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Lush - The Smell of Freedom 30ml Atomiser
We are very lucky in Derby because our lovely Lush shop in the Westfield centre has the entire range of Lush perfumes as well as the essential oil elements of some. Lush sells a fairly large range of perfumes now and every scent comes in three or four different forms. There is usually a solid perfume which tends to be the form which has the shortest staying power, the next is a small spray which is less concentrated than the 30ml black bottle which has the strongest concentration. Many of the scents also have a small 2ml sample bottle too which is usually in the same concentration as the mini spray or spritzers which I believe has 8ml in it. The solid perfumes weigh 12g so they are not huge but I rather like them to carry in my handbag as there is never a danger of any leakage and you can quickly pop a little on your pulse points without spritzing others in the bargain.
The perfume I am reviewing here is the 30ml atomiser version of Smell of Freedom which I have had for some months now . The solid version costs £7.00 while the small spritzers are £15, the large 30ml version is £32 and the 2ml sample sells for £3.25. I think the solid version offers good value as the 2ml wouldn't give me many uses and the solid one has given me plenty of use over the last month I was away and I still have plenty left. You don't need a lot to get a pretty decent aroma but you do have to be careful if it is very hot weather as it does melt very easily. I would also suggest that keeping it in the fridge may affect the scent so would not advise that.
I love hearing the inspiration behind the creation of the different Lush scents. They are all so different and rather like poetry but of smell rather than words. This one is no different. I really admire Mark Constantine and his philosophy and the fact that he does things he really believes in. His story about how this perfume came to be is another great, rather poetic sort of story.
This perfume is again the result of some of Simon's experiences. He met three different people in very different places but all were survivors from some sort of hardship but the common thread was freedom.
The perfume was created using local ingredients and the 'Smell of Freedom'" opens with a fresh, herbal accord and reveals its complex, spicy and woody nature as it warms on your skin."
Who were the inspirations for this? The first was a combination of seeing a painting of a wrongly executed Aboriginal and the Aboriginal struggle to reclaim land that is rightly theirs. To recognize this Mark uses Australian sandalwood, lemon myrtle and fire tree oil. These combine to give both a floral and woody note to the perfume.
The second inspiration was a journey to meet a Tibetan monk. From this journey Simon used ginger, clove and black pepper which adds the a spicy, oriental scents.
Lastly Simon met a man who had been held in Guantanamo Bay and then freed and from this experience Simon added Oudh, frankincense and sandalwood which gives the depth and woodiness.
These three individual fragrances were now all combined to create 'The Smell of Freedom.' The lovely lady who I spend hours talking to in Lush in Derby always inspires me with these wonderful stories and these always draw me towards perfumes as much as the scent itself almost.
What does this smell like? In my view this doesn't smell as woody as I would have imagined given the ingredients. For me the initial opening is Australia and walking down amongst lemon gum and lemon myrtle trees as they really have the most wonderful strong lemon yet tree and garden sort of smell. It isn't a lemon of a real lemon it is quite distinctly Australia lemon scented trees. I used to have several lemon scented trees in my garden in Australia and I do miss the wonderful smells of the plants there.
This lemon opening then dies down a bit and blends to become more spicy when I can detect the sandalwood and ginger both of which are favourite smells of mine. Sandalwood takes me straight to India and the smells of the carved sandalwood things, the incense sticks and it is just India to me. Ginger is such a clean clear smell that blends with others perfectly while lifting it slightly too.
Fire tree is so distinct and a very interesting smell, kind of woody and herby and it distinctly Australian again. I have friend in Australia who has Aboriginal roots and works with Aboriginal people and this is a scent she uses in her soaps that she makes. Just by the way in passing, you can buy this by itself from our Lush and I do like it and might add it to my 'Wish List' but it is very expensive!
The more earthy , deep notes begin to work themselves through as the lasting quality of oudh,orris and sandalwood blend together but still that hint of the floral sweeter notes does come through.
This is just a lovely strong powerful perfume that almost shouts out 'Freedom' as you wear it. It is far from subtle so if you like flowery gently light perfumes yu probably won't like this.
The main notes in this are these :lemongrass, lemon myrtle, neroli, jasmine, ginger, fire tree, clove, black pepper, sandalwood, oudh, orris. I have mentioned many of these but the jasmine comes through with the heady floral notes and is very evident. Jasmine is something that comes in a lot of Lush stuff and is such a wonderfully sexy fragrance.
Once I sniffed this in the shop I just had to have it. It is actually quite hard to smell different perfumes in the Lush shop as there are so many smells going on in there. What I usually do is put the perfume on using the samples there. I then go off and do my shopping. I do one perfume at a time. If I like it still after I have finished my shopping it then does on my 'Wish List'.
I have to admit I do buy a lot on Ebay as you can often get them cheaper there. I just look for which are on there and bid to a certain amount. I miss out on loads but I decide what I am prepared to pay and stick to it. I also ask for them for gifts from the family too and that is how I have built up my collection.
I have the 30ml atomizer in this so when I put this on it REALLY lasts well all day long. The concentration is pretty intense so you have to be careful not to be too generous with your application. Instead of spraying in the air and walking through it like they advice for perfumes I just spray a small amount on my wrist insides and then spread this where ever I want it as it is quite dense.
Although I know it lasts all day I do find that I start to not be able to smell the perfume on myself after a while however my husband often says you smell nice later on in the day when we have a hug or a quick cuddle when preparing the meal other people comment on the perfume I am wearing so I know it does last.
This is another of Lush's heavier deeper perfumes and will appeal to those who like earthy heavier scents. It is not subtle at all.
This has to be another of my favourites. I like lots of different scents but I am often drawn to the earthy notes but this one reminds me of the Australian bush and the wonderful smells of their trees and plants and for me this is just such a great evocative smell I could happily sit and sniff it all day.
I do have to say one negative thing about the little black bottle atomizers is firstly they are all identical apart from a small cardboard label so if you lose the label you have to rely on a sniff test or look underneath at the small sticky label. The other thing is that they are not entirely leak proof. I would never take one travelling at they do have a tendency to leak through the lid a bit. I keep mine upright and because they are in black bottles they are protected from the light so I can keep them out on top of my bathroom shelf.
The solid perfumes usually have a use buy date about a year after they were made. These black glass atomizers just have a made by date so it is up to you to decide if they are less true or faded after a time. I have had some that I have had longer than a year and I don't think they smell any less strong or altered in any way but maybe after five to ten years they might but I don't know. I like mine too much to have them last that long as I use mine daily.
If you are lucky enough to have a Lush store like the one in Derby with a full range of perfumes I recommend you to give them a try. They are not to everyone's taste as they are quite strong and a lot of them have quite deep strong and more heavy notes but I love them and spend ages listening to the stories as to the inspiration behind their creation.
To me perfumes are a sort of experience that is more than just the smell. They are a bit like fine wines and single malt whiskeys in that there is poetry and art in their creation. These to me are all part of the perfume, the inspiration, the poetry and the images that are created by you in your head as you first sniff the perfume as well as the effect you have on the scent, the way it changes on you and your own skin. It is all part of the magic to me.
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I am a big fan of lush and their Gorilla range of perfumes and have tried them all over the years. I usually buy myself one every couple of weeks but I stick to the solid perfumes as they are cheap enough for me to buy without feeling guilty for treating myself whereas the sprays are quite expensive so I save them for only my absolute favourite scents.
The majority of the Gorilla perfumes are absolutely stunning but there are a few exceptions which I am not overly keen on. The smell of freedom is one of those that judging by the ingredients I thought I would love but it didn't just work on my skin.
The smell of freedom contains lemongrass, neroli, jasmine, sandlewood, black pepper, ginger and jasmine.
As you can see from the list of ingredients it is a mixture of spicy and floral and when I tried it in the shop I thought it smelt very unusual but quite lovely. I could really pick out the jasmine which is one of my favourite scents but there was something else that was just too heavy and it overpowered the more floral notes in the perfume smelling almost masculine.
It isn't a particularly girly fragrance so it might suit someone who is looking for something a little different from the usual flowery women's fragrances but for me when I applied it to my skin I started off liking the scent but after a while the spicy almost herbal smell was a bit overpowering and left me feeling a little sickly.
To my mind it is definitely a summer's fragrance and I could see this sitting well with sunny days and long summer evenings. It has an almost Mediterranean feel to it but again there is something in it which stops it from being that perfect summer smell.
To be honest I can't quite put my finger on why I didn't like this fragrance all that much. It has all the right things in it to make it gorgeous and when I smell it on other people I still love it but there must be something in it which just didn't react well to my skin as it most definitely changed scent on my skin as to what it was originally.
I think that if you are looking for something a little different then you should maybe give this a try and see how it reacts on your skin as you may find that you like it but unfortunately it just wasn't for me.
You can buy this perfume from lush in a £32 atomiser, a £15 spritzer or the one that I bought which is the solid perfume which costs £7.
The Smell of Freedom is one of the fragrances from the Lush gorilla perfume range. I got this last summer when there was a promotion on to get seven mini bottles of fragrance for £7 and it is the last one I am to review.
The Smell of Freedom comes packaged in an extremely unattractive short, fat, black bottle. All of the Lush perfumes have similar packaging and I have said before that I simply don't like them. Lush always claim their plain packaging is due to their desire to spend money on the ingredients in the product rather than the packaging it comes in. I usually support that, but to me, fragrance is something special and should be the exception to the rule. Even a plain glass bottle (like Lush used to use for their perfumes) would be preferable to this.
The Smell of Freedom is an unusual name for a fragrance I'm sure you will agree and I was very curious as to what this would smell like. The Lush website states that this scent 'opens with a fresh, herbal accord and reveals its complex, spicy and woody nature as it warms on your skin'. It is suitable for vegans and is one of Lush's more expensive scents.
The perfume contains amongst other ingredients, sandalwood oil, orris oil, oudh oil, jasmine absolute, neroli oil and lemongrass oil. I think that sounds like it could be quite a nice combination when written down on paper, but as I have found out, these things don't always work when put into practice.
The scent of this when first applied is rather heady. I have found this to be a common theme with the Lush perfumes, they all seem to be incredibly strong. I think the scent that comes across most is the jasmine. Normally I like the scent of jasmine, but I felt that combined with the woody scent of the sandalwood it actually smelled too strong and a little bit sickly. There is also a sharpness to the scent when first applied which I assume comes from the neroli.
Once the fragrance has settled down and been on the skin for a while, I feel that it improves slightly. It becomes more floral although there is still a sharpness to it. Bizzarely the woodiness of the sandalwood seems to disappear and I don't notice it at all, which is unusual as sandalwood is often used as a base note, and I would have expected to be able to smell it right up until the scent wore off.
The intensity of the fragrance dies down a bit after time too and isn't quite as overpowering as it is on first application. On the whole though, I have to admit that I don't really like this fragrance at all. It's certainly an unusual scent, I'll say that for it, but to me, I'd say it was a fragrance more suited to being used in a soap or something like that, than as a perfume. Even then, perhaps a mans soap, as there's nothing particularly feminine about the fragrance.
One positive I have to say about this scent, is that it is long lasting. It doesn't seem to fade even when you want it to, so should last all day!
The prices of this scent are as follows and you can buy it from www.lush.co.uk
2g vial (the one I have) - £3.25
10g atomiser - £15
27g spray bottle - £32
Needless to say, I would not pay those prices, and I would urge you to buy the sample vial first before splashing your cash on the bigger size, as like I say the combination of oils sounds nice on paper, but isn't quite so great in reality.
Overall, another Lush scent that I am not impressed with. Other than longevity, I don't really have anything positive to say about it, it's too heady and strong for my tastes and the scent too unusual and masculine, so I certainly won't be buying it again and wouldn't recommend it.
This was another Perfume that I tried in a sample. The name never gave anything away about this and I didn't even smell this before I got this. It was more that I wanted to try something new and due to the great price of this I thought why not.
I always go into the Shop to buy my Lush products. I like getting them there and then and being able to look and smell some things before I get them. A while ago Lush were selling some Perfumes in little 2ml samples for £1 each. Not sure if they still do, but I think it was a great idea to do this. After all it was a great way to try something and although 2ml doesn't go all that far it gives a generous shot of a Perfume and you can make your mind up weather you like it or not.
You also get this in Solid Perfume and the normal spray bottle but not sure of the size or price of it. I think the bottle costs around £32 but not sure how small or large the bottle is.
This bottle isn't that exciting. This is more due to the little bottle. It is just like 1 of those little sample Vials that you get. A tiny little glass tube which has a plastic lid and a thin plastic reed that goes into the tube. You can use the plastic bit to rub this over where you want it rubbed, or just tip the vial up and get the liquid out this way.
So how does this smell? It is a bit unusual but nice as well. This smells a bit unisex, and there is a slight heavy musky scent to this. Some of the notes in here are Lemongrass, Black Pepper, Sandalwood, Ginger, and Neroli. This has a strangly calm smell to it. Not a Herbal scent but there is a slight woody smell to it, and the Ginger and Pepper add some zest and spice to it. The Sandalwood gives a slight warming scent which is nice and the Lemongrass gives this a bit fruity and musky twist to it. It's all a bit weird and such a strange mix of notes, but it all works together if that makes sense.
This is a nice crisp and clean-ish smelling scent. Not 1 I would choose to use again, but it's just that it wasn't the kind of scent that I generally go for, but for the £1 that I paid for this and since I used this up in the 1 go then it was all ok for me.
Worth a try especially if Lush still does these sample sizes and you never know you may end up liking this.
If you're a Lush fan at all, you'll know that Lush have recently introduced a new range of perfumes, Gorilla Perfumes, which even have their own website. The range includes the longstanding Lush perfumes Karma and Vanillary, a couple of perfumes which were originally part of the Retro range, reincarnations of perfumes from B Never Too Busy to be Beautiful (Lush's now-defunct sister cosmetics company) and some brand new scents, of which The Smell of Freedom is one.
I received The Smell of Freedom in the form of a sample, when I ordered the special promotional set of 7 sample perfumes for £7 from the Lush site. Sadly prices have now increased. Like the other perfumes in the range, The Smell of Freedom comes in four forms:
Atomiser: 27g of perfume in a black atomiser bottle, for £32.00
Spritzer: 9g of perfume in a long thin spritzer bottle, for £15.00
Solid: 12g of product in a black solid perfume container, for £7.00
Sample: small 2g vial for £3.25
As far as I can work out, the perfume is available on both the Lush website and the new Gorilla Perfume website, but the sample size only seems to be available on the Gorilla Perfume site.
The Smell of Freedom is quite different from the other scents in the sample pack and contains lemongrass, lemon myrtle, neroli, jasmine, ginger, fire tree, clove, black pepper, sandalwood, oudh and orris. Some of these ingredients sound familiar and some don't.
This is what Lush say about the fragrance:
"The Smell of Freedom was inspired by Simon's meetings with people that had suffered hardships. He used essential oils from their local regions and created something inspiring. It's a profound fragrance that starts off fresh, crisp and herbal and evolves into something greater."
When I first tried the perfume my initial thought was that it seemed to be quite a unisex fragrance, not too masculine but not especially feminine, and smelled very fresh, like open moors (hence the 'freedom' name?). I found the scent interesting and kept sniffing my wrists to try and decide what I thought of it.
I kept it on all day and I have to say it grew on me. It's a very unusual scent, evoking grass and the outdoors in general. I've worn it a few times at work, and find it's a really relaxing scent to use, as I can smell my wrists and imagine I'm in the middle of a field or a wood, skipping over the heather like Cathy and Heathcliff, not sat in front of a computer in an office!
The perfume is long-lasting, too. I put it on in the morning before work, and could still smell it when leaving at 5pm, although it had weakened a bit.
Overall, I was impressed with this perfume, despite being unsure what to make of it at first. I see it more of a 'mood-altering' fragrance more than a strict perfume, and it's unisex as opposed to the very feminine fragrances I usually wear - It's not something I'd wear on a night out - but I'd certainly consider buying a bottle to help alleviate stress or something like that! I'd definitely recommend popping into Lush and trying some on to see what you think!
Lush have this to say about the concentration of their perfume:
"Our Gorilla Perfumes are made from some of the finest perfumery materials in the world and we don't use any unnecessary packaging. The concentrations of our different perfumes are excellent value:
Solid perfume sticks are 10% perfume in our low-odour Ultrabalm base.
Spritzers are 15% perfume in alcohol.
Atomisers are 20% perfume in alcohol.
When you compare those with the usual concentrations out there:
Colognes are usually 4% perfume in ethanol.
Eau de toilette, usually 10-12%. Eau de parfum, usually 12-20%.
Pure perfume, usually 20-40%"
I think everyone likes to have their bit of freedom and there is such a thing as the smell of freedom - like when you go for that long walk along the beach and you can smell the sea air or the dew in the forest. With Lush's new Gorilla perfume range, one of the perfumes tries to capture exactly that - The Smell of Freedom.
The Smell Of Freedom is available in 4 different forms - bottle (£32), atomiser (£15), solid perfume (£7) and a 2ml sampler (£1). I purchased the 2ml bottle. It is tiny and fits nicely into your handbag so you can carry it about. It is made of glass and has a little black rubber stopper in the top. There is a black label wrapped around it which has the name of the perfume in the tradtional Lush font.
The Smell Of Freedom is supposed to be a scent which sets you free and makes you feel free.
The Smell of Freedom perfume is made up of scent notes which include: Lemongrass, lemon myrtle, neroli, jasmine, ginger, fire tree, clove, black pepper, sandalwood, oudh and orris root.
I was very excited by this scent when I first sniffed it. My nose was tingling with the warmth of the woodiness it was giving off and I couldn't wait to get it on my skin. I dabbed a small amount of the perfume on my wrists and was blown away. The scent is a mixture of spice and woods. It is almost complex and I find it hard to smell all the notes as one minute a note is there and when I inhale to smell it more deeply it has changed into something else. The smell reminds me of a walk along the beach in Bournemouth the day after bonfire night. The air smells smokey but you can also smell the sea air clearing it away. It is lovely. It is a nice earthy scent.
The scent is not too strong but not weak either. It has just the right amount of strength in my opinion. It is long lasting, two dabs on my wrist was more than enough to last me all day and when the wind blew in my direction it picked up the scent nicely and blew it back towards me.
Whilst wearing the perfume I did feel really free. It sounds so cliche but I did feel lucky to live in a society where I am free to go where I want, when I want and to be able to feel the fresh air.
Definately one to try if you like the earthy scents. It is a nice adult scent. I don't think it would be a great scent for teenagers though.


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Microsoft responds to VMWare's FUD
Posted by Bharat Suneja at 12:48 AM
Let's take a few steps back and look at the sequence of events.
Hyper-V Wows IT Pros and Critics Alike
It's no big secret that Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization platform has wowed users and critics alike in its very first release. ZDNet's Mary-Jo Foley posted a review of the pre-release Hyper-V code (by Jason Perlow):
Even though Hyper-V is still pre-1.0 code, I think Microsoft has done a bang-up job with its hypervisor, and it may just turn this Linux freak a Windows 2008 junkie for running his own personal virtualization needs. While VMWare's ESX is still superior on a number of fronts, including its aforementioned VMotion technology and its more powerful cluster management tools, Microsoft has certainly sent a major warning shot across its bow and the bows of the respective Linux vendors, as well.More in Review: Microsoft's Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice on ZDNet.com.
InfoWorld's Randall C. Kennedy, who can never be accused of writing a kind word for Microsoft by any stretch of the imagination, calls Hyper-V a "technically sound, well-performing hypervisor..." in Test Center reveiw: Microsoft's Hyper-V does the trick.
I've been using Hyper-V myself for a while now, and given how easy it is to deploy as a server role in Windows Server 2008, or as a standalone virtualization server using Hyper-V Server 2008, I'm admittedly a big fan and excited about where this train's headed.
Scott Drummonds' Video: VMWare FUD?
Back to the VMWare episode— On May 1, 2009, a video titled "Hyper-V Crashes in Consolidated Environments" is posted on YouTube by drummonds1974. The video, which seems to have been updated since then, leads with the following text :
On April 30, 2009, Microsoft TechNet and MSDN went down.The video shows some VMs running on Hyper-V crashing, and the mystery voice-over informs you Hyper-V is running a workload "based on VMmark". VMmark, in case you aren't already familiar with it, is an "industry-standard" virtualization benchmark— developed by VMWare.
In 2008, Microsoft announced TechNet and MSDN migration to Hyper-V.
Are these two events related?
Of course, no technical details about the particular test or the scenario are provided in the video. Towards the end, drummonds1974 quips:
.. in one of our tests, we actually got the parent partition to crash, which brought down the entire server. Here's a bluescreen of that happening...You can't be blamed for thinking "Perhaps a childish prank by a newbie sysadmin who just learnt a new trick or two?"
The final screen of the video boldly concludes: Consolidated workloads crash Hyper-V.
The video was posted by Scott Drummonds, Technical Marketing Manager at VMWare.
Microsoft responds
Jeff Woolsey responded to the video in Hyper-V Winning Daily/VMWare FUD Reaching New Heights. Excerpt:
The poster, who doesn't appear on the video, doesn't state what company he works for or provide any context. Gee, I wonder where he works.and
On the Hyper-V team, we run thousands of stress tests per week and the stress tests we run are far more invasive than the test in this video. So, I consulted our Hyper-V Supportability Program Manager and dug deeper. I wanted to know if we've had any Hyper-V crashes reported. Here's what I found out.Round 2: Drummonds' non-response
Of the 750,000 downloads, we've had 3 reports of crashes under stress and with the same error code as seen in the video bugcheck (0x00020001). The solution in all three cases was to upgrade the server BIOS which solved the problem. This can happen as hypervisors interact very closely with hardware and BIOS updates generally inlcude updated microcode for processors ofteintimes to address errata.
In case you're wondering, VMWare has had similar crashes with older BIOSes as well. Here.
: (The timestamp can't be correct, because Woosley's response to this post is actually dated May 9th... !) Back at VMWare, Scott Drummonds responds with Video on Hyper-V Crashes. Scott states:
..The video and descriptive text have raised more questions than answers.Now, like me, if you watched the entire video about 5 times in an attempt to get any answers, much as you would appreciate the conciseness of Drummond's video, it was devoid of any answers. Drummonds continues to bash Hyper-V in his response:
...the run rules were violated to make Hyper-V produce its best results...Nice!
Over on the Virtualization team blog, Woolsey responds with Day Two of the Scott Drummonds VMWare FUD Fiasco. Rather than quote parts of it here, I'll let you read it and come to your own conclusion.
Of course, it doesn't end here!
Round 3: VMWare Responds, Again
: VMWare's Bruce Herndon responds in Setting the Record Straight on the Hyper-V Video:
I am not exactly pleased to be writing on this particular subject in a public venue...I can't help but comment here - Herndon is not exactly pleased about responding, but apparently, posting a public video on YouTube appears to be perfectly alright.
I had hoped that this whole kerfuffle would quickly die down, but it shows little sign of abating....You hoped? Wihtout any details forthcoming for two weeks while a colleague from product marketing amateurishly bashes a competitor's product? As Woolsey points out,
In the meantime, VMware Sales Staff emails customers and would be customers to "check out this video" and VMware senior architects Twitter to "check out this video on You Tube"Herndon ends his post with:
In the mean time, we intend to focus on helping to build amazing rock-solid products that our competitors can't yet imagine.Needless to say, I'm truly amazed by the attitude and tone of VMWare's posts!
Rather than reproducing Herndon's post and commenting on every bit, I'll let you head over to the Virtualization team's response from : VMware FUD Fiasco Part 3....
All I can say is— it's not the VMWare I know, and certainly not the many fine folks who work at its Palo Alto headquarters (I'm super-impressed with their new campus.. every bit as cool as Google's!). Perhaps the pressure of having real competition to deal with changes things? As Jason Perlow pointed out not too long ago:
Hyper-V represents the first stage of the mass-commodization of hypervisor technology, and if this beta release is any indication, it's going to be a rough ride ahead for Microsoft's competitors.
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Why 'Finding Nemo 3D' Actually Needed a Re-Release
Most of the technology-loving world saw Disney-Pixar's Finding Nemo when it hit theaters in 2003, and for the most part, we all loved it. The sweet tale about a little fish sheltered from the rest of the oceanic world suddenly being ripped from his father's warm anemone and thrown into the foreign landscape of a dentist's aquarium while his father adventures his way across the ocean to save his son with his forgetful, hilarious friend at his side is easy to love. And the brilliant, colorful, detailed visual of Nemo (Alexander Gould), Marlin (Albert Brooks), and Dory's (Ellen DeGeneres) undersea world captivated audiences. But the film was in theaters only a few short years ago. Why re-release it so soon?
It's simple: Finding Nemo should have been done in 3D in the first place. Unfortunately, the ubiquity of the technology was a bit far off at that point, a format reserved for Spy Kids flicks and James Cameron documentaries, and the film was released in all its beauty in the 2D format. It's for that reason that the quality of 3D in September 14's re-release isn't quite what it could be: 3D conversion tends to experience a lower level of quality than films made in 3D from the start. It's enough to make you wish you could turn back time and give the Pixar folks the gumption to try it on the now-classic film.
Still, we're lucky that Pixar did eventually give into Nemo 3D, even if it was as an afterthought. Finding Nemo's sweeping ocean scenes — especially the introduction of Marlin's vibrant reef, the journey through the E.A.C. (East Australian Current) with Crush the Turtle, and the dangerous bouncing game through the bubble-gum pink jelly fish forest — are practically begging to be seen in 3D, and the conversion does it well enough to be worth the cash to get into the theater.
So, while the film hasn't been out of theaters quite long enough for audiences to "miss" it the way they did Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King when they were released in 3D, Nemo is one of the most logical choices for Disney's re-release plan.
Nemo 3D certainly won't surprise you. It will be exactly what you'd expect it to be. But it will enchant you. And hey, it's a Disney movie: enchantment is sort of their bread and butter.
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Spoiler alert: Don Draper is up to his old tricks as he beds a woman who's NOT his wife, while Betty goes brunette in Mad Men season six opener
The hotly anticipated Mad Men season six opener aired Sunday night and was as dark, slow-moving and brooding as the show's protagonist Don Draper - and his favourite tipple, an old fashioned.
It's been ten long months since we last saw the boys and girls from Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce and when we left them behind in the Spring of 1967, there was a hint that Don (Jon Hamm) was about to be resurrected as the philanderer we all love.
In the final episode of season five he swaggered James Bond-style into a bar leaving his young wife
Megan (Jessica Pare) far behind in the distance.
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Up to his old tricks: Don Draper (Jon Hamm) ended up bedding the wife of a friend on New Year's Eve, in the season six opener of Mad Men
An attractive woman asks 'Are you alone?' And although we didn't hear the answer that twinkle in his eye said it all. Cut to black.
But we had to wait until the last few minutes of the thoughtful opening two-hour episode until we saw Don up to his old tricks, bedding a pretty brunette.
As the penultimate season of the hit drama began with the two hour special The Doorway, it was half expected we would see Don picking through the remnants of his second marriage.
Philandering ways: The womanising bad boy of the advertising world was up to his old tricks in the season opener
There may be trouble ahead: Don Draper looked a little uneasy after being monogamous in his marriage to Megan
Cheating: The character became well known for his philandering during his marriage to Betty
Back to his marital bed: Don looked riddled with guilt after cheating on wife Megan
But the debut began with the couple together on a beach vacation in Hawaii, Megan now an emerging soap star having finally broken into acting.
Bare-chested Don has a cocktail in one hand a copy of Dante's Inferno in the other - a tale of death
and sin which is expected to be the theme that weaves through the series.
While Megan is riding a wave of success - even fighting off autograph hunters - her husband often has that same look on his face as we saw last season with his wife's excruciating birthday performance of Zou Bisou Bisou.
Sex, drugs and advertising: Megan smokes a joint while showing off her enviable curves in a white lacy bra
Amorous: Don and Megan enjoy some bedroom action in the episode
He looked like he wished he was elsewhere - anywhere else - and it's eight minutes in before he gets a word of dialogue. Yet his face says it all. Megan, meanwhile, can't seem to shut up.
You get the
uneasy feeling that there's bad news in store for the lovely gap-toothed
French Canadian who seems as happy as can be.
As for Don's never-ending search for happiness it seems as far away as ever.
It's fair to say not much happens in these first two hours. Creator Matthew Weiner, in typical fashion
gives little away as to the direction of the season.
New do: Berry Draper (January Jones) showed off her new brunette hairstyle during the opening episode
A little bigger: Betty was still looking a little larger than life after struggling with her weight last season
Blonde on blonde: Betty, before she changed her hair colour, visiting a shelter to attempt to find a friend of the family
More of a scene setter and a catch-up than a giant leap forward, you turn off the TV feeling somewhat unsatisfied, cheated even by the lack of action...until the very last moment that is.
But then you wouldn't be the only one to feel a sense of disatisfaction. Don, Roger Sterling, (John
Slattery) Betty Francis (January Jones) and Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) all seem struck down by ennui.
For Don, that manifests itself in a drunken appearance at Roger's mother's funeral.
Sunshine break: The episode opened with Don Draper and wife Megan (Jessica Paré) on holiday in Hawaii
Shapes of the sixties: Megan sported the bright colours of the swinging decade
Tropical getaway: Megan may have looked cheerful during the couple's vacation, but all was not what it seemed for the twosome
Smiling through it: Don looked like he was trying his best to have a good time but not quite managing it
VIDEO Draper back to his old tricks in Mad Men season six teaser clip...
He throws up in the middle of a eulogy and is taken home with a smile on his face - pretty much the
first and last time during the two hours he looks happy.
Perhaps it's his descent into middle age and the chasm between him and not just a younger wife but
younger colleagues that is making him question his own mortality.
While Megan is experimenting with cannabis, Don seems uncomfortable and looks like he would be happier if the sixties had never happened.
Pouting in purple: Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks) looked striking in a purple suit as she posed for a company photograph
Too close for comfort? Joan attracts the attentions of the photographer
Impressive: Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) showed her prowess in her new job
New role: Peggy left Sterling, Cooper, Draper Pryce at the end of season five
You just know that no matter hard he tries to convince himself that domestic bliss will be the cure
for all his issues, he's just not the marrying kind. And let's face it he's a far more interesting
when he's fooling around.
Does he still love his wife? Hamm was asked recently during an interview with the New York Post.
'I think he does,' he said.
But his on-screen wife is wise to have her doubts.
'People want to see the Bad Don come back,' said Pare. 'As an audience member, I get it. As the
woman who plays Megan Draper, I'm terrified.
Break down: Roger Sterling (John Slattery) is distraught in the wake of his mother's death
So alone: Roger sits alone and with his head in his hands as he attempts to deal with his grief
I don't know what to say: Earlier, on the therapist's chair, Roger had confessed he felt numb
Even at work where he has always been king of the castle, Don appears disconnected
Asked by a colleague how his trip to Waikiki was, he replied: 'I had an experience, I don't know how
to put it into words.'
Maybe he should take a leaf out of Roger's book and give LSD a try - not that it seems to have helped him a great deal.
Unable to grieve at the shock death of his mother from a stroke, Roger's monologues in the
psychiatrist chair showed the writers still have what it takes to wow.
'My mother is dead, I don't feel anything,' he says.
Old fashioned: Don enjoyed rather too much of his favourite tipple at the funeral of Roger Sterling's mother
Embarrassing lapse: Don vomits in the midst of the funeral and has to be taken home
Escorted to safety: Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) is forced to intervene to take the drunk Don home
Sozzled: The executive looked the worse for wear when he arrived at his apartment building
'It turns out the experiences are nothing,' he adds. 'You open the doors and after a while you realise
it's just more doors.'
female characters remain intriguing. Peggy is proving herself over her
subordinates at her new job at a rival advertising firm.
with a creative block on a campaign for headphones, she employs tactics
picked up from her old boss Don to break through.
Megan is fast becoming a TV star and Betty - still batting the bulge - takes a walk on the wild side
spending an evening in the company of druggie drop-outs in Manhattan's seedy East Village as she
searches out Sandy, a missing teen who has befriended the family.
Adolescence: Sally Draper (Kiernan Shipka) was beginning to prove to be the troubled teenager she had always promised to be
Trouble in paradise? Megan and Don's marriage looks like it will come under scrutiny like never before
Back to work: This is the penultimate season of the hit AMC series which will end after the seventh season
Still got glamour: January Jones's Betty Draper appeared in a series of striking outfits
And Sally is becoming the difficult teen she was always destined to become.
the opener Don can't seem to shake off his fascination with death,
questioning his new surgeon friend about what it's like to have
someone's life in their hands.
seems haunted by the engraving on the back of his Zippo lighter which
reads; 'In life we often have to do things that are not our bag.'
'I just want you to be yourself,' a photographer taking staff portraits at the office tells him; unaware of the irony that his subject matter has no idea who he really is.
Food for thought: Don is handed a lighter with a poignant inscription engraved in it
Time for a change: The lighter inscription gave a subtle hint as to Don's state of mind
Then an existential pitch to Waikiki hoteliers goes awry when Don presents them with a storyboard showing a suit abandoned on a pristine beach which to the advertising genius suggests a pathway to heaven - his clients think of suicide.
'Hawaii - the jumping off point,' the copy reads.
But just as we are starting to feel cheated that the most exciting moment in the entire opener is Betty turning brunette, the final scenes show Don in bed with the wife of a friend on New Year's Eve before returning to his marital bed and his wife.
Pondering: Hamm's Don Drper appeared more brooding and troubled than ever in the episode
In real life: Jon Hamm was seen taking his dog for a walk with his long-time girlfriend Jennifer Westfeldt in Los Feliz on Sunday
Mad Men: What the critics said
Critics gave an almost unanimous thumbs-up to the two-hour season opener enthusiastically describing The Doorway as dazzling, terrific and triumphant.
If creator Matthew Weiner had been nervous beforehand, he needn't have worried. Negative reviews are about as rare as Don Draper with a soft drink.
'A terrific start to the 6th'
- Newsday
'A beautifully realized and dazzling re-creation of our collective past and a glimpse of the infinite and unknowable. Triumphant, Lyrical, and Way Existential.'
- The Daily Beast
'The sumptuous two-hour opener to Season 6 is a remarkable piece of work--beautiful, provocative, and deep. It's an unexpectedly exquisite distillation of the show's themes and aspirations.'
- Philadelphia Inquirer
'Mad Men itself has two seasons left, and while 26 episodes offers a lot of real estate, it's fair to say the show is feeling some mortality itself. But while many shows that have reached this point in the road have left their creative peak behind, Mad Men shows no such erosion. It still has things it wants to say and it still has the poetry to say them well.'
- New York Daily News
'AMC's Mad Men returns for season 6 with two hours that are as rich and as deftly literary as anything in the history of the show. The premiere operates like a series of exquisitely written theatrical set pieces, one after another that add up to a moving, ironic, and often comic group portrait.'
- Boston Globe
'If last season was about growing old and losing touch with a rapidly changing mid-'60s American culture, this will be the one to address in earnest a theme that's haunted Mad Men since the beginning: mortality, and what we humans (especially the stylish, wealthy types who have time to worry about such things) make for ourselves in the short time we have on this planet.'
- Flavorwire
* 'It's a sumptuous pleasure to go through one doorway and another, feeling all the while the dawning knowledge that someday we will turn a corner, and come to the last.'
- Time
'As always, a new season of MAD MEN is always worth the wait and Season 6 doesn't disappoint. The award-winning, 1960s period drama returns this Sunday night with a stunning, beautifully nuanced two-hour premiere.'
- TV Tango
'Mad Men remains a brilliant, perfectly designed and visually exciting series - one of the very best the medium has to offer--whether you take it at face value or find the experience of watching the TV series enriched by tracing the modern echoes.'
- Denver Post
'The ultimate style show is still so fascinating that I couldn't stop watching, all the while thinking, "Why is this so good?"
-New York Post
...But Hollywood industry bible Entertainment Weekly were a little harder to please offering a rare negative write-up.
'Like Betty's frumpy frocks, Mad Men's supersize episodes aren't flattering. Weiner should stick with tighter, denser storytelling packages. I hope he also delivers the season of change that the premiere seems to promise.'
And the respected Washington Post gave it a lukewarm welcome.
'Mad Men is that rare thing that can be as infuriating as it is perfect. I've gone back and forth (and hot and cold) on it as much as a critic can; I warmed to it last season but feel a familiar chill this time.
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UTV Ireland expects to lose up to €3.7m in its first year
UTV expects its new TV station in Ireland to generate losses of between £2m and £3m (€2.5m and €3.7m) next year, but to move into profitability by the second half of 2015.
It revealed the forecast for UTV Ireland in its interim results yesterday.
The media group also said that it had so far incurred £500,000 (€628,000) of start-up costs related to the new channel, which will launch on January 1 from its Dublin base.
UTV's target is to make the new station the most watched channel in Ireland after RTE 1.
Its programme line-up includes soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale, shows that have until now been part of the TV3 schedule.
UTV Ireland will also show a large amount of other ITV content, while home-produced programming will include a show to be hosted by broadcaster Pat Kenny.
UTV also owns a number of radio stations in Ireland, including FM104 and Q102 in Dublin and 96FM in Cork. It also owns Talksport in Britain.
It said that group revenue rose 13pc to £57.8m (€72.6m) in the first six months of the year, while operating profit was 41pc higher at £11.2m (€14m).
The results were ahead of analyst expectations.
Improving macroeconomic conditions in the UK and Ireland, coupled with sales generated around the World Cup, resulted in the significant boost to the first-half figures.
Group chief executive John McCann said the improving economic conditions "bode well" for the launch of UTV Ireland.
UTV generates the single biggest chunk of its revenue ‑ £28.5m (€35.8m) - from its radio stations in Britain. That figure was up 20pc year-on-year, while operating profit jumped to £6.1m from £2.4m a year earlier.
Total radio revenue, which includes stations in Ireland, rose 16pc to £38.8m (€48.7m), with operating profit nearly doubling to £8.6m (€10.8m).
UTV said its radio advertising revenue had improved in the first half and that improvement had continued in the third quarter. In euro terms, its radio ad revenue in Ireland was 8pc higher in the first six months of the year.
Operating profits at its Irish radio arm jumped 23pc to £2.5m (€3.1m).
TV revenue in UTV's core Northern Ireland market rose 8pc to £16.6m (€20.8m), while it generated an operating profit of £4.4m (€5.5m), up 30pc year-on-year. Total revenue at its TV division was £19m in the period.
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Apple yesterday opened the digital doors to their iTunes Music Store in Brazil, and will continue its Latin American expansion by reaching Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela. All of these countries will have complete access to music and movies from the store, and also iTunes in the Cloud. Apple stated it will be launching over 20 million songs (which will include international artists) within those countries, with similar pricing as the U.S iTunes store.
Apple also debuted the iTunes Match service in Brazil, making it the first country outside of the United States to gain access to iTunes Match. According to Apple, "iTunes in the Cloud is available today for free in Brazil and Latin America and iTunes Match is available today for a $24.99 annual fee in Brazil."


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If you have an unwanted firearm, you can turn it in Monday and get a gift card in return.
The gun exchange program, hosted for a fourth year by the United African American Ministerial Action Council in San Diego, aims to curb gun violence and prevent firearms from getting into the wrong hands.
Guns for gift cards
What: Turn in unwanted guns for grocery gift cards.
When: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday.
Where: United African-American Ministerial Action Council, 4981 Market St., San Diego.
How: Arrive via Euclid Avenue and wait in your car with the unloaded gun until an officer can collect it.
Donate: To donate money for the cause, call (619) 264-1213.
"We want to try to get guns from out of houses. People are burglarizing houses, and there have been a lot of home invasions lately. They find the gun, the gun hits the street, then someone gets killed," said Robert Robinson, a leader at the nonprofit interfaith agency.
"There are widows and older people who don't know what to do with them. This is an opportunity to get rid of them."
Gun owners can turn in their operable weapons from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday at the agency's headquarters at 4981 Market St. in San Diego, no questions asked. Handguns are worth a $100 gift card, and assault rifles are worth a $200 card. All need to be unloaded.
To pay for the gift cards, the nonprofit relies on donations from private citizens, as well as the San Diego Police Department, Sheriff's Department, District Attorney's Office, San Diego Police Officers Association and Seau Foundation.
San Diego police officers will collect the guns from vehicles. All weapons collected will be destroyed.
Since 2008, when the program began, 540 guns have been turned in.Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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A motorcyclist who fled from police -- dragging one cop who grabbed onto his jacket for "several feet" -- after trying to look at the devastation caused by the San Bruno natural gas pipeline explosion and fire was sentenced to over 14 years in prison, according to reports.
Paul Anthony Lee, 36, visited the Crestmoor neighborhood in San Bruno in the early hours of Sept. 10, 2010. Just a few hours before, a PG&E gas pipeline there ruptured and exploded. The fire killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes.
He and a female companion were surveying the wreckage when police guarding the scene asked them what they were doing. A cop told the gawkers to turn off the bike and present identification when Lee "started to ride away," according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
One of the officers tried to grab at Lee's jacket and was dragged as he grabbed -- and suffered an injury to his foot when the bike rode over it. He had to go to the hospital for that injury, according to prosecutors in San Mateo County.
Lee was eventually arrested in San Carlos. He was convicted in September of felony assault and battery on an officer and evading police. He was on parole for a 2005 kidnapping -- and when caught, told police that "he was just scared."
He was sentenced to 14 years and eight months in prison on Friday.


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In Alexandria, Va. Tuesday, the Notre Dame Prep lacrosse team won its final regular-season game, against one of its toughest out-of-conference rivals, St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School. The players dedicated the game to Yeardley Love, wearing Virginia orange bows in their hair and sporting Love's Cavaliers' jersey number, according to coach Mary Bartel.
"They had a piece of black mourning tape around their sticks and they had the No. 1 on their arms or legs somewhere ... in eye black," Bartel said. "(At the start of the game,) we prayed as we always do, and then in the first-string huddle, Covie [Stanwick] said, 'Come on you all. This one's for Yeards.'"
As they left Alexandria, Bartel said, coach Kathy Jenkins' Saints presented the Blazers with goodie bags for the ride home.
"How wonderful is this? It was what they could do to console us and it worked. It was awesome, one of those girlie kind of community things," said Bartel, whose No. 3-ranked Blazers open play in the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference tournament on Tuesday.
Photo: Notre Dame Prep players honor Yeardley Love, the Virginia lacrosse player who was killed Monday, allegedly by Cavaliers men's lacrosse player George Huguely. AP photo / May 4, 2010


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It's a truth universally acknowledged ... that Claire Danes has a damn good "cry face." She sobs in "Homeland," wails in "Igby Goes Down," weeps in "Little Women" and bawls in "My So-Called Life." Now, a Tumblr called "The Claire Danes Cry Face Project" is proving once and for all that Ms. Danes is the Queen of Tears.
The only question that remains is, which cry face is the BEST cry face? We declare a Claire Danes cry-face-off -- which teary grimace will win? Vote below.
"Igby Goes Down" vs. "Homeland"
"My So-Called Life" vs. "Brokedown Palace"
"Romeo + Juliet" vs. "Little Women"
"Homeland" vs. "Brokedown Palace"
(All photos via clairedanescryface.tumblr.com)
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The Harm in Centralization
Centralization harms competition, development, growth and the public welfare. It also leads to high prices and mediocre service in the absence of competition.
Israel has one of the most centralized economies in the West. About 20 groups control a large part of it, and in each of the main branches such as banking, insurance and cellular telephony only two or three players dominate.
The large business groups own both financial institutions and companies in areas such as real estate, energy, retail and the media. These overlapping holdings give the people in control great power that lets them push new competitors out of the market and further increase their strength. Centralization harms competition, development, growth and the public welfare. It also leads to high prices and mediocre service in the absence of competition. The great power of the dominant business groups in their relationship with politicians also creates a threat to democracy.
A market economy is essentially opposed to over-centralization, monopolies and cartels. Such an economy can work efficiently only when there are many players and fewer restrictions, providing access to new entrepreneurs as well as small and mid-sized businesses that compete with the giants.
A historical look shows that up to the mid-1980s the Israeli economy was even more centralized than it is today. Three bodies controlled it then: the government (through a large budget and many government companies ), the Histadrut labor federation (through Bank Hapoalim and the companies Koor, Solel Boneh and Hasneh ) and the two big banks, which also owned hundreds of firms. Everything was run from the top, with little competition and extensive damage.
The situation has changed since. The banks, Histadrut and government were compelled to sell companies, and the 20 business groups mentioned above bought these assets. As a result, the economy became more competitive, more advanced, more professional and much less political. But that is not enough because control by 20 dominant groups is too high a level of centralization. It's very problematic, so it is high time the matter was dealt with.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently declared he will work to reduce centralization in the economy; to that end he instructed his office's director-general to form a committee. Hopefully the committee will carry out its work quickly and act seriously to reduce centralization and improve the quality of life of ordinary citizens.
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KIEV, Ukraine, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's office said it plans to charge former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the murder of politician Yevgeny Shcherban.
The imprisoned Tymoshenko is currently undergoing medical treatment and doctors have asked that she not be disturbed until late September.
"We're waiting for this period to end," said First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin. "Once the doctors say she can be troubled, we'll come to her with accusations. We have everything ready for it."
ITAR-Tass reported the prosecutor general believes Tymoshenko and former Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko paid a hit man to shoot and kill Shcherban at the Donetsk airport on Nov. 3, 1996.
Eight men were tried and found guilty for the murder in 2002, however Kuzmin said those were the perpetrators, not the masterminds.
"We have enough grounds to bring charges against her," Kuzmin said. "We intend to charge Yulia Tymoshenko with complicity."
Tymoshenko was transferred from prison to a hospital in Kharkiv May 9 following her nearly monthlong hunger strike. She has since been undergoing treatment with German neurologist Lutz Harms


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These XT9 cabs will enable the hardware and software Touch keyboard with your language.
Standard keyboard
These cabs will only work with the standard keyboard for the Niki which come with the standard wm6.0 and wm6.1 roms:
1. Czech (please test)
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10. Greek (for the software keyboard to work switch to greek in the sip settings touch keyboard otherwise it doesn't work)
And I also have a multilanguage pack available in cab or OEM. 12 languages are included the first seven languages plus English, German, French, Italian and Spanish:
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EzInput 1.5
In the roms of NemanjaLO and d_train the EzInput 1.5 keyboard is included. The cabs from DupinBJK for the languages work but are missing a couple of registry keys to select the language (which were present in his base package) so I've added them to the Dutch cab. If there are people who want me to add it to the other language cabs please ask and I will upload it here.
Please note that I can only edit the files which have the hardware keypad enabled which is stated in the post. See if your language is present here and if it is working with the hardware keypad. All credits go out to DupinBJK off course and all original files for the EzInput 1.5 keyboard can be found here
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Why Does Being Unable to Pre-Order Yeezus Matter?
You won't be able to preorder Kanye's newest, Yeezus, but that's not even kind of like a big deal.
How glorious Kanye's recent no-fucks-given run has been. You've got his expressionless SNL promo's. Premiering new songs on the side of buildings. Wearing masks (and skirts) during performances. Naming his album Yeezus. And now the most recent news that said album will not be available for pre-order.
And it seems to not even matter. Who do you know that pre-orders albums anyway? Seems like the most unnecessary exercise. Music is the most accessible media around, no one is securing themselves a chance to download something that can be downloaded an infinite number of times.
If anything, this impacts iTunes and other retailers the most. All of Kanye's moves have been to take power away from the institutions that profit off of artists. SNL won't get to use him in a skit or even be able to advertise or expect a performance of a popular song. Radio will not get the exclusive Kanye premiere, nope, that goes to a slab of concrete. And iTunes won't be able to make money off of any pre-orders, which usually come with exclusive bonus tracks to those who commit early.
It remains to be seen what kind of quality Yeezus will yield, but Kanye seems inspired. By the imminent birth of his child, by the MTV Hottest MC list, or maybe just by the ability to stick it to the man and flip him off as he walks away.


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If Mark Giordano is an underdog in the fight for a spot on the blueline, he doesn't know it -- or show it.
The undrafted free-agent signing scored a goal and added two assists for the Calgary Flames Saturday night in Chicago and now finds himself among the final 34 vying for a job after 16 players were re-assigned to the AHL Omaha Knights yesterday.
"I think of myself as a guy battling for a spot on this team," a confident Giordano said yesterday after morning practice. "I don't think it matters where you were drafted."
Or even if you were drafted, as fellow defenceman Steve Montador proved during the Flames' playoff run.
"If you perform, you're going to get a chance to play here," continued Giordano, who was inked in July of 2004.
The 6-ft., 203-lb. lefty is hoping to follow in Montador's footsteps. The difference may be Giordano's tremendous offensive upside, which he flashed during the Flames' penalty-plagued 5-4 pre-season loss to the Blackhawks.
"I think I got a bit lucky, too -- a couple of passes the guys just buried," confessed the 22-year-old. "Everything was going right."
Don't believe for a minute his flair is a fluke. Giordano enjoyed a pair of successful seasons -- at least on a personal level -- with the Owen Sound Attack in the Ontario Hockey League, scoring 32 goals and adding 65 assists in 133 regular-season games between 2002 and 2004. During training camp, Giordano has shown a knack for finding open ice and a playmaking ability with the puck. He translated that into the NHL pre-season Saturday night.
"Before the game, we were told, the young guys, you gotta show something out there. Contribute in some sort of way," Giordano said. "You can't just go out there and just watch. If you watch these guys, you get burnt. I just tried to bring what my assets are to the game."
Confidence was key to his success in junior. After spending last season in the AHL with the Lowell Lock Monsters and recovering fully from a wrist injury sustained in his final year with the Attack, Giordano's confidence may be at an all-time high.
After all, he's already made what's considered the biggest jump in hockey -- from junior to the American league.
"I think the biggest jump is from junior," agreed Giordano. "It's a pretty big jump. The first few games I was kind of like, 'Wow, it's a quick pace out here.' But you're amazed how fast you pick up on the speed of the game."
With the NHL lockout providing even more depth to the AHL talent pool in 2004-05, Giordano's 'jump' can be considered even bigger than usual.
"Last year, we were told the league was the best it's been in 10, 15 years," he said. "It helped playing with all those guys down there with good moves. It took me a while to adjust last year. I sat and watched a few games early in the season ... got into the lineup as the year went on and just kept learning. I just got more and more confident as the year went on."
Another injection of confidence came yesterday after avoiding an early trip to Omaha.
"My first goal is to make it here but if that doesn't work out, I'm just going to go down there and play my game," he said. "I'm going to try and contribute offensively, obviously, and be solid defensively. I thought that last year that's what I really improved, defensively in my own zone -- stick position and body positioning and making the good first pass. I'm going to keep trying to do that."


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Police Pursue Teen Who Tried to Snatch IDF Soldier's Weapon
Soldier lightly hurt in struggle with teen, apparently Arab, who fled the scene when attempts to take weapon failed.
Hadera police on Thursday pursued a teenager who was suspected of trying to snatch an Israel Defense Forces soldier's weapon near Hadera.
On Thursday afternoon, the police received a report that a soldier had been lightly hurt during a struggle with a teenager, apparently Arab, who tried to take his military issued weapon.
The soldier was apparently able to retain his weapon and defend himself, and the teen fled the scene. Hadera police set up roadblocks around the area, and questioned the soldier.
Witnesses told the police investigators that the suspect was spotted on a street in the area. Other witnesses said the suspect was seen getting into a truck which was later located at another Hadera junction. Police forces are investigating the incident.
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Every region has its own growing season, ranging from just a few days in the far North to all year long in the tropics. Understanding frost and freeze dates helps you plan your garden projects.
Frost-free days are your gardening window of opportunity. During the growing season, plants have time to mature, blooms to form and fruit or vegetables to ripen. Most vegetables purchased, whether seed or seedlings, will have a "days to maturity" listed on the tag or package.
Frost dates are based on historical data compiled by the United States Department of Agriculture, and should be used as a reference. The chance of an early or late surprise frost is always a possibility. The probability of frost or freeze is greatly affected by elevation, the direction of sunlight (north, south, east or west), prevailing winds and other factors. Cold air "drains" or flows down slopes to create frost pockets at the base of the slope. Valleys are more susceptible to frost. Areas near lakes or ponds are less likely. Spots sheltered by buildings get additional protection. A light breeze can reduce risk of frost, a cold wind can turn a mild frost into a killing freeze.
Frost occurs when water vapor freezes on a surface when the temperature reaches 32 degrees F or below. It usually occurs on a clear night when heat radiates up from the ground. Tiny ice crystals form when water vapor condenses. Similar to dew, the temperature at ground level is the key. The temperature there is often colder than the air temperature just a few feet higher. Tender plants need to be covered for protection from frost.
Freeze involves a 32 degree F surface temperature that lasts for a significant length of time. Frost is not necessarily present. Vegetation damage is usually a result. Hard freeze is usually defined as 25 degrees F or below. The term killing freeze or frost depends upon the hardiness of the plant and the level of exposure.
Freeze warnings are issued in spring and fall as the first frost and freeze conditions begin to appear. For a quick reference use the chart below:
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A simple wooden frame can be draped with the cloth or plastic sheets. The radiated heat will be kept inside.
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CruCon Cruise Outlet donates 10,000 to the Children's Caring Cancer Center
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MOULTONBOROUGH — CruCon Cruise Outlet in Moultonborough donated $10,000 to the Children's Caring Cancer Center (CCCC), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping children and their families cope with cancer and its complications.
Sandra Cleary, President of CruCon responded to a request by Keith Lane, Vice President of North American Sales for Celebrity Cruises, who is also a board member of the CCCC. "We represent many of the major cruise lines, and when we heard that Celebrity Cruises was working with Children's Caring Cancer Center, we saw a perfect opportunity to help them support this dedicated effort," said Cleary.
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Collectible Coin Protection Act - Amends the Hobby Protection Act to make it a violation of such Act for a person to provide substantial assistance or support to any manufacturer, importer, or seller if that person knows or consciously avoids knowing that such manufacturer, importer, or seller has engaged in any act or practice that violates requirements for plainly identifying imitation political items or imitation coins and other numismatic items. Provides that if such a violation also involves the unauthorized use of registered trademarks belonging to a collectibles certification service, the owner of such trademarks shall also have all rights provided under appropriate provisions of the Trademark Act of 1946.


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Skirting the Issue with Faux Stone Panels
Mobile homes and prefab houses are an affordable and practical way to live; but not always the most beautiful. Our faux stone panels used as mobile home skirting or in other applications can help give any trailer or prefab a unique and stylish look, and offer other practical benefits people might not have though of before.
The eponymous prefab started to become popular in the United States following World War II, when returning soldiers sought to capitalize on the "G.I. Bill" to find their own slice of the American dream.
Produced cheaply and quickly in factories, these prefabricated and modular homes are normally transported to their final destination by flatbed truck; and then installed on foundations similar to regular homes.
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There is much more to Yeardley Smith than most people realize. Yes, she's best-known for voicing the character of Lisa Simpson, the wise and thoughtful 8-year-old vegetarian saxophonist in the animated series The Simpsons--now the longest running sitcom in U.S. history, Smith tells us proudly. But she's also had a varied career in theatre, film, and television that runs the gamut from never-aired pilots, straight-to-video projects, and the worst Stephen King movie ever (Maximum Overdrive), to acclaimed television series (Dharma & Greg, Dead Like Me), hit features (City Slickers), and Broadway (The Real Thing).
But it was never enough. She was never enough. The craving to have more, to be more, led her into decades of self-destructive behavior that began in earnest in adolescence when a friend taught her how to stay thin by eating, drinking lots of fluids as a necessary lubricant, and then vomiting to get rid of it all. The bulimia stayed with her for 25 years, eventually morphing into an addictive cycle of liposuction.
Along the way, Smith sought help from countless therapists, endured a creepy extortion attempt from her tile man, has been married twice (this one happy), won an Emmy for her portrayal of Lisa Simpson, and wrote this play. Only recently has she realized that the years of overwhelming fear, self-sabotage, and frantic efforts to fix what was damaged inside by changing her outsides was rooted largely in childhood guilt: insecurity over not being enough; daring to dream of fame, success, and having more than she had; and then being audacious enough to go for it.
Director Judith Ivey and Smith's script maintain a fairly light tone throughout the 90-minute intermissionless show. The serious issues are addressed honestly but not heavy-handedly. Smith has a charming, easygoing manner and a self-deprecating sense of humor that help to make uneasy moments bearable. Jeremy Pivnick's glowing lighting design compliments Keith E. Mitchell's simple, candy-colored set, which gives Smith stairs to climb, a wipe-board to put to greatly entertaining use, and plenty of moving-about room. She could hardly ask for more.


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Qatar's United Development Company (UDC) intends to raise QR4.28 billion ($1.18bn) through a rights issue and offer a 30 per cent bonus share issue, a company statement said.
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This week it's a road trip to New Orleans with guests Leah Chase of the legendary Dooky Chase Restaurant, journalist Lolis Eric Elie, WWNO's Poppy Tooker host of Louisianna Eats! and mixologist Chris McMillian. Jane and Michael Stern escort us around the annual Roadfood Festival. [Broadcast Date: September 22, 2012]
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