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You can almost set your watch by Dave Matthews - the crowd-magnet rocker and his band will play Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy July 5 and 6, according to a post on the band's website Monday morning.
The website and the site for Warehouse, the official Dave Matthews Band Fan Association, don't have many more details, including price information. Tickets go on sale to the public on March 22, according to the Warehouse site, with fan association members able to make ticket requests starting at 9 a.m. Thursday. »Read Full Article(3)
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Carmakers are working on a new generation of intelligent headlight systems that would significantly improve vision at night, during which most fatal accidents occur.
"We can say that the risk of having an accident doubles when driving at night," says the headlight expert at Mercedes, Uwe Kostanzer.
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Engineers have during the past few years made great strides in improving headlights with xenon and LED lighting systems.
BMW meanwhile has become the first carmaker to announce that it will be introducing in the next three years the first laser light in the electric sports car i8.
"They are smaller, lighter and use less energy. At the same time it is much brighter than LED headlights," says BMW developer Volker Levering.
BMW is not revealing the cost of the new headlight system but it is to be expected that they will soon reach the mass market. However, Levering is sceptical that this kind of lighting will actually replace all conventional bulb lighting systems.
"As long as there is no legislation banning them there will be cars with bulb headlights because their pricing is unbeatable," Levering argues.
Intelligent headlight systems are no good if the driver does not use them because he/she fears that oncoming cars might be blinded.
Studies in the US have revealed that only a quarter of drivers activate the high beam manually where it is useful. Thus many modern cars are equipped with headlight assistant systems or electronic helpers that automatically switch to high or low beam.
The new Mercedes E Class goes one step further with the high beam locking itself to the bumper of the car in front or to an oncoming vehicle like a magnet. The road is lit up just enough so as not to blind other motorists.
BMW is working on a non-blinding light-assist that instead of switching off the high beam only dims part of the headlight so that only the road section travelled on and the side of the road is lit up to the maximum capacity. In addition both Mercedes and BMW are working on a system linking the headlights to a pedestrian recognition system.
An infra-red camera monitors people at the side of the road who are then lit up by an additional spotlight. Pedestrians are recognised from a distance of 63 metres in contrast to the average of about 29 metres, according to BMW's lighting expert Dominik Schneider. At a speed of 100 km/h the driver has an additional one second to react.
Although pedestrian protection rates high, Swedish car maker Volvo is also working on a system that recognises wild animals along the road.
With the Nordic country covered by huge forest tracts, roads are frequented by large animals such as elks which often cause fatal accidents.
Volvo is working on a similar spotlight system that illuminates the animal from a distance so that the driver is warned in time. It could also be linked to an emergency braking system, according to Volvo engineer Andreas Eidehall.
A good lighting system also means that the car can be seen by other traffic participants. An Audi A2 concept study has a so-called "dynamic light" that stretches in a line below the windows around the car. When the indicator light or brake is activated the light signal can be seen around the car.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: A 150-foot(45-meter)-wide asteroid will come remarkably close to Earth next week, even closer than high-flying communication and weather satellites. It will be the nearest known flyby for an object of this size.
But don't worry. Scientists promise the mega rock will be at least 17,100 miles (27,518 kilometers) away when it zips past next Friday.
"No Earth impact is possible," Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object program at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said Thursday.
Even the chance of an asteroid-satellite run-in is extremely remote, Yeomans and other scientists noted. A few hundred satellites orbit at 22,300 miles (35,886 kilometers), higher than the asteroid's path, although operators are being warned about the incoming object for tracking purposes.
"No one has raised a red flag, nor will they," Yeomans told reporters. "I certainly don't anticipate any problems whatsoever."
Impossible to see with the naked eye, the asteroid is considered small as these things go. By contrast, the one that took out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) wide.
Yet Asteroid 2012 DA14, as it's known for its discovery date, still could pack a wallop.
If it impacted Earth - which it won't, scientists were quick to add Thursday - it would release the energy equivalent of 2.4 million tons of TNT and wipe out 750 square miles (1,942 square kilometers). That's what happened in Siberia in 1908, when forest land around the Tunguska River was flattened by a slightly smaller asteroid that exploded about five miles above ground.
The likelihood of something this size striking Earth is once in every 1,200 years. A close, harmless encounter like this is thought to occur every 40 years.


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|Saints | Brandin Cooks has monster game
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 17:21:42 -0700
New Orleans Saints WR Brandin Cooks hauled in seven receptions for 173 yards and a touchdown on nine targets in the Week 6 game against the Carolina Panthers.
Fantasy Tip: Cooks normally would have been the top dog in fantasy leagues this week, but Odell Beckham Jr. of the New York Giants overshadowed him. Still, Cooks was pretty darn good. He'll look to keep it rolling in Week 7 when the Fleur de Lis hits the road for Kansas City.
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|Saints | Brandin Cooks mostly contained
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New Orleans Saints WR Brandin Cooks was targeted eight times in the Week 3 game against the Atlanta Falcons Monday, Sept. 26, but he posted just two receptions for 13 yards. He also carried once for six yards.
Fantasy Tip: It was a disappointing fantasy performance for Cooks considering there were a total of 77 points scored in the game. Cooks remains a must-start in all fantasy leagues until this kind of performance becomes a regularity. It won't.
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|Raiders | Sean Smith benched in Week 1
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Oakland Raiders CB Sean Smith was benched midway through the third quarter of his team's Week 1 win against the New Orleans Saints after failing to get a bump on WR Brandin Cooks and getting burnt on his 98-yard touchdown catch. "I thought that he had a rough day, so we took him out. He'll be back. He's going to play well for us, but he didn't play well today," head coach Jack Del Rio said of the cornerback who signed a four-year, $40 million with the Raiders this spring.
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|Saints | Brandin Cooks explodes in opener
Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:39:38 -0700
New Orleans Saints WR Brandin Cooks posted six receptions for 143 yards and two touchdowns in Week 1 against the Oakland Raiders. The highlight of the game was a 98-yard score in the second half. He was targeted nine times.
Fantasy Tip: Cooks and Willie Snead each had huge stat lines against a very giving Raiders pass defense, and he'll face another favorable matchup in Week 2 at N.Y. Giants. He is a bona fide WR1 in all fantasy formats going forward.
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|Saints | Brandon Coleman busy in loss
Sat, 20 Aug 2016 22:20:09 -0700
New Orleans Saints WR Brandon Coleman posted six receptions for 47 yards on 10 targets in the preseason game Saturday, Aug. 20, against the Houston Texans. He saw increased work with WRs Brandin Cooks and Willie Snead resting.
Fantasy Tip: Coleman looked good last preseason, but he never did quite emerge as that special fantasy sleeper everyone envisioned. Now, Brandin Cooks is the top banana and a WR1 for fantasy owners, and Willie Snead and rookie Michael Thomas look to be special. It appears Coleman will be the No. 4 wideout in NOLA, and more of a WR5 for fantasy players in most formats.
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|Saints | Cooks, Snead sitting vs. Texans
Sat, 20 Aug 2016 16:48:23 -0700
New Orleans WR Brandin Cooks and WR Willie Snead will not play in the team's exhibition game against the Houston Texans on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Fantasy Tip: Neither player is known to be dealing with an injury, so the Saints' decision to sit both starters is likely just a way to give rookie Michael Thomas and others behind him on the depth chart plenty of snaps to show their wares. Look for Cooks and Snead to play most of the first half when New Orleans hosts the Pittsburgh Steelers next Friday.
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|Saints | Brandin Cooks out of practice
Thu, 04 Aug 2016 06:42:45 -0700
New Orleans Saints WR Brandin Cooks (undisclosed) is out of practice Thursday, Aug. 4. Cooks was shaken up at the end of practice the previous day.
Fantasy Tip: Cooks is coming off an 84-1,138-9 sophomore campaign, but this could be the year he could emerge into the WR1 conversation. The Saints landed a legit tight end in Coby Fleener and have other developing receivers, which they seemed to be exposed without at times last season. Cooks is a high-end WR2 with upside.
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|Saints | Michael Thomas to work as starter?
Tue, 19 Jul 2016 22:59:14 -0700
New Orleans Saints WR Michael Thomas has a big body and could be a stud receiver in the red zone. Many project him to be the team's No. 2 wideout behind WR Brandin Cooks.
Fantasy Tip: Thomas is worth watching in training camp and the preseason. If the rookie can build rapport with Drew Brees, and the club doesn't look outside of the organization for veteran depth, Thomas might be worth a look as a WR3/4 or flex option in most fantasy leagues of 12 or more teams.
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|Saints | Brandin Cooks in line for big year
Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:05:54 -0700
New Orleans Saints WR Brandin Cooks managed 1,138 receiving yards last season, and beat writer Nick Underhill sets the floor at 1,200 yards heading into 2016, with Cooks possibly flirting with 1,500 yards if he can stay healthy and post a few big games.
Fantasy Tip: Cooks will be a Top 15 fantasy option at his position. As long as he can stay healthy he has the potential to be a bona fide WR1 by season's end.
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|Saints | Drew Brees confident in young receivers
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New Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees has confidence in his young corps of wide receivers led by WR Brandin Cooks and WR Willie Snead.
"I think when Drew is out there, he doesn't look at Brandin Cooks as a young player," head coach Sean Payton said. "I don't think he looks at Snead that way anymore because of the experience they've had. There's a combination there of guys that know what to do and how do they fit with the scheme that we're asking of them."
Fantasy Tip: Brees is 37, but he led the league in passing yards last season and completed 68.3% of his passes. The 32 touchdowns limited his output some, but that could increase as the experience with this group increases. Cooks has the ability of a WR1 in fantasy, but he's probably better served as a WR2. Snead amassed 984 yards and three scores last year and is a serviceable WR3. Brandon Coleman is a breakout candidate as a WR4. As for Brees, he's just below the elite tier of fantasy QBs, but he should be one of the first options after the top three are gone.
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As soon as they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon's mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once. He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. Then the fever left her, and she began to serve them.
That evening, at sunset, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed with demons. And the whole city was gathered around the door. And he cured many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.
In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed. And Simon and his companions hunted for him. When they found him, they said to him, 'Everyone is searching for you.' He answered, 'Let us go on to the neighbouring towns, so that I may proclaim the message there also; for that is what I came out to do.' And he went throughout Galilee, proclaiming the message in their synagogues and casting out demons.
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- Jesus does his tour preaching and casting out devils. And we're given to understand that these two are practically the same thing – and that, were it not for the devils (who here want to find their voice!), even disease and sickness would disappear. Jesus is going into battle head to head with the kingdom of evil.
- When I feel powerless before outside events, and before wayward tendencies in my own heart – I ask Jesus, the strong one, to come to my side.
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- The first recorded hours of Jesus' ministry are a whirlwind of activity. We are meant to catch on to the fact that when Jesus enters human lives, things change fast and for the better for those who are open. A new creation is here! Everyone is meant to get in on it.
- But what do I need from Jesus? Am I just a spectator in the scene, or am I fighting to get close to him? His presence brings wholeness – do I need that? People become more alive – do I need that? Simon's mother-in-law gets the energy to serve – do I need that? Let it not be true that 'everyone is searching for him' - except me.
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- There is a moment of truth in the cure of Simon's mother-in-law. When we are cured from a sickness by whatever means, it is tempting to sit back and accept people's good wishes and congratulations. This sick woman felt her temperature drop, and energy return to her limbs "and she began to serve them".
- Lord, thank you for my health, not something to luxuriate in, but the means by which I can serve others.
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- Who do you take your troubles to? Jesus heard Simon's prayer for his sick mother-in-law and the fever left her. There is no trouble he will not face with us and for us. Put your trust in him.
- Lord Jesus, you became human for us! You brought joy to a family at Cana. You brought healing and hope to Simon Peter's mother in law, and to the paralysed and the blind. You gave bread to the hungry. You gave us your life, your body, your spirit, your mother – everything. Thank you!
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- Jesus, this Gospel portrays a very busy day in your life. My days, as you know, can be busy too. But you find time to pray and I must try to do the same. You bless the time I give to prayer, and my life becomes more fruitful.
- When Simon's mother-in-law is cured, she does what Jesus himself does. She serves those in need. She becomes a disciple. Wellbeing of spirit involves a willingness to serve, while spiritual sickness means that I am concerned only about myself. I ask the Lord to make me truly well.
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- Despite their brief acquaintance with Jesus, the disciples grasped that Jesus is empowered by the Spirit. His first act of healing is in favour of a woman. Healed of her fever, Peter's mother-in-law embodies true discipleship – the service of others.
- Lord, deliver me from seeking your help only in times of difficulty. May I grow in grateful love for the ways you daily raise me up and call me to the service of the community.


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The third time may be the charm for the final flight of the space shuttle Enterprise.
After canceling twice this week due to weather conditions, NASA announced yesterday it plans to go ahead this morning with the final flight of the space shuttle Enterprise attached to a 747 shuttle carrier aircraft.
While the exact flight route isn't known because of weather and operational issues, the agency has said a low-level flight will occur near several landmarks.
Spectators along the Hudson County waterfront will be able to see the flight before the plane lands at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The flyover is planned between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. The Intrepid Air, Sea, and Space Museum has posted on its website that the flight should be visible after 10 a.m.
Prime viewing spots will be available at most any location along the Hudson River below the George Washington Bridge.
Liberty State Park in Jersey City as well as Pier A, Pier C, and Maxwell Place Park in Hoboken should all afford a glimpse of the shuttle atop the 747 near the Intrepid and the Statue of Liberty.
The weather is expected to cooperate for the flight. The National Weather Service is forecasting clear, sunny skies this morning Temperatures are expected to be in the 50s with breezy conditions.
After the shuttle is taken off the 747, it will be placed on a barge and transported up the Hudson River in June, once again giving those near the water an opportunity to get a glimpse.


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I'm not sure where all the complaining is coming from in the other reviews. My wife and I have been here multiple times over the last few weeks with complications from her pregnancy and they have been amazing.
Submitted Aug. 6, 2016 | flag
The hospitals like Sick Kids, McMaster and the cancer Hospitals are one of the biggest scams of the century. Its a huge business that provides very limited service and very primitive dangerous knowledge. Maybe it's done on purpose to spin the giant money wheel forever. Their cure rate of serious diseases is as good as winning a lottery. If you want tests done forget it their guess is a gold standard for them. Even if you want to pay for tests it will not happen the nurse said it's Canada! They leave you to die or they give you dangerous drugs so they can make money on them and slowly kill you.
Submitted May 10, 2016 | flag
The hospital is very dirty. When we had our baby there blood was all over the floors and the ceiling and on the lamps. They put the new diaper on the dirty floor and then picked it up and put it on my baby. The cleaning lady came into the room and I told her the sink is plugged up and its all bubbling. The cleaning lady took a dirty rag cleaned the dirty sink and then went and cleaned the whole room with the same rag. Even the computer and the keyboard. I think my baby gotten something from the hospital and broke out in rashes. I made 10 different visits to McMaster, Sick Kids hospital and few specialists and they have not did any tests that I wanted. His condition is getting worse and I feel very helpless after 10 months. The doctors are very limited and complacent in their knowledge guessing all the time without isolating different things by different tests. They just want to give him vaccines, steroids and more drugs. This is all without giving the baby any tests. The level of knowledge is very primitive I don't know where they get these so called experts. I don't know any profession where you can be wrong most of the time and still keep your job. If there was a 10 year old girl there as a doctor and if I asked her to do the tests I wanted it would be much better than these incompetent doctors. It is very scary that they don't have much knowledge.
Submitted May 1, 2016 | flag
It's always as if you've being rushed in and out. Had 2 deliveries there and you barely see a nurse unless they are given you medication or they have trainee's to teach !!
Submitted March 30, 2016 | flag
Their charge nurse in ER needs to go, very rude and unfriendly, didn't check the armband or any other ID very unprofessional. Needs to retire and stay home
Submitted March 8, 2016 | flag
Some staff (on of the nurse at south desk!!!) are not welcoming and even rude! When I asked for TV's remote control, she told me they dont have many, because People steal it (well I thought maybe some personnel do it, since all parents I see around only care about their kids pain, like myself!!). Then when my daughter moved (she was not supposed to according to doctor's order) I called her for help because my daughter was in so much pain from the injury and I didnt know what to do, she came and right away opened her pants and said "she is just wet!!! Thats why she is crying" like as a mother I cant differentiate a wet diaper crying from the one caused by severe pain! She alao shared her medical opinion without the real doctor seeing my daughter saying"her cat scan is ok. She is perfectly fine" well later the doctor came and said he is afraid my daughter's clavical bone might have broken. This is not the only story. I had a very similar one with a doctor with my other daughter. She also treated us like we came to emergency for fun. After urine test and simole exemnatiin she sent us home while my daughter still had high fever which was in fourth day. We came hoke.and two days later they called us there was actually infection in urinary system but her urine test didnt show, it was seen in the culture a few days later and she called me to tell its very serious! I am sick if coming to this hospital and each time feeling like I sneaked into a fice star hotel without paying. I want to tell the staff from here: "I am not inmlove with your hospital, I would never like to come here and bother you if I had a choice" I want to mention there are really nice people as well and my words are going to those who made the experience so bitter for us! We had another nurse and doctor they were really nice.
Submitted Feb. 20, 2016 | flag
McMaster is the worst hospital in the world!!!!!' They do everything against the book. They accused my brother and his girlfriend of abusing their baby and said that they lite the babies head on fire!!!!!!! They have not taken care of the baby at all. She hasn't been bathed since she's been in there for about 6 days, her leg was caught in the bar and she cried for 2 and a half hours and no nurse came in. A guy with his baby there helped her. And they said its for the best interest of the kid when they are neglecting the baby there as well. They haven't even done all te rift tests before making accusations. I am 80% sure she has an allergy to either shampoo or detergent and I think that's why she's breaking out which they think is abuse. They haven't done allergy tests. And the baby jas developed rashes all over her leg and a bruise on her head while there!!! Yet there still telling the mom she will never see her kid again. I have never seen a young mom so responsible before. She loves that kid to death doesn't allow smoking or even fighting around her baby! McMaster can ruin your life even when they dot have any facts. We are getting a lawyer and after all this the doctoral staff will be sued for neglect of the baby and making pre mature accusations without appropriate tests!!!!!! I will never ever ever take my kid there!
Submitted Jan. 10, 2016 | flag
Over the summer I had went through double jaw surgery. The staff that looked over me were absolutely amazing... They made me stay calm and were very nice and helpful. Even in the operating room before I was put to sleep I felt so calm and under good hands. The nurses were always happy to help me. Never had a rude nurse once. Overall I had a good experience there, but could be different for others.
Submitted Sept. 12, 2015 | flag
This hospital is treading on a disaster waiting to happen! Whether its the non fucntional elevators that cause patients, including emergency staff and hospital personnel, waiting up to 20 minutes, but there are broken items everywhere and the staff and VERY overworked and understaffed... just waiting for the day they make the news... the food they serve is a joke and is not healthy by any standard.. they are constsantly out of supplies.. what a sham!
Submitted Sept. 1, 2015 | flag
Terrible hospital. Very unhappy with the care given here to my son
Submitted Aug. 29, 2015 | flag
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In a small room at Ascension Catholic Church in Southeast Portland last Saturday, a half-dozen people listened to Steve Fearing recount the childhood sexual abuse he suffered in middle school at the hands of a priest.
Fearing, a 52-year-old teacher, spoke to a small group of Catholics remorseful about decades of sex abuse by some priests. The group, founded last fall, calls itself Compassionate Gathering and meets monthly as a support group for the church's sex-abuse victims.
The fledgling organization claims only a handful of members. But during Lent from Ash Wednesday, Feb. 6, through Easter, March 23, some members are broadening their visibility by wearing—and urging other Catholics to wear—small burlap pins as penance for sex abuse victims such as Fearing.
Fearing doesn't really feel a connection to the pins, but says he appreciates others choosing to wear them.
"[The Catholic Church] has to get rejuvenated," he says. "This issue has to get brought out, back into the light."
During Lent last year, Ann Czuba, a parishioner at the Madeleine Parish in Northeast Portland, first created a pin last year to symbolize that penance.
Czuba made the pins out of two-inch pieces of burlap sack with brown ribbons in the center.
Last November, Portland Archbishop John G. Vlazny blessed the pins, but the archdiocese is taking a more guarded stance toward Compassionate Gathering. "It's a very fragile situation," says Dennis O'Donovan, the archdiocese's vicar general. "If these things are helpful, that's wonderful. But they need to be handled with a certain amount of care. You don't want to be hurtful or get into things that might be better served through professional help."
Now the group is trying to distribute and introduce pins to other parishes after Mass. Czuba made and distributed nearly 500 pins at Madeleine. Another Compassionate Gathering member, Dottie Griffin, made almost 500 pins and distributes them at her Holy Redeemer Parish in North Portland.
Members of Compassionate Gathering say it remains a struggle to get many Catholics to acknowledge the sex abuse.
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The Archdiocese of Portland, which has about 400,000 members, settled with more than 100 sexual-abuse victims in September 2007 for more than $51 million. The archdiocese had declared bankruptcy in July 2004, the first archdiocese in the country to do so.
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I call the Georgia bill, the misnomer "First Amendment Defense Act" the "KKK Bill" because besides supporting LBGT discrimination it provides cover for christian identity (white supremacist groups) to discriminate based on race or ethnicity. Not that a law supporting Jim Crow against LBGT people isn't offensive enough solely by itself. Here is a background of discrimination racist zealots have tried to promote in the name of religion for the past 100 years. In Employment Division v. Smith the Supreme Court decided that religious exemptions did not trump civil law, and again in Loving v. Virginia. So the Georgia law is on shaky Constitutional ground, and with the fortuitous death of Scalia, the ability for the far right racists to reenact this foundation of New Jim Crow Law is kaput providing another racist doesn't get appointed to the court.
Salesforce CEO Is Going To War In Georgia Over New Anti-LGBT Bill
Marc Benioff led the charge to strike down Indiana's anti-gay law last year. Now he's taking on a similar bill in Georgia.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is strapping on his boxing gloves again.
Nearly a year after the cloud-computing giant led the charge to topple a law in Indiana that legalized discrimination against LGBT people in the name of religious freedom, Benioff says he is gearing up for a fresh fight against a similar bill in Georgia.
"Nobody wants a discrimination law in America today," Benioff told The Huffington Post in a phone interview on Friday. "But there are still bigots out there fighting for people to be discriminated against."
The bill, passed by the Georgia Senate in a 38-14 vote last Friday, allows religiously affiliated groups to refuse to "rent, lease, or otherwise grant permission for property to be used by another person for an event which is objectionable to such religious organization." Dubbed the First Amendment Defense Act, the legislation actually takes Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act a step further, barring government authorities from bringing civil cases against organizations accused of discrimination.
"The law that was adopted in Indiana was a balancing act, where at least the government had the chance to go to court and make an argument that they should be able to penalize someone for discrimination," Sarah Warbelow, legal director at the LGBT advocacy group Human Rights Campaign, told HuffPost. "With the FADA, there's an absolute right to discriminate, and that right is based on your view that marriage is between one man and one woman."
The law in Indiana was amended last year to include protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people after Benioff launched a scorched-earth media campaign, rallying some of the country's most powerful executives behind him. Salesforce — the largest tech employer in Indiana — vowed to pay to move any employees at risk of discrimination out of the state. Benioff also threatened to scale back the company's operations in Indiana unless the law was altered to protect LGBT people.
Salesforce may only have about 1,000 workers in Georgia, but in May it is scheduled to host its annual Connections conference in Atlanta. The event draws about 15,000 Salesforce clients each year for three days. On Friday, Benioff posted a poll on Twitter, asking if he should change the event's location if the FADA bill becomes law. By early evening, 75 percent of the roughly 2,500 voters supported the move.
"We will bring economic consequences," Benioff told HuffPost. "We will deliver a rolling thunder of economic sanctions against the state, in this case Georgia, which is waging a war against LGBT people."
Benioff said he already contacted the chief executives of Home Depot, Coca-Cola, email marketing service MailChimp and shipping giant UPS about the issue. Home Depot spokesman Stephen Holmes said in an email that "we've been clear for some time now that we won't support anything that discriminates." The other three companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
But Benioff plans to bring other corporations into the battle, too.
"Look, this is about providing an environment for our employees and our customers that's nondiscriminatory, that's all," Benioff said. "Come out and say you want equality for all, and we'll get off your case."…Read More Here…


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Would that every feel-good movie came by its good feelings so honestly.
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An edgy romantic dramedy that suits our anxious times.
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Ricardo Baca - Denver Post
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Glenn Kenny - MSN Movies
Pretty much a miscalculation from beginning to end.
David Denby - New Yorker
"Silver Linings Playbook" is so good, it could almost be a terrific old classic.
Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
I say good for Russell for risking a protagonist who requires some patience and forgiveness.
Michael Phillips - Chicago Tribune
David O. Russell returns to his distinctive brand of neurotic screwball comedy, and like his early features Spanking the Monkey and Flirting With Disaster, this one somersaults giddily from sanity to insanity to sanity again.
J. R. Jones - Chicago Reader
A head-spinning wonder of a movie about love and pain, reclamation and the totemic power of a National Football League franchise.
Steven Rea - Philadelphia Inquirer
Silver Linings Playbook tells us that happily-ever-after may depend on finding people who coexist with our lunacy, not ones who can lead us out of it. In any case, it's crazy good.
Colin Covert - Minneapolis Star Tribune
It shouldn't work - there's just too much going on. But it does. Spectacularly. Go see it.
Tom Long - Detroit News
For a movie that seems at times to have no idea what it's trying to do, "Silver Linings Playbook" is compulsively watchable.
Bill Goodykoontz - Arizona Republic
There's nothing wrong with the overrated Jennifer Lawrence that some serious acting lessons couldn't improve. The rest of the actors are pretty much on their own.
Rex Reed - New York Observer
In a script that never lapses into mundane or uninteresting language, the scenes between Pat and Tiffany are sculpted with an almost David Mamet-like sharpness.
Justin Chang - Variety
Because of Lawrence, I just can't write off this movie.
Lou Lumenick - New York Post
Silver Linings Playbook isn't perfect - the ending is untidy - but it may just be the year's best comedy.
Peter Howell - Toronto Star
With great pacing, a great sense of the moment and some of the most entertaining one-liners you'll find this side of a Coen brothers' film, there's much to like about Silver Linings Playbook.
Laremy Legel - Film.com
Turning frantic relationship problems into breezy entertainment, Russell gives Silver Linings Playbook the air of a classic romcom, strengthening it with the type of sophisticated insight into human behavior that Preston Sturges might make today.
Eric Kohn - indieWIRE
Silver Linings Playbook is a neurotic ode to family dysfunction and accepting the universal screwup in all of us, which is to say it's maybe the most heartwarming movie you'll ever see about bipolarity.
Liam Lacey - Globe and Mail
It's a rom-com that succeeds in revitalizing that discredited genre where so many others have failed, injecting it with the grit and emotion of realist drama rather than with amped-up whimsy or social satire or montages of people walking on the beach.
Andrew O'Hehir - Salon.com
It's lopsided and spotty, but it's alive in a way that suddenly makes you remember to what degree most Hollywood movies aren't.
Dana Stevens - Slate
Silver Linings Playbook is a quirky adult romantic comedy that goes beyond the standard rhythms of the genre.
James Berardinelli - ReelViews
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence expand their range in David O. Russell's winning comedy romance about two people struggling to rebuild their lives.
David Rooney - Hollywood Reporter
David O. Russell has pulled off a tricky feat here, finding just the right tone in crafting a romantic comedy whose sweethearts suffer from bipolar disorder and depression.
Christy Lemire - Associated Press
The performances of these actors are reason enough to go.
Richard Corliss - TIME Magazine
Tinged with shadows and ignited by Lawrence and Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook raises the bar on romantic comedy. It's crazy good.
Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
Just about everybody in the cast of David O. Russell's strange and disturbing and deeply romantic new film has the chance to act with a capital A.
Richard Roeper - Richard Roeper.com
It's clever and cute and never lets you forget it, winning in spite of how much it insists on it.
Sam Adams - Los Angeles Times
Dramatic, emotional, even heartbreaking, as well as wickedly funny, it has the gift of going its own way, a complete success from a singular talent.
Kenneth Turan - Los Angeles Times
Wouldn't it be great if mental illness really was as adorable as it is in the movies?
Sean Burns - Philadelphia Weekly
"Silver Linings Playbook" makes comic hay from bipolar illness, early death, sexual adventurism, self-improvement binges, football fanaticism, degenerate gambling and father-son estrangement, as one would expect from latter-day Russell movies.
Ray Pride
But Silver Linings Playbook never induces a roll of the eyes, even if it never really surprises.
- Film Comment Magazine
In an age when the concept of comedies about possible kinships between characters is dominated by sugary devices and contrivance, here at last is a movie about real situations, real people and the natural experiences that evolve from them.
David Keyes - Cinemaphile.org
A unique dramedy that stands heads and shoulders above most romantic films.
John Hanlon - John Hanlon Reviews
A wild mess, but what a mess it is.
Will Leitch - Deadspin
It finds the gentle balance between traditional romantic comedy and artistic exploration of the laws of attraction.
Wesley Lovell - Cinema Sight
A romantic comedy for people who don't like what Hollywood has been calling 'romantic comedies' these days.
Margot Harrison - Seven Days
One of the most pleasurably offbeat experiences since the Philadelphia Eagles last enjoyed a winning season.
Al Alexander - The Patriot Ledger
A deft treatment of its delicate subject material and some remarkable performances that give the film both touching, raw, authentic emotion and a certain kinetic humor.
Bruce Bennett - Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
Jennifer Lawrence is the only aspect of the film that truly lives up to the trumped-up awards buzz and hype, but being a perfectly enjoyable light comedy with heaps of heart is no small feat in itself.
Michael Dequina - TheMovieReport.com
I love the work that deNiro and Lawrence do here, but ultimately all they do is prove the old adage that you can cover up a lot of problems with the script by hiring good actors.
Dan Jardine - Cinemania
"Silver Linings Playbook" could not be a more awkward love story. But I loved every second of it!
Jolene Mendez - Entertainment Spectrum
Silver Linings Playbook looks like your run-of-the-mill wacky family comedy, but it's an important film and a great one that deserves to sweep the awards it's nominated for.
Rima Sabina Aouf - Concrete Playground
Silver Linings Playbook is defined by the positive decisions that are made in the face of imperfection, desperation, and the desolate wasteland of your world in pieces.
Blake Howard - 2UE That Movie Show
Director David O. Russell forms a unique and incredible romance dramedy...
Felix Vasquez Jr. - Cinema Crazed
There is some charm to the story, but the final act is very neat, predictable, contrived, and not up to originality of the first two.
Mark R. Leeper - Mark Leeper's Reviews
Director David O. Russell is a little too chipper at times - breaking a restraining order is really no joke - but he brings a breeziness to this likeable tale of two misfits trying to make it work.
Jim Schembri - 3AW
It may be a Hollywood comedy, but it's one that feels beautifully alive.
Cara Nash - FILMINK (Australia)
On the surface Silver Linings Playbook is a raucous romantic comedy, but its real interests are superstition and delusion.
Mark Pfeiffer - Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
A volatile mix of familial drama and madcap comedy, infectious optimism and razor-wire wit, it's one of the most purely enjoyable films released in the past twelve months.
Tom Clift - Moviedex
Parece desistir de qualquer traco de originalidade em seu climax, quando se entrega a todos os cliches do genero: mal-entendidos, mocinhos obrigados a correr atras da mocinha pela rua e, claro, o insuportavel travelling circular do beijo romantico.
Pablo Villaca - Cinema em Cena
I suppose the phrase 'serious romantic comedy' sounds like a paradox. But that's exactly what 'Silver Linings Playbook' is: an intelligent, edgy dark comedy with romance at its core.
Linda Cook - Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
This is a rom-com dressed up as an Oscar-baiting "dramedy". It's a good rom-com thanks to it's edge... but occasionally has the bad traits of a bad rom-com.
Matt Neal - The Standard
Silver Linings Playbook puts the "fun" in "dysfunction." And sure, that sounds glib, but actually, it's a rather extraordinary achievement. Especially when you're skirting on the edges of sanity.
Alice Tynan - The Vine
A bittersweet pill that's a mixture of an endearing family drama and modern romance that's an absolute delight.
Cameron Williams - The Popcorn Junkie
tows the line of conventional, feel-good Hollywood rom-com, albeit dressed up in just enough art-house quirk to make it feel like something slightly radical
James Kendrick - Q Network Film Desk
A reminder that 'sanity' doesn't make your flaws any more orderly.
Liam Maguren - Flicks.co.nz
Silver Linings Playbook is a fine, funny film, and one that should charm viewers who haven't been tricked by all those Oscar nominations into anticipating it as some kind of world-changing work of art for the ages.
Simon Miraudo - Quickflix
David O. Russell's latest buzz film straddles a fine line between farce and kitchen-sink drama before settling into a groove that gets under one's skin.
Ed Gibbs - The Sun Herald
It starts to fray about halfway through as it shifts into a more conventional mode, taking on the usual trappings of the genre and making its way to a predictable resolution
Andrew L. Urban - Urban Cinefile
Both charming and gritty... Cooper is edgy, while Lawrence is dynamite
Louise Keller - Urban Cinefile
If there's one reason why you should see this film, it's to admire the wonderful performances from Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.
Matthew Toomey - ABC Radio Brisbane
Cooper and Lawrence Shine in Linings.
Charles Koplinski - Illinois Times
Cooper and Lawrence radiate off each other as they run both physically and mentally away from (and towards) each other.
Allison Loring - Film School Rejects
When Lawrence and Cooper are together, their chemistry jumps and sparks and their rat-a-tat psycho-banter aims for Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell territory.
Dave White - Movies.com
A cinematic high-wire act that audaciously blends edgy comedy together with genuinely touching drama into one of the most purely and surprisingly entertaining movies of the year.
Peter Sobczynski - eFilmCritic.com
Director David O. Russell, who adapted the novel, and his cast fill the story with engaging, believable characters.
Nell Minow - Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Down-to-earth, funnier than you'd expect, and sympathetic toward its volatile, damaged characters.
Eric D. Snider - EricDSnider.com
Writer-director Russell is just the guy to bring out (and then calm) the manic dysfunction in these folks.
Bob Mondello - NPR.org
Just the sheer number of characters flitting around, each scrambling for plot space, gives an idea of just how frantic this movie can be. But Russell expertly uses all of it for maximum emotional -- and sometimes physical -- impact.
Jeffrey M. Anderson - Combustible Celluloid
Yes, the marketing presents it as a big broad comedy -- and it certainly is -- but it's also a unique and involving tale of two outsiders who together find a way to get on with life after it has dealt them some bad hands.
Kevin Jagernauth - The Playlist
It's tough to go wrong when your movie features two of the hottest stars, but director David O. Russell doesn't stop there.
Chris Knight - National Post
Fine mainstream sitcom material.
Dennis Schwartz - Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Writer-director David O. Russell keeps the audience guessing. He takes unexpected twists and turns as if defying you to guess what will come next.
Bob Bloom - Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Consistently engaging, funny, and touching. This is the kind of picture in which two hours of running time whiz by in a flash.
Mike McGranaghan - Aisle Seat
Silver Linings Playbook is the best movie of 2012 and the acting is mind-boggling good. Give me the Oscar picks, and it wins in every nominated category.
Gary Wolcott - Tri-City Herald
Succeeds less on the merits of aesthetics than its willingness to give in to crowd-pleasing effervescence.
Rob Humanick - Projection Booth
A quirky, dramatic and totally entertaining movie that features someof the best acting of the year.
Jackie K. Cooper - jackiekcooper.com
Having gone from unknown actress to Oscar nominee to "The Hunger Games" in what seemed like a blink of an eye, Lawrence shows herself a master of timing and plays off Cooper brilliantly.
Michael A. Smith - MediaMikes
Silver Linings Playbook doesn't settle for the routine or the cliche. It's a funny drama about imperfect people looking for love. It also happens to be the best romantic comedy in years.
Kirk Baird - Toledo Blade
Unique, beguiling, and occasionally frustrating: These descriptions equally apply to Silver Linings Playbook and its two central characters.
Tim Grierson - Screen International
Russell keeps the outcome interesting; he knows that every silver lining has a cloud.
Peter Keough - Boston Phoenix
A feel-good film filled with laughs and memorable performances, David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook leaves you so ecstatically happy that it might just be the most recommendable movie of 2012.
Perry Seibert - TV Guide's Movie Guide
The plot is clever and a bit unconventional. Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro all turn in wonderful performances in this very funny, very warm comedy.
Robert Roten - Laramie Movie Scope
During its rocky road to becoming a fractured love story, Silver Linings Playbook and its great ensemble cast run a funny, conflict-mined, even suspenseful path. It's a total winner.
John Wirt - Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Unlike the usual run-of-the-mill rom-com, this film bristles with life from the central core of the love story, to the quirky band of supporting players who add to the fun.
Lori Hoffman - Atlantic City Weekly
With "The Silver Linings Playbook," Russell picks up the traditional quirky rom-com genre and shakes it around, just to see what happens. Where it's going is fairly predictable; how it gets there isn't.
Rob Thomas - Capital Times (Madison, WI)
A delightfully dysfunctional romantic comedy that's moving, funny and features just the right amount of crazy love.
Matthew Pejkovic - Matt's Movie Reviews
Your best bet for a movie that will entertain you, make you laugh and maybe even make you tear-up.
Ken Hanke - Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
A tenderhearted tale about two terribly wounded souls who survive by grudgingly leaning on each other's shoulder.
Kam Williams - AALBC.com
Russell handles the shifts in tone extremely effectively, and has sacrificed little of his sardonic edge in crafting something this superficially accessible.
Jason Gorber
Funny without being glib, serious without being pretentious or depressing, this is a mature movie with fully realized characters and fine performances.
Greg Maki - Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
Cooper gives a fine performance in a difficult role, but the one who really shines is Lawrence. Beautiful and sexy, she should be up for awards for this one.
Tony Medley - Tolucan Times
Silver Linings Playbook is really touching, and more memorable than all the rom-coms of 2012 put together.
Staci Layne Wilson - StaciWilson.com
The movie itself is bipolar, full of mounting tension and hilarity like a classic screwball comedy, but it's all just barely skimming above a deep layer of darkness.
Eric Melin - Scene-Stealers.com
Pat's rhyming relationship with Pat Senior makes the son (played by Bradley Cooper) different from the many other movie manboys you've seen in the past couple of years.
Cynthia Fuchs - PopMatters
delivers the kind of sharply timed laughs that Sturges and Wilder would've appreciated
Jay Antani - Cinema Writer
There's a lot to like here and with strong performances all-around, a fresh script with characters that sound and act real. Add this film to your essential Oscar viewing game plan.
Jeffrey Lyles - Lyles' Movie Files
It's honest you see; and honestly, as any fule no, is the bedrock of any successful relationship whether it be between two homo fictives or an audience and their movies.
Ed Whitfield - The Ooh Tray
Loaded with pleasant surprises, this adaptation of Matthew Quick's novel combines romantic comedy, dysfunctional family woes and a sense of danger without ever losing its way.
Dan Lybarger - KC Active
One hundred percent predictable, yet strangely kind of fun.
Kelly Vance - East Bay Express
...recalls the screwball psychiatry of Russell's earlier efforts, only this time the farce has heart.
Josh Larsen - LarsenOnFilm
'Screwball' is a slang term for 'crazy,' and perhaps this is what inspired writer-director David O. Russell to literalize as well as update the screwball comedy genre here...
John Beifuss - Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
When you make a movie set in Philly, you'd better get it right. Knowledgeable Eagles' fans may find Russell's sense of history maddening.
Tony Macklin - tonymacklin.net
Writer-director David O. Russell's out-of-control filmmaking style is perfectly suited to a romantic-comedy involving mental illness, and he infuses the film with a sparky unpredictability that's echoed in the perfectly graded performances of the cast.
Rich Cline - Contactmusic.com
Smart, funny, great performances
Diana Saenger - ReviewExpress.com
Indeed the movie does make you feel quite good about humanity as the final credits roll.
Philip French - Observer [UK]
...ultimately unable to wholeheartedly become the feel-good romantic comedy that Russell has clearly intended...
David Nusair - Reel Film Reviews
Easily overcomes its familiar beats, thanks to a real attention to character detail, a nonjudgmental approach to all the flaws plaguing the players, and a cast that works beautifully together.
Matt Brunson - Creative Loafing
Laugh out loud funny at times and gut wrenching at others with just the right amount of bleak material to be intriguing and not overly depressing, Silver Linings Playbook is one of the most genuine and human films of the year.
Chris Sawin - Examiner.com
Cooper is terrific as a bipolar depressive ( ... ) and Jennifer Lawrence is quite fearsome as Tiffany. Unfortunately, there's also something off-balance about the whole enterprise which repeated American football references will not correct in the UK.
Graham Young - Birmingham Mail
Silver Linings Playbook remains a very classy, acceptably funny slice of comic drama. But that eventual cop-out feels deeply unsatisfactory.
Donald Clarke - Irish Times
[H]alf thrilling, as it always is when a movie does well something The Movies don't typically try to do at all, and half uncomfortable, because it's not always easy to watch.
MaryAnn Johanson - Flick Filosopher
Love is not perfect, but it beats the next best thing
Robert Denerstein - Movie Habit
This is a date movie that caters to the needs of both men and women: American football and comedy, ballroom dancing and romance. Silver Linings Playbook covers all those bases -- and rises above them too.
Kate Muir - Times [UK]
Seeing it a second time has made me love it even more, not always the case.
David Sexton - This is London
If The Fighter, was Russell's take on a sports movie, then Silver Linings Playbook is his version of a romantic comedy, and a delightfully twisted one at that.
Mathew DeKinder - Suburban Journals of St. Louis
"Silver Linings Playbook" is a Hollywood romantic comedy made to mask the horrific downside of mental illness while still giving the audience a little sense of superiority as they walk out of the cinema.
Cole Smithey - ColeSmithey.com
Silver Linings Playbook is all things to all moviegoers. Please join the queues circling the blocks.
Nigel Andrews - Financial Times
It should be unwatchable. But in the sure hands of America's most effervescent humanist director, David O. Russell, it's unmissable.
Jamie Dunn - The Skinny
A man's bi-polar disorder is supposed to give license to implausible and contrived histrionics.
Boo Allen
Silver Linings Playbook is always interesting and full of humanity in all its shades. It has plenty of black humour and it's superbly acted.
Roz Laws - Birmingham Post
A charming, touching and funny film, which sits near the top end of the rom-com world.
Alex Zane - Sun Online
Might at first look like proper cinema red in tooth and claw, but underneath it's a bundle of matted fleece and bleating.
Robbie Collin - Daily Telegraph
There are times when it does something new with the genre - and it does make you care about the protagonists.
Christopher Tookey - Daily Mail [UK]
A hugely enjoyable, warm-hearted romantic comedy-drama with a refreshing honesty towards its subject matter and a pair of terrific performances from Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.
Matthew Turner - ViewLondon
A feelgood film that doesn't avoid life's harsh realities, Silver Linings Playbook is heartwarming winter treat.
Henry Fitzherbert - Daily Express
This is a date movie that doesn't offer the sophistication it thinks it does, but is as enjoyable and good-natured as the genre requires.
Peter Bradshaw
A funny, believable film about the ability of even the damaged and imperfect to earn a little happiness.
Marc Mohan - Oregonian
... a terrific ensemble comedy about mental illness that achieves just the right balance of humor and poignancy without trivializing or exploiting the affliction at its center.
Todd Jorgenson - Cinemalogue.com
Until the characters can take their needs seriously and laugh at themselves, at least a little, they're not going to be healthy. Playbook traces all their journeys from stubborn self-assertion to a fragile connectedness that might lead to lasting bonds.
Lawrence Toppman - Charlotte Observer
With a truly awkward script and no chemistry between the leads this Thanksgiving arrival is a turkey.
Daniel M. Kimmel - New England Movies Weekly
With bold camera moves and jumps between scenes, there's an antic quality to "Silver Linings Playbook" that reaches all the way back to such 1930s screwball comedies as "Bringing Up Baby."
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) - St. Paul Pioneer Press
While one respects the film for trying to juggle disparate tones, it never manages to find the proper balance.
Frank Swietek - One Guy's Opinion
Just the sort of rom-com you'd expect from a director who once came to blows with George Clooney.
Elliott Noble - Sky Movies
Now, this isn't your typical rom-com. This doesn't have Sandra Bullock acting like an idiot for 90 minutes. This is a smart, edgy, brutally honest romance that will shake you up, but will have you hoping these characters will end up with each other.
Austin Kennedy - Film Geek Central
An interesting drama with a wonderful cast (especially Jennifer Lawrence), though it never quite reaches the depth and richness it strives for.
Clint O'Connor - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Russell crafts a Baker Act romance playing loose and eccentric with the genre. The banter is spikier, wacky sidekicks have issues, too, and Pat and Tiffany's obstacles aren't fluff. The screws are tighter, and the movie is a ball.
Steve Persall - Tampa Bay Times
Lawrence's bold performance and her fearlessly sexual character are more than Russell knows how to harness.
Sean Means - Salt Lake Tribune
An intelligent and well-crafted film that seeks to inspire audiences by finding the humor amid the prevailing bittersweetness of life.
Mike Scott - Times-Picayune
Speaking of Oscars, the great DeNiro is great once again here.
Matthew Odam - Austin American-Statesman
With leads as winning as Cooper and Lawrence, and Russell's signature mix of clever and sincere dialogue, the hook is set.
Michael Burgin - Paste Magazine
Certain movies are sprinkled with pixie dust, an indescribable concoction that infuses scenes with irresistible magic; Silver Linings Playbook is practically hand-rolled and deep-fried in the stuff.
Corey Hall - Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Lawrence, in her most high-low, sad-comic turn yet, is remarkable.
Peter Rainer - Christian Science Monitor
Silver Linings Playbook paves a highly entertaining road to recovery for its characters - one you will be glad to have helped sponsor.
Kofi Outlaw - ScreenRant
Silver Linings Playbook is a rare thing indeed - a romantic comedy that completely delivers on both sides of the equation.
Andy Lea - Daily Star
A deliriously funny and disarmingly poignant love story that's sure to brighten the outlook of even the hardest cynic.
Stella Papamichael - Digital Spy
This is a really funny film with some great performances, but sadly the second half shows that Russell lost track of what was important in the story. This still balances out to a good movie, [but] it could have been great had it stayed on course.
Jeff Beck - Examiner.com
The film is at once heartfelt and funny, farcical and sincere, and packed with performances that pull off that difficult balancing act. In short, it's a masterpiece.
Robert Levin - amNewYork
Unlike typical romantic genre fare, its jagged edges will make the characters and film a challenge for some viewers, which is the reason why others embrace it.
Duane Dudek - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"The Silver Linings Playbook" defies categorization: it's both comedy and drama, without fitting neatly into either genre.
Moira MacDonald - Seattle Times
The film is just as clumsy about psychological issues as Hollywood movies generally are, but Jennifer Lawrence's performance makes all that moot.
Liz Braun - Jam! Movies
David O. Russell's latest entertaining ode to lovable characters you should probably be afraid of.
Loey Lockerby - Kansas City Star
Going deep without resorting to trick plays, the sure-handed "Silver Linings Playbook" scores on every possession.
Joe Williams - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Some movies are so likable, so naturally charming, that you'll forgive any dopey idea they throw at you.
Rafer Guzman - Newsday
A well-paced and whip-smart screenplay.
Jeanne Kaplan - Kaplan vs. Kaplan
Russell's deft writing, and the ensemble cast, keep it light and entertaining.
David Kaplan - Kaplan vs. Kaplan
The ending is a bust, but there's a wealth of good stuff here.
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Cooper and Lawrence have a nice, believable chemistry, and by the time they get to the dance competition it's surprising how tense it is and much you are rooting for them.
Siobhan Synnot - Scotsman
Jennifer Lawrence is the standout in a tonally uneven, eccentric romantic dramedy that fuses The Fisher King with Romy And Michele's High School Reunion.
Damon Wise - Empire Magazine
Unlikely and engaging, this quirky, off-beat romantic dramedy is a cheerfully enjoyable crowd-pleaser.
Susan Granger - SSG Syndicate
A determinedly offbeat romance and rather knowing portrait of self-destructive behavior.
Stephen Whitty - Newark Star-Ledger
It's smart, edgy, and filled with some of the best performances of the year
Brian Tallerico - HollywoodChicago.com
Like a production of When Harry Met Sally put on by the characters from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Silver Linings uses cliches like a straight-jacket, containing an otherwise nutty film and making it safe for audiences to approach.
Radheyan Simonpillai - AskMen.com
Offbeat dramedy mixes light and dark; some intense moments.
S. Jhoanna Robledo - Common Sense Media
It might be contrived that way, but we are willing to forgive and accept because the path to what we expect is rewarding.
Willie Waffle - WaffleMovies.com
What starts off as a serious examination of mental illness turns into an entirely different movie, one with nearly the exact same third act as "High School Musical."
Stephen Silver - EntertainmentTell
Cooper gives his most natural, affecting and compelling performance yet...Lawrence makes us forget her dewy youth just minutes into her brittle, biting turn as a woman whose unbalanced rage is even more cleverly concealed...
Roger Moore
Contrived, but beautifully cast and very entertaining.
James Verniere - Boston Herald
Silver Linings Playbook is, like its protagonist, hopelessly optimistic ... and it's a sign of the film's potency that we buy into it with our own sense of hopefulness.
Mark Dujsik - Mark Reviews Movies
Pat and Tiffany's love story may only be possible in the movies, but damned if the actors don't make it seem real.
Ethan Alter - Television Without Pity
Beyond delivering an Oscar-worthy screenplay featuring some terrifically penned dialogue, Russell gets a great deal of help from his terrific cast. (Full Content Review for Parents also available)
Jim Judy - Screen It!
The title is the only clunky thing in this smart, witty film. Cooper & Lawrence find the balance between being likable and making us queasy. De Niro & Weaver are miraculous.
Caryn James - James on screenS
It's Lawrence who knocked me sideways. I loved her in Winter's Bone and The Hunger Games but she's very young - I didn't think she had this kind of deep-toned, layered weirdness in her.
David Edelstein
Consistently funny and, as it builds to its conclusion, also very sweet fun.
Kimberley Jones - Austin Chronicle
Silver Linings Playbook is Cooper and Lawrence's show.
Matt Patches - Hollywood.com
"Silver Linings" feels different and fresh, also sincere.
Gary Thompson - Philadelphia Daily News
With Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell has again recalibrated, and achieved the quirky yet poignant balance of his best early work.
Christopher Orr - The Atlantic
It's tiresome to hear reviewers hyping this or that funny movie as "the year's best," so I won't. But you get the idea.
Kurt Loder - Reason Online
David O. Russell is screwing with us. He's seeing how many indie rom-com tropes he can juggle at the same time and still make it work, with one big twist: Brad Cooper is the Manic Pixie Dream Girl with a penis.
Vincent Mancini - FilmDrunk
A healing and hopeful dramady about friendship. love, family, and optimism that is one of the Best Films of 2012.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat - Spirituality and Practice
The movie doesn't break any thematic ground, and in other hands this same material might have made for an insufferable Katherine Heigl vehicle. But Russell and his cast make it sing - and soar, too.
Rene Rodriguez - Miami Herald
...that rare thing, a top notch comedy orchestrated by a director with a talent for teasing out the unexpected.
Laura Clifford - Reeling Reviews
Cooper's performance meets Lawrence's, beautifully, halfway.
Stephanie Zacharek - NPR
Silver Linings Playbook is an infectiously rousing crowd-pleaser about psychological damage and emotional healing, which would seem oxymoronic if not for the authentic, insightful atmosphere and marvelous performances.
Jonathan Lack - We Got This Covered
Anyone seeking proof that a movie can transcend its subject should look to Silver Linings Playbook.
Ben Kenigsberg - Time Out Chicago
... this is a film with its own cadence, its own particular sense of music, and it is a tremendous success for writer/director David O. Russell.
Drew McWeeny - HitFix
Cooper's much better than usual, while the always-great Lawrence is particularly fantastic.
Matt Pais - RedEye
A bittersweet romantic comedy, plain and simple, and, by the time it has added in subplots involving dance competitions and football superstitions, also rather unwieldy.
Dustin Putman
It's the perfect material for Russell, who not only deals perceptively with the dizzying swings of manic depression, but makes it the fabric of a big, generous, happy-making ensemble comedy.
Scott Tobias - AV Club
It's a strain to care about Pat, and it's impossible to believe in his world.
Mick LaSalle - San Francisco Chronicle
To that lost and found actor list you can also add Good Script Choosing Robert De Niro, who had been kidnapped by aliens 20 years ago and swapped out for Awful Script Choosing Robert De Niro.
Phil Villarreal - OK! Magazine
An unfussy, rambling crowd-pleaser that recalls elements of the filmmaker's past work ...
Alison Willmore - Movieline
Most of the way, the film's deficiencies are survivable if only for Jennifer Lawrence and some fleeting moments of emotional clarity and bracing conflict.
Mark Keizer - Boxoffice Magazine
Russell pitches the action at a manic, screwball pace, and the cast is more than up to the task, with Cooper and Lawrence attracting and repelling each other with equal dynamism.
Alonso Duralde
"Playbook" walks a tightrope in how it portrays mental illness -- deriving humor out of its characters' actions while demonstrating just how deep-rooted their problems are.
Randy Myers - San Jose Mercury News
I'll admit it. I went "yaaaay!" too. But I felt dirty doing it.
Jordan Hoffman - ScreenCrush
A razor sharp, unfiltered exploration of recovery and reconciliation.
Mark Sells - The Reel Deal
While the ultimate takeaway from Silver Linings Playbook is, as the title suggests, optimistic, it's not just because the film has two recognizable stars and a cutesy premise.
William Bibbiani - CraveOnline
A solid cast delivers in a movie that is thoroughly enjoyable if not consistently great.
Kristian Harloff - Schmoes Know
It's not often that a movie can affect you and make you laugh out loud all at once, but "Silver Linings Playbook" coordinates the task with ease.
Mark Ellis - Schmoes Know
Russell has a way of transforming what should be cliched stories into something surprising and insightful..it earns its feel-good status, rather than manufactures it.
Marshall Fine - Hollywood & Fine
David O Russell's movie to love raises the bar on what has become the traditional rom-com.
Joanna Langfield - The Movie Minute
The acting is sparky and intelligent, with Cooper proving there's more to him than flashy good looks. As for Lawrence, she acts every role like there's a soulful storm raging inside of her.
Cath Clarke - Time Out
It's impossible to shake the sense that what felt thrillingly, cohesively alive in the director's earlier movies plays here with more laurel-resting creakiness than go-for-broke verve.
Keith Uhlich - Time Out
It manages to positively bleed compassion while remaining light, sexy, dynamic and thought-provoking.
Hannah McGill - The List
A delightful romantic comedy with unusually dark underpinnings.
Kevin Lally - Film Journal International
A thoroughly annoying and staggeringly laughless quirkfest featuring the most alarmingly miscast role of 2012.
Erick Weber
Lawrence goes Nicolas Cage crazy in her key moments. However, she kind of shows the most when she goes dead eyed.
Fred Topel - CraveOnline
When one stops to consider how irksomely on the nose so much of this is, the qualities which intend to most readily ingratiate the film with us begin to appear perceptibly disingenuous and false.
Calum Marsh - Slant Magazine
Makes the life of a film critic that little bit easier by setting 90% of the drama, action and dialogue literally in the middle of the road.
Charlie Lyne - Ultra Culture
While the movie follows the rom-com template overall, the awards-worthy acting of the two principals and the hyper pace of the action make this a must-see.
Harvey S. Karten - Compuserve
Silver Linings Playbook is the sort of feel-good claptrap that normally irritates me, but Russell plays it with the pitch and verve of a classic screwball comedy.
Devin Faraci
As its nutty lovebirds, Cooper and Lawrence save Playbook from the director's surprisingly mundane impulses.
Rob James - Total Film
Only a man with a celebrated history of behind-the-scenes altercations with movie stars and a prominent YouTube video of his on-set ravings could possibly mastermind a marvelous feature like Silver Linings Playbook.
Brian Orndorf - Blu-ray.com
David O. Russell delivers wonderfully left-of-center entertainment time and time again and this is no exception. But this is a film that ultimately belongs to Jennifer Lawrence, thus solidifying her as one of the best actresses of any age working today.
Erik Childress - eFilmCritic.com
Appealing and enjoyable, David O. Russell's serio comedy is extremely well acted, likely to be embraced by critics, viewers, and Oscar voters.
Emanuel Levy - EmanuelLevy.Com
Few films in recent memory have effectively pulled at the heartstrings like this.
Sam Fragoso - Fan The Fire
A hilarious, romantic and heartfelt crowd pleaser with genuinely great performances makes for one of the first must-see films of the Fall.
David Baldwin - We Got This Covered
It's a crowd-pleaser if I've ever seen one, and something that will have plenty of mileage come awards season. A best picture nomination seems a lock.
Chris Bumbray - JoBlo's Movie Emporium


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At the Miramonte Resort & Spa, the natural beauty of the desert is enhanced by bright bougainvillea, olive and citrus groves, and lush rose gardens. Set against the magnificent backdrop of the Santa Rosa Mountains, this luxury oasis offers a truly magical setting for weddings.
You have several outdoor ceremony and reception sites to choose from, and each one provides a different romantic ambiance. Miramonte Green is a manicured lawn with a spreading olive tree as its focal point, while the Mediterranean Lawn has the feeling of an Italian-style garden. Bordered by boxwood hedges and cypress trees for added privacy, it comes complete with mountain vistas and glorious sunsets. At night, strings of bistro lights overhead add a soft glow. More intimate gatherings are held on the second-story Piazza, a covered terrace with a stone fireplace that's ideal for a candlelit dinner.
Indoor options include a pair of elegant ballrooms. The Mediterranean Ballroom, which opens onto the Mediterranean Lawn, is like a private villa with its grand foyer, warm Mediterranean décor, and crystal chandeliers. Located on the second floor of the Miramonte Villa, the Florentine Ballroom is lined with windows that frame gorgeous views of the resort.
No matter which venues you select for your wedding, your celebration will be customized to reflect your tastes and style. The staff is happy to personalize your wedding package, so feel free to request special menu items, or add a rehearsal dinner and a farewell brunch.
After the festivities have ended, you and your guests have an opportunity to enjoy the full Miramonte Resort experience. Family and friends will appreciate the 215 beautifully appointed guest rooms, suites and villas spread out over 11 landscaped acres. They'll also love all the amenities and activities available to them during their stay: They can unwind in lounge chairs around the venue's signature pool or reserve a private poolside cabana—either way, they'll have easy access to the pool bar and food service. At the adults-only Piedmont pool, hot tubs and sun decks provide the ultimate in relaxation. Dining at The Grove Artisan Kitchen is a culinary treat—the restaurant is known for its "farm to table" fresh seasonal California cuisine.
One of the resort's standout features is the award-winning Well Spa, which has turned rejuvenation into an art. Soothing treatments realign both body and spirit, while eucalyptus-infused steam rooms, two saltwater pools and a thoughtfully attentive staff ensure both pampering and well-being. For the more actively inclined, wellness classes (like yoga), morning walks, and a 24-hour fitness studio are also on hand. Consider booking a spa package for your bachelorette party or bridal entourage, too!
Upscale, serene, and oh-so-accommodating, this property is definitely a place where you can create a fairy-tale wedding. And once you've succumbed to Miramonte Resort's desert charms you won't want to leave, so plan on spending at least part of your honeymoon right here!
CEREMONY CAPACITY: Outdoors, the Mediterranean Lawn seats up to 300, the Olive Grove up to 120, the Miramonte Green up to 200, the Piazza up to 100, and the Herb Garden up to 50. Indoors, the resort can accommodate 300 seated guests.
EVENT/RECEPTION & MEETING CAPACITY: Outdoors, the Mediterranean Lawn seats up to 300, the Olive Grove up to 150, the Piazza up to 70, and the Herb Garden up to 50. Indoors, the Florentine Ballroom seats up to 150 and the Mediterranean Ballroom seats up to 300.
Wedding packages are customized for each event. The signed catering contract and a deposit of 20% of the estimated total are required to confirm your date. The balance is due a minimum of 1 week (7 business days) prior to the event. The site fee varies depending on the guest count and whether the ceremony is hosted along with the reception at the resort. Meals start at $65/person. Beverage service, service charge and sales tax are additional. For business functions or other special events, room rental fees will apply. The resort provides all food & beverage services; contact them for current banquet menus and rates.
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