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Left-wing political appointee takes over from Sarkozy-backed Eric Garandeau.
Former socialist minister Fréderique Bredin is to replace Eric Garandeau as president of France's powerful film financing body, the National Cinema Centre (CNC).
Rumours that Garandeau, a former political advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy, was on the verge of being replaced have been rife ever since the latter lost the French presidency in May 2012 to socialist candidate François Hollande.
CNC chiefs rarely outlive the governments that appointed them so Garandeau's departure comes as little surprise.
French newspaper Le Figaro reported that relations been Garandeau and socialist French Culture and Communications Minister Aurélie Filippetti, who was instrumental in Bredin's appointment, were not warm.
"I send my warmest thanks from the bottom of my heart to all the staff of the CNC, as well as to film-makers and professionals for their confidence and I salute their friendship. I send my successor my best wishes," said Garandeau as news of Bredin's appointment was announced.
He listed the digitisation of nearly every cinema in France, the restoration of some 230 major films, the launch of Le jour le plus court short film day and the creation of the World Cinema Fund among the major CNC achievements during his tenure.
In recent weeks, Garandeau has also been at the forefront of France's fight for a cultural exception for audio-visual industries in free trade talks that are due to kick off between Europe and the US.
His detractors, meanwhile, said his forthright approach sometimes undermined the causes he was trying to defend.
Garandeau's continuing support for Sarkozy and a possible comeback attempt in presidential elections in 2017 is also unlikely to have done him any favours in terms of retaining his CNC job.
Bredin, 56, will take up the post of CNC head on July 15.
Like Garandeau, she is a qualified tax inspector and former student of France's famed National School of Administration (ENA) - graduating the same year as Hollande and his former partner Ségolène Royal.
Earlier in her career, Bredin worked in the cabinet of Culture Minister Jack Lang, focusing on cinema policy.
In the late 1980s, she was an advisor in the cabinet of President François Mitterrand, looking after cultural policy, a sector dear to the late statesman's heart. She held the post of minister of youth and sports from 1991-93.
In 2000, Bredin withdrew from political life to take up the position of managing director of media group Lagardere Active, the owner of top French media brands such as Elle, Paris Match and Europe 1.
Leaving the company in 2009, she set up her own production house FB Production in 2010, and also returned to her original profession of tax inspector.
Focused mainly on current affairs, FB's works include a 2011 documentary on the history of French presidential campaigns La folle histoire des présidentielles, which aired on state broadcaster France 3.
Bredin takes up the position of CNC chief at a turbulent time for the French film industry.
Key issues currently on the table include the ongoing dispute between French producers and technicians' unions over a collective labour agreement and the European Union's current examination of state film subsidies across Europe to see whether they contravene competition laws.
Funded through a tax on cinema tickets and obligatory contributions from broadcasters, the CNC has an annual budget of roughly €700m ($910m). Earlier this year, however, the government siphoned off some €150m ($200m) to help with efforts to rein-in France's public debt.
Technocrats at the French Finance Ministry and a handful of deputies are rumoured to be lobbying for a cap on the CNC budget at around €500m ($650m), regardless of how much the mechanisms financing it raise.


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With all this new content to explore and explain, would I even think about making a new post about Vanilla WoW content? Well, yes indeed I am!
Today I logged in to do my Argent Crusade, Fishing, Cooking and Jewelcrafting dailies but somehow got sidetracked by an old friend…. Onyxia. I haven't seen Onyxia in … well, years … so I thought I would pay the old broad a visit.
I had heard whisperings of all sorts of folks soloing Onyxia, so I started to ponder if a prot warrior could solo Onyxia. I knew that some sort of healing would be required, so I started tinkering with builds that included Bloodthirst.
I ended up going with this build. I slapped in a Glyph of Bloodthirst, threw on my old 4 piece epic Illidan Fire Resist gear and headed out to Onyxia's Lair to give it a whirl. I had about 500 defense, 25k hp, and 200 fire resist.
Well, long story short, about 30ish minutes later, Onyxia lay dead at my feet, and I was clearing bag space for all the phat lewt. In the end, it was was not all that challenging. I never had any close calls, never got below 50% health, and only used enraged regeneration once during the transition from phase 2 to phase 3. Next time around, I'll likely drop some of the FR gear in favor of more DPS gear to make the fight shorter, assuming I actually ever do go solo Onyxia again!
The hardest part of the encounter was chasing Onyxia around during Phase 2 and meleeing her down. For the most part, other than the intial group of whelps, I just ignored the whelps and let Thunder Clap kill them off when I had accumulated a few.
In the end, it was a bit of fun and an interesting diversion. I will admit, it is a bit saddening to be able to take down a once end game boss with such ease. Such is the way the game goes!


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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Cobra Woman Leaves Home
Now that I have your attention!
Dinah's leaving for college Thursday night around 3 am when the horse trailer shows up at Bell Canyon to take Tia and the goats to college. Dinah will follow in her new blue FIT. She doesn't want me to come with her. Perhaps she's the Cobra Woman?
I feel an elemental sadness, was crying in the shower. I'm sure I've done that before, but the only other time I could remember crying in the shower was the week after Dinah was born, when Jon and his mother went out to buy baby things and have lunch, and there was no lunch in the house for me. (poor me: post partem d.p.)
Anyway, on a whole other note, thinking about early internet pals. Do you remember the first internet pal you had, whether or not you wanted him/her? I remember mine. It was around 1997, (or maybe earlier?) and I participated actively in a chicken forum, because we'd just gotten started keeping chickens and there was much to learn. One guy was especially helpful. It wasn't until later I realized he raised the kind of chickens used in fighting. ick. He worked as a janitor at U.N.C. in Chapel Hill.
Without my asking for it, he sent me a picture of him with his huntin' dogs, and the file size was so huge I had to scroll all over to look at it, and I didn't want to know what he looked like anyway. He was wearing a good old boy cap.
Then he started implying he liked to travel in his trailer, and might be planning a California vacation. oh god!
For about six months I worried this guy was going to show up on our little street with his bird dogs and chickens in the trailer, and just park out front. I decided I knew enough about chickens and left the forum.
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- linda said...
This post is a heavy to bursting one.
This kind of change (Dinah's leaving) must be very hard. I don't have kids, but I know this sadness IS an elemental sadness.
Your internet pal story is scary (funny, too)! As for my internet pal--but this is my latest internet pal--I saw her art when I was in college and it gave me a feeling that was the very opposite of an elemental sadness. Expansive, joyful, silly. I googled her over the years and finally, 31 years later, FOUND HER AND HER ART.
I "commented" and she "commented," then I "commented" and she "commented."
I was ecstatic when she suggested we all move up the coast together and live on champagne out of cans and cinnamon buns. But Tom informed me that her suggestion was only hyperbole. I looked up "hyperbole" and was sorry to find that it meant: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally; exaggeration, overstatement, magnification, embroidery, embellishment, excess, overkill, rhetoric; informal purple prose, puffery.
But I liked the part about "purple prose and puffery." It made me think of Snozzi.
- Sep 19, 2007, 12:02:00 PM
Actually, I was going to say I think you and Luci were actually my first Internet pals, met through Linda!
- Sep 19, 2007, 12:06:00 PM
The only empty nest I've had is the loss of my caregiving role for my father, a huge loss. I was amazed how much of my time and energy I put into that role and have spent this year trying to learn how I want to spend my time now. The role was inherently meaningful. I let so many other things go for so long. On that other note, I had a cyber stalker, and it was unpleasant.
- Sep 19, 2007, 12:15:00 PM
- Namowal said...
I agree with Linda- I don't have kids either but it has to be difficult when they leave home.
The internet/cockfight/trailer/chicken man sounds like a piece of work. I've met some pests before, but nobody's talked of driving their trailer out my way. Geez, that's creepy.
I ran into a few weirdos in Second Life. They'd follow me everywhere, talk on and on, ask personal questions etc.. I got rid of them by changing my avitar into a tall, very masculine Winkie (the green guards with the fur hats in the Wizard of Oz). Nobody likes to flirt with a Winkie.
- Sep 19, 2007, 2:24:00 PM
- Sally said...
Thanks for all your sympathy and insight. Not the best of times, not the worst either though.
Linda! It wasn't hyperbole.
Actually we're thinking about driving up the coast this winter looking for a place to live part time. I looked at real estate listings for Sea Ranches . I think champagne in the can would not be a good thing for me to experience, as I LOVE champagne and almost never get to drink it.
Maybe Friday I'll search out my first can, right after Tia, Dinah and the goats head up route 5. It will also be Molly's birthday #3.
- Sep 19, 2007, 7:32:00 PM
I've never seen Cobra Woman, but now that I've read about it I see I've missed something big.
A marvelous description of a theater viewing here, under Scene.
- Sep 20, 2007, 11:10:00 AM
- Sally said...
Hey Katy, Bosley Crowther, wow. I remember reading his movie reviews all through my childhood on Sundays. Jon says he has a print of this in 16 mm. Must see!
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I have been a practicing speech-language pathologist for the past 40 years. My last position prior to my retirement in September of this year was as an out-patient SLP at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System (VCUHS) rehab clinic working primarily with stroke and head injury patients. Ours is a rewarding profession but during the past year and a half my involvement in a community aphasia support group has been one of the most gratifying experiences of my career.
Approximately two years ago, the daughter of a stroke survivor contacted VCUHS Speech/Language Pathology Department asking for volunteers to help her start an aphasia support group in Richmond, Va. She indicated that she wanted to form the support group to provide her mother and others living with aphasia the opportunity to exchange information, opinions, and feelings about this communication disorder.
The first group meeting was held in February 2012. The discussions during the monthly meetings often focused on how little the general public knew about aphasia. Other recurring topics included: loss of insurance coverage for out-patient speech treatment due to "plateau in skills" or insurance caps; false assumption that loss of language means loss of intellect; family members and others lacking appreciation of what it is like to have a head full of thoughts and ideas but not be able to communicate these thoughts to others. One of the group members, a corporate trainer prior to his stroke and subsequent aphasia, had an idea about how to address these problems/misconceptions: He proposed making a video that recorded the personal narratives of group members to educate healthcare professionals as well as their own families and friends on the daily challenges of living with aphasia and strategies for being a good communication partner. He and other group members felt that who best to advocate for aphasia patients than those living with aphasia themselves?
This past year, Marcia Robbins and Kate Schmick (two other SLPs who volunteer with the group), Jan Thomas (support group member who has taken a leadership role in the group), and I applied for and received funding through the VCUHS Speech/Language Pathology Department to produce a documentary style video on living with aphasia. Eric Futterman, a Richmond-based videographer, filmed and narrated scenes of aphasia support group members going through their daily routines and one member interacting with SLP. The 18-minute video highlighted the fact that those living with aphasia were not a homogenous group but rather individuals with unique needs and challenges as they faced the difficult road to recovery from their stroke. The video also showed support group members getting on with living and finding new talents. Our group had a community premier of the video entitled "Patience, Listening and Communicating with Aphasia Patients" during our September, 2013 monthly support group meeting. 90 people from the community attended. Attendees remarked on the powerful and informative message of the film.
In an effort to spread the word about aphasia, we have contacted the National Stroke Association and the National Aphasia Association about posting this video on their websites. NSA already has posted the video on their website.
Susan Hapala, M.Ed.,CCC-SLP, is a retired speech-language pathologist who volunteers with the Richmond, Virginia Aphasia Support Group. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A logo for a College community web store.
I am thinking a new age logo. This is for College Students. I want to make it different. I was thinking maybe a shirt with people revolving around it, or a bunch of people coming together to form the shirt. When people see the logo I want them to think people coming together, or a community. I am going to sell shirts that I am designing. The site will be based
around a community theam. You will get a digital copy of the shirt and
then you can put it in your digital closet and put your closet on
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For colors I was thinking red, white, and black. However you can use your creativity on this.
Current logo.
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Stefanie Teter '96
Teter was one of the most versatile athletes in school history, gaining All-America status in both soccer and basketball. In soccer, she was a three-time CAC Player of the Year and second team All-American in 1994 and ranks in the top ten all-time in scoring in program history with 101 career points on 34 goals and 33 assists. In basketball, she was a two-time All-CAC selection and gained honorable mention All-America honors in 1996. At the time of her graduation, she held four season and career records, and scored 1,017 points in her basketball career, becoming one of just three players at the time in Division III history to surpass both 1,000 career points and 600 assists. She led the nation in assists her senior season.


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Can Mushrooms Save the Planet?
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- Wish there was a store where everything was free? New York's latest pop-up swap, Score!, has the answer.
The People Speak
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- The movie brings our nation's history to life, highlighting the importance of political movements and resistance.
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When the popular Fox News entertainer arrived at the Obama event in Nashua, people turned to him but not always approvingly. "Hey O'Reilly," yelled a man. When O'Reilly turned he got a single-finger salute. A few people approached Bill to shake his hand but the overwhelming sentiment was unfavorable. "O'Reilly hatemonger," yelled a woman. A few other people gave him the bird. "I hate you Bill," yelled a man. "You can't stop us Bill," yelled another. I thought someone might brain him with one of those Obama "Hope" signs.Irony. It's amusing. You mean, Obama hasn't actually called us back to our highest selves, to the place where America exists as a glittering ideal, and where we, its honored inhabitants, seem capable of achieving it, and thus of sharing in its meaning and transcendence? (I was going to write a post about Ezra Klein's goofball creative writing assignment, but it seems like everyone else already did, and I'm afraid it's too late now.)
A number of people shouted falafel, the word O'Reilly used in a racy set of telephone conversations with a young woman he was trying to seduce as he described a shower they might take together. He meant loofa, which is not a Middle Eastern delicacy but a bath item....Now, that's funny. Giving him the finger and shouting "I hate you" is only helping him, giving him the video to skewer you. (You kebab.) But yelling "falafel" — he can't use that. Nothing like a good personalized insult that's horrifying for you but not even a dirty word.


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LONDON -- Jaguar said it will not build the hybrid C-X75 supercar, citing global economic pressures.
The British luxury brand announced in May last year it would build 250 units of the two-seat car that would sell at prices up to 900,000 pounds ($1.5 million).
"After a thorough re-assessment of near-term market conditions, the company's view is that the global economic landscape does not currently support the introduction of a supercar such as C-X75," the company said on Thursday.
The C-X75 would have faced stiff competition from three forthcoming hybrid supercars: the new Ferrari Enzo, the McLaren P1 and the Porsche 918.
The C-X75 was unveiled as a concept at the 2010 Paris auto show. It was powered by four electric in-wheel motors with the battery pack fed by two micro turbine engines. Jaguar claimed a power output of 780hp.
Jaguar dropped plans to use turbine engines for the production C-X75, saying the car would be a plug-in hybrid powered by a 1.6-liter gasoline engine and electric motors. It said the car would have a top speed beyond 200 mph (322 km/h), but have low fuel consumption with CO2 emissions below 99g/km.
Jaguar formed a partnership with the Williams Formula 1 team to develop the C-X75's carbon fiber chassis, hybrid technology and the aerodynamics.
Jaguar brand boss Adrian Hallmark said the technology showcased in the C-X75 wouldn't be dropped, without being specific. "We have achieved an incredible amount and will continue to test and develop these technologies, which are highly relevant to Jaguar Land Rover's sustainable future," he said.
Land Rover said in October it will build a hybrid version of the new Range Rover, while Jaguar has tested an EV version of its XJ limousine.


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Instructor Callie Unruh and her bovine assistant Tiny visited Hillsboro Elementary School Monday morning with their mobile dairy classroom to show students where milk comes from and demonstrate how milk travels from a cow's udder to a milk jug.
"Tiny is just over 2 years old; that's 24 years old in human years," Unruh told students. "That means she ages the equivalent of one human year every month. At the age of 2, she had her very first calf. Mammals like Tiny have to have a baby first before they can start producing milk."
Tiny is a 550-lb. jersey cow, which according to Unruh is currently the second most popular breed of dairy cow on the market. The most popular breed are 2,000 lb. Holsteins that are generally much too big to fit in the mobile dairy classroom Unruh and Tiny travel from school to school in.
"Tiny makes six times the amount of milk her baby calf needs in a day," Unruh said. "We feed her calf two bottles a day so she doesn't overeat."
To make milk, cows like Tiny eat food like hay, grass, silage, and cottonseed, as well as other items like peanut shells, potato chips, and candy bars that people don't normally think about as cow feed, Unruh said.
"Some farmers that live near candy factories buy the castoff candy bars and mix them with the herd's food to help add protein to what they consume," she said. "Tiny eats about 60 lbs. of food a day and drinks the equivalent of a bathtub full of water."
Milk is generally 87 percent water, Unruh said.
However, Tiny stays thin because her body burns a massive amount of calories as she produces milk.
Milk production is largely dependent upon a cow's size, Unruh said. Tiny produces about 6 to 8 gallons a day.
In order for Tiny to produce milk successfully, she not only needs to be fed and watered adequately but she also needs to be in a secure and accommodating environment.
Dairy farmers supply cows with shelter from the elements to help increase milk production.
"The better we take care of them, the better they take care of us," Unruh said. "Forty degrees is the ideal weather for a jersey cow to produce milk."
Unruh said cows have one udder that is split into four-quarter sections.
She demonstrated the standard milking process by which the udder is sterilized with iodine before connecting a "milking claw".
The milking claw is a suction device that mechanically removes milk from a cow's udder.
"The milk you drink never touches human hands," she said. "The milking claw is cleaner and more efficient than milking by hand. Milk isn't wasted from kicked over buckets and germs cannot contaminate the milk as easily."
As the milk passed from Tiny's udder to a tank in the mobile classroom, Unruh told students that its temperature was about 101.5 degrees, the same as Tiny's normal body temperature.
On the farm, cows are milked in "milking parlors" in after which the equipment, structure, and cows are all cleaned.
"The milk is then cooled to about 38 degrees until it is sent to the processing plant," she said. "Milk straight from the udder only lasts about three days, but it can last up to two weeks after it is homogenized and pasteurized."
Unruh told students that raw milk normally has about 4 percent fat content. To create 1 percent, 2 percent, and skim milk, the according percent is removed.
"Milk straight from the cow generally has a sweeter and richer taste than homogenized milk," she told students.
Students also learned that they are supposed to consume about three servings of dairy a day because milk has nine vitamins and minerals, including calcium, that benefits a growing body.


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Curtis Montague Schilling (born November 14, 1966 in Anchorage, Alaska) is a former American Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher. He helped lead the Philadelphia Phillies to the World Series in 1993 and has won World Series championships in 2001 with the Arizona Diamondbacks and in 2004 and 2007 with the Boston Red Sox. Schilling retired with a career postseason record of 11–2.
Schilling graduated from Shadow Mountain High School in Phoenix, Arizona in 1985, before attending Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona.
He began his professional career in the Red Sox farm system as a 2nd Round pick in what would be the final January draft for MLB. After 2.5 years in the minor leagues he was traded to the Baltimore Orioles in 1988 for Mike Boddicker. His major league debut was with the Orioles (1988–1990), and he then spent one year with the Houston Astros (1991).


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Saturday, August 14, 2010
Random thoughts brought on by caffeine
-Similarly whenever I find myself bedridden its thanks to my very own private nurse (aka mum) that I survive. I am indeed lucky.
-I am also coming to the very real and terrifying conclusion that I am exactly like my father. I guess everyone has this horrifying discovery sometime around the post teen years. It really is the stuff of nightmares. Why am I exactly like my old man?
Well, he loves routine, and I love a good routine. Each day runs to a schedule, which must be abided by. Each week runs to a schedule. Today is saturday. Saturday is market day. Ooooo the joy of fresh fruit and vegetables makes me as giddy as a school girl. Fresh prosciutto? Well, that's the one thing my dad buys every week from the market. Every time he comes home with it I just roll my eyes..
"Prosciutto agaaaaiiiiin? Dad you're just sooooooo predictable"
But what do I find myself craving and hence purchasing, with the predictability of of a feel good Hugh Grant movie? You got it. The cured, salted, hung and dried quarter of a pig. Love it. Adore it. Whack it in a sandwich.
- Also I have just noticed that beach road has a new road safety crusader, introducing Pete Dowe
So this guy is a bayside resident fiercely opposed to the clearway trials that are being proposed in certain councils and approved in others. It is sad that you can have someone calling themselves a 'Road Safety Advocate' who is obviously biased against those two wheeled pests invading his beach haven. Now I'll freely admit, I'm heavily biased towards the cycling point of view. No Shit. So this modern day saint is getting on his high horse and spending his weekend mornings filming bunches on beach road. Capturing the anarchy on camera for the world see. Oh the atrocities! Oh the humanity! When will the injustice end?
This is the stuff I find laughable, see this description of one of his videos
'Difficulty stopping! Crossing lights are red for 15 seconds before a cyclist urgently yells "lights" to the rear of the large pack, yet the bunch still enters the Mentone Lifesaving Club crossing on red, where elderly Mentone pedestrian James Gould was struck and killed by a Hell Rider in a large, racing cyclist bunch on Sat. 26/8/06 @ 8.30AM'
Now watch the video here
Could he be any more incorrect? He has just proved how a large bunch of cyclists can safely ride the roads with proper communication, ie calling out 'lights'.
The thing is, there is plenty of dodgy bunch riding on beach road. But Pete, if you're going to get up before 6am in the middle of winter, at least get something worthy of the hysteria you are trying to whip up!
Here is another video. All I can see is some nice cycling tips and TFM kit and a bunch of cyclists having fun, but I guess I am biased...
It is seems a little ironic that in many of his videos he shows cars stuck behind large bunches or smaller groups overtaking other small groups. He highlights this behaviour as a reason for NOT enacting a clearway. Now, the clearway would help with the 'driver frustration' as it would be it easier for bunches to overtake and stay left, that seems pretty obvious. What is also obvious, however, is that on Pete's behalf, there should be no concession to the cyclists who are making life so horrible down by the bay. No, road safety is not being advocated here, it is mere petty 'not in my backward' pig headed stupidity.
Anyway, rant over! Ride time...
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- AnonymousAugust 14, 2010 at 9:38 PM
Bet if you ask him to name any other of the 100s of pedestrians killed by cars in the 4 years since the incident with James Gould he couldnt. He needs to learn some risk assessment and focus where the real risks are. Drunken, speeding suspended drivers behind the wheel.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 8, 2010 at 11:55 PM
I can see how you could be led to believe that Pete Dowe, Road Safety Advocate, is an upper middle class professional from Mentone with a commonly held dislike for cyclists, but he is actually a poor unfortunate soul who lives in a flat (not on Beach Rd.), and who has a paranoid psychosis, in this case, against cyclists. He neither drives or cycles, and clearly has no idea about the dynamics of traffic, or the dangers cyclists face on a daily basis due to the erratic and unpredictable behaviour of some motorists. He is just another misguided person who has put cycling in his sights.ReplyDelete


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Safety, Shipping, Personalized & Clearance Items: For the safety of the animals, for sanitary reasons and due to the fact that other customers wouldn't want to receive your used item, Doggie Diva does not take back anything that is non-sellable, has ANY AMOUNT of dog hair on it, has been worn, has been altered, tags removed, original packaging either torn or missing, damaged by you or your dog, any sort of smell, or stain., etc...We will contact you if we receive your item back in as sold condition and you have the choice of paying for it to come back to you, or us keeping at 50% you paid (we will try and resell it disclosing the issues at a discounted rate), minus shipping. Free shipping only applies to the original order, if you are exchanging your item you will be charged shipping the second time around. Once a personalized/customized item is ordered and begins processing, it can not be cancelled. All Personalized/Customized and Clearance items are non-returnable, non-refundable and non-exchangeable. Doggie Diva is also not responsible for any delays due to FedEx, UPS and USPS. Once we ship an item, it is out of our control. We can not guarantee ship times by the Post Office, UPS or FedEx, only give a close estimate according to them.
Return Forms & Pre-Authorization: A return authorization form and return instructions must be obtained by email before any returns or exchanges can be processed or your return will be sent back to you. In order to make sure your package is covered in the return, please make sure all returns are sent trackable and you must get a receipt for shipment. If we receive a return without authorization, we have the right to return the package to sender.
Damages, Exchanges, Store Credits and Refunds: We will gladly accept the exchange of products that are defective due to defects in manufacturing and/or workmanship for 7 days from the date of purchase. If you have an issue with a defect after the 7 days of receipt, it may be covered by the manufacturer so please contact us and we will contact them on your behalf and do everything we can to help fix the situation. Fulfillment mistakes that we make resulting in the shipment of incorrect product to you will also be accepted for exchange 7 days from the date of purchase and Doggie Diva will issue you a pre-paid shipping label. If you receive a damaged item, please photograph the damaged and send it to us via email or text immediately and we will get you a replacement item as quickly as possible. Larger items: dog carriers, strollers, beds, boat, dog steps, etc... are EXCHANGEABLE or RETURNABLE for STORE CREDIT ONLY (and price differences between items are also only give via store credit) and a 20% restocking fee applies. Most online dog boutique do not take these type of items back at all, feel free to compare return policies. We want you to be happy so we try and work with you, we understand not everyone is going to love everything they receive. We don't stock all items and manufacturer's all charge us fees to ship items to you and also restocking fees to take them back. All smaller items are for EXCHANGE OR STORE CREDIT ONLY. Size/item exchanges are excepted within 30 business days of receipt of your item, the customer is responsible for all shipping and the item must come back perfect, unused condition. Returns/exchanges can take up to two weeks to process and re-ship out, please let us know if you need your replacement by a specific date. Returns for money back can take up to 30 days to show up back on your card (but don't usually take that long), depending on your banking institution. Each bank is individual and has their own rules on that.
Product Descriptions, Sizing, Images + Colors
We have gone to great lengths to ensure accuracy in the descriptions and representation of our products. However, slight variations may occur. While the images on our website have been color-corrected to appear as accurate as possible, their appearance will correspond to the settings on your monitor and may not be exact. Item dimensions are given to us by the manufacturers. Dimensions are measured a specific way by manufacturer, each measures fabric and structures in a different way. If you are very particular about dimensions of the item you are wanting, especially on clothing and/or dog carriers, please contact us first to clarify, before ordering. For dog carriers and strollers, manufacturers have to list their dimensions a specific way in (the actual dimensions of the item including all material, sides, extensions, neck rolls, etc.. which could seem different to you once you receive your item. If that is the case, this is not grounds for returns based on item not being listed improperly. If the sizing doesn't work for you, you are free to return your item for an exchange or store credit only. If the sizing listed does actually have a mistake on the manufacturer's end or on ours, and you can show us, we will gladly issue a full refund including shipping. But the manufacturer must agree and be willing to refund.


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Corinth Holders basketball, cheerleading sign-ups
Registration for basketball and cheerleading with Corinth Community Recreation will be held from 6:30 until 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday nights in the concession stand behind Corinth-Holders Elementary School through Oct. 29. The cost is $50 per child, and children in Pre-K through eighth grade are welcome. All games are played at the Corinth-Holders Elementary School gym. Visit ccrpirates.com or search CCR Pirates on Facebook for more info and updates.
Concelead carry classes in Clayton
Trigger Happy Guns and Accessories on Main Street in Clayton will conduct one-day concealed carry classes from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Oct. 13 and 15. The cost is $75. Equipment is required. Call 919-585-6504.
Johnston County Horse Show Series dates set
Johnston County Horse Show Series events will be held Oct. 26 and Nov. 23 at the Johnston County Livestock Arena near Smithfield. Rings open at 8:30 for all events. For more information, visit blaine-mclaughlin-stables.com or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Semi-pro basketball tryouts
The new Tobacco Road Basketball League's (TRBL) men's semi-pro team, the Neuse River Basketball Club, will hold a tryout from 7-9 p.m, Oct. 20, at the Smithfield Recreation and Aquatics. Player signing bonuses along with other player incentives are available. Email email@example.com for more details.


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The week in review
Worst hurricane: Jeanne really is the worst, at least as far as Florida, still recovering from Frances, and Haiti, with thousands of dead or missing, are concerned.
Biggest Cav Daily dustup: The paper feels the heat for taking two weeks to report an alleged September 8 incident when a racial epithet defaced fourth year Lawn resident Amey Adkins' car.
Biggest brouhaha: MADD president Andrew Torget's September 21 letter to the Daily Progress warning motorists to stay off the roads around Foxfield during the September 26 race spurs Foxfield president Benjamin Dick to fire off a letter to MADD's national president asking the local chapter's charter be revoked.
Shortest brouhaha: By September 22, Dick and Torget pledge to work together to prevent drunk driving.
Biggest disparity: The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service puts Charlottesville in Virginia's top five locales of richest and poorest in 2002. The same report shows married couples losing ground because of inflation with a median $57,924 income.
Most controversial use of 911: Republican City Council candidate Ann Reinicke draws heat for using the emergency telephone system's database to invite residents to hearings on the ward system, John Yellig reports in the Progress.
Less than life sentencing: Robert Paul Davis, who pleaded guilty to the February 19, 2003, murder of his neighbor, Nola Charles, and her three-year-old son in their Cling Lane home, gets 23 years in a plea bargain, Liesel Nowak reports in the Progress. Still to be tried: Rocky Fugett and his sister, Jessica Fugett, who was 15 at the time of the murders and attended school with Charles' daughters.
Most delayed sentencing: Fugitive FUMA spanker Gregory Moyer, who jumped bond and fled to Mexico three years ago, is extradited to Fluvanna and sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison.
Least like Mayberry: Gordonsville fires its police chief, Terry Duty, September 21. Orange police Chief Mark Tharp is asked to resign September 11. And Louisa hires its number-two cop, Stan Batten, as chief, following the conviction for assault and battery of its last chief, John Wilson.
Most optimistic study: UVA prof Robert Abbott finds that elderly men who walk more than two miles a day have a lower incidence of dementia and Alzheimer's.
Biggest checks: Daniel M. Meyers donates $22 million to UVA's Curry School of Education, and Microsoft pledges $3 million to a Curry/Darden partnership to help struggling schools.
Best climb: Darden pulls ahead of Duke, Berkeley, and Harvard to take 12th place in the Wall Street Journal's ranking of business schools.
Somber sign: The UVA carillon tolls to announce the September 21 death of former UVA president Frank Hereford, 81, who served from 1974 to 1985– and was a member of the Seven Society.
Tragic month for college drinkers: A Virginia Tech engineering student, Thomas Ryan Hauser, 23, is found dead early September 19. Samantha Spady dies in a Colorado State fraternity house September 5 with a blood-alcohol level of 0.43 percent, five times the legal driving limit.
Worst dis to a "Peace Train" singer: U.S. authorities divert the Washington-bound flight of singer Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens) to Bangor, Maine, September 21, and send him back to Europe the next day because he's on a no-fly list.
Worst loss of a sexploitation icon: Russ Meyer, director of Vixen, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, dies September 18 at age 82.


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Ryan and Joe Mapes' family friendly Fordor
Joe and Ryan were finishing a '60s-style three-window coupe when Ryan and his wife, Gretchen, started a family. That led to the decision to build something bigger. A suitable Fordor body turned up on eBay in early 2006. When the sedan arrived in Tucson, Arizona, Ryan and Joe sold the 'glass coupe body to a friend, keeping the chassis and most of the running gear for the new project. As with the coupe, the goal was to build a roadworthy hot rod with a ton of late-'60s flavor.
The chassis, carried over from the coupe project, is from Lobeck's V8 Shop in Cleveland, chosen because Barry Lobeck's cars always sit right and get driven hard, Ryan explains. In addition to the Model A tubular crossmembers, the shop welded in a V'd front spreader bar to the front of the rails and another bar in the rear. The front suspension includes a Magnum 4-inch dropped axle and Pete & Jakes hairpins and shocks, and a Durant monoleaf spring. The back half rides on a Pete & Jakes ladder bar suspension with a custom 9-inch housing built by Peter Macey at the Old Ford Store. Bill Ewing helped them with additional TIG welding and machining, and Joe and Ryan built custom motor mounts for the coming Cadillac engine.
There is no real reason why we used a 500ci Cadillac engine, other than to be different, Ryan says, but different is reason enough. The '70 engine is dressed up with '56 valve covers adapted to fit, and a chrome 12-inch air cleaner to cover the Edelbrock carburetor and intake. Dennis Scheepstra assembled the engine, and the owners built a custom exhaust system connecting Jet-Hot coated Sanderson headers to Dynomax mufflers. A Turbo 350 was adapted to the Cadillac and assembled by the late-Dave Periman. The B&M-shifted transmission features a Hughes converter and B&M shift kit.
The unchopped Fordor body had been sitting in a midwestern field for years. The Mapes did a lot of rust repair and installed a modified firewall and a complete wood kit. They added N.O.S. headlights and '37 taillights on custom brackets. Garth Bowie built the louvered steel hood. Joe and Ryan drove the car in bare metal for almost a year, working out bugs and making improvements.
By now, Joe and Ryan had met Mike Kerwin, who performed much of the body repair, priming, and sanding, before shooting the DuPont Fleet Green. We wanted the car to look as if someone had dropped a bone-stock body onto a hot rod chassis back in the '60s, so we used a color combo that would have existed back then, Ryan says. The main body pieces and framerails are finished in green, and the firewall, engine, dash, interior moldings, headlights, and taillights, were done in black. The single-stage acrylic enamel was color-sanded and buffed to avoid the modern look of basecoat/clearcoat. The stock-style vinyl roof insert was the final step of this part of the build.
The '60s theme continues with a pair of 16×10 ET III five-spokes and 275/70R16 Michelins in the rear, mixed with 155R15 Firestone tires on 15×4.5 Halibrands in the front. The front brakes are Ford drums with '56 F-100 drums in back.
Glenn Kramer Hot Rod Interiors in Glendale, Arizona, covered the seatsa Glide bench in front and a custom-built seat in backand door panels in tuck 'n' roll ebony leather. Vintage Stewart-Warner gauges fill the custom insert in the stock dash. A '38 Ford pickup column drop holds the Joe Harris-built column with a Budnik wheel.
Ryan says the only hard thing about building a car with his dad was the crosstown drive to Joe's house. There were a lot of 60-mile round-trips through Tucson during the four-and-a-half-year project, but now that the car's finished, there's more driving to be done. Ryan and Gretchen have two kids nowAvery and Emmalinebut this hot rod family's family hot rod has room for all three generations of rodders.
When Ryan Mapes says hot rodding is the family hobby he isn't kidding. While other kids went on family vacations in airplanes, my sister, Shannon, and I spent our youth traveling to small-town rod runs in the back of the family hot rod, with our parents, Joe and Lea-Ann, riding in front. Before long, Ryan rose from passenger to cobuilder. He and Joe have built several cars together, sharing the expense, ownership, and labor in Joe's two-car garage. They've built all kinds of rodsresto rods, smoothie street rods, and traditional hot rods. The common thread is that they've all been drivers.


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He once warned a psychic; he surfs the North Shore; even his enemies list him as their emergency contact. So what makes Dos Equis's Most Interesting Man in the World character so darn interesting?
With his Bond swagger and Hemingway machismo, actor Jonathan Goldsmith aka The Most Interesting Man in the World showed his star power at Batangas Tapas + Drinks where he captivated a bevy of beauties with his devastating sea glass eyes while being envied by every male in the restaurant. Of course, Goldsmith's one-liners have almost become as famous as his most recognizable looks. And this man of few words lent his fame and time to benefit several Houston charities — Houston Grand Opening Nights for Young Professionals, Boys & Girls Harbor and HYP Chamber of Commerce — during a Dos Equis-filled cocktail shindig. The Most Interesting Man in the World has visited Space City (aka "the coolest city" according to Forbes) before; he likes to hang with his buddy Johnny Vassallo and order a filet at his restaurant, Mo's … A Place For Steaks.
Not to deflate the mystery behind the commercial hero; Goldsmith's real-life bat cave does not include a Montenegro castle or cliffside estate in Malibu's Colony but rather a quaint, southern Vermont abode. And he's not a bachelor; he's married to his manager, Barbara, who got him the Dos Equis gig in 2006. Surprisingly, you're more likely to find Goldsmith sipping a martini with a twist or ordering a scotch neat — but yet when he drinks a beer he "chooses Dos Equis."
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While the ocean floor spews viscous goo into the Gulf of Mexico, environmentalists are taking a hard look at what was supposed to be the sweeping climate change bill that would liberate America from its fossil-fuel addiction. So far, mixed reviews from the environmental community suggest that they're looking at the bill they got and still seeking the bill they wanted.
While the new legislation isn't a carbon copy of the toxic bills penned by the industry under Bush-Cheney, the American Power Act still fails to cut carbon in a meaningful way, according to more radical environmentalists. Those deficiencies risk overshadowing the economic and job-creation initiatives, which are in turn dwarfed by handouts to polluters.
The bill sets flaccid standards for ratcheting down greenhouse gas emissions and establishes a cap-and-trade system—the centrist approach that the Democrats have embraced. Critics point out that the bill shamelessly coddles dirty industries by encouraging offshore drilling, nuclear power investment, and more welfare for Big Coal.
According to the official summary, the legislation promises that "Industrial sources will not enter the program until 2016," and at that point, "energy-intensive and trade-exposed industries receive allowances to offset both their direct and indirect compliance costs." Then, after ensuring at least a few more years of corporate heel-dragging, the bill addresses subsidies for clean energy:
We also significantly increase incentives for clean technology manufacturing, by expanding the clean energy manufacturing tax credit by $5 billion, providing incentives for the production of advanced vehicles and component parts and funding investments in energy efficiency innovation. Alongside these priorities, we also support community economic adjustment assistance and worker training.
The one sentence devoted to labor reads like a bit of an afterthought. Do advocates see this as the germ of a green-energy boom or a condescending pat on the head?
Green for All praised the bill's support for the Green Construction Careers Demonstration Project, which they say "creates middle-class careers for our most vulnerable communities." Still, the Demonstration Project is by definition small scale and experimental; the long-term future and scaleability of such initiatives remain in flux.
The national green-labor coalition Apollo Alliance endorsed the bill overall, but vowed to keep pushing for additional measures to ensure that the new green manufacturing jobs are primarily homegrown and not offshored. The Alliance also calls "direct federal assistance to small and mid-sized manufacturers to retool to produce renewable energy systems and components and become more energy efficient."
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So far, it seems like labor-environmental groups are cautiously lining up behind the bill on the assumption that flawed legislation is better than none. But from a long-range perspective, the American Power Act may set the terms for the congressional debate on climate-change policy for years to come, probably to the exclusion of more progressive proposals.
Last year, mainstream environmental groups called for investments in clean-energy R&D in the range of $15 billion per year. Meanwhile, climate wonks in England are demanding a wholesale post-Copenhagen paradigm shift toward earth-conscious models for development.
The Apollo Alliance's own green investment plan also laid out a relatively bold agenda:
It will generate and invest $500 billion over the next ten years and create more than five million high quality green-collar jobs. It will accelerate the development of the nation's vast clean energy resources and move us toward energy security, climate stability, and economic prosperity. And it will transform America into the global leader of the new green economy.
That tone of ambition is already fading as lawmakers plow ahead with the Kerry-Lieberman proposal. Public Citizen pronounced it dead on arrival:
The Kerry-Lieberman bill represents a missed opportunity. By meeting behind closed doors, the lawmakers empowered corporate polluters to play an oversized role in influencing the legislation to the detriment of the climate and consumers. Barack Obama had it right when he successfully campaigned on a theme of making polluters pay and delivering benefits directly to households.
We need a bill that does not incentivize failed and dangerous technologies like nuclear power and does not enrich utilities at the expense of consumers.
Was labor at the table when polluters and politicians were evidently huddling in private? Now might be a perfect time to elbow their way in, if only to make sure that rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic doesn't get classified as a green job.


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We believe elevating where you live is about blending it seamlessly with how you live. We go to great lengths designing amenities and choosing locations that put everything within reach. Where you live, is where you come alive.
Centered between San Francisco and San Jose, Avalon Union City sits in the heart of the East Bay and is adjacent to the Union City BART station. Featuring beautiful studios and one-, two- and three-bedroom apartment designs, these Union City apartments come with all of the apartment features and community amenities you could ask for in a Union City apartment community. Picture living life effortlessly with gourmet kitchens complete with a dishwasher, spacious walk–in closets, and full-size washers and dryers in each apartment. Take advantage of our luxurious community amenities including our sparkling outdoor swimming pool and spa, state-of-the-art fitness center, six lushly landscaped courtyards, outdoor cucina, barbecue area and the outdoor fireplace, all in a smoke-free community. With easy access to our Union City apartment rental's on-site management and maintenance team, every detail is taken care of so you can enjoy your new home. This is not just apartment living. This is living up.
The East Bay apartments at Avalon Union City aren't just a place to live, they're a place to come home to and a place to indulge in luxury and a place to make new friends. A variety of restaurants serving international cuisine are all within walking distance of our Union City apartments and there are many local and state parks near the community. Our apartments in Union City also have easy access to all major highways and are also adjacent to the BART station to make daily commutes or weekend trips to San Jose and San Francisco a breeze.
Perhaps the best part of living at Avalon Union City is gaining access to the Avalon Advantage. This exclusive program encompasses the special amenities and programs residents of our Union City apartments receive. It includes a 30-day move-in satisfaction guarantee, flexible lease terms and easy online access for all of your Avalon needs. So don't miss out on this incredible Union City apartment rental! For more details on this Avalon community, contact us to schedule an appointment.
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Cats and dogs are welcome! Please check the dog breed and pet restrictions below.
Max of 2 Pets Allowed
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AvalonBay Communities reserves the right to deny residency to any animal deemed aggressive whose breed is not explicitly listed. Should your pet injure any other pets, residents or AvalonBay Communities associates, you will be asked to remove the pet from the premises immediately.
Pets must be on a leash at all times when outside the apartment home. If applicable, dogs must be leashed whenever entering and exiting the Pet Park, but may be unleashed while within the enclosure of the Pet Park.
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* Other pets may also be restricted. Please contact our community for details.
For Residents: Avalon Union City building A includes a seven story parking structure for residents. Avalon Union City building B includes a three story underground parking garage. Each apartment has one assigned parking space in the garage that serves their building. Select two bedroom and three bedroom apartments come with two spaces. Additional covered and uncovered spaces are available for a monthly fee.
For Future Residents: Parking is free for future residents visiting the community. Future residents may park in the designated spaces located at the main driveway of the community, between the two buildings. No parking permits or passes are required.
For Guests: Guest parking is free located along the perimeter of the community and requires a permit. Guest permits are limited and must be picked up by the resident at the Leasing Office. Guest permits are good for 48 hours and must be returned to the Leasing Office upon expiration. Permits that are not returned will result in a charge to the resident's account. Vehicles parked without a valid guest permit will be subject to towing at the owner's expense.
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Your pets are part of your family. That means finding a home that welcomes all of you. We couldn't agree more, which is why we offer pet-friendly communities across the country and created WAG The Pet Program to take pet-friendly living to the next level.
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RZA Interview with IGN
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- 2004-05-15
IGN FILMFORCE: I've got a few Kill Bill questions for you before we talk about Coffee and Cigarettes.
THE RZA: (Laughs) They ain't gonna get mad, are they?
IGNFF: I think we'll be okay. Now that you've worked on and seen both volumes of Kill Bill, being a connoisseur of kung-fu, how do you think they stack up with the great kung-fu flicks, the Shaw brothers and stuff like that?
RZA: Against the Shaw brothers, they definitely stack up well. They should be added to the top 20 collection. But, for an American-produced martial arts film, to me it's in the top five, you know what I mean? [It's] up there with Enter the Dragon. In fact, maybe since Enter the Dragon, there hasn't really been a real American... They've got The Matrix, you could consider that a martial arts [film] in a way, but there was sci-fi in Matrix, a lot of CGI. This was really rough action, not too many wires, not too much. Just raw talent. I've said it before, I'd say Kill Bill goes in the top 20 in history. From an American producer, it goes in the top five.
IGNFF: Tarantino has recently talked about editing the film into one single movie for festivals. Will you do any additional scoring for that?
RZA: Well, Quentin has a lot of [my] stuff on film, so he could just grab anything. He also has so much music, that we really went into the library of what we were gonna use, and maybe we used 10 percent. So, he has a lot to play with. And also, he has so much musical talent and an ear [for the music] to his films, that, you know, there's nothing to lose.
IGNFF: Did you ever talk to Quentin about being in Kill Bill or would you want to be in a sequel?
RZA: Well, maybe if he do a sequel, maybe I'll jump in. But, no, I was actually on the set for over 60 days, but I never even thought about getting in front of the camera. Behind the camera, I looked through the lens... I came on the set, first and foremost, I asked Quentin could he mentor me? You know, I want be a director, can I be eyes? And he was like, 'You'll be on it.'
IGNFF: What's a Tarantino set like? Chaotic?
RZA: Naw. He's the master of his set. And everybody that's there works extra hard for him. And that's where I learned one thing about being a director. You've got to have respect of your peers and the people who work for you, underneath you. Because, if it went over, nobody minded. They got to a point where they was 20, 30 days over, you know, these people want to go home too. Even though they're making money, it's like, they have a life. I spent some nights on the roof, we were talking to some of the guys that work, we be kickin' it, and they were like, 'Man, this is really a lot.' They were there, at nine o' clock in the morning; they up, they work and do a great job. I learned from Quentin, he has a certain respect and love for the cast and crew. Great people and I learned a lot from that.
IGNFF: The music has really caught on. I heard them playing it at a Lakers game the other day.
RZA: Aw, man. That's great, right. You can't beat that.
IGNFF: What are you scoring next?
RZA: I finished Soul Plane. That comes out in May. Snoop did a great job in that movie. He's stupid in that movie. Snoop really has improved a lot with that one. People will go see that one and really, 'Okay, okay, he know what the f*** he's doing.' Soul Plane was a good look. It was a comedy, so it shows versatility for me, it shows that we can come from action to comedy, then to go back to horror/action with Blade 3, maybe I'll do one more action and then go for a drama. I'm just really trying to keep a good path and keep good dedication and focus of what I'm doing.
IGNFF: I spent some time with David Goyer in the editing room for Blade 3 a few months back. The footage looks great. Goyer said that, when he approached you, you had said that the other movies were too British.
RZA: Yeah. I'm on it. I'm definitely doing something slightly different. I'm not going to come totally different. You know, the movies have a history. But I'm definitely trying something a little different. There's more on time with what we do, on time with what music is, but still respecting the way movie music has to have motion. Hip-hop production, for instance, don't take no motion. Two or four bars and that's the music. Techno, same thing, one bar. It would loop. I'm just trying to get a balance between those two to where I can have a four pattern, four bar pattern drum, and maybe a 20 bar pattern symph. So this will give us motion, but still keep us syncopated and still keep us in a certain kind of groove in the theater. Because when you watch movies, sometimes the music, not watching Blade in particular, but sometimes the music would be, like, it don't complete, it don't finish. Sometimes it's good because it's a movie and the scene itself finishes the music, but when you become aware of the music, you don't get closure. And I've noticed that, some films don't give you closure of the music.
IGNFF: The music is too distracting?
RZA: Yeah, or [it] left you. You know how music is, if you have a dominate, a sub-dominate, then you have to come back to the root. If you go, [makes the sounds of a beat], and you're going over here, you've gotta close that phase, or your mind is waiting for that moment and it don't happen. Maybe the film can make you forget it, but it's very disturbing, especially for somebody that does music.
IGNFF: How do Jarmusch and Tarantino compare?
RZA: Well, those two, I would have to say, are on the same wavelength in a certain way. Of course, you see, Quentin is fast action and Jim is likes it smooth and Tai Chi. Now Quentin, he has some lingering shots, but what's happening in the shot is not lingering. That's the difference. You look at House of Blue Leaves, that's a whole one Steadicam shot. That's about a three-minute shot and the guy he did it with is the same guy who did that long shot in Goodfellas when he walks through the bar. Great shot! Best Steadicam guy in the world, from what I've seen. And Jarmusch, you know, he'll also have a lingering shot, but the linger, he makes you think. Your eyes give up soon. Your mind starts thinking. That's what Jim does. He kind of lets the eyes see, but then, it's like staring something, but you forget you're even staring at it. You start thinking about something else.
IGNFF: How about working with Bill Murray. Was it hard to keep a straight face working with him?
RZA: Bill is funny. He's a funny man, on and off the camera. Personally, I'm a Bill Murray fan. As a kid, I'm one of the kids, like I always tell people, I paid to watch Bill Murray movies, like Scrooged and things. I went to the movie theater. I didn't wait for HBO. That was one of my Christmas gifts was seeing a Bill Murray movie. So, for me to grow up and get a chance to work with him is already a super privilege. And then, really, to meet this guy, and to be laughing at this guy, I've laughed at this guy a lot in my life, and then to be looking in his face... In my head, while we're eating lunch, just laughing, like, 'Man.' And he's just a very smart guy, very gentlemanly, but just crazy. Everything he say, sooner or later, it's just a punch line or something. I don't know if he even means to. You know what I'm saying, but yeah, Bill Murray, I've got much respect for him, and it was an honor to share the screen with him. I feel grateful to Jim Jarmusch also for making that weird connection.
IGNFF: Did you always know you were doing a scene with Bill Murray?
RZA: Yeah, [Jarmusch] didn't even tell me I was doing the scene with Bill Murray. He had mentioned to me about the scene, you know, we talked about it, in a couple of months, you know, he'd let me know. It's coming soon... Maybe I knew Bill Murray's gonna be in it maybe two days ahead of time. Because, he didn't give me the script a month ahead, he gave it to me a few days ahead before we started shooting. So it was a surprise as well as a treat.
IGNFF: Was Murray familiar with Wu-Tang?
RZA: Yeah, he seemed familiar. I don't know if he was familiar because of Jim, but he has a place in New York, Upstate New York. He also had a young guy with him that works for him and stuff that knew Wu-Tang. (Laughs) So, [Bill] made a few Wu-Tang jokes that went beyond the script. And after everything was over, you know, every once and a while, he sends his regards. I'll be on the phone and he'll say something funny about Wu-Tang. So, if he wasn't familiar prior then, I think he became familiar for that because we had a good time together, we had a good vibe.
IGNFF: Was there a lot of improv?
RZA: I would say, for our scene, I think it was basically, I would say, 75 percent script and only 25 percent improv on our scene. Some of the other scenes, people say that they improved a lot of it. But in our scene, basically, I stuck to a lot of the words. I may have changed the tonation of it, ya know, but yeah, I basically stuck to the script and tried to deliver how they supposed to do it. You're supposed to study a script, right? And so I try to take what he wrote and make it come out of my mouth in the most coolest way.
IGNFF: Murray has that rep for deviating from the script a lot.
RZA: Even with him though, great delivery of the script. Like the line, you know, he said his line. Some of the takes, I wasn't on cue, because he said his line like it wasn't the line, but the way he presented it, 'Oh, okay. He said this here.'
IGNFF: Did you crack up working with Murray?
RZA: Yeah, it took various shots to do it. The funniest thing was, I'll put it out there, the funniest thing was, he must have drunk a gallon of coffee that day. I was like, 'You're going to have a nice bathroom visit.' He was downing that coffee, yo. He had to go through a lot of cigarettes, too. No fakes, baby. He got into the groove.
IGNFF: Do you like acting and do you want to pursue it further?
RZA: I definitely want to, I mean I can't think of nobody who don't want to act. It's like a dream for a lot of people, especially someone from my history. At first, I was kinda like, because I had a few offers before I took this movie, and I was kinda like, 'Naw, naw...' When I went to the San Francisco film festival and I heard people laughing, because I never watched Coffee and Cigarettes. They gave me the tape, I watched up to my part and cut it off, because I was kinda, like, shy of it. But in the theater, people was laughing and they was looking kinda great, people was feeling it. And I caught that ego rush. I said, 'Yeah, I'm an actor.' You ask me that question right now, it's like, I'm definitely looking forward to getting on the silver screen. It definitely gave me an adrenaline boost, and I think I can handle it. I think I'll probably make my true bones behind the camera, because I'm such a visionary, you know what I mean? But I think I also could be directing and controlled to get a good performance from certain actors, especially if it's action.
IGNFF: Are you going to direct your own kung fu movie?
RZA: Yeah, yeah. I could do that easily. I've done it already, just haven't released them. I'm just waiting for the proper time to say, 'Okay, here they are.' But I've got about three films in the can that I did on my own. One is a total martial arts film where I have white hair and gold teeth. Like white hair all the way down, but gold fangs in my mouth. So I'm like a hermit, a Wu-Tang hermit, with the warrior clothes on and s**t. And I have this special weapon, it's a Wu-Tang weapon and everybody wants it so all the people are coming to get it.
IGNFF: When can we see that?
RZA: When I get enough interest in me, in that world. I think I'm almost there, though.
IGNFF: There was an article in The New York Times a few weeks back about a study that determined that digital music downloading has actually had no affect on the recording industry. How do you feel about that and what are your thoughts on downloading music?
RZA: To me digital downloading hasn't been a major problem for the music industry.
IGNFF: Do you think they are inflating the problem?
RZA: Yeah, I think they are inflating the problem... First of all, it gives them another avenue to cheat the artists and to cheat the people that are supposed to get paid and it gives them a chance to throw another surplus and also to give the government, you know how the airlines, all of the sudden the airlines say they lost money because of 9-11. And they give the airlines billions and billions of dollars, and yet the people who could use the money, like the poor people in the country, or the middle class, or the health care people, they get nothing. Who cares if the airlines are losing money when the citizens are really the ones that's suffering since 9-11? So, I think the same thing of the music industry. They can't say that they're losing money, you know what I'm saying. They just probably don't have the same surplus that they had.
IGNFF: So, when you have an album coming out, do you worry about seeing it online early?
RZA: Naw, when I make music, I make it to be heard, personally. And, if somebody download it, if they heard it, then my job was delivered. Of course I love to make the money. I get million dollar album budgets, so of course there's money involved with it. But, personally, as a musician, as an artist, the first thing is to be seen and heard. If you're not seen and heard, who cares? I was talking to Jim Jarmusch and he was like, somebody see his film, the guy's happy. He don't care. He wants somebody to see his art and appreciate it and that's how I feel about my music also. I never got pissed off at the Internet kids with the downloading. In fact, I told them, 'Help yourself. Have a good time.'
IGNFF: Can you talk about The Cure and when it's going to happen?
RZA: Yeah, it's an ongoing work. I keep it up, but it's definitely an ongoing work. I have it, I'll say that to you. I got it. You know what I mean? I got The Cure. It's already written, I've just got to perform it. It's something, you can't perform without living. It's very intuitive. It's like, I can't sing all that and be all that. You know how it is. If I say it and don't live it, I'll be condemning myself. And I won't do that to myself. That's one of the main reasons why The Cure hasn't been recorded is because I'm not living like the words I'm saying. I don't like to lie. Most of my music and everything I'm doing is based on something. It's not just fantasy. A lot of it is based on real life experiences or a lot of it is based on, a lot of my stuff is so real, but maybe, if you didn't experience it with me, you wouldn't even believe... But I just don't just, like, talk and s**t. I don't say, 'Yo motherf***er, I got 20 cars...' If you hear me mention a car, I got that car, you know what I'm saying? And I'm trying to describe how I feel about it.
IGNFF: When will we see the next Wu-Tang album?
RZA: It should be 2005. If it don't come 2005, I think we should let it ride. We don't do it by then, it's like, you know what, we did it already.
IGNFF: How does the rush of performing on stage compare to experiencing the audience reaction of something like Kill Bill or this movie?
RZA: The rush on stage is not only a rush, it's also a release. When I got on stage, you wouldn't even know me. See how I'm very calm. On stage, you know, I'm a monster... 'Wu-Tang clan ain't nothin' to f*** with!' I'm just kickin' the s**t, f***in' spittin', water drippin' from my mouth. I don't give a f***. That's my chance to just... My veins is poppin', I'm on it. So the stage, to me, is a release. I was tired from touring. Last year, I said, 'You know, I think I'm going to take a break from touring.' I'm getting up in front of these kids, holding my d**k and s**t... Let's cool out. I realize, if I don't do that s**t, if I don't get that energy out, I don't know what transformance [I'd have]. I was being mean to a few people I love and I said, 'You know what, I better go on tour.' You know what? I bet you hear a lot of artists tell you that it is some kind of therapeutic thing to get on stage and release that energy to people. Especially the kind of music we do. It's a very call and response kind of music. 'You motherf***ers all right?' 'Yeah!' So it's like, you can't beat that.
But as far as, you know, like I said, I never really like watching myself on the screen. This is one of my biggest adventures and one of my [best] feelings. We watched Kill Bill in Manhattan. At the premiere, that happened, but you know, that's Hollywood. But in Manhattan, a theater, just a bunch of kids coming from wherever New York, inside a movie theater and the movie's coming on. They don't even know that I'm the man with the music, and when it said, "Original Music by The RZA," we hear the audience clapping. And they didn't clap for nothing else, because the movie's just coming on. I was like, 'Wow, what the f*** is that about?' That's different. It actually might be something special. You never care who did that... Once you see who stars in the s**t, you don't read "edited," you don't read all that. You be eating your popcorn and it go right by you. But, for somebody to see that and then clap, that's a different thing right there. That felt pretty pleasing.
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by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
May 23, 2012
PA TV teaches kids:
Christians and Jews are inferior,
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Christians and Jews said to be "enemies of destiny"
Violence also glorified
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
A young Palestinian girl was asked to recite a poem during a PA TV children's program. This poem, according to the host of the show, teaches children "responsibility and belonging."
The messages of "responsibility and belonging" in the poem include:
1. Insults to Christians and Jews:
"They are remnants of the [Christian] crusaders and Khaibar [Jews]," and are "inferior and smaller, more cowardly and despised."
2. Christians and Jews are the "enemy," referred to as:
"the enemies of destiny."
3. Violence is glorified and encouraged:
"Where is my weapon? I found it - a stone. I took it and threw it at the enemies of destiny."
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PA TV host:
"You are going to recite a poem, which also teaches us responsibility and belonging."
"... The occupier stole my land and my grandfathers' land...
Where is your sword, Khaled (Arab warrior)?
Where is your courage, Saladin (Muslim conqueror)?
But no one answered me.
Where is my weapon? I found it - a stone. I took it and threw it at the enemies of destiny. I taught the world that the Muslim in the name of Allah cannot be defeated...
They challenge us with the White House, and we challenge them with the [Islamic] awakening and the Kaaba [in Mecca]. They aren't stronger than Khosrau and Caesar (rulers of Persian and Byzantine Empires).
They [Christians and Jews] are inferior and smaller, more cowardly and despised. They are remnants of the [Christian] crusaders and Khaibar (i.e., Jewish village destroyed by Muslims in 629)...
Oh Muslims of the world: Awaken, you have slept too long.
Your fathers and your sons are being massacred, your Al-Aqsa [Mosque] is defiled and destroyed."
"Bravo! Applause for our friend Lara."
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by Rob Cox, April 5, 2013
April Pools Day Promotes Pool Safety
May is Pool Safety Month, but many communities get an early start on recreational water safety promotion by staging an April Pools Day at local swimming pools.
These events are used to raise awareness of the need to teach our kids to swim, demonstrate safe swimming skills and rescue techniques.
Organizers of pool safety events such as April Pools Day are often a mix of parents, pool safety advocates, fire departments, schools and community recreation departments.
April Pools Day event in your Neighborhood
Many of the warmer areas have their April Pools Day event on April 1st. Dallas, Las Vegas, Tuscon, and many others held events this last Monday. For other areas, you can wait a bit longer, until some warmer weather comes later in the month - or have May Day Pool Safety Day!
Here's some tips on Organizing a Pool Safety Event in your Community.
1. Decide on the Content
Set your goals first. What areas of pool and water safety will be emphasized? A carnival or fair atmosphere can feature different areas of safety and awareness, with specific stations, timed events and demonstrations. Have age appropriate information for kids, teens and adults.
- Free Swim lessons?
- Raffle for donated swim lessons?
- Hot Dogs and Balloons for the kiddies?
- Firefighter displays of pool safety?
- Water Rescue Demonstrations?
- Large Pool Safety Information Banners?
- Small leaflets and Pool Safety Goodie Bags?
- Swimming Skills Demonstration?
- Recognizing Pool Safety Heros?
- Speakers on Pool Safety?
- Pool Safety Videos looping?
- Pool Safety Video Games?
- CPR demonstrations?
2. Obtain Strategic Partnerships
Do you need to raise money, and for what specific purposes? Money need not be the goal, awareness and skill building are important, but you may need to have sponsors to cover printing and promotion costs, or to extend efforts beyond April Pools Day.
You can ask for support from local sponsors, or solicit donations to the cause at the event. Large donors can be recognized with photographed and publicized oversize check presentations. Here's some groups that would be inclined to support pool safety, but don't rule out other organizations, national and local.
Your sponsors and partners logos should be on literature footers, mailings, on banners and in your social media efforts for the event.
- Fire / Rescue Departments
- Parks & Rec Departments
- American Red Cross
- Area Children's Hospitals
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- Child Safety Advocate Groups
- Local Pool Builders and Retailers
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Without getting the word out, your event may be under attended. It seems like a long list, but it can be accomplished in a very short timeframe. And since this is a good cause, you should find most organizations ready and willing to help.
- Create a logo for the event
- Write an article for regional and local newspapers
- Create flyers to post in local businesses and schools
- Contact local TV news stations to suggest they cover the event
- Setup a Facebook page, and have everyone involved Like the Page
- Contact local talk radio stations, to suggest pre-event coverage
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It's January, the festivities are over, and all we've got to look forward to is the crap weather and our mundane jobs. It's the perfect time of year for a little escapism, and Menace Beach have thoughtfully provided an injection of the sunshine that their almost-namesake is famous for. The Leeds-based band are an indie supergroup of sorts, with core members Ryan Needham and Liza Violet joined by a revolving cast of musicians from bands such as Sky Larkin, Pulled Apart By Horses, Hookworms and You Animals. Lowtalker is the band's first release on Memphis Industries, and it's a five track slab of surf-pop meets slacker-rock with a healthy dose of psychedelia for good measure.
'Fortune Teller' kicks off the record with trippy psych organs and laid-back guitars, with Ryan and Liza's vocals floating alongside. The words are a little indistinct, yet the duo's voices feel comforting all the same - a pleasant, relaxing counterpoint to the dense instrumentation that surrounds them. The intensity of the record ramps up almost immediately after though - 'Honolulu' builds a wall of fuzz atop a satisfyingly robust bassline, before demolishing the whole thing with a blissfully carefree chorus of "yeah yeah yeah"s and meaty, incisive guitar riffs. The implacable rock anthem 'Nervous' packs even more of a punch, matching its slo-mo pogo pace with guitars that alternately sear and soar. It's not all just noise, however, as there are there are subtleties in these songs if you care to listen for them. The keyboard line of 'Where I Come From' worms its way through a squall of guitars, whilst 'Cheerleader' hides a spacey keyboard line amongst its gleeful sonic storm and warped, BRMC-esque vocals.
Needham has gone on record as saying that these songs are about 'getting better, making friends and trying to reconnect mentally and spiritually,' though the lyrics are often so drenched in distortion that I'll have to take his word for it. Despite that, there's certainly a positive vibe running throughout the record. On 'Where I Come From', for example, lines like "Where I come from, all we ever wanted was looking unreal," come across as a celebration rather than an indictment of a past life, whilst the titular 'Fortune Teller' seems like he or she must have had some good news to offer. To sum things up, Menace Beach are part Pixies, part Pavement, part Beach Boys, all feel-good. If the band have got their eyes on a full-length record then they might want to consider varying the pace a little more - it certainly feels like they've got at least a couple of rapid-fire numbers in them - but for now, Lowtalker will certainly help to blow the wintery gloom away.
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