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Driving Open Standards in a Fragmented Networking Landscape
- By Nati Shalom,
- January 10, 2018
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This article originally appeared in SDxCentral on December 29, 2017. Once upon a time, standards were our friends. They provided industry accepted blueprints for building homogeneous infrastructures that were reliably interoperable. Company A could confidently build an application and—because of standards—know that it would perform as expected on infrastructure run by Company B. Standards have,
Open Source Summit Recap Part Duex
- By Sharone Zitzman,
- September 14, 2017
- ARIA Community NFV NFV Management NFV MANO NFV Orchestration ONAP Open Source TOSCA
These last couple of days at #OSSNA were extremely busy. Aside from the continued great conversations with the attendees, we got to meet a lot of co-presenters, interesting groups & non-profits (Women in Linux, Kids on Computers, LinuxChicks, Free Software Foundation, the team from Fedora and many more)… and of course the stellar lineup of
Open Source Summit – Day One Recap
- By Sharone Zitzman,
- September 11, 2017
- ARIA Community NFV NFV Management NFV MANO NFV Orchestration ONAP Open Source TOSCA
Meet us at Booth #600 at Open Source Summit North America Today was an energizing first day at Open Source Summit North America. A lot of excellent talks, an awesome and empowering Women in Open Source lunch, reunions, and great conversations. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow. These are really exciting times for open source
Where AT&T Leads, Cisco Cannot Follow
- By Nati Shalom,
- April 26, 2016
- NFV Open Source
Preface The Innovator's Dilemma faced by vendors of proprietary networking stacks is well documented. The blogsphere and the trade media have well documented the disruptive, one-two punch of open source NFV and white box hardware that threatens to undermine their business models. But just this week, at OpenStack Summit in Austin, we saw


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Ready, Set, Green: My Eight Week Journey To A Greener, Guilt-Free Me
I'm in week six of an eight-week journey to try to get greener and face my secret environmental foibles.
Well, one of my biggest downfalls continues to be cheap clothing. In Graham Hill and Meaghan O'Neill's eco-living primer "Ready, Set, Green," Week Six is devoted to clothing and personal care. Since I'm not much of a shopper, I thought I'd do very well in already having conquered many of the tips that come at the back of each chapter of the book. And in some ways, I did. I wash in cold water with eco-friendly detergents and get away without the dryer about 75% of the time. I long ago gave up dry cleaning. My pairs of shoes still easily fit on my small closet floor, and I LOVE to buy vintage.
And in the personal care section, I think I've made some good changes - I finally gave up hair highlighting and toe-nail painting, and I've slimmed the skin care routine down to two bottled items - Ballard Organics liquid soap (lasts forever) and moisture lotion with sunscreen. I use baking soda for skin scrub, occasional tooth polishing and deodorant. Hair care is down to two items - solid shampoo bars from Lush and liquid conditioner used very sparingly.But while I don't buy much, and I am willing to splurge for eco-cosmetics or green personal care, when faced with buying routine clothing items for myself or my family I still feel unable to pay full retail for eco-friendly items.
Giving up on sustainable socks
Take my recent quest for sustainable socks. I spent an hour or so searching on the web for kids' socks. I needed at least six pairs for each of my two sons, who through their school days, sports activities and just general living use up a pair quite quickly. I waited until they had just two hole-free pairs each. But the search was pretty fruitless. I went to Green Maven and Greenzer, and found a lot of entries, but drilling through them turned up few that had 'tween sizes for anything near approaching a fair price. In the end, I bought them each a bag of Fruit of the Loom socks from the grocery, six pairs for less than six dollars, and resigned myself to sock guilt. Some squeaky, sockless TreeHugger is sure to give me grief, but I'd really like to hear from heads of family who have solved the green sock dilemma...frugally.
Green T-s Are Getting Better
While socks were difficult, t-shirts were a little bit better...at least for adults. Organic Style's bamboo long-sleeved Scoopneck T was a hands-down winner, closely followed by the Thermal Shirt. T-s and long-sleeved t-s for the kids were more difficult, however. While organic and Fair Trade babywear abounds, what do manufacturers think happens when the kids get to be a bit older? The choices are paltry, to say the least.
In the end, on the positive side, we found cool secondhand pairs of shoes for each of my sons for the first day of school, and we rounded up and sharpened enough pencils by searching through the house to last until at least Christmas. They will use old pencil cases and binders. On the negative side, they got one new pair of jeans and one long sleeved T each, non organic. All in all, perhaps a good trade off.
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I'm working through Jim Scott Orrick's A Year with George Herbert: A Guide to Fifty-two of His Best Loved Poems. I read "The Thanksgiving," which Orrick describes this way:
Herbert vows that he will use Christ's gifts to praise Him and to give Him thanks. … The poet proposes a love contest between the Lord and himself. "I know," he acknowledges, "that You are the king of grief. In view of the cross, there's no disputing that. I know I cannot repay You by offering You my grief. But perhaps I can repay You for Your love and get one-up on You by using all Your gifts not for my benefit, but for yours."
Orrick's typically helpful and insightful analysis notes that Herbert is under no delusions of possible success, and the poem conveys this well. Herbert is not advocating the Debtor's Ethic–the idea that our good works and obedience as Christians is motivated by "repaying Jesus." No one seriously thinks that's possible, but it's the thought that counts, so the Ethic goes.
The Bible never puts forth the Debtor's Ethic as motivation, either. But it does spend a lot of time encouraging believers to obedience and good works. In fact, Herbert's "strategy" for the contest sounds a lot like what the New Testament expects of those who are in Christ.
The Gospel is, by definition, good news. "Work harder" isn't good news, and so neither the Scriptures nor Herbert offer it as such. Rather, what is offered is this:
For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God's gift–not from works, so that no one can boast. For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:8-10 HCSB).
We can undertake Herbert's "contest" as he does, with no actual intention of competing, but rather out of amazed wonder and gratitude that we are able to render to Jesus anything at all. It's a miracle that we actually want to give Jesus anything other than a clenched fist and a middle finger, and so we do. And even what we offer is so weak and shot through with sin and brokenness that it's a miracle He takes it and makes it holy and acceptable, just because He loves us.
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The Saints suffered several key injuries during Sunday's regular-season finale against the Bucs. Running back Chris Ivory left with a foot injury, and tight end Jimmy Graham suffered an ankle injury.
The biggest concern centers on safety Malcolm Jenkins, who left in the first quarter with a knee injury.
Per a source with knowledge of the situation, Jenkins will have an MRI today. It's believed to be an issue more with the knee cap than with the ligaments. That said, we're told that Jenkins thinks he'll be fine.
Either way, the Saints will need to get their injured guys ready to go on Saturday, when they head to Seattle to commence the quest for "Two Dat."


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Graham Arnold has revealed a series of meetings from Wayne Bennett was the secret behind his side's breakthrough A-League championship.
Central Coast coach Graham Arnold has revealed a series of meetings and text messages from rugby league master-coach Wayne Bennett was the secret behind his side's breakthrough Hyundai A-League championship.
The Mariners finally buried the demons of three previous grand final defeats to secure their first title with a 2-0 win over Western Sydney Wanderers on Sunday.
And Arnold paid tribute to the seven-time premiership-winning NRL coach for helping the club finally break their drought.
Desperate to shed the club's bridesmaids tag, the Mariners boss sought out Bennett in the lead-up to the finals for some guidance on how to guide his side to the title.
"I'm always trying to learn and learn from the best and the best in Australia is Wayne Bennett," a jubilant Arnold said afterwards.
"I went and had lunch with Wayne and he's been a fantastic mentor for me over the last four weeks.
"With his experience he basically said 'I will win you a grand final ... I've done it six times so I'll tell you how to do it'."
"He was a real good shoulder that I could lean on to talk too, a guy that had a lot more experience than me.
"Even up to yesterday morning the text message that he sent me ... don't play the game today, you're playing tomorrow. Keep them relaxed.
"I can't thank him enough."
Mariners skipper John Hutchinson added of Bennett's influence: "Arnie loves his quote: 'Don't die with the music in you'. It's always on our board.
"It's just before games. He (Arnold) gives us our team talk, we go out for warm-up, we come in and it's written on the board, with Wayne Bennett underneath it.
"That's been going for the past three or four weeks. It's something that, as Arnie says to the boys when we are leaving, just give it your all.
"No-one is going to complain if you give it your all when you come in.
"You have seen our team today, we don't stop. Today was our day."
It certainly was.
Right from the moment Mile Sterjovski grazed the crossbar inside 10 minutes, the Mariners were always in control of the match.
Defender Patrick Zwaanswijk, who is expected to announce his retirement in coming days, sent the Mariners on their way when he scored just before half-time with a powerful header from Michael McGlinchey's corner.
The Mariners continued to dominate after the break and made the game safe when golden-boot and Joe Marston Medal winner Daniel McBreen scored from the spot.
From there they were never going to let this decider slip, which goes someway to making up for losses on the final day of the season in 2006, 2008 and 2011.
Hutchinson, who was a part of all three grand final defeats with the club, spoke about the relief of finally getting his hands on the trophy for the club.
"It is just a huge weight lifted off your shoulders and it's an amazing feeling," the Mariners skipper said.
"The boys coming into the game were pretty relaxed. The young boys were all relaxed and looking forward to the game.
"I thought today we played really well. We played some good football, we had some great chances and I thought we deserved it."
The Mariners won't have long to celebrate their victory with the side to fly out of Sydney on Monday morning bound for Korea for their ACL clash with Suwon Bluewings on Tuesday night.


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Dear Families,
Welcome to fifth grade! I'm looking forward to working with all parents and students to make this an exciting and rewarding year for all. The following information should be helpful to you.
If possible, within the first week of school all students should bring in a HOME FOLDER and a DESK FOLDER. The HOME FOLDER should go home every evening and come back to school each morning. It will contain important documents, and notices. Please check this folder on a daily basis. The DESK FOLDER will stay in school, and it will be used to store any work in progress or documents needed for class. I ask that the students clearly label each of these folders so that they can be easily located. In addition, I'd appreciate families to provide their child with the following:
Please let me know if you are unable to supply your child with the following supplies, and I will be happy to make other arrangements for him or her. I also find it important that each student have a school planner (the school often times will supply these). I have found that these can be very helpful for many students in organizing homework assignments. Although many students can successfully manage their own homework planner/assignments, some may still need a great deal of support with this. Therefore, checking your child's homework planner on a daily basis may be necessary for some students.
Students will usually have 45 minutes of homework each night Monday through Thursday. There is no homework assigned for the weekends unless they have unfinished work, are studying for an upcoming test, or need extra time to work on a long- term project. Some students will need only 30 minutes to complete their work, where others may need more time. If your child is taking longer than an hour to complete homework, please contact me so we can work together to help the situation. I strongly suggest setting up a regular time every day ( if possible ) when your child can complete his or her work. Set aside 45 min. a day for work time. In addition, 20 minutes for reading each night is strongly encouraged. If your child completes his/her assignments early, encourage studying math fact, or studying spelling words in any remaining time. This may be tough to enforce in the beginning, but students will eventually do well with a routine.
I am encouraging all students to read twenty-five chapter books this year in fifth grade. The students will place a sticker(s) on a chart as they complete each book. The size and difficulty of a book determines the number of stickers the student receives. The student will also be keeping track of the books he/she reads throughout the year on a reading log. I am asking that parents initial next to each book as it is completed indicating proof that the student has been reading the book at home as well as at school.
I will try to give the students as much notice as possible for up-coming projects and tests. I suggest they spend some time each night in preparing for these things rather than waiting until the night before. Of course, this will offer better results, as well as be less stressful for everyone involved. When studying for tests, they can typically refer to the classroom text, and their classroom notes. Please let me know if your child is having difficulty preparing for projects of tests. I would be happy to offer various strategies.
Monday - Health
Tuesday - Music
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If you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns throughout the school year, please contact me at 572-6520. I am available before and after school on most days. I look forward to meeting all of you!
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Stirling's slick strike pair Chris Geddes and Paul Sludden provided a lesson in finishing to ten man Gala Fairydean Rovers at Netherdale last night.
Geddes and ex-Stenhousemuir man Sludden scored all three goals between them for the Students as Gala suffered their first defeat of the season.
However, there were encouraging signs from the homesters, who passed the ball well at times and created chances against the dark horses for the Lowland League title.
Gala boss Stevie Noble said: "Geddes and Sludden are among the best strikers in the Lowland League and they will punish you for any mistakes.
"We had mistakes for the second and third goals but I can't fault the efforts of the players. We made some good chances but didn't take them, which was the difference in the end."
In a frantic first 13 minutes, Stirling took the lead through a Geddes lob on five minutes before Jamie Gibson equalised with a fine 10th minute header from a Ross Aitchison cross.
But Geddes made it 2-1 when he fired home a rebound from an Andrew Gillen long range shot which came back off the bar.
There were few chances in the remainder of the half, until Sludden was played clean through after a mistake by Colin Galbraith, but his effort was saved by Mark Wilson.
Sludden was not to be denied, however, and all but finished the contest with an emphatic finish ten minutes into the second half.
Gala substitute Stuart Noble provided Gala with a fresh threat up front, and almost pulled one back after shaking off his marker George Leigh, only to hit the side netting from an acute angle.
Galbraith hit the post with a header from a Dean McColm corner but Sean Guiney's straight red card for a high tackle on Gillen ended any Gala chances of a comeback.
Gala Fairydean Rovers: M. Wilson, L. Stephen, D. Thomson (R. Grant 75), C. Galbraith, S. Guiney, D. Bonnar, D. McColm, D. Burdett (B. Miller 64), J. Gibson, C. Jardine (S. Noble 53), R. Aitchison.


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No one likes to be compared to Richard Nixon.
Certainly not a sitting U.S. President, one who is a week from election day. And yet the comparisons are apt.
On July 17, 1972, five men were apprehended in the Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate complex/hotel. There is no evidence to suggest that Richard Nixon, then the U.S. President knew about or authorized the break in, or even was aware of it before it happened. At best it can be said that Nixon knew of "dirty tricks" being undertaken on behalf of his reelection. What is clear, however, is that immediately after it happened, Nixon learned of the event, its implications and connections to him and his White House, and actively participated in a coverup to keep details of the "dirty tricks" private. His motives were purely political and his ultimate goal was to get through the election, at which point he felt that he would be untouchable as a sitting President. It worked, as Nixon won in a landslide victory. But...
...less than two years after that reelection he was forced to resign in disgrace, his name synonymous with scandal.
Note the parallels to where we stand now (and the clear absence of the participation of the media):
On September 11, 2012, an armed mob attacked the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya in a premeditated attack designed to coincide with the anniversary of the September 11 Al Queda attacks on the US. The U.S. ambassador and three other men died in defense of the consulate and a nearby safe house. More information is still emerging, but it appears clear that information was being provided to the President and members of the State department in real time, including requests for military intervention. Intervention was denied, and the men died.
There is some evidence to suggest that Obama participated in the decision to deny additional support. What is clear is that in the immediate aftermath of the deadly attach, Obama learned of the implications and connections to his policies in the region, and actively participated in a coverup to keep details of the events of that evening private. Obama's motives appear to have been political and his ultimate goal seems to be to get through next week's election, at which point he feels that he will be untouchable as a sitting President.
It didn't work for Nixon. Why should it work for Obama?
I was a Watergate fan in my youth, devouring many accounts of what happened, and who and how it was eventually discovered. I remain convinced that had Nixon come out in July of 1972 and said, "I did not know of the break in, but upon learning of it I have fired all those involved, and I am taking a stand against that kind of behavior in my administration and in my campaign," that he would have been reelected, and the scandal would have been diffused.
But Nixon had plausible deniability, in that he didn't actually know of the break in before it happened. Obama has no such cover. The lengths to which Obama is going to distance his (or his administration's) poor decision-making from the public eye is staggering. At some point the truth will come out; questions are already being asked--hard questions. He will be vilified in the public eye, and perhaps even impeached (as was threatened to Nixon).
Is he going down with the ship? Is Obama enough of a politician and a statesman to say, "I'll get through reelection, and then, if it comes to it, I'll resign as Nixon did, and Joe Biden can be President. At least Democrats will still control the White House." Is that the game plan?
No, I don't think so. I think, like Nixon before him, Obama suffers from a over developed sense of self-worth--call it "hubris." Nixon thought that he was smarter than the electorate and the press; Obama thinks he is better at everyone's job than they are. Nixon thought that reelection to a second term would validate his place in history; Obama has regularly compared himself to Lincoln and Kennedy, and believes that he already has a valued place in history, but that a second term would make it seem even more important.
Obama's challenge is that there isn't enough time to be contrite and win the election. So he has doubled-down on cover-up. His strategy seems to be to keep running the bases--from spontaneous video reaction to unforeseeable attacks to intelligence failure to state department failure to budget cuts to not wanting to inflame the region to whatever is the next line of reasoning--and keep the truth from fully emerging until after the election.
He runs the risk of being compared to Nixon.
And remember--no one died because of the Nixon scandal. The coverup was the worst of it, and it cost Nixon his job and his place in history. Is that really how Obama wants to be remembered?


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UPDATE: At approximately 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, June 17, Daejon Tyrie Jones was taken into custody without incident at a residence in Stafford County, Virginia. Jones was apprehended with assistance by the United States Marshals Service and the Stafford County Sheriff's Office and is being held in the Arlington County Detention Facility.
UPDATE: The suspect, Daejon Tyrie Jones, has been located and taken into police custody.
ARLINGTON, Va. – The Arlington County Police Department is seeking the public's assistance in locating Daejon Tyrie Jones, 23, of Woodbridge, Virginia. Jones is wanted for Murder for his role in a homicide in the Nauck neighborhood. Jones is described as a black male, approximately 5'9" tall and weighing 190 pounds.
At approximately 11:20 p.m. on June 16, 2017, police responded to the 2400 block of S. Lowell Street for the report of a shooting. Arriving officers located one male victim suffering from a gunshot wound and began performing lifesaving measures. Arlington County Fire Department medics transported Adonis Wright, 35, of Washington, D.C. to George Washington University Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The initial investigation revealed that this shooting resulted from a dispute that took place between known individuals. The suspect, Daejon Tyrie Jones, fled the scene prior to police arrival. This shooting is an isolated incident and there is no indication of any continued threat to the community.
Jones is considered armed and dangerous. Anyone with information on his whereabouts should call 911 immediately and not approach the suspect. If you have additional information regarding this investigation, contact Detective S. Bertollini of the Arlington County Police Department's Homicide/Robbery Unit at 703-228-4243 or email@example.com. Information may also be provided anonymously through the Arlington County Crime Solvers hotline at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477).


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— A Decade by Decade Guide to the Horror Movie Genre —
Horror Movies in the 1980s: Evil Dead, Child's Play, John Carpenter's The Thing, The Hitcher, Nightmare on Elm Street, Video Nasties.
1980s Horror Films — Inside Out: Body Horror
Horror movies of the 1980s (which probably begin in 1979 with Alien) exist at the glorious watershed when special visual effects finally caught up with the gory imaginings of horror fans and movie makers. Technical advances in the field of animatronics, and liquid and foam latex meant that the human frame could be distorted to an entirely new dimension, onscreen, in realistic close up. This coincided with the materialistic ethos of the 1980s, when having it all was important, but to be seen to be having it all was paramount. People demanded tangible tokens of material success - they wanted bigger, shinier, faster, with more knobs on - as verification of their own value in society. In the same way, horror films during this decade delivered the full colour close-up, look-no-strings-attached, special effect in a way that previous practitioners of the art could only dream about. Everything that had lurked in the shadows of horror films in the 1950s could now be brought into the light of day. The monsters were finally out of the closet.
Once they were exposed to the light, however, these monsters proved to be the same as ever: ghosts (of supernatural origin), werebeings (of human origin), and slimy things (origin unknown). The latter maintained a strong presence; the cuddly aliens represented in Star Wars and ET were counterbalanced by the grotesque extraterrestrials of the Alien Trilogy and The Thing. Werewolves made a strong showing in the early 1980s with the Howling series and An American Werewolf in London - and perhaps, as in the 1940s, reflected a fear of the 'wolves' stalking each other under the aegis of the Cold War. Ghosts were not so numerous but still provided cause for terror, whether they were traditional ones, such as those haunting The Overlook Hotel in The Shining (1980), or of more ambiguous status: Freddy Krueger is technically a ghost.
The horror films of the early 1980s show a new energy and delight in the genre, as special effects creators fell over each other to create sequences that had never been attempted on film before. There were to be no more monsters with zippers up the back. But did this mean that horror films became more or less scary? Opinion is divided on the image/imagination debate. Some films which show no monsters at all (eg Cat People, and later, The Blair Witch Project) manage to terrify through suggestion, providing triggers for the audience's imagination and letting them scare themselves. Others take a quite literally visceral approach, providing images of blood and gore which induce a physical reaction of nausea and fear, challenging the audience to keep watching despite their revulsion. Experiments on the effects of media violence have shown that even fairly hardened viewers find it difficult to keep watching a video of a surgical operation; something about the insides of our own bodies induces genuine repulsion.
However, the cumulative effect of gory images is one of desensitization; pile too many on top of each other and they lose their meaning, and their power to shock. In keeping with the "excess is best" ethos of the 1980s, it became common practice to pile great heaps of gory images on top of each other, and the latex lunacy of horror movies by the end of the decade is more comic than horrific, as animated body parts hurtle from all directions across the screen. Brian Yuzna's Bride of Re-Animator, From Beyond (1986) and Society (1990) are all classic "should-I-laugh-should-I vomit?" cases in point. This so-called 'body horror' reflects a fascination with our own insides. Horror films have always dealt with the taboos surrounding Death, and in the 1980s they began to deal with evisceration, pulling apart the human body and turning it inside out, with all the bloody, slimy contents on display. As the tagline for Re-Animator (1985) intoned,"Death Is Just The Beginning", and viewers of 1980s horror films get shown many of the processes which occur after that.
Apart from movies in which disconnected or deformed body parts provide a threat to the still-whole, still-living humans, zombie films made a real comeback, from the slick satire on shopping mall frequenters, Dawn of The Dead (1979), to the inspired gore-fest Brain Dead (1990) successfully lurching across the screens in various stages of decomposition. Horror appeared to be good box office business in the 1980s, so much so that there are a couple of big-budget family-orientated entries to the genre. Joe Dante began by directing low-budget horror fare such as The Howling, and graduated to the major league with Gremlins (1984) a film aimed squarely at the Christmas family market, but containing some highly vicious little monsters and some very gory special effects. Of course, kids loved it, as they also loved Ghostbusters (1984). These movies were big hits ($148M and $291M at the box office respectively) and, although their success meant that horror movies were looked upon favourably by production companies, it began to affect the genre's credibility. The main demographic for audiences of horror movies in the 1980s was 15-24 year old and male; an audience seeking thrills as a rite-of-passage, seeking to prove that they have strong enough stomachs to sit through whatever the film-makers may throw at them. Not for them the 'kids stuff' of Ghostbusters or Gremlins, nor the 'philosophical horror' of some of the great genre entries of the 1970s. Of course, that which is designed to appeal to a 19 year old male may not appear an attractive viewing proposition for anyone else. The 15-24 year old market is consistently believed by movie studios to be attracted to violence, action, shock (as opposed to suspense). sex and excess in everything: the perfect 1980s audience.
The Shining (1980)
The Shining looks like no other horror movie, thanks to Kubrick's 360º vision, which resulted in an arduous and protracted production process. Kubrick and his production designer, Roy Walker, created the then-largest ever set at Elstree Studios, and spent over a year shooting on it. The Overlook was created as an amalgam of many different hotels - the red men's room where Jack talks to Grady was inspired by the Arizona Biltmore. The Colorado lounge was designed after the Ahwanee Hotel in the Yosemite Valley. In order to give The Overlook a specific identity, Kubrick used Native American designs in the carpets and stained glass windows. There are hints that the hotel is built over an ancient burial ground, and that this might be the source of the malevolent energy that pervades its walls...
The Thing (1982)
"Man is the warmest place to hide"
After establishing a successful track record with Dark Star, Halloween and Big Trouble in Little China, Carpenter decided he wanted to remake a movie that had entranced him as a child, The Thing From Another World. This black-and-white RKO picture revolves around the (largely) unseen threat to an isolated group of scientists working on an ice station. When we finally get to see what has been menacing the men, it looks unfortunately like an overgrown carrot, and the sinister effect is somewhat undermined. Carpenter wanted no such disappointment with his version, and engaged Rob Bottin as special effects designer. Apart from working with Carpenter on The Fog, Bottin created the state-of-the-art special effects in The Howling, producing frightening and convincing man-to-wolf transformation scenes. From the very beginning (even before Carpenter hired him), he had a very clear concept of how the Thing should look and behave, and the result is some of the most grotesque images ever brought to the cinema screen.
SFX aside, The Thing also contains some fine, understated performances from an interesting selection of character actors. Kurt Russell has worked with Carpenter many times, but for the rest of the cast, Carpenter decided he wanted an 'uncomfortable' feel, and chose an array of unfamiliar faces. The Thing's storyline is conventional enough - monster threatens isolated community and picks off the inhabitants one-by-one - but never predictable, in that it is impossible to judge who will be next. There is deliberate ambiguity about who is taken over by the Thing when, and even repeat viewers of the film share the cast's edgy mistrust of each other.
The ending, as Mac (Kurt Russell) and Childs (Keith David) settle down to a slow suicide by hypothermia has provoked much discussion. One, both or neither of the men being a Thing are all valid possibilities, and the mysterious absence of frozen breath coming from Child's mouth simply fuels the debate. There is no triumphant resolution here, no final destruction of the Thing to prove that humans are the superior race. We are left with a real sense of unease, and cannot acquiesce to MacReady's suggestion that we "just wait here for a little while...see what happens." The credits roll and we never know what happens. Despite having 'what happens' thrust in our faces in full, grotesque detail earlier on in the movie, we are never allowed to see what happens at the end. Thus The Thing is that genuine scary movie, a parade of visual nightmares which keeps you jittery long after the last remnant of gore has faded from your retina.
Further Reading
- Film Monthly review
- When The Thing Became John Carpenter's The Thing - a producer's guide to the evolution and production
Video Nasties
Direct-to-video horror films in the 1980s were produced on the same basis as the AIP titles of the 1950s; a grotesque title, a gory tagline and a gruesome cover were all that was needed to get a video store-browsing customer to pick up the box and say "this one looks good". Usually budgeted at between $250,000 and $2 million, and clocking in at an average of 80 minutes these movies represented more variations on the slasher theme, or constituted loose sequels to a title that had already been successful as a theatrical release. As the marketing was all about promising "killings", aimed at a niche audience, there was no need to employ stars (although you might find a couple of today's A-listers on their way up). The Drive In had finally come home, allowing teenagers to consume horror movies in a private space (the basement or the bedroom), without any adult interference, without any interference at all, if desired. The VCR made movie watching a solo activity for the first time in the medium's history since kinetoscopes faded from amusement arcades in the early 1920s.>
The result of legal action against the distributors of the "video nasties" (39 titles eventually made the list) was a law passed to regulate the sale and distribution of video in the UK (The 1984 Video Recordings Act). This was the first time a UK government had passed a new censorship mandate since 1737, and was seen as a triumph for the moral majority. Their victory was rather hollow as it only served to send the trade underground, especially as these titles were available in the USA, and any self-respecting teenager could tell you which of their local video stores provided under-the-counter "banned" videos. From our perspective, two decades on, it is difficult to see what all the fuss is about. A Box of The Banned set has just been released in the UK, containing I Spit On Your Grave, Driller Killer, Zombie Flesh Eaters, Nightmares in A Damaged Brain, Last House on the Left and The Evil Dead.
- British Board of Film Classification (equivalent of the MPAA) Case Study on The Evil Dead - the censors' point of view
- Video Nasties - a clear account of the situation
- Let There Be Blood - 2002 Guardian article on the pre-VRA bloodbath
- The Video Nasties Furore - detailed discussion
A new documentary, Video Nasties: Moral Panic Censorship and Videotape (2010) deals with the era in more detail.
The Evil Dead: We Just Crossed the Tennessee Border...
There is no Final Girl in the Evil Dead movies, just Ash, the firm jawed hero, who manages to survive a slew of attacks by evil spirits, brought back to life by recitations from the Book of The Dead, and hellbent on turning him and his companions into green-faced, white-eyed demons. With a blood lust. And a wicked sense of humour.
Sam Raimi is now an A-list Hollywood director (Spiderman 1,2 and 3), but he cut his teeth with Within The Woods in 1978, a short made for less than $2000 which he used to get investors for his feature length project The Evil Dead (1981). After raising around $90,000 Raimi headed back into the woods, and began to put together the movie that Stephen King described as "ferociously original", and which quickly became a cult classic. The story is a simple one; five college students head off to a remote cabin in the woods, and start poking around things that don't belong to them, namely a reel-to-reel tape recorder left by the previous occupant, a professor investigating the spells contained in the ancient 'Book of The Dead'. This grisly tome, bound in human skin and inked in human blood, contains incantations which, when read aloud, awaken the evil spirits that lurk in the woods, and open the door to the possession by demons of any hapless humans who happen to be spending the night in a log cabin which isn't theirs.
Raimi uses standard B movie ingredients (isolated location, a time scale of dusk till dawn, a small number of characters who get picked off one by one) when cooking up the plot, and provides the one-time actors with a creaky script that they recite, rather than perform. However, the inspired use of POV camera, which hurtles along the forest floor (attached variously to a motorbike, a 2x4 plank and a dinghy) gives the movie its trademark sequences, and its subsequent iconic status. The kinetic camerawork evokes a squealing, demented demon, dragging hapless cinemagoers along for a murderous ride. While the sequences inside the cabin revel in shlocky gore, with plenty of dismemberment and spurting blood, it is the exterior action, with the camera careening between the treestumps, that sticks in the mind. Sean Cunningham, creator of the Friday the 13th movies, has likened watching a horror movie to being on a rollercoaster, and nowhere is that analogy more accurate. The Evil Dead is a ride, with the audience jerked between scares and laughter, and the frenetic pace is maintained until all the college kids are dead. The final shot sees a terrified Ash confronting the rampaging demon, with no weapon to hold it back. The ride stops and the credits roll, but there's no elimination of the threat. Not one of the trilogy has a happy ending.
The Evil Dead pays homage to other horror movies - there's a torn fragment of a The Hills Have Eyes poster in the cabin's cellar. Ash's judicious use of a power tool references The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as does the underlying misogyny, and the reduction of women into objects which need to be hacked up and destroyed. Ash is happy to destroy his sister and his girlfriend, once they are possessed, and doesn't ever consider the possibility of somehow exorcising the demons and getting the 'real' girls back. The eye-rolling, tongue lolling hags are swiftly and bloodily despatched, without hesitation, or any attempt to reason with them. One inference could be that the women are somehow showing their true colours, letting loose their inner demons rather than being possessed by an exterior force; they are certainly persistent, with the demon-Shelly battering away at the cellar trapdoor for the longest time. Only the sight of a cheap amulet, recently presented to Linda, his girlfriend, gives Ash the briefest cause for regret. The rape of Cheryl by possessed roots and branches is particularly violent, as she is dragged screeching through the woods and violated by a thrusting twig. She is the spare wheel in the group of five, the overly sensitive one without a man to keep her in line and prevent her from running outside (wearing just a bathrobe) in the first place. She is punished for transgressing, despite being the first one to realise what danger they are all in.
The Evil Dead is still a gripping excursion through the backwoods, innovative and effective. It has a nastiness at its core, however (perhaps best seen in the pen-stabbing-ankle scene), which gives it a chill factor to remember. Raimi makes the best of budgetary constraints; much of the movie was filmed on a second trip to the cabin, with only Campbell and a bunch of stand-ins filling the over-the-shoulder shots ( a technique they nicknamed "shemping"). Despite the creative use of limited resources, it does creak in places; the full moon that rises over the cabin does so in a different coloured sky, a square of navy a completely different hue to the rest of the screen. It was so successful overseas however, that Raimi got the backing to have another go. Evil Dead 2(1982) is neither a sequel or a remake of the original, but something of a cross between the two. With ten times his original budget, Raimi picks up any viewers who might not have seen the first movie with a flashback - only this time Ash is alone in the car with his girlfriend - explaining what Ash is doing at the cabin. After despatching the possessed Linda, our hero becomes temporaily inhabited by demons too, only to have them driven away by the first light of dawn. Muddy, bloodied, exhausted, Ash is left on his own to battle the fiends, in an increasingly hilarious spiral of humour and gore. Ash's hand becomes possessed, and tries to kill him, so he lops it off with a chainsaw. Shelly's headless torso pursues him out to the garden shed, where he has stuck her head in a vice, the better to slice it in two. Singly, these images might be shocking, but Raimi gleefully slams one into the other, spraying everything with multicoloured gore, knowing that laughter lies on the other side of repulsion. Ash is whirled through the woods, slammed with dishes, dragged up and down stairs, and the audience plays along with this torture which resembles nothing more than a depraved Buster Keaton movie. By the time the Professor's daughter appears, with her country hick friends, the audience knows that these characters are simply cannon fodder, and relish in their destruction. Evil Dead 2 is full of scares and shocks, but its underlying humour takes away the chill factor of its predecessor. You'll leap from your seat more, but you'll sleep better at night.
Army of Darkness (1993) picks up at exactly the point Evil Dead 2 leaves off, with Ash being whirled into a medieval past, and forced to confront a Harryhausen-inspired army of skeletons who are attempting to assault a castle. This can barely be classified as a horror film, being a comedy fantasy trip. The franchise has also inspired a range of succesful video games, a remake is in the pipeline, and there is constant talk of an Evil Dead 4 on messageboards across the globe. Actor/Producer Bruce Campbell has also become a major cult figure.
Further Reading
Bruce Campbell illuminates the genesis of all three movies in his fun autobiography, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor.
- Deadites Online - informative fansite
- Evil Dead Screenplay
- Evil Dead Movies and the Decline of the American Horror Film - from StompTokyo
Nine...Ten...Never Sleep Again: A Nightmare on Elm Street
Wes Craven, the former college professor responsible for two of the darkest and most deranged movies of the 1970s (Last House on The Left and The Hills Have Eyes) unveiled a brash, commercial franchise in 1984: A Nightmare on Elm Street. The monster, a hideously scarred Freddy (named after a kid who bullied Wes Craven at school) Krueger represents a successful blend of humour and horror, a deranged killer who doesn't lurk silently behind a hockey mask but menaces in full view, spitting one-liners as he sharpens his trademark glove. In terms of Jungian archetypes he is the ultimate Shadow Trickster, the shape changer who relishes sick jokes. Freddy was a merchandising dream, an icon for a generation whose distinctive striped jersey, battered hat and scarred visage have sold many a t-shirt, board-game, coffee cup, lunch box and snow globe. Yes, snow globe - check out the New Line store.
A Nightmare On Elm Street has a relatively low body count for its time (four), but each of the killings is a mini-movie in itself, with a separate location, build-up and mode of despatch. Another notable thing about A Nightmare on Elm Street is how brightly lit most of it is, and how many of the scenarios take place in ordinary, uncontested spaces - a school hallway, a teenager's bedroom. There are no warnings as the narrative shifts from reality to nightmare, and there are seemingly no rules about where Freddy can strike (in English class, in the bathtub). Freddy himself springs from a dark place, a boiler-room full of rust and steam, and it is only when Nancy acknowledges this ("Okay, Krueger, you bastard. We play in your court.") and deliberately goes to seek him out that she has any chance of defeating him. Nancy makes a resourceful Final Girl as she pulls the monster out of her nightmare into the real world, where he becomes a slapstick figure, falling for her A-Team style booby traps, tumbling down the stairs, and flailing around with his arms on fire. But he still manages to kill her Mom.
The original A Nightmare on Elm Street had a budget of just $1.8M and some of its special effects, though convincing at the time, look shoddy today. It's the simplest touches which still have an impact, however - Freddy's ghostly face (in actuality a man and some spandex) leering out of the wall above a sleeping Nancy, the "eeeeeee" sound of the knives on metal objects, and the red-and-green striped hood coming down over the car at the end (apparently it came down too fast so the panicked look on the actors' faces is real). Subsequent entries in the franchise get more and more ridiculous, making too much use of dreamscapes, and showcasing Freddy as a kind of anti-James Bond, always ready with a bon-mot to accompany the snickersnack of his blades.
Child's Play (1988)
Another serial killer with a smart mouth and a not-so-snappy way of dressing appeared in 1988, launching another successful franchise. Child's Play(1988) introduced horror audiences to Chucky, who, as well as drawing on the long tradition of malevolent dolls on page and screen, provided an interesting nexus between the monster children of the 1970s and the serial killers of the 1990s. The self-aware irony pre-empted the tone of the post-modern Wes Craven movies of the1990s.
In human form, Charles Lee Ray (his name is a combination of notorious killers Charles Manson, James Earl Ray and Harvey Oswald) is just another weasel-faced small-time murderer who can't catch a break. Transformed into Chucky, he's a wisecracking invincible who never sleeps, whose bright, polymer-blue eyes make him seem innocent of any wrong-doing. Chucky can go places and do things (mainly kill people) that Charles Lee Ray could only dream of, and this is a key part of the doll's appeal throughout the franchise. Chucky is terrifying, his toddler clothing, foreshortened limbs and freckles juxtaposed against a deadly snarl. Yet he is also fascinating, a very human non-human, no longer subject to the laws of the living, but bound by plastic restrictions. We want to run from Chucky, but part of us wonders what it would be like to be him.
Despite his limited size and basic chemical composition, Chucky is actually a much more complex, intriguing character than Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. The five films in the franchise are testament to this complexity: Chucky runs the whole gamut from killer to clown without confusing his core branding. He's funny, scary, and angry. While his antics get increasingly comedic as the series wears on, Chucky is the same, a foul-mouthed, three feet high ex-con with cherubic cheeks. He has endeared himself to millions worldwide, and remains a popular Halloween costume when October rolls around. This is partly because the original writer, Mancini, has stayed on board throughout, even directing the fifth instalment himself. As well as the movies, Chucky has generated mountains of merchandise, fan fiction, and a series of graphic novels.
Penned by then-UCLA student Don Mancini, Child's Play is essentially a straightforward slasher film with a unique twist. The serial-killer-as-doll concept allows the film-makers and audience to have fun with the genre conventions. There is nothing we haven't seen before in terms of the hunt for a brutal, inhuman murderer who must be stopped before he picks off the main characters, it's just we've never seen it done with a blue-eyed, red-haired, dungareed doll. Chucky was iconic and original enough to breathe fresh life into the paradigms, and he provided a solid template on which Universal could build a $145 million (and counting!) franchise.
The Hitcher: My mother told me never to do this...
One film that bucked the trend is The Hitcher (1986). Potentially just a mean little thriller about a young guy who is taunted by a homicidal hitch-hiker, Rutger Hauer's sinister screen presence and John Harmon's edgy direction turn this into one of the scariest films of the decade - without using an atom of latex. Hauer is the Hitcher of the title, picked up one rainy evening by young Jim Halsey (C Thomas Howell). Halsey knows at the time this is an unwise move ("My mother told me never to do this..."), but he's tired, driving someone else's car cross country from Chicago to San Diego, and he feels he could do with some company. Eight minutes into the movie, his passenger is explaining what happened to the last guy foolish enough to offer a stranger a lift ("I cut off his legs... and his arms... and his head"), and from then on in the tension is relentless.<
The Hitcher tells Jim that his name is John Ryder, but reveals little else. Part of the dark mastery of this film is the lack of information about the monster. He refuses to explain his murderous impulses ("You're a smart kid, you work it out"), and hacks at everything in his path, a seemingly unstoppable, unthinking killing animal reminiscent of The Birds or Jaws. He appears to have supernatural survival skills, living through an explosion, several car wrecks, and being hit full on by a police truck. Ryder is also a supernaturally perceptive predator, following Halsey with an unerring instinct, suddenly appearing inside his motel room at one point. Wherever Halsey tries to run, the Hitcher follows, with no more motive than malevolent amusement. The Hitcher is not content to torture or even kill Halsey, instead he wraps him up in a homicidal web, slaying those around Halsey so it looks like he is the culprit. Halsey spends much of the film covered in other characters' blood as Ryder is always one step ahead of the younger man, slipping a severed finger into Halsey's bowl of fries, unlocking his cell while he sleeps, and shooting down the police helicopter that's in hot pursuit. His only perceptible motive is the desire to turn Halsey into a killer like him, but Halsey won't shoot, right until the end, a brutal confrontation with this shadowy nemesis.
Like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre before it, The Hitcher shows almost no onscreen gore, but is remembered for its extreme violence, especially the climactic scene where Jennifer Jason Leigh gets ripped in half. It's a truly nightmarish film, with its central character, who has not committed any crime, trapped in a nightmarish scenario that gets worse and worse and worse. Unlike many other horror movies with a human monster, The Hitcher delivers both shock and suspense, taking us on a terrifying journey across the empty California deserts in the company of a blue-eyed psychopath who is totally without scruples, totally without remorse. Extremely frightening, especially given the visual restraint shown by the film-makers.
Towards the end of the decade, horror movies were considerably 'dumbed down' to attract their target audience, with body counts through the ceiling, and little attention being paid to plot and credibility. Horror movies were designed to appeal to aficionados of the genre and no one else, stuffed full of in-jokes and unnecessary, OTT gore. It looked as thought the genre might have gone into tailspin - sequel piled upon sequel, endlessly recycled plots, lower and lower box-office receipts hence lower and lower budgets, and a loss of respectability which meant that respected writers, directors and actors shunned working within the genre. But horror movies had been here before, at the end of the 1940s, and once again the genre successfully managed to reanimate itself. Eschewing a luminous blue serum, horror went back to basics, and refocused on that basic of all evils, 'man's inhumanity to man'.


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I love picking up my weekly veggie basket, and I love being surprised each week by the different veggies and the new ways of preparing them.
But there's one veggie I dread seeing in that basket. Celery.
You see, the hubster doesn't care much for celery. And I like it, but only loaded with nut butter or something like chicken salad.
And let me tell you, only having those two options was getting pretty old.
And let me tell you, only having those two options was getting pretty old.
I had tried it braised once. And I hated it. I could sneak a stalk or two into sauces, but that still left me with the rest of the bunch.
I decided to try dressing it up a bit.
I made a simple mayo-based dressing and sliced it all up.
It was delicious - and even hubster approved! He took the leftovers to work for his lunch the next day!
And now, instead of dreading my next bunch of celery, I'm actually kinda looking forward to it...
Celery Slaw
- 1 small bunch of celery, leaves removed
- 1 1/2 tbsp homemade mayo
- 3/4 tbsp white wine vinegar
- Sea salt and black pepper to taste
- Wash and slice the celery.
- Mix together the mayo and vinegar, season with salt and pepper.
- Drizzle the dressing over the celery and toss to combine.


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Whether you are single or taken, watching a good, or cheesy, "rom-com" is something anyone can do around Valentine's Day.
To save you time scrolling through your streaming queue or rummaging around in old DVDs, the Daily Press features staff is here to help you with a list of our favorite romantic comedies.
Jonathan Heeter, digital engagement specialist
"The Wedding Singer"
Look, I know Adam Sandler has become an unwatchable parody of himself in recent years. But "The Wedding Singer" was peak Sandler. The movie has an all-time great soundtrack and is full of '80s...


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Under normal conditions all cruise lines ships return to their respective docks and terminals by about 6-6:30am. This means the first passengers to begin the disembarkation process can and have come off of the ship as early as about 6:30-7:00am, however this is not common. The fist wave of passengers to clear U.S. Customs / Immigration at all terminals do it between 7-7:30am. The window of time that you can come off of the ship is only about 3.5 hours so the "all-clear" is given and boarding begins by about 11:00 at all terminals. If you have an early flight we can accommodate you. If your flight does not depart until after 12:00pm you are better off scheduling your pickup time from the port at around 9-9:30am. We highly recommend bordering upon insisting that you call us as early in the morning as possible to let us know what time that morning you expect to get in line to begin the disembarkation process. This way if you are scheduled for a late pick up and you find that morning that you will be getting off much earlier than anticipated, you can call us so we can dispatch your private vehicle earlier from Orlando. Communication is key. If you are scheduled for an 8:00am pick-up and upon returning to the port you discover that your group will not be called to begin the process of getting off the ship until 10:00am please call us before 7:00am and let us know you wont be needing your vehicle until later than expected. We will not dispatch a vehicle for an early pick-up and then have the chauffeur wait at the port for 2 hours because you learned that the original time you had scheduled was not going to work and you did not call and let us know that you time needed to change. Likewise, If you are scheduled for a 10:00am pick-up please do not get all the way off the ship at 7:00am and then call and say "hello, were off the ship where's our car?" We will try to call you beginning approximately 1 hour before the time you are scheduled for pick-up. Please turn on your cellular phone (the one that is the cell-phone number on your reservation.) We need to know on the day of your return, as early as possible, what time you will definitively be getting in line to begin the disembarkation process. The cruise lines will tell you that the process can take up to 90 minutes but 99% of the time it is between 15-20 minutes and you get right through and are outside ready to be picked up. We hope the explanation here does not confuse you, your transition from ship to waiting vehicle will be seamless. The way we make it ever so easy is reminding you a few times along the way to turn on your cell phone as soon as you wake in the morning that you return to the port. Don't hesitate to call us as soon as the ship is docked and let us know what time you think you will be getting off. It is simple to coordinate and cooperate to make your luxury vacation transportation fantastic and easy! Just communicate. When you walk through through the crowd of onlookers and see the looks of despair knowing all the while that you made the right choice! Hop in your stylishly clean elegant professional car, van or suv right outside the ship without having to wait more than about 5 minutes after you step outside the doors of your terminal. Even with a family of 14 or more, you will be amazed at the efficiency of our operation. We arrive for you and everyone wishes they could be you. We are not kidding, we put all competitors Port Transportation services to shame.
Why choose Orlando Chauffeured Services
OCS is proud to offer Orlando's best Port Canaveral transportation and cruise terminal transfers. We have a modern fleet of beautiful Town Cars, Luxury Vans and SUV's and deliver seamless private shuttle service at Port Canaveral. When reserving your next car, van, suv or limo, choose OCS, we are the best. Service to Disney World and from Orlando International Airport (MCO) to Disney Dream & Fantasy Cruise Ships, Disney Resorts and Cocoa Beach Hotels. The majority of travelers going to Port Canaveral fly into Orlando Airport (also known as OIA or MCO). MCO is conveniently located in close proximity to Port Canaveral, Cape Canaveral, and all of Central Florida's Attractions.
When comparing Port Canaveral Shuttles, Port Canaveral Limo Service and Our OCS-Team of professionals, rest assured your families needs, safety and comfort are our number one priority. We not only promise you World Class service, we deliver it. We will perform above and beyond all your expectations with mind blowing professionalism with on time, superior clean luxury vehicles. We provide the most experienced chauffeurs and have on site dedicated managers to oversee all transfers are seamless every time. We pride ourselves on providing the absolute best Port Canaveral transportation service to all families at fair prices. We not only squash all competitors performance and vehicles with our superior chauffeurs and immaculate vehicles, we provide competitive rates and incredible service.
When it comes to Port Canaveral shuttle companies, many operators look for ways to cut costs and cram your family in old tired vehicles with no standards. From the moment you place your reservation to the moment you get dropped off to your final destination all you have to do is sit back and relax and know that your family is traveling with Central Florida's most caring company. We are a family owned hospitality oriented, exclusive purveyor of quality and will not sacrifice your families safety to save a couple of dollars by putting cheap brand tires or parts in our elite fleet of late model vehicles. Many companies just look to make the largest profit without spending a dollar to maintain, clean or upgrade their fleet. At OCS Orlando we are concerned with the safety and comfort of your family and want to go above and beyond in overseeing that every detail is not over looked and that your families impression when stepping out of our vehicle is nothing less than spectacular. We provide Central Florida's best travel options and are eager to have one of our professional chauffeurs sweep your family of their feet with a complimentary meet and greet at the Orlando Airport and then assist you with your luggage to one of our elite clean late model luxury vehicles and transport you safely to your long awaited cruise destination. We love to have our pictures taken and welcome the chance to give your family a memory for your lifetime with a professional chauffeur with your families name on a sign and a clean luxury vehicle for your families scrap book collection or photo album. When you share the memories with your family members back home they will be amazed and find it hard to believe you didn't break the bank and you received such service!
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Cruise Terminals
Cruise Terminals 5, 6, 8 and 10 are located on the A (North) side of Port Canaveral, just off the north cargo pier exit onto State Road 401 South.
Carnival Sensation, Norwegian Sun
This two story terminal has an open atrium with lush tropical plants and three waterfalls. There is a glass lounge on the second floor that serves as the reception area for passengers arriving to embark on thier cruise. The lower areas design allows for efficient operations getting passengers off ships easily. Allow us to take the stress of transportation out of your family's cruise vacation by having one of our clean late model vehicles awaiting you just outside your terminal in the active loading zone.
Disney Dream & Disney Fantasy
Carnival Dream, Royal Caribbean's Freedom of The Seas & Monarch of The Seas
Cruise Terminal 10 is an all-purpose, practical and fully functioning, terminal with added bells and whistles including an automated baggage retrieval systems and 3 level passenger loading areas with escalators and elevators. We pull up along side this cruise terminal to a covered canopy and take you directly to your destination in a method that will make you happy.
Terminals 2, 3 & 4 are individual buildings located on the B (south) side of Port Canaveral at the east end of George King Boulevard.
Victory Casino Cruises
Terminal 2 is exclusively used by Victory Casino Cruises. We offer transportation from any location in Orlando to your Victory Casino Cruise and let you roll up like a high roller. So set up your amazing vehicle to transport you in style and comfort. You are going to be gambling on the Casino Cruise you should not have to gamble with your life in an old beat up shuttle bus with no class.
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It's been a busy summer! Not busy sewing, but busy none-the-less!
The first picture is actually sewing! I made this pillow for my friend Patti. She helped housesit for us while we were on vacation, which is no easy favor since we live pretty far out in the country. She loves B&W and red, so I made her a little pillow. She's a truly great friend to me. She always says yes when I ask for help and has even driven me 45 minutes (one way!) to my treatments and waited patiently while I am poked and prodded. Most visits take between 2-3 hours, plus travel time, so this is no small task! She's also babysat my kids, picked us up from the airport, and countless other favors. She's a rock star! I wish I had the energy to make her a whole quilt.
If you're curious about my MS and clinical trial story, you can read more here: https://www.youcaring.com/jodie-bissig-436264
Speaking of vacation, while we were away, I took some time to paint with watercolors. Here are a couple of my creations...
While we were in Santa Cruz, we also took the kids to the Boardwalk (of course) and played mini-golf, too. I spent most of the day in my wheelchair, which made it much easier so I didn't get fatigued or end up in pain by the end of the day.
My husband surprised me by extending our camping trip to include the Hot Air Balloon Festival in Sonoma County (my family lives in Santa Rosa). I LOVE hot air balloons and this event is very special since that is where my husband proposed to me a little over fifteen years ago.
This balloon reminded me of a quilt with it's cute star in the middle. I definitely have a hot air balloon quilt on my to-do list once I'm feeling a bit better.
We actually went back to Sonoma County for the 3rd and 4th of July with my family. It was lovely to wear sweaters and coats while watching fireworks!
The kids and I made some new 4th of July shirts (they sadly outgrew their old ones...). We used homemade stamps and fabric paint.
Fun weekend, great weather, and lots of amazing fireworks shows.


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Saturday June 21st 2014 and I'm waking up with a massive hangover, I spent the night at the Mosh nightclub in the town centre and didn't walk through the door until 5 am with a box of half eaten Maryland chicken strips and a can of Pepsi.
Todays the day I go and see Leicester's very own rock and roll band Kasabian play to a sell out crowd at Victoria Park. Many bands from the city have gone on to make It big, Showaddywaddy and many others that have slipped my mine but none of them have every played on such a grand scale that Kasabian are about to.
50,000 thousand people expecting to fill the park this evening and you sense a buzz in the air and social media has lit up with facebook posts, tweets and even youtube vlogs.
The suns blearing through the window, it's a perfect summers day and the can of Pepsi will just go down well.
I crack it open, grab some pain killers and wash them down, sometimes a warm drink and two pain killers is the only hangover cure that can really work. A really cold drink will just upset the stomach and on a day like this it's not worth the risk, all energy has be stored and the sugar needs to stay in the stomach at all costs. You don't want to be walking around a crowd of thousands and faint out of nowhere because your sugar that drank earlier on in the day were all brought up because of a cold drink. You have to live by certain rules and this is a rule I will stand by for a very long time. Drink it warm and slow and eat something dry, dry toast or crackers but no cheese, that's not going to soak well if you have a stomach full of beer and spirits.
I eat some toast and jump into the shower, a quick shower just wash off last nights booze that's sticking to my skin.
The club was full last night with students from all over, teenagers with fake id's and people in their 40's and they are all going to the gig tonight, it was the talk of the club with none of the conversation leading towards how great the club might be, it was just about the gig they were preparing to see and it was all they care about because it might be the gig that changes their lives and makes everything complete, dreams of being interviewed in 30 years time about how "they were there" and how it was their spike island and their Woodstock.
I get out of the shower, get dressed and to pass the listen to the Bee Gees while I wait for a text from the boys about the days events.
Sometimes days like this need a bit of order and regulation, it's too long of a day to get lost in the shuffle of things, you could find yourself being lead off into a pack of wild beasts on a stella binge and miss the entire gig all together, so you have to have a sense of order just to get things going and everything will turn out perfectly fine, it can't be forced it has to follow a special routine and a certain set of rules can help with that.
I finally get the text from Sam "meet at KFC in an hour"
"Ok mate, we grabbing food and what's happening with the booze" I reply.
"We getting picked up from KFC, we ain't getting food and don't worry about the booze we can pick that up nearer to the park, we all going for a pint or two first"
"Ok ill see you soon" It's happening, it's all coming together now and the day is starting to shape up nicely.
I get to KFC five minutes before I meet the lads and I look around the car park and see groups of men and women and kids walking around in t-shits with "LESTA" and "KASABIAN" on, is this gig turning into something bigger than the band? Why is this gig getting everyone in a buzz?
I hear a conversation behind me between two men and they sound very angry "I hate Kasabian, shower shite the lot of them, I have no idea why anyone would care and why they got so big, who gives a shit, why is this fucking gig turning into something so big? They're not even that big of a fucking band anyway"
"I know mate" the other man says "I don't get it anything, why the fuck would you go to a Kasabian gig, load of shit if you ask me, they couldn't give a shit about Leicester anyway".
I don't know what think while listening to the conversation, I don't know why they would care that much about people seeing a band they don't like? Why do they care that people care about something they don't care about? What do they care about? Are they fans of the Arctic Monkeys? Why don't they get a couple of tickets and see a band they actually? They might actually forgot about the gig that's happening tonight
I stop listening to the conversation because I've entered a state of deep confusion partly due to the blaring sun that's hitting the back of my neck so to regain a little bit of focus on the day I give Sam a call just to find out where he is but he doesn't pick and that's when I hear a loud screeching voice and a car horn near the entrance of the car park and it's Sam shouting me over "Over hear you little drunken fuck" he shouts and he's leaning out of his girlfriends car window waving his middle finger at me.
I walk over to the car and Sam gets out to let me in the back, he's got his Kasabian t-shirt on and the first thing he does is look at mine and says "where the fuck's your t-shirt" and points up and down at it like he's never seen one before, I'm wearing a white t-shirt with a picture of Times Square on it, it has a slight hole in shoulder but I thought it would be a perfect fit for a rock and roll gig in the sun. "I left it at home" i say to him, not letting him know that i don't even have a Kasabian t-shirt.
We start making our move for the pub and looking out the window I can see people on every corner and coming out every drinking establishment wearing the same t-shirts as I seen in the car park. Am I the only one without a t-shirt?
We arrive at the pub and it's so packed that a crowd of people with pints of beer have gathered outside the bar, the laws of no drinking on the street have been wisely ignored today because how can the law control 50,000 drunken music fans on a day like today.
We get out the car and say goodbye to Sams girlfriend and we make our way through the crowd to the front bar and that's where we spot Jamie standing at the corner with three pints, one for me and one for Sam and we are both wondering where everyone is.
"We're just going to have one here and make our way over to the park, everyones backed out today but it's alright" says Jay "it's too packed in here to have a drink and we might as well grab a crate of booze and drink at the park and sit on the grass".
We stand in silence as we down the pints of booze, we tried to talk but with the crowd of loud voices you can't hear a thing, everyone's shouting over everybody and it's drowning out anything audible.
So we leave the bar and stop off at a local co-op for a crate of cider but immediately after walking into the store we notice that the shelves have been emptied apart from one crate of fosters and thankfully it's a crate of 20 so we put our money together and grab the last crate available and then we start taking a slow walk to the park taking it in turns to carry the crate.
Getting through the gates after going through the typical gig ritual of being searched and I even had to explain that I have a pack of mints in my pocket and not a pack of hash, so we around the park looking for a place to sit and it's already half filled.
Sitting on the grass near the ice cream van, cracking open a can I scan the area looking at everyone from mums and dads and kids and even old people walking around, there seems to be a different feeling now we have entered the park, something I didn't sense while I was waiting for Sam to come pick me up, it's exciting, it's a feeling like somethings happening that people have never felt before and they are going to make the most of it today and it's in the sun and the ice cream sales and beer profits are going to go through the roof around the city centre today.
I've never seen people walking around looking this excited before, have they ever been to a big gig before and if so was it like this? Why is has this gig made them so excited? Will they ever feel like this again? These question just keep running through my head as I watch them move around.
Jay gets up and says he's getting some food and he'll be back in a minute, we've been here for an hour and I've had two drinks, the time is passing by so fast I've not even noticed I've just been watching everyone walk by and trying to work out what they are thinking and feeling and time is flying by.
Jay comes back with a giant pulled pork baguette but he's got a face of anger "£7.00 this was, what the fuck is that all about" he says "too fucking much".
Me and Sam just laugh and take in what he's just said, both me and Sam are lucky, we both ate before we left home.
The day goes on, we finish the crate of 20 and go for 30 piss breaks between us and then we make our way to the stage trying to get as close as we can but the crowd has picked up fast and we can't get so close so we lean up at against a metal railing which is blocking off a stage where the bands family and friends are sitting and our view is restricted because of a hire loo, but we are fine with it, we are in the middle of it and it's exciting.
The crowd surrounded this area have noticed a small group of famous people standing around and start to shout their names but nothing is happening, the celebrities are in a world of their own and just want to watch the gig, the have special passes that the rest of us don't have and they ignore their surroundings and the voices screaming their names.
A countdown appears on the stage and on the screens, a 60 minute countdown and the crowd goes crazy and now they are ready for it and they start to fill the stage space, all 50,000 of them.
The 60 minute countdown comes to an end and the crowd gets ready for them to hit the stage and you can feel the buzz.
And it happens, the crowd erupts they are now on stage and they go straight in to their new song bumble bee.
Everyone us are jumping up and down as they make their way through the first song.
Half way through the gig a fight breaks out next to us, the excitement and adrenaline got to much for a small group of people and it all kicked off, two men with no t-shirts on and holding cans of Carlsberg come to blows and wrestle each other to the ground before their friends break them apart.
If this was a club they would have been removed from the venue but they just move apart and find a new spot to stand in the crowd as the band continue to play with the crowd singing along.
At one moment during the gig a small drunk man stands at the railing and starts to piss and everyone around him takes one step back to get away from him and then a shower of cups of beer come pouring over us directed towards the pissing man but he takes no notice and he finish his piss and walks away without looking at anyone around him. and he makes his way through the crowd and back to find his spot.
The band finish up their set and I have no idea where the gig has gone, the excitement around me and everything has made the gig a blur, it's over already and I don't know what to think other than how did that happen?
We make our way towards the exit along with a huge group of people and we all find the first sign of a chance to get the park and we rush towards a hole surrounded by security and mass panic begins and security push and push trying to hold us back but none of us really care we just wanted to get out and carry on our night.
The security have lost all control right now, the crowd of people are still singing and chanting and pushing to get out.
A crowd of drunken loons loaded with adrenaline and chemicals can never be stopped by untrained security officials like this, it's like trying to hold of a pack stamping bulls all they can do is hope that the crowd will break off and calm down and walk away and they can then go on and carry on with their jobs directing the herd of people towards the true exit.
A group of smart sober people surrounding us near the front manage to settle everyone down and point the crowd towards the opposite side of the park towards the right exit and the crowd turns and make's it's way to the other side, still singing and chanting.
Finally we leave the park and start to make our way home, heads pounding, hungry and buzzing with energy.
Walking down London Road with everyone around singing Kasabian songs and me, Sam and Jay all join in and I can't help but think this is the type of atmosphere you would only get a football match but it's a rock gig and i'm never going to see this type of thing again.
We go for a quick pint in an empty Irish pub just to find a place to calm down and re group.
I settle down and just think about the day and everything that's happened, I don't think any of these people experience what they have today, is it the band? is the event? or is it something else? It doesn't matter what it is, it just happened.


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Eager to become a rockin" mom, Olivia Wilde went to Earthbar to refuel after taking a spin at Soul Cycle in Los Angeles on Saturday (November 16).
The "Tron: Legacy" star wore a white T-shirt with Keith Richards on it, a white hooded sweatshirt, and gray pants as she smiled at awaiting photographers.
She may be stoked for her first child with fiancée Jason Sudeikis, but the 29-year-old actress is keeping her expectations realistic.
Posting an adorable photo, Olivia tweeted, "That sinking feeling when you realize that, no matter what, your baby won"t be nearly as cute as a baby panda."


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Casa de Las Cigüeñas house
Plaza de San Mateo
10003 Cáceres (Extremadura)
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- Autonom region: Extremadura
- Provins/ö: Cáceres
The house with the crenellated tower
This noble home is noteworthy for its slender crenellated tower, built in the 15th century.
The palace of Las Cigüeñas is also known as the palace of Capitán Diego de Ovando or La Casa de Las Cigüeñas house, and was built in the late 15th century by Diego de Cáceres. The most distinctive feature of this noble home is its crenellated tower, which offers spectacular views over the city. It is now a branch of Caja de Extremadura.
- Byggnad: Stately or noble house
- Konsthistorisk period: Renaissance
- Historisk period: 15th century