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Malcolm X: Friend or Foe
Posted By: Brian Sunders in Production, Article Division
Malcolm X: Friend or Foe
Since the advent of his death, Malcolm X has been renowned as one of the great negro leaders of our time. One question that has been raised is whether his efforts were a hindrance or help to our cause. I would argue that while his actions and philosophies were unorthodox, I believe they were necessary. On the one hand, physical violence was arguably not necessary to further our cause, but at the same time seeing the difference between the radical and more conservative civil rights movements. While no, Malcolm X's violent protests did nothing to beholden our cause to the American people, it did give followers of Martin Luther King Jr. a lot more credibility.
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little, changed his name in an attempt to put his ancestors' slave past and the surname of the slaveholder behind him. During his 20's he converted to Islam. The religion of many of the African countries, Islam was another way for X to reconnect to his African roots. Malcolm X urged separation as opposed to the integration supported by many of the other leaders in the fight for equality. X was convinced that the Negro could not have a place in America. He urged Negros everywhere to stand up for a place where Negros could be together and to rebuild, or to be returned to their countries of origin. Malcolm X thought that the Negro would never become a part of American society and that the only way to preserve the African-American was to de-American him. X pursued a philosophy that typified what he thought was best for the Negro and for black culture.
The militant views of Malcolm X led to violent protests. I would argue that X's philosophy regarding gaining equality and respect at any means necessary was not effective in and of itself. From what I've seen, violence does not solve problems. It did, however, make the claims of MLK and other non-violent activists seem more reasonable to the general public that at the time was not entirely supportive. Then, when non-violent protests were met with violence, it made the aggressors seem all the more less reasonable, furthering the cause, and hopefully will lead to non-violent protests being met with peace and respect.
As a member of the Nation of Islam, X's spiritual beliefs differed greatly from the norm. While it may be true that Islam was the religion of many Africans, Christianity has become a large part of black culture. Gospel music and faith in Christ were a huge part of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiration to have equality for every man, regardless of color, and without his leading we would not be where we are today. Shortly before Malcolm X's death he left the Nation of Islam. This led to numerous threats on his life both public and private. Between those events he began to speak more conservatively, still urging for self-defense of rights, but willing to make some concessions toward segregation, and even met briefly with Martin Luther King Jr.
Was he a friend or a foe to equality? You decide.
MLK's Dream
Posted By: Jessica Smith in Production, Article Division
MLK's Dream
Nearly six years ago the world was a different place. The Klan was stronger than ever before, racism pervaded every aspect of our culture. Our attempts at integration had been repeatedly pushed back. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X fought for our rights. They battled inequality differently, yes, but fight it they did. Since then, both of those great men have died for our cause. And still the fight goes on. We are, however, gaining ground. There is hope, a light at the end of the tunnel. We have been strong, we are strong, even in spite of the loss of those two great men. I do believe, though, that they still have many things to teach us. I would like to take this opportunity to discuss some of the rhetorical strategies and tools Martin Luther King Jr. used in his Dream Speech.
Martin Luther King Jr. began his speech by not only imitating Lincoln's "four-score" but by alluding to his signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. He called it a "great beacon light of hope," but that even today there is not freedom. Here we are, six years later, and still fighting the fight. Now, however, our hope is that the end is nigh, that resistance to equality for all races is dwindling. Despite doubts about the accuracy of that statement, we must not slow down now. We must press on towards our goal, and not be passed or quit when the end is in sight. And if that belief is erroneous then of course we must press on, we must not be content with second-class citizenship for any person, for any reason. Segregation and discrimination must not be allowed to persist for any reason, or towards any group of people.
King went on to discuss the rights of man as given by the Constitution. The document of the nation, the Bible of the patriot. For if the Constitution cannot be relied upon, then what good is any of it? How does the nation differ from the one from which it came? Martin Luther King Jr. claimed that for the nation to ignore our cause would be to incite a revolution like that from whence we came. Swords have been taken up for much less noble causes. Having seen King's philosophy on non-violent protests, I doubt that it was either an endorsement or a threat, but having also seen the popularity of Malcolm X, and the Black Panther movements, I think people have settled for too little for too long, and that if a solution is not forthcoming, that tensions may explode.
Finishing with the repetition of his dreams, Martin Luther King Jr. rallied the people. King dreamed of an America where White and Black were colors on Crayons and where the sons of slave owners and the sons of slaves will sit at the table of brotherhood. He dreamed a dream of equality. He dreamed of justice and of the America, that our founding fathers intended for us. He dreamed of the America that gives every child a chance to grow up to their full potential. That is the America that I want to live in.
Ballot or the Bullet
Posted By: Brian Sunders in Production, Article Division
Malcolm X: Ballot or Bullet
Malcolm X: Ballot or the Bullet
In Malcolm X's The Ballot or the Bullet speech, he stirred up the people. His words instilled fire in his listeners and rallied them together with appeals to unity. X also urged to make the problem a human rights problem and not a civil rights problem. Ultimately, Malcolm X said that the Negro would take either the ballot or the bullet.
When drawing his audience together, X said, "It's time for us to submerge our differences and realize that it is best for us to first see that we have the same problem, a common problem — a problem that will make you catch hell whether you're a Baptist, or a Methodist, or a Muslim, or a nationalist. Whether you're educated or illiterate, whether you live on the boulevard or in the alley, you're going to catch hell just like I am." He did discuss his being a Muslim, but he did not want religion, or anything, to divide the Negro people. He used a lot of repetition to solidify that unity. We're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. These terms that we all support are terms that anyone would support. It makes people who don't agree with X, take the first step. He used it to get his foot in the door.
Not only did Malcolm X intend to unite the Negro people, but he wished to unite them with the rest of the non-white world. X urged for the conversion from a civil rights issue to a human rights issue. With human rights being the problem, other world powers would be able to intervene and "throw their weight" behind the Negro push for equality. Malcolm X used the allusion to the "American Dream" and changed it to the "American Nightmare." He said that if black "Americans" truly were American, they wouldn't need help to become equal. If the Constitution was followed, they would be equal. He said that if the Constitution was followed that all of the politicians that supported segregation would be arrested for breaking the law. They weren't getting arrested. The Government wasn't, and isn't, doing its job. With outside help, Malcolm X believed that the fight for equality could be accomplished without, or at least with less, violence. Not that he didn't condone violence in self-defense of one's rights and one's property, but he disagreed with breaking the law or the edicts of the Constitution.
Malcolm X was for the ballot or the bullet. He warned the nation's politicians that if the Negro did not get the ballot, he would use the bullet. Malcolm X alluded to Patrick Henry's Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech in order to draw to attention the similarities between Great Britain's tyranny of the colonies, and the United States' tyranny of the Negro. X warns that the death would be reciprocal, that for each dead black man, they would take with them one hate-filled hypocrite. He said, "It takes two to tango; when I go, you go."
Malcolm X drew together black Americans with the outside world, and argued that if the Negro was not given his God-given, fairly due rights immediately, that the Negro would protect those rights using any means necessary.
Posted By: Jessica Smith in Production, Article Division
I've Been to the Mountaintop
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an incredible man. A PHD from Boston University, four children, and perhaps one of the most well-known and influential civil rights activists of all time, MLK was a man who overcame some extreme challenges. Additionally, he was a Negro. Fighting the stereotypes and prejudices of the time made already difficult challenges even harder. His faith in Christ and his belief in equal rights for all people carried him through. In Martin Luther King Junior's Mountaintop speech, he gives a sermon on many things. One: a need for unity, two: a need for non-violent resistance, and three: hope for better days.
MLK began his message with an appeal to a united front for everyone who desires racial equality. "We've got to stay together and maintain unity." He connected the blight of inequality with the way that Pharaoh kept the ancient Israelites submissive by pitting them against each other and conquering them through their divisiveness. As soon as all of the Israelites got behind Moses, they were able to leave slavery and get out of Egypt. Martin Luther King Jr. did an incredible job of maintaining a strong "we" without really dividing a "them." It would be incredibly difficult for even the most hardened opposition to civil rights to not be a part of MLK's "we." "We are saying that we are God's children." "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." His "we" was a very loving and inspiring "we." It is the "we" that we all want to be.
Martin Luther King Jr. argued that non-violent protests are the only way to succeed in demonstrating that you are indeed worth as much as anyone else and deserving of respect. He urged boycotts on businesses that supported segregation. He said that while separately the Negro race is poor, but together they make greater profit than Canada's national budget, and that if we withdraw funding from businesses where segregation is prevalent that we can make an impact on our world. MLK taught that we ought to do these things not out of a desire to be equal or to have respect or even because we think we deserve it. He urged his listeners to eliminate segregation and prejudice in order to make the United States a better place, to make America a better nation.
Throughout Martin Luther King Jr's speech he interwove Biblical themes that many, if not all, of his listeners would be familiar with. He paralleled the plight of the Israelite slaves with injustice of racial inequality in America. He told the story of the Good Samaritan, helping out others despite the consequences of what might happen to me in order to ensure that the helpless are cared for. He let the people know that he was not afraid to die for what he believed in. He let them know that he had been to the very edge and that it had not given him cause to step back or slow down, but to press on, to fight the good fight, to finish the race.


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Eating healthy can be difficult no matter how much money you have, but doing so on a budget can be even harder.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average weekly grocery bill for a family of four is between $146 and $289.
Yet, those who rely on food stamps only have $4 a day to spend.
How do you balance the need to eat healthy and stay on budget?
Brown rice is a great way to get a big nutritional bang for your buck.
It's full of vitamins and minerals. Perhaps its best asset is its high amount of fiber. It makes you feel fuller, longer.
Buy dried beans.
They usually cost a buck a pound and can expand up to three times their size when cooked. They're also full of fiber and protein, and low in fat and sodium.
Go ahead and go a little nutty!
Peanut butter is high in good fats, proteins, and minerals. Peanuts also contain an antioxidant found in red wine, but at a much cheaper price.
Some other foods to consider: green and frozen vegetables.
Green vegetables have a high nutrient-to-calorie value, and can be used in a variety of dishes.
Frozen vegetables are often picked and frozen at peak ripeness, meaning they can hold the same nutrients as raw vegetables.

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Home-Made Popsicles with Real Fruit Juice
Thursday, March 22, 2012
I'm always on the lookout for healthy ways to give my kids special treats and this one is perfect. I picked up the popsicle molds on Amazon and used an orange/pineapple juice blend we already had in the refrigerator. Then I threw some strawberries and bananas in the blender for a yummy puree. With summer on the horizon, the flavor possibilities are endless…and I bet you could even sneak some veggie juice in there too.


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(From 2013 Vintage) The fruit was hand harvested in the cool morning hours and brought to the winery in half ton bins. At the winery, the clusters were sorted using a double sorting system. First, the clusters were sorted by hand. The fruit then ran through a small destemmer that removed stems from the grapes prior to the individual berries being sorted, either by hand or with an optical sorter, to ensure that the most ideal grapes were chosen. These berries were delivered to a fermenter where there was a period of resting on skins. Warm fermentation temperatures were encouraged along with gentle cap maceration to achieve the desired color and structure for the wine before an extended maceration time on skins prior to final pressing. The wine was transferred directly to barrel for 18 months of maturation
Winemaker's Notes
(From 2013 Vintage) Dark, vibrant purple and red hues present in this wine. Blackberry and black plum aromas combine with graphite, espresso, dark chocolate, mocha, cedar, and white pepper. Flavors of black plum, black cherry and currant interminglewith dark molasses and a light vanillin oak with dusty finegrain tannins. This is a structured Cabernet Sauvignon with length, flavor and style
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Really the only way to describe the Union's 1-0 win over Everton FC at PPL Park last night. While the game lacked serious end-to-end excitement, it did show the Union has a young corps of talent yet to be fully unleashed.
Christian Hernandez, a 17-year-old relative unknown listed on the Union's academy roster, buried a deflection in the box in the 88th minute past Everton goalkeeper Jan Mucha. The goal even shocked those seated in the River End, who rang out a "Who are ya!" chant after Hernandez, U.S. Soccer's under-17/18 developmental player of the year, scored his first professional goal. Hernandez will head into his senior year at St. Benedict's (N.J.) Prep, a school better known for basketball.


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FTC creates contest to help stop illegal robocalls
Agency offering $50K for winning idea
The Federal Trade Commission said it's looking for the public's help to stop illegal robocalls to cellphones and land lines.
The FTC has announced a new contest in which they're looking for people to come up with solutions that will help block the harassing calls. The agency is looking for solutions that can block calls and operate on a proprietary or non-proprietary device or platform.
The creator of the winning submission will win $50,000 and a trip to Washington, D.C., to present their solution.
The FTC said it has already received 230 submissions. The deadline to send ideas is 5 p.m. Jan. 17. The winner will be announced on April 15.
To submit your entry, click here.
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The Save St. Anne's School Committee is meeting tonight at the Congress Street school to discuss how to prevent it from closing.
In February, the Archdiocese of Newark announced the Jersey City school would be closing at the end of the school year.
Last year, the Archdiocese reversed a similar announcement when concerned parents, parishioners and community members spearheaded a fundraising drive.
The Save St. Anne's School Committee has launched a petition drive asking the Archdiocese to reconsider its latest decision to close the school. At the last home school meeting, 300 parents and parishioners turned out to support the effort.
Tonight's will be held in Chapel Hall, at Nelson and Congress streets, beginning at 6:30 p.m.


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LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. (AP) Lissa the Rhino is struggling to keep her footing and those arent small feet.
A team of doctors, surgeons and rhinoceros wranglers have gathered at Lissas pen at Lion Country Safari. Theyve injected her with a narcotic and are trying to maneuver all 3,500 pounds of wobbly beast into the center of her space and away from a hip-high pile of dung.
After a three-hour surgery to remove part of a cancerous tumor, Lissa, tries to get to her feet.
She has someones black windbreaker thrown over her eyes. Three grown men and one woman, each tug at lassoes looped around her neck.
Wherever she lands will be their operating suite for the next three hours.
Lissa has cancer. On her horn.
Jokes about rhinoplasty aside, this is serious. Few rhinoceroses in captivity ever develop cancer. There was the one in Arizona with a sarcoma on his foot. Another in Los Angeles had something on its horn, but the growth was very small.
The tumor here is bigger than a squished basketball. Its not just on her horn, its in it.
And on this day in February, surgeons the kind who work on humans and the kind who work on animals are planning a two-pronged attack: cut out as much of the tumor as possible and then inject a chemotherapy drug into the rest.
Theyve already operated three other times. Those times they had to trip her into place. This time she sits on her back haunches first and then lowers that car-engine-sized head onto a pile of foam mats.
The surgeons have three hours. Not one minute more.
Let the timer begin.
Lissa was born Dec. 11, 1980 at Lion Country Safari, a drive-through zoo off Southern Boulevard in Loxahatchee. Shes one of 14 rhinos living on the property. Her most constant companion: her daughter Aliza.
In the wild, if they live to be 35 thats ancient. Here, we have some 40-year-olds and one 50-year-old, said the parks Wildlife Director Terry Wolf.
With the exception of the old man he doesnt play well with others the rhinoceroses roam the park alongside zebra, wildebeests and the like during the day and live in their pens at night.
Lissas keepers first noticed a sore at the base of her horn in October and grew more concerned when antibiotics failed to make it any better. Worse: another sore surfaced.
Biopsies followed. Lissa needed to go under the knife.
You have got to know knocking these animals down is risky business, Wolf said. Any drug we give them that is enough to put them to sleep is also going to affect their breathing, and we dont have a respirator powerful enough to fill her lungs up if she stops.
CPR, he notes, will not work on Lissa.
Last time we had her down was almost three hours. Theyre not moving that whole time. They can develop bad problems, Wolf said.
The longer the animal is down, the more likely a complication is to arise. The very weight of her body can put enormous pressure on nerves and muscle and theres the potential for damage.
Each time Lissas gone under, surgeons have had to hack away her horn. In the wild that horn would come in handy to defend her children and herself from predators.
Lissa is a white rhino, a name that harkens to her wide mouth and not the color of her skin, which is actually quite gray. Like her fellow white rhinos, Lissa has two horns.
The horn isnt a bony extension of her skull but a compacted mass of hair that grows forming a protective sheath much like a pointy human fingernail atop the tip of her nose.
Poachers have been known to kill a rhinoceros to get a horn, which in some cultures has been revered for its medicinal properties. Some Asian doctors once held that powdered rhino horn cured asthma, chicken pox and demonic possessions. Its been prescribed for polio and impotence.
But Lissas horn could kill her.
In some instances it is better to do nothing. You have to find that balance. We dont want to kill her in the process of curing cancer, said Brian Dowling, Lion Countrys general curator who rides herd over the pen-turned-operating room every time Lissa goes under. This is not one of the cases where you can do nothing.
The first time they operated, surgeons took a sample and found cancer.
After that, doctors cut down Lissas horn to figure out how big the tumor was and make treating it easier. Each time, Dowling watches the minutes tick by and frets how quickly she will get up.
Dr. Elizabeth Hammond, the parks vet and Lissas handlers have taught Lissa to sidle up to them for sweet feed (rhino junk food of grain and molasses), making it easier for them to conduct examinations and administer drugs.
For surgery, they have become pros at sticking her with the narcotic behind her left ear and then marking that spot with neon pink spray paint, less anyone on the surgical team touch the drug, which can seep out at the injection site.
Get pink on you? Wash up now. That drug is lethally potent in humans.
This day in February, new faces are gathered.
Dr. Mike Mikolajczak from the Wellington Orthopedic Institute is more accustomed to working on human hands and feet. But he connected with Lion Country when a chimp got in a fight and needed more than a dozen surgeries to allow him to return one finger the lesser to the primate island.
Dr. Mike, as everyone calls him, hit up his contacts in the surgical supply business and has brought a surgical Stryker saw and a cauterizer that uses water.
Chipping the horn off a rhino is not the delicate work of repairing a finger. Its very bloody and requires strength and power tools.
Lion Country has its own portable X-ray machine - it costs more than your car, so dont step on its cables, warns Dr. Genevieve Genny Dumonceaux, the vet at the Palm Beach Zoo, who has driven out to assist.
Also on hand is retired pathologist and member of Wellington Regional Medical Centers board, Dr. Gordon Johnson.
Hes brought sealed bags of Lissas hope: Cisplatin.
This is Lissas chemo.
Not the kind that courses through your entire system. Can you imagine trying to gather enough drugs to treat a nearly two-ton patient?
This is a tumor killer. It is supposed to stop cancer cells from growing, causing them to die.
The drug is to be injected into Lissas sizable mass.
Its been used on equine sarcoma, Johnson said. No ones ever tried it on a rhino.
The surgical team erects a tent to keep Lissa from overheating in the morning sun.
At least a dozen people are on hand throughout the procedure: Someone leans on Lissas left should she deign to move, nurses run IVs, monitor the oxygen tank. Every once in a while, someone in the back lifts Lissas tail and checks for a droopy drop. A stiff tail indicates the anesthesia is wearing off.
The minutes stretch into hours as Dr. Hammond and Dr. Mike chip away at the tumor and pause when Lissa twitches her ear or lets loose a shuddering sigh.
You can hear the chimpanzees making a ruckus not far away. A rhino walks by, gives a look and moves on. The curious zebra lingers.
Finally, more of the tumor is revealed, the Cisplatin is loaded into syringes but Hammond struggles to push even these large gauge needles into the tumors rocky base. She gets several in. She wishes she had gotten more.
They put a cling wrap Band-Aid of sorts over the plate-sized void where Lissas horn once was.
And then Dowling calls time.
Never has an operating room cleared so quickly.
The doctors, nurses, their discarded needles, empty vials, IV bags hoses even the tent and the four trucks they all rode in on must be gone before the patient awakes and that happens in a matter of a minutes. At the last minute someone grabs the black, now bloodied, windbreaker from Lissas eyes.
A line forms on the other side of the pens metal fencing.
Lissa looks like a drunk coming to. Head nods. Front legs stiffen and push and then collapse. And then again. Hind legs pump. Hind legs falter. Front legs move, dragging the back end around.
Dowling and Hammond and Dr. Mike and Dr. Gordon and the lasso team and the nurses watch.
And then Lissas up and slowly putting one foot in front of the other.
That was the most stressful part of the day, Dowling said. He gathers the team in a circle. We were really aggressive. Thats good.
In April, the crew gathered again. This time Dr. Mike found a better tool a laser-like torch that made the tumor cutting easier and cauterized the wound at the same time.
And they also learned that 10 of them could roll the patient on her side mid-surgery. That seemed to help Lissas recovery.
Another surgery seems inevitable. Dr. Hammond and her colleagues are taking notes. The better to help the next rhino.
We havent cured her, said Dr. Hammond. But her quality of life is good right now.
In between surgeries, Lissa eventually healed enough to roam the preserve. Hammonds goal is to make sure she returns.
She was so happy running all over.
In this photo from April 14, 2014, Ashley Ullrich, from right, Chelsea Anderson, Dr. Genevieve Dumonceaux, Charlene Tran and Craig Van Der Meid clap and cheer as Lissa rises to her feet after her fifth surgery at Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee, Fla. A team of doctors has been removing parts of her horn to remove the cancerous tumor and inject chemotherapy drugs. (AP Photo/ The Palm Beach Post, Greg Lovett) MAGAZINES OUT. TV OUT. NO SALES.×
In this photo taken Feb. 24, 2014, after a three-hour surgery to remove part of a cancerous tumor, Lissa, tries to get to her feet at Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee, Fla. The 3,500 pound white rhino has cancer in her horn. A team of doctors has been removing parts of her horn to remove the cancerous tumor and inject chemotherapy drugs. (AP Photo/The Palm Beach PostGreg Lovett) MAGAZINES OUT. TV OUT. NO SALES.×


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Animation a sensation at '09 box office
When it comes to the box office, animated films couldn't be a bigger draw.
This year alone, toon fans helped five pics earn more than $100 million in the U.S., with Disney's "Up" floating close to the $300 million mark and DreamWorks Animation's "Monsters vs. Aliens" and Fox's "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" scaring up nearly $200 million each.
That kind of coin has encouraged producers to as many animated projects as they can afford into production. Many of those films aren't being made in the U.S., but overseas, in territories where much of the physical work on Hollywood's animated films already takes place.
A toon boom is underway in Europe and Asia, with studios there ponying up big bucks to produce animated family fare that's carefully crafted for American audiences — boasting appealing characters, high-end computer-generated visuals and packed with pop culture references.
Yet despite recent disappointments like "Astro Boy" and "Planet 51," and "Igor" and "Valiant" before that, foreign toon shops are continuing their attempts to break into the U.S. market.
In the past, toons produced in those territories were expected to play only for local audiences, and were made for around $20 million to $40 million, with budgets financed with state funding.
But a greater focus on making animated films that can attract attention from U.S. distributors is upping pricetags considerably, and luring outside financing.
"Planet 51," a CG-animated toon made in Spain and released by Sony on an impressive 3,500 screens, was produced for $70 million, while "Astro Boy," from Japanese toon shop Imagi Studios, and distribbed by Summit Entertainment, was backed by more than $60 million in financing.
"Normally in Europe, we make a movie which succeeds there, and then jumps to the U.S.," says "Planet 51" producer Ignacio Perez Dolset.
Yet on "Planet 51," producers always had the U.S. in mind, with Handmade Films, which handles international sales, locking down distribution in the U.S. before its home territory, Spain, sold.
Funding for that film came from deep-pocketed Zed, a Madrid-based developer of entertainment for mobile phone operators around the world. "Planet 51"-helmer Jorge Blanco and Dolset had cut their teeth on creating videogames at Pyro Studios before moving over to Ilion Studios to make their alien tale.
The distribution rights for films like "Planet 51" aren't considered too risky for studios.
If the films find an audience, that's a boost to the bottomline of a distributor looking to fill their slates with B.O.-friendly family fare. If they don't, the production entity takes most of the hit.
"Hollywood financing and production levels are hurting," Perez Dolset says. "Cost consciousness means Hollywood will be far readier in the future to look around the world looking for films which offer larger value for money."
Looking for that kind of return, Universal Music Group struck a partnership with StudioCanal at the Cannes Film Festival to pick up the U.S. theatrical, DVD, TV and non-theatrical rights to the $25 million pic "Around the World in 50 Years," the second 3-D feature from Belgium's Ben Stassen ("Fly Me to the Moon").
But what's also gotten Hollywood increasingly interested in foreign-made and financed toons is the fact that more studio titles are already being drawn by animators in other countries, with Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" produced from Paris and lensed at East London's Three Mills Studios, where Tim Burton made "The Corpse Bride."
Elsewhere, Paris-based Mac Guff is currently working on Chris Meledandri's "Despicable Me," his first animated feature for Universal Pictures, meanwhile Relativity Media's "The Tale of Despereaux" was created at Framestore's London premises.
The more high-profile toons made abroad also boast talent studios already work with:
n While Perez Dolset and Blanco came up with the idea for "Planet 51," they drafted "Shrek" co-scribe Joe Stillman to develop the film and give it an American pop culture sensibility.
n Antonio Banderas is producing "Goleor, the Scale and the Sword," a $33 million-fantasy epic, in pre-production at Granada's Kandor Moon in Spain.
n Italy's Rainbow Studios is behind the $30 million gladiator spoof "Versus Roma," for which it has recruited "Shark Tale" and "Ice Age" scribe Michael J. Wilson. The 3-D toon is touted as Italy's first full-fledged attempt to craft a global hit toon.
n In France, John Boorman is directing the $25 million-budgeted "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," produced by Laurent Rodon and Claude Gorsky of Films Action, and Boorman's longtime associate Kieran Corrigan. Pic is co-financed by SND.
n And France's EuropaCorp, owned by Luc Besson, has also ponied up $42 million for "A Monster in Paris," skedded for a 2011 release, that "Shark Tale" co-director Bibo Bergeron is helming.
EuropaCorp, like the U.K.'s Aardman, is investing more than $40 million per pic after recent B.O. successes.
After earning $108 million worldwide from "Arthur and the Invisibles," in 2006, EuropaCorp committed to release at least one toon per year around the world. The company has the second part of its "Arthur" trilogy, helmed by Besson, out this month, backed by a sizeable $95 million budget. The $102 million "Arthur and the Two World Wars" opens next year.
Whether those will appeal to U.S. auds is still up in the air. The first "Arthur" earned just $15 million in the U.S.
Producers are still trying to figure out what gets lost in translation when foreign toons unspool Stateside.
Despite their big budgets, "Planet 51," has earned $30 million since Nov. 20, while "Astro Boy" has earned just $19 million domestically since its release Oct. 23.
That's despite a built-in nostalgia factor for "Astro Boy," with the TV show from the 1960s, Happy Meal toys at McDonald's and heavy promotion at Comic-Con over the last two years.
Both pics are now starting to roll out overseas, which could help them recoup some, if not all of their production costs, but the fact that they failed to strike it big at the box office is vexing to distributors, who thought that the combination of ambitious production values and American tastes would boost their prospects.
Not all Stateside firms produce animated blockbusters either. Independent animated films can be challenging, like "Delgo," distributed by Freestyle Releasing last year, which earned just $695,000. Focus Features' "9" has fared better, with nearly $32 million.
However, "Delgo," was maligned by critics, and "9" was darker than most other family toons, and marketed more to an adult audience who wanted to see an edgier take on traditional toons produced by Tim Burton.
But in the case of "Planet 51" and "Astro Boy," the films were marketed to younger kids. They were sold as big-budget studio films boasting well-known voice talent like Dwayne (formerly The Rock) Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Jessica Biel and Kristen Bell.
More importantly for moviegoers, they featured impressive visuals, with the rubbery looking aliens in "Planet 51" looking like they'd fit easily within DreamWorks' "Monsters vs. Aliens" and "Astro Boy's" stunning visuals coming as close to a Pixar production as you can get.
While both of their campaigns were clear to keep the films' foreign origins to themselves — "Planet 51" even got the backing of NASA in order to help hide that fact — something obviously got lost in translation.
Previous films like "Valiant" or "Igor" didn't attract audiences because they were considered too "European" or "fell short in production values," says "Planet 51" producer Perez Dolset. Others attribute their disappointing performances to the size of their marketing efforts in the U.S.
In the case of "Planet 51," the look of the character and the film overall may have been creatively crafted to reference other pics that have worked before like "Star Wars," "E.T.," "Alien," "The Day the Earth Stood Still," and "2001," making it difficult for it to stand out on its own. It was hard for review
ers not to mention the resemblances to those films.
As for "Astro Boy," the disinterest in the kid robot can be chalked up to the same reason "Speed Racer" didn't take off with moviegoers: Just because a property was popular in the '60s doesn't mean it's still cool with consumers today. Nostalgia doesn't always mint money in the U.S., especially when the aging property was originally born overseas.


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In total, Gerster faces five counts of aggravated assault for the jail beat downs, and two counts of computer tampering for allegedly using a jail database to get the home address of a former inmate. He gave the address to a friend, Dennis McCarty, who then used the information to find the former inmate and assault him because he was dating McCarty's estranged wife.
As for Gerster's co-star in the jail beating video, 32-year-old Officer Alan Keesee, who is seen slamming an inmate's head into a table, County Attorney Bill Montgomery says prosecutors are still reviewing his case.
There was some confusion over whether the County Attorney's Office planned to charge Gerster at all thanks to an announcement from the Maricopa County Superior Court earlier this week saying "charges against MCSO Detention Officer Kevin Gerster were not filed by County Attorney's office. Preliminary Hearing was scratched and the case will be removed from the HP list unless new charges are filed."
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That's a nice change of pace -- his predecessor, Andrew Thomas, being one of the Valley's foremost offenders when it comes to abusing the public trust Montgomery described at the press conference, and all.
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I think it looks terrific...so fresh and clean like you said. Love the beadboard!ReplyDelete
Love the way it looks! Always best to go with what works, especially when you're selling it. Hope Calgon does the trick for you!ReplyDelete
Looks good. We have a rental property that we redid a couple years ago and kept it simple as well. Our "supplies" look suspiciously like yours, there a Menards in your neck of the woods?ReplyDelete
What's Calgon?
Awesome, Mary!ReplyDelete
It looks unbelievable..Clean and Crisp..Great job..ReplyDelete
wow! what a fab make over!!ReplyDelete
It looks super!! Can't believe the difference in the pictures!!!ReplyDelete
looks really great, mary! you are such a makeover, house CPR-r, pro!!ReplyDelete
Yikes is right! Great job~Blessings KimReplyDelete
Hi Mary~~ It looks terrific. What a dramatic transformation. You deserve a nice bath or maybe even a few:) BTW~~ I got my Swedish book and I love it. It is going to make an appearance in a future post of mine. Be on the look out.ReplyDelete
Enjoy your relaxation
Oh Mary,ReplyDelete
Come over to my house and fix it! You do things so quick & efficient, and so cost effectively!!! Love what you did - I'm sure it will sell fast! :) Have a great week!
I totally remember this commercial!! Ha!! And your bathroom re-do is fabulous! Well done!ReplyDelete
It does look crisp and clean.
Good luck on the "flip".
oh my gosh - I'm exhausted just reading this! You've done an incredible job and I'm sure it will be scooped up in no time!ReplyDelete
Wow! what an amazing transformation! The bathroom looks great! Have you shown the rest of the house and I missed it? I to have been busy and not able to blog much!ReplyDelete
Enjoy the bath!
So Pretty and Fresh! I love what you chose. My sister just told me about that flooring. Genius! It looks so real. Thanks for sharing your ideas. You did a beautiful job.ReplyDelete
looks great mary. i love the floor. we used one similar at our cabin. love it.ReplyDelete
I remember that commercial! We used to act it out when we were little, lol! Great job on the bathroom, hopefully the house will be SOLD soon!ReplyDelete
wow!!! I love it! You are right.. is does look so clean :) I think I would leave it like that if it was my home.ReplyDelete
That vanity is out of this world (heehee!)
go get some Calgon...
After "bringing home the bacon, and frying it up in the pan"... Calgon will certainly take it away!!! Was worried the yuck you had took over. Whenever I have been sick i "wake" from the crud ready to accomplish some tasks!ReplyDelete
Hope all your hard work pays off with a speedy sale!
It looks great W.T. The floor looks so cool!ReplyDelete
It looks great! And yes, i am sadly old enough to remember the calgon commercial. At least we were really little when it was on, right? really really young? ;)ReplyDelete
Wow! It's looking great! Can't wait to see some more photos - I love before and after shots!ReplyDelete
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Absolutely LOVE your BLOG! You make me laugh! Lord knows we need more to smile about these days! Some of the things you post and say remind me of a few close friends when we have our girls day out. There is always that one thing which happens-memoriable funny or goofy. Keep up the FUN! P.S. Would you say you're a Lucy or an Ethel? RoxieReplyDelete
Wow, Mary! What a transformation. It's looking fabulous, girl! You are BUSY!ReplyDelete
Yes I do remember the calgon commercials!ReplyDelete
The bathroom looks so pretty...great job!
I was so hoping you would share some photos of all your hard work. I'm sure there are lots of new owners in your area who would be grateful you redid the bathrooms of the homes they bought if they knew the bathrooms looked at all like the before of this one! Wow, what a terrific change! So fresh and I think that is really important for a bathroom, especially in a starter home where the owners may not have the experience or income for an immediate makeover. Wishing you well in your sale and I hope you do get your Calgon moment (I also remember and yes I must have been very young, honest, really....)ReplyDelete
Ok, just to make you feel better, YES, i remember that commercial!ReplyDelete
Nice renovation... the bathroom looks so bright and fresh and pretty. I don't know what anyone was thinking putting in flesh colored anything!
mary i love seeing your project, you're one hard working gal! i think you did a great job on the bathroom it looks so bright and clean. hope you get to catch up and relax and yes i remember those commercials!! hugs,susanReplyDelete
Looks great, girl!!!ReplyDelete
Almost nothing makes me as happy as white beadboard. Love it so!ReplyDelete
You totally breathed new life into that icky bathroom, Mary! Wow!! GREAT job! (Isn't that flesh color stuff considered "vintage".....??? hehehehe!) I'm laying some Allure flooring in my teeny tiny entryway this week and can hardly wait to get it down now! Oh....and if you get a chance, you can pop that tureen in the mail to me....once you return from Calgonland, of course. lol! Hugs!ReplyDelete
xoxo laurie
I did not know that reglazing would last that long. It will be an option for me too one day. Taking out an existing tub is miserable, especially to get at plumbing. The bathroom looks clean and lovely. Just right for that Calgon bath.ReplyDelete
GREAT job!ReplyDelete
You are a jack of all trades, and master of pretty much ALL of them!
It's really gorgeous now! So glad to hear about the tub reglazing. I've been thinking of getting the tile around my tub reglazed (it's 1960's blue).ReplyDelete
Don't you wish the previous owners could see what you've done? Great job!!!ReplyDelete
Yipee, you did a great job girl!! so pretty, the new owners will be soo happy! I love the beadboard! Thanks for a'sharin'!ReplyDelete
White beadboard is a girl's best friend! So jealous!ReplyDelete
Amazing transformation. You must be so proud.ReplyDelete
Love it -- I sell plumbing and I am serious fan of some white fixtures and chrome faucets. Yo absolutely stunning "flesh" colored fixtures in the before shots are actually a color called FAWN BEIGE. Even in the 1970's, designers found fun names for really bad design choices.ReplyDelete
Love it.
- RebeccaTue Sep 25, 09:40:00 AM
I know this has been awhile back but can you tell me what color that Allure flooring was? We are fixing to use in our house and I like that color. ThanksReplyDelete
I am really amazed at the transformation. The newly renovated bathroom is just so fresh and clean looking. I love the choices of colors because these certainly brighten up the room. Now, this is a perfect place to perform personal routines. Thank you for sharing this. This will surely inspire several other homeowners.ReplyDelete


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The 9- and 10-year-old Waverly Hall Yellow Jackets stung the Fort Benning Patriots 14-6 Saturday in youth indoor football at the Columbus Civic Center.
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With 16 minutes remaining in the game, Waverly Hall's Reed Mallard scored from 2 yards out to tie the score at 6. Mallard threw a touchdown pass to Sebastian Russell with less than seven minutes remaining in the game to take a 12-6 lead. T.J. Pass tacked on a 2-point conversion to seal a 14-6 win for the Yellow Jackets.
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The room: we had a lovely balcony. Having said that, the room was not good. There was no room for modesty. The sink in the room always splashed water all over the floor and was so close to the bed my husband sat on the end of the bed and brushed his teeth. The bed was so close to the counters only one at a time could pass by so it was almost comical when trying to get around the room. The toilet was right next to the bed and while I was reading my book and sitting on the bed my husband put his hand thru the curtain while sitting on the toilet and told me to pull his finger. After 43 years of marriage I knew better then to pull his finger. We laughed so hard we cried. The toilet and shower are right at the front door so if you ordered room service you had to wait until they dropped the food off before getting into the shower due to the see thru glass doors....When breakfast came I had to hide under the covers because there was no place to hide in the room while in your jammies.
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Hey, thanks for the discount! Will have to swing by on the 19th!
The pictures above seems to be so yummy, Just looking at it makes me feel hungry. Love it.
RT @ChicagoBites: Don't forget the Local & Fair Trade Holiday Bazaar is tomorrow. Great event for foodie shopping: http://www.chicagobites.com/2010/12/have…
@ChicagoBites registered for the Holiday Bazaar 2morrow & used the code to buy 2 tkts but it charged me $11.98. No 2 for 1.
@MKinChiTown Bummer. Talk to them at the table as you walk in, I'm sure they'll make it right for you. 🙁
@ChicagoBites they did. Gave me $5 back. Told me I should have put in code & only 1 ticket. Seems alot of people did it wrong……
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Mignesium Citrate Liquid on the weekends
Magnesium Citrate Pills 3000mg daily
Mega Dose of Probiotics 12 daily
( she used Standard Process ProSynbiotic Probiotic Blend Bifidobacterium, BB-12®, L. acidophilus, LA-5®, L. paracasei, L. casei 431®, and S. boulardii (4 billion cfu).)
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*Only* water and coffee? Meaning no food for 12 days? That doesn't sound healthy. Or fun. Also, I thought coffee was supposed to be bad for candida because it makes your body more acidic, which helps candida thrive.
edit: I just found an abstract that says the opposite actually, that caffeine can stop candida from reproducing. Maybe people only think coffee is bad for candida because of the sweeteners and milk sugars that usually come with it?
You cannot change your blood PH by diet. This alkaline/acid ph thing is nonsense. I need to find the post from Chris Kresser on his site regarding this.
Again, most coffee is mouldy.
[url=http://www.bulletproofexec.com/why-bad-coffee-makes-you-weak/]» Why Bad Coffee Makes You Weak The Bulletproof Executive[/url]
There's a lot of misinformation on the web about candida. And there's a lot of people who apparently cured their candida in x amount of time because of x. I've tried it all, believe me. You can't do this alone. And it certainly doesn't happen in a matter of days. There is no quick fix. There are numerous reasons as to why candida proliferates in one's body: SAD diet, antibiotic abuse, but also adrenal fatigue/hormone imbalance, and food allergies.
Yes Patski sorry I didnt reply to your other post in my other thread.
Hi everyone - I'm the Bulletproof Coffee guy linked to above, and using coffee as an herb for health is a major passion. Caffeine (and coffee) are antifungal; the presence of caffeine and the other alkaloids in coffee is to ward off mold and predators. Coffee is correlated with decreases in lots of diseases, including some forms of cancer, which I believe are mycotoxin related.
I struggled with candida for years because of adrenal fatigue and SAD and 15 years of monthly antibiotics for neverending sinus infections.
The candida is gone. I had to eliminate mycotoxins and many other toxins from my diet (see the Bulletproof Diet infographic) because mycotoxins are themselves fungal antibiotics that irritate other types of fungus, including candida. If you're drinking moldy coffee (you probably are; between 50 and 91.7% of beans have mycotoxins depending on which research you read), you are irritating the candida which makes it into the filament producing type.
In my bulletproof coffee recipe, I use my brand of MCT oil, which is a 6:1 extract from coconut oil with the most antifungal fractions of the saturated fat.
I'm certain my candida is gone - I can now tolerate significant amounts of carbs (like mochi (rice) with honey, up to 200g, with no flare up at all!). There was a time when even one small piece of fruit produced a 3 day flare up for me.
Would de-caff coffee be acceptable whilst trying to kick candida up the jacksy?
Hi David,
Not trying to be argumentative. But coffee creates an insulin response. I've been advised to keep my blood sugar low to avoid insulin while my doc and I investigate my candida via food allergy testing. She also posits that I have adrenal fatigue which may be behind all of it.
Having said that, coffee creates an insulin response. How does one avoid that?


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RM Italy HLA 300 linear HF amplifier, schematic HLA 300 (PDF).
All the technical details of this amplifier can easily be obtained from the internet. In this survey some practical experiences were written down, that might become handy in case you're contemplating purchasing such an amplifier.
Attention, there are two versions of this amplifier with the type-id HLA 300 on the front-cover of the amp.; with or without air-ventilators. If the HLA 300 V is mentioned, we are talking about the version with the ventilators. In my opinion this cooling is a necessity and operates very well, so it would be a wise decision to choose the latter. On stand-by the vents operate allmost noiseless, and on transmit they immediately will kick-in.
Transmitting power according to the manufacturer (RM Italy www.rmitaly.com):
CW: 300 W output at 1 - 15 W input,
SSB: 550 W output at 2 - 20 W input.
It is expected that somewhere in the first quarter of 2009 RM Italy will launch a more sturdy type of amplifier into the market (BLA 600 or 700: Basic Linear Amplifier 600 or 700 Watt). Daniël, PH4U, has been told so by a RM Italy spokesman.
Daniel, did test on my request, this HLA 300 transistor amplifier, an all-band/all-mode type which runs at 12 - 14 V/40 A. His practical test-results, in my opinion, do seem of importance to others too.
In contrast with many similar products, which are lacking any exit filtering (low pass filters), this amplifier has 6 low pass filters installed, covering 9 HF bands.
Amplifier: HLA 300 (4 × SD1446, forced cooling by triple ventilators); power consumption is about 550 Watt.
Power supply:
Low Pass filter:
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SPS-9600, 13.8 V (switching PS, 0.8-15.4 V/60 A).
Kenwood TS-570D with its own power supplies.
Kenwood LF-30A.
Daiwa CN-101L, 1.8-150 MHz 15/150/1500 Watt.
MFJ-264, 1500 W for 10 seconds, dries load type.
Each cables about 3 ft Aircell 7 with PL connectors.
Speech at a normal level.
A speech-processor wasn't used, and is not advised because of the bandwidth of the amplified signal. Daniël commonly doesn't exceed 20 Watt of input power in SSB.
K6AER also reviewed in detail a HLA 300 and his power output test is showed in the middle table. Please note that this power supply voltage is higher. A higher voltage as well as the diameter of the supply cable can make quite a difference in voltage and/or amperage.
Meanwhile PH4U was able and willing to lend me his HLA 300, to tinker around with. At that moment his SPS 9600 power supply had some troubles. For the time being I had to use a car-battery of 12 V/70 Ah, which produced, fully charched and under load of the amplifier, exactly 12 V. The HLA 300 was driven at 10 W, first with its internal attenuator on, later without the attenuator. Then the battery voltage was taken-up to 13 V under load. On average the output power did increase with about 50 W (see fig.) At a later point in time the SPS 9600 functioned adequate and was set for 13.8 V., and the test was done again, this time with 5 W and 10 W drive. The bottom lines of the measurements show the results.
A 1-Volt drop can easily occur with these high currents (here 45 - 55 Amps) when (to) long or (to) thin leads are used.
The average performance increased with the deleted 100 pF capacitor.
With 5 W drives the unchanged (except a deleted 100 pf cap) amplifier gave the best results.
Almost immediately after publishing the Dutch version of this article, questions from abroad arose, such as: is there a way to drive this linear to its full potential with an input of let's say 5 Watt (FT-817)? Because I don't own a HLA 300, it's hard to predict.
For a better overview the two positions of relays RL1 are drawn (fig»), including the converted resistors. For a drive of 5 W, one can replace all the original resistors, but putting-in parallel resistors instead is much easier to experiment and getting things back in original condition again. The capacitor of 100 pF wasn't drawn in the schematic, however it was mounted in the amp. While testing it showed that the 100 pF capacitor in this specific amplifier better could be taken out to improve performance.
Because the equipment (PA + PS) was lent to me, I could experiment further on it. The attenuator was changed several times, to make lower drive input (5 W) possible, but the SWR that comes along with it changed to much with even bad to worse readings; once rectified with other resistors, power dropped even beyond the point of the original attenuator. With 5 W drive the best output I have seen, I did achieve with the unchanged attenuator.
Conclusion: 5 W are too low to drive this HLA 300 to its full potential. The only solution is to use an extra amplifier stage, which can lift the FT-817's power level up to 20 W.
The HLA 300 is neatly of construction, has adequate internal safeguards which will warn you by a buzzer, and what is more important: the amplifier is able to withstand excessive drive-power for a short period (a couple of seconds) of time.
This amplifier has two pairs of transistors working in balance and both pairs are coupled with splitters.
How harmful this is or could be for the equipment, I don't know, but after a few minutes transmission with a FM or CW carrier, the ferrite-tubes (fig») of both output transformers got warm, up to hot, and you could burn your fingers on them. Remarkably, at both transformers, the right tube gets the warmest. On that side the five windings are connected to earth on one side only. So the exit per stage is not really symmetrical and could explain the difference.
If it were my own homebrew PA, I would have changed the tubes for a bigger size.
The SWR on the entrance of this tested device could still be slightly improved by adding an extra capacitor parallel to C50 (620 pF) near T4 and one to C55 (620 pF) near T5.
Looking at the transmission-power, the difference between 10W or 20W input is of null and void, and quite soon the point of compression is reached. An efficient operation can be obtained by using a clean input-signal in combination with a switched-on speech-processor and limit the input-signal to 10 Watt.
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"Billy Mills is not merely an athlete, but a successful entrepreneur, family man, author and community leader," said Alinor Stephens, chair of the Ideas and Issues Committee with the University Program Board. "I believe he will be one of the most dynamic speakers we've ever had on campus."
The program will mark the 35th anniversary of Mills' win in the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Mills scored one of the greatest upsets in Olympic history when he won the 10,000-meter race with a come-from-behind finish. In the 100-year history of the Games, Mills is the only American to have ever won this event.
Despite his accomplishments, Mills' ancestry was ridiculed, his integrity questioned and his talents ignored. Nevertheless, he fought prejudice and scorn to become one of the best distance runners of his day, and an enduring national figure.
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