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Arts Around Town: Local grad directs march for Macy's parade
It's a common ritual that takes place on Thanksgiving morning. It's turning on the TV and tuning in to the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade happening live in New York City. Whether it's preparing the traditional turkey or welcoming family and friends who visit, the Macy's spectacular is most likely the virtual holiday backdrop for millions of households across the country. But wait -- take a closer look at that TV and you just might see some familiar faces marching along…
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, now in its 85th year, has come to be known as the official start of the holiday season. Said to be second in viewers only to the Super Bowl, the three-hour broadcast from 9 a.m. to noon on NBC-TV not only reaches 2.5 million spectators standing along the parade route from Central Park to Macy's Herald Square, but some 50 million viewers watching on TV. It's fun for all ages with its huge helium-character balloons, sparkling floats filled with celebrities, and talented young people who comprise the multitude of choruses and marching bands our country has to offer.
One such band kicking off the parade will be Macy's Great American Marching Band, comprised of 200 of the finest high school musicians from across the country who were selected based on their musical ability and achievements. The opportunity was open to students from more than 14,000 high schools across the country. Local students performing this year include Jessica Zelenak, a clarinet player from Emmaus High School, Stephen Yale, a trumpet player from Freedom High School in Bethlehem, Sarah Miller, a piccolo player from Fleetwood High School, Brian Selman, a cymbal player from Wilson High School in Berks County and Jeffrey Lazarchick, an alto sax player from Blue Mountain High School in Schuylkill County.
Leading the band will be Allentown's own, Dr. Richard Good, now in his fifth year as director of bands at Auburn (Ala.) University. A 1979 graduate of William Allen High School, he has been at Auburn for 17 years in former positions as marching band director and low brass professor. Good has served as director of Macy's Great American Band since its formation in 2006 for the parade's 80th anniversary. This year, he will lead his group along the parade route marching and playing the upbeat "Disco Inferno" by The Trammps (Remember this great dance tune from the "Saturday Night Fever" original soundtrack?)
The student musicians will be complemented by approximately 50 flags (colorguard) and dancers choreographed by Greg Lagola, a member of the creative team of the Cadets Drum Corps of Pennsylvania. He is being assisted by Katie Hopkins, daughter of the Cadets' George Hopkins, CEO and executive director of Youth Education in the Arts in Allentown. Lagola's association with the Cadets began in 1989, when he marched in the Senior Drum and Bugle Corps. The Cadets are nine-time world champions and the oldest and most honored drum and bugle corps in the world.
"I have always enjoyed the parade. Now I'm a part of the acts," said Lagola, whose routines with the students will be complete by the time the parade kicks off. Then he'll be off to meet family and watch the parade on TV. He described the experience for the students as one of "genuine excitement and joy. It's a world stage. They're our future generations. You can feel their energy and feel hope." Though he was raised in Pottsville, Lagola calls himself a New Yorker since moving there in 1984. He is a full-time consultant/technical designer for "two emerging fashion designers," he said. He also instructs the Santa Clara (Calif.) Vanguard competitive winter colorguard.
"People will witness a ton of energy from the Macy's band," Good said. As in football, he said of the parade, "There's a big team behind it." That team is headed by Dennis Rhoads of Berks County's Music Festivals which, for 26 years, has overseen student music competitions and travel programs. Good said he struck up a friendship with Rhoads when he (Good) was teaching at Kempsville High School in Virginia Beach. Rhoads often used the facility during some of his marching band events and many times asked Good to serve on the judging panel.
Good described the Macy's parade as "an international stage" for marching bands with an exposure of 75 seconds, or one minute and 15 seconds when they reach Macy's Herald Square to perform. When Macy's Great American Band reaches that site, Good said the tune will change to an original composition – "a big fanfare" -- by 16-year-old up-and-coming composer/conductor/musician Tyler Grant of Pelham, Ala. Good said Grant, a sophomore at Shades Mountain Christian School in Hoover, Ala., was commissioned by Macy's to write the piece – title unknown until the big day -- when parade organizers wanted something different for the 85th anniversary. He said he first met Grant this past February when Auburn hosted its annual Symphonic Honor Band Festival, attended by some 1,000 student musicians. Good said he was very impressed with Grant and recommended him to Wesley Whatley, creative director for the Macy's Parade and Entertainment Group, who was looking for something new to blend with the parade's young people. Grant will be marching alongside the band. Good said the band won't meet Grant until today (Wednesday), "but I can tell you, all students love to work with a composer."
Good called it "six strong nights of bonding" for the students, who arrived in New York City on Saturday. Their travel package includes plenty of sightseeing, along with some "pretty intense" rehearsal which began Sunday night in the hotel ballroom. Then it was up early Monday to rehearse from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Teaneck (N.J.) Armory. That's where students were broken down in sectionals, evaluated in marching and put in a block running through fundamentals. A rehearsal on Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. concentrated on their performance for TV. From 8 a.m. to noon today, they parade outdoors at the Armory where working troops will view the preview.
In the early morning hours of Thanksgiving Day, from 3 to 4:30 a.m., all marching bands will be in costume at Macy's Herald Square for a full-dress performance under the glaring stage lights for the TV technical crew. Each band will be allotted only 10 minutes for performance before they board the bus for the "red ready line" at Central Park. When the parade is over, members of Macy's Great American Band will board the bus back to their hotel and enjoy a Thanksgiving banquet and more sightseeing before flying back home early Friday morning.
As for Good, he said he'll be rushing for a bus to the airport after the parade to make his connection back to Alabama to prepare for Saturday's Homecoming football rivalry in the Iron Bowl with Alabama playing Auburn. He said he'll also make use of travel time by catching up with texts from friends across the country who will have seen him marching in the parade on TV. "It happens every year," he said. For further info: macys.com/parade
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It's a great weekend for holiday happenings, starting Fri., Nov. 25 through Dec. 31 with "Pip: The Mouse Before Christmas" at the Liberty Museum at Zion's Reformed UCC Church in Allentown. New this year is a Conestoga wagon exhibit for kids of all ages. The holiday puppet show was created by Dr. George R. Creegan and gained its fame in the windows of Hess' in downtown Allentown. For further info: libertybellmuseum.org
Act 1 at DeSales University opens its main stage production of "Joseph and the Amaziwng Technicolor Dreamcoat" on Wed., Nov. 30 through Dec. 11, at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts. For further info: desales.edu
A Christmas tradition continues with the 15th Annual "A Lehigh Valley Christmas in Concert" at Allentown Symphony Hall on Sunday Nov. 27. It's a great showcase of valley musicians of all genres, to date including Zen for Primates, Jake Kaligis Band, The Large Flowerheads, Dave Fry, Cambiata, Hector Rosado Y Ensemble "Siete," The BC Combo, and James Supra and Maria Woodford. In years past, participating artists would gather at a local studio months in advance to record a Christmas CD that was sold at the event. I know I like to pull out my collection and get in the holiday spirit. For further info: AllentownSymphony.org
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Pulaski Technical College will participate in two -count 'em- TWO holiday parades this Saturday, Dec. 2. The 2006 Pulaski Tech float will feature a replica of the Campus Center clock tower - the North Little Rock Pole, naturally - and will be staffed by the PTC Magical Educational Elves, including college president Dan F. Bakke.
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Russian painters invented a new, heroic art of landscape in the second half of the nineteenth century. Shishkin demonstrates some of its elements in A sandy coastline: the painting holds an implied moral narrative with nationalist overtones. A few giant but slender pines inhabit the shoreline, their roots gripping into uncertain soil. Waves lap up the beach, unceasing tides which will eventually undermine the trees. Darkest sky lurks behind them, threatening an impending storm and, perhaps, oncoming night. Other trees still stand upon firmer ground in the grass, although many have been felled, hauled away for timber. Bright, intense light glares onto the sand and off the silhouetted trunks. This is nature's drama, which twists the largest tree away from the viewer, while it withstands the continuous assault of wind and water.
Shishkin was a highly-accomplished painter, who trained in the Classical fine art academies of Moscow and St Petersburg from 1852 to 1860. He then studied in Munich, Prague and Düsseldorf from 1862 to 1865, absorbing naturalistic tenets from the German schools. He was a founding member of the famous artists' group the Wanderers, who began to depict the vastness of Russia's lands in the 1870s. These reformist painters rejected the artificiality of contemporary pictorial themes, instead commenting on contemporary social ills while developing the first Russian interest in their own surroundings, looking at the bleak beauty of their plains, steppes and mountains. In 1879 Shishkin travelled in the Crimea from May to September, so that he could 'make plein-air studies in accordance with his fascination for working outdoors'.1 A sandy coastline was exhibited in the 7th Wanderers' exhibition in St Petersburg in 1879, the year it was painted.
Forests became Shishkin's major subject. His compositions are based on direct observation instead of that compilation of elements that underpins Classical and Picturesque landscapes. His works are also marked by extraordinary attention to detail, seen here in such elements as a tangle of debris washed up on the sand. He combined such realistic renderings with larger poetic truths. A sandy coastline sets up many qualities for us to ponder: light and dark, sunshine and shadows, strength and fragility, enduring time and a fleeting moment.
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- 1 cup chopped green onion
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- 1-1/2 cups uncooked long grain rice
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- In a large saucepan, saute onions and parsley in oil and butter for 1 minute or until tender. Add rice; cook over medium heat until rice is coated with oil and translucent, about 3 minutes. Stir in the broth, cayenne and bay leaf. Bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat; cover tightly and simmer for 18-20 minutes or until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender. Discard bay leaf. Yield: 6 servings.
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If Romney performs according to expectations, he will further enhance his standing — along with Arizona senator John McCain and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, both of whom declined to participate in the Iowa poll — as a Republican front-runner for his party's White House nomination, and move another step closer to ultimately replacing President George W. Bush.
As the date of the straw poll draws closer, the headlines about Romney focus on his stalwart Mormonism and his recent transformation into an anti-choice politician. But what has attracted little attention in farm-belt Iowa or, indeed, in almost any part of the nation — rural, suburban, or urban — is the fact that Romney is without a doubt the most business born-and-bred candidate to achieve GOP viability since Herbert Hoover in 1928 and Wendell Wilkie in 1940.
Republicans, by their own admission, worship businessmen, and give CEOs and board chairmen the sort of status that cardinals merit among Catholics — and bishops enjoy among the Mormons. But neither Hoover's business successes nor Wilkie's Wall Street backers saved them from political ignominy, and no magnate since has captured the party's nomination.
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I liked his exhibition a lot, Buttle should get credit for this. It was all kinds of cool to watch him glide like this. I hope he uses him more often. But I think he should change sp and lp next year and doesnt use Nicol again, in fear he would end up with Mirai's failed Spartacus, unless she makes him programs a la Carolina.
WOW pangtong - I thought Chan was at 9 or 10 falls the last time!
Laughter is the best medicine.
Here is another good analysis on Dai and Patrick's LP by Rock2:
I didnt think poorly choreo, I was thinking boring warhorses.
That analysis isn't excellent at all, says nothing about how Chan's movements interpret the music or his level of performance, only his skating skills. It completely ignores Takahashi's transitions and also incorrectly sums up an entire minute of the performance as "very little movement that connects to the music", when Takahashi is providing a very distinct interpretation. That post claims "the music ramps up but Dai's energy and movement does not", which is wrong because he does a quick series of steps directly to the music and then goes into a HUGE 3Axel-3Toe. If that isn't energetic, then what is?
Takahashi did a good job interpreting the music, but Patrick was better. He got higher IN marks because his music is more complicated, he has more variety in his movement and pace.
BTW, in spite of the fall and behind the music, Patrick's last steps was the best in this season, so fast and passionate.
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Right, there is no 3A or 4T in this number, because this is a program designed to show off his skating skills, not his jumping ability which has been proved in the competition.
Let's say the two Brits haven't changed their opinions. Does it matter? Not the least. Patrick is the 2012 ISU World Champion, no one can change this fact.
I think Takahashi was the worthy world champion anyway. The judges could let him win IF they chose.
Chan was given the gold medal because...
*Reynolds was the 12th, therefore Chan's win was needed to give 3 spots to next year's host.
*The judges wanted appoint Hanyu as the #1 rival of Patrick Chan. Takahashi shouldn't a spoiler thereafter.
The Japanese Federation should have sacrificed Kozuka's eleventh place finish in exchange for Takahaski getting first. Someone was asleep at the switch.
I'm sure the judges had little anxiety about Chan's win when Reynolds has placed there. If Takahashi won WC, the JSF could've been in a difficult position -- who should be backed up as THE national favorite heading into Sochi. Well, the international judges have made it clear. I think NHK trophy in Miyagi (Sendai) will be the official ceremony of the throne change.
You know, I would be interested to know who gets selected for NHK next season. Yuzuru probably wants it the most since it's in Sendai, but Takahashi is usually favoured to be at the NHK. Both can't attend since they are reigning world medalists...this will be interesting.


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- 1 tablespoon minced fresh basil
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- Dash salt and white pepper
- 8 uncooked large shrimp, peeled and deveined
- In a small bowl, combine the basil, oil, butter, mustard, lemon juice, garlic, salt and pepper. Pour 3 tablespoons into a small resealable plastic bag; add shrimp. Seal bag and turn to coat; let stand at room temperature for 15-20 minutes. Set remaining marinade aside.
- Drain and discard marinade. Thread shrimp onto two metal or soaked wooden skewers. Grill, covered, over medium heat for 2-3 minutes on each side or until shrimp turn pink, basting occasionally with reserved marinade. Yield: 2 servings.
Originally published as Basil Shrimp in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook Annual 2006, p184
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This is still just in days or half days (I am constructing an experiment for the spring to try to measure this in hours and on more cells and on both large and small cells and both workers and drones).
The queen in my observation hive layed these eggs on morning of Monday the 15th of December. They were capped by the morning of Tuesday the 23st of December (8 days). The first of these emerged by the morning of Saturday January the 3rd and the last by Saturday night Januray the 3rd. This is a post capping time of 11 to 11 1/2 days. This is a total time from egg to emerged bee of 19 to 19 1/2 days as opposed to the "norm" for large bees of 21 days.


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While the DHS claimed that the centers were used to stop the Afghan immigrant Najibullah Zazi's 2009 plot to bomb the New York subway, the Senate "could identify nothing that uncovered a terrorist threat, nor could it identify a contribution any fusion center made to disrupt an active terrorist plot."
Contrast that with what DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a 2010 speech in which she commented, "It was a fusion center near Denver that played the key role in 'fusing' the information that came from the public with evidence that came in following the [subway plot] suspect's arrest by the FBI."
The Senate committee said that the 2009 plot and others -- like a 2010 effort to place a car bomb in Times Square -- were not cracked by the Fusion centers at all. The officers involved in the cases would have done the exact same thing they did to crack those cases, with or without the data center. For example, in the subway plot, the Colorado state troopers who solved the cases were working
their state's data center, but their detective work to discover and stop the plot came from the agency they were primarily reporting to -- the
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Senate concludes that when all the privileged details of the investigations were considered, there was no sign that the pricey data centers were successful at fighting any known terrorist plot.
So what
the data centers accomplish? According to the panel the legacy is mostly negative. They claim the Fusion centers -- whose objective is ostensibly to share national intelligence with state/local law enforcement and analyze potential terrorist threats -- in the end mostly ended up violating U.S. citizens' civil liberties.
"Fusion" data centers did little to stop terrorism, but did violate civil liberties and waste taxpayer dollars, according to the Senate. [Image Source: The LA Times]
Writes the panel, "[DHS liaisons] forwarded 'intelligence' of uneven quality — oftentimes shoddy, rarely timely, sometimes endangering citizens' civil liberties and Privacy Act protections, occasionally taken from already-published public sources, and more often than not unrelated to terrorism."
One example of such a shoddy effort is in the case of the Illinois Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center's recent claims that a Russian hacker had stolen sensitive usernames and passwords from a state utility. Those claims would haunt an IT worker from the utility, who had merely been doing his employer's bidding by remotely (and securely) managing systems while abroad on vacation.
Because of the poor detective work, it took some time for authorities to realize the devious "hacker" was merely a figment of agents' overactive imaginations. And in the meantime the employee faced unwelcome scrutiny, for basically doing his job.
II. Trading Freedom for Security
It's a story that Americans have grown
all too accustomed to
in the post-9/11 "police state" era: unwilling to be troubled with solid detective work, and with a wealth of
new abusable privileges
, citizens' civil liberties are trampled even as the government does little to ensure their safety.
Worst of all, the Senators were unable to even able to figure out how much was spent on the data centers, only able to ascertain it was between $289M to $1.4B USD in taxpayer money arguably down the drain.
Of course the bipartisan panel can only wave the finger at
Presidents George W. Bush
Barack Obama
who signed the funding bills and Fusion center plans into law. After, all it was the House and Senate who passed the funding and authorizations that called for the centers in the first place.
Some defend the Fusion centers. For example the
Los Angeles Police Department
's (LAPD) counterterrorism chief, Deputy Chief Michael Downing,
Los Angeles Times
that despite a lot of "white noise", "There are occasionally gold nuggets."
Unsurprisingly DHS spokesman Michael Chandler also labeled the investigation as "fundamentally flawed", commenting, "The committee report on federal support for fusion centers is out of date, inaccurate and misleading.
The DHS claims the Senate is wrong and that the "Fusion" centers are great. [Image Source: CyTalk]
Whether or not the centers were as useless as the Senators' report claims, the report does make clear the key problem was that the centers were tasking state/local law enforcement agents with investigation responsibilities that they were incapable of handling, rather than leaving their use up to the various sophisticated federal law enforcement agencies that know how to best make use of those mid-level skilled resources. The results ranged from mistakes to potential abuse.
Thus the U.S. is left to grapple once again with the question of whether its politicians are playing a game of Security Theater.
For those interested, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation members include:
Sen. Carl Levin
Sen. Thomas R. Carper
Sen. Claire McCaskill
Sen. Mary L. Landrieu
Sen. Jon Tester
Sen. Mark Begich
Sen. Tom Coburn
Sen. Susan M. Collins
Sen. Scott Brown
Sen. John McCain
Sen. Rand Paul
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[Article]-Video: Man-in-the-Middle Attack on MySpace with Cain
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By Brian Wilson, CISSP, CCNA, CCSE, CCAI, MCP, Network+, Security+, JNCIA
Last year at ChicagoCon 2007, Brian Wilson gave a great talk entitled "Cain & Abel: Windows Can Hack, Too!" Although the presentation and audio recording of the talk can be downloaded from the ChicagoCon Media Lab
2007 Evening Presentation Files, I had totally forgotten to publish his videos. Just in case things didn't go as planned during the live event or his laptop crapped out on him, Brian made a video of the MITM attack he demonstrated using Cain. They made it on the DVD passed out to the attendees, but unfortunately not in his column... until now!
Although we often talk about this incredibly versatile tool here on EH-Net, for the uninitiated...
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.
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With Clint Eastwood bringing to light the literal stupidity of talking to an empty chair, we wonder why the outrageously asinine actions don't translate to the metaphorical level.
There has never been a really good time to talk openly to empty chairs about seemingly private things but this seems as good a time as any to tell you that we, sports people, have been doing it for a while now. It's our dirty little secret. We know that it's not something that's widely accepted except by maybe the fringe insane and that perhaps the general public might frown on that kind of abstract and ultimately unexplained behavior, but now that the cats out the bag, now that Clint Eastwood has gone and made a big public show of it you might as well know that we have been talking to empty chairs for quite some time.
It's become something of a common occurrence for us through the years, though never embodied so literally as it was during last night's rag-tag rally of a Republican convention in Tampa Bay, Florida, but we do often talk in circles to empty chairs about all sorts of things: about NHL seasons that may never happen and red-ink NCAA violations that may never come. We talk about rule changes and safety concerns; about PEDs and BCS bowls. We answer all our own questions, always speaking in strange tongues and still only hear maybe half of what's being said. In short, we engage, with alarming regularity and fervor in the all-American debate, the great one-sided conversation: the finely tuned art of talking loudly at people, and not with them.
Which for fans, seems to be fine. Maybe more than fine. We are, by and large, ok with the idea that our opinions are always seen and never heard, that they are given a kind of functionary nod – "we did it all for the fans!" - and then filed away neatly in the things that don't really matter pile of every executive office everywhere.
Despite being an emotional bunch, a group wrought with inconsistency and a diehard compassion for arbitrary colors and shapes, we tend to have an unusually high tolerance for this sort of thing, for unaccountable front offices and thinly-veiled stupidity, stupidity like talking to empty chairs. We live for it. We have 24 hour sports channels devoted to nothing but capturing all the sheep speak, angled towards catching all the muck that's fit to rake. And we tune in religiously, fueling a billion dollar industry, while these brands (let's not be so naïve; be it the Packers, the Penguins, ESPN or the NBA, they're teams, they're companies, they're overseer bodies, they're brands) compete for our interest but in the end have a monopoly over our attention. At the end of the day, if it doesn't go their way, if the money is not on the table or the advertising contracts didn't come through, if a violation puts a high profile team in jeopardy, they will backtrack or pander or do whatever seems necessary to protect their product with little regard to their true investors, the ones who really matter most, the fans. And we'll still tune in to watch as absolutely nothing happens.
There is indeed a disconnect between two sporting worlds, between those who watch and those who play and both are routinely caught sitting next to and talking to empty chairs. One would think that the advent of omniscient and almighty internet would have decreased that divide but instead it intensified it, forcing teams, players and owners, to take shelter from the onslaught of the blogosphere. When we weighed in it wasn't with praise, it was with scorn and so the protective shells went up, heels were dug deep into the ground and the two divisive worlds grew further apart, formed into a soundproof circle within a much wider and more cynical sound-inducing circle.
But, despite the disconnect, we still watch, we still listen, we still hang on to ever single word even if they aren't really meant for us, if instead they are meant for a thousand empty chairs. And the great irony of this now long-drawn out and perhaps dead-horse beaten metaphor is that the only chairs that aren't empty in sports are ours. We're still at the games, still sitting on our couches. We're still tuned in even if the athletes and owners are tuned out, talking tepidly to empty chairs.


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Still on the fence as to paying to see this movie? You won't be after this review.
Director: John Luessenhop
MPAA Rating: R
Studio: Twisted Pictures
Look, we're not fooling ourselves here. You've already decided whether or not you're up for Texas Chainsaw 3D—the sixth useless installment of the franchise—so nothing we write is going to persuade you not to throw away your money. For fence-straddlers, though, here's our bullet-point rundown of what you probably most want to know.
What's it about? Picking up right after the action of director Tobe Hooper's unforgettable 1974 grindhouse classic, this John Luessenhop–directed sequel has a vengeful Leatherface surviving the fire at his house and lurking in the cellar of a basement estate inherited by Heather (Alexandra Daddario), where he waits to slaughter her, her boyfriend Ryan (Tremaine Neverson, a.k.a. singer Trey Songz) and several hot, half-naked others using meat hooks, bullets and, of course, the 3D-ready chainsaw.
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The apartment has a double bed in de bedroom and a 2 persons sleeping couch in the living room. The rent includes fresh bedding and towels. The place is perfect for one or two couples, families with (small) children & everybody who just wants to enjoy all the good stuff. Amsterdam has to offer, because it's close to every interesting party venue!
It will take you no more than a 5 minute walk to get to Vondelpark (the Dutch mini equivalent of Central Park), all the important museums (including the Van Goghmuseum & Heineken :), PC Hooftstraat (where you find Chanel, Louis Vuitton & Tiffany's). First rate entertainment area: Leidseplein with its splendid nightlife, legendary concert halls Paradiso and Melkweg and many many restaurants, terraces & theatres. Walk the other way for 5 minutes to the place to be: Jordaan area where you'll find excellent restaurants, pastries, (coffee)bars & fabulous shops selling everything from designer clothing to original Absynth, art, chocolates straight from heaven, jewelry, antiques and skate wear.
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We spent a nice time in indra's house.
her flat is very lonely and clean.
the neighbourhood is very close to the center town. I did all the turist tour in walking.
Indra is a very nice person who is flexible for the check in and out.
A good address in Amsterdam.
Excellent apartment ... a 10-minute walk from the heart .. well furnished and comfortable .. in everything ..
Ottimo appartamento...a 10 minuti a piedi dal cuore..ben arredato e comodo..in tutto..
This apartment is excellent. Clean, very comfortable, spacious and well equipped. A great location too - very quiet at night but only a 20 - 25 minute walk to the centre of Amsterdam, passing several canals and many interesting shops along the way. Local shops, bars, cafes and a tram stop are just round the corner. Canal view from the front and a very comfortable bed! Perfect really, and very good value for money. On arrival, Indra was charming and helpful. Highly recommended.
Charming luminous flat, cosy sofas and bedroom, fully equipped kitchen, goods reads on the bookshelves ( if you read english, dutch)...Nice quiet neighborhood walking distance from nice bars, the historic center, the museums....
and welcoming hostess too!
Indra is the perfect hostess!
Her apartment is very cozy and well situated. (Check out "l'Affiche" :-))
The flat is lovely! Big enough for the three of us staying there and four people would also have been fine. Nice interior design, close to a supermarket and not too far away from the 9th streets. Definitely something worth booking again!
The apartment is simple, has good heating and cooking enough. I went with my baby and my parents and do not advise if you have babies because the stairs are quite narrow. It is conveniently located near the center of Amsterdam in a very quiet neighborhood.
El apartamento es sencillo , tiene buena calefacción y utensilios de cocina suficientes. Yo fui con mi bebé y mis padres y no lo aconsejo si tienen bebés porque las escaleras son bastante estrechas.
Está muy bien situado ,cerca del centro de Amsterdam en un barrio muy tranquilo.
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Rand Paul is for the first time weighing in on the chaos in Iraq…
He leaves the question of targeted airstrikes open, saying there are "many questions" that need to be addressed before the U.S. proceeds: "What would airstrikes accomplish? We know that Iran is aiding the Iraqi government against ISIS. Do we want to, in effect, become Iran's air force? What's in this for Iran? Why should we choose a side, and if we do, who are we really helping?"
Asked whether he supports the president's decision to send 300 military advisers to Iraq and continuing to aid the Iraqi army, Paul says he doesn't "second guess" the decisions. But he couldn't help himself, adding that the United States has for a decade now funneled aid the Iraqi army and "you gotta wonder what's happened to all the money."…
Though most foreign-policy experts have traced the current chaos to the Obama administration's failure to negotiate a new Status of Forces Agreement with Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, Paul says insurgents very well could have seized control of the country's most important cities even if the U.S. had maintained its presence — and that it's a good thing American soldiers aren't getting caught in the crossfire right now. "This may well still have happened," he says. "I think it's probably fortunate that [American troops] weren't there."
Sen. Rand Paul intertwined his message against foreign aid on Friday with a message that appeals to the GOP's social conservative base.
"There's a war on Christianity going on, and sometimes you're being asked to pay for it," the Kentucky Republican said. "I say not one penny to any country that persecutes Christians."…
The first-term senator blasted the Obama administration for arming rebels in Syria, some of whom have been reported to attack Christians…
Paul, however, said nothing of defending Christians who are currently being threatened in Iraq by Islamic militants, known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
What would airstrikes accomplish? We know that Iran is aiding the Iraqi government against ISIS. Do we want to, in effect, become Iran's air force? What's in this for Iran? Why should we choose a side, and if we do, who are we really helping?…
For the small group calling for boots on the ground—how can we ask our brave men and women to risk their lives for a country the Iraqis aren't willing to fight for themselves? Iraqi soldiers are stripping off their uniforms and fleeing this fight. We shouldn't ask our soldiers to put their uniforms on to take their places…
Many of those clamoring for military action now are the same people who made every false assumption imaginable about the cost, challenge and purpose of the Iraq war. They have been so wrong for so long. Why should we listen to them again?
Saying the mess in Iraq is President Obama's fault ignores what President Bush did wrong. Saying it is President Bush's fault is to ignore all the horrible foreign policy decisions in Syria, Libya, Egypt and elsewhere under President Obama, many of which may have contributed to the current crisis in Iraq. For former Bush officials to blame President Obama or for Democrats to blame President Bush only serves as a reminder that both sides continue to get foreign policy wrong. We need a new approach, one that emulates Reagan's policies, puts America first, seeks peace, faces war reluctantly, and when necessary acts fully and decisively.
The Cheneys snarl about "appeasing our enemies," "abandoning our allies," and "apologizing for our great nation," as if it was the 2004 Republican National Convention all over again. Paul, with the exception of one somewhat intemperate paragraph asking "Why should we listen to them again?", approaches the question with an assumption of personal and national humility, a sense that American knowledge of (and power to shape) fluid events in the Middle East has limitations, as does American appetite for making the kind of commitments that the Cheneys of the world constantly seek…
This is a pretty clearly defined fork in the road for GOP foreign policy. As Rand Paul put it to me last August, when the elective war under debate was Syria, "We're losing, on a good day, 70/30 among the Republicans [in the Senate]. But we win every day among the grassroots, probably 80/20, 90/10." How—if at all—those numbers converge will tell us much about the fortunes of the Republican Party, and of the country.
Part of the rationale for giving people who got Iraq wrong last time the chance to explain why this intervention is different is that they may be right. Supporting the Iraq invasion was an unusually big mistake, but sooner or later, almost everyone who offers opinions about war makes mistakes. Ted Kennedy opposed overthrowing Manuel Noriega. Colin Powell opposed the Gulf War, as did most Democrats in Congress. Jimmy Carter thought it such a bad idea that he urged other nations to reject authorization for force at the UN. Michael Moore opposed NATO's military intervention in Kosovo. The Nation called it a "careless, cowardly and destructive war." In the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, in fact, some hawks did exactly what Waldman is doing now. They urged the public to "ignore those who got it all wrong" when they opposed successful military actions in the 1990s.
If accurately forecasting the last war were a reliable guide to accurately forecasting the next one, foreign policy would be a lot simpler. In fact, American history is littered with people who looked prescient one moment and foolish the next: critics of World War I who therefore opposed American entry into World War II; champions of World War II who therefore supported America's war in Vietnam; champions of the Balkan interventions who therefore supported America's invasion of Iraq.
The point is that everyone—whether they got the last war right or not—should approach the next one with humility. Everyone should answer for his or her past mistakes but no one should be written out of the debate because of them. Judging by the past century of American foreign policy, it's precisely when people are most confident history has proven them right that they're most likely to be wrong.
This I know: America has made profound — and far more costly — mistakes at the beginning of virtually every war. The opening months of World War II were a national nightmare, rendered more palatable to the public only through large-scale censorship that sometimes blocked the American people's knowledge of defeats that cost more lives in one night than America would lose in entire years in Iraq or Afghanistan. In the Korean War, profound diplomatic and intelligence failures led to headlong retreats and mass-scale slaughters of unprepared soldiers. In the Civil War, poor tactics and dreadful leadership almost destroyed the nation less than one century after its founding, as a Union with immense manpower and industrial benefits arguably came within a few improper orders and missed battlefield opportunities from crumbling in the face of the Army of Northern Virginia. The list of horrifying mistakes could go on, but — as I just said — war is hard, the enemy always has a vote, and sometimes only cruel experience can teach us the right lessons…
We are all responsible for our words and actions. Even though my influence is minimal (especially compared to my colleagues posting here on NRO and syndicated nationally) I sometimes agonize over individual words in blog posts. And I still think every day about the choices I made in Iraq. But if I'm responsible — as a supporter of the war from the beginning and a veteran of that same conflict — for what I say and do, so are the victory lappers. And I would not trade places with a group that helped manufacture the "war weariness" that gripped an American public that has, apart from a tiny minority, sacrificed nothing for this conflict and would continue to sacrifice nothing even if we maintained the small force in Iraq necessary to secure our gains.
You helped America leave, and in so doing, you helped waste the sacrifice of those few who served.
Your moral superiority is misplaced.
Your victory lap is grotesque.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul told conservative activists Friday that hawkish Republicans have mistakenly concluded that U.S. military intervention is a sign of American strength…
"Reagan spoken often of peace through strength. I hear that some in our nation, some in our party have forgotten the first part of the sentence," Paul said. "Peace should be our goal even as we build our strength. Some in my party have distorted the belief of peace through strength into the misguided belief that we should project strength through war."
I think the same questions could be asked of those who supported the Iraq War. You know, were they right in their predictions? Were there weapons of mass destruction there? That's what the war was sold on. Was democracy easily achievable? Was the war won in 2005, when many of these people said it was won? They didn't really, I think, understand the civil war that would break out. And what's going on now — I don't blame on President Obama. Has he really got the solution? Maybe there is no solution. But I do blame the Iraq War on the chaos that is in the Middle East. I also blame those who are for the Iraq War for emboldening Iran.
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The holiday season is especially sweet for Jennifer Roth. Each year, with the help of her mother, Peggy Roth, and her daughter Sofia, she creates a gingerbread house that is anything but ordinary. This year, the trio completed their most ambitious project to date. Using only edible materials, they built a towering gingerbread model of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral.
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Roth has been baking and building gingerbread masterpieces for five years. When her daughter Sofia, now eight, was just three years old, she told her mother she should make a gingerbread carousel. Roth agreed it would be a fun project, so she took Sofia's idea and created her first unusual gingerbread house. Using candy canes, colorful frosting, and carefully molded gingerbread, Roth brought the carousel to life. After completing this magical merry-go-round, she went on to create the Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal. Roth's love of both architecture and baking inspired her to bring these wonders of the world to life for the holiday season.
Roth's most recent project, Notre Dame Cathedral, is one of her proudest achievements to date. She worked with Sofia and her mother to construct a delicious replica, or model, of the famous French church for The Gingerbread Wonderland at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum, in Morristown, New Jersey. The Gingerbread Wonderland is part of a weekend craft show that features a wide range of exceptional gingerbread sculptures. This year, Roth and her family took home the first-place prize.
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For many years, researchers have known that the movement problems associated with Parkinson's disease result from a loss of neurons that produce a nerve-signaling chemical called dopamine in one part of the brain. A new study suggests that Parkinson's disease (PD) also affects nerve endings that produce a related chemical, norepinephrine, in the heart. The finding improves understanding about how Parkinson's disease develops and may lead to a way of predicting the disorder and possibly even preventing it.
The study also improves understanding of orthostatic hypotension, or a fall in blood pressure when a person stands up, which is a common complication of Parkinson's disease. This condition can cause dizziness, lightheadedness, and fainting.
Using positron emission tomography (PET) scans, researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) found that nearly all of the 29 Parkinson's disease patients they studied had decreased numbers of norepinephrine-producing nerve endings in the heart. This finding suggests that Parkinson's is more than just a brain disease and may be caused by an abnormality that affects the peripheral nervous system, which includes the sympathetic nervous system, as well as the brain. The study, and a related editorial, appear in the September 5, 2000, edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine.(1)(2)
The loss of nerve terminals in the heart was not related to whether the patients had taken the drug levodopa, which is converted to dopamine and is commonly prescribed to treat Parkinson's patients, says David S. Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., Chief of the Clinical Neurocardiology Section at NINDS, who led the study. The extent of loss was also unrelated to the duration or severity of the disease.
Loss of norepinephrine-producing nerves throughout the heart was found in the nine Parkinson's patients who also had orthostatic hypotension. However, most of the Parkinson's disease patients without orthostatic hypotension also had evidence of decreased sympathetic nerve terminals in the heart. The sympathetic nervous system controls blood pressure, pulse rate, perspiration, and many other automatic responses to stress. Since norepinephrine and dopamine are part of the same family of chemicals, called catecholamines, the new finding suggests that whatever causes the loss of dopamine-producing nerve terminals in the brain also causes the loss of sympathetic nerve terminals in the heart.
The number of sympathetic nerve terminals was normal in patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA), a disorder which often resembles Parkinson's disease and is characterized by severe orthostatic hypotension. Checking for loss of sympathetic nerve terminals in the heart might therefore help physicians distinguish between Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy. This is particularly important because some drugs that act on the sympathetic nervous system — including some non-prescription herbal remedies — can cause dangerous rises in blood pressure in patients with MSA whose sympathetic nerves are intact, says Dr. Goldstein.
While other recent imaging studies have suggested that sympathetic nerves in the heart are lost in Parkinson's disease, the new study used sophisticated tests to confirm that the imaging findings were due to the loss of sympathetic nerve terminals and that this loss causes the orthostatic hypotension in Parkinson's patients. These tests included measurements of norepinephrine in the blood coming from the heart and of blood pressure responses to the Valsalva maneuver, in which patients blow into a tube, producing temporary decreases in the amount of blood pumped by the heart. People with a fully functioning sympathetic nervous system are able to compensate for the decrease in blood output by the heart because the brain responds by directing an increase in traffic in sympathetic nerves. This constricts blood vessels, "like tightening the nozzle at the end of a garden hose," allowing the blood pressure to return to normal, says Dr. Goldstein. If the sympathetic nervous system is damaged, however, this tightening does not occur, and blood pressure decreases progressively, causing orthostatic hypotension.
Dr. Goldstein and his colleagues are now carrying out studies to determine if the loss of sympathetic nerve terminals is restricted to the heart or if it also affects other organs of the body. They also hope to determine why dopamine- and norepinephrine-producing nerve terminals in the heart and in only a particular part of the brain are lost in Parkinson's disease. According to what Dr. Goldstein calls the "getaway car hypothesis," the sympathetic nervous system in the heart is always working in case the body suddenly needs to escape. A toxin in the blood could cause the nerve terminals to wear out prematurely, just as a toxin in the fuel line of a car can corrode the engine after months of idling. A related hypothesis — which Dr. Goldstein calls the "catalytic converter hypothesis" — is that a toxic breakdown product builds up in dopamine- and norepinephrine-producing nerves due to lack of a necessary enzyme in those nerves. The "getaway car hypothesis" might explain not only why Parkinson's patients have a loss of sympathetic nerve terminals in the heart but also why they have a loss of dopamine-producing neurons in the brain, which may point to a way of predicting and ultimately preventing the disorder.
The NINDS, part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the nation's leading supporter of research on the brain and nervous system. The NINDS is now celebrating its 50th anniversary.
(1) Goldstein, David S., Holmes, Courtney, Li, Sheng-Ting, Bruce, Simon, Metman, Leo Verhagen, and Cannon, Richard, O III. "Cardiac Synpathetic Denervation in Parkinson's Disease." Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 133, No. 5, September 5, 2000, pp. 338-347.
(2) Kaufman, Horacio. "Primary Autonomic Failure: Three Clinical Presentations of One Disease?" Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 133, No. 5, September 5, 2000, pp. 382-384.
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