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No, it means that when I decided to make JBug's BLTP Chowda' today, I knew from the get-go that I didn't have any leeks, so that took care of the "L." But it was when I tasted the chowder, and decided the two main flavors were bacon and salsa, that BS Chowder was born. No lie.
You can get the recipe for this filling chowder over at JBug's Kitchen Antics so I won't post it here. I'll just tell you the changes I made to make this soup my own. I used extra onions since I didn't have any leeks, and I sauteed them along with two minced garlic cloves and a pinch of red pepper flakes in olive oil instead of bacon grease. (I know, I know, the bacon grease would have really taken this over the top, but I wimped out and took the healthy route.)
When it came to a thickening agent, I was forced to think outside the flour box because yours truly, the self-proclaimed flour junkie, was out of all-purpose flour. I couldn't believe it! How did that happen? I've tried thickening with whole wheat flour in the past and haven't been impressed by it, so I decided to use spelt flour today and it worked really well.
This was a really tasty chowder/soup. Leave the skins on your taters for extra fiber and if you have a can of black beans you feel like throwing in the pot, please do so. I think that would make an even more filling and fiber-rich meal.
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Planning for the first annual St. James Triathlon is underway. The event will take place June 23, with registration beginning at 6:30 a.m. and the race beginning at 8 a.m.
Kern and Besel are putting together a course for the triathlon which will be good for beginners and challenging for seasoned veterans. The race will begin with a 150 to 200 yard swim in the St. James outdoor pool, followed by a 13 mile bike ride and finishing with a 5k run.
As with any community event, volunteers are extremely helpful. Anyone interested in volunteering or donating can help by contacting Dayn Besel at 507-327-6719 or Dan Kern at 507-621-0324.
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Marie Christine Sanner, 50, a Mill Valley resident, was found at about 7:30 p.m. Thursday along Fern Creek below and west of the Matt Davis Trail, said sheriff's Lt. Keith Boyd. She had been reported missing at about 2:30 p.m.
The cause and circumstances of her death remain under investigation. Boyd declined to comment on whether foul play might be involved because the autopsy had not been completed.
Sanner's vehicle was found parked near the Mountain Home Inn on Panoramic Highway.
Sanner, a Mill Valley native, was a teacher at Think College Now, an elementary school program for underprivileged students in the Oakland Unified School District.
Sanner had been employed at the school for at least seven years, according to district spokesman Troy Flint, and was teaching kindergarten this year.
The district contacted parents of children in Sanner's class by phone and sent an automated message to the rest of the families, notifying them of her passing. Counselors will also be available on Monday and remain on campus as long as needed, Flint said.
Sanner taught previously at Greenfield Elementary in the Salinas Valley and Hawthorne Elementary in Oakland. She earned a bachelor's degree in art at Colorado College and a teaching credential at San Francisco State University.
Her aunt, Linda O'Brien of Washington, D.C., said Sanner is survived by a large extended family, including a brother in Paris. Her mother died last year and her father still lives in Marin. Sanner was single with no children.
"She was just an extraordinary person and so compassionate," O'Brien said.
Boyd said there is no apparent connection between Sanner's death and the death of another Mount Tamalpais hiker who was reported missing earlier this month.
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SAN JOSE, California - San Jose Sharks Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Wilson announced today that the club has recalled forward Bracken Kearns from the Worcester Sharks, the team's top development affiliate in the American Hockey League.
At the time of his recall, Kearns was leading Worcester in scoring among active players with 30 points (13 goals, 17 assists) and 63 penalty minutes in 50 games. Current Sharks forward Tim Kennedy leads all Worcester players this season in scoring with 37 points.
Kearns appeared in five NHL games with Florida in the 2011-12 season, posting ten penalty minutes.
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Raiders coach Dennis Allen was about as forceful and confident about his future as he could possibly be after losing his sixth consecutive game and posting his second consecutive 4-12 record.
He wants to be back. He said he expects to be back, and I think he understands that GM Reggie McKenzie wants to bring him back, also.
The twist, of course, could come from owner Mark Davis, who has insisted that McKenzie will talk with Allen, and then McKenzie will discuss the future with Davis—probably starting tomorrow.
It's up to McKenzie and Allen to come up with a plan for the "reconstruction" as Davis has described this next phase for the Raiders, and for that plan to convince Davis that these two rough seasons—both ending on horrendous streaks—were a necessary part of the growth of this franchise.
Allen definitely wants to be part of the reconstruction. He'll have a plan. Now it's up to him and McKenzie to make sure it's a good one, or at least one that Mark Davis approves.
Here's some of what Allen said about his future and the team after the Raiders' 34-14 loss to Denver...
ALLEN: "Obviously not our best effort in the first half of the football game. We got beat by a better team today.
"It was disappointing that we weren't able to play better in the first half of the football game. Really, offensively we weren't able to get
anything going.
"Defensively, obviously that quarterback's really good. I thought there were a couple times where we had some opportunities to potentially get off the field. I thought they put the throw in there when they needed to and that's the difference between getting off the field and saving points and giving up points.
"There were some positives in the game—our third blocked punt of the year I thought was a positive. It was good to see Nick Kasa get a touchdown there at the end of the game, another young player's that gotten an opportunity to do some things for us.
"Disappointing but we've got to move on from it."
Q: How do you evaluate Pryor's game today?
ALLEN: "You know, I'm going to hold off on that until I get a chance to really watch the tape. Obviously we weren't really able to move the ball very well there in the first half of the football game.
"We moved the ball better later in the game. We obviously offensively weren't able to get a whole lot going in the game."
Q: Did your team make progress this year?
ALLEN: "I believe it did. I believe it did in a lot of areas. Obviously it didn't in the win-loss column.
"But I believe there's a lot of areas where we improved. I'm sure that'll be something that I'll sit down with Reggie and sit down with Mark Davis I'm sure and we'll discuss the areas where we have improved."
Q: Do you expect those meetings with Reggie and Mark Davis (Monday)?
ALLEN: "I'm not sure exactly when that'll take place. I would expect that here pretty soon that we'll sit down and have a conversation and figure out where we go from here."
Q: You had bad penalties and bad center-QB exchanges again.
ALLEN: Yeah, we don't need to be snapping the ball on the ground. We don't need to be making those type of mistakes. I mean, those are the type of mistakes that kill a football team, especially when you go out here and play a good team like that, to turn the ball over like that on, whatever it was, the 21-yard line.
"That's hard to overcome. I think we had two penalties in the game, if I'm not mistaken, I didn't see the final count. But I thought we were better in that area this week than we had the previous few weeks."
Q: Do you expect to be back next season?
ALLEN: "Yeah, I do. I expect to be back and I'm looking forward to the opportunity to come back. But those are decisions that somebody else is going to make... But yeah, I expect to be back."
Q: Have you and Reggie sat down and talked about the future or will that be in your next meeting?
ALLEN: "Listen, we've discussed the future as we've gone on throughout the season. But we'll sit down when this is all said and done, we get a chance to sit down and visit, we'll discuss in further depth where we go from here, what the direction of the program is, and what we need to do to get to where everybody wants us to be, and that's a playoff-contending team.
"I believe that's a possibility. I don't think we're there yet. But we're going to continue to work to get there."
Q: Mark Davis says these two years have been the deconstruction of the Raiders and now it's time for the reconstruction. Do you see the off-season now really as the start of something?
ALLEN: "Absolutely. And like I've said before... Listen, it's just the cards that we have to play with... This will be the first off-season where we've got some money that we can go out and try to acquire some free agents, to be able to sign some free agents on our football team that we'd like to keep here, and we'll have a complement of draft choices to go out and begin to build this football team.
"It's been a tough couple of years. It's been a tough couple of years on everybody—been a tough couple of years on you guys, been a tough couple years on the fans, it's been a tough couple of years with everybody within the organization.
"It's something that needed to be done and we're excited about the future and moving forward.
Q: What positions do you need to strengthen?
ALLEN: "Listen, we've got a lot of areas where we've got to try to improve. I think as we go through the next couple of months, we'll have the plan formulated, as exactly where we want to try to improve our football team through free agency, where we want to try to improve our football team through the draft."
Q: Do you still feel the effort was there today?
ALLEN: "There's no question it was there. There's no question. Listen, when you look at the tape, guys are flying around, all right? We didn't make enough plays. But there's no lack of effort, there's no lack of trying.
"Watch the tape. 'Cause that's what the tape says.
Q: Was there ever thought of bringing McGloin into this game?
ALLEN: "Yeah, we thought about it. But we thought with the way the game was playing out, that we needed to go ahead and let Terrelle play and let him finish the game out and see if he could respond. And I thought he responded later in the game and made a few plays."
Q: Do you think there are quality free agents who will want to sign here after 4-12 seasons?
ALLEN: "Yeah, I do. I do. And I think it's our job to go out and identify those guys, of who we want to try to bring into this program; and we will, we'll go out and find good quality players that want to come here, want to play, want to be a part of this and want to be a part of building this up the right way and turning this thing around."
Q: Do you wonder if you'll still be here to do the rebuilding after these tough years?
ALLEN: "Not really. Again, like I said, that's a decision that's made over my head. I fully expect to be back.
"I fully believe that I deserve the opportunity to come back here and get a chance to, as we've said, go through the deconstruction phase... I want to be part of the rebuilding phase."
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24.10.2012 - The competition for PAH treatments will become fierce. Actelion and Bayer both plan to market new treatments for this rare disease.
Good news for PAH (pulmonal arterial hypertension) patients: two new drugs are planned for market release. The Swiss biotech Actelion submitted a new drug application to the FDA for its Opsumit macitentan treatment. The filing is based on data from a Phase III study, which proved to be able to reduce the risk of a morbidity or mortality event compared to placebo. A low-dose of Opsumit reduced the risk by 30%, while the high dose had a 45% reduction. The compound is a tissue-targeting endothelin receptor antagonist and is thought to replace revenues from Tracleer, Actelion's best-seller which will lose patent protection in 2015.
At the same time as Actelion announced the application, German pharma Bayer AG announced that its compound riociguat met the primary endpoint in a Phase III study. The oral soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) stimulator led to an improvement in a six minute walk test enhancing the patient's walk distance to 36 meters. Bayer plans to submit regulatory filing for riociguat in the first half next year. Analysts said that macitentan might become the next first-line treatment and expected high revenues. Riociguat however might become a second line option and get additional competition from Pfizer's Sildenafil, which is already approved for PAH and acts via the same pathway.
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Sold-out Bing Concert Hall was a happy place Friday night, when the 90 members of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra streamed onstage to kick off "The Beethoven Project." It was a colorful opening to an ambitious undertaking: In a series continuing through June 1, the orchestra and its conductor, Jindong Cai, are performing all of Beethoven's nine symphonies and five piano concerti at Bing -- plus a Mass, overtures, and a commissioned work. It's a dramatic way to help inaugurate this handsome and exciting hall.
Appropriately, Friday's program -- featuring Symphony No. 5 and Piano Concerto No. 5, the "Emperor" -- began with "The Consecration of the House" Overture. Composed in 1822 to mark the renovation of the Josefstadt, a venerable theater in Vienna, it begins with several heroic chords, dramatically cued here by Cai. The orchestra was off and running: crisp timpani, weaving strings. A thrumming energy soon circulated through the ensemble.
The orchestra wasn't always polished; someday, Stanford may decide to fund (and recruit for) its music program the way it funds its football team. But there's still a lot of talent here, and the students clearly were inspired by their dynamic, Beethoven-loving conductor -- and by their guest (for the next piece), pianist Jon Nakamatsu. A Stanford graduate (bachelor's degree in German studies, graduate degree in education), this celebrated musician from the South Bay has signed on to play all five "Beethoven Project" concerti at Bing.
His "Emperor" was exceptional: pristine geysers of notes, his phrases tapered and thoughtfully shaped. Nakamatsu lingered here to emphasize a certain turn of phrase, or there to set the stage for something dramatic. Often, he pulled back from the sustain pedal to achieve subtle effects: The opening movement's music box sonorities were magical, aided by delicate pizzicato in the strings.
In the Adagio, Nakamatsu, with his ascending trills, sounded as if he were gliding through orchestral moonlight. Cai's control here was impressive -- guiding his players through the many tricky entrances, holding back the tempos to fill a well of passion. As the horns sustained their final notes in this slow movement, the timpanist put his ear to his drumheads, quietly re-tuning them for what was to come: Nakamatsu's breakout into the finale, with its dancing rhythms. This was something to witness. The pianist's lines were clear and speedy -- like those of a figure skater circling a fresh expanse of ice after the Zamboni machine has been through it.
As an encore, Nakamatsu played the opening to Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata. It was patient and lovely -- and made for an intimate moment in this chamber-sized concert hall, with 842 seats. Being in Bing is like sitting in a small valley, with the stage at its bottom; everything is close-in, with great sight lines.
But, as I've been reporting since Bing opened on Jan. 11, the acoustics (designed by Yasuhisa Toyota, who also designed the crystalline sound at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles) are somewhat idiosyncratic.
This was my third concert at Bing. I've heard choral performances, a string quartet and two orchestras, and have found that the sound quality varies for ensembles of different sizes and types. It also depends on where one sits in the hall, which is true at many venues, though one would hope for more consistency in an intimate new hall like this one.
During the San Francisco Symphony's performance on opening night, I sat midway up in the center section, on the right-hand aisle. The sound was bright and popping, and I could vividly hear the basses and cellos.
Friday night, as the Stanford Symphony played the Overture and Concerto, I was again midway up, but on the left, and the sound was different. It lacked bottom, favoring the treble contributions of violins, winds and brass. The six basses and 13 cellos were often lost in the mix.
Nakamatsu suffered, too: His left-handed lines in the bass register, typically etched throughout his performances, were not as clearly audible as his right-handed passages. The same was true during his solo encore, playing the "Moonlight." Having seen Nakamatsu perform many times, I would lay bets that this was a matter of the hall, and not his playing.
For Symphony No. 5, when I moved to the left-side terrace, slightly elevated, the sound was noticeably lusher, with more bottom. Especially when the orchestra played at moderate volume, the cellos and basses re-gained vividness. Their sound emerged in waves, though it was again submerged during the orchestra's loud tutti passages.
I suspect the players were getting tired. Cai had a hard time achieving a true pianissimo during the Andante. By the finale, taken at a brisk tempo, the performance was threatening to fly apart -- but it didn't. Conductor and orchestra tapped into Beethoven's drama and forward thrust, driving through those final triumphant chords, and the audience jumped to its feet to cheer this first "Beethoven Project" event.
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The Beethoven Project
Stanford University orchestras, conducted by Jindong Cai, performing Beethoven's nine symphonies and five piano concerti, with pianist Jon Nakamatsu
When: 2:30 p.m. Jan. 20 (sold out)
Where: Bing Concert Hall, 327 Lasuen St. (at Campus Drive), Stanford University
Tickets: $20, $10 non-Stanford students, $7.50 ages 17 and younger, free Stanford students; 650-725-ARTS, http://stanfordlive.edu
Also: Remaining series programs Feb. 2-3 (sold out), Feb. 22-23 (sold out), March 15 and 17 (tickets available), April 26-27 (tickets available), May 10 and 12 (tickets available) and May 31-June 1 (sold out)


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Smoot -Whitaker Wedding
Published: Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, December 14, 2012 at 2:30 p.m.
Miss Amanda Marie Smoot and Mr. Dustin Mark Whitaker were married Saturday, August 25, 2012, half past four o'clock in the afternoon at Mud Creek Baptist Church in Flat Rock, North Carolina. The Reverend Greg Mathis performed the double-ring ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin and Arlene Smoot of Danville, Virginia. She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willard and Pauline Payne of Danville, Virginia, Mr. and Mrs. Richard and Jenny Pennington of Danville, Virginia, and the late Mr. and Mrs. Calvin and Reva Smoot, of Falls Church, Virginia.
The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy and Vicki Whitaker of Mills River, North Carolina. He is the grandson of Mrs. Ethel Adams and the late Mr. William E. Adams of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and Mr. and Mrs. Boyce and Jeanette Whitaker of Hollywood, Florida.
Presented in marriage by her father, the bride was attended by Matron of honor Katherine Haney, Maid of honor Christina Williams, bridesmaids Samantha Curry, Kaylee McMahan, Heather Butterfield, Camaryon Huddleston, Hope McMahan, and flower girl Kaylee Smoot, niece of the bride.
Timothy Whitaker, father of the groom, was the best man. Groomsmen were Gregory Dotson, Brad Butterfield, Matthew MacLellan, Jeremiah English, Brentton Manny, and ring bearer Caleb Sekaz, cousin of the groom. Music for the ceremony was provided by pianist Matthew Adams and a solo was performed by Lane Cooper.
The bride's parents hosted a dinner and reception for friends and family at Kenmure Country Club, in Flat Rock, North Carolina.
The bride is a 2006 graduate of Tunstall high school, Dry fork, Virginia. She graduated from Jefferson College of Health Science in Roanoke, Virginia where she received a bachelor's degree in Nursing. She works at Carillion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, Roanoke, Virginia, as a pediatric nurse.
The groom is a 2006 graduate of West Henderson High School, Hendersonville, North Carolina. He graduated from Jefferson College of Health Science in Roanoke, Virginia where he received a bachelor's degree in Nursing. He works at the MSPCU at Carillion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, Roanoke, Virginia.
Following a honeymoon in Hawaii, the newlyweds will reside in their new home in Vinton, Virginia.
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Congrats to the SHS boys & girls skiers on their state championships! I'd just like to correct some misinformation given to the paper. During the alpine GS race, the second SHS boy was Robert Powell. Somehow, his contribution was overlooked. Again, congrats to all these terrific alpine and Nordic skiers!Sharon Powell, Breckenridge
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29 June 2006
Philip Booth in The Daily Telegraph on planning policy
Sir Max Hastings believes that planning has delivered the goods in terms of conservation and the environment (Daily Telegraph 29th June). If your only goal in life is the preservation of open countryside this may be true. But 98% of the population lives in cities, towns or large villages and their environment is blighted by the planning system. Our planning system preserves green space where it is least valuable and in greatest supply – in open countryside. At the same time we cram yet more houses into our already packed towns and villages as planning promotes builiding on green space where it is already in shortest supply and is most greatly valued. The most important aspect of the environment for most people is their immediate surroundings: the British people should be able to aspire to something better than a "rabbit hutch on a postage stamp".


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Teen readers discuss Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 the first volume in the series by David Petersen. Graphic Fiction Readers is a book group for teens that meets on the third Tuesday of each month at the Trails West branch library.
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In the world of Mouse Guard, mice struggle to live safely and prosper amongst harsh conditions and a host of predators. Thus the Mouse Guard was formed: more than just soldiers that fight off intruders, they are guides for common mice looking to journey without confrontation from one hidden village to another. Three Guardsmice are dispatched to find a missing merchant mouse that never arrived at his destination. Their search for the missing mouse reveals much more than they expect, as they stumble across a traitor in the Guard's own ranks.


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I'm just starting out using QCAD (and CAD in general) to design a garden shed (while dusting off memories from 20+ years ago of technical drawing at school).
Using QCAD I've been combining elements into blocks of parts before placing them into layers but feel like I'm missing something about how blocks and layers relate.
I've got a layer for the roof section, a layer for the front, another for the side elevation. I'd been drawing parts on the relevant layer and selecting them to create a block. Then at some point I noticed that strange things happened when making some layers visible, some parts would appear when they shouldn't and others disappear when they shouldn't (AFAICT). Then I noticed that some lines within blocks were allocated to a different layer than the block was, and that allocating them to layer 0 seemed to fix it.
I then proceeded to make sure the lines of each block were set to layer 0. I came unstuck with this method however when I then wanted to draw some of the hidden lines of parts as dashed rather than solid lines. I then had to break my all-lines-in-block-on-layer-0 rule in order to achieve the desired linestyle.
Uh. An idea just ocurred to me, probably from viewing viewtopic.php?f=47&t=1992 - I should create some layers purely for use within a block, but no drawing should otherwise go there - Outline, Center, Hidden etc, while other layers might be for major elements of the design - Roof, Base, Wall, Door, etc. That makes more sense anyway than how I was looking at it..
Just curious also if one generally splits the elevations into different layers or combines them into a single elevation (ie roof vs roof-plan roof-south etc)?
Also, I sometimes create a block for a part and then later realise that some other part will partially obscure the first part and then have to go back and edit the lines to change them to hidden lines, or I need to duplicate the block because not all will need changing. Is there a way for QCAD detect when an object is hidden and change the line style accordingly?
PS, "duplicate block" would be useful.


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TRUCKEE, Calif. - Performance season has already begun for the students of the Truckee High School band. You have see them march and support the varsity football team at home games come rain or shine; you have seen them lead their school in the Homecoming parade, and now you can see them at Truckee High auditorium on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 7-8 p.m. for their fall concert. Admission is free - support the hard-working students of the Jazz and Concert Bands.
There will be pizza by the slice provided by Zano's, homemade bake sale goods and drinks available for purchase to raise funds for the Band's many programs especially the band tours. In the spring, the band visits retirement and veterans communities as a part of a multi-day tour. The band tour is often cited as a highlight of the year for the audience and participants alike.
Also, mark your calendars for the premier showcase event for local talent. The Truckee Band Talent Show will be held on Friday Dec. 7, in the high school theater. The talent show is a community event where individuals or groups have the opportunity to perform in front of an audience. The talent is always awesome, so plan on getting out and supporting the band.
Truckee Excellence in Music Parents Organization (TEMPO) is the official THS Music Department Booster Club. TEMPO High is a nonprofit organization established in 1995. The main goal is to support the Truckee High School Band Program. Fundraising efforts support the band and allow band students to participate in honor bands, workshops and the band tours. The main annual fundraiser is the telethon. This live event, during which band performances are broadcast for the public, is shown on TTCTV Channel 6. It has been a highly successful fundraiser. The band is also a member of the eScrip program. Donations are also accepted on the TEMPO High website tempohigh.org. Funds raised from this and all fundraisers help pay transportation, lodging and meals for the band's tours, summer scholarship programs and other operating costs of the band.


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Bruno Mars is in "the zone."
He's flying in rarefied air, in the same space where elite athletes like LeBron James and Serena Williams travel. Only his success doesn't translate to championship trophies. It's told on the Billboard charts.
Not even three years into his solo career, the 27-year-old Hawaiian is turning out smash pop singles at a mind-boggling pace. It's like Creedence Clearwater Revival in the late '60s, Elton John in the early '70s and Mariah Carey throughout the '90s. Even Mars' mediocre offerings -- of which there are plenty -- shoot up the charts.
It's no wonder that Mars' current Moonshine Jungle Tour is one of the year's hottest treks. It packed the recently renamed SAP Center (formerly the HP Pavilion) in San Jose to capacity on Thursday night.
It was a solid outing for the multiplatinum star, whose skills onstage might even surpass what he shows in the studio. He's an old-school entertainer, borrowing from the best -- Michael Jackson, James Brown, Al Green -- and ignoring the rest.
His greatest challenge onstage, ironically, is his own songbook. Sure, it's chock full of hits. It's also rather tepid, full of tunes that make Hootie and the Blowfish come across like Slayer. Mars' ability to incorporate different musical styles and still wind up with a homogeneous sound intended for mass consumption is nothing short of astounding.
Although the songs were sometimes bland and boring, Mars' performance of them sure wasn't. Kicking off with an energetic version of "Moonshine," Mars worked hard for fans' money throughout the approximately 100-minute concert.
The show was short on special effects, at least until the confetti-drenched, pyrotechnics-fueled ending. Yet, Mars didn't really need them. His remarkable star power -- the kind that can elicit squeals from the crowd with a simple hand gesture -- was more than enough to light up the hockey arena as he rolled through tracks from his two studio albums (2010's "Doo-Wops and Hooligans" and 2012's "Unorthodox Jukebox") as well as other material.
When he wasn't leading his top-notch band, which boasted a mighty three-piece horn section, Mars did a fine job engaging the crowd with funny stage banter and time-honored tricks of the trade. He gave the crowd a lesson in "R&B 101," teaching us the importance of hollering "damn" onstage, and tried to convince the crowd to put down their smartphonesfor the evening.
"We came here to get y'all shaking and dancing. You can't really do that if you're videotaping," said Mars, likely hoping to avoid being the subject of thousands of new blurry videos on YouTube and out-of-focus pictures on Instagram. "Put the cameras away. Tonight is for us and only us."
The funniest moment of the night came when he tried to find a woman in the crowd to serenade. There were, of course, several willing volunteers, but Mars was looking for one who wouldn't get him in trouble.
"Looks like you've got a bigass boyfriend," he said to one volunteer. "I don't know if I want to (expletive) with that."
He drew the main set to a close by playing four straight No. 1 hits — "Nothin' on You," "When I Was Your Man," "Grenade" and "Just the Way You Are." For the encore, he rolled out another chart-topper, "Locked Out of Heaven."
After all that, he still didn't get around to playing all his No. 1 hits. For an artist with only two full-length solo albums to his credit, that's truly amazing.
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August 16, 2010
To: Chia-Chen Yu, Convener
Academic Planning Committee
From: Becky LeDocq, Chair
Faculty Senate
This memo is intended to serve as the initial charge letter to the Academic Planning Committee for the 2010-2011 academic year.
In an effort to better orient new committee members and to improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of committee work, the Senate Executive Committee (SEC) is incorporating the following ideas.
- The SEC will be holding a meeting of conveners at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 1st in 327 Graff Main Hall. Please plan on attending this meeting if possible. If you are unable to attend, please send another representative from your committee. An agenda will follow.
- The SEC will be holding a meeting of Chairs during the week before classes in January. The purpose of this meeting will be for committee chairs to report on progress on charges to date and discuss any problems committees may be experiencing.
Per Faculty Senate Bylaw II. (s): "Each faculty committee shall hold an organizational meeting and report the name of the chairperson to the senate office by October 1. (Joint Chairpersons are not permitted.)"
Therefore, as the convener of the Academic Planning Committee, please arrange, as soon as feasible, an organizational meeting. In addition to a chairperson, please also elect a secretary.
Primary responsibilities of the chairperson include:
· promptly informing the Senate office (5-8018) the results of the election of officers and any changes in committee membership.*
· organizing and conducting meetings.
· completing a year end report on the Academic Planning Committee activities to be submitted to the Senate Office no later than May 31, 2011.
*The committee chairperson should carefully review Faculty Senate Bylaw II, "Faculty Standing Committees" for information on committee attendance and the role of alternates.
Primary responsibilities of the secretary include:
· recording minutes of each meeting.
· promptly sending approved meeting minutes to Sibbie Weathers (email@example.com) so that the minutes can be posted on the faculty senate website.
In the event the committee chooses to rotate secretarial duties, please designate one person to be responsible for e-mailing the meeting minutes to Sibbie Weathers.
Although no special charge is being given to the committee this year, should the membership wish to bring any policy issues to the attention of the senate, it should certainly do so. Any recommendations that the committee would like to make to the senate should be submitted to our office in a timely fashion.
If you have any questions about the charges, please feel free to contact me.
Finally, if the Senate Executive Committee or I can assist your committee in any way during the year, please do not hesitate to ask.
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Fair and lovely! This warm pink piece inspires beauty in any ensemble. This ring features four pieces of rose quartz that are accented with white zurcons and darker pink tourmalines for a look that is effortlessly feminine. The undergallery showcases a floral design and the sides of the rin feature beading details. Pair this with your favorite outfits to add a bit of fresh flair!
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The "vermeil" technique of plating sterling silver with gold originated in France in the 1750s. It differs from "gold filled" or "gold plated" in terms of the thickness or thinness of the microns over sterling silver. "Gold filled" pieces have a much thicker layer, between 15 and 45 microns, which is mechanically bonded to the base metal with heat and pressure. Vermeil is a more expensive version of "gold plated". It does not wear off as quickly as gold plating does. However, over time, vermeil wears off and therefore will require re-plating.
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With its uniquely mystical appearance, quartz was the "rock crystal" used in ancient times to make crystal balls. It was believed to attract energy and is still considered to be spiritual today. The gemstone was once believed to be a compact form of ice. In fact, the Greeks originally named quartz "krystallos," meaning ice, but this terminology soon applied to any type of crystal.
Often identified by its six-sided prism shape, quartz is the most common mineral on Earth, found in nearly every environment throughout the globe. With a ranking of 7.0 on the Mohs Scale, it is a component of almost every rock type and occurs in virtually every color imaginable. Quartz has a great amount varieties that are well-known by other names, including amethyst, citrine, ametrine, rock crystal, agate, druzy, chalcedony, tigers eye and many more. There are also several varieties that hold the name "quartz," including rose quartz, smokey quartz and rutilated quartz.
The pale pink color of quartz is known as rose quartz, the traditional gift for couples celebrating their 2nd anniversary. It is a delicate powder pink color that ranges from transparent to translucent. Transparent rose quartz is quite rare and is usually so pale that it does not show much color, except in large sizes. The translucent quality of rose quartz is much more common and is used for jewelry and carvings.
Rose quartz is probably one of the most prized stones for its mystical properties. Known as the "Heart Stone," it is believed to have incredible powers to balance emotions and open the heart. Folklore says rose quartz can comfort brokenhearted people, bringing healing and clarity to the heart and allowing the wearer to learn to trust again. The stone is also said to foster happiness and the joy of life by bringing about contentment in love and filling one with optimism, tenderness and gentleness.
In addition to helping with romantic love, rose quartz is believed to enhance all other forms of love as well, including self-love, platonic and maternal. Its loving, nurturing energy is said to take away fears, resentment and anger and replace them with feelings of higher self-esteem and confidence. This soothing stone is also thought to balance emotions and heal emotional wounds. It is said to be especially powerful in times of stress or loss, bringing peace and calm to the wearer.
Ranging in color from nearly black to smoky brown, smoky quartz is transparent and owes its warm earthen hue to exposure to natural radioactivity. Care must be taken since its rich color will fade in the sun. Spelled either "smoky" or "smokey," this variety of quartz is often incorrectly called "smoky topaz."
Smoky quartz is believed to help dissolve negative energy, release stress and relieve depression. It is said to be a mild sedative with a relaxing effect that calms, soothes and restores balance and harmony. Folklore says the gem can embrace dark areas with light and love and therefore clear and cleanse the body both physically and emotionally. Smoky quartz is thought to be a warm, friendly and down-to-earth gem.
Rutilated quartz is a type of transparent rock crystal that contains long, fine needles of rutile crystals (titanium dioxide). These highly valued inclusions form a landscape of shining gold needles in an array of patterns that is breathtakingly beautiful. These golden inclusions are also known as Venus hair, Cupid's darts and fleches d'amour ("arrows of love"). There is a less well-known variety called tourmalinated quartz that, instead of golden rutile, forms black or dark green tourmaline crystals.
Although rutilated quartz is usually cut as a cabochon, it can be a difficult stone to attain a smooth surface without pits. This is because rutile ranks a 6.0 on the Mohs Scale, while quartz ranks 7.0. The difference in hardness between the two materials, and because of the way rutile forms inside, causes problems when cutting. Each final cut piece is unique, with no two being exactly alike. Modern folklore says rutilated quartz brings forth each person's strengths, originality and ability to relate to others.
Tourmaline occurs in virtually every color of the spectrum, with an unlimited range of solid and mixed colors in all imaginable shades. According to an ancient Egyptian legend, this is the result of the gemstone traveling along a rainbow from the Earth's heart, up to the sun. On its journey, the legend says that tourmaline collected all the colors of the rainbow, which is why nowadays it is called the "Rainbow Gemstone."
Tourmalines displaying just one color are quite rare since one crystal usually shows two or more shades or colors. In fact, the name "tourmaline" has been derived from the Singhalese expression "tura mali," which translates to "stone of mixed colors." Even two stones cut from the same rough mother crystal will often show different colors, a characteristic that makes tourmalines so attractive and sought-after.
Tourmaline crystals come from a mineral group that usually forms in various combinations of elements. The slightest changes in composition will result in completely different colors. Thus, it is possible that in one naturally grown crystal, there will appear completely different colors. Some will show only slightly shaded color fields, while others will display contrasting colors and defined color zoning. Tourmalines rank a hardness of 7.0-7.5 on the Mohs Scale and may be as small as a knitting needle or as thick as a thigh. They are easily available in sizes of up to 5.00ct.
Different shades of colored tourmalines have been assigned specific names. Bi-colored and multi-colored tourmalines have several names for the common combinations of colors. Crystals with red or pink cores and green borders are called watermelon-tourmalines. Stones with colorless crystals and black tips are called Maur's Head or Moor's Head, while colorless crystals with red tips are called Turk's Head. If the color zones are arranged one on top of the other, the stone is considered a rainbow tourmaline.
The red variety of tourmaline changes its name based on the coloring in different types of lighting. Deep red tourmaline named rubellite shows the same fine ruby-red shade in daylight and in artificial light. Should the color change when the source of light changes, the stone is simply called a pink tourmaline. With its exquisitely intense coloring, rubellite was once the victim of misidentification for rubies in the Russian crown jewels.
A recognizable variety of the gem is simply called, green tourmaline. It comes in a variety of green shades, including leek-green, intense yellow-green, olive-green and brownish-green. Chromium-tourmaline is the trade name for the emerald-green variety. The most rare and highly coveted green hues are the blue-green stones often called African tourmalines and the bottle-green gems referred to as Brazilian tourmalines.
Perhaps the most beautiful variety is the Paraiba tourmaline. It ranges in color from electric blue to neon blue-green to sizzling turquoise. Discovered in the Brazilian state of Paraiba, its spectacular color is due to the presence of a small amount of copper. A study by the German Foundation for Gemstone Research recently also discovered a surprisingly high content of gold in the stones. While the average gold content of the Earth's crust is 0.007 parts per million, Paraiba tourmalines contain a remarkable 8.6 parts per million. So if they were not so breathtaking, the gems might be in danger of being crushed to acquire their gold.
Paraiba tourmalines are mined near a village called Sao Jose de Batalha. In 1989, the miners discovered a new vein of gem-quality stones with extraordinarily bright shades of blue and green. Hand-excavated shafts and tunnels are up to 60 meters deep and the tourmaline is found only in pencil-thin veins. Because of the difficulty in mining, supply will always be limited and Pariaba tourmalines will always be rare and expensive. Dealers all over the world are competing for the Paraiba tourmaline, which means that it can command retail prices more than $20,000 per carat.
In the year 2000, electric yellow tourmalines were found in Malawi in East Africa. With a clear and pure color, they were deemed "canary tourmalines". Only 10 percent of all the mined yellow stones are gem-quality and when cut, more than 95 percent of the harvest will weigh less than 1.00ct. Yellow tourmalines are considered to be the only gemstones that have a fine scent. This is because their crystals are often embedded into black material that must be removed before the stones are cut. An owner of a Malawi gemstone mine discovered the black matter was easily removed when the rough crystals were boiled in water and lemon juice. Ever since then, yellow tourmalines from Malawi not only resemble fresh lemons in color, but also in their scent before they are cut.
Other tourmalines are called "indigolith" if they are blue and "dravite" if they are golden to dark brown. Black tourmalines are known as "schorls" and are mainly used for engraving. Although they were used as mourning jewelry, ancients believed black tourmalines to be stones that protected against negativity and strengthened the heart.
Tourmalines are piezoelectric, meaning they can generate electrical charges when heated, compressed or vibrated. They then become polarized crystalline magnets and can attract light objects. The Dutch, who originally brought the stone to Europe, knew about this effect and used heated tourmalines to extract ashes from their pipes. The stones were even favorite toys of Dutch children before their gem quality was established. Because the gem's electrical charges attract dust and small materials, some believe that wearing pink tourmalines will attract love and green ones will attract success.
Tourmaline has often been called the "muses' stone" because it is believed that its imaginative colors contain inspirational powers that grant enlightenment, enable creativity and express an artist's mood. Due to the stones' energetic conductivity and vast array of elements, they are thought to have powerful healing abilities and protect against many dangers. Tourmaline is supposed to be an especially powerful influence on love and friendship, fostering compassion and cool headedness. It is considered the traditional gift to give couples celebrating their 8th wedding anniversary.
Ever since the ancient days, the gem has been attributed with magical powers. Today, specific colors of tourmaline are thought to hold individualized powers. Black is believed to strengthen the immune system and bring luck and happiness when rubbed. Green tourmaline is said to encourage communication and bring success, while blue is a balancer that stimulates other tourmalines' effectiveness. Watermelon tourmaline is believed to increase perception and creativity, while balancing passivity and aggressiveness. Pink is thought to promote peace, increase spiritual understanding and bring forth love and friendship.
Zircon often suffers for its name's similarity to "cubic zirconia," the simulated diamond. The stone zircon, however, is actually a beautiful natural gemstone. It is named from the Persian word "zargun," meaning "gold-colored." This is despite the fact that it comes in a wide range of rainbow colors. The majority of zircons are brown or yellow-brown, while pure red and green are the most valuable colors. The yellow-red to reddish-brown variety is called "hyacinth."
For many years, the most popular type of zircon was the colorless variety. More than any other natural stone, colorless zircons produce a brilliant sparkle similar to diamonds. The most popular color today tends to be the bright pastel blue variety. Sometimes called "starlite," blue zircon has recently become considered an alternative birthstone for December.
Zircon is one of the heaviest gemstones, meaning that it will look smaller than other varieties of the same weight. It ranks a hardness between 6.5-7.5 on the Mohs Scale and is mined in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar and Australia.
Travelers during the 11th century wore zircon amulets for protection and to encourage welcome greetings on their journeys. In the Middle Ages, the stone was said to bring wisdom and prosperity to its owner. Hindu mythology even mentions the gem when referencing the Kalpa Tree, which was a glowing tree covered with gemstone fruit and leaves of zircon.


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Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is a city dominated by water. Recently, the trend of fettering Toronto's water and putting it underground has been countered by persistent citizen-led efforts to recall and restore the city's surface water. In HTO: Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets, thirty-four contributors examine the ever-changing interplay between nature and culture, and call into question the city's past, present and future engagement with water.
HTO explores everything from waste disposal, waterfront reclamation and community watershed initiatives to the founding of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority after Hurricane Hazel, a psychogeographic exploration of High Level Pumping Station and a critical look at the city's Wet Weather Flow Management Master Plan. In between, there are descriptions of Toronto's geological past, the history of Taddle Creek and a Ninjalicious-style tale of infiltration of the city's storm sewers, complete with a colour-image section. Together, these essays provide a context for a critical observation of the city's relationship to water, and how that relationship will have to change in the coming decades.
Includes essays by Richard Anderson, Bert Archer, Chris Bilton, James Brown, Michael Cook, Nick Eyles, Liz Forsberg, Mark Fram, Ed Freeman, Chris Hardwicke, Michael Harrison, Maggie Helwig, Lorraine Johnson, Joanna Kidd, John Lorinc, Robert MacDonald, Steven Manell, Michael McMahon, Shawn Micallef, Gary Miedema, Helen Mills, Mahesh Patel, Wayne Reeves, Frank Remiz, RiverSides, David Robertson, Jane Schmidt, Murray Seymour, Eduardo Sousa, Andrew Stewart, Kim Storey, Ron Williamson and Georgia Ydreos.
'HTO fittingly reminds readers ... that we have astonishing power to enact change ... invaluable' - Canadian Water Treatment
'poignant reminder to any city-dweller of the cultural, historical and environmental importance of fresh water, public health, lakes, rivers and streams' - Canadian Architect
'an intense and multifaceted approach to the relationship between the natural and urban world.' - Corporate Knights
Introduction: Bridging the past, present and future of Toronto's water
Ed Freedman – Formed and shaped by water: Toronto's early landscapes
Nick Eyles - Ravines, lagoons, cliffs and spits: The ups and downs of Lake Ontario
Ronald F. Williamson & Robert I. MacDonald - A resource like no other: Understanding the 11,000-year relationship between people and water
Chris Hardwicke & Wayne Reeves - Shapeshifters: Toronto's changing watersheds, streams and shorelines
Gary Miedema - When the rivers really ran: Water-powered industry in Toronto
Richard Anderson - The dustbins of history: Waste disposal in Toronto's ravines and valleys
Chris Bilton - Storm control: Hurricane Hazel and the evolution of flood control in Toronto
Mahesh Patel - The long haul: Integrating water, sewage, public health and city-building
Steven Mannell - A civic vision for water supply: The Toronto Water Works Extension Project
Michael McMahon - We all live downstream
Wayne Reeves - Addition and subtraction: The brook, the ravine and the waterworks
Shawn Micallef - Subterranean Toronto: Where the masquerading lakes lay
David A. Robertson & Andrew M. Stewart - The Garrison Creek mouth and the Queen's Wharf: Digging up 200 years of shoreline development
Michael Harrison - The vanishing creeks of South Etobicoke
Murray Seymour - Streamscape: Rivers of life in the city
Liz Forsberg & Georgia Ydreos - Participation/precipitation: Can community-based arts help keep us afloat?
Maggie Helwig - Downward
Michael Cook - Water underground: Exploring Toronto's sewers and drains
James Brown & Kim Storey - Buried Alive: Garrison Creek as a rediscovered extended waterfront
{interview} - The living machine: An interview with Helen Mills of the Lost Rivers Project
John Lorinc - The big gulp: How Toronto's Wet Weather Flow Management Master Plan (a name no one likes) will save the lake
Eduardo Sousa - Re-inhabiting Taddle Creek
Joanna Kidd - How the Toronto Bay Initiative reimagined Toronto Harbour
Mark Fram - A Tale of two waterfronts
Jennifer Bonnell - Bringing back the Don: Sixty years of community action
Jane Schmidt & Frank Remiz - High Park waterways: Forward to the past
RiverSides - Bringing in the rain: Is rainwater harvesting the solution to Toronto's energy and water needs?
Lorraine Johnson - Bogged down: Water-wise gardeners get the flush
Bert Archer - Eau de toilette, or how to behave when we're flush


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19 August 2006
A Conversation After Miami Vice
K: My head hurts.
M: Oh?
K: I was trying to put the pieces of the plot together.
M: Oh. I didn't bother.
K: And was the movie in English?
M: Sometimes it was in Mumble.
K: What was up with all that, "We've got the intel from the sec about the four mil kil drop."
M: It was the fetishization of jargon to evoke a kind of hyper-verisimilitude.
K: Ah.
M: And make you trust in the filmmaker's knowledge of the milieu they're presenting.
K: Right.
M: And make you think that the reason the movie doesn't make any sense is because you just don't get it.
K: Well, I just don't get it.
M: I really liked it, though. I thought it was kind of like what might happen if Stan Brakhage had made an action movie.
K: Meaning?
M: It's all about the color, the light, the sound, the shape. The only way to access these particular colors, lights, sounds, and shapes was to utilize the props of an action movie, but the plot and characters are not really what the movie's about.
K: So I spent the whole time watching the stuff that's not important?
M: Right, which is why you didn't like it.
K: I liked it. I guess. I just couldn't follow it.
M: Because it was subversive. It subverted your expectations. You went in expecting an action movie, not Michael Mann's version of The Passion of Joan of Arc.
K: Wait, I thought it was some other guy making an action movie.
M: Well, it could be, but I was thinking about the faces.
K: The faces?
M: There's a lot of attention to faces.
K: Uh huh. But The Passion of Joan of Arc is silent.
M: Right.
K: And the dialogue in Miami Vice is insipid.
M: Right. But the point of the dialogue is to evoke the sense of an action movie.
K: This action movie makes no sense.
M: And that's the point. So the dialogue has to be insipid, or else you'd be trying to get information from it.
K: But I did try to get information from it!
M: Which was a mistake. That's why you have a headache.
K: At least Colin Farrell was nice to look at.
M: I thought everybody was nice to look at.
K: Why, because they were colors and shapes, not characters?
M: Actually, because some of them are really pretty damn beautiful people.
K: It was nice to see Gong Li smile. I don't think I've ever seen her smile before in a movie.
M: She has a lovely smile.
K: And I liked all the strong women. My favorite moment was the one where the woman cop says to the guy, "Here's what will happen: I'll put a round at whatever-hundred-feet-per-second into your medulla," or whatever. I loved that. Even if it was just color and light. But the writing was pretty bad overall. Michael Mann needs to use different writers.
M: He writes his movies himself, I think.
K: Then what happened? The Insider wasn't badly written.
M: And Heat was pretty good, and certainly coherent. He tends to go for the overly-dramatic hardboiled dialogue, but he's perfectly capable of writing a comprehensible movie when he wants, which is why I think he was aiming for something different this time. He got tired of the same old action movie formulas, he wanted to explore a different aesthetic experience, a movie that never tries to explain itself, but he could only get the funding for that if he promised to make a big action movie, so he did. He just made one that doesn't try to explain itself, that can't explain itself, that's full of the basic elements of the most ordinary action flick, and that is all about evoking an affectual response in the viewer, rather than a narrative or logical response.
K: You're not serious.
M: Not entirely, no. But I liked the movie. I was actually, well, enthralled.
K: Because you didn't try to make sense of it.
M: Right.
K: There are times when I'd really love to live in your world.
M: It's full of existential crises, but not a lot of headaches.
K: I've already got the existential crises, so it might be a nice change.
M: There's a reason the first album that ever made a strong impression on me was Stop Making Sense.
K: So that's your aesthetic credo?
M: No, I don't have a credo. It's just something I thought of and so I said it. It's probably not even true.
K: Because nothing is true.
M: No, I'm sure some things are true.
K: Like that Miami Vice doesn't make any sense.
M: I don't know. We might have missed something.
K: Might have.
We drove through the rest of the night in silence, noticing the color and light and shapes all around us, without trying to make sense of any of it at all...
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All of Mann's previous films -- save for The Keep -- provide the same transcendent experience that you encountered in Vice. His cinema has always been preoccupied with sound and image, editing and rhythm, and can best be described as hyper-realist.ReplyDelete
His previous films, however, always connect the hypnotic visuals to coherent stories, respectable dialogue, and quality acting -- all elements that Vice sorely lacks.
Oddly enough, while I went into this movie ready to love it, I ended up hating it; while others I've encountered, many non-Micael Mann fans, fully embraced it. I can only encourage them, and you, to go back to his earlier films and see what you're missing. Watch Thief, Manhunter, Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider, Ali, and Collateral -- in them, you will recognize the same transcendent moments hinted at in Vice, except these moments are even more (a)effective in these films, because they're wrapped in a fully realized stories. Because Mann focuses his energy exclusively on imagery, Miami Vice is sub-par Michael Mann.
Obsessive Michael Mann Fan
p.s. If Mann wanted to "experiment" with the genre, did he need to spend 130mil to do it?
From David Thomson's entry on Mann in the _New Biographical Dictionary of Film_:ReplyDelete
"By the late nineties, Mann had clearly moved further ahead. _Heat_, it seems to me, was one of the best-made films of the decade, by which I mean that the need to look and listen closely was constantly rewarded. But even that richness of texture could not overcome the thematic triteness - the jungle prowled by cops and crooks alike. What more did it need? Less attitude, less deep-seated respect for these loner men, a more intricate tracing of how money works. Something of the same could be said for _The Insider_ - it was riveting and very well acted (though Al Pacino was allowed to be lazy in both films). But its view of different kinds of compromise was too pat. I think Mann needs better writing than he has been getting. But no-one does film with a better touch."
Basically, MV is a film where he's done the exact opposite of everything Thomson wants...
I adore Heat (saw it three times in the theatre, which may be a record for me), and liked The Insider and Collateral. I haven't seen Thief or Ali, and didn't mind but didn't really get much from Manhunter or Last of the Mohicans. Miami Vice is, it seems to me after one viewing (hence, grain of salt necessary), a departure in that it is particularly incoherent, which I wouldn't say of the other films. Heat, for instance, is complex, but it all fits together just fine. I'll be curious what I make of MV on a second viewing, and see if there are things I missed that help the plot hold together more. (In some ways, I kind of hope there aren't -- the incoherence was part of what I found interesting in the movie, perversely enough.)ReplyDelete
Actually, Mann's adaptation of F. Paul Wilson's The Keep is quite incoherent, and a clear exercise in style over substance, much like Vice. Sadly, it's not on DVD.ReplyDelete
I don't know. The plot of Vice made about as much sense as most cop-action movie plots, and the personal/emotional arc seemed indistinguishable from any other "undercover cop gets in too deep" movie ever made, even "The Fast and the Furious," which is I guess why I wasn't paying much attention to the plot. Having the advantage of watching it in Miami, I was trying, unsucessfully, to catch recognizable local scenery. All I recognized was the Atlantic ocean.ReplyDelete
I did, however, come out of the movie with an overwhelming desire to drink a mojito...
- Chris Okum3/13/2007 11:26 AM
Your conversations are really interesting. Has anyone ever told you how interesting your conversations are?I mean, they're more interesting than my conversations. After I saw Miami Vice I had a conversation, too. It wasn't as interesting as your conversation, though. It went something like this:ReplyDelete
Me: And what the hell is this guy doing.
Not Me: Watch out.
Me: I see him.
Not Me: Slow down.
Me: I'm going the speed limit.
Not Me: Watch out. Watch out.
Me: Stop screaming.
Not Me: Oh my God. Oh my God.
Me: Hold on.
Not Me: [unintelligible]
Me: [expletive deleted]
Like I said, not as interesting as your conversation, but still, it was a conversation, and I had it with someone, and it was just after we saw Miami Vice.


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Goodness, did the Cal athletic community need that victory.
The fans needed a reason to buy tickets and donate money.
The players needed a reason to feel good about themselves and their coaches.
Sonny Dykes and his staff needed tangible evidence that what they're preaching can work ... that it will work if given proper time and buy-in from the players.
Given everything that has gone wrong for Cal football in recent years ... from the belly-up ending to the Jeff Tedford era to the embarrassing academic performance ... from the alarming spate of injuries in 2012-13 to the total failure of Dykes' rookie season ... from the tragic passing of Ted Agu to his his family's wrongful death lawsuit against the UC ...
Given all that, it's difficult to recall an instance when a Bay Area college team, in any sport any year, needed a win as much as Cal needed that win.
A loss to Northwestern followed by a victory this week over Sacramento State would have offered no proof of positive change, no evidence that things were any different (despite all the offseason tinkering) before the Bears came face-to-face with a difficult conference opener at Arizona (Sept. 20).
Will the Week 1 victory translate to season-long success?
There's no way to know, of course, but skepticism is the prudent approach. Northwestern has the makings of a four-win team and the Bears could still finish 2-10 or 3-9.
But all that matters right now is they're 1-0, and after everything the players have endured, right now is all that matters.
Result: Won at Northwestern 31-24
Grade: A-
Comment: First, an explanation of the grade: Why's it's not an A or A+ given the significance and Cal's pregame status as a substantial underdog on the road against a Power Five opponent.
The grades are based partly on outcome, partly on execution and partly on expectations ... my expectations.
I picked the Bears to win -- they have as much talent as Northwestern (if not more) and were by far the more desperate team -- so the outcome wasn't a surprise.
Take that component out of the equation, and you're left with a mostly-impressive, slightly-wobbly road win over an unranked Big Ten foe. That translates to a B+/A-, and I went with the higher grade because the coaching staff had Cal so well prepared.
The Bears forced two turnovers, allowed only one play longer than 25 yards and limited Northwestern to a third-down conversion rate of 38 percent.
Which is all another way of saying the Bears played defense at a major college level, unlike last year. Kaufman's debut was an undeniable success.
Then again, he had a low bar to clear.
The decision by Dykes and OC Tony Franklin to use backup quarterback Luke Rubenzer worked brilliantly.
The freshman provided a change-of-pace complement to pocket passer Jared Goff, gave Cal a physical presence in the running game and bamboozled Northwestern.
All that said ...
The Bears must generate a running game with their running backs -- yes, those guys -- in order to be successful in league play: 63 yards on 22 carries won't cut it.
Next up: vs. Sacramento State
The matchup: A tougher-than-it-looks test of Cal's leadership and maturity:
How quickly and thoroughly will the Bears focus on Sacramento State and get their minds off Northwestern?
The Hornets are more than capable of taking Cal to the wire if the home team takes a detour through Letdown City.
Sac State upset Oregon State in Corvallis three years ago and last season beat Portland State ... yes, the same Portland State team that nearly beat Cal in Week 2.
If the Bears play with a sense of urgency, they should take care of business in time for backups to get much-needed experience.
If the Bears aren't focused, they'll risk losing not only the game but all the momentum they gained at Northwestern.


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When this craft column was started in 2010, one of the elements I wanted to reflect was the generosity of crafters who use their talent to help others. As a result, the 845 Craft Guide has profiled many crafters and their creations under "Crafting for a Cause."
Hurricane Sandy is the latest cause to hit close to home. Residents of the Hudson Valley have had to deal with electrical outages, downed trees and loss of life from the storm; some of our neighbors in Westchester and Rockland counties, New York City, Pennsylvania and New Jersey lost all their property.
In stressful times, crafters often turn to their hobby for comfort. This time your creation could help someone in need, making you a Sandy Samaritan. Sure, it's easy to look to the seamstresses, knitters, crocheters and quilters and place the burden in their hands, but all crafters can comfort others and you may even learn a new skill.
The 845 Craft Guide will provide this space to publicize your projects and crafty Sandy fundraisers. Thanksgiving is fast approaching, so make this year's craft more than just tracing a hand and making a turkey card.
Examine the word Thanksgiving and really think about what these two joined words mean to you. For me, Thanksgiving stands as a reason to celebrate that my family and friends came through this relatively unscathed and a reminder to lend a hand to those who are still struggling.
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In Queens, a Drive-In for the Car-Free Set
There is an oft-overlooked drawback to being a city of subways, buses, taxis and Citi Bikes: Car-free New Yorkers miss out on that suburban experience of the drive-in movie.
For a few weeks, though, that will change, when a parking lot in Queen is transformed into an open-air theater that brings a touch of small-town quaintness to Flushing Meadows.
Empire Drive-In—a pop-up theater developed by Todd Chandler, a 39-year-old filmmaker and musician, and Jeff Stark, the 41-year-old curator of an email cultural listing—will feature films from Friday night until Oct. 20.
A team of laborers built a concession stand, a marquee and a 24- by 40-foot screen in the parking lot of the New York Hall of Science. They also salvaged about 60 junkyard cars from Brooklyn's Canarsie neighborhood and wired them with radios that will play sound from the films.
The flicks scheduled for showings include a mix of silver-screen classics (including a Charlie Chaplin film with a live orchestra), animated films and B-movie kitsch (a low-budget film called "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine," for example). There are also earnest short films and provocative documentaries, including one about mechanics in Willets Point.
The duo behind the setup has done similar installations in San Jose, Calif., in 2010 and in Manchester, England, in 2012.
The peak for New York state's drive-in scene was in 1963, when about 150 screens dotted the state, according to Driveinmovie.com. That is down to about 30 today, with one of the closest to the city some 50 miles away in Warwick, in Orange County.
But in New York City, where meeting adults who have never had a driver's license is commonplace, something strange happened. "People said, 'Oh I get it,'" said Mr. Stark, "'you're making a drive-in so people who don't have cars can see movies that way.'"
The cars themselves are junk, many missing wheels or windshields, or suffering impacted roofs. But Mr. Chandler noted one of his goals wasn't merely to stoke nostalgia, but also "to interrupt the waste stream."
The cars include a yellow cab, a boat-tail Buick Riviera from the early 1970s, a BMW, minivans, full vans, station wagons and more Ford Tauruses than seen outside a '90s PTA meeting.
The drive-in team has cleaned up the cars, as much as junk can be cleaned. But it left many of the knickknacks within, including an empty bottle of whiskey and a handwritten divorce letter in a Chevrolet Caprice with 22-inch rims. Eight pine-tree-shaped air fresheners and a miniature ten-gallon hat dangling from the rearview mirror of a Mercedes SUV.
"Wherever we can cram in more layers to the experience, we want to," said Mr. Chandler, as a No. 7 train roared past the parking lot.


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