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I am starting a site called ProAmSupport.com. For Racers. By Racers. The site is geared towards amateur racers (mostly motocross) who need help and support to get them to the top. I would like a good stylish design that is applicable in every area of my site (homepage, forums, proshop), but most of all I need a good homepage logo. This will most likely be a beginning design and later if everything goes right and I start making money, then I will get a whole new logo and web design. Good luck and feel free to message me if you would like to work with me later when I want everything done.
Most of my audience is young males, although young women are getting more into it. They will be the risk-taking, adventurious, outdoorsy type. I think the styles of this audience are going more back to the 80's clashing neon colors (check out product lines for fox, thore, no fear,...). Although most of the audience is young there will be a few middle aged males. My primary focus will be motocross, but i will also go into freesyle, supermoto, and harescrambles.
Although this will hopefully be a starter design I am looking for a good all-around logo. I want it bold, but clean to where it stands out and people notice it, but I can use it in all different types of applications. Right now my colors are blue with a black background but it doesn't have to stay that way. Like I said earlier, feel free to message me if you have ideas for whole website designs because I will most likely get a professional design after a while.
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Hir Magic Theatre, Fort Mason Center, Bldg D, Third Flr, SF; www.magictheatre.org. $20-60. Previews Wed/29-Sat/1, 8pm; Sun/2, 2:30pm; Mon/3, 7pm. Opens Tue/4, 8pm. Runs Wed-Sat, 8pm (no show Feb 5; additional show Feb 19, 2:30pm); Sun, 2:30pm (also Feb 9, 7pm); Feb 11, 7pm. Through Feb 23. Magic Theatre presents the world premiere of Taylor Mac's comedic drama about a woman determined to help her two wayward children succeed, while stretching the boundaries of her own gender identity
The Scion Marsh San Francisco, 1062 Valencia, SF; www.themarsh.org. $15-60. Previews Thu/30-Fri/31, 8pm. Opens Sat/1, 5pm. Runs Thu-Fri, 8pm; Sat, 5pm. Through March 1. Brian Copeland's fourth solo show takes on "privilege, murder, and sausage."
Gideon's Knot Aurora Theatre, 2081 Addison, Berk; www.auroratheatre.org. $32-60. Previews Fri/31-Sat/1 and Feb 5, 8pm; Sun/2, 2pm; Tue/4, 7pm. Opens Feb 6, 8pm. Runs Tue, 7pm; Wed-Sat, 8pm; Sun, 2 and 7pm. Through March 2. Aurora Theatre Company performs Johnna Adams' drama set within the tense atmosphere of a parent-teacher conference.
The House That Will Not Stand Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Thrust Stage, 2025 Addison, Berk; www.berkeleyrep.org. $29-59. Previews Fri/31-Sat/1 and Tue/4, 8pm; Sun/2, 7pm. Opens Feb 5, 8pm. Runs Tue and Thu-Sat, 8pm (also Sat, Feb 13, and March 13, 2pm; no Sat matinee Feb 15); Wed, 7pm; Sun, 2 and 7pm. Through March 16. Berkeley Rep performs the world premiere of Marcus Gardley's tale of free women of color in 1936 New Orleans.
Foodies! The Musical Shelton Theater, 533 Sutter, SF; www.foodiesthemusical.com. $32-34. Fri-Sat, 8pm. Open-ended. AWAT Productions presents Morris Bobrow's musical comedy revue all about food.
Hemorrhage: An Ablution of Hope and Despair Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St, SF; www.dancemission.com. $20-25. Thu-Sat, 8pm (Feb 8, shows at 4 and 7pm); Sun, 6pm. Through Feb 8. Dance Brigade presents this "dance installation at the intersection of the new San Francisco and world politics."
Jerusalem San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post, SF; www.sfplayhouse.org. $20-100. Tue-Thu, 7pm; Fri-Sat, 8pm (also Sat, 3pm); Sun/2, Feb 9, and 16, 2pm. Through March 8. SF Playhouse performs the West Coast premiere of Jez Butterworth's Tony- and Olivier-wining epic.
Lovebirds Marsh San Francisco Studio, 1062 Valencia, SF; www.themarsh.org. $15-50. Thu-Fri, 8pm; Sat, 8:30pm. Through March 15. Theater artist and comedian Marga Gomez presents the world premiere of her 10th solo show, described as "a rollicking tale of incurable romantics."
Major Barbara ACT's Geary Theater, 415 Geary, SF; www.act-sf.org. $20-140. Wed/29-Sat/1, 8pm (also Wed/29, 2pm); Sun/2, 2pm. American Conservatory Theater performs a new production of George Bernard Shaw's political comedy.
Noises Off Shelton Theater, 533 Sutter, SF; www.sheltontheater.org. $38. Thu-Sat, 8pm. Through Feb 8. Shelton Theater presents Michael Frayn's outrageous backstage comedy.
The Oy of Sex Marsh San Francisco, 1062 Valencia, SF; www.themarsh.org. $20-100. Sat, 5pm. Extended through Feb 22. Comedian Alicia Dattner performs her solo show, based on her stories from her own life and love addiction.
Pardon My Invasion Phoenix Theatre, 414 Mason, SF; pardonmyinvasion.brownpapertickets.com. $15-30. Thu-Sat, 8pm; Sun/2, 2pm. Through Feb 8. A pulp fiction writer's characters come to life in this dark comedy by Joy Cutler.
The Paris Letter New Conservatory Theater Center, 25 Van Ness, SF; www.nctcsf.org. $25-45. Wed-Sat, 8pm; Sun, 2pm. Through Feb 23. New Conservatory Theatre Center performs Jon Robin Baitz's tale of a Wall Street powerhouse desperately trying to keep his sexual identity a secret.
The Pornographer's Daughter Z Below, 470 Florida, SF; www.zspace.org. $32. Thu-Sat, 8pm (also Sat, 10:30pm); Sun, 5pm. Through Feb 16. Liberty Bradford Mitchell was a good kid growing up, and a pretty innocent one — probably more than you would expect given her proximity to the family business, the veritable empire of porn founded and run by her father and uncle, San Francisco legends Artie and Jim Mitchell. Now in her 40s and a mother of her own, Mitchell proves a likeably earthy presence if a less-then-compelling actor-playwright in her new one-woman show, directed by Michael T. Weiss, a firsthand account of growing up in San Francisco's first family of raunch. Inseparable brothers Artie and Jim were the 1970s porn pioneers who founded the O'Farrell Theatre and road high in the industry, weathering court battles and substance abuse and divorce, but succumbing ultimately to their own lethal fallout — Jim Mitchell shot and killed Liberty's father Artie in 1991. The material here is rich to say the least, and together with generous and explicit excerpts from archival footage and classic porn (including the Mitchells' own era-defining Behind the Green Door, from 1972), it makes a fascinating bed for Liberty Mitchell's reminiscences. Musical accompaniment by three-person SF band the Fluffers, meanwhile, punctuates the chronology with blasts of period rock, though often just a few bars worth, and backs up Liberty on the a single, rather awkward musical number. Moreover, despite the keen interest the basic historical facts and family anecdotes can generate, Mitchell's filial narrative lens is only intermittently effective, being finally too pat, poorly drawn, and predictably sentimentalized to fully reverberate with the larger, almost archetypical or classical themes hovering nearby. (Avila)
"SF Sketchfest: The San Francisco Sketch Comedy Festival" Various venues, SF; www.sfsketchfest.com. Prices vary. Through Feb 9. This year's 13th Sketchfest features over 200 shows in more than 20 venues, featuring both big-name talents (Alan Arkin, Tenacious D, Laura Dern and the cast of Enlightened, Maya Rudolph, etc.) and up-and-comers, plus tributes to films, theatrical and musical events, improv showcases, and more. Much, much, much more.
Shit & Champagne Rebel, 1772 Market, SF; shitandchampagne.eventbrite.com. $25. Fri-Sat, 8pm. Through Feb 8. D'Arcy Drollinger is Champagne White, bodacious blonde innocent with a wicked left hook in this cross-dressing '70s-style white-sploitation flick, played out live on Rebel's intimate but action-packed barroom stage. Written by Drollinger and co-directed with Laurie Bushman (with high-flying choreography by John Paolillo, Drollinger, and Matthew Martin), this high-octane camp sendup of a favored formula comes dependably stocked with stock characters and delightfully protracted by a convoluted plot (involving, among other things, a certain street drug that's triggered an epidemic of poopy pants) — all of it played to the hilt by an excellent cast that includes Martin as Dixie Stampede, an evil corporate dominatrix at the head of some sinister front for world domination called Mal*Wart; Alex Brown as Detective Jack Hammer, rough-hewn cop on the case and ambivalent love interest; Rotimi Agbabiaka as Sergio, gay Puerto Rican impresario and confidante; Steven Lemay as Brandy, high-end calf model and Champagne's (much) beloved roommate; and Nancy French as Rod, Champagne's doomed fiancé. Sprawling often literally across two buxom acts, the show maintains admirable consistency: the energy never flags and the brow stays decidedly low. (Avila)
The Speakeasy Undisclosed location (ticket buyers receive a text with directions), SF; www.thespeakeasysf.com. $60-90 (add-ons: casino chips, $5; dance lessons, $10). Thu-Sat, 7:40, 7:50, and 8pm admittance times. Through March 15. Boxcar Theatre presents Nick A. Olivero's re-creation of a Prohibition-era saloon, resulting in an "immersive theatrical experience involving more than 35 actors, singers, and musicians."
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind Boxcar Playhouse, 505 Natoma, SF; www.sfneofuturists.com. $11-16. Fri/31, 9pm. Thirty plays in 60 minutes, with a show that varies each night, as performed by the Neo-Futurists.
Ubu Roi Exit on Taylor, 277 Taylor, SF; www.cuttingball.com. $10-50. Opens Thu/30, 7:30pm (gala opening Fri/31, 8pm). Runs Thu, 7:30pm; Fri-Sat, 8pm (also Sat, 2pm); Sun, 5pm. Through Feb 23. Cutting Ball Theater performs Alfred Jarry's avant-garde parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth, presented in a new translation by Cutting Ball artistic director Rob Melrose.
The World's Funniest Bubble Show Marsh San Francisco, 1062 Valencia, SF; www.themarsh.org. $8-11. Sun, 11am. Through March 9. The popular, kid-friendly show by Louis Pearl (aka "The Amazing Bubble Man") returns to the Marsh.
Can You Dig It? Back Down East 14th — the 60s and Beyond Marsh Berkeley, 2120 Allston, Berk; www.themarsh.org. $20-35. Sat/1, 8:30pm; Sun/2, 7pm. Don Reed's new show offers more stories from his colorful upbringing in East Oakland in the 1960s and '70s. More hilarious and heartfelt depictions of his exceptional parents, independent siblings, and his mostly African American but ethnically mixed working-class community — punctuated with period pop, Motown, and funk classics, to which Reed shimmies and spins with effortless grace. And of course there's more too of the expert physical comedy and charm that made long-running hits of Reed's last two solo shows, East 14th and The Kipling Hotel (both launched, like this newest, at the Marsh). Can You Dig It? reaches, for the most part, into the "early" early years, Reed's grammar-school days, before the events depicted in East 14th or Kipling Hotel came to pass. But in nearly two hours of material, not all of it of equal value or impact, there's inevitably some overlap and indeed some recycling. Note: review from an earlier run of the show. (Avila)
Geezer Marsh Berkeley, 2120 Allston, Berk; www.themarsh.org. $25-50. Thu, 8pm; Sat, 5pm. Through March 1. Geoff Hoyle moves his hit comedy about aging to the East Bay.
The Grapes of Wrath Hillbarn Theatre, 1285 E. Hillsdale, Foster City; www.hillbartheatre.org. $23-38. Fri-Sat, 8pm; Sun, 2pm. Through Feb 9. Hillbarn Theatre continues its 73rd season with Frank Galati's adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic American novel.
Man in a Case Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2015 Addison, Berk; www.berkeleyrep.org. $45-125. Tue and Thu-Sat, 8pm; Wed, 7pm; Sun, 2pm. Through Feb 16. Mikhail Baryshnikov returns to Berkeley Rep to star in a play based on a pair of Anton Chekhov's short stories, "Man in a Case" and "About Love." Obie-winning Big Dance Theater stages the high-tech adaptation.
Silent Sky TheatreWorks, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro, Mtn View; www.theatreworks.org. $19-73. Tue-Wed, 7:30pm; Thu-Sat, 8pm (also Sat, 2pm); Sun 2 and 7pm. Through Feb 9. Lauren Gunderson's drama explores the life of groundbreaking early 20th century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt.
Caroline Lugo and Carolé Acuña's Ballet Flamenco Peña Pachamama, 1630 Powell, SF; www.carolinalugo.com. Sat/1, Feb 8, 14, 16, 22, 6:15pm. $15-19. Flamenco performance by the mother-daughter dance company, featuring live musicians.
"Dance and Diaspora" ODC Theater, 3153 17th St, SF; www.odcdance.org. Sat/1-Sun/2, 8pm. $25-35. Works by Persian artists Farima Berenji and Shahrzad Khorsandi.
"Does This Joke Make Me Look Fat?" Mutiny Radio, 2781 21st St, SF; www.mutinyradio.org. Fri/31, 8pm. $10. Also Sat/1, 5pm, $10, Purple Onion at Kells, 530 Jackson, SF; www.purpleonionatkells.com. Pam Benjamin performs her solo comedy show at two different venues. Aaron Barrett and Christopher Conatser open.
Feinstein's at the Nikko Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason, SF; www.feinsteinssf.com. This week: Anita Gillette in "After All," Thu/30, 8pm, $30-40; Leslie Jordan in "Fruit Fly," Fri/31, 8pm, $25-35; Terry White, Sat/1, 7pm, $25-30.
"Gang Bang Comedy Show" Playland, 1351 Polk, SF; www.playlandbar.com. Wed/29, 8pm. $10. Hella gay Comedy presents queer and queer-friendly stand-up with Charlie Ballard, Carrie Avritt, Jesus Fuentes, Yuri Kagen, and Sampson McCormick.
Jess Curtis/Gravity Joe Goode Annex, 401 Alabama, SF; www.joegoode.org. Thu/30-Sat/1, 8pm. $15-20. The company performs Performance Research Experiment #2.2.
"Live Yiddish Radio Show" Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission, SF; www.thecjm.org. Sun/2, 1-3pm. $20 (includes museum admission). Musicians, comedians, and actors combine their talents to re-create a Yiddish radio show as it might have sounded in the 1930s.
"Magic at the Rex" Hotel Rex, 562 Sutter, SF; www.magicattherex.com. Sat, 8pm. Ongoing. $30. Magic and mystery with Adam Sachs and mentalist Sebastian Boswell III.
"Point Break Live!" DNA Lounge, 373 11th St, SF; www.dnalounge.com. Feb 7, March 7, and April 4, 7:30 and 11pm. $25-50. Dude, Point Break Live! is like dropping into a monster wave, or holding up a bank, like, just a pure adrenaline rush, man. Ahem. Sorry, but I really can't help but channel Keanu Reeves and his Johnny Utah character when thinking about the awesomely bad 1991 movie Point Break or its equally yummily cheesy stage adaptation. And if you do an even better Keanu impression than me — the trick is in the vacant stare and stoner drawl — then you can play his starring role amid a cast of solid actors, reading from cue cards from a hilarious production assistant in order to more closely approximate Keanu's acting ability. This play is just so much fun, even better now at DNA Lounge than it was a couple years ago at CELLspace. But definitely buy the poncho pack and wear it, because the blood, spit, and surf spray really do make this a fully immersive experience. (Steven T. Jones)
"The Romane Event Comedy Show" Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd St, SF; www.pacoromane.com. Wed/29, 8pm. $10. With Paco Romane, Jules Posner, Matt Gubser, Rajeev Dhar, Cameron Vaninni, Joey Devine, and host Nicole Calasich.
"This Boy is Just So Strange" Eric Quezada Center, 518 Valencia, SF; www.518valencia.org. Sat/1, 8pm; Sun/2, 3pm. Free. Original songs and monologues with Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Joel Mark, and Diana Hartman.
"Untitled Feminist Show" Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Lam Research Theater, 700 Howard, SF; www.ybca.org. Thu/30-Sat/1, 8pm. $30-35. Playwright and director Young Jean Lee's latest work "shakes up gender norms through movement and music."
Company C Contemporary Ballet Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic, Walnut Creek; www.companycballet.org. Thu/30-Sat/1, 8pm (also Sat/1, 3pm). Also Feb 13-14, 8pm; Feb 15, 6pm (benefit gala); Feb 16, 3pm. $25-48. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Lam Research Theater, 701 Mission, SF; www.companycballet.org. The company's winter program includes premieres by Susan Jaffe and Charles Anderson.
Diablo Ballet Shadelands Arts Center, 111 N. Wiget Lane, Walnut Creek; www.diabloballet.org. Fri/31-Sat/1, 8pm (also Sat/1, 2pm). $29-34. The company's 20th anniversary season continues with its Emotions Into Movement program.
"Die Fledermaus" Napa Valley Performing Arts Center, Yountville; www.lincolntheater.com. Sat/1, 8pm; Sun/2, 2pm. $15-59. Lamplighters Music Theatre (noted for its Gilbert and Sullivan productions) performs Johann Strauss' "bubbly tale of revenge and temptation." Continues at Bay Area theaters through Feb 23; visit www.lamplighters.org for future dates.
"MarshJam Improv Comedy Show" Marsh Berkeley, 2120 Allston, Berk; www.themarsh.org. Fri, 8pm. Ongoing. $10. Improv comedy with local legends and drop-in guests.
Martha Graham Dance Company Zellerbach Hall, Bancroft at Telegraph, UC Berkeley, Berk; www.calperformances.org. Fri/31-Sat/1, 8pm. $30-92. Performing Appalachian Spring (1944), Cave of the Heart (1946), and Maple Leaf Rag (1990). *


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The Orlando Sentinel has spent some time today getting to the bottom of that beef we all forgot ever existed because it centered around a nickname and involved the two NBA players most closely related to Dennis the Menace, and is thus more of a semi-competitive thumb war than anything resembling true beef. But alas, we are returning, hopefully for the final time, to Shaquille O'Neal, Dwight Howard, and the long-forgotten battle for the right to being called "Superman."
The Sentinel has processed its annual revelation that Shaq engaged Dwight in the past for what he calls "marketing," which of course coincides with the paper's annual revelation that Shaq's techniques were inspired by pro wrestling's vision of marketing. A very patient O'Neal explained his technique after the press conference he scheduled to announce the retirement that he'd announced on Twitter last week:
It's all marketing. I help you guys out. You guys help me out. A lot of stuff I say is bullshit, and you all know that, but you guys write it. The fans read it, and I come to the arena and get booed. It's the system. It's all part of the game.
Shaq, who recently declared himself "the emperor of social media network" (although PhD may have been more accurate), also has a good grasp on the 24-hour news cycle. Until, that is, the cycle reaches its tail and then promptly eats itself whole. The Sentinel wonders: "Is Shaq being sincere when he says he's just trying to generate buzz?"
And, my god: are we merely creating buzz by writing about the Sentinel's questioning of Shaq's sincerity regarding his beef that was merely meant to generate buzz? Someone please alert Poynter.
Shaq insists his barbs toward Dwight Howard are 'all marketing' [Orlando Sentinel]


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After the decidedly negative response to the decidedly hideous EXP 9 F concept at last week's Geneva Motor Show, we couldn't be less surprised to hear Bentley is reconsidering the design of the poorly received concept SUV.
According to British automotive buyer's guide Whatcar? a Bentley source at the Geneva Motor Show called the EXP 9 Fs design "a little heavy handed" and revealed a redesign is already in the works. When the hopefully less ugly redesign appears we can expect "more traditional SUV proportions and less retro surfacing"
Even so it appears the round headlight and foglamp configuration is here to stay, although "the headlights will be slightly smaller and set farther inward". Bentley boss Wolfgang Durheimer also told Whatcar? we can expect a production version of the EXP 9 F in 2015. We hope for the sake of drivers everywhere the EXP SUV concept will be significantly better looking by then.
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Signing Jason Taylor was only the first step. Now the Dolphins must figure out exactly how to get the most bang for their buck. They must figure out how to make Taylor the valuable defensive weapon he was for many years but did not come close to resembling in a forgettable 2008 season with the Redskins.
Guess what? The Dolphins have a plan.
And the plan has been explained to me by team sources so this is it in a nutshell:
First of all, forget about whether Taylor starts or doesn't start. Coach Tony Sparano doesn't care about that and, soon, Taylor will probably be echoing a similar sentiment. The idea is not to give Taylor starts. The idea is to make sure Taylor finishes -- finishes sacks, finishes games, finishes the season.
Understand plans can always change given a change in circumstances such as injuries and individual game strategies, but initially the Dolphins plan to use JT as a situational player. That means someone will start ahead of him and play on obvious running downs ahead of him.
The way the Dolphins figure it, there's no sense asking a soon-to-be 35-year-old guy to play 60 snaps a game and find out he's effective in maybe only 25 of them. So the idea is to pick and choose the right spots to use Taylor. The idea is to give him maybe 20-25 snaps per game.
That useage of Taylor as a scalpel rather than a hacksaw will save his body, keep him fresh, and limit the chances of getting him injured. It will also mean he'll be full-throttle on every passing down because he'll be rested and because he'll be wanting to make the most of his limited opportunities. Rushing the passer is what Taylor has always done best. And that's what the Dolphins will ask him to do almost exclusively.
Taylor gives the Dolphins great versatility. At his core he is good odd-front player. He plays best on his feet so the Dolphins will use him exactly that way. Remember how Taylor came from every angle when Nick Saban was coach? The plan, initially at least, is to use him in a similar role again.
The idea is to limit the offense's ability to identify and recognize what the Dolphins are doing on defense and with Taylor in particular. The idea is to confuse the offense. The idea is to gain the greatest strategic advantage with a pretty good player executing the plan.
Taylor was terribly miscast in a Redskins system that didn't know how to maximize his gifts. Yes, he wanted to escape Washington for family reasons. But from a football standpoint, he needed to escape that 4-3 scheme the Redskins buried him in.
One more thing: All these plans assume Taylor earns the right to be used in this manner. Nothing is going to be handed to him.
He doesn't have to win a starting job because he's not going to be starting. But he's got to win the right to be that situational headache for opposing offenses. He has to earn those 20 snaps per game. He's got to beat out guys like Cameron Wake and Eric Walden and Matt Roth to earn his way on the field.
The Dolphins think he'll do exactly that. But that will be up to him.


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2 lb bay scallops
1 bunch small "baby" Vidalia onions (with greens attached), diced
1 shallot, minced
1 large bulb fennel, diced
1 rather large russet potato, diced
2 stalks celery, chopped
4-5 (thin, regular) slices bacon, diced and cooked until crisp
2 cups 2% milk
2 cups half and half
2 tablespoons olive oil (or a mix of bacon grease and olive oil)
1/2 teaspoon thyme
sea salt
freshly ground pepper
Heat the butter or oil in a dutch oven or large pot. Saute the white parts of the onion, shallot, celery and fennel until the vegetables are softened. Meanwhile, boil the potatoes until nearly fully cooked. Drain and set aside. Add the scallops, bacon, spices, potatoes, milk, half and half to the vegetable mixture and simmer until the scallops are cooked through. Stir in the green tops of the Vidalia onion. Serve with oyster crackers on the side.


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|Native range
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Horned demons
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- "A sickly green creature with sharp little horns had its face pressed against the glass, pulling faces and flexing its long, spindly fingers."
- —Description.[src]
A Grindylow is a small, horned water demon.
Professor Remus Lupin ordered a Grindylow in 1993 for his third year class to study for Defence Against the Dark Arts. After his resignation, he left behind the tank in which the Grindylow was kept.[4]
Two years later, the Grindylows of the Black Lake at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry attacked the students competing in the 1994-1995 Triwizard Tournament. They caused the early retirement from the task of Fleur Delacour, and nearly killed Harry Potter.
Aggressive towards witches and wizards and muggles alike, the Grindylow has only ever been tamed by merpeople; the half-fish beings keep them as pets.
Grindylows survive, for the most part, on fish, algae, and small sea creatures; however, occasionally they will eat humans (it is for this reason that they are classified as dark creatures).
These creatures are found in the weed beds at the bottom of lakes in Great Britain and Ireland.
Physical appearanceEdit
The Grindylow is a sickly green colour, with green teeth and small pointy horns on its head. It has long, strong (albeit brittle) fingers which it uses to strangle its prey, and is a rather good swimmer.
The Grindylow has long, brittle fingers which despite their fragility are rather strong. The trick to escaping a Grindylow is to break their grip on a person; it can also be noted that the Revulsion Jinx may help with this task, as underwater it shoots jets of boiling hot water.
Behind the scenesEdit
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the grindylow is a small creature with tentacles and two dangling tentacles on its head. In the book, there is no such description.
- The term "grindylow" was often used interchangeably with the term "hag" in Old English folklore.[5]
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (GBA only)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned in interrogation by Lupin)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Mentioned in interrogation by Lupin)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (real)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 22 - (Owl Post Again)
- ↑ See this article.


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BioPark attendance, revenue jump after rate hike
Revenue has jumped dramatically since the city made a controversial move to raise ticket prices at the Albuquerque BioPark.
Action 7 News was the first to document some of the costly problems at the BioPark. In fact, the city needs $18 million to help fix a number of aging infrastructure issues behind the scenes.
"We just love the zoo. Everybody should come," zoo patron Janis Schnorr said. "The animals are amazing, and it's beautiful. The trees, they change colors in the autumn. Everything is beautiful about it."
Frequent zoo patrons,like Schnorr, said they don't mind paying a little bit more to see their favorite exhibits.
The city recently raised the rates for tickets. The move sparked a lot of controversy, but Action 7 News has learned that revenue jumped 11 percent compared to last year.
"We were a little concerned about doing the rate adjustment. We're just really pleased that the public has responded by continuing to come to the great venue," said John Soladay with the city of Albuquerque.
Soladay said attendance is up almost 5 percent, as well.
"It's a top-notch No. 1 attraction in the state, and we really want to keep it at that level," Soladay said.
City leaders said it's a great sign that revenue is up right nowm because this is a down part of the year for the BioPark.


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Here is a link to a BYO online article explaining RIMS/HERMS. Hope it helps.http://www.byo.com/stories/projects-and-equipment/article/indices/29-equipment/84-abcs-of-recirculated-brewing-systems
A direct fire mash tun is not a rims. RIMS stands for Recirculating Infused Mash System. The basic principle is removing wort, heating it outside the mash tun and returning it to the mash tun. You merely have a direct fire mash tun.


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Jobs, Back at Apple, Focuses on New Tablet — Just a few months after Steve Jobs had a liver transplant, the Apple Inc. chief executive is once again managing even the smallest details of his company's products, this time focused on a new tablet device. — Since his return in late June …
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Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Steve Jobs Is Laser Focused on the Apple Tablet
David Gonzales / Electronic Pulp: Apple CEO Steve Jobs reportedly overseeing development of upcoming Apple tablet
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs Almost Entirely Focused on Tablet Project?
Steve Jobs Almost Entirely Focused on Tablet Project?
Discussion: Gizmodo
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Yahoo! to acquire Maktoob.com — Yahoo! has agreed to acquire Maktoob.com, the Arab world's largest online community, marking the first major investment by a U.S. technology company in a region where internet penetration is still in its infancy. The global internet giant said on Tuesday …
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Tom Gara / thenational.ae: Yahoo buys Maktoob
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Yahoo Acquiring Arab Portal Maktoob After All; Around $75M-$80M
Yahoo Acquiring Arab Portal Maktoob After All; Around $75M-$80M
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch: Yahoo May Have Acquired Arab Portal Maktoob (Updated)
Jason Kincaid / Seeking Alpha: Yahoo Acquires Arab Internet Portal Maktoob
Keith Nilsson / Yodel Anecdotal:
Yahoo! will soon speak Arabic
Yahoo! will soon speak Arabic
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Yahoo picks up Arabic portal Maktoob; Bets on Middle East as emerging market
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch: Confirmed: Yahoo Acquires Arab Internet Portal Maktoob
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Nigel Kendall / Times of London:
Sony boss reveals plans for PlayStation — The Times was the only UK publication at Gamescom in Cologne last week to speak with Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kazuo "Kaz" Hirai. We met up with him the morning after he had taken the stage to announce the new PlayStation 3 Slim …
Discussion: SlashGear, VG247, Kotaku, Engadget, Joystiq, Pocket-lint.com, IndustryGamers, GamesIndustry.biz and MTV Multiplayer
Patrick Garratt / VG247: Sony losing money on each PS3 Slim
Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku: Sony Losing Money on PS3 Slim
Thomas Ricker / Engadget: PS3 Slim hardware still losing money
Andrew Yoon / Joystiq: PLAYSTATION 3 logo replaced due to 'visibility' issues
James Brightman / IndustryGamers: Sony Will Still Lose Money on PS3 Slim, says Hirai
Andrew House / GamesIndustry.biz: Sony losing money on every PS3 Slim sold
Russ Frushtick / MTV Multiplayer: PS3 Motion Controller Coming Next Spring
Gary Wolf / Wired News:
Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess — The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful. So how come when you arrive at the most popular dating site in the US you find a stream of anonymous come-ons intermixed with insults, ads for prostitutes, naked pictures, and obvious scams?
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Taken Offline By Swedish Authorities (Updated) — Today, Stockholm's district court took action to completely remove The Pirate Bay from the Internet. — The court ordered the site's major bandwidth supplier, Black Internet, to disconnect TPB from the Internet or face penalties of 500,000 kroner ($70,600).
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register: Pirate Bay site down as anchor set adrift
Greg Sandoval / CNET News: Swedish court orders shutdown of The Pirate Bay
Daniel Emery / BBC: Court forces Pirate Bay offline
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: Swedish court rules TPB admins too broke to pay damages
Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine: Swedish Court Orders ISP to Take Down Pirate Bay
Brian Prince / eWeek: Pirate Bay Hit as ISP Kills Service After Court Order
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb: So Long, and Thanks for All the Loot: The Pirate Bay Goes Offline (For Now)
David Gonzales / Electronic Pulp: The Pirate Bay shut down for good by Swedish authorities
Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / The SiliconANGLE: The Pirate Bay is Offline. Where are Our Collective Guts Hiding?
Duncan Geere / Pocket-lint.com: Pirate Bay taken offline by its ISP
Karl Bode / DSLreports: Pirate Bay Gets Yanked Offline - Though they've apparently found a new provider...
Brian Heater / AppScout: Swedish Authorities Take Down Pirate Bay, Site Reemerges
Jay Hathaway / Download Squad: Arrrr! Pirate Bay taken down by Swedish authorities
Alexandra Topping / Guardian: Pro-filesharing group targets youth vote
Aharon Etengoff / TG Daily: Swedish ISP forces Pirate Bay to walk the plank
Andrew Lyle / Neowin.net: Updated: The Pirate Bay officially sunk
Janko Roettgers / P2P Blog: Slow news week, at least around here
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
File sharers hold vigil for Pirate Bay
File sharers hold vigil for Pirate Bay
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt: Swedish Court Get The Pirate Bay Taken Down
Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:
Facebook Reaps Recruits at High Levels — Boosting hiring amid a job slump, Facebook snares Yahoo!'s security chief, an open-source guru from Six Apart, and talent from Genentech and Google — So much for cutting back during the downturn. — As Facebook ramps up hiring …
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook: David Recordon Leaves Six Apart, Joins Facebook
Claire Cain Miller / Bits: Facebook Says Hiring Won't Be Fast-Paced
David Gelles / blogs.ft.com: Facebook's growth spurt
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Chris Dannen / Fast Company: Facebook Plans 50% Expansion
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Snags Open Web Community Leader Recordon
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Wikipedia to Limit Changes to Articles on People — Wikipedia, one of the 10 most popular sites on the Web, was founded about eight years ago as a long-shot experiment to create a free encyclopedia from the contributions of volunteers, all with the power to edit, and presumably improve, the content.
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Jason Snell / Macworld:
Parallels releases Switch to Mac bundle — Striving to provide an all-in-one-retail-box solution to Windows users who want to switch to the Mac, Parallels announced Tuesday that it's releasing a new version of its Parallels Desktop software that comes with a USB transfer cable …
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Cade Metz / The Register: Parallels woos Apple cult converts
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Welcome To The Stream. Yahoo Adds "Status-casting" To Mail And Messenger — When you are late to the game, trying to rename it doesn't win you any points. Today, Yahoo announced that it is finally adding basic status updates to its Mail and Messenger products, which it is calling "status-casting."
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Bryan Lamkin / Yodel Anecdotal: The evolution of Mail, Messenger and Search
Erick Schonfeld / Seeking Alpha: Yahoo, Late to the Game, Adds 'Status-Casting' to Mail and Messenger
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Yahoo gets more social with Mail, search updates
Yahoo gets more social with Mail, search updates
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Chris Crum / WebProNews: Yahoo Unveils New Search Design
Erick Schonfeld / Seeking Alpha: Yahoo Hopes to Take People Search Away from Google
Jared Newman / VentureBeat: Yahoo adds apps to Mail, upgrades Messenger
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider: Yahoo Upgrades Mail, Messenger, And Search
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Mark Zuckerberg: "Spotify Is So Good" — The ink isn't even dry on the MySpace/iLike acquisition, and already Facebook has a new crush on a different music service, Spotify. — We've heard that Facebook has been talking with the European startup about a partnership for well over a year …
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Publishers Are Killing Web Advertising's Potential With Misguided Pricing — Jim Spanfeller is the outgoing president and CEO of Forbes.com. He is also treasurer of the Online Publishers Association and chairman emeritus of the Interactive Advertising Bureau. — How is ad pricing different online and offline?
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Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher: Forbes.com Chief Rails Against Online Advertising Metrics Because It's Low Class
Steven Hodson / Shooting at Bubbles: Online ad clickers are losers and dummies
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Innocent Until Proven Guilty — I'd like to add my voice to the stream of complaints about the iPhone App Store, but before I say anything critical, I have to promise one thing. No matter how annoyed I get, I will not stop developing for Apple's platforms or using Apple's products as long …
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Spanner Spencer / www.pocketgamer.biz: Facebook app developer calls for Apple to remove the iPhone submissions process
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Apple admits iPhone apps not suitable for business — Commercial programs are solely for non-commercial use — Apple is reminding customers that applications sold through the iTunes store are strictly for non-commercial use: business use is forbidden, which makes one wonder what that section of the store is for.
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UK file-sharers to be 'cut off' — The UK government has published new measures that could see people who illegally download films and music cut off from the net. — The amendment to the Digital Britain report would see regulator Ofcom given greater powers to tackle pirates.
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Richard Wray / Guardian: Internet cut-off threat for illegal downloaders
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: UK government wants to toughen up anti-piracy measures
Chris Irvine / Telegraph: Illegal downloaders 'could have internet cut off'
Duncan Geere / Pocket-lint.com: Government announces filesharing crackdown
First look at Nokia N97 Mini — Imagine there's no Nokia N900 and its brand-new OS, what would Nokia have left on their hands? The right answer is S60, that will be utilized in a plethora of new devices, as the number of smartphones in the company's portfolio will increase dramatically.
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Ilinca Nita / Unwired View: Nokia N900 appears in official photo while Nokia N97 Mini gets previewed
Ross Miller / Engadget: Nokia N97 Mini previewed: not so mini, not so great
Danny Allen / Gizmodo: Nokia N97 Mini Not That Mini, Keyboard Not Great Either
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HuffPo Readies Sports, Tech, Books Verticals — Arianna Huffington has written plenty of books. And she knows plenty about technology, having recently partnered with Facebook to link her Huffington Post with the social network. — But sports? — Nonetheless, those are three new verticals …
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New Sony S Series Walkman Features Built-In Speakers For Unique User Experience — Sony today unveiled the stylish new S Series Walkman(R) Video MP3 player, featuring high-quality built-in stereo speakers that allow users to share music out loud. — "By outfitting this Walkman with internal speakers …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Yahoo: Testing a More Google-Like Search Experience
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Background: Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is an autoimmune blistering skin disorder characterized by the presence of suprabasal acantholysis and autoantibodies against desmoglein 3. There are two different clinical forms: mucocutaneous (MCPV) or mucosal (MPV). However, it is not clear how PV lesions in oral, ear, nose and throat (OENT) areas produced by the very dynamic of the anatomical structures involved in the functions of the aerodigestive tract.
Objectives: To investigate the pattern of OENT manifestations in PV, and their relationship with physiological traumatic mechanisms in stratified squamous epithelium structures.
Patients: A prospective analysis of 40 patients diagnosed with MCPV (22 patients) or MPV (18 patients) was carried out in the University Clinic of Navarra. OENT manifestations were evaluated in all patients endoscopically. OENT involvement was divided into anatomical areas.
Results: The most frequent symptom was pain, mainly on oral mucosa (87,5%). Buccal mucosa (90%), posterior wall of pharynx (67.5%), upper edge of epiglottis (85%) and nasal vestibule (70%) were the areas most frequently affected in the OENT mucosa. These localizations were related to physiological traumatic mechanisms in polystratified squamous epithelium structures.
Conclusions: OENT endoscopy should be included in the examination of all PV patients. To know the most frequent localizations of active lesions on OENT mucosa in PV will help us to interpreter more efficiently the findings from OENT endoscopy. Also, information related to traumatic physiological mechanisms on OENT areas must be offered to patients in order to avoid the appearance of new active PV lesions.


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Microsoft has topped more than 70,000 apps for its Windows Phone Marketplace, up from 50,000 in December, according to reports out of China. Although this may not sound like much compared to Google and Apple's App Store — where both reportedly have passed the half million mark — it shows that Microsoft is actively bringing developers on board that embrace their version of quality over quantity.
Keeping with the momentum, recent announcements of the first Windows Phone on sale in China yesterday show interest in Microsoft's Metro-style interface which offers touchscreen input and full-screen display that continues to lure developers into their Marketplace.
If you're a developer testing a specific market, it's likely that you want to focus on how your apps are getting more attention and if you're a consumer, then the idea is to help you find better apps. Microsoft is bringing on device makers like Nokia and HTC and providing a Marketplace of more apps to choose from and moving toward the goal of "no-compromise experience, be it on a PC, tablet or notebook," says Microsoft General Manager Bernardo Caldas at a talk this week at TechEd India.
UPDATE: We asked Microsoft for a comment on the recent milestone, and here's what they said: "Windows Phone offers customers a smarter way to app with nearly 70,000 apps and games, with roughly 300 new titles added every day."
Now, 70,000 apps is great and all. But is it really enough to help boost Windows Phone as it battles with Apple's iOS and Android? After all, its market share now stands at just 4.4 percent in the U.S.
[Hat tip to TechCrunch]


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It's an epiphany that will come at different points for different viewers of Léos Carax's Holy Motors -- that moment amid the film's mysterious, increasingly bizarre plot(s) when you realize that what it's "about," in the largest sense (not that you can entirely pin it down or reduce it), is what the incurably cinephilic Carax evidently regards as the mechanical, certainly, but also the sacred spirit of the medium itself, right now, in a transitional moment of simultaneous elation and crisis as it undergoes radically shifting production and distribution models and technologies. Few filmmakers are better suited, by temperament or experience, to spin such an ambitious, free cinematic allegory about the nature and evolution of the cinema: Even at the hyped-up beginning of his career, when longevity didn't necessarily seem guaranteed as he created a splash with such cinema-history-saturated, playful/postmodern-y films as Boy Meets Girl and Bad Blood (Mauvais sang), Carax was easily the most well-regarded of a slightly dubious '80s school of French cinema that, flirting dangerously with the tricks of advertising and music video, came to be known as le cinéma du "look"; scholars Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell, in their encyclopedic textbook Film History, singled out Carax as the "most resourceful" of these Parisian trendies, and Holy Motors vindicates that assertion and then some. It's the ultimate proof that he's far and away the most durably talented of that probably too-conveniently lumped-together group (which also included Betty Blue director Jacques Beineix and the eternally slick Fifth Element auteur Luc Besson, neither of whose work has come close to being either as ambitious or as accomplished as Carax's). In Carax's own body of work, Holy Motors is at least as significant an advancement/expansion on what he's done to date as his last big artistic leap forward, 1991's The Lovers on the Bridge. With this new masterpiece -- an eye-popping and mind-blowing realization of brazenly large, epochal ambitions that sweeps you entirely off your feet to envelop you in its heady rush -- he's unexpectedly catapulted himself into the uppermost echelon of contemporary filmmakers.
The film does offer, from the beginning, mounting clues as to how far-reaching its contemplation of the seventh art will be. After opening credits that suggestively feature snippets of the earliest silent/black-and-white movie experiments (their novelty deriving exclusively from the 19th-century miracle of photographs of human figures actually coming to life, but their beauty and intrigue somehow still remaining), we're witness to Carax himself as a sort of Alice figure, following (and, in his turn, leading us) down a rabbit hole, awakened by the incongruous sound of a foghorn in the middle of the night in his anonymous suburban-Parisian flat. Our director is only mildly surprised, if at all, to find that he's equipped with a metal finger that will open the lock hidden amid the dark forest depicted on one wall by eerily life-like wallpaper. This portal leads him to where the foghorn sound is coming from, what we've already briefly seen in a preceding image: a huge cinema auditorium packed to capacity with viewers whose faces are too shadowy to discern their features, watching a film whose mysterious sounds (violent shouts and murderous gunfire, that foghorn -- departing, concluding sounds) contradict the infancy-of-cinema clips we've seen. Carax's eyes willingly join theirs, and ours, in the transfixed spectatorship of what follows, and we cut once and for all to the movie screen inside the movie screen to witness what plays out over the next 90 minutes, which will thematically encompass all that the motion picture has been until now, from its birth in the past to its impending death/departure for unknown territories: A day in the life of the film's principal personage, M. Oscar (Denis Lavant, whom Carax discovered in the '80s as his unlikely but intensely gifted leading man, and whose career has since encompassed many different shades of brilliance in projects as varied as Claire Denis's Beau travail and Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely, in which he quite aptly played an ersatz Charlie Chaplin). This middle-aged family man leaving for work appears at first to be a fairly anonymous, discreetly besuited upper-crust business type as he departs his expensively unique suburban home, whisked away in a subtle white limo by his driver, Céline (Édith Scob, whose long-ago, legend-making star turn in Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (1960) is eventually proved to have a surprisingly deep significance, well beyond a trivial reference, in the cinephilic context Carax is creating). Céline is both driver and secretary; she informs M. Oscar that he has nine "appointments" today.
These rendez-vous, however, are anything but usual business. Each one turns out to be a kind of mini-movie, a transformation of a "real-life" situation in which M. Oscar plays some fundamental role that blurs and blends reality and fiction: He has a lighted mirror and a makeup kit in his limo/dressing room that he expertly employs to age, regress, or otherwise transmogrify into virtually any face and shape. But his first role, that of a hump-backed gypsy woman begging on a bridge, doesn't make what M. Oscar does for a vocation quite clear just yet. We infer it gradually, over his subsequent transformations, each demarcated with an interval inside the limo to allow for stepping out of the old and into each new character -- as well as from his ongoing discussions with Céline and a surprise, portentous visit from his boss at "the agency" (Michel Piccoli, star of scads of great French films from Contempt to La Belle noiseuse to Carax's own Mauvais sang, rendering him the male ghost-of-cinema-past equivalent to Scob's grande dame): M. Oscar is the roving emissary, one among many (the other one we get to meet, in a moment of unexpected interaction with Oscar that turns into a tender, soaring riff on movie musicals, is played beautifully by pop singer Kylie Minogue, performing an unforgettably melancholy tune -- live on camera! -- written for the film by English songsmith Neil Hannon) employed by none other than the dream factory of cinema, an outfit that is revealed, at the end of Carax's brilliant allegory, to go by a peculiarly appropriate brand name, "holy motors."
The film's form -- its look(s), its style, its very mode of production -- follows its function, with Carax's director of photography, the supremely gifted Caroline Champetier (Of Gods and Men, Anne-Marie Miéville's The Book of Mary) reflecting the film's concurrent, multidimensional obsessions with cinema past, present, and future by using a particularly of-the-moment camera, the RED Epic, that's been embraced by a multiple adventurous filmmakers for offering a "film-like" look at the same time as it's fully, economically digital, the most advanced non-celluloid technology available. Thus, both machine ("motor") of the technology used and the "holy" creative inspiration of the conceptual and performing artists at work are in philosophical tandem as they cast their enraptured glances backward and forward in time, all while remaining dynamically in the present. Carax, Champetier, and the incredibly versatile Lavant create masterful simulations of scenes/sequences idiosyncratically chosen and re-imagined from across the depth and breadth of film history: In addition to the aforementioned gypsy-beggar and musical "appointments" that M. Oscar must attend to, there is a scene that has our hero-who-contains-multitudes dropping in to a high-tech compound/special-effects chamber to perform, with hypnotically ritualistic precision, a series of motion-capture maneuvers (the future of cinema? as shot and choreographed here, it does have a distinctive, celebratory visual beauty to it) before a female co-actor joins him to create, again through their captured motions, a sort of abstract, otherworldly/underwater soft-core production (a hyper-futuristic computer-generated movie revealed, in a lovely paradox, through nothing more than an old-fashioned pan from the actors doing their motion-capture thing to a big screen displaying the technologically-mediated result). There are assassinations both highly aestheticized (M. Oscar embodies a gangster ceremoniously murdering an enemy, also played by M. Oscar, for a delirious mirror-effect) and righteously enraged (a shirtless, sloganeering revolutionary-warrior M. Oscar guns down the "banker" he himself was playing at the film's opening). Carax adroitly immerses us in more familiar/naturalistic dramatic exchanges, more subtle but done with no less skill and passion, involving a psychologically character-revealing exchange between a father played by M. Oscar and a teenaged daughter, like something out of one of Olivier Assayas's incisive domestic dramas; elsewhere, we're caught up midway in the excruciated, Michael Haneke-like stark stillness in which the final moments playing out between a dying elderly man (M. Oscar once more, of course) and his beloved niece.
In what is perhaps the film's most striking, enigmatic episode, Carax has M. Oscar revisit a repulsive, half-animal, satyr-like character -- a troll from the sewer named in the credits as "Merde" -- that he and Lavant created for their contribution to the omnibus film Tokyo!. Here, this strange, pre-verbal, obscenely vaudevillian, only vaguely human-esque creature rises up from beneath the city to emerge in a cemetery, an entrance that plays out in a jittery/irising-in silent-movie pastiche as he chows down voraciously on stray bouquets left by mourners, before the plot itself flowers intoxicatingly into a monster movie with shades of both King Kong and Beauty and the Beast, this unwashed, gnarled, generally repulsive troll with years' worth of fingernail growth intruding upon a fashion shoot that's been set up in a gated corner of the cemetery (to the delight of the tackily "postmodern" hipster photographer, who gleefully proclaims the intruder "Weird! So weird!"), forcibly kidnapping the cover girl (Eva Mendes, We Own the Night) at the center of it all, dragging her back to his lair for...what horrible plans? No horror, actually, but an astonishing, sublime beauty that jars, it's so incongruous: The segment winds/fades down as a serene tableau vivant, the tumescent, nude humanoid showered in petals and cradled by the photographer's now-maternal beauty to create a most bizarre, yet deeply moving, pietà. (And, if all that wasn't enough, there's also an ebullient tracking-shot, free-for-all musical number, led by M. Oscar playing an accordion to within an inch of its life, to mark midway point of the film in an interlude explicitly labeled an Entr'acte -- literally, an intermission, but more than likely also a nod to René Clair's confrontational 1924 dadaist short of the same name.) It's all as smart -- as unabashedly intellectual and sophisticated -- as can be, but, in addition to having the courage of its convictions and being sufficiently sharp and rigorous to soar high above any danger of tiresome pretension, it's also nonstop fun, impassioned and risky enough to feel like a high-wire act pulled off with aplomb, and -- as the foregoing descriptions can only hint at -- inebriated to its core on all the rich possibilities that movies have flourished in over the bygone century, as well as the ones it might in the future proceed to map out on the same continuum.
For all its surrealness and willingness to go to the most head-scratchingly unusual, bizarre places, however, there's no sense of real disjunction or chaotic confusion to Holy Motors; it's not at all the kind of film that needs "closure," but it attains an immensely gratifying unity as it builds toward a climax that's emotionally penetrating and haunting in its sincere absurdity, all while maintaining a center that holds fast no matter how far-off and obscure its orbiting stories go. That absurd ending posits a most unexpected baseline "reality" (or are these more cinematic "appointments"? Do they ever really end, are the lines that clearly drawn?), the private life from which Céline and M. Oscar actually come when they go out on their jobs, and the film closes at some exquisitely surreal, precise pinpoint where humor and longing, hope and mourning intersect and comingle, all at once and in equal measure. It's not a despairing conclusion, but there is the weariness that must come at the end of a journey that has gone so much farther than we could ever have imagined at the beginning, deep and wide into a "the movies" as a mindset and beloved frame of reference that. Like the medium as it exists in our world, Holy Motors now seem to have done everything and needs to move on -- is perhaps doomed to repeat itself if it doesn't evolve in some radical way. But we're also tenderly, if eccentrically, reminded that our heavy treasure trove of amassed celluloid dreams has still brought us remarkably far, and Holy Motors stands against all anxiety-of-influence odds as a triumph because Carax seems somehow to have fully inventoried, recapped, and taken the medium as far as it will go in any direction at the moment. This great film is a monument to the teeming possibilities of cinema (whether in the form of celluloid or digital images, whether manifesting as emotionally incisive drama or a visceral, anti-realistic thrill ride into the subconscious); a profoundly-considered milestone and measure of the state of the art, and a gauntlet thrown down by Carax -- a challenge to both his viewers and his fellow cinéastes to shake off temptations to indulgent nostalgia or facile irony, take up the torch of cinema (its flame having now burnt down after well over a century of beguiling flicker), and use its rich, receding past as the fuel of new inspiration, reigniting The Movies in a new blaze of glory and marshaling the medium bravely forward into a future as unknown and uncertain as it is full of possibility.
Holy Motors was shot digitally via the high-end RED Epic (digital) camera, and all the clarity; the sharp, vivid colors; and the overall nicely variegated palettes rendered through that process are superbly preserved as they appear on this transfer (AVC/MPEG-4, 1080/24p, at the theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1). Each section of the film has its own "look," and those distinctive qualities shine through perfectly here, with the many dimmer/darker scenes retaining very solid blacks, with no crushing or softness at any point. There is virtually no edge enhancement/haloing, and the transfer appears to be entirely free of aliasing or other compression artifacts. In all, the visual presentation of Holy Motors on this Blu-ray edition does full justice to the film's ingeniously inventive look(s) and allows us to experience its greatness with no distracting flaws or compromises.
The Blu-ray offers both Dolby Digital 5.1 surround and Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo soundtrack options (the package, at least on my copy, inaccurately indicates DTS-HD Master Audio), either of which offer the film's carefully conceived and layered sound in a manner as clear, vivid, rich, and full as could be hoped for, from low to high. In French with optional English subtitles. (Note: The setup menu on this disc is uncommonly tricky; the graphics and icons are set up in such a way that it is difficult to tell which soundtrack is selected and whether subtitles are turned off or on. In addition, at least on my Sony Blu-ray player, these functions can only be performed on the setup menu, not with the remote control, so some care/caution is in order when performing the setup to ensure that you've actually selected your preferred subtitle and soundtrack options.)
--"Drive In" - The Making of Holy Motors, a 45-minute documentary that intersperses rare behind-the-scenes footage of the elusive Léos Carax at work with his actors and crew; very thoughtful and revealing interviews with cinematographer Caroline Champetier and actors Denis Lavant, Édith Scob, and Kylie Minogue (no one-on-ones with Carax, unsurprisingly); and clips from the film, both in the intermediate processes of being made and in their completed form -- all done in a way that's nicely in keeping with the style and approach of the film itself. An unusually enlightening, creative, and pertinent supplement.
--A 13-minute interview with Kylie Minogue, in which the modest yet forthright Australian pop singer recalls the casual casting process through which she landed her part in Holy Motors; her only slight familiarity with Carax's previous work and how "gentle" he was when it came to their working together; her own more-questions-than-answers response upon seeing the film in its completed form for the first time; and her genuine gratification at the privilege of being asked by Carax to step entirely away from any territory familiar to her. (Once upon a time, in 1996, dark-hearted rock balladeer/fellow Aussie Nick Cave enlisted Minogue for an entirely unexpected but now classic murder-ballad duet, and she describes her role in Holy Motors as the cinematic equivalent of that musical stretch/breakthrough.)
--Both the film's international theatrical trailer and its U.S. theatrical trailer. Either one is well-done, though the international one is more of an honest representation; watching both makes for at least an interesting thumbnail lesson in the divergent assumptions European and U.S. marketeers harbor when it comes to their respective moviegoing demographics.
Holy Motors, the long-awaited return to feature filmmaking of France's onetime next-big-thing director Léos Carax, is pure catnip for anybody who loves movies. The simultaneously mechanical and amorphous, intangible spirit -- the "holy motor" -- of the cinematic medium itself is here presented to us in the form of a metaphorical agency whose venerable but weary representative, M. Oscar (the eternally malleable, manically inspired Denis Levant), travels around in one of what we later learn are the agency's many white limos, playing out cinematic scenarios of various vintages, styles, and temperaments -- all of them perfectly, ingeniously, and gloriously brought off by the film's creator, technicians, and players, each going above and beyond sincere homage to become an inspired, original reinterpretation of various genres and vaguely recognizable dramatic turns that the movies have deposited in our subconscious, never with even a hint of "ironic" subterfuge. This beautifully executed, miniaturized yet astoundingly full-blooded recapping of the continuum of cinema in all its manifestations could in itself have been sufficient to make the film a masterpiece, but Carax goes even further, branching out from the merely aesthetic to delicately ply open the related philosophical questions with which our irrevocably technology- and representation-driven simulacra-world faces us. The film is a marvel, an odyssey through which we can experience all the joys of cinema (as well as its sorrows, as it leaves behind its old projected-on-film form to be resurrected on digital) from both ends -- forward- and backward-looking -- of Carax's finely calibrated telescope. It continuously, unfailingly operates at full throttle on every cerebral, visceral, and emotional level; no picture since Mulholland Drive has looked back through the cinema's past and forward into its murky future at once with such passion and inventiveness -- such unbelievably complementary cleverness and palpable, overwhelming emotional commitment. Holy Motors is a flat-out mind-blowing thrill the first time you watch it, but the subsequent viewings it demands will undoubtedly prove it to be a true milestone, an important marker at a turning point for the medium -- one by which past glories will be remembered, and future developments measured, for a very long time to come. DVD Talk Collector Series.


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A couple people have e-mailed me (thank you) about Bob Greene saying on Larry King that it's healthier to yo-yo diet than stay fat. Specifically:
King: Is fluctuating weight like Kirstie Alley bad, Bob?
Greene: Well, there's two sides to that story. First off, if you remain heavy, that's when the most damage is done to your heart and the excessive health ramifications from keeping overweight. So as long as you're watching, even if it's yo-yo dieting, that's healthier than the person that remains heavy.
Except for how that's probably the opposite of true. I'm too distracted for a full rant right now, but Shinobi's on it, and I'll tell you what I just told her in comments. I just re-read the big 2007 UCLA metaanalysis of weight loss studies (PDF). They recommend further study on weight cycling, because the current data is (or was) inconclusive — but it doesn't look good at all. Money quote:
"In sum, the potential benefits of dieting on long-term weight outcomes are minimal, the potential benefits of dieting on long-term health outcomes are not clearly or consistently demonstrated, and the potential harms of weight cycling, although not definitively demonstrated, are a clear source of concern. The benefits of dieting are simply too small and the potential harms of dieting are too large for it to be recommended as a safe and effective treatment for obesity."
And here's what comes right before that:
It is also possible that weight regain leads to health problems of its own. An analysis of the benefits and harms of dieting must consider the potential harms of weight cycling. Weight cycling, the repeated loss and regain of weight, is commonly observed in dieters (Brownell & Rodin, 1994; National Task Force on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity, 1994). There is evidence from largescale observational studies that weight cycling is linked to increased all-cause mortality (Blair, Shaten, Brownell, Collins, & Lissner, 1993; Lee & Paffenbarger, 1992) and to increased mortality from cardiovascular disease (Hamm, Shekelle, & Stamler, 1989). In addition, weight cycling is associated with increased risk for myocardial infarction, stroke, and diabetes (French et al., 1997), increased highdensity lipoprotein cholesterol (Olson et al., 2000), increased systolic and diastolic blood pressure (Kajioka, Tsuzuku, Shimokata, & Sato, 2002), and even suppressed immune function (Shade et al., 2004).
It has often been suggested that the harmful effects of weight cycling result from unintentional weight loss (i.e., from smoking or illness) rather than from intentional dieting (French & Jeffery, 1994; National Task Force on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity, 1994). However, at least two large-scale studies that controlled for unintentional weight loss still found that intentional weight loss is linked to mortality risk (Andres, Muller, & Sorkin, 1993; Pamuk, Williamson, Serdula, Madans, & Byers, 1993), and the balance of evidence does seem to implicate intentional weight loss in adverse health outcomes.
Shut up, Bob Greene. Shut up a lot.


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