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Octopussy (1983) is the thirteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond film series, and the sixth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
British cinema poster for Octopussy, illustrated by Dan Goozee & Renato Casaro
|Directed by
|John Glen
|Produced by
|Albert R. Broccoli
|Screenplay by
|George MacDonald Fraser
Michael G. Wilson
Richard Maibaum
|Based on
|James Bond
by Ian Fleming
|Music by
|John Barry
|Alan Hume
|Edited by
|Peter Davies
Henry Richardson
|Distributed by
|MGM/UA Entertainment Company (US)
United International Pictures (International)
Release date
Running time
|131 minutes
|United Kingdom
|$27.5 million
|Box office
|$183.7 million
The film's title is taken from a short story in Ian Fleming's 1966 short story collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights, although the film's plot is original. It does, however, include a scene inspired by the Fleming short story "The Property of a Lady" (included in 1967 and later editions of Octopussy and The Living Daylights), while the events of the short story "Octopussy" form a part of the title character's background and are recounted by her.
Bond is assigned the task of following a general who is stealing jewels and relics from the Soviet government. This leads him to a wealthy Afghan prince, Kamal Khan, and his associate, Octopussy. Bond uncovers a plot to force disarmament in Europe with the use of a nuclear weapon.
Octopussy was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, and was released in the same year as the non-Eon Bond film Never Say Never Again. The film was written by George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum, and Michael G. Wilson, and was directed by John Glen.
British agent 009 is found dead at the British embassy in East Berlin, dressed as a circus clown and carrying a fake Fabergé egg. MI6 immediately suspects Soviet involvement and, after seeing the real egg appear at an auction in London, sends James Bond to investigate and find out the identity of the seller. At the auction, Bond is able to swap the real egg with the fake and engages in a bidding war with exiled Afghan prince Kamal Khan, forcing Khan to pay £500,000 for the fake egg. Bond follows Khan back to his palace in Rajasthan, India, where Bond defeats Khan in a game of backgammon. Bond escapes with his contact Vijay, foiling the attempts of Khan's bodyguard Gobinda to kill the pair. Bond is seduced by one of Khan's associates, Magda, and notices that she has a blue-ringed octopus tattoo. Bond permits Magda to steal the real Fabergé egg fitted with listening and tracking devices by Q, while Gobinda captures and takes Bond to Khan's palace. After Bond escapes from his room he listens in on the bug in the Fabergé egg and discovers that Khan is working with Orlov, a Soviet general, who is seeking to expand Soviet control into West-Central Europe.
After escaping from Khan's palace, Bond infiltrates a floating palace in Udaipur, India, and there finds its owner, Octopussy, a wealthy business woman and smuggler, and an associate of Khan. She also leads the Octopus cult, of which Magda is a member. Octopussy has a personal connection with Bond: she is the daughter of the late Major Dexter-Smythe, whom Bond was assigned to arrest for treason. Bond allowed the Major to commit suicide rather than face trial, and Octopussy thanks him for offering her father an honourable alternative, whilst inviting him to stay on as her guest. In Octopussy's palace, Bond finds out that Orlov has been supplying Khan with priceless Soviet treasures, replacing them with replicas while Khan has been smuggling the real versions into the West via Octopussy's circus troupe. Orlov is planning to meet Khan at Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) in East Germany, where the circus is scheduled to perform. Gobinda sends his thugs to kill Bond, but 007 and Octopussy gain the upper hand. Bond leaves the palace and learns that Vijay has been killed.
Travelling to East Germany, Bond infiltrates the circus and finds out that Orlov replaced the Soviet treasures with a nuclear warhead, primed to explode during the circus show at a US Air Force base in West Germany. The explosion would trigger Europe into seeking disarmament in the belief that the bomb was a US one that detonated by accident, leaving its borders open to a Soviet invasion. Bond takes Orlov's car, drives it along the train tracks and boards the moving circus train. Orlov gives chase, but is killed at the border by East German guards, after they mistake him for a defector. Bond kills the twin knife-throwing assassins Mischka and Grischka to avenge the murder of 009, and, after falling from the train, commandeers a car to get to the airbase. Bond penetrates the base, and disguises himself as a clown to evade the West German police. He attempts to convince Octopussy that Khan has betrayed her by showing her one of the treasures found in Orlov's car, which she was to smuggle for him. Octopussy realises that she has been tricked, and assists Bond in deactivating the warhead.
Bond and Octopussy return separately to India. Bond arrives at Khan's palace just as Octopussy and her girls have launched an assault on the building. Octopussy attempts to kill Khan, but is captured by Gobinda. While Octopussy's girls, led by Magda, overpower Khan's thugs, Khan and Gobinda flee the palace, taking Octopussy as a hostage. Bond pursues them as they attempt to escape in their plane, clinging to the fuselage and disabling one of its engines. Gobinda takes a deadly plummet off the roof of the plane and Bond rescues Octopussy from Khan, the pair jumping onto a nearby cliff moments before the plane crashes into a mountain, killing Khan. While M and General Gogol discuss the transport of the jewellery, Bond recuperates with Octopussy aboard her private boat in India.
- Roger Moore as James Bond, MI6 agent 007.
- Maud Adams as Octopussy: A jewel smuggler and wealthy businesswoman.
- Louis Jourdan as Kamal Khan: An exiled Afghan prince.
- Kristina Wayborn as Magda: trusted subordinate and henchman to Octopussy and Khan
- Kabir Bedi as Gobinda: Khan's bodyguard.
- Steven Berkoff as General Orlov: A Soviet general who works with Khan to bomb a US airbase.
- David Meyer and Anthony Meyer as Mischka and Grischka: Orlov's knife-throwing henchmen who are performers in Octopussy's circus
- Desmond Llewelyn as Q: MI6's gadget designer. Llewelyn was disappointed because he was unable to travel to India since his scenes were filmed at Pinewood Studios.[1]
- Robert Brown as M: Head of the British Secret Service and Bond's superior.
- Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny: M's secretary.
- Michaela Clavell as Penelope Smallbone: Moneypenny's assistant.
- Walter Gotell as General Gogol: KGB leader working to stop Orlov.
- Vijay Amritraj as Vijay: Bond's MI6 ally in India.
- Geoffrey Keen as Fredrick Gray: The British Minister of Defence.
- Douglas Wilmer as Jim Fanning: Antiquities expert who accompanies Bond at the Faberge auction.
- Albert Moses as Sadruddin: Head of MI6 station in India, assigned to assist Bond.
- Paul Hardwick as Soviet Chairman: presides over meeting between Orlov and Gogol.
- Eva Reuber-Staier as Rublevitch: Gogol's secretary.
- Peter Porteous as Lankin: Orlov's underling who has created the fake Faberge eggs.
- Andy Bradford as 009: Undercover 00 agent who has infiltrated Octopussy's circus. Killed by Mischka and Grischka.
Gary Russell plays one of the teenagers in the car that taunts Bond after refusing to give him a lift.[2]
The title 'Octopussy' comes from the Ian Fleming collection of short stories Octopussy and The Living Daylights. Hardly any of the plot of the short story "Octopussy" is used, however, with its events simply related by Bond as the family backstory for one of the main characters. The scene at Sotheby's is, though, drawn from the short story "The Property of a Lady" (included in 1967 and later editions of the collection), while Kamal Khan's reaction following the backgammon game is taken from Fleming's novel Moonraker. Due to a non-Eon Bond film, Never Say Never Again being released in 1983, Octopussy saw Roger Moore returning for the role, though he had shown interest in departing from James Bond after For Your Eyes Only.[3]
George MacDonald Fraser was hired to work on an early draft of the script and he proposed that the story be set in India.[4]
Following For Your Eyes Only, Roger Moore had expressed a desire to retire from the role of James Bond. His original contract had been for three films, which was fulfilled with The Spy Who Loved Me. Subsequent films were negotiated on a film-by-film basis. Given his reluctance to return for Octopussy, the producers engaged in a semi-public quest for the next Bond, with both Timothy Dalton and James Brolin being suggested.[3] However, when the rival Never Say Never Again was announced, the producers re-contracted Moore in the belief that an established actor in the role would fare better against Sean Connery.[3] Brolin's three screentests were publicly released for the first time as a special feature named James Brolin: The Man Who Would Be Bond in the Octopussy Ultimate Edition DVD.[3][5]
The producers were initially reluctant to feature Maud Adams again because her previous character was killed in The Man with the Golden Gun. Sybil Danning was announced in Prevue magazine in 1982 as being Octopussy, but was never actually cast. Faye Dunaway was deemed too expensive. Barbara Carrera said she turned down the role to take a part in the competing Bond film Never Say Never Again. In the book A Star is Found: Our Adventures Casting Some of Hollywood's Biggest Movies, casting director Jane Jenkins revealed that the Bond producers told her that they wanted a South Asian actress to play Octopussy, so she looked at the only two Indians in a then predominantly white Hollywood, Persis Khambatta and Susie Coelho. Afterwards, she auditioned white actresses, like Barbara Parkins, who she felt could pass for Indian. Finally, Albert R. Broccoli announced to her that they would cast Swedish-born Maud Adams, darken her hair, and change a few lines about how she was raised by an Indian family. A different plotline, with Adams' British father exposed as a traitor, was used instead. As for Adams, she asked to play Octopussy as a European woman and was granted this, but on the title character's name, she felt the producers "went too far".
Octopussy is also the first film to feature Robert Brown as M, following the death of Bernard Lee in 1981. Desmond Llewelyn would get an expanded role as Q in this film. One of Bond's MI6 allies in India was played by Vijay Amritraj, a popular professional tennis player. His character not only shares the same first name with him, but he is also a tennis instructor. He uses a tennis racket as a weapon during the auto rickshaw chase, which is accompanied by the sound of a tennis ball being hit and scenes of onlookers turning their heads left and right as if they are watching a tennis match.
The filming of Octopussy began on 10 August 1982 with the scene in which Bond arrives at Checkpoint Charlie.[6] Principal photography was done by Arthur Wooster and his second unit, who later filmed the knife-throwing scenes.[7] Much of the film was shot in Udaipur, India. The Monsoon Palace served as the exterior of Kamal Khan's palace, while scenes set at Octopussy's palace were filmed at the Lake Palace and Jag Mandir, and Bond's hotel was the Shiv Niwas Palace. In England RAF Northolt, RAF Upper Heyford and RAF Oakley were the main locations. The Karl-Marx-Stadt railways scenes were shot at the Nene Valley Railway, near Peterborough, while studio work was performed at Pinewood Studios and the 007 Stage.[3] Most of the crew as well as Roger Moore had diet problems while shooting in India.[1]
The pre-title sequence has a scene where Bond flies a nimble homebuilt Bede BD-5J aircraft through an open hangar.[7] Hollywood stunt pilot and aerial co-ordinator J.W. "Corkey" Fornof, who piloted the aircraft at more than 150 miles per hour, has said, "Today, few directors would consider such a stunt. They'd just whip it up in a computer lab."[8] Having collapsible wings, the plane was shown hidden in a horse trailer; however, a dummy was used for this shot.[9] Filming inside the hangar was achieved by attaching the aircraft to an old Jaguar car with a steel pole, driving with the roof removed.[7] The second unit were able to add enough obstacles including people and objects inside the hangar to hide the car and the pole and make it look as though Moore was flying inside the base. For the explosion after the mini jet escapes, however, a miniature of the hangar was constructed and filmed up close. The exploding pieces of the hangar were in reality only four inches in length.[3] Bond stole a Mercedes-Benz saloon car at a depot manned by antagonist soldiers, then as he tried to escape drove over barrier spikes which shredded his tyres. So he maneuvered his vehicle's bare wheels onto the rails to pursue the train. During filming, the car had intact tyres in one scene so as to avoid any mishap.[9]
Stunt co-ordinator Martin Grace suffered an injury while shooting the scene where Bond climbs down the train to catch Octopussy's attention.[10] During the second day of filming, Grace – who was Roger Moore's stunt double for the scene – carried on doing the scene longer than he should have, due to a miscommunication with the second unit director, and the train entered a section of the track which the team had not properly surveyed. Shortly afterwards, a concrete pole fractured Grace's left leg.[3]
The cyclist seen passing in the middle of a sword fight during the tuk tuk chase sequence was in fact a bystander who passed through the shot, oblivious to the filming; his intrusion was captured by two cameras and left in the final film.[3] Cameraman Alan Hume's last scene was that of Octopussy's followers rowing. That day, little time was left and it was decided to film the sunset at the eleventh hour.[11]
The Fabergé egg in the film is real; it was made in 1897 and is called the Coronation Egg, although the egg in the film is named in the auction catalogue as "Property of a Lady", which is the name of one of Ian Fleming's short stories released in more recent editions of the collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights.
In a bit of diegesis that "breaks the fourth wall", Vijay signals his affiliation to MI6 by playing the James Bond Theme on a recorder while Bond is disembarking from a boat in the harbour near the City Palace. Like his fictional counterpart, the real Vijay had a distinct fear of snakes and found it difficult to hold the basket during filming.[3]
The score was composed by John Barry, with the lyrics by Tim Rice.[12] The opening theme, "All Time High", is sung by Rita Coolidge and is one of seven musical themes in the James Bond series whose song titles do not refer to the film's title. "All Time High" spent four weeks at number one on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary singles chart and reached number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The soundtrack album was released in 1985 by A&M Records; the compact disc version of this release was recalled due to a colour printing error which omitted the credits from the album cover, making it a rare collector's item. In 1997, the soundtrack was re-issued by Rykodisc,[13] with the original soundtrack music and some film dialogue, on an Enhanced CD version. The 2003 release, by EMI, restored the original soundtrack music without dialogue.
Release and receptionEdit
Octopussy's premiere took place at the Odeon Leicester Square on 6 June 1983 in the company of Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales. Within five months of its premiere, it was released in 16 countries worldwide.[14] The film earned slightly less than For Your Eyes Only, but still grossed $187,500,000, with $67.8 million in the United States alone. It also performed slightly better than Never Say Never Again, the non-Eon Bond remake of Thunderball which came out a few months later.
The film has received mixed reviews. Some reviewers disliked Bond's clown costume,[15] gorilla outfit and Tarzan yell during a jungle chase. James Berardinelli claimed that the movie was long and confusing, and strongly criticised Steven Berkoff's performance, describing it as "offensively bad" and the worst performance of any Bond villain.[16] By contrast, Louis Jourdan's "suave" performance,[17] the elegance of the film locations in India, and the stunts on aircraft and the train were appreciated.[18] Jeffrey Westhoff at Rotten Tomatoes praised Roger Moore as being "sterling".[19] Neal Gabler and Jeffrey Lyons at the TV-show Sneak Previews praised the film and said "Octopussy delivers" and "The nice thing about Octopussy is that it's going back-to-basics, less gadgets, more hand-to-hand combat. It's more of an adventure movie in a more traditional sense and I like it for that". Danny Peary wrote that Octopussy "has slow spots, little humour, and villains who aren't nearly of the calibre of Dr. No, Goldfinger, or Blofeld. Also, the filmmakers make the mistake of demeaning Bond by having him swing through the trees and emitting a Tarzan cry and having him hide in a gorilla suit and later disguise himself as a clown (whom all the kids at the circus laugh at). It's as if they're trying to remind us that everything is tongue-in-cheek, but that makes little sense, for the film is much more serious than typical Bond outings – in fact, it recalls the tone of From Russia with Love."[20] Entertainment Weekly chose Octopussy as the third worst Bond film,[21] while Norman Wilner of MSN chose it as the eighth worst,[22] and IGN chose it as the seventh worst.[23] The review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 42% rating.[24]
Octopussy was nominated for an Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Award, with Maud Adams nominated for the Saturn Award in the Best Fantasy Supporting Actress category. Entertainment Weekly ranked her as the best Bond girl of the Roger Moore James Bond films.[25] The film won the Golden Screen Award in Germany and the Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing.[26]
Character reviewsEdit
In 2006 Fandango ranked the character Octopussy as one of the top 10 Bond girls, and described her as "a powerful, impressive woman."[27] Entertainment Weekly ranked her as the 10th worst Bond girl in one list in 2006,[28] but as the best "babe" of the Roger Moore James Bond films in another list in 2008.[29] Yahoo! Movies included the character in a 2012 list of the best Bond girl names, commenting, "This Bond girl moniker was so good, they named the film after her!"[30]
See alsoEdit
- ^ a b Hume, 121
- ^ "Trivia - Octopussy". Mi6-HQ.com. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Inside Octopussy (DVD). MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2000. Retrieved 4 August 2007.
- ^ George MacDonald Fraser, The Light's On at Signpost, HarperCollins 2002 p234-246
- ^ "Home Cinema @ The Digital Fix – Octopussy (Ultimate Edition)". Dvdtimes.co.uk. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
- ^ "August: This Month in Bond History". Archived from the original on 5 August 2008. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
- ^ a b c Hume, Alan; Gareth Owen (May 2004). "Potted Palms". A Life Through the Lens: Memoirs of a Film Cameraman. McFarland & Company. p. 122. ISBN 0-7864-1803-6.
- ^ Lunsford, J. Lynn (22 September 2006). "Filming air combat is as risky as a dogfight". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 12 August 2007.
- ^ a b "Episode 2". Main Hoon Bond. Season 1. Episode 2. Mumbai. 54 minutes in. Star Gold.
- ^ Hume, 124
- ^ Hume, 125
- ^ "Octopussy soundtrack at Amazon". Retrieved 13 August 2007.
- ^ "Filmtrack's editorial on the Octopussy soundtrack". Retrieved 13 August 2007.
- ^ "Octopussy at IMDb". Retrieved 21 August 2007.
- ^ "Octopussy: Review at Filmcritic.com". Archived from the original on 15 February 2010. Retrieved 13 August 2007.
- ^ "Octopussy:Review on Reelviews". James Berardinelli. Retrieved 13 August 2007.
- ^ "Octopussy:Critical Review on IMDb". Steve Rhodes. Retrieved 21 August 2007.
- ^ "Octopussy:Review on BBC". Debbie Barham. 30 August 2001. Retrieved 13 August 2007.
- ^ "Octopussy at Rotten Tomatoes". Jeffrey Westhoff. Retrieved 21 August 2007.
- ^ Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic (Simon & Schuster, 1986) pp.306–307
- ^ Svetkey, Benjamin; Joshua Rich. "Countdown: Ranking the Bond Films". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 27 June 2009.
- ^ Wilner, Norman. "Rating the Spy Game". MSN. Retrieved 27 June 2009.
- ^ "James Bond's Top 20". IGN Entertainment. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
- ^ "Octopussy". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
- ^ Chris Nashawaty, "Moore...And Sometimes Less: A look at the most—and least—memorable bad guys, babes, and Bonds in Roger Moore's 007 oeuvre," Entertainment Weekly 1025 (12 December 2008): 37.
- ^ "Octopussy: Awards at IMDb". Retrieved 18 August 2007.
- ^ The Top 10 Bond Girls - Fandango.com
- ^ The 10 Worst Bond Girls | EW.com
- ^ Chris Nashawaty, "Moore...And Sometimes Less: A look at the most--and least--memorable bad guys, babes, and Bonds in Roger Moore's 007 oeuvre," Entertainment Weekly 1025 (12 December 2008): 37.
- ^ James Bond at 50: the best Bond Girl names | Movie Editor's Blog - Yahoo! Movies UK
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April 10, 2013
Glorifying God in Every Vocation
InterVarsity is very good at getting college students out of their conventional Sunday-school comfort zone. It is very good at calling us to "pick up our cross daily and follow him," and to radically love the forgotten and downtrodden that Christ cared so much for. InterVarsity also excels at providing structure in a free-flowing college environment, with its large-group gatherings, small groups, retreats, service trips, and many activities in between.
But, as this student declares, the very things that make InterVarsity great while in college can exacerbate the transition from college. Leaving the confines created by hundreds or thousands of peers struggling along with you through the exact same lectures, problem sets, papers, and stresses to embark on a world of daily commutes, staff meetings, water-cooler discussions, and the nine-to-five grind can turn your world upside-down. How does the radical, interceding God that we encountered at InterVarsity reside in the Monday-to-Friday grindstone of the working world? How can we be the Christians called upon by the oft-referenced visionaries like Shane Claiborne or Francis Chan if we enter "a traditional job"? Is it okay to enter a field where we might actually make money?
For those leaving the safety of the campus into the great unknowns of the mission field, may God grace this very new chapter of your life. However, this post is for the rest of us who have been called to seemingly secular work.
Radical Christians in Traditional Jobs
The most important thing that an impending college graduate should realize has been sagely summarized by the aforementioned student: "You can glorify God in your arts, you can glorify God in profitable businesses, you can glorify God in the fashion industry, you can glorify God in a career of dancing, performing, even Hollywood. You don't have to live dirt poor and breathe ashes to be a child of God."
In fact, I would argue, there is a dire need for bold Christians in profitable business or Hollywood.
The American archetypal job markets are, in many ways, a harder mission field than some overseas setting. Glorifying God and witnessing in the secular workplace is now often a longer-term, action-based process. It's a journey of consistently keeping God at the center of all that you do—even when you're two hours late for a deadline and your boss is breathing down your neck, or when your 8-, 10-, or 16-hour work day drains every fiber of your being (trust me, it can happen). Much of the secular culture dismisses thundering pronouncements of faith, but consistent God-centered actions are harder to ignore.
C. S. Lewis has always thought of Christians as subversive; in Mere Christianity and letters to Tolkien he talks about believers quietly entering "enemy" camps and, while guided by the Spirit, slowly but consistently transforming all those around by their faith. Lewis maintained that this Christ-centered faith could infect any enemy, no matter how secular or dismissive (even Hollywood!).
Workplaces Renewed
Close friends of great civil rights leaders have mentioned that the leader's faith has showered forth from every pore of their being. But it is not only in these famous saints that we see the Spirit emanating and inspiring those proximate.
A friend once told me about an aspiring young man who lived in a monastery in Connecticut many years ago. His peers looked upon him as one to emulate, a man of profound, unceasing faith. After several years, the man left the monastery before taking his vows for the priesthood. His peers were shocked. Their amazement grew as they learned he did not have a crisis of faith, but simply wanted to go work for an insurance firm. And so the young man entered the 40-hour secular grindstone of the "real world," and worked at that insurance firm for several decades, until he died.
Many of the seminarians (now priests) came to his funeral. Some were still baffled at his career change. But upon engaging with the dozens of coworkers who came to honor the man, the priests soon understood. The insurance firm was this man's congregation. There were countless stories of the man's charity, sage council, and honorable actions. The young man had transformed a bland insurance company into a close-knit family, akin to the early Church.
Where Will God Use You?
As you face the future, look to Christ and look toward your true passion. Consider taking the radical Christian road of entering the secular, grindstone-like, traditional workplace. And accept the challenge of glorifying God in the budget reports, project meetings, staff briefings, and looming deadlines of that job.
There are many adaptations that a college graduate has to make after graduation, and adjusting how you engage with God and community may be the largest. But in time, as you allow God to use you in the place he calls you to, it may also be the most fulfilling.
What vocational area is God calling you to? Or, if you're already working, what fields is God using you in for his glory?
Ona Strikas is a PhD student at Florida State University, modeling water resources that areas will have in the future. She loves seeing God's power, majesty, and providence through science and her research. She's also passionate about Christian unity, and longs to see all our brothers and sisters in Christ understand one another, even if our denominations differ. Though she's moved around a lot, she is a Southern (U.S.) girl at heart, who will never turn down a warm biscuit or a cold glass of sweet tea.


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You can get a really nice reproduction of this drawing in my store.Everything around us resists our transformation. Sure, we are encouraged to conform and adapt and tweak in order to keep up with the expectations and opinions of others. But true transformation? No. This stretches everybody, including ourselves.In our online community The Lasting Supper we provide a safe space for people to change out loud with support and even friendship. It is helping so many people, including me, and … [Read more...]
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a young nakedpastor reader draws my portrait
A 9 year old girl, Shena, likes my cartoons. Her father told me that she would love to see a video of me drawing a cartoon. She wanted to see how I did it. I created a video just for her. You can watch it HERE. Shena is struggling with an illness. So I dedicated the cartoon to her and sent her the original drawing.In return she drew my portrait and sent this drawing to me. I think it's pretty darn good. She's definitely got talent. I hope she uses it. Here's the note she wrote to me on the … [Read more...]
a video of me drawing today's cartoon
A young girl who likes my cartoons wanted to know how I drew them, so I did a video to show her.I hope this helps Shena! … [Read more...]
yes there is beauty
You see this tree, how beautiful he is. He is very tall and stands in a nearby forest. I've looked at him many many times. But I just notice him recently.Why did I just notice this tree? I don't really know, but I love him and think he is so beautiful. He is not perfect. There are broken branches everywhere, and he is sparse here and there. He is top-heavy. But he is uniquely beautiful just as he is! I imagined him saying that he needed me to draw him. I felt like drawing him. So I did, with … [Read more...]
you can be free as a bird
A friend of mine wanted me to design a tattoo for her. She said she wanted cherry blossoms and a bird flying free from a cage. This is a sketch I drew for her. She's happy.Did you know that for the Chinese, the cherry blossom represents feminine beauty and sexuality and often holds an idea of feminine power as well? It is the symbol of love.It is different for the Japanese. For the Japanese the cherry blossom is a very delicate flower that blooms for a very short time. This represents … [Read more...]
freebie friday print of Sophia "Angel"
To enter the draw to win a fine art print of Sophia "Angel", all you have to do is leave a comment here on this blog post. Even a simple "Hi!" would do. Or, tell us what this drawing means to you.Have you sometimes noticed that other people believe in you more than you believe in yourself? That's what has happened here to Sophia. After all the oppression she's been through as a girl and a woman, after the years of extreme conditions of being emotionally, verbally and sometimes physically … [Read more...]
i might be alone for now
We all know one of the severest costs of choosing to walk your own path towards your own independence is experiencing loneliness. To find your own land and stake your own claim requires you to become a pioneer. And pioneers know loneliness. Pioneers simply understand that in order to enjoy their own lives to the full they are going to have to leave the herd.Read any of the accounts of pioneers, such as the fascinating Canadian explorer, David Thompson, and you will read the story of … [Read more...]
painting "follow me where you're going"
Whatever we do, we do it together. We lead together. We follow together. In other words, we are fellow-pilgrims in this thing called Life. Together.Acquire original paintings like this one or prints in my gallery, 40% OFF, with coupon code "loveis". … [Read more...]
getting in touch with myself once more
I'm not sure why this man is taking a walk now. Is he on his way somewhere? Did his dog need to go out? Or did he just need to center and get in touch with himself again?If it was you, why would you be here? Now?The most peaceful times for me when I feel most connected to Source is at night, under the stars, maybe smoking my pipe, maybe with or without my dog, but usually in winter. There is just so much stillness it seems to seep into the core of my being and evoke a serenity like no … [Read more...]


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Looking for some good old-fashioned fun this Fourth of July? Then head into downtown Rockford for the second annual Fourth of July Kid's Bike Parade, starting at 2 p.m. from the South Squires Towers parking lot (east of the White Pine Trail). Parade participants should gather at 1:30 p.m. to line up. The parade will wind through Squires Street Square with the supervision of the Rockford City Police.
Kids are encouraged to decorate their bikes in red, white and blue. Parents are most welcome to walk along and cheer on the participants. Each child will be given a special gift for participating, and there will a prize for the best dressed bicycle.
Sweet Tooth will have a Bubble Gum Contest after the parade in front of their store. Parade organizers also will have a drop box for retired U.S. flags.
The Heart of Rockford Business Association is the parade sponsor.


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• In the 2009 fiscal year — the last of George W. Bush's presidency — federal spending rose by 17.9% from $2.98 trillion to $3.52 trillion. Check the official numbers at the Office of Management and Budget.
• In fiscal 2010 — the first budget under Obama — spending fell 1.8% to $3.46 trillion.
• In fiscal 2012, spending is set to rise 0.7% to $3.63 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office's estimate of the budget that was agreed to last August.
• Finally in fiscal 2013 — the final budget of Obama's term — spending is scheduled to fall 1.3% to $3.58 trillion. Read the CBO's latest budget output.
Nutting's claims were also verified by Politifact.


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Balancing ethics, investment and debt
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James Diack.
Name James Diack
Occupation Community sector employee
Income $33,280 gross
Investments $3700 savings account, $3300 ethical managed fund
Debts $40,000 student loan
Superannuation $15,000 combined
James Diack's passion for social justice and the environment permeates every corner of his financial world.
The 30-year-old works full-time for a non-government organisation, engages in voluntary work out of hours and donates about $1500 annually to other causes. He contributes $200 a month to an ethical investment option for his superannuation savings.
However, with not-for-profit sector salaries below the average, Diack realises it is possible he will be among the growing number of people permanently locked out of home ownership.
It is a situation he is willing to wear for the sake of his convictions.
"I am making an income sacrifice by choosing this work but it does allow me to sleep well at night," he says.
He wants to know what else he could do to better his financial situation.
Adviser Tony Bates is the principal of Bluepoint Consulting.
Strategy Diack's approach to work, ethics, making a difference to society and the environment are well meaning and admirable.
However, before he can focus on his savings I believe he needs to address his debts. His $40,000 student loan in New Zealand is growing at a faster rate than his savings. There are very good debt counselling services available in Australia and New Zealand which may be able to help him to negotiate favourable arrangements with the lender.
His main discretionary outlays are phone and internet subscriptions ($300 a month) and dining out ($400 a month). And while Diack acknowledges he could cut back on these "luxuries" they are actually quite integral components of his paid and voluntary work.
He could redirect some, or all, of his donations and subscriptions and maybe some of his communications expenses towards reducing his debt.
Diack may also need to reconsider his paid employment. He has earned more in previous jobs and could earn more again.
With smaller investment balances Diack should continue to build his savings through fund managers. Once he has got his education loan under control he could accelerate his savings with a savings gearing program where his regular savings instalments can be matched by loan instalments from a lender.
With increased wealth he could begin to make direct investments in businesses he has already identified such as green energy companies Pacific Hydro and Origin and the organic food producer So Natural Foods.
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Bringing Energy Efficiency to Section 8 Housing
"Spending roughly $1 million at each property, the Reliant Group installed energy-efficient, double-paned windows and low-flow toilets and shower heads to help residents save on their utility bills. Energy-saving fluorescent lights were installed in kitchens and entries. Ceiling fans were added."
"'These things don't save on the owner's energy bill,' said Hans Juhle, a partner in the Reliant Group. 'They reduce the resident's bill and these are people who live on the margin.'"
"But the bottom line isn't just about money, although that's important, Juhle said. 'Part of our purpose - and one of the reasons people invest with us - is we provide a social return on investment,' he said. 'It's a double bottom-line type of investment.'"
"The seven New Mexico apartment complexes were among 20 Section 8 properties getting a combined $22.4 million in renovations. The 20 properties - the others are in Texas - form the RHAC portfolio, named after Phoenix-based Rainbow Housing Assistance Corp. Rainbow Housing focuses on affordable housing and provides a variety of services and programs to its tenants. Rainbow and Reliant are often partners on Section 8 properties."


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[MLS EXPANSION] MLS stadium projects have been opposed by taxpayer and community groups, but none has faced the corporate opposition that David Beckham's effort to build an MLS soccer stadium at PortMiami near the Biscayne Bay has generated.
Plans for the development on the southwest corner of Dodge Island
call for a hotel, retail space with shops, restaurants and nightclub, plaza and park to be built in addition to the privately funded stadium.
PortMiami tenant Royal Caribbean Cruises
opposes the project because of concerns about the traffic at the port, the busiest in the world for cruise ships. And it has support of two chapters of the International Longshoremen's Association and
two stevedore companies whose interest is in expanding the business on the Miami docks, which they hope will become a major port for global shippers.
"We cannot jeopardize well-paying
jobs, like crane operators, longshore workers, and mechanics, for low-paying stadium jobs, such as concession sales," the Miami Seaport Alliance, an alliance of shipping interests, said in a full-page
ad that ran in the Miami Herald and Spanish-language El Nuevo Herald.
The position of the Beckham expansion group, which needs the approval of Miami-Date County commissioners for the
project, is that the development will bring more revenue to Miami than any other project.
The group opposing the soccer project includes former NFL (Philadelphia Eagles) owner Norman Braman, a successful Florida car dealer who has a long history of fighting tax measures and stadium projects, including Marlins Park, home of the baseball
Marlins. He is best known for leading the successful recall election against Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez in 2011.
Current Miami-Dade Mayor
Carlos Gimenez has supported the effort to bring MLS to Miami but has insisted that any effort have community support. He is so sensitive to being see as
pro-stadium that he has not been to a Marlins' game at Marlins Park whose financing deal cost Alvarez his job and Gimenez opposed.
The Beckham expansion group, which needs the approval of
Miami-Date County commissioners for the project, has identified other venues as alternative sites for the stadium.


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Census of Augustus Caesar
Luke 2:1 "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be registered"
Census of Augustus Caesar
The Palace of Sargon
Isaiah 20:1 "In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and fought against Ashdod, and took it"
Sargon of Assyria
The Silver Bowl of Artaxerxes
"Ezra 8:1 And this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes"
View the evidence for Artaxerxes
The Throne of Satan
Revelation 2:12 "And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's throne is"
The Pergamon Altar
The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser
2 Kings 17:3 "Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents"
Shalmaneser's Black Obelisk
The Ruins of Capernaum
Mark 1:21 "And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught"
Ruins of Capernaum
The Pontius Pilate Inscription
Luke 3:1 "Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea"
Pontius Pilate Inscription
Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon
2 Kings 24:1 "In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years"
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El Nino sends rare tropical visitors to California waters
By Alex Dobuzinskis
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - El Nino's warm currents have brought fish in an unexpected spectrum of shapes and colors from Mexican waters to the ocean off California's coast, thrilling scientists with the sight of bright tropical species and giving anglers the chance of a once-in-a-lifetime big catch.
Creatures that have made a splash by venturing north in the past several weeks range from a whale shark, a gentle plankton-eating giant that ranks as the world's largest fish and was seen off Southern California, to two palm-sized pufferfish, a species with large and endearing eyes, that washed ashore on the state's central coast.
Scientists say El Nino, a periodic warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific, has sent warm waves to California's coastal waters that make them more hospitable to fish from the tropics.
El Nino is also expected to bring some relief to the state's devastating four-year drought by triggering heavy rains onshore.
But so far precipitation has been modest, and researchers say the northern migration of fish in the Pacific Ocean has been one of the most dynamic, albeit temporary, effects of the climate phenomenon.
Even as marine biologists up and down the coast gleefully alert one another to each new, rare sighting, the arrival of large numbers of big fish such as wahoo and yellowtail has also invigorated California's saltwater sport fishing industry, which generates an estimated $1.8 billion a year.
"Every tropical fish seems to have punched their ticket for Southern California," said Milton Love, a marine science researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Some fish made the journey north as larva, drifting on ocean currents, before they grew up, researchers said. Continued...


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Runnin' Wide (Format) Open In NASCAR –Cagle
Gentlemen, start your wide-format inkjet printers!
The calendar says it's mid- February, and that means two things. One, pitchers and catchers report to Florida and Arizona for baseball's spring training. Two, gearheads unite as the sports world sets its attention to South Florida for the Daytona 500, the Super Bowl of NASCAR.
Yes, there is something truly wrong about a sport that opens its season with the equivalency of the championship game but, in racing, the season is laboriously long and (honestly) few people care about NASCAR in November, when Jimmie Johnson is crowned with title after title. So, opening day gets all of the attention; that's just as well.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not an anti-racing snob. I've followed the career of Jeff Gordon since he broke on the scene nearly 20 years ago. NASCAR is a sport that relies on the strong ties formed between its advertisers and fans, the latter of which are fiercely brand-loyal. And there are a number of ties between the printing community and NASCAR, particularly for manufacturers of wide-format printers.
Mutoh Industries, which manufactures piezoelectric printers, sponsors a pair of Rusty Wallace Racing (RWR) cars that compete in the Nationwide series. In 2010, those cars were driven by Steve Wallace—Rusty's son—and Brendan Gaughan. The accompanying photo above shows the RWR cars in action.
Last November, Mutoh treated some of its employees to the Phoenix race and provided them with pit passes. They had the opportunity to see the cars up close and admire the work performed by RWR's 64˝ Mutoh Valuejet 1614 printer.
Roland DGA also announced that it has been recognized as the exclusive printing manufacturer for Richard Childress Racing (RCR). Three of the contending 2010 Sprint Cup championship drivers—Kevin Harvick, Jeff Burton and Clint Boyer—are in the RCR stable.


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I was thrilled to find this article featuring Bilal Hussein, the AP stringer who is currently under arrest by the U.S. military for colluding with terrorists.
AP Photographer Flees Fallujah
Witnesses US Helicopter Kill Fleeing Family of 5
by Katarina Kratovac
BAGHDAD, Iraq - In the weeks before the crushing military assault on his hometown, Bilal Hussein sent his parents and brother away from Fallujah to stay with relatives.
The 33-year-old Associated Press photographer stayed behind to capture insider images during the siege of the former insurgent stronghold.
Thrilled, because along with several mil blogs, I followed the Fallujah battle intensely, including with maps. See here and over a dozen links at bottom. But to the point. Here's Bilal's dramatic account of his escape from Fallujah. Jolan, his neighborhood was a hotbed of terrorists, they were being killed there in large groups the very day he fled.
He totally leaves out the fact that the Iraqi military was part of that action. Now read this part of his account then see below.
"U.S. soldiers began to open fire on the houses, so I decided that it was very dangerous to stay in my house," he said.
Hussein said he panicked, seizing on a plan to escape across the Euphrates River, which flows on the western side of the city.
"I wasn't really thinking," he said. "Suddenly, I just had to get out. I didn't think there was any other choice."
In the rush, Hussein left behind his camera lens and a satellite telephone for transmitting his images. His lens, marked with the distinctive AP logo, was discovered two days later by U.S. Marines next to a dead man's body in a house in Jolan.
Hussein moved from house to house — dodging gunfire — and reached the river.
"I decided to swim ... but I changed my mind after seeing U.S. helicopters firing on and killing people who tried to cross the river."
He watched horrified as a family of five was shot dead as they tried to cross. Then, he "helped bury a man by the river bank, with my own hands."
Regarding the above - we are to believe that while helicopters were overhead gunning everyone down, Hussein takes the time to bury a man by hand on the river bank? Does that really make any sense?
"I kept walking along the river for two hours and I could still see some U.S. snipers ready to shoot anyone who might swim. I quit the idea of crossing the river and walked for about five hours through orchards."
He met a peasant family, who gave him refuge in their house for two days. Hussein knew a driver in the region and sent a message to another AP colleague, Ali Ahmed, in nearby Ramadi.
Ahmed relayed the news that Hussein was alive to AP's Baghdad bureau. He sent a second message back to Hussein that a fisherman in nearby Habaniyah would ferry the photographer to safety by boat.
"At the end of the boat ride, Ali was waiting for me. He took me to Baghdad, to my office."
Sitting safely in the AP's offices, a haggard-looking Hussein offered a tired smile of relief.
So, this modern ex-cell phone salesman fled a terrorist hotbed by ferry, which were known for smuggling terrorists and guns, and disappeared to parts unknown for two whole days without so much as a call? In fairness, the AP may have them off line, but I couldn't find dozens of images from Fallujah taken by Bilal Hussein. Wouldn't that be expected from the time when he was still there? And he conveniently lost his cell phone for this two day trek during which he witnessed allaged atrocities, so he couldn't take a single pic.
Hussein went missing for several days when forced to flee Fallujah during the U.S. incursion earlier this week
I'll bet he was on the run alright. Now read this account of women and children leaving Fallujah at the very same time as Bilal Hussein. (excerpts below)
After reading it, you be the judge. Does Hussein sound like someone with a press credential trying to get out of Fallujah, or more like a terrorist sympathizer running for his life, trying to go undetected - and bashing the US military the first chance he gets? I Googled around quite a bit, I realize Fallujah was ugly, but I can't find independent confirmations of the atrocities Hussein suggests. And lets' not forget, the Iraqi PM warned civilians to leave there for months before the attack. Perhaps the AP can oblige with some independent sources for Hussein's version, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
The AFP had photographers embedded with our troops. All Hussein had to do was approach a check point and present his credential. And here is a completely different story of families with up to ninety members fleeing Fallujah with none of Hussein's dramatics. And another. And here's a link to a then circulating story of the US bombing civilians, they turned out to be gunmen pinning down Marines.
From what I can gather, when Bilan Hussein wasn't busy photographing terrorists, or the people they killed, he was spending his time spreading propaganda for them.
FALLUJAH, Iraq — Hundreds of men trying to flee the assault on Fallujah have been turned back by U.S. troops following orders to allow only women, children and the elderly to leave.
The military says it has received reports warning that insurgents will drop their weapons and mingle with refugees to avoid being killed or captured by advancing American troops.
As it believes many of Fallujah's men are guerrilla fighters, it has instructed U.S. troops to turn back all males aged 15 to 55.
"We assume they'll go home and just wait out the storm or find a place that's safe," one 1st Cavalry Division officer, who declined to be named, said Thursday.
Army Col. Michael Formica, who leads forces isolating Fallujah, admits the rule sounds "callous." But he insists it's is key to the mission's success.
"Tell them 'Stay in your houses, stay away from windows and stay off the roof and you'll live through Fallujah,'" Formica, of the 1st Cavalry Division's (search) 2nd Brigade, told his battalion commanders in a radio conference call Wednesday night.
Troops have cut off all roads and bridges leading out of the city. Relatively few residents have sought to get through, but officers here say they fear a larger exodus.
On Wednesday, a crowd of 225 people surged south out of Fallujah toward the blocking positions of the Marines' 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion. The Marines let 25 women and children pass but separated the 200 military-age men and forced them to walk back into Fallujah.
"There is nothing that distinguishes an insurgent from a civilian," the 1st Cavalry officer said. "If they're not carrying a weapon, you can't tell who's who."
Also Wednesday, troops halted two ambulances leaving Fallujah and found 57 refugees packed inside. Most were women and children who were allowed to leave. Smaller bands of refugees have also turned up at U.S. roadblocks, some allowed to pass and others turned back.
Single refugees have made their way out of the city by swimming across the broad Euphrates River or sneaking out across desert paths, military officials said.
On Wednesday and Thursday, American troops sunk boats being used to ferry people — and in some cases, rebel arms — across the river.
The ongoing U.S. advance is bottling up Fallujah's insurgents — and others fleeing the fighting — in the southern section of the city, where U.S. forces were moving Thursday night.
Most of the remaining attacks by insurgents inside Fallujah have been on Marines blocking the roads and bridges leaving the city, reports show. Marines have returned fire killing numerous insurgents trying to escape, officers here said.
The military estimates 600 insurgents have already been killed, about half the total of guerrillas in the city.
Fallujah has been under relentless aerial and artillery bombardment and without electricity since Monday. Reports have said residents are running low on food. An officer here said it was likely that those who stay in their homes would live through the assault, but agreed the city was a risky and frightening place to live.
U.S. military says it does all it can to prevent bombing buildings with civilians inside them.
Once the battle ends, military officials say all surviving military-age men can expect to be tested for explosive residue, catalogued, checked against insurgent databases and interrogated about ties with the guerrillas. U.S. and Iraqi troops are in the midst of searching homes, and plan to check every house in the city for weapons.
Fallujah coverage: So It Begins - Frontline reporters have second thoughts Map 1 - Maps Explained - Map - Jolan Streets - Soccer Field Cemetery - Railroad Station - Southeastern Consolidation - Rough Picture from News Reports - Telegraphing From the Front - South of Thurthar and 10 - Crunch Time and a link at end with the story of a blond woman found with no arms and legs as a result of a terrorist act in Fallujah.
Filtered Press Reporting on Found Body
Nov 14 (AFP) - The body of a blonde-haired woman with her legs and arms cut off and throat slit was found Sunday lying on a street in Fallujah, a notorious Iraqi enclave for hostage-takers, marines said.
"It is definitely a Caucasian woman with long blonde hair," said a military official, who cut open a cover that had been over the corpse.
The gruesome discovery was made as the marines moved through the south of Fallujah, hunting out the remaining rebels after a week of fierce fighting to regain control of the city.
"It is a female ... missing all four appendages, with a slashed throat and disemboweled, she has been dead for a while but only in this location for a day or two," said Benjamin Finnell, a hospital apprentice with the Navy Corps, who had inspected the body.
An AFP photographer embedded with the marines noted that the woman was wearing a blue dress and her face was completely disfigured.
The marines said she appeared to have been on the street for about two days.
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Loans overdue at least three months grew 6.8 per cent to 526.5 billion yuan (HK$665.2 billion) in the first quarter, with the non-performing loan ratio climbing to 0.96 per cent at the end of March from 0.95 per cent last year, the China Banking Regulatory Commission said yesterday.
While the mainland's economic growth slowed to 7.7 per cent in the first quarter, banks are faced with mounting default risks in relation to loans to exporters, local government financing vehicles, real estate developers and industries that are saddled with overcapacity problems such as steel makers and cement producers.
"The asset quality of mainland banks has been showing worrying signs since last year amid the economic slowdown, especially joint-stock lenders," said Raymond Yung, a financial services leader at PwC China. "Bad loans are expected to rise further as many banks turn to more risky areas by lending to small and micro companies for higher profits."
Moves towards interest rate deregulation have forced banks away from reliance on profits from lending to large companies.
In the first quarter, banks made 368.8 billion yuan in net profit, up 13 per cent from a year ago, the banking regulator said.
May Yan, an analyst at Barclays Capital, expects Hong Kong-listed mainland banks to post a 12 per cent rise in net earnings this year.
"However, if the mainland's [gross domestic product] growth slows to 7 to 7.5 per cent, profit growth could be in the low single-digit," Yan said.
The ongoing management transition at several banks was expected to trigger a one-off rise in non-performing loans, based on past experience, she said.
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The capital adequacy ratio - which measure a bank's capital to its risk-weighted assets - of commercial banks stood at 12.28 per cent at the end of March, with their assets expanding 17 per cent year on year, the CBRC said.
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VERONA, Italy (Reuters) - Italian winemakers, usually wedded to centuries-old traditions, are slowly embracing Twitter, blogging and Facebook to boost sales that have been hit by the global economic crisis.
Italy, the world's second-biggest wine producer after France, saw export sales drop 6 percent to 3.5 billion euros in 2009 hit by the crisis and advancing competition from the "New World" wines, according to industry data.
"In the times of crisis it is important to experiment with new ways of making yourself known," Susanna Crociani of family owned Crociani, makers of full-body red Tuscan wine Nobile di Montepulciano (www.crociani.it) told Reuters.
Crociani, who says she was the first Italian winemaker to start a blog in 2004, said she has gained many new clients -- individual wine lovers, restaurant owners and professional buyers -- after launching a Facebook page. She has also started to use Twitter just a few months ago.
"An advantage of social media is that you don't have to pay (for making yourself known). You have to invest your time. But it pays off," Crociani said at Vinitaly wine trade fair.
Contacts through social media have boosted Crociani's online sales with the number of orders doubled to 50-60 a month, a considerable help for the small company which makes 60,000-70,000 bottles of wine a year, she said.
Facebook and Twitter, popular among the youth, are especially important in winning back young consumers who tend to favor beer or other drinks over wine, Crociani said.
Keeping with the new trend, consortium uniting makers of the famous Tuscan red Brunello di Montalcino (www.consorziobrunellodimontalcino.it), opened a Facebook page at the end of last year and now lists more than 10,000 fans. Continued...


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A sequel to Shrek is obviously warranted, but this is where problems begin to emerge. Although the story of Shrek 2 is once again a bit more high brow than what you've come to accept from typical animated fare (here the clashing of family values, as Fiona's father has a particularly hard time dealing with who her daughter has fallen in love with, much less what here "true form" is), the plot mechanizations begin to show a bit more through all the lushly rendered scenery.
The most glaring flaw is not in the plot, but in the inclusion of Puss in Boots. Although the character is quite dashing and lovable (especially when voiced by a having-way-too-much-fun Antonio Banderas), there is no grounding to him. He's a swashbuckling cat that tries to kill Shrek, is defeated, and is then befriended by him. There's not much else there to behold—that's the character. True, Donkey's character emerged under similarly vague circumstances, but his character developed right along with Shrek from the get-go, and, by learning lessons right along with Shrek, develops a character arc. Puss, meanwhile, remains remarkably (almost painfully) static.
With that said, however, Shrek 2 still has the magic of the original intact (if anything, the pop culture references got even more daring and risqué, although the largest belly-laugh moment comes from a brilliant "Be Our Guest" send-up), even if the heart at its core is just a size smaller than it was in the first film. Still, both of those films are several steps above the positively abysmal Shrek the Third, which is as blatant an example of franchise fatigue as you will ever see.
A brief glance behind the scenes reveals part of the reason as to why this may have happened: Andrew Adamson, the director of the first two films, soon left to direct the first two Chronicles of Narnia films for Disney/Walden Media, and although he authored the basic story for Third, the four writers who tackled the screenplay invariably lost a lot of what made the first two films so special to begin with.
Although Shrek does have a very potent challenge to face in this particular film (shrugging off his royal responsibilities to a young blood relative while also dealing with pending fatherhood), there is no tension driving the plot forward. Prince Charming (Rupert Everett), having lost his Fairy Godmother mother in the last film, swears to become the rightful king of Far, Far Away by bringing all the so-called villains of other tales with him to help rewrite their endings. It's a revenge tale with no gravitas—Prince Charming does not a convincing villain make. Coupled with extremely low stakes for the characters (and a rather limp-voiced performance by Justin Timberlake as heir-to-be Artie), Shrek the Third is an out-and-out misfire. Certainly, a few worthwhile moments make it through (the Gingerbread Man's life flashing before his eyes could have been a short film in its own right), but when the humor is this forced and the plot is this hackneyed, it's amazing that DreamWorks even gave this story the go-ahead in the first place.
Give credit to DreamWorks though: it listens to its audience. Upon seeing the tepid reception that Shrek the Third was receiving, DreamWorks knew that it would probably be a bad idea to end its trademark franchise on a sour note, so it went back to the drawing board for Shrek Forever After, a film that is far less funny than its previous installments, yet rivals the first two films in sheer heart and depth.
Shrek—now with a loving wife, free of royal commitments, and father of three adorable children—seems to have it all. Yet, the daily routine that he goes through is starting to get to him: changing the children, fixing the out-house, dealing with the annoying celebrity bus tours that swing by his swamp every day—it's not only becoming too familiar, but it's taking the edge of his personality, resulting in a very public outburst during his kids first birthday party.
Seeking solace, Shrek accidentally runs into Rumplestiltskin (voiced by Walk Dohrn, who is actually a DreamWorks storyboard artist), who has actually been planning revenge on Shrek for some time, as his princess-saving plans prevented a deal with Fiona's parents from going through, which would have resulted in him ruling the entire kingdom of Far, Far Away. When Shrek signs a deal with Rumple to become a true ogre for a day, little does he realize the implications of such a one-sided contract: he's thrust into an alternate reality wherein yes, he's feared, but he never met Donkey, never rescued Fiona, and never even had kids. Within 24 hours, he not only has to right his wrongs, but also has to stop Rumple and his army of witches in the process.
What ultimately makes Shrek Forever After work is that by placing Shrek in this new context, it's not he who reluctantly befriends these characters and goes on these quests to get things back to the way they once were; he must now actively be the one befriending, saving, and looking out for his friends. He's not merely retreading the plot-points of the past films, no. Instead, his character is showing his maturity by taking such an active role, really bringing his arc full-circle. Rumple proves to be a worthy villain (and a far cry from Charming in terms of dastardly deeds), and by placing familiar characters in new contexts (Fiona is now a warrior princess, Puss in Boots is now one fat cat, etc.) the writers have got an instant comedy cache built up. Leave it to the dialogue-free Pied Piper, however, to walk away with the film's best comedic moments, including the single most inspired use of the Beastie Boys' "Sure Shot" ever set to film.
Although Shrek Forever After does an admirable job of wrapping up the series, the numerous, numerous DVD special features included on this box set wind up giving viewers a whole new perspective. Although most of the "Shrek, Rattle & Roll" music segments are only passably entertaining (and the less said about Donkey's Christmas Shrektacular the better), some of the behind-the-scenes featurettes actually give a great deal of insight into the development of this franchise. Mike Meyers, for example notes that even though he recorded all his lines for the first movie, after seeing a rough cut of it, he asked to redo the entire thing just to get his character closer to where he envisioned it being. Amazingly, DreamWorks agreed, for quite a bit of money too (although Meyers never found out about the price until afterwards).
What's inexplicable, however, is how certain special features are only on select films. We have filmmaker's commentary for every film but Shrek the Third? We have deleted scenes from each movie except Shrek 2? We have no Shrek, Rattles & Roll for Shrek Forever After, but have one for Donkey's Christmas Shrektacular? It's a strange note, but, more often than not, these featurettes are worthwhile (especially the filmmaker's commentaries, which give plenty of background to each film without tilting too far into self-congratulations—although they do that at bit).
DreamWorks Animation has had a while to develop as a studio, and, slowly, have come to some important revelations; it realized that, much like Pixar, story and character always take precedence over jokes and animation any day of the week, which explains a bit as to why for every Monsters vs. Aliens that DreamWorks produces, it created something like How to Train Your Dragon, and continues to blur that line between populist entertainment and great art. DreamWorks will never be as innovative as Pixar is, but it's slowly turning into a studio of great storytelling. It may have officially started with Antz, but DreamWorks Animation's story truly begins with an ogre who didn't want to be disturbed by anyone. Four films later, we're all pretty glad DreamWorks bugged him, anyway.
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Who is Tanner's Paws?
Tanner's P.A.W.S. was founded in memory of Tanner, a 4-legged Labrador Retriever who lost his battle to cancer on March 4th, 2011. One year later, Tanner's P.A.W.S. held their first board meeting on March 12, 2012. Now officially a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization following the no-kill philosophy, Tanner's P.A.W.S. is dedicated to the care and safety of animals in need. We work closely with area dog control officers, shelters, SPCA's, and other rescues who share in our passion. After all, we all share the ultimate goal… to save as many lives as we possibly can. Recently, Tanner's P.A.W.S. has gotten involved with a puppy mill campaign in an attempt to rescue puppy mill dogs facing euthanasia and end the suffering of these dogs for good.
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Protecting Animal Welfare and Safety through rescuing, sheltering, adoption, education, and population management.
Rescuing Stray, abused, neglected, or at-risk dogs.
Adoption Placing dogs, those who have been cared for in our shelter or loving foster homes, into best- fit forever homes. We will also assist community members in re-homing their beloved pets they can no longer care for.
Education Our mission is to educate our community on the many aspects of responsible pet ownership.
Population Management Coordinating services to assist with low-cost spaying and neutering.
In addition to foster homes, Tanner's P.A.W.S. is always looking for help in different ways. At times we need volunteers to transport dogs to and from vet visits, foster homes, and clinics. We need help fundraising. Events are great outlets to share information and educate. Sometimes we need help walking dogs and cleaning out our emergency shelter space.
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While Tanner's P.A.W.S. has a shelter located in the Town of Corning, our goal is to care for all of our adoptable dogs in foster homes, if possible. Our shelter is used only in emergency situations. Caring for dogs in foster homes allows us to get to know the dog better and, therefore, place him or her in the best- fit forever home, one that best matches the dog's needs.
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|Where's the fuse box on a 96 Geo Metro?
|Tweet Topic Started: Aug 14 2009, 11:21 PM (9,930 Views)
|Aug 14 2009, 11:21 PM Post #1
|Can anyone help me find it? I want to check the fuses for the radio. I started a separate thread as I figured this would be helpful for anyone else with the same problem.
|Aug 15 2009, 12:38 AM Post #2
Should be about where left knee is (maybe a little to left of left knee) when sitting in drivers seat (under dash).
There is another one with all the big fuses under hood on driver's side next to fender .
|Aug 15 2009, 11:39 AM Post #3
|What does it look like? Because I can't find it. There's a white box behind but it doesn't look like a fuse box.... and it isn't very easily accessible. Please tell me that isn't it!
|Aug 15 2009, 11:58 AM Post #4
|That's it, remove the 3 screws on the panel under the steering wheel, the wide gray one and pull it out of your way, pulls straight back to ya. If you still need more access to the fuse box straight up is a #10 hex bolt, remove it, the other side on the kick panel is a thumb nut you can take off and the box should pull down for better access.
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|Aug 15 2009, 12:13 PM Post #5
Facetious Educated Donkey
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|Aug 15 2009, 12:38 PM Post #6
Could you get a picture further out so I can make sure I'm looking at the right thing? It's right up in there... I dunno how I'm gonna get at it. :S
|Aug 15 2009, 01:25 PM Post #7
As it will look mounted;
As it will look loose, there will be a cover over the fuses and of course I have some plugs unplugged after I removed the steering column;
|Aug 15 2009, 01:48 PM Post #8
Oh boy, so what I saw IS the fuse box. I'm going to have to wait until Monday before I can do anything, I don't get home until 10PM and tomorrow we're out from 6AM til 11PM for a friend's wedding...
Then it's back to normal! I don't suppose you know which fuse is to the radio / cigarette lighter socket?
|Aug 17 2009, 12:27 PM Post #9
I finally got the hood open today. The hood is all bent up and wasn't springing up by itself, so I had a friend pull on it while I pulled the lever. I adjusted those little black springy black things to make sure it comes up by itself next time.
Whoever rigged the light switch in did so with a crocodile clip directly to the positive terminal on the battery. I really want to fix this wiring issue - I miss having a radio!
|Aug 17 2009, 03:01 PM Post #10
I just replaced the 'ACC' / accessories fuse in the fuse box, this brought my aux power / cigarette lighter socket back to life. However, the radio still does not power up.
I'm going to buy myself a voltage tester (an investment I've been putting off for too long now) and see if it's getting power. Perhaps the stereo is fried.
|Sep 6 2011, 03:00 PM Post #11
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|Do you guys by any chance know which fuse belongs to the Signal Lights ?
|Bad Bent
|Sep 6 2011, 05:28 PM Post #12
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Welcome to the forum, trejo2011!
Click on Fuse Boxes; Jittney's post ans see if that helps.
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