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It is a thankless job and probably the hardest of the 3 (DPS, Tank, Heals). I am running Fists/AR around level 3/4. I do not have many blue items, so I'm running Polaris multiple times to get blue items and learn "how to heal". It's rough man, especially for someone new to MMOs this year. My group made it through both times with me as healer, but it was down to the wire with the last boss. The whole group died twice, once each run. But the problem is on top of learning, trying to keep the tank alive, and watching for AOEs from the boss, the DPS players complain if I don't heal them enough. I do try to rotate through, but I thought the main job was to keep the tank alive? I do not want to quit healing, but get better.
I did expect some bumps in the road, but my real reason for the post is some advice. Here is my setup currently:
Nuture- Fist builder **I use this most
Surgical Steel- Fist consumer **I spam this with Nuture
Anima Shot- When I can, the tank is usually taking too much damage to keep spamming this.
Energize- Leech buff
Pack Leader- tank buff
Triggr Happy- Regular consumer
Fire at will- When I do get a chance to do some damage.
Anticogulant- This works awesome soloing because it applies affliction while healing myself or group.
Nuturing Gift-
Anima Boast
Leech Therapy- I thought this would be awesome and have yet to see it help at all.
Mind of Matter- Crit to Appliction stack
Alpha Wolf- buff to pack leader
Any advice is appreciated!
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Joined: 2/20/12
some good builds to try in here http://tswguides.blogspot.com/p/builds.html
personally I hate healing but that's just a personal preference nothing to do with the mechanics of it.
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Joined: 12/21/05
If you're able to beat the last boss with only 2 wipes, you're doing fine. Folks who die at the drop of a hat and have never played healers are the biggest entitled whiners. I consider any raid boss encounter a success if we only wipe a couple of times. I usually play a tank, btw.
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Joined: 2/16/09
Last boss has some positioning issues, since hes so big, he may turn and dps get caught in the breath attacks.
Leech therapy is good, but only if you are spamming Anima Burst or Anima Shot as your main heal, and only if the dps is kinda close to the tank. The size of the last boss on polaris, and the fact that the tank needs to have him turned away, doesnt allow for it to be very useful.
The vast majority, if not all the dmg from the last boss is avoidable by the dps, barring wierd positioning issues, and your first responsibility is to the tank.
My advice would be to get Shot of Anima ASAP, its a great AR heal consumer, but not really needed for polaris. I remember healing it with just Anima shot.
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Joined: 8/20/03
Originally posted by Coolrockski
Don't know about TSW as I have not played it but your main job as a primary healer in standard MMO's is to keep the tank in the fight. If the tank loses the aggro and the dps get wasted that isn't your fault, especially if the dps have detaunts and don't use them. In most games you will find that groups utilise the services of two healers, Primary to keep the tank up and an off healer for filling in the gaps.
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Heres my AR/Feral build for NM's, I swear by it, take a look :)
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Originally posted by Coolrockski
As to any deck advice I recommend getting and using healing sparks and use anima burst rather than anima shot. I know its slower but it heals more and synergizes excellently with healing sparks which is pretty much Fist healings bread and butter. You might also look at Fired Up, Platoon, and Mortar Support.
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Joined: 3/03/06
Coming from a tank, communication it the key.
It's essential if a group plans on trying the tough stuff, the tank needs to know when the healer is rescuing the DPS so he can pop mitigation abilities. Same if the healer is struggling, tanks in TSW have some great survival actives, a GOOD tank will have several ready for such eventualities, a BAD tank will either have only one or none slotted or burn them at the wrong time.
DPS need to realise when they are going to need to be self reliant and use healing pots.
The worst players i have seen in TSW have been Blood DPS....they are almost to a man completely oblivious to their own HP's and almost always test the healers patience because they die and whine at the healer.
This being said, i have seen ranged standing in AoE damage pools wondering why they die and healers who don't seem to realise they too must move a lot to stay in the game.
TSW is essentially a gear check, you need the higher QL kit to be viable as any class, it's just far more obvious if the tank or healer are under geared. This being said running with under geared DPS will also cause fights to go on too long and oftem leads to failure.
The great thing is many builds are viable for a healer, there is no one "best" spec. My advice check out the misc abilities, look for synergy between actives and passives, often you'll find great passives in other weapon trees that don't need that weapon equipped (as a tank i have Hardcase slotted which is from the shotgun line but doesn't require i have a shotgun equipped, i am dedicated to my Hammer/Chaos build).
Check out the official forums Deck area, loads fo good discussions there about healing and healer specs, best bet is to read for information and make your own decisions about the spec you want to play or test out.
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Joined: 6/17/12
This is just something that you have to get used to as a healer. DPS just want to stand there and pew pew without having to worry about mechanics and tactics. They will constantly stand in the fire and then complain when they die. This is the way the system works. If you want to heal you have to develop a thick skin and let the criticism roll off you.
Healing is all about the concept of triage. You have to be able to quickly prioritize whom to heal and how. This requires you to have great awareness of your surroundings and a strong understanding of the fights which you likely don't since the game is brand new.
The best solution is to find a good guild or run with friends becuase they are more likely to take their time and help you out as much as possible. They also usually won't rage if you wipe. If you can't or don't want to find a regular group then you just have to get used to taking the heat.
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Joined: 8/14/04
yes healing is a thankless job, most other players that whine and yell they dont get healed enough, would never tolarate being whined at or yelled at (hence they dont play healers, usualy a dps) its a personal satisfaction in healing a party, and feels good at times when you get with an apriciative group, take advice from players who have played healers, but never let them tell you HOW to play your Character, its your time, your computer, your money and your character, piss on the tank that knows how to play your character better then you, just find another tank,
i would rather play with a group that has fun and wipes 20 times rather then play with a bunch of whiners that will quit the group on the second wipe, your playing a game, Have fun.
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Joined: 6/26/12
Thanks for the tips..strategy-wise and philosophical. It is good to get feedback here because it is not happening within the groups you form in public in-game. I also see the tanks take a lot of abuse for not genrating aggro..and honestly, I don't care if it is a public group. It is much "cooler" to be helpful than a complainer.
I should say this isn't all DPS..it is the minority. Some in public are way cool..we just need more of them.
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Joined: 1/17/04
Just say this to the DPS that complains.
"You ARE able to dodge in this game."
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Joined: 6/12/12
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Originally posted by Coolrockski
I was a top three healer in EQ2 in the Guild Darknessfalls name was Pawket incase some one knows me =-P. Heals is always the hardest job. Not so sure about thankless though. If I did not show to raid there where mobs we did not kill period. Any other class in our raid could be replaced even our main tank Pinpoint could be replaced by our offtank SK Vein. However if our Mystic or CLeric was MIA for raid and that was rare it was a no go because to pug a healer would mean Death. So yeah heals are hard but it is no thankless job.
It do get's franctic and it's thankless a job, often you can get flamed due to people dying... only to see that your tank has HP but zero mitigation (all DPS stats in gear other than HP) and your DPS love to eat AoE's and environment damage, or steal aggro cause they are so uber.
However... TSW is the first game i've ever played a healer, cause that doesn't exclude me from playing other roles without needing to reroll. I have 6 (done in an economic way regarding AP/SP, after all, to get the skills you want for a build you may get quite a few that work for others) builds including a full healing and 2 tanking ones.
Healing is by far the hardest, but also the most engaging and challenging, it's quite fun. My healing build ended up better geared than my main build :P.
This also means i almost never have to wait for group spots... as i can fill the roles and even compliment different groups as DPS or tank, for different effects.
OF course, i'm just in Egypt, so let's see how it holds up for elites and NM.
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Joined: 2/16/04
Everyone needs to be responsible for their own health if possible during boss fights. There are healing/shielding potions for a reason afterall.
But I'd say you're doing fine. Bosses really are meant to be unforgiving if you mess up. Dying is expected (heck it's part of the game lore) so don't feel too bad when it happens.
Most good players realize it happens a lot in TSW. Those that complain about a few deaths are probably the reason for those deaths :)
On thougher encounters sometimes i end up losing someone near the end or dying myself, but basically by then the victory is assured and it's just a matter of seconds for our victory.
It feels bad when someone dies on your watch, but as long as you learn and things don't get screwed (nor ends up being the norm) all's cool.
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Joined: 5/02/12
Been a healer in several MMOs and this is a tough job. Especially when joing a pug because you never know who you group up with. Just one drama queen can spoil a whole run for everybody. I think that MMO players were much friendlier in the past but maybe I'm just getting old and nostalgic here :)
But tswguids.blogspot.com really has some viable builds or at least it gives some ideas how to build your favourite. Just got interested in one tank build there and thinking about making one.
I'd also advise to "inspect" your tank and other members to have an idea of what kind of a task you are gonna face, and be prepared.
One of the greatest issues I have with raid and dungeon content is that many players don't want to learn the tactics. They expect to get through the content fast and perfectly on the first try. Not everyone thinks like this but a large number of people do.
This is one of the reasons why I appreciate good groups and guilds. We can learn the best way to get the job done and improve for the future.
I also tend to lean towards solo content these days because I can run through stuff over and over and get better at doing it without exessive drama or waste time with lfg spam.
My least favorite thing in the whole MMO universe is a PUG that does not communicate at all.
If I tank and ask questions or talk and get silence, I know right away there is trouble on the horizon.
If I am DPS and again no one is talking I prepare for failure.
I don't heal. I probably could, but I can't resist killing stuff and therefore will not burden anyone with a healer without the heart to do it. That is just wrong.
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Joined: 5/15/07
Surrender!?!.....Hell we got'em right where we want them!
Hats off to you, my friend......healing is a tough, thankless job. Don't be discouraged by the 10 % douchebag clan!! I personally run a dps character for the reasons you have talked about. The one thing I have noticed in game are the people who ask "what's your QL level?". This drives me crazy, my brain registers it as "what's your gear score?". I think to myself, "hey turd....do you think I would be LFG, just to go in and embarrass myself." Anyway, kinda went off on a stupid rant......keep up the good work, I'd run with you anytime!!!


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If Sprint lights up an LTE network, and there are no iOS devices on it...
After spending a couple years wandering in the ill-fated desert that was WiMax, Sprint has finally joined the Long Term Evolution (LTE) and flipped the switch on their new, shoulda-done-it-sooner 4G network. Sprint CEO, Dan Hesse, announced the July 15 as the go-live day a couple of weeks ago.
"The performance of both the 4G LTE and improved 3G networks are exceeding our expectations and we are pleased with the progress of the entire Network Vision program."
With the launch on July 15, Sprint will have debuted 4G LTE to millions of people in five major metropolitan areas with more market launches in 2012 to be announced later this year. By the end of 2013, Sprint expects to have largely completed the build out of its all-new 4G LTE nationwide network -- with an enhanced 3G network -- covering 250 million people across the United States.
Only they don't have any iOS devices to run on it.
Sprint does have the iPhone 4S, and the bank busting contract to prove it, but the iPhone 4S doesn't run on LTE anyway. The iPhone 4S only runs on Sprint's the slow-as-molasses-in-Winterfell CDMA network. We're talking 2-3 mbps, compared to HSPA 14.4 mbps networks on the GSM side. (Verizon has the same problem.)
What Sprint doesn't have is the new iPad, which does run on LTE networks, including AT&T and Verizon. But not Sprint. At least not yet. Whether or not that changes in the near or distant future, and whether or not deploying an LTE network factors into when and if it happens, only Apple and Sprint no for sure.
But for now, if you live in Kansas City, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston or Atlanta, and you just got Sprint LTE, you're going to have to go somewhere else to get a device to run on it.
That raises the question -- if the most popular smartphone in the world doesn't run on LTE, and the most popular tablet in the world doesn't run on Sprint's LTE, how important is it that Sprint is lighting it up today?
And how important is it that Sprint build it out quickly so that, come October and the iPhone 5, Sprint isn't the only U.S. iPhone carrier without an LTE iPhone on a strong, well deployed LTE network?
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If Sprint lights up an LTE network, and there are no iOS devices on it...
"But for now, if you live in Kansas City, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston or Atlanta, and you just got Sprint LTE, you're going to have to go somewhere else to get a device to run on it."
It doesn't run iOS, but the EVO 4G LTE is available *now* on Sprint. They don't have to go anywhere. The success of the original EVO was probably enough that Sprint was willing to cut the ribbon on LTE before getting the next iteration of the iPhone - which better be LTE.
Carriers only care about increasing their subscriber count and selling their subscribers expensive voice and data plans. If iPhone and iPad will help them accomplish those goals, they'll cut a deal with Apple. (Sprint signed a contract to buy 30.5 million iPhones.) If building out an LTE network will help them accomplish those goals, they'll order their cell tower technicians to do it. (Sprint apparently did.)
Evidently Sprint is thinking long-term here. Neither the Apple deal nor the LTE build-out will make them money for years.
I'd bet the next iphone will be LTE so i wonder what will happen to Sprint if, in the coming months, they are simeltaneosly launching tons of LTE iphones along with launching untested networks.
Either way i hope its gets faster and people going LTE frees up some 3G spectrum cause i'm on sprint and data speeds in L.A. are generally horrible. well at least they are in my area. And i may be on 3G for a while since i dont' have an upgrade for a long time. And i'm not the sort that needs every new apple device so i may not get a new iphone anyways.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Carriers have to build out their infrastructure first. Customers arent going to buy a device that doesn't yet work with their carrier.
My thinking is that once the LTE Build out reaches critical mass late in 2013, Sprint will have to do what everyone else has done. Eliminate unlimited data plans. What they may do to remain competitive is offer more data at a lower monthly cost, which could cause Verizon and AT&T customers to jump ship. I think that's Sprint's long term plan. Short term- it doesn't matter to me if Sprint releases an LTE iPhone this year because my contract is up next year. If they don't announce an LTE iPhone in 2013, people will bounce to get one elsewhere.
Oh get over yourselves ye arrogant fruity phone users. Verizon had a very aggressiveness launch of its LTE network without an i product to run on it, as did AT&T. All of the three majors carriers high end phones are LTE equipped now as they care about the experience for all their users and locking them in to their networks going forward. Sprint has been releasing high end LTE smartphones that simply outclass the iphone in every way for many months now, to the include the insanely popular GSIII. To have the mindset that a carriers network speed doesn't matter until they get an Apple product on it is the height of arrogance, and they wonder why Apple users cant break that stigma of being pompous elitist. Funny being that I can pick up an iphone in the Walgreens checkout line these days. Not to mention the fact that it is Android driving the need and push for faster 'pipes'.
Pompous elitists? Really? Android users are THE most pompous arrogant asses in the tech industry. I've been using computers since the day the Apple // came out and NOBODY is as arrogant and rude and pompous as an Android user. iPhone users don't give a rats ass about what other people use.
There isn't a more elitist, two-class smartphone platform on Planet Earth than Android. What platform has only 10% of their users on the newest release of the platform? Not iOS. That's the Great, do-no-wrong Google that allowed that to happen, along with the mostly incompetent OEM's and evil carriers. Face it, Android breaks into two classes. Nexus class, which is nice and a valid competitor, but with snide Internet trolls who can get elitist and arrogant and say "Android is better than iOS", and the carrier class, who resents their lack of updates and is willing to consider an alternative. Meanwhile we on the Apple side have a consisent platform, solid ecosystem, and the best OS on the planet for the majority of the population who wants to use their device rather than tweak it, and a device that works at fast speeds for most of the global networks that haven't even had to deploy LTE yet.
I sense you can't deal with the fact carriers are screwing Android users, and don't have the courage to face it, so you troll iMore instead. It's amazing the carrier abuse the Android people can justify. Also, the carrier situation is the only thing keeping the 4S speeds behind, a device still loved by users, a device that, unlike most LTE devices, has great battery life. Instead, you blame Apple rather than seeking to understand why they made the technical choices they did. Simplicity, not a feature list. I sense you're like the geeks and IT drones who hate Apple because they make things simple and cut people like yourself out of the loop and out of their positions of superiority. Before you call us elitist, check your own house.
Apple would have preferred the US to be on one mobile standard but instead of blaming Qualcomm and the corrupt politicians and FCC, you blame Apple! Your lack of understanding of history amazes me. Either that, or worse, you willfully ignore it.
Lloyd, heal thyself.
And, according to the Sprint reps I've talked to, that's one of the reasons Sprint is trying to get this who'll out DONE. The network is apparently being augmented to provide better voice and data to all Sprint phones, not just affixed with LTE for some.
We will see if this turns out to be b.s. but I, too, am LUCKY when I even APPROACH 1 Mbps on 3G. I would LOVE 3 Mbps. I'd kill* for anything higher.
* - Okay, not really.
I know for a fact that the iPhone has slower speeds on the Sprint network than other phones on the Sprint network. My wife has an iPhone 4S and I have an EVO 3D. In same exact place, the EVO 3D data speeds are always a lot higher. I average 1.3 Meg download and .7 upload on 3G for the EVO and my wife's iPhone 4S at the same time averages .6 download and .3 upload. I really believe the radio on the Sprint version of the iPhone 4S is not to strong.
"... if the most popular smartphone in the world doesn't run on LTE..."
What are you talking about??? Sprint's Galaxy S III runs on LTE! :p
I believe Sprint will get the new iPhone with LTE on the same day as everyone else. There is no way they would get another 3G model. I would be financial suicide if they did. They are already releasing LTE phones, with a lot more planned through the end of the year. The network will only improve over the next 6 months with more LTE implementation. Remember, most subscribers sign up for a 2 year contract, and the network will be implemented in most areas by middle of 2013 and be completed done early 2014.
"how important is it that Sprint build it out quickly so that, come October and the iPhone 5, Sprint isn't the only U.S. iPhone carrier without an LTE iPhone on a strong, well deployed LTE network?"
Very important.
1. most of the phones on sprint are NOT iphones despite it being the most popular phone so they would be serving the marjority of their customers.
2. LTE is needed to get the Iphone as Apple was not gonna make a wimax only version just for sprint.
3. Long term Android will likely be the most widely used OS on a mobile phone just like windows dominates the pc space and thus LTE is not dependant on the iphone's success.
Sprint is horrible is my area but that is only because a lot of people have Sprint as their cell phone provider. If Sprint had better service in which they might with LTE, I might consider going back to Sprint but for now, I am a Happy Verizon customer

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Act of Violence
It's always been puzzling to me why this almost unbearably bleak noir hasn't made it to the forefront of the pack of truly exemplary films noir in critical circles. If we are to use the canonical criteria for noir of noted local author, former peeping tom, and current all-around creep, James Ellroy, as best summed up by a two-word description, "you're fucked," then noirs don't come much more noir-ish than Act of Violence. We hear a lot about noir embodying the postwar anxieties of the United States. Well, Act of Violence lets those icky feelings boil to the top and builds its plot around a hornet's nest of postwar guilt, fear and anxiety.
Van Heflin plays Frank Enley, a WW2 veteran living an idyllic life in a small California town. He's a family man, and a pillar of the community. The film opens with a crowd gathered to cheer him for his latest real estate development and he is described as having proved himself in battle, as well as in business, an all-around great guy. He bounces his little son on his shoulders while listening to his tribute with his wife. But this blissful scene is contrasted with the severe image of Robert Ryan, dressed in a trench coat and fedora in some New York slum, brandishing a gun, and lurching towards a Greyhound bus leaving for California.Continue Reading
Stranger by the Lake
Talking about sex on film and why he felt it didn't work Orson Welles once said, "Ecstasy isn't really part of the scene we can do on celluloid." I wonder what he would have made of Stranger by the Lake, a film that is about almost nothing but sex. Okay, you might say it's about the search for connection, and the complicated nature of human relationships, and it's kind of a murder mystery as well but everyone is naked almost the entire time. I don't think I've ever seen so many uncircumcised penises (it's French..) in a movie before. As a thriller, it works well enough. The nudity is distracting to a point but it works in tandem with the languid pacing and serenity of the visuals. This is, in some sense, a nature film.
The film takes place at a cruising spot near a lake in France. Men come to sunbathe nude, and to go into the woods nearby to have anonymous sex. It's a world unto itself with its own peculiar rules and set of codes. Real life doesn't seem to intrude but that's an illusion because the dangers of the real world are ominously close. Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps) is a regular who is more drawn to this spot than he wants to admit. He likes disappearing into the woods. He strips, he swims, he sunbathes, he cruises, and the scenes have an unobtrusive medium-shot matter-of-fact-ness about them. They look like anthropologists doing fieldwork on gay subcultures could have shot them.Continue Reading
Super Duper Alice Cooper
Finally a quintessential documentary on Alice Cooper, rock's original shock master, titled appropriately enough, Super Duper Alice Cooper. Unlike the usual quickie music doc (Behind The Music, etc.), this is a film edited with style and a totally engaging visual flare similar to the wonderful Robert Evans doc The Kid Stays in the Picture, with those three-dimensional cut outs and old-timey film footage mixed in to help tell the story. And Cooper himself, an engaging story teller, narrates. Of course I'm the target audience; I had a couple of his records as a kid, I went to an Alice Cooper concert in Detroit when I was in middle school and I have nostalgic pangs that get me a little giddy when I see those '70s clips. But I'm also thrilled to report that I watched this with a woman who was born long after Cooper's heyday who had little previous knowledge about him or interest, and she thoroughly enjoyed the movie, too. Again, stylishly and narratively it can satisfy the old-school fan and intrigue a newbie.
As told by the film, Cooper's story is the usual "sickly kid dreams of more and beats the odds" ode. Born Vincent Furnier in Detroit, Cooper's pastor father and mother moved him out West to Phoenix to help his extreme asthma. He grew up a churchgoing all-American type, but like many kids in the '60s inspired by The Beatles, their music (and spoofing the Fab Four at a school talent show) led to him and his buds forming a band. Even as a bunch of suburban squares they found some success in their hometown under the name The Spiders; later encouraged by a message from a ouija board they changed the name of the band to Alice Cooper (slowly Vincent would actually take on the name himself and later legally change it when he dumped his bandmates) and set out for hippie filled Los Angeles. In California they fell under the tutelage of super weirdo Frank Zappa and became the brother act to his all-girl band The GTO's. Besides giving pointers on partying, the fashionable ladies also helped them update their look (with thrift store women's Ice Capades costumes). Though they signed with manager Shep Gordon (a pot dealer, for whom managing music was just a side gig) they didn't find the success they craved and were even jeered at for their growing onstage theatrics. The band took off for middle America, playing small gigs until they finally settled in Detroit, a working class city that liked to rock and appreciated a hard-hitting band with a strong work ethic. Playing alongside bands like The MC5 and The Stooges, it has been said that this garage rock scene was the beginning of Punk Music (and Johnny Lydon AKA Rotten, adds his voice to the narration later, giving credence to this by admitting what a big influence Cooper was on his band, The Sex Pistols). The Alice Cooper act grew more and more outrageous and when they got to open for John Lennon at a music festival in Toronto, an incident that led to a chicken being murdered made them famous. They eventually broke big with hits "I'm Eighteen and then "School's Out", but Cooper fell deeper into a dark hole of alcoholism and celebrity trappings. Finally he dumped his high school pals and went solo, where his shows became a sorta vaudeville horror act, complete with a boa constrictor, a guillotine and dancers. (He married a young pretty one.)Continue Reading
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
Written by William Rose, who was also responsible for the loud, brash and big It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World a couple years earlier (as well as the overrated Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming is also a big ensemble comedy, but much better executed and focused than his previous script, with more heart and less mean-spiritedness. It also helps that it has a very able director at the helm, the nearly forgotten Norman Jewison, whose socially-conscious films still hold up (In The Heat of The Night, A Soldier's Story, The Hurricane; The Russians Are Coming could also be considered part of that group). He had a number of films which were popular and respected in their day (The Cincinnati Kid, The Thomas Crown Affair, Fiddler on the Roof, Agnes of God, Moonstruck) and some fascinating curios (Jesus Christ Superstar, Rollerball and F.I.S.T.). He falls into that group of directors who emerged in the sixties like Arthur Penn, George Roy Hill, John Boorman and John Schlesinger who had a lot of acclaim and made some classics, but never became brand names like Polanski and Coppola, or even to a lesser extent Mike Nichols and Sydney Pollack. Jewison has as many solid films as his peers, though looking back none reach that same level of transcendence as a Bonnie and Clyde, Midnight Cowboy or Deliverance. For my money, though many would disagree, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming is his film that holds up best today.
Based on a novel by Nathaniel Benchley (whose son Peter wrote the novel Jaws), set in a little New England beachy island community (very similar looking to that one in Jaws, though surprisingly actually shot in Northern California), where a Russian submarine gets stuck in a sandbar, leading to havoc in the town. This was a few years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, so this was the height of cold-war hysteria (think Dr. Strangelove), so even just having likable Russian characters was enough to make this film subversive to some. The film has dozens of characters, with top character actors of the day in peak form.Continue Reading
Rolling Thunder
With post-Vietnam War movies there is a "Vietnam Vet taking down his enemies" genre that would include the pulp biggies Taxi Driver, Billy Jack and First Blood, as well as pure vigilante exploitation films like Eye of the Tiger, Vigilante Force, The Exterminator, The Annihilators and Gordon's War (not to be confused with the 'Nam vets that appear as crazies in Targets, Black Sunday, Skyjacked and Earthquake or the zombie vets of Cannibal Apocalypse). Somewhere between pulp and vetploitation lays the very intense and violent Rolling Thunder. This was director Joe Flynn's followup to his interesting crime thriller The Outfit. Paul Schrader (most famous for writing Taxi Driver and Raging Bull) wrote the screenplay though he claims it was reworked away from his original intention by credited co-writer Heywood Gould (Fort Apache the Bronx and Cocktail). Either way Rolling Thunder definitely carries Schrader's signature theme of the lonely loner on a self-destructive path against society while seeking his own kind of redemption.
The film opens with Denny Brooks' ballad "San Antone," which was used similarly in The Ninth Configuration (he also sang the theme to the Chuck Norris choppy-socky Breaker! Breaker!). After spending years as POWs, Major Charles Rane (William Devane) and Sergeant Johnny Vohden (a very young and very intense Tommy Lee Jones) finally return home to Texas. Of course, we know from our film studies, going as far back as William Wyler's WWII drama The Best Years of Our Lives, that returning vets have a tough time readjusting. And Rane is no different. His pretty wife Janet (Lisa Blake Richards of TV's Dark Shadows) tries to help him ease back into civilian life, but he senses she has moved on (it's obvious she has been involved with a local cop), and his son doesn't even remember him. Rane suffers from PTSD and is emotionally distant, even turning down the advances of a young military groupie, Linda (Linda Haynes). The town tries to make him feel welcomed with a parade, a new car and over two grand in silver dollars (one for every day he was in captivity).Continue Reading
Swing Shift
Usually when movie lovers talk about legendary lost works in which auteur directors had their films taken from them and butchered by the American studios that produced them, they're referring to "holy grails" of cinema such as Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924) or Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). But I recently stumbled across an account of another supposed lost classic, Swing Shift—Jonathan Demme's tribute to America's "Greatest Generation" of World War II and the women on the home front who found a new sense of self and independence by working for the war effort in the factories.
I actually really love the movie Swing Shift as it is but I hadn't seen it in years. I remember my mom taking her mother to see it and letting me tag along. My grandma was part of that generation of women who did what they could for the war effort, whether it meant volunteering at the local USO or planting a Victory Garden in their backyards. By 1984, when the movie was released, that generation was elderly while I was only six. Seeing the movie as a kid, I think I just really loved the sentimental look at the U.S. during the 1940s. Taking place in Southern California, in Santa Monica, between the attack on Pearl Harbor and VJ Day, the film has a melancholic feel, with the sky looking perpetually overcast and the music usually something slow and beautiful, such as one of Jo Stafford's torch songs. And though I don't remember if Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade" is on the soundtrack it really should be.Continue Reading
Police Story
If we lived in a perfect world, Police Story would be the archetypal action film all other action films would emulate. But the world is imperfect and most action films are bloated, $100 million plus productions filled with bad dialogue, aging stars, poorly choreographed fights, and CGI removing any semblance of real threat or excitement. And yet, Police Story is almost thirty years old and still excites in the way action movies should.
Police Story doesn't wait around to give you tons of unnecessary exposition. Right from the start, it spends only a few minutes establishing who the bad guys are, why the cops are after them, and Chan Ka-Kui's (played by Jackie Chan, also the film's director) moralistic view of his job. And right when they give you just enough info to get involved in the story, you're treated to a gunfight followed by cars driving through and destroying an entire shanty town followed by Chan Ka-Kui chasing a bus being held hostage by the escaping villains.Continue Reading
Heaven Tonight
No one has heard of Director Pino Amenta. The name John Waters has always brought to mind the Baltimore cult director instead of the English actor. Almost everyone has heard of Guy Pearce, who was introduced in Heaven Tonight—a dated melodrama circulating a strained relationship between a father and his son. The weight of their troubles doesn't have anything to do with your standard fare of family drama, like one of the members abusing substances to the point of domestic strife. The issues that Johnny Dysart (John Waters) and his teenage son, Paul (Guy Pearce), are having are based on talent. Johnny is a failing musician and a has-been after a short-lived but illustrious career 20 years prior. Like many bands from the '60s, his was one that was going to become the next Beach Boys or Beatles—hitting the top of the charts and soon to tour the world. All it took was for his best friend and bandmate to become a junkie and the band collapsed. Now young Paul is climbing to the top with his electro group and doing so without the help of his father. His determination and position as the leader of other young men who are keen on success is not only impressive, but the target of envy and resentment from his displaced father.
Still, things in the Dysart household have stayed relatively steady over the years. Everyone gets along for the most part and Johnny's wife, Annie (Rebecca Gilling), is waiting patiently, and with great understanding, for her husband to put away his guitar and settle down into middle age. Johnny, oblivious to the strain his nonexistent career is putting on his family, is waiting for his last chance to come through. He's finished another album and chases after an old colleague in the business to give him an answer in terms of releasing it. Annie has been the major breadwinner of the family, and with a new business opportunity on her hands she's ready to take a risk and wants her husband to be included. Meanwhile young Paul and his group starts to really become popular and he desperately wants his father's approval and attention. All of this is put to the side when Johnny's troubled old friend and former bandmate, Baz (Kim Gyngell), comes crawling back into their lives and leaves an impact that has the potential to destroy their progress as a family unit.Continue Reading
Children of Men
Can one really imagine a city underwater? A meteor penetrating the Earth's ozone layer after a team of rogues tries to stop it? Dormant aliens or complex thinking machines rising from the Earth's core? Zombies dressed like your neighbors who hunt down the fit and handsome last man on Earth? The answer is a resounding "no." But infertility...inhumane policing of immigrants...turmoil and depravity...a civilized and desperate reach towards mankind's will to sustain and overcome—well, that's an apocalypse that is much more tangible. Alfonso Cuaron's slow burn to the end of mankind paints a poetic picture of biblical proportions. One that not only allows the viewer to sink into a mortifying suspense of disbelief, but also manages to exemplify a relevant and powerful social commentary; a science-fiction for realists.
Cuaron's name seems to be on a lot of people's tongues following the recent release and accolades of Gravity, but Children of Men is a masterpiece that, while commercially a success, fell short of the sort of interest and praise of his latest work. It's as though fans of the genre were still caught up in the thrill and evolution of robots and outdated imagination. Perhaps the grizzly immigration aspect struck a nerve or was regarded as too controversial.Continue Reading


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Guy Fieri rocks and rolls during appearance at Caesars WindsorWritten by Amy Campbell | | email@example.com
The group assembled in the Canadian Club Lounge at Caesars Windsor in late May was a mix of male and female, dressed up and dressed down, young and old, but they were all buzzing, enthusiastically accepting canapés as they kept one eye on the door.
They might have been waiting for a political activist, guru or rock star, but the actual object of their anticipation was a combination of all three: Guy Fieri, the rock star chef who advocates feeding children "real food" and is a culinary guru to millions. Windsor was the third stop on Fieri's 14-city roadshow, a mix of comedy and cooking with a rock 'n' roll attitude.
At the pre-show reception in the Club Lounge, the Fieri faithful weren't shy about their devotion. Tami Whittington came to Caesars from the Toronto area and was elated at the prospect of meeting the chef. Whittington runs the restaurant for the UPS logistics campus in Burlington, Ont., and said Fieri is a staff favorite.
"This is a dream," Whittington said. "My friend at work will never believe this. We talk about him all day long."
Fieri didn't disappoint when he arrived a few minutes later in the California casual T-shirt, shorts and flip-flops that have become a trademark. He charmed the crowd, moving from table to table making easy small talk. To a woman wearing sequins he stopped and said, "Did you get dressed up for my show? Look how cute you are!" Before leaving the party, Fieri autographed copies of his latest cookbook, "Guy Fieri Food," and posed for photos with fans.
Fieri's culinary career started in 1978 when the enterprising sixth-grader started selling soft pretzels out of a cart he and his father built; 20 years of restaurant experience and a trip to France later, he was a successful restaurateur in Santa Rosa, Calif.
But the road to the Guy Fieri Road Show began in earnest when he won Food Network's "Next Food Network Star" in 2005, launching his first Food Network show, "Guy's Big Bite," followed soon after by "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives." In 2010, he made the crossover to network television as the host of NBC's "Minute to Win It."
The Guy Fieri Road Show takes the personality TV viewers have come to love, backs it up with DJ Cobra providing music and sound effects from a booth onstage, and gives some cooking tips in the process.
After an opening video promising, "This ain't your mama's cooking show," Fieri came onstage with a squeeze bottle in each hand, squirting water high into the air before pointing out to one of his "krew" which sections should be fired on with a T-shirt cannon. Then he told his Canadian audience they were the first.
"After the first tour, we knew if we were going to do another one we wanted it to be international. And Windsor, we've done it here tonight!" he said, ramping up the considerable energy in the room.
The rest of the show was a runaway train of cooking and comedy, with the Caesars audience 100 percent onboard. Wearing a yellow and black chef's coat featuring a skull and crossbones topped with a chef's hat, Fieri delivered accounts of his childhood and his early restaurant experiences with the nuance and timing of a seasoned comedian. Recounting his first attempt at deep-frying a turkey, Fieri soon had the audience repeatedly inserting the phrase "ice cold beverage" with gusto, right on cue.
Between his onstage stories and video clips of the "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" appearances of his sous chefs, Panini Pete, Gorilla and Stretch, Fieri gave short, sometimes interactive cooking demonstrations. Pouring olive oil into a skillet, he asked audience members what they noticed about the oil as he swirled it in the pan.
"It's slow!" one called back.
"That's right — that means it's not hot enough," he said, noting that the viscosity of the oil should be more like that of water. "It should be fast in the pan," he said, putting the skillet back on the stove. "There will be a test on this later."
Loosely related to food was Fieri's nod to his "Minute to Win It" fans, for which he pulled volunteers from the audience to participate in the show's "Face the Cookie" challenge. Fieri narrated the action and the rest of the audience roared as eight fans used only their facial muscles to move two Oreos from their foreheads to their mouths.
In addition to cooking tips, Fieri gave eating tips: Eat with your children and cook with your children to teach them healthy eating habits. In 2009, Fieri helped draft California legislation establishing the second Saturday in May as "Cook With Your Kids Day," and earlier this year established the Cooking With Kids Foundation (www.cwkfoundation.org) to encourage healthy eating habits and strengthen family relationships by working together in the kitchen.
"We've got to cook with our kids," he told the Windsor audience. "We've got to show them where their food comes from."
Fieri's 2011 Road Show coincides with the release of "Guy Fieri Food," a 400-plus-page, hardcover cookbook peppered with stories — some of them stories he tells in the show — of Fieri's culinary adventures and antics, from pretzel cart to roadshow. But sous chef Stretch, aka Jeff Rumaner, is happy to tell one story the book humbly doesn't: the impact Fieri and his "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" has had on the restaurant business.
"He's done a lot for the mom-and-pop places," Rumaner said. "He's opened a lot of doors for a lot of people."
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WWDC day one
Today was officially the first day of WWDC 2012, and it was kicked off by the much anticipated keynote where Apple announced iOS 6 and an updated MacBook Pro with a gorgeous Retina display. Rene (@reneritchie) and Seth (@sethclifford) were on the scene doing an amazing job at live blogging and taking photos while I (@llofte) and the rest of the iMore crew held down the fort from a distance.
Rene joined the line for the WWDC 2012 keynote at about 2am after having a night of virtually no sleep. The line had already been started and by morning, the line was huge. You'd think it was an iPhone launch day!
At about 5a, Seth and Justin from Nickelfish joined Rene in line.
At about 9a, I jumped over to the Starbucks right down the street from Moscone and, after realizing that their Wi-Fi was a major fail, tethered my MacBook Air to my Verizon 4G LTE iPad for the keynote.
Meanwhile, Rene, Seth, and Justin were being herded through the Moscone Center like a bunch of cattle.
During the Keynote, Rene and Seth rocked the live blog despite having major Wi-Fi failure. USB tethering with iPhones and iPads FTW!
When the Keynote was over, we were all starving, so we all went out for some delicious sushi and discussed all the good stuff that was announced during the keynote.
After lunch, it was time for Seth and Rene to head to the Apple Design Awards ceremony, but not before grabbing some coffee from Blue Bottle.
After the ADA event, Rene and I had tea with Paul Haddod (@tapbot_paul) of Tapbots. We discussed the keynote, Tweetbot, MacBook Pros, iOS 6, and more.
We had a great conversation that ended with a video interview (coming soon!).
Next on our agenda was to record a podcast with Seth and Justin, but first we made a quick stop at the Apple Store to pick up a couple of the new Smart Cases for the new iPad (review coming soon!).
The Smart Cases weren't even available on the sales floor at the Apple Store, yet, and had to be brought in for us from the back. Most of the Apple employees hadn't seen them yet, so we gathered quite a crowd of Apple employees drooling over our new cases.
After picking up our new cases, Rene, Seth, Justin, and I gathered on the floor in Rene's hotel room to record a special edition podcast of iPhone Live! It should be available for listening and download soon!
To end the day, Rene and I enjoyed a delicious dinner at Colibri Mexican Bistro before heading back to our rooms to edit videos, photos, podcasts, and more.
It was a hell of day! Four more to go!
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WWDC day one
What was amazing its the same every year and every year we see the same recycled stories and wishes that never come true
You can tether natively on verizon, but not on at&t (they chose to disable the access on their LTE iPads).
As for the line...there's 5,000 attendees plus 1000 Apple engineers, plus however many other people got invited, and it's a 3,000 people space, IIRC...so...lines, for hours and hours :)
Great restaurant choices. I passed by Moscone Center today.


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Monday, September 05, 2005
Katrina Google Maps Relief Sites start to take shape..
The earlier calls for volunteer developers in the Google Maps API forum must have been answered. KatrinaShelter.com has risen up as "an unfiltered database of individuals and groups all over the country who can provide temporary shelter for victims of Hurricane Katrina. We are a volunteer organization trying to coordinate the growing number of homes and shelters being opened to people left homeless and hungry by Katrina." The site has now integrated a Google Map to show locations of homes and shelters which are open to those who have been left homeless by Hurricane Katrina. The map is aggregating listings from sites like KatrinaHousing.org.
Katrina Before-and-After Viewing Tool
Note: if this link does not work, please copy and paste the following URL to visit this site: http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~usuyu/map/gmaps/maps/050904_katrina_e.htm
Uz has created a convenient Google Maps viewing tool to make use of the recently released Aug.10 satellite imagery of the New Orleans area. The tool shows a side by side view of the before and after images. This tool can be used to help locate homes and communities.
Do you know of a Hurricane Katrina - Google Maps Integration? - Please post a comment to this blog-post and I will ensure that a link and details of the Google Maps integration get posted in future Google Maps Mania updates..
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NEW YORK (AP) - They frolic in empty boxes and stick their heads under faucet streams of water. They dance on tippy toes and fly through the air with Pop-Tarts. They play piano wearing little frocks and get tickled to distraction to the delight of millions on YouTube.
I speak, of course, of the cat stars of the Internet, a place filled with felines and their wacky uploading humans since the dawn of bandwidth. Now, after years of viral viewing, they're coming into their own in lucrative and altruistic ways.
The first Internet Cat Video Film Festival drew a Woodstock-esque crowd of more than 10,000 _ people, that is _ to a Minneapolis art museum in August. Police closed a span of highway clogged with cars trying to get to the Walker Art Center for the free outdoor slate of 80 videos culled from 10,000 submissions that covered the simple, funny moment to polished animations and works made by trained filmmakers.
"People were spilling out into the streets. It kind of took our breath away. You hit the people that are the cat lovers but you also get people who just like sharing something on the Internet, and it kind of reaches across age groups," said the museum's Scott Stulen, who worked on the festival and helped curate entries.
Corporate kittydom is happy with the higher profile for the cat meme, which actually goes back to the `70s, when swapping VHS tapes was big and the word meme was barely known. It means, by the way, all the crazy, viral themes that spread online faster than you can say nom, nom, nom (cat-vid speak for the sound of a cat eating.)
In addition to the Walker's free night in cat video heaven, Fresh Step litter sponsored Catdance, an evening of felines on screen that coincided with January's Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. A fan-voted winner among five scripted finalists _ 10 films were commissioned at the launch of the program _ will earn $10,000 after online voting ends later this month.
In November, Friskies gave a lifetime achievement statue to angsty existentialist Henri, le Chat Noir, at the brand's own awards ceremony and donated 250,000 cans of cat food to shelters around the country. Henri, the troubled Tuxedo, won another statue in Minneapolis and will soon begin a collaboration of food-focused videos with Friskies.
Oh, and Henri's putting out his first book in April.
Roly poly Maru, the megastar in Japan with millions of views for nearly 300 videos since 2007, has three books and a calendar, among other swag for sale. The squishy-faced, often blissed-out Scottish fold who loves boxes and bags was used by Uniqlo when the Japanese brand launched its San Francisco store in October. Maru chose boxes, called "Lucky Cubes," stuffed with giveaways for human contest winners.
Not to be outdone, Simon's Cat, a funny feline in a series of line-drawn animated videos out of London, has a book and an online store, as does Henri, who lends his fame and some of his dollars to cat charities.
Even the funny faced Grumpy Cat, whose real name is Tardar Sauce, coughs up some bucks to animal welfare groups, while captions for her still photos fly around the Internet and she sells T-shirts off her website. She put out some videos after her existence as a living, breathing and not digitally altered feline was questioned, according to her site.
So why cats?
Cats are fluffy and unpredictable and usually kept behind closed doors, which lends them allure and appeal that other common pets _ I'm talking to you, dogs! _ don't seem to have when it comes to vapid, funny or deranged video. At least that's what cat fans think.
"Cats are going to do what they want to do and that's one of the reasons that we love them," said David Kargas, a Fresh Step spokesman who worked on Catdance.
These days in the cat video game, acts of charity are expected as much as laughs, said William Braden, the Seattle filmmaker who morphed a pampered family cat named Henry into the French-speaking Henri for a 2006 film school project. Cranking out Henri videos and managing the black-and-white long hair's growing projects are now Braden's full-time job.


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is a whole new world we are operating in. Things that used to work--don't. This
information is challenging, makes one dig into their own financials to see
where improvement can be made and profit leaks abated. I found some gold
nuggets in this training to put me on a faster track to a more successful and
profitable dealership." – Debby Chesterman, World Auto Sales, Nebraska City, NE
1. Only a state licensed dealer principal operating as a proprietorship, partnership, corporation or limited liability company in the business of selling or leasing motor vehicles (cars, trucks, vans, SUVs) is eligible. Dealer principal shall also mean a partner and/or officer of a licensed partnership or corporation.
2. Dealer must be an NIADA member in good standing.
3. Dealer must maintain an Established Place of Business, which meets, at a minimum, all of the following requirements:
4. The dealer must post and maintain regular business hours consistent with state regulations.
5. Dealership Associates (employees) may attend CMD™ classes, however, upon completion of the class, they will receive "Certificates of Participation" only and will not receive the CMD™ designation. Employees may attend only if their dealer principal is a current CMD™ or he/she will be attending the same class.
CMD™ designation and seal are awarded to an individual dealer principal in recognition of the qualifications and personal achievements of that dealer principal. The award is not granted to the dealer's business entity.
CMD™ designation and use of the CMD™ seal are awarded for a term/period 3 years.
Each CMD™ must obtain a minimum of 12 hours of NIADA approved Continuing Education during each consecutive 3 year period to retain the CMD™ designation.
DEALER PRINCIPAL $2495.00ASSOCIATE CERTIFICATE$995.00 (1 employee)$1,800.00 (2 employees)$2,500.00 (3 employees)
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Watch CNN live with CNN for iPhone and iPad
CNN has updated their iPhone and iPad apps with the ability to watch CNN live TV.
Now you can watch your favorite CNN shows LIVE on your CNN Apps for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. We've added CNN TV live - 24/7 - to all the great features that you love about your app.
- Watch LIVE CNN TV*, video coverage of live events and video clips*
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CNN is free on the iPhone and iPad but requires a cable subscription. Screenshots after the break.
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Reader comments
Watch CNN live with CNN for iPhone and iPad
My question is...Will it only stream on my home network? If I am in another city but connected to WiFi will it still stream? Description in App Store didn't say.
Streams just fine over 3G for me on my iPhone 4 and iPad 1. :-D
BUT, after about 5 minutes, it lost the video portion and went to audio only, stating "due to limited bandwidth, audio only is available" I've a feeling this is an AT&T throttling thing, not a CNN issue. I get that same message on most video streaming services except YouTube and Netflix (but Netflix does get a crappy picture after a while).
I should say though, much better luck using the iPad 1 than iphone. iPhone still stops after 5 min saying "limited bandwidth, audio only" While my ipad only lost audio (not video) once, but fine otherwise. both my iPhone 4 data plan and iPad data plan are unlimited (grandfathered hehehe).
AT&T Isn't throttling your device, you're crazy. It's called living in a crappy or working in a crappy cell area. I live in So Cal, I can stream fine over 3G with every video app i have. Your network by you is just one big turd
It's always streamed live breaking news...
I hate that I have to have a cable subscription (which I don't). It'd be nice if they offered a subscription via in in-app purchase where I could re-up every 3 to 6 months, but I know that won't happen.
C'mon Time Warner, seriously?! Another app you don't offer to your paying subscribers...
If I wanted to watch crap, I'd go to my bathroom and watch myself flush the toilet after a dump.
Doesn't work with Time-Warner even though TW owns CNN!! Same with HBO-GO. Ugh.


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