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Upon arrival you'll find dozens of zombie minions prowling the premises, haunting the show go-ers. Straight out of Michael Jackson's video, the living dead creep up on the unsuspecting and tease and torment the easily frightened. One spook even stole our ticket and passed it along to another attendee in the lobby, which turns into a zombie playground on performance evenings.
Once seated, the lights flash and dim, setting the scene for a haunted evening. The zombies continue to prowl, crawl the seats and more or less invade any personal space you intended to keep.
The show begins with a scene straight out of the 1984 MTV airwaves with the living, (heavy) breathing dead taking the stage to re-enact Jackson's iconic steps. Down to every last bug eye-ed scream, Odyssey revives the song from the dead. The fog machines, tombstones and grotesque (albeit, extremely realistic and slightly frightening) un-dead get-ups are just additional pieces to a spell-binding start.
The show follows its opening number with various spook-inspired choreography, many of which have a cult following by repeat audience members. Without revealing too much, a number inspired by mummies, which fit appropriately with the Egyptian Theater's Pharaoh-esque interior, showcased the dance company's talents and the creativity of the choreographers. The audience is exposed to the softer side of monsters in a defunct 'Young Frankstein' style ballet, featuring stunning point foot work with a humorous, deprecating twist. Frankstein morphs from a scary beast to a naive, love-struck character through the flawless movements mimicking that of gentle Herman Muenster.
The first act ends with the audience favorite, Jason Jams, a variation on the Stomp! model, using objects to create rhythm, although the three hockey-masked Friday the 13th villains prefer to create noise and beats with the help of bats, machetes and the token chain saw. Inspiring both laughs and frights, the audience remains silently engaged in the energetic number...or maybe remains quiet out of fear they'll be taken on stage as the killer's next victim.
The second act begins with a lost sugar plum fairy, meeting her untimely fate courtesy of a repeat appearance of one of the Jason killers, setting the tone for the rest of the show. 'Children of the Corn' steals the show with a spooky take on the flick. The dancers, dressed as mischievous high-schoolers, take to a corn field to perform a seance and end up having a hip-hop throw-down with a bunch of malicious scarecrows.
The second act includes appearance from iconic Halloween figures: The witches of Salem, Chucky dolls, and blood-hungry creatures of the night. The numbers transition with the help of short, spooky films. An informercial for "Scare-zite" a natural scare enhancement spoof plays on other natural enhancements product commercials, whilst featuring characters right off the stage, are cleverly produced and draw laughs from the audience.
The show ends 2 hours later with an an encore or the title performance, leaving the often sold out audience begging for more show-stopping dance, humor and fright.
Thriller plays across the state during the month of October and is not to be missed. Even those who don't enjoy the ballet, dance or even Halloween will delight in the energy and excitement of such a novel production. Little ones might find it a bit too scary, but the production they should be fine if you remind them that it's all just a little hocus-pocus.


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American culture may tell us it's all downhill after 18, but our own eyes tell us that while a woman can't be forever young, she can be perceived as forever beautiful. Especially if she lives in France. Or India. Or Ghana. Or a surprising number of other places where one's value doesn't diminish after adolescence. And though there's no denying the worldwide creep of America's fondness for the under-30 set (China, known for its veneration of parents and grandparents, now has the second-highest face-lift rate in the world), not every country buys into that concept. Read on for locales where age brings rewards.
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In India, grace, spirituality—and wearing a sari well—are enviable assets.
Who she is A retired schoolteacher and microbiologist, Shankar lives in Nilgiris, in the state of Tamil Nadu, a region of lush, rolling hills and forests.
Indian beauty defined Most important, says Shankar, are "grace and a winning smile"—two qualities that typically improve with age. Also key: doe-like eyes and long, thick black hair. In India, those qualities have been revered for 2,000 years. "There is a long tradition of celebrating goddesses with alluring eyes and long hair," she says.
Why aging is attractive "The majority of Indian women are very comfortable with aging because you have more time to think about life and spirituality," says Shankar. "Now I am able to relax and do things at my own pace."
Clothes make the woman "A woman is considered attractive if she is an elegant dresser," says Shankar. "The sari is a very beautiful garment, and when worn well, it makes a woman look graceful, no matter her age."
The Indian beauty regimen For special occasions, such as a wedding, Indian women pull out all the stops. "A mixture of turmeric, sandalwood paste and rose water is applied to the bride-to-be," says Shankar. "It is said to give her a glow." Everyday routines, however, are far simpler. Shankar doesn't color her hair or wear makeup. "I think—and hope—I am growing old gracefully. This is what I am most proud of," she says. Her beauty regimen mainly involves getting fresh air and exercise; she and her husband take their pet Dalmatian on long walks twice a day. And like many other Indian women, she is a vegetarian and devoted yogi.
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I've changed roles at Mozilla, and have been working a lot less with external groups we work with on Firefox and more with partners interested in Firefox OS. A lot of what I'm focusing on is around explaining how Firefox OS works, what makes it different from other mobile operating systems and ecosystems, and what's required to bring a Firefox OS device to a given market. I'm not the only one (by far) doing this, but I do find myself assembling a lot of docs to help our potential partners understand things.
I'm going to start posting about what I've been working on both here and to the Mozilla wiki, and I'll start with the update mechanics behind Firefox OS. Note that it's by no means definitive, and particulars may change for a given deployment scenario. The docs I am creating are intended to lay out the concepts behind things (at a 5,000 foot view), so that people can understand what's going on and what questions they need to ask from a product marketing, development, and operations point of view.
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Oprah Winfrey, of course, isn't the first person that comes to mind when talking about sports.
But Oprah became a sports talker recently when the taping of her final Oprah episodes forced the Chicago Bulls and Miami Heat to reschedule Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals.
So in keeping with the sports and Oprah ties, we decided to reflect on the top sports moment as the "Queen" officially steps down from her reign over daytime television this week.
1. Laveranues Coles reveals sexual abuse – Coles first revealed his haunting, childhood secret in the New York Times, but decided to take another brave step in sharing his experience with millions of Oprah viewers.
The folks at guyism.com compiled a list of the top 7 memorable sports moments on Oprah and Florida native Erin Andrews ranked No. 1 for discussing her peephole incident (ssshh..don't tell ESPN host Michelle Beadle that). Other top moments, included Olympian Greg Louganis discussing his sexuality, Serena Williams giving Oprah a pedicure and who could forget Marion Jones' "interesting" interview with Oprah after she was released from prison for lying to federal prosecutors about taking performance enhancing drugs.
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The road to Burma begins, as most of the secretary of state's adventures do, on the dreary airstrip at Andrews Air Force Base, on one of the 757s she shares with Joe Biden. (Yep, they just swap in her seal for the vice president's and Velcro it to the cabin door.) Madam Secretary is about to embark on her most historic journey to date, a visit to Burma, aka Myanmar, a country whose military regime has been so repressive, so isolationist and so egregious in its atrocities against its own people, an American secretary of state hasn't set foot there in more than 50 years. Hillary's about to change that. So the mood, even among the most jaded of her traveling companions, is jubilant.
We're even over the last-minute State Department "clothing guidance" e-mailinstructing us not to bring black or white clothes, or pink clothes, and to "tone down" our rusts and saffrons—our rusts and saffrons?—setting off a flurry of bitching and repacking among reporters from Washington to New York.
But we're going to Burma with Hillary!
With a first stop: Busan, South Korea, where the secretary, despite the pressures of her Burma visit, can't resist spending an overnight because in the morning the South Koreans are hosting an international conference on aid effectiveness there and they've agreed to add a session on gender. "Gender is her G-spot," says one of the reporters, which may explain why Clinton doesn't mind adding an extra few thousand miles to the million—yes, million—miles around the globe she'll have clocked by the end of her tenure.
The secretary arrives in her armored Cadillac sedan limousine on time for the 2:15 pm wheels-up. She has already been to five meetings today, the last two at the White House with the boss. As she exits the car, she is wearing a chic black pantsuit (not to be confused with the pantsuits of the presidential campaign, which, in addition to being ice cream colored, were intentionally more down-market), fabulous jewelry (except for the enormous diamond ring Bill gave her for their 30th anniversary, she favors glam costume pieces, many of which she picks up on her travels), black stiletto heels and perfectly windswept long blonde hair. She says Chelsea asked her to grow out her hair for her wedding, but there may be more to it than that. As secretary of state, she can finally let her hair down—which certainly was not the case when she was first lady, U.S. senator or a presidential candidate.
But Clinton 2012 is different from her earlier incarnations in another way. There's a natural ease in how she carries herself now, an air of contentment as well as confidence—dare we say a comfort in her own skin—which, frankly, we saw only glimpses of before.
She wanders back to the press section just to chitchat. Is it true, Clinton wants to know, that we'll be spending more time in the air than on the ground? (Almost.) That's a shame, she says: "It's heartbreaking that we're not going to see more of Burma." Then she wistfully adds, "I'd like to go to Mandalay."
Over the next 63 hours, she'll change into sweats, pull her hair up into a scrunchie, put on her glasses, watch an in-flight movie in her cabin, read a four-inch-thick briefing book, write e-mails to Chelsea, glamform herself again for Busan, speak about foreign aid and gender equality to an audience of thousands as well as to a roomful of men (the summit leaders, who are all men) and then, finally, touch down in Burma, making history.
The landing strip in Naypyidaw, the capital, is narrow and without lights, so we must descend before sundown. And security is so iffy that the plane has to spend the night in neighboring Thailand. But none of this seems to ruffle Madam Secretary, who sashays off the plane to be welcomed by a line of Burmese greeters who obviously didn't get the State Department wardrobe directive, because they are wearing black and white. And Clinton herself is in a hot-pink silk jacket. Um, did Hillary not get the memo? I can't resist asking her about this later. She responds with that exuberant Hillary laugh. "Oh, the memo!" she says with a dismissive backhand wave. "I'd already packed!"
THE WEEKEND BEFORE THE TRIP, the secretary took home piles of books and videos about Naypyidaw. So perhaps she is more prepared than we are for this Trump-esque capital city, which rose up suddenly in 2005 in response, some say, to premonitions from soothsayers that foreigners would attack and that this was an easier spot from which to defend the country than the previous capital, Rangoon. The white-marble and gold palace compound, which the secretary will be visiting tomorrow, comes complete with a moat and drawbridges.
For tonight, it is off to the Thingaha Hotel, where Clinton and her entourage are the only guests. As her motorcade pulls out of the airport, it passes a row of rice farmers camped out on the grass to see her. They wave. She beams and waves back. The drive to the hotel is on one of the city's new highways, a road that, except for Clinton's motorcade and an occasional truck filled with workers, is empty. Kurt Campbell, an assistant secretary of state, had promised white elephants, but so far all we've seen are weird dogs and some water buffalo.
Few people actually live in Naypyidaw, and it seems as if all of them work at our hotel. When the secretary's motorcade pulls into the resort, guards bow. Waiters and waitresses, bearing trays of watermelon juice in Champagne flutes, bow. The secretary greets them like long-lost friends. A few of the young waitresses are crying, and one tells me in broken English, her voice cracking and tears running down her face, that Hillary Clinton is their "only hope."
Burma began cutting itself off from the rest of the world after a military coup in 1962. As conditions in the country grew worse, strong U.S. sanctions followed. There have been decades of severe poverty, civil war, corruption, suppression of free speech and unconscionable human rights violations, including child labor, recruitment of child soldiers, human trafficking and systemic violence against women. As William Wan of the Washington Post has reported, activists assert that rape has been used as a weapon of war against political opponents and that women living near the Thai-Burmese border have said their sex organs were burned by soldiers.
After half a century of military rule and atrocities, this gorgeous country—once considered "the jewel of Asia"—has shown signs of reform, most notably in releasing hundreds of political prisoners. These include, after 15 years of house arrest, the heroic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is as iconic in Asia as Clinton is in America. (The State Department uses the old name, Burma, rather than Myanmar, as a show of support for Suu Kyi's party.) The two have forged a long-distance phone friendship. That Suu Kyi, a woman who was imprisoned by her own government, has faith in the possibility of real change in Burma helped inspire President Obama (who had his own long phone jag with Suu Kyi, during which she famously asked about his dog, Bo) to send the secretary of state on this mission.
Clinton is here to finally meet Suu Kyi but also to take the temperature of the Burmese government, starting with the new president, Thein Sein. He and his officials have a long way to go to get back in the U.S.'s good graces. Among many other things, they need to sever military ties with North Korea, release the rest of the political prisoners and begin to enforce civil rights. As a woman who follows her gut, Clinton wants to see if the promises he's made seem genuine—genuine enough for the U.S. to restore full diplomatic relations. But she is really here for the waitress.
That evening, as a balmy breeze floats under the thatched roof at the Thingaha, the secretary joins us for off-the-record cocktails. This is very Hillary. She loves mixing it up with reporters, and why not? The press is not her enemy anymore. Gone are the days of the over-the-top scrutiny she faced as first lady. Or as a candidate for senator in New York, when she was tagged as a carpetbagger during her first campaign (but not the second). Or when she ran for president and, as the first serious woman candidate, was—let's face it—raked over the coals for all the wrong reasons (and some of the right ones). In any event, things are different now.
She's in comfortable pants and sweater, a ponytail, no makeup. She orders tea, much to the disappointment of the traveling-press regulars, who prefer it when Clinton knocks back a few drinks with them, as she is known to do.
"Sorry, guys, I can't. I'd love to, but I can't," she says when wine is offered. She's already losing her voice and needs some tea with honey. It's a big day tomorrow. She has a president to size up, a heroine rebel to embrace, a country to help save. And a few million women to fight for. She'll pass on the Chardonnay.
FOUR WEEKS EARLIER, Clinton was about to leave for a visit to London and Istanbul when she got word that her 92-year-old mother, Dorothy Rodham, had taken ill. The trip was canceled—an extremely rare event during the secretary's tenure.
Mrs. Rodham would pass away a few hours later, but not before her daughter reached her bedside. In the days to come, as the obituaries rolled out, even the keenest Hillary observers were flabbergasted at just how extraordinary Clinton's mother had been. Throughout her early life, Dorothy Howell Rodham suffered abuse and abandonment. In Chicago, when Dorothy was just eight, her mother, newly divorced, put her on a train to California, alone with her three-year-old sister, to live with their father's parents, who neglected and mistreated them. (Dorothy was once confined to her room for a year because she had gone trick-or-treating without permission.)
At 14, Dorothy had the gumption to run away and get a job. She became a nanny and housekeeper for a well-to-do family that insisted she go to high school. She did—and excelled. Upon graduation, she heard from her mother for the first time in 10 years, asking her to go back to Chicago. She had met a new man, and they were going to send Dorothy to college. Elated, she rushed home, only to discover that the college promise had been a ruse; her mother wanted her daughter to be her maid. That Dorothy Howell would go on to raise even a functional child, let alone one of the most accomplished people in the world, is staggering.
In Burma, as the secretary reached out to so many women, I kept thinking of her mother, for whom she was still grieving. There's been so much speculation about what really drives Clinton to do the things she does, and much of it has been less than generous—namely, that she is motivated by a cold ambition for power. I would venture to say it is much purer than that. It is Dorothy.
ONE MORNING about a month after the trip, I enter the secretary's beautifully ornate outer office at the State Department. "Please sit down," she says, gesturing to the Chippendale couch and silk-upholstered chairs. "Ah, goodness, coffee sounds like a great idea." We start the interview by reminiscing about Scranton, Pennsylvania, my hometown and a place Clinton holds dear. Her father, Hugh Rodham, the owner of a drapery-fabric plant, hailed from there. Hillary grew up in suburban Illinois but spent summers outside Scranton at Lake Winola, in a cottage her grandfather had built.
She brings up the outdoor movie theater, where films were projected on a sheet. "Did you ever go there?" she asks, with much excitement. I did. It was a great date night. "It was," she agrees. Then there was the pinochle with her father's pals. "I can remember being a little girl just waiting until I was old enough to sit at the table and play with my father and my uncles and the guy from down the road with a wooden leg called Old Pete, who used to get furious and throw the cards when he wasn't winning!"
Did she beat them?
"By the time I was in high school, I could win." She laughs. "It was great, you know? Because my father was a very old-fashioned man. He was a chief petty officer in the Navy, but he never really treated me any differently [from my two younger brothers] because I was a girl." A pause. "Which was a great gift."
And your mother: I hadn't realized, I tell her, how amazing she was.
"Yeah," she says, sadly. "She really was." Another pause. "It says a lot about the resilience of the human spirit. And that's why you can never give up on a child. My mother told me one time that even though she'd been neglected by her own parents, there were adults in her life that recognized her needs. Or desires. Like, she would go to school and she would have no money for milk, so a teacher would always buy two cartons of milk and say, 'I've done it again—I bought too much milk. Dorothy, would you like my other milk?' "
Clinton says that when she and her brothers were young, their mother gave no indication of what she had been through. She remembers a traditional Midwestern childhood—one that included trick-or-treating (she once dressed as Mickey Mantle, who was her idol, as were the Beatles and Fabian)—and had a very traditional mom, "a '50s homemaker" who loved to sew and read. For her mother, "there just wasn't a lot of time sitting around thinking, Oh, poor me. That was just not part of it.
"I began to piece [her story] together probably in high school," Clinton continues. "But in college and law school, I started to talk to her about it more and got a fuller picture of how hard it was." What she learned about her mother had a profound impact on her own path. "It certainly drove me to focus on abused and neglected and mistreated kids, so that when I was in law school, I did this special program between the law school and the child-study center." She says she wanted to understand "the source of that resilience . . . Where did it start? Where did it come from?"
She's still learning. Clinton cites some "wonderful studies" that looked at children from the same family or socioeconomic background. "Well, why did one graduate from college and one end up in prison? Why did one give in to despair and the other kept trying to overcome it? And very often it came down to what my mother's experience was. Which is, somewhere there was an adult who believed in that child.
"There is also a genetic basis for resilience that scientists are finding out now," she adds. "As to how well you respond to stress . . . it has to do with the length of your telomeres, which is more than you want to know!" She laughs again. "But it's fascinating to me, because if you come into the world less vulnerable to stress and with greater stamina, more endurance . . ." She anticipates my next question. "And thankfully I have that."
She also learned from her resilient mother not to dwell on what cannot be changed—specifically, the past. "I want to look forward," Dorothy Rodham would tell her daughter. "I want to think about the future."
Friends and colleagues of Clinton's confirm that she doesn't look back or torture herself in a coulda-shoulda-woulda way. They say that's how she emerged from a great many difficult periods in her life, including her failed presidential campaign and, undoubtedly, her husband's, shall we say, foibles. She has another driving force, articulated by her longtime aide Philippe Reines when I ask if in some way she was better off becoming secretary of state rather than president: In her view, he says, "it wasn't meant to be." Clinton has this ability, her friends say, to see the world that way, with things either meant to be or not meant to be. And to accept them and move forward.
WE CROSS THE MOAT and pass through a ginormous gold gate. It's morning in Naypyidaw, and Clinton is heading to the palace for her meeting with Burma's president. "She's not nervous," says Kurt Campbell. "She's excited—and cautiously optimistic." Inside, there's a crystal chandelier that must be several stories tall. In the football-field-size teak-walled room where Clinton is to address the press, the president's men (and they are all men) are lined up on one side. Thein Sein enters in traditional Burmese garb—long blue plaid sarong and a white jacket. Clinton is in peacock blue. She enters with a serious expression. He tells her, "Your Excellency's visit will be a historic milestone." She tells him, "I am here today because President Obama and myself are encouraged by the steps that you have taken to provide for your people."
Later, back in Washington, I ask her what it's like to always be walking into rooms full of men. "You get used to it," she says. "When I went to the private meeting at the foreign ministry in Burma . . . they had two women sitting at the table. And I said to the foreign minister, 'I am so pleased to see this.' So some positive reinforcement, some gentle questioning . . ."
I ask if she sees a difference between how women and men who have become politically powerful behave. "You know, I don't want to generalize, but I think most women—and this is a generalization, at my risk—tend to be better listeners," she responds. "[They] tend to carry with them personal experiences that do influence how they see their roles."
And another thing, she says, warming to the subject: "I've seen a lot of men in diplomacy or in politics who are assertive and declarative, like, 'Here's what we want, and we want it yesterday' . . . That's not always the most effective way, especially in the 21st century, for people to be persuaded. So I think that a lot of the patience that's required in working through difficult situations, in looking at body language, hearing the tone of voices . . . you know, women come to that, it seems to me, more easily. Again, in general." She smiles.
Though two women preceded her as secretary of state, Clinton is the first to have made women's rights issues a top priority, even with all the other messes that have confronted the U.S. during her tenure. Clinton was appointed at a time of two full-blown wars, and soon she was the point person for the chaos in Pakistan, the bloody protests in Egypt, the violent uprising in Syria and the horrors in Libya—which led to U.S. air strikes and also to pundits' describing Libya as the "girls' war" when it was learned that Clinton, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights Samantha Power had all advocated military action.
That was an "asinine" description, says one of Clinton's closest advisers: "She just thought it was stupid. She knew the reality of the matter. It wasn't along gender lines."
In some ways, Clinton's commitment to women's rights is also gender neutral. She sees women's issues as critical "to our own national security and foreign policy," says Philippe Reines. "It's not a coincidence that the places where women and children have the most problems are the same countries that we have other problems with or [which] have internal conflict." To that end, Clinton says she has "tried to inject women's rights across the entire realm of American diplomacy, and I'm institutionalizing that, so [for] whoever comes after me, it's seen as just natural, not something that is associated only with me."
In our own country, she says, "we have come such a far way in a relatively short period of time. But I was surprised to read and hear interviews with the voters of Iowa in the Republican caucus who said they couldn't vote for Michele Bachmann, even though they agreed with her, because she was a woman."
A VIBRANT, BUSTLING, diverse city, Rangoon couldn't possibly be more different from Naypyidaw. We arrive at dusk and begin with a visit to the breathtaking Shwedagon Pagoda, a 2,500-year-old Buddhist shrine. (Out of respect, we remove our shoes before entering, and the secretary's toenails are revealed to be a sexy siren red.) After a quick change of clothes at her hotel, it's time for her meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi at the home that would be the residence of the U.S. ambassador if we had one. The two women will be having a very private dinner together.
Later we learn that they talked for hours into the night and also exchanged gifts. Suu Kyi gave Clinton a spectacular silver necklace that she had designed for her. Clinton gave Suu Kyi a carefully selected trove of books and a chew toy for her dog.
The following morning they meet again, this time at Suu Kyi's home in Rangoon—a place that for years was also her prison. When they finally come outside to speak to the press, the intensity of their bond is palpable, even before they hold hands, then put their arms around each other and hug. Three times. The cameras go wild. I take a look down the row of reporters sitting beside me. There is not a dry eye in the house.
About a month after the secretary's visit, Thein Sein releases more political prisoners. It is enough of a step forward that Obama and Clinton decide to reinstall an ambassador in Burma. "I hope we started some momentum going," Clinton tells me.
HILLARY CLINTON has made it clear that she has no intention of serving a second term should Obama be re-elected, saying she wants to get off "the high wire of American politics." But while Clinton may be ready to go, not everyone is ready to let her. In January, New York Times columnist Bill Keller argued that she and Joe Biden should swap jobs. Despite firm, repeated denials from all concerned, the 2012 vice presidency rumor persists. This has a lot more to do with the celebrity of Hillary Clinton than with any sort of reality. She recently topped the Gallup Poll as the most admired woman in the world—for the 10th year in a row. Speculation about her future never fails to make great copy.
"I always find it kind of funny at the end of the year when that list pops up," she says. "I don't know. I think people have now watched me over 20 years and have maybe developed a broader understanding of who I really am as opposed to what somebody out in right field says I am." (Yes, she did say "right" field.)
These days, even many of those in right field praise Clinton for the job she's done over the past three years. I suggest that perhaps we won't truly understand her legacy as secretary of state until, say, 10 years from now . . . when she is president.
"Uhhh," she responds, then laughs. It's a don't-even-go-there uhhh.
I tell her that a weird thing happened, at least among my own focus group of women friends over 40: Many were on the fence about her in the 2008 Democratic primary, but the minute she dropped out, there was a collective gasp, a sense of "Oh God, did we blow it?"
She is nodding vigorously. "I heard that a lot. From so many women."
Does Clinton think she had to lose to be loved?
A tight smile. "I don't know. I don't want to get too into the weeds on that." I had been warned that she hates psychobabble questions. But I get the feeling she's thought about this before. She says she thinks her surge in popularity had more to do with her decision to support Obama "wholeheartedly and then to join his administration."
Clinton's schedule as secretary of state is grueling. But won't she miss it? "I'm sure I will. Every time the plane door opens and I'm walking down the stairs to another country representing the United States, I mean, it's a thrill that I never get tired of." It sounds hokey, but having seen her walk off those planes, I believe it.
Still, the time away from her family must be rough: "We're like Talmudic scholars trying to figure out our respective [schedules]," she says. "Once a month, maybe more if I'm lucky, I go home." To Chappaqua, New York. "And we talk every day. [Bill's] travel schedule is intense." But they figure it out. One time they got to have dinner together in Bogotá because their schedules miraculously coincided. And when they both went to Prague for Vaclav Havel's funeral, they got to spend "about 20 hours together in the air and about four hours on the ground." She laughs. "We just take whatever time we can."
I tell her that though this might not be conventional wisdom, I always got the sense she and Bill were crazy about each other.
"Oh, well, I think that's pretty clear," she says matter-of-factly.
As we wrap up, I ask her what she really wants to do next. There's been so much speculation. Does she want to run the World Bank? (While chatting one night in Burma, she shot that down.) Many expect her to start her own version of her husband's Global Initiative, with a focus on women. Others feel she'll never be content to just sit on the political sidelines.
But we know she's not big on speculation.
"You're probably going to just want to take a break first, right?" I ask.
"I think that would be an excellent idea! Yeah. Yeah. I would love that. Go for long walks, see all the movies that I want to see that I haven't had a chance to see, go to some places that I touched down on for three hours but didn't get to spend the night. I think there's a lot to . . . " She trails off.
But isn't it flattering that so many want you to run again? "It is flattering," she says, then instantly changes the subject.
"Remember when we stopped in Alaska [to refuel], and it was so cold and you were wearing—" Yes, an airplane blanket, so I could sneak a smoke on the tarmac. She had come over to tease me about it. Not the smoking, just the blanket. She stayed outside for a while, sharing a story about how, when she was a student at Yale, pre-Bill, she had a boyfriend who lived in Vermont, and she would drive up to see him every weekend, in a car that had no heater, so she would wrap herself in a big mohair blanket.
"No, it was horsehair," she corrects me back in her office."Horsehair? Gross."
"Oh, it was gross."
I tell her that one of my colleagues on the plane to Burma said Hillary sometimes wears a Snuggie while flying.
She laughs so hard, I think my tape recorder might rattle its way off the antique coffee table.
"I don't think I've ever worn a Snuggie! You mean, like, with little feet?" More raucous laughter. I tell her it's the big blanket with armholes—the one you can buy from an 800 number on TV. Uh, no, she does not have one. But "that's hilarious!"
"Give a little cheer for Scranton," she reminds me as I'm about to leave. I know Clinton doesn't want to get into the president thing, but I tell her I found it strange in '08 that the media narrative was "It's now or never for Hillary." In 2016 she'll be 68, 69. That's not old anymore, I point out, and women live longer than men.
Nope, really not going there. But she does say this: "I don't feel old."
LISA DePAULO is a freelance writer in New York. This is her first article for More.
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Parallel Worlds by Fred Alan Wolfe is a good book that gives you a plain words explanation. He also brings up some really crazy theoretical shit too. I think in one chapter he starts talking about the possibility of people with schizophrenia perceiving other dimensions or something like that. It's a good read, I'd recommend it if you're just starting to delve deeply into the subject. He's got another goofy little book called Dr. Quantums Little Book of Big Ideas thats pretty fun.
btw I fucked up, the title is actually Parallel Universes: A search for other worlds, sorry about that.
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i stopped watching at "my mom would appreciate it if you could send me whiteboards"
what the FUUUCCKKK
i was going through the textbooks for my 12th grade physics course and its utterly boring. the first book is composed entirely of electromagnetism and the second is 90% optics and a chapter called 'communication' which deals with satellites and internet at shit (what does that have to do with physics?). i heard from someone that we'd be delving into special relativity but the only mention of it in the book is in a footnote relating to einstein and his accomplishments. there a tiny chapter on wave-particle duality that slightly touches on quantum mechanics but its the same shit we learnt last year de broglie equation, work function, etc, etc.
i hate my school.
this is totally the reason i fucked up 11th grade. the material was easy as hell but boring as shit and i never got the motivation to study any of it till a couple of days before the exams.
math looks like its going to be good though!
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~ I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it. -- Kyle Schmidt ~
~Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. -- Josh Billings ~
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but then again i studies chemistry and not physics, what do i know? ;]
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i was referring solely to communications, and yes it isnt physics. it has many facets that are direct applications of physics but it isnt exclusive; as in, several other sciences are involved in it as well.


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Results tagged ' Scott Sizemore '
The Missing Piece
In today's baseball economy, simple numbers (if not a relatively shallow talent pool because of expansion) dictate that teams build a pitching staff one of two wins: Either rely on one or two horses and patchwork, or collect five "average joes" that give you a chance to win every night and pray that one develops into an ace.
For playoff-bound teams, the former solution seems to be the way to go, as evidenced by the Yankees being able to essentially rely on the shoulders of CC Sabathia and AJ Burnett all the way through to the World Series championship. The Twins, however, may have just gotten lucky…
Earlier tonight, Francisco Liriano and Justin Verlander hooked up in a duel that could have easily been the first game of a postseason series, with Frankie matching Verlander pitch for pitch and eventually out-dueling him with eight scoreless innings of 4-hit ball and 10 strikeouts.
There was one sequence in the bottom of the fifth inning that I especially enjoyed: With young Scott Sizemore at the plate, Liriano broke off two nasty sliders down and in for swinging strikes. After one high heater to change Sizemore's eye level, Cisco came back with the slider and made the young man look silly. Just complete domination the likes of which we haven't seen since, well, Liriano (at least in '06-form)!
Right now, there is just a certain electricity whenever Liriano takes the hill, and that's what being an ace is all about…just knowing that you have that advantage right from the get-go. Of course, it's too early to give Frankie the Cy-Young plaque already, but the signs sure are encouraging. I can't wait for Sunday to see him again!
-A funny thought: In last year's game 163 against Detroit, Michael Cuddyer was at first base because of Morneau's back injury, Alexi Casilla was in the infield, and Ryan Raburn was misplaying balls out in left. Huh (!). In all seriousness, though, I hope Justin is okay and just tweaked a muscle trying to catch up with Verlander's heat.
Preview (14-6, 1st, 3.5 GA DET): Scott Baker (2-2, 4.81) vs. Max Scherzer (1-1, 2.63).


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Okay Lets say I wanted to have 2 sonar sensors on my NXT, would they both have to be plugged into the first port? My friend told me sonar only works on the first port, and if thats true, then you're only supposed to have one I2C sensor. But with I2C they have a send and recieve address, so theoretically couldnt I have two sonar on the first port and it would still communicate normally, i would just have to have a way to communicate which sonar I wanted, through the start byte (address byte)
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- Date submitted: 31 Oct 2011
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Full SubmissionSustainable and Competitive Tourism at Rio + 20 and the London Olympics 2012 Connecting Sustainable Tourism - Building a Mosaic of the Global Green Economy through Responsible, Sustainable & Competitive Tourism �V An Olympic Effort at Rio+20 Submission to Rio + 20 Outcome Process Deadline 1st November UNCSD Secretariat firstname.lastname@example.com Mr Authur de la Cruz email@example.com Ms Tonya Vaturi firstname.lastname@example.com From: Ecotrans - DestiNet Executive UN Type II Partnership Prepared by: Gordon Sillence, Executive Director 30h October 2011 Summary - Expectations of the Outcomes In order to move from words to action, and thinking on the level of using the Rio + 20 process to help to shape a peace-based, global green economy to meet current world-wide challenges, this paper presents a clear strategy to achieve this by prioritizing sectoral activity related to tourism sustainable consumption and production. Its offers a practical outcome ofor Rio+20, building a showcase Global Mosaic of Responsible, Sustainable and Competitive Tourism and then planning to use large-scale events to mainstream peace, responsibility and sustainability messages through developing this mosaic. This mosaic would model a solutions-based approach to restructuring the global economy as global peace-based, green economy, using tourism stakeholder activities�� cross- cutting socio-economic power as an instrument for sustainable development, as well as ensuring the sustainability and competitiveness of local and global tourism offers in an uncertain future. It calls for the governments who signed the Olympic Truce Resolution this October 2011, who are also attending Rio +20 to work together to shape an international sustainable tourism campaign the delivers a map of the global responsible and sustainable tourism offer as a strategic path to the green economy. The UN Type II DestiNet Partnership set up after WSSD in 2003 and working on item 43 of the JPoI, has been dealing with these issues for the past decade, and can report on how this can be achieved as an outcome of the UN Agenda 21 Rio+20 event in June next year. The outcome of Rio should have a very practical working model of sustainable production and consumption, a solutions-based model that takes into account current food, financial and environmental crises and the Millennium goals targets. The mosaic of the sustainable tourism supply chain, including businesses, destinations and travellers good practice shows a path to global cultural and environmental exchange, and economic equity. The aim would be to invite governments to shape this model for Rio+20 and then mainstream the message by the London Olympics in July-August 2012, bringing together the dimension of the need for a peace based global economy that moves us form a culture of violence to a culture of peace. Therefore Rio+20 should declare the six week Olympic Truce period that UN Members have just voted for as a time to mobilize inter-cultural exchange as a catalyst for sustainable development, using tourism and sport to bring the sustainable development agenda a mass audience to speed up progress on the millennium goals. This proposal is based on Ecotrans Network for Sustainable Tourism Development participation in WSSD 2002 and the authors�� previous engagement in WSSD in Johannesburg in 2002 when working as a Commission staff member of DG Enterprise Tourism Unit alongside the EU team of 50 people listed to attend, and now acting as executive director of the DestiNet Sustainable Tourism Portal UN Type II Partnership. See www.destinet.eu . Background - Development of the DestiNet UN Type II Partnership Guided by Agenda 21 and EU SDS I & II implementation policy lines, the European Environment Agency followed through on the WSSD by creating a UN Type II Partnership with the UN WTO, UNEP and the Ecotrans Network for Sustainable Tourism Development, with the aim of building a portal for sustainable tourism knowledge networking to achieve the WSSD plan of implementation. In 2005, the Portal was further specified in DG Enterprises�� innovation in tourism process as a knowledge networking tool to develop learning areas and regional clusters in the field of tourism-based sustainable consumption and production. Now the Portal has been through an 8 year development cycle, is operating at a global scale, and is host to the Commissions�� latest efforts in the field of sustainability and competitiveness to develop a European-level virtual tourism observatory concept and on-the �Vground, working regional tourism innovation clusters in Europe. In March 2011 the DestiNet Portal team demonstrated a complete supply chain mosaic of sustainable tourism at Berlins ITB1. Currently the Portal houses a growing list of 387 European examples of certified and awarded sustainable tourism products and services in its Best Practice Atlas of Excellence (the worldwide database contains over 500 examples). Included in this are 70 EDEN award winners - shortly to be updated to list all 98 current winners. This forms the world��s leading best practice knowledge base to showcasing the field of sustainable tourism Introduction: Progress Assessment, Remaining Gaps - Agenda 21/WSSD follow through Helping to shape the next ten years of global policy-making at Rio+20, this proposal deals with a decade of policy and market developments in the field of sustainable tourism, providing a contribution to planning actions centred on Agenda 21/SDS follow through at Rio+20 and the London Olympics next June and July 2012. The UN has set the agenda of Rio +20 to focus on the two key themes �V the Green Economy and Institutional Change. To face multiple challenges of economic and social instability, increasing levels of violence and civil wars, climate change, etc, the concept of a peace-based, knowledge-driven green global economy will be a strong feature of Rio+20, as will the value system of good governance. The EU has been a leading force in many respects on these issues, being founded on the concept of forging European peace, creating a global knowledge economy for its businesses and citizens, and heading the world in terms of certified green tourism businesses and protected area networking, within the framework of its own SDS good governance process. As part of a synthesis of a decade of the Agenda 21/EU SDS implementation efforts of UN, EU, national, regional, local governments, global businesses, NGOs and other Civil society groups - all working on sustainable development issues, this action is designed to meet long term Agenda 21 and WSSD policy coherence, following through on stakeholders WSSD commitments,. At the same time it provides support for a number of existing initiatives by creating synergy though their combination. Sectoral Priority -Building the Green Economy through Showcasing Sustainable Tourism The frameworks of both the green economy and institutional change discussions taking place in the run up to Rio+20 will both be better informed though the action Taking Sustainable Tourism Small Businesses to the Global Stage �V A Mosaic of the Global Green Economy. Using tourism activity as a motor for the green economy and institutional change, the aim to would be to develop a global mosaic of responsible, sustainable and competitive tourism as part of the national contributions to Rio+20 and the London Olympics. Promoting the Mosaic - Specific Cooperation Mechanisms Under the heading �� Taking Sustainable Tourism Small Businesses to the Global Stage �V A Mosaic of the Global Green Economy��, a map of international certified and awarded tourism destinations, products and services can be developed and then showcased at Rio+20 and the London Olympics. The global offering of peaceful, green, diverse tourism destinations of excellence can be broadcast by taking certified SMEs to the international market place at these two events alongside other certified and awarded tourism products and services. Rio+20 and the Olympics bring the theme of human excellence and our greatest challenges together, and the temporal coincidence of the two globally significant events next year offers great potential. In order to realize this action, the following practical ideas can be implemented: 1) This knowledge can be attractively displayed as a stand with promotional paper-based and audio-visual material, and delivered at the Rio+20 event. 2) A series of short commercial style video adverts for sustainable tourism destinations can be made, linking destinations of excellence to relevant Olympic athletes and prominent politicians supporting tourism, culture, peace and sporting initiatives (cf Hungarian president, Lord Sebastian Coe). 3) A workshop at Rio+20 can be held on the theme of sustainable and competitive business development based on tourism, showcasing examples of excellence throughout the overall tourism supply chain and in destination good governance. 4) A short video on the role of tourism in creating peace can be made, calling for a peaceful global world in which all nations and their citizens can benefit from better tourism business the world over. 5) A partnership strategy can be used to broadcast the materials in Rio and then in London. Partners would include media, tourism business stakeholders, NTOs, NGOs and global institutes. Modeling an Institutional Framework with Agenda 21 Good Governance Values �V Prosperity through Peace for People in Need The key messages of Johannesburg were based on the slogan ��People, Prosperity and Planet��, moving the narrower initial focus of sustainable development on environment to include broader socio-economic and cultural sustainability. Ten years on, we have identified that a peace-based global economy can deliver 2 trillion dollars a year to the global economy with a 25% reduction in conflict1. It is this money that could be used to construct a new institutional framework of sustainable development that would be fleshed out with agricultural, industrial, energy and transport sustainability innovations around the global to local tourism supply chain and destination management infrastructure. The process to achieve this this would involve helping make the London Olympics a time of global peace �V using the six weeks of designated peace during the Olympic competition as a contribution to realize the Millennium goals, and to celebrate the best of human nature whilst creating a unique business opportunity for global responsible/sustainable tourism in participating countries. If linked to Rio+20, the London 2012 Games will open the floodgates of cultural understanding and exchange in the spirit of the Millennium Declaration. A tourism bonanza can be created during the Olympic media coverage of each country, to put responsible and sustainable tourism businesses and destinations from Africa, Asia, Latin America and elsewhere on the international consumer map2. This action would benefit both residents as visitors and host countries as global destinations. In the spirit of making the national contribution to tourism activity and development more responsible, sustainable and competitive, each participating country can profile its responsible/sustainable tourism offers in an Olympic showcase of the best that country has to offer on a safe and welcoming global tourism trail. This second map (alongside the map of Global Destinations of Excellence) canl be created for the Rio+20 event and as preparation for the Olympics, aiming to show how the Agenda 21/WSSD sustainable tourism process is developing globally, and then take it to mainstream markets. Three specific actions to achieve this would be: ?h Support for a Responsible & Sustainable Tourism Business & Destination Support Travel Initiative - showcasing community-based responsible and sustainable tourism best practice offers next to a country��s Olympic icons. Responsible tourism can be targeted at the poorest nations of Earth to give a boost for local communities to benefit from global tourism opportunities for economic, cultural and environmental recovery. ?h Support for the VISTAS Peace through Tourism Award3 �V an international award to highlight those countries which works most towards to Peace, with the aim of developing the peace-based green global economy. ?h Use the Global Peace Index4 as the basis for monitoring the Olympic peace after Rio+20, as a practical outcome of Rio +20,and further develop the DestiNet UN Type II Partneship Sustainable Tourism Platform as technical tools to manage the implementation. Conclusion To avoid being seen as just a talking shop process, the outcome of Rio should have a very practical working model of sustainable production and consumption, a model that takes into account current food, financial and environmental crises and the Millennium goals targets. This proposal shows the possibility of the creation of a mosaic of the sustainable tourism supply chain, including businesses, destinations and travellers good practice showing a path to global cultural and environmental exchange, and economic equity. The aim would be to invite governments to shape this model for Rio+20 and then mainstream the message by the London Olympics in July-August 2012, bringing together the dimension of the need for a peace based global green economy that moves us form a culture of violence to a culture of peace. Therefore Rio+20 should declare the six week Truce period that UN Members have just voted for as a specific time to mobilize inter- cultural exchange as a catalyst for sustainable development, using tourism and sport to bring the sustainable development agenda a mass audience to speed up progress on the millennium goals. Please contact Gordon Sillence or Herbert Hamele to discuss this proposal further. firstname.lastname@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com www.destinet.eu


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that was awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very very nice video ...i love it
best movie EVVVAAAAAA
Man I would so love to do it but I don't know if I will ever have time :/
Gogo the N.O.H 2: The Revenge of Hylis! :D
Absolutely brilliant. ;) Already downloaded from web search http://www.picktorrent.com Loved the story, the camera, esp. the sync ++ Great job. Shows what can be done with this program :D One question though.. How'd you get the camera so precise? Clipcam always jerks around at block-per-frame speed. D:
Very nice video!!
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too awesome!
Good !!
looks like a loooot of work ...
nice one!
I want to make episode 2 of course, I just can't find enough time to do it atm.
nice video
Are you going to make an episode 2 or you will just leave us in a cliffhanger ?
That Video reminds me of the Helicopter scene in Die Hard 4 :D
ouh yes!
Simply amazing :)
thx sobekan :)
The helicopter can be found among the other 3D models on Carpark.
The music... I used many different songs so I don't know which one you are talking about :P It's either personnal stuff on my harddrive, or found on YouTube.
This is absolutely fantastic! tense storyline amazing chases good use of first person camera. You are by far the best that I have seen.
I have two questions for you. How did you get the Helicopter? and Where did you get that music? It was superb.
10/10 Look forward to part 2!
Tout simplement génial, j'ai adoré, vivement le deuxième épisode !
I made it because i like the Movie =)
Here is the link to the VW Golf GTI from the Movie. I give no guarantee that the car 100% like the is:
Ah oui javais oublier! merci beaucoup! ;D
tout simplement en sauvant le replay puis en l'important sur une map similaire où j'ai détruit la route aérienne.
Et bien la route invisible? comment l'effacer? =)
Question pas con mais très vague :o
Question peut-etre con mais comment a tu fais pour l'hélico?
You have to make other episodes to it! Its awesome!! Can`t wait for the others!
énorme ! :)
Absolutely EPIC!!!
when is 2 comin?
trop cool la vidéo quand la suite ?
@Driver1983: 3D models are from Carpark
@julen: this is not really a track, I imported replays using the ingame mediatracker.
nice video :D but how do u get traffic on the track ????
Where did you get the 3D models?
This video is great!
Great !!!
Magnifique bravo a toi !
lol a quand la suite???
Very nice !!!!
20/5 ^^
lol as you can see in the credits, I didn't use after effects. The video was made in Sony Vegas.
Great stuff. Adobe After Effects is a great help.. I think i must change from vegas to that tool :)
i love it, french are good making games AND making movies
can't wait for episode 2
Oui magnifique vidéo, belle idée, beau montage, Magnifique !!!!
Magnifique, vivement la suite ;P
Ho my god ! Wonderfull work dude !
This is my 1st choice of IMC2 contest.
Magnifique !
So, let me guess, Hylis was taken to Canada and forced to work for UbiSoft? *~rofl~* Very amusing video, I give it a 5/5.
de la ball!! OMG !
belissimo ;)
Sniif , j'espère que vous retrouverez hylis dans le 2° épisode !
je veux jouer a trackmania 2 !
retrouvez le svp ! xd
Bravo pour ce video !
Dans mes favoris !!!
Qu'est-ce que va devenir TM2 si Hylis se fait enlever ? >< un coup de Capcom ça !!!
La meilleure vidéo que j'ai vu sur TM-tube !! "GG"
totally awesome !!!
Ah, thanks
Thanks for all the great comments :D
@ Redrot :
Hylis is the most famous Nadeo crew member !
very nice. who is hylas?
Really awesome movie ! Awesome techniques used and so on:) 5/5
Right on! Great 10/10
nice..very nice! 5
if you look for a split second at 1:58 SPOILER ALERT , you can see the white audi go inside the residential area!!!!!
numanuma yay!!!!
It's so damn great
alletant, une qualité exceptionnelle, une histoire qui tient la route
que demande le peuple ?? ><
nan mais c vrai quoi meme a la télé on a pas mieux.
The cams are moving too fast for me lol but great ''story'' telling and awesome job! 5/5 from me, respect!
Un gros bravo a toi pour cette magnifique video 5/5
Go episode 2 , sa dechire tous srx
wow just amazing
lol drones :P
a little too much in my eyes, but nice vid :)
great Work
A couper le soufle! Je l'adore tellement que je l'ai regardé Une dizène de fois!
only Epic + Awesome
Very very nice!!!
Can't wait for the next episode :)
Very nice work!
Great ideas and the viedeo looks just perfect. Awesome :)
Unbelievable! Another step in the Trackmania videomaking evolution. One thing: you should have used depth of field, that would make your movie even better. Waiting for the next part!!!
That one is so amazing. A lot of fun to watch, and to see what happend as next ^^ The sounds and skins are perfect timed.
And in the last scene you see the kidnapper with a germany black car from Berlin xD
On of the best videos here in TM-Tube :)
very nice to watch, some good features in it
Oh my god!!!! You're too good! Nice end I like the part when we say what happens:) episode 2, episode2 episode2!!!!
xDDDDD VERY NICE STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!5/5
O.O niceeeeeeee n1
Awesome, very good movie:)
Go for episode 2, plz.
Awesome! <3
Go for Episode 2 Revo :D
hmm... maybe a The N.o.H Episode 1 What If It All Went Wrong would be cool! maybe the he gets into the drone car and him and Hylis are both found dead inside the police car roll drone!
sehr schönes video^^
Thanks again for all these great comments! :O
This episode 1 is quite recent, there is no episode 2 yet. But I plan to make it sometime, to end the story ;)
Thanks Rumpel, for the nice skins such as helicopter, truck, and so on :)
perfect shot :)
Is there an episode 2 or is there gonna be an episode 2?
Very nice video, as usal :) !
I realy love the end of the video, it's very dynamic :D !
gg Revo
omg perfect
Super Vidéo :D
you can just see the skid marks from when he turned into the building
Amazing video!!! Very very nice , We look forward to continued ;)
Nice work, 10/10 [GAETAN]
Great work,
editing, story, driving, sounds... the atmosphere is great.
The only "negative" point if there is one is as canonier said, a little work on the colours could have made it look more realistic and sharpen the atmosphere.
Anyway, 5/5 and congratz for victory!
very nice video!!!
Simply superb !
Tout simplement superbe !
defintely a great video, well deserved winner: good storyline with brilliant twists, great work with sets and settings
Great piece of art actually,anyone giving NOT 5 stars is just pathetic and jealous of this creativity,putting in of fitting music and and and..
Though this game is really restricted to work out a story,great job here.;)
Please keep it up!
@ revo: i understood it now ;)
J'ai kiffé ! Superbe vidéo :)
brilliant even
brillant 5/5 keep it up
very cool story and movie.
5/5 Points for you.
wow, splendid mt and brilliant ideas, cant wait for part 2 :D 5/5
omg 1 of the most ace things i have ever seen! i was just thinking before the credits, how did he make the weapon look so real! a cut video of counter-strike, but you could tell as there's a white line around the gun. also i thought the other cars near his white car would join in and it would be the italian job in vw golfs!
Revo magnifique vidéo ! ^^
RCT yoyo.
Wow thanks for all the great comments ! :)
@Heroe :
To use different subtitles, you habe to download the video from one of the two links available in the video description. Then, download the subtitles zip file as well. Extract the .SRT subtitle files from the zip, and you should be able to watch the video with the desired subtitles, using a good media player. For more info, look on internet how to use SRT subtitles files ;)
@Canonier : Yes, FX and colors correction are my weak point... I'll have to work more on that in the future.
Thx for support everyone ! And congrats to all the IMC2 competitors, amazing productions :O
Excellent MT !! domage que il n'y est pas de FX Couleur qui aurait une ambiance moins jeux vidéo et plus réel !!
Mais très bon boulot bravo
5/5 ^^ bien sur !!
omg... FREAKING EPIC :O
Very nicely done, the music fits in good and the driving is perfect for this kind of video
A really nice Video! Good work :) I isn't like all the other videos ... Its a little bit special :D
ANd the Story is really ideafull(??)
It's a really TOP VIDEO!!
very nice!
really the best one :) but i dont understand how to add the german subtitle ...
5/5 ;)
Gratz revo!
The best masterpiece I've ever seen...
What great ideas !!
Just awesome.
The part where you show how the kidnappers escaped is just brilliant!
Sooo 5/5 :P
very nice video!
i liked the part where you used cs^^ really good idea!!
Salut Revo
Un grand bravo, l'histoire est excellente, l'idée des drones très bien trouvée. J'ai trouvé la fin vraiment épique avec le crash de l'helico et l'ambiance générale de la poursuite. Le passage Cs est très bien introduit.
Bien joué pour ta victoire!


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The Newtown Elementary school shootings have left us disheartened, to say the least. Perhaps fearful. Sad. For some, despairing. As Catholic Governor of Connecticut, Dannel Malloy, exhorted, "Evil visited this community today." So it did. The violence perpetrated on children, and the deaths, shook us severely. Rattled us ruthlessly. The struggle to make meaning of it all persists.
Hopefully it motivates us, too. Out of crisis comes commitment. As we know from Scripture and our experience, times of despair cry out for God, not because it's God's fault, but because it brings us face-to-face with the rawness, ugliness, if you will, of humanity. The underbelly isn't pleasant. It's messy. It's complex. It is, yes, ugly.
Since the tragedy I've looked many places for comfort. For a rationale, an answer to the question why. I suspect you've been there as well. No simple rationale or easy answer exists.
God – a little help, please? Perhaps a clue?
I imagine God patiently and lovingly whispering in my ear, "I've already given you the greatest clue you'll ever need – it is my Son and the Word – Jesus." For Christians, Jesus is the primordial clue.
Jesus as primordial clue translates to Christianity as enduring peace. A man of nonviolence, amidst a world of severe violence, chose not to become an aggressor. Chose, in a sense, not fight nor flight. Alternatively, he chose nonviolent resistance. A third path. Dialogue. Relationship. Witness and testimony, parable and creed. Perhaps our response can be similar?
Jesus, Prince of Peace. A significant – transforming – clue. Jesus, triumphant over death, destruction, violence. Although not easy, in the face of persecution, he overcame.
He trusts we will, too. It won't be easy or expedient. It will take our human-ness engaging all of humanity.
Laughing, once again?
In the thick of darkness, the Prince of Peace illuminates the way.
Ryan J. Hoffmann | Senior Director of Enrollment Management | firstname.lastname@example.com | 773.371.5523
Brothers and sisters:
Rejoice in the Lord always.
I shall say it again: rejoice!
Your kindness should be known to all.
The Lord is near (Philippians 4:4-5).
As churches across the globe enter into the third week of Advent this Sunday, the tone within shifts as quiet expectancy momentarily gives way to exuberant joy. Even as a kid, I welcomed "pink candle Sunday." Not just because the presiders wore rose vestments or we sang a catchy "Rejoice" round in children's choir, but because Christmas, and the beloved chaos that accompanied it—was not far away, but quite near.
Despite my efforts to keep the season, my "grown-up" self can't help approaching "pink candle Sunday" with a bit of an inward groan. Christmas can't be that close. There is too much left to do: Gift ideas to be had, travel plans to make, work to complete. "The Lord is near?" At times, the evidence seems scarce. We are hurtling toward the darkest days of the year: The sun sinks long before I leave the office. On December 18, Old St. Pat's Church will host the Chicago Homeless Persons' Memorial, remembering those on the street who have lost their lives, often in the most brutal days of winter. And in the faces and voices of friends and family, I see and hear the pain, struggle, and loss which darken and chill hearts during holidays boasted to be "merry and bright." To obey Paul's exhortation to "rejoice" seems disrespectful, a sacrilege.
It takes the growing light of the Advent wreath to improve my dim vision, so I can see the radiant smiles of students turning in finals, as well as the glowing faces of two dear co-workers awaiting infants to be born yet this month and in January. And this weekend, I will share dinner with friends brought together by CTU. I recall also that next week, I will share prayer and fellowship with a faith community eager to celebrate Christmas, despite their shared challenges of mental illness. This Sunday morning, as my parish community lights that pink candle, and the subdued church lights are slowly raised, I will remark at how well we could still see one another, even before the light was full.
The antiphon for December 21, the darkest night of the year, begins: O Oriens – O Rising Sun – O Morning Star. It is at once holy madness and Divine sense:
O come, Thou Dayspring from on high
And cheer us by thy drawing nigh;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,And death's dark shadow put to flight.
As the sun sets outside my office window tonight, I know the Light is coming.
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This question was posed to me a couple of weeks ago by a CTU student. I stopped and thought to myself, "How do I answer this question?" I wondered whether I would be able to articulate my feeling and thoughts in a way they would reveal my true self. The truth to that question was, "of course."
Some would think that this is a loaded question, but in reality it is a simple one. I walk with my spirituality every day by consciously treating my fellow man or woman the way that I want to be treated. It sounds so easy but it can be a struggle sometimes. We are so busy with our everyday lives that we do not see each other; I mean really see each other. Think about this: we all have encounters daily that irritate us and sometimes we do not react in the Christian way. The thing is, we know better. We know how to love our neighbor but we don't always display that. We look at TV and see the hardship of someone we don't even know and we exude sympathy and empathy for them, but we cannot treat the people we stand next to every day with kindness and love.
For me, walking in my spirituality is knowing that this thing we call life is a privilege and it should always be treated that way. It is my inner path, the place I feel the safest, and where my spiritual well-being lives. I am not saying we should all walk around like Pollyanna, but the truth is, would it be so bad?
Stop and ask yourself: "How do I walk in my spirituality?" See what answer you give and then go deeper and ask yourself whether you live this spirituality every day, some days or never? There is no wrong or right answer; just something for all of us to ponder.
Valerie D. Holloway | Enrollment Management- Assistant to the Director/ Enrollment Management Department-Administrative Assistant-773-371-5451 or email@example.com.
CTU enjoys a wonderful alliance with DePaul! CTU held a Christmas reception in the Cortelyou Commons and then guests also attended the Christmas at DePaul Concert at St. Vincent de Paul Parish.
The September 2012 Sundays at CTU Lecture featured Sr. Mary Frohlich, RSCJ, Associate Professor of Spirituality speaking on 'Thérèse's "Little Way" and Virtues for an Ecological Age.'
About the lecture - In an era when the human community is pressing dangerously upon the limits of earth's resources, development of a spirituality of "earth citizenship" is imperative. Although Thérèse of Lisieux lived before the emergence of this awareness, her "Little Way" has a significant contribution to make to emerging models of ecological virtue. This lecture explores the roots of the "Little Way" and how it can help us in our quest for an ecologically sensitive Christian spirituality.
Thirty alums gathered at CTU on Sunday, September 30 for a reunion. Members of CTU classes from 1988 through 2012 enjoyed fellowship and lunch in the Mary-Frances and Bill Veeck Art Gallery. The event included a lecture by Rev. Stephen Bevans, SVD, the Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD, Professor of Mission and Culture, on "A Day without Vatican II: Why the Council Still Matters after Fifty Years" and the Sundays at CTU lecture and liturgy.
To introduce new students to the CTU community, the Development Office hosted a New Student Reception following the opening of school Mass on Wednesday, September 5. Rev. Don Senior, CP welcomed students and founding CTU professors Rev. Gil Ostdiek, OFM and Rev. John Pawlikowski, OMI spoke about the early years of the school.
CTU celebrated the graduating class of 2012 at the 44th Commencement Ceremony on Thursday, May 17. The ceremony was held at K.A.M Isaiah Israel Congregation. Honorees were: Rev. Bryan N. Massingale, Honorary Doctorate in Theology; Friar Louis John Vitale, OFM, Honorary Doctorate in Ministry; Terry G. Hillard, Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters. Rawaa Momeka, OP, pictured below, spoke as the representative of the graduates.
Catholic Theological Union was pleased to confer its 2012 Blessed are the Peacemakers Award on Renée and Lester Crown, and Shirley and Patrick Ryan, for their efforts in promoting mutual respect and understanding among the Abrahamic faiths. In 2003, the Crown and Ryan families, longtime friends of CTU, endowed a Chair in Jewish Studies at CTU to further the work of reconciliation and dialogue.
On June 20, nearly 400 guests gathered for the annual Blessed Are The Peacemakers dinner to celebrate the esteemed 2012 award recipients. In addition to being business and civic leaders, Renée and Lester Crown, and Shirley and Patrick Ryan, have actively promoted interfaith understanding, a hallmark of CTU's mission.
"This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council and one of its most groundbreaking actions, the decree Nostra Aetate, which initiated a new path of reconciliation between the Catholic Church, Judaism and other non-Christian religions," said Fr. Donald Senior, CP, President of Catholic Theological Union. "Therefore we felt that this was an ideal time for CTU to give the Blessed are the Peacemakers Award to our esteemed partners in mission who have done so much locally and globally to foster peaceful relations among the faiths."


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Let's discuss this snowballing Tribe documentary situation… The Sundance Film Festival premiered the documentary Beats Rhymes and Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest. Fans wondered why the group wasn't promoting the film and it became controversial; they seemed to be disassociated from the project. Phife attended the Sundance festival, but he was not happy and openly expressed regret that his bandmates were not there to share the moment. More internet rumors and rumblings suggested that Tribe was not happy with their producers, or the end result. But differences of opinion are hardly unique obstacles in film production. So the extent of Tribe's participation was called into question because the group was practically silent about it.
Finally, this week, MTV's news reporter Sway interviewed Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed (with Jarobi on speaker phone) to "Break the Silence" about the documentary. The video above was released today – it's only Part Two of the interview. The real shocking statements came in Part I of the interview, confirming rumors that it was a clusterf#ck of a project. [Watch Part 1] In Part I, Q-Tip shares some internal dialogue from the producers of the film, mainly Michael Rapaport, who has been very outspoken about the documentary since the Sundance Film Festival. It revolved around an email which was mistakenly sent to the group by one of the film's producers (probably on autocopy, thank you technology!) Even though the entertainment industry has never been known for tact, honesty or good business, the email #fail was inflammatory and upsetting to the group and its real fans.
We have some Tribe action to look forward to now, including the rest of this MTV interview, the documentary (which will be featured soon at Tribeca Film Festival) plus a new album from Q-Tip, and a "director's cut" from Michael Rapaport.
Update 3/18 – MTV has posted the full 7-part interview here.


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My brown eyes are one of my most identifying traits. So are the dark circles underneath. If you, too, have insomnia, I don't need to tell you why they're there. You're probably reading this at 3 am.
Over the years I've tried warm milk, warm baths, valerian tea, eye masks, no reading in bed, no TV in bed, sex before bed, no sex before bed. Nothing worked, so I tried Ambien, which did work, but I didn't want to keep taking drugs. It was time to think outside the box springs. Especially after my buddy Mike in Chicago told me he'd quit a two-pack-a-day cigarette habit with hypnosis. Insomnia is a habit, right? I decided to see if hypnosis would break it.
Women are twice as likely as men to get insomnia, say researchers. "When we sleep, we actually sleep better than men, but we wake up more often," says Kelly Glazer Baron, PhD, a clinical psychologist and behavioral sleep medicine specialist at Northwestern University in Chicago, whom I contacted for more information. "Insomnia relief takes effort. Hypnosis can be part of the arsenal."
New York City certified hypnotherapist Melissa Tiers explained to me how it all works: "Being in a hypnotic state is close to how you feel in a movie theater. When you become absorbed in a film, you don't say, 'Hey! There's an actor! And I can hear the dialogue over all the shooting—nice work, sound crew!' " Once you suspend your disbelief, you bypass your tendency to stop and evaluate what's going on. You can become so engaged in a scary scene that you jump—even if the plot is ridiculous.
When you are hypnotized, you enter a similar kind of mental state. You are more suggestible than usual, and that provides an opportunity for you to rewire unconscious patterns, like that annoying one that keeps you up all night worrying you're going to be up all night. A hypnosis session plays out in three steps, Tiers told me: induction, the focusing of attention, which puts you into a trance, which in turn leaves you open to a suggestionbased on an image or phrase relating to something you'd like to change.
So was I a good candidate for hypnosis? Well, I can certainly get lost in a book or film, which is a very good sign. But Baron brought up another factor: "Do you have good visual imagery? Are you able to envisage something in your mind and re-experience emotions based on that picture? Some people don't dream in pictures, but those who do have the imagination to respond to visual suggestions."
Phew! My dreams are Cecil B. DeMille productions.
Here's how I managed to find my perfect hypnotherapist, Melissa Tiers.
I started with my usual go-to place: the Internet. I typed insomnia and hypnotists into a search engine, and up popped more than 400,000 results. Perfect: I could entertain myself on wide-awake nights by sorting through them. A YouTube video from JustBeWell.com wanted to knock me out right on the spot; those guys seemed pretty confident they could do it, considering they issued me several warnings, including, "Only listen if it is safe to sleep now." I wondered if using my computer counted as operating heavy machinery.
Preferring to trust my subconscious to a fellow human, I stumbled onto an online coupon deal for two sessions with a New York hypnotist I'll call X. Ten days later, I met X at his office. I wasn't nervous. Baron had told me, "It's a misconception that you lose control of your body or your thoughts when you're under hypnosis." Which is good to know when you're walking into the office of a stranger you found online.
X immediately informed me I'd need at least four sessions, which would cost an additional $600. After gulping, I sat in a big lounge chair so comfy I could have fallen asleep immediately. X spoke through a mic into the headphones I was wearing, even though he was sitting right next to me. He instructed me to go deep into relaxation as I counted upward, and said I probably wouldn't get past number 4. When I hit 24, he changed tactics. At one point, he explained in his voice-over how helpful my sessions would be. Instead of relaxing my mind, he was leading it to wonder, Is he hypnotizing me into signing on for that extra $600? When the session was over, X said I had trust issues and would need five sessions. He also offered to sell me a CD for $20. Good-bye, X. Too bad your technique wasn't on a par with your comfy chair.
I discovered Tiers on the site for the New York Open Center, the largest holistic learning institution in the United States. Six years ago, Tiers helped a man recover from a phobia that had afflicted him for 10 years; it took her two sessions. The man's psychiatrist called afterward and asked, "What did you do?" Since then, 80 percent of her clients have been referred by psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists. Tiers has helped people with sleep issues for more than 10 years.
"Morning people don't need an alarm clock," she says. "They wake up, and their internal dialogue says, 'It's Monday! Let's go!' At night they get into bed and say, 'Oh, I'm tired. Zzzzz.' Poor sleepers operate in reverse. Mornings, it's hard to get moving. Their minds rev up at night."
Tiers had just described me to a Z.
So off we went. The game plan: First, I'd be armed with a sleep program, a list of techniques for turning off the inner babble that tells me I can't sleep. Then I'd learn to hypnotize myself and hopefully never need the exercises again.
Technique number one—bilateral stimulation—was easy. Tiers asked me to think of something that made me anxious and rate it on a scale of 1 to 10. I thought of my lousy cable service and said 8. She had me spend a minute passing an apple-size ball (anything tossable works) from one hand to the other. Then I took a deep breath and checked in on my anxiety level. It was a 4. Another round of ball passing, and I was down to a 2. She explained that by stimulating both sides of my brain, I was spreading out my neural activity and stopping the fear signals in my amygdala, the area that processes emotional reactions. Already I wanted to nod off. Don't ask me how it worked. I just know it did.
For the second technique, expanding my peripheral vision, I stared at a spot on the ceiling—something I'm good at—then widened my gaze out to the sides, up and down, while still staring. The technique forces your awareness outside your head and away from the noisy chatter inside.
Next, Tiers taught me EFT: Emotional Freedom Technique. This combo package of acupressure and self--hypnosis involved tapping acupuncture points with my fingers while acknowledging that I don't sleep well, accepting myself and choosing to let poor sleep go. Dr. Oz featured a segment about EFT on his TV show, so I figured it must be good.
After EFTing, I got to sit in another big, comfy chair. Tiers asked how I felt right after I took an Ambien; my hypnosis was designed to help me achieve that just-took-an-Ambien feeling. She had me count down, opening and closing my eyes on each count, feeling heaviness behind my eyes, down my torso, in my legs.
As I imagine all that heavy drifting, she explains, my mind will make a hypnotic suggestion to my body. And it does; my head feels sleepier. Good job, mind! Next, she directs me to press my thumb and forefinger together as if I had an Ambien button that would shoot me another dose every time I gave it a go. Counting down from 50, I squeeze away and want to zonk out before I hit 40.
My homework: Do three rounds of EFT before bed and if necessary follow that up with some ball passing and spot staring. Then install my Ambien button. Code for: self-hypnosis.
That night I easily dozed off after my EFT sessions and woke up at 2 am when nature called. I did some EFT tapping, accepted myself and fell back asleep, waking only when my alarm went off.
I followed that pattern for the next few days, but on the fourth night . . . relapse! I returned to Tiers for a second session. We tweaked my countdown. Now after each number I visualized a wave of relaxation rhythmically rolling through me from head to toe. She taught me to slow down my thoughts by, well, thinking them slowly. Just for good measure, a week later I went back for a third practice round, and since then I've been the poster child for snoozing. I hum in the mornings. I'm kind to old people and little children. I smile at bus drivers. Sleeping has changed my life.
I Am Woman. Hear Me Snore.
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Krizman's holiday extravagance depends on a complex interplay of elements more than flashy display. A fresh apricot, poached in honey with chamomile ice cream and a piece of fresh honeycomb, garnished with a strawberry and a borage flower, a paisley swoosh of fruit sauce with gelee confetti and a cloud of pink spun sugar.
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256.9 sec. 1 - Secured Transactions, Art. 9 (Fall 2013)
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Meeting Time: Tu 3:35-6:15
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Course Start: August 27, 2013
Class Number (formerly Course Control Number) (Non-1Ls): 49633
This course covers the creation, perfection, and enforcement of security interests in personal property. The main focus is Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code but other laws for different kinds of property (such as intellectual property or fixtures) are also covered. The laws governing real property mortgages are used as a point of comparison to the personal property rules. The course uses the problem method. An emphasis is placed on counseling hypothetical creditor or debtor clients and on the role of lawyers in both transactional and litigation situations. The course is useful for students interested in corporate finance, bankruptcy, mergers and acquisitions, commercial litigation, and real estate.
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Kathy Christensen, Class of '73, who earned her bachelor's degree in Elementary Education and her Masters Degree in Curriculum and Instruction, has been teaching for 36 years; currently she is a fourth-grade teacher at East Elementary in Spearfish. One of Christensen's primary goals as an educator is to create an atmosphere of warmth and safety in her classroom.
For over 30 years Christensen has been an active committee member of the K-12 science curriculum group and was instrumental in adopting and using the first hands-on science curriculum in Spearfish.
Christensen helped write a guide for the Spearfish Outdoor Learning Center, which is a three-acre area located along the bike path in the Spearfish city park that provides a place where students can explore, experiment, and discover more about themselves and their world.