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I love how clean this place is compared to many other Tucson venues. Great staff, great stage, great lightshow. The band B-SIDE is easily one of Tucsons finest rock bands - outstanding musicianship, and an amazing array of songs. You rarely hear a band with such a deep repertoire of music and the skills to play every note spot on.
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Not sure what is up with the negative comments. . . I have never had anything but PHENOMENAL meals at The Little One; there isn't a bad choice on the menu. My personal favorites are the Cochinito en Chipotle, and the Mole; also unbelievable Chile Rellenos and Tamales, AND AMAZING limonadas and fresh fruit drinks that will KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF!!! (try the beet-mandarin limonada if she has it). Incredibly fresh food made with love, and, yes, hugs (and generally kisses too) are mandatory. Service is fast and friendly. SO, if you are uptight you might not like the vibe (loud music and an owner who loves her patrons), but only a fool or a philistine would not love the food!
I wasn't sure what to expect when my friend invited us but holy cow, I can't believe I never knew about this place! It is huge! We went with the kids and had a blast - TONS of vendors. Lots that are selling clothes and stuff from L.A., tools, bookstore, car stuff but also some super cool estate sales, antiques, yard salers. You can actually buy beer and walk around the entire market with it! There were a bunch of kids rides, food vendors and some live dancers on the stage too. The whole place felt more like a fair or festival then what I tihnk of as a swap meet but the bargains are definitely there too. My husband found a perfect condition car rack for $30! He had been planning on buying a new one that was $350. It's fun to treasure hunt here - we will definitely be back.
Amazing food
One of the best burgers in town.
A Very nice place to go and just relax, great entertainment. Easy to get to located right off of Wilmont here in Tucson. The night I went I had a ball! I'm going back on the 19th of September, this local band I really like will doing their VERY FIRST LOCAL LIVE SHOW! So come out and chill with us!
Pearsons Pub is awesome! They have the nicest bartenders in Tucson and often feature really nice LOCAL bands that we can all come out and support right here in person! A great place to relax and enjoy some local entertainment in a cozy environment Pearsons Pub!
FYI- Local sensation T-4 The Band will be performing LIVE at Pearsons Pub on September 19, 2014 COME OUT AND ENJOY!! FOR MORE INFO GO TO http://indymusicians.blogspot.com/2014/05/t-4-band-live-performance.html
Hookah, Coffee, and atomsphere is amazing! Love this place!
I have been coming to Espresso since since 2005 and this place has always been an amazing place to study, meet great people, and enjoy live music. I now come here to do work on a regular basis. I highly recommend this place.
Love all the shows. Everyone is so friendly My two girls look forward to every show.
A fun filled family time. Definitely worth the time.
This restaurant serves world-class food and wine. The only authentic Spanish restaurant in the area, with seafood, lamb, beef, pork and vegetarian selections, as well as many smaller tapas. There is live entertainment nightly, plus the annual Flamenco Festival.
As a parent who values education, I am surprised that this school is not getting the attention it deserves. Tucson is full of charter schools, all claiming to be different, exciting, and exceptional. Given proper exposure and support, this one will live up to those claims. Extraordinary staff and administration My daughter loves this school, and I couldn't be happier for her.
Great place to meet friends for a drink. The Kitchen will open soon.
This is the only venue for hopping dance music for the east side on Thursday night's!
Fantastic Food and Great Service!
Salsa is made at your table FRESH. Many tasty dishes and vege choices. Mariachi band can be a bit loud. Best Mexican restaurant on the east side, by far.
One of our top favorite places to go for a special night. We've been taking our kids since they were babies and the staff knows them and can always find something for them to eat (burger, fish n chips, pasta, etc.) even though there's no "kids' menu". The kind of place where the waitstaff has been there for years. Our favorite time of year is during the RoadTrip menu!
Service was good but the food was excellent, very happy with the experience and woukd come back again! Loved the appetizers. Musseld were great
It's been a favorite of mine for many years. I've been going there since they took over the place from its previous owners. Great for breakfast and lunch. Get there early for lunch because the crowd from D-M fills it up.
BEST PHOTO LAB IN TOWN. IN COMPLETE DISAGREEMENT WITH THE ABOVE REVIEW. Richard, the owner, and the entire staff, know what they are doing and provide good quality photo services, good customer service, at good prices. I have been using Centric Photo for years for both personal and professional photo needs including scanning of 40-50 year old negatives and slides and they always come out right.


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Robert "Ricky" Moore, 61, passed away on Saturday, March 9, 2013 in Ennis, Texas. Ricky was born in Ennis, Texas on September 26, 1951 to Herman K. and Saphronia L. (Smith) Moore, I. He grew up in Ennis and graduated from Ennis High School in 1970. He served his country proudly in the United States Army for three years. He was a member of the VFW Post in Ennis and was a lifetime member. He was a member of the Holsey Chapel CME Church. He loved animals. His nieces and nephews were the joy of his life. He is survived by one daughter, Sebastiana "Maya" Black of Rice; one sister, Wanda Sykes of Dallas; aunt, Lula Washington of Ennis and numerous nieces, nephews and friends. He is preceded in death by his parents, and one brother, Herman Moore II. Visitation will be on Thursday, March 14, 2013 from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. in the J.E. Keever Mortuary of Ennis. A Celebration of his life will take place on Friday, March 15, 2013 at 11 a.m. in the J.E. Keever Mortuary Chapel of Ennis with Rev. J.E. Derrough and Rev. Jasper Hughes officiating. Internment will be held on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 2 p.m. in the DFW National Cemetery. www.jekeevermortuary.com


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FORMER Somerset and England all-rounder Ian Blackwell has signed for Wembdon CC for the rest of the season.
Blackwell, 35, a left arm spinner and attacking batsman, made a name for himself at Somerset from 2000 to 2008, and enjoyed spells with Durham and Warwickshire before retiring in 2012.
Blackwell represented England in one test, but one-day cricket was where he was best suited and he represented England in 34 ODI's.
Wembdon first teamer Dan Bingham said: "This is a huge statement of intent and a massive moment in the club's history.
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Whew! Thank goodness that's over. Now we can go on to important things, such as who's going to be mayor pro tem next year, with Alvin Mason's term about to expire.
On second thought, we do need to do a little postelection post-mortem as a stage-setter for Thursday's commission meeting.
Nobody was surprised voters chose the incumbent Boy King to reign for four more years, especially after he was chauffeured around all election day in a classic fire-engine red convertible by a beautiful blonde named Malisa. And he is an Iron Man.
Harrisburg activist Lori Davis made the election season more interesting and the powers-that-be uncomfortable, but she had three big negatives -- no money, no name recognition and no chance to win against Deke Copenhaver. Mayoral candidate Gil Gilyard got more votes than I expected, up from less than 4 percent in 2006, to 15 percent this go-round. At that rate, he could win without a runoff in 2022.
Nobody was surprised District 4 Mayor Pro Tem Alvin Mason and District 2 Commissioner Corey Johnson retained their seats by big margins. Johnson is a likely candidate for mayor pro tem, and he could certainly use the pay raise that goes along with the job, seeing as how he has two ex-wives and five children.
The only surprise was in the District 10 race where Robert Ingham got almost as many votes as Sean Frantom, although Ingham's only campaign contribution was a $1,076 loan to himself, compared with Frantom's $13,955 in donations. There's a lot of head scratching going on over that one.
I'm not going to say anything about Ingham except when he got up to speak at a breakfast forum right before the election, his pants were falling down.
TWO OUT OF THREE AIN'T BAD: The day after the election, the mayor said if people in Augusta like what he's done so far in bringing peace and progress to the commission, they're going to love what he and his new "team" are going to do now. As it turned out, a day later commissioners met, and they were as divided as they were in Marion Williams' heyday. It was like when you brag on how well your children are doing, and then company comes, and they make a liar out of you.
Columbia County Commission Chairman Ron Cross, County Administrator Steve Szablewski and Community and Leisure Services Director Barry Smith came to Thursday's meeting to give the board an update on Savannah Rapids Park.
Cross congratulated the re-elected commissioners and commended outgoing Commissioners Jimmy Smith and Don Grantham (although he wasn't there) for their eight years of service.
"I also want to congratulate you on all of your progress Augusta is making, the great things you've got going, the TEE center being approved, the judicial center," he said. "I don't know whether Hizzoner is going to get his ballpark or not, but hell, you can't win 'em all."
After the presentation, City Administrator Fred Russell told the mayor he'd like for Cross and company to stay for the meeting.
"If you want to witness it, you're welcome to stay if you like," the mayor said.
Now, I'm guessing they were dying to leave, but thought it might not be good form to jump up and rush out. They stayed, and the show began.
SO, THEY'RE NO LONGER RACIALLY DIVIDED? The first item was for the election of a representative to serve on the Regional Transportation Roundtable with the mayor. Mason nominated Johnson, and Smith nominated Commissioner Jerry Brigham.
Commissioner Bill Lockett said he supported Johnson's nomination because the mayor represented downtown Augusta, so they needed someone who represented south Augusta.
The vote on Johnson failed 5-4 with Johnson, Mason, Lockett and J.R. Hatney voting yes. The vote on Brigham also failed 5-4 with Commissioners Matt Aitken, Joe Bowles, Joe Jackson, Brigham and Smith voting yes.
"I think we need a third-party candidate," Copenhaver said.
Russell then suggested they move the election to the end of the meeting to give commissioners a chance to caucus; whereupon Hatney, who has become the Greek chorus of the commission dramas, said, "Some things make sense," or variations thereof six times.
"You talk about a team and put everything in the same corner," he said.
Bowles said the mayor is elected citywide and Brigham represents west Augusta.
The mayor kept asking for a motion to move the election to the end of the meeting.
"Mr. Mayor, are you sure you don't want to ask Columbia County to leave?" Lockett asked.
They didn't leave then, but were gone before the finale of that little drama.
JUST TRYING TO MAKE A KILLING? The next item concerned the revocation of the business license of Teresa Cummings, doing business as Mamie Lee's Southern Cooking on Tobacco Road. It's a long story involving the killing of 18-year-old Stedmund Fryer on a dance floor at Super C's in 2007, and the subsequent revocation of Charles Cummings' business license, which he later got back. He couldn't get an alcohol license, though, for 10 years, and he wasn't making enough money. So, Teresa Cummings gets the commission to grant her a beer and wine license and says her husband won't even be around, which certainly wasn't the case when sheriff's Investigator Tony Hyatt paid a little call on the establishment early one Sunday morning in October and discovered an illegal dance hall, just like in the days of yore when Fryer was gunned down. Nobody there seemed to know who Teresa Cummings was.
So, last Monday, the commission's public services committee unanimously voted to revoke Teresa Cummings' business license. But when it got to the full commission, she had lawyer Jack Batson by her side, and he started misrepresenting the facts of what had previously gone on and suggesting there could be a lawsuit on the scale of X-Mart if they shut her down. That is, until Mason set the record straight in no uncertain terms. But commissioners got befuddled -- except for Aitken, Brigham and Smith -- because Hyatt said Sheriff Ronnie Strength's recommendation was to revoke the beer and alcohol license instead of the business license. So, they voted 6-3 to send the matter back to committee for "clarity."
Cross then stood up and said, "You have probably ended my political career because I had forgotten how nice it is to sit on the outside of these decisions." And the Columbia County contingent departed.
FORE! Commissioners then clashed over denying the bid protest from the parties who had submitted a bid to operate the Municipal Golf Course but were disqualified because they hadn't submitted a business license. Brigham wanted to waive the requirement and open the bid to see what was in it, as did Bowles and Commissioner Joe Jackson. Russell advised against it, and the majority voted to deny the protest.
A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION THAN NEEDED: And finally, when the mayor asked for a motion to reconsider the election of a commissioner to serve on the Regional Transportation Roundtable, Brigham made a motion to adjourn, but it failed, and they voted to reconsider. Hatney immediately nominated Jackson, who was elected on an 8-1 vote with Bowles voting no.
When asked afterward why he voted no, Bowles said he didn't like to see one side of the commission being pitted against the other.
Brigham was livid because he'd lobbied to be on the roundtable, and two commissioners who'd promised to vote for him didn't.
After the meeting, Jackson was walking down the hall talking on his cell phone when somebody on the other end said, "Jerry's got his panties in a wad."
"That's a mighty big pair of panties," Jackson said.
LOST THEIR CLOUT: When we wrote the day after the election that the Southside Mafia has lost its clout, I received an e-mail stating "that was quite a term to use in a news story!"
The writer didn't know the history of the term and suggested I might like to enlighten folks similarly culturally deprived. I said I would, but here I am out of space, so it will have to wait until next week. Then I'll take excerpts from a story I wrote 12 years ago about the once-powerful group of kingmakers.


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The Internet is filling up with chatter here and here about how Dan DiDio, the SVP/Executive Editor for DC Comics, is determined to push not only a sequel to the Watchmen graphic novel, but a multiple prequel comic book miniseries and other spin-offs to his new bosses. And how he's already looking for creators to do them. This is because of — what else? — money: Watchmen has become DC's bestselling comic book of all time. Naturally, everyone's now speculating about a sequel to Zack Snyder's underperforming Watchmen movie from Warner Bros/20th Century Fox/Paramount, especially because there's contract language for that possibility. (No matter how impossible storywise.) But a well-placed insider tells me: "There is no truth to anything related to a movie sequel. Not a chance by a longshot. With regards to the comics, well, I guess anything is possible. I'll keep my opinion to myself as to whether it's a smart idea to do so."
"Not A Chance" Of 'Watchmen' Film Sequel
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Thank God!
Unfortunately they'll just "reboot" the franchise in a couple years — only now they're all in high school and still fucking lame.
Bwahaha. Hilarious.
In Freshman PE, Rorschach's lockermate says: "Dude, did you know that when you dry off your face with the white towel, you totally have black splotchy things that move around?"
Yeah they're gonna use the technique they used for Nutty Professor and have Robert Pattinson play every on-screen character.
I read Watchmen over 20 years ago, when Terry Gilliam was in talks to make the film. This was around the time Tim Burton was half-ruining Batman by casting Keaton and Basinger (and generally not knowing how to make a superhero film) but half-helping it by doing the "what year is it/Streets of Fire" design treatment.
I thought the "Watchmen" Snyder made was very true to the source, and about as good a film as you can make from Moore's comic.
Did no one actually read the book? It is not a "good vs. evil" story. EVERYONE in the comic is mentally ill on some level, from anxiety and mid-life crisis to flat out psychosis. There is no joy, no triumph, no genuine hope. It's just a miserable tale of miserable people.
People loved the COMIC because it deconstructed comic book mythos and treated the characters as one would if they were real, as totally fucked up losers. It is the OPPOSITE of a good time. It is an intellectual comic book.
Given that, I was amazed at how successful the film actually was.
You say "under-performing" and yes, from a "movie business" perspective, that is actually a generous description.
The graphic novel is dense, dull and introspective. Oh yeah, someone pass me the popcorn! That would make a great movie!
Given what he had to work with, Zack Snyder did a great job. I don't think there is any way, in any alternate universe, on Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-S or Earth-X, that you could make a crowd-pleasing blockbuster film from that material.
Ever notice that NONE of Moore's comics make good films? NOT ONE.
I can hear Blake Snyder (no relation to Zack that I know of) calling from the beyond, telling me why. He's right, too.
My point (finally, I know) is that people seem to think the movie is disappointing, even though it captures the graphic novel very well.
The problem is that the Watchmen, the graphic novel by Alan Moore, is terrible source material for a film, especially one that needs to turn a profit. Stop blaming the movie and blame the book.
Wow. There's an understood, not-often-discussed edict understood by both comics fans and comics creators:
Thou Shalt Not Do Any Continuation of Watchmen.
So Dan Didio appears to be bound and determined to get himself fired for what would instantly become the biggest debacle in *modern* comics history. It would be the Lenogate of comics.
I don't think alienating the entire industry and its consumers is a good way for Didio to try to impress his new bosses at DC/Warner.
— Rob
The Watchmen did lackluster box office, so what's the point of a film sequel.
As for any comic sequel, Watchmen author Alan Moore won't pick up the phone for DC comics. They'll need a new writer. Alan Moore is a hard guy to follow. Most writers with any common sense won't try.
A major theme of the Watchmen film's promotion was the prestige the original comic series had in fan circles. Any new cash-in on the name will not share such reverence among the convention crowd. In fact, it will most likely be the target of hostility much as Frank Miller's Dark Knight 2 series was. Comic book fans will find the idea of a Watchmen sequel (comic or film) about as dumb as 'Hamlet: The Early Years' or 'Gone with the Wind Part II'.
Biggest piece of crap movie I have ever seen!
The dirty little secret, as I've blogged extensively, is that today's comic books DO NOT MAKE MONEY, and are not intended to make money. DC, Marvel, basically act as holding operations for intellectual property. Wonder Woman comics, for example, sell in the area of 20K copies or so the last few years, and probably cost more to produce than they take in. But by keeping the title running, DC/Warners keeps the character, instead of the rights reverting to the estate of the creator.
Facts about comic books: almost all titles are sold, weekly, at dedicated comic book shops (instead of supermarkets and drug stores as in decades past). Distributor Diamond has a lock on distributing the comics to comic book shops, and there are only about 2,000 in the US. The comics are pricey, around $5 a copy, and oriented explicitly to adult men ages 35-45. The comics themselves have a hard leftist bent, and are for mature readers.
There is nothing in the current writing to appeal to 9-12 year old boys, the way the Golden, Silver, and even early 1990's comic bubble age did.
The comic book movies that MADE MONEY: Spider-Man, Iron Man, Batman, etc. followed work done in the mid 1960's (Stan Lee) or early 1980's (Batman as "Dark Knight" by first Denny O'Neil and THEN Frank Miller). This was stuff designed to appeal to BOTH young boys and be appreciated as an adventure tale by the men writing it. The movies that LOST MONEY were based on either flawed conceptions of what made the characters, in many cases, 40+ year favorites (Superman Returns, Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, the Punisher), or comics that NEVER HAD MUCH APPEAL TO A BROAD AUDIENCE in the first place: Watchmen, Wanted, etc.
Watchmen IS the best-selling comic book now, but compared to say, the early 1990's comic bubble of 2 million copies sold of "Adventures of Superman" or the mid 1940's when Superman's titles sold about 4 million a piece (with far less people) that's not saying much. Superman's titles now sell about 100K copies or so.
Comic book characters are pretty simple. They are about basic emotions and situations that young boys/men feel, in fantastic situations. Revenge in a "moral" format (Batman, the Punisher, Daredevil), responsibility at a young age (Superman, Spider-Man), and so on. Putting them in HS is NOT a fix for failing to reach and evoke these basic feelings in a satisfactory manner.
Watchmen failed at the box office because it was a 1980's political diatribe against Reagan and Thatcher, long gone from the scene and irrelevant to the basic emotional concerns of the young male target audience: "how will I become a man, what sort of man, will I get the girl, etc."
None of the male audience found a superhero they wanted to be, so they just didn't buy tickets (or buy the DVDs). Just because its a comic book doesn't mean it will sell movie tickets or DVDs.
Watchmen failed at the box office because the hardcore fans of the comic book knew that there's no way the intricately written story could possibly be condensed to two and a half hours without making some serious changes. Once word leaked out that the ending of the comic had been completely changed, the fans bailed.
Additionally, the marketing of the movie was abysmal. It weirdly focused on Zach Snyder and gave no indication to the uninitiated just what the heck the story was supposed to be about. Compare Watchmen trailers to the two Christopher Nolan Batman films and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Last, the movie was poorly cast, and lacked any name that would attract the uninitiated. Malin Ackerman didn't help either.
completely disagree with Ghost Rider not making money. I was one of many who greatly enjoyed it. And the sequel will be better (for all those who "hated" the first).
$228,738,393 gross $110 million budget. seems to me a decent profit. also a 2 movie in the works.
further more I dont know where you get your statistics but you dont need to make things up to make a point. Average cost for comic books is 2.99 to 3.99. I pay even less then that on ebay.
there are also kids titles in both DC & Marvel.
so I realize what you are saying, and personally if Watchman had followed the book, and not had the explicit sex scene it would have made more money. the comic didnt have that sex scene scene portrayed that way, if any at all. Moore had alot more class than that in his series. True there was violence and innuendo and suggestion and alot more mature scenes than your average early 1980s comic BUT really Watchmen didnt perform that bad considering the overall characters & subject matter. I just think Warner was flying high off of Batman and thought they had a big win streak.
You know if folks ever remember the 1960s movie Oliver! ? well it had everything..sex, violence, you name it, it had it, yet you could take a kid to it and the adults could appreciate too. in one sense adults had a stake in it, and the kids in another. its ashame that it has become a lost art to be able to do a picture like that these days. Look at Psycho. one of the creepiest and deadliest movies ever made, yet, for all of the knife killing, you never really see a knife go into a body.
secondly, FF series was very enjoyable too. We will get a 3rd one. albeit a reboot one.
all super movies cant be Dark Knight or SPIDY 2. even spidy is being rebooted and it has nothing to do with the quality of the plot of the first 3 being not up to stan lee's 1960s standards.
Amen, Whiskey. Amen.
Yours obvious biases and frustrations – some that I share myself – are leading you to twist facts.
If they didn't make money, new comics would not need to be published by the big 2.
Wonder Woman's publishing arrangements are rare and do not apply to Superman, Batman, X-Men, FF, Spider-Man etc. If they are no longer published, the rights do not revert. This is, however, true of V for Vendetta and Watchmen.
A direct market for comics does exist, but increasing numbers of titles are sold in collections, available at Borders, B&N, Amazon etc.
Most titles cost $3-$4 and are published monthly, although new titles are released once a week.
"Hard leftist bent" is your baggage,
They are marketed increasingly to a smaller audience that buys more product, but the publishers are desperate for anyone to buy them – although men aged 35-45 do have more disposable income than most other groups. Most superhero titles are avowedly not "mature readers".
Conversely, Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen both are "mature readers".
None of those films cited lost money. Wanted grossed $350m. Watchmen took $185m – both figures excluding DVD sales.
I don't recall Iron Man being a fun drunk who enjoyed stripping air hostesses in Stan Lee's 1960 comics.
Top sales figures: Superman 75 (the death issue) sold about two million and is the highest selling verified Superman issue. Sales figures from pre-1980 are dubious. Superman currently sells 30k. Wonder Woman sells 27k.
Watchmen – individual issues sold about 35k. The collected version sold over one million copies despite retailing at about 10 times the cost of a regular comic. It has been the top selling trade paperback for three years in a row.
Comics are a format for telling a story. The desire for simplicity and unsophisticated story telling, and hearkening back to the 1960s are anachronistic and a view that I suspect you a are minority in holding.
I would say that Watchmen failed at the box office because it was a bad film, and attempted to adapt something unadaptable – the exact same reasons that adaptations of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Catch-22 have failed. I would also say that anyone viewing the target audience of Watchmen as 9-12 year old males needs their head examined.
"None of the male audience found a hero they wanted to be" – I don't think this stopped Buffy.
The movie was a muddled mess that failed to properly capture the comics. It's difficult to condense a complex storyline into a 2 hour movie, especially when not everyone in the audience is familiar with the characters. Things like Batman, Spiderman, etc are much easier to do because everyone already is familiar with the universe. The story they were trying to tell in the first movie might have worked better over two films rather than one.
When a movie doesn't make money, it isn't news that there won't be a sequel. With the Rorschach stuff they cut out, I could see him in a solo film. That could be worth doing.
Nope – nothing about this movie was, is, or will be worth doing. Snyder is a one-trick, slow-mo hack who can't make a film unless someone has already literally drawn out every shot for him. Moore wanted nothing to do with this (or any other project based on his work), and rightly so.
Yeah, like Moore said, it was never a period piece. It was set in 1985 because that's when it came out. Why didn't they update it for the movie? Do we have less apocalyptic scenarios on the horizon?
I never read the graphic novel but Jackie Earle Harley's depiction of Rorschach was the only bright point of The Watchmen for me. I left the film wanting more of Rorschach so I think a solo prequel film based on his character would definetly work. Rorschach's character has a great anti-hero story that is very riveting and works with all viewing demographics. Plus, Harley has serious martial arts skills so the action can be cranked waaaay up. A good script wouldn't hurt either.
In retrospect, they should have rewritten the comic story (which has always been overrated) and made Rorshach the (surviving) hero, because that was the only character who had potential and audience appeal, plus Moore's original ending was totally moronic.
Is there really a demand for new Watchmen comic books? I would think the clamor would have been the loudest back in 1987. Alan Moore isn't going to write them. Even though Comics still try new and interesting projects, but this feels so Hollywood –recycling hits from yesteryear because the suits need that safety net, "It worked once before so…blah, blah.."
Thank you Nikki. I was talking about the comic book in my original report. Some people seem to have taken that and made it all about a movie sequel. Appreciate the common sense here.
Whiskey, DC I can't speak for, but for Marvel, their comic publishing business makes money. Not as much as their licensing or movies, but it does make money. It's one of Marvel's things. As for Watchmen, it is DC's best selling comic book of all time – it has sold many millions of copies now. 2 million in the last year in North American sales alone was reported.
Watchmen broke my heart. I spent months geeking out about the film, praying to the god of fandom that Snyder would be Dawn of the Dead Snyder and not 300 Snyder. And then we got the chunk of shit that is Watchmen. And now DC is going to prove Moore right and shit all over the compelling story of Watchmen with bullshit "prequel" stories. The point of Watchmen is that all of the "heroes" were a sort of realistic analogues to contemporary characters, so Nightowl- Blue Beetle, Rorschach=Batman, Manhattan=Superman, etc. They are all complex individuals who didn't so much fight for justice but rather put on costumes and beat the crap out of criminals. No real super villains, no real super powers, no real adventures. But, hey, keep milking the cash cow and turn them into "superheroes" who we can idolize and emulate. Give them Good Ol' Days and kill everything that was good about the fucking comic. Hell, give the Ernies a prequel comic. They were the best characters in the books.
NightOwl = Batman
Rorschach = The Question
Captain Manhattan = Captain Atom
Looking at the movie it was better than the childlike comic that people overly praise. Most of the problems in the movie is when Snyder stuck too closley to the terrible book, such as the sex scene in Archimedes after the rescue of the people from the building. I'm just glad he improved the ending, no one wants to see Silk Spectre and NightOwl having sex in Ozymandis's basement after Captain Manhattan killed Rorschach.
i really hope they don't try to ruin watchmen for me
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BREAKING NEWS: Casablanca 2 is "not being planned at the moment," a studio head said in an interview!
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Two things happened in rugby league this week that slipped by without much fanfare. But they were significant in my mind.
The first was Michael Searle securing investors to shore up the embattled Gold Coast Titans and the second was Scott Prince's man-of-the-match performance for the Titans against the Panthers on Sunday afternoon at Skilled Park.
Both of these men have had to face up to some significant personal challenges over the past 18 months, Searle on the commercial side and Prince out on the playing surface. Suffice to say that the tough times they've both experienced, coupled with the sensationalised public comment on the way through, would have made lesser men turn tail and run.
Two years ago, I finished up an 18-month stint working with the Gold Coast Titans as general manager of sales and marketing. In my role I spent plenty of time with Searle and Prince and got an insight into what makes both men tick.
Working in commercial operations, I also got a sense that a poorly timed property investment (in hindsight only) and terrible economic conditions were going to make for tough times ahead.
Like many businesses during the global financial crisis, the Titans' once-sound business plan very quickly became obsolete. The club faltered in the face of worldwide economic catastrophe.
Much would be required of Searle to steer his once rock-solid ship clear of a looming and potentially fatal iceberg.
While Searle was battling to save the Titans off the field, rugby league's critics were lining up to take pot shots at club captain and foundation player Prince.
Many said Prince was past his best, he was no longer taking on the line in attack and had become a defensive liability. He was also captain of a team that had earned themselves the dreaded wooden spoon in 2011 and had started season 2012 in tardy fashion.
Despite all this, Prince remained resolute and continued to work hard believing things would eventually turn for both himself and his team.
Public criticism and expectation are very difficult things to deal with. I've know many who live under the protection of anonymity all the while espousing that those in public roles should accept criticism from the shop floor as part of their job.
This is true to a point but it doesn't make it any easier to deal with when you're on the receiving end.
I'm not suggesting Prince or Searle have been faultless in their respective roles at the Titans, or that the media focus around them has been unwarranted. Talk to Searle and Prince and they'll tell you themselves that things could have been done better along the way.
But the real story here is the courage and determination shown by two people who chose to face up to their challenges and forge ahead amid the screams from those in the bleachers only looking to find fault.
This week, after many months of being battered in full public view, Searle has started to pull the Titans out of the financial abyss. Searle has formulated a plan and recruited the right people to slowly start rebuilding the club he helped create.
And while Prince might have started season 2012 a little slow, he is back playing great footy and proving again that he is the Titans' most influential player.
I have nothing but admiration for those who stand tall in the face of the naysayers and stick around to fight the good fight.
With that in mind I'll leave you with an old chestnut from Theodore Roosevelt that reminds us all why the reward is in the doing of the things, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding:
"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause;
"Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."


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My husband Mike and I have 13 children ranging from 23-years-old down to 2. Until my fourth child I was a svelte UK size ten - I think that's a US size 6 (although I believed myself to be fat at the time!). After my fourth child was born in 2003 we went on to have another nine children in the next 11 years. After each child I gained a little more weight, then a little more, and a little more still. I ended up weighing almost 14 stone.
My confidence was shot to pieces. I felt fat, unworthy and lacked confidence. I existed rather than lived. I hated dressing up and resigned myself to wearing a 'mum uniform' of elasticated waist trousers and big tops. We took the children on fabulous road trips around Europe but I lacked the confidence to put on a swimsuit or even a pair of shorts. I sat sweating it out on the beaches of the Adriatic coast of Italy in my stretchy trousers. Last year I felt brave enough to wear a long pair of shorts but it stopped there. We are professional bloggers (our website has over 9,300 Facebook followers, over 11,500 Twitter followers and 114k email subscribers, so it is pretty good by UK standards), and last year I had the opportunity to go on a week-long fitness cruise around the Greek islands. When the rest of the voyagers arrived it was clear that I was the fattest, unhealthiest and I felt absolutely hideous and ashamed of myself. I rapidly declined participating in the fitness side of things and even the hikes in the heat were tough going.
I'd like to say that I decided to make a change when I returned home but I didn't. The spiral of self-loathing continued and I now was 41-years-old and weighed almost 14 stone. I was in complete denial, going so far as to buy another set of bathroom scales because I was convinced that ours were showing an incorrect weight. Dare I admit it, I even snipped my tightening underwear rather than go out to purchase a larger size. How is that for hitting rock bottom?.
My husband and I had joined a gym earlier in the year but despite our good intentions it quickly fell to the wayside. Results were not forthcoming and we were spending more on fuel and time driving there and back than we were on the membership itself and working out. We had previously been asked to review the Slim Fast products which I hated - and said so! Time, with 11 children between the ages of 16 and two still at home, was limited. We home educate and work from home too and I'm also studying for my degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. How much could we possibly fit in?
A couple of months after that voyage my only sibling, my brother, was diagnosed with leukaemia. It was Friday 13th November 2015 - just 12 days before his 34th birthday. Jimmy was a lecturer at a London college. With degrees in sports sciences and a strong background of sports and health, he was the healthiest, fittest person I had ever known in my life. Certainly, he was the last person you would have expected to be struck by cancer. His body was strong enough, the medics decided, to withstand intensive treatment. Just a day or so after he was diagnosed he messaged me with:
'You never guess who I'm speaking to on Linked In'.
'Who's that?'
I didn't have a clue. Jimmy, a wrestling since a small child, went on to explain DDP Yoga to me, and how he was planning on using it to help him through his treatment. 'Control the controllables' he called it.
MY husband Mike and I had been talking about trying yoga out and Jimmy spoke so highly of DDP Yoga that we decided to check out the website. We did some searching and came across Arthur's story. I ordered the DVDs that evening. With a camping tripe through Europe planned in March ending with a five week stay in Greece before camping our way back up again, we wanted to be fit and healthy. We had a goal and nothing to lose - apart from a lot of weight between us!
The DVDs took a few weeks to arrive but when they did on December 8th 2015 (we marked the date on the calendar), we put the younger children to bed, ushered the rest of the children out of the living room and took over the TV. It's only a mild exaggeration to say that the first time we tried the Diamond Dozen, we almost died - or we felt like it at least.
We stuck to the programme. We changed our eating habits and tracked everything we ate. We also introduced working out on the cross-trainer that stands in one of the bedrooms. We decided to weigh ourselves twice a month - on the 1st and 15th. We'd also take body measurements on the first of each month. Between beginning DDP on December 8th and our first official measurement tracking on 1st January I lost 5 inches from my hips, 3 inches from my thighs and 2 inches from my waist. I'd have to check my husband's measurements with him but I know he lost too. We were hooked.
Over the weeks we built up from nothing at all to doing one workout six days a week, combined with a period on the cross trainer. With our travel departure date of March 24th looming we built it up to two workouts, six days a week (Red Hot Core plus one other). We didn't mention that we were trying to lose weight to our readers - we kept very quiet, knowing that we had tried things before that didn't work. Our plan was that we would reveal all with some beautiful beach or garden shots from our travels. However, things didn't work out to plan. On 29th February our oldest daughter had a baby - our first grandchild. Obviously proud I posted some photos on our site's Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/
largerfamilylife) and on our blog, and immediately began receiving comments on my weight loss. In the meantime, just a few days ago we received news that our minibus had failed its MOT and was unlikely to be repairable. This was quite upsetting as we not only had to come to terms with losing out on this trip (plus the money paid for it), but because we rely on the bus for our every day transport. A few hours later we received confirmation that my father had lung cancer and metastatis of the brain. As his sole support (my brother is still undergoing chemo for leukaemia and has been confined in hospital since November due to being neutropenic), my husband and I decided against taking the children on this trip anyway so I can be with my father for his appointments and treatment. Maybe the trip wasn't meant to be after all.
Anyway, I've put together a couple of before/after shots and posted them on our site's FB page over the last couple of days which you can take a look at. The feedback and support has been remarkable and people are now waiting for us to reveal how we have lost our weight. We've reassured them that no fads or fuss have been involved but we haven't revealed the secrets of our success just yet. So far I have lost 42lbs and Mike has lost 37lbs - so almost 80lbs between us since starting DDPY in December! I am now a UK size 12 (US 8) - down from a UK 18 (US 14). We still have another couple of stone each to lose but we'll do it!
There is no magic solution to losing weight. Nobody can do it for you. You need to make the decision and take control of your own actions and we have realised that. We're doing it and if we can, even with 13 children and all we need to work around and fit into our lives, anyone can!Ready to Change Your Life? Order Now!


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About the Book
My husband, Clive, & I have decided that the time has come to travel. We have just finished the most wonderful 12 months driving to Cape Town through West and Central Africa in our Land Rover, Itchy. This photo book is the result of that trip.
We will be returning to Cape Town in 6 months to start the return journey home through East Africa... so there may well be a second book in a couple of years time.
Features & Details
- Category Travel
Large Format Landscape, 13×11 in, 33×28 cm
72 Pages
- Publish Date Aug 18, 2010
- Tags Land Rover, Burkina Faso, Victoria Falls, South Africa, Overland, Africa, Travel, Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Benin, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, DRC, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe
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My husband, Clive, & I have just finished the most fabulous 4 years driving round Africa in our Land Rover, Itchy. Life is getting back to normal...but first it's time to get some photos of our amazing experiences published on Blurb.
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I've created a multistep form using regualr FAPI fields(in code).
I've added the
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If i do not enable clientside validation, everything works fine but when enabled it throws error.
I think that should support some kind of class so when that class is added to the button the clientside validation won't happen.
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I am in need of dire permalink help.
After years of poor permalink practices, i.e. deleting categories, changing permalink structure without implementing redirects I am trying to do it the correct way.
Here is my problem.
I have created a whole new taxonomy per Yoast suggestions and I am using the WP-SEO plugin.
About a week ago I checked the box in the WP-SEO plugin to strip out the /category from all category permalinks, but did not redirects, should redirects have been done first?
My guess is yes.
Today I implemented 140 redirects using (from) category/old category to /new category name example: old category: category/broken-fords (rewrites to) broken-cars, while most rewrites work, the current stripping of the category makes all current rewrites useless.
My best guess is to uncheck the box on the WP-SEO plugin, then add the category to the "to" location and after the redirects are completed then remove category from the path or not, please help?
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text: Why Business Students Should Care About Ethics February 04, 2013 Business and Management By Emad Rahim, DM, PMP In the early 2000s, the scandals at Enron, Arthur Anderson and WorldCom caused leading enterprises and places of higher learning to have more prominent discussions about business ethics. The late-2008 global economic meltdown added more names to the list of once reputable companies that have now become infamous: Washington Mutual and Lehman Brothers. These companies are examples of how lapsed ethics and greed can create major failures. In the book "Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School," author Philip Delves Broughton recounts being an MBA student at Harvard Business School just after Enron's fall. With many of their graduates directly involved, Harvard was extremely embarrassed by the scandal, Broughton relates. Jeffrey K. Skilling, Enron's former CEO, was once praised by the school as a model alumnus. Soon after Enron's reproach, the school started including business ethics in their curriculum. Nitin Nohria, dean of Harvard Business School, mentions in the Wall Street Journal that after Enron's fall theirs was the first business school to require a corporate accountability course. Because of the significant ethics issue, the majority of business schools now support ethics studies in their curricula. Yet, we've discovered many business administration and management students don't see value in taking business ethics courses. Some feel it takes away from bigger priorities like learning business principles, practices, methods and techniques that prepare them for future professional opportunities. They argue that they already know right from wrong. The more cynical students might wonder, "Isn't the idea of business ethics a contradiction in terms?" There's no question. Ethics in business is certainly a challenge, as it is in any other area of life. I like the way Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management in Toronto, puts it in this Financial Times article, "…the underlying premise of our courses must be that our world would be a very miserable place if we didn't have important socially constructed laws, regulations and norms that constrain and guide our behaviour." The American business market cannot exist as we know it if owners and managers don't subscribe to codes of ethics that promote the trust and loyalty so key to business practice. There are two reasons why a foundation in business ethics is valuable to students entering the workplace: Understanding the important relationship of ethics makes you a better leader. When you're at work and caught up in an endless surge of deadlines, performance reviews and company earnings, it's easy to lose sight of what makes companies successful: teamwork and personal connection. We're in a time when many company leaders are more prone to abandon struggling companies and their employees to preserve their own financial stability. New generations of business professionals need ethical thinking to develop better solutions for handling major corporate dilemmas and situations. Having defined ethics helps you make tough decisions. Studying ethics within business, both in theory and practice, enables students to learn about real-world challenges business professionals face. Knowing which elements require consideration early on can help you make decisions that preserve honesty and integrity throughout the rest of your professional life. Your coursework should reinforce doing the right thing. Business ethics act as guideposts for how you do your job, manage people and make decisions so that you always make good business sense. Take a few notes from some of the once-were corporate giants. Their ethical lapses did more harm than garden-variety business mistakes. Emad Rahim, DM, PMP is a PMI Certified Project Management Professional®. Image credit: Flickr/Tom Hayme


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|Reviews for 12 Days of Christmas
| Bean and Pea chapter 4 . 12/26/2016
I love your WW2 stuff. Ugghhhh. Loved it.
| DGraySun chapter 1 . 12/18/2013
This is basically how best friends are. I love you.
| inactiveforeverandever chapter 4 . 7/21/2013
I love this story so much!
How do you write like this?
Could I borrow this time period from you? And another thing, congrants on getting married!
My boyfriend is african-american too, and I'm so in love! He's going to become a journalist, whereas I'm going to become a nurse. He plays baseball as well.
(I'm more of a softball player myself!)
At any rate, you are one lucky girl! And good luck with medical school! Thank you for writing!
-Emily :)
| Srylanna chapter 4 . 6/25/2013
This fourth story feels so heart-warming. I'm not sure yet why. I can't really pinpoint it, but it does. It evokes something.
| MCKC chapter 4 . 3/8/2013
OMG! I cried... :( Beautiful story!
| MCKC chapter 3 . 3/8/2013
Gah! Awesomeness!
| MCKC chapter 2 . 3/8/2013
Ah! This story was so awesome! :) I loved it!
| MCKC chapter 1 . 3/8/2013
Omg I always love your stories!
| Melfina-Pan chapter 4 . 1/5/2013
Another good one. You do a great job of showing how a person in Sakura's position feels when a loved one goes off to war.
It's nice to think of Sasuke as a hero. Hope he redeems himself when all is said and done in the manga.
| Melfina-Pan chapter 1 . 1/5/2013
Can't believe I missed these.
I like the way you write Sakura and Ino's friendship in most of the stories you write. Nicely done as usual!
| MelfinaPan chapter 2 . 1/5/2013
This was so cute. Seems like you can pull off pretty much any pairing.
| Melfina-Pan chapter 3 . 1/5/2013
Picturing Neji dressed as Santa was hilarious. Always fun to have him loose his cool.
I think you did a good job _
| Boyfriend Tees and Honey Bees chapter 4 . 12/30/2012
THis makes me want to read more SasuSaku WW2. :')
| Boyfriend Tees and Honey Bees chapter 2 . 12/30/2012
Sasuke: 4 (because proposing takes a lot of courage even for an Uchiha.) Naruto: 1
| Boyfriend Tees and Honey Bees chapter 1 . 12/30/2012
THe sad thing is I was watching "Rudolf's Shiny New Year" and I was saying to myself: If I were Rudolf, thses is no way in hell I would go and look for a kid. I would be like "WHat the hell? I just got through pulling a damn sleigh and now all of a sudden I gotta go look for some kind of baby? You can take that shit somewhere else! I'm going home to smoke some weed because I am tired as hell! And don't even get me started on that overgrown, fucking turkey Eon!"
Yea, so I just went off like that...:)


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Marouane Fellaini strode out of the main building at Everton's Finch Farm training ground and into the car park.
He is six-foot four-and-a-half inches tall. And considerably bigger when you add his hair.
He walked past the fancy cars, the BMWs, the Ferrari, the 4x4s.
Then he stopped next to a Vauxhall Corsa, opened the door and shoe-horned himself into the driver's seat.
"See," he said, pointing at himself with a mischievous grin as he began to drive off. "Normal guy."
That's what he had been saying earlier.
Normal guy.
Pointing at his feet in his yellow flip-flops. Indicating they were firmly on the ground.
"He's not bothered about material things," said Everton captain Phil Neville. "The lads love him."
Normal guy, maybe. Abnormal talent, certainly. His goal against Arsenal on Wednesday was a reminder of that.
Big character too. He has been picked by American sportswear company Warrior to be the first player to wear their new boots this weekend.
The colour scheme is not exactly subdued, but Fellaini has the style to wear them well.
He is, in fact, a man in demand.
As January approaches, he is rumoured to be the No.1 transfer target for a host of other top clubs.
Everton are desperate to hang on to him and Fellaini is grateful to the club and David Moyes for giving him his chance and insists he would be happy to stay.
He has earned more rave reviews this season as Moyes has encouraged him to play in a more forward role.
And he will be seen as the main threat to Manchester City's unbeaten record when the two teams meet on Saturday.
"I think I am a defensive midfielder," the 25-year-old said. "But the manager thinks I can play number 10, number eight, number six, so I play wherever he wants and I give my maximum.
"I prefer defensive midfielder because I know my job when I play there. More things are in front of you.
"It is difficult to play with your back to goal. It is not my position but the manager likes me there and I am happy to do it.
"I don't have a goal target. Now I have more chances to score because I play in front but scoring is not my obsession.
"It's the same for me whether I score or other guys score.
"Some people say there is a beauty about defending. Beauty is nice but the most important thing is success.
"If you have beauty but win nothing, it is no use."
Fellaini, a Belgian of Moroccan descent, is keen to test himself on Saturday afternoon against his countryman Vincent Kompany.
Kompany and Fellaini are part of a vibrant Belgium national team, also including Eden Hazard, Christian Benteke and Thomas Vermaelen, tipped to shine at the 2014 World Cup.
"Kompany is a very good player," Fellaini said. "That's why he is the captain. He has done a great job. He won the league last year.
"He is difficult to play against. He is a strong player. A strong defender. He is strong mentally, quick, good in the air, good on the ball.
"He is one of the top five defenders in the Premier League and he has a lot of quality.
"But Everton is a difficult team to play against. We are at a stage now where we were a little bit disappointed to draw against Arsenal.
"My ambition this season is to finish in the top four with Everton. Everybody is working hard for this.
"I don't know the future but Everton gave me the chance to play in the Premier League. They gave me a lot of confidence. I am happy here."
Fellaini, Everton's £15million record signing, admitted that he found it hard to adjust to life in England when he arrived as a raw 20-year-old.
But he has matured on and off the pitch and has become one of the most admired players in the Premier League.
"Life was difficult when I arrived," he said. "I was young. My family was in Belgium. I lived here alone. My language was bad. Now it is also bad.
"But Everton helped me a lot. There are some good guys here. And now I live in Cheshire. It's quiet.
"I'm a guy who stays at home and rests, because the Premier League is hard. I sit at home and watch Sky Sports.
"The money is not difficult for me to cope with. When I was young, I was a normal guy with a normal life. Now I'm the same.
"I play in the Premier League, but I'm just a guy who likes football and my family.
"My family look after me all the time. My feet are on the ground. I have some friends that I know are my friends."
And what about his trademark hair? How much time does he take styling it? Does he have a dedicated hairdresser like many star players?
Fellaini smiled.
A normal guy, remember.
"I wash it sometimes," he said. "But that's it."


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After all of their trials and tribulations in the 2013 NHL playoffs, the Boston Bruins can see a gleaming silver light at the end of the tunnel. Just two years removed from the franchises first championship in close to forty years, the Bruins find themselves back in the finals for another chance at hockey immortality. So far Boston has been pushed to the brink (by the Maple Leafs), taken care of business against an inferior opponent (the Rangers), and toppled a wildly talented team (the Penguins) that many experts considered to be the favorite to hoist the Cup coming into the playoffs.
After nearly blowing a three games to one series lead against the Maple Leafs in round one, the Bruins rallied from three goals down to win game seven at the Garden. From the moment Patrice Bergeron scored the game winner in overtime, the B's haven't looked back.
Since that improbably miraculous comeback, the Bruins have gone 8-1 in their last nine games, while leading the league in both shots on goal and goals scored. Whether they were playing against the defensive muck of John Tortarella, or the league's most potent offense, the Bruins pulverized their opponents with a profound sense of discipline, physicality, and determination that is required of a team that is hungry to hoist the Cup.
On Wednesday, the Bruins will once again be underdogs as they travel to Chicago to face the Western Conference champion Blackhawks. Although the two squads didn't face each other in the regular season as a result of the lockout, it was hard for teams as far east as the Bruins to ignore that the Hawks started the season by picking up at least a point in twenty-four straight games.
Chicago has the edge in the talent department, but as the Bruins showed against the Penguins, talent isn't the only factor in deciding what teams advance in the playoffs. The Blackhawks and the Bruins have been the better team in all of the series' that they've played in, so when the puck drops at the United Center on Wednesday, all eyes will be on watching a Stanley Cup Finals contest that couldn't possibly fail to deliver.
1) Which team's predominant style of play is going to prevail?
For the Bruins, there is no need to fix what isn't broken. Physicality, effort, persistence are oft-used clichés, but never has there been a team that embodies these standards better than the Bruins. Boston's primary objective is to make their opponents work tirelessly for every little thing they get in all three zones. Can this defensive minded system that is built upon forchecking, goaltending, and timely scoring be boring? Maybe in the regular season, but if you need evidence of its success in the playoffs, go ask the Pittsburgh Penguins how hard it was to overcome.
As for the Blackhawks, anyone who believes that they are less talented then the Penguins must not have caught any of those late time zone games out west. Chicago has two certified superstars in Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews. Their best forwards in these playoffs (Patrick Sharp and Marian Hossa) will put up more of a fight James Neal and Jarome Iginla. Finally, their two world-class defensemen (Brent Seabrook and Duncan Keith) are not only defensive stalwarts, but can provide significant contributions on offense. These are by and large the same guys who won the Cup in 2010, and this season, no team (save for the maybe the Bruins) has been better at imposing their will against any adversary they have faced.
2) How will Bruins Head Coach Claude Julien shuffle his bottom two lines?
Even though the Bruins were able to shuffle the lines in their series clinching win against the Penguins, the injury to fourth line center Gregory Campbell looms large.
In that game four, Kaspars Daugavins and Shawn Thornton saw the short end of the bench as each received around seven minutes of ice time. On the flip side of that equation was Daniel Paille, who saw roughly the same amount of time as the traditional third line of Tyler Seguin, Rich Peverley, and Chris Kelly.
Even though Kelly and Peverley are both above sixty percent in the faceoff circle, both skaters have been abhorrent offensively. This series will provide a chance for the two veterans (as well as the struggling Tyler Seguin) to finally prove their worth to the Bruins, because against the Blackhawks, Boston is going to need all hands on deck.
3) Which Chicago line will draw the Zdeno Chara and Dennis Seidenberg?
Much like the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Blackhawks have two superstar forwards in winger Patrick Kane, and center Jonathan Toews. Unlike Pittsburgh however, Blackhawks head coach Joel Quenneville has been more than willing to put them on the ice together.
Since game four of the Western Conference Finals, Quenneville has paired Kane and the Hawks captain on the same line (as well as Bryan Bickell), while at the same time having Michal Handzus center the Hawks two leading scorers (Marian Hossa and Patrick Sharpe).
Let's just say the moved worked out just fine. In game four each of those lines produced a goal. In game five, Kane managed to net a hatrick that included the game-winning goal in overtime. As for Toews and Bickell, they had two assists apiece in that game, and were able to give Chicago the production it needed overcome a last minute Kings goal.
All of this brings us to the dilemma facing head coach Claude Julien. Given how hot that line has been for Chicago, logic would dictate that the Bruins use Zdeno Chara and Dennis Seidenberg as their deterrent.
The problem is that that Marian Hossa and Patrick Sharp have been just as effective in the scoring department. In the 2013 playoffs Hossa has put up seven goals and seven assists in seventeen games. Sharp has been equally impressive as he has tallied eight goals and six assists over that span.
If and when Kane and Toews stay together, the Bruins will likely target them with their best defensive pairing, but if Hossa and Sharp come out aggressive in game one, things could be subject to change. In the Conference Finals Chara and Seidenberg did an outstanding job on Evgeni Malkin, as well as Sidney Crosby, holding both players without a point for the entirety of their series. With the stakes being even higher in this final round, expect a similar effort against Chicago.
4) How significant is the Bruins advantage in net?
Other than Chicago Tribune writer Steve Rosenbloom, who currently holds the tittle of worlds biggest twitter troll, there really shouldn't be any questions left about Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask. In the Eastern Conference Finals Rask allowed just two goals in four games, including a fifty-three save performance in a thrilling game three win. In that game Rask repeatedly bailed out the Bruins in spectacular fashion, and finally proved that he can steal a game when his team needed it most.
The Blackhawks are going to bring a more consistent effort than a disappointing Penguins team, but Rask knows what he has to do, and if he plays like he did throughout the Conference Finals, then it won't matter what the Blackhawks do on offense.
Corey Crawford hasn't played quite as well as his counterpart, but teams don't make the Stanley Cup without consistent goaltending. In seventeen games Crawford has put out very strong numbers coming in with a .935 save percentage and a 1.74 goals against average. Still, in the Hawks series with Detroit, the Quebec native gave up nine goals in three straight losses. The Bruins also lead the NHL playoffs in shots on net as well as goals, so chances are Crawford will be facing more pressure then he has up to this point.
5) So how does it all play out?
As far as Stanley Cup matchups go, it just doesn't get any better then this. The last time two original six teams met in the finals was 1979, back when the league only had twenty-one teams. Each of the cities respective fan bases is as rapid a group as your going to find, and even though both teams have won the Cup in the past four years (Chicago in 2010, Boston in 2011), nobody associated with either of these two organizations wants to settle for second place.
In the post-2005 lockout era only one team that has won the President's trophy (the 2008 Red Wings) has gone on to win the Stanley Cup, but this Blackhawks team certainly has the pedigree to take home the title, and will absolutely give the Bruins their toughest test of these playoffs.
Chicago has a little more talent, and has emerged from what is a deeper conference, but after watching the Bruins dismantle a Pittsburgh team that was thought to be the favorites for the Stanley Cup, it's very hard to pick against Boston.
Boston has superior goaltending, a greater commitment to the defensive zone, and most importantly, are riding a wave of momentum that stems back to game five against the Rangers. Since Tuukka Rask's butt flopping goal, The B's are 5-0 over a span in which they have allowed just three goals.
This series will have fans of both teams have running for the liquor cabinet, covering their faces, and letting out screams of agony and elation. In the end, the Bruins have just an inch more of persistence that will allow them to outlast the worthiest of opponents and give the city of Boston another parade. Bruins in seven.Tags: Boston, Boston Bruins, Claude Julien, Corey Crawford, Dennis Seidenberg, Hockey, Joel Quenneville, Jonathan Toews, NHL, Patrick Kane, Pittsburgh Penguins, Tuukka Rask, Zdeno Chara


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Responding to report that he was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, the rapper claims he has quit drugs because he does not want to die young.
Rapper Kid Cudi has quit hard drugs following his arrest in June for possession of a controlled substance. The "Day 'N' Nite" hitmaker, real name Scott Mescudi, was taken into custody last month after allegedly smashing a woman's cellphone and breaking the door of her apartment off its hinges.
Cops found a glass bottle of a controlled substance at the scene and he was charged with the drug count, in addition to felony criminal mischief. Reports suggested the substance was liquid cocaine. Cudi addressed the controversy during a concert in Brooklyn, New York on Tuesday, July 20 when he spoke out to clear up rumours about his drug use, reports AllHipHop.com.
He assured fans he had kicked his more serious vices and was now just a marijuana addict, insisting he was not planning on joining the list of tragic musicians who lost their lives at the age of 27. He told the crowd, "I know you guys were hearing some s**t about me in the news. I was wilding out and s**t, but I'm good now. I just smoke weed. I know n**gers die when they 27 (sic). I'm 26 now, but I promise I'll live 'til I'm old as s**t."
Late rockers Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin are all members of the so-called '27 Club'.


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- Category Arts & Photography
Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
40 Pages
- Publish Date Mar 24, 2007
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As the sole employee of Curtis Elliott Design I am myself Mr. Curtis Elliott. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design and currently work full time at a growing design studio in Long Beach, CA. As a professional designer I can either design within the templates provided by Blurb or create a fully customized template to your liking. My style can range from clean and contemporary to intricate and dazzling.
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I'm trying to convert some Pascal code for handling a matrix and have tried various ways of "vectorizing" it for MatLab. I was surprised to find that execution was always faster with a straight loop translation than with any of my vectorizing attempts. Since I'm pretty new to MatLab, I wonder if there are
better ways to vectorize, and I would appreciate any tips.
Here is code for a simplified version of the sort of loop I want:
% Loop Version:
function myoutput=speedtst0(myinput)
myoutput = zeros(size(myinput));
for i=1:numel(myinput)
if myinput(i)<=0
% leave output as zero
elseif myinput(i)>=10
Below are three different ways I've tried to vectorize that. In all the tests I have run, the different vectorized versions take about the same amount of time (measured with tic/toc), but the loop version takes only about half as much time. So, my question is whether there are better ways to vectorize this sort of loop?
% Vectorized Version 1:
function myoutput=speedtst1(myinput)
myoutput = zeros(size(myinput));
myoutput(find(myinput>=10)) = 1;
myoutput(f) = 0.1*myinput(f);
% Vectorized Version 2:
function myoutput=speedtst2(myinput)
myoutput = zeros(size(myinput));
myoutput(find(myinput>=10)) = 1;
myoutput(myinput>0&myinput<10) = 0.1*myinput(myinput>0&myinput<10);
% Vectorized Version 3:
function myoutput=speedtst3(myinput)
myoutput = zeros(size(myinput));
myoutput(myinput>=10) = 1;
myoutput(myinput>0&myinput<10) = 0.1*myinput(myinput>0&myinput<10);
Thanks for any tips.
On 10/5/2013 8:05 PM, Jeff wrote:
> have tried various ways of "vectorizing" ... [but] ...
> find ... faster with a straight loop translation ...
> and I would appreciate any tips.
> function myoutput=speedtst0(myinput)
> myoutput = zeros(size(myinput));
> for i=1:numel(myinput)
> if myinput(i)<=0
> % do nothing
> elseif myinput(i)>=10
> myoutput(i)=1
> else
> myoutput(i)=0.1*myinput(i);
> end
> end
> end
> ... I've tried to vectorize that. ... but the loop version takes only
> about half as much time. ...
> % Vectorized Version 1:
> function myoutput=speedtst1(myinput)
> myoutput = zeros(size(myinput));
> myoutput(find(myinput>=10)) = 1;
> f=find(myinput>0&myinput<10);
> myoutput(f) = 0.1*myinput(f);
> end
... slightly modified versions of above elided for brevity...
The problem is in this case that the vectorization while it does
eliminate the direct loop results in the code being as if you wrote the
original looping version as three separate loops as you have two
separate logic tests on the entire array; one for >=10, one for the
[0-10] interval and then the third for the scaling multiplication.
If your case were simply binary, then undoubtedly as the size of the
array got larger you would see the benefits of vectorizing. In some
cases, however, since Matlab doesn't do overall optimization but only on
each source code line, it can't "see" that it could do all in one pass
thru the loop but has to do each step as presented. Sometimes even in
Matlab a loop _is_ the best alternative.
NB: as an aside -- it probably won't make enough difference to win, but
you can improve the performance of you versions by eliminating the call
to find() -- "logical addressing" using the result of the test as the
addressing array is the same result but eliminates the return of the
actual array locations which aren't needed here.
That is, instead of
myoutput(find(myinput>=10)) = 1;
myoutput(myinput>=10) = 1;
I've not timed it and it may still not beat the loop but you could try
function res=scale(x)
The above works for your specific function because the 0.1*10 --> 1, the
clipping value.
> function res=scale(x)
> res=0.1*x;
> res(res<0)=0;
> res=min(res,1);
> end
Not sure about speed, it can be achieve by single line (do we need a function for that ?)
res = max(min(0.1*x, 1), 0)
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