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Plenty of people are taking up interest in purchasing classic, one of a kind memorabilia nowadays. For many owning culturally iconic items represents a better investment than traditional savings and shares, with the price tag for the most in demand props skyrocketing in recent years. The problem is that even the more obscure items will cost a pretty penny! Sure a good run of luck at All Jackpot Online Casino will set you well on the way, but be prepared to pay an arm and a leg for the top ticket items.
Much as we'd all like to own Marilyn Monroe's white dress, or the original model of the first King Kong, fact is that it's unlikely they'll be released to market any time soon. However comedy – that most timeless forms of entertainment – still offers a number of advantages over mainstream cinema/entertainment. Fact is that people tend to stay loyal to their favorite comics for a lifetime, meaning that there's always going to be demand and solid appreciation in value. So assuming money is no object – here's a top five (personal) selection of which items of comedy memorabilia anyone would love to slam on an AMEX Black Card!
Robin William's Rainbow Suspenders
The much loved Robin Williams was one of those rare comedians who could just pull a joke from the air seemingly at will. Widely considered as one of the most genuine and kindest comedians ever to have graced stage or screen, the rainbow colored suspenders worn by Mork became synonymous with the great man's work. After his death in 2014 it was no surprise to see many fellow comedians don a replica pair in tribute to his work and the incredible legacy he left behind. It'd be near impossible to even guess the potential value of the original $ 10 suspenders, but demand would be global and the price likely into seven figures.
Groucho Marx's Disguise Glasses
Anyone who knows their comedy history will appreciate the huge contribution made by the Marx Brothers. Often credited with adding colorful innuendo to classic slapstick routines, a key prop was without question Groucho's 'disguise' glasses that came complete with an over-sized nose piece and thick, bushy mustache and eyebrows. When combined with the trademark funny walk and deployed in situations which for the time were rather risque, these are a truly one of a kind collectible. There's plenty of cheap imitations out there – testimony to how iconic this item is – but if they can be traced, they'd run well into seven or maybe even eight figures.
Tommy Cooper's Fez
The classic British comedian literally wrote the rule book when it came to mid 20th Century British comedy, his particular style ad character endearing him to fans from across the globe. His kindly yet also subversively playful comedy often saw him don his famous Fez – usually for absolutely no reason besides it made him look simply ridiculous – and caused audiences to fall into hysterics. Most recently sold at auction for just under £5000 in 2010, this is a more budget friendly prop yet one any Cooper fan would absolutely love to add to their collection.
Charlie Chaplin's Hat & Cane
Given Chaplin's incredible popularity back in the day, it may come as a surprise to learn that when these items most recently came up for auction they didn't come close to $ 100k. Fashions change and modern humor is a world away from the high energy slapstick associated with Charlie's golden years, but it's still a surprising low price for such a unique item. That being said there's few other pieces of comedy memorabilia that are still capable of such cultural resonance.
The Cheers Bar Counter
The whereabouts – or even still existence – of the bar from Cheers would be an incredibly collectible item. The good news is that those who could afford the price tag will likely have a room at home large enough to fit it! Cheers still resonates as one of the true benchmarks of long running comedy serials, and remarkably still continues to gain new fans many years after the final episode was aired (which remains one of the most viewed shows in TV history). Where better to kick back and enjoy a beer with friends than propping up perhaps the most famous bar top in the history of popular culture?
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Budweiser 'Hero's Welcome' Super Bowl Commercial 2014! (Video)
A solider comes home to a "Hero's Welcome" in Budweiser's super touching 2014 Super Bowl Commercial!
The ad features the song "Coming Home Pt. II" by Skylar Grey, which fittingly adds emotion to the hero's salute in his hometown. The soldier gets to ride in the Budweiser Clydesdales carriage complete with a dalmatian sitting alongside him.
This is not the only Budweiser commercial that is sure to get attention this evening. Last week, the "Puppy Love" commercial that featured an adorable puppy befriending a Clydesdale Horse went viral online. We absolutely loved that ad!
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Trilogiq USA Exhibiting at THE BIG M Conference as AMP 2.0 and US Department of Commerce Expands Manufacturing Initiatives
Livonia, MI -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/05/2014 -- The U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker met with the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) Steering Committee 2.0 and the Manufacturing Council recently to discuss issues affecting the health of America's manufacturing industry, including progress on the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI).
Aligning with SME's key advanced manufacturing event, THE BIG M, the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership 2.0 National Meeting is scheduled from 1 to 5 p.m. on June 9 at Cobo Center in Detroit.
Trilogiq USA, a full service provider of holistic material handling solutions, is experiencing dynamic growth as demand increases in the holistic material handing industry across the United States. Trilogiq USA is participating at THE BIG M as key leaders from Prizker, AMP 2.0, and NNMI make progress toward accelerating manufacturing opportunities in the US. Trilogiq USA will exhibit at THE BIG M Conference at booth #225.
AMP 2.0 is a national effort initiated by the White House to secure U.S. leadership in emerging technologies, which will create high-quality manufacturing jobs and enhance America's global competitiveness. This meeting will be co-hosted by SME, the University of Michigan and Northrop Grumman.
About THE BIG M
SME's THE BIG M initiative is years in the making ? designed to convene manufacturers around industry's most vital issues and leverage the power of industry leaders to collaborate and address them. This event demonstrates that manufacturing professionals and companies can shape the future by creating a strong path forward together, connecting people with technology and expertise, affirming the importance of manufacturing, speaking in a unified voice to policymakers, and proving that manufacturing is a knowledge industry where creativity is sought and valued.
Trilogiq USA is a full service provider of holistic material handling solutions including in-house engineering capabilities, proprietary products, purchased products, as well as custom designed solutions. The company delivers engineered to order material handling applications to the manufacturing industry. While the company specialty is turnkey projects taken from design to delivery, experience ranges from large turnkey projects to specific, single application development, and any specialty projects.
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You came into this world as a radiant bundle of exuberant riddles. You slipped into this dimension as a shimmering burst of spiral hallelujahs. You blasted into this realm as a lush explosion of ecstatic gratitude. And it is your birthright to fulfill those promises.
I'm not pandering to your egotism by telling you these things. When I say, "Be yourself," I don't mean you should be the self that wants to win every game and use up every resource and stand alone at the end of time on top of a Mt. Everest-sized pile of pretty garbage.
When I say, "Be yourself," I mean the self that says "Thank you!" to the wild irises and the windy rain and the people who grow your food. I mean the rebel creator who's longing to make the whole universe your home and sanctuary. I mean the dissident bodhisattva who's joyfully struggling to germinate the seeds of divine love that are packed inside every moment.
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When I say, "Be yourself," I mean the spiritual freedom fighter who's scrambling and finagling and conspiring to relieve your fellow messiahs from their suffering and shower them with rowdy blessings.
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"Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world." Heraclitus of Ephesus
Three days-33 operations. Everyone is tired, especially me. We have 2 days left and the cases are starting to pour in to the hospital. Many will have to wait until the September Trip. Mr. Mike is with me today so we should be able to run two table and do many cases.


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Photographer Benjamin Kanarek conducted the 'RUN WILD' editorial series, which was shot in Paris. The images feature three men dressed in fierce, sophisticated and modernized jungle attire. The idea for the editorial was to capture the urban jungle of Paris, with a pun-inspired contrast to the animal prints and fur-infused fashions.
Models Alexis Petit, Quentin Lejarre and Christopher Michaut wore urbanized jungle fashions from top designers such as Versace, Louis Vuitton and Dolce & Gabbana. The playful series was shot in Paris, where the three male models ran through the streets like wild jungle animals.
The entire collection presents a creative way to embody the fashion-forward male attire, which pays a direct tribute to the wilderness. By creating a contrast between the jungle-inspired clothing and the concrete jungle scenes, it reveals a cohesive and well connected image series.
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Participants (individuals, couples, families, and community groups) can register and start this course at any time, 24/7/365. Study is self-guided, with faculty-mentors available for help as needed. The course includes links to additional materials on relationships and marriage. See also "Are We Ready for Marriage? 24/7/365."
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Damp Wood Termites
The Dampwood termite is not commonly found in Michigan. When they do appear in Michigan, it's typically through shipments of lumber, but they are unable to adapt to these colder environments and quickly die off. These termites are more commonly found along the Pacific Coast, the Gulf Coast to Florida, and the Southwestern U.S.
Drywood Termites
The Drywood Termite are rarely found in Michigan and, like the Damp Wood Termite, only arrive through the shipment of lumber and furniture from the West Coast. These termites are most commonly found in Southwestern part of the U.S.
Eastern Subterranean
The Eastern Subterranean Termites are wood destroyers that go through a complete metamorphosis. They can be winged or wingless and form free-standing mud tubes in basements or crawlspaces on the interior or exterior of the foundation. Eastern Subterranean Termites are a colony species that nest under the foundation and then tunnel up to the house. These termites can enter through a crack 1/32 inch wide. They require moist soil conditions and can communicate through their pheromones and trophallaxis. It typically takes 2-3 years for a new colony to become established and they usually lay 6-12 eggs to batch. Many customers in Northern Michigan often think they have termites when in they really only have swarming and/or flying ants.


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We're all familiar with the fact that constitutions tend to be the leading set of rules which forms the basis of how an entity operates. Nations require constitutions and since 1998, so do Australian companies, with legislation mandating that companies needed both a memorandum of association and articles of association.
Before going further with this piece, we should emphasise that this article will be generally focused on the position of companies formed after July 1998 which was the date where companies were required to adopt a constitution.
Under the provisions of the Corporations Act 2001 (the Act), companies can either implement their own constitution, use the replaceable rules found in the Act, or have a combination of both in regards to the rules that will guide the internal management of the company.
Section 136(1) of the Act outlines the following ways in which a company can adopt a constitution:
Alternatively under s 233 of the Act, the court can also make an order requiring the company adopt a constitution (the oppression remedy).
Public companies that have a constitution are required to lodge a copy and any relevant special resolutions with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) within 14 days.
Outside of specific types of companies, the Act does not specify what should be contained within a company's constitution but for the most part, the rules regarding the internal management of the company will generally outline how matters such as shareholders' rights, the conduct of shareholders', how directors are appointed and renumerated, directors' powers, and directors' meetings will be some of the matters which generally will be referred to in the constitution.
Companies that do not carry the term 'limited' in its name, under s 150(1) provides that the constitution of such companies:
Mining companies under s 112 of the Act, which deals with no liability companies, mandates that such a company must state that mining is the company's sole purpose and as a consequence, the company has no contractual right to recover calls made on its shares from any shareholder who fails to pay.
Meanwhile, companies which are 'limited,' must adopt a constitution that is in line with the ASX Listing Rules: ASX Listing Rule 15.11.
Companies can include object clauses within its constitution which outlines and restricts the activities in which the company may engage in under s 125(2) of the Act. Object clauses aren't mandatory but may provide an indication regarding the nature of the business.
Any person wishing to explore company law within the Corporations Act should contact a legal practitioner who will be able to help.
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Backstreet Boys Announce Five-Day Cruise in 2018
Will you be setting sail with the Backstreet Boys on their cruise next year?
The guys – Nick Carter, AJ McLean, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, and Kevin Richardson – have announced a bound-to-be-epic cruise out of Miami, Fla., to Grand Turk Island in the Turks and Caicos Islands from May 3 to 7 in 2018.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Backstreet Boys
Fans will be treated to two performances a day and get some up close and personal time with the band.
"What happens on the #BSBCruise2018, stays on the cruise," they shared on Instagram. "Miami ➡ Grand Turk May 3-7, 2018! Pre-sale starts 4/25! 🚢 backstreetboyscruise.com."
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Gateshead 3 Guiseley 0
Gateshead International Stadium… Monday December 28th… 3pm
Attendance: 679
A comfortable home win for Gateshead, with all three goals coming after the interval…
The last game of the year for me, taking a break next weekend before heading off to Watford for the FA Cup 3rd round. Will we go through the usual FA Cup motions? I expect so…
Gateshead; Russell, Baxter, Curtis, Clark, Cranston (YC), Mafuta (YC) (Hamilton 46), McLaughlin (YC), Pattison (Honeyman 73), Ramshaw, Shaw (Johnson 89), Bowman
Not Used; MacDonald, Buddle
Goals: Bowman (46, 59), Johnson (88)
Guiseley; Drench, Lowe, Lockwood, Lawlor, D.Boshell (Craddock 62 (YC)), Boyes, Rothery, Hatfield, Smith (N.Boshell 55), Norburn, Hurst
Not Used; Toulson, Hall, Atkinson
Goals; None
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Steve Redgrave has smashed one of the great remaining myths of the showbusiness world, namely that 'The Jump' of the so-called reality show is, in fact, well... pretty small.
Sir Steve, who was one of the contestants on the very first series, raised his hand to demonstrate to HuffPostUK at the Laureus World Sports Awards this week.
Despite its diminutive dimensions, the Olympic veteran admitted the contest is, however, strangely frightening.
"It's ridiculous, because it's tiny. On a skiing holiday you'd jump over things that height all the time, but because you're on TV and you're sitting in that thing, once you stand up, you're going and you're not stopping - it's terrifying. So you all cling together for support. The camaraderie is amazing."
Sir Steve also admitted that he's desperate to return to the show, even though he became one of the famously huge number of injured contestants, when he injured his hand during Series One.
"I love it, I'm waiting to be asked to come back," he said.
"Most people who get injured get re-invited back on. I was on the first series, and we're on series 4 now… so I'm waiting for my phone call."
Despite breaking his hand during his part in the notorious competition, Steve says 'The Jump' remains the only reality show he'd consider - "it's the only real reality show. Everyone loves the experience, despite the injuries."
What sets it apart, according to the Olympic veteran, is the camaraderie that develops between the contestants, precisely because of the difficulties.
These difficulties have claimed the body parts of a stunning number of participants, with the latest casualty a perhaps over-confident Sir Bradley Wiggins this year. "He's very competitive," said Sir Steve diplomatically.
'The Jump' continues on Sunday evening on 7.30pm on Channel 4.


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A grim dark superhuman
Pain is an illusion of the senses, despair is an illusion of the mind
Success is measured in blood; yours or your enemy's
The loyal slave learns to love the lash
A large Adonis clad only in holy scripture and glowing wards, Omegus was created for one purpose: to bring order to chaos. Though he doesn't show it, the scriptures and warding that were designed to protect him from disorder also make willful moment effortful. His skin – designed to make him impervious to pain and harm – has a sheen of polished obsidian, though it seems perpetually dusty up close. When necessary Omegus can transform himself into a blessed weapon to be wielded by an ally against the forces of chaos. Hating indecision (and the invitiation to disorder it creates) and bound to obey The Creed, Omegus can seem brash and uncaring to most, but all he does is unrelentingly in service to his goals.


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Shedding new light on mobile communitiesHP Labs debuts Gloe, a versatile new location-based mobile recommendation platform
By Simon Firth, June 2010
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But what if youre mobile and looking for a great spot to fish, a place to go birding, or to cycle off-road? Or maybe youre in San Franciscos Mission District searching for murals, or in Barcelona wanting an architectural tour of Gaudis home city.
Communities that could help you do any of these might already exist on HP Gloe a new location-based mobile recommendation platform built by researchers at HPs Social Computing Lab and which was publicly announced just recently.
And if they dont exist, Gloe makes it simple to just go ahead and create them yourself.
Find and recommend anything
The main purpose of HP Gloe is to make it really easy for people to find, create or recommend web content in the mobile setting, says HP Labs researcher Thomas Sandholm, and Gloe project lead.
Gloe, he explains, is accessible via any mobile web browser as well as through dedicated applications for Android and Blackberry smart phones (with a WebOS prototype already developed).
It uses a phones GPS system to pinpoint exactly where you are and then lets you search for nearby categories of information. Those categories could be conventional items like restaurants, hotels or nearby gas stations. But Gloe also lets people create their own categories, so you might just as easily find nearby hiking trails, swimming holes or small urban parks.
Not all the information on Gloe is user-generated. The service aggregates over 7 million listings from established online services, as well as location-specific Wikipedia entries and geo-tagged photos from sites like panoramio.com.
To help you sift through all that content, Gloe turns to your friends. Any of your Gloe friends can recommend any item to any other member, as can you. The upshot: wherever you are, Gloe can offer you a list of whatever youre looking for (lakes, hiking spots, hotels) sorted not only by proximity but also by ratings given by people you trust.
Customize your recommendations
Recommendations on Gloe are ranked by the number of votes users have given a particular item, a figure thats always visible next to the item when it appears as a result.
A big part of the idea with this service is to make the search results completely transparent, says Sandholm. Thats unlike results from search engines like Google, where the rules determining which results rank highest are at best opaque.
Its also possible to select a subset of friends for any query on Gloe and see only what those particular friends voted for choosing just your fishing pals, for example, when searching for a nearby place to cast a line.
The value of true and reliable opinions
The methodology Gloe uses to allocate votes is significant, Sandholm notes. Most ratings sites make no distinction between generous and spendthrift raters, for example. They also give users an unlimited number of votes, which offers little incentive to be really discerning about the number of votes they award each time.
What we wanted to do was to create a voting mechanism that makes you vote in a way that corresponds to your true opinion, he explains.
To that end, each Gloe user gets a limited budget of votes, a strategy suggested by previous HP Labs research that has demonstrated how economic mechanisms can be used to incentivize users to reveal their true opinions.
Voters who introduce new items on to Gloe that are subsequently rated highly by others are also rewarded with extra voting points in their budgets, says Sandholm. That too, he notes, helps us keep improving the quality of what Gloe covers.
A lot of people will go onto sites like Digg and YouTube and consume the content but not rate it, Sandholm adds. And thats a huge untapped knowledgebase of people who actually have opinions but dont put them in their system.
Gloe, in contrast, aims to promote a virtuous cycle where true and therefore reliable opinions are both encouraged and maximized, which should lead others in turn to both use and contribute to the service themselves.
Refining the voting mechanism
The charter of HPs Social Computing Lab is to investigate new ways of extracting knowledge from crowds of people and of aggregating that information into recommendations or concise pieces of information that are both simple to understand and easy to use.
In that context, says Sandholm, Gloe is an example of a service that explores the ways in which people actually use social media, and asks how we can simplify that process by doing filtering based on your current context the context here being geo-locational as well as social.
The Gloe team plan to keep tweeking their voting mechanism so as to maximize its value to users, but theyve already found that the service encourages people to rate items much more often than they rate videos at YouTube.com, for example, or news articles at Digg.
A versatile and open-ended platform
Much about Gloe has remained theoretical until recently when, after a year in incubation, the site was publicly announced.
Were now really looking to the crowd to see what content they recommend, Sandholm says.
To that end hes hoping that as many people as possible will try Gloe out. More users would allow us to come up with and test more sophisticated mechanisms to identify and incentivize the users who make the most valuable contributions, he suggests. And those lessons could be applicable in a broader social media context and would be valuable both to our research and to HP in general.
Unlike many such services, Sandholm points out, Gloe really can be anything you want it to be.
Because Gloes an open-ended service, its really a platform for anything people want to be able to track with their friends, he says. We hope people will just start using and applying it to whatever it is they really enjoy doing out in the world.


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This remarkable three bedroom Junior Villa within the Alexander Heights Village at Aphrodite Hills has been designed to exploit the oversized plot and the elevated prime position within the Aphrodite Hills Resort. Situated on the eastern plateau of the resort, the detached villa stands within its own, private, landscaped garden, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
Inside the villa, every attention to detail has been considered, with the highest quality Italian-style kitchen units, lavish marble bathrooms and marble or parquet flooring throughout.
Enter the property through a feature stone entrance portico and discover a large hall with open staircase. This leads through to a double height, open plan living area with doors opening onto the large terrace and landscaped gardens. A corner fireplace adds character to the room.
The ground floor also hosts a fully equipped kitchen with luxury appliances as well as a dining area and cloakroom.
Upstairs you'll find three spacious bedrooms. The master opens onto a generous terrace, allowing the opportunity to soak up the views as soon as you wake in the morning. Furthermore, the master bedroom features a walk-in-wardrobe and generous ensuite shower room with luxury finishes.
The property features underfloor heating, concealed air conditioning/heating, home automation electrics and security system.
Outside, the villa benefits from stunning views over the Mediterranean Sea, and the 18-hole championship golf course. The properties stand within their own, private, landscaped garden and feature a heated swimming pool and Jacuzzi with infinity edges that blend the pool into the endless blue sea and sky.
You'll be able to enjoy endless days of sunshine, from sunrise to sunset, within the privacy of your own home, giving the feeling of privacy and privilege. This feeling of privacy is enhanced further as all properties with Alexander Heights at Aphrodite Hills overlook the sea - not one another.
In an excellent location, next to the Spa and Tennis Academy, and within walking distance of all the restaurants and shops, as well as the Golf Club, the Hotel and children?s facilities make it possible for you to truly enjoy your property in a hassle-free environment.
Please contact a member of our team today to learn more about the villas within the Alexander Heights Village at Aphrodite Hills. Villa floorplans, specifications and availability are all available upon request.
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film: Robots
Robots 3/5
Robots is the latest animated feature film aimed at a broad audience. It ends up being a worthwhile watch, but falls short of being incredible. Pun intended.
Our hero is Rodney (voiced by Ewen McGregor), a fresh high school graduate who gets into trouble while helping Dad at his restaurant job as a dishwasher. Rodney invents Wonderbot, a flying, gee-whiz, cute-as-Scrat robot who can is a master acrobat with unbelievable dexterity. He is a sign of Rodney's genius, but he also quickly crashes when facing an the pressure of an audience. Rodney, inspired by Mr. Big Weld, the world's most famous robot and a keen industrialist who cares for the little guy, leaves his small town to meet Big Weld and find his fortune as an inventor.
Little does Rodney know, however, the Mr. Big Weld was convinced to retire, in order for his company's board to focus on selling upgrades, rather than spare parts. With production of spare parts ceased, robots everywhere begin to have their parts wear out and fall susceptible to the recycling plant, run by the demon-like Madame Gasket, where old robots and their parts are melted down.
Not surprisingly, the animation if a cacophony of visual treats. Witness the very clever way Rodney and Fender (manically voiced by Robin Williams) travel to the big city. They fly in a protective cage which gets flung and carefully lands only to be mechanically spirited away again and again until arriving within walking distance of Mr. Big Weld's landmark office complex. Everywhere you look, you see gleaming stainless steel and polished metal contrasted with the rusted, worn out appearance of the common robot seeking spare parts. The domino scene in Mr. Big Weld's home is priceless animation.
There are many, many cultural references, too many for you to catch them all in one viewing. Actors show up in the form of voices from folks like Mel Brooks, Halle Berry, Terry Bradshaw, Drew Carey, Paul Giamatti, Dan Hedaya, James Earl Jones, and Jay Leno. Madame Gasket reminded me of the queen alien from the Alien series. Ratchet, the bad guy, has the same jaw lines as Megabyte, the main bad guy from the Reboot TV series. Some of the guest voices didn't stand out for me, though. In the end, they could have saved money by using lesser-known actors. Ewen McGregor once again makes good without his normal English accent, but you wonder if he was given the role to have a "star" doing the voice. The robots are quite expressive and human-like with indivdual personalities and traits, but most of them are also boring.
This film is very funny and you need to see it a second time to catch all the jokes. I will welcome a second viewing but its poor plot also left me not wanting to see a sequel or to rave about it like I did after seeing the far superior The Incredibles. There was a short preview of Ice Age II, with Scrat once again unleashing all hell as he scales a glacier to gather an acorn. Can't wait to see that film.


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Budget 2017 offers hikes in government spending and cuts in taxes as Prime Minister Narendra Modi promises to help the poor and to win back the votes of those hit by his crackdown on "black money".
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced increases in spending on rural areas, infrastructure and fighting poverty, and sought to assure lawmakers and voters that the economic impact of the government's cash crackdown would wear off soon.
The following sectors/companies look set to be hit by the proposals in Budget 2017:
Potential losers
* Autos - The auto sector received no clarity on incentives for manufacturing electric and other clean fuel vehicles and scrapping old vehicles. Limiting cash transactions to Rs 300000 is likely to hurt car sales, especially luxury vehicles. The auto component sector had hoped to have tax incentives on research and development reinstated.
This is likely to disappoint car makers like Tata Motors, Maruti Suzuki and Mahindra & Mahindra. Major auto part makers are Bharat Forge, Motherson Sumi Systems and Bosch Ltd.
* Oil industry - Development levies for oil and gas companies were expected to come down but did not, a potential blow for Oil and Natural Gas Corp and Oil India Ltd.
* Electronics - Jaitley levied an additional duty of two percent on populated printed circuit boards, which account for up to 50% of a smartphone's manufacturing cost. The aim is to push assembly of such boards in India and cut imports. This is likely to push up prices of imported mobile phones that are assembled in India.
* Large corporates - Jaitley reduced corporate tax only for small and medium businesses, giving little benefit to India's large conglomerates. He has also levied a 10 percent surcharge on individuals earning between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 10 lakh.
* Manufacturing - the manufacturing sector was hoping for a boost from a cut in rate of the minimum alternative tax and incentives for capital investment but there was no reduction.
($1 = 67.5625 Indian rupees)
(Compiled by Aditi Shah, reporting by India Company News Team; Editing by Ruth Pitchford)


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Thursday 27th May
Today we were talking about how lazy we are! We've admitted to calling or texting other people in our family, while we're all in the same house! It's seems you're just as bad though, telephoning someone else in the house to get you a cup of tea, or ask what's for dinner! This morning, we also heard about the silly bank robbers who tried to blow up a cash machine, but instead ended up blowing up the whole bank! The cash machine was so tough, it didn't even break, and we should probably point out that this happened in the middle of the night, so no-one was hurt! And we mentioned our lovely school dinners, yesterday we visited Taunton School for our lunch, and we had a great time! Check out the photos while you're on the website, and don't forget to get in touch to ask us to visit your school!


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Monday, October 3, 2011
Twitter Ye Not - The Battle of Edge Hill
Twitter Ye Not - The Battle of Edge Hill
A regular piece for the Daily Mail Weekend magazine about how figures in history might have twittered or tweeted or whatever, had they the chance, inclination and technology.
On Sunday 23 October 1642, King Charles I led his Royalist army (Cavaliers) against rebellious Parliamentary troops (Roundheads)at the Battle of Edge Hill (or Edgehill) in Warwickshire, the opening campaign of the Englsih Civil War. Here, we imagine the Twitter feed for that week-end.
I have shown on one side, 'warts and all', puritan leader Oliver Cromwell (one of history's big bastards in my opinion. Boo! Hiss!). Facing him across the battlefield stands weak and vain King Charles I (also Boo! Hiss!).
The Civil War raged for many years but eventually ended with the Parliamentary forces victorious, beginning the Commonwealth, in which taverns, theatres, drinking, even May-poles and Christmas, were banned! Not good. In the absence of any fun the Puritans amused themselves by prosecuting and executing a lot of witches! Nice.
Charles Stuart (Charles I) was beheaded on Tuesday, 30 January 1649 on a scaffold outside the Banqueting House on White-Hall, Westminster. His grandmother was Mary, Queen of Scots, who was also famously beheaded.
Cromwell died on 3 September 1658 and was briefly succeeded by his ineffectual son Richard, known to history as Tumble-Down Dick or even Queen Dick. Cromwell Jnr's reign was immediately followed by the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 when Charles I's son Charles II, known as the Merry Monarch, took the throne.
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Here at Pizza Inn, we've always been committed to giving back to our local communities, and it's common practice for a few of our teammates to go above and beyond in that mission. A perfect example of this is Franchise Owner Larry Rust, of Paducah, Kentucky.
In the last 25 years, Larry has generated over $300,000 for local nonprofits through our Dough Raisers program. His restaurant continues to generate plenty of funds, and fun, for the entire community. It's that type of mindset that keeps us connected to the hearts of each and every one of our hometowns.


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Who says cleaning fish can't be fun. As warmer weather approaches I thought I would check up on the fishing gear. I was teaching the guys I go fishing with how to clean fish. Instead of letting them using my filet knife, I thought this would be a cool gift for them to use. Using a Banksia pod I cut it in half and sliced two pieces that were big enough. I used a green epoxy to fill in the holes. Finished with polyurethane. Turned out nice.
The knife kit was purchased at Woodcraft and it was fun building it.
Maybe I'll keep this for myself. Haha Thanks for looking.
-- Dave, Downers Grove, Il. -------- When you run out of ideas, start building your dreams.
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#1 posted 03-03-2017 01:59 PM
Excellent job making this great looking gift Dave! I looked up Banksia Pod's and found them on Rockler's web site. I'm not a fisherman but I know "nice" when I see it! Someday I'll give epoxy a try!
-- St Augustine FL, Experience is the sum of our mistakes!
#2 posted 03-03-2017 02:16 PM
Thanks Tony. I got the idea in Florida when my bro-in-law took me fishing and told me he didn't own a filet knife cause he's not gonna clean any fish, only eat them. Haha That reminded me of the guys I fish with here only they wanted to know how to clean fish.
-- Dave, Downers Grove, Il. -------- When you run out of ideas, start building your dreams.
#3 posted 03-03-2017 02:24 PM
Nice knife. I really like the idea of epoxy in the voids of Banksia pod. Now caught us some fish!
#4 posted 03-03-2017 02:38 PM
Gutting fish? Nay, Sir. That would be my go-to steak knife in our house. Besides the fact that I dont fish (loud, audible GASP arises from the crowd) I do however love a nice knife. And as Crocodile Dundee would say "Now THAT'S a knife!"
-- Perform A Random Act Of Kindness Today ... Pay It Forward
#5 posted 03-03-2017 02:39 PM
That is a very impressive looking knife and one of a kind.
#6 posted 03-03-2017 03:15 PM
beautiful handle l
#7 posted 03-03-2017 04:15 PM
Very nice, indeed. I've been wanting to try my hand at filling voids with crushed stone. Malachite is a favorite and that color comes darn close.
-- Brett — Peters Creek, Alaska
#8 posted 03-03-2017 05:16 PM
Now you've done it, I want one too :-)
-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/
#9 posted 03-03-2017 05:27 PM
Pretty interesting and unusual. Nice combination of materials and colours.
-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted
#10 posted 03-03-2017 05:46 PM
Thanks Mike. I'll catch the fish and you clean them. Deal?
Joe, that was my favorite part of the movie. I watch it just foe that part.
Thanks Klaus. It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to use and the Banksia pod was sitting there and wheels started turning.
Thanks david38.
Brett, I have some turquoise but haven't gotten the right results with it yet. The Malachite would be a great choice. I still have to practice with it.
Thanks Bill. I'm thinking of keeping it even if I never use it.It would make a statement in the tackle box.
Thanks Ivan. I like the green color on it a lot. The pictures are not showing the real color, I may need more light.
-- Dave, Downers Grove, Il. -------- When you run out of ideas, start building your dreams.
#11 posted 03-03-2017 06:25 PM
EXTREMELY artisticand a useful tool too. That is a great combination.
-- Wood rescue is good for the environment and me! just rjR
#12 posted 03-03-2017 06:30 PM
Beenwondering what people do with those pods. That looks great Dave!
-- There are good ships and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea, but the best ships are friendships and may they always be. http://www.geraldlhunsucker.com/
#13 posted 03-03-2017 07:25 PM
What a COOL knife!!
It makes you want to go catch some fish so you can USE it!!
Beautiful blade…
Super COOL handle…
They will really like that gift!
... and you can take that to the Bank… :)
Thank you!
-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?ppuser=1389&cat=500"
#14 posted 03-03-2017 08:01 PM
Hey Dave make some more then you can keep one w/out the guilt???LOL! Whom ever gets the prize will be devout in its use. Nice work!
-- Cau Haus Designs, Thomas J. Tieffenbacher
#15 posted 03-03-2017 10:41 PM
WOW….Simply WOW!!!! Beautiful job Dave!!!
-- Buster, Ocoee TN (Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors - Hemingway)
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Key West is my Moby Dick.
When I first learned about letterboxing and before I ever went out on my first letterboxing adventure, I thought - cool, I bet I could do this travelling... I wonder if there are any letterboxes in that place I just got back from - Key West. And there were. At all the places I visited. I was a little irritated that I didn't know about letterboxing and that I didn't get a chance to go find them.
So, flash forward a couple years to a time when my marching band gets invited for a festival in Key West. Awesome. It is on. Those boxes are so mine.
I didn't have a lot of time in KW, but I had some great letterboxing times. Some beautiful boxes are down in Key West! So I rented a moped (what fun!) and headed out for a wonderful day of boxing!
|The hens and roosters really were everywhere!
Cock of the Walk was amazing in this regard because it was an older box with many, many entries. I loved reading through them.
Key West apparently passed a law almost 100 years ago forcing the release of chickens that were being used in cock-fights. Not sure of this, couldn't confirm online... But in any event, there are hens and roosters roaming freely all over the island and there are municipal laws prohibiting anyone from molesting the chickens. Molesting. Moving on.
Bo's - where I stopped for some delicious food and a few drinks. Bo's broken down truck was fantastic - and I remember seeing it last time I was down. I actually didn't find the box on my own, mostly because I have issues sticking my hands in places potentially hiding spiders. Ick. Fortunately, a brave noxer I was with was not similarly afflicted and found the box for me. Awesome. Drinks all around.
Later, I found what I think might be my favourite letterbox to date: it was in the cemetery in Key West - a place that specifically prohibits letterboxes - so I'm not posting the box link here. With any small of amount of sleuthing, you'll find it. Fantastic cemetery, with lots of amazing sights. The hide was fantastic - I loved it. Location - not style of hide, which was fairly typical. I don't want to spoil it for future finders, so I won't comment other than to say this one gets my solid seal of approval. The stamp was great and the log was facinating. The cemetery had many beautiful sights and I left a box of my own. Huge lizards abound, and I actually found a toad inside a toad abode. So cool.
|A toad abode...
|With a toad.
|I visited Hemingway House to find the Hemingway Cat box... Cat with thumbs? They're trying to take over the world!
|These cool trees make interesting places to hide boxes...
|The festival was great... This is probably the most tame picture I took and the only one that I would post on a blog for what is often a family based activity...
|Thanks Key West!


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Why newsletters are important to your business?
In the past, all online sellers would keep sending newsletters on new arrival stocks or new promotion offers to all their customers. But now, the trend has changed. We have so many social network platforms now, all of your customers can keep track of your activities from those social networks. You have to change they ways on how you use this useful features for your online business.
The list below is the circumstances that I would recommend you to use the convenience of newsletter:
1 Your online shop is closed for maintenance as scheduled or during emergency circumstance.
2 Delay in shipping due to holiday seasons, public holidays and etc.
3 Launch or announce a new service or a new type of product category in your store .
4 Contact information has been changed or updated.
Currently, you don't have to create an official newsletters and send them via email. You can simply post all of the newsletter on Facebook Fan Page.
Please note that, once a new buyer became your customer, never imagine they will only purchase once or twice from you. They might purchase from you anytime again. You should ensure that they are aware of all the changed on your online store.
You can use newsletters to announce the news on your online store to everyone regardless those who haven't yet become your customers. People might not be interested in reading all of the messages you send to their email inbox, but it will be great if all of the targeted customers see it. Please take note that, you only send important messagers not spam mails to your customers.
If the buyers are interested in your online store, they will read those messages in their emails, read post on your social network or visit your website for more information


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New York based Indian artist's pseudo impressionistic Paintings and Prints.
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Saturday, March 29, 2008
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If you are not an ARTIST than too you can join the Movement by sending this email or by orkuting , networking etc. this mail to all the Artists (Painters) and make them participate.
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In chapter twelve, Milo goes out into the alley behind Mahoney's and is attacked by two guys. After Milo is beaten, one of the men expresses the desire to kill Milo because Milo broke his nose. Milo overhears the other one telling Milo that they have been told not to kill Milo. Milo also hears them comment that there should have been more money. The men make a move toward Milo, apparently intent on breaking his legs, when Milo pulls the backup gun Freddy told him to take. Milo kills one man with a shot to the face. The other man runs away. Milo is taken to the hospital and treated for multiple injuries. Before Jamison can talk to him, Milo sneaks away. Milo turns to Helen, but she forces him to leave because her mother is in town. Milo runs...
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Working closely with Jenny Packham for seven years means that you pick up a thing or two about weddings. Which is why were particularly excited about new bridal accessories boutique Millany.com the business baby of Tamsin Ridgwell, Packhams former brand and PR director.
With almost a decade of experience producing catwalk shows, shoots and working closely with the stylists of celebrities including Angelina Jolie, Cameron Diaz and Miranda Kerr, Tamsins eye for perfection is flawless a boon for those sourcing their dream finishing touches for their wedding.
I wanted to bring an innovative, contemporary style and shopping environment to brides internationally, Tamsin tells us. A bride in Japan has the same exposure to style references and influences as a bride in Los Angeles. We believe that a large number of women want to project a style reflective of their ready-to-wear style choices and not the dated princess and tiara style.
In other words, the Millany bride knows what she likes and doesnt want to be bound by tradition.
She looks to the runway and red carpet for her style influences, Tamsin explains. She is internationally and culturally aware, independent and wants her style to be reflective of how she defines herself day-to-day, from her hair and make-up to her dress and of course, her accessories.
If that sounds like you (tick), be sure to check it out. Stocking everything from headdresses to hairpins and earrings, the impressive roster of designers onboard includes Jennifer Behr, Emmy, Hermione Harbutt and Flo and Percy. The site will also feature style advice from industry experts such as Jo Malone and Current Elliot founders Emily and Meritt.


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Have a subara Biyori chapter. And, incidentally, the last chapter we'll work on.
We've decided that after years spent working on this series and waning interest it's finally time to move on: we are dropping both Saki and Saki Biyori. This is effective immediately, which means we won't translate the upcoming chapter 127 of Saki.
Thank you for your support over the years. Please do the same and better for whoever decides to pick up the series.
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That's too bad, but I suppose that there are other series available which are more directly related to yuri content, and the Saki fanbase is large enough to survive on its own. Regardless, thanks for all of the scanlations of this series over the years. They were appreciated at least by me.
but who will provide my addiction to yuri mahjong?
Man what a sad piece of news to start the day! :(
Well in any case thanks a lot for your hard work on those series. Cheers!
The second dark age is upon us. Thee years after the previous one. Again towards the end of the lieutenant round. I hope we survive like we did last time.
Thanks for your work on this series!
Thanks for your hard work on this.
I'm very sad about you guys droping Saki…
Thanks for sticking with it this long, many others would've given up years ago… =)
TMNBE picked it up if anyone was wondering.


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From the Wikipedia entry:
"Autumn Leaves" is a much-recorded popular song. Originally a 1945 French song "Les feuilles mortes" (literally "Dead Leaves") with music by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert, English lyrics were written in 1947 by the American songwriter Johnny Mercer. It has become a pop standard and a jazz standard in both languages, and as an instrumental. "Les feuilles mortes" was introduced by Yves Montand in 1946 for the film Les Portes de la Nuit.
The film Autumn Leaves (1956) featured the song, which was sung by Nat King Cole over the title sequence. The French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg wrote "La chanson de Prévert" as a tribute to this song.
"Autumn Leaves" offers a popular way for beginning jazz musicians to become acquainted with jazz harmony as it consists almost solely of II-V-I and II-V sequences which are typical of jazz. For example, in the key of G minor it opens with Cm7 (II) - F7 (V) - Bbmaj7 (I). The bridge contains the same sequence as well as Fm7 (II) - Bb7 (V) - Ebmaj7.


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Just a few news items from the past few days. Of course, this list is by no means all-inclusive:
- Rapper Cam'ron felt the need to explain his facile dis track assault on Jay-Z via a press conference Wednesday (January 25). Killa Cam said "street speculation" forced him to do it citing "very, very good sources," and even implicated former Jay-Z business partner Damon Dash as one of those sources in an interview with New York's Hot 97 earlier this week. Dash, of course, denies this. Yeah, sounds like high school He-Said/She-Said stuff to me too….
- Kanye protege Rhymefest will release his J Records debut Blue Collar on April 18. With lead single "Brand New" already generating buzz, Rhymefest promises a departure from hardcore rap. "What we need in hip-hop right now are rappers who are both truthful and entertaining," he says. Given Kanye's portrayal of Jesus on the cover of Rolling Stone, can we expect to see Rhymefest as John the Apostle on future covers? Just asking.
- By now you've all heard that Cassidy was sentenced to
11 1/2 – 23 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter for his role in an ambush of a dude following an argument. He could be free in a matter of a few months, since he's been in custody since June. He's damn lucky…could've been worse.
- And you've probably also heard that Nas has left Sony and inked a deal with Def Jam, this after he and Def Jam president Jay-Z ended their longtime feud.
- For all you Los Angelinos, the Fugees will be performing at the House of Blues Sunset Strip on February 8. I need some one of y'all to run and check that out and let me know how it went down.
- The Wu-Tang Clan has added another show to its Feb 13 outing at the 9:30 Club here in DC. Yes, the first show has sold out. The second show starts at 10pm and tickets are $50.00.


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Brannigan's super efficiency and preternatural detective skills allow Shawn to think about his long-term goals; Gus settles into his new job, with mixed results; and Henry dabbles with retirement careers that may involve the Psych agency or a classroom. Meanwhile, Lassiter hands out promotions at the station.moreless
Cynthia visits the underwater institute to convince Devon to come back to Morehouse Conglomerated... and her. Meanwhile, her son Winston learns who his true father is and plots to secure his hold on Morehouse Conglomerate.moreless
After breaking off their vaguely incestuous tryst, Devon goes into underwater research while Cynthia and her son Winston take ruthless control of Morehouse Conglomerate, dividing the family.
Live from New York, it's... Darrell Hammond!
Sketches include "On The Record," "J-Pop America Fun Time Now!," "New Year's Apocalypse," "Kalle," "Two Best Friends" (Digital Short), "Doggie Duty," "The Pregnant Princess," "Politics Nation with Al Sharpton," and "Soulmates."
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Oh, the wondrous things you can discover while visiting your local library, blogspot readers, as SouthSide has recently done. She found a hidden gem though not really looking for any particular movie that fateful day to check out. Well, in her opinion, it was find of a lifetime that she had heard about but never seen ...until now.
David Cronenberg's 1979 film - The Brood.
This intense psychological horror shock thriller stars the late Oliver Reed as a radical medical psychologist, Dr. Hal Raglan, who treats his patients with a rare form of psychotherapy at a mysterious institute. Right there, blogspot readers, you should be shivering with delight or fright. Yet, it sounds good so far, huh? One of Reed's patients, Nola Carveth (played by Samantha Eggar) is also a mother of a 5 year old daughter (Cindy Hinds as Candice Carveth )who's being terrorized by demonic beings.
Oh it's really getting creepy now.
Then toss in an estranged husband (Art Himdle as Frank Carveth) as he fights to save his daughter (as well as himself) from the frightening terrors that haunt her ...only to discover the SHOCKING secret involving his wife at the end. And SouthSide truly means - it's a gripping horrorshock that feature one of Cronenberg's best horror grotesqueness of the OMG kind, blogspot readers, before shocking horror fans with other cult classics like Videodrome, Scanners, Rabid, Dead Ringers and more.
The Brood, at first runs like two separate movies for your viewing pleasure where you're thoroughly immersed into Reed's intense psychotherapy sessions with Eggar while the next, your eyes are witnessing graphic scenes of murder committed by a little demonic thing ...about the same size as Cindy Hind's Candice character. Yet, as both scenarios move ever so closer together as one as you continue viewing this movie, you're gradually sucked towards one horrifying movie-viewing end that may leave you either scratching your head and wonder OR shaking scared from Cronenberg's gruesome fest.
Got to love Rick Baker the Monster Maker and his talented horror monster-making craft which paved the way for other movie work he did - ie Videodrome and Nightbreed (SouthSide's favorite go-to movie for bumps and chills), blogspot readers. The shocking revelation does give the heart a bit of a jolt yet that's what Cronenberg and his movies do best. The Brood is the original "shock and awe" type of cinematic masterpiece you'll ever find. And just for that one particular scene (which this reviewer does suggest watching more than once to soak in the full effect of that 'shock and awe') at the end when you discover Samantha Eggar's horrific secret.
If your jaw doesn't drop or your stomach doesn't twist in knots, then something's horribly wrong with you, blogspot readers.
Won't reveal anything else in this review, blogspot readers, you have to find and watch The Brood yourself. SouthSide even dares you to watch it without the lights on ...she did. And it was even more frightening in the dark.
Highly recommend.
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2013 is here, and that means new beginnings and new opportunities for all of us. These first couple of weeks are a good time for all of us to set new goals and priorities for the year ahead. I know that all of our teams and departments are as excited as I am to see what this 2013 will bring for all of us at CDS Monarch.
The Wolf Foundation is already beginning to gear up for the 6th Annual "Strikes for Abilities" Bowling Party, to be held March 10th at Clover Lanes. The volunteer committee is forming, planning and has begun their fundraising efforts early, to beat their goal from last year.
This is also the time when our Special Olympics athletes and teams, supported by the funds raised from "Strikes for Abilities", are gearing up for their Winter sports, like snowshoeing, bowling and floor hockey. We wish them all the best of luck at their upcoming competitions and Winter Games!
I am truly looking forward to a great 2013, and I couldn't ask for a better team of staff, families, individuals, volunteers and community members to help make this year even better than the last!
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Jim Carrey's daughter, Jane, has split from husband Alex Santana after one year of marriage.
"The couple will remain friends, as well as devoted parents to their 9-month-old son, Jackson Riley," Jim Carrey's rep, Marleah Leslie, tells PEOPLE.
Jane Carrey, 23, gave birth to Jackson Riley, the couple's only child together, in February.
Carrey and Santana, both musicians, were married in November 2009.


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That's right. I'm also jumping on the bloggersphere bandwagon and opening up to readers' questions because I have nothing interesting to blog about right now. Well, I'm sure that there's something but I'm just too tired or maybe too lazy to think of something right now.
So let me have it. Is there anything that you want to know? I swear that I can be somewhat interesting when I'm not so sleep deprived. Speaking of which...I need to get a refill on this coffee before the babes wake up and we start the night shift around here.
Monday, February 15, 2010
I've Got Nothing. Do You Have Questions?
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I'll go with a generic one....why did you start blogging? What is a typical day like at your house?ReplyDelete
Hope all is good! I have missed you! xoxo
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The Art-House Crowd
Daniel Soar
- Chinese Letter by Svetislav Basara, translated by Ana Lucic
Dalkey Archive, 132 pp, £7.99, January 2005, ISBN 0 15 647837 4
Is anybody listening? This isn't a question that detains most eminent Western writers of fiction, whose able conjurings of hot-air balloon disasters relived in appalled slow motion, or of multiple family unravellings that refigure the world, are the engines of supercharged literature. But the great novelists have a problem. They're expected to perform, and in order to perform they have to submit to their own fiction, which – in the manner of any great performance – has to be oratorical and technically faultless. Think RSC extravaganza. They have to trick themselves into believing that what they're about to deliver is the only thing worth listening to. They have to believe in stories.
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Dance Theatre etc.
Dance Theatre Etc. is a community-based arts organization focused on building a more just and joyful world through the Arts.
I have worked with DTE as Intern and Production Assistant for their yearly Red Hook Festival where I coordinate all of the youth groups who attend (over one hundred kids from Brooklyn).
Young Players Theatre
At the forefront of YPT is story-telling and play. The summer I spent with them was incredible as I assisted both in the program for 3 to 5 year olds and the 6 to 10 year olds. Where we developed theatrical sharings and little pices.
Seeing the vibrant, endless and beautiful imagination that children can bring forth really inspires me. A child remembeirng a story from months previous because he got to act in it, he got to tell it, share it, shape it and create it. That to me sometimes is like a spark of magic I want to always retain.
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A legendary classic, a racist masterpiece. Technically innovative and sweeping. Director Griffith made brilliant use of the close-up, cross-cutting, rapid-fire editing, the iris, the split screen shot, and realistic and impressionistic lighting. His once-record-breaking $100,000 spectacle ran over three hours and eventually altered the entire course and concept of the feature film. But the treatment of its black characters has also made this possibly the most controversial American film ever released.
An Old South/Civil War reconstruction Era drama, The Birth of the Nation [1915] focuses on the family of kindly Dr. Cameron. On the Cameron plantation in Piedmont, South Carolina, masters and slaves are friendly. In the fields, the darkies contentedly pick cotton. Lively pickaninnies dance and perform for their white masters outside the slave quarters. Mammy joyously runs the big house. All is calm, at peace, in order during these glory days of the Old South.
Then the War breaks out. The old world of gentility collapses. A troop of Negro raiders terrorizes the Cameron family. Afterward during the Reconstruction period, carpetbaggers (led by the corrupt Senator Stoneman) and "uppity" blacks from the North move into Piedmont, exploiting and corrupting the former slaves, unleashing the sadism and bestiality believed to be innate in the Negro, turning the once-congenial "darkies" into renegades, and using them to "crush the white South under the heel of the black South." The former slaves quit work to dance. They roam the streets, shoving whites aside. They take over the political polls, disenfranchising the white citizens. A black political victory culminates in an orgiastic street celebration. Blacks dance, sing, drink, rejoice. Later they conduct a black legislative session, itself a supposed mockery of Old South ideals, in which the freed legislators are depicted as lustful, arrogant, idiotic. One bites on a chicken leg. Another sneaks a drink from a liquor bottle. Another removes his shoe and props his bare foot onto his desk. The stench created by the barefoot legislator becomes so foul that another passes a rule that everyone must wear his shoes during legislative meetings! Other rulings are also made. A title card reads: "It is moved and carried that all whites must salute Negro officers on the street." Another title card proclaims: "The helpless white minority." Still another announces: "Passage of a bill providing for the intermarriage of blacks and whites."
Matters reach a heady climax when the lusty renegade black buck Gus hotly pursues the delicate young Cameron daughter. Rather than submit, the poor thing - the Pet Sister as she's called - flees and throws herself from a cliff into the "opal gates of death." (Interestingly enough, during a showing of The Birth of a Nation - many decades later - to an all-black audience at Howard University in Washington, D.C., when the poor Pet Sister jumped to her death, the black audience stood up and cheered. The Birth of a Nation can still rouse tension and hostilities.) Later the mulatto Silas Lynch attempts to force the fair white Elsie Stoneman (played by Lillian Gish) into marrying him. Finally, when all looks lost, a group of stalwart, upright white males, wearing sheets and hoods, no less, soon have a victorious confrontation with the blacks. Defenders of white womanhood, white honor and white glory, they restore to the South everything it has lost, including white supremacy. Thus we have the birth of a nation. And the birth of the Ku Klux Klan, too!
Absurd as some of the plot of The Birth of a Nation might sound today, the film had enormous power and extraordinary effects. The final ride of the Klan was an impressive piece of movie propaganda, superbly filmed and brilliantly edited. Indeed it was so stirring that audiences screamed in terror and delight, cheering the white heroes and booing, hissing, and cursing the black baddies.
Griffith also "introduced" the mass movie audience to the black film stereotypes that were to linger in American films for the next 70-some years - the noble, loyal manageable Toms, the clownish coons, the stoic hefty mammy, the troubled "tragic" mulatto (she's Senator Stoneman's mistress), and the brutal black buck. All had appeared in previous short films; indeed they were carryovers from popular fiction, poetry, and music of the 19th century. But never had they been given such a full-blown dramatic treatment - and in a film seen the world over. Of course, the stereotypes in The Birth of a Nation were all the more disturbing and grotesque because the major black roles were played by white actors in blackface. (Real African Americans had only minor parts.)
The Birth of a Nation became one of the biggest moneymakers in movie history. At a private White House screening, President Woodrow Wilson praised the film. Like The Clansman, the Thomas Dixon novel on which it was based, the movie appealed to the nation partly because of its mythic view of the Old South and particularly because of its exploration of the great white American nightmares: interracial sex and the strong sexual black man. A scary black/white fantasy, the film's ending wiped away white America's sexual fears about the Negro and temporarily at least permitted the national psyche to relax.
Controversy, however, followed The Birth of a Nation. The NAACP launched a formal protest movement against it. (In later years when the film was re-released, there were new protests.) Afterwards the film industry, fearing controversy more than anything else, assiduously avoided any depiction of strong, aggressive, defiant sexual black men. Most of the black males audiences were to see in later films of the late 1920s and 1930s were comic, non-threatening figures such as the characters played by Stepin Fetchit and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. The buck figure actually does not return in full force in American films until some 55 years later with such pictures as Shaft and Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song. At the same time, some black leaders, determined to counteract the shocking black images of The Birth of a Nation, set out to make black films with positive characters, and eventually there was a whole new wave of independent black filmmakers such as Oscar Micheaux.
Producer/Director: D.W. Griffith
Screenplay: D.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods, Thomas F. Dixon, Jr. based on the novels The Leopard's Spots & The Clansman
Cinematography: G.W. Bitzer
Editing: D.W. Griffith, Joseph Henabery, James Smith, Rose Smith, Raoul Walsh
Costume Design: Robert Godstein
Cast: Lillian Gish (Elsie Stoneman), Mae Marsh (Flora Cameron), Henry B. Walthall (Col. Ben Cameron), Miriam Cooper (Margaret Cameron), Mary Alden (Lydia Brown), Ralph Lewis (Austin Stoneman), George Siegmann (Silas Lynch), Walter Long (Gus), Wallace Reid (Jeff), Joseph Henabery (Abraham Lincoln).
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
D.W. Griffith's epic production The Birth of a Nation had its United States premiere on February 8, 1915, and almost a century later it's still a strong contender for most controversial movie ever made. Its historical importance and cinematic ingenuity are unquestionable, which explains the positive side of its reputation. The negative side is explained by a single overwhelming factor - the unapologetic racism that runs through the picture from beginning to end. Based on a novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr. called The Clansman, the movie's plot is complex and sometimes confusing, but the review in Variety on March 12, 1915, summed it up in a sentence: "The Camerons of the south and the Stonemans of the north and Silas Lynch, the mulatto Lieutenant-Governor, the Civil War...the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the period of Carpet-bagging days and union reconstruction following Lee's surrender, the terrorizing of the southern whites by the newly freed blacks and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan that later overpowers the negros [sic] and gives the white men the authority rightfully theirs." Although reviewer Mark Vance displays a racial prejudice equal to Griffith's own, his high opinion of the film was echoed by many likeminded critics - and bitterly contested by others who found Griffith's technical resourcefulness a meager compensation for the picture's bigotry, insensitivity, and historical spin.
Griffith claimed that his sole intention was to tell the story of the Civil War and the postwar Reconstruction era as they really happened, from his own perspective as a Southerner who accepted the outcome of the war, and that offending black Americans was the last thing he wanted to do. To this end he adapted a novel in which the KKK is the hero, and arranged for all the black characters (except some extras) to be played by white actors in blackface. Watching the film today, it's hard to believe Griffith actually thought black moviegoers - or many white ones - would enjoy his portrait of slaves and former slaves as slow-witted, servile, sexually rapacious dullards who would have ruined the nation if the KKK hadn't been invented in the nick of time. If he did think that, he was incredibly thickheaded.
And so he was. Judging from historical records and film scholarship, Griffith was genuinely surprised by the uproar surrounding the movie's release. Born in rural Kentucky to a Confederate Army officer who had fought in the Civil War and returned with countless tales of Confederate heroism, Griffith saw the war and Reconstruction from a Southern perspective he never questioned. This helps account for the racism in The Birth of a Nation, but it doesn't excuse Griffith's failure to challenge the version of history he'd absorbed in childhood, especially since in other areas of life he was what we'd now call a liberal or progressive - deploring the excesses of capitalism in A Corner in Wheat (1909), for instance, and condemning various forms of bigotry in Intolerance (1916). When a 1915 editorial in the New York Globe attacked The Birth of a Nation for pandering to "depraved tastes" and fomenting "a race antipathy that is the most sinister and dangerous feature of American life," Griffith shot back a letter saying that by "following the formula of the best dramas of the world we establish our ideals by revealing the victory of right over wrong." His equation is both malevolent and simplistic: freed slaves enjoying their freedom equals wrong, the KKK murdering their liberty equals right.
The Birth of a Nation cost about $110,000 to make, equivalent to several million dollars today; the battle scenes alone have been estimated at $40,000. Financing came from private investors rather than established production companies, because of the project's unusual nature and also because Griffith was now based in the Southern California area that would soon become Hollywood, far from the New York hub of the pre-1915 film industry. Griffith worked from a plot outline rather than a formal script, researching historical details with the help of four assistants. Production began on the Fourth of July in 1914 and wrapped on Halloween, and the final twelve-reel cut debuted under the film's original title, The Clansman, at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles, running there for seven months. By the time of its New York opening in March - at the Liberty Theater, where it played for eleven months - it had received its new and permanent title, apparently because Dixon felt the title of his novel wasn't imposing enough for so magnificent a film. Bad record-keeping has kept the movie's profits from being precisely calculated to this day, but film historian Anthony Slide reckons that it has "probably been seen by more people than any other film." While that may have changed with the advent of global blockbusters by the likes of James Cameron and Steven Spielberg, the cumulative audience for Griffith's epic has surely been of epic proportions.
And no wonder, since The Birth of a Nation was a groundbreaking entertainment in its day. Longer and more exciting than any American picture to date, it lured middle-class and wealthy patrons back to the movies, which had catered to working-class audiences during the nickelodeon era. According to the official souvenir program for its first road-show engagements, 18,000 people and 3,000 horses appear on the screen; making the KKK uniforms took up more than 25,000 yards of white cloth; and nearly 200,000 feet of film were shot, edited to 12,000 for the final cut, which ran about three hours and ten minutes at the then-usual projector speed of 16 frames per second. On top of these high-end production values, the film was endorsed by no less a personage than Woodrow Wilson, the president of the United States, who remarked, after seeing it in the first-ever movie screening at the White House, "It is like writing history with Lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true."
Rave reviews from Wilson and many critics helped The Birth of a Nation become cinema's first blockbuster, but they didn't persuade everyone that the picture was benign. Before its New York premiere, the NAACP pushed both the motion-picture industry and national censors to condemn or at least censure the picture, winning only a few token trims with their efforts. Griffith's characteristic response to such attacks was "to insist on the sincerity of his art," in the words of biographer Richard Schickel, and "to associate his cause with the cause of free speech and a free press." Later the NAACP organized protests outside the Manhattan theater where it was playing, and an April showing in Boston resulted in a full-scale riot; but these and other expressions of outrage did little to dampen the film's popularity. Contention has arisen many times since, as when an Atlanta censorship board banned it in 1959, and when the town of Riverside, California, which had hosted the film's first prerelease screening in 1915, canceled a showing at its museum in 1978. The right to exhibit it was challenged at least 120 times between 1915 and 1973, according to film scholar Janet Steiger.
The narrative energy and technical wizardry of The Birth of a Nation speak for themselves to those who view the film today. As for its ideological failings and noxious views, no one has better articulated the case against them than the pioneering social worker Jane Addams, who spoke about it with the New York Post during its initial New York run. Calling it a "pernicious caricature of the Negro race" that is both "unjust and untrue," Addams reproached it for portraying blacks as "worse than childish and brutal and vicious--actually grotesque and primitive and despicable." In remarks that ring far truer than Griffith's shifty defenses, she observed that you "can use history to demonstrate anything when you take certain of its facts and emphasize them to the exclusion of others." The glimpses of real history in The Birth of a Nation serve only to make the film more insidious, she added, promoting "the most subtle of untruths - a half truth." Those words from 1915 are worth recalling when we explore Griffith's racist blockbuster in the twenty-first century.
Director: D.W. Griffith
Producer: D.W. Griffith
Scenario: D.W. Griffith and Frank E. Woods, based on Thomas F. Dixon, Jr.'s novel The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
Cinematographer: G.W. Bitzer
Film Editing: D.W. Griffith, Joseph Henabery, James Smith, Rose Smith, Raoul Walsh
Music: Joseph Carl Breil
With: Lillian Gish (Elsie Stoneman), Mae Marsh (Flora Cameron), Henry Walthall (Col. Ben Cameron), Miriam Cooper (Margaret Cameron), Mary Alden (Lydia Brown), Ralph Lewis (Austin Stoneman), George Seigmann (Silas Lynch), Walter Long (Gus), Robert Harron (Tod Stoneman), Wallace Reed (Jeff), Jos. Henabery (Abraham Lincoln), Elmer Clifton (Phil Stoneman), Josephine Crowell (Mrs. Cameron), Spottiswoode Aitken (Dr. Cameron), J.A. Beringer (Wade Cameron), Maxfield Stanley (Duke Cameron), Jennie Lee (Mammy), Donald Crisp (Gen. Ulysses S. Grant), Howard Gaye (Gen. Robert E. Lee).
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Two of my favorite VBC presenters: Paul Cienfuegos and Starhawk
Thank you to our elders for bringing us perspective!
Wow, Paul blew my socks off. He stood up, read a speech, and took the room on an enlightening journey of the history of social movements, and on the deep realities of corporate personhood.
He started by telling us about the organic food movement, how it started with activists in the 1970s who were "too small to matter" and is now the only growth sector in the food industry. He explained how the movement sewed the seeds for their own destruction by not keeping control of who is in charge. Now, corporations get to define the story.
Paul's points are that: 1) we don't take ourselves (in social movements) seriously enough, and understand the intersections with corporate capitalism, and 2) we don't know our history.
On the first note, Paul pointed out that many of us think that we are on the fringe, hopeless in reaching the "apathetic Americans". Many activists feel like our candidates don't get on ballots, our letters don't get heard, our input is not heard. He explains that these feelings are rational because the system is broken.
But, people care deeply about what they have basic authority over.
That's where the "Rights of Corporations" comes in: corporate personhood. Paul asserts that if we understood the significance of corporate personhood, than our strategies and tactics for change would be different. He pointed out that in doing things like:
--writing a letter to a corporate leader
--going to a public hearing
--demonstrating at stores
--buying stock and going to stockholders meetings
are all assuming that corporations have legitimate power and are NOT the subordinate legal entity that they were first intended to be! If we take for granted that corporations have personhood power, than we will not understand what we can reverse.
Paul went into the fascinating history of the slow and steady gain of corporate power through building their "rights" over people and the government. That is why logging companies write forest management acts and weapons corporations write foreign policy.
Paul points out that we must dismantle their rights. In his home county, they have removed the personhood rights of corporations and do not allow chains or donations by corporations. And it's catching on: two hundred townships in Pennsylvania have passed similar laws, and Nebraska and South Dakota have similar state constitutional amendments.
So, what's stopping us? Paul says: we're acting like we're radicals, on the fringe, while most Americans want healthy environments, social systems, peace, etc. He thinks that we're so used to being activists and rebels that we don't see ourselves as the majority. What if we acted like we are the majority?!?!
Paul's speech gave me, and the other 250 people in the room, chills. He got a spirited standing O. ;-)
Ten minutes later Starhawk took the stage and wove us into other layers of the deeper realities of our existence. "We do not have the luxury of being realistic," she said.
What rang most for me about Star's talk was her illumination about the sheer difficulty of getting along with each other in our non-hierarchical, non-patriarchal groups. We don't have many models of collectives, and she offered us some insight about this using the four cardinal directions.
She spoke about POWER: power over, power within and power with. She noted that unearned power is privilege. The "power with" part is tricky: people gain power in many forms, and in a group of equals this power determines how much you get listened to and therefore directs the path of the group. Vision can guide a group but must be invested in with love and trust.
Trust in each other and accountability mechanisms are essential. We need sound and safe ways for giving each other feedback and constructive critique. It's a sign of respect, she pointed out, that your work gets critiqued because it reveals its value and the intention to improve it. She explained that critique must be specific, thoughtful and timely.
Star ended by reminding us that we must invite in the help of our allies; asking for help keeps us humble. And, when we open up to the wisdom of "invisible allies" like algae or fungus (and faeries—she's a witch, you know!), we become witness to transformation of something ordinary into something miraculous! Now, that's inspiration!!
Again, thank you to our elders for sharing insights with us!


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Audi Previews New A1 Hatchback
Although it still contends there are no plans to bring it to the U.S., Audi has officially begun a mega-scaled pre-launch campaign for its smallest and arguably most ambitious new production model, the A1. Following a series of strategically timed info bursts prior to an online reveal in early February, the A1 will appear in public at the Geneva Auto Salon next March. At this point, the automaker has only confirmed that its hoped-for Mini killer will be positioned as a premium alternative for young buyers, primarily those who spend most of their time contending with urban driving environments. According to Stefan Sielaff, Head of Design at AUDI AG, the A1 will offer loads of customization potential, particularly in the area of interior appointments. Even the stylized initial renderings -- presented as graffiti-flavored wall sketches -- show that the car retains a strong resemblance to the original three-door A1 Metroproject Quattro Concept that was displayed at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show and its follow up five-door one-off, the A1 Sportback, that appeared in Paris the following year. While clearly identifiable as an Audi, Sielaff says the production A1 will have a few innovative tweaks to its grille and headlamp designs while playing up the dynamic character of its unique roof arch treatment.
It's believed the first run of A1 production models will consist of front-drive three-door hatches fitted with a turbocharged 1.4-liter inline-four that makes about 150 horsepower and shifts via a seven-speed S-Tronic dual-clutch sequential transmission. However, future possibilities include a high-performance S1 Quattro model, a five-door Sportback and ultimately a Cabriolet. All of those variations would help Audi establish its presence in a segment currently dominated by the Mini in all of its current -- and upcoming -- iterations. Given that the U.S. remains Mini's single biggest market, the A1 would seem to be a worthwhile addition to Audi's American lineup as well. But for now, we remain in wait-and-hope mode.


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