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Food cooperatives come in all shapes, sizes and temperaments — pre-orders and stores, small and large, based around natural foods and a larger range of foods.
Whatever its shape, size or temperament, a food cooperative has to meet certain challenges if it is to survive. It must effectively meet a definite set of needs, deal with external pressures, and bring together the resources and talents of its members. To be truly successful, it must do all this with a sustained sense of purpose.
Management may be defined as the art and process of defining and achieving collective purposes with and through people in an organization. Management is a pervasive aspect of all undertakings in a cooperative, and indeed in any organization. A clear understanding of management is one of the most powerful tools available to cooperators. If cooperators hope to achieve their common purposes and values through collective action, they must learn how to manage their organizations effectively.
A food cooperative, even the smallest, requires management at two different levels. One level is operational management. Someone must develop and maintain efficient systems for the whole process of ordering and distributing food, and for organizing and coordinating people to use these systems to get the work done.
The other level is overall management. Someone must formulate a workable strategy and build the human organization and other resources through which the cooperative can carry out its mission.
A cooperative that has established a large food store will find that both operational and overall management are more complex than for a small pre-order cooperative. Indeed, it will face all of the managerial issues that concern a large corporation. On a day-to-day basis, there must be efficient systems for these tasks:
On an overall basis, the cooperative will have to undertake long-term planning, capital management and a viable market strategy.
In such a cooperative, an effective organizational structure becomes vital. A cooperative operating a food store will sooner or later have to pay staff to manage its business operations, and develop a board to oversee its overall management. This, of course, involves the cooperative in new issues of personnel management and board-staff relations.
Whether the cooperative is large or small, however, it equally needs people with the following habits of mind that make them effective in the art and process of management:
For some tasks, such as defrosting a refrigerator, the managerial component is very small; for others, such as long-range planning, this component is very large. Whether the managerial component in a task is small or large, its essential elements are the same:
Planning involves gathering and synthesizing information to assess a situation, defining objectives, and defining a specific and workable line of action. (Carrying out the line of action will involve organizing, leading and coordinating the efforts of people — the other three management elements.) Monitoring involves verifying whether everything, including results, occurs in conformity with the plan. If there is a divergence, then either the action or the plan itself will have to be adjusted.
This process of planning and monitoring assumes that the organization as a whole has clear purposes to which the objectives of the plan are related. A cooperative without purposes is like a plant without roots. There is no way to judge whether the plan and objectives are appropriate or not. If the objectives are clear and related to the purposes of the organization, the plan can then be stable yet flexible enough to be adjusted if monitoring shows that conditions have changed from those expected at the time of planning.
Monitoring has several purposes:
For monitoring to be effective, the planning stage should include key indicators that can be watched easily and consistently. Developing these key indicators is itself a phase of planning, and a cooperative should always be ready to review whether a key indicator is giving the information it was supposed to give. Key indicators for a food cooperative will be co-op-specific, but all co-ops should make use of indicators from their operating statement and balance sheet. Developing these indicators is still at the stage of an art for food cooperatives; this is one of the best arguments for intensive communication among cooperatives.
Organizing involves the fitting of people to each other and to activities in the best possible relationships to get work done effectively and to achieve the purposes of the organization. While there have been many versions of the "best" structure, there are only a few firm rules; responsibilities and delegation of authority should be clearly defined, preferably in writing, and should be appropriate to the work to be done and the people involved. A person involved with organizing has to look beyond formal structure to the informal groups that exist in the cooperative and think of creative ways to tap the leadership potential within them.
A cooperative requires leadership for many purposes — teaching skills, sharing information, maintaining wholesome human relations, building morale, motivating people to work together toward common goals, developing the potential of people in the organization and articulating values and vision. A cooperative, students of democratic management have pointed out, will have to develop leaders of various temperaments to fill all these leadership needs.
If the members of a cooperative hope to achieve anything and grow in their relationships with one another, they have to make delegation a principle which runs throughout the organization. Ultimately, in a cooperative, authority rests in the membership. For most tasks, though, the membership should delegate its authority to some small group or individual. From this viewpoint, both the board and the staff have had certain managerial tasks delegated to them by the membership.
Delegating involves giving someone else the authority and responsibility to do a given task. Delegating is hard for many cooperators who are oriented to doing things themselves. Effective delegating requires certain abilities:
This involves integrating the activities of persons in the organization with one another as well as all the non-human material resources of the organization. Everything must fit together, appropriately, in the right balance, at the right time. Poor coordination is one of the most dangerous sources of wasted time, wasted resources and burnout.
Within the human system of the organization, communication is a key of coordination. The cooperative's communication system should provide for the flow of good information, neither too much nor too little, and should adapt to the knowledge and perceptions of the persons receiving it. Indeed, communication is the life-blood of the whole cooperative venture.
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During a brief Friday hearing, Assistant State Attorney John Aguero said the request wasn't unusual, and he didn't have an objection to an expert examining the weapon.
A Lakeland detective will be present when the expert examines the handgun, and the firearm will be returned into evidence storage once the inspection is complete, Aguero said.
Williams, 20, of Lakeland, is accused of first-degree murder in the officer's killing. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against him.
A trial isn't expected in the case until January 2014.
Investigators say Williams shot Crispin the evening of Dec. 18, 2011, at a city park on Crystal Grove Lane.
Crispin had been preparing to do a "pat-down" search of Williams, and other young men hanging out with Williams in the park identified Williams as the person who shot Crispin, according to investigative reports.
Williams has pleaded not guilty and denied shooting the officer. He told detectives in a recorded interview that he wasn't in the park. He said he was staying at the home of his friend's sister and heard a gunshot while standing outside the residence.
Crispin, 25, was shot once in the head and died Dec. 21, 2011, at Lakeland Regional Medical Center.
Test results were conducted on a semiautomatic .40-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun found within the crawl space of an apartment building near the city park where the officer was shot.
Reports state the pistol was cross-checked with a shell casing found at the park that connects the firearm to Crispin's death.
The pistol also was swabbed for traces of DNA material, and Williams' DNA was discovered on ammunition loaded in the pistol, according to a report from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
At Friday's hearing, Aguero said he would disclose within 10 days what "aggravating circumstances" are present in the case.
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Under Florida law, one such "aggravator" can be that the victim is a law enforcement officer killed while engaged in the performance of official duties.
Williams' lawyers requested that prosecutors also disclose the names of all witnesses who testified before the grand jury in Williams' case.
Circuit Judge Donald Jacobsen said the State Attorney's Office should provide a list of these names. The judge said he did not find that the defense's request compromised the typically secret proceedings of the grand jury.
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"It is a sad day for the world when European politicians decide they know more than the scientific studies about food safety," said ASA First Vice President Ron Heck, a soybean producer from Perry, Iowa.
"These new rules are highly discriminatory and are so commercially infeasible that food manufacturers wanting to market their products in the EU will inevitably continue the trend to reformulate their products to remove the biotech ingredients from their products rather than be stigmatized by a biotech label."
More than seven years ago, governments in Europe and in more than 30 other countries evaluated and then declared that soybeans grown from biotech-enhanced seeds are safe for human and animal consumption, and safe for the environment as well. During all this time, literally billions of people have eaten products that contain biotech soybean ingredients.
Scientific studies have repeatedly confirmed the safety of these biotech soybean products. Now the EU intends to put labels on products made from soybeans that will give consumers the false impression that there is some increased risk associated with eating these products.
"The EU claims that these new rules will somehow restore consumer confidence and allow consumers to choose what they eat," Heck said. "To appreciate the hypocrisy in that statement, one only need understand that major food manufacturers have already stated publicly that they will not put 'GMO warning labels' on their products. How will these rules help give European consumers a 'right to choose' when the products containing biotech ingredients are eliminated from store shelves?
While the EU is discriminating against biotech products imported from the United States and other countries, the same rules do not extend to biotech processing aids, such as enzymes, amino acids, and vitamins widely used in EU food production. Nearly all the manufacturers of these biotech-processing aids are European companies.
"The EU is perpetrating a fraud on consumers," Heck said. "Just when consumers think they can avoid a technology they don't understand, their own food companies will be permitted to use all kinds of genetically engineered materials in products like cheese and beer without any GMO labeling requirements whatsoever."
Biotech-enhanced soybeans are widely planted in the United States, Argentina and Brazil. Together, these three countries represent 90 percent of the world's soybean export trade. Compliance with the new traceability regulations by exporters and food processors will be costly, onerous, and unworkable given the realities of bulk commodity production, marketing, transport, and food processing.
The new rules will require labeling for products such as soybean oil "derived" from biotech soybeans even though no modified DNA or protein can be detected in refined soybean oil. This is because it is impossible to scientifically determine if such oil is of "biotech origin" or not. ASA believes that such process-based labeling could lead to massive fraud, and inevitably, again undermine public confidence in the EU food regulatory system.
Many Europeans also claim to be concerned about the environment, yet these new rules discriminate against biotech products that have allowed farmers to reduce the amount of insecticides and pesticides applied to their fields, and use of products that biodegrade more quickly. According to the National Center for Food & Agriculture Policy, eight biotech cultivars adopted by U.S. growers reduced pesticide use by 46 million pounds in 2001.
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The International Swaps & Derivatives Association plans to change how it calculates a benchmark measure of interest-rate swaps that U.S. and U.K. regulators are investigating for possible price manipulation.
The organization is working to base the rate, known as ISDAfix, on actual trades from several trading systems rather than just bank submissions, with a goal of finishing within six months, said Morgan Stanley's Ed Ocampo, chairman of ISDA's benchmark committee. The test phase of the project is based on trades denominated in euros and will move to U.S. dollar rates if successful, he said today at a conference in New York.
"Very much at the top of the agenda is renovating ISDAfix," he said. The measure will be based on electronically traded swaps where "there are firm, actionable prices," he said.
ICAP Plc controls the U.S. dollar swap submissions for ISDAfix from its Jersey City, New Jersey, office, and plays an exclusive role in the lucrative trading that helps set the rate. Broadening the calculation to other platforms threatens to loosen ICAP's grip on ISDAfix a decade after it acquired control of the computer screen used by the industry to price swaps in the $379 trillion market.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority are investigating alleged manipulation of ISDAfix, FCA Chief Executive Officer Martin Wheatley told lawmakers in London this week.
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The CFTC is going over 1 million e-mails as well as taped phone calls as it examines whether ISDAfix, which helps determine everything from interest on annuities to borrowing costs on bonds linked to skyscrapers, was manipulated, a person familiar with the situation said earlier this year.
"The world has moved on so we need to change it to meet evolving standards," Serge Gwynne, a partner at consultant Oliver Wyman Group who is also on the benchmark committee, said today. ISDA hired Oliver Wyman earlier this year to help it assess changes to ISDAfix. The aim is to eventually discontinue altogether the bank submission model, he said.
The FCA review comes after the CFTC issued subpoenas to current and former brokers at ICAP, ISDA and 15 Wall Street dealers as part of its probe, Bloomberg News reported on April 8. Two people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News in April that the FCA and CFTC were looking into whether ISDAfix had been manipulated.
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By rigging ISDAfix, the banks stood to profit on separate derivatives trades they had with clients who were seeking to hedge against moves in interest rates. Banks sought to change the value of the swaps because the ISDAfix rate sets prices for the other derivatives, which are used by firms such as Pacific Investment Management Co., said a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the details aren't public.
ISDAfix is currently determined daily by a panel of banks based on their submissions of the midpoint of their rate swap trades. Trading via ICAP brokers in Jersey City creates a reference rate just before 11 a.m. New York time each day that banks then accept or alter as their ISDAfix submission.
Brokers on ICAP's rate swap desk in Jersey City -- who are the focus of the investigation -- were paid as much as $7 million a year at the market's peak, earning the group the nickname "Treasure Island," two people familiar with the matter said in April.
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The team of about 20 brokers made $100 million to $120 million annually for ICAP around 2008 and 2009, said the people, who asked not to be named because the details are private. The group benefits from a move more than a decade ago that put the firm in control of the computer screen used by the industry to price swaps in much of the $379 trillion market, one of the people said.
ICAP collects the ISDAfix submissions from dealer banks for the rate that's denominated in U.S. dollars, while Thomson Reuters Corp. calculates the figure, according to ISDA's website. In all other ISDAfix currencies, Thomson Reuters collects and calculates the rate, according to the site.
Bloomberg LP, the parent of Bloomberg News, competes with ICAP in some businesses, including foreign-exchange and swaps trading, and with Thomson Reuters in providing financial data.
The trading systems that will be used in the testing phase by the ISDA benchmark committee are owned by ICAP, Cie. Financiere Tradition SA and Tullett Prebon Plc, Gwynne said.
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An Odell furniture store has moved to Hood River, closer to its sister business.
Murray's Clearance Center, 1105 Tucker Rd., opened last week in the building previously occupied by Sears, which moved to Hood River Shopping Center.
Murray's Trading Post in Odell closed last month, after 30 years in its downtown Odell location.
The new location has many pluses for the Murray family, but the move is bittersweet, said Greg Murray.
"We do have mixed feelings about leaving the Odell store. It was a great place to do business out of. We really enjoyed being part of the Odell community for 30 years," he said. At 16,000 square feet, the Clearance Center is the same size as the Trading Post, but all on one level. The open floor plan is different than the "vignette" layout at Murray Furniture, the Murray family's other business, just up the road in Hood River.
To create the Clearance Center, the Murrays removed the walls that bisected the building. The result is one well-lit, airy showroom with sofas, chairs, tables, and lamps, dining and bedroom sets, home office furniture, and accessories.
"With the opening of the Clearance Center, it will give us a combined total of 30,000 square feet of display on Tucker Road," Murray said. Murray's Furniture will carry Broyhill, Sealy, Lazy Boy, and other furniture lines, while the Clearance Center sells a combination of new, budget priced furniture, including close-out and overstock merchandise, "and whatever used furniture of good quality we can find," Murray said.
"We want to get all the used merchandise we can find," he said.
The Clearance Center will have updated displays, more accessibility and better lighting, Murray said.
"Besides the location, which is handier for customers, one of our objectives was to have the two stores closer together, from a logistics standpoint of sharing employees and coordinating deliveries," Murray said. "It's a huge improvement. It makes better coordination of the whole operation. At peak times we can be really flexible." The two stores employ nine people.
The Murrays started in the family business 45 years ago, based at its warehouse location on West Belmont. Murray's Furniture Store opened 18 years ago at 981 Tucker Rd.
The Clearance Center building was previously home to Save-Mor Hardware, Prairie Market, and other businesses, along with Sears and El Rio dance club most recently. Murray said the family is on a short-term lease with plans to purchase the building from Steve Wesche of Ashland, whose family used to own Hood River Coast To Coast.
"It's a great building — very soundly constructed," Murray said. The Murrays are planning to advertise the sale of the Odell store within the next two weeks. Murray said the family hopes to hold a grand opening sometime before Christmas.
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Dell has shipped Venue 11 Pro tablets with LCD and touch panels from multiple vendors. As a result, Dell has released several different touch firmware patches for these panels.
A recent panel change was determined not to be compatible with older touch firmware patches, so a universal firmware was created to work with all panels. Unfortunately, the older touch firmware patches that some customers had previously downloaded are not compatible with the newer panel.
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By David Ingram
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for the U.S. Justice Department and for congressional Republicans told a federal judge on Tuesday they were in talks to settle a suit stemming from Operation Fast and Furious, a botched probe into gun trafficking to Mexican drug cartels.
While far from certain, a settlement would bring a quiet end to a political furor that stirred the passions of gun owners, ended some Justice Department careers and led Republicans to find U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt.
The lawyers said they were uncertain whether the talks would be successful, but that they met on Monday and will meet again.
Republicans in the House of Representatives sued Holder, head of the Justice Department, in August to enforce a subpoena to obtain documents pertaining to the probe.
The contempt vote came in June when Republicans accused the Obama administration of withholding documents related to how it responded to the Fast and Furious operation, named after a movie about auto racing.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson encouraged settlement talks during a 30-minute hearing on the case in federal court in Washington, D.C.
Federal judges have rarely addressed the complicated questions raised in the case about relations between the White House and Congress, Jackson said. One side or the other might not want to live with a potential "all or nothing" decision that a settlement would avoid.
"There may be some benefit in trying to work it out, either among yourselves or with the help of a mediator," she said.
A lawyer for House Republicans, Kerry Kircher, said he expected the sides to meet again in the near future, but added: "I cannot express any expectation about the outcome of that."
A settlement would be "the appropriate course here," said Justice Department lawyer Ian Gershengorn.
Congressional uproar over Fast and Furious led to at least three high-level resignations or retirements from the Justice Department or the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Fast and Furious was launched in 2009 near the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona as a response to gun trafficking that fed violence among drug cartels.
Federal agents who ran the operation focused on building cases against the leaders of a trafficking ring, and in the process did not pursue low-level buyers of about 2,000 potentially illegal firearms.
The operation was brought to light when a U.S. Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, was killed in December 2010 in Arizona. Two guns connected with the case were found at the scene of the shootout where he died, although investigators could not determine if the guns were used to kill Terry.
The operation became a rallying point for gun owners and dealers, who suspected the operation misused Arizona gun shops and was motivated by Holder's support for gun control.
A report in September from the Justice Department's own inspector general found inadequate supervision of the operation and faulted the operation's tactics.
It also cleared Holder of wrongdoing, finding no evidence he knew of the operation before details became public.
Judge Jackson, an appointee of President Barack Obama, disclosed connections to two lawyers involved in the suit and said this should not require her removal from the case, but either side could request it.
She said the two - Kircher, the Republicans' lawyer, and Deputy Attorney General James Cole, author of a letter that is central to the lawsuit outlining Obama's executive privilege claim - were both references for Jackson prior to her nomination for a judgeship, and Cole took part in her swearing-in ceremony.
"This is a major metropolitan area, but sometimes it has the feel of a small town," she said.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court is refusing to halt the execution of a Mexican national convicted of killing a Houston police officer, despite diplomatic pressure and pleas from the Mexican government.
Edgar Tamayo is scheduled for lethal injection at a Texas prison on Wednesday evening.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considered an appeal that renewed an earlier contention that Tamayo was mentally impaired and therefore ineligible for execution. But the court said the appeal, which was filed last week, came too late.
Tamayo's attorneys are now taking their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. They also are appealing a judge's refusal on Tuesday to stop the Texas parole board from a clemency recommendation in Tamayo's case.
The 46-year-old inmate was convicted in the January 1994 slaying of Guy Gaddis.


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Immensely winning and visually arresting adaptation of Gaiman's 1998 fantasy.
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Diverting and pleasurable to watch, Stardust, a tongue-in-cheek sword-and-sorcerers romp bolstered by a top-flight cast, is most adroit when it plays the fantasy straight rather than sending up the genre.
Stardust lights up the screen with a splendid tale of heroism and romance.
There's less whimsy to be found here than in "The Princess Bride," but the film is likely to appeal to the same group of older children and adults that appreciated Rob Reiner's classic.
It's the closest the movies have come in a while to the nudgy, knowing fairy-tale enchantment of "The Princess Bride."
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OK for kids 12+
Dazzling fantasy romcom has some dark moments.
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Parents need to know that although this highly entertaining fantasy will appeal to kids with its mix of swashbuckling adventure and romance, it's darker than cinematic cousins like The Princess Bride. It's surprisingly violent, with several deaths and lots of fights featuring knives and swords. The scenes in which an evil witch unleashes her fury are truly frightening (one with a voodoo doll may make even older tweens close their eyes), as is her transformation into an old hag. The subplots, including one about brothers vying for their father's crown trying to kill each other, may be too disturbing for younger kids.
Messages: Backstabbing, literally and figuratively, of Shakespearean proportions. A father pits his sons against each other. Brothers murder each other (with knives, poison, etc.) in a bid to take their father's throne. Witch sisters scream at each other as they try to find Yvaine and kill her. A young woman demands a present from a suitor she doesn't like that much. A young man engages in a one-night stand that produces a son. There are also homophobic overtones in terms of how a pirate is portrayed.
Violence: Surprising amounts of fantasy/swashbuckling violence, including swordfights, knifings, and sorcery that ends in murder (a man drinks poison and keels over, another man is pushed off a ledge) and destruction. In one particularly brutal scene, a witch drowns a man with a voodoo doll and uses his body to try to stab another. In another scene, she slits a victim's throat. Animals are also killed for witchcraft, and Yvaine is being pursued so a sorceress can eat her heart.
Sex: No nudity, but some kissing and a few cleavage shots. A young woman seduces a young man and gets pregnant (nothing explicit is shown). Tristan and Yvaine spend a night together, though the audience only sees them together under the covers.
Language: Quite benign; mostly just insults ("idiots") and the occasional "damn."
Consumerism: Not an issue
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Pirates drink, before, during, and after pillaging. Tristan and Victoria steal away for a picnic where they drink champagne.
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Good Thursday morning Dynamo fans,
It's 2:02 a.m., and I'm on-board the team flight back from Chicago. As you can imagine, it is a happy airplane. We are bringing home a playoff victory and are ready to move on to the next round.
Are you ready?
We need you there for this BIG game:
- Dynamo vs. Sporting KC
- BBVA Compass Stadium
- Sunday, November 4, 2:30 p.m.
We have just about three days to sell out this game and deliver a home-field advantage for our team. Many fans have already purchased their seats. Have you?
There have been so many great playoff moments over our history, and for the first time, we get to have one at the new stadium. It will be rocking. I can't wait.
Like our slogan says, "It's Playoff Time. Dream. Scream. Believe!"
We take on Sporting KC in a two-game series (the second leg is on Wednesday in KC). It will be a challenging series, but we like our chances. We went 1-0-2 vs. KC this regular season. I'm expecting a good battle.
How about that great team performance in Chicago! It was an awesome effort all around.
Congrats to Will Bruin on the two goals. In his first playoff start, he became the third Dynamo player to score two or more goals in one playoff game. Brian Ching (2007 vs. FCD) and Paul Dalglish (2006 vs. COL) have done it. With the two goals, he also has 14 on the year, tying Ching for the most in a single season. Brian has done it twice ('06 and '08).
Brad Davis posted his sixth playoff assist, which is a club record. He also made his 16th playoff start, tying Ching for a club record.
Bobby Boswell, who was rock-solid, played in his 185th game for the club, passing Brian Mullan for 4th all-time.
This was our 3rd road win in team playoff history. Prior to last year, we had not won a playoff game on the road.
The team will be off tomorrow to recover and then back at training Friday and Saturday in preparation.
In the office, we will be working hard to promote, sell, and organize the match over the next 80 hours or so. Please help us make it a great day. Come on out, bring your friends, spread the word.
I hope to see you Sunday.
Thanks for reading. For more frequent updates, follow me on Twitter @chriscanetti.
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In March, it will become easier for undocumented immigrants who are immediate relatives of a U.S. citizen to remain in this country while they pursue legal permanent residency, or a "green card."
Beginning in March, undocumented immigrants will be able to seek a waiver –that would spare them serious penalties for their illegal status– while they attempt to legalize their status, said Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on Wednesday.
The most significant impact of the new rule is the ability of undocumented immigrants to stay with their relatives in the United States while they go through the process of trying to legalize. The current law requires such immigrants to return to their country to apply for a legal visa, and it can take more than six months before they can re-enter the United States, if they are approved.
Critics of the process said the long separation between the applicant and their relatives dissuaded many from coming forward to legalize their status.
In her announcement, Napolitano said: "This final rule facilitates the legal immigration process and reduces the amount of time that U.S. citizens are separated from their immediate relatives who are in the process of obtaining an immigrant visa."
Undocumented immigrants applying for the waiver still must leave the United States at some point to finish the process at a U.S. consular office in the country of their citizenship. But now their time outside of the United States is expected to last only days or a few weeks, federal officials have said.
At present, undocumented immigrants can face a three-to-ten-year ban on legally coming back to the United States, depending on how long they have lived in this country illegally.
Under the new process, immigrants would be seeking a provisional waiver from that ban so that they can pursue legal permanent residency here.
The U.S. government received about 23,000 hardship applications in 2011 and more than 70 percent were approved, the official said.
Proponents of strict immigration enforcement have criticized such moves, calling policies and programs that give breaks to undocumented immigrants "amnesty" and "rewarding law-breakers."
Advocates of more lenient immigration policies lauded the new rule.
"The family unity waiver eliminates unnecessary bureaucratic red tape and focuses on what is important: keeping families together," said Kica Matos, Director of Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice for the Center for Community Change. "We are pleased the rule will finally be implemented very soon."
"(We) are pleased that the Obama administration is using its authority to keep families together and we look forward to more leadership as we embark on the long term solution of immigration reform," Matos said.
Elizabeth Llorente is Senior Reporter for FoxNews.com, and can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @Liz_Llorente.


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Mitt Romney responded to President Barack Obama's latest attack, accusing the GOP nominee of forgetting and shifting his positions on issues on Friday night by calling out the Obama campaign for resorting to "petty attacks and silly word games" in the final three weeks of the campaign.
"Have you been watching the Obama campaign lately?" Romney asked a crowd of several thousand supporters at an outdoor event Friday night. "It's absolutely remarkable. They have absolutely no agenda for the future. No agenda for America. No agenda for a second term. It's a good thing they won't have a second term."
"They've been reduced to petty attacks and silly word games. Just watch it. The Obama campaign has become the incredible shrinking campaign," Romney said.
Romney's counter came after Obama unveiled a new line of attack at a rally earlier Friday in Virginia, coining the term "Romnesia" to describe satirically how Romney might have changed positions on issues by forgetting his past stances over the years.
"He's changing up so much -- backtracking and sidestepping. We've got to name this condition that he's going through. I think ... I think it's called 'Romnesia'. Now, I'm not a medical doctor but I do want to go over some of the symptoms with you. Because I want to make sure nobody else catches it," the president said.
"If you say you're for equal pay for equal work, but you keep refusing to say whether or not you'd sign a bill that protects equal pay for equal work, you might have Romnesia," Obama said to laughs. "If you say women should have access to contraceptive care, but you supported legislation that would let your employers deny you contraceptive care, you might have a case of Romnesia."
Romney continued his own new assault on what he claimed was the lack of a second term agenda for the Democratic administration, a chord he has been striking at each appearance since the second debate.
"The president has no jobs agenda. We keep on asking him: What are you going to do to create jobs? He has nothing new. He says well we're going to go forward," Romney said. "Forewarned is a better term."
"Here's just part of President Obama's agenda for a second term: double our exports, create a million manufacturing jobs, cut oil imports in half, recruit 100,000 math and science teachers, train two million workers at community colleges, and reduce the deficit by more than $4 trillion," Obama campaign spokesman Danny Kanner responded in a statement.
Romney and vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan's joint appearance in the Sunshine State, their third such joint stop here -- and Romney's plan to stay here through Monday night's debate -- reflect the closeness of the race here. A new poll from CNN/ORC shows the Florida in a statistical dead heat -- with Romney claiming 49 percent of the vote to Obama's 48 percent.
At a fundraiser in Boca Raton on Friday, Ryan told donors their late gifts could make the difference in financing a turnout operation that will determine the winner of this often-decisive battleground state.
"Your dollars are going straight to voter turnout, to voter education, to cutting thru the clutter, to giving the country a choice that they themselves deserve," Ryan said.


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For many it would seem like a dream come true. Two beautiful women, correction, smoking hot women, who are seemingly obsessed with the latest technology, sci-fi and online gaming and, oh, they're in to you, really in to you. What the hell could go wrong? Well, like they say, if something's too good to be true, it probably is. From Maxthon, who makes, in their own words, "the best browser you've never heard of" for windows, mac, android and the like, comes Hacker Girlfriend, an irreverent take on what happens when a gamer's dream come true becomes a nightmare.
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Wave Control £Free
Play, pause and skip your music with a wave of the hand over your Android phone's proximity sensor and pretend it's 2030. Wave Control might be hit and miss – like we found the similar Mac app Flutter – but it's free and the developers are working to make it compatible with more handsets.
Shark Dash 69p
Navigate your sharks and other bath-toys round this kid-friendly physics puzzler and join hordes of other people who've downloaded this cheap and cheerful cartoon-style game.
AfterFocus £Free
It might not quite be a Lytro camera but AfterFocus is gunning for Instagram's effects crown with background blur effects to bring the foreground of your snaps into focus after you've taken it. Also includes the obligatory roster of filters.
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If you've been mooning over the iOS Action Movie FX app, you'll be glad to know you can get Michael-Bay-in-a-can with this fun effects app. Blow stuff up and dodge wrecked cars all from the comfort of your handset's screen.
WordCam £1.24
And if you get bored of effects, 'special' or otherwise, you can always throw words into the mix as you muck about with images on your phone. WordCam uses photos and fonts to create cool typographic art that you can share with friends or just stick as your background. Really being creative is just too much hard work.
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Times were uncertain in New England in the mid-18th century. Travelers with little or no identification were likely to be detained. This handwritten note, signed by William Pitkin and John Chester of Albany, New York, in 1751, makes clear the identity of the two boys and informs the reader that, although their father is Native, their mother is an English woman, Mercy Carter, formerly of Deerfield. The boys are en route to Norwalk, Connecticut, to visit relatives of their mother.
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Wheat declined for a fourth day in Chicago, trading near the lowest level in 19 months, on an outlook for record global supplies of the grain.
Prices fell 22% this year, closing in on the biggest annual drop since 2008, as the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts a world crop at an all-time high of 711.4 million metric tons. Inventories before the 2014 harvest will rise 4% to 182.8 million tons, the USDA estimates. Wheat prices increased 19% last year as a drought gripped the U.S.
"Strong production of key crops across the world has helped remove the support witnessed in previous years, when adverse weather caused several major price spikes," Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank A/S in Hellerup, Denmark, wrote in a report today.
Wheat for delivery in March retreated 0.1% to $6.055 a bushel by 7:05 a.m. on the Chicago Board of Trade. The grain reached $6.0075 yesterday, the lowest level since May 2012, and is set for a fourth weekly drop. Prices fell 9.5% this month, the most since December 2012. Trading volume was 52% below the average for the past 100 days for the time of day, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Milling wheat for the same delivery month traded on NYSE Liffe in Paris fell 0.5% to 205.25 euros ($283.98) a ton.
"Buyers aren't yet showing a large appetite for taking new positions at the end of the year," Paris-based farm adviser Agritel wrote in a market comment.
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U.S. export sales of wheat probably declined in the week ended Dec. 19 from a year earlier, according to a survey of four analysts by Bloomberg. The USDA is scheduled to release its sales report today.
"The U.S. is still trying to get competitive," said Graydon Chong, an analyst at Rabobank International in Sydney.
Egypt, the world's largest wheat importer, bought grain from Romania and Russia in a tender last week, shunning offers of French and U.S. wheat.
Corn for delivery in March was unchanged at $4.2625 a bushel in Chicago, for a 1.6% weekly drop. The grain plunged 39% this year, set for the biggest annual slide since at least 1965. Soybeans for the same delivery month added 0.3% to $13.095 a bushel, trimming the weekly decline to 1.6%. The oilseed lost 7.1% this year.
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December 3, 2012 WIC Update
SUBJECT 1: REMINDER: WIC Help Desk Meeting
SUBJECT 2: Participants Selling WIC Formula and Foods
SUBJECT 3: FFY 2012 End-of-Year Invoicing due December 10, 2012
REMINDER: WIC Help Desk Meeting: This is a reminder that there will be no WIC Help Desk coverage on Friday, December 14, 2012, from 8:30 am to 10:30 am. Although staff will not be available during these hours, feel free to leave a message and all calls will be returned as soon as possible. The purpose of these meetings is to review processes and procedures in order to provide the highest quality customer service to local agencies and WIC participants. If you have questions, please contact Melissa Seaver at 800-554-2544 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Participants Selling WIC Formula and Foods: During the past several months, we have received an increasing number of calls and e-mails regarding participants selling formula and/or food on social media such as Facebook, Craigslist, etc. Please refer to WOM Policy ER# 1.06200, Section A, for instructions on handling alleged violations. In addition, a template has been developed (attached) to assist local WIC providers in documenting the interview and outcome of the investigation.
Debby Hanlon, WIC Communications and Planning Coordinator, is responsible for handling all alleged and substantiated participant violations. If you have any questions regarding actions to be taken with regard to participant violations (both alleged and substantiated), please contact Debby by e-mail at email@example.com or by calling 573-751-6196. (ONE ATTACHMENT)
FFY 2012 End-of-Year Invoicing due December 10, 2012: The deadline for submission of FFY 2012 end-of-year invoices is Monday, December 10, 2012. Expenses must have been incurred prior to October 1, 2012 to qualify for the FFY 2012 funding year. The grant year will close the end of December and payments beyond this date are not possible.
SUPPLEMENTAL Invoice due 12-10-2012 - ABSOLUTE DEADLINEPlease contact your District Technical Assistance staff if you need assistance. If you have any questions, please contact Laura Weiler at 573-526-7901, or 800-392-8209, or email@example.com.
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PortSentry by Psionic is a cool lil' utility that allows you to monitor in realtime port scans and take countermeasures (if that is you pleasure, I wouldn't).
Anyway it's, again, free.
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PortSentry is a program designed to detect and respond to port scans against a target host in real-time. The 2.0 version of the software offers extensive stealth scan detection for most Unix platforms. The 1.1 version supports the "classic" PortSentry detection modes that are no longer available in the 2.0 version of the software.
Stealth port scan detection for all Unix platforms. PortSentry will detect SYN/half-open, FIN, NULL, X-MAS and oddball packet stealth scans.
PortSentry will react to a port scan attempt by blocking the host in real-time protecting your system from reconnassaince probes, auto-scanners, and targeted system attacks.
PortSentry will report all violations to the local or remote syslog daemons indicating the system name, time of attack, attacking host IP and the TCP or UDP port a connection attempt was made to. When used in conjunction with LogSentry it will provide an alert to administrators through e-mail.
Once a scan is detected, your system will turn into a blackhole and disappear from the attacker. This feature stops most attacks cold.
As with all of the Tri-Sentry tools, PortSentry is designed to have an easy configuration and be maintenance free.


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Everyone assumes that the No. 1 suitor for free agent pitcher Cliff Lee this winter will be the deep-pocketed New York Yankees. We guess someone should have told their fans before they hurled obscenities and beer at his wife during the ALCS.
Kristen Lee sat among the rabble at Yankee Stadium during the Rangers playoff appearances in New York and the town did not make a great impression on the woman who could help sway the biggest decision of baseball's offseason.
She says there were ugly taunts. Obscenities. Cups of beer thrown. Even fans spitting from the section above.
"The fans did not do good things in my heart," Kristen says
So if the team is stuck with Phil Hughes or A.J. Burnett in another deciding game next year, fans in the Bronx will know who to thank. Themselves.


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UPDATE: Bachmann Wants Wider I-94; Not Atop MnDOT List
ST. PAUL (AP) - Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann says she's working to muster support in Minnesota and Washington for money to add a new Interstate 94 lane in each direction between the western suburbs and St. Cloud.
The congresswoman gathered supporters Monday at the state Capitol to talk about the project, as well as a related push to upgrade Highway 10 that runs parallel to the heavily traveled interstate. Backers of the I-94 project are trying to amass $25 million for the first construction phase of an expansion that could reach $100 million when fully complete.
Bachmann says transportation is one of the "supreme duties" of government because it directly affects safety and commerce.
A Minnesota Department of Transportation spokesman says the I-94 widening doesn't rank high on the agency's project list.


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I recently purchased a peplum top and am completely in love with it, but I need
Peplums can be incredibly flattering-if you get the proportion right! I have one rule for wearing them: make sure the peplum's flare starts at the thinnest part of the waist and ends at the hipbone. Since you have your top, let's focus on finding the right things to pair it with. Your peplum top already has volume and structure, so it's best to wear it with simple pieces that have clean lines. One option is to go for a pencil skirt; black or grey are obvious choices, but you should also consider brighter hues like bright green, turquoise, or electric blue. Streamlined shorts would also work; Marc by Marc Jacobs has a cute pale khaki pair, or you could go for a high-waisted style in blue or black. Pants are, of course, appropriate too, and would balance the peplum's feminine flair nicely. You can't go wrong with black skinnies, but any simple, slim style will work. One last thing to note: if you're trying to lengthen your body, make sure you opt for a monochromatic outfit. It's just more flattering!


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Cat Lethargy
My 3 year old female calico has in the past week gone through a treatment for an ear infection.
I have noticed in the past week ( no ear meds for 3 days) that she has been very different. Here are a list of changes.
1. Slightly more social towards our roommate, who she pretty much hates.
2. Sleeping almost 40% more than usual.
3. Slightly less appetite, but not significantly so.
4. Place where she sleeps.
My cat usually only lies on the arm of the chair, but lately has been lying on the fusion, and although this seems unimportant, she is 3 and has never changed her ways before.
I KNOW my cat should be fixed. She is not, and I understand the general opinion of the population of the world is that she needs to be fixed. This is in the process of happening, but money is sometimes tight, and we have had some unexpected expenses through out the last three years (a lot of VERY costly expenses, so please no harassment)
Our roommate accidentally let her outside when she had just finished her last heat session, we are generally very vigilant, but our door didn't latch properly, and thankfully my cat is trained to come when she is called, or I may have never even gotten her back.
Do these sound like symptoms of pregnancy? As they do to me somewhat.
What ear meds did the vet prescribe? Can you take your kitty for a follow-up vet visit (sometimes there's no charge for that) to get his/her opinion on these new symptoms and if they might be related to the ear infection?
Would be difficult to say whether the symptoms could be due to a pregnancy without a vet exam. How long ago did she get out? If it wasn't too long, perhaps you could consider getting her spayed now to prevent any possible unwanted kittens. And depending on what meds she was on, the health of the fetuses could also have been compromised. You really need to talk to the vet about this. There are financial aid options if you qualify:
"To close your eyes will not ease another's pain." ~ Chinese Proverb
We must not refuse to see with our eyes what they must endure with their bodies. ~ Gretchen Wyler
Its not her medication causing issues, she stopped them 3 days ago, and has had them before with no issues.
The vet said she hasn't had a drug reaction, and she was only let out 2 and a half ( general guesstimate, we have a crazy life here so some things slip the memory ) but that's about correct. She had a week and a half long heat, which is normal for her, she got outside, and only since then has her attitude changed.
She is signifucantly nicer after being treated for a prolonged ear infection ( she showed no outward signs for quite a while ) which I can totally understand, as I would be an aweful person if I had an ear infection and didn't realize until it was too late. She just started being more lethargic this past week, still eats, and behaves normally when she isn't sleeping. Seems to have a little gut, but she was gaining some weight for a while until I changed her to performatrin food, and that seems to maintain her weight. She isn't fat, just a little bottom heavy, and aside from the slightly kinder mannerisms, and the significant extra sleeping is showing no signs of poor health, and I've had cats my whole life who have had some health issues, as we took in the ones who needed vet care often, so I have a good idea of what to watch for in poor health.
I'm becoming increasingly convinced she is pregnant, but only time will tell right now.
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Monday, February 4, 2008
The WB Store is Closed!
There's a new blog in town. Juan Ortiz, a product designer for the Disney Store and the now defunct WB Stores, has created a new blog: The Warner Bros. Studio Store is Closed!. It is a must-see for Misce-Looney-ous fans. Ortiz is uploading some wonderful images and commentary about his time with the Warner Stores.
4 comments:
Good News: I'll get it!!(adding this new blog between my favorite in the internet explorer bar)*
- February 5, 2008 at 4:50 AM
- Harley Green said...
great blog: Ortiz is one of the best artist, which realised lots of Warner Merchandising; hope to see new interessting stuff and sketches of his projects on his site!
- February 5, 2008 at 10:17 AM
a very nice site full of Looney Tunes featuring!! That's great!
- February 7, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Apparently, he had a Disney Store blog that covered similar territory but which doesn't exist anymore. After seeing the quality of this one so far, that's a huge letdown.
Interesting stuff so far, and I hope he keeps with it for a while. Blogs like these two give me hope that the Looney Tunes characters will hang on and that, someday, kids will know who they are again without having to rely on Boomerang or the DVDs as their only source.
- February 7, 2008 at 11:58 PM


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Friends, countrymen, lend me your ears! (and your chicken nuggets) It is I, the Duke of DVD, come 'round once again like that old pair of stained underwear that you used to wipe your leaking dong off because you didn't realize you were out of bedside tissues before you commenced to playing tug of war with cyclops while watching 30 Minute Meals with Rachael Ray. Oh sure, you thought you had tucked the pair far enough under your stained mattress that you would never see it again, but your mom had to go change your sheets while cleaning, and now they're back, so stiff they could stand up on their own. Only this time I must temporarily change my moniker. For the length of this review, I shall be known as the Duke of Blu-Ray! That's right, blu-ray. That future-tech spinning disc designed to hold high resolution copies of the MADdest movies ever. Rest assured, dear readers, that I have a MAD one for you today!
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead comes to us from that most-beloved-by-the-Duke studio Troma. This time, Troma President Lloyd Kaufman himself is at the helm for what is surely the most fart, sex, and poop jokes ever packed into a movie. Have you ever sat back in your favorite overstuffed chair and thought "Hey, I wish someone, some enterprising individual with more balls than common sense, would craft a movie which involves lots of lesbian action, undead fisting, un-PC comments about suicide bombers, and wrap it all up with a heaping helping of chicken-related sight gags!"? Well, this is your lucky day, punk.
Cling tenaciously to my buttocks as we explore...
Our movie opens with what appears to be every 80's horror movie's cliched opening: two young people are having midnight sex at an Indian burial ground. Now, at the best of times this is quite dangerous, and in more normal movie fare would be the catalyst for all manner of undead goings-on. Instead, Kaufman turns your preconceptions on their head and has undead Native American arms come up to start grasping the coupling naked youngsters, and very quickly we have the first of what will be many fingers/hands inserting into anuses. The use of prosthetic butts in this movie deserves not only an Oscar, but a whole new Oscar category, to which Poultrygeist would be the only entrant.
Every single new scene threatens the use of either something going in or out of an anus, and often delivers on that threat. Before the young couple realize what is going on, an axe-wielding loon steps out of the shadows. The kids run off, leaving underwear behind. The axe-maniac first sniffs the girl's panties, but finds them repulsive. Moving on, he sniffs the dude's underwear, and then begins masturbating (with an obvious prosthetic cock). Suddenly, an arm comes from under the ground, through his anus (didn't see that coming, did ya?), out his mouth, grabs the underwear from his hands, then pulls them back through his body and down into the ground. This is in the first 10 minutes, folks.
We then cut to a half year later. It seems that a major fast food restaurant called "American Chicken Bunker" has purchased this land and has built a restaurant on it. Arby, the young guy from the opening scene, is returning from college. Arriving at the restaurant, he is greeted by a large group of protesters, holding such signs as "I Love Cock".
We also meet her girlfriend Micki, who is attached to a running joke throughout the film in which she is frequently mistaken for a man. We next get the movie's first song and dance number. That's right folks. Not content to have his movie be the most awesome movie ever, Lloyd Kaufman had to go the extra mile and make it into a musical! Another thing Kaufman likes to do is throw stereotypes into people's faces, and he does this quickly by parading out a drunken Native American who the protesters are using as a focus for their anti-corporate hate. This wont be the last stereotype used in the movie I'm thinkin'.
After the musical routine, Arby has scored a job with the American Chicken Bunker. The manager, named Denny, introduces him to another coworker named Carl Jr., whom Arby knew from school. Sensing a pattern with the naming scheme here folks? Other coworkers include Jose Paco Bell, a Latino frycook, and Humus, a burka-wearing cook that is routinely called names like Hamas and Al Jazeera. Jose Paco Bell discovers a box of mutated, pulsating eggs and when he cooks one and serves it, all hell breaks loose. Soon we have mutant chickens running around, one of them pushing Paco Bell into a meat grinder, where he is turned into a burger himself. A sentient burger, who talks with Arby letting him know what is going on and how to stop it.
Arby is too preoccupied with his girl being a militant lesbian, though. We get a dream sequence in which he is engaged in a threesome with the two girls, and then we get an extended song routine in which the two lesbians (plus about 8 other coeds) are all topless. One thing is for fucking certain: In a Troma film helmed by Mr. Kaufman, you don't have to wait long to see tits.
We next see the arrival of General Lee Roy, the company president. He woos the protesters into his good graces by a hilarious song routine and in no time the restaurant is packed with hungry chicken-lovers. Unfortunately for everyone, the Native American spirits are having none of it, and quickly infect the chicken. I must give props here to the myriad of humorous signs and labels on everything in the restaurant setting. From a drink on the menu called "Cluckwork Orange" to the hundreds of food labels on things in the back storage, the persons responsible for setting up all the, um, sets, deserve to have a pat on the back.
I was constantly laughing at signs like "Instructions For Making The General's 2-Spice Secret Recipe: 1) Add Salt 2) Add Pepper 3) Deep Fry". From here the plots develops rather quickly. Lloyd Kaufman himself plays a grown-up Arby, who we assume has come back from the future somehow to warn Arby that his life is going to suck from there on out unless he leaves American Chicken Bunker. We don't know how Old Arby got there, and we don't care. What we do care about, however, is Lloyd Kaufman in a dress, wearing a g-string, doing a song and dance number. Yes, don't deny it, you DO care about such things!
Next up the chicken MADness continues. We have a grotesque scene involving an obese man (named Jared, supposedly of Subway fame, having fell off the wagon so to speak and gotten fat again) in a bathroom, spraying shit all over the walls. We have Carl Jr fucking a raw chicken carcass, which turns mutant and bites his dong, giving us the choice quotes: "Easy with the teeth! I was gonna pull out, it just felt so goooood!" In fact, this movie is choice quote heaven. Let us pause for a moment and pay homage to these gems:
"I was just trying to help him!"
"By fucking him to death with a mop?!"
"It's just like my granpappy used to say: 'Hey Junior, get over here with those matches! This cross ain't gonna burn itself!'"
"That's the thing about a chicken. It's got dead eyes. Black. Like a sex doll!"
"The chicken has declared jihad on us all!"
"Eat my meat you vegan whores!"
"How could I ever love someone that wants me to eat cock?!"
"I know him, we were on the debate team together in high school. I was anti-beastiality, he was pro!"
I could go on and on. Suffice it to say, this movie is hilarious to the point of crying. Pretty soon all of the restaurant patrons are chicken zombies, complete with beaks and some feathers. We also have a full-blown mutant chicken, given birth to by General Lee Roy, who swells up like a giant human egg before bursting and spilling for the giant killer chicken. In a hilarious scene right out of some insane person's nightmare, we are whisked around the restaurant as the many zombie-fied chicken people kill, eat, and wax philosophic about various things.
We have an old lady zombie chicken who rips the face off a victim and begins to eat it, declaring "I know it's fattening, but I loooove the skin!" We have a big-tittied woman about to get eaten but when her top comes off she realizes her huge knockers are mesmerizing the chicken zombies and begins to go-go dance on the table top. You can't make this stuff up, people! Oh wait... you can if you are a Troma writer I suppose. At one point, a chicken zombie reaches through the rear end of a patron and pulls his balls out through his ass, then tosses the balls into the deep fryer.
Finally the zombie chicken menace is turned away by simply flipping the "Open" sign to "Closed". This doesn't work forever, though, and in the final scenes the zombie chickens are gunned down with a handy cache of M-16's that were in the restaurant. The giant mutant chicken is still about, as well as other zombie chickens, and so in a scene we saw coming from a long way off, Humus casts off her burka to reveal not only a hot bikini-clad body, but also a suicide bomber's C4 jacket, complete with hand-held trigger device. Troma knows no restraint!
As Arby and Wendy flee the restaurant, Humus blows the whole thing up in a spectacular fireball. Arby and Wendy speed off, accompanied by a young girl that happened to escape with them. Arby gives the little girl a Miller Lite, which she proceeds to chug. In the final seconds, the little girl lays an egg, which causes them all to scream, which causes them to flip their car, which explodes in a massive fiery wreck! Fin.
Needless to say folks, this is easily one of the most crazy, fucked up, insane, balls-the-the-wall AWESOME movies I've ever had the pleasure of watching. No scene fell flat, no one was left unoffended, and no chicken left unkilled.
Now lets talk a bit about this new-fangled blu-ray medium. The picture quality for Poultrygeist was fairly outstanding, with only a blemish here and there. The disc itself is packed with features, including a full-blown making-of that is a must watch.
As per a lot of Troma releases, there is an introductory video (optional) with Lloyd as he talks about this first Troma blu-ray (or brown-ray, as he calls it) release. Not only that, but this is the first Troma movie in anamorphic widescreen! I could go on and on, gushing with praise for this movie. It has everything from a Ron Jeremy cameo to deep-fried testicles. What more could you possibly want?! Nothing, says I. Three Thumbs Way Up for this one, folks. See it. Now.
(Note: a copy of the Blu-Ray release of Poultrygeist was provided to MMMMMovies for review purposes.)
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Blu-Ray Review: Poultrygeist (2006), or, This Review Contains No Chicken-related Puns
Friends, countrymen, lend me your ears! (and your chicken nuggets) It is I, the Duke of DVD, come 'round once again like that old pair of stained underwear that you used to wipe your leaking dong off because you didn't realize you were out of bedside tissues before you commenced to playing tug of war with cyclops while watching 30 Minute Meals with Rachael Ray. Oh sure, you thought you had tucked the pair far enough under your stained mattress that you would never see it again, but your mom had to go change your sheets while cleaning, and now they're back, so stiff they could stand up on their own. Only this time I must temporarily change my moniker. For the length of this review, I shall be known as the Duke of Blu-Ray! That's right, blu-ray. That future-tech spinning disc designed to hold high resolution copies of the MADdest movies ever. Rest assured, dear readers, that I have a MAD one for you today!
Posted by The Duke of DVD at 1:12 PM
Labels: 3 Thumbs, Blu-Ray Review, Indian Burial Ground Sex, Lloyd Kaufman, Monsters Amok, Mutant Chickens, Troma
6 comments:
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Well, Duke, you've finally done it--you've brought take-no-prisoners Troma reviews into the 21st century!
POULTRYGEIST really reads to me like Kaufman's most explicit "fuck you" to the movie industry ever, in a career that has pretty much been one long extended assault. And the odd thing is, that's not a bad thing, in my estimation: love him or hate him, he's definitely a unique figure in modern filmmaking, and has been instrumental in getting many now-established stars, directors, and writers their first crack at the big time. A modern-day Corman? I don't think the comparison is that far off-base.
The movie itself is of course calculated to offend and horrify as much as it is to entertain, in the gloriously unsubtle way that's become Troma's calling card. I don't think there's any middle ground here--you'll either hate it with a fiery burning passion, or you'll go along for the ride with a goofy grin plastered across your face.
I seem to remember there being a push on Troma's part to make this a big-screen release when it was first made--is that addressed on the extras?
- February 23, 2010 at 2:21 PM
You know, I'm not into these sorts of flicks, but your review, and the fact that they used the "dead, black eyes" line from Jaws almost makes me want to see this film ;-)
- February 23, 2010 at 2:47 PM
- JamiSings said...
I only have one problem with this review and that is the assumption that all your readers have penises. How about a nod to your readers with breasts and vaginas? Hm?
Other then that, eggcellent review.
*Prepares to be paddled for the pun*
- February 23, 2010 at 9:06 PM
- The Duke of DVD said...
@Vicar - I don't recall this being addressed in the extras, but I was quite inebriated by that point, so perhaps it was. It all blended together by that point... I do remember mention of, a chicken, perhaps?
@Nicole - You certainly do need to check this out! Troma films aren't anyone but a select few's cup of tea, but they should be enjoyed by all, I say!
@Jami - Oh dear girl, I wasn't trying to slight those among my dearest readers who have perky funbags, or vaginas, at all! No! As the Vicar can attest, we at MMMMMovies are total fans of female anatomy, if not downright worshipers of such. If my review came off with any sort of penis slant, it was because our good friends at Troma worship the cock in all it's various incarnations. I couldn't help but be phallus-centric. Please don't take offense!
- February 23, 2010 at 11:25 PM
- JamiSings said...
Tell you what, have your next review start out with female masterbation jokes and I'll be happy.
Or you can just paddle me and I'll be happy with that too. ;-)
- February 24, 2010 at 11:16 AM
- Lewis Wood said...
I'm sorry to say i disagree with you. This is a film i hate.
I just posted a review today on my blog. check it out. I know a lot of things in this film are meant to be tongue in cheek and funny. but i just didn't get it and to me its seems like a pile of crap. sorry i can't agree on your opinion.
- October 13, 2010 at 3:13 PM


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