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along with the Best And Worst Films of the year list, our other annual tradition here at Filmed But Not Forgotten is the handing out of the FBNF Awards. so, lets get to it....
BEST FILM: A Separation
BEST PERFORMANCE (male): Woody Harrelson (Rampart)
i know most people haven't even heard of this film, let alone seen it. and i wasn't expecting woody to get any oscar recognition. but, i can at least do my part in recognizing his great performance... he did get an independent spirit nomination.
BEST PERFORMANCE (female): Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
i know, it's the obvious answer. but sometimes that's the right one, as is the case here. she really was incredible in the role!
BEST GROUP PERFORMANCE: A Separation
i was not familiar with the male and female actors in the film. but wow! the entire cast really is superb! just another reason A Separation is the best film of the year.
LEAST AMOUNT OF STORY: Battle L.A.
the movie starts with the aliens already attacking and the film is pretty much just about a group of soldiers fighting their way through L.A. very little back story. not much info about the alieans. just a Battle L.A. - and you want to know the crazy part. i didn't hate it.
BEST USE OF A MIRROR: Carnage
pretty much the entire film takes place in an apartment and the main room has a very prominent mirror in it. while this might scare some film makers, director, roman polanski uses it. and not just one or two shots either. polanski goes to the mirror many times.
BEST SCORE: Contagion
there were a bunch of really good scores this year, but for me, watching Contagion and how the score added such great dramatic value to the film, i really liked it... yes, i understand that there is a school of thought that says that if a score is really good than it shouldn't be noticed. well, that is true sometimes. but in this case it really worked with the film that soderbergh was creating.
BEST FILM WITH AN ANGRY BIRDS CONNECTION/REFERENCE: Horrible Bosses
there were two films up for this award. the first was Rio - which is so connected to angry birds that the latest angry birds game - released in conjunction with the film - was angry birds rio. as for Horrible Bosses, there is a scene in which charlie day's character is waiting in car and playing angry birds... and to put it simply, Horrible Bosses was funny and Rio was not good!
the awrds are ...
WORST TRAILER (AS COMPARED TO MOVIE): Larry Crowne
this award might seem a little confusing. what do i mean by 'worst trailer (as compared to the movie)'? what i mean is that the trailer - which i saw many, many, many times leading up to the films release, i could have sworn that tom hank's character, larry crowne, was a little mentally slow. now, when i finally watched the film, that wasn't the case at all.... am i the only one who thought that by watching the trailer?
OSCAR IS WAY TOO EXCITED ABOUT: The Help
i'm not saying it was a bad film. But, lets get real here folks! a best picture and three actress nominations (one lead and two supporting). it wasn't that good.
when you got films like The Ides Of March, Shame, Drive, Girl With The Dragon Tattoo all missing out on a 'best picture' spot and The Help getting one - something just isn't right there.
And as for the actress noms: where is carey mulligan's nomination (Drive, but even more so, Shame)? or jessica chastain's (The Tree Of Life)? or how about either, or both, leila hatami and sareh bayat (A Separation). foreign film actors have been nominated before and both those women were up there on the same level as meryl streep this year with their performances.
WELL DONE OSCAR: nominations for Tree Of Life/terrence malick and Midnight In Paris/woody allen
so, in the above award i told oscar where they went so very wrong. but here is what they got right and what happily surprised me a little as well. Tree Of Life is such a different film there is always the chance that oscar just wont get it. so, i was happy to see that they did get it and that they gave it two top award nominations (picture & director).
as for Midnight In Paris. i wasn't sure oscar would remember this one when it came time to hand out the nominations. and i thought that if they did they would give it a screenplay nod only. so when i saw it come up in both the best picture and directors sections i was very happy!
BEST BIKINI: Just Go With It
if you have seen the movie or at least the trailer, than you know exactly what i am talking about
BEST COMEDY: The Trip
it was a pretty week year for comedies. but The Trip was one of the few good ones - and the best of those!
BEST SEQUEL: Mission Impossible 4
it looked like Harry Potter 7 Part 2 was gonna take this award. That was, until i watched MI4.
WORST MOVIE WITH A NUMBER IN THE TITLE: I Am Number 4
BEST ROMANTIC DRAMA: Like Crazy
there was junk like One Day that was predictable and uninteresting and manipulative. and then there was Like Crazy that was improvisational, and genuine and a good film.
BEST TITLE: Cowboys And Aliens
i didn't see the movie and everyone i know thought the title was ridiculous, but i like that about it!
BEST COMIC BOOK/SUPERHERO MOVIE: X-Men: First Class
this award came down to 'First Class' and Thor. and i felt that X-Men was the one i enjoyed a bit more.
BEST "friends with benefits" MOVIE: No Strings Attached
in 1997 we had two volcano movies (Dante's Peak & Volcano). in 1998 we got two "meteor is going to hit the earth movies (Armageddon & Deep Impact) and two WWII movies (Saving Private Ryan & The Thin Red Line).
in 2011 we got two "friends with benefits" movies (No Strings Attached & Friends With Benefits). although, neither one was great, i gotta say that i preferred No Strings Attached.
BEST KICK-ASS CHICK MOVIE: Hannah
the 'solo dude kicking ass' genre is one we have seen for years and years, but the 'solo chick kicking ass' genre seems to have come into its own more recently. just a few weeks ago we got the release of Haywire and last year we had Colombiana and Hannah throw their hats into the ring.
and with those two films up for the award, it was very easy one to pick a winner. Colombiana kicked ass, but the film was not good. as for Hannah, this one made my honorable mention list for the year, so you do the math.
BEST ANIMATED MOVIE: Rango
it wasn't a great year for animation, but Rango was great.
BEST MOVIE WITH AN ACTOR FROM "The Office": HESHER
and the nominees were: Something Barrowed (john krasinski 'jim'), A Little Help (jenna fisher 'pam'), Terri (creed bratton 'creed'), Hesher (rainn wilson 'dwight') ... besides the mediocrity that was Something Barrowed, i didn't dislike any of the three other films, and Terri is one i would recommend. but Hesher made the honorable mentions list and at one point had a spot on the best of the year list, so it had to win this award.
WORST COMIC BOOK/SUPERHERO MOVIE: The Green Lantern
The Green Hornet was average, Captain America wasn't great, but The Green Lantern wasn't just a bad comic book movie - it was one of the worst films of the year!
BEST FILM: Greenberg
BEST ACTRESS: Annette Bening
bening is a beautiful and talented actress that seems to have embraced getting older. she is so comfortable in her skin and with who she is and that radiates through her performances. and she had a great year: she was great in The Kids Are Alright, but she was also wonderful in the little seen film Mother And Child (with naomi watts and samuel l. jackson).
BEST 3D: Toy Story 3 & Piranha 3D
- in a year where it seemed like every second movie was being released in 3D, most of them were doing it post production and it either looked bad or wasn't worth the effort. Toy Story 3 and Piranha 3D are two films that did it right. Toy Story 3 was a completely great and full 3D experience and Piranha 3D used the good 3D to enhance the campy, b-movie (have you ever seen two naked girls swimming under a boat and a big piranha burp up a bitten off penis in 3D. well, thanks to this film, i can say i have).
WORST CHEMISTRY: jennifer lopez & Alex O'Loughlin in The Back-Up Plan
- the crappy script didn't help, but these two bring nothing to the table and you end up caring about them and the movie as little as they seem to care about each other.
WORST IMPROVISING: the cast of Grown-Ups
- i like these guys, but in this movie there are a bunch of scenes that feel like the script just said "guys are sitting around talking" and so that is what they do. the problem is that improvising is hard and it takes real acting chops to do it well so that it feels genuine. these guys are all funny guys, but in this film the improving is quite bad and often the least funny moments.
BEST CAST PERFORMANCES: Winters Bones
- lead by a really great performance by young jennifer lawrence, the entire cast of this film is excellent. the film takes you into a world and these actors completely inhabit the characters in it.
BEST MONTAGE: The Other Guys - a night of drinking at the bar
- as the music plays a camera moves through the bar and we see different freeze frame images of will ferrell and mark whalberg over the course of a night of drinking. from them walking in, to ferrell standing on the pool table taking a leak. it's original in its execution and it's funny.
WORST PERFORMANCES BY A PARENT AND CHILD: miley and billy ray cyrus
miley cyrus was trying hard in The Last Song, but that's part of the problem - you see her trying to hard. as for her dad billy ray in The Spy Next Door: it is just a little supporting role, but when you make jackie chan look like a great thespian you know you got a problem.
BEST MOVIE TITLE: Hot Tub Time Machine
even before i saw the film and new it was the best comedy of the year i loved the title
BEST ORIGINAL SONG: Despicable Me - pharrell
no disrespect to the great randy newman and the other best song oscar nominees. but the fact that pharrell's Despicable Me title track didn't even get a nomination is yet another oscar blunder (especially, given that there are only four nominees, which means they have room for another one). this is however, not oscar's biggest mistake this year. that would be....
BIGGEST OSCAR GYP: nothing for Greenberg
not even a screenplay nod. i mean come on! i would have loved to have seen an acting nomination for one, if not both, leads (ben stiller and greta gerwig), but i knew that was pretty unlikely given that the film wasn't very big and the roles not as obvious and flashy as some of the nominees. but, with this new 10 film nominees thing they got going on i was hoping it might sneak in there.
but regardless of all that, i figured a screenplay nomination was an actual possibility. i know that a lot of people didn't get the brilliance of the film and the screenplay, but that still doesn't make it right to not even get one nomination!
WELL DONE OSCAR: Winters Bones actors & Exit Through The Gift Shop
as you know from an earlier award, i think the entire cast of Winter's Bones was excellent - so, to see jennifer lawrence get a best actress nomination and john hawkes pull one in for supporting actor was a very nice surprise.
if you listened to, or read, my best and worst of the year list, you know that i thought this was a really strong year for documentaries and i had four in the top 10. now, three of them didn't get nominations (the biggest surprise/gyp was nothing for the joan rivers doc), but it was really good to se Exit Through The Gift Shop among the five nominees.
BEST FLOP: Green Zone (Budget: $100 million/Gross: $35,053,660)
like most years, there were a lot of big name flops at the box office this year (Prince Of Persia, The Last Airbender, Edge Of Darkness, Knight & Day, Legend Of The Guardians...). films that didn't make back what they cost to produce. but while many of them deserved the what they got, some did not. and the best of those was Green Zone.
like the 2008 fbnf award winner in the category, Body Of Lies, Green Zone is a smart action thriller that just couldn't find its audience and couldn't really be packaged in a simple trailer. however, it has a strong script, direction and performances that lift it above the typical genre fare.
WORST DIRECTING DESCISION: Comic Moments During Final Scene Of Le Concert
the final scene of the film Le Concert is a powerful moment where answers are revealed during a concert performance. the scene inter-cuts the performance with the back story and it is really well done. my only problem with it is that the director, radu mihaileanu, throws in a couple dumb comic gags with other characters in the orchestra, that feel totally out of place.
BEST FILM ABOUT A GROUP OF EX-GOVERNMENT OPERATIVES: Red
with The Losers, The A-Team and Red you had three films released in 2010 that dealt with a group of almost indestructible ex-government operatives now working for themselves to fight against the system they once worked for. while i actually enjoyed all three films. they were all fun and didn't take themselves to seriously... Red was definitely the best of the bunch.
FUNNIEST PERFORMANCE IN AN UNFUNNY MOVIE: Dax Shepard in When In Rome
the only things keeping When In Rome from being a completely average romantic comedy (which it kind of is anyway) are the three supporting actors: dax shapard, will arnett and danny devito. they are the only ones bringing any kind of funny and shepard is great as the narcissistic model.
WELCOME BACK: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1
the first two movies in the series, just like the first two books, were good, but they were also most about setting up the franchise and the mythology. then, starting with the third book and movie, things started to really get good and a little darker and movies 3, 4 and 5 were all great films. then came 6 - maybe the best book in the series but a real disappointment movie wise. however, with The Deathly Hallows part 1 they got back on track and made a really good movie!
BEST NON-ANIMATED KIDS MOVIE: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
i've never read the books and honestly had no intentions or desire to see this film. but, in my quest to make 2010 my most prolific year of film viewing, i ended up watching Diary Of A Wimpy Kid. and it was really good.
BEST RUNNING COMEDIC GAG: The Other Guys - TLC References
this was a tough one. also in the running was the 'how will the bellboy lose his arm from Hot Tub Time Machine' and 'the Aladdin references in She's Out Of My League.' but micheal keaton's TLC references in The Other Guys was just too good not to win. it is funny and wonderfully absurd and the way will ferrell and mark whalberg react to them over the course of the movie is perfect and makes it all that much funnier.
BEST ROMANTIC COMEDY BEST FRIENDS: TIE: Going The Distance & She's Out Of My League
we all know that it is part of the romantic comedy genre to have the funny best friend(s) of the main characters. as always 2010 brought with it a plethora of rom-coms, but when it came down to the funny best friends, these two films stood above the crowd! in She's Out Of My League Jay Baruchel's three best friends are great and in Going The Distance jason sedeikis and charlie day steal the show.
BEST FILM: Inglourious Bastards
WELCOME BACK: robin williams
- last year this award went to woody allen who after an up and down decade brought us the excellent and back-to-form Vicky Christina Barcelona. this year we have robin williams whose last 4 comedies were: Night At The Museum I & II, Licence To Wed and Old Dogs. then this year he stars in a little seen, dark comedy World's Greatest Dad, that shows us he can still step away from the middle of the road and take a chance - which he really has only done in non-comedic roles, if at all, lately.
BEST REBOOT: Star Trek
- ahhh the reboot. the newest hollywood craze of taking film series' and just starting them again with no reference or need to honour the story lines from the previous films. they did it with james bond in Casino Royal, with batman in Batman Begins, with superman in Superman Returns and they are already doing it with the next spiderman film. 2009 didn't see a lot of rebooting, but we saw it done really well with Star Trek which was not just a good summer film, but one of the better films released all year.
BEST OPENING CREDITS: Watchmen
- the opening credits for Watchmen were some of the best i have seen in a long, long time. they were so engaging and visually pleasing and had me so psyched for the film - which, given that it made the 10 worst list, was pretty much all downhill from there.
BEST MALE PERFORMANCE: tom hardy (Bronson)
- you probably didn't see Bronson (#10 on my best of the year list), but you should, if for nothing else, for hardy's great performance.
BEST MONTAGE: Up
- the montage near the beginning of the film, that takes us through an entire relationship from the meeting as kids through their falling in love and marriage and life's happy moments and its trials and tribulations through the passing of ones soul mate and true love, is absolutely beautiful and funny and sad and touching and is pretty much worth the price of admission right there.
BEST #9 FILM: District 9
- in case you forgot about the other nominees in this category, also released in 2009 (there's another nine) were tim burton's 9 and Nine from director rob marshall.
BEST BIG HOLLYWOOD COMEDY: I Love You Man
- looking at the comedies that made my "best of the year" list, there are 3 small/independent films (500 Days Of Summer, Humpday and World's Greatest Dad) and one foreign one (In The Loop). but, just out of top 10 range you will find I Love You Man, which didn't get the kind of attention that The Hangover did, but to my mind was an overall better and more consistently funny film.
CRITICS LIKED IT WAY TOO MUCH: An Education
- this film made many a top ten list this year and got some very high ratings on rotten tomatoes and metacritic, but it shouldn't have. while carey mulligan is rightfully getting praised and nominated, the film itself is an okay movie that seems to be good for a while but then ends up letting you down with a standard, uninteresting, cliche ending.
THE AUDIENCE LIKED IT WAY TOO MUCH: Avatar
- i get it. the 3D is great and visually it is well worth seeing on the big, or better yet, biggest (imax) screen. but, for the film to make as much money as it has means that people are going back to see it again and again and again and again. and that is where i don't get it. the story is generic, the writing is mediocre and, besides the great visuals and a nice message about mankind and his need to be more connected and understanding of his planet and of nature in general, the film...........
THE MICHAEL CERA AWARD: michael cera
- it is only fitting that the first ever michael cera award goes to... michael cera. the award goes to the actor (male or female) who is type cast/plays very much the same character in all their film roles for that year. and mister cera wins that one hands down this year and the last few years even. but, in 2009 we saw him in Year One playing a caveman version of the shy/sweet/nervous/bumbling character he always plays. and in a small, and enjoyable, faux-documentary called Paper Heart he plays himself and is, well... himself.
VERY PLEASANT OSCAR SURPRISE: tie: District 9 & A Serious Man
- even with 10 nominations to hand out for best picture this year it was still a surprise to see District 9 and A Serious Man get nods. but, it was a very pleasant surprise i might add... District 9 was a hit, but not the kind of film that generally gets a nomination. A Serious Man was definitely not a hit (grossing just over $9 million) nor did it have a huge critics push/campaign behind it that i was aware of (although it did receive lots of critical praise). but, oscar did the right thing this year and gave both films place among their top 10. both films also got screenplay nominations that they deserve.
BEST WRITER: dave eggers
- there were some great screenplays produced in 2009 and if the award was going to just one screenplay then the winner would be different. but, in this case, dave eggers was involved in writing the scripts for two films that came out last year and both of them were really good: Away We Go and Where The Wild Things Are. so, for being two-for-two in 2009 the award is his.
BEST IMPROVISATIONAL PERFORMANCE: tie: mark duplass & joshua leonard
- you might be asking yourself, how much improvisation was there in films last year anyway? well there was a bit. you had soderbergh The Girlfriend Experience which was at least semi-improvisational. there was the great hungarian film that ended up at number 7 on my "best of the year" list, I'm Not Your Friend. and then there was Humpday, which was number 3 on my list and had two great performances from mark duplass and joshua leonard who basically improved the entire film and did so brilliantly.
BEST FILM IN WHICH MIKE TYSON APPEARS: Tyson
- while The Hangover was funny as was tyson's bit in it, the documentary Tyson was the better film and one of the better films i saw all year (it made "honorable mention" on the best of list)
GLAD THE GENERAL PUBLIC KNOWS HIS NAME NOW: zack galifianakis
- you may not be able to pronounce it or spell it, but thanks to the huge success of The Hangover, zack galifianakis is kind of a household name now (or at least "that fat guy with the beard from The Hangover" is). i am a huge fan of stand-up comedy and have been a fan of zacks for a while (if you have a chance to catch his special that plays on the comedy network sometimes you should check it out. it is very funny stuff) and its nice to see him getting some attention.
BEST FILM: Slumdog Millionaire
BEST END CREDIT DANCE(tie):
- tom cruise (Tropic Thunder)
- this was great. i thought his character was hysterical throughout the film and this just put a great topper on a really good time at the movies. cruise can be great in these supporting roles where he really just lets himself go (think Magnolia also)
- the cast of Slumdog Millionaire
- i loved this film and the bollywood dancing at the end was so joyful and carried my smile from the end of the film through the closing credits.
WORST SEQUEL: Quantum Of Solace
it was a bad sequel, a bad james bond movie and just a bad film in general
BEST MOVIE SONG(tie):
- bruce springsteen (The Wrestler) & jack white and alicia keyes (Quantum Of Solace)
- both songs are good songs in their own right and worked really well in their respective films (pretty much one of the only good things about Quantum Of Solace)... oh ya, don't forget Rock Me Sexy Jesus from Hamlet 2
best male performance:
- mickey rourke
- his performance in The Wrestler is so true and heartbreaking and uplifting. from the hair to the hearing aide to the way he talks and carries himself differently in and outside the ring, rourke stands out from the crowd this year with that performance.
best sequel:
- The Dark Knight
- this one was easy. not only was it far and away the best sequel of the year, it was the best comic book movie since tim burton's Batman in 1989 and one of the best films of the year - sequel or not.
best film i saw all year:
- Keane
- released in 2004 this small lodge kerrigan film is one i am still thinking and talking about to anyone that will listen. read my full discussion of the film here.
welcome back:
- woody allen
- one of my favorite directors of all time allen could pretty much do know wrong for me until about 10 years ago. these last 10 years have been up and down, with more downs then ups and the ups not being that high. that was until Vicky Cristina Barcelona. this wonderful film is the best thing he has done in a long time and although one film isn't maybe enough to say 'he's back", i so enjoyed the movie that i'm going to say it anyway... "he's back!"
best actor:
- ben kingsley
- The Wackness and Elegy
best bad special effects:
- Be Kind Rewind
film that most frustratingly didn't live up to its potential:
- Righteous Kill
- unlike last years winner of this award I Am Legend - which was actually a really good film for the first half of it, Righteous Kill wasn't very good from pretty early on. however, given that two of the greatest actors of all time - robert deniro and al pacino - were the stars, and were going to be in a film and on screen together for most of it, for the first time ever, the potential for greatness was there.
best performance by young actors:
- all the kids in The Class (Entre Les Murs)
worst performances by young actors:
- the young actors in Gran Tornio
best two acting greats in one movie:
- merryl streep and phillip seymor hoffman in Doubt
- dicaprio and winslet were good in Revolutionary road and this awards should have really gone to deniro and pacino (but, while they were fine in the awful Righteous Kill, they weren't great)... but streep and hoffman in doubt were excellent and the big climactic scene in which the two of them go head to head had me completely riveted.
most disappointingly historically inaccurate:
- parts of Frost/Nixon
- i really liked the film, and its fine that they took some dramatic license with certain things and emphasized others that might not have been so 'dramatic' at the time, but to literally change actual dialogue from the frost/nixon interviews is just wrong. i mean, we have the actual footage and transcripts from the interviews, so use them at least for the interview scenes... also, creating that huge, climactic phone call scene - that never happened - that turns the film around and leads to the big 'get' in the interview is also wrong,
biggest oscar gyp:
- The Wrestler
- yes it got an acting nod for both mickey rourke and marissa tomei (both completely deserving), but what about a best picture nomination? or if that's too much to ask at least a screenplay nod? and even if those two are to much for the academy, what about a best song nomination for bruce springsteen? the song won a golden globe and it isn't even nominated for an academy award - in a category that only has three nominees (so its not like there is no room for it)... the only thing i can think is that there is some kind of technicality reason and it can't be nominated, but if that isn't the case then what the hell!?!?
well done oscar:
- heath ledger and robert downy jr. nominations
- comedy and action rarely get much love from the academy so to have ledger (for The Dark Knight) and even more so, downey (for Tropic Thunder) nominated for supporting actor awards is great to see - and they are both very deserving.
best failed blockbuster:
- Body Of Lies
- with ridely scott directing this spy thriller starring russell crowe and leonardo dicaprio Body Of Lies had blockbuster hopes, but instead it only ended up grossing just over half of its estimated $70 million budget. not only that, but the reviews were split on it as well (it got 51% at rotten tomatoes)... but this one is more than just a good summer spy thriller.
hey oscar, were there really no other good supporting female performances?:
- viola davis in Doubt
- now i'm not saying davis was bad in the film, not at all... however, she is really only in the film for one 5-15 minute long scene, and her performance isn't so outstanding that it deserves a nomination for such a small role... who would i replace her with you ask? well, how about rebecca hall from Vicky Christina Barcelona?
the most unbelievably simple story:
- Wendy And Lucy
- a girl and her dog are driving through a small town on their way to alaska. the car breaks down and she loses her dog. she spends the next day or two looking for her dog while her car is getting fixed... there you go, that is Wendy And Lucy - and it is a really good film.
best film with lots of problems:
- Gran Torino
- eastwood isn't bad (not best actor worthy as the national board of review thought), but playing a racist old man that just wants to be left alone but befriends the korean kid/family next door is anything but an original idea... also, the acting by the kids in the film is poor and the story is pretty predictable... and yet i enjoyed the film.. hmmmmmm, go figure.
worst film that was not the sum of its parts:
- Burn After Reading
- with Burn After Reading i found the story original, i liked the characters, i thought it was funny at times, i liked the tone of the film, i was interested in what was going to happen, the performances were good - albeit a little over the top for some (but that fit the tone the coen brothers created)... and yet i was quite disappointed and confused in the end.
best film title:
- Quantum Of Solace and Young People Fucking
- Quantun Of Solace sounds a little pretentious, but very cool and intriguing... Young People Fucking sounds like it is trying to shock people, but the film is so good it works.
BEST FILM: No Country For Old Men
- i have said plenty about this masterpiece already
BEST MALE PERFORMANCE: Daniel Day-Lewis
- his performance in There Will Be Blood was brilliant. a towering, powerful performance for the ages.
BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE: Ellen Page
- on the surface it might seem like a simple thing to play a sarcastic teen, but the way she gave us this character who young but thrust (no pun intended) in to such an adult situation was really something great.
film that most frustratingly didn't live up to its potential:
- I Am Legend
- i think i've said and written enough about how i feel about this one
best soundtrack:
- Once
- great songs that work beautifully in the movie and on their own
worst movie title:
- The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
- i know it's the name of the book, but the title is so artsy that i'm sure it probably alienated some people from seeing this great movie (not that those it alienated would have appreciated it anyways, but you never know)
best movie title:
- I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With
- come on, that's a great title. and the fact that it also breaks down the truth and simplicity of what we really are all looking for in a mate (someone that we just get and gets us and someone that we would be completely happy just sitting and 'eating cheese' with) makes it even better.
best director (tie):
- the coen brothers & p.t. anderson
- more then just good films, No country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood are masterpieces that go beyond what we expect, take chances and buck conventions with an incredibly sure hand.
best actor who played the same character in two different movies:
- michael cera
- they had different names, but his character in Juno and Superbad were pretty identical. he played them really well though.
best special effects:
- The Transformers
- nope, i didn't like the movie, but those special effects were something spectacular and seamless.
most overlooked actor:
- irfan khan
- he was excellent in both The Namesake and A Mighty Heart (he got an independent spirit nomination, but he deserved much more)... followed a close second by josh brolin: javier bardem is getting all the attention (and he deserves it all), but brolin was great as well in a less 'flashy' but just as important role.
most overlooked actress:
- Tabu
- she is the heart and soul of The Namesake.
most overpraised film of the year:
- Micheal Clayton
-sure, it was pretty good, but not best-director-and-best-film good. that's just taking up places that could have gone to much better movies
biggest drop-off by a director based on his previous film:
- joe carnahan
-his film this year:Smoking Aces (kind of fun for a bit, but not even a good mindless shoot 'em up) - his previous film: Narc (this is a great movie)
movie that made me laugh more then it probably should have:
- Reno 911: Miami!
- the tv show makes me laugh and so did the movie, like the award says, probably more then it should have
- biggest oscar gyp (tie):
- The Diving Bell And The Butterfly not getting a best picture nod
-personally i also think Micheal Clayton should be off the list and replaced with Easter Promises, but the fact that Diving Bell got a best director nod but was replaced in the best picture category by Atonement is just ridiculous. i know every year there is one best film nomination that doesn't coennside with the best director nominations, and that is fine. however, if you are going to keep Diving Bell off the list then at least replace it with a better film then Atonement (it had a very good first half. however, it didn't provide any kind of background or justification for the huge emotions felt by the two main characters, and therefor i felt no real draw to their plight or desire for them to get back together, which is what the film relies on).
- Eastern Promises getting almost nothing
- at least viggo got an acting nod, but come on people, the film itself deserved a lot more recognition then it got. like i mentioned above, get rid of Micheal Clayton on both the 'best director' and 'best film' nomination list and you got room for cronenberg and Eastern Promises.
- There Will Be Blood score not nominated
- how did this modern, different and evocative score get left of the nomination list? i think i just answered my own question.
worst sequel:
- Spiderman 3
- the first two were great, but this one wasn't even that much fun. too many villains and a dark spiderman story line that wasn't developed to its full potential. (i didn't see Pirates Of The Caribbean 3 by the way)
Best Sequel:
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- not only was it a really good action movie on its own, but the way it worked within the context of the trilogy it was a great finale to the series. (Harry Potter 5 and 28 Weeks Later are close behind)
most surprising remake:
- I Think I Love My Wife
- the chris rock film which he directed, starred in and co-wrote is a 'remake/based on' the film Chloe In The Afternoon by eric rohmer


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Post Grotesk, designed by Josh Finklea, was originally published in 2013 through our Incubator. At the time it had four weights in roman & italic—light through bold. In 2016 Pentagram hired Josh to customize Post Grotesk for their client The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia).
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City Council overrides mayor's vetoes, passes Community Safety Act
The City Council overturned Mayor Michael Blomberg's vetoes of the Community Safety Act, and both bills passed with the same number of votes as on June 27th.
In a slightly more subdued stated meeting than the one on June 26 that ended with a 2 a.m. passage of the Community Safety Act, the City Council voted to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg's vetoes of the anti-profiling bill and inspector general bill.
The inspector general bill passed 39-10, and the anti-profiling bill passed 34-15. All councilmembers voted the same way they did in the first vote on June 26, though Councilmen Peter Vallone and Dan Halloran were absent.
Vallone had been a fierce opponent of both bills, initially blocking them in the public safety committee of which he is the chair, before Speaker Christine Quinn pushed them to a full council vote with a motion to discharge.
Via Twitter on Thursday, Vallone expressed dismay over the bills' passage, tweeting: "The city just became less safe."
Halloran had supported the inspector general bill, but opposed the anti-profiling bill.
The inspector general bill takes effect Jan. 1, leaving the next mayor to appoint the monitor to that Department of Investigation post. The anti-profiling bill will take effect 90 days from today.
The mayor's only recourse now is to sue to block enforcement of the bills.
An impassioned Williams expressed dismay at the mayor's continued opposition to the bills.
"I do wish the administration had sat down with us to discuss these issues but they refused to do so," Williams rued.
Williams also said he felt the struggle over the bill's passage highlighted a civil rights struggle that remains.
"This is about civil rights," Williams said, noting that none of the people who voted against the bills are in the black and Latino caucuses. "We have to recognize that there is an issue there that we have to deal with."
Councilman Charles Barron also highlighted issues of race relations, specifically with the NYPD, invoking the deaths of Ramarley Graham and Sean Bell at the hands of police officers as reasons the passage of the bills was particularly important.
Opponents of the bills were largely respectful and calm, with Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley, a Democrat, saying she "strongly" disagrees with the bills and expressing concern that they "will limit the police department's ability to be proactive."
"The NYPD's use of stop-and-frisk has taken thousands of guns off the streets and saved countless lives," Crowley said.
But the bills' sponsors were careful to note that neither bill is a ban on stop-and-frisk.
"This does not stop stop-and-frisk, it only stops profiling," Williams said. "I hope that the police union will stop spreading these lies to their police officers about what these bills do."
After expressing a desire to continue to "encourage the good proactive policing that we continue to do," Williams stopped to thank his mother and his brother, his voice shaking.
As he started to cry, Williams explained that his brother had texted him after seeing him on CNN to tell him his late father would have been proud of him.
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There was so much great information given, but the materials were not generally available, so though I've wanted to, I've waited to post some of the great quotes. I discovered today, however, that the information is now available at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' website. Here is the link: Basic Principles of Welfare and Self-Reliance. (PDF link)
And here are some of my favorite parts:
"The first building block may be described as provident living. This means joyfully living within our means and preparing for the ups and downs of life so that we can be ready for the rainy-day emergencies when they come into our lives. Provident living means not coveting the things of this world. It means using the resources of the earth wisely and not being wasteful, even in times of plenty. Provident living means avoiding excessive debt and being content with what we have."
"It is important to understand that self-reliance is a means to an end. Our ultimate goal is to become like the Savior, and that goal is enhanced by our unselfish service to others. Our ability to serve is increased or diminished by the level of our self-reliance. As President Marion G. Romney once said: "Food for the hungry cannot come from empty shelves. Money to assist the needy cannot come from an empty purse. Support and understanding cannot come from the emotionally starved. Teaching cannot come from the unlearned. And most important of all, spiritual guidance cannot come from the spiritually weak" (in Conference Report, Oct. 1982, 135; or Ensign, Nov. 1982, 93)."
"As Latter-day prophets have counseled, some of the most important welfare building blocks have to do with preparing for the future. Preparing for the future includes making a spending
and savings plan with our income. . . Preparing for the future also includes obtaining an education or vocational training and finding gainful employment. . . If you are seeking a new job, increase your faith in the Lord's desire and power to bless you. Also seek counsel from those you trust, and don't be afraid to network and ask for help in finding a new job. If necessary, change your lifestyle—and possibly your place of residence— to live within your means. Willingly seek additional training and learn new skills, regardless of your age. Maintain your health and stay close to your spouse and children. And, above all, be grateful. Express your gratitude in prayer for all that has been given to you."
"Every year Church members contribute to the digging of wells where there is no other source of drinking water. Consider the benefit of just one of these wells, dug in a remote village. While some might characterize it as a strictly temporal blessing, what are the spiritual blessings to a mother who had previously walked hours to get water and more hours to bring it back to her children? Before the well was dug, what time did she have to teach her children the gospel, to pray with them, and to nurture them in the love of the Lord? What time did she have to study the scriptures herself, ponder them, and receive strength to bear the challenges of her life? By putting their faith into action, Church members helped quench the temporal thirst of her family and also provided a way for them to drink freely of the water of life and never thirst again. By being faithful in living welfare principles, they were able to help dig "a well of water springing up into everlasting life" (John 4:14)."
"Self-reliance means using all of our blessings from Heavenly Father to care for ourselves and our families and to find solutions for our own problems." Each of us has a responsibility to try to avoid problems before they happen and to learn to overcome challenges when they occur."
"How do we become self-reliant? We become self reliant through obtaining sufficient knowledge, education, and literacy; by managing money and resources wisely, being spiritually strong, preparing for emergencies and eventualities; and by having physical health and social and emotional well-being."
As I cut and paste these quotes, I find myself tempted to post everything. The entire talks are worth reading!


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May 15th was a sunny Spring day, ideal for a demonstration. About 8 AM., an estimated 3,000 Herbalife supporters from across the country began gathering on Capitol Hill, each wearing a large button reading: "I lost X pounds. Ask me how." They had been called to Washington for a rally whose main purpose was to grab media attention and get television reporters to ask, on camera, how they had lost their claimed poundage. The evening before, they had shared their enthusiasm in a ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, where they received buttons and instructions from a platoon of officials from Herbalife International headquarters in Los Angeles.
The 5-block walk from the hotel to the Dirksen Senate Office Building was covered by camera crews from the networks, alerted by the Washington offices of Herbalife's public relations counsel, Rogers & Cowan, Inc., of Beverly Hills, California. Of the 100 or so demonstrators who gained entrance to the building, only about 50 could fit at any one time into the spectator section of crowded Room 342, where the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held its 2-day hearing on weight reduction products and plans.
To the credit of the audience and chairman, Senator William V. Roth, Jr. (R-DE), decorum in the hearing room was maintained at all times. Nor did the Herbalife representatives who stood for hours in the hallway hoping that space inside would become available require anything of Capitol police other than normal crowd control.
At the first day's hearing, Senator Roth had indicated that although many very-low-calorie (VLC) dietary products are being sold, his subcommittee's review had focused on Cambridge and Herbalife, "largely because they have pervaded the market." Reading from his staff's report, Roth had noted that the FDA had received 90 complaints of alleged illness due to Herbalife products, four reports of death, and 32 allegations of fraud.
"While these numbers may pale in comparison to those persons who experienced no side effects or adverse reactions," the report said, "they may nevertheless be significant enough to warrant more scrupulous attention by the FDA to better determine whether there is, in fact, a cause and effect relationship."
Testifying for the FDA, Commissioner Frank E. Young, M.D., Ph.D., conceded that under provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, his agency has authority over food, drug, and medical device products that are specifically promoted for weight loss. Reading his 15-page statement, Dr. Young said:
FDA has attempted, over time, to modify its strategy to make the most effective use of resources for dealing with those products which represent a health fraud. Until the 1960's, the most common tool used was criminal prosecution. A number of cases were successfully tried, and these achieved some deterrent effect. But because this is a more time-consuming and resource-intensive approach to the problem, the agency has expanded its enforcement program to include other judicial and administrative measures such as seizures, injunctions and regulatory letters.
With all seriousness, the nation's highest-ranking health regulator declared, "I believe that public education is probably the most effective and cost-efficient way of combating health fraud, especially economic fraud. This is because the surest way to reduce health fraud is to reduce consumer demands for fraudulent products. In the weight loss product area, FDA has begun a public awareness campaign that includes a slide show, exhibit, and videotape focusing on diet books, low-calorie diets, body wraps, starch blockers, and other weight loss products and urges consumers to consult their physicians prior to beginning diets and to be aware of the general principles which apply to reduction diets."
Regarding VLC diet products, Dr. Young said, "Some manufacturers and distributors are promoting herbal mixtures for a variety of weight control programs. The diet plans may replace one or more meals a day with low-calorie product mixtures including herbs, vitamins and minerals, lecithin, senna leaves, kelp, chickweed, and dandelion, but no significant data have been provided to demonstrate that such ingredients do anything to control weight gain or ensure weight loss . . ."
"In addition to not being the magic answer to weight loss. herbs can be unsafe. No one would knowingly consume poisonous herbs, of course. And no responsible herb company would even consider putting such herbs in its products. But the fact is that poisonous herbs have been found in diet aids in low levels, and F DA has taken action against products in such cases. And although we know about the toxicity of some herbs, we do not know enough about many to conclude that they are safe as currently promoted in some weight-reduction plans."
In response to a question, Dr. Young acknowledged that the FDA regards dietary products as drugs if any therapeutic claim is made for them. But he added that if the agency attempted to regulate them on the basis of more general claims, Congress might reduce its authority as it did in 1976 with the Proxmire Amendment (which ended FDA jurisdiction over the dosage and composition of ordinary food supplements).
That answer was not acceptable to Senator Warren E. Rudman (R-NH), who asked: "If a company encourages witnesses to make claims that the company can't make, and these claims are made on TV time paid for by the company. and the FDA has such evidence, how long is it going to take you to act?" (Rudman was obviously aware that the FDA has had sufficient evidence for more than two years to initiate criminal prosecution of Herbalife for making illegal therapeutic claims.) Dr. Young hedged, saying he didn't want to compromise his agency's investigation of the company. On advice of his accompanying legal counsel, he declined to go further -- and the Senators did not press him to do so. But when Rudman asked whether the FDA had a timetable? for deciding whether the evidence warranted enforcement action, FDA General Counsel Tom Scarlett replied, "It is going to be in the relatively near future. Another year."
When called by Senator Roth, Mark Reynolds Hughes, 29, Herbalife's founder and president, bounced forward with a retinue of corporate officials and consultants. Accompanying them to the witness table was Representative William E. Dannemeyer (R-CA), whose district contains a manufacturer of Herbalife products which employs 200 people.
"Consumers should be allowed a maximum of freedom of choice to make decisions for themselves," the Congressman said. "Those that make false claims or otherwise violate the law must answer at the bar of justice. We must not, however, indict a health program generally, or particularly weight control products, merely because they are 'unconventional' or 'nontraditional' by the standards of the established medical profession."
"Before coming to Congress, I was involved in matters of this nature," Dannemeyer said, referring to his former role as legal counsel for the Alta-Dena Certified Dairy, the nation's largest marketer of certified raw milk. Last October, Dannemeyer testified on behalf of Alta-Dena against federal regulation of raw milk at an FDA hearing.
After introduction by Dannemeyer, Hughes said that practically everybody in his family has had a weight problem and that he became interested in doing something about this after his mother got "hooked" on a prescription weight control product. Thus inspired, he founded Herbalife International in February 1980 when he was 23 years old and built it to gross sales of almost $500 million last year.
Hughes himself, elegant and trim, "welcomed the opportunity to be a part of this Subcommittee's effort to inform the American consumer about the worthless products which are threatening the reputations of the responsible companies." After further remarks, he presented a company consultant, David Brandeis Katzin, M.D., Ph.D., a private practitioner from Los Angeles, who said that during the past five years he had personally treated well over 1,000 individuals, many with weight-related problems. Herbalife's program is nothing more than sound basic nutrition, Dr. Katzin asserted.
Diets that contain less than 500 calories per day and consist exclusively of formula drinks "can be potentially extremely dangerous and must, under all circumstances, be supervised medically. Even then serious side effects may occur; however, medical supervision reduces the risk of prolonged or permanent complications," Katzin said. "Herbalife does not have 500 calories, it has 1,000 or more . . . In addition, the balance of protein, carbohydrates and fat is entirely different. Very low calorie diets are deficient in potassium, whereas the Herbalife nutritional program contains adequate potassium according to RDA recommendations. In addition, the Herbalife nutritional program contains a balance of vitamins and minerals which meet or minimally exceed the RDAs for these nutrients."
Katzin declared: "Literally billions of portions of the product have been served to more than a million individuals with only minimal transient side effects. I know of no other nutritional program which has been used as widely as the Herbalife program or as safely."
Katzin presented a series of charts and graphs. One, he said, was based on evaluation at the University of California, San Diego, of seven Herbalife consumers who had used the products for one to four years and showed "no deficiencies of serum potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc and copper." From this he concluded that the Herbalife nutritional program is safe." (Under questioning he listed as exceptions: "individuals on dialysis, with intestinal bypass, and others under a doctor's care.").
"How about for a pregnant woman?" Roth asked.
"If told to reduce by a physician, then it would be safe for her," replied Dr. Katzin. However, he added, he wouldn't recommend that a pregnant woman lose weight. Hughes later agreed with a suggestion by Senator Roth that such products be labeled to warn pregnant women that they should consult a physician before taking them.
Other charts Katzin presented were based on a retrospective study of 428 users, including one chart of "transient side effects" which indicated that of 428 Herbalife users, 18.6% had experienced headache, 12.5% had constipation, 11.3% had diarrhea, 9.7% had nausea, 9.6% reported lightheadedness, 2.6% had heart palpitations and 10.1% had other symptoms. Altogether, about 40% of those surveyed had some symptoms that might be attributed to taking Herbalife products, Katzin said. (The above numbers add to more than 40% because individuals can have more than one symptom.) Hughes, basing his estimate on feedback from distributors had said earlier that roughly 10-15% of users have such side effects, which usually last only a week.
Senator Rudman was relentless in questioning both Herbalife witnesses. To Dr. Katzin:
"You were hired about three months ago?"
"That was about the time Mr. Hughes learned that Herbalife would be invited to testify," said the Senator. After more exchanges in which Katzin was evasive, he insisted on a yes-or-no answer to the question: "Weren't you hired to come to this hearing?"
"Yes," replied Dr. Katzin.
Senator Rudman asked Hughes why Richard Marconi, the manufacturer of Herbalife products, was not present for the hearings.
"Doctor Marconi is in China," said Hughes. (Marconi claims to have a Ph.D. in nutrition from Donsbach University, which is a correspondence school located in Huntington Beach, California.)
"This doctorate this man allegedly has is from a totally unaccredited university . . . he, in fact is really not a Ph.D. in nutrition. Do you know that?" Rudman asked.
"I don't know about that . . ." Hughes came back. "Dr. Marconi is one of the most brilliant guys I know."
"Isn't it true that you have no college degree." Rudman then asked Hughes. "You completed the ninth grade in school, but consider yourself an authority on nutrition?"
"I know that this plan works," responded Hughes. Later he called himself "an authority on helping people lose weight."
Rudman focused much of his questioning on an early edition of Herbalife's Official Career Book, a training manual for distributors, and read statements of claims for cures of cancer, arthritis, and other diseases. Hughes replied that the copyright laws required picking up significant amounts of material where Herbalife products are endorsed -- "in order not to take statements out of context." Therefore, said Hughes, the Career Book had reproduced many pages from magazines, in which the authors may make unrelated claims.
"Because some quack somewhere said something might cure cancer, you thought it all right to publish?" Rudman exploded.
"No, I am not saying that," insisted Hughes.
"That's one of the most incredible bits of snake oil I've ever heard!" the Senator declared.
Rudman's final line of questioning had to do with Herbalife's cable television broadcasts. "People come up on your cable program and give testimonials about being cured of cancer, don't they?" he asked.
Hughes admitted that that had happened, but insisted, "After two live shows, when we found out that happened, we went to the tapes and edited out any health claims."
"The representatives, might they not make health representations?" Rudman pressed him.
"No, we have three categories for representatives being suspended, and 358 representatives have been terminated for misadvertising, failure to make refunds, etc. I terminated one representative who was making $30,000 a month."
"Do you believe it's safe to use your products without consulting a doctor?" Roth asked.
"Sure," replied Hughes. "Everybody needs good, sound basic nutrition. We all know that."
Senator William S. Cohen (R-ME) asked Hughes about the use in Herbal-aloe of comfrey and chaparral, which witnesses on the previous day had testified have cancer-causing properties. Hughes said that neither he nor the FDA was concerned because quantities in the formula were well below the unsafe level. Although Commissioner Young had indicated a few hours earlier that the agency was still considering action against the company for unfounded medical claims made on behalf of its products, Hughes also said Herbalife was cooperating with the FDA.
Regarding side effects, Senator Roth asked, "Shouldn't there be warnings . . . on the labels?"
Warnings are made "basically by word of mouth" through the distributors, Hughes replied.
"But isn't the public entitled to know about these?" Senator Roth pressed him.
"Yes," conceded Hughes. "This company is open and willing to consider labeling."
Senator Rudman closed the questioning of Hughes: "Last night there was a rally of 3,000 to 4,000 Herbalife representatives at the Hyatt Regency/Capitol Hill Hotel. Towards the end, Larry Thompson, executive director of sales for Herbalife International, solicited testimonials and obtained them from three people. One said she was told by a doctor that her child was dying, put the child on the product, and the child didn't die. Another was supposedly cured of diabetes. And the third supposedly was on crutches for some time, took Herbalife, and no longer had to use them. If you were running a first-rate company, do you think you should allow such testimonials?"
Before Hughes could respond, Rudman added a final question: "Don't you think you ought to clean up your act?"
"I think we should," Hughes agreed, "and we're trying to do that right now."
The hearing was adjourned at 3:00 p.m., too late for a 1:30 press conference Herbalife's public relations firm had planned for Hughes at the Hyatt Regency.
This article was published in the October 1985 issue of Nutrition Forum, when Mr. Fanning edited and published a newsletter called Con$umer New$weekly. Before that, he was a science writer for The Atlanta Journal and director of information for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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Next, I sprayed water through a circle stencil.
You end up with this cool water mark effect :) I did do a little mistake in the bottom right corner...I don't like how it shows the edge of the stencil...I forgot to slightly lift the stencil up....that would of avoided this, OR you can mask off the edge like I have shown in the above photo.
Here I have traced inside one of my Dylusions stencils and then coloured in the leaves in with Faber-Castell Markers.
A few close-ups to show the details :)
I used my Copic markers on Neenah paper for the quote banner.
I had to add a little bit of sparkle :)
The Simon Says Stamp Superstore is once again offering up a generous $50 dollar store voucher to one random participant!!
The rest of the design team is so inspirational, I would suggest you give them a looky :) and then join us at Simon Says Stamp and Show. I can't wait to see all the different quotes! Thanks for stopping by to visit! Hugs, TRace


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Pink Pearl Artistic Gymnastics Program
Pink Pearl offers several Artistic Gymnastic Programs and Dance classes in Virginia Beach to accommodate the different interest and skill levels of our students. The variety of gymnastics classes is offered during the week as well as on Saturday. We encourage to bring your "pearl" for a Free Trial Class and try all our programs – Gymnastics, Dance or Gymnastics and Dance Combo Classes. Above all, we want you to be confidant in your decision for your child's sports training and activities.
Our Gymnastics for All is geared for fun and fitness. Students learn basic skills, build core strength, and develop balance and flexibility. We offer classes from ages 20 months to those who refuse to give up! Most of the classes include gymnastics and dance type of exercises with regard to your child's age and physical readiness. Students will be moved into more advanced groups by mastering the basic skills of their current level. Pink Pearl also hosts entertaining with a focus on gymnastics and dance. This includes parties, camps, and celebrations. We can tailor to suit your needs. Inquire with Margaryta.
20 mo. – 3 y/o "Mini Pearls"
3 – 5 years old "Little Pearls" (boys and girls)
5+ years old "Pink Pearls" beginners and intermediate
7+ years old "Pink Pearls" begin., interm., advanced
5+ years old "Black Pearls" (boys)
5+ years old "Pink Pearl Team" (Advanced)
13+ years old "Teens & Adults"
Artistic Gymnastics is a very difficult and technically complicated sport. A young athlete starts gymnastics very early and on condition of incredible input of talent, passion, perseverance, and determination, achieves a strong and flexible body, and unbeatable spirit leading her/him to any "Olympic" goal. A strong gymnastics foundation and the correct technique input are extremely important for the athlete at a young age. This foundation helps to develop the body and mind step by step to get them ready to start competitive journey and prevent them from being injured. Pink Pearl is excited to pass the knowledge of gymnastics and our experience for those young athletes who have big dreams. We created the groups for the talented and promising young gymnasts to prepare them for their competitive journey. Pink Pearl Team members are introduced to the skills necessary to start competing, learning the USA Gymnastics levels 3-4 program or Xcel program (bronze, Silver, Gold) – getting ready for the competitive levels. Getting sharp for competitions.
USAG Compulsory Levels 3-5
Compete USAG and begin your fabulous journey into gymnastics. Private Lessons for the competitive Levels.


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McLaughlin back in the game
- Updated: April 13, 2017
After a lengthy stint on the sidelines, former Football Fern and Claudelands Rovers star Sarah McLaughlin is back playing the game she loves.
In July 2013, turning out for Claudelands against Glenfield in the Lotto NRFL Women's Premier League, the prolific goal scorer found herself in a moment she'd rather forget.
"I suffered an injury to my left knee whilst changing direction and lunging to make a tackle mid-way through the first half," says McLaughlin.
Having thought the worst, McLaughlin was given some hope when the doctor at the A&E advised her it was just a strained MCL. That was until her physio sent her for a MRI which resulted in the talented striker being given the worst news of her football career.
"It was a complete rupture of my ACL, severe tear and strain of my MCL, significant bone bruising along with damage to my meniscus and a dislocated knee cap. This resulted in reconstruction surgery and a 11-month rehab programme."
Following her recovery, and in the process of easing back into full game time, McLaughlin re injured the same knee and was forced to watch from the sidelines for another lengthy period.
"The second injury was much the same as the first in terms of diagnosis and again required surgery and a lengthy rehab."
"Unfortunately, the second time around my recovery was a lot longer due to the close succession of the injuries and some continuous pain resulting from a tear in my meniscus that didn't repair as well as we hoped."
So, three and a half years on McLaughlin is back in the game and admits it wasn't an easy journey.
"Emotionally and psychologically it has been a roller-coaster and to date it it probably one of the hardest things I have had to deal with in my life."
"Football was my life and what I had dedicated and sacrificed a lot of my time for. I found it hard to find my identity outside of football and not having it as an outlet was something I really struggled with."
Her dedication and sacrifices saw her represent New Zealand at U-17 and U-20 level as well as turning out for the Football Ferns.
"Being released from the Football Ferns squad and losing my carded athlete status during my rehab threw another curve ball in the mix making it hard to source that professional support I needed to ensure my rehab was a success."
"Rehab was draining both physically and mentally. It was a case of one step forward and two steps back at points and this made the initial stages extremely tough and frustrating."
"There were times I would be in the middle of a strengthening session and I'd completely break down into tears because I couldn't do some of the things I took for granted before my injury."
"I really had to rely on my family and friends for their support and guidance," she says.
After a long pre-season, McLaughlin took to the field in round one against Forrest Hill Milford for her first competitive match since her injury.
"Being back on the field feels great and the Claudelands girls have been awesome in supporting my return to play. My knee felt good given it was my first competitive game back from injury and I feel my confidence will only grow with each game and training."
McLaughlin and her Rovers team mates take on Hamilton Wanderers in the first WaiBOP derby of the season this Good Friday.
Match Information
Lotto NRFL Women's Premier League
Friday 14 April
Hamilton Wanderers vs Claudelands Rovers
Porritt Stadium, 1pm
Photo courtesy of Phototek NZ


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TVH promotes Antonio Velez to general manager for TVH MexicoFriday, July 7, 2017
TVH in the America's (TVH), provider of quality replacement parts and accessories for the material handling and industrial equipment industry is proud to announce that Antonio Velez has been promoted to General Manger for TVH Parts Mexico. Antonio joined TVH in March of 2016 as the Operations, Technical Information Services and Human Resources manager. In his new role of General Manager, he will be responsible for Sales and Operations for the Mexico location. He is going to continue the great work that has been done over the past several years. Antonio is fully committed to helping customers grow with TVH.View all Industry News


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I realized that I haven't bored anyone to death with a video game update in quite some time, even though I just completed Final Fantasy XIII-2 (it was a mind trip) and I've been gearing up for the next beta weekend of Guild Wars 2 (yah!), so to remedy that here is this. Feel free to throw tomatoes in the comments. Also, I have had people try to tell me that they don't think that Farmville is a video game, but since video games are generally any game that involves being displayed and input into using an electronic device, I say you are in denial. 🙂
Harvest Moon is a very fun little game that's been produced in Japan since the mid-1990s. Like Farmville, it is a simulation farming game, with many different titles that have been released for various gaming platforms. I have always played the releases for Nintendo's hand-held devices, the Gameboy and the DS, but titles are also made for Playstation 2, PSP, Wii and maybe other things. They also make a similar game called Rune Factory, which still has the farming aspect and introduces monster hunting, as well.
Anyway, on with my list!
1) Harvest Moon won't clog your notifications or update feed. Your friends cannot leave a million updates about how you need to help them out, nor do you run the risk of being "that friend." However, you can still have the fun of interacting with other people, with the ability to cut that off when you need to. The game I'm currently playing, A Tale of Two Towns, has a collective farming plot where you can invite people to farm with you by connecting your DS to the internet and exchanging friend codes.
2) The game you buy is the game you get, and you only have to buy it once. One of the things that I disliked about playing Farmville is that even though it is a free game, all of the fun useful stuff has to be bought. Not only that, but usually it's a finite item and has to eventually be bought again. And if you don't want to buy it, generally you have to pester your friends to click on your posts to help you get it. While Harvest Moon is a more expensive game up front and you need a console to play it, you get the whole game, no tricks. This is simply a difference in the way the companies look to gain profit- Zynga needs to make money off their products to stay in business, but I find the game is less fun when you're expected to keep buying things for it.
3) There are other activities besides farming. Farmville has introduced the market aspect, and of course there are animals to care for and collectibles to collect, but mostly you chill out on the same plot of land that can only get bigger if you buy it or collect enough friends. If you want to do other things, you have to play a different game. Harvest Moon offers more to do: fishing, bug-catching, exploring, falling in love, having kids, expanding your house, building friendships with villagers, contests, etc. Like, I said, it costs more to buy in the beginning, but I've never felt like I wasn't getting my money's worth. You can also have two different saved games in most newer releases, so you can be trying out two different paths at the same time, as well.
4) Courting, marriage and kids! And semblance of plot! Something that I have a lot of fun with is the bachelor/bachelorette courting: in most recent HM games, you have the option to pick someone you like, meet some friendship requirements, and then get married and have a baby! It's fun! Plus, most Harvest Moon games have ultimate objectives that you have to meet (free all the harvest sprites, mend the relationship between two towns, make the bazaar the very best in the world, save the city, etc.) that give you something to work toward. It puts a little more life in the thing, and it's different in each game.
5) You can shut the game off and go do other things. Your plants won't die. Yes, this is important. No need to wake at 2 am to water your whatevers so they don't shrivel up and die. (Or was that just me?) When you shut the game off, it doesn't keep running, so there's no need for you to plan on being near a computer in 4 hours because your raspberries will be done. This comes in real handy if you really want to do well in a game but don't want to sacrifice your personal life, meals, or sleep. But if you do, at least it's entirely your fault. 🙂 Time does not pass in game unless you're playing, which actually might allow for an even more casual experience than Farmville.
And I made this list without evening mentioning the llamas! They are the cutest, better than a Farmville Valentine's Day sheep any time. Anyway, I thought this might be fun to share, since so many people like Farmville but have never heard of this nice little game that's been doing it for over a decade. If you want to know more, obviously Wikipedia is a good start, but I also recommend checking out this neat help site called Ushi No Tane (fogu.com/hm). They have all kinds of info for pretty much each HM and Rune Factory game out there, as well as a great online community if you want to chat with others about the game or share friend codes for co-op farming.
What are some of your secret video game obsessions? Or do you not play them at all? Let me know in the comments, and happy gaming!


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Welcome to our tour of Australia. During the month of April we are going to visit our favourite spots in Australia. Come join us on our walkabout through the land down under.
Yesterday our tour had us tobogganing down the side of a hill at a banana plantation. Click here if you missed that post. Today we head down the coast to the big smoke.
|Circular Quay with the Bridge and Opera House in the background.
Circular Quay is in the heart of Sydney and is the central hub for Sydney Ferries. The harbour is spectacular and travelling by ferry is a excellent way to see the city. Circular Quay is also very close to two of Australia's most famous landmarks, the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge which is the highlight of today's tour stop.
Sydney Opera House:
For over 40 years the Opera House has been the centerpiece of Sydney Harbour and a must see for anyone visiting Sydney. Its design is unlike any other and it a big part of why it is so popular. Its design looks like the sails of several boats and fits in perfectly with the rest of the harbour. No tour of Sydney is complete without seeing this wonderful building.
What I loved: The Opera House design is unlike anything else and is a photographer's dream. The ceramic tiles that line the roof really come alive during the twilight hours and is definitely worth seeing. I also loved that it was only a 5 minute walk from the ferry terminal and railway station.
Cost: (All prices are in Australian Dollars)
There is no charge to walk around the exterior of the building. There are several guided tours that start at $37 per person that take you inside the building. There are also performances inside the Opera house that vary in price.
More Info:
Behind the Scene tours of the Opera House
Sydney Opera House Website
The Harbour Bridge is one of the most majestic sights in any city in the world. Opened in 1932 it was designed to carry several lanes of traffic, two rail lines, a pedestrian path and a separate bike lane. It is well worth the trip to walk across the bridge as you get the most wonderful views of the harbour and the nearby Opera House. And if you are too tired to walk back you can always catch the train back.
What I loved: The Harbour Bridge was well worth the walk and the stone pylons give it a dignified look. I finally got the chance to walk across the bridge and it was a great way to get a elevated look at the harbour. No matter from what angle the bridge is truly a wonder.
Cost: (All prices are in Australian Dollars)
Walking across the bridge is free.
Access to the lookout on top of the south east lookout is $13 for adults and $8.50 for children.
Sydney Bridgeclimb takes small groups on the top of the girders to get a view like no other. Prices start at $148 for adults and $118 for children
More Info:
Harbour Bridge
Pylon Lookout
Getting There.
Car: Circular Quay is in downtown Sydney and like any big city, parking is limited and expensive. Public transportation is highly recommended.
Air: Sydney airport is the closest airport.
From the airport it is about a 20-30 minute train ride.
Train: Two lines (T2 and T3) stop at Circular Quay. Most other trains on the Sydney network will involve one connection at Central Station or nearby transfer station.


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Books, Blogs, & Reality
Publication Date: October 24, 2014
Genres: Contemporary, Humor, New Adult, Romance
Life can suck…
When reality becomes overwhelming, seeking comfort in fictional fantasies keeps hope alive. And while this escape may be a little delusional, it's also therapeutic. Sharing secrets is daunting, but virtual friends don't often judge and they are always ready to share a glass of wine…or three…while typing out life's latest endeavors. Brooke believes obstacles only add to romance, not detract. Rachael longs for a more intense relationship, or so she thinks. Lizzie misses the excitement in her life, but sometimes new situations find you when you're not even looking. And Jess believes a tiger can change his stripes. It can't. Bound by a shared passion for blogging about happily ever afters, these four young women use keyboard therapy to work through their expectations, anxieties, and inadequacies, all with the hopes of achieving the perfection found in romance novels. Completely blinded by what they think life should be, they navigate their unique paths in search of what they envision is right. But when reality taunts them with persistent curve balls, will they be strong enough to choose wisely? Or will their happy endings escape them?
ReaderGirlBrooke: Do you ever wonder if we would talk as openly as we do with each other if we met in person?
JessRomance93: Good question.
Rachael-XXOO: Probably not, being that I tell you guys way more than I tell my friends around here. They still don't know everything that happened between me and Kevin. I only shared that with you guys.
Lizzie1214: It's true. There's a safety in talking with you guys. No matter what happens here, we always come back and fix things. It's much easier to do that online than in "real life." I'm not sure how I would have survived these last few months without you guys.
ReaderGirlBrooke: Same here! You guys get me on a higher level. I think it's because we all also have that common ground that other people in our life just never understand. The books. They brought us together.
JessRomance93: Yeah, and we're all a bunch of mental cases who got ourselves easily lost in them.
Rachael-XXOO: Very true! We should discuss that on our blogs this week. Make it an open topic for anyone who wants to join in.
ReaderGirlBrooke: Like a meme?
Rachael-XXOO: Yes, exactly. A meme about getting lost in books and reality.
Lizzie1214: I love this idea.
JessRomance93: Yes, me too!! Let's do it!
About the Author
Ryan Ringbloom is a YA/NA author who lives for anything Romance. The passion, love, angst, awkwardness… she loves all of it. When Ryan needs a break from reality she sneaks off to read a romantic story or write one of her own. Drinking coffee, reading Tweets and hugs from her five year old are the best part of her day.
Feel free to contact her, she would love it!


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EDD founder and Chief Technology Officer Robert Broadwater has been conferred the title of Professor Emeritus by Virginia Tech. A member of the university community since 1989, Dr, Broadwater developed a new approach of analysis, known as Graph Trace Analysis, that is now used in the DEW/ISM modeling of electric power systems involving transmission, substations, and electric power distribution, all in the same model. Click here to read the announcement from VA Tech.
NISC announces Operations Analytics with core modeling and analysis engine from EDD/DEW
National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC), an IT cooperative serving utilities and telecommunications organizations worldwide, announced the launch of NISC Operations Analytics (OA), an integrated platform for engineers and system operators of electric systems, which harnesses hourly AMI reads and the granularity of time-series data for better decision-making.
The NISC OA solution is powered by the DEW (Distributed Engineering Workstation) advanced power flow modeling and analysis software engine from Electrical Distribution Design.
For more details, click here to see the NISC Operations Analytics announcement.
At Distributech 2018 … Learn about Pepco Holding Incorporated's use of EDD's Integrated System Model technology for DER analysis and Big Data
The DEW/ISM software from Electrical Distribution Design represents a new paradigm in modeling and analysis for electric utilities. Come listen to Steve Steffel, Manager of Regional Capacity Planning – Distributed Energy Resources, speak on Tuesday, January 23rd at 3 pm in the session: Real World Experiences Streamlining DER Interconnection Studies. Steve's presentation, entitled "Big Data Analytics at Pepco Holdings: Integrated System Model," will describe the implementation of DEW/ISM that includes a 1.9M meter Integrated System Model of PHI's primary and secondary system. The ISM includes over 730 MW's of DER and an 8760 hourly load model for all 1.9M customers with net-metered accounts separated into native load and DER output. The ISM provides a platform for automating engineering analysis and maintaining model data quality that is critical for managing the modern smart grid.
EDD's Chief Technical Officer, Dr. Robert Broadwater, will be on hand to answer questions and to meet with interested parties to discuss the DEW/ISM technology.
Visit our website <www.edd-us.com> or contact us <email@example.com> for more information on EDD or the DEW/ISM software.
EDD presents at WPI Seventh Annual Energy Symposium: Engineering Impacts from Energy Policy
EDD's Dr. Jason Bank (Principal Engineer) and James Tarpey (Executive Consultant) will be presenting at the September 28th WPI Energy Symposium. Their talk will be part of the session: "State Policies Driving Engineering Changes."
EDD provides the DEW/ISM advanced network modeling and analysis software product to electric utility clients. The presentation will center on specific client use cases of DEW/ISM where regulatory policy changes are causing utilities to reinvent how engineers model, analyze, and design distribution systems to integrate increasing levels of Distributed Energy Resources (DER).
DEW/ISM has significant market advantages over traditional engineering software for building and maintaining large detailed Integrated System Models of electric distribution and/or transmission systems. With DEW/ISM engineers can connect and make use of measurements from AMI, SCADA, PV, storage and other smart devices. Automation of engineering analysis with DEW/ISM reduces the cost and time required for DER interconnection requests, and provides for more consistent results.
Click here to view the presentation.
Visit our website <www.edd-us.com> or contact us <firstname.lastname@example.com> for more information on EDD or DEW/ISM software.
EDD presents at 2017 IEEE PES General Meeting
At the 2017 IEEE PES General Meeting in Chicago, EDD's Jason Bank was an invited speaker on the panel Advancing Distribution System Modelling Tools for PV Integration. His presentation, DEW-ISM Implementation at PEPCO: A Model and Data Driven Approach to Automating PV Interconnection Studies, covered results from an ongoing project at PEPCO to automate the analysis of PV interconnection studies. The project at PEPCO starts with the construction of an Integrated System Model of the entire distribution and secondary system. The primary model has 2.4M components and the secondary model has 3.9M components. The model is updated from GIS, hourly meter data and SCADA. A production version of the model is maintained in memory to support a multitude of engineering analysis functions that run in the DEW software at very fast speeds on a small processor. The DEW/ISM solution is integrated to the DER queue manager application to enable automatic analysis of DER interconnection requests.
View the presentation here … IEEE PES GM 2017 Pres jbank
Visit our website <www.edd-us.com> or contact us <firstname.lastname@example.com> for more information on EDD or DEW/ISM software.


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Artists who have participated in exhibitions at Griffin Gallery are featured below.
Alison Joneswww.alisonjones.co.uk
'My paintings in Ch-ch-changes are from a series titled Art House, from the interiors section of W magazine. Masterpieces of Modernism; nudes by Picasso, De Kooning, Dubuffet, and contemporary works by Barney, Newton and Ruff are considered in their owner's homes: art's habitus of wealth luxury and distinction.
The teaching advice that made most impact on me came from two artists who I spoke to both only once. At the Slade Paula Rego talked to me about finding the question deep inside you that keeps you awake at night, that worries you, that won't leave you alone, that comes back again and again. For me that was some messily entangled feeling about art, class, gender and power. I felt this feeling sharply as a provincial teenager gloating over my first Vogue and the exclusive worlds of fashion and high culture. And although years in art school have given me the intellectual tools of Marxism and Feminism to theorise the fetishism of commodities (and art's peculiar place therein) and the commodification of sex, I am not over it, I'm still turning over the same conflicted feelings. Michael Craig Martin who I also spoke to only once talked about visual curiosity, which I understood for me was really feeling the texture of the thing I couldn't get over - a velvet drape in smoothly sponged-on paint, the glaze on a porcelain vase in a thin wash, the pattern of a Versace cushion with sharp geometric brush marks, the precise cut of a couture dress in a crisp black edge.'
Exhibited at Griffin Gallery in Ch-Ch-Ch Changing in April 2013.
(Last updated 11.12.2014)Share