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- Studio: Summit Entertainment
- Release Date: Nov 18, 2011
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Worthy of mention is Carolina Herrera's design for Bella's wedding dress, sophisticated and demure in the front and Pippa Middleton sexy, and proper, in the back.
It is in many respects the best installment of the franchise as its stars go from sullen kids to sullen young adults, where their expressions look more natural.
The latest and best of the movies about a girl, her vampire and their impossible, ridiculously appealing - yes, I surrendered - love story.
It may be impossible for anyone but existing fans to take this seriously, but for the unconverted, it's still a legitimately engaging, gape-worthy nutso spectacle.
Here's hoping Breaking Dawn Part Two gives us more of what Part One provided in the final 30 minutes than what it forced viewers to endure to get there.
Part 1 does something that no other previous Twilight movie had achieved: This one draws you close and keeps you there.
Absorbing, if somewhat slow-paced, and has without doubt the most blood-curdling scene of live childbirth in a PG-13 movie.
In any case, the last twenty minutes of Breaking Dawn are so harrowing that it's possible to forget that most of the acting is soap-operatic (the guy who plays Carlisle is aging to look like Liberace) and the dialogue from hunger. The movie's that primal.
To my taste, savvy Hollywood veteran Bill Condon debuts as director of the two-part "Twilight" conclusion in satisfying fashion, delivering a voluptuous if often inert spectacle that splits the difference between high camp and decadent romance.
"Rosemary's Baby" it's not, but color us stoked that a Twilight movie even strays into evil-fetus territory.
To outsiders, in fact, Breaking Dawn: Part I will probably look like the weirdest, most expensive chastity commercial ever created. But Meyer's massive fan base will see something else entirely. They'll see a faithful, well-made depiction of the most eventful book in a beloved series. They'll see the actors they adore embodying characters they cherish.
Bill Condon returns fans' love and gives them exactly what they have shown they want. That is: uneven storytelling, maudlin dialog and decidedly one-note performances, even from the big names in the cast.
About as loony and soapy as a movie can get. In other words, it's about as loony and soapy as the novel, and I say this as one who obsessively consumed all four installments in Stephenie Meyer's mega-selling series.
Twilight fans who have followed the series will want to see "Breaking Dawn," and like Bella and Edward may find brief moments of pleasure.
The movie is long and uniquely bad, the last of Stephenie Meyer's four books greedily tortured into two installments.
In the end, given how little goes on in Breaking Dawn - Part 1 despite the major plot points, what you're left with is to gaze at the three leads, all of whom have their constituencies and reasons for being eminently watchable. The only hope is they'll have more to do next time around.
All the more disappointing, then, that a story so pregnant with dramatic possibilities should wind up feeling like such an unconsummated opportunity. Drawn from Stephenie Meyer's polarizing, weirdly compelling fourth novel, the film is rich in surface pleasures but lacks any palpable sense of darkness or danger.
I would imagine that even those who line up for this film will be somewhat let down, if only because it's clear that most of the juicy stuff will arrive in Part 2 – which won't be released until next November.
What we learn in this all-pain/no-pleasure episode is that marriage feels like a life sentence, weddings are miserable events, honeymoon sex is dangerous and leaves a bride covered in bruises, and pregnancy is a torment that leads to death in exchange for birth.
The film doesn't have nearly the bite - ferocious or delicious - that any self-respecting vampire movie really should. It's as if all the life has drained away.
This is Meyer's worst offense - her disturbingly Victorian attitudes about sex and love, which this particular movie falls modestly in lockstep with, even though it concludes years of cinematic foreplay.
The acting's better than it's ever been, but with the best will in the world, this can't get past the fact that the story's demented.
Sex and abortion are the main topics of this installment, which tips between dullness and total camp.
The "Twilight Saga" hasn't matured along with its heroine. In fact, the latest movie regresses a bit, delivering more filler, less feeling and crummier CGI than last year's "Eclipse."
Reveals a flash or two of real filmmaking (mostly in a suggestively grotesque birthing sequence), enough to save it from pure lousiness.
At long last, The Twilight Saga sinks utterly into camp with Breaking Dawn: Part 1.
Condon delivers the most authoritatively directed Twilight film so far, which only brings into sharp relief how tonally incoherent its story is.
Overall the film is goofy, slight, without a truly deep thought in its pretty little head. And for a movie with vampires and werewolves, the only scary thing is in the title - "Part 1," which means "Part 2" is on its way. Shudder.
Intended as the cinematic equivalent of an orgasm, this tirelessly hyped insta-blockbuster is loaded with OMG developments (marriage! Sex! Baby!) and seemingly regarded by everyone to include the most epic and gratifying scenes of romantic release in modern movie history.
Start hating me now, Twihards, but the sexless, bloodless, padded and plodding Breaking Dawn, Part 1 is the worst Twilight movie to date. (I don't get it either.)
Breaking Dawn Part 1 confirms suspicions that all four books could've made a heck of a single movie.
Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, Chicago, Gods and Monsters) takes over the directing reins for these final two parts; his most noteworthy contribution to the series so far is a terrifyingly staged birth scene that should turn the teen fan base off of sex altogether … which is precisely what this whole dumb, punishing series has been gunning for from the start.
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Mixed: 27 out of 198
Negative: 68 out of 198
Nov 21, 2011Absolutely loved it! This movie is all about sheer light hearted entertainment . Anybody who takes this seriously should really get theirAbsolutely loved it! This movie is all about sheer light hearted entertainment . Anybody who takes this seriously should really get their heads examined!! I'm talking about all those people who can not just go to the movies for a bit of fun!! Lighten up people! It is not supposed to be all serious. I like how this movie did not try to be anything other than what is is. Fun.… Full Review »
Nov 21, 2011This movie really is for the fans of the books. I hate the way others try to spoil it for them by constantly putting it down. If it is notThis movie really is for the fans of the books. I hate the way others try to spoil it for them by constantly putting it down. If it is not your cup of tea...fine...but why all the hate? Get over it! I'm glad the fans love it so much as it is portrayed exactly as the books described. Well done to them for being true.… Full Review »
Nov 25, 2011Enjoyed this movie a lot. It delivered on screen exactly how it is described in the books. You can not ask anymore of a director or actor so IEnjoyed this movie a lot. It delivered on screen exactly how it is described in the books. You can not ask anymore of a director or actor so I say a job very well done.… Full Review »


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- 1 1/2 oz mulled cider
- Top with sparkling wine
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- 2 cups prepared hummus
- 1/2 tsp ground garlic
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp ground onion powder
- 1/2 tsp sweet paprika
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- 1/2 tsp ground coriander
- 1/2 tsp red wine vinegar
- 1/2 tsp fresh lemon juice
- Extra-virgin olive oil
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- 4 semi-ripe pears (Anjou, Comice, Forelle), but into 1/4-inch slices
- 1/2 lb prosciutto thinly sliced (may sub other good quality, salted ham)
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- 2 tbsp. rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp. lemon juice
- 2 tbsp. yellow miso (may omit if not available)
- 1 cup EVOO
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To make the vinaigrette:In a bowl mix together the mustard, vinegar, lemon juice and miso.Gradually stir in the EVOO.Wrap the pear slices with some prosciutto.Drizzle the vinaigrette on top and serve.
- 2 lb. sirloin tips, cut into 1.5-inch pieces
For spice rub:
- 2 tsp dried onion powder
- 1 tsp dried garlic powder
- 2 tsp sweet paprika (or sweet chile powder)
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley (may sub dried but then use only 1 tblsp)
- 4 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 avocados, cut into 1.5-inch pieces
- 2 limes
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Rub sirloin with spices. Alternately place the meat and avocado pieces onto kebab skewers.Grill over a hot fire until medium rare, approximately 5 minutes.Slice the meat and serve on grilled toast with avocado.Squeeze fresh lime juice on top and serve.
- 2 cups Greek yogurt (or other thick yogurt)
- 2 tbsp. yellow curry powder
- 2 tbsp fresh lime juice
- 1 tsp kosher salt
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exposures and combine for about 79 percent of the fund's
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Stayed over one night to take advantage of Park, Sleep and Fly. A great Idea, as you can check in the day or night before a flight out of Logan and leave your car parked in their parking lot for the length of your stay elsewhere. This is a nice feature if your flight leaves very early and you live at least an hour away. A shuttle will bring you to the airport and drop you off and pick you up right outside your terminal. The problem began when I booked two rooms for one night using a credit card for the deposit of $23.50 per room. My husband and I arrived around 4:00 and got into our room with no problem. My son and daughter-in-law arrived around 9:30 to be told they did not have a room. I had only booked one room. My confirmation papers showed I had two rooms. Finally, the said they had a smoking room. My confirmation was for two non-smoking rooms. After about an hour or so they came up with a room. Only funny thing was that my confirmation papers showed a charge of $159.95 per room and theirs showed I owed $179.95 per room. They told me the confirmation number had changed. How they can just change a price and give you another confirmation number without you knowing it is beyond me. After a fight over that, they took off the extra $20.00 per room and now the bill was for $159.95 per room. Check-out the next morning they refused to deduct my $47.00 deposit and tried to tell me that they already deducted $20.00 per room. This finally escalated to a yelling match because no one spoke english and could not grasp the fact that the deposit should have been deducted from the total. Finally I did not have time to fight anymore as the shuttle was outside waiting and I would have missed my flight. When we got back from vacation I called Holiday Inn headquarters and they did straighten out the problem and credited my charge. The hotel was clean, service was terrible, but all in all Park, Sleep, and Fly is a great idea. Just use one of the other hotels that come with the package.
Helpful and convenient, but not a great hotel
I recently stayed overnight at the Holiday Inn in order to get an early flight out of Boston/Logan Airport.
The "Park and Stay" service was great, the airport/MBTA shuttle was great, and the locational convenience to the airport was a real time saver, but the Hotel itself was in need of some major attention.
A) The room was cold and damp.
B) When I turned on the heat/blower fan, I was nearly asphyxiated by the mildew ridden scent of the air. I turned it off, and dealt with the dampness.
C) The bedspread was tattered and had spots on it that were threadbare.
D) The bathroom ceiling had a good deal of mold on it.
E) It looks as if they recently added new bathroom fixtures, and the missing wallpaper around where the old fixtures were still show it.
F) There was no wallpaper behind the toilet, and it's absence was clearly visible. I agree that it's awkward to paint or paper behind the tank, but...this is a hotel.
G) The Hotel in general smelled like a 1970's insurance office filled with 50 year old cigar smoking salesmen and wet raincoats (yes, this is a personal experience from my childhood ). It may be smoke free now, but you can tell that it spent it's time differently for quite some time.
H) The TV reception had to be coming through one of the leaking tunnels over wet coax. It was terrible, and the Loge-Net system was so slow it was essentially useless.
I'll admit that the "Park and Fly" plan was a big help, and that my stay got me to the airport on time, and as well rested as I could be (I can't criticize the airport noise, as I'd anticipated that), but next time I will price out a stay at the Airport Hilton especially if flying Delta or Song (they have an attached walkway to the terminal).
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I found my room to be OK.......standard issue, institutional, Holiday Inn style.
The real problem here is the service. The front desk never answers the phone and the shuttle is a joke. Leaving the hotel for the airport it's fine, but the return is a nightmare. I called the hotel from my cell phone over a dozen times, so they could send the van out, but they never answered. I waited a good 30 minutes hoping they would just show up, but no luck. I ended up cabbing it back for 10 bucks, at my expense.
We thought it was nice?!
After staying at the Hilton several nights before, we stayed here our last night in boston. We found nothing wrong with the hotel, in fact, the rooms were very nice. One of the only hotels you didn't have to pay to park. Breakfast was a little pricy, but overall the stay was good.
Not high on my list
I probably would have had second thoughts about staying at this hotel if I had read all the reviews here first. Nonetheless it was too late to find another hotel at a decent price. With that said, I was prepared for mediocre accomodations.
I did find that my stay was not too bad. The walls are rather thin and the elevators are scarey. One was broken the entire time I stayed there and the other one was rather slow. After check in and with the exception of checking out, I took the stairs. The room was decent, like I said earlier, I've seen worse.
The gym was disappointing. The weights were broken so there were limited free weights,2 treadmills and a couple stationary bikes. Regardless it was nice to have the workout option.
The shuttle service is shotty. The drivers passed us twice at teh Aiport. It's almost as if they didn't want customers. Needless to say we were at the Airport for a while before the shuttle came back again and that's with a couple calls to the hotel. Pick up from the Blue-line train is also hit and miss. They tell you they'll be there in 10 minutes but you could be waiting anywhere from 30-45 minutes. Drop off to the train station is no problem though.
This is the dirtiest hotel I have ever stayed in. I spend about 150 nights a year in different hotels everywhere and this is now at the top of my list for the worst. The room was dirty, crumbs on the "clean sheets", gunk on the wall, hair everywhere.
Wish I saw this site, before I stayed at this hotel
The hotel is gross, I was scared to see my room just from taken the beat-up, dirty elevator. The room was dirty and so was the bathroom. It is certainly not in the safest of neighborhoods and I discovered this because every cab I took to get back and forth to the hotel had no idea how to get there. The shuttle for the airport was unreliable
Don't stay at the Holiday Inn
This hotel was NOT at Logan airport like the ad leads you to believe! It is a run-down old place that has smelly rooms & hall, terrible a/c, stained furniture and walls, shuttle service that was not dependable. We were very disappointed in this hotel. I've stayed at many HOliday Inns, and this one is in dire need of being updated and renovated!
We recently utilized the Holiday Inn's package of one nights stay and parking while you are away. I would have had more sleep getting up at midnight and driving the 3 hours to the airport. The walls are paper thin the rooms are old and questionable if they have been cleaned. The worst was the heating system. It either blow hot,hot or cold, no inbetween. In addition, the way the rooms are set up, the air blows directly on to the beds. If you turn the heat off, the rooms immediatly turn into refrigerators. We spent the whole night trying to adjust the heat. There was very little sleeping done that night. When the staff was notified of the problem we were told there was nothing they could do because we had already paid for the room. I suggested they have maintainance check it out and he laughed. Dont' bother staying there.
A Characterless Hotel in need of renovation
I stayed at this hotel for three nights in April 2003. Here's my experience:1. The wall paper in my room was peeling off. There were cracks in the room walls and the bathroom fittings were not properly secure.2. The artificial sugar was saccharin based which can act as a carcinogen.3. Bills were changed as per the hotels requirements without informing me.4. The room was dirty and contained furniture that was old and in poor condition. 5. Staff at the check-in were rude- they were certainly not welcoming!6. Breakfast was appaling - bland7. Luggage storage is available except they don't place a tag on your bags, and they do not give you a receipt. In theory, anyone can come and collect your bags from their storage counter.8. Upon complaining on the matters above - I was told that the hotel cannot do anything.The only positive aspect was the airport shuttle. This was reliable and the drivers friendly.If you are going on buisness and/or pleasure, please avoid this hotel. Pay a little bit more and go to another hotel. You will definitely find them better in style and comfort. Finally, I was not the only Traveller complaining about their service.
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... car keys in case they need to move your car. Trust me you would not want to be an early starter, early finisher, looks like mayhem to me.
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We started our evening with dinner at Faneuil Hall and Market. Of course we had to take advantage of the wonderful seafood and got lobster roll to share. Faneuil Hall and Market was named after Peter Faneuil, he inherited a fortune from his uncle. He was not well liked in the Boston community because he made his money from the triangle trade by selling slaves. When his uncle left his fortune to Peter and his brother, there was a ...
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Despite the considerable critical backlash, DC Comics' Before Watchmen line of titles has become one of this summer's top sellers, and the publisher announced at Comic-Con International that it's revisiting the classic Sandman in a prequel written by Neil Gaiman. With that in mind, I've come up with six other wells the company could return to for new projects. I'm not saying they should or shouldn't, but given recent events this might be where fans, and DC, could look next.
#1 – Preacher: Old Testament: The original five-year Preacher series by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon was one of the key titles that established Vertigo, and although it's been 12 years since the title's conclusion I wouldn't count out a return. It could be that, if the long-gestating Preacher movie ever gets on track, it could prompt a second look. Story-wise, it could go into Jesse Custer's road to becoming the preacher we see in the first issue, or perhaps telling the story of the supernatural hook-up of angel and demon that spawned Genesis.
#2 – Z: The First Man: The final issue of Y: The Last Man was one of the best endings to any comic in some time, but just because there's a great ending doesn't mean there can't be more stories. With Brian K. Vaughn back in the comics game with Saga, imagine if he and Pia Guerra came back together to tell about a miraculous pregnancy post-Yorick and the all-female population of Earth dealing with that.
#3 - Wonder Woman: Year One: Whether it be "Earth One" or "Year One," DC's failed in ever giving that treatment to Wonder Woman. And as I've mentioned several times before the publisher potentially has the story already written and in its vault. Although I've not read the Joss Whedon movie script to the failed Wonder Woman movie, DC's parent company Warner Bros. does own it. Even if someone else is brought in to adapt it to comics form (Phil Jimenez, perhaps?), imagine the buzz and potentially great story they have there.
#4 – Planetary: Before the Beginning: One of DC's more recent mainstream successes, Planetary made a big impression on readers despite its lateness. Although it might be unrealistic to expect Warren Ellis and Jon Cassaday to jump on board for more (shades of Watchmen), the contractual situation is probably there for DC to conceivably do more without their participation. I'd hate to get on Ellis' bad side, but there's a multitude of story ideas a sequel could harbor on, from the early days of the Four to Elijah Snow pre-amnesia, to more of the always excellent Ambrose Chase.
#5 – Kingdom Gone: DC has already produced sequels to Kingdom Come, but never has it been able to capture the majesty that Mark Waid, Alex Ross and Todd Klein managed in the summer of 1996. Incumbent on getting all the original players on board, a new Kingdom Come series could delve into how things got the way they were in the beginning of the first graphic novel. The retirement of its heroes, the rise of Magog, and maybe more of Wesley Dodds.
#6 – The Dark Knight: During the promotional cycle surrounding the release of The Dark Knight Strikes Again in 2001, Frank Miller and his editors mentioned there were some talks about expanding the series into a set of comics, with Miller even bringing in outside collaborators. The closest thing we ever got to that was All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder, but TDKR still stands as one of the bestselling graphic novels of all time — and Batman's still arguably the most popular superhero in the world. Imagine Miller enlisting a who's who of comic talent to go with him and revisit his older Batman and his older Gotham City.
i believe planetary is creator owned by Ellis and Cassaday so other than reprinting the crossovers it had with other wildstorm/dc properties there isn't anything dc can do without one or both of their permission
If you want it Before Watchmen style, you need to have it done without the original creators attached and without their consent.
Planetary is owned by DC. DC can do whatever it wants with it. Same with Sleeper. I'd like it if they brought that back.
I consider George Perez's first four issues of Wonder Woman the definitive origin story.
Pre-Transmetropolitan…as long as they wait on Darick to finish what he's doin.
"All-Star Batman & Robin, the boy wonder" and "Spawn/Batman" are your Dark Knight books. The "Thy Kingdom Come" storyline from "Justice League of America" is your "Kingdom Gone" story. Two down already.
Sorry "Justice Society of America."
I'd just want more Planetary issues like the early ones; investigating occurances realted to analouges of Universal Monsters or even Fairy Tale characters.
I also think that Camelot 3000 is ripe for revisiting.
DC may do with Planetary whatever they want, but can they pull off the same respectful/ cynical view to pop culture and superheroes with the same level of wit and intelligence that made Planetary so endearing?
Gonna be a tough act.
I'd love a revival of Travis Morgan, Warlord of Skartaris
"#3 – Wonder Woman: Year One: Whether it be "Earth One" or "Year One," DC's failed in ever giving that treatment to Wonder Woman."
I'd love to see more high-profile Wonder Woman projects by top flight creators, but I have to agree with what Gordon said. George Perez's Wonder Woman run was just as definitive for post-Crisis WW as Year One was for Batman.
You're a little late.
George Perez's Wonder Woman revamp in the 80's is Wonder Woman: Year One. Batman: Year One, All-Star Batman, and (bizarrely) Batman/Spawn are all the backstory to Dark Knight Returns in Frank Miller's Bat-verse. Finally, plot threads alluding to whatever story being a setup for the Kingdom Come future have been used by DC writers for years, from Loeb's Our Worlds at War to Johns' Thy Kingdom Come.
Mike Grell revived Warlord a few years back in a series that lasted around 15 issues. It was fun. I wouldn't want to see it done by anybody but him, however.
If you guys think those scant examples are the limit of the strip-mining of these properties that the publishers are capable of, you're kidding yourselves
Sugar and Spike: Umbilical Days
If you're going to do something with DKR, do an IDW Artist's Edition of the original artwork. I just got the Born Again Artist's Edition, and it's soooooo much better than getting a prequel, sequel or whatever to the story. It's such a different experience reading it over again. Yeah it's expensive, but it's completely worth it.
camelot 2020…of course the first 11 issues would be camelot 2019, the last one would be 2020
Please, no. Miller has done enough damage to Batman already.
If Frank Miller comes back to DC to do a new Batman series, it should be called The Goddamn Batman.
Eat glass, lawman
I would love another Y: Last Man arc by Vaughan. That was a great read – and after Saga, we still know hes bringing his A game!
More Wonder Woman by top creators is always welcome!! Simone's run was a bit too jokey for me (gorilla's in the apartment) and JMS' was not to my liking at all. One arc each by Morrison, Snyder and Lemire would be must buys for me. Hughes doing and arc (or even a done in one issue!!) would be amazing!
To do it Watchmen style, DC needs to have ownership of the properties and pay creators to produce them with lots of fans purchasing the issues.


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Is it possible go directly to an event when I click on a day in the calendar?
Now, when I click appears "blog archive" and a list of the events (only a event per day),
buy I want open directly the event, with the map....etc
Is it possible go directly to an event when I click on a day in the calendar?
Now, when I click appears "blog archive" and a list of the events (only a event per day),
buy I want open directly the event, with the map....etc
Yes - see this thread for an example
Ah wait - wrong calendar :). So the answer is yes - but only in 1.6 (currently in Beta). See this thread instead :)
I'd be VERRRY interested in that feature, too :-)
Will it be possible to jump directly to an event from a specific category, even though there are other events on that date in a different category?
You know, I'm the one how uses your plugin for short stories. I have 5 of them each day. I also want to include a "daily tip", so I'd make another category "tipps" with only one event every day (with yearly repeat) and jump from the submenu directly to the tip, instead of a list with only one entry.
Would that be possible? When will you release 1.6?
thank you so much!
Certain will. Let's suppose we want to link to a category page - and, if present, we want 'tipps' to be used. (We'll also link to the category page, but filter by events starting that are 'running' that day using the
ondate parameter)
add_filter('eventorganiser_widget_calendar_date_link', 'tunixtunix_link_to_event_cat',10,3);
function amen_link_straight_to_event( $link, $date, $events ){
//Note $date is a datetime object corresponding to a day in the widget calendar
//Sanity check
if( !$events )
return $link;
//Let's get all the event terms:
$event_cats = array();
foreach( $events as $event ){
$terms = get_the_terms( $event->ID, 'event-category' );
if( $terms)
$events_cats += $terms;
//If not event categories, abort
if( !$event_cats )
return $link;
//Extract the term slugs
$event_slugs = wp_list_pluck( $event_cats, 'term' );
if( in_array('tipps', $event_slug ) ){
$slug = 'tipps';
//Tipps not present, just pick another category
$slug = array_pop( $event_slugs )
//Get link to that category, and append 'ondate'
$link = add_query_arg('ondate',$date->format('Y-m-d', get_term_link( $slug, 'event-category' );
return $link;
**Note:** This is not tested, but should work in principle. It will only work for **1.6** or above which is currently in beta. I'm not plaining on releasing this until after WP 3.5 (which is due to be out 5th December). You can expect it shortly after - but I'd like to do some more bug tests :)
The code above is a bit buggy - I've not tested it, but I can see some syntax errors. I've made this gist: https://gist.github.com/4133300
1.6 was released earlier today so the above filter is available. You can find out more here: http://wp-event-organiser.com/blog/1-6-released/
Thank you Stephen - I'll give it a try
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Apparently the media gets away with reporting floods & heatwaves, without even mention climate change. Record breaking events seem no cause of concern today.
How worse and irreversible does it have to get, till people start with clean energy and negative carbon action? Any nation will find it pretty impossible to change anything, once resources are scarce.
Prokaryote, the fossil fuel companies have strong relationships with all of the media. Weather forecasters and everyone else (including Andy Revkin) have been trained to say "no single extreme weather event can be conclusively linked to climate change" whenever there's another huge flood or heat wave. That's true. So what? Do they think their readers and listeners are incapable of grasping overall patterns and trends? Or are they just doing what they are told?
That's why it was good to hear from military men in Sinclair's video, who have no time for wishful thinking or grubby PR spinners. My dad was an Army colonel- when you're charged with people's lives, it makes your decision making very disciplined.
Another great video by Peter Sinclair. Should be required viewing for right-wingers who rail about immigration, terrorism, or leaving deficits for our grandkids. Deficits? They'll be lucky to have a livable planet.
You would think the followers of the Daddy party might view this and get religion but their brains seem to be encased in cement – This article from the globe discusses how facts don't necessarily change minds http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/?page=full
People treat every issue like a political football game and this is so much more important than scoring trivial points – You start to wonder with all the evidence out there – acidic oceans, melting perma-frost, and Arctic sea ice and glaciers and Greenland, and more frequent examples of extreme weather events, and changing eco-systems and habitats – if there's any hope at all of slowing this down before it's far too late –


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yea win the fight...and bore every one while doing it.
it's not like you're getting paid and people are spending their time and money watching you.
all fighters should just "win the fight" why try to make the fight exciting? gain fans? popularity? just "win the fight" and put on fights like Byrd - Williamson.
most people that say shit like that pretty much only say it because their favorite fighters are boring
im waiting for the "real boxing fans appreciate boring fighters like Derrick Gainer" response
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Guys should play to win, not play to blood thirsty fans~ "winning isn't everything it is the only thing"~
If a guy isn't playing to win to the best of his abilities, then he really isn't showing respect to the game.
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Anyway no fighters shouldn't have to engage their opponents. If a fight turns out to be a stinker then I blame the visible loser for not being able to bring their opponent into a fight.
At the end of the day if I was at the top of the game I would stay pot shotting my opponent if they couldn't do anything about it. One I wouldn't want to hurt them and two I wouldn't want to put myself in harms way. Just collect the check and chill.
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Hit and don't get hit. That's fundamentally the name of the game. After that it's about how much the boxer is willing to risk to give the crowd excitement. Martinez risked a lot by trading with Chavez when he was hurt in the 12th but it probably won him more new fans than the previous 11 rounds combined(although I found it exciting to watch him put on a clinic as well).
So purely from a win/loss perspective, a fighter should try to avoid as many shots as possible(unless they're an infighting slugger and are accustomed to taking a lot of shots) but the reason some fighters are more exciting is because of their vulnerability. It's also the reason people give the likes of Mayweather & Andre Ward a lot of hate because while they're technically brilliant it's not as exciting to watch as a brawl.
Personally, I love to watch someone box well for 12 rounds as much as I love to watch a 3 round brawl because you learn a lot more about the sport from watching people applying their technique and mental strength as opposed to just flailing around madly. I am opposed to people "spoiling" the fight(like you accused Abril of and I think Carlos Molina did against James Kirkland before he was robbed) but it still has points of interest too.
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I don't mind pure boxing as long as it's for a tactical reason. You go in there to win and that's it. If you're not a slugger or brawler no one should expect you to be. There are fighters though who fight scared and don't use it to their advatage but we're not talking about that... we're talking about boxers NEEDING to go in to slug to get respect and I disagree. Also saying they're not prize fighters these non sluggers is sort of false... look at the names mentioned and some of them are the biggest guys in the sport.
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Wlad could be ripping guys apart impressively but I think those 3 KO loses have ruined him mentally.
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There's many ways to win a fight. If your opponent is a face first brawler, that has limited defensive skill, head movement and footwork, box his ass off and make him look like a damn fool.
Vice versa too. If you feel a fighter is "boring" or "fighting like a girl", then find someone to beat him so he won't hold titles. Pressure him, cut the ring off, get him against the ropes and use your skills to solve his defense.
If you feel your "wasting your money" by watching a technically sound defensive fighter, then stop buying his fights.
It's like football. You have exciting teams that pass the ball 50-60 times a game, and "boring" teams that run the football, play good defense and control the clock. There's no right or wrong way to win.
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Can someone explain the use of inverse in the xml mapping file, I am reading the tutorial but failing to understand its use in the mapping file??
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Can someone explain the use of inverse in the xml mapping file, I am reading the tutorial but failing to understand its use in the mapping file??
Inverse just decides which entity in a relationship is responsible for updating the database for reflecting the association.
Assume a one to many bidirectional association. There are two classes in the code A and B, A contains a set of B, B maintains a reference to A. At the database level, there is only one foreign key to be updated, the table for B contains a column to primary key of A.
In this case, assume we put the inverse = true on the set side. This implies that just adding an entity to the set will not fire the foreign key update. Because the respnsibility to update the foreign key rests with B. So, adding a B object to the set that A maintains is not enough to update the foreign key column. objectA.addToSetOfB(objectB) will not affect the foreign key.
Only when B is given a reference to A, will the foreign key in the table for B be updated. So, objectB.setA(objectA) will surely update the foreign key and actually setup the relationship.
I think the same concept will carry to the many to many relationships as well.
If a collection is marked as "inverse", then Hibernate will not execute any SQL to maintain the collection in the database.
For example, one-to-many collections are often (in my experience, practically always) marked as inverse: the "many" entities (members of the collection) have a column with the parent's ID (mapped as a many-to-one property), and simply creating one of those entities means that it will be implicitly included in the collection, so no need to explicitly update them.
If using a many-to-many collection (which of course usually occur in pairs), one of the collections needs to be marked as "inverse", otherwise Hibernate will try to create the join table entries representing the collection twice.
In many-to-many relationships, you follow the direction of your join.
Let's have an example :
A student can follow one or many courses, so we'll have a joint table between Student and Course, named StudentCourse(IdStudent,IdCourse).
The inverse attribute needs to be positionned on the Course half, because it will indicate to Hibernate (which doesn't know much about the StudentCourse table) to correctly build its queries.
If you put the inverse attribute to true on the Student half, Hibernate will think that the Joint Table is CourseStudent(IdCourse,IdStudent) !!
It's the same behaviour for the one-to-many relationsships.
inverse tells hibernate have to manage foreign keys so that you do not get problem with reference entities. if you define a relation bidirectional you can navigate on both sides of the object. inverse flag enables you to set the relation correctly(to avoid constraint violations). hibernate do not know how to crate update inser statements if you do not define inverse flag. Making one side of a collection tells hibernate that it is mirror of the other side. that is always required for hibernate to transform java into sql code.
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I have no trouble at believing Romney is from another planet - altruistic and flawless are two different stories.
- 3:45 p.m. June 18, 2013
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Please don't talk bad about Batman with that reference.
He deserves better
- 4:11 p.m. June 18, 2013
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Romney himself would never claim to be altruistic or flawless. He's as human as you or I, and definitely from planet earth. In spite of his flaws, and because of his tremendous strengths, Romney would have been a fantastic president. Far better than Barack Obama, who I have long considered to easily be the worst president we ever have had, which is being borne out by failure after failure and scandal after scandal -- failed economic recovery, failed employment progress, failed green energy projects, Fast & Furious, Benghazi, IRS targeting, AP and other media intimidation and investigative overreach, NSA surveillance, chaos in the middle east, aiding and abetting our enemies (i.e. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood), Obamacare, Obamaphones... The list goes on and on and on. Our corrupt populace got what it deserved when it elected Obama -- Corruption, graft, greed and political pandering on a scope and scale beyond anything we've every seen.
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Maybe supermans nemisis...I'd call him lex luther since he puts
corporations in the same category as people and believes that 47% of the common
folk don't contribute anything to society.
He hides his money like Bruce Wayne, and likes his many mansions so maybe a little batman/lex.
But superman no.
- 4:55 p.m. June 18, 2013
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Perhaps the voters preferred batman to richie rich?
- 5:12 p.m. June 18, 2013
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It's absurd to assume Romney was "perfect" and invulnerable. He could have (and should have) won the election. It was his to lose - and he seemingly did what he could to lose it. Whether it was Romney's boneheaded statements showing a disconnect with most Americans or his wife musing about her Cadillacs and mansions, we all know the results. Reframing Romney as a super hero is hardly appropriate. He was (and is) a good man. But, he's a flawed man as well.
- 5:19 p.m. June 18, 2013
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Sorry to burst your bubble but Romney lost because of voter fraud in every battleground state. The "free" press is now part of the left election campaign machine, and the attorney general is part of the secret combination that refuses to investigates its own wrong doings. At least be honest here, Romney did not lose, the election was stolen. And if we think voter fraud was bad in 2012, now that we all know fraud is legal and will not be challenged, just wait until 2016. Free elections are a thing of the past. Vote if it makes you feel good, but 150% voter turnout in hundreds of precincts in the east will negate your vote many times over.
- 5:21 p.m. June 18, 2013
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How's Batman working out?
- 6:05 p.m. June 18, 2013
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Since my mother taught me to never talk about someone (or call them names)unless you can say something nice about them - I won't talk about Barack Obama.
- 6:09 p.m. June 18, 2013
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Just like superhero worship some folks can't grasp that their hero
wasn't wanted by the majority and was soundly defeated by the Stronger Man.
It makes your guy look even weaker, that excuse, after excuse is given,
especially the voter fraud nonsense, which took about 1 minute to research and
find it false and only perpetuated on the radical right sights.
So this guy from the washington post thinks Obama is the Dark Knight dressed in all black?
and mit is Superman dressed in Red White and Blue, Really?
- 6:14 p.m. June 18, 2013
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Many conservative voters didn't vote for him because he is too much like a cameleon. He lost the important Hispanic vote for taking the tea party line on immigration. He lost a portion of the poorer working class for saying almost half of all poor Americans who don't pay taxes are sponges on those who do. (Many of these are hard working people who have jobs that don't pay very much). And finally the weather (God?) didn't cooperate either. The hurricane that happened just before the election led republican governor Christie of New Jersey to speak highly of president Obama, raising his poll numbers just before the election.
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#1 Romney lost because he's Republican--the party that appeals to white
conservative men, period.
#2 Romney lost because he was the poster boy for the upper 1%, revealed what Republicans think of 47% of Americans, and had to hide most of his tax returns at a time when people were having a hard time finding jobs.
#3 Romney revealed himself to be just another slick politician willing to set aside the truth for votes.
- 9:00 p.m. June 18, 2013
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Romneys 47% remark concerning americans is true. people just dont like to hear it. millions of people have been on welfare for YEARS. why would they vote for a man that wants to make them work for there paycheck when they can just vote for Obama and suck our country dry. Blue Collar is the only way a capitalist nation can work. And America has forgotten that. 47% just want to sit back and be given there money. No work ethic.
- 9:08 p.m. June 18, 2013
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I would have preferred Romney by a mile, but to those who have been deluded into thinking that either the Democrat or Republican parties have the answers, you are either living in absolute ignorance, or you are a part of the corrupt machine that keeps all of them in office. The answers to the problems vexing this country are so obvious as to defy explanation! Until the obvious is recognized, the partisanship will continue.
- 9:37 p.m. June 18, 2013
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Batman worked for the good of Gotham and it happened. Obama is definitely NOT Batman. Besides, that would make Joe Biden Robin....just doesn't work.
- 10:23 p.m. June 18, 2013
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Mitt Romney lost because he is synonymous with money. This is reflected in his stand on immigration. He wants only the elite who have ideas but need money. And he is the money supply. The jobs won't be American jobs.
- 10:30 p.m. June 18, 2013
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Romney lost because a whole generation of Americans failed to inform and educate
themselves and their children. The fact that this 'reporter' is
comparing the leader of the free world to a DC comic figure is proof enough of
As for Mr. 'Common Touch' Obama, using the power of the IRS and the State Department to try to silence your critics seems more like a Czar than a common man to me. (Yes, the IRS scandal was known about at the top. Don't delude yourself into thinking it was a low-level staffer.)
We have permanently high unemployment, very low real economic growth, and Obama is now on the verge of trading Iraq for Syria. I wonder how Obama's supporters, the ones still actually paying attention, feel about this turn of events.
Thanks, I'll take the man of steel any day over what we got.
- 10:37 p.m. June 18, 2013
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Once said - said again - America shot itself in the foot when Romney was not elected the first time he ran for the presidency - America has shot itself in the head the second time he ran and was not elected. But one has to say this - pray for Pres Obama as he will need all the prayers he can get to navigate the complexities and dangers of this world - plus the serious problems and wrongs here at home.
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The culture has changed from what can I do for the country to what can the government do for me. That is why Obama won and the country lost.
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Two face perhaps. Superman, no.
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Starlings are notoriously difficult to "control." The story is told of a man who was bothered by starlings roosting in a large sycamore near his house. He said he tried everything to get rid of them and finally took a shotgun to three of them and killed them. When asked if that discouraged the birds, he reflected a minute, leaned forward, and said confidentially, "Those three it did."
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Martine Franck, Cartier-Bresson's widow, accompanied her husband to just one — probably atypical — portrait session, that of the poet Ezra Pound in Venice in 1971, a year before his death at 87.
There was a tremendous, heavy silence,' recalled Ms. Franck, herself a photographer. 'Pound didn't say a word. He just seemed to condemn the world with his eyes. We were there for about 20 minutes. I stayed to one side. I huddled in a corner. Henri took seven pictures.'
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Anouk Aimée was so stunningly beautiful that when Fellini cast her as the long-suffering Luisa in 8½, he famously cut her long eyelashes, added freckles, and clothed her in unglamorous, de-sexualized costumes.
I do not think it worked.
Tuscany | Lucca
Lucca in Tuscany has some remarkable architecture, especially the great circular center of town and the old medieval city walls of the former city state. The birthplace of Puccini, this charming city is not as choked with tourists as other destinations in Tuscany are which can provide for some needed breathing room. It is well worth the day trip from Florence.
It is also where I learned of the great rivalry between Rome and Pisa and was taught this insult:
Better a corpse in your house than a Pisan at your doorstep.
It is even better to say it in Italian:
Meglio un morto in case che un Pisano all'uscio.
I normally do not care enough to take photos of landscapes or city scenics and my resulting photos are poor efforts anyways. Portofino, however, is something else. This tiny fishing village on the Italian Riveria is so perfectly quaint that it borders on the ridiculous. Nestled in a little cove next to Santa Margherita Ligure, this village is so color-coordinated and is such a hyper-idealized rendering of the Mediterranean aesthetic that one feels confident that the team of Disney set designers and painters had just left that morning.
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Yvonne, the main character in Vendela Vida's latest novel, The Lovers (Ecco), is newly widowed and on a trip to Turkey, where she and her husband, Peter, honeymooned 28 years ago. Hoping that the trip will trigger long-forgotten memories of her married life, Yvonne is disappointed to find that the beach town they visited years ago has changed beyond recognition. As she tries to pass the time waiting to join her adult children on a cruise, Yvonne quickly becomes entangled in the personal lives of the owners of her rental house and Ahmet, a young boy who collects and sells seashells on the beach. With surgical precision, Vida lays bare one woman's grief in a meditation on love, family, loss, and reconciliation. Her narrative moves swiftly to the startling conclusion, in which we learn that it wasn't just her husband's death that Yvonne needed to reconcile. Vida's novel is a testament to how even the sparest of stories can be a revelation. (Photo by Chloe Aftel)
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Lost Planet 2 Trailer Explosion Takes You Behind the Scenes and Shows More Big Snippets of Gameplay
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Today has seen Capcom release a bunch of new Lost Planet 2 trailers, showing more of the visceral, earth-shaking action and towering, Akrid uber enormo-bosses that you'll face during the game's missions.
Players of the old demo will have already faced the lovely Salamander boss (who's only angry because he's trying to find the way back to his giant pond) featured in the vids, but there are still bosses aplenty with the gigantic desert worm Akrid and the spindly insectoid that thrashes around in a small pool of water in the jungle rearing their toothsome heads.
If all this boss-tastic action is too much for you to take in, there are two 'Behind the Game' trailers to lap up, with Capcom's Jun Takeuchi and Kenji Oguro talking you through Lost Planet 2's many environments and Akrid-packed story. There's a story?!
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AbstractBuilding on our successful Phase I Tactile Data Entry program, Barron Associates proposes development of a Glove-Enabled Computer Operations (GECO) system to permit suited crewmembers to perform virtual keyboard/mouse interactions using an instrumented EVA glove. The Phase II system will use two-hand motion tracking, multi-finger gesture recognition, and vibrotactile feedback to create an intuitive human-computer interface that mirrors familiar desktop data entry modalities. The program will deliver demonstration hardware and software compatible with laboratory, field, and on-orbit testing of crewmember performance in relevant data entry tasks. The prototype will include functional EVA gloves with integrated motion sensing and vibrotactile transducers that couple to existing NASA suits via a quick-connect fitting. We will produce right and left hand gloves, lower arm suit sections, and a specialized two-port acrylic glove box to enable human subject evaluations in a realistic pressurized environment. Initial trials at Barron Associates will permit refinement of design concepts, followed by more extensive usability, comfort, and durability testing at NASA.
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TendonsA tendon is a strong cord which joins a muscle to a bone. Muscle move the bones by pulling on the tendons. The bicep tendons runs from bicep muslce,
across front of the shoulder, to the glenoid. At the very top of the glenoid, the biceps tendon attaches to the bone and actually becomes part of the labrum. The tendons of the rotator cuff are the next layer in the shoulder joint. 4 rotator cuff tendons connect the deepest layer of muscles to the humerus.
MusclesMany muscles attached to different part of the shoulder, and they helped to move the arm. The deltoid muscle is the strongest shoulder muscle and it is attached to The deltoid muscle is attached to the shoulder blade along the spine of the scapula (the acromion) and also attaches to the clavicle. Underneath the deltoid muscle, there is the rotator cluff which is group of 4 muscles that from a strong cuff around the shoulder joint and are the muslces that help to control the rotate and position of arm. THe four muscles are : the subscapularis, the supraspinatus, the infraspinatus and the teres minor. The subscapularis is attached to the deep surface of the scapula and then travels infront of the humeral head. And it prevents the shoulder from sliping out of the front of the joint. The subscapularis muscle is used to rotate internally the arm. The three other muscles of the rotator cuff are all attached to the back of the scapula and travel behind the humeral head.
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Whilst travelling, I kept a journal and I have since written one part of my travels up as a book: http://www.weaveoftheride.com. However, I am now writing the second book, and I am looking for new approaches to write up my journal. Before I read through the journal and augemented what I thought was interesting with my own memories. However, I am considering whehter it might be more productive to first have a structural 'idea' and then write what I can remember around that, using my journal to trigger my memories. Does anyone have any experience and advice for this lengthy process?
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As with a lot of writing advice out there, I'd suggest focusing on what you find interesting in your travels, and using this as your theme (or structure).
If the travel was only to a single location, then what drew you there?
Whether vacation or work, you or your business chose to go there - focus on those reasons as a starting point, and you can draw all sorts of comparisons between expectations and reality (as well as conclusions, should you be so inclined) which in itself is already a simple theme.
If the travel was multiple locations, what was the purpose? What was the plan? Was the purpose met, did the plan change?
Again, answering this will give you a simple structure in and of itself. I'm sure there are many other approaches.
Coming from a journalistic background (travel and alternative living), I would strongly suggest focusing on the message you want to deliver. You could start with your initial prejudice, innocence or ignorance and work toward your revelation (message).
I think it is also helpful to keep in mind what audience you are targeting. It will help you to omit details that may not be interesting for your readers.
Good luck!


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