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Famoso Raceway - Hot Rod Haulers At FamosoWritten by on February 21, 2007 Pushing, Pulling, Or Dragging-Trucks Are Racing History
From a vintage truck enthusiast's perspective, the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum-hosted, Automobile Club of Southern California-sponsored California Hot Rod Reunion-which rolls into the sleepy little town of Bakersfield the first weekend of October-is as good a place as any to see some of the coolest classic street trucks and race car rigs in the sport, some of which have been doing this kind of thing since the very beginning.
Just to cite a few examples: Inaugural U.S. Fuel & Gas Championships Top Fuel Champion Art Chrisman still uses a 1957 Ranchero to pushstart the fully restored Chrisman & Cannon Hustler 1 at the California Hot Rod Reunion, just like the one he used to win Bakersfield with in '58. Kenny Safford's candy blue '59 El Camino, which was originally used to pushstart the Safford, Gaide, and Ratican Sour Sisters Oldsmobile-engined AA/FD way back in '63, is still out there doing its thing at both the California and Kentucky NHRA Hot Rod Reunion events. That also goes for the fabled Top Fuel team of Weekly, Rivero, Fox, and Holding. Whenever the Frantic Four make an appearance at Old Famoso with their reincarnated Chrysler-engined AA/FD, you'll find it being pushstarted by a replica of the team's '62 Chevrolet pickup. And finally, whenever five-time U.S. Fuel & Gas Championships winner "Big Daddy" Don Garlits makes an appearance at the California Hot Rod Reunion, you can bet his infamous Swamp Rat III Chrysler-powered AA/FD will be pushed off by his fully restored '61 GMC Carry All. It's a complete act!
Hot rod trucks have also been known to compete trackside at the event. This year, Larry Factor's Speed & Kolor '46 Chevrolet sedan delivery small-block Gasser competed in the Exhibition class, while Eric Christianson's Tequila wheel-standing '65 Falcon Ranchero delighted fans with huge wheelies while running a best qualifying number of 11.05 @ 119.00 mph competing in the B/FX class. Wheel-stander aficionados also got a good look at the underside of a '57 Chevrolet Cameo whenever Gary McWilliams jumped behind the wheel of his Pick Your Part-sponsored E-Ticket Ride and blazed a two-wheel trail down the historic Famoso quarter-mile.
Of course, the highlight of any California Hot Rod Reunion is Saturday evening's Cacklefest, where you'll see quite a few really cool classic trucks pushstarting landmark vehicles up the Old Famoso fire-up road, like the Speed-Sport roadsters, the Beebe & Mulligan AA/FD, the Samurai AA/FD, the Ernie's Camera Shop Special, and the restored Top Fuel car of Greer, Black & Prudhomme, to name just a few.
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On numerous occasions throughout the weekend, Pick Your Part's Gary McWilliams showed California Hot Rod Reunion fans what a '57 Chevrolet Cameo wheelie truck's underside looks like making two-wheel passes down the Bakersfield 1320.Next in line was the Steve Davis-restored/driven Greer, Black & Prudhomme AA/FD, which was pushstarted by HOP UP Magazine publisher Mark Morton's '56 Ford F-100 panel.This '54 GMC looked right at home pushstarting the Scotty Fenn Special TE 440-injected Chrysler front-engined dragster.Five-time U.S. Fuel & Gas Championships/March Meet winner "Big Daddy" Don Garlits rolled up with his supercharged Top Fueler, Swamp Rat III, which was pushstarted by Gar's fully restored, original '61 GMC Carry All. It was quite an act!This little green Ford came from the Johnny Rotten custom shop in Long Beach. Truck and business owner John Robinson is the son of famed street rod builder Fat Jack, so you can see that skill not only runs in the family, it gets better down the line!A popular addition to the Reunion is the gathering of vintage tin in the Grove (named for the orange trees planted along with the racers' commemorations), where we found this gorgeous powder blue '56 F-100.Blair's Speed Shop owner Phil Lukens towed his Hemi-powered Fiat Topolino up to the line behind this first-generation Chevrolet Blazer.Beebe & Mulligan AA/FD owner Dave West fired up his Chrysler-powered Top Fuel replica using a beautiful dark metallic green '69 Chevy pickup.
Down at the far end of the grandstands, we found this unusual vintage hauler. The '57 Ford F-100 has been Bow Tie back-halved, which doesn't look too shabby.


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1975 Chevy Laguna Gets A Racing Spoiler- Spoiling For Fun!Written by Johnny Hunkins on April 1, 2009 Contributors: Keith Kanak You Can Build Custom Aluminum Spoilers With Ordinary Hardware. We Show You How.
Nothing says performance like a racing spoiler. We're not talking about the flimsy injection-molded ones on Hondas, but a real racing spoiler. Long before the import kids started bolting up kit spoilers, race car builders were fabbing the real things inside shops across the land. Stock cars and sports cars have had homebrew aero devices ever since airplanes were invented. These simple aerodynamic shapes were designed to do the opposite of a wing on an airplane: instead of taking flight, the wing pushes down on the car, increasing grip.
The nature of a car's shape creates lift the faster it goes. Aerodynamic forces increase with the square of the speed, so forces pile up rapidly on a race car. Each car's aerodynamic proclivities are different, so the amount of lift at the front and the rear needs to be countered to a different degree. That's why you see spoilers on both the front and rear of a race car, and it's also why you see spoilers with adjustable angles.
So does our '75 Laguna project car really need spoilers? Probably not. Even when we swap out our junkyard motor for the 560hp 408 small-block we've got waiting in the wings, we'll most likely not need wings to keep it on the ground. Still, you never know-we could always run Bonneville or the Silver State Classic with Project Talladega! We admit that we're shamelessly going for a NASCAR/Trans Am look. Even now, you don't see race-inspired spoilers on Pro Touring cars, so the look is refreshing.
You can't just go on the internet and search for "stock car wings for '75 Laguna." You can't buy it off the shelf-you've got to build from scratch. We were flying blind, so we improvised. Starting with historical photos for reference, we noticed two things: The front spoilers of the day were only as wide as the grille opening (per NASCAR rules), and the rear spoilers did not extend to the edge of the quarter-panel like we remembered.
We immediately settled on ?-inch-thick aluminum sheet-a piece of scrap our waterjet guy had laying around. We designed cardboard templates first, mocking them up on the Laguna to check for style (and ground clearance). Once we established the shapes and had our waterjet guy cut them, it was a matter of attaching them securely. We ended up with a static spoiler on the front, and a nice adjustable one in the rear that uses hinges and threaded Heim joints. If for some reason you're crazy enough to have a Laguna needing spoilers, you can call Advanced Waterjet and order our designs-they're already on file.
We used scrap laying around for most of the rest, with the biggest exception being the outlay for the Heim joints. The rest of the materials were ordinary hardware store stuff. Our spoilers came out looking pro, and that's probably because we built ours the way a lot of race car shops built theirs back in the day. Ironically, today's newest NASCAR racers use a wing that most closely resembles those found on the Honda tuners we dislike so much. That's our cue to get back to basics! Check it out.
Special thanks go to Heath Elmer and Keith Kanak for helping us design, scavenge, and fabricate these one-of-a-kind spoilers. We'd also like to thank Advanced Waterjet for helping turn our vision into reality.
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A simple line of masking tape across the rear deck was our starting point. This is where we want the rear spoiler to mount to the decklid. The contour of the trunk changes across its surface, so we needed to first establish where the spoiler would go.We taped two pieces of cardboard together and cut it with a straightedge to the height we wanted. Deciding the height was difficult; NASCAR has never published its race car specs, and only supplies this to teams. We tried to find references to spoiler height on line, but to no avail. We finally decided on a height of 4.5 inches at its tallest point-the edges. The other issue: We needed to establish a rake angle, as that determines the contour at the bottom of the spoiler. We settled on 37 degrees. We devised a similar cardboard template for the front, fitting it against the core support.The cardboard templates were taken to Advanced Waterjet in Anaheim, CA, where they were scanned into the computer. Here, our waterjet man, Mike, cuts a test piece out of masonite before doing the real thing. This can uncover errors in the shape or the programming without ruining good material.Seeing our spoiler pieces cut out of sheet aluminum on the waterjet machining center was a rush! We now had one-of-a-kind spoilers! Getting custom waterjet parts is less expensive than you might think. These two spoilers cost us $200, included the small pieces for the struts. To get a quote on custom work, you can call Advanced at 714-278-9874.Back at the garage, we mocked up the front spoiler several times, marking our mounting points on the core support and drilling holes. We also carved out some clearance (center) for a brace on the core support we overlooked before. Some scrap flat stock was pressed into service to make four angled mounting tabs that attach with quality button head fasteners from the local Ace Hardware. We went to Ace Hardware a lot.We tagged the homemade mounting tabs with Dupli-Color satin black and assembled the tabs on the spoiler one last time. Once all the mock-up was completed, we grained the spoiler with a Scotch-Brite pad and some WD40 to give it a nice sheen.The four mounting tabs can't handle all the aero load, so we fabbed some diagonal braces out of quarter-inch bar stock and some flat washers. It's just a matter of mocking up the spoiler with the washers attached to the spoiler and the car, cutting the bars to length, and tack welding it to the washers. Off the car, the braces were welded, smoothed, and painted.Voil! Custom front spoiler with side braces. We later drove the desert between Phoenix and Los Angeles in August, and experienced zero overheating. This spoiler performs cooling duty by ducting cool air across the radiator.
You can get these piano hinges at Ace Hardware for about a buck, and they were per-fect for the rear spoiler after we cut the corners off, bent them to curve to the trunk lid, and painted them-what else-satin black.After we worked the hinge into shape, we marked the mounting position on the spoiler and trunk lid, then carefully drilled and crimped our threadsert mounting points. We used an 11/64-inch drill bit for these holes, and filled them with 8-32 threadserts. These handy pieces will allow us to screw our hinges right into the decklid.Note how we're using masking tape to constantly protect our paint, as well as mark the line of the spoiler. Here you can see how we attached the reworked Ace Hardware hinge to the threadsert with 3/32-inch hex-head button fasteners. Anybody else find it funny that Ace sponsored the IROC race for years? We bet they supplied the hinges.Under the spoiler, we marked mounting holes for the hinges where they attach to the spoiler. The key thing is to carefully measure the distance between the spoiler and the decklid: we needed it to fit tight, but not so close that it binds on the paint when it's adjusted.This was the difficult part: taking the pieces you see in the first photo, and making it into what you see in the second one. When we had our spoilers waterjetted, we also provided a design for a strut mounting bracket (the two triangles and rectangle with holes). We TIG-welded the three pieces together to form a U-shaped bracket that could retain one end of a small Heim joint. We made 10 aluminum brackets and 5 strut assemblies in all. The strut assemblies were made from 10-32 Heim joints (5 right-handed, 5 left-handed) that were screwed into 1/4-inch aluminum rod which we tapped with the appropriate dies. The tie-rod ends cost $5.50 each, and the jamb nuts were $15-all supplied by Ellis Racing in Phoenix (800-969-0450).It pays to slow up here, and mock stuff up at the proper spoiler angle. Before drilling the threadsert holes for the strut mounts, we had to consider the spoiler angle, the amount of spoiler adjustment range, the cosmetic angle of the struts, and the length of the strut rods themselves. Then we drilled!Good-quality hardware isn't expensive, and we chose the best stainless Allen-head fasteners we could find. After crimping in our threadserts, we bolted on our homemade mounting brackets with no problem.
Not too shabby for a homegrown spoiler. We set the angle at 37 degrees by twisting the strut tubes and locking down the nuts. Our Laguna has Neil Bonnett's name on the roof (he drove a Laguna throughout the mid-'70s), and according to people who knew Neil, he would often lay the spoiler flat during qualifying-and sometimes during racing-to get faster lap times. That would often result in extremely loose handling, and lots of pucker factor for all involved!

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I miss these gold jerseys...
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I miss these gold jerseys...
I miss winning these types of games more :(
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I miss winning these types of games more :(
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(WUSA) -- Marc Leishman is playing in this week's AT&T National at Congressional, and I, for one, am excited.
Just who is Marc Leishman? He's only the PGA Tour's latest first time winner.
Leishman broke through for his first win on the PGA Tour by claiming the Travelers Championship. He didn't win by starting the day in the final pair and cruising along to victory. Leishman didn't win by rallying from a one or two-shot deficit. Marc Leishman won despite starting the day six shots back of the leaders.
Marc Leishman started the day tied for 20th at -6. By the end of the day, he was in first place at -14. Leishman shot a 62 Sunday, and then had to wait over two hours after his round was over before he became the winner.
Brian Davis and Roland Thatcher began the day in the lead at -12. By the end of their rounds, Davis needed an eagle on 18, and Thatcher needed to hole a shot from a greenside bunker for birdie to force a playoff. Neither happened.
Despite Leishman's great round, it wasn't even the best of the day. Hunter Mahan shot a 61 on Sunday. Mahan will participate in the AT&T National, and is someone who I think might win this week.
Leishman also didn't have the shot of the day either. Sunday's best shot belonged to Rory Sabbatini, who holed out his tee shot on the par-3 16th for an ace.
People on twitter have proclaimed the beginning of leishmania.
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#Leishmania! Victory in Travelers with closing 62
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#Leishmania! Victory in Travelers with closing 62
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Sketches are a great way to start. I'd do more of mine that way but I have as yet to get off my butt and get a scanner.
Looking forward to seeing how this progresses.
In these topic, I'd like to show you how I build a small town, from the very begining.
Hope you enjoy it.
I don't know how you proceed, but I'm not able to start with the software without a first preparating sketch. The first map shows the general shape of the town. The following shows the main elements.
Next step will be to place the big things
Comments welcome
Sketches are a great way to start. I'd do more of mine that way but I have as yet to get off my butt and get a scanner.
Looking forward to seeing how this progresses.
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Ghoraja Juun, my largely stagnated campaign setting.
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
I sketch, but i do it with my tablet. I might sketch something on paper if I bring a sketchpad with me and find myself bored.
All my maps have the same major sketch layers, in order: Terrain outline, elevation, major roads, town growth (different colors for different eras), walls if any, outlying areas (farms, suburbs). I go over each layer 2-3 times and refine them.
Sketching on paper seems like a waste when I have a tablet.
It will be fun to see your methods if you post every step.
Hurry this morning... Just time to post the next step...
With the ground layer, some relief and the river... Also the walls of the city and the major cobblestone.
Everyone makes big stone walls. Have you thought about doing a pallisade?
It seems like a small place. A pallisade would be much cheaper and a much mess labor intensive project.
So here are the answers :
As this city is seated in the center of the realms, risks of major invasion are quite low.
At the very begining of its history, it was a place gived by the king of the realm to ensure security on the river. The first shape of the city was the castel and the quarters inside the walls.
The lord of the city (Heward Vo Branwynn) holds taxes to every caravans crossing the bridges.
Time passed and the region became more prosperous, so the city grew : people settle outside the walls.
The stone walls (grey lines between the towers) are 6 meters width. I have to place the scale.
Outer relief is used as the basement of the wooden palissade (still to draw).
Considering your comments, It looks that the cobblestone streets were to wide (14 meters, it's very big in such a place) So, they were reduce to 7-10 meters wide streets. The map of this post shows modifications
On the next post, I'll show you the earthed roads and the streets netting the city.
Just wanted to let you know I am following this map closely. It's a joy to see lots of people doing cities these days!
Check out my City Designer 3 tutorials. See my fantasy (city) maps in this thread.
Gandwarf has fallen into shadow...
These quarter is the most populated of the town...
Almost every house is made of log or plank washed by harsh winters and poverty.
Streets are full of dishes.
A part of the wall have crumbled... It houses the thieve's guild (wich is tolerated, as rats are part of a whole system)
Hope you enjoy...
Sorry to have post late, but all these barracks took time to be placed... I hope that other quarters will be constructed faster
Here are two more quarters : residentials ones.
Those on the north helds the wizards guild (the hex structure)
What do you think about the texture of the streets and the ground ?
Lookin pretty good so far but I think the paving stones in the streets are too big. Might just be me but I'd shrink that down quite a bit.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
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I would really appreciate if you could lower the installation barrier even further. I know most of you may think it is already low and if I can't cope with that I shouldn't even bother with an own server installation. However, I do think that you could make it even easier, like installing and configuring Apache ("apt-get" anyone?).
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We need energy for practically everything we do—for cooking, heating and lighting our homes and offices, for travelling, and for powering telecommunications and industry. Fossil fuels have dominated our energy supply for more than 150 years but we are paying a high price for this. The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that is wreaking havoc on the region's nature and economy is just the latest signal of how urgently we need to shed our addiction to oil.
By burning fossil fuels, we emit vast amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere; more than two-thirds of all greenhouse gas emissions come from fossil energy sources. At the same time, almost half of the world's population depends on burning biomass such as wood, charcoal and animal dung for their energy. The smoke harms people's health and women and children in particular spend a large part of their day collecting fuel—time that could be spent at school or earning money. They need access to clean, modern energy.
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After the Second World War, the veterans came home to parades and to the GI Bill that rewarded them for the sacrifice of years of their lives in the service of their country. One of the greatest benefits of this bill was a free education and cheap home ownership. A GI could buy a home with little money down, and without much ado, a piece of the American Dream was theirs. That is….if this GI was white. Thanks to the GI Bill, thousands of average white males were able to achieve middle class status but the many men of color who had also fought for democracy were "redlined." To be "redlined" was to be defined as less than creditworthy due solely to the color of one's skin. A man of color might possibly get a loan, yes, but it would be at a higher interest rate and the monthly payment would be higher than that of his white counterpart. The higher the payment, the harder it is to keep up the monthly payments, forcing a self-fulfilling prophecy from the banks upon the veteran of color. Fast forward sixty years and "redlining" is renamed "sub-prime," and hereby hangs our tale.
Inside Job, brought to you by the same man, Charles Ferguson, who made No End in Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq (2007), continues the sordid tale of redlining aka sub-prime. The other significant documenter of the follies of our time, Michael Moore, is more sardonic, more sarcastic than Mr. Ferguson but the sheer lunacy of the actors in what is nothing less than the Financial Crime of the Century is so unbelievable that the audience was howling with incredulous laughter. By now, most Americans have a dim idea of how a handful of New York bankers lost an unfathomable amount of money. Combining reckless and immoral behavior within the financial sector with the equally inexcusable passage of tax cuts while two unnecessary wars were being fought entirely without funds resulted in the Mother of all Meltdowns. If you were middle class and had any money in your house, your pension, or your stock portfolio, chances are all your investments are gone, never to return. We know what happened: we have only to look at—or should I say for—our vaporized retirements accounts. What we don't understand is why did this happen?
Getting back to redlining—this was a bank practice to "safeguard" the bank's "risk" but the bank's policies were underwritten and supported by the American government, making redlining, not a private decision, but public policy. The field of public policy was not the full-blown academic pastime it is now but whether or not such practices are named (or not), they amount to social engineering of the general public by private interests on a massive scale. The bankers and the government had two choices. One, you can argue that to allow as many people as possible access to the American dream gives the participants a stake in the society, as the result of a literal investment in the nation's future. If, as the result of social inequities, a certain group of people were disadvantaged, it would make sense to help them participate, by giving them a lower rate of interest and lower payments over a longer period of time. It would be important to incorporate everyone into society for the benefit of everyone. Or two, the public policy could deliberately exclude as many potential players of color as possible, thus creating a permanent underclass of color, disenfranchised and disaffected, alienated and unable to support itself, costing the government great expense in the short and long run. The post-war public policy of the banking industry and the American government chose the second path, which led to a decade of riots and protests in the Sixties from people who could see the American Dream as lived by the whites and yet capriciously denied to them.
Public Policy is an academic discipline but it is clearly an ideological position. If a government is deliberately created an underclass of color, the reason cannot be an economic one in terms of the benefits to the nation as a whole. An underclass is not cost-effective. So why create and perpetuate one? A better question would be qui bono? Who benefits? For a start the white middle class benefits, not necessary financially, because it will have to pay the cost of crime, welfare, and the huge price of controlling and maintaining a large group of very discontented citizens, but in terms of a warm feeling of superiority. The white middle class elevated itself at the expense of divesting the people of color of their rightful share, as citizens, of the American way of life. Of incalculable cost is the loss of talent and national productivity by not allowing a large percentage of people to participate in the nation's growth. What happened was not economic policy but a belief system, an ideology of inequality and superiority.
But why did redlining return? After the Civil Rights legislation forced a positive public policy upon the nation, the middle class of color grew and a growing number of Asians, Blacks, and Hispanics achieved bourgeoisie status. By the beginning of the Twenty-first Century, we knew full well how much America had benefited from allowing an Oprah or a Mario Rubio or a Stephen Chu rise to their potential. Why repeat the same mistake by rolling out the sub-prime one more time? The answer to the question of why a government would introduce and enforce bad deleterious public policy is that wealthy financial interests would benefit. In other words, so that a few thousand people could get massively wealthy, the rest of us had to lose everything. And these few rich people—old white males for the most part—are more powerful than all of us put together.
Charles Ferguson's film is perhaps the most effective in the last two segments when he discusses the disgrace of the so-called experts and the lack of criminal or social accountability. Even in Enron. The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005), there was some measure of criminal liability and one of the participants was honorable enough to kill himself. But here, as Inside Job notes, we have lost even that modicum of morality. All the perpetrators walked away, richer than ever, and completely unscathed, and totally unrepentant. Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism), who linked the capitalist impulse with the Protestant ethic, would be amazed at the distance between the will to power and profits and common decency. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right), who was the main inspiration for the Declaration of Independence, would be horrified at the extent to which the fabric of the Social Contract upon which America was founded has unraveled. It will take generations to recover from the moral, ethical, and financial damage done to America by a few greedy people.
The leaders of the financial institutions refused, to a man, to speak to Ferguson, underlining their total disregard for public accountability. It is quite possible they think they have done nothing wrong. Ferguson portrays these men as unthinkably isolated from the real world and solely motivated by the profit motive. Nothing matters to them but short-term gains. Like five year old boys, and badly behaved ones at that, they were—are—all Id, no Ego and no Superego. If one replaces morality with the profit motive, if one replaces ethics with answering to the stock holders, then lending money to people who could never pay even the first mortgage payment for the sake of a brief burst of cash, then having to strong arm the government to bail out a few banks is a mere temporary inconvenience. The suffering of the perpetrators was brief, a few moments grilling before a powerless Senate committee. Martha Stewart was fined $30,000 and was sentenced to five months in prison and five months house arrest. And her crime? She lied to the FBI. For that you go to jail. Wrecking an entire economy for the foreseeable future? You get a huge bonus.
I was amazed at the assumption, obviously shared by all of the men of Merrill Lynch, Bear Sterns, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, et al., that they are smarter than we are. We could not possibly understand, they insist. We are not smart enough to regulate them, they state. We must not fire them, they protest. We need them, the experts. Actually, no, we don't need these men. And they are not smart. Even I am smart enough to know that the economy is now a global one and has been for decades. I was stunned to learn from Inside Job that Hank Paulson, the Secretary of the Treasury, did not realize that letting Lehman fail would have global impact. Was he too insulted to know that Lehman had foreign branches? Was he too panicked to think the decision through? Apparently, Paulson was, if nothing else, so sectarian in his concerns, he did not give his foreign counterparts a heads up and international monetary chaos ensued. Undoubtedly, the debacle in New York City would have had global ramifications with or without Paulson but his strange lapses in a time of crisis are inexcusable. Likewise, we have to keep in mind that Paulson and his team, Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers, were the Wall Street insiders who deliberately panicked Congress into bailing out the (their) banks. Their action is the moral equivalent of asking innocent bystanders to repay a bank that has been robbed by masked bandits.
And these are the Wall Street wizards President Obama has put in charge of what's left of the economy: Timothy Geithner, who ran (didn't run) the New York Fed, had the closest proximity to the insanity of his colleagues, and Larry Summers, who thinks women can't do math. If I were as irresponsible as they are, I would be fired immediately. But Obama has put them in the lead of Operation Nothing Will Be Done. The only gesture of seriousness I have seen from Obama is the appointment of Elizabeth Warren who will attempt, in the face of the Old Boy's Network, to protect us, the meek and helpless, from the clutches of the likes of Chase. The gender component of the disaster has been discussed at great length. Women, it is asserted, are more prudent when it comes to money. Whether or not this is true, we still do not know, but the behavior of the males was nothing short of astonishing in the levels of irresponsibility and immaturity. Most normal humans invest in Wall Street more or less blindly, through a variety of pensions (now all gone) and they trust a "broker." But, like the film about Enron, Inside Job takes a look at the brokers. Which brings us to sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll—-well, maybe not the rock 'n' roll—these guys are too stuffy, but certainly to sex and drugs.
We are told we are too uneducated and ill informed about the mysteries of economics to understand the ways of Wall Street. But economics is simply common sense. Ask yourself, who is the typical broker on Wall Street? A twenty five year old while male, otherwise known as "the Talent." Now ask yourself a common sense question: would you give your retirement account to your neighbor's twenty five year old nephew to invest and to handle? Of course not. Ask yourself another question: would you give your retirement account to your neighbor's twenty five year old nephew, who is high on cocaine because he had spent the night boozing with prostitutes, to invest and to handle? You just did. If you had money in Merrill Lynch, Bear Sterns, Lehman Brothers or Goldman Sachs or AIG, a twenty-five year old with a college degree and maybe a couple of years of business school was given your money and your dreams of retiring to play with. And he was on drugs, and that's who was in charge of your money— your money that is now gone. And the twenty-five year old man? Still snorting.
As an academic, I was most distressed at the fall of the academics involved in the Collapse. Cynically, I had thought that the profession of economics could not fall any lower, after the debacle of Reaganomics in the 1980s. I was wrong. The most horrifying interviews in the film were those of the academics who styled themselves as economists. Economics is a dismal science indeed. Inherently a soft and social science, the practitioners have attempted to distance themselves from the mushy softness of the humans (who actually are the actors) by "hardening" the discipline into a phallic pseudo-science in which a barrage of numbers and screen of mathematical formulas which separate actual economic activity from theoretical economic models. The result is a fatal separation of the real world from an academic discipline. Economic activity is at the very heart of society. Ask Marx. Or better yet, ask Nietzshe.
According to Marx, the economy is the secret engine of any society and it is this driving force that shapes human relations. Reduced to abstractions, like money, human beings are alienated from themselves and each others and are mere pawns in a system of exchange. People have been dehumanized and the moral ties that hold us together become weakened in favor of the profit motive. Echoing Adam Smith, Marx understood that capitalism, unfettered, would benefit the few at the expense of the many. Nietzsche, writing in state of syphilitic madness, spoke of the Ubermensch, the Superman who seized power because he had the will to do so. This Superman was above normal beings in his Will to Power and therefore deserved any power he obtained. The Superman is a celebration of the Id, the rejoicing of the irrational, the acting out of the Dark Side, our Dionysian Other in all its glory. Sound familiar? The titans of Wall Street, already rich, already powerful, only want to seize more wealth and wield more power. Nothing will ever be enough for those people. The Crash of '08 is a study of the Irrational Man.
John Rawls wrote his Theory of Justice in 1971, at the end of the Civil Rights era and the period of war protests. He had every right to assume that there was a social contract, a public morality that was founded in rational thinking. Doing the right thing for the entire society made moral and economic sense, as the Civil Rights movement and the eventual ending of the Vietnam War seemed to suggest. There was a time when Rawls was taken seriously and one can only wonder what he would have thought of the sorry spectacle set before us in Inside Job. Unfortunately, Rawls died in 2002, having outlived his time. By 2002, the forces of irrational behavior had taken over and the nation was on a slippery slide towards the abyss. Leading the way, were dry and dull economists who might have known better if they had not sold out long ago to the lure of Washington. Worse than being merely dazzled by their brush with power, is the apparent lack of training and education on the part of the individuals interviewed for this film. I assume they all have advanced degree. Business schools offer professional degrees, that is, three more years of specialized training, but academics have different degrees, doctorates, which stress scholarship, research, and rigorous application of theories. For example, as a professor, I have a combined thirteen years of education, from undergraduate to a doctorate. I assume the economists in the film have somewhat less graduate education, as art history is a notoriously difficult discipline, but I also assume that these individuals should have mastered the basics, after all, they all have posh jobs at Ivy League schools. But not so. None of these men has gotten beyond the high school level in a academic integrity and proficiency.
Up to this point, the audience for the film had been watching the recounting of the horrors of financial inventions, such as CDOs and Derivatives in stunned and subdued silence. But when the parade of the economists marched on screen, the audience roared with laughter. To begin with there is the imperious Dr. Martin Feldstein who has been in the service of Republican administrations since Nixon. He comes across as an unflappable and bemused Gulliver, baffled that the Tiny People are attempting to prick his conscience. Wrong? He ponders, what me do anything wrong? How could that be? And he is a professor at Harvard, teaching impressionable young people. Presumably the students will get their ethics elsewhere. Then there is Glenn Hubbard, the Dean of the Columbia University Business School, who puffed up indignantly at the impertinence of inopportune questions about uncomfortable issues such as conflict of interests. There is a revolving door between these academics and the political establishment, meaning that their so-called scholarship is for sale to the highest bidder. Hubbard who regretted his decision to grant (in the Kingly sense) an interview, began a countdown: "You have three minutes left." The interviewer asked simple common sense questions and caused great offense. We are left with the impression of a condescending and pompous man, Hubbard, who was convinced that we are unworthy of an explanation.
That attitude—that the public is too stupid to comprehend the convolutions of economic theory—oozed from every pore of the academics. However, Frederic Mishkin, a professor at Columbia, was not as smooth and self-righteous and un-self-consciously immoral as Hubbard and Feldstein. I have seen just enough of Lie to Me to know that if a person says one thing, all the while shaking his head to the negative, that either he is lying to us or to himself. His subconscious is frantically telegraphing "no, this is a lie, this is not true, don't believe a word I say." Mishkin fled his government post to, as he put it, to "write a textbook." Even I, in my lowly academic post at an art college, know that textbook writing is something no self-respecting academic would do—that's a task for a group of graduate students. And who writes textbooks anymore? Even the interviewer, presumably not an academic, did not accept his lame excuse for his Profile in Shame. Before he was writing his textbook, Mishkin had "delivered a paper" on the state of the three banks of Iceland, huge conglomerates that had gambled the entire nation away. These banks, unleashed by an unwise government, lost three times the GNP of the country. But Mishkin, hired for over $100,000 by the Iceland Chamber of Commerce, had given these banks a glowing report. The interviewer asked how he could have gotten it so wrong. Well, Mishkin explained artlessly, one trusts one's friends. In other words, instead of going to Iceland with a forensic accountant and going over the books for a few months, Mishkin took a hundred grand and wrote a report for an agency whose job it was to boost Iceland. The "report" or the "paper" was really an advertisement and an inducement for investors who would be lured in. Instead of research, Mishkin produced a document based on gossip. Not his fault that his "friend" was wrong about Iceland.
The President of Columbia also refused to comment on the University's integrity and the possible conflicts of interest. The President of Harvard also refused to comment about loss of integrity over conflicts of interest among the University's scholars.
One of the best points the film makes is the extent to which leading Ivy League universities have been compromised morally through conflicts of interest such as Mishkin's ethical failure. Professors for sale. Professors who pretend to teach. Professors who apparently do not know the first rules of research. Did Miskin at least do a Google search of Iceland? He might have learned something. And this man has tenure. This man is allowed to teach economics and business. I would have given Mishkin an "F" in my class. I would have made him do his work over until he learned basic skills of scholarship. In the end, all I can do is to invite the students of Columbia and Harvard to come to my little art college here in Los Angeles. I, and my colleagues, will teach you how to do research and how to write a real research paper. As for the professors in the film, undoubtedly, I am beneath their notice, but I came away from Inside Job wondering if I know more about the Dismal Science than they do. One can only hope that someday, they will find the late-breaking courage of David Stockman and plead guilty to their scams. In an August interview with Guy Raz of NPR this year, Stockman said that the current Republican economic policy was,
Utterly disingenuous. I find it unconscionable that the Republican leadership, faced with a 1.5 trillion deficit, could possibly believe that good public policy is to maintain tax cuts for the top 2 percent of the population who, after all, have benefited enormously from this phony boom we've had over the last 10 years as a result of the casino on Wall Street.
And I blame Paulson on it. I blame the Bush White House. They basically sold out the birthright of the Republican Party when they bailed out Wall Street unnecessarily, in a state of complete panic in September 2008. That's really, at the end of the day, one of the greatest misfortunes in fiscal governance since the Reagan revolution tried to straighten things out beginning in 1980.
Many people would disagree with Stockman that Reagan tried to "straighten things out." Inside Job starts, as do many other observers of public policy, with Ronald Reagan's social re-engineering of America. It was in the 1980s that The American Social Contract began to be shredded. As the movie pointed out, as have many other sources, it was precisely in this era that the income gap between rich and poor began to expand. The rich were enriched at the expense of the less fortunate who began to lose ground. It is those left behind who became prey, twenty years later, for the bankers who would talk them into sub-prime loans, which could be bundled into tranches and sold and resold until no one knows who owns the houses that are being repossessed. The Reagan Administration opened the door for Greed and irresponsibility and the Clinton Administration held the door open. After the S & L meltdown, deregulation began in earnest and continued with abandon after the Tech Bubble. Then came the Great Recession and the hounds of the hell of total deregulation have been let loose with the midterm election of 2010.
People have been wondering to which point back in time we have been pushed. Some have suggested the Fifties. Wrong. The Fifties was a decade of government intervention in the economy, building freeways, creating the military industrial complex, fueling the space race. Some have suggested that, because we are now getting ready to "Hoover" the economy, we are witnessing the end of the New Deal. Wrong. We are re-experiencing the Gilded Age of the Late Nineteenth Century, a time of rampant free-booting and raging and unrepentant capitalism. Wall Street is now the Wild West and the Outlaws are running the town. The criminals have taken over the prison. The inmates are in charge of the asylum. Inside Job makes it clear that the Obama Administration will not help us get the bad guys. There will be no punishment for any of the architects of the Tragedy of 2008.
We are on our own. Welcome to the Ownership Society.
Dr. Jeanne S. M. Willette
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Hands On: SIM2 Nero 3D Projector
The Nero from SIM2 narrows the gap between single-chip and three-chip projection with its dazzling images and 3D.
A little over a year ago, Italian manufacturer SIM2 introduced its LUMIS 3D Solo three-chip DLP 3D projector and recently the company followed up by launching a scaled-down version called the Nero. Fortunately for videophiles, the Nero offers many of the same performance traits as the LUMIS 3D, but in a single-chip package that is less bright and lower cost.
The Nero offers just about the same features set as the state-of-the-art LUMIS, among those being SIM2's proprietary AlphaPath die-cast light engine. The AlphaPath also employs glass optics, and the company claims through its technologies and 280-watt lamp the projector can produce up to 2,000 lumens and a contrast ratio up to 30,000:1.
Taking a single AudioQuest (AQ) HDMI cable run from a Meridian HD621 HDMI Audio Processor, the Meridian product facilitated connections from an HD cable box with 3D service and a Sony 3D Blu-ray player. From there I plugged in the active 3D IR emitter box to the back of the projector and plugged its wall-wart power supply into a PS Audio power conditioner. Using an AQ power cable I hooked the Nero into the PS Audio unit and pressed the power button and number on the Nero's remote keypad to fire up the projector.
Once in the menu I toggled through the inputs for "HDMI 1" and proceeded to align the projector with an SI Black Diamond Zero Edge screen.
The Nero, unlike the LUMIS unit, does not include motorized lenses, but lens adjustments can be done through a hidden set of Allen-head screws. Navigating the unit's user interface, I set color, contrast, black level, sharpness, noise reduction, DynamicBlack (I turned off), image processing modes, gamma level, and I cranked the lamp output level from its default setting of 220 to 240.
Related: Award-winning SIM2 home theater, designed and installed by Definitive Sound, Mississauga, Ontario.
Comparing it to the LUMIS projector, the Nero more than holds its own, and I really enjoyed it. Network broadcasts such as HBO's Game of Thrones looked absolutely stunning. Scenes in which Jon Snow was walking with the "Wildling" Ygritte in the snow-covered mountains of the North were vividly white. Fine details such as exposed areas of ground appeared in natural earthy tones, and they were reproduced with no loss of gray scale. Other elements such as fine stitching within their clothes were rendered with high levels of realistic detail.
3D content such as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and Chicken Little looked bright and onscreen movements were smooth. These elements can be areas of problems for lesser 3D projectors, and in addition, the Nero presented the 3D content with a nice sense of depth. I also looked at Underworld: Awakening, which is a real-world 3D torture test, and I thought the Nero nailed this dimly lit movie with ease. Kate Beckinsale's black outfit was rendered in a deep black and shadow detail was also reproduced without any noticeable loss of quality.
Test patterns confirmed what I was seeing with the movies and broadcast content, and the topper was popping in the Blu-ray disc of Red Bull's The Art of Flight snowboarding documentary, which may have been the best looking video I've ever seen in my house.
Related: SIM2 home theater, designed and installed by Bri-Tech, Long Island, NY
My only legitimate complaint with the Nero is the projector's 3D glasses. I had no issues with the glasses that came with the LUMIS projector, but the four pairs of active glasses that came with the Nero were uncomfortable. My wife and I thought the glasses were tight, heavy and the lenses were too small—at times they felt like wearing bifocals on the edge of my nose to peer over the frames.
Glasses aside, I think the Nero is a fabulous product for media rooms and dedicated theaters. I do believe it offers about 95 percent of the LUMIS' performance for roughly 40 percent of the cost, and that math adds up to a killer viewing experience.
At a Glance
Excellent black levels, vivid whites
Strong shadow and fine detail
Nice 3D depth
Remote operation is quirky in saving settings
3D glasses can be uncomfortable
PureMovie, PureMotion, PureMotion 3D processing
DynamicBlack enhancement
Motorized iris control
HDMI 1.4 with Deep Color
Live Color Calibration 2.0 software
2,000 lumens brightness
30,000:1 contrast ratio
Nero T1 (short-throw ratio 1.37-1.66:1) $19,990
Nero T2 (long-throw ratio 1.82-2.48:1) $19,990
Nero T3 (long-throw ratio 2.60-3.90:1) $21,850
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Napa Weekend Getaway: Where to Stay
By Ian White on August 19, 2011 10:00 AM
There may not be as many places to stay in Napa Valley as there are in San Francisco, but I'd wager my weight in wine that they are just as diverse. From exclusive resorts to motels out of horror movies, we've got it all and plenty to choose from. Some of the most elegant and exclusive resorts in Napa Valley can be found on our list of the best spas and most romantic things to do and here are more favorites from North to South (upvalley-downvalley, as we say):


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From the kitchen of Bernice Succo
Sift together the following ingredients:
2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
2 tsp cinnamon
1tsp salt
1tsp soda
Beat together well:
2 eggs
1 cup oil
1 tsp vanilla
Add 4 cups chopped apples (I use MacIntosh)
Put in greased and floured 9X13 pan.
Top with 1 cup or a little more of butterschotch chips and sprinkle with chopped nuts.
Bake in 325 degree oven 45 to 60 minutes
Test with a toothpick for doneness.
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Network Has An Opportunity
February 13, 2013
Some West Virginians are annoyed by the "reality television" show "Buckwild" because they say it provides a national audience for negative portrayals of Mountain State residents....
I'm not concerned about the way it portrays our state. There are idiots in all 50 states. I don't watch it because to me, it's dumb television and totally devoid of any entertainment value. I'd rather watch paint dry.
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"Will the network rework the series for next season in an attempt to show the raw, vicious truth about drug abuse?"
Oh yeah, that would really make the state look fabulous. Ask Senator Manchin what he thinks of your idea. I think you are barking up the wrong venue here.
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Yeah imphat likes quality shows about WV like the Beverly Hillbillies reruns . . .
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i bet that the originators of MTV aren't pleased about how their "music television" channel has turned into crappy reality show channel.this channel was cool back in the 80's.
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Today I saw this tweet fly by:
Laat vandaag je #fiets graveren tussen 10:30 en 15:30 uur op het Museumplein @stadsdeelzuid http://t.co/k9jvMtCEWE— 020Fiets (@020Fiets) July 24, 2013
After over a year of cruising around on the 'Amsterdamize', the tweet's timing was right: I needed to treat my single speed to a tattoo, a (free) courtesy of the Amsterdam Bike Office. Every Wednesday their mobile engraving team sets up shop in a different part of town (alongside busy bike routes) and today that meant I needed to cycle to the edge of Museum Square. Naturally, a total drag, as it forced me to cycle through the Rijksmuseum's bicycle corridor. Yes, my tongue was firmly placed in my cheek when I typed that.
I brought my DSLR camera and pointed it towards stuff that I thought was important to share. It's pretty much self-explanatory. Of course I'm happy to answer any questions in the comment section.
PS: you'll have to forgive me for forgetting about the focus button at times, a mistake I usually don't make on my city bike.


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The Bourne Legacy (2012)
The Bourne Legacy SynopsisThe narrative architect behind the Bourne film series, Tony Gilroy, takes the helm in the next chapter of the hugely popular espionage franchise that has earned almost $1 billion at the global box office: The Bourne Legacy. The writer/director expands the Bourne universe created by Robert Ludlum with an original story that introduces us to a new hero (Jeremy Renner) whose life-or-death stakes have been triggered by the events of the first three films.
The Bourne Legacy Release Date
In Theaters August 10, 2012
The Bourne Legacy Credits
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Albert Finney, Joan Allen, Scott Glenn, Stacy Keach, and Oscar Isaac
Written by: Tony Gilroy and Dan Gilroy
Directed by: Tony Gilroy
Produced by: Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley, Jeffrey M. Weiner, and Ben Smith
MPAA Rating: [ PG-13 ]
Distributor: Universal Pictures
External Info: The Bourne Legacy Official Website
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The Bourne Legacy On Track For Strong Opening Weekend
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by Katey Rich August 10, 2012 comments
Ranking Renner: Who Are His Best Characters?
Im going to tell you something you probably already figured out for yourself at one point or another: Jeremy Renner is awesome. After spending years under the radar, the actor has absolutely blown up in the past five, earning two Academy Award nominations and taking three roles in some of the biggest action franchises currently running. But how do his five greatest characters stack up against each other?
by The CB Staff August 10, 2012 comments
Jeremy Renner's Biggest Bourne Legacy Challenge: Don't Get Injured
Jeremy Renner has proven over and over again that he's an intense presence onscreen, from dismantling bombs in The Hurt Locker to going toe-to-toe with Tom Cruise in last December's Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. But there's probably few challenges more intense than playing a spy in your own movie
by Katey Rich August 9, 2012 comments
The Bourne Legacy Cast And Filmmakers Talk Action Scenes And The Future Of The Franchise
The Bourne Legacy is a tricky sequel. While it does follow the timeline of the first three films and actually overlaps with The Bourne Ultimatum - the plot follows a completely different character, named Aaron Ross (Jeremy Renner), and features a whole new batch of supporting characters (including Edward Norton and Rachel Weisz).
by Eric Eisenberg August 9, 2012 comments
6 Bourne-Style Spinoffs We Want From This Year's Movies
What if we could tell side spin-offs about other 2012 movies? What other films set up characters or ideas that you'd follow, not into their own story, but separately within the story already being told? We're not talking sequels or prequels here, but seeing a story from one movie told from a completely different angle
by CB Staff August 7, 2012 comments
Now Streaming: Netflix Instant Alternatives To Total Recall, The Bourne Legacy And 2 Days In New York
Looking for something to watch from the comfort of home, but feeling spoiled for choice with Netflix Instant's expansive library? Well, we're here to help. Biweekly we break down which streaming titles serve as the best pairings to the latest theatrical releases, so you can double your pleasure without doubling its price tag.
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New Featurette For The Bourne Legacy Takes You Behind The Scenes
There's quite a bit of pressure resting on The Bourne Legacy. While the film does have Tony Gilroy at the helm, the man who wrote the previous three Bourne movies, the series is spinning in a new, Matt Damon-less direction now, with agent Aaron Cross, played by Jeremy Renner, taking over hero duties. But there is a great deal going for it...
by Eric Eisenberg July 24, 2012 comments
The Bourne Legacy Goes On The Run For New International Poster
The poster doesnt reveal much, just Renner dashing from (or toward) some unknown threat. I really like the Chinese characters in the signature text bars across the design on this poster. It helps it stand out.
by Sean O'Connell July 6, 2012 comments
The Bourne Legacy Pushed Back A Week To Avoid The Dark Knight Rises
While previous summers featured weekends of blockbuster after blockbuster sitting on top of one another fighting for the number one spot at the box office, this summer has been quite different. With the exception of one or two titles, including Marvel's The Avengers, the hotter months of 2012 have largely been disappointing thus far and we often find ourselves waiting multiple weeks in between the major releases.
by Eric Eisenberg June 22, 2012 comments
Jeremy Renner Protects Rachel Weisz In Latest The Bourne Legacy Image
Basically, this is Bourne with most of the major pieces in place save for Damon and director Paul Greengrass. But longtime Bourne screenwriter Tony Gilroy takes over in the directors chair, so we feel like the franchise is in good hands.
by Sean O'Connell May 29, 2012 comments
Jeremy Renner Runs, Hits Hard, And Saves Rachel Weisz In New Bourne Legacy Footage
Just a few minutes ago I walked out of my final studio presentation at CinemaCon, and while I got to see some new stuff from exciting upcoming titles like\Ted, This is 40, Savages and Les Miserables (more on those later), the material on display for The Bourne Legacy was easily the most thought-provoking and extensive.
by Eric Eisenberg April 26, 2012 comments
The Bourne Legacy Trailer: Jason Bourne Was Just The Tip Of Iceberg
This summer Jeremy Renner is tackling the difficult task of taking over the Bourne franchise from Matt Damon, playing a completely different agent inducted into the secretive world that Bourne first introduced us to. Today we're finally getting our first look at Renner as the new super-spy
by Katey Rich February 8, 2012 comments
Bourne Legacy Teaser Poster Underwhelms
There's a lot riding on The Bourne Legacy. The franchise turned Matt Damon into a certified action star and gave us a modern spy hero before Bond got his Casino Royale makeover. Given how fast Jeremy Renner's star is rising, he'll probably be a great pick to take over the Bourne-less Bourne films. All in all, Jason Bourne's legacy looks to be in good hands.
by David Wharton January 9, 2012 comments
First Look At Jeremy Renner In The Bourne Legacy, Plus He Gets A Name
Ever since it was announced that Matt Damon would not be returning for The Bourne Legacy, Universal Pictures has done its best to stress the fact that the lead character in the new film is NOT Jason Bourne. Instead, it will be a whole new character that is experiencing adventures in the same world as Bourne. The film is set to come out later this year with the always-awesome Jeremy Renner in the lead role and an amazing supporting cast
by Eric Eisenberg January 5, 2012 comments
Find Out Why Matt Damon Badmouthed Bourne Screenwriter Tony Gilroy, Then Apologized
Weve known for quite some time that a fourth Bourne movie is happening, and that Matt Damon isnt in it. Instead, actor Jeremy Renner (Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol) will be taking over the franchise in The Bourne Ultimatum as a new protagonist, with series screenwriter Tony Gilroy now also directing. Up until now, however, it has sounded like these changes were all cordial and mutual. Based on some comments Matt Damon made, however, that may not entirely be the case.
by David Wharton December 19, 2011 comments
Matt Damon Says Jeremy Renner Was His Top Choice To Take Over Bourne Franchise
It's hard to know exactly how genuine he's being-- did they really talk about Renner when they were fighting with the studio about whether they could get the movie made? But according to Damon when he finally met Renner, they didn't talk about Bourne at all, but just shot the shit, since "I'm a huge fan of his." Given Damon's well-earned reputation as a nice guy it's hard to imagine he's giving Renner a hard time
by Katey Rich December 14, 2011 comments
Matt Damon Hints At More Bourne In His Future
The Bourne torch may have been passing to Jeremy Renner with next year's The Bourne Legacy, but that doesn't mean that Matt Damon is abandoning the possibility of eventually returning to the role that made him an action star. Now Damon has tossed more fuel on the fire for fans who would like to see him back in the role of amnesiac badass Jason Bourne.
by David Wharton October 13, 2011 comments
Scott Glenn Reprising His Role For The Bourne Legacy
Glenn will be reprising his role as Ezra Kramer, the CIA director who also oversaw Treadstone, the secret unit that created Jason Bourne and presumably will tinker in the life of Renner's character as well. It's good to see the collection of heavies returning for this latest installment, further evidence that director Tony Gilroy
by Katey Rich August 11, 2011 comments
Stacy Keach Joins The Cast Of The Bourne Legacy
Stacy Keach has had quite the strange career. While he's a talented character actor who has had some notable roles, he rarely stars in movies that get a lot of attention and doesn't have the greatest string of luck when it comes to TV shows (both Titus and Lights Out were cancelled before they were ready to end). His next project, on the other hand, should get quite a few eyeballs.
by Eric Eisenberg August 5, 2011 comments
Joan Allen And Albert Finney In Talks To Return For The Bourne Legacy
There are still many people out there who absolutely refuse to see a Jason Bourne movie without Matt Damon, but the more news we hear about the spin-off, the better it looks. In addition to having Tony Gilroy writing and directing (he wrote the first three Bourne movies as well), Jeremy Renner is attached to star and Rachel Weisz, Oscar Issac and Edward Norton are signed on as the female lead, fellow assassin and villain, respectively.
by Eric Eisenberg July 26, 2011 comments
Edward Norton In Talks To Play The Villain In The Bourne Legacy
Though I still find myself questioning the value of a Bourne film without Jason Bourne, it seems that they are trying to make you forget that by loading the new film with recognizable names and faces. Should the deal be closed, the movie will be Norton's first mainstream studio movie since 2008's The Incredible Hulk. The project currently has a release date of August 3, 2012.
by Eric Eisenberg July 12, 2011 comments
Jeremy Renner's The Bourne Legacy Casting Was The Result Of Compromise
I understand why studios meddle in the productions of their blockbusters. After all, they are fronting hundreds of millions of dollars to get the movies made and it makes sense that they would want some assurance that they will be making a profit. What sucks is that studio interference can really get in the way of a director's vision.
by Eric Eisenberg April 25, 2011 comments
Jeremy Renner Offered The Lead In The Bourne Legacy
A few months ago it was revealed that Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol will be the last time Tom Cruise appears as Ethan Hunt and that the franchise will be passed on to Jeremy Renner, one of the fastest rising actors in Hollywood, who is also starring in the new film. If that is indeed the case, it would seem that Renner is going to be taking over two spy franchises.
by Eric Eisenberg April 21, 2011 comments
Is Jeremy Renner The Next Bourne?
Thanks to the success of The Hurt Locker, Jeremy Renner has become Hollywoods default for whenever theyre looking for a middle-aged white guy who can do action. So it shouldnt be a surprise to hear that hes being considered for The Bourne Legacy.
by Josh Tyler April 1, 2011 comments
Garrett Hedlund, Joel Edgerton, Dominic Cooper And More To Screentest For The Bourne Legacy
A few weeks back it was reported that basically every young, white male actor in Hollywood with a recognizable name was being considered for the lead in The Bourne Legacy, Tony Gilroy's continuation of the franchise after the departure of Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass. All in all, a total of 15 names were shortlisted for the lead
by Eric Eisenberg March 24, 2011 comments
Chris Evans Up For The Bourne Legacy Too? Don't Bet On It
The shortlist of actors that could take over for Matt Damon in the Jason Bourne franchise is turning out to be anything but short. As it has been reported over the last few days, Jake Gyllenhaal, Garrett Hedlund, Taylor Kitsch, Kellan Lutz, Joel Edgerton, Josh Hartnett, Paul Dano, Michael Pitt, Oscar Isaac, Michael Fassbender, Luke Evans, Alex Pettyfer, Benjamin Walker and Shia LaBeouf are all being considered for the lead role in Tony Gilroy's The Bourne Legacy.
by Eric Eisenberg March 3, 2011 comments
Shia LaBeouf Is In The Mix To Star In The Bourne Legacy
Tony Gilroy, who wrote the first three Bourne films and will take over as director for the fourth one, has been meeting with actors recently, and probably in something of a hurry-- Universal is aiming for an August 2012 release. It's worth noting that the film won't be replacing Matt Damon as Bourne
by Katey Rich March 1, 2011 comments
UPDATE: Jake Gyllenhaal And Garrett Hedlund Among Actors Shortlisted For The Bourne Legacy
One advantage that the Jason Bourne franchise had for its last two sequels is that it didn't have to worry about finding their lead actor. Matt Damon was the super assassin with amnesia and everything was right with the world. But now that Universal is making a fourth installment without Damon, the mission has begun to find the actor that can step into his shoes.
by Eric Eisenberg February 24, 2011 comments
The Dark Tower, The Bourne Legacy, Ouija And Others Get Official Release Dates
The year 2012 already promises to be one hell of a twelve month period for movie fans. Already set for release are The Dark Knight Rises, The
by Eric Eisenberg October 29, 2010 comments
Jason Bourne Will Not Be A Character In The Bourne Legacy
With the announcement that Tony Gilroy would be directing the fourth installment of the Jason Bourne franchise on Monday, there was one question on everyone's mind: what about Matt Damon? Dating back to
by Eric Eisenberg October 9, 2010 comments
Tony Gilroy To Direct The Fourth Bourne Film
The unsung hero of the Jason Bourne franchise has always been Tony Gilroy. While Matt Damon has always garnered applause for his performances and Paul Greengrass and Doug Liman gathered praise
by Eric Eisenberg October 4, 2010 comments
Tony Gilroy Scripting Bourne 4, It's A Sequel, Not A Prequel
Working the press junket for Green Zone back in February, I was amongst the first to hear that neither Matt Damon nor Paul Greengrass would be returning to the Jason Bourne franchise
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A bada$$ one. Lol just kidding I'd have to say passionate
Hey Guys,
I have a question for everyone here on the forum. I was asking myself the other night about what kind of hunter I am and couldn't think of a good answer. The best I could come up with was "dedicated". So my question to everyone is-
What kind of hunter are you?
A bada$$ one. Lol just kidding I'd have to say passionate
Stealthy, Deadly, accurate.
I hunt because......
Obsessed, of course.
Is there something more than obsessed,if so I'm that
Id have to say all of thee above.
definetly obsessed, at least that is what my two ex's said.
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GREENVILLE, N.C. - East Carolina conducted its second official spring workout with an 80-minute practice early Thursday morning on Hight Field inside the Cliff Moore Complex.
After beginning camp with a pair of introductory sessions in shorts and helmets to comply with the NCAA's mandated "acclimation" period, ECU Head Coach Ruffin McNeill and his staff will direct the Pirates' first full-pad drills Friday afternoon.
"We wanted to get that second day of acclimation where we can't wear pads and we did that this morning," McNeill said. "It was a bit of a change for them but I thought they got warmed up and it turned out to be a real good practice."
East Carolina continued to stress positional basics throughout the abbreviated workout, which was scheduled as a make-up after Wednesday's practice was postponed because of lightning. After opening with traditional individual work, both units spent the remainder of the morning engaged in skeleton, situational, unit-specific one-on-one and 11-on-11 team segments.
Defensively, secondary personnel and outside linebackers directly engaged with receivers and offensive tackles, respectively, to emphasize pass coverage and pass rush technique work.
"I see the kids talking to each other (on that side of the ball)," McNeill said. "I see them discussing techniques and calls, which is great. I heard two guys talking fundamentals and position on a certain call and that's a big part of it. The staff is adding more and more as we go."
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NOTES: East Carolina conducted its annual Senior Pro Timing Day later Thursday morning ... A total of 13 players who wrapped up their eligibility last November underwent testing in the Murphy Center and on Hight Field in front of a collection of 20 scouts representing National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL) franchises ... After physical (height, weight, hand, arm) measurements were taken, the former Pirates were tested in the vertical jump, broad jump and bench press before moving outside for 40-yard dash and short shuttle course times, along with various positional workouts.
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The .270 is fine for 700 yd shots on elk.
Too many are suckered into the magnum craze.
Remington 700...30-06. Say no more.
I think the .270 is getting a bit low on energy for an elk much past 400 yards. Just my opinion.
the short mag will DRT them at 600 w/ 140gr ABs...witnessed that on some cows a cpl years ago. Could the person have gotten closer? Sure... but cows were about to cross a road.
Over 1500lbs of energy isn't enough to kill an elk? Not if you hit it in the ass it's not, but it sure is through the lungs. Then again, I don't think 700 yd shots should be taken by everybody who thinks they can do them.
Maybe using a caliber that won't work at 700 yds will make you a better hunter.
This thread isn't about whether or not a 270 will kill an elk. It's titled, "Best All Around Gun" and the OP wants enough punch to kill elk out to 700 yards. If you seriously think the 270 Win is it, then by all means keep suggesting it. But, I still couldn't disagree more. There are so many better options out there, it would be silly to settle on the 270 Win when that is your goal.
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David Cook – the David Cook from "American Idol" – will be here…at Kauffman Stadium…on Friday.
Yes, it's official! David Cook is coming to Kauffman Stadium Friday, May 9 to watch his hometown Royals take on the Baltimore Orioles, 7:10 p.m.
Reports of David making the trip to The K started circulating last week, but the Blue Springs, Mo., native had one more round to make it through before returning home for the weekend…and last night he made it through that round!
After a day full of concerts, parades and more, the "American Idol" contestant will visit Kauffman Stadium on Friday, throw out a first pitch (pregame begins at 6:30 p.m.) before the game and then lead the crowd in "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh-inning stretch.
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