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Tagliata is a cut above
Tagliata of beef
Cooking vast quantities of meat can sometimes turn me off eating it, but then I turn to tagliata and can't imagine a tastier, juicier and more delicious meal, writes DOMINI KEMP
EVERY NOW AND then I get completely fed up eating meat and contemplate becoming vegetarian. Usually it's after cooking vast quantities of meat when catering, as opposed to eating loads of meat. Part of me thinks it's all to do with getting older, as the list of things I am now concerned with are the very same things my mum used to say 20 years ago: don't eat late at night; if you drink too much wine, you'll find it hard to sleep, and forget about drinking coffee after 2pm.
But then I go and cook something like tagliata of beef, at home, on a quiet Saturday evening, and immediately my faith is restored in a life full of foodie pleasure and I can't imagine a tastier, juicier and more delicious meal, with a big glass of red wine. Tagliata means cut in Italian, so this is a sort of sliced beef dish that can be served in plenty of different ways.
When we're catering a large party, we usually roast whole sirloins of beef, marinated with lots of herbs, before chargrilling or roasting them, letting them rest for ages and then tossing with loads (and I mean loads) of chopped herbs – flat leaf parsley, some tarragon and chervil, plus plenty of pink peppercorns, crushed black pepper, Maldon sea salt and great olive oil. It ends up as delicious slices of medium or medium rare beef, coated in a crumb of salty, herby deliciousness.
But restaurant versions seem to be a bit more contained and feature plenty of rocket and Parmesan shavings and none of the above herby concoction. I checked out a few different variations, namely from fancy New York Italian restaurants and Heston Blumenthal.
Eventually I came up with a hybrid version by marinating the beef in a rich, thick, balsamic marinade, pumped full of rosemary. I also fried chunky slices of Portobello mushrooms in this marinade to serve with the slices of beef, which has the handy effect of bulking out this dish. I know we might be a bit fed up with rocket, but there's a time and place, and if served with these flavours, it really is the perfect accompaniment.
It's apparent to regular readers that baking isn't my strong point, but this brack was specially delivered by my husband to his friends, Des and Ann in Carlow, baked for them by another friend, Dorothy. The delicious small of brack nicely camouflaged the kiddie detritus that lurked in the car on the way down, and everyone agreed it was one of the nicest bracks. Very kindly, the recipe was handed over to me, so Peaches and I gave it a go, but immediately started to botch it up. Flour? Check. Raisins? Check. Soaked raisins? Eh, no. But the photographer was booked and I felt that we were hardly in a position to work out how much soakage the raisins would have done overnight, so we didn't alter a thing and chucked the whole lot together. We couldn't believe how lovely it was, even without the obligatory pre-soaking of raisins. In fact, it was so nice, and so large, everyone got a few hunks of it to enjoy. I really recommend this brack recipe. It comes from a good Dublin woman, endorsed by good Carlow folk.


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Farnham Royal
|Farnham Royal
Farnham Royal shown within Buckinghamshire
|5,972 [1]
|OS grid reference
|Civil parish
|Farnham Royal
|South Bucks
|Shire county
|South East
|Sovereign state
|United Kingdom
|Post town
|Postcode district
|Dialling code
|Thames Valley
|South Central
|EU Parliament
|South East England
|UK Parliament
Coordinates: 51°32′19″N 0°36′59″W / 51.538607°N 0.616357°W
Farnham Royal is a village and civil parish within the South Bucks district of Buckinghamshire, England. It is located in the south of the county, immediately north of Slough (with which it is contiguous), and around 22 miles west of Charing Cross, Central London. Within the parish boundary is the village of Farnham Common and the hamlet of Farnham Park.
The village name 'Farnham' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means 'homestead where ferns grow'. In the Domesday Book of 1086 the village was recorded as Ferneham. The affix 'Royal' was given to the village in the late 11th century by the king, who gave the lord of the manor of Farnham, Bertram de Verdun, the Grand Serjeanty on the condition of providing a glove and putting it on the king's right hand at the coronation, and supporting his right arm, while the Royal sceptre was in his hand (see also Manor of Worksop).
In 1832, Francis Osborne was created Baron Godolphin, of Farnham Royal in the County of Buckingham.
At the centre of the village, where there are now two mini-roundabouts, stood the old water pump. This was removed when the mini-roundabouts were constructed sometime in the 1970s. Recently the water pump has been brought back to Farnham Royal and has been placed on the green nearby, next to the Duke's Head pub.
At the 2001 UK census, the Farnham Royal electoral ward, which includes the village of Farnham Common, had a population of 5,002. The ethnicity was 92.9% white, 1.3% mixed race, 5% Asian, 0.4% black and 0.4% other. The place of birth of residents was 87.7% United Kingdom, 1.2% Republic of Ireland, 2.6% other Western European countries, and 8.5% elsewhere. Religion was recorded as 75.7% Christian, 0.3% Buddhist, 1.3% Hindu, 1.4% Sikh, 0.5% Jewish, and 1.1% Muslim. 12.7% were recorded as having no religion, 0.2% had an alternative religion and 6.8% did not state their religion.[2]
The economic activity of residents aged 16–74 was 39% in full-time employment, 11% in part-time employment, 14.4% self-employed, 1.7% unemployed, 2.2% students with jobs, 2.7% students without jobs, 16.9% retired, 8.2% looking after home or family, 2% permanently sick or disabled and 2% economically inactive for other reasons. The industry of employment of residents was 15.4% retail, 13% manufacturing, 4.5% construction, 24.8% real estate, 8.4% health and social work, 7.6% education, 8% transport and communications, 2.9% public administration, 3.7% hotels and restaurants, 3.9% finance, 0.7% agriculture and 7.1% other. Compared with national figures, the ward had a relatively high proportion of workers in real estate, transport and communications. According to Office for National Statistics estimates, during the period of April 2001 to March 2002 the average gross weekly income of households was £1,070, compared with an average of £660 in South East England. Of the ward's residents aged 16–74, 34% had a higher education qualification or the equivalent, compared with 19.9% nationwide.[2]
The private boys preparatory school Caldicott School has many famous alumni including deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and England cricket captain Andrew Strauss.
- ^ Neighbourhood Statistics 2011 Census, Accessed 2 February 2013
- ^ a b "Neighbourhood Statistics". Statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
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True Blood's Stephen Moyer Calls Out RPattz
The Twilight vs. True Blood debate is finally heating up!
In a new interview with Marie Claire, True Blood's resident vampire Stephen Moyer (who plays Bill Compton) has some choice words for New Moon bloodsucker Rob Pattinson.
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Windows: iPod Software 2.1 Released
The update command downloads new software to an iPod. The update command may be disabled if the iPod does not need to be updated because it already has up-to-date software. The restore command returns an iPod to 'factory fresh' condition. It erases and reformats the iPod before downloading new software. WARNING: The restore command erases all of the music and other data currently on the iPod.
What's new in this version:
- Voice notes (requires 3rd party microphone, sold separately)
- Digital photo storage (requires 3rd party photo card reader, sold separately)
- Enhanced On-The-Go playlist
- Improved playback performance
- Added Music Quiz game
- Improved backlight
- Improved battery meter
- New for Windows: support for AAC audio files, including songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store
License: System Requirements:A PC with built-in FireWire or USB 2.0, or a Windows-certified FireWire or USB 2.0 card and Windows 2000 or XP
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I WANT this firmware available for my 400 EUROS second generation 20 GB pc ipod grrrrrrr :/
Posted by bilbobo on October 16, 2003 at 1:47 PM (CDT)
I WANT this firmware available for my 400 EUROS second generation 20 GB pc ipod grrrrrrr :/
Posted by bilbobo on October 16, 2003 at 1:47 PM (CDT)
Anyone know if early generations of the IPOD for Windows will have AAC support? I don't see a new OS update beyond 1.3 to provide this support.
Posted by flyfisher on October 16, 2003 at 1:48 PM (CDT)
I upgraded the firmware then connected it to my pc with iTunes running, and All my songs on my iPod disappeared. Synchronization was set to manual in itunes. I
Posted by nvs on October 16, 2003 at 1:51 PM (CDT)
whats the new game like?
Posted by Alex on October 16, 2003 at 2:07 PM (CDT)
I'm not sure how to do this. When I pull up iPod Manager it tells me that I'm running 2.0.2, yet the button indicates "Launch 2.0.1 Updater." When I press that the "Update" button is disabled ...
Posted by Baby on October 16, 2003 at 2:10 PM (CDT)
Did they fix the Equalizer?
I can only hope that's what improved playback means….
Posted by who on October 16, 2003 at 2:21 PM (CDT)
I'm new into this. Any help would be appreciated. To upgrade the firmware, I dowload it first, then I double click the icon to install it…. When do I connect the Ipod to my laptop? will it tell me when to do it?
Posted by Mario Mejia on October 16, 2003 at 2:32 PM (CDT)
Are any of the early iPods ever going to be updated!? I'm really pissed I want the card reader and otg playlists and I was hoping at least for the latter when they updated the newer iPods and still nothing! I definitely want a 2nd Gen card reader….
Posted by zync on October 16, 2003 at 2:38 PM (CDT)
Why oh why is this update XP and 2000 only? Is it too much to ask for Windows ME support? :(
Posted by ZeroDown on October 16, 2003 at 3:06 PM (CDT)
Well, just installed the update and it did update fine with all tunes etc in tact.
The new backlight seems clearer and it has a 'border' - about 1/8" that is slightly less bright than the center.
Can't figure out what the new Music game is all about yet though.
Clock digits seem larger than I remember though it's not something I used often so could be wrong.
The only difference I can see in the On-The-Go playlist is that you can add albums and artists as well as individual songs.
And the whole things seems faster (but this is just subjective).
Can't wait for the recorder. The menu options must only be available when it plugs in, which means using any mic is probably out of the question.
Overall a good update.
Posted by Ashley Scott on October 16, 2003 at 3:09 PM (CDT)
My update… is in a constant state of "not finished."
The update on the iPod unit itself went swimmingly.
XP recognized the new drivers and the newly "updated" iPod.
But the 2.1 updater box doesn't look like the install is finished, and I've been waiting minutes now.
I suppose I'll X out and hope for the best.
This certainly reminds me of the horrid week I had trying to get the iPod to work on my ancient PC when I first bought it.
iPods usage is definitely an easier process all around for mac users.
Posted by prototypechild on October 16, 2003 at 3:11 PM (CDT)
Ran updater with 30GB iPod, smoothest install of system software to date, and the biggest shock: all of my music remains on the iPod.
Order of steps:
[1] Disconnect iPod from PC.
[2] Restart PC.
[3] Install 2.1 software on computer.
[4] Restart PC if asked.
[5] Connect iPod.
[6] Launch 2.1 updater.
The new game is seriously a cool idea - loads track names and random tracks, then rapid-fire quizzes you to see if you can ID the track name of what's playing. GREAT idea. But it'll wear down that hard drive.
New battery icon, BTW. And new "it's safe to disconnect your iPod" icon screen, too.
Posted by JBHLion on October 16, 2003 at 3:11 PM (CDT)
Quick update:
I closed the install prompt and checked the About section in the iPod. Says Version 2.1, so I suppose all is well.
I notice the different battery meter and backlight, so I suppose the prompt was just confused :P
Hooray for working updates!
Posted by prototypechild on October 16, 2003 at 3:14 PM (CDT)
I installed the new itunes first on my computer and then just plugged in the ipod. It updated and is working perfectly.
I think itunes and the music store are fantastic, already purchased about 20 songs. The quality is great and DL speeds fantastic. This is the best thing to happen to windows ipods, by far.
Posted by Greg on October 16, 2003 at 3:14 PM (CDT)
Sorry for the double post:
I don't like the "Ok to disconnect" screen.
I never got it before… the "Do not disconnect" screen would just dissapear and bring me to the main menu.
It appears I can't view the main menu unless I manually take the iPod out of the dock now.
Talk about a step down in convenience… is anyone else having this problem? And is there a way to bypass it?
Posted by prototypechild on October 16, 2003 at 3:17 PM (CDT)
The 'OK to disconnect' is the same as an early version I had on my 2G.
And yes, it is a pain having to take it out of the dock before using.
Posted by Ashley Scott on October 16, 2003 at 3:27 PM (CDT)
I left my ipod in the dock to charge after updating. It seemed to all go fine, and I took it out of the dock when it said it had finished charging. However, when it was out of the dock the battery indicator was nearly zero. Anyone else had a siilar experience?
Posted by littlefish on October 16, 2003 at 4:58 PM (CDT)
Son of a bitch.
Can't update 2G iPods.
i angry.
Posted by Malik on October 16, 2003 at 6:43 PM (CDT)
Did it fix the EQ Problem? (i.e. when using "Rock" EQ setting, Linkin Park sounded all distorted)
Posted by Matt on October 16, 2003 at 7:15 PM (CDT)
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Well, looking at the config info in the files, I've got compatible everything. Unfortunately I still can't play, even after mucking around in my antivirus settings. I have no clue what's stopping it from loading. My drivers are up to date. My card is supported. I am running a powerful enough computer. It's on Windows 7, which the game supports.
I can't figure out why I can't run this demo… It really is looking like I'll have to skip out on Sims 4, if I can't even get the demo to run.
Same here. It won't even open.
I hope they come up with a fix for this soon, or I hope I figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Same..Its So Annoying Ive wanted to go on The Sims 4 Thing for ages..& just to fing out it doesnt work…Grr
I know, its sorta annoying. I was really looking forward to it ;3;
So I've installed origin and the sims 4 demo, and it downloaded fine, but when I try to open it, it says my video card is not suitable for the sims 4, even though my dad checked it and the card was fine. What do I do? I've waited for ages and now I am getting really annoyed.
It wont run for me either, and it's on my new Windows 7
me 2 uggggghhhh!!!!!!!!!! so anoying!
How do you download the sims 4 demo? i already installed origin. i redeemed my code but i can't play it.
have you got problems with sims4 too? don't worry, at least you can download it .
every time i go to origin and try to download the demo, the chrome says:this page has got a redirect bucle. I was waiting so many time for TS4 and that's what i've got.
pd: sorry about spelling.
yes same happens to me but it says needed space in my NEW computer (3 months)
I don't know about everyone else but this is the first time I've actually liked/loved the base game clothing and hair. Especially the hair. TS3 hair was the biggest disaster I've seen, especially the hair that came with Seasons or w/e it was. The one with the really big curls, anyone know what I'm talking about? What were they thinking? lol
Anyway, hope everyone that's gotten the demo is enjoying it. Hate to hear that so many are having trouble downloading/installing it.
still works for the demo in getting it to recognize some cards…. tried it on another system that has the fiasco of having a rebranded card but essentially using the original drivers.
Maybe if it wouldn't crash every time I opened it, I would enjoy it. I can't even play it! After it gets to the warning about inappropriate content, it'll sit there then windows will pretend to check for a solution before exiting out entirely.
Dear Nothing!
Stop being so depressive!
Just uninstall Origin and then install it again. Tadaaa now it should work!
Glad to have helped!
well i tried re installing it but it still doesnt work -.-
Well, let's see… if I uninstall and reinstall Origin, I also have to uninstall and reinstall many gigabytes of other games, since I do not just play the Sims games… so no, that's not an acceptable solution. It also happens that many others have attempted uninstalling and reinstalling Origin and it doesn't work for them, either.
Repair install, uninstall/reinstall of the Sims demo, does not work. Fiddling with antivirus settings does not work. Compatibility mode does not work.
I can live without Sims 4. In fact it will save me money to do so. Am more interested in Dragon Age Inquisition anyway, so I can hold off and maybe buy Sims 4 on sale at some point, if they ever make the demo able to run.
Uninstalling Origin does not uninstall your games, as long as you don't delete the whole folder. It only uninstalls the client. I've done it multiple times myself.
where do i find demo code at?
Go on origin and go to free games-demos and betas-Sims 4 demo
I installed but it's asking for code
can someone help me?? The gallery isn't working properly. When ever i try to comment, upload, favourite, it just says "server error, could not process request. And also it says that there are no players online. when i go to community on the gallery it says "no results found" Can someone please help me, reply to me if u have the same problem
I have problems with the gallery too. If I ever try to comment or even look closer at a household the demo crashes and says "The Sims 4 Create a sim demo has stopped working".
The other problem, not technical, of the gallery, I have seen a completely naked Bella Goth in the gallery. Ew!
Mine keeps going back to 20% while it's down loading, I've almost been at it for 24 hours..
same here, when it gets to 35% it goes back to 15%. and the download is so slow
Mine has just went back from 54% to 18% D:
I wonder If there's a wyto fix it :S
I have the same prob, but I found a KIND of a solution that may or may not work for you. It didn't work for me and its still not moving, but it helped move it a bit :S
What you need to do is: When it reaches a higher percent then what it started at, pause the download, restart origin, unpause, and it'll keep moving. Repeat this over and over. I managed to get up to 64% before it went back to 15 percent :I
well how disappointing that its only for windows
Duh, they haven't even announced when they'd start making it for Mac, what makes you think that the demo would be available?
I just downloaded it, and then I turn on it, there shows ea, maxi, then the sims 4 create a sim demo, and nothing, I'm seriously waiting for hour now. Is it not loading, or I'm that dumb, that even don't know how turn on it?
Mine doesn't work. It will be a sucessful download, but when click play or click on the shortcut, nothing happens. It wont load up. I dont get any erroe messages, it just won't play. I've restarted my computer, I've uninstalled the game AND origin then reinstalled them, I've made sure nothing is blocking/causing conflict but it still doent work.
Check your antivirus, mine did the same thing. Turns out my antivirus set it as "unknown files" and I had to make them "trusted files" before it would play.
I've made the files trusted but it still isn't working ?
Same TT helppppp
so let me get this straight, i preordered sims4 but i still can't play the demo? i dont have a product code or whatever..
Go on origin- Store- Free games- Demos and Betas- The sims 4 demo
My Sims 4 downloaded in a few minutes, but I am only able to choose a Sims, I can't change anything about the Sims, then when I try to save it, it changes the Sims that i had the first time. I have been playing Sims, i,2, and 4. I thought that I was going to be blown away, but I am very disappointed. I hope that the expansions will really make it worth me uninstall my 14 sSms 3 games from my computer.
at first when i opened it, it said that i miss the msvcp120.dll and after i used the dll-files fixer to fix it, i open it again and my mouse just spins and nothing shows up.Anyone knows how to fix this?
Try uninstalling and reinstalling.
I tried to run the demo but it just said unable to start as it can't be run with the video card in my system (AMD Radeon HD6570) is this for real? T_T
well this was a waste of time and hope
I think i'm going to stick with sims 3. Where the hair is less blocky, there are toddlers, pools … Sims 4 is not that great as i thought it would be
Hey everyone just thought I'd let you know you can find me in the gallery now. Just look under my origin name catloverplayer. I have 4 or 5 uploads and one of which is my simself. Alexis next time I go into the demo I'll follow you.
I did see some issues.
I can see how many followers I have but it won't let me see who they are,
When you upload to the community it seems there is no way to delete your creations from the gallery online.
You can only pick a watch to be worn on the right arm not the left.
Hey were the testers.
I downloaded and played the demo once. now i need a product code.
Why is it asking me for a product key for a demo?
Oops … Windows blocked our attempt to download game content. If you'd like to allow origin to download content to your computer, select "Retry" below. When prompted, grant permission within the User Account Control pop up.
I click try and get this message: FOLDER IN USE,Sorry,but Origin is currentlu using that foled for another operation. Please try again later.
What do i do? :c
try ctrl+alt+del and ending the process then try again. hope it works for you.
How do you do it? i keep doing it when i click download the first message second message pops up and i keep doing it but it won't work :ccc ~CRIES~ Guess i will be missing the sims 4 CAS demo
i wanted to have a go at the demo and the bloody thing wont let me download it it says there is a problem but to try again and it just keeps saying that well this sucks big time i hope this is not what it is going to be like with sims 4
I have the same problem, it wont let me download it on Origin.Has anyone found a solution for this yet pleaseeeee??
Can someone pleasee help me urgently because i tried to download the demo of sims 4 so hooray it worked then i click play it says sum stupid thing about my memory video thingy..
Does the sims 4 create a sim demo feature all the clothi. Hair and other content from the create a sim in the full game? If so, that is really disappointing to me.
I don't think so,but yeah your right if it does include all the sims 4 clothes that horrible
It has most but not all of the hair or clothing.
How do you get the flipping thing to play I preorder through origin and it's like a ghost app nothing loads up. No introduction, no nothing, grrrr….
Everytime I try to click download nothing pops up. Is anyone else having this same problem? it wont even open anything.
Mine has been down loading for a day and half….why does it take this long?
It may be your internet speed. You can have high speed but it can still run slow at times. Also it could be an issue with origin.
I still use the cas demo when I don't want to go into game to make a sim.
How do I go in to playing the game because I made the stuff and then I have no idea how you play it
Is the sims4 like that to???? Plz answer
If you finished installing it, go on to Origin and click play. and Nope The Sims 4 is not like that at all. I hope you don't have any problems with your game!


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99 pct of big wave stories are just stories. most of us would doodoo at the sight of truly big surf. 10 feels like 20 when its unloading in front of you. when in doubt paddle out. peace.....and chicken grease.
Ernesto '06 Saturday morning @ North IRI was the biggest I've ever surfed...definitely 15 ft. bombs that day...there we're s-loads of people on the beach, surprised nobody got pics from that day...the only footage I have been able to get my hands on was a video of Jerz on that day and it looked small compared to what it was at the inlet...I was paddling around on the outside and my shin hit something huge in the water, I turned to see what it was and realized it was a huge piece of telephone pole about 3' long...scary, if that f$cker had have gotten caught up in the lip when somebody was dropping in...
why argue whether a wave is 12ft or 15ft. Anything DOH+ on the East Coast is BIG and thats all that matters!
I have another pic from California lets see if what you guys think of this size. Actually I will start another thread.
(if I can find it) yikes
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I currently have a job offer for both a Surgical-Trauma PCU and the Emergency Department at my local hospital. I am not sure which unit an ICU Nurse Manager would view as "better" experience to have to get into an ICU. Please... Read More
- 0Nov 19, '13 by SugarcomaQuote from John SPNJohn, in my opinion I would think ER would definitely give you more experience in handling critical situations. That being said the PCU unit (I assume progressive care is the same as step down?) depending on the acuity would also be a good choice. I would ask around to find out how acute. Do they take vents? Any type of drips? etc.I currently have a job offer for both a Surgical-Trauma PCU and the Emergency Department at my local hospital. I am not sure which unit an ICU Nurse Manager would view as "better" experience to have to get into an ICU.
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It is very hard to say what a hiring manager prefers. I know that on my current unit my manager prefers no ER. She likes high acuity med surg experience the best. At my previous hospital there were a couple of units that were known as stepping stones for the ICU. Then there were others where if that was your only experience you wouldn't even be considered. I would not let my aspirations be known to my manager but perhaps you could talk to the nurse educator at this hospital and tell them that eventually you would like to make your way to the ICU and ask their opinion of which unit would give you a better chance?
- 0Nov 20, '13 by 1hopefulChikMany CRNA programs make it very clear that ED experience is not acceptable for critical care experience. Most of those I've researched state that in their FAQs sections.
If you are compelled to do ED, make sure the CRNA program of your choice finds it acceptable. Unfortunately, many do not. Best of luck to you!!
- 0Nov 20, '13 by John SPNYeah, I am not planning on applying to an anesthesia program with just having either PCU/ED experience. I am just looking to see what would be the best launching point for a career in critical care with an eventual transfer to an adult ICU.
(P.S The ED is at a non-trauma center hospital)
At this point, I am definitely leaning towards ED.
- 0Nov 23, '13 by calivianya, BSN, RNI know at my hospital they'd take stepdown nurses for ICU well before ED nurses - the ED nurses in my facility have a horrible reputation in the ICU. Also, stepdown is considered part of critical care here, so technically, the people in IMCU/CPU are considered critical care nurses and they are often crosstrained to the ICUs so they can float here if we have a need. We are also crosstrained to IMCU/CPU for the same reason. It seems like it would be a lot simpler to get moved to ICU if you have already been oriented to the ICU as a stepdown nurse, have worked in ICU a few times from being floated, and you know the nurse manager from working with her, versus trying to get into the ICU from emergency when ED personnel are not allowed to float to the ICU and the ICU managers will never have seen you before.
You could always take either one, and then continue to apply for an ICU job and go down to PRN at your ED/PCU position when you get it. Do you just not feel ready for ICU at this point, or were you applying for these jobs because you couldn't get an interview for ICU in your area?
- 0Nov 23, '13 by John SPNI am having trouble getting an interview for an ICU position, if I would, I would definitely work w/e shift and do whatever I had to to work there.
I spoke with a couple of CRNAs and they unanimously said that working in the ED would be a better bet than working in a PCU. (I assumed it would be the other way around, but w/e)


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This is a ridiculously nice mechanical watch! The build quality is way better than i expected. The watch face is big which stands out well. This watch can be worn dressed up or casually which make it very versatile. The watch band seems a little cheap. It actually ended up breaking on me a while back ... Read more
Very smart looking timepeice, which looks like it might have fallen off of a 1950's MiG 15 jet fighter. Automatic self-winding (like a Rolex perpetual... although not quite as good!) Slimmer than it looks in the pictures, remarkably comfortable strap. Total absence of ANY kind of documntation, manual ... Read more
It's a really good-looking watch. I love the color of the needles ! It's really a good object, inspired by the swiss version (3000$+ worth) at a nice price. The 3 little needles don't rotate by themselves, but you can change their positions with the 2 buttons on the right. The time is precise. Sometimes ... Read more
Very well built - Quality of inner printing is good, only unnoticeable marks on number 3. - All dials work. - Mechanical automatic mechanism works. - Size and weight are ok. - good looking - Price - band seems easisly interchangeable with standard one, leather, strap... - rubber band a bit short. - band ... Read more
- Good quality - Comfortable - Looks great - Shows the day of the week, day of the month and 24 H - Stylish - It doesn't make so much sound Español - Buena calidad - Cómodo en el brazo (por el brazalete de silicona) - Se ve muy bien - Muestra el día de la semana, fecha del mes y formato ... Read more
When the work, use two months The unique design, There is no error, other people are not using, easy-to-use, Time is easy to see, Moderate weight, inexpensive! ! Using two months. Band was spread out the holes in the band. Have been used interchangeably in the band Since there is no backlight, etc., ... Read more
what I can say?, Is an excellent watch -silicone mesh is soft and skin friendly. -all the dials work, one indicates the day of the week, another date and the third if am or pm -time is very easy to read and watch high quality shows and feels very solid. button sometimes fails to change the day of the ... Read more
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Amx-40 is helluva funny. Hit r a few times and just steam down the middle of the battle.
I'm gonna go buy one now for the fun of it.
Amx-40 is helluva funny. Hit r a few times and just steam down the middle of the battle.
I'm gonna go buy one now for the fun of it.
Omg this game is frustrating when you get idiot teams over and over and over....
My friend told me, there will be some new tanks derived from the Soviet T-34 in the future. That's the reason I decided to buy a T-34 now, although I had sold it a long time ago.
Started to play. Going for American artillery(biggest boom) and TD(fastest cannon among TD), French heavy tanks(very fast for HT) and maybe Russian light tank(not sure about that anymore as French heavy tanks are nearly as fast with 65 km/h, while fastes LT is 72 km/h).
screw french heavy's. they suck. Get a kv instead.
AMX50 100 - good, 50 120 - bad, 50B - good. Something like that. American TDs are either fast or veeeeeeery slow, depends on tier.
In other news - sold T34, 2.4mln net. Aiming that slow was too much for my nerves, especially after M18.
I was playing with another Polish guy but stopped it because of his kamikaze tactics. For example, he was using a BatChat and we were playing the Mines map, starting in the southern corner. There were about 6 mediums in the opponent team, while we had 2 mediums (the second one was me in Type 59). I told him 3 times: "don't go to the hill as they have a lot of mediums and they will go to the hill. You will be phucked there. Stand behind the rock in front of the hill and you will have a few perfect shots to their sides, when they will be climbing on the hill. Just immobilise them and they will be phucked". He ignored that, went to the hill and was dead in about 5 seconds. I got pissed off and left the platoon. He responded a BatChat is not a tank that is supposed to stand still because of its poor armour. Nice, but I mentioned the rock.
Another situation was when I played Malinovka with another guy. I had an IS-4 and went to the hill. There were many heavies in the opponent team, that went to the hill, so our party was phucked as all our heavies, except me, stayed behind the buildings. They were phucked after some time as well. I asked that guy why he did not help me and he said it's not a heavy tank's job to go to the hill in Malinovka and meds phucked it up. I've got extremely pissed off and posted him a few stupid messages on the clan channel.
I'm happy, there are more and more people who shoot at campers in a friendly team when they stay in the same place for a few minutes.
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This game is like plaing poker- you do your best with the hand your were delt, nothing more, find it rather funny when teammates complain about other idiot drivers in the game, such is the deal with MM
usually I do come to a defense of other drivers, just because I was made very aware lately that there are kids playing it and quite often, but I won't take ****ty plaing from some smart ass either
I find XVM to be rather acurrate in terms of player ability, if there's someone playing badly in your team, 9 out of 10 they have crap stats.
Is there a fast way to grind xp? Or is it even more terrible then korean grind fest? I need 10000 xp to unlock next arty, but number of xp i get is hilariously low. Even with 5 kills i get little less then what i would have got by just dieng without doing anything...


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21 dd played competitive fastpitch from U12 all the way through HS varsity & U18. During that time, baby sister (11 years younger) was dragged to softball fields all over the state. Younger dd basically grew up next to a softball field. She picked up some skills from her softball sister - learned how to throw, how to hit, how to field.
Little dd was very excited when she was old enough to play on her OWN team. But summer rec league was a bit frustrating for her as there were few girls who matched her level of skill. I mean, not many 6 year old T-ballers could make that throw from third to first, and then she couldn't understand why the first baseman wouldn't/couldn't just catch the ball! (Aimed at their head, coming at em like a bullet!)
After a few years of the rec league we decided she was finally old enough (and mature enough) to try out for the local U10 travel team. She LOVES it & really enjoys having teammates at a similar skill level. If you ask DD which position she wants to play, she will list them all. But she really wants to pitch. (Partly because it's a position her sister never did!) The club has a pitching coach to do lessons for all the new/learning pitchers. She can pitch pretty well now & can throw hard. She's still kind of a "wild thing" though... LOL! She also plays shortstop.
Which leads up to today - her teams first tournament. Really, her team's first time playing an actual game. It's kind of scary, I don't know if they're ready yet. Pretty sure they're going to get blown out of the water. But, I guess you gotta start somewhere!
And so it begins. If anybody's looking for me this summer, I'll be at the softball field...
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Yep, the first tourney went exactly as expected. DD's team got beat & beat hard! Luckily the other coaches understood that ours was a new team just starting out, so they didn't go too crazy on us. There were three games in all. The first was awful. I think the opposing team was made up of semi-pro 10 & 11 year olds! LOL! Our pitchers could barely find home plate, so the other team got most of their scores through walks & passed balls. And their pitcher could throw so hard & fast (and strikes!) that our girls were very intimidated.
The second game was better - and a little more evenly matched. DD even pitched her first strike-out! By the third game, dd's team was "getting it." They showed up to play ball! Our pitcher was gettig 'em over the plate - which then meant the other team was using us for batting practice. But that was OK. Our fielders made some outs & looked pretty good out there. [Except one play where our first baseman was totally NOT paying attention - listening to the other team's cheers - and almost got a thrown ball upside the head. Scary.]
During that last game DD discovered her new favorite position - catcher! She loved it - could see everything happening on the field, could call plays, could give baserunners the "stink-eye."
It sucked losing all weekend, but coaches & parents were quite pleased at the improvement observed between the first game through the last. The best way to learn is through playing. If nothing else, the girls now understand why Coach has them doing some of those drills during practice... they've definitely been paying more attention during practice now. :)


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12 Sons & A Daughter
I read a book once long ago with this huge family. They had twelve sons and a daughter. The last son and daughter were twins. I can't remember their names.
If you had twelve sons and a daughter, [eleven sons and twins (a boy and a girl)], what would you name them?
I'll comment back later on what I'd name them.
Again, this entirely hypothetical. I'm not currently pregnant with 12 sons and a daughter.
April 3rd, 2013 03:13 PM #3Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot
April 3rd, 2013 03:27 PM #5Current Loves: Tobias Henry and Sebastian Keith
April 4th, 2013 02:12 PM #7
♂: Louie Matthias
♂: Clement Wright
♂: Malcolm Hugh
♂: Emil Peregrine
♂: Wayne Fenech
♂: Davey Hamish
♂: Enoch Gregory
♂: Seeley Chester
♂: Tobias Jeffrey
♂: Samuel Henryton
♂: Bertie Concord
♂: Caspar Jedidiah
♀: Hermione Cross
Louie, Clement, Malcolm, Emil, Wayne, Davey, Enoch, Seeley, Tobias, Samuel, Bertie, Caspar and Hermione.
April 4th, 2013 02:32 PM #9
Jane*Fiona*Thea*Gwyneth*Alice*Evangeline*Bridget*L ucy*Maren*Faye*Rosalind*Betsy
{middle names}Cosima~Carissa~Carys~Lotus~Athena~Annika~Ele anor
{honor middles}Florence~Constance~Lorraine~Josephine
Oren*Lars*Bram*Griffin*Jude*Nolan*Otis*Dylan*River *Pierce*Tristan*Asher*Rhett
{middle names}Drake~Caspian~Caius~Cassius~Penn~
{honor middles}Wolf~Carson~Edward/Edmund~August
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Would you be willing to answer a few brief questions about PlayStation Forums?
@olajuwon Same Here .Lol
Maybe IGN Will Have A Rewind Theater To Analyze Every Bit Of Information Possible !
That Flying Beast Type Does Look Hard ! .Lol
I Think That This New GoW Will Have Like 15 Or More New Enemy Types For Kratos To Dis-Embowel !
The 3 Furies Will Fall !
@FeelMyVVrath Hahahahahahahahahaha !
You Just Made My Next Month With That Head Comment ! .Lol
*stripesmarine Tries To Control Himself And His Breathing After That Glorious Statement*
It Does Seem Like Something Out Of A Harry Potter Movie .Lol
And I Don't Like H.P. !
You Sir Deserve A +1 Kudos ; )
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Can't. Stop. Watching. This. TRAILER!!! But that dragon thing has the weirdest head.. I can't take it seriously =/
I believe the flying thing that Kratos fights is the Manticore; check out the image below which was one of the concept art rewards during the Rise of the Warrior game.
The Manticore was described as having a lion's body and a human head with rows of teeth like a shark (it's kinda like the Persian version of the Egyptian sphinx) but aspects of the creature seem to vary from story to story; some tales mention it having horns or wings or both, and having the tail of a dragon or scorpion... at least that's what I read online.
This is probably SSM's spin on the creature. Awesome trailer overall!


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BioMarin Pharmaceutical's CEO Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. (BMRN)
Q2 2012 Earnings Call
August 1, 2012 05:00 pm ET
J. J. Bienaime – Chief Executive Officer
Hank Fuchs – Executive Vice President & Chief Medical Officer
Steve Aselage – Executive Vice President & Chief Business Officer
Eugenia Shen – Investor Relations
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Concerned over increasing number of complaints about call drops and network congestion, among others, telecom regulator TRAI has written a letter to heads of leading operators, including Sunil Mittal and Anil Ambani, to know what's being done to remedy the same.
"I am writing to you personally on a subject that I feel has assumed a proportion requiring your personal attention," TRAI Chairman J.S. Sarma said in a letter to the heads and Chief Executives of leading telecom service providers.
Besides Sunil Mittal (Bharti Airtel) and Anil Ambani (RCom), Sarma has written to Sanjeev Aga of Idea, Anil Sardana of TTSL, Marten Pieters of Vodafone, Kuldip Singh of MTNL and Kuldeep Goyal of BSNL.
He, however, chose not to send letters to the new operators as they are still in the process of optimising their networks and have very low subscriber base.
Sarma's missive comes in the wake of inadequate response from companies to complaints from subscribers.
TRAI looks at various parameters to define quality of services by the operators. These include accessibility of call centres, response time to the customers, call drops, voice quality and network congestion.
"I keep getting letters regularly from telecom subscribers expressing their frustration at the inadequate and sometimes 'nil' response from your call centres as well Nodal Officers/Appellate Authorities to their complaints," he said in his letter.
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Garry Rayno's Statehouse Dome: Diverse group favors death penalty repeal
Rep. Robert Cushing, D-Hampton, has put together a group of co-sponsors for his repeal bill that includes Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives and House and Senate members.
In the early 1980s, Prejean corresponded with death row inmate Patrick Sonnier, becoming his spiritual adviser. After witnessing his execution, she wrote her book, which became a movie, an opera and a play.
Cushing's father was murdered by an off-duty Hampton police officer about 25 years ago. Cushing has sponsored similar repeal legislation that wound up being vetoed by former Gov. John Lynch.
Gov. Maggie Hassan has said she would sign a repeal bill as long as it was not retroactive, so Michael Addison's death sentenced could not be commuted. Addison killed Manchester police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006.
Guns: Two bills dealing with guns will be heard Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Amanda Grady Sexton of the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence said the change would help the state's law enforcement and criminal justice systems more easily identify instances of domestic violence.
The mother of a boy killed by his father in Manchester last August will testify in favor of the bill. Becky Ranes had a domestic violence protection order against Muni Savyon when Savyon shot and killed their 9-year-old son, Joshua Savyon, before turning the gun on himself at the Manchester YWCA visitation center.
Earlier that morning, the same committee will hold a public hearing on Senate Bill 244, which would require those with mental illness to be placed on the federal registry of people prohibited from owning guns.
Bob Clegg, president of Pro Gun NH, said the bill needs a provision for people whose illness was temporary.
"We don't want people to have weapons who shouldn't have them," Clegg said. "We call mental health issues a disease, but why is it the disease where we punish people after they are cured?"
Another bill, House Bill 1379, would exempt firearms records from the state's right-to-know law.
Sponsored by Rep. Jeff Goley, D-Manchester, the bill attempts to prevent what happened in New York when a local newspaper published the names and addresses of people in the community with concealed carry permits.
"That put more illegal firearms on streets," Clegg said.
The public hearing on the bill will be held Jan. 23 at 1 p.m. in Room 208 of the LOB before the House Judiciary Committee.
House members will have to decide if they want to legalize marijuana, regulate it and tax it.
The bill would make New Hampshire the first state to have its legislature legalize, regulate and tax pot. Colorado and Washington legalized pot by referendum.
Granite State should receive in-state tuition rates at the University System of New Hampshire schools.
The bill has drawn the interest of the National Press Photographers Association which objects to the bill.
The four Representatives, one Republicans and three Democrats, will not be replaced because it is too late to hold special elections to replace them.
Those who resigned are:
Joy K. Tilton, a Northfield Democrat, serving her fourth term in the House;
Delmar Burridge, a Keene Democrat, serving his third term in the House;
And Nicholas Levasseau, a Manchester Democrat, serving his fourth term in the House.
The representative cited either moving out of their districts or a change in employment status as reasons for their resignations.
Under Hess's plan the change would be revenue neutral because the business enterprise tax rate would drop. His bill largely targets large non-profits such as hospitals and universities.
A public hearing on House Bill 1509 will be held Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in Room 202 of the LOB before the House Ways and Means Committee.
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VIDEO: Gilroy Garlic Festival Shows Off Smelly But Delicious Foods
By Brian Shields
Fri Jul 25th, 2014 8:00am America/Los_Angeles
GILROY (KRON) — Bring your breath freshener because one of the biggest events of the year is underway in Gilroy. That's right it's time for the Gilroy Garlic Festival.
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text: Film Freak Central tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-99928295733106445 2014-07-22T11:27:14-05:00 TypePad Ace in the Hole (1951) [The Criterion Collection] - Dual-Format Edition tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01a3fd364efa970b 2014-07-22T11:27:14-05:00 2014-07-22T11:45:36-05:00 click any image to enlarge ****/**** Image A- Sound B Extras A- starring Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Bob Arthur, Porter Hall screenplay by Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman directed by Billy Wilder by Walter Chaw Ace in the Hole is full of bees. It's the most scabrous, uncompromised work from Billy Wilder, who never made a movie that wasn't kind of an asshole; and never made a movie that didn't reflect the essential nihilism of his worldview. He's a fascinating figure, Wilder--a director of obvious genius who has defied easy auteur classification not because he didn't have his distinguishing characteristics (the outsider hero yearning for assimilation, for instance), but because his films are only queasily liked and then only at arm's length. His stuff is poisonous. There's a sense that reviewing him is like trying to dissect a facehugger: if you poke too insistently, you'll release acid. You can point to Some Like it Hot as an exception, but I would respond that that film is about a notorious gangland massacre, repressed homosexuality, rape (kind of), chiselling, and the difficulties embedded in gender expectation and objectification. Wilder's treatment of Marilyn Monroe there and in the earlier The Seven-Year Itch,... Bill Chambers Spaceballs (1987) [Collector's Edition] - DVD|Blu-ray Disc tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01a3fcf5c7bb970b 2014-04-24T23:01:00-05:00 2014-04-23T13:59:31-05:00 **/**** DVD - Image A- Sound A- Extras B+ BD - Image A- Sound A Extras B+ starring Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman screenplay by Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan & Ronny Graham directed by Mel Brooks by Bill Chambers Neither the audacity of Mel Brooks's perpetually relevant Blazing Saddles nor the movie-love that manifested itself in his uncanny genre parodies Young Frankenstein and High Anxiety inhabit Brooks's Spaceballs, a spoof tailored to the undiscriminating palate of preteens and people who can't resist a joke at the expense of Star Wars hobbyists. It is, in other words, Brooks's very own Return of the Jedi, and although it's being reissued in a Collector's Edition DVD to capitalize on the release of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, it's not really in a position to take the piss out of the new Star Wars trilogy. In fact, the most interesting thing about Spaceballs circa 2005 is that what was once spectacularly stale--by the time it came out, the first wave of Star Wars mania had passed--now elicits nostalgia for a Star Wars saga that was so classical and (visually / narratively / allegorically) uncluttered as to... Bill Chambers The Slumber Party Massacre Collection - DVD|The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) - Blu-ray Disc tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017ee3c89f04970d 2014-04-15T15:49:03-05:00 2014-04-15T18:35:19-05:00 THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE (1982) **½/**** DVD - Image C+ Sound C- Extras C+ BD - Image A- Sound B Extras C+ starring Michelle Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella, Debra Deliso screenplay by Rita Mae Brown directed by Amy Jones SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II (1987) **½/**** Image C+ Sound C Extras A- starring Crystal Bernard, Patrick Lowe, Kimberly McArthur, Atanas Ilitch written and directed by Deborah Brock SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE III (1990) */**** Image C Sound C Extras A- starring Keely Christian, Britain Frye, M.K. Harris, David Greenlee screenplay by Catherine Cyran directed by Sally Mattison by Alex Jackson 1982's The Slumber Party Massacre isn't a film so much as a work of film criticism. It was produced and directed by Amy Holden Jones, perhaps better known today as the screenwriter of Mystic Pizza and Indecent Proposal, and written by established Lesbian Feminist poet and author Rita Mae Brown, who is perhaps best known for the 1973 book Rubyfruit Jungle, typically considered one the earliest coming-of-age lesbian novels. RUNNING TIME 77 minutes MPAA R ASPECT RATIO(S) 1.78:1 (1080p/MPEG-4) LANGUAGES English 2.0 DTS-HD MA (Mono) SUBTITLES English REGION A DISC TYPE BD-50 STUDIO Scream Factory THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE RUNNING TIME... Bill Chambers Adventureland (2009) + Alien Trespass (2009)|Adventureland (2009) - Blu-ray + Digital Copy tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01a3fced7c2b970b 2014-04-12T15:47:45-05:00 2014-04-12T15:47:45-05:00 ADVENTURELAND ***½/**** Image A- Sound A- Extras B starring Jake Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Martin Starr, Margarita Levieva written and directed by Greg Mottola ALIEN TRESPASS ***/**** starring Eric McCormack, Jenni Baird, Robert Patrick, Dan Lauria screenplay by Steven P. Fisher directed by R. W. Goodwin by Ian Pugh In everyone's life there's a summer of '42, but of course it was never as wonderful as you remember. Although Greg Mottola's Adventureland is set in 1987, that's almost incidental--it really takes place in that hazy cloud known as "the past," full of fly-by-night jobs rife with fraud and deceit, fairweather friends who sock you in the crotch, and, of course, the music that brings to mind painful experiences perhaps best left forgotten. (Funny to think that this might be the ideological inverse of another great 2009 film about memory, The Uninvited: unhealthily obsessive instead of unhealthily in denial.) The key to understanding the film, I think, lies in Falco's New Wave anthem "Rock Me Amadeus," here serving as an inescapable nightmare at the titular amusement park, where it's pumped through the sound system ad nauseam ("Can you give me an ice pick that I can just jam into my ears?"). But... Bill Chambers Inside Man (2006) [Widescreen] + Thank You for Smoking (2006) [Widescreen] - DVDs tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01a3fcdc3651970b 2014-03-23T23:01:00-05:00 2014-03-22T12:13:43-05:00 INSIDE MAN ***/**** Image A Sound A- Extras B starring Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer screenplay by Russell Gewirtz directed by Spike Lee THANK YOU FOR SMOKING ***/**** Image B+ Sound B+ Extras B starring Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Adam Brody, Sam Elliott screenplay by Jason Reitman, based on the novel by Christopher Buckley directed by Jason Reitman by Walter Chaw You make mistakes as a film critic sometimes and, unlike a lot of professions, when you flub, you do it for the record. I underestimated Spike Lee's 25th Hour badly upon its release a few years ago, misunderstanding it, fearing it, seeing it as a mediocre film when, in fact, subsequent viewings have revealed it as possibly Lee's tonal masterpiece. My inclination, then, is to overcompensate with Inside Man by offering it every benefit of the doubt beforehand, during, and now--by trying hard to overlook the first bad Jodie Foster performance I can remember as well as a mishandled denouement that stretches the picture past the point of recoil. But even with a jaundiced eye, Inside Man cements Lee as one of the few filmmakers with the brass ones to comment on the race schism, and... Bill Chambers Weekend (1967) [The Criterion Collection] - Blu-ray Disc tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01a3fcae3d49970b 2014-01-30T13:20:59-05:00 2014-01-30T13:33:04-05:00 WEEK END ****/**** Image A- Sound B Extras B starring Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Georges Staquet, Juliet Berto written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard by Angelo Muredda "The horror of the bourgeois can only be overcome with more horror." So says a militant cannibal as he stands over the remains of one such bourgeois husk late in Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard's farewell to the alienated pop art and American genre gerrymandering of his early period. As the line about horrors piled upon horrors implies, Weekend is nasty, as valedictory addresses go--a scorched-earth attack on France under Charles de Gaulle that finds nearly all of its citizens massacred in car crashes of their own design and converted into consumable products, namely food. The humanism of minor tragedies like Vivre sa vie and the heedless joy of Frank Tashlin homages like Une femme est une femme has here curdled into a new, ugly form. Although its title suggests a world of leisure and free play, one doesn't enjoy Weekend so much as one endures it. RUNNING TIME 104 minutes MPAA Not Rated ASPECT RATIO(S) 1.66:1 (1080p/MPEG-4) LANGUAGES French 1.0 LPCM SUBTITLES English REGION A DISC TYPE BD-50 STUDIO Criterion After a parking-lot tussle... Bill Chambers S1m0ne (2002) - DVD tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01a51153725b970c 2014-01-24T00:01:00-05:00 2014-01-23T20:14:17-05:00 ***½/**** Image A- Sound A- Extras C+ starring Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Jason Schwartzman, Winona Ryder written and directed by Andrew Niccol "Pygmalion saw so much to blame in women that he came at last to abhor the sex, and resolved to live unmarried. He was a sculptor, and had made with wonderful skill a statue of ivory, so beautiful that no living woman came anywhere near it... His art was so perfect that it concealed itself and its product looked like the workmanship of nature." - Bulfinch's Mythology Andrew Niccol's brilliant S1m0ne is an updating of the Pygmalion myth substituting a sculptor of clay for a sculptor of film and his disdain for women for disdain towards the peccadilloes of actors. The ending, however, stays the same. RUNNING TIME 117 minutes MPAA PG-13 ASPECT RATIO(S) 2.33:1 (16x9-enhanced) 1.33:1 LANGUAGES English DD 5.1 EX English DTS-ES 6.1 English Dolby Surround CC Yes SUBTITLES English REGION 1 DISC TYPE DVD-18 STUDIO New Line Art-film director Viktor Taransky (Al Pacino) is on the ropes after a string of commercial failures. As S1m0ne opens, Prima Donna actress Nicola (Winona Ryder) walks off the set of Taransky's latest labour of love just days prior... Bill Chambers Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2006) + Why We Fight (2006) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c019b04f8e6da970d 2014-01-20T00:01:00-05:00 2014-01-18T21:39:00-05:00 LOOKING FOR COMEDY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD */**** starring Albert Brooks, John Carroll Lynch, Sheetal Sheth, Fred Dalton Thompson written and directed by Albert Brooks WHY WE FIGHT **/**** directed by Eugene Jarecki by Walter Chaw The most frustrating thing about Albert Brooks's crushingly boring, infuriatingly unfunny Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (hereafter Comedy) is the possibility that such was the intention all along. 'Lost in Arabia' (well, India and Pakistan--let's not get crazy, here) finds Brooks doing a high-wire act with post-modernism--the same one he's been doing his whole career, as it happens. At some point, though, it's fair to wonder how long you can push self-awareness before it finally flies apart in a storm of narcissistic deconstruction. Mull over, if you will, a moment where Brooks (as Brooks) recreates one of his classic gags--involving the world's most ironically-tragic ventriloquist--in the middle of an interminable stand-up routine staged in a New Delhi auditorium, closing his act with the dummy (the wooden one) drinking a glass of water. It's Brooks, and Brooks's film, in microcosm: a man who returns the term "mortification" to ritual and religion while being incapable of subsuming the belief that he's still the smartest... Bill Chambers RoboCop (1987) [20th Anniversary Collector's Edition] - DVD tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c019b010d3f67970b 2013-11-14T00:01:00-05:00 2013-11-13T22:06:08-05:00 ***½/**** Image B+ Sound B- Extras A+ starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox screenplay by Edward Neumeier & Michael Miner directed by Paul Verhoeven by Walter Chaw I feel like I must've seen RoboCop, one of the key films slotted into my moviegoing sweet spot, at least two dozen times one summer on a shitty bootleg I made by hooking two VCRs together--the now-defunct Orion being one of those companies that apparently never adopted Macrovision to discourage such a thing. I watched it in regular rotation with the big movies of 19861 (Aliens, Big Trouble in Little China, Highlander, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Manhunter, Cronenberg's The Fly2, Blue Velvet) and 1987 (Predator, The Untouchables, Evil Dead II, Angel Heart, Innerspace, Near Dark, The Hidden, Full Metal Jacket, The Princess Bride, Hellraiser, Raising Arizona, The Living Daylights, The Big Easy, and Lethal Weapon). Those years in which I went from thirteen-to-fourteen in a haze of hormonal delirium (9½ Weeks, No Way Out, and Fatal Attraction are in my onanistic hall of fame) I consumed more film than I ever would again until fashioning movie-watching into a pastime resembling a career. I developed the ability to distinguish between popular... Bill Chambers Storytelling (2002) [Unrated and R-rated Versions] - DVD tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01901e3d5e4c970b 2013-07-12T23:01:00-05:00 2013-07-12T21:36:52-05:00 **½/**** Image B+ Sound B+ starring Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, Robert Wisdom, Paul Giamatti written and directed by Todd Solondz by Walter Chaw The line between love and misanthropy is thin and Todd Solondz is a cunning cartographer of that precarious divide. He sees political correctness as an insidious product of the kind of paternalistic racism that discards truth in favour of generally held truisms, a crutch for well-meaning racists who lack the wit to grasp that the basic misunderstanding of difference driving a desire to discriminate against minorities is identical to that which drives a desire to protect minorities. Solondz's films are confrontational in the extreme, full frontal assaults on the hypocrisy that fuels most relationships and stark dissections of the politics of cruelty. RUNNING TIME 87 minutes MPAA R/Unrated ASPECT RATIO(S) 1.85:1 (16x9-enhanced) 1.33:1 LANGUAGES English DD 5,1 English Dolby Surround CC Yes SUBTITLES English French REGION 1 DISC TYPE DVD-9 STUDIO New Line Unfortunately, in his third film, Storytelling, Solondz dilutes the focus of his ire with a few broadsides at Sam Mendes and his American Beauty (Mendes apparently derided Solondz's Happiness for talking down to its characters), and a somewhat unfocused slam or homage to a... Bill Chambers Fathom (1967) - DVD tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c0192abe96ca7970d 2013-07-10T23:01:00-05:00 2013-07-07T15:53:41-05:00 */**** Image A- Sound B starring Tony Franciosa, Raquel Welch, Ronald Fraser, Greta Chi screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr. directed by Leslie H. Martinson by Walter Chaw There's something desperately wrong with veteran television director Leslie H. Martinson's spy spoof Fathom, and it took me the whole movie to figure it out: Raquel Welch, as the titular va-va-va-voom dental hygienist cum parachutist cum superspy spends the entire film running from symbols of aggressive virility. Clad fetchingly in a variety of swimsuits and tight shirts (but never pants), our Fathom is pursued by a man with a speargun, by a Russian paramour mistaking our heroine for a prostitute, through various tunnels, and through a train. In its barest form, Fathom appears to be a rape fantasy involving a helpless, screaming, occasionally castrating Welch (though, tellingly, the only person she kills is another woman), who plays a variation on her standard cocktease and--naturally--deserves getting prodded about by a bull while a collection of bad guys poke at her with phallic shunts. RUNNING TIME 99 minutes MPAA Not Rated ASPECT RATIO(S) 2.35:1 (16x9-enhanced) LANGUAGES English DD 2.0 (Stereo) English DD 2.0 (Mono) French DD 2.0 (Mono) Spanish DD 2.0 (Mono) CC Yes SUBTITLES... Bill Chambers The Producers (1968) [Deluxe Edition] - DVD|[Collector's Edition] - Blu-ray and DVD Combo Pack tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01901e0c8ca4970b 2013-06-30T23:15:00-05:00 2013-06-30T21:21:25-05:00 Mel Brooks' The Producers *½/**** DVD - Image A- Sound B- Extras B+ BD - Image B+ Sound A- Extras B+ starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, Kenneth Mars written and directed by Mel Brooks click any image to enlarge by Walter Chaw A seminal year for film, 1968: Once Upon a Time in the West, Rosemary's Baby, Planet of the Apes, Night of the Living Dead, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barbarella, If..., Targets, Faces, Danger: Diabolik...and, some would say, Mel Brooks's The Producers, a film back in the limelight thanks to the record-breaking, award-winning Broadway play on which it's based now coming out as an extraordinarily ill-advised feature film of its own. Unlike Brooks's other classics (Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, even High Anxiety), The Producers has aged pretty poorly. It's played broad, which is to say that everyone acts like they're being defibrillated every five minutes, leading to a lot of high-decibel screeching and running around in circles. And I don't really understand what the film is about: Is it an attack on the theatre, or is it an attack on Nazis? If it's neither, if it's instead some kind of vaudevillian farce about the last days of... Bill Chambers The Manchurian Candidate (1962) [Special Edition] + Deathdream (1972) - DVDs + Uncle Sam (1997) - DVD|Blu-ray Disc tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01901dee027b970b 2013-06-27T23:01:00-05:00 2013-06-27T11:18:16-05:00 THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE ****/**** Image A+ Sound A Extras B+ starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novel by Richard Condon directed by John Frankenheimer Dead of Night ***½/**** Image A- Sound B Extras A- starring John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus, Henderson Forsythe screenplay by Alan Ormsby directed by Bob Clark UNCLE SAM **½/**** DVD - Image B+ Sound B Extras A- BD - Image B Sound A Extras A- starring Isaac Hayes, Bo Hopkins, Timothy Bottoms, Robert Forster screenplay by Larry Cohen directed by William Lustig THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE by Bill Chambers SPOILER WARNING IN EFFECT. As the zeitgeist is one of those things we tend to discuss in the past tense, you have to wonder whether it's a vacuum or a barometer. In other words, the point at which culturemongers finally lunge at a craze is usually once it's begun shrieking its death rattle, and yet a post-mortem of said craze invariably divulges a complex tapestry of art and politics, the ascription of happenstance to which seems preposterous. Our own Walter Chaw brilliantly observes in recent omnibus reviews pairing Love Me If You Dare with Valentin and Dodgeball... Bill Chambers V for Vendetta (2006) - Blu-ray Disc tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c0192aa6ca428970d 2013-05-29T23:01:00-05:00 2013-05-28T10:07:56-05:00 ***½/**** Image B+ Sound B Extras B- starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, John Hurt screenplay by The Wachowski Brothers, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore & David Lloyd directed by James McTeigue by Walter Chaw As documents for the opposition go, V for Vendetta may be the ballsiest, angriest picture of the current administration, flashing without apology images of naked prisoners of the state, shackled in black hoods and held in clear acrylic boxes while a febrile talking head and his cloistered intimates (called "fingers") form a closed fist around them. It surmises a future where the government plants stories in centrally-owned media conglomerates, controlling groupthink by providing just one point of view. Woe be unto those with a critical mind because what, after all, is more dangerous to a dictatorial theocracy than a question? But more, the picture is an impassioned plea for alternative lifestyles, exposing the melodrama of Brokeback Mountain to be embarrassed, even polite, when the struggle for equal regard is something that should be undertaken with passion and brio--it's life and death, and V for Vendetta presents it as such. There are no half measures in a film that takes as its... Bill Chambers The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) - Blu-ray Disc tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01910263214b970c 2013-05-21T19:54:39-05:00 2013-05-22T10:54:17-05:00 */**** Image B Sound B- starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Morgan Freeman screenplay by Michael Cristofer, based on the novel by Tom Wolfe directed by Brian De Palma by Walter Chaw Based on Tom Wolfe's instantly-legendary (and instantly-dated, truth be known) novel about the upper crust of Manhattan society in the '80s, Brian De Palma's The Bonfire of the Vanities is a disaster mitigated now and again by the odd extraordinary shot--exhibit A in what happens when too much money is spent in the creation of too sure a thing. The production was besieged by distraction and calamity, all of it captured in Julie Salamon's The Devil's Candy in what, after watching the movie again for the first time since its release, seems too measured a hatchet job. After all, Salamon's book is really just proof of what's evidenced on screen and observed by contemporary audiences: Decisions were made to pander to the lowest common denominator, and say what you will about the lowest common denominator, but it often knows when it's being condescended to. More, it confirms that Bruce Willis was outmatched by the demands of the material; that Tom Hanks was disengaged; that Melanie Griffith was... Bill Chambers


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A Roman silver coin, equal in value to ten ases (deni-ases ). The word was used in France and England for the inferior coins, whether silver or copper, and for ready money generally. Now d ( denarius) stands for money less than a shilling, as £ s. d.
"The denarius ... shown to our Lord ... was the tribute-money payable by the Jews to the Roman emperor, and must not be confounded with the tribute paid to the Temple." —F. H. Madden: Jewish Coinage, chap. xi. p. 247.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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