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zardoz July 25, 2011 - 02:38:06 (See all My Comments)
Jesses a true, young bull!Reply
zardoz July 25, 2011 - 02:36:30 (See all My Comments)
Nice stallion. Great black hair in pic. three along with super abs and peek at yummy hole. Nice ass for spreading in seven and 10; suckable and edible asshole in 12, along with lickable thigh hair. Such a nice smile in 15!Reply
Montre16 June 26, 2010 - 08:36:57 (See all My Comments)
Individuals such as croynan and 'shep' only know one thing - to express their obsession with 'shaving' and 'trimming.' And do notice the profuse expressions of 'I want to sport my massive cock and load' in spite of the complaints. One must wonder - how many of these men actually write them back to express mutual interest. All of this I find revolting.Reply
alextk20 January 16, 2009 - 06:43:22 (See all My Comments)
This bi guy promise to be hot. Let's wait to see his duo action.Reply
Shepherd 2 January 12, 2009 - 09:26:41 (See all My Comments)
Especially 10, 4 and 8 are where I want to sport my massive cock and load. I am ready any time.Reply
heymaniii January 10, 2009 - 20:21:37 (See all My Comments)
Love it, especially pics # 8 and 15...Reply
Marc-de-la-Touche January 10, 2009 - 18:20:21 (See all My Comments)
Now that's an incredible ass, wow!!! I'd give it to him as hard as I could and then some...and well it's true this shaving business has to stop, it's the reason why I still look at 70's porn, it's so awesome how the bush really adds to the manliness and all this trimming stuff makes them look like big little boys.Reply
wizardo January 10, 2009 - 15:43:48 (See all My Comments)
Never thought I'd agree about the shaving, but on this particular model I think the manscaping looks wrong.Reply
zane518 January 10, 2009 - 15:19:58 (See all My Comments)
Both previous comments are on target ...Reply
Shepherd 2 January 10, 2009 - 14:01:01 (See all My Comments)
Croynan, I will not repeat it but I do agree with you.Reply
Croynan January 10, 2009 - 13:27:43 (See all My Comments)
nice looking model. why did he shave and trim?Reply
aznboi81 January 10, 2009 - 13:17:24 (See all My Comments)
Very nice. He can shoot his load in my mouth anytime...day or night...Reply
pretty floyd January 10, 2009 - 13:04:35 (See all My Comments)
Nice looking specimen, hopfully he'll get alot more of that ass in his next shoot,great potential.Reply


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Malignant teratoma
Malignant teratoma is a type of cancer made of cysts that contain one or more of the three layers of cells found in a developing baby (embryo). These layers are called ectoderms, mesoderms, and endoderms.
Alternative Names
Dermoid cyst - malignant; Nonseminomatous germ cell tumor - teratoma; Immature teratoma
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Malignant teratoma occurs most often in young men in their 20s - 30s. It is often located in the chest area. Most malignant teratomas can spread throughout the body, and have spread by the time of diagnosis.
A number of other cancers are often associated with these tumors, including:
- Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML)
- Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma
- Malignant histiocytosis
- Myelodysplasia (MDS)
- Small cell undifferentiated carcinoma
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- Cough
- Fatigue
- Limited ability to tolerate exercise
- Shortness of breath
Signs and tests
The health care provider will perform a physical exam, which may reveal blockage of veins entering the center of the chest due to increased pressure in the chest area.
The following tests help diagnose the tumor:
- Chest x-ray
- CT scans of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis
- Blood tests to check beta-HCG and alpha fetoprotein (AFP) levels
- Mediastinoscopy with biopsy
Chemotherapy is used to treat the tumor. A combination of medicines (usually cisplatin, etoposide, and bleomycin) is commonly used.
After chemotherapy is complete, CT scans are taken again to see if any mass remains. Surgery may be recommended if there is a possibility that the cancer will grow back in that area.
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Call your health care provider if you have symptoms of malignant teratoma.
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First day of buck season in PA
Todays the first day of buck season here in Pennsylvania. Schools even get two days off for the first two days of buck season and one day off for does season.
- Asked by carolynspoonire, A Rebel, Female, 56-65, Philadelphia, Medical / Dental
I am so sorry I am not out there with you and jealous as hell that you will be eating venison........and I won't!!!!! I lived in WV for 17 yrs, and I do miss the venison. I didn't do a lot of the actual hunting but I did do 100% of the butchering. I used everything but the hide, the bones and the antlers for eating. Well, I didn't use any of the innards but the heart and the liver! Oh, my mouth is watering!! When I retire and move back to the hills, I will be cooking venison again. My daughters still live in WV and they supply with a few chunks now and then. We had friends who had run a truck garden and they were allowed to kill deer all year if they found them in the garden, so during one year we deer meat almost every day because their 3 freezers were packed. We got the over-flow. When I finally had to cook some beef everyone hollered that something was wrong with the meat, it tasted awful!! I do not use all that stuff to "kill the wild taste" when cooking venison. The only thing I ever use is just water or a barbecue sauce and slooooow cooking! YUMYUMYUM!!! Be careful and be safe. Good hunting!
- Response by gingham, A Cool Mom, Female, 66 or older, Baltimore, Construction
So when you roll over that coon that stayed to long in the road...remember "We eat what we kill"...ok with hunting..do more fishing instead.
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very nice....
- Response by baldfatboss, An Intellectual Guy, Male, 46-55, Portland, Technical
Venison tenderloin is the best! Good luck and be safe!
- Response by makinit40, A Cool Mom, Female, 46-55, Self-Employed
I have to ask this but, are you kidding me about the kids getting off from school, what school is your kids in??
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Professor Kahn is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Environmental and Energy Economics. His recent research focuses on the implications of urban economic growth for greenhouse gas production. He also examines how the quality of life in different cities around the world may be affected by climate change.
To view the complete list of citations for this research on the NBER website click here.
Low Carbon Cities
Edward L. Glaeser and I ranked U.S cities with respect to their household greenhouse gas emissions. 1 Using micro data on household consumption of transportation, electricity, and home heating, we document significant differences across major cities. For example, if the average household chose to live in Houston versus San Francisco, it would produce roughly 16 more tons of carbon dioxide each year. San Francisco is ranked as a "greener" city because of its temperate climate, which means that households there use less electricity, the region relies more on natural gas rather than coal for power generation, and this lowers the electric utility's emissions factor. San Francisco is also more compact than Houston, with more of the metropolitan area's total employment located downtown. The suburbanization of employment has contributed to a rising carbon footprint. When people work in the suburbs, they are likely to live in the suburbs, and to live in a larger home and rely on a private vehicle for transportation.2 Policies such as declining center city crime and improved urban public schools help to shrink a city's carbon footprint because they encourage densification and living closer to the city center. 3
Today, households who live in Daqing — China's "brownest city" — produce only one fifth of the emissions of households who live in San Diego, the U.S.'s "greenest city". Building on my U.S research, I recently ranked the household carbon footprint for 74 Chinese cities using high quality data from the 2006 Chinese Urban Household Survey. 4 In the case of China, the dirtiest cities are to the North where coal is used for winter heating. These results are significant because Chinese regional economic development policy is encouraging growth in the Northern region to deflect growth away from the mega cities along the eastern coast. If Northern China's cities continue to rely on coal for heat rather than substituting to natural gas, then this spatial trend could have significant aggregate carbon implications.
Durable Capital
Over time, new versions of products such as the Toyota Prius or Tesla electric car or Zero Net Energy homes will have much smaller carbon footprints than earlier makes of cars and homes. Such "green" products often represent a tiny share of the existing capital stock because cars and buildings are long lived capital. This means that it can take decades for average energy efficiency of homes or vehicles to improve.
I examine the consequences of durable capital for the greenhouse gas mitigation progress in one study with Lucas Davis. We collected detailed vehicle-level information on the scale and composition of used vehicles exported by the United States to Mexico under NAFTA. 5 As it turns out, NAFTA can be viewed as an early "cash for clunkers" program. While it provided cash for U.S households, this type of trade can have detrimental environmental consequences. Even though Mexican households drive fewer miles per year than U. S. households, the exported vehicles would have been scrapped had they remained in the United States. Our best estimate is that U.S vehicles that are imported into Mexico, and are 10 to 15 years old at the time, live on for another ten years. Thus free trade in used durables between richer and poorer nations slows down the overall vehicle scrappage rate.
In the case of residential homes, energy consumption varies across different birth cohorts. Using different datasets from California, Dora Costa and I document that homes built in the 1970s consume more electricity than observationally identical homes. 6 Using panel data for the same home over time, we dismiss the hypothesis that this effect simply reflects aging. Instead, our preferred explanation is that during times when residential electricity prices are low, homes built under such incentive regimes are more likely to be energy inefficient, and this effect persists decades later.7 As the share of California homes that were built in the 1970s shrinks over time, overall California residential energy efficiency will rise.
The Political Economy of Carbon Legislation
In June 2009, the U.S House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). This complex carbon mitigation legislation bundled together a wide range of policies all intended to increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For example, the ACES included legislation to enact an electric utility cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions. In the summer of 2010, the Senate chose to not vote on this legislation. I examine the correlates of carbon voting on key pieces of legislation such as this one. Representatives from high carbon, poor, conservative areas have been the least likely to vote in favor of this legislation. 8 Representatives in districts where industry is a large share of local emissions also were less likely to vote in favor.
During this slow recovery from the most recent recession, environmentalists are deeply concerned that climate change is not a policy priority. Indeed, President Obama did not mention the words "climate change" in his 2011 State of the Union address. In recent work Matthew Kotchen and I examine trends in Google searches to test for the relationship between business cycles and interest in the broad issue of climate change. 9 Google Insights allows us to search at the state/year/week level and permits a peek into the "zeitgeist" at that moment. We match this data to state unemployment data by month and document that in those states in which the unemployment rate increases, searches for "global warming" decline and searches for "unemployment" increase. These findings support the claim that the recession has chilled interest in prioritizing climate change as a pressing policy issue. This finding is important because it challenges the conventional wisdom that recessions are good for the environment. The traditional view is that industry activity is dirty and pro-cyclical. These facts imply that pollution improves during recessions. But, if we need to introduce a Pigouvian incentive to combat climate change, then my results suggest that the probability of this taking place will decline during recessions.
States that rely on coal fired power plants, such as Indiana, have worried that if carbon emissions are priced through a carbon tax or cap-and-trade regulation, then their local electricity prices will soar because of pass through. The conventional wisdom is that such states will lose manufacturing jobs because those jobs seek out cheaper places to do business. Erin Mansur and I investigate this claim 10 by comparing employment counts by manufacturing industry in adjacent counties. Adjacent counties share many common factors such as amenities and a common local labor market and similar access to final consumers. But two adjacent counties can differ along key dimensions such as energy prices and exposure to government labor and environmental policy. We exploit this variation in energy prices and labor and environmental regulation within county-pairs to provide new estimates of their effects on the locational pattern of manufacturing. We conclude that employment in only a handful of energy intensive manufacturing industries, such as primary metals (NAICS 331) and paper manufacturing (NAICS 322) and textile mills (NAICS 313), is responsive to electricity prices.
Environmental Ideology and Living the "Green" Life
In the absence of formal Pigouvian carbon pricing, households have no financial incentive to economize on their production of greenhouse gas emissions, yet at any point in time we observe many households living the "green life." In Berkeley, California, I see people driving Prius vehicles, biking to work, having solar panels installed, and even having the grass ripped out of their lawns. Each of these actions contributes to the public good. In a series of papers, I seek to describe who lives the "green life." 11 Controlling for standard demographic variables such as age, education, income and ethnicity, I focus strictly on the role of political ideology. It seems that people who are registered members of liberal political parties (Democrats, Green Party) literally "walk the walk." They are more likely to own a Prius, use public transit, and consume less electricity, and to respond to conservation "nudges" than observationally identical non-liberal households.12 Of course, I do not literally believe that registering for the Democratic Party causes you to buy a Prius and to live a green lifestyle. Instead, such political party registration data provides a signal of one's otherwise difficult to observe "ideology."
This research contributes to a growing economics literature on the role of ideology in determining economic outcomes. There are several open research questions here. First, how does a person "acquire" an environmentalist ideology? What role do peers play in how this ideology evolves over time? The economics of identity literature offers some fruitful pathways for exploring this issue. 13
Documenting the role of ideology in explaining population heterogeneity would be less important if we collectively taxed negative externalities. But, in the absence of formal carbon pricing, society as a whole benefits when a subgroup of citizens volunteers to be "guinea pigs" by purchasing the first generation of new green products and enacting novel new legislation such as California's AB32.
Urban Adaption to Climate Change
My book titled Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future was published in fall 2010. In it, I examine how urban quality of life will be affected by climate change. Assuming free market capitalist growth and the fundamental worldwide free rider problem, global greenhouse gas emissions will continue to rise. Facing this reality, what will climate change do to our urban economy?
Although I cannot predict what will happen to a city such as Moscow in the year 2050, I am confident that the insights generated by NBER research have direct implications for the complex challenge of climate change adaptation. Microeconomics provides a powerful tool for thinking about how we will cope with this emerging ambiguous threat. The book's core thesis is that urban capitalism will play a crucial role in helping us to adapt to the challenge posed by climate change.
For example, climate change is likely to raise the average temperature in certain cities. Because of that, cities such as Detroit and Buffalo will have an easier time competing against Sun Belt cities whose warm winter temperatures have acted as a magnet, attracting population migration.15
In Climatopolis, I argue that households will learn from climate scientists about the new challenges that different cities will face. If specific cities do experience a decline in their quality of life, then their real estate prices will decline, and they will suffer a net outflow of people. Households will "vote with their feet" and this nimbleness will help them to cope with the evolving challenge of climate change. Cities compete to attract and retain the skilled. If a city's quality of life declines because of climate change, then the skilled will leave and economic growth will slow.
My book emphasizes the potential for endogenous technological advance to play a key role in helping us to adapt. The billions of people who will be affected by climate change create a large market opportunity for entrepreneurs who can serve this market.16 In the presence of fixed costs to develop new products, the scale of the market is a key determinant. If billions of people seek an energy efficient air conditioner to offset hot summers, then there will be sharp incentives to invest in developing such products. Some of these producers will succeed. In a globalized world market, the pay-off to the successful entrepreneur will be huge. In new research, I will continue to explore microeconomic issues related to climate change mitigation and adaptation.


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After 25 years as one of America's premier stage races and many of cycling's biggest stars blazing its streets on their way to stardom; an idea was born. The "Legends" award, established in 2007, honors a past RBC athlete who has embodied enduring class, sportsmanship, and character throughout their career. Created in the spirit and long traditions that make the community of Redlands historic, the "Legends" award is given to a rider who represents all the best attributes of a professional cyclist, both on and off the bike, and contributes to the sport in a positive way. Just as Redlands' rich history is paid tribute to in historic buildings and monuments throughout the city, The Redlands Bicycle Classic has established its own monument that recognizes its history. The RBC "Legends" award symbolizes and honors the many talented participants that have made this event truly 'Legendary'.


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Thanks Humid Beings. Thanks for hosting this and to All Day Buffet for putting on a great conference. Hope you enjoy this talk. More details about it are here: http://www.voodooventures.com/2009/02/13/the-beauty-of-bootstrapping-doing-it-anyway/
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I no longer look upon the Korean brands as cheap and low quality.
From Samsung to Hyundai, the European makers should pay very close attention to them, or else!
The Koreans may have improved things dramatically in recent years however there 'not there' yet in my opinion - I would still regard them as white goods. They are not cars I would ever really aspire too, whereas there are cars from European or Japanese manufacturers that I would aspire too. I respect the likes of Samsung also but for me, Sony are the people to beat!!!
Samsung supply Sony & iphones with many parts LCD's,IC's ect..
Sold my Jap car due to poor quality,corrosion on wheels and repeated wheel bearing failure (Mazda 2) and bought the new Rio which equals it in all departments bar steering feel and beats it in many others warranty,finish,equipment,comfort,safety.
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Confessions of a Would-Be Democrat
After totally dismissing the Republican's tall tale of how decreased taxes and deregulation will magically create jobs, I turned my full attention to the Democratic National Convention and its centerpiece, President Obama's nomination acceptance speech. So there I sat, just as the President wanted me – full of hope. Against the Republican's tale of great fiction, all he had to do to win me over was lay out a realistic roadmap with achievable gates that would set the country on a course for Full Employmentville. But as the 39 plus minutes wore on, I watched my hopes wither and decay, finally tossing them onto the compost heap of political rhetoric that we've not only come to expect from today's candidates, but for some reason, to accept.
First let's examine what the president did say. How he attempted to energize his base and inspire a nation. To begin with, the President said that he wanted an American where everyone plays by the same rules, from Main Street to Wall Street to Washington DC. Really Mr. President? If the last several decades have taught us anything, it's that while Wall Street and Washington DC play by the same self-serving rules, most of us on Main Street can't even afford a copy of rule book – let alone to get into the game.
Next up came the Democrat's plan to jump-start the economy and get Americans back to work. And what was this grand scheme? According to President Obama, the plan is to create one million new manufacturing jobs over four years over four years. Woo hoo! One million manufacturing job over four years. . . As the excitement died down in my head, the questions mounted up; so, in an attempt to allay my fears I decided to catch up with the President during the after-speech press conference and clarify a few of the points he had made.
Excuse me Mr. President. Dan Aronson, Party Recon News here. I have a few follow up questions.
- According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, there are 12.5 million people currently unemployed. What would you like to say to the 11.5 million Americans who will still be unemployed four years from now?
- How about to the 8.0 million individuals now working part time because their hours have been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job? How will you their prospects improve during a second Obama term?
- And what of the 9 million plus unemployed white collar workers, the majority of whom are 45 years of age or older? Will they be given the training and physical conditioning needed to qualify for one of these new manufacturing jobs?
- Actually Mr. President, if you total the unemployed, all persons marginally attached to the labor force, and those under-employed you will find the real number of people suffering in this economy is 22.5 million, or 14.7% of the civilian labor force. Is there going to be a lottery to decide who will get those 1 million middle class manufacturing jobs Mr. President?
- On another topic Sir, you claimed to have "reinvented" the US Auto industry? How exactly did you do that? Did you create better working conditions? Create more efficient automotive designs? Improve manufacturing processes? Isn't it true that all you did was to give car companies big, low-interest loans and implement the cash for clunkers program?
- Mr. President, you said that you didn't want to bail out banks that broke the rules, yet you fully supported and pushed for a bailout of banks that did just that. How do you reconcile your words against your actions?
In the end, the President said that our problems could be solved and our challenges met; but according to his best-case figures, we won't even come close to doing either. Shame on you Mr. President! You stated at the beginning of your speech that America elected you to tell the truth. But instead, you spun a fancy tale of fiction, just as Governor Romney did. Even if we took you at your word Sir, only a tiny fraction of those who are suffering today would benefit from your second term.
But wait! Now let's turn our attention to what the President didn't say. What about enhancing banking regulations Mr. President? With details of the LIBOR scandal unfolding daily, threatening to make the derivatives scam look like child's play, there was not one word in the President's speech about implementing tougher regulations on our financial institutions. Sure, he took several sarcastic shots at the Republican's notion of increased deregulation, but the President made no promises whatsoever to enhance protection against those "too big to fail" institutions. Not one word about the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall, which almost everyone now agrees was a mistake to repeal. Nothing at all about giving teeth to Elizabeth Warren's U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Forget it folks; you're on your own. Shouldn't he at least have explained why those responsible for the Crash of 2008 received massive bonuses instead of prison sentences; bonuses, paid for by the very people that they ripped off? Or is it just that he can'tbecause one-third of the money Obama's elite fund-raising corps raised on behalf of his re-election* has come from the financial sector?
Which brings us to the next unmentioned issue — Campaign Finance Reform. During the 2010 midterm election cycle, the President noted that we suffered with a broken political system "where special interests drown out the voices of the American people". Yet even now he raises millions from special interests, corporations, and wealthy individuals. This is the very definition of hypocrisy.
And what of the closing of Guantanamo Bay; yet another broken promise? One speaker after another at your convention sang you're your praises for killing Osama Bin Laden; yet you continue to wage your war on terror unethically, inhumanely, and quite possibly illegally after promising to not to do so.
So, here we sit after two weeks of posturing, half-truths, outright lies, and con games with two candidates representing two parties, neither of which has offered up any reasonable solutions to our current economic woes, let alone explained away their grossly negligent behavior. Is this the America we are doomed to live in? An America in which politicians have utter disregard for the truth and no respect for The People? If this election proves only one thing, it is that we so desperately need a new party; one with a new direction fashioned by a new set of goals based on the notion that everyone who wants to should be able to succeed in America. OK, perhaps that isn't really a new direction. But old or new, it is one worth focusing on and striving for.


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Four places to impress a prospective employee
Published on October 18th, 2013 | by Stephanie Sanyour
Four places to impress a prospective employee
If you're looking to wow your interviewee, here are a few places to take them to lunch or dinner that will wow.
Cafe Baratta's: Even before your future employee gets to see the restaurant, they will witness the growth and development of Iowa through the museum's exhibits. History will show and perhaps convince them that Des Moines is the place to be. Located on the third floor of the museum, Cafe Baratta's is a cozy and modern bistro with a panoramic view of the city, and local art featured on the walls. Their food is made from scratch and their menu changes seasonally. The panini is the most popular item. For a more private setting, there are classrooms available at the museum, and Cafe Baratta's is happy to serve you there. Find it: Third floor of State Historical Building, 600 E. Locust St., 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday through Saturday. barattas.com, 515-281-3294.
Raccoon River Brewing Company: The Raccoon River Brewing Company revitalized the Clemens building built in 1916, and is a cornerstone of downtown dining. You can impress a prospective employee with favorites or seasonal brews made by Raccoon River. The restaurant serves pub fare food along with the drinks, and they provide a casual environment. If you choose to get away from the hustle and bustle of the main area, the upstairs provides a quiet space for conversation. Find it: 200 10th St., 11 a.m.- 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m.-1 a.m. (The bar closes at 2 a.m.) Friday and Saturday. raccoonbrew.com, 515-362-5222.
Cafe di Scala: It's currently a contemporary Italian restaurant, but the restaurant was previously a Victorian mansion and a boarding house for businesswomen. Cafe di Scala is the perfect place for employers who are looking to impress through history and style. The home, located in the Sherman Hill neighborhood, is more than 100 years old and the essence from its beginnings can still be appreciated today. Pastas are made fresh at the restaurant and the menu changes seasonally. Make sure to ask the host to lead you to the library room for a more private space. Find it: 644 18th Street, 5 p.m.-10 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. cafediscala.com, 515-244-1353.
Proof: Many times trying to decide what to eat can get in the way of a great conversation. Not at Proof. The serving staff can quickly put together a meal so guests don't need to devote time to staring at the menu. The restaurant is interview friendly, with a relaxing atmosphere, great natural light from the glass walls, and a central location in Western Gateway. Their menu is inspired by the Mediterranean, and they use local ingredients. They feature a specialty pasta each day, and a full bar at lunch. Most popular dishes to try are the lamb burgers and the falafel. Find it: 1301 Locust St., 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday through Friday, 5 p.m.-close Wednesday through Saturday. proofrestaurant.com, 515-244-0655.


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BRASHER FALLS - When St. Lawrence Central School students begin their peaceful demonstration against budget cuts today, they have the support of the districts administrators, who say its a way to get the message to Albany that the school district is in financial hurt.
This is their way of exercising their democratic right. Administratively we support it, Stephan J. Vigliotti Sr. said.
He said students had come to school administrators to advise them they were planning to protest budget cuts during the school day and also during this evenings budget hearing, which begins at 6 p.m. The peaceful Strike for Our Future demonstration is scheduled to take place from 8 a.m. to 2:25 p.m. and again from 5:30 to 6 p.m.
They came to us and said, Were doing thi,s and were doing it off campus. We said, If you do it, wed like to have you do it here and be safe and provide supervision. I felt strongly that Id rather keep them on campus and safe and provide some supervision. They were fine with that, Mr. Vigliotti said.
Weve made it clear that we expect kids to be in class during their class time. Were expecting that all the kids will attend all of their classes. By the same token, were providing them an opportunity to organize and to protest and to share their feelings, and I think its just so inherent to our democratic process. We have some of our staff that will provide supervision out front and help answer any questions, he said.
Freshman Cheyenne Krise said that they plan to protest cuts in the districts $21.4 million budget for 2014-15. The spending plan, which was recently approved by the districts board of education with board member Jonathan Burnett casting the lone no vote, calls for the elimination of several positions, including one math teacher, one physical education teacher, one business teacher, a half-time language teacher, one teacher assistant, one school counselor, one art teacher, one teacher aide, one cook, 5 percent of an athletic director and a half-time music teacher.
The cuts were concerns to several teachers, students, graduates and community members who filled the middle school/high school library during the last board of education meeting. They implored the board to look at other alternatives to the cuts, including the use of more fund balance, something Mr. Burnett said he supported.
Facing an approximate $1.2 million gap, they are using $450,000 in fund balance, which represents approximately 25 percent of the total fund balance. However, still facing a $750,000 gap, district officials proposed the position reductions to balance the budget.
The fact that the spending plan is passed is really not relevant to the fact that kids are upset about the types of cuts that need to be made. Theyve taken the time to be educated on the process. We cant spend money we dont have, Mr. Vigliotti said.
The students selected today for their protest because of the budget hearing, Ms. Krise said. They plan to picket during the school day, take a break and return for the budget hearing.
The impetus for this whole thing was from the students. Weve worked with them, supplying them information. The kids are frustrated. We support the fact that theyre frustrated. They dont understand why the legislators continue to put Brasher Falls in this situation, Mr. Vigliotti said.
He said what frustrates students is the fact that other schools in New York dont appear to be as impacted as St. Lawrence Central. He said students want to express their concerns about cuts to programming and staffing because of $3.5 million in state aid that has been withheld from the district over the past five years, and thats a message they want to reach state legislators and assembly members in the hopes that the school will receive equitable funding compared to other districts.
They also hope to encourage elected officials to give bullet aid in the short term to help the districts fiscal situation, he said.
When they look at other schools in the state and see that many schools are largely unaffected by the recent New York state budget, it frustrates them. They want to make sure their legislators know that, Mr. Vigliotti said.
If you talk with the kids that Ive talked with, theres just a general feeling of concern not only for what they lose for next year, but for the future of the district. They talked about their little brothers and sisters and cousins and neighbors. Its gotten to a point where they feel like they need to do something. When they approached administration, we tried to give them a vehicle to do it, he said.
In allowing the demonstration, district officials established some guidelines for the day. Among them, students must report to homeroom to be counted present for the day and are expected to be in classes. If they want to participate, however, they can come out during appropriate times such as study halls and lunch. Students who participate all day will not be disciplined, as long as rules are followed.
Students who choose to miss classes to participate in the demonstration will be marked absent unexcused from the classes they miss, and all missed class work must be made up.
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Game :- Call of Duty
year :- 2003
Platform :- PC
Genre :- First-person and third-person shooter
Call of Duty is a first-person and third-person shooter computer/video game franchise. The series began on the PC, and later expanded to consoles and handhelds. Several spin-off games have also been released. The earlier games in the series
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Release Date :- October 29, 2003
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Allison Blows Away the Field
South Kitsap's Sean Allison felt relieved after winning the Narrows League title in the javelin. His teammate Devlan Miller came in second and felt satisfied.
And though he finished in sixth, Brandon Sulley of Central Kitsap was excited that his senior season would be going on.
All three qualified for next weekend's Class 4A West Central District meet at the Narrows League track and field championships at South Kitsap High School.
Allison won the title with a throw of 172 feet, 3 inches on his last attempt. The SK junior almost didn't qualify for the final after a lackluster first throw and a foul on his second. But on his third throw of the preliminaries, he uncorked a toss of 171-8. No one else in the competition threw over 150 feet.
The javelin competition was hampered by windy conditions.
"I slowed down running, and my hips were open," Allison said. "My technique wasn't very good today. But I got a good throw in; I'm happy that I got through."
Miller, his senior teammate, finished in second at 149-7. This is Miller's first year of throwing the javelin, and is still getting accustomed to it.
"I was messing around one day with Renard (Williams, who won the state shot put title) last year," recalled Miller. "None of us had the form. But on my seventh throw, I went 140 feet. I did it on a whim."
South Kitsap coach Joanne Warren called the 6-4 Miller "a natural athlete" who did the high jump and long jump last year. "He could do the pole vault if I had a pole big enough," Warren said.
Salley, a deaf senior at CK, was elated with sixth, grabbing the final spot to districts. He made the cut at sixth with a throw of 146-7.
"I'm thankful I'm getting an opportunity in my senior year," Salley said through his interpreter, Janet Rodgers. "Right now, I feel satisfied with my performance. I know I can do better. Still, I felt lucky to make it to the finals."
Salley has been throwing the javelin since the eighth grade. He will try to qualify for districts in the discus on Friday the second day of the two-day meet.
There were only two running event finals on Wednesday, both in the 3,200. Miles Unterreiner of Gig Harbor won the boys event in 9 minutes, 2.68 seconds, with CK sophomore Shane Moskowitz advancing in fourth place with a time of 9:29.60. Junior Annie Dear of Olympia won the girls race in 10:52.99.
Bree Leroy of Gig Harbor won two finals, taking the long jump and high jump titles, and was leading qualifier in the 100 hurdles. The Tides are currently leading in the team competition for both boys and girls.
The rest of Wednesday's competition were preliminaries, as the top eight in each event qualified for the finals on Friday.
Jon Phillips of South Kitsap was the top qualifier in the boys 800 with a time of 1:58.39, with Rustin Winger and Cascade Herriott of CK in second and third, and Ray Reedy of North Kitsap in fourth. CK teammates Sean Walker and Derek Parrish went 1-2 in qualifying in the 300 hurdles, with Walker running in 40.31 seconds, and Parrish in 40.84.
South Kitsap ended the first day of the meet with a top time of 3:27.96 in the boys 1,600 relay.
In the girls' competition, CK junior Ava Aufderheide won her heat in the 300 hurdles and qualified third overall in a time of 48.31 seconds, and also placed sixth in 100 hurdles. North Kitsap sophomore Siara Byars placed third in the 100 (12.95) and fourth in the 200 (26.13).
Track and Field
Narrows League Championships
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Top six to districts
Team standings—Gig Harbor 51, Mount Tahoma 30, Wilson 24, South Kitsap 21, Bellarmine Prep 21, Lincoln 15, Olympia 12, North Kitsap 9, Central Kitsap 8, Stadium 4
Winners and local qualifiers
3,200—1, Miles Unterreiner (GH) 9:02.68; 4, Shane Moskowitz (CK) 9:29.60; 5, Jeff Osborn (GH) 9:53.11; 6, Chris Adgar-Beal (GH) 9:53.99. Pole vault—1, Chris Terronez (BP) 13-6; 3, Chris Runnels (NK) 12-6; 5, Patrick McDaniel (GH) 12-0. Long jump—1, Desmond Trufant (Wil) 21-4; 2, Matthew Bright (GH) 21-3. Shot put—1, Lepon Mamea (Linc) 48-11 1/2; 2, Matthew Saltvick (GH) 47-1; 3, Nicholas Johnson (GH) 47-0. Javelin—1, Sean Allison (SK) 172-3; 2, Devlan Miller (SK) 149-7; 4, Nick Laketa (GH) 147-4; 6, Brandon Salley (CK) 146-7.
Team standings—Gig Harbor 51, Olympia 39, Bellarmine Prep 20, Wilson 14, North Kitsap 9, Lincoln 8, Mount Tahoma 6, Central Kitsap 5, South Kitsap 3, Stadium 1
Winners and local qualifiers
3,200—1, Annie Dear (Olym) 10:52.99; 2, Alyssa Andrews (GH) 10:55.14; 4, Kate Stuart (GH) 10:56.62. Long jump—1, Bree Leroy (GH) 18-10; 4, Rebekah Daniel (CK) 17-0; 5, Emily Olson (GH) 16-11; 6, Brittany Werner (GH) 16-10. High jump—1, Bree Leroy (GH) 5-4; 4, Madisen Kellogg (NK) 5-2; 6, Taylor Ottomano (NK) 4-10. Discus—1, Lizzy Henehan (Wil) 96-9; 4, Kellie Lind (GH) 94-6; 6, Hannah Febert (GH) 87-6.
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Google has placed the Nexus 7 (both 2012 and 2013 Wi-Fi-only models) and Nexus 10 on schedule to receive its latest operating system, namely the Android 4.4 KitKat. However, if you're anxious about it, you can download it right now.
Despite the fact that Google planned to release the new OS over-the-air (OTA), the KRT16O update was spotted on the web, and you can download it through our website for each of the mentioned devices.
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The Oklahoman's Steve Lackmeyer took questions from readers in today's OKC Central Live Chat. You can join Steve's Q&As on Fridays at 10 a.m. and submit your questions about the happenings in and around downtown Oklahoma City. Read the complete chat transcript here.
Steve Lackmeyer: More local companies are looking for new office construction downtown
When it comes to the skyline and downtown Oklahoma City, do you see growth fueled by all local companies or have you heard any outside relocation rumors?
Hopefully many of you read the story I had last Sunday about the future for downtown Oklahoma City's skyline. So here's what I can tell you - the companies I'm hearing about looking at new office construction downtown are mostly, but not totally, local companies.
Is there any special reason the Gazette parade is using such a different route this year?
My guess - and this is only a guess - is that it probably involves sponsorships and advertisement agreements that help pay for the production. Keep in mind, Bill Bleakley and his crew put a lot of time, money and effort into the parade, so at some level it's got to be self sustaining.
How far off are we from an official announcement of a new tower being built downtown?
I'm going to take Mark Beffort and others at their word and believe it will likely be within the next several months.
About a year ago a group bought Crossroads Mall and promised to get the mall going again. Have you heard anything on this?
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April 15, 2015
Over the weekend, I watched a little film called Whiplash. I still don't know what to make of it. It had many admirable qualities: excellent acting, visually interesting (especially for a movie that prominently features dudes banging on drums), surprisingly suspenseful (again, especially for a movie about banging on drums). I liked some of the cliché-defying choices, especially the aversion to the trope of the "knowledgeable friend" (i.e., an experienced band member who shows the newbie the ropes).
There was also a moment, late in the film, where I was pretty much convinced that it was going to have a frustratingly schmaltzy ending. When Andrew (Miles Teller) decides to see Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) play at a little jazz club, and the two talk like grown-up peers for the first time, I thought it was going to turn into that scene where Fletcher invites Andrew onstage to jam, just the two of them, as equals. Fade to black.
I'm glad it didn't end that way, but I'm not sure I'm happy with its actual ending. I spent a great deal of the movie — far too much — wondering what it was all supposed to mean. I admired Andrew's drive but hated him for being kind of a douchenozzle. His internal drive is wonky: he doesn't want to be the best just to be the best; he wants to be talked about. Many of his actions in the film have more to do with trying to impress Fletcher than his internal drive to succeed, another symptom of his desire to please others more than himself.
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John Lasseter: Greedy Capitalist Pig
The weekend's release of Planes: Fire & Rescue reminded me of an important factoid: John Lasseter is a greedy capitalist pig who is destroying both Pixar and Disney through his fiendish desire to make as much money as possible. I only read a single review of this film in which I am wholly uninterested, but it brought to mind a couple of big problems I have with both contemporary film criticism and quasi-outsider perceptions of the Hollywood machine.
I don't mean to slag on the fellow who reviewed this dumb movie. Although he's not a critic I know by name, I'm sure I've read other reviews of his that had no impact on me. This one bothered me, not just for its needless political grandstanding but for the author's apparent belief that his assertions are inarguably correct, and that such assertions have actual relevance on whether or not Planes: Fire & Rescue is a good movie. (I have a strong suspicion it's not, so don't prepare yourself for an argument that I resent a critic for disliking a movie I happen to like.)
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March 26, 2012
Dark Shadows
I hate that juvenile feeling of ownership I sometimes get, which hasn't really manifested in negative behavior since junior high. Remember that? When everybody was deemed a poseur because they discovered the exact same thing you already liked, but they found out about it two months later through MTV or some magazine, instead of stumbling across it organically like you did, Mr. or Ms. Unique. At the time, it was very serious and only made sense to call out the posing plebes for not enjoying Metallica on as many levels as you do. Now, it seems really stupid. But once in awhile, I do have that annoying feeling of "I saw it first"-style possession.
Such is the case with Dark Shadows. I started watching the original soap when I was 13 and didn't stop until I was in college and couldn't find the time to continue watching it. With few exceptions, I watched two episodes a day, every weekday afternoon, and saw the entire series about two and a half times. Long before Buffy or The West Wing, Dark Shadows — low budgets and melodrama aside — showed me the possibilities of television as an artistic medium, and it made me want to write. Numerous sci-fi and horror stories I wrote during this period were "inspired" by Dark Shadows, and it inspired a love for flawed characters and lunatic plots that I've carried over into less derivative writing. In other words: everything I write, whether it seems like it or not, stems from the influence of Dark Shadows more than anything else. I cut my teeth on Stephen King and Quentin Tarantino — what a poseur! — but I didn't start eating solid food until Dark Shadows.
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October 3, 2011
On Punch-Drunk Love
In what's bound to be my most topical post in months, I'd like to talk about Paul Thomas Anderson's 2002 film Punch-Drunk Love. I haven't seen it since it came out, at which time it ranked as my least favorite Anderson film and my third-favorite Adam Sandler film. (This is the one opinion of mine that hasn't changed; at the time of its release, I'd only seen Magnolia and every Adam Sandler star vehicle ever made. Since then, I've caught up on Anderson's filmography and found myself blown away by Hard Eight, then There Will Be Blood, and finally Boogie Nights.
About a year ago, I had a hankering to see Punch-Drunk Love again. It's taken me this long to get to it, and the results will in no way surprise you: it remains a big, ramshackle mess, almost anchored by a career-best performance from Sandler and beautiful, artsy-fartsy cinematography by Anderson's go-to cinematographer, Robert Elswit.
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September 19, 2011
New Girl
I swear to God, at least two people who barely know me have asked this question, and since I couldn't think of anything else to write about it, why not make it this?
Zooey Deschanel, my lady love since ~2002*, will be starring in a weekly sitcom called New Girl. This seems ideal, and yet — here's where the blog-specific controversy kicks in — the creator and executive producer is my arch-nemesis, Liz Meriwether, writer of a script entitled Fuckbuddies. Now, Fuckbuddies made me angry, but one terrible script isn't quite enough for me to cast aside my beloved Zooey. The fifteen endless, painful minutes I spent trying to watch No Strings Attached — that's enough to cast her aside, and then some.
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September 5, 2011
Critical Ambivalence
Let's talk about likability.
I don't mean characters. This isn't a screenwriting lecture. This is an arbitrary observation about the likability quotient of an overall film. A borderline intangible subject, I realize, but I don't have anything else I want to write about in such a public forum, so this is it. Instead of watching a Cannon film this weekend, I watched The Claim.
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August 2, 2011
A Musical Tribute to Failure
I was gonna change the world…
But I'm not gonna change the world…
I was gonna change my ways…
But I have not changed…
I try not to dwell on feelings of failure, which is difficult considering the heady combination of low self-esteem and poor decisions that guides my life. It's easy to beat on myself for laying out goals and falling short of them, but there's something to be said for putting forth the effort, even if I don't achieve what I want in the exact way that I want it.
Let's have a seat on the porch while I grab my whittlin' stick and tell you how things were back in Granpappy Bates's day. I grew up right on the cusp of the touchy-feely era of the blandly supportive "everyone gets a trophy" mentality. When I was a kid and played sports, and sucked at them, I didn't get a trophy. I didn't have a cheerful coach saying, "Good effort!" in an upbeat, sing-songy way. I got yelled at by the coaches, ridiculed by my teammates, and ashamed looks from my dad. That's the way things are supposed to be. Because it undoubtedly contributed to the kneecapping of my self-esteem, but it also helped me deal with rejection, failure, and the abject humiliation of the hilariously incompetent. It motivated me to find areas where I could excel, such as writing terrible grunge songs and beating the shit out of people who were 1-2% nerdier than I was. I miss junior high.
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June 26, 2011
Letter to the Editor of Time
[Musings of an elderly crank in the body of a 29-year-old.]
Re: "One Document, Under Siege"
To the Editor:
In his article, Richard Stengel writes, among other things, "The framers…gave us the idea…that South Dakota should have the same number of Senators as California, which is kind of crazy."
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June 20, 2011
Best Buy: Direct-to-Video Mecca?
At one point in our many long discussions about the strategic focus of The Parallax Review, Matt and I decided to target films that "fell through the cracks" with renewed vigor, adding several columns that specifically targeted the direct-to-video (DTV) market. The first, and probably the most satisfying (for me, at least), we called "Bargain Bin." We both noticed, when scouring release dates for upcoming DVDs to discuss on the podcast, that a handful of DVDs would come out each month featuring major, recognizable stars in movies nobody had ever heard of.
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June 13, 2011
Recurring Dream
Okay, armchair shrinks and hippie psychic types. Time to pull out your dog-eared copies of The Complete Idiot's Dream Dictionary.
For the past few weeks, I've had a dream every other night or so that just seems kinda retarded. I'd be interested in hearing various thoughts about what it could mean, even though I'm pretty sure it just means my brain's broken. It goes like this: somehow, I am involved in an elaborate stage revival of A Raisin in the Sun. The director has "re-imagined" the play. Gone are the claustrophobic apartment and reams of hyper-articulate, '60s-stagey dialogue. In their stead, he or she has chosen to set this interpretation in a dank alleyway, under urine-colored lights. The characters are now costumed like a combination of the cast of Do the Right Thing and cheesy '50s robots. They tell the play's story solely through interpretive dance.
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June 1, 2011
Shut Up, Crime!Okay, so, I was in a whiny funk yesterday (shocking, I know). I'd like to add that I did watch and enjoy the following films that are decidedly not about cranky old men:
- Super
- Collateral
- The Evil Dead
- Evil Dead II
- Army of Darkness
- P2 (okay, this one wasn't actually very good, but I sure did enjoy extended looks at Rachel Nichols's pushed-up cleavage!)
- The Untouchables
- The Last of Sheila
- L.A. Story
- Funny People (I seem to remember this getting mixed to negative reviews, and plenty of people I know and respect hated it, but I thought it was great, if ramshackle and uneven — like all Judd Apatow films)
- Me and You and Everyone We Know
- Vampire Hunter D
- Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
- The Woods
- Telefon (okay, this one is about a cranky old man — but Charles fucking Bronson's Soviet disdain is tempered by Lee Remick's middle-aged foxiness and somewhat annoyingly chipper demeanor)
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May 31, 2011
Old Man on the Back Porch
Over the past couple of weeks, I've watched a shitload of movies that I've slowly accumulated via 100% legal, non-piratical means — a heady combination of movies I've always wanted to see, movies I feel like I have to see despite a lack of interest (e.g., Up in the Air, An Education), and movies I'm revisiting after many years (like, for instance, 2001: A Space Odyssey — not a big Kubrick fan, but I saw the movie when I was eleven and hated it; maybe I'll like, or at least appreciate, it now).
As an initiative for my reader novel, I've been flirting with the idea of including an appendix of Script to Screen-style articles, posing my initial thoughts upon reading a script versus the final product. A requirement of that, naturally, is to watch some of the movies that I've covered that have been released. I've already seen a handful for the aforementioned Script to Screen, but plenty of them have infinitely more dubious fates than a January theatrical release — plenty of them have either gone DTV in the U.S. or haven't seen release here at all. That's not necessarily indicative of anything, quality-wise, but it's certainly not the best sign when major stars and Oscar-winning actors show up in movies that can't even get released in their native country.
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May 23, 2011
Sandra Bullock: Clinically Insane Like a Fox
Sandy, the aurora's rising behind us, the pier lights our carnival life forever
Oh, love me tonight, and I promise I'll love you forever…
I came to a very important conclusion after Tarini dared me to watch All About Steve: Sandra Bullock is either slyly demented or batshit crazy. I'm not usually one to dish on celebs or speculate on the mental well being of Hollywood actors, but this… This is different. I'm not some paparazzo hiding in her bushes, trying to find out if she feasts on the flesh of the recently deceased. This is simply an outside observer looking at her oeuvre and coming to the only obvious conclusion.
The last two Bullock movies I saw — All About Steve and The Proposal (both of which Tarini dared me to watch, because she hates me, and I watched because I hate myself) — are the sorts of films where every single scene prompts the most vital question in all of cinema: "Why?" When the closing credits finally scroll up, it prompts the second most vital question in all of cinema: "What the fuck did I just watch?"
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May 6, 2011
The Beaver
Finally, The Beaver comes to Chicago…
Honestly, the script exists in a recess of my brain where scripts that are unmemorably bad reside. It should be the sort of script that makes me say, "What the fuck — when did I read that?" when I glance through old coverage samples. Thanks to its memorable gimmick, I can't forget it quite so easily. I didn't like the script, and I was fairly shocked to find it was regarded as the "most favorite" (not to be confused with "best," whatever that means) Black List script in 2008, but it didn't contain the rage-inducing qualities of a Butter or a Fuckbuddies (later renamed No Strings Attached).
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May 2, 2011
On Fringe
Olivia Dunham might be the worst fictional FBI agent in history. That, in and of itself, doesn't annoy me. It doesn't bother me that she — especially in this season — rarely investigates anything, rarely figures anything out using her alleged investigative prowess, and frequently has reams of expository dialogue spoonfed to her by Walter Bishop, Peter Bishop, Nina Sharp, and now even the mysterious bowling alley owner played by Kevin Corrigan (Sam Weiss Gamgee). It doesn't bother me that she repeatedly learns things she should already know, and her eyes boggle as if her world has just come crumbling down. It doesn't bother me that she can't remember, as recently as three weeks ago, discovering that pathological terror is her link to her MAGICAL POWERS when she desperately needs to use said powers and is, one could argue, pathologically terrified vis-à-vis the impending end of the world.
What bothers me is the show's repeated insistence that she's great at what she does. She's special, according to Walter. She's one of the finest agents Broyles has had the pleasure of ineffectually monitoring from a safe distance. Nina Sharp believes she's brilliant. Peter Bishop has inexplicably fallen in love with her. All of this despite repeated demonstrations of raging, comical incompetence, without counterbalancing her blunders with equal moments of actual brilliance.
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March 28, 2011
Mind-Blowing Joy
It's hard to deny that, since I've relaunched the site, I've done little more than complain. Most of you should be used to that by now, but I told myself that I wanted to do more with this new site than merely vent my frustration about things that, in large part, make me quite angry at the time I'm ranting but evaporate quickly. For instance, I forgot I even wrote anything about Glee, because I stopped caring almost immediately after I hit the "Publish" button. (To that end, though, I do still think Murphy's comments point in the direction of him being a terrible human being, and I'd have started boycotting his show even if I didn't already find it unwatchable.)
So I've decided to devote today's post to things that I love. Because, you see, even as I was bitching about Glee, I was in the process of binge-watching movies I hadn't seen in awhile: Galaxy Quest, Moon (an unintentional Sam Rockwell sci-fi double feature!), The China Syndrome, Giant, and Rabbit Hole. Watching all these films in the span of a single weekend reminded me of something quite wonderful: I fucking love movies. It's quite easy to lose sight of that when mired in draining pursuits designed to rob people of their love of the artistic power of a film. It's really nice to just let a movie wash over you like a warm ocean wave, without having to analyze its artistic merits or commercial prospects, or thinking about how it fits into the current spate of releases, or thinking about anything other than what the film is offering.
I loved Rabbit Hole the first time I saw it. I couldn't be sure whether or not I overvalued it, because I'd been mired in a sea of shit at the time I saw it. My viewing of it was surrounded by a handful of other theatrical releases — Casino Jack, Somewhere, Black Swan, and All Good Things — that were fucking awful, and I generally can't stand Nicole Kidman. I had zero interest in seeing it, but I was the only one who could review it (being that it was released around Christmas), so I took the plunge, and I fucking loved it.
I watched it again, and I still fucking love it. It comes out on DVD/Blu-Ray on April 15th, and it requires your immediate attention. It got largely (and undeservedly) ignored at the Oscars, barely got a theatrical release, and was mostly dismissed, even by critics who liked it, as a dour, 21 Grams-esque film about grief. But that's not what it is. Read the review I linked above if you want more information. My second viewing reaffirmed everything I felt the first time I saw it.
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March 18, 2011
On Glee
[Sorry, Megan (and probably others). I know you love this show, but I just can't get on board…]
This evening, I read a lot — perhaps too much — about these alleged dust-ups between various rockers and Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy. It started, I guess, with Kings of Leon (full disclosure: I'm such a square that I've never heard a Kings of Leon song, though to my credit I have heard of them), who received a verbal tongue-lashing from Murphy after turning down the opportunity to have their music featured on the show. Instead of taking it lying down, they got up in Murphy's Twitter grille, making me wonder (not for the first time) how anybody can report on social media without laughing hysterically at the idiocy of it all.
But mine is not to reason why. Mine is to continue rambling about Slash, one of the greatest rock guitarists in the history of time, who further endeared himself to me by saying, "Glee is worse than Grease, and Grease is bad enough," after which Murphy cattily responded, "Usually I find that people who make those comments, their careers are over; they're uneducated and quite stupid." Says the man who's begging to feature his music…
Finally, the Foo Fighters weighed in on the controversy, after they, too, turned down Murphy's request to use their music.
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June 30, 2009
The A.V. Club on Woody Allen
I don't usually write long, ranty responses to articles unrelated to Juno, but I read one yesterday that really stuck in my craw. This will possibly sound obnoxious, whiny, and defensive, but deal with it — this article offended me deeply, on a personal level. (Note: I've included the article link, but feel free to not waste your time reading it, since I plan to quote from it extensively and respond to each of their "points.")
Longtime readers know of my deep and abiding love for Woody Allen. Despite the oddly inconsistent quality of his movies over the past, let's say, 20 years, his body of work from 1969-1989 more than makes up for a few dark spots. Even now, he still occasionally makes great movies; mostly, they range from "decent" (Small Time Crooks) to "unwatachable" (Scoop). So, defensive though I may be, I'm not blind to the man's flaws (both personally and artistically). Keep that in mind if what I write after this sounds insufferable.
I guess I feel compelled to respond because it's hard enough to get people of my generation to watch Woody Allen movies without a complete hatchet job of an article discouraging them from ever taking the plunge. Typically, I enjoy A.V. Club's reviews and articles, but this is just a flaming turd.
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October 12, 2008
Sexist Straw Man
Remember how I hated Juno? Turns out, this makes me some sort of sexist and/or misogynist asshole**. See, because I'm a male, and I found fault with a screenplay written by a woman — and a feminist woman, author kvoynar is quick to point out in the comments! — this means that my problems with the movie have no merit. It's really just a "thin guise" covering the quiver-inducing rage I feel whenever I think about or discuss anything having to do with women. Many of the comments I received came from women in total agreement, and although I'm sure I haven't joined the ranks of "male-dominated film blog[s kvoynar] read[s] regularly" (possibly because this is not really a "film blog"), this did not stop me from leveling some criticism at Reitman — but put that aside for a moment. I have a confession to make about how much I hate women.
Would it also make me a woman-hating thug to find fault with kvoynar's blog post about how much I hate women because I did not fall in love with Diablo Cody's screenplay and do not know her personally? I only add that last part because, apparently, if I took the time to get into one of those deeeep late-night dorm-room conversations with Ms. Cody, she would charm me to such a degree that I would forgive the many flaws in her Juno screenplay and say, "Yup, she deserved that Oscar on account of being so darned nice."
In particular, I take issue with the baffling argument that I'm a sexist asshole because I didn't hate the scripts for current movies like Burn After Reading or Tropic Thunder, because clearly they're worse movies because they have slightly lower ratings on the Tomato Meter. Wouldn't a more apt comparison be the variety of other Oscar-winning screenplays? Because nobody took issue with Crash or Little Miss Sunshine or The Pianist or A Beautiful Mind, right? These were movies not just universally beloved — but beloved because of their flawless screenplays written by members of the clearly superior male gender. Let me turn off the sarcasm for a second and ask: are you high? For Christ's sake, as recently as five months ago, I took another look at American Beauty and retroactively trashed its screenplay with as much — if not more — vitriol as I did with Juno. Some of them (Crash) instantly reveal themselves as about a thousand times worse than Juno*. And even if the idea of sampling summer popcorn fare instead of making it go toe to toe with fellow Oscar winners, you only have to go back in time as recently as one month for "current releases" to fare better on Rotten Tomatoes — WALL·E, The Dark Knight, Iron Man. Doesn't this make the "legitimate" critical establishment sexist, as well? They gave more positive reviews to movies about rich white dudes who fight crime! O, the injustice! Even the female critics are merely unempowered husks trying to make it in a man's world by kowtowing to their desires… Right?
So I guess I ought to just take Ms. Cody's "defense" lying down. I made no valid points, had no real reasons to dislike her objectively great movie, I am both a sexist and a misogynist, and I should apologize right now. And I should not, at any time, point out that I only stumbled across kvoynar's post because Ms. Cody links to it on her blog, which suggests she fully buys into the notion that her flawless screenplay is under attack by the evil cabal of misogynist male bloggers and that, if we really got to know her, we'd take back all the nasty things we've said about her. That doesn't, in any way, weaken her position as a feminist! In fact, with an attitude like hers, she'd make one hell of a vice-presidential candidate!
(And for those who notice the dates on all these blogs and believe I've spent the past few months stewing in my own juices — think again! Despite my usual obsessive tendencies, my caring about Juno and the misguided people who love it ebbed by, let's say, May. Now, a few people did send me links to Ms. Cody's initial "outburst," but at that time I just chuckled at the stupidity and moved on. Today, that popped in my head, I decided to check out the blog for any potential blowback-related hilarity. Instead, I found an obnoxious defense of her own defense, plus the link to the other blog, and it got my rage boiling.)
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April 14, 2008
Television Without Purpose
I don't visit many Internet message boards anymore because, as I failed to mention the other day, message boards are just too time-consuming, especially if you participate. The few I look at, I don't read regularly, and I participate even less frequently. But there was a time, when I was working one of my many dead-end jobs and had assloads of time to kill, where I became obsessed with a website called Television Without Pity. For those who aren't aware (because you have better things to do with your lives than obsess over TV), it's a site where folks write long, snarky recaps of television shows. At their best, they approximate the experience of watching a show, simulating the things that run through your mind so you can say, "Thank God I'm not the only one who didn't think a single moment of 24's fourth season made sense." At their worst, they descend into rambling, pseudo-intellectual garbage overanalyzing the kind of reality shows most people half-watch as they do laundry or cook dinner.
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April 11, 2008
Quantum Leap
Tonight, I watched a Quantum Leap rerun that started making me think about the potential for a remake. I've heard rumblings of remake attempts in the past that are detailed enough to make me think they at least had one in development at one time, but obviously it's never come to fruition. It's one of my favorite shows of all time, but there were always a few elements to "leaping" that went unaddressed. (And yes, being that I loved the show, I fully understand that this was a show with a science-fiction premise that had very little to do with science-fiction. Probably for the best, since the attempts they made to explain things scientifically — most notably in the earlier episodes, and dropped pretty quickly before the end of the second season, then resurrected it when the "Evil Leaper" showed up and tried to ruin the show — were pretty retarded.)
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February 18, 2008
With the critical accolades, awards nominations (and wins), boffo box-office, a can't-lose premise, and a fine ensemble directed by the man who made 2005's best movie (Thank You for Smoking), I don't think I was looking forward to anything more than Juno. I even had usually reliable friends raving about this thing. One said, "It's the rare movie where you can believe every good thing said about it." He has very discriminating tastes, so it didn't even seem as much like quote-whoring as it looks there, nakedly in print. He acted astonished and impressed, and I decided, "I must see this movie." Unfortunately, laziness prevailed, so I didn't bother to see it until two weeks ago…
…and then I nearly walked out before the first scene gave way to the opening credits. The only thing that kept me there, aside from hardly earned money that could no longer be refunded, was all the external goodwill this movie had built up. But right off the bat, my first thought: "This is some of the worst dialogue I've ever heard." Seems like as good a place as any to start.
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June 9, 2007
I Stand Corrected
Recently I reported that I hadn't heard a worse song than Brian Wilson's "Smart Girls." I can admit when I'm wrong, and my unfortunate prolonged exposure to Top 40 radio over the last few weeks has given me some perspective. In fact, the absolute worst song ever recorded (or, at least, the worst song ever to be a #1 hit) is "The Sweet Escape" by Gwen Stefani. [Downloadable file removed 3/13/08 because certain websites were direct-linking.]
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May 28, 2007
The Worst Song Ever Recorded
Everyone knows I am a fan of the Beach Boys in general and Brian Wilson in particular. Seriously, I'm really annoying about it. Almost as annoying as I am when I talk nonstop about Guns N' Roses history. But the history of G'N'R, while hilarious, can't quite match the bizarre saga of the Beach Boys. It also can't match the multiple accounts from various band members, friends, family, hangers-on, and industry insiders. Even more, nothing in the Guns N' Roses musical canon can match the absolute horror of the Beach Boys' lowest lows.
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May 9, 2007
The BailiffIn which I discover the bailiff from "Judge Mathis" committed suicide form unknown reasons.
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April 29, 2007
Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean BlueIn which I describe the greatness of Dennis Wilson's lost album, 'Pacific Ocean Blue,' and the history leading to its creation.
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April 22, 2007
Bulletin!In which I notice the strange questions on a MySpace bulletin and wonder why anyone would fill out this survey.
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January 9, 2006
Coffee ArticleIn which I respond to a frustrating article about coffee.
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March 18, 2003
Five Steps to a Better Blog!
I have a lot of friends with LiveJournals. And they have a lot of friends with LiveJournals. And they have a lot of well-wishers with LiveJournals. The LiveJournal community is fascinating, if not utterly baffling, but it really did make me realize that, as a blogger, I am not maximizing my emo potential. So I've constructed a series of rules that will alllow readers to really feel my bland white-boy pain, instead of just reading and laughing uproariously.
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Komatsubara was an assistant military attaché in Russia between 1919 and 1925, then military attaché there from 1927 to 1929. Promoted to colonel in 1929, he commanded a regiment. In April 1932, he became director of the Harbin Special Service Agency in northern Manchuria, with the task of collecting and analyzing intelligence concerning Soviet activities. Made a major general in 1934, he commanded infantry brigades. In March 1937, he was promoted to lieutenant general and given command of Second Independent Garrison in Manchuria, and in July 1938, he took command of the 23rd Division in Manchuria.
While Komatsubara was commanding the 23rd Division, a clash occurred between Japanese and Soviet forces in the border area between Manzhoudiguo (Manchoutikuo) and Mongolia. In initiating the fighting, the Japanese Guandong (Kwantung) Army underestimated Soviet strength and disregarded instructions from Tokyo. Komatsubara himself did not accurately estimate the Soviet forces led by Soviet Lieutenant General Georgii Zhukov. His own division was newly organized, and though mobile, it was only lightly armed. Komatsubara began the May to September 1939 Battle of Nomonhan (Khalkhin-Gol), and his division was annihilated by Soviet tanks and artillery: of some 15,975 men in the 23rd Division, 11,230 were casualties during the battle. Komatsubara was made the scapegoat for the Japanese defeat. Removed from command, he retired from the service in 1940. He died within the year, on 6 October 1940. Tobe Ryoici
Further Reading
Coox, Alvin. D. Nomonhan: Japan against Russia, 1939. 2 vols. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1985.
Tobe Ryoici