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"Consequently, and soon after his appointment, Immelt announced that GE will buy 50,000 Volts in the next two years, or half the total produced. Assuming the corporation qualifies for the same tax credit, we (you and me) just shelled out $375,000,000 to a company to buy cars that no one else wants so that GM will not tank and produce even more cars that no one wants. And this guy is the chair of Obama's Economic Advisory Board?"
What happened to change and transparency?
He's giving Harvard and Columbia a bad name.

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The Olympic Games are every four years, but Olympic sports don't stop in between. TeamUSA.org tracks down where the top U.S. athletes are competing each week in the Olympic Weekend Preview. Some of the weekend highlights include the US Rowing National Selection Regattas and Trials and the IIHF Women's Hockey World Championship.
IIHF Women's World Championship, April 7-14, Burlington, Vt.
Once again, it'll be the United States versus Canada.
The U.S. Women's National Team in ice hockey will begin defense of its world title Saturday, when it meets rival Canada in the opening round of the IIHF Women's World Championship in Burlington, Vt. The game (7 p.m.) will be played at the University of Vermont's Gutterson Field House.
The game is a rematch of the gold-medal game at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, which Canada won 2-0.
Team USA will also play Russia on Sunday and Finland on Tuesday in group play. The quarterfinals are scheduled for Wednesday, followed by the semifinals April 13 and the medal rounds April 14.
"We're really looking forward to it," said U.S. coach Katey Stone. "It should be a great, exciting tournament."
The U.S. roster includes 13 former Olympians. Julie Chu, a three-time Olympian and recent inductee into the Connecticut Hockey Hall of Fame, is team captain.
TV: 7 p.m. ET Saturday, Universal Sports
Also in ice hockey:
U.S. National Under-18 Team vs. Sweden, April 9, Znojmo, Czech Republic
USRowing National Selection Regattas and Trials, April 9-12, Chula Vista, Calif.
The second national selection competition for USRowing will begin Monday at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. It will be a busy week of competition as three different selection events are conducted. In addition to the National Selection Regatta II, the Paralympic Trials for rowing and non-qualified Small Boat Olympic Trials will be held.
Ten crews will compete in the lightweight women's double sculls, an event qualified for the London 2012 Olympic Games. The top four finishers will qualify to compete in the first two World Cup events in Europe. The remaining six will still be included in the U.S. Olympic Trials for Rowing in June. Among the 10 crews are Julie Nichols and Kristin Hedstrom, who finished fourth in the 2011 World Rowing Championships.
In the four non-qualified events (women's single sculls, men's and women's double sculls, lightweight men's double sculls), the winners will represent the United States at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in May. Among the athletes are 2008 Olympian Margot Shumway in women's singles, and 2008 Olympians Megan Kalmoe and Ellen Tomek in women's double sculls.
UCI Track World Championships, April 4-8, Melbourne, Australia
Michael Blatchford, Kevin Mansker and Jimmy Watkins will compete in the men's sprint race Friday at the UCI Track World Championships in Melbourne, Australia. The qualifying round of the men's sprint is Friday, followed by the final rounds Saturday.
The worlds continue through Sunday as 11 U.S. riders chase after podium finishes. Sarah Hammer will compete in the women's omnium Saturday.
On a day when two world records fell in the women's team pursuit, the U.S. team of Hammer, Dotsie Bausch and Lauren Tamayo placed fifth in the qualifying round Thursday, posting a time of 3:21.765, which was their second-best time in the event ever. Their best time of 3:19.569 came in the 2010 Pan American Championships in Aguascalientes, Mexico, and broke an American record.
"I think we executed the ride exactly like we needed to," Tamayo said. "Unfortunately, it wasn't quite fast enough. It's the fastest we've gone as a team since Aguascalientes, so you can't ask for much more there."
Also in cycling:
Energiewacht Tour, April 4-8, Netherlands
Nike Hoop Summit, April 7, Portland, Ore.
Ten of the top high school boys basketball players in the nation, including University of Kentucky recruit Archie Goodwin of Sylvan Hills High School in Little Rock, Ark., will play in the 15th annual Nike Hoop Summit on Saturday night (7 p.m. PT) at the Rose Garden in Portland, Ore.
Tony Parker, a 6-foot-8 center from Lithonia, Ga., is a two time gold medalist in youth world championships with USA Basketball. Kyle Anderson, a UCLA recruit, has attended three USA Basketball camps since 2009. They'll help lead the USA Junior National Select Team against the World Select Team. A late addition to the U.S. team this week was James Robinson, a guard and Pittsburgh recruit from DeMatha Catholic High School in Mitchellville, Md. He replaces Marcus Paige of Linn-Mar High School in Marion, Iowa, who withdrew because of an injury.
"Both teams are in a similar situation in this game," said U.S. coach Kevin Boyle of Montverde Academy in Florida. "The World Team also will have just a handful of practices to come together. Some of our players have played together and played international basketball, and some have not. We are going to try and develop our chemistry and our rotation quickly and get our guys to understand their roles."
China World Cup, April 3-9, Zibo City, China
Danell Leyva, the 2011 world champion in parallel bars, is among four U.S. gymnasts competing this week at the China World Cup event in Zibo City. Others competing for the United States: Steven Legendre, Alex Naddour and Brandon Wynn.
The United States picked up two medals at the World Cup event in Germany two weeks ago, when Paul Ruggeri won silver on the horizontal bar and John Orozco won bronze.
Women's Continental Championships, April 4-7, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
National champions Alex Love, a light flyweight, and Mikaela Mayer, a light welterweight, will be among the U.S. boxers competing for titles Saturday in the final round of the Women's Continental Championships in Cornwall, Ont.
Love and Mayer both advanced to the finals with opening-day victories Wednesday. Christina Cruz, a bantamweight, was among those advancing to Friday's semifinals. Five U.S. boxers all won their bouts on the opening day of competition.
The team of 10 U.S. boxers includes London 2012 Olympic Games qualifiers Marlen Esparza, Queen Underwood and Claressa Shields, plus seven national champions in the non-Olympic weight classes.
Junior & Cadet World Championships, March 31-April 8, Moscow, Russia
Eli Dershwitz, a 16-year-old who won her first career junior world medal earlier this week, will compete in the team event Friday at the Junior & Cadet World Championships in Moscow. Competing with Dershwitz are Alexander Ryjik, Michael Costin and John Hallsten.
On Tuesday, Dershwitz became the first U.S. men's saber fencer to win a silver at the junior worlds since 2001. Lee Kiefer, a medal contender for the London 2012 Olympic Games, won bronze in junior women's foil and Alexander Massialas, also an Olympic medal contender and three-time medalist at the 2011 junior worlds, won bronze in men's foil.
World Men's Championship, March 31-April 8, Basel, Switzerland
The U.S. national championship squad finished in eighth place and failed to qualify for the playoff round of the World Men's Curling Championship in Basel, Switzerland. The United States lost 7-of-11 matches, but did defeat the Czech Republic 7-6 in its final match Thursday.
"It was a nice way to end a disappointing week," said Heath McCormick, the skip for the U.S. squad. "It was important to win for some (Sochi 2014) Olympic points and so on and so forth, but we were good tonight."
The Page Playoffs will be held Saturday, followed by the medal rounds Sunday. Canada is the top seed entering the playoffs, with a 10-1 record.
TV: 4 p.m. ET Saturday, Universal Sports
Also in curling:
U18 Optimist International, April 4-8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
WTF World Junior Taekwondo Championships, April 3-8, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Cheyenne Lewis and Gabriel Chadis are among four U.S. athletes who will compete for medals Friday at the WTF World Junior Taekwondo Championships in Egypt. Lewis, the 2011 junior world champion at flyweight, will compete in female featherweight (49kg) and Chadis will compete in male featherweight (55kg). Danielle Gay (female light heavyweight, 68kg) and Brandon Ivey (male light heavyweight, 78kg) also compete Friday.
Four other U.S. athletes will compete Saturday, and another four Sunday on the final day of the competition. Crystal Weekes won bronze in the female heavyweight division Wednesday, the opening day of competition, and Gigi Gil won bronze in the finweight (46kg) class Thursday.
Also in taekwondo:
National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships, April 7-8, Cambridge, Mass.
USA Field Hockey Women's National Team vs. Australia, April 5-8, Brisbane, Australia
Shannon Taylor's goal on a penalty corner led the U.S. Women's National Team to a 1-0 victory over Australia on Thursday in the first of a three-game test series in Brisbane, Australia.
The series resumes Saturday and the teams will also play Sunday. The stop in Australia is a final preparation for the 4-Nations Tournament, which begins April 12 in Auckland, New Zealand.
USA Field Hockey U-21 Junior National Team vs. England, April 6, Shropshire, England
After splitting its first two games with England's U-21 team, the U.S. U-21 Junior National Team will play England on Friday in the third of a four-game match series at the Lilleshall National Sports Centre in Shropshire, England. Katie Gerzabek, Tara Vittesse and Emma Bozek scored for the United States in a 3-1 win Tuesday, but England won Wednesday's match, 3-2.
Also in field hockey:
USA-Canada Challenge, U.S. U-19 National Team vs. Canada and U-17 National Team vs. Canada, April 4-8, Vancouver, B.C.
USA Badminton Junior International Trials, April 7-8, Westborough, Mass.
Competition in boys' singles and doubles, girls' singles and doubles, and mixed doubles will be held Saturday and Sunday at the USA Badminton Junior International Trials. Boston Badminton in Westborough, Mass., is hosting the tournament. The competition will be used to determine roster spots on the U.S. team for the 2012 World Junior Championships and Pan American Junior Championship.
Story courtesy Red Line Editorial, Inc. Paul D. Bowker is a freelance contributor for teamusa.org. Material from various news services and press releases from National Governing Bodies was used to compile this report. This story was not subject to the approval of any National Governing Bodies.


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Rob was so funny this night! Really wish he'd do some comedy. I'm sure no one thought he'd say those things but his word vomit was priceless honoring Reese Witherspoon.
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Indoor yard sale
First Church in Sterling will hold its annual Indoor Yard Sale fundraiser on Saturday, May 17, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. (set up 7:30-9 a.m.). Snack bar. Free admission. Table rentals $15 each. Call Helen at the church office (Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.) at 978-422-6657 to reserve a table. Proceeds will benefit new dinnerware for the church.


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How to make an at home indoor compost bin that DOESN'T stink.
When my husband, Ariah, asked me if I wouldn't mind trying to compost inside our apartment I had some visions of sharing our apartment with overgrown, slimy, yucky little critters. I envisioned dirt everywhere and a huge mess with rotting food smell to boot. It turns out that I was wrong, and we have about 500 little clean worms under our sink contained in a wonderful home-made little composting system that (my happiest little part) DOES NOT smell!
So do you want to know how to make your composting dreams a reality? Follow our steps and we will get you going.
|1. Order worm friends. In order to do this you will need to search online (if you're reading this you are capable of ordering them online, thankfully) which is pretty easy and will take a little while. A website that we used was Worm Man's Worm Farm.
|2. Collect newspapers without color (this may take you a couple of weeks) so that you can shred them into pieces about 1-2 inches in width. (This is actually kinda fun because you get print all over your little grippers and you get to tear apart any ads that may be totally ridiculous or any articles that you don't like the author of.) I would recommend doing all of the shredding at once so that you sit in a fun pile of paper AND only make as much as you need.
|3. Select a good sized bin (you can see the picture of perfection in our bin 2'x3'x1′ Rubbermaid, which fits nicely and snugly under our sink in the cupboard). Having a bin with a large surface area is more important than having a deep bin. Using a sharp object, like scissors or a knife, put holes in the sides about 2/3rds of the way from the bottom. This gives your friends the oxygen needed to turn your rotting veggies into great compost.
|4. Take your shredded newspaper and get it wet in your sink. Now, if you take it and hold it under the water to soak it and then squeeze it out like a sponge it is kinda fun – and the benefit is that you won't totally drown your new worm friends. (NOTE: sometimes worms like a little change in texture…so if you are adventurous you could also add some wet shredded thin cardboard to your bin – a good example of this type of cardboard is the toilet-paper role!)
|5. Spread the damp/wet and loosened newspaper in the bottom of your bin to cover it to about the depth of 1/2 full. This is their nice little bed. Then spread your new worms over the bed and watch them wiggle. This is the fun part where you get to say hello and say any blessing over their work that you would like to do. And then cover them up with about 2 more inches of the damp/wet newsprint that you have shredded, wet, squeezed out, and loosened.
|6. Next you wait one week to let the friends get accustomed to their newspaper home after which time you can take veggie/food scraps that you have. Good ones are carrot peels, excess from cutting celery, banana peels, and actually egg shells crushed up (if you are going to do egg-shells you need to rinse the shells right after you crack them so that they don't have any gook on them when you put them into the bin), coffee grounds that have been used, tea bags, used paper towels. Things to avoid putting in your compost pile: meat scraps, actual eggs, anything that is already rotting. or other leftovers.
|7. Wait, and smell the nothingness of your bin while the worms do their job and fulfill their purpose.
NOTE: Wormies like to be in a dark cool place that has not TOO much noise or movement of their bin. If you open up the bin with the light on they will run away because they don't like the light…so if some of them wiggle near the top of the bin just open it up and watch them retreat.
Another NOTE: You can add about 1-2 pounds of veggie scraps to your bin every week, and the best way not to disturb your little friends every day is to collect them in a larger tupperware bin in your refrigerator through the week and then open the bin to put them in once on the weekend or something.
One more NOTE: For up-keep of the bin you need to move the created compost to one side of the bin and then add some more of the good damp/wet paper to the other half and ONLY put your food scraps on this new half. This will coax your worms to the new bedding and then you can take the created dirt and put it in your garden! This is good to do after about 3 months, but you can wait until about 6 months if you are like us and don't want to do it that often. Just make sure that your friends aren't drowning in the nutrient rich liquid that gathers at the bottom of the bin (and if it is gathering, just add some shredded but dry newspaper).


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At the UFV Bookstore, Abbotsford Campus
Doors open at 11:45 amShow starts at 12:15 pm
For one day only we are offering 20% off of clothing throughout the store. (excluding Cascade and Alumni wear)
Door Prizes will be drawn throughout the show! Draws starting at 12:00pm (attendance required to win)
Free refreshments including pop, coffee and other snacks.
Empty your piggybanks to make a donation to the Canadian Cancer Society for popcorn at our event!
The day of the event we will be accepting donations for the Canadian Cancer Society. We are also able to offer this with any form of payment. Lets help make a difference!
ONLINE STORE!Purchase Gift Cards, Clothing and UFV logo items from the comfort of your couch...Changes to the hours of operation for all UFV bookstore locationsVisit the "Hours and Locations" tab under the "Customer Service" tab for more informationJoin Us on Facebook & Twitter!Ongoing promotions will be offered on both sites.


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Age does matter, lapel pins don't
April 22, 2008
Generally, when I'm talking to friends, it's a tossup between sports, entertainment and politics. Some days I can decide on one, but most days I can't.
With this in mind, let's take a quick shot at all three:
Sports: Houston Astros shortstop Miguel Tejada has come clean about his age.
Tuesday night, ESPN aired its "E:60" news show, which showed Tejada walking out of an interview when he was shown a copy of his birth certificate dated May 25, 1974.
The problem? Tejada's birthday is listed in the Astros' media guide as May 25, 1976.
Tejada said he told the Oakland Athletics he was 17 instead of 19 when he signed with them in 1993.
"I was a poor kid," Tejada told the Houston Chronicle last week. "I wanted to sign a professional contract, and that was the only way to do it."
Well, Tejada's not poor anymore, and he's certainly not a kid. Tejada has had 15 years to come clean, but honesty wasn't a priority when he signed a six-year, $72 million contract with the Baltimore Orioles.
I'm also disappointed with the flippant way the Astros have handled it.
"Fact of the matter is that he plays like he's 25, so I don't think it really matters a whole lot," Houston general manager Ed Wade said.
Since professional sports careers are by nature brief, age is a hiring consideration. I wonder what Wade and the Astros would do if they found out some guy in their finance office making $40,000 a year lied on his resume about getting a degree in accounting. Would the Astros say, "Fact of the matter is he balances books like a college graduate, so I don't think it really matters a whole lot," or would they fire him? Too bad the standards are lower for somebody making 300 times as much.
Entertainment: Leonardo DiCaprio is the latest to make his feelings on global warming known. He created a documentary called "The 11th Hour," basically explaining global warming and how we can prevent it by not being wasteful.
Now that technology is catching up, I'm wondering if future films on global warming could be less wasteful. True, "The 11th Hour" is packaged with biodegradable plastic and recycled paper, and "An Inconvenient Truth" was sent out with limited packaging, and those efforts are to be commended.
I just hope if DiCaprio or others make more films about conservation, they could reduce their consumption by only offering the movie online as a digital file. That way, we wouldn't use plastic on millions of DVDs, then ship them across the country in gas-guzzling trucks.
Politics: After last week, I was convinced we'd had enough Democratic debates. Sure, ABC asked Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton about Iraq, but that was after 45 minutes of asking about flag lapel pins, pastors and how much each candidate loves America.
Then, Saturday, MSNBC piled on by showing a photo that gave the impression Obama made an obscene gesture toward Clinton during said debate. Of course, they never bothered to show an alternate-angle photo that disproved the story.
I think I'll start a rumor about a vending machine in Pittsburgh that had a Milky Way bar hanging on the rail. Once word gets out that Obama paid for one candy bar, but received two, we're sure to hear about his sense of entitlement and why he's unfit to be president.
Can it be any worse than stories about how patriotic it is to wear flag lapel pins made in Taiwan?
Kevin Wilson is a columnist for Freedom New Mexico. He can be contacted at 763-3431, ext. 316, or by e-mail: [email protected]


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WASHINGTON, July 7, 2004 — Separations can be tough on any child whose parent is deployed overseas -- but particularly for the estimated 500,000 sons and daughters of deployed National Guard and reserve troops, according to an expert on issues involving military families.
Many Guard and reserve families lack the tight-knit support network that helps active-component families during deployments, said Mary Keller, executive director of the Military Child Education Coalition. This can lead to difficulty adjusting to what Keller calls their "suddenly military" status. As a result, she said, they can feel isolated and unsure of where to turn for help.
A new Military Child Education Coalition booklet is chock-full of ideas to help communities reach out to reserve and Guard families during their family member's deployment. Keller said the coalition produced the booklet after repeated requests from military-family representatives, educators and community groups.
The 12-page brochure, "How Communities Can Support the Children and Families of Those Serving in the National Guard and Reserves," explains the dynamics of the deployment process in easy-to-understand language. It offers tips for educators and lists military and community resources for families of deployed troops.
Keller said the brochure serves as a companion guide to another popular coalition publication, "How to Prepare Our Children and Stay Involved in Their Education During Deployment." That guide is a favorite of first lady Laura Bush, whom Keller said has read from it during visits to military bases.
Both booklets reflect the courageous spirit Keller said children of deployed troops demonstrate every day. "Our goal is to help them through this transition in their lives and this period of separation," she said.
The publications and more information about the Military Child Education Coalition are posted on the coalition's Web site.


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Ryan,Are those hardwood peels?
Those hardwood peels sure are pretty, but for me, a peel is a utilitarian tool. People "ooh" and "ahh" about what sits on top of it.
I have trouble getting a pizza off the peel. I'm hoping a hardwood will make it even more utilitarian. No one oohs and ahs over pizza on the bottom of the oven. jb
You might just need some more practice. Some people here use a more coarse dusting flour, or maybe just a bit more dusting flour would solve your problem. I'd check out a couple other options before blaming the peel. are you shaking the pizza loose as you go?


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About this set: The Bermuda Islands were named after Juan de Bermúdez, who first landed there in 1505. Little did Bermúdez realize this discovery would later save his life. In 1532, while on his way to Cuba, Bermúdez was shipwrecked near these islands and, because of his knowledge of the area, he was able to safely make it to shore. The story goes that on this second voyage he had several live hogs as cargo, some of whom were saved and over time proliferated throughout the islands. Almost a century later, in 1609, an English ship (the Sea Adventurer) during a hurricane, became separated from the small fleet it sailed with, and ended up in the Bermuda Islands. The British promptly claimed the islands as a British Colony. The British inhabitants used tobacco as a form of currency, weighing out amounts for payment, until James I granted permission for the colony to mint their own coins. Did you guess? The obverse of the minted coins had a feral pig as its primary design. Now jump forward to 1989 and 1990. The independent Bermuda asks the British Mint to coin proof sets in gold, commemorating the rich history of the Islands' "Hogge" money. The 1989 set has four coins, two of which have the feral pig on the reverse, and two of which have the English ship, most likely the Sea Adventurer, on the reverse. The Queen's portrait is on the obverse. In 1990, another four coin set is produced, with the same designs, only the feral pigs and ship are on the opposite denominations found on the 1989 set. The coins are blazing mirror proofs and are gorgeous. In order to make the sets more collectible, only 500 sets for each year were produced, and the sets have become difficult to obtain.
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Can Dish Blow Up the Spectrum Market?
Since acquiring permission last year to use 200 MHz of spectrum in the S Band (slightly longer in wavelength than the WiFi bands at 2.4 GHz) to link Dish satellite service with a high-capacity Internet pipe, Ergen has been stymied in his search for partners, TeleGeography reports.
Dish made a run at MetroPCS, but that company was bought by T-Mobile. Dish turned its attention to Clearwire (CLWR) , but that company combined with Sprint (S) and Japanesse businessman Masayoshi Son. Dish offered a premium for Clearwire, but Sprint already owns 51% and has rebuffed Ergen's advances.
Now Ergen has told an AllThingsD conference in California, according to Bloomberg News , that if he can't find a partner, he'll sell the spectrum. He claims the spectrum could be worth "billions of dollars."But is it?
Spectrum is worthless unless it's used. In throwing in his hand, Ergen would be admitting he can't use the spectrum profitably. If DISH can't create something worthwhile with those 200 MHz, even combined with its own satellites, who else can?
There are few potential buyers, AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) being the leaders.
AT&T has the cash to be a buyer, but there are anti-trust worries. Verizon Wireless has been dropping cash lately and may be unable to secure financing. Plus, again, there are anti-trust worries. Sprint, combined with Clearwire, would seem to have more than enough spectrum for its own needs. T-Mobile, the fourth player in the market, seems tapped-out after its acquisition of Metro PCS -- it will need to spend heavily to unify the two networks.
There has long been an assumption that spectrum is scarce, that it's a license to print money. The industry is now gearing up to fight Federal Communications Commission plans to "unlicense" new WiFi spectrum, the Baltimore Sun reports , arguing it would be better off selling those rights to incumbents.
But if Ergen can't draw a bid for his 200 MHz, what is that claim of spectrum's value to the government worth? If that claim really is worthless, why shouldn't the FCC just define the use of our spectrum through the licensing of devices, as companies including Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) have suggested, rather than by selling it to carriers?
I have written about wireless telephony for many years now, and this claim of spectrum's inherent value and scarcity is a con. It takes billions of dollars of investment to make spectrum valuable, to produce a service with a nationwide footprint. This is over and above the cost of buying the spectrum from the government. It's supposed to be public property, not private.


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- 4 ounces Lunetta Prosecco
- 2 ounces Lindemans Pomme (Green Apple) Lambic
- ½ ounce Monin Honey Syrup
- 2 ounces hand shaken whipped cream
Dip rim of champagne flute into honey syrup and then into cinnamon sugar to rim the glass. Pour honey syrup, Prosecco and lambic into a shaker over ice. Stir with spoon 10 times. Strain into champagne flute. Top with 2 spoonfuls of whipped cream. Dust with cinnamon sugar.
Homemade Whipped Cream
(Makes six toppings)
- 4 ounces heavy whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 dash vanilla
Pour all ingredients into shaker. Shake vigorously 25 times. Refrigerate and reshake as needed.
Created by Morton's Vice President Wine & Spirits Tylor Field, and Mixologist and Certified Sommelier Sara Fasolino.


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China's Internet Landscape Will Change in 2013
Of the three, only Alibaba Group is private, although it is rumored to be planning a 2013 initial public offering. Yet, Tencent and Baidu have been public for several years and have enjoyed battling it out for the title of most valuable Chinese Internet company with valuations around the $50 billion level.
Baidu has been the dominant force in Chinese search. The company was started by Robin Li while he was still an employee of Dow Jones . He could see what Google (GOOG) was doing for search in America, where he was working. So he got the idea to do the same back in China with a Chinese-focused search engine.
Tencent got its start as a messaging platform tailored to the Chinese market. Their popular QQ platform became the first way a majority of Chinese started texting one another once they got their first mobile phone. Tencent used this messaging platform to sell games on.
A few years ago, when Sina (SINA) began to show success with its Weibo micro-blogging platform, Tencent created its own Weibo. Also a couple of years ago, Tencent started a WhatsApp clone called WeChat. It's now up to 200 million users over that time period.
Alibaba Group owns three significant e-commerce platforms in China: Taobao, Tmall and Alipay. Taobao is most similar to eBay (EBAY) , selling second-hand goods. On one day recently in November, Taobao did $3 billion in revenue.
Tmall is most similar to Amazon (AMZN) . Alipay is most like PayPal. Together, these three properties cast an enormously large shadow on the online space in China.
Alibaba is expected to have a higher EBIT than Amazon this year and it is expected to pass Amazon in online sales by 2015.
For years, these three giants have ruled over the Chinese Internet. However, I think Baidu could be headed for problems in 2013.
Baidu has had a fairly easy rise to prominence in Chinese search over the past five years. Local companies haven't made the decision to invest in search, leaving Baidu to compete with American companies like Yahoo! (YHOO) , Microsoft's (MSFT) Bing, and Google. Only Google has been a worthy competitor.
However, Google left China in March 2010 after its founders decided they no longer wanted to comply with Chinese censorship restrictions. This decision led to Baidu doubling over the course of the next year. In the last six months, Google's Chinese market share has dropped precipitously.
But now there are several Chinese companies showing great interest in coming after Baidu in search. Alibaba has said it wants to do this in the future. Smaller Qihoo 360 (QIHU) has shown the most ambition to get into the space and started to take some real market share in the PC space at least, around 10%.


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OK, what a dream task - you can ask the man anything
and, what's best, he'll give you a valid answer.
Here are my dream Q's :
1. When was the last time you worked w/ John (or he w/ you) on a song ?
2. Did you compose "Helter Skelter" with Yoko in mind ?
3. Do you plan to keep your current band for years ahead or not ?
4. Will there be a "McCartney Anthology" within a few years ?


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Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: Safe Harbors for Investment
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Investors need safe places to put their money on down days like today, Jim Cramer told "Mad Money" viewers Monday, as he kicked off a weeklong series of top investing trends for 2013.
Cramer said these trends will be the rising tides that lift all boats and will be the safe places to invest as Washington will likely dominate the headlines again soon.
Cramer's first investing theme for 2013? The return of banking.
He said after years of fighting to survive, the banks have finally raised enough capital and have dealt with their bad loans, making them once again investable. As the cloud begins to lift on the sector, Cramer said those in the strongest position will be the regional banks such as First Horizon (FHN) and BB&T (BBT) .
His favorite regional player remains KeyCorp (KEY) , a stock he owns for his charitable trust, Action Alerts PLUS.
Cramer's next big theme for 2013 is the return of the auto market, something that bodes well for both Ford Motor (F) and General Motors (GM) .
Cramer said the U.S. market grew throughout 2012, but the main stumbling block for the automakers was Europe. With Europe finally beginning to stabilize and both companies making aggressive cost-cutting efforts, Cramer said the automakers should be poised to prosper from a global economic recovery.
Executive Decision
In the "Executive Decision" segment, Cramer spoke with Dr. Francois Nader, president and CEO of NPS Pharmaceuticals (NPSP) , an orphan-drug maker that's popped 31% after Cramer first recommended it in September. Since then shares have pulled back and Cramer's taking a second look as the company prepares to present its latest data on Wednesday.
Nader commented on the price tag of his company's most recent drug, which treats a condition known as short bowel syndrome afflicting only 3,000 to 5,000 patients in the U.S. The treatment, which weighs in at just under $300,000 a year, is actually a tremendous value, said Nader, as it currently costs almost $600,000 a year for patients to stay at the hospital and receive what can be 12 hours a day of IV nutritional supplements.
Using the NPS treatment, patients will be able to leave the hospital and return to their jobs and to normal lives, said Nader, which makes the cost of the treatment not only invaluable to patients, but also a great savings for insurance providers.
Nader noted that a full 100% of patients surveyed said they were interested in trying the drug and NPS even has a program in place to help patients with their co-pays if they have them. Nader said that no patient will be denied this treatment for a lack of the ability to pay.


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Conservation Status
In 1895, the country of New Zealand awarded the tuatara strict legal protection. It is currently considered a CITES (Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species) Appendix I species. This is the most restricted classification for a species. In order for a zoo to possess this species, very demanding rules must be followed, and the public display of tuataras has only recently been allowed. Access to the islands that the tuatara inhabit is strictly regulated, and for many years no tuataras have been removed from any island for any reason.
IUCN Red List: Lower Risk - Least Concern
US Federal List: Endangered
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Fletcher: We nee more bang for our bucks
A school millage election soon will be here. These elections always are important because it really does matter what kind of K-12 education is being offered. The debate is always one of how best to accomplish the daunting task of teaching the basics to our children.
Back when I was attending Alpena schools money was an issue, but easier to address. The birth rate was higher and today's Baby Boomers were appearing in great numbers in the elementary grades. Then the school's concern was construction costs of new schools and the millages appropriate to funding expanding programs. Today the reverse is true. Numbers in the school peaked years ago. There used to be nearly 10,000 students in the system while today it is closer to 4,000. And, looking at area statistics of kindergarten students entering the system each year, the pendulum could eventually swing to as low as 3,000. Managing in a downturn is much harder than growing in an expansionary period.
In business and banking there is a saying that you should react to a downturn in business by the formula of "cut deep, cut once." That doesn't work here because the decline is pervasive and has already lasted 10 years or more. Before we get to the bottom, if 3,000 is the bottom, it will be about another 10 years. Each child lost to the school system is around a $7,000 loss in funding.
The schools are caught in the middle of a massive tug of war. How do they balance basics like the 3 R's with extras like sports, music, debate, theatre and others that round out a student's educational experience? Then there is the tug of war between common sense, state mandates and federal rules about food and safety. The mandates, the concerns of caring parents, the needs for students and the availability of revenue create a tremendous balancing act for school board members. It's a mess.
Take Posen, for example. There is a district that has used all of its rainy day funds, but today, at least, they are operating in the black.
In many ways small, locally controlled financial institutions face similar problems as the schools. Rural banks and schools are heavily regulated and are losing customers. The solution for the banks has been to merge with other banks to reduce administrative costs and to withdraw services from some small segments of their markets. We can't withdraw public access to schools.
But we can consider consolidation.
The four high schools of Rogers City, Posen, Atlanta and Hillman are, in my eyes, at least two too many. The multiple superintendents and administrative staffs are redundant. We know that just a short time ago Alpena's superintendent handled more students with his staff than Alcona, Montmorency and Presque Isle counties have enrolled today.
I support school millage funding but it must be coupled with consolidation of the AMA District's K-12 systems. I'm a cynic. Be careful about paying more on the promise of further hard choices will be made for the schools before the results are seen. We built all of the above mentioned systems at a time when Northeast Michigan was growing. We aren't growing any longer – we are contracting. Just like small town financial institutions, we need very robust merger activity. We designed these school systems many decades ago on models no longer applicable. The only change in 40 years was the consolidation of the Alpena City System with the County Schools.
Schools need more local money, but let's get the most from that investment. Let's ensure we have we have the latest logistical and educational tools for our administrators to take advantage of.


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""The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference between life and death." "
The best place to sample a Brazilian specialty
Set in the hills above the historic and enchanting Brazilian town of Tiradentes in the southern portion of the state of Minas Gerais, Yum Yum is a charming little indoor/outdoor restaurant serving simple yet delectable fare. This unpretentious spot is widely known for its version of one of Brazil's favorite comfort foods, coxinha (pronounced co-sheena).
You can find the dish all over the country—and elsewhere in South America—but many consider the coxinhas by Yum Yum owner and chef Thereza Cristina M. Oliveira to be the best. Coxinhas are little balls of chicken thigh meat that are served with or without cheese inside. The balls are rolled in a light batter (using a secret recipe) and then fried. They come out hot and tender, not at all greasy and simply delicious.
Yum Yum also offers coxinha de camarão, similar tasty balls made from shrimp, as well as traditional pork sausages; galinha ao molho pardo, which is chicken meat in dark sauce; and mexido, a homey mixture of chicken, rice, beans, eggs and vegetables served in a steaming crock pot.
Yum Yum, Rua Alvarenga Peixoto, 1010, Bairro Capote, Tiradentes, Brazil, (32) 3355-1965.
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Phil Steele's preseason All-America Team is out today, and he has Mike Brewster as the first team center. Nathan Williams also makes the listing as 3rd team defensive end.
http://blog.philsteele.com/2011/06/01/2 ... ican-team/
Steele has the Buckeyes ranked as the No. 15 team in the country, and has his complete 2-page, detail-packed OSU analysis available as a pdf download for 24-hours only, linked at the site's home page:


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There were two difference with the yeast. For the original dough I used some older packets of ADY from my cupboard and mixed it with the flour before adding water. With this dough, I used some bulk Flieschman's ADY that I'd purchased recently and mixed it with the water for a few minutes before adding the flour. Normally when I've made dough I add the yeast to some warm water and let it sit for a while, but Kenji's recipe just called for mixing it with the flour and other dry ingredients. So perhaps my yeast was old or didn't get activated properly?All in all very interesting as that first dough made some good pizza. I look forward to seeing what this new batch makes.Thanks,jb
Kenji's formula calls out for IDY, not ADY. Instant Yeast.Don
So it looks like you need to use a bit more ADY than IDY and it needs to be proofed, or rather works better when it is. Which means that the recipe still calls for more yeast than what I've added. Is that right?


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New laws not needed
To the Journal editor:
Are the insane running the asylum? Is insanity doing the same thing over and over expecting different results? Gun Control: The act of controlling guns; not societies dysfunctional.
America has thousands of gun control laws but antigun advocates, including Obama, continue attempting to outlaw guns in America. Liberals are blaming legally owned weapons, stolen and utilized by a mentally unstable man, for 28 murders in Connecticut not the human element which committed the act.
Antigun advocates blantantly deny the nucleolus behind this atrocity was Lenza's unaddressed dysfunctional socialogical makeup, insufficient parental guidance, inept judiciary/mental health systems, and social medias desensitization of societies dysfunctional for monetary gains. Is it feasible to provide a pyromaniac matches and gasoline and not expect a fire?
So why's it feasible for a mother to teach her mentally unstable son to effectively utilize her guns? Thus, her actions were a direct violation of her accepted personal responsibilities associated with gun ownership.
Denied responsibility, blaming inanimate objects, and sidestepping our laws has become the law of the land in justifying, distancing, and removing human responsibility from illicit acts.
This precedent was established when Obama openly and blantantly overruled Americas immigration laws for personal/political gains.
Liberals refuse to admit this fact because it's their core factor in legitimizing criminal acts/corruption within Americas political system and our diminished social value structure. When personal/political gains take precedence over Americas established laws and societal norms how will law abiding citizens be protected from societies dysfunctional?
America doesn't need more ambiguous gun laws, it needs employment of commonsense within the enforcement of all Americas laws. It's time to effectively utilize the billions politicians and bureaucrats waste in their futile attempts to curb violence/crime in America.
Those billions need to be spent expanding/establishing mental healthcare aspects/facilities, ensuring mentally/emotionally dysfunctional are effectively identified, monitored, and actions taken to prevent them from acting out fantasies of murder and mayhem.
We must also reestablish reform schools to gain compliance too and acceptance of societal values and norms by our so called uncontrollable children when parents can't.
In turn, our judicial/mental health systems must hold each individual personally responsible/accountable for their actions/inactions which contribute to criminal acts in lieu of passing blame onto mental/emotional instability and inanimate objects utilized in the commission of crimes.
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LiveMint – one of the leading business newspaper in India carried an editorial article on December 10, 2010 titled – "Dialling the Wrong Numbers" which concluded or implied that India's Cell Phone subscriber base may be on decline. Their inference on this seem to have been drawn from the recent press release from Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Telecom Subscriber Data (PDF link). LiveMint writes and I quote the following paragraph from the article –
According to Visitor Location Register data published by TRAI, only 70% of mobile phone connections were active at the end of September; i.e. out of 688 million subscribers, only 482 million were live on 30 September (2010).
When I read this – I instinctively felt that something was not right with this reporting from LiveMint. A drop of 30% decline in active subscribers (and that too within a month) should have started fire alarm bells ringing in the Mobile Service Providers – especially considering that they are currently getting challenged from the perspective of extracting more $/subscriber. So I took upon myself to decipher the data from the TRAI press release. My suspicions of misleading reporting from LiveMint came to be true.
Per the TRAI press release the news in terms of count of subscriber base seems to be quite contrary. The wireless subscriber base in India increased by the routine 2.39%. India at the end of November 2010 had 688M wireless subscribers. The number 482M which LiveMint quotes is about Visitor Location Register (VLR) – this number is about tracking the user in a particular coverage area. This however is not about whether the subscriber is permanently active or not. (I have sent an email to the Editors of LiveMint for the clarification. Hopefully they will respond to that)
While we are on this topic – I just feel that the way TRAI calculates the tele-density seems to be very misleading. At the end of September 2010, the wireless tele-density in India seemed to be at 61%. For me this means that for 100 individuals, 61 of them would have access to wireless device. This just seems to be incorrect. Indians have a very unique habit of carrying multiple cell phones and with the advent dual/multiple SIM handsets – the whole definition of tele-density from a wireless perspective does not make any sense to me. (The same LiveMint article linked above mentioned that a report from KPMG indicates that 40% of all new cell phones sold in India would be Dual-SIM card phones. Not too sure if this is a correct number. Did not see a validation of the same anywhere else)
Thoughts and/or comments are welcome.
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Bakshi, Ralph
Ralph Bakshi 1938–
Palestinian-born American film director, animator, and screenwriter.
Bakshi is said to have revolutionized the concept of the animated film with features specifically designed for adult audiences. Most of his works are graphically bold, sometimes violent and obscene, commentaries on contemporary society.
Bakshi's first, perhaps most notable, film was Fritz the Cat (1972). Based on an underground comic strip by Robert Crumb, Fritz the Cat either shocked, delighted, or bored its viewers and stirred controversy because of its strong sexual content. Bakshi combined live action and animation in his second film, Heavy Traffic. The film is a semiautobiographical account of a young Brooklyn cartoonist and his struggle to maintain his sense of morality amid the violence that surrounds him. Bakshi utilized basic film noir techniques of shadowing and coarse graphics in Heavy Traffic to depict the unsavory side of New York City.
Turning away from urban America, Bakshi switched to fantasy in Wizards and The Lord of the Rings. In both films, he achieved a sense of realism by first filming real actors and later sketching over the film. American Pop, in Bakshi's words, "is about trying to make it in America." In this film, documenting an immigrant family's pursuit of the American dream, Bakshi successfully integrated popular music into his development of plot and theme. For some critics, Bakshi came of age as a filmmaker with American Pop.
Although his work has often been called stereotypically offensive and violent, even racist, Bakshi is recognized by many critics as an important innovator. He is, as Andrew Sarris wrote, "a conscious antithesis to Walt Disney."
Vincent Canby
Understatement is not the method of "Fritz The Cat," which utilizes just about every four-letter word you've ever heard in any playground, and depicts Fritz's various sexual triumphs with what might be described as indelicate frenzy. However, the film is not to be confused with those soberly obscene comic books that used to feature Toots and Casper, Dick Tracy and Tillie The Toiler. It is often exuberantly vulgar, but rather less obscene than your ordinary, run-of-the-mill, R-rated Hollywood melodrama, probably because Fritz himself is essentially an innocent of the early Jack Lemmon mold. He's the kind of cat who can be rendered instantaneously impotent with guilt when a Harlem madam laughs at him and says something like: "Honey, you ain't black enough!" (pp. 1, 3)
I suspect there is something in "Fritz The Cat" to offend just about everyone over the age of 17—blacks, whites, Jews, gentiles, Catholics, radicals, conservatives. Ironically, people under 17, who won't be allowed to see the X-rated film, are probably most familiar with cartoonist [Robert] Crumb, whose work I've somehow missed. Thus I've no idea how faithful Mr. Bakshi, who wrote and directed the film …, [has] been to Mr. Crumb's original creations. Compared to something like "The Yellow Submarine," the visual style of "Fritz The Cat" is almost drab, or, to put it another way, it's spectacular Terrytoon. It doesn't exactly advance the fine art of animation, which is...
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Stanley Kauffmann
The last third of Fritz the Cat, the first cartoon feature to be rated X, may be superb. I'll never know. Two-thirds was twice as much as I could stand. I wish I had been kinder to myself and left after the credits.
I mean to describe the very opening exactly as we see it. Three hardhats are eating lunch atop some New York steel construction. Then one of them stands, turns his back, and pees—a thick yellow stream, which falls all through the credits. Credits over, the thick stream reaches the street level, hits a young hippie on the head, and flattens him. And we're off to liberated Cartoonland.
All the characters are "played" by animals: policemen are pigs, black people are crows, students are cats, and so on. Greenwich Village and Harlem are the locales of the part I saw. Fritz is an NYU student who wants to swing (in the '60s), goes to a pot-sex orgy, a black bar, a black club. There is one fleetingly amusing sequence in a synagogue, with bloodhounds as old Jews; the rest is unbearably self-conscious "liberated" stuff without wit or point. The construction is moronic, the drawing dull, the dialogue corny, and the voices like the radio acting of the '30s on a bad night. I was going to mention the names of the people responsible for this mess, but I hope the reader has no interest.
Stanley Kauffmann, in his review of "Fritz the Cat" (reprinted by permission of Brandt & Brandt Literary Agents, Inc.; copyright © 1972 by Stanley Kauffmann), in The New Republic, Vol. 166, No. 21, May 20, 1972, p. 34.
Robert Hatch
It troubles me that I am almost totally unresponsive to Fritz the Cat, an animated cartoon feature, directed by Ralph Bakshi from the strip created by Robert Crumb for Head Comics. Fritz, a cat both in comic-book terms and in the current jargon, is super hip to every breeze that blew upon the country's questing youth of a few years ago, and the picture holds up his instant causes and borrowed principles to good-natured destruction. Thus Fritz, master lecher, organizes group sex in a bathtub, which exploit is raided by the prurient fuzz, and Fritz, the free-souled undergraduate, burns his lecture notes and with them one of the larger buildings on New York University's Greenwich Village campus….
[One understands] that Fritz the Cat is bent on depreciating youthful follies, while not overlooking the worse than foolish responses of the alarmed and puzzled establishmentarian elders. In principle, I should applaud such iconoclasm, and in principle I do. It is the execution I deplore.
My spirits began to droop when the two cops sent to spoil the fun in the bathtub turned out to be pigs (Disney's little pigs grown up and turned gross), who spoke in the "da (gulp)" accents popularly associated with mental deficiency. They fell still further when I discovered that the blacks were to be presented as crows (though the finery of these birds did trick me into some racist snickers). It isn't the bad taste I object to...
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Lee Beaupre
Bakshi's idea of wit [in "Fritz the Cat"] is to resurrect an 8-year-old Terry Southernism like "prevert," have Fritz "kill a john" by shooting at a toilet, resolve the Israeli situation by having the Zionists "return the cities of New York and Los Angeles to the United States" and paraphrase an old Elaine May-Mike Nichols routine with a bossy lady making "a big bourgeois deal out of everything."
As for the film's animation, it is a long way from what "Yellow Submarine" had let us to anticipate in future cartooning. Some of the backgrounds have a pleasing graphic quality—perhaps because they were watercolored adaptations of photographs of New York and thus relied very little on Bakshi's "imagination"—but his constant zooming and tilting hardly augments the attractiveness of these images. And when real invention is required for a sequence depicting the post-explosion apocalypse, Bakshi feebly resorts to a sepia-toned live-action shot of a desert gale.
In juxtaposition to the stylized reality of these backgrounds, the foreground figures are as cutely sentimentalized as in any Saturday morning TV cartoon—hardly surprising in that Bakshi apprenticed in just this kind of hack work. By marrying pretension with bad habits, Bakshi has made his film look like Heckle and Jeckle on a mescalin trip.
Still, "Fritz the Cat" is "only" a movie, and its intellectual, moral and esthetic bankruptcy would normally...
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Vincent Canby
Ralph Bakshi's mostly animated feature, "Heavy Traffic," is American graffiti of a very high and unusual order, a tale of a young New York City pilgrim named Michael, half-Italian, half-Jewish, ever innocent, and his progress through a metaphor that is nowhere near as dreary as it sounds: the pinball machine called Life. It is a liberating, arrogant sort of movie, crude, tough, vulgar, full of insult and wit and an awareness of the impermanence of all things….
Bakshi's "Heavy Traffic" is rated X, not because it's pornographic in any way but because it employs the small gestures and words of obscenity to make its rude statement about the quality of what might be dangerously described as the New York City Experience.
The opening of the film sets its moods as the screen goes from a live-action Michael, playing his pinball machine, to the animated world that lies just beyond reality. Michael, a would-be "underground" cartoonist, asks "What makes you happy? Where do you hide? Who do you trust?" And the voice carries over as two ancient jazz musicians in terrible repair meet while foraging through a garbage can….
With a poet's freedom (including the freedom from the fear he might be making an ass of himself), Bakshi conducts his misery-house tour of the quintessential modern metropolis, a New York City inhabited entirely by undesirables, junkies, whores, crooked cops, crooked union leaders, Mafia soldiers, craven dads, mad moms. The only two innocents are Michael and Carole, the pretty, no-nonsense black bartender who is also beloved by Shorty, the legless bouncer at her bar.
Bakshi's first feature, "Fritz The Cat," was criticized by purists for the liberties he took with a favorite underground comic strip. Now he has created his own world in "Heavy Traffic," which at its best moments is as nutty and bleak and beautiful as some scenes out of early Henry Miller, with whom...
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Andrew Sarris
The moral issue with "Heavy Traffic" is somewhat … complicated in that Ralph Bakshi's animated cartoon seems less concerned with beguiling its audience … than of bestirring it…. By any standard, Bakshi's achievement is spectactularly uneven. But then he is just about the only X-rated cartoonist around, and thus there is really not too much basis for comparison. As with "Fritz the Cat," the uniqueness of the genre puts the captious critic in the uncomfortable position of hunting down an endangered species. Bakshi's artistic alibi seems to be that he is a conscious antithesis to Walt Disney. He has even accelerated Disney's unfortunate evolution from pure animation to a melange of animation and live-action, but...
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Stanley Kauffmann
I walked out of Ralph Bakshi's first cartoon feature Fritz the Cat because it was vulgar and dull. I didn't walk out of his second, Heavy Traffic, which is vulgar but often interesting.
It mixes animation with some live action as it tells the story of a young New York cartoonist who, while playing a pinball machine (ah, there, Saroyan), wanders off into a (cartoon) fantasy involving a stunning black bar hostess. Subsequently, in live film, he meets her and they "find" each other in Union Square.
There are ghetto derelicts, drag queens, hookers, mafiosi, and other delectations of the New York scene [in Heavy Traffic]; the ambience is grubbiness. Nothing is hinted...
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Harriet Polt
Heavy Traffic is about New York, about violence, perhaps most of all about ugliness. Shorty, a frog-faced legless man, the Godfather slurping spaghetti through enormous lips, the skinny Jewish mamma, the fat prostitutes—all are ugly and either stupid or evil, or both. Even the two good-looking characters, Michael and his sexy black girlfriend Carol, finally turn violent, perhaps corrupted by all the ugliness around them. Ralph Bakshi, the film's writer and director, depicts women with particular loathing, even more than he did in Fritz. Those breasts that keep popping out of blouses are not sexy but disgusting, in much the same way that Kenneth Anger's Marilyn Monroe and the other women in Hollywood...
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John Simon
With Coonskin, Ralph Bakshi convinces me that the sum total of his talent was exhausted in Fritz the Cat, and that even there the chief interest lay in novelty rather than ultimate worth….
As in the equally bad Heavy Traffic, Bakshi is once again mixing live action and cartoon footage, alternating, juxtaposing, and superimposing them by turns. This is stylistically deleterious, rather like mixing Bach and the Rolling Stones. Each genre may have its own validity, but each sets up different responses, different degrees of involvement: the cartoon sequences try to make the fantastic real, which is fair enough; but the obtrusion of live action makes the real people look out of...
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Arthur Cooper
Mr. Walt Disney
Elysian Fields
Dear Walt,
Well, old buddy, things have come to a pretty pass. A young animator named Ralph Bakshi—you might remember, he made the first two X-rated feature-length cartoons, "Fritz the Cat" and "Heavy Traffic"—anyway, he's now made "Coonskin." It's got an R rating, which must stand for Ripoff because what he's done is turn your Uncle Remus stories inside out.
The movie is about these three black characters who leave the South and come to Harlem where they try to take over the rackets. Along the way they have to knock off a corrupt detective named Mannigan who looks like a women's-lib caricature of Telly Savalas....
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Penelope Gilliatt
"Coonskin," written and directed by Ralph Bakshi (of "Fritz the Cat" and "Heavy Traffic"), is at its most eloquent when it does things quietly, which is to say that a work whose whole immensely talented premise is its exuberance slows down to its best when it is temperate….
"Coonskin" is a full-length feature film in which things move smoothly from animation to photography or—most interesting visually—to a mixture of the two. It is made in lewd honor of Manhattan and other melting pots, in which, Bakshi suggests, the ethnic and sexual mixing has actually long since passed the molten stage to become as cool as the sort of jazz this film so much likes….
"Coonskin" is a very...
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Stanley Kauffmann
Coonskin has met with protests from some who assert that it's racist. I'm not going to comment on the justice of the protests…. But if there are going to be protests, then they ought to be by everyone, because the whole human race, as exemplified in this country at this time, is what is being skewered by this scintillating, vicious, outrageous and outraged film. (p. 165)
Coonskin, on any vulgarity meter, may be the worst of [Bakshi's films]—for instance, the very first words are "Fuck you," and there are such scenes as one in which a character gets tugged along by his infinitely elastic phallus—but it's hard to think of this good film as having any other tone than the one...
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John Simon
Ralph Bakshi's new animated feature, Wizards, tries to be a fresh departure but looks more like a late arrival. Even though we are in a fairytale future, there is still much uninteresting contemporary street lingo, the plotting is still weak, the idea still hackneyed. The quality of the drawing is not bad, though lacking in intense originality, and the simplistic tale of good, sloppy pacifism winning out over wicked, hyperefficient militarism is not couched in terms that could be considered arresting.
As usual with Bakshi, there is an inadequate musical score …, and, again as usual, only worse here, the dragging in of poorly integrated live action. The only one ever to get away with this...
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Alexander Stuart
Sadly short on magic, Wizards is an interesting, unsuccessful try by animator Ralph Bakshi…. With a rather naïve, very late-1960s story about two wizards, one good, one bad, and their tussle for the kind of world each wants, the film is a stylistic mishmash that relies on far too many animation shortcuts to tell its tale.
Decidedly too much of the story is communicated through lengthy sequences of still sketches with narration over the top. These parts of the movie are the kind of thing Disney animators might produce just for themselves to get an impression of the feel of the thing they're working on—not the type of work you expect to end up in a finished feature film....
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"The Lord of the Rings" is both numbing and impressive.
Yet it would be difficult to recommend this movie to anyone not wholly absorbed by the uses of motion-picture animation or to anyone not familiar with Tolkien's home-made mythology, which borrows liberally from various Norse myths, the Eddas, the Nibelungs and maybe even Beatrix Potter. In the way of grand opera sung in Urdu, "The Lord of the Rings" is likely to be total confusion to someone who doesn't speak the language….
The major fault of the screenplay by Chris Conkling and Peter S. Beagle is that the film attempts to cover too much ground too quickly, packing in more incomprehensible exposition in the first 15 minutes...
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The Lord of the Rings has been made almost exclusively for Tolkien devotees. In adapting the long, unwieldy saga, the filmmakers have settled for The Song of Bernadette axiom: "To those who believe, no explanation is necessary; to those who do not believe, no explanation is possible." When I saw the film, the audience cheered each introduction of the books' stars as if it were the opening night of Gone with the Wind. They were celebrating their own fond literary memories, not the characters materializing on screen. Yet their reaction seems to have been anticipated in the special care given such favorites as the Uriah Heepish Gollum, the Sancho Panchoesque Samwise, and the highly theatrical Gandalf...
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Ralph Bakshi, the mad genius of animation, has outdone himself. To meet the heady challenge of bringing J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy world to the screen, he took the revolutionary, expensive step of first shooting [The Lord of the Rings] with actors. Then his vast staff of animators used the footage as models for the drawings. The result is amazing, particularly in the battlefield clashes.
And yet … I suppose much depends on how you react to Tolkien's Middle Earth world of hobbits, elves, orcs, men, or on how much entertainment and/or significance you find in this turbulent saga of good versus evil. Although some 20 million copies of Tolkien's trilogy have been sold, on screen the material seems...
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Cheryl Forbes
If you read the critics, you might not suspect that J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, the first true epic to come along since Milton revitalized Homer's and Virgil's genre, was a monumental work. That its followers, as with Abraham's seed, are as numerous as the sands. That there are people who meet each week to play Middle-earth games. That maps, calendars, pictures, puzzles, and deluxe editions of the trilogy sell in the millions year after year. I suspect that the critics and the audiences of Ralph Bakshi's animated version of The Lord of the Rings … will be just as far apart.
With few exceptions, the critics find it a bad film. The audiences don't…. Bakshi, the director,...
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American Pop is not a Hester Street nor a Mean Streets, films which deliberately develop ethnic themes and settings as their central focus. On the contrary, it is a film which incorporates ethnic material in a subplot, but the subplot of the melting pot and the call of the American Dream is so essential to the history of American popular music that the subject actually provides the narrative core for the entire film…. American Pop is more than music; it is about nothing less than the Great American Dream. All of Bakshi's films in fact, with the exception of his two voyages into fantasy, Wizards and The Lord of the Rings, are about the American Dream in one form or...
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American Pop is the product of a mature Bakshi. The anger, frustration, and intensity of Traffic and Coonskin are more controlled and focused. Bakshi's vision of America, while still ambivalent, reflects the changes that have occurred in both the filmmaker and his society in the last decade. Bakshi equates his personal and fantasy life with the recent American experience, synthesizing the two in this dramatic history of four generations of an immigrant family trying to make it in America. He understands both the creative and destructive power of the American Dream as only someone who has believed in it and has been disillusioned can. American Pop is in the tradition of The Great...
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["American Pop"] is a Pop vision of American life since the turn of the century, seen in the stories of four generations of one family of would-be American musicmakers. Though the film is animated, it makes free use also of old newsreels, still photographs and pencil sketches, as well as work in the manner of dozens of recognizable artists from George Grosz and Reginald Hopper to Andy Warhol, with passing references to Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent and Norman Rockwell, among others….
"American Pop" looks like no other animated film ever made, except for Mr. Bakshi's earlier works, nor does it sound like any other. It's rough and violent and occasionally very moving, as well as cruelly funny. It...
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Because his style does have to be styleless—flat, simple, unelaborated for the most part—Bakshi has stuck to naturalistic stories with human characters and bildungsroman plots. If you use today's abbreviated animation techniques on animals, you get something about as affecting as Crusader Rabbit. The animals constantly remind the viewer that this is a cartoon he's watching, and as a consequence he remains aware of the art work. With human characters, the viewer more readily sees a cartoon the way he does a live-action movie, as if it were real life. This makes him oblivious to the cartoonishness of it. It also keeps him from asking himself why this movie should have been made as a cartoon in...
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This has nothing to do with jazz, and everything to do with football. When you grow up in the South, SEC football is king. And when you grow up in Louisiana, there's only one team you care about - the LSU Tigers. The Bayou Bengals, as we called them "down the bayou."
LSU 38, Ohio State 24. That's the final word on one of the craziest seasons in college football I've seen. I know there are gonna be some haters out there (USC, UGA, KU and Missouri fans, particularly), but I'm convinced that the Tigers are the top team in the nation.
After the first six minutes of the BCS game, I wasn't so sure. OSU scored ten points quickly, and they looked ready to play. LSU proceeded to score 31 unanswered points, and the die was cast.
Apologies to WBGO News Director Doug Doyle, who lost his football pool when the combined team score surpassed 40 points. Helmets off to LSU special teams play, and to DT Glenn Dorsey, a class act who will surely go in the top five of the NFL draft.
Final stat - LSU is the only team to have won two BCS Championship trophies. Geaux Tigers. - Josh
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BEIJING (AP) The average pentathlete can train up to a decade before developing the skills needed for Olympic competition.
Margaux Isaksen is anything but average.
The 16-year-old from Arkansas took up the sport, which combines fencing, shooting, swimming, show jumping and distance running, three years ago at the urging of a fencing coach.
Beginning Friday, she'll compete in the Beijing Olympics against competitors who are mostly in the late to mid 20s.
And her 39-year-old teammate Sheila Taormina - the first woman to qualify for three different Olympic sports - won the gold medal in a swimming relay in 1996, when Isaksen hadn't yet started kindergarten.
"Sometimes I forget I'm so much younger," said Isaksen, who also will compete against two other 16-year-olds. "I can't worry about it because when I'm competing no one is going to take my age into consideration."
Isaksen made a name for herself in the sport by winning all three U.S. National Championship titles in 2007 and solidified her status with a silver medal at the 2008 World Cup in Mexico City.
Intense training is essential to success in the modern pentathlon. Isaksen rides horses a couple of times a week, shoots and fences up to five times a week and runs and swims as many as six days a week.
She now calls the pentathlon her "calling" - but that wasn't always the case.
"I didn't really know what the pentathlon was before my coach suggested it," she said.
And after her first event, where she finished dead last, she wasn't sure it was for her.
"It's shocking how hard it is," she said. "There were times I wanted to throw my gun through the wall. I don't think I understood what it took."
After the initial shock of the sport's difficulty, pentathlon grew on Isaksen.
Coach Janusz Peciak, who won gold in the event for Poland in 1976, loves the young athlete's attitude and work ethic and marvels at how much progress she's made in the last year. He said she's lowered her times and scores in almost every portion of the event.
"It's fun to work with her," Peciak said. "She's still very young. I'm very lucky to be here to watch her improve."
Teammates and coaches say Isaksen is very mature for her age, but her girlish side shows in the intricate American flag designs painted on her big toenails. The rest of her toes follow the patriotic theme, alternating between blue and white, and stars dot her fingernails.
Her adjustment has been aided by the guidance of Taormina.
"She doesn't only help me with any questions I may have about the sport, she gives me advice about life," Isaksen said. "I didn't really know what to expect, so having her has been great."
Peciak said he's enjoyed watching the pair bond.
"I'm sure it helps that Sheila is like her icon," he said. "She's also like a mother for her. They are far apart in age but they are joined by pentathlon and it works perfect."