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Joe Flacco shut up some of the naysayers (myself included) after he was able to put together a virtuoso performance in their 31-30 victory over the New England Patriots. Throwing for 382 yards and 3 TD is a primetime performance against the other quarterback who was named Tom Brady. Ray Rice was effective as usual rushing for 101 yards on 20 carries, but he also hauled in 5 passes for 49 yards in the process as well. There may not be a better back in the NFL, but Flacco is officially starting to spread the wealth and make the perfect reads. Wide receiver Torrey Smith and tight end Dennis Pitta put together a hell of a performance against the struggling New England pass defense, but the Ravens answered the bell when they needed to. Baltimore has never been known as a powerful offense that puts a ton of points on the board thanks to their devastating defense, but the weapons around Flacco has made him inch even closer to that elite status. Baltimore's defense is still without Terrell ...
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The Good
Instead of teasing the next big story, Jason Aaron uses this issue to tell a self-contained tale about young Thor and a drunk dragon. There's some trolls thrown in there, too. If that doesn't have your attention, then I just don't know what will and clearly this issue isn't meant for you. For everyone else: yes, it's pretty much as glorious as it sounds.
Aaron's given this book quite an epic scope, but this issue is used to give a far more character-driven story about younger Thor and present what is absolutely a watershed event in his life. Aaron's script has an abundance of charm and fun, presenting us with this more carefree and brash version of Thor. Despite his attitude, there's still a great sense of honor and it definitely shows in one scene. The story is lighthearted and beyond fun, but it's not long before we're hit with a fair amount of drama and the intensity is really turned up. We never technically witness the big brawl between these two, but to be overly disappointed by that would be missing the point. It's not about the fight itself, but what it means to Thor and Aaron does a fine job illustrating that. Although, I think it's safe to say none of us would mind an issue dedicate to Thor brawling with a giant dragon. Just saying.
Dan Pastoras' artwork can be a real pleasure to gaze at. The character work can be a bit inconsistent at times, but the sheer amount of detail and coloring thrown into some of these panels most definitely deserves a slow clap. Thor and the Dragon taking on the Trolls? The few moments in Asgard? Some of the powerful scenery? Absolutely gorgeous and immersive.
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While a lot of the art impresses, there's some facial work that feels a bit off. The style's rough around the edges, and while that works for a majoity of the issue, there's some key instances where this lead to colors meshing and odd facial features/expressions. There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just be blunt: there's one panel where Thor looks like he has an overbite and is overweight. This is obviously outweighed by all of the impressive visuals, but it's worth pointing out.
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Jason Aaron's THOR: GOD OF THUNDER has been... well, magical. This is a standalone adventure, so there's no valid reason you could possibly have for not reading it. I won't lie to you, I've never even considered myself a big Thor fan or a fan of the fantasy genre in general, but Aaron turns the Son of Odin's life into something wonderful. It's an honestly enthralling read that's full of laughs and is sure to have you hooked. Throw in some legitimately gorgeous (albeit inconsistent) visuals and you have an issue that I absolutely recommend.


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The tremendous variety of Spanish cheeses stems from Spain's geographical and climatic diversity. They are made from cows', ewes', and goats' milk as well as different blends of these, and in most cases the milk is obtained from native breeds.
Sheep are the most genuine type of livestock in Spain. They mostly inhabit the Castilian plains in the center of Spain and the south-west, where there is plenty of pasture, especially during winter and spring. The best-known native breeds are Churro, Merino, Castellano and Manchego, all of which were traditionally reared for their wool, but today are mostly used for the production of cheese.
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On May 1, 1987, Pope John Paul II announced the beatification of Edith Stein, the Jewish-born convert to Christianity who had been murdered in Auschwitz in 1942. Beatification is the penultimate stage in the process by which the Roman Catholic Church declares someone a saint, followed by canonization itself.


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I recently installed Elementary OS as my main OS on my laptop, and about ten minutes later, I uninstalled it. Why? Take a look on the right (image credit on the bug track page. Whenever I clicked and dragged an icon, first the icon when all hazy, like pixelated, and then when I released the mouse key, the mouse pointer became the full size icon that I was initially dragging - complete with two pointers - that's what the image is of, what the pointer becomes. To get it back to normal you had a few options, reboot, reload the desktop, change and reset your desktop resolution and a few other - not exactly convenient - methods.
But, a week later, after installing Ubuntu (Unity/Mate), Debian (Cinnamon/LXDE/KDE/Gnome 3), Linux Mint (Cinnamon/KDE) and finding niggling issues with them all, I decided to give Elementary a whirl again and try and fix it.
And I did (with a few pointers from various Launchpad threads of course).
The commands below depend on using Intel graphics drivers, I'm fairly certain you could replace references to intel with your manufacturer, e.g, xserver-xorg-video-ati, but I can't say whether they'll work, or what dependencies they'll need. Proceed at your own risk.
From terminal, run the command:
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel
You'll see that it has a few dependencies, running an apt-get build-deps doesn't work here, instead, build the dependencies for one of the missing packages, this will pull the other along too:
sudo apt-get build-dep libgbm1
Now, this isn't all, because the install will fail again, this time on a dependency that it couldn't see before, and all I can imagine is that it becomes a dependency based on the other dependencies installed. So this time run:
sudo apt-get install xorg-video-abi-15
This will get you all the dependencies you need, but old files from xserver and intel that are no longer required still exist on your system and the install won't play along if they're still there, you can remove them by running:
sudo apt-get autoremove
Now you're safe to install the xorg-server drivers for your card, again note that this will probably work for other cards, just by replacing intel with ati or whatever your card may be, but the dependencies you have to build will most likely be different - so pay heed to your errors! Now, back to business, run:
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel
Now just reboot your system, and your graphics should be fixed!
What it seems to be coming down to is an ill-configured xserver (doing this gives you the default intel xserver config) or a conflict between the base system of Elementary, Ubuntu, and it's Pantheon desktop interface (which isn't easily installed to Ubuntu) - that at least would explain the dependency issue at least.
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York is indisputably a beautiful city, full of life and history, the same can be said about the university I attend, York St John. It's a brilliant place, the main campus is - in my opinion - an architectural masterpiece, the lecturers (whilst maintaining their little quirks) are the picture of the perfect lecturer, outgoing, helpful, engaging and full of readily available knowledge. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that ever part of the university is wonderful, so I've got to ask why, why am I not enjoying it?
It's been something that's on my mind almost continuously for the past five out of the seven weeks I've been there. I don't feel that it's anything to do with the university itself, like I said it's a great place. There are a few potential reasons. The first would be that most of the people I know have some aim, they know what they want out of their degree and they know what they want to do with what they get. In my case, I don't particularly have any set idea about what I'd like to do - sure I could teach, sure I could go into journalism, I could write books or heaven forbid, poetry. I'd probably enjoy some of them, but I don't want to do them. In some ways I feel like I picked the degree (creative writing) based on the idea that I liked writing, which I stand by as a completely valid reason for picking something, but when I picked it I hadn't given any thought to what I'd like to do after it. I did the opposite of my mistake at sixth form, rather than pick on necessity for the future I picked on want for the current, and in some ways I regret that.
Then there's the course itself. I'm not about to proclaim that I'm Wordsworth reborn and can with any level of credibility state what should and shouldn't be on the course, I'm not going to say there's no link between literature and creative writing - basically I'm not mentally handicapped. I can see the overwhelming significance of literature in creative writing, but the fact is I don't want to. At A-Level I took literature in place of another subject in the "grace period" at the start of term where you could change subjects freely. It was somewhat of an accident that I ended up doing it, I needed to change subjects to get rid of psychology, and when I told the college this I was put rather on the spot as to what I'd like to change to, my gut reflex was to say English lit because I did well in it at GCSE. What I quickly became aware of over the coming days, weeks, months and in fact, two years, was that I was well and truly done with literature. Yeah I might have been able to do it but, and I'll commit academic suicide here, it's boring. It sucks the fun out of what is perhaps the greatest creative conduit in the world, reading. I took a creative writing degree without being aware that the ratio of literature to creative writing, at least in the first year, would be 2/3. Suffice to say, having vowed never to do it again, to now be doing it again is quite an issue for me.
Another thing to consider is that originally I was going to go on a gap year to work overseas or try and get a job with good career prospects, the aim being to just 'forget' I was supposed to be going to university in 2015 and thus not go at all, continuing whatever I was doing. From the start of my second year at college I was firmly of the opinion that I would not go to university, because I was quite certain it wasn't for me. But then results day happened, and everyone was so excited about what universities they were and weren't going to, it was great, and I felt left out, it weighed down on me all that day, my results were good in my opinion, but I didn't celebrate them because, like I've said, I felt somewhat outcast. So that day I made the decision to ring the university and see if I could still go in 2014. I could, so I said I would. Then three weeks later the excitement wore off, I still didn't have a student loan, the course wasn't what I expected, things were breaking left, right and centre, I missed my friends, and the way I saw it there were a million and one things I was missing out on. That's just a small segment from a series of miniature disasters that plagued my first three weeks. I regretted going, and somewhat still do.
I think what it boils down to though is that I'm just tired of education. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I'm not saying I don't want to learn because I do. I'm also not saying I'm not saying again, don't worry. I just think that after however many years it was in formal education, I needed a break, and I didn't take my chance to have it. I would much rather be out working or doing something more skills based at this point. I spent half my A2 year applying for horti/agriculture apprenticeships, if only I'd gotten onto one. I want to do something else now.
It's reading week now, I'm home all week. I still don't know how I feel about university. It's like I'm doing it to say I've done it, I don't really have an aim, and generally every day is a struggle because I'm simply not enjoying it. Then again there are good times, and I've made lots of friends, some of the work is interesting and fun, it's sort of an internal tug-of-war. Will I stay there or will I go to 'find myself' in Eastern Asia? I, of all people, don't know.
I have got to finish by reiterating that the university and the course are brilliant, this is purely a personal issue and does not reflect on the university whatsoever.
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University: Writing Short Fiction
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I've spent a while now thinking about what I might start putting up on my blog, and I decided one thing that might be fun is every time I have to write a creative piece for my creative writing course at university, I'll publish it here too, that way I can get some good critical feedback from a broad audience and hopefully have some fun too!
So the first piece I'm going to publish is short fiction, we spent a while reading various stories by George Saunders, and were then tasked with writing our own using three randomly generated points, a goal, an obstacle and a sentence from which to develop a character - these can be found at the bottom - so, here goes.
I stood tucked behind a small fern at the end of the garden, there was no moon tonight, no stars, I was cloaked in the world's shadow. The only light was from the house, two windows casting a warm glow into the midwinter night. The garden itself was well kept, a small vegetable patch down here at the bottom, a quirky path snaking along on the right hand side passing between an old woodshed and a lawn littered with children's toys. It terminated at a patio which wrapped around the back side of the house. None of it was particularly large, just modest, the house was ex-council, now privately owned by the Johnsons. In the year they'd been there already they'd done quite some work, refitting some windows, having the pipes changed and the whole house rewired, now it was being rented out to the one of the Johnsons' widowed mothers.
A siren sounded somewhere in the distance, a police car by the sounds of it, maybe I was lucky and the other had been caught, haha, it'd make victory all the more easy. No, that'd be too good to be true, plus putting two of us in the same village? Unlikely. Even for them that'd be skating too close to the edge. Either way the siren was fading into the pressing silence of Helmsley and my vigil endured.
The light in the living room flicked out, the one in the bedroom soon after, leaving the entirety of the garden a pool of black, the house barely distinguishable from the night sky. I really couldn't have asked for a better task. You'd expect a sort of rush about now, I'd imagine, a sudden influx of adrenaline, or excitement, would that I could. Seven hours watching this house, seven hours without food or drink, just waiting, and now it was finally time it was just another day, just another night, just another task, it was really nothing more than another day at the office. I made my move up the path placing each step as though I was walking on a frozen lake, holding the sides of my jacket close to me, timing every inhale and exhale to fall between my steps.
Buying a house for your lonely old mother might be a lovely gesture, especially when you're fitting it out with all the mod cons, but there's always one thing that's left out of this grand schemes, the alarm. Sure, have shiny plug sockets, but what good is it if the thing you put in it is stolen in the night? This one was particularly poor, people see the brand names, "Yale", "Tate", and assume it'll be fine. The Yale HSA6200 on this house was fitted when it was first built, the backup batteries inside it long expired and never replaced. I reached inside my coat and pulled out a key, opening the electric box I quickly located the emergency fuse and shorted it out with the aid of a little water. It'd take them weeks to realise it hadn't rained for a few days.
Now the door. You're kidding yourself if you think a lock is going to keep the scary monsters out, it only took two thin strips of metal and a little twist and I was inside. The kitchen was where I entered, I couldn't enter via the front door for fear of the cats alerting the old woman to my presence. She liked to let them sleep in her room with her. She also liked to keep fresh fish in the fridge for them. I took it out and placed it on the floor, wiping the oily residue from my gloves onto my coat. Must be clean. I pulled back the hallway door and sure enough there they were, both the cats the woman owned, I might as well have not been there, they were entranced by the scent; dashing past to take their fill. I'd be gone before the fish was.
The hallway ran parallel to the stairs all carpeted and painted in varying degrees of beige. Along the walls and up the sides of the stairs were various photos, focussing on them I could make them out, one an older man and presumably the husband of the old woman. Another framed two younger adults, I could see now the old woman was the mother of Mr. Johnson, he was the spitting image of his father. Further down a larger photo in much plainer frame held a family portrait, a proud pair of grandparents, and a brimming mother and father holding their new-born. This one wasn't as old as the others, maybe a few years. The other articles were a mixed bag, school portraits, selected landscapes, pets - cat's photographed from every conceivable angle.
Even if there had been a light on in the house it had gone with the electricity, the inside was no different to the outside now, a home? No, a shell. At the top of the stairs there were four doors, one to the right, one in front and two to the left. Only the one in front stood ajar. I smirked a little at the simplicity of it all. How was this a final? There was no challenge, not even any real requirement for skill. The whole competition had been like this, the first round was easy, the second a child could've done, the third was a little harder, but only because the man was grossly overweight. The semi-final did require a little work, only logistically though, and now the finals, an old woman in a backwater village? Please, I could do it blindfolded.
I twisted and edged through the door to find her fast asleep in a double bed. It was the classic setup, floral bed sheets, a bottle of pills next to an open copy of 'Death on the Nile'. Ten past eleven, the bus wasn't until twenty-five past. I was well ahead of time, ten minutes too early in fact. I walked around to the front of the bed and peered through the window. The patio dining table still had teacups on it. I turned and face the woman again, so peaceful.
This is the part where I digress into a stream of thoughts, talk about the significance, or should I say the insignificance of life. The fact is, whether or not I would be on the other side of it one day, or whether I believed in an afterlife or the various gods really didn't matter to me. I could die tomorrow a happy man because this is what I loved, this moment, this serene, almost clinical moment. I was my own god, and in this moment I was this woman's god too.
I sat beside her and brushed the hair from the front of her face behind her ear, a little wet spot of drool had formed on the pillow beneath her head. I watched her chest rise and fall slowly beneath the duvet. In. Out. In. Out. What was that? A click? No. Just my imagination. Focus. In. Out. In. Out. I placed a hand swiftly over her mouth as she released her breath and gave a sharp nip to her upper arm. Her eyes opened, first only partially, then realisation hit, she saw me, my face, all at once her mind raced, who, what, why, how, but none of it was given voice, not even a scream escaped her lips, she hadn't the breath to do it. Footsteps? No, no one had come or gone all day. It was too much to resist, I leaned forwards and whispered in her ear, "What, has the cat got your tongue?" All the while slipping the hunting knife down from my sleeve to my hand behind her back.
"Shh. I have a gift for you." I slipped my other hand into my coat and took out one, thin, tulip. I placed it upon the pillow directly in front of her wide eyes. She didn't understand and for that brief millisecond she forgot about me as she processed the flower. The same brief millisecond that the knife pierced down into her jugular, through her trachea, right to the bone at the back. Gods miracle wasn't giving us life, it was giving us the capacity to take it.
I smiled down at her as I drew the knife out, a fountain of blood pulsating from her neck, it came in distinct jets, after the first her eyes began to roll backwards, by the second her face began to slip, by the third she was gone. People might use wild and obscure similes to describe this moment, there aren't any that can do it justice, there is only it itself, the sublime beauty that is death, nothing else comes close to being like it.
The eruptions from her throat continued a little while longer, each squirt a little less powerful until eventually only a gentle stream trickled down onto the bed. I stood up and took out my lighter. I held it to the plastic plug socket, the plastic bubbled and burst into flames. Being a quiet village they wouldn't expect a murder, the room and body would be so burnt that it'd take a full autopsy to detect any sign of foul play. They'd burn the electrician who rewired the house for a shoddy job not sealing the electrical box properly. I'd be long gone before the truth was discovered - if it was at all.
I turned to the door, the fire now gaining pace it was time to leave. I pulled it open and was met with a young girl of about six. She was clutching a teddy bear, the orange glow behind me was illuminating the tears on her cheeks. The granddaughter, she must've had a nightmare or something. Her eyes bounced from my mine to my hand dripping with blood to the fiery glow behind me.
The challenge.
I understand now, the old woman was never really a part of it, it was her. I stepped forwards sizing up the situation but she was faster, she ran to the right into the bathroom, bolting the door behind her, I was fast to respond, throwing my full weight against it and shattering part of the wood, a shriek coming from the other side when I collided. This wasn't good. I stepped back and gave it a strong kick. The door flew open. I dashed in to find her huddled in the corner, the teddy bear held tight to her chest and her eyes clenched. I lifted my knife and regained my cool.
Crack. I span to see the fire had spread faster than I expected, it was snaking out onto the landing; I didn't have time for this bitch. I looked down on her once more, surely the flames could do it just as well as I could. I ran, fleeing the house through the kitchen, the garden, the neighbour's garden, the street, the next street, the bus stop, the bus. I slipped the bloody gloves into my inside pocket before I boarded. Once seated I took out my phone and rang them, "It's done, they're both dead." A pause followed, a long pause, had I won or not, was the other guy caught? A raspy voice filled the speaker, "Congratulations, the contracts and money will be dispatched immediately." With a crack the line fell dead and I breathed a sigh of relief, I've won.
I could hear sirens in the distance, fire engines, ambulances, they were too late, they were dead, weren't they? At least one of them was anyway.
I hope you enjoyed it, even now I'm judging certain aspects of it and questioning what I was thinking, but what I really care about is what you think, feel free to comment here, on Facebook or reply to the Tweet I sent the link to tell me what you thought of it and points for improvement, no matter what it is I want to hear it!
The goal given was, "To be king of the heap." The obstacle, "The cat lady." The character line, "I put a tulip under all the pillows and then I set the house on fire."
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You might be thinking my blog looks a bit empty, in doing so you'd have assatained the obvious - it is in fact empty (until I upload this post of course.) I have deleted everything, don't be alarmed, I backed it up first to make sure that I had a record of the dirge that had come before. However, through no fault of my own that backup has now also fallen victim to the recycle bin.
The reason for the sudden purge of three to four years of writing is simple, I'm moving on in my life and my days of teenage angst are sadly over and I'm looking at moving in a more consistent and focussed direction with my blog. Before I had lots of things running in series which I didn't really update at all, and those that I did were rushed and poorly written.
So now I'm starting again, and I'm starting at a turning point in my life. This month I'll be starting my degree in Creative Writing at York St John University, it's a pretty big deal for me, I'd originally planned to spend this year working and go to university next year, but not so long ago I had an interview with South Yorkshire Police for an IT based position, the upshot of which was that whilst I talked well and presented myself better than most, I didn't have the experience in the area and I didn't have a degree to make up for the lack of it. I was, in short, told that if I had a degree, any interview I had would have a much higher chance of a positive outcome.
So there I was, two weeks ago, sat on my sofa wasting a day for the 200th time this year and in a moment that can only be summed up in the juvenile phrase, "yolo" I rang the university to find out if I could go this year, and, when they said I could, I said I would, and that was that.
This comes after A-Level results day in England, and in all honesty my results weren't great in the grand scheme of things, but I achieved what I expected and I'm certainly happy with them. My experience studying for my A-Levels isn't one that I regret but it's not one I'd repeat given the choice, the social aspect is what pulled me through it. That's not to say I didn't enjoy the lessons, but I think it's fair to say I picked out of necessity (where I was allowed) which did not translate well into what I actually wanted to do. The subjects were okay, certainly in respect to some of the teachers, the philosophy department especially was comprised of what I can only describe as the most conscientious and skilled teachers that I've encountered.
Philosophy was definitely the most enjoyable of my subjects, it was just taught better and was more interesting than the rest in my opinion. Of course there's always English Literature, I can't deny it wasn't taught well, but my issues with it were not associated with that particular college, rather, on a curriculum level I felt that English Literature was taught too rigidly and lacked all of the creativity and potential for genuine interest that the subject should inherently posses.
Then there's physics, I'll not say too much, it was fun, it was interesting, but it wasn't for me. Physics where I studied didn't require A-Level maths as a partner subject and I think it should have, because that'd have made it a lot more clear about just how much maths was a part of it, because there wasn't - in my experience - enough of a warning. I took it based on my A* in GCSE physics, but, as with maths, there is no comparison between the GCSE and A-Level versions of the subject.
Before that but after I finished TRC I went to Austria with my best friend, James which was probably the crowning moment of the year so far, I dined like a king - or rather, for the first time I ate properly. We hiked mountains, we swam, we (or James at least) spent an ungodly amount of time in a Sauna. We explored the picturesque towns and the bustling cities and it was just great, I can't think of anyone I'd have rather shared what is in fact my favourite (I've been over eleven times now) country with.
When I write, as I just have, what is essentially a summary of nine months of my life, and it fits into what is basically three points, it seems like I've not done very much at all despite the fact it feels as though I have. But, that's me, the essence of doing nothing and still somehow managing to get stressed because I'm doing too much.
I plan to post a lot more in the coming weeks, but what I'll be posting I cannot say, you'll just have to stay tuned to find out!
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Stern documentary a festival highlight
By Andrew Dansby | November 2, 2012 | Updated: November 3, 2012 1:33pm
âÄúBertMask.âÄù Bert Stern behind a mask during an interview From the film BERT STERN THE ORIGINAL MADMAN, a First Run Features release
âÄúBertAndCat.âÄù Legendary photographer Bert Stern captured in NYC From the film BERT STERN THE ORIGINAL MADMAN, a First Run Features release
Poster from the film BERT STERN THE ORIGINAL MADMAN, a First Run Features release
LE TABLEAU (THE PAINTING), directed by Jean-Françcois Laguionie "Journey" - on the journey to find their true creator
LE TABLEAU (THE PAINTING), directed by Jean-Françcois Laguionie "ColorfulCharacters" - Scene showing different characters dressed up from the movie
LE TABLEAU (THE PAINTING), directed by Jean-Françcois Laguionie The original movie poster
Among the more fascinating figures featured in Houston Cinema Arts Festival's documentaries is the subject of "Bert Stern: Original Madman."
The film's driving force is not footage of the famed photographer today, talking in a passionless croak, but rather his work. Stern's midcentury photography and ideas jolted the advertising world, and the visceral creativity that courses through those images is fascinating and thrilling.
Of particular interest is a prolonged period dedicated to "The Last Sitting," Stern's famed photographs of Marilyn Manson, though his work for Smirnoff vodka and the campaign for the film "Lolita" bristle with energy and ideas.
Stern's creative side has to appeal because Stern himself - typically robed and in repose - comes across as a first-rate cad in interviews by Shannah Laumeister, his muse and longtime companion. He used his work essentially as pick-up lines to quench a relentless libido. His assertion that the photographs allow him to possess some part of his subjects only underscores his deep commitment to physicality that greatly contrasts with his shallow sense of commitment.
Talking about having a child with Laumeister, he says, "There's a lot of work with a baby … what would you do with it?" Of his two daughters, he's naturally closer to the "pretty one" and makes an empty attempt to reach out to the other.
Laumeister effectively presents the bad as well as the good, documenting Stern's emotional distance, his addictions and his creative failures as well as the successes that revolutionized advertising. "Bert Stern: Original Madman" is equal parts maddening and enlightening. (2 p.m. Sunday at Sundance Cinemas)
"Le Tableau" is a beautifully animated French film that may hold more allure for adults than children. It's a surrealistic tale of characters in various states of completion by "the Painter," who has mysteriously gone missing. There are heavy-handed social strata - complete figures, halfies (partially completed figures) and sketchies (you get it …) - and power struggles result. The artistic influences tend to be painters from the 19th and 20th centuries, which means the film has no sleek CG characters nor the obligatory American pop-culture references. (11 a.m. Friday at Sundance Cinemas)


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For me an essential album is one that never ages, no matter how many times I re-listen to it. It's also one I feel compelled to listen to all the way through every time - no temptation to ever skip ahead. Hence, without a second thought, I file this classic hip-hop album, which is brimming with jazzy funky grooves and irresistible rhymes, under that essential records category. A five-star release from the latter end of the genre's much-heralded golden era, Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop by Diamond And The Psychotic Neurotics scores on all levels: production-wise and lyrically, in addition to introducing most fans to hip-hop's long since beloved D.I.T.C. (Diggin' In The Crates) crew. Formerly a member of the rap group Ultimate Force, Diamond (aka Diamond D) proved with this debut album that he not just a gifted producer but also an adept emcee. Released in 1992 on Chemistry/Mercury/PolyGram, Stunts, Blunts, & Hip Hop is a truly solid, all-killer, no-filler hip-hop full-length release, sporting such timeless head-bobbing tracks as the popular lead single "Best-Kept Secret," "Feel The Vibe," "Check One Two," "Fuck What You Heard," "Sally Got a One-Track Mind," and the title track.
Ambient house pioneers The Orb will headline at The Regency on April 30th with Austin-based electronic producer Govinda opening. The UK downtempo electronic group, who were formed back in 1988 by Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty of KLF fame, have gone through numerous personal changes over the past 27 years with Paterson being the sole permanent member throughout. From the beginning it was Paterson's knack for producing and weaving trippy ambient sounds and effects (built mostly from obscure or flipped and reshaped samples and found sounds) that was highly instrumental in distinguishing The Orb's sound and would earn them such tags as "the Pink Floyd of the Nineties."
While The Orb, who have stayed consistently busy over the years (most recently with 2013's More Tales from the Orbservatory with Lee Scratch Perry and last month's 2 CD remix set History of The Future Part 2 on Malicious Damage), they have never quite recaptured the critical and commercial peak they enjoyed in the late '80s and '90s. However they continue to attract diehard, longtime fans alongside younger, new curious fans to their music and their concerts, which have always been a full-on sensory overload with trippy, spacey light shows and projected images to accompany the music. In concert, The Orb typically play a mix of newer and older material including such globally big hits as "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre of the Ultraworld" (aka "Loving You") and "Little Fluffy Clouds," both of which are below along with the more recent track "Golden Clouds." A dub reprise of "Little Fluffy Clouds" was the lead single taken from The Orb's 2012 collaborative album The Orb featuring Lee Scratch Perry presents The Orbserver In The Star House, released on Cooking Vinyl.
No better time to do an Irish female vocalists Amoeblog post since it is Women's History Month and since I am here in Dublin, Ireland today, where the national St. Patrick's Day Parade will begin at noon. The crowds have already swarmed the city centre while the festivities kicked off here over the weekend with overflowing bars and various events surrounding the four-day I Love My City 2015 Festival that leads up to and includes St. Patrick's Day. Generally, it's a time for both Irish natives and the influx of tourists to get their collective (drunken) Irish on. Naturally there's lots of Irish music everywhere, including a free show at The Chapel Royal in Dublin Castle with new Irish music vocalist Pauline Scanlon, backed by Notify who is part of the current wave of Irish singers keeping the Gaelic (Irish) traditional music alive by infusing slightly new arrangements on traditional airs with some electronic instrumentation backing alongside trad instruments.
Pauline Scanlon is one of the Irish female vocalists showcased in this Amoeblog along with a cross-section of others from over the past few decades up to the present. This list is both subjective (based on my own personal favorites) as well as culling the opinions of a few music fans here who include Paul Deacy (owner of Galway record/book/candle shop Bell Book & Candle), longtime Irish music collector and ambassador Tall Paul Lowe, and RTE 2XM radio DJ/broadcaster Eric "DJ Laz-E" Moore.


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Marc Hassenzahl explains the fascinating concept of User Experience and Experience Design. Commentaries by Don Norman, Eric Reiss, Mark Blythe, and Whitney Hess
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In the pantheon of American mythology, no one has so high a place as the self-made man or woman. And for every hero who has pulled himself up by his bootstraps is a gaggle of hangers-on whose only claim to fame is that they know someone more famous than you.
The archetypes of these "celebrities by association" are themselves legendary: the spoiled child, the embarrassing sibling, the gold-digging wife, the kept man, the handbag-designing trophy girlfriend, the sex-tape special guest. All of them want their 15 minutes; they just don't want to do any of the legwork.
Why we care so much about the comings and goings of celebrities -- why we spend so much time worried about what they're wearing on the red carpet and not wearing when stepping out of cars -- has been attributed to everything from the 24-hour news cycle, to the proliferation of the Internet, to post-9/11 depression, and our lack of a royal family.
Why we care at all about their boorish children and social-climbing girlfriends, remains, alas, a total mystery.
We care, says Lisa Timmons, editor of the witty celebrity blog "A Socialite's Life," because their lack of hard work offends our American sensibilities. We love to hate them for being spoiled and lazy, and as a result, we love to see them fall from that little bit of grace they didn't even deserve in the first place.
"We pride ourselves that there is no caste system in America," Timmons said, "that you can come to this country and become self-made ... I want to feel that someone making more money than me deserves it -- it justifies the hierarchy of the capitalist system."
And that, she said, is why we "like knowing Jewel slept in her car before becoming famous and Halle Berry was homeless when she was 21." It's also why when it comes to Brandon Davis, known only for being the grandson of billionaire oil tycoon Marvin Davis and making lewd comments about the actress Lindsay Lohan, "you don't just want him to fall, you want him completely destroyed."
The rich and famous have always had to contend with wastrel children and greedy friends and lovers. Brandon Davis and his ilk could easily stand in for Tom Rakewell, the subject of William Hogarth's "A Rake's Progress." The eight-part series of paintings completed in 1733 follows Rakewell as he receives his inheritance and then blows it on friends, gambling, and an orgy. The series ends with Rakewell in a "madhouse." Substitute bedlam for rehab and the paintings converge with the photo spreads found in any tabloid.
In what was perhaps the most elegiac piece written following the death of Anna Nicole Smith, Washington Post writer Philip Kennicott called Smith "the most famous gold digger in America." He also described her as a "courtesan" who used her beauty and charms to marry J. Howard Marshall, a billionaire oil tycoon, and a man of considerable power.
The irony of Smith, of course, is that through a deserved career in modeling, she became a legitimate celebrity. That celebrity led to her acquiring an entourage -- helmed by lawyer Howard K. Stern -- of hangers-on so desperate and ludicrous that E! network made a television show out of it.
Kennicott called Smith a courtesan with good reason. In the 18th and 19th centuries, courtesans were the social-climbing trophy girlfriends of their day, using their femininity and wits to acquire wealth, power and influence.


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One of the finest and largest architectural works of art in the world, this former basilica and mosque is now the Saint Sophia Museum. Many historians have nominated it as the 8th wonder of the world. Take a moment to linger here to admire the fine Byzantine mosaics.
The Basilica Cistern (Yerebatan Sarayı), is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul. The cistern, located 500 feet (150m) southwest of the Hagia Sophia on the historical peninsula of Sarayburnu, was built in the 6th century during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.
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The largest and oldest palace in the world, Topkapi is the crown jewel of the Ottoman Empire. With its treasury and exotic buildings overlooking the Golden Horn, your visit to Topkapi promises to be a truly fascinating experience.
Hippodrome and Obelisk:
The Hippodrome was once the heart of Constantinople's political and sporting life, and the scene of games and riots through 500 years of Ottoman history. Today it is a city park called the Horse Grounds (At Meydanı) because of its function in Ottoman times. The Hippodrome includes the 3500-year-old Egyptian granite Obelisk, brought to Constantinople by Emperor Theodosius in 390 AD.
Grand Bazaar:
In operation since the 14th century, the Grand Bazaar is one of the world's largest covered markets, with 58 streets and over 4,000 shops. The bazaar is specially known for its jewelry, leather, pottery, spices and carpets. (Closed on Sundays; additional time will be spent at the other locations.)
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Wile doing my State (CA) return, Turbo Tax did not perform any step-by-step prompting. It ran through some calculations and said it was done. My K1 differences between Fed & State were skipped. Had I not known they were needed, my taxes would have been wrong since the review showed no errors. After closing & restarting, the step-by-step worked. However, clicking between Federal Taxes, State Taxes, & Review tabs caused loss of placeholder so it did not return to last entry point..
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I have used TurboTax for many years and have found it to be a reliable and easy to use product. I was VERY disappointed to find that the Deluxe version I used for so long was suddenly downgraded by having investment forms removed. I don't have a lot of investments and even though I got a free *upgrade*, I will now be required to pay more next year for the Premier version for the one form I need to use - or change to a different product or service. This does not delight me at all.
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Instructions to correct errors on MLP K-1 entries are very confusing. Instructions refer me to the data entry on various Federal forms, rather than telling me to correct the data that I entered during the data entry process. Also, entering MLP sale information is confusing; descriptions used by Turbo Tax do not match descriptions typically used on the K-1s. I would not recommend Turbo Tax to anyone who has MLP K-1s, without advising them how difficult entering that data will be.
March 31, 2015
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March 14, 2015
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February 22, 2015
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My young adult children used turbo tax to file. Concerning health care: Even though they were listed as dependents on my taxes. The health care question did not ask if they were covered under my my heath care. it only asked if they were covered by their employer or if they purchased health care options as required by law. In their case it was not any of turbo tax choices. Even though they do not have full time jobs they chose by employer since they are covered under my employer
March 27, 2015
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I have been a user of Turbo Tax since it was introduced in the 80's as a DOS product. A few years ago I was disappointed when you put in a provision that the return could only be printed from the computer that the software was installed on. You quickly backed away from that move. Now with this years product you try to pull a fast one again that you had to back away from. Next year I will not buy your product if there are any surprises. Pretty sad outlook from a LONG TIME USER!!
April 3, 2015
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March 29, 2015
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I have used TurboTax from its earliest days and it gets better every year. Changes are usually very intuitive and not hard to follow. I am a Volunteer Income Tax preparer in our library, using the IRS supplied Taxwise software. TurboTax is much easier to use. If there is a way to download financial institution on Taxwise it is not part of the IRS training and is not obvious in any way. It is a feature Taxwise should adopt for ease of use, speed and accuracy. TurboTax is way ahead.
April 7, 2015
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The software was very easy to use, since I was a Turbo Tax customer last year getting the previous year's information imported was very simple. the software asked questions and then walked me through the process. I was able to stop and save my return to go find other documents and come back right where I left off. One suggestion for improvement, after asking the questions it would be nice to get a list of additional documents to collect to finish the return in a single session :)
March 22, 2015
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I have used TurboTax for years and trust it to accurately and economically prepare my taxes. When you realized that your customers were not going to like the changes you made to Deluxe this year, you promptly accepted the responsibility and repaired the damage. Even your retail vendors like Costco stepped up to make sure that customers understood the steps you had to taken. You can't ask more of a company. The automatic free upgrade to Premier was seamless. I'll be back next year!
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I use Turbo Tax to file my takes. I print out form. Do not submit it online because every day there is a hacker hacking peoples data, so I do it old fashioned way, print it and mail it. I would give it 5 star rating if it has local city tax forms also. Turbo tax does the forms and do not even bother to inform you that you that it has NOT done your local city tax form. If you are not aware of this fact, you will end up with a notice that you have not filed your local city taxes :(
March 8, 2015
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This is the third year I've used a TurboTax product to do my taxes. It is the easiest and most comprehensive tax prep software I've used. I intend to keep using it in the future. My only criticism is that when it says "checking for missing information" the program doesn't actually check everything. For example, missing information regarding a dependent care provider wasn't caught and my initial return was rejected. I eventually found what was missing and refiled without incident.
March 29, 2015
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March 9, 2015
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April 12, 2015
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March 8, 2015
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I have been a long time Deluxe user and my status and income categories have not changed but I was forced to upgrade, for free, to Premier. When trying to pay on my Mac I couldn't get a payment screen for either the upgrade or e-filling state fee. Kept getting a "payment session has timed out" screen. Took nearly two hours to get through these issues for me and my son. Luckily your phone service agents are pleasant and helpful, or my experience would move me to a different product.
February 7, 2015
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TurboTax is a terrific application for an accurate tax filing, however there are a few areas that could be simplified. First for Charitable contributions, I organize my material alphabetically, Turbo Tax provides prompts based on the sequence of last years contribution entity. It would be much easier and time saving to provide the list in alphabetical order. Second, since Social security and Medicare are calculated taxes, why not populate the fields and allow overrides if required.
March 29, 2015
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I love using TT however this year, for whatever reason, it seemed as if the language changed on the part of the form where we talk about depreciation of a rental property. The page where you have to answer yes or no to determine whether PA's depreciation was the same as the federal amount was difficult - the explanation provided just added to the confusion. Luckily, i know a CPA who was able to clarify how it should answered without charging me....this needs to be reviewed for 2015
March 24, 2015
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February 28, 2015
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April 2, 2015
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Most everything in TurboTax is straight forward, except the medical deductions. What is lacking is a clear understanding of the type of accounts. The explanations don't make the distinctions completely clear. In my case I have a Retired Medical Account which was not covered. I had to call the insurance company and was told there were no tax implications requiring a 1099 for the draws I made. Since this account paid the submitted bills I did not claim medical expenses on my return.
February 26, 2015
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This version of TurboTax Deluxe 2014 did not explain in worksheets or otherwise how it made several of the required calculations. We are not sure which forms we need to preview and print. The preview we selected wanted to printed 83 pages and the version we decided to print was 18 pages. TurboTax didn't allow us to preview our Federal Tax Return using the standard deduction. Do we need to complete our itemized Federal deductions in order to have TurboTax calculate our Arizona tax?
March 14, 2015
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Since we file a join return I would expect the software to ask to import information for both names. It does not. It was a great product when it was first released but it has become harder and harder to use each year. Also... it insists on me asking it to complete the Florida income tax return even though we have no Florida state income tax. It eventually tells me there is no need. Duh! Now, you make me use a different nickname just to rate you. REALLY? Not very customer focused.
March 26, 2015
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I have reported this in the past, but it still is a problem. My Non-Qualified Stock Options are entered as income and taxes taken out on my W-2. When I follow TurboTax's instructions for entry of this information, I get taxed again by the program. I have to manually over-ride the entry to show as a Loss due to the fees for the transaction. This has always been an issue with TurboTax. It could be fixed with one additional question - Was this transaction included in your W-2 Earnings?
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I have used TurboTax for years and have always been pleased with the product. My one problem this year is that I could not use the program on my Mac Mini because it was not compatible with the version of System X hat the Mini uses, so I had to prepare the returns on the laptop (which is newer), and the laptop is not connected to a printer so I could not print a copy of the returns. If I could have used the product on the Mac Mini, I would have given the product 5 stars instead of 4.
March 18, 2015
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by CaluluSometimes you really have to measure just how far you've come on your journey out of harmful theology. It's another part of your recovery, looking at how you handled a situation and then thinking back upon how this would have played out in your days of yore. Measure the difference and see where you instinctively line up now.This week brought another opportunity to do just that. We have ants.Here in the Virginia Piedmont it's Spring. Glorious Spring. Beautiful Spring. Yards filled with gracefully blooming daffodils and crocus, shoots of emerald green grass emerging from the red clay earth. Birds singing, trees leafing out, all that jazz. Spring here also means ants, lots … [Read more...]
Emotional Incest: The Junior Wife
[Editors' note: At the time of writing, Libby Anne and Sierra were unaware of the controversy surrounding Hugo Schwyzer. The discussion of his critique of emotional incest is not an endorsement of Schwyzer by NLQ.] by SierraLibby Anne has begun a series on Emotional Incest at Love, Joy, Feminism. In her latest post, she also links Hugo Schwyzer's striking analysis of the problems with the "Daddy's Girl" myth and princess culture. The following is my attempt to confirm and add more perspectives to the issue they are bringing to light.As a child of a believer and a nonbeliever, I walked a confusing and sometimes torturous line between the prescriptions of my church and the realities of … [Read more...]
Snipped! Part 4 The Freedom of Divorce
by Incongruous CircumspectionSeven years old was a big year for me. It was at this point that Mama and Dad's relationship boiled over and broke apart. Dad left and went to live by himself, leaving my siblings and I alone with Mama. At this point in my life, the alone time with Mama wasn't too bad. She hadn't learned yet, to take her immature "lashing out," and reconcile it with her interpretation of the Bible. She was just solidly abusive and then excitingly adventurous.At one point, Dad did try to come back and give the marriage another chance. I remember being asked to dry the dishes one evening. Dad had pulled our old black and white television from its corner, to the mid … [Read more...]
Debunking the Fourteen Basic Needs of a Marriage: Part 1c Men are Fragile, Women are Manipulative Fools
by Incongruous CircumspectionIn Part 1b we listened in as Gothard tried valiantly to describe the differing outlooks on life that, according to his understanding, men and women exemplify. It needs mentioning again here that Bill is relying on no practical experience. He has never been married. It makes sense that, being he has propped himself up to be a guru in every area of life, and the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of worshipers at his feet, he would make vast, overarching, easily wrapped up in a square box and neatly tied with a silk bow, conclusions for very complex issues in life. One of those issues is human nature. It cannot be pidgeonholed, no matter how many verses … [Read more...]
Authoritarian Parenting and Emotional Repression
by LatebloomerI have a lot of respect for my dad. He's thoughtful and generous to all of us. His constant reading makes him an interesting and well-informed conversationalist. He makes his life decisions very carefully, yet never looks down on me for making different decisions than him. Instead, he tells me all the time that he loves and misses me, and that he's proud of who I've become. I feel so lucky to have him as my dad.Unfortunately, we have not always gotten along so well. Less than ten years ago, our relationship had been almost completely destroyed thanks to the authoritarian parenting techniques of the fundamentalist Christian homeschooling culture. Authoritarian parenting … [Read more...]