gathering honoring her Italian-American husband's aged father. She has deserted the family for 10 years during which time she acquired a medical degree, and now in the company of her sister, she unexpectedly comes back to her husband and now-adult, married son, to see what kind of reconciliation can be made.
Innaurato seems fascinated by the two issues of racism and obesity. Here the play is centered around what Innaurato apparently perceives as the natural antagonism between Protestant and Catholic cultures. The message is spelled out when one character says: "You're a Wop in a WASP society - that is a bad mistake." And as for obesity, remember Innaurato's tragic dramatic diatribe on fatness, Benno Blimpie here Francine, the son's wife, concludes the first act with a passionate, even poetic, aria for the fat.
These characters are drawn so much larger than life that they possibly should be watched through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. What remains then is Innaurato's abundant energy and his frequently compelling sense of the ridiculous.
Life spills over everywhere, and with probably Frank Langella's main task to stop it spilling too far. In his Broadway directorial debut, Langella has succeeded in containing a lot of the chaos, while still maintaining all of the life.
The actors suffer from Innaurato's present inability to delineate between a character and a stereotype, and Jerry Stiller as the slob-husband is something of a victim here. He does extremely well in a character more justly judged in terms of cartoon than portrait.
The same is true of most of the other members of this seething Philadelphia household. However, I liked the puzzled sincerity of Angela Paton as the wife. Indeed, the entire cast gave this Philadelphia carnivale the right atmosphere of pleasure and regret. In all, Innaurato seems to be advancing, but on a somewhat narrow front.
The official setting of Albert Innaurato's new comedy, "Passione," is an Italian-American neighborhood in South Philadelphia. But don't you believe it. This play's true geographical coordinates can be located only in the imagination of its author, who is one of the most brilliant iconoclasts of the American theater. In "Passione," as in "Gemini" and "The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie," Mr. Innaurato plays lip service to kitchen-sink realism, but, for him, reality is merely an elastic means to a cockeyed end. This man is an artist, not a documentarian. He is driven - compulsively, breathlessly - to remake a familiar, even clichéd world into a new and often hilarious place of his own startling design.
"Passione," which opened at the Morosco last night, is far from a total success, but its first act is vintage Innaurato. It is there that we find the playwright's feverish sensibility twisting a seemingly commonplace ethnic family into all sorts of bizarre shapes. Grandpa (Daniel Keyes) may look like a typical patriarch in his dapper white suit - but, no, he's also a one-time arsonist. His son, Berto (Jerry Stiller), may come on like an unemployed cab driver, but he is also a failed inventor with a closet full of dashed dreams. Berto's son, Little Tom (Richard Zavaglia), is a polite fellow who also happens to be a circus clown. Little Tom's wife, Francine (Laurel Cronin), is the circus's producer - and also its fat lady.
These characters alone would be enough to keep any normal writer busy for a while, but Mr. Innaurato rarely rests. On the raucous afternoon when "Passione" unfolds, Berto is also paid a surprise visit by his ex-wife, Aggy (Angela Paton), who had walked out a decade before. She brings along her sister, Sarah (Sloane Shelton), a good ole Southern farm woman who likes to wave around her maimed left hand. Sarah soon catches the lascivious eye of fat Francine's hoody father, Renzo (Dick Latessa), a self-described "investment broker who don't use the stock market."
When this extended family gets to eating and bickering in Act I, the surprises and funny lines come so fast that we quickly accept the psychological reality of the characters, however far-fetched or grotesque they might otherwise seem. The playwright tries to get away with everything, and he often succeeds. One moment his antagonists draw knives and guns on each other; a little later they pair off and sway romantically to an old Tommy Dorsey record. Mr. Innaurato also thinks nothing of halting the action entirely for impassioned debates about such tangential subjects as women's liberation, television commercials and coffee percolators. These digressions are so passionately and wittily set forth that at times Mr. Innaurato could almost pass for South Philly's half-crazed, proletarian answer to Shaw.
Still, for all his kamikaze humor, the playwright never condescends to his losers and misfits. He truly likes them, and his infectious compassion is what keeps his fantastic conceits on a human scale. Unfortunately, Mr. Innaurato's big heart is also the source of his greatest esthetic failing. When, in Act II, he tries to resolve the homely specifics of the family's dilemmas, he simply cannot find a way to assimilate such prosaic matters into his high-flying, operatic comic style. "Passione" soon devolves into an ordinary domestic drama - one that sits very uneasily on what has come before.
Disappointingly enough, much of Act II consists of heart-to-heart conversations in which the characters confront one another, rehash the past and make amends. Suddenly the relatively minor character of Little Tom is launching into dramatically unearned monologues about his suicide attempts. Suddenly Aggy and Berto are recapping their marital history in somber words that merely repeat information that had been conveyed comically earlier on. Sarah and Renzo's final confrontation works better because it springs from the play's farcical underpinnings: they consummate their relationship in a wild, if overextended, slapstick boxing match.
Mr. Innaurato had a parallel difficulty in "Gemini," whose serious love triangle was at odds with the play's more outrageous shenanigans, but he finessed it better there. The introspective interludes were more adeptly interwoven, and the central plot question was left unresolved. In "Passione," the playwright seems, if anything, overly possessed by his generous emotions. He is too eager to reconcile his play's family, no matter what the price in narrative credibility, and he is too quick to have his characters endorse his own credo of tolerance. When a mother's attitude toward her son changes from rage to affection in an instant, the patness of such a transformation saps its pathos. Some lines of dialogue - "When you love somebody, you got to let them be what they are" - state the play's theme rather than dramatize it.
The production, which marks Frank Langella's debut as a director, is quite good. Working with roughly the same cast that originated the play in a broader version at Playwrights Horizons last spring, Mr. Langella has firmly rooted the action in Innaurato territory - that risky border area between naturalism and surrealism. He also has a valuable ally in David Gropman, a neo-realist set designer who has created a ramshackle apartment where even the dust seems in an advanced state of decay.
The actors fare according to their material. Mr. Stiller, Miss Paton and Mr. Zavaglia must strain a bit to keep up with their more flamboyant peers, though they all have their moments. (Mr. Stiller really does look like a man who purports to have shrunk with failure.) As sister Sarah, Miss Sloane is an endlessly wacky mixture of "decent Christian" homilies and brawny bitchiness. Her suitor, Mr. Latessa, is a specimen of macho manhood to be treasured: In his desire to suck in his paunch, he turns his entire body into a perpetual leer.
The key performance, though, is Miss Cronin's. Fat Francine is the only character who successfully rides all of Mr. Innaurato's moods. In Act I, she erupts in one of the playwright's inimitable arias: a foul-mouthed defense of obesity that goes to the outer limits of farce without ever losing touch with genuine feeling. In Act II, her circumspect dissection of her marriage is the one quiet scene that works: she goes for our emotional jugular without ever forsaking her initial comic beat. From Francine, we can extrapolate that Innaurato play that is entirely faithful to its creator's remarkable vision. If "Passione" is not that play, it nonetheless keeps the promise alive.