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Various artists Girls soundtrack, Volume 1: Music from the HBO Original Series/Fueled By Ramen
As the popular cable series about a group of hipster 20-somethings in New York gets ready to start up its second season, the powers that be at Girls has seen fit to release the first in what is sure to be a series of music collections from the show.
Since the music on the show is every bit as trendy as everything else involved, fans of the series will no doubt be excited by the inclusion of current it bands such as Harper Simon, Icona Pop, The Vaccines and Lia Ices.
For those of us who dont necessarily have to claim to like bands that may or may not yet exist, there are a few more familiar names in the track listing.
Swedish pop star Robyn shines on Dancing on My Own, while Fleet Foxes fans will appreciate the inclusion of Montezuma.
Also worth noting are new tracks from Santigold (Girls) and Michael Penn (On Your Way).
Each of the 14 tracks seems to have been carefully selected in such a way as to ensure that even the most finicky fan of modern music can find something to like here.
Key Tracks: Dancing on My Own, I Dont Love Anyone, On Your Way
Moving Sidewalks The Complete Collection/Rockbeat
Anybody who knows anything about classic rock knows the name ZZ Top.
That little ol band from Texas has spent the last four and a half decades bringing its special brand of rock n roll to the masses.
What many dont realize, though, is that before he was in ZZ Top, guitarist Billy Gibbons fronted another band: Moving Sidewalks.
Formed in Houston in the mid-60s, Moving Sidewalks sound was more psychedelic than blues, and the band even scored primo gigs opening for the likes of Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and the 13th Floor Elevators.
Now, fans of the 60s psychedelic sound, or folks who are simply curious about what Gibbons sounded like prior to his current gig, can sample the best of what Moving Sidewalks put out with a 2-CD collection, The Complete Moving Sidewalks.
Better known songs such as 99th Floor and Joe Blues can be found among more obscure tracks.
Not to be missed is a suitably tripped-out cover of The Beatles I Want to Hold Your Hand.
Not everything here is a home run, but its interesting to hear the sound that eventually morphed into ZZ Top.
This new collection makes for interesting listening, especially given the recent announcement by Gibbons that he would be reuniting the original members of Moving Sidewalks.
Key Tracks: 99th Floor, Joe Blues, I Want to Hold Your Hand
Paloma Faith Fall to Grace/Epic
First there was Amy Winehouse, then it was Adele that stole the spotlight from every other female vocalist out there.
Now it appears that Paloma Faith is being groomed as the next big British singer to carry on the tradition of torch songs popularized in the 60s by Dusty Springfield.
While there still isnt anyone who comes close to being able to emulate Springfields brilliant vocals, Faith makes a pretty impressive attempt.
Moreover, most of the time Faith doesnt really sound like shes trying to be Springfield, which isnt something either Winehouse or Adele could ever lay claim to.
Faiths voice is clear and clean, with just the right amounts of swagger and self-assuredness to let the listener know she means business, but not so much that she sounds arrogant.
Tracks such as Picking Up the Pieces, Black and Blue and Let Me Down Easy demonstrate this beautifully.
She allows those vocals to soar in all the right places, giving you the same kind of goosebumps you got when you heard Adeles Rolling in the Deep for the first time.
Perhaps the best song on the album is Beauty of the End, which charms with its acoustic guitar riff and just the right amount of reverb on Faiths vocals to make it sound like she was recorded by Phil Spectors Wall of Sound. Perhaps its best that Faith simply re-created that process.
Key Tracks: Picking Up the Pieces, Let Me Down Easy, Beauty of the End
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Hypnotherapy 'should be adopted more widely'
Hypnotherapy should be used more frequently as a treatment, with it being particularly useful for pain relief.
This is according to Dr Peter Naish, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University and President-elect of the Hypnosis Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, who stated that it works as more than a placebo effect.
Speaking to the Today programme on Radio 4 on June 6 2011, he explained that cancer nurses could become trained in hypnotherapy.
Dr Naish added that it could help to save the NHS money, while the general public will start to see it as a "normal" treatment.
He explained that hypnotherapy should not be seen as "weird" and people should not feel like they have to use unqualified and unverified practitioners from telephone directories.
John Castleton, Chartered Counselling Psychologist, said: "Hypnosis has been an area of public and professional interest for centuries and, as the BPS said in 2001, "Hypnosis is a valid subject for scientific study and research and a proven therapeutic medium".
"When used appropriately, hypnotherapy is a useful addition to a practitioner's "tool kit" and brings together a range of psychotherapeutic techniques that can assist with personal development, emotional difficulties and, research has shown, some health conditions.
"There are now many organisations (such as the National Council for Hypnotherapy) that are trying to improve the quality of training and practice. The Department of Health recommends that members of the public, and those who commission services, consult Hypnotherapists who are registered with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC), the UK regulator for complementary healthcare practitioners."
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Viggo Mortensen Was Asked to Return as Aragorn in 'The Hobbit'
Viggo Mortensen is not listed in the current cast line-up of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", but he once got an offer to return to Middle Earth for the "Lord of the Rings" prequel. The actor recently revealed that Peter Jackson was asking him to reprise his role as Aragorn in the upcoming film.
In an interview with Movies.com, Mortesen said, "At one point, the producers asked if I would do it and I said sure if Aragorn is supposed to be in the bridge story because he's not in 'The Hobbit'." He added, "I would rather do it than see someone else do it, but I've never been asked [formally] and they're shooting the movie."
Mortesen claimed that the chance to see Aragorn in "The Hobbit" is very small. "I'm not in it unless if there is some last-minute plan they have, but I thought I would have heard of it by now," he said.
"Orlando Bloom and Cate Blanchett shot something, but they're elves and don't change as rapidly," the 53-year-old actor added. "As you know, Aragorn is half elf and also lives a couple hundred years or more and he could be in a bridge, but I have to assume it isn't going to happen."
Though he will not reprise his role as Aragorn in "The Hobbit", Mortensen admitted that playing the character in the three "Lord of the Rings" movies means a lot to him. "That was an important period in my life," he shared.
"And I will always be grateful that the trilogy was so successful and gave me a lot of new opportunities. I never would have gotten 'A History of Violence', no matter how much David [Cronenberg] wanted me, had it not been for my newfound notoriety," so Mortensen added.
Based on J.R.R. Tolkien's best-selling novel, "The Hobbit" centers on Bilbo Baggins and Thorin Oakenshield, along with the twelve dwarves, who embark on an epic adventure to the Lonely Mountain to reclaim a lost treasure that was stolen by the dragon Smaug.
The fantasy epic will arrive in U.S. theaters on December 14, 2012, while its follow-up "The Hobbit: There and Back Again" will be released nationwide on December 13, 2013. In addition to Bloom and Blanchett who reprise their "LOTR" roles, the movie will see Andy Serkis, Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood returning as Gollum, Gandalf and Frodo respectively. Martin Freeman, meanwhile, is cast as Bilbo.
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Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have
Porcupine Tree - Sleep of No Dreaming
Hear You Me - Jimmy Eat World
Box of Stones - Benjamin Francis Leftwich
She Has No Time - Keane
God Bless the Child - Michelle Featherstone
Fleetwood Mac's Songbird and Oh Daddy both from the phe-nomenal Rumours album.
Strand of Oaks - Kill Dragon
Definitely Fix You by Coldplay!
Making April - Runaway World
The Killers - The Way It Was
The Goo Goo Dolls - Better Days
Maroon 5 - Just a Feeling
Acceptance - Different
Copeland - No One Really Wins
Just recently got into this band. Very 80's new wav-ish but is it ever dreary.
agalloch. in the shadow of our pale companion.
Anything by Sunny Day Real Estate or Heatmiser.
Coldplay - "Fix You"
Dashboard Confessional - "Dusk and Summer"
Leona Lewis - "Better In Time"
Keyshia Cole - "I Remember"
I love that song that name and artist i don't remember,
if you can name it for me i would be so happy.
I think it was german male artist, who made suicide, or died in car crash.
It's been a while and i don't even recall the lyrics.
I've actually never read the lyrics but based on the title of the track, Its probably about something sad. Regardless, very fun and awesome song to listen to.
This is purely instrumental, not lyrics, but Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings.


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Why Use XML In Web Design and Development
XML is used for designing the web pages in an application. XML means Extensible Markup Language. It is a markup language containing tags to define data. The tags used in the language contain the content specific meaning. The data is stored in a structured format. XML is a cross platform, hardware and software independent markup language. It helps computers to transfer data between the heterogeneous systems. It is used as a common data interchange format in number of applications.
Advantages of XML
Some of the advantages of XML in web designing are as mentioned below:
1. Domain specific vocabulary: It uses a set of predefined tags to present data in different format. While working with HTML, you are restricted to use only the specific tags. On the other hand, XML does not contain any predefined tags. User can create new tags based on the requirements of the application.
2. Data interchange: It is essential for performing business transactions. User needs to establish standard interfaces among the related enterprises in which the data is stored in disparate forms to facilitate data interchange. XML produces files that are unambiguous, easy to generate, and easy to read.
3. Smart Searches: HTML provides with a set of predefined tags, it is difficult to implement a search on an HTML document. Consider the following example.
The best picture award goes to <FILM> Titanic </FILM>
4. Granular updates: Document updates are slow as the entire document needs to be refreshed from the server. In uploading an XML document, only the part of the document is uploaded.
5. User selected view of data: In HTML, user needs to create separate HTML pages to display the information in different formats. XML document focus on the data and not its presentation.
6. Message transformation: In XML, a message can be stored in the form of a document, object data or data from a database. The messages are designed such that they reflect the information content and not the use of the messages.
XML Standard
XML was defined by W3C to ensure that structured data is uniform and independent of vendors and applications. Due to the flexibility for customization in XML, W3C made certain rules that need to be followed by the users. They are as mentioned below:
Identifying the structure of XML documents
An XML application is considered to be well designed if it is robust and scalable. To design a robust and scalable XML application, user needs to perform the following steps:
A. Information Modeling
An information model is a description of the information used in an organization. In the absence of an information model, there is only data and no information.
In XML, an information model is used to understand the structure and meaning of information that will be stored in XML documents. It helps to identify the objects involved in an application, properties of the objects, and relationship among them.
XML provides the following capabilities to information modeling.
Static Model
A static information model helps to define all the objects in an application and the relationship among them.
The best approach for the model is the step by step method. The method is described as follows:
In the dynamic model, data flow diagrams and process diagrams are used to determine the flow of information. User can determine the information flow of an application in the form of messages.
Some of the approaches of the dynamic model are as follows:
B. Components of XML document
XML enables to store the structured data such that different devices can recognize it. User needs to recognize the data before storing it in the XML document. This involves arranging the data in a hierarchy. The various components of the XML document are as follows:
1. Processing Instruction (PI): An XML document usually begins with the XML declaration statement called the Processing Instruction known as PI. The PI provides the information on how the XML file should be processed. The statement can be written as follows:
<? xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? >
2. Tags: They are used to specify the name of a given piece of information. It is the means of identifying data. The tag consists of opening and closing angular brackets. The name is enclosed in the tag. They occur in pairs.
The start tag contains the name of the tag and the end tag includes the forward slash (/) before the name of the tag. The example for the tag is as shown below:
<P> My name is Nick </P>
3. Elements: They are the basic units to identify and describe the data in XML. They are used as building blocks of an XML document. Elements are represented using tags.
XML gives meaningful names to the elements. It helps to improve the readability of the code. Consider the following example.
<AUTHORNAME> John Smith </AUTHORNAME>
An XML document must always have a root element. A root element contains all other elements in a document. Consider the following example.
<? xml version="1.0"?>
4. Content: Content refers to the information represented by the elements of an XML document. Consider the following example.
<BOOKNAME> Harry Potter </BOOKNAME>
XML enables to declare and use elements that contain different types of information. An element can contain:
a. Character or data content
Elements can contain only textual information. Consider the following example.
<BOOKNAME>The Painted House </BOOKNAME>
b. Element Content
Element can contain other elements. The elements contained in another element are called child elements. The containing element is called the parent element. A parent element can contain many child elements. All the child elements of a parent element are siblings and are related to each other. Consider the following example.
c. Combination or Mixed Content
Elements can contain textual information as well as other elements as shown in the following example.
4. Attributes
Attributes provide additional information about the elements for which they are declared. An attribute consists of a name – value pair. Consider the following example.
<PRODUCTNAME PRODID="P001"> Doll </PRODUCTNAME>
Elements can have more than one attributes. User must decide whether the specific piece of information is represented as an element or as an attribute.
5. Entities
An entity is a name that is associated with the block of data. The data can be a text or reference to an external file that contains the textual or binary information. It is a set of information that can be used by specifying a single name.
XML provides predefined entities called internal entities that enable user to express characters in an XML document.
Some of the predefined internal entities that form a part of the XML specification are as mentioned below:
Internal Entity Description
Consider the following code snippet.
<DISPLAY> The price of the toy is < 200 </DISPLAY>
6. Comments
Comments are statements used to explain the XML code. They are used to provide documentation information about the XML file or the application to which the file belongs. The parser ignores the comment entries during the code execution.
Comments are not essential in an XML file. It is a good programming practice to add the comments along with the code. Comments are created by using the opening angular brackets followed by an exclamation mark and two hyphens (
<!-- ). The text is followed containing the comments. The following example demonstrates the use of comments.
<!—PRODUCTDATA is the root element -- >
C. Predefined XML Document rules
You have learnt about the basic components of the XML document. These components can be used to create a well formed XML document.
The rules that are followed while creating the XML document are as follows:
1. Every start tag must have an end tag. They cannot be inferred. They must be explicitly specified. Every XML document must have a root element that contains the other elements used in the document.
<LI> This is the example of bulleted item </LI>
2. Empty tags must be closed using a forward slash (/). They do not contain any information. They contain only attributes. The values are specified within the opening and closing angular brackets.
< PICTURE name="Flowers.jpg "/>
<FONT size="12" />
4. Tags must appear in proper nesting. The opening tags must appear in the reverse order in which they appear. Consider the following example.
<AUTHOR> John Smith <BOOKNAME> Client </BOOKNAME></AUTHOR>
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The legendary golfer, who many consider the greatest international golfer ever, finished a 15-minute conversation on Wednesday in a dining area at Valencia Country Club.
Hands were already shook and goodbyes were given, but Player stood up, one knee on a chair, and looked at the trees just off the tee box on hole No. 1.
"It's not a case of speaking your mind," Player resumes. "It's about being interested in the planet."
Passionate would be an understatement. The 73-year-old has passion coming out of every single pore in his tanned, wrinkled face.
Player's passion is golf, but a conversation reveals so much more.
He makes other golfers marvel.
Player plays about eight tournaments a year.
But he ranches.
He designs golf courses.
He makes public appearances.
And he has 21 grandchildren.
Player won nine major championships on the PGA Tour in a career that began in 1957 — three Masters, three British Opens, two PGA Championships and one U.S. Open.
Add to that six Majors on the Champions Tour.
"Just an incredible athlete," says fellow World Golf Hall of Famer and South African Nick Price. "I don't know if there's ever been a golfer first of all of his size and stature to have the longevity that he has had in the game. His love for the game is so apparent to all of us.
While all of us at 73 years old would probably be at home in our rocking chairs with our grandkids watching whatever, he still plays golf and he loves to play golf."
And it's apparent that he also loves to talk.
But Player has something relevant to say.
He takes aim at obesity.
It's something that you can tell really works him up.
Player says he exercises four days a week, approximately an hour and a half per session.
It's a reason that the 5-foot-7-inch golfer succeeded in the past and remains on the golf course at his age.
"One of my great ambitions also has to do with young people," he begins. "I'd really like to get a message to 100 million young Americans, if I could, in that the body is a holy temple.
"I think the biggest problem facing the world right now is not the economy. It's not wars. It's the obesity."
You feel the frustration in Player's voice as his voice strains.
He says the United States would save hundreds of millions of dollars and save millions of lives if it better educated the youth about diet and exercise.
Player has a son with diabetes, but it's not diet-related, he says.
But watching his son jab a needle of insulin into his body every day bothers him.
"I see so many dying, so many getting diabetes," He says. "Diabetes is not a disease now, it's an epidemic."
Player says he gives talks at schools about physical health.
But with all his projects — Player owns a stud ranch, has designed more than 250 golf courses, has educational facilities, dabbles in real estate — one would think he has been run ragged.
One would think mental stress might have an effect.
"I think mental stress, contrary to what all the medical people say, mental stress is good for you. Not too much stress (though)," he says.
He goes on to say that stress is just a part of life. That there is no such thing as utopia.
"Hell, I've been a pro for 56 years," he begins. "I've crapped myself on golf courses and that's stress.
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He says that he's a laugher and a big tease.
That he chooses happiness over sadness.
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Golf fans genuinely admire Player for what he's done in golf.
But he's not done.
And he's not done talking about issues either.
He discusses the amount of water the United States wastes.
He suggests parks and golf courses use waste water.
Player talks about his disgust for the amount of garbage being dumped into the oceans.
He keeps staring outside and shakes his head.
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The class covers the basics: tuning, chords, basic strumming, finger-picking, and preliminary songs are learned. Participants begin to feel a sense of accomplishment as they play in harmony with colleagues, develop dexterity in changing chords, and singing while playing.
Four of the classes will be held at Decades Coffee Club, 45846 Wellington, where the Uke Club meets twice per month to jam. Your drop-in fee is covered by tuition. Through these "field trips" Ukulele Class participants gain confidence to sing and play with others.
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FLINT, MI -- The longtime "Voice of the Chargers" died Sunday, Jan. 27.
John Mahoney, who spent 29 years announcing football and basketball games for Powers Catholic High School, died less than six months after being diagnosed with leukemia last year.
His daughter said Mahoney, 66, of Burton, was determined not to let the disease dictate how he lived his life.
After his diagnosis, Megan Mahoney said her father -- a lifelong Notre Dame fan -- was determined to fulfill his goal of watching the Fighting Irish play football in Dublin, Ireland.
"His response was 'OK but just so you know, I need to be on a plane to Ireland in three and a half weeks,' " Megan Mahoney said with a laugh. "He didn't allow things to stand in his way."
Though his passion was deeply rooted in sports, John Mahoney also cared especially for children in the community. He was a member of the Industrial Mutual Association for more than 20 years and served as past president. Mahoney advocated for the wellbeing of children both through acquiring grants through the IMA and coaching basketball and softball at local primary Catholic schools, and in City of Flint youth leagues.
He felt very strongly about helping kids that were not as fortunate, and he liked taking the kids who needed an extra parental figure in their lives under his wing, Megan Mahoney said.
"He was a very dedicated person and role model for people," Joe Forlenza, of Flushing said.
Forlenza had been a principal at Powers for as many years as Mahoney announced sports, and the two worked alongside each other for most of those years.
"Any time you lose someone like John, you lose a part of yourself," Forlenza said. "But you're also very thankful for everything he did – he has left a legacy."
In 2012 he was able to share an important milestone with wife Margaret "Peggy" Mahoney -- celebrating 45 years of marriage and the birth of his fifth grandchild.
John Mahoney worked as a human resources executive for General Motors for 38 years, spent eight years working at Acument Global Technologies and most recently, enjoyed his time as a business consultant for ARaymond, Inc. He was also a member of the Luke M. Powers Catholic High School Board of Education.
"He truly enjoyed working and getting to know people," Megan Mahoney said. "The people he worked with, and volunteered with, became an extension of his family."
Earlier in his life, John Mahoney was drafted during the Vietnam War and spent four years stateside as a drill sergeant. There was something about his demeanor – he was very authoritative, Megan Mahoney said.
"He played a crucial role in training soldiers," she said. "He liked the idea of teamwork and brotherhood -- it goes right into his involvement in sports and coaching."
John Mahoney had been announcing football and basketball games at Powers both before and after his four kids had graduated from the same school.
He was elected to the Powers Hall of Fame in 2000 after 17 years as an announcer but continued to call games with the hope of reaching the 30-year mark.
His streak was cut short last fall after being admitted for a bone marrow transplant in November. While hospitalized, his one request was for an iPad to watch the Powers games and follow the team through the playoffs.
"His attitude was 'The illness doesn't control me; I let it know when it's convenient for me,' " Megan Mahoney said.
After returning home from Notre Dame's loss in the national championship game in Miami in January, John's leukemia had set in again and additional treatment was needed. Still, Megan Mahoney said, his determination never died.
"He wanted to fight until the end," she said. "He wasn't going to quit -- and he didn't."
Funeral services are set for 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 at St.
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It's "likely" that Sidney Crosby will be back in the NHL this season and his doctors expect that he will have a full recovery. There is no timetable for his return.
Crosby came out with two doctors and Ray Shero. Sid was wearing a white shirt, which alluded to positive news. However, he wasn't wearing a hat, which made us speculate that his head was hurting. He had water, but it wasn't Fiji. Somewhere Gary Roberts is angry.
The press conference started off with Ray Shero expressing his condolences to the KHL players who were involved in today's accident as well as their families, loved ones and anyone affected. Then we got down to business.
Sidney Crosby is a Ferrari. His game depends on reflexes, spacial recognition, balance, vision and coordination. All of those things were damaged by the concussion. However, the doctors anticipate that Sidney Crosby will make a full recovery. No timetable is available for his return, but he won't play until he's 100%. No one can say when that is right now.
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Sid brushed off questions about his retirement and said that this is the best he's felt since the injury. The doctors said that today is "like Christmas" for Sid and everyone who is concerned for him because today is a celebration. This confused reporters who apparently didn't know what Christmas is. The doctor said they would introduce contact very carefully and their outlook is excellent that he will have a long, fruitful NHL career. We kept waiting for them to say "We can rebuild him. We have the technology," but that moment never came.
Ray Shero said that he's pleased with Sid's progress and Sid again shot down retirement rumors. He was asked if he had prepared himself to never play again and if there is a chance he will retire from this injury. Sid said "I wouldn't bet on that" with a steely-eyed gaze that may have killed the reporter.
The doctors explained that Sidney Crosby will not play until he's 100% and that his 100% is obviously different than anyone else's. The doctors were then asked about Eric Lindros and several other concussed players and asked to relate those concussions to Crosby's situation. Obviously these doctors weren't Eric Lindros' doctors, so they couldn't answer that. We don't know why anyone thought they would be able to answer that question properly.
Sid said that he was at 89% and the hockey world freaks out because they said 90% before! Or something. Blah, blah, blah, the same questions over and over again. Blah, blah, blah, the same answers.
Ray Shero said he's still excited about the team and that Sid "will be worth the wait" and that he won't be rushed back. He also mentioned that Evgeni Malkin is healthy and Jordan Staal will have a full training camp this year. Everyone in the room pauses for a moment, as they struggle to remember exactly who Malkin and Staal actually are. Something was said about "making sure the cows are back in the barn" and then it ended.
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Firstly, I went to NYU and graduated in 2011
Upon graduating, I made my own company to develop iOS games. It was challenging and torturous.
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Dr. Kermit Gosnell pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal drug charges after twice walking away from scheduled plea hearings.
Prosecutors said he flooded Philadelphia streets with OxyContin, codeine-laced cough syrup and the antidepressant Xanax, after selling prescriptions to addicts and drug dealers at his street-corner clinic.
Gosnell, 72, is already serving life without parole in the deaths of three babies born alive at his Women's Medical Society in West Philadelphia.
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MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- Junior LaRel Jackson scored a season-high 12 points and fellow junior Reshad Bickham added a double-double as the Auburn Montgomery men's basketball team evened its season record with a 65-59 victory over Huntingdon Monday.
With the win, the Warhawks improved to 9-9 on the season, while the Hawks fell to 5-13 overall.
"I really tip my hat to Mike Pugh's team," head coach Larry Chapman said. "I thought they really battled, made winning plays all night and hit the free throws they were given. I think we were fortunate to be able to make some plays late in the game and earn the victory. I appreciate the turnout and the atmosphere here tonight. This was a great thing for local college basketball."
Joining Jackson in double figures was Bickham and sophomores Quay Davis and Michael Willis with 11 points each. Bickham also added a game-high 11 rebounds.
"I thought LaRel played well for the whole game," Chapman said. "When Quay got in foul trouble hurt us in regards to our guard play, but really were able to overcome that thanks to a solid effort by LaRel."
After each team struggled early and played to a 5-5 tie through the opening 4:24, the Warhawks erupted with an offensive outburst during the next 10:02. AUM used a 23-6 run during the span and built a game-high 17-point lead following a lay-up by Willis with 5:34 remaining before halftime. The Warhawks maintained a 14-point advantage, 33-19, with 2:31 remaining, but Huntingdon closed the half by scoring seven of the final eight points and cut the margin to just eight at the intermission, 34-26.
In the opening period, the Warhawks turned six HC turnovers into 11 points and used eight offensive rebounds to generate 13 second-chance points. Jackson scored nine points during the period, all from behind the arc, while the Hawks stayed close in the contest by hitting 11-of-13 free throws.
Huntingdon quickly clawed back into the game with a 9-2 run to open the second half and trim the margin to just one at 36-35 with 17:09 to play. The Hawks rallied and took the lead with 14:07 to play, but a dunk by Bickham gave AUM the lead just 23 seconds later.
Despite three additional ties down the stretch, including as late as 5:29 left in the game, the Warhawks never relinquished the lead again. During the final five-plus minutes, AUM outscored Huntingdon 12-6 to provide the final margin of six points. Davis scored seven points during the span, including a pair of treys.
For the game, the Warhawks converted 36.2 percent from the floor, while the Hawks used a strong second half, nearly 61 percent, to finish 21-of-48 from the field. AUM also matched a season-best with nine 3-pointers on a season-high 29 attempts.
"They zoned us and we had a hard time getting the ball inside to our post players," Chapman added. "We had opportunities inside, but just couldn't get them to fall. Give them a lot of credit for knowing how to play us and that we struggle to make outside shots."
Huntingdon had four players finish in double figures, led by Austin Hill's game-high 15 points.
The Warhawks will return to action on Thursday, Jan. 31, when they travel to New Orleans, to take on conference foe Loyola. Tip-off is slated for 7:30 p.m.


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Taste deterrents are substances designed to taste bad to dogs. They can be bitter or spicy hot. Some commonly used deterrents are Grannick's Bitter Apple® Spray or Gel, Veterinarian's Best® Bitter Cherry Spray, Yuk-2e Anti-Lick Gel, Bitter YUCK!® No Chew Spray and Chew Guard® Spray. Similar to people, dogs have taste buds for sweet, salty, sour and bitter, and they tend to reject bitter foods. But there's significant variation in dogs' reactions to taste deterrents. Some dogs act like they're the worst thing they've ever tasted, while other dogs seem to like them!
Taste deterrents are intended to stop dogs from chewing and licking things they shouldn't. Pet parents can apply taste deterrents to various off-limits objects outdoors and around the house—and even to their own hands. Specific taste deterrents can be used to discourage dogs from chewing or licking themselves, too. (Please consult a veterinarian before applying any taste deterrent to your dog's skin or fur. Some products can sting if applied to raw or broken skin.)
When you first use a deterrent, apply a small amount to a piece of tissue or cotton wool. Gently place it directly into your dog's mouth. Allow him to taste it and then spit it out. If your dog finds the taste unpleasant, he might shake his head, drool or retch. He might sniff the piece of tissue or wool, but he probably won't pick it up again. Ideally, he'll recoil from it. You want him to learn the connection between the taste and the odor of the deterrent so that he'll avoid chewing objects that smell like it. After letting your dog taste the deterrent, spray or rub it on all objects you don't want him to chew or lick. Reapply the deterrent every day for two to four weeks to be sure your dog will no longer bother with the objects.
If you use a spicy-hot deterrent, remove your dog's access to water for an hour or so after he tastes the substance. (Be sure not to withhold water for any longer than that. Animals need water to survive!) If you don't remove your dog's water, he might drink it to alleviate the discomfort of the spicy substance. Then, because he's learned he can easily get rid of the unpleasant sensation and taste, he'll be less likely to avoid the deterrent when it's applied to objects in the future.


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Pair of early cabinet cards depicting, respectively, the first two heavyweight boxing champions in history: John L. Sullivan and James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett. Each formal studio photo dates from approximately the time of their championship bout in 1892 and captures the respective fighters in traditional boxing poses. Each photo bears the fighter's name in small print below his image. The identical design and the mounts of these cabinet cards, each with unusual scalloped edges, indicate that these cards may be from a larger series; at the very least they are a very striking and rare "two-card set" matched pair. John L. Sullivan is generally regarded as the first undisputed heavyweight champion in boxing history, having gained the unofficial title in 1882 after defeating Paddy Ryan. He successfully defended his title for ten years before losing by knockout in the twenty-first round to Jim Corbett. Corbett's reign as heavyweight champ lasted five years; however, he only fought twice during that time, losing the title to Bob Fitzsimmons in 1897. Following their careers both fighters remained in the public eye as celebrities, and each took a turn on the stage. Sullivan passed away in 1918 and Corbett in 1933. The Corbett photo displays a few tiny areas of very light foxing; otherwise the photographs are in Near Mint condition. Both mounts display light foxing and tack holes along the top borders. Dimensions: each 4.25 x 6.5 inches. Total: 2 cabinet cards. Reserve $100. Estimate $200/400. SOLD FOR $587.50
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Actor flies to Haiti to visit charity staff
Sean Penn has pulled out of his appearance at the seventh Dubai Film Festival to deal with events in Haiti, where he runs the J/P Haitian Relief Organization.
Penn, who is being honored with a lifetime achievement award, has flown to the Caribbean country to check on his staff and camp following political upheavals and violent protests over a disputed presidential election.
In a statement, Penn said: "I am honored to receive the Dubai Film Festival lifetime achievement award and had every intention of being there to accept it in person. Regretfully, the situation in Haiti has worsened, and it was of the utmost importance that I be there to ensure the safety of my staff and the J/P HRO camp."
"A Conversation With Sean Penn," an event scheduled for Monday evening at Madinat Jumeirah, was canceled.


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'It's a Wonderful Life'
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Rating: Unrated
Run time: 130 minutes
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
What it's about: In this 1946 movie, a distraught George Bailey (Stewart) is given a glimpse at life if he never existed.
Highlights/lowpoints: Despite the desperate, suicidal edge of the main character, this essential holiday classic is sweet, uplifting and joyful.
Details: Friday, at 6:30 and 9 p.m. at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center, 301 Peninsula Drive. Cost: $5. Buffet dinner costs $5 in advance, $6 at the door. Part of the Holiday Movies at TREC series.
'A Christmas Story'
Director: Bob Clark
Starring: Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin
Rating: PG
Run time: 94 minutes
Genre: Comedy/Family
What it's about: In this 1983 classic, Ralphie (Billingsley) longs for a Red Ryder B.B. gun for Christmas and tries to convince his parents to let him have one.
Highlights/lowpoints: Humorous, nostalgic and an overall touching story about a boy, his desire for a B.B. gun and the chaos that ensues.
Details: Saturday, at 6:30 and 9 p.m. at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center, 301 Peninsula Drive. Cost: $5. Dinner buffet costs $5 in advance, $6 at the door.
Director: Ron Fricke
Rating: PG-13
Run time: 102 minutes
Genre: Documentary
What it's about: This long-term film project includes scenes -- from sacred lands to disaster areas -- from 25 different countries over the course of five years.
Highlights/lowpoints: The narrative is heavy-handed, but the visuals are breathtaking.
Details: Wednesday, 8 p.m. at the Erie Art Museum. Cost: $5. Part of the FILM at the Erie Art Museum series.
'Nightmare Before Christmas'
Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara
Rating: PG
Run time: 76 minutes
Genre: Animation/Fantasy
What it's about: In this 1993 film, Jack Skellington is the king of Halloweentown who's grown weary of scaring people. When he finds himself in Christmas Town, he decides to take over for Santa Claus and make a very Halloween-kind of Christmas.
Highlights/lowpoints: Beautiful animation and memorable musical numbers that add a delightful twist to the holidays.
Details: Friday, Dec. 21, at 6:30 and 9 p.m. at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center. Cost: $5. Dinner buffet costs $5 in advance, $6 at the door. Part of the Holiday Movies at TREC series.
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The Official Raven 3M build thread has begun.
Welcome, this thread will be a build log and discussion area for the Raven 3M, a 3 meter TD plane designed by Mike Smart. Starting this October I, and some of you, will be building this wonderful woodie. I am starting the thread now because I have been getting questions about the plane in other threads and I want to get the information in one central location. I am certainly not the first person to build one of these and if you look around RCGroups you can find a couple of build threads that were started but never finished.
So what is a Raven 3M? Well in this case it is the largest in a family of TD planes created by the English designer, Mike Smart, during the 1980's. The Raven 3m is also the newest in the series and has the most build variations. It is only available as plans so this will be a scratch build. A unique design aspect of this plane is that Mike has included different wing options to suite most any flyer. It can be built with the gull wing as a aileron, elevator, rudder, pictured below, or it can be built with straight dihedral wings for ailerons, elevator, rudder, or it can be built with poly-dihedral for rudder, elevator, spoiler. Flaps can easily be added to any of the optional wings styles if so desired. Additionally it can be built with a foam core, balsa sheeted wing. You bagged wing guys could very easily bag this wing with FG or carbon. Multiple wing sets can be used with the same fuselage giving you many flying options.
I have had the opportunity to talk with Mike, via email, and he is planning to join this thread to answer any build or technical question that might arise. As of now there are three of us planning to build it this fall/winter. I am certain that the other builders will chime in here as soon as they see the thread. I am planning to build mine as a traditional glider and at least one of the builders is going to electrify his. I am planning to build the wing using carbon to cap the spar to make it a little stronger to better withstand those winch launches. It can still be flown as a woodie this way. This plane does not qualify for NOS events as it was designed in 1986.
I will do my best to answer any questions that arise and any that I cannot answer can be fielded by Mike. I hope some of you will join us in building it this fall and please feel free to ask questions. I have included a couple of pictures so you can see what it looks like.
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Thank you Wayne, for kicking off the offical thread on this fun project. I have a list of materials that is fairly complete for the fuse and wing. I'm going with the D box version, and the Gull wing option. I also have a source for laser cut ribs, if any of you need them. I certainly do. Mine will be electric of course.
Bob in Seattle
Hi Bob,
Thanks for mentioning the materials list. Bob and I are going to be putting together a material list for the build. This should make things easier for any of you who decide to take on this build. Once we get it put together I will post it as a pdf flie. As Bob has already mentioned, we do have a source for laser cut ribs for the wing and tail. Bob has already ordered and received a set so he can comment on the details. I saw a picture of them and they do look very nice. The person doing the laser cutting was familiar with the plane and that is always a nice plus.
I will also be updating post #2 with links to sources for the various materials needed. Some of you have nice fully stocked local hobby shops but some of you do not so Bob and I will be doing the leg work finding online sources for materials.
I appear to be the third person doing the build. The plans arrived Friday (only 3 days from England!) and using Bob's preliminary materials list I am going over the plan and my wood pile to see what I need to order.
Mine will be an aileron gull-wing electric, probably with a fully sheeted wing since I have not built one of those before. It is windy here most of the summer flying season, so a little extra weight in place of ballast is fine. Power will be from a 400W in-runner with a planetary gearbox turning a 16 x8 folder powered by 3S2P 2100 mAh twinned 2100 20C lipos. I have a similar set up in an Oly 3 at about the same AUW that gives 45 degree or better climb outs to winch height in under 30 seconds, so it makes for a nice sport plane.
An October start works great for me as we have just moved and I need some time to get my shop put together.
Now for what will probably be the first of many questions: The plan shows flaps but does not mention spoilers. I have both on the Oly3 and wonder about the need/desirability of adding them. Comments?
Hi FC,
Thanks for stopping in. I believe we are up to 4 builders now. Rabidrue1 is in for the build also. As to your spoiler and flap question, I would think that one or the other would be sufficient to give you glide path control. In my "opinion" I would think that flaps would slow down the plane better than spoilers would and that might make those less than perfect landings a little more forgiving.
Hi Steve,
Glad you got the wood list. It's only a partial list. I'm going with an electric set up too. I like spoilers a lot. I haven't had good luck with flaps. I'm just going to build them into the wing. I'm going with the gull wing. Mine will be D box sheeted only. I had the laser guy cut my ribs for that option. Power wise, I'm just going with an outrunner, 2820/ 12, 40 amp speed control, and a 12/6 prop. A 3S 2200 LiPo. This is my usual basic power line up. This is similar to my Riser 112. The color scheam will be the hard part.
Bob in Seattle
Subscribed Out of interest, I found the plans to the wooden predecessor of the middle Raven in the picture of 3 above, which is the Raven SC20. This had a GRP fuselage and foam wings, but the prototype was all wood construction. I have had these scanned and plan to trace them in CAD so I can offer an alternative Raven 2m plan.
Hi Mike,
Thanks for stopping in. If my introduction in post 1 is inaccurate please let me know. As to the SC20, was it designed and/or kitted prior to Jan 1, 1980? If so it would qualify as a nostalgia class plane and those nostalgia guys are always looking for new designs. Foam and fiberglass are allowed in nostalgia
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I have to get a new bandsaw blade then get the wood on the way,so an October start sounds like a winner.I'm not a contest type so I have no need to spot land the bird and I might just pass on spoilers or flaps and save an once or so.
However the Raven 76m was designed and published as a plan in 1976. I will post a picture later if I can find one.
Hi Bob,
Do you think that Tony might be open to lowering his price for the laser cutting if we placed a group order for the ribs? We could wait until late summer and anybody who wants ribs cut could all order at the same time similar to the Chrysalis group build kit purchases. What do you think? Would you be willing ask him?
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9 cowboys we love -- and 1 we don't -- in honor of National Day of the American Cowboy
Saturday is National Day of the American Cowboy in the Fort Worth Stockyards. At the all-day event, families can learn about cowboys and cowgirls, participate in a watermelon eating contest and even throw cow chips. (Eww.) In honor of the event, here are our favorite (and least favorite) cowboys:
We start with J.R. Ewing, who is, tip to tail, Dallas' quintessential cowboy. We still miss him.
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'Brave' Teaser Poster
Posted on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011 by Russ Fischer
This might not be Pixar's best week, with Cars 2 premiering to generally unfavorable reviews. (Germain was more charitable to it than others, but still said "it places near the bottom of [Pixar's] impressive list.")
But with Cars 2 comes a teaser trailer for Brave, the film the studio will release next June. That teaser may not appear online for a bit, but a teaser poster has been spotted in the wild for Brave as well, and you can see it in full after the fold. Read More »


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Before Hawai'i 5-0: Hawaiian Eye
June 15, 2013 - Ray Tsuchiyama
Barely two months after Hawai'i officially became the 50th State of the Union, after the successful Alaska-First strategy of the Territory of Hawai'i leadership, a new television detective-drama series was launched. Now remembered by only a few, the show was called "Hawaiian Eye"*, and preceded the "old" "Hawai'i 5-0" by nine years, and now forgettable "Magnum P.I."
The cast featured Connie Stevens, Robert Conrad, Anthony Eisley, and a Maui-born comedian named "Poncie Ponce" (his real name was Ponciano Hernandez). The black-and-white television show ran for about four years with 134 episodes, stopping just as the Vietnam War was beginning.
By the mid-1960s the show would trigger a surge of first-time vacationers and U.S. military R & R visits to Waikiki; today some top Hawai'i business leaders originally came to Hawai'i on R & R, and then returned to live and launch careers in the booming Hawai'i economy of the 1970s. This is a TV show synopsis (which is quite complex, in retrospect, and imaginative, in 1959, the dawn of television):
Private investigator Tracey Steele (Anthony Eisley) and his half-Hawaiian partner, Tom Lopaka (Robert Conrad), own Hawaiian Eye, a combination detective agency and private security firm, located in Honolulu, Hawaii. Their principal client is the Hawaiian Village Hotel, which in exchange for security services, provides the agency with a luxurious private compound on the hotel grounds.
The partners investigate mysteries and protect clients with the sometime help of photographer Cricket Blake (Connie Stevens), who also sings at the hotel's Shell Bar, and a ukulele-playing cab driver Kim Quisado (Poncie Ponce), who has "relatives" throughout the islands. Engineer turned detective Greg McKenzie (Grant Williams), joins the agency later on as a full partner, while hotel social director Philip Barton (Troy Donahue) lends a hand after Tracey Steele departs.
Of course since the detectives' office is at a Waikiki hotel, there are many shots of bikini-clad women and endless rounds of tropical drinks with little umbrellas and pineapple sticks. An entire family in Chicago or Houston would be mesmerized by the very notion of an entire island or region devoted solely to a "vacation". Recall that the 1950s was a period of middle-class growth after a terrible war, and families yearned for more than a car ride to a cabin by a mountain lake.
The show's timing was impeccable: Hawai'i Statehood had put Hawai'i on the front page of every newspaper from Los Angeles to New York City. The slow luxury passenger liner tourism model was replaced by a technological transportation wonder: the Boeing 707. Recognizing the volume potential of the "new" tourism paradigm was perhaps one of the top Hawai'i business leaders of the 20th century: Chinn Ho, who took out a risky loan in the early 1960s to build the first "mass tourism" Waikiki hotel called the Ilikai. This hotel, on the far western edge of Waikiki, near the Ala Moana Shopping Center, was the center of action for the "new" Waikiki tourist of the 1960s.
The Ilikai would also figure in the iconic, pre-MTV wild rock-and-roll + montage effects of the "old" Hawai'i 5-0 series' "intro" with Jack Lord as the affected top police cop Steve McGarrett in the final image looking piercingly into the camera from a penthouse lana'i.
Before the Ilikai and Hawai'i 5-0 there was another Mainland real estate entrepreneur who would tie-in his Waikiki real estate project to the "Hawaiian Eye" detective series: Henry Kaiser and the Hilton Hawaiian Village, which emerged as a vacationer's "all-in-one" integrated hotel/shopping/entertainment center.
It's surprising to note that in 1959, Henry Kaiser was 77 years old and had already completed several successful careers ranging from construction to ship-building to automobiles -- all on the Mainland and especially during the four intense years of World War II.
He also pioneered a health care think-tank and the first HMO, named after him.
But real estate was where Kaiser was still "engaged" with huge deals and projects, as we would say now, and he would bulldoze a fishpond along the southeastern shore of Oahu to create the State's first planned community named "Hawai'i Kai" (which was the predecessor of Mililani Town in central Oahu).
At his age, he should have just puttered around a Kahala house garden, but he was still in the thick of business development and changed hotel and tourism development forever in Hawai'i.
What the entrepreneurial Kaiser did back then was a real estate-media play: he linked a Burbank TV studio show with his Waikiki mega-hotel project – so viewers would be seduced via the power of the television show which transmitted the message of a romantic tropical paradise, and if one had money to buy a plane ticket, he or she could visit to the film "set" (actually, a hotel) of a hit TV series.
If you wander about Kaiser's Hilton Hawaiian Village, you can see vestiges of a very powerful imagination and promotional ability: Kaiser was already thinking about "Planet Earth" and was decades ahead of his time, building a geodesic dome (after the famous Buckminster Fuller, the 1950s "sustainability guru") on the Hilton Hawaiian Village grounds, which also included penguins in a micro-green space.
He was also the first to introduce "Asian" motifs into a Hawaiian hotel, like a small shopping mall with Chinese roof tiles. Kaiser promoted Hawai'i as a "bridge" to the exotic East, yet English-speaking and the water was safe to drink, an "easy" place to visit for a Midwestern family.
Two decades later, another hotel developer would run wild with Asian antiques and furnishings in Hawai'i and take Kaiser's ideas about mega-resorts with Asian themes into the stratosphere – Chris Hemmeter – but that is another story.
*To show how global the early "Hawaiian Eye" was, my spouse C. watched the show avidly in Tokyo. The American show (dubbed in Japanese) spawned a Hawaiian music and fashion boom in Japan in the early 1960s, and so laid the groundwork to embed "Hawai'i" in the Japanese middle-class mind-set as the top vacation destination.
When the Japanese government lifted passport and currency controls in the early 1980s and in midst of the "Bubble" hyper-growth Japanese economy, Japanese tourists and investors flooded into Hawai'i, skewing real estate values, and also was the reason that diverted economic diversification investments by Hawai'i business leaders.
By 1991 the Hawai'i economy would enter a long, seemingly endless "recession" until the early 2000s.
Perhaps the intertwining of "Hawaiian Eye" media branding, the growth of mega-resorts, and the Vietnam War that highlighted Hawai'i as a R & R destination had the greatest combined impact on Hawai'i tourism growth in the 1970s and 1980s. In hindsight, it is a fascinating historical and economic confluence with unexpected consequences.
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Jun-17-13 7:47 PM
This was a great show. Everyone in Hawaii back then thought it was great. Connie Stevens was a babe and the HHV was the perfect setting for the show. Ponce Ponce was a for real local boy and the plots and scenery what there was of was very positive for the State of Hawaii. I was a little kid then but my Auntie Ruth won a trip out from Boston to stay at the HHV and we were thrilled to see her.
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It's the last WIAW of March and I failed to incorporate any green into my breakfast yesterday, but I did enjoy…
TJ's Very Berry Cherry Blend, egg [a hidden yolk] topped with feta cheese, & Van's waffles topped with plain Chobani + pumpkin puree + cinnamon + stevia
I'm not ashamed, it tasted.so.good – pumpkin should be more than just a fall flavor 😀 Surely I could have added a handful of spinach to my eggs but I packed a spinach salad for lunch and knew that there would be many veggies consumed during dinner… Anddd there was plenty green going on in the background – a complete 360 from Monday's snowy surprise. Dare I say, spring has sprung?!
Thanks Jenn for hosting another tasty link-up!
Question: How do you sneak green into your breakfast? This is a great question in honor of tomorrow's healthy sELF challenge – eat 3 servings of veggies before lunch!
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African Union and European Commissions Dialogue on Climate Policy
8 June 2010: The fourth College-to-College Meeting between the African Union Commission (AUC) and the European Commission (EC) was held on 8 June 2010, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss the implementation of the Africa/EU Joint Strategy and its Plan of Action and address common challenges facing the two Commissions. The meeting adopted a Joint Declaration, containing a section on dialogue on climate policy.
According to the Joint Declaration, the AUC and the EC will pursue a strong and open dialogue on climate policy in order to build a common EU-Africa consensus for a legally binding agreement under the UNFCCC. The parties note the EU's ongoing work on the implementation of the fast-start component of the Copenhagen Accord with a focus on Africa, which is expected to take into account the African Group's proposals presented in Copenhagen and be linked to relevant international initiatives such as the High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing. [The Joint Declaration]


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CANNES: Halfway With Major Contenders
Harvey Weinstein's little gamble may just pay off. After this morning's very warmly received 8:30 AM press screening of The Artist, a black-and-white silent movie from French director Michel Hazanavicius, some in the media here were starting to predict Palme d'Or. I wouldn't get into that game, but it is true this little gem that The Weinstein Company recently announced it will be distributing this fall in the U.S. (Warner Bros has it in France) is the fest's big charmer so far, although the big prize here usually goes to films with more weight. It won very nice applause during and after its press unveiling from normally jaded journalists who haven't been applauding much at all so far this fest and got an impressive 10-minute-ish standing ovation after Sunday night's gala premiere. Standing ovations aren't uncommon at Cannes' black-tie galas. Just about every movie gets one. The real trick to seeing how loved your movie is comes to down to how many minutes they clap for you. The whole thing is a ritual. I remember one year, after the official screening of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911, Weinstein clocked it at over 20 minutes and said it was a record.
The film went on to win the Palme d'Or. When I coincidentally ran into the tuxedo-clad Harvey at the Majestic just after Artist finished, he was keeping it low key, especially when I asked how he thought the reaction was. He clearly wants people to discover this little film on their own. Others confirmed the enthusiastic response, though. Weinstein was also holding back (for him) during Oscar season on The King's Speech campaign, too, and look where it got him. Whatever may happen to The Artist awards-wise here and elsewhere, it's an artistic winner. This is the dream movie for people who love movies, an affectionate look at a Hollywood long gone with wonderful lead performances from French stars Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo. Both co-starred in the director's O.S.S. James Bond spoofs (Bejo is also his wife in real life). There's a great American supporting cast including John Goodman and James Cromwell, but quite frankly the whole thing is stolen by Uggy, the dog who plays Jack, loyal companion and co-star to George Valentin, the silent movie icon whose star fades when talkies come in. Someone should mount a campaign right now to get Uggy the Cannes Best Actor award. He's a major star waiting to happen, but with a jury run by human actor Robert De Niro and including Jude Law and Uma Thurman, its unlikely they'll give their top thesp prize to a pooch. I would.
The whole film was shot in Hollywood and on studio backlots and contains terrific cinematography, production design, costumes and a great symphonic score from Ludovic Bource. And lest you think The Artist is just a gimmick movie, it has potent things to say about leaving the past behind for the future. It is also about finding your own voice, much like The King's Speech. In fact, Weinstein Co should just recycle that tag line. It works for this flick too. The company plans to release sometime in the fall, and though its unlikely younger audiences will be into it, positive word of mouth could change that. This is one of those completely original movies that could surprise the industry.
And what a welcome respite it was from some of the downer material that is on display daily at the Palais: child molesters, perverted old men, thugs, robbers, evil cult leaders, sadists, prostitutes, teenage killers, etc etc. I saw several other films today that made me want to jump off the Faye Dunaway billboard on top of the Palais including easily the worst I've seen so far, Code Blue, about a nurse who helps people to die but is involved in a kinky and ultimately violent voyueristic thing with her neighbor when she's not putting needles into comatose seniors. I went because I sensed the movie could be the scandalous one that turns up at every Cannes. After all, there were warning signs all over the Theatre Croisette saying, "Some scenes may hurt the audience feelings." Wow, I thought, this thing has to be really something salacious if they are warning people in advance at the nothing-is-forbidden Cannes Film Festival. Having seen it, I am not sure how it was supposed to hurt my feelings. The only thing in Cannes that hurts my feelings is when I get shut out of a movie and the security goon says "Complet." I kinda wish I had gotten shut out of this one though.
On the other hand, a really good film out of Sundance playing in the Critics Week sidebar competition is Take Shelter from Film Nation, which Sony Classics will release Oct. 7. It stars Michael Shannon in a towering performance as a man haunted by terrifying dreams of a big storm. It co-stars Jessica Chastain, who is about to become Hollywood's new "it" girl. She has made 11 movies, though few of them have hit the screen yet due to unfortunate delays and just bad luck. Suddenly, though, the stars have aligned and she is everywhere, especially in Cannes, where Take Shelter debuted today and her biggie, The Tree of Life, debuts Monday. In that she has equal above-the-title billing with Sean Penn and Brad Pitt. Her other films awaiting release this year are Wilde Salome, opposite Al Pacino (it will play the Venice Film Festival); Coriolanus with Ralph Fiennes; The Debt, which was delayed by a switch of distributors; and The Help. Another of her movies, Jolene, from director Dan Ireland, was in the Cannes Market three years ago and just got a nominal theatrical release this year hitting Blu-ray finally last week.
I caught up with her at the Take Shelter reception Sunday night at Carlton Beach. She had kind words for all her directors and told me the most important thing for her is to work with talents like Tree of Life's Terrence Malick and Take Shelter's Jeff Nichols, who only had the highest praise for his co-star, saying she went toe to toe with Michael Shannon (absolutely true). Chastain says she would work with him again and again; Malick, too. In fact, she did a two-day part in Malick's next untitled film with Ben Affleck, Javier Bardem, Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams. She says she just came down to the set to visit, and the part was quickly written for her. She's convinced it won't even be in the final cut and was horrified to see one publication actually list her as the film's star. But that's definitely the case with Tree of Life, and she can't wait for people to see it. "I keep saying this is a movie that will change cinema as we know it, it's groundbreaking, but even if people don't agree I am so proud to be part of this," she said. When I suggested she's about to become the talk of Cannes, she said, "If I am suddenly this 'festival girl,' it's because of the directors I choose to work with. For me that is everything." Chastain, Pitt and Malick all will hit the red-carpeted steps of the Palais on Monday night, and it is clearly the most anticipated film of this Cannes.
Kudos to Pete Hammond for a wonderfully thorough account of what's going on this weekend.
Say what you want about Harvey but the man has great taste and the Industry needs him to succeed. Congrats!
Pete – great coverage of Cannes mid-point. Nearly as good as being there. Thanks
I am not into downer movies, plenty of that in real life, know character dissection is filmmakers forte and passion, yea on art should reflect life, etc, etc.. But, for me, I want to feel good – after watching a film. I want the viewers to feel good after watching a film. Period!
Harvey Weinstein has always had excellent taste in movies, Nine was an unusual and costly mistake for him, but normally, he is right on the ball.
"And what a welcome respite it was from some of the downer material that is on display daily at the Palais: child molesters, perverted old men, thugs, robbers, evil cult leaders, sadists, prostitutes, teenage killers, etc etc." And this is before you get to watch the film!
TAKE SHELTER is a masterpiece.
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I had good luck with this Britsh Eurosport feed, too!
I had good luck with this Britsh Eurosport feed, too!
Good for rogozine! Also i completely forgot balde was half russian so if either feels crossed they both could go to russia lol
good job martinez... that was a very impressive biellmann!
Martinez brough me to tears! Incredible performance.
He lacks expression but his spins are just amazing and it's unbelievable what he's managed to achieve having skated for such a short time under such difficult conditions.
He got a standing ovation and has beaten his PB by 13 points!
Incredible performance from Rogozine as well. That program suits him so well and he's shown great attack.
YAY michael finally got the short program score for Worlds!
Thanks for posting the short programs. Might have to go to bed after Balde even though i would love to stay to watch Daisuke and Yuzuru . Have to work early.


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Network sets remastered UFO for November, plus new Kino Lorber & Warner Archive https://t.co/TD5bIdEbIn
More BD announcements: Like Water for Chocolate, Bears, People Under the Stairs, The Dead 2
More announcement news today...
Lionsgate has announced the Blu-ray release of the remastered Like Water for Chocolate on 8/19. Lionsgate has also set Angriest Man in Brooklyn for Blu-ray, DVD and digital release on 7/22, along with Mumfie's Quest: The Movie for DVD only. In August, look for Deadbeat on DVD on 8/26. And in September, Words and Pictures will arrive on Blu-ray, DVD and digital on 9/9. [Read on here…]
New columns, Zulu U.K. screening tonight, Hepburn & Twilight's July, plus Uni catalog Blus & Hammer Horror DVD set
Okay... just a quick update today. I dropped my cell phone this weekend and cracked the screen. Naturally, I didn't buy the insurance since Verizon talked me into buying the fancy indestructible case. So anyway, it's meant a couple days scrambling while I try to get it fixed.
Meanwhile, we do have a new Doogan's Queue for you today from Todd, covering today's new releases on Blu-ray and DVD. We've also got Dr. Jahnke's latest Burnt Offerings: MOD DVD column detailing the latest from Warner Archive and such. And be sure to check out our weekly update of the Release Dates & Artwork section from Russell. [Read on here...]