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BERNE, 21 May 2012 – The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) will fund a United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) project to help develop Indonesia's National Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production programme.
An agreement on the CHF 4 million (around USD 4.25 million) project was signed in Berne today by UNIDO Director-General, Kandeh K. Yumkella, and Swiss State Secretary for Economy, Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch.
Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country, has made great development progress in the past decades, and is now a vibrant manufacturing base, but further development requires a sustainable approach to conserve the country's extensive natural resources (including terrestrial and marine biodiversity) and protect people and the environment from waste and pollutants.
The Government of Indonesia has actively embraced a cleaner production approach since the mid 1990's, developing a national policy, and in 2004 establishing the Indonesia Cleaner Production Centre, which focuses on training, information dissemination and industry demonstrations.
The National Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Programme for Indonesia has been designed to scale-up, mainstream and expand the application of cleaner production, taking advantage of the resources, expertise and experiences of the more than 50 National Cleaner Production Centres and Programmes established around the world by UNIDO, in collaboration with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
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quote: America....where does any part of the above fit within the founding documents? 1st Amendment to the bill of rights as the sake of all others?
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A few hours after her fateful fall on the ski slopes, Natasha Richardson appeared "disoriented … with signs of confusion, a concussion," according to a medic who radioed hospital staff from the ambulance.
In tapes of the 911 call obtained by Canada's Globe and Mail, the actress's condition initially appeared mild.
"10-17," the medic says at 1 p.m. on March 16, meaning he has arrived after a call to the 911 dispatch center near Mirabel, Quebec, in response to Richardson's fall at the Mont Tremblant ski resort. "Uhh, we're still waiting for the patient."
Richardson, who was then feeling lucid, had declined treatment.
"There's a [ski] patroller who just went by, who tells me it's a 10-3," the medic reports to dispatch at 1:11 p.m. In ambulance code, 10-3 indicates the job is cancelled.
But as mid-afternoon approached, Richardson began to experience severe headaches and the dispatch received another emergency call from the hotel, this time with the code "17-Delta-1," which indicates the situation is now classified as "dangerous."
Within 45 minutes, the medics had rushed Richardson into the ambulance and were headed to the Centre Hospitalier Laurentien in Sainte-Agathe, a local hospital.
Racing toward the hospital just before 4 p.m., the medic says the patient is "verbal," meaning she responds when spoken to but otherwise drifts off. But according to the Globe and Mail, her orientation rating was 0, indicating she didn't know where she was, the day of the week, or what had happened to her – all signs of a potentially life-threatening brain injury.
Richardson died as a result of her injury on March 18 at age 45.
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on February 8, 2013 - 7:00 AM
As we walked up to the door of Peg's Place on a recent Sunday morning, it looked as though everybody from Hamburg and the vicinity had decided to go there for breakfast. The area right inside the door was packed with people and a server was changing the sign from "Please wait to be seated" to "Please register."
Standing by the front door, between the dining room and the long, meandering counter that cofirmed the building's early years as a Howard Johnson's, John, Pat, John and I got a chance to scan the nautical decor. A life ring behind the main counter is stenciled "Welcome Aboard," and a glass case filled with sailing and shipping items divides the dining room. Near the door is an ornate handwritten menu from a Thanksgiving dinner served on a lake freighter in 1975.
We had just pointed out the interesting spelling of "broccoli" on the Thanksgiving menu when a server summoned a party of 10. That explained the crunch at the door. At that point, there were just two other groups in front of us, and soon we were being seated. We did notice small groups congregated at the door, waiting for tables, the whole time we were there, but it didn't seem as though anybody's wait was too long.
The place was packed with groups and families, and we saw several warm greetings between customers and the fast-moving servers. Speaking of servers, there must have been 10 of them bustling around during the morning rush. Two of us ordered coffee and were offered refills a good half-dozen times. Good work!
The tea-drinker in the group was impressed with the hot tea preparation because the water served in the small metal pot was steaming hot. It's not the boiling water you would use at home, but it's the best we've seen in a restaurant.
The large menu is extremely varied, with pages devoted to almost everything you could imagine, including various breakfast combinations. Omelettes ranged from the spinach and cheese ($6.19) to a carnivore's dream, the meat lover's omelette, made with sausage, ham, bacon and cheese ($7.49). There are burgers, sandwiches, pitas, calzones, wings and wraps (all under $10, most well under), a fish fry ($9.59), shrimp dinner ($9.99) and more than a half-dozen other dinners, the most expensive of them a chicken parm dinner served over spaghetti ($8.99). The kitchen also turns out specials, which on the day we visited included a pot roast dinner ($8.99) and an open prime rib sandwich with potato ($8.95).
We started with two cups of soup, one included with a sandwich special ($5.75) and the other a la carte ($2.19). Served in small cups, the soups were brimming with meat and vegetables. The beef vegetable soup contained a wide variety of chopped vegetables in a delicious broth, while the chicken noodle was packed with chicken and small noodles. They were a great start to our meal.
The sandwich special ($5.75) was a grilled ham and cheese sandwich, which was nicely made, from the high-quality sliced ham and melted cheese to the warm grilled bread.
The No. 9 breakfast ($6.99) offered a good helping of corned beef hash, two eggs, home fries and toast. It was a hit, with the eggs cooked perfectly and the hash left on the grill long enough to form slightly crisp, delicious edges.
The western omelette breakfast ($6.49, 50 cents more to add cheese) was marked in red as a "Peg's Choice," and we were glad we made it our choice, too. Filled with diced ham, onions and green peppers, the omelette was tasty, and the home fries were hot and good. Our only quibble, with both this and the No. 9 breakfast, was that the toast arrived cold.
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The indictment alleges that between Christmas Day and Dec. 26, 1996, John and Patsy Ramsey "unlawfully, knowingly, recklessly and feloniously permit a child to be unreasonably placed in a situation which posed a threat of injury to the child's life or health," which resulted in her death.
But the release of the documents is somewhat of a red herring. Seventeen years after the nation was shocked by news that the precocious pageant queen had been beaten, strangled and sexually assaulted, JonBenét's case is still considered unsolved.
Although the indictment followed roughly a year of secret testimony, the Boulder prosecutor at the time refused to go along with the grand jury's recommendations, saying the evidence didn't seem compelling enough to win over a jury. Because the documents were never enforced, a judge placed them under seal.
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John remarried five years after his wife Patsy died of ovarian cancer.
The documents were released on Friday in response to a lawsuit by the Boulder Daily Camera and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, who insisted that the unprosecuted indictment should be a public record.
John Ramsey opposed the release, saying it was defamatory. The judge decided to release only those four pages of the 18-page indictment that had been signed by the jury foreman.
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Five candidates compete this week in the two primaries for 60th State Senate District, but the ballot might as well feature two of the best-known names in Erie County politics: Joel A. Giambra and G. Steven Pigeon.
Giambra, the former Republican county executive, and Pigeon, the former county Democratic chairman, are working behind the scenes in the two fiercely contested primary races for that Senate seat, which is costing unprecedented amounts of money and commanding statewide attention.
For Giambra, it's all about Republican Mark J. Grisanti.
Giambra recruited, advised and helped Grisanti upset Democratic incumbent Antoine M. Thompson in the 2010 general election. Now he's reprising that role in 2012.
Pigeon, meanwhile, has emerged as a major force behind Charles M. Swanick, who is seeking the Democratic line for the same Senate seat.
Pigeon has already successfully lobbied local Conservative Party officials to back Swanick and has mined many of his traditional allies for financial support for the Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-Democrat Swanick.
It all amounts to a powerful behind-the-scenes clash of two political titans in a November election that could determine whether Democrats or Republicans control the Senate come Jan. 1.
"It's a shame some people don't know Giambra and Pigeon are behind the scenes," said Alfred Coppola, a Democrat running as a long-shot candidate in the Democratic primary against Swanick and lawyer Mike Amodeo. "It's the same old story: There must be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow when Giambra and Pigeon are involved."
Leonard Lenihan, the chairman of the Erie County Democratic Party who has no love for either Giambra or Pigeon, called them "two old dying political leaders" who are part of the county's past.
"Giambra is obviously a friend of Grisanti," Lenihan said. "Giambra played a key role in Chuck Swanick's conversion to the Republicans in the early 2000s and helped make him chairman of the County Legislature. And Steve was very much a part of all that. So it's one big group operating together for a long time."
'Not going to comment'
And what of Pigeon's role in the Swanick campaign?
"Steve is always hungry for more power," responded Lenihan, whose local party leaders are backing Amodeo against Swanick in the primary. "That is what he does."
Lenihan noted some well-known examples of Pigeon's power brokering, including his role in the short-lived Republican coup in the State Senate when the former Erie County Democratic boss worked for since-disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada of the Bronx.
"That's why our executive committee did not take Chuck so seriously when he came before us, because Steve is very much part of Swanick's campaign, and I think most Democrats wanted to run as far away from that as possible," Lenihan said.
Reached at the national Democratic Party's convention in North Carolina last week, the normally chatty Pigeon declined to comment or answer any questions.
"I spent most of the summer in Romania. ... I'm not going to comment," he said.
The irony of the behind-the-scenes situation stems from the close relationship Pigeon and Giambra once shared.
Pigeon in the past created obscure political committees to help Giambra funnel money from his brimming campaign treasury to County Legislature candidates they both supported.
And in 2009, former Assistant District Attorney Mark A. Sacha pointed out that Pigeon had engineered donations from Giambra's campaign fund to Paul T. Clark during the 2007 Democratic primary for county executive.
But now the two are at odds. At least $14,000 in contributions to Swanick came from Pigeon or his allies. This includes $6,500 from his Landen Associates consulting firm, $1,000 from longtime ally Gary D. Parenti (a candidate for Niagara County Democratic chairman this year); $500 from the Nanco Inc. firm of another longtime political ally and friend, former Buffalo Comptroller Anthony R. Nanula; and $3,000 from Democratic Action, a political action committee controlled by another longtime associate, Jack O'Donnell, an Albany lobbyist and Erie County Water Authority commissioner.
And two weeks ago, three Buffalo companies controlled by Pigeon ally Hormoz Mansouri gave $3,000 to Swanick's campaign, according to the most recent disclosure reports with the state elections board.
Asked several different ways about Pigeon's role in his campaign, Swanick appeared uninterested in expanding on the question.
"I know everybody. Everybody who wanted to play a role in this has played a role," he said.
Pigeon's work on his behalf "has been no different, no less and no more than anybody else," Swanick said.
"Most of the effort is me," Swanick quickly and repeatedly cautioned. "... The ideas come from me based on what the constituents tell me is their issues. ... I don't consider anyone to have a major role in this campaign. I consider me to be independent, on my own, and doing the best I can with what I have."
How helpful was Pigeon in getting him the Conservative Party backing?
"Everybody wants to give everybody credit," Swanick responded. "If we're successful, everyone will want to take credit. If we're not, everyone will give 100 reasons why we weren't."
Some observers also see evidence of Pigeon's mischief in the Republican primary race, where Kenmore attorney Kevin Stocker is challenging Grisanti. Though Pigeon denies involvement, a pollster who has worked on Pigeon-supported campaigns in the past, Don Turchiarelli, is polling for Stocker this year.
And Grisanti accused Pigeon of being behind a Stocker mailing sent to homes last week that featured Carl Paladino. The senator said Paladino called him Friday to say he did not authorize the mailing.
Giambra, the lobbyist
When asked if Pigeon had any direct or indirect role in his campaign, Stocker responded: "Not that I'm aware of. I've only met him twice in my life."
Giambra, meanwhile, has re-emerged as a top, albeit informal, Grisanti adviser again this year.
He, along with former Niagara County Republican Chairman Henry F. Wojtaszek and State Sen. George D. Maziarz, advised Grisanti throughout the campaign that upset Thompson two years ago.
"He was the guy who made the whole thing happen," said one Grisanti insider who asked not to be identified. "He had a lot to do with Mark's success, and they are friends."
"He's taken a back seat to some extent this year, but he's still involved," the insider said of Giambra.
If he's taken a back seat, Giambra's access to Grisanti has hardly slowed down. Giambra said he often talks to the senator every day or at least every other day.
Giambra is a partner in former U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato's lobbying firm, Park Strategies. State records show Giambra lobbying for Park on behalf of 17 companies and groups having direct dealings with the State Senate. At least two of the firms have environmental-related business interests; Grisanti is chairman of the Senate environmental conservation committee.
But Giambra said he has never discussed his clients' needs with Grisanti.
"I have not yet had a need to lobby Mark Grisanti on behalf of any of my clients," Giambra said.
And Grisanti said he has had no dealings with Park Strategies, or Giambra, about any of the group's clients.
Grisanti said Giambra, unlike two years ago, does not have a formal role in his campaign. He does, though, consult Giambra on everything from mailings to geographical information about the new Senate district, which now includes parts of the Southtowns.
"I've got the final say on all this stuff," Grisanti said of advisers that run the gamut from Giambra to one of his cousins.
Giambra, the adviser
When Giambra is in Albany, the hallways of the GOP-controlled Senate are among his public stopping places. During the heated days of the 2011 debate over legalizing gay marriage, Giambra was frequently seen huddling with Grisanti.
"We had discussions about it, absolutely," Giambra said.
Giambra said he has known Grisanti's brother for 20 years and the senator for a good 10 years.
And what of his role in the Grisanti re-election campaign?
"My role is just a friend. ... At times I consult with him," he said. "At times, he asks for my advice."
What does he bring to Grisanti's corner?
"I think my attributes are I've been in politics my entire life," Giambra responded. "I understand how to run campaigns, and I've also been known to be a policy wonk, and if the senator asks me my advice on an issue I'll give him that advice."
Giambra's role has appeared to be part political adviser and, if needed, part pit bull. Giambra said he met with Erie County Conservative Party Chairman Ralph C. Lorigo to express his displeasure after the small but influential party endorsed Swanick over Grisanti as a result of the senator's crucial vote in favor of same-sex marriage last year. That occurred after promising Conservatives he was a traditional marriage proponent and the Conservative Party line then providing Grisanti with the extra votes needed to win his tight 2010 Senate race.
Lorigo described the May meeting as being more than just Giambra's expressing displeasure. The meeting, which also included Maziarz, ended badly when Lorigo said his party could not endorse Grisanti.
"Certainly, [Giambra] indicated there would be consequences," Lorigo said.
After that meeting, Lorigo said, three unsigned letters were sent to different Conservative groups in the area attacking him. Computer-generated telephone calls were also made to Conservative voters, with the recorded announcer giving out Lorigo's personal cellphone number and asking people to call him to complain.
And Charles Castiglia, a member of the Erie County Conservative Party executive committee, said he was "reached out to by an intermediary" in May to consider challenging Lorigo for the party chairmanship. Other sources identified the intermediary as someone for whom Giambra once procured a county job when he commanded the Rath County Office Building.
"I was asked point blank - he was wondering - if I was interested in being chairman," Castiglia said. "I said no."
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on May 4, 2013 - 7:00 PM
NIAGARA FALLS – Police said a stolen car was left behind at the scene of a shooting late Friday in the 2400 block of Grand Avenue.
Investigators believe no one was injured.
Shortly after 11 a.m. police responding to the report of gunfire in an alley discovered an unregistered black Mercedes and a stolen silver Ford Focus. Police said they also recovered two baseball caps, a wallet containing identification, car keys and five spent shell casings.
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While the accuracy of its most ambitious
simulations is still is a work in progress, Stanford University's Folding@home
has been a visionary project in showcasing the merits of distributed,
volunteer-based supercomputing.
I. LHC Powers up With New Volunteer Computing
CERN (Conseil
Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire --
European Council for Nuclear Research) is teaming up with United Nations
Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), and the University of Geneva to create
an organization dubbed "Citizen Cyberscience
Centre", which looks to test and deploy similar projects.
The Citizen Cyberscience Centre just yesterday released [press
release] its second generation LHC@home software, whose ambitious goal is to
assist scientists with locating the legendary Higgs boson and other exotic
The client is available to download here.
Its concept is that while scientists have advanced
physics theory that tells them how they expect systems to behave, they can't
actually give a prediction of how a particular system will behave until they
put that theory into a system. With LHC@home, members of the public can
install a client on their computers, which will apply their spare computing
power towards simulating high-energy collisions between protons. The
results will then be compared with experimental data from real-world LHC runs
to narrow the search for items of interest.
The LHC stands for "Large Hadron
Collider". The massive 17 mile (27 km) underground track on the
Swiss-French border is the world's most powerful particle accelerator.
The LHC has been conducting
full experimental runs during warm months since March 30, 2010, after two years
of initial
technical difficulties.
Professor Dave Britton of the University of Glasgow, a researcher who previously
worked on the CMS LHC sensor, and currently works on the ATLAS sensor project, is a developer of cloud-based particle physics computing schemes. While not directly affiliated with the LHC@home code, he voiced enthusiasm on the effort, which is similar to his own GridPP (www.gridpp.ac.uk) distributed particle physics effort.
He remarks, "Scientists like me are trying to
answer fundamental questions about the structure and origin of the Universe.
Through the Citizen Cyberscience Centre and its volunteers around the world,
the Grid computing tools and techniques that I use everyday are available to
scientists in developing countries, giving them access to the latest computing
technology and the ability to solve the problems that they are facing, such as
providing clean water. Whether you're interested in finding the Higgs boson,
playing a part in humanitarian aid or advancing knowledge in developing
countries, this is a great project to get involved with."
II. LHC@home Can Also be Used to Protect
Forests -- and Lives
The new project will also be applied to processing
satellite data from governments and private entities to protect the environment
and human lives. These applications will also draw computing resources
from the LHC@home 2.0 client.
One plan involves tracking of natural disasters
such as floods, tsunamis, and earthquakes. Such a project could help aid
workers locate injured people, saving lives. It could also help people
avoid imminent natural disasters.
Another potential humanitarian application is to
use the data processing capabilities to locate clean drinking water. Many
regions of the world still
lack reliable sources of safe-to-drink water.
Additionally, the processing power can be used to
track deforestation. This will allow international governments and
environmental action organizations to assess the extent of environmental damage
and loss of biodiversity. This will allow them to better formulate plans
of action to preserve our planet's natural treasures.
Describes Francesco Pisano, Manager of
UNOSAT, "From a development and humanitarian perspective, the potential of
citizen-powered research is enormous. Participating in the Citizen Cyberscience
Centre enables us to get new insights into the cutting edge of crowdsourcing
technologies. There is no doubt that volunteers are playing an increasingly
central role in dealing with crisis response, thanks to the Internet."
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While it may sound like the public is doing all
the work on these projects, they also require a great deal of effort from CERN
and its partners. Not only do they have to develop all the software, but
they also have to process the data down to a form that's digestible by the
"volunteer cloud".
To that end the UK's Science & Technology
Facilities Council is providing one of the world's top ten Tier 1 data centers
to serving up information to LHC@home 2.0 clients.
The reward, though, of the marriage of academia,
government institutions, and the public is in producing a distributed
supercomputer that far exceeds the capacity of even today's most
powerful stand-alone installations.
quote: Which, like the string theorists, we have no proof for nor any way to ever prove this true (as of now we can't ever hope to observe a string due to how small they are and how large photons are--though I have ideas as to how to get around that). If we are trapped in a singular, eternal moment where nothing and everything happens, then it is both immeasurable and instantaneous. It is eternal in our eyes as the flow of events happen so quickly that our "brains" are dialed up to process so rapidly that the events seem to take "time" but our perceived time is a microcosm of the moment.
quote: What is here this second, everything that is here as you insinuate, will be gone the next second and we will be left with nothing or everything--or maybe our universe will change state completely, say from a binary 0 to a binary 1.
quote: Or perhaps it will meet an untimely demise as it comes crashing into another dimensional barrier (a dimension to us, mind you) and drench the outer walls with this splattered concoction.
quote: All in all though, if we are in a fleeting void, then what exactly is the point at trying to solve "worldly" problems such as poverty, starvation, famine, death, war, or even seeking a cure to aging. If as you say we will never be able to leave our sandbox, then what is the point to existing at all, period. We've answered "how" here, but there is no point in answering "why."
quote: Thus, you've created the perfect paradox. A paradox that suggests that chaos is ultimately the supreme solution to our universal quandry as any attempt at maintaining order will ultimately be met with complete oblivion. There is no point in existing at all. So why care then? Why not do what we each individually desire with such an outlook?


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I wear safety goggles for almost everything, had soooo many near accidents that could have resulted in eye loss . . .
At least software doesn't try to kill me !
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Timberlake was expected to make the cut for album of the year for his hit comeback The 20/20 Experience, and was also a likely contender for both record and song of the year for "Mirrors," but was shut out of all of those categories.
Perhaps Timberlake's decision to release a second part of The 20/20 Experience in September backfired on him. With both installments counting as one album, he might have diluted the strength of the first half with the voters.
Meanwhile, Bareilles was the real shocker of the Big Four picks with her album of the year nod for The Blessed Unrest. She will face off against Daft Punk for Random Access Memories, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis for The Heist, Taylor Swift for Red and rapper Kendrick Lamar – another somewhat surprising (although much-deserving) finalist – for Good Kid, M.A.A.D City.
Like Timberlake, Bruno Mars is another unexpected album of the year omission for Unorthodox Jukebox, but he did pick up nominations for both record and song of the year for "Locked Out of Heaven."
Best new artist also produced some surprises with the inclusion of electronic musician James Blake and Ed Sheeran – who was inexplicably nominated after already being up for song of the year at the last Grammys – and the exclusion of Lorde and alt-rock band Imagine Dragons.
It's especially puzzling about Lorde and Imagine Dragons because they both scored record of the year nominations for "Royals" and "Radioactive," respectively. They will compete against Mars, Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams for "Get Lucky," and Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams for "Blurred Lines."
Jay-Z leads the nominations with nine, although none of them are in the top categories, while Lamar, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Williams, and Timberlake each earned seven nods. So even though JT didn't get any love in the Big Four, there's a good chance he won't go home empty-handed when the winners are announced on Jan. 26.


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Pat Conroy and Cassandra King are literary royalty in South Carolina. The couple live in Beaufort overlooking Battery Creek. Both have new books they are promoting. King's "Moonrise" is her fifth novel.
Conroy's "The Death of Santini" is his last literary wrangling with his famously dysfunctional family. Earlier this month, they spent the better part of an afternoon discussing their writing lives.
Q: Cassandra, Got any movies in the works?
Cassandra King: No. We've had lots of nibbles, mostly for "The Sunday Wife," that was my second novel. Nothing's come up. Pat's taught me that the movie business is so bizarre anyway. He's sold almost all of his. Some of them haven't been made.
Q: How are things going so far with "Moonrise"?
King: I have to modestly say I'm getting good reaction. It's been six years since my last book came out. So I wasn't sure. You get forgotten during a period of several years. Pat was 14 years (before) "Beach Music," but he had some nonfiction come out in that time. I hadn't been on the road. So much of publishing has changed. I've gotten a lot of interest from readers and a lot of talk that the book is a little different than my others, it's darker, and then it has the Gothic element, which I've never done before.
Q: People are thrilled for you, they haven't forgotten you at all, they have been waiting.
King: That's what has been so gratifying. I've had people say they've been waiting a long time for this book.
Q: You started writing seriously, for publication, late in your life, deferring career in favor of family. Now you seem to be on a roll.
King: Once I got started I couldn't stop. I actually was a Sunday Wife, which is a minister's wife, in my previous life.
Pat Conroy: She was married to a Muslim iman.
King: I was not, don't listen to a word he says. So I put my writing career on the back burner partly because I should have, according to the church; I was trying to live up to the expectations of everyone else.
I really got into it, but I was writing in secret the whole time. I was still writing. I wasn't doing anything about publication. Then I went back to get a Master's in English because I started teaching at a junior college in Birmingham, started teaching remedial English.
So my first book ("Making Waves") was my master's thesis. I never thought I would write a novel. I though novels were overwhelming. My book came out in 1995. I sold it in the early 1990s. It took a while for them to get it out.
I came from a family of readers but I wasn't really encouraged to be a writer. I was raised in a farm family. Things like that would be frivolous. You had to earn a living. When I was going to get a degree in English my mother said well, you have to get a teaching certificate. Once you get married, something might happen to your husband, you need to support yourself.
Q: What kind of farm?
King: It was a family (peanut) farm; my father and his father farmed. I got divorced before my book came out. I'm not sure that's a coincidence or what.
Q: Just before?
King: Pretty much.
Q: What did your former husband say?
King: "Unnecessary."
Q: Do you only write novels?
King: No, I've published some essays and a couple of short stories since then.
Q (for Pat Conroy): "The Death of Santini" is a kind of final reckoning. But surely you are not done writing?
Conroy: Not done writing. But I think my obsession with my mother and father ended with this book. They certainly made an impression on this one older son, and they made the same impression on the rest of their kids. They were overwhelming. ... I felt it was time for me to leave that childhood-ruined boy behind me.
Q: In the new book, does family factor in.
Conroy: They do not. I have an only child. So I will get no crap from my brothers and sisters.
Bernie (Schein) and I took a movie course taught by Tim Belk, my gay friend from San Francisco. The only film I saw at The Citadel was "The Seven Samurai," because we could study military tactics. (In San Francisco) I was watching "8½," Fellini, "The Bicycle Thief" ... I want to write about that shocking introduction to movies and the effect it had on my life at that time. And the effect was is a movie, like a book, can change a life. If you see the right movie, done by the right artist and it speaks the right way to you, just like a book, it can change everything about the way you look at the world.
That's one of many themes. The Vietnam War is going to play a large part.
Q: What's the nature of your work with University of South Carolina Press?
Conroy: (Jonathan Haupt, USC Press' new chief editor, is) the best editor in the United States. And I have had great editors. Nan Talese, my editor now, is the first winner of the Maxwell E. Perkins Award for lifetime achievement in editing. The third guy to win it was Jonathan Galassi who was my editor for "The Lords of Discipline." So I know my editors. This guy could be the best of all. I think Sandra agrees with this.
King: Absolutely.
Q (for Cassandra King): Have you worked with him?
King: I was a reader for him. His feedback on manuscripts and stuff, I've never seen anything like it.
Conroy: His suggestions are brilliant. I've been stunned by the guy. ...
I know the book world is changing. And what I've been afraid of is what is going to happen to the middlest writer. The middlest writer is most of the writers in the United States. He (Haupt) told me about this South Carolina project that he got funded, and that he's looking for an editor. I said, "Let me edit it. But you've got to promise me one thing: I don't want to just stick with South Carolina. When can we open this up?" And he said, "Let's do it immediately. When this project is over, let's open it up to everybody."
[Initially, the project will publish four novels by South Carolina writers.]
He (Haupt) is a pure genius. He is the best I have ever seen. I don't know how South Carolina got him, and I'm terrified that it won't be able to keep him.
Q: Why are you so nice? Is it your nature, or did you consciously decide not to be like your dad?
Conroy: Writers can be a pain in the a**. You've met them. Writers are the most horrible people on Earth. And I told Sandra, "Sandra, they're a******* ..." I know writers who don't talk to the people who buy their books. "Are you nuts?!" "I'll never see them again." "You know they're feeding your children?"
And of course my mother is on my right shoulder at all times in my life. And I can hear her. And of course (there's) the Marine Corps.
You're going to be good example when you go into this community. Dad said, "You're going to kick a** kids, because you're in the Marines, and you toe the line, and you're going to be the best athletes and the greatest leaders." And then there is this f****** Citadel. I didn't want to be like those guys. The one thing at The Citadel, I decided to be nice to plebes, the knobs.
There are ways to get through life.
I came as a Marine kid to The Citadel. The Marines, that's my training. In the Marine Corps, you feed your men first, you eat last. At The Citadel, they were starving the plebes. This is against every leadership principle Dad had ever taught me. So I rebelled early against it, there's no question.
Q: In many ways, you are very different writers. Cassandra, you look forward and write about change; Pat, you look backward and write about endurance. How do you approach one another's work? Do you edit each other? Read books in progress? Discuss plot lines and characters? And what effect, if any, does one person's writing have on the other?
King: Well, we don't really read books in progress much. I've never been able to do that, I can't let anybody see what I'm doing till I finish it. It all comes pouring out, then I go back a shape it. ... Sometimes we'll talk about scene.
Conroy: She edits my books first.
King: Pat says he repeats himself a lot.
Conroy: I usually give you chapters as I write them. She's an excellent editor. There's also one thing she's not saying because she's not as truthful or honest as I am. She would rather suffer the torture of the Ayatollahs than admit she was married to me in the first three years of our marriage. Like today when I attended her signing, she would not allow me to parachute into a signing.
King: I was just determined to make it on my own. Just the other day I had someone ask me at a luncheon, at a question and answer period, "Where you already published when you married Pat?" Yes I was, thank you. Otherwise good career move on my part.
Conroy: No she was a complete loser. It was a career step-up.
Q: I read somewhere that you, Sandra, tend to find joy in the writing process while Pat confronts it like a trainer with his reluctant horse. For Sandra, there is laughter and delight; for Pat, pain and tribulation. Is that true?
King: I think Pat's writing has been like an exorcism. I always tell Pat, you might consider writing fiction sometimes, you might enjoy it. You don't have to regurgitate everything horrible that's happened to you. But I enjoy it; I crack myself up.
Conroy: I cannot believe that. I come out here and I will hear her roaring with laughter at s*** she herself has written. And I'm thinking, I don't think I've ever chuckled over a single thing I've written. "Ha ha ha ha, heh heh heh heh. My what a clever fellow." But I hear her roaring. It certainly seems like a different way.
King: I certainly enjoy the process.
Q: One of the marvels of the creative process is the way artists relinquish their works to the public and how those works then become independent, taking on a life of their own. Yet both of you, in different ways, make highly personal art. What is it like for you to let it go at the end?
King: I think I let go of mine pretty well. Because I already have something else in mind and I'm eager to get to it. You get tired of talking about your book ... you want to get back to your next project.
Conroy: I've usually had to worry about the reaction. I've had a different process. When "The Boo" came out, I knew The Citadel would be mad, and they were, and they banned it. When "The Water is Wide" came out, I knew white people in South Carolina would be p***** off, and they were. I was worried about that and I had reason to be. When "The Great Santini" came out, my God, my father ... I caught hell from everybody, and that surprised me because I wasn't expecting that much. "The Lords of Discipline"? I knew to prepare for the ram. I knew I was going to get it on that book, and The Citadel rose up in one voice against me on that.
Q: You didn't go back to the Citadel for decades after that, right?
Conroy: I think about 25 years. ... For years, they told me it was not safe to go back on The Citadel campus, especially in the Shannon Faulkner years. They told me, don't come, we can't guarantee your safety.
Q: Who told you that?
Conroy: Someone in public relations. I love seeing the girls in there by the way.
Q: Both of you are considered "Southern writers." What is a Southern writer, and how do each of you fit (or fail to fit) that category?
Conroy: I've always been proud about being a Southern writer. I was raised in the South, but on Marine bases: Quantico, Cherry Point, Camp LeJeune, Parris Island, Beaufort Air Station. I was born in the Atlanta Naval Air Station, so I was raised on federal property. My mother is as Southern as a boiled peanut. We moved so much, 11 schools in 12 years for me, when they start calling me anything, I took great pride in being identified as something. So when they said "Southern writer," I said, "That is great, I love that." I've seen Southern writers run from that phrase. ... That limits you as a writer. You can write about a guy and woman in the dust bowl of Oklahoma and it becomes "Grapes of Wrath." You can write ... about being a minister's wife. Nothing in the world limits you, I don't believe. Being a Southern writer, there's always a thing about family, there's always a thing about the land, there's always a thing about connections, there's always in the South things about race... (People say), "How can you live in the racist South?" I said, "You know I've been to parties in New York for 40 years now. I've never seen a black person invited to one of your parties, ever. I've never seen one in your house." The one think black and white people in the South do is, we know each other, we've been around each other. The whites have been a pain in the a**. Our history is a pain in the a**. It's an unforgiveable history, we've got to get over it. But we're talking (about a time when) we have a black president. Give me a break. That is amazing to me. ... I think a Southern writer is capable of writing "A Remembrance of Things Past." I think they are capable of writing "Ulysses." ... The rise of women has been the most stunning thing that's happened in America since the rise of black people in the South. We've lived through amazing times. ... The world has changed and the South has changed in extraordinary ways. I feel lucky to be a recording artist of that change. (Turning to Cassandra King) Does that sound pretentious enough, Sandra?
King: That sounds real pretentious. (Laughs.) The South has such a rich heritage and such a fabulous landscape and all. I am a Southern writer because I'm Southern, and that's all I know. Like Pat, I don't have any problem being classified as a Southern writer, I don't find that limiting.
Q: Family dynamics are at the heart of both of your novels, family and relationships. But they play out differently. Talk a little about the significance of family in your work.
Conroy: Here's what I'm terrified of right now, I'll just tell you: The reaction of my brothers and sisters to "The Death of Santini." And I can tell you, it's a tough group. And they're anxious to read it. And I've actually lied to them and told them there are no galleys available. ... It'll only be available the day the book goes on sale. That should not be part of a writer's life, but it's certainly framed my life as a writer.
Q: There's a lot of dialogue in "The Death of Santini." How do you remember those conversations?
Conroy: Well, I tell the stories so much. I've told them a million times. ... You can't get verisimilitude, you just can't do that. The book I wrote that most scared me about that was "My Losing Season," because my basketball team at The Citadel, all of them were bigger than me. And I mean all of them could beat me up, and several of them wouldn't have minded doing it. I write this book and all I could do — it was a book of journalism. We would go through it. I'd go to each house and, like you are doing now, I'd interview them. I'd have cross-references. Danny Moore would say this happened, "Do you remember it that way?" And they would say, "No, there's one thing he got wrong: I didn't say that, I said this." "Johnny said you said this." So I went through this and then I warned them. Before the book came out, I said, when I write it, what I write is going to sound like the truth. Because none of you all remember, I don't remember, but it is going to be written down and you are going to remember it that way.
King: It becomes the truth.
Conroy: The guy who was most terrified about it, a very distinguished Citadel grad, T. Hooper, who was on the Board of Visitors, he was suspicious of me doing this book. He got up at Furman University and said, I had my great doubts about this book, but I want to tell you every word is true. ... All of us know that every word can't be true. There is the truth in there. And the kids — I go over all these stories (in "The Death of Santini") with the kids. And in some places, where it's most troubling, I am the only witness. They can't help me. And Mom and Dad are dead and they can't help me. ... Mom stabbing Dad was denied my entire life.
Q: What a scene.
Conroy: Horrible. Horrible.
Q: Why do you think you're father was like that.
Conroy: OK, I have a theory that he was treated like that by his father. But here's one thing about the Chicago Irish that I learned. None of them have ever broken, except my Uncle Ed. They have all said. I didn't like Grandpa and Grandma Conroy. The mean streets of Chicago. I mean give me a break. I just didn't like it. ... It was never a part of me very much, but of course it's always a part of you. But I think Grandpa must have really beat Dad up. But among the Irish in Chicago, there is such a code of omerta that they have never broken. Also, I think he was just a mean a******. He was just mean. Even his men in the Marine Corps hated him.
Q: So for you writing has been therapy.
Conroy: No question.
Q: And for you, too.
King: Yeah.


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Majok Grabs MAC West Player of the Week Honor
MUNCIE, Ind. -- Ball State junior Majok Majok was named Monday as the Mid-American Conference West Division Player of the Week for men's basketball.
It marks the second player-of-the-week award for Majok this season and the fourth for a Ball State player. Teammate Jesse Berry is also a two-time winner.
Majok averaged 17.0 points and 7.0 rebounds per game last week, shooting 64.7 percent (11-of-17) from the floor and 85.7 percent (12-of-14) from the free throw line, to help the Cardinals split a pair of MAC games.
The junior forward led all players with 21 points and eight rebounds Saturday at Miami University, helping Ball State to an 82-62 win for just their second road victory over the RedHawks since 1992. He had 13 of his points and six of his rebounds in the second half.
Earlier in the week, Majok scored 13 points and grabbed six rebounds in a loss against Buffalo despite being limited to a season-low 19 minutes because of foul trouble.
Majok has now scored in double figures in five straight MAC games, including two performances with more than 20 points. He is one of 16 players in the nation averaging a double-double for the season at 12.6 points and 10.1 rebounds per game.
Several other Cardinals also turned in impressive weeks statistically. Jauwan Scaife averaged 16.0 points over the two games and handed out a career-high seven assists Saturday at Miami. Chris Bond averaged 12.0 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.5 steals per game. Berry averaged 14.5 points, and he knocked down a career-best six 3-pointers in the Miami game.
Majok was also named the MAC West Player of the Week on Dec. 10, while Berry won the award on Nov. 12 and Jan. 7.
Ball State (8-10, 2-4 MAC) hosts MAC West foe Toledo for a 7 p.m. tipoff Wednesday at Worthen Arena. The Cardinals have three of their next four games at home.


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The Fort Lewis College men�s basketball team drained 13 3-pointers and shot over 50 percent from the field Saturday night in a dominating 86-47 win over Western New Mexico.
The Fort Lewis men hit 13 of 27 shots from beyond the arc to run their record to 11-1 overall, 8-1 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.
The No. 25-ranked Skyhawks beat New Mexico Highlands on Friday night in interim head coach Bob Pietrack�s first game.
�I was really happy with the way we guarded,� Pietrack said of the pesky defense that limited Western New Mexico to 47 total points, 25 in the first half.
�I was proud of the rebounding of (Torrey) Udall and (Alex) Herrera. It was another really good performance by Alex,� Pietrack said after Herrera posted a double-double with 14 points and and 13 rebounds.
�(Nick) Tomsick is a home-run hitter, and he was hitting (Saturday night),� Pietrack said.
Tomsick led the Skyhawks with 23 points, including five 3-pointers in six attempts.
Eleven different Skyhawks scored; 12 different Skyhawks played.
Udall added nine points and nine rebounds for the Fort Lewis men.
Matthias Weisel added eight points. Wes McKenzie and Jared Smith scored seven each.
�I was disappointed with theturnovers. But overall, it�s hard to be uspet,� Pietrack said after his second win as the head coach of the Skyhawks.
Merle Branch, Nate Murdock and Andy Sohlick each scored eight points for Western New Mexico (4-10 overall, 3-7 in the RMAC.
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You Can Argue Without Getting Ugly
There was an Internet controversy recently when the new Duke Nukem game came out, after having gotten delayed for 37 years or so. The game got fairly bad reviews, but, you know, that happens. Not everybody is going to like everything. But those reviews made Jim Redner angry.
Wait, who's Jim Redner? He's a public relations guy, and one of his clients was 2K Games, the makers of DNF. Well, he was. He was recently fired because after reading the onslaught of "venomous" reviews, he got on Twitter and ...
Via Arstechnica.com
... fucking blacklisted bitches!
In other words, he got pissed off because everyone was hard on the game, and instead of confronting them about why he felt they were being treated unfairly, he decided to punish them by making it so they couldn't review 2K's games any more (or at least, not with advance copies so that the reviews are up when the game hits shelves). And for that, he lost his client.
What Did They Do Wrong?
The thing to note here is how many steps down the line Jim could have gone and still kept his job. Reading the reviews, taking them personally, even up to the point of getting angry -- all fine. In fact, if he'd taken to Twitter and just said, "Some of these reviews are really unfair, guys," he'd have kept his job. The difference between acceptable and unacceptable here was all in how he chose to approach the conflict. It all seems to come down to whether you're looking for peace or victory.
Yeah, that's what I thought, corpse. I win again.
I remember vicious arguments I got into with my ex-wife, for the same reasons as Mr. Redner (in fact, I bet 80 percent of couples arguments start this way) -- it started with a simple criticism, said in a hostile tone of voice. As it turns out, simple inflections in tone or the slightest phrasing problem can have that effect. I felt attacked, and I responded by verbally swinging back. It didn't much matter what I said, as long as I "won" the argument. It sure as fuck wasn't about trying to reach some understanding or compromise.
And there's the constant problem. Once you treat it like a war, then everything you say is calculated, not to do what words are supposed to do (that is, convey information) but to beat the other person down. You push their buttons, you go right for what you know are their emotional weaknesses. Why did Mr. Redner talk about pulling advance copies from reviewers? Because that was the only source of power he had over them -- it was the only card he could play that would let him "win." This is why, in an argument with your boyfriend or girlfriend, they'll pull out some incident from six months ago ("I'm not the one who pulled out his dick at Olive Garden!") that should have no relevance to what you're talking about. It's just ammunition, meant to intimidate the other person into submission.
"No, I totally agree -- you have a good point there."
And if that doesn't work, what do they do? Say it louder. Much, much louder. You turn the talking into a physical act, hoping the sheer, scary volume and tone will make the other person back down. You turn into a dog barking at passing kids keep them out of the yard.
So, the point isn't that you should never have confrontations -- you constantly hear that arguing is actually good for a relationship. It's that you have to recognize the huge difference between "arguing" by strongly stating your side, and simply trying to bludgeon the other person into silence with brutal slaps from your word-dick.
Think About Other People for One Goddamned Second
If you've ever spent time on an Internet message board, you are familiar with the concept of the Internet Witch Hunt. Basically, some offense is committed by a random stranger -- this can range anywhere from "saying something stupid on YouTube" to "a soldier killing a puppy live on camera" (yes, that happened, Google it). What happens next is the Internet flies into action and digs up the offender's personal information -- home address, phone number, work info -- to see just how much damage can be done in the name of "justice."
It happened when Reddit.com decided a college student raising money for cancer research must be running a scam, and responded by digging up her Facebook page, home address, etc. Suggested means of retribution ranged from reporting her to the FBI, to sending dozens of unwanted pizzas to her house. All of which might've been justified ... had they actually been right about the fraud. Which they weren't.
"Oops! Our bad!
This happens so often that Reddit admins had to specifically make a rule forbidding it, and have to frequently remind users of the rule.
What Did They Do Wrong?
That's a great example of the splash damage you get from runaway anger. They so badly wanted an excuse to get angry (in the name of "justice") that nobody took much effort to make sure the right person was being targeted. This is why revenge movies are so much fun to watch, half of us secretly hope our kid gets kidnapped so we can go on a rampage like Liam Neeson. But in real life, we're far more likely to just take out a bunch of bystanders instead.
When I was still married, my then-wife came home in a really bad mood, and we ended up getting into an argument over some bullshit that started badly and ended worse. At the time, our kids were playing in the yard, totally unaware of the war that was going on in the kitchen. It ended abruptly when I just decided I'd had enough, and walked away. Nothing was resolved, and in the end, both of us were still fuming.
The universal sign for "Shit's about to get all kinds of slappy up in here."
So later, the kids came inside, and one of them spilled some milk on the carpet. I would normally just tell them to be careful and have them clean it up. But in the state I was in, I jumped all over them. The kids, who had just moments ago been in great moods, became angry in turn, and before we knew it, they were fighting with each other instead of playing. You can see how my inability to keep a lid on it wound up just rippling outward, like the shockwave of an atomic bomb made out of human shit.
This is why a lot of anger management programs have a whole section on empathy. This is the more academic way of saying, "Learn how not to be such a selfish dick and think about how the way you act impacts other people, asshole." If I'd taken one second to remember what it was like when my dad blew up for no reason, it'd have been a hell of a lot easier to slam on the brakes. Shame is a good circuit breaker for anger.
Shame and cupcakes. Oh, shit, I just found a name for my next band!
This all sounds so obvious, but goddamn is it hard to find anyone on the Internet actually exercising this kind of control. We get so wrapped up in the idea that we're right that we can't fathom the idea that maybe we're the dick here.
In fact, let me leave you with this final technique: Grab a post-it note, write down the phrase, "Am I being the dick here?" and stick it to your computer monitor. Or, even better, get it tattooed on your palm. Glance at it every time you're about to reply to an email or article comment, or when you're about to make a call to tech support. See if it helps.
For more from John Cheese, check out 6 Ad Campaigns That Prove Humanity Is Doomed and Having Fun With 419 Scammers.


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Caught in a quantum field experiment gone awry, Jon Osterman gained the ability to will himself an enormous dong and lost the required shame to cover it in public. The only thing I will tell you about Watchmen before you see it this weekend is that Dr. Manhattan's penis is so present in the film, it should have gotten its own credit.
Dr. Manhattan's Wang Signs Development Deal With LOGO
To kayla, the actor's name is Billy Crudup.
Anyway, what I wanted to say is: Dr. Manhattan really is super-human. I was impressed with his ability to take that tremendous blue-veiner to the arctic and not have it turn into an acorn.
I actually thought this was going to have something to do with LOGO. And now I'm embarrassed.
What are these women talking about, saying it's about time a man's penis was shown in a movie? Crying Game: penis. Boogie Nights: penis. The Hangover: penis. Bad Lieutenant: penis. Strange Wilderness: penis. There has been more than enough penis for you to see in mainstream films, and for a long time. When do we get see a woman's coochie? Never. I don't mean some "frontal" bush in an 80's horror's movie — that's nothing. I'm talking about the vagina between a woman's legs. I don't see how Hollywood decided it's ok to parade all these dongs in movies, but never show any labia once. Doesn't have to be a sexual scene, so why is it never even shown in a natural course of on-screen events or as some sort of comic relief as a lot these penis scenes are? Not once, so don't even talk about a double standard. Then again I didn't see the Hannah Montana movie yet.
It says a lot about the world we live in, when the 'villian' is a hero who kills million of people to save the world…and ALL people can talk about is Manhattans dick.
Pathetic, but not too shocking.
who is the guy in the pic at the top? his face kinda scares me but hes got a smokin hot bod! anyone know?
Here's what funny about the big blue CGI penis: there was a CGI animator that was assigned to the penis. They might have had other CGI tasks to do, but the penis was theirs. They had to be sure they got the math right for how the penis would wobble and sway back and forth when Dr. Manhattan walked. And at some point, they were coding it, and they and the CGI supervisor were looking at a computer screen watching samples of big blue wangs swaying back and forth.
And it was at THAT moment that the full realization hit the CGI artist of what they were doing. And they said to themselves, "Yeah, THIS is what I went to CGI school for. Fuck… I need a drink."
That's funny, right there.
I know what I'm going to be for Halloween. Dr. Manhattans penis.
It's just funny that it's always assumed the nude human body is shown for the amusement of men. If it's nude males, then it's "homoerotic." If it's females then it must be aimed at straight males.
As a visually-stimulated bisexual woman, I find that silly. The actor/CGI portraying Dr. was not in the least bit sexy, therefore the blue cock did nothing for me. However, give Christian Bale or Johnny Depp a full frontal, and you have my attention 😉
I have to agree with Crystal Lynn…I'm an art student, so I'm use to seeing the nude male, but I feel it is due time that the male form is shown in film, as long as it makes sense to show it and is not done in raunchy ways. I'm tired of the female body being shown often, and always as a sexual object. Watchmen is guilty of doing this, as we only see the female nude in sex scenes…many of them…the media distorts our perception of reality so much, I'm scared for America's next generation (but that's another conversation!).
On a more positive note, the special effects were amazing!!! Best I've seen in years!
Funny, I thought it looked small.
i like it!
Well Crystal, you have to hand it to Snyder; 300 was consistently labeled as homoerotic, and he just went one step further. It was almost like a big "eff you" to the people who'd complained about all the mostly-naked Spartans, even though Dr. Manhattan's penis was prevalent in the novel.
And I feel like Malin Akerman's breasts were not that obvious in the movie; it was like he did what was necessary without being like, "LOOK, A WOMAN'S CHEST!" Every once in a while, there'd be a nipple, but other than that, it was pretty much face time for the sex scenes.
I actually really like the fact that his penis was so prevalent in the film, and not just because I am female.
I think it's nice that we are progressing… it's not okay to show breasts. Oh now it's okay to show breasts but not any hint of vagina. Oh, full frontal is okay now. Penis? NO WAY. Sure, vagina and breasts are body parts, so is penis, but WE CANNOT show penis! GOD no!
The penis is a body part. Dr. Manhattan is nude most of the time. Nude men HAVE A PENIS! It's natural and it's about damned time society becomes more comfortable with this concept.
oh my god there were little 10 year old boys sitting next to me and my bf and everytime Dr. M's never erect blue wang came up they giggled and snickered! it was annoying and hilarious.
Everytime Dr.Manhattan's "blue snake" was presented, All I could hear from behind me was "OH MY GOD LOOK AT HIS PENIS HAHAHAHA!!"Which shows the maturity level in the audience har har. Though they did a good job using CGI to replicate the swaying of it when he walked. Overall penis aside Watchmen was a spectacular movie. (Dontknowifthiswouldqualifyasaspoiler)Even though I think they cut a important part for people who haven't read the novel in which they didn't really explain the origin of Rorchachs mask which I would think people would've been curious about.
yes it does seem to have an awefull lot of screen time and presence.
Development deal was cancelled when it was discovered Dr. Manhattan is always arriving on set with blueballs.
Just got back from seeing Watchmen. Even though I kind of anticipated it, I was a bit surprised at the copious amounts of big blue intrinsic field-y wang. But at least there was a generous helping of super-heroine tits to nicely juxtapose the wangness, so it evened out. I guess.
Hmm, that might be the straw that breaks the camel's muhf*k'n plane! I don't know if I just merged a cliche and a furry critter with tits on its back but…crap what am I saying? I'll still see the movie. And good day sir.
If was to re-animate myself I would give myself a generous sized wang, it was only be appropriate from what I have been living with already. It's not that I need a tweezers to take a piss, it's just not as generous as I might like it to be.
I saw the movie last night at midnight and it was pretty good. I am not going to get on a soap box here and say it was the greatest movie I have ever seen, but it was a solid 8 out of 10. "The Dark Knight" was A LOT better, but this was a very good rendition of the comic book, but as Alan Moore once said, "this movie might not be filmable". Snyder did as good a job as could be expected from this VERY complicated comic book series.
Go out and see it, it's pretty darn good.
It would figure that when you re-animate yourself, your wang would be your first priority.
Today is "Watchmen-Day" for me: yesterday Start in Germany. YEAH!
You know, DoomsdayC, I think you're right. In the 70s, FFN was rampant, then cooled off. This might also signal the return of the jungle bush.
power to the penis!
I seriously believe the one eyed monster is making a cinematic comeback!
Dammit, I was going to go see this with my mom. I swear, whenever I am with my parents in the presence of a TV, the raunchiest crap appears somehow to embarrass me.
But hey, thanks for the heads up.
I'm going tonight, despite having a paper and presentation tomorrow. Midnight showing, woohoo! I'm so responsible.
the comments are creepier than the text…
Did he by an chance say that if u touch his wang you would be given temporary super powers according to how long and how well you hold and handle his wang?
WOW Hardwick that is a big credit to fill! I so want to see this masterpiece of epic proportions!


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The "Glowball" demo [YouTube
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