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A 2007 MassINC-Brookings Institution report identified eleven Massachusetts cities as "Gateway Cities". The eleven include Brockton, Fall River, Fitchburg, Haverhill, Holyoke, Lawrence, New Bedford, Pittsfield, Springfield, Worcester and Lowell. Some of the characteristics shared by these cities include excellent location and infrastructure; a history and architecture which gives them a unique and desireable quality of place; and relative to other parts of the state, they are affordable. Gateway Cities are also disproportionately home to young residents, human talent vital to the future Massachusetts workforce. In 2008, the City of Lowell signed on to a compact with the chief executives of these eleven cities to work collaboratively to promote stronger state growth policies. Since that time, economic development officials from each community have worked together with the Urban Initiative at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and MassINC to craft concrete policy reforms.
On September 30th, City Manager Lynch will join fellow Gateway city managers to testify before the state legislature's Joint Committee on Revenue in support of a bill filed on behalf of the eleven communities by Representative Antonio Cabral of New Bedford. House Bill 2702, titled "An Act to Promote Economic Development in Gateway Cites," includes several key economic development policies that reflect the agenda developed by the Gateway Cities Coalition and released during a statewide conference last October at the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center in Fall River. The provisions of the bill include:
- An uncapping of the Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit in the Gateway Cities while increasing the annual limit for these credits throughout the state from $50 million to $100 million,
- The establishment of a Job Creation Tax Credit for employers bringing new jobs into Gateway Cities in the amount of $2,500 per employee,
- The creation of a Gateway City Housing Tax Credit that devotes $25 million for promoting market rate housing,
- The launching of a Gateway City Homeownership Rehabilitation Tax Credit for owner-occupied homes within designated neighborhoods.
- a coupling of the 3 percent Investment Tax Credit with the 5 percent Economic Opportunity Area tax credit for manufacturing and research and development firms that locate in Gateway Cities, and
- An expansion of the Economic Opportunity Area tax credit to property owners of buildings leased by companies bringing new jobs to Gateway Cities.
The significant opportunities that the provisions of this bill create to promote smart growth are key to future development. As it stands now, the historic tax credit was essential in putting previously abandoned mill buildings back into productive use. In the downtown alone, over $180 million in private investment has added over 1,600 housing units. Many of these projects could not have gone forward without the historic tax credit. The proposed legislations will allow Lowell and other Gateway cities to spur economic development and ultimately help Massachusetts become more competitive with other regions of the country.


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One of the most popular articles running on the online Atlantic right now (1062 tweets, 111 google plus shares, 57 shares on LinkedIn, and over 16,000 Facebook shares) is entitled The Wrong Way to Teach Grammar. So far, so good. But next comes the subtitle: "No more diagramming sentences: Students learn more from simply writing and reading."
Good writing, as this subtitle suggests, involves more than good grammar. In terms of linguistic factors, it also involves good pragmatics. What good pragmatics does is anticipate what your readers' presumed knowledge and biases are and how these people will therefore read between your lines. And what a good writer does, among other things, is ensure that what readers read between the lines is more or less what s/he intends to convey.
So let's look again at that subtitle. What does "No more diagramming sentences: Students learn more from simply writing and reading" convey? It conveys that a lot of today's teachers are having their students diagram sentences. And, particularly among the majority of readers whose only experience with school grammar (if any) is in labeling parts of speech and in diagramming sentences, it also conveys that teachers should minimize grammar instruction.
But if you know anything about what's happening in classrooms today, you know that sentence diagramming is extremely rare. And if you read the article more closely, you see that minimizing grammar isn't exactly what the writer recommends. Here's how the article opens:
A century of research shows that traditional grammar lessons—those hours spent diagramming sentences and memorizing parts of speech—don't help and may even hinder students' efforts to become better writers. Yes, they need to learn grammar, but the old-fashioned way does not work."Yes, they need to learn grammar."
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Once students get ideas they care about onto the page, they are ready for instruction—including grammar instruction—that will help communicate those ideas. We know that grammar instruction that works includes teaching students strategies for revising and editing, providing targeted lessons on problems that students immediately apply to their own writing, and having students play with sentences like Legos, combining basic sentences into more complex ones.And:
Schools that have shifted from traditional "stand-alone" grammar to teaching grammar through writing offer concrete proof that such approaches work.And
If 30 years later, you or your child is still being taught grammar independent of actually writing, it is well past time to demand writing instruction that is grounded in research rather than nostalgia.All this is very true. I've been researching grammar instruction, and, as I've long suspected, traditional grammar goes nowhere. What works, as the study that the article links to makes clear, are exercises in sentence construction. Such exercises, in fact, involve a much deeper and more interactive engagement with grammar and syntax than does traditional "grammar" does--the latter being so linguistically superficial that we linguists regularly deride it. There is, in other words, a big distinction between "traditional grammar" and actual grammar.
Here's something, however, that the Atlantic article doesn't mention, but that another article makes clear: this actual, sentence-focused grammar used to be common practice back in the 1960s and 1970s. Here's an abstract from that article:
Sentence-based pedagogies of the 1960s and 1970s have been completely elided within contemporary composition studies despite the evidence that they did work to improve student writing. Three sentence-based rhetorics of the New Rhetoric were the generative rhetoric of Francis Christensen, imitation exercises, and sentence-combining. The first full-scale empirical study of the Christensen system did demonstrate statistically significant classroom results; imitation was also tested and determined successful in helping writers to internalize sentence structures and design. Kellogg Hunt's work on syntactic maturity and his concept of the T-unit paved the way for important experiments on sentence-combining, with confident results that sentence-combining exercises improved both syntactic maturity as well as perceived quality of writing in general. Reasons for the erasure of the sentence and the devaluation of sentence rhetorics can be linked to anti-formalism, anti-behaviorism, and anti-empiricism, and to the changing demographics of composition studies as it became a subfield of English.So a more accurate, if much less catchy, subtitle for the Atlantic article would have been "No more traditional grammar: a more dynamic grammar applied during the actual writing process works better."
One of the reasons the article's actual subtitle is so catchy is that it meshes with what most people want to believe. Most people think grammar is tedious and would prefer students not have to learn it; teachers in particular have long been indoctrinated in the Composition Studies mentality the above excerpt alludes to, which holds that students best learn writing simply by writing.
So could it be that there's another reason for the pragmatics of headlines (and titles and subtitles) than effective, accurate communication? Perhaps the real thinking behind that subtitle was--dare I suggest it?--those tens of thousands of Facebook shares.
We've long lived with sensational headlines, but some are more problematic than others. These particular headlines make the article's most likely takeaway not that we need more grammar-focused instruction (in the sense of actual, sentence-focused grammar), but less. In a world in which Writers Workshop, Balanced Literacy and peer-editing reign supreme, and multiple revisions based on sentence-focused feedback are minimal, this is the exact opposite of what people need to be hearing.

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To help achieve its product development goals, Control Techniques has adopted Artisan Studio®, the UML™ and SysML™ compliant real-time systems and software modelling tool suite from Artisan Software Tools, to underpin its embedded software development process for future projects.
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Artisan Studio also successfully addressed the issue Control Techniques had in keeping its embedded software up-to-date with the design changes being made to the company's intelligent electronic drives.
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We learned many words that started with "H" using Starfall, and by getting our wiggles out to Storybots "Say Hello to Your Good Friend 'H'" or with Have Fun Teaching "Letter H Song".
We read AlphaTales', "Hide-and-Seek Hippo".
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We continued to increase our understanding of letter formation.
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We are moving into an era where creative people are a highly prized commodity. Cities will thrive or sink on their ability to attract this key demographic
The best way to defend globalisation is to integrate more people into the Global Cities network
The rapid rise of the tech and creative sectors in recent years has reverberated throughout the New York City office market, causing fundamentalshifts in the nature of workspace
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Unlisted tech firms who were valued at over a billion dollars, 'Unicorns', were viewed just a year ago as a new phenomenon. Such is the pace of growth we are now seeing...
Start-up costs for techies in London are the highest in the world
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Cities are competing to regain their vibrancy. The ones which make true mixed-use work for them will win
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The Melbourne CBD has undergone significant transformation over the past decade, as strong growth in city living is encouraging a new wave of mixed-use development
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A quarter of a century after the fall of the wall, Berlin has undergone stellar transformation
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A massive super-city cluster will emerge around China's capital over the next decade
Delhi is poised to benefit from the opportunities across the logistics value chain, fuelled by a renewed focus on infrastructure development and the e-commerce boom
The push for decentralisation could accelerate as Singapore expands new business precincts and the public transport network
The ambitious Economic Transformation Programme (ETP), launched in 2010, has set the pace for rapid growth as Malaysia moves towards its goal of achieving developed-nation status by 2020
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While Silicon Valley continued to dominate the tech sphere, the pursuit of innovation has spread across the world, with global enterprises seeking new talent pools beyond established hubs. Bengaluru, touted to be the IT and start-up capital of the country, has emerged as one of the most attractive destinations for multinational companies looking to set up innovation centers and tap technology talent. It also has a thriving tech start-up scene.
Over the past few years, many Fortune-500 giants have set up camp in Bengaluru, all of whom have either headquartered their India operations in the city or set up captive technology centres. Of late, global 'unicorns' such as Uber have also set up base in Bengaluru.
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One of the key factors behind the city gaining acceptance as a destination for new technology is its supportive and nurturing eco-system, as demonstrated by the large number of startups in the city. It is estimated that around $9bn was invested in start-ups in India in 2015. Several home-grown firms with headquarters in Bengaluru, such as Flipkart, InMobi and Mu Sigma, have made it to the billion-dollar 'unicorn' club. The range of engineering talent and links with the Silicon Valley has contributed to these start-up success stories.
Notably, the city has a number of top-class global research institutes, such as Indian Institute of Science, as well as many state-owned research organisations, thus adding the talent pool necessary for innovation centres to thrive. Despite the slow pace of infrastructure development, Bengaluru has tremendous potential to host future innovation centres, as evinced by the strong eco-system that enabled the city to surpass several global cities in order to emerge as a preferred innovation hub.
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1 time siden - AnathemaThese guys top the chart regarding their packaging system. Also never received any of their items later than five days after shipping.
They even offer some nice vintage products if you're looking to fill the gaps in your collection.
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Would PROBABLY use again, but only for hard to find figures.
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Thanks a lot for your order and feedback. :)
We are sorry to hear that you had to make an extra trip to the post office, but would also like to mention that you also received a discount from us to make up for the delayed shipping.
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I also use the site to buy pre-order figure , some are a little pricey but their invoice friendly system is very useful to deal with custom so for me it's less expensive than anywhere else at the end.
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We've all heard that saying, patience is a virtue. I'm forever asking my daughter to be patient for things. A lot of the time we have no choice but to wait anyway, so being good at waiting is probably for the best. But why does patience have to be a virtue? Why can't hurry the frick up be a virtue?
I have been patient for over a year and a half now. Patiently trying to untangle the knotted strings of our lives, like a length of Christmas lights. Using every ounce of my patience to work with the agencies supporting us, to attend meetings and therapy sessions and court dates.
I was patient while trying to move us closer to my family, and away from the abuse. I was patient when the sentencing date was postponed, and postponed again. I was patient when my solicitor advised that I not look for work or take up study until at least mid next year. I have patiently waited out tantrums, taught manners and enforced bedtimes. Now, though, my patience is wearing thin.
In less than a fortnight I will stand in court again. This time I will not face the monster who tore our lives apart. I will face a judge, who has been handed a bundle of evidence the size of a small household pet, and I will listen as she praises my patience and signs the piece of paper that says we no longer require any support. We will no longer be under the care of the Local Authority, and for as much as I appreciate all they have done for us, I can't wait.
This will be the beginning of the rest of our normal lives. Never again will I have to tell my daughter that she can't go to so-and-so's house that night because we have to see the social worker. Never again will I have to sit at a conference table full of professionals and assure them that I am coping. As much as they have helped us to put our lives back together, the lingering duties of the Local Authority are now the only thing keeping us from normal. We are ready for normal. We need normal.
So for the past few days, and probably for the next few as well, I have been impatient. I have been anxiously crossing days off the calender, mentally running through what important things I need to do before the court date. I'm not enjoying this feeling. Through play dates and half-term movie watching I have felt as though I am not present; I am so focused on court that I am not enjoying the now, just rushing it, hoping that I can make the days go by faster.
I know that once court is over, I will want things to slow down. Once I leave that building, I will suddenly notice that Halloween and Bonfire Night are over. That Christmas decorations will probably adorn the city centre, and that it's time to rush towards the festivities with fistfuls of cash in an attempt to be ready on time. I will want an extra shopping day, to make sure I pick that perfect gift. I will want an extra hour before bedtime, to share hot chocolate with my daughter and watch a film. I will want an extra month before her next Birthday; just a little longer before she becomes more independent.
The only conclusion I can draw is that time is what it is. I cannot make the days that lead up to court go any faster, just as I cannot make the days after it last any longer. All I can do is control my feelings about the time that needs to pass. Right now I feel impatient, but I am trying hard to live in the moment.
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New Directions finally did it I knew they could!!
It was such a satisfying moment to see our favorite Gleeks getting that big trophy such a validation for them as a group and as individuals
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While this two hour juggernaut did have it's moments of silliness namely in the Tina Dream Sequence
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The Guinness World record movie producer and actor-comedian AY is set to take the 3rd instalment of the hilarious 'Akpos' franchise to a whole new level with his highly anticipated '10 Days in Sun City'.
The very romantic, action-packed comedy movie will be showcasing Akpos in an entirely new light. The star-studded comedy movie features A-list movie cast from Nigeria such as AY, Richard Mofe-Damijo, Adesua Etomi, Mercy Johnson, Falz, 2Baba, Gbenro Ajibade, Juliet Ibrahim, Uti Nwachukwu, Fathia Balogun, Freeze, Annie Idibia to name a few.
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Fans of pop star Rihanna and Kenyan actress, Lupita Nyong'o may be in for a treat as the two stars have hinted at the possibility of working on a movie together. The above photo taken at a 2014 fashion show went viral recently with one of comments reading:
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That comment caught the eye of the Oscar winning Kenyan star and she tagged Rihanna to the comment saying, "I'm down if you are @rihanna". Rihanna replied her saying "I'm in Pit'z" (Lupita's nickname).
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Nollywood romantic drama "Mr and Mrs. Chapter 2" produced by Chinwe Egwuagu and directed by Teco Benson, is set to hit the cinemas this weekend.
The movie stars Chidi Mokeme, Rita Dominic, Tana Adelana, Akin Lewis, Yaw, Munachi Abii among others.
It focuses on a couple Sharon (Rita Dominic) and Kobi (Chidi Mokeme), who in a bid to save their union, expose some of the truths surrounding struggles and independence in marriage.
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Nollywood actress and producer, Omoni Oboli, has announced that "Okafor's Law" will be showing in cinemas nationwide from Friday, March 31, 2017.
A court injunction obtained by Raconteur Productions restricted the movie from showing last week Friday during the premiere at IMAX Cinema, Lekki, Lagos.
Justice N. Buba of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos lifted the injunction on Thursday, March 30, 2017.
Omoni Oboli captioned the video: "Glory be to God!!!!!!!! #Okafor's Law is showing in all cinemas NATIONWIDE, from tomorrow Friday the 31st of March. We serve a living God! Thanks for all the prayers and love."
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American actor, Will Smith's latest movie has been revealed to only show on Netflix.
Titled "Bright", the movie is set in present day where humans, orcs, elves and fairies have been coexisting since the beginning of time.
The movie follows two cops from very different backgrounds as they embark on a routine patrol at night and encounter a darkness that will eventually alter the future and their world.
The movie is directed by "Suicide Squad" director, David Ayer and stars Joel Edgarton, Edgar Ramirez, Lucy Fry, Ike Barinholtz, Naomi Rapace and Margaret Cho.
Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele's relationship takes a dark turn in the new trailer for Fifty Shades Darker.
Picking up where the last film left off, the trailer begins with Christian (Jamie Dornan) asking Anastasia (Dakota Johnson) for a second chance after their dramatic split.
As expected, the trailer features plenty of sexy scenes, including a steamy dinner date and an especially R-rated elevator ride. It also gives a glimpse at the novel's masquerade ball.
But just as things appear to be going well for the couple, mysterious people from Christian's past begin to appear — and start causing trouble.
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The current James Bond Daniel Craig is on his way out of the James Bond franchise and the time has come to crown a new 007.
While some think actors like Tom Hiddleston (Loki from Avengers), Idris Elba, and Tom Hardy(Max from Mad Max: Fury Road) will be great for the role, others are thinking, why not make James Bond a Jane Bond?
Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke who plays Mother of Dragons Khaleesi Daenerys Targaryen has added her name to the lady-Bond mix.
She recently told The Daily Star, "I have a lot of unrealized dreams, I would love to play Jane Bond. My ultimate leading man would be Leonardo DiCaprio. No doubt about it."
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Last night saw the premiere of Audrey Silva's new movie, 'Suru l'ere' which saw the turn up of top Nigerian celebs.
The movie producer, Rita Dominic was joined by other top movie stars at the premiere including Kate Henshaw, Dakore Egbuson, Lilian Afegbai, Annie Macaulay, Uche Jombo, Beverly Naya, Linda Ejiofor,Kemi Lala Akindoju, Ufuoma Mcdermott and many others.
With the dress code being traditional attires, the celebs were all stunning in their various shades of outfits for the night.
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If you're a fan of the souped up, custom car series that is The Fast & The Furious, then you'll be happy to know that Vin Diesel has posted release dates for the upcoming trilogy of movies:
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Fast 9 – April 19th, 2019
Fast 10 – April 10th, 2021
The Movie Dead pool which was directed by Tim Miller will have no cause to laugh overseas.
The Marvel character( played by Ryan Reynolds) with the dark sense of humor will not be hitting the theater in China, as censors have denied Fox's R-Rated superhero action-comedy permission to screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter, which cites local media reports and "a source close to the decision at China Film Group." Though Marvel films typically do big business in China, which is the world's second-largest theatrical market, the film's violence, nudity and foul language did not get the stamp of approval from China's media regulation body.
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Nollywood actor, Gbenro Ajibade is currently on set of an upcoming movie, 'An Hour With The Shrink' which is being shot on location in Lagos.
The talented actor play the role of a troubled man faced with personal issues which threatens his marriage. He is joined by Annie Macaulay who plays his wife in the movie as they both battle to survive the storm.
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The Watermelon Ship is an airship built by Sir Cumference, and was used by Pac and his friends when they wanted to take their possibly first vacation that summer. Only for the ship to get captured by the Ghost Pirates who mistakenly believed it to be the Great White Cow, Mooby Dick. The Watermelon Ship is equipped with GPS, Autopilot, and seems to make for a comfy place to cruise, as evidenced by the hammock Pac was laying in and the seating.
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1. Changing shoes means a new approach to life. 2. If shoes are worn out, one has tried very hard to succeed. 3. Wearing baby shoes signifies that one's approach to life is innocent and pure. 4. To be shining shoes signifies hope for the future. 5. If one can't find shoes, it means that […]
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Our ability, or otherwise, to be grounded and in touch with everyday life is symbolized in dreams by shoes. Shoes that we, or others, are wearing in a dream are there to alert us to an adjustment that needs to be made in our attitude to life. Lacing up shoes in a dream was once […]
Worn and dirty shoes tell the dreamer to be tolerant and thoughtful of other people. To have your shoes shined in your dream predicts important changes ahead. Untied shoes forebode misfortune and quarrels.
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To dream of seeing your shoes ragged and soiled, denotes that you will make enemies by your unfeeling criticisms. To have them blacked in your dreams, foretells improvement in your affairs, and some important event will cause you satisfaction. New shoes, augur changes which will prove beneficial. If they pinch your feet, you will be […]
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Los Alamitos hoping for good weather, large fields at repositioned meeting
Los Alamitos opens its first Thoroughbred meeting of 2016 on Thursday, a change from the past two years, when the initial meet was held in July.
The three-week meeting, which runs through May 1, will have a different stakes schedule from the July meetings and provides the Southern California Thoroughbred circuit with a break from the marathon Santa Anita meetings held in the first six months of 2014 and 2015.
Thursday's opening-day program begins at 2 p.m. Pacific. Officials hope that an April meeting will help Los Alamitos draw larger fields to a venue that offers only racing on dirt.
This will be the first time Los Alamitos has conducted a Thoroughbred meeting that is not held immediately before or after the popular Del Mar summer meeting or prior to the start of the widely anticipated Santa Anita winter-spring meeting.
"We're hoping that by not having a meet right before Del Mar, that we'll be able to stay strong at the entry box," track general manager Brad McKinzie said last weekend.
Last year, the track averaged 7.47 runners per race at the July meeting, 7.65 runners at the September meeting, and 7.14 in December.
"As with all our meets, it depends on what kind of product we put on the track," McKinzie said. "I'm a little concerned that we don't have too many 2-year-olds."
Los Alamitos has scheduled three maiden races for 2-year-olds for the upcoming meeting. In past July meetings, there were numerous maiden races for 2-year-olds as well as one or two stakes for the division.
For the spring meeting, the maiden races for 2-year-olds will potentially feed runners into stakes at the Santa Anita spring-summer meeting, which runs May 5 to July 11.
The top race of the Los Alamitos spring meeting is the $200,000 Great Lady M. Stakes for fillies and mares at 6 1/2 furlongs on April 23. The race was part of the July schedule in past years.
"It will be interesting to see how the Great Lady M. will do in April instead of the summer," McKinzie said.
The April 23 program includes an ontrack live-money handicapping contest that offers five seats to the National Handicapping Championship in Las Vegas next January.
An April meeting at Los Alamitos has the potential to encounter wet weather. Rain fell on the Santa Anita Derby program last Saturday, and April showers are not unheard of in Southern California, even though the region has been plagued by drought in recent years.
"Our biggest concern is the weather, which we don't have to worry about in July," McKinzie said. "If we encounter bad weather, it could impact the meeting."
There are five stakes at the spring meeting, including the inaugural running of the $150,000 California Chrome Stakes for 3-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles on April 30. The race is designed to attract late-developing 3-year-olds.
Los Alamitos plans to run the $250,000 Los Alamitos Derby at its September meeting. The race was held in July the last two years.


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|Release Date:
|25 June 1963 (USA)
|Italy , France
|Federico Fellini
|Release Date:
|25 June 1963 (USA)
|Italy , France
|Federico Fellini
Anyone else think this is perhaps the finest dream sequence ever filmed? The opening of Wild Strawberries was too artistically-constructed to feel genuine, but 8 1/2 has the right ammount of surrealism in it. It's also the definitive introduction to Guido- he's trapped in a traffic jam as a gas fills his car, suffocating him. People are stairing on. Fellini perfectly captures that need to escape, that primal urge to break out of man's world and just fly away, which he does, until he's tugged back down by a stranger, forced to confront his little hopeless day-dreams and approach the reality of his crisis.
"F#ck 3D!"– William Friedkin
Did anyone else find Fellini's use of music in this film particularly striking? Predating Kubrick, Fellini's music acts soley as ironic counterpoint, not to heighten emotions, but to create a foreboding sense of irony, and also, in an uncanny way, to downplay situations. A boring scene in the park, as Guido is greeted by an arrogant critic, features Rossini playing in the backround. Later, "Ride of the Valkyries", an intense and exciting piece, plays over lingering shots of Guido's POV, looking at just the daily ritual of dull people walking through the park.
Does anyone have any takes on Fellini's reason for including so many famous classical pieces to score dull, sardonic scenes? Maybe it's just that the charecter of Guido finds lasting joy soley in music. He's a director- he loves the emotion of music, and he wants to create a world more exciting than his own, but he's struggling to make his film, and the music probably reflects his outlook.
"F#ck 3D!"– William Friedkin
It's the scene where Guido is waiting for Carla at the station, does not find her among the passengers who got off the train, and concludes that after all she didn't make it. Then the train pulls back and ecco! she's got off on the other side of the railway track.
I know where I had seen this gag and it's older than this film at least by 35 years, but is it just a common joke? How many people knew that she would be there alright, only is screened by the train?
I just watched this on TCM and I believe its the same print Janus has, as the Janus logo appears at the beginning.
But the subtitles seem incomplete or something. One character will talk and the other will reply, but there won't be subtitles over the dialogue. This made a rather challenging film even more difficult to follow. Does anyone know why this movie does this? Is it intentional? Are there better subtitles out there?
I just felt I had to say that.
…and still don't like Citizen Kane after three viewings. What the eff is wrong with me?
Give the leg twist a try. It's near impossible if you want to do it effortlessly. Marcello was a genius. Bravo!
just interested, what would you say are your top ten favourite films of all time?
seem to be the template for today's eyeglasses. The narrow, rectangular frames; everyone wears those now.
"I told you a million times not to talk to me when I'm doing my lashes"!
I think I've just got the Joke.
Rob Marshalls new film with Day Lewis, Dench and Kidman.
It all makes sense now.
Was 8 1/2 the inspiration for Charlie Kaufmans Synechdoche, New York? I heard somewhere that Kaufman was a huge fan of Fellini and the movies are quite similar.
They are both surreal.
They both are about directors who feel lost, stressed, and pressured in their work.
They both involve their own hectic lives in the epic masterpiece they are trying to create.
I understand there may be many films 8 1/2 inspired, but Synechdoche seems like Kaufmans dedication to Fellini.
Any thoughts?
Bland, stupid, boring, uninteresting, confusing, and just plain dumb. All those words describe this film.
I never saw any "genius" in anything that Fellini ever did. His movies were rambling, crude and uninteresting. This one epitomizes those qualities too. Don't waste your time watching this interminably long, boring and poorly made movie.
is there a place online to watch this film? or is it available on dvd?
day-lewis/streep/cotillard/tucci FTW
i know what your thinking they have no comparison and the reason im asking is because i want to get the critirion of both of them but can only get one i havnt watched any of them i just i want to know yall guys opinion on which ones better
I didn't really like La Dolce Vita – is this a better or more likeable film? or is it likely I won't like this one either? I do want to see it – because of its reputation, because I like Marcello Mastroiani (yes i know its prob spelt wrong), and in interest with the new film Nine.
Do you have monkeys in Scotland?
~No, but if we did we'd probably deep fry them!
I just watched this film in my Film Studies class and christ oh mighty, I'm exhausted. I don't think I remember a 5 second gap in this whole movie where they weren't cutting eachother off and speaking in lightning fast italian. The SECOND one of the girls stopped talking another one started shrieking, and then another one then another one. Then Guido would talk and get cut off by one of the ladies then that lady would get cut off and again and again and again. Maybe it's italian mannerisms but i wouldn't want to insult anyone by assuming that. If that is the case though I don't plan on ever visiting that country.
I Don't Know Peter Just Get Off the Fu((King Rock!!!!
Having read many reviews over the years about how great and influential this film is supposed to be, I finally got round to watching it this week. It took me four days as I could only watch about 30 mins at a time before getting so bored I had to get off the couch and do something else. If it wasn't supposed to be such a 'great masterpiece' I wouldn't have stuck with it beyond the first instalment.
Now I don't think I am stupid, ignorant, or insensitive (before you fans start accusing me) – I have an IQ of 143 and enjoy 'real' films, including French, Italian and Japanese cinema, but I just don't get the hype with this one. Yes, its 'surreal' but lets face it, its boring! Apart from a couple of exceptions, the acting is atrocious, the pace is uneven, the dialogue second rate, etc. etc. Does 'surrealism' excuse all this?
You can get enjoyable, interesting and intelligent 'surreal' films – look at the work by Powell and Pressburger for example, or even Bergman or Lars von Trier. Can someone please explain why I should have to make the effort with 8 1/2? It takes more than 'cool sunglasses' to get me excited about a film!
First of all, I have no intention of insulting the movie but it never captured my attention. It's the second critically acclaimed movie that I couldn't sit through, and I sat through Eraserhead recently which i find quite a feat. I guess I'm not into surreal movies as much, because i found it to trot along slowly. I don't want to come out and say it's overrated, because beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but it just wasn't that interesting for me.
My tastes in movies are varied, and i couldn't quite give you a superficial list of my favorite movies, but I'm quite familiar with the silent era of film making up to early talkies. You can sort of get a basic idea that I have an interest in film and not a short attention span.
I guess what I'm asking is if there's something that I've missed with this movie.
Now you can shoot me lolol
I think this title suits the film better. Translated it's, "The Beautiful Confusion."
last night on TCM. Typical 1960's Fellini (as opposed to his more linear "La Strada", "Nights of Cabiria", etc.) I actually walked away from it a few times but I was never bored, as some people were. And I had no idea Barbara Steele was in it. Wow! She is so cool and wearing a mini skirt in 1963, very fashion forward.
"I told you a million times not to talk to me when I'm doing my lashes"!
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the last thing you see on screen is that group of clowns playing musical instruments. I always thought the flute-player in white was a small person (midget?). Just watched it again…
I think the flute-player at the end is a little boy in a white uniform. Could that be the depiction of the young Guido?
"The good end happily, the bad unhappily, that is why it is called Fiction."
Never before have I seen a film so bizarre and yet… so grounded in truth. I'm gonna have to contemplate this one for a while; I'll probably end up seeing it again and again by the end of the summer.
I don't even know what to make of it, or even if I liked it. My local Barnes & Noble had a 50% off sale on the entire Criterion Collection so I picked this one up… popped it into the DVD player around midnight and stared transfixed for 138 long minutes. I say long because that's how it felt; and I admit to being bored in places but I'm still in awe of what I've just witnessed.
If anybody is having doubts about seeing this movie, you're allowed; and in all honesty I can't even guarantee that watching it will remove them. But if you love cinema, you are almost obligated to give this one a try whether you end up liking it or not.
That's my take.
I felt that the fact that Guido clung to the memories of all of the women may have suggested a lack of psychosexual development, supported by his childish perception of his wife, happy to dote on him ("It's time for his bath!").
The kaleidoscopic depiction of the women, with Luisa left in the periphery, seemed to be an indication of his subconscious awareness of his neglect of his wife.
Anyway, pretty sure that there are better interpretations than that…
On the commentary on the Criterion they say the song is called "Cadillac" but I can't find it anywhere. Anyone have more information about this song that could help me find it?
Accept me as I am.
hello everyone i just got the critirion edition of this film im 14 years i so i didnt expect myself to completley understand nor love because my dad said its more of a mature like film i watched and loved it i think its the best film about filmaking i really liked the script i loved guido's charactar so the next dvd i pick up will be the seventh seal critirion which looks brilliant as well
Greetings 8 1/2 ppl. I'm a science student from Australia.
About two years ago I developed a strong passion for drawing human faces.
I would very much like to share some of my drawings with you, seeing as I don't exhibit my work. I paint/draw [every night] from home.
Many of my pictures are inspired by my writing(s).
Here is the link to my latest video drawings of mystery and imagination:
(Or simply type mroa2638 into the youtube search engine.)
What is the game that Guido is playing as a child and then is on the board that the psychic guesses? Can anyone explain the mechanics of this game because this is one part of the film that defeats me.
Specifically where were these scenes shot?
The cemetery / dream (with the father's glass tomb)?
The health spa?
Saraghina's bunker?
-Sat 1/2/10 – 11:30am Federico Fellini's Classic "8 1/2" – FREE with any ticket stub from "NINE" (from the Art Theatre). The film that inspired "NINE".
people out there who loved 8 1/2 and is also looking foward to seeing Nine. 8 1/2 is my 5th favorite film of all time, I think Felleni and Mastroianni are godly. At the same time I dont feel ripped off by Nine. In fact it looks promising to me, however on every thread I see people are ripping it. Am I alone? If not speak up!


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|By Agent Slash
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|Physical description
|Hair color
Dark brown
|Personal information
|Weapon of choice
Boomerang, sword
|Fighting style(s)
Sokka Style (learn it)
Aang, Katara, Suki, Toph, Zuko, Ai, Ling, Bo, Rong, Appa, Momo, Yukio, Iroh, Jin, Hakoda
Jun, Hong Wu/Hong Shu, Bai Lung, Azula, Banhen, Kato, Chong, Yakone, Lin Hui, Aya, Yazdalia, Zhi Jing, Kela the Screamer, Qian, Zhao, Long Feng, Mongke
|Chronological and political information
|First appearance
|Last appearance
|Voiced by
Jack DeSena (TAoTA/Suki's Story)
After the end of the Hundred Year War, Sokka settled down in Ba Sing Se with the rest of Team Avatar, living there peacefully for seven months.
The Adventures of Team Avatar
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Suki's Story
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Avatar: Into the Light
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The Adventures of Team Avatar
- The Rise of Jun
- The Coming of the Storm
- A Royal Pain
- Duel in the Desert
- Divide and Conquer
- Avatar Wisdom (no lines)
- Battle in the Swamp
- The Liberation, Part 1
- The Liberation, Part 2
- Rise to Power
- Cold-Blooded Revenge
- The New Member
- The Wrath of Xian, Part 1
- The Wrath of Xian, Part 2
- Making the Final Preparations
- Battle for the Fire Nation Capital, Part 1: Death and Betrayal
- Battle for the Fire Nation Capital, Part 2: Sons of Ozai
- The Boy With the Swords
- Night of the Lang Ren
- In the Woods
- The Return of Xian
- Family Reunion
- Thoughts and Memories
- The Conspiracy
- The Final Battle, Part 1: Old Friends
- The Final Battle, Part 2: Behind the Mask
- The Final Battle, Part 3: The Arrival of the Storm
- The Final Battle, Part 4: The Fall of Jun
Suki's Story
Avatar: Into the Light
- Wedding Day
- Against the World
- The Rose's Thorns
- The Rise of a Crime Lord (no lines)
- The Return of Hong Shu
- Ling's Scars
- Love and Secrets
- Warriors of the Night
- Gone in the Night
- The Assault, Part 1: The Warrior Cometh
- The Assault, Part 2: Enter Bai Lung
- A Knife To the Heart
- The Field Trip, Part 1: Return of the Ringleader (no lines)
- A Plague O' Both Their Houses
- A Little Taste of Power
- The Avatar's Trial
- Our Ending, Part 1
- Our Ending, Part 2
- Targets, Part 1
- Targets, Part 2
- Light Lessons
- Where My Wife Sleeps
- Nightmares, Part 1
- Nightmares, Part 2
- A Night in the City
- United Vengeance
- Tales of Republic City
- The Election
- The Carnage of Qian
- Backlash
- The Republic City Players
- Dark Fury
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There are far worse players one can be compared to than Mike Trout. But just don't tell that to Angels teammate Albert Pujols.
Apparently, the three-time MVP took real offense when someone asked him whether he was motivated to match the numbers produced by Trout.
USA TODAY's Bob Nightengale has the lowdown:
Can you imagine someone saying that to me? I felt like saying, 'Come on, are you serious? Are you really asking me that? Check out my numbers. I know what Mike Trout has done in his first two years is pretty special, but will you look at my numbers. I've been doing this for almost 14 years.'
The only guy in baseball who can match the numbers I've put up is Barry Bonds, and someone is actually asking if I can put up numbers like Mike Trout?
Are you freaking kidding me?
There's no doubt that Pujols has been producing staggering numbers for much longer than his young teammate. In 13 years, Pujols has amassed nearly 500 home runs while maintaining a stellar .321 average. He's been named to nine All-Star teams and began his career by going 10 straight seasons of at least a .300 average, 30 home runs, and 100 RBI.
Meanwhile, Trout has posted eye-popping numbers as well, good enough to earn two trips to the All-Star game and two runner-up finishes in the MVP voting.
Still, Pujols is clearly defended by the random person who believed he should be motivated by Trout instead of the other way around.
"He's a great kid who always wants to learn and is so humble," Pujols said. "But if it takes someone comparing me to Mike Trout to motivate me, it's time for me to get out of the game."
Via Bleacher Report


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Solar Wear Tattoo: New Technology Through the use of Different Material Behaviours
1 Faculty of architecture - University of Lisbon - FA-UL 1349-055 Polo Universitário - Alto da Ajuda, Lisboa, Portugal
2 Faculty of architecture - University of Lisbon Researchers and CIAUD-permanent member of the Research Centre for Architecture, Urban Planning and Design FA-UL, Portugal
This study comes within the framework of a PhD course in Design, which is the continuation of a Masters Degree research in Fashion Design, searching for wardrobe technology and innovation through material behaviour. The intent of this project is to present solutions that promote a new and versatile product allowing for a different kind of aesthetic. This will be achieved through different materials with different behaviours that when put together create an innovative technology thus creating a new practice of body art, through the use of fashionable beachwear created with this technology. This technology allows the transformation of the suntan marks left by female swimwear. This will result in the creation of designs and drawings on the body, using shapes inspired by the Oriental Zodiac Signs, as well as colours drawn from the five elements of Feng Shui, which are also present in the Western Astrological Signs.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


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Writing demands you do more than listen to the voices in your head.
It asks you to interview them, take notes, and sign your name;
so the world thinks you're sane and talented
instead of a witch doctor in the wild.
"Once, Helen [Keller] wanted to feel a lion.
Annie Sullivan informed the zoo.
A lion was fed; Helen entered its cage
and felt the lion from its head to its tail."
Annie, tell the zoo I'm coming
to feel a lion with my hands
head to tail, I want to reach
inside its mouth and feel the tips
of teeth. I want to know the girth
of his mane, know the texture
of a lion's hair. Annie, tell the zoo
to feed him well, for I will take
my time. I want to know how long
a lion is, I'm told even the length
of my whole body will seem small
and ever-so-fragile next to muscles
beneath (what kind of) fur. Annie
I thought the unceasing self-loathing was normal. I'd grown accustomed to fighting with myself in my own head. Half of my brain said, "You're no good. You'll never do it." Half of my brain said, "Please stop. I'm going to anyway. If you would just be quiet, we could at least try." None of my brain felt well enough to get angry, to be sad, to feel much of anything at all. But this was normal. Having to convince myself that everyone didn't hate me was normal. Struggling to do the basic human things like showering, sleeping, going to work, and hanging out with friends outside of my house was normal.
I had been semi-functional for a year this way, but I felt myself, my entire body, becoming tired of my own shit. When the thought of death became a daily source of relief, I had no choice but to start asking myself, "Is this as good as it gets? Is this how it's going to be now?" Feeling as though life was lived through a glass wall surrounding my body, I did the most radical thing I could think to do: I decided to go see a doctor.
Do you want to be right, or do you want to be an ally? This is the question you have to answer. And it's best to decide before opening your mouth.
You have to ask yourself, is the point of this conversation retaliation or communication? Choose wisely, because what you choose decides the direction of that conversation thereafter. Retaliation escalates; communication dissipates.
Everyone has the right to voice their opinion. Having a difference of opinion does not invalidate another's. Now, I must pause to state that opinions which infringe upon another person's right to live and exist are not opinions, rather misplaced judgments turned on their head to make the other person wrong.
An opinion would be:
Come, come,
run up this grassy hill with me.
Look, look,
follow my arm to where I'm pointing—
down there, in the brush,
the ant, snake, and armadillo—
there you are, there you are.
Now look, look
up at the eagle,
catching the wind, gliding.
That's where you're going.
Pick up the sand, the soil, the mud
feel it slip through your fingers
regardless of which way you've come.
Now turn, dance with me
arms up, twirling.
See the clouds building—
you did that.
Look, look
at the hair standing up on your neck,
and the lightning illuminating the sky—
there you are.
Her spine is intact,
hips wide sway like tree branches
in the breeze and hypnotize.
Somehow she still snuck up on you,
pounced, surprised you. Open eyes —
blink, and the void before you fills.
Eyes close — it opens up again,
Use your pen to gut yourself:
lay your intestines on the platter of a page.
Take a look at yourself without a mirror — what do you see?
Poke yourself until you figure out where it hurts,
then ooze your mucus to make ink for your pen.
Stare off into the distance until your mind is across the street
climbing up a tree with a squirrel.
Take off all your clothes, sit in the sun, ask questions
no one has answers to. Make one up, scratch it out, make up another.
Do it again until you understand why
no one has an answer to that question.
There are plenty of birds in the world
that want to tell you
they've been singing for you
every morning.
This is for every woman whose hips intimidated men's heads until her mind wasn't heard and her heart was fully spent. For every woman who lived but chose to suicide commit. This is for the women who got the shitty end of the stick. For the women from the 50's, and every decade before, and every decade after because we still haven't cracked open equalities door.
Men mark feminism a dirty word while we're still cleaning up generational traumas from shocks in the psyche ward. Because women are crazy. Woman are bossy. Woman are e-mo-tion-al. They are housekeepers wearing wife-beaters unaware of how the t-shirt got its name. Servants and baby makers, you're only good for one thing. One hole, two hole, three - if you include my scrunchie. I hear only girls who've been molested like ass play but that's just another way to repress the goddess inside of me.
We are as diverse as patterns on butterfly wings, stronger than diamonds because we break and compress, break and compress, break and compress until we wither and explode, until we wither and explode, until we take our power back.