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You know what movie I totally forgot was coming? That's right, the remake of Stephen King's "Carrie"! All things considered, nothing in this trailer screams 'bad.' Then again, it doesn't really show anything much besides Chloe Grace Moretz covered in blood. Considering that "Carrie covered in blood" is one of the most iconic shots in horror movie history, they would be pretty stupid to not include it in the promotion of the remake.
Written in 1910 by Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo popularizes an evil creature of legend from the Algonquian people of Native American Indians. The wendigo is a cannibalistic spirit that can either possess humans or is the creature in which humans can transform. Often described as extremely gaunt, skeletal gray in color and smelling of decaying flesh; the wendigo is associated with freezing winters, extreme famine but also gluttony.
Every fall, I dig out some of my favorite horror movies that only feel right to watch around the Halloween season. If you've been following my blog, you know that I absolutely love, love, love, horror anthologies. One of my favorites, that comes out of my Halloween Horror Arsenal every year is the 1982 horror fan favorite "Creepshow." With the tagline: "the most fun you'll ever have being scared," how can you go wrong?!
Joan Allen seems like an all around nice gal. I can't say I remember one movie she's been in or actually recognize her face or name but still I think she's got a winning personality. And if that doesn't sell you on the fact that she's been added to the cast of the big screen adaptation of Stephan King's "A Good Marriage" I'm not sure what will. The story follows a wife who discovers her husband has been hiding an awful secret for many years. What's my awful secret you ask? I love those little country stores that sell all kinds of jams, jellies and knick knacks. There, it's finally out there.
If you love Michael Bay and James Wong, and I mean really love them like you want to be with them, then you're going to be super excited about the new supernatural cop drama the two are working on for A&E titled "Occult". The show follows two investigators who find themselves a part of a new task force that focuses on the occult. Just to be clear I don't mean you love them like brothers I mean you love them like you want to kidnap them and hold them hostage.
I don't know what it is about Neil Jordan but the guy has a name that makes me want to throw him off a cliff. I mean I like his movies and all I just can't stomach the name. Neil.... JORDAN. But I will get past it and watch "Byzantium", a new film of his that was just picked up by IFC. The film follows two girls who find themselves on the run when they encounter a 200 year old vampire. To be clear I'm going to watch the movie because apparently they work in a brothel for a while and the chance of nudity trumps all name hate.
Everyone's favorite uber-star Nic Cage is apparently in talks to take the lead in a new film titled "I Am Wrath". In the film Cage would play a husband who must take the law into his own hands when he finds the people investigating the murder of his wife are not such nice fellas. I assume they're fellas cause you know you never see a real prick female cop in movies. I don't know if that's sexist or not. I think it might be.
Public enjoyment of others' grueling and gut-wrenching struggles has been a common phenomenon since humanoids decided to pretend to function using our brains. From the Colosseum to Bravo, it seems everyone loves a good Roman holiday. Richard Bachman's (Stephen King incognito, for those unhip) 1979 novel The Long Walk perfectly illustrates man's dark desire to see others suffer.
"Shaun Of The Dead" and "Hot Fuzz" power couple Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, or Simgar, are set to begin production on "The World's End" this September. The film is about a group of friends who reunite to attempt an epic pub crawl 20 years after their first go around. I'm not going to lie, I'm already imagining the heartfelt ending of the movie where they cry and hug over beers and I'm getting a little misty.
Stephen King's "The Reach" is next on the list to get the big screen adaptation treatment. While negotiations are still in their early stages King himself says the story, about a elderly woman who travels to a ghost island over a large frozen stretch of water, is the one he'd "most like to be remembered for after his death". So don't F this up Hollywood fat cats. Or else you'll have the ghost of Stephen King on your ass.
FX has plans to adapt the Chelsea Cain's book "Heartsick" for the little screen sometime in the near future. The story, which is the first in a trilogy, tells the tale of a female serial killer and her relationship with a beat up Portland detective. Do they have serial killers in Portland? I thought it was all donuts and hippies. Wait, serial killer that prays on hippies? I like where this is going.
Production on "The Scribbler", staring Katie Cassidy and Eliza Dushku, has officially begun in sunny LA. The movie follows the fun story of a young woman using a new experimental tool that helps to eliminate multiple personalities. Do you think it works? What a terrible movie it would be if it does and everything works fine the first time. They hook the girl up to a car battery and 15 minutes later she's all better and drinking a coffee. Roll credits.
I just added this to my list of "things I didn't know existed". Also, my "sounds cool but I will never read that" list. What I'm trying to say is I keep a lot of lists. It's a disease.
Few details have been released around the Ben Affleck fronted retelling of Stephen King's "The Stand" but today it looks like the project finally has a writer. "Blood Creek" writer David Kajganich has been tapped to take on the task of adapting King's book, which has already been made into a TV series so my guess is he'll just find that script and do the old "save as" in Microsoft word and call it a day. That's what I'd do anyway. Maybe take out any reference to Molly Ringwald.
If you've been sitting on the edge of your seat waiting for more details on the Tom Cruise alien battle flick "Oblivion" then today is your lucky day. It's been confirmed that both Andrea Riseborough and Olga Kurylenko have signed on to the cast, one playing his current girlfriend and the other playing the women he falls for. God I can't wait to find out which is which. I hope Olga wins his heart, only because her name is Olga though. You don't mess with an Olga.
I fancy myself a big Disneyworld fan and an uber Haunted Mansion buff so I'm as giddy as a little school girl at at some of the new collectibles Disney will be releasing this year at their parks. Namely a new kick ass Haunted Mansion time piece that's a bargain at any price and makes a great birthday gift for the special BGH news writer in your life. That's me, I'm that person, in case you were wondering.
Lastly it looks like Thomas Jane, Billy Bob Thornton and James Marsden have all been cast in a new flick titled "Red Machine". The movie focuses on two estranged brothers who try to patch up their relationship during a camping trip with their signification others. Unfortunately for them though they end up being stalked by a killer bear. So we've now got Billy Bob Thornton battling bears. Your move, Liam Neeson fighting wolves.
I don't think anyone is excited about the DVD release of "The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)" but it's happening and it's my journalistic duty to tell you about the new box art that's been released for the ass-to-mouth opus. The hit goes on sale on Valentines day, of course, and will include director commentary, behind the scenes videos, deleted scenes and some other random goodies. And by goodies I mean stuff that will make you throw up in your mouth.
Speaking of DVD releases, it looks like the A&E miniseries "Bag of Bones", based on the Stephen King novel by the same name will be hitting shelves on March 13th. Which is surprising because I didn't realize it actually aired already. Right now it looks like the only special features being included are a couple of short features about the series, which focuses on a father wrapped up in a bitter custody battle after the death of his wife. So get ready for that hot box to hit... That's what she said.
The birth of my daughter, my wedding day and the release of "Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance". These are the three things I've been most excited about in my lifetime. I put them in that order only because I know my wife reads my news from time to time. So here's a new TV spot for the Nic Cage sequel that hits theaters on February 17th. I love you honey and I'm sorry... just about everything.
And here's a new clip from Ti West's "The Innkeepers" which has already found it's way onto VOD. If you're not up to speed on the flick it focuses on two innkeepers who try to prove their place of employment is haunted before it closes its doors for good. Anyone ever listen to that band Vison Of Disorder. I think about them every time I write about a movie that's hit VOD. Also that it's because of bands like them that I never got laid in High School.
Good news kids! A 5 minute clip of the upcoming little screen adaptation of Stephen king's "Bag Of Bones" has made it's way online. The miniseries focuses on a grief stricken husband who returns to the lakeside house him and his wife owned while dealing with a bitter custody battle. I want to be 100% honest. The download instructions for this clip confused the hell out of me so I didn't watch it. I want this relationship to be built on honesty.
The majority of the "Evil Dead" news flying around these days is mostly just interviews with people attached to the flick saying it's going to be awesome and fans will be happy. But today, today my friends, on this glorious of all hump days, we have news that director Fede Alvarez is planning on taking the show to New Zealand to begin filming in March. And if a bunch of sheep herders with strange accents doesn't ring true to the original "Evil Dead" I don't know what does.
If you love David Cronenberg then you're going to have somewhat pleasant feelings towards his son Brandon Cronenberg and his new project "Antiviral". Proof is in the first still we're getting today from the film that follows an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. Don't let the fact bother you that the guy in the photo has a pony tail and by definition anyone with a pony tail is a prick. Please, let's try to be adults about this.
Honestly the only reason we're going to discuss these set picks from Neil Jordan's "Byzantium" if because I find them so confusing. They're of Gemma Arterton, who plays a vampire in the flick, prancing around the coast of Ireland in a red dress with all her goods hanging out. Sounds awesome I know but then you get to the final shot of some strange PA who appears to be examining Arterton's lady bits. I have so many feeling going on inside me right now I'm not sure what to do. I'm laughing and crying at the same time. I think it's best we call it a day.


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Working more used to hurt your salary, says a recent paper from Cornell University, but not anymore. In fact, say researchers Youngjoo Cha and Kim Weeden, the wage premium for working longer hours is growing. By the end of the first decade of the 21st century, "overworkers" earned about 6 percent more than their shorter-working counterparts.
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Most interestingly, the rise in pay is hourly, say Cha and Weeden, in a recent interview with Harvard Business Review Blog Network, and appears to be consistent even when adjusted for education level and experience.
"The rising wage returns to overwork are not solely due to, say, the fact that today's overworkers are more likely to be highly educated or to work in high-skill occupations than overworkers in the past," says Cha. "...in our data, we see that the overwork wage premium is larger in the occupations where overwork is more common. This pattern is consistent with the argument that in some occupations, workers are expected to put in extremely long hours, and people who fail to meet this expectation are penalized in their relative hourly pay."
Occupations such as doctors, lawyers, and engineers -- so-called "greedy occupations" -- fit this profile. This also helps explain why women still earn less than men: in addition to the fact that they're less likely to choose "greedy occupations," they also are less likely to overwork. The result is that even women in high-earning jobs might miss out on promotions or raises, because their overworking male colleagues are able to put in more time -- and more time, in today's workplace, is required.
"Our analysis shows that if the hourly wages for overwork had stayed the same throughout the period, the overall gender wage gap would have decreased by about 10 percent more than it did," says Cha.
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Mobile home fire inquiry continues, but oxygen machine didn't apparently factor
Questions swirl around the cause of the deadly fire Monday at a mobile home near Bristol.
Some family members and other media have alluded to the possibility that an oxygen machine used by Cindy Kabay, who died leading up to the fire, factored in the incident.
Elkhart County Coroner John White, though, said Wednesday, Dec. 18, that while Kabay, indeed, used an oxygen machine, the device wasn't in use at the time of the blaze. "It was definitely found in the off position," he said.
Still, it's not clear what exactly sparked the blaze or the chain of events that resulted in the deaths of Kabay, 67, and her son, 42-year-old Chad Russell, killed by carbon monoxide poisoning. Assistant Bristol Fire Department Chief Fred Genslinger said Tuesday that the fire was unintentional, but offered no additional info pending completion of the investigation.
A rep in the Bristol Fire Department said Wednesday that the Indiana Fire Marshal's Office is handling the investigation and, with Chief Fay Kemp out until Thursday, offered no update on the inquiry, which ought to be done next week. Fire marshal's officials have identified the Elkhart County Sheriff's Department as the liaison for press inquiries, but a rep from the department didn't immediately have any new information.
The fire at the mobile home was called in around 7 a.m. Monday morning and officials later reported that Kabay and Russell were subsequently found dead inside the dwelling. Judging by the lack of carbon monoxide in her system, Kabay actually died before the fire of natural causes stemming from underlying heart disease, White said. Russell was apparently overcome by smoke after the fire started and died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
The bodies of Kabay and Russell were found near the entrance to the mobile home, at Timberbrook Mobile Home Park west of Bristol. Kabay's husband was living in a rehabilitation center at the time and Russell had moved in to help care for his mother, according to family.
Neither was working at the time, according to family, though Russell's obituary said he had worked in the recreational vehicle industry.


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Michel Peyrelon was born on October 10, 1936 in Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France as Michel Léon Peyrelon. He was an actor, known for Les visiteurs (1993), Going Places (1974) and The Common Man (1975). He died on June 4, 2003 in Paris, Ile de France, France. See full bio »
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My 2012 elk hunt is being featured in the Summer 2014 issue of Extreme Elk Magazine. I have a few extra copies - and yes, Dad - I'll autograph one for you ;)
For all you non-Extreme Elk subscribers, I have scanned in the pages from the feature below. It is kind of fun to see the story in the magazine with some of the edits they made - and with the images they chose. Watch out, one of the photos is pretty gory! If you do happen to see a copy of Extreme Elk, turn to page 74 and check it out!


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Andrew Bynum wasted little time winning over the home crowd.
Less than a minute, actually.
Within 60 seconds of his Indiana Pacers debut, Bynum hauled in a pass in the paint, pivoted to the rim and dunked with authority.
It was his first touch of the night, and the
result drew a roar of approval from Tuesday night's capacity crowd at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
By game's end, Bynum had eight points, a team-high 10 rebounds and the appreciation of fans who weren't quite sure what to expect from the embattled former All-Star.
Bynum accrued it all in only 16 minutes of court time — his first NBA action in three months.
"I felt great. I couldn't do anything wrong," Bynum said of his performance during
the Pacers' 94-83 win against the Boston Celtics. "All the rebounds came my way. I just grabbed them.
"I'm looking forward to the next game."
Indiana's next game is Friday at Philadelphia, where Bynum will look to prove that his impressive debut was a sign of things to come, not an aberration. The Pacers (47-17) are certainly banking on the former.
Signed as a free agent on Feb. 1 after being released by Chicago, the 7-foot, 285-pound Bynum is expected to enhance the Pacers' bid for the NBA championship — if he regains a measure of the form that made him an All-Star in 2012 with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Widely regarded as one of the league's top centers during his seven seasons in Los Angeles, Bynum's career has been on a downward spiral since leaving the Lakers. A well-documented series of knee injuries and attitude issues have threatened his career ever since.
Traded to Philadelphia in 2012 after winning two NBA titles with the Lakers, Bynum sat out the entire 2012-13 season with knee injuries. He never played a game for the 76ers and was signed by Cleveland after the season.
Although he was able to return to the court at the start of the 2013-14 season, Bynum's production nose-dived. He appeared in 24 games but was suspended indefinitely on Dec. 28, 2013, for conduct detrimental to the team. He didn't play again for the Cavaliers and was traded to the Bulls on Jan. 7.
Chicago, in a salary cap move, waived him the same day.
Three weeks later, Indiana signed Bynum for the remainder of the season, giving him perhaps one last shot at saving his career and, more importantly for the Pacers, giving them a potentially invaluable asset in their quest the title.
"He changes the game and has a presence at both ends," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. "He's a really good basketball player. He is here for a reason.
"I expected him to impact the game (on Tuesday)."
Bynum did.
Filling in at backup center for the injured Ian Mahinmi (bruised left rib), Bynum — despite wearing a large brace on his right knee — showed no signs of the knee issues that had delayed his return to action.
Looking confident and comfortable, Bynum dominated the middle during his 16-minute stint. Displaying court awareness and athleticism superior to Mahinmi, he was 3 of 4 from the field with an assist and no turnovers.
"He brought a lot. There is not much on the court he didn't do for us," Pacers forward Paul George said. "He really did a great job of controlling the paint, on (controlling) the boards. Offensively, he was huge.
"We made a huge emphasis to find him."
Bynum's performance not only won over the crowd but seemed to encourage teammates, as well. The Pacers entered on a four-game skid and exited with a much-needed win, one that might not have been possible without the new frontcourt boost.
"I think he did well, not forcing anything and playing a dominant, smash-mouth type of play," point guard George Hill said. "It was good to have him out there. He said he felt good, so I'm happy about that."
At the height of his All-Star days in Los Angeles, Bynum — now in his ninth NBA season — was widely regarded as one of the league's top two centers, alongside Dwight Howard. Although those days seem long ago for a player who's career was nearly terminated three months ago, he's only 26 and just two years removed from his last All-Star season.
He was only 17 when the Lakers selected him in the first round of the 2005 NBA Draft out of St. Joseph High School in New Jersey.
Whether Bynum recaptures elite-player ability remains to be seen. But for the moment, he appears ready to fill a vital role on an ambitious team that is desperate to earn the No. 1 playoff seed in the Eastern Conference.
Indiana has a slight edge on the Miami Heat (44-17) and took a chance on Bynum for the specific purpose of winning the East and contending for the NBA title.
Bynum insists he's ready to do his part. He feels comfortable in the Pacers' system and is focused, again, on basketball.
"It's a different location, a different time in my life," Bynum said. "I'm looking forward to just going out and playing. Obviously, the atmosphere is a lot better from the standpoint that we are winning"


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Jaclyn Cherry is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Law. Her expertise is in nonprofit and tax exempt Law. Her scholarship, teaching and service, nationally and locally, reflect this interest. Most recently, she was appointed an Advisor by the American Law Institute to its Restatement of the Law of Charitable Nonprofit Organizations. She has co-authored several nonprofit tax exempt texts including the 3rd edition of her casebook Tax Exempt Organizations: Cases and Materials, which was published in 2014.
Professor Cherry teaches nonprofit and other courses, including the Nonprofit Organizations Clinic and the Small Business Capstone.
She also serves in several leadership roles including being a member of the advisory board of the Nelson Mullins Riley Scarborough Center on Professionalism, is a member and advisor of the American Law Institute, and is a founding member of the South Carolina Volunteer Lawyers Association. She has won the G.G. Dowling Faculty Award given by the University of South Carolina School of Law to a faculty member who typifies to fellow faculty outstanding qualities of integrity, concern for others and legal scholarship.
She was a Visiting Professor at the University of San Diego School of Law during the summer of 2003 teaching J.D. and L.L.M. students and served as Associate Director of Clinical Legal Education, Director of Economic & Community Development Law Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law for over 10 years at Duquesne University School of Law.
She served as General Counsel to Allegheny Conference on Community Development and Bethlehem Haven of Pittsburgh, as an Attorney-Senior Compliance Officer for Mellon Mortgage Company, a judicial law clerk in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas and as an Attorney with Mistick, Sittig & Weiss, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Lawyers Abstract Company/ agent of Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company.
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Fresh Android Apps for May 21: Hojoki, Lookout Ad Network Detector, Big Win Hockey, Burn It All
by Ian Black
Today's fresh Android list helps improve your life. For a less obnoxious device, check out the update to Lookout Ad Network Detector, and for a cloud management tool, download Hojoki.
In games, try the fresh Big Win Hockey and Burn it All.
Hojoki (Free)
I've been complaining about this problem for a while and here a developer goes and solves it. How do you keep track of all your free cloud storage and synchronization accounts in Evernote, Dropbox, Google Drive, Beanstalk, Github, Highrise, and many other services? By using this fresh app.
Hojoki works like a newsfeed for all your cloud accounts and will provide up-to-the-minute headlines of files that have been added or changed, by whom, and when. If you need to drill-down to examine files in these services, you can do so right from the app. The app also alerts those you collaborate with of changes you make automatically.
Get some cloud piece of mind with Hojoki.
Lookout Ad Network Detector (Free)
Feeling overwhelmed by ads? Need a little "commercial break" for your Android? Give this recently updated ad hunter a try.
Lookout expands it security suite with this app that scouts other apps that use a common ad network, and reports back to you what it finds on your Android. It focuses on the most intrusive ad networks including those that push ads to the Android notification bar, drop unwanted icons on your home screen, or alter your mobile browser's home page. The app reports which apps use which capabilities in a helpful list, letting your decide what to remove.
Big Win Hockey (Free)
For true hockey lovers, summer does not end the ice time. Build your own fantasy team by pulling players from fun teams like the Canuckleheads, and then customize each for a particular look and skill set.
Face-off against teams created by international players online. The more you win, the more "impact cards" you score which grant special player skills like "Big Hits," "Sharpshooter," "Puck Magnet," "Injury Free" and more.
There's a daily trophy for highest scores which can set you up for the overall Big Win!
Burn it All (Free)
You've heard of Burn the Rope? This game takes things a step further in an effort to Burn it All.
Three molten flames have lost their way. You must help them find their way from the hot center of the earth back to their dad, the sun. Each of the flames has special powers that you will use, one at a time, to solve each puzzle and burn a path to the surface.
Each flame has only so much fuel per puzzle and if it burns out before you solve it, you're done. Make sure to avoid water and gas, which will either extinguish or blast away the flames. If you're hot, you'll unlock five worlds, each with 25 different levels.


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How popular is the baby name Joanna? What is the meaning of Joanna? What baby names are similar to Joanna? Popularity, definition, and origin of Joanna.
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Popular Baby Names in Providence, RI, 1867
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How Do You Feel About Your Name, Roseanna?
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List of Female Names from 1888
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Name Quotes for the Weekend #12
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Baby Name Story – Invicta
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Remember Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose? I recently found out that one of his ex-wives is named Erin Invicta Everly. Invicta is a form of invictus, Latin for "unconquered." What's the story behind Invicta? Erin was born in 1965 to musician Don Everly and actress Venetia Stevenson, full name […] more
Babies Named After Katniss from Hunger Games?
|September 13, 2010
The Hunger Games is a young adult science-fiction trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The last of the three books, Mockingjay, was released a few weeks ago. At the moment, Mockingjay is #5 on the Amazon.com Bestseller List. Catching Fire, the second book, is #13. Hunger Games, the first, is #16. Movies […] more
Most Popular First Letter-Pairs of U.S. Baby Names
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Mathematically speaking, it's possible to construct 676 pairs of letters from a 26-letter alphabet. In terms of baby names, though, only a portion of these pairs can realistically be used to start a baby name. If you look at each of the 6,692 names that have ever ranked among the […] more


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Prior to matriculation, students must complete, in a timely manner, admission requirements — including subject requirements, unit minimums, grade-point averages, final transcript and testing requirement. Refer to the Enrollment Services web site (www.csulb.edu/enrollment) for current requirements.
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I'm going to throw in the hammer speculating stuff.
Everybody is wondering what the move will be of Pol going to Tech3, I'm pretty certain it's a one year deal before he ends up in the factory team. Lorenzo at the moment doesn't look happy with Marquez already doing a good job. Dani's contract runs out at the end of 2014 so does Lorenzo's contract.
We all know that Dani won't grab a title and Honda was already interested in Lorenzo for this year.
The Yamaha well no seamless gearbox until the second part of the season.
2015 ladies and gentlemen
Yamaha Factory team
Valentino Rossi ( lead rider probably final season )
Pol Espargaro
Repsol Honda team
Jorge Lorenzo
Marc Marquez
Dani Pedrosa
tba ( can't see Smith staying there )
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#KXLfail: Further development of the Canadian tar sands would have an "enormous" impact on the world's climate, according to a new analysis (titled simply "Fail") from a coalition of environmental groups (including NRDC, which publishes OnEarth). And despite industry claims to the contrary, the construction of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline is crucial to that development, the green groups show (often using industry's own internal analyses, which frequently run contrary to their public statements). President Obama has said that he would only approve the project if it "does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution." The new report makes a strong case that it does. Huffington Post, Reuters
Dry farming: Crops need water to grow, right? Well, some wild and crazy guys at Happy Boy Farms near Santa Cruz, California, claim a garden left to languish produces sweeter crops than anything you'll find in the supermarket. "Once you taste a dry-farmed tomato, you'll never want anything else," says sales director Jen Lynne. The math is straightforward: less water means a higher percentage of sugar and other flavors per plant. Dry farming produces dramatically lower yields, but what is now a niche method may become a necessity as Earth's climate continues to warm and droughts in major ag regions become routine. NPR
Something's fishy here: It shouldn't surprise anyone that big ocean species like swordfish harbor high levels of mercury. But a new study of mercury isotopes in different species of fish has given scientists some clues about the source of these pollutants. Hint: It might be coming from a certain continent to the east of our shores with a massive penchant for burning coal. Los Angeles Times
Back to school: As parents everywhere send their kids off to school, one mother seeks healthy, green options for her daughter's classroom supplies. What she finds is both discouraging and a little bit terrifying. OnEarth
Grizzly roll call: There's a big hubbub brewing over the number of bears currently living in the Greater Yellowstone region. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says grizzly numbers are up and wants to drop the animals from the endangered species list in 2014. But many scientists, including researchers at the University of Colorado-Boulder and the University of California-Berkeley, say every major grizzly food source is in decline and current population estimation methods are likely inaccurate. In the end, the decision may have more to do with politics than bear science—a proposition that always benefits the animals, right? High Country News
The blue bloods: If you're one of the millions of Americans who vacation at the beach each year, you're probably familiar with horseshoe crabs—those helmet-shaped crustaceans that sometimes wash up dead in the morning surf. Well, here's something you probably didn't know: horseshoe crabs have blue blood, and someday… it might just save your life. Deep Sea News
The way we were: There's a lot of talk about the good ol' days and how much this country has changed. But wherever you fall on the spectrum of nostalgia and politics, these pictures of what Pittsburgh looked like at noon in 1940 are a healthy reminder of how far we've come on the pollution front. Pittsburgh Magazine
And now for beauty: The Yosemite Rim Fire is probably one of the most closely observed in history. Without being anywhere near the blaze, you can experience it by satellite and aerial flyby. (See "'That is Unreal': Yosemite's Massive Rim Fire".) But if you watch one wildfire video today, make it this time-lapse of the chaos unfolding in California. It's as awesome as it is apocalyptic. Huffington Post
A Cooler Pacific May Be Behind Recent Pause In Global Warming NPR
New EPA Chief Steps Into Alaska Mine Controversy McClatchy
Filling in Some Blanks to 'All of the Above' Energy Policy Climate Central
Florida Citrus Grower Fined $1,500 For Killing Millions of Honeybees Treehugger
Obama Energy Dept. Proposals Would Make Commercial Fridges, Coolers More Efficient Washington Post
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The Cincinnati Metropolitan Orchestra teams up with the College of Mount St. Joseph tonight for a special concert, Simple Gifts. Students will perform a variety of work, including "Porgi Amor," "O Mio Babbino Caro," "Fanfare for the Common Man" and "Variations on a Shaker Melody." The free concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at Mount St. Joe.
The infamous Second City comedy troupe returns to Cincinnati this week with more locally-inspired sketches. Catch a preview show of Less Pride...More Pork tonight at Playhouse in the Park and be sure to bring your sense of humor — remember, they're laughing with us. Also at the playhouse tonight, one of our Critic's Picks, Thunder Knocking on the Door.
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This tasty southwestern appetizer brings big flavor, but low sodium and fat.
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- Bake for 10 minutes or until crisp and browned.
- Combine turkey, cheese, avocado, corn and onions in a small bowl and gently stir once or twice to blend ingredients.
- Place chips around serving dish and place mixture in the center of serving dish.
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> I apologize if I unintentionally set a bear trap for you.
This drivel has `trolling for morons' written all over it...
> I thought everybody would recognize this question as, "if there are
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...Only a moron would think tuple-order and attribute-order matter...
> The PICK example shows them as a list. But is that inherent in
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Delicate Night Trails
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Ka'ena Long Exposure
Joe Azure
It's All Timing
Nature vs City
Mount Sopris Sunrise
Chinmney Rock
Chimney Sunset
Surrounded Colors
Aspen Grove
Hawaii Sunsets
*Hawaii Sunsets*
Ever since my trip to Hawaii, I can't stop thinking about how awesome the sunsets and sunrises are. This one in particular was awesome!
Ka'ena Milk Bath
Lady Fingers
Ka'ena Sea
*Ka'ena Sea*
I swear it gets better I want to go back here and camp on this stretch of shore for a month. It was just incredible and to top it off so was the sunset and sunrise.
3 Shot 32bit HDR Blend.
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Induro CT214 tripod
LEE .9 & .6 Soft Graduated ND Filter
So tags work, would this be the same concept as Google+ then?
Ka'ena Point Sunet
*Ka'ena Point Sunet*
If you were on Oahu this past Saturday you would have remembered how epic sunset was, it just blew up! I happened to be in a prime location. That usually doesn't happen!
What You See Once You Leave
Taken In Flight United Airlines BOS --> SFO
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Shifted Under The Fog - Golden Gate Bridge
So I had this shot also from May. I was out shooting early in the morning with the mayor of the bridge himself, +Joe Azure. That was one of the best mornings I have ever had in all my 3 years here. This was also during a full moon, so the fog was lit really nicely. Sunrise, Full Moon and Low fog :) For this shot I decided to have a little fun, by adding a small tilt-shift effect to it. All Processed in Lightroom 4.
Canon 7D and a Canon 70-200mm f/4 L Lens
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Free Gallon of Gas in California, Just Run Out
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Unbelievable. [3] Gasoline is over $3 so motorists in California are taking advantage of a publicly funded patrol service that gives a free gallon of gas to those who run out. For three dollars worth of petrol, people are stranding themselves on the highway, wasting time, inhaling exhaust fumes, for a gallon of gasoline. Forget the part about how this is the most inefficient way to get gasoline because it's publicly funded (they pay taxes, the taxes pay for a truck, a driver, administrative fees, maintenance on the truck, and then finally the gasoline… certainly that gallon is costing them more than $3), how little do these folks value their time?
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Sasha Banks and New Day
During a recent interview with Sports Illustrated, Big E Langston was asked about a potential fourth member of New Day. If it was up to the big guy, he would have Sasha Banks in the stable. Langston stated that Sasha was his favorite wrestler in the entire world right now. Those that follow them on social media know that the WWE diva has a close relationship backstage with all three members of the group.
October 21, 2015
Langston thanks Punk
During a podcast interview with Chris Jericho, Big E Langston revealed that CM Punk saved his career with WWE. Langston was worried that he was going to be sent back down to NXT, but Punk went to management and specifically asked to work with him. The two of them had no previous allegiance backstage, so this was simply a case of Punk wanting to him a coworker out.
August 7, 2015
New Day gets title shot
As some of you already know, plans change pretty often backstage in WWE. Originally, Kalisto and Sin Cara were supposed to challenge Tyson Kidd and Antonio Cesaro for the tag team championship at Extreme Rules. However, management opted to change things up by giving the match to Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston and Big E Langston instead, even though the Lucha Dragons received really nice ovations from the live events during the Europe tour.
April 21, 2015
Big E Langston push
For those of you that are under the assumption that John Cena has or uses a lot of stroke backstage, take a look at Big E Langston. The former pushed really hard for WWE to give the latter a chance in the main event scene. Management gave Langston a brief push, but it was not sustained. Nor did it take him that far up the ladder. He is essentially lost in the shuffle as a filler wrestler now. Cena does not play the political game as much as former stars did.
February 5, 2015
Creepy Cody Rhodes
A hilarious Instagram photo featuring Cody Rhodes being creepy around Big E Langston and Natalya backstage at a WWE live event.
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Freezing Herbs with Hefty Slider BagsKelsey Banfield
With summer comes a full set of herb plants on our deck. I don't start by planting huge bushes of herbs, but they certainly grow into huge bushes of herbs by the time we hit the end of June. I do my best to use them nightly, adding them to just about everything I make, but sometimes I just can't keep up. So, to preserve their delicious freshness, I freeze the herbs and use them all winter long when my herb pot is long gone. (For the record, I try to keep my herbs going all winter long, but there usually isn't enough sunlight.) This may sound complicated but I can assure you it is not – freezing herbs is so easy!
Here is how I freeze herbs in simple Hefty Slider Bags. This works well for Rosemary, Basil, Sage, Thyme, Lemon Thyme, Oregano, Mint, Parsley, Cilantro, Tarragon:
1. Pluck the full herb leaf or sprig (like rosemary) and rinse it well in warm water. Pat the herbs dry with a kitchen towel and lay them as flat as possible on a clean kitchen towel until they dry completely.
2. Label your bags with a sharpie pen and use big bold letters (so much easier to read once the bag has been frozen!). Place the herbs inside their designated bags and use your hands to sandwich as much air out of the bag as possible. Place the bag flat in the freezer and you are done!
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Guy Guides Smoke Ring Around A Beer Bottle By Hand
This is a video of some guy sending a smoke ring he just blew around a beer bottle by guiding it with his hand. Impressive magic skills bro, but you do know Gandalf is a real wizard and can't get cancer, right?
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Louis CK, "Louie"
Don Cheadle, "House of Lies"
Ricky Gervais, "Derek"
Matt LeBlanc, "Episodes"
William H. Macy, "Shameless"
Jim Parsons, "The Big Bang Theory"
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Will win: Louis CK, "Louie"
Could win: Jim Parsons, "The Big Bang Theory"
Should win: Ricky Gervais, "Derek"
Shoulda been here: Keegan Michael Key and Jordan Peele, "Key and Peele"
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Gossip Girl Stars Looking De-Lish In Their Winter Clothing...
Posted on Wed Dec 2nd, 2009 2:00pm PDT By X17 Staff
'Nuff said! But while Ed, Leighton and Chace all look hot hot hot, we really wanna see what Taylor Momsen wears during the winter!
Hopefully not the black lingerie she's been sporting recently...
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if you haven't got anything nice to say, don't say anything!! Pot-kettle-black !
You should practice what you preach then.
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hellyer my home town track...
i specialize in praying to not get dropped.
and my legs suffer from chickenlegasitis.
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hellyer my home town track...
i specialize in praying to not get dropped.
and my legs suffer from chickenlegasitis.
Nice, you're on wttvc now? Or you have been?
when a sprinter attacks....
This is my teammates first chariot race I did everything I could to help.
Hahaha! I'd love a push like that.
Me and jmikami battling it out in the Keirin minor final two weekends ago...
Photo credit goes to my dad.
One to go!
Biding my time...
Pass #1 on the back stretch...
Out of turn 4 with a good head of steam...
Triumph! :D
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Attachment 386239 Lapping the field on the way to winning junior track states.
Great photos and results.
Congratulations on winning the State Championships Zero Talent!
And now for something completely different. My club holds three events each year as part of the club challenge: a hill climb, a 20k tt, and a sprint. The sprint is a 500m at Encino, which is done mostly by roadies... on road bikes... usually their first time on a track. You can probably exactly imagine the results. Ha.
A few trackies:
http://vmac.smugmug.com/photos/i-mwm...-mwmvjTg-M.jpgAnd some cuteness:
Was just having an easy Saturday sesh and the missus got a couple of shots for me. Might try and get a couple of shots at training in the next few weeks.
p.s this is my first post, so hopefully this works
That 2nd shot turned out well, you should get that as a print
oh and welcome :)
mhmm i had mcds last night.
I am so envious of that track!
Ours is, to use the eloquent words of VanceMac, a bastard son of a...
But hey, at least our front straight doesn't have a huge crack in it anymore and our transitions no longer resemble skateboard ramps where every corner is a race to the sprinters lane to keep from catching air... so there's that.
Nice track, I guess you can't see the humidity in the photos :D
I'm in the ACT, it still weirds me out that it's a territory, not a state, but we don't have a covered velodrome here either. The Canberra track has just been resurfaced and had the transitions fixed, so that is pretty awesome, otherwise it's Dunc Gray in Sydney. Attachment 386539
That's before, the corners are still 45 degrees but the transitions are a bunch smoother. The thing is monstrous (333m track).
I thought you guys had an indoor track down there. My mistake.
45 degree bends on a 333m track sounds awesome. Ours are only 30ish Itthink. It's been many year since I've been on boards so I can't wait till Brisbane is ready to ride, even though it's still a 14 hour drive down there.
Not indoors in Canberra. From what I've read you guys were lucky to keep the track open!
Indoor tracks around Australia -
Perth WA SpeedDome, Adelaide SA Super-Drome, Launceston Tasmania Silverdome, Melbourne Victoria has two :D DISC and HISENSE Arena and finally Sydney NSW Dunc Gray.
Have they started building the one in Queensland?
Yeah they wanted to close the current track and build over the top of it. Not sure if that's still the plan or if they're going to find another site to build on.
No idea, I've only heard we're getting one in the next few years.
big field at the Indy NTC race last weekend.
Going off the front to get points.
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Yes but it is physically different than the other USB ports beside it. So the question remains . . . . . what is it?
09-23-2011 04:16 PM - last edited on 09-24-2011 01:16 AM by yigit
I have a G470 and noticed one of the USB ports is slightly different. I was wondering if anyone knew why? It's the one to the right of the HDMI port.
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Hey serge, does anybody at Lenovo know anything about this esata/usb combo port that Lenovo has put on the G570??
I find it astounding that no-one seems to know anything about this port at all. I have searched the internet over the past month or so and the only cable I could find that looked anything like the correct solution to connect my external 2.5 inch external esata/usb to my G570 was an Addonics Technologies AAUESPSPT10 esatap cable.
I received the cable today after waiting for 5 weeks for it to arrive only to find that it does not fit the port on my G570! What a waste of time and money.
The esata/usb port on the G570 is a real odd one that is too narrow for the esata plug on the cable and only fits usb.
Surely Lenovo can point us in the right direction on this!
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Brothers i have exactly the same model g570 and i can confirm it does has ESATA port and i use it on daily basis with my external ESATA 3.5 chinese hdd case/cable. Its just you need to insert it the right way.
the port mentioned in the original picture is the ESATA port, its just ports are bit hard so be carefull when inserting ESATA cable.
I just received from Leveno my new G470 laptop and questioned why one USP port was different from the other two. I called Leveno support thinking I a had an improperly installed USB port when a normal USB cable didnt fit into it like the other two ports. The tech tried to tell me that it was a new USB 3.0 port and he referenced the online personal systems reference manual(to be found at leveno.com/pref) then look up your model for the specs) The description for the ports on this model is as follows:
Three USB 2.0 and one eSATA/USB combo port, external monitor (VGA DB-15, HDMI), ethernet (RJ-45)
Apparently the tech gave me "bad" information. The community forum told me what I couldn't get from the "expert". Thanks forum. Now where do I find a cable that utilizes this port ?
The reviews explain what that port does well.
Ports on the left side have confused me, the first two from the front are USB2 but the confusion is with the next two
I thought the 3rd from the front was a esata but when i purchased a esata to usb combo cord it didnt fit , neither does
USB so i dont really know what kind of port and its cabability is.. any one ?


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LOS ANGELES, May 17, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Universal Detection Technology (www.udetection.com) (OTCBB:UDTT), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and a provider of counter terrorism training and solutions, announced today that it received a purchase order for one hundred Anthrax Test Kits from Gulf Security Solutions in Dubai. "This is a major milestone for our company as we begin marketing our counterterrorism solutions in the Middle East and Persian Gulf area," said Jacques Tizabi, CEO of Universal Detection Technology. "This is obviously a region in the world where security is of great concern and we are excited to have our first sale of bio-warfare detection kits there."
Universal Detection Technology has co-developed a real-time Anthrax detection system, called BSM-2000, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The technology was recently featured on NBC News. To view the video clip, please go to: http://www.udetection.com/pressroom-video-NBC1006.htm.
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CBM Romance - Strength or Weakness?
CBMs always cast a "love interest" to offset the hero, but there is not always much actual love happening onscreen. Here, I take a look at the CBM landscape with regard to romance, when it is used as a prominent story element, and how that can either hurt or help a film.
The vast majority of films include at least a couple of attractive (to each other at least) characters who might potentially pair up romantically. The question of whether they will is a common source of dramatic tension and anticipation. Sometimes, the romantic subplot is the prime focus. Sometimes, it's merely a subtext. Not every ending is happy. But romance is nearly always present in some form.
Comic Book Movies certainly follow that pattern. However, in spite of the fact that CBMs draw from source material that is already visual in nature, hence the prevalence of often beautiful, physically idealized characters, there is a tendency in modern CBMs to downplay romance. The reasons are plenty. Many superheroes are defined, in part, by the psychological conflict between personal needs and societal obligations. In short, they have to make hard choices, often giving up the freedom to be close to others.
Another reason is the positive trend of portraying female characters as parallel heroes in their own right, as opposed to the traditional 'damsel in distress.' Common enemies often draw the primary plot focus away from couple-dynamics. Add to that the density of storyline that is often crammed into a single CBM, especially those that are origin stories, and the characters may simply not have time for romance.
It is very interesting to look at the Marvel Cinematic Universe from the perspective of romance. What one sees is that there is…very little of it actually happening. The solo character films released so far have great similarity. The titular male heroes each have a significant female counterpart, but while there is certainly romantic tension present in each respective dynamic, it is very much the 'B-plot.' Betty Ross and Jane Foster are scientists; Peggy Carter is a military officer and Pepper Potts a high-ranking businessperson. However, other than Ross for one scene in The Incredible Hulk and Potts – and to be fair, the latter has had more screen time to develop as a character than any other MCU female to date – the romance is much more implied than actually shown.
Marvel Studios is doing a good job of portraying strong females who are defined by their own credentials and competence as opposed to mere association with a male superhero. From that general standpoint, there is nothing to criticize about Marvel's approach.
However, the most recent MCU film, Thor: The Dark World, failed to capitalize on a romantic sub plot that could potentially have made that film much stronger. Without taking an in-depth look at The Dark World, in brief I feel that the single most intense moment of the film is the eye contact shared between Jane and Sif as they passed each other in the halls of Asgard. As obnoxious as love triangles can be (poor Evangeline Lilly) this one is clearly there anyway, and the lack of attention given it robs the film of much-needed intimacy and character development.
Did the producers of The Dark World deliberately decided to downplay the romance, or did it simply get swallowed up in the process of focusing on the larger scale Dark Elves/Nine Realms plot? Or, has Marvel realized that Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth don't really have chemistry together? But I digress there. The real question is, do CBM producers/directors/writers shy away from significant romance, and is that a mistake?
Moving beyond Marvel Studios to survey CBMs in general, it does not seem that significant focus on a romantic subplot closely correlates with the quality of a film. It is more dependent on whether the romantic subject matter helps strengthen the rest of the film (by deepening character development) or weakens it by coming across as forced and clichéd.
For example, Superman Returns focuses quite a bit on the romantic tension between Clark and Lois, but because of the writing and casting, said tension arguably hinders the film more than helps it. The rather slapsticky wedding subplot in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is not one of that film's (few) finer points. The courtship, if you will, between Matt and Elektra in Daredevil may have worked out great in real life, but it does not entirely work in the film, or so its exclusion from the director's cut would suggest. And the love triangle of sorts between Logan, Jean and Scott in the X-Men films has in my opinion been a bit flat.
In a few cases, thankfully only a few, casting has conspired to throw a wet blanket on CBM romance. The aforementioned Hemsworth-Portman pairing is the most egregious example of absent chemistry, but there have been others. Although I am a fan of Man of Steel, and of Henry Cavill and Amy Adams as individuals, I have yet to be convinced that they are a good match as a couple. We shall see.
Sometimes, romance works well when confined to a simmering subplot, as evidenced by the first two Christopher Nolan Batman films. The Rachael Dawes character is clearly always on Bruce Wayne's mind, even though circumstances tend to keep the two of them in separate spheres. Ultimately, their relationship plays an important role in the story without really being a romance.
Perhaps that is the happy medium that makes for the best CBMs? Plenty of successful films have featured attractive 'love interests' who haven't really been utilized as such. Instead, they're peer protagonists. That approach makes a lot of sense. Still, there is something to be said for letting love sit center stage in a screenplay, given the right story.
Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy features the most overt focus on a romantic relationship in any mainstream CBM. The very first lines of narrated dialog in Spider-Man (2002) feature Peter Parker telling the viewer that "this story is about a girl." And so it is, at its core. All three films subsist on the energy of Peter's love and care for Mary Jane, with some of the strongest scenes being the relationship-focused ones. When combined with the other plot threads featuring villains, social responsibility and the struggles of juggling priorities, it forms a very high-tension web. The story has energy and great heart. The Raimi Spider-Man trilogy, Spider-Man 2 in particular, comprises easily the best example of how romance can focus a film for the better.
Finally, I have to give a brief shout out to the pairing of Hugh Jackman and Lynn Collins in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Make no mistake, I consider that film to easily be among the worst CBMs in overall quality, but the intimate scenes between Logan and Kayla Silverfox are the best part, for me. Unfortunately, sometimes beauty gets crushed in the rubble.
Will upcoming CBMs feature more overt romance? Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy should definitely give us a little, but aside from The Amazing Spiderman 2, it doesn't look like it. Captain America may be sharing the screen with some very lovely ladies in the Winter Soldier, but the first trailer explicitly highlighted Steve Roger's duty-first attitude. X-Men: Days of Future Past, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron? So many characters, so little time. Man of Steel 2? Speculation is futile there.
The flip side of all of this, which I have not addressed but which is very relevant for discussion – when will we get a film where a woman is the titular hero, instead of a supporting cast member? Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel? I hope to see each of them headlining their own solo films in the near future. More immediately, if we are fortunate, Peggy Carter and Jessica Jones may be coming to our television screens.
Personally, I would like to see more real love stories in CBMs, as opposed to insinuated but underdeveloped sexual tension. In the right setting, with a good screenplay and dramatically symbiotic actors, it can be a great thing. Peter Parker isn't the only superhero who stands to benefit from having a genuine love interest. In any case, though, maybe the real love story is the one between the audience and the screen, just as between the reader and the page of a comic book.
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Very good article. One of the most forced CBM romances had to have been Bruce and Miranda in The Dark Knight Rises. I know they only had so little time and they wanted her betrayal to mean more. They also managed to work in the contrived Catwoman romance as well.
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Best romances
Tony and Pepper
Bobby and... I have to say Kitty
Garfield and Stone
Reeve and Kidder
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Eh I really don't know about Fox. Agree with the Jackman-Collins pairing, though.
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Good article. Romances can go either way as far as making a story better. Tension in romances are generally more interesting then two people just hitting it off but if the relationship is a subplot the tension can pull you away from the main arch of the story. If you want the relationship as something that progresses the story you'll create tension if you want it to remain a subplot make them just hit it off. I agree with you on not buying the relationship between Lois and Superman in MOS, and very few comic stories have me buy it either. Nothing against MOS its just a hard relationship to justify. What they have to face now is they were seen kissing so how do you pair Lois and Clark without giving it away that Clark and Superman are one and the same?
I am hoping for some tension between Superman and Wonder Woman in the following movies. I don't really care how far they take it but putting Wonder Woman in the picture and having Superman still decide that Lois is the right choice is a way for that relationship to be justified.
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The "romances" from MoS and Thor make The Dark Knight Rises look like a Nicholas Sparks novel. Seriously, Superman/Lois Lane and Thor/Jane Foster didn't have ANY effort put into them whatsoever. It's just two attractive people falling in love obligatorily. At least in The Dark Knight Rises, there's a sense of history between Bruce and Miranda, and it at least makes sense on paper that Bruce and Selina would hook up. TDKR definitely could've paid more attention to those two romances, but it's definitely nowhere near as bad as Mos or Thor.
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Thanks for the comments, everyone. Yeah, I was thinking about The Dark Knight Rises...to me, Bruce/Miranda and Bruce/Selina both make sense technically, but they do feel a bit...underdeveloped. Think it might just be because that film has so much going on in it that almost everything is abbreviated.
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Your right, because I think the chemistry is strong. That probably is testament to Bale's acting ability, because I think he successfully conveyed a sense of chemistry with all his leading ladies. Good call on the X-men origins romance. Funny the X franchise has the most opportunity for displaying strong romances, and they mostly failed.
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Jane/Thor pairing is terrible onscreen and they don't have any chemistry. That would be with Sif, their chemistry is much more apparent onscreen.
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@ AnnoDomini - good point about the "rebound" aspect, I often forget he had just found out the one woman he ever loved, chose someone else. As far as my thinking it was to make the betrayal more meaningful, I guess from Miranda's point of view, perhaps that was the plan.
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One of the best editorials I've read in a while. Keep up the good work!
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@BobbyDrakeApproaches, Thanks. :)
I think that TDKR would have been better served by limiting the focus to fewer elements, or being presented as a two-part film. Nearly everything, including Miranda and Selina, could stand some more fleshing-out.
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@wolf38 - yeah, i think TDKR should really have been two movies.
actually the one person who i really look to for understanding the film better is AnnoDomini here. he's made me look at the movie a different way, and always interesting things he sees in it.
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this article is so weird i can't post a comment on it, i could that last one, but every other time, it says, i've created it successfully but nothing happens.
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interesting topic and good writeup on it.
A lot of people who watch these movies don't want to feel like they're watching something that girls watch.
As totally ridiculous as that sounds, that's actually the feeling I get. It threatens them or makes them feel embarrassed or something. So too much 'romance' and you begin stepping on some manly toes with a big portion of your audience.
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They want woman and 'romance' in their movies, but I don't know if you'd really say in the sense of any kind of 'romance' genre. Too much of that and it starts feeling like a movie to take your girlfriend to. Cuz amazingly enough, a lot of people draw lines in their heads like that.
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and there's never practically anything to do with any kind of thing you'd call "romance" in real life. or even just sex. comic book movies lack sex. and that's a bad thing. I don't mean depictions of sexual acts, or references to them. i mean sex in the sense that you deal as part of yourself every minute of the day, regardless of what you're doing. And this goes along with the adolescent power fantasy that sometimes gets taken out upon these movies. sex is for real, you're sexual from the time you were born, it's a thing that these movies tend to ignore entirely and when they do present anything to do with sex, it's always very superficial.
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so that's part of it. and like you said, another part is that there's just not time to focus on treating any characters as real human beings, except heroes and villains, at most.
MJ in Spider-Man films was used as a dramatic device. A thing sometimes representing a happy life, free of his responsibilities as Spider-Man. so she drives the movies a great deal in that she defines his internal conflicts. So a girlfriend is necessary, but she's just a faceless dummy for Peter to either desire, be driven to rescue, feel pressure to meet dates or expectations or to feel guilty about. But MJ is a dummy in those films.
It's hard to show both sides of a relationship in a true human way in any movie, even ones who's whole point is trying to do that, and there's no room for it in most superhero movies. that said, there's tons of room for them to improve their honesty in looking at things, and also to actually present a more sexualized version of these characters. all of them seem castrated to me. But I've spent a lot of time in my life redefining how little being a 'man' or a 'woman' in society's larger terms, how little that means. So it's probably talking from a different dictionary when i say that. But regardless, they're all castrated, and so are the women.
last thing too, there's a famous name for how women are often used in comic books, (well in all drama, but it's named from comic books). But how they are used to simply provide the hero with a motivation, or some kind of internal conflict. look up Women in Refrigerators if you're interested in reading stuff that is articulating it better than i am now. But that's kind the "trope" that's become the reference for that idea.
but good article, this is really interesting stuff and there's a lot more to be said bout, for sure.
and also nothing i said was intended to be insulting to anyone and also not intended to imply that any of these films are exceedingly sexist. this is the standard of the culture at large and i don't see these movies as being offensive or criminal in any way. but it still is only gonna ever help to examine everything we have around us, all the time.
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@dethpillow, Those are good points. Comics, at least the mainstream ones that even with mature themes are ostensibly still marketed at kids, don't usually deal directly with sex the way a standalone action film might. And yeah, the "target male demographic" that the studios are trying to hit...it probably is a strategy to keep the films from seeming to be "chick flicks" or whatever. That's not how I think, but I imagine that the powers that be probably do.
@AnnoDomini, I agree that Bruce needed more time, which would have in turn helped his interactions with both Miranda and Selina feel more realized. I do think that Miranda's "character reveal" could have been done differently at least. More time might have helped it happen more naturally. It felt rushed to me...
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Edit: Of course it had to feel rushed for Miranda...still could've been more elegantly written, I guess.
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Sometimes it could be a strength other times it could be a weakness or a complete mess. Great write up glad you brought this topic up.
I'd have to say currently i like the dynamic between Gwen and Peter in TASM. I also enjoy the romance between Tony and Pepper.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel Makes Pornographic Ad!
Women cannot be trusted in political office and I have proof. Even if they are 'qualified' which is questionable, you see they will always resort to exposing their bodies little prostitutions to get what they want!
My eyes are so filled with sickened rage that I can hardly type proper on my computer right now! It's one thing when you have flussies like Debbie Dallas and Michelle Obama skirting around town with improper dresses, but it's an entirely new subject when you have a leader like a German Chancellor showing off exposed sin flesh to all comers!
Where did it all go wrong with Germany? Did they not used to be the seat of the Holy Roman Empire?
Now all we see is the seat of Angela Merkel as she shows off her unholy region to all the world! At least when atheist Hitler was trying to kill all the proper Arabs off the world, he did it with his pants pulled up and not trying to tempt womams and men with fornication!
This is exactly the type of thing that will happen when you let women become president! One day it's all smiles and everything is proper protocol, then the next they are spreading their rotunda cheeks and exposing all the sinful innards to get reelection!
You see how a celebrity women do when they need some popularity. They have 'wardrobe malfunctions' and show you a bit of them milksacks or some that exposed clam oyster down below where the pantieknickers should go.
That's all sick and I spit with contempt on those types of celebrities! But I will not stand idle while women start to disrespect the highest office in the land! The German executive office is now marred by sin! I will not let God's highest political office, THE USA PRESIDENT, get the same fate!
The hardest burning hooker disease does not compare to the high heats of hell! That's exactly where this type of sin will lead our nation! I will be forwarding this letter and image to the German Embassy, and will demand they apologize to America for letting this filth on our internet!
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There is a Brazilian saying that the soccer prodigy Neymar and his family often laugh about. The phrase calça de veludo ou bunda de fora comes up frequently: when Neymar reminisces about his beginnings in street games in São Vicente, for example, or when someone asks, again, Are you really better than Messi? Always, the family returns to calça de veludo ou bunda de fora. And then they all giggle.
The phrase is difficult to translate directly into English. Generally, it has to do with gambling and a mans soul. It has to do with being brash and bold and brave. It has to do with fortitude and, perhaps more than anything else, an abiding belief in a singular path.
Sitting in a hotel lounge 25 stories above Columbus Circle in Manhattan last month, the stars father, Neymar Sr., looked out over Central Park and tried his best to explain it. Across the Hudson River, his son was with the Brazilian national team, preparing for a sold-out exhibition match against Argentina and, beyond that, for the Olympics, where he will be the most dynamic player in the competition. At the London Games, with the worlds spotlight squarely on him, Neymar Jr. will seek to earn his country a gold medal, the one major soccer trophy it has never won.
He is living it right now, Neymar Sr. said. That saying we talk about he is doing it. But that was not enough. So Neymar Sr. tried again, through a translator, to summarize the essence of the phrase. His sons success, he continued, has always been based on risk. On finding the right mix of fast and slow, of possibility and caution.
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Lauren Showers, a member of the Butler University women's golf team, shot a four-over-par 220 and finished in a four-way tie for third place at the Indiana Women's Golf Association State Amateur Championship held at Battleground Golf Club near Lafayette, Ind., July 16-18. The 54-hole tournament attracted nearly 100 golfers.
Showers opened with back-to-back rounds of one-over-par 73 and then posted a 74 in the final round for her three-day total. She wound up tied with Lina Pasquali, Michelle Morgan and Tara Boone, six strokes behind state champ Julia Potter. Ellen Mueller finished runner-up with a final score of even par 216.
Lauren's sister Lynnsey, also a Butler golfer, tied for 34th in the tournament with a 54-hole score of 237. Lynnsey shot an opening round 75, but then slipped to 82 and 80 in the final two rounds.
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DEKALB, Ill. - The Northern Illinois women's golf team opens its spring season this weekend when the team travels to Florida to compete in the Gary Freeman Bethune-Cookman University Spring Invitational.
The event, which begins on Sunday and ends Monday, will be played at Halifax Plantation Golf Club in Ormond Beach, Fla. The first round tees off at 12 p.m. CT with a shotgun start. NIU will play a second slate of 18 holes on Monday, beginning at 7 a.m. CT.
Halifax Plantation will present enough tests to keep the field on edge. Built in 1993, the course will play to 6,215 yards and par 72. Palm trees line the fairways, and there are an abundance of white sand traps and water hazards to keep the field in check.
The Huskies will be the most northern state making the trip down to the Sunshine State. The five teams competing against NIU and host BCU at the tournament include Florida Atlantic, Hampton, Savannah State, South Carolina State and Towson.
"There's only seven teams," NIU head coach Kim Kester said. "I'd like a first or second finish. You play in tournaments to win. You don't play to be a runner-up. You play to win, and that's what we want to do."
The team returns to action after a four-month layoff from their fall campaign. The Huskies captured top-10 finishes in each of their four fall events, the first time they've done so since 2009. The season was highlighted by the opener at Green Bay where NIU placed two players, Allie Parthie (Marinette, Wis./Marinette) and Connie Ellett (Hampshire, Ill./Hampshire), in the top 10 as individuals en route to a runner-up finish as a team. Parthie gave herself a run at the title on the final day with a first-round 73. Though her bid came up short, the Wisconsin native secured the first of three top-fives during the fall.
Parthie capped off the fall with a tie for fifth at the 2012 Preview. The finish was her 14th career top-10, easily the best among active Huskies. Looking ahead to this spring, Parthie has a number of milestones within reach. She currently holds a tie for fifth on the all-time Huskie scoring list at 81.2. Matching her fall pace would put her within reach of Lori Wetzel for fourth on the list. Her 78.8 fall average would tie for third on the single-season list if she can continue her strong play. In fact, Nicole Jeray's 21-year-old record 78.1 is reachable over Parthie's final seven events. Finally, Parthie is seeking to capture her first individual tournament title, having laid claim to nine top fives without a win.
"She's doing well; she's healthy," Kester said. "I can definitely see her coming out and winning one of the spring events. She put herself in position in the fall to do that; she's come very close. I think that's built up momentum for her. She's not unfamiliar with the territory of being in the hunt."