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The Story (continued)
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Following the funeral services for Edward George Ruddy, Max Schumacher is reacquainted with Diana as she hails a taxi, and they head downtown for a cup of coffee together:
Max: I've thought many times of calling you.
Diana: I wish you had.
According to Diana, Sybil the Soothsayer has continued to predict that she will get more involved "with a craggy, middle-aged man" after their "one many-splendored night." Although she took his news show away, he still can't get her out of his mind. They begin their affair with a weekend together by the beach at the Sea Spray Inn, while Max's wife is out of town with their pregnant daughter in Seattle. Even during intimate moments in the restaurant and afterwards during sex, Diana can't restrain herself from talking enthusiastically about programming challenges regarding the Mao Tse Tung Hour. The troublesome show ("one big pain in the ass") has been placed at eight o'clock with a terrific lead-in from the Howard Beale Show, and the FBI has already served them with a subpoena for the Flagstaff bank rip-off film. She fears that the show cannot be made into a series because "they'll hit us with conspiracy and inducement to commit a crime," since UBS is paying "these nuts from the Ecumenical Liberation Army ten thousand bucks a week in order to turn in authentic film footage of their revolutionary activities." But Diana longs to be sued - it would mean higher ratings:
I said, 'Walter, let the government sue us! Let the federal government sue us. We'll take them to the Supreme Court. We'll be front page for months.' The New York Times and the Washington Post will be writing two editorials a week about us. We'll be front page for months. We'll have more press than Watergate! All I need is six weeks federal litigation, and the 'Mao Tse-tung Hour' can start carrying its own time slot. (She experiences orgasm.) What's really bugging me now is my daytime programming. NBC's got a lock on daytime with their lousy game shows, and I'd like to bust them. I'm thinking of doing a homosexual soap opera. 'The Dykes.' The heart-rending saga about a woman hopelessly in love with her husband's mistress. What do you think?
In a tense scene in their apartment, Max divulges his month-long, obsessive affair with Diana (he calls the relationship "a transient thing" and "a menopausal infatuation") to his wife of twenty-five years, Louise. After his confession, his long-suffering wife berates him for his unfaithfulness and "love" for Diana in a famous, Oscar-winning monologue:
Then get out. Go anywhere you want. Go to a hotel, go live with her, but don't come back! Because, after 25 years of building a home and raising a family and all the senseless pain that we have inflicted on each other, I'm damned if I'm gonna stand here and have you tell me you're in love with somebody else! Because this isn't a convention weekend with your secretary, is it? Or - or some broad that you picked up after three belts of booze. This is your great winter romance, isn't it? Your last roar of passion before you settle into your emeritus years. Is that what's left for me? Is that my share? She gets the winter passion, and I get the dotage? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to sit home knitting and purling while you slink back like some penitent drunk? I'm your wife, damn it! And, if you can't work up a winter passion for me, the least I require is respect and allegiance! (She sobs) I'm hurt! Don't you understand that? I'm hurt badly!
In answer to Louise's question about whether Diana loves him, Max Schumacher tells his wife about Diana's soul-less, amoral, and heartless feelings, and then decides to move out and leave his wife:
I'm not sure she's capable of any real feelings. She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her from over the TV set. She has very carefully devised a number of scenarios for all of us to play, like a Movie of the Week. And, my God, look at us, Louise. Here we are going through the obligatory middle-of-act-two 'scorned wife throws peccant husband out' scene. But don't worry, I'll come back to you in the end. All of her plot outlines have me leaving her and coming back to you because the audience won't buy a rejection of the happy American family. She does have one script in which I kill myself - an adapted for television version of Anna Karenina where she's Count Vronsky and I'm Anna.
The narrator describes further developments regarding the Mao Tse Tung Hour:
The Mao Tse Tung Hour went on the air March 14th. It received a 47 share. The network promptly committed to fifteen shows with an option for ten more. There were the usual contractual difficulties.
In the farmhouse of the Ecumenical Liberation Army in one of the film's most outrageous scenes, lawyers and agents are discussing lengthy, legalese contracts regarding their interpretations of production fees with Great Ahmed Khan and Laureen. Exploding in anger, Laureen refuses to lower her distribution charges. When Mary Ann Gifford (Kathy Cronkite) and Laureen are embroiled in an argument and Gifford yells "You f--kin' fascist!", Khan fires his pistol into the air to silence both of them: "Man, give her the f--kin' overhead clause!"
In a UBS Affiliates Convention in a major Los Angeles hotel, Nelson Chaney (Wesley Addy), President of the UBS Network, speaks at the spotlighted podium to a dignified group of people in the grand ballroom, introducing Diana Christensen as "the woman behind the Howard Beale Show - we all know she's beautiful, we all know she's brainy." After a thunderous ovation from the audience, she boasts to the affiliates: "We have the number one show in television. And at next year's affiliates' meeting, I'll be standing here telling you we've got the top five. Last year, we were the number four network. Next year, we're number one."
On a TV perched on a bar in the cocktail area of the ballroom, the Howard Beale show is being broadcast. During the show, the "mad prophet" criticizes the growing economic take-over power of Arabs, who are conspiratorially buying up parts of the US. In fact, the conglomerate/corporation that owns Beale's network is tied to Arab interests:
Now you listen to me. And listen carefully, because this is your goddamn life I'm talking about today. In this country, when one company wants to take over another company, they simply buy up a controlling share of the stock. But first, they have to file notice with the government. That's how CCA took over the company that owns this network. But now somebody is buying up CCA. Somebody called the Western World Funding Corporation. They filed the notice this morning. Well, just who in the hell is the Western World Funding Corporation?
It is a consortium of banks and insurance companies who are not buying CCA for themselves but as agents for somebody else. And who is this somebody else? They won't tell you. They won't tell you, they won't tell the Senate, they won't tell the SEC, the FCC, they won't tell the Justice Department, they won't tell anybody. They say it's none of our business. The hell it ain't! I will tell you who they're buying CCA for. They're buying it for the Saudi-Arabian Investment Corporation. They're buying it for the Arabs...
We all know that the Arabs control sixteen billion dollars in this country. They own a chunk of Fifth Avenue, twenty downtown pieces of Boston, a part of the port of New Orleans, an industrial park in Salt Lake City. They own big hunks of the Atlanta Hilton, the Arizona Land and Cattle Company, the Security National Bank in California, the Bank of the Commonwealth in Detroit. They control ARAMCO, so that puts them into Exxon, Texaco, and Mobil Oil. They're all over - New Jersey, Louisville, St. Louis Missouri. And that's only what we know about! There's a hell of a lot more we don't know about because all of the those Arab petro-dollars are washed through Switzerland and Canada and the biggest banks in this country. For example, what we don't know about is this CCA deal and all the other CCA deals. Right now, the Arabs have screwed us out of enough American dollars to come right back and with our own money, buy General Motors, IBM, ITT, AT&T, DuPont, US Steel, and twenty other American companies. Hell, they already own half of England.
So listen to me. Listen to me, god-dammit! The Arabs are simply buying us. There's only one thing that can stop them. You! You! So, I want you to get up now. I want you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the phone. I want you to get up from your chairs, go to the phone, get in your cars, drive into the Western Union offices in town. I want you to send a telegram to the White House. By midnight tonight, I want a million telegrams in the White House. I want them wading knee-deep in telegrams at the White House. I want you to get up right now and write a telegram to President Ford saying: 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore! I don't want the banks selling my country to the Arabs! I want the CCA deal stopped now!' I want the CCA deal stopped now.
Simultaneously, Frank Hackett speaks on the phone with an executive in New York (City) who has become disturbed by the effectiveness of the evening's Howard Beale Show. Frank ends the conversation and watches part of the show at the cocktail bar television. Later, he and other UBS dismayed executives watch a taped replay of the end of the show. After the show's traditional tirade, Howard customarily keels over and collapses on the floor.
Walter Amundsen (Jerome Dempsey), the General Counsel of the Network, is told by Frank Hackett about his knowledge of the CCA deal with the Saudis:
The CCA has two billions in loans with the Saudis. And they hold every pledge we've got. We need that Saudi money bad. A disaster. The show is a disaster. Unmitigated disaster, the death knell. I'm ruined, I'm dead, I'm finished...The SEC could hold this deal up for twenty years if they wanted to. I'm finished...Four hours ago, I was the sun God at CCA, Mr. Jensen's hand-picked golden boy, the heir apparent. Now, I'm a man without a corporation.
And although Howard Beale is "the number one show on television," Hackett is fierce with anger and "wants Howard Beale fired...I'm gonna impale the son of a bitch with a sharp stick through the heart! I'll take out a contract on him. I'll hire professional killers. No, I'll do it myself. I'll strangle him with a sash-cord." Hackett and Beale are summoned back to New York on a red-eye flight to meet with Jensen, the UBS Chairman of the Board. In the CCA Building the next morning, Howard (imbued with madness) accompanies Hackett up the stairs, crying out with his arms upraised: "The final revelation is at hand. I have seen the shattering fulgurations of ultimate clarity. The light is impending! I bear witness to the light!" During introductions with Jensen, Howard tells him: "I'm as mad as a hatter."
The all-consummate corporate pitchman and business magnate Arthur Jensen, an ex-salesman, summons Beale into his imposing conference room ("Valhalla"): "They say I can sell anything. I'd like to try to sell something to you." In one of the best-acted scenes in the film, Jensen devastates Beale with an evangelical lecture - a hypnotic, spell-binding, convincing, God-like oratorical speech (mocking Beale's own style) about the facts of international business and commerce - the corporate mentality. He describes the unimportance of individuals and the overarching omnipotence of currency as the center of the universe:
You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it, is that clear?! You think you have merely stopped a business deal - that is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity, it is ecological balance. You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations! There are no peoples! There are no Russians! There are no Arabs! There are no Third Worlds! There is no West! There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national dominion of dollars! Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds and shekels! It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and subatomic and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and you will atone!
He pauses for a moment - and speaks normally with a question to Beale, but then continues:
Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT and T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon - those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state - Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories and mini-max solutions and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime, and our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you to preach this evangel, Mr. Beale.
When Beale asks, "Why me?" Jensen replies: "Because you're on television, dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday. (Beale: "I have seen the face of God.") You just might be right, Mr. Beale."
Terrified, Beale is pressured and forced by Jensen to start preaching about dehumanization and the death of democracy. He returns to the airwaves to preach Jensen's corporate truth, championing corporate rather than individual human rights: "That evening, Howard Beale went on the air to preach the corporate cosmology of Arthur Jensen":
Last night, I got up here and asked you people to stand up and fight for your heritage, and you did, and it was beautiful. Six million telegrams were received at the White House. The Arab takeover of CCA has been stopped. The people spoke, the people won. It was a radiant eruption of democracy. But I think that was it, fellas. That sort of thing is not likely to happen again. Because at the bottom of all our terrified souls, we know that democracy is a dying giant, a sick, sick dying, decaying political concept, writhing in its final pain. I don't mean that the United States is finished as a world power. The United States is the richest, the most powerful, the most advanced country in the world, light-years ahead of any other country. And I don't mean the Communists are gonna take over the world because the Communists are deader than we are. What is finished is the idea that this great country is dedicated to the freedom and flourishing of every individual in it. It's the individual that's finished. It's the single, solitary human being that's finished. It's every single one of you out there that's finished. Because this is no longer a nation of independent individuals. It's a nation of some two hundred odd million transistorized, deodorized, whiter-than-white, steel-belted bodies, totally unnecessary as human beings and as replaceable as piston rods. Well, the time has come to say is 'dehumanization' such a bad word?' Whether it's good or bad, that's what is so. The whole world is becoming humanoid, creatures that look human but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country, so we're getting there first. The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things...
However, the ratings for the Howard Beale show begin to fall again, now that he has alienated his viewing audience by preaching about the meaningless of their individual lives (and about "dying, democracy, and de-humanization"). The narrator describes the effect upon ratings:
Nobody particularly cared to hear his life was utterly valueless. By the end of the first week in June, the Howard Beale show had dropped one point in the ratings, and its trend of shares dipped under 48 for the first time since last November.
Diana panics: "Another couple of weeks of this and the sponsors will be bailing out." And as time goes on, the relationship and affair between the middle-aged Schumacher and the youthful Diana also starts to fade and turns sour, especially when Max sees her concealed behind a mask of cold cynicism and insensitivity. He feels guilty about the pain and suffering he has caused, senses his impending mortality, and begs for her to express her love:
And I'm tired of finding you on the god-damn telephone every time I turn around. I'm tired of being an accessory in your life! And I'm tired of pretending to write this dumb book about my maverick days in the great early years of television. Every god-damned executive fired from a network in the last twenty years has written this dumb book about the great early years of television. And nobody wants a dumb, damn, god-damn book about the great years of television...After living with you for six months, I'm turning into one of your scripts. Well, this is not a script, Diana. There's some real actual life going on here. I went to visit my wife today because she's in a state of depression, so depressed that my daughter flew all the way from Seattle to be with her. And I feel lousy about that. I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and my kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken and all of those things that you think sentimental but which my generation called simple human decency. And I miss my home because I'm beginning to get scared s--tless. Because all of a sudden, it's closer to the end than it is to the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me - with definable features. You're dealing with a man that has primal doubts, Diana, and you've got to cope with it. I'm not some guy discussing male menopause on the 'Barbara Walters Show'. I'm the man that you presumably love. I'm part of your life. I live here. I'm real. You can't switch to another station...I just want you to love me. I just want you to love me, primal doubts and all. You understand that, don't you?
Diana, raised within the world of ratings and soul-less television scripts, feels no compassion about his real-life script of guilt, pain and his need for love: "I don't know how to do that."
The ratings continue to plummet and the situation is becoming desperate: "By the first week in July, the Howard Beale show was down eleven points. Hysteria swept through the network." Lauren Hobbs rails against Diana for being placed after the Beale show, and for being set-up against competitors on other networks: CBS's Tony Orlando and Dawn, NBC's Little House on the Prairie, and ABC's The Bionic Woman. Programming executives are at a loss - they have no adequate replacements for Beale's time slot.
There are other indications that Diana's and Max's affair is dying when she packs his things for him in her bedroom and announces that she is cancelling 'their' show. Ultimately, they have become emotionally dead to each other:
I think the time has come to re-evaluate our relationship, Max. I don't like the way this script of ours is turning out. It's turning into a seedy little drama. Middle-aged man leaves wife and family for young heartless woman, goes to pot. The Blue Angel with Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings. I - I don't like it...The simple fact is, Max, that you're a family man. You like a home and kids and that's beautiful. But I am incapable of any such commitment. All you'll get from me is another couple of months of intermittent sex and recriminate and ugly little scenes like the one we had last night. I'm sorry for all those things I said to you last night. You're not the worst f--k I ever had. Believe me, I've had worse. And you don't puff or snorkle and make death-like rattles. As a matter of fact, you're rather serene in the sack.
Max questions her insult of him: "Why is it that a woman always thinks that the most savage thing she can say to a man is to impugn his cocks-manship?" He realizes that he must leave Diana, but shows his concern for her ultimate fate: "You're not the boozer type, so I figure a year, maybe two before you crack up or jump out of your 14th floor office window." Without any capability to provide emotional feedback, she has become "television incarnate" by performing like a vampire that sucks the life out of people:
Diana: I don't want your pain, I don't want your menopausal decay and death! I don't need you, Max.
Max: You need me! You need me badly. Because I'm your last contact with human reality. I love you, and that painful, decaying love is the only thing between you and the shrieking nothingness you live the rest of the day.
Diana: Then don't leave me.
Max: It's too late, Diana. There's nothing left in you that I can live with. You're one of Howard's humanoids, and if I stay with you, I'll be destroyed. Like Howard Beale was destroyed. Like Laureen Hobbs was destroyed. Like everything that you and the institution of television touch is destroyed. You're television incarnate, Diana, indifferent to suffering, insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. War, murder, death - all the same to you as bottles of beer, and the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy. You even shatter the sensations of time and space into split seconds and instant replays. You're madness, Diana, virulent madness, and everything you touch dies with you. But not me. Not as long as I can feel pleasure and pain and love. (He kisses her farewell.) And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife with whom he's established a long and sustaining love. Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation. Music up with a swell. Final commercial. And here are a few scenes from next week's show.
After meeting with Jensen, Hackett has been told to keep Howard Beale on the air with his "very important message to the American people." "With a certain sinister silkiness," Jensen has told Hackett that he doesn't like volatile industries such as television, "in which success and failure were determined week by week." Jensen's "inflexible...intractable and adamantine" position puts Diana and the rest of the network officials "in the s--thouse," since Beale's ratings (Q score) have dropped precipitously in the "core markets." "It is Howard Beale that is the destructive force here," causing a "forty, forty-five million dollar loss in annual revenues."
So in an emergency production meeting, the network officials plot to kill Beale on camera in order to save the network - Diana suggests an idea for a sensational show-opener: "I think I can get the Mao Tse Tung people to kill Beale for us as one of the shows. In fact, it'll make a helluva kick-off show for the season." As they conspire together to commit "a capital crime" by killing "the son of a bitch" (Diana's exact words), a long line of waiting audience members parade into the UBS Building toward the studio and their seats in the audience area.
In the final shocking scene, after the Howard Beale segment is introduced, the news anchor is gunned down by two revolutionary radicals in the audience (Note: One of whom was an uncredited and young actor named Tim Robbins) who had been hired by the network to do away with him. Beale pitches backwards from the impact of multiple bullet wounds - bloodied.
Jack Snowden, a newsman substituting for Howard Beale, is displayed on one of four monitors on a bank of TV screens as he delivers the news story. Snowden's words are dwarfed by simultaneously running commercials (including Canada Dry's Bitter Lemon drink ("We never compromise, so why should you? Canada Dry Mixers. Why compromise?"), and the famous Life cereal commercial ("Let's get Mikey to try it. He won't eat it. He hates everything...He likes it! He likes it!")):
...the network news anchorman on the UBS Network News Show, known to millions as 'the Mad Prophet of the Airwaves,' was shot to death tonight in a fusilade of automatic rifle fire just as he began this evening's broadcast...The extraordinary incident occurred in full view of his millions of viewers. The assassins were members of a terrorist group called the Ecumenical Liberation Army, two of whom were apprehended. The leader of the group, known as the Great Ahmed Khan, escaped.
The narrator adds a final epitaph:
This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.


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If President Obama thought he had definitively deflated the birther conspiracy set and its enablers in the right-wing media, he is undoubtedly mistaken. In predictable fashion, following Obama's press conference and the release of his long-form birth certificate, right-wing media figures repurposed the news to attack him. They seized on Obama's reference to the birther nonsense as "silliness" to fling his reported visit to the Oprah set in his face.
As Michelle Malkin observed: "[H]ere we have him -- had him have his press conference in D.C. lecturing us about the need to be serious, and then he turned his heels and immediately went to that serious venue, Oprah Winfrey."
The silliness has since only multiplied. Conservative media figures are now pointing to Obama's meeting on immigration issues with Latino celebrities and other high-profile Spanish-language stars to further push their "Obama is not serious" narrative. As the New York Post put it: "While President Obama said he had no time for birther 'silliness' earlier this week, his meeting with Latino celebrities and media stars was nothing but." The headline for the Post article read: "Obama on immigration is nothing but unserious silliness."
What has these media so outraged is that among the dozen or so people Obama invited for his immigration sit-down were actresses Eva Longoria, Rosario Dawson, and America Ferrera. "Yes, that Eva Longoria," sneered RedState.com, presumably alluding to the actress' role on ABC's Desperate Housewives. The New York Post added: "Perhaps Obama bought Longoria's new cookbook in exchange for a campaign contribution."
Malkin, responding to a Post tweet that noted, "Obama meeting w/Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty stars at White House," wrote:
The folks at National Review Online employed similar tack; under a headline reading, "The President's Seriousness about Immigration Reform," Peter Kirsanow wrote:
[T]o address this serious problem [of immigration reform], President Obama has announced that he will hold a summit to discuss "the importance of fixing the broken immigration system." The Hill reports that the following are the experts invited to the summit: actresses Eva Longoria, Rosario Dawson and America Ferrera, Univision host Maria Elena Salinas, Telemundo anchor Vanessa Hauc, and Spanish-language radio host Eddie Sotelo. White House advisers Valerie Jarrett and David Plouffe will also attend.
Serious is as serious does.
But in their rush to malign the Latina stars for lacking the gravitas of "renowned immigration policy experts," not one of these media figures mentioned the fact that all "have been active in Hispanic causes," as The Boston Globe noted in its write-up.
Indeed, Longoria just co-produced a documentary, The Harvest, that "exposes the harsh conditions under which three undocumented children work and live, day-to-day, in the United States." This is an issue Longoria says she has been involved with for years, and she intends "to be the voice of these children no one listens to."
In August 2010, Dawson, the co-founder of Voto Latino, launched the United We Win campaign to fight Arizona's immigration law. Dawson was able to get Longoria and other stars to appear in ads for that campaign, which she hoped would "get young people to fight for human rights by voting." Dawson reportedly stated:
"We recognize that this isn't just a Mexican issue or a Latino issue... There are people blogging and Tweeting for everything, from the BP spill to education and healthcare. ... We're all buzzing about these things, but unless we're actually marching to the polls, nothing is going to actually change.
"When you look back at Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, he got arrested and asked everyone else to get arrested....and people were afraid to step forward. Who was going to be the people who stepped up? The people who did were high schoolers because they weren't afraid of being arrested. We're all underage, and that was really crucial in getting the civil rights movement going -- getting young people's participation."
And Ferrera just wrapped up a stint on ABC drama The Good Wife, in which her character deals with immigration issues, which she says are "very close" to her heart. TV Guide.com reported:
"I certainly didn't expect to jump into anything on TV that shortly after being off Betty," the Emmy-winning actress tells TVGuide.com of her guest stint on The Good Wife as graduate student and illegal alien Natalie. "For me, the appeal was just how [creators and executive producers Robert and Michelle King] were really interested in addressing this topic and having the character set in the world of these hot-button issues of immigrants in this country. My heart is very close to those issues."
"[Natalie] is sort of the anti-stereotype of what people imagine when they hear those labels," she says. "It felt like the Kings would be really great people to explore that world in ways that could show their audience an alternative to general preconceived notions about illegal immigrants."
Because of her personal interest in the issue, Ferrera was able to contribute to the conversation about the character as well, such as the inclusion of important relevant topics like the DREAM Act (a proposed piece of legislation that would grant residency to select illegal aliens who entered the U.S. as minors and graduated from American high schools).
Moreover, Obama has held meetings about the issue with so-called "renowned immigration policy experts." The week before his sit-down with Latino celebrities, Obama held an April 19 meeting on "fixing the broken immigration system" that included former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, former U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, among others.
But, regardless, who no better to spur renewed dialogue of immigration issues with than Latino stars and celebrities with access to farther-reaching megaphones than Obama's? While they may not be steeped in the minutiae of policy debates, which often bog down and derail reform, they have proved they know the issues and are active in fighting for reform. In essence, they've shown they are serious about fixing the broken immigration system, whether their day jobs involve acting or not.
Can the same be said of the right-wing media? Well, when all you hear from conservative media figures is an amalgam of mouthed insults about the imminent threat of "illegals" ("illegal aliens") and "anchor babies" ("terror babies"), the answer is no. That shows exactly how serious they are.
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Like its three predecessors, Rambo strikes a nerve, and it's not a nerve that America's left-leaning critical establishment wants struck. Cowritten and directed by Stallone, the fourth Rambo movie is a bracingly political picture -- as much an argument in movie form as No End In Sight; a pro-interventionist rebuttal to all the 2007 documentaries and dramas about America losing bits of its soul in Iraq. The I-word is never spoken in Rambo, yet in its coded way, the film makes a case for why we are in Iraq and should stay there until the job is done, whenever that may be.Read this too.
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NJ Legislators Rip Port Authority Bosses
New Jersey legislators are grilling top officials at the Port Authority about a decision to close local lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge in September that backed up traffic for days through Fort Lee.
"You are a masterful dancer and we appreciate your dancing skills," Assemblyman John Wisniewski told Bill Baroni, the deputy executive director at the Port Authority. Baroni is a former legislator who was appointed by Gov. Chris Christie.
In his testimony today, Baroni explained that mayors and transportation officials were not notified about the lane closures due to a communication failure.
He said the closures were necessary as part of a study to determine if travelers on the main entrance lanes were experiencing delays due to three local lanes that operate out of Fort Lee, the town at the foot of the bridge.
The closures caused huge traffic jams and came as a surprise to government officials and local police, who are usually notified of upcoming road closures.
Baroni has experience holding his own at tough legislative hearings. He battled with the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg last year at one appearance.
Baroni offered to take Wisniewski, chair of the Assembly's transportation committee, on a field trip to the George Washington Bridge, and said he would provide lunch.
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Arsenal have been dealt a tricky hand in the Group Stage of the Champions League. Former winners FC Porto, Turkish giants Fenerbahce and FC Dynamo Kyiv await Wenger's men with the top two advancing to the knockout stages. This season Arsenal.com will be keeping you up to date with the form of the Gunners' Group G counterparts in our regular Euro Watch.
Kocaelispor 2-3 FENERBAHCE
October 18th.
Fenerbahce's Semih Senturk struck in the 90th minute to secure a dramatic 3-2 victory at bottom-place Kocaelispor on Saturday. The hosts had taken a 23rd-minute lead through Taner Gulleri but two goals in quick succession from Daniel Guiza and Ugur Boral midway through the second half handed the Yellow Canaries the advantage. Nenad Jestrovic's 78th-minute goal looked to have salvaged a point for Kocaelispor but Senturk's fine strike wrapped up the victory in stoppage time. The hosts have not beaten Fenerbahce since 1998 and remain rooted to the foot of the table. Fenerbahce climbed to 10th in the Super Lig as a result of their victory.
Sertanense 0-4 FC PORTO
October 18th.
A brace from Ernesto Farias helped Porto to a comprehensive victory over Third Division side Sertanense in the Third Round of the Taca de Portugal. The two sides had met in the same competition last season with an identical result. Sektioui Tarik opened the scoring in first-half stoppage time and Ernesto Farias struck his first a minute before the hour-mark. The Argentinean striker bagged his second midway through the second half and a Diego Campos own goal completed the rout three minutes later.
FC DYNAMO KYIV 5-0 FC Zorya Luhansk
October 17th.
Dynamo cemented their place at the top of the Ukranian Premier League as they demolished FC Zorya Luhansk 5-0 on Friday evening. Four goals in the first 15 minutes and one in the 79th ensured a comfortable game for the hosts. The League's top scorer, Ismael Bangoura, struck twice either side of goals from Alexandr Aliyev and Tiberiu Ghioane. Roman Zozulya's effort 11 minutes from time compounded a miserable evening for seventh-place Zorya. Yuri Semin's men are now two points clear of FC Metalurh Donetsk at the summit.


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Promise Land, a film in the style of a children's cartoon, features a rapping suicide bomber, racist Jews and an Arab waiter masturbating into food for a Jewish table. The Israeli director, Gili Dolev, has created a pessimistic, non-partisan view of the Middle East conflict, after losing faith in the peace process.
His family in Israel has been angered by the 15-minute film, which will be shown only in the west and opens as part of the McLaren short films showcase at Edinburgh. It will go on to the Toronto film festival in September.
Dolev, 28, who left Israel for Scotland in 1998 after three years in the army, told the Sunday Herald he intended to keep a low profile in Edinburgh and refused to be photographed for fear the film could spark a backlash against him.
The film opens with a shot of Omar, an Arab waiter, masturbating into a plate of food for a Jewish couple, after another customer has called him a "stinking Arab".
Omar is interviewed by an American journalist who then films a series of young men from both sides of the conflict.
These include Eitan, a young Jew who beats up an old Arab man while talking to the camera; Ahmed, a rapping suicide bomber on a bus, who talks of the 69 virgins awaiting his arrival in heaven; and Gaddi, an Israeli soldier, who shrugs when a child is killed in crossfire.
Dolev said: "It's important for people on both sides to see there is suffering on both sides. I know films don't change the world and I know no one is listening both in Palestine and in Israel."
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Kristen Stewart Shows Off Some Shoulder While Filming 'Snow White' [PHOTOS]
Actress Kristen Stewart was showing off a different look while filming Snow White and the Huntsman today.
Yesterday, Kristen was suited up in armor, while today she was seen in a full off the shoulder gown while wearing some bright blue boots to protect her feet from the water.
PHOTOS: Kristen Stewart Joins Kate Moss At Mulberry Show During London Fashion Week
This adaptation of the story is vastly different from the other version currently being made with Lily Collins and Julia Roberts. This edition, from director Rupert Sanders, sees Snow White train with the huntsman who has been sent to kill her. Charlize Theron plays the Evil Queen.
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The Medicare data issued a report regarding the use of chiropractic medicine as a way to deal with various pain and physical concerns. According to this authority, about one-half billions dollars is spent in chiropractic medicine and this is in the United States alone. While surveys say that back pain is the most common reason why chiropractic medicine is popular, we cannot deny the fact that there are more reasons why one should see a chiropractor. These days, Americans usually deal with the following issues and this is true to the people of Omaha.
Neck Pain
Neck pain is a common issue among many Americans and this is usually experienced by almost half of the American population. This is a condition which also deals with certain types of treatments which include prescription medicine, physical therapy and even surgery. However, the Annals of Internal Medicine published that chiropractic treatments and adjustments are remedies that are known to be reliable and effective to patients. If you are from the city of Omaha, a Chiropractor Omaha can give you such remedies to address your neck pain.
Pain, Numbness and Tingling in the Extremities
There is actually a long list of medical conditions that is usually addressed by a licensed chiropractor. Sciatica and cervical radiculopathy are conditions that can cause severe pain and discomfort and they usually occur in the extremities. In many cases, such conditions do not react well with medicines and physical therapy so it is more likely that most patients follow the chiropractic route. With the various chiropractic techniques rendered by a Chiropractor Omaha, patients become well without going through medications or surgery.
Migraines and Headaches
Headache is another type of medical issue which is common to most Americans. What is really annoying is that headache can occur from time to time. But even when headache is perceived as a common medical issue, this does not necessarily mean that is a normal condition. A prescription medicine can stop headaches and migraine but in a limited time. But with the aid of a Chiropractor Omaha, pressured nerves in the head are treated and adjusted so headache and migraine cease or dissipate altogether.
Athletic Performance
Many professionals athletes like Tiger Woods, Barry Bonds and Arnold Schwarzenegger relied on chiropractic medicine during the heydays of their career. These people simply rely on the fact that chiropractic medicine is something that can improve musculoskeletal alignment. When properly done, fewer injuries are a beneficial result and sports injuries are treated expeditiously as well.
Pregnancy Issues
When a woman gains extra weight over a short span of time, this can put too much stress on her body. A Chiropractor Omaha is someone whom you can rely on when it comes to dealing with different kinds of pregnancy issues. Studies have shown that pregnant women who see a chiropractor usually experience less painful and easy deliveries.
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 14/12/2012 (1655 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Not finished your Christmas Shopping? Don't worry about it.
No plans for New Year's Eve? Don't sweat.
Bank sitting like a wolf at your door, ready to pounce on you in the New Year?
Just smile and kick back, relax.
All this of course is fine advice if you believe the ancient Mayan calendar. After all, the Mayan's started that calendar 5,000 years go, 3,000 years before the birth of Christ. Problem is, they say the end of days will happen at winter solstice. That's this Friday December 21st. (I guess that also means this is my last column in a Saturday Brandon Sun.)
But as many joke of zombies taking over, Justin Bieber rising to take over the world, or Kim Kardashian taking over as some type of alien queen ruler of the planet next Friday, others aren't laughing.
From Moscow to France, the US to Brazil, panic is setting in. The New York Times reports some spooked Russians have been panic-buying matches, fuel and sugar. And they are not alone. A poll by Ipsos recently found that one in seven of us believe the world will end during our lifetime. The same poll says one in 10 have fear and/or anxiety about the implications of next week.
Experts in Mayan culture call BS, saying the 2012 phenomenon misrepresents the Long Count calendar. Translation: it is unsupported by any surviving Mayan texts. But, thanks to the Internet, with its ability to grow conspiracy theories regardless of fact, this thing is growing fast. But governments around the world are taking the predictions seriously. Seriously enough to inform their citizens that they are NOT taking it seriously.
In the US, an official government blog entry was posted last Monday, reassuring Americans that "Scary rumours about the world ending in 2012 are just rumours."
In Russia, Minister of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov, issued a statement saying that "the world would not end this month."
In South and Central America the response is mixed. The mayor of San Francisco de Paula Brazil, has urged residents to stock up on supplies, but in Yucatan, Mexico (which still has a large Mayan population) a cultural festival is planned for Friday.
That sounds better. Another reason for a party. But what's a party without the two best components — music and food. (But be sure to charge the restaurant and music man to your credit card. You know, just in case.)
Here are the top 5 songs about the "end of days":
5) Metallica Blackened
Go figure. The "feel good" up-beat rock band of the 80's with a song about the end of days? Wow. Shocking isn't it. About as surprising as hearing that 40 year old male football fans didn't like Justin Bieber at the Grey Cup halftime show. In other shocking headlines, OJ did it, there was more than one shooter on the grassy nole, and reality TV is junk food for your brain.
4) Soundgarden Black Hole Sun
The only top 40 hit for this band. This song is terribly depressing. Make sure you're in a good mood, with sun shining and bright colours nearby. It's so dark it would make Richard Simmons dress in black, cradle his face in his hands and start crying.
3) Prince 1999
For those who were old enough to be scared New Years Eve 1999, remember the Y2K bug? The lyrics (as "feel good" as they are) even says so much. Party's over, oops out of time. Tonight we're gonna party like its 1999. So much fun to listen to in 1989, 1994 and even 1998. Then it was New Year's 2000 and the experts said nothing would work. In a world controlled by computers, everything including our power grid, emergency response and food supply would shut down. Know what happened? People got drunk, acted stupid, and woke up with a hangover. Kinda like every New Year's.
2) Nena 99 Luftballoons
Did you know the song is about the end of the world after a nuclear war? Of course you didn't. The original song was done in German. There is the English version that might clear up some of the confusion. You'll never listen to it the same way again, won't you? Doesn't matter, its still up beat, and guaranteed to get everyone on the dance floor at your "OMG the world ends tonight" party.
1) R.E.M. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Regardless of what happens Friday, this song is AWESOME. The 90's pop/rock version of the song "I've been everywhere man" complete with hard to follow but super fun lyrics that makes you want to learn every word of this song.
But what do we eat? Researchers recently looked at 247 people executed in the US from 2002 through 2006. The study looked at the 193 meals. (After excluding 51 inmates who did not choose a last meal, two who had a meal under 200 calories, and one person who requested a single pitted olive.)
So what did these guys want? French fries, soda pop, ice cream, hamburgers, chicken, steak and pie. Cornell researchers found trends in this bizarre research of last meal orders. More than two-thirds of the condemned ordered fried foods, mostly french fries, and they ordered dessert at about the same rate. Inmates were five times more likely to request soda pop over milk. The average meal request came in at an estimated 2,756 calories, more than a typical man needs in a whole day. Research says four of the meals clocked in at 7,200 calories, including a request for 12 pieces of fried chicken, two buttered rolls, mashed potatoes with brown gravy, two cokes and a pint each of strawberry and vanilla ice cream. More than a third asked for the most popular meat, chicken, followed by hamburger (24 percent) and steak (22 percent). Four percent requested fast-food takeout from chains like McDonald's, Wendy's or KFC. Fruits and vegetables were much less popular, though more than a quarter requested a salad.
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Arthur Wiebe says "The Mayan calendar didn't take in account for leap year. So really the end should have come around July 30th." So stockpile your food and water, and get your mp3 players filled with music for the end. Or you could do what most people do when a calendar runs out: buy a new one. They got them with puppies, horses, men and women without much clothing and winters scenes. I like the ones with the beach scenes.
On a road through a desert in Arizona, a preacher named Nathaniel Evans walked everyday, preaching to the many people who roared past in their cars. "Repent, the End of the World is Near!" he yelled.
One day, as he was walking, he came to a big lever in the middle of nowhere, just by the side of the road. It had a sign next to it that read, "Pull this to end the world"
Nathaniel saw this as the perfect spot for him to preach, and soon many automobiles were parked nearby. All was well, until there were so many people, and so many cars, that the road was nearly blocked. Then a big 18-wheel rig came down the highway, and couldn't stop in time. The driver had a choice: run over Nathaniel, or run over the Lever.
As the driver later explained to the Highway Patrol, he had no choice. Pointing to the red smear on the road that used to be Nathaniel Evans, he said, "Better Nate than Lever."
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The Lake Geneva Jaycees 23rd Annual Venetian Festival Arts & Crafts Fair is Saturday, August 19th and Sunday, August 20th, 2017 at Library Park. For more information on how you can get your spot before its gone, click here. Booths start at just $140
The Lake Geneva Jaycees and their wives will be buying clothes and toys for needy families throughout the lakes area.
Members will shop and purchase gifts and personally wrapped them and delivered them to families.
This year the Jaycees plan on delivering gifts for 35-40 kids. The Jaycees will also help provide gifts for another 85 kids in conjunction with the employees of Peoples Bank and the Head Start program.
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"The 2nd annual Small Business Saturday is a day dedicated to supporting small businesses on one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year," according to the movement's website, www.smallbusinesssaturday.com. "On November 26, we're asking millions of people to shop small at their favorite local stores and help fuel the economy. When we all shop small, it will be huge."
Cedar City shoppers have long taken to the freeway and taken their dollars to St. George, northern Utah and Las Vegas, but shoppers in the know are aware that some of the best, most desirable gifts money can buy are not on the internet or in the malls, but in creative, eclectic boutiques. There are community staples such as The Wizz, Groovacious and many other small shops, and a plethora of local eateries that offer gift certificates.
{Re}cycled Consign and Design, at 1014 S. Main St., was started by interior designer and owner Amanda Hill about two years ago. She said she was looking for a way to offer local residents more opportunities to add unique style and quality design touches to their own homes.
The store gives boutique shopping a new vibe. To call Recycled Consign and Design eclectic barely scratches the surface of what it has to offer shoppers looking for the new, different, and just plain cool.
She said it is difficult to tell what sells the most, but the jewelry, fashion accessories, and clothes are very popular. There are countless items that can save anyone looking for perfect, distinctive gifts for any occasion throughout the whole year, Hill said.
Trendy, popular items right now are cowhide rugs with metallic detail, and the Farmhouse Fresh line of moisturizers and skin care products that were featured on one of Oprah's "My Favorite Things" episode.
"People love the Farmhouse Fresh products. They are very high quality, organic, smell amazing, and people just love how they feel," she said. "The metallic cow hide rugs are very popular right now as well, and I can get them for a lot less than you can buy them on the internet."
Also popular are the architectural pieces, whimsical lighting fixtures, and unique home accessories.
"The store is always changing," she said. "I want this to be a place costumers can come every week and find something new and exciting every time they come."
Hill said she wants the store to be an inspiration to people so they can get ideas and see how new things can work in any kind of space. She said she wanted her store to be a place where you would find things nobody else has.
Paige McCullough makes distinctive artisan jewelry using many materials including the insides of old watches, and sells them on consignment. She said she has her Jewelry in boutiques in St. George, and Recycled has a better selection of new and different merchandise.
"Whenever I am in the store I always hear people asking for something totally new and exclusive," McCullough said. "And they always find it."
Recycled carries unique consignment, vintage, and refinished furniture, as well as the occasional high end or distinctive vintage clothing. Clothing, however, is generally all new, and Hill said she orders very limited quantities so shoppers remain original in their purchases.
Another local treasure, just a few blocks down Main Street, is Harmony Home, which many people do not realize is a full service furniture and home store. They offer free, in-home consultation and measuring, and can order anything costumers want, which usually arrives in short order.
Manager Cynthia Jorgensen said most people don't realize they also offer the best prices on quality, custom framing and art work as well.
"You could honestly furnish your whole house right here in this store, and our prices are very competitive with any furniture store in St. George," she said. "We will help you decide what will work in your space, and we sell such a wide variety of accessories we can dress the house up as well."
They also carry a large selection of Howard Miller clocks as well as kitchen furniture and accessories.
Harmony Home also sells a wide variety of inexpensive jewelry, as well as higher quality pieces. They also carry purses, scarves, and other fashion accessories.
"I think some people in town forget we are here and that we offer such a wide variety of merchandise and services," Jorgensen said.
Cedar City's downtown has a great variety of small shops, each of which is locally-owned and unique. Wood 'N Lace Place and Comforts of Home, which are both connected to Bulloch Drug, offer a dizzying array of beautiful, quality jewelry, one-of-kind purses, hats, hair accessories, personalized small gifts, and home decor.
Owner Chris Vickers said the 17 professionally-decorated Christmas Trees and decorations throughout the stores are reason enough for a trip to Bulloch's.
Vickers employs two full-time designers who are constantly using the wide array of silk flowers and home décor sold there to create eye-catching arrangements and opulently decorated Christmas Trees. They carry a huge selection of Christmas decor and ornaments and will be offering after-Thanksgiving specials and sales every weekend until Christmas.


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low slope ridge vent concern
I like the idea of adding a ridge vent to my low slope bungalow. The only venting it has now are gable vents and a few soffit vents along the backside of the house. In the summer the attic is too hot to enter.
Ed's idea of adding a J-channel baffle inside the ridge vent seems like a great way to prevent the wind driven rain from entering from the problem side. The one-sided Smart Vent seems like a good solution too.
My main concern is when the decking is cut away on both sides of the ridge beam, there is no support on that edge. For the thin 3/8" plywood that I have, it seems like I would need to either add blocking underneath or not have a continuous cut. Otherwise it might be too weak.
What do you think?
First, make sure insulation isn't blocking airflow at your soffit vents, and consider adding more of them on the other side of the house. you may need to add some "baffles" to keep insulation from blocking airflow above the topplates of your outside walls. Also, no one has blocked off the soffit vents from inside the attic, right?
There is no insulation between roof rafters, only between ceiling joists. Out of 26 rafter bays along the back wall, only 8 have soffit vents (340sq in total), and then the two gable vents (290sq in total).
If I am understanding the vent calcs, the 1400sq ft of ceiling area over the living space would require about 5sq ft of vent with half as inputs at the eaves and half as outlets on the roof somewhere.
It seems like the main issue is lack of outlets. The ridge vent I have seen is roughly 12" of venting for 12" of material, so it looks like I would want 20 to 30ft of ridge vent. I have not seen any roofs with partial ridge vents, so I assume you cover the entire ridge but only cut the deck for the amount of venting you need.
The garage has no vents of any kind which explains why it gets so hot.
The ridge vent will strengthen the cut edge of osb or plywood. Follow the directions. You may be able to substitute a stainless steel screw center of bay to keep vent/ply together. Read instructions with vent as to fastener placement.
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I am sad to share that my mentor and friend, Mighty Moe the Maine Coon mix cat, has died today.
I'm the oldest now and have the responsibility of running the household and taking up the lap sitting duties.
We all hope that we will be reunited on the Rainbow Bridge again someday.
My daddy pointed out to me tonight that I have two new whiskers directly out of each side of my head. Wow!
Thank you all for the wonderful gifts. My daddy is taking very good care of me. He is teaching me to sleep through the night without waking him up with incessant kissing and pawing. He's very patient. I have taken over his laptop bag and his hockey bag to sleep in/on. I used to hide in the new hutch cabinet until he started putting his movies in there. Darn! :)
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Okay you radio gurus, I found this cabinet that I didnt know I had, buried in my garage. I can tell from the markings that it is a storage box for radio crystals, but have no idea from what era this is from. Enlighten me, please!!
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CHOCOLATE Shamrock Shakes Coming to a McDonald's Near You This Season
Y'all ready for CHOCOLATE Shamrock Shakes?
Y'all ready for CHOCOLATE Shamrock Shakes?
Reckless Kelly is not a Celtic Rock Band, but it's ok with them if you think that. The understandable mix up stems from their hit "Seven Nights in Eire," and is something front man Willy Braun has come to terms with.
Thanks to 'Seven Nights in Eire,' there are many folks who think Reckless Kelly is some sorta Celtic-Rock band, according to frontman Willy Braun. And he's cool with that.
Sometimes you just need a movie to get you in the mood for a holiday, and St. Patrick's Day is no exception to that rule.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone! Have you ever wondered why there are such unique traditions for St. Patrick's Day? Well, we've got all the answers you need right here!
Beginning at noon on St. Patrick's Day, Where's Rufus Sports Bar on S. Broadway in Tyler will be throwing it down St. Patty's Day style. And come nighttime Brandon Rhyder will be taking over their parking lot -- If you didn't know Rhyder has added a fiddle to the band, he called in last night to Radio Texas, LIVE! to talk about the concert and the addition of the fiddle.
Have you ever wondered why wearing green on St. Patrick's day is such a big deal? I mean, there isn't another day in the whole year where if you don't wear a specific color you get pinched. I did a little bit of research to find out the origins of both of these crazy traditions.
St. Patrick's Day is basically a holiday used as an excuse to drink. Sure getting all dressed up and pinching people who aren't wearing green is fun, but St. Patrick's day wouldn't be near as fun without the green beer. We're getting together a list of St. Patty's Day parties here in Tyler, and this is what we have found so far.
Our pals at Where's Rufus Sports Bar are gearing up for their third-annual St. Patty's Day Party in the Parking Lot, which is going down this Saturday.
While many people associate St. Patty's with heavy drinking and pub crawls, in Ireland, St. Patrick's Day is a historically solemn and sober holy day for Roman Catholics. Believe it. Until the 1970s, pubs were actually legally required to close up shop for the day.
You know what they say: one man's pub crawl is another man's....public reading of "Green Eggs and Ham"? Some places around the world celebrate St. Patrick's Day in uniquely festive ways. Here are some of our favorites:
The Irish Car Bomb (a shot of Bailey's plopped in a pint of Guinness) is a popular drink around St. Patrick's Day, though some be surprised to hear it didn't originate in Ireland. In 1979, Charles B. Oat created the drink at Wilson's Saloon in Norwich, Connecticut, according to a booze blogger who studied bartending under Oat.


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Are you guys playing tonight? I feel like a good yoga session.
Are you guys playing tonight? I feel like a good yoga session.
What time is that your time? I'll do the conversion to EST.
That is pretty pimp! Get that in the 2002
with an interior like this
who needs a screen like that.
that's not the one I'm getting because the one I'm getting has more optionz!
Yeah I'd be bored to death and fall asleep too
Poop song for the underpass (or is it overpass...I never pay attention...the one with the kids)
Now all we need is a more hype air base level!
Some good matches! Even an air raging demon setup
That seth was annoying me. It was like watching tekken tim play. I'd rather watch online tony.
umad Mr. Seth is my new main?
You can main whoever you want...I got Ryu.
Anythings better than that 3-7 T Hawk/Dhalsim matchup
I thought it was 7-3 T. Hawk?
I'll be on.
It is 7-3 t-hawk.
or is it that thawk is 7'3?
Polics weakness is bazanaramagief and the 'bird man' tony hawk.
shortest a mount of matches we've ever done...16 total.
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A disappointing Canadian Grand Prix left Michael Schumacher admitting his championship hopes are now all but over - so where did it go wrong for Mercedes this season and is there still time to turn it around?
Ross Brawn's team now sit in fourth place on 108 points, more than two 1-2 finishes behind McLaren's table-topping 215 after eight of the 19 races, with Schumacher 75 points (three full wins) behind championship leader Lewis Hamilton. Mercedes motorsport chief Norbert Haug has even taken to congratulating engine partners McLaren on their victories as a footnote to his works team's performances in post-race press releases.
Schumacher admitted in Montreal that 2010 is now about "building up and organising things for what happens from next year onwards" but followed up his title battle deferment by adding "you never know, it's still a long year..." He's right, the title is probably well beyond them but is there any chance of victory around the corner?
The team that won the title as Brawn last year admitted to being behind their rivals from the start but McLaren proved last year how quickly a team can turn things around, attacking with all guns blazing to turn a dog of a car into a winning machine while Brawn stumbled to the title.
Mercedes' disappointing start has little to do with the title efforts last year - their early-season advantage was so big they didn't need to put in a big push at the end and they were already heavily set into developing the 2010 car when still fighting for the championship. However, their rivals did have the momentum of development and, it seemed, were finding ways of getting more out of their cars where Brawn were slowly heading backwards.
Losing Jenson Button to McLaren at the end of last year was virtually acclaimed as a positive thing as he made way for the arrival of seven-times champion Michael Schumacher, while the loss of Rubens Barrichello to Williams was shrugged off too on the basis that pairing in-bound Nico Rosberg with Schumacher was ideal.
However, each of Mercedes' main rivals have at least one driver retained from 2009 and it is impossible to understate what vital continuity that offers. Neither Schumacher nor Rosberg have driven the title-winning Brawn machine, and Schumacher had not even tasted modern F1 machinery before stepping into the 2010 Mercedes. That would hurt any team's development.
And if there is anything Mercedes has needed this year, it is strong driver feedback.
They realised early on that they had made a fundamental mistake on their car's weight distribution, incorrectly predicting the performance effects of the new wider front tyres. Having based the entire design around this, even the quick fix that they introduced to increase the wheelbase will have compromises, and the drivers need to be able to give the feedback to suggest how to get over these as well as advising on the progress of the f-duct that is fast becoming an essential part of any front-running team.
Perhaps a concentration on car development has also taken their eye off the ball in terms of race strategy, normally Brawn's element. In Monaco, their two cars held each other up in qualifying and then Schumacher was incorrectly advised to make the last-lap lunge against the safety car regulations. In Canada, they admitted a mistake in leaving Schumacher out on the wrong tyres. It's strange to see this, but perhaps Brawn's overarching role at Mercedes is larger than it was at Ferrari, giving him less time to make as well-informed judgments.
But perhaps Norbert Haug hit on the main problem recently when he pointed to Mercedes' staffing levels. "We brought our people down to the right number for next year already," he said, referring to the resource restriction agreement, which aims to reduce team sizes by 2012. "This is certainly not an excuse, it's just an explanation."
True enough, with less people in the design room compared to their rivals, it will be very hard for Brawn to close the gap, let alone overcome it.
However, there is one element within the team that will continue to grow in strength - and if Schumacher can continue his progress he could still be the key that unlocks the magic.
He has been slow to recover his form, struggling with a car that didn't suit him. Now he has one that does, he is starting to get in the groove, but his aura of invincibility has gone and his midfield battle tactics are lacking. During the glory years at Ferrari he rarely had to battle in the pack, but now that is a regular occurrence and his front-running rivals are happy to give back anything he dishes out.
Schumacher is at his best when running at the front, but as he proved at Ferrari, when he is settled in the garage he knows how to get there. Sure, Jean Todt is not leading the way at Mercedes, but many believe the technical combination of Brawn and Schumacher was the key to Ferrari's success in the early 2000s.
Mercedes chief Nick Fry admitted in April: "Michael's quite remarkable, the level of feedback that he gives is something that I have never seen before and that is just not in the debriefs - when you have the headphones on you hear amazing things. Every race he is learning a little bit more and it is all coming together slowly but surely, which is probably what you would expect."
In Canada, Schumacher added: "There hasn't yet been a best race, one of those special races where things really fit together perfectly. We are not there yet, but I know I am coming there. It's part of the reason that I'm doing this, to get to that point - but you need certain ingredients and we are still searching for those."
If they do find the ingredients, though, their rivals will have to watch out because Brawn and Schumacher certainly know how to mix them...


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Two traveling preachers wearing anti-homosexual T-shirts and preaching anti-homosexual sermons withstood jeers from hundreds of students Wednesday afternoon on Wescoe Beach at Kansas University.
The gathering started about 11 a.m. when students walking across campus spotted the two men.
Michael Venyah and Chris Lemieux said they travel across the country and often stop on campuses as part of Soul Winners Ministries International.
At Wescoe Beach, Venyah stood up, held a Bible and shouted various messages condemning homosexuals and people who practice other religions, telling them to "repent of their sins."
"I'm really happy everybody's kind of out here making a mockery of this, which is what it is," said Rob Conard, a freshman from Overland Park.
Conard, who said he was Roman Catholic, at one point stood next to Venyah and criticized him for not preaching a message of "love your neighbor."
Lemieux said he and his preaching partner try to reach "all nonbelievers," and that they often face such opposition. The two made an unannounced visit to KU, he said.
"Because that's one of the sins that people are committing on campuses, and that really divides people on whether they are following Jesus Christ or not," Lemieux said of the pair's anti-homosexual message.
He said Wednesday afternoon that two people on campus told him they supported the message.
But with most in dissent, a few students held rainbow flags while others shouted to drown out Venyah's message.
"I really don't believe I'm going to hell for being a homosexual. It's just not going to happen," said Brock Horner, a KU freshman from Shawnee. "I'm sorry, but I was made this way for a reason."
According to the ministry's Web site, Soul Winners is based in East Lansing, Mich. They began an eight-month tour to 27 states and 64 campuses in September. Lemieux said they often get donations for their travels.
Lemieux also said he had never heard of the Rev. Fred Phelps Sr. or the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka. The Westboro group has gained national notoriety for its anti-homosexual picketing at funerals of fallen soldiers and others across the country.
Conard said he believed some KU students were sensitive about the anti-homosexual message Wednesday because Phelps is from Kansas.
Hundreds of students had crowded around the steps to watch and made signs to block Venyah's face from view. At one point, someone threw a condom onto Venyah's shoulder, but he continued.
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"They shouldn't throw things at him because then they are fighting hate with hate," said Chris Thomas, an Overland Park sophomore who said he was gay.
Overall, Thomas called the preachers "sad" and was glad so many students opposed them.
At least three KU Public Safety officers monitored the crowd. Capt. Schuyler Bailey said no one was arrested or injured during the hourslong protest.
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Could it be possible to have an option to preload them? I know it doesn't take long as it is but if I'm scrolling down a list of themes it slows it down a bit. I don't really mind taking a small hit on bandwidth to preload them, so when I mouseover they're instant.
only way i can think of now is javascript. dreamweaver has this feature.
If you're talking about here at ThemeForest, that would be a lot of images to preload. It's best to let them load on request.
If you're looking for this feature for a template of your own, then Javascript can do this quite easily. Let us know which you're referring to and if you need it for a project of your own I'll post a link to how to accomplish it.
Heh, I meant here on Themeforest. According to down the bottom there'd only be under 400 images to load which isn't too horrible. Like I said, it could be an option, or maybe I just need to learn to be patient.