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Nearly 40 percent of Connecticut residents are on the brink of financial calamity, according to a report released today by a nationwide public-policy group that tracks efforts to improve conditions for the poor and middle class.
The Washington-based Corporation for Enterprise Development said in its annual Assets & Opportunity Scorecard that Connecticut falls in the middle among all states in terms of how residents are faring financially. Yet, though the state has some of the best policies to help working families, the percentage of Connecticut residents who are only a layoff or health crisis away from serious financial difficulty increased by more than 2 percentage points last year, the group said.
"Five years into the economic recovery, millions of American families are still treading water in the deep end," the report said.
The report defined families as being financially insecure if they lacked savings to cover expenses at the federal poverty level for more than three months after a personal emergency. A family of four in Connecticut would need nearly $6,000 to pay for basic expenses over a three-month period, but 39.3 percent of the population lacks any such cushion, according to the report.
"Growing numbers of middle class households in our state fall short of that amount," the report said.
Deborah Monahan, executive director of the Thames Valley Council for Community Action, said Tuesday she has noted a growing population in eastern Connecticut requiring assistance in the past few years. Last heating season, for instance, more than 10,000 applications were taken for energy assistance, and this season - with two more months left in the high-demand period - the agency has seen 8,000 applications.
Even people with full-time jobs are having a hard time making ends meet, she said, as the cost of food, fuel, health care and insurance continues to erode paychecks.
"It's very symptomatic of the shrinking middle class," Monahan said.
Compounding the problem, she added, is the soft job market locally and the many layoffs seen at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc., the region's two casinos and other major employers.
"It does put people into a tailspin," she said. "It is very distressing to be employed 10, 15, 20 years and then to see yourself all of a sudden unemployed."
Kristin Lawton, communications director for the policy group, said Connecticut numbers were derived from a Census Bureau survey that looks at families' liquid assets, including money in bank accounts, stocks and even retirement assets such as 401(k)s. The numbers do not take into account assets such as real estate or business ownership.
"It's a pretty scary situation," Lawton said.
Connecticut ranked fifth among all states in its policy response to the current economic climate, according to the report, with the fourth lowest percentage of households in poverty. Its overall state rating last year, despite the decline in residents' ability to fight through hard times, improved from 29th to 25th.
But Connecticut residents also had the highest average credit card debt, more than $14,000, and also fell near the bottom in terms of housing affordability. The divide between whites and minorities in terms of home ownership was fourth highest in the nation.
"We need to stand behind asset-building tools that help working families to make ends meet, like Connecticut's Earned Income Tax Credit," Ellen Shemitz, executive director for the advocacy group Connecticut Voices for Children, said in a statement. "Connecticut should follow the lead of New York state in establishing a Child Tax Credit, which would improve tax fairness for families and help keep kids out of poverty."
Other key findings of the report were:
• Connecticut's poverty rate was 10.4 percent, better than the national rate of 14.7 percent. But the state's asset poverty rate was 30.2 percent, higher than the nationwide rate of 25.4 percent.
• College debt was up 8 percent in the most recent nationwide figures. Students now are nearly $30,000 in debt, on average, by the time they graduate.
• Only 44 percent of employers nationwide are funding retirement plans, down from 47 percent a few years earlier.
• Minority households are closing the gap nationally, but have only about 10 percent the net worth of white households.
• Minorities' rate of homeownership is 46 percent nationally, versus 72 percent for whites.
• Connecticut is one of only eight states that has adopted at least half of the policies identified as supporting family financial security. The others are New York, Maryland, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maine, Washington and Minnesota.
Connecticut report highlights
39% - Households financially insecure
49% - Consumers with subprime credit
9% - Residents in low-wage jobs
37% -Adults with at least a four-year degree
Source: Corporation for Enterprise Development
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It may just be that my passport is from the U. S., not Canada, but I don't think that Customs Canada has ever checked my items, and if asked, I always just say that they came with me from Canada and that they are returning with me. Six years in Canada, crossing the border at least three times (each way) a year, and I have yet to have any issue--even when I actually was importing over my limit, and declared it, they still didn't seem to care, and never issued me duties. Now, I am traveling with two Digital Rebels, four lenses, and a bunch of computer stuff, so perhaps if you have obvious professional-grade gear this is different.Now that I know about the form, I will probably fill it out just to be safe.
I've been traveling across the Canada / US and Canada / international border many hundreds of times over the past 30-40 years and have never ever been asked by customs to look at my camera gear. Not once. Nor do I know anyone else that ever has.Yes, it's the safest thing to do, to register ones serial numbers, but I wouldn't lose a milliseconds sleep over not doing it.Michael
If you plan to spend 4 weeks or more in Canada you will need a visa - this was told to me on my last two trips north - my last two trips were 6 to 8 weeks long each.It is wise to have U.S. customs register every serial number just in case Canadian customs wants to collect tax on your equipment because they think you've purchased it in Canada.On my last journey l had to leave after 8 weeks - as that was the length of my visa, ironic considering l was just dumping cash into their economy (hotel, gas, food, etc...)! Go figure.Kind regards,Derek
Don't worry DerekSame applies for all the Canadians flying down to Miami and CA. to shoot all their catalogues.It would be interesting to see how much in still productions go south every year?I think more than going north.all the bestr

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16 weeks
Speaking of which, here's your 16 week picture, pervs.
In the interest of uniformity of variables I'm trying to take all such pics first thing in the morning, because due to the happy effects of progesterone (and smooth muscle relaxing properties thereof) the different between AM and PM is obviously not at all related to uterine distension but nonetheless enormous. Literally. The night bloats, am I right, ladies? It also does not help that I have only one pair of maternity pants left in my closet--unless you count scrubs, in which case I have a hundred pairs. Apologies, however, for that fact that this particular pair is weirdly baggy in the crotch and makes me look like I am sporting a monster dong. (They are from one of our outpatient orthopedic surgery centers, if that explains anything.)
Back to the subject of paranoia, my OB offered to take a look at gender parts tomorrow (they don't routinely do an ultrasound at 16 weeks but he is very nice and after exchanging the Secret Doctor Handshake he said that if we wanted he could do a quick peek as "a courtesy")
(There isn't really a secret doctor handshake)
(There is an encoded medallion that you hold up to the sun on the solstice, however, that shows you the location of the hidden tomb of Hippocrates)
...but really, I don't care if Thing 3 is a boy or a girl so long as s/he is healthy. I know everyone says that and it's true, but we all know that in medicine, especially those of us with a background in Pediatrics, have seen Very Bad Things and it seems like whenever you're trying not to worry about Bad Things, it's all you can think about. So here's to normal exams and good results, right? Of course the genitalia of the fetus is almost certainly one of the least important parts of an anatomic survey, but of course I am a good little monkey and always very CURIOUS.
Hope you had a good weekend and all that.
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"There is a encoded medallion that you hold up to the sun on the solstice, however, that shows you the location of the hidden tomb of Hippocrates"ReplyDelete
you crack me up, really...!
Health aside (& I don't mean that lightly), I think most of us would have a niggling little wish inside for a gender of the opposite sex after having two boys or two girls...
You are truly hilarious. The pants, the secret handshake and encoded medallion - water came out of my nose. Also, I am really thrilled that we happen to be pregnant at the same time.
I have been your loyal blog-reader since 2006, and I have a favor to ask you:
I am 15 weeks pregnant and a fourth year medical student, making my baby due....July of my intern year. I seem to remember you were in a similar position when Cal was born, having just switched programs. If you could lie to me and tell me that it will all be awesome, that would be great. Thank you!!!
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ha! i am both an OB resident AND found out I was pregnant while on a NICU rotation. That is definitely the worst combination ever. I'm feeling the little avocado (apple, orange, whatever is equivalent to 17 weeks) move now, so that gives me some measure of reassurance; however, it's a daily battle to combat the anxiety and just enjoy the pregnancy.ReplyDelete
Also, amen on the bloat. I doubt the people who quizzically raise an eyebrow when comparing the size of my bump with the gestational age want to hear about the, ahem... GI changes associated with pregnancy.
"Monster dong" -- You totally made my morning.ReplyDelete
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 2, 2013) – Each week during the volleyball season members of the ETSU volleyball team will be featured in a segment called "Getting to Know You."
The third volleyball player to be featured is sophomore middle blocker Khadijah Wiley (Columbus, Ga). During the preseason, the players were given the questionnaire, which can be found below, and each of them submitted their answers. Below are the responses by Wiley:
Academic Major: Exercise Science
Favorite Song: "Resentment" by Beyoncé
Favorite Actor/Actress: Sandra Bullock
Favorite Book: "Fifty Shades of Grey" by E.L. James
Favorite Movie: "Love and Basketball"
Favorite TV Show: "Grey's Anatomy" and "The Big Bang Theory"
Favorite Food: Dressing
Favorite Animal: Lion
Favorite Ice Cream: Vanilla
Favorite Sports Moment: Kobe Bryant scoring 81 points
Favorite Quote: "Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game." – Michael Jordan
Favorite Athlete: Kobe Bryant
Favorite Subject in School: Math
Favorite Vacation Spot: Orlando, Florida
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If you could be on any reality TV show what would it be and why?
What is one thing you can't live without and why?
If you were stranded on an island what are two things you would bring with you?
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If you could be one person for a day, who would you be and why?
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Princess Beatrix, the former Dutch queen, has undergone surgery after falling and breaking a cheekbone, the Royal House announced Sunday.
Beatrix, 75, was operated on Sunday morning after the fall and will remain hospitalized for a few days.
After 33 years on the throne, Beatrix was replaced as Dutch monarch on April 30 this year by her eldest son Willem-Alexander.
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This is the mother who suffered 40% burns when transferring fuel from a petrol can in her kitchen, following advice from a government minister to keep fuel at home in a jerry can.
According to The Sun, a fireball engulfed Hill, 46.
Peter Hudson, of North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said the fuel she was decanting ignited as she was using the cooker at the time. She was attempting to transfer the petrol from one container to another using a jug for her daughter's car.
Her current condition is critically ill.
Next-door neighbour Margot Johnston, 86, said she'd "never seen anything like it": "I had been gardening and came in to make myself a cup of tea and I was aware of a cloud of smoke coming over the hedge.
"I thought because it was a lovely day that they must be having a barbecue.
"Then I noticed there was someone in the garden who seemed to be on fire.
"One of the daughters was in the garden and I said 'Have you phoned for the ambulance?' and she said she had.
"Even all through the war I had never seen anything like it."
The row threatens cabinet minister Francis Maude who had previously advised members of the public to keep a bit of fuel in a "jerry ken" in their garage - advice condemned by the Fire Brigades Union as illegal.
The Fire Brigades Union has since called on the government to make an urgent public safety announcement highlighting the dangers of petrol in the home after Hill's accident.
It led Labour MP Karl Turner to call for Maude to resign, tweeting:
Labour MP John Mann is also calling upon Maude to resign. In a statement he said "This is precisely what the fire brigade warned against and the current panic is a direct result of Francis Maude's rash and foolish reaction to negative press on pasty's and number 10 dinners we are now in a position where a woman's life has been placed in danger. Francis Maude should now be considering the consequences of his actions and do the decent thing and resign".
Any threatened strike has now been put off until Easter as union Unite, the government and haulage companies carry out talks with conciliatory service Acas.
North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service's Hudson said: "Members of the public should take extreme care when handling and storing petrol and be aware of the risks associated with incorrect use and storage of fuel.
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"In domestic situations fuel containers must not be stored in living accommodation such as kitchens, living rooms and bedrooms or under staircases.
"Any storage place should be well away from living areas and be secured to protect against the possibility of vandalism or arson."
He continued: "Never bring petrol inside your home. If you do smell petrol fumes in a garage or outbuilding ventilate the area and make sure nobody smokes or turns electrical switches on or off. The slightest spark could cause an explosion."


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Ever heard of a company called Green Power Inc.? How about a waste-to-fuel process called catalytic pressure-less depolymerization, or CDP for short?
I'm no engineer, and I didn't understand a third of what I looked at, but this interesting company reputedly takes everything from plastics, discarded tires, waste oils, medical wastes, biological materials such as wood pulp, leftover refinery tars, even spoiled foood and makes diesel fuel out of it -- all using a nice handy refinery system build into a 53-foot truck trailer.
It sounds too good to be true -- and lord knows I've seen a lot of snake oil in my short time covering this industry -- but you can't help but be curious about this. Green Power reportedly uses special crystal catalysts that, combined with their unique mobile refinery process, makes diesel fuel with a cetane rating above 54, a fuel Green Power calls 'NanoDiesel.'
Now, mind you, I saw this on the Waste Expo trade show floor, without any independent chemist at hand to tell me if this is really feasible on a large scale. But you can't help but think about the possibilities -- turning all those landfills scattered across the U.S. into our very own Saudi-style oil fields -- no drilling necessary. Heck, we wouldn't have a littering problem in the U.S. anymore if this process really worked, because everyone would carefully hoard their garbage as raw fuel stock for their cars and trucks.
Of course, this fuel has to be tested using the SAE standards we all know and love to see if it really works for commercial trucks. But I really hope someone does step up to test NanoDiesel very soon. Check out Green Power at www.CleanEnergyProjects.com and tell me what you think.


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End of year examinations
Started by John Perkins , Feb 22 2012 12:32 PM
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 12:32 PM
Currently looking at the use of examinations at the end of year 9 and wondered what people thought. It is not to take the GCSE I might hasten to add but to give an NC level. I am unconvinced this will give me a more accurate set of data due to those no longer taking the subject maybe no making much effort. There is also the issue in my mind in terms of what kind of examination to set. To create an examination that tackles different skills which I think then brings in the question how to level the work. What do other people do already?
Posted 23 February 2012 - 05:58 AM
We're starting to put in place cut-down gcse style papers, a 4 marker perhaps ,with a 'what is the message of this cartoon' type question (we do MW). You can write GCSE type questions that address issues like interpretation and significance, as well as the more prosaic causation type foci. I'll admit we've not quite bottomed out how to make this fit with 'levels', but I think that once we've got a few under our belt we'll be able to work this part out. We've done some with year 8 and 9. We're not going to base the whole decision about end of KS levels on this though.
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 08:23 AM
I have tried a similar thing with year 7 as a type of baseline test but here the proviso is that the students sit an exam that can be used to infom (possibly the TMG). My idea is to set a paper in the style of paper 1a Edexcel and then to link the levels to % that are used for the grade boundaries that the board use ie 60% for a L5 which will give a TMG of a C. It is obviously not really how the NC was designed to be used but is the best fit idea that I have at the moment.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 08:58 AM
I am a fan of end of Year exams for many reasons, including getting kids used to working in timed conditions but I think that over linking them to deciding on levels doesn't work very well. We have 3 common assessments a year and an end of year exam in each year of Key Stage 3 but the level is always decided on a best fit basis and the teacher's professional understanding of the pupil. It is important to remember that the levels were always designed to be best fit and based on understanding and progress across the concepts and processes of the National Curriculum. This is quite different from the kind of GCSE requirements of a source test which might end up being set.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 10:52 AM
What kind of questions do you set? Do you get them to do an essay or a range of questions?
Posted 23 February 2012 - 03:19 PM
I agree: NC levels are a best fit scenario so we do 2 assessments, one in Nov and another in March. And they are interesting ones so that even those who haven't chosen History want to complete them. (We start GCSEs in the last half term of the year).
I have done end of year exams and although it is good practise for timing etc (although don't they get taught this in y 10 anyway?), the amount of time spent on writing and marking it in comparison with how useful the outcome is to teachers and students has always suggested to me that it isn't worth it.
Most importantly: look at what else you have to mark/ do at the time you would set it and make your decision then.
I have done end of year exams and although it is good practise for timing etc (although don't they get taught this in y 10 anyway?), the amount of time spent on writing and marking it in comparison with how useful the outcome is to teachers and students has always suggested to me that it isn't worth it.
Most importantly: look at what else you have to mark/ do at the time you would set it and make your decision then.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 03:56 PM
I have never really gone in for end of year exams either as I think the in class stuff I do is fine anyway. Their is just the idea that they need to do something formal and a grade needs to come from that. I am really just trying to come up with two ideas then picking he one that I think will be the best for the students. Really interested to see what kind of exam papers people have used or do use.
Posted 24 February 2012 - 09:58 AM
Thanks for the feedback so far. Both confirm what I think already but there is pretty much the assertion that an exam must take place. In the past I have shared my resources on here and rarely download myself but this is one occasion where if someone could PM me an example of their test they use then I would be grateful.
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Increased Funding and Federal Matching Rate for Medicaid
In American Samoa, the ACA makes the largest impact on the Territory's Medicaid program, a program jointly funded by the Federal Government and the American Samoa Government (ASG). Housed under the Governor's Office, the State Medicaid Office administers the Medicaid program in the Territory under the provision of Section 1902(j) of the Social Security Act. The provision acts as a broad waiver from State Medicaid requirements and specifies only three constraints: no federal financial participation beyond the federal fiscal cap in Section §1108(f) of the Act, no waiver for the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP), and no claims allowed outside of certain services specified under Section 1905(a) of the Act.
Therefore, ASG is granted flexibility to design the Territory's Medicaid Program to suit the unique needs of the population. ASG does not determine Medicaid eligibility based on an individual's income but instead utilizes a system of "presumed eligibility," meaning that each year the percentage of the population (excluding tourists and non residents) below 200% of the poverty level is estimated and, after approval of the estimate, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pay expenditures for Medicaid based on that percentage. Currently, the percentage hovers around 88% and the majority of funding is used for services at LBJ Medical Tropical Center (LBJ).
As noted, American Samoa faces two key challenges in Medicaid funding under the Social Security Act: 1) a statutory funding cap under Section 1108(f); and 2) a statutory limit on the federal matching rate under Section 1905(b), known as the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) which was previously fixed at 50 percent.
The ACA gave American Samoa a $180 million increase in the Territory's Medicaid statutory cap over a nine year period, from 2011 through 2019, lifting the overall cap to $285.5 million in Medicaid funding over the nine-year period. Overall the five U.S. Territories – including American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI) – received an increase of $6.3 billion in the statutory cap from 2011 through 2019. The law also increased the Territories' FMAP from 50 to 55 percent federal share. Accordingly, for every dollar of Medicaid funding spent in the Territory, the Federal Government will now pay 55%, matched by a 45% ASG share.
Funding for Health Care Insurance Exchange or Increased Medicaid Funding
The ACA also allowed American Samoa to opt into the Health Care Insurance Exchange (Exchange) which is a centerpiece of the Act's sweeping health care reforms. The Exchange increases access to affordable health care through an online competitive insurance marketplace for individuals who do not receive health insurance from their employers.
In March 2011, through the ACA, the Federal Government granted ASG a $1 million Territory Establishment Grant to assist American Samoa in meeting an October 2013 deadline to determine if the Exchange was suitable for the Territory. If ASG opted in, the ACA would have provided implementation funding starting January 2014. However, since ASG opted out, according to a March 21, 2012 press release by Governor Togiola, the ACA now permits the funding to instead be distributed towards American Samoa's Medicaid program from 2014 through 2019.
While American Samoa's actual funding allocation is yet to be finalized by the Secretary of USDHHS, Section 1323 of the ACA attributes $75 million to be shared among American Samoa, Guam, USVI, and CNMI. American Samoa could expect approximately $16.5 million if the funding is calculated with the same ratio as the four Territories' latest Medicaid grants.
Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Benefits for Seniors
Another major goal of the ACA that hits home in American Samoa is prescription drug cost relief for Medicare beneficiaries who fall into what is called the "donut hole" coverage gap. Through various measures, the ACA attempts to close this gap by 2020. For example, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) issued $250 one-time, tax-free rebate checks to assist eligible seniors in American Samoa in purchasing their prescriptions.
Starting in 2011, eligible beneficiaries in the coverage gap also received a 50 percent discount on covered brand name medications and Medicare also began paying 7 percent of the cost of generic drugs for these seniors. In 2010 and 2011, more than 5.1 million seniors and people with disabilities nationwide saved more than $3.2 billion on prescription drugs, an average of $635 each.
Support for Consumer Protections, Health Centers, Children's Health, and Substance Abuse Prevention
Since 2010, the ACA has also provided approximately $4.2 million to American Samoa through four additional programs. First, the ACA provided ASG $1 million through the Grants to States for Health Insurance Premium Review Program, also known as the Rate Review Grant, to help American Samoa protect private consumers from unwarranted premium increases by their insurance provider.
Secondly, the law increased funding towards American Samoa's community health centers, totaling $1.1 million, towards expanding preventative and primary health care services, creating new sites, increasing patient reach, and/or supporting construction and renovation. Third, the ACA also gave American Samoa $1.5 million for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program which supports children's health and development through healthcare, early education, parent education, child abuse prevention, and nutrition.
Lastly, the ACA has already provided $600,000 in Prevention and Public Health Fund to enhance American Samoa's substance abuse prevention efforts. Over a five-year grant period, American Samoa may receive up to $8.3 million towards these efforts through the USDHHS' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment activities.
The benefits of the Affordable Care Act for American Samoa total over $300 million, not to mention access to crucial program support that enhances delivery of services to our people.
Over the next eight years until FY 2019, our Medicaid program will have the capacity to benefit from an additional $180 million for the Territory's health care needs. The territory will benefit from additional funding to Medicaid in lieu of the Health Insurance Exchange funding, and eligible seniors covered under Medicare will receive much-needed assistance in paying for their prescriptions drugs.
In addition to the consumer protections in the ACA, funding under the Rate Review Grant will enhance American Samoa's efforts to protect private insurance consumers from unreasonable, unjustifiable, and excessive premium increases."
Furthermore, millions of dollars in supplemental grants will enhance American Samoa's public health efforts for infants and children, patients seeking primary and preventative care at our community health centers, and individuals who are seeking treatment for substance abuse. These are all victories for American Samoa.
For these many reasons, I remain a strong supporter of the ACA and give my assurance to the people of American Samoa that I will continue to work with my Congressional colleagues to protect these crucial federal programs for our people.
I once again applaud the Supreme Court for its decision to uphold Obamacare, and most of all, its comprehensive healthcare policy goals that support the health care needs of our Nation and the people of American Samoa.
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The folks over at The Daily News compiled an amazing gallery of New York City snowpocalypse photographs from past decades. It was a simpler time when snowdrifts were melted with flamethrowers, back in 1947.
An abandoned train on an elevated pass in Third Avenue.
Here are some firefighters trying to "free up equipment completely encrusted in ice" after a fire alarm in 1983.
Cars trapped in the Brooklyn Queens Expressway in 1983.
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Real Men Make Cupcakes
Geoff Hamilton and Jeremy Wong are men. What it is to be one doesn't come easily these days but one thing they both knew was, cupcakes are girly, not manly.
"We didn't want frilly cupcakes with inches of icing smeared on top," says Hamilton.
"One day we were eating cupcakes and they felt uncreative to us. We kept batting around the ideas of what we'd do if we were making them. The more we talked, we thought, let's just do it. We pooled our resources and made it happen."
And thus, they begat ManCakes Bakery in Port Moody, with cupcakes for real men. "Bold and savoury cupcakes that you won't be embarrassed to eat!" proclaims the website.
Excuse me but after seeing the names and flavours of their cupcakes, I'm wondering confines their cupcakes to men? Maybe the company name needs changing to include females who like bold, gutsy flavours. Ballsy Bakery? Killer Kupcakes?
Here are some of 10 ManCakes flavours. Buffalo Wing (spice base with baked blue cheesecake mousse, topped with hot sauce buttercream and crispy chicken skin sprinkles). Breakfast (vanilla base with bacon and egg custard filling topped with maple syrup buttercream and granola tuile). Whiskey Lime (spice base with whiskey ganache, topped with white chocolate lime icing and lime sugar). Bacon Chili Chocolate (chocolate base filled with ancho chili chocolate buttercream, topped with vanilla buttercream and crumbled bacon). Chocolate Red Wine (chocolate base filled with mascarpone mousse and red wine gelee, topped with vanilla buttercream and dark chocolate disk). There's more but you get the idea. They're not the first in North America to seize upon cupcakes for men – Butch Bakery in New York City and Big Man Bakes in Los Angeles were onto it before ManCakes.
And, get this. About 80 per cent of ManCakes customers are women. "I'm not exactly sure if they're buying them for themselves or their boyfriends. A lot are gifts for boyfriends and it's going to be huge with Father's Day coming up."
Their cupcakes are available online (www.ManCakesBakery.com) with delivery as well as at a new Kerrisdale butcher shop, Pete's Meat Butcher Shop and Deli at 2817 Arbutus St.
I stopped in there en route to an interview one day and bought a few in the mini-sizes. For man cakes, the cute little minis don't get you growling over your prey because they vanish in a bite. I'd recommend going for the big man size to be able to close your eyes and savour.
Online, Mancakes are $20 for per half dozen. With tax and delivery, it's $28.40 but delivery is free for orders of three or more six-packs. Not cheap but they are unique and labour intensive (each has house-made fillings).
What'd I think of them? I like that it's not overly sweet and that it's not heavily iced. The cake is good with a buttery flavour. It's a two-thumbs up for flavour and novelty.
Cupcake historians trace the individualized cakes back to the late 1700s in England. They were baked in cups and instead of measuring ingredients by weight and bakers had a handy-dandy cupcake recipe guide: 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour and 4 eggs. Easy as 1-2-3-4.
Cakes made by weight were referred to as pound cakes.
And I could quite understand why cupcakes took a frilly turn. They're small and cute and once the gourmet gang took it over – well, can you imagine Martha Stewart signing off on something that's not pretty and pastel?
Not so with Hamilton and Wong. Pretty is boring.
"We are men. We have taste buds," they say. "Where were the unique flavours? Where was the concern for what tastes good instead of what just looks good?"
A-men, men!
But hold on. They're not completely knuckle-dragging masculinity. They're both cheerleaders. That is, they teach cheerleading in Coquitlam. "Jeremy grew up as a gymnast and they recruited him and when I was in university, I saw cheerleading and was intrigued," says Hamilton.
And, asked if he's afraid of pink, Hamilton says he's not afraid of anything and beat his chest. (Made the last part up.) He pointed out the Pink Peppercorn Grapefruit mancake (vanilla base with a blast of pink grapefruit, topped with vanilla buttercream, mini shortbread and ground pink peppercorn). "It's a flavour for my girlfriend," he admits.
They'd have to keep up with the cheerleader coaching. "I'm a cupcake eater," says Hamilton. "I eat a lot of our product. We take our quality control seriously. I cheerlead it away."


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Looks like Chicago's had its first snub of 2013--advocate.com released its list of Gayest Cities in America.
Chicago seems like it would be a shoo-in for a list like this--but the Windy City was nowhere to be found. What Illinois city did make the list? Peoria.
But according to Advocate's Editor in Chief Matthew Breen, Chicago's prominent gay culture may be the very reason it didn't make the list (New York, L.A., San Francisco and Miami were also neglected).
"The list deliberately defied expectations," Breen said.
So how was the list compiled?
"We used a method that employs less obvious, less expected factors," Breen said. "We included cities that had some of the things the GLBT community likes."
Breen mentioned certain concerts (including the "Glee" live show) and activities such as roller derby.
"The list really sparks conversation," Breen said.
He created the list himself, and he intended for it to surprise people. Breen said that if less cosmopolitan cities were mentioned on the list, their locals would likely ask themselves "are we really a gay-friendly city?"
Breen did agree that with our neighborhoods, nightlife and entertainment scene, Chicago is still a great place for the gay community.
"Chicago is a fantastic place," he said. "There's no doubt in our minds."
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If you are not married, the decision about when to claim Social Security comes down to economics: If you wait until you are full retirement age to file, you'll get 100% of the benefit you have earned. Claiming benefits before this date (as early as age 62) means you'll get less, and delaying claims (no later than age 70) could make your monthly check 32% higher.
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The decision becomes significantly more complex for married couples. Not only must each spouse consider the financial impact of when they file (the age they start), married individuals have additional choices as to how they can file. If the goal is to maximize their joint benefit, a couple must weigh the various combinations of ages (the "when") and strategies (the "how") very carefully. The wrong choice can mean tens of thousands of dollars less in income in retirement.
Figuring this out isn't easy. The Social Security website provides a benefit calculator that enables you to estimate your benefit at different ages. Unfortunately, it will not allow you to integrate your benefit with your spouse's to test various joint claiming scenarios.
Because the Social Security claiming rules can seem devilishly complex, mistakes--expensive ones--get made. One of the more common ones involves the ability to switch from one type of benefit to another.
Here's an example:
Fred and Wilma have been married for 35 years. In September she will turn 62 and Fred will celebrate his 66th birthday. They both have a full retirement age (FRA) of 66.
Fred and Wilma are joint owners of a quarry, which Fred has run for the past three decades. Wilma was an executive there for several years, but took time off to raise their daughter, Pebble. When Pebble went off to Slippery Rock University, Wilma returned to work as the manager of the company. Because Wilma spent 11 years as a stay-at-home mom, Fred's Social Security benefit is significantly larger.
Fred and Wilma plan to start receiving Social Security in September. At that point, Wilma will be eligible for two types of benefits: one based upon her own earnings record and a spousal benefit based upon Fred's earnings history. In either case, the amount that Wilma will receive will be reduced due to the fact that she will be starting Social Security before she herself is full retirement age. Under this scenario, here's what the benefit amounts look like for Wilma at age 62:
Wilma will not receive both amounts. Instead, Social Security will pay her whichever benefit is larger. In this case, it's the benefit she earned. That's fine with Wilma, because it is $45 per month higher. She figures that when she turns 66 (FRA), she'll just switch over to her 50% spousal benefit of $900/month.
That is impossible.
Because she is under full retirement age when she started Social Security, Wilma is locked into the type of benefit she receives at that time. She cannot switch from one based on her own earnings to a spousal benefit based upon Fred's when she reaches FRA. (3)
Most people are shocked to learn this.
The only condition that will allow Wilma to change the type of benefit she is receiving is Fred's death. At that point, she will be eligible for a widow's benefit equal to the amount Fred was receiving when he died.
In fact, the only individual who can switch from one type of benefit (their own to a spouse-based one or vice versa) is a widow, widower or "surviving divorced spouse." This individual has more flexibility than any other type of spouse beneficiary.
For instance, a widow(4) could start a benefit based upon her dead spouse's earnings record as early as age 60 and two years later change over to one based upon her own earnings record, if that would result in a bigger benefit. Or, she might choose to receive a widow's benefit until she reaches full retirement age and then switch to her own benefit, receiving 100% of what she has earned herself. She could also delay claiming her own benefit until age 70, which would boost her check by at least 32% over her full retirement age amount.
A widow can also change the type of Social Security benefit she is receiving when her marital status changes. For instance, she begins a widow's benefit at age 61 after her first husband dies. Two years later she re-marries. At that point, she can choose to switch to a "current spouse" benefit based upon the earnings of her new husband, if that would result in more money.
Yes, this is complicated. But it's worth the time and effort to make the smart choice. If you realize later that you took the wrong approach, you only have a limited amount of time to rectify the situation.
1. Based upon the fact that Wilma was born during 1943-1954, her own benefit would be reduced by 25% if she starts in the month she turns 62.
2. Reduction is applied to $900, which is 50% of Fred's benefit at full retirement age. The percentage reduction for the spousal benefit is calculated as 25/36 of 1% per month for the first 36 months and 5/12 of 1% for each additional month. Based upon the year Wilma was born and the fact that she would be starting benefits at age 62, her spousal benefit would be reduced 30%.
3. The same is true of someone who is receiving a "divorced spouse" benefit based upon the earnings record of their ex.
4. For the sake of simplicity, the term "widow" is used in all examples. However, the same options are available to "widowers" and "surviving divorced spouses."


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Rice farmers in the Missouri Bootheel planted a surprising number of acres in 2010, 244,000 certified acres to be exact. Donn Beighley, who handles the rice specialist duties for the region, says the 24 percent increase was unexpected. Rice yields and milling quality were also better than expected when producers were able to plant in early April, which is becoming the preferred time for seeding the Bootheel rice crop. Beighley was interviewed following his presentation at the USA Rice Outlook Conference in Biloxi, Miss.
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Complete series of 'Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends' arrives on DVD
FROSTBITE FALLS, Minn. — Classic Media and Bullwinkle Studios are bringing the complete series "Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends" to DVD in a collectible-edition box set.
As the first-ever complete compilation of the hit animated television series, the 18-disc collection includes a number of special features, such as "Goof Gas Outtake" (a.k.a. "The Longest Laugh in History"), an on-camera interview with actress June Foray (the voice of Rocky) and more. There also are collectibles, including "Frostbite Falls Field Guide to a Moose, a Squirrel and a Royal Canadian Mountie" by Keith Scott and a "Loyal Viewer" award.
"Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends: The Complete Series" is available for a suggested retail price of $99.98.
Coming off strong Q1, Walgreens' Dec. sales grow
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Shortly after announcing a record-setting first quarter last month, Walgreens reported on Wednesday that its December sales rose 7.5% to $6.8 billion.
The chain said that Duane Reade stores, which Walgreens acquired in April 2010, contributed 2.5 percentage points.
Meanwhile, Walgreens also raked in a 9.5% increase for its total front-end sales, thanks to a spike in customer traffic and basket size. Pharmacy sales for the chain, which accounted for 58.6% of total sales for the month, saw a 6% boost.
Same-store sales for the drug store chain rose 2.8%, including a 3.6% rise in comparable front-end sales — the highest increase the chain realized in 14 months — and a 2.2% rise in comparable pharmacy sales.
During the month of December, Walgreens opened three stores, including one relocation, and acquired three stores.
Supplier survey: Working with Walmart
ROGERS, Ark. — If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Walmart's suppliers are the window to its future, thanks to the truly unique relationship the retailer enjoys with its trading partners. Walmart brought new meaning to the concept of collaboration when it pursued a strategy of data transparency decades ago that enabled fact-based decision-making. Suppliers embraced what, at the time, was a novel approach in the retail industry, and their support over the years facilitated Walmart's expansion, sales growth for all concerned and low prices for consumers.
The happy marriage hit an inevitable rocky patch in recent years. A transformed senior leadership team at Walmart pursued strategies beyond the scope of the company's traditional skill set, and it became less receptive to the views of its trading partners, even as the new strategies proved highly disruptive.
You might say Walmart got counseling during the past six months and rededicated itself to making the relationship work again. Through the words of senior executives and the deeds of merchants whose collaborative efforts with suppliers have become increasingly evident in stores, Walmart is a company that appears intent on recharging the tradition of partnership and collaboration, while simultaneously moving forward to pursue new opportunities.
Given this climate, DSN's sister publication, Connecting Northwest Arkansas, thought it was an ideal time to take the pulse of the Walmart supplier community in Northwest Arkansas. Half of those who participated have worked with Walmart for 12 years or more, so results were influenced heavily by the views of those with a historical perspective of the business relationship. Regardless of the suppliers' track records with Walmart or past strains on the relationship, they have been largely unwavering in their commitment of resources. Forty-nine percent of suppliers said the size of their team and resources allocated to Walmart stayed about the same during the past year, and another 40% said it increased slightly or significantly, a rather noteworthy finding given the expense pressures all companies faced throughout 2010. Look for more of the same in the coming year; 61% of suppliers indicated the size of their team and resources allocated to Walmart will stay about the same, with another 35% anticipating a slight or significant increase.
The commitment to Walmart comes as suppliers view an interesting mix of threats on the competitive front. For example, the 20,000-unit strong and growing dollar store channel, with its emphasis on value, was suppliers' top concern, followed closely by Target, which has sharpened its pricing and elevated its food and consumables offering. That Kroger is viewed as a top competitive threat is understandable, given the company's status as the nation's second-largest food retailer, but Amazon.com's ranking ahead of the drug channel, Costco and the value-oriented food channel is something of a surprise.
It should come as no surprise that driving profitable sales growth is the overwhelming top concern of suppliers as they look to manage their business with Walmart over the course of the next five years. Nearly 70% of those surveyed indicated sales were among their greatest concerns, which begs the question of why it wasn't mentioned by 100% of those surveyed.
Of course, suppliers have many other things to be concerned with at Walmart, including shifting personnel and priorities mentioned by 57% of those surveyed. The issue largely is self-inflicted on Walmart's part, and reveals the potential waiting to be unlocked if suppliers were able to focus greater energy on sales and other top concerns, as opposed to staying abreast of management and strategic changes that have been pronounced in recent years.
Given those concerns, it stands to reason that joint business planning and collaboration ranked as a top concern, as did the perennial retail challenge of store-level execution. Beyond these areas, supplier concerns diminished fairly quickly, with a reduced percentage of respondents indicating such things as private-brand competition, Walmart International and Walmart.com. The size and complexity of Walmart and the recruitment of management talent also were low on the list of suppliers' greatest concerns. In addition, very few suppliers mentioned sustainability compliance or diversity objectives as top concerns, despite Walmart's emphasis on these areas in recent years.
Suppliers' concerns about sales and execution make it logical that some of the greatest anticipated needs for 2011 touched on these areas — shopper insights was the top-ranked need area for the year. Meanwhile, such execution-oriented areas as supply chain, replenishment, data analysis and out-of-stock minimization drew large numbers of responses. In contrast, the much-hyped area of multichannel and mobile integration drew very few responses.
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University of Colorado to Review how it Handled Shooting Suspect
By the CNN Wire Staff
(CNN) — The University of Colorado has hired a former U.S. attorney to conduct an independent review into how the school handled the man accused of opening fire inside a crowded movie theater.
Robert Miller, a former U.S. attorney for Colorado, began the review last week.
"The University is doing everything it can to fully cooperate with the criminal investigation. Additionally, we are doing everything we can to understand how the university's systems and processes functioned in this situation. Bob Miller comes to us with a stellar reputation for diligence and integrity. We have given him broad latitude to conduct his review," University of Colorado President Bruce D. Benson said in a statement Friday.
Shooting suspect James Holmes, 24, was a doctoral student at the university's Anschutz Medical Campus until June, when he withdrew from the program.
He is accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 during a screening of the new Batman film in Aurora, Colorado. He was charged Monday with murder and attempted murder; he also faces two weapons charges.
It's not clear when Miller is expected to complete his review. Nor is it clear how much of his report will be released to the public. The university said it is under a court order that bars it from discussing matters connected to the criminal investigation, and must also follow laws related to the release of some types of information.
A court document filed last week revealed that Holmes was a patient of CU psychiatrist Lynne Fenton before the July 20 killings.
She was so concerned about his behavior that she mentioned it to her colleagues, saying he could potentially be a danger to others, CNN affiliate KMGH reported Wednesday, citing sources with knowledge of the investigation.
Fenton's concerns surfaced in early June, nearly six weeks before the attack, sources told the Denver station.
They told KMGH that Fenton contacted several members of a "behavioral evaluation and threat assessment" team to say Holmes could potentially be a danger to others, the station reported.
The "BETA" team consists of "key" staff members from various university departments who have specific expertise in dealing with assessing potential threats on campus, the school says on its website.
Sources told KMGH that university officials did not contact Aurora police with Fenton's concerns before the attack.
"Fenton made initial phone calls about engaging the BETA team" in "the first 10 days" of June but it "never came together" because in the period Fenton was having conversations with team members, Holmes began the process of dropping out of school, a source told KMGH.
Sources told the station that when Holmes withdrew, the BETA team "had no control over him."
KMGH said sources did not know what Holmes told Fenton that sparked her concern.
It's not clear if Fenton continued treating Homes after he dropped out of school, whether she referred him to another medical professional, or had any further contact with him, KMGH reported, citing sources familiar with the investigation.
Michael Carrigan, chairman of the CU board of regents, told KMGH he did not know if Holmes had ever been discussed by the BETA team.
Authorities have remained silent about a possible motive in the case.
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"Pro-poor" Relief for Haiti
In the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake that is believed to have killed more than 150,000 people, a call is growing for more long-term, sustainable solutions, such as debt relief.
The Caribbean island nation, which suffers from a legacy of political unrest, environmental devastation, and financial ruin, has staggered under the weight of debt since it won independence from France more than 200 years ago.
Today, the poverty-stricken nation of some 9 million people is more than $1 billion in debt, and relief organizations and some government leaders are pushing for solutions that allow Haitians to focus on "recovery, not repayment."
The World Council of Churches and other groups have pushed for aid to come in the form of grants, not loans, so that Haitians can move forward with rebuilding their country without shouldering ever more debt. Canada's more than $100 million in assistance, for example, comes from grants; Canada canceled Haiti's debt last fall. In late January, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez canceled Haiti's $295 million debt to Petrocaribe, Venezuela's regional energy distributor.
Humanitarian aid was disorganized and debt relief contentious—and ultimately, limited— after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Nick Dearden, director of the Jubilee Debt Campaign, appealed to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and governments around the world to avoid the "half measures" that followed the tsunami and to pursue debt cancellation.
Robert Glasser, international secretary general of CARE, said help needs to extend beyond the immediate emergency to reconstruction. He urged donors to back not only debt relief but policies and programs that are "pro-poor." "This is not the first, nor will it be the last natural disaster to hit Haiti," said Glasser. "But it is our chance as a community to relieve the country from a terrible debt burden and help Haitians build a new future on a new foundation of equitable development."
—Kim Eckart is associate editor at YES! Magazine.
- Beverly Bells Blogs from Haiti: After 30 years working for democracy, women's rights, and economic justice in Haiti, Beverly Bell is documenting the impact of the earthquake on Haiti's grassroots movements.
- A Victory for Haiti: How an international, grassroots mobilization helped spur the G7's decision to cancel Haiti's onerous foreign debt.
- Debt Relief: The Results Are In: Debt relief has allowed poor nations to pay for schools and health care instead of loan interest.
"Haiti isn't doomed ... If we rally around them now and support them in the right way, the Haitian people can reclaim their destiny."
Former President Bill Clinton,
U.N. special envoy to Haiti, on relief efforts following the January earthquake
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Welcome to the Virus Encyclopedia of Panda Security.
Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95
Dialer.HBE is a dialer type malware. Dialers usually try to establish phone connections with high rate numbers, significantly increasing the phone bill of the affected user.
Dialer.HBE affects computers that use a modem to connect to the Internet, as the virus modifies the Dial-up network access settings. It changes the telephone number provided by the ISP (Internet Service Provider), which is a local-rate number, to a high-rate number.
Dialer.HBE accesses several websites to download files, which it then runs. These can be any type of file, although they are normally malware.
Dialer.HBE uses the following propagation or distribution methods:
Dialer.HBE is easy to recognize, as it shows the following symptoms:


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Walking Dead: Season One, The (US - BD RA)
Gabe celebrates the world's first weekly zombie themed television series...
Following a particularly explosive shootout, small town sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) is hospitalized with a gunshot wound on his side. Rick sits in a coma for an untold period of time, and awakens to a nightmare world where the dead walk in an effort to eat the flesh of the living. Rick shakes off the horror of the situation, saddles up (literally), and heads out into the zombie wilderness in search of his missing family.
We now live in a world where a weekly television series about a living dead apocalypse doesn't only exist, but is popular and has garnered huge critical praise. If this is what a decade of saturating the horror genre with George Romero inspired zombie holocausts leads, I'm happy to have weathered the worst of them. As many probably know, Dawn of the Dead (1978) is my single favourite motion picture of all time, mostly because the story is such a perfect mix of horror, satire and melodrama. Romero's original script was reportedly as thick as a phonebook, and frankly I could watch a version with every scene and stitch of dialogue left in tact, even if it was 10 hours long. The subgenre lends itself spectacularly to the serial format, and it's a good thing writer Robert Kirkman, author of other derivative but enjoyable properties like Invincible, saw fit to adapt it to a weekly comic book. It's a better thing that Frank Darabont and Gale Anne Hurd saw fit to adapt that comic to television, and an even better thing that AMC, the studio behind Mad Men and Breaking Bad, saw fit to take the project on.
I'm not a massive fan of Robert Kirkman's comic. Though it's probably the best zombie comic I've ever read, the dialogue often tilts towards the corny and the plot can be maddeningly listless (I often confuse its repetitive story arcs in my mind with those of Brian K. Vaughn's superior end of the world epic Y: The Last Man). There is plenty of room for improvement, and following the near perfection that was The Mist, I could think of much worse candidates for adaptation than Darabont. The pilot episode follows the first couple issues of the comic pretty closely, but there are some solid and important changes made, and the majority of these changes are for the better. Discussing the changes in too much detail would constitute major spoilers, but I can cover some of them in relatively vague terms. The most important change is the deepening of Shane Walsh (as played by Jon Bernthal), Rick's best friend and the man who takes his place as husband and father in his absence. In the comic Shane is a pretty thinly drawn (excuse the pun) antagonist, and following some general villainy he's (spoiler) done away with pretty quickly, and in a pretty ridiculous manner (/spoiler). The flashback at the beginning of the sixth episode in particular opens the character up to more interesting momentum, and his survival to the second season gives hope for an even broader scope of grey areas.
On the other hand, one of the biggest changes, the inclusion of the Dixon brothers, Merle (Michael Rooker) and Daryl (Norman Reedus) is a touch and go situation. The characters widen the scope of the story, and add quite a bit of drama, but as people they're a bit thinly written, and depend too much on the actors to fill in the cracks. More upsetting is the fact that Merle's arc is cut short (pun!), and ends so vaguely I'm not sure he served any purpose beyond that of a MacGuffin. His fate is arguable, but there's really nothing to say he was needed, especially since the comic, minus both characters, arrives at the same basic plot conclusions. The season's sixth and last episode is another problematic near failure for its changes. Besides the writing being a little too 'on the nose' following five episodes of rather natural character reactions and plot points (again, I'll avoid spoilers, but assume most readers that have seen the series know generally what I'm talking about), the inclusion of a silly action movie countdown, and the introduction of scientific explanations is a slippery slope deftly avoided by the likes of Romero, Fulci and even Dan O'Bannon. This new material could lead later seasons to exciting and smart places, but also threatens to turn the series into something entirely too akin to Lost. I don't really like the episode, but don't want to consider it a sign of bad things to come just yet.
The Walking Dead pays subtle homage to zombie classics throughout, or at least I think it does. Perhaps I was just seeing things that weren't intended, but in the first episode alone we see a very Fulci-esque series of almost mummified dead (which were in the comic), a random cricket bat in the Grimes house ( Shaun of the Dead?), and a man in black that wonders towards Rick in a very similar manner to the first zombie in the original Night of the Living Dead. I like the zombie rules used for the series, which basically match the Romero-verse, though these living dead maintain a little more motor skill than the stiffened morons of George's Dead series. They don't run, but they do tend to move a little more quickly when meat is within grabbing distance, and in this universe humans aren't the only meat. More importantly, the zombies are both threatening and pathetic in equal measures. The constant humanization of the zombies worked for me, but I can see how this moral streak could bother the more hardcore members of the audience. I'm assuming the show's insistence on focusing on the more emotional aspects of a zombie apocalypse that is what got the series so much fervent critical praise. Not that modern critics don't 'get' horror, but frankly, they kind of don't.
The Walking Dead is a black and white comic, and Frank Darabont has made it clear that he enjoys pulpy mono-coloured horror dramas, so it's not surprising that this series is relatively desaturated, especially when compared to the vast majority of Blu-ray television series I've reviewed, which tend to be higher in contrast like Lost, or particularly vibrant like Weeds. There's a nice layer of fine grain over the entire series, and it does increase with lack of light. Details are sharp in close-up, but tend to blur out a bit in wider shots. All these signs point to one not so surprising answer – this series is shot on 16mm film. In this day and age of digital HD cameras this choice is actually kind of daring, but certainly doesn't lead to the most impressive HD transfer. Sometimes the image quality drops sharply from shot to shot, featuring more grain, and/or detail loss. Occasionally these not-so-hot shots also feature a thick force-field of white edge enhancement. The scenes shot on the roof during the second episode are oddly among the most consistently bad looking on the entire disc, possibly because they weren't actually filmed on a rooftop and the effects budget requires a bit of smudging. Sometimes, a particularly vibrant hue will pop out of the relative desaturation, especially the green of plants. The juxtaposition of the lush, living landscape and grey, dirty humanity is pretty common actually (including a generally dull human wardrobe), and the reds and oranges of the living world do pop regularly even against the leafy greens (with some minor bleeding in some cases), despite the general dishwater look.
Though not as aggressive as some big budget major studio shows, The Walking Dead does have its action flick moments, and they do sound sweet on this Dolby TrueHD 5.1 track. Good examples start with the plot inducing car crash and shootout, and include the big zombie raid on the camp and a number of other scuffles featuring guns and zombies. Often the loudest elements outside the dialogue are the gooey, chunky splats of violence. In this particular universe a gun a zombie biting into a throat creates a sound roughly the same volume as a gun shot to the head. The more subtle effects are ultimately more satisfying, including rolling thunder, pattering rain, chattering cicadas, and of course, creepy, moaning zombies. There are also some unfortunate effects, like the opening of doors or the switching on of radio receivers, which are too obviously taken from some kind of library source, and these do stand out as artificial among the otherwise naturalistic sounds.
The first disc in this two disc set features no extra features. Disc two extras start with a series of featurettes, many of which were available from iTunes when the show premiered. 'The Making of The Walking Dead' (29:50, HD) is a decent behind the scenes discussion with Frank Darabont, Robert Kirkman, Gale Ann Hurd, FX man Greg Nicotero, and other cast and crew. It's a fluffy sales piece at its base, but there are some cool facts, such as AMC's insistence that the show's narrative be slowed down. The actors discussing their characters, and Kirkman discussing the changes made to his story are also pluses. Next up are a series of 'Inside The Walking Dead' featurettes, one for each episode (each in HD, and each running between 5:00 and 5:30). These are similar to other 'Inside' featurettes AMC makes available with their other series, like Mad Men. None of these are spectacular, but it's cool to hear what the actors have to say about their characters, especially since there aren't any audio commentaries. 'A Sneak Peek with Robert Kirkman' (4:50, HD) is an unneeded bit of fluff that practically matches the 'Making of' featurette. 'Behind the Scenes Make-up Tips' (6:50, HD) is a fun, brief 'how-to' video, which is especially valuable because everything the make-up artist uses is available to the general public. The featurettes area is wrapped up with the San Diego Comic Con panel discussion with the producers (11:30, HD), and a series trailer.
The second disc also features a collection of 'Extra Footage' (that's code for website downloadables), a series of short behind the scenes snippets including 'Zombie School' (3:00, HD), 'Bicycle Girl' (5:00, HD), 'On Set with Robert Kirkman' (3:10, HD), 'Hanging with Steven Yeun' (3:50, HD), 'Inside Dale's RV' (3:30, HD) and 'On Set with Andrew Lincoln' (3:50, HD).
As an utter nerd, I find the most exciting possible outcome following the success of The Walking Dead isn't the possibility of more well produced horror television (I'm sure those would come around some day without), but the possibility of more television adaptations of adult aimed comic books. There's been talk of adapting Brian K. Vaughn's Y: The Last Man and Garth Ennis' Preacher to television for years now, but both keep failing in the production phases, and standalone feature film adaptations have been threatened. Last word also established that the rights to Bill Willingham's Fables had been snatched up by ABC, and FX had greenlit a pilot of Brian Michael Bendis' Powers. If The Walking Dead leads to just one solid TV version of any of these properties, I don't even care if the next season is any good. But I'm assuming it will be, as long as the writers keep it away from Lost territory. Fans should be aware that the show was mostly shot on 16mm film, so this Blu-ray transfer isn't particularly impressive, and expectations should be tempered. The extras aren't the best either, but feature some solid info and entertainment value.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray's image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Marcus1138 Contributor Join Date: June 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 910
I love the comics and the wait for this show was sick exciting but I have to say despite liking season one, it all felt like a bit fo a non event to me. One or two episodes were great and small moments worked very well but without going as far as to say it was a let down I was a little unwhelmed with it as a whole. Hopefully season two will lift it up a bit.
Oh and Y: The Last Man the series needs to happen!
Oh and Y: The Last Man the series needs to happen!
hogaburger Contributor Join Date: April 2007 Location: United States Posts: 1,153
If DJ Caruso gets his hands on Y:The Last Man or Preacher, like he wants to, then I'll...well.. I'll be really bitter about it. That'll show him.
Just finished book 5 last last night (I think thats about issue 53)
Brilliant series, brilliant TV series. Can't wait for more.
Sainsbury's is offering it on BD for an insane £17.99 at the mo! GOGOGO!
Brilliant series, brilliant TV series. Can't wait for more.
Sainsbury's is offering it on BD for an insane £17.99 at the mo! GOGOGO!
Seymour Cat Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 108
A shame about the lack of commentaries Frank Darrabont's commentaries are excellent so this is a missed opportunity.
Marcus1138 Contributor Join Date: June 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 910
And the much talked about pilot in B&W?? I was looking forward to that!
Wilson Bros Reviewer Join Date: August 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,182
Shame this thing is region-locked - they'll charge through the arse for it when it's finally released in the UK...
The Wilson Bros
The Wilson Bros
Chris Johnson Member Join Date: October 2005 Location: United States Posts: 1,465
I am glad there is a zombie show on TV as I am really sick of all that vampire c**p. The fact that this show is also well acted and enthralling makes it all the better for me.
Wilson Bros wrote: Shame this thing is region-locked - they'll charge through the arse for it when it's finally released in the UK...
The Wilson Bros
17.99 @ Sainsburys entertainment! on BD!
The Wilson Bros
17.99 @ Sainsburys entertainment! on BD!
RThomas Member Join Date: November 2008 Location: France Posts: 75
Gabe, according to my sources, it's not the first weekly zombie themed television series. Later seasons of "Sex and the City" would qualify.
And Ally McBeal?
djblack1313 Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 529
i love the show and can't wait for season 2. i've gotten kinda used to having to wait many months for my shows to return (TRUE BLOOD for example) but never has waiting for a show been so torturous as the waiting for THIS show been! lol. Darabont has said that most/much of season 2 will be at Hershel's farm and that he wants to bring back Lennie James's (AWESOME performance in the pilot) MORGAN. also i read that Darabont is doing most of the writing on this season!! all signs point to AWESOME!!!
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Disc Details
Release Date: 8th March 2011
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH and Spanish
Extras: Making Of The Walking Dead, Inside The Walking Dead: Episodes 1-6, A Sneak Peek with Robert Kirkman, Behind the Scenes Zombie Make-Up Tips, Convention Panel, Trailer, Zombie School, Bicycle Girl, On Set with Robert Kirkman, Hanging with Steven Yeun, Inside Dale's R.V., On Set with Andrew Lincoln
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Various
Cast: Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Laurie Holden, Sarah Wayne Callies, Emma Bell
Genre: Action, Drama and Horror
Length: 292 minutes
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With pair of wins, girls move to 10-2
From one end of the spectrum to the other, Brady's girls saw another weekend of polar opposites but came away with a pair of wins to move to 10-2 on the season.
Friday night's home game with Hayes Center proved to be a difficult task for the Eagles.
The Cardinals used their height to get several defensive rebounds in the first half. By throwing a full-court outlet pass to under their own basket, the Cardinals jumped ahead.
Hayes Center led 10-3 after one quarter and had a slight 17-15 advantage at halftime before the Eagles came back to win 48-37.
"We knew they would send a kid long and we made adjustments last week to handle that," said coach Lance Arterburn. "But the girls wanted to go rebound because that's what we've been preaching for them to do."
The result was a big hole early.
"We got down by as many as 14 points but we didn't panic and we didn't quit," Arterburn said.
Refocusing on stopping the long pass during halftime helped the Eagles gain momentum and take control. After three periods, Brady led 37-23.
"A lot of our problem against Hayes Center was our own shooting," Arterburn said. "We are just very glad to come away from that game with a win."
Free throws made a large difference for Brady. The Eagles made 22-of-33 from the line going 7-for-10 in the final 1:30 of play.
Hayes Center was 5-of-12 from the line.
Junior guard Courtney Widick finished with 17 points including a pair of three-pointers.
Maggie Burke contributed 14 points and eight rebounds while Jessica Schrad pulled down nine boards.
The loss moved Hayes Center to 4-9 on the year.
Saturday's game against South Loup in Arnold was virtually the opposite, Arterburn said.
"We took care of the ball better, we executed our offense better and we did a much better job of being patient with our shots," he said.
The winless Bobcats struggled to score as Brady mounted an early 20-4 first-quarter lead en route
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Here's the next installment of the Top 25 poet interview series related to the 2013 Poetic Asides April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge. In this post, I'm happy to share a poem by Carole Cole.
Posted: No Trespassing, by Carole Cole
The elegant Victorian on the corner
has sat vacant for a decade,
the purple paint fading, the white lace
curtains sagging gray like a sad
Southern Belle, still waiting for the suitor
who now will never come. Squatters
light candles in the parlor, crack pipes
clutter the fine wool rugs. Beer cans
and pizza boxes litter corners where
party shoes and lingerie were once discarded.
The air of desperation lies thick against the glass.
She's pulling in the mat, nailing closed
the shutters, turning off the gas.
She leans into the night, a has-been derelict
mourned by strangers who linger
on the sidewalk, try to peer into her windows,
reminisce as though they knew her, want
to walk the wide veranda, past the signs
the sheriff nailed through her heart.
Where are you located?
I live in Bradenton, Florida, which is on the south edge of Tampa Bay on the Gulf coast.
Who are your favorite poets?
My favorite poets? A nearly impossible question, but I like the traditional modernists like Eliot, Frost, Yeats; some earlier ones like Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins; Adrienne Rich (who should have won a Nobel Prize), Li-Young Lee, Lucille Clifton, Joy Harjo. I just found out about Natalie Diaz. This is just my today's list.
As a reader, what do you like most in poems?
I tend to be attracted to the music of the language, which is why I like Eliot so much, but it needs to "lift the top of my head off" or punch me in the chest if it doesn't make me laugh (or do both) like Clifton and Billy Collins can do.
Which reminds me: I love William Stafford's "Traveling Through the Dark" for the music, the detail, and the unresolvable moral dilemma at the heart of it. I love complex responses to complex issues of being human. I like to be surprised.
What were your goals for the 2013 April PAD Challenge?
I totally met my goal for last April's PAD, which was to develop the discipline to write a poem every day for 30 straight days. I pushed myself hard most days but also learned to accept the failures as part of the process. I've always known that I'd never write a good poem unless I wrote a bunch of bad ones, but it's hard to put that practice into action.
What's next for you?
So far, I've lived half my life in Indiana and half in Florida. When I retire, in the next 1 1/2 years, I hope to spend the next part of my life in Central America, probably Panama. So what's next is to learn Spanish, create space for myself to read and write, and do the upcoming November PAD challenge, as well as the April 2014 one.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer's Digest Writing Community and author of Solving the World's Problems. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
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