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Before joining PEM, I lived in Los Angeles for nearly 12 years, and for me, industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss' encapsulation of a California mindset still rings very true…from 1947.
On the Pacific Coast there are fewer shackles on tradition. There is an unslackening development of new thought. There is a decided willingness to take a chance on new ideas.
It suggests the sense of freedom and exhilaration one feels living there. It's a mindset stoked by vastness and geographical beauty, a sunny and warm climate, the surrounding glamour of Hollywood, the inviolably public beaches, and the opportunities long promised by the University of California educational system — all components of the California dream that drew my husband and me out West in the first place. Dreyfuss' quote also hints at the beginnings of the stories of the lives — and the objects — created and transformed by the spirit of democracy and innovation particular to the Golden State.
California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way, opening March 29 and organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, brilliantly elucidates the stories of the California designers who, as a Los Angeles Times journalist noted in 1951, demonstrated a "willingness to experiment and be different, to solve problems in California's way."
The modernity inherent to the California outlook and expressed through the objects on display is the central theme of California Design. As émigré designer Greta Magnusson Grossman stated in 1951, California design "is not a superimposed style, but an answer to present conditions … It has developed out of our own preference for living in a modern way."
The influx of millions of new residents to California during the economic boom of the 1920s ignited the demand for modern housing and furnishings that exponentially increased during and immediately following World War II because of wartime manufacturing jobs, soldiers returning from the front, and the related population booms. European designers such as R.M. Schindler brought to California tenets of modernism along with their professional training in art and architecture.
These émigrés generated tremendous synergy with local designers and schools, and all of these designers fueled a culture of innovation that was strong enough to survive the lean years of the 1930s. This spirit of experimentation and innovation accelerated as California took the lead in aerospace and defense manufacturing during World War II. Legendary designers such as Charles and Ray Eames moved to the state in 1941, and more designers fled the conflicts in Europe for opportunities provided by everything from Hollywood to the housing crisis.
The state's beautiful environment and gentle climate also contributed to the flourishing design movement. Modern designers blurred traditional boundaries between spaces for dining, eating relaxing or sleeping within the home, but California weather inspired architects in the state, including Cliff May, to extend the open plan concept, blur distinctions between spaces and furnishings inside and outside the house, and fully embrace indoor/outside living.
Moreover, profoundly democratic ideals underpinned the modern design movement in California. Through new materials, manufacturing methods and modern styles, designers endeavored to create products as inviting and affordable as possible to the vast numbers of new middle-class consumers with homes to furnish and decorate. The momentum behind the California design movement was the home. The furniture, ceramics, architecture, graphic and industrial design, jewelry, fashion, metalwork and textiles on view in the exhibition were made with the Californian — and the beauty and comfort of his or her daily life — in mind.
The exhibition is divided into four chapters — Shaping, Making, Living and Selling. These sections are all historically and culturally conceived to tell the stories of California designs and designers and their influence and legacy, but they also resonate with me personally. They suggest the allure of California to so many people, then and now. They inspire us to consider how California shaped the worldview of its residents and designers, gave people the tools to make something new of themselves and their ideas and aspiration, and showed how a different environment and climate changed how you lived, and could even make you a booster for what makes California so great.
To my mind, this exhibition demonstrates how, from cars to cameras, toys to chairs, album covers to bathing suits, saltshakers to surfboards, California designers redefined the material culture of an era. They not only created what, in 1951, the Los Angeles Times Home Magazine defined as the California look — "glowing color, originality of treatment, simplicity of design"— but also showed how creative responses to one's environment, thoughtful use of materials and good design can create a better and more pleasing world.
Editor's Note: Read Austen Barron Bailly's story of moving from California to Salem, Mass., in this previous post.
Opening Day Celebration California Design
California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way
Saturday, March 29, from 11am – 4pm
Public Gallery Talk
California Design | 11 am
Tickets available day of program
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Objectified | 11 am – 12:15 pm | Morse Auditorium
Reservations by March 26
Objectified examines our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It's a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It's about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It's about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability.
Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world's most influential product designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves? 2009, 75 minutes, directed by Gary Hustwit.
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Docent led Gallery Tours
California Design | 11 am and 2 pm | Meet at information desk
The Great Outdoors
Noon – 4 pm | Atrium
Americans enjoyed outdoor life like never before with design innovations like the Airstream trailer and light, shatterproof materials like spun aluminum and plastics. Drop into this pop-up midcentury "campsite" to enjoy travel pastimes, learn about design for fresh-air living, and create a custom paint-by-numbers artwork.
Drop-in Art Making
Paper Cutouts | Noon – 4 pm | Atrium
California Design | 1 – 2 pm | Morse Auditorium
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This lecture examines the Golden State's role in shaping the material culture of the United States. Beginning with the development of a singular California modernism in the 1930s and the contributions of émigrés, the lecture then explores the design innovations made possible by the conversion of World War II technologies to peace-time use, the California home and its celebration of indoor/outdoor living, and the marketing of California products (and identity) throughout the United States and Europe. Presentation by Wendy Kaplan, Curator and Department Head, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Wendy is joined for a Q & A session by Austen Barron Bailly, the George Putnam Curator of American Art.
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California Design | 2 pm
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From Bullet Bras to Bra Burning | 3 – 4 pm | Morse Auditorium
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Join The Tannery Series for a discussion of fashion, feminism and the way the home-front became a crucible of social change. Be part of the conversation as award-winning novelist Sigrid Nunez (The Last of her Kind) and sociologist Ashly Mears (Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model) explore beauty, power and the changing lives of women in the 50′s, 60′s and beyond. Come hear why "Mid-Century Modern" is about more than great design. Hosted by the Tannery Series, bringing literature and people together on the North Shore.
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Honestly? I was kinda bummed when I read about this seemingly happy news! MY Kate Winslet? Married? I mean, how are we ever supposed to be together if she's married to Ned Rocknroll?! LOL, as I work through my own personal and emotional issues regarding the nuptials of my absolute favorite actress, click inside to read more about how Kate Winslet eloped with Ned Rocknroll earlier this month! Kate Winslet got hitched y'all (sniffle, sniffle)!!!
People has the report:
Talk about a Titanic secret.
Kate Winslet has tied the knot with Richard Branson's nephew, Ned Rocknroll, her rep tells PEOPLE.
"I can confirm that Kate Winslet married Ned Rock'nRoll in NY earlier this month in a private ceremony attended by her two children and a very few friends and family," the rep says. "The couple had been engaged since the summer."
According to British media reports, Leonardo DiCaprio gave away the bride in a ceremony so secret that the bride and groom's parents didn't know about it.
The Oscar-, Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning actress, 37, has been dating Rocknroll, 34, (his legal name) since fall of 2011.
In August 2011, she and Rocknroll were on the same Caribbean island owned by Branson when a fire broke out and Winslet rescued Branson's 90-year-old mother.
Winslet previously was married to Sam Mendes and Jim Threapleton.
Well, [obligatory] congratulations to the happy couple! But I swear, Ned, if you hurt my Kate…..
LOL, but seriously, best wishes to these two!!! And how cute is it that Leonardo DiCaprio gave her away? I mean, doesn't that bit of news kinda, sorta fulfill the fantasy (that I'm apparently still having) of Leo and Kate/Jack and Rose walking down the aisle? LOL, I love it!
But yeah, I'm gonna go watch Revolutionary Road and cry. Then The Reader. The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. You may take my Kate, Ned Rocknroll, but you'll never take away the intense emotional connection we have via her brilliant performances! So there!
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It's hardly a gimmick. Read options have been around for a while, just nobody bother to use them.
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It's hardly a gimmick. Read options have been around for a while, just nobody bother to use them.
The first few times Kaepernick hands it off, Ngata clobbers him.....everytime he hands off or runs you hit him, and hit him hard. We are a physical team.....it gives us a chance to be more physical.
question: If you look at the teams the 49ers played after Kaep became starter and compare them to who the Ravens had to play during that time period, who do you think is more tested right now?
we need to take the lead, not bs through the first quarter running 10/12 times on first down and then going wild in the second half. we need to keep the pedal to the metal and score and force kap to throw the ball. im 100% sure our D wont fold like the falcons
SF had the 24th hardest schedule this year. We had the 5th.
just finished watching some 9ner game footage. Just at first glance i would say the obvious, play contain with the outside linebackers. But what i would add to this is bringing up the corners particularly when they come out in these two back sets. What cant be overstated is how well their o line is playing in space. their guards really get a hat on a head with down field blocking.
Lets be pro active rather than reactive to this read option crap by blitzing a nickel.
This might sound crazy but i would like to see them bring the strong safety in the box to play press, then blitz Jimmy Smith from the slot every now and again. i haven't watched nearly enough film on Kapernick but i see him making a lot of passes on crossing routes and comebacks. Routes where guys are partially or fully squared up on the ball. i want to see his receivers forced into making over the shoulder/head receptions in man coverage with one deep safety.
If the Ravens can jump out to an early lead and force the 9ers into obvious passing situations, it would go a long way to neutralizing the read option. Easier said than done, however.
Just wanted to bring this thread back up. I feel like we should be analyzing their offense more. I think our offense just needs to do what they do against their defense, but where we really need our masterminds focusing their attention during the lead-up to this game is how do we stop that Pistol offense with their read-option. I don't think it's unstoppable, but I'm curious about more ideas for stopping it. I keep reading 49ers fans say that what the Seahawks did to stop them won't work again because the real reason their offense stalled in that game was due to fatigue from the previous week. Anybody buy that?


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2009 Japan Boxing Statistics
By Joe Koizumi
In accordance with statistics of the Japan Boxing Commission (JBC), there happened 260 promotions here in Japan in the previous year. The number decreased in comparison with 276 in 2008, but we still saw some five shows a week on average somewhere (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, etc.) in Japan. The total bouts of last year amounted to 2,082, which also decreased from 2,245 in 2008. But it may be a good number in a single country. Out of the 260 promotions, we saw 149 shows in Tokyo district, 129 of which took place at the Korakuen Hall, the Mecca of boxing here. Strange enough, despite the general decrease, the promotions at the Hall were three more than 126 in 2008. We witnessed 1,215 games at the Hall, including preliminary bouts, throughout the year, 148 bouts more than 1,067 there in 2008. Licensed by the JBC were 2,670 professional boxers, which were almost same as 2,669 in 2008. Out of them, 2,503 fighters belonged to Japanese boxing gyms, while 167 were foreign visitors fighting here.
Why can Japan present so many promotions still under recession? It may be chiefly because our promoters pay purses in the form of tickets to domestic boxers (not to foreigners) with boxers and their managers having to endeavor to distribute tickets in order to exchange them into money. This reporter once criticized this traditional way of ticket-distribution under the club system where the managers can be the promoters of their own star boxers. Under the worldwide recession, however, it might be a way for the boxing world to survive.
Not only the promoters but also all the boxers/managers, along with ticket agencies, make the best efforts to sell tickets, which certainly help fill boxing arenas with the boxers' own sponsors, friends, families, relatives, etc. It means all participants (promoters, boxers and managers) actually serve as ticket-sellers. Funny enough, those aficionados are usually satisfied to watch their own favorites fighting, so they leave the arena without watching other games or the main event. Sometimes, when the main event started, the crowd became half as adherents of undercard boxers already left after their bouts.
We have some one hundred licensed promoters, who staged no less than 260 shows a year in order to cultivate their own prospects in 2009. Some of the impresarios sacrificed their investments into the promotions even in red ink for the sake of having future world champs more experienced against "opponents."
Television coverage of boxing has been decreasing, as TVs only show interests in broadcasting some specified boxers (Kameda, Naito, Hasegawa, Nishioka, Linares, Aoh, et al) rather than presenting monthly boxing programs, some of which came to an end in the previous year. Instead, hardcore fans make it a rule to watch WOWOW (a leading cable television here) that regularly shows two or three latest world title bouts on a delayed basis for two hours on Monday, or telecast some superfights live from Las Vegas on Sunday (because of the time difference). Therefore, Pacquiao, Mayweather, Cotto, Klitschkos, Haye, Mosley, Hopkins, Donaire, Darchinyan, etc. have become household names among them.
In general, the Japanese boxing fraternity seems still economically healthy, though the scale of promotions became comparatively smaller than that in the 1990s. It might be an international tendency. We now have five male and four female world champs such as Hozumi Hasegawa, Toshiaki Nishioka, Nobuo Nashiro, Koki Kameda and Nobuhiro Ishida; and Etsuko Tada, Tsunami Tenkai, Naomi Togashi and Momo Koseki. Some of them are very attractive and popular champs, others not. But we still have some bright hopefuls who may acquire world belts in the near future.
Fight scribes and JBC staff here are most hard-working people to continuously cover great many promotions. They must love boxing very much. Without the love to it, they won't usually devote Saturdays or Sundays to seeing or supervising the games. Of course, there are not a few mismatches or tedious bouts, as in other countries, but we can enthusiastically witness dramatic demolitions of Hasegawa or Nishioka as well as steady growth of future stars. Boxing in Japan will survive, as boxing people do so, hopefully.


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There is a great thread that has been going for a while on the Dr. Web Weblog about the Digital Web Magazine redesign. It's in German so I have provided a English translation courtesy of Babblefish. I think thread has been one of the more constructive views I have seen so far about the redesign... and you have to admit, these Germans know how to design.
It's cool ze Germans have picked up on the redesign, but I'm curious how feedback like "...as in an old card index e.g. AC stands and in the thrust subject is sorted the record sheets with the riders A, B, C on the thrust subject." helps you out. :)
I *think* that person was talking about card sorting articles by topic.. maybe.. not 100% sure. Anyone in the house read German? :)
Well, something like that. The writer compares the navigation here to a card box. This means, he suggests the navigation should be done vice-versa. The main navigation points should be on the left while the tabs should carry the submenu. Just like it was done with cardboxes. The boxes' drawer was labelled with something general like "Find here all files starting with the letters A to C". Inside the drawer, all cards were labelled with tabs. So it was just a pictured comparison, meaning the navigation should have been done the other way round. Hopefully, you got the point and I didn't confuse you more ;)
yeah, i read german too "A relaunch is a dodgy affair, and afterwards, not everyone is happy. Digital Web Magazine has dared to do it. I would like to look not at the colours, layout, or standards, but rather at the previously uncommon navigation. Is it helpful?" Altavista and Google have slightly different translations, but both do a pretty average job. As they say, it loses a lot...
Thanks for the help translating that. I guess I haven't interacted with too many card boxes. One thing to point out is that web design does not, or at least should not, mimic objects in the physcial world. We saw a lot of web designers doing this in the late 90s with the "TV Remote Control" looking navigations... and then everyone quickly realized how crazy this was. A good navigation scheme is developed with two or more navigation types: a primary navigation (often leading across the top of the page), and a secondary navigation (typically leading down the left side of the page), and sometimes a tertiary navigation which can be found under the secondary navigation, under the primary navigation, or even mixed in but differenciated within the secondary navigation. Jesse James Garrett wrote a great article on the The Psychology of Navigation which goes into how links are interprited. There is also a great article on Examining User Expectations of the Location of Web Objects which really shows you "where users look and for what." There are also a whole ton of related articles here under the topic of navigation.


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8. Ginger's Story Continued
The next time that Ginger and I were together in the paddock she told me about her first
"After my breaking in," she said, "I was bought by a dealer to match another chestnut
horse. For some weeks he drove us together, and then we were sold to a fashionable
gentleman, and were sent up to London. I had been driven with a check-rein by the
dealer, and I hated it worse than anything else; but in this place we were reined far
tighter, the coachman and his master thinking we looked more stylish so. We were often
driven about in the park and other fashionable places. You who never had a check-rein on
don't know what it is, but I can tell you it is dreadful.
"I like to toss my head about and hold it as high as any horse; but fancy now yourself, if
you tossed your head up high and were obliged to hold it there, and that for hours
together, not able to move it at all, except with a jerk still higher, your neck aching till
you did not know how to bear it. Besides that, to have two bits instead of one -- and mine
was a sharp one, it hurt my tongue and my jaw, and the blood from my tongue colored
the froth that kept flying from my lips as I chafed and fretted at the bits and rein. It was
worst when we had to stand by the hour waiting for our mistress at some grand party or
entertainment, and if I fretted or stamped with impatience the whip was laid on. It was
enough to drive one mad."
"Did not your master take any thought for you?" I said.
"No," said she, "he only cared to have a stylish turnout, as they call it; I think he knew
very little about horses; he left that to his coachman, who told him I had an irritable
temper! that I had not been well broken to the check-rein, but I should soon get used to it;
but he was not the man to do it, for when I was in the stable, miserable and angry, instead
of being smoothed and quieted by kindness, I got only a surly word or a blow. If he had
been civil I would have tried to bear it. I was willing to work, and ready to work hard too;
but to be tormented for nothing but their fancies angered me. What right had they to
make me suffer like that? Besides the soreness in my mouth, and the pain in my neck, it
always made my windpipe feel bad, and if I had stopped there long I know it would have
spoiled my breathing; but I grew more and more restless and irritable, I could not help it;
and I began to snap and kick when any one came to harness me; for this the groom beat
me, and one day, as they had just buckled us into the carriage, and were straining my
head up with that rein, I began to plunge and kick with all my might. I soon broke a lot of
harness, and kicked myself clear; so that was an end of that place.
"After this I was sent to Tattersall's to be sold; of course I could not be warranted free
from vice, so nothing was said about that. My handsome appearance and good paces soon
brought a gentleman to bid for me, and I was bought by another dealer; he tried me in all
kinds of ways and with different bits, and he soon found out what I could not bear. At last
he drove me quite without a check-rein, and then sold me as a perfectly quiet horse to a
gentleman in the country; he was a good master, and I was getting on very well, but his
old groom left him and a new one came. This man was as hard-tempered and hard-
handed as Samson; he always spoke in a rough, impatient voice, and if I did not move in
the stall the moment he wanted me, he would hit me above the hocks with his stable
broom or the fork, whichever he might have in his hand. Everything he did was rough,
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Johnny Depp Wins Kids' Choice Favorite Movie Actor
Continuing his reign as one of the most popular actors on the planet, Johnny Depp was an early winner at the 24th Annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday (April 2).
The "Pirates of the Caribbean" hunk took home the prize for Favorite Actor for his portrayal of The Mad Hatter in "Alice in Wonderland".
Upon taking the stage, Depp told the audience, "It's truly a pleasure to win this award. You guys are our future, take good care of us."
Offering up a surprise, Johnny started to walk off stage before pausing, turning around and spraying the crowd with the infamous green slime.
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A TOWN'S Christmas tree had to be dismantled an hour after it was put up over
fears it could ELECTROCUTE somebody.
More than 1,500 people watched the unveiling of the spectacular £10,000
frosted metal tree, twinkling with thousands of blue lights in Stanley,
County Durham.
Shop owners on the high street were asked to extend their opening hours on
Saturday and a day of celebrations was planned to create a buzz around
Christmas shopping.
The council even invited Emmerdale star Ross Adams, who is local to the town,
to switch on the illuminations to mark the start of the town's winter
But as the extravaganza came to an end and the crowds left, workmen pulled the
plug and brought down the tree over fears anyone tampering with it could
potentially be killed by a 240 volt electric shock.
Concerns about the wiring of the electric tree were raised by Durham County
Council, which said it did not comply with safety regulations.
Durham County Councillor Carl Marshall, who helped organise the festival,
said: "The tree was metal and covered in LEDs.
"If anyone was to open up a junction box or was messing about with it then
there was good risk that they would not just get a little shock.
"It would be a fatality.
"We knew about the problem on the day, so planned just for the tree to go up
and be switched on, but then turned off and taken down to stop anyone else
from touching it.
"I am disappointed because it was a great spectacle for Stanley's Front
Street. It is a total joke."
Local shopowners, who hoped the town's new decoration could bring extra
much-needed trade to the town told of their shock over the tree's
Darren Robins, assistant manager of House and Home of Front Street, Stanley,
said: "I saw it being put up, it was 8ft and white with white lights and
they switched the lights on. They spent all afternoon putting it up.
"They should have thought it through."
On Saturday, the tree was erected and surrounded by safety barriers and
security guards to make sure no-one could get close to it, then dismantled
while the wiring is re-examined.
Councillor Peter McLaughlin, chairman of Stanley Town Council, said the tree
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I have a terrier mix and a german shep. They fight over dominence and toys. Today I got bit braking them up. I don't know what to do
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Were they introduced properly? Are you sure they are fighting and not playing? sometimes play time can look and sound scary.. Are they both intact? Sometimes it just takes time. I would not suggest leaving them alone at all.
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This just cracked me up... they sent this in an email to me as a "new VWowner".
This image, along with the green "idiot light" that tells me to step on the brake before putting the car into Drive, really makes me wonder what they must think of today's drivers. LOL
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I got that same thing. VWoA thinks we need a reminder on how to use our key fobs...lol
Seriously... I've had the car for two months!! If I couldn't figure out the remote, they'd have heard from me by now. hahaha (insert bangsheadonwall emote)
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Haha true. If you do not know how to operate a key fob, you shouldn't be allowed to drive.
Think you're so smart eh? Do my job for a day...it's surprising how many people do not know the simple features the vehicles have. 'my lights stay off when opening the door" Turn on the switch near your sunroof dial.
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The only place to follow EVERY Arsenal game this season is Arsenal TV Online - whether you're at home or on the move using the new Official Arsenal App.
Our ever-popular MatchDay Show is bigger and better than ever in 2010/11 with three hours of coverage from each game plus your chance to join the debate during and after the match by e-mailing our commentary team.
Here's what you can expect when Arsenal face Fulham at Craven Cottage on Sunday:
Our MatchDay Show starts at 3.30pm (UK time) with live build-up to the game including the best bits from Arsène Wenger's pre-match media briefing, an exclusive interview with the Arsenal manager plus all the breaking team news from Craven Cottage.
Don't miss a kick with live audio commentary from Dan Roebuck and Arsenal.com editor Richard Clarke. Our commentary team will respond to your e-mails during the game so send your comments via the website at www.arsenal.com/studio.
Our commentary team hand back to the studio where our presenter will sum up the first half and launch a special video feature. We'll be back at Craven Cottage before the second half to field more of your e-mails and reflect on all the talking points.
Stay online for exclusive post-match reaction and the team's lap of appreciation for the fans. Plus join the debate - via e-mail or phone - as our studio team discuss the match. If you're calling from the UK, dial 020 7607 3200. If you're calling from outside the UK, dial +44 20 7607 3200. We'll call you straight back.
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Since the FDA announced in June of 2011 that the diabetes drug Actos may be linked to bladder cancer, thousands of patients affected by the disease have come forward to pursue legal action against Takeda Pharmaceuticals over the defective drug.Read More
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned last year that those who take the medication Actos for their type 2 diabetes may have an increased chance of developing bladder cancer. The advisory came as a shock to hundreds of thousands who believed the drug to be a safer alternative to Avandia.Read More
Actos is a drug prescribed to millions of people around the world to treat type II diabetes. However, the FDA, EMA, and Health Canada have recently warned that long term use of the drug may increase the risk of bladder cancer.
The warnings come after research in Europe and Canada showed a heightened risk of bladder cancer associated with the use of Actos for more than a year. The drug has been recalled in Germany and France, but is still widely used in the United States. Due to the failure of the manufacturer, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, to properly warn of the risks, thousands may have been affected.
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June 8, 2012 – For over a year, researchers have cautioned of study results showing that long-term use of the diabetes drug Actos is associated with an increased risk of bladder cancer.
In June of 2011, the FDA first told patients of the dangers after a study by the French Medicines Agency found as much as a 40% increased risk of bladder cancer with Actos use. The findings also prompted Germany and France to ban the drug.
Health Canada also recently issued a warning after their independent study found troubling relations between Actos and bladder cancer. The British Medical Journal published a study on May 31, 2012 by researchers at McGill University in Montreal showing the increased bladder cancer risks from long-term Actos use may actually be as high as 83%.Read More
Following warnings last year by the United States and several countries in Europe, the top drug safety agency in Canada announced this month that they were also warning patients about the safety of the diabetes drug Actos.
On April 19, 2012, Health Canada issued a warning that Actos may cause an increased risk of bladder cancer. They also announced that they will require additional warnings to the packaging of the drug to alert patients of the risk.
Health Canada is much like the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. or the European Medicines Agency in Europe. Both agencies warned of the safety of the drug last summer.Read More
There has been a health advisory issued by the Food and Drug administration to patients taking the diabetes drug Actos. It warns that use of the drug for longer than a year may lead to Actos health risks.
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Takeda Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of the drug, has denied that there are health risks and refuses to recall the drug.
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- ¾ cup coconut oil
- 1 cup coconut palm sugar (or regular sugar)
- 2 eggs
- ½ tsp vanilla
- ¼ cup black strap molasses
- 2 cups sorghum flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp allspice
- 1½ tsp ginger
- ½ tsp cloves
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp xanthan gum
- Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl.
- In a separate, larger bowl, cream the coconut oil and palm sugar.
- Add the eggs, vanilla and molasses and beat until smooth.
- Add the dry ingredients, mixing well.
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I've got a page of links on my site to various folks for various reasons (friends, relatives, reciprocal linking, etc.). It's been said that who you link to can "harm you but never help you." (bad neighborhoods, PR0, etc.)
So, if I disallow this one page with robots.txt, I shouldn't have to worry about possible penalties in terms of PR/link pop, right? Spiders should never see the links page, and therefore, couldn't penalize me for any "bad" outbound links.
Am I thinking straight?
If you are just wanting to provide links to your visitors for resources you value and don't care that the sites you link too benefit from increased popularity from your link, then you are fine with this.
If you are trying to get link partners (like you indicated), then you are creating a situation where you get popularity/PageRank value from their link to you, but you aren't offering the same popularity/PageRank value to them. If your page is not indexed, then it is not shown as a link to that partner. Hence you don't have a reciprocal link that is of value for popularity of PageRank.
The value, still remains for driving traffic to each other other, but you need to make clear to whom you are trading links to that you are not going to help their popularity/PageRank by your quality link to them.
Why don't you just put friends and relatives on a different page you keep robots from and then only associate with sites that you, your visitors, your link partners and the search engines would all benefit from knowing about?
By the way, what is the consensus on whether or not reciprocal linking is a zero-sum game, meaning there is no gain or loss of link pop/PR?
There is no question about the fact that links to you from quality sites in your theme area are helpful for PageRank and popularity. This is exactly why they started looking at links, to determine if anyone thinks you have value for a particular search term. If others link to you, then perhaps you are really a quality site for ranking higher for a particular search term query result.
Personally, I don't think that one or two links going south on you from a hundred you link to is going to significantly affect your ranking. Also, if someone is an eggregious offender in your field, you would proably know it and you can drop the link and ask them to stop linking to you.
And, be sure you look at their PageRank in the first place before you link to them. And, perhaps take a quick look at their source code and see if you see something questionable there. If you do, don't link to them.
By the way, part of the "sum gain" for our sites is that there are sites referring to us, regardless of the popularity issue. Search engine traffic is important, so is traffic from qualified referral sources. :-)
There would not be any cancelling out set in the algorithm. If they started setting up that kind of thing it would destroy way more than it would help in trying to get people to stop improper reciprocal linking. But, there is nothing inherently wrong about the fact that we are willing to link to each other. After all, that's really what the Web is all about anyway, linking, linking, linking.
I think that a few months back, I read a post somewhere that made me think that reciprocal links would (or could) cancel each other out in terms of link pop. Whether the poster meant that as a reality or just a possibility is the uncertain part for me.
Thanks for your help.
At the same time, I just wouldn't take a chance with something that I consider important for my site and would still look for alternatives to cover things if at all possible. ;)


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And so another year shuffles around, for some a year of getting used to grief prematurely, too young. They happened to be in Bali, or their sister did, or cousin or neighbour.
Now the Prime Minister makes his plans, streets near Legian are cordoned off, humans in uniform becoming barricades.
Was I the only person to read about the human chain around the ceremonial area to wonder at its purpose? Surely, it can only be an act of symbolism, since what can stop the bombs, the human bombs, the car bombs, the lust for light . . . media's light or God's light?
As a security measure, it seems a little wanting. As a declaration, it carries some potency.
The greater the blow to our freedom, the more irrepressible our need to stand up simply for humanity; a human barricade says more than it does.
Security is the buzz word, but victory is nearly always on the side of these mysterious enemies, since they care more for victory than for life. We can't compete.
The media grasp for ways to say what each of us knows, that we are living modern history, that this, now, will be looked back upon as a time of some significant shift. Known enemies become unknown, perhaps unknowable. A new panic grips us.
There are new allegiances and a strange anonymous space between ourselves and our enemies. They can master the impersonal dominion of the internet.
Missiles can be shot from the earth at flying jets, not only can but will, because the rules have changed and hatred has become non-negotiable.
We can talk about security systems all we like, but anyone who travels can see the vacancies where intent can sneak in, if it is mad enough.
A year ago, I felt bizarrely distant from the Bali tragedy. For some strange reason, it did not get under my skin and bury its way into me the way some other tragedies do.
I knew no one and somehow shied away from the patriotic sentiments that accompanied the nation's pain.
I became tired of the politicians' expressions of sympathy, which were no doubt genuine but, in their uniformity, strangely deadening. The cliches seemed to lessen the sorrow rather than illuminate it. I switched off.
At the time, the emphasis on Australia seemed at odds with the diabolically personal consequences of death, and yet in as much as Australians were gathered in the minds of the murderers, so it had to be.
We became our nationality, as perhaps few Australians have since Vietnam, identified for what we belong to more than what makes us ourselves.
Although I felt deep sympathy for the victims of the bomb blast, I did not feel the kinship that the media kept telling me I should be feeling.
Perhaps I was just shying away from the impersonality of nationality, or the predictability of the sentiments appearing in print and on the television. The more that was said, the less I felt.
Perhaps, after all, I was loath to accept the unacceptable, that whatever way I live my life, however much I pursue my own sense of duty or diligence or morality, there are some who want me dead for my birth place, my religion, my government, aspects of my own experience I had never felt any self-conscious alliance with.
As any American might have told us after September 11, it's strange to be hated so deeply and from such a distance by those we've never even glimpsed.
A year on, I feel a kind of delayed grief, summoned more by the anniversary than the event itself.
There is something too terrible about anniversaries. Time has made things worse not better, since the time immediately following catastrophe is so busy with catching up to the event.
Plans are made, vows are made, cupboards are cleared, clothes sent to charities, bank accounts closed, ideas for immortalising loved ones discussed over kitchen tables. Life seems strangely vital in the early days of death.
But a year on, all that has slowly ebbed. And in its place, the horrible sense of permanence makes its way over the mind and heart. Something is altered that may be endured, but cannot be altered back. Five minutes has had its impact. The time it takes for a van to pull up, a button to be pressed, and there it is, the great shape of a life is irretrievably altered, ended.
By six degrees of separation, the lives lost in a single bomb blast reverberate outwards. Thousands of Australians must be caught up in those expanding circles of connection, marked now by the huge repercussions of tiny choices . . . Bali over Fiji, that bar over another, that hour over a later one. That rather cavalier spirit that Australians have long claimed as part of the national character has taken quite a blow.
There's a new fragility in the air, more evident in the aftermath than in the moment.
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Now I am new here to Facepunch so I'm not completely sure where to post this, but from what I've heard the new DLC for MW2 has been pushed back. I heard its been pushed back due to 2 Infinity Ward Employees being fired. Now, I'm not completely sure if this is a myth or not :P The date for the DLC has not been mentioned.
Btw excuse my poor Grammar, as I am not English. I've had to many complaints about that before.
Thanks to the people for rating this bad spelling, especially after I said "excuse my bad grammar" I am from Italy.


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Kids never too young to learn basics of financial literacy
Published Monday, November 26, 2012 9:17AM EST
It's never too early to teach kids about money, particularly as household debt levels in Canada continue to climb to record highs.
That is the message that Junior Achievement, Canada's largest youth education organization, wants to share with families throughout November, which marks Financial Literacy Month across the country.
"This is something that really isn't taught in schools or in the home," said Mark Aboud, the Chair of the Board of Governors for Junior Achievement. "Financial literacy is a skill kids need to have. It's good for kids and good for parents."
During November, Junior Achievement, banks, government organizations and other groups have been promoting this message to Canada's youth. That message has not been lost on Leilah Mouna, a grade-nine student who completed Junior Achievement's "Economics for Success" program.
The in-class program provides children in Grades 6 through 10 with practical information about personal finance. The program also stresses the importance of a good education and its impact on achieving financial goals later on in life.
"At the beginning of the program, I had no idea how expensive life could be. It was very surprising," Mouna told CTV's Canada AM Monday.
Through this program, students are asked to create a financial budget that can support their life goals. As part of that exercise, the students are assigned various jobs that pay different salaries. That variable left the youngsters facing a quandary known all too well by working adults: How do I pay for everything I want when my salary won't allow for it?
"The kids knew all the things they wanted to have, such as phones and tech toys. But they soon discovered that the list of things they wanted was more expensive than they could afford," Aboud said.
According to Mouna, this valuable lesson has helped to make her a better shopper. "I look for sales. I shop and save before I buy," she said.
The Junior Achievement program also encourages children to think about entrepreneurship as a viable career path.
"Many kids come in thinking they want to be doctors, lawyers. We make them aware of other possibilities," said Aboud. "Kids who go through this program are 50 per cent more likely to star their own businesses."
Last year alone, more than 226,000 young Canadians experienced a Junior Achievement program from over 13,500 committed business mentors.
The experience, according to Mouna, can be life-altering.
"The biggest lesson I learned was to stay in school," she said, adding that a good education is the key to building the life you want.


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I got my chin reduced a year ago. I feel that my chin sags and theres alot of fat there. My surgeon said he cant do anything about it. I got burrow surgery done. (shaved it back). I want a small chin and i didnt get that when i had my surgery! I am so upset and i feel so ugly and i feel like i have a man face. My surgery cost 3500 and im afraid i will have to pay full price again. I feel that i am annoying him by bringing it up to him alot. What should i do?
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Submental Chin Reduction Is Needed
The reason that you did not get the desired result from your chin reduction is that bone reduction alone is not enough. All that taking bone accomplished was to leave a ball of tissue on the end of the chin bone. To get an effective chin reduction will require a submental approach to remove the excess soft tissue and tuck it under the bone. Without dealing with the soft tissue, a visible chin reduction can not be achieved.
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Revision Chin
Reduction genioplasty is a very tricky procedure. To have revision surgery and not want to pay "full fee" would require that you see the original surgeon. If you choose to seek care from another surgeon, you will most likely have to pay that surgeon's full fee. Reduction genioplasty can be performed to in many different ways. Once the bone portion of the chin is reduced, the soft tissue must be addressed. Submental lipo, mentalis muscle plication for the soft tissue excess and a special type of implant to augment certain areas of your chin so that its not so pointed. I feel that a slight vertical reduction in your chin would have been beneficial but this is just from the photos available. You should really discuss this with either your surgeon or seek a second opinion. Good luck. Dr. M
Improving a prominent chin
I agree with my colleague that your photos show excess soft tissue of the chin. Management of this requires surgery for removal of the excess soft tissue, usually through a small incision under the chin.
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Since Monday, I've either been outside the US or on my way out. Since then, I've eaten three different soups, all orange-colored and delicious:
Pumpkin Soup?: This first one was described to someone next to me in the cafeteria-type place where I ate it as being a "pumpkin soup." Then he took some white substance that was thicker and stiffer than sour cream and spooned it from a small plastic tub into his soup. He had an accent when he named the soup so, assuming he knew more than I did, I scooped some of the cream-stuff into my thin orange soup, too. I still don't know what it was, but it came apart in clumpsat the bottom of the bowl. I didn't eat the stuff, but I didn't exactly eat around it either. The soup was good, I thought, but in hindsight it was the least remarkable of the three I've had.
Ginger Carrot Soup: This was the soup of the day at the bistro I ate at last night. It smelled terrific and tasted better. Tiny, delicate cubes of carrot sat hidden at the bottom of this thin, opaque and yellow-orange soup. It was so good, I skipped dessert.
Carrot Cumin Soup: So apparently the second-most popular soups here, after orange-colored soups, are orange-colored soups with carrot in them. Fine, then. If this is what carrot soups are like, they're popular with me, too. I'm eating this soup right now, typing in a foreign cafe on a WiFi connection with my arms bent around a deep crock of oily, opaque soup in a nest of soft slices of bread. Outside, the hail is coming down so hard that it crunched between my teeth and rolled in through the door when I came inside and the sun is hidden behind wet fast-moving clouds so thick that the air between the buildings has become as gray as the buildings themselves. Inside it is warm and my computer is on and I have hot soup and chai, my iPod on and my fingers typing. So things are good.
Were my wife here, things would be perfect.
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With a stay at Hotel Area Roma in Quartiere XXXII Europa (EUR), you'll be convenient to Villa Romana and Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of White Gallery and Museum of Roman Civilization.
Make yourself at home in one of the 52 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature complimentary toiletries and bidets. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
Take in the views from a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access and a television in a common area. Additional features at this hotel include tour/ticket assistance and a picnic area.
Take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
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Featured amenities include a business center, limo/town car service, and express check-in. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available on request), and free self parking is available onsite.
Hotel Facilities
- Multilingual staff
- Garden
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- In-room accessibility
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Luggage storage
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Free breakfast
- Roll-in shower
- Elevator/lift
- Television in common areas
- Free WiFi
- Express check-out
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Laundry facilities
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Business center
- Total number of rooms - 52
- 24-hour front desk
- Accessible bathroom
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- Number of floors - 3
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With the start of Back to School promotions, (and taking JCPenney out of the mix) we witnessed increase in page count that was driven mainly by significant increases in Walmart's and Sears' page counts.
JCPenney has been drastically altering their promotional strategy in past couple of months, however this month, the store did not promote at all, causing curiosity for many customers. (It should be noted that JCPenney did release circulars the week of July 29th that will be counted in the August report.)
Highest gain in flyer circulation was witnessed by Home Depot, with 60 per cent increase in flyer drop this year compared to same month last year. The store dropped 2 flyer prior to 4th of July week, of which one was themed around 4th July.
Staples, CVS, Kroger, Sears and Target also saw a significant increase in flyer circulation; however that did not lead to increase in page count per flyer for all the retailers. Home Depot and CVS witnessed a drop in page count while others had an increase when compared to previous year same month.
Walmart may have fewer flyers compared to previous year, the retailers made their flyer much more bulky than last year. In the week of 7/1/2012 Walmart dropped a 32 page flyer compared to only 4 page flyer last year same week. Similarly in the week of 7/15/2012, 24 page flyer was dropped instead of 12 page flyer previous year same week.
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The National FFA Officer team embarked on a journey to Japan on January 28. Here are some dispatches from their trip:
February 1st
Rise and shine, it's tofu time! Our travels began as we headed north out of Tokyo toward the Aomori Prefecture and the Taishi-food, INC tofu plant. We first toured the facilities and learned how the tofu is made. Tofu originated in China and has become a common item in the Japanese diet. This plant produces 150,000 tofu cakes a day which are distributed all over Japan using an intricate delivery system managed by the Mitsui company. After having a basic understanding, we made our own tofu! While it was cooking, we tasted other types including fried and chocolate. While not professionals our own tofu turned out well. Terrific tofu!
Our bus continued toward the city of Nikko stopping for lunch on the snowy bank of Lake Chuzenji. As we were peacefully eating lunch light snow began to fall. Our goal was also to see the Kegon waterfalls. As we arrived at the National Park with the falls, so did the heavy snow! Dispite the snow we bundled up, descended 100 meters in an elevator and exited at the ground level looking up at the falls. The snow created a nice white sheet covering the falling water, but couldn't hide the sound. While we missed seeing the falls in full glory, we had a great time in the snow and it was truly beautiful!
The Nikko Toshogu shrine is a famous shine in Japan that many students and visitors come to see each and every year. At this lower elevation the snow had stopped and we observed the full glory of the 1617 architecture. Many of the buildings have been restored and they were currently working on restoring the main shrine. We enjoyed a large mural of a dragon painted on the ceiling of one building. When wooden blocks are clapped under the head of this dragon the sound echos throughout the building. We definitely identified the carving of the three monkey's depicting "Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil" on the horse barn. Huge cedar trees surround this beautiful place.
Beauty was a great way to describe our stay that evening at the Ryokan which is a Japanese style hotel. The hotel was up along the hillside with natural flowing streams and more tall trees in Nikko. This night was filled with Japanese traditions from our rooms with bamboo floors to a bath house to a traditional dinner. We cleaned up in the bathhouse and donned kimonos. The traditional dinner was served seated on the floor with many different types of vegetables, soups, fishes and rice. It was definitely a time to try things we would never otherwise sample! After dinner we learned how to write some basic Japanese and how to fold origami cranes. Lastly, before hitting the pillow we relaxed in the bathhouse and then collapsed onto our futons. A beautiful day for sure!
February 2nd
More tradition met us this morning as we were greeted with a traditional Japanese breakfast consisting of sushi, salad, miso soup, and yogurt. It was definitely interesting getting used to eating salad and sushi for breakfast! Afterwards, we loaded back up on the bus to travel to Tokyo. After arriving in Tokyo, we were met by members of the Future Farmers of Japan at the Tokyo Mizuho Nogei High School.
FFJ members are strictly high school students studying various fields of agriculture. In the auditorium, they had prepared a program to tell us about the FFJ as well as to demonstrate a few customs of the Japanese culture. Many of the high school's FFJ officers sat amongst us as well as the National Vice President of the FFJ. We went around the room doing self-introductions to inform one another of each of our interests in agriculture.
One of the hardest things we did all day was to stand up and introduce ourselves in Japanese in front of 50 agricultural students. After the self-introductions, we got to share with them about the FFA. We prepared a short slide show, and, along with the help of Chieko translating, we described about agricultural education and the FFA. It was awesome when the students began asking questions about our National Convention as well as the types of SAE projects and agriculture education classes FFA members have in the U.S.
Then came the gift giving! The Japanese culture holds giving gifts in high regard and this proved true within the high school as well. The National Vice President of the FFJ gave a short speech in which she pointed out the long relationship between FFA and FFJ members. She also described some of the effects of the disastrous earthquake and tsunami which struck Japan in March 2011. It was moving to hear her speak of the role agriculture will play in rebuilding their society. She ended her speech by thanking us for traveling to their high school and asked to strengthen the bond between our organizations. We were then given the opportunity to offer remarks in return. We exchanged gifts and many, many, many, many business cards!
Once the program was concluded, we were given a tour of their high school and accompanying school farm. There was everything from sewing classes to flour making to swine production to small animal care to monkey managing to greenhouses filled with orchids. It was incredible to see the care and ownership the students took in their projects. Everything on the farm was entirely managed and maintained by the students with supervision from instructors. We all agreed that it would be a great high school to attend!
After the school visit, we hit up the Hard Rock Café in Tokyo, and now we are back at the hotel ready for a good night's rest before taking the bullet train to Kyoto in the morning to visit another high school and meet our host families for the next two nights! Oyasuminasai! (Goodnight!)


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Summer is a time that is epitomized by mindless popcorn entertainment and Salt is the perfect example of this. Just like Wanted and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Angelina Jolie [Editor's note: check out our Q&A with Jolie here] is running, jumping, shooting and stabbing—all with a cool, calm and collected smile. Jolie can be captivating in multi-faceted roles, but seems most at home when jumping off buildings, wielding automatic weapons, pouting her lips and staring danger straight in the face with a sly smirk and a polished pair of shades.
The fact that Salt originally intended to have Tom Cruise in the lead—and was then re-shaped for Jolie when he dropped out—should tell you something about her. She holds the screen with as much authority as her male counterparts and resembles a female James Bond or Ethan Hunt of sorts. She becomes the identity of the films she stars in, and Salt is no different. Spiders, handcuffs, cleaning solution, cop cars—you name it, she turns it into a lethal weapon. Add some signature, slow-motion, walk-away-from-the-explosion moments and a few one-liners and we've got ourselves a formula for mindless fun!
You're probably familiar with the trailer, in which Evelyn Salt (Jolie) is interrogating Russian defector Orlav (Daniel Olbrychski) for the United States CIA, where she is regarded as a super agent patriot. When he reveals there will be an attempt on the life of the president of Russia while he is in the United States, it's initially dismissed. The rest of the conversation goes something like this:
"The name of the agent who will kill him is Evelyn Salt."
"My name is Evelyn Salt."
"Then you are a Russian spy."
That concept seemed exciting enough to draw me in, initially. Who knows? With a film as clever as Inception being released a week earlier, it could be a summer of broken rules. I wouldn't go quite so far as to say it's all downhill after the trailer, but the film certainly wasn't as intelligible as that one isolated scene of witty dialogue portrayed it to be. After Orlav's accusation is detected to be true by sophisticated CIA truth-detecting technology, Salt briskly scoots out the back door and is on the run, seemingly with the purpose of finding her husband, who has gone missing amidst the unfolding conspiracy. The rest is a matter of separating the good guys from the bad guys and answering the question: Who is Evelyn Salt—framed government agent or Russian spy?
It is a film that seems to take pride in its astounding ridiculousness. The double-crosses, triple-crosses and far-fetched twists are its personality and the source of entertainment for the audience, who excitedly gasped and clapped throughout the film. Director Phillip Noyce doesn't waste much time with backstories, explanations or character development, and that would explain the stunted 90-minute running time. But really, in perspective, I'm not entirely sure about the who, what, where or when—I just know Angelina Jolie is running from the people who are chasing her, and in this case, it's entirely sufficient.
Salt never tries to be something it's not. It's short, it's ludicrous, and as long as you're willing to throw physics out the window right off the bat, it's entertaining. Now that you've been forewarned, if your resolve to see this film hasn't diminished, you'll be likely to enjoy it. I was squirming and scoffing in my seat until about halfway through when I finally gave up on logic and gave in to its guilty-pleasure aspect. Akin to a roller coaster ride in the dark, you never know what's coming next, but that's the thrill of it.
Review by Grant Hooper
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BOSTON -- Just when it appeared safe to be Jon Lester again, the Red Sox left-hander left the mound in the eighth inning Thursday night in the company of Sox assistant trainer Masai Takahashi.
That threatened to spoil an otherwise eminently satisfying 7-4 win over the Toronto Blue Jays, one in which Lester regained his equilibrium with seven strong innings while the Sox offense posted a 7-spot in the second inning.
But take a deep breath, everyone. Manager John Farrell said Lester sustained what the Sox medical staff called a jammed right hip when he slipped on the mound while throwing a pitch in the eighth inning, but it didn't appear to be an issue that will linger. Catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia told a different story, saying Lester had mentioned some discomfort in the previous inning.
But Lester said after the game he felt "normal" and expected to make his next start.
That came as a huge relief to the Sox, who before the game said pitcher Clay Buchholz has inflammation in the bursa sac of his right shoulder, a condition known as bursitis, and is uncertain of pitching again until after the All-Star break.
"I slipped a little bit," Lester said. "The doctors called it a jammed hip. Kind of a zinging sensation down my leg, something I've had before in years past when you slip or overstride. This was a little different, and the part of the game we were in, we didn't want to mess around with it at that particular juncture.
"I actually feel fine now. Walking off the field, it kind of stays with you a little while, but after the doctors looked at me, I feel normal. So hopefully that'll carry over to tomorrow and I won't have to worry about it."
Lester, who hadn't pitched into the eighth inning since May 10, the last time he faced the Blue Jays, gave up ground-ball singles to Rajai Davis and Maicer Izturis to open the inning, then fell behind 2-and-0 to Emilio Bonifacio, the ninth man in the Jays' order. After his next pitch, also a ball, he bent over, hands on knees, while catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia gestured to the dugout, bringing out Farrell and Takahashi to the mound.
Lester left almost immediately. "No point in being a hero," he said, "especially since we have a long way to go in the season."
Saltalamacchia said that Lester actually mentioned some discomfort the inning before.
"I talked to him about it the inning before and he kind of had it then," Saltalamacchia said. "He felt OK to go out there. He's a strong guy. I've never seen him come out and let it affect his next start. He's a workhorse."
Junichi Tazawa entered and threw ball four to Bonifacio, a walk charged to Lester. Jose Reyes followed with a sacrifice fly, and Jose Bautista's infield out made it 7-4.
But Daniel Nava's leaping catch of Edwin Encarnacion's drive in front of the Monster ended the threat, and Koji Uehara registered a 1-2-3 ninth for his second save in two nights.
This was the third straight game the Sox had seized a big lead early: 7-1 against the Rockies after three on Tuesday, 5-1 against the Rockies after three on Wednesday, 7-0 after two on Thursday, the Sox chasing former Yankee Chien-Ming Wang, who had come into the game with a streak of 16 2/3 innings without allowing an unearned run. The Jays also had come into the game winners of 15 of their last 19 games, posting a 2.43 staff ERA over that span.
That streak expired when the Sox sent 11 batters to the plate in the second inning, Dustin Pedroia's two-run home run on an 0-and-2 pitch capping a seven-hit uprising that began with walks to David Ortiz and Mike Carp.
Lester, meanwhile, had come into the game with a 7.30 ERA in his last seven starts, though he had ended a string of six straight starts without a win by eking out a 7-5 win over the Tigers in Detroit last Friday night.
He may well look back at the first inning Thursday as the key to his turnaround, though it didn't begin that way. Lester walked leadoff man Reyes and fell behind Jays strongman Bautista 3-and-0 as the crowd stirred restlessly. But Lester followed with a fastball strike, then retired Bautista on a fly ball. Encarnacion then rolled into a double play, and Lester coasted thereafter until the fifth, when two singles and a gap double by Izturis produced two runs.
"That top of the lineup now, with Bautista hitting second, makes it that much harder," Lester said. "Obviously the walk to Reyes doesn't help anything, but I was able to bear down with Bautista. He missed a really good pitch for him, just missed that ball, which was good for me. Then getting that double play was big to get into the next inning."
Lester was trying out a new wrinkle in his windup, one in which he started with his hands at neck level, then dropped them down to his waist before bringing them back up again.
"He's kind of been working on some mechanics stuff," catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia said. "I know in Detroit he worked on some stuff with trying to load a bit on his back side so he's not rushing. Get his hands moving. He kind of was moving his hands before he got set, so he can get in the rhythm and stay on time."
Lester, sticking primarily with a fastball-changeup mix, obviously grew more comfortable with his new mechanics after the first. He threw 21 of 27 first-pitch strikes, and had the aggressive Jays chasing 11 pitches out of the strike zone. He also induced 10 swings and misses.
It was by far his best outing in over a month, and one that signaled perhaps he is out of his funk.
"I've said it before, we don't go to the playoffs, we don't go to the World Series, we don't do any of that stuff without all five of those guys," Saltalamacchia said, referencing the team's rotation. "Lester's a big key part."