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For your home, vacuuming is your best weapon, but an application of borate crystals, such by Dr. Goodpet's Inside Flea Relief, can be very effective in detering fleas and other pests. While often recommended, diatomaceous earth, I am rather cautious recommending because of inhalant and respiratory concerns.
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- n. - The back of a military formation or procession
- n. - The side of an object that is opposite its front
- n. - The part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- n. - The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- n. - The side that goes last or is not normally seen
- v. - Stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
- v. - Bring up
- v. - Rise up
- v. - Cause to rise up
- v. - Construct, build, or erect
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Science proves it: Money really can buy happiness
By Los Angeles Times (TNS) - Sep 21,2017 - Last updated at Sep 21,2017
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They say money cannot buy happiness, but science begs to differ.
An international research team has demonstrated that you really can make yourself happier by paying other people to do your time-consuming chores.
It does not matter whether you are rich or poor, the new study suggests. If you feel pressed for time, your life satisfaction can be improved by trading money for minutes that you can use as you wish.
The researchers, led by Ashley Whillans, a professor at the Harvard Business School, began with survey data from nearly 4,500 people from the United States, Canada, Denmark and the Netherlands. Survey-takers were asked whether they paid other people to do "unenjoyable daily tasks" in order to "increase their free time".
In 28 per cent of cases, the answer was yes. These folks spent an average of $147.95 per month to buy themselves extra time.
What they lost in currency, they made up for in happiness. Whillans and her colleagues found that the people who traded money for time were more satisfied with life than their counterparts who did not. They also were less likely to say they felt "time stress," a condition that was linked with lower levels of life satisfaction.
Just in case their original question was too narrow, the researchers conducted a second survey that asked more than 1,800 Americans whether they spent money to buy themselves "more free time".
This time, half of the survey-takers answered yes. These folks spent between $80 and $99 per month, on average, so that others would handle chores like cooking, shopping and "household maintenance".
As before, the people who bought themselves time were more satisfied with life than those who did not. And as before, the people who did not employ this strategy were generally less satisfied with life because their lack of free time was stressing them out.
These findings held up even after the researchers took into account the amount of money survey-takers spent on groceries — a variable used as a proxy for discretionary income.
"People across the income spectrum benefited from buying time," the researchers wrote.
Finally, Whillans and her colleagues conducted a more direct test with the help of 60 lucky working adults in Vancouver.
For two consecutive weekends, the researchers gave these volunteers $40 to spend. In one of the weeks, the volunteers were asked to spend the money on a material purchase. In the other week, they were asked to invest their windfall on something that would save them time. The researchers checked in with the volunteers each weekend to see how they felt after they had spent the money.
As expected, the volunteers reported less time-related stress in the week when they made a time-saving purchase than in the week when they bought a material good.
They also had more positive feelings (like joy and enthusiasm) and fewer negative feelings (such as anger, fear and nervousness) in the week when they bought themselves time.
"Making a time-saving purchase caused improvements in daily mood," the researchers wrote. "Improvements in daily mood should promote greater life satisfaction."
In other words, they had found a way to buy happiness.
The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Received a request for My Melody macarons from a pretty young lady to give to her friend as a birthday present. So, here I am making these macarons again and as with Rilakkuma, My Melody seems to be a very well-liked character ^^
Have actually made 2 batches as I found the colour for the first batch a tad too pale. Could not convince myself to deliver them, thus right away made another batch. The first batch of macs did not go to waste. They were snapped up fast and I gave some to my girl's friends, teachers and tutors. So happy to hear from them how they have liked the macs.
I have received queries on how I have piped my macs. Err…. sometimes I piped free-hand, sometimes, like for these My Melody, I printed out the image and placed baking paper on top before I piped. The facial features and flowers were done with royal icing. Achieving the right viscosity for the royal icing is almost as tricky as getting the right colour for baked macarons. I'm still very much, trial and error, as I go along.
When I first sent Lili the photos of the macarons, she gushed. I was even more delighted when she shared with me the feedback after she has given the macarons to her friend. They have really liked the macarons.
" …. the macarons are sooo awesome! not only do they look good, they taste great! the texture is so chewy tooo "
"can totally compare ya macarons to the big brands in sg! yours even better cus it's customized! …"
Awww….. now my turn to blush to receive these compliments. I am just so happy whenever people who received my bakes have enjoyed them. (#^^#)
Lili, thanks so much for your support! Hope you and your friend will like the second order too! They are done and will be passing over to you later ^^


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PA Clive Riggs discusses drawing line and mass...
...His third post in this series of tutorials.
Once you have a feel for using line, that is placing linear boundaries around objects or shapes and a feel for mass; areas of tone used to describe 3 - dimensional form, you can then use the qualities of these two approaches to assist you in composing exciting pictures.
Your choice of mass or line will be largely one of style and medium. Line doesn't fit well with oil painting (only in the preparatory drawing if that is your style, as it was in the Renaissance) but it will with watercolour. Mass, or rather using masses does dovetail nicely with all media or styles to some degree and is definitely an approach you will be applying when using tone or colour. I am avoiding colour as a subject here but here are some final ideas to help you.
Lines can work together to create various effects, especially emotional effects. A very good example to look at would be the Frontispiece to Songs of Innocence by William Blake. Have a look on the internet and see how the lines are repeated and work together throughout the picture. They can also work in opposition to create tension, if that is not your intention, watch out for that as it will have an effect which you might not be able to see immediately.
Masses should generally be balanced, this can be done by weight (that is area, dark or light). An excellent example of how to balance large and small masses is Wooded Landscape with Cattle by a Pool which you can find on the BBC site, Your Paintings. Note how the figure is placed and see what happens when you cover it up with your finger to block it out, is it still balanced?
I have gone into some detail about line, mass and tone and I have warned of the distraction that is texture - keep form and tone in mind and your pictures will have more strength. There is a lot more to the story than this however a basic awareness is a great place to start and finding your own preference is very personal and the fun bit. I hope you now have enough information to find your own way.
About Clive
Clive is a professional artist, Educated at The King's School Ely, he served with 9 Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers before studying fine art (painting) at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee. He qualified as a lecturer in 2006 and taught art and design in an FE college before deciding to dedicate more time to painting and printmaking while still teaching adults both privately and in community education.
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Are you a college student who is looking for a bit off extra cash? Are you swamped by the costs of books, food, and other necessities? Why not try getting a part time job such as tutoring to help you provide you with some supplemental income while you are trying to get through school.
There is a big need for tutors, as there are many students out there who are struggling to get through their lessons. With class sizes growing, there is no longer the time or resources for kids to get individualized attention. This is where you can come in handy as you can provide a student with some one-on-one education sessions.
Tutors are a very valuable resource for kids to have and you could be one of them. Do you have knowledge in certain areas such as math and science? If so then these could be your tutoring areas. Perhaps you are good at reading comprehension, well there are tutoring jobs available for that as well. No matter which areas you are knowledgeable about, chances are there is someone who is looking for a tutor in that area.
If you are considering a job as a tutor it is important that you have good communication skills. You are going to need to effectively communicate and teach a child so communication skills are something you must have. You need to be able to break down lessons in a way that the student will be able to understand and apply. If you don't think you will be able to do this effectively then perhaps tutoring isn't a good job for you.
You are also going to have be a patient person. It may be difficult and trying at times to get a student to understand the material, but you must be patient with them. It is very important that you have the time and patience to make sure that the student is actually able to grasp the material. You can't get frustrated with them and simply give them the answers or they won't learn anything. It is your job as a tutor, not to simply give them the answers, but to help them figure out how to correctly arrive at these answers. If you don't think that you can handle the frustrations at times, then tutoring is probably something you shouldn't consider.
Tutoring can be a very rewarding experience for both the child and you. Not only are you going to be getting some supplemental income, but you will also get to see the progress a child can make with a little individualized help. Watching a child's self-esteem and grades improve are only some of the rewards you will get as a tutor.
If you think that tutoring is something you could do, contact a tutoring agency or school in your area to find out where you can apply. There are also many online tutoring agencies out there that you can check out. Tutors are a great asset for struggling students to have, so why wouldn't you want to be one?!?


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I love baking, and I love getting inspired by other bakers out there doing their thing. Seriously, I can look at the gals creations for hours and could only wish to have half the talent they have. Here are my favorites.
Style Sweet Ca
Can I just tell you how amazing her cakes are! She makes them so impressive, and I want to decorate my cakes just like her!
Enjoy Cupcakes
Everything she does not only looks so clean and perfect, but looks delicious. Her flavors are fresh and I hope to visit her bake shop in Santa Barbara to try!
Erica O'Brien
Erica O'Brien's fondant work is perfection. She makes the cleanest edges, and her designs are never over the top, but just enough. She makes the cutest cakes, and feel very feminine and sophisticated.
Alana Jones-Mann
The genius of Alana Jones-Mann is simply too much that I just envy EVERYTHING she makes. She uses buttercream, and manipulates it to create textures, and designs that I wish I would have thought of. She really is one of my favorite cake makers/designer.
*all photos are bakers' originals*
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Makin' Brunch Easy
This week we had some friends over for brunch, and everything was delicious and looked great, and best part...it was stress free. So today I wanted to share 5 brunch tips if you're going to host brunch at your place!
Plan your Menu
I love brunch because there aren't real rules to what you can serve. Brunch allows you to serve savory or sweet as main entrees, and cocktails are okay so early in the day. An egg dish as the focal point is a good idea, and something sweeter as another dish is a must. I would definitely do a specialty drink like a mimosa, and a sparkling blood orange juice for those not drinking. And I would skip the dessert, and add some fresh fruit as another side and you're set for brunch!
Prep the day before
It's okay to start cooking your bacon the day before if it's just going to be cut up and be used in a casserole. Or to cut all your fruit for a fresh salad for the next day. I say prep as much as you can so all you have to do is pop a few things in the oven. I would even set the table the day before if you can too. I managed to go to church in the morning, come home and still have brunch ready without breaking a sweat.
Let your oven do the work
I made hash brown egg nest the other day when our friends come over. They were a big hit and seemed a lot fancier than it was. I basically got a muffin tin, and filled an outside layer of hash brown, and filled it with an egg and all it's yummy omelet fillings, and let it bake. They came out looking so pretty and I just garnished with parsley and chives. Making things you don't have to stress about is key. A quiche, a breakfast casserole, a frittata, or these nest is the way to go! Make it easy for yourself!
If you're going to pancake....
...go mini! I love the idea of pancakes for brunch, but flipping pancakes can take a while. So I went small with these pancakes. Why? Because they cook so fast, and you can do multiples at a time. I just stacked them and they looked darling. I toped them with some blackberries and powdered sugar and they looked so cute and fancy. And honesty, it took me 10 minutes to make on the stove! That's what I'm talking about!
Fresh flowers on a table or even place cards are totally acceptable for brunch. Go ahead, and take your nice platters and plate your dishes. Garnish things. Beautify your brunch.
Hope this takes your fears from hosting a brunch. You can do it!! I believe in you. Hope you guys brunch it up this weekend. That's what I'll be doing again!
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Craving Cobbler
Since my mom loved it so much, I decided to make it as a Mother's Day dessert. I made it in my Staub cast iron pan since at the festival, they made it with a cast iron too. It was a big hit, but we had no leftovers and I wanted more. So yesterday I, of course, made another cobbler, but this time it was peach and blueberry cobbler.
My recipe takes about 5-10 minutes to prep and it's almost effortless to make. And of course there are so many ways to go about cobbler since cobblers come in different shapes and sizes and the one I make is very, very easy. I don't have too much time in my hands because of Jonah so I like recipes that require short cuts, or are just so easy that the oven does all the work for me. SO, you ready for the easiest cobbler...here we go!
First, you need a large cast iron pan or if you don't have one, a square casserole pan will work.
Evenly cover the pan with a drained can of peaches. I used a 29oz can and small package of washed blueberries.
Then you need two sticks(1 cup) of melted butter, and pour it over your peaches and blueberries.
Then in a separate bowl, mix 2 cups of flour, 2 cups of milks, 2 cups of sugar(i used 1 cup of white sugar and 1 cup of brown sugar) and 2 teaspoons of baking powder and mix into a batter. You can emblish the batter if you'd like with a bit of vanilla extract and cinnamon too! Then pour the batter over the peaches, and blueberries, and butter. Then it's ready to go into the oven!!
Make sure you preheated your oven at 350 degrees F. Once your oven is ready and warm, pop your pan in, and bake for about 40 minutes or until you have a golden brown top and edges.
And that's it!!! Super easy, right? Once it's cooled down a bit, serve it with some whipped cream, ice cream or just simply enjoy it alone! I hope you guys try it because it turns out delicious and it looks a lot more impressive in pan when you have guests over! Let me know if you guys try it, I'd love to hear. Happy Thursday, the weekend is almost here! Cobbler it up!
Friday, May 6, 2016
Be Still my Patterned Heart
I wanted to share some of the things that have been inspiring me lately! I love dresses, of all forms and sizes...but the ones that make me so weak in the knees are ones with a great bold pattern. I'm such a sucker for them. I always tend to gravitate to a unique print. I feel like it speaks volumes, and can show a side of your personality that maybe you can't vocalize.
These dresses above are some of my favorite this season! They all have different silhouettes, but they all speak to me! Have a good Friday, friends!
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Journey: Projected illusion: waves of light, of sound
Article by Marc Aupiais
Darkness, then ...light.
Sounds blast, music sours, and a slightly odd sensation rules. The light bounces off: and images: like a mirror, or moving, flying window emerge. Ahead: a concert is playing, and it is as though the wall, where the projection is, it is flying, and confusing the mind.
As beautiful, and emotive sounds: flow, and softly take hold, as haunting melodies play forth: the mind cannot comprehend.
The understanding: it explains how people, and a whole other world, it appears on the wall, and how sounds erupt around. The mystery is: ...greater though. One must imagine the camera, and the sound recorder, yet the primitive mind erupts.
Confusion takes, and as waves: anxiety takes, and confusion, as the mind cannot comprehend.
Only a God with more than one person: could create a multi-person world, a world: where one produces another; produce another together.
Religion, is our meaning, our explanation of questions we seem programmed to ask. We seem designed to seek ritual, and love, and truth. Oddly enough: we seem designed, not chanced.
I watch, as I am privy to sound, to images: it is as though there, almost: ...I am in the crowd, and desire to clap as a sound erupts, and a voice carries.
Mystery is the nature of the world: and we are not designed to know all things as yet: but mystery is also how we protect the rights of men: by seeking real truth, and not avoiding truth: we cannot ignore the utter abuse of power by governments, and populaces in all the world.
Rather: religion: the pursuit of truth: this saves: and is how any non-Catholic can find the Catholic salvation: inside and out: ...we must be cautious ...however: if they are judges by their pursuit of truth, so shall we be. We must never stop seeking more intuitive truth: must never stop seeking to be better, must never be slightly content: for this is the sin by which we allow tens of millions to be murdered, and this is the genocide of the souls: by which so many Catholics probably go to hell.
Catholicism ... without religion, is pointless, it cannot save: even as Catholicism is the most perfect channel: canyon in which religion can resonate: it is the center in which all truth and true religion is maintained in the world: it is the mainframe: that which allows all others to pursue God: and those who know of her necessity, yet either refuse to enter or choose not to remain: in Her body: such are dead, they cannot find God: for they have abandoned religion: the pursuit of our truth: which all men are capable of.
At least: this is the Catholic meaning: the Catholic way!
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1. Throw a gingerbread house–making party for family and friends.
2. Craft these felted mittens with your kids. Make a new pair each winter and see how much your little one's hands have grown over the year.
3. Griddle's on! Cook up these adorable snowman pancakes on Christmas Eve morning.
4. Create a family "bucket list" of activities to do throughout the holiday season.
5. Hold a Christmas-movie marathon, complete with popcorn and a "hot-chocolate bar" laid out with marshmallows, cinnamon sticks, and other flavors of the season.
6. Start opening a "Christmas-Eve box" on the night before the big day. Stuff it with treats and special holiday PJs!
7. Mix up some "reindeer feed" to sprinkle and sparkle on the lawn so that Santa's sleigh team can find the special treat and lead him to your house.
8. Make this sweet to-go cookie mix as gifts for family and friends. Kids will love to learn how to scoop and measure the ingredients.
9. Surprise the kids with a personalized phone call or video message from Santa himself!
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Webcam Settings 2.3
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Webcam Settings allows you to adjust settings including the exposure time, contrast, saturation, and white balance temperature for your webcam, whether it's a Built-in iSight, a more recent FaceTime/FaceTime HD Camera or an external USB webcam.
- True hardware level control of your webcam.
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A phone number on inquiries equals a quick response to your inquiry. The minimum rate for all reservations must equal $500.00 + $300.00 refundable security deposit then nightly rates apply. There are no additional charges; no out charges or cleaning charges. For Memorial Day weekend, Labor Day weekend and Columbus Day weekend, the minimum rate is $750.00 for 3 nights + $300.00 refundable security deposit then nightly rates apply or weekly rate; whichever is less. There are no additional charges; no out charges or cleaning charges. For the Sea Turtle Cottage a $300.00 vacation rental payment will reserve your dates. The balance of the rental will be spread over several payments. For example: $300.00 initial payment then 4 additional payments. The further in advance, the reservation date is, the more payments we are able to offer however some reservations may require full payment if made close to arrival date. A payment schedule will be provided after your inquiry. For a quick response, rate confirmation or payment plan information you may call Kevin on 610-360-5097.
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Protect your vacation with insurance. Travel Guard Trip Cancellation Insurance is available at check out at a reasonable price. This includes coverage for, but not limited to, sickness, travel, fire, flood, volcano, hurricane or other natural disasters and will reimburse tenant in the event the tenant wishes to cancel a rental period due to an unforeseen circumstance. Coverage varies by state. For complete information, please refer to the Certificate of Insurance or Policy for your state of residency prior to purchase by calling Travel Guard 1-877-249-5376 or an insurance company of your choice.
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1960 Peugeot 403 Cabriolet Grand Luxe by Pininfarina RHD Very Rare !
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- Model: Other
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- Year: 1960
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We've seen sad news that the next Bioshock will NO LONGER BE RELEASED ON MY BIRTHDAY GODDAMNIT WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD AM I BEING PUNISHED FOR SOMETHING I AM NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE ANYTHING NICE IT'S SO UNFAIR I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU and we've seen Uncle Ken chatting about the game, but what we haven't seen for a while is a big chunk of in-Infinite footage. I'm off to play the game tomorrow and will report back with findings shortly thereafter, but in the meantime the noisy death of popular culture that was the VGAs brought some new stuff for us all to look at with our human eyeballs.
The VGAs being the VGAs, it's primarily shooting-men-in-the-face centric, but it does afford a good look at enemies, weapons and powers, as well as just what Elizabeth gets up to while the player's busy attacking people will bullets, rockets and crows.
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The idea of Elizabeth tracking down pickups for you is interesting – potentially makes her feel part of the team as well as maybe helping with flow. But I'm speculating based on just a few seconds' of footage.
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EDITORIAL: Prepare Now for Winter Weather Emergencies
This time last year, we were reeling from a three-punch wallop by Mother Nature.
It began the afternoon of Dec. 1, when 2 to 5 inches of snow fell on Kitsap and Mason counties, bringing with it dozens of weather-related accidents. The following day brought more snow — plus heavy winds that knocked snow-laden trees and branches into roads and power lines. Most of South Kitsap lost electrical power, along with 75 percent of North Mason residents.
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since update from OO 4.0.1 to OO 4.1 it's not possible to use the Thunderbird Address Database option. Get only the following error message when I try it :
SQL-Status: HY000
The connection to the external data source can not be established. It wasn't found a SDBC driver for the given URL.
My systems used :
- Windows 7 Prof. 64-bit or Windows 7 Prof. 32-bit german versions (tries with both)
- JRE 188.8.131.52 32-bit or JRE 184.108.40.206 32-bit (tries with both)
- Thunderbird 24.6.0 german version
The above-mentioned Error message do not change in any experimental configuration. What I also tried is to use Odb's which I created for accessing the TB address book before the transition to OO 4.1. Result is the same ......
Does anybody have the same experience or better yet a solution for this problem ?


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From: John Lott
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 1:58 PM
To: Eugene Volokh
[Critical Commentary by Tim Lambert.
This is a copy of a January 20 email by Lott to the firearmsregprof list. My comments appear in italics like this.]
Response to Lindgren's January 17th posting:
Lindgren's role in this process seems to be that of a prosecutor. [This is not correct. Lindgren is careful to present any evidence that supports Lott. ] He claims that he "never heard of a professor doing anything of that size with no funding . . . ." Well, I did the 2002 survey paying students $10 per hour out of my pocket. I have also done many, many projects spending hundreds or thousands of dollars out of my own pocket. The copy of my family's 1997 tax returns that I forwarded to people on Sunday was from the year that survey occurred and showed that at least $8,750 was spent that year on research assistants. In 1996, I spent $31,000 to finance a special issue of the Journal of Law and Economics and another large amount on research assistants. Lindgren is also disturbed that I supposedly did not consult with experts about "sampling" before doing the survey.
Lindgren's demands for documentation are ways excessive. [All he was looking for was some documentary evidence that the survey had been conducted. There is none.] As to the allegedly unusual circumstances about financial records, I do not consider it unusual that people do not keep payment records for six years, computer crash or not. Is there an established rule of how long research records should be kept? Is 10 or 20 years perhaps the standard, or what? My wife (who is the one in the family who deals with bank records and taxes) is in the habit of throwing out supporting documents after the 3-year period required by the IRS.
Now, I agree totally with Lindgren that it is generally wise to keep documentation for tax purposes (employee expenses or business expenses), a fact that my wife keeps on nagging me about, too. Over the years I have sometimes paid by check (if I am able to find one handy in my messy office), especially for larger amounts.
Lindgren suggests that it is almost without precedent for people not to keep "phone reimbursements, or records" for six years. If Lindgren has his personal telephone bills from six years ago, I will be impressed.
[ In fact, what Lindgren wrote was:
I had never heard of a professor doing anything of that size with no funding, paid support, paid staff, phone reimbursements, or records (though there are probably precedents for such an unusual method).
Many of the problems noted below might have been avoided if Lindgren had sent me his draft findings before he posted them simply to see if my recollections of the conversations were the same as his. I think that it would have also been useful if Lindgren had asked for my reaction to claims made by others. Instead, Lindgren never asked me for comments before postings and sometimes even posted his findings well before forwarding them to me. [This is not true. The report was forwarded to Lott at the same time that it was posted.]
Response to "Comments on John Lott's . . ."
1) "John Lott called me shortly after I posted a notice to the FirearmsRegProf discussion list on September 15, 2002."
I contacted Jim Lindgren after he e-mailed me, not because he posted a notice on the FireArmsRegProf discussion list as he claims in "Personal Note, January 17, 2003." This can be verified in several ways. (1) I have an e-mail directly from Lindgren to me on September 14th (see appendix below). [It is clear from the email in the appendix that Lindgren's message was both posted to firearmsregprof and emailed to Lott. Lindgren's statement does contain a small error—his posting was made on September 14, not September 15. The most likely reason for the error is that his posting was a same-day response to a September 15 posting by myself. However, my posting crossed the International Date Line, so Lindgren received it on September 14. ] (2) I would guess that it is possible for Eugene Volokh to verify that I have not I subscribed to the discussion list. (3) I called Lindgren the night that I received his e-mail. While I don't have the AEI telephone records handy, my guess is that since the call just took place last fall it should be relatively easy for me to have it retrieved. While Lindgren claims to have a very clear memory of this telephone conversation, he claims that I called him shortly after he posted his discussion on September 15th. Yet, I called him the night of the 14th when I got the e-mail.
This point might seem pretty nitpicky, but in the context it is not, for Lindgren creates the misimpression that I only respond to public postings attacking me. [The fact is that Lott did not respond to the emails and letters from Duncan and that is why the matter had to be raised publicly. The posting that Lott responded to on September 14 was both posted to firearmregprof and emailed to Lott. ] To the contrary, I have responded to virtually anyone who has contacted me with questions and I have tried to be forthcoming (examples noted in previous posts include Glenn Reynolds, Clayton Cramer and Dan Polsby). (Lindgren also gave a similar misimpression in his earlier comments regarding when I responded to Duncan.)
The crucial point here is that Lindgren's memory is not perfect, despite many statements that he "carefully listened." Getting things correct -- such as why I contacted him or when the contact occurred -- are especially serious lapses when he is trying to play the role of prosecutor. [Lindgren was correct that Lott's phone call followed Lindgren's posting to firearmsregprof. His only error was not a memory failure but his assumption that a September 15 posting would not arrive the day before it was posted.]
2) The "most surprising" claim by Lott
Lindgren's first comment about changing statements deals with me supposedly "changing" my discussion to include the word "possible" as to whether I paid by check. To Lindgren, my original statement was a direct test of "assessing [my] credibility," and that by changing my story I am failing that test. This interpretation would make some possible sense if after I (allegedly) said that I paid by check, I feared that further investigation would reveal that the bank could find no checks relating to the project. So by adding the word "possibly," I would have guarded myself by allowing for the possibility of untraceable cash payments. However, there is one serious problem with such a posting. In the very same posting that I sent to Volokh and others on January 14th, where I noted the word "possibly," I also mentioned in the third paragraph of the e-mail that my wife had already checked with the bank and found that they do not keep bank statements for longer than five years (Yvonne Macias in the book keeping department at University National Bank, (773) 684-1200). (Checks are actually kept for something less than that though my wife did not pin down that date.) Indeed, she had already checked this information the previous day before I had written Lindgren noting how I thought that he had misquoted me. In other words, I could not have had the motive to "changing" my story that Lindgren attributes to me. The only possible reason that I can see for pointing out Lindgren's misquote was to set the record straight.
[However, Lindgren's main point was Lott's switch from a Jan 13 email where he was not certain about what he said in September, to a Jan 14 email where he was certain that Lindgren was wrong.]
3) "Two University of Chicago Students"
I told Lindgren that there were about 8 people involved (I am honestly not sure I remember the total), but that two were University of Chicago students. One I said was a senior, but the other one I was not certain of. (I did not mention the University of Illinois at Chicago because I was not certain and am still not at all certain if that is correct.) I assumed that it was obvious that not all the callers could have been University of Chicago students since I only mentioned two as coming from the UC.
4) Lunch with Tom Smith I am not going to repeat what I have previously written, but suppose there was a misunderstanding between Lindgren and myself regarding his question about "discussions with any samplers." One logical reaction is to check to see whether what I said was true, and see if it provides any additional evidence for my explanations. I would have little reason to make it up since Tom Smith and I probably do not agree on these issues and he would have no reason to pretend that we had such a lunch. (Attached in the appendix is an e-mail that I received from Smith verifying the lunch, though he doesn't remember when it occurred.)
Instead, Lindgren claims that my mentioning the lunch represents evidence that I am supposedly changing my story. While my contact with Smith was not mentioned in Lindgren's earlier postings, Lindgren's January 17 posting now admits that I mentioned previously talking with Smith, but there is no explanation as to why. Yet, why would my discussions with Tom Smith, who directs the National Opinion Research Center, even be raised in my September discussion with Lindgren if it wasn't related to surveys? (Presumably, I wasn't simply listing people that I know in the country.)
[The specific question was whether he had discussed his sampling design with Smith. Obviously there are questions about surveys he could have discussed (for example, More Gun, Less Crime uses survey data on gun ownership).]
"One just doesn't pull a national sample out of one's head." This is obviously true, but when I talked to Lindgren he admits that I did use a CD with people's telephone numbers on them. Also, I conducted a similar survey last year, without consulting any true "expert" in the area at that time. (The survey questions were discussed at length with my wife and with Russell Roberts, though.) Given that I mastered the task of pulling together this type of survey once, is it not plausible that I might also have mastered it at another time? [In his 2002 survey discussion, Lott also references a paper published in 2000 that influenced his survey design.]
5) Other supposed changes in my discussion Lindgren alleges some other "changes" in my description of the circumstances surrounding the survey. However, even if we are to accept his account of our conversations, there is no motive that can be found for me changing my account. There is no gain to me "changing" these minor details.
I appreciate Lindgren getting the statements from such people as David Mustard, who confirms that we discussed the survey sometime in 1997, [This is not true. Mustard is not certain about when he heard about the survey.] possibly after he got to the University of Georgia in August, and who mentioned that I lost the data in my hard disk crash. Lindgren seems to place somewhat greater weight on Mustard's statement in his January 17th note than in his earlier writings, and I appreciate that. And recent statements from Geoff Huck provide confirmation for my claim that I lost part of the book and that the hard disk crash occurred at least before the end of July (Geoff has an e-mail about this). Many other people confirm that I lost my hard drive with everything on it. [Notice that there is no problem confirming the disk crash. The survey should be much easier to confirm.]
No one's memory is perfect, neither Lindgren's nor mine. But if Lindgren makes documentable mistakes about something that happened four months ago and Lindgren was at the time presumably trying to make a record of things, [Lott has indentified just one mistake, and it wasn't a memory failure.] it is hard to understand why he discounts statements from Mustard, claiming that Mustard's memory is fuzzy about the exact dates during 1997. [Because Mustard is not certain about the dates. That's what his statement says.] Events that happened six years ago are difficult to remember even without lost documentation such as hard disks.
Begin forwarded message:
From: James Lindgren
Date: Thu Nov 14, 2002
4:44:42 PM US/Eastern
To: John Lott, Firarmsregprof
Cc: Geoffrey Huck
Subject: John Lott's computer crash
Tim Lambert raises the possibility that John Lott fabricated a study: "it seems increasingly likely that the survey is fictional." These are extremely serious speculations to be made in public and need to be resolved as responsibly and as quickly as possible. Fortunately, it should be fairly easy to determine whether such a possibility is even remotely plausible. We do not need another issue in which questions, which could have been easily answered if scholars had simply done their jobs, is somehow turned into an unnecessary, protracted scandal.
------ Forwarded Message From: Tom Smith
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 09:49:14 -0600
To: John Lott Subject: Re: Question
I'm sorry, but while I recall the lunch, I have no idea when it was.
______________________________ Reply Separator
Subject: Question
Author: John Lott
Date: 01/19/2003 2:51 AM
Dear Tom:
I trust that things are going well. I was wondering if you could help confirm something for me. Do you remember exactly when in the fall of 1996 we got together for lunch at the Quadrangle Club? I realize that this might seem like a strange thing to ask, but I would appreciate it. Was it November 1996? Thanks.
From: Geoffrey Huck
To: Julian Sanchez
CC: John Lott
Date: Wednesday - January 15, 2003 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: John Lott Survey
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Dear Mr. Sanchez:
Since I no longer work for the University of Chicago Press, I don't have access to the Press's files. Nevertheless, I am pretty certain that there is nothing in those files that would help you. The Press generally did not keep any draft manuscripts, tables of contents, etc., after publication - there was simply not enough space to accommodate all that that would entail. I have purged all my Press files from my home computer, and I would doubt that there are any electronic files at the Press that would answer your questions. That leaves my archived home e-mail files (some of which I still have) and my memory (which isn't all that reliable). As to the latter, I have a vague recollection of a chapter or a section or sections of a chapter that had to be scrapped because of the computer crash, but I don't at this stage remember the subject of it (or them). At the time, we were talking about a variety of things John could do (e.g., including a chapter on mass public shootings). As to my e-mail archives, there are a couple of brief mentions in John's and my exchanges about the crash and loss of data, though I have found nothing explicitly about the defensive use of handguns in them (which doesn't mean anything in itself, since we were mostly talking on the phone and there must have been all kinds of things that were lost in the crash that we didn't discuss in the archived e-mails I still have). There is one message from July of 1997 that gives some sense of the magnitude of the problem we were dealing with, though. We fortunately did have an earlier draft of the manuscript in hard copy at the time of the crash and a disk with some - but not all - of the tables. My assistant Theresa let me know what was missing. I don't at this point know what these tables are - you might want to ask John about that.
>Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 16:13:03 +0000
>To: lott
>From: Geoffrey Huck
>Subject: More about tables
> >John: Theresa tells me that she has on the disk you gave her all the
>tables from 1 to 30 except 2, 5, 16, 21, 24, and 25, and 2 appendix
>tables. I asked her to e-mail you the contents of the disk. Hope this helps.
>Geoff There is also one e-mail message I have from February 1997 which contains an attachment that I'm not at this point able to decode. If that file turns out to be decodable and has anything of relevance to add to this question, I (or John) will let you know.
I hope you find this information useful. Cordially, Geoff


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Saturday, November 17, 2007
Airspeed's First Officer In CFIT Incident
This is a regular blog post. Looking for show notes or links to show audio? See other entries.
Airspeed's first officer, Cole Tupper, was involved in an incident involving controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) on Thursday. Attempting a nonstandard search and rescue maneuver during a brief unsupervised moment that afternoon, he abruptly discovered that the apparatus he had fashioned to allow him to suspend himself from the railing at the top of the stairs was not up to the task and he and the ill-fated apparatus experienced a rapid altitude loss before meeting the foyer floor below.
Search and rescue forces were immediately on the scene and transported him to the ER 30 minutes later when it became apparent that the incident involved more than the standard boo-boo.
He fractured three metatarsals (bones in the foot) and will be a little heavy on the right rudder for the next month or so due to the cast. He happened to be wearing his orange astronaut launch and reentry suit at the time, much to the amusement of the emergency room staff.
A stern conversation with the Wilshire House FBO managers has elicited a commitment from Mr. Tupper to consult with management before attempting such activities again. Mr. Tupper promptly filed the appropriate NASA reporting service forms. He has not been contacted by the NTSB in connection with the incident and management is hopeful both that his immediate plans for flight operations will be able to continue unabated and that his renewed commitment to the FBO-suggested safety program will avoid similar incidents in the future.
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I saw this over the weekend in the stores and in a small event the local Sandisk distributor was holding in one of the local shopping centres: Apparently Sandisk has released a new version of the Extreme line, and in a slightly disappointing fashion, have taken to reporting the faster read speed of 80 MB/s all over the front packaging and on the card itself. The write speed is 60 MB/s, which makes it on par with the Lexar equivalent. A quick look at this point of writing on Amazon shows it to be somewhat overpriced though – it should be priced only slightly more than the current 45 MB/s versions. I got a 32GB one, in line with The Switch (more on that in the near future).
Unfortunately since I currently (emphasis on currently) don't have a USB 3.0-equipped system, I am not able to perform any proper benchmarks. It pretty much maxes out on a USB 2.0 Lexar Dual Card Reader with read and write speeds of 20MB/s in ATTO Benchmark. CK, however, does. See what he says after the break!
CK: I managed to get hold of the new 80MBps Sandisk Extreme from David, who happened to have bought one yesterday. I did a benchmark using the ATTO Disk Benchmark Utility. First, let's measure the performance of the 45MBps card which it replaces.
The card achieved write and read speeds of up to 45MBps and 46.36MBps, very close to its rated 45MBps.
And now the new 80MBps version. The results are impressive! It achieved a maximum write speed of 73.95MBps and a maximum read speed of 90.69MBps. This is a little higher than the rated 80MBps read/60MBps write speeds.
Let's see how the older and more expensive Extreme Pro SD card, rated at 95Mbps performs.
As you can see, it didn't perform significantly faster, maxing out at a write speed of 85.76MBps and a read speed of 92.4MBps.
I also did a test of all the three cards on my D7000. I set the drive mode to Continuous – High and shot a burst of NEF (Raw) images. The buffer filled up at about 9 shots, with the frame rate dropping significantly from 6fps to about 1.5fps as the camera writes the images to the card. However, I noticed that in all 3 cards, it took about the same time (about 10s to write 10 NEF files) to the card. The D7000 NEF files are about 16MB each, so this translates to a write speed of only 16MBps. Maybe that's the maximum speed that the camera can write at.
Nonetheless, if you are looking to buy a reasonably priced and fast card, this is the one to get. It gives the more expensive 95MBps "Pro" model a very good run for its money and there's really no reason to pay more for that any more. Unless, like David, you dig that nice gold strip on its label.
YS: Well, I'm certainly glad my timing is good then. A month earlier and I would have bought the older one!
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It's going to be an e-comm Christmas
The online experience is increasingly beating out the brick-and-mortar experience for many holiday shoppers, according Deloitte's 32nd Annual Holiday Survey.
According to the survey, shoppers are increasingly finding that many physical stores just don't have the assortment of product they need and that the store experience is lacking in terms of customer service. So they are turning to online shopping in droves, and forcing retailers to improve delivery times and customer service.
"It only took a few holiday seasons for people to change their expectations of retailers throughout the entire shopping journey — from search and inspiration to product variety, availability and price, to delivery and even returns," said Rod Sides, vice chairman, Deloitte LLP and U.S. retail, wholesale and distribution leader. "The online experience has also redefined people's expectations of the physical store. In the survey, people told us online channels outperform stores when it comes to finding unique items and products that are high-quality and ones they trust. At one time, online excelled primarily on price followed by convenience, but now, it's outpacing the store experience across all attributes during the holiday season."
These are the top expectations from consumers, according to the survey:
Convenience and selection put online channels at the top of everyone's "nice" list
- The majority of holiday spending among survey respondents is expected to head online, with shoppers putting more than half (51 percent) of their budgets toward online purchases versus in-store (42 percent).
- Online shopping significantly outpaces in-store in areas such as ease of searching (79 percent versus 64 percent) and product quality and trust (76 percent versus 64 percent).
- Online shopping destinations are the No.1 preferred venue among all age groups and income levels, followed by mass merchants; differences only emerge when rounding out the top three shopping destinations. Among seniors and households earning less than $50,000, supermarkets earn the No.3 spot; Gen Z opts for fast fashion apparel retailers, while millennials choose off-price and Gen X and Boomers head to traditional department stores.
Free shipping is a favorite; Shoppers say bah-humbug to paying extra for faster delivery
- Free or fast shipping, which is more important? Nearly 9 in 10 – 88 percent – respondents said, "free shipping" is more important compared with just 12 percent who prefer "fast shipping."
- When defining what constitutes "fast shipping," more than half (54 percent) of holiday shoppers said two days or less. Just 35 percent consider 3-4 day shipping "fast," down from 42 percent last year and 63 percent in 2015.
- These expectations come with a reluctance to pay more for expedited shipping: Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) say they would not be willing pay extra for two-day shipping. Respondents indicated they would pay, on average, just under four dollars ($3.80) to guarantee next-day delivery.
- Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of shoppers think they should be allowed to order after Dec. 17 and still get free shipping.
- Most (72 percent) of surveyed shoppers plan to take advantage of free shipping offers this season.
Fast and free top reasons to buy online, pick up in store
- Roughly 4 in 10 (43 percent) of consumers surveyed plan to buy items online and pick them up in-store this holiday season – motivated primarily by "fast" and "free" once again. These shoppers cited saving on shipping charges (62 percent) as the No.1 reason to buy online and pick up in-store, followed by 48 percent who said they do so to get the item faster.
- Home appliances (45 percent), electronics (43 percent) and clothing (43 percent) top the list of categories shoppers plan to buy online but pick up in the physical store.
After fast deliveries, consumers want many happy returns
- People also want the security and flexibility of generous return policies. The option to return to any store location (67 percent) tops the list, followed by refund options other than store credit (63 percent).
- Around one-half (51 percent) of survey respondents said they want a longer return window around the holidays, ranging from 30 to 90 days, and 41 percent want the option to return without a receipt.
The survey was developed by Deloitte and conducted online by an independent research company Sept. 6-18, 2017. A national sample of 5,085 consumers aligned with the U.S. Census for age and income was polled which has a margin of error for the entire sample of plus or minus 1 to 2 percentage points.


text: Soccer Star Lionel Messi Pays $13M in Back Taxes 7:27 AM PDT 6/25/2013 by Pamela Rolfe FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME The athlete is accused of using shell companies to hide money earned through ad campaigns. MADRID - Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi, who plays for FC Barcelona in Spain, has voluntarily paid €10 million ($13 million) to Spanish tax authorities, looking to settle a fraud charge lodged against him earlier this month. Authorities accused Messi and his father of tax fraud over a three-year period amounting to more than €4 million ($5.3 million). Messi, the four-time winner of the Golden Ball and one of the 10 highest-paid athletes according to Forbes magazine, was accused of using fiscal paradises in Belize and Uruguay to hide some €10.1 million ($13.4 million) earned through advertising campaigns. PHOTOS: 15 Celebrity Tax Dodgers During the years of 2007-09, Messi failed to report earnings from commercial use of his image by his current team as well as Spanish telecom Telefonica, yogurt producer Danone, video game company Konami, bank Banc de Sabadell, airline Air Europa, Adidas and Pepsi. According to the tax authorities, the scheme to hide the earnings was put into place by the player's father, Jorge Messi, while his son -- who turned 26 on Monday, the day he paid the back taxes -- was still a minor. Lionel Messi is scheduled to go before a judge Sept. 17 --coinciding with a scheduled Spanish soccer league match -- for the fraud case. Some tax attorneys say that Messi may been able to avoid a larger fine by paying back the taxes voluntarily. Others estimate Messi may have to pay a fine of €24.6 million but will be able to avoid the trial. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Pamela Rolfe firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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Because I routinely make terrible decisions about how to spend my ever-dwindling supply of time on Earth, I paid $24.99 (50% of MSRP) for the four-disc, 3D Blu-Ray edition of Prometheus, a film I'd harbored huge hopes for but ultimately found disappointing. A Ridley Scott film, in other words.
I don't have the gear or the inclination to watch a 3D movie at home, but the deluxe set that includes the 3D version of Prometheus (along with the plain-Jane 2D in three different formats, because what price piece of mind?) is the only way to get The Furious Gods, a three-hour, 40 minute (!) making-of documentary by Charles de Lauzirika, a nonfiction filmmaker whose insightful, well-edited making-ofs for similarly lavish reissues of Scott's only two great films — all together now, Alien and Blade Runner — have already claimed many irreplaceable hours of my life.
I've yet to make it all the way through the documentary. It's long, sure, but actually it's longer, because I've been watching in "enhanced mode," meaning that when an icon appears at the top of the screen I can press a button on my remote and watch an "enhancement pod" — a video footnote, basically — containing even more nerdily trivial information about whatever specific aspect of the film's conception and production is being discussed at that moment.
When Scott talks about casting original Dragon Tattoo Girl Noomi Rapace in the movie, you can watch her screen test. When production designer Arthur Max reflects on the creation of the movie's titular spacecraft (which was still called the Magellan for a long time, did you know, even after the Untitled Alien Prequel acquired the name Prometheus), you can click through dozens of drawings and schematics of the ship, which I think that all of us regardless of our political differences can agree is fucking rad. You can even watch an enhancement pod about the film's many rejected titles. Alien: Tomb of the Gods, anyone?
These "enhancement pods" make an already formidable rabbit hole much deeper. The set's packaging boasts of "more than seven hours" of ancillary content, including about half an hour of deleted scenes. Scott declined to reinsert these scenes into the film. He seems adamant that the Prometheus released in cinemas last summer, however slapdash and unfinished it may have felt to me and to many others, is the director's cut.
I haven't made it through all seven-hours-and-change of DVD extras. I've seen enough to demonstrate that Prometheus'Powerloader-sized story problems — the kind of gaps in logic, character motivation, etc., that often bespeak crass studio interference with the filmmakers' artistic vision — came straight from Sir Ridley himself.
Everyone knows that in the world of feature filmmaking, directors trump writers. Want to be taken seriously, screenwriters? TV has never been better. Even so, the way Prometheus' design team speaks of Sir Ridley with such reverence and religiosity becomes hard to take after an hour or so, give or take five or ten "enhancement pods." Then again, designers absolutely should revere Ridley Scott. Who ever made their work look better?
Furthermore, everyone knows that film is collaborative. Alien is a perfect example of a film that started modestly and acquired greatness in layers. It was a schlocky space-horror script that got an improving rewrite by producers David Giler and Walter Hill. Then Scott, who had previously directed only one feature film, shot the hell out of it. It was a B-movie given the A-treatment. That's standard now, but it was still unusual in 1979, a mere four years after Jaws and two after Star Wars.
Scott explains, as he did in interviews promoting the film last summer, that Prometheus evolved from his desire to answer a question none of Alien's three direct sequels had touched: Who was the "space jockey"– the humanoid but presumably extraterrestrial giant seen slumped over dead in his chair in the horseshoe-shaped spacecraft in Alien, way back in 1979?
It's a great question. Unfortunately, he seems to have outsourced his actual thinking, tossing his tangle of interesting visual ideas to pair of scribes charged with spot-welding them into a story that makes some kind of sense.
Yes, I understand that it's science fiction.
Yes, I know that many great films have been made in exactly this way. You take a compelling premise (if you're a wordy type) or image (if you're a visual person, like Scott is) and then dream up a story to contain it. Maybe it will even be a poetic, stirring expression of a grand theme. But it's probably best not to think of it that way as you're writing.
Jon Spaihts, the first screenwriter on the project, talks about how he violated a cardinal rule of working in Hollywood by agreeing to write a memo for Scott summarizing a brainstorming session they'd had before he'd actually signed a contract. Spaihts was an unproduced screenwriter at that time, so you can understand how he'd be reluctant to defy a summons from a director of Scott's notoriety. In The Furious Gods, Spaihts comes off as a much more insightful guy than does Damon Lindelof, the LOST writer/producer Fox brought in to rewrite Spaihts. (Lindelof has an executive producer credit on the movie.)
Visual effects art director Steven Messing remembers the reaction to Scott's decree that the Space Jockey — whom you may recall had a facial feature not unlike an elephant's trunk — was actually human-looking, part of a superior race we come to know as The Engineers. The trunk was not a part of his face, but actually an organic helmet, undermining what nerds had assumed for for 30 years.
"We all pretty much hated it," Messing says. "Ridley was very confident about this."
Random observations:
In once scene, we see a creature designer named Ivan working at his computer with a book called Life Before Birth on his desk beside the monitor.
The DVD menu describes one enhancement pod as "A serious discussion about animal genitalia and its influence on the film's creature design."
The discussion throughout of "the xenomorph" and "the ultramorph" — both referring to the oblong-headed, double-jawed creature that appears in Prometheus's final scene, a recognizable ancestor of the H.R. Giger-designed alien we remember from the other movies — make it obvious that its inclusion was not a last-minute, studio-enforced add. Which is what I still think it feels like. It's a really dumb, unsatisfying way to end the movie, one that seems even hokier for the way it clashes with all the stony-faced, Star Trek: The Motion Picture-style pretension that's come before.
In a segment called "Weyland's Wet Dream," we see concept art for a dream sequence that was never filmed. It depicts a young, hale Peter Weyland (who appears in the film as a hundred-ish-year-old man) relaxing on a giant yacht at sea, surrounded by beautiful women. Weyland was played by Guy Pearce in heavy age makeup, but in these paintings, the character looks like Spartacus-era Kirk Douglas. That cleft chin is a dead giveaway.
The chapter about casting, called "The Human Manifest," includes some very funny takes from Michael Fassbender, the unsettlingly handsome Irish actor whose eerie performance as the android David is by far the best thing in the movie. When Vickers — the icy corporate type overseeing the mission, played by Charlize Theron — asks David, "How long?", which we understand to mean How long was I unconscious in my hibernation capsule?, Fassbender replies, in David-voce, "About 16 inches, fully erect. It varies." Ha! Would it have killed Scott to leave this in the movie?
Meanwhile, a different actor in the movie who commands just as much lust from my lady friends as Fassbender does — Idris Elba, Stringer Bell from The Wire — is wearing sunglasses for all of his interviews in the documentary. These are shot indoors, of course, inside the largest soundstage in Europe, at Pinewood Studios in the not-particularly-sunny country of Great Britain. What a clown, that guy.


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Pictures by Liz O'Brien
Slovakia v England, 12 October 2002, Euro 2004 Qualifier
We flew out from Stansted (caught in usual tailbacks on M25 and Dartford tunnel so took 3 hours from Brighton) on Thursday afternoon. There were quite a few England fans about, most going to Graz, but a few on our flight to Prague. A nice polite Policeman phoned our passport details through to NCIS, and we soon on our way to the bar. We bumped into another fellow Brighton fan at the airport and had a couple of beers before catching our flight. Quite a few of our Brighton mates were staying in Prague, we had 5 hours before our onward flight to Bratislava with Czech Air so caught a taxi into town and ended up in the Budvar bar. The last time we had drunk there it was before the 5-1 thrashing of Germany, so felt good! Soon we were heading back to the airport in time to catch out 42 seater plane to Bratislava!
We arrived about 10.30pm into Bratislava, found a handy cashpoint, got out 5,000 Slovakian Koruna (about £80) and caught a taxi to our Hotel to check in. It was a bit out of town, but not bad and at £30 for 4 nights accommodation, not complaining! The only complaint was the hotel bar closed at 10pm, so tired from a few beers in Prague and all the travelling headed to bed.
Phil makes a point that we are a rather long way from central Bratislava, Phil its just over the other side of that big building - I think!!!!!
Friday we got up reasonably early (still missed breakfast as only served until 9am!!!) and caught a trolley bus and then normal bus and 15 minutes later were in central Bratislava (Bus stop by the big Parliament building). We had a wonder round and soon found the old historic part of Bratislava, very similar to Prague but a lot smaller. We ventured
into a small shopping complex and found a nice quiet little bar for a couple of early beers just to get our bearings. After drink we of course needed some found so we went into a nice looking restaurant and the friendly waiter said he would make a
selection of his choice for 3 of us. It started with a green salad, followed by a mixed grill with rice, chips and potatoes. Add a few beers to that and it came to just about £4 each!!!! After that we ventured out again and eventually ended up in 17 Bar, not far from the players posh 'Carlton' Hotel. We had a few beers at about 35p each and then went and met our mates who flew in that afternoon. The Piano bar was next and it was full of England. We had a few more beers (mmm starting to sound like an alcoholic.......) and people soon moved on to other bars and we headed back to our hotel. It had been a cracking peaceful day (or so we thought)
A few pictures around Bratislava
And a few more!
Saturday and we actually made breakfast. Hurray!!! One of our mates was already sat down and said 2 England fans shot last night in the bar next to 17 bar.
Two managers must be better than one Sven? Liz and I take charge but cant decide which way to kick!!
I was stunned and a little worried. A few more rolled down to breakfast and they said that by the end of the evening bars refused to serve England fans. We expected the place to be closed down, but we headed back to 17 bar and it was open and serving as normal. We met some lads who got attacked the night before and had been with the two lads shot. Apparently the bouncers made a mobile call and they could not believe it when a gun was pulled. Two shots were fired, but one bullet did the damage. It passed through the leg of one, bounced off the floor and wall behind and ricocheted into another lads neck. Horrific. The lad shot in the leg turned up soon after being released from Hospital. The other lad would have to have surgery to remove the bullet!
...........................Relaxing in a bar before the game. Phil and I point out where Sven had gone wrong and that going to the bar would solve all the problems.......
People were a bit on edge but everything was calm and we decided to head to the ground around 6pm. We caught a taxi and it dropped us on the corner for the England fans. We strolled down to be met by Police in riot gear (fair enough), truncheons drawn (bit OTT, but understandable) but in full ski mask with MILITIA written on them. They were very aggressive pulling and pushing people for no reason. We passed through this check, they did not check tickets, just intimidated you and made sure you were English. Next was the really scary part. A few thousand England fans with one rusty, metal entrance. There was also a solid metal crash barrier (normally to stop people queuing in the road) that meant people climbing falling over it! It was a disgrace. I though people from UEFA and the FA inspected the facilities at the ground? After about 20 minutes a bigger gate was forced open by the weight of numbers and baton wielding police grudgingly let people use that as well.
Once inside we saw some empty seats (by the fence segregating fans) and headed for that. Luckily we saw some other mates and joined them in the middle of the section, towards the back. I imagine most people saw the game so wont go on about that too much. After about 35 minutes we were suddenly shocked to see the fence open up and ski masked thugs called Police charge in and batter every England fan in site. As a couple of others said after it subsided a few England mobbed up and tried to retaliate. Stupid and mindless, but if you saw your mate get cracked around the head for nothing, they saw that as all the vindication they needed. Once again another Police charged and a lot more violent this time.
A family we know from Brighton appeared and had been in the middle of it. The two kids were shaken but had avoided being hit. Many others were not so fortunate and loads of people walked along covered in blood, some bandaged, others just pouring blood. It was a disgrace. Luckily the second half was more peaceful and the highlight was the mock Mexican wave after we went 2-1 up! After the game we were held in but got back into the centre with no more incidents. Most bars were shut but we ended up eating China food as they called it and had a wonderful Chinese meal. We got in about 11.30 and left at 1.30 after great food and many beers. The place was heaving and the takings must have been a record!
Three guesses what and where this is???? Its the players tunnel at the ground in Bratislava. Probably one of the worst grounds I have visited!
Sunday we had a day of leisure. We strolled along the Danube then decided to hop on a tram to go to the Castle but went the wrong way, and ended up back at the ground! We decided to see if it was open and it was so went inside and had a walk on the 'pitch'. It was unreal, we took some great photos
of us in the dugout, recreating Owens goal (see end of this blog), pictures of the general state of the pitch, the inches of mud Seaman was wallowing in, and then the cracked concrete stands, the away terrace still covered in blood, the entrance gates, basically everything to show that the stadium was not fit for a football match. After that we went back into the centre for the rest of the day for some more sightseeing. Bratislava really is an interesting place and one I would like to go back to.
This picture shows just some of the blood stained seats ---------->
Anyway time for some more pictures of the place!!!
Even more pictures of Bratislava - I loved the place
So just a few more - Woo hoo Phil spots the Danube, we have been looking for that since our trip to Hungary!!
Monday we had a 5.45 flight to Prague a 7.25 flight to Stansted and I was back home just after midday. Bratislava is a nice place, people in general a bit miserable (perhaps that was down to the persistent rain and cold wind, or the fact they are still repressed and persecuted by the local Mafia?). We actually had a good trip and after seeing 10 defeats in a row for Brighton nice to see your team win again!
On the way back I heard Mark (Perryman) on Talk Sport. Its time we stood up for our rights as England fans again. Slovakia does not have the stadium or experience to hold big matches. We comply to strict standards and UEFA pass the grounds fit for matches, how the hell did this one pass an inspection?
Mark R
Now for our Phoenix of flames moment, we reinact the England goal
I lay off the perfect pass to Mr Blackman
We stop to inspect the pitch as we move forward on the attack
I get to the ball at the far post
Liz the new keeper appears to be stuck in the mud and fails to get to the ball
Phil and I celebrate a classic goal.................
Saturday, 12 October 2002
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