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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - If you think you've heard every Oscar trick in the book, try this one on: The newest way to promote a movie to voters might be not to promote it at all.
When Focus Features opens its awards-season contender "Atonement" in limited release next Friday, it will be the latest experiment in what might be called the anti-hype movement.
Director Joe Wright's movie about forbidden love during World War II had a splashy debut at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Critics duly fawned and mainstream publications like Entertainment Weekly described the "great fanfare" of its premiere.
But after the festival, Universal Studios' specialty division did the unexpected: It went quiet, or "hid the film" in the company's parlance. Executives limited advance screenings, and publicists courted only select media.
"We said, 'This movie is so powerful, we don't want to hype it and let anyone else define it for us.' We just wanted it to speak for itself," Focus president James Schamus said.
Consider it playing against hype. The strategy isn't the typical false humility of awards season but an effort to manage expectations, maximize dwindling marketing budgets and prevent Oscar chances from dying in the box office bloodbath that claims a new specialty-picture victim almost every week.
Trade ads, guild screenings and other trappings of awards season still are a fixture of campaigning, of course. But in the quantity and quality of promotion, these campaigns take a different tack. Media screenings are limited, trade and televisions ads start later, campaigns go less specific.
Ever since the season was shortened a month by the Oscars' move to February a few years ago, the buzz has started earlier and grown louder. Toronto has become a kind of Super Tuesday where dreams are launched or crushed. May's Cannes Film Festival is an Iowa caucus that paints an early portrait of a race. Even January's Sundance, with its substantial awards fare on offer, has become like a presidential exploratory committee, testing Oscar waters eons before they can be understood.
All the hype means that it's easy for the movies to peak too soon. The latest textbook case is "Dreamgirls." Months ahead of Cannes and nine months before its release, DreamWorks touted footage from the Bill Condon musical. The half-hour shown at Cannes was the most-talked about reel on the Croisette in years.
But besides Jennifer Hudson's win for best supporting actress, the movie was shut out of the top Oscar categories.
"(The fate of) 'Dreamgirls' last year has sent a shiver and a shudder over how campaigns are done and changed the thinking of Academy strategists," said a top executive at a specialty division.
The idea of going easy on the hype in perhaps the most hype-filled competition in the Western hemisphere might seem not only counterintuitive but also laughable. And publicists, for reasons constitutional and professional, tend not to highlight a strategy that involves less publicity.
But those who are quietly practicing the silent treatment say that in a season when so little seems to work at the box office, and after a few years of upside-down Oscar races, a contrary impulse might be the best impulse.
In addition to Fox Searchlight's one-two punch of Tamara Jenkins' "The Savages" (opening November 30) and the December 5 release "Juno" (the Diablo Cody-Jason Reitman collaboration initially wasn't even slated for 2007 but now is quietly being prepped for an Oscar push), other candidates include Denzel Washington's "The Great Debaters" and the Iraq War-themed John Cusack movie "Grace Is Gone" from the Weinstein Co., Paramount Vantage's Paul Thomas Anderson period epic "There Will Be Blood," DreamWorks' Tim Burton musical "Sweeney Todd" and Focus' "Atonement."
Just the below the radar, though, the campaigns all are putting their artillery in place. With deadlines for critics' groups and Golden Globe voting fast approaching, such movies as "Charlie Wilson's War" and "Sweeney Todd," still wet from the lab, began press screenings this week. While playing it low-key, other films like "Blood" already have held the strategic filmmaker Q&A with awards voters.
By December 13, when the Globes nominations are announced, the recipients are sure to bask in the attention, and by year's end, even the most reticent contenders will be engaged in the battle.
The anti-hype movement isn't just reserved for December pictures, either. Earlier releases, having exhausted their 15 minutes, can paradoxically come back reborn if they peaked prematurely. Paul Haggis' Iraq-themed "In the Valley of Elah," a September release that quickly began losing theaters in October, is said by sources to be prepping for a comeback, as Warner Bros. hopes the late onslaught can work "Crash"-type magic.
One movie that fit the model last year: "Little Miss Sunshine." Fox Searchlight had six months -- including three with DVDs out -- to promote the August release before the Oscars. But the studio went quiet for months, and when it did roll out the campaign it used understated, even abstract ads featuring the movie's VW bus and little of the usual woo about specific award pitches. It scored four Oscar nominations, and won for supporting actor and original screenplay.
"It was very simple. We wanted to remind people what they felt when they saw the movie instead of telling them how to feel," Searchlight publicity chief Michelle Hooper said.
That's a key tenet of the anti-hype movement. Academy members are more likely to vote for a movie, it states, if they have to do a certain amount of work to find it. The theory says that not only are these voters indifferent to come-ons -- "Every studio gets suckered in to spend big on events and consumer ads, and they don't make a bit of difference," is how one veteran awards specialist puts it -- they actually prefer not to be sold a movie.
The past few years offer some strong evidence for the theory. While quirky and not easily emulated, the examples form a pattern that execs say is getting harder to ignore.
There's certainly no formula for a successful awards campaign, but in 2004, "Million Dollar Baby," a movie that few expected even to be released that year, swooped in to win the best picture prize with only 11th-hour campaigning.
In 2005, a backlash against the early anointing of "Brokeback Mountain" resulted in "Crash," a spring release not even talked about as a contender for much of the season, landing the best picture win.
And last year, "The Departed" rode to four Oscars by doing everything conventional wisdom and recent Martin Scorsese campaigns didn't: actively avoiding all mention of awards until other front-runners were already established.
Of course, not every movie is eligible for the anti-hype treatment. "Atonement," with its Oscar-ready ingredients of epic love and period drama, might be able to coast on its merits more than the intimate and painterly French-language movie "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly."
There are other caveats. Studios can't always control buzz, even when they want to. And the notion of not hyping a movie forms its own kid of hype (witness this article).
Finally, the line between a campaign that chooses not to seek buzz and one that tries but simply can't conjure it up is a thin one.
And while it's hard to separate circumstance from design -- word on Anderson's "Blood," for instance, has been limited because the movie was only recently finished -- all these films are nonetheless hoping that laying low now will help them rise later.
It's also a way to stay out of the unpredictable clutches of a proliferating group of bloggers. With those online voices amplifying even small stories -- witness the Movie City News item last week, since retracted, that the Weinstein Co. would put up Cate Blanchett for best actress for "I'm Not There" -- some studios reason that it's better to stay away from the buzz saw than risk getting chopped up in it.
Still, this year might prove a good test of the school's potential, with several low-hype movies going up against more conventional rollouts like Miramax's "No Country for Old Men," which is playing strongly in limited release. The buzz gears were cranking on the Coen brothers' passion project even before the lights came up on the premiere in Cannes. Now it just has to keep them churning all the way into February.
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Common Themes in the Lacs
What has emerged from the provings and a small but increasing body of clinical experience, are themes of the milk remedies centering around dependence and independence; nurturing and lack of nurturing; a feeling of having suffered wrong and the suppression of natural instincts in order to be able to harmonize with the group to which one needs to belong. Each milk medicine will express these themes in its own way.
The primary function of mammal milks is to nurture the vulnerable, dependent baby. It's not only a food but also encompasses the child's need to grow, thrive and be strong. When things go wrong here for the mother and baby, it can lead to issues with food that can manifest throughout the life of the child and on to adult life.
There is also a theme of bonding between the mother and baby and the part that holding the baby plays in the theme is also significant ; it produces wholeness and integration into the world. The remedy pictures represent all the things that can go wrong in the lactation period.
When the milk is sparse or bad, the baby can fail to thrive, resulting in arrested growth. Lac patients can have craving, aversion, amelioration and aggravation from milk. It is also the first food that a baby has and so it can be the first food that causes nausea, contributing to the theme of loathing of self and life. When the baby doesn't get enough milk it can lead to feelings of lack, poverty consciousness and jealousy.
When the bonding between the mother and baby is not fulfilling for the baby this can result in feelings of separateness, forsakenness, isolation and estrangement. All relationships may suffer into later life, leading to the inability to bear touch and intimacy. This can give rise to fear of narrow or confined spaces. When the holding (representing support and carrying) of the baby is unsuccessful, in some way it can induce feelings of being let down, or falling to pieces and fear of falling.
Another common theme is lack of trust, stemming from a possible lack of bonding or warmth from the mother. There's lack of trust in life and in the patient herself, and this comes from the lack of feeling of security, occurring during the bonding in lactation.
Mother's milk allows growth and grounding, so there can be a sense of disconnection and lack of grounding and themes of needing to escape the body, because they feel imprisoned in it.
Many Lac patients are chilly (lack of vital heat, support, security). Also they can have fear of sharp objects or a sharp and critical tongue.
The reactions to this stunted nurturing include: suicidal tendencies; eating disorders (under eating and overeating); cleaning/washing compulsions; themes of indifference or lack of feeling; forgetting, mistakes (writing, dyslexia, speaking); sexuality increased or decreased.
Lac Asinum
Donkeys have a great sense of self-preservation, hence they will not do anything that puts them in danger. This behavior has resulted in donkeys being called stubborn, but this is the result of misinterpretating their behaviour.
The donkey that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, is symbolic of the spiritual kingdom of God. The Messiah riding upon a donkey offers forgiveness and peace with God, whereas Christ mounted upon a horse implies judgment and war.
In time, the donkey became a symbol of those reluctant to believe the Gospel story, including St. Thomas, the Doubter, St. Anthony of Padua, losing his patience with an unbeliever, and declaring that it would be easier to get a wild ass to worship the Sacrament than to convince him of the truth. To the surprise of the people, a wild ass did approach the Sacrament and kneel worshipfully before it. Many who saw this miracle converted, and the kneeling donkey became an attribute of this saint. The donkey was the lawn tractor/wheel barrow in old Ireland.
Themes in the Remedy:
- Stupidity and Stubbornness
- Ignorance, darkness, idiocy
- Humility and Kindness – a little foolish but obedient
- Curse and Punishment – in mythology the person who is punished is turned into a donkey
- Indecisiveness
- Helplessness and Desertion
- Others seem spiteful, unfair, ruthless
- Feelings of being an innocent, passive, defenceless martyr; a tragic, passive witness
Physical Symptoms:
- Pains and sensations around the head and eyes (blindfold)
- Pins and needles – paralysis of the head, face and trunk
- Swelling, oedema, sweat
- Right-sided
- Stamina – wellbeing, fitness
- Aggravation from exertion and heat
- Dizziness
- Muscle spasm
- Heat sensations – face, eyes, stomach
- Epigastric pain and rumbling
- SRP – Hot flushes with a need to breathe in deeply
- Children, pregnancy, water, working, others mocking, knives/murder
Donkey hairs were widely believed to cure a number of ailments, and were often worn in a charm around the neck, to guard against whooping-cough, toothache, fits, and to ease teething pains in babies. Riding a donkey was also believed efficacious, especially if the rider faced the donkey's tail end. Riding a donkey was sometimes used as a preventative for toothache, measles and other children's complaints. One cure for whooping-cough and ague stated that the patient should be passed under a donkey and over its back either three or nine times; the trick of feeding an animal some of the patient's hair to transfer the illness was also used with donkeys. The donkey was also used to help cure the complaints of other animals; letting a black donkey run with mares in a field was thought to stop the mares miscarrying.
Lac Caninum
Dogs evolved from wolves as part of the Canid family. They are thought to have first been domesticated in the Middle East, E
urope and Southeast Asia.They are pack animals, with one leader. To ancient civilisations the dog was associated with death and the afterlife. The ancient Egyptians worshiped the dog-headed God of Death – Anubis.
The Old Testament scorns the dog as "unclean". Islam associates the dog with all that is utterly vile in creation – the symbol of greed and gluttony. Ambiguity arises with the more common perception of dog as man's best friend. The alchemists used the analogy of the dog devoured by the wolf for the purification of gold by antimony, the penultimate stage of the "Great Work".
Themes in the Remedy
- Dogs
- Disconnection/hovering
- Restlessness and Anxiety/Guilt
- Self destruction
- Failure
- Sensitivity/Rage
- Low self esteem – thinks that whatever she says is a lie
- Hypersensitive amounting to Hysteria
- Forgetful
- Aggression and rage
- Fears and excitement (fainting, falling, snakes, spiders, insects, ghosts
- Constant desire to wash hands
- Hypochondria and fear of disease
- Dependent victim
Physical Symptoms:
- Warm patients
- Alternating sides
- Ravenous appetite
- Des pungent things (pepper) and salt
- > Cold applications
- < before and during menses
- Parts glisten/shine
- Vertigo w/sensation of floating in the air
- Genital organs easily excited from touch
- Painful, swollen breasts before menses
Clarke – "This remedy represents a state in which the organism does not have the resources to absorb and contain stress and teeters on the brink of collapse". The anger and rage in the remedy is directed at the self. They can be introverted, exhibit excessive daydreaming and can seem as if in a daze. The remedy can manifest in one of two ways. In the active type there is great sensitivity. In the passive type there is hysteria.
Lac Caprinum
The goat has long been a symbol in mythological stories. It has a varied significance, with gentleness in one tradition and sensuality in another. Both sexes of the goat symbolize fertility, vitality and ceaseless energy. The he-goat (buck) is the epitome of masculine virility and creative energy, while the female (doe) typifies the feminine generative power and abundance. Symbolically, the goat can be interchanged with the gazelle or the antelope. The wild goat of the Old Testament and Arabic lore is the Ibex.
After the dog, the goat was probably the earliest domesticated animal. Goats grazing or at rest, or being milked by a goat-herder are frequent subjects for idyllic scenes, representing the paradisial state; as such they appear on both pagan and Christian sarcophagi.
There have been many strange beliefs and myths about goats. Oppian says they breathe through their horns, while Varro maintains that they breathe through their ears; Pliny expresses a general belief that they are perpetually feverish. Goat skins were used for water and wine bottles when travelling and camping and as parchment for writing. Goat hairs were woven and the animal provided food and milk. The goat, especially the kid, was a sacrificial animal and was used also as a sin-offering (the Scapegoat.) The he-goat is lust personified, and a goat with a human head depicts depravity.
Themes in the Remedy
- Controlled individuals, prudish
- Fright and fear of razor sharp deadly teeth and a vulnerability at the sides of the throat
- Fear of being taken by surprise, of being jumped at (noise, motion)
- Fear of being pointed at
- Fear is internalised and not expressed
- Shameless sexuality
- Fear of their own sexual impulses
- Themes of breasts and oral sex
- Nervous, frightened children clinging to their mothers
- Individuals in high social position (safe place on a height) who hide sexual indiscretions and are subject to scandal and disgrace.
- Fear of falling/losing social place or position
- Childlike helplessness, timidity and innocence
- Can become indifferent as a strategy to avoid or internalise the fear.
- The main theme of the remedy can be found in the fairy tale "The Wolf and the 7 Little Goats"
Physical Symptoms
- Chilliness
- Left-sided
- Wandering pains (sharp/stitching)
- Shooting pains in throat, eyes, abdomen
- Cracking in joints
- Digestive disturbances
- Headaches
- Palpitations
Lac Defloratum
The Cow is predominantly a symbol of motherhood. The Cow is a symbol of the moon as many moon goddesses wears the horns of a Cow. The Great Mother Cow exists in many cultures. There is Hathor the divine Cow of Egypt and Europa the white moon Cow that mated with Zeus.

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Gritty SUPER MARIO BROS. Short Film Series - The Four Players
Screenwriter Evan Daugherty (Snow White and The Huntsman) has created a really cool series of gritty Super Mario Bros. short films for Maker Studios' Polaris. The series is called The Four Players, and it reimagines four of the characters from the classic video game franchise.
The first two films have been released online, and you can watch them below. They are called "The Fixer," which centers on Mario, and "The Addict," which focuses on Luigi. The next two shorts will be released on Friday, and they are called "Star," which features Princess Peach, and "The Soldier," which follows Toad.
Daugherty had this to say in a statement,
"Making these short films gave me a chance to really 'do my own thing,' while having a little fun treating one of my favorite videogame properties with a darker vibe."
This is a really entertaining vision of this franchise, and it will be great to see what comes of all this. Nintendo hasn't been involved with a film since the first Super Mario Bros. movie crashed and burned in the '90s.


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Such is the blinding glare of attention on the Premiership these days, not many footballers pass by unnoticed, much less those playing for the very best sides. A ravenous hunger for information prevents anonymity.
That is why when Arsenal and Chelsea walk out at Highbury tonight to contest the second instalment of a finely balanced Champions League quarter-final, we'll have a pretty good idea of the mindsets of the players on view; what, for example, Patrick Vieira is thinking as he leads out the Gunners, or why John Terry firmly believes the visitors are in with a chance. We've heard it and read it over the last few days as these figures have imparted their particular views.
However, certain individuals attract far less attention. Some prefer it that way while others, inevitably, simply don't make interesting copy.
Intentionally or otherwise, Lauren falls into the latter category. Interviews with Arsenal's reticent right-back don't throw much up at all. Mind you, his consistency this season has done most of the talking and it will be needed again as Damien Duff's direct running stretches his resolve to the limit.
Over in the Chelsea camp, the story of William Gallas differs significantly but certain parallels in terms of the low profile attached can be legitimately drawn. Until a few years back, the French defender's life had been about struggle and strife, about striving to gain recognition in the shadow of natural stars, those players clearly destined for greatness such as striker Thierry Henry.
Not any more. After serving a difficult apprenticeship at Caen and Marseilles, he is now a crucial cog in Chelsea's expensive machine, his duel with Henry, an old pal from Clairefontaine, being critical in deciding the outcome of this tie. Not many people in world football can keep up with Henry but the lightning-quick Gallas at least has a chance. As long, that is, as his starting position is right, and as long as he maintains concentration when Henry moves into gear.
In a cheeky attempt at trying to disturb that focus, Arsenal's main man, their piece de resistance, often tries to make his mate laugh with "one of his looks". Not in the first leg though. The stakes were too high. The time for messing about has clearly passed.
And while the 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge saw Gallas used at right-back, his role at Highbury will be markedly different. With Marcel Desailly suspended, the Parisian-born stopper moves to his favoured central slot where he has to decide how best to tackle the challenge.
Does Gallas, for instance, stay tight on his man or retain the shape in defence by only engaging Henry when he storms through the middle? It is a similar conundrum, in fact, to the one facing Lauren, who has the wandering eye of Duff to consider.
The Irish flier, so important to Chelsea, will start on the left but drift inside at will, committing defenders with his elusive turn of foot. Lauren, no doubt, will pass on that threat, reluctant, just like Gallas, to disturb the formation.
When Duff does raid up the wing it might be better in one way to have Gilberto just ahead of Lauren. The Brazilian midfielder is better suited to stopping Duff at source than the more attack-minded Freddie Ljungberg, who trained yesterday despite having a broken bone in a hand.
Yet when it comes to getting help, Lauren, the former Cameroon international, has not always proved totally receptive. Senior professionals, members of the famous back four, were originally met with dismissive sneers when trying to pass on advice. That arrogant reaction did not go down very well at a time when Lauren was still learning the role of a Premiership right-back.
Yet to his credit, Lauren has stubbornly stuck at it. He has made the position his own after a lengthy period in which Arsene Wenger was unsure. Nowadays, this athletic player does the simple things well to the point that you rarely notice his presence in a side containing so many alluring distractions.
Two players, then, with different jobs to complete. Two players, what's more, not often in the limelight. Whoever gets it right will be doing a great service in giving his side a better than average chance of coming out on top.


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Posted on November 13, 2008
AC Milan midfielder Clarence Seedorf has his doubts as to whether new loan signing David Beckham will even play a game for the Serie A giants.
Beckham will move to to the San Siro in January after agreeing a short-term switch from the Los Angeles Galaxy during the Major League Soccer close season.
However, while Seedorf is delighted to welcome the 33-year-old to Milan, he admits he is unsure whether he will break into the team.
"I don't even know if he'll be able to play for us," the Dutchman told Sky Sports News. "I mean the first goal is for him to get fit and in the best shape possible.
"Training with a club like AC Milan will definitely improve his game even if it's only from a training point of view.
"But I don't know if he'll play, that's another thing completely."
Beckham's main motivation for moving to Italy is his determination to extend his England career, with manager Fabio Capello having warned he would miss the proposed friendly against Spain in February if he was inactive.
And Seedorf believes he has made the right decision.
He added: "He should focus on his physical state, train as hard as possible in a structure that's one of the best in the world to prepare for games with England which I think is his final goal and that's right.
"2010 is not that far away so he has to work hard and show Capello he's still here."
However, putting aside his doubts over whether Beckham will ever don the Milan shirt in a competitive game, Seedorf claims he is thrilled to welcome the former Manchester United and Real Madrid midfielder to the San Siro.
"I was in Albania for a friendly match when we found out," he said. "There was a lot of discussion about Beckham coming an we were all excited about how it would work, how he would fit in.
"Everyone is excited of course, we're looking forward to it.
"Personally I will help him out to achieve his goals, knowing that he's a great professional and he'll help us to do the same thing."
Ronaldinho is also excited at the prospect of Beckham joining the Rossoneri.
The Brazil playmaker, who has experience of playing against Beckham in El Clasico tussles between Barcelona and Real Madrid, has welcomed the opportunity to link up with the former England captain at the San Siro.
"I am very happy to know that he's coming," Ronaldinho told Setanta Sports News.
"He's going to help us a lot and I'm looking forward to helping him be the great player he is as well.
"I always like the way he plays. I always admired him and it's very cool to play with important people. It's always very motivating."
Ronaldinho and Beckham are regarded as two of the world's finest free-kick takers but the Brazilian refused to speculate on who will be handed set-piece duties with the Rossoneri.
He added: "That's not a problem, (although) it could be a problem for the team we're playing against.
"I hope to learn a lot with David Beckham."
(Source: Soccer365.com)


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Park and Rec Is Well Aware That Pioneer Park Cemetery Needs Some New Life
Till Saturday's visit to the Dallas Convention Center, I hadn't walked around Pioneer Park Cemetery since I was a kid, when my dad took me to see the Jackson 5 at Memorial Auditorium. And so I was stunned to see, years later, what a shambles the city-owned cemetery, in which several former mayors and city founders are buried, has become: As you can see from the photo above, for every grave marked with a legible headstone, there are dozens shorn of their markers entirely. Whole families are now unidentified, and were it not for this interactive (and incomplete) online map, you'd have no idea who's buried where.
Francis James, regarded as the city's cemetery expert, is appalled by the state of Pioneer Park, which is under the purview of the city's Park and Recreation Department. And Park and Rec's assistant director, Willis Winters, acknowledges that, yes, it's a mess. But with the city's budget in its own state of disrepair, well, there's just no money to clean up what he refers to as "a downtown dog park" that has the potential to serve as "a downtown tourist destination."
"Given our maintenance budgets, which only go down and not up, and our capital improvement needs, as you can imagine the cemetery falls to a lower priority in the grand scheme of things," Winters tells Unfair Park. "Having said that, because it's downtown and in such a prominent location and because of who's buried there and because it's a beautiful green space on the egde of the convention center, we'd like to be able to do a nice improvement package to beautify the grounds and restore tombstones and do interpretative signate to tell people who's buried here and why they're important. There's not a lot of history in Dallas, and it's one of the more sacred grounds around and deserving of attention."
James, who's leading a tour of cemeteries on May 15, says she knows who's to blame for the mess: the very department charged with its upkeep.
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"The maintenance man rides a large riding mower, and he clips off the headstones from time to time," she says this morning. "So there's a chunk, and they just throw it away. One time I was following a Parks Department truck around Turtle Creek, and in the back was a whole lot of headstones. So I called the man who, at the time, was in charge of Pioneer Park. I said, 'The Downtown Improvement District has set aside money to repair the headstones, so if we can get them, now's the time.
"He said, 'We only have one -- for John Crockett.' And I said, 'He was Texas Secretary of State! And a mayor! Could you bring that one back, please?'"
Some of the graves do have Texas Historical Commission markers, but those are the fortunate ones. James says Pioneer Park's sad story is an all-too-familiar one when it comes to Dallas's treatment of its dead. After all, she reminds, when the convention center was being built in the '50s, the city dug up 22 bodies from the original city cemetery on the property and hauled then off to the dump. And there's another marker that reads, "In Memory of Fifteen Unknown Citizens of Dallas, Buried near this location, 1880-1910, Reinterred at this site 1999."
"There are so many wonderful stories buried there," she says. "We could write book about each one and what they did. These are the founders of Dallas."
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Alias: Revelation, The Great Gospel, Servant of The Harbinger of Madness, The Dawn of a New Age.
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Species: Human/Eldritch Abomination
Age: 384
Occupation: Any low level job that suits his purpose
Affiliation: Lotus Group, Himself
Powers: Vessel for a Fraction of the Eldritch Entity (Chaotic Vision, Social Cloaking, Immortality, Cosmic Awareness)
Abilities: Psychological Intuition, Chess Grandmaster, Alien Mind.
Powers of Eldritch Entity: Soul Absorption, Insanity Inducement, Warping Presence and Breakdown of The Universe Given Time.
Motto: "Not my will, but your will be done."
Quotes: "I was once a blithe idealist who believed in the future of mankind, but I've seen the absolute truth that the existence of our species has been fated for the great cessation. So I ask you, would you fear the wrath of man who can kill you in the natural, or would you fear the wrath of the god that controls your soul?"
"I engineered the establishment of the Lotus Group for three reasons: they are completely unfettered, loyal, and unified with the objective of expanding their power and influence. It was I that corrupted Daniel Khan long ago to see as I see and to be my scapegoat; it was I who gave Rowan Hughes the challenge of stealing the Key of Eternity from the Alpha Centauri system to place this humble planet under the center of suspicion; it was I who ensured that Pierce's oneiric relay network could be tainted, and now comes the purge and why do I tell you this? Because there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop it."
"Everything will come together if you see that the premise of his plans relies on removing a potential cosmic game piece that is currently humanity. The purge is only the beginning. After everything is done and his authority is unchallenged, he reveals his true form and rampages the Earth and threaten all that exists. If he succeeds, our time is finished. If he fails, those not of this world will deem us unfit to continue."
Archetypes: Go Mad from the Revelation, The Corrupter, Xanatos Gambit, You Can't Fight Fate, The Man Behind the Man, Demonic Possession, Eldritch Abomination.


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I am hoping that one of you knowlegable people out there may be able to shed some light on this problem, i have run out of ideas.
We have a sbs 2003 Server which is running Exchange 2003 SP2
Previously, we have had external email to windows mobiles working without too much trouble, also we run a seperate BES Express server for our Blackberry users.
This issue only started after one of my collegues tried to setup external email for one of the users to his iPhone. Emails can now be sent & received from the iPhone & everything seemed OK.
After 2 days of this being setup though, the server went on a serious slow down. Upon investigation I noticed that the servers CPU usage was a constant 90%, i rebooted & the server it seemed ok for an hour, then it reverted back to using 90% CPU.
To cut a long story short, i have at least discovered what exactly is happening, but have yet to find out exactly why.
The C:Windows\Temp folder is filling up with tmp files. Once the number of tmp files that are created by the w3wp service. Once the number of tmp files reaches just over 65 500, the service cannot create any more, yet constantly tries to create more. No errors are logged in the event logs even at this stage as the w3wp service consumes 90% of total CPU usage.
I found that if i stop the web publishing service, i can manually delete these tmp files and restart the web publishing service everything runs ok for around a day before the C:windows\temp folder reaches 65 500 tmp files again.
The tmp files themselves are always named like - IH****.tmp
with **** being a hex number.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jul 7, 2010 at 6:49 UTC
Here you go =]
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Jul 7, 2010 at 6:47 UTC
I can only say that I am running AS with iPwnds on Server 2008 with Exchange 2007 and am not having this issue at all. I'm sorry but I am unfamiliar with this, so I spiced up your post for more attention. If I can find anything, I'll let you know.
Jul 7, 2010 at 6:49 UTC
Here you go =]
Jul 7, 2010 at 7:13 UTC
If they have upgraded to iOS4 then this may be causing the problem, it has been confirmed by Apple and MS and is fairly easy to work around by pushing a new EAS profile to the iPhone:
Jul 7, 2010 at 7:20 UTC
Thanks Skunk-Punk
That looks as though it may well have been the problem, I will know for sure tomorrow depending on how many files are in the temp folder.
Still not entirely sure why they're being created, but i am more than happy with this solution for now as long as the temp folder doesn't fill up between now & tomorrow morning.
Thyanks again
Jul 7, 2010 at 7:26 UTC
Hi Nick,
That was one of the many of help docs I had found while trying to research this error,
I think i may face that issue next, as I believe one of our directors have purchased an iPad
Jul 7, 2010 at 7:31 UTC
Be aware that that iOS problem can affect *any* Apple device that runs iOS4, not just the new ipads, so even if they are using the older iphones they could be causing the problem, my recommendation would be to track down any iphone users and check if they are on iOS4 and if so follow the instructions and push a new EAS config onto their phones, if you read the comments on that post you will see people being hit with the problem when only 1 person uses iOS4.
Jul 7, 2010 at 7:50 UTC
Good deal man. Yeah permissions can cause all sorts of issue with exchange, activesync, and owa
Jul 8, 2010 at 10:13 UTC
We've had something similar happen but it was related to the W3SVC# folders that have the audit logs from the IIS server running on Exchange.
We're getting more users with iPhones connecting to our exchange and the iPhone generates a lot of traffic which can make those text based log files grow very fast.
One instance I was able to generate gigabytes of log files by having an iPhone sync all folders from the mailbox and setting it to retrieve all messages. I think 8GB of logs were generated within 3 days. The mailbox in question was only 500MB in size but there was so many Active Sync access events that it nearly crashed our exchange since the W3SVC folder is in c:\windows\... by default.
We've disabled our loggin in IIS to stop this but it's not really a fix for the issue.
Thought it might be of interest.
Jul 8, 2010 at 10:17 UTC
Might be worth taking a look at some of the policies you can apply to the iphone to change how often it can sync, the post I linked to earlier with the fix from Apple for this current EAS problem will tell you how to apply changes, unfortunately it isnt something that can be "pushed" to the phones, you require each one to download the file from a webpage somewhere.
Jul 8, 2010 at 10:24 UTC
The big problem for us is that these are personal iPhones of our staff and many of them are connecting to our Exchange without asking and just do this themselves. Some have a BB from the company and iPhone as well.
If the user 'forgets' to tell us or ask us before doing this or 'accidentally' changes the sync settings to cause a problem we have no real way of banning the users device or having a repeat situation with a new user coming onboard.
Jul 8, 2010 at 10:28 UTC
Thats where working with HR comes in to create some form of AUP for mobile devices, that way you can then block access for everyone and only when they sign the new AUP and let you change the EAS profile settings can they get their email via activesync again.
At the end of the day if it is putting extra load on both the server and on the IT dept to support it you need to come up with a long term solution.
Jul 8, 2010 at 10:46 UTC
When the iPhones become more prominent we'll have to start looking at some solution like this.
Jul 8, 2010 at 11:29 UTC
hi Guys,
I can confirm that it was all due to the permissions problem, the server has been running well all day & no tmp files have appeared
Thanks again for all your help & suggestions
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When British researchers late last year announced that they had found behavioral similarities between highly creative people and schizophrenics, they were confirming something we thought we already knew. Many of history's great artists -- writers, painters, composers, dancers -- were, well, nuts. That's one reason it's so satisfying to read about them: Their lives lend our own craziness a touch of distinction, while assuring us that, mad as we might be, we've got nothing on Vincent van Gogh.
That's the impulse that drove Jeffrey A. Kottler, chair of the Department of Counseling at California State University, Fullerton, to take up the study of the human mind. "It wasn't until I became a psychologist and started listening to everyone else's troubles," he writes in Divine Madness , "that I learned I wasn't nearly as weird as I had ever imagined." Of his profiles of major artists, entertainers and writers of the 20th century, the most gripping -- those of Charles Mingus, Lenny Bruce, Vaslav Nijinsky and Brian Wilson -- succeed not because they break any new historical ground but because they get to the essence of madness, in all its horror and pathos.
Take Lenny Bruce. In his early career as an emcee on the strip-club circuit, he was so desperate for a laugh -- or at least a gasp -- that he once took the stage stark naked. Was that crazy? Or was he quite sanely -- and effectively -- commenting on the bizarre human ritual of strip tease? Perhaps, as Kottler writes, "he wanted to root out our greatest fears and inhibitions, all of the things that we avoid and repress and deny." In that sense, Bruce walked the line between insanity and the necessary social dysfunction of the true innovator. By the time he was getting arrested for using certain four-letter words (and one 10-letter word), Kottler says, Bruce was certainly suffering from paranoia (though the cops really were out to get him) as well as drug addiction and engaging in various forms of self-destructive, antisocial behavior.
This is where it gets tricky. Bruce's comedic brilliance no doubt owed a great deal to the intellectual and emotional access his illness afforded him. But he also suffered terribly, ultimately dying of a morphine overdose in the very spot where he spent most of his time, where he seemed to feel safest: sitting on his toilet.
Nijinsky had it worse. Although already considered "difficult," by age 17 he was on his way to being a star in the world of dance. His leaps seemed to defy gravity; his innovations shone with brilliance. As he became sicker, stranger and more violent, he was treated by many of the great therapists of his time (although both Freud and Jung considered him a lost cause and stayed away). Nothing worked; his career was basically over by the time he was 30, and by his late forties he was "morbidly obese. . . . He would laugh inappropriately in a disturbing cackle. . . . [and] masturbate publicly whenever the impulse struck him." Even more poignant is the image of a bloated, drug-addled Brian Wilson in 1977, locked in his bedroom, sobbing, as a well-meaning Paul McCartney knocks on his door, "first softly, then loudly, begging to be let in." Here is a snapshot of true insanity, a paralyzing, anhedonic embrace.
Greatness seems a more cheerful condition in Paul Johnson's new book, Creators , which profiles 17 famous figures. While he sees creativity as a God-given gift, "inherent in all of us," Johnson's business here is to examine "the truly sublime, which drives artists to attempt huge and delicate works never before conceived, let alone carried out." What Johnson seems to be getting at is the urge that makes a great creative talent: that which is at the root of Picasso's animalistic drive, T.S. Eliot's fierce brilliance, Shakespeare's breathtaking fluency and invention.
These are the flip sides of Kottler's story: personalities unbounded by convention -- or at least able to work around it. Actually, more often within it: The figures Johnson clearly admires tend to be financially successful, socially prominent and wildly prolific. Even as he chides Picasso for his brutality and leftist politics, he can't help but admire his affluence: "By the time of his death, he was by far the richest artist who had ever lived." Those familiar with Johnson from his 1988 Intellectuals may be surprised to find little overt ideology in this companion volume. Here he is less interested in taking down the heroes of the left than in celebrating great men of arts and letters. (There is room for only one goddess, Jane Austen, in this pantheon; Johnson devotes several paragraphs to the question of whether she was pretty or not, along with George Eliot, Madame de Staël and George Sand. The conclusion: Only ugly chicks would have had to bother laying pen to paper.)
Johnson, unlike Kottler, turns out to be a mystifier: He isn't looking to find the source of the creative flow so much as to take a nice long bath in it. And thus he is a big fan of superlatives: "Geoffrey Chaucer . . . was perhaps the most creative spirit ever to write in English." "Shakespeare is the most creative personality in human history." "Louis Comfort Tiffany . . . was the greatest creator of glassware of modern times, perhaps of all time." There's a "Ripley's Believe It or Not" enthusiasm here. (Did you know that over his lifetime Hokusai lived at 93 different addresses or that J.M.W. Turner completed nearly 1,000 oil paintings and 20,000 drawings and watercolors?) There's also something of the dinner-party guest who makes you wish you'd switched around the place cards. While his command of the facts may be impressive, really you just want to eat your damn duck.
Of the two, Johnson is by far the more sophisticated writer, but his stories lack the revealing blood and guts of Kottler's. (They do have one thing in common: Between them, they have written more than 100 books, which could no doubt be classed as a type of mania. Consult your DSM-IV.) Still, if you don't know much about, say, Dürer or Bach, Johnson's potted histories will give you a very good introduction. There's something charming about such an effort in the age of Wikipedia.
For Kottler, the stakes are higher. He admits that in the process of researching his subjects he fantasized about treating them, and wonders what would have happened had Sylvia Plath entered couples therapy with Ted Hughes or had Lenny Bruce and Judy Garland joined NarcAnon. Yes, this sounds pretty silly. And wouldn't curing such madness kill the creative impulse? Kottler wisely advises us to imagine the reverse: Given the right therapies, how much more might these extraordinary men and women have accomplished? Plath, who had good moments and bad, sums it up: "When you are insane you are busy being insane -- all the time. . . . When I was crazy, that's all I was." ·
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During a Board of Education meeting in August, Christopher requested that the review of the district's hiring policies be placed on a future board agenda.
"In particular, I'd like to potentially take a look at the nepotism policy,'' she said at the Aug. 11 meeting, noting the existing nepotism policy is "extremely stringent ... I'm not sure it needs to be at the level that it's at.''
District administrators are examining the existing policies and expect to have a recommendation ready for the board before Christmas. Though no date has been scheduled for the board to discuss the hiring and nepotism policies, board member Mike Heins, elected to the board in April, has embarked on his own research of the issue.
"Like all hiring policies, they should be reviewed more frequently than they are," Heins told the Call. "I think Cindy (Chris-topher) said it best, we need to make sure we're not being too restrictive. Mehlville is a fairly large employer in south county. We need to make sure we are making available the best people for our positions ... When you look at the educational community, it's not unusual for people to be related. In a small town it's almost assumed .... I'm not saying that that's the best or ideal situation.
"If you look at the past superintendent (John Cary), his spouse was a teacher. It happens very often ... When you're talking about an employer as large as Mehlville, it's not in our best interest to automatically not look at someone just because they are related to people."
The district's existing nepotism policy was adopted in 1993 based upon the recommendation of a citizens' committee comprised of professionals from personnel departments at some of the area's leading businesses.
The nepotism policy, which was adopted by the school board with a unanimous vote, stipulates that the Board of Education cannot contract with nor employ any board member, immediate relative of a board member or immediate relative of an ad-ministrative official of the district.
Under the policy, an immediate relative is: husband or wife; father or father-in-law; mother or mother-in-law; brother or brother-in-law; sister or sister-in-law; son or son-in-law; daughter or daughter-in-law; niece or nephew; grandchild; and "anyone listed above of a step or half relationship.''
Superintendent Tim Ricker told the Call administrators are examining all hiring policies and reviewing employee recruitment, job fairs and transfer policies. He described the nepotism policy as a "minor issue."
However, a former board member, Dan Fowler, disagrees that the nepotism policy is a minor issue.
Fowler, who served nine years on the Board of Education including two terms as president, writes an occasional column for the Call, "Your Call.''
On Sept. 11, Fowler wrote a column contending the existing nepotism policy should remain unchanged. Fowler was a member of the board that approved the 1993 policy revision — a policy he stated was responsible for "ending decades of nepotism.''
He wrote: "It was a difficult vote for the board in 1993. In fact, it was one of the most difficult votes I ever cast as a board member. But as the years passed, so did nepotism in the district, and all the negative overtones that went with it.''
In a Sept. 18 e-mail to Fowler, Heins stated, "I know your (sic) busy, but I'd like to confirm some research as we are working on the district's nepotism policy. Your term of service as a board member ended in April of '98 and your spouse was hired a year and 5 months later August '99. That exceeded the minimum requirement by 5 months right?"
Any board member or immediate relative will not be eligible for a position within the district for a period of one year after the member has completed his or her term of office, according to the district policy.
Sandy Fowler, Fowler's wife, did not violate the policy. She actually was employed in the district before the nepotism policy was enacted, but terminated her own employment because of personal reasons long before the policy was enacted.
In response to a Call e-mail, Heins later sent an e-mail to the Call explaining: "'We are working on a policy' means studying. I study many things independent of the other members of the board. It is a future agenda item ...''
His e-mail also stated: "Mr. Fowler's article motivated me to seek this info, It gave a strong opinion that the policy that he 'struggled with' not be changed because the perception was that people were getting preferential treatment. I thought it was very odd, to say the least, that he didn't mention his spouse's hiring, I frankly thought an editor's note should have been at the bottom showing a personal connection to the author's material.
"Certainly there is a perception problem here. I have found nothing illegal or un-ethical, but I have food for thought. We should review the policy. We may wish to extend the minimum waiting period ... a board member must wait prior to hiring a spouse, maybe not,'' the board member stated in his e-mail.
Heins told the Call people have brought to his attention employees who have related names in the school district with current and past school board members. He said he has been looking into if the district has been acting legally and ethically.
He said he didn't mean to single out Fowler's wife, but he wouldn't comment, even if he could, on how many other people he was "researching."
Fowler told the Call that he has has received other e-mails from Heins that he considers "bizarre,'' and views the e-mails as harassment and an attempt to intimidate him from writing future columns for the Call.
In an Aug. 14 column, Fowler was critical of the manner in which the administration and the board have handled the Proposition P districtwide building improvement program.
In an Aug. 14 e-mail to Fowler, an insurance agent, Heins wrote: "Hey Dan, There's a rumor going around that American Family is going to stop writing auto and home policies. Is this true?''
Fowler told the Call he did not respond to that e-mail and three others from Heins, including the Sept. 18 e-mail, because of their "bizarre'' nature.
"I think that the e-mails were uncalled for," Fowler said. "It's a very dirty form of politics. From our point of view, we viewed it as harassment and intimidation."
Sandy Fowler, who works as a part-time counselor's clerical assistant at Oakville Middle School, said the fact that a Board of Education member was looking into her hire date made her feel uncomfortable.
"I did feel intimidated," she said. "I didn't take it as an out-and-out threat, but it was very intimidating. It was a very uncomfortable feeling for someone to look into a job that is only 15 hours a week."
Dan Fowler said there was no need for the e-mails.
"Mr. Heins knows my phone number," he said. "If he knows the date of my wife's employment, obviously someone gave him that information. He knows I am a former board member. What was the point other than to harass and intimidate?"
Fowler said if he receives any more e-mails from Heins, he intends to file an ethics complaint with the Missouri Ethics Commission on Heins and the Mehlville School District.
"It's a real concern to me," he said. "I think this is an effort to stop me from writing columns."
When asked if she believed the e-mails and Heins' independent research were appropriate, Christopher said board members tend to dig into issues pretty deeply and as individuals they have the right to go off on their own.
When she learned about the e-mails, she said she asked Heins how he had discovered Sandy Fowler's hire date and she was satisfied with his answer: He had looked in past board books for the information.
Christopher said she realized Heins had some issues with Fowler's column criticizing the district's evaluation of the nepotism policy when Fowler himself had a spouse working in the district.
"I think he (Heins) was really concerned with the pot calling the kettle black on that," Christopher said.
Ricker said he had followed up with human resources personnel to see if there had been any inquiries into employees' personnel files and there were none.
"It was not an attack," Heins told the Call. "It was certainly motivated by his letter (column). I was interested why he didn't mention that. That would have been a perfect example about — perception."
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I spent the last eight months interviewing and photographing seniors in Winnipeg for my book, Decaf Coffee Dates: Stories & Insights From Winnipeg Seniors.
The book features stories from 11 seniors -- nine individuals and one newlywed couple -- ranging in age from 70 to 100 and is meant to promote the idea of young people taking the time to have a face-to-face conversation with, learn from and be inspired by someone outside of their generation.
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1. We're not the first generation to spend some years 'finding ourselves.'
I think we millennials have a bit of a reputation for being aloof and spending all kinds of time travelling the world to find ourselves before we choose a direction in life.
I learned Murray Burt, born and raised in New Zealand, found himself in England, and then he found himself in Spain, and then he found himself sailing across the Atlantic Ocean before finding himself shipwrecked on a coral reef in Central America for 13 days. He eventually found himself working for a newspaper in Moose Jaw, where he also found his wife. He later became editor of the Winnipeg Free Press. He said his wanderings drove his mother nuts.
In George Dyker's post-post-secondary travels, he wound up in Nigeria, where he and a few friends bought their tour guide a wife for Christmas. He said it was the strangest thing he's ever done. He's a huge advocate for travel -- he gave each of his three children airfare to leave the continent for a year or two after first-year university.
2. Individualism doesn't work
Fagie Fainman told me this. She said Mother Teresa didn't do a hell of a lot -- she made a few people happy. Fainman said what we all need is a network of like-minded people to get things done and make a difference, and in her retirement, she's done just that. In fact, she's on the no-fly list in the Philippines after she went there in 2002 as a human rights activist to support the women's movement and labour movement.
3. We never act our age
Age really and truly is just a number. And after chatting up all these people decades older than me, I think it matters less than I ever did before.
In fact, I called one of the women featured in the book a few days ago because I had a question for her. We ended up chatting for half an hour -- me sitting on my bed, on the phone with an 80-year-old, talking about changing the world like I would with my best friend since Grade 7.
I learned from Mary Benedictson and Harvey Schmidt, who are in their 70s and just got married in September, dating gets no less awkward over time. I learned from Alice Strachan even when you're 81, you still giggle at the thought of meeting a boyfriend. And Margaret Morran, who is 100, reminded me age doesn't have to come with limitations, as she motored around her apartment without a walker or cane, laughing and cracking jokes with the best of them.
4. Look on the bright side
In their long lives, all of these people have experienced heartbreak, illness, challenges and devastation.
Helene Dobel lived through the Stalin regime and the Holocaust and then lost her brother and sister to drunk drivers in separate accidents after immigrating to Canada. Merv Worden just came home from a nine-month stay in the hospital after some complications during his recovery from an aneurysm and Dennis Kenny's wife suffers from dementia.
But despite everyone's challenges, there is an overwhelming positivity and happiness for the present, and I think Margaret Morran summed it up best when she said we all have to just accept changes for what they are.
5. Do things that energize you
Peggy Pendergrast can take the credit for this one. She is 80 years old and she does all kinds of stuff: teaching meditative watercolour painting classes, working in the Winnipeg School Division pairing seniors and students, teaching urban poling (walking with ski poles) to seniors three days a week, teaching a goal-setting class for seniors and playing trombone in a band called the Sassy Cats.
She says when she's feeling tired or out of sorts, sometimes it's her knees (she has a bit of osteoarthritis) but more often than not, it's something else that's sucking away her energy.
So her advice is not simply "do what makes you happy." It's "do what makes the time fly by." Spend time with people who excite you. Do what gives you the energy to do more of it.
I realized after my conversation with Peggy this project gave me energy. Often I'd meet someone for an interview after a long day of school when I wished I was going home for a nap instead. But a few hours later, walking back to my car, I would feel excited and inspired and full of energy.
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8 days of Freedom (3/27/2010): Carnival Freedom Cruise Review by FlaParrotHead
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8 days of Freedom (3/27/2010)
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
Embarkation: This was our first time cruising out of Ft. Lauderdale (usually Miami or Tampa) and it could not have gone any smoother. While we were VIP with our OS category, it seemed like even then non-VIP line (while long) moved along well. It seems like Port Everglades and Carnival have things moving fast and smooth for everyone the first day. We were on the ship More within about 15minutes of walking in the door. Since the rooms were not ready (they made that clear that it would be 1:30, which is was), we hung around with our carry-on things for 15minutes and then found our room.
Stateroom: We have always liked the size and cleanliness of the Carnival cabins. Our OS was large enough for the three of us without tripping over each other. The only exception would be if anyone was in the vanity area and you needed to get into the bathroom, but hey, this is a cruise ship and not a suite at the "W". Our cabin steward and his assistant were exceptional ! ! They would greet us by name anytime that they saw us, handshakes, hugs, and interest in what we were doing that day. Once I asked for extra ice in the room, it was always there and available.
Main Dining Room: We always select the late seating and a table with other cruisers. First, we do not like to rush when coming back from an island. We like to relax, have a drink, maybe soak in the hot tub as we sail off for the next port-of-call. Then we have time to shower and dress for the MDR. As for our table, we were in the very back of the Posh MDR. We had two fantastic women at our table with their DDs. We knew, and announced, the first night that we would have the best table of that area and we did. Our wait staff were great and the food was excellent. The menu variations were perfect and each entree that I had was cooked exactly as I requested. No complaints to the dining room staff in the Posh MDR at all. We did the Sun King Steak Supper Club one night and as always the food and presentation was 5-star, the service was fine, but it seemed that the service "personal" touch was not there this time.
Lido Deck: While I have read some complaints from others, we did not really have any problems. We ate lunch there on several days (burgers, pizza, deli, and other) and breakfast there one morning. I do not think that we were ever in line more than 5-8 minutes. The staff were always friendly and helpful. Is there a better way to organize the selections, maybe, but everything seemed to flow well and I do not think that anyone was going away hungry.
Room Service: OK, so we did order RS most nights (mornings) about 2-3am. It seemed that after a few early morning calls that the folks almost knew our order of RoastBeef/Brie, Shrimp Salad, and Cookies (and more cookies). I think that the orders were usually at the door within 5minutes.
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Spa: We had several spa treatments and like always, they leave you feeling relaxed and stress free.
Debarkation: Not a problem, while we had priority 1 debarkation, we took our time (DS is not easy to get up in the morning) and when we did leave the cabin, walked straight off the ship, had a porter waiting to get our bags, grabbed the car, and headed out of the port. Less
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Hi guys,
I've just found out that being the bottom guy in IT dept. isn't the greatest of places to be right now. I've just been informed that I will be let go come the end of the month due to the economy. So I'm wondering what actions I need to take to keep my Spiceworks account active so I don't lose contact with this glorious world of infinite knowledge..
Thanks in advance
Mar 6, 2009 at 3:40 UTC
Hi Stew,
I'm really sorry to hear about the news. Since you still have access to the account you should be able to go to Settings > User Accounts and change the email address to a personal one (e.g. @gmail.com or @yahoo.com). Then log into the Community with the new address.
Let me know how that works out. And good luck with the search!
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Mar 6, 2009 at 3:12 UTC
Sorry to hear you're getting laid off. I'll see if I can find someone to help you with your account. Good luck with your job search!
Mar 6, 2009 at 3:15 UTC
First, sorry to hear that. It's rare now to find a company untouched by the recession, something that we had been immune to until this go-around.
See this thread for changing your email address in your profile. I think that's all that is involved, although I thought at one point the instruictions were to then let Tabrez know so he could do some magic on the back end.
Mar 6, 2009 at 3:40 UTC
Hi Stew,
I'm really sorry to hear about the news. Since you still have access to the account you should be able to go to Settings > User Accounts and change the email address to a personal one (e.g. @gmail.com or @yahoo.com). Then log into the Community with the new address.
Let me know how that works out. And good luck with the search!
Mar 6, 2009 at 9:59 UTC
Stay positive. I'm a hypocrite for saying that. But too many times I've seen where a seemingly negative change can ultimately be necessary for a positive change that otherwise wouldn't have happened. It gets old to say it these days, but every cloud has a silver lining. And challenges are an opportunity to grow and be stronger when we embrace it and evolve. We're looking forward to seeing more of you in the future...
Mar 9, 2009 at 7:59 UTC
Thanks everyone, I'm taking this the best I can, every place is a new experience and some new toys to play with. So I'm sure it'll work out.
Myshell, by changing the email address under the user accounts, that would be visible to all admins would it not? Is there a way to do this more discreetly? Even syncing my SW account to an install I have at home, without hindering anything at the company.
Mar 9, 2009 at 8:32 UTC
1st Post
Well looks like I goofed something up, I tried changing the email address logging in and it created a new profile for me. I change the email back and I still keep the new profile... doh!
Mar 9, 2009 at 7:46 UTC
Hey Stew,
Sorry about that! It should have been flawless. I'm shooting you a PM
Mar 12, 2009 at 8:01 UTC
Hi Myshell, I've replied to your PM.
I've also retried doing what you mentioned above, still without any luck.
Mar 13, 2009 at 8:51 UTC
I really don't want to pester, but I only have 2 weeks left at this company and it's already taken me a week to get where I am right now. Which is actually further away from switching the account. I don't have access to my real account anymore, when I log in it brings me to this new account and my old account seems to be in limbo...
Any help would be much appreciated!!
Mar 13, 2009 at 10:29 UTC
Hi Stew,
Sorry for the slow response, I just replied to your PM and have sent an email to our dev team to join the profiles. I'll get back to you ASAP
Mar 13, 2009 at 1:26 UTC
Thanks Myshell, no harm done! =]
Apr 23, 2009 at 5:54 UTC
Account still not switched over and am STILL waiting nearly 2 months later now.............
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CSS Styling...Asked by jgucci on April 02, 2015 at 03:39 PM
I keep adding the cals below to form at http://dev.tam-stone.com/connect bu tit will not take effect.
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So I need to clone it?
It is not required to Clone this form. I just added your CSS Code at the end of "Injected Custom CSS" field.
Still not working. http://dev.tam-stone.com/connect/
I have checked the conflict. It might be two reasons.
1) Use "!important" to all of your styles.
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color: #777 !important;
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Where is that style sheet? The form does not style properly at http://www.jotformpro.com/form/50846531085961 either.
Pardon me, here is the actual form link; http://form.jotformpro.com/form/50916425231954.
That is not my form. Mine is at http://www.jotformpro.com/form/50846531085961
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Please follow these steps. It was your form that I imported.
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3) Add following code block at the end of "Injected Custom CSS".
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- 1 1⁄2 lbs beef round steak, 3/4-inch thick
- 1⁄4 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 (16 ounce) can stewed tomatoes
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After months of waiting, finally we have the chance to talk with the beautiful blonde girl DJ Seherezade, who was recently voted #3 sexiest djs in the world. Now lets listen to our interview with her below :
Hi Seherezade, how are you doing there? What's up lately?
Thank you for your questions, I am doing fine nowadays. Little bit busy at the peak of the year (November – December). I have some tour on board right now in Asia and Europe and I am working on a new progressive house track and planning my new photoshooting and a weekly radio DJ set with some European radio channels.
What is your main music genre?
My main music genres are progressive house, electro house, commercial house and mashup mixes. The music what I play in the clubs and on the events I choose on the spot, because the guests are sometimes really sensitive to the music styles. When I played on an elite event, the average age of the guest was 35-40 and they requested more hits from the beginning of 21th century and big hits of '90, of course, I have a lot of from these in my "style". When the crowd is younger, I play the biggest hits of 2012/2013.
When standing behind on the decks, what is your the most memorable moment you've ever experienced?
The most memorable experience was that when I had to play in the Crystal Lounge in Alger, that was my birthday and I got a lot of gifts and champagne shower from the organizers and the crowd, they were going crazy during my set and I couldn't finish my set in time, because I was so excited and I played extra time. But almost all events parties was kinda special for me and i enjoyes a lot because my crow was amazing all the time furtunatelly:-)
You are chosen as the World's #3 Sexiest Model DJs, does it mean anything special?
#3 Sexiest Model DJ. Yes, it means a lot to me, because my fans and foreigns voted to me:-)When I have heard the final results, I was shocked I didnt know after few years i will get to this level on this competition:-)
Where is your favourite place to hangout most of the time?
I like hanging out with my friends in Budapest, because I live here, but I spent a lot of time in Rome, because I lived there some years before and got a lot of friends who are almost my family in Rome. I visit them every 2-3rd month for a few days. I spent a lot of time in the gym, because I loveeee some sweets, cookies and shakes, so I have to keep my body fit.I ve been in a reality show and I was in the final so also i have a lot of things to do interviews magazines ecc.lm also soo in love with traveling and with my job i can visit different places ,different people so this more than a "a job" this passion love and everything for me:-)
Are you a full-time DJ and model? or both?
I am a full time DJ, but I always accept requests for photoshootings for outstanding magazines, because I got a lot of positive feedbacks after the releases and this makes me happier.
Where is the place you've ever travel to, far away from home miles away?
The farest place where I have ever been to is Taiwan. I hope I can visit Hawaii soon as well, but I have request to Bali which is one of my "dream destination" next to Tokyo:-)
What is your favourite song on your mind right now?
My favourite right now is Animals from Martin Garrix. I know it is overpopular now, because all media is pushing this track, but i have found many amazing remixes in electro anf progressive style that I could play in my sets.
Have you visited in Malaysia before?
Malaysia, yes I have been there on a visit and have played there as well.I loved it❤
Before we end this interview, DJ Seherezade… lets shoutout to your fans out there & to our readers too.
I am looooooking forward to travel Malaysia again and make such a good parties there like in Europe and show you how to make a great party!!!


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Nintendo Wii
Can the Internet Channel use a keyboard and the Wii remote?
I'm planning on getting a keyboard to use on the Internet Channel, but on the description on the Wii Shop Channel it says it uses a keyboard OR the wii remote. Does that mean I can only use 1?
GuiltySparks - 7 years ago
Accepted Answer
No....you can definitely use them both. You can use the wii remote as a mouse and when the big keyboard appears on screen for you to type in a web address or fill in a form, you can use an external keyboard to type. Note that I haven't used the internet channel in about a year and it's possible that Nintendo has updated the channel (I doubt it), but even if they have updated the channel, there's no way they would remove functionality. So yes, both can be used at the same time.
Or, if you want to be certain, you could just try it....any usb keyboard pretty much will be compatible with the Wii. Surely if you have a computer in your house...you also have a keyboard. Plug it in. See what happens.
abear90 - 7 years ago
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Yes it does mean you can only use one so you'll have to decide which one you'd rather use.
itwizz (Expert) - 7 years ago
Yes, u can. plug the keyboards usb connector into the side or just use the remote. i reccomend the keyboard. you can also use a mouse the same way.
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In that special week of December people in US were listening to The Monster by Eminem.
The Wolf of Wall Street, directed by Martin Scorsese, was one of the most viewed movies released in 2013
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Alex Pettyfer Joins Kristen Stewart in Nick Cassavetes' Thriller 'Cali'
by Ethan Anderton
July 25, 2012
Source: Variety
After going shirtless for dollar bills in Magic Mike, Alex Pettyfer is going from male revues to gritty action. Variety has word that the I Am Number Four and In Time star is in final negotiations to play love interest to Kristen Stewart in the gritty action thriller Cali from The Notebook and Alpha Dog director Nick Cassavetes. We first heard about this project back in May with news that the script came from 30 Minutes or Less scribe Michael Diliberti with a story that follows two lovebirds who sell a fake snuff film and ride off with a bundle of cash. But that's just the beginning Stewart's next turn in a lead action role. More below!
Years after their score and leaving the San Fernando Valley, the girl (Stewart) must come back (figuratively coming back from the dead) to save the younger sister she left behind. Considering I wasn't all that impressed with Stewart's fantasy action chops in Snow White and the Huntsman, I'm not sure setting her in an action thriller in modern times is going to make much of a difference. She's just so meek and tiny that I can't picture her kicking anybody's ass at all. Cassavetes has an interesting amount of variety in his filmmaking career, so maybe he can pull this off. It's not clear just how big Pettyfer's role will be aside from running off with Stewart, but there's a good chance he might see some action too.
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