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Christine Jorgensen
On December 1, 1952, the Daily News ran a story headlined "EX-GI BECOMES BLONDE BOMBSHELL," turning Christine Jorgensen (1927-1989) into an instant celebrity and the most famous transsexual figure of the 20th Century. Constantly surrounded by reporters and photographers, everything about Jorgensen's life was newsworthy, from her shoe size (9-AA) to her contribution to the volunteer fire department ($10), from her first Easter bonnet (which landed her on the front page of Newsday on Easter weekend) to her receiving her driver's license. The curious public could not find out enough about Jorgensen. Instead of regretting the public attention, Jorgensen embraced it and used her celebrity status to speak out on the subject of transsexuality and public understanding of transsexuals. In addition to her work in the lecture and talk show circuits, Jorgensen worked as a color photographer, stage actress, and singer.
Christine Jorgensen autobiography
In 1970, the Hollywood studio United Artists released The Christine Jorgensen Story, based on the autobiography of Christine Jorgensen, the first publicized sex change recipient in history. The film was directed by Irving Rapper and starred the young John Hansen as George/Christine Jorgensen, an early but not altogether successful attempt at featuring a biological male in a male-to-female transsexual role. The film, which was co-written by Jorgensen, attempts to be a sympathetic portrayal of a man who yearns to become a woman. However, critics, who felt the film was corny and melodramatic, almost universally panned it.
The Christine Jorgensen Story (USA, 1970)
The press book for The Christine Jorgensen Story features studio-made news stories to promote the film as being both important and an oddity. The posters and other materials reproduced in the press book also attempt to be both sympathetic and sensationalistic. Note the tabloid-like use of first person quotations throughout. In fact, The Christine Jorgensen Story's press book even suggests that exhibitors use the articles and smaller poster reproductions to create their very own tabloids, the cost of which could be defrayed by including advertisements from local businesses.
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Well before the production of The Christine Jorgensen Story, and only months before her surgery, Jorgensen had dabbled in the world of film in a different way. Inspired by her photography background, Jorgensen decided to write, direct, and narrate a documentary about one of her favorite locales, Denmark. The press book for the European travelogue, Denmark, includes remarks from Ms. Jorgensen about filmmaking, as well as various images of her in the throes of directing.
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CARBONDALE, Ill. — Chad Whitmer, a Penn High School graduate, has completed his freshman baseball season at Southern Illinois University.
The 6-foot-3 right-handed pitcher appeared in 16 games for the NCAA Division I Salukis and went 2-0 with a 4.00 earned run average. In 36 innings (all in relief), he struck out 29 and walked 15 while opponents hit .279 against him.
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6 p.m.—Set of The O'Reilly Factor. Schumer and Davis sit down with Bill O'Reilly at a table overlooking the convention floor. Apparently O'Reilly has been briefed on Schumer's tiff. "No one tells me what to do either, and I'm the star," O'Reilly says. "Now, siddown." They agree Schumer will speak first, and that he and Davis won't appear on-screen together.
At one point during the interview, Davis pointedly refers to "great Democrats like Chuck Schumer." Schumer doesn't return the compliment.
6:24 p.m.—I've lost Lanny. After the O'Reilly segment ended, he bolted for the bathroom. He says later he was pretty sure Schumer turned to shake his hand, but Davis walked away before he could. In Lanny's absence, the Fox producer pulls me aside. "Tell Lanny thank you," she says. I promise to pass along the message.
6:30 p.m.—I've found Lanny. He's standing at a railing, dialing into the show of Lars Larson, an Oregon radio host Davis describes as "right of Attila the Hun." I ask him about l'affaire Schumer. "It wasn't about me—I could have been anyone," he says. "It was about Chuck Schumer."
6:51 p.m.—Next person he calls is his eldest son Seth. Lanny insists I speak with him. Seth is sort of an alternate universe Lanny—gregarious and talkative but pro-Obama. (He talks about Hillary in the same polite way his father talks about Obama—she has a "great personality.") He's also a journalist—Seth writes for Sports Illustrated and is also an analyst for CBS's NCAA coverage—whereas his father is a journalist manqué: As a student, he was chairman of the Yale Daily News.
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As already discussed, in the context of a phylogenetic analysis, the concepts of accuracy and precision of the result can be interpreted in terms of, respectively, the extent to which the estimated tree agrees with the true tree (accuracy) and the extent to which the best estimate of the phylogeny is preferred to alternative topologies (precision). Thus, an analysis that estimates exactly the true phylogeny is perfectly accurate. In contrast, an analysis that considers all but one of the possible trees as being very poorly supported by the data, while the single tree that is proposed as the phylogeny estimate is extremely well supported by the data, is an extremely precise. To take the example of a simple maximum likelihood analysis of the data, a very precise analysis will identify the true phylogeny, while a very precise analysis will indicate that one tree (the maximum likelihood tree) has a very much higher likelihood than any other possible topology.
Clearly, it is impossible to obtain an estimate of the accuracy of a phylogenetic analysis when one has no knowledge of the topology of the true tree - although the use of independent datasets that are expected to have the same evolutionary history can provide one method of estimating the accuracy of the result.
In contrast, a number of different methods are available that allow us to estimate the precision of an analysis. Today we will look at several different ways in which this precision can be assessed.
Methods that attempt to estimate the precision of a phylogenetic estimate typically involve the estimation of multiple trees from the dataset. Precision is then assessed by the extent to which these individual estimates agree with each other. One problem with such an analysis is the representation of the set of trees obtained by the analysis. This set of trees is typically represented as a 'consensus tree'.
To understand the construction of consensus trees (and hence what it is that they represent) you need to be comfortable with the concept of a 'split' or 'partition' of a phylogenetic tree. A split is a division of the set of terminal-nodes/sequences/taxonomic-units of a tree into two mutually exclusive sets. Thus, any branch of a phylogenetic tree describes a split, with the terminal branches that are connected to one end of the branch making up one of the divisions, and the branches connected to the other end of the branch making up the other division. The illustration below indicates an internal branch that can be described as the split [ABC|DE].
A description of all the splits specified in this way by a tree provides a complete description of the topology of the tree. For example, the tree in this image
specifies the following set of splits
although, as you have probably noticed, only splits [AB|CDE] and [ABC|DE] are informative phylogenetically i.e. provide information about which taxonomic units cluster together in the unrooted tree.
This is a short exercise to help you become comfortable working with splits.
Firstly, for the following tree, describe the set of informative splits.
Secondly, for each of the two sets of splits given below, reconstruct the unrooted phylogenetic tree that they describe.
The tree that you should have reconstructed from exercise 1a is here
The tree that you should have reconstructed from exercise 1b is here
The consensus tree of a group of trees (all of which must describe relationships between the same set of taxonomic units) is constructed from the set of taxonomically informative splits present in the group of trees. A consensus tree is constructed from this set of splits such that those splits appearing most frequently within this set (i.e. that are present in many of the trees in the initial group) are present in the consensus tree topology. Typically, the internal branches of the consensus tree are labelled with the percentage ratio of the number of times the split that describes the branch was present in the dataset of pooled splits to the number of trees in the split. Thus, if all trees in the group contain a particular split, then the consensus tree will contain that split, and it will be labelled '100%'.
However, different rules can be used to build these consensus trees. To take two examples, one can choose to include in the consensus tree only those splits that are present in ≥ 50% of the group of trees (described as the "50% consensus tree). An alternative is to include, initially, the set of splits present in the same ≥ 50% of the group of trees, and to then add, one after another, other splits to the tree that do not conflict with those already present. Thus, if adding a split to the tree present in 40% of trees does not conflict with any split already in the tree, then it is added. If there is then a split present in 37% of the trees that does conflict with splits already present in the tree, then it is not included. Instead one would identify the split present in the next-highest percentage of trees that does not conflict with splits already present. This process is continued until a bifrucating tree is obtained (this tree is described sometimes as the "extended 50% consensus tree").
In this exercise, consider this set of ten trees, all of which describe relationships between the same set of taxonomic units, and build both (i) the 50% consensus tree and (ii) the extended 50% consensus tree of the group of trees.
As described above, to do this, you must
(a) decompose all 10 trees into their informative splits
(b) count how often each split occurs in this set
(c) build the consensus tree based on this information, labelling the branches according to the frequency with which the split appears in the 10 trees.
You may find it useful to consult this file, which contains the set of all possible splits for the set of taxonomic units present in the trees.
You will perhaps be pleased to learn that one does not typically construct consensus trees by hand like this. Instead, we give them to CONSENSE (a programme in the PHYLIP package).
Use CONSENSE to create both the 50% consensus tree ('majority rule') and the extended 50% consensus tree ('majority rule extended').
By comparing the results of these calculations obtained from CONSENSE, check that the trees you constructed yourself 'by hand' are correct
Note that CONSENSE indicates the number of trees in the infile that possess a particular split that is present in the consensus tree by the length of that internal branch in the consensus tree - thus an internal branch in the consensus tree that has length 12 was present in 12 of the trees presented to CONSENSE - this number might represent 100% of the trees in this initial set, if there were only 12 trees presented to the programme, or 12% if 100 trees were presented etc.
Returning to the topic of the precision of a phylogenetic analysis.
Clearly, if one obtains just a single estimate of phylogeny from an analysis, one cannot obtain an estimate of the precision of the estimate. To measure/estimate the precision, one needs to obtain multiple estimates of phylogeny from the dataset such that these trees are sampled with a frequency that reflects the support given to that topology (or the splits present in the topology) by the dataset.
Two frequently-used approaches that obtain such distributions of trees are non-parametric bootstrapping and Bayesian analysis of phylogeny. Consensus trees are then typically used to summarise the sets of trees obtained from this analysis - splits that occur in many of the estimated trees are then present in these consensus trees, indicating precisely-estimated regions of the topology, while splits that occur relatively rarely in the set of trees are either not present at all in the consensus tree, or are present, but are labelled with low 'support values' (either posterior probabilities [from a Bayesian analysis] or bootstrap percentages [from a non-parametric bootstrap analysis]).
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You are going to use bootstrapping to estimate the precision of the phylogenetic estimate for a set of elongation factors. This dataset includes the set of all elongation factor 1As known from several animals (Xenopus, Drosophila, chicken, human, mouse), along with sequences from several archaeal genomes and other organisms (C. elegans, budding and fission yeast). The sequences in the alignment are labelled as follows:
Download the following alignment file.
You will now use PHYML to carry out a ML analysis using JTT + I + gamma (4 discrete categories) on 5 non-parametrically bootstrapped datasets.
To do this, you should first obtain 5 bootstrapped alignment datasets - you can do this using SEQBOOT (use the "R" option to specify that you want to create 5 rather than the default 100 datasets - the datasets will be written to the file "outfile").
Now run PHYML, choosing the appropriate substitution model as described above. You should also change the "S" option to tell PHYML that the alignment file provided to it contains multiple datasets, you will also need to tell it how many datasets it contains (5, as we created 5 bootstrapped alignments using SEQBOOT).
This analysis will produce an outfile that contains a tree estimated for each of the datasets it was passed in the infile.
Note that you can apply this protocol for generating non-parametric bootstrapped tree-sets using ANY phylogenetic analysis method simply by creating an appropriate number of bootstrap datasets using SEQBOOT and then running your analysis of choice over each of these datasets - although this might be easier or harder than things are here.
Based on the previous day's exercises, can you outline a protocol (i.e. list the programmes you would use in order, indicating which file produced by one programme is passed to which file in the next programme) to create 100 non-parametric bootstrapped trees using Neighbor-Joining with a JTT + I + gamma substitution model?
While the PHYML analysis is running, download the following alignment file (the same alignment as use for PHYML, but in a different format). Load the alignment into CLUSTALX and use CLUSTALX to estimate a Neighbor-Joining tree with 1000 bootstrapped datasets (correcting for multiple substitutions). Load the resulting tree file (with suffix ".phb") into NJPLOT and examine the estimated phylogeny, along with the corresponding bootstrap percentages for each branch.
Do you consider that the tree estimated by CLUSTALX is likely to be correct/accurate? While considering this question, ask yourself what prior assumptions/hypotheses about the evolution of the sequences you are using to answer it - remember what you learnt during the exercises you did on the first day of the course!
Are there some branches in the tree that you consider very likely to have been misplaced?
What is it about these branches that makes you suspect that they have been misplaced?
Are the positions of these branches within the tree estimated precisely (i.e. with high bootstrap support)?
After the PHYML analysis is finished, download this tree file that contains 95 trees estimated by nonparametric bootstrapping using PHYML with the same model as for the 5 you have obtained by your own PHYML analysis.
Concatenate the file you just downloaded to that containing the five trees you calculated from five bootstrapped datasets using PHYML. See the Linux command help-sheet for hints on how to accomplish this. This should result in a file that contains 100 trees estimated from this dataset using nonparametric bootstrapping.
(This somewhat contrived route to obtaining a set of 100 bootstrapped trees is necessary to save time - it would have taken too long for you to have calculated all 100 trees yourself during the session today. Normally one would create them all using the same run of PHYML)
Run CONSENSE to estimate the 50% majority rule (extended) consensus tree from these 100 trees.
Use PUZZLE to estimate ML branch lengths for this tree topology using the same substitution model that you used in PHYML.
To do this you should:
and run PUZZLE to reconstruct this user tree given this alignment
Print out the resulting tree and use the consensus tree to label the internal branches of this topology with the corresponding bootstrap percentages.
Does the result of this ML analysis contain similar or the same probably-misplaced branches as that of the NJ analysis?
REMEMBER TO THINK OF THE BOOTSTRAP VALUES AS PERCENTAGES! Thus, from the NJ tree you did 1000 bootstraps, so a branch that has 1000 bootstrap support has a 100% bootstrap percentage, while one that has 100 bootstrap support has only a 10% bootstrap support. However, if you had run only 100 bootstrap analyses, a branch with 100 bootstrap support corresponds to a 100% bootstrap percentage.
If so, is the bootstrap support for branches that you considered misplaced on the NJ tree very different on this ML-bootstrapped tree?
For this analysis, we are going to work with the same elongation factor dataset as used for exercise 3.
Download the following alignment file.
Load this file into CLUSTALX and save the file in NEXUS format.
Use EMACS to edit this file to:
and save the file with a new name.
Execute MRBAYES using "mb".
Load the alignment file into MRBAYES using :
"execute <name_of_edited_filename>"
Specify the substitution model to be used in the analysis by typing:
"lset aamodel=jones rates=invgamma basefreq=estimate"
Tell the mcmc to stop running when it gets to the end of its pre-specified number of generations
"set autoclose=yes"
Specify the way in which the mcmc should be run using:
"mcmcp autoclose=yes ngen=25000 printfreq=200 samplefreq=20 nchains=4 savebrlens=yes"
Run the mcmc using:
NOW STOP - and listen to the introductory talk - hopefully what you hear will make it somewhat easier to understand what you just did and why!
We now need to check to see if the chains have reached stationarity.
After the analysis has run, you should find that a file has been created in the directory in which you have run MRBAYES that has the suffix ".out.p".
Copy this file to one with the same name, except that you add ".csv" at the end of the filename.
Start up OpenOffice by clicking on the desktop icon labelled "Office"
Use the file menu to open the file you just created with ending ".csv"
You will be presented with a page that asks you to specify what is being used to separate the columns of data in this file. Choose "Tabs" and then open the file.
Select the first 2000 rows of the first two columns of the spreadsheet. Then go to the INSERT menu and choose "Chart".
Continue through the dialogue boxes presented to you until you are asked what kind of chart (pie chart, bar chart etc.) you would like to draw. Choose "XY plot", and then indicate that you want to draw the chart.
This should draw a chart that plots the variation in probability with generation number for your dataset.
Determine whether the probability has reached a stable horizontal line (i.e. stationarity). If so, note the generation number after which you are certain that stationarity has been reached.
Calculate the number of trees that should be discarded from the set of sampled trees because they were sampled prior to stationarity. To do this you need to divide the number of generations visited prior to stationarity by the sample frequency used. This specifies that number of trees to be discarded as "burnin".
Return to the MRBAYES terminal window.
You now need to create a consensus tree from the set of trees sampled by MRBAYES after stationarity has been reached. To do this type on one line:
sumt filename=<filename_created_by_mrbayes_with_.out.t_suffix> contype=allcompat burnin=<num_of_trees_to_discard_as_burnin>
Exit MRBAYES with Control-C
Use EMACS to view the file that has ".con" suffix. The order of columns in the "translation table" at the top of the file should be re-ordered (initially, the order is "<number> <corresponding_sequence_name>" - this should be altered so that the order is reversed for all rows.)
Save this file with a new name, and view this new file using TreeView. Print the tree.
Examine the file created with suffix ".parts". Within here is the information about the posterior probabilities associated with the different internal branches estimated by MRBAYES. Label the tree that you printed out with the posterior probability values that you find in this file.
Compare this tree to that estimated using both NJ and ML in exercise 3.
Is it more accurate than the results of the NJ and ML analyses?
Do posterior probabilities for branches that are common between NJ, ML and Bayesian trees tend to be higher or lower than the corresponding bootstrap percentages?
For branches that are different between NJ/ML and Bayesian analysis, does there tend to be high posterior probability or bootstrap percentage?


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The ups and downs in the fight to protect these Montenegrin salt pans are too numerous to count. But could there be light at the end of the tunnel?
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When watching this video it is hard to believe that Ulcinj Salina was set to be drained and converted into a complex of hotels and golf courses.
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For the past two years CZIP (Birdlife in Montenegro) has been fighting a battle against the conversion of Ulcinj Salinas into a tourist-development complex. The Ulcinj Salinas are an irreplaceable habitat for birds on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea, and one of the most important habitats on the Adriatic flyway. They are home to over 250 species of birds and recognized as an Important Bird Area (IBA) and as an Emerald Site of the Bern Convention.
The months of intensive advocacy work from the Center for Protection and Research of birds of Montenegro (CZIP) and the support from the biggest international centers of nature conservation have finally paid off: the Ulcinj Salina area won't become a touristic attraction.
Ulcinj Salina is an important Important Bird Area (IBA) on the Adriatic flyway in Montenegro. The whole area belongs to a private salt company of which its owner now announced plans to convert 15 km2 of basins from salt production into a touristic development complex with hotels and golf terrains. Contrary to the expectations, the Government of Montenegro has given its approval for implementing this plan.


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Step By Step DIY Java Moss Wall
Hey guys, I have post a "Step By Step DIY Java Moss Wall Video" in my blog. I'm not sure if it's allowed or how to add video in this forum. Anyway, anybody interested to know how to make a Moss Wall, hop by my blog to watch the video, I lay out all the steps on how to easily do this.
Check it out here >>> My Little Underwater Eden: Step By Step DIY Java Moss Wall
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Nice video. Unfortuntley, I can't try it out.
Hey Cody, thanks for the comment, cheers :-D
looks awesome but i feel like cleaning is going to be a pain and it wont last for a long time will it? The original moss you started with will die after it starts growing out of the mesh. Then it will rot and the moss wall will fall off and the rotting moss will pollute your tank. no? Also your mesh looks really fine, will the moss be able to grow out of it?
Nice video. I did a moss wall myself. I've just one comment to add.
I used clear suction cups and for some reason they turned white. The white cups up against my black background looked awful until the moss covered them, which took quite awhile. I used the larger squared mesh in black.
I used Christmas Tree moss which, IMO, is a slow grower. Of course the smallest fish in my tank managed to get stuck behind the wall and the boyfriend destroyed the wall getting the fish out. I was on vacation at the time and if I was home I'm not sure I would have destroyed the wall. Before I left on vacation the moss wall was looking really nice and I was looking forward to posting pics when I returned.
Anyway, long story short, I took the entire wall out and will be trying again next week, this time with black suction cups.
Looking forward to seeing pics of your tank once the wall has a chance to grow. :-)
Hey crisis and aunt kymmie, thanks for your comments. Haha, I'm still waiting for the moss to grow, yeah initially I doubt that it will grow coz of the small mesh, but, that's the only option I had at that time, so I just give it a try. Maybe might take sometime to grow though.....I will post some pics when it grows.....thanks :)
is there a way to do this that keeps the moss flush against one side of the glass? or a hanging method that distributes evenly?
Hmm...not sure, but I guess with well spread moss and enough lighting, it will distribute evenly
kind of off topic, but does anyone here know if java moss will grow downwards if hung at the top of the wall?or will it just stay clumped?
LOL, what r u trying to do? sounds interesting....
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"Waaaah! She called me a faggot! Mummyyy!"
"She's quite right. I want Jews to be perfected too."
Ann "No Heart Dinosaur Prude Ass Bitch" Coulter, born
1961 1963 1969 1980, is a popular American entertainer, political author and model. Best-known for having a cat fight with homosexual John Edwards on live television (which she won), she is also renowned for her moderate and sensible comments on the War on Terror, advocating gentle but firm correction of America's enemies.
Despite calling herself a conservative, she has, in fact, been labelled a liberal by mainstream political figures such as David Duke and Adolf Hitler.
As demonstrated by the picture to the right, some have also speculated that she may be a cyborg. This has given rise to the widespread accusation that she supported the Iraq War simply so she could get some more oil to drink.
Ann Coulter claims to have been born in New York City. However, this is not true.
In fact, Coulter is the spawn of a race of evil aliens, come to Earth to destroy humankind, as conclusively demonstrated by the picture below.[1] Their aim is to silence Al Gore and other heroic progressive liberal prophets, so as to prevent them from saving the world from the horrors of global warming. This is clearly true, because liberals and the New York Times have said so.
Confusion of Michael Moore with a pig
On one occasion, Coulter confused Michael Moore with a pig. She later tried to justify this error by pointing out that he is, in fact, a walrus, and that the walrus looks somewhat similar to the pig.
Sexual harassment of Alan Colmes
Coulter has attracted criticism from humanitarian organisations for her treatment of progressive liberal talk-show host Alan Colmes. It is alleged that Coulter repeatedly humiliated Colmes on live cable television by interrupting his intelligent exposition of liberal ideas and forcing him to listen to conservative lies and propaganda, while simultaneously sexually harassing him. Being a vulnerable liberal, he was unable to stand up for himself against this onslaught of conservative thuggery and sexual intimidation, and on one occasion broke down in tears as Coulter, reportedly, "touched his hair". "It was disgusting," said one observer. "It just shows that men are just as vulnerable as women to sexual harassment in the workplace." Several humanitarian groups have announced that they are considering filing a lawsuit against Coulter for this shocking behaviour.
Views on Islamic terrorism
Ann Coulter's radical views on Islamic terrorism have been labelled as fascist by mainstream progressive commentators. As one New York Times editorial said, "Coulter seems to think that we should actually fight terrorists. This is a very outdated notion. What we need to do is understand the terrorists, appreciate the way they think, and negotiate with them to reach a mutually acceptable outcome." A poll showed that 99% of all Americans (excluding the unenlightened conservative ones, who don't count)[2] agreed with this viewpoint and regarded Coulter as an evil fascist.
Critics allege she is an unrepentant user of prohibited substances and an aging whorish slut. Ann is quoted as saying of her critics "They think they are so smart just 'cause they done gone to college and I didn't." This is misleading, of course, because she not only went to college but attended law school. Fellow students in her graduating class unanimously voted her Most Likely to Become a Complete Fucking Asshole. Shortly thereafter, each and every one of them mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen again. Ann received her diploma under heavy guard. Her valedictorian address ("Fuck you, you fucking faggots!") was the shortest on record.
Despite being a member of the world's oldest profession, Coulter denies that she uses her body to sell her viewpoints; however, the talking head insists on wearing short skirts to show off her spindly legs and lack of underwear.
Critics also make up inflammatory quotes which they attribute to her. This happens far more frequently than it does to Oscar Wilde, but since Ann is an avid believer in the Liberals Always Lie theory, she doesn't have to defend herself against these accusations.
In the year 1851, Ann Coulter waged war on Frogland. It has been mentioned earlier that Coulter is a cyborg (as well as a fucking bitch), so in keeping with that, she used her dark powers to summon vast legion of Republican cyborg death machines, including the likes of Condoleeza Rice, Dickard Q. Cheney, Oprah Winfrey (a flaming conservative as you well know), Bill O'Reilly, and Sailor Moon, who is a famous evangelist and the minister of Westboro Baptist Church. The battle lasted twenty years and had over thirty casualties. Unfortunately, Coulter was defeated by the fag-enabling, god hating liberal army of California when she was caught giving head to Sailor Moon. The enemy proceeded to pawn her vagina (for a paltry sum) and anally violate her (which she didn't mind a bit). However, due to an unfortunate bout of flatulence on her part, Coulter's head was irreversibly fused to a horse's ass (see picture), which explains the way her face looks. The horse was amputated in 1969, when sliced bread was invented, and she has proceeded to live a full and normal life despite losing 93 percent of her brain. According to Coulter, losing 30 IQ has helped her immensely, since it meant she qualifies to be a guest on the Faux News channel. The brain fragments, along with the horse, were donated to a McDonalds chicken-nugget factory and haven't been seen since.
Fun Factoids
- The 1970s film 'The Omen' is loosely based on the childhood of Ann Coulter, but was toned down for general cinema release, and replaced the neo-facist spoutings of the young Coulter with the more abject avatar of SATANIC SPAWN.
- Miss Coulter, though she keeps herself slim and trim, is well-known as a lover of pie, and washes it down with the blood of virgins. Typically, she goes to a college, invites people to watch, and has the pie brought to her mouth via an overhand throw delivered by one of the local students. Historically the students have had terrible aim, which completely ruins it for everyone.
- Anagramically speaking, "Ann Coulter" is "a loner cunt", a "rectal noun", and a "real cunt, no?"
- Coulter lacks the ability to see herself in a mirror. She often checks, though, to ensure that horn and cloven foot are not visible to the common television host..
- She's also a redeadhead, meaning she's a huge fan of the Grateful Dead, though the reverse is not true. It is known that she had followed them on a couple tours, but it's not known what substances entered her body at that time. It is on record that she was shot at by the band members.
- During the Armageddon, Ms. Coulter will be the Whore of Babylon, primarily due to the fact that in her high school years, she was Junior Miss Whore of Babylon both her junior and senior years, at the age of eleven and twelve respectively.
- A recent memo uncovered by CNN found that Ms. Coulter was actually behind the war in Iraq. When questioned on the memo, Ms. Coulter simply stated that "US oil reserves were running dry, and I'm thirsty as a bastard." This is in line with earlier assumptions that Ms Coulter is a cyborg.
- Mrs. Coulter worked for a time as an Associate at Hell Desk. Satan awarded her Employee of the Month (October, 2001) for her outstanding work as telephone screener for Rush Limbaugh.
- Coulter is a close friend of Al Franken. They've been known to go antiquing together.
- Ann Coulter writes daily for the Human Events Magazine, despite the fact that she is not a human.
- "Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11. Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like Liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now." (actual Coulter quote...what's it doing HERE?!)
- "They're always accusing us of repressing their speech, I say let's do it. Let's repress them. Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment." (ANOTHER authentic quote! WTF?!)
- "You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy?" (YET ANOTHER authentic quote! ZWTF?!)
- "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" I Hope this is a fake quote
- "At least when right-wingers rant, there's a point. We're trying to prove the fact that clouds actually ARE made of cotton candy!"
- "I think women should be armed but should not be allowed to vote."
- "AL FRANKEN! GET ON YOUR KNEES AND LICK IT LIKE THE DOG YOU ARE!!!!" (Nocturnal-emission-dream quote)
- "Nuke them all from orbit; it's the only way to be sure."
- "Save the whales? Hug a tree? God gave this world to people and Liberals want to save it? For fucking what? Unicorns? Are we going to shit in God's face and tell him that his air, water, timber aren't good enough for us to use and deplete? God gave us this world and God wants us to trash this place and it's our God given right to do it!"
- "You know why Air America sucks ass? They have enough hatred and vitriol in them like I do, but they don't have the hypnotic mind-powers that REALLY gets the ratings."
- "Why should America wage war against Adolf Hitler, one of the most successful European leaders of our time? At least he's not a crippled liberal imposter like that long-chin retard FDR."
- "Al Franken doesn't call me anymore; it's because my dick is bigger than his dick any day." ~ This, of course, destroys her previous point. Ooops! I just sounded like a minion of Wikipedia!
- "Those fuckers better elect a Democrat in 2008, or I'm going to be out of material, and I need to complete my diamond-encrusted bidet collection!"
- "Step back, or the bunny gets it!"
- "I eat liberals for breakfast, but I puke them up by 10:30 to maintain my stick figure."
- "My mommy said that when I was born, God cried."
- "just because Christians are the dominant beings of earth doesn't mean that I hate Jews, I just want them to be perfect like me."
Quotes about Ann Coulter
"Maybe my darker instincts are correct about Ann Coulter . Maybe the knowledge that I deny is the truth... the knowledge that Ann Coulter is dark and willing to destroy all things"
"Annie makes insanity look quite reasonable"
"Der Lachende hat die furchtbare Nachricht nur noch nicht empfangen."
"Ok sure, I torture people and break their fingers to get information, but Ann's voice makes them want to pierce their eardrums with their fingernails. Needless to say I'm impressed."
"Fuck Ann Coulter!"
"Her face and figure aren't the only thing horse-like! Get it? Because she has a monster heat-seeking meat missile?"
""She looks like anybody you see on the street. But when she grins, birds fall dead off telephone lines...the grass yellows up and dies where she spits. she's always outside. He came out of time...she has the name of a thousand demons. Jesus knocked her into a herd of pigs once. Her name is Legion. she's afraid of us...she knows magic. She can call the wolves and live in the crows...she's the king of nowhere.""
""That bitch is going straight to hell!""
""Yeah right! I don't want that bitch anywhere in my domain!""
""Ann Coulter is god! All hail Ann! Let's blindly agree with everything she says""
"Whoops! I appear to have run over Ann Coulter. Then backed over her. Then run her over again. Oh well, no loss."
"Oh my gosh! A shadow's creeping, ominous and black, it's seeping slowly 'cross a moonlit square of light! Suddenly a floorboard creak announces the bloodsucking freak is here to steal my future years away! A sulf'rous smell noe fills the room heraldingmy imm'nent doom! A fang gleams in the dark and murky gray! Oh, blood-red eyes and tentacles! Throbbing, pulsing ventricles! Mucus-oozing pores and frightful claws! Worse, in terms of outright scariness, Are the suckers multifarious That grab and force you in its mighty jaws! This disgusting aberration Of nature needs no mitivation To devour helpless children in their beds. Relishing despairing moans, It chews kids up and sucks their bones, And dissolves inside its mouth their li'l heads! ."
Ann Coulter Anagrams
Ann Coulter = rectal noun
Ann Coulter = unclean rot
Ann Coulter = Real cunt, no?
Ann Coulter = ol' cunt near
Ann Coulter = Filthy Whore
- What A Girl Wants
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- Benedict Arnold: an American Patriot
- Lies that Liberals will tell you about Caligula
- I'm an Attention Whore: Why the Only Reason I Hate Liberals So Much Is That No One Hugged Me When I Was A Child
- The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk
- The Berenstain Bears and the Left-Wing America Haters
- Naked Came the Stranger
- The Hitler Diaries
- Godless: How 9/11 Widows Set Up US The Bomb
- Liberals Suck-Part II: The Off-Shore Bank Account Padder
- I'm More of a Victim Than You
- ..And Then God Invented The Adam's Apple
- Let The Libs Bitch: I'm Still Making Money
- Why Liberal Babies Destroy America
- If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Heartless Soul-Sucking Conservative Cuntbags Like Me
- How Not to Make Money By Exploiting Your Good Looks
- ↑ Evil conservatives assert that these pictures were simply created on Adobe Photoshop. However, they are clearly lying. Since these pictures support a liberal viewpoint, they must clearly be completely true and accurate.
- ↑ Since, as Barack Obama has highlighted, they're all bitter and clinging to guns and religion.
See also
- Alisa Valdes Rodriguez
- Bitch
- Cunt
- Slut
- Whore
- Anal Whore
- Michelle Malkin
- Cynthia Rothrock
- Cocksucking Anal Whore Cunt Slut Bitch
| The Conclave of Doom: Fred Phelps, Ed Gein, Enron, Evil Jesus, Wikia, The United States of Arabia, Iran,
|Space Committee: Marshall Applewhite, L. Ron Hubbard, Canadian Rape-Yaks
|Politics Committee: Dick Cheney, Chairman Mao, Kim Jong-un, Osama bin Laden, Adolf Hitler, Martin van Buren, Marine Le Pen
|See also: Baby Seals, Axis of Evil Hot Dog Eating Competition, Mortal Sin


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Nikon D4: tougher than your average bear
In what might be a better testament to its durability than any scientific review, a Nikon D4 has been stamped on by a bear and lived to shoot again.
Lensrentals reports on its blog that photographer Andrew Kane hired a Nikon D4 from the firm to take on a shoot in Yellowstone National Park (want to shoot Yellowstone? Check out this list of 73 photo locations you must shoot before you die).
Kane told Lensrentals: "I recently rented a D4, Wimberly head, and 600VR from you, and the day before yesterday, I had a little bit of an accident. I was photographing a coyote here in Yellowstone and I followed it into the woods about 300yds away from the road.
"As I am taking pictures of the coyote, I heard twigs breaking behind me, and as I turned around I saw it was a grizzly bear. I picked up the tripod with the D4 and 600 on it and slowly started to back away."
Kane says the bear kept getting closer and was within 20 yards of him when he became trapped by a brush pile and was forced to leave his tripod with the Nikon D4 mounted.
However, rather than flee like any sane person, Kane got some distance between himself and the bear and stopped to photograph the action with his back-up camera.
The curious bear knocked over the camera and tripod (if bears are knocking over your own tripod, check out these 4 tips for sharper shots when using a tripod) and proceeded to jump up and down on the Nikon D4.
Amazingly, the camera survived. "The D4 functions properly, but the lens mount is bent and the images are back focused severely," Kane said.
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Ken Yonetani's installation Sweet Barrier Reef is currently on show at the Venice Biennale. UK based writer Colin Martin reviews the work and performance underpinned by Yonetani's environmental concerns examining the relationship between the drive for sugar consumption, sugar refineries and the decline of Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef.
Below is a condensed version of 716 craft·design, emailed free to subscribers on 5 August 2009.
The full version, of the current issue, can be accessed here.
Following on from the Australian Ceramics Triennale held in Sydney last month this issue focuses on Australian ceramics practitioners. Ken Yonetani's installation Sweet Barrier Reef is currently on show at the Venice Biennale. UK based writer Colin Martin reviews the work and performance underpinned by Yonetani's environmental concerns examining the relationship between the drive for sugar consumption, sugar refineries and the decline of Australia's iconic reef. Fresh from the Triennale Danie Mellor traces the history of blue and white transfer ware into the English and continental market; discussing specific elements of pictorial transfer ware that hinted at a soft colonisation of cultures beyond the west. Lynda Draper discusses her latest body of work and the triggers for creating it; the family home and its associated artefacts. In his presentation Industrial Sabbotage Stephen Bird explains how he has re-interpreted the tradition of mass produced ornament ceramics made in Stoke on Trent in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Fatigued and footsore, on my fourth consecutive day in Venice previewing the wide spectrum of contemporary art on offer at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, I visited the Australian group exhibition Once Removed at the Ludoteca. Housed in an outbuilding at the rear of the former convent, the Australian-based Japanese artist Ken Yonetani's installation Sweet Barrier Reef provided a welcome respite from the clamour at the Arsenale and Giardini. Ignorant of the artist's routine exploration of environmental concerns in his work, my initial thought was that his tableaux of luminous white coral forms made from sugar, arranged on the sugar-strewn gallery floor, was his light-hearted comment on the growing fashion for couples to marry at picturesque beaches. Knife-ravaged remnants of four gaudily iced cakes, discarded on a side table, hinted at wedding rituals. But they could simply have been launch party leftovers. It was a puzzling mise en scene, involving more than met the eye. Read the article by Colin Martin.
The origin of pottery decorated with blue glaze on a white background dates to the ninth century in Henan Province in China. Although archaeological finds uncovered only a few broken pieces, it provides an indication of the depth of tradition on which the production of European blue and white ware was established. Although the oriental flavour of blue and white pottery was certainly part of the craze for the exotic in the west during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the historical weight of the decoration in all likelihood added a certain authenticity, an authority to its application in the west. Read the paper by Danie Mellor.
The family home and its associated artefacts can have a profound effect on the experience of memory. This part of material culture plays a strong role in mediating emotional responses to loss and change, marking the passage of time and thereby contributing to the creation of a personal narrative of the past. Loss and change are part of life experience. In analysing personal experience we can gain an insight into the capacity of inanimate domestic objects to embody an experience of memory, time and space and the connections between the process of remembering, nostalgia and the uncanny. If one examines the notion that the significant meaning of an object is not merely constituted by its physical characteristics, but more importantly, by the metaphysical qualities accrued through its history, its cultural and mythological significance to the society out of which it arises, combined with our personal, emotional & aesthetic relationship to them. Read the paper by Lynda Draper.
I use the term Industrial Sabotage to explain how I have re-interpreted the tradition of mass produced ornament ceramics made in Stoke on Trent in the 18th and 19th centuries. Today I'm going to talk about my early childhood in Stoke on Trent, and an exhibition, entitled 'Figure This,' I presented there in 2007, and also some significant personal events that have shaped my art between these two points in time. I will start with a potted history of ceramics in Stoke on Trent, and will go on to tell you why I began making ceramics and I will finish off by showing how my travels have influenced my expression as an artist and shaped my political views. Read the paper by Stephen Bird .
In last month's editorial I mentioned the State of Design Festival in Melbourne, a dynamic program of events that featured all aspects of design practice including contemporary craft. Hot on the heels of that festival ending in Melbourne, we see the delivery of Saturday in Design and Sydney Design 09, with an equally spectacular presentation of events exhibitions, industry engagement, seminars and craft participation as a showcase of the Australian design industry. Leading a new development in design festivals will be the Brisbane design triennial that will be presented for the first time in 2010 with the support of the Queensland Government. The triennial will feature design from the Asia Pacific region and will place Australian design within a geographic framework.
Why all the focus on the design festivals and what is Craft Australia's role in this dialogue?
Importantly, craft design practitioners are significant participants in these events and are demonstrating innovative directions in sustainable design production and manufacturing. They are spearheading new directions that are being looked at by the larger companies for inspiration. The scale of craft design creative industries, or micro businesses, a term favoured for small companies with 1 to 5 people, makes them very flexible to consumer demand and responsive to market trends. This gives them an advantage over the larger companies that do not have that operational flexibility due to the economies of scale of their production. While this is not the forum to go into an in depth analysis of micro companies versus the small to medium enterprises, it is worth noting that at the State of Design Festival, there was a fabulous opportunity for exchange between the large and small scale companies with great benefits for both.
This was created by simultaneously presenting the small business creatives fair and design industry trade fair at the one festival. Design: Made:Trade: (DMT) exhibition featuring work by creative micro business was at the Royal Exhibition building in Carlton; Furnitex and Decoration+Design were at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. Registrants to either event had simultaneous registration to the other, and a free shuttle bus service was available to take visitors from one venue to the other.
Some of the participants at DMT openly discussed the benefits of this arrangement having positive spin offs for their own micro companies. This included international manufacturing companies and agents seeing the work of emerging Australian designers; exchanges between larger Australian companies and the smaller design firms for the development of new designs and product lines as well as new market opportunities.
Nicola Cerini Australia was one such company at DMT that had expressed the benefits of this joint business staging through State of Design. This was the second year that Nicola had participated in DMT. She mentioned that new licensing opportunities had emerged for her company, and she got to meet many representatives from companies she had been interested in working with, as a result of participating in this fair. Nicola Cerini began her business as a fabric designer and printer producing unique Nicola Cerini bags with distinctive Australian native flora designs. Her designs are now also available on a range of other products including rugs and tableware through the licensing arrangements she has established.
While Nicola Cerini's story is only one example of the strength of leading edge Australian design, there were many such stories able to be told through the work of exhibitors at DMT, some of whom were emerging start up companies such as those who completed the design mentoring program through Springboard . Others were more established groups such as Keepcup who have developed the reusable coffee cup for the environmentally conscious coffee addicts of the world. Interesting new directions in sustainable production were demonstrated by companies such as Mattt who produce digitally printed bags on demand. Uniquely the bags are a canvas for a range of designers, enabling their ideas to be showcased in a very effective and useful statement through the bag. For more details about the other exhibitors at DMT.Clearly, there is a tremendous opportunity at such design festivals for craft design practitioners who want to engage with industry and learn from other creative micro businesses.
Craft Australia is an industry partner for the State of Design Festival and was invited to present a position at The View from Here Forum on the future of craft and design. This was an evening of short, informal presentations by a select group of design industry leaders including representatives from Australian Institute of Architects, the Design Institute of Australia, the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, the Australian Graphic design Association and Object Gallery. Significantly, this event saw the public launch of the Australian Design Coalition, (ADC) made up of many of the groups that presented on the evening. The next ADC meeting will be held in Sydney during Sydney Design 09 Festival.
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The Courthouse has been filled to the brim with early voters, but the reason isn't just because of Bush versus Kerry. You won't find many vacancies in the booths, at least not until each and every person in line makes their vote count.
The early birds are out in full force breaking records by tripling turnout since the primaries. Two races for county commission seats are drawing a lot of interest because those lawmakers hold the key to one very controversial issue: growth.
Ronald Kilgore, a property appraiser, says, "We went from 125 million to over 800 million in taxable value."
That's since 1984 when Ronald Kilgore first became property appraiser.
"There's a lot of concern that growth is not being planned out well enough," he adds.
That responsibility lies on the commissioning board.
Mr. Davis, an early voter, says, "I think growth, they've learned to take it slow, they've been doing a pretty good job so far."
But their opponents beg to differ, so the incumbents Mike Stewart and Maxie Lawhon have a battle ahead that pins them against Ed Brimner and Reginald Coles. Both are deemed the hottest races in Wakulla County.
Early voting continues in Wakulla County all the way up until the General Election on November 2.
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Crock Pot Pork Tamale Filling Recipe
- 3-4lbspork roast
- 4dried red chilies
- 1/2 slicedonion
- 2garlic, cloves crushed
- 2jalapenos, seeded and cut in half
- salt and pepper
- Toss all ingredients in a Crock pot and cook for min 10 hours (usually I'll start this the night before and let cook all night).
- Take out roast and strain the broth, reserving about 3 cups.
- Take all the"stuff" you strained out and put into a blender (you'll get a nice paste mixture).
- Mix in some of the reserved broth (but you don't want it to be too running) and blend once more.
- Shread your pork and place into a large bowl.
- Now mix all the stuff you blended into the meat.
- Make sure to taste it and adjust if you need more broth or salt and pepper.
- Spread mixture on your prepared masa or on a burrito shell.
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Among the promotional material Mattel produces to bring attention to the Monster High doll line, the most prominent product is the Monster High cartoon series. Released as a mix of webisodes of a few minutes long and TV specials nearing an hour, the cartoon is the primary medium through which new characters and accessories are brought to the audience's attention. The 2D-animated material is produced by W!LDBRAIN and Top Drawn Animation, while the 3D-animated material is produced by Nerd Corps Entertainment. Sound for the entire series is done by Salami Studios.
Mattel currently releases a new webisode biweekly via the Monster High YouTube channel and the video portion of the official Monster High site. Generally, YouTube gets the webisodes uploaded a day before the official site. The Monster High Facebook account and the Gory Gazette put up a notice whenever a new webisode is released and also release information if the series goes on hiatus.
Mattel's plans for 2012 originally were believed to include 52 webisodes and four TV specials based on information found on page 51 of Toynews' November 2011 issue.[1][2] However, during Toy Fair 2012, Mattel adjusted the amount of webisodes planned to 30, confirmed on the website to be scheduled biweekly for most of 2012. The four specials still stand, but one's means of release are currently unclear.
Volume 1
Between May 5 and July 30, 2010, Mattel released 15 webisodes featuring the students, teachers and staff of Monster High. This was followed by a 3-month hiatus until October 29, 2010, starting which another 12 webisodes were released until January 20, 2011. The webisodes of Volume 1 are 1:47 minutes long, good for a little less than 1:30 minutes worth of actual webisode. There is almost no continuity between the webisodes and all rely on the "gag-per-webisode" format. The special "New Ghoul @ School" functions as the start of the volume, detailing Frankie Stein's first days at Monster High, though it's in conflict with the information provided in several of the webisodes.
- Jaundice Brothers
- Talon Show
- Fear Squad
- Substitute Creature
- Party Planners
- Blue Lagoona
- Copy Canine
- The Hot Boy
- Bad Scare Day
- Photo Finish
- Cyrano de Ghoulia
- Bad Zituation
- Clawditions
- Freedom Fight
- Totally Busted
- Freakout Friday
- Mad Science Fair
- Shock and Awesome
- The Good, the Bat and the Fabulous
- Rumor Run Wild
- Fur Will Fly
- Horrorscope
- Idol Threat
- Hatch Me If You Can
- Date of the Dead
- A Scare of a Dare
- Parent-Creature Conference
Volume 2
Volume 2 was released between February 8 and November 17, 2011. It's formula is drastically different from Volume 1's. Instead of webisodes in Volume 1 which last 1:47 minutes, Volume 2's webisodes take 3:32 minutes, almost twice as much. Moreso, the Volume 2 webisodes are heavy on continuity, featuring multiple storylines at once that span multiple webisodes. The special "Fright On!" was released during Volume 2's run and has since been suggested to take place between Volume 2 and Volume 3.
- Scream Building
- Why We Fright
- Fear-A-Mid Power
- Beast Friends
- Varsity Boos
- Gloomsday
- Falling Spirits
- Fatal Error
- Screech to the Beach
- Witch Trials
- Don't Cheer the Reaper
- Road to Monster Mashionals
- Queen of the Scammed
- Frightday the 13th
- HooDoo You Like?
- Fear Pressure
- Fear the Book
- Desperate Hours
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- Hyde and Shriek
- Daydream of the Dead
- Nefera Again
- Back-to-Ghoul
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- Frost Friends
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- Ghostly Gossip
- Hiss-teria
- Phantom of the Opry
- The Bermuda Love Triangle
- Here Comes Treble
- Dueling Personality
- Neferamore
- Rising From the Dead
- Monster Mashionals Part 1
- Monster Mashionals Part 2
Volume 3
The date of Volume 3's start is debatable. In October and November of 2011, three webisodes of Volume 3 were released, but none on Monster High's official channel or announced on Facebook. Each of these was a webisode meant to promote a doll pack and they were released on the websites and YouTube channels of the stores that sold those packs. Since then, the first of the regular Volume 3 webisodes has been released on the Monster High channel and site on December 8, 2011. All the Volume 3 webisodes are 2:31 minutes long, less than the length of Volume 2's webisodes, and mark a return to the "gag-per-webisode" format. There is still a sense of continuity a la Volume 2, but less so. Four TV specials belong to Volume 3, but none of them has a distinguishable position relative to the webisodes.
Promotional webisodes
Normal webisodes
- Dodgeskull
- Game of DeNile
- Uncommon Cold
- Ghosts with Dirty Faces
- Hickmayleeun
- No Place Like Nome
- Sibling Rivalry
- The Nine Lives of Toralei
- Unlife to Live
- Abyss Adventure
- Unearthed Day
- Creepfast Club
- Home Ick
- Hoodoo That Voodoo That You Do
- I Know What You Did Last Fright
- Honey, I Shrunk the Ghouls
- HooDude VooDoo
- Undo the Voodoo
- Defending your Lagoona (July 25th)
- Night of a Thousand Dots (August 23rd)
- Best Ghoulfriend (September 6th)
- Hiss-toria (October 4th)
- Tortoise and The Scare (November 15th)
- Scare-born infection (November 29th)
- Mauled (December 23rd)
- A Perfect Match (December 23rd)
- New Ghoul @ School
- Fright On!
- Why Do Ghouls Fall In Love?
- Escape From Skull Shores
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Zefram Cochrane's statue was a statue of Zefram Cochrane erected before 2152 in Bozeman, Montana at the site where the Phoenix was launched.
Made of marble, the statue had a height of about twenty meters. It portrayed Cochrane gazing up at the sky, with one hand "reaching toward the future," as described by Geordi La Forge. (Star Trek: First Contact, ENT: "Carbon Creek")
When the crew of the USS Enterprise-E traveled back in time to the events of First Contact in 2063, La Forge told Cochrane about the statue, mimicking its posture while in Cochrane's company. When Cochrane was caught trying to flee from the hero-worshiping Starfleet officers shortly thereafter, he anxiously declared that he didn't want to be a statue. Commander William T. Riker was surprised that La Forge had even told him. (Star Trek: First Contact)
Captain Jonathan Archer kept a small, statuette version of the original aboard Enterprise on a desk in his quarters starting with the ship's launch in 2151. (ENT: "Broken Bow", et al.)
Commander Charles Tucker III had visited the statue in Bozeman in 2152. (ENT: "Carbon Creek")
In 2154 of an alternate timeline wherein Captain Archer contracted anterograde amnesia due to infection by interspatial parasites, Archer used the statuette to defend himself against a Xindi-Reptilian who had boarded Enterprise and was intruding in his quarters. Although the figurine broke as Archer fought the Xindi warrior, he used its main part to stab the intruder, killing the Xindi. The statuette was not only reassembled thereafter and placed back on Archer's desk but was also included in a makeshift settlement on Ceti Alpha V by 2165 of that timeline, at which point it could be found on a shelving unit in a bedroom where Archer slept. (ENT: "Twilight")
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The statuette of Zefram Cochrane that frequently appears on Star Trek: Enterprise was designed by illustrator Doug Drexler. ("Broken Bow" text commentary, ENT Season 1 DVD) However, he originally created it for the Star Trek Encyclopedia, before Enterprise even began airing; at this point, it showed the figurine as if it was the statue spoken about and impersonated in First Contact. (Star Trek Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., p. 81) Drexler recalled, "I went directly to the art supply on Laurel Canyon, picked up an armature, some roma plastilina, and got to work. By the end of the day, there it stood." The design was not only influenced by La Forge's description in First Contact, but also took inspiration from Jean-Luc Picard. "The final touch was to adapt Picard's distinctive two finger 'engage!' point," Drexler explained, "as if our erstwhile captain was invoking this very statue each time he gave the order for the great starship to go to warp." [1]
Prior to presenting the model as an option for using on the set for Captain Archer's quarters, Drexler waited until Set Decorator James Mees was desperately looking for additional set dressing for that room, very shortly before Executive Producer Rick Berman visited the set during preproduction. [2] [3] Upon first seeing the model, Berman was astonished and asked where it had come from. A little later, Mees played a practical joke on Drexler by claiming he had replied that he himself had sculpted the model. [4]
In the script for "Twilight", a note regarding the appearance of the Cochrane statuette in Archer's bedroom in 2165 of the alternate timeline featured in that episode reads, "We may notice that it's been glued together after being broken in half." However, this is not apparent in the episode. At least eight identical "stunt" statue props were created for the production of "Twilight". [5] Three statuette props were sold in both the 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection and It's A Wrap! sale and auction. [6] [7] [8] These were copies, however; the original prop remained in Doug Drexler's possession. [9]


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Aaron Sorkin, like a lot of great artists, has a knack for recycling actors who take to his very idiosyncratic material. Or perhaps it's the actors who are vying for another chance to spout his wonderful dialogue? Either way, in that respect Sorkin has become an heir to Woody Allen, and while it seemed like Sorkin's highly anticipated HBO series The Newsroom wasn't going to feature any of his previous favourites, apparently the premiere will indeed have a cameo from a familiar Sorkin face. Well, voice.
It seems more has developed for the new HBO series that was once going by the name 'more as the story develops.' The show, created and written by the unparalleled Aaron Sorkin, is adding even more pedigree to the already incredibly prestigious series, now operating under the title of Newsroom. And while the tentative title couldn't be anymore boring, adding two-time Academy Award winner Jane Fonda to the show should certainly help keep the finished product from being anything but bland.
Among the more interesting projects in the development is the cable news channel drama by The West Wings Aaron Sorkin. Word is, the series now has an official title. More as this story develops...
Aaron Sorkin has a knack for writing TV shows about what really might be going on behind the scenes in certain situations. Whether its a scripted glimpse into the inner workings of the White House, a behind-the-scenes dramedy about a sports show, or a similarly-styled dramedy about the off-screen happenings of a sketch-comedy show, Sorkin has enough TV creations to be considered and expert in the subject. So, its no surprise that HBO has given his latest TV venture a series pickup.
The upcoming series that I'm most excited for is the HBO/Aaron Sorkin show-within-a-show More as the Story Develops. Aaron Sorkin -- now Academy Award Winner Aaron Sorkin -- is already a TV legend, and his work tends to be set in the behind-the-scenes world of productions, whether TV shows or political campaigns. And now another international actor is joining the cast.
HBO is now mining ideas straight from the wish-center of my brain...or so it would seem. This new project, which Home Box Office Entertainment has just announced, will combine the talents of John Krasinski and Aaron Sorkin to bring us an homage to Hollywood. The two are teaming up for a miniseries about the famous Hollywood hotel, The Chateau Marmont.
Pretty good timing. Just as the Aaron Sorkin-penned film Moneyball got its first trailer, more cast members were announced for his upcoming HBO pilot, More as the Story Develops. Sorkin's already a TV legend with Sports Night and The West Wing on his resume, so everyone should be pretty stoked for this new project, and only more so as the news continues to trickle out.
Sam Waterston is aboard More as the Story Develops, the highly touted new show from Aaron Sorkin and HBO. He joins the previously cast Jeff Daniels, Alison Pill (amazing) and Olivia Munn as Daniels' boss on the fictional cable news show within the show.
Social media is continually intertwining with the entertainment industry in unexpected ways. We've had sit-coms spawned by Twitter feeds and Oscar-winning movies based on social networks. Now the mingling has taken a particularly odd detour. As spotted by TheAwl.com, somebody (or bodies) has resurrected the cancelled 2006 Aaron Sorkin drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip via a series of interconnected Twitter feeds.
Olivia Munn is never career-homeless for long. From her rise from G4's Attack of the Show!, to her cameo in Iron Man 2, PLUS a stint on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, the actress/model/personality hasn't really been unemployed in some time...and once again, she has found a high-profile gig, this time on HBO.
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Joseph Smith: Prophet, Revelator, Human
As Mormons celebrate the bicentennial of their church's founder, a new biography explores his achievements--and shortcomings.
What were the negative effects of his inadequate preparation?
For someone so unprepossessing to claim so much made him appear like a fraud. How can anyone say God has spoken to him when he has so few qualifications? And so people ridiculed him immediately, and even more were suspicious of him, thought this was a con operation and he was actually dangerous. So that incongruity set up great suspicions in the people who saw him in operation.
We think of Smith as a man with supreme confidence, but you write about a man with human doubts and insecurities. What were some of these?
This came as a surprise to me because he does seem so bold, almost impregnable, in his confidence, and it is true that people didn't intimidate him. But he needed people around him, I concluded. He was at his best when he was surrounded by people, believers or unbelievers. When he was alone, he became blue, as he said. He fell into melancholy. He had a kind of Abraham Lincoln character about him, and all the sorrows of his past and his mistakes would flood in on him, and he felt like he was very dependent on God to restore him, because he felt so weak and ineffective.
You've said that scholars are beginning to think of Smith in the context of a tradition of American prophecy. What do you mean by this?
Scholars are beginning to recognize that the prophetic voice recurs in America. It begins with Anne Hutchinson, who says quite bluntly that God was revealing his truth to her. This role is accessible in a Bible-believing culture, and the Bible is, of course, as significant as the U.S. Constitution for establishing the primers of American culture. So there are people who picked up that role, and Joseph Smith is preeminent among them. No one exceeds him in claiming prophetic powers. He produces Scripture and revives the biblical role. So that's one way to think of Joseph Smith, as stepping out into a tradition of American prophets.
How has Smith's image changed over the years among academics and the general public?
There are certain traditions that just persist forever. One is that he was a "colorful fraud," and even a "dangerous fraud," which was a stereotype that was locked on him almost immediately. He was classed with Muhammad as a man who thought he spoke for God and therefore wished to impose his will by force on people around him, and he was frequently compared to Muhammad in his own lifetime. That remains.
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Tom Tailor has expanded its licensed product range by adding a collection of men's and women's shoes to its young fashion brand Tom Tailor Denim. The shoes will debut at Italy's Expo Riva footwear trade show, taking place from June 16-19.
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If you're feeling especially tired today — and it's Monday — it may be because you didn't get your normal recharge of sleep this past weekend.
So says a new study published in the journal Sleep by David Dinges and his colleagues.
Researchers came to this conclusion after analyzing the results of a sleep deprivation study on 159 healthy, middle-aged adults.
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The momentum of Amazon's (AMZN) huge price and volume moves of late last week carried into the new trading week, too, albeit on a more modest scale. Impressive first quarter earnings numbers propelled AMZN shares fifteen percent higher on Friday - a move that was supported by nearly four times the daily trading volume - and that encouraging mood led to a two percent spike on Monday on above-average volume.
This will still be a story to watch, however, with Microsoft (MSFT) making a savvy move into Amazon's comfort zone by teaming up with Barnes & Noble (BKS) to boost the Nook business.
On the note of volume, the Microsoft news sparked volume of roughly twenty times what the Barnes & Noble stock usually sees. That huge boost supported a BKS move of over fifty percent for the day.
Although losing much of their early gains for the day by the closing bell on Monday, shares of Synergy Pharmaceuticals (SGYP) traded on increased volume for the duration of the trading session. The early price boost also put SGYP on the stock watch list for the day, but it's the volume boost that may be more intriguing, given the momentum built during last week's trading.
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