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Fusen City Hotel - Xian
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- Location:
- Address: 9 Juhuayuan, East Avenue, Xian
- Tel: 029-87396888 (Book this hotel, call 800-2682918)
- Hotel Name in Chinese: 西安富森城市酒店
- Lowest Price: $40
- Prices not include 18% service fee and tax.
- Payment Method: pay using our secure online payment service or pay at the hotel at some hotels.
- Triple/quad occupancy may require an extra bed at extra cost.
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Hotel Services | Luggage service, Car rentals, Laundry service, Room service, Express check-in/check-out, Currency Exchange, Wake Up Call, Parking Service, 24hr Reception, Permanent English-speaking staff, Business Centre, Copy Service, E-mail, Translation Service, Fax Service, Typing Service |
Room Amenities | Air conditioning, AM/FM radio, Alarm clock, Color Television, Cable/satellite TV, Complimentary newspaper, Coffee/tea maker, Telephone, Hair dryer, In-room safe, Electronic Lock, Iron and ironing board, Refrigerator, Mini Bar, Bath and Shower, Non-smoking rooms available, In-house movies, Internet access, |
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"Without the right sound, writing is worthless." Laney gazed at the cream-colored wall. "He fired me, you know. One day there was an Italian novel and I couldn't read Italian, so he let me go from the job of reading. Joyce fired me from the job for which I was not paid." (Roger Kahn, from The Boys of Summer)


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Ranked/Elo (Solo/Duo 5s) Problems · People who AFK/Disconnect. · People who do poorly and cause the team to lose/suffer. *On purpose or otherwise. Ideas/Solutions · Punish players who do poorly. · Punish people for trolling on purpose. My thought on this is to award players elo for getting kills/assists without tons of deaths. I have a couple thoughts on this, but like anything this would have to be tested/tweaked to find the right numbers. First thought, the most simple one, although in my mind probably not the most accurate. (Kills + Assists Deaths)*0.25 = Change in elo. Example (10kills + 4Assists 7 Deaths)*.25 = 1.75Change in elo Rounded to +2.0 Extra elo. Example (1Kill + 28Assists 4 Deaths)*.25 = 6.25 Change in elo Rounded to +6 Extra Elo. Example (3Kills + 4 Assists 12 Deaths)*.25 = -1.25 Change in elo Rounded to -1 Elo Loss. Second, builds on the first, but with more advanced math and scaling. (Kills + (Assists/2) Deaths)*.25 = Change in Elo Ok so same numbers for Examples (10 Kills + (4 Assists/2) 7 Deaths)*.25 = 1.25Change in Elo Rounded to +1 Extra Elo (1Kill + (28 Assists/2) 4 Deaths)*25 = 2.5Change in Elo Rounded to +3 Extra Elo (3Kills + (4 Assists/2) 12Deaths)*.25 = -1.75Change in Elo Rounded to -2 Elo Loss. With this Method Riot could easily tweak the elo changes via the multipliers. I also would imagine that there should be some cap on this. Make it where people can only gain or lose 5 elo from this per game. *Again Numbers subject to change. And the Gain and lose wouldnt have to be the same, for example could be able to gain 5 while only losing 2. *This method would keep massive assist supports from gaining more elo than other roles. So in the grand scheme of things, take a game where you lose, but do well say you should lose 11 elo based on the current system, now you could potentially only lose 6 elo if you do well, while the person causing the team to do poorly would lose up to 16. Not only would this help better players maintain their elo so as not to be sucked down into Elo Hell while punishing players that cause your team to lose, thereby separating the players who are doing well at current elo from those dragging them down. · Punish people for leaving. A lot of people would like to keep their elo when a teammate quits/leaves/DCs. However this is not a viable long term solution, due to being easily exploitable. However, there is a simpler solution. Punish those causing the problem by lowering their elo. This would cause players to rethink leaving, the current mindset is if we are going to lose, what does it matter if Im here. Well this would make it matter, which would also make for more opportunities for comebacks, that would not exist with a 4v5. Great, so now how to keep players from disconnecting and causing a 4v5. When looking for a game (Applying only to Ranked Solo/Duo), do a quick connection check, if the players ping is in the Red dont let them join a ranked game until they have corrected it. This will lower the odds of a player repeatedly disconnecting due to latency. Thanks for taking the time to read this post, please comment with ideas, changes suggestions, and make sure you vote, on the quality of these ideas, I would like to know if others like/dislike these suggestions. |
I see several people have viewed the thread, and I am curious what others think. If you would please post your constructive comments/concerns and alternatives that you have. Also please vote, and if you vote that you don't like it, please tell me what it is that you don't like.
I honestly love this idea, this would realy make players who play and work to raise, instead of going down because of the trolls who feed and such, +1 buddy
Thanks for the response, that was the point of the idea. :) also to those 3 of you that voted that you don't like it, please explain why, I'm left to believe you either don't understand it, or you are part of the problem described. If you have a point to make that is legitimate please do so.
There's way more to this game than kills and deaths. Are you gonna award someone that buys and places wards regularly? How do you mathematically calculate positioning and map control? What about those low kill, high farm games? how do you reward CS? This isn't a halo or cod where individual skill is easily measurable, this is a team game. The only thing I see this promoting is more ppl fighting over mid and adc, supports stealing kills on purpose, and tanks being nonexistent because of their usually low scores.
Sometimes, I think we should be able to report their builds. I played a ranked game & 34 minutes in our blitzcrank had merc treads and a manamune with about 30 cs. 34 minutes in, even just sitting in base, you would have enough money to buy better items.
Again the math may need ajusted one way or the other for high assist champs to be the same. There are many factors that contribute to the overall outcome of the game, but they all boil down to kills or assists in the end, if you're doing things right, your team should come out on top of the kdr. Also, on the point of the occasional close game you mention, low kills high CS, there is nothing wrong with those games now. Those are Close games, those are not the games that I'm talking about fixing, if both teams are pretty even and no one on your team is feeding, afking ect, then the current system works about as well as any elo system can. Also Thanks for your feedback and feel free to continue the discussion. :) |
:) Thanks for the response. |
Elo rating is a measure of how good you are at winning matches.
Your system gives Elo weight to something other than winning matches, thereby making Elo less accurate. |
That is my intent, that is the problem with using elo, as it is designed for 2 player games such as Chess where it is 1v1, not team games. |
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David Cronenberg's film of Bruce Wagner's Hollywood satire-nightmare turns ludicrous situations into operatic tragedy.
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
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A 2015 table of contents for reviews written by students in the Columbia Links journalism program of the film "Smile" by Marquis Daisy.
A review of Marquis Daisy's "Smile" by Chicago Urban League student Matthew Reilly.
Captain's log: eight fifth graders, one adult, one James Cameron movie.
A 2015 table of contents for reviews written by students in the Columbia Links journalism program of the film "Smile" by Marquis Daisy.
An FFC looks at the "Taken" saga.
Writer/director Richard Linklater and editor Sandra Adair discuss "Boyhood" as part of the Film Independent Directors Close-Up series.
An obituary for actor/filmmaker Leonard Nimoy.
Crazy "Citizenfour" lawsuit; How to work with your spouse and not kill each other; Chicago's abuse-laden "black site"; Lesser-known MLK speech; Friday is global record…
* This filmography is not intended to be a comprehensive list of this artist's work. Instead it reflects the films this person has been involved with that have been reviewed on this site.
An appreciation of Nastassja Kinski, on the occasion of a tribute to her at the Film Society at Lincoln Center from November 27-December 3, 2014.
A report from the 2014 Los Cabos Film Festival.
A history and appreciation of R.W. Fassbinder on the launch of a retrospective screening series at the Lincoln Center.
Seasonal anticipation: as 2013 debuted, many were feeling it. The 28th iteration of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, aka "SBIFF," was on the wind, with jazzed moviegoers soon to converge elbow-to-elbow in a familiar, even familial, and happy bustle on downtown's State Street.
I was among the excited, as this would be my third year covering the festival. And for me, extra sweetening would be provided by the tribute to Daniel Day-Lewis, the oft-reticent acting genius whose reanimation of Abraham Lincoln seemed certain to bring another Best Actor Academy Award -- his 3rd, making him the only actor to surpass Marlon Brando, who received 2.
Marie writes: The countdown to Christmas officially begins the day after Halloween, which this year lands on a Wednesday. Come Thursday morning, the shelves will be bare of witches, goblins and ghosts; with snowmen, scented candles and dollar store angel figurines taking their place. That being the case, I thought it better to start celebrating early so we can milk the joy of Halloween for a whole week as opposed to biding adieu to the Great Pumpkin so soon after meeting up again...
OK, this is where it really gets interesting. Forget the consensus Top 50 Greatest Movies of All Time; let's get personal. Sight & Sound has now published the top 250 titles in its 2012 international critics poll, the full list of more than 2,000 movies mentioned, and all the individual lists of the 845 participating critics, academics, archivists and programmers, along with any accompanying remarks they submitted. I find this to be the most captivating aspect of the survey, because it reminds us of so many terrific movies we may have forgotten about, or never even heard of. If you want to seek out surprising, rewarding movies, this is a terrific place to start looking. For the past few days I've been taking various slices at the "data" trying to find statistical patterns, and to glean from the wealth of titles some treasures I'd like to heartily recommend -- and either re-watch or catch up with myself.
I know we're supposed to consider the S&S poll a feature film "canon" -- a historically influential decennial event since 1952, but just one of many. I don't disagree with Greg Ferrara at TCM's Movie Morlocks ("Ranking the Greats: Please Make it Stop") when he says that limiting ballots to ten all-time "best" (or "favorite," "significant," "influential" titles is incredibly limiting. That's why I think perusing at the critics' personal lists, the Top 250 (cited by seven critics or more) and the full list of 2,045 films mentioned is more enjoyable pastime.
It's wise to remember that, although the top of the poll may at first glance look relatively conservative or traditional, there's a tremendous diversity in the individual lists. Even the top vote-getter, "Vertigo," was chosen by less than one quarter of the participants.
The big loser in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics poll is... funny. OK, we know there are no losers, only winners! But, still, with the obvious exceptions of "Citizen Kane" and "Rules of the Game," this decade's consensus choices for the Greatest Films of All Time are not a whole lotta laughs, even though they're terrific motion pictures. There's not much in the way of chuckles or joie de vivre to be found in "Vertigo," "Tokyo Story," "Man with a Movie Camera," "The Searchers," "The Passion of Joan of Arc"... At least "Sunrise," "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "8 1/2" have healthy senses of humor, but "Kane" and "Rules of the Game" are the only movies in the top 10 with the propulsive vitality of (screwball) comedy. They are flat-out fun (even if they are regarded as "classics"). And with "Kane" bumped to #2 this time, The List has become, to paraphrase a great comedy from the 1980s, one less funny.
I say this as someone who believes that comedy is everything, and that drama is lifeless (or at least emotionally stunted) without it. Some might argue that comedy without drama is also limited and superficial, but I think comedy is more profound and complex -- and more difficult to pull off successfully. I can name plenty of comedies that capture a mature vision of human existence (if you're into that kind of thing -- like all of Buster Keaton), but a drama that (artificially) excludes humor is feels false and inert to me. [No, I'm not saying the other movies in the Top Ten are humorless or lack cinematic exuberance; just that their energy is not primarily comedic, as i feel Welles' and Renoir's are. To some extent, I'm talking about the overall tendency to value "seriousness" above "humor" in these sorts of exercises.] As for the 2012 Sight & Sound Top Ten, compare it with 1982 ("Singin' in the Rain," "The General"), 1992 ("L'Atlante") and 2002 ("Singin' in the Rain"). The lack of comedy on the new list hearkens back to the Somber Ol' Days of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. As somebody once said: Why so serious?
"The number of people blogging television online -- it's ridiculous. They don't know what we're building. And by the way, that's true for the people who say we're great. They don't know. It doesn't matter whether they love it or they hate it. It doesn't mean anything until there's a beginning, middle and an end. [...]
I do have a certain amused contempt for the number of people who walk sideways into the thing and act like they were there all along. It's selling more DVDs now than when it was on the air. But I'm indifferent to who thinks Omar is really cool now, or that this is the best scene or this is the best season. It was conceived of as a whole, and we did it as a whole. For people to be picking it apart now like it's a deck of cards or like they were there the whole time or they understood it the whole time -- it's wearying. Because no one was there in the beginning, or the middle, or even at the end. Our numbers continued to decline from Season 2 on.* -- David Simon, creator of "The Wire," "Generation Kill," "Treme"
I've heard some very good film critics make this argument before, too. Of course, a movie has a beginning, a middle and an end (although, as Jean-Luc Godard reminded us, not necessarily in that order). That's the fabled "three-act structure" all the screenplay manuals talk about. Wim Wenders and other great directors have observed that they always make at least two movies: the one they set out to make and the one they discover while they're trying to make the first one. Same goes for watching a movie or TV series: there's always the show you watch when its destination is unknown, and the one you reconsider after you know how it ended up.
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"Troops of nomads swept over the country at harvest time like a visitation of locusts, reckless young fellows, handsome, profane, licentious, given to drink, powerful but inconstant workmen, quarrelsome and difficult to manage at all times. They came in the season when work was plenty and wages high. They dressed well, in their own peculiar fashion, and made much of their freedom to come and go.
"They told of the city, and sinister and poisonous jungles all cities seemed in their stories. They were scarred with battles. They came from the far-away and unknown, and passed on to the north, mysterious as the flight of locusts, leaving the people of Sun Prairie quite as ignorant of their real names and characters as upon the first day of their coming."
-- Hamlin Garland, "Boy Life on the Prairie" (1899), epigraph for Terrence Malick's screenplay for "Days of Heaven," revised June 2, 1976
At some point in 1976, "Days of Heaven" was a screenplay that contained conventionally discrete scenes, developed exchanges of dialog and a fairly straightforward (melo-)dramatic narrative structure. Principal photography took place that year in the plains of Alberta, Canada (standing in for the Texas panhandle shortly before World War I), and the movie that emerged in 1978, after two years of editing, did away almost all of it. What the movie became -- as everyone couldn't help but notice at the time of its original release -- is a film in which the "background" (nature, the landscape) moves into the foreground and the human characters recede into macrocosmic expanses of earth and sky, and microcosmic observations of flora and fauna. And bugs.
Terrence Malick's vision is reflected in his process, whereby an enormous amount of material -- scripted and unscripted, A-roll and B-roll -- is pared down, peeled back, opened up.¹ Camera operator John Bailey, in an interview on the Criterion Blu-Ray edition of "Days of Heaven," describes how the so-called "second unit" work. The close-ups of animals or plants, or the pastoral images of trees or streams are "very, very inserty-type shots, and yet they have the same kind of dramatic impact" as the spectacular wide shots -- or, for that matter, the scenes involving the lead actors. Some complained about that at the time -- that the film was gorgeous but insufficiently developed as human drama, that characters were cyphers, that the technique was "intolerably artsy" and "artificial."²
In the biochemistry class during my naive undergraduate years, the professor jokingly said the capability of metabolizing alcohol depends on our genetic makeup. Thanks to the variations in the genes, some people can produce more enzymes or more active enzymes to take care of alcohol in their body. They can be heavy drinkers, or the ones less susceptible to the hazards caused by alcoholism than their fellow drunks.
That may explain the existence of Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), the "laureate of American lowlifes" who lived a relatively long life despite many days and nights of bottles and women at the bars. As Stephen King says in his insightful book "On Writing," writing usually has no business with drinking ("Hemingway and Fitzgerald didn't drink because they were creative, alienated, or morally weak. They drank because it's what alkies are wired up to do."). Sometime there are exceptions like Bukowski. Drinking and writing always came together to him, and he had no problem with that.
Take a look at all that's going on in the image above. Who is talking? What are the relationships between the characters? How much is packed into this one frame?
Since it came out last fall, I'd almost forgotten what an exhilarating information-overload experience David Fincher's "The Social Network" is. Cut and composed and performed with breathless, jittery speed, it's a movie that consists of virtually nothing but conversations in rooms (the attempted, missed, short-circuited, coded connections that struck me when I first saw it). It's action-packed -- enough to give you whiplash, watching all the elements interacting within the 2.40:1 widescreen frame -- even though there are no "action sequences" (car chases, shootouts, fist fights, acrobatic stunts, etc.); the filmmaking is charged with energy without falling back on today's routinely frenetic, handheld run-and-gun/snatch-and-grab camerawork (the camera is generally mounted on a tripod; when it moves, it's on a crane or a dolly -- often for establishing shots or a shift in perspective that brings a new element into the frame). Smart, quick, efficient.
The crunchy guitar riff starts over the Columbia Pictures logo and then the crowd noise comes up, the music drops down, and before the logo fades to black and the first image appears, we hear Mark (Jesse Eisenberg) speaking the movie's opening line -- a question that's also a challenge: "Did you know there are more people with genius IQs living in China than there are people of any kind living in the United States?" What follows is a blisteringly fast-paced screwball comedy exchange ("His Girl Friday" through a 64-bit dual-core processor) between Mark and his girlfriend (not for very much longer ) Erica in which nearly every line is a misunderstanding (intentional or unintentional), a sarcastic jab, a leap of logic, a block, an interruption, a feint, an abrupt shift in the angle of attack, a diversion, a retreat, a refinement, a recapitulation (I'm sure there are many fencing terms that apply to the various conversational strategies employed here)...
Behold a most wondrous find...."The Shop that time Forgot" Elizabeth and Hugh. Every inch of space is crammed with shelving. Some of the items still in their original wrappers from the 1920s. Many goods are still marked with pre-decimal prices."There's a shop in a small village in rural Scotland which still sells boxes of goods marked with pre-decimal prices which may well have been placed there 80 years ago. This treasure trove of a hardware store sells new products too. But its shelves, exterior haven't changed for years; its contents forgotten, dust-covered and unusual, branded with the names of companies long since out of business. Photographer Chris Frears has immortalized this shop further on film..." - Matilda Battersby. To read the full story, visit the Guardian. And visit here to see more photos of the shop and a stunning shot of Morton Castle on the homepage for Photographer Chris Fears.
After some movie-critic friends and I came out of Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids are All Right," we just had to have a steak dinner -- because the one in the movie looked so delicious. It's that kind of "hang-out" movie, one that leaves you feeling that you've just spent some time with friends (who, OK, can be sometimes be a little annoying and unreasonable and even unlikeable) and wanting to extend the experience.
The film stars three of the best actors in the known universe -- Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo -- along with two excellent young performers, Mia Wasikowska (with whom I was already smitten after her role as the testy teenage gymnast in "In Treatment") and Josh Hutcherson, as the titular "kids." But what we found ourselves talking the most about was how well-made a movie it was -- how smartly written, directed, shot and edited. There were times you would have thought we were talking about the techniques of a complex action-thriller or science-fiction extravaganza.
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"For me, the border between feature films and documentaries has always been blurred. 'Fitzcarraldo' is my best documentary and 'Little Dieter Needs to Fly' is my best fiction film. I don't make such a clear distinction between them -- they're all movies."
-- Werner Herzog, interview with Index Magazine, 2004 - - - - - - - - - -
"Aguirre, the Wrath of God" was the first Werner Herzog film I ever saw, back when it was released in the United States in 1977. It was one of the first films I ever reviewed, too (for my college newspaper, the University of Washington Daily). All I knew about Herzog at the time was what I'd read in an extraordinary profile by Jonathan Cott in the November 18, 1976, issue of Rolling Stone, which portrayed Herzog as a mad visionary in search of new images, not unlike the obsessed outsiders at the heart of his movies.
I couldn't stop staring at the haunting photograph that surrounded the article, from (as I recall) such films as "Signs of Life," "Even Dwarfs Started Small," "Aguirre," "Kaspar Hauser" and "Heart of Glass." They certainly didn't look quite like any movies I'd seen before. And essential to the spectacle was the knowledge that Herzog had gone to remote and exotic places in order to capture these images and bring them back into the cinema. They were unquestionably photographical realities (imagine Herzog speaking that phrase), not optical tricks created in post-production. The boat in the tree in "Aguirre" -- the one the feverish characters could no longer recognize as real -- was an actual boat in an actual tree, not a miniature or a matte painting. Even the photographic effects -- the time-lapse clouds flowing through the mountains like a river around boulders in "Kaspar Hauser" "Heart of Glass"; or the high-speed "ski-flying" (high-altitude, long-distance ski-jumping) footage that allowed Walter Steiner to float through the air in "The Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner" -- were actual recordings of real-world phenomena.
It's a movie. No, it's a ride. No, it's a movie and a ride! Variety reports that Koreans have been lining up for 4D "ride films," beginning with last year's "Journey to the Center of the Earth." The 4D, "five-sense" version of "Avatar" now features
more than 30 effects during the 3D film's 162 minute run, including moving seats, smells of explosives, sprinkling water, laser lights and wind. Despite the much higher $15.80 ticket price (an average ticket costs $6.90), screenings are regularly sold out.
"We (started to) prepared the 'Avatar' 4D ride last summer," says Tom Oh, prexy of 20th Century Fox Korea. [...]
"There is no 4D theater like ours around the world. CGV's 4D plex is the first in the world that fully offers five-sense experiences with a movie title," says Kim Daehee, publicity manager of CJ-CGV.
Coming: 4D versions of Chris Columbus's "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" and others.
Are we circling back around to flight-simulator theme park attractions built around movie "narratives," like Disney's 1987 Star Tours "Star Wars" ride? (Or, for that matter, like 1955's Peter Pan's Flight at Disneyland?) At what point does the experience cease to become a movie experience (as we've known it since the beginning of the 20th Century) and become a virtual reality simulation? The "ride movie" has nearly become a (sub-)genre of its own since "Raiders of the Lost Ark" perfected the form -- and movies are often based on video games or even amusement park rides ("Rollercoaster," "Pirates of the Caribbean"), so is this just another gimmick -- like William Castle's Percepto process for 1959's "The Tingler," or Universal's Sensurround for 1974's "Earthquake" (and other "immersive" disaster movies), or John Waters' Odorama for 1981's "Polyester"? Have we been here before (just another element in a cross-promotable "transmedia storytelling platform"), or is this something "new"? And, in any case, does it (or 3-D) satisfy the same appetites that have traditionally attracted people to movies? Now that they're retro-fitting existing movies for additional dimensionality, what would a 4-D Eric Rohmer movie be like? How about a 4-D "My Dinner with Andre" -- with the smell of real dinner? Would a 4-D Rob Zombie movie allow the audience to actually feel the pain of the victims onsceen?
Meanwhile, Wim Wenders is making 3-D movies in Italy...
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UPDATED 01/28/10: 2:25 p.m. PST -- COMPLETED!: Thanks for all the detective work -- and special thanks to Christopher Stangl and Srikanth Srinivasan himself for their comprehensive efforts at filling the last few holes! Now I have to go read about who some of these experimental filmmakers are. I did find some Craig Baldwin movies on Netflix, actually...
Srikanth Srinivasan of Bangalore writes one of the most impressive movie blogs on the web: The Seventh Art. I don't remember how I happened upon it last week, but wow am I glad I did. Dig into his exploration of connections between Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" and Jean-Luc Godard's "History of Cinema." Or check out his piece on James Benning's 1986 "Landscape Suicide." There's a lot to look through, divided into sections for Hollywood and World Cinema.
In the section called "The Cinemaniac... I found the above collage (mosaic?) of mostly-famous faces belonging to film directors, which Srikanth says he assembled from thumbnails at Senses of Cinema. Many of them looked quite familiar to me, and if I'm not mistaken they were among the biographical portraits we used in the multimedia CD-ROM movie encyclopedia Microsoft Cinemania, which I edited from 1994 to 1998, first on disc, then also on the web. (Anybody with a copy of Cinemania able to confirm that? My Mac copy of Cinemania97 won't run on Snow Leopard.)
From Ebert's new book, now on sale.
View image From "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" -- one of the best movies, and movie titles, ever. Say it five times.
Back when the New German Cinema was colonizing America, my friends and I liked to transform our favorite actor-names, especially those from Fassbinder movies, into exclamations. "Ulli Lommel!" we would exclaim. Or, "Gottfried John!" (with a W.C. Fields inflection). Or, "What the Harry Baer was that!?!" The moniker-musik of Fassbinder's cinematographers alone still fill me with joy: Michael Ballhaus, Dietrich Lohmann, Xaver Schwarzenberger, Jürgen Jürges...
My dream was to hear the complete cast and credits of "Berlin Alexanderplatz" read by a National Public Radio on-air personality. Sure, every name sounds great when pronounced on NPR -- and especially "Sylvia Poggioli" or "Corey Flintoff." (I love how the second syllable of "Flintoff" falls off, like it's going over a cliff. Say that last sentence out loud. It's fun.) But what if you put the two together? It could be like peanut butter and chocolate.
What follows is a list of very, very good names for your enjoyment. They are best when you speak them with impeccable diction. And don't forget the umlauts, where appropriate. While you're doing that, can you also figure out which ones are from NPR and which are from Fassbinder? After scrambling the two lists of my favorites I'm not sure I can anymore. I will, however, say this: Rüdiger Vogler. (He's a Wim Wenders actor, not a Fassbinder vet, but he's a damn fine one with a damn fine name and I wanted to get him in here somewhere.)
UPDATE: You want to hear how it's done? Our Man In Istanbul, Ali Arikan, reads some Fassbinderian names with poetic precision here.
Before the jump, here's a few to get you started -- but beware, there are three tricks!
1 Kai Ryssdal 2 Kurt Raab 3 Peer Raben 4 Mara Liasson 5 Ulla Jacobsson 6 Annabelle Gurwitch 7 Elisabeth Trissenaar 8 Ira Flatow 9 David Folkenflik
Barbie as Karen in "Superstar."
Maybe there should just be a category in the right column for "Lists." Here's one from the film and music writers of Time Out London (which will always be the only real Time Out) called "50 greatest music films ever except for 'Spinal Tap'." No, I added those last four words, but the editors explain in their intro that "we're celebrating great films – dramas and documentaries – about real musicians."
As if David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel and Derek Smalls never actually toured in the flesh? As if they aren't at least as "real" as, say, KISS or the Monkees or Hootie and the Blowfish, which contained no one named "Hootie" and nobody named "Blowfish." (BTW, the Ramones weren't really "Ramones"! Those were just stage names!) Oh, and Gus Van Sant's "Last Days" was about a guy named "Blake." Michael Pitt looked like Kurt Cobain, but it was only about Cobain in the sense that "Velvet Goldmine" is about Bowie or Iggy Pop or Lou Reed, or "Grace of My Heart" is about Carole King or Brian Wilson or any of the Brill Building writers (even though a lot of them wrote songs for the movie). Then there's "'Round Midnight" (which is on the list) with Dexter Gordon playing Dale Turner, a fictionalized version of Bud Powell...
View image Downey, CA: "What happened?" Third shot of "Superstar." Compare to second shot of "Zodiac" -- establishing a neighborhood, from a car on the street...
So, OK: No "Spinal Tap." But no "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco"? No "You're Gonna Miss Me: A Film About Roky Erickson"? No "Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser"? No "X: The Unheard Music"? No "The Girl Can't Help It"? No "Wattstax"? No "Woodstock"? No "The Kids are Alright"? No "No Direction Home"? No "The Buddy Holly Story"? No "Theramin: An Electronic Odyssey"? No "Heart of Gold"? No "The Filth and the Fury"? No "We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen"? No "La Bamba"? No "Kurt and Courtney"? See how much fun this is? Really, though, I'd substitute any of these for several of the selections on the list.
But, OK, many of my favorites are included: "24 Hour Party People," "Jazz on a Summer's Day," "Stop Making Sense," "DIG!," "Art Pepper: Notes from a Jazz Survivor" (his autobiography, "Straight Life," is the best account of addiction I've ever read), "The Decline of Western Civilization Parts I and II (The Metal Years)"...
View image No one here gets out alive.
At the toppermost of the poppermost: Todd Haynes' 1987 "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story," a 45-minute lo-fi "dramatization" that was never officially released because of music clearance troubles (that is, brother Richard wouldn't let Haynes use any Carpenters tunes). Still, after 20 years as an "underground" item, it's available from Google Video here. It's something you really need to see: a documentary-style biopic of Karen Carpenter performed mostly by Barbie dolls. Yes, its a parody (so are most musical biopics, including others on the list -- see the upcoming Jake Kasdan/Judd Apatow picture, "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" for more on that score). But it presents straightforward facts about anorexia that could have been excerpted from any PBS or 16mm educational doc of the period. It's also a formula showbiz melodrama. But for all the layers of artifice, like Haynes' Sirk opera "Far from Heaven," it becomes strangely, hypnotically -- and genuinely -- moving. Prepare yourself for Haynes' Dylan fantasia, "I'm Not There," by watching "Superstar" and "Velvet Goldmine."
ASIDE: From an interview with Haynes at The Reeler: I actually think that it's easier for people who know less about Dylan to go with it, if they're up for something different. Clearly, that's the first thing: Whether you know Dylan or not, you have to surrender to the movie to have a good time at all and get anything out of it. If you have a lot of Dylanisms in your head, it's kind of distracting, because you're sitting there with a whole second movie going on. You're annotating it as you go. It's kind of nice to sit back and let it take you. I think people get it: Even if you don't know which are the true facts and which are the fictional things, and when we're playing with fact and fiction, from the tone of it, you know that it's playing around with real life. In a way, that's what biopics always do. They just don't tell you that they're doing it, and they don't make it part of the fun. You have to follow the Johnny Cash story and just sort of think, "This is what really happened." Of course, you know it's being dramatized, but you're not in on the joke. You're not in on the game of that. In this movie, at least, you get tipped off to it.Oh yeah, but about that list. Here it is. Make of it what you will:
1 "Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story" (Todd Haynes, 1987) 2 "Don't Look Back" (DA Pennebaker, 1967) -- Bob Dylan 3 "Gimme Shelter" (David Maysles/Albert Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin, 1970) --Rolling Stones 4 "24 Hour Party People" (Michael Winterbottom, 2002) -- Manchester scene 5 "Topsy-Turvy" (Mike Leigh, 1999) -- Gilbert and Sullivan 6 "Monterey Pop" (DA Pennebaker, 1968) -- concert 7 "Be Here to Love Me" (Margaret Brown, 2004) -- Townes Van Zandt 8 "Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould" (Francois Girard, 1993) -- Glenn Gould 9 "Cocksucker Blues" (Robert Frank, 1972) -- Rolling Stones 10 "Bird" (Clint Eastwood, 1988) -- Charlie Parker 11 "The Last Waltz" (Martin Scorsese, 1978) -- The Band & Friends farewell concert 12 "Rude Boy" (Jack Hazan, David Mingay, 1980) -- The Clash 13 "Scott Walker: 30 Century Man" (Stephen Kijak, 2006) -- Scott Walker 14 "Bound for Glory" (Hal Ashby, 1976) -- Woody Guthrie 15 "The Decline of Western Civilization Parts I & II" (Penelope Spheeris, 1981, 1988) -- LA punk; '80s metal & hair bands 16 "The Devil and Daniel Johnston" (Jeff Feuerzeig, 2005) -- Daniel Johnston 17 "Sweet Dreams" (Karel Reisz, 1982) -- Patsy Cline 18 "Art Pepper: Notes from a Jazz Survivor" (Don McGlynn, 1982) -- Art Pepper 19 "Elgar" (Ken Russell, 1962) -- Edward Elgar 20 "Rust Never Sleeps" (Neil Young, 1979) -- Neil Young 21 "The Future is Unwritten" (Julien Temple, 2006) -- Joe Strummer 22 "DiG!" (Ondi Timoner, 2004) -- Brian Jonestown Massacre, Dandy Warhols 23 "Some Kind Of Monster" (Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, 2004) -- Metallica 24 "A Hard Day's Night" (Richard Lester, 1964) -- The Beatles 25 "Jimi Hendrix" (Joe Boyd, 1973) -- Jimi Hendrix(more)
View image "Zabriskie Point" -- an Antonioni movie on the cover of LOOK magazine in 1969: "Had he violated the Mann Act when he staged a nude love-in in a national park? Does the film show an "anti-American" bias? As a member of the movie Establishment, is he distorting the aims of the young people's 'revolution'?"
Watching Ingmar Bergman's "Shame" (1968) over the weekend (which I was pleased to find that I had not seen before -- after 20 or 30 years, I sometimes forget), I recalled something that happened around 1982. Through the University of Washington Cinema Studies program, we brought the now-famous (then not-so-) story structure guru Robert McKee to campus to conduct a weekend screenwriting seminar. McKee, played by Brian Cox in Spike Jonze's and Charlie Kaufman's "Adapation." as the ultimate authority on how to write a salable screenplay, has probably been the single-most dominant influence in American screenwriting -- "Hollywood" and "independent" -- over the last two decades. Many would say "pernicious influence." (Syd Field is another.)
It's not necessarily McKee's fault that so many aspiring screenwriters and studio development executives have chosen to emphasize a cogent, three-act structure over all other aspects of the script, including things like character, ideas, and even coherent narrative. Structure, after all, is supposed to be merely the backbone of storytelling, not the be-all, end-all of screenwriting. But people focus on the things that are easiest to fix, that make something feel like a movie, moving from beat to beat, even if the finished product is just a waste of time.
The film McKee chose to illustrate the principles of a well-structured story that time was Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring."
"Shame" is another reminder that Bergman's movies weren't solely aimed at "art" -- they were made to appeal to an audience. Right up to its bleak ending, "Shame" is a rip-roaring story, with plenty of action, plot-twists, big emotional scenes for actors to play, gorgeously meticulous cinematography, explosive special effects and flat-out absurdist comedy. I don't know how "arty" it seemed in 1968, but it plays almost like classical mainstream moviemaking today. (And remember: Downbeat, nihilistic or inconclusive finales were very fashionable and popular in mainstream cinema in the late 1960's: "Bonnie and Clyde," "Blow-Up," "Easy Rider," "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry"...),
It's important to remember that Bergman and his fellow Euro-titan Michelangelo Antonioni, who both died on the same day last week, were big-name commercial directors -- who also helped moviegoers worldwide see the relatively young, originally low-brow, populist medium in a new light: as a (potential) art form. (The Beatles, who in 1964-'65 were the most popular youth phenomenon on the planet, even wanted Antonioni to direct their second feature, after "A Hard Day's Night"!) And if they hadn't been so popular and famous, they would not have been so influential. These guys won plenty of high-falutin' awards at film festivals, but they were also nominated for Oscars in glitzy Hollywood.
Interview with Antonioni (1969)


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Above: Leon Lai and Maggie Cheung heated up screens in the 1990s.
Recently divorced, Leon Lai (黎明) is rumored to be dating long-time friend, Maggie Cheung (張曼玉). The two lonely souls found comfort in each other since Maggie also broke up with her German boyfriend recently.
Leon's feelings for Maggie may go back as far as 16 years ago. In 1996, it was reported that romance had sparked between the two after collaborating in Comrades: Almost a Love Story <甜蜜蜜>.
As the spokesperson for UNICEF, Leon reunited with Maggie at a recent charity event. The two hugged and chatted constantly during the event. After their reunion, Leon and Maggie were seen having frequent dinner dates together. Recovering from their recent breakups, Leon and Maggie reportedly sought comfort in each other, sparking rumors of a sunset romance.
Maggie's Influence on Leon
While filming Comrades: Almost a Love Story, Leon was reported to have developed special feelings for Maggie. He had a habit of writing down notes of his filming experience and costars in his personal diary. Leon greatly enjoyed working with Maggie and happily jotted down his heartfelt thoughts about her. In his notes, Leon often praised Maggie and mentioned he truly admired her brilliant acting skills.
Excerpts of Leon's diary were recently leaked to the media; they described his time spent with Maggie while filming in New York 16 years ago. Many of the outdoor scenes involved only Maggie, but Leon would wait for her after filming his parts. They would often meet after work.
Leon recalled one special dinner date with Maggie and her assistant at a restaurant. During dinner, he and Maggie had a great time chatting nonstop and they got to know each other very well. Afterwards, Leon wrote about his feelings towards her, "Maggie is so intelligent and cultural as she has watched many plays and musicals. We both have many of topics to talk about. I would get so excited during our discussion about our favorite musical, Phantom of the Opera."
While in New York, Maggie told Leon, "You must not have many friends, as a lot of people said bad things about you behind your back. They said you make people feel uncomfortable. Why are you not willing to communicate with others?" Leon shared the incident and credits Maggie for his subsequent personality change.
Not many people in the entertainment circle had wanted to have a close relationship with Leon in the past, as he kept himself very closeted. But suddenly Leon was seen dining with quite a few celebrities including Faye Wong (王菲) and Carina Lau (劉嘉玲). Leon was a changed man after filming with Maggie as he became more genuine and easy going. Her comments greatly influenced Leon to change his attitude towards people. He mentioned that Maggie had taught him to open up to others and he is now a much happier person.
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After many years of being apart and living separate lives, Leon and Maggie' s romance is reported to be rekindling. With Maggie's passion for music, Leon is reportedly planning to produce a song exclusively for her to sing and even offered to be her personal singing instructor. He is also planning to feature the song on his record company, A Music's online apps for the fans to download.
Leon is reportedly trying very hard to prove his love for Maggie as he even followed her to Shanghai to stay by her side while she was working. Recently the two were seen dating in Hong Kong and Shanghai, appearing to be in the middle of a hot romance.
Leon's Manager's Response
Regarding Leon and Maggie engaged in a sunset romance, Leon's manager responded, "Regarding such ridiculous news, we will respond." Leon's manager claimed that Leon greeted Maggie warmly at the UNICEF charity event, but hasnot remained in contact since.
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If it's true why not both are single now all the best to them. Hope Maggie could find her true love…
I agree and IF they both are single and all, why not? I hope they can both find their happiness…
Awww, now I rooted for them, dc too much about Leon, but I like Maggie, and it seem that they have been good and long time friend, and these kind of friendship is quite special, so do hope all goes well for both ^^ and papz keep out, don't destroy good relationship lol xD
Well, I guess Maggie must have gotten wind that most of us have been able to connect her to "Gweilo Loving Cougar".
Therefore, in this one stroke, she has immediately able to deflect all that speculation.
How do you know that for sure???
leon will soon be taken to her marijuana habits too or is he into that kind of stuffs already?
Honestly, we don't know for sure that it is Maggie… Just because it may sound like her does not mean it is her for sure.
@ HeTieShou must be maggie, if not who else? can you come up with a list?
actually, i hardly watch HK movies i am not into their series n not much for the movies. i did watch this movie and i thought it was really well done. they look good together, good if they are rekindling their romance haha..why not, both single and maggie should really stop dating all those foreigners since it seems not much luck in that dept for her haha lol..
"We will respond"? or "Will NOT respond"??!
everybody thinks differently, my opinion is better for leon to go back to his wife's side and maggie to return to her hubby if he and current wife not getting along, God mentioned that we should only get married once, the rest are adultery, who am i to go against nature and God
Going against God? – Yes (depending on which God you believe in)
Going against nature? – Huh?
Well said, it depends on which religion, doesn't it?
The Muslim religion allows 4 wives at the same time.
What the heck?? When did any God say that you cannot marry more than once. Boy, if that were the case, then probably 90% or more of couples have gone against "God".
Sorry but you need to think for yourself and don't rely on any religious beliefs too much or else you will become blind…
Luke 16:18 Jesus says:
Every one who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
Thanks for the info Kidd… Ok, no wonder those "catholics" always tell me that they cannot divorce, but yet I have seen some that do. If things just don't work out, you have to since what is the point of staying together if it isn't working out??? I feel that it should be a personal choice rather than allowing any religion to make the choice of whether you should divorce or not.
maybe you would like to view some youtube clips.. 23 minutes in hell (DVD full length video) by Bill Weise Testimony of Hell, 23 questions about hell, girl goes to hell and lives to tell and paint the tale what she saw, young ecuadorian girl back from the dead – angelica zambrano (heaven and hell)
they divorced for a reason. They can remarried whenever they want.
I am sure the bible is always right… It also says rape victims must marry the rapist —
If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her. (Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT)
What kind of crap is that?
You religious zealots need to be rounded up like a herd of cattle and be nailed to crosses.
Absolute fanatics, man.
Agree with you dd… I think religious fanatics regardless of any religion scare the heck out of me…
wow. it must be really interesting to see Leon & Maggie end up together happily ever after
better to stay as mutual friends, after parting become enermies, waste of time and energy, leon has a lot of girlfriends in line, may cheat on maggie (that's why shu qi left him), don't think maggie would like that, end up losing a friend
If L & M do eventually end up together, it would be like a plot from a romantic movie.
They made a full circle and have finally reconnect with each other. If this news is true, then I'm happy for them.
That's fate and sort of how it happened with Tony and Carina…I am also happy for them if it is true…
Leon likes them tall, skinny and young. Just go and Google all his "past" rumoured girlfriends, the fit the description.
maggie is not young, her biological clock is ticking
Yea, she was born in 1964 so it is too late to have kids..She is just way too old now…
Maybe an older Leon now appreciates mature and wiser older women and hopefully will not follow the path of so many HK actors: go to China and marry girls young enough to be their daughters.


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UW-Green Bay Prof. Jennifer Zapf is asking Green Bay-area alumni, University employees and returning adult students with young children to consider volunteering for a visit to the Language Learning Lab on campus. Zapf and her Human Development and psychology students are conducting a major study of toddlers' skill and language development.
Participation is easy, with only a single 30- to 45-minute session in which the parent will gently guide his or her child through a few simple play exercises. Participants (the children, anyway) get a free book or toy as a parting gift. Zapf and/or one of her student research assistants will observe.
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Match Preview: San Antonio Scorpions vs. Carolina RailHawks
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Match Preview: San Antonio Scorpions vs. Carolina RailHawks
Webcast: NASLLive.com
Looking for their first home victory in 2014, San Antonio Scorpions welcome Carolina RailHawks at Toyota Field in the NASL Match of the Week live on ESPN3. San Antonio is coming off a 1-0 loss last week against Tampa Bay Rowdies, while Carolina extended its home-unbeaten streak to 18 consecutive games by defeating New York Cosmos by the score of 1-0. Scorpions have won three of four encounters against RailHawks in San Antonio. However, the last time both teams faced-off, Carolina posted a 2-1 win at WakeMed Soccer Park on November 2, 2013. Brian Shriver scored twice for the RailHawks, while forward Sainey Touray had the only goal for Scorpions in the loss.
Last Five Games: SAS-L W W L CAR-T W L W
CAR-Akira Fitzgerald (Player of the Week-4); Akira Fitzgerald, Ty Shipalane (Team of the Week-4)
Stats leaders:
SAS-Goals – Eric Hassli, Greg Janicki, Shaun Saiko (1); Assists – Danny Barrera, Eric Hassli (1)
CAR-Goals – Zack Schilawski (3); Assists – Ty Shipalane (2)
CAR-Kupono Low, Connor Tobin
NASL Head-to-Head: (8 meetings): Scorpions 5 wins, 0 ties, 3 losses— 18 GF/10 GA (+8 GD)
At Scorpions: (4 meetings): Scorpions 3 wins, 0 ties, 1 loss— 13 GF/3 GA (+10 GD)
Last Fall Season: (2 meetings): RailHawks/Scorpions 1 win, 0 ties, 1 loss— 3 GF/3 GA (0 GD)
Last Meeting: November 2, 2013 at WakeMed Soccer Park — RailHawks 2-1 Scorpions
Coaches quotes:
"We are off to the best start in team history, yet we still have the potential for substantial growth as a team. Carolina won't make it easy on us as they have a strong attack and steady defense, but we believe in ourselves and what we are capable of achieving." – Scorpions coach Alen Marcina
"San Antonio is a talented team and we are looking forward to the match-up on Saturday night. It's going to be another tough weekend of competition. Coming off a very emotional victory last week we are going to have to be prepared and ready to play." – RailHawks coach Colin Clarke
Referee: Daniel Fitzgerald
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They are described as Belgian milk chocolate hearts filled with a rich hazelnut cream. The 100g box contains 587 calories and costs £3.00
The 8 little hearts are beautifully presented in a pink box with a window so that you can seem them all lined up in their silver wrappers. It's a good quality box made from nice sturdy cardboard, I really do think that decent packaging is important, especially on a box of chocolates!
The chocolates are a decent size, definitely 2 bites for me and the milk chocolate was very nice. Although the box said hazelnut cream I was still expecting something a bit more like a truffle, I suppose similar to the Cadbury Hazelnut Hearts but there were much better! The filling was light, creamy and rich. The texture was smooth with a delicious strong hazelnut flavour.
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You've been working in a very visual effects-heavy world for a long time, be it any kind of visual effects. What was the most awe-inspiring visual effects moment that you saw on the big screen in the past year?
I did see Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and I was blown away once again by the visual effects behind these ape characters. With Andy Serkis at the heart and soul of that main ape…he had the same effect on me in King Kong, and as Gollum in Lord of the Rings. I was actually watching an acting performance, not a drawing. I don't want to put quotes in Andy Serkis' mouth, but I could have sworn I heard him say before that to him, an acting performance is all the same. Whether they're putting makeup on him before the performance or after. In those circumstances, much like his performance in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, his makeup was applied afterwards. It was digital.
And would you agree with that statement?
Wholeheartedly. You have to find the heart and soul of the character, and how that character relates to the other characters in the film. You still have to do all of your "actor shmactor" work to create a character like that, from the actor's point of view. Whatever the look of that character is…take Meryl Streep, for instance. She has an Oscar nomination for her performance as Margaret Thatcher this year (in The Iron Lady). Fantastic performance. She went through hours of makeup to make her an old age—most of the movie was [told in] flashbacks to her younger days, but those later-life shots, with her being an old woman - she absolutely channeled the old Margaret Thatcher. So, she had to affect a physical performance that would be in the age of the woman. You have to find Margaret Thatcher's tics or quirks that make her Maggie. We did all this through makeup, and she affected her voice, she had a set of teeth in, everything. I saw no difference between that—where someone is wearing prosthetic makeup—and playing a creature from another world. With the same kind of dialogue, and great interaction with other characters, and physical affectation, and all that.


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Game Of Thrones Fans' Anger At Online Spoilers
Fans of the epic fantasy series Game Of Thrones have been left fuming after technology website Mashable tweeted and emailed spoilers minutes after major events in the latest episode.
The Sky Atlantic show, based on the books by George RR Martin, is famous for its significant and often grisly plot twists with fans going to great lengths to shield themselves from big surprises.
Episodes of season four are being aired on HBO on the US east coast hours ahead of many other parts of the world but Mashable is being criticised for tweeting a major development in the series as it happened to its almost four million Twitter followers.
Fans who steered clear of social media were not safe either. Users subscribing to Mashable's daily email were given a shock when subtitles and pictures contained important plot points too.
Jessica Cherok, technology writer for Digital Pivot, wrote about the coverage: "They should have known better. After all, this is a company that touts itself as being 'a leading source for news, information, and resources for the Connected Generation'.
"Perhaps Mashable was taking that 'leading source' part a little too seriously."
Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, technology journalist Adam Turner described his frustration: "There was no way for me to avoid the spoiler, it was right there smack in the middle of my [news feed]. Not even the word SPOILER in the headline."
Twitter users also expressed anger, one user tweeted: "Thanks for the spoiler. I am now removing you guys from my news feed."
The first episode of the new season gave HBO its biggest audience for seven years with an average of 6.6 million people watching.
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[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. –L.]
- More Weak Sauce from the "Weird News" Section
- As far as I can tell, we have here a very successful married couple who also happen to be business partners, who got a divorce and split up their combined shares in a company in which they are both very highly ranked (Steve is the Chairman of Wynn Resorts Ltd; Elaine was and remains a director of the company). It's PAINFULLY obvious that in this case they both worked hard to gain those assets, and are amicably splitting them up, as, I dunno, grownups might be expected to do.
But the whole thing is framed as a loss for HIM. HE'S paying her off, rather than receiving his share while she receives hers. If this article hadn't mentioned that Elaine Wynn was a director of Wynn Resorts and had been involved in its growth, her value to the company outlined and praised by her ex-husband, you'd have no idea from reading the surrounding text that she had anything to do with the business.
- Chip, Chip, Chip
- That's how I'd describe what the state legislature is doing to abortion access in Nebraska…
I don't see as much concern for screening women who decide not to terminate their pregnancies. We know that women can have physical and mental health issues after spontaneous miscarriage and childbirth–why no push for intensive screening and "warning" or recovery proclamations for those cases?
- Actual Headline
- In the New York Times: Unshaven Women: Free Spirits or Unkempt?
LOL! Those are the only two options? You have to be making a statement about how free spirited you are, or you're just nasty? Please, Times. Women are way more diverse than that. Some of us are just apathetic!
- I Write Letters
- …let me offer my services, so that you might base your opinion of trigger warnings on Actual Facts. […]
We provide trigger warnings because it's polite, because we don't want to be the asshole who triggered a survivor of sexual assault because of carelessness or laziness or ignorance.
We provide trigger warnings because we know that 1 out of every 6 women and 1 out of every 10 men is a survivor of sexual assault or attempted sexual assault, many of them having survived multiple sexual assaults, and just because the larger culture doesn't acknowledge the existence of this vast population of people doesn't mean we don't have to.
- Quote of the Day
- [Trigger warning for clergy abuse.]
"The [Connecticut State] General Assembly is considering passage of House Bill 5473, which will remove the 30-year statute of limitation for the filing of sexual abuse claims concerning minors. The passage of this legislation could potentially have a devastating financial effect on the Catholic dioceses of Connecticut, including parish assets and those of other Catholic service organizations."— Reverend Henry J. Mansell, Archbishop of Hartford, in a letter (pdf) to pastors across the state, urging them to oppose HB 5473.
This letter was not secretly obtained by some news organization. I found it via a link right on the front page of the Connecticut Catholic Public Affairs Conference website, after reading this story at CNN.
There's also a "pulpit announcement" (pdf) which explicitly states the following is to be read at mass: "This Bill threatens the property of our parish and other Catholic parishes, schools, charities, hospitals, and dioceses. It is critically important that you contact your state senator and state representative as soon as possible to express your opposition to this legislation." Parishioners are directed to seek further information on a bulletin insert.
Um. Yeah. Okay, so how is this organization still being allowed the tax exemption that is contingent on not engaging in direct political activity with regard to either a specific political candidate or in an attempt to directly influence the passage of specific legislation…? Are you paying attention, IRS?
- LADYPALOOZA PRESENTS: I Went To Your Concert and There Was Nothing Going On, or, A Meditation on Dude Music
- The number one thing I learned from being in a band and hanging out with a lot of guys who were Very Serious about music is that basically the worst thing that can happen to the music you love is for too many women to like it, or for one woman that you know to like it real hard. Music that is good is not music that women go crazy for. If women go crazy for it, it must suck, because women have terrible taste and like all that chick shit and like shave their legs and stuff but oh my god it's disgusting when they don't.
Did you get that? You are a shitty music-lover because you do not like all the same music that they do. But if you start liking it, then the music is shitty and they stop.
- Holistic Web Browsing: Trends Of The Future
- [On the need to design for future trends in internet usage:
1. The browser as operating system,
2. Functionally-limited mobile applications,
3. Web-enhanced devices,
4. Personalization.]
- Self-confidence tricks
- …here's some of the things I tell my students about how to survive in an environment that takes a lot of self confidence. Other suggestions are welcome in the comments!
[Section headers for remainder of article:
Remember that you're not alone
Cultivate your shield of arrogance
Find your cheerleading squad
Celebrate your accomplishments
Don't forget to be awesome]
- The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Knox, a staunch Protestant Reformer, opposed the Roman Catholic queens on religious grounds, and used them as examples to argue against female rule over men generally (but not about women in all roles or respects).
[Isn't it great how even the open advocacy of patriarchy provokes wikipedia experts to defend it, as if not wanting all women dead somehow exempts John "women should not rule" Knox from charges of sexism?
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NBC NATIONAL NEWS — A former manager at the IRS Cincinnati office at the center of the controversy over the targeting of conservative political organizations seeking tax-exempt status tells NBC News she doesn't think low-level employees acted on their own in flagging them for further scrutiny.
But she also said that in her time at the IRS she has never known politics or partisan motivations to play any role in the office's work, and doesn't think it did in this case.
Bonnie Esrig, a thirty-eight year IRS veteran, worked as an area manager in the Determinations Unit of the IRS' Exempt Organizations department in 2011 and 2012.
According to a federal audit and IRS Congressional testimony, some employees in the unit used inappropriate selection criteria to flag the applications of Tea Party and other conservative organizations for further scrutiny, according to an audit by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
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....breaking Manning's old record. Well done!
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....breaking Manning's old record. Well done!
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Wow! Good year, Paul; John, George, and Ringo would be proud! McCarron did the same, though...
Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.
― James Lee Burke, Pegasus Descending
Raj: Excuse me, I can't be drinking, I'm about to make an important scientific discovery here!
Howard:What? Galileo did his best work while drinking wine!
Raj: How do you know that?
Howard: He was Italian, it's a reasonable assumption.
Raj: Dude, can you even open your mouth without saying a cultural stereotype?
Howard: I'm sorry Galileo drank diet sprite!
Looks like we need to get Larry in here to edit this thing....
The existence of God isn't determined in the thoughts of man. God exists, no matter what man thinks.
"It cost a lot of money to look this cheap."-Dolly Parton.
"If you ever want to know how good your barbecue is start charging for it"-Myron Mixon
Man...and I thought McCartney's most impressive numbers were what he had to pay out in that divorce
"I didn't come to Alabama to win 10 games a year and be a contender. I came here to win championships. Conference championships and national championships. I love it here because that's just not what I want, but what this fanbase expects."
--Alabama Head Football Coach, Nick Saban
Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid. Albert Einstein
Incredible year. With another season he can really lock down some Bama passing records.
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In life, in order to avoid making, I hate to say it, stupid mistakes, you need to be careful whenever you see signs that things don't seem to be going as smooth as you'd hoped. What are these signs and what actions should you take?
The first sign is the odd feeling you get when your instincts are telling you that things seem to be going off the wrong direction. If you have a hunch that something bad is about to happen be careful. Be on the lookout and watch out for things that could go wrong and be more watchful of your actions. Before doing anything or making decisions, think about it thoroughly just like how you'd ponder before you make a move in a game of chess. Just like in chess, life employs the rule touch-move. That is, you can't undo your moves. The things you've done and your actions will forever stay done and made. There is no such thing as a rewind or a redo. Once you've done something, it will stay done no matter what you do.
The second sign is feedback from others. If other people think that what you are doing isn't the right thing, consider their opinion and stop for a while to think about it. Are their arguments valid? This doesn't mean that you should immediately say yes to whatever people have to say about your decisions. You just simply have to think about it and consider their opinion as another side of the coin. All you have to do is reflect on it and decide whether you should go along with their opinion or go ahead with yours. This will also give you the opportunity to look through the things you've done so far to check if you've made something that would lead you to the wrong road which your friends think you're heading to.
How do you check if what your friends are saying is true? What you need to look for is the reason behind why they're saying you should stop or what you're doing is wrong. And the only way to know why they have such opinions is to ask them. Let them explain it to you clearly. Listen, understand what they're saying, and try not to judge or make any personal reactions. Once they've done that, keep their explanation in your mind. Then, think about what you think about their side. After that, ask others about the side that your friend presented. You don't have to tell them who the opinion came from. By not telling them who thought of it, you will avoid getting biased opinions. Now, remember to clearly state that what you want to know is if your friend has a point or not. Once they've explained their side about your friend's opinion, you can start analyzing the validity of your friend's argument, taking in consideration the new information you gathered from others.
The third sign is doubt. This doubt is you being unsure of your decisions and how things are going. If you aren't too sure about your decision, inform others especially when they will be affected with your decisions. Ask for guidance and advice. Perhaps they have better ideas and they can aid you in making the right choice.
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So we have plenty of "LEO Encounter" threads on the forum, I figured I'll put a twist on it.
I was working my regular shift and responded to a minor traffic collision in the parking lot of one of our local big name out door box stores. One pickup had been backing into a parking stall, and in the stall right next to it a truck had been backing out. I asked the two drivers if any one was hurt, and then for license and insurance. Driver A handed me his license, insurance and CCW permit. He stated that he was carrying at the time. Driver A was probably 40-50 6' 220# or so, (im not so big...:-) )I asked him what he was carrying, and he stated that it was a 1911. After the other driver was issued his citation and Driver A got his paper work back I asked him what kind of 1911, he told me it was a Colt, but was extensively modified... I had to restrain myself from asking ot take a look at it! At any rate, I thanked him for letting me know he was carrying, and told him I wish more people took thier safety as seriously as he did. He said thanks and went on his way. He was even nice enough to tell me that it didn't look like my trunk was shut all the way (I have an old beat up patrol car... sometimes it takes a little extra force to close it!)
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