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The Weinstein Company Is Making an Elvis Mini-series Starring Whichever Actor Really Wants an Emmy
It'll be partially shot at Graceland.By Jackson McHenry
It'll be partially shot at Graceland.By Jackson McHenry
He played on "Don't Be Cruel," "Hound Dog," and "Jailhouse Rock."
He became so addicted to the game that he even had plans to build a chain of racquetball facilities all over the country.By Joe DeLessio
It's only in this movie that the encounter makes psychological — and poetic — sense.By David Edelstein
"We intend to do for the life of Elvis Presley what Sharknado did for flying sharks."By Jackson McHenry
All 57 LPs released during the King's lifetime.By Adam Litovitz
Cozy.By Erica Schwiegershausen
The movie tells the story of the pair's bizarre 1970 meeting.By Nate Jones
Lolita's heart-shaped glasses, Kanye's shutter shades, and so much more.By Katie Capri
Ew.By Erica Schwiegershausen
Our experimental fashion shoot goes on the road.By Tim Barber and Julie Ma
Mohawks, mop tops, pixies, and shags, plus Anna Wintour, and more.By Aaron Wong
Wear the King of Rock's face over your beating heart.By Julie Ma
From Johnny Cash to Willie Nelson.By Sally Holmes
Elvis Presley was much more than rock and roll.By Sally Holmes
Elvis sandwich special at Rockit.By Michael Gebert
You've lost your chance to bid on the spot where he was briefly interred.By Zach Dionne
Sorry, Elvis impersonators.By Amanda Dobbins
Don't worry, his body is at Graceland.
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The fun starts at 10 a.m. with an opening ceremony; the first 500 guests get a free gift.
From noon to 4 attend a Meet and Greet with Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear, Woody and Jessie at the marina stage. You so have to bring your camera for this one. Characters alternate every 30 minutes.

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If you are looking at no mic support as a good thing, than you have probably never played a competitive game. Mic is essential to all competetive gaming; communication is KEY. Wii does not look like it is supporting communication as well as it should be, and loses an important audience of hardcore gamers right there. I understand that Nintendo takes a very family friendly stance, hence the friend code business and limitations on communication. This is, in one way a good business move. However, they also fail to realize the business of hardcore gaming, an area which the Wii fails to attract at all. All in all, I think it's a bit of a mistake in a business standpoint, and a great problem for non- casual multiplayer people.
What the Wii really needs to do is attract bigtime FPS makers to work with it. The fact that the Wii is very popular and is still not getting quality FPS games is concerning. I think the Wii not getting the Orange Box was a bit of a slap in the face by Valve, as this is a very popular, very amazing product that was released everything except for Wii. Nintendo has the oppurtunity now to go toe to toe in the multiplayer business with Microsoft, but so far has been failing. Live was made for X-box, a previous generation console, and it still blows Wii's online out of the water in terms of functionality and ease of use.
I'm sorry, this was a long post. I had been a Nintendo fan for 10 years before switching over to PC for good. Why did I switch? Because I wanted something that could get me great online games, and Wii fails to deliver that. But who knows, maybe they'll pull something out of their sleeve. All I know is, video games are more popular than ever, and when I hear people I know talk about games, I don't hear "What do you think of Twilight Princess?" I hear "Great game of Gears last night, eh?"
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Shetland shines as 2011's Best in Travel
The Shetland Islands have been listed as one of the top regions in the world to visit next year in our new book, Best in Travel 2011. The book singles out the 'last untamed corner of the UK' for special praise, advising 'adventurous travellers to step this way'.
Lonely Planet staffer and Best in Travel 2011 contributor Tom Hall says that 'it's no surprise that we've singled out a little-known but beautiful and rewarding corner of the UK as a must-see next year. The Shetland Islands have a huge amount to offer wildlife-watchers, outdoor enthusiasts and culture buffs.'
It's the Shetland Islands' time
The rugged and remote Shetland Islands – a collection of mighty, wind-ravaged clumps of brown and green earth rising from the frigid waters of the North Sea – are Scotland's northerly outpost and feel miles away from anywhere. Mainland, as the biggest island is known is surrounded by over 100 windswept and virtually treeless islands making up the archipelago.
Far more desolate and cut off than neighbouring Orkney, the light here is even more changeable than on mainland Scotland. Different parts of the island are variously illuminated at any given hour – the window for that perfect photo can be short. The setting is still uniquely Scottish, though, with deep, naked glens flanked by steep hills, twinkling, sky-blue lochs and, of course, sheep with no comprehension of the 'right of way' on roads.
Things to do in the Shetland Islands
- Lerwick, the capital of the Shetlands stubbornly defies its seclusion from the rest of Scotland with a vitality that's surprising for such an isolated town. The constant influx of tourists and oil workers provides vibrancy and energy, breathing life into the grand Victorian housing that abounds here. Lerwick is the only place of any size in this island group.
- Shetland Museum in Lerwick is an impressive recollection of 5000 years worth of culture and people, and their interaction with this ancient landscape. There's a smorgasbord of Shetland treasures, including hanging boats, and you can even pop into the underground home of a trowie knowe (a Shetland mythical creature).
- The fortified site of Clickimin Broch, just under a mile southwest of the town centre, was occupied from the 7th century BC to the 6th century AD. It's impressively large and its setting on a small loch gives it a feeling of being removed from the present day – unusual given the surrounding urban encroachment.
- It may have caused much local debate, but it all promises to be worth it. Opening in 2011, Mareel is a new film and music centre in a striking modern building on Lerwick's quayside, next to the Shetland Museum.
- The western side of Mainland is notable for its varied scenery: bleak moors, sheer cliffs, rolling green hills, and numerous cobalt-blue lochs and inlets. It's ideal for walking, cycling and fishing. Out in the Atlantic Ocean, about 15 miles southwest of Walls, is the 8-sq-km island of Foula (Bird Island), which competes with Fair Isle for the title of Scotland's most isolated inhabited island. Foula supports 42 people, 1500 sheep and 500,000 sea birds, including the rare Leach's petrel and Scotland's largest colony of great skuas.
- It's a stomach-churning ferry ride to Fair Isle but worth it for the stunning cliff scenery, isolation and hoards of winged creatures. About halfway to Orkney, Fair Isle is one of Scotland's most remote inhabited islands. It's only 3 miles by 1.5 miles in size and is probably best known for its patterned knitwear, still produced in the island's co-operative, Fair Isle Crafts.
- Fair Isle is also a paradise for bird-watchers, who form the bulk of the island's visitors. Fair Isle is in the flight path of migrating birds, and thousands breed here. They're monitored by the Bird Observatory, which collects and analyses information year-round; visitors are more than welcome to participate.
- The small George Waterston Memorial Centre on Fair Isle has photos and exhibits on the island's natural history, crofting, fishing, archaeology and knitwear.
Getting there
Unlike Orkney, Shetland is relatively expensive to get to from mainland Scotland.
By air: The oil industry ensures that air connections are good. The main airport is at Sumburgh, 25 miles south of Lerwick. There are three to five flights daily between Sumburgh and Aberdeen (one hour) with British Airways/Loganair. BA flies daily between Orkney and Shetland (35 minutes). You can also fly direct from London (Stansted), Inverness, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
By boat: Northlink Ferries runs car ferries between Lerwick and Kirkwall in Orkney. Northlink also runs overnight car ferries from Aberdeen to Lerwick (passenger return £42 to £64, car return £170 to £230, 12 to 14 hours, daily) leaving Aberdeen at 5pm or 7pm.


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How Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Is An Apology For Portable Ops
Kojima Productions means business with a much more interesting PSP Metal Gear adventure. We have the report from the English version.
Setting the stage for Peace Walker is Costa Rica in 1974, where Snake (Big Boss) and his small band of mercenaries, Militaires Sans Frontieres (MSF), are asked to help the nation (or what appears to be) stand up against a military force that's taken root and is developing devastating new weapons. What those weapons turn out to be are moving nuclear-capable vehicles; the next generation(s) of the Metal Gear, but these ones are entirely autonomous -- controlled by A.I. pods. "Peace Walker" is the centerpiece of the group: a fully bipedal tank that Snake must, of course, eventually destroy. But before that, he must trek through Costa Rica to seek out and destroy the A.I. weapons and their masterminds, all the while meeting new friends and enemies.
In that regard, it's business as usual for a Metal Gear story. But in many other ways, Peace Walker is a change for the series, and to me, it comes off as an apology for its PSP predecessor, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. MPO wasn't a terrible game, but was kept from true greatness by iffy control schemes and gameplay that sometimes felt like busywork. The control has been improved; a more natural (by comparison) default scheme with the PSP's face buttons used as a second analog stick (along with MPO and Monster Hunter-style schemes for those who can't let go). The mission-based structure returns in Peace Walker, where you walk through an area, reach a building or other goal point, end the mission, and then go back out to the menus to select the next one and/or get yourself situated. Even boss fights are broken up into separate missions, and every mission can be replayed as much as you like after they're completed. It's practical for a portable game, and helps in growing MSF and more easily getting co-op help, both of which I'll touch on later.
Other things in Peace Walker are improvements not just beyond MPO, but for the MGS series in general. Melee combat has been smoothed over a bit -- specifically the close-quarters combat (CQC) moves that were first introduced in MGS3. There was an extra layer of learning one had to do to expertly use CQC in that game, but I was never too big on using such moves. However, in Peace Walker, CQC has been boiled down to a simple throw move activated once a button prompt appears on the screen; if you're getting ganged up on enemies and throw one down with another two-or-three close by, successive button prompts will let you constantly grab nearby enemies, throw them down, and instantly knock them out. In past games, I shunned CQC, but in Peace Walker, I used it whenever possible to take out enemies, because it was one less tranquilizer dart I had to fire, and hell, it was pretty satisfying to pull off four- or five-man knockout combos in the middle of a fight.
Just as notable as any of those gameplay improvements, though, is that Peace Walker has a much tighter link to the story of MGS3 than Portable Ops did. From the first screens in the intro, there's a reference to Naked Snake's mission in Russia, and this carries on throughout the rest of the game, when key characters bring it all back for Snake and bring some extra weight to his greater mission. To add insult to injury, the events of MPO are (from what I could catch) only mentioned once in passing from Snake's right-hand man Kaz. So, fans who consider Snake Eater the best of the series might be delighted that Peace Walker is the "real" follow-up, but should they expect a story as emotionally involving as Snake Eater's? Probably not. With relatively fast motion-comic cut-scenes and characters that don't get a lot of screen time in those scenes, it's the action, the combat, the being-in-the-moment-ness of Peace Walker that ends up standing out much more. If you do want more story, you can listen to reams of "briefing tapes" in between missions, where characters who don't show up often (like Amanda and Chico) talk to Snake more often and give more insight. Konami's ideal situation for the briefings is for the player to tuck their PSP in their pocket and simply listen to them on their commute.
The extra features in Peace Walker's campaign are also much more streamlined from Portable Ops. Take the Mother Base, the offshore rig that MSF moves into during Snake's mission, and where new recruits can be sent when Snake "finds" them on the field. In Portable Ops, you had to knock out an enemy, then grab them and drag them all the way back to the truck where they'd be added to your ranks -- a real drain on enjoyment. But now, in Peace Walker, a neutralized enemy can have a Fulton recovery balloon attached to them and rocketed up to a helicopter that takes them to Mother Base. It's undeniably more efficient, and more entertaining, too, as captured bad guys will sometimes yell as they get sent up on a high-speed balloon ride (a humorous touch that's used in certain cut-scenes, too).
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Portable Ops wasn't that bad.Posted: May 20, 2010 12:00AM PST by KenolaBar
But the control schematic was butt. Peacewalker seems to take a few cues from MGS4 in its controls thankfully and I've always used CQC. Slamming a soldier to the ground was the fastest way to take them out a lot of times.
k listenPosted: May 10, 2010 12:00AM PST by mecow
i played the demo from the psn network, its cool but the controls suck shit, theres not even a shoulder view so its pretty much like portable ops exept shit controls, dont get me wrong, portable ops is good and im a proud owner of it but metal gear should really come up with a ps3 type game cuz no, it does not feel like mgs 5 or 4
Hm...Posted: May 04, 2010 12:00AM PST by Rich_C
... while MPO was trash and needs to be retconned out of the series (this seems to be doing that) why would they need to apologise for a game you reviewed as "A" grade? This looks promising, but I wont be getting it unless they release a PSN download. MGS4 needs something similar, maybe they'll give us something to let us forget the bad fanfic that was its plot.
Excited for game-not excited to buy it twicePosted: May 04, 2010 12:00AM PST by strangejames85
I'm an insane MGS nut. I'll buy anything they throw the name "Metal Gear" on. Gamestop is releasing two different special editions of Peace Walker. One is called the "Big Boss Bundle" It includes a special PSP-3000, a carrying case, a 4 gig memory card, the game, and special in-game extras. This is $200. What it does not include is the art book that is being included with the special $50 version of the game. So, if you want all of the extras that are being put out for Peace Walker, you'll have to buy both versions. I don't know why they didn't include the art book with the Big Boss Bundle, unless, they knew obsessed people like me would have to buy both versions and are taking advantage of that.
Portable Ops doesn't need an apologyPosted: May 04, 2010 12:00AM PST by Odium_Generis
God I hate articles like this (at least the inflammatory titles). MGS:PO also got high marks around the gaming community as well.
Apologize for MGS IV???Posted: May 03, 2010 12:00AM PST by toollespaulhero
Dude, you need your brain scanned.
DayumPosted: May 03, 2010 12:00AM PST by Costas_Constanza
Guess I'll better be getting a PSP then.
Make itPosted: May 03, 2010 12:00AM PST by pandasnyper723
PSN/XBL and we'll talk.
It's on a psp for the Japanese marketPosted: May 03, 2010 12:00AM PST by RedSwirl
The PSP is just about the most popular platform over there. Japanese people aren't buying home consoles as much as they used to. It also took Kojima four years and probably a lot of money to make just one PS3 game.
I guess you could argue the PSN/XBLA route, but there aren't enough people in Japan with game consoles connected to the internet.
Wait, no Doritos?!?!Posted: May 03, 2010 12:00AM PST by MooseyMcMan
Man, I was actually looking forward to that! I'm sad now...:(
Boss fights.Posted: May 03, 2010 12:00AM PST by RyougaElliot
I've been playing through an import copy, and I gotta say, the boss fights aren't all that difficult. As long as you've been developing weapons at a steady rate, they're pretty simple to take down.
Challenging sure. Super hard? No. Definitely fun though.
I wonderPosted: Apr 28, 2010 12:00AM PST by GomezGomita
where´s the ¨evil famitsu-konami¨ conspiracy now!?
AWESOME!!!Posted: Apr 28, 2010 12:00AM PST by MooseyMcMan
I can't wait! PSP game of the year!
i only saw one but it was enough.Posted: Oct 09, 2009 12:00AM PST by cullenvampir
why does everybody hate mgs 2? personally i think raiden is cooler than snake and not gay at all. i like that his name means thundergod and how in mgs 4 he is like a cyberninja. but different strokes for different blokes I guess.
btw this new game looks pretty cool.
I hope Solo gamers won't miss out . . .Posted: Sep 24, 2009 12:00AM PST by Porkchopxp
I've played the demo a few times over and agree that improvements have made the game more user friendly and visually appealing. I just hope that there is not a stark difference in the overall game experience for those of us without friends that own a PSP. I don't want to feel cheated because I can't take advantage of the coop offerings; especially if they're tied into the storyline. Sure, I could find a wifi spot and play with strangers but that never goes well or when it does it never lasts long, especially not the length of a Kojima offering.
Play Co-Op with me!Posted: Sep 24, 2009 12:00AM PST by _Liquidus_
I added a tutorial on how to play PW Co-Op through the PS3s Ad-Hoc Party Mode if anyone is interested. I played Co-Op with a few people on Gaf and some Japanese players and it was awesome.
I played the demo.Posted: Sep 24, 2009 12:00AM PST by franwex
I'll pretty much agree with everyone, the controls are BETTER than Portable Ops, but not as good as MGS3 or MGS4. It's a little strange controlling the camera with the face buttons, but hey, I did it with the N64 long ago. The only thing about it is that I want my Y-axis inverted, not my X-axis! I'm sure there's a way to do it, and I tried mucking around with the menus but I don't understand Japanese so I haven't figured it out yet.
Sadly after playing the demo I'm not as convinced that the game will be worth it. Living in a rural town in the US; not a single person I know has a PSP, and much less be into Metal Gear Solid, and this game is clearly for multiplayer. I know there's an ad hoc application for the PS3 in japan, but it's all in Japanese too, and I don't understand it! Maybe if Sony were to port that app over here I'll consider buying peace walker, AND monster hunter as well.
I GOT THE DEMO!!!Posted: Sep 24, 2009 12:00AM PST by fortysix2
And I'm gonna play it as soon as I get off work! Everyone, go to IGN right now if you don't have it already, and DOWNLOAD NOW! I'm so excited! This is in my top 5 most anticipated games of the coming year. MSG3 is my favorite game of all time. I just hope they can keep the depth of the characters and the emotional impact in tact with these hand drawn characters. Portable OPS was good, but not MSG3 good. I would rather have regualr cutscenes, but, oh well, I'm still excited. Can't wait to get off work!
I just finished the demoPosted: Sep 24, 2009 12:00AM PST by Groovin_Dalai_Lama
BIG improvement over portable ops. Can't wait for this game to be released.
I think you mean a 180, 360 means a full circle so he would be back where he started o.0
Peace Walker Wins Over Jeremy?!Posted: Sep 24, 2009 12:00AM PST by GamerPaul
Jeremy was so pessimistic and a huge skeptic when Peace Walker was announced for the PSP and he made a complete 360 after playing the demo which does not happen very often. I also had concerns about the controls for Peace Walker since Portable Ops essentially shoehorned the controls in from MGS3 onto a PSP with fewer buttons which made the entire experience cumbersome and frustrating. The only thing that kept me from not finishing Portable Ops was the motion comic cutscenes and the story.
The controls in Peace Walker feel great and Kojima Productions really thought about the button layout and restrictions of the PSP. Visually the game looks on par to MGS3 which is a pretty big achievement.
i need this gamePosted: Sep 24, 2009 12:00AM PST by KILLERTrojan
I live in Costa Rica for cryin out loud, and if im not mistaken the beaches that the game takes place in is the province of Limon, how cool to have a kojima game based on my country? DAMN COOL!
First Other M, then ODST, now this.Posted: Sep 24, 2009 12:00AM PST by Brandone
It's very strange seeing Parish talk reassuringly in previews about games that I (and probably a lot of us) have been a bit skeptical or flat-out hostile towards. "Well, if Parish likes it, then there is hope..."
As for me, I hope this comment creeped him out.
What I'm curious about, though, is how much fun this is to play solo. Is it as fun or much less? We'll have to wait and see, I guess. I can't imagine there would be much opportunity for that in a demo where the developers really want to show off the co-op.
Epic!Posted: Sep 24, 2009 12:00AM PST by _Liquidus_
Great hands-on impressions. Just to let you know that the Solition Radar is in the game though. I played the demo and I wish the general masses had the chance to play the bridge level as our demo ends with the Tank battle.
Just to let others know that the demo is available here.
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Prestige films will return to the spotlight at the Cannes Film Festival later this month, but back on this side of the Atlantic, numerous potential end of year players are already starting to make some noise before their domestic releases. From Mike Mills' "Beginners" to Jodie Foster's "The Beaver," there are numerous critic's favorites heading toward theaters that have debuted elsewhere. An annual showcase for these films is the Los Angeles Film Festival which is returning downtown for the second year in a row next month.
Running June 16-26, the LA Film Fest 2011 will feature screenings of a number of films that made a lot of noise at this year's Sundance Film Festival including "The Guard" (a personal favorite), "Project Nim," Vera Farminga's "Higher Learning," "Another Earth," "Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest," "Terri" and "Tyrannosaur." The festival also has docs such as ESPN Films' "Renee" (which debuted at Tribeca), HBO Films' "Sex Crimes Unit" and "The Bully Project" (which also debuted at Tribeca before being acquired by The Weinstein Company last week). Having these films play LA Film Fest is a great way for them to get in front of members of Film Independent (who vote on the Indie Spirit Awards) and members of the industry in numerous voting guilds. Last year, "The Kids Are All Right," "Cyrus," "Animal Kingdom" and "Waiting for Superman" all had their post-Sundance premieres at LA Film Fest.
Unclear yet is what big blockbusters will tie their world premiere (or Hollywood premiere) to the festival's Nokia Theater digs. "Transformers: Dark of the Moon"? "Larry Crowe"? "Horrible Bosses"? Expect word on that over the next few weeks.
In the meantime, the official list of films is as follows:
Narrative Competition (10): The Narrative Competition is comprised of films made by talented emerging filmmakers that compete for the Filmmaker Award. The winner is determined by a panel of jurors, and films in this section are also eligible for the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature.
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SHANGHAI—More than a year after a twin tower hotel project here got snagged on a web of problems more complex than its iconic, honeycombed exterior, construction is finally about to restart.
The 30-floor project was designed as the gateway to Xintiandi, a faux-historic section of central Shanghai that boasts some of China's priciest real estate and is as popular with tourists as the riverside Bund. But since construction mysteriously stopped in mid 2008 just as the global financial crisis started to unfold, the off-white towers have looked more like question marks about Shanghai's ability to sustain the heady pace of development that has marked its recent years.
Read an April 2009 WSJ story about the project: Shanghai Eyes Buyout of Stalled Project
Now, a white knight has stepped up to revive the project: Xintiandi's developer, Vincent Lo. The Hong Kong billionaire originally owned 15% of the towers and has now agreed to take full control of the project through his private business group, according to his spokeswoman.
Mr. Lo is buying out the 85% owned by Leo KoGuan, an Indonesian-American software mogul who conceived the glitzy plaza. Terms weren't made public.
What prompted the construction halt has never been clear. But it involved a dispute between Mr. Lo and Mr. Leo, two wealthy and colorful characters. Neither has spoken about it.
The work stoppage coincided almost exactly with the global financial meltdown and sparked talk in Shanghai real-estate circles that Mr. Leo was rethinking his massive financial commitment. Well known until then for cruising through town in his Bentley, Mr. Leo appeared to drop out of sight.
In fact, money was never Mr. Leo's problem, according to people close to him. They cited as evidence his big stake in one of the U.S.'s largest and most successful private businesses, SHI International Corp., a major New Jersey software distributor he founded.
Instead, these people said, Mr. Leo merely wanted a fair deal in Shanghai.
A person who spoke recently with Mr. Leo about his decision to leave the project repeated that view this week. But Mr. Leo himself didn't respond to requests for comment.
A publicly available U.S. tax filing by Mr. Leo's charitable foundation suggests he still had deep pockets in 2008. The Leo KoGuan Foundation, already one of the largest single contributors to Chinese universities—some have named their law schools after him—boosted its giving, the filing shows.
That year, the foundation directed $1.15 million to Shanghai's Fudan University, $1 million to Shanghai Jiao Tong University and more than $1.4 million to Peking University in the Chinese capital, funding the gifts in part by selling shares in China Mobile Ltd. and China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd.
For go-go Shanghai, completion of the tower project would erase skyline blight.
The two buildings, skeletal with off-white exterior membranes and dark inside, appear to lurk over the entrance of the otherwise lively Xintiandi neighborhood. Over the past year, people familiar with the matter say, Shanghai's government pressed the parties to reconcile or find a third-party buyer; officials were apparently concerned that visitors to this image-conscious city might get a bad impression during an upcoming World Expo.
This week's statement said Mr. Lo's privately owned Shui On Group, which will own all shares in the project and was already responsible for construction, will restart work immediately and complete it before the Expo opens in May.
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Over the years I ...
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Over the years I thaught myself to bead, from "just" stringing (with a little bit of wirewrapping) beads, bead embroidery and then to beadweaving! I just love it that you can make the most intricate but yet simple jewerly by just weaving the beads with different techniques.
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Bulgarian Arsenal SLR-95
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February 22, 2008, 10:21 AM
What would you pay today for a used excellent condition SLR-95? How about $600?
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February 22, 2008, 11:22 AM
Pistol gripped, I would be all over it. I've been looking for one, sortakinda, and that seems a good price. Thumbhole and not hi-cap compliant, maybe a little high.
February 22, 2008, 11:29 AM
I'd pay $600 for it easily, assuming of course that it is a NO-BAN model with all the "evil" goodies.
February 22, 2008, 12:22 PM
It is a POST-BAN model with two 40-round mags and case. How easy is it to convert to NO-BAN configuration? Especially the buttstock...
February 22, 2008, 01:58 PM
The PG screws on to an slr95. However, the lower tang for buttstock installation is not installed on these rifles. You can have one installed, go without, and use the upper tang only to hold the stock on, or you can install a buttstock designed for the slr95. ACE riflestocks and ironwood designs makes stocks like this.
February 22, 2008, 02:36 PM
Thanks for the input, guys...
February 22, 2008, 07:07 PM
You need a new gas block, Front sight block, Stock set,pistol grip, and of coarse 922(r) parts to un-ban it.
February 22, 2008, 07:19 PM
If you can get one for less than $700 in the original configuration, then you got a pretty good deal. The new Arsenal rifles cannot hold a candle to the SLR-95. The new Arsenal rifles just aren't made as nicely. There is no way I'd sell my SLR-95 for less than $800 in the original thumbhole stock configuration though. I came to this conclusion when comparing the price and the not-as-nice quality of the new Arsenals to the quality of the SLR-95.
The SLR-95 is all made-in-Bulgaria, unlike the modern Arsenal rifles. The action and the trigger are extremely slick. I have an SLR-106 also. Granted, the SLR-106 has a stamped receiver, but the quality is obviously not the same as an SLR-95.
February 22, 2008, 07:36 PM
you only need 6 US parts for 922r compliance..
the trigger group is 3
the rest of the furniture as long as it is US, buttstock, pistol grip & foregrip count for 3 more...
throw in a US gas piston and a US muzzle device if you want for good measure
February 22, 2008, 07:43 PM
I believe you only need 5 parts on a SLR-95. This site explains it pretty well.
February 23, 2008, 03:21 AM
I love my SLR-95, I paid $589+tax for mine a few months ago, but I had to add the pistol grip since it came with the thumbhole stock. It was basically like new when I got it, came with original box, all original accessories and matching manual with quality certificate.
As for 922r compliance, it has enough compliant parts, but since its 100% Bulgarian out of the box I wanted to keep it as original as possible.To keep mine compliant I have the pistol grip (1), buttstock(1) and I keep a US made mag in it(3) so that's five compliant parts. Some people don't like counting the mag as parts because when its out of the gun or if you use a foreign mag then its out of compliance. However to be perfectly honest I'm not one who really cares too much about the whole 922r compliance thingy, I try to keep my guns in compliance but I don't take it very seriously, its just not something I panic over. However this thread is not about how we feel about 922r so I'm not going to stray off into that territory.
Here's a couple pics of my SLR-95
April 21, 2008, 06:23 PM
I purchased mine a few years ago, but am looking to get rid of it now. Anyone know how I can do this?
April 21, 2008, 06:49 PM
Sell it... in the for sale section...
Where are you located?
April 24, 2008, 04:15 PM
Sorry, I'm new to this. I'm in Columbus, OH.
I have an SLR-95, unmodified. 2-40 round banana mags, 1-30 round banana clip, 1-30 round waffle clip and 200 rounds.
To be honest, I'm not even sure what it's worth.
April 24, 2008, 05:51 PM
Keep in mind that some of the SLR-95 rifles have the receiver already milled for the lower tang and some don't...
On the ones that do, all you need to do is rivet the lower tang on and plug in the buttstock made for it.
On the ones that dont, the best solution is to construct a wide 'nut' on the inside of the rear receiver and use a stock thru-bolt (similar to the one that Ironwood Designs uses for the milled MAK-90 conversion to regular buttstock).
April 24, 2008, 06:11 PM
Some SLR-95's come with US-made fire control groups. Mine did.
April 24, 2008, 06:48 PM
I honestly don't know much about mine. I bought it a while back off a guy who was in financial trouble. More for the novelty of having it.
Let me see if I can get some pix of it on here. Ok. I can't figure it out.
April 24, 2008, 07:24 PM
On the ones that dont, the best solution is to construct a wide 'nut' on the inside of the rear receiver and use a stock thru-bolt (similar to the one that Ironwood Designs uses for the milled MAK-90 conversion to regular buttstock).
Or you can put an Ace stock and receiver block on the rifle and it works fine with no lower tang. That's what I did.
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"We look ahead at our schedule, and our next four games are going to be very tough," said WVU point guard Juwan Staten. "We were really counting on winning these home games, but we're not out. We feel like we can go out on the road and win ... we can play with any team in the conference, so we have four games to get right."
The Bears' dominating size inside gave the Mountaineers trouble all game long. Baylor was led by the combination of forward Royce O'Neale and center Isaiah Austin. The two combined for just eight points in the first meeting but dominated on Saturday. O'Neale led the team with 22 points. Austin had 19 points and seven blocks.
"We're not ever going to get back to where we were unless we start to guard again," said a frustrated WVU head coach Bob Huggins.
Baylor had a 38-12 advantage in the paint, and WVU missed 14 layups and close shots in the paint on Saturday. West Virginia also lost the rebounding battle despite leading it at halftime.
In total, Baylor shot 54 percent from the field while WVU hit just 40 percent of its shots.
Baylor outscored WVU by 19 in the second half.
"How the hell are you going to give up 88 points and think you guarded anyone? How the hell are you going to give up 38 points in the paint and think you guarded anyone?," Huggins said. "You let the same guy score on you five straight times, and say you really tried to guard a guy. Come on."
WVU was led by sophomore guard Eron Harris, who had one of his most efficient games of the entire season. He finished with 32 points on 9-of-17 shooting. He hit 6-of-9 3-point shots.
"It didn't matter what I did, because we lost," Harris said. "I'm wondering where we went wrong. We didn't get the stops we needed tonight, and that's basically the storyline every time we lose."
Staten was his consistent self, finishing with 16 points, eight rebounds and six assists.
The Mountaineers were without sophomore guard and third-leading scorer Terry Henderson, who was out with what sources told BlueGoldNews.com was mono. Without him in the lineup, freshman forward Nathan Adrian started in Henderson's place.
WVU opened the game by making six of its first 11 shots including three 3-pointers. A 9-0 Mountaineers run gave them a 17-9 advantage and forced an early timeout by the Bears.
Baylor would cut the lead to one point a few minutes later, however, and forced WVU to call its first timeout with 9:19 to play in the first half up just 21-20.
West Virginia was able to keep Baylor from regaining the lead for the rest of the first half despite the Bears tying it up twice. WVU would score the final four points of the half including a three from Adrian in the corner to take a 42-36 lead into the locker room.
Baylor would take its first lead since the 14:53 mark of the first half when it went up 50-49 with 13:41 to play in the game.
The Bears' lead would grow to its largest of the game at six after a three and a nifty driving layup forcing a WVU timeout with 8:43 remaining.
With the shot clock running down, Baylor guard Brady Heslip drained a three to give the Bears a 67-59 lead, putting West Virginia even further behind. Two straight threes on as many possessions by Harris made it 67-65 and forced a Baylor timeout.
The Bears would strike back, as O'Neale drained a three of his own – his third in just a handful of minutes – to take a five-point lead back with under six minutes to play.
Baylor would take a 10-point lead with 3:26 on a shot from Austin, who had an easy time against a much smaller Remi Dibo throughout the game. WVU couldn't find a way back after that.


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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Does Bill Clinton Hate His Wife?
At a time when consumer confidence in the US economy is flagging, the deficit is growing, run-away entitlement spending threatens to seriously damage our economy, and it's really freakin' cold and snowy outside in Denver, CO, is telling a Denver crowd that we need to stunt the economy to combat global warming a winning strategy?
I would say no. Bill Clinton would say yes. Unless he secretly hates his wife, in which case his evil plan to derail her presidential bid is coming along nicely, thanks.
A charitable view might imagine that he misspoke, but I'm not so sure. Increased economic activity means more energy consumption. Even with breakthroughs in efficiency, energy consumption tends to go up as economies grow and energy consumption tends to go up as populations become more affluent. It's hard to work job growth, fiscal responsibility, and the American love of comfy living into a strategy of intentionally hobbling the nation's economy, I would guess. But, then, I'm not an economist, so my ideas might just be old fashioned.
I watched a portion of his speech last night, and I admit that it was fun to watch him smack down a Truther who had disrupted the event--even while advocating a position that I find foolish (immediately ending the war without, apparently, consulting the military, without considering consequences, without even a nod to the idea of victory), he was strong in his defense of common sense and verbally slapped the Truther around a bit when he wouldn't shut up. The crowd was appreciative and so was I.
None of which changes the fact that Bill must hate his wife to be talking about intentional economic slow-downs during her campaign. And, damnit, I want some global warming to come along and melt the snow and give me warmth. Global warming is a promise that I want our elected officials to keep.
PS - I'm not the only one who thinks Bill might be batting for the other team. Wait, that didn't sound right, did it?
PPS - Apparently I'm being unfair. He actually made a good point with the not-so-out-of-context bit that you can read at the link. Bill doesn't hate Hillary.
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LFF 2015 #9: Very Big Shot (Lebanon–Qatar 2015)
This was an entertaining way to finish my visit to LFF 2015. That is if some perfunctory murders can be counted as entertainment. But in the context of the rest of the film perhaps they can. Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya is a locally-trained Lebanese filmmaker who seems to have taken inspiration from a story about the Lebanese film industry in the 1950s. 'Very Big Shot' refers, I think, to the lead character Ziad (Alain Saadeh) a local Beirut criminal whose career up to now has involved a small scale drugs business run out of a pizzeria alongside acting as courier for a bigger operation. Ziad has plans to set up his own restaurant with his second brother Jad. Youngest brother Joe (the pizza chef) is against this idea if it means selling the family house. Here's a family social issue that might be the background to a typical crime film – especially since we know that Zaid and Jad have already attempted to involve Joe in their criminal activities.
The film takes off in another direction when Ziad needs to ship a large consignment of drugs abroad. Visiting a customer who isn't paying his drugs tab, a nerdy aspiring filmmaker, Ziad watches a documentary featuring an interview with veteran Lebanese film director Georges Nasr (the director's film school mentor) in which he refers to an Italian film production in Lebanon that included drugs smuggled out in sealed cans of undeveloped film stock. To do this involves a customs certificate awarded to genuine film producers. Ziad decides to be come a real film producer and sets up a shoot for the hapless wannabe director. The filming process pushes the film into a comedy of ineptitude and then into a satire on media and celebrity. Ziad moves quickly to become director as well as producer and when his ideas create incidents on the street he is interviewed on local television, finally emerging as an astute political operator.
The central plot idea is, I now realise, similar to Argo (US 2012), bit this never occurred to me as I watched the film, perhaps because I found it funnier and more interesting than Argo. Or perhaps it was just more 'exotic' as a Lebanese film using popular genre elements? There are some gentle digs about the state of the Lebanese film industry as well as some sharp social commentary and the film ends in an open manner which hints at a satire about politics and the media in the context of organised criminal activities. Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya was present for a Q & A and his film was warmly received at the Vue West End. This revealed that both the director and his co-writer and lead Alain Saadeh come from families with several brothers so they felt comfortable creating the relationships in the film. The director's brothers were the producers of the film. The very impressive Saadeh trained as a method actor and the director encouraged this by suggesting that the actors' interpretations would lead the filming process. The final question asked whether the film had a chance of being shown in other 'Arab speaking' (sic) countries and the answer got a round of laughter when the director suggested that it would depend on whether governments would accept the film's open ending (i.e. the criminal who becomes a politician). Several reviewers have suggested that local audiences would actually get a lot more from the film but I think it could also work well in international distribution.
In the niche distribution world of African and Arab Cinema
I've recently posted two reviews on The Global Film Book Blog of films that are officially on release in the UK but which are very difficult to find. Theeb (Jordan/Qatar/UAE/UK 2014) is one of my films of the year but on 30th August, after three weeks on release, it had taken only £35,000 and was playing on just 5 screens.
The Forgotten Kingdom (Lesotho/South Africa/US 2013) opened on just one screen on 21st August, taking a respectable £2,137. Those are the BFI's figures. The film's own website suggests a couple more venues, but even so this film, which I found enjoyable and worthwhile and informative about a country I knew very little about, is unlikely to play more than a few dates a week over the next few months.
I don't blame the distributors, New Wave and Munro Film, but rather the exhibitors and the lack of ambition to bring films like these to audiences. I can't blame audiences if the films are not there to watch. Here in the North of England we are lucky that a handful of independent cinemas such as HOME in Manchester, Showroom in Sheffield, the Hyde Park in Leeds and Hebden Bridge Picturehouse are willing to screen titles like these. I'm also pleased to see The Station in Richmond, North Yorkshire on the list for The Forgotten Kingdom. But it's depressing to see that there are more dates for Ireland (North and South) than there are for England and Scotland.
Please have a look at the reviews and see if they sound interesting to you. Then look out and see if they are showing near you (why not ask your local cinema why they aren't on offer?). No doubt they will appear on DVD soon. I hope to see them booked in for community cinema showings in West Yorkshire in the Autumn.
Wadjda (Saudi Arabia-Germany 2012)
Undoubtedly one of the most important global films of the last twelve months, Wadjda is highly entertaining and very well-made but also raises a number of questions for film culture and film studies.
Viewed simply as a 'festival film' that has 'broken out' into wider distribution, Wadjda comes across as a familiar feelgood narrative utilising a neo-realist approach – i.e. taking a simple narrative premise familiar to audiences the world over and locating it in a recognisable 'real world' setting. The writer-director is also canny enough to pick up on the success of other recent films in terms of specific story elements. Wadjda is a ten (or possibly twelve) year-old girl who decides that the only way to compete with her neighbour Abdullah is to get hold of a bicycle and race him. Spotting a new bicycle being delivered to a local store in her neighbourhood in the Saudi capital Riyadh she quickly determines that she must somehow acquire the 800 ryals (about £140 or $215) to buy it. Although her family is relatively wealthy, problems between her parents means that they are unlikely to produce the money for her, so she ends up entering a 'religious competition' at school in the hope of winning the prize which would be just enough for the purchase. Even though she has no obvious interest in her religion she applies herself to learning to read and recite sura (chapters) of the Koran.
Any story about young people and bicycles has already got a headstart on the opposition. The bicycle offers that sense of freedom for a young person without the means to ride taxis (Riyadh being seemingly without public transport). There are few scenes in cinema as liberating as those featuring boys and girls on bicycles, whether they are Truffaut's Les Mistons, the messenger in Beijing Bicycle or the Dardennes Brothers' Kid With a Bike. Wadjda has the two essential ingredients to exploit the the story potential – a winning performance by Waad Mohammed as the girl and a talented creative team with a skilled crew to fully utilise the location and settings. Writer-director Haifaa Al-Mansour then fills out the story with two main sub-plots that arguably act metaphorically to reveal the social conditions and opportunities that face Wadjda (and all other Saudi girls) in the future.
The first of the two sub-plots involves Wadjda's mother Reema who was married as a schoolgirl but whose husband is now looking for a second wife because Reema is unable to provide him with a son. At the same time, Reema faces problems as a working woman (in a society where women are not supposed to drive cars or be 'exposed' to men outside the home). The second sub-plot involves Ms Hussa, the principal of the school, an attractive younger woman (just like Reema) who appears to be a hard disciplinarian with a softer interior and who at one point tells Wadjda that she reminds her of her younger self.
The combination of the three narratives is reminiscent of another film featuring a young woman and a bicycle – Marziyeh Meshkini's The Day I Became a Woman (Iran 2000). The school/home axis also refers to the first half of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis (France/US 2006). These are both films featuring girls and women growing up in Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Iran is not an Arab country but girls and women in Saudi Arabia face similar problems created by the restrictions of a highly conservative form of Islam. Herein lies the problem for Western film critics and scholars who have little exposure to the range of Arab film production. Popular Arab films from Egypt are not easily accessible. The films that do reach the West from Lebanon and Palestine often have different concerns with the effects of war and occupation often displacing the kinds of cultural issues central to Wadjda. Missing also is production coming from the affluent Gulf States where film culture in terms of consumption of mainly American movies in new multiplexes is growing quickly.
The result is that a film like Wadjda is singled out and praised as the first Saudi feature film – and a notable film by an Arab woman. The film narrative is then examined primarily in terms of its resistance to the representation of women in Saudi Arabian society. My feeling is that this in fact misrepresents the film itself and the filmmaker – who carries 'the burden of representation', being expected to fulfil the role assigned to her by Western media. Wadjda is properly described as a global film. Ironically, its Saudi base is the media company Rotana, arguably the biggest media corporation in the Middle East, which is majority owned by Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal with an 18% stake held by News Corporation. Rotana is the biggest music company in the region and also produces television series for the Arab world. Reem Abdullah who plays the mother is a leading star of Saudi television. The film is officially a Saudi-German co-production. The department heads and the producers are from the German industry. Haifaa Al Mansour herself was born in Saudi Arabia but educated at the American University in Cairo and then completed a Masters in Film at the University of Sydney. She now lives in Bahrain. This background is important in placing the film's production in context. It does mean that there is a contradiction between the image of the 'guerilla filmmaker' who had to hide from view as she directed scenes on the streets of Riyadh (so as not to offend religious sensibilities) and a production backed by one of the most powerful media interests in the region.
Much of the coverage of the film's appearance at festivals and now on release in the West focuses on the idea that this is the first film to be shot in Saudi Arabia. The fact that it was directed by a woman is then taken to be even more astounding. My point here is not intended as an attempt to downgrade the achievement of the director, but instead to expose the rather simplistic view of film and TV in the region as taken by many in the West. I'm not sure if the film is genuinely a 'first'. I've seen claims that as many as 300 films have been identified in some way with Saudi Arabia and in his useful Guardian piece, Phil Hoad cites two recent examples. Since the 1980s cinemas have been banned in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia but they existed for a shortish period before the 1980s and cinema is accessible via satellite and DVD in homes – or over the border in the Emirates or Qatar. In 2009 Rotana did manage to screen one of their films in several Saudi cities. Does it really matter where the film is shot, who financed it or whether it is a co-production? The important point, as Hoad insists, is for Arab filmmakers generally and Saudis in particular, to create stories about themselves and to circulate them so that they can contribute to the creation of identities for Arabs and by Arabs – rather than through a lens controlled by Hollywood studios or constructed by Western critics.
Haifaa Al Mansour has created an entertaining and engaging story which contributes towards the ongoing debate about how women can gain more control over their lives under a regime informed by conservative religious interests. In this sense, the film is similar to those family melodramas that have delved into the changing mores of societies in Asia as well as Europe and the Americas. Here's the director in the Press Notes commenting on the gender representations:
"Maybe it is a women's film! But I really didn't intend it that way. I wanted to make a film about things I know and experienced. A story that spoke to my experiences, but also to average Saudis. It was important for me that the male characters in the film were not portrayed just as simple stereotypes or villains. Both the men and the women in the film are in the same boat, both pressured by the system to act and behave in certain ways, and then forced to deal with the system's consequences for whatever action they take. I do really like the scenes of the mother and the daughter together, and I think that a lot of love and emotion comes through in their relationship, when they are cooking or singing together, there is something very beautiful about it."
This is certainly how I read the film. The performances are very good and the narrative is very accessible. I hope it gets the wider audiences it deserves. In the UK it is still showing in some cinemas and will appear on DVD in January 2014. Here's an extract on the Doha Film Institute site:
And here are some useful links:
http://www.allreadable.com/baf0D5vj (extended English subtitles with song lyrics)
http://www.readwithtajweed.com/tajweed_Intro.htm (explanation of some of the Arabic dialogue referring to the recitation of the Koran)
http://salwanajd.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/traditional-food-from-najd-region/ (recipe for 'Margoog', the popular local dish eaten in the film)
Al-Nakba (Qatar/Palestine 2008)
This is a documentary film about 'the catastrophe' that befell the Palestinian people in 1948. It traces the history of the colonial policies and actions that led to their expulsion from their homeland. It was made by Palestinian filmmaker and journalist Rawan Damen in 2008 and transmitted on the Al Jazeera Arabic network. Now an English-Language version is being transmitted on their English Television network [Freeview 83 in the UK, with other language versions also available]. It runs for 200 minutes and is going out in four parts. Two episodes have already been transmitted but are being repeated.
Rawan Damen's film is a fairly conventional television documentary using 'talking heads' and film and photographs. Much of the material and comment has been available in academic and historical publication. But now it is being presented in a fairly popular medium and it has the advantage of using visual material, which brings an increased power to the story.
The film starts with the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt, a key event that was analysed by the Palestinian writer Edward Said in his great work Orientalism. The first two episodes address the British occupation and Mandate of Palestine following the First World War. In was in that conflict that the new Zionist Movement achieved its coup of the Balfour Declaration – the British support for a Jewish State was seen as a way of ensuring the British presence and it's interests across the Middle East.
It is difficult to decide which was more objectionable: the British colonial manipulation of a people and its lands, or the Machiavellian manoeuvrings of the Zionist in pursuit of a 'Greater Israel'. Certainly the policies and practices of each have much in common. The British Mandate saw the use of house arrests and executions, concentration camps, house demolitions, the exiling of leaders and the harassment and dissolution of Palestinian institutions. Just as British laws from the Mandate still serve the Zionist State, so do the brutal methods pioneered by the British.
Episode two focuses on the Palestinian resistance and revolution from 1936 to 1939. This is a part of the tale which gives lie to Zionist clams of 'a land without people'; and claims that a Palestinian nation did not exist. It also highlights the weakness and limitations of the Palestinian and Arab official leaders. Their failings were to be an important aid to the Zionist take-over in 1948. The other was the development of the Zionist military forces, which were happy to use actions now loudly condemned as 'terrorism' by Israel.
Rawan Damen has added an impressive range of commentators, including both Palestinian and Israeli historians, and ordinary Palestinians including refugees from Al-Nakba. This and the impressive array of actual film from the period really create its effect. There has been excellent research to retrieve film that has not been seen for a long time, including material in the British Archives.
This is both an important documentary film and contribution to the struggles of the Palestinian people. Fortunately Al Jazeera tend to repeat their programme several times. So it will be possible to catch up with episodes one and two if you missed them. Episode three will take us to the key year of 1948. Definitely tune into Al Jazeera – the channel is worth watching for a different slant on the news.
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As for football, Hoag attended Division III Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota after transferring from Wake Forest University. Hoag was an all-MIAC First-team performer as a junior, and won Gustavus Adolphus Athlete of the Year as a senior. Hoag has solid hands and good speed, as he was a Division III track star in college.
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