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USA Network has given an eight-episode order to reality series Summer Camp for a premiere this summer. Summer Camp, from Allison Grodner and Rich Meehan's Fly on the Wall Entertainment and Sony Pictures TV, features 16 adults from all walks of life who go camping at an idyllic lakeside retreat where they take part in over-to-top competitions inspired by classic camp games. At the end of the summer, the remaining competitors face off in the "Campathalon," an Olympic style event. "This series marries a fun, energizing and nostalgic concept with quirky characters, who will captivate our viewers, as they attempt to reclaim – or perhaps reinvent – their youth," said Heather Olander, SVP, Alternative Programming for USA. This is the second summer camp-themed series for this summer, joining 10-episode scripted dramedy Camp ordered by USA sibling NBC. Summer Camp is USA's fourth reality series under the network's current push into unscripted TV. It follows The Moment, which premieres April 11, The Choir and Partners In Crime. Additionally, USA recently shot pilot Bride Or Best Man, and is in production on pilot All In.
USA Orders 'Summer Camp' Reality Series
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I'm surprised they're doing the Choir. It was on BBC America sometime ago. And it wasn't bad
We pitched this four years ago and was told it wasn't "edgy" enough. Glad to see that maybe…MAYBE… the days where every reality show has to be totally demeaning to the contestants and viewers is waning…
Scripted madcap fun with quirky characters. It's a tired formula already. Lots of bleeped profanity, some folks who don't get along with anyone, and some nudity that's sloppily pixelated so we almost see those naughty bits. I don't know anyone who enjoys these shows.
This actually sounds like the perfect fit to USA's summer programming.
I want to go to summer camp.


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Bessie Marie Herinckx died Feb. 1. She was 94.
Mrs. Herinckx was born March 4, 1919, on a farm south of Hillsboro to William Herman and Bertha Frances (Grabel) Wienecke. She attended Grabel School and grew up in North Plains. She graduated from Hillsboro High School in 1938. She married Peter (Pete) Herinckx in 1940. She was a homemaker.
She is preceded in death by her husband in 1999; two brothers, Wilson and Jack Wienecke; son, George; and one grandson. She is survived by seven children and their spouses: Joan and Monte Vandehey, Salem; Tom and Patty Herinckx, Oxnard, Calif., Anita and Allen Maller, McMinnville; Fred and Janet Herinckx, Myrtle Creek; Linda and Steve Dum, Aloha; Tracy and Mary Herinckx, Vernonia; Sara and Pat Batalgia, Banks; 21 grandchildren; 21-great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
Recitation of the rosary and funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 8, at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Roy.

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Hello! About a couple hours ago I came across your website by searching the Internet for a healthy grocery list for my pantry. It led me to your site; since I've been on it, I have not been able to stop reading!!! I have to tell you what an amazing job you are doing ! I gathered so many great ideas from you (coincidentally I have a soon to be two yr old with a Minnie Mouse themed bday coming up Nov.24th & I love all ur awesome ideas from Baby Boo's bday party)! Also I absolutely LOVE how well your personality comes out in your entries!!! I was truly laughing out loud while reading! Verrry entertaining! Bravo!!! Your ideas, your style, your heart, and your love for your family all comes out beautifully throughout your website (without the typical "corny " 'my life is the best' stuff we often see on other websites). Thanks for sharing your ideas and life w/the world. From one proud mother (&wife) to another, I commend you!!!! Take care , I'll be checking out your website (& telling all my friends) often for more fab ideas!!! -Michelle Jones
You completely made my morning! You don't know how much this meant to me and it was definitely what I needed to hear to keep me going! Thank you so much for all of you loving compliments, and understanding that I am far from perfect! (If only you could see my house and the way we are all dressed at this moment! 🙂 ) Thank you for being a reader, that is the greatest gift to me!! Take care of you sweet family, and I can't wait to hear all about the Minnie Mouse birthday!!
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I'm looking forward to trying the beginners green smoothie ! I've read your words, consider me inspired! I can't wait for my daughters birthday party; and I'll definitely send some picks ! Keep up the amazing (inspiring ) work! -Michelle Jones
Ok, Michelle (again ) so being that (as I mentioned in my first comment) I'm utterly impressed by your website, I've started following u on twitter and am about to subscribe to your YouTube channel (it's hard writing all these things w/out sounding a bit stalker "ish", lol~ promise I'm not, just an instant Fan)! Anyway I was wondering if you have a cookbook or a "how to" book on the way or out there already. I consider myself a good homemaker, but could always use great advice and ideas from other moms who know what I'm going through! ( I got the fantasy football playin'& ESPN watching' hubby too; trust, I feel ya')! Please let me know, thanks so much!!!
Thank You Thank You! Not stalkerish at all! 🙂 We are friends!! 🙂
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McCain's Cheap Shot at Adelson
It is perhaps to be expected that Sen. John McCain would still be whining about the way the Supreme Court's Citizens United 2010 decision effectively neutered the campaign finance law he co-authored with Wisconsin liberal Democrat Russ Feingold. McCain is still claiming the decision made politics more corrupt, but he is deaf, dumb and blind about the way his legislation restricted free speech, added further complications to an already byzantine system and drove campaign cash further underground. But while there is nothing remarkable about McCain beating his favorite dead horse, his latest comments cross the line between fair comment and slander.
In an interview with the PBS Newshour program, McCain didn't just assert that Citizens United is aiding corruption but that the contributions made by Mitt Romney's leading donor may be the product of "foreign" — and therefore by definition illegal — money. The reference to billionaire Sheldon Adelson — whose billions come in part from casinos in Macao — was a cheap shot, especially as it came directly after McCain predicted there would be "scandals" that would come out of Citizens United. McCain knows very well there is nothing illegal or underhanded about Adelson's money or his willingness to spend it to promote the causes and candidates he supports. The scandal here isn't the fact that a billionaire is making money overseas and spending it at home on political speech; it is the willingness of the political class to restrict the right of Americans to have a voice in the political system.
McCain clearly believes all political donations are inherently a form of corruption, a view he has hewed to since his involvement in the Keating Five Savings and Loan Scandal almost ended his political career. Since then, he has adopted a self-righteous posture on the issue and sought to impose severe restrictions on the ability of citizens to make contributions. But far from helping to clean up politics, McCain-Feingold only made things worse. It made it harder for candidates and political parties to raise money and opened the way for other entities to be created to fill the void.
Because money cannot be taken out of politics any more than it can be removed from the banking system, the growing volume of campaign finance laws has only added layers that made the system less accountable. Moreover, the danger of scandal does not come so much from the wealthy willing to spend to advance the ideas they cherish but from politicians who sell their votes to gain popularity.
Even more to the point, bills like McCain-Feingold give undue influence to the mainstream media as it made them the only venues for political discussion that could not be limited by the government. And by making it harder to raise money, McCain-Feingold was in effect an incumbent protection program that helped create an informal system of congressional tenure.
As for Adelson, the notion that any of his money comes from laundered accounts belonging to foreign players is absurd. Adelson's conservative and pro-Israel views are no secret, and it is not likely that anyone in China is using him to advance those causes. That makes McCain's smear a cheap shot that ought to be incompatible with the high-minded reformist stances the Arizona senator believes he embodies.
McCain is entitled to spout off about Citizens United and he is also within his rights in expressing contempt for the gaming industry that has made Adelson a billionaire. But he is way out of line when he wrongly smears the wealthy donor as a foreign agent or an emissary of corruption. He owes Adelson an apology.
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The Proliferation of America's Enemies
Controversies come and go so fast in the Trump administration that it's all too easy to lose sight of individual issues. It is, therefore, worth remembering that before the events in Charlottesville grabbed public attention on Saturday, the president had been making news with his bellicose statements against North Korea and Venezuela.
Unlike many of the other victims of Trump's invective, Kim Jong-un and Nicolas Maduro both deserve to be vilified. They are vicious dictators who show no regard for human life or the basic norms of civilized society. Kim's villainy is of a higher order than Maduro's—North Korea is the most repressive place on Earth—and he poses a much greater threat to the United States. Maduro isn't developing nuclear weapons or threatening to attack U.S. territory. He does, however, deserve considerable calumny for destroying the last remnants of Venezuela's democracy, whereas Kim Jong-un has simply continued the totalitarianism that he inherited from his father and grandfather.
It is entirely fit and proper for a president of the United States to denounce both Kim and Maduro. But that doesn't mean that the way Trump went about is smart. He is, in fact, playing right into the dictators' hands with his over-the-top threats.
He warned Kim Jong-un: "North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen." Far from backing down after these comments were criticized, he doubled down, saying that the U.S. was "locked and loaded" for war. If taken seriously, Trump's comments suggest that he is prepared to wage war not in response to North Korean actions but simply North Korean words.
There is, in fact, no sign that the U.S. is getting ready for conflict. If that were the case, the U.S. armed forces would be evacuating 200,000 American civilians from South Korea and rushing in the additional forces called for under the Pentagon's war plan—Oplan 5027. That's not happening, and senior officials—Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joe Dunford—all say that conflict is not "imminent."
Trump's saber-rattling is unlikely to cause North Korea to stop its nuclear program. If anything, Kim will only redouble his efforts in the face of this American threat, while basking in further confirmation that the U.S. really is, as his propaganda claims, a warmonger intent on destroying North Korea. With Kim already on the verge of acquiring the capability to hit the U.S. with nuclear-tipped ICBMs, either the North Korean despot will call Trump's bluff, leading to a loss of American credibility, or he will invite a catastrophic conflict. Neither option, needless to say, is a good one.
Trump's threat of a "military option" against Venezuela is even more misguided. The U.S. is not going to invade Venezuela no matter how many human-rights abuses Maduro commits because we don't have any national-security interest in doing so. Normally Trump himself is the first one to argue against humanitarian interventions, but, in this case, he allowed his rhetoric to run away with him.
Whatever his motivation, the Defense Department is even less prepared and willing to attack Venezuela than it is North Korea. The only concrete consequences of Trump's wild threat is to force America's Latin American allies to distance themselves from Washington and to hand Maduro a propaganda victory. Like Kim Jong-un, he, too, justifies his dictatorship as a defense against Yanqui colonialism and militarism, and Trump's words seem to provide support for his propaganda. Moreover, assuming that Trump's words don't lead Maduro to change his repressive policies, the failure to back up this threat will further dent American credibility.
Trump found hyperbole to be a useful tool in the real estate business and his pursuit of the White House. But a president in control of the world's mightiest military cannot afford so much loose talk without doing grave damage to American security and running the risk of needless conflict. Many hoped that the arrival of Gen. John Kelly as White House chief of staff would lead to a more moderate tone from the president. So far it hasn't happened, but it's never too late for Trump to adopt Theodore Roosevelt's motto: "speak softly and carry a big stick."
We Are Cowards
We ignored the warning signs.
The only morally acceptable response to the events in Charlottesville is full-throated condemnation. Full stop. This is not the time for moral equivalencies. The barbarism committed by a white supremacist in the name of white supremacy should not elicit sympathy or a deeper exploration of root causes. The root cause of this weekend's murderous violence is racism. The end.
When addressing the events in Virginia on Saturday, the president declined to condemn and isolate the fringe racist extremists within his supporters' ranks. Those elements heard his silence loud and clear, as did his more responsible partners—including Kenneth Frazier, the CEO of Merck who resigned from Trump's advisory council on American manufacturing in protest. The president tried to correct for the oversight on Monday, but the damage was done. Presidents don't get mulligans.
Yet it is because Trump passed on such an easy opportunity to make examples of subjects so obviously worthy of condemnation that all Americans should engage in some introspection. We posture self-righteously at our moral peril.
The condemnations of Trump and the alt-right proliferate on Facebook and Twitter, in part, because it's easy. Charlottesville is not complicated. There is nothing morally ambiguous about the actors on that stage. Anachronistic fascists bearing the symbols of racial hatred and genocide are a familiar adversary. It is a dangerous adversary, to be sure, but also one that lost the struggle for hearts and minds generations ago. Charlottesville may provide observers with a rare moral binary, but it may also be the culmination of our refusal to tackle more abstruse conflicts over the last 18 months.
The vehicular attack on peaceful demonstrators this weekend was preceded hours earlier by a violent melee in the streets between white supremacists and counter-demonstrators. This wasn't the first time in recent history that two demonstrators flying, respectively, the symbols of Nazism and Bolshevism have clashed in American streets. It's just the first time we as a country stood up and took notice.
In June of last year, a group of neo-Nazis emboldened by Donald Trump's casual winking in the direction of their movement took to Sacramento's streets armed with permits allowing them to demonstrate. They were met by a group of counter-protesters and a street battle ensued. "By Any Means Necessary," a counter-protest group organized by individuals who formed the nucleus of what would become "Antifa," engaged in a blood-curdling combat with white supremacists. Ten people were injured, some critically, as both groups attacked one another with bats, knives, and other improvised implements. It was not, however, the neo-Nazis who inaugurated violence outside the California state capitol.
"If I had to say who started it and who didn't, I'd say the permitted group didn't start it," said protective services division head and California Highway Patrol officer George Granada. "They came onto the grounds and were met almost instantly with a group of protesters there not to talk." Authorities alleged that the "Antifa" organizers had prepared for weeks to meet the white supremacist rally with the express intention of shutting it down. One year later, former middle school teacher and "Antifa" organizer Yvette Felarca was arrested and charged with assault and inciting a riot in connection with her role in that event.
Considering the heat of a presidential election year and the relevance of this attack, coverage of this event was muted. Even at the time, this nightmare obviously portended more violence, but few Americans seemed to want to explore its relevance. Perhaps the spectacle was representative of a breakdown of the American social compact too terrible to contemplate. Perhaps it was too evocative of Weimar to contemplate. Maybe the moral complexities of the situation and the ambiguity of the heroes and villains involved rendered the story impossible to relate in a simple soundbite. Whatever the case, we didn't reckon with what it meant.
There have been other, briefer and less violent confrontations between alt-right agitators and "Antifa," to say nothing of the confrontations between both organizations and law enforcement, but none of them seared themselves into the national consciousness like the events in Virginia. All the while, a culture of romanticized political violence was taking root in the psyches of America's political activists.
For a year, the left has muddled through an intramural debate over whether it was noble to physically assault white supremacists (like the kind that was meted out against Richard Spencer earlier this year). For its part, the alt-right has evinced violence. "A man wielding a sword hunted and killed a black man in New York City," National Review's David French noted. "A member of an 'alt-Reich Nation' Facebook group killed another black man in Maryland. A man opened fire on two immigrants at a bar in Kansas, killing one. A white supremacist in Portland murdered two men on a train who intervened when he harassed a Muslim and her black friend." In 2016, the violence committed by Trump supporters at his explicit behest was well covered, but the organized campaign of counter-violence—a campaign that long outlasted the president's incitement—was not.
Donald Trump is a coward. He has repeatedly refused to cast out the most undeserving elements of his coalition, but his cowardice is not unique. America has slouched silently toward this moment of crisis, ignoring all the glaring warning signs along the way. Amid our cowardice, we are sleepwalking back into a terrible past. Absent steely conviction on all our parts, the worst is yet to come.
Explaining Trump's Charlottesville Behavior
The nucleolus of Trump.
You can choose to have whatever opinion you have on the president's statement today condemning white supremacists, but it's hard to believe he would have read it out if he'd had his druthers. No, the real Donald Trump was the one we saw on Saturday when he decided to condemn violence "on many sides" in response to the deliberately provocative and intentionally violent neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, Virginia; when he decided to refer to the events as "sad" in tweets; when he wished "best regards" to those injured by the car that was deliberately smashed into them, killing 1 and injuring 20. When he acted in that way, he was operating according to his instinct. And his instinct said: Do not attack the white supremacists.
Why? The answer, I think, has everything to do with how he became president. Let me lay it out for you.
One of the mysteries of Trump's rise in 2015 was just how meteoric it was. A week after he declared for president he came in second place in a Suffolk University poll in New Hampshire with 11 percent; 29 days after he came down the escalator, he was in the lead in the Suffolk poll nationally. He never surrendered that lead. How did Trump happen so fast?
The usual explanation is that he was just so famous and people didn't realize how famous he was, how potent his brand would be. Sure. But that explanation is insufficient because Kim Kardashian is famous in a similar way and I doubt she would have led in a Democratic Party poll in 2015. The question is, whose early support for Trump itself played a key role in leading others to take him seriously and help propel him into the nomination?
The answer to this question is one Trump himself knows, I think. If there's one thing politicians can feel in their marrow, even a non-pol pol like Trump, it's who is in their base and what it is that binds the base to them. Only in this case, I'm not talking about a base as it's commonly understood—the wellspring of a politician's mass support. I'm talking about a nucleus—the very heart of a base, the root of the root of support. Trump found himself with 14 percent support in a month. Those early supporters had been primed to rally to him for a long time.
For years, under the radar and likely with the guidance of his political guru Roger Stone, Trump built a powerful and loyal following through what could be called—yes, I know this is going to sound condescending and elitist, but what can I say, I'm condescending and elitist—the proletarian media.
I'm talking about Alex Jones and Infowars, the conspiracy-theory radio-show/website on which Trump has appeared for years; the radio show has 2 million listeners a week, and Jones was said in 2011 to have a larger online presence than Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck. I'm talking about the WWE, which televises wrestling and which, in 2014, could claim a weekly audience of 15 million and on whose programs Trump intermittently served as a kind of Special Guest Villain in the manner of a villain on the 1960s Batman show. I'm talking about American Media, the company that owns the National Enquirer, the Star, the Sun, and the Weekly World News run by Trump's close friend David Pecker; the combined weekly circulation of its publications is well in excess of 2 million. Trump helped make the birther issue a major one for a month in 2011 by talking about it on "Meet the Press" and "Good Morning America," on network television. But he was surfacing an issue that had been roiling in the proletarian media, stirred and shaken constantly by his political guru, Roger Stone.
We've heard ad nauseam about Trump's symbiotic relation to the New York City tabloids in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but in point of fact, that relationship declined sharply as his personal life began to calm down, as his proven ability to work the system began to shrink in importance, as Rudy Giuliani's New York boomed, and new tabloid stars emerged (including Rudy himself).
So his relationship with the Post and the Daily News was replaced in time by a different relationship with a different kind of tabloid media—which is actually far rougher, far harder edged, considerably poorer, and overwhelmingly male. (It's a mistake to think that the New York Post's audience is lumpen. There was a time when the Post outsold the New York Times in Manhattan. ) Trump's goal was no longer to be the most talked-about person in New York City. It was something else, something larger.
Talk about flying under the radar. These media institutions have no cultural purchase whatsoever except for the contempt they breed. Nobody in the elites ever paid attention to them except to goggle at their ludicrousness as a passing Porsche on the way to the beach might goggle at a townie home with cars up on blocks in the front yard; or to express horror at the potential libelousness of the charges hurled in them. Such coverage would, in essence, wonder at the crudity of some Americans, and then move on.
By paying them heed, Trump was not only feeding his inexhaustible maw for attention. He was reaching a group of disaffected Americans entirely on the margins of American life, politically and culturally and organizationally. The dedicated prole-media audience, which might make up 5 or 6 percent of the electorate, is not enough to make a base. But it's enough to make a nucleus. And what they knew is that he didn't dismiss them. They knew he was listening to them. They knew he wanted to talk to them, wanted to hear from them.
They saw how he was jazzed by their conspiracy theories. He loathed Barack Obama as much as they did. He too thought Obama had been born in another country, that something untoward had happened to bury the fact, and that there had been a master plan to get this kid in Hawaii to the White House put in the works decades earlier. He liked them. So they liked him. A lot. And when he began his run for office by saying America was a dump and had left its best people behind by making bad deals with foreigners, they knew he was talking about what had been done to them, and they came to love him.
It was not this nucleus that showed up in Charlottesville. These were, instead, subatomic elements inside what we might call the nucleolus of Trump's support, the tiny machine inside the atomic machine that forms the core of the Trump base. And that nucleolus is governed by rage, hatred, a sense of being wronged, and the loathing of others due to race and national origin. They are numerically insignificant to a man who secured 63 million votes in November 2016. But he—he, not I—seems to feel they are necessary to the constitution of his core. And he basically let them off with a mild warning.
Charlottesville and the American Crisis
Podcast: A ugly old adversary reemerges.
In the first COMMENTARY podcast of the week, I ask Noah Rothman and Abe Greenwald whether we are seeing a rise in extremist political violence in the United States and what it portends. And then we talk about what it means for the president to have chosen not to take the layup of denouncing Nazis when he had the chance. Give a listen.
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Resisting the Islamic State from Within
Heroes in obscurity.
Perhaps the best book I ever read was Natan Sharansky's Fear No Evil, a memoir of his time in Soviet custody and an explanation of how he outwitted his KGB interrogators as they sought to break him. Almost every activist imagines that he is speaking truth to power, but to do so when power is overwhelming takes both courage and skill. But while the KGB sought totalitarian control, they could be subtle. That is one adjective that cannot be applied to the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh).
ISIS brought a reign of terror down upon the territory it controlled. And while many more residents welcomed and, indeed, collaborated with the group, others resisted. Some have written about the tremendous risks that local and often anonymous journalists took to transmit the reality of life under ISIS to the outside world.
Until now, little has been known about how those arrested and tortured by the Islamic State resisted their captors. A new International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism report, "The ISIS Prison System: Its Structure, Departmental Affiliations, Processes, Conditions, and Practices of Psychological and Physical Torture," changes that.
Utilizing interviews with dozens of ISIS defectors, returnees, and former prisoners, it traces the process and mechanism by which various organizations within the Islamic State would arrest prisoners, process them, interrogate them, and seek to indoctrinate them. After all, while ISIS would execute many prisoners and use their murders to produce grizzly recruitment videos, many other detainees would serve sentences and be subject to re-education. Many sought to deceive their captors. In one instance, cited by the report:
One of the former detainees, a 28-year-old man, explained the way some detainees manipulated ISIS jailors:
We would pretend to be reading their books. We would act as though we are asking each other questions from the books. In the classes we would engage with the Shari [the sharia's lecturer]. If they come [ISIS guards] and see that we are reading their book, they would spare us from their wrath.
The first course was reported to last for forty days.
Others coached fellow detainees on how to fool interrogators:
Upon the decision of interrogators, detainees would be presented in front of an ISIS sharia judge. This phase often preceded the conclusion of elaborate torture and marked the end of interrogation. Former detainees did not report being told about the end of their interrogation. Moreover, the guards only took them to the same interrogation room without telling them that they would now appear in front of an ISIS sharia judge. However, the accounts of one of the interviewees, 54-year-old man, indicate that detainees became aware of signs of this change and how to respond appropriately to avoid further negative repercussions:
The brothers [fellow detainees] taught us how to deal with them [ISIS captors]. First rule: never confess to the interrogator. If you are seated on the floor, that means you are still being interrogated. Second rule: never incriminate yourself in front of the judge. If you know you did something, you should avoid mentioning anybody with any knowledge about it. You ought to bring the names of those without any knowledge of any breach of sharia law for example; those from ISIS or those who sympathize with them. Those names should be part of your story, the thing they arrested you for, but not aware of anything you did against ISIS. And you would know when you appear in front of the sharia judge. The treatment improves. He would ask whether you talked to your family. You would be seated on a chair. If you do well, you will still have to be detained for more, be you innocent or guilty. You would know if there is a punishment or not.
Once ISIS' sharia judges make their decision, the detainees are taken back to the communal cell, except for those sentenced to execution.
And, in another, one poor father sought to outwit ISIS foreign fighters to protect his daughters:
Men were also targeted for arrest when an ISIS cadre was unsuccessful talking a father into giving his daughter for marriage or the ISIS cadre coveted the man's wife. These instances usually ended in executions although there were exceptions as this defector told us:
So there was an old man he had two girls. One of the foreign fighters came and eventually offered him two million Syrian pounds and the old man was trying to stall him. Finally they arrested the old man and accused him of being a spy for the regime. So when they detained him as a spy it means he will be killed. So the old man gave in and said you can marry my daughter but we cannot have a wedding when I am detained. So they released him the next day. When he got out he pretended he was preparing for the wedding but he took his daughters and escaped to Turkey.
There is much, much more. The ICSVE report goes further than any published unclassified source (and likely many classified ones) to detail just how the ISIS punishment system worked. But, as Iraqis and Syrians emerge from the tyranny of the Islamic State, understanding how some resisted is crucial, if only to undermine globally other would-be totalitarian regimes.
Natan Sharansky is and was a hero for its resistance to Soviet tyranny. The tyranny of the Islamic State has produced other heroes not so well-known, but they are there. Autocrats and tyrants may believe they can stamp out dissent, but the tremendous courage and the individual desire for life and liberty will always triumph to erode such regimes from within, even as many other succumb to pressure or silence.


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Adolescent Thumb Sucking
How to stop thumb sucking?
Age of patient?: Infant: offer pacifier toddler: out of sight, out of mind child: peer pressure, thumb sucking splint (breaks the suction), painting nails with bitter substance specially designed for this teen/adult: habit replacement therapy, plus child treatments. ...Read more
How can I stop thumb sucking?
Yours or a child's?: If you're asking about you, just stop sucking your thumb. Try chewing gum. If you're talking about a child, it depends on the age. If it's a baby or a toddler, you can't, so stop worrying about it. A baby who needs to suck will suck, and almost all grow out of it. If it's an older child try a system of rewards for not sucking, like gold stars or a desirable toy. ...Read more
Is thumb-sucking a bad habit?
Can be if it stays: Many children stop sucking their thumbs on their own sometime during the toddler years — between ages 2 and 4. For older kids who continue to suck their thumbs, peer pressure at school usually ends the habit. If lingers on , thumb sucking might begin to affect the roof of the mouth (palate) or how the teeth line up — especially if the thumb sucking is aggressive. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
How can I break my thumb sucking habit?
THUMB SUCKING: Sometimes breaking the habit of thumb sucking can be a challenge.The thumb can be infected yet they continue the bad habit. Getting busy and ignoring the habit is one way to try. T think this is the one that works. Putting hot sauce or tying the finger are not effective. ...Read more
What could cause continued thumb sucking?
Habitual: There are many psycho-social causes of this habits but the child usually outgrow it by school age. ...Read more
How can I stop my child from thumb-sucking?
Teddy bear can work: A toddler (I hope s/he is at least this old) uses the thumb to self sooth while exploring the world.If you give them a teddy bear/soft snuggle of some sort, that will keep one hand/arm busy,it helps them self sooth. Since they need a free hand/fingers to touch and explore, they stay out of the mouth.Don't fuss at them about it, as that gives them anxiety, which requires self soothing. ...Read moreSee 2 more doctor answers
Is there anything wrong about adult thumb sucking?
Thumbsucking: Adult bloodsucking is completely abnormal and needs psychological evaluation.. ...Read more
Are thumb guards effective at stopping thumb-sucking?
Thumb guards: I think that if a kid wants to suck his or her thumb , they will find a way to get to it and get the thumb guard off. Good luck with that problem. Dr brazelton is a famous. Pediatrician i used to look up to help with these problems or any sleep issues. Good luck. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
What are the long term consequences of thumb-sucking?
Many: Grinding your teeth can result in headaches, earaches, damage to your teeth and enamel causing erosion of the teeth and sensitivity, increased risk of cavities, and loose teeth. If you grind your teeth, see your dentist to get fitted for a mouth guard. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
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Detectives from the Organised and Financial Crime Agency New Zealand (OFCANZ) are appealing to the public for assistance to locate a fifth Brazilian man in connection with the seizure of 2.5kilograms of cocaine on Friday.
Operation Grenoble began on Friday 7 March when approximately 2.5 kilograms of cocaine was discovered by Customs border protection staff at Auckland International Airport. The drugs were concealed in two suitcases which were brought into the country by a 42 year Brazilian national who arrived on a flight from South America.
On Sunday 9 March a 31 year old Brazilian man was arrested in Auckland as he prepared to transport the drugs to the South Island.
On Monday 10 March a further two Brazilian men were arrested in Christchurch in connection with the seizure.
Detectives are now actively searching for a fifth man, suspected to be in the greater Auckland area. They would like to speak with 43 year old Brazilian national, Rodrigo Gerlach Rila, who previously resided on the North Shore in Auckland. He is believed to be travelling in a 1997 Toyota Lucida Estima light van coloured white registration BYE781.
Anyone with information as to Gerlach Rila's whereabouts is asked to contact Detective Hamish Wyllie on (021) 191-0615.
Note: The Organised and Financial Crime Agency of New Zealand (OFCANZ) targets, investigates, and disrupts individuals and groups involved in organised crime in New Zealand and trans-nationally. Established in 2008 OFCANZ also leads, coordinates and contributes to policy or legislative changes to make it harder for organised criminals to operate in New Zealand. In addition OFCANZ works with the private sector to reduce the opportunities for organised crime and raises public awareness of organised crime and the harm it causes to New Zealanders.


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GRINNELL, Iowa – Seven Grinnell College players have been named to the 2012 All-Midwest Conference Football Team.
The Pioneers had five second-team selections – Cody Weber '13 (wide receiver), Tom Brinkman '13 (defensive line), Drew Blumberg '13 (defensive back), Andrew Clark '14 (return specialist) and David Ternes '15 (linebacker).
Weber, a 6-0, 195-pounder from Pullman, Wash. (Pullman), led the Pioneers in receiving with 44 catches and 564 yards despite missing the second half of the season due to injury. He scored five touchdowns, and before getting hurt was among the national leaders in receptions and reception yards per game. Weber, who was named to the D3football.com Team of the Week and earned MWC Player of the Week honors, has been invited to play in the All-American Bowl in Minneapolis, Minn.
Brinkman, a 5-9, 259-pounder from Rolfe, Iowa (Pocahontas Area), had 46 tackles this season including four for loss. He also had 2.5 sacks and ranked sixth in the MWC in fumble recoveries with two. Brinkman, who also blocked a kick this season, has been named to the USA roster for the Tazon de Estrallas All-Star Game.
Blumberg, a 6-1, 191-pounder from Bishop, Calif., was among the MWC leaders in pass breakups (eight), interceptions (four) and tackles (72). His tackle total ranked second on the team. A two-time Academic All-District first-teamer, he has been invited to play in the All-American Bowl in Minneapolis, Minn., the Aztec Bowl in Monterrey, Mexico, and the Tazon de Estrallas All-Star Game.
Clark, a 5-9, 180-pounder from Byron, Ill., led the MWC in kickoff return average with 23.9 yards per attempt. He had 573 yards on 24 returns with a long of 48. Also a defensive back, Clark finished the season with 27 tackles, two pass breakups and an interception.
Ternes, a 6-0, 221-pounder from Oakley, Calif., led Grinnell in tackles and ranked third in the conference with 103. He was first in the MWC in fumble recoveries with four, second in forced fumbles with three and ranked eighth in tackles for loss with 11.5. Ternes also had 3.5 sacks and two pass breakups.
Grinnell had a pair of honorable mention selections, TJ Schaid '13 at running back and Graham Fisher '16 at punter.
Schaid, a 5-9, 187-pounder from Walworth, Wis., was also an All-MWC selection in 2010. He led Grinnell in rushing this season with 570 yards and a touchdown, and ranked second in receiving with 36 catches for 241 yards and three scores. A semifinalist for the National Football Foundation's National Scholar-Athlete Award, he has been invited to play in the National Bowl Collegiate All-Star Game.
Fisher, a 6-4, 233-pounder from Palo Alto, Calif., was among the MWC leaders in punting with a 36.2-yard average. He had five kicks of over 50 yards and put 18 inside the 20-yard line. Fisher was named the MWC Special Teams Performer of the Week during the season after kicking a 50-yard field goal. He was 5-of-9 on field goal tries.
The MWC Offensive Player of the Year is Lake Forest College running back Al Mitchell, while Carroll University lineman Josh Zank was named Defensive Player of the Year. The MWC Coach of the Year is Jim Catanzaro of Lake Forest College.


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SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- A recent announcement from the development team at Divmob revealed that Zombie Age 2, an upgraded version of its popular game, is now compatible with Intel Atom tablets for Android*. This skillful, zombie-filled app now benefits from enhanced play on the device, offering the best in gaming to users.
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Zombie Age 2 is a game of endless fun, where once players think all zombies possible have been taken out, there is always another one to kill. The players' challenge is to defend a town overrun by the walking dead, and everyone in the playing environment has turned into meat. Zombies are getting more enraged as players have to load up their guns and shoot their way out. Featuring zombie combat in seven different zones with seven unique game modes, players can slay zombies with the choice of over 30 different weapons. There are up to 17 characters featured, and players can request friends to fight for them. A global leaderboard ensures on-going virtual competitions.
Intel Atom tablets for Android* allow the one-of-a-kind cartoon styling of this game to come to life in a vibrant, interactive way. The device allows new players and long-time fans to take enjoyment of the game to new heights, in a flexible manner. Devmob's collaboration with the Intel Developer Zone aided in the optimization process in terms of support, code, and troubleshooting.
Ngo Van Luyen, CEO of DivMob stated, "It is great that our popular zombie mission game has been enhanced for this platform. Working with Intel made the transition smooth, and we're anxious to attract even more players into the competition."
Zombie Age 2 is available for immediate download at the Google Play Store:
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Divmob has produced nearly a dozen games for both Android and iOS. Its most successful ones are Ninja Revenge and Zombie Age 2, which have garnered over three million downloads in the first month of release, and were featured on Google Play homepages in over 20 countries. The company was founded in December of 2011 and is located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. For more information, please visit: http://divmob.com/.
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I have been coming back and forth to China for 20 years, and for the last 3 years have been living permenantly in Beijing. In that time my husband and I have amassed a large number of books on China, its history and culture.
This book by Bamber Gascoigne is the best introduction to Chinese history I have found. He originally wrote it in 1973 but this edition was been revised in 2003, with Chinese names changed from the Wade-Giles romanization used in the past, to the standard Pinyin used today. He has also ;iadded a very thought provoking postscript to the book covering the period after 1912 and the Mao years, and putting them in perspective.
The book does not overwhelm the reader with a mass of historical information, something easily done when covering the 3000+ years of Chinese history. It provides a logical and coheasive narrative, making sense of the complexities of the Chinese dynasties. Gascoigne writes in a clear and approachable style, leading the reader through the ages with the lightest of touches, and keeping the massive amount of detail to a manageable level.
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Last week Democratic candidate Alvin Greene emerged victorious in his state's primary, despite being unknown and unemployed. His state? South Carolina. Yup, one of Jon Stewart's favorite targets.
Calling South Carolina "America's whoopee cushion," Stewart reveled in not only the absurdity of Greene's victory, but of course, the media's coverage of it. Of course this led to some CNN-mocking, who he referred to as a "ghost network" when they tried to pressure Greene into admitting that he was hiding something.
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Commodore Davies, one of Australia's most experienced Collins commanders, said the two submarines were very evenly matched.
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The 'Sex and the City' star dons the Philip Treacy headpiece when attending the Crown Oaks Club ladies luncheon in Melbourne to promote 'I Don't Know How She Does It'.
Sarah Jessica Parker is turning head with her choice of headpiece. The Carrie Bradshaw of "Sex and the City" came to the Crown Oaks Club ladies luncheon at Crown Palladium in Melbourne, Australia wearing a dramatic sculptured black hat by Philip Treacy, the same designer who created Princess Beatrice's royal wedding hat.
Philip revealed that he spent more than 200 hours on the headpiece the Daily Mail describes as a "satellite dish". Having designed another hat for the 46-year-old actress' November 3 appearance at the annual Crown Oaks Day horse racing event, he gushed, "Fashion is about suspense and surprise, so tomorrow she is going to surprise everyone as well. She's the ultimate fashion icon."
SJP attended the Wednesday, November 2 luncheon to promote her new comedy movie, "I Don't Know How She Does It". Her outrageous hat aside, the wife of Matthew Broderick actually looked chic in a tight-fitted Chanel tweed dress with button detail down the front. She paired up the sleeveless dress with black stilettos.
This isn't the first time SJP caught attention with her headpiece though. In 2008, the "New Year's Eve" actress rocked a lime-green fascinator consisting of butterflies and one big rose to the premiere of "SATC". Two years later, in May 2010, she wore a black netted headpiece to the premiere of "Sex and the City 2".


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Michelle Obama is being accused by some commentators of using a racial slur at the White House Summit on Working Families on Monday, and getting away with it!
But it's one of those comments which could be taken either way.
It's certainly not overtly racist, and probably wouldn't even be seen as offensive by most people. Then again, public figures, especially those like the First Lady, need to be extremely careful with their exact choice of words.
Michelle Obama told ABC's Robin Roberts at the White House Summit:
"The first thing I tried to do, which was a mistake, was that I tried the part-time thing… I realized I was getting gypped on that front. What happened was I got a part-time salary but worked full time."
Did you even spot the offensive, apparently racist slur? Of course, it's the term "gypped" which is a derogatory term derived from the word "Gypsy," which is considered offensive to the Roma people.
Whereas, perhaps Michelle Obama should have used the milder, more accepted terms "slighted" or "cut short" to express the fact that she was defrauded or taken advantage of by her employers, she didn't.
But in terms of inference, the subtle nuance in the word "gypped" is stronger than being "slighted" or "cut short," and the First Lady probably didn't intend to offend anyone.
Other offensive terms that spring to mind in this context would be "Jewed down," or referring to someone as an "Indian Giver," but those two, as examples, are way stronger and more offensive than the casual use of "gypped," at least linguistically speaking.
But, of course, it is not fitting for the First Lady, Michelle Obama, to use such callous terms which are indeed offensive to some.
Anyway, she can blame her husband, Barack Obama, because in 2009, at a town hall meeting in Allentown, Penn., he used the very same word when talking about the need to regulate health inspection companies.
But that doesn't make it right for Michelle Obama to use such a term, off-the-cuff, in the way she did, without getting at least some flak from the ever-eager media for a story of this type. The writer of this article says "no comment" on this one; always better that way.
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Bonnechere Valley is a township in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. It had a population of 3,665 in the Canada 2006 Census. It was established in 2001 by amalgamation of the village of Eganville and the townships of Grattan, Sebastopol and South Algona.
Ontario GenWeb has a sketchmap of the original townships.
The map of Renfrew County circa 1951 from Ontario Archives locates the individual municipalities, townships, city, towns and villages of the county.
The administrative and commercial centre of Bonnechere Valley is Eganville, a small community occupying a deep limestone valley carved at the Fifth Chute of the Bonnechere River.
The township also comprises the smaller communities of Augsburg, Castile, Clontarf, Constant Creek, Cormac, Dacre, Donegal, Esmonde, Grattan, Lake Clear, McGrath, Perrault, Ruby, Silver Lake, Scotch Bush, Vanbrugh, Woermke and Zadow, as well as the ghost towns of Newfoundout, Balaclava and Foymount.
The power of the Bonnechere River has been harnessed since 1848 but it was John Egan's grist mill that gets credit for stimulating the area's economic growth.
In 1911, the Great Fire destroyed many of the buildings in Eganville. Seventy-five homes were lost in all along with schools, churches and industries along both sides on the Bonnechere River. A year later, the Municipal Building was erected, and served as the village post office for almost a century. This building has since become the home of the Bonnechere Museum and one of the most well known symbols of Eganville.
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The primary source for basic documents (vital statistics, land records, wills) for people who lived in the Province of Ontario is the Archives of Ontario, 134 Ian Macdonald Blvd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M7A 2C5.
Early Records
Civil registration did not begin in the province until 1869. Before then there may be church records of baptisms and burials. For the most part these are still held by the denomination who recorded them. Copies of marriage records made pre-1869 had to be sent by individual clergymen to the registrar of the county in which the marriage took place. These marriage records are available through Ontario Archives, on micorfilm through LDS libraries, and on paid and unpaid websites, but because they were copied at the registrars' offices, they cannot be considered a primary source.
Vital Records after 1869
Birth, marriage and death registrations are not open to the public until a specific number of years after the event occurred. Births to 1915 are now available [October 2014]; dates for marriages and deaths are later. Birth and death registration was not universally carried out in the early years after its adoption. Deaths were more apt to be reported than births for several years. The more rural the area, the less likely it would be that these happenings were reported to the authorities.
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Information on how to access land records and wills is best sought on the Archives of Ontario website. An ancestor's land holding might be found on Canadian County Atlas Digital Project if he was in occupancy circa 1878.
Association for the Preservation of Ontario Land Registry Office Documents (APOLROD). A list of Land Registry Offices for all Counties of Ontario.
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It's been ruled in court that a "permanent license to use" is a sale, regardless of what the seller calls it. The seller can't demand that there's no resale rights, or that the purchaser cannot allow others to view the content.
This relates to two cases: one where someone was reselling boxed software on eBay, and the company wanted to claim copyright infringement (how, I'm not sure; it was the original box & CDs being sold); the ruling from that drew from an older case involving movies that had been sold with the criteria that they couldn't be resold or watched, and other movies that had been sold as cellulose scrap and the producers were outraged to discover that some of them were being resold as movies, not as plastic.
The rulings hinged on the concept of permanence: if there was a schedule or expectation of returning the content, it was licensed; if the purchaser was not expected to return it, it was a sale.
(Since digital content is rather ridiculous to "return," I think it's likely they'd assume time-limited DRM as the "return" policy--hence DRM'd library books are licensed, not sold/given away.)
Since Amazon makes no claim that the books must be returned, or deleted, after any particular time, nor in a given set of circumstances, they're sold, not licensed. Amazon is lying to its customers in the hopes that none of them will have big enough lawyers to challenge that.
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Dim Sum Funeral (2008)
Francoise Yip, Russell Wong, Julia Nickson-Soul, and Steph Song are a quartet of estranged Chinese-American siblings whose dead mother's will stipulates that her children must giver her a traditional week-long Chinese funeral in Dim Sum Funeral (2008). True-life bisexual babe Bai Ling shows off her bikini-clad body in the hot tub as Steph's lesbian lover. That will steam your dumpling!Join Mr. Skin for the full review >>


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Do You Hate Raking Leaves? Richie Feels Your Pain [AUDIO]
Tis the season to be moody…Fall! It's beautiful and everything, but think about it. Why are these leaves so pretty? Because they are dying and falling all over the place! Kind of ironic, isn't it? We're supposed to be admiring them right now, and I'm cursing them! So I wrote a little song to vent my frustrations. Hope it helps you too! Actually, I don't rake anymore. I bought a contraption several years ago that I can't live without, and I don't know anyone else who has one, so I 'm on a mission to at least show you this thing. I will in an upcoming blog.
But in the meantime, I have taken the liberty to reword a great new song my Eric Church entitled "Drink In My Hand". For some reason I was singing it as I was using my gadget to clean up, and started to write the words in my head while working. It's how I cope. Here are one of the culprits to the left. Gorgeous, isn't it? If only there was just this one on my property, you'd never hear me complain!
In my upcoming blog, I will show you just how many there were and how I attacked them! But in the meantime…
How are you handling the war of the leaves? Would love to know!


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Shepperton voted 'best-kept' Thames lock for second year
Shepperton Lock in Surrey has been voted the "best-kept lock" on the River Thames by members of the public for the second consecutive year.
There has been a lock at Shepperton, near where the rivers Wey and Bourne meet the Thames, since 1813.
The lock has been extensively renovated by the Environment Agency, which instigated the Thames Waterways Awards.
Steve Newman, lock-keeper, said winning the award again made "all the hard work" of running the site worthwhile.
"The Thames has always had a good reputation for its picturesque locks and lovely gardens and this competition can only enhance its reputation for being the best manned waterway in the world.
"Long may it continue," he said.
Other locks were awarded commendations because of a high level of positive feedback from many people.
Bray, Hambleden, Goring and Eynsham locks were all singled out by river users.


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10 Tweeting Celebs We Love To Hate-Follow (PHOTOS)
With its innovative new approach to narcissistic self-promotion, it isn't surprising that Twitter has drawn in celebrities like moths to a flame.
Sure, there are the celebs that we follow just because we like them (or because we want to follow someone ironically and have people think we are "clever") but, perhaps more importantly, there are the celebrities who we love to hate-follow. You always vow to unfollow them after an inappropriate remark or inane tweet, but you just can't seem to bring yourself to hit "unfollow" and look away from these ever-unfolding Tweet-wrecks. We are just too addicted to their drama to stop paying attention to them.
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- Located in the beautiful beachside town of Ettalong, Mantra Ettalong Beach offers spectacular ocean views just 90 minutes north of Sydney on the Central Coast. Combining superbly appointed unserviced beachfront accommodation with an exciting array of leisure and entertainment facilities the resort is the perfect destination for family getaways, romantic retreats or business stays. There's a range of studio, one and two bedroom unserviced spa suites, offering magnificent pool, ocean and hinterland views. All suites are fully furnished with kitchenettes, laundry facilities, air conditioning, balconies, cable TV, CD player and stereo system, hair dryer, tea and coffee making facilities and spa baths. Guests can enjoy the outdoor pool and spa, a variety of dining establishments within walking distance, an entertainment venue which is located adjacent to the hotel. The on-site day spa is located on level 1, Mantra Ettalong Beach we offer clients total relaxation and a real fitness environment to get that full work out experience. If you're here to relax and unwind, energise and work hard, on your own or with a group, you can get some pre and post wedding pampering. No matter how you arrive you will always leave with a deep inner calm. Just a short drive away is the Hunter Valley, one of Australia's most fertile wine-producing regions. Terrigal, Erina and Gosford CBD are just a 25 minute drive away offering an array of cafes, shopping and attractions. Brisbane Water National Park, the Australia Reptile Park, Glenworth Valley horse riding and Outdoor Adventure Centre are conveniently located within a short drive and are popular local attractions. With its pristine water views, and relaxing environment, Mantra Ettalong Beach offers the perfect seaside escape for family getaways, romantic interludes or the business traveller. Maintenance Notice: Remedial building works will be taking place on the pool deck and balconies throughout the building from 29 May until 1 October 2017. The work on the expansion building joints and waterproofing repairs will involve noise and scaffolding. Mantra Ettalong Beach management team wish to apologise in advance for any disturbance this may cause. ... more less
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Nestled in a quiet neighborhood in Northeast Albuquerque you will find a hidden treasure at Kona Kai Apartments. With the comfort of your own private patios and balconies all the way to garages and underground parking. This is apartment living at its best. Let our courteous and professional staff help you find your new home in one of the large unique floor plans they have to offer. BIONIC SERVICE GUARANTEE Professionally managed by Nationwide Management Corporation
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With Dell DVS you can create a centralized end-user computing environment that streamlines desktop management and reduces maintenance burden on your IT staff. Now you can focus on important projects to improve IT services. Dell DVS solutions are completely integrated and tested solutions that are powered by advanced Dell PowerEdge rack and blade servers.
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Playing for Keeps - Review
A film that falls halfway between a romantic comedy and an emotional drama, it fails miserably at being either. Save for Gerard Butler's accent, there is nothing about Playing For Keeps that is remotely memorable. This film is terribly disappointing, considering that it is directed by the director of The Pursuit of Happyness and because it has cast with stellar names that are completely wasted.
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Perhaps the biggest disappointment about Playing For Keeps is the fact that it comes from Gabriele Muccino, the director of that little gem of a film, The Pursuit of Happyness. The former isn't a patch on the latter, in spite of the fact that the two films seemingly have the same emotional core – a coming-of-age father-son story.
George Dryer is an erstwhile football star, now on hard days. He's moved to Virginia to be closer to his little son, who lives with his mother; Dryer and she are divorced. Aspiring to be a sports anchor, he spends his time making audition tapes of himself, selling his old football memorabilia to raise cash. He eventually takes up a position as the coach of a school football team, where his son plays. Amidst attractive, needy soccer moms vying for his attention, Dryer sets about trying to 'grow up'.
The film struggles to establish just what it is trying to be. Is it supposed to be purely an emotional story? If so, then there are too many subplots and attempts at comedy for it to make even a minor dent on the viewer's heart. Is it supposed to be a comedy? If that is the case, then the film just isn't funny, even though it tries hard to be.
The film does tilt more towards being emotional and touching, as it attempts to draw the viewer in to the journey that Dryer as a character undertakes. But it just falls flat on that count. Apart from the fact that the film is just written poorly - it has no graph in its narrative and treatment – I suspect also that it largely has to do with the cast of the film, or to be more precise, the manner in which they are used.
It's strange that popular and acclaimed actors like Dennis Quaid, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones and the likes signed on for such thankless, pointless side characters. The characters aren't strong enough to make the audience feel that they are companions or obstacles in Dryer's personal journey, but yet are given enough screen time to test the audience's patience. So much so that this 106-minute film seems far longer than it actually is.
Gerard Butler as George Dryer is admittedly appealing enough; his tousled locks and charming Scottish accent at least justify why so many women go weak in the knees around him. But even his character is as poorly written as the rest, because his behaviour in the company of these women flinging themselves at him is completely out of place. Jessica Biel as his wife churns out the best performance in the film, even though I must say she didn't particularly have a tough role to play.
At various points in its runtime, the film seems more like a wasted opportunity than anything else. It has nothing to offer to the audience, save for a good-looking cast. It lacks soul; it has nothing to make the audience identify with the characters or even something to genuinely laugh at. Hard to recommend as even a DVD or TV watch, Playing For Keeps is a bland, silly film that doesn't make a point.
This review is by guest reviewer Pradeep Menon. Pradeep is a filmmaker and a dreamer. He loves books, rain, winters, tea and his parents. Cinema, however, is the only truth he believes in. He breathes and bleeds film, mostly in hues of saffron, white, green and blue. You can watch his short films at www.youtube.com/cyberpradeep.
Parental Guidance:
- Violence: Some harmless violence
- Language: Fairly clean
- Nudity & Sexual content: Kisses, some sex scenes that aren't overt
- Concept: A former football star attempts to re-connect with his estranged family
- General Look and Feel: Bright frames, but nothing impressive
Playing for Keeps - Movie Details
- Official Sites: Website Facebook Twitter YouTube Wikipedia IMDB
- Banner: Eclectic Pictures, Evil Twins (I), Millenium Films, Misher Films, Nu Image Films
- Producer: Gerard Butler, Heidi Jo Markel, Kevin Misher, Jonathan Mostow, Alan Siegel, John Thompson
- Director: Gabriele Muccino
- Lead Cast: Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Noah Lomax
- Supporting Cast: Dennis Quaid, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones
- Screenplay: Robbie Fox
- Cinematography: Peter Menzies Jr
- Editor: Padriac McKinley
- Music Director: Andrea Guerra
- Facebook Page: Link
- Running time: 106 minutes
- Reviewer: Pradeep Menon
- Language: English
- Country: USA
- Genres: Comedy, Family, Relationships
Playing for Keeps - Trailer
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The Stipple website is very professional and easy to navigate. The editing tool is user friendly and can allow users to add captions and links in little time. This is extremely important when website and blog owners may have minimal time to spend going through every image they have ever posted to add a caption.
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I often get asked how young should a child start to take music lessons. For formal lessons, the answer varies with the skill level of the teacher. Some start as young as the age of three. But for general music instruction, children can learn the principles of music from the first day of life.
There are several reasons to expose newborns to the basic elements of music.
Given the greater focus our nation now puts on highway safety, it can be difficult to remember what it was like before the era of better car and road design and tougher law enforcement.
In the early 1970s, we were losing more than 50,000 people a year to traffic accidents, but that number has since shrunk to less than 34,000, even with significantly more miles being driven.
Casey's Bus is coming to Carrollton from 4-7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5. If you're not in the substance abuse or prevention field, you may not be familiar with Casey's Bus. The bus is a restored 1967 Volkswagen Kombi Bus that will definitely stand out in downtown Carrollton, in front of the Carroll County Courthouse. This bus has been traveling throughout the Northern Kentucky Region, and Champions for a Drug Free Carroll County wanted to make sure Carroll County was one of their visited areas.
Hello again my friends. I'm looking out the window as I type this month's article, watching the cool rain stream down the windowpane.
The calendar says it's fall, and I must say it now officially feels like it. Cool, wind and leaves changing colors have brought the feeling of what's to come. While cold and snow might still be on their way, the foods of fall are already here.
In recent days, the state's Cabinet for Economic Development has been highlighting an industry that can be summed up in three words: Made in Kentucky.
It's a phrase that applies to more and more products every year. According to the Cabinet, we now have more than 4,000 factories, and their 220,000 employees manufacture about $27 billion worth of goods, a third more than they did just five years ago.
So, after waiting on pins and needles for what seemed like months (it was actually about three weeks), my sister and I got our results back from our separate Ancestry DNA tests.
It is true: We are full sisters!
It's the 74th anniversary of National Newspaper Week, a time to observe the importance of newspapers in communities both large and small.
It is kind of hard to believe, but this past weekend I celebrated two anniversaries – two years of marriage and five years at The News-Democrat.
I didn't start out knowing I would one day become a journalist, but now that I am, I really enjoy it.
Each fall, the National Census of Domestic Violence Services takes a real-time, 24-hour look at the true impact domestic violence has on our country.
Did you have piano lessons as a child and wish you had stuck with it Did you always want to be an artist, but the adults told you to find something more "practical?"
You can't teach old dogs new tricks, but people aren't dogs. You can be a very successful older beginner.
Most people think of obese people as lazy and undisciplined. More than 90 percent of people who try to lose weight gain it back within a year.
America is in the midst of an obesity epidemic with no end in sight. The medical establishment has, in some cases, thrown its hands up trying to deal with the problem.
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