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3. The MGU-H, the technology that converts heat energy from behind the turbo, is a very clever piece of kit, almost unique to F1. ("I think they have them on Caterpillars," says Symonds).
It's crucial to the car, which simply could not complete a race on 100 litres of fuel without it. While some of the energy it recovers goes in to the reserve, and some to spool up the turbo ("there is absolutely no lag"), much of it is constantly powering the car through the MGU-K.
How much power? "I can't say," says Symonds. A percentage? "No, Mercedes does not want to go in to it. It's substantial."


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Dance on Camera 2014
- $13 General Public
- $9 Students & Seniors
- $8 Film Society & DFA Members
Three Film Package
January 31 – February 4
In its 42nd year, Dance on Camera is as diverse as ever, but many of the films in this year's lineup reflect dance's new perspective: a trend toward unusual collaborations (dance and skating, dance and horses, dance and circus) and a recognition that dance thrives best in the bosom of a creative community. Co-presented with Dance Films Association.
See three or more films and save with our Discount Package. The All-Access Pass is no longer available for purchase. For more information on Dance on Camera ticketing, click here.
In This Series
Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter
Opening Night! World Premiere! Director Greg Vander Veer and former ABT principal Dennis Nahat in person!
Note: This event is currently standby only. A standby line will form at the box office one hour prior to showtime.
Miss Hill: Making Dance Matter tells the inspiring and largely unknown story of Martha Hill, a visionary who fought against great odds to make dance a legitimate form art form in America.
Screening with: Homegoings: A Dance (Christine Turner, 5m)Read more »
Paul Taylor: Creative Domain (Dance on Camera)
Closing Night! World Premiere!
Director Kate Geis and featured dancers in person!
Paul Taylor is one of the dance world's most elusive and admired choreographers. For over 50 years, he has only provided glimpses into his creative process, until now…Read more »
All This Can Happen
New York Premiere!
Intro and Q&A with editor Matt Killip!
This beautifully choreographed compilation film invites us on a meditative stroll through a not-so-distant past, following the footsteps of the protagonist of Robert Walser's short story "The Walk."
Screening with: Crosswalk (RJ Muna, 4m) + Dervishes (RJ Muna, 4m)Read more »
The Fabulous Ice Age
New York Premiere!
Director Keri Pickett and figure skaters Roy Blakey ("Uncle Roy") and Richard "Mr. Debonair" Dwyer in person!
Through rare archival footage and interviews, The Fabulous Ice Age tells the story of America's love of ice skating and the big spectaculars that dominated live entertainment for decades.Read more »
New York Premiere!
Elements of backstage romance between lead dancers Gillian Murphy and Qi Huang are woven into Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg's re-staging of Giselle for the Royal New Zealand Ballet.Read more »
Hästdans på Hovdala
World Premiere!
Subject JoAnna Mendl Shaw and dancers in person!
Choreographer JoAnna Mendl Shaw and her Equus Projects travel to the Swedish countryside to create a remarkable piece that combines dancers, horses and autistic young adults in a unique collaboration.
Screening with: Carry It On… (Sharon Leahy, 19m)Read more »
How Like an Angel
New York Premiere!
Performed in three stunning English cathedrals, this bold collaboration blends Circa's exhilarating brand of contemporary circus with the exquisite sound of I Fagiolini's choral singing.
Screening with: Widow (Jil Guyon, 12m)Read more »
La Passion Noureev
U.S. Premiere! Director Fabrice Herrault, former Paris Opera Ballet star Isabelle Guérin, and dance historian Helene Ciolkovitch in person!
Note: This event is currently standby only. A standby line will form at the box office one hour prior to showtime.
This impressionistic tribute to ballet idol Rudolf Nureyev contains rare archival footage from the 60s and 70s, revealing an artist at the peak of his powers and possessed by the spirit of dance.
Screening with: Oublier Le Temps (Boroka Nagy, 5m) + Lost In Motion II (Ben Shirinian, 4m)Read more »
The Man Behind the Throne
Director Kersti Grunditz in person!
Note: Due to a technical problem during the Dance and Community program, a screening of the short Gimp – The Documentary has been added to this program.
The man behind the careers of superstars Michael Jackson and Madonna, and the inventor of some of their defining dance moves, Vincent Paterson has remained the dance world's best kept secret... until now.
Screening with: It's a Feeling: Dancing with Jeff Selby (Diana Quinones Rivera, 9m) and Gimp – The Documentary (Richard Move, 14m)Read more »
One Day Pina Asked…
Rare Retrospective Screening!
A fortuitous encounter between two icons of film and dance, One Day Pina Asked... is Chantal Akerman's singular look at the work of the remarkable choreographer Pina Bausch and her Wuppertal Tanztheater during a five-week European tour.Read more »
New York Premiere!
Director Tatyana Bronstein in person!
A moving portrait of Larissa Ponomarenko, prima ballerina of the Boston Ballet, who hangs up her pointe shoes to pursue new avenues of self-expression.
Screening with: ME: Story Of a Performance (Jopsu Ramu, 8m)Read more »
New York Premiere!
Director Mary Jane Doherty and subject Mayara Piñeiro in person!
This quietly riveting film takes an in-depth look at the training and home life of a high school class at Cuba's famous National Ballet School, with surprising revelations.
Screening with: Tizzy (Ysaye McKeever, 3m)Read more »
Tap or Die
Director Jackie Paré in person!
The story of a dance genre in crisis told through the prism of Derick Grant, an African American choreographer struggling to bring his hip, rousing tap show to Broadway.
Screening with Tap Tap Tap (Kenneth Sherman, 8m)Read more »
The Unseen Sequence
Choreographer and dance professor Hari Krishnan in person!
Malavika Sarukkai, a celebrated Bharatanatyam dancer, is our guide for an exploration of this ancient classical form which she re-imagines and re-invigorates in the process.
Screening with: PAS (Charli Brissey & Courtney Harris, 3m)Read more »
Capturing Motion NYC 2014
Free event!
Complimentary tickets will be available at the box office on a first-come, first-served basis starting one hour prior to the event. Limit one ticket per person, subject to availability.
For a third year, high school students throughout the five boroughs submitted short dance films to compete for a chance to be screened on Closing Night of Dance on Camera.Read more »
Curriculum for Dance Film Panel
Free event!
Complimentary tickets will be available at the box office on a first-come, first-served basis starting one hour prior to the event. Limit one ticket per person, subject to availability.
Join us for a roundtable discussion on the ways in which dance and film can be incorporated into higher education curriculum in an academic setting where dance and film already exist independently.Read more »
Dance on Camera Shorts Program
The short form is gaining ground as the ideal platform for exploring the relationship between dance and film. These filmmakers dare to push the envelope in original ways.Read more »
Dance and Community
Filmmakers and choreographers including Michele Fletcher, Dan Wagoner, Richard Move, Heidi Latsky, Antoine Renouard, Ríonach Ní Néill, and Joe Lee in person!
These films share common traits and demonstrate a youthful optimism, not to mention a spirit of commitment that seems to be sprouting in many parts of the globe.Read more »
Ice Theatre of NY: Ensemble and Collaboration on Ice
Note: This event is currently standby only. A standby line will form at the box office one hour prior to showtime.
Ice Theatre of NY returns to Dance on Camera with a look at the modern movement of artistic ice ensembles, featuring excerpts and a discussion with ice legends like Dick Button, Dorothy Hamill and Jojo Starbuck.Read more »
Meet the Artist with Jonathan Demme and Annie-B Parson
Free event!
Complimentary tickets will be available at the box office on a first-come, first-served basis starting one hour prior to the event. Limit one ticket per person, subject to availability.
Director Jonathan Demme and choreographer Annie-B Parson join Dance on Camera for the recurring Meet the Artist series, a program which provides audiences a dynamic opportunity to learn from a filmmaker's expertise with a particular focus on the influence and inclusion of dance film within the filmmaker's body of work.Read more »
Sebastian Rich: Bullets to Ballet
Free event!
Complimentary tickets will be available at the box office on a first-come, first-served basis starting one hour prior to the event. Limit one ticket per person, subject to availability.
Award-winning British photographer Sebastian Rich will talk about turning his lens to the world if dance after 30 years of filming and photographing the world's most violent wars and conflicts.Read more »
Story/Time 3D
Special 3D Panel Discussion with Bill T. Jones, Jedediah Wheeler, NHK, and SONY following the screening.
See the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company as never before in this state-of-the-art 3D filming of their groundbreaking 2012 work "Story/Time," inspired by John Cage's landmark work "Indeterminacy."Read more »
Afterparty at Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker St.) with dancers in person. Free with RSVP!
Dance on Camera presents a program of unseen footage from YAK FILMS, an international production team that uses street-based, multimedia filmmaking to share the talents of young dancers around the world.Read more »

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The statistics are staggering. Since 1990, the number of American children and adults thought to be taking drugs for these conditions has leapt sevenfold and now stands at around 4 million. In some schools, 15 per cent of children are diagnosed as having ADD or ADHD, and regular Ritalin handouts have become a daily feature of classroom life. And while other countries have yet to embrace the drug with quite such enthusiasm, some are heading the same way. In Britain, the number of Ritalin prescriptions is doubling every year.
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Two Paws Up Happy Camp for Dogs is owned and operated by Jeanne Miller, with help from her assistants and canine children. In a previous life, Jeanne spent time as a teacher and business owner in the fast paced world of high-tech electronics. Today, she prefers to spend her days with dogs.
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For your convenience, Two Paws Up has full service grooming available. If you would like to have your dog groomed during his or her stay, just let us know when your dog arrives. Unless you specifically request otherwise, dogs who spend more than 2 nights are bathed before going home.
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An active lifestyle keeps your dog calm, physically fit and mentally alert. Healthy dogs live longer and require fewer trips to the vet. If your dog is overweight, the answer is not to feed less, but exercise more. If your dog is likely to suffer from hip, knee or elbow problems, the best medicine is consistent exercise to improve muscle tone. After a visit to Happy Camp, your dog will return home tired and content.
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The following are some behaviors dogs may exhibit when they get too little exercise. If you recognize any of the symptoms below in your dog, you owe it to yourself and your dog to pay a visit to Two Paws Up:
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Dogs must be at least 12 weeks old to attend day camp or board overnight.
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A $100 deposit or a credit card on file is required for first time boarders and for Thanksgiving and Christmas Holiday reservations. This deposit is not refundable, but may be credited toward another stay if the initial reservation is cancelled with 72 hours notice.
Discount Packages are available for day and overnight stays. If you choose to use one, it must purchased in advance of your dog's stay at Two Paws Up. Discount packages are good for 6 months and are non-refundable.
Half Day Camp is up to 5 hours. More than 5 hours is considered Full Day Camp. We are open for day camp on Saturday and Sunday from 9:00am to 4:00pm. However, there is no van service available on the weekends.
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Dog food is included in all overnight prices. Most medications are dispensed free of charge. You are welcome to bring your dog's regular food to camp if you prefer, but there is no price discount for doing so.
We like to send your dog home clean. Unless you specify NO BATH at check in, all dogs spending more than 2 nights at camp will be bathed on departure. For stays of less than 7 nights, there is a nominal charge. For stays of 7 nights or more, the camp bath is complimentary, or you may receive a credit toward one of our grooming packages. Our complimentary bath is a bath/towel dry. Some dogs must be brushed out after bathing to avoid matting or excessive shedding. If that is the case with your dog, please discuss the grooming options when your drop your dog off for boarding, or we will use our best judgment regarding your dog's exit bath.
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There is a holiday premium charge of $5 per dog per night for Thanksgiving (Weds -Sun), Christmas/New Years (Christmas Eve - New Year's Eve), Memorial Day Weekend (Friday-Monday), July 4th Weekend, and Labor Day Weekend (Friday-Monday). Premiums go directly to the employees who give up their own holidays to help make yours special.
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Awesome, but very sad article. I would love to be part of a project like this
moving schools to Open Source Solutions wow, but I have to agree if it is not
planned and done correctly you will end up with a bad name. "Those who fail
to plan plan to fail" a good quote that fits this very well. What is
happening here in California? In any case thanks for the update Rod.
On Friday 10 May 2002 01:04 pm, Rod Roark wrote:
> Here's a very interesting update on the situation discussed
> here a couple of weeks ago, about Microsoft's pending audit
> of public schools in Oregon and Washington:
> http://www.seul.org/edu/acpe2002.html
> Of special interest is the promotion of a Software Freedom
> Day on July 4th.
> Bill K: may be something of interest here for the WEF.
> -- Rod
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With growth and financial gain having become the driving force behind all economic activity, this faceless market economy has slowly eroded our sense of community. Just Change has developed an alternative way of doing business that challenges this by allowing producers, consumers and investors to work together in mutually beneficial ways – thus rebuilding the notion of community and regaining power in the marketplace.
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Emirates, which flies twice daily from Nairobi to Dubai, is welcoming 2013 aboard by offering attractive fares for quick-acting customers.
The special fares apply to more than 120 destinations across the Emirates' network when booked between December 26 and January 10 for travel from January 18 to June 10, 2013.
The savings mean that passengers can fly, for example, Kenya to Dubai and other Middle East destinations from as little as USD571. Prices to the Indian sub-continent start at USD822, fares to Europe begin at 905, India can be visited from USD563, the North America and Canada from USD1188, while Australasia and New Zealand can now reached from USD1960. Airfares quoted are inclusive of taxes and fuel surcharge.
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I will be very surprised if Rubby Gordon races this next El Dakaro. First there are recent developments with his latest "benefactor" Clyde Stacy, which most likely will prevent Clyde's involvement (and may possibly even prevent future funding). Second, Rubby is up to his armpits in getting the Stadium Super Trucks off the ground, in fact one of the "demo" events for the SST is to be held while the El Dakaro is being raced. Rubby has contracts already with NBC for TV, and he wanted to be the next Micky Thompson.
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You could always put it past your wife to sell the ducati and with the same money buy a Vstrom and dual sport. Win-win.
At least you recognize it's not a dual sport, or even an adventure bike. You'd be surprised how many swear that bike is the "do it all wonder". They are nice bikes though. I'd get one for ADV Touring.
Sure, you can flog them down whatever you want. I used to ride the odd gravel road on a supersport bike. It's do-able, but I won't recommend it. haha.
It's more rewarding and most times cheaper to do the work yourself. The benefit here is you LEARN. Not only how to do it, but the mechanics of your bike. It's the first step to kicking dealerships and their 120$/hr charges.
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Transferring Baguettes From Couche to Peel
I'm just starting to try to bake bread in my WFO and had one question about baguettes. Last time I tried to make baguettes, I formed them nicely and let them proof in a couche for about 1 hours. When I tried to transfer them, they pretty much collapsed when I tried to move them to the peel. How should I prevent this next time? My dough was very soft, is that the reason they collapsed?
What is your guys favorite recipe for all kinds of bread? I'm going to try to bake some baguettes tomorrow with the Forno Bravo recipe, wish me luck! I'll post my results after. :)
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I form the baguettes and place them on a tray that I made that will hold two small baguettes. I let them prove for around an hour and pop them straight in. That way you don"t disturb them and risk collapse. It also means you don't need to clean the floor of ash too much because the bread is sitting on the tray.
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That's a good idea! I think I'm going to try and place the baguettes on parchment paper after I shape them and place them in the couche with the parchment to proof. Then I'll put the baguettes in the oven with the parchment and slide them off the parchment after a few minutes. Hopefully it works!
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I'm a beginner but I can tell you that in the short time I've been baking I have learned that when gluten is properly formed in the dough from doing your stretch and folds, the dough will take a bit more handling without degassing.
The other thing is that the manner in which you do the transfer is significant. As is the way in which you prevent the dough from sticking in the form. Whether it be linen, floured parchment, or whatever, you obviously need to get the dough out without beating it up. The wetter the dough, the more sticky it is going to be...Ideally, you want to have linen cloths between the dough and your banetons and you be better able to get the dough to release. The bread I made today (see below) was formed in ratan baskets of the type you see chips served in at a mexican restaurant. I spray the baskets with Pam, sprinkle with flour, then sprinkle with semollina.
I then invert the baskets on wooden peels. It takes anywhere between ten to thirty seconds or so for the dough to release on to the peels. (I have semollna sprinkeled on the peels.) Into the oven they go. I haven't tried this with baguettes, but I'd think it would work as well.
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For a beginner those are mighty fine loaves. Look just a French Boulangerie loaves.
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If your loaves are degassing your dough is simply not adequately developed. But mixing longer is not an automatic fix for overmixing/overdevelopment can be a problem also.
The dough should not be particularly sticky - even if it is 72% hydration. Stickiness tends to be a sign of underdevelopment. The level of stickiness should easily be controlled with only a minor dusting of flour - barely enough to see.
You can get away with a lot more with boules than baguettes. Well made baguettes are about as difficult as it gets. I would strongly encourage you to develop some skill before focusing on baguettes. If you want to leap into baguettes I highly recommend Artisanal Bread I at SBFI.
Handling baguettes can be a bit tricky (but shouldn't be from a degassing perspective). A hand peel is a great aid when you are makng baguettes. Simply a thin board or even cardboard about 24 inches long (or longer if you make longer loaves) and about 4 inches wide. You proof baguettes seam side down on floured linen, roll them onto the board seam side up, and then roll them onto the peel seam side down for transfer to the oven. Slash them and get them in the oven. Oven peels for baguettes are typically much longer than pizza peels to accommodate their longer length.
The attached image is a crumb shot of a 72% hydration baguette I made at SFBI last summer.
PS: Good crumb and look for a beginner, WJW. Your description of your boule release suggests you are still underdeveloped also. Try throwing some or a few more stretch and folds into your bulk fermentation. And maybe a bit more flour on the skin of the boule if it still gives you trouble!
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Roger. Will do.
As always...Thanks for the tips Jay. They are much appreciated. The help/advice offered by you, Faith, and a few others has allowed me to get to the point where I can reliably produce serviceable, relatively presentable, (and delicious) loaves of sourdough bread in a far shorter time frame than I would have thought possible.
If any of you folks (you know who you are) ever get to Ventura or Santa Barbara County...let me know...cocktails and dinner on me.
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Rolling from the couch to a peel is quite easy, I built a peel from a piece of aluminum that was designed for use as a drip cap for a doorway.
It is curved and I cutoff a 20 inch long piece and attached it to a wood rod to use as a transfer peel.
As others have mentioned, roll the bread off the couch onto the peel and then roll back on to the bread seam inside the oven.
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I just used parchment under the loaves and slid them from the couche to the peel. It worked very well!
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Damn, Bill. That's some good-looking bread!
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for the 'optimus on linux - solved' thread. So far it looks like works on quite a few laptops that people have tried, including my XPS 15 L502x with a GT 540M GPU - and it should, because as far as I can see it's a generic solution that should work so long as your nvidia card is supported by the current nvidia driver.
By the way, the project was renamed to from prime-ng to bumblebee so the new link to get the install files is:
Note that on the XPS 15, the HDMI port doesn't work unless you use the nouveau driver, but you can use an external HDMI monitor if you plug it into the mini displayport via a mini-displayport-to-hdmi adapter. And I find the intel graphics to be pretty good, similar or better than my old GT 8600M card (eg scrolling in Firefox is noticeably smoother). But you need to use the 3d acceleration on the nvidia card if you want to run games in wine.
That's exactly the information I was looking for. Thank you. I've heard so many mixed reports, and a lot of people discussing it seems to mix in hybrid graphics solutions. So I've been unsure if I could run on the intel chip alone if I needed to on these setups.
I'm looking at a setup very similar to yours (I'll checkout that specific model before buying in fact).
A few questions:
1. are you able to run compiz/unity relativly smoothly on the intel chip?
2. if you run compiz/unity on the intel chip, does it produce a lot of heat?/fan noise?
I'm hoping for a setup where my normal desktop enviroment will live with the nvidia card off, and I'll turn that on when I need it
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GREENFIELD — All across the county, schoolchildren have been singing about snowflakes and sleigh rides since August.
With temperatures in the 90s, they memorized music about Yule logs and warm fireplaces.
As every music teacher knows, it takes months of practice to prepare students for an annual holiday concert, which is often one of the biggest performances of the year. And that means Santa comes a little early, at least in the choir and band room.


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Ben Revere with a regrettable "no homo" tweet which probably violates MLB's social media policy
Sep 6, 2013, 9:20 AM EDT
Here's Ben Revere talking to a friend of his yesterday:
"@iknowjado: I miss my bro @BenRevere9" miss you too no homo
— Ben Revere (@BenRevere9) September 5, 2013
In case you're unaware, the "no homo" thing is a longstanding phrase used by some to distance themselves from homosexuality. The presumption being that anyone who dare express love or affection or even friendship for someone of the same sex is homosexual and thus a "no homo" disclaimer is needed. It's evidence of a mindset in which it is a very, very bad thing to be misperceived as even possibly being homosexual and that even the slightest hint of male-male affection could present such a "danger."
Funny part: it came just after Revere's tweet about being "bootylicious" yesterday. Strange that he didn't immediately feel the need to reassure us that he wasn't, in fact, Beyonce.
In any event, Major League Baseball adopted a social media policy last year that, among other things, prohibits players from tweeting sexist, racist, bigoted or homophobic things. The "no homo" thing is the very definition of homophobia in that the speaker is afraid of being mistaken for homosexual. Let's see if Major League Baseball sees this and does anything to Revere.
- stlouis1baseball - Sep 6, 2013 at 1:12 PM
Here's the deal…I made a concerted effort to "try" to refrain from using the words, "homo," "fag," "gueer," etc… The reason I did this is society. Not necessarily gay people.
My neighbors (life long couple) are gay and I regularly use the term "that's kind of gay" around them. Of course…I sometimes use other terms. But this is different in that we have known one another for years and we are very close friends. I have also told them I love them (and they have done the same with my Wife and I). The most recent time was last week. We were having drinks and I told one of them (the Husband in the relationship) that I loved him but he shouldn't feel this gives him free reign to grope, ogle or otherwise feel me up. He laughed hysterically…told me I was "safe" and made me another drink. Long story…long…dude is a great guy with a wonderful sense of humor who DOESN"T TAKE HIMSELF (OR ME) TOO SERIOUSLY!
- km9000 - Sep 6, 2013 at 1:32 PM
Funny thing is, he doesn't even say "I love you too," just "I miss you too." Oversensitive much? Does he shake hands with guys and quickly say, "Look, just because we touched hands, doesn't mean I have romantic feelings for you, okay?"
If he sees absolutely nothing wrong with "no homo ," he should have no problem using it after expressing his love for his teammates in a postgame on-field interview.
- bh192012 - Sep 6, 2013 at 2:34 PM
Those of you who appear to be very offended by his tweet, let me ask…. Would his comment have been any more or less offensive if he said "miss you too, in a hetro way" Personally I just can't seem to get all that worked up over it.
I love you.
I am a heterosexual.
- tfbuckfutter - Sep 6, 2013 at 4:43 PM
That would be a good point if "hetero" had a history of being used as an insult like "homo" does.
- historiophiliac - Sep 6, 2013 at 9:08 PM
I bet if he thought you loved him back, he wouldn't have said it.
- tfbuckfutter - Sep 6, 2013 at 9:42 PM
I love everyone. That's kind of my thing, man.
-Jesus (as portrayed in The State….and now I have to watch The State).
- mikhelb - Sep 13, 2013 at 2:47 PM
It has a history of being used in a derogatory way at least in spanish speaking countries and yet when people use the "no homo" equivalent in spanish, they're criticized A LOT.
And this from a society where social stigmatas are lighter than in the US where everybody is labeled because of their looks, background, skin color and religion.
Just the other day I was reading an article written by Passan about Taijuan Walker, and he said:
Taijuan happens to be black (paraphrasing Carlin: it sounds like he is black by accident or by his own decision), of hispanic heritage, and his mother is a white mexican.
That's one of the many differences in two neighboring societies.
When you ask an hispanic about somebody he can tell you: aah he's the black guy with that blue shirt.
When you ask somebody born in the US (even hispanic people): aah he's the half african-american, half argentinian, agnostic who happens to be dressed with a blue t-shirt.
- sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo - Sep 6, 2013 at 4:28 PM
Protests too much?
- moogro - Sep 6, 2013 at 5:27 PM
The reason this post has 100 replies is the animus by the men who rehearsed themselves out of a bad habit, and the animus of those that haven't yet.
- mpzz - Sep 6, 2013 at 7:51 PM
So now it's a horrible crime just to say you're not a homosexual? And it's also a crime to refer to someone or something as being a homosexual?
Getting a little, no, a LOT ridiculous!
- coloradogolfcoupons - Sep 8, 2013 at 5:23 PM
Well we might as well take all this PC crap and get totally pedantic. "No homo" means you are not human, since we are HOMO SAPIENS. So "No Homo" is really a secret sign from one alien to another as a way to find each other.
Now, if you are worried about people thinking you are a homoSEXUAL, then SAY IT! "NO HOMOSEXUAL"….not "no homo"…because the aliens might mis-interpret your meaning, beam you up, and PROBE you, which would be kind of ironic when you think about it lol.
Because I don't really want to know how many aliens are walking among us. I am already too worried about the homosexuals, homophobes, lesbians, tree huggers, save the whalers, Drunks Against Mad Mothers (DAMM) and everybody else that is different from myself. That will be all.
- jdillydawg - Sep 11, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Gee, I hope he doesn't get cooties…
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TUCSON, Ariz. - Boise State senior men's golfer T.K. Kim carded an even-par 71 in the opening round of the Mountain West Championships Friday, and will enter the second round tied for fourth place.
Kim recorded three birdies at the 7,144-yard Catalina Course at OMNI Tucson National, and was one of only eight individuals in the 45-man field to shoot par-or-better through windy conditions on the opening day of the tournament.
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In 2011, researchers looking for a universal vaccine found an antibody that attacks all flu viruses. Normally flu tricks us into making too little of the antibody to make a difference, but James Wilson at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and his team have created a workaround.
They put the DNA that codes for the antibody into an innocuous virus and squirted it into the noses of mice and ferrets. There it made the antibody, which protected the animals against flu viruses including the lethal H5N1 bird flu.
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Limited Releases and Me
December 7th, 2012
It is a really, really busy week for limited releases. However, of the more than a dozen films on this week's list, only one of them is earning overwhelmingly positive reviews, Wagner and Me. That film is a documentary, so even if it does perform well during its opening weekend, it likely won't find any mainstream success. All of the rest are either earning too few reviews to have a Tomatometer Score, or have overall negative reviews. Combined with the previously released Awards Season hopefuls, and there's too much competition for such weak films.
Bad Kids Go to Hell - Reviews
A black comedy that mixes The Breakfast Club with a Teenage Slasher. Black comedy is a hard genre to get right and an even harder genre to market. Plus teenage slashers are just the wrong genre for limited release. Even if it had amazing reviews, it would have a hard time finding an audience in limited release. It should perform better on the home market. Bad Kids Go to Hell opens tonight in 30 theaters, which is just too many.
Buffalo Girls - Reviews
I thought this film opened weeks ago. There's not much more to add. Buffalo Girls opens tonight in Los Angeles.
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding - Reviews
A wedding day brings out all of the dysfunction in a British family and the problems in the relationship of the bride and groom. The film's reviews are only 50% positive, which is nowhere near strong enough to suspect it will thrive in limited release. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding opens tonight at the IFC Center in New York City.
Cloudburst - Reviews
A Canadian film about elderly lesbian couple traveling from the United States to Halifax, Canada so they can get married. There is only one review on Rotten Tomatoes; however, that's more than most Canadian films have, plus it is positive. Cloudburst opens tonight in Halifax, Canada.
Deadfall - Reviews
After a heist gone wrong, two siblings are on the run and trying to get to Canada with their loot. Left on foot after an accident, they are picked up hitchhiking by a guy traveling home for the holidays. Unfortunately, the home includes a retired sheriff, who doesn't trust the pair. The film's reviews are weak and it has nearly no chance of finding an audience in limited release. Deadfall opens tonight in four theaters in New York City, Los Angeles, Washington, and Cambridge.
Delhi Safari - Reviews
A 3D animated Bollywood film. That's unusual. It's an environmental tale about a group of animals who travel to the capital to ask the humans why their forest is being cut down. I don't know how well the original film was received, but the reviews for the English translation are really bad. Delhi Safari opens tonight at the Laemmle's Playhouse 7 in Pasadena.
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas - Reviews
This film has the second best Tomatometer Score on this week's list. It is still just a hair below the overall positive level. The film is written, directed, and stars Edward Burns. The film focuses on a family whose father returns for Christmas after leaving 20 years ago. I don't think it will find an audience in limited release, but its reviews are good enough that it could find one on the home market. The Fitzgerald Family Christmas opens tonight in five theaters, all in New York. Also, Edward Burns will be at several screenings. Check the official site for details.
Hyde Park on the Hudson - Reviews
This feels like busted Oscar bait. Bill Murray plays Franklin D. Roosevelt during the lead up to World War II. Given its subject matter, some have called this a pseudo-sequel to The King's Speech. Given its reviews, there's no chance it will have the same run at the box office or during Awards Season. Hyde Park on the Hudson opens tonight in four theaters, split between New York City and the Los Angeles area.
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Stephen Fry is Jewish and he even lost relatives in the Holocaust. He is also a fan of composer Richard Wagner, who was antisemitic in his time and his music was later championed by Adolf Hitler. Stephen Fry travels to a Wagner festival and learns more about the man to see if he can reconcile his love for the music with the antisemitism that surrounds it. This is the only film earning overwhelmingly positive reviews, but as a documentary, its chances of expanding past the art house circuit are slim. Wagner and Me opens tonight at the Quad Cinema and the Lincoln Plaza Cinema, both in New York City.
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Forebears helped him; now he helps others
Eric Smith's curse-and-blessing kicked in after he began drawing demon smoke from homemade crack through a glass tube.
Instantly he was hooked into an addiction that in less than three years from that day in 1989 would cause him to lose self-respect and a loving wife.
But the saving grace for the founder of a nearly 14-year-old Oak Park church and related senior outreach center was that he was a tough study.
At 33, he was a former church kid who had survived the Jim Crow South and a speech impediment that always made him fear uttering even a sentence in public.
He never could ignore feelings that like David, the greatest king in the Old Testament, he was still "a man after God's own heart," despite how badly he was living.
"I just knew," Eric says, "that God had another purpose for me."
And at a crossroads, he kicked his habit — cold turkey — after telling himself he could do it if his parents and their forebears could rise above slavery.
Eric, 53, says his Loving Care Center and his Loving Care Outreach Church were born in his heart around that time in late 1991.
But he wouldn't get them established until six years later.
Ever since, he has provided emotional and spiritual support for the young and old in nursing homes, in lockups and on the streets of San Diego.
There's no way to accurately tally, Eric says, how many he and a solid core of six volunteers have reached through the years with programs including poetry reading sessions, Bible study, singing and worship services.
But he continues to get feedback in calls and letters like this one from the activity director at a nursing and rehabilitation center in Encinitas: "Hello Rev. Smith/volunteers. Everyone here at ManorCare Health Services deeply appreciate the time your volunteers have spent with our residents. Your focus of remembering the gift of giving has not gone unnoticed.... Your center is a great asset to our ever-growing community."
Says Eric, who owns a 21-year-old commercial and residential painting business: Even with the stutter, "I've always been a people person and gravitated toward socializing with folks. And I've always been concerned with looking out for our elders."
He also once had a huge attraction to the wild side of life. And he self-published a book about his experiences through AuthorHouse in February.
The 88-page opus is titled "From Crack to Clergy Provoking Thoughts."
Born and raised in Chattanooga, Tenn., he was the eighth of nine kids of determined parents who walked on opposite sides of the straight and narrow.
Lizzi Smith, who died of cancer at 86, was a devout Baptist, and Frank Smith Jr., who would succumb to a heart attack at 76, worked in an iron pipe foundry. On the side, he was a pistol-packing loan shark who also sold moonshine and whiskey.
Eric got early and frequent exposure to the real world through his dad.
By the time he was bused across town amid efforts to integrate Chattanooga's all-white high school in the early '70s, he was a freethinking adventure seeker.


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