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We promised you a big closing week, and I guarantee you'll get one. Let's do the summary.
6.00pm: We promised you a big closing week, and I guarantee you'll get one.
Let's do the evening summary.
Today in federal politics:
- Parliament resumed for its final encounter for 2012.
- The formalities opened with the Defence Minister Stephen Smith unveiling a new inquiry into sexual abuse in the ADF.
- At lunchtime Mr Smith made a formal apology to victims in the chamber.
- Opposition leader Tony Abbott tabled a private members bill toughening sanctions for union officials who steal money from members.
- The Prime Minister resolved to get on the front foot rather than wait for the Oppositon's much telegraphed Question Time attack over the AWU-Bruce Wilson matter.
- Ms Gillard held an hour long press conference to answer questions about her conduct 17 years ago.
- The Prime Minister completely unloaded on Ralph Blewitt, one of the colourful AWU types. A complete imbecile, an idiot, a stooge, a sexist pig, a liar and a crook. His word against mine - make your mind up.
- She said she did not have perfect recall of all the documentation around the case, but who could be reasonably asked to recall every document that ever came across her desk.
- She didn't recall Mr Wilson putting $5,000 in her bank account. She did not set up a slush fund, she provided legal advice, end of story.
- The questions followed the Prime Minister into Question Time, with Liberal deputy leader Julie Bishop being lead prosecutor, asking all the questions.
- In an interview on television this afternoon, Ms Bishop wasn't accepting the Prime Minister's word. She dug in, accusing the Prime Minister in effect of of breaching the law.
We'll say good night for now.
Thanks to Andrew Meares and Alex Ellinghausen who shot absolutely brilliantly as they always do.
Thanks for all the comments and the Tweets and the retweets and the #thepulselive hashtag-ing. We say it all the time, and it's true. Pulsers rock.
See you all again tomorrow!
5.47pm: Busy busy busy.
Ms Bishop, powering through the press gallery a little while ago.
5.38pm: Even though the carbon price is gradually finding more friends in the community - a majority still want it repealed. (45 per cent yes, should repeal - 37 per cent no, should not repeal.)
Hardly anyone wants the NBN repealed (18 per cent.)
About a quarter of the sample favours repealing the mining tax.
5.24pm: I forgot today's Essential Poll!
The main measures are mostly unchanged.
Coalition primary vote is 47 per cent. Labor 36 per cent. The two party preferred result is Coalition 53 per cent, Labor 47 per cent.
Some questions about support for various government policies.
The NBN is popular - 69 per cent approve. The mining tax too - 63 per cent approval.
The carbon tax is getting more popular .. slowly. 46 per cent of the Essential sample now support it and 44 per cent oppose it. The last time this question was asked (October 2012) it was 38 per cent positive and 48 per cent negative.
5.15pm: Things to read.
Here's commentary from Age political editor Michelle Grattan.
Of course her critics won't be satisfied, and will throw up more questions. But Gillard has narrowed their opportunity to get fresh momentum.
Here's the news wrap on a huge day from breaking news reporter Judith Ireland.
4.30pm: My first thoughts on today.
The Prime Minister came through all that well enough in my view.
Defiant press conference. Confident rebuttals. No stumbles in the House.
Holding the press conference today allows Ms Gillard to argue she's not hiding from anything, she's not being evasive; and it allowed her to frame her opponents - Mr Blewitt and the Coalition, on her own terms.
It also took some of the momentum away from the Coalition in the Question Time that followed: took the power out of the first pass on "questions the Prime Minister might answer."
So a good day. Strong sense of relief in Camp Gillard.
But I thought Ms Gillard was very careful about what she said and did not say.
Ms Bishop was very interested in the existence or otherwise of a letter Ms Gillard is alleged to have written in 1992 vouching that the AWU's association complied with the legal requirements of association.
So far, no-one has produced this letter. Ms Gillard did not say that the letter didn't exist.
Which sounds like a lot of lawyerly splitting hairs until you consider that misleading the parliament is a serious issue. This whole Coalition attack in the House is designed to lure Ms Gillard into over-statement and over-emphasis. A trap she clearly does not want to lurch into.
4.11pm: If you want to review the Prime Minister's press conference from this morning, you can watch it here.
You'll need to turn off the auto-refresh at the top of the blog before viewing.
3.57pm: Question Time tapas.
Ms Bishop, JFK and the moon landing.
Thanks to Chris Hammer.
3.51pm: Lots of preparation for today evidently.
Ms Credlin's folder: Gillard/AWU - timeline; full chronology; transcripts. See Alex Ellinghausen's brilliant news snap at 3.19pm.
3.34pm: Before we go through some thoughts about all of that, I'll just note quickly that the private members bill being proposed by Mr Abbott to toughen sanctions against union officials who make off with members money has been tabled.
No debate or consideration on that today.
3.22pm: Tough day at the office, right?
You know it.
3.19pm: How did that go?
Ms Bishop confers with Peta Credlin, Mr Abbott's chief of staff.
3.12pm: The Prime Minister has asked that further questions be placed on the notice paper.
She notes for radio listeners that Mr Abbott was present for Question Time, despite not asking a single question.
3.06pm: Ms Bishop:
I refer the Prime Minister to her August statement as to why she didn't open a file for the advice she gave for the incorporation of the association, and to her 1995 statement that she sought no advice from anyone else at Slater&Gordon. Given that only the Prime Minister, Wilson, and Blewitt were involved in setting up the AWU workplace reform association - is the reason she did not open a file (at the law firm) that it would have alerted her partners and the AWU to the existence of an unauthorised slush fund that received money for the benefit of Wilson and Blewitt?
Ms Gillard:
Nope. I didn't fake the moon landing, I wasn't responsible for the assassination of JFK, and I didn't shove Harold Holt on a Chinese submarine before she gets to those questions.
2.57pm: The Climate Change Minister Greg Combet is back to his favourite description of the Opposition leader's campaign against the carbon price.
Liberal frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull rises to defend his leader Tony Abbott. Mr Combet should not be able to say mendacious because we all know he means liar, and that's nasty and disorderly, Mr Turnbull says, (after clearing his throat several times.)
Speaker Anna Burke says mendacious might be nasty but it is parliamentary.
Deal with it.
2.52pm: Ms Bishop.
Didn't the Western Australian commissioner for corporate affairs in fact raise concerns about this proposed association prior to its incorporation, and will the Prime Minister confirm that as a partner of Slater&Gordon she wrote to the commissioner in 1992, vouching that the association complied with the legal requirements of associations incorporation act even though she knew it did not?
Ms Gillard says that claim has been made by Age journalist Mark Baker, but correspondence supporting that claim has never been produced.
Manager of Opposition business Christopher Pyne wants to know what the Prime Minister recalls of this matter. Never mind claims in newspapers.
Ms Gillard doesn't address that specifically.
She invites Ms Bishop to take her concerns up with the WA Registrar.
2.45pm: Ms Bishop is now raising a rule that required an AWU association to have five members as office bearers before it could be incorporated.
Ms Bishop is now embroiled in a furious dispute with authorities in West Australia that handled the association, the Prime Minister contends. The registrar in West Australia makes those decisions, not the lawyer advising the union officials.
So if she has formed the view that this association ought not to have been in corporated she needs to take that up with the registrar in WA.
2.38pm: Ms Bishop.
The Deputy Opposition leader is back checking in detail what Ms Gillard did to ensure the AWU reform association was compliant with AWU rules.
Ms Gillard:
Let me be very clear with the Deputy Leader of the Opposition because I think she is confusing a few things here. I acted as a solicitor providing legal advice on the instructions of clients. In terms of compliance with the rules of an industrial organisation whether it be the AWU or any industrial organisation, of course that is a question for the members and office bearers of that association. So if she can concerned about the upholding of AWU rules then that is a matter she needs to pursue with the AWU. Though I do note she would be seeking to pursue with them a matter almost two decades old.
In an analogy that I think the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would understand, it is possible to be a lawyer advising on the incorporation of a company. It is then a question for the relevant company authorities as to whether the company is incorporated, and no person of reason would say that the lawyer who provided advice on the incorporation is therefore somehow responsible for dealings of the company once it is incorporated.
2.33pm: Today's crossbench question is from former Labor man Craig Thomson, who seems to want high speed rail for the central coast. (Why not?)
Transport Minister Anthony Albanese suggests delicately it's quite challenging to deliver European style high speed rail when we don't have a huge population.
2.29pm: Ms Bishop.
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her statement today that she provided legal advice for the incorporation of the AWU workplace reform association. When the Prime Minister as a partner of Slater&Gordon advised on the incorporation of the AWU workplace reform association, what steps did she take to ensure that using the name of the union would not breach section eight of the associations incorporation Act regarding the misleading use of names for associations?
Ms Gillard says she took instructions from her clients in the normal way. If Ms Bishop has allegations someone else did something wrong, she should take them elsewhere.
2.20pm: Ms Bishop again.
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to her statement today and to this letter she wrote as a partner of Slater&Gordon to Bruce Wilson in August 1991 in which she provided him with detailed advice on AWU rules on branch offices, union officials an elections.
Will the Prime Minister now admit she was fully aware of AWU rules about the authorisation to set up entities and bank accounts bearing the name of the union and that the AWU workplace reform association breached those union rules?
Ms Gillard.
Do you have a substantive allegation against me?
If you do, put it.
Otherwise, leave it alone.
This is all happening today because the Leader of the Opposition is determined to continue to pursue a negative strategy. He had hoped to tear this Government down. He had hoped to tear me down. He had hoped to ride into office on the basis of a dishonest fear campaign about carbon pricing, that dishonest fear campaign is running out of political puff - and in those circumstances, into the vacuum, because the Opposition's got no ideas for the nation's future. All they've got left, all they've got left is filth and smear and sleaze because of their inability to come to the dispatch box and put one idea for the nation's future.
The other Bishop, Mrs Bishop, has been warned.
2.13pm: Here we go on the AWU matter.
First question from Ms Bishop to Ms Gillard. Why did the Prime Minister give legal advice to Wilson and Blewitt on the incorporation of this association when she must have known as partner of Slater&Gordon it was in contravention of union rules?
The Prime Minister says she's just given an hour-long press conference. I answered this question a minute ago when it was put to me by Sid Marris of The Australian.
(Actually it was Sid Maher, but those Sids, who can keep up with them.)
The other Liberal Bishop, Mrs Bronwyn Bishop, is not amused by Ms Gillard pointing to her press conference. Prime Ministers answer questions in the chamber. If you don't like the job, get off the bus, she suggests.
Ms Gillard makes a caustic comment about secret press conferences.
2.08pm: Question Time has opened with a condolence motion for Joe Riordan, the former secretary of the Federated Clerks Union and a minister in the Whitlam Government.
Both Ms Gillard and Mr Abbott have kind remarks noting his passing on November 18.
Now we are on to a similar motion for Australian author Bryce Courtenay - ad man, and popular author.
1.58pm: Now I have to go to Question Time.
1.57pm: Any regrets?
In terms of all of these years later, of course I would prefer that I wasn't standing here today taking questions like this and we were talking about the National Disability Insurance Scheme; but we could be in that position if the political strategy of the Opposition wasn't about sleaze and smear, if it was about issues of substance for the nation's future.
What I can confidently say is I did nothing wrong.
1.52pm: Why aren't you across all of the documents in this matter?
What I said publicly last week, it appears in giving my best recollection 17 years ago of events two-and-a-half years earlier - it appears whilst I was giving my best recollection 17 years ago that there are these documents.
Does anyone remember all the paper that came across their desk two-and-a-half years ago?
1.47pm: Ms Gillard is pressed why she didn't inform the AWU of the reform association.
The Prime Minister says she was taking instructions from two AWU officials, she didn't think she had to.
She's pressed by Sid Maher from The Australian. The establishment of this entity required a resolution. The Prime Minister doesn't think it did. Mr Maher persists.
Don't hector me Sid, she says.
Karen Middleton from SBS asks the question more simply: are you sure you didn't benefit from any of this alleged wrong doing?
Ms Gillard says she's done what she can to check the record. There were joint expenses in her relationship with Mr Wilson. Going out to dinner. Sometimes they split the bill.
1.40pm: It wasn't the Opposition who started this so called smear against you, it was Labor man Robert McClelland was it not?
Let's be a little bit clearer about the Opposition timeline. Who was it from the Opposition that was peddaling a dirt file in the run up to the 2007 election campaign which canvassed these matters? That's well before Robert McClelland made the speech you refer to. In terms of how long the Opposition has been peddling these matters around, well the Liberal Party has been peddling them around since 1995.
1.33pm: Did you see Mr Blewitt sign the documentation for the home in Fitzroy?
The Prime Minister says she can't remember. Ms Gillard says she signed thousands of documents during her career.
Ms Gillard is asked why did Mr Wilson speak out in her defence over the weekend?
I'm not a mind reader and no I didn't speak to him.
1.28pm: Ms Gillard is asked about reports that $5,000 was put in her bank account by Mr Wilson.
She retorts this is smear about her personal life.
And whilst I'm going to answer your question, I just ask you for one moment to assume that that is true, that $5,000 was put in my bank account by a person I was then in a relationship with, who the witness involved said had had a big night out at the casino. Can you piece together for me the personal wrong doing involved in that? I doubt you can.
I do not to the best of my knowledge, I do not remember $5,000 being put in my bank account.
Ms Gillard says she has asked the Commwealth Bank. She says the bank can't supply records from 17 years ago.
How about the renovations on her home, is she sure she paid for that?
I believe I paid for all of my renovations.
1.25pm: But you should have done more than you did.
You can't report things you don't know and I didn't have before me any details or any evidence about transactions on the accounts of the association, any bank accounts that had been established by the association.
1.16pm: Ms Gillard is asked to go back to events 17 years ago.
The Prime Minister says there were rumours about the AWU officials including Mr Bruce Wilson. I came to a personal decision to end my relationship with Mr Wilson.
But rumours aren't facts.
You can't report things you do not know. I know that there's been a lot of focus on what I should have reported to authorities at that time. You can't report things you do not know. I did not know about transactions on the accounts of the AWU workplace relations association. My role was as a legal adviser providing advise about the incorporation of that association.
Ms Gillard says she did not set up a fund. She did not set up a bank account.
Anyone who says otherwise is perpetrating a defamation.
She says the instructions supplied by the AWU in relation to the slush fund was this was a re-election fund. It is common for unions to incorporate funds for this purpose - pretty routine, pretty low level.
Ms Gillard is now tipping a bucket on Ralph Blewitt.
Mr Blewitt is a man who has publicly said he was involved in fraud. Mr Blewitt is a man who has sought immunity from prosecution. Mr Blewitt is a man who has fled Indonesia to avoid a police interview in relation to land fraud, although he denies wrong doing in the case. Mr Blewitt says he owes money on another Asian land deal. Mr Blewitt admits to using the services of prostitutes in Asia. Mr Blewitt has published lewd and degrading comments and accompanying photographs of young women on his Facebook page. Mr Blewitt, according to people know him, has been described as a complete imbecile, an idiot, a stooge, a sexist pig, a liar and his sister has said he's a crook and rotten to his core. His word against mine - make your mind up.
1.09pm: Here is Ms Gillard.
This week is about education. Education is the foundation stone of my plan for this country's future.
This week is about the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Like Medicare, this will be a Labor instrument of fairness in our society.
The Opposition wants this week to be about sleaze and smear.
There is a reason the Opposition has adopted that strategy and that reason is crystal clear. Mr Abbott wants to use negativity to bring this parliament to an end and have an early election.
The Liberals have nowhere else to go but sleaze and smear. Ms Gillard says there are no John Howard-style Liberals left in this parliament.
She says she is taking questions on the AWU matter today in an effort to stop the Opposition wasting parliament's time.
Over to reporters.
12.55pm: Got your cuppa?
The Prime Minister will be with us any moment now.
12.36pm: Australian Workers Union national secretary Paul Howes has been on Melbourne radio this morning. Mr Howes thinks the existing industrial law can deal with venal union bosses who abscond with the member's moulah, but he's got no substantive problem with Mr Abbott upping the ante.
If people want to increase the penalties to the same level as the corporations act, I've said this many times, I don't care. Of course, I don't care about the penalties. What I care about is ensuring that organisations, as I do here in the AWU, act in a diligent manner. I actually believe there's a higher responsibility for us as guardians of workers' money to protect that money and to act diligently and honestly…
So you're in fact agreeing that there's nothing wrong with Tony Abbott's proposal?
I've got no issue with increasing the penalties, absolutely not.
12.20pm: The Prime Minister and the General.
Lovely Alex Ellinghausen shot from the chamber a minute ago.
CDF David Hurley (pictured above) on the day's events.
Defence remains committed to achieving deep cultural reform across the organisation. We will provide the appropriate resources and personnel to support the Government's announcement today.
On behalf of the ADF, I say that I am sorry to those who have suffered sexual, physical or mental abuse while serving in the ADF.
12.14pm: Sometimes, it's ok to swear.
12.10pm: Shadow spokesman for Defence Science, Technology and Personnel Stuart Robert is standing shoulder to shoulder with the government in caring for those who care for us.
Mr Robert apologises to the victims of abuse on behalf of the Opposition.
Noon: Defence Minister Stephen Smith is rising in the House of Representatives chamber now to apologise to victims of sexual abuse in the Australian Defence Forces.
Mr Smith says not all members of the ADF have been treated with necessary respect. Young men and women have endured mental and physical abuse - incidents out of step with Australian values. The culture has tolerated shortfalls in standards.
To those men and women in the ADF, and the Department of Defence, on behalf of the government, I say sorry, Mr Smith says.
We must ensure that such abuse can never be tolerated again.
11.34am: Mr Abbott is at the White Ribbon function, speaking of the shocking statistics concerning violence against women.
Violence is never an acceptable way of resolving disputes, Mr Abbott says.
We have all got to do what we can. There is so much more that needs to be done. We cannot rest until this shameful evil is utterly extirpated from our society.
(What a brilliant word, extirpated! For those, like me, who had to race in ignorance and shame to the online dictionary: Extirpated (Verb) Root out and completely destroy.)
11.23am: Any view about the merit of front foot versus back foot Liz?
Not really Prime Minister.
(An entirely invented conversation between Ms Gillard and the Sex Discrimnation Commissioner Liz Broderick).
These ladies are at the White Ribbon function.
Andrew Meares is there, and caught this nice tete a tete.
The Prime Minister is speaking now.
11.16am: Schedule an el desko luncheon today politics tragics.
The Prime Minister has called a pre-Question Time press conference at 1pm.
Festival of slush. Front foot. All that.
11.00am: Boats is bubbling around at the margins this morning.
The Labor left will meet later today to consider recent punitive government initiatives, including changes ensuring boat arrivals don't have work rights. Labor's Doug Cameron hit the airwaves this morning to be troubled about this development.
Liberal moderate Judi Moylan was also troubled about the partisan politicking by her leader Tony Abbott - including a move expected this week, via a private members bill, back to Temporary Protection Visas.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen is on the ABC just at the moment, attempting to be Mr Reasonable.
The government claims that a recent upsurge in arrivals from Sri Lanka reflects a bunch of enterprising folks seeking a new life in Australia for economic reasons - not because they face any tangible threat at home.
We need to send a crisp and clear message to Sri Lanka that economic migration through the refugee system is not on, Mr Bowen says.
10.44am: My view on the substance of this matter? Trade union officials should not steal the member's money.
What is your view? Comment below.
Tweeters can weigh in to our rolling conversation by using the hastag #thepulselive
10.36am: The Opposition leader, Tony Abbott, on his private members bill, coming up later today. Criminal penalties for union officials making off with the members moulah. Want a clean trade union movement? Change the government.
Today, the Coalition will be introducing a private members bill to try to ensure that there is a level playing field for officials of unions and for directors and officials of companies. It's very important that people who commit essentially the same offence should pay essentially the same price and if you are in favour of doing the right thing by union members, you'll vote in favour of this legislation. If you're in favour of allowing dodgy union officials to get off more or less scot-free, you'll vote against this legislation. So, this is a real test for the Government and for the Prime Minister. My fear is that too many members of this government are too conflicted and too compromised by their past union associations. If we want to see a clean and straight and honest union movement, I fear the only way to get it is to change the government.
Reporter: Why didn't you introduce this at the height of the Craig Thomson scandal?
This is a perfectly appropriate time to introduce this legislation.
10.33am: Meanwhile, over at the simulator.
Transport Minister drives a pretend train over pretend harbour bridge.
Because he can.
Alex Ellinghausen is down with the train spotter.
10.20am: Breaking news reporter, Judith Ireland, with the two Smiths (Stephen and Len):
- The Gillard Government will establish an independent taskforce, headed by a QC, to assess individual allegations of abuse within Defence and will make a parliamentary apology to victims.
- Announcing the inquiry into allegations of abuse within Defence across every decade since the 1950s, Defence Minister Stephen Smith did not rule out a Royal Commission into some episodes of abuse. And he confirmed that he would deliver a parliamentary apology to Australian Defence Force members and Defence employees who had suffered sexual or other abuse.
- Mr Smith said that the independent taskfoce, headed by Len Roberts-Smith QC would determine if individuals should receive compensation of up to $50,000, counselling, restorative justice or referral to the police or military police.
- The government's response follows a review into Defence abuse, announced in April 2011, in the wake of the so-called ''Skype Scandal'' at ADFA.
- The review, by law firm DLA Piper, received allegations of abuse from more than 1,000 people, dating back to the 1950s.
(Andrew Meares captured Mr Smith and Len Roberts-Smith QC a couple of minutes ago.)
10.09am: The Defence Minister Stephen Smith is in the Blue Room addressing the media. He's announcing a new taskforce to investigate allegations of abuse within the Australian Defence Force.
A taskforce, not a Royal Commission. But if the inquisitors need additional powers they will be granted.
Defence will pay for this inquiry. The taskforce will work for 12 months, and then assess whether that timeframe is sufficient for its inquiries.
Mr Smith says he will be giving an apology to victims in parliament later today.
10.00am: The preamble to this week's festival of slush is certainly entrancing those who watch politics for a living, but it doesn't seem to have impacted public sentiment at this point.
Today's Newspoll shows the main measures on a par with recent surveys.
Labor's primary vote is steady on 36 per cent, as is the Coalition on 43 per cent. The two party preferred measure in Labor 49, Coalition 51 per cent.
The Prime Minister is ahead of Tony Abbott on the preferred Prime Minister measure 46 per cent to 33 per cent.
9.48am: Enough with the quirk and the ghosts of lively Novembers past.
Absolute concentration from now on.
The Australian Financial Review's Laura Tingle has a good preview this morning of the festival of slush.
She speculates Ms Gillard may get on the front foot about this AWU-Bruce Wilson matter rather than wait for the Deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop to launch her much telegraphed Question Time offensive. There's no definitive guidance on that point thus far. The Prime Minister's office tell us if they have something to tell us, they'll tell us.
The Age's political editor Michelle Grattan has a comprehensive story on what the Opposition wants to know on this AWU matter.
9.45am: Total drama action.
The Transport Minister Anthony Albanese will shortly drive a virtual train across the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
(Yep, he will.)
9.35am: Tis of course the season. The killing season.
Our politicians will attend a White Ribbon Day morning tea later on this morning. This fact reminded Andrew Meares of this wonderful picture from 2009.
Then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and then Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull attended a White Ribbon Day event at Parliament House Canberra on Wednesday 25 November 2009. Mr Turnbull later survived a leadership spill following dissent within the coalition surrounding the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
Nothing so dramatic this week, right?
Just bare knuckles, to the end. With a little break later in the week for the Christmas messages.
9.20am: Good morning Pulsers and welcome to the closing week of federal politics.
Slush funds. Polls. Boats.
Backbenchers duelling on morning radio about their leaders racing to the bottom on the question of asylum seekers.
"Questions the Prime Minister must answer."
A couple of colourful union officials interjecting from the sidelines about events 17 years ago.
A private members bill from the Opposition leader Tony Abbott imposing criminal penalties on trade union leaders trousering the members cash.
Hope you've packed lunch.
It's going to be a big week.
Thanks for joining us.
Let's get into it shall we?


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--Randy Jackson is Mariah's manager, and she'd probably be the biggest "get" for the show. SIMON COWELL tried VERY hard to get her for "X-Factor" and failed, so if she landed on "Idol" it would be a symbolic win over Simon.
--Also . . . this probably won't happen, but ARETHA FRANKLIN has announced she'd like to be a judge. She's a legendary singer . . . plus she'd bring a variety of legendary HATS to weekly TV, so win-win.
Kim Kardashian Got Pulled Over for Not Having Any License Plates On Her Car
KIM KARDASHIAN got pulled over the other day because her $300,000 Rolls Royce didn't have license plates. She reportedly told the cop she kept the plates in the glove compartment . . . and he let her go.
Charlie Sheen Quit Twitter
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The Fourth "Ice Age" Movie Topped the Box Office with $46 Million
The only new wide-release this weekend was "Ice Age: Continental Drift", which easily topped the box office with $46 million. That's almost exactly what the first "Ice Age" movie made 10 years ago, though it's much lower than 2006's "Ice Age: The Meltdown", which pulled in $68 million in its opening weekend.
--And here are this week's Top 5 movies:
1.) (NEW) "Ice Age: Continental Drift", $46 million.
2.) "The Amazing Spider-Man", $35 million. Up to $201 million in its 2nd week.
3.) "Ted", $22.1 million. Up to $159 million in its 3rd week.
4.) "Brave", $10.7 million. Up to $196 million in its 4th week.
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Average annual precipitation in the basin ranges between 36 and 37 inches (Vandike 1995).
USGS Gaging Station
There is one active gaging station on the Wyaconda River above Canton, MO (USGS 2001) (Table Hy01). There is no water quality monitoring station within the basin.
Permanence of Flow and Average Annual Discharge
Average annual discharge at the gaging station is 265 cfs. The highest recorded instantaneous peak flow at this site occurred on June 30, 1933 at 17,700 cfs. There have been many years when the there was no flow. However, all of the Wyaconda River and the lower 10 miles of both the South Wyaconda and North Wyaconda rivers are classified at streams containing permanent flow (MDNR 1986a).
Baseflow and Low-Flow Frequencies
Baseflows throughout the basin is not sustained by groundwater inflow during dry weather due to the low conductivity of the underlying clays and rock. Seven-day periods of no flow occur every 5 years (Skelton 1976) (Table Hy02). Also, stream discharge can be zero for up to 60 days or longer every 20 years (Table Hy02).
Flow Duration
Flow duration statistics reflect the stream discharge that is exceeded for specified proportion of time. Median discharge (flow exceeded 50% of the time) for the Wyaconda River above Canton, MO is 31 cfs (USGS 2001) (Table Hy01). The ratio of the flow that is exceeded 90% of the time to the flow exceeded 10% of the time (90:10 ratio) is indicative of the flashiness or variability of the stream flow. The 90:10 ratio calculated for the Wyaconda River indicates that stream flows are highly variable (Table Hy01). Small precipitation events cause rapid increases in stream flow; most water runs off quickly due to the low permeability of the underlying soils.
Flood Frequency
Alexander and Wilson (1995) determined through multiple regression techniques that drainage area and main-channel slope can be used to estimate flood frequency flows for unregulated streams in Missouri (Table Hy03). The generalized least squares regression equations are as follows:
Qt=estimated discharge in cubic feet per second per time interval (t=years)
A=drainage area in square miles
S=main channel slope in feet per mile
Discharges in excess of 5,600 cfs occur every two years at the gaging station.
Dam and Hydropower Influences
There are no major dams or hydropower influences at this time, except that the regulation of Pool 21 of the Upper Mississippi River by the Corps of Engineers can affect water level and flow in the lower portions of the Wyaconda River.
Major Water Users
The city of Wyaconda, Missouri has an eight acre water-supply reservoir near the South Wyaconda River. The city also pumps water from the South Wyaconda River to supplement their water supply (Vandike 1995, Center for Agricultural, Resources, and Environmental Systems 2004). Within the basin, irrigation is used on less than 50 acres and there are no large industrial users of water (MDNR 1986a).


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Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert
Sinai Peninsula from space. Also shows Saudia Arabian coast on the Red Sea. Source: NASA
Located chiefly on the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East, the Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert ecoregion consists largely of level desert terrain, punctuated by scenic and topographically distinctive rocky landforms. There is limited biodiversity in this extreme climate, which at times receives little or no rainfall for years at a time. There have been a total of 432 vertebrate species recorded in the ecoregion. Characteristic fauna includes the Arabian White Oryx, Sand Gazelle, Sand Dune Cat and Ruppell's Fox.
Overgrazing by domestic livestock, wildlife poaching, and off-road vehicles are the chief ongoing threats to the Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert ecoregion.
Location and general depiction
Source: WWF
This ecoregion consists largely of vast generally level expanses of sand, gravel or lava plains, sometimes monotonous in character and incised periodically by gullies (wadis). In some areas the topographic relief is punctured by isolated granite and sandstone mountains, and there is a high mountain range in the southern Sinai Peninsula. In Jordan, the Wadi Rum forms a maze of spectacular sandstone cliff scenery with "great bastions of rock, skewered and scrolled and fissured and wrinkled by salt, sand and wind into shapes" that not even a delirious mind could invent.
In Oman, the ecoregion starts at the Huqf depression close to the Bar al Hikman on the east coast. Heading south, it then incorporates the central plains of the Jiddat al Harasis plateau, an area now home to re-introduced Arabian Oryx (Oryx leucoryx) and other wildlife of the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary.
Further south and west, the central plains give rise to the Dofar pediment. Here a complex system of wadis drain the inland face of the Dhofar mountain range and run north until deflected and overrun by the sand dunes of the Rub' al-Khali. Extending southwest into Yemen, the ecoregion intercepts the Mahara and northern Hadramaut Governates. The start of the Wadi Hadramaut, an area noted for its settled agriculture and ancient towns, is included. It then extends northwards into Saudi Arabia up as far as the Jordanian border, where the terrain is characterized by fairly monotonous gravel plains and sparse vegetation. However, these plains are often interrupted by large areas of black volcanic lava desert known as harrats, strewn with volcanic boulders that make these areas virtually inaccessible by vehicle. Rising above the plains are several mountain ranges, including the Jabal Aja' and Jebal Salma near Hail in the north, which are essentially rounded domes of weathered granite.
The coastal plains and rugged mountains of the southern Sinai add considerable interest to this ecoregion. The mountains of the St. Catherine area reach an elevation of 2624 metres (m), and their smooth granite slopes and near vertical faces contribute to the spectacular mountain scenery. Deep gorges or wadis are notable topographic elements, with some containing water throughout the year. The mountains are comprised of acid plutonic and volcanic rocks belonging to the Precambrian basement complex of the southern part of the Sinai Peninsula.
The climate is characterized by high summer temperatures and cold winters with low annual rainfall; periodically little or no precipitation occurs for several consecutive years. For example, Oman's central plain receives an annual average rainfall of less than 50 millimetres (mm), and in some years receives no rain. Rainfall for Mahazat as-Sayd near Taif in Saudi Arabia is variable and ranges from 50 to 100 mm, while mean monthly minimum and maximum temperatures vary from 20C to 210C and 290C to 400C, respectively. Over a 25-year period, the mountains of the Saint Catherine area in the southern Sinai showed a mean annual precipitation of 45 mm, although the highest peaks receive more precipitation (100 mm) as rain and snow. On Mount Sinai, mean monthly temperature ranges from -10C to 20C in winter to 170C to 190C in summer.
The vegetation in this ecoregion is sometimes referred to as a pseudo-savanna. The spaces between the scattered trees and larger shrubs are occupied by smaller shrubs and herbs; grass-cover may sometimes appear, but only after a plentiful rainfall. The wadis and gullies tend to support most of the vegetation, due to generally higher soil moisture levels in such ravines. Common plants include species of Vachellia or Acacia, notably Umbrella Thorn (Vachellia tortilis), Red Thorn (V. gerrardii), Acacia tortilis raddiana, as well as Christ's Thorn Jujube (Ziziyphus spina-christi), Desert Date (Balanites aegyptiacus), Toothbrush Tree (Salvadora persica), Moringa peregrina, Karira (Capparis decidua), Cordia gharaf, Giant Milkweed (Calotropis procera)and many other plant taxa. On Oman's central plains, common trees are Vachellia tortilis and A. ehrenbergiana, with Prosopis cineraria in areas of deeper sand accumulation. The most widespread and abundant grasses are within the genus Stipograstis.
Biodiversity elements
On Oman's central plains, the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary covers around 25,000 kilometres2 (km2). A World Heritage site, it supports a diverse wildlife community, made notable for the successful re-introduction of the Arabian Oryx (Oryx leucoryx). It contains the largest population in the Arabian Peninsula of Arabian Gazelle (Gazella gazella cora), estimated to number about 5000 individuals, with positive fluctuations after plentiful rain years. Other mammals include the Goitered Gazelle (Gazella subguttorosa), Dorcas Gazelle (Gazella dorcas), Sand Dune Cat (Felis margarita) and Ruppell's Fox (Vulpes rueppellii). It is one of the few sites on the Arabian Peninsula hosting a resident Houbara Bustard (Chlamydotis undulata) population. This part of the ecoregion is unusual, in that it receives supplemental moisture up to 120 km inland from the coastal zone, provided by heavy dews and fogs influenced by southwest monsoons. Even though species richness is low, eleven endemic plant species are found in the ecoregion.
The Mahazat as-Sayd Special Nature Reserve (2200 km2) is another key re-introduction site, containing re-introduced Oryx leucoryx and Arabian Sand Gazelle (Gazella subguttorosa marica). The IUCN Red List categorizes both species as endangered. The population of Arabian sand gazelle was estimated at approximately 300 in 1994. Also introduced to the site is the Somali Ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes) from the Sudan as a replacement for the indigenous Arabian Red-necked Ostrich (Struthio camelus ssp. syriacus) which became extinct in 1940. The vegetation in this reserve made a notable recovery after fencing to keep out livestock; the number of plant species increased from 112 to 142 between 1989 and 1994. There are a number of special status taxa that are found in the Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert, denoted variously as Near Threatened (NT), Vulnerable (VU), Endangered (EN), or Critically Endangered (CR).
Boulos et al. describes the southern Sinai and northern Hijaz area as a center of plant diversity and endemism in the Saharo-Sindian Regional Zone. The 16,000 km2 area contains approximately 700 vascular plant species, of which about 35 taxa are endemic with one endemic genus. The flora includes Mediterranean, Irano-Turanian and Saharo-Sindian elements. The southern Sinai is estimated to contain 28 of the endemic species, most of which are found in the gorge habitats of the Saint Catherine mountains.
In northern Saudi Arabia near the Gulf of Aqaba, the Jebal al Lawz granitic mountains contain at least twenty peaks at over 2000 m. The highest peak is Jebel Fayhan at 2549 m, high enough to receive snow in winter. Vegetation zones are evident, with some stunted Juniperus spp. on the summits. The site is of great botanical interest as it contains wild date palm (Phoenix dactylifera), the only site in Arabia of Wild Almond (Prunus dulcis), and one of two sites in Arabia of Wild Tulip (Tulipa biflora). This is also the only site in Saudi Arabia containing numerous birds of the Chukar Partridge (Alectoris chukar).
Also of importance to wildlife is the Jebel Aja Mountain range and the northern Ha'il extension into the Nafud Desert in Saudi Arabia. The site lies at the center of the spring flyway for the threatened African wintering population of Gus virgo. In addition there is an impressive spring migration of swifts, larks and wheatears, together with a gamut of raptor species. Other characteristic avifauna are the Houbara Bustard (Chlamydotis undulata), Lichenstein's Sand Grouse (Pterocles lichtensteinii), and Chestnut-bellied Sand Grouse (Pterocles exustus).
Varanus griseus. Source: Bibliotheca Alexandrina /EoL Arnold's Sand Lizard (Mesalina ayunensis), found in southwest Oman, is an endemic reptile to this ecoregion. Tilbury's Fringe-fingered Lizard (Acanthodactylus tilburyi), found in southern Jordan and the Ridyadh region of Saudi Arabia, is another reptile endemic to this ecoregion. The Critically Endangered Egyptian Tortoise (Testudo kleinmanni) is found within the ecoregion. Other reptiles found in this ecoregion include the Grey Monitor (Varanus griseus); Thomas' Mastigure (Uromastyx thomasi); and the Arabian Fringe-fingered Lizard (Acanthodactylus arabicus), native to south and central Yemen, known from wadis below Mount Manif, Aden, Hadramaur, Lahej, Jimil Valley, Abian Hills, Bir Fukom, Shugra, Bal-Haf-Azzan and Wadi Irma. Snakes found in the ecoregion include the Arabian Sand Boa (Eryx jayakari); Black Desert Cobra (Mesalina ayunensis); Field's Horned Viper (Pseudocerastes fieldi); Mediterranean Spur-thighed Tortoise (Testudo graeca VU)..
Ecological status
The main responsibility for wildlife conservation and environmental protection in Yemen lies with its Environment Protection Council. Prior to 1994, no areas enjoyed legal protection, and little information exists on the current ecological situation, although Miller indicates that UNEP and IUCN have recommended a network of reserves.
Nature conservation and protected area management in Saudi Arabia is the responsibility of the National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development (NCWCD) established in 1986. Its protected area plan builds on the existence of traditional resource conservation areas or himas, of which Draz estimated the total number to be 3000. In Oman, the Ministry of Regional Municipalities and Environment, and its Directorate of Nature Protectorates, is the principal body responsible for environment protection and wildlife conservation. The Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, shares this task and is responsible for managing the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary.
In the southern Sinai, the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA), through its Nature Protectorates division, has established several protected areas. The Saint Catherine Protectorate incorporates a unique high altitude desert ecosystem and covers an area of 4350 km2. The Abu Galum and Nabq sites on the east coast protect mountain and coastal biodiversity, while the Ras Muhammad National Park protects marine and terrestrial areas of the Ras Muhammad Peninsula.
The Jordanian Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN) is in the process of creating the Wadi Rum Nature Reserve, planned to cover approximately 500 km2 (RSCN 1994). The Reserve will address problems of overgrazing and damage to archaeological sites as well as provide protection for wildlife, including the Nubian Ibex (Capra nubiana VU) and Goitered Gazelle (Gazella subguttorosa VU).
Ecological threat profile
Common threats to biodiversity are wildlife poaching, overgrazing by camels and goats, and damage to vegetation through off-road driving. The wildlife inhabiting Oman's central plains are formally protected in the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary. Despite the protection, however, poaching reduced the number of re-introduced Oryx leucoryx in the sanctuary from over 400 in 1996 to 136 by January 1999. Off-road driving by local bedu, visitors, and seismic operators exerts a damaging effect on vegetation, both in the sanctuary and the surrounding area, although no studies have yet been conducted to examine the damage. A further threat to the vegetation in the sanctuary and surrounding central plains is overgrazing by goats and camels. During the last 20 years, livestock herds have increased as the local nomadic pastoralists have purchased pick-up trucks that provide greater access to borehole water and the transport of supplemental feed.
Justification of ecoregion delineation
The area corresponds to Zohary's geobotanical zone of Acacietea tortilis sub-sudanicain the Afrotropical realm.
Further reading
- M. Asher. 1998. The uncrowned king of Arabia. Penguin Books Ltd., England. ISBN: 1585671428
- L. Boulos, A. G. Miller and R. R. Mill. 1994. Regional overview: South West Asia and the Middle East. Pages 293-303 in S. D. Davis, V. H. Heywood, and A. C. Hamilton, editors. Centres of Plant Diversity, Vol. 1. WWF, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- O. Draz. 1969. The Hima system of range reserves in the Arabian Peninsula: its possibilities in range improvement and conservation projects in the Middle East. FAO/PL.PFC/13.11. FAO, Rome.
- A. El-Raouf., A. Moustafa, and M. S. Zaghloul. 1996. Environment and vegetation in the montane Saint Catherine area, south Sinai, Egypt. Journal of Arid Environments 34:331-349.
- Evans, M. I. 1994. Important bird areas in the Middle East. Birdlife International. Cambridge, England. ISBN: 0946888280
- Ghazanfar. S. A. 1999. A review of the flora of Oman. Pages 29-36 in M. Fisher, S. A. Ghazanfar and J. A. Spalton, editors. The natural history of Oman: A festschrift for Michael Gallagher. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.
- Haque, M. N. and T. R. Smith. 1995. Reintroduction of Arabian sand gazelle Gazella subgutturosa marica in Saudi Arabia. Biological Conservation 76:203-207.
- IUCN. 2001. The 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, United Kingdom. ISBN: 2831705657
- Miller, A. G. 1994. Highlands of South-Western Arabia: Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Pages 317-319 in S. D. Davis, V. H. Heywood and A. C. Hamilton, editors. Centres of Plant Diversity, Vol.1. WWF, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. ISBN283170197X
- Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature. 1994. Wadi Rum proposed as a new nature reserve. Arabian Wildlife 1(1):34.
- Sibley, C.G. and B.L. Monroe, Jr. 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of the Birds of the World. Hancock House Publishers. ISBN: 0300049692
- Spalton, J. A., M. W. Lawrence and S. A. Brend. 1999. Arabian oryx re-introduction in Oman: successes and setbacks. Oryx 33(2):168-175.
- Stanley Price, M. R. 1989. Animal re-introductions: The Arabian oryx in Oman. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England. ISBN: 0521344115
- Zohary, M. 1973. Geobotanical foundations of the Middle East. Vol. 1 and 2. Gustav Fisher Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany.
Disclaimer: This article contains some information that was originally published by the World Wildlife Fund. Topic editors and authors for the Encyclopedia of Earth have edited its content and added new information. The use of information from the World Wildlife Fund should not be construed as support for or endorsement by that organization for any new information added by EoE personnel, or for any editing of the original content.


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Hey all, I was inspired to to head to the forums by kudaotai's excellent post and the conversation we ended up having over email that followed it.
kudaotai's thread:
There are two parts to the relaunch, changing it - and timing it. As you know by my earlier announcement, timing is currently planned for next week.
Changing it - the following things are being worked on
-simplifying the main page and focusing on making the game itself clear to the casual KS'er easily. Links for more detailed stuff.
-highlighting the early bird system a bit, rewording all the rewards so their easier to read.
-playable demo (actually a tutorial) in-engine
-lower goal for earlier PayPal button
-other stuff we can talk about in this thread
The timing - actually my more immediate concern - is a bit tricker. Faeria got us good launching two days after cancellation, and waiting until they're done puts us squarely in new-console launch season. Not sure how that will effect regular Kickstarters backing patterns, but it basically means no press for us until after the holidays -- and the press we've worked to line up would go up in smoke. The thing about next week is it's square in the middle of Faeria's run, when excitement for the KS is generally at a lull (may not be true if they happen to meet their funding goal during the week, though). Anyone who watches small gaming kickstarters have any insight?


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Rome: The City of Eternal...BOREDOM?!?
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It was worse than Airbender, only by a little of course. There were two films worse than Shyamalan's family-friendly flop. Jonah Hex & this one, but that's it.
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Um, BurnHollywoodBurn, are you saying that I just list movies for the fun of it?! Because I am dedicated to my list and I see everything on the list through their entirety, no matter how awful they are!
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The Four Horsemen of the Moviepocalypse: uncalled for sequels/remakes/reboots, 3-D surcharges, untalented "celebrities", and anything with Michael Bay's name attached to it.
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Let me address several posts at the beginning of this thread. The plot isn't about Kristin Bell throwing a coin into a fountain in order for guys to fall in love with her. No.
And I have no problem spoiling the spoiled. . .
The plot is about:
Beth, a New York art curator played by Kristin Bell, who is in love with her job, and who must find someone she loves more than her job before she would marry, going to Italy to be at her little sister's wedding when she should be working the kinks out of getting a rare artpiece to the Guggenheim for a fundraising exhibit, finding Nick Beamon, a handsome klutz of a sportswriter played by Josh Duhamel, and she falls in love with him and he with her, and they get separated, but she spots him and follows him outside where she sees him kissing a woman in a red dress, and instead of confronting him and sparing us any second more of this mostly unfunny movie (I confess, I did laugh four times), decides to hide the wine bottle, the wine glasses and herself from Nick's sight, and then goes to the fountain, and drinks half if not most of the bottle, and wades into the fountain completely snonkered, chews out the statue of Venus and picks up five coins - well, actually four coins and a poker chip - and voila, or whatever the expression is in Italian, the five guys fall in love with her and stalk her in every sense of the word as part of the curse of the fountain on anyone who takes its coins.
And yes, the rest of the movie is just as disjointed as that run-on sentence.
But, let's talk about what was good. Now, despite Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel being on the nominating ballot for worst actress and worst actor, they really did a fine job with the roles they were given and the disjointed script they had to smoothe out. Of course, their respective agents should have taken that script and scribbled "REWRITE" on every page, but that opportunity is long gone. And there was four times I did laugh, like when Beth tried to break the vase during her sister's wedding ceremony up until she bounced it into the groom's mother, or when the four stalkers drive Beth into an elevator in the Guggenheim in a small car and Beth asks the elevator operator to take them to the fifth floor. It seemed well-filmed, too, so give a thumbs up to the cinematographer, and the studio didn't feel compelled to convert this movie into 3-D. . . .
Okay, I'm stretching things out. That's about it for the good stuff. When in Rome is a movie that lurches from one direction to another to another, and although there are certain times it tries to be a romantic rom, it fails with each lurch. As for the comedic com, it is too few and far between, filled with many unfunny sequences such as the restaurant in the dark sequence where Nick takes Beth for dinner when the four stalkers show up with night vision glasses. Or how about Beth's three so-called friends at the beginning of the movie, letting her ramble on about her ex when her ex is standing right there. Or Nick, who as a teenage football player was struck by lightning, running through New York in a lightning storm trying to get back with Beth who forgot he was in love with her BEFORE she picked up the poker chip. . . .
The worst? Danny DeVito. I mean, he performed his character Al as written. But that's the problem. It was a horrible character. All the guys who fell in love with Beth when she picked up those coins were horrible characters.
So, what, you're telling me that the characters were SUPPOSED to be horrible? You're sounding like Sandra Bullock during her acceptance speech last year. Let me tell you something about horrible characters. In every horrible character, even in the villains, the audience wants to like them, to identify with them, if only to like them as horrible characters if not anything else. If your character is so horrible that the audience doesn't like them, doesn't want to watch them, doesn't want anything to do with them, then why are you putting that character up on the screen. Like I said earlier, "REWRITE!"
So, it was unnerving seeing Danny DeVito, with all his talent, portray a character that was beneath him. Bless his heart, he did himself no favors doing this movie except to collect a paycheck. Not to overdo the Get Shorty part, but DeVito is a great actor, and so I don't like it when he isn't in a great role.
And that whole bit about Beth's ex breaking up with her in Applebees. Does it really matter that he did it in Applebees? Is that supposed to be funny? I guess so, because it kept coming up in the first 15 minutes.
And one last thing - stalking. I've seen a lot of stalking portrayed in a number of films, such as Superman Returns or Good Luck Chuck or Management or When in Rome. It doesn't matter that the character in question has x-ray vision or is under a fountain curse. It's not good. It certainly isn't funny. It's creepy. It's humiliating. It's invasive. Portray it for what it is.
Oh, and yes, there is a flashback. Remember that Nick was struck in lightning at a football game. The director felt compelled to show it to us.
I gave it three out of ten stars. I must be feeling generous.
Razzie noms. Razzie noms. I wish Danny DeVito, Dax Shepard, Will Arnett and Jon Heder were nominated in the Worst Couple/Ensemble category as the Four Stalkers of the Apocalypse. Worst Screenplay. Worst Director for Mark Steven Johnson (who is also responsible for Ghost Rider and Daredevil - well, at least he put down his comic books long enough to try something different).
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I'm pretty sure if this(or any)movie gets nominated for "Worst Ensemble" it would have to include the whole main cast.That includes Kristen and Josh.Are you okay with that?
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I'm okay with that, but it is very difficult for anything not already on the ballot to garner enough write-in votes to make the main ballot in January. When in Rome isn't on the preliminary ballot for worst couple/ensemble. Duhamel and Bell are on the ballot for Worst Actor and Actress, though, Duhamel being on there for both When in Rome and Life as We Know It. But I also know that if HeadRAZZ decided the four stalkers should be "honored" all by themselves, that it can be done in a very humorous way.
And, yes, they were that bad.
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I just saw it.
It wasn't funny and there were way too many moments that were beyond the suspension of disbelief to the point where it was just false,like the fact BETH never calls the cops on the stalkers or asks for restraining orders.Some of you mentioned that you thought it was impossible that someone as pretty as Kristen Bell couldn't get a guy any other way.Of course this happens in a lot of movies,but in those I actually buy it when the character has flaws.Here,BETH is a very normal person.
Sorry to say this,but Kristen gave the weakest performance of them all.Jon Heder wasn't anything to discuss but I liked that he left his comfort zone.
I give it 3/10.
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- 2 tablespoons paprika
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- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 2 teaspoons onion powder
- 2 teaspoons dried thyme
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon ground white pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
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- 1/4 cup (4 tablespoons) butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon liquid crab boil
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