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Pics from Anime Expo 2008
These aren't the greatest pics since I only had my iPhone on me, but hey, it's something. There were quite a few things to take pictures of during the show, but I was a little disappointed at the perceived attendance. Didn't seem as packed as I expected.
Anyways, on to the pictures:
The obligatory Stormtrooper sighting
The Astro Boy promo display. Very cool. The badges also had a little Astro Boy advert as well. They're really pushing that thing.
A pretty good Alfonse Elric Cosplay.
Yes, there was much yaoi for sale.
Samus Aran from the Metroid series.
Crowd shot of folks eating at Anime Expo 2008
A long hallway packed with anime fans
Crowd shot of the entry way at Los Angeles Convention Center. Kinda sparse.
Nearly the entire cast of Final Fantasy 8. Good job guys!
Mario, Luigi, and Wario
There were TONS of Naruto cosplayers, but this was my fave.
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Critical Essays
Twelfth Night (Vol. 85)
Twelfth Night
See also Twelfth Night Criticism (Volume 26), Twelfth Night Criticism (Volume 34), and Gender Trouble in Twelfth Night Criticism.
Viewed as one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, Twelfth Night (c. 1600-01) continues to be praised by scholars as a fascinating and evocative study of love, sexual desire, and personal discovery. Its central plot concerns a love triangle between the Illyrian nobleman Orsino, his beloved but unattainable Olivia, and the shipwrecked Viola. After disguising herself as the male page Cesario, Viola takes a position in Orsino's court and swiftly becomes enamored of her patron even as he sends her to woo Olivia on his behalf. Olivia, in turn, falls in love with Viola, whom she believes to be a man. The play also features a subplot centered on the priggish Malvolio, steward to Olivia, and the punishment he endures at the hands of his fellow servants. Modern critical assessments of Twelfth Night have tended to focus on the drama's captivating characters as well as on its themes of love, gender, and sexuality. Regarding Twelfth Night's place within the Shakespearean canon, S. Musgrove (see Further Reading) describes the work as the last in a series of harmoniously resolved festive comedies that includes the plays As You Like It and Much Ado about Nothing. J. M. Gregson (see Further Reading) distinguishes Twelfth Night as the epitome of Elizabethan romantic comedy, and finds in its skilled blending of disparate and contradictory elements "an almost perfect play."
Critics have long acknowledged the appeal of Twelfth Night's principal characters, particularly the play's protagonist Viola and the abused Malvolio, who are both considered to be among Shakespeare's most outstanding comic characterizations. Lydia Forbes (1962) examines Shakespeare's vivid portraits of the self-assured and charming Viola, the courageous and forthright Sebastian, the narcissistic and self-serving Malvolio, and the bawdy, witty, and wise Feste. In Forbes's estimation, these and the remaining personalities in Twelfth Night intricately combine to produce a highly satisfying symphony of language and character. Larry S. Champion (1968) also examines the complexity of character in Twelfth Night. According to the critic, the characters' true but hidden identities are revealed over the course of the play as they experience a deepening sense of their own self-knowledge. Cynthia Lewis (1986) questions the traditional assumption that Viola is the moral center of Twelfth Night. Instead, she maintains that Antonio, rather than Viola, is consistently portrayed as the ideal moral figure in the drama, but acknowledges that the play is principally concerned with Viola's moral development. Edward Cahill (1996) concentrates on the figure of Malvolio in Twelfth Night. Much-maligned by his compatriots, Malvolio has generally been a favorite of audiences and critics precisely because of his combined tragic and comic potentiality. Cahill examines this intriguing mix by delving into the psychology of this character, noting his narcissism and painful identity crisis as well as his thwarted and obsessive desires for sexual, social, and personal fulfillment.
Twelfth Night remains among the most popular of Shakespearean comedies on the stage. While some directors stress the comic aspects of the drama, others have emphasized the play's more troubling undertones. Robert Brustein (2002) reviews Brian Kulick's 2002 production of Twelfth Night at the open-air Delacorte Theatre in New York City's Central Park, starring Julia Stiles as Viola and Christopher Lloyd as Malvolio. The critic observes that the production relied too heavily on facile visual conceits and contends that Kulick and his star-studded cast barely explored the depths of character and theme offered by Shakespeare's text. While light comedy was the focus of Kulick's staging, director Sam Mendes's 2002 Donmar Warehouse Theatre production stressed the play's darker elements. Appraising Mendes's work, critic John Mullan (2002) contends that an overemphasis on the erotic and sensual aspects of the drama, as well as on the suffering of Malvolio, obscured its comic elements and proved detrimental to the production. Reviewing the 2002 Holderness Theater Company production of Twelfth Night directed by Rebecca Holderness, Kenneth Gross (2002) praises the minimalist staging of the play and calls attention to its fine dramaturgical effects, including the setting, lighting, dance, and music. In his appraisal of the 2001 to 2002 Royal Shakespeare Company season, Russell Jackson (2002) comments on director Lindsay Posner's Twelfth Night, which was set in the artistic milieu of fin-de-siècle aestheticism. The critic observes the erotic and decadent qualities of the production and highlights several individual performances, including Guy Henry's strangely empathetic Malvolio and Mark Hadfield's touching Feste.
Contemporary scholars continue to be interested in Twelfth Night's themes concerning love, gender, sexuality, and self-discovery. A. Fred Sochatoff (see Further Reading) concentrates on the play's presentation of love in its many manifestations, including obsessive, fickle, self-pitying, narcissistic, buffoonish, and true. The critic also provides a survey of character in relation to the drama's theme of love, noting in particular how Feste frames the various love and pseudo-love relationships of the play through his witty observations on the events that unfold before him. Camille Slights (1982) maintains that Twelfth Night illustrates the thematic principal of reciprocity as the foundation of successful human relationships. The critic notes that the characters in the play achieve personal fulfillment and social accord through generosity, compassion, service, alliance, and awareness of the restrictions imposed by personal ambition and self-absorption. F. B. Tromly (1974) suggests that Shakespeare combined a comic and moral purpose in Twelfth Night by allowing his characters to learn of the hardships and dangers of the world through the spirit of folly. According to Tromly, folly is a positive force in the play, one that allows the characters to come to terms with life by learning to accept "delusion, vulnerability, and mortality." In his 1982 essay, Thad Jenkins Logan claims that Twelfth Night—despite its ostensible depiction of a festive and happy resolution—contains glimpses of the darker side of human desire. Lastly, Marcus Cheng Chye Tan (2001) discusses the relationship of music to the play's theme of sexual ambivalence, focusing in particular on the character of Viola/Cesario and the motifs of cross-dressing, bisexuality, and androgyny.
Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
SOURCE: Hartman, Geoffrey H. "Shakespeare's Poetical Character in Twelfth Night." In Shakespeare and the Question of Theory, edited by Patricia Parker and Geoffrey Hartman, pp. 37-53. New York: Methuen, 1985.
[In the following essay, Hartman examines Shakespeare's use of poetic language, punning, and wordplay in Twelfth Night.]
Writing about Shakespeare promotes a sympathy with extremes. One such extreme is the impressionism of a critic like A. C. Bradley, when he tries to hold together, synoptically, Feste the fool and Shakespeare himself, both as actor and magical author. Bradley notes that the Fool in Lear has a song not dissimilar to the one that concludes Twelfth Night1 and leaves Feste at the finish-line. "But that's all one, our play is done …" After everything has been sorted out, and the proper pairings are arranged, verbal and structural rhythms converge to frame a sort of closure—though playing is never done, as the next and final verse suggests: "And we'll strive to please you every day." Bradley, having come to the end of an essay on Feste, extends Twelfth Night speculatively beyond the fool's song, and imagines Shakespeare leaving the theater:
the same Shakespeare who perhaps had hummed the old song, half-ruefully and half-cheerfully, to its accordant air, as he walked home...
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Criticism: Character Studies
SOURCE: Forbes, Lydia. "What You Will?" Shakespeare Quarterly 13, no. 4 (autumn 1962): 475-85.
[In the following essay, Forbes examines Shakespeare's vivid character portraits in Twelfth Night, including the self-assured and charming Viola, the courageous and forthright Sebastian, the narcissistic and self-serving Malvolio, and the bawdy, witty, and wise Feste.]
A play is not necessarily spoiled by study. If you think that its theatricality is shackled when the author's theme or meaning is taken into account, that restraint is gentle compared to the chains hung on the author by opinionated thespians.
The interpreted arts suffer as often as they are exalted by the actions of interpreters. A play, the very raw material of which is the human image, is especially vulnerable to human interference. "How do you think we ought to do this play?" Ask this over-worked question of the author first, of the author as playwright. It is not his psyche, his literary life or contemporary social scene that is primarily involved, but his play. When the effect that the author wants is clear to the director and the players—so clear that they have some notion of how to approach their tasks—then it is time to look for useful help from other sources. And only then, after this much study, may a play be judged bad or frail enough to receive support from irrelevant theatricality.
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SOURCE: Champion, Larry S. "The Perspective of Comedy: Shakespeare's Pointers in Twelfth Night." Genre 1, no. 4 (October 1968): 269-89.
[In the following essay, Champion argues that Twelfth Night features some of Shakespeare's most well-developed comic characters whose true but hidden identities are revealed over the course of the drama.]
It is commonplace to speak of the different kinds of Shakespearean comedy. The "happy" or "joyous" comedies, for instance, are contrasted with the "enigmatic" or "problem" comedies on the one hand and the "philosophic" or "divine" comedies on the other. And, among the first group, we are sometimes told that The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a less successful "romantic" comedy than Much Ado About Nothing or that Twelfth Night is pure comedy whereas As You Like It incorporates potentially tragic motifs. In a broad sense, of course, the attitudes toward life expressed by comedy can range from the satiric to the sentimental, the farcical to the melodramatic—distinctions invariably based upon the nature of the plot. With Shakespeare's comedy, an equally valuable insight is gained through an investigation of the characterizations and the devices by which they are rendered humorous, a perspective which suggests that Shakespeare's concern was not with different kinds of comedy but rather with plots...
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SOURCE: Lewis, Cynthia. "Viola, Antonio, and Epiphany in Twelfth Night." Essays in Literature 13, no. 2 (fall 1986): 187-99.
[In the following essay, Lewis contends that Antonio, rather than Viola, is the moral center of Twelfth Night, but acknowledges that the play is principally concerned with Viola's moral development.]
Disguise in Twelfth Night is sheer, a thin veil like the "cypress" that "hides" Olivia's "heart" in III.i.1 Viola, although dressed in sturdier male clothing, almost reveals herself inadvertently at several points, as during the duel with Sir Andrew and the interviews with Olivia. Other of Shakespeare's strong, disguised women do not hover quite so closely on the brink of losing control: Portia commands her identity as judge, and Rosalind manipulates her boyish exterior to teach her future husband about love, only once verging on disclosing her true identity before she is ready to.2 Viola's contrasting lack of sure control over her disguise points to a major theme unique to Twelfth Night: that of Epiphany, or the manifestation of truth. Such revelation is continually suggested in this comedy by the characters' ultimate inability to hide their true feelings and natures. This persistence of truth in coming to light parallels the manifestation of Christ to the Magi. But before any such revelation can occur in Twelfth...
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SOURCE: Cahill, Edward. "The Problem of Malvolio." College Literature 23 (June 1996): 62-82.
[In the following essay, Cahill offers a psychoanalytic reading of Malvolio in Twelfth Night, highlighting his narcissism and painful identity crisis as well as his thwarted and obsessive desires for sexual, social, and personal fulfillment.]
The origins of the main plot in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night have been traced to a cluster of earlier comedies and their derivatives; however, the subplot, involving Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, Maria, and their "gull," Malvolio, was entirely Shakespeare's invention.1 Like the main story, the Malvolio subplot also involves comic "errors," disguise and performance, and the pursuit of marriage. It similarly explores the themes of identity, desire, and the confusion of both. In fact, the "gulling" of Malvolio and Sir Toby's debauched revelry literalize the "misrule" of the main story. But the subplot does not resolve itself as neatly as the main plot does; indeed, it fails to resolve itself at all. It might be supposed, then, that Shakespeare sought to counter the easy connubial resolutions inherent in his sources with something more problematic, thereby adding to the comic ending of the play something of a tragic one. Joel Fineman wrote that Malvolio "plays the role of the outsider whose unhappiness is the measure of comic spirit, the...
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Criticism: Production Reviews
SOURCE: Jackson, Russell. Review of Twelfth Night. Shakespeare Quarterly 53, no. 4 (winter 2002): 536-49.
[In the following excerpted review of the 2001 to 2002 Royal Shakespeare Company season at Stratford-upon-Avon, Jackson observes the erotic and decadent qualities of director Lindsay Posner's staging of Twelfth Night and highlights several individual performances, including Guy Henry's strangely empathetic Malvolio and Mark Hadfield's touching Feste.]
[In the set designed by Ashley Martin-Davis for Lindsay Posner's Twelfth Night,] Olivia's household was represented permanently by the furnishing of [an] alcove on the right of the forestage: black furniture, including a piano, a grandfather clock, a small table, some austere chairs, and a row of ancestral photographs. There were also two telltale Beardsley drawings that slyly indicated her suppressed longings. Orsino's court was exclusively male and military, but he openly indulged himself in the tastes of a fin-de-siecle aesthete. After a mimed prologue representing the storm, in which two figures struggled against a translucent plastic drop that billowed up and away as if it were at once clouds, sea, and a sail, the play proper began with the duke (Jo Stone-Fewings) listening to a melancholic performance on flute and guitar. The walls of his apartment were hung with a collection of decadent art, including more or less erotic and...
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SOURCE: Gross, Kenneth. Review of Twelfth Night. Theatre Journal 54, no. 4 (January 2002): 650-51.
[In the following review of the 2002 Holderness Theater Company production of Twelfth Night directed by Rebecca Holderness, Gross praises the minimalist staging of the play and calls attention to its fine dramaturgical effects, including the setting, lighting, dance, and music.]
At the opening of Rebecca Holderness's production of Twelfth Night, one saw on the stage floor an elongated pile of crumpled sheets of paper. Over the course of the show these were variously kicked at, danced over, scattered, rearranged, and blown away. Given the plot of Twelfth Night, the papers suggested the detritus of sea-storm and shipwreck, seaweed and shells, also rejected and lost letters, even discarded scripts and newspapers. Mere litter at one moment, at the next they could be carefully arranged into a circle to create the sad, enclosed garden of Olivia. (Other props were scarce: a stool, a fishbowl, some umbrellas.) Without calling too much attention to the idea, they might have made the New York audience think of the chaos of paper that filled lower Manhattan in the weeks after the World Trade Center disaster—the snow of pages from destroyed offices as well as the innumerable messages, memorials, and photographs affixed to walls in the surrounding neighborhood, fading and tearing over time....
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SOURCE: Brustein, Robert. Review of Twelfth Night. New Republic 227, nos. 8-9 (August 2002): 28.
[In the following review of Brian Kulick's 2002 staging of Twelfth Night at the open-air Delacorte Theatre in New York City's Central Park, Brustein contends that Kulick and his star-studded cast barely explored the depths of character and theme offered by Shakespeare's text.]
The season being summer, it is time for Shakespeare, particularly Twelfth Night, which, along with As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream, is a perennial favorite of outdoor festivals. In my time, I must have endured a hundred nights of Twelfth Night, one of them not that long ago in the very Delacorte Theater where the current version is being staged, the sole offering of the New York Shakespeare Festival's summer season. Like that previous production, which starred Michelle Pfeiffer and Jeff Goldblum, this one is a celebrity gathering featuring a number of movie and television luminaries. Some of these actors, notably those with stage experience, actually have some chops. Others should have been advised not to serve their theater apprenticeships in important Shakespearean roles.
They have not been helped much by their director, Brian Kulick, whose imaginative contribution seems to have been pretty much exhausted by the visual concept. Walt Spangler's attractive design,...
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SOURCE: Mullan, John. Review of Twelfth Night. Times Literary Supplement, no. 5196 (1 November 2002): 22.
[In the following excerpted review of the 2002 Donmar Warehouse Theatre staging of Twelfth Night directed by Sam Mendes, Mullan contends that an overemphasis on the erotic and sensual aspects of the drama, as well as on the suffering of Malvolio, obscured its comic elements and proved detrimental to the production.]
We owe to the memoranda book of law student John Manningham our knowledge that Twelfth Night was written just before or just after Hamlet. Manningham records seeing it early in 1602, though until his diary was unearthed in the nineteenth century it was commonly supposed that this romantic comedy of loss redeemed by kind tempests was late Shakespeare. With the confidence of documentary evidence, we now see how close it is to that tragedy of forbidden mourning. Like Hamlet, it opens after a death, and asks how long someone need mourn. Hamlet is told by his mother that, after two months, he has worn his "nighted colour" long enough. In Twelfth Night, Olivia has sworn to devote herself to the "sad remembrance" of her dead brother for seven years, daily watering her chamber "with eye-offending brine". Manningham described Olivia as a "lady widow", a mistake that evidences the excess of her grieving. The boy playing her in 1602 must have...
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Criticism: Themes
SOURCE: Tromly, F. B. "Twelfth Night: Folly's Talents and the Ethics of Shakespearean Comedy." Mosaic 7, no. 3 (spring 1974): 53-68.
[In the following essay, Tromly suggests that folly is a positive force in Twelfth Night, one that allow the characters to come to terms with life by learning to accept "delusion, vulnerability, and mortality."]
Well, God give them wisdom that have it, and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
(I, v, 13-14)
To speak of the ethics of Shakespearean comedy, and especially those of a play so dedicated to "good fooling" as Twelfth Night, smacks of critical perversity. When Feste asks Toby and Andrew, "Would you have a love song, or a song of good life [a song praising the virtuous life]," the two superannuated roaring boys surely answer for the audience as well as for themselves. Toby exclaims, "A love song, a love song," and Andrew's response, as usual, is a vacuous echo: "Ay, ay, I care not for good life" (II, iii, 32-35).1 Only a Malvolio would want to deny the play the cakes and ale of comic release. The vision of romantic comedy tends to hold the reality principle in abeyance, to dissolve it in music and moonlight, and hence our quotidian notions of ethical conduct may seem irrelevant to Illyria and the forest of Arden.
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SOURCE: Logan, Thad Jenkins. "Twelfth Night: The Limits of Festivity." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 22, no. 2 (spring 1982): 223-38.
[In the following essay, Logan claims that Twelfth Night—despite its ostensible depiction of a festive and happy resolution—contains glimpses of the darker side of human desire.]
In a recent article, Richard A. Levin has remarked on the existence of "two alternate approaches to Shakespearean comedy": the one, exemplified by the work of C. L. Barber and Northrop Frye, focuses on the comedies as celebrations of social order, in which the protagonists are engaged in growth and self-discovery; the other, practiced by W. H. Auden, Harold C. Goddard, and Jan Kott, finds in the plays a "serious treatment of psychological states" and a "negative comment about social conditions."1 Levin attributes this bifurcation in critical response to the fact that our response to the plays is fundamentally complex, and it is the complexity of our response to Twelfth Night that I mean to discuss here. I propose to consider the play as a Saturnalian comedy which evokes in its audience a recognition of the limits of festivity by abolishing such limits in the stage-world of Illyria. While my thesis may not please those who view Twelfth Night as a comedy of romantic education and moral redemption, I am in fact attempting to...
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SOURCE: Slights, Camille. "The Principle of Recompense in Twelfth Night." Modern Language Review 77, no. 3 (July 1982): 537-46.
[In the following essay, Slights maintains that Twelfth Night illustrates the thematic principal of reciprocity as the foundation of successful human relationships.]
Like Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, Twelfth Night moves from personal frustration and social disorder to individual fulfilment and social harmony by means of what Leo Salingar has shown to be the traditional comic combination of beneficent fortune and human intrigue.1 This basic pattern, of course, takes a radically different form in each play. In comparison with many of the comedies, Twelfth Night begins with remarkably little conflict. The opening scenes introduce no villain bent on dissension and destruction, nor do they reveal disruptive antagonism between parents and children or between love and law. In contrast to the passion and anger of the first scene of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the restless melancholy that pervades the beginning of The Merchant of Venice, or the brutality and tyranny that precipitate the action in As You Like It, the dominant note of Orsino's court and of Olivia's household is static self-containment. To be sure, both Orsino and Olivia sincerely profess great unhappiness, but, as many critics have noted, a strain of...
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SOURCE: Tan, Marcus Cheng Chye. "'Here I Am … Yet Cannot Hold This Visible Shape': The Music of Gender in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night." Comitatus 32 (2001): 99-125.
[In the following essay, Tan discusses the relationship of music to Twelfth Night's theme of sexual ambivalence.]
Taken as Shakespeare's farewell to romantic comedy and written around the same time as Hamlet, Twelfth Night presents a high comedy of elusive complexity that preempts the problem plays. Contesting a "universal consent [that] the very height of gay comedy is attained in Twelfth Night,"1 modern critics note that Twelfth Night possesses "darker" features of the problem plays but, as C. L. Barber suggests in Shakespeare's Festive Comedy, the play manages to restore the festive through its comic resolution,2 affirming what Jonathan Dollimore terms "the telos of harmonic integration."3
Elements of "dark tragedy" constantly complicate the "sunny identity of spirit."4 The gulling of Malvolio is often seen by modern sensibilities as an excessively cruel prank passing into the domain of sadism. The latter's ignored plea for help while locked in the dark room, exacerbated by Feste's cruel taunting, becomes a comic joke that proves...
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Further Reading
Ake, Jami. "Glimpsing a 'Lesbian' Poetics in Twelfth Night." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 43, no. 2 (2003): 375-94.
Studies the dynamics of same-sex feminine desire, focusing on the relationship between Olivia and Viola/Cesario in Twelfth Night.
de Somogyi, Nick, ed. Introduction to Twelfth Night / Twelfe Night, or What You Will, by William Shakespeare, pp. xxv-xxxix. London: Nick Hern Books, 2001.
Comments on the textual uniqueness of Twelfth Night and examines some of the idiosyncrasies of its manuscript history.
Gregson, J. M. "The Play." In Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, pp. 24-58. London: Edward Arnold, 1980.
Surveys language, structure, theme, and characterization in Twelfth Night and describes the play as the epitome of Shakespearean romantic comedy.
Hunt, Maurice. "Viola/Cesario, Caesarean Birth, and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night." Upstart Crow 11 (2001): 7-14.
Explores the theme of identity in Twelfth Night and examines the symbolism associated with Viola's pseudonym Cesario.
Kimbrough, Robert. "Androgyny Seen Through Shakespeare's Disguise." Shakespeare Quarterly 33, no. 1 (spring 1982): 17-33.
Probes Shakespeare's treatment...
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Murray cites Nugent as a sort of populist cretin who wishes to starve welfare babies and machine-gun illegal immigrants. Can Murray see the obvious hyperbole in these observations? As liberals cite G.W. Bush as "stupid," "racist" and a misogynistic homophobe (Podesta, Olbermann, Maddow), then Nugent also should be given editorial licenses to point out that there are winos, drunks and dopers on welfare. There are 2-20 million (pick a number) illegal immigrants in the country who tax municipalities, schools and hospital/health care services. There are eight of 10 births in the minority community that are out of wedlock. Nugent merely points these out as evidence that it's the swing to the left that will seek to destroy the Second Amendment, curb individual liberties, place higher taxes on the 60 percent who actually pay federal taxes, and eventually will destroy the sovereignty of the country we cherish.
Murray cites the French as an international role model. For a people who work an average of 30 hours per week, eat snails, have a simmering racial problem of their own and have hundreds of acres of U.S. war dead who died freeing the country twice - give me a "Merci!" Bottom line is, Nugent is a populist figure among the hunter/outdoor crowd. He reflects a substantial body of the citizenry who have had it with the politically correct looking down at gun owners and sportsmen as beer-swilling, no-account slobs. The left - oops! Sorry, progressives - now have the ball in their court. As always, they will overreach, and the real intent of their socialism will be laid bare. Murray, maybe you ought to listen to the lyrics of "Great White Buffalo" before you run your mouth.
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(Guest blog from the director of "The Edge of Joy", originally posted on the PBS NewsHour website)
In the time it takes to read this post, somewhere in the world a pregnant woman will have started hemorrhaging and her baby might soon be motherless. One thousand women die every day trying to bring new life into the world, and this toll is what drew me to shoot my documentary film, The Edge of Joy.
I encountered many of the heartbreaking and hopeful stories that underpin this global tragedy, but it was only through the people, the doctors and nurses of Nigeria that I was able to tell them. The roughly one dozen Nigerian doctors and midwives I worked with closely over the course of making the film, didn't push agendas, or act as obstructionists when I asked tough questions or wanted to follow story lines to their natural conclusions.
Nigeria is better known for corruption and oil production than as the vanguard of fighting maternal mortality, but this small close-knit group of men and a handful of women trusted me not to create an indicting portrait of pregnancy and childbirth in their West African country.
Documentary filmmaking is an art, not a science, and at times during the making of this film, the process was challenging. I always kept my questions dignified and did my reproductive health homework so I could ask informed questions in hospitals and in the communities.
Getting permission to film in such sensitive settings requires government approval, a process that Habib Sadauki, the second obstetrician/gynecologist to be trained in the Nigerian state of Kano, helped me through.
After many meetings with the Ministry of Health and a mutual understanding that I would have a "minder" assigned to me while filming in the north, I was given permission to film in tertiary hospitals and primary health centers.
What I didn't know at the time is that the then Minister of Health Babatunde Osotimehin, recently appointed executive director of the UN Population Fund, had approved the access himself. During his tenure as minister, his office approved some ground breaking research about postpartum hemorrhaging.
I caught up with Osotimehin in May of 2009 at a health conference in Los Angeles. Our scheduled time to sit down and talk on camera kept being pushed back, so I made the bold move of taking over the role of the waitress at the café where he was enjoying a coffee.
Handing him a glass of water, I introduced myself as the filmmaker who had been documenting maternal health initiatives in Nigeria. I kept going on and on and he stopped me and said something to the effect of "you are persistent and persuasive just like they say" and with that got up, and came to sit with me for more than an hour.
We discussed safe motherhood, community leadership for better healthcare and, at the conclusion of our interview he shook my hand and said "your access is continued, enjoy your next trip to Nigeria." My field director and I began breaking down the equipment and she asked why I looked dazed. I said I was not even aware our access had to be renewed.
The freedom to shoot in medical settings was crucial to documenting the harsh realities of giving birth in Nigeria. In the film, blood became a ubiquitous character: women were losing too much of it, there wasn't enough of it when you needed it and midwives were always trying to keep it from flowing.
"Hemorrhage requires that you stop the bleeding and you repair the blood loss. If you don't repair (replace) the blood loss the woman will die," Sadauki told me.
We documented a case of severe bleeding where the midwives were able to manage a patient's hemorrhage with a drug and saline until her husband found a pint of blood and she received the transfusion in time to save her life.
And there are new tools on the horizon. A low-tech first aid device, known as the non-pneumatic anti-shock garment, shunts blood out of the extremities and back to the vital organs in cases of hemorrhage. No magic bullet, but a potential game changer for women giving birth in the developing world and new hope for the health care providers.
After I showed this film recently, I was embraced by a woman in the audience who thanked me for saving the world. Locked in a bear hug with a complete stranger, I thought to myself: "Thank you, but no, I'm not saving the world, I just make films about people who are saving the world."
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Dawn Sinclair Shapiro's documentary film, The Edge of Joy, which was featured on PBS NewsHour in April 2011 as a selection of the PBS NewsHour partnership project with The Economist magazine -- the Economist Film Project -- will premiere on independent Link TV on Friday, October 28, at 5 pm ET and Tuesday, November 1, at 8 pm ET, and will stream on Link TV's ViewChange.org beginning on Tuesday, October 25. The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, an international journalism organization, has created an online curriculum that accompanies the film to be distributed to high school educators around the country; educators and others can download the film for free to accompany the curriculum at www.viewchange.org.
(Euronews: 0742 PT, May 10, 2011) NATO aircraft conducted raids over Tripoli overnight with government buildings bearing the brunt of the attacks. Libyan officials escorted journalists to the High Commission for Children, which suffered extensive damage. Witnesses in the capital say NATO planes were trying to hit Gaddafi's compound.
(Al Jazeera English: 2352 PT, May 9, 2011) NATO warplanes launched a new round of airstrikes in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, witnesses said. They told Al Jazeera the attacks targeted several sites, including Muammar Gaddafi's compound. Earlier, the United Nations humanitarian chief called for a break in fighting to allow medical aid into the country. Al Jazeera's Monica Villamizar reports.
(Al Jazeera English: 0908 PT, May 6, 2011) Reem Haddad, a spokesperson for the Syrian information ministry, spoke to Al Jazeera about the rolling nationwide protests. She denied knowledge of the deaths reported during on Friday, as thousands of protesters took to the streets across Syria to protest against the government.
She also said the UN delegation which will be visiting Syria to investigate allegations would be a positive thing for the government: "The Syrian government is not worried, because there is nothing wrong ... Syria is a mosaic, it is made of many different sects living together, in harmony."
She denied any knowledge of the arrest of Riad Seif, a member of parliament and leading opposition activist, or about the detention of Al Jazeera journalist Dorothy Parvaz.
(Al Jazeera English: 0327 PST, April 28, 2011) Reports are coming out of Syria that some soldiers are siding with the anti-government protesters. Amateur footage is said to show that some troops have been shot at from within their own ranks for refusing to fire upon protesters in the city of Deraa. Al Jazeera cannot independently verify the footage, which is said to have been shot on Wednesday. Imran Khan reports.
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Benchmarks lost out on their their initial gains to close in the red following comments made by a key Fed official. The official said the central bank's bond buying program will not be effective enough to accelerate growth or improve the employment scenario. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq suffered their biggest percentage fall since 25th June and 20th July, respectively.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) slipped 0.7% and ended at 13,457.55. The Standard & Poor 500 (S&P 500) lost 1.1% to close at 1,441.59. The tech-laden Nasdaq Composite shed 1.4% and finished yesterday's trading session at 3,117.73. The fear-gauge CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) was up 9.1% and settled at 15.43. Consolidated volumes on the New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq were roughly 6.75 billion shares, higher than the year-to-date average of 6.54 billion shares. Declining stocks outpaced the advancers on the NYSE; as for 71% stocks that dropped, 27% stocks moved higher.
Charles Plosser, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, said the Fed's recent initiation of a bond buying program will not accelerate growth or improve the existing labor market conditions. He further added that this program would probably endanger the central bank's credibility. Plosser's comments were in sharp contrast to San Francisco Fed President John William's comments on Monday that the central bank could expand the bond-buying program to reduce the unemployment rate more rapidly.
Separately, encouraging consumer confidence and home prices data failed to prevent the benchmarks from closing in the red. The Conference Board reported that the Consumer Confidence Index rose from 61.3 in August to 70.3 in August. This comes after a fall in August and also surpasses consensus estimates of a reading of 63.1. It is also the highest jump in the last seven months. Lynn Franco, the Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board, said: "Consumers were more positive in their assessment of current conditions, in particular the job market, and considerably more optimistic about the short-term outlook for business conditions, employment and their financial situation". Moreover, the Expectations Index increased from 71.1 to 83.7 and the Present Situation Index rose from 46.5 to 50.2.
The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price data for July was also released yesterday. According to the report, the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city composite index and 10-city composite index registered a month-on-month gain of 1.6% and 1.5%, respectively. Both these composites recorded their third straight month of gains in July.
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October 24, 2011I love the inspiration that Morgan brought back from Italy with her (this girl is a bit jealous!). Check out what she has to say about this awesome retailer:
Buon giorno a tutti! {Good morning everyone!}
Ok, that's just about the extent of my Italian – other than "Dov'è il bagno?" (where is the bathroom?), "Vorrei un cappuccino" (I'd like a cappuccino) and "Mi dispiace. Non parlo italiano." (I'm sorry. I don't speak italian).
Mi dispache, but I just got back from an amazing trip to northern Italy and haven't quite accepted that I'm back to my normal life yet. I have this strong urge to bake bread, learn how to make my own pasta, and make my wardrobe more euro chic (especially since part of the trip included a conference attended by people from 35 countries). The bread baking happened yesterday (total tangent, but this book is AMAZING!) and the pasta will need to wait, but the wardrobe changes might be easier than I thought.
If you're not already familiar, let me introduce you to Zara. Zara is a clothing and accessories retailer that began in 1975 in a central street in downtown A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. You can now find them in over 70 countries. While they have an online store that can be viewed in 10 languages, it wasn't until 2011 that the US was one of the 17 countries where items could be shipped. I've never been to a store – and am trying to accept the fact that I was unknowingly two blocks away from one last week – but I'm already a huge fan just by browsing online.
Zara carries clothing for women (including a more youthful TRF line), men, and separate kids lines for young boys and girls (age 2-14) and baby boys and girls (age 3-26 months). You may notice that I included below examples of shoes and scarves for each group. If I had to overgeneralize what I saw in Italy, it was funky shoes and scarves, scarves, and scarves (even on kids and babies – so adorable). Oh, tons of chunky jewelry as well! The question doesn't seem to be "if" you should wear a scarf or chunky jewelry, but rather what color and how many pieces.
If I wasn't pregnant (unfortunately they don't have a maternity line), I'd be going nuts with the shopping. For now I'll just need to focus on shoes and scarves. But only for now…


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Stig Falk-Petersen, of the Norwegian Polar Institute, finds his chicken bait didn't lure any tiny amphipods to a trap lowered through the ice. |
ABOARD CCGS AMUNDSEN – Here are the names of the four men and two women left behind today on the ice south of Banks Island: Luc Michaud and Pascal Massot, both of Laval University; Stig Falk-Petersen of the Norwegian Polar Institute; crewman Philippe Guillot; Andrea Rossnagel and Alexis Burt, both of the University of Manitoba. The parka-clad party rapidly dwindled to invisibility as this Coast Guard icebreaker shrugged free of its most recent frozen parking spot and sped west.
Nobody waved goodbye.
That's because this isn't some deep-freeze version of marooning Captain Jack Sparrow in the film Pirates of the Caribbean. The plan is for the sextet to get back on the ship when the Amundsen returns to its starting point this evening.
The scientists on board for the current leg of the 10-month climate-change expedition asked the Coast Guard to shift the ship several kilometres to the west so they weren't fouling their own nest by plunging a steel grab bucket into the ocean floor about 200 metres below.
At the same time, other researchers were getting anxious because several days of trawling through holes in the thick floe had netted little of consequence. So the sextet stayed behind to continue that heavy-duty ice fishing.
They have radios, food, water, snowmobiles, a Bombardier snow-grooming machine with a large heated cab and two tents erected earlier on the ice for shelter if the ship had to be evacuated.
The shore party (floe party?) also boasts a higher ratio of Canadian-certified gun-handlers than most groups who venture onto the ice from the Amundsen. Three of the six are qualified to try to bring down a polar bear with a 12-gauge shotgun or .308 calibre rifle.
Despite such assurances, right now with a wind gusting between 10 and 15 knots it feels like minus 35 C out on the ice.
Stig won't mind. Stig is my cabin mate. He's a tall, trim, 58-year-old marine biologist from Norway but he leaves here garbed in multiple layers and looking like a dark version of the Michelin tire man.
"I don't like to be cold and on the ice it is always cold unless you dress right," he explains.
Stig is a senior scientist with the venerable Norwegian Polar Institute which began life in 1928. His curriculum vitae (.pdf) runs for 25 pages. He could sit back and let more junior researchers do the grunt work.
Yet Stig is forever finding reasons to go out on the ice even though he doesn't have to. Today's fishing party is a case in point.
Stig's research centres on tiny, tiny critters known as amphipods which he's been trying unsuccessfully to lure into ultra-fine mesh traps baited with chicken (I am NOT making this up.) The nets used by the ice-fishing party have holes far too large to catch any amphipods.
Yet Doctor of Philosophy Falk-Petersen volunteered to spend at least nine hours in strenuous physical labour on the frigid floe with the nearest real comfort – this ship -- 3.6 nautical miles away, I'll report back later after everyone is safely back on board.
UPDATE: After 11 hours on the ice, our sextet is safely back on board the Amundsen, triumphant in netting the first Arctic cod larvae of the season. A ruddy-faced Stig says it was cold but a "wonderful day."


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Sriracha Maker Says Calif. Put Hold On Its Sauces
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Liquor Producers Experiment With Exclusive Booze
December 11, 2013 3:35 pm | by Michelle Locke, Associated Press | News | CommentsThere's something different about the gin and tonics they mix at Rickhouse bar on San Francisco's Kearny St. And it tastes a lot like... exclusivity. Its real name is Quinetum, but its game is selling customers on the idea of seeking out bars that serve up cocktails with hard-to-find ingredients.
FDA Targets Antibiotics In Meat
December 11, 2013 3:31 pm | by Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press | News | CommentsCiting a potential threat to public health, the Food and Drug Administration moved Wednesday to phase out the widespread use of antibiotics in animals processed for meat.
Final Uranium Fuel From Russia Arrives In U.S.
December 11, 2013 3:28 pm | by Matthew Daly, Associated Press | News | CommentsThe United States and Russia are marking the end of a 20-year program to convert highly enriched uranium from dismantled Russian nuclear weapons into fuel for U.S. power plants.
Budvar Claims Win Over AB InBev In Portugal
December 11, 2013 3:24 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsThe Czech brewery Budejovicky Budvar NP says a Portuguese trade court has upheld a decision prohibiting its rival, Anheuser-Busch InBev, from using the Budweiser name in the country.
MakerBot Launches 3D Print Services
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You've heard of
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brain scientist
First, some clarifications...
Yes, I am in the Psychology Departme
nt at Skidmore College.
No, I am not a Clinical Psychologist. If you ask me if you're crazy, depressed, schizophrenic, or bipolar, I will tell you "yes".
Yes, I study people's eye movements.
No, I am not an opthamologist. I cannot tell you if you need glasses or explain to you why your grandmother developed macular degeneration.
Yes, I study how people read.
No, I am not a reading teacher. I do not directly instruct children or illiterate adults on how to read, nor do I write curriculum for school districts.
Yes, I study patients with reading difficulties.
No, I am not a speech-language pathologist. I am not certified to develop rehabilitation programs for either children or adults who have trouble reading.
So...what DO I do?
I am primarily interested in studying the cognitive processes involved in reading. The ability to read is a skill that many of us acquire early on in life and take for granted in our everyday affairs. We pick up the newspaper to check the score of the Red Sox game, we use the menu to order dinner at a new restaurant, we read over the textbook and our notes to study for the upcoming final exam, we check our e-mail to hear how our friends and family are doing. In our western society, reading is not only a leisure activity (who hasn't snuggled up with a good book?), it is also a very important skill, necessary in our everyday activities at work, school, and play.
Although most of us are quite good at reading (or can at least make due with a good dictionary at hand), the mental processes involved are quite complex. We are presented with arbitrary letters, simple symbols consisting of combinations of lines and curves that mean nothing explicitly. With practice, we learn that these letters have sounds associated with them, sounds that we hear in our everyday speech. We can put these letters together to sound out entire words. Even at that point, however, the reading process is far from complete. Once we can identify the word, we must access that word's meaning from our long-term memory. Identifying the letters "S-T-O-P" as the word "STOP" means nothing if we ignore the red sign and enter the intersection. Very rarely, however, do we see words in isolation. When we are reading a sentence, we must connect all of the words together (which requires working memory processes) to get the meaning for the whole sentence. "He showed her baby the pictures" has a much different meaning than "He showed her the baby pictures", although the same words are used. In addition, we must also be able to deal with ambiguities (e.g., "The chicken is ready to eat." Who is hungry - you or the chicken?!), attach pronouns to antecedents ("John and Mary went to the store and HE bought HER a gift."), and interpret figurative language ("It's raining cats and dogs outside."). And then there are paragraphs, and full novels which require even more connecting, more memory, more cognitive processing...
So, how do we do it? That's the question I'm trying to answer.
In order to answer questions about the reading process, I look at two different populations of people. First, I study the reading behaviors of normal, skilled readers to get a picture of the way the mind usually processes written text. So, if you can read, my research applies to you. Secondly, I study the reading behaviors of individuals who have difficulty reading as the result of brain damage. So, if you can't read, my research applies to you, too.
Why eye-tracking?
Investigating the things going on inside the mind when people are doing any task (including reading) can be complicated. Even if the Human Subjects Ethics Committee allowed me to open up someone's head and look inside while they were reading, it would likely tell me very little about the mental processes involved. However, the movement of the eyes while reading actually gives us a fascinating picture of what is going on inside our head. When we read, our eyes make a series of stops and jumps, presenting information to our mind in a manner similar to that of a flip book. We look at a section of the text (a word, for example), get information, then move our eyes to another location on the page...and the process repeats.
We move our eyes because of acuity limitations. We can see details most accurately when they are presented at the center of our vision (the area called the foveal region). Since letters are very complex symbols, we need to move our eyes to bring these details into better focus. Interestingly, while we are able to gain useful information about letters when they are located in the foveal region (for example, when they are in the word that we are currently looking at), we can also get information from the word to the right of where we are looking. This area is called the parafovea. One main area of my research involves studying what type of information we are able to get from the parafovea. For example, do we get information about the identities of letters, the position of the letters, or information about whether the letters are vowels or consonants?
Part of my research involves exploring the importance of letter identity and letter position in reading. Both letter identity and letter position must be encoded at some point during the reading process or else we would be unable to distinguish between anagrams like STOP, SPOT, TOPS, OPTS, POST, and POTS.
You may have received this e-mail forward that was circulated around in September 2003:
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a ttoal mses
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My research has revealed that much of this e-mail is incorrect. First of all, no such research has been done at Cambridge University. Second, although the first and the last letter of a word are perhaps the most important letters, the other letters are quite important, too. True, you are able to piece together the sentences above to make sense of them. However, reading text like this results in a 12% decrement in reading speed. Thus, the task is no longer the same as normal skilled reading. It is perhaps more akin to problem solving.
The moral of this story: Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.
A second area of my research focuses on the reading patterns of individuals who have difficulty reading following brain damage (for example, from a stroke). Studying populations of individuals with reading disorders is important on several levels. First, research on language disorders in adults helps us gain a better understanding of the language deficits in these individuals. According to the National Aphasia Association, about one-million people in the United States have an acquired language impairment. The more that we know about these disorders, the better we can identify and treat them. Secondly, research on special populations lets us to see what happens when something in the normal reading system goes wrong. This can help us identify specific areas in the brain (or mental processes) that are necessary for skilled reading.
To learn even more about my research interests, click
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I've just read some news about the upcoming (okay, not really upcoming...more far-away-coming) movie, Mockingjay.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Mockingjay Movie News
Good Morning Everyone! (Or Good Afternoon, Evening...depending on where you are in the world) :)
I've just read some news about the upcoming (okay, not really upcoming...more far-away-coming) movie, Mockingjay.
I've just read some news about the upcoming (okay, not really upcoming...more far-away-coming) movie, Mockingjay.
According to WebProNews (Click the link for the full article):
"The Hunger Games" finale "Mockingjay" will be apparently be split
into two features, continuing in the Hollywood tradition of milking
popular novel adaptations for as much money as humanly possible. Sure,
it may provide ravenous fans with more "Hunger Games"-related content
found in the book itself, but, more than likely, it's just Lionsgate's
way of milking as much profit from the franchise as humanly possible.
Hey, it worked for "Harry Potter" and "Twilight", so why wouldn't in
work for "The Hunger Games"? You can't blame them for trying.
According to MTV,
the first installment of "Mockingjay" will arrive into cineplexes on
November 14th, 2014. The second part will find its way into darkened
theaters almost a year later; the film isn't scheduled to arrive until
November 20th, 2015. In other words, you're going to have to wait quite a
while to see the epic cinematic finale to this wildly popular series.
Watery-eyed fanatics, take heart: Hollywood.com
is reporting that "Catching Fire", the sequel to "The Hunger Games",
will hit theaters on November 22nd, 2013. At least that one is a little
You know, honestly, I'm haven't even started thinking about Mockingjay as a movie yet. I'm still hoping Hollywood won't screw my favorite book in the series Catching Fire. But honestly?? Is it seriously necessary for them to be splitting Mockingjay into TWO movies???
I know some of you are not Twilight Saga fans, but here's just an example:
Do you see that size difference???
I mean seriously Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Breaking Dawn have both over 700 pages! Mockingjay doesn't even have 400!
And I know I am probably going to get a lot of awful comments for saying this, but Mockingjay I thought was a bit slow at times. I felt like not much happened until the end when Katniss and everyone finally actually went into the Capital.
I believe Warners Brothers did an amazing job with BOTH Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 & Part 2, and Summit did a great job so far with Breaking Dawn Part 1 (in fact, both sets were my absolute favorite in the series), but that's partially ALSO due to the fact that HP7 & BD were BOTH my favorite books in the series! (Other than HP4). But Mockingjay??
To be honest, I am not looking forward to what they'll be doing to make it into two movies.
Honestly, I don't think it's necessary, and just ANOTHER way for Hollywood to be milking everyone out of ten more dollars each for a movie ticket.
I'd love to hear some thoughts! :)
The Romance Bookie :)
16 and up,
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Oh thanks for sharing! :) You're right about the size thing! Those were really long books with a lot of content! But like these guys are saying, they're making it because the other two went off well that way and for commercial purposes, of course! So.. we'll just have to see. I guess they'll add a lot more stuff that wasn't there in the book, the annoying stuff that happens :|
ReplyDeleteAnd if the next movie isn't a success there won't BE a Mockingjay. It's happened before when The Golden Compass didn't do well in the US(it did fine everywhere else), so it left off on a cliffhanger. Whoa, back up! You only pay $10 to see a movie over there?!? We have to pay an average $17 herein Australia.
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After the win over the Lakers, Jameer said, "This victory means a lot for the fans in Orlando."
Fans like Mike, who died a happy man that night.
Shortly after the Magic-Lakers game ended, a blood vessel in his brain burst and Mike went into a coma he never woke up from.
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He was 68.
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Appropriately, when he is laid to rest on Monday, he'll be wearing a Magic neck tie.
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The Nigerian government was lax in its enforcement of safety regulations during a period which included three fatal airline accidents, according to a report in the Associated Press.
Documents obtained from the FAA by the news service through a Freedom of Information Act request indicate that the captain of one of the airliners which went down ... a Bellview Airlines flight ... had taken a 14-year hiatus from flying and had worked at a dairy. He also had reportedly been shot in the head during a robbery attempt during his break from flying, but there was no information about medical treatment from the Nigerian government. An investigation summary indicated that the flight data and cockpit voice recorders were probably among the items stolen from the crash site. They were not recovered.
Another accident involved a Sosoliso Airlines flight described as "full of schoolchildren" which went down in 2005. That pilot was reportedly "racing a thunderstorm" when the plane attempted an instrument approach at Port Harcort. The pilot misjudged the landing and landed on the grass beside the runway. The airplane broke apart and caught fire.
In a third accident in 2006, in which an Aviation Development Co. flight went down about a minute after takeoff, investigators found that there were blank pages in a government-approved safety manual where the pilots would have found adverse weather information. That flight reportedly stalled after takeoff due to incorrect actions taken by the pilot in that situation. The FAA report obtained by the AP said that information could have been critical to the pilots making a decision to continue with the departure.
The Nigerian government says it did go through period in which there it had a "woeful accident record," but Harold Demuren, director general of Nigeria's Civil Aviation Authority, says the situation is much improved now. None of the three airlines involved in the accidents cited are still in operation, and the FAA recently certified that Nigerian airlines are safe enough to fly directly to destinations in the U.S.
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Gaga for Grammys
Real Beauty staffers have been anxiously awaiting the Grammy red carpet for weeks. We love awards shows but the Grammys always tends to bump up the creativity when it comes to the red carpet hair and makeup. This year was no different from dye changes to Beyoncé's bling strands, check out our favorite trends.
Gaga for Blonde
Blonde was the color to be at the Grammys this year. While some shades were a little brassy, like Giuliana Rancic, who donned a shade that almost looked gray and quite similar to America's Next Top Model mentor Jay Manuel, we found Lady Gaga's blonde hues fabulous. Yes, the bold, bright yellow shade was a little ridiculous but we love it because that was exactly the point. If you are going to go outside the box, then follow Gaga's footsteps and go completely outside the box; don't just stick your pinkie toe out.
Beach Babe Waves
Surfer girl curls were all the rage on the red carpet in long and short locks. Marisa Miller rocked her signature breezy waves, which looked great matched with her sultry smoky eyes. We always love Miller's waves, but we especially loved that Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles proved short cuts can be beachy too. To get a similar look, rough dry your hair by blow-drying with your fingers. Then use a gritty salt spray like Bumble and Bumble's Surf Spray and mist throughout. For extra waves, curl a few random pieces on each side for added volume and bounce.Bad to the Bangs
Bangs were a gal's best friend on the red carpet from Katy Perry's pinup style baby bangs to Jennifer Hudson's severe blunt bangs matched with a sleek ponytail. The bang showstopper of the night for us goes to Keri Hilson, who paired her pixie cut with flipped, side-swooped bangs. To get this look for any cut make a deep part to get volume to one side and dry hair, pulling up and back as you dry. Then, using a flat iron flip bangs out and top off with some hairspray for hold.
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