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Aussie Boxers Take a Pounding From Competition
Australia coach Don Abnett was left gobsmacked by a decision which denied tear-drenched Aussie teenager Jai Opetaia the biggest boxing upset of the London Olympics.
On a forgetful night when the Aussies went 0-3 in the ring, heavyweight Opetaia took it to Azerbaijan's world No.1 Teymur Mammadov only to come up one point short in a 12-11 loss.
While the 17-year-old Opetaia, Australian boxing's youngest ever Olympian, refused to criticize the judges, Abnett let fly.
"It was 9-9 going into the last round, I had him three points up about a minute into the third round - that didn't change," Abnett said.
"His opponent didn't score any points and Jai didn't score any more.
"How five judges sitting around a ring could get that wrong is beyond me.
"When we went out to the dressing room every country comes up to us and tells us the same.
"For a 17-year-old boy to come and fight his bum off and not get the decision he deserves - it's shattering."
Opetaia, a cousin of Socceroo Tim Cahill, was too distraught to speak immediately after the fight and when he returned a short time later the tears were still flowing.
Disappointed, he refused to dwell on the manner of his loss and instead turned his attention to making amends in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
"I'm just devastated, devastated," Opetaia told AAP.
"I thought I fought really well, but it's up to the judges and they didn't give it to me.
"This is just the stepping stone to where I want to go - the next step is Rio.
"Four years - I've got four years to get faster, stronger.
"I'm going for the gold medal in 2016."
But bantamweight Ibrahim Balla was less forgiving after he lost a controversial bout to Bulgarian Detelin Dalakliev, whom he labelled a coward after the fight.
Balla went down 14-10 that included a last round loss of 6-3.
"How can you be down in the last round when you throw two times, three times as many punches as the other guy and he runs away like a coward," Balla said.
"The scoring system, I'm not happy with it today.
"I definitely thought going into the last round one down I thought I pulled it off."
In Australia's last fight of the night, the judges didn't get a chance to make a decision when super heavyweight Johan Linde was floored with a left hook just two minutes and 14 seconds into the second round.
It ended a dismal day for Australia's boxers at the Olympics.
Thanks for the article BPP, I will keep an eye on Jai Opetaia in the future.Comment by classicbuzzbox on 08-02-2012
[QUOTE=MANIAC310;12393288]I could probably spark some of these Aussie boxers :lol1:[/QUOTE] You sure could. Look how tough your writing style is.Comment by 2501 on 08-02-2012
Isn't Azerbaijan the country involved in the bribery scandal in olympic box right now?Comment by alza1988 on 08-02-2012
One at the the start looked very similar to Katsidis .Good style for the pros maybe if they've got chin and power not for points in the amatuers .Comment by Tyrone Biggums! on 08-02-2012
[QUOTE=winky's right;12393317]since a 17 year old losing to no.1 ranked heavy by one point is getting demolished. righttttttt :lol1:[/QUOTE] your boys are dropping left, right and center, most of them shouldn't even be there, they took up easy qualification spots…Post a Comment - View More User Comments (9)


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by Toni Morrison
Character Analysis
Hannah makes an early departure from the novel, but her influence on Sula remains constant and profound. By sleeping with her friends' husbands, Hannah teaches Sula to regard sex as "pleasant and frequent, but otherwise unremarkable" (1921.40). Hannah "ripple[s] with sex" (1921.39). She seems quite happy without a husband, and she doesn't seem particularly concerned with being a good mother to Sula. (She tells her friends that she loves her daughter but doesn't like her.) It's not clear what we should make of Hannah. Should we dislike her for sleeping around, and for neglecting Sula? What does she tell us about marriage and propriety, happy as she is without either?
Hannah's death further complicates these questions. Sula watches her mother die in a fire, but we never hear of any grief on Sula's part. Is Hannah being punished? Or is the fire somehow redemptive? We never get the answers to these questions. Many of Hannah's qualities emerge in Sula as an adult. Perhaps this is a commentary on the legacy that mothers pass onto their daughters.

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Nothing Chapter 8 Summary
- The snake in a jar is preserved in formaldehyde, and it's in their biology classroom. The class has a game of daring each other to touch it for money. (Warning: do not try this at home. Formaldehyde is bad news, Shmoopers.)
- Henrik, of course, is able to get his hands on it because he's the biology teacher's kid.
- Poor Henrik really doesn't want to do it, but Hussain swipes it off the shelf, holds it over Henrik's head at recess, and threatens to bash him with it if he doesn't put it on the heap.
- Agnes just wants them to get the heap built already, because Pierre Anthon has started spitting plum pits at her from the tree on her way to school. His latest thing is tormenting her about how she's going to marry someone she doesn't love just so she won't be alone.
- Pierre Anthon may be smarter than everyone else in his class, but he's kind of a jerk.
- Henrik swipes the snake and puts it on the heap of meaning, and the hamster, Oscarlittle, totally freaks out. The kids, of course, think this makes the snake even more meaningful.
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This is a guest post from Tanya Paperny, a writer, translator, event planner, and adjunct professor of journalist and composition. Her translations of Andrei Krasnyashykh have recently appeared in The Massachusetts Review and _The Literary Review. You can read more of her writing at Culturally Progressive, her personal blog.
As Chad has already written about, Mikhail Shishkin officially declined an invitation to attend this year's BookExpo America as part of the official Russian delegation. In his public letter, he wrote:
By taking part in the book fair as part of the official delegation . . . I am simultaneously taking on the obligations of being a representative of a state whose policy I consider ruinous for the country and of an official system I reject.
Now some Russians accuse him of trying to "create a certain image for himself" or of "having no right to say anything" because he has lived in Switzerland since 1995. Of course Masha Gessen was right when she wrote in the New York Times that Shishkin's critics are just the "old anti-dissident demagogic standbys." Certainly they are no different from xenophobes in the U.S. who call for immigrants to "go home if you don't like it here."
A similar rejection was made around 2003, when poet Kirill Medvedev renounced the copyright to all his previously-published works and stopped publishing (except on his blog), focusing his energies on leftist political actions (read more on the recent English-language translation of his work here). I believe both these men were being genuine. They were not aiming for a publicity stunt but at an honest effort to change the status quo.
But the aspect that seems to be missing from these conversations is one about gender and the priviledge inherent in male writers making these types of rejections.
As Liz Clark Wessel, editor at Argos Books and Circumference, told me: "I don't doubt the authenticity of their pronouncements; they are just very gendered."
Were a woman writer to make a similar public statement—rejecting an opportunity or declining to publish—she likely wouldn't cause such a stir. A woman who made the same choice might be seen as prioritizing the domestic rather than as motivated by a political consciousness. When a woman writer has children, the world assumes she'll retreat and stop writing, anyway. She doesn't have the privilege of choice.
Largely this is a product—in Russia as in the United States—of the notion that the big important novels of our time are being written by men. In the U.S., the books that are said to speak to a generation (often titled "The _____") are written by Jonathan Franzen and Jeffrey Eugenides. These are our American literary 'towering figures.'
It's no accident that Shishkin has twice recieved the prestigious Большая Книга prize (translates to "The Big Book"), which has been given to 25 men since 2005 and only 6 women (by my count).
We know so very little; so little that what we think to be knowledge is hardly worth reckoning with at all; instead we ought to settle for being pleasantly surprised if, on the edge of things, against all expectations, our. . .
Many of Virginie Despentes's books revolve around the same central idea: "To be born a woman [is] the worst fate in practically every society." But this message is nearly always packaged in easy-to-read books that fill you with the pleasure. . .
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer's La Superba is appropriately titled after the Italian city of Genoa, where, after escaping the pressures of fame in his own country, the semi-autobiographical narrator finds himself cataloguing the experiences of its mesmerizing inhabitants with the intention. . .
It took reading 44 pages of Intervenir/Intervene before I began to get a sense of what Dolores Dorantes and Rodrigo Flores Sánchez were up to. Recurring throughout these 44 pages—throughout the entire book—are shovels, shovel smacks to the face, lobelias—aha!. . .
As presaged by its title, contradiction is the theme of Peter Stamm's novel, All Days Are Night. Gillian, a well-known television personality, remains unknowable to herself. And Hubert, a frustrated artist and Gillian's lover, creates art through the process of. . .
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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America / Edition 1by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Pub. Date: 10/13/2009
Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism
Americans are a "positive" peoplecheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive, we are told, is the key to success and prosperity.
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A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism
Americans are a "positive" peoplecheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive, we are told, is the key to success and prosperity.
In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude. Evangelical mega-churches preach the good news that you only have to want something to get it, because God wants to "prosper" you. The medical profession prescribes positive thinking for its presumed health benefits. Academia has made room for new departments of "positive psychology" and the "science of happiness." Nowhere, though, has bright-siding taken firmer root than within the business community, where, as Ehrenreich shows, the refusal even to consider negative outcomeslike mortgage defaultscontributed directly to the current economic crisis.
With the mythbusting powers for which she is acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of America's penchant for positive thinking: On a personal level, it leads to self-blame and a morbid preoccupation with stamping out "negative" thoughts. On a national level, it's brought us an era of irrational optimism resulting in disaster. This is Ehrenreich at her provocative bestpoking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science, and ending with a call for existential clarity and courage.
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Smile or Die: The Bright Side of Cancer 15
The Years of Magical Thinking 45
The Dark Roots of American Optimism 74
Motivating Business and the Business of Motivation 97
God Wants You to Be Rich 123
Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness 147
How Positive Thinking Destroyed the Economy 177
Postscript on Post– Positive Thinking 195
Notes 207
Acknowledgments 223
Index 227
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Ehrenreich criticizes and makes fun of the positive thinking crowd in this book. That part is enjoyable to read and often humorous. And, it is very easy to do. I mean, come on, does anyone but the most easily manipulated people really believe that the "Law of Attraction" can really work in a direct way for you, and that by simply imaging success (or whatever it is that you want - a lover, a cure) for yourself, you can magically make it happen. Ehrenreich seems to believe that Americans have in large numbers accepted this clap-trap in some sort of deluded group-think. But, despite the fact that some charlatans have been able to become rich in part by selling this theory, there is nothing much to suggests that many people really swallowed the tonic wholesale. I think that she her argument that the popularity of their self-help books, motivation coaches and some religious leaders was the major cause of the recent financial collapse of the economy is similarly quite thin on evidence. Since she takes positive psychology to task in this book for lacking scientific studies to support their theories, I would have thought that she would not claim that positive thinking has caused the "undermining" of America based only on a co-relation, some anecdotal stories and the similarly unsupported opinions of others. While some corporations attempted to use positive thinking's approach to help the company's mission succeed financially, there is no reason to conclude that the corporation's top management were exercising it when they chose what the mission should be. Or, that their commitment to any business plan was influenced by a belief that they could have it work if only every employee believed it would. Also, I think that she is mistaken to equate the feelings of opportunity that some people may have when faced with a great adversity in their personal life, whether it is a medical diagnosis such as cancer, getting laid off or experiencing some other devastating loss, with the delusional positive thinking that she rightly ridicules. When someone goes through a major change in their life, even one that also causes great personal pain and suffering, it seems to me to be reasonable to view that as an opportunity to question the assumptions that you had been living with and to rethink your priorities. It can make you realize what is really important and what is just veneer. This reminds me of the joy that people experience in the face of major societal disruption that Rebecca Solnit wrote about in A Paradise Built in Hell - The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster. I would hope that Ehrenriech would not find it incorrect for people to experience these positive feelings in the face of great stress. Finally, I was put off and must also comment on one small point that Ehrenriech makes. At pages 56-57, when noting that Reverend Will Bowen had distributed his purple anti-negativity bracelets in "schools, prisons and homeless shelters." Ehrenriech then wonders "how successful they have been in the latter two settings." This makes it seem that she is equating the residents of prisons and homeless shelters in ways that are not necessarily true. It is unclear exactly what her thinking is.
Intelligent conversations have been sabotaged more than once by people who "don't want my negativity." Finally someone speaks up to this air headed idiocy.
Interesting concepts regarding the brainwashing of the world to blame themselves for everything from unemployment to being swept away by nature's wrath. Today we're told to personally take the blame for whatever misfortune comes our way. If something bad is happening in our lives is because we've slacked off on our mission of self improvement. Supposedly anyone can be a millionaire if they practice the secret of positive attraction. That conveniently leaves blameless government, Wall Street, history, economics, education, global competition, the church, etc. I enjoyed her book. My only disappointment was her stand doesn't leave room for faith in a Higher Power.
Modern society nixes importance of philosophers and poets. Yet, in purely practical terms, without philosophers political discourse becomes incredibly shallow. And with poets reduced to drudgery in "liberal arts" colleges, the language of political debate becomes increasingly colorless and nasty. Politics is and always was a hyper-competitive business but for the observer of the Kennedy-Nixon exchange of 1960, there is a feeling of unbelievable deterioration of collective intelligence in recent times. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the very few, may be the only remaining, SOCIAL PHILOSOPHER of distinction in America. She is the only person whom I know, who poses questions relevant for the everyday life. The so-called academic philosophy is sterile. Academic social science should better be called "applied statistical research." These things could be useful for budgetary planning-- how many public toilets with Wi-Fi access an average city must have-- but are irrelevant in the terms in which normal people comprehend the society. Her new book is not so daring and unusual in its treatment as "Nickel and dimed" and "For her own good". Yet, she identifies the 180 degrees turn in values, which has occurred in American Puritanism. While the pilgrims held the dim view of "institutionalized depression" (Ehrenreich's term), modern American outlook heavily influenced by the Southern Baptist culture of megachurches and the New Age, propagates superficially "sunny" concept of reality and the supernatural. Neither repentance, nor continual self-improvement are necessary. Salvation can be achieved by having "the right attitude." The opposite side of this worldview also with the roots in pilgrim Puritanism is that if one is unhappy and/or unlucky--all mostly understood in terms of material wealth--one is beyond salvation and must fake a positive attitude not to become an outcast. Kudos for Barbara! Keep up the good work! My other reviews can be viewed on oldpossumsbookreview.blogspot.com
I am a huge Barbara Eherenreich fan, and have read several of her books, and jumped at reading Bright-sided. Now, my nook is new, so perhaps this is operator ignorance, but i couldn't figure out how to get to the end-notes until I finished the book. I HATE END-NOTES even in paper books. So, for the content, I give her book 5 stars, alas the frustration of end-notes brings it down to a 3 star. If you are one of those folks who never read foot/end-notes anyhow, it's a great read!


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WJR emergency appeal will help Pakistan flood victims
World Jewish Relief has launched an emergency appeal to assist those affected by the devastating floods in Pakistan, which have killed over 1,000 people and affected nearly two million others.
The floods - the heaviest in Pakistan for 80 years - have contaminated vital water sources. Officials fear greater problems if the floods reach more populated provinces.
Working with partners on the ground, WJR will be using money raised to provide non-food essentials, emergency shelter, health care and materials for the process of providing clean water and sanitation.
WJR chief executive Paul Anticoni said "the scale of need is overwhelming. WJR is proud to be in a position to call on its supporters to demonstrate our continued desire to help those both within and outside the Jewish community.
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CARMEL, Ind. (AP) — Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy seem to be spending a lot of time together these days. That included the top of the leaderboard Thursday in the BMW Championship.
McIlroy was dialed in with his irons and birdied his last two holes for an 8-under 64 that got him into a four-way tie for the lead at Crooked Stick. Woods chipped in from 30 feet for birdie on his last hole and was one shot behind at 65. They made it look easy, and Crooked Stick was every bit of that because of heavy rains earlier in the week.
Indiana native Bo Van Pelt, U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson and Graham DeLaet of Canada also were at 64. Crooked Stick was so vulnerable that all but five holes played under par.
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prefered guest resort She asked for my credit card details which I gave her without thinking it could be scam after she said I had won $3000 travel shoping spree, 1st spoke to Heather then June Taylor,she said if I pay $89 Internet
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She transfered me to June Taylor(the manager) who gave a customer care number and her phone number:00114072603619, she asked for a deposit of $890 immediately, unfortunately I had no money, she said when I am resdy I must call her and make the deposit so that I will be booked.
She said this award will give me $3000 to spend with my family, now I am afraid they might take any money from my account
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As he took the stage at Lakeland College's Bradley Theatre Thursday night to tell the story of how he helped rev up the Harley-Davidson brand, Clyde Fessler revved up the crowd with just the right marketing flair.
Immediately after a brief video introduced the Harley-Davidson culture, Fessler roared onto the stage riding a Softail Heritage Classic FLSTC motorcycle.
Fessler's presentation, part of Lakeland's 13th annual Charlotte and Walter Kohler Distinguished Business Lecture, recounted the Milwaukee-based company's establishment as one of America's iconic brands.
The lecture was part of a festive night for Harley enthusiasts, a night that included a pre-lecture reception that had Lakeland's Wehr Center decked out with Harley motorcycles, clothing and advertising courtesy of Route 43 Harley-Davidson in Sheboygan. Owner Richard Kummer and several members of his staff attended, and the event drew many local Harley riders who parked their bikes outside the Wehr.
Fessler, a Sheboygan native who retired as a Harley executive in 2002, played an integral part in Harley-Davidson's rebound from near bankruptcy. Some highlights of his presentation:
Fessler joined Harley-Davidson in 1977, and he recalled spending two days at the Sheboygan Harley dealership owned by Bill Kummer researching to prepare for his job interview. He served as director of marketing services, general sales manager, director of licensing, vice president of general merchandise and vice president of business development
The University of Notre Dame graduate also served on the board of trustees for the American Motorcycle Association and the Motorcycle Safety Foundation.
Fessler's appearance at Lakeland was made possible by a gift from The Charlotte and Walter Kohler Charitable Trust. Lakeland annually brings a nationally known business or economic figure to its main campus to speak with Lakeland students and the general public.
Past lecturers have included former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, Forbes Media President and CEO Steve Forbes and Emmy Award-winning journalist and author John Stossel.
The Charlotte and Walter Kohler Charitable Trust is named for former Wisconsin Gov. Walter Kohler Jr. and his wife, Charlotte.
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Ade08 posted a topic in Audio & ElectronicsHi All I have an X Reg Ford Mondeo with a Standard Ford 5000RDS radio installed. I have also installed a CD changer with the adapter plug. I would also like to install an amplifier to power some speakers on a shelf I have made. I understand that the Ford 5000rds system has a remote terminal that will switch an amplifier on, but I can not find a suitable schematic that tells me where it is in the back of the radio. I have wired the amp direct to the battery (in line fuse installed), and there is a good earth, and 12 volts is definately going through the amp. But I have not connected the remote wire correctly (I think!). If someone could email me or post a schematic on this forum that shows me how the remote wire should be connected then that would be excellent. looking forward to getting all your advice. Regards Ade


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Woodworker: Raymond FinanWhen Finan set out to design a triangular table (19-3⁄8 in. deep by 21-1⁄4 in. wide by 26-1⁄4 in. tall), his first thought was to give it straight sides and square...view details
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Woodworker: Chuck Zeller Inspired by old camel-back steamer trunks, Zeller decided to learn steam-bending and re-create the luggage as furniture. This white-oak chest is 20 in deep by 36 in. wide by...view details
White Oak, Maple, and Basswood Settee
Woodworker: Greg Pennington When building this white oak, maple, and basswood settee, Pennington shaped all 45 spindles by hand with a drawknife and spokeshave. The undercarriage was turned on the...view details
White Oak and Stained Glass Chest of Drawers
Woodworker: Jim Jasperson This gentleman's dresser began in Jasperson's backyard, with wood taken from a white oak that used to live there. The asymmetry in the piece breaks up the expansive faade...view details
Woodworker: Seth Janofsky Janofsky crafted this sideboard as his homage to oak. He paired white oak frames with English white oak panels, preferring fine tonal play to more dramatic contrasts...view details
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Coleman used two different techniques and two different woods to achieve the cohesive look of this cabinet. The top is made from maple and hand carved, while the lower portion is made from white oak and laminated.view details
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Nicholas Goulden's writing box made from English hornbeam and white oak with leather writing surface.view details
Coffin's white oak puzzle is made from 48 identical pyramids and can be assembled 11 different ways.view details
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This walnut and white oak blanket chest by George Monroe was featured at a woodworking show highlightlng woods of the Pacific Coast.view details
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Designed by Scott Dickerson, built by Dennis Saindon and upholstered by Newt Tyler, this prairie-style couch took over 37 weeks to build and used more than 630 board feet of oak. All the elements of the couch are based up an architectural style that was first developed by Louis Sullivan, but made internationally famous by Frank Lloyd Wright.view details
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After three years of work Hoffman finished this interpretation of Noah's Ark. The ark was made with five layers of oak veneer that when open reveal 60 pairs of hand-carved and painted basswood animals. The piece is completed with the addition of a unicorn - without a mate - and Noah and his family.view details
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That the Science of Cartography Is Limited: Intermediate Cartography Quiz
Think you've got your head wrapped around That the Science of Cartography Is Limited? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What is cartography?
The making of maps
The making of brunch
The study of history
The study of carts
Q. Which nation demanded that the Irish work for their food?
Q. Where do the speaker and her beloved go in the poem?
Coney Island
Q. Which arboreal symbol of mourning appears twice in the poem?
The Christmas tree
The cactus
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Complaint Review: Elen's Kids
Elen's Kids100 Milin Street, Cranford, NJ Cranford, New Jersey United States of America
Elen's Kids Elens kids Elens Kids, Scam Cranford, New Jersey
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On the 26th of March, 2011 my husband and I took the girls to meet with Cherry of Elen's Kids. She and her staff were all smiles when seeing these two littl toddlers only 16 ponds running around.
Cherry took us into her office and began by saying the film and Tv industry loves little ones like this because they can be used as younger children but have the ability to be directed because they are older, They are going to be busy little girls. She then bagan to show us al they clients who are working, like Alec balwins son on 30 Rock and the children from ETrade as well as all the families and children that they casted for a Will Smith Film. [continued below]....
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Dana White: Velasquez Would Smash That Fool Tyson Fury!
By Edward Chaykovsky
UFC President Dana White has reacted to Tyson Fury's recent rant about challenging UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez next. Fury is scheduled to take on former two-division champion David Haye on September 28th in Manchester. Should he defeat Haye, who is listed as a heavy favorite, Fury promised to challenge Velasquez live on television.
"After I beat Haye I want to fight Cain Velasquez," said Fury to the Manchester Evening News. "100 percent. Not Klitschko straight away because he's going to faff around. He's not going to fight. I want someone who will fight. Velasquez will fight. I'm going to call him out after I beat David Haye. It's going to be on HBO live in America so the whole of the country is going to hear it. I want to fight him in a cage. It's no joke, I will fight Velasquez after I beat Haye. If [UFC President] Dana White can put up the money, it'll happen. He's already put an offer forward of £1.5m."
White was annoyed. He says Fury is using Velasquez's name to gain recognition. Fury's talk is getting to White. The UFC Prez would love to see Velasquez do damage to Fury. He predicts the fight would last as long as James Toney's challenge of UFC legend Randy Couture in 2010. Couture easily defeated Toney in the first round via submission.
"Nobody knew who this dude was until he started calling out Cain Velasquez number one. Number two, Cain Velasquez has real guys to fight like Junior dos Santos and other guys in the heavyweight division. But I'll tell ya this, if Cain Velasquez continues on his run and runs through everybody, I would love to see Cain smash that fool. First of all he would come in here and it wouldn't be boxing, it would be MMA. If he wants to fight Cain Velasquez, he'll fight him MMA. That fight would last about as long as James Toney did," White told MMA Mania.
Fury and Cain both have already fights so their hands are full especially Fury. Haymaker in 1,2,3:chairshotComment by mrpleaseplease on 08-01-2013
wouldnt be the slightest bit entertaining unless there was a no take down rule. toney and more recently mayorga are good examples of taking a fighter out of their element and it will always end just like that.(submission)Comment by The Gambler1981 on 08-01-2013
[QUOTE=Keitha313;13610250]No chance, it would be easy for Fury or any high rated HW to deal with Cain, he's a MMA fighter and he fights square on!! He'd be getting knocked down and tagged at will all night long.[/QUOTE] I don't…Comment by Red Cyclone on 08-01-2013
[QUOTE=The Gambler1981;13610224]Even so and I agree about Fury's amateurishness I think he would be light years ahead of Velasquez in a boxing ring. I would give Velasquez a punchers chance at best. Now if Velasquez had a few boxing matches…Comment by The Gambler1981 on 08-01-2013
[QUOTE=mrlopez;13610196]Seriously doubt it! Fury fights like a frickin amatuer. Cain by TKO in 2[/QUOTE] Even so and I agree about Fury's amateurishness I think he would be light years ahead of Velasquez in a boxing ring. I would give Velasquez…Post a Comment - View More User Comments (26)


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Yes, as I sit here here in Green Bay on the brink of the Packers championship game, it is
god damn cold. It's near -10 WITHOUT the wind chill factored. That's cold people. I hope Fuzz, heimy, Nolan, Krouth and others double check their gear before they head out, otherwise they might return home with a few less digits. Should be a good game, one the Packers should win. But that's why the play the game. Actually the AFC title game is just kicking off right now. I think it could be a blowout...that's the feeling I got anyway. We will see. That's it for now....live from titletown, I'm DaManInBlack...back to you.


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Skip to comments.EXCUSE ME? Muslim morality police chastise a Canadian woman for her slutty attire
Posted on 05/30/2013 12:30:52 PM PDT by george76
In Canada, yes, CANADA!
Muslim woman with a full face-covering bag on her head says to Jane: Why dont you pull your skirt up higher so you can show your ..? Your clothing offends me.
Janes response to Muslim baghead: Your clothing offends me, too, and I would gladly tell you face to face if only I could see it.
(Excerpt) Read more at barenakedislam.com ...
I'm always tempted to tell them how much I love their 7th century slave costume.
Great response. That woman has more cojones than our press and our politicians.
Let's all make that our standard approach to the muzzies...tell them that their scraggly beards and silly women's attire offends us. In summary, they are ugly in appearance, attitudes, and religion.
Beats rape, the other option in a wholy Muslim society.
Their kookran offends me.
Let's not forget the gold standard: clitoral mutilation.
Hey, if the Muslim woman wants to wear a burqua and live by Muslim law, the answer should be "Why are you out here on the street without being accompanied by a man? Why are you talking to an infidel Christian without your husband's permission?" Then I'd beat her with a 1-2 inch stick as punishment for her immorality.
Ban the burka!
Years, decades(?), centuries(?) back, you could expect Christians to speak up against slutty attire. So it can be argued that Muslims are now doing the job that Christians are supposed to do, at least with respect to policing other Christians.
Thank you so much for leading me to that site. FReepers post the best links. I'm grateful.
The religion of peace clashes with the sexual revolution.
We have lots of these people locally. Sounds kinda fishy. Women in full Muslim battle rattle are usually not English-speakers. Too empowering.
And before anyone yells how unfair that is, let me assure you an American woman would not be allowed to wear short shorts in Iran... she'd be arrested. Not commented on by another woman, not chastised, but arrested. Or raped. Or both.
I have seen them lately all dressed up like they are waiting for a sandstorm, the men and women alike. I feel like I'm living in the time of Jesus.
At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.
From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves along with threats for failure to comply. At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris, we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam , with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam.
After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues.
At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare.
From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels.
After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in Bangladesh Muslim 83%, Egypt Muslim 90%, Gaza Muslim 98.7%, Indonesia Muslim 86.1%, Iran Muslim 98%, Iraq Muslim 97%, Jordan Muslim 92%
100% will usher in the peace of Dar-es-Salaam the Islamic House of Peace. Here theres supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in: Afghanistan Muslim 100%, Saudi Arabia Muslim 100%, Somalia Muslim 100%, Yemen ---Muslim 100%.
Hmmmmm ...
In the time of Jesus, there were exactly (yes, I know the exact number!) ZERO mohammedans in the entire Universe!
If your hajib had a pointy top you would look like a member of the KKK or Black Legion.
I tell them, "Don't be a slave!"
Years, decades(?), centuries(?) back, you could expect Christians to speak up against slutty attire. So it can be argued that Muslims are now doing the job that Christians are supposed to do, at least with respect to policing other Christians.
It's the slutty dressers vs. the cover-it-all Muslims. I remember an era when there was a happy medium. Take a look at how our ancestors dressed.
It's going to be hilarious!
We might have to remind them to see the humor.
Be prepared to defend yourselves, Western women. The children of Islam feel emboldened to fight its war on Western soil.
I was not referring to that, I was referring to the garb. Thanks for the feedback.
Before you ban the burka, consider what the average Muslim woman looks like!
Oh please. The Western woman wasn't dressed "slutty" in the first place. Don't give them any excuse they don't have coming to them.
I hereby retract my request : )
If the Canadien Political Correct police were around they would have ticketed the woman for hate speech. How dare she answer back to a Muslim?
By (some) Muslim standards exposed arms, knee length skirts and visible hair all constitute "dressing slutty."
With the exception of the visible hair part, the same was true here 100 years ago.
Kinda like the man who said to a man with a beard "I had a beard like yours but it looked so bad I shaved it off..
The man with the beard answered "I had a face like yours but it looked so bad I grew a beard...
Big deal. They're living in our countries with our cultures, not vise versa. And we're not talking about 100 years ago, we're talking about now. If they don't want to accept or ...gasp!... "tolerate" our way of life, they can hike their assets back to the mideast.
The woman's dress shown in the video didn't offend me. And by today's standards she wasn't dressed slutty. But since Christian women used to dress in Victorian garments that covered women as well, my gripe about the video is that it ignores that Christian standards are slowly eroding.
These dirty mozlums (pardon the reiteration) would die if they saw how girls at college dress.
A year ago I posted about crying after leaving my daughter at UCF.
The girls there dress like prostitutes. T & A hanging out everywhere. Geez. I couldn't believe it.
Don't disagree. Merely pointing out that "sluttiness" is not an absolute value, it is an expression of local values.
And there are ours. If you don't like them, go somewhere you do like the values.
I've been tempted, several times, to say, "my, that's a very sexy headscarf/burka you're wearing!!".
For the headscarf group, they're hypocrites, they say, "it is for modesty" yet paint their face in a load of makeup.
And there are ours. If you dont like them, go somewhere you do like the values.
So a hundred years ago where did everyone go that didn't like "those values"?
The problem is that previous generations of Christians would have condemned as slutty what Muslims are presently condemning as slutty.
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Deer Valley, Blue Lake area of Tahoe
Finally got some tires and just had to come back here and show how she did in Deer Valley Tahoe, CA... It's amazing how much difference a set of tires make with everything else stock, besides a BB 2inch lift.
Just ordered D44 front and rear with Tru Locs. RE 4.5in LA, 1in body lift, 35's, and a Warn winch was just given to me by a buddy who upgraded. I'm addicted...:flipoff:
I'll add some more links with some vid in a sec, uploading to Photobucket at the moment
First time flexing with the front sway disconnected
Yea, got stuck. Rear diff hung and both my rear wheels were off the ground. Took a tree branch and lifted one side of the truck to shove rocks under the tire...It worked :)
Wes looking like a fool
At the top of Deer Valley trail above Blue Lake, 8000ft
Cool pics
sweet pics!!! where in cali is this?
best answer anyone could ask for :)
I plan on running either Slickrock or Pardoe the weekend of Nov 8/9 also if anyone wants to go. I haven't been to either but heard they are both great
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In part 1 of "Inside the Criminal Mind" we introduced you to a forensic consultant living in Georgia who has spent decades building relationships with serial killers in order to study them. Now, it's time to look into the criminal mind through their work.
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Medea Exile Quotes
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Quote #1
Nurse: [Medea] might be a rock or wave or the sea, for all she heeds of sympathy from friends, except sometimes to […] moan to herself about her father--whom she loved--and her country and the home she sacrificed (1)
Medea gave up everything to help Jason in his quest for the Golden Fleece. She made herself an exile out of love for Jason. Ironically, his betrayal has made her an exile once more.
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Nurse: She never would have baited Pelias' daughters
to the murder of their father. (1)
Pelias was the king of Iolcus and Jason's uncle. Medea tricked his daughters into chopping him up, hoping to help Jason gain the throne. The people of the city didn't take it so well and chased Medea and Jason from the city. In effect, both Medea and Jason have been exiles the entire time they've lived in Corinth
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Nurse: Ah, she [Medea] has merited this city's good opinion,
exile though she came (1)
It says a lot that Corinth previously thought well of Medea. Especially after the mischief she got up to in Iolcus. We wonder what exactly made the Corinthians accept her. Maybe, it was all her smarts and skills. Probably, though, they just accepted her because Jason was a famous hero, and it was widely known that she was instrumental in his quest.


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My dad bought this truck brand new in '93 and I've been driving it for the past 8 years. The truck is so solid and has never failed me. It pretty much sat for 4 years while I was in college and still runs great! Over the past 2 years I've driven nearly 50k all across the US (through Florida thunderstorms, Midwest snowstorms, and sweltering Southwest deserts and I just hit 200k miles. Just recently had to put a new clutch plate, which is the second new one. When I hit 200k I got new rod arms, dampers, and bushings in the front as well as a full fluid change, and 4x4 alignment among other things. This thing now runs like a brand new truck. I doubt I will ever sell it
4x4 has never failed, starts right up in -20 weather, gets 20 MPG highway, camper shell with carpet kit. It's very fun to drive and handles like a car, unless you're making a u-turn.
I've gotten all work done at Toyota dealerships and the last time the guy told me that putting $3,500 into it was an investment. I know this truck will take me another 300,000+ miles all over the U.S.
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Traded in an 86 Mazda PU for this because I needed an extended cab for the kid. Like the old Mazda, Toyota's bench could accomodate child safety seat legally, if not comfortably.
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A mid round guy, who actually held his own against Morgan--something Bulaga has been getting credit for from the media--and has a lot of experience across the line. Wanted to start a thread to discuss him, and see if people had thoughts because this may be a very intriguing option for us...especially if there is a run on OTs in the top 10 and we are left to choose between a 2nd rate OT or an elite player at another position at #13.
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A) I've been watching the same "user" autobid, or "Bid-o-Matic" for about three hours now... What happened to the 25 auto bid limit? B) I'm in an auction, and I recognized a bidder username from a previous auction. So I clicked on the username to see their history, when I discovered that this account was apparently created yesterday on August 27th... The only problem is that I did not log into quibids nor did I participate in any auctions on that date. Could this be a robobidder made to make the real users feel like they're dealing with an inexperienced bidder and/or drive up the bids? C) I have viewed/participated in several auctions that seem to miraculously end moments after I leave. I wait for the auto bids to run out, which never seems to happen. But if I close my browser for say, 5minutes and come back, the auction has ended only a dollar or two away from when I left off. D) ever notice how the big ticket items that go for rediculously cheap are always won in an auction that is held and ends mid-day-- around 1200-1300hrs. The big ticket items like the computers and 40" & 50" tvs. The problem is, I've never seen an auction on these items that begins/ends before 15:00hrs. E) ever notice that no matter where you set your autobid to begin, it always seems to get there and end abruptly after your bids are out? F) the recently sold for prices are never the same. Same tv Saturday recently sold for $38 & $7. Today it's $122 & $133 Perhaps I've just had some bad luck. Perhaps not. There have been a lot of strange coincidences like the ones mentioned above.
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Yeah, and Red in the Pokemon Special manga, like Ash, was based on Satoshi Tajiri as well, and yet he still got replaced.
I've never seen anything that stated Red was specifically based on Tajiri himself. Red is supposedly this unbeatable trainer, while Ash is the kid with a dream. Totally different characters.
Still, 15 years is a long time. If they haven't replaced him after that long, 5 regions, and 649 Pokemon, I doubt he'll be replaced.
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Two and a Half Men's main character was based on Charlie Sheen, yet they removed him from the series and replaced him despite being in effect the main character. Heck, Red from Pokemon Special, like Ash, was based on Satoshi Tajiri, yet the manga creator had absolutely no qualms replacing him, and that manga's still running in Japan at least.
Replacing a live action actor and replacing an animated character are two different things. They didn't replace Ash when Veronica Taylor and the rest of the original actors were recast. Sheen got the idea he was greatness and deserved more than he was getting, which got him replaced. Though, from what I've heard, the show isn't doing as well without him.
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There's a thing known as reruns and DVD boxed sets, meaning that the younger generation could easily catch up. And besides, that didn't stop them from flashing back to characters who the current generation should have absolutely no idea without context anyway.
Cartoon Network isn't rerunning anything before Best Wishes to my knowledge anymore. I know they reran some of Diamond and Pearl for a while, but I think that's over. Boomerang is showing Hoenn, but not everyone has Boomerang. And not everyone will buy DVDs. Kids are only going to care about whatever they can watch on TV. The show is designed so that kids can get into whichever the current Generation it is in without concern for pervious Generations. Best Wishes was basically a "reboot" or "fresh start" of sorts, which is why a lot of the ties from the rest of the show were cut, which might explain why Brock was also replaced this time. Everything was supposed to feel new for Gen 5, even with Ash and Pikachu returning.
The flashbacks and returns basically are there for any older fans. But regardless, it doesn't matter. Kids can catch up if they want, the internet makes that fairly easy to just read up on characters, but there's nothing preventing anyone from enjoying the show.
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Except the series implies that he's been through the journey for quite some time, and I'm pretty sure even a four year old would not take someone seriously who acts stupidly when he's supposed to be a seasoned veteran.
Except Ash is still 10, not 20, not 30. He's a kid, he's not supposed to be perfect. Kids mess up, it's how they learn. But "stupidity" is not an accurate word for Ash. He's always made mistakes, his biggest (and one he made quite frequently) was trying to use Charizard when he knew it wouldn't listen to him. It cost him the first Pokemon league and several other battles. Any other mistakes, like the ones in Best Wishes, are just for explaining how Pokemon works, such as having to weaken Pokemon before catching them, or Ground types being uneffected by Electric attacks.
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If the show was not meant to be watched all the way through, they shouldn't have made Ash the main character in the first place, and thus they should have removed Ash when they had the chance long beforehand. Heck, they wouldn't have had the "To Be Continued" messages throughout the show if that were the case.
I doubt Game Freak expected people to hate the anime just because they kept Ash and didn't age him. It's just a cartoon, so I don't really know why people get so upset over it. Game Freak probably expects teens and adults to get out of Pokemon, because most people do move past video games and cartoons.
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Maybe, but there's a fundamental difference between simply swapping out pokemon for new ones, and acting completely unfamiliar with the environment you're supposed to have been a veteran at. Think of Ash's position as a trainer as being, like, a football coach, or even a commander of a battalion, for example. A football coach, if he ends up being transferred to another team, will usually give pointers and strategies to the team he commands that helped him win the previous time. It's called using your experiences to aid in succeeding. I mean, would you take someone seriously who, despite supposedly being experienced and a hard veteran at something, is completely stupid in regards to the thing they're supposed to be experts at? I wouldn't, and I doubt most kids would.
"Completely stupid"? He now has 8 Unova badges, so he's qualified for the Unova League, not to mention he's doing well in the World Tournament Junior Cup. People act as if he is a complete failure when he isn't. And again, I wouldn't expect a 10 year old to be a Pokemon Master and defeat Champions like Cynthia or Alder.
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And therefore, Ash truly isn't necessary in the grand scheme of things, and so should be replaced. If Pokemon is truly the sole point of the show, then none of the human characters are truly important, and thus they would replace even Ash simply because he is a human.
Except Ash's role is being the ideal trainer, not in terms of winning and losing, though he always makes it to the League, but as a trainer who loves and cares for his Pokemon. Everyone just wants to see a dominate force in the series, which would be extremely predictable.
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Except it IS Broken. Otherwise, the ratings would not have decreased.
Last I heard, the ratings for Best Wishes are pretty steady. It's a 15 year old show, it can't be the best forever. The only reason the ratings would decrease is the original fans leaving the anime, but the fans from the 90s are all adults now so it's expected. There are still plenty of kid fans that continue to watch the show.
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In case you haven't noticed, the ratings are actually PLUMMITING since Johto, at the earliest, getting worse, so what they are doing IS ruining their business.
Pokemon is supposedly still one of the most watched shows in Japan, but ratings are decreasing for all shows, probably due to them being available on the internet. Their business isn't being ruined, if that were true, they'd end the series.
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Yeah, and they constantly replaced the main characters of Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh multiple times, and they replaced the characters in Pokemon Special more than once, and that didn't decrease the ratings nor did it result in complaints as far as I know.
I've seen several people say Yu-gi-oh wasn't the same without Yugi, and I agree. I tried to stay with the second series with Jaden, but lost interest halfway through. Didn't really care for the last Yu-gi-oh with the motorcycles either. And Digimon isn't on TV anymore.
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And even if that action did doom the show, so what? There hasn't been a Mario cartoon since Super Mario World, yet the Mario franchise was still continuing. Same deal with the Zelda series and the Megaman series, and it will certainly be the same with the Pokemon franchise even if the Anime dies.
If you ran a cartoon with a steady fanbase aimed at young CHILDREN, would you want to make the show more violent, especially if you were counting on selling merch with these characters and creatures faces on them?
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And the amount of seasons he's been in mean absolutely nothing as to whether he'd be immune to being replaced, really. Brock had the second longest run of the protagonists only to Ash, yet he still was replaced and retired. Likewise, on the inverse, Brock's mom hadn't even been mentioned since the fifth episode of the original series/the entire series, and yet she still appeared nearly nine seasons later (six, counting the Hosos), and Jessiebelle took 9-12 seasons before she returned.
Brock wasn't the Lead character either. The entire Pokemon is this: Ash's journey to become a Pokemon Master. Everyone else (human-wise) is extra.
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Unless the writers seriously make Ash actually seem competent at the profession he was supposed to be a veteran at (like Solid Snake was in Metal Gear Solid 2), they honestly should not keep Ash in the show.
He's 10. Do you really expect a 10 year old to be a master at anything? And do we really need to compare Pokemon to Metal Gear Solid? Snake and Ash are nothing alike at all.
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Superstar Shahrukh Khan recently launched the music of his upcoming film Chennai Express along with Deepika Padukone at JW Marriott. And to make the music launch of the movie more interesting, the guests were given a whistle and a lungi to get in the fun mood.
Despite his shoulder injury, Shahrukh Khan could not resist himself to perform on stage. Not only this the actor also sung a few songs from his favourite movies. Deepika Padukone, who was looking gorgeous in her evening gown, was also seen having fun with Shahrukh and director Rohit Shetty.
Also Shahrukh Khan had specially invited South Indian actress Priya Mani, who will be seen doing an item number in Chennai Express. Others who attended the music launch of Chennai Express were Nikitin Dheer, Shekhar Ravjiani of the Vishal-Shekar duo, Singer Neeti Mohan, lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya, producer Ronnie Screwala and T-series head Bhushan Kumar.
Directed by Rohit Shetty, the film Chennai Express is about a man's jouney from Mumbai to Rameshwaram and what happens during the journey. Since it's a Rohit Shetty film, one can expect lots of action in it with a romantic twist. The movie is all set to release on Eid this year.
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