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HiddenHollow wrote:Schmoopy1000 wrote:My question is, what is the exact wording on the rule for not pushing on the final lap? Because it could be quite possible there is a lot of illlegal pushing going on on the plate tracks nowadays LOL (front car is definitely being assisted)
Speaking of pushing on the plate tracks, has anybody seen this:
NASCAR tries to break up Talladega 2-car tandems
By JENNA FRYER, AP Auto Racing Writer
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP)—NASCAR tweaked two rules for next month's race at Talladega Superspeedway, apparently in an effort to limit the two-car tandem racing that has dominated at its two fastest tracks.
The first change ordered Wednesday was an increase in the size of the restrictor plate that will be used in the Oct. 23 race. The larger holes in the carburetor plates should lead to an increase of horsepower that could make the cars 2 to 3 mph faster.
NASCAR also ordered an adjustment on the pop-off valve in the cooling system that should lower the maximum water temperature in engines. A threat of overheating could prevent cars from staying hooked together for too long.
Drivers discovered over the last year that it's faster to run at Daytona and Talladega in two-car tandems. That style has replaced the popular two- and three-wide packs, and fans have been lukewarm about the tandem racing.
Now, two cars hook up bumper-to-bumper, one clearly pushing the other until the potential for overheating forces them to separate and then swap. It's made for record lead changes and exciting finishes, but is a totally different style than the white-knuckle pack racing fans loved.
Drivers, meanwhile, said it's impossible to see anything when they are pushing another car and Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR's most popular driver, has repeatedly railed against tandem racing.
"What kind of move can you make in racing like this?" he asked in July. "There ain't no move you can make. You just hold it on the mat and try not to wreck into each other."
NASCAR vice president of competition Robin Pemberton made no mention of the tandem racing in explaining the rule changes.
"After the last few superspeedway races, we've heard many drivers express their desire to open up the size of the restrictor plate some and we thought the time was right to do that," Pemberton said in a statement. "We anticipate these revisions in the rules package for Talladega will help continue to provide competitive and exciting racing for the fans."
The larger restrictor plate could push speeds over 200 mph, but the combination of the pop-off valve change likely means the cars won't be able to stay locked together for as many laps. David Reutimann crew chief Rodney Childers thinks drivers might be limited to a lap of pushing before needing to swap.
"Changing the plates will be better," Childers said. "It should make it more racy, where you can pull out and pass. If they are wanting to make it where people can't draft as long, it's going to do that. Probably only a half of a lap or a lap is all you're going to get out of it."
Chad Johnston, crew chief for Martin Truex Jr., predicted that drivers will have to swap positions more. That could make it dicey, he said, because drivers will have to swap while also avoiding the two-car packs closing in behind them.
"The chances of something going wrong on a swap are going to go up obviously, but hopefully it will eliminate or lessen the two-by-two racing," he said.
I am not a fan of the two car tandem, but hate this idea. I dont think the way to deter these guys is to blow up their engines. I mean they still wont have any choice if they are gonna try to win. So either try & win & start popping motors or have more of those guys riding in the back more hoping for a decent finish. To me this is a bad idea. I am against it (not that, that matters to anyone) Think they should be protecting the motors, not trying to blow them up. Find another way to get them off each other.
This is about the equivilant to telling teams hey if you dont want the big one dont draft! Sure no one wants the big one, but no way anyone wouldnt draft. Think this is dumb.
Also they really havent had the big one, since the two car tandems, so maybe with them trying to force them to move around more, they are trying to cause the big one again for ratings.
I think Nascar has their heads up their A$Ses on this one.
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East Carolina University: Viewpoint Discrimination Against Student Organization
The student group Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) at ECU submitted a request to ECU's Student Government Association to receive funding for its "Hemp Fest" event, which included a request of $150 for the purchase of legal hemp products for display and demonstration. SGA refused to fund this portion of the event, however, saying that it was "combustible" and that it would "not risk tarnishing SGA" in doing so--a clear violation of SGA's obligation to be viewpoint-neutral in distributing funds allocated from mandatory student fees. After FIRE contacted ECU and reminded its student government of its obligation to uphold YAL's First Amendment rights, SGA then determined that YAL was still ineligible to receive the funding because its application was too vague in its request. Though SGA seems to have abandoned its viewpoint discrimination against YAL, FIRE is still waiting for it to confirm that it will not engage in such behavior against student groups in the future.
- "FIRE Letter to East Carolina University Student Government President Tremayne Smith, May 3, 2011," May 3, 2011
- "FIRE letter to East Carolina University, April 11, 2011," April 11, 2011
- "Email from ECU SGA Treasurer Justin Davis to David Ernest Price, March 23, 2011," March 23, 2011
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Tony Lo Bianco plays the beloved New York City mayor
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I need to this city and economic shambles.
One crippled by getting unemployment and he turned it around it now a -- story a former New York.
City mayor PF we have Fiorello LaGuardia is -- at center stage again.
In the Big Apple actor Tony you know -- -- Have played a little flower any joins us live good more to you again good morning good here and you were doing a great show and then you took -- -- DC right it didn't deny your.
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Which is listen if I don't live up to my campaign promises.
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-- love that they applauded that line aggression which gives us hope folks -- yes.
I'll have high -- -- a patent you're probably not only loved your performance but also the message of Fiorello LaGuardia and yes -- here in years ago got things does he can really get things done because tonight is a tough Fella and he we overcame all kinds of odds against him.
He was a fellow who had everything against him and those of the short fat guy in.
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Shama Kabani and Roy Choi discuss the impact of Apple's victory over Samsung
Aug 27, 2012
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And welcome back everybody a big verdicts.
In the technology world this past Friday after a year of scorched earth litigation a jury decided Friday that Samsung.
Ripped -- the innovative technology used by apple to create its revolutionary iPhone and iPad so what does this mean.
For Samsung going forward joining me now we've got to folks on this topic.
And we have violent scene we've got Roy H two way he's the managing editor techno buffalo and -- -- -- -- she's the author of descendents social media marketing what I have welcomed both the view and -- a necessary to you on this thing.
Tell me what does this mean for Samsung going forward.
Well oh billion dollars is no small sum of money but for Samsung.
-- By taking a lot of -- design and a lot of the technology behind the -- They've actually caught up significantly.
In terms of market share they lead -- mobile phone industry.
It doesn't really.
And mean much for a company that's worth.
20300 times more than a billion dollars.
-- for them the future looks bright and this judgment.
-- it may be just small setback but in terms of their overall growth they seem to be going at a faster speeds faster pace than half.
OK so if in fact you mean that you -- mentioned the future of Samsung and -- think that they won't be.
-- going forward do you think though that going forward they would have to redesign their Smartphone phones.
You know.
They've already gone through that process doing so they've release the Samsung galaxy S three.
Probably one of the best phones out there currently and it may actually be a little better than what we propose as the iPhone 5.
It is a great phone and terms of design and it doesn't look anything like the iPhone.
And it's it's the future it is what that design team looks to go ahead and do it looks great.
Do you have -- I -- I'm using it right now.
You know because of folks who have that they say oh they're huge actually.
Full disclosure.
They got -- have you can see me but I have gotten to it and I'm not -- but I'm also met girls -- -- mumbled I'm nine people.
Opportunity purchaser here -- that world but I actually like it as well but doesn't make -- -- story.
Evidence is talking about the design because they're will be bigger than the iPhone and that's -- the iPhone folks they like to.
-- on that but let me bring Chama into the conversation.
Eat in you know Roy is very convinced that this is not gonna hurt the bottom line for Samsung I ask you go do you think it's.
Embarrassing on some level.
It is and there's two types of bottom lines today right of the financial bottom line but there's also this public perception bottom line.
What are people saying what are they thinking -- -- -- going to precede the Samsung brand moving forward.
Not certainly take -- hit a situation like this where company gets called out and says look.
-- stuff wasn't as an immediate because you took it from another company -- that's something that they're going to have to work take to move forward front.
So do you think though that apple will continue to dominate the tech world -- I Apple's a big player and -- here is David it's full of very cyclical you always have new players you always have.
Ups and downs and still -- Google become a big company in any companies aren't gonna sit on the sidelines and do nothing.
Apple is is the tech darling of the moment -- OK since you went ahead and you that we -- you know kind of phone that -- has you know trying to I have with phone do you have.
I I do have a -- son did okay but again we're all very fair about it means nothing we're just talking right guys.
-- day.
That -- -- let's let's talk plays a big deal this this this case here.
Do you think that we could see more companies -- filing similar lawsuits against each other Roy.
Oh definitely and you look at the way that these companies are strategizing.
A lot of these larger phone manufactures and and and operating system developers are going in in purchasing companies.
For the purpose.
Pending lawsuit itself Google amount purchased Motorola Motorola as we know as one of first cell -- developers.
And they've gotten out and purchased Alfie patten's outright on Lotta times company's locals going to purchase the portfolio patents.
But a lot of times will also go -- just by the company wholesale just for the purpose of protecting themselves I'm not only in terms of the patents that they own.
But in terms of other patents that they don't own so they can use -- as leverage for future negotiations.
Well up it's related -- -- -- view that a couple of items here from our chatters at this when both of them from can you read this.
Saying I will buy a Samsung equipment says since it is a lot cheaper than apple and I now know they had apple text Apple's technology.
Apple wins one billion dollar verdict -- Samsung what does this mean for a tech -- social media and -- consumer nothing prices will remain high.
Johnny wouldn't comment on that before we go.
I think it's interesting and only time will tell because -- and it'll be interesting to see -- -- has the full certain products.
It's a big market place -- -- price does factor in when consumers are making their decisions.
Roy final comments from you.
-- exposed for every price strange apple makes one phone.
So I think Samsung just as able to get a larger market share it and then out.
Roy until way that is the final word sound like a body thinks stability review good to see -- -- you haven't yet again rest of the day.
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I am 24 years old and going through severe depression its like the whole world is falling apart and i am feeling so lonely and desperate for true love. I met a girl 2 years ago and at the first glance itself i asked allah that please make her my future wife. I talked to her, proposed to her she accepted in a week. We worked in the same office for 6 months and later she moved to another company and i went some little far place from my town. we were so much into love which led us to commit zina ( I regret for it now - may allah forgives me). we went out to different places having great time ,most of the time to beach talking about how we will be getting married and what are the names we give to our children and so many other things which usually a married couple talks. Twice a month i come to my home town and she never let me go back and says she misses me and always wanted to be with me. I believed her more than anything in this world i loved her so much and never thought of getting apart from her. we often had little fights but we will be back together in minutes usually i get back to her. 5 months ago we had a same kind of fight and that day night i got a message from her saying lets break up. first i thought it was some joke and never took it seriously. 10 days passed and i was really afraid and i called her back but she refused to talk to me. Later she replied me back with the message that she is in love with her manager and they are going to get married soon. I am completely shattered and since then i never had a good sleep i lost my weight my inner peace my friends and everything around me. I never thought she would dump me after we had physical relationship. i wanted to marry her. still lover her. I even foolishly went to see that manager- it made the situation even worse. He casually replied that whatever i might have done to her it doesnt matter and he doesnt see her past. But i does matter to me, i lost my everything to her. All i wanted is true love. i dont know what to do.. I am really afraid to have another girl in my life because i already had a physical relationship with another girl and i am kind of feeling guilty. someone please help me with this |
Assalamu 'alaykum 'alaykum wa ra'hmatullahi wa barakatuhu wa magfiratuhu . May Allah forgive your sins . Brother , we can't get everything we want in life . You should be happy with whatever you have . Do you want to hear what i am going through ? I have a tooth problem , i can't eat properly , i had a breakup , i can't sleep in peace , i sometimes am so depressed that i even tried to suicide . My love will never be mine the way i want . But i had to move on . There are bigger things in life than love for women . You should repent to Allah sincierly for your mistakes . Zina is a punishable act . I think you should learn the attributes of Allah . Loving him should be your only goal . Allah has so many good attributes for which anyone can fall in love with him . Also , you should try to find a religious muslim woman of your choice , so that she will help you forget your past . A pious woman will most likely never cheat on you . Stop thinking about the woman you lost . Remember , she has betrayed you . |
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Muhammad Abdul Ahad ♦
wa 'alaykum 'alaykum wa ra'hmatullahi wa barakatuhu wa magfiratuhu, I know she betrayed me but when i am trying to hate her and forget her i fail and again tearing apart into pieces.. i dont know what to do.. please include me in ur daily dua.
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brother i understand ur feeling cos this is d samething dat am going through right as am writting my case was her parent forced her to marry anoda person all sort of depression am going thru bt i bliv & what i want u to bliv is that Allah knows what is the best for us, we might love what is bad for our future & we might hate what is good for us said the prophet muhammad (saw) it hurt i know bt it is a text to our faith to see if we can thank Allah in tears in pain & in sorrows what I always said oh u put to me d love of this girl & now my heart is in pieces Allah I know u love me morethan I love my self pls accept this as an act of ibadat & reward me. Anytime u think of her say innalilahi wa'ina ilaihim ragiun & Allah will rewar u for saying this so u see Allah has made a simple away to earn on reward this is only if u bliv as muslim. Man if I should tell u my love history with this girl u will know am going through alot o depression bt ours we never thought of romance talkless of sex cos is against our religion & culture. |
Brother ferouze , don't give up . I have a question for you , do you have any relation with a girl now ? |
Mar 18 at 15:00
Muhammad Abdul Ahad ♦
No. not at all. Nowadays i am not even speaking to anyone.
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Talking about looking for another girl now is not d solution, u & this girl have been for a while, u've been ues to each other it wont be that easy to forget her so soon cos it takes a minute to love someone but takes a lifetime to forget that person. All I want from u believe in AAllah's doing & u will have three benefits: 1st Allah will love u for accepting the temptation put upon u, 2nd Allah will reward u for reciting the du'a & 3rdly in combination of the two above Allah will choose u another which u will surely tesrify in everything she is better than your ex. Remember these could be acheived if u're sincered to urself & ur patner bcos haven sex b4 marriage shows u're not a sincered person as a muslim this is a heavy sin against ur lord. To tell u d truth this girl doesnt border about u d way u border cos u've shown her ur untrusth for haven sex wit even if she wanted it or she asked for it, to her u're a player. u're a man u should know d right from d wrong. Pls fear ALLAH & ask for his 4giveness ma'asalam |
Mar 24 at 06:33
Assalamu alaikum wa rahmathullahi wa barakathahu... I know i did a grave mistake and it was out of my own delusion. I know its a sin to have physical relationship before marriage..but i was mislead by shaytan whispering in my ears that she is anyway going to be your wife..then its ok.. go ahead.. but now i can see him nowhere near me. I am the one who is suffering and i really feel bad about it.. I dont know what to say..
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u still dont know what to said? meaning my advice was in vain |
Mar 24 at 09:04
Yours is not in any vain my dear brother. i totally understood. you know i am here in pain seeking for any moral support and any way that could ease my heart.. please dont start a conversation that would kindle up any hardness between us. i said "i dont know what to say" meaning - i am so disturbed and feeling so guilty that my life went like this.. i believe you got what i meant by that..
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Please try and look for a nice and islamic woman ok. |
The first thing to acknowledge is that what you have done is wrong. You transgressed the bounds God, the One who knows you best, the One who created you, the One who knows all, and now you are suffering the consequences of those decisions. It was a test and you made wrong decisions and now you are meant to rise above and learn from the mistakes that you have made. I am not sure if you understand the gravity of the sins - please think deeply about how you have dishonoured yourself and this girl (who was also careless of her own honour). You relied on the fact that you went so far with the sister (i.e physical relationship with her) to keep you guys together. And how frail was that? How frail is it to rely on a sin rather than on Allah? How frail is it to disobey Allah and not keep chaste until he grants you a blessed love for the sake of Allah, one which is everlasting because it is for the One who is everlasting. This girl, who is a father's precious daughter, meant to be taken care of by a righteous spouse, who Allah is too shy to tell her what awaits her in Jannah if she is righteous, has committed a deeply immoral action. Actions which will likely take time for your heart to fully repair from. Yet despite this, Allah is allowing for the pain (which is caused by your actions) to pull you back to Him. Your heart hurts and this is a mercy. What is the purpose of all the hurt? For you to take this opportunity to transform yourself and become a righteous believer. Because although you may have committed the sin of both minor and major zina, your heart is open to purification now. You are going through a cleansing process and you must take this opportunity to repent and seek that which is halal and blessed. Imagine if you had married this girl. Would you be happy marrying someone who easily committed zina? Are you happy starting your life as a zani yourself? Would you not rather have started your marriage in a way that is pleasing to Allah? Indeed, why else are we here on earth except to please Allah? I recommend you try your best to repent, Allah azza wa jal is so merciful. He can change your bad deeds to good deeds. He loves to forgive. He will bless you with someone that is righteous, inshaAllah, so long as you make efforts to deserve it. Start by
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sleep it off :P no im joking. having a broken heart is a part of life. only time will mend it praying would probably help. |


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I have been paying close attention to all the latest and greatest notebooks / laptops that are coming out. The Chromebook looks great and the price is not bad at all. I recnelty purchased a regualr laptop, becuase there are just some things that you moight need to do that all these smaller devices can not handle. And the worst part is that right after I bought the laptop, all these laptops/tablets stated coming out. Anyeays, I have purchased some of these Chromebooks for my team of employess and they seem to be great so far. No complaints and can not complain about the prices. Just wnated to share this with everyone.
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Hi dcawrey,
I assume Google wanted to offer an even cheaper laptop than the Samsung Chromebook, so Google agreed to Acer's product. Reviewers seem to think Acer's is based on a cheap, old, very mediocre existing laptop that Acer merely changed slightly for the Chrome OS in order to attain the $199 price.
There also are rumors that Google is working on other, more advanced Chromebooks -- developed to its own specifications and with its branding -- but there aren't any confirmations about this.
The $249 Chromebook remains quite difficult to obtain, and perhaps Google underestimated the demand. It has been "out of stock" since it was introduced, although stores (such as Amazon) get shipments and will send them to people who are in the queue.
I have been pondering whether to keep or return the Chromebook. However, I spend almost all my working time on the Internet and with Internet applications. Also, Google updates Chrome OS about every six weeks, so there are continuing improvements. And for $249 it's nice to have a laptop that I'm pretty much assured won't be infected with malware, will turn on instantly and allow me to work if anything happens to my other computers. So, I'm keeping it.
I think it really does make sense for enterprises to consider the Chromebook.
Yes, I must have missed that comment. Going back and reading it, I'm glad that you agree with what seems to be a contradiction with the Chrome OS concept when Google is putting a 320GB disk drive in a Chromebook. The purpose of Chrome OS is to utilize the power of the cloud. It's also a way for Google to sell its services like Drive and Google Apps. But they must have come to some sort of concession with Acer in order to ship this particular device. I know that Acer has been an iffy partner in Chromebook at the same time they knowing that they are not going be able to rely on the Windows ecosystem as much as in the past with the changes that Microsoft is making in hardware stratgy. It will all be interesting to watch!
The day this blog was published, Google announced the new $199 Acer Chromebook, and I discussed it in a comment I posted. The reviewers now say it might be a bit faster than the $249 Samsung Chromebook, although the battery life is significantly worse and and it weighs more.
I find that $249 Samsunh Chromebook is fine for certain tasks and I assume the Acer Chromebook also will be good. The Acer isn't as good as a take-everywhere device because of its poorer battery life of perhaps three or four hours. But it's difficult to get any computing device for $199, so both the Acer and Samsung Chromebooks are priced well.
There certainly seems to be a demand for them. The Samsung is quite difficult to get, although the Acer Chromebook is still available, at least currently from Google Play.
Acer is going to be coming out with a $199 Chromebook. What is interesting is that in order to get down to such a low price they had to sacrifice certain components. Instead of a solid state hard drive that has come standard on Chromebooks, the Acer model has a regular platter drive. It also has an older Intel processor that will slow down performance and battery life.
But this is being done in an effort to get cheap Chromebooks into users' hands. I'm not sure it will work if the product and overall user experience is mediocre at best.
Hi kiranIE,
If you read to the end of blog, you'll see that I wrote about some of the problems, such as the performance bogging down, the construction and the lack of locally stored Windows applications.
For $249, many enterprises should take a look at the new Samsung Chromebook, if only as a spare computer.
It all depends on the use case, Even enterprises that typically use regular laptops might consider Chromebooks useful for specific applications, plus the security and lack of IT support. For $249, many enterprises could afford a Chromebook as a "just in case" laptop.
Hi slfisher (Sharon),
Samsung has announced a $329 version of the new Chromebook with a cellular modem, but I don't know if it's available yet. That's an okay price.
The older Samsung Series 5 550 Chromebook comes with a cellular modem, but it costs $550 and I don't see that as a good price. Might as well get a cheap laptop and use tethering from a phone or modem.
I've had 16 or so tabs open at once in a browser window and another browser with a few tabs, but it's certainly not as snappy as with one or two windows with a total of a dozen or so tabs. I can certainly empathize with needing multiple browser windows with dozens of tabs plus other open apps.
As a wrote, Chromebooks aren't good for all situatiions, but they are useful. And I like the somewhat "fail-safe" aspect with a constantly updated and clean copy of Chrome OS that boots fast and is available if Windows or OS X machines have problems.
after reading the article i only found the pros . it may not be good for large and big organizations but for small SMBs and home-base companies offering solutions for IT it may be a good and cheap option.
It is for the reason that I do not see traction for this platform in the enterprise. With that being said, I can see it working in educational institutions and non-profits because of the overall cost savings it can have in hardware and IT services.
In the long run, getting it into schools may be the best strategy: students who use them will someday be in the workforce, and they will be familiar with the concept and may even champion the technology. But this is a very long-term view.


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By Troy Williams
American racism is not a fairy tale, and the story will not have a happy ending. In 1903, W.E.B. Dubois, an African-American scholar, activist and NAACP co-founder, wrote that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line." And in the 21st century, the problem is still the color line.
What is the color line? It was the line that reserved the best of what America had to offer for one group, while denying it to others. Obviously, our nation has made tremendous advances to correct many of those wrongs, but some would argue there is still much progress to be made.
Last week, our City Council gave us an indication of how far we still have to go when members passionately debated whether Fayetteville should hire a consultant to determine whether discrimination has occurred in the city's past business and procurement practices.
Moreover, Mayor Tony Chavonne acknowledged on a local radio talk show that past discrimination is indeed a part of Fayetteville's history of doing business. What is not clear is the extent of the discrimination and whom these inequitable practices have benefited.
Advocates supporting the study list this as one of the main reasons that necessitate its implementation. Those in opposition say a study will merely reveal what citizens already know, and therefore it is a waste of taxpayer money. They conclude the best course of action is to move forward with a checklist of assurances that will eliminate the possibility of future discrimination occurring.
The present council racial makeup is five blacks and five whites. It probably is no surprise to you that all the blacks voted for the study, and all the whites voted against the study. When it comes to matters of race and discrimination, it's hard for blacks and whites to see eye-to-eye.
The vote along racial lines bothered me, but it's more than that. There's an obvious lack of respect between some members, and I wonder if the motivation is more than just politics. It can't be about the best for one group and something else for the rest, or we're back to square one with the color-line issue. Race is an uncomfortable subject, and whether we like it or not, it still dominates water-cooler conversations.
Race and controversial remarks about race by President Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, almost derailed his candidacy for president. In response to the growing controversy, Obama used the opportunity to get in front of the issue in a nationally televised speech on March 18, 2008. Obama left America with a lot of good things in that speech, including the declaration, "But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now."
Unfortunately, President Obama has done exactly that - ignore the race issue. I don't want to be overly critical about this, because I believe frank discussions about race can be lethal to even the most skilled politician. Obama's critics point out that he has discussed race less than Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, all white Southerners who grew up under segregation. They expected Obama to take leadership on the issue.
But race is to Obama like kryptonite to Superman.
The less toxic subject of same-sex marriage has become the primary focus and beneficiary of the president's bully pulpit. Perhaps this was Obama's objective from the beginning. We may never know.
While America broke a streak of 220 years and elected a black president, the Catholic Church could be in line for a black pope. That would break about 2,000 years of tradition. Pope Benedict XVI announced last week his impending resignation at the end of the month. What's intriguing about this, racially speaking, is that two black cardinals, from Ghana and Nigeria, are reportedly strong contenders. If one of those Africans - or, for that matter, any non-European - were selected Pope, it would be historic. I believe it might matter more to the citizens of the western hemisphere than the rest of the world. I don't know that as a fact, but I suspect it might because of past history.
This month wraps up another February, and the debate continues: Has Black History Month met its end with the re-election of Barack Obama? Perhaps, a case could be made. Should the 21st century focus be on a unified America that celebrates and acknowledges the achievements of all Americans throughout the year?
Its creator, black historian Carter G. Woodson, was clear about its purpose and eventual end. He insisted at the time that the holiday be eliminated, when "black history became fundamental to American history."
America is a nation where justice must be colorblind. We are all Americans, and I think sometimes we need to remind each other of that.
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I like seeing movies late on Sunday. There's almost no one in the theater. You can get that perfect seat dead center in the middle of the auditorium and feel like you are the only one in the room. There's just something more conducive to absorbing a film without the limitless distractions that arise when seeing a flick with a crowd that apparently can't read the big words on the screen that say, "Shut Up and Turn off Your Cell." I'm just waiting for some inconsiderate, upwardly mobile schmuck to break out with an iPad one day. It'll happen.
But in a near empty theater, I can feel like the last man on Earth, watching stories of the forgotten human race and remembering how cool they could sometimes be. Remembering where I was in history with The Runaways, it was the year 1975.
The Runaways feels like a '70s movie, in the way its characters are depicted with a shabby realism -- the opening scene finds Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning) pragmatically dealing with the onset of her first period as she's on her way to meet a too-old-for-her boyfriend -- while it tells the story of the formation of seminal and groundbreaking all-girl rock band namesake.
Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart, here defying expectation) approaches Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon), a moderately successful songwriter and producer, outside of L.A.'s Rainbow Room and pitches him the idea of an all-girl rock band. The highly eccentric Fowley instantly sees great things in the scrappy guitarist's future.
So he puts Jett together with a drummer, Sandy West (Stella Maeve), but Fowley can feel something's missing -- something to balance Jett's tough-girl, tom boy image. When he meets the 15-year old Cherie Currie, he realizes he's found his Bridget Bardot, and the essential ingredient that he believes could make The Runaways as big as The Beatles. Jail bait.
The Runaways tells a fairly conventional musical tale -- rise and fall, drugs and sex -- but it does so with great style; a sort of effortless fugue that makes up for a lack of strong plotting. From the beginnings of Jett and Currie's friendship to their quixotic rise to fame during the peak of the hedonistic '70s, there is a quasi-dreamlike feel that is accented by writer/director Floria Sigismondi artful, intimate compositions.
Sigismondi has crafted a damn fine first feature with The Runaways. The former music video director has always exhibited talent in creating her unique visual palette with her work on Marilyn Manson's The Beautiful People and Tourniquet. Here she proves not only to be a wonderful visual stylist but also a solid writer and feature director, excelling particularly at eliciting uniformly compelling performances from her vibrant cast, while imbuing the film's themes of female empowerment with a tangible historical context. The Runaways has a strong pulse.
It lives and breathes with a sweaty sexuality that is the hallmark of any great rock movie, and Fanning seems more than willing to shed her child-star image in a performance that is fully realized and might be considered controversial. It's no secret that Jett and Currie were a little more than friends and while their sex scene is nowhere near as explicit as Amanda Seyfried and Julianne Moore's in Chloe, it's still two underage girls getting it on. I imagine some genius out there would be outraged.
Nevertheless, Fanning is marvelous as Currie, embracing the sexuality of the character (and the era) and also Currie's roller coaster emotional arc as the hard partying, the road and the fame take their toll. Fanning has a bright future if she keeps picking roles this meaty.
Kristen Stewart is uncanny as Joan Jett, from the wardrobe to the look to her performance (the actors that comprise the band practiced for a month and recorded all their own material for the film). The real Joan Jett -- who also helped produce The Runaways -- was so taken by Stewart's vocals that she apparently thought she was hearing her own performance. Stewart delivers.
At first, I thought she might be underplaying it with her typical poutiness, but she was definitely channeling Jett, particularly during the great live sequences -- where Sigismondi's music video background makes itself thrillingly apparent.
As Kim Fowley, Michael Shannon owns every scene he's in. Fowley is a sort of legendary character (the film takes the disputed tact that Fowley wrote The Runaways biggest hit, "Cherry Bomb"), a strange, maniacal vagabond, rock and roll P.T. Barnum, whose emotional abuse of his band seemed to be justified by their mounting success. Shannon brings a reckless abandon to the role, and in a film loaded with excellent performances, his was the most memorable.
The Runaways is a raw, raunchy, enigmatic love letter not entirely dissimilar, thematically, from Cameron Crowe's testament to youth and music in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. It's a similarity not lost on Sigismondi apparently, who cast Robert Romanus -- Mike Damone -- as Jett's folk-song loving guitar teacher.
Just one of many nice touches in The Runaways.
One Bad Date
One of the reasons I was looking forward to Date Night was because it would mean that I wouldn't have to see the trailer for it again. It's been running for months, it seems. I don't remember how funny lines like, "It's a kill shot! Kill shot!" were the first time I heard them, but 87 trailer views later, I was ready to hate them.
They'd play it in front of every movie, too. Often trailers are picked depending on the genre of film you are seeing. Action movies get trailers for The A-Team and such, while romances are preceded by trailers for Sex and the City 2, etc. I'm pretty sure they played the trailer for Date Night in front of every movie I've seen in the past six months. I wouldn't have been surprised if they played it in front of Date Night.
So I wasn't really looking forward to Date Night for the right reasons. While I like Steve Carell and Tina Fey just fine -- in fact, they almost save Date Night from being a tepid puddle of a film -- its director, Shawn Levy, whose blandly horrid Steve Martin comedies begat the blockbuster (and unseen by me) Night at the Museum franchise is a hack of Brett Ratner-esque proportion. And after 87 times, that trailer snuffed any hopes that Date Night would hold some kind of unexpected surprises for me.
And what Levy delivers is, in fact, a remarkably unoriginal entry into the well-worn genre of the inadvertent crazy night in the city movie. For better examples of this concept in execution see Into the Night or After Hours. Either one of those films is a hundred times nuttier and more inspired.
Phil and Claire Foster (Carell and Fey) are a comfortable, moderately well-off, married New Jersey couple. They both have good but dull jobs and life with the kids has settled into a gilded routine.
On weekly date nights at their favorite restaurant, they take turns making up stories about the other diners. At their book club, they find out their best friends, Brad and Haley (Mark Ruffalo and Kristen Wiig) are getting a divorce because they feel like "excellent roommates."
So Phil endeavors to make the next date night something special -- dinner in Manhattan at a hot restaurant. They unwisely wing it without reservations and are promptly brushed aside, but when they hear a call for a table that goes unanswered, they take a chance and pass themselves off as the "Tripplehorns."
Turns out the Tripplehorns are wrapped up in an extortion plot with a local mobster, Joe Miletto (Ray Liotta). When a couple of tough guys escort them from their table out into the alley to politely ask, at gunpoint, for the flash drive they stole, Phil and Claire find their ruse leading them on a wacky, action-packed, fish-out-of-water adventure.
I hope the sarcasm of that last sentence came through.
Date Night isn't a completely horrible comedy (Kevin Smith can sleep soundly there), but that's strictly due to the great chemistry between Carell and Fey.
Levy's direction is competent but lacking in any real style. He can shoot action fairly well -- a car chase sequence near the end was pretty well done -- but for the most part he coasts on the charms of his two leads, wisely I suppose, since the hackneyed script was doing no one any favors.
Once again, the main culprit is the lack of any consistent, forceful laughs, combined with a formula so formulaic you could look up formula in Webster's and find a picture of this film's screenplay next to the definition. Even with its brief 88-minute runtime, the film seemed to drag as the inevitability of the end loomed. I knew exactly what was going to happen about halfway through.
There were a few giggles in there, mostly coaxed by the delivery of Carell and Fey ("Kill shot!" notwithstanding). They really are the reason this Date Night wasn't a test of will, so much so I suspect readers might think I'm being hard on the flick. But just as often as Carell and Fey shine, the script sinks them into some maudlin relationship stock-taking -- or the truly cringe worthy "dance" sequence -- that are only tolerable due to the goodwill Carell and Fey earn.
There were some cool cameos from the likes of Ruffalo, Wiig, Micheal Moriarity (The Stuff!), James Franco and Mila Kunis, but the film is so ersatz and weightless, it's actually difficult to describe exactly how unremarkable it really is, despite it's somewhat remarkable cast.
Of course, its relentless marketing and broadest possible appeal conception made Date Night the No. 1 film of the weekend. Sometimes this job makes me feel very ineffectual.
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