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Ever notice how you may have 500 or more friends on Facebook, but you consistently only see updates on your Facebook wall from the same 15-20 people? This is because Facebook has determined via an algorithm called EdgeRank that the other 480 friends are not producing content on Facebook that provides enough interaction, or is timely enough. In other words, Facebook thinks most of your friends are boring. So how can you make sure your Facebook updates and other posts get seen by all your friends, without winding up in their snooze list? Here are some tips to make you get noticed on Facebook.
First, you'll need to understand how Facebook's EdgeRank works. TechCrunch previously uncovered the EdgeRank algorithm, which explained that an Edge is an object on Facebook that users interact with. EdgeRank is method that determines which objects other Facebook users see. The Daily Beast cracked the code of this algorithm, and found some basic rules to our interactions on Facebook. For example, there is a bias against Facebook newbies. No matter how often and loud you scream and shout, newcomers on Facebook have a more difficult time being seen by their new, more well-established Facebook friends. We already knew that we weren't seeing all of the updates from our friends in our Recent News, but The Daily Beast also discovered a few other interesting twists to EdgeRank that will help get you noticed.
One of the things that will help get you noticed on Facebook contradicts popular belief. While "stalking" your friends won't get their attention in the form of showing up in their news stream, the more frequently your friends check you out on Facebook, the likely your news will appear in all friends' streams on Facebook. The more other people click on links you post and view your photos, the more often your updates and other "Edges" will show up in all of your friends' news feeds on Facebook – including those who aren't stalking you.
Another thing The Daily Beast discovered was that posting links more often than just status updates can help increase how often others notice you on Facebook. This may because links and other objects that can drive "user engagement" increase the time people spend on Facebook, meaning that if you focus on sharing links and other interesting stuff, Facebook has more incentive to promote you in your friends' news feeds – and get you noticed. That said, photos and videos drive even more engagement to links because this type of activity actually keeps users on Facebook, making you even more valuable to Facebook. As a result, Facebook is likely to promote you even more often on friends' news feeds on Facebook. These are all components of one of the factors that are determined by the EdgeRank algorithm, the Level of Interaction.
Affinity to another user and Timeliness of a Facebook "edge", or object, also determine what is seen in another users' newsfeed. If you want to be noticed by other users, you will need to interact with them both ways. You can see another user more by interacting with their content – but they will only see you if they interact with your updates, photos, and links. Of course, you can grab your Facebook friends' attention by first giving them attention, and then constantly reciprocating. One way to get on someone's radar is to simply comment on things they post, which often reminds them to come visit your profile. Additionally, if you want to be noticed, you'll want to always have something new on Facebook. Older items will get pushed to the bottom, especially if there has been little interaction from other users with the post, link, or photo. You may want to gauge what time of day yields the highest engagement to help get you more noticed on Facebook.
The Daily Beast notes that the composition of your Facebook network can also impact how much you are noticed on Facebook. You may want to seek out a few Facebook friends that have large networks to help increase your visibility — just as long as you are interacting with them, and vice versa, of course.


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"Sweet and intimate, but sort of creepy": talking to artist Cara Stewart
Cara Stewart is the only person I've ever met whose ideal weekend involves an extended appearance at the local RadioShack. She is also the only person I know who buys crummy old radios and computer hardware at the local Goodwill, then happily returns home to spend hours sitting at her desk, rewiring and programming these new tools to do strange and amusing things just for the hell of it. A New York City native currently residing in Austin, Texas (most of the time), Cara is an illustrator, art director, and sculptor with a talent for making art that defamiliarizes and delights.
I have never considered myself a journalist, but in the spirit of journalistic integrity it seems important to mention that Cara is also a dear friend of mine — the sort of friend I lived with for a year, who once built a sculpture out of all my possessions and left it on top of my bed for me to discover at 2 AM. But the funny thing about having artist friends is that you know certain things about them — that they work inconvenient hours and are often covered in sawdust or paint or otherwise unidentifiable goop, that they are prone to dragging rusted stationary bikes into the house without explanation, that they may or may not cover the entire kitchen with corn-syrup-based fake blood — but rarely do you get a chance to sit down and talk seriously about their work. Needless to say, I wholly recommend this activity.
When we speak over the phone, it's the bitter middle of November; I am sitting under three blankets in Brooklyn, and Cara generously only reminds me twice how sunny and warm it is in Austin. Just as we start getting into things, our conversation is interrupted by a doorbell. Cara puts the phone down and trots down the hall to answer the door; when she returns, she sounds bemused but elated: "Someone just brought me a chicken sandwich!" she says. "I'm very pleased."
This is what I have always imagined life in Austin to be – make some art, make some money, hang out and have friends bring you sandwiches – but, like anywhere, the hustle is very real. Cara has just finished shooting a music video for Gary Clarke Junior, a Texas-based blues musician, on which she was the production designer. "We were given one day of preparation for a single-day day shoot, " she says. "I just tried to survive."
Since moving to Austin, Cara has rolled with the punches in this way, occasionally relocating to wherever work takes her. In 2009, she lived temporarily at Appendix Gallery in Portland, Oregon; a year later, she picked up and moved to the Louisiana bayou for several months, where she lived and worked on the set of Beasts of the Southern Wild.
Beasts of the Southern Wild is surreal and dreamlike, horrifying and beautiful all at once; Hurricane Katrina is the unnamed but thrumming pulse of the film.
"Everything featured on that movie, everywhere the characters lived, we built that," Cara says. "But some of the background stuff – when they're boating along and you see a lot of sunken houses? – that stuff is just there. Parts of that movie are very, very real."
When I try to get into this further, it's to Cara's credit that she seems reluctant to elaborate. I imagine it takes a certain type of strength to get comfortable working in a body of water that contains people's homes and possessions, so I don't press. I do, however, ask what it was like to create a set built, quite literally, on water.
"When we were building the main character's house – the sunken version – we were standing in chest-high water every day," she says. "There were funny things about that. There was an alligator who liked to come and look at us. We'd see his eyes approach every once in a while, every few days. Just checking out what was going on in the neighborhood." She also tells me about another local Bayou fish called the garfish, which is the sort of thing one should never plug into Google Image Search without a fair warning. ("Teeth in every direction. There is truly no reason to ever scoff at the idea of sea monsters.")
Back in Austin, Cara's work is slightly smaller-scale but no less complex. She is currently focused on illustration and mixed-media painting; her work has been featured in Austin restaurants, taking the shape of large-format murals. A recent series is a darkly comic collection of paintings that show toy cars at moments of heavy impact; another playfully morbid set is described as "a cheerful investigation of astroid impacts, natural disasters and the end of the world."
For the last few years, she's also had an interest in using tools and everyday objects as they're intended to be used, but to new and surprising effects. A recent series of instruments made from a cauliflower, a typewriter, and a broom perfectly illustrate this spirit.
"I've always been wary of picking up an instrument because it's not familiar to me," she says. "It means going into a space where I'm no longer good at something. And I think that stops a lot of people from interacting with music and art. Maybe all interactive installations suffer from that a little. It's scary to go up to artwork and handle it, and have people watch you as do this. But if you give someone something familiar, they feel comfortable – they're starting with a simple framework."
Cara's 2009 installation at Appendix, "Geofront: Play," actively engaged these challenges. Contact microphones were wired to a system that created a repeating delay, and placed strategically inside of a number of brooms. Visitors were encouraged to pick up the brooms and sweep them across the room, which Cara had filled with different textures: patches of grass, scrap metal, logs, fluorescent light covers, and plaster casts of the ground outside the gallery.
"Actions are built into objects," she says, "but there's something very rewarding about getting your hands on something that's simple to use but works in improbable ways. It's fun to control it, and to play around with what changes things, what weird new ways you can use it."
The broom installation originated in an experimental music class that Cara took as an undergraduate. She built a sound brush, a lint-brush-esque tool intended to be rubbed over bodies to generate sounds. "I made a guy in my class wear different textures, and then we had to stand up in front of everyone while I brushed him all over," she says. "It wasn't hard to convince him -- he had a million funny wool sweaters to put on, and a beard and long hair. There were a lot of scratchy sounds." She laughs. "It was the most performance-arty thing I've ever done."
In 2009, Cara and friends Claire Staples and Elizabeth McClellan designed a prototype of a community garden, mixing Cara's affinity for electronics with the trio's collective interest in performance art. Small microphones were attached to gardening tools, which produced a range of sounds as they were used. "The idea was to mic tools so that people could do two things at once: you'd be exploring your environment with the sound tools in a strange and new way," says Cara.
"The part we were most interested in was getting people together to play music," she says, "and taking all of the scary performance and practice elements out of the mix. We wanted to let people mess around with sounds in a way that leveled the playing field. Nobody would have any previous experience with these instruments, and everyone could use them."
Making interactive art is a certain kind of problem-solving; one can easily see-saw from delight to discomfort. As an undergraduate at Wesleyan University, Cara built a series of machines that were interactive but also welcoming and delightful to passive viewers. "One of the things I originally had in mind was the intimate relationship people have with inanimate objects in their environments," she explains. One design that never saw daylight was an armchair that, if sat upon for long enough, produced a little mechanical tongue that licked the back of the lounger's neck. "I wanted it to do something that was sweet and intimate," she says, "but sort of creepy."
Originally written for Tumblr's Storyboard, which sadly folded a few months before Cara's profile was slated to run.

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This election season, bloggers took political communication to another dimension by making political opinions of every persuasion omnipresent on the Web. Flattering and unflattering names for those on both sides of the political spectrum, previously reserved for private conversation, became public on political blog sites. For example, some bloggers typecast conservatives as "gun-toting churchgoers," most using the description pejoratively, but some bearing the badge with honor. Is there truth behind the label?
It is true that those who attend church regularly tend to be conservative, as do those who own guns. And people who fit both descriptions voted overwhelmingly for George W. Bush this year's presidential election. But an analysis of recent Gallup data shows that churchgoing and gun ownership do not necessarily go together in America.
The analysis relied on data from the last three Gallup Crime polls, conducted in October of each year. The data show that American churchgoers are no more likely to own guns than those who rarely or never darken a chapel door. About 4 in 10 people in both groups say they have a gun in the house.
Laws Covering Sale of Firearms
Weekly churchgoers and non-churchgoers are not in dispute over their attitudes toward gun laws, either. Similar majorities of both groups (53% of weekly churchgoers, 54% of non-churchgoers) agree that the laws covering the sale of firearms should be made stricter. About 1 in 10 say that the laws should be made less strict, and approximately a third of each group say the laws should be kept just as they are now. Americans who attend church on a regular basis, but less frequently than every week, also agree with their weekly attending and non-attending counterparts about gun laws.
Ban Handguns?
Handguns are not commonly thought of as hunting weapons. They are more often associated with crime, and in that capacity are often kept in the house for self-defense against criminal activity. Even though handguns tend to be more politically controversial than traditional hunting rifles, people who seldom or never attend religious services agree with weekly churchgoers that there should be no law to ban the possession of handguns. Sixty-five percent of people in both groups say there should not be a law banning handguns. About a third of churchgoers (33%) and non-churchgoers (34%) disagree with that premise.
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It is true that in American politics people associate certain behaviors with people of different political persuasions. While there often is some truth to stereotypes (those who attend church and those who own guns tend to be more conservative), the idea that there is a nexus of cultural conservatism that makes churchgoing Americans more apt to own guns doesn't pan out. But that probably won't stop self-proclaimed pundits from using the term again to oversimplify a chunk of the electorate, along with "tree-hugging Volvo drivers," "flag-waving, pick-up-driving good ole' boys," and the ever-popular "blue-state, wine-drinking, academic elitist."
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The Stormers began their "Mission Impossible" yesterday with a marathon journey to Christchurch, but despite having to take on the Crusaders on Saturday, things may just begin to look up for Jean de Villiers's men.
Apart from beating the Hurricanes last Friday – it wasn't pretty, but they still won – the Stormers will land in Christchurch today (late Monday night New Zealand time) and will be greeted by a familiar face at the hotel.
Stalwart flyhalf Peter Grant will join the side today after his Japanese club Kobe lost their semi-final at the weekend, and coach Allister Coetzee should seriously consider handing the No 10 jersey straight to Grant for the Crusaders game.
It was announced at the weekend that Argentine lock Manuel Carizza is out for eight weeks with a wrist injury, but the Crusaders sustained an even bigger blow as All Blacks captain Richie McCaw is also out for around eight weeks with a broken thumb. Coupled with consecutive defeats to the Chiefs and Blues, and suddenly the seven-times champions look a bit vulnerable.
The Cape side are far from being at their best, but there's a first time for everything, and perhaps being given very little chance of winning on Saturday could just propel the Stormers to a miracle victory.
Coetzee and De Villiers believe the team will take a lot of heart out of the 19-18 win over the Hurricanes for the tour. "The classic lineout try (by Deon Fourie from a maul at the end to win the game) shows the trust in the team – we'd lost five lineouts, we lost the previous lineout there, and the captain called again for a mauling try. It shows the trust and it shows that this team has got belief," the coach said.
"That is why I am proud of the Stormers team. And I see things and glimpses of three or four years ago where we scraped out wins, we started winning narrowly and we got the confidence and momentum. So yes, from that perspective, massive win for us – this is what we needed. You want to go on tour in this sort of fashion. This is the cement that we needed. Lots of things to work on still, especially with our opportunities not taken, but we are very pleased to start off with a narrow win like this."
While the performance was a noticeable improvement from the abject display against the Lions, as the Stormers played with greater urgency and purpose, a lack of composure was still evident as many opportunities were wasted and the lineout didn't function properly.
The Stormers can't expect to beat the Crusaders for the first time in New Zealand by playing like that. "This one-point win was huge for us, it didn't matter how we got it, we just had to win," De Villiers said. "The Crusaders will be hurting, and they are a formidable team at home. We've never won there, so it's a great challenge."
Coetzee will name his team on Wednesday, and he has a number of selection dilemmas to solve. Catrakilis kept his cool to slot the final conversion, but he hasn't been convincing in his two starts. His tactical kicking has been off the mark, while he hasn't taken charge of the backline as he would've liked to.
Decision-making is one of the bugbears of the Stormers' backline at the moment, and even though Grant has been away in Japan, he has the ability to get the best out of strike-runners such as De Villiers, Damian de Allende and Gio Aplon, so it would be a wise move by Coetzee to bring him straight back into the starting line-up.
Grant's presence would also make things easier for the scrumhalf, whether it be Louis Schreuder or Nic Groom, both of whom have battled with their service so far.
And with Carizza out, it could be an ideal time to change both locks. De Kock Steenkamp is fit and should replace Carizza as the main jumper and lineout organiser, while Michael Rhodes has impressed in his two cameos off the bench and would add greater athleticism at No 4 compared to Rynhardt Elstadt, who works hard in the tight loose, but has had a tough time in the lineouts.
With Schalk Burger set to be fit after withdrawing from the Hurricanes game with a groin problem, Coetzee said that he would "make plans accordingly" with the loose trio depending on McCaw's fitness.
But the All Blacks skipper's replacement, Matt Todd, is equally adept at the breakdowns, so it would a better bet to retain Deon Fourie at openside flank than to reinstate Burger.
Gio Aplon, Ruan Botha, Schalk Burger, Nizaam Carr, Demetri Catrakilis, Pat Cilliers, Kurt Coleman, Damian de Allende, Jean de Villiers, Rynhardt Elstadt, Deon Fourie, Peter Grant, Nic Groom, Brok Harris, Oli Kebble, Steven Kitshoff, Siya Kolisi, Tiaan Liebenberg, Frans Malherbe, Scarra Ntubeni, Michael Rhodes, Louis Schreuder, De Kock Steenkamp, Sailosi Tagicakibau, Jaco Taute, Kobus van Wyk, Duane Vermeulen.
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Wellington: Hurricanes vs Brumbies (8.35am), Brisbane: Reds vs Cheetahs (10:40am).
Christchurch: Crusaders vs Stormers (8.35am), Perth: Western Force vs Melbourne Rebels (10.40am), Pretoria: Bulls vs Blues (5.05pm), Durban: Sharks v Lions (7.10pm).
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Sharks 2 2 0 0 58 25 1 9
Chiefs 2 2 0 0 39 29 0 8
Lions 3 2 0 1 72 55 0 8
H'landers 2 1 0 1 48 42 2 6
Rebels 1 1 0 0 35 14 1 5
Blues 2 1 0 1 56 53 1 5
Bulls 3 1 0 2 50 63 1 5
Cheetahs 3 1 0 2 49 65 1 5
Brumbies 2 1 0 1 44 41 0 4
Reds 2 1 0 1 32 49 0 4
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It's no surprise that James Patterson makes a hell of a lot of money — as this profile in the NYT business section this weekend details, Harvard University's MBA Program uses Patterson, Inc. as a textbook example of branding. But in the midst of documenting the megabestselling author's investments ("65 percent of the assets in his portfolio are in bonds, 15 percent in hedge funds, roughly 8 percent in domestic equities and 4 percent in foreign equities") what may be the best part of the story is buried three-quarters in: Patterson's justification for using as many minions as he does:
Mr. Patterson said he often worked with co-authors because he believed that he was more proficient at creating the story line than at executing it.
"I found that it is rare that you get a craftsman and an idea person in the same body," Mr. Patterson said. "With me, I struggle like crazy. I can do the craft at an acceptable level, but the ideas are what I like." He said the co-authors received a flat fee and, most often, credit on the book cover.
Seems to me that's as candid as Patterson will get — although it really does smack of self-rationalization, made worse by comments made by a longtime coworker of his:
Mr. Manning, who worked with Mr. Patterson at J. Walter Thompson for more than 20 years, said that there was a parallel between Mr. Patterson's book career and his work in advertising. "He is the leader of a creative team, which is similar to what he did as a creative director where he came up with what an advertising campaign needed to accomplish," he said. "Then the team executed it and he evaluated it."
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The annual Black and Gold Gala is an opportunity for alumni, parents, and friends of St. Olaf College to enjoy an evening of dinner and dancing while supporting current students. In addition to good food and warm camaraderie, the event features a live and silent auction comprised of unique St. Olaf items.
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- Title
- My Ghosts
- Author
- Mary Swan
- Genre
- Fiction
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Pages
- 304
- Price
- $29.95
A ghost story without a ghost in it, My Ghosts reminds us that the past is always present within us. A myriad of characters spread over the span of more than a century is brought vividly to life through a series of episodes that, in the words of John Berger, are "brief as photos."
My Ghosts is Mary Swan's second novel (following on her 2008 Giller-nominated The Boys in the Trees). Her breakout novella, The Deep, won the 2001 O. Henry Award.
It's possible to offer up a quite simple plot synopsis for My Ghosts. A family emigrates from Scotland to Canada in the 19th century, and we first meet the orphaned siblings when the youngest of them, Clare, is recovering from a fever. We follow that family through the generations to another Clare, a late-20th-century collateral descendant of the first. Only, in Swan's hands, the standard family saga becomes something else entirely.
The structure of the novel is tripartite, and each of the three sections has three chapters. But the chapters function as short stories and the sections like novellas. At least one chapter/story, Burning Boy, has appeared independently. Another chapter, The Maid on the Shore, picks up the story of Abby, a character from Swan's previous novel, The Boys in the Trees. Abby, the home-child-turned-nanny-turned-photographer's-assistant.
There is no direct line of descent from the first Clare to the modern-day Clare, and even the accepted relationships are called into question. Also adding branches to the family tree are found families – children taken in by grandparents or aunts and uncles. Swan teases out the connections between generations, the repetitions of traits and patterns shared by individuals who will never meet.
The final section of the novel, Wish You Were Here, establishes a different tone. Contemporary Clare inherits of a number of photos whose subjects she is unable to identify, and she recalls fragments of stories whose sources she is unable to clearly attribute. Recently widowed, she packs up her house and in the process revisits her past. The first two sections drive chronologically forward until we reach something like the present, where we watch as Clare's life runs on a backward reel to her youth. History moves inexorably forward, but personal history is less tractable, and moves in all directions.
Swan's structuring in both her novels is idiosyncratic and potentially frustrating to readers expecting a more conventional narrative. My Ghosts is even less plot-profluent than The Boys in the Trees. But the thwarting of the reader's expectations comes with its own rewards. Through her use of shifting points of view, Swan acknowledges that we are never going to know the whole story, that in a sense there is no whole story, merely these fragmented views of something that is always only part of someone else's narrative.
Given the title, My Ghosts, it is natural to wonder about exactly whose ghosts are intended. It would be natural to assume that the novel's "first person" would be the last in the line, the contemporary woman whose story uniquely occupies an entire section of the novel. But this section is narrated in the third person, with only occasional wanderings into the first-person plural in reminiscences of youth.
Instead, the "I" of the novel is located with Abby, a refugee from an earlier novel and an earlier life quite different from the one she leads here. Abby is neither a direct descendant of the characters in the first section nor a direct antecedent to Clare in the third. But without doubt she is the fulcrum of the story, both in her role as observer and as participant.
My Ghosts is a novel where stories of childhood and parenthood and siblinghood add up to a vision of being. Swan writes beautifully of being part of a family and of being alone, of waiting all your life to see a face you know you'll never see again, a face you might not even recognize if you did. In her recounting of the disparate lives of a variety of interconnected individuals, she directs our eye to the connections in our own lives. This may not be a ghost story, but it is guaranteed to haunt you.
Sara O'Leary is currently working on a novel titled The Ghost in the House that may or may not have a ghost in it.


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Best Date Ever
It had been a while since I have been on a date. I finally got to go on a date last week. It was amazing. I had been chatting online with this guy, and we finally decided to meet. We met at one of my favorite restaurants. He presented me with flowers Harrogate,which is something that I never received on the first date.
After a great dinner, we took a stroll around the park. We talked for two hours about life and the things that we wanted in a relationship. I felt an instant connection with him. It was unlike anything I had ever felt before. Before we went home, we agreed that we would meet again in the near future. We will be going out again this weekend, and I cannot wait.


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"Guardians of the Galaxy," "Get On Up" Open Nationwide Friday
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(NEW YORK) — Here's a look at the new movies opening nationwide Friday:
Guardians of the Galaxy — In Marvel's latest film, Parks and Recreation actor Chris Pratt plays Earth-born space adventurer Peter Quill, who steals a powerful orb sought by the villainous Ronan. Peter must protect the orb — and the universe — with the help of a ragtag bunch of allies: Rocket Raccoon, the tree-like creature Groot, the green assassin Gamora, and Drax the Destroyer. Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Dave Bautista, Djimon Hounsou, John C. Reilly and Glenn Close are among the cast for the film, which is screening in 3D and in IMAX theaters. Rated PG-13.
Get On Up — The drama from The Help director Tate Taylor tells the life story of James Brown. 42 actor Chadwick Boseman plays the late Godfather of Soul. Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Jill Scott and Dan Aykroyd also star in the Mick Jagger-produced biopic. Rated PG-13.
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By Regina Kaiser and Uwe Karlstedt, dramatised for radio by Tracy Spottiswoode.
Regina Kaiser fears the worst when, in April 1981, she is arrested at her flat in Berlin and taken to Stasi headquarters for questioning.
Uwe Karlstedt, a tall, blond, 26-year- old Stasi officer is charged with interrogating her and compiling the report that will send her to prison.
As they face each other across the table for the first time, Regina and Uwe both feel an unexpected attraction.
This strange meeting will have a profound effect on both
their lives.
Regina....Eiry Thomas
Uwe....Steffan Rhodri
Ludmilla....Sara McGaughey
Adler....Paul Humpoletz
Ellen....Clare Isaac
Photographer....Simon Ludders
Son of Uwe....Gareth Pierce
Director Kate McAll.


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Serra accuser continues testimony
MONTROSE — Had former prosecutor Myrl Serra simply walked away from a confrontation with a former female employee, he never would have found himself in court as a defendant in a bond-violation case, the woman testified Tuesday.
Serra, the former district attorney for the 7th Judicial District, is charged with three counts, one a felony, related to the Dec. 5, 2010, incident in the Bealls Department Store, 2201 S. Townsend Ave.
Serra was under a court order issued Nov. 3, 2010, to have no contact with the woman, who was involved in an investigation that resulted in the filing of a series of allegations of misconduct in his office, including felony and misdemeanor unlawful sexual contact, three counts of indecent exposure and official misconduct.
The woman recounted for a jury how Serra approached a clothes rack behind which she was hiding and stared at her in what she interpreted as an effort to intimidate her. He then smirked, she said.
"If he would have acted as if he shouldn't be there. We wouldn't be here," she said, referring to the three-day trial on the department-store confrontation.
The Colorado Attorney General's Office, which is prosecuting the case, also presented testimony from the woman's son, as well as that of a store employee and videotapes taken from the store.
Although the witnesses corroborated the woman's testimony that she was leaving the store, but retreated inside when she saw Serra approaching, none testified to seeing the confrontation, which occurred in an area not covered by one of the store's seven cameras.
The trial continues today.


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ST. LOUIS—Carlos Beltran slugged two home runs, Jon Jay made the catch of the year and Lance Lynn saved the day on the pitching side.
And once again, Allen Craig's work was overshadowed. All he did in the Cardinals' 12-4 victory over the Washington Nationals on Monday was start the game-turning rally, homer and double. Just another day at the office for a slugger who is ticketed to break out as soon as he can stay healthy for an entire season.
— Details: Recap | Box score | Play-by-play
"He's one of the most underrated players in the game," Jay said. "Look at the numbers he put up this year and last year what he did in the postseason."
OK, here you are: This season, the 28-year-old Californian hit .307 with 22 homers and 92 RBIs while missing 43 games. Keep that pace for 162 games and it's 30 and 125. In last year's World Series, Craig hit three homers, including the go-ahead blast in Game 7, but was denied hero status because of David Freese's performance. And Craig was playing with a broken kneecap, which resulted in surgery that delayed his 2012 season until May.
"He can flat out rake," said Cardinals manager Mike Matheny, practically in awe.
Craig's latest outburst came when the Cardinals needed it most. After suffering a frustrating loss in Game 1, they faced what Beltran admitted was a "must-win" situation on Monday. Lose, and they head to Nationals Park needing three straight wins to keep alive their chances of defending their World Series crown.
— Photo gallery: Images from this series
Win, and they even the best-of-five Division Series, put the pressure on the playoff-newbie Nationals and hit the road with a decided advantage in the next two pitching matchups.
"After tough losses, we have been able to come back and play good baseball," Beltran said. "(Monday) was a good example of that."
This one didn't start well for the Cardinals, though, as starter Jaime Garcia labored through two innings, allowed the Nationals to take a 1-0 lead and then exited with a bum shoulder.
But by the time Garcia admitted to Matheny that he couldn't go, Craig already had the Cardinals on track. He led off the second with a single that started a run of four straight hits that led to three runs. Craig then smoked a 93 mph fastball over the left-field wall in the third and the rout was on.
Considering the power arsenal of Nationals right-hander Jordan Zimmermann, the 13-hit attack by Craig and Co. was not surprising, even though the Cardinals were held to three hits one day earlier. Zimmermann, who has yet to develop an effective off-speed pitch, wanted to hammer the Cardinals with fastballs. A bad idea turned worse when he failed to try anything else.
— Three Strikes: Advantage swings Cardinals' direction?
"He didn't make a lot of adjustments," Nationals manager Davey Johnson said of his starter, who has given up 16 runs in 13 innings to St. Louis this year. "That's just a little inexperience. He's got a very live fastball but his game plan was to basically stay away and pound the zone."
"We have some good fastball hitters," Craig said. "We just have to not miss the pitches that he gives us. We've didn't miss too many today."
The Cardinals also haven't missed many opportunities to bounce back after a disheartening defeat. Going back to last October, they are 7-1 following a loss in the postseason.
"The easy thing for everyone to do would be to put our head down and get upset about a tough loss but that doesn't get anyone anywhere," Craig said. "We have done a really good job of staying positive in the clubhouse and sticking close as a unit and just worrying about the present day."
The experience and confidence the Cardinals gained from last year's run figured to pay dividends against the young Nationals, and they are. Besides Zimmermann's inability to adjust, phenom Bryce Harper ran the Nationals out of a rally and the team's normally tight defense also let them down, with two errors and a number of fumbles in the outfield.
"We're a very young ballclub," Johnson said. "This experience, it's a quick study. This is the time you see what happens against good clubs if you don't make adjustments."
If they don't adjust to Craig, they could make him a star. The guy is too good to remain overshadowed for much longer.
— Schedule: Game times, TV listings


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Very disappointed. I visited this salon based on the review here on naturally curly. When I go to a stylist I expect them to spend time on my hair, not just wash and clip it wet and then pass me off to an assistant to halfway blow dry it. He returned to scrunch it and finish but he rushed me out quickly as he had another client. My hair wasn't even fully dried. And we all know that curly hair expands when it dries. I asked him to trim it up and take some of the bulk off but to keep as much length as possible, other than that I told him it was in his hands. He said there was too much hair in my front area and my layers needed to be blended. I guess I can see a little bit of difference in the front but when my hair finally dried (after I was out of the salon), I had the dreaded pyramid head and apparently I had two or three inches worth of split ends as my hair is now at my shoulders. The stylist was polite but I recommend that you find a stylist that will actually take the time to make sure that your hair looks great not just okay. I feel that I could have paid a lot less to have someone take off a few inches and they probably would have spent more time. Apparently they alot thirty minutes to each appointment so throw washing in there and you will understand the amount of time they have. Take my advice and go elsewhere if you are looking for someone to bring out the beauty in your curls.


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Welcome to Chicago AMA Career Center
Boston University's Creative Services group is seeking an Account Supervisor to serve as the primary liaison to key leaders throughout the University, ensuring that CS maintains superior collaborative relationships with them and establishes CS as a trusted resource for developing strategic integrated marketing initiatives. Leads clients through the planning process for communication initiatives to identify key objectives, audience and message. Serves as team leader on projects and as a mentor for Account Executives for strategic marketing thinking/planning as well as for leading print and interactive design projects successfully. Translates project intake for creative teams in the form of creative briefs. Partners closely with creative teams to ensure work addresses clients communication goals.
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|B.A./B.S. preferred. Five to eight years experience in marketing communications. Familiarity with marketing principles and the creative process including web and print design. Demonstrated ability to lead a team, resolve issues under pressure and juggle multiple tasks under deadline pressure. Strong organizational and interpersonal skills and the ability to work well in a team atmosphere that includes colleagues, administrators and senior staff. Keen attention to detail. Agency experience preferred.


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Florida pensions safe, sound | July 11, commentary
Pension pats on back not merited
I am concerned about the article written by Ash Williams, the chief investment officer of the Florida State Board of Administration. It seems that Williams either has not been following the markets or is knowingly giving false comfort to taxpayers, employees and retirees that pay for and rely on the Florida pension system.
In justifying his own record, Williams brags that Florida's public pension system "was recently recognized by the Pew Center on the States as one of four model pension funds entering 2008 fully funded." As Williams should know, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped 30 percent since January 2008 and the S&P 500 is off 36 percent. In contrast to these losses, the Florida pension assumes a positive return of over 7 percent every year to assure that current and future pensions are fully funded.
The last three years have dramatically changed the funding status of our state's pension. Three years ago there was no recession, Lehman Brothers was one of the most profitable companies on Wall Street, Ireland and Greece had the fastest growing economies of the European Union and U.S. taxpayers had yet to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into AIG, GM, Citicorp and others.
Retirees, taxpayers and active participants will likely face reductions in benefits and/or increased assessments and taxes to keep the system afloat as a result of the three-year period that Williams conveniently ignores as he pats himself on the back. It is misleading, insulting and dangerous that Williams continues to assure all of the pension system's stakeholders that things are rosy instead of preparing them for the likely consequences of the recession's negative impact.
Lou Gerber, Belleair Beach
Fuzzy platitudes
What a load of fuzzy, overbearing platitudes! Ash Williams managed to write a lengthy column without writing one clear, declarative sentence or putting down any solid numbers. He's hiding something and that something is him gambling with SBA funds with his cronies.
He could have easily posted a complete breakdown of all monetary allocations — where all the SBA funds are invested by amounts and percentages.
As they like to say on Wall Street, there are two requirements for investing in a hedge fund: You have to be rich and you have to be stupid. Countless famous people — actors, athletes, etc. — have lost buckets of money to hedge funds.
Are the SBA records available to the public? If so, please send over a reporter to get the numbers.
Pete Wilford, Holiday
The public defender's curious decision July 9, Sue Carlton column
Column had its own answer
As a retired assistant public defender in Tampa, I feel that a response should be made to Sue Carlton's column, Public defender won't represent Dontae Morris, but why?
Her column actually explains the "why" of the conflict: While Morris was "on the lam," the public defender took action on behalf of Cortnee Brantley that was "inconsistent with advocating for Mr. Morris." That would seem to end it. But Carlton won't take "yes" (her own explanation) for an answer. Because after explaining the obvious conflict, she then "wishes (the public defender) had found a way to keep (the Morris) case."
But no one's "wishes" can change the fact that according to news accounts, Brantley was in trouble and clearly needed to consult with a lawyer while Morris was "on the lam." Though I have no personal knowledge of the situation, at a minimum it seems clear that before Morris was arrested Brantley needed legal advice about her options and rights: should she cooperate with the police or maintain her silence?; what were the potential charges, if any, with and without her cooperation?; and how, with a lawyer's assistance, might she assist in bringing the search for Morris to a speedy and peaceful conclusion, while not sacrificing her own rights?
It would seem clear that the anonymous "lawyerly grousing" Carlton heard came from lawyers who 1) had no personal knowledge of Brantley's situation or requests for assistance, 2) had no legal or ethical decisions to actually make (because apparently none volunteered to represent Brantley pro bono) and were, therefore, 3) free to "grouse." As in: "talking through their hat(s)."
This would seem to be a situation where the legal "advice" Carlton got was worth exactly what she paid for it.
John Skye, Tampa
Listen to a mom-to-be: Mind your manners July 12, commentary
Rudeness abounds
This may come as startling news, but mom-to-be Taffy Brodesser-Akner and other moms-to-be aren't the only recipients of rude and snide remarks. I've noticed that, most often, such lip-curling innuendos come from the mouths of women.
I've had my fair share of insults. Someone else always knows better, even though her opinion is totally unsolicited. My hairdresser has a way of putting these mavens in their place. Sometimes he stirs these know-it-alls up when he says: "Thank you very much for your opinion, even though I don't remember asking for it. Thank you very much anyway." He tells me that it shuts these folks up every time.
Listen up, folks, and mind your manners. And don't go giving your opinion unless you are asked. That is of course with the exception of writing a letter to the editor.
JoAnn Lee Frank, Clearwater
Tampa City Council replacements
For council, proven records
The Hillsborough County Democratic Party is pressing Tampa's City Council to appoint one of the party's own to a vacancy. Interim appointments are ripe for propelling a nobody with no record of community service but lots of Democratic connections.
For the party, it's not the here and now that matters but the future of the unproven, untested applicants they are pushing.
The dead of summer and limited local press makes it more difficult for constituents to have a say. If the City Council gives the local Democratic Party front-of-the-line status, even if constituents are heard, will they be listened to?
We can only hope and pray that our nonpartisan City Council will remain that way and appoint interim council members who are best for the districts today, not best for the future of the local Democratic Party.
Gene Wells, Tampa
Awkward placement
Almost choked on my morning coffee as I perused the story about Florida's roads being safer. Overall it was a good article, except for one problem: the layout of the page. Next to the pie chart about alcohol-related incidents, under "Things to Do," was an item about a martini party at Lowry Park Zoo!
Sue Slingbaum, Tampa


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Ten Things to Do Before Submitting your Portfolio
Keep a good sharp copy of your portfolio for your own files.
Number the pages exactly as required on p. 18 of Certification for Early Intervention Specialist/July 2002, reprinted November 2008 (The Green Book). Every page is to be numbered in the upper right hand corner. Entry 1/Formal Knowledge Sources, for example, would be numbered (starting with the required cover sheet) 1-1, 1-2, 1-3 and so on.
Double check that you have followed the instructions for each entry before copying and submitting.
Check that each page of each copy is clear and legible - dark enough to be read, and readable at the margins.
Make sure your original and all copies are exactly the same as each other, including page order, page numbering, redacting, work samples and so on.
In Entry 1/Formal Knowledge Sources, make sure your evidence is either an official college transcript (original or copy) OR a certificate from the Early Intervention Training Center. No other transcripts or certificates will be accepted.
On your Entry 1/Formal Knowledge Sources grid, make sure the column "Page # of Material Attached," (far right column) is filled in for each competency indicator.
In Entry 2/Professionalism sign your self-evaluation somewhere on the first page, and write the date on which the self-evaluation was completed.
In Entry 2/Professionalism, make sure your review refers to an article, chapter, book or report published within five years of your date of portfolio submission.
In Entry 3/Depth of Practice, clearly label your additional work samples: e.g., on the top of the page, write Work Sample #1; Work Sample #2, and so on.
This information is provided by the Early Intervention Program within the Department of Public Health.


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No installation required. Cleanup not balked by malware. Good detection rate. Free!
Didn't thoroughly clean up found malware. Less effective against rootkits. No realtime protection.
Bottom Line
Call on Comodo Cleaning Essentials 6 when pre-existing malware keeps you from installing or running a full-scale security product, especially another Comodo product. However, Malwarebytes remains our Editors' Choice for free cleanup-only antivirus.
Very Good Cleanup Scores
Comodo detected 82 percent of the malware samples on the infested test systems, which is good. Malwarebytes, Norton AntiVirus (2013), and Kaspersky Anti-Virus (2013) did even better, with 89 percent detection.
Comodo's cleanup of the malware it found wasn't as thorough as some. It left behind quite a few executable files and in one case left a Trojan actively running despite its alleged removal. Its overall score of 6.2 for malware removal reflects this less-than-perfect cleanup. With 7.1 points, Malwarebytes has a higher malware removal score than any of its free or commercial competition. Norton, Webroot SecureAnywhere Antivirus 2013, and Comodo Internet Security Complete 2013 are tied for second with 6.6 points.
Comodo very thoroughly cleaned up the rootkit-based malware samples that it found, which is good. However, it only detected 60 percent of them, which is not so good. The vast majority of current products have detected 100 percent of these same rootkit samples. With 9.8 points, Comodo Internet Security Complete has the top score for rootkit removal; Kaspersky is close behind with 9.4 points.
For an explanation of how I perform and score the malware removal test, see How We Test Malware Removal.
Comodo Cleaning Essentials 6 malware removal chart
Lab Results Don't Help
When possible, I supplement my hands-on antivirus testing by perusing the results of tests by independent antivirus labs. Some products participate with all of the labs and gather top scores all around; Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2013 is an example. Comodo's lab participation is limited, and in any case the labs would most likely test Comodo's full-scale security suite, not the removal-only Comodo Cleaning Essentials.
West Coast Labs and ICSA Labs certify Comodo's technology for virus detection, but not for removal. In all the times Virus Bulletin has tested Comodo, they've awarded it VB100 certification just once. For this product, lab results aren't much help. The chart below summarizes recent results. For more about these tests, please refer to the article How We Interpret Antivirus Lab Tests
Comodo Cleaning Essentials 6 lab tests chart
Best Practices
In the last few weeks, I've also tested the free Comodo Internet Security Premium (2013) and the $39.99 Comodo Internet Security Complete 2013. Tech support is one big differentiator between these two. With the free product you must rely on email support and forums, while the for-pay edition adds unlimited remotely-assisted support from Comodo's GeekBuddy service.
With GeekBuddy help, the for-pay product achieved excellent scores for malware removal, but the remote-control diagnosis and cleanup took many, many hours over a period of days. Without GeekBuddy, the most common advice from tech support was to run Comodo Cleaning Essentials. The free product didn't score as high, but getting the product installed didn't take nearly as long.
The lesson is clear. For the ultimate Comodo malware cleanup experience, first run Comodo Cleaning Essentials and then install Comodo Internet Security Complete 2013. Run a full scan with the suite and call on GeekBuddy for help with any remaining problems that it finds.
That advice holds if you're specifically committed to installing Comodo's security products. If not, you'll do better turning to Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.70 as your free cleanup-only antivirus. In my testing, it beat all free and commercial products, and it did the job faster than Comodo. Comodo is good, but Malwarebytes is our Editors' Choice in this category.
More Antivirus reviews:
McAfee AntiVirus Plus
McAfee AntiVirus Plus (for Mac)
Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac
Trend Micro Antivirus+ Security
Symantec Norton Core Router


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SOZO Sushi Bar
A Sushi Bar that asks for fantasy
SOZU is the Japanese word for the art of imagination and creativity. Quite possibly, they serve the best sushi, not just in the gay 'hood, but in all of Fort Lauderdale. Thanks to The Manor opening across the street, the place is usually full (although that's not hard, as it is also tiny).
Tags: Mixed Gay/Straight, Sushi / Japanese, Japanese
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Great Sushi!I live in Miami, but on an art buying trip to Fort Lauderdale, it was recommended I try this place. I thought oh yeah, another average place serving raw fish. I couldn't have been more wrong. While they don't cook a lot of food in this small restaurant, what they serve is perfect. I'm also so used to Miami price and it was a pleasure to get the check that was very reasonable. Every time I go up to Fort Lauderdale, I now go here. If you love sushi, try it! There's a bunch of them in town, but this one is truly the best!
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The campaign that for the past nine years delivered more than 4,000 gifts to local needy seniors is being planned again this holiday season.
Area retailers, along with agencies that serve older adults, have partnered with a local senior-care service to make sure that isolated seniors receive gifts and companionship through the Be a Santa to a Senior program.
The Portage County office of Home Instead Senior Care has teamed with local Portage County senior agencies to provide presents to seniors who otherwise might not receive a gift this holiday season.
"Be a Santa to a Senior each year sets new records in contributions of gifts to a group that often is forgotten during the hectic holiday season," said registered nurse Therese Kovatch, president of Home Instead Senior Care office serving Portage County. "While children are the beneficiaries of many holiday programs, people often don't think about the isolated and lonely seniors who need to be remembered as well during this season. Be a Santa to a Senior also is designed to help stimulate human contact and social interaction for older adults who are unlikely to have guests during the holidays."
Prior to the holiday season, participating local nonprofit organizations identify financially needy and isolated seniors and provide those names to Home Instead Senior Care.
The name and gift request of each senior are written on an ornament and then placed on Christmas trees located throughout Portage County including The Ravenna Athletic Center, Curves, M&J Medical Supply and Emeritus in Ravenna; The Arctic Squirrel in Kent; Kent/Ravenna Walmart; senior centers in Ravenna, Streetsboro and Aurora; Aurora Premium Outlets; Dr. Tomko's Office; Portage Home Health; Excalibur Auto Body; and Crossroads Hospice.
Holiday shoppers can pick up an ornament, buy items on the list, and return them unwrapped to the store, along with the ornament attached. Home Instead Senior Care then enlists volunteers help to collect, wrap and distribute the gifts. A citywide gift-wrapping day, when hundreds of the presents will be wrapped, will be held early in December.
For more information on how to help a needy senior, contact Annette Balis, community service representative for Home Instead Senior Care, at 330-995-1522. Donations may sent be to Home Instead, in care of "Be a Santa to a Senior," 215 W. Garfield Road, Suite 270, Aurora, OH 44202.
For more information about the program, visit www.beasantatoasenior.com.
Gearing up for the Be a Santa to a Senior" program are, from left, Lisa Little, nurse case manager Home Instead Senior Care; Theresa Dash, human resource manager; Annette Balis, community service representative; and Joan Penix, staffing coordinator.


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LONDON – The tough times continued Friday night for the Sarnia Sting.
The Sting dropped a 7-3 decision to the London Knights in front of 9.046 fans at the John Labatt Centre.
Sarnia has now lost four in a row to see their record dip to 19-13-1-4 in the Ontario Hockey League.
Keeping the puck out of their own net has become an issue as in these last four losses Sarnia has allowed 24 goals, an average of six per game.
"We allowing too many shots in good scoring areas," said Sting head coach Jacques Beaulieu, when asked about his team's defensive play. "We have to do a better job at eliminating those shots."
He added, "We weren't sharp at times and the execution wasn't there. The effort was there and we worked hard, but they put the puck in the net. We've lost four in a row and we need to get out of this funk."
There was plenty of offence and little defence from both teams as the Knights took a 3-2 lead after one period.
London opened the scoring two and a half minutes into the game when Andreas Athanasiou was left alone in front of the Sting goal and knocked in a loose puck.
Sarnia tied the game at 6:35 on the power play when Reid Boucher wristed home a high shot from a sharp angle for his 21st goal of the season.
The Knights responded with a pair of goals as Brett Welychka scored on a rebound at 11:54 while Josh Anderson poked home a loose puck from close range and 13:38.
But the Sting pulled to within a goal at the 15-minute mark when Brett Ritchie notched his eighth of the year finishing off a centering pass from Charlie Sarault.
London opened up a 5-2 lead in period two scoring a pair of power play goals.
Seth Griffith scored the first one at the 46-second mark and he was allowed to skate untouched from the corner to slip a backhand past goalie Brandon Maxwell. Welychka got his second of the game at 17:35 on a low shot between the legs of Maxwell.
Sarnia showed some signs of life when they cut the lead to 5-3 a minute and a half into period there when Domenic Alberga scored his fifth of the year backhanding home a pass out from Brett Thompson.
But the Knights pulled away with two more goals, both by Griffith to complete his hat trick scoring at 3:45 and 16:01.
A full lineup of 20 players lasted just one game for the Sting. Sarnia played one under the limit against the Knights. Veteran forward Craig Hottot suffered an upper body injury against Sault Ste. Marie on Wednesday and did not dress.
Still missing are Nail Yakupov, Ludvig Rensfeldt, Alex Basso, Ryan Kujawinski and Alex Galachenyuk. Kujawinski is attending the under-17 tournament in Windsor, but has not yet played for Team Ontario as he recovers from a knee injury.
"Some guys have been run into the ground of late," said Beaulieu. "It's made things extremely tough on our top six forwards and top four defencemen."
Sarnia finished with a 35-33 edge in shots on goal with Michael Houser the winning goalie while Maxwell took the loss.
The Knights also had several players missing including Olli Maatta, Max Domi, Vladislav Namestnikov, Scott Harrington, Jarred Tinordi, Matt Rupert and Bo Horvat.
London and Sarnia renew their rivalry Sunday at the RBC Centre. Game time is 2:05 p.m. Tickets are available by calling the RBC box office at 519-541-1717 or going online at Sarniasting.com
– London scored two power play goals and Sarnia one.
– Sarault assisted on all three Sting goals giving him five points in the last two games. He now has 60 points on the season and is just six behind OHL leader Tanner Pearson. Sarault's 46 assists is tops in the league.
– Sarnia has fallen one game under .500 on the road at 8-9-0-1. Sarnia won just one of seven road games in December. The only victory was a shootout win in Peterborough.
– Ritchie has now scored in back-to-back games since returning from injury.
Dave Borody is a freelance writer who covers Sting games both home and away and also does features for the Sting Website.


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During this year's San Diego Comic-Con, actor Thomas Jane delivered a treat for fans of Marvel's vigilante anti-hero The Punisher by reprising the role of Frank Castle for a gloriously violent short film entitled Dirty Laundry [which you can watch here]. The unofficial short saw Jane returning to the role he portrayed on the big screen in 2004's The Punisher before being replaced by Ray Stevenson (Thor, G.I. Joe: Retaliation) for Lionsgate's 2008 follow-up / reboot Punisher: War Zone, and offered up more excitement in its brief running time than the previous three feature-length offerings combined.
Sadly however, it looks like Dirty Laundry could be the last time we see Jane in the role, with the actor playing down the possibility of any further shorts during an interview with Nerd Bastards (via ComicBookMovie)…
"Well as far as The Punisher goes I kinda said what I wanted to say with the short film and it was the version of Frank Castle that I always wanted to see and it was very gratifying to finally put it out there. Phil Joanou — a great director — and Chad St.John — a fantastic writer — and we just kind of got a dream team of guys to put that together and I would love to see the three of us do a Punisher film, but I don't know if that would ever happen. I don't know, again it's like the studio seems sorta bent on making a two hundred million dollar version of a comic book movie. So yeah, I think the fans are kind of missing out."
Since we last saw The Punisher on the big screen, Marvel Studios have reacquired the rights to the character, but with a proposed Punisher live-action TV series collapsing earlier this year, and countless projects on Marvel's slate – including Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Avengers 2 and Ant-Man, not to mention Joss Whedon's S.H.I.E.L.D. series – it could be some time before we see Frank Castle back in action.