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For this week's brand new spotlight piece (after taking a week off), I wanted to cite an A-lister who is known as one of the most deeply committed actors of his generation. Yes, it's Christian Bale, an Academy Award winner who just overflows with talent. Once considered an incredibly snubbed actor who never quite captured Oscar's attention, he's since moved on to a much more respected part of his career, while also stepping effortlessly between blockbusters and independent fare. At this point, he's almost a favorite of the voters and a multiple time nominee. As such, he's someone I'd wanted to shine the spotlight on for some time, I've just been waiting for the right moment…
Bale got started briefly as a teenager in television movies, but for most, the first real exposure to him came in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, as well as a few years later in the musical Newsies. Throw in his voice work in the Disney flick Pocahontas and he was making his first bones with what often was family friendly entertainment. That would change in a hurry, but his beginnings were much more mainstream than where he would go from there. He first teased at a more mature future with Velvet Goldmine, but it would be a certain book adaptation that really showed how extreme he could go.
American Psycho is not only one of his more out there roles, it's also one of his best performances to date. He was able to take author Bret Easton Ellis' character Patrick Bateman and find the theatrical quality in him. It's both a gonzo and very restrained performance, which is hard to do. Bale really nailed it, and it got the attention of Hollywood. He would no longer be an up and comer…he'd be a star in the making. Roles in bigger films like Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Equilibrium, Laurel Canyon, Reign of Fire, and Shaft followed, though many of those still had that independent spirit he gravitated to.
Bale next wowed people with a physical transformation for his part in The Machinist. He lost a disturbing amount of weight, giving an already strong performance an extra layer of power. It was impossible not to look at him and feel the agony of what the weight loss must have been like, which in turn makes the insomnia that the character is suffering feel all the more troubling. It's […]
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Spotlight on the Stars: Christian Bale
For this week's brand new spotlight piece (after taking a week off), I wanted to cite an A-lister who is known as one of the most deeply committed actors of his generation. Yes, it's Christian Bale, an Academy Award winner who just overflows with talent. Once considered an incredibly snubbed actor who never quite captured Oscar's attention, he's since moved on to a much more respected part of his career, while also stepping effortlessly between blockbusters and independent fare. At this point, he's almost a favorite of the voters and a multiple time nominee. As such, he's someone I'd wanted to shine the spotlight on for some time, I've just been waiting for the right moment…
Re-ranking the contenders in Best Actor
As I mentioned last week and the week prior to that, with the festival season well underway and a good portion of the major contenders for the Academy Awards having screened or about to screen, now seems like as good a time as any to take a look at the big eight categories and see what's what in an updated and more expanded fashion. I did this with the major categories a couple of months back, but that was when almost everything was still speculation. We have some facts to go on now, so while much of this is still just an educated guess, I'm not completely relying on overt hunches this time around. It's more of an even mix, depending on the film/director/performer in question, of course. Today I'm turning my attention once again to the Best Actor field, which won't necessarily match up with Best Picture in any major way, but perhaps won't be too far off either. Read on to see what I mean…
One special note about Best Actor this year is that it's as deep as I've ever seen it to be at this point in the season. Each of the ten men that I have cited as the ones with the best chance at a nomination could presumably even wind up winning, and I'd go so far as to say that extends to the next few as well. When have we been basically in October previously and had a dozen viable contenders to win an Oscar? Besides that, you can go nearly 20 deep in terms of who could legitimately wind up getting nominated. It's going to be a bloodbath when we whittle this down to the ultimate lineup…
Here are the ten gentlemen that I have in play for Best Actor currently, with the top five cracking the lineup at this point and time:
1. Michael Keaton (Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – You really can't write a better narrative for a comeback performance than this one. Not only is Keaton a former typecast superhero turned critical darling in this film, his character is an actor trying to emerge from the shadow of the hero that he played. It's the perfect storm not just to get him nominated, which almost surely will happen now, but the right combination of things to result in a win. Right now, he makes the most sense for this […]
Joaquin Phoenix: Oscar veterans hoping for another nomination this year
Each and every single awards season, there are tons of both newcomers and veterans to the Oscar game. Tomorrow I'll be taking a bit of a look at those seeking their first nominations from the Academy, but today I'm going to be going ahead and listing some of the major players who've already been nominated before, and in some cases are already winners. It's leading up to me re-ranking the contenders in the major categories next week, but right now it's just going to be a preview of which old hands to the Oscar ranch are saddling up for another ride on the awards season pony.
In the Best Actor race, the highest profile former nominee is Joaquin Phoenix, who will look for his first win this year with Inherent Vice. He represents the most likely non first time nominee who could win the Oscar in this category, though one level down we have Bradley Cooper for American Sniper and Bill Murray for St. Vincent, with Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler and Brad Pitt for Fury as other possibilities, plus Ben Affleck, who I'm counting here since he's an Oscar winner, even if he's never received an acting citation to date. Longer shots for nominations who've been to the dance before include Christian Bale for Exodus: Gods and Kings, Ralph Fiennes for The Grand Budapest Hotel, Philip Seymour Hoffman for A Most Wanted Man, Matthew McConaughey for Interstellar, Al Pacino for Manglehorn, Jeremy Renner for Kill the Messenger, and Mark Walhberg for The Gambler. Those fellas will be fighting it out with a bunch of first timers in this category, and it's going to be a bloodbath.
Over in Best Actress, we have perennial bridesmaid Amy Adams hoping that this year she'll finally be the bride with her work in Big Eyes. She's going to be getting a challenge from both Jessica Chastain (for either The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Miss Julie, or A Most Violent Year) and Reese Witherspoon for Wild though. One level down you have Julianne Moore for Still Alice and Meryl Streep for Into the Woods, with other former nominees/winner on the hunt including Marion Cotillard for The Immigrant or Two Days One Night, Keira Knightley for Begin Again, Hilary Swank for The Homesman, Kate Winslet for A Little Chaos, and Robin Wright for The Congress. The newbies could seriously vie for a win here, but the vets have […]
The 86th Academy Awards: If I had been a voter
I'm possibly going to be trying out a new series here. Essentially, today I'll be going back and looking at the most recent Oscars and explaining what my vote would have been in each of the big eight categories. Potentially, I could do this once a week with previous Academy Award ceremonies, so there's a chance that this could turn into a long running thing. There are 86 of these to sift through after all…and counting. If nothing else, this gives you an interesting look into my cinematic tastes. Over the course of he year you can sort of get a feel for what my current favorites are, but now we can look to the past a bit.
Alright, here goes nothing:
Best Picture – Her
The nominees here were 12 Years a Slave, American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity, Her, Nebraska, Philomena, and The Wolf of Wall Street. Considering that it was my favorite film of 2013, a vote for Her would be pretty clear and decisive here. The Wolf of Wall Street would be my runner up, but it wouldn't be a close race. Spike Jonze's meditation on love is an absolute masterpiece, so that'd be my pick.
Best Director – Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity
I'd have voted for Jonze here, but he wasn't nominated. The actual nominees were Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity, Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave, Alexander Payne for Nebraska, David O. Russell for American Hustle, and Martin Scorsese for The Wolf of Wall Street. I very nearly went with Scorsese here, but it's fairly hard to deny Cuarón's work here on Gravity. The aforementioned Jonze is my personal pick overall, but Cuarón is my choice of the actual nominees.
Best Actor – Leonardo DiCaprio for The Wolf of Wall Street
In a perfect world, I'd have seen Oscar Isaac in the lineup for Inside Llewyn Davis and subsequently he'd be my vote. The actual nominees here though were Christian Bale for American Hustle, Bruce Dern for Nebraska, Leonardo DiCaprio for The Wolf of Wall Street, Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 Years a Slave, and Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club. Everyone is worthy here and I really came close to selecting Dern, but DiCaprio showed an incredible aptitude for comedy and that would be enough for me to give him his first Oscar.
Best Actress – Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine
Without the ability to cite the snubbed Adele Exarchopolous for […]
"True Detective" continues to bridge the gap between film and television
With a bunch of casting news/rumors and plot points beginning to leak out about the second season of HBO's acclaimed anthology series True Detective, I wanted to take another look at the talent surrounding the show. Basically, I'm thrilled to see that it's really the one program out there that's looking to be more like a movie than a TV show. Television has always been a very different medium than film, but True Detective is really working hard to bridge the gap, in a big way too. This next season, if it's as good an as artful as the first, could really do it.
On the inaugural season, it almost came as a shock how cinematic the series was. Series creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto created a blueprint for something that could have been just another procedural, but the talent that came together really elevated it. Season One director Cary Fukunaga brought art house visuals to television, which I loved. A-list movie stars Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey brought heft and pizzazz to the small screen. It really was a perfect marriage. Last time out I wrote about how it would have fared as an Oscar contender if it somehow was just an eligible eight hour movie, but that speaks to its cinematic power. Eight episodes that strike you as one long flick.
For the second season, Pizzolatto and HBO are continuing to think big. Initially mega stars like Christian Bale and Jessica Chastain were sought out for leading roles, which would have been something incredible. Lately, it's beginning to look like Colin Farrell, Taylor Kitsch, and Vince Vaughn are going to be three of the main characters, with Elisabeth Moss also rumored for a part. Those are all pretty strong names, to say the least. With new rumors have supremely underrated filmmaker Andrew Dominik potentially coming aboard to be the director, that could really put it over the edge.
Above all else, what I like about True Detective is how much it strives to be a movie during this supposed Golden Age of Television. I'll always be partial to the cinematic experience, even if the big screen is progressively losing ground to the small screen. True Detective is this great experiment happening right before our eyes, and I'm following it closely. In five years, I feel like we're going to look back on to the first season or two of this show, […]
Oscars: 12 Years a Slave wins Best Picture at the 86th Academy Awards
After months and months of lead up and speculation (not to mention an endless string of precursor awards), the Academy Awards were finally given out, and the results were almost as unpredictable as we'd all been saying. 12 Years a Slave took home Best Picture despite only winning two other Oscars and losing in the Best Director and Best Film Editing categories (both of which Gravity took), normally categories that go to the Best Picture winner. Gravity was the biggest winner of the night in terms of numbers though, taking seven prizes, including the aforementioned Director (for Alfonso Cuaron) and Editing fields.
In terms of the other prizes, Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto were once again awarded for their performances in Dallas Buyers Club (McConaughey in Best Actor and Leto in Best Supporting Actor), while Cate Blanchett won Best Actress for Blue Jasmine and Lupita Nyong'o edged out Jennifer Lawrence in the Best Supporting Actress category. Best Original Screenplay went to Spike Jonze for Her (my personal favorite award of the evening) and John Ridley won Best Adapted Screenplay for 12 Years a Slave. Other winners included Frozen (Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song), 20 Feet from Stardom (Best Documentary Feature), and The Great Beauty (Best Foreign Language Feature).
Here now are all of the results from the 86th Academy Awards:
"12 Years a Slave" – WINNER
"American Hustle"
"Captain Phillips"
"Dallas Buyers Club"
"The Wolf of Wall Street"
David O. Russell, "American Hustle"
Alfonso Cuaron, "Gravity" – WINNER
Alexander Payne, "Nebraska"
Steve McQueen, "12 Years a Slave"
Martin Scorsese, "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Christian Bale, "American Hustle"
Bruce Dern, "Nebraska"
Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years a Slave"
Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club" – WINNER
Amy Adams, "American Hustle"
Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine" – WINNER
Sandra Bullock, "Gravity"
Judi Dench, "Philomena"
Meryl Streep, "August: Osage County"
"American Hustle" – Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
"Blue Jasmine" – Written by Woody Allen
"Her" – Written by Spike Jonze – WINNER
"Nebraska" – Written by Bob Nelson
"Dallas Buyers Club" – Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
"Before Midnight" – Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
"Captain Phillips" – Screenplay by Billy Ray
"Philomena" – Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
"12 Years a Slave" – Screenplay by John Ridley – WINNER
"The Wolf of Wall Street" – Screenplay by Terence Winter
Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave" – WINNER
Jennifer Lawrence, "American Hustle"
June Squibb, "Nebraska"
Julia Roberts, "August: Osage County"
Sally […]
Oscars: Get to know the Best Actor race
Best Actor
Nominees: Christian Bale for American Hustle, Bruce Dern for Nebraska, Leonardo DiCaprio for The Wolf of Wall Street, Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 Years a Slave, and Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club
Notable precursor wins: Dern wins National Board of Review Award, DiCaprio wins Golden Globe Award (Comedy), Ejiofor wins BAFTA Award, and McConaughey wins Broadcast Film Critics Association, Golden Globe (Drama), and Screen Actors Guild Awards
Current frontrunner: Matthew McConaughey
Next in line: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Dark horse: Bruce Dern
Time for the next version of my "Get to know" series, as we turn our attention now to the Best Actor race. As you can see above, the gentlemen making up this category are Christian Bale for American Hustle, Bruce Dern for Nebraska, Leonardo DiCaprio for The Wolf of Wall Street, Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 Years a Slave, and Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club. This was a wide open and highly competitive race for most of the season, though lately the tide has greatly turned in McConaughey's favor. Right now, he's the odds on favorite to win the Oscar.
Basically, once the crowded field competing to be nominated was whittled down to these five, things clarified a bit. Bale was just happy to be nominated, while the other four shuffled back and forth a bit. Then, the major precursors really rallied around McConaughey, resulting in his current frontrunner status. Dern hasn't had a win in a while that gives him much of a shot, while DiCaprio and Ejiofor have some, but not nearly on the level of McConaughey.
Now, with the Academy Awards just days away, McConaughey is the smart bet for Best Actor. If there's going to be an upset, it's going to be from Ejiofor. A Dern or DiCaprio win would be shocking at this point. Still, Ejiofor is pretty far behind McConaughey, so look for him to pick up a statue on Sunday evening. Anything could happen, but things seem pretty cut and dried now to me…
Stay tuned for the rest of the acting categories this week, with Best Actress up next!
Oscars: Get to know a Best Picture nominee: "American Hustle"
"American Hustle"
Directed by: David O. Russell
Written by: David O. Russell and Eric Warren Singer
Main cast members: Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Louis C.K., Robert De Niro, Michael Pena, Jack Huston, Elisabeth Röhm, and Alessandro Nivola
Number of Oscar nominations in total: 10
Other nominations besides Best Picture: Best Director (Russell), Best Actor (Bale), Best Actress (Adams), Best Supporting Actor (Cooper), Best Supporting Actress (Lawrence), Best Original Screenplay (Russell and Singer), Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, and Best Film Editing
Notable precursor wins: Won Best Ensemble at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Best Comedy/Best Actress in a Comedy/Supporting Actress at the Golden Globe Awards, and Best Film/Supporting Actress/Best Screenplay at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Chances at winning Best Picture: One of the top three contenders for the award and a definite co-frontrunner
Chances at other Academy Award wins: Locked in close races for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay, with Best Actress, Best Costume Design, and Best Film Editing still in play
ANALYSIS OF OTHER OSCAR NOMINEES: 12 Years a Slave, American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity and HER.
American Hustle is the second film in my "get to know a Best Picture nominee" series, and it's another one of the main contenders in the category. Though no film among the nominees has seen the sort of backlash that American Hustle has, the numbers simply don't lie. It's a blockbuster hit financially, has some major precursor wins under its belt, is one of the rare films to be able to score a nomination in each acting category, and tied for the most nominations overall this year. That didn't happen out of thin air. This is a much loved movie, even if the supporters aren't as vocal about it. A silent majority could still turn out to be a majority though, so this is a top tier Best Picture player for sure.
Working in American Hustle's favor is just how much it was embraced by the Academy. Last year David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook got all four acting nominations as well (plus a Lawrence win in Best Actress), making him the first director ever to achieve this in consecutive years. It's obvious that Oscar voters like what he's doing, considering the ten nominations they gave him. It'd be one of the biggest losses in history if the film went home empty handed, so I just don't […]
Bradley Cooper, Viola Davis, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Justin Timberlake and Sigourney Weaver to Present at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
Bradley Cooper, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, and Justin Timberlake will be presenters at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, Executive Producer Jeff Margolis announced today.
First-time SAG Awards nominee Bradley Cooper is recognized this year for his lead role in David O. Russell's 'Silver Linings Playbook' and as a cast member in the film. In addition to 'Playbook,' Cooper had three other films in release in 2012: 'The Words,' 'Hit and Run,' and 'The Place Beyond the Pines.' In May, he'll be seen in 'The Hangover Part III' and later this year will star opposite his 'Playbook' co-star Jennifer Lawrence in the suspense drama 'Serena.' He'll also reunite with Russell to work on the director's film about the Abscam scandal, also starring Christian Bale.
Viola Davis is a four-time Screen Actors Guild Award® nominee and two-time recipient of the Actor® in 2012 for her lead performance as Aibileen Clark and as a cast member in 'The Help.' Davis' previous nominations were for her supporting and cast performances in 'Doubt' opposite Meryl Streep. She was recently seen in 'Won't Back Down' and will next star in the drama 'Beautiful Creatures' opposite Emma Thompson.
Anne Hathaway, who just received a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Fantine in 'Les Miserables,' earned her first SAG Awards nomination in 2006 as a cast member of Ang Lee's 'Brokeback Mountain' and her first lead female actor nod in 2009 for 'Rachel Getting Married.' This year, she?s nominated twice: As supporting female actor in 'Les Miserables' and as a member of the film's cast. In 2012, Hathaway starred opposite Christian Bale in director Christopher Nolan's third and final installment of his Batman trilogy, 'The Dark Knight Rises.' Next year, she will give voice once again to Jewel the macaw in the animated sequel 'Rio 2.'
Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe winning actor Hugh Jackman is a two-time SAG Awards nominee this year for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in ' Les Miserables' and as a member of the film's cast. In July, audiences will see him reprise the role of Wolverine in the 6th installment of the 'X-Men' franchise, 'The Wolverine.' He is currently filming 'Prisoners' with Melissa Leo, Jake Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis, directed by Denis Villeneuve.
In 2010, Jennifer Lawrence earned her first SAG Award nomination for her performance in 'Winter's Bone.' The Golden Globe recipient is a double nominee this year, […]
The Perks of Being a Wallflower explodes at the Box Office
Hollywoodnews.com: It wasn't so much a 'something for everyone' weekend as it was 'multiple things for the same general audience' as four wide releases aimed at thrill-hungry moviegoers and/or adults debuted on the same day, creating a clear case of mutually assured destruction. The top three movies are basically tied, but as always rank is irrelevant next to the actual hard numbers (why rank doesn't matter).
For the moment, the top debut of the weekend may be End of Watch, a 'found footage'-style LA cop drama, parlayed strong reviews into a solid $13 million opening, which is the second-biggest debut for Open Roads outside of The Grey ($20 million) back in January. The $7 million film (purchased for $2 million) had a marketing and distribution cost of around $20 million, so even a $40 million final total will get this film in the black before home video. It also proves that Jake Gyllenhaal is a decent mid-range opener. He's useful when the film you're selling doesn't cost $200 million ala Prince of Persia. End of Watch is yet another installment in writer David Ayers's 'two volatile men in a car' sub-genre, which includes the likes of The Fast and the Furious, Training Day and Harsh Times (an underrated Christian Bale vehicle which he also directed). He wrote but did not direct the the LA Riots-set cop melodrama Dark Blue while directing but not writing the frankly mediocre Keanu Reeves cop melodrama Street Kings. Among films he directed, End of Watch should easily top the $26 million gross of Street Kings while it will be fifth (out of seven) if it can merely surpass the $9 million gross of Kurt Russell's Dark Blue. Fourth place is the $76 million-grossing Training Day, which is too far a bridge to cross at this point.
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Garmin Basecamp (Mapsource) for iPad?
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Just use a portable Wi-Fi SD Card Reader.
But, that won't solve the BaseCamp issue. Garmin could easily put the real BaseCamp (not BaseCamp Mobile) on
iOS for iPad
. But, they missed the mark badly early on in the mobile market with the GarminFone and are now very much focused on short term profitability from what I can see - not that profitability is a bad thing when your PND market is shrinking.
These days they just seem to be throwing one misfire after another at iOS and Android. If I were Cliff Pemble, I would reorganize the PND group and put someone in there that comes from the real mobile world give them some room to run. Garmin has all of the components to make a big hit in the iOS/Android market but they are not going to get there with there current management. JMPO
It seems Garmin is/has become like Blackberry.......nothing really new or modern in many years. My guess is that in a few years standalone GPS units will be few and far between. Take the Montana now add XM, Spot or similar, WIFI/cellular with the ability to use droid/ios apps, real time weather/radar via XM or cellular, have it not take years to get the bugs worked out and that would make for a modern GPS unit.
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MLB.com has some scouting videos up for some of the 2006 draft prospects. It gives you a chance to check out Lincecum, Rowell, or other potential future Reds.
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MLB.com has some scouting videos up for some of the 2006 draft prospects. It gives you a chance to check out Lincecum, Rowell, or other potential future Reds.
Thanks for the heads up on that one....I completely forgot MLB.com had scouting videos this year.
they have them every year. i love it as its my only chance to see a good portion of these guys
lincecum can really fire it and he throws heat low in the zone. if we draft him, i hope we keep him a starter
i thought scherzer is supposed to throw hard. on that video he topped out at 89
Why is everyone talking about us getting Lincecum? Don't a lot of mock drafts have him going #1 overall? Somehow I can't see him slipping 7 picks. He's throwing smoke though! :eek:
The latest MLB.com mock draft has the Reds taking him. The Royals will take Miller, the Rockies Longoria. Detroit is talking about Stubbs or Kershaw. LA likes high school pitchers. The Mariners may take Hochevar. I think there is a decent chance Lincecum falls to the Reds.Quote:
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That'd be awesome.
I don't see what the fuss is over Lincecum's delivery is. He gets most of his velocity from his leg drive and trunk torque. His arm action is actually very smooth. Kid also seems to have a rubber arm. He's my pick of the litter this year.
OBM, can you give me a link to the lastest MLB mock draft? Can't seem to find it on their site.Quote:
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Awesome OBM!! Thanks so much... I can't seem to find much of anything on their site.. they really need to redo some of their pages. And their search function teh sucks.Quote:
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Lincecum has the best stuff in this draft and is the most polished. Complete stud. Though high number of innings and short stature has made teams worried. If he was a couple of inches taller, the Royals would be printing up the contract right now lol!!!
cincyinco, minus the fact that typing your name out I figured out what it stood for, MLB.com has a horrible site layout. The site is way to "new wave" wanna be and with the way they want to pump up everything every 15 minutes, any article posted on there is off the front page within 24 hours of it being posted.
haha.. thanks doug, i agree.
and yes.. cincy in CO
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The following e-mail exchanges obtained by ABC News were written by space shuttle pilot Bill Oefelein & Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman. They were found in the possession of astronaut Lisa Nowak when she was arrested after driving from Houston to Orlando in order to confront Shipman.
Oefelein received this first e-mail while he was on a shuttle mission in space.
SENT: Thursday, December, 21, 2006 9:46 PM
SUBJECT: I need a rub down
15 year of gymnastics caught up with me today.
I turned my head to look at the mechanic after he handed me the bill, and now I've got the biggest crick in my shoulder blade.
Whew! That'll wake you up!
I really lucked out. Only $500 (that's 2 helicopter lessons) of routine, really. 80,000 miles and I had never change the spark plugs … whoops… heh heh.
Was stranded at dance class at Merritt Island yesterday, but used my newfound confidence in controlling mechanical thingys (thanks again to the helicopter) to heep the car running till I made it home.
It was a very coordinated maneuver, driving home. Since it stalled when the RPM dipped below 2000, I had to keep my foot on the gas, throw him in neutral, honk my horn, give people the finger…
Alright, I didn't have to do those last 2 things, but it sure made the drive home a lot more fun.
Honestly, though… these are the times when I miss my gigantic family. (and my smoke jumper, whom I know would have come to my rescue)
Will have to control myself when I see you… First urge will be to rip your clothes off, throw you on the ground and love the hell out of you.
Am anxious to get you alone…but honestly, love I want you to totally and thoroughly enjoy you hero's homecoming.
So happy for you!!!!
I'll be here for you….
SENT: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:29 PM
SUBJECT: RE: I need a rub down
I just got this e-mail today. We put away the radar that gave us the ability to receive e-mails about a day and a half before landing. SO they save the ones they couldn't uplink in order to give to us when we got back.
You write such good notes!!
You are the best!! I love you.
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Enjoy. The marshmellow pic was taken at my seat
As as you sat in at the simulator. See your charm floating there? Not the best, but you can tell there's an earth in the background. The other was taken just before de-orbit after I had to crawl back into the ascent/Entry Suit.
Missing you.
SENT: Monday January 8, 2007 6:29 PM
SUBJECT: Re: A couple more pics
These are awesome! I don't see the charm though!
*pant pant* … I'm just not seeing it!
It's like those erotic hidden picture games that they have at the bar … only you're fully clothed in the picture … and I'm looking for my charm …
Ok, not like those hidden picture games at all, but I the thought of you without clothes is pretty nice *sigh*
Wish me luck tomorrow! 2 big appointments….
If I had to choose to have only one go well, I honestly don't know which one I'd pick.
Am only sure of 2 things tonight.
1. I love you and I am head-over--heels IN love with you.
2. I'd really like a bath tonight.
That might be three things. I miss you.
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The charm is floating in front of the picture you boob!! What did you say your eyesight is?


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involving pregnant women, two of whom reported having subsequent stillbirths. Thirty-five of the remaining pregnant women were followed—up 9 mo after the epidemic; no additional stillbirths were found. To control the epidemic, it was necessary to embargo on July 4 and to destroy all watermelons in the state on July 7 and to effect a field certification program. The epidemic and the costly resultant control measures illustrate the difficulties in assuring the safe use of the most potent pesticide. The use of pesticides is controlled by an elaborate set of crop specific regulations. State and federal regulators use laboratory tests of produce samples to insure that regulations are followed. When inadvertent or illegal applications of pesticide occur in a particular crop, there is no system that guarantees that the public will not be exposed. For most pesticides, the effects may not be dramatic, but when a potent pesticide appears in a widely eaten commodity, the impact on health and the institutions that are designed to protect it can be devastating. This paper describes the course of one such event.
ON JULY 3, 1985, the Oregon Department of Health notified the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) of several cases of possible pesticide illness related to consumption of watermelons that were thought to have been grown in Arizona.1,2 At 4:00 A.M. on July 4, a 62-y-old woman on digoxin therapy was treated at a Lake County California, emergency department for hypotension, severe bradycardia (31 beats per minute [bpm]), atrial fibrillation, diaphoresis, vomiting, diarrhea, lacrimation, salivation, and muscle twitching. She had eaten watermelon about 30 min earlier. Her symptoms resolved following treatment with atropine. Two other family members who had consumed the same watermelon were also ill and had similar though milder symptoms. The treating physician notified the San Francisco Bay Area Regional Poison Control Center, which subsequently notified CDHS.
Later on the morning of July 4, Oregon officials reported to CDHS that aldicarb sulfoxide (ASO), a toxic degradation product of aldicarb, had been detected in several of the melons related to illness episodes in that state and that the origin of the melons was, in fact, from California.1,2 Aldicarb, CAS No. 116–06–3, is a cholinesterase-inhibiting carbamate pesticide that is not registered for use on watermelons in the U.S. but commonly used on citrus, cotton, potatoes, peanuts, and soybeans. Within 2 h, calls to 10 California poison control centers, 20 selected emergency departments, and 1 county health department had identified an additional 12 presumed cases of pesticide illness related to consumption of watermelons. This included a group of 4 individuals in Bakersfield who had eaten a striped melon purchased at a roadside stand, a group of 6 individuals who had eaten a striped melon from a Los Angeles-area supermarket warehouse, and 2 individuals in the San Francisco Bay Area who had eaten green melons purchased at different retail stores. These illnesses were investigated by state and local health officials, and arrangements were made for obtaining watermelon samples.
Just prior to noon on July 4, statewide media advisories were issued that warned against eating watermelons, and an embargo was placed on the sale of watermelons throughout California. Usual product recall mechanisms were inoperative because the day was a national holiday. By late afternoon on July 4, case investigations and tracking of sources of melons back through the distribution chains had implicated a single Kern County shipper in several, but not all of the episodes. Subsequently, in the melon from the first known California case, ASO was found at 2.7 parts per million (ppm). The embargo remained in effect for the next 3 d.
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The Huron County commissioners are selling the Shady Lane Drive property that is currently home to the BMX track.
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#101 Think a hundred times before you "Best Buy" in ChinaSunday, March 30th, 2014
Yes, this is somewhat old news, but it's also an ongoing story. In early 2011, several media outlets reported that US electronics retail giant Best Buy was failing in China. In a year when Chinese overall retail sales grew by a monthly average of 18 percent, Best Buy shut down all of its nine mega stores. It would be easy to blame the Chinese consumer for their price sensitivity, their tendency to haggle over discounts, their unwillingness to pay for quality service, and the rapidly rising competition from online retail, but that would be – well, too cheap. Foreign companies entering a new market carry what the international management scholars call the "liability of foreignness" – their task is not to educate consumers and reshape and entire culture, their task is to adapt to local conditions. Or, if their internal environment and business model doesn't allow them to do so, to simply stay away. Also, local Chinese competitors such as Gome (Electrical Appliances Holding Ltd.) themselves started to introduce fixed prices and to take sales personnel off commission a while ago, thus getting closer to the Western retail model. In Best Buy's case, the failure might have been a combination of many different things from costs that were too high to mistakes in product portfolio decisions to the building of monumental flagship stores. Maybe Best Buy even overextended itself on a global scale. Almost parallel announcements to withdraw from the UK and from Turkey point to a mismanaged overall global expansion strategy. Anywho, back in 2011, it seemed that another arm of Best Buy's operations in China, the acquired local, Nanjing-based Five Star chain and its mobile business units would be the solution to the company's trouble. In fact, Five Star was where Best Buy's involvement in the Chinese market started altogether in 2006. Two years later, Five Star's market share had been steadily declining and calls for Best Buy to completely pull out of China grew louder. In late 2013, however, the company's new CEO, Hubert Joly, renewed Best Buy's confidence in the Chinese market, citing steady progress the company had been making. In 2014, it remains to be seen if Best Buy's future will be able to attract more Chinese consumers or if they'll continue to do what one of the translations of Best Buy's name in Chinese, 百思买 (Bai Si Mai), could mean: "Think a hundred times before you buy"!
#98 Someone seems to get it right in ChinaThursday, November 14th, 2013
In the past, H&M may not always have met analyst's expectations, it may have taken some heat over the use of Photoshop in some ads, it has been criticized over unfair labor practices, but from this blog's angle, the Swedish multinational seems to be doing things right in international markets. Considering high profile retail failures such as The Gap's in Germany, Fresh & Easy's in the U.S. or WalMart's in Korea, H&M has been navigating foreign waters without major blunders so far. One of the markets where H&M is very active and expanding is China – a market in which many foreign entrants fail. While H&M did have some run-ins with authorities in China over product quality – excessive PH levels, weak crack resistance, and lower fiber content than claimed, it has all been very contained and hasn't hurt them. In September 2013, after a year of rapid growth and expansion, H&M opened it's 3,000th store globally in China where it currently has 170 stores. While this puts H&M behind Inditex's Zara's 400 plus stores in China, H&M has ambitious plans for future expansion in the Middle Kingdom. Analysts say that H&M is filling a mid-range gap between sports apparel and high-end luxury clothes in China. By bringing affordable clothes to the market they are catering to the needs of younger Chinese consumers who want Western style shopping experiences and clothes that provide some degree of status that an established global brand conveys.
#93 Global retail: size doesn't matter, or does it?Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
Yes, the British are leaving the United States – again. After a $1.6 billion investment, British supermarket giant Tesco announced that it may be selling it's US "Fresh and Easy" chain. Clearly, corporate PR speak for "we are pulling out of the United States altogether". What has happened to Tesco, which successfully operates more than 6,000 stores worldwide? On the surface, the promises of convenience and tasty, freshly prepared food sounded great, but what US customers experienced was less "Fresh and Easy" and more "Small and Strange". In the eyes of American consumers, the stores had a limited product range (terrible for a country where the pet food aisles are often better stocked than entire supermarkets in Europe), a selection that was uniform irrespective of the neighborhood of the store (watercress salad in South Los Angeles…), unfamiliar British fare instead of the ubiquitous American brands (Marmite, seriously?), too much packaging (in a country where we want our sandwiches on sourdough, toasted on one side with non-fat mayonnaise and chopped tomato – not sliced – Dijon on the upper half, and Pepper Jack, not Swiss), and – worst of all – it made customers do their own check out!
So, it's really the old story of standardization versus adaptation and finding the right balance between protecting the efficiencies of a proven business model and adapting it to the environment of the target market. Yes, there is a tremendous amount of change in the supermarket landscape in the US that invites new concepts and experimentation, but you certainly can't just bomb drop an entirely new concept into a market that is as competitive as, for instance the Southern Californian. You need to get the word out, listen to consumers, and slowly educate them, instead of alienating. But then again, if the entire economics of a business model are built around a standardized approach, then the only choice a company has is simply not to enter a culturally distant market. Or leave, several years and $1.6 billion later. Even if you're a huge company such as Tesco.
#92 Here we go again: Wal-Mart in IndiaSunday, December 9th, 2012
This week, the two houses of the Indian parliament have decided to finally and fully pave the road for foreign direct investment in the country's retail sector. Long awaited, and heavily disputed, this measure opens the sector to foreign retailers who have been waiting at the doorsteps of one of the largest consumer markets in the world. Until recently, only partial ownership has been allowed which didn't prevent some retailers from tipping their toes into this foreign land. As important as the passing of the legislation has been, it shouldn't distract from the fact that there are many other barriers to overcome than just the formal barrier of the law. As, I'm certain, US retail giant WalMart, which entered the Indian market in 2007 under a joint venture with the Bharti Group, can confirm. Originally, foreign companies including Wal-Mart's joint venture were only allowed to operate wholesale stores. Based on recent changes in the law retail stores came within reach, and Wal-Mart announced that it would expand over the next few months. Now, in India's bureaucratic culture, expansion can be cumbersome. Often, because of the burgeoning bureaucracy and the overlapping of federal, state and local laws, fifty or sixty different permits may be required before the opening of a store is approved. The suspicion is that the expansion train was going too slow, so that some Wal-Mart employees started to grease the tracks. An Indian government agency called Directorate of Enforcement therefore has been investigating Wal-Mart on suspicions of such corruption. Even before that, Wal-Mart had already suspended a number of employees, potentially including its CFO in India based on investigations related to the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The fact that Wal-Mart started similar probes in Mexico, Brazil, China and India shows that blaming entire countries or cultures for corruption may only tell one side of the story. It always takes one to take the bribe, and one to pay the bribe. Implicitly or explicitly, employees must have felt a certain pressure to speed up the process, to please their bosses, or to bring results so that they can get the raise and the promotion. This case also shows that entering mature or developed foreign markets is difficult enough, but when it comes to emerging markets or developing countries, the differences in local practices can often create severe difficulties even for the best companies and the most skilled employees. Strategies that fit Western, industrialized nations, don't necessarily fit emerging markets, and therefore need to be adapted carefully.
#90 Another one bites the dust (not quite yet)Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
Not too long before US-based DIY giant Home Depot announced it's almost complete withdrawal from China, similar news emerged about Europe's largest home improvement retailer, Kingfisher PLC. Kingfisher, founded in 1969, which owns the B&Q and Castorama brands, operates close to 1,000 stores in eight countries including Britain, Ireland, France, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Russia and China. Kingfisher has been struggling in most countries, but it's China troubles seem to be of a different magnitude. Ever since it first entered China in 1999, it has been uphill for Kingfisher in the Middle Kingdom. When losses hit more than $ 80 million, B&Q decided to cut the number of stores by 22 in 2009. Realizing that the "big box concept" is not very appealing to the Chinese market, it also downsized operations for its remaining 40 stores. As has become apparent in the recent Home Depot case, B&Q may be struggling with exactly the same difficulties – the fact that for cultural and economic reasons, the entire DIY concept is too foreign to most Chinese consumers. And for those who like the idea of tiling their own bathrooms and flooring their own living rooms, there is a plethora of local alternatives in a highly fragmented market. After all, brand is not as important in the DIY segment as it is in more visible FMCG categories. All in all, another case of the difficulties associated with the internationalization of retail businesses.
#89 Home Depot Packs Bags, Leaves ChinaMonday, September 17th, 2012
Late last week, US-based home improvement giant Home Depot announced that it would take a $ 160 million after-tax charge and close seven of its big-box home improvement stores. Home Depot entered China with high hopes in 2006 when it acquired 12 stores across China. Over the years it had reduced the number of stores to the seven it is now closing. Home Depot, which of course also sources heavily from China, does have plans to keep two speciality stores in the city of Tianjin and also to be active in online retail, but for now the dreams of making it big in a market of more than a billion consumers are over. While it is true that many retailers in China are currently struggling as slow economic growth is curbing consumer spending, the roots of Home Depot's failure may be somewhere else.
The first reason may be that China is not so much a Do-it-Yourself (DIY) culture, but more of a HIDBO (Have-it-done-by-others) culture. Cheap labor is abundant, but even more importantly for a culture that values status and prestige, tiling your own bathroom or painting your own window frames is not necessarily a desired activity for the masses. You may ask why it then is that IKEA is hugely successful in China – a company that also makes you assemble your own furniture. The answer leads us to the second reason behind Home Depot's failure. Chinese are looking for guidance in acquiring Western lifestyles. IKEA provides this guidance by showing their customers how to decorate their homes in a Western fashion. The fact that you have to assemble your own furniture is a little more appealing when you know what the final product is supposed to look like. Besides, there's always someone to assemble your IKEA furniture for you. Home Depot, however, leaves consumers largely alone and guessing about the final look and feel. Also, most Chinese live in small apartments and don't have the room to keep tools or work on DIY projects. And ultimately, Home Depot is selling commodities – nails, screws and paints aren't necessarily the same cultural icons like IKEA, McDonalds or KFC that so many Chinese middle class families are looking for. There may also be a third reason. Generally, as has also been featured in this blog, retail somehow doesn't travel easily across international borders. But that's for another time.
#83 The Race is OnMonday, November 28th, 2011
The race is on. India just announced that it will allow foreign majority ownership in its retail industry. This paves the way for global retailers such as Wal-Mart, Tesco, Carrefour, or Metro. And it'll be a brutal race, too. One might think that a retail market that is estimated at around $ 400 bio this year and is expected to double within the next four to five years will have enough room for all players. However, with the retail industry being largely devoid of any significant national players, this will be all about first-mover advantage. Maybe it'll even turn out okay for the second in the race, as sometimes it needs a trailblazer to deal with all the nitty gritty groundwork before someone else reaps the benefits from the efforts of others. But nos. 3 and 4 will certainly find entry a lot more difficult. Wal-Mart which already has a joint-venture with Indian conglomerate Bharti will definitely be a serious contender for the top spot in the race – if they manage to learn from some of the mistakes they have made in other markets such as Germany or Korea. As attractive as the Indian retail market is, it is certainly also a market that will have lots of surprises and difficulties for foreign retailers – from differences in consumer behavior to challenges in dealing with Indian employees.
#73 Vuvuzelas for BentonvilleThursday, October 7th, 2010
Wal-Mart has made a multi-billion Dollar offer to acquire South African retailer Massmart Holdings. As someone who's been following Wal-Mart's failures around the globe, I can't help but to think, why? And, more importantly, how? Well, what is the attraction of the African market to a company that employs about 2 million people around the globe (and, by the way, intends to add another 800,000 over the next few years), a company whose imports from China are close to US$ 30 billion which (very) roughly equates the total imports from China for whole countries such as the UK, Singapore, or Australia. So, why bother to spread the tentacles to one of the poorest regions in the world, a region that is plagued by a low level of economic activity and a high level of instability?
Well, let's start with the fundamentals. Unlike the shares of one of its most important US domestic competitors, Target, Wal-Mart's shares have flat-lined for about a decade. Internationally, Carrefour has outperformed Wal-Mart in many markets including China and South America. Let alone Wal-Mart's many failures ranging from Germany to Korea to Brazil. Wal-Mart needs to satisfy the appetite of financial markets that is just too difficult to do organically. High profile acquisitions are the way towards quick revenue growth, even if it's at the expense of the returns on investment. Acquiring a company with reach to a potential customer base of 1 billion is just too good of an opportunity to let pass for Wal-Mart. Looks like Wal-Mart simply can't afford not to enter Africa. That's why Wal-Mart is willing to make this one of the most expensive acquisitions it ever made (at about 13 times Massmart's EBITDA).
So what will be the challenges ahead? First of all, converting 1 billion potential customers into actually paying customers will be a challenge. Purchasing power isn't quite there yet for the entire African continent, and even if it were, it is difficult to imagine that consumers across Africa will uniformly embrace the Wal-Mart way. Certainly, Massmart's presence in Botswana, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia will help, but educating consumers has previously proven difficult in Germany or Korea. So why would it be easier in African nations? Further, Wal-Mart thrives on it's tightly managed supply-chain and well-oiled logistics. How fast it will be able to replicate that in Africa is highly questionable. Localizing its offerings has been an insurmountable task for Wal-Mart in Korea, and forced the retail giant to pack up and leave again.
And what about Massmart, the target of Wal-Mart's acquisition? Like Wal-Mart, Massmart operates low-cost, high-volume outlets in general retailing. That's the good news. The bad news, again, is a question mark concerning Wal-Mart's integration capabilities. In previous acquisitions, Wal-Mart didn't do the best of jobs in managing the post-merger, cultural integration. In Germany, for instance, employee relations had gone sour quickly, ultimately leading to Wal-Mart's departure.
#68 Transnational Take-Over Alert: ASDA of US buys UK operations from Danish NettoSunday, July 18th, 2010
If approved by UK authorities, Asda, Wal-Mart's British arm will be acquiring almost 200 UK stores of the Danish Netto chain for an alleged amount in excess of 1 billion US$. Acquiring smaller stores seems like a good move for Wal-Mart in Europe. First, shopping habits in many regions seem to change in a way that (an aging population of) shoppers start to develop a preference for more frequent shopping of smaller quantities in convenient locations. Second, zoning regulations prevent retailers from opening new locations. However, the usual caveats apply: first, Wal-Mart hasn't done too well in a number of international markets, including European ones (just think of the disaster in Germany). Most recently Asda's sales dropped inthe UK and it has been loosing market share to its competitors. Second, cultural differences. In addition to differences between national cultures that Wal-Mart sometimes has troubles with, there's also the fact that Wal-Mart's pervasive business model isn't something that travels easily into other contexts. Looks like there's some homework to do before the post-acquisition integration pains start.


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, Will Bynum has been one of the few bright spots for the Pistons this long season. Coming off the bench the guard has averaged 9.3 points a game but also has 15 games in which he's scored more than 15 points per game. This also includes a 23 point output the other night against Portland. Bynum's performance and contributions however may be halted due to a hand injury something that may his shutdown for the remainder of the season. (via the Detroit News) "Every time I get hit, it stings for 30 seconds," said Bynum, who's been playing with the pain since January but never missed a game. It wouldn't be surprising to see the soon-to-be free agent shut it down if the MRI reveals ligament damage. From his perspective, he's got to be healthy for the summer when he's looking for a new contract. Bynum will be an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season and should receive a nice pay day from whoever chooses to sign him. Obviously that number would suffer a big if he can't continue pl...
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