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Film Projections: Taxi Driver, 35 Years Later
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(35 years ago, Taxi Driver was unleashed on the American movie-going public. The film, which solidified the iconic relationship between Martin Scorsese and Robert Deniro, won the Palme D'Or at Cannes in 1976 and was nominated for four Academy Awards. For its anniversary, a restored 35 mm print of the film screened at New York's Film Forum in March; the print is currently touring the country. Below, our film expert Franklin Laviola, who was present at the New York screening, reflects on the power and legacy of this great film).
Released in February of 1976, Taxi Driver was Martin Scorsese's fifth feature and arguably his first masterpiece. The landmark film became a surprise box-office smash, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that May, and would go on to be nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for its star Robert DeNiro. Now, thirty-five years later, Taxi Driver remains an astonishingly visceral experience and one film that has lost none of its seductive mystique.
Of all the American films of the hallowed 1970s which can claim comparable stature, Taxi Driver is by far the most difficult to categorize. What genre does its tale of the now iconic antihero, Travis Bickle, even belong to? Is it, for example, a film noir? Taxi Driver might have the dark, seedy atmosphere, reminiscent of so many post-war examples of the genre, not to mention, an unattainable female object of desire as a key dramatic device, but unlike your typical film noir protagonist, Travis, ultimately, controls his own fate.
In crafting Travis' frequent point-of-view shots, Scorsese has acknowledged the influence of Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man. Is the film, then, a thriller, in the vein of Hitchcock? Taxi Driver certainly shares a focus on one man's prevailing sense of paranoia with so many examples of the thriller genre, but an over-arching principle of suspense does not drive its narrative.
Perhaps then, Taxi Driver is closer to a western on a basic structural level. Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader pay homage to the plot of John Ford's The Searchers (albeit with Sam Peckinpah's flair for bloody spectacle), in particular, by setting Travis off on a self-imposed moral mission, a path to regenerative violence, similar to John Wayne's loner protagonist, only, of course, in a contemporary, urban setting.
But the film's building blocks are not limited to traditional Hollywood forms. What would Taxi Driver be without the transcendental character studies of Robert Bresson, for instance? All one needs to hear is DeNiro's first-person voice-over narration and it becomes clear his insomniac New York City cab driver comes from the same cinematic lineage as the French protagonists of Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest and Pickpocket. Taxi Driver, like those two films, is one man's (a social outsider's) private diary of loneliness and despair.
And then, there are the more modernist auteurs, like Jean-Luc Godard and Michelangelo Antonioni, whom Scorsese draws stylistic inspiration from and methodically quotes at specific points in the film to a particularly expressive effect. In one early scene at an all-night diner, a shot from the former's 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her is recreated, when Travis drops an Alka Seltzer tablet into his glass of water and stares blankly at it. The camera overhead slowly zooms in on the sizzling bubbles, further underscoring Travis' disconnect from his fellow cabbies, who attempt to engage him in conversation. Another scene, a little later on in the film, features Travis making a call to Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), at a payphone. In a lateral tracking shot that would be right at home in Antonioni's The Passenger, the camera moves away from Travis, mid-phone call, to focus on an empty corridor, as the girl of his dreams rejects him.
At the DGA, this past March, for the premiere screening of the digital restoration of Taxi Driver, Scorsese himself, mentioned yet another influence, acknowledging his debt to one particular film by New German Cinema auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder:
"But [Fassbinder's] The Merchant of Four Seasons … But the thing about Merchant of Four Seasons was that it had a kind of brutal honesty about the way the camera looked at the characters — at the actors — and not necessarily the melodramatic scenes. And it just made me realize that you could do anything, really. Just anything, as long as you feel honest about it. It's an honest image. It's like a police photo — a crime scene photo. There's an objectivity to it. How does a crime scene photographer chose the angle? You know? Does he say, 'This'll be nice …' Or is it, 'There it is! Life, death, right here.' That was the impulse that Fassbinder's stuff gave me."
With Scorsese and Schrader borrowing select narrative forms and techniques from both the traditions of Hollywood and European art house filmmaking, while making a delirious number of references to individual films, it's a miracle that Taxi Driver does not look, sound, or, most importantly, feel, like a self-conscious pastiche of all these disparate elements. In fact, after countless viewings, I would argue that one of the most remarkable traits of Taxi Driver is how fluidly Scorsese is able to strike a balance between two dominant stylistic modes — gritty realism and baroque expressionism.
This is a scene that perfectly embodies the "objectivity," which Scorsese claimed he was striving for in his photographic style. Here, Travis, now determined to arm himself, against the "scum" of the streets, meets with the gun salesman "Easy Andy." The scene that unfolds, as presented by Scorsese's (and his brilliant cinematographer Michael Chapman's) camera, could be a documentary on the purchase of illegal firearms, if it wasn't already distinctly a part of a fictional narrative. The setting is a real apartment or hotel room in Brooklyn, overlooking the East River and Lower Manhattan, and the room's lighting is flat, minimal, attuned to the changing sunlight. There is no music, the accompanying sound is ambient noise from the actual location, and the dialogue consists almost exclusively of detailed information about each gun, delivered in a deadpan tone by a sleazy Steven Prince.
To capture the initial interaction, Scorsese relies on a two-shot tableau of Travis and "Easy Andy," not dissimilar to one of the memorable two-shots of his own mother and father in his documentary Italianamerican. In cutting to singles of Travis observing and examining each gun, inserts of those weapons, and the occasional single of "Easy Andy," selling his merchandise, Scorsese maintains a clinical, detached quality, but allows himself two subjective flourishes. The first comes early on, when "Easy Andy" opens up his suitcase, and Scorsese cuts to Travis' POV. The film suddenly becomes silent, as the camera glides, in close-up, over the lengthy barrel of the .44 Magnum, fetishizing the lethal object. The second punctuates the middle of the scene, when Travis takes the .38 snubnosed revolver in hand and points it out the window, at unsuspecting traffic. This POV shot not only foreshadows the would-be political assassin into which Travis will transform himself, but frighteningly evokes the POV of a real-life assassin — Lee Harvey Oswald. With these two fleeting digressions, Scorsese has expressed Travis' own private reality.
If the previous exemplified the mode of documentary realism, this nighttime scene could be the fullest representation of Taxi Driver's expressionistic side. Identified in the film's credits as "Passenger Watching Silhouette," Martin Scorsese makes what could be the greatest (and most disturbing) director as actor cameo in the history of American cinema, surpassing even Roman Polanski's own cameo in Chinatown, as the gnomic henchman, who disfigures Jack Nicholson's "nosy" gumshoe. The scene arrives at a point in the narrative, when Travis is at his most vulnerable, having just been spurned by Betsy. Scorsese's passenger instructs Travis to pull over to the curb and leave the meter running, while they sit. Bernard Hermann's ominous score is at its most subtle here, but fades away completely, halfway through the scene. There's a prominent, impeccably composed two-shot, with DeNiro, behind the wheel, at the far right end of the frame, and Scorsese, behind the plexiglass divider in the backseat, at the far left end of the frame, but the majority of the exchange is captured in various singles of the two actors. As Scorsese cuts between these singles, on nearly every line of dialogue, there is a slight disorienting effect, signaling to the viewer a growing instability in Travis' world.
The scene's one shot from Travis' POV comes when the passenger demands that he take a look at a particular woman in a window. In a manner very similar to one of the many elaborate James Stewart POV shots in Hitchcock's Rear Window, Scorsese's camera scans up the building and then crosses over at a perfect 90 degree angle, before coming to a stop and fixed focus on a silhouetted mystery woman. Barely uttering more than a syllable, Travis listens, as the passenger claims that she is his wife and that she is currently with another man. As if things couldn't get any more shocking, he boasts to Travis that he is going to kill her with a .44 Magnum. Almost completely shrouded in darkness, Scorsese's passenger character is like a maniacal ghoul, a devil on Travis' shoulder. But is he real? Just as the passenger laughs and repeatedly asks Travis, "Do you think I'm sick?!," Scorsese jarringly cuts to what could be the scene's most significant shot — a medium close-up of the back of Travis' head, accompanied by a beat of deadly silence on the soundtrack. This one key shot, along with the scene's intense film noir lighting, suggests that this passenger, is just a figment of Travis' own twisted psyche, and that the previous dialogue was really an internal monologue of sorts. Scorsese's beyond profane passenger, then, is a projection, an embodiment of all Travis' basest feelings and thoughts of misogyny and racism, coupled with an urge to commit horrific violence.
His assassination attempt of a presidential candidate thwarted, Travis is now fiercely resolved to rescue the adolescent Iris (beautifully played by a then thirteen year-old Jodie Foster), from her pimps and a life of drugs and prostitution. This climactic sequence is a masterful synthesis of the film's two stylistic modes. Scorsese begins it all with an objective eye — in one sustained shot, he tracks Travis, as he exits his taxi and approaches the pimp Sport (Harvey Keitel), and then locks in, virtually head-on, to capture the hostile interaction between the two characters. From somewhat of a distance, the camera first observes, as Travis suddenly shoots Sport in the gut, and then continues to track him again, as he walks away. The result is like a dispassionate crime scene photo.
However, once Travis enters the pimps' building and continues his shooting rampage, Scorsese quickly shifts gears and the style becomes startlingly baroque. Employing an arsenal's worth of camera, editing, and sound techniques, Scorsese is hell-bent on plunging the viewer into Travis' adrenalized mindset. There is no musical score, gunshots initially explode like thunder and then echo loudly throughout the cavernous hallways, and a wounded pimp screams incessantly, "I'll kill you! You crazy son of a bitch! I'll kill you!" Scorsese deftly moves between dolly shots that rush towards and away from Travis, assorted high-angle shots of the gunfire, cutaways to a cowering Iris, and sickening close-ups of bloodied faces and body parts bursting. The rhythm is hallucinatory, as time and the moving image, alternately slow down or speed up. In the immediate aftermath of the shootout, Scorsese momentarily transitions back to a removed, gritty objectivity, as a seriously wounded Travis attempts suicide in vain and collapses onto the couch, while Iris cries in the corner, clearly in shock. When armed cops enter the room, Scorsese cuts to a final tight close-up of Travis, as he points his bloody index finger to his head and mimes firing multiple shots into his brain. Travis' head falls back and he looks directly upward, on the verge of expiring. The sequence ends on a note of ambiguity, since what follows is either the ultimate high-angle crime scene photo or quite possibly the ultimate subjective shot. As the camera floats directly above Travis and then travels to survey the gruesome bloodbath, while Hermann's score pounds in awe, the viewer can't help but wonder, if this actually is the POV of Travis' tormented soul, finally departing his body.
As eclectic and as impure as it might be, the visual style of Taxi Driver convincingly and vividly blurs the line between objective reality and subjective reality. Aided enormously by Robert DeNiro's fully-immersed and stunning performance, Martin Scorsese has crafted a liminal zone on screen, in which the realistic and expressionistic radically collide and become virtually indistinguishable from one another. The effect is timeless.
Franklin P. Laviola is a filmmaker and freelance writer, based in the New York area. He wrote and directed the award-winning short film "Happy Face," which has screened at over twenty film festivals. He recently wrote on the life and passing of actress Maria Schneider. Taxi Driver is now available on Blu-Ray.
9 Responses to "Film Projections: Taxi Driver, 35 Years Later"
A fine tribute to a fine film!
Thank you, Bill.
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Japan's SoftBank Group Corp reported a 13 percent rise in full-year operating profit, benefiting from cost cuts and a rise in subscribers at its US wireless unit Sprint Corp.
Japan's SoftBank Group Corp reported a 13 percent rise in full-year operating profit, benefiting from cost cuts and a rise in subscribers at its US wireless unit Sprint Corp. But Sprint, the No. 4 U.S. wireless carrier, is still making losses and remains for key focus for investors on hopes that it will merge with rival T-Mobile US Inc. Reuters reported in February that SoftBank is prepared to cede control of Sprint to T-Mobile to clinch a deal.
"We are prepared to enter talks with an open mind about various possibilities to make the U.S. telecoms industry truly competitive," SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son told reporters on Wednesday. "The current U.S. administration's stance on the industry is far more open to deregulation than the previous administration."
Son also said T-Mobile is one of the best candidates for a potential deal, but added that there are other possibilities. The internet and telecoms giant, which owns about 83 percent of Sprint, said profit for the year ended in March increased to 1.026 trillion yen ($9 billion). The results come ahead of the launch of a $100 billion fund that aims to make SoftBank the "Berkshire Hathaway of the tech industry" as telecoms services markets mature.
SoftBank, which also holds stakes in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and a wide array of other firms, expects to invest at least $25 billion over the next five years in the fund, which would be one of the world's largest private equity investors.
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DIY Holiday
I can't believe it, but it's already December. As it gets closer and closer to the holidays, I thought this would be a good time to highlight some of my favourite holiday DIY gift ideas. I'm definitely going to be making use of some of the tutorials and recipes for my own gift giving – it's inexpensive, fun, and it adds such a nice personal touch to each gift!
Are you going DIY for the holidays this year? What recipes or tutorials are you using?
Here are some of my favourites:
Maple, citrus, and ginger cranberry preserves
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Breaking the silence of those with brain injury
Imagine the horror of being fully conscious but unable to communicate. Research is helping to break this barrier
Imagine you have a brain injury that leaves you able to see and hear what is happening around you, but unable to communicate with the outside world. How can your carers know whether or not you are conscious? More and more people now survive brain injury due to improved trauma care, but end up in vegetative or minimally conscious states. Research, described by Adrian Owen in Scientific American (May 2014), is making great strides both in determining which patients retain awareness and in communicating with them.
Owen categorises classes of compromised consciousness as follows – brain-death: all brain functions permanently lost; coma: complete loss of consciousness, no cycles of sleeping/waking, eyes closed; vegetative state: sleep/wake cycles occur, eyes may open spontaneously but behaviours are reflexive; minimally conscious state: patients seem vegetative but sometimes show signs of awareness; locked-in syndrome: patients are conscious but cannot move and seem to be in vegetative or minimally conscious state. Many can still blink and move their eyes.
Owen's interest in this area began in 1997 when he came across a female patient (Kate) who had lapsed into a vegetative state after an illness. Her eyes would open and close fleetingly. She appeared to look around, but showed no signs of inner life. Owen examined Kate's brain responses in a Pet scanner to seeing photographs of friends and family. To his surprise not only did her brain respond to the faces, but its activity patterns were similar to the brain responses of healthy aware individuals when shown pictures of loved ones. Was Kate conscious or was this a reflexive response? Owen began more in-depth research.
He started by playing speech and also speech-like noises devoid of actual speech to patients in diagnosed vegetative-state conditions. Brain activity was recorded in speech perception regions of their brains in response to speech but not to the noise. However, the same result was recorded with subjects rendered unconscious by an anaesthetic. The brain processes speech automatically. A different type of brain activity must be recorded to determine if the patient is conscious.
Owen next discovered that when normal subjects are asked to visualise performing certain tasks, for example playing a game of tennis or walking through the rooms in your house, regions light up in the brain, seen through fMRI imaging, that are characteristic of the particular activity. Owen's team then tested a woman in a vegetative state and got the same result. She was asked to visualise two tasks sequentially – playing tennis followed by walking through the rooms in her house. She did this repeatedly and the characteristic brain activities were recorded each time. The vegetative state patient was conscious. A survey (New England Journal of Medicine, 2010) showed 17 per cent of vegetative-state patients are conscious.
'Squeeze my hand'To establish two-way communication with such patients, Owen followed the "squeeze my hand if you hear me" approach. While monitoring the brain in an fMRI machine he asked a vegetative-state but conscious patient questions with a Yes or No answer and instructed him to visualise a certain activity (playing tennis, for example) when the answer is yes, and another activity (such as walking through the rooms in his house) when the answer is no. This technique worked and is now used to communicate with such patients. But communicating through fMRI machines is awkward and expensive and cannot be done at all if the patient has metal implants, so Owen's group is now developing techniques using simple portable ECG equipment.
The ability to detect and communicate with the covert consciousness of patients in vegetative states has obvious implications for patient care. For example, medical staff can ascertain whether the patient is in pain or discomfort and alleviate this. And obviously, the discovery of consciousness when the decision had already been made to withdraw nutrition and hydration could be used to legally overturn that decision. In that regard, Owen reminds us that people have an amazing capacity to adapt to extreme disability – in a 2011 survey of 65 patients with locked-in syndrome, most expressed satisfaction with the quality of their lives.
One can imagine the anguish one would feel to be conscious but unable to communicate with the outside world. The results achieved by Owen's group are thus truly heartwarming.
William Reville is an emeritus professor of biochemistry at UCC. understandingscience.ucc.ie


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Leo is the lion, and symbolizes the fifth sign of the zodiac calendar. N is outgoing and positive male characters for the sun. Is this problem fixed sign is associated with the element fire and is the fifth house. This sign of the zodiac comes from the constellation Leo. People born between 22nd July and 22nd August come under this sign. Leo individual character is made by burning heart, control and warm. The lion represents confidence, courage and generous nature.
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You nailed it Gabriel, great job man!
Very interesting topic and lesson! Thanks Gabriel!
Cool lesson Gabriel, as always
Nice! So glad you did this one ... HIM are cool! Excellent arrangement that really captures their style.
very nice gabriel!
Very nice lesson Gabriel, so melodic. Congrats
Thanks for the comments guys!
Cool lesson, Gabriel, nice to see that someone covered the style of HIM
great lesson Gabe, sounds awesome!!!
Very cool man. Great arrangement
Nice piece! great job!
Thanks guys! I'm glad that you like it!
Great lesson, very nice sound in this one
I was addicted to this band for such a long time. It's great to see some HIM on the site. Maybe you could do a lesson on their Dark Light album. That would be cool! Great job as usual Gabe.
Very nicely done Gab!!
Really great arrangement Gabriel! Loved it
Cool, sounds really great! Well done!
Nice sound! Very cool lesson Gabriel!
Thanks for the comments guys!
Great one Gabriel
Cool lesson Gab! well done!
I have never been the biggest fan of Him, but this is a great lesson, perfect for beginners
Cool! Nice one!
Thanks for the comments! I'm glad that you like it!
Nice topic and track, but this padsound reminds me of an 80s C-Class movie hahaha
Awesome lesson! I absolutely love that album!
Hello GMC! Welcome to my lesson in the style of the band HIM. This Finish band has different influences that come from the heavy metal, gothic and 80's pop (Depeche Mode, The Cure, etc). They lyrics are very "romantic" oriented and that why they call their style as "Love Metal".
In this lesson I tried to recreate their style using their most common chord progressions, structure and also their way to arrange the guitars in as song.
This lesson is very useful for beginner player that want to play metal but also to intermediate or advanced player that wants to add more ideas for guitar arranging and composition.
We will cover topics like:
-Power Chords
-Harmonization in thirds
-Chord Progressions
-Palm Muting
Chord Progression & Structure:
Intro with Keyboard, Clarinet and Strings: Am – F – C – G – Dm – F – C – G
Verse: ( Am – Em – Am – Em – Am – G – F – C G ) x 2
Pre-chorus: F – Em – G – Am G – F – Em – G – G
Chorus: ( Am – F – C – G – Dm – F – C – G ) x 2
The song is in A minor key and the tempo is 120 bpm.


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Another example of trademark bullying, Washington D.C. restaurant "Rogue 24" is being sued by Oregon Brewing Co., one of the country's largest breweries, for trademark infringement, trademark counterfeiting, and cybersquatting. Full Story
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I've never heard of this, the government seeks to seize control as biker gang's trademark using its asset forfeiture power. The government claims the gang is responsible for crimes ranging from selling iPods to murder. Full story
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Warner Brothers, copyright enforcement GURU and supporter of SOPA, has come into its own bit of infringing troubles. The media giant is being used for the use of cat memes "Nyan Cat" and Keyboard Cat. Full Story
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Wholesale retailer "Costco" and fine jeweler "Tiffany & Co." square off in court. It seems Costco has been selling "Tiffany" Jewelry in its stores which are not actually authentic. Costco claim the Tiffany name has become generic term for "a mount common on engagement rings". Good luck with that, Costco. Full Story


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The Millennial's 'E.T.'
Trying too hard to be the Steven Spielberg classic.
Amid a soulless expanse of Western tract housing, young kids alienated from their own life form make contact with one from another planet. Entrusted with keeping the world's biggest secret, they adopt the paranoid secrecy of the typical preadolescent, telling no one about their discovery while they try to help the cute little extraterrestrial find his way home. Obstacles? Parents who don't know what the heck is going on, and a menacing U.S. government that does.
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Victor Gischler A Go-Go
Victor Gischler's got a new book coming. Suprisingly, it's announced to be available as an eBook the same day as the printed version!
According to the publisher, Simon & Schuster, these eBook stores will stock it: Amazon's Kindle Store, Amazon.com, eBooks.com, ebooksabouteverything.com, Fictionwise, Mobipocket, Palm Digital Media, and Powells.com.
Which is, not surprisingly, a big FAIL from the publisher. Because -- if the following listing is to be believed -- right now it can be bought at the Sony eBook Store. Which isn't even listed!
The first chapter can be sampled here.
Where Victor Gischler will be touring is here.
Victor has also set up a Vampire a Go-Go website.
And this is Victor Gischler's Blogpocalypse.
I've read all of Victor's books. They're a hoot! You'll want to get every single one.
And yes, Marvel comic fans, this is the same Victor Gischler who wrote Punisher and is writing Deadpool.
Previous posts about Victor Gischler:
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Go-Go Girls Of The Apocalypse
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Transcript: Gischler Vs. Smith Live On Twitter!
Victor Gischler Breaks Under Questioning!
Videos: Out of the Gutter Magazine Party
Austin, Texas: Meet Victor Gischler TONIGHT!!!
I Wade Into Shit For Victor Gischler
Victor Gischler Wants You Punished!
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Sydney Siblings
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From the siblings who brought you Big Jet Plane, comes their first single in four years. They were on an indefinite hiatus until King Midas himself, Rick Rubin said, "No. I want you both, and we will make pure gold." or something like that. This from Triple J—
'Heart Beats Slow' was the first such song the duo say they were able to properly collaborate on. The song was in part lyrically inspired by a trip to the doctor in which Angus was told that – like his sister – he had a slow heart rate, the siblings turned that familial bond into a song:
"It was the stepping stone into us actually writing together, and throwing ideas into the melting pot" Angus told us.
I am an absolute sucker for cypher/ping pong vocals like this jam, the same trade off the XX has perfected–the sweet contrast of a male and female voice that is mesmerizing.
Enjoy the short week my friends.


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The Honeywell RTH221B1021/A 5-1-1 Day Programmable Thermostat is designed to provide you with push-button climate control, with advanced programming schedules to save energy, while offering the reliability to give you many years of service. In contrast to Non-Programmable thermostats which simply allow you to select a setpoint temperature and turn the thermostat to cool or heat, a Programmable thermostat allows you to create schedules for automatically running your cooling or heating system a certain times. A 7 Programmable Thermostat is best if you tend to have varied schedule that requires a different schedule for each day of the week. The thermostat is pre-programmed with a set schedule; however this is easily modified to fit your lifestyle. You can even temporarily ignore the programmed schedule by using the up or down arrow buttons to adjust the temperature. There is a battery backup, two AAA batteries required (sold separately), that will maintain your setpoint even if you lose power; a low battery indicator displays when the batteries need to be replaced. A built-in compressor protection feature helps prevent damage to the compressor in your air conditioning or heat pump system which can occur if the compressor is restarted too soon after shutdown.
Energy Savings - Programming can save up to 33% on annual heating and cooling costs (if used as directed. Savings may vary depending on geographic region and usage).
Early Start: This feature allows the heating or cooling to turn on before the program start time, so the temperature is reached at the time you set. For example: Set the Wake time to 6 am, and the temperature to 70° F. The heat will come on before 6 am, so the temperature is 70° F by the time you wake at 6. The next time period is displayed when the system is activated before a scheduled time period.
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Though Mahesh Babu is interested to make his daughter a scientist, it looks like Sitara is getting all the style tips in order to become a heroine like her mother. Other day the way she flaunted her new hairstyle is quite interesting.
While Mahesh is working on Bharat Anu Nenu where director Koratala Siva is canning some crucial scenes with his hero and heroine Kiara Advani, Sitara rushed to the set. Wonder why? Actually, she got her hair straightened and wants to showcase it to her dad immediately.
After turning up on the sets, Sitara posed with Kiara and it looked like a competition between the lengths of hair of two actresses with a straightened hairdo. Looking at these pics, one could not resist asking, when is Sitara making her debut like the way Mahesh-Namrata's son Gautham did it.
With Bharat Anu Nenu set for April 2nd week release, even the arrival of Sitara to the sets is becoming an interesting promotion for the film on the other side.


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Compiled by Todd Sloane, Career Services Advisor
Many thanks to Cindy Craner and all our Job Seekers at this week's Job Network meeting. We had a lot of fun with, "How Effective Job Seekers are like Trick-or-Treaters". It was an amazing morning and Cindy and I were blown away with the number of ideas generated. Here they are. Enjoy!
They start with in the neighborhoods of family and friends that they know and work from there. Good job seekers start with who they know, go where the opportunities are, and follow up from there.
They research where they best treats are. Isn't it amazing how some kids know just where the most "candy per foot of sidewalk is"? Do you know the fields, occupations and companies that are the best fit for you?
They get out. OK. So if you stay home you don't get any treats. Enough said!
They are willing to go to "undecorated" houses. I saw several groups of trick-or-treaters walk by an undecorated home the other night, then a couple other kids went up and knocked. They got the treats! Are you 'assuming' that there are no opportunities if there are no advertised leads? If so then, "no treats for you"!
They ask for what they want. If you don't ask, you don't get. Sometimes, it's as simple as "trick or treat", sometimes you'll get some choices. If you know what you want you'll be prepared for either.
They wear a memorable "get noticed" costume. How to you react to a trick-or-treater at your door who is in a creative, original or well-crafted costume? How about a "half-baked" one? Good trick-or-treaters know how to make a great first impression.
They will bring a bag for a sick friend. Job seekers work together and if a partner can't make an educational, job search, networking or professional development event, they will "bring back" any useful information.
They have support, someone or group they walk with when they are in between doors. Some trick-or-treaters may be shy, prefer to walk in groups or are just new to the process. Having someone to encourage them to go and knock, and to return to after making these little stretches can be a tremendous boost. Do you have others who support your in going outside your comfort zone and will always support you, no matter what the results? If not, build this support.
They prepare and they show up. Their costume is ready (and so are they) at the appointed time. If you trick or treat on November first you will NOT get good results.
Once they decide on their costume, they plan on how they will dress and act to best play the part. An effective job seeker certainly does not pretend to be someone they are not, but they definitely bring out the parts of their personality that fit the role they are pursuing. This plays out most importantly in formal and informal meet ups.
They have good manners, say "trick or treat", thank you, and wish the best to those they meet. If new to the tradition, they practice their lines before going out. Hopefully we all know to be courteous and professional when pursuing employment, but even if not selected, do you wish and hope for the best for your might-have-been employer. If they were good enough to work for, aren't they good enough to wish the best for?
They know that they will be memorable based on how they look and act. Beyond their costume, they know that what they say how they act, will leave a lasting impression.
They know that the more doors they knock on, the more treats they will get, and while it may not always be something they like, eventually they will get their favorite treat. Not only does persistence pay off but also….
When they get back home they sort their candy to eat now, save for later or share with others. Persistence will yield more results, some good, some great and some not for you. The more opportunities you uncover the more hits and the more great leads to share with others in your network. Do you know the favorite treats (job goals) of those in your network?
They have a great attitude and have fun. We hope you will do the same. As the saying goes, the joy is in the journey.
Todd Sloane MS Ed., is a Career Services Advisor at RochesterWorks! His mission to help his clients to live their ideal lifestyle, personally and professionally, by implementing practical proven strategies that work.


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We asked readers of the Recipe Box blog to identify the kitchen item pictured. Here are some of the guesses:
Jar opener
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Salad spinner
It is the Handy Chopper by Sharper Image and sells for $7.99 at Marshalls. This week's randomly selected winner is Kathy M.
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Clinton Shoots For Gun Checks
The new national policy, Clinton said, should be: "No background check, no gun. No exceptions." The National Rifle Association called his proposal a "public relations stunt" and said the federal government is not enforcing existing gun control laws.
In his weekly radio address, Clinton said the 1994 Brady law's requirement for background checks meant to bar felons from owning guns now should include gun-show sales by unlicensed collectors and private hobbyists.
Such sellers make up one-quarter or more of gun-show vendors, leaving the current exemption a loophole "wide enough that criminals reach right through it, grabbing, collectively, thousands of firearms that disappear without a trace," Clinton said.
His proposed legislation, slated to be introduced by Rep. Rod R. Blagojevich, D-Ill., and Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., would also broaden the legal definition of gun shows to include flea markets and any other venue where two or more people are engaged in the sale of at least 50 firearms.
The Clinton administration also called for federal registration of all gun show promoters and for extending federal record-keeping requirements to unlicensed firearms vendors.
The collection of information from these vendors would be "strictly limited" to data about the guns not the buyers or sellers so that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms could trace arms sold at gun shows if they turn up at a crime scene, said Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder.
According to the Gun Show Calendar, a periodical, 4,442 gun shows were advertised around the country last year. The highest number, 472, were in Texas. The National Association of Arms Shows says these weekend markets draw up to 5,000 people per show with admission fees starting at $5.
Clinton called for the legislation after recommendations by the Treasury and Justice departments, which jointly surveyed over 300 recent ATF investigations involving 54,000 firearms linked somehow to gun shows.
Almost half of the show-related investigations involved felons buying or selling firearms, and in more than a third of the investigations, the firearms in question were known to have been used in subsequent crimes.
"It shows conclusively that gun shows are a forum for gun traffickers, a cash-and-carry convenience store for weapons used to maim and kill," Clinton said.
The NRA criticized Clinton's plan as just another whack at gun owners, and said the federal government is not prosecuting felons who are identified under the existing Brady bill provisions.
"This is public relations masquerading as substance," said Wayne R. LaPierre Jr., NRA chief executive officer. "It' hollow and it means nothing to felons on the streets. This is an attempt to put the federal government on the backs of more people."
NRA lobbyist James Baker said in the last two years there have been only four prosecutions of illegal dealings at gun shows.
"If they know about them, why aren't they arresting them?" he asked. "There is no reason to pass one more law that the Clinton administration has no intention of enforcing."
Jim Johnson, Treasury undersecretary for enforcement, countered that Clinton's proposed budget for fiscal 2000 includes nearly $24 million for additional ATF enforcement, including the hiring of 120 new ATF agents to support investigations at gun shows.
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One Oregonian who will pay close attention to U.S. Rep. David Wu's fundraising figures this quarter is former state Rep. Greg Macpherson, a Democrat from Lake Oswego.
Though Macpherson lives in Oregon's 5th Congressional District, the redistricting of Oregon's congressional boundaries this year could move him into Oregon's 1st Congressional District, Wu's turf.
If that happens, Macpherson could be a potential challenger to Wu, whose re-electability remains in question following a dizzying string of revelations in recent weeks. That is, unless, Wu's fundraising figures from the first quarter of 2011 scare off any potential Democratic primary opponents.
"I haven't ruled anything out," Macpherson tells WW. "I look at opportunities where I think I could have an impact on the well-being of the state."
In 2008, Macpherson ran unsuccessfully for Oregon attorney general against John Kroger. He served in the Oregon House from 2003 to 2009 and currently works as a lawyer at Stoel Rives.


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Cop Killer's Supporters: You Was a Cool Nigga! F*ck the Police
On Friday mornign Cincinnati police officer Sonny Kim was killed in a shootout.
Kim was an immigrant to the United States from South Korea.
Kim was a husband and the father of three, a martial arts instructor. (Cincinnati.com)
It was the first time a Cincinnati officer was killed in the line of duty since 2000.
Supporters remembered Officer Kim this weekend.
Via LiveLeak:
Suspect Trepierre Hummons was also killed in the shootout with police. He wrote a good-bye message online before the shooting.
We've lost a brave member of the Cincinnati Police Dept in the line of duty. A heartbreaking reminder of the courage of our first responders
— P.G. Sittenfeld (@PGSittenfeld) June 19, 2015
Trepierre's friends cheered the shooting.
Rest up Trepierre Hummons you was a cool nigga! #FUCKTHEPOLICE! #T3ink.
— LAPIERRE & THA DIVAZ (@T3INK) June 19, 2015
The family was SHOCKED that their rapper son was killed by police despite is lengthy police record.
Trepierre had a police record that included, armed robbery, burglary and sexual assault.
On Friday family members interrupted a prayer vigil for Officer Sonny Kim.
Via Twitchy:
Family members of Trepierre Hummons were in a confrontation with police outside tonight's vigil. They have now left the scene. @Enquirer
— Cameron Knight (@ckpj99) June 19, 2015
Trepierre wrote a good-bye message on Facebook, called 911 on himself, then shot Officer Kim when he responded to the call.
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Dakota Johnson Covers 'Vogue Spain' in a Bedazzled Bodysuit!
Dakota Johnson hides partially behind a door while wearing a bedazzled bodysuit for the cover of Vogue Spain's October 2017 issue, on newsstands September 19.
Here is what the 27-year-old Fifty Shades actress had to share with the mag:
On being exposed to the public's opinion: "It's like an incessant mosquito noise. Very weird. People feeling the need not only to judge everyone all the time but also to pronounce themselves on it, it's extremely boring. A waste of energy and time."
On Gucci designer Alessandro Michele: "We met a couple of times and we became friends. I love his designs, I feel great in his clothes and I think we just like each other."
On producing: "I read a lot, and I have found many articles and books that I'd like to turn into films. My interests are very specific, and I want to see certain women acting on screen and drawing attention to some particular issues."
For more from Dakota, visit Vogue.es!


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For years, the art of applying makeup for black women had remained undiscovered by women of color. However, that was because they didn't get enough resources to teach them. Today, that is no longer the case. Black women can easily access makeup tips for black women to learn how to use their makeup right from experts. So, if you're looking for makeup tips for black women, you've stumbled on the right page.
Here are some makeup tips for black women from the best makeup artists around:
1. Most lists of makeup tips for black women emphasize on the need to choose the right foundation. There are two things which you need to keep in mind while selecting your foundation: your skin type and your undertones.
2. Go light with your makeup. Makeup tips for black women stress that women of color should try to look natural when they apply makeup. Remember – it's makeup not war paint.
3. Blending is a must for every cosmetic you use. Whether you're applying eye shadow or foundation, making sure that it is seamless will give your makeup the perfect look it deserves.
4. Another point makeup tips for black women agree on is that special makeup for colored women is always a better option. Makeup manufacturers who specialize in producing cosmetics for black women know exactly what your skin needs.
5. Though black women's skin defies aging, spots are one thing mature skin will show. In that case, one of the important makeup tips for black women older women need to know of is to use concealer by day and fight those spots with creams by night.
6. Makeup artists love the fact that black women have luscious lips. However, in their lists of makeup tips for black women, they prefer that women of color use gloss rather than lipstick. Yet if women want to emphasize on their other facial features, experts suggest that they choose lipstick shades that complement their undertones.
7. Speaking of lips, all makeup tips for black women point out that black women should never line their lips in black. This will look unattractive and will not enhance your lips as well as proper lip liner.
8. Another product experts prefer using on black women is the bronzer. Blush is great, but bronze on African American cheekbones is a better option.
Keep these expert makeup tips for black women in mind and you will have a beautiful ebony face to die for!
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PICTOU – A Halifax woman appeared in Pictou Provincial Court on Monday in regards to a Christmas Day incident in Little Harbour.
Samantha Marie Francis, 26, is charged with one count of assault with a weapon, namely a vehicle, as well as operating a vehicle in a dangerous manner and failure to stop at the scene of an accident. One count of assault was withdrawn by the Crown with Francis entering guilty pleas for the other two matters.
She will return to provincial court August 10 for her sentencing.


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Five subway lines, the only way to traverse traffic-choked Caracas quickly, are covered in shampoo ads and political reminders.
At the Los Roques airport departure lounge, even a stream of turboprops arriving from the mainland isn't enough to distract fishermen from their task of netting bait.
The Caracas airport is a world unto itself, a sealed colony of hotels and restaurants where baggage handlers offer the best black-market exchange rate in the country.
Windsurfers, divers, anglers, and just plain loafers enjoy sunset drinks amid beached fishing boats on Los Roques.
Venezuelans rate themselves among the happiest people on earth. A contagious smile and an arepa, or corncake, griddle-fried and stuffed any number of ways, is enough to spread the cheer.
Caracas empties out at night. The murder rate is at least 26 times that of New York City.
After 26 years as a painter working on the same street-corner in the Sabana Grande neighborhood, this former boxer has tough hands and plenty of memories.
Young men in an Caracas auto repair shop are focused on the "Bolivarian Revolution" of Hugo Chavezand the ever-watchful Che Guevara.
In western Venezuela, opposition to Chavez runs deep amid Biblical fears of hunger, plauges, kidnapping, death, lies, and trickery.
Venezuela is where the Andes meet the Caribbean amid fog and tropical foliage. Jeeps serve as public buses on the steep roads.
Slums belt much of Caracas, but Mt. Avila's designation as a parkand the sheerness of its slopesmean untouched forest lies next to urban density.
Even the skyscrapers built during the oil boom years of the 1960s and '70s shrink against the foreground of Mt. Avila in downtown Caracas.


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Your 30s are typically a time for settling down, after using your 20s to take risks and find yourself.Many 30-somethings are busy raising a family and rising through the hierarchy at work.
Those who have already been through that decade say that as their responsibilities accumulated, it became easier to neglect relationships and ignore opportunities that they would never get again.
Clothes play a very important role in making you look fashionable. But if not worn correctly, I have found for you some mistakes women make and they transform from a fashion diva to fashion disaster. These mistakes might not be a conscious move by few of us. So women I have pointed mistakes you should never make.
- Too much black
We all know black can be elegant in many occasions but as you get colder black color doesn't do you any favors. As we age our skin tends to get whiter and our hair starts graying as well. Wearing black when your skin is pale can create a strong contrast which will draw unwanted attention to your flaws, the wrinkles, dark spots and blemishes.
This goes for the hair color as well, black hair color doesn't work so well on a pale ten. Dye your hair in a warm shade of brown, it will compliment your skin and make you look 5 years younger. This doesn't mean you're forbidden to wear black, just make sure you spice it up with a colorful accessory, like a scarf or a cool necklace.
2. Oversize Cloth
If you're trying to cover your hips, arms or stomach underneath a shapeless blazer, you're actually making yourself look heavier.When ever you get into trial room, take two sizes and then just relax yourself. Clothes are to mean to fit in perfectly always. So buy what fits in properly to a good extend, and then get the garment tailored according to your size. Don't cry for price as if the dress fits in properly and gets you complements then you will wear it more and will ultimately become value for money.
3. Wearing skirts
Just because you're getting older it doesn't mean that you need to forget about short skirts, if you have the legs for it why hide them behind a long skirt. Just remember than mid-calf skirts are most appropriate for young girls so forget the undefined, clumsy lengths. Choose a knee length or above the knee and you'll see how much better you'll look.
4. You've Got Your Bra on the Wrong Hook
The wrong-size bra makes you look shorter, older and heavier,The clasp should be on the loosest hook to begin with and made tighter as the bra stretches over time. "When it is on the tightest hook—that's when you know you need a new bra," says Becker. Since breast size fluctuates—due to weight gain, weight loss and hormonal changes—Becker suggests going for a fitting once a year and buying a new bra every six to eight months.
5. Don't go shopping with the wrong person
Who you go shopping with can make a big difference so choose your shopping partner wisely. You need someone you can rely on to tell you the truth and someone who has a good taste as well.
6. Too Stretchable jeans
Stretch denim is a gift to women who shop for both comfort and style, but erring on the side of too much comfort can lead to lumpiness. On the care label, you'll see Lycra, spandex or elastane. The right jeans will follow your silhouette, have enough stretch so that your legs won't look as if they're fighting to break free from your pants.
7. Scarves
If you think a silk scarf around the neck is a cool accessory we should remind you that it's not the 60ties and you're not a flight attendant. Instead of tying a scarf around your neck you can tie it around your bag handle and spice your look up with an oversized brooch or a cool looking necklace. The compliments will start piling up pretty soon, you'll see.
I hope you all enjoying my blog and share and drop your comment 🙂 live healthy and keep healthy 🙂


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Fine Time For A Migraine - The Story of the Irish Open 2018
14 Feb 2018 at 21:27 | Posted in: General | Views: 1006 | Comments: 0
Thursday: Ive gone to bed early to try and shake a cold as well as getting ready for the 4 am start. As the night goes on, I feel myself getting worse and by 1.30am, Im awake with a medicine chaser. If this had been at home, I wouldnt have gone, but this is Dublin. Its the second Irish Open and Ive paid upfront. Before I know it, I've ran over a hare who ran out in front of the car and Im in the departure lounge at Stansted waiting for Adam and Tony. Breakfast at the Windmill bar is actually pretty good and as the sun rises, we go through check in, heading to another minigolf event. Although the seats on Ryanair are not comfortable for the six foot plus man, were only there for an hour. After dropping our bags off at the hostel, we head back to Dundrum Shopping Centre to the south of Dublin, home of the Rainforest Adventure Golf Course.
Thursday: Ive gone to bed early to try and shake a cold as well as getting ready for the 4 am start. As the night goes on, I feel myself getting worse and by 1.30am, Im awake with a medicine chaser. If this had been at home, I wouldnt have gone, but this is Dublin. Its the second Irish Open and Ive paid upfront. Before I know it, Im in the departure lounge at Stansted waiting for Adam and Tony. Breakfast at the Windmill bar is actually pretty good and as the sun rises, we go through check in, heading to another minigolf event. Although the seats on Ryanair are not comfortable for the six foot plus man, were only there for an hour. After dropping our bags off at the hostel, we head back to Dundrum Shopping Centre to the south of Dublin, home of the Rainforest Adventure Golf Course.
The welcome is always friendly and I immediately start recognising staff from last year. Its great they recognise us too. Were straight into practice with notes from twelve months before in hand, so much of today will be remembering the lines and seeing if there is any alternates. My time clock is all over the place so by the time I feel the need to eat lunch, its nearly dinner. I spot a couple of Irish entrants who are keen to learn from us. Michael had dressed fairly smart compared to our sportswear but had already bought a putter and a couple of balls to boot. A couple of guys who played last time, Niall and Sean, are also down for a few hours. By 6 pm, weve done enough so its time to get to the room. As I have booked separately from the Kellys, were in different rooms. The Canadian girl on reception must recognise charm when she sees it as Im upgraded to an eight bed dorm with free breakfast.
We take a trip out to a favourite bar from 2017, Against The Grain. My good fortune streak continues with my food coming to the table in under five minutes while the Kellys food goes to another table. Adam takes me down in a first to five games of Connect Four. Im blaming this bug I seem to have developed. ATG has lost none of its appeal and with it almost being classed as a local pub, weve struck oil on location. At the end of the night, I get back to the dorm. I have it all to myself. Adam and Tony get to meet their roommate, a Polish sleeping beauty.
Friday: I have slept well in my quiet room. I have no one else to blame for the smells other than me. With my complimentary food inside me as well as streaming nose, were on the Luas to the course. Tonight is a reception for the participants, with free beer and food. Time to get in some serious scoring. Dublin is, on average, the lowest scoring course we play. This does NOT translate into meaning the course is easy, so dont listen to the uninitiated. Only four holes draw the ball into the cup (compared to seven on the Hastings Pirate), three of them are on the pipe holes. You have to putt well, especially in the heat of battle where everyone is making shots. Its the pressure that builds here which is like nothing Ive felt before in a tournament. I try and practice with as many people as I can, most of the British and also Milan from the Czech Republic. My scores are good, eight rounds straight without anything worse than 28. I chat with one of the Irish competitors, Lee. I entered this but thought it was a piss take. And then you guys turned up. Not the first time Ive heard this reaction about professional minigolf.
At the reception, the introductions from Ross and Sean are supplemented with pizzas, wedges, sausages and some sort suicide chicken wings. This is where you dont mind how quick the beer goes down being free, just to get the taste of the wings off my tongue. Theyre nice. Just too hot for me. I return to my room in the early, incredulously finding it empty bar my luggage. Surely someone is going to stay with me during my stop. We head to a couple of bars at the top of the road in Camden Street, Devitts in particular being a particular gem. Im still not feeling great but I am on holiday and determined to at least try and enjoy myself. We dont stay out overly late, resisting the lure of ATG, despite Tony mentioning it every five minutes. Back in my room, yes. Its still just me.
Saturday: Day of the tournament start. Oooh, I dont feel well. The cold is developing into something a little stronger and is starting to really affect me. I jump into the shower, hoping that might shift the lurgy. Its a bit more serious today. As well as the Irish Open title, there is a little bit of side action between Great Britain and the Czech Republic. Looking at the sides, its going to be very close. My day one partner is Dylan, who took part last year. He bares more than a passing resemblance to England cricketer, Jonny Bairstow. We begin and Im not feeling it. What a time for illness. Whatever happens, Im not dropping out. I didnt come this far just to watch, I mutter. I make a steady start with a 32 but as the round goes on, I get a migraine, which would last almost the entire day. I try and be encouraging as I can to Dylan. He doesnt have the best of opening rounds but does improve significantly. Something we found really engaging about the Irish players is their willingness to learn the more experienced overseas travellers. At times, I almost feel as if Im just a coach now. It hurts to focus.
After round two, I go to the chemist for paracetamol. The sunlight is piercing so for an indoor tournament, Im donning shades. I try and keep myself to myself but some people dont see it. Did you see (insert name of any pot stirrer) said this FOR CHRISTS SAKE, WHO CARES!!!! Ive come away from all of that to play minigolf and yet the hot topic is back home. Minigolf is fun but I wish the advocates would practice this more often. Ive become extremely irritable with this migraine and I need my own space. I go outside where I can to get air as it is warm in the building. For me, it is important to not get tetchy on the course with Dylan as I want him to do his absolute best. I just want to finish the day. Dylan performs very well, going level par from round two to five. Technically, he only needs to alter a few things but his recovery shots are great. I battle through round three but start playing well in the final two rounds of the day, eventually hitting a blue number. The pain sat behind my eyes is real and I know Im too far behind for prizes on the Sunday. Success right now would be for me to go out for food later.
Back off to the hostel, I find the bags for two people in my private eight bed suite. So Ill be sharing at least. We head off to the river to one of our haunts of last year, Sweetmans brewery. The walk is quite windswept and does a fine job of shifting the migraine. I order what I had last year, a Beef and Guinness pie. The food is stunning awesome, I probably didnt need the brie wedges to start with. From there, we head to another bar Tony wants to check out. By now, the events of the day are starting to get the better of me so after a quick drink, I return to the hostel, hopeful of who my two roommates would be.
Sunday: Whilst sitting on the toilet at 5.50am, my roommates return from a night out. Im 43, slightly portly in places and stood in my underwear. They are female, mid twenties and apologetic. No worries, ladies. Nice to meet you. Ill be off early. With that, we all went to our own beds. This brief encounter was probably not what Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson had in mind. Leaving my future ex-wives to sleep, I take my bags to the Kellys room as I am checking out today while they are staying on until Monday.
Im feeling much better today. The migraine and the cold subsided enough. My plan today is to treat it like a fresh start, just to show that Im still a fighter. First thing I notice is Dylan hasnt returned. Even his friends arent sure where he is (he would later turn up around three hours after he stated he would even a local cant resist the sirens call of the Dublin bars). My playing partner to start with is Owen Johnson but half way through the opening round, he retired from the event and I was joined by his dad, Paul. Paul has been playing very well over the weekend. Its the best Ive seen him play. My putting isnt bad, I just leave a number of putts around six inches to a foot short. Its the story of my weekend.
Going into the final round, the fight between the British and Czech teams is exceptionally close, just a handful of shots in it. I join Zdenek for round eight, which will be a battle for the wooden spoon in the international class. Neither of us play that well without dropping a shot. In the end, its me dusting down a spot on the mantelpiece for my spoon but Great Britain win the inaugural Pifko Cup, beating the Czechs by four. The scores have improved from last year, surely come next year, they cant improve. The standard is insane. By the end, the Irish guys are the real stars. They have shown so much potential and enthusiasm so I stay on after the event to chat with them and even play a round with Rob. I also arrange to send some minigolf balls in the post.
Once again, like last year, we say our goodbyes. It is sad to leave. We encamp ourselves here for four days and we become the shopping centre. I know most of the layout of the third floor. I end my stay in Devitts for a quick beer and food before getting the plane home. One day, the Irish Open is going to be one of the absolute must visit tournaments in the world. It needs support but it also needs promotion earlier and ready to hand information. Announcing the event a fortnight before Christmas isnt enough time to gather people for Dublin. It was a challenge to get flights, accommodation, spending money and other extras sorted for an event held during a home weekend in the Six Nations rugby but I have the freedom to do so. Many others struggle, especially those with families. Give this event more notice, at least four to six months, and there will be a stellar field. A couple of the Irish guys had tickets for the rugby so had to leave after round three. If they had known it would have taken until 5 pm on the Saturday, they wouldnt have played. The event itself and the hospitality is fantastic and once again, I have made new friends in another corner of the earth. The Irish participants really got why we do this and seem determined to get the Irish Minigolf Association off of the ground. Please just look upon this last paragraph as feedback. I really want this tournament to be the highlight of my year. Every year. Just give us, the players, plenty of time to arrange to get there.
Pictured are (L-R) Sean Kelly, Matthew O'Donovan, Marion Homer, Steve Lovell, Niall Gibbons and Michael Peirce
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There's a ton of cloud computing hubbub this week as Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Oracle all host gala events to strut their respective visions. So it's telling that most of the buzz centers on what exactly, Larry Ellison will tweet some time tomorrow. And, I don't think the interest has much to do with cloud.
Yes, the Oracle CEO has come to Twitter. Or at least he or a factotum set up a Twitter account on Monday, as disclosed at an AllThingsD conference.
The stats thus far: nearly 12,000 followers, 0 tweets. Oh, and 1 Fake Larry Ellison twitter account.
I'm trying to add myself to favorites, how do I do that?
— Larry Ellison (@TheFakeLarry) April 21, 2010
There's tons of anticipation among the media, yours truly included. Whatever you feel about the guy, when he's on his game, Ellison is one of the more engaging and most hilarious of the tech titans. With Ellison's vast fortune, yachts, airplanes, movie cameos, the guy transcends tech.
Here's @larryellison – and the world awaits his first tweet. #fingerscrossedforbillgatesVSellisonrichestguyintheworldtweetrumble
— Ashlee Vance (@valleyhack) June 5, 2012
Here's my bet for his first tweet (hat tip to Kevin McLaughlin):
I might be a sailing expert, but I'm not going to go out of my way to keep Itanium afloat.
So, why is Ellison on the verge of tweeting now?
Well, there's clearly pent-up demand among at least 12,000 people for some online Larryisms. Or maybe because Oracle and its rivals are paying big bucks for social network analytics capabilities to help them plumb the collective wisdom of Facebook(s fb) and Twitter so even pretending to care about social networking can be a bonus. Or maybe it's because his daughter prefers Twitter to Oracle so he needs to up his cool quotient.
Whatever, we'll be waiting and watching.


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Trusting God and being patient for His best
Do you trust God to deliver in the areas you have need? He most certainly is to be trusted! Sometimes circumstances make it seem like He didn't come through on His promises (in your timing) or you were surprised by the way He answered. In this article, we will take a deep dive into trusting God without fear and believing for God's best when we pray.
Managing Expectations
As a loving Father, He always has the son or daughter's best interests at heart. The trouble is when we apply Mark 11:24 in our lives, sometimes we have ideas of how the answer to our prayer should come about. False expectations can result in wounding from the disappointment of not seeing your specific prayer come to pass fast enough or the way in which you expected. In this context, we must always approach God with a contrite heart in the practice of petition, expecting God's best for us in any given situation and trusting He has our best interests covered.
"But I really want that house!"
A recent, classic example of this was when my wife and I believed the Lord for a house. We had saved enough for a down payment, our application was made and I had set my heart on a specific house I saw. I really believed God was going to let me have it. Well, the bottom line is this; the house I really wanted didn't end up happening. I was set on the idea of the Lord giving us this house and I knew He was able to; I didn't doubt it for one minute. I found myself most disappointed when the news broke about the house going to another couple. After getting quiet before the Lord, I remonstrated and made it clear I wasn't a happy camper about this disappointing news. After some time, He spoke to me and asked, "What was wrong with that house?" I answered there was nothing wrong with it. (I wanted to move our stuff in it right away!) Again, he asked, "What's wrong with that house?" After some time, He made it clear to me that there was plenty wrong with the house as it was not my heart's desire (based on what I'd prayed for in the past.)
I was selling myself short when I compared this house to the list of my heart's desire, and there were several items missing off the list! To cut a long story short, I came to my senses and let it go knowing that God had a better plan. The point is that we can compromise God's perfect choice for us by settling for what is 'good.' Someone once said that "Good is the enemy of best," and that is very valuable insight. We have to be patient AND trust God in order for his perfect choice to manifest. That, my friends, is the difficult part as we can get antsy in the waiting period prior to the manifestation of what we've prayed for. The scripture clearly states that it was through "faith and patience" that Abraham inherited the promise, not through faith alone (Hebrews 6:12-13).
Only three weeks later, the Lord opened up an opportunity to purchase an incredible home that fulfilled literally every desire of our hearts (and then some). We had distinct favor in the purchasing process with the seller, lender and so on. God made it clear that this was His perfect choice for us and His choice far surpassed the house I was originally hung up on. I have total peace today as I write this article in the home that God prepared for us! He is such an awesome, majestic, kind and wonderful God! He knows what's best for us even when we don't. Remember, the Father always has our best interests at heart and knows His children intimately.
The Choice between the Good, Acceptable and Perfect Will
The Bible talks of the good, acceptable and perfect will of God (Romans 12:2). We should always want God's perfect will for our lives in every area as He knows what's best for us! The right kind of prayer is to allow Him to do His perfect will in every area of our life where a decision is needed. Sometimes we proceed presumptively and settle for His acceptable will but we should not be hasty and always seek Him (and wait) for His best. The key is not being frustrated as God's perfect will involves what's best for all involved from His perspective, not just from yours.
Seven Steps to Petitioning God
- Trust in the Father's goodness knowing He will provide for you (Romans 12:3, Philippians 4:19, James 1:17).
- Meditate on the scriptures that pertain specifically to what you're believing for and have scriptures to back it up (Romans 10:17, Jeremiah 29:11, Joshua 1:8).
- Build up your faith in your area of need (Hebrews 11:6, Jude 1:20).
- Check your heart for sin issues or condemnation (1st John 1:9), and make sure you are confident when you pray (1st John 5:14-16).
- Come boldly to the throne of Grace (Hebrews 4:16).
- Expect to receive your answer when you pray (Mark 11:24) not in the sweet by and by.
- Continually thank the Father for what He has already granted you until you see the manifestation (Hebrews 11:1, Philippians 4:6).
Let's say you have a need for a motor vehicle, and you want a specific vehicle, color, speed, and engine. That is what you've set your heart on; can God provide for this? Certainly He can. The best way to pray however is like this:
"Lord, you know I have a need for a motor vehicle, and you know my heart better than anyone. This is the kind of vehicle I would like (description)….but I want your perfect choice for me. Your word says that you will meet my needs in Philippians 4:19, so right now I believe I receive your perfect will for a vehicle, in Jesus name and I will continue to thank you until the day it manifests, amen."
Confidence is Key
When you pray this way, you can be confident that God's perfect choice for you will be manifest in His timing and His way. The how and the when is up to Him, not you. He knows deep down what you really like and your personal taste. You might be praying for one specific thing, but God has something better lined up and when you pray His perfect will, you keep the door open for Him to move in a way that surpasses even your highest expectations. In conjunction with this, I would ask you to read my article entitled, "Praying Outside of God's Promises" which covers the many facets of prayer and why we sometimes fail to receive.
It's time to be real; we are not practicing some esoteric faith understood by a select few but an exoteric one. We are in the real world, with real problems and real issues which is why it's paramount that we know how to pray for God's best, being confident that we receive and having the patience to see it manifest. I am excited to hear of your testimonies in the coming months concerning God's perfect choice in prayer for you!
|Senior Pastor Carl Joseph desires to see God move in power in the downtown Denver area. He is joined in the ministry by his wife, Amy. In his spare time, he rides his motorcycle and plays golf.
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Fifty years ago tomorrow, I was in an Omaha hospital, fighting for my life. I was born with a gastro-intestinal defect—pyloric stenosis. My family thought I would die. I was baptized in the hospital and given extreme unction.
Tomorrow, we remember the murder of the 35th President of these United States.
I was born one month before President John F. Kennedy was murdered. On the street in this photograph. Elm Street. Dealey Plaza. Dallas. Most Americans, even if they've never been to Texas, have been to Dealey Plaza many times over courtesy of the Zapruder film.
A few years back, my work took me in early June to downtown Dallas. I stayed in the famous Magnolia Hotel. It was unseasonably hot, even for Texas. When I arrived in the afternoon, I determined that I would walk the eight blocks or so to this busy and strangely macabre site where our country was altered forever.
Dealey Plaza is virtually unchanged since that awful November morning 50 years ago. Perhaps this is by design of Dallas city government and zoning officers. I felt quiet and a tad eerie as I sat on a bench on the grassy knoll, within the shadow of the old Texas Book Depository building, now housing the Sixth Floor Museum.
It is a small area, this plaza. On the pavement of Elm Street, there are "X's" painted in the center of the road. Two of them. One for the shot that wounded both the President and Governor John Connelly. And one for the shot that took from America her Commander-in-Chief. And her innocence.
The day after my visit to the Plaza, I joined some colleagues for dinner. We drove through Dealey Plaza, right on Elm Street.
Right over the spot where the 35th President of the United States was assassinated.
It was entirely pragmatic. We were not tourists. Elm was the shortest route to get to our restaurant. But it felt wrong. Like playing soccer in St. Peter's Basilica. The area is not sectioned off, bollards guarding the motorcade route against profanation by cars, trucks and buses. It's a regular thoroughfare, used every day. And yet it is sacred.
Life and death take place in the ordinary and the mundane. This is the rule. What kinds of normal places have you been to that have been made special by either tragic or heroic events?