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Joshua Williams is being honored as a Champion of Change for strengthening food security.
I would like to thank the White House for giving me this prestigious award and the chance to let everyone be more aware about hunger since it is such a big deal in the world. We as a country need to help and support each other. My mission is not only to help and make a difference, but more importantly to make people aware of what hunger and poverty is.
I started my foundation when I was almost five years old. My story starts when I was on my way to church on a Sunday morning. When I was about to leave, my amazing grandmother gave me twenty dollars to do whatever I wanted with it. On the way to church, I was thinking about all the possible things I could buy with the money. But when we were stopped at a red light, that was the moment when I saw the homeless, hungry man who changed my life forever. I saw him and I knew I had to give him my twenty dollars. Not only was it for a good cause, but it would help him in whatever way it could.
Then on another day, I was watching television and there was a commercial about the Feed the Children Foundation. That's when I had the vision of what exactly I needed to do in life. I needed to help people. I still had that question of how. How do I help? I thought for a while until it came to me: I had to help by giving food, which is one of the basic necessities of life. I went to my mom to help me and at first she didn't take me seriously until she realized that I was very serious about my vision. If you believe in something or you have a passion about something you must be persistent and you can never give up.
Soon all my family started to help and contribute. At first we were giving hot food that we cooked to the homeless every Saturday. Then I had to think of something bigger, better, and easier. I came up with the idea of a distribution where we have families who are less fortunate get a bag full with essential foods. We helped 300 families who left with a bag full of a week's food supply. Two years later we became a foundation and we had our largest distribution where we fed 1,000 people and gave them each a turkey for Thanksgiving.
Currently we help youths every Friday in a food backpack program and families every month in a large food distribution and quarterly cooking demonstration to teach families how to cook easy and healthy meals. We feed 20-50 youths every Friday and an average of 150 families per month. We also have a Junior Advisory Board (JAB) where kids and teens between the ages of 11 and 18 talk about ideas and events for the Joshua's Heart Foundation. We are starting an ambassador program where we have kids or teens in a city start a Joshua's Heart Foundation chapter in their area.
I believe that everyone has a purpose in life and that it is their choice to follow that purpose. I believe that I not only had a purpose in life, but a vision from God that I needed to help the less fortunate by giving food. If you follow your path it will be a great achievement. The path to your purpose might be hard and rough or it might be easy and smooth. What I do seems natural and right to me. When I help I feel like I am doing something right. I want my foundation to become a worldwide organization and I want to help more people and make people aware that hunger is not only in the United States, but worldwide.
Joshua Williams is a middle school student at Ransom Everglades School in Miami, Florida, and founder of Joshua's Heart Foundation
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One of the human attitudes that increase the problem is the waste economy. I know that my behavior won't change the course of the history, but I trust in that there are millions as me distributed by the planet. Surely not in the countries of the this way called "first world" that they spend millions of tons of valuable resources per second without true necessity, but yes in Latin America, ÃÂfrica and other places not so "developed".
Step 1: A grain of sand in the desert
I use roll deodorant because it is more economic, I like it more than spray, it is more portable and it works better. If I use it "usually" until it ends, it is always in the bottom a quantity that I have checked that it is good more for three or four days. That which is not anything worthless.
Step 2: A way to diminish the problem
To avoid that the deodorant is seated in the inferior part of the container, the solution is obvious: to turn it. As the one that I use it has rounded cover, I stuck him with tape a cover of soda to be able to put it "paws it up".
Step 3: Finally:
I cut with a knife the neck of the container, and with one finger I take out what is in the interior.
As it reaches for about three days, meanwhile I maintain it closed in normal position (not turned).
I don't know that YOU need. Perhaps would agree you to think a little more in this matter, and to become aware of its gravity.
Global warming has been around since the dawn of time, It's natural
can't you hippies leave nature to the polluters, by the time global warming actually gets a DANGEROUS situation, the world will be gone (Aprox 1.2-2.3 Million years)
The Newly "Cooked Books"
I smell what they're cookin: Starts With A, ends with GENDA
By the way, a couple things didn't make sense to me:
We were using "Green Light bulbs" to cut down on emissions. L.E.Ds are, and will always be more efficient.
The process for the creation of a hybrid car causes more damage than a diesel fueled truck. The battery's byproducts are extremely hazardous to the enviroment.
This is not an excuse for people, organizations, or the government to be wasteful, but it's wrong to deceive the common man for his absolute loyalty to a cause.
God Bless America, The Blood of my Brothers and Fathers, and the world in it's advance for peace and prosperity.
Anyway, a wise and conservative use of the resources need not be a burden to anyone.
and yes it's a cycle
The hurricanes, the floods and the droughts (that always there were them, but now there are more) also kill people, and many more than the ones that kills the terrorism. Or is not thus?


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To understand LivMD, start with the human body.
When a person stands on LivMD for 10 minutes, they experience 30 accelerations, or vibrations, per second at a low magnitude of 0.4g (gravitational force). That's 1800 per minute. See a demonstration of LivMD.
The body responds to these incredibly fast but gentle vertical vibrations by sending a mechanical signal to the cells in the body that can sense and respond to the stimulus.
The involuntary muscle contractions that LivMD causes – at 30 per second — have been shown to promote muscular health.
Using LivMD for 10 minutes a day has been shown to have many health and wellness benefits for various age groups.
System Specifications
|System Weight
|19.8 lbs (8.9 Kg)
|System Dimensions
|2.0 in (5.1 cm)
|18.0 in (45.7 cm)
|14.0 in (35.6 cm)
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|Input voltage
|100-240 Volts AC
|Input frequency
|50-60 Hz
|Output voltage
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|32° F to 118° F (0° C to 45° C)
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LivMD encourages muscle health
Low-intensity vibrations are a type of low-magnitude mechanical signal, delivered to the person standing on LivMD at a frequency of 30 cycles per second (Hz) and a magnitude of .4g (gravitational force).
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These extremely small, high frequency contractions generate correspondingly small forces on the cells, including bone, fat, cartilage, and adult stem cells in the surrounding tissue. This has been shown to have a positive effect upon muscle and mobility.
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Apr 09, 2006
Lately I've been having these.. I don't want to say visions.. I won't call them "moments of clarity," let's just say… I've been having these…. thoughts. Yes. Thoughts.
In fact, I've come to some major conclusions lately. I've actually figured somethings out. This is a rarity. Please know this.
It's not just the new web site I built this week for the senator.* It's not even the if statements I figured out how to put into my posts so only members can see thing and other people, well, don't. ** Or the php header redirects i used to take people requesting two different domains in one account (called a parked domain) to redirect each to a sub-directory. Badass. Seriously.
No, no, it's that I figured out that I'm turning in to my mother and usually shrinks charge you at least a few hundred dollars to come to this conclusion.
And I did it for fifteen bucks of tequila and a coke.
I think I am already a member…
And hey
By RB on 2006 04 10
what a great post. once I had Lily it was like the blindfold was remoed and I was filled with amazement for everything that my parents have done for me. And I still feel it, every single day. Especially when I am on the brink of losing it, because I know my folks had to deal with me an my sibs for at least 20 years before we let them off the hook. yikes. you are good to write your Momma like this.
By texasbelle on 2006 04 10
You have SO much on your plate right now, as my mom would say. Take care of yourself girly. My mom at one point had FIVE of us at home and it's no wonder she seemed a bit edgy sometimes! You rock on the website design, by the way. Just don't spread yourself too thin…smooch.
By Jamie on 2006 04 10
No login lately?
I recently told my mom that I didn't realize that MOMS do EVERYTHING! I don't think you can even have a clue about what it takes until you become THE MOM. What a job description!
By Amy on 2006 04 10
I love your posts Les. Congrats on the senator's site!! Woo-hooo!!!
It's amazing how far a simple "thank you" or "I appreciate what you do" goes, huh? I always try to make a stink (in a good way) when my hubby's helpful, in hopes that he'll reciprocate when I'm helpful. Sometimes it works.
In general it's a thankyou-less job… with pay in hugs & kisses, and poopy diapers,....
Love ya Leslie!
By Marie on 2006 04 10
I think that all of us at some point realize we are becoming our mothers. It's odd, isn't it?
It's even odder because my husband hates my mom, but loves me. How does that work?
By Isabel on 2006 04 11
That's so effin cool. You are a html diva and I bow to your skills.
By erika on 2006 04 11
Erika? Your blog looks AMAZING. Love the new digs.
And Isabelle, I think you're on to something. That's a whole other post right there and I have no tequilla left so I'll have to do my deep thinkin' another day.
By Mrs. Flinger on 2006 04 12
I hope to god I never turn in to my mother. And don't we all look for something/someone to make us happy (it/they never will it must originate from within).
Oh yes.
And yesterday was my birthday.
And it was the worst damn day I've had in a long time. And that's saying alot. And my husband is an ass. I think I am going on strike.
Misery loves what?
By candice on 2006 04 12
It's nice to know that you are cheap! MWAAHHHH!
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Saw - Post Mortem, Henry Disston & Sons, circa 1850 Reg. No: SH 850191
- Summary:
- Saw - Post Mortem, circa 1850. Made: Disston, Henry & Sons Philadelphia U.S.A. Used for post mortems in a psychiatric hospital, Victoria Australia. The blade of the saw is very crude, almost unshaped. Surgical instrument catalogues of 1905 show the blade rounded at the end and protruding at the lower front corner. Has been suggested that it may have been used for dissecting the skull.
- Description:
- Post-mortem saw is a small carpenter's tenon saw. It has an almost straight tension blade of cast steel (very slightly tapered away from handle end,) a heavy, brass, fixed spine and very fine even teeth. It has a rather ornately shaped, wooden, carpenter's saw handle with horned hand-grip at the top which is attached to the top corner of the broader end of the blade, angled slightly upward by 2 brass rivets, one wider on the top bearing the trade mark.
- Acquisition Information:
- Donation from Office of Psychiatric Services
|38.50 cm (Height), 13.00 cm (Length)
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|hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, surgical apparatus instruments, death mourning, saws, making history - psych services
|Themes this item is part of:
|Psychiatric Services Collection, Medicine in Society Collection, Public Life & Institutions Collection
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|Secondary Classification:
|Mental Health - Mortuary
|Tertiary Classification:
|tools & equipment
|CAST STEEL/HENRY DISSTON & SONS/WARRANTED/PHILAD'A. U.S.A. engraved on spine.
|Henry Disston & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Circa 1850
|Place & Date Used:
|Victoria, Australia, Circa 1850
|S. Maw, Son & Sons: Catalogue of Surgical Instruments, Appliances Aseptic Hospital Furniture and Surgical Dressings. London, 1905. and
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Palmetto Leadership Program Components
The Palmetto Leadership program contains three important phases: personal leadership development training, community awareness, and a task force activity that addresses contemporary community issues.
- Personal Leadership Development includes skills development in leadership styles, communication, team building, conflict management, group dynamics, and self-understanding.
- Community Awareness provides participants with the opportunity to learn more about their community including topics such as economic and community development, health-care, government and law, service, education, and communications.
- Task Force Activity provides a team approach to addressing public needs. Participants divide into "Task Force" groups to complete a class project that will improve the quality of life in their community.


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Updated at: 03/27/2013 10:01 AM
By: Beth Wurtmann
GRANVILLE - Broken glass and debris were littered around the charred doorway where police said a fire was intentionally set just before 2 a.m. Monday morning.
They later charged 44-year-old Stephen Gyarmathy and 56-year-old Joseph Guerrier with arson and reckless endangerment.
"The motive had to with the chance in visitation and the possible custody status between the female in the apartment and one of the males that was arrested," said Thomas Aiken, senior investigator with the New York State Police.
Police said Gyarmathy had custody of a 7-year-old son and was upset that the boy's mother, his ex-girlfriend, would be getting more visitation time.
Police said Gyarmathy borrowed Guerrier's gas can and poured some of the gasoline at the case of the stairs and up the steps, the one exit for the upstairs back apartment.
"An apartment that held 11 people and the only exit to the building was on fire. It could have been a very tragic accident," said Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy.
Emergency crews had to rescue the ex-girlfriend and a number of tenants, some from a roof porch. The boy was not home at the time of the fire.
One neighbor who was asleep during the fire said he's shocked that it could have been intentional.
"It could have been 12 people dead just over custody. I don' t know doesn't make sense to me," said Mack Rozell, the neighbor.
Police said both of the accused men have lengthy criminal records, including a murder conviction for Guerrier.
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Rent 2005
This is the film version of the Pulitzer and Tony Award winning musical about Bohemians in the East Village of New York City struggling with life, love and AIDS, and the impacts they have on America...
- Release Date:
- November 23, 2005
- Duration:
- 135 min
- Director:
- Chris Columbus
- Cast:
- John Patrick Shulak, Rosario Dawson, Sarah Silverman, Wayne Wilcox, Daryl Edwards, Jordi Caballero, Gigi Chavoshi, Sharon Ferrol-Young, Roosevelt Flenoury, Gigi Hunter, Liz Ramos, Mike Garibaldi, Aaron Lohr, Tara Nicole Hughes, Melissa Hurley, Ryan Ashley, Shannon Beach, Linda Cevallos, Caroline A. Rice, Gordon Hart, David Alan Poe, Cindy Warner, David Pearl, Kevin Alexander Stea, Shaun Landry, Cory Montgomery, Tracie Thoms, Anna Deavere Smith, Matthew Dickens, Rana McAnear, Ken Clark, Yeena Fisher, Michael F. Grant, James D. Weston II, James Blackburn, Anthony Molinari, Troy Christian, Nick Scoggin, Brian Delate, Stephen Payne, Donn Andrew Simmons, Bill Walters, Julia Roth, Chris Chalk, Anthony Rapp, Penny Johnson Jerald, Jesse L. Martin, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, R.C. Ormond, Kenneth Hughes, Shaun Earl, Mackenzie Firgens, Cory DuVal, David Fine, Taye Diggs, Adam Pascal, Mike Borg, Renda Pettis, Darryl Chan, Alice Rietveld, Christian Vincent, Rachel Puchkoff, Walter Delmar, 'Big' LeRoy Mobley, Branden Weslee Kong, Idina Menzel, Porscha Radcliffe, Clarke Devereux, Daniel London, Doug Campbell, Kimberly Contreras, Kevin Hagan, Aisha De Haas, Kevin Blackton, Chandler Bolt, Bettina Devin, Liisa Cohen, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Eleanor Columbus, Chris Columbus, Jason Foster, Adam Kent, Patricia Kent, James Carraway, Yoli Mapp, Jacki R. Chan, Marco De La Cruz, Joel Swetow, Ian Baptiste, Cabran E. Chamberlain, Rachel Montez Collins, Blake McGrath, Rod Arrants, Michael E. Burgess, Vivis Colombetti, James Anthony Cotton, Kim Williams, Justin Charles, Ericka Harden, Bianca Sams, Heather Barberie, Kristin Medwick, Katie Weber, Angela McConnell, Feleciana Stevenson, Damia Foti, Laura Padierne, Michael Rosales, Niyuk Hairell, Larissa Kiernan, Truc Luong, Megan Biolchini, John Champion, Titus West, Alison De Olivera, Debbie De Coudreaux, Corey Rosen, Robert Prescott Lee, Sebastien Poffet, Corinne Blum, David Stewart, Marcos Estebez, Emily Rahe, Nicole Cherie Flores, Jim Cranna, Randy Graff, Indiana Adams, Naomi Frigo, Nina Hauser, Mary McNeill, Kristin Post, Jeff Seaberg, Jeffrey Sherrard, Delila Vallot, Ray Garcia, Katrina-Jovan Howard, Zefania Preza, Ray Tom, Gail Washington, Kim Williams, David Stewart, Diane Kelber, Steven Lindo, Travis michael Myers, Cynthia Graves, Jemma Evans ...
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Okay, I'll admit I cried, and cried hard during this movie. Now, I'm not a fan of musicals. I had a hard time getting through Chicago and I never bothered to finish Phantom of the Opera. I also fell asleep both times I went to see Phantom live. I just, don't do musicals. I think this is the one exception. I wish I would have known about it when it was out on Broadway. The plot is just so capturing and heartbreaking. And the music, oh it's to die for. I listened to the original Broadway CD after watching the movie until my roomate, who's a die-hard fan, got sick of it. I just loved the characters, the turmoil they had to go through, and that it wasn't all happy times and stars in the end. Because well, that's just how life is. Now I know other musicals are depressing and sometimes true to life, but they never managed to capture me. I think maybe because this one delt on a hard-core problem in the world today: AIDS. and while I'm not a victim of the desease, I know how it effects people, and I think this movie helped others to understand that as well. It's deffinately worth the watch, and that box of tissues.
I don't remember the last time I watched such plastic pathos and pseudo-emotion. This is definitely for the folks who weep through les miserables then climb back into their SUVs, after kicking a real homeless person into the gutter. Definitely for petit-bourgeois liberals. I had no idea before, that there was anything worse than kitsch ...
:up: :up: Can you say AWESOME! It was truly one of the best stage to theater movie EVER! Even better than Chicago I am sorry. i guess if you are closed minded and are a homophobe it may strike as terrible, but hey I guess you live by yourself around nobody because HEY! those people are everywhere! TRULY awesome film loved it
I appreciate the movie version because it makes Larson's story accessible to everyone. Now I would love to see the stage production! :up:
Nothing gets on my nerves more than a movie (or album) that says it's "avant-garde". That term implies a opposition to the norm, and using truly odd and new techniques to effect its art and all that stuff. When somthing says it is avant-garde, that defeates the point. Please count on other peoples intelligence to figure that out. Rent must point out that it is "cool" and "different" and about 30 times during the course of the movie. It is really one of the most predictable and disapointing movies i have seen all year, and when they try to be avant-garde? Oh dear lord - run for your lives! Everybody sings almost every word and it is total crap. There is a lot of flashy camera work, but that does not mean it is good. Garbage.
Aids! Everybody's got aids
wolf creek: 3 backpackers travel to wolf creek and are captured and let go only to be part of a mad hunt. this movie isnt really that graphic nor is it that scary but it kept my atention for 99 minuts.
stay: stay- god i have know idea what to write about this one. i didnt understand this movie at all.
scary movie 4: scary movie 4 is the best out of the series. hilarious and stupid. all of what you would expcet from a spoof movie. it had soem moments though were i shoulk my head and felt dumber watching it and the openning bit was just lame.
domino: bashed my cridicts and loved by me. i loved domino it was full of silly action great humar and i loved the editing even though no one else did.
rent: great music, good acting, great movie. rent is excellent< esentiel viewing>
Starring: Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Idina Menzel, and Tracie Thoms.
Directed by Chris Columbus.
Written by Stephen Chbosky.
Rated PG-13 (for mature thematic material involving drugs and sexuality, and for some strong language).
Running time approximately 2 hours 15 minutes.
Chris Columbus was certainly the wrong choice to direct the film version of Rent. Yes, the film is good, if a bit overlong (the story needs work, work, work, as well), but I feel it could've been handled much better by someone with some experience in the musical genre. I found the film a bit off-putting at first, with the characters singing their lines to each other, but after the first couple songs, I got right into it. Emotionally, I became very attached to these characters. Therefore, the film scored with me. *** (out of ****) B
this was not as great as i had expected, but i sure did like it. the music is fun, and it has an okay plot. i wish it was better though....
Rent is one of Broadway's biggest sensations in the last decade and has become a cultural cornerstone for many. Jonathan Larson updated Puchini's famous opera La Boheme, transplanting the setting to East Village New York, swapping TB for AIDS, and turning his characters into struggling bohemians fighting for their voices to be heard and love to be kindled. The musical also has an added sense of tragedy. Larson suddenly died on an aneurism during the final dress rehearsal, sadly never getting to see his finished creation. Rent went on to win Tonys (including Best Musical), a Pulitzer Prize, and damn near the heart of every girl I went to college with. To say it's been a smash is an understatement. And where ever there's money and an insatiable audience, there will be Hollywood's eyes. Now comes time for the Hollywood gloss with director Chris Columbus (Home Alone, Stepmom) and when Rent ditches the intimate confines of theater and hits the big screen, it's much harder to hide its flaws.
The story takes place within the span of one year (or 525,600 minutes as you'll be told repeatedly in song), covering Christmases from 1989 to 1990. Mark (Anthony Rapp, Dazed and Confused) and Roger (Adam Pascal) are roommates trying to keep warm during the winter in their giant New York loft. They're flat broke and their former friend and current landlord Benny (Taye Diggs) expects a full year's rent to be paid pronto. Roger is racking his brain trying to write that one perfect song; he's also HIV positive, the unfortunate side effect of a relationship with a junkie. Mark is an aspiring filmmaker and has also recently been dumped by the impetuous performance artist Maureen (Idina Menzel) for ... another woman, Joanne (Tracie Thoms), a black lawyer. It must be noted that all three of these characters do not have HIV/AIDS; they're in the minority. Tom Collins (Jesse L. Martin, Law and Order), a gay school teacher, is visiting Mark and Roger when he gets mugged in an alleyway. Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia), a drag queen with a heart of gold comes to his rescue. Both men have HIV but won't let their shortened time stop them from falling in love with one another. Mimi (Rosario Dawson) lives below Roger and Mark and works as an exotic dancer down the street. She too has HIV from a nasty smack habit. She also has her heart set on Roger but he needs a little motivation. For a year these characters will interact and live, love, die, and sing a whole lot.
It seems like if you want an adaptation to lack any additional artistic merit as a film, you call Chris Columbus. He directed the first two Harry Potter films, both rather rote and absent individual flair, and now he's tackled Broadway with his lack of imagination. I'm actually starting to wonder if Columbus gets directing jobs because he's basically an empty wind tunnel of creativity. In Rent everything looks mostly lackluster, like Columbus had taken their not-working credo to heart.
The villain of the piece seems to be Benny by default (unless you count AIDS, poverty, and ignorance). Our unemployed band of heroes is upset because dear Benny expects them to, gasp, pay their rent. The scoundrel! Here's what I don't get; clearly Benny has a dream for a business and the other artists denounce this artistic dream because it involves money exchanging hands. Benny's passionate about his dream and actually does something productive like make friends and influences with the business establishment, people with capital to bankroll an entrepreneur's dream. It's like everyone's mad at Benny because he put a suit and tie on and got a job. The scoundrel! Rent even manufactures a mea culpa from Benny that feels exactly that, manufactured and inorganic to the story. I suppose he'd be a better person if he were a vagrant like every one else.
Besides, there is something inherently pretentious about Rent's anthems of sticking it to the man and brash commercialism. Guess what, after 9 years Rent is a franchise. You can get Rent T-shirts, coffee cups, soundtracks, and practically anything that can be merchandized and marketed to the disenfranchised youth with disposable incomes. A musical about the soullessness of commercialism is itself a cash cow, so it rings a little hollow when the deadbeats thumb their noses at the evils of capitalism. Seriously, Mark just about gets hives at the thought of being a cameraman for a TV news show (he calls it "selling out"). In the end he quits his job so he can make his masterpiece ... cobbling together home movie footage. It took him a friggin' year of artistic turmoil to edit a lame home movie? Selling out never looked so good.
Speaking of vagrancy, the film version of Rent is populated with 6/8 of the original Broadway cast (Dawson and Thoms are the only fresh faces). This is a well-intention move by Columbus but it backfires. It's one thing to listen to 20-something bohemians fight for their artistic integrity and worry about food, shelter, rent. It's quite another thing when the majority of your cast is in their mid 30s. You've gone from a bohemian to a bum. I'm not condemning the pursuit of your artistic ideals and making your name in the world, but not at the price of food and shelter. I'm reminded of a line from The Big Lewbowski: "Your revolution is over! The bums lost. The bums will always lose!"
It's hard to feel for some of these characters, who come across as whiny, slutty, pretentious, or just plain misguided. Maureen has a wild side that includes flirting with everything on legs, and eventually this leads to a song called "Take Me for What I Am." Maureen is irritated that her life partner is upset that she was flirting during their engagement party. I mean, really, what's to get upset about? Take you for what you are? A self-involved, slutty, drama queen? It's pretty bad when Rent kills off one of its main characters in a musical montage. A MONTAGE! Afterwards all the characters eulogize what made this person so great. Hey, all that character stuff would have been handier before the death, and then I would have felt something. Larson's story really does a poor job of building these characters and making them likable.
Some of these same problems exist with the original stage version, but Rent the movie, and especially Columbus as director, make some bad additions. The original stage version of Rent took place in modern day when it opened. Here, Columbus has dialed back the timeframe and set his story from 1989-1990 (someone forgot that a song references Thelma and Louise, which came out in 1991, but oh well). What makes this time jump shaky is that the film also adds a scene of the happy families championing each other over their racially mixed lesbian daughters' engagement. They moved time backwards but people's tolerance was moved forward. What's the point of changing the timeline if it causes all these anachronistic headaches? That's not all. It's bad enough that Roger has a Bon Jovie haircut for the entire film, but then Columbus adds scenes of his escape to New Mexico and we, the audience, are treated to Roger belting his heart out to nature on top of a desert gorge ... just like in Bon Jovi's "Blaze of Glory" music video. Maybe this finally explains why they transported the film to the 1980s.
Where the musical does strain credibility is its fear of fulfilling the dark end of Puccini's opera. Moulin Rouge is also based on Puccini's tragedy and it had the guts and the ambition to end on a tragic note. I've cried at the end of Moulin Rouge, but I didn't feel like misting up once during Rent, probably because these faux-bohemians kept me at a distance. It's rather terrible that Mimi can be brought back from the dead by the power of a cheesy rock ballad, and if this holds true, then Bon Jovi is wanted to the ER, stat! The cheap fake-out ending for Rent is just the nail in the coffin. Everyone has AIDS and thus on borrowed time and yet we can't have an adult ending dealing with tragedy. That would break this romantcized fairy tale.
With all this in mind, some things in Rent really do work. The songs are catchy, somewhat fun, and the splashy lyrics follow suit. The cast collectively are entertaining and sing well, though Dawson can get a bit monotone at times. Some of the dance numbers are exciting and amusing, like the "Maureen: Tango" between Joanne and Mark chatting about the spotty behavior of their former and current lover. At one point we flash to them in full classic dress buffeted by a chorus line of fellow tango-ers. "La vie Boheme" is the sassiest and most electric song, finally piecing Larson's sardonic, witty pop culture lyrics with a lively image. This is a musical that's got clever lyrics, good singing, and catchy pop rock songs.
For many, especially the Rent heads, a movie version of their favorite musical will be bulletproof. They'll be thrilled to enjoy an afternoon with their best friends on the silver screen singing their favorite harmonies. I'm sure fans of Rent and fans of broad musical theater will be pleased. For me, the movie falls apart when you pay attention to the story, the characters, the drama, and then the choices in adapting it to film. I just didn't care for most of the characters and found the story dated, silly, na


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With the MacWorld Expo 2008 hitting the Internet today, many users were looking for a good way to get live updates from the Steve Jobs' Keynote Address. There were many sites offering the traditional "write and update" blog posting method where the blogger continually update their blog post. Those sites actually turned out to be slow and with spotty service. Even the big names like Engadget and Gizmodo and C|net had issues of demand.
Recently, I tested out a new service from CoverItLive.com whose service allows for the embedding of live-blogging within a blog post. It's actually a pretty well thought out, feature-rich service that we may use in the future at our local Meet-Ups like SFBeta or SFNewTech. However, there was one part of the service that they didn't "think out" very well today…that of capacity.
I believe that several sites were planning on using CoverItLive's service during the Keynote address (sites like geekbrief.tv). Unfortunately, when I went to look at GeekBrief, it simply did not load. So, digging deeper, I looked to see if perhaps CoverItLive was showcasing some of today's Apple Live-Blogging events. What I was greeted with on their site was this:
"Global demand exceeded our capacity." Those words hurt. They hurt CoverItLive and they hurt all of their customers who were planning on using the service to cover this event. Again, let me reiterate that I believe that CoverItLive seems to be a great product offering. It just seems that their demand forecasting needs a bit of work.
So, where would GoGrid have helped? As I see it, in a couple of ways:
- The ability to quickly deploy new web servers in just a few minutes
- To only pay for the outbound bandwidth that was used (during the event)
- The ability to delete servers once the event is completed
- Setting up a mirrored or back-up environment to direct other traffic to
And this is only with the GoGrid version launching shortly. (Sorry, but I can't reveal future features as of yet.). Perhaps as other companies begin offering services that need rapid scalability, they will take the time to "plan ahead" and look towards virtualized server hosting as a saving grace.
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PRESIDENT Obama's second inaugural address offered few memorable words. But two lines in sequence jumped out at us nonetheless, because the second one contradicts the first: "We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit," Obama said. "But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future."
This is essentially Obama's way of telling everyone what they want to hear. "Lord, give us all chastity — but not yet!" Throughout his presidency, Obama has tried to establish himself rhetorically as a transformational leader taking on the nation's tough problems — especially America's mounting debt. In the meantime, he has consistently dodged these problems — again, especially the debt.
In his first inaugural speech four years ago, Obama condemned "our collective failure to make hard choices." On Feb. 23, 2009, just days after signing his $800 billion economic stimulus into law, Obama hosted a "fiscal responsibility summit" at the White House in which he pledged "to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office." He said, "This will not be easy. It will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges we've long neglected."
In reality, Obama avoided nearly all tough choices on deficits. His health care law raised taxes and cut Medicare, but only in order to finance a new entitlement that will cost $1.7 trillion over the next decade. In 2010, Obama appointed a deficit reduction commission but ignored its recommendations and used them only to deflect questions about deficits. For instance, in July 2010 Obama insisted, "We have put forward a fiscal commission that is then going to examine how do we deal with these broader structural deficits. So this isn't just an empty promise. We've already started taking steps to deal with it."
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) Traffic fatalities are down but the number of wrecks has risen in a 23-county area of South Texas where oil drilling has boomed in recent years.
The San Antonio Express News reports there were 236 fatalities in 2013, a drop from 248 the year before. But the Texas Department of Transportation says there was a 26 percent jump - to 3,430 - in the number of crashes that resulted in serious injuries or fatalities in the region where companies are drilling in the oil-rich Eagle Ford shale.
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September 18, 2006
The Proposition
Reviewer: Craig Phillips
Rating (out of 5): ****
If Peter Weir (of the early variety) had channeled Sam Peckinpah he might have conspired to
produce something like The Proposition, John Hillcoat's Aussie meta-Western, a bleak and violent parable as mesmerizing as it is disturbing. In short, don't miss it. It's also exactly the kind of film you'd expect to have been written by musician Nick Cave - poetic, gloomy, gritty and as often brilliant as pretentious. Set in the harsh realm of the Australian outback of the late 19th century, an even more inhospitable land than the American west's desert terrain, where the parched land and cruel sun do damage to men's psyches.
Guy Pearce plays Charlie Burns, one-third of a trio of criminal brothers; the others being psychotic killer Arthur (Danny Huston, spellbinding) and terrified young 'un Mike who becomes the pawn in a lawman's (Ray Winstone) plans to capture Arthur, wanted for the brutal killing of a pregnant woman. Huston's Arthur Burns is a more primal variation on Henry Fonda's psychopathic killer in Once Upon a Time in the West - full of brutal behavior and puzzling poetic asides.
The film also sets itself apart with its location specific plotting and characterizations - from the aboriginal trackers (including a deputy played by veteran actor David Gulpilil) who work for the white settlers even as they are wary of revealing all the land's secrets, to the forbidding caves and canyons in which the mythic Burns hides out.
The narrative is bisected by the twin stories of the search for Arthur with that from the sheriff's perspective. As fantastic an actor as Winstone is (you might remember him as 'Gal' Dove in Sexy Beast), I found myself often impatient with the amount of time spent on his story and away from the story of brother tracking and finding brother. This is also a function of Huston's performance - any time the film is away from him it almost suffers in comparison. He's absolutely riveting while not overplaying it. And as the brother with more of a conscience, Pearce serves as a worthy counterpart, tormented by his own demons and confronted with the horrible proposition at the film's core - to kill one brother to save another.
Hurt and Huston face off in The Proposition
In fact, all the performances here are all first-rate, even if not all the characters themselves are fully developed. (It wouldn't be a Western without delving into archetypes.) John Hurt makes a lasting impression in just a handful of scenes as the weather-beaten bounty hunter Jellon Lamb, chewing the scenery behind scuzzy makeup. Emily Watson represents the "civilization" that the rest of these brutes are too long separated from, as she tries to make a go of a life in the outback with her husband, the police Captain Stanley. And for a time she manages to keep the savage world outside at bay.
The late 19th century atmosphere is captured with keen authenticity - even the wardrobe, right down to the buttons, was all handmade - although the film has also been criticized in some corners for historical innacuracy. [Read Senses of Cinema for more.] Not being an expert on Australian history, I can't judge on this point but it is worth noting.
The Proposition is packed with unforgettable scenes, not the least of which is the terrifying Christmas Day dinner in which the Stanleys are interrupted by the beastly gang in a sequence shocking in its carnality and finality. While the film wavers in pacing and focus, it's never less than entrancing, a Western at once intensely modern and a throwback of which Peckinpah would be proud.
[One odd bit of trivia: fine Australian actor Noah Taylor (Shine, Flirting, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) appears in the film for literally only a couple of minutes, quickly meeting a grisly fate in the opening scene. Perhaps he was a victim of the editing room.]
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Kuff's World
A reader blog about politics and current events with Charles Kuffner
Monthly Archive for September, 2007
California electoral vote initiative dead for now
You may have heard about an effort to put a proposition on the ballot in California for next year's June primary elections to apportion the state's Electoral College votes by Congressional district instead of winner-take-all. That would have given a boost to the Republican Presidential candidate, as 19 of the state's Congressional districts are held […] [Read More]
Nader the Democrat???
The most ridiculous news story of the week, from Political Wire: The "Ralph Nader Democratic Caucus Campaign Draft Committee" is seeking campaign workers in Iowa and New Hampshire, according to advertisements placed on Craigslist. I have approximately the same reaction to this as I did to the news that Kinky Friedman wants to run for […] [Read More]
Interview with Marlon Barabin
Our busy week of Council interviews continues as I get back to the crowded At Large #5 race with Marlon Barabin. Barabin is a Master Sergeant in the Texas Air National Guard who has served two tours in Iraq. He is also a businessman and the President and CEO of the Houston's Citizen's Chamber of […] [Read More]
Interview with James Rodriguez
And on we go with the Council interviews as I head back to District I for a conversation with James Rodriguez. Rodriguez was Chief of Staff to Council Member Carol Alvarado for four and a half years and is now the marketing director for an engineering firm. He also got to be the Astros' batboy […] [Read More]
Interview with Council Member Anne Clutterbuck
While most of my energy in covering the City Council races is going to focus on the open seats, I am also going to interview some of the incumbent Council members who have opposition this fall. With that in mind, today I present you a conversation with Council Member Anne Clutterbuck, who is in her […] [Read More]
Interview with Manisha Mehta
Breaking out of my Monday/Wednesday pattern, as I have a lot of interviews lined up and don't want to fall behind, today I bring you a conversation with Manisha Mehta, who is running in District E. She is a Clear Lake-area resident who runs an insurance and financial planning company, and would be the first […] [Read More]
Interview with John Marron
Next up in the City Council interview series is John Marron, who is running in District I. Marron is retired from AT&T after 30 years and is now a legislative aide to State Rep. Alma Allen; he has also been very active in labor, as a representative and organizer for the American Federation of State, […] [Read More]
Perry for VP?
There has been talk floating around for awhile now that Governor Perry is angling for a spot on the Republican presidential ticket. I've never put much stock in it, but it's been out there. Now Paul Burka prints a copy of the remarks Perry gave to the state GOP in California, and suggests Perry's campaign […] [Read More]
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National Grilled Cheese Month
Attention cheeseoholics: April is National Grilled Cheese Month. You probably don't need another excuse to bite into some ooey-gooey goodness, but here's some food for thought. (Try not to drool on your keyboard.)
How about a grilled cheese on a stick? This kiddie sandwich kabob would be great birthday party finger food.
On our High Chair Times blog, mama and foodie Heather Morgan Shott dishes on serving up healthy, organic finger foods for her little cutie, Mason. The one-year-old loves to nosh on this bite-sized version of the classic.
For older kids, dress up the sandwich with healthful additions, like tomato and basil. This whole grain version boasts fiber and flavor.
No matter which one you choose, any of these sammies are perfect for dipping. Dunk 'em in bowls of bacon-topped tomato soup.
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Why a Facebook phone based on ads has no future
This week we're hotly debating whether or not a Facebook phone would make sense to create for the recently public company, coming today to some interesting Google Advertising statistics that say no, Facebook does not have a chance. The factoids we're using here today come from the Google vs Oracle case because therein lies the only real look we've ever had at Google's profit margin for Android. In the papers presented in that case it was shown that Android generated advertising revenue for Google to the tune of $9 per device in the year 2010 - this statistic alone should be evidence enough for you to say whether or not Facebook could realistically create a smartphone based on advertising revenue alone.


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