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Star-crossed lovers have no chemistry
Carlo Carlei's "Romeo and Juliet" -- a lush, conventional bodice-ripper of an adaptation with a screenplay (by "Downton Abbey's" Julian Fellowes) that borrows heavily from Shakespeare without quite being Shakespeare -- feels like a quaint throwback to an earlier era in which a little-known director could just up and film a Shakespeare play, without big stars or a modern interpretive concept.
I'm not sure how appealing this movie will be to the teen and young adult audience at which it seems to be aimed: Kids brought up on the cosmic battles and forbidden passions of "Twilight" and "Harry Potter" may find the thwarted longings of the youth of medieval Verona too wanly special-effects-free to hold their interest even for its slim 118-minute running time. Still, there are reasons to see this "Romeo and Juliet" -- it's just a shame that Romeo and Juliet are not chief among them.
Young Ms. Capulet is played by Hailee Steinfeld, whom viewers of the Coen brothers' True Grit will recognize from her performance as the plucky young girl who convinces Jeff Bridges' alcoholic marshal to join her on a mission to avenge her father's murder. Now 16, Steinfeld makes a refreshingly not-out-of-the-box Hollywood Juliet. She's very pretty, but pretty in a normal-girl-on-the-street way, with soft, almost babyish features and expressive, marvelously unplucked thick black eyebrows. Steinfeld has an open, childlike quality that's well suited for showcasing Juliet's youthful impetuousness and idealism, but she doesn't quite pull off the transformation to tragic heroine, occasionally sounding a petulant Valley Girl note that I doubt was intended. (It doesn't help Steinfeld, either, that many of Juliet's best speeches are either cut entirely or pared down to the bare bones: her show-stopping "take him and cut him out in little stars" soliloquy is reduced to a one-line voice-over as we see Juliet scribbling at a desk.)
Romeo fares even worse -- he's played by the model-handsome Douglas Booth, whose magazine-ready looks and polished, slightly stagey manner don't match Steinfeld's more natural style. Though these two actors slightly resemble Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, who played the young lovers in Zeffirelli's 1968 Romeo and Juliet, they have nowhere near the chemistry those performers shared. When the lovers speak that shared sonnet at the masked dance where they meet -- "If I profane with my unworthiest hand," etc. -- we should be almost swooning for them to lean in and kiss after the final rhyme. Instead, the fatal smooch almost seems to come before we're ready for it -- maybe because the sonnet as it appears here isn't quite a sonnet, but a chopped-up mélange of Shakespeare quotes and Fellowes paraphrases that does no favors to the latter writer.
One element of Romeo and Juliet that this interpretation does take literally is its setting, described in the prologue as "fair Verona, where we lay our scene." The film was shot in Verona, Mantua and a few other medieval Italian towns, and the locations are gorgeous: Every scene seems to take place in a different fresco-adorned palace or pristinely preserved church. (In a strange conceit, Romeo is an amateur sculptor and often receives friends while standing in an airy room full of half-carved marble busts.) If you get bored with the familiar travails of the characters in the foreground, you can always focus on what's happening with the painted angels, monks and saints who crowd the walls behind them.
There's also some fun minor star-spotting to be done in the smaller roles. Stellan Skarsgård gets his Paul Scofield on as the Duke of Verona, sternly admonishing the squabbling Capulets and Montagues from under an awesome hat. Damian Lewis glares and growls and all but rubs his hands together with evil glee as Juliet's martinet of a father (rendered, in this unsubtle version, as a borderline child abuser). Kodi Smit-McPhee, a 17-year-old Australian actor who was memorable as Viggo Mortenson's son in the phenomenally depressing Cormac McCarthy adaptation The Road, stands out as Romeo's loyal cousin Benvolio, whose efforts to make peace only tighten the knot of doom. And Lesley Manville, a favorite actress of Mike Leigh's, shines in the role of Juliet's chatty, adoring nurse.
But it's Paul Giamatti who unexpectedly steals the show as Friar Lawrence, who in this curiously focused adaptation emerges almost as the hero of the story. The lovers -- and the audience -- log some serious time with this wry, skeptical man of the cloth as he potters among his cloister-garden herbs (one of which will later help Juliet fake her own death), and by the time they meet their final fate in that grim charnel house, it's the Friar's horrified reaction that channels our own. "Go forth, and have more talk of these sad things," urges an unseen narrator in the closing epilogue. I'm not sure this minor adaptation can count on that kind of word of mouth, but the source material should survive until the next round.
Stevens (@thehighsign) is Slate's film critic.


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The U.S. Catholic Church today is undergoing profound cultural, social, and leadership transitions. It's at the parish level that conflicts arise and new pastoral approaches are created.
Three Catholics—one white, one Hispanic, and one Vietnamese—walk into a church on Sunday. (If you thought that I was going to say that they walked into a bar, I know a few of those stories as well.) These Catholics and their families are members of St. Patrick Parish in Lawrence, Massachusetts, which serves Catholics in three different languages: English, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
St. Patrick's has been my home parish for nearly a decade. My wife and I came to the parish to work in Hispanic ministry, and from the time we arrived until now it has been a source of transforming experiences.
St. Patrick's experience is not unique. In parishes throughout the United States today, families from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds come to the same church to celebrate the sacraments and to nourish their faith in different languages. They are active members of the same community while belonging to networks of relationships shaped by their particular cultural traditions.
That such multicultural parishes are becoming more and more common, of course, does not mean that no tensions arise, but these are natural to the transitions that these communities are undergoing.
This is not the first time that the American Catholic experience has been deeply transformed by cultural diversity; neither will it be the last. Many older Catholics still remember the vibrancy of national parishes, where families celebrated their faith in their own languages and affirmed their varying cultural identities. These close-knit, almost independent communities shaped the identity of millions of European-born Catholics and their descendants.
By the middle of the 20th century millions of American Catholics moved out of their close-knit neighborhoods and joined middle-class society. Access to higher education, a more professional workforce, and deep changes in the life of the church helped shape a new phase for Catholicism.
Catholics employed a stronger voice in society, their schools became highly respected, their political presence increased significantly, and whole families transitioned into the middle class. That transition meant greater social and political participation and was about being both fully Catholic and fully American.
In the past 10 years, we have witnessed the acceleration of a profound demographic shift. Only five decades ago the vast majority of Catholics in the country shared a mostly European American background. Today the U.S. Catholic landscape looks quite different. Approximately 2.7 percent of U.S. Catholics are Asian and Pacific, 3.7 percent are African American, and the fastest growing group is that of Hispanic Catholics, who already make up 40 percent (possibly more) of the total American Catholic population. It is estimated that in about 15 years half of all U.S. Catholics will be Hispanic.
Clearly the church in the United States is undergoing rapid and profound changes that are already transforming the cultural, social, and religious identity of Catholics. While some are determined to replicate or to hold on to past models of being church, such attempts will only prevent us from being creative in responding to the challenges of our times.
In today's church I see three major transitions that require attention
1. Cultural transition
As U.S. Catholicism is rapidly moving from a European American cultural experience to one that is largely Hispanic and multicultural, celebrating liturgies in two or more languages while integrating different cultural traditions has become increasingly common. However, similar to the nativist calls for "English only" policies in the larger society, this development has caused some parishioners to demand that Mass be celebrated in English—in what they define as the "traditional way."
Even if it is true that U.S.-born generations of Hispanics are already integrating into a commonly shared experience, this does not mean that they should have to abandon their cultural traditions and their families' languages. Different cultural practices, symbols, and languages can profoundly enrich the common Catholic liturgical experience, and we should be creative in integrating them.
Only 12 years ago St. Patrick Parish served primarily Catholics of Irish ancestry in a city where more than 70 percent of the population was Hispanic. Today, implementing the city's pastoral plan, St. Patrick offers Mass in Spanish—as do all Catholic parishes in Lawrence—as well as in Vietnamese.
Holy Week services were initially celebrated in separate languages, but pastoral leaders soon agreed that moving toward bilingual rituals was the most appropriate way to foster and express the unity of the community in worship.
When the change was announced, a number of parishioners protested, saying they would never attend bilingual services. Some of them went to other parishes.
"I do not know Spanish, and I was not getting anything out of these celebrations," remembers Sister Sheila Buckley, a Sister of Charity who was born in Lawrence, received all her sacraments at St. Patrick, and taught at the parochial school for several decades. "Mass is very important to me, and I did not want to miss what was happening, especially the readings. Why should I go to a Mass in a language that I did not understand?"
The pastoral team committed to planning services that honored the beauty of the liturgy while integrating some cultural traditions and Spanish- and Vietnamese-language texts into these liturgies. The team strove to not make it exceptionally burdensome to parishioners.
Although initially somewhat reluctantly, Buckley, along with hundreds of parishioners, decided to attend the multilingual services during Holy Week. She has gained a better understanding not only of the liturgy, but also of her community. "People are good," she says. "We all are trying to get closer to God."
Today hundreds of parishioners look forward to the various multilingual services, while others are still struggling with this transition.
In this cultural transition it is important for parishes to honor the religious practices that are central to the spiritual life of each of their groups. European American Catholicism is very rich in its devotional traditions, and much more could be done to revitalize those practices.
Hispanic Catholics and other groups coming to parishes throughout the country bring the vibrancy and spontaneity of popular Catholicism. Expressions of popular Catholicism—such as altarcitos (little home altars), Passion reenactments, and Marian devotions—nourish and sustain the spiritual lives of millions of Catholics.
Pastoral leaders must learn what practices relate best to the experiences of the people they serve. At St. Patrick, parish leaders first instituted a celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe as a way to encourage the Marian devotion of Hispanics. However, since most Latinos in the community are from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, not many responded to that invitation.
For Dominicans and Puerto Ricans Our Lady of Guadalupe does not have the same appeal as she does among Mexicans. Today the two most popular Marian celebrations in the parish are the feast of Our Lady of Altagracia (protector of the Dominican Republic) and the feast of Our Lady of the Divine Providence (patroness of Puerto Rico).
2. Social transition
In the middle of the 20th century U.S. Catholicism moved from neighborhood enclaves into mainstream society. Many Catholic families are now solidly middle class. But not all Catholics have "made it." Millions of them do not experience the middle-class benefits of education, professional achievement, and economic stability.
Most Catholic immigrants are not middle class and lack the social and economic stability of their fellow Catholics. Because they constitute the fastest-growing sector among Catholics in the country, the church's social transition back to the barrio and the city is deeply reshaping the identity of the Catholic experience in this country.
The church as a whole needs to reassess its priorities. Middle-class Catholicism is declining in numbers and influence in our society, while Catholicism as a whole continues to grow. It is tempting to switch to "survival mode" to save the little stability gained a few decades ago. It seems easier to cling to the securities already in hand than to venture into the difficult task of helping poor Catholics deal with their many needs. But I don't think these options reflect the way of Jesus.
U.S. Catholicism in the 21st century will thrive not by looking with nostalgia at a glorious past but by embracing the present and the future and by renewing our ministries to the poor and the marginalized.
In 2006 St. Patrick Parish opened its Cor Unum Meal Center to provide meals to poor people. Most of the Cor Unum guests are poor Catholics from many different ethnic backgrounds.
The parish built the meal center against significant odds and resistance. Many parishioners thought that it was an "unnecessary" financial risk. Others opposed the idea because of the kind of people it would attract—hungry, poor families. Still others thought that it would simply fail.
Today Cor Unum feeds more than 400 hungry people every day (including entire families), does not cost the parish one cent, is run by more than 500 volunteers and only one staff person, receives donations from dozens of businesses, and has turned out to be a great opportunity through which hundreds of people meet Christ in the other. Clearly Cor Unum was the right choice.
Susie Pino migrated from Ecuador almost a decade ago. Soon after her arrival she found work in a factory where she earned the minimum wage. Though this was not much, it was enough for her to make ends meet at home, where she lives with her 10-year-old son. She heard about St. Patrick Parish and joined the community.
When the parish built the meal center, Pino felt compelled to serve as a volunteer. There she helped to serve free meals to some of the poorest people in the city, many of them children. Little did she know that the economic crisis would leave her unemployed—and poorer herself. Now she and her son are regular guests at Cor Unum, where she continues to serve as a volunteer.
"There are many people who are in the same situation as I am, and I think that I can help," says Pino, speaking in Spanish. At Cor Unum Catholics continuously discover new ways of living out their faith. It has led Pino to reassess her thinking: "It is really hard not to have money to buy food for me and my son and to pay the rent. Sometimes I ask where God is in all this, but when I come to Cor Unum and see what people do for one another, I begin to get some answers to my questions."
Ministry in the large cities and the barrios requires church leaders to learn about the reality of people living in the margins of society. It requires them to learn the many languages with which Catholics articulate their faith experiences. And it requires the revision of "traditional" models of ministry, the setting aside of preconceived theories, and the impact of pastoral models and resources imported from other countries.
Understanding the current profound transition must lead us to question the allocation of resources assigned to serve the spiritual and social needs of Catholics living in barrios and poor neighborhoods. In many places they are the majority. But where are our pastoral centers located? What portion of our budgets is assigned to, for instance, Hispanic ministry? And why are dozens of inner-city Catholic schools being closed precisely at the time when Hispanic Catholics double and triple in numbers around them? Are there really no alternatives?
3. Leadership transition
The current transformation of the church is a unique opportunity for all Catholic leaders to rethink current models of ministry that may not effectively respond to the challenges of working in culturally diverse contexts.
Some church leaders seem to be placing all of their bets on assimilation into "mainstream" Catholicism. Yet Hispanic and other ethnic groups are forcing the church to envision new ways of being Catholic that can integrate the richness of their many cultural experiences. Even Catholics of European backgrounds are increasingly reclaiming their cultural roots. This is great.
Other church leaders feel more comfortable with models that segregate ethnic and language groups in their own communities. Unfortunately, this solution is both counterproductive to the common good of the Catholic community and limits the impact of minority leaders' contributions to the larger community.
As the number of Hispanic Catholics has been rapidly increasing in the pews, such growth is not equally reflected at all levels of leadership in the church. In some sectors of our church there has been a lack of clear commitment to fostering leadership among Hispanic Catholics. This has contributed to the unfortunate perception of the Hispanic presence as merely an addendum or secondary concern.
That inadequate attitude, often expressed in tokenism, translates into little or no consultation at the decisive stages of projects that affect the larger church community, participation in the planning processes that look at the present and future of ministry, and attention to the plurality of voices and experiences that Hispanic Catholics bring to the table.
St. Patrick is not a perfect community where all leadership issues have been resolved. Some good steps have been taken while adjustments need to be made to continue our growth. One model that has worked well in the parish has been the openness to collaborative ministry that clergy and lay ministers have embraced.
In Hispanic ministry my wife, Guadalupe, and I work alongside the two parish priests and the rest of the pastoral staff in serving the needs of all Catholics in the community. Each leader values the strengths of the others and brings his or her own unique perspective to the table.
Father Paul McManus, the parochial vicar, spent five years as a missionary priest in Ecuador. Our pastor, Father Paul O'Brien, has lived in Italy and has done missionary work in India. Guadalupe is a Latina raised and educated in the United States. And I was born in Latin America, where I was active in ministry, and I have worked with Hispanic communities in the United States for more than a decade.
For all of us at times it has been tempting to impose our own ideas about what "should be," but working together as a team has led us to realize that Hispanic ministry always has to be shaped by the unique circumstances of Hispanics in this country as well as those of the larger Catholic community. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to Hispanic ministry.
St. Patrick's, along with the rest of the church, is affected by larger concerns such as the clergy shortage and financial pressures. What distinguishes our parish from others is that the conversation about leadership in a time of transition has at least begun, that most groups in the community are actively involved in this conversation, and that together parish leaders have accepted the responsibility to search for the best pastoral models to serve a trilingual community. This is almost half the job.
Into the future
Throughout the United States the Catholic Church today needs to seriously reflect on what it means to be Catholic in the 21st century and respond to the challenges that are being posed by these three transitions in our parish communities. We are a culturally diverse body, and all models of ministry and theological reflection need to be responsive and responsible to this reality of diversity.
In the midst of these transitions, the idea of Hispanic ministry is also being transformed. In many places to speak of Hispanic ministry is to speak simply of ministry, and vice versa. U.S. Hispanic Catholics are in a unique position today to assume more responsibility in building communities and institutions that serve the needs of all groups in the church.
We recognize that we need to work together with all other groups of Catholics. And in turn, all other sectors in the church must recognize that Hispanic voices and contributions are essential and indispensable to the American Catholic experience today.
St. Patrick's is a good example of a parish that is currently undergoing cultural, social, and leadership transitions. We still have a lot to learn from other communities that have already gone through these transitions, while at the same time we can share some of what we have learned with those who are just beginning the process.
Considering the trends in demographics, very few Catholic parishes in the United States will remain unchanged during the next two decades. This is why any time our white, Hispanic, and Vietnamese friends come to St. Patrick's with their families, they participate in an experience that is deeply transforming American Catholicism.
This article appeared in the June 2010 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 75, No. 6, pages 17-21).
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"Extra" caught up with lovely actress Cameron Diaz as she was being honored with the CinemaCon Female Star of the Year award in Las Vegas -- and asked her about the rumor that she's developing a movie to star in with real-life beau, baseball star Alex Rodriguez.
"I don't know where these things come from," Diaz laughed. "It's absolutely not true. I don't write. Wow, when did I become a writer?"
Diaz also chatted about how much fun she had making "Bad Teacher" with Jason Segel and her ex, Justin Timberlake. "It was so much fun. That's the perfect example of just doing a movie to have a good time. There's no other reason to do that movie. Both Jason and Justin, who are two of the funniest guys... I felt really lucky we all got to do that together."
"Bad Teacher" starts class June 24.
2011 Summer Movie Guide
'Thor' (May 6)
Who: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Idris Elba, Ray Stevenson, Kat Dennings, Stellan Skarsgard; directed by Kenneth Branagh What: "Thor," the latest Marvel comic book adaptation follows the powerful but arrogant warrior Thor (Hemsworth), who is stripped of his superpowers and cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard to live on Earth. Once there, he warms up to his new environs and soon becomes the humans' defender when angry gods come calling.
'Bridesmaids' (May 13)
Who: Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper, Wendi McLendon-Covey; directed by Paul Feig What: A comedy centered on two women (Wiig and Byrne) battling to plan their friend's wedding party.
'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' (May 20)
Who: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush, Ian McShane; directed by Rob Marshall What: Capt. Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive Fountain of Youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it, too.
'The Hangover Part II' (May 27)
Who: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, ZZach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Liam Neeson; directed by Todd Phillips What: Phil, Stu, Alan and Doug travel to Bangkok for Stu's wedding. And in what manner of mayhem will they find themselves in this time?
'Kung Fu Panda 2' (May 26)
Who: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Seth Rogen, David Cross, Jackie Chan, Gary Oldman, Dustin Hoffman; directed by Jennifer Yuh What: Po (Black) joins forces with a group of new kung-fu masters to take on an old enemy with a deadly new weapon.
'X-Men: First Class' (June 3)
Who: James McAvoy, January Jones, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence; directed by Matthew Vaughn What: Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr were archenemies and took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men.
'Super 8' (June 10)
Who: Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Joel Courtney, Ron Eldard; directed by J.J. Abrams What: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. It's something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
'Bad Teacher' (June 17)
Who: Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, Jason Segel, Phyllis Smith, Lucy Punch; directed by Jake Kasdan What: A comedy centered around a foul-mouthed, junior high teacher (Diaz) who, after being dumped by her sugar daddy, begins to woo a colleague (Timberlake) — a move that pits her against a well-loved teacher (Punch).
'Green Lantern' (June 17)
Who: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong; directed by Martin Campbell What: A test pilot is granted a mystical green ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers — and membership into an intergalactic squadron tasked with keeping peace within the universe.
'Cars 2' (June 24)
Who: Owen Wilson, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Michael Keaton, Jason Isaacs, Bonnie Hunt; directed by John Lasseter and Brad Lewis What: Racing star Lightning McQueen (Wilson) teams up with his best friend Mater for an international adventure as they go up against the world's fastest cars.
'Larry Crowne' (July 1)
Who: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Bryan Cranston, Wilmer Valderrama; directed by Tom Hanks What: After losing his job, a middle-aged man reinvents himself by going back to college.
'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' (July 1)
Who: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, Hugo Weaving, John Malkovich, Patrick Dempsey; directed by Michael Bay What: The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and learn its secrets, which could turn the tide in the Transformers' final battle.
'Horrible Bosses' (July 8)
Who: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Colin Farrell; directed by Seth Gordon What: Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness.
'Zookeeper' (July 8)
Who: Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Ken Jeong; directed by Frank Coraci What: The animals at one particular zoo decide to break their code of silence in order to help their lovable zookeeper gain the attention of one particular woman.
'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II' (July 15)
Who: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Ralph Fiennes; directed by David Yates What: The end begins as Harry, Ron, and Hermione go back to Hogwarts to find and destroy Voldemorts final Horcruxes, but when Voldemort finds out about their mission, the biggest battle begins and life as they know it will never be the same again.
'Captain America: The First Avenger' (July 22)
Who: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Stanley Tucci, Tommy Lee Jones, Hayley Atwell; directed by Joe Johnston What: After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending America's ideals.
'Friends with Benefits' (July 22)
Who: Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis; directed by Will Gluck What: The relationship between two friends gets complicated when they decide to get romantic. Wait, didn't they make this already with Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher?
'Cowboys and Aliens' (July 29)
Who: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde; directed by Jon Favreau What: It's 1873 and roughneck cowboys rule the Wild West. But when a spaceship arrives to take over the Earth, a small posse must band together to defeat the aliens. Oh yeah, this is gonna be goooood.
'The Smurfs' (August 5)
Who: Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Hank Azaria, with the Smurf vocal talent: Jonathan Winters, Katy Perry, Alan Cumming, George Lopez, Paul Reubens; directed by Raja Gosnell What: When the evil wizard Gargamel (Azaria) chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world and into ours — in fact, smack dab in the middle of Central Park. Uh-oh!
'Conan the Barbarian' (August 19)
Who: Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Ron Perlman, Rose McGowan; directed by Marcus Nispel What: A remake of the Arnold Schwarzenegger cult classi, the film chronicles the tale of Conan the Cimmerian and his adventures across the continent of Hyboria. He is on a quest to avenge the murder of his father and the slaughter of his village. What else?


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SPN returns December 3. Caged Heat will have Grandpa Samuel, Castiel and Meg. TVOvermind has a sneak peek clip and some spoilers.
Zap2it has some big time spoilers for Caged Heat. (I didn't read them.)
Oh No They Didn't has some cute pics of Mr. and Mrs. Ackles at a recent Lakers game.
Boo! Jared Padelecki lost out to The Vampire Diaries Paul Wesley in Entertainment Weekly's Under-appreciated Entertainer of the Year poll.
A fan has started a 1,000,000 Fans to Get Jensen Ackles to host SNL facebook page.
Lastly I leave you with this LOL parody that somehow escaped my attention until now. Make sure you pay close attention to the awesome signs in Stupornatural.


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Nokia Announces the Cheapest Lumia Smartphone Yet, the Lumia 610
BARCELONA — We didn't get a new flagship Lumia from Nokia at the Mobile World Congress today, but we did get a low-end model: the Lumia 610.
With only 256 MB of RAM, it's definitely the least powerful Lumia we've seen so far. However, Nokia claims that the good work Microsoft has done with Windows Phone 7.5 has enabled them to expand the platform onto less powerful devices. In other words, the Lumia 610 shouldn't feel too sluggy in day to day operation, though Nokia is still hiding the rest of the device's specifications.
Like all Lumias, the 610 comes with a neat bundle of extras. Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn integration are all present, as is Xbox Live for those who are into mobile gaming.
The device also comes with Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive, Nokia Transport and Nokia Music.
Nokia Lumia 610 comes in blue, silver, magenta and black, and retails for 189 euros.
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For the past six years, DelMonaco pasta shop, takeout and catering has offered Montrealers the very best freshly made pasta, pizza and sauces. Luigi Sabelli, Maurizio Frate and Claudio D'Uva have made the Kirkland shop a success by creating the kinds of homemade Italian foods that they had loved as children.
"We're Mamma's boys," Sabelli said. "This means we revere how much our mothers knew about cooking fabulous food that is healthy, satisfying, and affordable."
"Our mammas knew what it was to raise families, to handle busy schedules and work within a budget," Frate added. "We have tapped into their wisdom and love of family to create DelMonaco — a place where Montrealers can find authentic Italian food that pleases the palate, fills the stomach, and warms your heart."
Thanks to West Island mammas, DelMonaco is six years old and growing strong. And judging by the many testimonials DelMonaco's has received from its customers, Sabelli and Frate are making their mammas proud in the kitchen. You can find those testimonials on their website (www.delmonaco.ca), but here's a sampling:
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The 2012 Norco Team is finalized and ready to kick off the new year. There are some big additions for the coming year and we are VERY excited about it. Through nearly every discipline there are riders representing Norco. Whether it be XC, DH, Trials, Slopestyle, road, cyclocross or nearly any other discipline, we have someone covering it.
The Norco Facory Team
The Norco Factory Team is back for another year. The stacked roster of riders includes Ryan Leech, Jay Hoots, Mislav Mironovic, Darcy Turenne, Ludovic May, Sam Dueck, Andrew Watson, Catherine Vipond and Nick Geddes. This team of world class athletes will yet again be traveling the globe competing, advocating and representing Norco and their other amazing Sponsors. The Norco Factory Team is supported by the best brands out there including Shimano, Kenda Tires, Rockshox Suspension, Ryders Eyewear, WTB, FSA, Gravity, SixSixOne, E-Thirteen, Ergon, Park Tool, Minoura and nuun.
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Oil executives are resigned to a rise in security costs which will be steep even for an industry used to working in dangerous places, as they strengthen defences against militants and cyber attackers alike.
Officials at the energy industry's biggest annual gathering believe investment in some new projects may slow, particularly in North Africa, following last week's siege at an Algerian gas plant and a 2012 cyber attack on Saudi oil computers.
"Our industry is traditionally linked to political risks but last week's events will lead to a major review of security spending," said Andrei Kuzayev, who heads overseas operations at Russia's Lukoil.
This would inevitably mean a big rise in costs, Mr. Kuzayev said at the gathering held on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. The Algerian siege staged by Islamist militants ended with heavy loss of life among foreign hostages when government forces stormed the plant deep in the Sahara desert.
Industry officials are usually reluctant to discuss their security arrangements in detail. Mr. Kuzayev, who spends his time between operations in countries including Iraq, Egypt and Ghana, said security usually accounted for 1 to 3 per cent of a project's overall costs.
Although security was not necessarily decisive in final investment decisions, costs were already rising rapidly.
Mr. Kuzayev cited Egypt, where former president Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in a 2011 uprising. "We had to evacuate people from Egypt three times during the revolution. Basically, the main take-out here is that you cannot relax even for a second," he said.
Oil firms are experienced in operating in turbulent countries but often the threats are greater than ever before.
Two operators of the Algerian gas plant, London-based BP and Norway's Statoil, experienced their worst security incident in the siege staged by jihadists, who said they were retaliating against France's intervention in Mali.
BP has operated in Algeria for more than 60 years and the energy industry there suffered no major attacks even during a civil war in the 1990s between the secular government and Islamists.
But during the siege major oil companies had to evacuate dozens of expatriate workers and review security across North Africa in Libya and Egypt. Those worries are spreading as French forces battle Islamists across the Sahara in Mali.
Nigeria has already faced rebel attacks on its oil industry in the south and Islamist violence in the north. President Goodluck Jonathan said in Davos this week that he feared the attacks in the Sahara could spread through west Africa if the instability in Mali were not contained.
The Sahara region is awash with armed men, particularly since the revolution in Libya which overthrew Moammar Gadhafi.
BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg acknowledged the problem in the region but noted Algeria's tough response when it sent in special forces to end the siege.
"It is clear that with so many weapons around and all sorts of veterans, it will be tough. It is hard to speculate if it can become the new Afghanistan, but certainly not in Algeria, which made its response very clear," he said.
Attackers on the oil industry don't necessarily carry guns. Saudi Arabia said in December that it had suffered a cyber attack on 30,000 computers last August, aimed at stopping oil and gas output of the world's biggest crude exporter.
"If you don't protect your computer systems, you cannot do anything. Same if you don't protect your oil wells. We will have to do our utmost so they don't attack our world," an emotional Total SA chief executive officer Christophe de Margerie told Reuters.
Daniel Yergin, a Pulitzer prize-winning writer on the energy industry who chaired the energy meeting at the Swiss ski resort, said security has emerged as a paramount issue since the Saudi attacks.
"Cyber security and security of physical energy infrastructure emerges as the key concern," he said, noting developments such as the looting of arms depots in Libya during its revolution. "The weapons have become so much more available to non-state actors in the past two years," he said.
Faced with the threats, producing countries are bound to experience unwelcome consequences.
Crescent Petroleum CEO Majid Jafar said North Africa will likely avoid a sudden drop in energy production but could suffer a slowdown in investment and projects. "Majors are especially careful with security risks, given that they are seen these days as national flag carriers," said Mr. Jafar, whose firm is active in Egypt and in autonomous Kurdistan in northern Iraq.
International Energy Agency chief economist Fatih Birol believes governments in the region will have to work harder to attract investment in their energy industries.
"The Algerian attack will make life more challenging for everyone in the region. Producing countries will have to make terms more attractive, and guarantee political stability," he said.


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CHICAGO, Ill. (August 30, 2012) – The Chicago Fire Soccer Club announced today that it has agreed to terms to transfer Marco Pappa to SC Heerenveen. Pappa will join the Dutch Eredivisie side immediately. The club announced Aug. 13 that Pappa would join the Dutch club at the conclusion of the Chicago Fire's 2012 MLS season. Per MLS and club policy, terms of the transfer were not disclosed.
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Now on to the complaints, things I don't like that would make me want to buy a new car rather than sticking it out with this one with a new battery set:
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2. Can I switch Eco mode to be the main drive mode instead of D? Why do I have to flip the shifter twice to get it? And for that matter, why can't I program in my own regen preferences?
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With some shows off for the holidays already, this week's televisual focus falls to two lost girls: Syfy's reimagination of Lewis Carroll's Alice, and the two-hour return of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. Viva the gogglebox!
It's the usual Monday evening decision between Fox's House, wherein the West Wing's Joshua Malina guests as a former patient of Wilson's who's now a little bit too close to dying for everyone's comfort, and NBC's Heroes, which promises an "unexpected destination" for Claire and Peter, who are struggling to come to terms with the truth. Both of them air at 8pm, so feel free to choose House and read our Heroes recap, instead. You know it'll be easier on everyone.
Prophets of Science Fiction on the Science Channel at 9pm is about it, now that V has slunk its way off-screen for a few months (And am I the only person who spent the last episode waiting for a big lizard reveal, only to be thwarted? They even talked about skinning an alien just to tease us, the bastards). But in many ways, this documentary about science fiction creators whose work predicted the future is likely to be less frustrating than ABC's alien drama, even if it may not be more entertaining.
While Mythbusters carries on Kari-less on Discovery at 9pm (Adam and Jamie look into whether you can escape from jail using antacids, while I continue to unfairly criticize newgirl Jessi Combs purely because of my love for the missing Ms. Byron), ABC's Eastwick begins to draw to a conclusion with new episode "Tasers and Mind Erasers."
With the CW shows on reruns, your evening viewing is wide open for a helping of Flashforward at 8 pm on ABC and Fringe at 9 on Fox. This week's FF promises to reveal more about Demetri's future death, Zoey's flashforward and, most excitingly, what actually caused the flashforward itself. Meanwhile, Fringe gets out the Lovecraftian influence as "Snakehead" reveals a spooky squidlike creature burrowing into host bodies. Calamari will never be the same again.
If new episodes of Ghost Whisperer and Medium on CBS (at 8pm and 9, respectively) or Stargate Universe and Sanctuary on Syfy (at 9pm and 10, respectively) don't float your boat — Although, SGU sees Young handing over command of the Destiny to Camille when he's accused of murder aboard the ship, so maybe you should tune into that just in case — then there's only one thing that could take your attention (Well, beside Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Cartoon Network at 9).
And that's the return of Dollhouse, with two new episodes starting on Fox at 8pm. "The Public Eye/The Left Hand" sees Senator Wesley From Angel finally stop talking and start doing something in his so-far-useless campaign against the Dollhouse, while Topher and Adelle meet a programmer with a connection to Echo and - Oh, never mind. All you want to know is this: It's the episode with Summer Glau. See? Now you'll tune in.
NBC is showing the best Fantastic Four movie ever made, The Incredibles at 8:30pm. I'm sure most of you already own it on DVD though, right?
Sure, Sunday night still belongs to The Venture Bros (a new episode is on Cartoon Network at midnight), but we're still kind of tempted by Syfy's Alice revival, from the people who brought you Tin Man. Bringing the story up to date and adding in various contemporary re-readings of famous scenes, there's always the possibility of things going totally wrong and it turning out to be another Prisoner, but we have hope nonetheless...


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– WWE's website has published a statement from Vince McMahon regarding the injured WWE Champion CM Punk and TLC. Here's part of the article and a photo of the statement:
"WWE Chairman Mr. McMahon has released a statement through his office, speaking to the developing situation surrounding the WWE TLC pay-per-view. Because of the previously reported knee injury to WWE Champion CM Punk, suffered this past Monday night on Raw, Punk is unable to compete at WWE TLC against Ryback Sunday, Dec. 16.
In the statement, Mr. McMahon also announced that a Six-Man Tables, Ladders and Chairs Match has been added to the pay-per-view, in which Ryback will team up with WWE Tag Team Champions Team Hell No to battle The Shield. Furthermore, for the first time ever, the winner of this TLC Match will be determined via pinfall or submission."


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The Team Kenda p/b Geargrinder has finalized its 2012 roster, adding Laura Ralston, 2011 Collegiate National Criterium Champion and collegiate athlete at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The team has one Canadian rider - Cara Gillis.
In 2012, the team will focus on the National Criterium Championships (NCC) and National Racing Calendar (NRC) events coupled with a heavy presence at the Tour of America's Dairyland, in which the team placed second last season.
Geargrinder, an eco-friendly clothing and accessories company, will be releasing another cycling-inspired product in 2012, which will be visible on Team Kenda athletes.
"After watching Paul Forsythe's management team shape Team Kenda and seeing how these women worked together and motivated each other this past season, Geargrinder is proud to be back in 2012, offering an even stronger level of support for this team of role model athletes," said Paul C. Weaver, co-founder of Geargrinder Active Lifestyle Apparel and Accessories. "Geargrinder believes in doing what it can to secure the future of cycling, and Team Kenda has not only solid Elite and Regional teams but strong up-and-coming talent on the Junior and U-23 teams as well."
"It's important that Team Kenda have the proper resources to keep the momentum building so they can be serious contenders at the NRC and NCC races, like Tour of America's Dairyland (ToAD)," said Weaver. "Last year at ToAD, Team Kenda took the Overall Oarsman Capital Category 2 Amateur Green Jersey, and placed two racers in the Overall Pro Women Top 10...will be great to see Team Kenda atop the NCC ToAD podium next year."
"Kenda USA is proud to be the banner sponsor of Team Kenda Tire p/b Geargrinder for the ninth season. They are the one of the best and largest women's bicycle racing teams in the country and we are confident that this is going to be their beast season yet," stated Stefano Lumbaca, Road/Cyclocross Marketing and Product Development.
Team Kenda p/b Geargrinder Elite 2012 Roster:
Amity Elliot (Tabernash, CO)
Beth Lauer (Whitewater, WI)
Cara Gillis (Fredericton, New Brunswick - Canada)
Colleen Paine (Dahlonega, GA)
Gwen Inglis (Lakewood, CO)
Jacqueline Denny (Liberty, MO)
Jamie Dinkins (Asheville, NC)
Jane Weakley (Dayton, OH)
Jen Greenberg (Chicago, IL)
Kat Clark (Pooler, GA)
Krystal Lacy (Farmersville, OH)
Laura Rolston (Cambridge, MA)
Mitzie Goldman (Atlanta, GA)
Shailie Sanbrooks (Wellington, New Zealand)
Stacey Jensen (New York, NY)
Zayda McGuire (Portland, OR)
The Team regrets the loss of Megan Baab, who was fatally struck by a vehicle while training on December 15, 2011, near Lees McRae, where she attended college on a cycling scholarship.
Team Kenda Women's Cycling receives support from the following: Kenda USA, Blue Competition Cycles, Plant Solutions, Verge, SRAM, Thomson, Rudy Project, Mercury Wheels, CycleOps, Terry Precision Cycling, Headsweats, Skins, Deen-Gross Eye Centers, Thule, Sportcrafters, Cateye, Ferguson & Associates, Hoo Ha Ride Glide, and Anni Fanni.
About Team Kenda Women's Cycling: Team Kenda began in 1999 as Team Ameritech with nine riders who excelled at bicycle racing. Over the years, the team has steadily grown in size and now boasts NRC/NCC Elite, as well as Southeast, Mid-Atlantic Elite, Midwest, and West Regional Teams. The team competes in the United States focusing on the National Race Calendars, both NRC and NCC. In 2010, the team finished 8th among 73 teams in the National Racing Calendar (NRC) Women's Team competition and 8th in the 2011 NRC campaign. (www.teamkenda.com, www.facebook.com/teamkenda)
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Dimensions: 50cm/21 inch(Deviation exists due to different measuring way.)
Package Size: 48x23x14cm (L x W x H)
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-Doll's limbs can be movable and can sit and lie down, but can't stand up and speak.Dolls can enter the water to accompany the baby bath
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DON PESCI: Outlawing mayhem is not the answer
The mass murder in Sandy Hook has spurred an effort, not always successful in the past, to bum-rush gun restriction legislation through both the U.S. Congress and Connecticut's General Assembly.
State gun control laws, as a general rule, are far less successful than national laws because the effective reach of state laws ends at the border. Criminals bent on mayhem may acquire weapons "illegal" in Connecticut by purchasing them outside the state, acquiring weapons on the black market or simply stealing them in states in which laws are less restrictive than those of Connecticut. National gun control laws would be uniform and apply in every state in the union. Connecticut's gun control laws, the fourth most restrictive in the nation, were not successful in preventing a murderous assault by Adam Lanza on the Sandy Hook Elementary school in which 6 faculty members and 20 children were cruelly slaughtered in two classrooms by a determined murderer who apparently stole an arsenal of weapons from his mother, his first victim.
According to one report, Mr. Lanza attempted to purchase a weapon from a gun shop in Danbury sometime before he launched his murder spree but was discouraged by a Connecticut law requiring a waiting period before the purchase of a weapon could be completed.
Immediately following Mr. Lanza's assault, public attention became focused on the weapons used by Mr. Lanza. Some Connecticut law makers twice attempted unsuccessfully to redraft the state's gun laws, once in 2001 and again in 2011, to ban one of the weapons purportedly used by Mr. Lanza, a Bushmaster rifle. On both occasions, additional gun restrictions failed to pass the General Assembly.
In 2001, according to Assistant Majority Leader in the Senate Martin Looney, an attempt was made to add to a list of proscribed weapons the very weapon used by Mr. Lanza in his assault. While the 2001 bill cleared the Senate on a bi-partisan vote, it "unfortunately ran into some trouble in the state House," then as now dominated by Democrats, said Mr. Looney. The bill, according to recent remarks made by the Senate leader in a news account, was not able to survive a "well-orchestrated effort by sportsmen and other gun enthusiasts... We wanted to include those guns" - the Bushmaster rifle used by Mr. Lanza - "or knockoffs. If that bill had been passed in 2001, it would not have been legal to have that Bushmaster rifle, the gun that was used in Newtown last Friday."
Mr. Looney neglected to mention that in 2002, according to an August 2012 Office of Legislative Research report issued, the Democratic dominated legislature passed a bill that exempted possession of certain kinds of assault weapons from its ban. The bill, which took effect on October 1, 2002, "exempted possession (but not other transactions) of Auto-Ordnance Thompson type; Avtomat Kalashnikov AK-47 type; and MAC-10, MAC-11, and MAC-11 Carbine type assault weapons by anyone who:
"1. purchased legally and in good faith, or otherwise obtained title to, any of these weapons between October 1, 1993 and May 8, 2002;
"2. was not otherwise disqualified or prohibited from possessing them."
Had the legislature in 2001 included the Bushmaster rifle within its list of prohibited firearms, it very likely would have been exempted under the 2002 exemption provision. That exemption would have included Mrs. Lanza's firearm purchases, because she was "not disqualified from possessing the weapons."
It is misleading to suggest that had Bushmaster rifle been included in the 2001 legislation, the massacre in Sandy Hook would not have occurred. One supposes Mr. Looney's supposition was made for theatrical effect in preparation for new legislation that may be passed in the wake of the Sandy Hook murders.
In fact, there appears to be a growing consensus that Mr. Lanza could have been stopped in his murderous mission only by an armed contingent - which is exactly what, happened. Presented with an overwhelming armed force, Mr. Lanza committed suicide. It was the speedy arrival of armed first responders that prevented additional carnage. Anything that shortens the arrival time of first responders - Connecticut Commentary has suggested an alarm system in school, somewhat like fire alarms, directly connected with police stations - might, unlike pointless legislation, save lives. Mr. Lanza, who transported to the school as many as four weapons stolen from his mother, whom he killed, was no respecter of General Assembly legislation.
Don Pesci is a writer who lives in Vernon. E-mail: email@example.com


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The War Party guild has decided to take a radical step in trying to help not just the guild but the UR community as a whole.
It is well documented the number of new players coming into the game has dropped dramatically in recent times. Not only that but many new players who do join are leaving after a few days.
One contribution to this is guilds making unrealistic requirements for players of a lower level to join. So these new players get very little choice in guilds and as a result get very little encouragement to carry on. Made even worse if they apply to a guild who knocks them back without so much as a word spoken between the to. This doesn't apply to all guilds but the majority of guilds who claim a name for themselves request such things.
So as a guild we have made the decision to go the other way. We will now be actively recruiting new players to the game in the hope we can encourage them to stick with it and use it as a regular escape from the stresses of day to day life. Joining in with our active forums, Chat and all the events etc that come with being a war party member.
War Party
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XC-MeRLiN - Tuesday 24/03/2015, 23:03
Colossus - E X C A L I B U R
Bloody hell! If this is play...................
can I join in, please?
XC-MeRLiN - Monday 30/03/2015, 14:14
Colossus - E X C A L I B U R
Interesting proposal, yes, tempting, but no thanks, me sorry ole booty is me own and am not gonna swap it for spring uns.
Babs Hartley - Tuesday 07/04/2015, 19:04
Colossus - TRiNiTY
XC-MeRLiN - Thursday 09/04/2015, 01:41
Colossus - E X C A L I B U R
War Pasty!!! Yummy!!!
Unowen - Thursday 09/04/2015, 13:37
Colossus - E X C A L I B U R
War party sounds like a tricky one
Totally worth it
Babs Hartley - Monday 13/04/2015, 21:36
Colossus - TRiNiTY
Whare potty!


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Owner of 'Heist Jewelry' Store Fights Off Thieves Attempting Jewelry Heist
By R.J. Johnson - @rickerthewriter
August 17, 2019
A jewelry store named 'Heist Jewelry' in Santa Monica lived up to its name Friday afternoon after some thieves attempted to pull off a jewelry heist.
Police say the incident began around 2:35 p.m. when one of the suspects entered the jewelry store with his face covered and used a sledgehammer to smash open one of the display cases. The owner, who was conducting inventory at the time, intervened and pushed the suspect out of the store, according to the Santa Monica Police Department. A second suspect, who was also carrying a hammer, came up to the owner and attempted to hit him with the sledgehammer. At one point during the struggle, the owner of the store managed to take off the suspect's sweater, who then tried concealing his face.
The store's manager told CBSLA, the thieves didn't even get what they came for.
"They took nothing," the store's manager said. "They didn't get anything. We heisted them, they didn't heist us."
The two suspects fled the scene in a waiting vehicle, police said.
A witness to the incident managed to provide a description of the suspect's vehicle, and police caught up with the vehicle and took three people into custody.
Police caught up with a fourth suspect, who missed the getaway car at the initial crime scene.
Three of the four suspects were identified as juveniles and were all booked for robbery and assault. The adult suspect was booked on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a crime, assault with a deadly weapon and robbery.
Police have not identified the suspects.


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