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Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish
1. In "Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish," what holiday is it?
(a) New Year's Eve.
(b) Christmas Day.
(c) Christmas Eve.
(d) New Year's Day.
2. In "Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish," Pat is chatting with a guy from the ______________.
(a) Scenario department.
(b) Writing department.
(c) Acting department.
(d) Costume department.
3. Who has finally arrived to Pat's office in "Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish"?
(a) The secretary.
(b) Pat's son.
(c) The actress.
(d) Gooddorf.
4. What is the name of the secretary in "Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish"?
(a) Helen.
(b) Giana.
(c) Mary.
(d) Ruthie.
5. What does Pat try to do to secure a better position in the studio in "Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish"?
(a) Write a great script.
(b) Work harder.
(c) Steal a script.
(d) Blackmail Gooddorf.
6. Where does Pat meet an executive in "Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish"?
(a) The executive's house.
(b) His house.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A bar.
7. What is the result of Pat's plan to secure a better position in the studio?
(a) He succeeds.
(b) He decides to not execute the plan.
(c) Someone else executes his plan.
(d) He fails.
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In loving memory of Dollie
Guest Book Entries are free and are posted after being reviewed for appropriate content.
08-01-2008 2:52 AM -- By: Joy, From: California
Richard, I just wanted you to know that your memorial to Dollie touched my heart...I can feel the love that is still going on between you and Dollie and always will. My *heart dog*, Angel, passed in 1999...she saw me through a chronic illness, our furry babies love us unconditionally and teach us the true meaning of love. May Dollie and Angel be running healthy and free at the Rainbow Bridge. Take care, be well and know that Dollie's spirit is always with you. Joy
07-31-2008 11:25 PM -- By: , From:
forever, dad.
07-31-2008 7:37 PM -- By: Luna, From:
Hi Dot, ... what's all the fuss about, oh, your daddy is dreaming about you again, no ... go ahead, I'll see you later. I Love you Dot, Luna
Dot's dad: I'm sending you lots of sweet lit Luna kisses...swak! Luna
07-31-2008 2:49 PM -- By: , From:
I love you Dot, Richard, Zebber & Snow"b". I really appreciate you all! Richard, thank you for helping my mommy when she cries. You are my hero.
07-31-2008 2:47 PM -- By: , From:
I love you Dot, Richard, Zebber & Snow"b". I am so glad you are mine and mommy's friends. What would we do without you? We really don't know.
07-31-2008 1:04 PM -- By: Melissa-Koochy's Momma, From: Rapid City, SD
Hi Richard...just checking in to see how you are doing. I am thinking of you and Dollie always. I know how much pain and hurt you have experienced. My days are still a struggle without Koochy, but knowing I will see her again keeps my chugging along. I want you to know Dollie is watching out over you and going to keep you safe.
07-31-2008 11:25 AM -- By: Cheri (Coco's Mommy), From:
Love and hugs, sweet Dollie gurl and Daddy!
07-31-2008 10:03 AM -- By: , From:
...i don't have to hear or see, i've got all the proof i need. there are more than angels watchin' over me, i believe, i believe...
07-31-2008 12:33 AM -- By: Leesa (Peaches Mom), From:
Hi Richard....thank you for thinking of me and Peaches. I think you are right, your sweet Dollie and my Peaches are waiting for us. They are so cute aren't they! Love, Leesa
07-31-2008 12:26 AM -- By: Leigh, From: Land of the loons MN
Hello little sweet angel Dollie girl. I cant help but well up in tears whenever I look into your sweet baby brown eyes and think of how you and LIttle Bit must be the best of freinds there and have so much in common. You both are made of sugar and spice and have hearts of gold.
Richard, Thank you also for stopping by and visiting with us, I means so very much to me. Yes, I really do know exactly what you mean. On the days I am really depressed about my baby, then I am also in worse physical health. I suffered a broken back 2 years ago that was not discovered until 4 months after the break and of course it healed wrong so I am in continual pain. I have not been able to sleep flat on my back in a bed for all this 2 year time , I sleep on a reclining chair where I am not fully laid back, I have to walk with a cane for I so easily strain my back out and then I am so laid up I can barely move at all. Also 6 years ago I had also suffered a severe ruptured disc in my neck which left me with permenant pain in arms and upper body. My surgeon told me he could not beleive that I had walked into his office for the spinal cord was so badly compressed I should of by all rights been paralized from the neck down. I praise our Lord each day that I am able to walk. I may be in constant pain but I am walking! Now with my back, I find it very difficult to even walk thru a grocery store without having to quit and get home in pain. That is why I got Lizzie, she was going to be a "theropy dog" for me and help me get moving again. Now I will be helping her instead. Isnt that the way it goes? I bonded with her immediately thus there is no way I can replace her with another. I dont like that idea, my babys are not some "object" that gets tossed away because they break. They are family to me. We are in for some hard times with poor lizzie now. Its really sad. But, somehow I will get thru it. I just hate the thought of helping her to Rainbow bridge so early in life. You know what I mean? God Bless you Richard, I just love your Little Dollie. She is so precious!
07-30-2008 11:56 PM -- By: , From:
i love you dollie.
07-30-2008 2:11 PM -- By: Tracie Lil Joe's Mommy, From:
Hi Richard and Sweet Dollie... As you well know the days seem to be so long with out our babies, but I believe with all my Heart that they are watching over us, until we are called home to be with them again forever.. I to never thought I could love someone so uncontional but my Lil Joe gave me everything, just as my Kooter and Sassie do to, but Joey was my Special Huckleberry he new me so well, I think better then my husband, pretty crazy as it seems, but he just knew when I needed him just to sit with me, or to nudge me and look at me as if to say, It's going to be Ok Mom, you can do it.. But I know you know what I mean, because your little Dollie was the same way.. I know our babies are best of friends in Heaven and are taking care of each other. So I truly want to Thank you for having a wonderful Gurl to be with my Lil Joe, Just as I am so so Thankful in having a GREAT Friend in you.. Sending you Hugs...
07-30-2008 1:33 PM -- By: Luna, From:
Hi Dollie gurl, I heard you singing last night, you were wonderful! What was that song? Did you daddy sing it to you? oh, it sounded just beautiful. What? Where are you going? Sure, I'd love to come ... thanks Dollie
07-30-2008 9:36 AM -- By: Toby, From:
MMMMUUUAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!! Love you!
07-29-2008 11:35 PM -- By: , From:
hey pretty gurl. dot, you know how excited i get when you get a new guestbook entry? well, imagine how it was today sugar. you went over fifty pages of entries...50 pages...i'm so proud of you dollie. people all over the world know you now and, hopefully, have been blessed a little bit by your life and our time together. you're amazing sweetheart, to say the least. don't forget to put in a special request for Our Father's blessings on little bit's mommy leigh and her sister lizzie. k? well, i'll close for the night sugar. try and come visit me if you can. if not, i know you'll always be with me, in my heart. i love you dollie. forever, daddy.
07-29-2008 8:59 PM -- By: Princess Greta, From:
07-29-2008 5:03 PM -- By: brenda and buster, From: united kingdom
Hello Dollie,
What a little sweetheart you are, i can see how you and your daddy were sole mates, the love you both share no one will every be able to take that away, you are inseperable,Buster tells me you are a daddy's girl and i can see
why, you are like a little Angel.
take care little sweetie love and big hugs to you and to your daddy x x
07-29-2008 3:20 PM -- By: Princess Greta, From:
07-29-2008 1:13 PM -- By: , From:
unforgetable, that's
what you are..;)
07-28-2008 10:43 PM -- By: , From:
i love you dollie,
so, so much.
goodnite sugar.
07-28-2008 9:38 PM -- By: Vikki Goedmakers, From: Jupiter, Florida
Richard ,
Stopping by again....entered the wrong ID number but wanted to make sure you knew it was me. Love to you and Dollie! Blessings, Vikki-Shadows Mom
07-28-2008 9:31 PM -- By: Vikki Goedmakers, From: Jupiter,Florida
you are an absolute sweetheart to think of me and the family....You know your note could not have come at a better time...I was having a difficult day today and was thinking of my precious Shadow and how much I missed him. So I cannot thank you enough for your kindness! This has been a true blessing to get to know others who loved their furry family as much as we did. I love looking at your precious Dollie....What a beautiful girl! I am sending out to you happy thoughts...of times had with your precious girl! May God bless you Richard with the kindness returned for that is what you have bestowed on many others. Blessings to you, Vikki-Shadows Mom
07-28-2008 7:20 PM -- By: Devonda, From: West Virginia
Richard,Thank you for visiting my Shadow's memorial and for your kind words.I think your Dollie is so cute.her memorial site is so beautiful that it brings me to tears.I can tell how much she meant to you.I still miss Shadow so much and wish that we had more years together but I am glad for the 10 years we did have.God Bless You and your beautiful Dollie.
07-28-2008 4:51 PM -- By: Shawn E, From: Las Vegas
Richard, thanks for visiting Marley's memorial and taking the time to write. The last 10-days have been really hard for me, but the messages from people like yourself have really helped me cope with losing my boy Marley. I'll make sure he knows to take it easy on Dollie when they are playing at Rainbow's Bridge!
07-28-2008 12:47 AM -- By: , From:
...alone again, naturally... i love you baby doll, daddy.
07-27-2008 10:11 PM -- By: Luna, From:
Hi Dollie,
We really had a good time last night, didn't we. Are you still thinking about your daddy, what? oh cause you're smiling ... I thought you were. He loves you so much lil' one and we all love him. Good night Dollie's daddy, we all love you! Luna
07-27-2008 3:25 PM -- By: Bethany, From: WI
Dear Richard, I had to look at your photos of your sweet girl again after reading your thoughtful message. She is such a little cutie and what a face! I hope you are having some smile-filled days knowing that Dollie and my Chester are playing up at the Bridge. You are such a loving and devoted daddy! Take good care! Bethany
07-27-2008 8:07 AM -- By: Denise, From: Springfield,MO
Hi Richard,
Thank you for stopping by to check on me... Yes, the tears are still there, but the smiles are reappearing....I love to visit your Baby Dollie's page because it helps me find courage with the poems that you have written. It is the Folks here at Critters that have really helped me. People like you...You will never know just how much I appreciate you all. Thank you for caring..
Best wishes,
07-27-2008 12:24 AM -- By: , From:
g'nite lil' best friend in the whole wide world. sing sweet lullabies to the angels tonight sugar. and praise Our Father with all of your little heart, because He's certainly worthy. k? i love you dollie, daddy..;)
07-26-2008 9:37 PM -- By: Luna, From:
Hi Dollie & her daddy,
Did you see that display of twinkle star last night, we must have lit up the sky ... Did you feel that breeze today? We're sending all our love out on a gentle breeze. Today my mom walked through Central Park without me for the first time, she looked up at the trees, she listened to a few musicians, and while she watched a few people rollerskating ... a gentle breeze went by I saw her touch her face, she looked up; I know she was thinking about me, I could feel it!
Dollie are you still thinking about those kisses, you're still smiling, let me explain ... last nite your daddy was dreaming, he wanted nothing more than to pick you up and smother you with lil' kisses ... so I did. YesI know yourface was all wet but my tail waswagging so fast you dried off pretty quicky. Dollie, you just stood there, you looked up at me and started wagging your tail .... was it cause you knew those kissses were sent by your daddy? I love you Dollie, you too Dollie's Daddy. Always, Luna & her mom
PS: u guys are just too funny sometimes! tee hee.
PS: Thank you for taking me under your wing, thank you for showing me you care, thank you for holding me when I'm scared, thank you for letting me know I am loved, and for being there when I need you ... remember i'm just a little girl, i'm sometimes i'm just scared... I love you all, Luna


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From the way they ran, jumped, climbed and kayaked through a military-style obstacle course, this year's batch of Century Tuna Superbods proved it takes more than a sexy figure to win the competition. One had to have the stamina, agility, presence of mind and, most importantly, discipline, to come out on top.
With the theme "Salute to Sexy," Century Tuna's flagship event returned to Boracay's white-sand shores after a three-year break on April 14 for the finale of Century Tuna Superbods 2012. The winners, now both half a million pesos richer, are models Monika Sta. Maria, 20, and John Spainhour, 24.
A former US Marine, Fil-Am Spainhour is no stranger to discipline when it comes to health, diet and exercise. "You have to find a routine (diet, fitness regimen, workout) and stay with it," he said. "There will be days when you think you're not gaining anything, but you have to be disciplined enough to look past that, because being fit is not going to come overnight." Spainhour is also an outdoor enthusiast, and enjoys scuba diving, target shooting and snowboarding.
Likewise, Sta. Maria knows how to keep her diet in check. "You can always indulge yourself, but you have to compensate for that," she said. "For example, if you have a cheat day, you just have to work out more, so it's balanced." She hits the gym whenever she can, and was an active volleyball player in college at De La Salle University.
"This is our fourth Superbods event. It's not annual because we're trying to make it different," said Century Tuna Group product manager Angela Gamboa. "It's not the usual swimsuit competition alone; people get more excited for it."
Spainhour and Sta. Maria bested 18 other finalists after weeks of rigorous workouts and training on public speaking and modeling. The competition then culminated in a beach clean-up, fun games and a beauty pageant at the beachfront of Astoria Boracay in Station 1.
The fun games, hosted by Magic 89.9 DJ Tony Toni, began mid-morning with a "mad dash." Finalists, divided into 10 teams of two, ran on the beach from Astoria to Plazoleta in Station 2, where they had to complete an obstacle course by hopping from one rubber tire to another, jumping over three-foot hurdles, scaling and climbing over a seven-foot wall.
The contestants then had time to catch their breath as they alternated pumping air into six beach balls. Some teams were so intense that they even broke their air pumps, leaving them with no choice but to manually blow air into the beach balls.
After completing that task, the teams kayaked around 20 feet out into the sea to retrieve a bag containing a tent. Once back on shore, each pair had to pitch their tent before putting up their respective flags, which had their team's color.
The Red Team's angel-faced 20-year-old Azel Shane Smith and 28-year-old June Macasaet were ahead of the pack during the fun games, but, at the last minute, were overtaken by Spainhour and Davaoeño Mary Claire Dodo, 19, of the Brown Team.
"We didn't know they (Red Team) were leading," said Dodo. "Our strategy was really to have constant and effective communication. John (Spainhour) doesn't know Tagalog, so even if I was having a nosebleed talking in English, I still went for it."
Smith and Macasaet came in second at the games. Coincidentally, the pair also won second place overall, winning P20,000 each.
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One could hardly pass through Astoria's beachfront during the night's beauty pageant and awarding, as the crowd gathered not just to see who would win, but to catch a glimpse of Century Tuna celebrity endorsers Derek Ramsay and Anne Curtis. Other celebrities at the event were Aljur Abrenica, Solenn Heusaff and Georgina Wilson.
Ramsay opened the show, standing center stage and shirtless ("Were you able to count his 22 abs?" one guest quipped) with the female finalists. Curtis, in a black bikini under a long, sheer black cover-up, soon called on the male contestants, commanding them to drop on their hands and knees, "and give me 20!"
Judges were fashion designers Rajo Laurel and Charina Sarte (whose swimsuits and resort wear were modeled by the finalists); photographer Marc Nicdao; Century Canning Corp. vice president and general manager Greg Banzon; PC&V Communications president and chief creative officer Ariel Comia; Cosmopolitan editor in chief Myrza Sison; TV host Tim Yap; and fashion blogger Jenni Epperson.
Finalists were judged according to the following criteria: beauty and body, 50 percent; healthy mind (fun games and question and answer portion), 50 percent.
Undoubtedly one of the hardest questions was thrown at Spainhour by Nicdao: "What do you think is the most important invention?"
To which Spainhour concisely answered: "The wheel. I think it's the most symbolic of all inventions."
Arguably the best answer of the night came from male second runner-up JC Rezabek, 21, who responded to Charina Sarte's question on what having a healthy mind really means: "It means constantly educating ourselves. We have to pursue education throughout our lives." Female second runner-up was 22-year-old model Janelle Olafson. They each won P10,000.
Other awards handed out that night were Fierce Photo (Spainhour and Janet Emmrich, 23, University of San Carlos Cebu student); Best in Resort Wear (Sta. Maria and National University student AJ Hanson, 20); and People's Choice (Emmrich and 25-year-old entrepreneur JP Yap).
While it was the end for the other finalists, Sta. Maria and Spainhour are gearing up for a new kind of challenge as Century Tuna's newest ambassadors. "I have to step up my game; I'm not used to being in the public eye," said Spainhour. "I'm going to have to learn how to speak to the press, and just be a figure people can look up to."
Added Sta. Maria, who said she will be using her cash winnings to help out with her family's finances: "There's obviously a lot of pressure. We both are going to do our best to give justice to the award they gave us."
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Hinduism in West Bengal
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Hinduism is the largest religious tradition in the Indian state of West Bengal (Paschimbanga) with 72.5% of the population identifying themselves as Hindus (as of 2001).[2] The Hindus in West Bengal mostly belong to the Vaishnavite and Shakta denominations.
Hinduism arrived to the region of Bengal before the 6th century BC and by the 3rd century, along with Buddhism and Jainism, it began to dominate over the primitive religious groups of the natives.[3] Gaur, the first sovereign Hindu kingdom in Bengal with its capital in Karnasubarna in modern-day Murshidabad district, was set up by Shashanka, a Shaivaite king who ruled approximately between 600 AD and 625 AD. The modern structure of Bengali Hindu society was developed during the rule of the Sena dynasty in the 12th century AD. Islam arrived in Bengal in the 13th century and subsequently conquered the region. But while the Muslim saints and rulars successfully spread Islam and established it as the major religion of eastern parts of Bengal (now Bangladesh), they fail do the same in the western parts because of the strong base of Vaishnavism and folk Hinduism in the Rarh and the Gangetic regions of West Bengal where Hinduism remained the major religious group till today. West Bengal has been home to several famous religious teachers, including Sri Chaitanya, Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Paramahansa Yogananda who helped to abolish evil practices like sati, dowry, and caste-based discrimination or untouchability that crept into the Hindu society during the Middle Ages.
The language of the Hindus in West Bengal is Bengali. A large number of Hindu religious texts like biographies of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Mangal-kavyas, Bratakathas and Panchalis as well as dharmik writings of modern Bengali philosophers and saints have been produced in Bengali for many centuries.
Kali and Chandi are the most worshipped Hindu goddesses in West Bengal. Worship of Durga, Shiva, Krishna and other gods and goddesses is also common. Durga Puja is the most important festivals of the Hindus in West Bengal as well as the most significant festival of the state in general. Other major festivals include Kali Puja, Dolyatra, Poila Baishakh, Ratha-Yatra, Saraswati Puja, Poush Parban etc.
Hindus in Pachimbanga are noted for their fondness for observing festivals, hence the Bengali proverb Baro Mase Tero Parbon (বারো মাসে তেরো পার্বণ) – (they observe) thirteen festivals in twelve months. The Bengali year begins with Poila Boishakh ceremony on 14th or 15 April. Traditional business establishment commence their fiscal year on this day, with the worship of Lakshmi and Ganesha and inauguration of the Hal Khata (the account books of the Bengali merchants). People dress in ethnic wear and enjoy ethnic food. Poila Baishakh is followed by Rabindra Jayanti or the Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore which is celebrated as one of the major festivals of the state, Rathyatra and Janmashtami before the commencement of the autumnal festival season which starts with Biswakarma Puja on the last day of Bengali month of Bhadra. The five-day Durga Puja is the biggest Hindu festival in Paschimbanga. Durga Puja is followed by Kojagari Lakshmi Puja, Kali Puja, Bhai Phonta and Jagaddhatri Puja. The winter solstice is celebrated a Paush Sankranti in mid January, followed by Netaji Jayanti or the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Saraswati Puja. The spring is celebrated in the form of Dolyatra. The year ends with Charak Puja and Gajan.
Temple architecture in Paschimbanga architecture has assumed a unique identity and evolved into the Bengali terra cotta temple architecture. Due to lack of suitable stone in the alluvial Gangetic delta, the temple makers had to resort to other materials instead of stone. This gave rise to using terra cotta as a medium for temple construction. Terra-cotta exteriors with rich carvings are a unique feature of Bengali temples. The town of Vishnupur in West Bengal is renowned for this type of architecture.
Usually a part of the intended total motif was carved by hand on one side of a brick and then baked. While under construction, these carved bricks were arranged to make up the entire motif.
The Bengali style of temple is not luxurious. Rather, most are modeled on simple thatched-roof earthen huts used as dwellings by commoners. This can be attributed to the popularity of bhakti cults which taught people to view gods as close to themselves. Thus, various styles like do-chala, char-chala, and aat-chala sprang up. However, there is also a popular style of building known as Navaratna (nine-towered) or Pancharatna (five-towered) in Bengal which is more luxurious than the Chala buildings. A typical example of Navaratna style is the Dakshineswar Kali Temple.
Sri Ramakrishna Temple, Belur Math[edit]
The Ramakrishna temple at the Belur Math is designed to "celebrate the diversity of Indian Religions"[4] and resembles a temple, a mosque, a church if seen from different positions.[5][6][7] The design of the temple was envisioned by Swami Vivekananda and the architect was Swami Vijnanananda, a direct monastic disciple of Ramakrishna. Sri Ramakrishna Temple was consecrated on 14 January, the Makar Sankranti Day in 1938. The architectural style and symbolism from a number of religions have been incorporated into the design of the temple at Belur Math, to convey the "universal faith" in which the movement believes.[8][9] The temple is considered as a prime example of the importance of "material dimension" of religion.[8] The main entrance of the temple, has a facade influenced by Buddhist style. The structure which rises over the entrance is modelled on the Hindu temples of South India with their lofty towers. The windows and balconies inside the temple draw upon the Rajput (Hindu) and Mughal (Islamic) style of north India. The central dome is derived from European architecture of the Renaissance period. The ground plan is in the shape of Christian cross.[4][8]
Hindu population by district[edit]
|Percentage (%)
|Cooch Behar
|Purba & Paschim Medinipur
|North 24 Parganas
|Uttar Dinajpur
|South 24 Parganas
|Dakshin Dinajpur
Economies and Business[edit]
The West Bengali Hindus have their mainstay in trade and business. The sub-categories like Aguris, etc., specialise in trade and industry. This ethnic minority has been home to major industrialists worldwide. Large number of West Bengali Hindus have settled outside India.
The literacy level of West Bengali Hindus in Bengal and other parts of the world is very high.
Noted West Bengali Hindu industrialists include:
- Raja Nabakrishna Deb of Shovabazar
- Gouri Sen of lagey taka debey Gouri Sen fame
- Gourmohan Dutta of GD Pharmaceuticals-manufacturers of South Asia 1st antiseptic cream "BOROLINE"
- Hari Ghosh of Hari Ghosher fame
- Banamali Sarkar
- Gobindram Mitter
- Prasanna Coomar Tagore
- Ramanath Tagore
- Prince Dwarkanath Tagore
- Rajen Mookerjee
- Sir Biren Mookerjee
- Rajat Kumar Gupta
- Purnendu Chatterjee of The Chatterjee Group & Haldia Petrochemicals
- Prashant Mukherjee
- Sadhan Dutt
- Amar Gopal Bose of Bose Corporation
See also[edit]
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Data on Religion". Census of India (2001). Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Archived from the original on August 12, 2007. Retrieved August 26, 2006.
- ^ Sen, Sukumar (1999). "Dharme" [The Religion]. Banga-Bhumika [An Introduction to the History of Bengal] (in Bengali) (1st ed.). Kolkata: Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi. pp. 104–05. ISBN 81-86908-97-8.
- ^ a b Dutta(2003) p.104
- ^ Pilgrimage Centers of India. p. 167.
- ^ "Travel: Kolkata Surprise". MySinchew. 2008-10-18. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
- ^ Simmons, Graham (December 18, 2005). "Soul places of India". The Sunday Morning Herald. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
The Ramakrishna Mission, at Belur Math in Calcutta, is known for its charitable works and outstanding temple - Hindu, Saracen and Arabic design on a foundation of a Christian cross.
- ^ a b c Open University Course Team. Introduction to the Humanities. p. 75.
- ^ Pilgrimage Centers of India. p. 167.
This symbolises the main message of the master that all religions and men are essentially one and united.
- ^ O'Malley, L.S.S., ICS, Bankura, Bengal District Gazetteers, pp. 48-52, 1995 reprint, Government of West Bengal
- ^ Bardhaman district data
- ^ Islam, Sheikh, Birbhumer Karmasansthane Matsya, Pranisampad Ebong Paschim Banga Sankhyalaghu Unnayan O Bityanigam, Paschim Banga, Birbhum Special Issue, p. 178
- ^ Birbhum district data
- ^ Cooch Behar district data
- ^ Darjeeling district data
- ^ Medinipur district data
- ^ Hooghly district data
- ^ Howrah district data
- ^ Jalpaiguri district data
- ^ Kolkata district data
- ^ Malda district data
- ^ Murshidabad district data
- ^ Nadia district data
- ^ North 24 Parganas district data
- ^ Uttar Dinajpur district data
- ^ Purulia district data
- ^ South 24 Parganas district data
- ^ Dakshin Dinajpur district data


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Experts: Health risks higher from packaged greens
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The outbreak of a stomach bug two states have linked to bagged salad came as little surprise to food safety experts, who say the process of harvesting, washing and packaging leafy greens provides numerous opportunities for contamination.
Although nutritionists stress the chances of getting sick from vegetables are low compared to the dangers of a diet without them, packaged salads heighten the risk because leaves from several batches often are mixed together.
"The washing and comingling of different batches of lettuce means a hazard that may appear in one field can show up in lots of bags of lettuce because of the common bath," said Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of the food safety program for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer health advocacy organization based in Washington.
Officials in Iowa and Nebraska say a packaged salad mix containing iceberg and romaine lettuce, carrots and red cabbage was infected with cyclospora, a parasite blamed for sickening 397 people in 16 states. It's not clear whether the produce also was to blame for the outbreak in the other states.
Last year the Food and Drug Administration issued more than 20 recalls for packaged salads, romaine lettuce or spinach. Most were due to tests finding listeria or E. coli bacteria, both of which can cause serious illness.
However, of the 693 food product recalls between October 2011 and September 2012 -- the last available year of records -- only about 15 pertained to bagged lettuce or salads, according to FDA data.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that one in six Americans -- 48 million people -- get sick from foodborne illnesses each year. About 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die.
In March the CDC released a study that looked at more than 4,500 food-related outbreaks between 1998 and 2008 and found more illnesses attributed to leafy vegetables -- 22 percent -- than to any other food. The agency didn't say what percentage of those was packaged.
Dr. Robert Tauxe, the CDC's deputy director of foodborne, waterborne and environmental diseases, said the industry that cuts and bags fresh produce has made significant improvements in its processes since 2006. An outbreak that year tied to E. coli-contaminated spinach caused three deaths and sickened 205 people.
"A lot has been done so that actually the bagged lettuce-type produce is a good deal safer now that it was five years ago," he said.
Michael Doyle, director of the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety, said lettuce is susceptible to contamination because it grows close to the ground and is more susceptible to microbial contamination. Water used for irrigation can be contaminated, and there could be issues with workers lacking good hygienic practices, he said.
"There are a lot of inherent issues and that's why we're seeing so many recalls and problems," Doyle said. "I don't eat bagged salads if I can avoid them. I haven't for a long time because I know how they're processed and there's no true kill step in that process that will kill harmful bacteria in the lettuce."
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WHITE HALL, Ark. – A simple message in white paint adorned the last VX nerve-agent land mine that rolled through a conveyor belt on its way to incineration at the Pine Bluff Arsenal – "LONG TIME COMING."
With its destruction, central Arkansas became free from the danger posed by deadly nerve agents for the first time since the 1960s, when the weapons arrived at what was once the Army's second largest stockpile in the nation, some 140 miles southwest of Memphis.
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"Those weapons have been eliminated and they are gone," said Mark Greer, project manager for the Army's disposal effort. "It's history. Literally, they are history."
The VX land mines, designed to explode once triggered by vehicles, contained the nerve agent in liquid form. VX interferes with the body's nervous system, causing involuntary muscle spasms, convulsions and ultimately death through asphyxiation.
The Pine Bluff Arsenal, located about 35 miles southeast of Little Rock, once held more than 9,000 of the nerve-agent-laced land mines. Friday, the last land mine rolled through the automated conveyor run at the arsenal by San Francisco-based URS Corp., the contractor hired by the Army to destroy the stockpile.
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The Pine Bluff Arsenal joins the Army's Johnston Atoll arsenal, located 800 miles southwest of Hawaii, and its Deseret Chemical Depot in Utah in totally destroying its VX stock, Greer said.
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Though mustard gas remains at the arsenal, it's the first time the depot has been free from "weaponized" nerve agents – those held in rockets and mines. The remaining mustard gas sits in large tanks, meaning the risk likely is contained within the arsenal's 13,000 acres, said Steve Lowrey, an executive with the Pine Bluff Chemical Activity office.
That's a change for an arsenal that once stored 3,850 tons of chemical weapons – 12 percent of the Army's entire stockpile. For years, the military's Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program had planned evacuation routes for surrounding counties.
Lowrey said officials will redraw those evacuation maps and orders in concert with state emergency management officials as the arsenal's greatest threats have been destroyed. A spokeswoman for the state Department of Emergency Management said Monday she did not know how large the new radius of evacuation from the arsenal would be.
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August 20, 2007 - By Jimmy Bryght: Have you ever been sitting on your couch, easy chair or, if you're a bachelor, milk carton with a six-month old Sunday paper on it so you don't get honeycomb butt, and been watching a favorite TV show and witness the same commercial ten damn times during the viewing? Sure, the advertisement may have been entertaining at first but after seeing it so many times don't you wish it would just go away?
I feel the same way about certain boxers. There they are, the same names, loss after loss, yet they still manifest themselves on Pay-Per-View and won't go away no matter how many times you shut your eyes and make a wish. Feel the same? Sure, you do. Here's my adjective-laden laundry list of complaints:
John Ruiz: besides the "Quiet Man" himself, I don't believe there is anyone on the face of the earth who would disagree with me here. Did anyone actually see the WBA title eliminator between Ruiz and Ruslan Chagaev? Watching a Ruiz fight is like watching paint dry. I'd have more fun matching socks or watching insects mate. The stinking cloud that is John Ruiz has permeated the boxing world for far too long. He is the proverbial turd that won't flush. Go away, John!
Oliver McCall: besides being one of my heroes for exposing the chin of overrated Lennox Lewis in 1994, this guy has been a bit of an unhealed wound. Sure, he's active (11 fights in the last three years), but he's more of a novelty than a contender at this point. The only reason he's still around is because the heavyweight division is so wide open. His opponents over the last few years have been a cocophany of clubbers who are between terrible to exceedingly average in overall ability. Where does his ranking come from? The boring 12-round snorefest against Sinan Samil Sam? The WBC has him ranked number three! What the hell? Hit the bricks, Oliver!
Evander Holyfield: just how much gas does this guy have left in his tank? He's already a future Hall-of-Famer and has bested Muhammad Ali's record of heavyweight title wins. What more does he have to prove to himself? Somehow, he's ranked 11th by the WBO, who is sanctioning a title bout between Evander and champion Sultan Ibragimov to be held on October 13 in Russia. Will anyone actually see it? At 44 years old, Holyfield is risking much more than his legacy or his dream. I'm worried about his health. See ya, Evander!
Howard Eastman: after getting lit up by Bernard Hopkins, Arthur Abraham and Edison Miranda in three consecutive losses in the U.S., Eastman began boxing primarily in England and has peeled off two straight wins and now holds the British Commonwealth middleweight title which, combined with a quid, will get you bus fare from Picadilly Circus to Victoria Grove. He's never really beaten anyone of any honest talent anyway and his bleached-blonde beard pisses me off. Get lost, Howard!
Fernando Vargas: He hasn't been the same since Felix Trinidad pounded him to a pulp in 2000 and he never recovered psychologically from the beating he took from Oscar De La Hoya two years later. His two knockout losses to Shane Mosley last year has solidified his hold on the ratings basement. In a move motivated by money, Vargas will meet "El Matador" Ricardo Mayorga in the Battle of Desperation on September 8. Hopefully, Vargas will lose and retire and do us all a favor. Buh bye, Fernando!
Verno Phillips: perhaps I should shut up about this guy, but after seeing him get beat from pillar to post by an ancient Ike Quartey in 2005, I was done with him. His last three wins have been against journeymen and were still unimpressive. His power seems to be gone as well. He actually has an alphabet belt, but it's the TAB (Trans-America Boxing) middleweight title. He's come along way, hasn't he? Time to hang up the gloves, Verno!
Marco Antonio Barrera: this will probably prove to be an unpopular addidtion to this list of has-beens, but I don't care. Barrera has had it. I know that he's a warrior in the mold of Roberto Duran but Duran didn't know when to quit, either. He's fought 72 mind-boggling rounds since losing in a blowout to the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, Manny Pacquiao. Those rounds have taken a toll on him. His two epic battles with Rocky Juarez alone should have been enough to punch his ticket into retirement. His most recent loss (a 12-round beating at the hands of Juan Manuel Marquez) has not yet convinced him that he should step down. Instead, he's going to get knocked down and probably out of boxing altogether when he faces Pacquiao again on October 6. For some reason, Barrera thinks that going out on a stretcher would be more memorable than going out with a win. It was a good dance for him, but the party is over. There's the door, Marco!
Roy Jones, Jr.: the man I love to hate. The self-proclaimed "jewel" of the light-heavyweight division hasn't really done anything impressive since blasting Montell Griffin in 1997. Jones' storied career has been mired by overrated opponents and low-class mandatories since that time. He hasn't cared to face anyone of note until agreeing to fight Antonio Tarver for the first time in 2003. He got a gift decision on that night and the rematch and subsequent rubber match proved that Jones' time was over. Tarver ate his lunch and Glen Johnson dined on the leftovers. Jones' last two fights were unimpressive 12-round yawners against Prince Badi Ajamu and Anthony Hanshaw, the latter for the fringe IBC trinket. Roy loves fringe belts - they make him feel important. Anyway, Jones has a fight against Tito Trinidad scheduled for January 26, 2008. Roy is unfamiliar with having to face real opponents, so this fight means more to him than it does for the rest of us. Will he run or will he fight? This could be it for him so he'd better make it count. I'll actually buy the Jones-Trinidad fight but after that...beat it, Roy!
Okay, that's all for now. These are the fighters that have worn out their respective welcome. Some have had awesome careers (Holyfield, Barrera) and others have been overrated from the start (Eastman, Vargas, Jones). Some never had much at all (Ruiz). If I never saw them fight again, it would be too damn soon. So, I guess this article will stir the pot of public opinion so it's a good thing that I don't read Comments, eh?
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Pregnant with number 2 question about number 1
I was going to ask the same thing. My DD#1 will be 23months when the 2nd is due. We are defintely planning bassinet at first hoping her big sister can transition shortly after!
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5 angels, DD#1 2/2012, DD#2 3/2014, expecting our BOY11/2015!
Every kid is different, but I know that with my first, he was in a bassinet in our room for almost 3 months. So she will be closer to 2 and might like the idea of a new bed for her & giving her crib to the baby
My DD was 20 months when her sister was born ( I love the gap now, they are best mates!)
She stayed in the cot until Kate was old enough to move from the moses basket. It gave us a little more time :)
As a dislexic, agnostic insomniac I often find myself lying awake at night wondering if there really is a DOG!!
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Congrats! I just found out I am pregnant and my little one will be 20 months as well when the second is born. We have been thinking the same thing because we don't want to buy another crib to use for a short time. I'm hoping by 2 my LO will be ready for a toddler bed and we can transition everyone. I just hate that the baby will have to sleep in a pack n play or bassinet until that time, but I guess you do what you have to. :)
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My boys are 22 months apart, NB was in a bassinett for 3 months then we switched my oldest to the toddler bed, so we could use the convertible crib!the first couple of days he was excited to have that extra freedom and kept hopping out the bed LOL but after a week he was good to go :) good luck
Mommy to Samuel Jr (5years) and Elijah(3years)
Married to my hubby for almost 11 years :)
My first two are 17 months apart. We did not buy a second crib. The baby stayed in our room for the first almost 6 months, I think. (I don't even remember exactly now!) Our older one made the transition to the toddler bed okay, bedtime took a little longer, though. You will likely have to deal with a toddler wandering into your bedroom in the middle of the night at that point though ;)
Also, remember that cribs and toddler beds are not your only options. I actually was not planning on using a toddler bed, but it was given as a gift without us asking for it. I was planning to use a futon mattress on the floor. Saves you the cost of the toddler bed, saves you worrying about the toddler falling off the bed, and is actually recommended by several sources (e.g., google Montessori bedroom).
Around the time my boys were 18mo. & 3yo, they started wanting to sleep close to eachother, so for awhile they chose to sleep on the floor next to each other in their sleeping bags. So cute! Now, at 3 & 4 yo, they share the bottom bunk (double bed) of their bunk bed.


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Community Counseling Services (CCS) has been a part of Clay County's history for as long as some can remember, but this year marks a special milestone: CCS is celebrating 40 years of service.
The organization commemorated the event with a special luncheon at Old Waverly Country Club Wednesday in West Point, with representatives from each of its seven-county coverage area coming to expand briefly on services provided, financial figures and a glimpse into the future.
The West Point Board of Selectmen adopted a resolution which would allow the city to commit matching funds for a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) at its meeting Tuesday.
The city is applying for a $300,000 CDBG to go toward a $600,000 sewer project, which will service two census blocks north of Main Street in West Point. One block extends roughly from Eshman Avenue to Fifth Street and the other from Cottrell Street to Old White Road.
Oak Hill Academy Elementary School Principal Jane Rives' time at OHA is drawing to a close after 48 years, and her friends, former students and coworkers prepared a surprise for her on Tuesday.
Jewelry designer Ronaldo Needham, of Kentucky and the Indiana-based Ronaldo Designer Jewelry, visited OHA to present Rives with a handcrafted bracelet.
"It's not often I have the pleasure of meeting a person who's loved and taken care of children for 48 years," Needham said, as he presented Rives with one of his Guardian Angel bracelets.
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The Clay County Health Department is scaling back operations to accommodate patient load.
Previously open Monday through Friday, the department will now only operate on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. The health department, located at 138 S. Division St., has begun closing on Wednesdays.
Hours of operation will remain 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with an hour break from noon to 1 p.m.
The new schedule took effect Monday.
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The Golden Triangle Region has an abundance of economic development potential, but the communities that comprise the region must take certain steps to create and maintain a skilled labor force to ensure that potential does not go to waste.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a federal aid program administered under the Food and Nutrition Service of the United States Department of Agriculture to provide food-purchasing assistance to low-or-no-income residents in the country.
The number of Clay County residents assisted by SNAP has steadily increased over the past decade, according to a report from the Mississippi Department of Human Services.
The Clay County branch of the NAACP will host its Freedom Fund and Awards Banquet at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Ministerial Institute and College on East Churchill Road in West Point.
The banquet will be youth-oriented, and the Clay County NAACP has declared 2014 as the "Year For Our Youth."
West Point School District School-Community Liaison Robert Smith said he has been the coordinator for the banquet for about 15 years, and this is the first time it's had a youth theme.
West Point residents are continuing to offer their support to Louisville tornado victims.
Members of the First United Methodist Church youth group are collecting bottled water for Louisville residents through Saturday. FUMC office manager Julie Gray said the youth group will accept cases, jugs or gallons of bottled water through Friday at the Bryan Youth Center of the church at 306 Westbrook St. in West Point. The initiative will culminate with a mass collection day from 9-11 a.m. Saturday in the Sunflower parking lot on Main Street.
East Mississippi Community College is running day and night classes to prepare residents in the region to work at the new Yokohama Tire plant.
Yokohama is going to need 500 employees for the new tire plant, for which the state is responsible to provide as per a memorandum of understanding with the company. Should that agreement not be honored, the state will be held to an undisclosed monetary penalty.
Mississippi has charged EMCC to administer all the plant's pre-employment training.
MAYHEW — The Golden Triangle Development LINK will officially unveil the findings of an extensive regional economic development study at 9 a.m. today at East Mississippi Community College.


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National Park Mystery Photo 8: Well, It's Kinda Oval
With nearly 400 units, the National Park System harbors some incredible wonders. Some are easy to recognize, such as Old Faithful, the Everglades, and the Tetons. But every now and again you come across something that you stare at and scratch your head over.
Such as the subject of this week's Mystery Photo. Is it man-made? Is it natural? Is it organic? What was it used for? Is it one of a kind? Is it bigger than a bread box? And in which unit of the National Park System might you find it?
Tell us the answer.
Is it a volcano bomb or Pele's tear from Volcanoes N.P. in Hawaii?
No fair submitting multiple answers, Terry.
Ok, I'll go with Pele's Tear from Volcanos NP.
dinosaur dung. dinosaur national monument.
Nope and nope -- it's not Pele's tear or dinosaur dung.
It is dinosaur dung!
Dinosaur egg, Dinosaur National Monument
It's not a dinosaur egg.
Well, Dr Watson, there are multiple questions...I'll go with natural, looks like a basalt lava bomb with a
fracture pattern from cooling, and probably geologically young. The narrow depth of field suggests it's
smaller than a breadbox. The blurred background looks drier than Hawaii or the Cascades. My guess is
Craters of the Moon.
Right on the mark, Tahoma, and I'm impressed. Are you sure you weren't there when this photo was taken?
it's definitely a lava bomb. maybe from Sunset Crater National Monument?
Terry: Why did you give up on "volcanic bomb"? I only nixed your second guess (Pele's tear), not the first one. Hope you're not too angry with us. ;o)
Geez, I didn't even get a chance. Great (well educated) guess tahoma. Well done. Yes, the background (as low depth-of-field as it is) was not Lassen Volcanic NP.
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Obviously we're going to have to dig a little deeper to find images that are more challenging. Come back tomorrow to learn about some of the background of this particular type of bomb.
Thunder egg!
No, not angry at all. I'm afraid I wouldn't have guessed the right park anyway. Congrats to tehoma.
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Is that a silver sword in the background? Haleakala?


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MALAYSIAN OPEN BADMINTON CHAMPIONSHIPSPUTRA STADIUM, BUKIT JALIL (Jan 15-20)
IT'S a shoo-in for Lee Chong Wei to win his record ninth men's singles title at the Maybank Malaysian Open, which begins at the Putra Stadium in Bukit Jalil today.
But what the Malaysian fans want is more than one title on home turf. They hope to see men's doubles stars Koo Kien Keat-Tan Boon Heong and mixed doubles pair Chan Peng Soon-Goh Liu Ying make it a glorious week for the nation.
Malaysia have been starved of a Super Series success in the men's doubles for the past two years. The last triumph came through Kien Keat-Boon Heong at the Malaysian Open in 2010.
National doubles chief coach Tan Kim Her believes it is time for Kien Keat-Boon Heong to win back the fans.
"It will certainly boost the morale of the other doubles players if Kien Keat-Boon Heong can win the title again. It will also inspire the back-up pairs to follow in their footsteps and show that the doubles department can also produce results," said Kim Her.
"Keat Keat-Boon Heong have been showing improvements of late. All they need is confidence to pull off the task. The competition is still an open affair although pairs from South Korea and Denmark have achieved better results," added Kim Her.
Kien Keat-Boon Heong, the world No. 2, will take on Indonesians Yonathan Suryatama Dasuki-Hendra Gunawan in the first round. They are in the same quarter with compatriots Lim Khim Wah-Goh V Shem and Hoon Thien How-Tan Wee Kiong.
Kien Keat-Boon Heong's main challengers for the title, however, will be reigning Korean Open champions Lee Yong-dae-Ko Sung-hyun in the top half of the draw.
"Playing against their team-mates will be tricky but if Kien Keat-Boon Heong make it, they may face Yong-dae-Sung-hyun in the semi-finals. This will be a perfect chance to redeem themselves," said Kim Her.
In the mixed doubles, Peng Soon-Liu Ying are the top seeds in the absence of the world No. 1 Xu Chen-Ma Jin of China and world No. 2 Ahmad Tantowi-Lilyana Natsir of Indonesia.
But the Malaysians still have several strong opponents to be wary like second seeds Joachim Fischer Nielsen-Christinna Pedersen of Denmark and China's Qiu Zihan-Zhao Yunlei and Zhang Nan-Tang Jinhua.
"Peng Soon-Liu Ying have done well to put our mixed doubles on the world map. If both of them are in the best of condition, they can bring plenty of cheers to the Malaysian fans," said Kim Her.
While the two doubles titles are not a certainty, the men's title is virtually in the bag.
Without the top Chinese players in the field and with only Kenichi Tago of Japan being his main challenger, it should be another rich pickings for the 30-year-old Chong Wei. The top prize is worth US$30,000 (RM90,000).
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Byron and Janet Homann of Columbus are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary today.
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Escape from L.A.
|Escape From L.A.
Theatrical release poster
|Directed by
|John Carpenter
|Produced by
|Debra Hill
Kurt Russell
|Written by
|John Carpenter
Debra Hill
Kurt Russell
|Based on
|Characters created by
John Carpenter
Nick Castle
|Kurt Russell
Stacy Keach
Steve Buscemi
Peter Fonda
Georges Corraface
Cliff Robertson
Michelle Forbes
Pam Grier
|Music by
|John Carpenter
Shirley Walker
|Gary B. Kibbe
|Edited by
|Edward A. Warschilka
|Distributed by
|Paramount Pictures
Release dates
Running time
|101 minutes
|United States
|$50 million[2]
|Box office
|$25.4 million (domestic)[2]
Escape from L.A. (also known as John Carpenter's Escape From L.A.) is a 1996 American science fiction action film co-written, co-scored, and directed by John Carpenter, co-written and produced by Debra Hill and Kurt Russell, with Russell also starring as Snake Plissken. A sequel of Escape from New York, Escape from L.A. co-stars Steve Buscemi, Stacy Keach, Bruce Campbell, and Pam Grier.
|This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. (May 2015)
On August 23, 2000, an earthquake strikes Los Angeles, causing the San Fernando Valley to flood and turning a portion of California into an island from Malibu to Anaheim. An American presidential candidate (portrayed by Cliff Robertson), who is also an outspoken theocrat, has been saying that L.A. is a "city of sin," and that "like the mighty fist of God, waters will rise up and separate this sinful, sinful city from our country." The candidate is shortly elected president and, by a forced amendment to the Constitution of the United States, his term is made permanent.
The president's new policies include relocating the capital from Washington, D.C. to his hometown of Lynchburg, Virginia, and declaring that anyone not conforming to the new "Moral America" laws he creates (banning such things as tobacco, alcoholic beverages, red meat, firearms, profanity, atheism, non-marital sex, freedom of speech and unauthorized marriages) will be deported to Los Angeles Island or can choose repentance and death by electrocution as an alternative. A containment wall is built around the island with armed guards and watchtowers posted. Those sent to the island are exiled permanently. He also banishes all the other political parties to ensure that he would be president for life. He also demolishes the Manhattan prison and rebuilds it, and relocates all the prisoners to L.A.
In 2013, Cuervo Jones (Georges Corraface), a Shining Path Peruvian Revolutionary, seduces the President's daughter, Utopia (A. J. Langer), via a holographic system and brainwashes her into stealing her father's remote control to the "Sword of Damocles" super weapon, a series of satellites capable of destroying electronics anywhere on the planet, driving target areas back into the Dark Ages. The president intends to use the system to destroy the "ability to function" of America's enemies and eventually dominate the world using the weapon as blackmail.
While traveling aboard Air Force Three to meet with her father, Utopia leaves the plane in an escape pod and lands on L.A. Island to join Cuervo. With the satellites under his control, Cuervo promises to take back America with the assistance of an allied invasion force of third world nations that are standing by to attack. He claims that if the president tries to stop him, he will "pull the plug" on the country and black out the capital. In addition, Cuervo also knows a secret code that can knock out power for the entire planet, i.e. the "world code."
Meanwhile, 16 years after the Manhattan incident, Snake Plissken is captured for a series of crimes and is scheduled to be exiled to the island. Upon his arrival for deportation, he meets the president and is offered the mission of retrieving the weapon in exchange for a full pardon for all the crimes Snake has ever committed if he is successful. The president indicates he does not care whether Utopia is returned or not, declaring her a traitor. To ensure Snake's compliance, he is infected with the man-made Plutoxin 7 virus that will kill him within ten hours. If he completes the mission, Snake will be given an antidote and cured of the virus.
After acquiring all of the necessary equipment and weaponry and making his way across the island via a small personal submarine, Snake arrives to the L.A Island and meets "Map to the Stars" Eddie (Steve Buscemi), a swindler who sells interactive tours of L.A. Shortly after a failed attempt at retrieving the device from Cuervo, Snake meets up with his old friend Carjack Malone, who has since become the transsexual gang leader Hershe Las Palmas (Pam Grier), who lives on a huge tanker and has been in L.A for the past 5 years. Together with Hershe and her gang, Snake stages a final assault on Cuervo's forces.
Snake defeats Cuervo at his staging area of The Happy Kingdom by the Sea and takes the remote control. He leaves the island with Utopia and some other Cuervo resistors in a helicopter. Eddie mortally wounds Cuervo, but the revolutionary fires a rocket launcher at the helicopter. Seeing the incoming rocket, Eddie leaps off the aircraft, landing on an awning. The rocket hits the helicopter and kills those in the back of the chopper; Snake and Utopia bail out before it crashes. When the president's men reach the crash site, Snake intentionally hands off the wrong remote to the president while Utopia is taken to the electric chair, despite her pleas for forgiveness. The Plutoxin 7 virus is revealed to be nothing more than a fast, hard-hitting case of the flu. The president tries using the satellites to stop a Cuban invasion force threatening Florida. Activating the remote, the president hears only Eddie's "Map to the Stars" intro over "I Love L.A.."
The president, furious about being given a wrong remote, orders Snake's execution, but Snake tricks him and his troops by using a holographic illusion of himself. Seeing the problem of one man having such power over the world, Snake activates the real Damocles and enters the secret world code, against pleas to stop. Within seconds, all electronic technology worldwide is shut down by the satellites; as a result, the entire world descends to the Dark Ages and all the technology shuts down.
Shortly after activating the Damocles, arriving at a remote forest area, Snake discovers an old, decayed pack of American Spirit cigarettes on the ground with three cigarettes inside, and lights one up for himself. He stares at the lit match and the viewer before extinguishing it and saying, "Welcome to the human race."
- Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken
- Steve Buscemi as Map to the Stars Eddie
- Peter Fonda as Pipeline
- Cliff Robertson as President
- Valeria Golino as Taslima
- Stacy Keach as Cmdr. Malloy
- Pam Grier as Hershe Las Palmas
- Bruce Campbell as Surgeon General of Beverly Hills
- Georges Corraface as Cuervo Jones
- Michelle Forbes as Brazen
- A. J. Langer as Utopia
- Ina Romeo as Hooker
- Peter Jason as Duty Sergeant
- Jordan Baker as Police Anchor
- Caroleen Feeney as Woman on Freeway
- Paul Bartel as Congressman
- Tom McNulty as Officer
- Jeff Imada as Saigon Shadow
- Breckin Meyer as Surfer
- Robert Carradine as Skinhead
- Shelly Desai as Cloaked Figure
- Leland Orser as Test Tube
The film was in development for over ten years with a script commissioned in 1985, written by screenwriter Coleman Luck. Carpenter would later describe the script as "too light, too campy".[3] The project remained dormant following that time until the 1994 earthquake and the L.A. riots revived it.[citation needed] Carpenter and Kurt Russell got together to write with their long-time collaborator Debra Hill. Carpenter insists that it was Russell's persistence that allowed the film to be made, since "Snake Plissken was a character he loved and wanted to play again".[4] Principal filming began in December 1995. Carpenter has stated that if he ever did another sequel for the Escape films he would call it Escape from Earth.[citation needed] Russell has also stated that out of all the characters he has played in his career, Snake Plissken is his favorite.[citation needed]
Escape from L.A. was a box office bomb, only earning $25,477,365 from its $50 million budget—about as much as its predecessor, but little more than half its significantly higher budget.[2]
The film received mixed reviews from critics, and has a 53% rating from Rotten Tomatoes. Critics panned the film's gratuitous action sequences, which were significantly scaled up from the previous film, and which many critics felt added little to the film. Roger Ebert felt it was an attempt to satirize the genre while exploiting it: "[Escape from L.A.] has such manic energy, such a weird, cockeyed vision, that it may work on some moviegoers as satire and on others as the real thing."[5]
Home video[edit]
Paramount released two DVD editions of the film in 1998 and 2006.[citation needed] They contained no special features except for the original theatrical trailer.[citation needed] The 2006 edition features different cover art. These R1 releases are also non-anamorphic transfers. The 2001 R2 release is anamorphic.[citation needed]
The film was released on Blu-ray on May 4, 2010.[6]
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- "10 Seconds Down" – Sugar Ray
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The film's score has been released twice, the first on both CD and cassette by Milan Records in 1996 and again as an expanded CD release by specialty label La-La Land Records in 2014 which featured pieces of music which were recorded for (but ultimately cut) use in the film.[8]
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The Adventures of Snake Plissken[edit]
Marvel released the one-shot The Adventures of Snake Plissken in January 1997.[9] The story takes place sometime between Escape from New York and his famous Cleveland escape mentioned in Escape from L.A.. Snake has robbed Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control of some engineered metaviruses and is looking for buyers in Chicago. Finding himself in a deal that's really a set-up, he makes his getaway and exacts revenge on the buyer for ratting him out to the United States Police Force. In the meantime, a government lab has built a robot called ATACS (Autonomous Tracking And Combat System) that can catch criminals by imprinting their personalities upon its program in order to predict and anticipate a specific criminal's every move. The robot's first test subject is America's public enemy number one, Snake Plissken. After a brief battle, the tide turns when ATACS copies Snake to the point of fully becoming his personality. Now recognizing the government as the enemy, ATACS sides with Snake. Unamused, Snake punches the machine and destroys it. As ATACS shuts down, it can only ask him, "Why?" Snake just walks off answering, "I don't need the competition."
- ^ Spelling, Ian (1996-07-19). "Now Director John Carpenter `Escapes From L.a.'". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ a b c "Escape from L.A.". The Numbers. 1996-09-14. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
- ^ Gilles Boulenger, John Carpenter Prince of Darkness, (Los Angeles, Silman-James Press, 2003), pp.246, ISBN 1-879505-67-3
- ^ Boulenger, pp. 246
- ^ Ebert, Roger at Suntimes.com. "Escape from L.A. >> Reviews". Sun Times. Retrieved 2011-12-09.
- ^ Tyner, Adam (May 4, 2010). "Escape from L.A. (Blu-ray)". DVD Talk.
- ^ Ankeny, Jason. "Escape from L.A. [Original Film Soundtrack] - Various Artists". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2013-06-30.
- ^ "Escape from L.A. [Original Score] - John Carpenter, Shirley Walker Releases". allmusic.com. Rovi. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
- ^ "The Adventures of Snake Plissken #1 (Marvel)". Comicbookrealm.com. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
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The first complete guide-for use by adults and children-to creating fun and educational book clubs for kids.
As authors of The Book Club Cookbook, the classic guide to integrating great food and food-related discussion into book club gatherings, Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp hear a common refrain from parents, librarians, teachers, community leaders and kids themselves: "How about writing a book for kids' book clubs?" Indeed, in recent years youth organizations,… (più)
Editore: Tarcher (10 Maggio 2007)
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