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It is always nice to have a new subscriber, but it is especially cool to find one from a far away land. I believe it helps to remind us just how similar we are. There are jobs we hate to do and then find out how worthwhile they were. There are times we do not realize how much we miss our relatives until we see them again.
If i cannot travel, at least I can read about other places and people. Sanchari is in Delhi, and blogging at, http://sancharib.wordpress.com/. If you scroll down her posts, you will see some great photos of the Jaisalmer Fort.
But, what really brought me home was her November post on cutting down the Mango tree which was just one year older than she is.
When I was growing up, my side yard had a large weeping willow tree. I could crawl under the branches and have an instant play house/fort/whatever I wanted. Many a day was spent eating lunch and playing under that tree. So, when mom and dad moved to a subdivision, they took a start with them and grew a new weeping willow in the backyard.
When I divorced, I moved back home again with my daughters. Super teacher daughter was in kindergarten and was delighted to live with a weeping willow in her very own backyard. It was she now who spent hours eating cookies or sandwiches and playing dolls under her grandparents tree. That is, until one day years later when lightning split the tree and it was taken down.
We had moved out a couple of years before this, but daughter always ran to visit her tree. We did not think to warn her as we got settled in for our visit, until she came back in the house in tears. Her beloved tree was gone.
She never ate mangoes from it but that tree was a wonderful memory for my daughter, as well as Sanchari's Mango tree was for her.


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Reboot Risks and Rewards for PC Makers
Personal computers aren't dead yet, but how long will they enjoy their new lease on life? WSJ Heard on the Street columnist Dan Gallagher has some answers on MoneyBeat. Photo. Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... reports of the PC's death been loud warnings that was a greatly exaggerated but then at least been given a stay of execution heard on the Street's Dan Gallagher joins us now with signs of all for PC makers ... then how are you ... grade I do not have called on all right ... PC sales ... we know the ruling on a over a long time they ran up the started running down pretty sharply ... with that that that trend has changed this year was a changing ... I'm I should introduce change so much is the fact that it's slowed a bit and right you know when that when the twin tablets came out the I pad came out that there is a lot of why can't premature obituaries for the PC business and thought ok eventually ... I really quickly know was can of IPC's known to be on tablets and smartphones ... aam I think those are premature it is we sought to distance of most recent around quarterly results ... which Huckabee's like Intel HP actually do pretty well with your PC business is now what's happened is ... the the ... the projections for the sales decline this year they had been cutbacks gold silk Specter did decline right I think he sees best case target of become a flat slowly declining but ... um they're still well you know a lot of business to be down there it's can issue more and three million units this year ... so there's there's room there for companies to make money and do well ... on it's it's not a stock of the nets early growth driver right I know they'll call in PCs ... but Apple's Max in the last quarterly report they show that the numbers ... and not sales drop sharply ... I they were they they did well with that I think they were kind of illustrating will was inching trend day because they also saw I pad sales fall ... and I think foresee it is you know the competing market is now shared amongst different types of devices yet tablets have ... the allowed toxic burden than regular PCs ... and so now now a consumer has more options in there and businesses have more options to pick from in terms of what competing devices they need ... but I think that ... this is especially ... or so to be buying plenty of PCs going forward because the storm aim ... for Donnelly that the device for for work and productivity ... aam and I think as long as that continues aam you know there's room for the companies like that like Intel on each be ... aam or were making you know we're still in a beating in this area but daft obviously diversify from it as well ... and I think that's that's the thing that foods that the other functions that he sees the laptop that ... that you just you're not going to get the time to ensure that they get that on the phone ... and PC to you I actually think that they're getting better and cheaper on ... they're getting better and again cheaper to also gain more power friendly so they're kind of cool trying to close that gap ... of performance you see with mobile devices you know Mobile devices can adapt batteries last longer ... ALM so I think now we're getting laptops that don't die in a few hours ... Spanish people can see later this weekend zealot There FIFA AEI in Germany ... of upright units cede new PCs come out based on the speed Broadwell line ... aam and at the same time the companies could be talking about the Internet of things that there are Developers Conference next week so ... we like in Telstra would try to come a split ... split the difference between Erie is focusing on but there's still I think demand for ... on the right types of PC devices that that you know work well in the enterprise and work well for sure tied to consumers ... it's not the entire markets by going to tablets for ... that RI day Gallagher did not very early on the West Coast to join this think you're a much ... to be here ...

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English Premier League club Bolton Wanderers scored once in each half to beat the host Houston Dynamo in the third annual Dynamo Charities Cup Saturday night at Robertson Stadium. Bolton captain Kevin Davies had a goal and an assist.
The match was the third edition of the Dynamo Charities Cup; Houston won the first two games, beating Mexican club Monterrey 2-1 in 2009 and Salvadoran side Aguila 4-0 in 2010.
The Dynamo partnered with Houston City Council Member and District I representative James Rodriguez to ensure proceeds from Wednesday's match will benefit East End youth soccer programs. The programs are in danger of being eliminated due to City of Houston budget constraints.
Houston returns to action in league play on Saturday, taking on Chivas USA at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., kicking off at 9:30 p.m. CT.
In Saturday's game, the Dynamo used a mix of regulars and reserves, with only two starters from last Saturday's match against Kansas City in the starting lineup. Goalkeeper Tyler Deric, defender Bobby Boswell, and midfielders Colin Clark and Alex Dixon were the only Houston players to play all 90 minutes. Deric made four saves, and Dixon played three different positions.
Bolton took the lead in the 32nd minute when Kevin Davies flicked on a long throw-in, and Croatian international forward Ivan Klasnic got to the ball first at the near post to flick it past Tyler Deric.
Wanderers scored their second goal in the 58th minute, as Bulgarian international Martin Petrov beat Tyler Deric to a long ball outside the penalty area, then crossed for Kevin Davies to tap in from close range.
Houston had several good chances to score but could not beat Finnish international goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen, who made a fantastic save to deny Houston midfielder Danny Cruz in the 77th minute. One minute later, forward Jason Garey headed in a pass from midfielder Josue Soto, but Garey's shot was disallowed for offside.
Dynamo forward Cam Weaver played the first half, making him the only player to start all three editions of the Dynamo Charities Cup. The attendance of 13,612 was the highest in the short history of the event.
Match: Saturday, July 23, 9:30 p.m. CT, Dynamo at Chivas USA, The Home Depot
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Season 2 | Episode 12
Carson and Zach head back home to their home state of North Dakota to catch mid-summer Walleye with friends and family.
Zach chases an early-season buck – 8 Ball – in New Jersey that they have been keeping a close eye on for the past two years.
AO1 foundations and the outdoor ministry, Mountain Movers, as 13-year-old John Gegen gets to go on an elk hunt of a lifetime.
Carson and Zach cut their teeth on learning how to hunt New Jersey Gobblers.
Carson and Zach put their Winchesters to work as they chase geese in their home state of New Jersey.
Zach spent most of 2018 New Jersey deer season focused on one deer. After brother, Carson, kills that deer, Zach steps back and attempts to find a new deer to chase.
Carson and Zach catch up with buddies from North Dakota and chase snow geese after Carson's football season ends. We dive into who Carson is off the field and his friends growing up.
Carson and Zach jump across the pond to Hawaii to chase axis bucks and wild goats with their wives. Last week, Maddie and Andie both harvested great bucks, so now, it's the husbands turn.
Carson and Zach jump across the pond to Hawaii to chase axis bucks and wild goats with their wives.
Carson and Zach travel to North Dakota during Carson's Bye Week to step away from football and hunt some birds. Los Angeles outfielder, Mike Trout joined the Wentz brothers on this trip and experiences his first dose of pheasant hunting.
A buck from last year shows back up and quickly becomes the top priority. This is the oldest buck on the farm and a deer worth devoting the season to chasing.


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ESPN's network executive Sean Bratches said on Tuesday that the sports network would be interested in working with Apple to bring a version of the WatchESPN app to ESPN subscribers with the Apple TV. ESPN is the most-watched sports network in America, and a deal with the company could bring more users to one of Apple's more timid products.
ESPN already allows users of Microsoft's Xbox to stream WatchESPN content if they subscribe to a participating television package that includes the sports network. Today, Bratches declared that ESPN (which is owned by the Walt Disney company), is "platform agnostic."
"To the extent that in the future there's an opportunity with Apple to authenticate through the pay-TV food chain as we're doing with Microsoft, that's something that we will participate in," Bratches told Bloomberg.
Users can already access the WatchESPN app through iOS devices, but a native app on Apple TV would compete with Microsoft's Xbox and expand the entertainment set's appeal to a wide variety of users that may not own an iPad or iPhone.
The Apple TV currently has MLB, NHL, and NBA channels, but an ESPN partnership would give sports viewers a much wider range of programming (like football and recap shows). While no deal has been made, we reported in March that Apple was busy negotiating content with major networks for the 2012 holidays, and Disney/ABC has expressed interest as far back as 2009.


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First off let me say I bought a Logitech Harmony One refurbished in February of last year. Think of it as my birthday present to myself.
This remote is great I set it up to control my DVR/TV/Reciever/Wii/Game System Port (use this to plug in SNES/NES/SEGA)
So the Saga starts here now that you have the background.
Apparently in the last year a software update occurred and the remote wouldn't connect to the Logitech servers on my new computer (hadn't tried to update it in the last year because it just worked, only now because I got some new equipment).
The server throws an error saying the following "The product has previously been identified as defective and replaced."
My first thought is no ****, this was refurbished. The next part of the message however concerned me. It states this "It has been disabled and therefore you will not be able to continue setting up this device."
I had set this up before when I first got it and it was still working great...So I unplugged it and sent in a support ticket with my Order Number, S/N and PID etc. No response after a few days. So I called today.
The phone call started off asking for my username, I didn't know my username, because I didn't remember making one to set it up a year ago. I gave him my e-mail address it seemed to work. I explained the problem and that I'd read it being somewhat common. He didn't' believe me as he asked for the order number and other things which I had and was already in their system as a ticket, he could have read the ticket. After being on hold for 15min he come back and says basically "you do own this and it is valid. We are going to escalate this request to the tier 2 support group."
So this is where we are today with the saga. I look forward to them fixing it and have read some forums seeing people having resolved it this way. I think once they have had a few people report this they should have addressed all of them. Instead it appears they have done nothing to address this as some people gave up and bought new ones. These are expensive especially if not refurbished. I hope to hear back soon and be able to program it to run my media center's new remote reciever and the new cable card. I'm planning on programming some keyboard keystrokes into it too so it will be easier to launch media center and execute a few mods. If anyone else has a refurbished one hopefully I can warn you if you haven't tried to update it in the last year or so. I will report back when/if it gets resolved. /end rant
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Hope they get that fixed for you. Crazy the error you got was over the replacement of that remote!
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I love my Harmony - dont have the expensive ones though ;)
Elevated to tier 2 sounds great! Hope it gets fixed.
A LOT more than a crap company like ASRock would do since it would be your fault it isnt working
Elevated to tier 2 sounds great! Hope it gets fixed.
A LOT more than a crap company like ASRock would do since it would be your fault it isnt working
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I received a call today at work telling me it has been reactivated with my account so I will try to update it when I get home and report back. If it does work at least it can be a path forward for those who have purchased them refurbished and run into this problem. These remotes are definitely worth it when you can get them for $100 refurbished.
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Domestic Violence (DV) Court is part of the District Court. Domestic Violence Court seeks to increase the accountability of defendants, to enhance victim safety and to provide increased information sharing.
Domestic Violence Court provides:
Immediacy: The Court's response to domestic violence will be immediate, certain, and consistent. It will include punishment, batterers' intervention and substance abuse treatment.
Safety: The Court seeks to enhance victim safety by providing information to victims on social services and available housing. Up-to-date case status will be provided to the victims.
Accountability: The Court seeks to provide intensive scrutiny of the defendant's compliance with court orders, enabling swift action by the Court when dealing with violators.
Supervision: The Court will have full knowledge of the history of each case, therefore, enabling defendant's to be held accountable for their actions while a case is pending.
Coordination: The presence of a judge and resource coordinator will lead to increased sharing of case information between the District Court, Family Court, law enforcement, social services and criminal justice agencies.
A Guide Containing Options & Resources on Confronting Family Violence
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Vietnamese arabica coffee project facing failure
Posted by TheShot on 13 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Fair Trade, Foreign Brew, Robusta
In response to the precipitous rise of specialty coffee in recent years, coffee's traditional Big Four (Nestlé, Sara Lee, Kraft, and Proctor & Gamble) — rather than compete by raising their quality standards — responded instead by seeking cheaper bean stocks to squeeze out more profits. The Vietnamese robusta coffee market rode the wave of these investments, and its explosive growth, overproduction, and proliferation fueled much of the coffee crisis that inspired Fair Trade and related initiatives to protect the endangered quality coffee grower.
Despite the low-grade coffee that Vietnam came to symbolize, that did not prevent delusions of grandeur. One of these delusions is now facing a harsh reality check, after eight years and $50 million of investment to develop higher-grade arabica bean growth in Vietnam: VietNamNet – Arabica coffee project a fantastic hope.
Robusta coffee is just that — rubustly resistant to drought, heat, and climates that can be inhospitable to the higher-quality arabica coffee species. The problem is that robusta coffee is so inferior, it often needs to be chemically treated to taste more like coffee — and not like the burnt rubber it is most commonly described as. The failure of arabica coffee to take hold in Vietnam only underscores how challenging it is to produce good coffee there.
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[…] Sure, it's not the Chewbacca defense, but, "Huh?" There are no financial breakdowns of what percentage of the price of coffee goes where in the whole supply chain. There's no critical examination of how co-operatives work, or not, for small farmers. But perhaps the movie's worst offense was the glaring omission of the role of the Big Four and Vietnamese robusta coffee behind the global coffee crisis. […]
[…] on supermarket shelves, we countered by offering mainstream America even worse coffee: using cheap Vietnamese robusta beans, chemically treating it to taste more like our usual coffee, and passing the savings on to our […]


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Trayvon Martin such a nice young man
Drug dealer and addict Trayvon Martin is a poster boy for the ghetto thugs Holder, Obama, Sharpton and mainstream taking heads idolize!
More of what the media isn't telling you about Trayvon Martin's thug life. The story of the six foot two inch little boy who went to the store for some Skittles and Arizona Watermelon Fruit Cocktail Juice to satisfy a young man's sweet tooth is just another vicious media fiction.
Andrea Shea King here:
Among its reports, Trayvon Martin's drug use, explaining how the Skittles and Arizona Watermelon Fruit Juice Cocktail drink he carried that night are ingredients that, when mixed with dextromethorphan (DXM) cough syrup, create "Lean", a concocted high which can cause psychosis and aggression over the longer term. According to the autopsy report, Martin's liver showed damage consistent with DXM abuse.Trevor Drink
Among the several writers who inhabit the "Treehouse" is this blogger whose earlier rebuttal to progressives accurately defined the battle lines that have been drawn.
So, with a ton of interest focused on the trial of George Zimmerman, tweeters had a field day adding gallows humor and comparing the resemblance of presiding Judge Debra Nelson to the late actor Chris Farley. Take a look.
The Last Refuge has it all here:
After further reflection this drug use aspect may actually lead to the greatest understanding, and key, to the whole case. Understanding exactly where the mindset was of both Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, and what influences are now readily available and out in the public forum, a number of questions are now finding answers about that evening's events, most importantly what precipitated and led to Trayvon Martin's approach toward being questioned by George Zimmerman.
So I suppose I should start by answering the obvious: "what in the heck is Dedicated Dad talking about", and how would research answer questions about "intent"?
The substance of research was prodded by with this graphic of unknown attribution, dealing with the possibility that Trayvon Martin was not only an illegal drug-user, but possibly a drug-dealer. (Large file version here). While the "graphic" itself is unattributed, the content within the graphic was easy, at the time, to confirm with a quick review of Trayvon's Facebook page and extensive work already done by the TreeHouse and multiple websites including Wagist.
Go ahead and review the whole thing, because while it most certainly is "controversial" it is also a good substantive fact-based background in Trayvon's own words. But, again it is only background, and more information is needed for the rest of this discussion. We will highlight some sections of it, from Trayvon Martin's own words, throughout this explanation because it speaks to a "directional sense" in the lifestyle of an evolving teenager.
As I use these Facebook discussions from Trayvon I'm going to correct the ebonics unless it seems necessary to reference directly to the source. Otherwise I'll do my best to interpret it into something people unfamiliar with nuance within a "cultural language" can understand.
Let's begin about mid-way down the page on the left-hand side, where Martin says:
"unow a connect for codine" or
"do you know of a connection for codeine"?
Trayvon is seeking a source for the prescription drug Codeine. Eventually we learn that he's not seeking the pill form, but rather a "liquid" form, which he says he's "had…before."
His friend responds that he doesn't NEED codeine – that he can just mix Robitussin and soda to make…
"…some fire @$$ lean."
Our first question then becomes "What exactly is "lean""?
According to Urban Dictionary, "Lean" is described as follows:
"… 6. Lean is a mixed drink originating in the Southern Rap culture. It is a mixture of Promethazine and Codeine cough syrup and a soft drink such as Sprite (usually). While other soft drinks may be used, Sprite was the original.
[And now also Arizona Watermelon for Watermelon Drank/Lean]
There are some variations of Lean. For example, Promethazine and Codeine syrup is usually Purple in color. But there are other colors of syrup that work the same way. There is a golden-colored syrup (hydrocodone based) and other colors as well.
Lean slows you down. It makes you feel good. It's meant to be sipped on, and it taste damn good. One of the best feelings you will ever experience. Euphoria with a hint of sedation. …"
Lean is also the drug mixture that killed Pimp C. nigga pimp c died on an overdose of lean (urban dictionary descriptive)
OK, so now we know Trayvon is seeking a source for a powerful cough syrup, commonly used in the "drug culture or circle" to make an intoxicating drink called "Lean" – also known as the infamous "purple drank/Purple Lean/Lean/Sizzurp."
Purple Lean, or Lean, is an intoxicating beverage also known by the names lean, sizzurp, and liquid codeine. It is commonly abused by southern rappers and wannabe suburban teenagers. It is a mixture of Promethazine/Codeine cough syrup and sprite, or other beverage [such as Arizona Watermelon] with a few jolly ranchers and/or skittles thrown in.
There are your "DXM" "Watermelon Lean" Ingredients
Arizona Watermelon Juice purchased from 7-11 included in the Crime Scene Photographs and incorrectly listed/discussed as "Tea" by Benjamin Crump, the media, and even police reporting authorities.
Promethazine with codeine, consumed in such large amounts as is popular with such southern rappers as lil wayne, slim thug, and Big Moe, produces an opiate-like high that is potentiated by the Promethazine.
Promethazine by itself will not produce a high. The beverage must be sipped slowly, and not guzzled, in order to avoid unconsciousness and/or life threatening overdose.
But what does this have to do with Robitussin or "DXM"? Trayvon clarifies in his next message:
"codine is a higher dose of dxm"
As the conversation continues, Trayvon indicates that he plans to quit smoking marijuana because he doesn't want to risk being busted or "roped", because it is discoverable in drug testing, and possession of Marijuana is illegal….. (Obviously he never did actually quit)
….. and further believes he can obtain the same high by drinking "Lean" . But that's not nearly as important as the fact that he's clearly under the impression that prescription Codine is a stronger form of the drug DXM found in various versions of cough suppressant or cough medications.
So, what then exactly is "DXM"?
"DXM" is an abbreviation for the cough suppressant Dextromethorphan Hydrobromide — which is the active ingredient in the cough-syrup brand Robitussin.
According to numerous websites found with a search, DXM is increasingly being abused as a recreational drug. One of the more scholarly and scientific sites found with in-depth analysis of DXM and its various uses is "Erowid.org". According to its "FAQ", Erowid is:
"…a small non-commercial organization that operates in the controversial and politically challenging niche of trying to provide accurate, specific, and responsible information about how psychoactives are used in the United States and around the world. We are committed to protecting the privacy of contributors and reporting on the topic non-judgmentally. Although our primary focus is on the Erowid.org web site, we also provide research and data for other harm reduction, health, and educational organizations."
In short, it's a site filled with information on various forms of drug abuse, mostly to enable the abusers to do so with as little risk as possible. It is not within the scope of this discussion to make any value judgements about this fact so we'll continue our discussion – considering Erowid a valuable resource for our research and typical of the sort of information someone can easily locate on today's Internet.
According to Erowid's "DXM Home Page":
DXM is a widely available over-the-counter cough suppressant. When taken far above its standard medical dosage, it is a strong dissociative used primarily by teens.
Their "DXM Basics" page further makes clear that it is:
"…a semisynthetic opiate derivative which is legally available over-the-counter in the United States. It is most commonly found in cough suppressants, especially those with "DM" or "Tuss" in their names. It is almost always used orally, although pure DXM powder is occasionally snorted…"
At this point you're probably thinking – as I did at first – "how bad can this stuff be if it's available over the counter!" However, as we'll see, it's actually startlingly dangerous stuff!
Erowid begins to hint at DXM's seriousness in their "DXM Basics" discussion:
"…High doses … are sometimes compared to the effects of other dissociatives such as PCP or ketamine…"
This stuff is compared to PCP ? This is no exaggeration! DXM in higher doses is actually a very volatile and dangerous drug, and they are quite right when they compare DXM to PCP and Ketamine!
In fact, the drug has come to be known in some circles as "Poor-Man's PCP!"
Perhaps more importantly, unlike marijuana and many other drugs of abuse, DXM does not cause sedation, and in fact can produce profound agitation hence the comparison to PCP. In the "DXM Basics – Problems" section, Erowid notes:
"…DXM causes physical and psychological effects that may be frightening or unpleasant… Psychological effects can include profound disorientation, depression, a feeling of personal disintegration, or a feeling of "unreality" and disconnection that may persist for days. Chronic use may cause depression, psychological dependency, and possibly brain damage. Large doses may be associated with psychotic breaks…"
It was at this point that I first noted the feeling of the hair standing up on the back of my neck – but this sensation would become much more common and pronounced as I continued reading and gaining understanding.
One of the best sources I've found for DXM info is Erowid.org's "DXM Vault." One article in particular was especially helpful – "The DXM FAQ by William E. White – Version 4", published at the previously linked site Erowid.org.
This document is, to be blunt, written for "recreational users" of DXM – those who will use it "to get high." I will refer to "recreational use" by its proper term: Abuse.
In the document's "Introduction", the author notes that as the number of people abusing DXM has grown since he published the first version of his FAQ, so to the number of adverse effects and problems has also grown:
"… A few people, on the other hand, seem to be greatly susceptible to DXM addiction and some of these have suffered long-term health consequences. A very few may have suffered permanent brain damage from extremely heavy use of DXM (e.g., an 8oz bottle of Maximum Strength syrup every day). On the other hand, some people consume the same amount for years seemingly without consequence. And while some people can consume DXM regularly without psychological consequences, others suffer from severe depression and psychotic breaks, even leading to a few cases of suicide attempts…"
He goes on to note the growing indications that there is a possibility of a phenomenon called "NMDA Antagonist Neurotoxicity (NAN)" – microscopic holes in the brain called "Olney's Lesions."
Perhaps with the understanding that Trayvon used "Lean" to get high the Medical Examiners notes in the autopsy of Trayvon's brain cultures now have a new light shed upon them.
For these reasons, the author points out, "as of the time of his writing (coincidentally in 1995, the year Trayvon was born!) there just wasn't any significant quantity of medical research into the long-term effects of DXM abuse, which he hopes (unsuccessfully, as it turns out) will be resolved in the following years, and notes "…Until then, my official recommendation is not to use DXM at all!"
Of course he knows people will not stop using, so he goes on to express his "own personal belief that DXM is probably pretty safe when used occasionally (e.g., once or twice a month) at the lower plateaus, and rarely (e.g., once or twice a year) at the higher plateaus."
Mr. White then gives hints at the otherwise unclear "data" he's gathered by saying "I have yet to hear from anyone who used DXM with this or less frequency who has suffered any impairment, temporary or permanent. Actually, to be technically correct, nobody using it once a week for less than six months has ever seemed to have problems, but it's always best to keep a wide safety margin…"
Unfortunately, teenage boys, especially those from within Trayvon's cultural demographic, are not known for their temperance, much less "keep[ing] a wide safety margin."
To the contrary, it's likely that a young man like Trayvon would consider Robitussin an easily obtained standby for times when marijuana was unavailable. In his own words he has already expressed his opinion that it gives him "the same vibe" – and he is in fact likely to PREFER the DXM as it's less likely to get him "roped" (busted).
Subsequently a rational framing would be the odds of him limiting his use to "once a week for less than six months" is highly unlikely. We know from his own words to his friends that Trayvon has used DXM as far back as June 2011.
Even more troubling, the author goes on to note:
"Another thing to keep in mind is that DXM in the upper plateaus is a considerably different experience than the lower plateaus, and may be better suited to spiritual or ritual use. Even at the lower plateaus, DXM is not really well suited as a frequent recreational drug
… In summary, I'm not nearly as convinced that DXM is a benevolent psychedelic as I used to be. It is in many ways considerably more powerful (and certainly more dangerous) than LSD or mushrooms. Like all psychedelics it can profoundly change you; unlike others, these changes are not necessarily under your control, especially if you are not very familiar with yourself.
I don't think there are too many people less "familiar with themselves" than teenagers whose sense of "self" is still highly formative. The concern from this discovery was growing quickly, but this next section really took the feeling of concern to entirely new heights:
DXM can be a great tool for spiritual rebirth, but it can also turn you into a paranoid, antisocial asshole… It is a unique and uniquely powerful mind-altering drug, and one which I think most people would do best to avoid. "
In short, the "drug-user world's" foremost "expert" on DXM abuse is clearly advising against regular, chronic use for some very good reasons. But if a teenager like Trayvon were even aware of such a recommendation what degree of confidence would there be that the would actually heed it? Remember, this is a young man who thinks "codeine is a higher dose of DXM" and is actively seeking to find it.
Therefore, the odds of him accidentally and naively stumbling into enough of a habit to render himself "A paranoid, antisocial asshole", in the words of Mr. White, are probably quite high.
But… Let's read on!
Physiology of DXM / Lean Use
We know from Trayvon's own words that he's experienced "lean" – and since he knows what DXM is – but thinks the promethazine/codeine cocktail is "a higher dose" then he's also experienced DXM, at least at a "lower plateau."
In answer to the question "What's the DXM Trip Like" the author says:
"Well, that depends on how much you take. There are four different kinds of experiences, based on the dosage; these are called plateaus.
The first plateau is a mild stimulant effect with a little bit of a buzz, and has been compared to MDA [a more psychedelic cousin of MDMA -aka-"Ecstasy"].
The second plateau is more intoxicating and has been compared to being drunk and stoned at the same time.
The third plateau is dissociative, like a lower dose of ketamine.
The fourth plateau is fully dissociative like a higher dose of ketamine.
You should not [emphasis original!] attempt higher plateau doses unless you have someone with you who can take care of you in case you get sick or freak out. It happens on DXM.
Many things can happen unexpectedly on upper plateaus, such as spontaneous memory recall, complex delusions, hallucinations, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, and perceived contact with spiritual or alien entities. You need to be pretty stable and grounded before you can handle these things".
"Stable and grounded" would not describe the behavioral or social pattern of Trayvon Martin who was moved from house to house, parent to parent, and surrounded by a litany of on-again, off-again, relationships from his parent's partners. Could a "complex delusion" or "hallucination" perhaps elicit a paranoia "tracked" by George Zimmerman?
One thing is sure – young Trayvon was CLEARLY ANYTHING BUT "STABLE AND GROUNDED" in both his physical and emotional address.
In another section – "Is DXM Dangerous" – the Author again makes note of the possibility of "bad trips…psychotic breaks…psychological addiction and depression and irreversible brain damage".
To repeat the obvious, THIS IS VERY VOLATILE, DANGEROUS STUFF especially in the hands of an impulsive, cognitively immature, and adolescent minded individual like 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
One of the problems with DXM is that with long-term or regular use "most of the pleasurable effects of DXM tend to go away … Tolerance can build rapidly, leaving one only with a general sensation of being high and stupid."
In young and impulsive individuals, this can lead the person to take higher doses, looking for the same "vibe", and thus accidentally lead the individual to find themselves on a much higher "plateau" than they intended.
Lacking both the knowledge and experience to understand what is happening to them, and the skills or assistance needed to deal with the "surprise" effects, an ungrounded teen can suddenly find themselves in a dangerous – even potentially fatal – situation!
The "FAQ" lists the following "Risks" (among others):
- "Major Risks of Occasional Use:
- Panic Attacks
- Psychotic Breaks
- Impaired Judgement in Critical Situations (!!)
- "Risks of Regular Use and Binges:
- Mania
- Violent Ideations, Antisocial Behavior and Paranoia
- Habituation and Psychological Addiction
- Tolerance and Physical Addiction
- Psychosis
- Liver, Kidney and Pancreas Damage"
At this point it is highly important to remember, or refer to, the coroners report about Trayvon's Liver? (a screen grab is below)
In addition to the risks of DXM itself, many DXM-containing products contain other active ingredients that can be dangerous. Common additives include acetaminophen (Tylenol), which can cause fatal liver-damage in large doses. Products containing Chlorpheniramine Maleate such as Coricidin Cough and Cold should especially be avoided. See DXM Health for more information.
When you take acetaminophen, [such as would be used in making Purple/Watermelon Lean] your liver breaks it down into a substance called N-acetyl-p-benzoquinone imine, or NAPQI, which is toxic to your liver […] Your liver contains an antioxidant called glutathione that can keep NAPQI from causing damage, but too much acetaminophen reduces glutathione and leaves your liver open to harm […] acetaminophen only causes liver damage if you take more than your body can handle.
These post-mortem symptoms of DXM use would also mask themselves as a variety of causes for 'mild fatty metamorphosis of the liver' if you were not specifically knowledgable of the subject's history. Obviously in this example neither Tracy Martin, nor Sybrina Fulton would be informing the Medical Examiner of prior drug use.
We can confirm from his Facebook and Twitter Accounts that Trayvon had essentially been "sippin sippin" (using Lean or DXM) for at least a year, perhaps longer. It would appear from the Medical Examiners report Trayvon's liver was showing the early indicators of excessive use consistent with such a timeframe.
Psychology of DXM Use
In the FAQ's section on "Psychotic Breaks" the author notes:
"…Be very careful in trying to restrain the tripper, since she or he may perceive this as a threat, and will probably be mostly immune to pain...the tripper, like a cornered animal, could beat the living shit out of you without thinking twice. (!!) …"
So, where does all of this lead? At this point, after reviewing all the information, it appears quite probable that a pattern of drug cocktail use specifically led to the mindset, or psychological environment, between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin on the night of February 26th.
The tone or hostility of the encounter, and Trayvon's response to being confronted, would more easily be understood against the backdrop of the discovery for his prior drug use; and more specifically the types of drugs being used.
It is quite possible that Trayvon Martin – experiencing the tolerance effects caused by chronic use of DXM – potentially took a larger dose of DXM than he'd had before, or at the very least was recently indulging himself in an admitted actitity. Maybe even suffered a "psychotic break", but at least the behavioral paranoia and psychological stress consistent with the use of long-term DXM use might have to a physical and psychological reaction to questions by George Zimmerman, and ultimately to his aggressive response.
Trayvon would not necessarily have needed to be under the "immediate influence" of the "trip" at the time (Robotrippin'), he could just as easily have been preparing for his next "trip" while still holding the long-lasting effects from prior use. The timing of prior use may contribute to his emotional state, or the cumulative effect could have been a contributing factor. Both are just as potentially dangerous.
If however, Martin was in the midst of a stress induced "psychotic break", or under duress exacerbated by George Zimmerman's "eyeballing him", well, then, there's really nothing George Zimmerman could have done once the confrontation began. Any confrontation at all could have led to the same outcome.
The FAQ advises a "Tripper's" "Safety Person" to:
"…Instead of restraint, try talking him or her down. Be calm, soothing, and repeatedly remind the tripper that they have taken a drug which has critically impaired their perceptions. Remind them of who they are and how they got here, and that the experience will end…"
That sounds great, on paper, – except for the fact that George Zimmerman had no idea Trayvon Martin was potentially "Robo-tripping", and it's rather difficult to "be calm, soothing" and so on when the "tripper" has already snapped and is busy "beat[ing] the snot out of you without thinking twice!!"
Common Sense
We know from Trayvon himself that last summer, between the school years, in or around June 2011, Trayvon was engaged in DXM/Lean and Marijuana use. We also know there are multiple behavioral side effects from DSM/Lean use. Those side effects and impacts on cognitive judgement increase with prolonged exposure. The more you use, the worse the psychological affects are.
Now consider this in the developing physiology of a teen in the full hormone raging puberty phase of 15/16/17 years of age and you can magnify those psychological and physiological effects exponentially.
Hormones = Sex = Teenage boy normal.
Hormones + psychotic psychological addiction from DXM/Lean drug effects = Super Aggressive Sexual Thoughts, actions, expressions. Teenage boy NOT normal.
It would be intellectually dishonest to frame as coincidental or disconnected that he apparently started seriously engaging in the DXM/Lean/Pot culture in the summer break of 2011 ; and then was suspended from school three times for behavioral issues in the very next school year. A rapid downward progression would be an inevitable outcome from frequent use of DXM and Marijuana.
Trayvon also subscribed to the U-Tube feeds of drug use, drug culture, street violence and activities in this same Summer between school years. Not accidentally in the same timeframe he gained significant interest in MMA style street fighting. This is not at all just random coincidence. As we have meticulously outlined aggressive anti-social behavior is a specific, frequent, and documented side effect from DXM/Lean use.
Trayvon was admittedly, according to his Facebook conversations, a user of DXM and Purple Drank/Lean since at least June 2011. He was also an admitted smoker of Marijuana which was found in both his urine and blood tests. His liver indicates the beginning stages of an unusual degrading known as "mild fatty metamorphasis", and his brain tissue appeared compromised, both conditions symptomatic of DXM use.
In addition he was suspended from school three times in the past seven months prior to the shooting for behavioral issues. He was detached from adult supervision at the time in question, in a relatively unfamiliar place, and according to his father Tracy Martin, grounded. His girlfriend describes their phone call as Trayvon being "paranoid".
Trayvon makes a trip to the store and buys two of the specific three ingredients needed to blend a drug cocktail he was well versed in making (Lean). And appeared slightly exagerrated, tenuous, and wobbly (swaying) when you objectively review his physical movements on the video of the store during the purchase.
He was a little more than a half a mile from home (Brandy's house), yet he left the store at 6:24 and was first noted at the clubhouse at 7:09pm. If he intended to go straight home from the store, and under normal cognitive capacity, he should have made the 1/2 mile trip in well under 30 minutes, well under.
The facts, and new understanding, as it now presents itself, would certainly lend weight to the strong possibility that Trayvon Martin was motor impaired, or at least influenced, by some altering condition. At the very least this bears considerable merit for further inquiry, and a serious toxicological analysis for an understanding of exactly what metabolic influences may have been in place at the time of the encounter between George and Trayvon.
The toxicology review should specifically look for trace evidence and levels of DXM agents in his system. Both to understand if he was robotrippin' at the immediate time of encounter, as well as if longer term use created a cumulative effect, and was a contributing factor in his physiology or state of mind. One such well known, and well documented side-effect is "anger", or, "violent temperment".
- 7-11 Store Check out time 6:24pm – Shooting 7:17pm
- 53 minutes from the time Trayvon left the store to when he was shot.
- 53 minutes to travel .60/mile
Zimmerman: Hey we've had some break-ins in my neighborhood, and there's a real suspicious guy, uh, [near] Retreat View Circle, um, the best address I can give you is 111 Retreat View Circle. This guy looks like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about.
By Dedicated Dad – Now knowing all of this information, take a closer look at the new discovery for what REALLY happened at the 7-11 on the night in Question. This too, opens eyes to a FAR GREATER UNDERSTANDING.


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German rabbi; born at Buxweiler, Alsace, in the middle of the eighteenth century; died at Bonn Nov. 3, 1846. Being a descendant of an old rabbinical family, he was destined from his childhood for the rabbinate, and was educated first by his grandfather at Worms, and later by his uncle, David Sinzheim, subsequently president of the central consistory at Paris. Under the latter's direction, Auerbach acquired not only extensive Talmudic knowledge, but a secular education as well. When, owing to the efforts of Cerfberr of Medelsheim, a Jewish community had been formed at Strasburg, Auerbach was charged with its administration. At the outbreak of the Reign of Terror in France, Auerbach, on account of his connection with Cerfberr (who as former contractor to the royal army was suspected by the revolutionists), was thrown into prison where he remained a whole year. On leaving Strasburg he was appointed rabbi at Forbach, then at Neuwied, and in 1809 at Bonn. In 1837 he resigned the latter position, ostensibly on account of his great age, but really to have his son succeed him in his place.
Auerbach was the author of several liturgical poems and prayers, and of a poem on the abolition of the poll-tax, entitled "Dibre ha-Mekes we-Beṭuloh" (History of the Tax and its Abolition), still extant in manuscript. The poem was dedicated to Cerfberr, who by his intervention brought about the abolition. A specimen of the poem was given by Fuenn, who was the possessor of the manuscript. Auerbach left seven sons, among whom the bestknown was Benjamin Hirsch Auerbach, rabbi at Darmstadt and Halberstadt, who died in the latter city Sept. 30, 1872.
- Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 277;
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DateLine: 28th June 2008
Left-hander Suresh Raina continued his rich vein of form, notching a hundred to steer India to a comfortable seven-wicket win over Bangladesh in an Asia Cup Super League match here Saturday.
Raina followed his maiden hundred against Hong Kong and 84 against Pakistan with an unbeaten 116 to help India overhaul Bangladesh's 283-6 with 6.4 overs to spare at the National Stadium.
For Bangladesh, Alok Kapali hit a maiden century but his brilliant work was spoiled by shoddy fielding, with three vital catches going down.
The 21-year-old Raina, dropped by Mashrafe Mortaza off Mahmudullah Riyad when on 16, took full advantage of the lapse, adding 139 runs for the second wicket with Gautum Gambhir (90) and then another 89 for the unbroken fourth wicket with Yuvraj Singh, who made 36 not out.
Gambhir, dropped on 56 by Farhad Reza off Mortaza, also punished the sloppy Bangladeshis with aggressive strokeplay.
The win boosted India's chances of qualifying for the July 6 final. They now have four points after carrying over two points from the first round.
Sri Lanka meet Pakistan in the second match of the Super League on Sunday.
The four remaining teams in the Asia Cup all play each other once at the Super League stage to decide the finalists.
Raina and Gambhir came together after Bangladesh paceman Shahadat Hossain dismissed Robin Uthappa (2) and Rohit Sharman (22), taking the attack to the Bangladeshi bowlers.
Gambhir hit Mahmudullah over long-on for a six to reach his fifty off just 36 balls. He looked set for his hundred before miscuing a drive off Farhad Reza and was caught at mid-wicket.
Raina took 93 balls for his second one-day hundred. In all he hit eleven boundaries and three sixes during his 107-ball knock.
Earlier, Kapali lifted Bangladesh following a sluggish start after they had won the toss, putting on 112 runs for the sixth wicket with Mahmudullah (26 not out).
Opener Tamim Iqbal, with 55, made an early impression in an otherwise unimpressive start in which Bangladesh lost Nazimuddin (six) and skipper Mohammad Ashraful (20).
Iqbal, though, kept one end intact and hit seven boundaries during his 67-ball knock, leaving the rest of the work to Kapali.
Kapali added 49 runs for the fifth wicket with Mushfiqur Rahim (22) and then lifted the innings during his 96-ball stand with Mahmudullah.
The 24-year-old Kapali, recalled after a gap of two years earlier this month, smashed Manpreet Gony for two sixes before taking a single to bring up his hundred off just 86 balls.
He smashed ten boundaries and five sixes during his entertaining 96-ball knock before he was caught in the final over.
His previous best one-day score of 89 not out came against the West Indies at Dhaka in 2002.
This was Bangladesh's highest score against India in all one-day matches, beating the previous best of 257-9 at Dhaka in 2004.
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Japanese artist Rokudenashiko was arrested after turning her vagina selfie into a 3-D printed "pussy boat" and sending the scans to her supporters from a crowdfunding campaign. Police said that sending the scans (which could be used to 3-D print more vagina selfies) breaks Japan's obscenity laws.
The Guardian reports that the artist, whose real name is Megumi Igarashi, could face up to two years in jail or a fine of about $24,500 if convicted. Rokudenashiko has denied the allegations and questioned why the scans are being called obscene. She explains her vagina-themed art this way: "I wanted to make pussy more casual and pop."
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Top 10 highest paid hedge fund managersMay 6, 2014: 7:57 AM ET
It's good to be a hedge fund honcho.
Despite a year in which hedge fund returns generally lagged the stock market, Institutional Investor's 2013 annual ranking of hedge fund manager compensation, dubbed "The Rich List," shows just how lucrative the field still is.
The top 25 managers took home $21 billion among them.
Leading the pack was David Tepper of Appaloosa Management, who earned an eye-popping $3.5 billion last year, partly by betting big on airline stocks.
The silver medalist on the hedge fund titan list was Steven Cohen. That would be the head of SAC Capital, which agreed to pay $1.8 billion last year and pleaded guilty to insider trading charges.
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Other big names in the top 10 included John Paulson of Paulson and Co. and Daniel Loeb of Third Point Management.
Paulson, who rose to fame in 2007 by betting against the subprime housing market, received $2.3 billion last year thanks to several investments in telecommunications, health care, and biotechnology mergers, Institutional Investor said. Loeb, famous for his aggressive activist investor tactics, was in the news in 2013 for publicly advocating for management changes at Sony (SNE) and Sotheby's (BID). Just yesterday, Loeb won his fight with Sotheby's and is set to get a seat on the auction company's board.
Related: Hedge funds hot for oil and Apple
Even among the hallowed halls of the hedge fund world, there's a bit of "income inequality."
The tenth highest paid manager on this list was Paul Tudor Jones of Tutor Investment Corp, who earned a paltry $600 million, or $2.9 billion less than top dog Tepper.
Overall, 2013 could be classified as a bit of a disappointment among the uber rich. It ranks as only the fourth highest year for hedge fund manager pay in the last 13 years.
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|Steven Cohen (SAC Capital Advisors)
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|John Paulson (Paulson & Co.)
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|James Simons (Renaissance Technologies)
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|Kenneth Griffin (Citadel)
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|Israel (Izzy) Englander (Millennium Management)
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|Leon Cooperman (Omega Advisors)
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|Lawrence Robbins (Glenview Capital Management)
|$750 million
|Daniel Loeb (Third Point)
|$700 million
|Paul Tudor Jones II (Tudor Investment Corp.)
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Intel 'East Fork' campaign to promote digital-home applications
Intel plans to start staging a series of promotions, dubbed East Fork, by year-end to promote digital-home applications, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers.
Through East Fork, Intel will promote its next-generation desktop-use CPUs, core-logic chipsets and wireless chips as a platform, much as it did with its Centrino platform for notebooks, said the sources. The platform will be launched in the second half of 2005.
The East Fork campaign is also intended to promote the development of digital-home applications through Intel's cooperation with IT makers and vendors, with the company noting that it has already signed on 50 partner companies, said the sources.
Intel will also promote its next-generation digital-home PCs, called DH EF PCs, and the company has set up an ?Intel Digital Home Fund,? which will provide financial assistance to companies that develop and manufacture products that meet the specifications set forth under the East Fork campaign, said the sources.
However, Intel may also require the companies to use the company's next-generation Prescott processors, as well as its Lakeport chipsets (to be introduced in the second half of 2005) and its networking chipsets, including the Ekron 10/100 and Tekoa Gigabit Ethernet chips. In addition, Intel will utilize its Calexico 2 wireless chip, which supports 802.11a/b/g technology, to manufacture the DH EF PCs, the sources noted.
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Another actor is rumored to play Peter Parker, an Iron Man teaser includes awesome War Machine action, and someone's read the Riddick script. Plus Cowboys And Aliens, Joss Whedon's Cabin In The Woods, Resident Evil and I Am Number Four.
Spider-Man: Begin Again:
Did you know that the Spidey reboot has this rumored working title? That's what people have been reporting, anyway. It's, well, ummm... memorable. (It's not quite as great as Tr2n.) Anyway, the latest casting rumor is that Josh Hutcherson, who was Brendan Fraser's nephew in Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3-D, is on the short list to play Peter Parker. As always, believe nothing until it's official. [IESB]
Iron Man 2:
A new Chinese teaser includes a snippet of new footage, including Tony working on an upgrade and a couple of very cute moments with War Machine. [Wired]
The Chronicles Of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking:
Someone got a hold of the script to this third Riddick film. It starts with Riddick crawling on a desert world, about to be killed by its indigenous predators. Riddick won't let that happen — but he realizes he has to let go of the events of the previous two films if he's to get out of this in one piece. We flash back to Riddick's life after he took over the Necromonger army — and it turns out Riddick faced a lot of resentment among the Necromongers, because he didn't accept the vow of becoming the new Lord Marshal of the Necromonger army. More and more Necromonger assassins try to kill Riddick, so eventually he makes a deal with Vaako (Karl Urban) — take Riddick back to Furya so he can start over, and Vaako can have the Necromongers for himself. It all goes south, leading to Riddick being marooned on that desert planet. That's just the first fifteen minutes.
After that, we see a lot of Riddick at the top of his game as a hunter, dealing death and outsmarting other mercs. The action takes place on a planet with three moons, mud demons and trisons, plus two shiploads of mercs trying to hunt down Riddick. It's a definite hard-edged R-rated film. And there are a few threads that set up a fourth film, including hints of a mystery involving his home world of Furya and visions of a woman asking Riddick to come back for the final fight. [Corona Coming Attractions]
Cabin In The Woods:
So we already mentioned that there will definitely be monsters in Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's genre-reinventing horror film. But now co-star Fran Kranz hints that there may be many different monsters in the woods. He adds:
All I know is that at one point I read somewhere that Joss said it was the horror film to end all horror films. I like that. I think that puts it best. Those are high expectations, but it's pretty out there. It goes for it. It really goes for it, so if it's successful, then I think people will have trouble following in his footsteps.
And he says besides the kids in the cabin, there are a group of adults (Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford and Amy Acker) in a separate subplot elsewhere. [Sci Fi Wire]
Cowboys And Aliens:
This movie is looking for lots of extras with facial hair, including mutton chops, mustaches and long goatees. They also want Native American women and children, plus horseback riders, to be in the background of various scenes. [CinemaBlend]
Resident Evil: Afterlife:
You might have to take a bit of dramamine before watching this film, judging from director Paul W.S. Anderson's description of one sequence:
There's a whole fight scene that we're about to shoot that we start next week with Ali Larter and Wentworth Miller which is taken almost — well, is taken shot by shot from [the video game] Resident Evil 5. What's great in the game is it's one continuous shot, where the camera rotates around Wesker fighting the two and he just kicks their asses. But, they never cut which of course, you can do in animation. It's a bit more difficult in live action. So what we're going to do is probably shoot the fight in 10 different segments and then seam it together in visual effects so the finished effect will be as though the camera never stops rotating around. It's really cool because you go around them and then you kind of like, go underneath them. It's going to be a nightmare and everyone's tearing their hair out on set trying to figure out how to do it, especially with the 3-D rigs which are huge.
I Am Number Four:
D.J. Caruso's science-fiction epic, based on the novel series co-written by former Gawker intern James Frey, is roaring forward. British actor Alex Pettyfer is playing the lead role of Number Four, one of nine fugitive aliens living on Earth and being hunted one by one. District 9's Sharlto Copley is in talks to co-star as a member of their home planet's servant class, who's now on Earth as Four's mentor and adult guardian. [Reuters]
Netflix posted a blurb for the sixth season of this show, which gives extremely vague hints about how season five might end. (Or it may have just been written by someone who was making some good guesses):
After fighting Lucifer himself, courageous demon-hunting brothers Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) return for more thrilling adventures and mysteries, pursuing vicious fiends, vampires, spirits and ghouls in order to protect mankind. Season 6 of this paranormal drama series sees the two siblings attempting to overcome dangerous traps, double-crossing allies, monstrous murders and impossible odds.
It's so vague as to be almost meaningless, except it does imply the fight with Lucifer will be in the past. [The Monkey Playground, thanks Eric!]
So even though it sure looks like Chuck and Sarah are a couple, they're still going to keep questioning whether they'll ever get to be together for reals. And in an upcoming episode, they go undercover as a married couple, and they have to exchange real wedding vows, in an eerie echo of the scene where they talk about running away together, from earlier in the season. [TV Guide]
A brief synopsis of the May 3 episode, "Chuck Vs. The Role Models":
Sarah and Chuck train under Laura and Craig Turner (Swoosie Kurtz and Fred Willard), a married CIA team with an impeccable record but stormy relationship; Casey trains Morgan.
Joel Gretsch talks up what to expect from upcoming episodes:
Anna's moving. She's got a reason why she's here, and all that is going to get revealed. Also backstories. Erica's relationship with Tyler is going to be revealed some more, as well as her relationship with her husband. A lot of emotional things will be happening, people will get hurt, my faith will be compromised even more than it already has, and it also gets more solidified. There is really a lot of stuff going on.
I am resisting to add "in the show's writers" in square brackets after "my faith." [The Flick Cast]
Robert Englund says he'd come back for a cameo or whatever, if they asked him. [ShockTillYouDrop]
Not only does Metallo rescue Lois on Friday, but she later returns the favor. And there'll be some tasty Tess-Chloe interplay. [Fancast]
And here are a couple of new clips from the episode:
Star Wars: Clone Wars:
Here's a new clip from Friday's "Zillo Beast Strikes Back":
Those rumors that we might see a glimpse of Jack's ex-wife Sarah, since actor Julie Bowen recently made a trip to Hawaii? Are false. Bowen says she wasn't able to make it back. And yes, the mother of Jack's "flash-sideways" kid is probably Juliet. [Fancast]
Even though the "flash-sideways" takes place in 2004, it may still be after the island timeline somehow. At least, Yunjin Kim assumes that the reason why Jin is no longer sterile in the L.A.-verse is because of the time he spent on the island. Confusing! [TV Guide]
We may be seeing Libby again, says Jorge Garcia. Wholesale deaths — of characters we care about — are coming in the next few episodes, one of which is a game-changer after which nothing will ever be the same again. [E! Online]
Henry Ian Cusick says he won't be in every episode coming up, but we'll see a fair bit of him — he'll be in a lot of people's "flash-sideways." And some other characters will suddenly start being important towards the end. [TV Overmind]