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Posted 21 November 2011 - 01:04 PM
I got dibs on watermelon's other kidney.
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Posted 21 November 2011 - 03:49 PM
Better a kidney then something else magically dispersing. Just stay away from CANDY mountain and you should be fine.
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I hope they have lots of aftermarket parts like the WA system!
The only aftermarket parts I'd like to see are FPS adjustments, unless there are parts that should be made out of more durable metal but arn't. I find this unlikely, given KWA's pistol and SMG line.
Externals are a different matter. Cost-wise, rails are hopefully compatible with AEGs. I'd make an educated guess that they'd just throw on the rails from their AEG line to keep manufacturing costs down. Mil-spec buffer tube seems likely, since, again, the AEG line uses that. Compatibilty with RS parts... well, how much they had to alter it to appease the ATF *explicatives*, we'll find out soon enough.
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Real question is, How much will mags cost? If I can get the LM4 P-Mags for cheaper than I could for the Beta Project version for the WOC ($70 a pop) then I may be holding out on my GBBR Build...
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Yes, I've had some that leaked, but a bit of silicone and blue RTV and they're fine. They've not been worse than most other gas mags I've used before, to be honest.
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If you can make the enemy master insignificant, that could be cool...
But you are standing in melee with them for that trigger. Personally, I would rather be McMourning standing next to the enemy master because them being insignificant is not as cool as them being dead.
I can appreciate that we all like Seamus. That's why there are 5 pages of discussion on him in less than a day. But, it does sort of feel like people are making cases for "Seamus can do this" as being the same as "there is no rezzer master that could do this better than Seamus".
But, maybe I am wrong...
How about this. If the original changes, or some combination of changes discussed since the OP were implemented, would someone win Gencon playing Seamus at least half his games?Last edited by Gruesome; 08-07-2012 at 11:18 AM.
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I'm in the camp that a cache of 4, necrotic ministrations working on everything (come on, the guy can get a hardon from a zombie doing it's final thud but not from a spirit howling in despair or a soulless becoming a bunch of smoke or a construct going out with a satisfying kaboom?) and taking out the gun from Live for Pain. That and changing his scheme into something doable, those 4 things wuld give him a big fat spike. He wouldn't be Kirai, but at least I would look at him with a much better eye than right now, recently started McMourning and good god the difference in efficiency between the two is outright baffling.
After he does excessive bleeding, the belle that he womanizered can lure him out of the melee. And if the enemy master has activated already, that is even better.
Him and McM still achieve the strat, just by different means. Yes if McM gets a hold of it, there is a good chance it will be dead after he is finished. Seamus can just make it insignificant, STILL denying 4vp. McM after a flurry of attacks might miss a couple and then what? He missed a couple and the enemy master is still alive. All Seamus needs is a high crow and a high flip on a soulstone to get a trigger that just flat out denies 4vp.
Both Methods are effective.pffft... later.
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Cheers! Alongside a Levi Punch I fear getting hit by Dissection. Granted you need to hit, but either of them might as well say
Useless/Meh/Holy crap! on their damage profile. The only other things I'm wary of are Slumber Trigger from Coppelius and Mental Anguish from Pandora.Last edited by DarcXON; 08-07-2012 at 05:13 PM.
Seconded (or thirded or fourthed or whatever).
I like these changes. They are simple, elegant, and provide much more benefit than they first appear to.
Cache 5 would be nice (hey, so would cache 8, but that'll never happen), but I think 4 would be reasonable. I don't feel that Seamus is meant to be a "huge ranged threat," so I don't really like the idea of removing the 1 shot limit from the pistol, mostly as an aesthetic thing. As far as Anathema goes, I really don't want to ever see that on something that isn't an avatar. Some other reworking of Terrifying or Morale duels I would look at, but I think that Anathema is something that should be reserved to keep avatars special."The ability to get up after a defeat is far more admirable than the ability to never lose."
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I dunno about all that...minions maybe...but if it's contain power...
Against most masters, who can also use SS, getting a severe is not likely. Most of the time you will be at a :-flip and that is no bueno for McM.
Also what if you do get 10 damage, most of the time they will burn a SS and mitigate it down. Then that lethal damage is now mean...but survivable while the dear doctor is very tired and no longer activated.
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I don't think they will make an errata to buff a model. Nerfing for balance is one thing, but buffing opens a whole can of worms rules wise, because then they would be expected to do it for all master eventually.
But I do see them making a new models to boost a crew (ie Snowstorm and Silent one for Raspy). A 1 SS totem that lets you bring your Avatar for free, counts as copy cat killer for Scheme purposes, and will survive a manifest would fit this. Currently I never see the Copycat killer in play, and they've already made a second totem for Ramos to fix him.
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Sunday March 27, 2011One Movie's Ceiling is Another Movie's Floor
I went to the Harvard Exit last night for the French film "Des hommes and des dieux," which recently won the best film at the Cesar Awards, and which is flipped in the translation, for some reason, to "Of Gods and Men."
It's a quiet film, with many contemplative moments, as befits a film that takes place mostly in a monastery; but the other film showing at the Harvard Exit, "The Last Lions," a documentary about the dwindling African species, is a little less quiet. During the quiet, contemplative moments of my film, I kept hearing a faint but insistent bass beat, like the throb of a headache, from "The Last Lions"'s jungle/savannah soundtrack.
Both films take place in Africa but I doubt they're mix-and-match. Not sure what movie theaters like the Harvard can do about this. Book films according to soundtrack similarity?
I suppose I should be happy I can hear the lions at all.
Awwwwwwwww. But could you keep it down, please?
R.I.P.: Uptown Theater (1926-2010)
What can you say about an 84-year-old movie theater that dies? That it was cold and rundown? That it loved documentaries and foreign films? And "Transformers"? And me.
I first heard the prognosis a week ago when Patricia and I were having dinner at the home of Michael Upchurch and John Hartl, and John, long-time movie critic for The Seattle Times, dropped the bomb. I can't say I was suprised. Here's what I wrote in May 2009:
The Uptown was renovated in the early 1990s but that's all I have on its history. It's part of the AMC chain, but it's an odd link in that chain. It usually plays small, independent films, or mid-range films, but occasionally it'll show a big feature on opening weekend—as with "Angels & Demons." The place never seems crowded. Feels like it's dying. The 4:05, Friday showing of "Angels & Demons" had fewer than 16 people in an auditorium built for...300? Which doesn't bode well for either "A&D"'s box office or Uptown Cinema.
It got worse. I saw two movies there in the same week at the end of October: "A Film Unfinished," in which I was joined by one other person, a man in his 60s, and "Aftershock," in which I was joined by ... no one. When I left the theater, the guy working the popcorn stand asked me how the movie was. "You're the only one who's seen it," he said.
How AMC handled "Aftershock" is part of the problem, John thought. They didn't advertise it at all. At all. No ads in the print version of The Seattle Times. "Aftershock" was a movie that set the box-office record in China this year and no one in Seattle knew it was playing. I only knew it was playing because I'd seen "A Film Unfinished" a few days before, me and the other guy, and they'd played the trailer for "Aftershock" beforehand, and I thought, "That looks interesting." Then that Friday I walked past the theater—I work a block away—and saw it on the marquee.
A block away. I'm gonna miss that. Ever since I moved back to Seattle in September 2007 and began working in lower Queen Anne, I've had that opportunity, that convenience. The Uptown is where I was suprised by "The King of Kong," charmed by "Hors de Prix," disappointed in "Angels & Demons," disgusted by the overwhelming stupidity of "Transformers 2," and moved by "Bright Star" and "A Film Unfinished." It's where I saw one of the first movies I reviewed for The Seattle Times, "Titan A.E.," in 2000. It's where I attended special screenings for "What Lies Beneath" and "Meet the Parents." Forgettable movies, but for some reason I remember seeing them at the Uptown.
There were problems. The sound wasn't always great, the films sometimes seemed dim, the theater often felt cold, the popcorn—when I bought it—tasted day-old. None of that was the Uptown's fault. It only closed because people stopped caring: AMC and moviegoers.
SIFFblog has a nice historical rundown here. The theater opened on May 25, 1926, showing "The Sea Beast," an adaptation of "Moby Dick" starring John Barrymore. The Seattle Star (R.I.P.) celebrated its grand opening:
The newest styles in projection machines of the reflector type are installed to prevent eye strain. A new Wurlitzer is to be put in, and Carl Weber's orchestra is playing. Dan Gipple is the manager.
There was a record-breaking crowd that night.
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Before the Show at Regal Meridian No. 10
Movie: "Surrogates"
Theater: Regal Meridian
Location: Downtown Seattle
Seated: 4:40 for a 4:50 showing.
Ads (Slides):
Most of the slides before the show were some variation of self-advertising: "Make an appointment with a PRIVATE SCREENING"; "Corporate movie tickets"; "Regal Gift Cards." Plus the usual pleas to "ADVERTISE HERE." Subtext: "So we DON'T." There were also the usual movie-star quotes ("I gravitate toward gravitas" —Morgan Freeman) and trivia about just-opened, soon-to-be-forgotten movies (Question: "This actress was more than just a 'friend' in 'Love Happens'"). To top it off, they piped in music by bands like "Someone Say Something" and "Sugarland." By the time the lights dimmed, you wanted to kill yourself.
Ads (Commercials):
Then we got the real ads on the movie screen:
- Morgan Freeman's voice telling us "VISA Debit is the safe, secure way to pay online." Gravitas!
- Ford ("the thrust of a... the thirst of a..."). Someone's English major degree finally paid off.
- The "Crash" TV show: "If you're not using someone then someone's using you." Jesus, right?
- The new "Jay Leno" show. Idiots say the darnedest things.
- Coke Zero w/NASCAR.
- The blowing up Mt. Rushmore/Sprint/Turn off your cell ad. Ha ha, blowing up national monuments is funny again. So glad.
- "Old Dogs": From the director of "Wild Hogs." They changed three letters in the title and added Robin Williams. This Thanksgiving? Seriously? Walt Becker gets Thanksgiving while Martin Scorsese gets pushed back to February.
- "Shutter Island": Or does he? This thing is still being advertised as October. Mistake? BTW: Love Ben Kingsley's line reading here: "It's as if she vanished, straight through the walls." It's officious, clinical and creepy.
- "Couples Retreat": This is the movie that feels like February or March instead of October. Maybe the counter-programming will work, though. It's a good cast (the Double-V, as my friend Adam says), and if reviews are halfway decent I might go. "Now we've got a party."
- "A Christmas Carol": Disney, ImageMovers, and Walt Disney (again), and Robert Zemeckis, invite you to...waste your money. I think they mention Charles Dickens' name in their somewhere. Is it just me, or does the animation look stiff? The story feels slapsticky and comedic, too. The feeling the book gives you—that you're trapped by your circumstances, your personality, your history—is removed even before Scrooge's epiphany removes it. And the tagline? "What if you were given a second chance to get your life right?" Second chance? Every moment is a first chance. That's the whole point. Bah, humbug.
Before the Show at Pacific Place No. 2
Movie: "(500) Days of Summer"
Theater: Pacific Place
Screen: No. 2
Chain: AMC
Location: Downtown Seattle
Seated: 3:18 for a 3:30 showing.
- Blackberry Pearl Smartphone. Includes butt conversation. Classy.
- U2: "Every generation gets a chance to change the world." Or advertise in it.
- Extended featurette for a new TV series by David S. Goyer: Flashforward: "It began like any other day...until 7 billion people blacked out." Apparently we wake up knowing our future. And what do we do with that knowledge? And how much, if anything, can be changed? Etc. I probably won't be there for it, but...bon appetit.
- Jeter, Federer, Tiger Woods, a dude trying to pick up a girl: "We all have confidence, we all have doubt." But some of us don't have to try to pick up girls.
- Cube Mobile. Turns out it's an ad for a car.
- That Facebook thingee with the girl who can't sing.
- That Benjamin Bratt show, in which he saves addicts while "Hallelujah" plays in the background. I remember when that song was new. (More on this later.)
- "What has search overload done to us?" Somehow Bing is supposed to help. That's like: What have all of these Big Macs done to us? Eat at Burger King.
- A J.C. Penney whatever.
- The dancing shark/Minute Maid thing. Is "Who's gonna get the empties?" the best line they could come up with?
- A bunch of bugs steal a bottle of Coke from a picnic and then crawl all over it. Num.
- "First Look": Actually second. It's a summary of what's just been advertised. In case you've forgotten.
- Blowing up Mt. Rushmore/turn off your cell phone message
- MST 3000 Fathom event ad: Thursday, August 20. Might be fun.
- Magic Flute Fathom event ad: August 5. Might be fun.
- Will Rogers Institute
- "In case of emergency, walk, do not run, to the nearest exit." These are new. Wonder what brought them on? What tragedy where? What lawsuit where?
- "Funny People": "I think your grandfather went to hell" is one of the funnier lines I've heard in a trailer. I mean it. Despite mixed reviews, I'm looking forward.
- "Time Traveler's Wife": In any love story, the dramatic question is: How do you keep the lovers apart? The solution here is to steal from Kurt Vonnegut. I.e., Eric Bana just got unstuck in time. "I can't stay," he says. "I know," she says. So tragic. If he'd only stay they'd realize how much they don't want to be together. Nice to see you again, Rachel McAdams, but not in this.
- "Love Happens": Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart give the rom-com another go. His wife has died and he's written a book about it, a self-help book, that's sweeping the nation. He's in Seattle for a book reading. She's in Seattle. They click. They don't. Their noodging friends push them together again. (Beautiful people in love are such pains.) He needs her. He confesses that his book is a lie. He probably comes clean. They probably get together. What's the point of seeing this now? Now that they've given it all away?
- "Julie & Julia": I am so there.
- "Taking Woodstock": Fingers crossed.
Forgot my watch. Not sure when the movie started. But that's altogether too many ads. They're taking them from where they're needed (newspapers) and putting them where they're not wanted.
Before the Show at the Uptown
Movie: "The Hurt Locker"
Theater: The Uptown
Screen: Just the one
Location: Uptown, Minneapolis, MN
Celebrated in: Prince's 1982 song "Uptown":
Everybody's going Uptown
That's where I wanna be
Set your mind free
Built in: The 1930s, after a fire destroyed the original Lagoon Theater. Another Lagoon, a multiplex Landmark theater, was built a block away in the 1990s. Landmark brags that the Uptown has the biggest screen in the Twin Cities but I can't believe it's bigger than the screen at the Riverview.
Operated by: The Landmark chain since 1978.
Memories: Too many to mention. I could write an essay on the number of times I went to the Uptown as a kid and teenager when it was a retrospective theater, showing double and triple features of old and recent films. Saw tons of Woody Allen there. Saw "Casablanca" for the first time and remember a few women hissing when Ingrid Bergman says, "You'll have to do the thinking for both of us." Saw "A Clockwork Orange" before I'd had sex and it probably screwed me up for life. Saw "The Man Who Fell to Earth" with my friend Nathan Katruud, and, as we stood in the lobby makng fun of the people milling about, I noticed one hipster dude and said he was probably thinking how everyone else was probably thinking he looked like David Bowie. Then I looked over at Nathan for confirmation—he was probably the funniest guy I've ever known—and his face seemed startled, as if I'd read his mind. He was in the early stages of rock-star fever. Eventually he changed his name and became Nash Kato of "Urge Overkill."
Seated: 1:05 for a 1:15 showing. No ads, just alt pop playing ("Summer Number 39" by Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers), while floodlights bathed the screen in pinks and yellows and blues.
Lights go down: 1:15
- HDNet News. (British voice: "But what led your brother to become a suicide bomber?") HDNet movies. (Demi Moore??? That's a selling point?) Dan Rather.
- Stella Artois: "C'est pour toi, papa," etc.
- The Palm 3 from Sprint. Apparently an ad for Facebook and a singer named, I believe, Joanna Gikas, as well. Do the advertisers know how off-key she sounds when she's singing a capella?
- "Cold Souls": "This is Paul Giamatti. And he has a problem." So a character named Paul Giamatti sells his soul, then tries to get it back, but it winds up in Russia, where he travels to retrieve it. Amazing how both off-beat and familiar this thing feels. I guess it's the off-beatness that feels familiar.
- "In the Loop": This movie opened the Seattle International Film Festival in May but it already feels old, doesn't it? Feels like it should've been released last year. But if it gets good reviews I'll go.
- "The Cove": A documentary about dolphin-killing in, particularly, Japan. "The dolphin's smile is nature's greatest deception." Ditto.
- "500 Days of Summer": Tough girl, moony boy. Once upon a time, that was my story. Now? I'll probably go—it's gotten great reviews—but it's no longer my story.
Movie starts: 1:28
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Before the Show at the Neptune
Movie: "Up"
Theater: The Neptune
Screen: Just the one
Location: University District, Seattle
Chain: Landmark
Built: In 1921
Operated: By the Landmark chain since 1981. Remodeled in 1994. The Landmark Web site still touts this, talking up the "ultra-comfy seats with cupholders" when, after 15 years, the seats ain't all that comfy, while bragging about cupholders is like bragging about Dolby Digital. Which they also do.
I used to think: Landmark, which operates several of the better art-house theaters in Seattle, was local, but realized my error sometimes in the late 1990s. It's based in L.A., and was owned by Texas-based Silver Cinemas International until, after filing for bankruptcy in 2001, the company sold the chain to Texas-based businessman, and Yahoo founder, Mark Cuban in 2003. According to its Web site, Landmark is "a vertically integrated group of media properties co-owned by Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban that also includes theatrical and home entertainment distribution company Magnolia Pictures..." Question: On a site supposedly for moviegoers, why use the compound adjective vertically integrated? Total turnoff. On the plus side, Magnolia Pictures has distributed some of the better foreign films and documentaries in recent years, including "Man on Wire," "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," "Let the Right One In" and "Surfwise," while Wagner/Cuban's production company, 2929 Productions, helped make "Good Night, and Good Luck."
Fond memories: When I first moved to Seattle in 1991 I lived two blocks away from the Neptune. Consequently I saw one of my first Seattle movies there (Todd Haynes' "Poison"), along with probably the best double-feature I've ever seen ("Raging Bull" and "Goodfellas"). It's where I realized that the Hong Kong craze had followed me from Taiwan (a packed house for Jackie Chan's "Supercop" in 1993), and where I went with friends for the premiere of "Pulp Fiction" in October 1994. The line stretched around the block and we had to sit in the balcony. Fun.
Quirky details: The theater has a water theme, as befits its name, including stained-glass windows of a pagan nature. There's also a pitcher of water and dixie cups in the lobby for patrons. On the other hand: the concession stand is two steps from the box office, which creates a bit of a bottleneck as you're trying to get in. But then it wouldn't be Seattle if they didn't sacrifice waiting needlessly for quirkiness.
Featured in: Cameron Crowe's "Singles" (1992). Passing shot of the marquee during a montage of the city.
Seated: 4:23, seven minutes before scheduled showtime. No ads, just jazz playing. A rather loud boy keeps running away from his dad (or guardian) to the front row, which is way too close to the screen. I worry he'll be a distraction during the movie but then think, "Well, it's his movie more than mine." Once the previews start I don't hear a peep out of him.
- "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince": Looks darker than ever, doesn't it? Same director as the last one (David Yates) and for the first time the sorcerers appear to be entering the world of the muggles (us). That intrigued me. Some of the dialogue didn't. "You're the chosen one, Harry." "Don't you know who you are?" "Fight back!" Etc. The religious right has a problem with "Harry Potter" but these films, and the many like them, really play into the right's worldview. There's uncompromising evil out there. We are the chosen ones. And we have to fight back. It's all getting a little tiresome. And dangerous.
- "Ice Age Whatever": Fox and Blue Sky Studios. Unlike the almost Looney-Tunes-ish short from a few weeks back, which I liked, this trailer gives us the usual pop cultural snippets: "Talk to the trunk," etc. It's all getting a little tiresome.
- "G Force": Disney and Bruckheimer. Special-agent guinea pigs are let go by the government and wind up in a pet store.
- "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs": Hapless youthful inventor creates something that makes it rain...food. Hamburgers. Spaghetti and meatballs. Pancakes and syrup.
- "X Games 3D": Not a fan of X Games. Not a fan of 3-D. (It makes everything look smaller. It diminishes.) Pass.
- "Toy Story 3": June 2010.
Ads: Zilch. Merci.
Before the Show at SIFF
Movie: "L'Heure d'ete"
Theater: SIFF Cinema
Location: Pres de le Space Needle et sous l'Opera de Seattle
Operating: Since March 1, 2007 when the long-standing Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), coming off record attendance, opened a 400-seat theater at McCaw Hall. There's stadium seating but the place has the air less of a movie theater and more of a lecture hall. Which it is: the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall. It reminded me a bit of the theater at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, but, as befits Seattle, it's more cramped, more claustrophobic. But I like the long blue curtains that parted before the movie began. That's a fading (almost completely dead) tradition I've always been fond of.
Just who is the Nesholm Family anyway? Current architects and scions of one of the founders of UPS, which was—I just learned—founded in Seattle in 1907.
Arrived: A little before 4:00. Had to wait a very long time in a very short line to get my reserved tickets. Next year I should volunteer.
Ads before scheduled showtime: Slides. A lot of ads for, mostly, local businesses, including Scarecrow Video ("over 100,000 titles and growing"), City Arts Magazine, Vulcan, Zone Perfect, the Space Needle, Don Q Puerto Rican Rum, Pacific Place, and the Wallace Foundation. Some of the ads were so graphic-design-oriented and content-free that it was difficult figuring out what they were advertising.
4:30: Justine, one of the program directors, welcomed us to the second day of the 35th annual film festival and thanked the day's sponsors, including TV5Monde and the Consulate General of France. Yep. A long way from those awful Nintendo DSI ads.
4:32: Lights go down.
- An ad for SIFF and its 35th annual festival, using, cleverly, the no. 35: I.e., 35mm film, the average winter low in Seattle, etc. And if we donate $35 to SIFF we can become members of the 35 Club. Didn't. Desole.
- A crude animation ad for City Arts Magazine.
- An ad for TV5 Monde. "...with the latest films, the biggest stars." Can't say that for Hollywood films anymore, can we? The latest films from Hollywood tend not to have big stars, just superheroes and robots.
- "Aide-Toi, le ciel t'aidera" ("Help Yourself and God Will Help You"—although it looks like its English title has been secularized to: "With a Little Help from Myself"). A character study about North Africans living in difficult circumstances in France. But with a lot of joy and hope, too. At least for the trailer.
That's it? I usually think theaters overdo the trailers but SIFF is at the beginning of a festival, for which, for most moviegoers, it's hard to sort through all the choices. Trailers would've helped here. I've already bought tickets for four films at the fest, but, if a trailer, or trailers, looked good, I would've bought more. Missed opportunity for both of us.
Movie starts: 4:38
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Before the Show: May 15, 2009
Theater: AMC Loews Uptown 3
Screen: No. 1
Location: Lower Queen Anne
Chain: AMC.
Operating: The Uptown was renovated in the early 1990s but that's all I have on its history. It's part of the AMC chain, but it's an odd link in that chain. It usually plays small, independent films, or mid-range films, but occasionally it'll show a big feature on opening weekend—as with "Angels & Demons." The place never seems crowded. Feels like it's dying. The 4:05, Friday showing of "A&D" had fewer than 16 people in an auditorium built for...300? Which doesn't bode well for either "A&D"'s box office or Uptown Cinema.
Arrived: 3:59 for a 4:05 show.
Ads before scheduled showtime:
- Something about ncm.com and a "red carpet" somethingorother for "Angels & Demons." It's sad that this even exists.
- That Canon ad, quoting F. Scott Fitzgerald, to say that F. Scott Fitzgerald is no longer relevant in a world that has such great Canon cameras.
- TV ad for the movie "Year One." Why put TV ads in the AMC Movie Watcher's Network? Why not just show the "Year One" trailer once the lights go down?
- The History Channel presents snakes, crocodiles, deadly bugs, desperation. "And that's just the first nine minutes." Somewhere this appeals to someone.
- "Starfleet Recruiting Center": Not sure what this is an ad for. "Star Trek"? Guy doesn't want to get beamed down, keeps talking, gets beamed down, faints. It's supposed to be funny but I bet three "Star Trek" nerds in a basement could come up with something funnier.
- So "Year One" is a trailer masquerading as an ad; this thing is an ad masquerading as a trailer. Starts out with that familiar logo and the words "This PREVIEW has been approved..." Thus, if you haven't been paying attention, you pay attention. Oh, previews. An ominous voice intones, "There are some things in life best left forgotten." Pause. "Your anniversary is not one of them." Then dude has to rush to get his (incredibly hot) wife an anniversary present before she wakes up. I think it's about a car but I just remember the wife.
- ABC's "Wipeout," which is apparently back for another season. Didn't even know it'd been there for a first.
- A woman pruning her roses. Pricks finger. Looks around. Tastes the blood. Ad for HBO's "True Blood" on DVD. Not bad.
- That Sprite ad. They had a good one (last year?) where sweaty guys in an inner city b-ball court dove into the court, which was a pool, to quench themselves. That was clever. This thing is just odd. The setting feels more European, a piazza almost, and here people run and jump into each other and then disappear in a spray that quenches the smiling faces below them. Pretty creepy, really. I can see wanting to jump into a pool. But why would you want to disappear in a spray-like burst of water (or Sprite) that wets your friends below you?
"You have been watching the AMC Movie Watchers Network"
Total: Nine ads in six minutes. And I only had to pay $9.50 for the privilege.Oops, they're not over. There's also the Sprint "chimp" ad, asking us to turn off our cells. Make that 10 ads. And now something about Glen Beck and fathom events. How about unfathomable events? 11 ads.
4:07: Trailers:
- "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3": I'm a fan of the original, so this hypercharged version, with cars crashing and malevolent, tattooed villains spouting threats, just makes me feel sad and wish for 1973 New York.
- "Julie & Julia": With Meryl Streep as Julia Child. And Amy Adams as, apparently, the "Sex and the City" girl for whom life isn't opening up, and so she opens up one of Julia Child's cookbooks. I'll be interested to see how they meld the two stories but right now it looks fantastic. Particularly since I know so little of Julia Child's story. I guess I assumed she was always, well, Julia Child.
- "Public Enemies." Everyone knows how I feel about Michael Mann so I'm already there. Love the shot of Johnny Depp, as John Dillinger, vaulting over the bank counter, machine gun in hand. Oh, Production Code, how you shudder in your grave.
- The Proposal": Again. How many times have I seen this thing anyway?
- "My Sister's Keeper": "Most babies are accidents. Not me." Interesting. Abigail Breslin plays a girl who was genetically engineered to keep her sister, ridden with leukemia, alive. But at 13 she rebels. She consults a lawyer. She wants a say in what happens to her body, and what parts are taken from her, even if it means her sister's death. As a result, the family—with parents Cameron Diaz and Jason Patric—is torn apart. We get scenes of them fighting. Then Abigail's voice over again... "But somehow the very things that tore us apart, brought us together—in ways we could never imagine." And there they are, hugging, etc. Must be tough to do trailers these days. They're designed to tell us some aspect of the plot of the movie, which is to say its conflict. But if the conflict is perceived to be a downer, as this one is, as the new Adam Sandler movie is, they have to let us know the resolution to that conflict. So, in his movie, Sandler may not be dying, and Breslin's stand may bring her family closer together. Which leaves us what in the actual movie? What's left to watch?
"Please don't spoil the movie by adding your own soundtrack."
Movie actually begins: Forgot to check the watch. Apologies.
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Before the Show: May 8, 2009
Screen: Just the one
Location: Downtown Seattle
Chain: AMC
Operating: Since January 24, 1963 (four days after I was born) as Seattle's Martin Cinerama, and retrofitted with 70mm projectors six months later. Big movies went out of style by the end of the decade, and the last of the 70mm films, "Krakatoa, East of Java," played in 1969. By the mid-1990s there was talk of turning the Cinerama, now a gigantic second-run theater, into a dinner theater or a climbing club, when Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who had fond memories of watching movies there as a kid, bought it for $3.75 million in February 1998, renovated it, and reopened it in March 1999. Ever since, particularly when a blockbuster movie opens, it's the place to go in Seattle.
Seated: 3:40, 20 minutes before scheduled showtime. No ads. No music. Just people-watching. God, how refreshing.
4:00: The long, light-purple curtains part, the place gets dark, the crowd erupts into cheers and applause.
Coming Soon:
- "Up": I hope Pixar shows everyone up again. Looks great, looks funny, looks fun. Several scenes in the trailer made me laugh out loud.
- "Terminator: Salvation": It's taking human prisoners. It's replicating human tissue. One wonders at what point in the movie Marcus Wright sees that he's not human. Half an hour in? Forty-five minutes? One wonders at what point he says to John Connor, "I'm the only hope you have." An hour? More? How much of the movie do we now know because of this trailer?
- "Angels & Demons": Again. How many times have I seen this trailer now? I don't even hear the opera music at the end anymore.
- "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra": First time for this one, and I was immediately turned off by the destruction of the Eiffel Tower at the beginning. When they blew up the White House in "Independence Day" back in '96, yeah, that worked. Post-9/11? I'm not into it. But wait! A team is being assembled. And look! They walk toward the camera in slow-motion. And listen! One of them says, "When all else fails, we don't." God, how awful. No mention of the title until the end, when it provoked laughter from this "Star Trek" crowd.
- "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen": Wouldn't "Rise of the Fallen" be cooler? Whatever. Apparently Shia LeBeouf is at college now, and he's seeing symbols, like a saner John Nash, and they have to mean something, and it all feels a little "National Treasure"-ish. And then Megatron wants... And then Optimus says... Are we really going here, America? Please say no. You know what would make an interesting movie? How does Shia LeBeouf keep Megan Fox as his girlfriend without a bunch of giant machines distracting everyone from the fact that they have nothing in common? I might go see that one.
Movie starts: 4:12. Not a single ad! Thank you, Paul Allen. You old nerd, you.
Before the Show: 5-1-09
Theater: Meridian 16
Screen: No. 13 (third floor)
Location: Downtown Seattle
Chain: Regal Entertainment Group, which, according to their Web site, operates "6,773 screens in 549 theatres in 39 states and the District of Columbia as of April 2, 2009." That's a helluva screen-to-theater ratio. REG's corporate offices are in Knoxville, Tennessee, on their own street: 7132 Regal Lane.
Operating: The Meridian? Since December 4, 1996. But when it switched hands from Cineplex Odeon to Regal, I have no idea.
Arrived: 3:49, six minutes before scheduled showtime.
Before the scheduled showtime:
Unlike AMC theaters, which offers moviegoers (or demands moviegoers watch) "The AMC Movie Watchers Network" before scheduled showtimes, Regal Cinemas, at least at the Meridian, offers (or demands) music and slideshow. The music is generally slow hip-hop and pop (what a nice man Nat King Cole is to keep singing songs with his daughter!), while the slideshow includes overt ads (a fizzing Coke with the line "Thinkin' About It?") and subtle ads (How the makers of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" worked with Levi Strauss Co. to get the right vintage clothes). There are ads to advertise during the slideshow, ads to rent the theater, ads for Regal Gift Cards, and "Know Your Ratings" promos. The movie-related quizzes ("Who said...?") are often nothing quotes from movies that haven't opened yet. (I.e., ads.) Yesterday we got "Live long and prosper," which, while it's from a movie that hasn't opened yet ("Star Trek"), at least has the advantage of being famous.
3:55: Slideshow ends, video ads begin.
- Nintendo DSI ad with the elephant man/teenager. A sad commentary on what we think is funny.
- Canon HD Camcorder using a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night" to demonstrate how images have now surpassed words. A sad commentary on what we think of words.
- "Year One," the TV ad
- "Expedition Africa" on the History Channel
- "Wipeout" on ABC
- Sprite ad
- Sprint chimp ad
- "Ice Age": An extended, funny scene that gives away nothing of the plot and kind of makes me want to see the movie. It has a Road Runner/Wiley E. Coyote vibe to it. It's also less trailer than cartoon short. Appreciated.
- "District 9": The most interesting trailer of the bunch — for the audience reaction if nothing else. It begins documentary-style with people complaining about new immigrants: "Why do they have to live here?" You get shots of slums. It feels like an independent film, all liberal and shit, and you can almost feel the audience slumping in their chairs. Then we see the immigrants. They're extraterrestrials. Boom! To a man, everyone sits up straighter and shuts up.
- "Funny People": I want to see this new Judd Apatow movie but I hope they haven't given away too much here. From the trailer we know: It's about a friendship between two comedians, one rising (Rogen) one established and a movie star (Sandler). But wait: the established comedian is dying. But wait: he might be beating it. And from the experience he realizes how precious life is. And there's a girl he loves. OK... so how much of the story is left?
- "Terminator: Salvation": Wake me when it's over. The whole thing. This whole franchise.
- "Night at the Museum" sequel: He's at the Smithsonian now, which allows more mingling of high and low culture: Amelia Earhart and Darth Vader. We also get miniature Albert Einsteins looking like the California Raisins and singing K.C. and the Sunshine Band songs. We want our geniuses funky in this country. Or the butt of jokes. Or both. Like here.
Before the Show: 4-24-09
Screen: No. 9 (upstairs on the left)
Location: Downtown Seattle
Chain: AMC
Operating: Since 1998
Arrived: 3:55, ten minutes early (I'm always early; it's a curse.)
- AMC "Star Trek" gift cards ("Collect all four!" Four?)
- "Doubt" DVD ("You should understand that. Or you will mistake me.")
- "Terminator: Salvation" (Bale holding onto that Dark Knight voice.)
- Nintendo DSI (Kids distorting each other's photographs on their phones. One photo looks normal, though, and it turns out the kid himself has a distorted face. Uck.)
- "Parks & Recreation" (Again.)
- Another Nintendo DSI ad with distorted-face kid
- NCM.com and the premiere of "Angels & Demons"
- Olay body yadda-yadda
- New season of "The Deadliest Catch" (It feels like a Ken Burns doc compacted into 15 seconds.)
- The Honda Insight (A fun, quirky ad, actually.)
- Coke (Thirsty kid sees coke bottles everywhere.)
- Sprint ad/warning with chimpanzee movie star and agent ("It takes many calls to make a movie...")
- Dr. Laura: "In Praise of Mom"
- "Death Note"
- Autism Society
Coming soon:
- "Angels & Demons": Don't know about this movie, and I'm a little tired of operatic ooomph in trailers, but I like Tom Hanks' admonishing line-reading here: "Fellas. You called me."
- "The Boat That Rocked" with Philip Seymour Hoffman: How much of the movie are they giving away? I felt like I got the whole story. I felt like I don't need to see the thing now.
- "The Proposal" with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. I hope the movie doesn't fudge this fact: If your boss looks like Bullock and you hate her? You'd want to bang her even more, not less. But I get the feeling Reynolds' character will only want to sleep with her (genteelly, of course) once he begins to like her. Blech.
- "Taking Woodstock": Ang Lee and what looks like a great cast. Fingers crossed.
- "Imagine That": Eddie Murphy and Rudy Huxtable.
- "Star Trek": This is the summer blockbuster I'm most anticipating. Love it when Kirk sits in the captain's chair. And Zachary Quinto (if his name only counted in Scrabble!) looks freakingly amazingly like young Leonard Nimoy.
Movie starts: 4:23 (18 minutes after scheduled showtime.)
Before the Show: 4-19-09
- Theater: Varsity
- Screen: No. 1, (ground floor)
- Location: University District, Seattle
- Chain: Landmark Theaters, since 1989
- History: The Meister Building was built in 1921 but it didn't house a movie theater until 1940. Renovation for additional screens occurred in 1985.
- Ads (begun at showtime):
- HDNet ("Television...is no place to hide," says Dan Rather, as if he's imparting wisdom. Surely one of the dumbest lines I keep hearing.)
- Stella Artois (Surely one of the best ad series I keep seeing. This was the one with the French cyclists. "C'est pour toi, Papa.")
- The Wrestler on DVD
- Volvo
- 2009 Seattle International Film Festival (creepier and more opaque than it needed to be. C'mon, dudes.)
- Trailers:
I used to go to this theater all the time, 10, 15 years ago, when I worked across the street at the University Book Store, and its eclectic schedule is part of the reason I got such a warped perspective of our national movieviewing habits. You mean everyone didn't see "Stalingrad"? Or even have the chance to not see "Stalingrad"? I live on the other side of town now so haven't spent much time at the Varsity recently. I was even surprised at how small their main theater was — as if I were an adult returning to a childhood hangout rather than a 40-something revisiting some place I hung out at 33. Either everything gets smaller with time (we certainly do), or I'm used to the bigger, newer Regal theaters downtown now.
- "Enlighten Up!" (A doc about yoga that started out interesting and then got a little too west-coast loopy for me. Pass, unless the reviews are good.)
- "Good-bye Solo"
- "Every Little Step: A Chorus Line"
I know. The latter.
Before the Show: 4-17-09
- Theater: Uptown Cinemas
- Location: Lower Queen Anne, Seattle
- Chain: AMC Loews
- Arrived: 7 minutes early
- Ads: "Doubt" (DVD)
"Terminator: Salvation"
"Parks & Recreation" (TV)
The KIA gerbil ad (it's cool not to exercise)
"Life After People" (TV)
Olay ad
U.S. Marines ad
"Deadliest Catch" (TV)
Honda Accord ad (where they split the car down the middle)
Coke ad (sweaty, thirsty guy seeing coke-bottle images everywhere)
Dr. Laura ("In Praise of Mom" – live screening)
"You have been watching the AMC Movie Watchers Network" - Trailers began: 4 minute late
- Trailers: "Public Enemies"
"Star Trek"
"Wolverine" - Movie began: 12-14 minutes late
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Sen. Kemp Hannon, R-Garden City, in conjunction with Nassau University Medical Center, announced a free flu shot distribution Thursday at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City.
Shots will be given out on a first come, first serve basis. And while no appointment is needed, you must first reserve a spot by email.
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Electronic Music Studios (EMS) Vocoder 2000 / 3000
Vocoder 2000
British synth maker EMS are known not only for their classic VCS3, but also for their unique retro vocoders. Designed by Tim Orr, the EMS Vocoder 2000 is an excellent voice synthesizer comparable to the Roland SVC-350. It has been around since the late seventies, and is still available to this day. The Vocoder 2000 offered 16-channels of vocoding with filters, mic/line inputs, oscillator and noise sources, voiced/unvoiced detector, and slew/freeze control.
Vocoder 3000
The EMS Vocoder 3000 offers 16 channels of vocoding like the 2000, but with individual level controls for each band and newer knobs & switches on the front panel, plus a new LED signal meter. It came out in 1977. It has been used by Jimmy Edgar and Vangelis.
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- Specifications
- Polyphony - n/a - 16-band vocoder. 1/4 inch input for Speech and Excitation sound sources.
- Oscillators - White noise generator and pulse oscillator (0-1 khz). Both may be gated by the voiced/unvoiced detector. Oscillator frequency fixed or amplitude modulated.
- Filter - FILTERBANK: 16 Filters - 14 x 6th order active bandpass. 1 X lowpass, 1 x highpass. 16 Envelope followers and modulators.
- Keyboard - None
- Memory - None
- Control - Slew / Freeze
- Date Produced - 1975 - 1979
- Websites of Interest
Electronic Music Studios - Official EMS Site
120 Years EMS Synthesizers - A good historical overview
- Resources & Credits
Synrise - Synth Picture Archive
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The Graceway Sports Centre has beefed up its activities calendar even more with two new athletic programs it has begun to offer fitness enthusiasts. One program includes free squash lessons every Sunday from 9-11 a.m. with a program called "Skills & Drills." This instructional event has been generously donated by local squash player Rob Ayer, and participants are sure to improve not only their techniques but also their health through this high intensity sport. Players need only to pay the court fee or sign up for a squash monthly membership. Residents are also invited to try out the centre's new aerobics class with Dwight. This fun, challenging and fat burning class mixes interval training, weights, steps, elastic bands and more for an energetic, upbeat class that will keep your body moving. Class is held every Wednesday from 6-7 p.m. at a $12 drop-in rate or $100 for 10 classes. For more information, contact 649-442-6348 or visit www.gracewaysportscentre.com.
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Posted by MaryPat on October 8th, 2011Last week, I was honored to be able to hear Geena Davis give one of the most powerful keynote speeches I have heard in a while. It spoke to my heart on a lot of levels and I thought I would share some of my "take-aways":
3 qualities that helped Geena Davis become a success:
NAIVETE - Sometimes NOT knowing how difficult the journey is going to be is a blessing. I know that I often experience this in my life and my business.
COMMITMENT - You must be completely committed to what you want to accomplish. How committed are you to your goals?
TENACITY - If you want something, just keeping trying over and over and over. Get under the person's skin. According to Dictionary.com, it is the act of being tenacious -
[tuh-ney-shuhs] Show IPA
I especially like #5 to define tenacity for entrepreneurs.
Great quotes from the presentation:
"This is YOUR time to make a change!" (referring to women in the room)
"Have unfailing belief in yourself"
In response to the open QnA:
Q: How can we follow in your steps as an activist for women's rights?
A: I am not an activist. I am an advocate. I work with the world and the media to PARTNER and enlighten. I am taking research to experts to raise consciousness about women. The raised consciousness will then affect change about the representation of women in the media which will then empower women. (In response to the work she is doing at The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media)
Q: Do you have suggestions for achieving balance as a women?
A: I don't know if balance is possible. You just do what you can do to the best of your ability. Stop beating yourself up for not feeling like you are balanced.
I could go on and on about the work that she is doing to affect change in the media for representation of women in children's programming, but I will spare you the pulpit talk. You can check out her work on her organization's site. But it is good. Let me just say:
That is the same statistic that has held true since 1946 with the number of women compared to men in various programming…. enough said?
Overall, I absolutely LOVE her viewpoints about affecting change as an ADVOCATE instead of an ACTIVIST and accomplishing balance in your life.


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We love going to Old Louisville area every year during the St James Art Festival. It makes for a beautiful weekend in late Sept/early Oct to walk around the tree lined streets and beautiful homes
We love going to Old Louisville area every year during the St James Art Festival. It makes for a beautiful weekend in late Sept/early Oct to walk around the tree lined streets and beautiful homes
Impressive homes line the streets. Take a stroll and enjoy the architecture. Free parking on the street.
Got a chance to visit Old Louisville with one of my friend. I was totally impressed by the architecture by my first sight. Explored old louisville during an evening walk and great enjoyed my visit. My entire visit would have been incomplete with out seeing Old Louisville.
No matter where I travel, I find the historic old neighborhoods and visit them. So, for like minded individuals who visit Louisville, the Old Louisville neighborhood is a must. The neighborhood Association is active sponsoring the St. James Art Fair, the Hidden Treasures Garden Tour, the Old Louisville Victorian Holiday Homes tour, and Old Louisville Ghost tours. Visit the Old... More
This area is famous for its well-kept Victorian buildings. Each of them is different, with its own exterior decor. One thing is for sure, the owner must be proud of his property. The gardens and meadows are taken good care of, the front stairways are clean and even polished. I was there in summer 2012. Instructed by my gracious innkeepers,... More
We spent several hours roaming the neighborhood and the park around St. James Park - absolutely beautiful on a fall day with colorful leaves falling around us. The architecture was lovely and the other "strollers" we ran into were friendly.
We stopped at the Louisville Visitor's Bureau to get a map (the staff at the visitor's bureau are very nice and this is a bustling place - unlike many visitor centers). The map was great and shared information about most of the homes. We strolled for more than an hour, enjoying the homes and taking photos. Well worth the time.
Anyone who likes Savannah or Charleston will love Old Louisville. It has the same feel and a similar collection of impressive homes. I took a ghost walk last night with David, a local author who writes about the neighborhood. He meets you at the corner of Magnolia and St James Court and shows you the best of local history and... More
Stayed at a friend's house in Old Louisville near Central Park recently. It was at the time they were setting up for the St. James Art Festival. This is one of the premier attraction to see in Louisville. It's a wonderful way to experience Old Louisville at its finest. The show takes several hours to see, plus there is also... More
I was very excited to visit this area, but the Old Louisville Visitor's Center is no longer there. We did pick up a self-guided tour in the downtown visitor's center. The houses show a wide variety of Victorian styles, but without a tour of some sort it was a bit of a struggle to know where to actually go.
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Satellite images from the last 35 years reveal sweeping environmental changes throughout Africa
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Is this not sad, kilimanjaro losing its glacier, but look at the diamond mine in Angola, surely with all the knowledge we have gathered over the years Afrioca can avoid the environmental patterns that occured else where, I think its just lack of caring, mining techniques are far more advanced than they were fifty years ago yet Angola is making the same mistakes.
People refuse to respect knowledge and to understand that the earth needs to be used properly we know how, Oh well, this is the end result of humans acting like the earth is indestructible.
We humans deserve the eventual trashbin we will call home.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI am very concerned about the destructive nature of deforestation. Most avenues of needed technology to aleviate the pending problems requires innovative utilization of waste products of developed communities. Paper, wood, plastics, solvents, solutions and many other social directed product developments need to implement recycling of usefull waste regardless of cost to prevent exhausting limited future consumption of natural products in the world. Solve it now not in the future. Nations can control their environmental future by implementing conservation and allowing cost to dictate creative solution before calamity demands it.
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Almost Heaven, Flat lot, canoe, hgh speed, dog allowed in Smith Mountain Lake
- bedrooms 3
- baths 3
- sleeps 6
- pool no
- hot tub no
- pets allowed yes
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$ 900 - $ 1,600 / week
vacation rental description
new home to the rental market, with nearly flat lot. Privacy and woods offer the feeling of seclusion, with this nearly new home. New furnishings and new home bring together the great ambience of this cottage / rustic style home. The wrap aound porch offers views to the lake, and the private master balcony makes the home a perfect stay for all. High speed, new!
Play by day on this nearly flat lot, with great swimming for children and dogs in the cove. No one can run over you! The lot also allows for children and dogs to walk into the water if needed. The large open living living areas on both floors, have a great way of spending time inside or out. Cook from the kithcen and watch the kids play in the yard or the dock. Gather the family around on the main level for eating , playing and loads of fun. Curl up at night by the wood fireplace and enjoy your book or games. Or paddle into the waters with canoe available at the home.
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The downstairs offers another living area with TV and foosball, pool table, and ping-pong. So when that rainy day comes, come on in and have lots to do. Each bedroom on the main level is large and spacious, unlike several rentals at the lake. The master bedroom has a private balcony. The other 2 bedrooms share a bath on the main level. The downstairs offers another bath and an extra bedroom - in case you need it. New canoe as well, just for your pleasure..High speed new 2013
Call today before this one gets away,
vacation rental rates
Summer: $1600.00 week
Fall: $1100 weekly/ $160 nightly 2 night minimum
Winter: $ 900 weekly / $130 nightly 2 night minimum
Add cleaning, tax and dog fee
Damage deposit $500 refundable when terms of lease met
Please call for Holiday Rates--rates subject to change
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Everyone listens to music in different ways. Some make it more of an active than passive experience, judging each note from their speakers with a critical ear. Canadian manufacturer PSB Speakers says it puts its lines through rigorous measurement testing so listeners will get the same kind of accuracy and detail in their own speaker testing when the speakers are played in their own homes.
From that, the 35-year-old company has raised the bar on its own performance by introducing a new flagship line, the Synchrony. Synchrony includes seven new models: two full-range tower designs, two more compact, stand-mount "bookshelf" models, and two center-channel speakers, plus a "tri-mode" surround-channels layout engineered for the side and rear locations of multichannel groupings.
Though the models range in price and size, structure and design elements offer similar high-performance pieces that deliver excellence for both music and home theater audio environments, the company says. Among them, Synchrony speakers feature extruded-aluminum corners and tapered rear panels, in combination with elegantly veneered, 7-laminate wood-composite curved side panels, for deadened, non-resonant and coloration-free enclosures, PSB says.
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Crystal Thomas told ABC4 Tuesday, "Beginning of October when it started to get cold, we found out it wasn't working."
Crystal is talking about her home's heater. It stopped working.
While that was bad enough, the next blow was worse.
Thomas said, "That was the hardest. I'm still in shock to this day that my six-year-old son has cancer."
Crystal's son Ryan had been complaining all summer that his back hurt. When the pain wouldn't go away, the family went to Primary Children's Medical center where they learned the boy has bone cancer.
Ryan's Grandmother Jill told ABC4 News, "It breaks my heart to see this little boy go through this. He's not very sick now, but the next round of chemo will be the kicker."
You might think things couldn't get much worse, but they did when the family car broke down.
Jill said, "It just kills me. If i could switch them place, I would in a heart beat."
She got talking with friends looking for help and Action Heating and Air Conditioning received the call for help.
Nate Di Palma from Action said, "We don't fix transmissions. We really can't fix cancer, but we can fix heat."
Tuesday a brand new furnace was installed in the Thomas home, they can now focus on getting this little guy healthy.
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Salad (short for Letter Salad) is an efficient and flexible implementation of the well-known anomaly detection method Anagram by Wang et al. (RAID 2006). Salad is based on n-gram models, that is, data is represented as all of its substrings of length n. During training these n-grams are stored in a Bloom filter. This enables the detector to represent a large number of n-grams in little memory and still being able to efficiently access the data. Salad extends Anagram by allowing various n-gram types, a 2-class version of the detector for classification, and various model analysis modes.
Gwyddion is a modular SPM (Scanning Probe Microsope) data visualization and analysis tool. It can be used for all most frequently used data processing operations including: leveling, false color plotting, shading, filtering, denoising, data editing, integral transforms, grain analysis, profile extraction, fractal analysis, and many more. The program is primarily focused on SPM data analysis (e.g. data obtained from AFM, STM, NSOM, and similar microscopes). However, it can also be used for analyzing SEM (scaning electron microscopy) data or any other 2D data.
Fimex is a the File Interpolation, Manipulation, and EXtraction library for gridded geospatial data. It converts between different, extensible data formats (currently netcdf, NcML, grib1/2, metgm, wdb, and felt). It enables you to change the projection and interpolation of scalar and vector grids. It makes it possible to subset the gridded data and to extract only parts of the files. For simple usage, Fimex also comes with the command line program fimex.
white_dune is a graphical VRML97/X3DV editor, simple NURBS/Superformula 3D modeller, animation tool, and VRML97/X3DV commandline compiler in development. VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the Web via browser plugins ("HTML for realtime 3D"). X3DV is the direct successor of VRML97. VRML97 and X3DV have support for animation, real-time interaction, and multimedia (images, movies, and sounds). white_dune can read, create, and display VRML97/X3DV files and let the user change the scenegraph/fields. It also has support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals, and support for 3D input devices like a joystick, spaceball, or magnetic tracker.
EDFbrowser is a multi-platform viewer for EEG, EMG, and ECG storage files. It supports the EDF, EDF+, BDF, and BDF+ file formats. It supports montages, annotations, precise measurements by using crosshairs, and a zoom function by drawing a rectangle with the mouse. It shows signals from different files at the same time. It includes a built-in EDF/EDF+/BDF/BDF+ to ASCII converter, a built-in Nihon Kohden to EDF+ converter (including annotations), a built in EDF+D to EDF+C converter, a BDF(+) to EDF(+) converter and a built-in EDF/EDF+/BDF/BDF+ compatibility checker.
GRAL is a library for creating high quality plots and charts in Java. Many plot types are available like scatter plot, bubble plots, line plots, area plots, pie charts, and bar charts. Additionally, GRAL can exchange and process data (smoothing), and various plug-ins allow the import and export of data and graphics to formats like CSV, JPEG, PNG, EPS, PDF, or SVG.
Armadillo is a C++ linear algebra library (matrix maths) aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use. Integer, floating point, and complex numbers are supported, as well as a subset of trigonometric and statistics functions. Various matrix decompositions are provided through optional integration with LAPACK and ATLAS libraries. A delayed evaluation approach, based on template meta-programming, is used (during compile time) to combine several operations into one and reduce or eliminate the need for temporaries.


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Remodeling Tip: Answer the Right Questions
When considering new ideas for kitchen remodeling shopping around and working with a remodeler can lend new perspectives. If you are remodeling in the Boston area for example, Beantown Builders can give you ideas about area, color, and flooring. A good remodeler should have plenty of questions to ask about your home and preferences so you can end up with a space you can really enjoy.
Some of the questions Beantown Builders asks include how much space you have available to you, the form and layout of your home, and colors you have today and what is popular now.
You want to think about what type of atmosphere you want to create. For example the company states that dark color tiles creates a more cramped confined feeling but that floor tiles in whites and lightweight colors work best to make the space feel more open. The company also recommends cork flooring if you want to have a greater sense of warmth in your remodeled kitchen.