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by Stewart Parsons, Get It Loud In Libraries Manager, Lancashire County Council.
Libraries are utterly thrilling places. At least they ought to be. They should wow the pants off people. All that free stuff. All that culture. All that poetry to woo the ladies, and knowledge to make your way in the world. What's not to like?
I have long held the belief that a library user should leave a library a more enlightened, brighter, happier, braver, more empowered individual compared to the same person that first went in.
But for that to happen, for that surging flood of the imagination to take place, the original resources often need to be re-imagined. To be presented in a way that is fresh and appealing and meaningful.
As a music librarian working in Lancaster, in the UK, I was aware that 10,000 CDs lining the library walls didn't amount to such a great deal when the BPI loan agreement determines that a CD that comes out in the record shops and online today will be available for library loan in three months time.
Mmm, you got that kids? Come back in three months time, it's only pop music, after all.
But I much prefer it when libraries are less about archiving the past, and more about presenting culture today. Indeed there is no reason why libraries cannot present the future today, here and now, right this minute. It just takes a shift in attitudes and how we imagine and shape our resources. Let's do something brilliant to give the kids a reason to visit.
My own vision for re-directing the music library in Lancaster was to present live music as a key resource. Library gigs. But awesome ones. Shows that you cannot believe quite happened when you waken the next day.
Six years on, Get It Loud in Libraries (GILIL) is accepted as a well established, purpose-built project created specifically for culturally aware and hard to reach young people which has been running successfully in Lancashire Libraries (and recently across the wider UK).
The elevator pitch? The simple aim of the project is to innovatively engage and develop the low-using but uber cool 14-25 age group (and other library non-users, of course) with public libraries through the best new live music.
In a nutshell, the live programme set out to:
- Offer young people in the 14-25 age range community a pioneering, perception-altering library experience through a forward thinking live programme of gigs and events
- Use the best new rock and pop music to generate new youth audiences that makes it easier for young people to engage /access libraries for books, multi-media, audio-visual and learning services
- Actively support the NEET agenda in a contemporary way, engaging hard to reach groups in deprived communities with youth-led volunteering, educational and social opportunities
- Build and develop an infrastructure that allows the project to explicitly be developed by, for and from young people
Over the last 6 years the Get It Loud In Libraries programme has drawn an audience of over 26,000 people into libraries across the UK; created exciting opportunities for young people to lead, participate, volunteer and excel through artistic and cultural activity; and introduced current household name pop acts as diverse as Adele, Florence + The Machine, The Vaccines, Noah And The Whale and Jessie J to young audiences in safe high quality venues, months ahead of their debut album releases.
It must be added here that quality control is a must. The programme has got to make heads swivel, or it's not doing its job.
The resulting success has truly exceeded expectations. The ensuing positive impacts has allowed Lancashire County Council to build sound foundations for other cultural projects that actively engage young people through the coolest, pop culture methodology possible. Since the development of the shows has been founded on clearly defined principles, GILIL has happily expanded access, experience, opportunity and well-being for young people in public libraries.
Amplification of what we stand for in every sense of the word.
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Stewart Parsons is Manager of Get It Loud In Libraries at Lancashire County Council. To get involved with Get It Loud In Libraries please visit: www.getitloudinlibraries.com. To learn how to stage a show please visit: http://www.mla.gov.uk/what/support/toolkits/Get_It_Loud.Pin It


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The Vatican has a clearly established procedure for verifying the death of a pope.
Following is what is specified by Vatican law, according to Rev Thomas Reese, editor in chief of America, the Catholic weekly magazine, and author of Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organisation of the Catholic Church:.
When the Pope dies, the prefect of the papal household, Bishop James Harvey, informs the "camerlengo" or chamberlain, Cardinal Eduardo Martinez Somalo, who must verify his death.
He must do this in the presence of the papal master of ceremonies, Archbishop Piero Marini, the cleric prelates of the Apostolic Camera and the secretary of the Apostolic Camera.
The secretary of the Apostolic Camera draws up a death certificate.
The camerlengo then tells the vicar of Rome, Cardinal Camillo Ruini, of the Pope's death and the vicar informs the people of Rome.
In the meantime, the prefect of the papal household tells the dean of the college of cardinals, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who in turn informs the rest of the college, the ambassadors accredited to the Holy See and the heads of nations.
While this is the formal procedure, most people will learn of the Pope's death from the media.
As late as 1903, at the death of Pope Leo XIII, a Pope's death was verified by striking the pontiff's forehead with a silver hammer.
According to America weekly's website, it may also have been used on John XXIII, who died in 1963.
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The report also focused criticism on North Korea, Burma and Cuba - and said expected improvements in China had failed to materialise.
The survey had harsh words for the Russian government, too, which it accused of weakening civil society.
The report insisted that the United States was not compromising on human rights to help the war on terror.
The massive annual analysis - hundreds of pages long - contains a detailed review of the human rights in just about every country in the world.
It said that Israel's human rights record in the Palestinian territories "remained poor and worsened in the treatment of foreign human rights activists".
A UK student, Tom Hurndall, was shot and critically wounded in June. He died in hospital in London in January without ever regaining consciousness.
An Israeli soldier has been arrested in connection with Hurndall's death and is facing manslaughter charges.
The state department report said Israeli troops used excessive force against Palestinian demonstrators and punished innocent civilians via closures, curfews and house demolitions.
'Palestinian terrorists'
The US report was also critical of the Palestinian Authority, saying that official security forces "participated with civilians and terrorist groups in violent attacks against Israeli civilians inside Israel, Israeli settlers, foreign nationals, and soldiers".
The report accuses "Palestinian terrorists" of killing 376 Israelis in the Palestinian territories.
Amidst criticism of most Middle Eastern countries, the report singles out Morocco and Jordan for working to improve the status of women.
The US state department insists it has not watered down its views to help allies in the war on terror and the document points out that the current focus on the Middle East has not taken attention away from the rest of the world.
Asian abuses
Among the countries facing tough criticism is China, where the report says there was backsliding on key human rights issues.
It also highlights North Korea where it paints a bleak picture of what it describes as one of the world's most inhumane regimes.
The report says that Burma's extremely poor human rights record worsened last year, particularly with the attack on a convoy containing the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
And it says human rights abuses in Cuba also worsened dramatically.
Russia comes under criticism for a number of its actions. The report says both national elections in Russia and regional elections in Chechnya failed to meet international standards.
It also points to the closure of independent TV networks and the prosecution of businessmen who support the opposition which, it argues, weakens civil society and raises questions about the rule of law.
With the United States under attack for its own record on Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq, some human rights activists have asked whether Washington has any right to produce this report, but its authors argue that promoting respect for human rights is a central dimension of American foreign policy.


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By JOE TOTORAITIS
Posted Mar 29 2013 12:11AM
MILWAUKEE (AP) Kobe Bryant used a crutch to leave the arena after the Los Angeles Lakers' latest loss.
Following Los Angeles' 113-103 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night, the Lakers said Bryant had a bone spur in his left foot. He left the arena using one crutch, but appeared to be walking without any pain.
Bryant led the Lakers with 30 points, leaving him four points behind Wilt Chamberlain (31,419) for fourth place on the NBA's career list. He played 36 1/2 minutes and didn't show any signs of difficulty during the game.
"Inflamed on me. I'll be all right," Bryant told Yahoo Sports.
The Lakers are eighth in the Western Conference, a half-game ahead of Utah for the final playoff spot.
Larry Sanders scored 13 of his career-high 21 points in the third quarter for the Bucks. He was 8 of 11 from the floor and had 13 rebounds.
Ersan Ilyasova and Brandon Jennings each had 20 points, Monta Ellis added 18, and Marquis Daniels had 16 to help the Bucks snap a four-game losing streak.
"Our attention to detail was a little bit better," coach Jim Boylan said. "Larry was great, really active. There was a lot of communicating going on. We've been struggling lately and when you struggle you can get into your own little world, and that's a bad place to be."
The Bucks hold the eighth playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, and have a seven-game lead over ninth-place Philadelphia with 11 games to go. However, they weren't playing as a unit, the effort and energy level were sagging, until the game against the Lakers.
"You need to be playing a collective game, whether it be offensively or defensively," Boylan said. "Tonight, for us was maybe breaking out of that shell a little bit."
Sanders noticed the change, too.
"It's easy to kind of get in slumps and get that dark cloud over your head and stay there," he said. "But, we fought our way through tonight. It's good and showed a lot of character. You only lose when you stay down. You've got to get back up."
Dwight Howard had 15 points and 15 rebounds for the Lakers, and Steve Nash scored 16 points.
Howard said the Lakers needed to play better defense against the Bucks.
"We need to work together against these guys," he said. "We just didn't do that tonight. Defense needs to be a team effort each and every night."
Ellis scored eight points for Milwaukee during a late 12-3 run, making it 102-92 on a running in the lane. The Lakers turned it over on the next possession, and Daniels raced down the court and dunked to make it 104-92 with 4:12 left. The Lakers never got closer than eight the rest of the way.
Jennings was on the bench, again, during the fourth quarter. At 8:08 left, Boylan took Ellis out and put Ellis in. He scored the Bucks' next six points and turned the momentum. JJ Redick, Ilyasova, Daniels and Sanders finished the game with Ellis.
Jennings also was benched in the fourth quarter of Wednesday night's loss to Philadelphia.
He was unhappy about the move and felt picked on.
"Brandon played great tonight. I took him out, had all intentions of putting him back in the game," Boylan said. "I had every intention of putting him back in the game, but then the game started to roll in our favor. I didn't want to mess with the chemistry we had out on the court. Not that I didn't trust Brandon to come back and play well."
The Lakers' last gasp came early in the fourth. Antwan Jamison scored twice and Howard dunked in a miss to help the Lakers regain the lead at 83-82. The teams exchanged the lead four times before Jennings' 3-pointer at 8:23 put Milwaukee ahead for good.
The Bucks started turning it around in the third, using a 19-8 run to close the quarter with 82-77 lead.
Daniels stole an inbound pass from Bryant under the Lakers' basket and passed to Sanders, who dunked to give Milwaukee a 70-69 lead with 4:23 left in the third. Sanders dunked his way to nine points during the surge. The rest of his points came on a hook shot and a free throw.
NOTES: Lakers forward Metta World Peace had surgery Thursday on a torn meniscus in his left knee. He was injured in Los Angeles' loss to Golden State on Monday night and is expected to miss at least six weeks. ... The crowd cheered when the public address announcer said that Marquette beat Miami to advance in the NCAA basketball tournament. ... Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni said Nash's back and hamstring "fired up on him. He toughed it out at first. I could tell he was hurting."
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How the Los Angeles Lakers' latest injury affects their chase for the Western Conference's final playoff spot remains to be seen, but they started off the final stretch without their emotional leader on the right foot.
The Milwaukee Bucks, meanwhile, are all but assured a playoff spot, but they're mired in a four-game losing streak and one of their top scorers is unhappy.
Los Angeles continues a four-game road trip on Thursday night against Milwaukee - one of seven teams in postseason contention it will play over its final 10 contests.
All of those games will come without the services of Metta World Peace. He is slated for surgery Thursday after he suffered a torn meniscus in his left knee in Monday's loss to Golden State and is expected to miss at least six weeks. That timetable likely keeps him out until the second round of the playoffs, if the Lakers (37-35), who own a one-game edge over Utah for the eighth spot in the West, even qualify and advance that far.
World Peace averages 12.8 points and 5.1 rebounds, but he will be missed more on the defensive end, where the Lakers have already had trouble this season allowing 101.4 points per game.
Los Angeles, which just got Pau Gasol back in the mix after he was sidelined for 5 1/2 weeks with a torn plantar fascia, struggled mightily defensively without World Peace on Wednesday against Minnesota, but held on for a 120-117 win to snap a three-game skid.
"He's a ferocious player," said Kobe Bryant, who had 31 points while assuming World Peace's starting role at small forward. "He gives us that emotional boost. There's a lot of games where we lack energy and he provides that for us. We need to make up for that."
With Bryant not at his normal shooting guard spot, Jodie Meeks slid in there for his third start of the season but was just 2 of 7 for five points in 35 minutes.
Milwaukee (34-36) would seem to be nearly guaranteed a playoff spot with a 6 1/2-game lead over Philadelphia for eighth place in the East with 12 games to play. But the Bucks' hopes of catching seventh-place Boston, whom they trail by 2 1/2 games, to avoid a first-round series with Miami appear to be slipping away. Wednesday's 100-92 loss at Philadelphia was the team's fourth in a row and seventh in nine games, and more significantly, may have put a serious dent in the group's chemistry.
Brandon Jennings, the team's leader in assists with a personal-best 6.8 per game and second-leading scorer at 17.7 per game, was benched for the entire fourth quarter and finished scoreless for the first time in his career.
Coach Jim Boylan said he saw it as a way to possibly energize the team, but Jennings seemed less than energized in the locker room afterward.
"I think that everyone should be held accountable," said Jennings, who totaled 16 assists and 16 points on 5-of-30 shooting (16.7 percent) in the previous two games. "There's no maxed-out players in this locker room. So don't try to put me on a pedestal and just give everyone else the freedom to do whatever they want."
The Bucks have dropped 17 of 22 in the series but took a 100-89 victory in the last meeting in Milwaukee on Jan. 28, 2012. Los Angeles claimed a 104-88 home win on Jan. 15, with Bryant and Dwight Howard each scoring 31 while the Bucks were held to 35.8 percent shooting.
Howard is averaging 24.0 points on 60.8 percent shooting with 14.4 rebounds over his last 15 games versus Milwaukee.
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Maria Yago Corpuz, 78, of Hilo died Feb. 9, 2013, at Hospice, Hilo Medical Center. Born April 20, 1934, in Sinait, Ilocos Sur, Philippines, she was a retired housekeeper from the Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort, formerly the Outrigger Waikoloa Beach Resort, and member of St. Joseph Catholic Church and Novena Puainako Group.
Friends may call at 5 p.m. March 8, at Dodo Mortuary chapel in Hilo for a 7 p.m. service. Friends may again call at 11 a.m. March 9 at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Hilo for a noon Mass. Burial follows at Homelani Memorial Park Ilima Section. Family requests casual attire be worn.
She is survived by husband, Irineo Corpuz of Hilo; sons, Eddie (Aida) Corpuz of Ookala, Carlito (Prixcynet) Corpuz of Pepeekeo; daughters, Corazon (Mel) Miranda of Ookala, Myrna (Nestor) Ibarra of Ewa Beach, Oahu, Maggie (Orlando) Palafox of Paauhau, Grace (Marion) Bartolome of Kohala, Rowena (Roger) Jacinto of Hilo; brother, Sotero Yago of Paauilo; sister, Hilaria Yago of the Philippines; 18 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
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Immerse yourself in exceptional, authentic cooking, food, wine and local life experiences, getting to know a cast of local people so you feel part of their lives. Food lovers treasure this region for its hazelnuts, white truffles and chocolate. Barolo and Barbaresco wines rank among Italy's top reds.
Cook typical local dishes with elder women in a village kitchen and creative dishes with an innovative, young chef in his restaurant. Eat, drink and connect with them heart to heart as you savour your creations together.
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The noise in the hotel did not stop all night. When I checked out in the morning there was a drunk asleep in front of my door. Not worth it
The basic room appeared recently renovated and was borderline luxurious, depending on your definition of luxury. Definitely highly comfortable. High-end bathroom, bed and bedding were marvelous, the robe is a welcome touch. Stayed Fri-Sun, there was a lot going on in and around the hotel. I was pleasantly surprised at how the noises disappeared once my room door closed. The complimentary Wifi was more than sufficient for my needs without having to upgrade, and was trouble-free. Nice to see a hotel that's recognized by 2016 that a couple of USB charging ports on the nightstand might be handy; I didn't have to take my wall charger out of my bag. There's a room safe big enough for a 13" laptop (but not a 15") and the safe has a 110V outlet inside the door, nice. Huge flatscreen with great sound. Room keys are chips, not mag swipe, so you can unlock the door without taking the key out of your wallet. The elevator might leave your stomach in the lobby when you're going up ;) Parking was advertised at $13 but ended up being only $10; there's no integration with the room key though so you have to keep up with your ticket. This hotel is connected to the Louie Link enclosed walkway that runs from Galt House and KFC Yum Center at the north to Fourth St Live at the south. And the staff is great! Highly recommended. Thanks!
This is a awesome hotel in a great location. Staff at the desk were exceptionally friendly and helpful. The room was decorated in a very modern style. There was a 65 inch TV in the room. The hotel also has a restaurant and bar. I ate 3 meals there and the fool was good and preparation was excellent. I would not hesitate to stay there again., Front desk workers, although eager to assist, did not have a good command of the English language. The accents were very heavy, and sometimes I had to ask them 2 or more times to repeat what they said.
location, gym, comfy bed
The location is great, right on fourth street. The bed was very comfy and the tv was huge. The bathroom was freezing, and the noise from the late night parties echoed from the lobby right outside the door, made it hard to sleep. Valet was expensive and the pool was alright, kind of small. No hot tub. No free wifi, no breakfast included. For the cost, I expected more.
The location is good. The room was dirty and we couldn't get them to come clean it. They said they were busy. The maid would knock very early then we asked her to come back later and she never did. The manager was very rude when we asked about the cleanliness. There wasn't enough hot water at all. It was very disappointing especially considering the price for our two dad there.
Overall our stay was good. The room and hotel were very clean and the beds comfortable. The location would have been great for going out (which is why we selected it) had we had the time, but didn't work this time around for us. The only downside for this hotel is the shower. My husband had a difficult time since he he is over 6 feet tall and the shower head was for people closer to 5 1/2 feet or shorter. The pressure was also barely there and quite noisy from I think trying to get the pressure.
Whirpool was unbelievably dirty, ypi cpuld scrape the dirt off the tiles, water was brown n smelled horribly warer was also warm not proper hot tub temperature, swimming pool floor was filthy as well, very disappointed and dissatisfied especially for the money I paid.
The hotel was newly finished and was beautiful. The location was centralize and idea for activities in the downtown area. I travel often and regularly stay in a variety of hotels which fall into this category (many of them are also Embassy Suites.) However, In my many years of travel I have never found a larger group of rude, dismissive, and unprofessional employees then those of Embassy Suites in Downtown Louisville. Not until my recent visit to this hotel, was I ever given the impression that a hotel staff was intentionally trying to NOT be accommodating and/or helpful. It interesting that a team in the service industry, would seeming go out of their way to do this. This is also rather disappointing, considering that I paid almost $700.00 for two room and a 1 night stay. I would think for that price I should NOT have a "supervisor" raise his voice to me, then publicly shame me for booking through a 3rd party booking site (apparently this makes you a second class citizen and justifies them treating you poorly,) and then proceed to scream at me "what do you want me to do about it." Please keep in mind that this was in front of my friends and about 20 stranger in the lobby, oh and 10 other employees of the hotel... Classy! All of this stemming from their in ability to accommodate the simple request of adjoining rooms. Also keep in mind that I had called this hotel several times in the days prior to my check-in and spoke to a variety of people regarding this. All of whom told me different things - everything from "sure, no problem," to "I've added a note..., "or call back on this day and tell them to..." Also during this train wreck of an experience, I had two employees who couldn't even find my reservation, one of which did everything but call me a liar. However, he did manage to rather blatantly imply that I didn't really have a reservation and that I must have either made a mistake, or was making it up to pull one over on them....are you kidding me?!? As it turns out, the only reason they couldn't find my reservation was because the employees didn't understand that if you are trying to pull up a booking from a later date, you have to change the date of your search to that day and not the current date... Sounds rather basic... Of course, I can't blame those employees - clearly they were poorly trained! In short - unless you want to be verbally abused by the staff and be made to feel bad because you only spent $700 on your room(s) instead of $750, this is not the place for you.
The front desk staff knew what they were doing. They answered all questions with a smile and what they said was a fact. The valets went over the top to accommodate our special requests and there were several. If you want to stay near 4th Street Live. This is the place. The free breakfast was great and the happy hour was too. Stay here when in Louisville. I know I will again. I did not meet a single employee who was not friendly and professional. Well done all.
Good Location next to 4th Street Live and near to the convention center. Free Shuttle from airport a real plus. Newer hotel in an older building. Bathroom was very large but surprisingly the bedroom area was on the small side. Everyone on staff at the property seemed very nice. Enjoyed the hot breakfast and happy hour. Housekeeping was not so good. Coffee rings on counter remained through my stay never wiped up. Returned to my room one day at 5 PM to find the room was never made up so the next day I called to housekeeping to make sure my room would be cleaned before my 5 PM return only to come back to an untouched room. Very disappointing. Blackout drapes extremely hard to open or close. Had to call maintenance and the pull rod fell off one time. Maintenance said these drapes have been a constant problem.
Nice pool, nice decor, great dining floor with complementary breakfast and early evening refreshments. Convenience to venues on 4th Street Live. A good safe place for families even with young children, and still stylish.
Super downtown hotel, excellent service, very modern and contemporary furnishings. My meetings were across the street in the old outdated Selbach Hotel which was full. I am so glad that I chose to stay across the street at the Embassy, so much nicer setting. Thermostat didn't allow the room to get cool enough and the beautiful glass shower allowed water to leak out onto the floor.


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Barnby Dun's 14th century church St Peter and St Pauls is worth a visit if you're in the area. It was also once home to Thorpe Marsh Power Station (in fact, the disused cooling towers stood until 2012) – there's now a lot of local debate around what will be built on the former site.
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Lakeland Short-Track Cyclocross Throwdown
- A recent post on our Facebook Group from Jason Bergwell states that there will be a cyclocross training race on Saturday, October 13th in Lakeland, Florida. Registration opens at 7:30am and racing begins at 8:30am and the event will offer three fields (A's, B's and Juniors) for $15. Stay tuned for more information.
Thornton Clinic Fast Approaching
- The Josh Thornton Kickoff Party is fast approaching and Thornton has been out to the Little Everglades Ranch scouting out possible courses and working with State Championship promoter, Dan Millstead, on some new ideas for the big January race:
Thornton scouting out a new track at the ranch? (Photo: Dan Millstead)
Tallahassee Buzzing
- The Tallahassee gang is helping organize the annual Spaghetti 100 ride hosted by the Capital City Cyclists. The event is on Saturday, October 6th and features a cyclocross specific 60mile option on some beautiful full-canopied gravel roads. Jack Tomassetti offers this photo:
The roads of the Spaghetti 100 (Photo: Jack Tomassetti)
- Tomassetti also checked at the new venue for Tally Cross, which he promises to be the most unique yet. Judging by the picture we don't doubt him for a second:
New mascot for Tally Cross? (Photo: Jack Tomassetti)
USGP Sponsorship Issues
- Many Florida cross racers make the drive north to Louisville for their annual USGP event. Judging by the articles from Cyclocross Magazine and VeloNews things are not looking up for the race promoters after a sponsor missed a payment. Sadly, this is the same group that won the right to host the UCI World Championships in February.
It Could Be Worse
- Our friends at Minnesota Cyclocross posted this photo on their facebook page from their state championships. You have to think the riders wish they had their races in the 70 degree sunshine of Florida:
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Florida Circumnavigational Saltwater Paddling Trail
Segment 9
Tampa Bay / Longboat Key
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Emergency Contact
Pinellas County
Sheriff's Office: 727-582-6200
Manatee County Sheriff's
Office: 941-747-3011
Sarasota County
Sheriff's Office: 941-316-1201
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission 24-hour wildlife emergency/boating under the influence
hotline: 1-888-404-3922
Begin: Fort De Soto
End: Lido Beach
Distance: 30 miles,
depending on route
Special Considerations:
Crossing Tampa Bay can be hazardous and is recommended for
experienced paddlers only, and only in good weather. Strong currents,
large ships and wakes, sudden winds and waves can all be factors in the
long passage across open water. Several options are given here,
depending on weather, including taking a shuttle across the bay.
South of Tampa Bay,
paddlers have the choice of paddling on the Gulf side or inside the
barrier islands, although motels for overnight stops are on the Gulf
As with most South Florida
segments, boat traffic can be heavy, especially on weekends.
For thousands of years,
dugout canoes glided across Tampa Bay and nearby coastal waters, guided
by skilled Native American paddlers. Sometimes, these early Florida
sailors used small sails to help speed them along on trade journeys and
fishing trips, utilizing landmarks, currents, stars and sun position to
help with navigation.
Today, huge ocean liners
and tankers can be seen chugging through Tampa Bay, along with numerous
motorized pleasure crafts. Perhaps today's equivalent to the ocean-going
dugout is a sea kayak, equipped with a foot-guided rudder, spray skirt
and sometimes a sail to make passage easier. Navigation is usually by
nautical maps, compass and global positioning satellite systems, but
that same sense of adventure early native paddlers must have experienced
can be captured.
Historic Tampa Bay,
abundant bird life, gleaming white beaches and a Native American temple
mound are highlights of this segment of the Florida Circumnavigation
Saltwater Paddling Trail. The trail passes through the Boca Ciega Bay
Aquatic Preserve and near the Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve. These
preserves protect sea grass beds, hardbottom communities and other
underwater habitats, and efforts are underway to restore sea grasses in
places where pollution or boat dredging has damaged or destroyed them.
To learn more, log onto
Another highlight of this
segment is that paddlers can utilize alternative forms of transportation
to explore areas of interest. Bicycle rentals are available at Fort De
Soto Park, and a free trolley system can be utilized on Anna Maria
Paddlers have several options in crossing Tampa Bay, depending upon
experience level and weather. One route traverses the historic Egmont
Key State Park:
Along the Manatee County
coast south of the bay, paddlers have the option of taking the
Intracoastal Waterway or paddling the Gulf parallel to sandy beaches,
depending again on weather conditions. A 75-mile network of paddling
trails along the coast, bays, inlets and rivers has been developed by
Manatee County. Click here to learn more about "Paddle Manatee:"
The southern part of the
trail runs parallel to Sarasota and a blueways guide for boaters has
been developed by the Sarasota Bay National Estuary Program
(941-359-5841). Click here to view a pdf copy:
Sarasota Bay
is an important estuary for fish spawning and reproduction, and the
outlying barrier islands support numerous loggerhead sea turtle nests
each year.
1. Fort De Soto Park
to Bradenton Beach, 15 miles
It is no wonder that Fort
De Soto Park is a featured stop on the Great Florida Birding Trail.
Flocks of shore and migratory birds seem to pose for visitors as they
feed or rest. Two hundred and ninety-six avian species have been sighted
in the 1,136-acre park.
Exploring Pinellas
County's Fort De Soto Park is easy. You can kayak through mangrove-lined
lagoons in its interior to a kayak livery facility that also rents
bicycles (see map). By bicycling or hiking, you can tour the park's
off-road trails that lead to beaches, coastal hammock forests, a small
museum, and historic Fort De Soto, built to protect Tampa Bay during the
Spanish-American War. The fort was named after Spanish explorer Hernando
De Soto, who began his tumultuous three-year march from Tampa Bay in
1539 to find gold and subjugate the native population.
From the park, you can
paddle or take a ferry to Egmont Key State Park (about two miles),
managed in cooperation the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S.
Coast Guard. On the island, you can tour Fort Dade (also built during
the Spanish-American War), stroll along century-old brick roads, and
tour an operating lighthouse that was built in 1848. Look for the mounds
of soft sand that mark the burrows of gopher tortoises, a protected
species abundant on the island's interior.
Numerous campsites at Fort
De Soto Park are easily accessible by kayak, especially tent sites. A
small seawall surrounds most of the RV campsites, which may prove
difficult for kayaks, so make sure you reserve one or more of the tent
sites (sites 1 through 85). Advanced reservations are highly
recommended, so call (727) 582-2267 up to six months in advance of your
Primitive camping is
available at no charge on Shell Key, which is just offshore from North
Beach in Fort De Soto Park (see map). This island is also managed by
Pinellas County. Leave No Trace principles should be followed on the
island, meaning that all trash and human waste should be packed out. To
learn more about Leave No Trace principles, log onto
To traverse Tampa Bay
from the campground, you have several options. For one, crossing the bay
is recommended for experienced paddlers only in calm weather. Strong
currents, large ships and wakes, sudden winds and waves can all be
factors in the long passage across open water. In calm weather, the
shortest distance is to Egmont Key (two miles from the tip of Ft. De
Soto Park), and then across to Anna Maria Island. Then, the day's total
is about 12 miles to motels at Holmes Beach or 15 miles to motels along
Bradenton Beach.
Another passage is along
the Skyway Bridge, where larger ships are funneled into a deep channel,
although strong currents can be dangerous. Rest areas at the beginning
and end of the bridge are accessible to kayakers. In rough weather, it
is recommended that you either wait it out, paddle several miles along
the interior of the bay to avoid long stretches of open water, or
arrange a shuttle across the bay with a local outfitter. If you choose
to paddle around the interior of Tampa Bay, you can utilize the Pinellas
County Blueways Guide for the Pinellas County portion of the bay
and the Hillsborough Blueways guide for the Hillsborough County portion
of the bay
. Some motel options are outlined in the Hillsborough Blueways
If one paddles the Skyway
Bridge and proceeds to Holmes Beach, the day's total is about 21 miles.
Two points of interest along this route are accessible to paddlers. At
Emerson Point Park, you can visit a large Native American temple mound
on the south side of the park (see map). You can easily beach your boat
and walk up a palm-lined walkway to the mound. The mound was used for
centuries by Tocobaga Indians and later by a settler who built a
structure atop the mound. The native people likely used the mound for
ceremonies and as a place where chiefs or priests lived.
Almost directly across the
mouth of the Manatee River from the temple mound is the De Soto National
Memorial. Kayakers can land on the shore and explore the visitor's
center, try on heavy Spanish-style chain mail and armor, visit an
historic Spanish camp--complete with living history interpreters--and
marvel at mature gumbo limbo trees.
After crossing Tampa Bay,
you have two route options at Anna Maria Island. In good weather, you
can paddle around the island on the Gulf side, or you can paddle along
the Intracoastal Waterway through Anna Maria Sound and Sarasota Bay.
There are opportunities for bathroom breaks on both sides of the barrier
islands as there are numerous public county beaches, boat launches, and
private marinas. No overnight camping opportunities are available at
this time, so paddlers can find motel lodging at either Holmes Beach or
Bradenton Beach on the Gulf side. GPS points are given for Holmes Beach
and the Bradenton Beach Econolodge at Bradenton Beach for reference
points. More information on these motels and others in this segment is
available on the Internet at
http://sarasota.lodgingguide.com/, and at other websites.
Since lodging
opportunities are all on the Gulf side, one option is to paddle through
Anna Maria Sound on the bay side, cut through Longboat Pass, and paddle
north along Coquina Beach two to three miles to the motels at Bradenton
Beach. On the bay side, you can stop at or cruise past the historic
fishing village of Cortez, founded by fishermen from North Carolina in
the 1880s. Being one of the last remaining fishing villages on Florida's
Suncoast, Cortez is facing a number of pressures such as encroaching
residential development and increased fishing regulation.
The beauty of staying on
Anna Maria Island is the availability of a free trolley system that runs
daily from 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., seven days a week. The trolley arrives
at different stops about every 20 minutes and can take you to points of
interest, shopping centers, restaurants, or simply on a sightseeing
tour. Near Holmes Beach, it links to a bus that can take you to
Bradenton and Palmetto for a small fee. Call 941-749-7116 for more
Accessible by trolley or
kayak is a post office across the road from the historic Anna Maria Pier
along the northern end of the island. The Anna Maria town post office is
open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m.
to noon on Saturday. The zip code is 34216 in case you want to receive
mail in care of general delivery.
2. Bradenton Beach to
Lido Beach, 15 miles
Once again, you can take
either the bay side or Gulf side for this stretch, depending on weather
and preference. The bay side adds one to two miles.
On the bay side, one point
of interest is the Joan Durante Park, where you can beach your boat (see
map) and walk down several scenic trails and boardwalks. Bird life is
abundant in the lagoons and coastal hammock of this wetlands restoration
project, and restrooms are available near the parking lot.
If you land at the boat
ramp on the south side of Ken Thompson Park, you can visit the Mote
Marine Laboratory Aquarium, the Ann and Alfred Goldstein Marine Mammal
Center, and Pelican Man's Bird Sanctuary. All of these interesting
attractions charge entrance fees.
There is a canoe/kayak
launch on the bay side in South Lido Beach Park (see map).
On the Gulf side, there
are numerous motels to choose from just south of Lido Beach
http://sarasota.lodgingguide.com/ , and at other
websites). For a shorter day, you can stay at the Turtle Crawl In n or
other motels on the southern Gulf side of Longboat Key. The Gulf side
includes several scenic county beaches for pleasant stops and bathroom
breaks, most of which include outdoor showers and snack bars.
If you are paddling on the
bay side, you can access the Gulf-side motels by either cutting through
New Pass and heading south past Lido Beach, or by cutting through Big
Pass and heading north along South Lido Beach about a mile. On your
journey, look for some of the approximately 100 bottlenose dolphins that
reside year-round in Sarasota Bay. In spring and summer, mothers and
calves can be seen in shallow waters as newborns are more protected from
deep-water predators such as bull sharks. Manatees can also be seen in
the bay, especially during warmer months.
Whether paddling on the
Gulf or bay side, this segment provides paddlers with a variety of bird
life, scenic beaches and parks, fascinating attractions, and historic
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|Aphrodite is a pig and the mother of Solomon Grundy.
The name "Aphrodite" comes from the Greek's goddess of love and beauty. This is a good example of Opal's humor in naming her pets. Aphrodite is a very funny name for a mother pig.
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Opal named him Brave Horatius after the Roman hero of the poem "Horatius at the Bridge" by Thomas Macaulay.
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Alumni Relations, Graduates of the Last Decade get "The Scoop on Swoop"
YPSILANTI —Join the Eastern Michigan University Office for Alumni Relations, along with the Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD), as they get 'The Scoop on Swoop,' Saturday, March 29, 10:30 a.m. to noon, in room 330, EMU Student Center.
Join us as we learn about eagles, like EMU mascot, Swoop, and other hunters of the sky during a presentation by the Leslie Science Center. Attendees will get the rare opportunity to see a living hawk, owl, falcon and eagle up close. Following the program, there will be refreshments, an organized eagle craft and a visit from Swoop, the EMU mascot.
"I am very excited to offer this family-friendly program to our graduates. This is a great opportunity for our alumni to bring their children to campus to share in this unique presentation," said Acadia Hahlbrock, assistant director of constituent relations, and a 2007 EMU graduate.
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To Have and Have Not (film)
|To Have and Have Not
Theatrical release poster
|Directed by
|Howard Hawks
|Produced by
|Howard Hawks
Jack L. Warner
|Screenplay by
|Jules Furthman
William Faulkner
|Based on
|To Have and Have Not
1937 novel
by Ernest Hemingway
|Humphrey Bogart
Walter Brennan
Lauren Bacall
Dolores Moran
Hoagy Carmichael
|Music by
|William Lava
Franz Waxman
|Sidney Hickox
|Edited by
|Christian Nyby
|Distributed by
|Warner Bros.
Release date
Running time
|100 minutes
|United States
|Box office
|$3.65 million[1]
To Have and Have Not is a 1944 American romance-war-adventure film[2][3] directed by Howard Hawks. The film stars Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall in her film debut. Although it is nominally based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway, the story was extensively altered for the film.
To Have and Have Not is considered one of Hawks's stronger efforts, with critics often praising its acting and direction.
The film is set in Fort-de-France, in the French colony of Martinique, in the summer of 1940, shortly after the fall of France. The island is now controlled by pro-German Vichy France. World-weary Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) has a small fishing-boat which he charters to tourists. Eddie (Walter Brennan) is his unofficial mate, though he is little use to Harry due to his heavy drinking. Harry is urged to help the French Resistance smuggle some people onto the island, but he refuses.
At the hotel he meets Marie ("Slim") Browning (Lauren Bacall), a young American wanderer, who sings "How Little We Know" with pianist Cricket (Hoagy Carmichael) in the bar. Harry's current charter client, Johnson (Walter Sande), owes Harry $825 ($14,100 today), but Johnson says that he cannot pay till the bank opens the next day. Harry sees Slim pick Johnson's pocket, and forces her to give him the wallet – which contains $1,400 in traveler's cheques and a plane ticket for very early the next morning. On returning the wallet to Johnson, he demands that Johnson sign the traveler's cheques to pay him immediately. But just then, there is a shootout in front of the hotel between police and the Resistance, and Johnson is killed by a stray bullet. The police take Harry and several others for questioning, and seize Harry's passport and money.
Hotel owner Gérard (Marcel Dalio), known as "Frenchy" to English speakers, offers to hire Harry and his boat for one night to transport Resistance members Hélène (Dolores Moran) and Paul de Bursac (Walter Surovy). Now effectively penniless, Harry reluctantly accepts Gérard's offer. Meanwhile, a romance has commenced to develop between Harry and Slim, the latter of whom feels that Harry changed his mind about the smuggling to help her out.[4]
Harry picks up the Bursacs, but his boat is seen and fired on by a patrol boat; Paul is wounded, but Harry's boat escapes in the fog. Harry learns that Slim has stayed in Martinique to be with him. At Frenchy's request, Harry removes the bullet from Bursac's shoulder. The Bursacs are to help a man escape from the penal colony at Devil's Island. Bursac asks for Harry's assistance in this operation, but Harry turns him down.[5]
The police reveal that they recognized Harry's boat the previous night, and that they have Eddie in custody and will withhold liquor to make Eddie tell what the boat carried. With Slim's help, Harry turns the tables on them. He holds Captain Renard (Dan Seymour) at gunpoint and forces him to order Eddie's release and sign harbor passes. When Eddie returns, Harry, Eddie, Slim, and the Bursacs all escape on Harry's boat; Harry has agreed to help the Bursacs in their mission.[6]
- Humphrey Bogart as Harry "Steve" Morgan
- Walter Brennan as Eddie
- Lauren Bacall as Marie "Slim" Browning
- Dolores Moran as Mme Hélène de Bursac
- Hoagy Carmichael as Cricket
- Sheldon Leonard as Lieutenant Coyo
- Walter Surovy as Paul de Bursac
- Marcel Dalio as Gérard (Frenchy)
- Walter Sande as Johnson, Harry's charter client
- Dan Seymour as Capitaine Renard
- Aldo Nadi as Renard's bodyguard
- Paul Marion as Beauclère
- Eugene Borden as Quartermaster
- Patricia Shay as Mrs. Beauclère
- Emmett Smith as Bartender
- Pat West as Bartender
Howard Hughes sold the book rights to independent director Howard Hawks, who sold them to Warner Bros. Although Hawks had a high regard for Hemingway's works in general, he considered To Have and Have Not to be his worst book, a "bunch of junk", and told Hemingway so.[7][8]
Hawks and Hemingway worked on the screenplay together. The film preserves the book's title, and the names and characteristics of some of the characters, but nothing from beyond the first fifth of the volume. Noted author William Faulkner, an intense rival of Hemingway, but "out of print and broke", also worked on the script.[9] The screenplay was developed further by Jules Furthman and, near the end, by Faulkner.[10]
As the movie was filmed during World War II, Hawks moved the setting from Cuba to Vichy-controlled Martinique to placate the Roosevelt administration. They objected to the unfavorable portrayal of Cuba's government as against the government's "Good Neighbor" policy toward Latin American nations. This change created many similarities to the plot of Bogart's earlier, highly successful Casablanca (1942). Other changes tended in the same direction, such as the introduction of a sympathetic piano player as an important supporting character. This figure was not in the Hemingway book but was conspicuously present in Casablanca. Several cast members from Casablanca also appear in the film; apart from Bogart and Dalio (Emil in Casablanca), Dan Seymour (Abdul in Casablanca) plays Captain Renard, whose name and position parallel Captain Renault in Casablanca. As in Casablanca, Bogart's initially reluctant character assists husband-and-wife resistance members.
Lauren Bacall was then a 19-year-old model. She appeared on the cover of Harper's Bazaar, and was noticed by Hawks' wife, Nancy "Slim" Keith, who showed the cover photo to her husband. Hawks sought Bacall out and signed her for the role, her first movie appearance. In the movie, Harry calls her by the nickname "Slim", and she calls him "Steve", the nicknames used between Keith and Hawks.
After filming began, a romance developed between Bogart and Bacall, despite Hawks' disapproval. Not only was Bogart married but, at 45, he was more than twice Bacall's age. This romance eventually led to Bogart divorcing Mayo Methot, his third wife. He and Bacall later married.
Hawks expanded Bacall's part to take advantage of the Bogart-Bacall chemistry. According to the documentary, "A Love Story: The Story of To Have and Have Not", included on the 2003 DVD release, Hawks recognized the star-making potential of the film for Bacall. He emphasized her role and downplayed that of Dolores Moran, the film's other female lead. (Hawks and Moran had their own affair during production).[11] Some of Bacall's lines became renowned as double entendre; for instance, "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and ... blow ..." (said while looking at him provocatively). This quote is ranked at #34 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes list.
Aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports 97% approval of To Have or Have Not, with the critical consensus stated as, "With Howard Hawks directing and Bogey and Bacall in front of the cameras, To Have and Have Not benefits from several levels of fine-tuned chemistry -- all of which ignite on screen."[12]
Cricket, the piano player in the hotel bar, was played by real-life songwriter and band leader Hoagy Carmichael. In the course of the movie, Cricket and Slim perform "How Little We Know", by Carmichael and Johnny Mercer, and "Am I Blue?", by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke. Cricket and the band also perform "Hong Kong Blues", by Carmichael and Stanley Adams. "The Rhumba Jumps", by Mercer and Carmichael, is performed by the hotel band. Bacall shimmies out at the end of the movie to a faster "How Little We Know".[13]
A persistent myth is that a teenage Andy Williams, the future singing star, dubbed the singing for Bacall. According to authoritative sources, including Hawks and Bacall, this was not true. Williams and some female singers were tested to dub for Bacall, because of fears that she lacked the necessary vocal skills. But those fears were overshadowed by the desire to have Bacall do her own singing (perhaps championed by Bogart) despite her less than perfect vocal talent.[14] This myth is disputed in Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide entry for this film, but the myth is propagated in a 1986 episode of MacGyver, entitled "Three for the Road", when the character of a veteran movie asks his wife this particular question, whereupon she answers that Andy Williams, when 14, did dub the voice for Lauren Bacall.
To Have and Have Not was adapted as an hour-long radio play for Lux Radio Theater, with Bogart and Bacall reprising their screen roles. It was broadcast on 14 October 1946.[15]
Warner Brothers adapted the novel a second time, in the 1950 film The Breaking Point. This screenplay stayed closer to the novel; it bore little resemblance to the 1944 film.
See also[edit]
- Bacall to Arms, a 1946 Looney Tunes short, spoofing scenes from To Have And Have Not, and featuring "Bogey Gocart" and "Laurie Becool".
- ^ Thomas Schatz, Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s Uni of California Press, 1999 p 220
- ^ Variety film review; October 11, 1944, page 12.
- ^ Harrison's Reports film review; October 14, 1944, page 168.
- ^ Crowther, Bosley. "Movies: About To Have and Have Not". The New York Times. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
- ^ "To Have and Have Not (1944)". Filmsite.org. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
- ^ "To Have and Have Not (1944) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
- ^ Hawks telling Hemingway he could film his worst book and that this one was "a bunch of junk": interview with Hawks by Joseph McBride for the Directors' Guild of America, October 21–23, 1977, private publication of the Directors' Guild, p. 21; quoted at length in Mast, p. 243.
- ^ You Must Remember This (retrospective for Warner Brothers' 85th anniversary), American Masters, PBS, broadcast September 23, 2008.
- ^ Sperber and Lax 1997, p. 250.
- ^ "the film's many upstairs sequences are Faulkner's primary contribution to the film's conception." Mast, Gerald. Howard Hawks, Storyteller. 257
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=MeAkGAnNfJYC&pg=PA174&lpg=PA174&dq=howard+Hawks+and+Dolores+Moran+affair&source=bl&ots=VDgqgK2tFN&sig=ZCd1WDcQnDGeNxRznfKdHOVEAyg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UyxFVb_BLsqMNr2wgbgI&ved=0CEYQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=howard%20Hawks%20and%20Dolores%20Moran%20affair&f=false
- ^ "To Have or Have Not (1944)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs4vI2XnQJ4
- ^ McBride, Joseph. Hawks on Hawks. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1982. p. 130.
- ^ "Bacall & Bogart Lux Theatre Stars". Harrisburg Telegraph. October 12, 1946. p. 17. Retrieved October 1, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- Mast, Gerald (1982). Howard Hawks, Storyteller. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-503091-5.
- Oliver, Charles M. (1999). Ernest Hemingway A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Work. New York: Checkmark. ISBN 0-8160-3467-2.
- Sperber, Ann M., and Lax, Eric. (1997). Bogart. New York: William Morrow. ISBN 0-688-07539-8
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to To Have and Have Not (film).
|Wikiquote has quotations related to: To Have and Have Not (film)
- To Have and Have Not on IMDb
- To Have and Have Not at AllMovie
- To Have and Have Not at the TCM Movie Database
- To Have and Have Not at the American Film Institute Catalog
- To Have and Have Not film trailer on YouTube
Streaming audio[edit]
- To Have and Have Not on Lux Radio Theater: October 14, 1946
- 1944 films
- English-language films
- 1940s romantic drama films
- 1940s adventure films
- American romantic drama films
- American adventure films
- American films
- American black-and-white films
- Film scores by Franz Waxman
- Films based on American novels
- Films based on works by Ernest Hemingway
- Films directed by Howard Hawks
- Films set in 1940
- Films set in Martinique
- Seafaring films
- Warner Bros. films
- War romance films
- World War II films
- Screenplays by Jules Furthman
- Screenplays by William Faulkner
- Film scores by William Lava


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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] I need your advice - sticky situation
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:12:41 -0400
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On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 12:58:26 -0700, Linda Lambert wrote:
> But you gave me another idea......what about a custom
> flag... DNP (Do Not Publish)? I don't think I'll have
> many of these, but if I can train myself to run a filter
> on that flag BEFORE I do any reports, I should be able to
> pick up on this, right?
I don't see how a flag will help keep the person out of most reports -
unless you always copy your data to a new data set using that flag and
run the report from there - not a good plan. <g>
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Kristen Stewart As Snow White? A Detailed Comparison.
"Snow White and the Huntsman" is already highly anticipated, even though it hasn't even started filming yet. That's because Charlize Theron will reportedly be playing the Evil Queen and Viggo Mortensen will most likely be playing the hunter she charges with killing Snow White, but who can't do it and instead becomes her mentor. Now the movie's stock is about to rise even higher—Kristen Stewart is reportedly in talks to play Snow White. This is a change, as the producers had said they wanted to go with an unknown.
So how will K-Stew do as Snow White? After the jump, a side-by-side comparison of the two ladies.
|Snow White
|Kristen Stewart
|Country of Origin
|Germany, thanks to the Brothers Grimm
|Australia, thanks to her mom
|Origin Story
|A queen pricks her finger, sees her blood in the snow, and wishes for a daughter with "skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony." Right after her baby is born, the queen bites it.
|The daughter of a producer and a script supervisor, Kristen grew up around sets and started acting. When Jodie Foster wished for an actress to portray her daughter in "Panic Room," Kristen was the one.
|Her Enemies
|Pisses of her step-mom, the Evil Queen when she asks her magic mirror "Who is the fairest of them all?" and the mirror responds "Snow White."
|Pisses off the world of teenage girls when she is cast as Bella Swan in "Twilight" and subsequently is linked to Robert Pattinson, the movie's lead.
|Her Friends
|The seven dwarfs!
|Dakota Fanning, her "Runaways" co-star, who is also sorta dwarfy.
|Her Relationship To An Apple
|Was fed a poisoned one by the Evil Queen when she discovers the hunter didn't actually kill her.
|Was on the cover of Twilight, the book her career is based on.
|Her Significant Other
|A prince who discovers her in a glass coffin, presumed dead after eating the poison apple. He dislodges the fruit and brings her back to life.
|The aforementioned RPatz, who plays her vampire love Edward onscreen. When Bella comes close to dying giving birth to his child, he turns her into a vampire.
Can you imagine as Kristen as Snow White? With some black hair dye and red lipstick, I can kinda see it.


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What is EverQuest Next Landmark? Sony Online Entertainment has released a new video that helps explain its Minecraft-inspired exploration and crafting companion to upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game EverQuest Next.
In the video, below, producer David Georgeson shows in-game footage that highlights how quickly players will be able to build structures such as houses, towers and archways in the game.
We get a good look at the editor and some detail on how players will be able to explore the various worlds the community has built.
As players play Landmark, SOE will build EverQuest Next, Georgeson said, and as development progresses the features the team create will be made available to players.
SOE is selling access to the EverQuest Next Landmark alpha, which goes live in February 2014, via Founder's Packs. The closed beta begins on 28th March 2014.


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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) reported fourth quarter earnings and completed yet another successful year characterized by continued revenue and earnings growth. In the release, CEO Larry Page stated:
We ended 2012 with a strong quarter. Revenues were up 36% year-on-year, and 8% quarter-on-quarter. And we hit $50 billion in revenues for the first time last year - not a bad achievement in just a decade and a half. In today's multi-screen world we face tremendous opportunities as a technology company focused on user benefit. It's an incredibly exciting time to be at Google.
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These words about a "multi-screen world" place Google in a current position to take advantage of the coming opportunities in search, social, and mobile. The brilliance of the Google's business model is that it lends itself to providing a service and is not necessarily reliant on consumers to buy "new" products. I spoke of this concept in an article entitled "Google: With Or Without The 'X-Phone' Has A More Sustainable Business Model Than Apple". The fourth-quarter and full year earnings (below) not only illustrate that the company is strategically placed in the market to benefit from the continued operations of the internet, but also that the company is expanding its "non-core" business through an expansion of Android, Google+, and other products that complete the circle of growth that has been extraordinary.
(Google Earnings Release)
Though revenue fell slightly short of analysts' expectations, earnings beat expectations and show a fundamental strength to the Google model and strategy. The data everyone was waiting for was the paid clicks and cost per click. This data shows strength in Google's continued ability to build market share and expand with the growing internet. A 24% increase in paid-clicks shows the true understanding Google has of its business and its customers -- a recipe for continued success.
Paid Clicks - Aggregate paid clicks, which include clicks related to ads served on Google sites and the sites of our Network members, increased approximately 24% over the fourth quarter of 2011 and increased approximately 9% over the third quarter of 2012.
Cost-Per-Click - Average cost-per-click, which includes clicks related to ads served on Google sites and the sites of our Network members, decreased approximately 6% over the fourth quarter of 2011 and increased approximately 2% over the third quarter of 2012.
For investors, Google's past quarter and fiscal year show continued strength and a strategy for growth into the future. The beauty of Google as an investor is that the company's valuation is low. The combination of its low valuation (below) and its stellar earnings makes it a safe trade (relative to others) in the short-term time horizon.
- Forward Earnings: 15.32
- PEG Ratio: 1.22
Though the future is uncertain and changes in the market (and especially the internet) can happen quickly, Google is currently in a position to continue to drive revenue and profitable growth through its dominance in the search space, increased presence in the mobile space, and ventures into social media. The close of FY12 marks another successful year for Google where growth came from continuing to expand upon the Google brand, which is stable and shows few signs of loosing its edge in the expanding market search, mobile, and social.
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Kingman on Aug 5 at 10:17
Nady come home to Shea!
Tray on Aug 5 at 23:58
Yeah, I was hoping my team (the Phillies) got him. Too bad about that game-ending double play, Nady never got a chance.
Brian reply to Tray on Aug 6 at 1:29
Yup. Left standing in the on deck circle. Like getting kicked in the junk night after night.
Oh well, at least I'm not a Mets fan.


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