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Matt Damon and Jodie Foster are Comic-Con virgins no more thanks to 'Elysium'
SAN DIEGO - The first year that HitFix covered Comic-Con, one of the highlights was an early screening of "District 9," which we absolutely adored. Small wonder one of the most anticipated moments of the convention for us came today when director Neill Blomkamp made his triumphant return to the event with seven minutes of next year's science-fiction action film, "Elysium." As a sign of just how far he's come in a mere three years, in addition to Sharlto Copley, he also was joined by Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, both new to Comic-Con this year.
Based on the footage he put together, fans of "District 9" have reason to celebrate.
Blomkamp took the stage first, joining KROQ personality Ralph Garman, who hosted Sony's entire event today. Blomkamp sat down and addressed the audience directly. "I'm here to debut some footage. I have this thing where I try to be as honest as I can. I feel like I belong out there with you guys. I feel like I'm a fan. There's an element of salesmanship that makes me feel a little distanced as a fan. The idea of launching footage here feels honest. I like it because it's fans. I'm okay with it." He paused, looking around at the 6000 people packed into Hall H, and smiled. "You guys want to see it… right?"
It was a resoundingly affirmative roar that blew Blomkamp back in his seat, and he prefaced the screening of the footage with a warning that the effects in what he showed were incredibly rough. "What you are looking at is just footage, the exact footage we captured on the set, but the visual effects are pre-viz level. Gray shaded. You can imagine it will look incredibly cool, but it doesn't yet."
With that, he called for them to roll it, and if this is what he's got to show unfinished, the final film should be an eye-melter. First of all, this is indeed another dystopian vision, with Blomkamp using some real-world settings in a science-fiction context that makes some sharp and painful political points. After the TriStar logo, we see burnt-out land, overcrowded cities, and a few quick titles.
"The year is 2154.
The Earth is diseased
and vastly overpopulated.
The solution is Elysium.
No violence. No disease. No war.
And you are not invited."
The way he's envisioned this off-world space station that is the home to the very wealthy is as a giant 2001-style ringed construct with its own gravity and with the very best of everything. We see a woman in a medical scanner who discovers she has cancer and, while she's laying there, has it completely cured. It looks like a paradise of sorts.
But the Earth is still where most people live, and it's totally dead. Matt Damon's just another poor asshole living in poverty and pain, and working an awful factory job. There's an accident and he's doused with radiation. He's told that based on the dosage he took, he has a life expectancy of about five days.
Furious, he decides that he's going to have to get to Elysium somehow, and he's going to have to get himself cured.
In the footage, it was made clear that any unauthorized flights toward Elysium are blown out of the sky, so you can't just grab a ship and head up there. Instead, Damon is told that he's going to have to go through a pretty elaborate process. There's a citizen of Elysium making a surface visit, played by Bill Fichtner, and Damon's plan is to grab him, then upload the security information that Fichtner carries implanted into himself so that he can fly up to Elysium without being killed.
Before that can happen, some rewiring has to take place on Damon himself, and he ends up with what looks like a neural implant and mechanical improvements to his arms and legs. It's all sort of low-tech and hand-made and salvaged looking, and one gets the feeling it is very, very black market.
It looks like most of the police work on Earth is handled by robots, and once Damon's been modified, he finds himself at odds with all of them. Blomkamp's eye for action seems to have been given room to breathe this time out, with much larger set pieces and much crazier blends of real locations, real stunts, CGI elements, and his actors. When Damon and his team ambush Fichtner, they quickly overpower him and his security team, even as more robots start to arrive. It's hectic, crazy, chaotic, but Blomkamp has such a canny eye for how to stage action that it's never confusing, even in these short clips.
Towards the end of the footage, it looks like Damon finally gets off-planet, and Jodie Foster makes a few quick appearances in the footage as someone in a position of authority onboard Elysium. When Damon downloads Fichtner's security information, it appears he gets more information than he bargained for, and whatever he's carrying around in his head could get him killed, especially with Sharlto Copley on his trail. Copley plays a crazy homeless-looking assassin, with tech that looks about like Damon's, and the two of them look like they're on a collision course in the movie.
Once the footage ended, Blomkamp welcomed producer Simon Kinberg to the stage along with Copley, Foster, and Damon. It makes sense that at Comic-Con, Sharlto Copley gets the same kind of applause that Jodie Foster and Matt Damon do, and once they took their seats, Blomkamp laid out his inspiration for this new film.
"The origin of it was just to try to make… it was the idea of a space station that was separate from Earth. The idea that the wealth of Earth had been separated from it and everything else was left behind." Blomkamp's from that school of science-fiction storytellers who use the fantastic to directly deal with some very common social issues.
Damon talked about why he signed on to do the film. "It was an easy decision for me," he said. "It was all about Neill. After I saw 'District 9,' if he had called me up and offered me anything, I would have said yes. He already had this great script, but even more than that, he had this whole graphic novel he had done in his computer and in such incredible detail. It was so arresting. I'd never seen anything like it, but it seemed familiar right away." Damon said Blomkamp was able to offer him a wealth of information on this fictional world he was inviting him to visit. "There was another book of vehicles, another book of weaponry. There's a lot to go on. Normally, when I'm talking to my friends, if a movie doesn't work, I can say, 'Well, you don't get to see the movie before you make it.' Here, I had so much information that I had to be part of it."
When Garman asked Foster what she brought to the film, Damon laughed. "Jodie does a lot of the acting in the movie."
Foster laughed that off, though, and offered her own explanation. "I saw 'District 9' and thought it was a perfect movie. I wish I'd directed the damn film, and after I got over the jealousy, I knew I wanted to work with him. Luckily, the script had a girl in it, and it's about all sorts of things that are interesting to me, and it's great to see someone mix these big beautiful ideas with the very primitive gut-wrenching violence as well."
If you're Neill Blomkamp, it must be thrilling to have smart actors sign on because they're engaged by the ideas and not just because someone threw a big paycheck at them, and I'm sure people like Damon and Foster bring a very collaborative spirit to the enterprise. Blomkamp talked about the overt nature of the film's message. "There's no question the theme is about the separation between the rich and the poor, and as a setting, it seems like the right place for the story to take place. It became a science-fiction place I wanted to go, and I wanted to see characters in that place." As if to prove that he's not just offering up a thesis paper on poverty, though, he added, "The subtext is important, but layered on top of that are a lot of explosions."
When Copley talked to the crowd, he was almost overcome by emotion. "It's incredible to be back here. I've been telling people how emotional I've been. It was a defining moment of my life when I came here in 2009. I'm not going to cry, because my character is a big badass tough guy, but thank you. Thank you for the support you gave our small film. It was incredible to work with him again."
Copley was one of the first people to read the script, and he talked about how he realized which part he wanted to play. "When I read the first draft Neill showed me, he didn't mention a particular character, but I told him, 'This villain is someone I can do something with.' Neill's allowed me to try something a little different than you might expect."
Garman asked Kinberg which character he played in the film, and Kinberg laughed. "My character was producing the movie. I wanted to work with Neill. It's got politics and rich themes, but it's also a big loud bloody SF action movie. That's as interesting as politics to me." Kinberg is best known as a screenwriter, but it's great to see him bringing his own commercial clout to the table so he can help give freedom to another filmmaker whose work he loves.
Garman threw it out to the audience to ask some questions, and the first person up seemed excited to talk to Foster and Damon, asking them what the hardest role they've ever played was and what one thing got them to rise to that challenge.
Damon answered first as both he and Foster considered the question. "I think the hardest part was probably trying to get a job at the beginning." That got some laughs from the audience, and Damon said he wasn't kidding. "That was the most frustrating part of the entire thing. Listening to [Joseph Gordon-Levitt during the 'Looper' panel] talk a few minutes ago up here… as much as we can bitch and grouse about a certain role, the reality is that we're doing what we love. Even if you have to go on a special diet or train four hours a day, you're still doing what you love to do. Once I got my foot in the door and felt like they couldn't throw me out, it was fine. The years of struggling were the most challenging part." That's Damon in a nutshell, that sort of blunt sincerity. Every interview I've done with him or seen with him has been the same way.
Foster was no less frank with her answer. "Sometimes I feel like I come at this as an impostor. I don't have any of the attributes that great actors have. I'm not the person to climb up on a table and do impressions and get everyone to look at me. I started as a child at age three, and I've always had a very intellectual approach. I am someone who processes things through my head first, and then through my body. There have been roles where I've had to change all that, reverse it completely, like 'Nell,' and it was a challenge because that's not who I am. What I found was that I was so worried about how to figure it out, and I just had to drink coffee and show up. If I'd known that years ago, I would have been drinking coffee and showing up more often."
Damon also talked about how great a resource Blomkamp is for an actor. "There was no question Neill couldn't answer. I'd ask him joke questions, and he'd still have the answer. 'Why is Elysium shaped like that?' 'Well, it's because of the centrifugal gravity and…' It's fun when someone is that prepared."
The next person at the mic asked Sharlto what it's been like over the last three years to go from unknown actor to movie star, and Copley started by dismissing any claim that he's a movie star. "My life is strange. I'm not really sure where I live these days. I move around a lot. I don't know where I live. Right now, I'm in London, and I'm trying to figure out how to play Angelina Jolie's true love. Still don't know how that happened. I just feel so blessed, and I've had a passion for movies my whole life, and it was given to me by the people who saw the film here. To work with actors of this caliber is incredible. I pinch myself every day."
Garman asked about how Blomkamp realizes the environments in his film and how he builds his world. "I use mostly greenscreen and CGI. The film has a lot of greenscreen. I don't think it got in the way… I think Jodie's character experienced it more than anyone else. For the robots and the droids and stuff, there were always stuntmen there in suits for people to bounce off of. I think it's dangerous when actors have to act against a tennis ball, and that's where you can run into trouble. Even in 'District 9,' Sharl almost always had an actor there to act against."
When asked how she responded to working with a lot of greenscreen, Foster seemed confused that it would even be an issue. "It was all fine," she said. "I don't know. I… loved every minute of it."
The next person up talked about how Damon and Foster have worked with some of the greatest directors working, like Martin Scorsese and Steven Soderbergh and Paul Greengrass, and he asked if there was any difference in working with Blomkamp. Damon emphatically shook his head as he answered. "No, I think Neill belongs right next to those names. He's a great director."
Foster elaborated, saying, "There's no difference between bigger films and smaller films. There's just more people. And on larger films, you can procrastinate more. Neill's incredibly prepared He thought of everything beforehand so he can make a movie that looks like it cost $250 million and it did NOT cost that much."
Kinberg explained that continuity is important in running an efficient production. "It was important to bring a lot of people back from 'D9.' A lot of the crew were the same people, working on a larger canvas, and the reality of that film was important to try and capture here. We shot on location in Mexico City. We didn't build the slums of the future in Toronto. We went and found them."
Blomkamp continued, saying, "It's a scaled up version of what we did on 'D9,' trying to push the budget up. The pressure on the crew was still very extreme. You don't comfortably shoot the slums of Mexico. This kind of insane realism only happens if you go there, and the whole crew had to wear masks. In Toronto, we were shooting so fast that the paint would be drying on a set as we were shooting because it was so close. The production crew came back from a Mexican location scout, and the Canadian crew would be complaining about that fresh paint, and you realize they had no idea how bad things were going to get it." Even Blomkamp had moments where he was hesitant to walk into some of these places. "We were at a dump, and our car suddenly smelled like a sewage processing plant, and I wasn't sure I could do it. You have to just put on the mask and go to work, and the photography is awesome, so it's worth it."
Damon started laughing at that. "That's what you told us. At one point… this place where we went, it's the second largest dump in the world. I guess there's one that's bigger somewhere in Korea. But this one, it's huge, and they told us the dust was comprised mostly of fecal matter. Helicopters would come through and Sharl and I would be black with dust, and we'd be like, 'This is fecal matter.' But Neill would tell us, 'The photography looks great!' And I was still happy to be there. I was saying to Jodie earlier, I just tried not to think about it. You have to do it. Once you're there, just do the work and go home."
Kinberg brought up a particular moment and as soon as he mentioned it, Damon started to groan. "There was a great moment where you were under a cart filled with pigs, and you're underneath and the chopper coming in kicks up all this stuff. I came up to you and said, 'Are you okay?' and you said, 'I read the script.'"
Coplely started to cackle and excitedly explain the set-up. "I was in that helicopter. That was so cool. It was incredible. We kept coming in lower, right over where you were."
Blomkamp jumped in. "It got worse. We had to have a professional stunt guy get in there eventually, and by the time he got under, the pigs were so worked up, so upset, that they just basically urinated on him during the entire take. It looked like someone had tarred him."
Damon kept groaning, and he added, "Going back to that earlier question, that may have been the most challenging thing… this is a guy who has been set on fire and crashed cars, and he said that was the worst day he's ever had."
Someone asked Damon if there's any difference between how he prepares for a dramatic role in a film like "Good Will Hunting" and an action role like this one, and he tried to explain. "First, I farmed all my acting out to Jodie on this one. For me, being a writer also, I've come to think of it like a magic trick. You're trying to create an illusion as a group of people. So Neill and I sat down and said, 'What are the things I need to do to accomplish this?' And whether it's work out four hours a day or shave your head, that's all just preparation. It's kind of that way with any role, but the magic trick is different each time. As a moviegoer, little details can pull me out of things, and they can sell it as well. So for me it about the tiny details before I get there so all of that work is done and you can be open to whatever happens."
The next guy started by telling Damon how much he loved his work in "Team America," which got a wave of applause from the audience, but also elicited some surprising reactions from the stage.
Foster emphatically said, "'Team America' is my favorite movie of all time."
Damon explained that people often offer him pictures of the Damon puppet to sign. "Some people would say that's my best work," he said, laughing, adding "I would totally love to work with those guys. They're geniuses."
The panel concluded after the last guy admitted he didn't really have a question and he had stood in line just so he could talk to Matt Damon. Garman asked Damon about what drives his character in the film, and Damon said that the entire film is about desperation.
"It's pretty clear what's driving him after that accident at the factory. He has to go back to this criminal past he's been trying to leave behind, and he realizes, 'I have to get up there or I'll die.'"
That's pretty much how I feel about seeing "Elysium" now that I've had this seven-minute hit. Obviously, there's no telling how the final film will turn out, but it certainly looks like the same things that worked in "District 9" will play into this movie, and I'm excited to see the finished work.


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The 'Empire' Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto Trans media theorist Sandy Stone's 1987 essay on transsexual women and radical feminism, written in response to TERF works of the time, was a foundational text for transgender studies, located within a particular cultural moment but calling for a new discourse of transsexual and transgender womanhood beyond the gender binary. [more inside]
Her Story: A game about a 20-year-old crime
In June, 1994, a man goes missing. His wife makes a series of interviews with police. Those interviews form the basis of the recently released title Her Story, an FMV-style game that tasks the player with digging through hours of video to determine what happened, and how, and why. [more inside]
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Epic Gallery: 150 Years Of Lesbians And Other Lady-Loving-Ladies (Some pics slightly NSFW) "Honestly before tumblr it was difficult to find very much lesbian imagery at all online — it was always the same ten or twelve stock photos — let alone pictures of lesbians taken prior to 2000. I wanted to see an evolution of our community, how we'd grown and changed over the years — and not just in a montage of famous out actresses and models, but pictures of actual people, pictures of women who were active in the community — regular human beings, writers and social activists."
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1969: The Year of Gay Liberation is an online exhibit of the New York Public Library focusing on the radical gay rights movements of the late sixties and early seventies, focusing on the organizations The Mattachine Society of New York, Daughters of Bilitis, Gay News, Gay Liberation Front, Radicalesbians, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries and the Gay Activists Alliance, and the events of the Stonewall Riot and Christopher Street Liberation Day. This is but one part of the NYPL's fine LGBT collection, which includes, among other things, resources for teens, AIDS/HIV collections, and digital collections on ACT UP, Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen, Bessie Bonehill, Gertrude Stein, Gran Fury, Julian Eltinge, Richard Wandel and Walt Whitman.
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I'm considering buying a new production copy of the old trench pump action shotgun. Does anyone have one that can tell me whether they are worth having. I want ot bc I think they look really cool. My lgs has one for $369. I think they are made in China. That's why I am concerned about it being a piece of garbage.


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Anyone else do the new blood test rather than have an amnio. DH and I decided to give it a shot since we weren't thrilled about doing an amnio. We should know next week.
New blood test rather than amnio....
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Yes, I'm so glad they have this test now. They did not have it when I was pregnant with my DD and I went straight to an amnio just because of my age (36 then), thinking it was going to be a piece of cake. How naive I was!!! The doc ended up poking me 3-4 times with that scary 6 in. needle and my uterus contracted. It was very painful physically and emotionally, but DD is normal and healthy.
I'm happy to say I did the MaterniT21 test this time around and it was negative. My NT scan was also normal and looked great. So, I am comfortable with the results, and will not do an amnio.
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We did the new MaterniT21 and NT Scan instead of amnio or CVS.
Due February 8th
I took it last week, the day it became available in Switzerland. I hope that since I did it on the first day, they had already worked out all the kinks and know what they are doing! I should find out in another week. Quite nervous, even though my NT scan was good and my bloodwork was good. We hope that this test will come back negative, and then we will not do an amnio.
Welcomed a much waited-for baby girl in February of 2013, and now unexpectedly pregnant again and due February 2014. Irish twins. Holy Cow.
We did the new MaterniT21 and NT Scan instead CVS
Didn't do other first trimester blood work. I did second trimester blood work to check for spina bifida. Will also get 20 wk ultrasound and if there are any concerns with blood work or ultrasound then will consider amnio
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I did the MaterniT21 also and everything came up fine. I hope insurance companies start picking up the test! Mine didn't cover it, but for me personally, it was a way better option than an amnio or CVS. They can also tell you the gender of your baby at the time of the results.
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Yes I did it, and am glad. My insurance did cover it, I think we owed a small hospital fee and the blood work fee. Originally they said the bloodwork could cost $200, but fortunately we had just a small percentage to pay. I think its much less invasive than the amnio and just as accurate.
I got good result on the test but the nurse didn't say anything about knowing the gender. Are you sure that they know the gender from this test too? If so I will be calling her back on Monday! I want to know!
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YES, it gives you the gender, BUT they did not begin providing gender results until Aug 27th. So,your genetic counselor would have gender results if your results came back on or after 8/27.
They will go back retroactively, BUT there has to be a medical reason (such as suspision of Turners)
Anthem BC/BS is one of the only insurances that picks up the test and even then it needs to be cleared by your Dr and is completely dependent upon your plan with them. Hopefully many insurances will begin to deem the test a good alternative (and non invasive) and begin to cover it
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Last September, the Dallas County Sheriff's Office began investigating what appeared to be discrepancies in traffic tickets tickets written by its deputies. Specifically, it looked at whether they had falsified information on traffic tickets written during officers' normal shifts to make it appear that they were written while they were working overtime.
After an 11-month review, investigators determined that's exactly what was happening in seven of the 20 cases. They forwarded those along to District Attorney Craig Watkins' office, which filed criminal charges against three three former deputies. Prosecutors are still reviewing whether to do the same for a fourth, and declined to pursue the case against three others.
But Dallas County wasn't the only agency conducting an investigation. The Texas Department of Transportation, which awarded the grants that made the deputies' overtime pay possible, just completed an audit of those funds, and determined that a sizable chunk of the money had been misused.
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Wolfwood44 4 years ago#1
To recruit Warlords:
First, almost none of the warlords join you the first time you fight them. Kenshin and Shingen are two exceptions. Everyone else you must first beat and then find them in a random kingdom.
Second, there are some warlords that you cannot get until you play their episode, which is in the post game content.
When you find a warlord in one of your kingdoms, you need to engage them in battle, similar to how you would a warrior. It is easy to tell if a Warlord is in your kingdom -- hover the kingdom and a white bubble pops up. These bubbles will have shapes in them:
A Pokemon head means there are wild pokemon
A grey human head means there are recruitable warriors
A gold human head means there is a recruitable warlord. Even if there are recruitable warriors there as well, the head will be gold as long as one warlord is present.
Similar to recruiting a warrior, you need to meet one of the following criteria when defeating the warlord:
Defeat them within four turns.
Defeat them without letting them damage any of your teammates.
Defeat them using a super effective attack.
The difference is that you MUST have one of your warlords land the finishing blow. If a regular warrior lands the final blow, the enemy warlord will retreat and you'll have to try again.
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Shadow_Charzard 4 years ago#3
I second the sticky request! Incidentally, I was able to recruit Ginchiyo the first time I beat her. Maybe there are other conditions to recruiting warlords...?
You could add this to the wiki here also.
I'm glad your opinion differs from mine. What a boring place this world would be if it didn't.
LightHawKnight 4 years ago#5
Requested sticky. Didn't realize this till after I beat the main story and didn't get a lot of warlords.
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I second the sticky request! Incidentally, I was able to recruit Ginchiyo the first time I beat her. Maybe there are other conditions to recruiting warlords...?
She's one of the exception's.
Ugh,I don't want to but I think I'll make a list.
Remember, you must meet the typical recruit conditions AND defeat them with a warlord to recruit the following Warlords:
Wow, smaller list than I was really expecting.
Feel free to correct me if I've made a mistake.
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OoSubaruoO 4 years ago#8
Could you make a list in which Warlords you can get during the main game/post game?
In short, any of the warlords that are "lackies" to a ruler who you can recruit in the main game (without playing special episodes), is recruitable the first time you attack the nation that they reside. Does that summarize the exceptions pretty well?
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APF 2016, the UK's largest and most exciting forestry, woodland, arboricultural, trees and timber event will be the biggest and best event we have ever staged in our 42 year history. Over 300 exhibitors have now booked sites, which is more than the record set at APF 2014 and the numbers are still climbing. Advance tickets sales are selling well to the anticipated 18000 visitors who will attend over the three days.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/t/c/colm.htmlThe top is reached here I think. Will short soon.
That might be good, but I don't short near the 52 week lows or near the mid year range. I like stocks which have zoomed up and are in potentially weak sectors...Btw, I like LEN because it is so volatile. Bth longs and shorts make money.
If you like to short fertile fields, check out the homebuilders (BZH HOV for starters).No arguments, just rich slices from the center, especially HOV (imho).Kb
Problem is that I don't know when it will top out and I want to be in on the ride down... I can average out but I can't do it when I HAVEN'T taken a position. And I work so can't monitor the exact price to go long or short.The insiders are selling. I was on the sidelines on MIK and somebody warned about the insiders, and it cratered. Same $45-49 price range.I am hoping to be in the haircut of $5 or so. I am not worried if it rises by a few dollars as I commited about 15% for this trade. And I don't daytrade, more like a week(s) trade. If you don't have a position then don't advise me, when you take a position we will start a argument. More likely, when you take a position I will be out of this stock. People can make money going long or going short. I missed going long but I sure want to make money going short.And yes, some MM's may read this message board to shake out the weak longs and weak shorts.
So somewhere in the low 40's you thought this would go to $50 but took no position.Once again proving why the 2nd part of your nickname is "bull"Bask in your theory and continue to be a stock analyst wannabe. I'll take real profits any day.
i'm already short from 44.00, just waiting to cash in
I shorted this today, was into EK but didn't understand the action...
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For many women, Mother's Day is just another day. Whether they're single parents, military wives, or even widows -- they're often overlooked because there's no one at home to recognize their sacrifice.
Danette Crawford, founder of Joy Ministries and a single mom herself, wanted to find a way to lift these women up on Mother's Day.
"My heart really is for people across the nation and around the world to remember single moms and widows on Mother's Day," she said.
"Because you never know what the one next to you at church, the one that's working next to you, the desk next to you, what they're going through," she said.
"As we remember single moms, as we remember the widows -- you know that's true religion," she continued. "The Word says to encourage the oppressed, defend the calls of the fatherless, and plead the case of the widow. And that's the vision of our Mother's Day celebration."
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"We radically bless them and they feel like, 'You know what, I'm the queen, and not only the queen for the day, but I am the queen.' And we teach them about being married to the king, because Jesus is the King of Kings," Crawford told CBN News.
The women get full service treatment, including a meal with their children, a Mother's Day gift, and a chance to meet other moms from their community.
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The Breeze is the best ship I've been on in my cruising history thought it was my first Carnival cruise. The layout was great the food the best every on a ship. The steward for my cabin was quite rude and disrespectful. For the review:
Ship info: The ship layout was good and easy to navigate in. The pool was crowded and small (as usually).The waterworks was super fun and crowded with all ages. It was crowded in the morning and afternoon. But when 5:30 hits the slides are empty. Why? because everyone goes to the early dinner. Score! we had the 8:15 seating! the lobby and inside decks were packed at the beginning of the cruise and at the end.
Activities: way better than ~NCL~! Fun activities all day long. Sometimes their were so many activities i missed some i wanted to do! Hasbro the game Show was super fun and i got picked to be on stage! Overall activities i give 5 stars *****
Service: Guest Services were super nice and helpful. Stateroom Stewards were disrespectful and not helpful. Our steward(Hari)was so rude and not helpful at all! We smelt some smell in our cabin and we said it smelled like poo backup or septic tank backup. But he did not help all and he said it was coming from the sea and to not open our balcony door. Really, the sea!!! You got to be kidding me! We called guest services and sent out and officer to check it out. He said it was coming from the air vent. So true!!! A guy came out and fixed it. A day later it come back again. Oh well it was the last day! What could we do!!
Ports: we went to Grand Turk, La Ramona, Curacao, and Aruba. Great ports and awesome beaches.
Room: cabin 7381;balcony;deck 7. Great awesome room. Over fat jimmy's BBQ did not even notice it at all! Smell like i said was bad but OK to handle. Everything was great in that room.
Dining: Blush 8:15 table 560. Food was awesome and great. Cant even explain it it was so good! Mohammad,Danilo, and Lizeth were our wait staff and they were awesome, fun, and, never got orders wrong. nothing to complain about!
Circle C: Circle C was my child's club and he said the boys were playing video games and the girls were gossiping and playing Just Dance with the crew/staff members.
Shows: Divas was OK. The Brits was the Best show on the ship! Hasbro the Game show was fun because i got to be on the show!! YAY!
Disembarkation: was fast. They wanted us off that boat it seemed like!! Fast!
Butch: Butch the cruise director was awesome to my family. He treated us like we were family to him! One bad thing: Every morning he made an our long announcement at 7:00 AM.
Super Fun and Awesome first Carnival Cruise! I will see Carnival in the future on my cruise list!! Awesome job Carnival and to the Breeze!
Great Beach to hang out at.
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(normal arrival 2:00 PM) We had a great time. We went to the Renaissance and it was amazing! So fun stayed there all day.
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The Oakland Raiders have named rookie quarterback Derek Carr their Week 1 starter.
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Meat packing plants have the highest rate of repeated-trauma disorders
August 05, 1999
Workers in meat packing plants experienced the highest incidence rate of disorders associated with repeated trauma in 1996. There were 921.6 cases per 10,000 full-time workers in meat packing plants, compared to 33.5 cases per 10,000 workers in private industry as a whole.
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The knit underwear mills industry reported an incidence rate of repeated-trauma disorders which was just below the top rate, at 910.4 cases per 10,000 workers. Others in the group of five industries with the highest incidence rates were motor vehicles and car bodies (710.5), household laundry equipment manufacturing (547.1), and poultry slaughtering and processing (535.0).
All 25 industries with the highest rates of repeated-trauma disorders in 1996 were in the manufacturing sector. The average incidence rate for manufacturing was 144.0 cases per 10,000 workers.
These data are a product of the BLS Safety and Health Statistics Program. Additional information is available from Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: Counts, Rates, and Characteristics, 1996 (BLS Bulletin 2512). Examples of disorders associated with repeated trauma are conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome, noise-induced hearing loss, and bursitis.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Meat packing plants have the highest rate of repeated-trauma disorders on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/1999/aug/wk1/art04.htm (visited September 30, 2016).
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"This is a book so riveting in its details that only after you've put it down do you begin to grasp the extent of Richard Rosen's accomplishment. From the story of one stray baby bison named Charlie Buffalo and the family that took him in, Rosen has drawn a sweeping history of the American frontier—of the people who tried to destroy it and the ones determined to save it. I can't remember when I've been instructed so gracefully, or entertained to such deep purpose." —Jane Kramer, staff writer, THE NEW YORKER
A Buffalo in the House: The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American Westby R. D. Rosen
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A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers. Over a hundred years after Veryl's ancestors, Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight, hand-raised two baby buffalo to help save the species from extinction, the sculptor and her husband adopt an orphaned buffalo calf of their own. Against a backdrop of the old American West, A Buffalo in the House tells the story of a household situation beyond any sitcom writer's wildest dreams.
Charlie has no idea he's a buffalo and Roger has no idea just how strong the bond between man and buffalo can be. In the historical shadow of the near-extermination of a majestic and misunderstood animal, Roger sets out to save just one buffalo.
Written in the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains and the work of Garrison Keillor and Bill Bryson, A Buffalo in the House tells an important, uplifting story about one animal's ability to touch human lives and reconnect people of all ages to the vanished past.
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"This is a book so riveting in its details that only after you've put it down do you begin to grasp the extent of Richard Rosen's accomplishment. From the story of one stray baby bison named Charlie Buffalo and the family that took him in, Rosen has drawn a sweeping history of the American frontier—of the people who tried to destroy it and the ones determined to save it. I can't remember when I've been instructed so gracefully, or entertained to such deep purpose." —Jane Kramer, staff writer, THE NEW YORKER
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Chapter One
Veryl Goodnight held the receiver against her ear with a shrugged shoulder while she wiped the clay off her hands with a rag. She was a well-known sculptor in bronze of animals, frontier women, and other Western subjects—and a beautiful, young-looking woman in her fifties with a soft, sibilant voice.
"It's Marlo Goble. How are you today?"
Veryl Goodnight's heart jumped. Dr. Marlo Goble was a famous orthopedic surgeon with many medical patents to his credit, and a collector of Veryl's art as well. But at the moment his key credential was that he owned the Medicine Lodge Buffalo Ranch in Idaho, just west of Yellowstone National Park. It was traditional buffalo country and the site of one of the most famous buffalo jumps, where, for thousands of years, the Plains Indians had hunted buffalo en masse by stampeding them off a bluff.
"I'm okay," Veryl said. "How are you?"
"Oh, I'm just fine. How's Roger?"
"Just fine. He's out in the barn with the horses." She glanced out the window of the studio with its Spanish tile floor and high ceiling. Beyond the barn, even though it was May in Santa Fe, there were still a few dollops of winter snow left on the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
"Good, good. I'm calling because I've got a two-day-old bison calf here who needs a mother. The lady postman found him yesterday wandering down by the fence on my property."
Finally, she thought. With birthing season almost over, she had just about given up hope. It had been three months since Veryl had written letters to five buffalo ranchers in the West, men who knew her and her work, asking them to let her know if and when they had a "bottle baby"—an orphaned buffalo who needed a temporary human home. Unlike genetically compromised, bred-to-be-docile cattle, mature buffalo cows were extremely self-sufficient, rarely died in childbirth, and even more rarely abandoned their young.
"What happened to the mother?" she asked, her eyes gliding over the sculpture of three wolves she was working on. Something wasn't right. Like any artist, she saw hundreds of flaws where a bystander would see only the miracle of an animal come to life in clay.
"I'll bet my cowboys were moving the herd to another pasture and they didn't notice that one of the cows had given birth. The little guy must've gotten left behind. By the time we found him, the herd was already miles away. It's a shame, but the good news is that he got a day of nursing in. That'll stand him in good stead. You're welcome to come up and take him home for a while."
"Well, sure," Veryl said. "Absolutely. Let me find out when Roger can fly us up."
"Veryl," Marlo said, "this one's a fighter, but I can't guarantee you he's going to make it."
"I know," she replied, although she didn't know. It had never occurred to her that she might get a baby buffalo who wouldn't survive.
"First thing you need to do is go out and load up on powdered goat's milk, 'cause this little guy can sure suck the heck out of a half- gallon bottle. But, with any luck, at least now you can start that piece of yours."
"That piece" was a sculpture of a nineteenth-century rancher's wife bottle-feeding a couple of baby buffalo. Not just any rancher's wife, and not just any rancher either. Her name was Mary Ann Dyer and she had married a great-great uncle of Veryl's named Charles Goodnight. Veryl had known for years about her ancestor's illustrious career as a pioneering cattle rancher in the Texas panhandle. Goodnight was the subject of biographies, a stern but just presence in countless books on the American frontier. However, it wasn't until the past December, when a friend mailed her an article from Texas Highways magazine, that Veryl had learned that Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight had done something quite extraordinary: they had helped save the American buffalo from total annihilation in the 1870s. Veryl almost immediately decided to immortalize in bronze what Charles and Mary Ann had done for all buffalo. To do that, she needed a buffalo calf, and a very, very young one at that.
She worked almost exclusively from life. For the trio of wolves she was finishing now, she had made three or four trips to the Candy Kitchen Wolf Refuge near the Zuni pueblo in southwestern New Mexico, where she had observed full-blooded wolves that had been rescued, in many cases, from humans who erroneously thought that they might make nice pets. The wolves were the most difficult subjects she'd ever undertaken. They looked so much like dogs that it was hard to capture their "wolfness." Making a wolf that looked like a dog was easy; making a wolf that looked like a wolf was not. Veryl looked over at Mickey, their Jack Russell terrier puppy, who was lying uncharacteristically still on a rug, snoozing in a patch of sunlight next to Luke, their German shepherd. Except for the occasional twitching leg, neither of them had moved a muscle in over an hour. A statue of sleeping dogs, Veryl thought—now that would be a piece of cake.
As for a buffalo calf, she knew he would be able to model for her right in her studio, as long as it was bottle-nursing, so she could symbolize the remarkable moment in American history when a few humans had nursed a species back from the brink of extinction.
Veryl walked down to the barn, where Roger was feeding his horse Kepler, who shared the barn with Matt Dillon, his other horse, and Veryl's horse Toddy. As she watched him from outside the stall, she thought, even after thirteen years of marriage: how lucky can one girl be?
Roger, retired now for several years as a commercial airline pilot, was a handsome, big-boned man, over six feet, thick as a linebacker, with a lightly freckled face red from the sun and a boyish head of graying blond hair. No one would be surprised to learn that he had once flown secret missions in Laos for the CIA, or had a first-degree black belt in karate, or still played competitive soccer. He looked like just the sort of man you'd want by your side in a war or mudslide or barroom brawl. He was exactly the kind of airline pilot you were glad to see smiling by the cockpit door as you boarded his plane.
Roger had a wry sense of humor that he indulged on rare occasions. His particular mix of openness and reserve made him entirely familiar and unknowable at the same time. When he confided in you, you were only more aware of what he wasn't telling you.
Roger had a gift for reading people quickly and could usually figure out within a few sentences who was capable of a real exchange of ideas and who just wanted to hear himself talk. As a result, he rarely found himself in a conversation he didn't want to be in, which saved him a lot of words. He knew how to turn aside insipid salesmen and ranting strangers with a smile. Roger hadn't married until his forties, back in the late 1980s. He was waiting for the right woman to come along. She turned out to be Veryl Goodnight, then in her late thirties, who had obviously been waiting for the right man.
"Guess what?" she asked, beaming.
Roger turned from Kepler and sized up her excitement. "You got a baby bison?" It was just like him, one step ahead of everyone else.
"Marlo Goble just called. The calf's only a couple of days old and Marlo wants us to come up and get him."
"Then that's what we'll do," Roger said.
Helped along by an MBA earned long ago at Arizona State, Roger ran the business-and-marketing end of Goodnight Fine Arts, managing everything from balancing the books and negotiating the contracts with foundries and collectors to handling mailings about Veryl's upcoming shows. He was as comfortable with the industrialists who bought sculptures as the crane operators who lowered them into place.
A couple of days after Goble's call, and all because of what had happened 125 years before in the Texas panhandle, Veryl Goodnight, Roger, and Mickey the Jack Russell terrier climbed into the turquoise- copper-and-white Cessna Conquest twin-engine turbo-prop that Roger co- owned and flew two hours north-by-northwest, biting off the northeast corner of Utah and the southwest corner of Wyoming before landing in Idaho Falls. Marlo Goble picked them up and drove them for hours up the long valley before turning onto the dirt road leading to his Medicine Lodge Buffalo Ranch. When they got out of the car, Doris Brienholt, a petite blonde who managed the ranch with her husband Stuart, was already coming toward them with her border collie. Behind them, bouncing along like just another member of the family, was an animal not much bigger than a golden retriever, and with almost the same coloring—a rusty red body and a honey-colored face. If it weren't for his broad black nose, he could have been mistaken for the long-legged family dog.
Mickey the Jack Russell, appointing himself chairman of the greeting committee, dashed up to the calf, got on his hind legs, and kissed him on the muzzle. Veryl came up behind Mickey, knelt, and took the calf's soft face in her hands. "Hi, sweetie," she said, surprised by a lick in the face. It was difficult to believe that the animal had been in his mother's womb less than a week before, and that, if he survived, he would someday become a shaggy two-thousand-pound example of one of the greatest, most haunted, and certainly most hunted species ever.
They stayed three days. Marlo, Roger, and Veryl rode out on horseback to look at Marlo's herd. Somewhere in that woolly mass of bison was a mother perhaps still wondering what had happened to her newborn. Back at the house, Doris taught Roger and Veryl how to mix the formula. In the wild, orphaned calves attach themselves to anything large and moving—as Meriwether Lewis had found out two hundred years before on his and William Clark's expedition, when a young bison attached himself to him for an entire afternoon. It was easy to see by the way the week-old calf nursed contentedly at Doris's side that he had imprinted on her. The trick now was to transfer the imprinting onto Veryl and Roger, a process helped immensely each time one of them showed the calf a half-gallon bottle of powdered goat's milk. As Veryl struggled to hold the bottle while the calf bunted and pulled, she saw that Marlo hadn't been joking about the week-old calf's appetite.
When it was time for Roger and Veryl to leave with the buffalo, Doris was so sad to see him go that she refused to make the drive back to the airport. On the airstrip, the calf polished off a bottle before Roger and Marlo herded him into a dog crate and loaded him into the cabin of the eight-passenger Conquest. Roger slid two of the chairs back on their tracks to make room. As Roger taxied for takeoff, Veryl sat next to the crate and reached through the bars to give the calf a pacifier, for which he thanked her with a soft grunt. By the time they reached the end of the runway, the calf was already asleep. Roger banked over Idaho Falls, headed south, and climbed to 27,000 feet, no doubt the altitude record for a week-old buffalo. Other than that, the flight was uneventful.
They decided to name him Charlie.
Charlie's namesake, Charles Goodnight, saw his first buffalo as a nine-year-old boy in the 1840s along the banks of the Trinity River, today the site of downtown Dallas. Like most people, he had been fascinated by their strength and staggering numbers. By the 1870s, Goodnight had been a Texas Ranger, legendary trail driver, cattle rancher and breeder, and inventor of the chuck wagon—and was well on his way to being widely acknowledged as "Father of the Texas Panhandle." Cattleman though he was, he was troubled by how rapidly the buffalo were disappearing; Goodnight realized that a world that had existed for thousands of years—a world that had belonged to the Indian and the buffalo—was coming to an end.
Once there had been 30 million buffalo in the United States, maybe 40. Some estimates (now considered by many to be grossly inflated) put the number as high as 80. Until 1860, even at the lowest number, there were more buffalo in America than people. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark had found it impossible "to calculate the moving multitude which darkened the whole plains." Another observer was more poetic: "The world looked like one robe." The country was teeming with buffalo, herds of them hundreds of thousands strong, a vast shaggy carpet of buffalo miles long and miles wide. On first seeing them, men were apt to rub their eyes and question their sanity. There were places where the buffalo weren't just on the land; they seemed to be the land. If you couldn't see them, you could hear them coming, well in advance, an apocalypse on hooves. Sometimes it took days for them to run past a fixed point. Some claimed you could have walked ten miles across their backs without ever touching the ground. In his memoir, the prolific buffalo hunter J. Wright Mooar estimated the Southern herd in the millions. "For five days," he wrote of a hunting trip in 1873, "we had ridden through and camped in a mobile sea of living buffalo." For much of the nineteenth century, trying to calculate their number was a favorite pastime of hunters, settlers, naturalists, and
Over the millennia, since the last Ice Age, the buffalo had come over the Bering Land Bridge from Asia, spreading east and south. Into the nineteenth century, they roamed what are now all the states in the continental United States except Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. When the British explored Virginia in 1733, they found hordes of wild buffalo, "so gentle and undisturbed" that men could almost pet them. By the 1830s, however, the buffalo that had once roamed the East Coast from New York to Georgia had been virtually eliminated by Indians, colonists, weather, and disease.
By the 1840s, the buffalo population in the West had been whittled down as well. The buffalo on the west side of the Continental Divide were already gone, victims of the heavily trafficked Oregon Trail, with its endless wagon trains full of hungry settlers. That left the tens of millions of buffalo on the short- and long-grass prairies, but their days were numbered too.
Meet the Author
R.D. Rosen is a senior editor at Workman Publishing and the author of several books, including the Edgar Award–winning mystery Strike Three You're Dead and Psychobabble (a term he coined). His career as a humorist has spanned PBS, Saturday Night Live, HBO, CBS, and NPR's All Things Considered. He is the co-author of the New York Times bestselling books Bad Cat, Bad Dog, Bad Baby, and Bad President. He lives in New York City.
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Sure when you watch Wall play, there is a lot of flash, but he also makes the simple play as well. Watching him play for the Wildcats last season, you knew he was just as likely to make a spectacular play as he was to make the fundamental play. Either way, you knew that Wall would do what it took to make his team win.
In Wall's initial effort at home last night against the Sixers, he led his team to their first win of the season, 116-115. Wall had 29 points, 13 assists and nine steals in the game. He also made 11 of 14 free-throws and nine of his 16 shots.
That stat-line stood out for the rookie and Wall was celebrated for his efforts in the victory, but what stood out more was the dance Wall did prior to the game.
In his official coming-out party at Kentucky's Big Blue Madness last season, Wall debuted "The John Wall" dance which people copied all season. Never mind that the dance is actually called "The Shizz." Wall put it into mainstream culture.
In his first home game as a Washington Wizard, Wall did "The Dougie" which is another popular dance in pop-culture. Wall did his dance for roughly 35 seconds and proceeded to have the best game of his short career last night.
Fast forward to today when Colin Cowherd, popular host of the radio show "The Herd", said Wall was "not a sharp guy."
Not only did he call the rookie out for doing his dance during introductions, he also went on to harp on Wall's turnovers on the night. Officially Wall had eight turnovers.
Cowherd put Wall in a category with players such as Steve Francis, Allen Iverson and Stephon Marbury – calling him selfish – mockingly saying: "Yo dawg, look at me, I'm the man" in regards to his dance.
What Cowherd doesn't tell you is that Wall did his dance at the urging of his assistant coach and former long-time NBA point guard, Sam Cassell. This is according to Dan Steinberg of DC Sports Bog, a part of the Washington Post.
Cowherd compares Wall to several NBA Hall of Fame point guards like Stockton, Magic, Kidd and Isiah. Then he compares him to another former Kentucky Wildcat, Rajon Rondo.
Wall comes from a different generation than Magic, Isiah, Stockton and even Kidd. While each of these four men are Hall-of-Famers – they aren't/weren't perfect. Cowherd's tangent is clearly spear-headed by Wall's dance, which is completely harmless. Three of these four basketball icons have had some serious "off the court" transgressions that we won't get into. The other was considered one of the dirtiest players in the game on the court.
As for the Rondo comparison, aside from Kentucky fans and Doc Rivers, nobody was on Rondo's bandwagon before they won the NBA title in 2008. He was considered the weak link. Here's a newsflash. Wall's whole team is a weak link, yet he's still able to be successful very early in his career.
The fact is that Cowherd is accusing Wall of exactly what he is doing himself. Cowherd is trying to standout among the crowd and say, "Look at me, unlike everybody else who's ever met the guy, I don't like John Wall and I'm going to say bad things about him."
It's obvious that despite a successful radio show and his gig with that network from Connecticut, Cowherd still needs a little more attention.
Unlike Wall, who almost immediately mentioned his issue with turnovers last night in a post game interview, we know Cowherd will never look in the mirror and see what he did wrong.
Cowherd talked about how his daughter knows the difference between right and wrong. It's obvious that the young lady didn't learn it from her father.
The opinions expressed here are the views of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of The Kentucky Sports Report or Scout.com.