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U.D.O. Interviews and Features
Below are our features and interviews with U.D.O..
Udo Dirkschneider Reflects On A Legendary Career
Heavy metal has it's fair share of superstars but all the more important are it's heroes and legends. There are some names which strike reverence and respect in the hearts of metal fans such as Rob Halford, Lemmy, Ronnie James Dio and one of Germany's most beloved voices, Udo Dirkschneider, whose voice was first heard when Accept released their self-titled debut album in 1978 and since then has gone on to have hit records, write classic songs and forge a legacy which will always be respected.
I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Dirkschneider when his European tour came to London, in which we discussed why he has decided to say goodbye to the Accept catalogue, plans for the next U.D.O. album and if performing in Spain allows him time to head to his home in Ibiza. You can watch the interview below. More...
Interview With Udo Dirkschneider
Udo Dirkschneider shouldn't need an introduction, but here's one anyway. Coming from the legendary band Accept ("Metal Heart" was my first tattoo), Germany's powerhouse vocalist Udo Dirkschneider has just released his band U.D.O.'s thirteenth masterpiece "Rev-Raptor."
Just before U.D.O. sets off an a huge European tour, I got a chance to talk to the legendary Udo Dirkschneider about the new album, constant touring, and just how you make a set list with thirteen albums of material to choose from. More...


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Unfortunately, in the Arnold Arboretum and other Boston and Cambridge-area parks, you can't have a ceremony in the park with any structures. This means: no tent, no tables, no chairs...well, maybe one or two chairs. But you get the idea - your guests have to stand and you'll have to have a rain plan and be able to communicate it to your guests very effectively at the last minute.
I personally love these types of wedding ceremonies which have a more casual, informal, organic feel - but keep in mind the needs of your guest list if this is what you have in mind. 85 year old grandmas often have a hard time standing for an outdoor wedding ceremony.
I've done extensive research and nearly all of the City of Boston's parks have no covering. This means that, as much as the idea of a casual wedding in the Boston Public Garden sounds divine, you may get wet.
My advice: if you are having a wedding with more than 20 guests, don't plan for the ceremony in a public park in the Boston area. There are some really nice venues which have their own outdoor ceremony space where you can have chairs and where you can retreat in the event of rain. But if you decide on a park, you'll need a permit. The fee for Boston parks for Boston residents is $50 and $100 for non residents.
Are you planning to get married in a park?
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The functional programming communities have largely settled on monad interpreters as a basis for modeling effects. However, monadic effects are synchronous by default, which is a disadvantage in many contexts. I would like to encourage exploration of an even simpler effects model in a purely functional context: shared memory.
There has been a recent movement towards "free" monads, which enable separation of the interpreter. The ability to interpret free monads in many different contexts results in more compositional, extensible programs. Also, in my subjective opinion, free monads just feel right – simple, clean, less entangled with their environment, a better fit for the functional programming experience than the opaque monads of the past. In any given step, a free monad either:
- yields with a requested effect and continuation
- returns with a final result
That is, free monads are variants of the following:
data Free eff a = forall x . Yield (eff x) (x -> Free eff a) | Return a
Aside: The above representation has horrible performance properties for left-associative monadic binding, fmap, etc.. Fortunately, this is is a solved problem. We need only change our representation of continuations to a tree-structured queue or similar. See Oleg Kiselyov's code for an example.
A natural consequence is that monadic effects are synchronous by default. Our interpreter must acquire a response of type `x` before continuing. Further, fine grained effects tend to require yielding frequently. This hinders efficient parallelism and batch processing. Of course, we can explicitly model asynchronous effects.
A simple alternative is to model a shared memory as a basis for effects. As a refinement of our free monad:
data Prog shm a = Yield shm (shm -> Prog shm a) | Return shm a
Shared memory is a general, securable approach to effects. Our shared memory may consist of stream buffers, message queues, publish-subscribe topic lists, tuple spaces, databases, component entity systems, or something application specific. Upon yielding, our interpreter has opportunity to fill input buffers, flush output buffers, etc.. Buffering is common and explicit within the `shm` type.
Subprograms are easily constrained to operate on fragments of the shared memory. Subprograms that operate on different `shm` types can frequently be integrated with simple lensing techniques. (Adapting monadic effects, which are more eventful in nature, is more challenging in general.) In any case, a lot of the nice properties of free monads are still accessible with shared memory effects.
Shared memory effects are asynchronous by nature, and amenable to efficient batch processing. Yielding introduces an opportunity for effects, not a requirement for them.
Of course, we can explicitly model synchronous effects, where our interpreter knows to wait for certain data to become available before continuing. We can also mix, match, and layer our effects models, e.g. representing Free within Prog or vice versa. So, this isn't a committed choice.
Some readers might assume shared memory effects are similar to `World -> World` functions, e.g. as used in Racket's How to Design Programs. However, `World -> World` functions are driven externally, whereas yielding for effects on shared memory gives much greater control to the program.
I have enjoyed use of publish subscribe models, tuple spaces, blackboard metaphor, content addressable networking, explicit message queues, and otherwise more REST-ful approaches to effects common in procedural programming. I haven't thoroughly explored this idea in context of purely functional programming, where we have constraints against aliasing and greater control over the sharing of memory… but I believe those properties will only improve the experience. I will continue to explore this idea in Awelon project.


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|May 25, 2011
Imec extends 3D research agreement with Qualcomm focusing on advanced technologies and devices
|(Nanowerk News) imec today announced their continued research arrangement with Qualcomm Incorporated on 3D technology which broadens the collaboration with Qualcomm participating in imec's INSITE program focusing on designing with advanced technologies. This extended collaboration gives Qualcomm early insight on the system design impact of 3D and advanced process technologies including device structures, interconnects and lithography for the sub-20nm node.
|Since 2008, Qualcomm has participated in the imec industrial affiliation program (IIAP) on 3D integration providing Qualcomm early access to new 3D technologies for its future wireless products.
|"We are excited to have Qualcomm continue to broaden its relationship with imec after 3 years of successful collaboration," said Luc Van den hove, President and CEO of imec. "With INSITE we connect the technology research and design research communities and are expanding our ecosystem to include fabless and fab-lite companies. This offering helps companies anticipate new technologies so that they may design more advanced systems and applications and bring them to the market faster."
|"With consumers migrating from PC platforms to mobile devices and the market for smartphones growing rapidly, the demand for increasingly sophisticated mobile capabilities continues to expand," said Steve Mollenkopf, executive vice president and group president of Qualcomm. "Through our collaboration with imec, Qualcomm expects to gain insights into the benefits of 3D integration with advanced CMOS technology nodes that will help us provide increasing levels of integration on future mobile chipsets."
|INSITE makes information from imec's advanced process technology research programs available in formats that can be used by product designers for early assessment of the potential of those technologies for product roadmaps. And, vice versa, INSITE allows imec to guide specifications for next-generation technologies from future system requirements.
|About imec
|Imec performs world-leading research in nanoelectronics. Imec leverages its scientific knowledge with the innovative power of its global partnerships in ICT, healthcare and energy. Imec delivers industry-relevant technology solutions. In a unique high-tech environment, its international top talent is committed to providing the building blocks for a better life in a sustainable society. Imec is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, and has offices in Belgium, the Netherlands, Taiwan, US, China and Japan. Its staff of about 1,900 people includes over 550 industrial residents and guest researchers. In 2010, imec's revenue (P&L) was 285 million euro. Further information on imec can be found at www.imec.be.
|Source: imec
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Before looking for dishes for this GP I didn't really have much of an idea of what Korean food was. A quick search revealed a nation that loves its BBQ and its beef so Bulgogi seemed the quintessential meal to make. Bulgogi actually means 'fire meat' and refers to the method of cooking since the chicken, beef and pork versions each have a different marinade.
The beef version consists of sirloin or rump steaks marinated for several hours and then grilled or BBQ'ed. It was recently voted number 23 in CNN's 50 most delicious foods, so even though I had never heard of it before it must be pretty popular!
I was making enough marinade for two bits of meat, although seeing what it made I think it would also coat 3 very well and 4 at a push! The marinade consisted of:
- 2 cloves of garlic – crushed
- Approximately 1 inch cubed of ginger – grated
- 1 very large spring onion (2/3 normal spring onions) finely chopped
- 50ml of soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
- ½ tablespoon of sesame seed oil
- 1 tablespoon of coarsely crushed black peppercorns.
These were all mixed in a bowl. I then scored my steaks (a little too thickly if I'm honest – I made more of a slash than a score!) and placed them in the marinade where they stayed for 3 hours. They went in the fridge for 3 hours but I got the mix out half an hour before cooking so it could get to room temperature.
To cook the meat I used a very hot grill pan as I don't have a BBQ (plus it wasn't really the weather for cooking outide!). Most pictures I've seen of this dish have the meat cooked through, but personally I hate fully cooked beef unless it's been stewed for several hours, so my steaks were cooked for ¾ minutes each side so that they were caramelized on the outside and pink in the middle.
After cooking I let the steaks rest for a little while and then sliced them up. I served the steak with some Thai jasmine rice and poured the cooking juices from the resting plate over the top to give a little sauce.
This was another really fragrant dish. I was worried from the colour of the marinade that the say sauce might be overpowering but in the end it was quite mild. There was no chilli but the black pepper gave everything a nice mellow heat. The grill pan had cooked the meat nicely, but you could tell that the smokeyness of a real BBQ would have really enhanced the flavours that were there.
Now that the World Championship is over, it was thought that Vettel might give everyone a chance at winning. The young German champion, however, had no intention of doing so. The out of form Lewis Hamilton, who has struggled for at least half the season, raised his game and managed to put the Mclaren on pole, closely followed by Vettel and then team-mate Jenson Button.
Vettel blew past Hamilton on the first lap and then was unassailable in the lead. Lewis and Red Bull's Mark Webber then joined a great race-long battle for second place, including through the pit-stops, which Lewis won by holding Mark off for at least fifty laps. Both drivers, despite a gripping battle, looked upset at the their lack of success at the race's end.
Meanwhile, the unfancied Torro Rosso team managed to get both cars in the points, beating one of the Mercedes cars on pace. Michael Schumacher once more got taken out, this time by Visaly Petrov who missed his braking point down into turn seven and destroyed his own car as well. All in all, a surprisingly hard fought race. No rain like last year though…


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Landon Riddle. This young kid was struck with Leukemia which infected his entire chest with tumours which led to him being unable to breath. Medical professionals informed him that had an 8-10% chance of survival. Living more than a day or 2 looked exceptionally not likely.
Chemotherapy used up two months of Landon's life before he ended up being exceptionally sick and refused to consume any sort of food – vomiting up to 50 times a day according to his mother.
Medical professionals had actually given up hope until Landon's granny suggested something entirely various – cannabis oil.
" We talked about all our interest in his medical team in Utah and viewed Landon continue to suffer and wither away as the overdone drug after drug. Then my mom came across cannabis oil online," Riddle informed RYOT.
It was at this point that Landon and his household relocated to Colorado where the treatment using cannabis oil was a legal practice.
It took a matter of days before Landon started to feel the great results of the oil. Not just did he start consuming again but the everyday throwing up started decreasing day by day.
" Our hearts were filled with happiness that cannabis revived the smile to Landon's face. Landon began improving and better! It was as if a miracle had occurred! He was smiling again and began to consume again! It is atrocious that anybody on the planet would be charged for picking marijuana over pharmaceuticals."
Here is a brief video delving further into the story …
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Laura Ashley Bell Bundy (born April 10, 1981) is an American actress and singer who has performed in a number of Broadway roles, both starring and supporting, as well as in television and film. Her best known Broadway roles are the original Amber Von Tussle in Hairspray and the original Elle Woods in the musical version of Legally Blonde. She signed to Mercury Records Nashville and released her first country music single, "Giddy On Up," in early 2010. The album's second single, "Drop on By", was released to country radio on August 9, 2010.
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I can't stand her! Especially the giddy up song. It's people like her that ruined country!


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Hello everyone! Firstly I want to explain why I haven't been around. The reason is that the laptop I always use stopped working and we all know how hard it is to get used to another device when all the things we need are in the other one. Anyways that is one of the reasons why I haven't been blogging. And the other reasons are just family related. Also I haven't been inspired at all lately but with the weather cooling down a bit I see myself wanting to sit in front of a laptop and blog about the things on my mind.
Today I'm back with a some film photos. I haven't shot film much this year even though it was in my goals to 'shoot 15 rolls'. I'm a little sad that I might not accomplish that goal but because I had decided that it would take too much time and effort this year I wanted to shift my focus elsewhere and I'm happy about that. I was still able to shoot a roll or two when we went on vacation this Summer and I might take a couple more in the following months who knows. Here we have a couple of shots from Fethiye.
- First two photos below are from Butterfly Valley which is a home to various butterfly species but truth is I haven't seen any of them which was a bummer. It's a place accessible only by boat and there are many campers and nature lovers here. We tried hiking to the waterfall but we had little time so we turned back before reaching it. It was super hot and humid that day so my experience and memory is not that vivid.
- The next two photos are our view from our hotel balcony. We had the best view of the beautiful Fethiye sunset which slowly dissappeared into the mountains.
- The last three photos are just from our day at Ölüdeniz beach. It was a very chill day and probably one of the best in terms of cooling down and relaxing in the shade while watching the paragliders.
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I find the typical method for editing iCal events to be a bit of a headache. OK, so it's a minor complaint, but still. In this tip, I'm going to tell you all about some easier things you can do to move your events around, and I'll talk about how to share them easily so that we can all get on with our lives. I mean, I like iCal and all, but I don't want to spend a lot of time working in it.
So open iCal in either week or month view. (You can hit Command-1, Command-2, and Command-3 to toggle between day, week, and month views respectively.) Then find an event you'd like to move to a different day. Rather than editing the event itself, just pick it up and drag it to the new date. That's all there is to it. And as in the Finder, if you hold down Option while you're dragging, iCal will copy the event rather than moving it! Groovy.
This is me dragging an event. Isn't this the most helpful screenshot in the world?
If you like keyboard shortcuts better, you can choose instead to click on an event to select it, and then invoke the same shortcuts you're accustomed to using to move stuff around (Command-X for Cut, Command-C for Copy, and Command-V for Paste).
Of course, if you're in day view, you can still move the event by picking it up and dragging it, but that won't change its date. This is an easy way to adjust an event's time if you need to, though. You can even drag it up to the "All-Day Events" section and drop it there to switch it from a timed event to, well, an all-day one.
Here's my favorite thing, though. I know I say that a lot, but this one's true. If you want to send the details of an event to someone (especially if you hate Invitations with a passion, as I do), all you have to do is click and hold the event, drag it to the Mail icon in your Dock, and release. Mail will open a new message for you with the event details within, all nice-like.
If you'd like to make the process even more streamlined for your intended recipient, drag the event out to your Desktop first instead of onto the Mail icon. This'll create an .ics file, and when you e-mail that to a buddy, iCal will automatically ask him if he'd like to import the data into his calendar when he double-clicks the file. I think my head may have just exploded.
So there you have it—some easy ways to manipulate events and send them out to the people you love (and maybe even the people you don't, like your boss). This information is powerful, folks, so be sure to use it wisely.


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When it comes to jobs, nothing is more important than new businesses—which account for all net new job creation in the United States. But entrepreneurial activity in America is slowing, especially among younger Americans—the very people we hope will create tomorrow's fast‑growing companies.
The Problem
The Great Recession of 2008 scarred a generation. Almost a decade later, many young people are too risk averse and financially insecure to start a business. But they aren't alone.
In the years following the Great Recession, more businesses were dying each year than were being born— the first time that has happened since researchers started collecting data in the 1970s. Although new business growth has picked up in recent years, it is still only about "half what it was a generation ago," according to the Kauffman Foundation.
New businesses are different from small businesses, though each is critical to the health of the U.S. economy.
New businesses start small but may one day potentially become big and employ thousands of people.
Small businesses—think your local dry cleaner—may never grow significantly, but they account for 55 percent of all jobs in the U.S.
Both new and small businesses are dealing with challenges—including difficulty getting credit and complying with ever increasing regulatory obligations— for which the New Center can and must have answers.
The Factors
- Though small business lending has rebounded in the aftermath of the Great Recession, it still isn't great. A Babson College study found small businesses are only obtaining, on average, half the credit they asked for from their lender.
- Personal savings is the top source of financing for new businesses. While the savings rate has increased recently, it is still well off historical highs.
- Venture capital funding—which provides the fuel for many high-growth new businesses—has tripled since 2009. That's the good news. Here's the bad news: More funding is going to fewer new ventures, and investors have become more hesitant to provide the initial financing (seed funding) necessary to get new ventures off the ground.
New and small businesses can't hire the army of accountants, lawyers and compliance officers that big businesses rely on to stay ahead of the latest dictates coming from federal, state and local regulators. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, regulatory compliance is estimated to cost small businesses over $10,000 per employee, 36 percent more than the cost to larger businesses.
The 2011 Dodd-Frank Act was supposed to curb the risky behavior of big financial institutions that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis. But this law has hurt community banks that had little role in causing the crisis but provide crucial lending to new and small businesses. Since the passage of Dodd-Frank, one in five banks has shut its doors. Congress should revise the provisions of Dodd-Frank that disproportionately harm community banks by depressing lending to new and small businesses.
The recently launched Center for American Entrepreneurship proposes several ideas to enhance entrepreneurs' access to capital and ability to invest, including:
- Favorable Accounting: Allow new businesses to use the cash method of accounting during their first five years of operation and permit 100 percent first-year expensing of business-related capital, equipment, off-the-shelf software and real estate.
- More Flexible SBA lending: Make Small Business Administration lending more readily available, less complex and cumbersome, less physical-asset-based, and less restrictive for new businesses.
- Make R&D Pay: One of the costliest expenditures for new business is research and development. Congress could help ease the pain of entrepreneurs by making more businesses eligible to claim the R&D tax credit and by allowing start-ups to carry forward operating losses and R&D credits.
- Enhance Crowdfunding: The Jumpstart Our Business Start-ups ("JOBS") Act was signed into law in April 2012 with the aim of enhancing new companies' access to capital. But there is broad consensus that many rules remain too restrictive and undermine new businesses' ability to use "crowdfunding"—a practice which enables entrepreneurs to solicit funding online from unaccredited investors. Congress should loosen these restrictions.
- Assist the Angels: Congress should make several technical changes to the tax code to incentivize more private "angel investors" to fund new businesses.
The federal government should develop a regulatory "roadmap" website that enables entrepreneurs to view all of the federal, state and local regulations that may affect their business.
New businesses should only be subjected to the most essential product-safety, environmental, and worker-protection regulations during their first five years.
The federal government has a comprehensive process to create new regulations. But its efforts to eliminate old and ineffective regulations often die amid a flurry of special interest lobbying. One way around this problem would be a bipartisan Regulatory Improvement Commission—modeled on the Base Realignment and Closure Commission convened to close military bases—whose members would be empowered to submit packages of regulatory reforms to Congress for up or down votes with no amendments allowed.
America won't have stronger economic growth in the future unless it acts fast to enhance entrepreneurship. New businesses create the new jobs our economy desperately needs.


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Ep. 121: Why Digital Agencies Struggle with Video
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Just like my good friend and mentor, Arnie Kuenn, CEO of Vertical Measures. He's an expert in SEO and content marketing, but he's actively studying how video complements his business. Together, we'll explore the challenges that agencies face with video as well as what's working now with SEO and mobile.
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Step Brothers (2008)
In "Step Brothers," John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell play two losers still living at home with their parents well into their thirties who are brought together by the marriage of one's mother and the other's father. They don't have jobs, they have bad table manners, they are immature, they're a little dense, and they have juvenile interests, so of course they travel by bicycle. We don't see that until towards the end of the movie, when they are returning from a failed job hunt to show their step/parents that they really are responsible after all. Prior to that, the bicycle makes an appearance as a weapon in a front-lawn brawl between the step brothers.
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Boost Mobile Commercial (2009)
It's been a while since examples of The Law have been added to this blog, but that is not due to any shortage of choices, as this commercial for Boost Mobile shows. The woman and her companion are clearly portrayed as losers, she for having ridiculously long armpit hair, he for having a girlfriend with ridiculously long armpit hair and allowing her to tickle his nose with said hair, and both of them for riding a tandem bicycle.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Cracks in the Law?
Bicycling's image as the preferred mode of travel for perverts and losers seems to be showing some cracks. A story from September in the New York Observer comments on the outrageous phenomenon of women (models and actresses, even!) riding bikes in NYC. While one might interpret this as a step in the right direction--surely if models do it, it can't be only for perverts and losers!--though there is the taint of perversion in the fetishism of pretty girls on bikes. See comments to the Observer story, as well as the Copenhagen Cycle Chic blog, devoted to photos of women on bikes, and the similar montage from Monkey Warfare.
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Diff'rent Strokes (1983)
There has been somewhat of a drought recently of material for the blog, until this great submission from an anonymous reader. Daily Ramblings has a post from 2002 about an episode of Diff'rent Strokes in which a bicycle shop owner tries to molest Arnold and his friend Dudley. Apparently the actor who portrayed Dudley, Shavar Ross, favored an 8 x 10 glossy of this episode for fan autographs.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Owen Wilson Bikes to Strip Clubs
Here's a recent post to thesuperficial.com that's a bit of an inversion of The Law. Owen Wilson rides his bike to a strip club in real life, and is then portrayed as a loser and a pervert for doing so by commenters on the blog.
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Saturday, May 12, 2007
Monkey Warfare (2006)
This film is a bit of a quandary, at least as far as The Law is concerned. Dan McKellar and Tracy Wright portray Dan and Linda, a dysfunctional couple in their thirties whose relationship glue is a 2-stage epoxy of dope smokin' and a dark secret from their past. They travel almost exclusively by bicycle. They are proceeding in a mutually unsatisfying stasis, subsisting as marginal players in the eBay economy, where they sell junk/treasures that they find or buy at yard sales. Then their dealer gets busted, upsetting the delicate weed/dark secret balance.
Susan (Nadia Litz), a nubile bicycle bud dealer, steps in to fill the weed void, only to bring the dark secret bubbling up from the depths of the bongwater. Dan encourages Nadia's interest in his collection of late 20th-century radical chic souvenirs, mostly as a way of encouraging Nadia's interest in himself, but Nadia takes it all a bit too seriously. I won't give away the ending, but there is some bicycle-based terrorism.
So, are Dan and Linda really losers? They do have a pretty marginal existence, but it's hard to tell if this has just been forced upon them by circumstance (the dark secret). They're also not perverts, though Dan has a fetish for girls on bikes, expressed in an entertaining montage of Toronto bicycle cuties and a vaguely erotic saddle-adjustment scene. Similarly, Susan is hard to pin down as a loser or a pervert, though she makes some morally troubling choices (not the pot selling).
Overall Monkey Warfare is an outlier with respect to The Law. Perhaps a new clause is called for.
Susan (Nadia Litz), a nubile bicycle bud dealer, steps in to fill the weed void, only to bring the dark secret bubbling up from the depths of the bongwater. Dan encourages Nadia's interest in his collection of late 20th-century radical chic souvenirs, mostly as a way of encouraging Nadia's interest in himself, but Nadia takes it all a bit too seriously. I won't give away the ending, but there is some bicycle-based terrorism.
So, are Dan and Linda really losers? They do have a pretty marginal existence, but it's hard to tell if this has just been forced upon them by circumstance (the dark secret). They're also not perverts, though Dan has a fetish for girls on bikes, expressed in an entertaining montage of Toronto bicycle cuties and a vaguely erotic saddle-adjustment scene. Similarly, Susan is hard to pin down as a loser or a pervert, though she makes some morally troubling choices (not the pot selling).
Overall Monkey Warfare is an outlier with respect to The Law. Perhaps a new clause is called for.
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Jon Cryer plays Duckie in this chapter of John Hughes' extensive chronicles of coming-of-age in suburban Chicago. Duckie is a loser who can't get up the nerve to proclaim his love for his crush of innumerable years, Andie, played by Molly Ringwald. Inevitably, he travels by bicycle. In case you might miss the bicycle=loser intent of the film, Duckie makes it perfectly clear with his quip that "Drinking and driving don't mix. That's why I ride a bike." as he leaves Andie's room, juice box in hand. He also veers close to pervert territory towards the end of the film when he stalks Andie on his bike. All this might have been redeemed by the reported original ending of the film, in which Duckie gets the girl. Alas, she ends up with the wealthy drip with the nice car.
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Monday, January 29, 2007
Roll Film!
Thanks for reader mindfrieze for pointing out Roll Film!, a service of the admirable Chicagoland Bicycle Federation. Greg Borzo and Brad Strauss are the Ebert and Roper (or Siskel and Ebert, to cite an earlier Chicago movie reviewing duo) of Roll Film!, with monthly dueling reviews of movies from a bicyclist's perspective.
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Saturday, January 27, 2007
You, Me, and Dupree (2006)
Owen Wilson plays amiable loser Randy Dupree in this soon-to-be-forgotten comedy. Dupree is a lazy, manipulative leech who can't keep a job, so of course he travels by bicycle. Wearing a hockey helmet. There are several scenes that enforce the bicyclist-as-juvenile stereotype, including this clip where Dupree grabs a baby's bottle to refresh himself on a ride with Matt Dillon (as Carl Peterson, host to parasite Dupree), and another in which Dupree enlists the neighborhood children to help him put up posters to find the missing Carl. There's even an online game (a real trend: see also the Reno 911!:Petty Theft Bicycle game), so you can re-enact the scene and relive the utter silliness of using a bicycle to get around. Pre-eminent cycling ambassador Lance Armstrong has a cameo.
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Monday, January 22, 2007
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The opening scene of this beloved film, Kermit, the archetypal lovable loser, leaves for Hollywood pedaling his classy roadster, complete with wicker basket. Astounding to young eyes previously used to seeing Kermit only seated or flying limply through the air, the bicycle scene was one of the first to show an apparently autonomous Muppet. It ends pretty quickly, though, when Kermit is distracted by a billboard advertising Doc Hopper's Fried Frog Legs and crashes into a steamroller that crushes his bicycle. "It's a good thing frogs can hop, otherwise I'd be gone with the Schwinn." Sheesh.
The Great Muppet Caper (1981) has a scene that, at first, might seem to violate The Law. Kermit and Miss Piggy ride through a park and sing "Side by Side." The Great Muppet Caper, however, is set in London, a pop-culture-appropriate setting for adult puppets to enjoy bicycling (see Clause B).
The Great Muppet Caper (1981) has a scene that, at first, might seem to violate The Law. Kermit and Miss Piggy ride through a park and sing "Side by Side." The Great Muppet Caper, however, is set in London, a pop-culture-appropriate setting for adult puppets to enjoy bicycling (see Clause B).
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Friday, January 19, 2007
Reno 911! (2003-present)
In this fictional adaptation of Cops!, Thomas Lennon plays loser Lt. Jim Dangle, leader of the incompetent Reno police department. Lt. Dangle, who favors a hot pants version of the traditional policeman's uniform, is also the primary member of the Reno PD bicycle patrol. The running joke is that Lt. Dangle is forever having his bicycle stolen from him in the course of duty. Comedy Central even has a little on-line game called Reno 911!: Petty Theft Bicycle, in which you get try to keep away from the Reno PD after stealing Lt. Dangle's bicycle from outside the doughnut shop.
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
Blond Ambition (2007?)
A reader sent in a link to some photos of Jessica Simpson on the set of a film apparently in production entitled "Blond Ambition." Based on the fascinating photos from the set posted here, I am waiting with baited breath to see if this film is an application of The Law. I'm leaning heavily towards loser at the moment. What's with the kneepads?
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Mr. Show, "If You're Going to Write a Comedy Scene, You're Going to Have Some Rat Feces in There," (1996)
In this episode of the Bob Odenkirk/David Cross sketch comedy show, David Cross plays "Grass Valley" Greg, a Silicon Valley caricature who invented the delete key. Clearly a loser, his company is a place "Where ideas can hang out, and do whatever!" and there are frequent Tofutti breaks. To reinforce how much of a loser Greg is, he is shown riding a recumbent bicycle to work. The reader who reminded me of this example of The Law of Bicycles in Popular Culture points out that, even among bicyclists, recumbent bicyclists are regarded as perverts and losers.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Notes on a Scandal (2006)
In this film, Cate Blanchett plays a pottery teacher, bicycle commuter, and pervert Sheba Hart who is engaged in an affair with a teenage student. This is a British film, and it shows in that Sheba is a pervert who happens to ride a bicycle, rather than the bicycling being presented as an inherent characteristic of perverts (see Little Children).
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Paul Reubens plays his character of Pee-Wee Herman in Pee-Wee's quest to reclaim his prized bicycle. Pee-Wee is a loser, if an endearingly eccentric and non-self-aware one. Despite Mr. Reubens' personal habits, though, Pee-Wee is not really a pervert but asexual, or just trapped in a state of arrested development.
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I Heart Huckabees (2004)
Jason Schwartzman as Albert Markovski and Mark Wahlberg as Tommy Corn both portray losers in this comedy. Albert is an insecure, self-doubting environmentalist. Tommy is a fireman opposed to the automobile going through a messy divorce. They both travel by bicycle.
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Little Children (2006)
Jackie Earle Haley plays Ronnie J. McGorvey, a convicted child molester, in this film of suburban ennui. Ronnie, a pervert and loser, travels by bicycle, except for one scene in which he is the masturbating passenger of his blind date's car.
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Arrested Development (2003-2006)
Michael Bluth, played by Jason Bateman, is the loser protagonist of this cult hit TV show. As the most stable member of a family of self-serving bumblers, Michael takes it upon himself to make the necessary sacrifices to keep the family business above water. One of these sacrifices is riding a bicycle to work, when he is not driving the "stair car", a pickup truck from an airport with an attached set of stairs on the back for boarding planes.
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40 Year-Old Virgin (2005)
In this comedy Steve Carell stars as Andy Stitzer, the eponymous virgin. He is a loser who works in a big-box electronics store and rides a bicycle to work, with the clear implication that his bicycling is partly to blame for his continued virginity. He eventually finds love in Trish Piedmont, played by Catherine Keener. Trish shows that she can look beyond the fact that Andy is a loser by buying him a new bicycle, which he uses to run away from Trish after a fight. She follows him in her car and he crashes into the side of a truck.
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The Office, "Diwali" episode, (2006)
In this episode of the American version of the UK TV show created by Ricky Gervais, Jim Halpert, the lovable loser played by John Krasinski, decides to ride his bicycle to work. He arrives sweaty and exhausted. At the end of the episode, he gets drunk and crashes his bike into a bush. He is then driven home, with his bicycle tossed in the back of an SUV. The UK version of The Office never actually shows a bicycle, though there is one episode in which Gareth Keenan, the loser played by Mackenzie Crook, is shown stretching in an absurd manner after riding to work in a spandex outfit. One of the less common foreign examples of The Law noted in Clause B.
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This provocative stream-of-consciousness post was first posted on April 17, 2005.
I wrote this on January 28, 2006. Was I wrong then? Is that wrong now? Have things changed in the meantime? Lefty Blogosphere and the Love/Hate of Hillary
This post from November 26, 2004 was my fourth (out of five), and longest, analysis of the 2004 election. With Balkans and Creationism sprinkled in. How did it stand the test of time over the past 3.5 years?
It is great when you write a blog post about somebody, then that somebody shows up in the comments and clarifies his position thus starting an interesting conversation (both in the comments and via e-mail), then you realize that his book-signing tour is bringing that somebody to your town, so you go there and meet…
You probably know that I am quite interested in the history, current state, evolution and future of the institution of marriage, mainly because it is an important indicator of societal attitudes towards sex and towards gender-relations, which is the key to understanding political ideology. Between May 29, 2005 and February 23, 2006 I frequently mentioned…
Books: "The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity" by Stephen J. Ducat
This is not a real review – I never got to writing it – but it is about a book I mention quite often in my blog posts and think is one of the most insightful about the conservative mindset. Written originally on October 21, 2004:
I wrote this on September 21, 2004, as a reaction to the misunderstanding of Lakoff's term "Nurturant Parent". Slightly edited (eliminated bad links and such).
Here's another topic seen through the Lakoffian looking glass (July 23, 2005):
A repost from July 6, 2006:
When I posted this originally (here and here) I quoted a much longer excerpt from the cited Chronicle article than what is deemed appropriate, so this time I urge you to actually go and read it first and then come back to read my response.


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Government leaders from the 10 European Community countries were taking one small step toward greater unity last night, as they worked to approve potentially significant changes in the bloc's founding treaty. As this issue went to press, the leaders seemed on the verge of an agreement that, although far short of turning the countries into a ``United States of Europe,'' would signal a new willingness to sacrifice national interests for the common good, many analysts here believed. A change in the bloc's treaty would be the first in the organization's 28-year history.
The agreement that seemed to be emerging, following two days of often acrimonious discussions here, would help streamline European decisionmaking on several issues.
These include facilitating removal of national trade barriers by 1992 and enhancing coordination of foreign policy. Widening the powers of the European Parliament was also under discussion.
Officials said that the government leaders, who intiated the process of treaty reform at their summit meeting in Milan last May, were motivated to ``move Europe forward'' by at least two developments -- one of which is recent, the other imminent.
For months, European businessmen have been stepping up their pressure on EC governments to remove all national barriers to trade or face the prospect of Western Europe falling further behind the United States and Japan, especially in high-technology industries.
Businessmen argue that without a true ``common market,'' where goods and services can move as freely from one country to another in Western Europe as they do from one state to another in the US, European companies are at a considerable disadvantage vis-`a-vis their US competitors.
The European Parliament estimates that paperwork and border delays in Western Europe cost $50 billion a year, or about 2 percent of the combined gross national products of the EC countries.
One large European company says its profits would have been about 50 percent higher last year if it had been able to operate in a genuine European ``common market.''
The other development that spurred EC leaders to action was the realization that community lawmaking could be brought to a virtual halt after Spain and Portugal join the EC, which they will do on Jan. 1.
A requirement in the EC's founding treaty requires new legislation to be approved unanimously. Many analaysts insist that that rule is the biggest stumbling block to progress in uniting the EC countries. But even with the dropping of that rule, countries will still be able to veto measures that they believe threaten vital national interests.
No one believes that such new agreements will answer all the EC's woes.
National interests die hard. Lord Cockfield, the EC Commissioner, who spearheaded the move to drop national trade barriers, has cited no fewer than 300 reforms which must be enacted in order to achieve an integrated Europe by 1992. That will take an enormous effort.


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Tuesday's conviction of Texas financier Allen Stanford on 13 out of 14 counts provides a small measure of vindication for investors in the $7 billion Ponzi scheme.
Houston investor Cassie Wilkinson, who lost some $500,000 invested with Stanford, said the verdict proves investors were duped and not victims of their own greed.
"It actually restores my faith in the justice system because we felt, as victims we've really felt abandoned by our government," Wilkinson said.
But beyond that, the 28,000 investors will still be hard pressed to get much of their money back anytime soon.
On Wednesday, the same jury that convicted Stanford in the criminal case will be asked to decide whether the Justice Department can seize some $300 million in offshore bank accounts linked to Stanford. The accounts are believed to represent the largest potential source of funds to repay investors.
But even if the U.S. government gains access to the accounts, it will have a fight on its hands according to attorney Kevin Sadler of Baker Botts, who represents the court appointed receiver rounding up funds for investors.
The guilty verdict is "a good milestone on a long road," said Sadler, who represents receiver Ralph Janvey.
But Sadler said liquidators in Antigua — home of Stanford's offshore bank — are laying claim to some of the funds as well.
"It should help DOJ in their fight with the Antiguan Liquidators to get funds frozen overseas returned to US," Sadler said.
"But Antiguans are determined to get their hands on that money," Sadler wrote in an e-mail to CNBC.
Stanford was the largest private employer in the island nation, and his indictment wreaked havoc there.
The founder of the Stanford Victims Coalition also expressed concerns that the verdict is something of a hollow victory for investors.
"I am happy to see Allen Stanford found guilty on almost all of the charges, but the victims' justice is in recovering their losses," said Angela Shaw, who lost some $2 million in the scam. "To date, there has been no recovery whatsoever for the victims of this crime. In the three years it took to convict Stanford, many of his victims lived a life that is worse than prison in many ways."
In addition to the tug-of-war over Stanford's bank accounts, the investors are locked in a battle with the organization that insures U.S. brokerage accounts, the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC).
SIPC provides payments of up to $500,000 for investors in failed brokerage firms, but does not compensate investors for worthless securities. The organization said the Stanford certificates of deposit are just that and has denied coverage to the investors. SIPC also said it should not be forced to compensate depositors in a non-U.S. bank.
The investors claim they are victims of theft, which normally is covered by SIPC. And they said most investors purchased their CDs from Stanford's U.S. brokerage, a SIPC member.
The SEC has gone to court to force SIPC to pay. The case is still pending.
While it is unclear whether the guilty verdict in Stanford's criminal trial will help bolster the investors' position in the SIPC case, it could help sway dozens of so-called "claw back" suits filed by the receiver, seeking tens of millions of dollars.
"Some defendants sued by the Receiver have claimed there was no Ponzi scheme," Sadler said, "so this verdict should shine some sunlight on that fog."
No date has been set for Stanford's sentencing. If sentenced consecutively on all 13 counts, he faces up to 230 years in prison.


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Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara hailed Tillekaratne Dilshan as a "pioneer" on Friday after the opener hit an unbeaten 96 to lead his side past West Indies and into the World Twenty20 final.
Sri Lanka cruised to a comfortable 57-run win at the Oval and will now take on Pakistan in the final at Lord's on Sunday.
"I have run out of superlatives for Dilshan. He is a pioneer stroke-maker in Twenty20," said Sangakkara.
"The best thing is that he understands his role and has become very responsible and mature. He has finally understood how good he is."
Dilshan's knock was the centrepiece of Sri Lanka's 158 for five with his 57-ball innings, which featured two sixes and 12 fours, the equal third-best in Twenty20 international history.
Fellow opener Sanath Jayasuriya (24) and Angelo Mathews (12 not out) were the only other Sri Lankan batsmen to reach double figures.
Mathews then took three wickets in the first over of the West Indies reply and the Caribbean side never recovered as they finished on 101 all out with captain Chris Gayle carrying his bat for 63 not out.
"It's Mathews's first major international tour and you can't ask for much more than three wickets in the first over," added Sangakkara.
"To get three top order batsmen out is a great start. We have a great bowling attack, they are all thinking cricketers.
"Now we will take this confidence into the final against Pakistan. We'll concentrate on getting our basics right, we'll be responsible and execute our game plan."
Dilshan said he was learning all the time in the international arena.
"I got the start I wanted. I've been in good form in the last six months in the IPL and in international cricket," said the opener, who was named man of the match.
Gayle said the defeat was a bitter pill to swallow after his bowlers had limited the flamboyant Sri Lankans to 158-5.
"I'm very disappointed. I thought batting was our strength," said Gayle.
"Dilshan took the game away from us. But we have struggled to get a start and get runs on the board.
"We'll come back as a better unit and learn things from this."
Sangakkara hails 'pioneer' Dilshan
Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara hailed Tillekaratne Dilshan as a "pioneer" on Friday after the opener hit an unbeaten 96 to lead his side past West Indies and into the World Twenty20 final.


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Dark Corner Distillery
What it's known for: Stop by Dark Corner Distillery for a whiskey tasting that's sure to be informative and delicious. They specialize in distilling the best liquors - in small batches. The bartenders here are passionate about their spirits and accommodating to all, so bring a group of friends by to sample a flight or try one of their original, specialty cocktails.
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Phone: 864.631.1144
Address: 14 S. Main St., Greenville
What it's known for: A Greenville staple, Soby's exceeds expectations by showcasing all of your favorite things – Southern and Lowcountry Dishes, farm fresh ingredients and a stunning wine menu that's received the Best of Award of Excellence by Wine Spectator magazine since 2003. Order a glass and sit out on the patio savoring the view of Main Street.
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Address: 207 S. Main St.
Just as the city of Greenville has grown tremendously during the past decade, so have its options for cocktail hour. Whether you want a rowdy spot to meet friends after work and watch the game, a nice glass of wine over dinner or a weekend spot to relax with a signature cocktail – Greenville's got everything and more.
The Trappe Door
What it's known for: If you visit The Trappe Door, prepare to be impressed. Not just with their beautifully crafted lunch and dinner plates, but with the large selection of beer you'll have available to you. If you're a fan of Belgian brews, this might just become your new favorite spot.
Style: Bar, lunch, dinner
Address: 23 W. Washington St., Greenville
Phone: 864.451.7490
The Playwright Irish Pub
What it's known for: Aiming to be the only true Irish pub in the area, when you walk in to The Playwright in downtown Greenville, everything you'll see or touch was handcrafted in Ireland. A one-of-a-kind place to unwind after work with friends, you'll have the choice of up to 36 different beers on draft, plus a great selection of spirits and wines.
Style: Irish pub, casual, brunch, lunch, dinner
Address: 401 River St., Greenville
Phone: 864.241.3384
American Grocery
What it's known for: To accompany your exquisite farm-to-table meal, American Grocery has a custom wine room with more than 100 artisan boutique wines from all over the world. The bartenders also offer an excellent selection of specialty cocktails and seasonal craft beer on draft.
Style: Farm-to-table, dinner, fine dining
Address: 732 S. Main St., Greenville
Phone: 864.232.7665
Stellar Restaurant and Wine Bar
What it's known for: Stellar uses local fruits and vegetables to brighten all of their handcrafted dishes. But where most restaurants offer drinks as an aside to compliment the meal, Stellar works the other way around. Their fine wines, specialty martinis, fine scotches and bourbons are the stars of the menu.
Style: Farm-to-table, dinner, fine dining, Wine Bar
Address: 20 N. Main St., Greenville
Phone: 864.438.4954
Bacon Bros.
What it's known for: Well, bacon. Made on the premises. But to elevate the experience, they have a good selection of craft beers on tap, specialty cocktails and a reserve wine collection, so you've got plenty to pair with your meal, or just to enjoy at cocktail hour.
Style: Southern, farm-to-table, lunch, dinner, craft beer
Address: 3620 Pelham Road, Greenville
Phone: 864.297.6000
Ink N Ivy
What it's known for: Ink N Ivy is a restaurant for any occasion, but when it comes to cocktails, you won't want to miss its brunch selection. Whether you love Bloody Marys or are more a mimosa person, they've got you covered in several ways. They also have fun dessert cocktails like a Butterscotch White Russian – yes please!
Style: Casual, brunch, lunch, dinner, eclectic
Address: 21 E. Coffee St., Greenville
Phone: 864.438.4698
Nose Dive
What it's known for: Nose Dive features an elevated pub-style menu with Southern favorites like Chicken and Waffles, and a Sunday Brunch Grits Bar. But, their favorite menu items are the craft beer and cocktails, and a great wine selection. If you do come for brunch, don't leave without trying one of their classic Bloody Marys.
Style: Gastropub, lunch, dinner
Address: 116 S. Main St., Greenville
Phone Number: 864.373.7300
Dive 'N' Boar
What it's known for: Dive 'N' Boar provides local music and weekly events to bring friends and family together over good food and even better drinks. With 25 rotating taps of some of the best local craft beers, plus an extensive selection of tequila, bourbon and bizarre-but-delicious specialty cocktails, there's always a reason to stop in.
Style: Gastro Pub, dinner, modern, urban
Address: 2541 N. Pleasantburg Dr., Greenville
Phone: 864.509.0388


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Tiesto voted 'The Greatest DJ of All Time'
While many dance portals often do an annual top DJ poll – ourselves included with our ITM50 – UK dance music bible Mixmag took things a step further with their highly-publicised The Greatest DJ of All Time survey. The winner of that title has now been revealed, with voters crowning Tiesto as the #1 DJ ever.
Yes, that's right, the master of 'Trouse' himself beat out other legends of the ones and twos such as Carl Cox, Sasha and Larry Levan for the title in Mixmag's list. The result will surely be debated for days and weeks to come but it certainly shows just how powerful mobilised trance fans can be!
Check out the Top 10 greatest DJs ever as voted by Mixmag readers below.
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8. Sasha
7. Paul Van Dyk
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Early life
Born presumably on the eleventh of July, Candace most likely had a childhood identical to that of her 1st Dimension counterpart. When she was a child, her mother fell in love with Lawrence Fletcher. The two were later married and Candace and her brother Phineas gained Ferb as a stepbrother. At least five years prior to the arrival of their first dimension counterparts, Phineas and Ferb bought Perry, who was apparently a secret agent, although it is never specified. At some point, Perry was defeated by Dr. Doofenshmirtz and turned into a half-cyborg hybrid of himself, dubbed Platyborg. Consequently, she as well as everyone else in Danville and the rest of The Tri-State Area fell to the reign of Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
Candace felt a personal opposition to his rule, possibly that it was a threat to her family's safety, and acted on it. She established The Resistance, the secretive organization aiming to end Doofenshmirtz's tyrannical regime. From then onwards, she along with the rest of the opposition had been in conflict with the Heinz Doofenshmirtz of the second dimension in continuation of the feud between him and Perry that had since been resolved.
Present life
Candace was first seen by Phineas-1 and Ferb-1 at the Flynn-Fletcher household in her standard civilian clothing right as she denied having seen duplicates of her brothers in the living room and left.
She was revealed as the opposition leader after they were escorted into the Resistance headquarters by Buford-2. When they solicited her cooperation to rescue Perry-1 from Doofenshmirtz, she initially declined, saying it was "their fight", but shortly later changed her mind and took the group, including a recently-arrived Candace-1 into a mining cart transport system to bring them to Doofenshmirtz' headquarters.
Upon arriving underneath DEI, Candace began to doubt that the task at hand would be accomplished as easily as planned, and when Phineas-1, Ferb-1, Candace-1, Isabella-2 and Buford-2 were nearly captured by the Doofenshmirtzs when they managed to reach Perry, she took them and fled in the mine carts. When the Norm Bots followed in pursuit, she at first attempted to fight them off before realizing their odds after the mine carts are damaged and making the decision to separate the end of the train carrying the 1st Dimension counterparts, allowing them to be captured.
However, she later regretted this decision, as revealed when she broke into the Goozim room and tossed a handheld version of Doofenshmirtz-1's Otherdimensionator to Phineas, who used it to escape into the inter-dimensional stream with the rest of his group and a betrayed Doofenshmirtz. Unfortunately, the rescue was at her expense, and she was subdued by the defending Norm Bot battalion before she could escape. To her luck, however, Jeremy-2 along with Phineas-2 and Ferb-2 broke into her prison cell shortly thereafter and freed her.
After the battle for the Tri-State Area, she congratulated the 1st Dimension characters for managing to end Doofenshmirtz-2's reign of terror and ultimately bring him into custody, but felt her life would go nowhere now that it has been achieved. When Candace-1 advised she take up the endeavors of an average teenager, she replied saying she'd "take it under consideration". She bid her first dimension counterpart and everyone else a farewell before returning to her dimension, likely to begin a new life. ("Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension")
As Doofenshmirtz is finally brought to justice, Candace felt in a moment of relief that she won't have to worry about living the endeavors of a teenager. However, she feels that evil will still be striking in Danville again, and her desire to keep Danville safe from evil start to conflict with her new interest in forming a relationship with Jeremy. Also, she now has to deal about the disappearances of many of O.W.C.A.'s agents after being contacted by Major Monogram of the situation. Eventually, Candace soon spots two giant ant-robots threatening the boys and has Isabella to break off one of the legs from the walking one while she deals with the flying one. However, despite managing to destroy the flying ant robot by sending it crashing into a tree, Candace is informed by Phineas that Perry has been kidnapped by several animal cyborgs (presumably to be the missing agents).
Wanting to find out what's going on, Candace pays a visit to Doofenshmirtz in his cell, where he confesses that a certain family member of his is responsible for capturing the agents and turning them into cyborgs. At first, Candace believes that his daughter Vanessa is the culprit, but Heinz states that it's his ex-wife Charlene who did the deed, not Vanessa. After Perry is rescued by Phineas and the Firestorm Girls, Candace decides to pursue the situation further by going over to Charlene's penthouse with Phineas and Perry. She even coerced Doofenshmirtz to help her along by threatening to take away his toy train while he can still remain in prison.
After reaching Charlene's penthouse and meeting the woman herself, she is surprised to learn that both Doofenshmirtz and Charlene were never divorced and has pretended to be for several finance advantages, such as tax recods and coupon mail. Eventually, having anticipated Candace's arrival, Charlene sets her cyborgs to imprison Candace, Phineas, and Perry in her lair. However, the three were freed by Ferb (who pretended that he was turned into a cyborg by Charlene) and the Resistance arrive by using the remaining giant ant robot. This resulted into a fight between the Resistance and the cyborgs, and Candace engages into a bo staff fight with Charlene. Following the battle, all of the cyborgs are relieved of their evil programming (except for Pandaborg), and Candace manages to defeat Charlene. Before she can put the evil couple into custody, she is interrupted by the arrival of Vanessa, who convinces Candace to let her have a moment with her parents. However, it was all a trick as Vanessa takes the opportunity to help her family and Pandaborg escape in a hover car driven by her boyfriend Tony Marzulo, much to Candace's anger. Despite the Doofenshmirtz family's escape, Candace attends the reunion of all returned O.W.C.A. agents before announcing her decision to quit the Resistance, assuring to an objecting Monogram that he and his agents can be able to track down the notorious Doofenshmirtz family and bring them to justice without her assistance, and that she'll be coming around if they need her the most. She then happily settles her attention towards Jeremy, presumably to start a relationship with him. (Tales From the Resistance: Back to the 2nd Dimension).
Unlike her 1st Dimension counterpart, Candace doesn't display the typical behavior of a teenage girl, although it is presumed that she eventually does after the film's events. They do, however, share certain personal traits. Such traits include their controlling attitude, which she carries more of as the leader of the opposition, and her defiance and resilience, which has under separate circumstances molded her in a different manner into a different person. She is obsessed with overthrowing Doofenshmirtz the same way her first dimension counterpart is with getting her brothers grounded. As said by her to the first dimension Candace during an exchange in the mine carts: "He is going down, down, down!"
She is earnestly devoted to the safety of everyone she cares about, particularly her brothers, Phineas and Ferb, and is terrified of losing them. For that reason, she'd even prohibited them from joining the Resistance for their own safety until they proved their ability.
As warm and protective as she is to those close to her, she is cold and merciless towards those who threaten them and lives her life with the determination of their pursuit and destruction. That includes the ruthless Doofenshmirtz family of her dimension.
Physical Appearance
Candace is physically identical to her 1st Dimension counterpart, aside from her apparel. When at home, she wears the standard issued white shirt and 'dooferalls'. When on duty, she wears a low-cut sleeveless midriff, a black skirt, black shoes with black stockings (which appear as really tall boots), a black bandana, and a pair of black sunglasses, which she most probably wears to hide her emotions during combat. She carries around a satchel and wears a utility belt around her waist.
Phineas Flynn
Unlike her 1st Dimension counterpart, she is extremely protective of her brother to the point where she forbids him to join The Resistance, disregarding his desire to join the fight against Doofenshmirtz. However, when she is rescued by them, she lets them fight as recognition.
Ferb Fletcher
Her relationship with Ferb is never a subject of focus and Ferb never speaks to her directly, but she appears to be as loving of him as she is of Phineas.
Resistance Members
Isabella Garcia-Shapiro
According to the Phineas and Ferb The Movie Magazine, Isabella has been described as Candace's most trusted member, though this is never specified in the film itself. However, it is mentioned that Isabella is Candace's second in command.
Jeremy Johnson
She describes Jeremy as a "good soldier" and she tells the 1st Dimension Candace that she doesn't find him as "cute" because she feels that it might get in the way of her work. When Jeremy, Phineas, and Ferb rescue her from Doofenshmirtz, Jeremy gives her a compliment that stirs up Candace's interest before the four depart. When Doofenshmirtz's plot is thwarted and he is arrested in the 2nd Dimension, she wonders what she'll do now that Doofenshmirtz's reign has ended, and the 1st Dimension Candace points to Jeremy, to which she replies that she'll "take it under consideration", implying that the two will start a relationship after the movie's events.
1st Dimension Citizens
Candace Flynn
She interacts with the 1st Dimension Candace in the mine cart, telling her life as how it is in the 2nd Dimension. The two are briefly at odds when the 1st Dimension Candace realizes that she doesn't find Jeremy as "cute", but they make up. After Doofenshmirtz is arrested, Candace realizes that her life might now go nowhere, and the 1st Dimension Candace reassures her that other pursuits (such as becoming Jeremy's girlfriend) now lie ahead, to which she replies that she'd "take it under consideration". The two share a hug before she departs for her home dimension.
Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher
Unlike with her own brothers Candace seemed almost hostile and seemed to show hate (like her first dimension counterpart when she's in busting mode) towards First-Dimension Phineas and Ferb because because they are catching a lot of attention from the news and having the same faces as her brothers, only tanner and a different haircut. This was putting her brothers in grave danger so she wanted to just get them back to their dimension as soon as possible. Her brother's had managed to talk her into saving first-dimension Perry, and later on, First-Dimension Phineas and Ferb themselves. She actually makes a decision to save the First-Dimension's Tri-State-Area all on her own, though she might have seen this as just another way to try and defeat Doofenshmirtz.
She is highly skilled at close and medium range combat when using her Bo staff. Being a lethal martial arts fighter, Candace demonstrates remarkable agility over Doofenshmirtz' Norm Bots and can easily destroy them when they are in small to medium-sized groups. Her fighting style is ruthless and brutal. However, she almost seems to be a match against Charlene Doofenshmirtz, who is more experienced in the same skills in combat with a bo staff.
Background Information
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- Because she is so busy leading her Resistance group, Candace has no time for normal teenage things, such as boys, shopping, and slumber parties. Because of the threat, she is extremely protective of her brothers Phineas and Ferb, unlike her real-world counterpart, and will do anything to protect them from the hands of Doofenshmirtz.
- Both her and her first dimension counterpart are allergic to wild parsnips ("Jerk De Soleil").
- She lives a secret double life, similar to that of the 1st Dimension Perry and his 2nd Dimension counterpart before he was captured and turned into a cyborg.
- She is highly skilled at close and medium range combat when using her Bo staff.
- She appears to be obsessed with overthrowing Doofenshmirtz the same way her first dimension counterpart is with getting her brothers grounded. As said by her to the first dimension Candace during an exchange in the mine carts: "He is going down, down, down!."
- She is a playable character in both the Phineas and Ferb The Movie Game: The Dimension of Doooom! and Robot Riot online games.
- "Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension"
- Phineas and Ferb The Movie Game: The Dimension of Doooom! (Non-canon)
- Phineas and Ferb: Across The 2nd Dimension (junior novel)
- Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension (video game)
- Robot Riot! (game)
- Tales from the Resistance: Back to the 2nd Dimension
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Grilling with ground meats
Grilling Ground Meats
When it comes to grilling there is nothing better than the smell of that of charcoal or wood chips, But rather if its ground beef,chicken, or beef grilling great tasting food should be done super simple, Grilling is a iconic method to cooking where food cooks a real natural way the mild taste and the bold flavor that no one can describe. yet the smokiness in the meat thar ever one talks about, So rather you grilling beef, pork or chicken burgers if there done right you have a good thing on your hands. Adding on to this conversation I'm going to share with you a recipe for a grilled angus burger with saute red onions with mayo that you spiceit to give the burger a kick.
Angus Burger with poblano peppers and red onions with spicy mayo
Roasted Poblano Peppers & Saute Red OnionsAngus Burger
In this recipe I used freshly 100% Angus Ground Beef that is blended with roasted poblano peppers, red onion and Monterey jack cheese and finished with a kick of spicy mayonnaise for a gourmet burger experience.
Spicy Mayo
1/2 cup of mayonnaise
1/8 teaspoon of ground cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon of ground cumin
1 1/4 pounds of angus ground beef
2 poblano peppers, roasted, seeded and finely diced
1/2 cup of red onion, diced sauted and cooled to room temperature
4 slices of Monterey jack cheese tpor into small pieces
1 teaspoon of ground cumin
1 teaspoon of sea salt
1/2 teaspoon of freshly ground black pepper
Cooking spray
4 grilled or toasted jumbo whole wheat sandwich buns
1 large tomato cut into 1/4 - inch thick rounds
1 ripe avocado sliced
4 nice pieces of lettuce
For mayonnaise;
Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl, mix lightly with fingers or fork just until incorporated. Form the meat mixture into 4 (4 inch-wide patties ). Place patties on a platter cover and refrigerate,,, If needed the patties can be made 6 hours ahead. Prepare the barbecue grill and set on a medium high temperature, thin lightly coat the grill racks with cooking spray. Begin grilling burger on the first side until juices come through then turn them over and coook the burgers until they come to a temperature of 165 degrees thats about 4 minutes on each side. When done you can toast the buns cut side down for about 1 minute.
To assemble the burgers, spread the spicy mayonnaise on the cut sidesof the buns. On each roll bottom, place a burger a tomato slice, avocado slice and lettuce, add the roll top and enjoy.
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T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm Resigns To Reunite With Family In Europe
After a rough two-year stretch on the job, T-Mobile USA's CEO Philipp Humm resigned today. While his resignation was somewhat unexpected, Humm's time at the helm included a failed merger with fellow telecom giant AT&T.
T-Mobile's parent company Deutsche Telekom said that Humm is going to reunite with his family in Europe, and pursue a career outside of the company. A Wall Street Journal report said that while Humm had been planning to leave in September, he's exiting early after telling the company that he'd be joining a Telekom competitor.
"Philipp Humm has given the company some important initiatives over the past years," Deutsche Telekom CEO René Obermann said in a written statement. "Now we need somebody who can convert initiatives into market-successes."
In the fallout of the failed merger with AT&T in December, T-Mobile received $3 billion, plus another $1 billion in spectrum. That is all well and good, but the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the country still doesn't have enough spectrum to launch a competitive 4G network.
Now that it's no longer seeing AT&T in a romantic context, T-Mobile is likely looking to hook up with someone else, as long as that buyer can pass the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice.
One of the biggest hurdles to the AT&T/T-Mobile merger was the two companies' assertion that they did not consider the other to be a competitor, in spite of years of advertising and marketing to the contrary. At a Senate hearing last May, Humm had a difficult time keeping a straight face when the panelists pressed him to back up this assertion.
T-Mobile USA's CEO resigns [CNNMoney]
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Update: The Writers Guild of America held a press conference Friday, and officially set Monday morning at 12:00 am PT as the beginning of the strike. They have stated that they are open to negotiations over the weekend as long as the companies will stop insisting DVD residuals cannot be increased. Variety quotes WGA negotiating committee chairman John Bowman as saying "We don't want to strike. What we really want to do is negotiate."
But it's almost a certainty the strike will happen, as the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers' Nick Counter released an angry statement responding to the WGA, declaring "We are very disappointed with their press conference and the action [the WGA] took. Their press conference was full of falsehoods, misstatements and inaccuracies and we'll respond at an appropriate time."
Read on for the earlier story and more details on the strike.
The Writers Guild of America has decided to strike. After negotiations fell apart with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers this week, the WGA met Thursday night at the Los Angeles Convention center, and the WGA negotiating committee announced a unanimous strike recommendation, reports Variety.
Final decisions are being made, but it's likely the strike will begin this coming Monday, November 5th. For the time being, writers have been instructed to return to work and wait for an update from strike captains. Variety notes that it's possible for negotiations to re-open over the weekend, but it's seen as highly doubtful.
A major issue leading to this strike continues to be DVD revenues. Under rules set during the 1980s during the VHS/rental era, WGA members receive four cents for every DVD sold of a project they wrote. The WGA is asking for the amount to be doubled to eight cents a copy for the writer, and offered a compromise that wasn't accepted - the compromise would have kept the four cent revenue for DVDs that had made less than a $1 million in sales, but double the amount going to the writer for titles once they pass $1 million. The studios and networks state that DVD revenues are needed to break even thanks to rising costs and that they can't afford the increase for the writers. An additional issue continues to be how to handle revenue and residuals from new media, such as online downloads of television series.
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Eonline.com's Kristin Dos Santos related how she was at a dinner on Thursday night attended by Lost executive producer Damon Lindelof and Heroes executive producer Tim Kring and how their cell phones and BlackBerrys, along with everyone in the room, all simultaneously received the news "It's on" as the WGA made the strike announcement. In a piece earlier this week this week we discussed how a strike would impact many series. Dos Santos updates the situations facing Lindelof and Kring's shows, revealing that the Lost writers have completed scripts for 14 of the 16 episodes intended for this season. Most shows have far less of their would-be final output ready to film.
Heroes also is a bit luckier than most shows, in terms of being able at least have some sort of closure for now. This season was already intended to be split into two or three distinct storylines, and the first one -- "Generations" -- will finish up with an episode airing in early December. While more episodes will have been filmed beyond that, NBC might just choose to make the conclusion of "Generations" a pseudo-season finale, rather than begin the next storyline only to have it abruptly be put on hold thanks to the strike halting production. [Click here to read more about how Heroes is handling the strike]
IGN will be giving updates in the coming days and weeks, as to how the strike will affect specific shows and how many episodes fans can expect to see.


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The Curriculum at Trinity
Trinity aims to provide a curriculum that is both broad and balanced. It is constructed to meets the needs of all pupils in its care irrespective of ability, additional needs or gender.
This may mean, in certain cases, specific subject opportunities are offered to particular pupils whilst not available to others. These situations in particular reflect the curriculum needs of the individual pupils.
As you would expect, the curriculum changes as pupils move through the school. They have an increasing amount of flexibility as they get older with option choices becoming available. More distinct setting arrangements for core subjects are also in place enabling teaching to closely match the ability of the children.
The information below indicates how the curriculum at Trinity currently operates. Each year there are slight adjustments to the curriculum. These are determined by a number of factors including internal improvements, exam board changes and Governmental initiatives and strategies.
Key Stage 3 (Years 7 – 9)
Alongside the specific information below, classes for Catering, IT, Music and Product Design are grouped. There are eight classes in each year group and pupils are in the same group for each of these subjects. There are also eight classes for PE.
Year 7
In Year 7 there are two 'top' sets, two middle ability sets and two lower ability groups. Most pupils follow the full suite of National Curriculum subjects. One half of the year group will be taught French as their Modern Foreign Language with the other half being taught German. Currently the lower ability group follows a programme of literacy and numeracy rather than a modern foreign language.
For a discrete group of pupils, a phonics programme is in operation to help support and improve their literacy skills. This has had a significant impact on reading ages for those targeted.
Year 8
As pupils enter Year 8 blocks of subjects start to 'set' more tightly. This means that pupils may no longer be in the same class for the majority of their timetable.
Year 9
In this year group, classes in English, Maths and Science are set separately for each subject with three classes in each year half. This prepares pupils for the entry into Key Stage 4. Seven subjects remain clustered together for the same class groupings.
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After arriving at Tudu bus station in the morning, I made my way through the street vendors, and the many vans and taxis going in all directions. Since the station and vans were lacking clear signs, I asked around until I found the stand of the trotro to my destination of the day, Ada Foah. I was lucky: I was the last passenger to buy a ticket, which even happened to be a front seat. Even sitting in the van for a few minutes made me sweat pretty badly, and I was happy when the driver showed up and pulled out of the station, bringing some natural ventilation. We quickly reached Tema using the highway, and even after that, continued with a decent speed towards the east. It still took more than two hours to reach the muddy and quiet bus station of Ada Foah. From here, I charted a motorcycle and a friendly guy drove me to the Presbyterian church, offering me to buy a piece of land when we arrived. I politely refused, and walked around the famous church and its cemetery, with tombs of Europeans from colonial times, but also more recent ones. Most of the graves were overgrown with vegetation, and one of the goats roaming the area cheekily jumped on a slab of marble and watched the world from there, as if he pretended to be the boss of the lot. Next, I wanted to see the old Kongenstein fortress, which according to the sparse information I got, should be situated right on the beach, threatened by the advancing sea. From the church, the beach was at a stones throw distance; but when I walked the sandy shore of Ada Foah, I could not see any fortress in either direction. A little puzzled, and with no one to ask, I returned to the main road, where I saw someone approaching, and decided to ask.
Eric the Rasta man, a joyful guy wearing a big black Rasta hat, explained why I could not see the fortress: according to him, the ocean had finally won the centuries-long battle and taken the fortress the previous year. I was not convinced, but also wanted to explore the Volta river delta which I knew would take time. By a coincidence that of course never really is a coincidence in Africa, Eric turned out to be able to organize a boat, and after friendly negotiations, we were on our way to the river. We walked through the village, which made me realize the precarious situation of part of it: the sea is slowly eating away at it. At times, Eric would call his companion, but when we arrived at the banks of the river, there only was a small boat about to cross the river with some locals. From that moment on, my friend Eric did not seem to be in control, and several vague promises were made. We ended up chartering one of the small boats to cross the river, where we would meet his friend to continue. I was happy enough to be on my way on the water, and especially when we entered one of the many smaller waterways on the other side of the river, the scenery was fantastic and I was thoroughly enjoying the trip. The water was shallow here, so the boatman had switched from paddling to moving our boat forward by sticking a long pole in the bottom of the river. Our slow speed allowed me to enjoy the reflection of the surrounding vegetation in the tranquil waters even more, and I just hoped this would last for hours. But the waterway narrowed, and eventually we arrived at a pond-like opening where several dugout canoes were docked. I assumed that Eric's friend would be waiting here, but we got off the boat, and walked through the small village. Life seemed to be quiet here, quite different from Ada Foah which was still just a short hop across the river but suddenly seemed far away.
We reached the other side of the village, where I saw more of the Volta river delta. Somehow, I expected the mysterious friend of Eric to show up here and take us in his boat, but nothing happened. Instead, Eric proudly explained about a local rum factory, and an old man offered us to taste his home-brewn liquor. Eric quickly downed two glasses, while I politely refused, and tried to push Eric towards the water again, so we could continue our quest of the Volta river delta. In the end, we just walked back from where we came from, hopped in the same launch we had been using before, and sailed back to the Volta river. We then turned left, towards the Gulf of Guinea, seeing many beautiful birds flying close to us. Also, there were some attractive purple flowers floating on the water. Passing more small villages, where animals were bathing in the river, fishermen were putting nets in the water, and life seemed to be slowly moving forward in a pace that had been the same for centuries, we reached the other side, where Eric and I jumped out of the boat and walked towards the beach. Here, there were several resorts and good looking houses, and I could well imagine that staying here for a couple of days would be very nice. We had been hearing the roar of the ocean surf from a distance, but being close to the shore made us realize the sheer power of it. Seeing waves grow, and explode with a thunderous sound on the sandy coast was an impressive sight and we just stood there in silence, enjoying this force of nature. Back at our launch, we returned to Ada Foah, passing some long fisher boats with names like Mandela, Disco Boy, Psalm 91, Father forgive them, and several more, painted on nicely decorated boats. It was time to say goodbye to Eric and leave Ada Foah behind. My return trip to Accra proved to be more complicated because the trotro which was supposed to go to Accra, stopped in Tema, which made the trip take much more time. But back in Accra, I was still full of good memories of a long, but great day.
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