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It's hard to overlook the appeal of a well-dressed meal. Food styling elevates food to an art form with a lot of patience and an army of tiny tweezers to tweak individual ingredients for the perfect camera shot. We reached out to foodie blogger and photographer, Heidi of Foodie Crush, to find out what it takes to create a perfectly styled foodie photo finish.
BFF: How much time do you spend making food photo-ready and photographing it?
Heidi: I spend probably way too much time! It seems like the longer I've been cooking, prop styling, food styling and then photographing as a solo act, I've progressively gotten slower. A year ago, I would bang out 4-5 recipes a day. Now I'm lucky if I get two. Generally, I spend 2-3 hours per recipe. If I'm shooting with a team where I don't have to cook or prep the plates, we can sometimes get through 10-12 shots a day.
BFF: What steps do you take to get the best food photos?
Heidi: It depends on what you're taking the photographs for. If you're telling a story within a blog post or editorial, giving a sense of place is important - showing a table, glasses in the background, hands reaching for food. If you're photographing for a client who wants to use their food for advertising or for use in cookbooks, getting a clean, in focus shot that's relatively close-up and simply styled works well. If it's for Pinterest, showing how ooey gooey the food is always sells. Tight, close-up shots often get pinned more.
Steps for me include using natural light, having your set ready to go and props picked out before cooking the food and having an idea of exactly which shots you want is important to maximize your work flow.
BFF: Have you ever had food photo flop?
Heidi: ABSOLUTELY! Usually it's due to bad lighting or me over styling the photo like making a simple salad look too composed with each berry or nut perfectly placed. It just doesn't look natural when I go overboard.
BFF: What is your favorite food photo you've taken?
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Dear step-nephew,
I'm sorry for telling you to suck my dick at Thanksgiving three years ago.
You were fifteen at the time, I think, or maybe sixteen. Needless to say, the expression is an inappropriate one for me to use in that situation. I was 35, after all.
We were in the kitchen at our mutual aunt's house in Boston. I'd just arrived, after a long drive with my wife and my kid and my mother. You and your folks had gotten there the day before. We were both up from New York, but I hadn't seen you in a few years. Not since you were much shorter, and much less opinionated about socio-economic matters. Or at least less colorful in the expression of your opinions.
We were catching up, making the sort of small talk I thought pretty normal for a pair of extended family members who only see each other every few years at Thanksgiving.
"So you're in high school now," I said. "Cool."
"I see you've grown your hair long," I said. "Cool."
I probably used the word "cool" too much. And you probably thought I was trying too hard to relate or whatever. I don't often talk to teenagers these days. But I remember being one. And I was enjoying how fully you lived up to type. The bored, disaffected tone of voice, the skull with snakes coming out the eyes on your t-shirt, the put-upon half-sneer in which you held your upper lip. You were totally awesome.
And, I'm sure, totally miserable, trapped in Boston with your parents for four days instead of smoking pot with your friends and masturbating in the privacy of your own bathroom. I know I would have been.
Still, I was taken aback when-after I asked and you told me where you lived in Brooklyn and you asked and I told you where I lived in Manhattan-that sneer curled a bit higher and you called me "fucking bourgeois scum."
I'm not sure exactly what the appropriate response would have been. Maybe a more responsible adult would have gone and told your parents. Perhaps, in times past, someone in my position would have simply smacked you across the face, or marched you over to the sink and washed your mouth out with soap.
But thinking back on it, it was less the language that offended me than it was the accusation. (Bourgeois?! Moi?!) I guess I thought (without really thinking, of course-again, it had been a long drive) that cursing back at you would send a message. My knee-jerk intent was to shock you, to prove that I wasn't too old, or too stodgy, or too (God forbid) bourgeois to use bad words.
I know better now. You were at a difficult age. And "suck my dick, you little punk" is really never the right thing to say to one's nephew. Especially at Thanksgiving.
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Sara Kremer Larsen says being a Marquette student made one thing apparent: You were important to everyone.
That, in turn, was important to her as she worked full time in the East Troy (Wis.) Community School District, raised three daughters and studied for her doctoral degree in education.
"I have never felt more supported," she says. "Marquette was competitive, but they also had a very high completion rate."
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What united that group was the university's true sense of mission, something "you lived and breathed," Sara says.
That spirit guides Sara's work today as the district superintendent of the Oak Creek-Franklin (Wis.) Joint School District. She also is doing post-doctorate work in educational leadership and policy at Marquette and has taught many graduate classes on campus, as well as at Milwaukee's Cardinal Stritch University. She participated in a program in China to learn about the language and culture and a Fulbright program in Germany to learn about the country's education and emphasis on global literacy.
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Cazenovia The annual Burton Street PTA Spring Book Fair will be held Monday, March 5, through Monday, March 12.
A wide selection of titles will be available to purchase for those looking for gift ideas and material for and summer reading. Cash, credit or checks made out to the Burton Street PTA will be accepted.
Community members are welcome to attend the BSPTA Family Night, from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7, and the "Grand" event from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, March 8, when Cazenovia students have a half-day of school.
Students are encouraged to invite their grandmothers, grandfathers or any grandperson in their life to attend the "Grand" event. There will be special gifts for the children attending with their grandperson.
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Since my weight loss surgery last year, I have changed many of my "bad" eating habits. Having the surgery gave me a jumpstart to feeling better, but it's also ALOT of work! My family adopted some of the healthier ways, but would not bend when it came to eating whole grain pasta and breads, sugar-free, low-carb foods, and yes.. veggies! A few of my kiddos are veggie eaters, but only a couple will eat raw vegetables and salad. And to get the hubby to eat salad or vegetables on a regular basis (he's the meat and potatoes kinda guy) was like pulling teeth!
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NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan - The 4th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division soldiers are in Afghanistan serving outside their typical cavalry role.
The Texas-based squadron from Fort Hood, more commonly referred to as 4-9 Cav., is now operating out of Forward Operating Base Fenty in Nangarhar province; there they conduct operations ranging from reconnaissance to force protection.
"The 4th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment provides security so we can focus on our advising mission," said U.S. Col. Mario Diaz, commander, 4th Brigade, 10th Mountain Division. "They are key members of Task Force Patriot and make a positive difference every day in Regional Command-East, North of Kabul."
Reconnaissance missions send these cavalry soldiers to nearby villages where they gather intelligence from locals about possible enemy movement or activities.
"We've received intelligence that the enemy is going to ground because of our constant presence," said Lt. Col. Robert Smith, commander of 4-9 Cav. "Our presence in this area of operation has been very effective."
Similarly, force protection measures send the soldiers on patrols around Fenty to keep relations with the local population friendly and ensure the perimeter is secure.
"A defensive position is never complete, because you're always trying to make it better," said 1st Lt. Arrio Granum, of Hillsboro, Ore., executive officer, Troop A, 4-9 Cav. "We need to get out there and establish ourselves outside the wire."
Missions outside the wire must be supported by sustainment and support personnel in order to be successful.
These soldiers maintain, recover and repair everything from portable generators to vehicles disabled by roadside explosives. Their work is complemented behind the scenes by logistics and administrative personnel.
For a team primarily made of scouts - the commander's eyes and ears on the battlefield - the roles they fill on this deployment require flexibility and versatility.
"Our soldiers are willing to support in any way that they can," said Smith. "If it's a mission outside of what they've been trained for, we take the time to train them so it works out."
Though 4-9 Cav's tour is still in full swing as of Sept. 14, Smith said he already knows how he wants his squadron to be remembered when all is said and done.
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Sunday, August 3, 2014
Gov. Jay Nixon visited Fulton on Friday to discuss with local officials the effects of legislation he believes give more than a dozen tax breaks to special interests groups.
These exemptions have been the source of worry for officials in Callaway County and other municipalities across the state after the Department of Revenue released figures showing a revenue loss for Missouri's local governments totaling at about $351 million.
According to DOR's estimates, Callaway County would lose more than $400,000 and the City of Fulton would see a loss of more than $300,000.
Nixon vetoed the bills of concern, but the legislation could still become law if the General Assembly overrides the vetoes come September.
Local leaders react to Gov. Nixon's 'tax break' bills (includes legislation summaries)
The roundtable discussion Friday was held at Fulton High School and also highlighted how Nixon believes the exemptions could hurt Prop C funding — a measure passed in 1982 that outlined a 1-cent additional sales tax for schools.
Nixon said Prop C money provides $920 per student per year regardless of location in the state or school performance. If the General Assembly overrides Nixon's vetoes, he said that figure will decrease by $104.
For Fulton Public Schools, that means a $247,000 loss, which Superintendent Jacque Cowherd equated to 4.5 teachers.
"If we had to go to our community today and ask to replace that, that's a 13-and-1/4-cent tax levy increase," Cowherd said.
Cowherd added that local voters approved all Prop C funds to go to the school, which doesn't allow for any tax adjustments, therefore resulting in no option for fallback.
The Callaway County Commission and City of Fulton Mayor LeRoy Benton and City Administrator Bill Johnson were also vocal about how the bills would harm the area.
Callaway County Presiding Commissioner Gary Jungermann said $400,000 — the same number the DOR estimated would be cut from the county — is taken from the general revenue fund in order to maintain roads and bridges throughout Callaway.
Doc Kritzer, western district commissioner, added that some counties are able to fall back on a property sales tax increase, but that's not the case for Callaway, leaving "no way to recover these losses."
Missouri Budget Director Linda Luebbering said DOR estimates and those of the Legislative Oversight Committee may not be the same, but they are "amazingly close."
The DOR estimates the bills will cost the state $751 million and local governments $351 million, while the Legislative Oversight Committee projects a total loss of $514 million and $223 million for local governments.
Benton, Johnson, the commission and the Holts Summit Board of Alderman (through a resolution supporting Nixon's vetoes) have echoed each other in that they don't want any state legislature-imposed cuts to occur locally.
"I don't think anybody (in the General Assembly) really understood the fiscal impact. But, now that the two numbers have come out, we don't really know which number's right. We don't care. Any effect is too much. But now that there is a known negative effect … I'm hoping that this General Assembly will support the communities and the citizens and let the veto stand," Johnson said.
Rep. Jeanie Riddle, R-Mokane, said in a statement to the Fulton Sun that the "financial implications that have been suggested by the Governor's administration and other special interest groups do not exist in the vast majority of the bills that are being discussed."
She added that Nixon's "media stunt" in her district does not affect her "long-standing policy on legislative affairs."
"Governor Nixon only visits my district when it is politically opportunistic," Riddle wrote. "This is the same as his engagement in legislative issues that govern our state; he only does it when it is politically feasible for him."
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Garmin-Sharp's top GC contenders are the only riders offered a chance to ride the rarefied Cervelo Rca. But don't feel bad for the rest of the team; they have great bikes to choose from as well. Jack Bauer is a tall, powerful rider who will likely spend most of his first Tour de France protecting his team's climbers on flat, windy days. His Cervélo S5's aerodynamic tubes and internal cable routing will allow the Kiwi to ride faster while expending fewer watts. Note the team's new blue argyle paint job and the special sticker honoring the 100th edition of the Tour de France. After spending last season and the first half of this season riding 10-speed Dura-Ace Di2 components, the team upgraded to 11-speed just before the Tour.
Teams show off the latest road frames and components at the 100th edition of the Tour.—Whit Yost
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I was editing the Weapons in GTA Vice City article and it just messed up completely when I saved. Could someone please fix it? I tried but I have no idea how to. Apologies for messing it up it didn't look like that when I was editing, only when I saved. Elvis Thong 17:27, June 13, 2010 (UTC)
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Why is there no mention of the hidden melee weapon inside the police station?
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From the earliest PadMaps came the mod PadWorld, and now from that distinguished provenance comes the next colourful evolution, the World of Padman. Developed and headed by the professional cartoonist and illustrator ENTE and his team, PadWorld Entertainment proudly present a free multi player game for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux that's powered by an extended ioquake3-engine. Please post all support issues in the forums for the game.
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A very nice WoP video manual presenting weapons, game modes and online action. Made by cyrri and spawnsen back in 2007.


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Monday, March 14, 2011
BANGKOK (AP) — Japanese shares were battered for a second day Tuesday as investors unloaded assets on escalating fears of a nuclear crisis spawned by a mammoth earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan's coast last week. Other Asian markets — sharply down — appeared to be suffering from a ripple effect.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average shed 620.76 points, or 6.5 percent, at 8,999.73 in early trading Tuesday, extending losses from the previous day. The broader Topix lost 6.4 percent. The Nikkei had tumbled more than 6 percent Monday on the first trading day since the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck the northeastern coast Friday, washing away towns and killing thousands of people.
Oil prices fell to near $99 a barrel in Asia after radiation began leaking from a Japanese nuclear plant that was heavily damaged in the 9.0-magnitude quake.
The stock sell-off hit nearly every business sector, with electric companies under intense pressure again. The Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the crippled nuclear plant, was overwhelmed with sell orders and had yet to trade. Toshiba Corp., a maker of nuclear power plants, was also untraded.
Other companies with nuclear power-related businesses faced a second day of heavy losses, including Hitachi Ltd., falling 7.8 percent; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, down 9 percent; and Kobe Steel Ltd., down 9 percent.
Cosmo Oil, whose refinery caught fire after the quake, slid by 8 percent.
Car makers declined partly because quake-stricken northeastern Japan is a major center for auto production, complete with a myriad of parts suppliers and a network of roads and ports for efficient distribution.
Major vehicle manufactures halted production after the quake, and their shares continued to capsize. Toyota Motor Corp., the world's largest automaker, fell 4.7 percent; Honda lost 4.4 percent; and Nissan dropped 5 percent. Mitsubishi Motors Corp. lost 6.2 percent and truck-maker Isuzu Motors Ltd. plunged 8.6 percent.
Fears about the safety of nuclear power weighed on the shares of companies involved in uranium mining. Energy Resources of Australia Ltd., one of the world's largest uranium producers, fell 6.6 percent.
Even the rare stock that did well Monday — industrial and materials companies, which gained due to expectations that they would benefit when Japan rebuilds — tumbled Tuesday. Japanese construction company Kajima Corp. dropped 6 percent and Nishimatsu Construction Co. Ltd. skidded 13 percent. Analysts said that while the Japanese economy remained virtually shut down, companies in China and elsewhere could fill the void.
Throughout Asia, investors fled stocks as the crisis in the world's No. 3 economy seemed only to escalate. South Korea's Kospi was down 2.5 percent to 1,921.34, and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 fell 2.3 percent to 4,521.70.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index slumped 3.8 percent to 22,469.22, and mainland China's Shanghai Composite Index lost 2.7 percent to 2,856.98.
On Wall Street Monday, concerns over the economic impact of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan led to a broad sell-off. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 51.24, or 0.4 percent, to 11,993.16.
The broader S&P index fell 7.89 points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,296.39. Nine out of the 10 sectors that make up the Standard and Poor's 500 index lost ground. Utilities companies fell 1.4 percent, the most of any group.
The Nasdaq composite dipped 14.64, or 0.5 percent, to 2,700.97.
Benchmark crude for April delivery dropped $1.90 to $99.29 a barrel on the New York Mercantile exchange. The contract added 3 cents to settle at $101.19 on Monday on the Nymex.
The dollar was worth 81.66 Japanese yen Tuesday, down from 81.88 yen late Friday. Major natural disasters like earthquakes tends to bolster the yen because investors expect the Japanese public and insurance companies to buy back their home currency in order to fund the country's reconstruction, increasing demand for the yen.
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This campground really needs updating. We did have an electric issue that was addressed within an hour and fixed. There is very poor cell and Verizon internet signal. The roads are dirt as are the spots. As for the long termers most of them are off to the side of the campground and most don't have lots of junk laying around. This campground could be a very nice place with some major improvements. The couple that own it were very nice and friendly. This campground is convenient to Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park and a moderate drive to Yosemite National Park. This park is quiet which is very important to us. We would stay here again if in this area. - Bandit23
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After all this time, after waiting patiently for episodes upon episodes, we finally get our series finale of Life on Mars. Alright, so it was only one season, but I felt like a series finale had to have some sort of build-up.
First of all, seriously … I had no idea. Don't get me wrong; I'm pretty damn proud of myself and all and even treated myself to a cookie, because I had no spoilers at all to work with nor any early screeners and still called the show's ending nearly spot-on. I know I'm not the only one, so the rest of you can go ahead and get yourselves a cookie too.
Even though I felt this was the most likely ending for the show, I'm not completely thrilled with how it went down in the final ten minutes or so. Some of the details behind the whole mission to Mars didn't sit well with me, for example. I'll get to all of those in more in a list a little later.
I have to wonder if this was the ending envisioned all along by the creators. If so, it's a good thing the show ended this soon. If we were dragged into, say, three seasons of this show — caring about them all and their relationships with each other — we'd feel cheated in the end when it all turned out to be a fantasy in Sam's head. Not only that, but Sam more-or-less snaps out of his virtual reality stasis and seems only slightly bothered by what transpired.
Even with such a short season, there are some bothersome holes. What or who was Maya, Sam's girlfriend, for example? She all but disappeared halfway through the season, when I would have expected for her to show up at some point in the finale. And since all of the major players in the show were linked back to people on the Hyde-1-2-5 (or in Mission Control), and "Gene Hunt" was actually Sam's father, then who was the guy "playing" Sam's father in the virtual 1973? What about the old guy and the little girl? The old man with the cane?
As a sci-fi geek, I didn't care for how Twilight Zone-like the Hyde-1-2-5 appeared and operated. But that's enough negatives. I did like that, through all of what we saw in virtual 1973, Gene Hunt was there as Sam's father all along. When all was said and done, it just fit. And that right there made it an OK finale, not a bad one.
Some other quick points about the episode:
Lisa Bonet was credited as a guest star, but I don't remember seeing her. Did I miss her? Also, if Gene Hunt is his dad, then did Sam subconsciously have sex with his sister?
i think gene hunt in 1973 wasn't his dad, but a representation of one, he had a father-son relationship with him, not vince.
and vince is a representation of the relationship sam has with gene in 2035, that's why at the end he said he didn't want to fight with him anymore.
I was completely in shock of the ending…mostly I was pissed. After looking at this post, I realized that if this went 3 seasons and this was the ending I got…I probably would have chucked my TV out the window.
This was the perfect ending for a short-lived 16-episode show. We didn't get too invested in the characters, so it's not a big deal that a big part of it was a dream.
If it had lasted several seasons I would hope they'd have come up with something better, but let's face it – there's no really good explanation for someone being hit by a car and winding up in 1973. The British show didn't know how to end it either.
Also, the ending kind of felt like a curtain call at the end of a play, where the actors all break character and talk about how great a time they're having. I somehow found that satisfying.
who was the guy "playing" Sam's father in the virtual 1973?
That was Dennis Duffy, the subway hero, dummy!
Yeah, really hated this ending. The Brit version was so much better. I don't know why they didn't just stick with that ending: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(TV_series).
Lisa Bonet? Not in the final episode. I kept waiting for her,too, which makes me think that the ending was probably reshot for this new craptastic reveal and the beginning credits were never fixed.
"We never do learn why, out of anything Sam could have picked, he chose to be a 2008 cop."
I don't know about you, but I don't "pick" my dreams. The things I do and the people in them shock me every night. For a dream, it was pretty damn sensible. I must have missed something about them choosing.
Check out the original. It was a better made series, by far.
Don't forget that "Look at those cavemen go" and "It's just the freakiest show" were actual lines of dialogue in this episode.
I feel that this ending was earned, with almost everything on the landing module calling back to elements of 1973 NYC (including Ray's awful hair). And I loved how 70's-sci-fi-show the cabin seemed, down to Windy's robotic voice. PC text-to-speech in 2009 sounds more natural.
I thought the man with the cane was a Mad Hatter reference.
Lisa Bonet's voice was part of Sam's waking from VR montage, hence the credit. I don't know if it new dialogue or the same from her last episode.
My only complaint was that I loved 1973 and its inhabitants so much, I wish Sam could have stayed there and that Annie had been real. The least they could have done was to have had Sam's cop simulation malfunction and pull everyone else into 1973 with him, complete with new memories. That way, the relationships they built would have been real, and it would explain all the scenes were Sam was absent: Annie meeting Ray's wife, Ray and Chris's conversations during stakeouts, Gene's talks with Annie in his office, etc.
I also enjoyed the "gene hunt" line and the final shot in the screencap above.
A lot of holes. I agree. I would have liked more seasons. I think more would have evolved and the finale would have been tidied up more and I don't believe I would have chucked my TV thru the window as previous poster said.
I'm sad it's over.
They really through me off with these finale, wich is OK with me!!! Never though they coud be actually in space, i always though that the coma theory was the most "rational" one. I really enjoyed the series, and im wondering, was the original UK version like these one??? i would really like to know.
The ending was a bit of a cop-out ( no pun intended ). Enjoyed the show but I feel that, that ending is wrong. There was too much invested in the fact he was in 1973 saw his mom (did he?) met himself as a young boy, spoke of future events and knew of the past so well. If it was really 2035 how could he be so familiar with music and events in 1973. As a astronaut he would be considered quite intelligent and would know american history but would he also be a music buff of music 65 years old?
They should have stuck in visuals of space, the interior of the ship, Windy's voice coming from the computer and images of Sam in his hibernation chamber. Just brief images but enough to build up some curiosity without giving away anything. I was hoping that he was changing events in history but the whole thing turned out to be a big dream and nothing was accomplished except the mission to Mars which we didn't know anything about
Life on mars seems to be a show put together by a committee of people who were chosen at random. There are too many holes and no satisfaction at all from what Sam could have accomplished in the past which now just didn't exist
I like scifi but this feels like an unintentional blunder, perpetrated by an unfeeling network that will put a crappy reality show in it's timeslot
Sam's memories of being a boy in 1973 were as real as his memories of being a cop in 2008. Both were programmed by the VR simulation. Likewise, his memories of his father being Vic Tyler (and probably his mother as well) were demonstrably false, just aspects of his real father, Major Tom.
If you wanted clues, there were Mars Rovers, toy rocket ships, "Spaceman" and others all over this series. Sam even looked out a window once and saw the Earth from space.
From the show's executive producer on the official podcast:
1. This ending was set at least since episode 7 (he doesn't mention if this was decided from the beginning). If they had gone multiple seasons, it would have been necessary to write in diversions and false paths.
2. Jason O'Mara actually guessed the ending halfway through the show.
3. When Sam looks at Colonel Norris, her return glance is intentionally ambiguous. Although the others did not consciously experience Sam's reality, the wires on the sleep chambers were connected directly to each other, so there's some chance of synaptic crossover. It's left up to the viewer to decide.
And yet here's what's interesting: when I shut the TV last night, I was p.o.'d. The ending seemed sort of stupid at first. But I've thought about it a lot over the last 24 hours, and it's grown on me. It makes sense. Clearly this is what the writers intended from the start – all the clues were there.
And isn't any fictional TV some writer or producer's dream anyway?
Enjoy it for what it was – a Tootsie Pop. A cop show wrapped around a clever, perplexing mystery that kept you watching for clues. I grew up in New York City in the 70s, and it made me nostalgic for a simpler (though dirtier and rougher) time.
Here's an odd coincidence: Gretchen Mol was in a movie about 10 years ago called The Thirteenth Floor. It was sort of a bad "Matrix". It's also a time travel film, with modern day people going back to the 1930s. And (sorry if this spoils the ending), that movie also had a final plot twist in the not-too-distant future. Did anyone else pick up on this?
Don't be too hard on the writers and producers of this show. It appears to me they had a plan and stayed as close to it as they could, though they probably had in mind a few more episodes to lengthen the arc.
But to hell with ABC. I'm done with them. Over-the-air TV, which has to play to the lowest common denominator audience, is going the way of the sliderule, typewriter and record player. Within 10 years most creative "television" will be distributed on-demand or on-line, with a la carte pricing. People like us, who want to save a show like "Life on Mars", will just have to pay for it.
I heard Lisa Bonet as well as he woke from the statis sleep. But I would have loved to see her as President Obama, and that's why she got worked into his little neural stim dream!
And Gretchen Mol should always be blonde!
I'll have an Inner Toob post (several actually) up after midnight EST Friday……
Did anyone else notice, during the flashback scene in Hyde, where Harvey Keitel was dancing with a woman in red (I think it was Rose)? It was on for just a split second, but I'm pretty sure it was him. Was there any scene during the season where the two characters danced together, or was this a reference to his really being Sam's Dad?
I also thought that these things weren't right. The first being he wears the same clothes ( the shirt never changes) all the time and second if he came from Hyde, why didn't he check out the location as soon as he could?
I think the ending sucked period!. It's a great show and if ABC had any sense, they would bring it back, but a different time slot. In short they themselves caused the show to fail.
Now the question is this, what did the Russian folder that was shown in one show have to do with anything. Can anyone tell me? I think they could have left it with Sam staying there, in 1973. Overall repeating the ending sucked, and wish another network will pick it up. I have written so many messages to ABC. I hope that people will continue to hound them about this.
I urge everyone to keep writing ABC to bring back ' Life on Mars". Keep hounding them about it. Go to search and type in CONTACT ABC, and it will show the site to go to. I have had it with ABC and them taking off great shows and putting stupid reality shows.
This a message I sent to ABC.
Well ABC you really screwed up canceling " LIfe On Mars". Just saw the ratings on your new show "The Unusuals", a 2.2 rating with 18-49
March 27th, LIfe On Mars had 5.6 had gained 400K. Even the opening back in Oct was 3.2. So according to this 'Life On Mars" was gaining viewers.
ABC was the one who set up "Life On Mars" to eventually fail because of the screwed up time slots. Would it be that hard to bring back " Life On Mars", you might see the ratings to go even higher


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Sunday, March 27, 2011
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis man has been sentenced to life plus 150 years in prison for the killing of a teenage girl and an assault on a pregnant woman who lost her unborn child.
Brandon McGuire, 28, won't be eligible for parole under the sentences pronounced Friday by St. Louis Circuit Judge Donald McCullin.
The crimes occurred in 2006.
KMOV-TV reports McGuire was convicted last month of first-degree murder, rape and sodomy in the death of 16-year-old Keyandra Jackson. McGuire admitted having sexual contact but denied killing the girl, whose body was found in a trash bin.
He also admitted having sexual contact with the 41-year-old pregnant woman.
In that case, he was convicted of kidnap and assault as well as second-degree murder for the loss of her unborn baby.
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Goldman Expects 3% S&P 500 Upside In Coming Year
From Goldman's David Kostin, who first looks back: "S&P 500 began 2014 with a pullback of 6%, repeating its 2013 trend, but then rallied 8% to reach a new high of 1885. The market has not had a drawdown of 10% since the summer of 2012, rallying nearly 50% during that time. Gold and bonds have outperformed stocks YTD" and then forward: "S&P 500 rises 2% in 1Q to hit new high; we expect 3% appreciation during next 12 months" In other words, by the end of this week the Market should hit Goldman's 12 month forward price target.
So far so good, it's all driven by corporate profitability, the permabull pundits will say (barring the occasional snowfall in the winter). However, there is a problem: based on a Goldman calculation of implied 5-year EPS growth rates for the S&P based on a senstivity for the Equity Risk Premium, for which Goldman uses the range of 2% to 4%, and finds a range of -2% to -9% for the EPS growth rate in the next half decade. Surely enough to send the S&P to 1900 today .
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That's the same as a negative interest rate.
If you gave that on a checking account, people would pull their money out.
You call it a investment and they all flock in...
Translation: GET THE FUCK OUT NOW AND YOU CAN'T SAY WE DIDN'T TELL YOU SO YOU MUPPETS !
EPS? lol
This kind of data is only relevant to traditional investors, but they all fled the markets a long time ago.
An algorithm has no use for this kind of data. It is built purely for speculating. It's earnings are achieved through capital gains, which it can guarantee by continuing to pump up the markets.
Whether or not the underlying companies are experiencing earnings growth, or even turning an actual profit for that matter, does not at any point enter the equation.
If stock valuations really were still influenced by their underlying fundamentals, the S & P would be back at 1400 by now.
A 3% return? Damn! I need to run out and pay a 5% commission to get me some of that!
How could GS mean +3% in a year? They must be on the crackpipe...that's 1 weeks worth of upside now.
They must setting a trap for muppets if there are any ones stupid enough to keep playing a rigged game.
Will it hit their target? Almost certainly. It'll probably hit it 10 more times by the end of the year on the upside and the downside.
Like I said this summer, it's time to think about less about the return on capital and more about the return of capital, period.
'The market has not had a drawdown of 10% since the summer of 2012' Who needs Virtu?
Humans sell and the algos buy. There is no market. The market haslost all meaning to the economy, there is no link anymore.
Stores exist to channel stuff inventory in order to pump stocks. The inventory exists to offset corporate taxes. The entirety of publicly traded corporate balance sheets is made up on the fly.
There isn't real profit, only conjured dollars through stock sales that flows to the 1%. Everything under the surface is eroding and there isn't another layer of topcoat to cover the cracks. We've been in a depression since 1999, only by changing definitions has this truth been hidden. Had intangibles not been added to GDP, we'd have already had recessionary prints. The media is a talking points joke and welfare pays more than 90% of the available jobs.
The higher the stock market goes, the worse the real economy gets because the only business allowed is what will generate the best return on stocks. Fraud always generates the best returns, until it doesn't. Since the fraud had been authorized and protected at the highest levels, it won't end until those who authorized it are hung on public streets.
I reluctantly concur. hope we are not approaching soviet union 1970s/1980s phase.
we pretend to work; they pretend to pay us...while more and more are disincentivized into gov't benefits. It is the smart, realistic, thing to do. The only successful 'risk-takers' are crony capitalists largely...the rest of us are scrambling to get by.... so many frauds happening all around each of us see that are not 'reported' or prosecuted.
the US federal gov't is more important to the life of every human in the USA than anything else ...including blood relatives & immediate family. Surreal
It's a Poker Game on a riverboat, and all the card sharks are looking around the table, and there are No Suckers, and they are starting to Panic...
This is like them saying, don't buy more and run it up, but don't sell yet either. It is almost as if they are shorting, don't want anyone messing with that, and will tell you when to sell at the bottom.
let's see, 3% upside with 20-30% downside risk (or more...) I'm calling my broker right now!
- take out inflation and you got a negative return on your investment
- all the automatic stock purchases of funds and pensions keep going
- pcln to 5000, with no one taking a vacation is now possible
On what, printed money and institutional manipulation? Because, no one I know will put a dime into this charade!
"The market has not had a drawdown of 10% since the summer of 2012."
For the history buffs out there, have we ever gone that long without a 10%+ correction?