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In a nutshell, satin shoes refer to footwear that is made out of satin. This type of shoes is actually considered to be the most luxurious kind of design footwear to date. Contrary to popular belief, satin is actually a weaving tactic that features fabric production with a minimum amount of interlacing and the material's surface has a glossy finish to it. And, back in the day, satin fabrics were only worn by royalty because of how expensive they were. … [Read more...]
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"We've sold everything that even resembles an AR-15," Tammy Casciato said Wednesday night. "They're becoming like unicorns."
She and her husband, Jeff Massengill, were waiting on a full shop of customers at their Americana Arms business on Cagle Lane.
But Casciato was not calling the guns she and Massengill had sold "assault rifles."
"We only sell semi-automatic rifles, not fully automatic ones," she said.
The usual definition of an assault rifle is one that can either shoot semi-auto or full auto. Gun owners who wish to buy a fully automatic rifle must purchase a special stamp from the federal government to legally possess the gun.
"We're sold out of AR-15s," said Monica Moreno, manager of Bee County Pawn on North St. Mary's Street.
She said the store sold its last AR-15s Wednesday.
"We had Bushmasters, Windhams, DPMS and Smith and Wesson," Moreno said. But customers have purchased every last one of the rifles.
"We're sold out," Moreno said when asked about their high capacity magazines for AR-15s and AK-47s.
"Ammunition is sold out too. Even the AKs," Moreno said.
Massengill had the same message concerning high capacity (30) round magazines for AR rifles. And early Wednesday evening the business sold all but two boxes of Americana's .223-caliber and 5.56mm ammunition.
"We've been blessed," Casciato said of the business she and Massengill own. Their shop has remained busy since they opened it a couple of months ago.
But since the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., and President Barack Obama administration's stated intention to ban the sale of so-called "assault rifles," the demand for semi-auto ARs and AKs has been unbelievable.
Massengill said it is now impossible to restock. All of their suppliers have said they cannot fill their orders.
Moreno said Bee County Pawn is having the same problem.
Local gun dealer Ernest Hurst said part of the problem is "Sandy, the storm, not the school."
Hurst said the hurricane that struck the northern East Coast of the United States recently shut down many of the nation's firearms manufacturers.
Although most of the companies had restarted production, they were still trying to catch up with orders when the school shooting happened last week. That caused an unexpected spike in the demand for semi-automatic rifles.
Moreno said her store had one Ruger Mini 14 left. Americana Arms had two AR-15s in stock Wednesday night. But a local man purchased a Bushmaster AR-15 that night, leaving only one rifle left in the store.
The shop did have a couple of AK-type rifles in 5.56mm and 7.62x39mm. But those were not expected to remain on the shelf for long.
One local man, upon hearing that there was still an AR left in Beeville, picked up his cellular phone Thursday and said he intended to buy that rifle for himself if it was still on the shelf.
"This has been uncomfortable," Casciato said of the increased demand. "Just the volume. Everybody has left with information on a gun or ammunition."
Casciato and Moreno said pistol sales remain steady. There has been no rush on them. And resupplying their stocks does not seem to be a problem yet.
Other pawn shops in Beeville have not experienced the rush to buy semi-automatic rifles.
"We don't take assault-type rifles," said Robert Alvarado of EZ Pawn on East Houston Street.
There are no ARs, AKs or Mini 14s in their store. "We don't even sell pistols and we don't sell ammunition," the manager said.
Patsy Gomez of Cash Pawn on West Corpus Christi Street said the same thing.
Although her shop does have the so-called assault-type rifles, "we don't have any out for sale."
"People don't want the government to interfere with their ability to defend themselves," Massengill said. Beeville area residents simply want to be able to buy the pistol or rifle they want, within the law as it is written now.
"Gun owners are supposed to be responsible for their guns," Massengill said. That is not something they think the government should be dictating to them.
"If that principal (at the Sandy Hook Elementary School) had walked up to the shooter with a gun in her hand instead of harsh words, 20 kids would still be alive," Massengill said.
The shop owner works as a full-time teacher.
"I respect people's right to have an opinion," Massengill said. "That's in the First Amendment"
"Everybody is blaming everything but the shooter," one of Massengill's customers said.
Casciato mentioned that 115 applicants for concealed handgun licenses had gone through their school in just the past few months.
Hurst said no law that the government can pass will stop killings like the one on Connecticut. "Society and the government should be responsible for the killing."
"When you advertise that there are no guns at a location, that's inviting crazy killers to show up," Hurst said.
"We have to change what kids and some adults see in the movies," Hurst said. Movies and video games should bear much of the blame for much of the violent behavior.
"Kids are making those games part of their lives," Hurst said. He said every licensed firearms dealer in the country is responsible. They conduct background checks on their customers before selling them weapons. And if a customer displays questionable behavior when they are checked, the dealer notes that on the request.
The Sandy Hook killer's mother also bears much of the responsibility for the tragedy at that school, Hurst said. She knew her son was unstable but she failed to secure her guns.
"Society has failed itself," Hurst said.
Gary Kent is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 120, or at email@example.com.


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Korg's MS-20 monophonic synthesizer, first introduced in 1978, is still a coveted instrument to this day, thanks to its thick, robust sound, its powerful, iconic analog filter, and its versatile patching options.
Over 300,000 people have enjoyed the distinct MS-20 sounds from the original, from Korg's MS-20 plug-in synth, and the iMS-20 iPad app.
Today, the sounds of the MS-20 have been reborn as the MS-20 Mini. The same engineers who developed the original MS-20 have perfectly reproduced its circuitry and fitted it into a body that's been shrunk to 86% of the original size, yet retains the distinctive look of the original that remains unfaded despite the passage of time.
The MS-20 mini will amaze you with its absolutely authentic analog synth sound.
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Fifty years have passed since Korg was founded, and we have once again put our hand to an analog synthesizer. We took particular care to deliver smooth parameter adjustments, which are a distinctive feature of analog synthesizers. We also took special care to completely reproduce the original specifications of the MS-20. The analog circuits we designed 35 years ago still deliver the same unbeatable, powerful sound, from the ultra-low to the ultra-high range.
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November 9, 2011 —
Representatives from several local municipalities who serve on the Pike County Marcellus Shale Taskforce made their reports to the county commissioners on November 2
Six committees that had been appointed when the taskforce first met were present. Those committees were: education, planning/government, environment, economic development/tourism, roads/transportation/infrastructure and public safety.
The education committee, which had 25 members, learned about gas drilling, how it impacts private water supply wells and the potential for water pollutants. The importance of individuals having their well tested by an approved resource was stressed.
Michael Zibrin, a resident of Blooming Grove, who represented the planning and government committee which had the longest presentation, said that the committee asked that the PA Association of Township Supervisors (PSATS) play a leading role in advising townships about gas drilling issues.
"Any proposed legislation should not further pre-empt the powers of our local municipal government to safeguard its citizens," Zibrin said. Speaking for the committee, he said, "We oppose any statutory prohibition on the use of zoning to manage all types of development and resource extraction through zoning districts and conditional and special exception approval mechanisms."
On impact fees, Zibrin said the committee suggested that the county research how other municipalities in other states handle impact fees. He also said drilling companies should develop road maintenance agreements above and beyond the impact fee. He said a portion of the impact fee should go to the local districts.
The strongest recommendation was that all drilling activity be prohibited in floodways and in the 100-year floodplain areas as well as regulations prohibiting the storage of hazardous materials in all flood plains. Lastly, the committee urged that the role of monitoring erosion and sediment controls be assigned to the county conservation districts.
The economic development committee called upon realtor Davis Chant to report. Chant warned of the negative impact of drilling to the tourism market, stating that he knows of several real estate agreements that fell apart after the interested parties learned about the possibility of gas drilling.
Chant's advice was that a major public relations campaign be mounted praising the area as a "green haven." "We need to put that story out because it is a true one," he said.
The committee on roads urged that companies forge a road management plan with municipalities.
The safety committee, reported by Pike County emergency management director Roger Maltby, said that the companies have been in communication with first responders in their areas. "We are holding trainings on how to respond to any emergency," he said. "If there are incidents at a drill site, our role is to secure the area around the site while the companies specialists arrive, which is usually quickly."


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UW-La Crosse Police say they were less busy than they expected to be on the first weekend of Oktoberfest.
The chief says the 76 alcohol-related citations his officers handed out is down almost 25% from last year.
Also, there are no reports of sexual assault or major vandalism on campus. However, they still had to take six people to detox and arrest three people for drunk driving.
Overall, the chief says he's pleased with how the weekend went. "We had planned for something similar to last year, we were pleasantly surprised that we were a little bit lower on the numbers and definitely the staff commented that they were happier with the cooperation," said UW-L Police Chief Scott Rhode.
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Microsoft's Kinect has been modded to work with Sony's PlayStation 3. The console that does everything is now Kinect compatible, after you do a bunch of hacking that is. "Kinect PS3" was designed more as a proof-of-concept than a functioning mod, so it's a work in progress -- It's still pre-alpha and the software is lacking some recent codes.
Given how Microsoft has been embracing Kinect mods, do you think their stance will change now that PS3 functionality is possible? For that matter, The programmer, shantzg00, posted instructions on how to perform the mod on his blog, do you think Sony will have a problem with it?
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We brew our beer on a 25 HL mash filter system. Our system has a decoction kettle for making traditional German lagers. We brew crushable lager and wheat beers on our system, and then put that beer in 12 oz cans for you to put in your fridge at home. We have a beautiful taproom which overlooks the brewery floor and offer tours from our taproom periodically.
Adjacent to Hamburger Mary's, we've been brewing craft beers in Andersonville since 2009, making us the oldest operating "nano-brewery" in Chicago (basically, that's just a fancy term for a really small brewery). What started as a hobby in the corner of a sports bar has turned into a 200+ barrels/year (400 kegs) operation, with as many as eight of our brews on tap at any given time. So whether you are in the mood for a golden ale (like our Blonde Bombshell), something hop-heavy (try our rotating IPA), or a barrel-aged or sour stout… we have something to satisfy all tastes.
Since 2006, Cobra Lounge has been Chicago's best kept secret for showcasing regional underground and emerging music talent. National touring bands choose to play Cobra Lounge for its dynamic sound, intimate feel and unpretentious attitude. Located next door to Union Park in Chicago, Cobra Lounge is an official host venue for many of Chicago's premier summer and fall outdoor music festivals including Riot Fest & Carnival in September. The vibe here is pure Rock & Roll mixed with freshly prepared food, great hospitality and a live energy that is uniquely Cobra Lounge Chicago.
With specialty and seasonal beers popping up throughout the year, All Rise is sure to have something for everyone. So roll by and elbow up to the bar, grab a table with your friends in the new beer hall, or come by to check out some music in the live room. We hope the beer, food, music and great service will keep you coming back.
An authentic barbeque eatery, Q-BBQ draws influences from a variety of regional spots from the meat markets of Texas to the hole-in-the-walls in Tennessee. In everything from slow-cooked meats - prepared for up to 22 hours - to homemade sauces, Q-BBQ strives to bring a unique brand of culinary flare to America's original comfort food. Perched along downtown Oak Park's quaint Marion street, an outdoor patio is open in warmer months and allows you to savor the flavors while taking in the charming local sights.
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As stylish and romantic as the European jazz clubs it aims to emulate, the Little Gem Café offers an elegant setting and delectable items using locally sourced ingredients. Featuring weekly live music, happy hour specials, and the recent unveiling of a new weekend brunch menu, the Little Gem will bewitch you with its warm atmosphere and uniquely flavorful dishes. Planning a private party? The event team will work with any budget and size to create your perfect event, from anniversaries to corporate meetings.
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Connolly's is a fun, family-owned Irish Pub that seeks to embrace the classic traditions and cultural elements found in Irish pubs both in America and the Emerald Isle. With a menu that brings Irish food to the new millennium - a careful blend of feeling good and eating well - and an atmosphere that feels like an extension of the proprietor's living room, Connolly's is a vibrant eatery in the heart of Oak Park.
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Originally founded in 1891 as a private club for forward-thinking women, the Nineteenth Century Club continues the tradition of social and cultural advancement to this day. One of Oak Park's premiere venues for educational, cultural, and philanthropic events, it boasts an elegant and expansive parlor suited well for weddings and a ballroom that draws an impressive lineup of musical performances.
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Since 1926, Chicago area golfers have sought out St. Andrews for its two championship courses, the top-ranked practice center, and award winning banquet and clubhouse services. With its vast rolling terrain, mature trees, and historic setting, St. Andrews offers quality facilities not only for discerning golfers but for golf outings, weddings, and banquet events of any size.
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Whether it be for your wedding reception, a round of golf, fine dining, quick lunch or Sunday brunch, Carriage Greens Country Club is one of the finest entertainment and banquet facilities in the Chicago area. Boasting an ever expanding wine list, paired with any of the delicious menu items, and great service makes The Sandtrap Grill a unique dinning experience in Darien, Westmont, Lemont and the surrounding western suburbs.
Open year round, SPG Green Garden Country Club is located in Frankfort Illinois, just a 45-minute drive southwest from downtown Chicago. Our proximity to the Greater Chicagoland area makes SPG Green Garden Country Club ideal for both general play and outings of all kinds. The attraction of rolling terrain, a tranquil setting, and clean country fresh air will make your next round of golf with us a most pleasurable experience.
The Village Links of Glen Ellyn is a resort-quality, golf-and-fine-dining facility owned and operated by The Village of Glen Ellyn. We're open to the public and offer membership options..
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Steeped in history and rooted in old-time service, our country club is perfect for any event and any size group. Built in 1927, the classic, Tudor-style clubhouse harkens back to an era when making guests feel welcome was an art form. Our guest services teams have preserved this philosophy. From the moment you arrive, we encourage you to indulge in the historic surroundings. Your comfort is assured in an atmosphere where respect is understood and your name is remembered. Our full-service facility offers a remarkable and stylish atmosphere in a clubhouse setting. The Grand Ballroom offers available seating space for up to 500 guests.
Seven Bridges Golf Club, a 4-Star rated course by Golf Digest, provides a golf experience unlike any other. Seven Bridges is recognized as one of the top 5 public courses in the Chicagoland area. It's a public course with a private course feel. Our finely-manicured course boasts a bucolic setting featuring 100-year-old oaks, picturesque lily pad ponds, and, of course, at least seven bridges. Following your round, you can enjoy a meal and drinks at the best 19th hole setting anywhere, The Dock, which offers great dining and sunset views.
La Colombe Coffee Roasters - Andersonville
Todd Carmichael and JP Iberti founded La Colombe on a simple but profound premise: America Deserves Better Coffee. By sourcing and roasting with care, and borrowing on ancient and modern coffee traditions from around the world, the two have built a successful company and an elevated coffee experience for Americans. Through 20 years of hard work and innovation, the two have made sure that experience is shared in cafes and homes across the country.
Fish drinking martinis, glögg, Viking paraphernalia, ancient Schlitz advertising, and Swedish roots make Simon's not only an excellent neighborhood bar but also an interesting experience for anyone that steps within its friendly environs.
One of 4 bars on this corner since Prohibition was repealed, and proud to be a part of this rich chapter in Chicago's history. Farragut's is a great place to hang out with your friends. The crowd is fun and the beer selection is huge. Open till 3am on the weekends. Come watch the Hawks here.
365-days-a-year for great food and fun! We offer several seating areas for your dining pleasure. Come enjoy our all-weather patio with retractable roof or cozy up next to the fireplace in our dining room. You can eat, drink, and converse with your friends outside at our dog friendly front side cafe or catch your favorite sporting event in our lounge. We offer the best late night dining on the North Side, serving food until 3am!
Konak has was established in 1988 as a Turkish Cuisine and has been serving the Andersonville area since. Konak is a family owned restaurant serving all types of ethnic & mediternean dishes. We now serve home style thin crust pizza,with all fresh ingredients,home made dough,along with all types of sandwiches & burgers. We're famous for our very own trade marked Chicken Chops, in addition to ethnic appetizers, soups, salads and freshly made pasta dishes.
JB's Deli, located in Andersonville, provides its customers with authentic deli experience. Order today for delicious fresh cuisine and sandwiches that will keep you coming back for more. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Jerry's Sandwiches - Andersonville
Jerry's offers a lineup of well over 100 sandwiches, including named creations, warm sandwiches, burgers, hickory-smoked stuff, and rotating collection of specials. In addition, we allow customers "in the know" to create their own sandwiches by mixing and matching. And we've become a bar, featuring many (and only) North American craft beers as well as a growing collection of American whiskeys. Rounding out the excess, Jerry's offers some fine music from a digital database of tens of thousands of songs.
Joie De Vine is a cozy neighborhood wine bar, literally on a side street so that only the locals know where to find it. Delightful cocktails, wine and friendly staff make it a hit!
Great neighborhood BYOB (with no corkage fee) restaurant. The Crab Rangoon and wide varieties of sushi are fresh and all of our food is tasty and well presented.
Diamante Azul provides authentic Mexican cuisine to its loyal and hungry customers. Order today to experience fresh flavors and exceptional customer service that you won't soon forget. We look forward to seeing you soon!


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Award marks the fourth time Ergotron has been honored by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal
St. Paul, MN, October 22, 2010
The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal Journal has ranked Ergotron, a manufacturer of ergonomic computer mounting and mobility products, No. 48 in its annual Fast 50 list of the fastest-growing privately held Minnesota companies. Award recipients' inclusion in the list is based on their three-year revenue growth. From 2006 to 2009, Ergotron saw an annual revenue increase more than $19 million, an increase of more than 14.4%.
"This marks the fourth time Ergotron has been honored by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal," said Joel Hazzard, president and CEO of Ergotron. "Ergotron is committed to reducing the cost of ergonomics and making the lives of millions of people better, it is in our DNA. This recognition reminds us that we are accomplishing this mission."
Rankings were announced at an awards program in Minneapolis on October 21, 2010, and in the Business Journal's Fast 50 publication published on October 22, 2010.
About Ergotron
Founded in 1982 by VESA FDMI standard author and visionary Harry Sweere, Ergotron is a global manufacturer of digital display mounting and mobility products, headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with sales efforts in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, and Singapore. Ergotron's products have been improving the human interface with digital displays for over 25 years. Our history of innovation and passion for differentiation is evidenced in over 37 patents and our growing portfolio of award winning products for computer monitors, notebooks, and large flat panel displays and T.V.s Ergotron products enhance computing wellness, improve workplace productivity and create business process efficiencies, wherever and whenever they're used. Incorporating Ergotron's Constant Force lift and pivot motion technology, wall and desk mount arms, stands, mobile carts, pivots and vertical lifts require less effort to achieve more ergonomic motion, improving the user's experience when viewing any digital display for work or entertainment. For more information on Ergotron or our products, please visit Ergotron.com or call Ergotron sales at 800-888-8458.
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July 26, 2011 —
Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) today released the following statement regarding the need to raise the debt ceiling in order to prevent the United States from defaulting on its obligations for the first time in American history.
"Without an increase in the debt ceiling, our nation would default on many of its obligations for the first time in history and the implications for the global economic system and New York families would be devastating.
"Despite the consequences, many Republicans in Congress who repeatedly voted to raise the debt ceiling during the Reagan administration and both Bush administrations are now refusing to do so. Instead they demand the elimination of Medicare as we know it along with cuts to Social Security, education, infrastructure investments and a host of other programs on which middle class New Yorkers rely.
"Remarkably, those who call for the elderly, poor and middle class families to sacrifice in the name of deficit reduction have made no similar call for sacrifice from those who have continually prospered. Under the plan proposed by Speaker Boehner, the tax rates for the very wealthy would continue to be lower than they were under Reagan and billionaires would continue to pay lower tax rates than their secretaries.
"The only reasonable way forward is a balanced approach that takes Social Security and Medicare off the table and cuts the deficit through a mixed package of spending cuts and revenue increases. This plan leaves in place tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans while eliminating special pages in the tax code written by and for the extremely wealthy. The clock is ticking and time has nearly run out. It's time to get this done and stop holding the economy hostage to the gridlock and extremism in Washington."


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Why Baseball Will Endure
In my last entry, we discussed whether or not baseball will endure through this crisis, because this is a pretty big one. Of course we at the blogosphere have been dwelling on it for the past few days, but there are still some unanswered questions, the biggest one in my mind being:
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Elizabeth, i've noticed of late that many folks seem to sympathize with ARod.. they're not condoning steroid use but are defending why ARod has seemingly been singled out of a list of 104 baseball players.. it was nice to read that Kevin Youkilis defended ARod, and asked why he was singled out
Great entry today! I agree with you about baseball, it will most definitely endure and be better than ever if only because of the stress it and its fans have endured. I am also just as confused and lost about what to do with players who have used steroids or done anything questionable at all.
Now do your homework! JK😉 I get on here during class so I really shouldn't talk.
PS No one understands chemistry.🙂
The stats will stay but when hall of fame voters vote I think the will just throw out the stats. So if you hit 500 carer home runs but hit 100 of them on steroids then hall of fame voters will say you hit 400 home runs.
Chemistry Lesson 101: Certain chemicals when mixed together cause a bad explosion. It sort of reminds me of the Yankees and Red Sox. The periodic table has certain elements that can bring life into existence like two hydrogens and one oxygen or when oxygen helps spread a fire.
The good thing is that baseball uses these elements as well as CO2 when exhaled to bring relief to our tense insides and allows us to bring in Oxygen to feel alive again.
Certain DNA samples can cause us to be found innocent or guilty, yet the grass and dirt when inside chalked lines bring us all into a piece of Heaven, I believe!
Take care
Levelboss: And I thought that I would never sympathize with A-Rod. We don't condone his actions but we don't want to defend the other 103 players.
Melissa: One day one brilliant idea will come about what to do with the players of this ear.
Bob: There's no way to truly know though. We'll figure something out!
Aaron: Nice chemistry analogy! Any chemistry-baseball analogies when it comes to calorimetry?
The legacies are already tarnished and that's about the best you can do outside of negating the Hall votes. There is no clear cut way to separate cheating and cheating has been throughout it's history. This is just the biggest we've ever known about.
Elizabeth – as long as we fans love and care for the game it will endure! We can all work together to make it better so that in the future we won't have to be discussing these things. I've said before we can't go back and change the past, but I think going forward I would support that if a player is caught doing steroids or any other illegal substance then they need to be thrown out of baseball and all their records erased. Much like they do in the Olympics and in professional cycling. Good luck with the home work! And post your history paper here when you're done.
Tom: Eight players is a lot to suspend but 104 and maybe more is ridiculous. We can't just overlook it though.
Julia: I definitely will post my history paper here when I'm done, as well as all my ideas and such. There's a great quote at the end of the 'Great Gatsby' that goes: "So we beat on, oats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" But we do have to look at our mistakes of the past in order to correct them for the future.
Okay Elizabeth: Calorimetry 101!
One of the formulas of calorimetry courtesy of wikipedia is Q=mcΔT specific heat formula. This in baseball terms is explained like this
q is energy, or heat, (a fastball from an ace)
m is mass, (take a big guy on the mound)
c is specific heat, (98-100 mph coming at me)
ΔT is change in temperature. (I swing and miss and the breeze causes a change in temperature in the air.)
Calorimetry is the science of measuring the heat of chemical reactions or physical changes. ( I sweat when heat comes at me at 98-100 mph) My ice melts quickly when exposed to the heat after a few seconds. My hands sweat too much when swinging all day trying to catch up to a 100 mph fast ball. Note the chemical reaction.
Indirect calorimetry calculates heat that living organisms produce from their production of carbon dioxide and nitrogen waste (frequently ammonia in aquatic organisms, or urea in terrestrial ones), OR from their consumption of oxygen
Baseball Translation: When I exhale I produce some hot air and CO2. All this hot air affects the way I act and react when talking about baseball and chemistry.
Aka Baseball and team chemistry can only work when the heat from the temperatures are equally distributed and does not cause a reaction that is going to be aversive
You can thank wikipedia and purely uneducated creativity by me for this information
Take care and good luck
Aaron: WOW! It does make more sense now! Wikipedia is the best! Thanks for your help! If only we could translate everything to baseball.
I think baseball will be just fine. As you say, Elizabeth, the game will always be our source of entertainment and escape. Here's hoping the powers that be will continue to work out a more rigorous testing program, but in the meantime I'm just looking forward to another great season.
You know the best thing about sports. No matter what we do to try and mess it up, it is a kids game that can be simplified down to a A,B C level that even a chimp can understand.
With all the bad that has hit the game, like canceling the games during WWII, and WWI, to the post-911 temporary delay in games, the true spirit of it all shine through bright and cheery for all to see.
Heck, even fans of teams like the Kansas City Royals and Pittsburgh Pirates still yell, " We will get them next year" after the last game of the season. Optimism and baseball go hand in hand. Any team can either catch the breaks or get beaten on any given day.
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Jane: Luckily it won't be a long wait. Spring Training is basically here!
RR: It always came back after the wars and after the attack, which shows how strong it is. When baseball came back, it seemed to show us that everything was going to be okay. That's what is beautiful about baseball. I will never know what's going to happen.
Elizabeth – Good blog. Baseball is our love, our escape. Sometimes our loves disappoint us, but we have to get past it and move on. I do not want to know the other names. As Americans we should be more offended that information on a confidential medical test became public. Alex Rodriguez's privacy was violated.
That list is the past. We cannot change what was. I am just ready to move on and get back to actual baseball!
Great entry! That was really good! And I loved Aaron's chemistry thing; I told you the only way we would use it in baseball is to analyze sweat! Hope you can figure it out, I'm still scratching my head at almost everything I'm reading🙂
We'll never be able to know who did roids, so just don't admit anyone from this era into the HOF. I know it's completely unfair, but no one in the majors from the time of the first documented usage of PEDs until MLB started banning them should be admitted. I know it's unfair but we really have no way of knowing.
Kathy: When we love something, we will always be able to get past its flaws, forgive it, and help it rehabilitate. I still want to know the other names, but I respect the fact that they are private, and am still shocked that A-Rod is the only one to get attention.
Kaybee: Thank you! I was telling my friends during chemistry about my new chem-baseball tutor. We'll see how the test goes tomorrow!
Caroline: Since the drug tests started in 2004, I think that it is safe to say that we know who did and didn't do steroids after that. Before that though, is almost impossible to know. However, we have to give credit where credit is due to those players who are clean and have gone beyond baseball expectations. Innocent until proven guilty. Interesting idea though.
Baseball will move on, but this won't ever be forgotten…like grape juice on a white carpet, it is there forever. And we just can't help rooting for some of these guys…when you follow the game so closely like we all do, it is instinct.
Jenn: I think that white carpet + grape juice analogy is one of the best that I've heard. The carpet will always be there, but the scandals [grape juice] will never be forgotten. I love it.
Well said, Elizabeth! And like you said, it's so hard to decide what to do with these guys and all of the records they set. We don't really know what's tainted and what isn't, so do we just put an asterisk next to everything accomplished between 1992 and 2003? Is that even going back far enough?
I think keep the names secret. That was an anonymous survey and A-Rod's name was supposed to be kept secret. He disappointed us, why do we need more disappointment? I say don't put an asterisk, the people's opinion changing for the worse is punishment enough.
Hey, Elizabeth …
I think the only real penalty for all steroid and PED users is not being voted into Baseball's "Hall of Fame" !!! … I would also impose some sort of *asterisk* in regards to players who used PED's, so baseball fans in the future will know the reason why great players such as: A-Rod, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, etc., are not in the "Hall" !!! And, a "zero tolerance" policy by MLB and the Players Association needs to be started as soon as possible, that will "ban for life" any players testing positive for PED use !!! Great thoughts in your abve post, Elizabeth !!! … Jimmy [27NYY], "BY&L" http://baseballtheyankeesandlife.mlblogs.com/
Erin: Thats the problem, we don't have any evidence for or against so what do we do?
Happy: Baseball will get us out of this mess.
MMM: That's true, but it's still not fair that A-Rod is the only one.
Jimmy: Yeah, that policy needs to be implemented immediately so that the players know that this cannot keep happening. No suspensions, expulsions. I'm sure that Ken Burns will do a nice sentiment on the steroids era in his next documentary
Elizabeth, I completely agree. From my perspective, for every player that is a proven, admitted or suspected user, there are more that we'll never know about. At this point, baseball does need to put in the necessary prevention measures like a "zero tolerance " policy as you've suggested. But let's only look forward…
Nice entry you have there! Baseball WILL endure and will always be. I'll just root for the guys because that's how it is for me! If I were to do that, I'll have a good time watching them!
Scott: We have to stop this problem before it gets worse.
Hyun Young: Thanks, the fact that we enjoy watching the game is one of the biggest reasons that baseball will endure.


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In case you haven't heard, we recently wrapped up our third annual CigarFest. In the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, 1,500 cigar lunatics were let loose on an event floor with dozens of cigar, beer and spirit samples within a stone's throw in every direction. Throughout the event, I spent a good deal of time with Michael Chiusano, owner of Cusano cigars. Aside from trying to explain the concept of snow and ice scrapers to JT, one of his employees working in his Florida-based office, we found the time to talk cigars.
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During the show, Mike and I discussed the Cusano 18. Ever since, I've been burning through both the natural and maduro like they're going out of style. Let me tell ya, even without mentioning the 18 year old Dominican-grown tobaccos, this brand deserves a wealth of praise. Rarely does a mild-bodied, top-shelf smoke come along that's value-driven, but the 18 is it. Looking for an ultra-smooth natural that's rich, creamy and layered with leathery, woody goodness? The Double Connecticut is your answer. It combines 18 year old tobaccos with two golden-brown Connecticut shade leaves, one serving as the binder, the second acting as the wrapper. Looking for a step up? Try the Paired Maduro. Covering this dark cigar is an oily broadleaf maduro, with an additional Brazilian maduro wrapper running through the 18 year old Dominican fillers, resulting in a chewy, medium-bodied smoke that's rich, spicy and eventful. Lately, I've been burning a Cusano 18 Double Connecitcut with my morning double-shot of espresso, with several Paired Maduros throughout the remainder of the day. Lately, I've been sitting fat and happy, my friend.
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Women link their arms and sit in a circle to block the intersection of Independence Avenue SE and New Jersey Avenue SE outside the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington, to protest Congress inaction on comprehensive and inclusive immigration reform. They were all arrested soon after this photo was taken.
WASHINGTON Latinos and immigration activists are warning of political peril for President Barack Obama and Democrats in the fall election unless the president acts boldly and soon to curb deportations and allow more immigrants to remain legally in the U.S.
Many activists say Obama has been slow to grasp the emotions building within the Latino community as deportations near the 2 million mark for his administration and hopes for immigration legislation fade. With House Republicans unlikely to act on an overhaul, executive action by Obama is increasingly the activists only hope.
There is tremendous anger among core constituencies of the president and the Latino and Asian communities in particular, said Deepak Bhargava, executive director of the Center for Community Change, which champions immigration change. He has a momentous choice to make.
Activists credit their sit-ins and hunger strikes for Obama directing new Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to review the administrations deportations policy and suggest ways to make it more humane. Now theyre focused on ensuring they get the outcome they want an expansion of Obamas two-year-old policy allowing work permits for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children who have been in school or the military.
The program has helped more than 600,000 people. Activists want it expanded to include more immigrants, such as those who have been in the U.S. for at least five years or who since their arrival have had children. Depending on how its defined, that could help many millions more.
Obama has said he doesnt have the authority to take such a step without Congress. At a White House meeting with religious leaders Tuesday he emphasized he wouldnt act on his own while there still was a window for congressional action, participants said.
Republicans have warned that a unilateral move by Obama would end any possibility for cooperation on immigration legislation. A bill to improve border security and offer a path to citizenship for many of the 11.5 million immigrants here illegally remains stalled in the GOP-led House 10 months after passing the Senate.
But many activists say theyve all but given up on Republicans and argue that Obama has the responsibility and authority to take expansive steps to legalize large segments of the population. They worry that Johnsons review will produce only small measures aimed at slowing deportations and improving procedures.
At this point anything short of an affirmative administrative relief program for parents of U.S. citizens and Dreamers is not enough, said Lorella Praeli, director of advocacy at United We Dream, which represents immigrants brought here illegally as kids, known by their supporters as Dreamers. The clock on Obama has run out.
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Got to agree with the above comments. Cummins will always be tainted with the Graeme Bradley issue and as a result has issues with the Bulls. He should never have got the RFL chief of refs job in the first place as what he did in retaliation for some comments Bradley made in a newspaper column was a disgrace which should never have been overlooked. For those who don't know. Bradley had made comments about Cummings which the ref took exception to. Instead of dealing with the comments in the correct way he waited until the play off semi final against Saints as he had been awarded the match to officiate. Bradleys first boisterous tackle was adjudged a red card offence and he sent him off. TV replays showed no such offence had been committed although it could be argued a bit of a 'facial' of the type almost never punished at all, let alone a red card, had taken place. It was revenge of the highest order and the RFL turned a blind eye.
So, that is why every time the Bulls are punished severely by the beaks at Red Hall a cloud will hang over the judgement. The guy has to go before any talk of fairness can begin to take place.
By the way, I hope no one even begins to suggest refereeing decisions have anything to do with the Bulls plight over the last 3 seasons as that is a completely different story!!
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do toddlers EVER wean on their own? my DS is 19 months old and shows no signs of stopping... do they ever wean on their own? what are your experiences?
do toddlers EVER wean on their own? my DS is 19 months old and shows no signs of stopping... do they ever wean on their own? what are your experiences?
Yes, many toddlers really do wean on their own.
However, from what I've read, before the mass introduction of formula, the average age of weaning was somewhere between the ages of 2 years and 7 years.
This article has alot of info about this, specifically this quote and the underlined portions: http://www.kathydettwyler.org/detwean.htmlConsidering that info, I personally wouldn't look forward to a child under age 2 to wean on their own without your encouragement. My oldest son did self wean at almost exactly age 2, but we also night weaned at about 14 mos, so in that respect, he was encouraged, to a degree.A survey of 64 "traditional" studies done prior to the 1940s showed a median duration of breastfeeding of about 2.8 years, but with some societies breastfeeding for much shorter, and some for much longer. It is meaningless, statistically, to speak of an average age of weaning worldwide, as so many children never nurse at all, or their mothers give up in the first few days, or at six weeks when they go back to work. It is true that there are still many societies in the world where children are routinely breastfed until the age of four or five years or older, and even in the United States, some children are nursed for this long and longer. In societies where children are allowed to nurse "as long as they want" they usually self-wean, with no arguments or emotional trauma, between 3 and 4 years of age.
I know that's probably not what you wanted to hear judging from your post title...I'm sorry But it is something to take into consideration when you think about whether or not you want your child to wean on their own, or with your encouragement.
My toddler weaned on his own at 21 1/2 months. I do believe it was because I was about 5 months pregnant and I started to lose my milk, so he just lost interest and stopped asking.
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with pp. At least that's what I hear! I purposely weaned my DS at 6 months and DD1 (3.5 yrs) is still nursing during bedtime stories, so I've never actually had one self-wean. But I've certainly heard plenty of stories of toddlers weaning themselves here, many of children younger than my DD1.
If you want to encourage your LO to cut back on nursing some or wean, there are gentle ways to do so. I recommend an awesome little book called How Weaning Happens.
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I second the recommendation for How Weaning Happens. It's a good one.
Many mothers find themselves using gentle encouragement without even having made a conscious decision to do so. Natural weaning tends to be a mutual process.
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I've heard rumors... actually, I babysit for a woman who's daughter is six weeks younger than my DS and she just weaned on her own. But she works, which I think makes it easier. I'm a SAHM, and don't think my DS will EVER wean on his own. It's his security, his buddy, his go-to activity.
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My daughter is 31 months and just weaned herself a few weeks ago. I'm almost 20 weeks pregnant and have been dried up for a while now so I'm sure that influenced it. I definitely saw that gradual decrease in nursing sessions. She went from 3 to 2 to just at night and now she hasn't asked for it at all for a little over a week or so. The process actually happened a lot faster than I thought it would once she actually started it.
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my dd did!
no tears, and she was ready in her own time.
good luck!
Yes, eventually all babes will wean. Even without encouragement. The book recommended above is a GREAT read!
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day was, in 1991 and for many years thereafter, the highest grossing R-rated film ever, an award-winning cultural touchstone that represents a high-water mark for a certain kind of commercial action filmmaking. And not least of the reasons why is that director and co-writer James Cameron gave it such a profound sense of finality, not resolving his story in anyway - the opposite of it, in fact - but resolving the emotions and themes with such grandeur and passion that no future Terminator picture could possibly do anything but degrade itself and its wonderful forebears. Hell, there are two separate endings for T2, completely incompatible with one another, of wildly differing quality, and both of them offer no basis for future sequels: the worse one by telling us in momentum-crushing detail how very much it is the case that nothing else bad ever happened in that movie universe, the better one by insisting with grave intent that the future being absolutely unknowable and plastic, there's no point in wondering what "really" happens after that closing moment, because any future is as likely as another and all that matters is plugging through the day-to-day. Neither path leaves an opening: one is absolutely certain and one is absolutely ambiguous, and trying to smuggle a sequel in there would be so obviously, inherently dumb, violating everything that T2 claims about destiny and fate simply by existing.
To the credit of everybody involved, it too the best part of a decade before they finally figured out how to make a third movie happen regardless, and it wasn't until July, 2003, one day shy of twelve years after T2 was released, that Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines perpetrated itself all over the world's movie screens. It took a lot of people a lot of false starts to get to that point, but the final team that ended up succeeding - according to a bastardly new definition of "success", anyway - included director Jonathan Mostow, whose big film prior to 2003 was the dismal submarine picture U-571, and the writing team of John D. Brancato & Michael Ferris, whose very next project was the legendarily unendurable Catwoman. But hey, in 1984, James Cameron had only ever made Piranha II: The Spawning, and he still managed to do pretty much all right by the first Terminator. But Jonathan Mostow, I am afraid, is no James Cameron.
T3 lets us know very much from the beginning how anxious it is to piss off anyone who holds T2 in any sort of regard: the first words, spoken in narration over a black screen, directly refutes the message of the last speech of the previous film, and the second shot references and reverses the last image, mirroring T2's famous road at night rushing towards us with a shot of a road rolling away from us. It's pretty impressive that both the narration and the visuals are explicitly "reversing" the end of Judgment Day; impressive, and very, very dumb.
But, to the plot: in the summer of 2004, 23-year-old John Connor (Nick Stahl) - who, if we are going to be real bitches about series continuity, should actually be 20, but this is the internet, and that's not the sort of thing we like to make an issue about here - is living as a desperate, homeless drifter, trying to live as far off the grid as he possibly can; for as we know, or at least, as we have absolutely no reason not to know, John has been hunted since before he was even born by assassin robots from the future, where he is the leader of the human resistance against the evil artificial intelligence Skynet and its machine army. At this time, John is in southern California, and because there has to be a movie, two of those terminator robots have just come back in time: one is in the form of a beautiful blonde woman, and is of the model line designated T-X (Kristanna Loken) - sadly, yes, we are meant to make the jump to "terminatrix", because after the magnificent female character that was Sarah Connor in Cameron's films, women are reduced to being props and eye candy in T3, like in every other damn American tentpole movie - and a much less advanced T-800 model (Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his last pre-government starring role); the T-X has come to kill Connor and his future associates, while the T-800, as was the case last time, has been reprogrammed by the reistance and sent to protect Connor and Kate Brewster (Claire Danes), a junior high classmate who has become, in the future, one of the most important members of his inner circle.
It's sort of exactly the same thing as T2: a shiny new terminator model that can shape shift is the villain, the lumbering, unstoppable Schwarzenegger bot is the only thing that can stop it, and Connor and a female companion begin by running like scared animals and end by trying to stop the coming of Judgment Day, the moment that Skynet becomes active and makes the evil and self-aware decision to wipe out humankind. Not as good, of course; not even vaguely as good, though the gaunt, terror-wracked John Connor played by Stahl is at least not the insufferable quipping kid from the last movie. Stahl does not, mind you, do a good job - of the four leads, he is the least interesting, I'd say, and this is desperately unfortunate because he has by a significant margin the most screentime. But he doesn't make me die inside, and that is more than Eddie Furlong could claim.
The problems here are many: despite my anger at how badly the film spoils the thematic development of the first two movies, which I'd summarise as "a heroic woman convinced that the universe is essentially fatalistic finds the inner strength to prove that a sufficiently driven human can create her own future", by reverting to a plot that explicitly and repeatedly claims "nevermind, it's a fatalistic, predetermined universe after all", that's not really the worst of them. Sure, it's the reason that T3 is a terrible sequel, but there are bad sequels that still work as movies, basically. T3 doesn't even do that: it isn't a good action film, and isn't a good science fiction film, or anything else you might want to be. The first Terminator was a mercilessly tight exercise in raw momentum, neither smart nor stupid, just purely kinetic; the second is at times lumpy and overreaching, but has some of the most grandly-conceived action sequences in any major American film ever made, and revolutionary special effects that still hold up after entire generations of newer, glossier, bigger CGI have aged into embarrassment.
T3 is basically the exact opposite of all that: it attempts to be a pulsating, non-stop chase like the first film (they are, structurally, very similar) but Mostow's direction is the very opposite of merciless and kinetic: even the film's most generally successful setpiece, a car chase involving a busted old truck, several remote-controlled police cars (a detail that is rather more "oh how stupid" than "oh how cool!"), a construction crane, and a motorcycle, has long since overstayed its welcome and indulged in a few too many moments that are too stretched out, and all the hectic pace that the sequence starts with simply wears itself into oblivion. And that's the best setpiece - the ones that don't work are just so much shooting and overly busy editing and visual effects that almost, but not quite, hold together. Meanwhile, its attempts to attain the same sheer scope of T2 - hell, the very title just about promises us the apocalypse before the picture ends - run afoul of too few characters, too few locations, and frankly, no interesting ideas at all: while the earlier film is almost dizzily obsessed with the ramifications of its time travel plot, there is one and only one scene in T3 - where we learn how the T-800 was captured and sent back in time - that works on anything approaching that level, and its severely under-acted, so it's not any good, anyway.
The acting, aye... Stahl, I already mentioned, so let me just finish him off: he hits one note and only one note in the whole movie, "hunted animal", and while he does it fine, there's no real character there. And Danes, struggling to find more humanity in her role than that, isn't good enough to overcome the inherent limitations of the part: in the first movie, Linda Hamilton was able to be a person who was screaming and running, but Danes is never more than damsel who gets teary eyed when she isn't demanding to Know What's Going On.
Leaving the terminators themselves: and I'll say this much, if T3 has an unabashed bright spot, it's Kristanna Loken. This is weird, because the T-X isn't much of a part and she isn't really an actress. But still, once she is no longer required to speak words, and that happens fairly early, she is an awesome machine: she manages the nifty trick of looking desperately hungry and yet completely without emotion, like a snake; I do not think this is an accident, either, because there's a certain serpentine smoothness to all of her movements. Also - this has nothing to do with the actress at all - but the T-X is a fantastic killbot; I will be so heretical as to say, in fact, that it is better than the T-1000 from T2, or at the very least, it's more technologically comprehensible, existing as a combination of actual machinery and magic futuretech, where the T-1000, however great it is as a villain, doesn't really make a whole lot of sense as a machine. Anyway, yes, kudos to Loken: she is terrifying and she is gorgeous and she is relentless, and these are the only things that anybody involved in the film's production wanted her to be.
As for Arnold, in his temporary farewell to acting and his last waltz with the character that made him a superstar (sort of; of course, the three movies feature three different T-800s): he sucks. I'm not happy saying that. Outside of maybe Conan of Cimmeria, there is no role better suited to the exact limitations of Schwarzenegger's talents than the terminator, and he was flawlessly perfect in both of his previous outings. But in this third picture, perhaps as a means of expressing hiss dislike for the material and perhaps because he was criminally mismanaged by his director, he keeps lapsing into- I don't know what to call it. "Mugging" isn't the right word - I've seen Batman & Robin, I damn well know what it looks like when Schwarzenegger is mugging. This is more like, if you imagine the T-800 in this case learning how to behave like a human from watching '70s sitcoms: lots of bug-eyed reaction shots and self-conscious quipping, but still done as a robot would do it. It's peculiar, and hard to explain; but it sends the movie hurtling into fatal, self-parodying camp, and there is really no call whatsoever for a Terminator movie to be campy. Especially when that campiness comes from the one exact place that you would assume to be the rock 'pon which the whole movie is founded.
But no, it is not to be: and in a whirlwind of terribly-mounted action scenes and vile discontinuities with the rest of the series and unlikable protagonists and a general noisy blandness that makes the film with its exquisite pedigree virtually indistinguishable from any other R-rated action film of the '00s, it is certainly Schwarzenegger's limp, silly performance that is the most depressing part. This was never going to be better than a crappy cash-in and dumb guilty pleasure; but the one thing guaranteed to remove the pleasure and just leave the guiltiness was fucking up the T-800. Well, they did it, and as a result made one of the definitively bad sequels of all time. I admire, at least, that the film is thus able to distinguish: any hack franchise picture can be pointless and bad, but it takes a special disregard for all that makes the material unique to make one this all-out rancid.
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- Unknown said...
See, the thing that pisses me off about this movie almost as much as the "Everything in T2 Was Wrong" part was that it had possibly the most infuriating time-travel plot of all time. I'd say it is worse than the nonsensical ending to Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes," but nothing's THAT bad.
When the T-X loses the heroes late in the first act, she starts going through a list of secondary targets that will become major players in the Resistance...and then she proceeds to kill them. But, if she killed them in 2003, then they never grew up to form the resistance. And if they were never key players in the resistance, how did they end up on Skynet's radar and the T-X's hit list? Wouldn't killing them have caused the T-X to cease to exist? Or if the movie is following the "Time Travel Creates Another Dimension" rule, then isn't what Skynet is doing pointless because it can't affect it's own--oh dear I've gone crosseyed.
- Thrash Til' Death said...
@Unknown - Everything you say is true, but it's no more or less true of T3 than it is of te first two Terminator movies. Virtually no story involving time-travel (or at least not backwards time-travel - forwards, as with H.G. Wells' The Time Machine for example, isn't nearly as problematic) actually holds up under close scrutiny.
- Tim said...
I'd go so far as to say that part of what makes the first two so damn good is that they move with such intensity that the plot holes are swept away before you even realise that they exist. T3 gives us plenty of chances to wallow in them.
I'd propose the Back to the Future trilogy as the most coherent and consistent time-travel narrative in the movies, though I have not seen them all.
- M.C. said...
"and trying to smuggle a sequel in their..."
Sorry, this bugged me. Going back to finish the review now.
- Benjamin said...
I never got how the T-X is supposed to be an improvement over the T-1000. If I recall, her weaponry malfunctions or jams or something, and she ends up pinned down, neither of which Robert Patrick would have had any trouble with.
Linda Hamilton's absence hurts the film pretty badly too. But she knew enough to stay the hell away from the movie and so was written out, right?
- The.Watcher said...
This movie didn't actively piss me off, but I didn't care for it. Dunno, looking at the people involved, I never allowed myself to expect anything decent, so I wasn't surprised when it confirmed my expectations.
Plus, for all of T2's wizz-bang, I never could get past Furlong. Every time he appears on screen I lapse into murder-fantasy.
I'm also curious to know what you thought of the 4th film. Interestingly, I feel absolutely nothing at all for it.
- RickR said...
- The.Watcher said...
@RickR - See, being as familiar with this site as I am, I was confident Tim never reviewed T4 and so didn't even check. Don't know how I missed it. Thanks for the link!
- Tim said...
M.C.- the worst thing is, it's not the only time I made that mistake in writing this one. Just the only time I missed correcting it, I hope.
- Mr. K said...
Did you ever watch the Sarah Connor Chronicles, Tim? I've only seen the first season, but I feel like it's more true to the first two movies than the last two movies.
- Tim said...
Mr. K- I've heard that, actually. No, I've never watched it - I'm not much of a TV guy these days - but they tell me it's pretty good.
- Vianney said...
I pretty much agree with everything (who wouldn't), yet since I saw it years later and with no positive expectations at all, it wasn't as eye-gouging an experience as it could have been.
In particular, the details are blurry now but I remember being intrigued and surprised by the ending. I wouldn't say it was good or even coherent or competently executed, but the mere fact of not being predictible helped the pill pass, and made me think of the movie in later days.
Sarah Connor Chronicle was alright, in a guilty pleasure sort of way. Half of the episodes were bland and harmless, and the plot was preposterous at times, but you had to wonder if it was going somewhere. Also once in a while they would try something different and somewhat ambitious, à la Joss Whedon or Farscape (or XFiles or Community). The finale cliffhanger was definitely heading to pure disaster or genius.
PS: be a TV guy. Oh god please be a TV guy.
- Jonathan said...
To be fair to Mostow, before "U-571" he did make "Breakdown" whis is an extremely well made and nifty thriller. So the man can direct a good movie.
When I first saw "T3" I was pretty much expecting to hate it so the fact that I didn't made me overpraise it a bit, but I still think it's a decent film. It's one of those lovely paradoxes where if you judge it on its own merits it's not so bad; however it would never exist without the first two great films before it, so it becomes much worse by comparison. Hell of a lot better than "Salvation" as if that is saying anything.


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