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HTF Blu-Ray Review: The Love Guru
Started by PatWahlquist, Sep 11 2008 03:01 AMBlu-ray Reviews
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The Love Guru (Blu-Ray)
Studio: Paramount Home Video
Rated: PG-13 (crude and sexual content throughout, language, some comic violence and drug references)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
HD Encoding: 1080p
HD Video Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Audio: English Dolby TrueHD 5.1; Spanish, French 5.1 Dolby Digital
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese; English SDH+
Time: 126 minutes
Disc Format: 1 SS/DL BD
Case Style: Keep case
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Blu-Ray Release Date: September 16, 2008
How do some comedic actors go from having strings of bold, innovative and gut-busting movies to having strings of duds? What is it that leaves them: their inner demons, their unhappiness in life, their addictions? And how is it their very name, even after a string of duds, still puts butts in chairs? Case in point is Mike Myers, who is responsible for some of the funniest flicks of the past twenty years which makes the insipid The Love Guru an even sadder disaster.
Myers plays The Guru Pitka, the second most famous pop guru behind the Deepak Chopra. Pitka wants Chopra's status as the best so he may amass a bigger fortune and get on Oprah's show. He trained under Guru Tuginmypudha (Ben Kingsly hamming it up), the cross-eyed teacher to Chopra and a slew of other gurus. When the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team's star player Darren Roanoke's (Romany Malco) game turns to crap due to marital problems, team owner Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) turns to Pitka to turn around Roanoke. Roanoke's wife has taken up with rival goalie Jacques "Le Coq" Grande (Justin Timberlake) adding further angst to Roanoke. While Pitka is trying to mend that relationship he is also dealing with his sheltered past and a possible budding relationship with Jane.
While watching the movie I couldn't stop thinking of numerous other movies The Love Guru was ripping off, including Myers own Austin Powers and Wayne's World pictures, The Jerk, Airplane!, The Simpsons, Anchorman, several Mel Brooks movies and many others. In the best Myers comedies, such as the two I mentioned earlier, part of the fun was the lead characters weren't in on the joke with us. Here, Pitka is flaunting the joke over and over—ou! He's edgy and sexual (not really) and he can make a double entendre out of most any phrase. When Wayne Campbell does it, his mocking is charming and rascally; when Pitka does it, it's annoying and insulting to the audience. The best Myers characters always give the audience a slight wink and nudge like we're a fly on the wall of some other, funnier world. This time, we feel like we're trapped in a self help meeting gone horribly wrong, where nothing makes sense and 500 fart and sex jokes ain't gonna make up for it. I don't even know how you could take two of the funniest comedic actors out there, Jim Gaffigan and Stephen Colbert, and make them less funny, with retreads of Fred Willard's infinitely more appealing Buck Laughlin. Wait, I figured it out: give the laurels of Mike Myers free reign with a first time director, how can you go wrong? Very easily.
Note: I am watching this title using a Marantz VP 11-S1 DLP projector, which has a native resolution of 1080p. I am using a Sony Playstation 3 Blu-Ray player while a Denon 3808CI does the switching and pass through of the video signal. I am utilizing the HDMI capabilities of each piece of equipment.
The Love Guru is encoded in the MPEG-4 AVC codec at 1080p with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. The picture is very colorful throughout, especially in the costumes. These colors are well represented and accurate. Flesh tones come across as natural, but the fakeness of Pitka's nose is evident. Black levels are good, but tough to measure as the movie takes place primarily during the day. Detail is good showing the intricacies in the costumes and sets. Sharpness is just a little soft but the picture retains its film-like appearance. I did not notice any edge enhancement or other dirt or debris.
The 5.1 Dolby TrueHD soundtrack was attained by the HDMI connection of the PS3 to the Denon 3808CI.
I watched the move with the Dolby TrueHD 5.1 track engaged, only to be underwhelmed no so much by the quality of the presentation, but the lack of excitement in the sound mix itself. The audio remains primarily in the front soundstage with the surrounds being used for environmental effects. However, when the musical numbers or scenes in the hockey arena come up, the surrounds engage and produce a very pleasing soundstage. Voices are accurately reproduced and blend well with the rest of the soundtrack. Bass effects, again, are most noticeable during the songs but otherwise don't contribute much.
Bonus Material: all of this content is in HD.
Mike Myers and The Love Guru: A Look Inside (9:35): standard EPK stuff where Myers, the cast and crew try to make the film sound funny and interesting.
One Helluva Elephant (5:44): some background on the fake elephant.
Hockey Training for Actors (8:03): short piece explaining how the actors and crew prepared and shot the hockey scenes.
Deleted and Extended Scenes (13:46): eleven of 'em adding nothing to the picture, unfortunately.
Bloopers (3:48): Jessica Alba winds up spit spraying all over the other actors. Lucky devils. And some other funny bits.
Back in the Booth with Trent and Jay (5:08): finally, I laughed! A segment with some bonus footage of Colbert and Gaffigan.
Outtakes and More (10:14): after deleted and extended scenes and bloopers, I'm not sure why this is here.
An over-eager story and cast produce a lackluster, and just plain un-funny, movie that is not even saved by an exciting home theater experience.
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All reviews done on a Marantz VP11S1 1080p DLP projector.
Displays professionally calibrated by Gregg Loewen of Lion AV.
All reviews done on a Marantz VP11S1 1080p DLP projector.
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Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) increases the risk of death from infections in infants and young children. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends high-dose vitamin A supplementation (VAS) from 6-59 months of age to reduce the risk of death in countries where VAD is common. Such countries include Bangladesh, where this study is being conducted. While providing VAS at 6 months is recommended, providing VAS at birth may also decrease the risk of death since newborn infants are also at risk of VAD. VAS presumably reduces infant mortality by improving the immune response to infection and immunization. Vitamin A particularly affects the development and function of T cells, which develop in the thymus and are a key component of the memory response to infection and immunization. Vitamin A is important for development of an important class of T cells, regulatory T-cells, in the intestine. Regulatory T-cells prevent over-reaction of the immune system to substances the immune system might otherwise treat as harmful such as food or the healthy bacteria in the intestine. VAD could disrupt the normal colonization of the infant's intestinal tract and cause a condition called "dysbiosis" where abnormal bacteria flourish and adversely affect the infant's immune system. Dysbiosis may disrupt the immune response to injectable and oral vaccines. VAS at birth may prevent dysbiosis and thus improve immune function, response to vaccines, and child survival. The investigators recently completed an intervention trial in Bangladeshi infants (NCT01583972) examining the effect of VAS at birth on immune function and response to vaccines administered from birth to 14 wk of age. The present study will recruit infants who completed NCT01583972 when they are from 12 to 24 m of age to determine if VAS at birth affects the responses to these same vaccines when they are measured during the second year of life. The investigators will examine the effect of VAS at birth on gut microbiota measured early in infancy and during the second year of life, and explore the association of the gut microbiota with vaccine response. Mothers of study infants will participate in the study because the breast milk oligosaccharide content strongly affects gut microbiota composition and the "secretor status" of the mother, which can be determined from maternal FUT2 genotype, strongly affects breast milk oligosaccharide content.
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Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
|Official Title:
|Newborn Vitamin A Supplementation, Gut Microbiota and Vaccine Response During the Second Year of Life in Bangladeshi Infants
- Naïve T-cells in peripheral blood [ Time Frame: measured once at 52 - 104 weeks of age ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The concentration of naïve T-cells in peripheral blood will be measured once at 52 - 104 wk of age by flow cytometric analysis.
- Thymic output of naïve T cells [ Time Frame: measured once at 52 - 104 weeks of age ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The thymic output of naïve T cells will be measured once at 52 - 104 wk of age by T-cell receptor excision circle (TREC) levels in DNA purified from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC).
- Immune response to vaccines [ Time Frame: Measured once at 52 - 104 weeks of age ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The immune responses to vaccines, measured at 52 - 104 wk of age, include: (A) Serum immunoglobulin G (IgG) and immunoglobulin A (IgA) responses to oral polio virus vaccine (OPV; given at birth, 6 wk, 10 wk, 14 wk); (B) serum IgG response to tetanus toxoid vaccine (TT; given at 6, 10 and 14 wk) and (C) Hepatitis B virus vaccine (HBV; given at 6, 10 and 14 wk); (D) the IgA response to OPV in stool; the (E) proliferative and (F) cytokine response of peripheral blood cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) T-cells to OPV, TT, HBV vaccines and to the tuberculosis vaccine (BCG; given at birth). Antibody responses will be measured by ELISA, T-cell proliferation by flow cytometric analysis after 6 days of culture with corresponding vaccine antigens, and cytokines will be measured in supernatant after 3 and 6 d of culture with the same antigens.
- Change in the relative abundance of stool bacteria [ Time Frame: 6, 10, 14 and 52-104 weeks of age ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The relative abundance of stool bacteria will be measured using DNA extracts at four time points (6, 10 and 14 wk, and at one point between 52 and 104 wk) using culture-independent, next generation sequencing (NGS) of bacterial populations, followed by quantitative PCR (QPCR) and Bifidobacterium-specific terminal restriction-fragment-length polymorphism (TRFLP.)
- Serum Vitamin A status [ Time Frame: measured once at 52-104 weeks of age ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Vitamin A status will be assessed by serum retinol or retinol binding protein (RBP4) at 52 - 104 wk of age.
- Secretor status of the study infant's mother. [ Time Frame: measured once when infant is 52 - 104 weeks of age ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The "secretor status" of the mother is determined by the FUT2 genotype. FUT2 is related to FUT1, the gene encoding fucosyltransferase 1, which determines the composition of specific glycans on erythrocytes that determine the ABO (or ABH) and Lewis blood group antigens. The activity of fucosyltransferase 2 (encoded by FUT2) causes the synthesis and secretion of these same glycans into breast milk and other secretions (e.g., saliva and other intestinal secretions).
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
Infant specimens containing DNA isolated from periferal blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) will be retained for future analyses. Maternal specimens containing DNA from cheek swabs will be retained for future analyses.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|October 2014
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|September 2016
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|September 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Hypotheses and Specific Aims The investigators will test the hypotheses that VAS at birth will (1) improve production of new T cells at 1-2 yr of age; (2) improve T-cell memory responses at 1-2 yr of age to vaccines given early in infancy (birth - 14 wk); and (3) alter intestinal colonization early in infancy (6, 11 and 15 wk) and at 1-2 yr of age to increase Bifidobacterium and other healthy bacteria and decrease Proteobacteria and other harmful bacteria. Because the "secretor status" of the mother affects the carbohydrate content of the breastmilk, which can in turn affect Bifidobacterium growth in the infant gut, the "secretor status" of the mother will be determined. Furthermore these differences in composition of the intestinal bacteria will be associated with greater immunologic responses to oral and systemic vaccines.
Specific Aim 1: Determine if VAS or placebo at birth affect the blood concentration and thymic output of naïve T-cells at 1-2 yr of age. Specific Aim 2: Determine if VAS or placebo at birth affect T-cell mediated responses at 1-2 yr of age to vaccines given early in infancy, including serum and intestinal antibody levels, vaccine-specific proliferative responses by T cells and cytokine production by T cells. Specific Aim 3: Determine if VAS or placebo at birth affect the relative abundance of healthy intestinal bacteria and common harmful bacteria in the feces at 6, 11, and 15 wk of age and at 1-2 yr of age and determine if relative abundance of these bacteria correlates with vaccine responses shortly after vaccination (6, 11, 15 wk) and later in infancy (1-2 yr). As part of Aim 3 the "secretor status" genotype (FUT2 gene) of the mother will be determined from a cheek swab DNA sample.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|12 Months to 24 Months
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
The present study will recruit infants who completed NCT01583972 when they are from 12 to 24 months of age. Mothers of these infants will also be recruited for collection of DNA from a cheek swab.
Inclusion Criteria:
- for infant: completion of NCT01583972
- for mother: mother of study infant
Exclusion Criteria:
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02027610
|Contact: Shaikh M. Ahmad, PhD
|(+88 02) 9827001-10
|Contact: Charles B Stephensen, PhD
|United States, California
|University of California, Davis
|Active, not recruiting
|Davis, California, United States, 95616
|USDA Western Human Nutrition Research Center
|Active, not recruiting
|Davis, California, United States, 95616
|International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
|Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1212
|Contact: Shaikh M Ahmad, PhD (+88 02) 9827001-10
|Sub-Investigator: Rubhana Raqib, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Shaikh M Ahmad, PhD
|Principal Investigator:
|Charles B Stephensen, PhD
|USDA, Western Human Nutrition Research Center
Additional Information:
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|USDA, Western Human Nutrition Research Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT02027610 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|December 23, 2013
|Last Updated:
|February 2, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by USDA, Western Human Nutrition Research Center:
vitamin A
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Vitamin A
Night Blindness
Vitamin A Deficiency
Deficiency Diseases
Eye Diseases
Nutrition Disorders
Vision Disorders
Growth Substances
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on October 09, 2015


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Chabad to unveil 'a home away from home' on Sept. 14
By : Eric Coker
Rabbi Aaron Slonim said students' reaction to seeing the new Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life can be summed up in one word. "Wow."
Others will get the chance to share that sentiment when Chabad formally unveils the facility at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 14, at the 420 Murray Hill Road site. Chabad is expecting 400-500 guests, including students, faculty, administrators, community members and alumni. The program begins with a luncheon, followed by a ribbon cutting, speakers, music and dessert.
Slonim emphasized that the entire campus community is invited: Reservations can be made to Chabad at firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling 797-0015.
Chabad has been providing support and programming to the University's community of Jewish students since 1985 and has been at the Murray Hill Road property since 1988.
"The most important thing is that students feel like they're coming home when they come through our doors," said Slonim's wife, Rivkah, the education director for Chabad.
"A home away from home: that's our slogan," said Rabbi Slonim, Chabad's executive director.
Drawing up to 1,500 students a semester for events and hundreds for Friday night dinners made the Slonims realize an expansion was necessary, or they would risk turning students away.
"We had more students coming to our events than we could accommodate," Rivkah Slonim said. "It was a wonderful crisis, but nevertheless it was a crisis."
Land adjacent to Chabad House was purchased in 2006 and ground was broken in May 2007. The new center is attached to the previous Chabad House, creating a 22,000-square-foot facility. The funds for the $3.5 million center have been gained solely from fundraising, Rabbi Slonim said.
The center features a large lobby that leads to a dining/social hall and kitchen. The main level also has a sanctuary and conference rooms. The lower level offers amenities such as bedroom suites, a game room, an entertainment center with Wii and Xbox systems, a café and a fitness room. An upstairs level has meeting rooms, offices and an atrium that looks out onto Murray Hill Road. The facility also includes a library with stations for laptop computers.
Almost 25 years of talking with students and seeing their needs helped determine what the center would offer, Rabbi Slonim said.
"We want to offer an organic experience," Rivkah Slonim said. "You can pray here or work out, study here or hang out."
Chahad is talking with the Student Association about renting meeting rooms at the center to clubs that may need space during University Union construction, Rabbi Slonim said.
Also to be unveiled Sunday is a Holocaust memorial that developer and Chabad House Vice President Barry Newman erected in honor of his late wife, Ceil, a Holocaust survivor.
The Slonims are particularly excited about the alumni who will be returning for the dedication and Shabbat with their spouses and children who may now be considering attending Binghamton University.
"A lot of them have seen us begin, sitting around a small table with 10-15 students our first semester here," Rivkah Slonim said. "So for them to come and see 350-400 kids crowd the room to celebrate Shabbat together is going to be something."


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"The CrossOver USB 2.0 Flash drive is the latest line of flash media that also doubles as a microSD and microSDHC card adapter."
Published: 3rd December 2008 | Source: OCZ |OCZ Technology Announces the CrossOver USB Flash Drive, a Unique Storage Solution with Integrated MicroSD Adapter for Ultimate Versatility
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May 27, 2010
The Obama administration unveils its National Security Strategy on Thursday and it will be the first time a president explicitly recognizes the threat posed to the country by radicalized individuals at home, the president's chief counterterrorism adviser said.
The security strategy acts as a blueprint for how a White House administration intends to protect Americans. In the past, it has focused mostly on international threats.
But a spate of terror-related plots in the United States recently prompted the Obama administration to include homegrown terrorism in the document, National Security Adviser John Brennan said Wednesday.
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RESTAURANTS; Arias From the Kitchen As the Dining Room Rocks
By Frank Bruni
Published: June 9, 2004
SOME restaurants revel in exquisite subtleties, while others simply go for the gut. Babbo, blessedly, hangs with the latter crowd.
Consider the bavette, and the buttered bread crumbs in particular.
Bavette, which are slender siblings to fettucine, formed the base of a recent pasta special, and they arrived with plenty of good company: immaculately virgin olive oil, red-hot peppers, fresh ramps, pecorino. At most restaurants, and for most chefs, that would suffice.
Not at Babbo, and not for Mario Batali. Our waiter circled back, explaining that the dish languished a step shy of its full potential, beatified but not yet sanctified, an act he swooped to perform. On went the bread crumbs, for more texture, more richness -- just plain more.
Mr. Batali, the culinary spirit behind Babbo and an ever-expanding empire of Italian (and, more recently, Mediterranean) restaurants, is an indulgent ruler. Babbo remains his throne, from which he bestows his most lavish favors and intense flavors upon an appropriately grateful dining public.
Braised beef cheeks, crushed squab liver, black truffles: these are the components of just one signature ravioli dish. Goose liver is the filling for another.
Among the restaurants that make my stomach do a special jig, Babbo ranks near the top, and that's one reason a fresh review appears today, six years after Babbo opened and received a three-star rating in The New York Times from Ruth Reichl.
But there are other reasons, including this: Babbo provides a clear example of what separates an absolutely terrific restaurant, which it is, from a wholly transcendent dining experience, which it is not. It traces one of the dividing lines between three and four stars, a stratum that makes demands well beyond the perimeter of the plate.
At present, five restaurants in New York City have four stars from The Times. All are French in pedigree or predilection, and that rightly prompts notice as well as debate, at least around the tables where restaurant lovers huddle and feast.
Can the list be complete without Japanese restaurants, so wildly in vogue? Will it ever accommodate Italian restaurants, so many and beloved? Why not Babbo?
To the last question, there is a short, emblematic answer: the music. On the first of my recent visits to Babbo, what thundered -- and I do mean thundered -- from the sound system was relatively hard rock.
Bucatini with the Black Crowes? (''Their second album!'' a waiter proudly informed us.) Linguine with Led Zeppelin?
That soundtrack, the strangely deliberate fruit of Mr. Batali's own iPod, was jarring, as were a few other aspects of the ambience.
The tables are wedged tightly into the first two stories of a Greenwich Village town house, and on the ground floor, a dense crowd often fills the bar area, just inside the entrance. It's a daunting gantlet that diners must penetrate, and it stays in the sightlines of many people eating downstairs.
Even the upstairs can feel frenetic, given the tongue-twisting velocity with which waiters recite specials, the breakneck speed with which they reset the turning tables.
This slightly ragtag quality is Babbo's limitation, not because it bucks classic formality, which matters less than ever, but because it undercuts the kind of coddling that restaurants can also provide.
They can muster a style of theater and degree of pampering that make more universally appealing sense than the sounds and scrum of Babbo. They can be easier on the ears and elbows.
They cannot be much better to the belly. Mr. Batali makes sure of that.
Although he has lustily embraced celebrity chefdom and taken many mistresses (Lupa, Esca, Casa Mono), Babbo is the beloved spouse to which his heart still belongs.
He is here almost nightly, clumping around the place or sitting on the stoop next door in a safari vest, shorts and one of his 12 pairs of orange high-top sneakers. He constantly puts new dishes on the menu, a proclivity that promises adventure to those who want it, safety to those who don't.
Yes, there is offal, including lamb's brain (in a pasta dish) and veal sweetbreads (fried and sauced with such abandon that they taste like a top-notch order of General Tso's chicken).
But there is also a rib-eye steak, lamb chops and plenty of fish. The wild striped bass that I sampled in April, when it was in season, was moister, plumper and more satisfying than the fish I was eating at fancier restaurants better known for seafood. It was also skirted with prosciutto, which didn't hurt.
Mr. Batali is not much for restraint (except with prices, which are reasonable for food of this quality). The warm lamb's tongue, my favorite appetizer, has a delightfully funky flavor on its own, but Mr. Batali dresses it with a black truffle vinaigrette and doesn't stop there.
Upon the summit of the dish teeters a three-minute egg; tap it and the ruptured yolk runs like lava down the slopes of the meat, bringing extra excitement to the landscape.
That goose liver ravioli also gets additional flourishes, browned butter and balsamic vinegar. The pasta, made in house, is cooked perfectly, neither 30 seconds too long or short. At Babbo, it always is.


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Review: A drama that makes 'Indian Blood' boil
"Indian Blood"
What: A new play by A.R. Gurney about life in 1940s Buffalo, N.Y.
When: 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Wednesday and Sundays; through Dec. 21
Where: 2267 First St., Fort Myers
Tickets: $38 and $34
Information: (239) 332-4488, floridarep.org
Something else: Free parking across the street, but holiday events in downtown Fort Myers might cause unexpected street closures and traffic jams.
Friday night's premiere of "Indian Blood" at the Florida Repertory Theatre in Fort Myers shows audiences what can happen when a literate author, an able creative team and a superbly talented cast join forces. Truly excellent live theater spreads outward from the stage with a warming glow, to settle in the hearts and minds of the audience like a fine brandy, or a marvelous cognac, and leaving them contented, fulfilled and utterly satisfied.
On the surface, "Indian Blood" seems to be a yet another clutched pearl in A.R. Gurney's string of navel-gazing polemics that examine the lives of New England's WASPs— a trend that began more than 25 years ago with "The Dining Room."
Yet, "Indian Blood" is both more and less. Virtually an autobiography, the play is content not to scrape old wounds but simply to gaze wistfully through the windows at a bygone age. Young Eddie (Daniel Benzing) finds himself suspended from school in 1946 Buffalo, N.Y., after drawing a rather injudicious picture of Injun Joe and Glinda the Good playing doctor. Eddie blames his problems on his fink of a cousin Lambert (who ratted him out) and his Seneca Indian ancestry — his "Indian blood."
The play meanders through the waning days of December as Eddie uses his unexpected vacation for a closer look at his extended family's sometimes complex dynamics. The work, slight though it may be, carries some emotional meat on its bones and isn't afraid to take sly jabs at the prickly politics of family and the emerging racial and ethnic melting pot set to explode across America a decade hence.
The play serves as a self-examination of sorts — the choices we make, such as Eddie's obvious stumbles toward manhood — and the way we see the future, such as the characters' disparate visions of Buffalo. "Indian Blood" also takes more than a few snide swipes at the relationships between the young and the old, implying that they need and can learn from each other but rarely do the two even communicate. There's also a certain charm in the way that "Indian Blood" seems to reach small — not to fix the problems of Buffalo, but the problems of one family.
Director Robert Cacioppo takes a bold approach to the 1940s with the help of Richard Crowell's daring set design that mimics a proscenium arch, a theater design that came into vogue in the 1700s. The stage is built up and over the orchestra pit; the arch itself loses the curtains and is enlarged and moved much closer to the audience. Cacioppo's vision is framed by a second and smaller vivid red arch backstage. There are no props other than chairs and Marc Hurst's wildly inventive music. While this might seem a limitation, the device allows patrons to embroider scenes however they might fancy; indeed, some of the greatest laughs came when the action was purely make-believe.
First among equals in an exceptionally strong cast is Benzing, who grabs hold of the play's central role with a deftness that befits a thespian decades his senior. Gurney pours into Eddie the rebelliousness and frustrations of anyone who ever felt trapped by his culture. Benzing practically bubbles with discontent. Despite much shushing, his Eddie simply won't stay in his place, whether it be tussling in the lavatory with his bratty cousin, helping the maid serve the turkey or talking to a girl on the telephone who — gasp! — might be Jewish. He's the light of this play and his effervescent smile and crooked grin make him a natural for the part.
Carrie Lund (Jane) plays her long-suffering mother and housewife with such subtlety audiences might miss her fantastic acting. The sighs, the stares, the perfectly timed rejoinders and the conspiratorial whispers delivered with a gleam in her eye mask a mind that's constantly turning, and an eye that's constantly moving, looking to see how she can improve a scene with a gesture here, a tilt of the head there or a poisonous look at the mother-in-law right over the cranberries. She sings, too: a brief snippet of Cole Porter's "You'd Be so Nice to Come Home To."
David S. Howard (Grandfather) and Ginny Brown Graham (Grandmother) serve up a pair of delightfully seasoned old birds. Howard is a wise patriarch who is as quick with a quip as with a snore, while Graham steals several scenes as a wrinkled tyrant nicknamed "Gog." Said servant was Jan Wikstrom, who triples in three minor roles; she has almost no lines, but does more with a few looks, grimaces and grins than many actors do with soliloquies.
The only odd quibble I have is with Peter Thomasson (Harvey). Eddie's father is written as an insufferably snobbish figure with his mother's apron strings still tied firmly to his belt. Thomasson — either consciously or not — has an odd mannerism of moving his head as he talks that I can only describe as someone doing an impression of George W. Bush doing an impression of Ronald Reagan. I didn't have any issues with the performance, but I did keep expecting to see the Gipper up there.
Good theater is a joy to watch, and it is a shame that a show such as this had the misfortune to premiere to empty seats on Black Friday.
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Check out what they could be playing at Glastonbury
Chris Eustace on 07 June 2011
Hurts Like Heaven', 'Major Minor', 'Us Against The World' and 'Cartoon Hearts' all
got their first airings during the set at the Nurburgring, reports NME.
The band also played new single 'Every Tear Is A Waterfall', which is set to go Top Ten in the UK singles chart this Sunday.
Coldplay will headline Glastonbury's Saturday night (25 June).
U2 and Beyonce are the other two headliners for the sold-out event, which takes place at Worthy Farm, Pilton on 22-26 June.


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Since March 2006, operators of motor scooters with engines smaller than 50 cubic centimeters and that do not exceed 30 mph are only required to have a valid driver's license. But operators of motor scooters that exceed 30 miles per hour and are over 50 cubic centimeters must still take a course and a test to get a motorcycle license.
Rhode Island General Law 31-19.1-1 concerns the license required to operate varies vehicles. Here it notes that no person shall operate a motorized bicycle or motor scooter upon a highway in this state unless the person has a valid license as an operator under the provisions of chapter 10 of this title and shall be at least sixteen (16) years of age.
Rhode Island General Laws 31-3-2.2 is titled Registration of motorcycles, motorized bicycles, and motorized tricycles. Here it states under subsection (a) Every motorcycle, motorized bicycle, and motorized tricycle owned by a resident of this state shall be subject to the registration provisions of chapters 3 - 9 of this title whether the motorcycle, motorized bicycle, or motorized tricycle is operated or drawn upon a highway within this state or upon private property.
Since registration of motor scooters, moped is required they must also have insurance on them. As the RI registration form states on it that "the undersigned swears that, in compliance with Title 31, Chapter 47 of the General Laws, Motor and Other Vehicles, known as the Motor Vehicles Reparations Act, he/she will not operate or allow to be operated the motor vehicle described in the registration nor other motor vehicle unless all such motor vehicles are covered for financial security.
You must show proof of insurance when you register your moped or motor scooter. Rhode Island state law requires minimum liability insurance of $25,000 per injured person up to a total of $50,000 per accident, and property damage liability coverage with a minimum limit of $25,000. This basic coverage is often referred to as 25/50/25 coverage with 25/50 UM limits.
Rhode Island state law requires a minimum uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage of $25,000 per person up to a total of $50,000 per accident for any bodily injury caused by the uninsured and/or underinsured driver.
Part of the Rhode Island law (31-47-2) defines motor vehicle as every vehicle required to display registration plates for operation upon public highways of this state. Thus, a moped, motor scooter or motorized bicycle would count as a motor vehicle that was required to be registered and insured.
You should check what your category your vehicle falls under as well. The RI DMV should help you determine the right category if you cannot so you know what to register it as and to determine if you can drive it with just a normal driver's license or if you will need a motorcycle license. These definitions given under RI General Law 31-1-3 may help you:
(j) "Motorcycle" means only those motor vehicles having not more than three (3) wheels in contact with the ground and a saddle on which the driver sits astride, except bicycles with helper motors as defined in subsection ( l ) of this section.
(k) "Motor-driven cycle" means every motorcycle, including every motor scooter, with a motor of no greater than five (5) horsepower, except bicycles with helper motors as defined in subsection ( l ) of this section.
(l) "Motorized bicycles" means two (2) wheel vehicles which may be propelled by human power or helper power, or by both, with a motor rated not more than four and nine-tenths (4.9) horsepower and not greater than fifty (50) cubic centimeters, which are capable of a maximum speed of not more than thirty (30) miles per hour.
(ee) "Motor scooter" means a motor-driven cycle with a motor rated not more than four and nine-tenths (4.9) horsepower and not greater than fifty (50) cubic centimeters, which is capable of a maximum speed of not more than thirty (30) miles per hour.


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The General Medical Council (GMC) have made it mandatory for every doctor with a licence to practice in the UK to engage in the revalidation process.
ID Medical are committed to providing a Premier Level Service to our doctors by guiding them in preparing for Revalidation. By engaging in the revalidation process with ID Medical you will be offered the best job opportunities with the highest levels of pay.
Locum Revalidation
To continue practicing in the UK locum doctors are required to revalidate once every 5 years. To prepare for revalidation, the GMC requires you to:
ID Medical is here to help with locum revalidation, providing a world-class revalidation support service to doctors. See below for details of the locum revalidation package.
ID Medical has created a revalidation package to support you through your appraisal, patient/colleague feedback, and the full process. Our package includes:
The price of each appraisal conducted will differ according to the variables above. To find out more about how you can purchase our package, please contact the ID Medical Revalidation support team on 0845 130 9331 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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In order to prepare for your appriasal, you should create a portfolio containing the following:
If you are a doctor in training, please provide ID Medical with your end of year assessment forms.
There are six types of supporting information that you will be expected to provide and discuss at your appraisal at least once in each five year cycle. They are:
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5. Feedback from patients (where applicable)
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The nature of the supporting information will reflect your particular specialist practice and your other professional roles.
If you wish to work abroad on a permanent basis, you will not need to go through the revalidation process. However, should you wish to continue to hold your licence to work in the UK, you are required to engage in revalidation.
Please supply any documentation you do have to show you have been keeping your knowledge and skills up to date. However, if you do not currently have any relevant documents, please contact ID Medical to discuss this.
In order to provide the best possible service and support to our locum doctors through revalidation, we have a network of appraisers available across the country.
We are constantly recruiting for more appraisers to come on board with ID Medical to continue in offering a Premier Level Service for revalidation to doctors.
There are many benefits to being an appraiser. It provides you with the opportunity to highlight that you have supported other doctors in completing a successful appraisal during your appriasal; obtaining the knowledge and experience to certify that your own appraisals are of a high quality; and a chance to earn more with our competitive remuneration for the service provided.
To become an appraiser, the following requirements are applicable:
Should you wish to become an appraiser for ID Medical, please contact our revalidation support team on 01908 552 836.
If you have any questions, please contact your recruitment consultant or the ID Medical revalidation support team on +44 (0) 845 130 9331.
We look forward to supporting you through revalidation and continuing to provide you with a premier level service.


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Moving Past Our Fear-Based Mentality.
My eyes are flooded with tears, my heart is broken and raging anger and sadness pierce my very bones.
In the wake of the news of shootings just miles from my home in Clackamas, Oregon, and the brutal slaughter at a freaking elementary school in Connecticut, I feel utterly shattered.
And, as I (like so many of us, I'm sure) try to reassemble these broken shards, I'm reminded of how this kind of random shooting doesn't happen nearly as often in the lands we just visited (Germany and Australia)—and it's not an accident!!
I invite all of us to try something like this:
1. Let yourself cry, yell, scream and grieve; let those close to you do the same and support them with as much love as you can muster.
2. Take a moment to send your thoughts and loving support to all those who have undergone such a tragedy…I firmly believe this will make a difference.
3. Take another moment to ask yourself how you might offer beauty, love, music, art and service to this world—in any way you can. Allow the sadness, anger, frustration, and compassion to fuel the power of these loving gifts. To me, this is the most skillful response we can have to such mind-numbing tragedy.
4. Help to spread the word that it's time to look for a real, tangible way to move towards keeping guns out of the hands of people that would do this. I'd be the first to admit that almost every approach will have its weaknesses, yet it is incumbent on us to try. No human system is without its flaws, but again, I know major headway can be made. Just look at the random shooting statistics in Australia and Germany…it's not an accident!!
Sending my love and wishes for healing to all of you reading this,
As a footnote, I'd like to offer a quick look at 2011 gun homicide statistics from the UNODC via The Guardian (UK)—a highly reliable source:
Homicide by firearm rate per 100,000 in:
Australia: 0.14
Germany: 0.19
Hmm…looked at another way, more than 21 times as many people are killed by guns in the USA per 100,000 population as in Australia, and nearly 16 times as many people are killed by guns in the USA as in Germany.
No, the USA is not the worst in per capita gun homicide (28th in the world—maybe a little solace there) but I don't believe that's good enough. Well over 9,000 people were killed in the USA last year by guns…I think we can and should do all we can to improve that. I believe there are ways to change this rampant abuse of lethal force.
At their core, they require moving away from antiquated thinking and imagining the possibilities of living in a culture where people are not armed—a culture in which we have grown up beyond a "wild West"or fear-based mentality.
One idea that comes from Australia, a country whose government impressed me greatly in many respects during my tour there, is worth noting here. There was a massacre there 16 years ago (the Port Arthur Massacre of 1996). In a completely spontaneous and powerful protest, thousands of people surrendered their guns to police stations and Australian citizens chose to support a major strengthening of gun control laws, which remain in force and are respected to this day.
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3 Responses to "Moving Past Our Fear-Based Mentality."
These horrific incidents are not an accident. We must change our fear-based culture of violence. Thank you for your words.
Thank you … it is my hope that these words can play at least a small part in the healing that I pray will come, and in spurring us on to finally change the gun-crazed ethos that has been such a blight on our country. THE TIME IS NOW – THE TIME HAS COME!!!!
[…] In the wake of this week's tragedy, and the long line of mass shooting incidents over the last 10 years, it's time for an open, rational dialogue on the usage/role of guns in the Unites States. […]