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'Skyfall' rising: Oscar winner Sam Mendes guides 007's return to big screen
It's a lazy film-writer perennial to exclaim "Bond is back!" every other time a new James Bond spy thriller is released, and it's usually only right in the technical, literal sense. The 50-year-old film series—born of a New Frontier besotted with science yet still fearful of the science-fictiony Axis powers and atom bomb of World War II—has had to adapt to history while retaining the particular joys of this specific escapist universe. It's a moving target, hard to hit.
And so for director Sam Mendes' Skyfall, one is tempted to say "Bond is back!" in capital letters or with multiple exclamation points—anything to make the point stand out that Eon Productions' 23rd James Bond movie is the best since the 1960s.
Yes, yes, we hear you. Star Roger Moore's 1970s to mid-1980s oeuvre may have been what the era wanted, but so were disco and Mohawk haircuts. Timothy Dalton's 1980s duo didn't click, and as The Times of London film critic Tom Shone perceptively wrote of Pierce Brosnan's 1995-2002 quartet, the star "shares none of [Sean] Connery's virtues but has also been careful to avoid Moore's vices." As for the current Daniel Craig films, Skyfall's reviews have almost uniformly called the new movie better than the well-received Casino Royale (2006) and the less-than-well-received Quantum of Solace (2008).
Why? Credit Mendes for a movie that addresses every elephant in every room of this long-running labyrinth, with insight, wit and an impeccable feel for both tradition and today as Agent 007 and spy chief M (Judi Dench) are forced to confront their pasts in order to understand a cyber-terrorist mastermind (Javier Bardem). If the tea leaves of writing credits can tell us anything, it's worth noting that the script is credited both to the last four films' team of Neal Purvis and Robert Wade with the addition of three-time Academy Award-nominee John Logan (Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo).
In Manhattan to promote Skyfall, the affable Mendes, 47, dressed casually in sport coat and slacks, can be forgiven if he seems a trifle nervous. After a lauded stage career, he won the Best Director Oscar for his debut movie, American Beauty (1999), which itself won for Best Picture, and his next film, Road to Perdition (2002), was another critically lauded hit. Yet Revolutionary Road (2008) met with mixed if generally upbeat reception and modest if perhaps profitable box office, and Away We Go (2009) tanked. With Sony and MGM's Skyfall, it seems not only is Bond back, but he's brought Mendes with him. Or actually, come to think, maybe the other way around.
Film Journal International: The previous Bond film, Quantum of Solace, was successful commercially, grossing $586 million worldwide on a budget of reportedly $200 million. Yet it's perceived as a disappointment, with The Washington Post having called it "an often visually incoherent travelogue of revenge and trumped-up angst" and audiences giving it a poor B- on CinemaScore. What did you do right that they did, well, not so right?
Sam Mendes: I think they were very unlucky on that movie because they got hit by the writers' strike pretty badly. And having been in a similar situation with Road to Perdition where we were chasing an actors' strike, it puts a kind of weird pressure on everyone. Everyone gets frantic. And they got the script on the day [production] started—midnight, literally—and it didn't work. So what do you do? You're five weeks away from shooting. So they shot a script that wasn't finished, and that's just never, ever going to make a good movie unless you've got plenty of time in post to go back and reshoot for six weeks the stuff that doesn't work. And they didn't have that time either, because they were tied to a release date. So I feel for them in a way.
But at the same time, there were lots of things about it that helped crystallize how I wanted to make this movie. Because a lot of the things they did, particularly in the way that it was shot, I was able to say, "That's not how I'm not going to do it. I'm going to do this instead." So it sometimes helps to define what you're going to do by stating the opposite.
FJI: One common criticism of the previous film was that the editing was such that you couldn't easily follow the action. The shorthand was "Bourne done badly" [referring to the jagged, quick-cut, handheld style of the Jason Bourne movies].
SM: Right. I've said before, and I mean it, that [The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum director Paul] Greengrass is in a league of his own and it's very difficult to imitate. If you shoot handheld, you have to think handheld, and it's a different way of thinking about film. He thinks in that way. He came up through documentary filmmaking, he's incredibly experienced and the great myth about that kind of handheld movie is that you can sort of adopt it as a style for a movie and then change again. And I just think when you do it like Paul does, it's in your blood. But I think it's very easy to do it badly. My camera style is much more classical and much more old-fashioned, in a way. The camera doesn't move unless it has to; if the character's moving, it will move with the character. I want to keep people in frame the whole time.
But also I think they got trapped with Quantum into a number of things that I wanted to avoid. One of them was they got trapped into linear chases as opposed to parallel action, and I wanted to make sure that wherever I was in a chase, wherever there was an action sequence, there was also something going on simultaneously that I could follow. That was the case throughout.
FJI: What is it about the Bond movies that people have an affinity for, 50 years down the road?
SM: If everyone knew that, then every movie would be a hit. I don't know. I've made one Bond movie and I'm just hearing people's reactions now, and it's very exciting and interesting to get people's reactions to it because I can now begin to see it through their eyes and I understand what it means to them as opposed to what it means to me.
FJI: One of the elements, certainly, is exotic locales, and one of the most arresting here is the ghost-like, abandoned Hashima Island, off Nagasaki, Japan, with its crumbling concrete buildings. What did it feel like, stepping onto it, shooting there?
SM: (smiling) That's not the real island; that's based on the island.
FJI: That was a set?
SM: Yeah. Set and computer-generated.
FJI: Wow.
SM: I know. (smiling) Fooled you! We built the street and the courtyard and then we created the rest. The basis for the movie is "Make everything real and then supplement it with visual effects, but don't create anything from scratch." So you felt it was real and in a sense it was real because it's three-dimensional.
FJI: I asked Javier [Bardem, who plays the movie's villain, Raoul Silva] about shooting there, and how since it was off Nagasaki if it were a memorial or whether there were lingering radiation concerns, and he was: "No, no, the radiation was all gone by then!"
SM: Well, he doesn't want to give it away. He doesn't want to give away the tricks of the trade.
FJI: What about some of the proposed locations for the film? You scouted South Africa and India. Why didn't they work out?
SM: India has its own film industry; India doesn't need Bond. I would have loved to have shot it in Mumbai, but they don't need us. And it would have been absolute, flat-out chaos. The center of Mumbai would have ground to a halt. So that would have been a tough one. I was sad when that fell away. But we went to Cape Town, we went to Victoria Falls, we went all over the place [evaluating locations]. It was pretty exciting. It was almost the best part of it for me, the location scouting.
FJI: Peter Morgan, the film's original screenwriter, who left the project when the Skyfall production was in hiatus due to MGM's financial difficulties, said at the London Film Festival in September 2011 that "the central idea" of his screenplay "is still there but not one similar thing other than that. I think they've still kept the big hook, which I'm not going to tell you!"
SM: Absolutely not. Definitively not. That's a lie. I don't want to make a big story about it, that's just not true. The script was written by Purvis and Wade and John Logan. I read that treatment of Peter's and nothing remains. He wrote the treatment, but they binned it when I arrived. That credit grabbing is not fair on the writers.
FJI: To end on a more upbeat note: Would you say you made the Bond movie that you or I wanted to see when we were 13?
SM: You have to get back in touch with your inner 13-year-old in order to make it, I think. You have to remind yourself what it was like to watch a Bond movie when you were 13.


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Kazumi Totaka, a sound designer and musician at Nintendo, is responsible for one of the sweetest traditions the company has in its arsenal: Totaka's Song, a ditty he first composed in 1992 and which has featured in every game he's worked on since.
While the song has appeared in many games, it's perhaps best-known for its inclusion in Animal Crossing, in particular the rendition coffee-shop crooner K. K. Slider plays if you request it.
So it's nice to see it's returned in the latest game in the series, New Leaf, as you can see in the video above.
Totaka's Song in Animal Crossing: New Leaf [YouTube, via Go Nintendo]

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One might fairly ask what a dead camcorder and standing in Keene, N.H., for hours in pouring rain and 35-degree temperatures has to do with getting a daughter into college.
The answer lies somewhere in a Bermuda Triangle of a philosophical discussion on the role of athletics and recruiting in NCAA Division III even at the finest academic institutions, the difficulty of quantifying defense, and a lack of parental foresight and understanding of the process of all of the above.
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Last Saturday morning, I woke up feeling downright peaceful. Here it was, less than two weeks before Christmas and, because I had shopped early and planned carefully, I was coasting into a low-stress holiday.
The presents were purchased and wrapped. The tree was decorated. The cookies were baked. I had nothing left to do but relax and bask in this unfamiliar sense of calm.
So I decided to paint the living room.
Here we are as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who are dear to us
Gather near to us once more
Does Christmas ever go that way these days, I wonder — as it does in "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and all the old holiday standards?
Our world is so fractionated, our faithful friends so far away. If those golden days of yore ever did exist, it often seems they won't come again.
As these 11 days before Christmas loom before us — family is getting together, there are meals to prepare and presents yet to buy — remember to relax and enjoy the rich traditions of this holiday season that make it so worthwhile.
The holiday focus in Middlebury — as in Brandon, Bristol and Vergennes — is about community festivals, contributing to several wonderful community causes through special events, listening to chorus groups ring in the season, and for many it is a season for worship and reflection.
Vermont's Sen. Bernie Sanders efforts to block Ben Bernanke's nomination for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve make a point, but in doing so he omits more than half of the story.
Sanders suggests that Bernanke should not be confirmed for a second term based on the premise that "the American people voted last year for a change in our national priorities to put the interests of ordinary people head of the greed of Wall Street and the wealthy few. What the American people did not bargain for was another four years for one of the key architects of the Bush economy."
That Greg's Meat Market will still be Greg's even without Greg Wry walking the grocery aisles is testament to the strength of a good business and of the loyal following he created.
My childhood friend Toby Huss is an actor. He lives in Los Angeles and actually makes a living playing characters on TV and in the movies. Google him, you'll be surprised how far a boy from a small town in Iowa can go when he heads to the bright lights of New York City, and the brighter lights of Tinseltown, with dreams, drive and a natural affinity for outrageous behavior.
A "perfect storm" of forces is making Vermont school boards' task of preparing budgets for the 2010-11 school year more difficult than at any time in recent memory. The contributors to this storm are declines in the education grand list, the strain on the state's General Fund, and the fall in the number of students age 5 to 18.
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"Black Lives Matter" was spray-painted in large letters on the exterior of the Fraternal Order of Police's lodge on Monday.
A police spokesperson also says the windows of an FOP van in the parking lot were broken out, and someone cut the wires to surveillance cameras.
Police think the incidents happened at around 4 a.m. Monday morning.
Despite the cut wires, there is still surveillance footage of the suspect.
The person in the video appears to be white, and is wearing a hoodie.
If you have any information about the vandalism, call Asheville Police or Crime Stoppers at 828-255-5050.


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Caillou "Caillou Outdoors!" Shoo, Shoo Bird, Fly Away - When birds keep eating the seeds in Mommy and Caillou's newly planted garden, they come up with the idea of making a scarecrow. It's fun picking out the clothes and drawing pictures for the face too. Caillou even imagines he's a scarecrow himself! When they are finished their scarecrow Rosie's noisy pie plates prove to be the final ingredient needed to scare away the birds! Caillou's Road Trip - One fine day the family is going on a car trip. D
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Barney & Friends "Movement and Bj's Snack Attack" Movement: When some of the children in the park invite Barney to join them for a race, BJ and Baby Bop decide he'll need their help. They show him several ways to get ready for the big race by warming up and stretching. By the end of the day, everyone finds out that there are many fun ways to exercise. D
1:30 pm
Thomas & Friends "Being Happy with Me" Being Percy - Percy is impressed when he sees that all the engines make way for Gordon when he enters Brendham Docks. Percy thinks the engines never listen to him nor make way for him on the tracks. Percy decides that he is going to be more like Gordon so he starts to imitate him. D
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Curious George "Monkey Down Under/Bright Lights, Little Monkey" Monkey Down Under - G'Day Mate! George and The Man with the Yellow Hat visit the land down under for an Australian outback safari adventure! While the Man goes sightseeing for sea cows, George stays behind to investigate footprints in the sand. Could it be a mysterious hopping clown rabbit? Or perhaps.a baby kangaroo! Bright Lights, Little Monkey - George, Allie, and Bill go on a late-night search for a mysterious creature - the Perseids. D
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Author Notes: Pisco is a grape brandy from Peru that first arrived in San Francisco since before the Gold Rush. Born in San Francisco, the Pisco Punch is one of the most important drinks in San Francisco's cocktail history. It was first made by Duncan Nicol in the late 1800's at the Bank Exchange in North Beach, but the bartender took his secret recipe to the grave and the cocktail disappeared shortly thereafter due to Prohibition.
The inspiration for this recipe came from The Pisco Book by Gregory Dicum, which includes versions by Pisco historian Toro-Lira and Pisco mixologist McDonnell. Since I like to cook, I decided to make my own simple syrup for this recipe. My goal was to create a cocktail that is simple and accessible, but also with flavors that are rich, crisp, and refreshing. The pineapple garnish is a visual reminder of the main ingredient in the original recipe, and the crunchy apple adds a nice contrast and texture.
Before Prohibition, there were 3 things every tourist had to do when visiting San Francisco: watch the sunset over the Golden Gate, ride a street car, and drink a Pisco Punch. Kipling wrote that the Pisco Punch was composed of the shavings of cherub's wings, the glory of a tropical dawn, and the red clouds of sunset. Today, Pisco is part of a cocktail renaissance in its North American home, and this cocktail pays homage to the beautiful historical connection between Peru and San Francisco.
—Pisco Trail
Serves: a single 4 oz. cocktail
ounces Pisco
ounce pineapple juice
ounce sugar
teaspoon finely diced apple
teaspoon finely diced pineapple
ice cubes
- Make the pineapple flavored simple syrup by mixing the pineapple juice and sugar in a small saucepan, bringing to a boil, and stirring until the sugar is dissolved.
- Mix the Pisco, pineapple simple syrup, and juice of 1 lime in a cocktail shaker. Add 4 cubes of ice and shake for 30 seconds.
- Place 1 teaspoon of finely diced apple and 1 teaspoon of finely diced pineapple in a 4 oz. cocktail glass.
- Serve the cocktail strained over the fruit garnish.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Punch


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The New York Power Authority and New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation on Tuesday marked the completion of a $6 million upgrade at Reservoir State Park in the Town of Lewiston and Town of Niagara at a ceremonial ribbon-cutting.
The improvements include renewed ball fields, basketball and tennis courts and other recreational and landscaping measures for enhancing the 133-acre park.
The refurbishing of the park stemmed from NYPA commitments under an agreement with OPRHP preceding the relicensing of the Niagara Power Project by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in 2007. The park, which is owned by NYPA and operated and maintained by OPRHP with financial support from NYPA, is within the boundary of the 2,441-megawatt hydroelectric plant, along the south side of the facility's Lewiston reservoir.
Although stemming from commitments that NYPA made in support of the relicensing of the Niagara Power Project, the measures at Reservoir State Park are consistent with the importance given by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to park improvements in Western New York and throughout the state to enhance New York's scenic beauty and promote recreational opportunities and tourism. This includes the governor's New York Works initiative for strategic investments in infrastructure and rehabilitation of parks.
"The measures that we took at Reservoir State Park are sure to heighten the enjoyment by visitors of the varied attractions, whether it's playing team sports, hiking or picnicking on the beautiful grounds," said John R. Koelmel, NYPA chairman. "This is a sparkling example of the recreational benefits emerging from the relicensing several years ago of the Niagara hydroelectric plant. It also speaks of the collaborative relationship of NYPA and State Parks on behalf of Western New York."
"The Reservoir State Park upgrade underscores the Power Authority's commitment to Western New York beyond the low-cost hydropower from our Niagara Power Project that underpins tens of thousands of industrial jobs," said Gil C. Quiniones, NYPA president and CEO. Under the leadership of Governor Cuomo, the Power Authority will continue to work closely with State Parks and the others who partnered with us in the Niagara (Power) Project's relicensing to bolster the region's recreational and environmental resources and improve the quality of life for the area communities."
"We are incredibly grateful to NYPA for their contribution in restoring this very popular and extremely busy park. The upgrades provided through its efforts have certainly made this park far more accessible and attractive and we are certain it will be well used year-round," said OPRHP Commissioner Rose Harvey
Some of the improved Reservoir Park features include:
•Redeveloped ball diamonds, with "Mar-Co Clay," a specially developed material that provides a safer surface and better drainage for the infields.
•New infield lighting installations that now make night games possible.
•Regraded and seeded soccer fields.
•New basketball, street hockey and tennis courts.
•A new lighted ice-skating rink.
•New, safer equipment for the playground, which is now accessible to special-needs children.
•A new winter pavilion, or warming building, for observation at the sledding hill and other winter activities at the reservoir dike area, with the building open year-round.
•Enhancements to the park's Workers Memorial.
•A walking path in the southern area of the park that is accessible to people with disabilities.
•An improved model airplane landing field and access path.
•A repaved path to the top of the Lewiston reservoir dike.
•New kiosks and signage.
•New shrubs, trees and meadow plantings.
The Power Authority utilized the services of a number of Western New York firms for the extensive work at Reservoir State Park. They included Wendel Duchscherer Architects of Buffalo, which provided engineering and landscape architecture services, and Mark Cerrone Inc. of Niagara Falls, which provided the general contracting services for the overall initiative.
Under the Niagara project's relicensing agreement with OPRHP, NYPA pledged to undertake approximately $9.3 million in improvements to recreational facilities operated by State Parks within the project boundary. In addition to Reservoir State Park, this includes Artpark State Park and the Niagara Gorge area.
Agreements with other parties stemming from the relicensing included funding of $9 million a year for the Niagara River Greenway; the creation of a $12 million fund for construction of eight habitat improvement projects at designated areas outside the Niagara Power Project's boundaries to protect fish and wildlife within the Niagara River basin; and capital improvements to enhance public access to the Niagara River in the area of the power project.
In addition to recreational and environmental improvements, NYPA is providing hundreds of millions of dollars of further benefits for Western New York over the 50-year relicensing agreement. The benefits include annual funding to the seven municipal members of the Niagara Power Coalition known as the host communities, and to other area relicensing partners under separate agreements; and allocation of low-cost hydropower to the host communities and other settlement partners for substantial savings on electric bills.
Among others commenting on the improvements were:
State Sen. George Maziarz said, "After more than 50 years of use, it was time to reinvest in the park's ball diamonds, courts and other amenities. I am pleased to see the needed repairs and additional improvements, like the warming house by the sledding hill, which will increase the use of this regional asset."
William L. Ross of Wheatfield, chairman of the Niagara County Legislature, said, "Reservoir Park is a jewel for sports enthusiasts and that jewel looks even better now that this refurbishment is complete."
Town of Lewiston Supervisor Steve Reiter said, "The newly renovated Reservoir State park provides a wonderful complement to the town's own recreational facilities, giving Lewiston residents a myriad of outstanding choices for parks and recreation. With other improvements targeted by Niagara River Greenway funds, Lewiston residents can benefit from the resources of the Niagara Power Project, State Parks and the town for improved quality of life."
Town of Niagara Supervisor Steven Richards said, "The Town of Niagara is often called the 'retail hub of Niagara County,' but just down the road from the mall at the opposite end of town sits another important feature. Reservoir State Park and our nearby town park funded with Niagara Project relicensing money form a recreation hub of which any community would be envious."
Don Joyce, softball league president, said, "The improvements to Reservoir State Park and, in particular, the softball fields and restroom facilities, have returned this park into the premiere place to run softball leagues and tournaments. The lighted diamond extends the time frame to get more games played and provides a big league feel to small town fun."


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Loss at ETSU in A-Sun Tourney ends season
The Bisons soccer team played ETSU for the second time in a little more than a week, but the outcome was the same, a 3-0 loss. The Bisons, the No. 6-seed in the Atlantic Sun Tournament, were eliminated Saturday afternoon by No. 3-seed ETSU in Johnson City. The Bisons gave up a pair of goals in the first half with the first one knocked in by a Lipscomb defender at 18:02. ETSU scored its first official goal of the game at 26:39 when Aaron Schoenfield scored on a header. At 73:27 of the second half ETSU iced the game with a third goal when Andrew Brown scored on a breakaway. Brent McGee took the loss for the Bisons. He made three saves. Scott Rosman made three saves for ETSU for the win. The Bisons had seven shots, three on goal with Evan McGee and Miguel DaSilva each making two attempts. ETSU was credited with 10 shots, including six shots on goal. It was the last college game for Bisons defender Kezi Lara, an A-Sun All-Conference Second Team selection for the past two seasons. The Bisons finished the season with a 6-10-3 record, 3-4-2 in the A-Sun. ETSU, 6-8-3, 4-4-1, advances to play Stetson.


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Friday, November 21, 2008
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity
Bill O'Reilly, born in 1949, seems to have always been a bit of a rebel despite his upbringing by Depression era parents. Many of his core beliefs, such as spending wisely and saving for the future, come from that upbringing and, in fact, the core belief central to his makeup, a strong feeling that people should be treated fairly in life and that evil must be confronted and challenged, comes from watching his own parents struggle to make their way.
O'Reilly watched his father trade job security for a lifetime of stagnation in a job that never rewarded him the way he deserved to be rewarded and, as a result, the younger O'Reilly chose to be the free agent that he is today. Being an independent, as O'Reilly calls himself, allows him to look at both sides of an issue without having to worry about official party lines or whom he might offend by his position on any particular issue. His willingness to challenge those with whom he disagrees, especially those he believes to be playing unfairly or unethically, makes O'Reilly into an equal-opportunity offender. Most of the time, he has the Democratic faithful screaming for his head; at other times, the screaming comes from Republican Party faithful.
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity is filled with stories from O'Reilly's childhood and early career, stories that give insight into how one rebellious, non-conformist kid with a low attention span became the anti-evil crusader he is today. Whether it was designing a plot to get even with a neighbor who confiscated his group's rubber ball when it went onto his property or driving the nuns at his Catholic school to distraction, O'Reilly was developing the nonconformist personality that he uses so effectively today.
But there is more to the man, much more. He has a sentimental side, and a hardcore loyalty to his oldest friends, that he seldom displays in public. Friends come and go in life, usually because circumstances change and neither side makes the special effort required to maintain contact over the years. O'Reilly refuses to let that happen. He feels a special bond with the people he grew up around and those he met at university or early on in his public career, and he is determined to maintain those friendships, often organizing group events that bring together a dozen or two people at a time.
The bottom line for Bill O'Reilly is that he absolutely detests unfairness and those who make their way in life by taking advantage of others. He is a firm believer in self-reliance but he knows that self-reliance works only in a social and economic system that is based on fairness. He hates the world of special privileges and, when he finds people gaming the system, he calls them out, a habit that makes a lot of people very uncomfortable.
O'Reilly lives by a simple philosophy, really. He believes that "you either fight active evil or you accept it. Doing nothing is acceptance. There is no in-between." As he puts it, "When it is all over, when you are dead...your legacy will be defined by two simple questions: How many wrongs did you right, and how many people did you help when they needed it?"
Like him, take him or leave him, love him, or hate him, it's hard to argue with that philosophy.
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"it's hard to argue with that philosophy"ReplyDelete
Which is why, if I am ever lucky enough to meet Bill O'Reilly, I will punch him square in the face as hard as I can. If all goes according to plan, I will dislodge his jaw and he'll have to have it wired shut.
Fighting active evil, indeed.
Yeah, that's the answer to disagreeing with someone.ReplyDelete
I have to tell you that I would be more impressed with your threat if you hadn't made it anonymously.
I have to stay anon when I'm discussing B&N policy. Why? B/c I love my job.
Hopefully you can use the info that I provided to challenge your local SM to be a better public servant. When you speak to him again, ask "Why doesn't your store shortlist remainders to meet customer demand?"
When he gives you the runaround, tell him that you know, for a fact, that B&N doesn't stop it's managers from meeting any customer need.
If he is still resistant, call B&N customer service @ 800.422.7717 and explain your story to them. Tell them about the difference between the stores in your market and let them know how douchey the SM was to you.
You'll get results if you persist. I guarantee it.
PS. Bill O'Reilly is the kind of guy who makes you feel it's OK to "fight" when you are defending yourself, and then cries foul when others defend themselves. He is an aggressive, factually-challenged bully. He screams "shut up" at his guests < http://www.slate.com/id/2200298/ > and then denies it ever happened.
The sooner his kind is eliminated from public discourse, the better we all shall be.
Thanks for the additional info regarding B&N. I was in the stores yesterday and planned to mention the problem again but the store manager I needed to see was not in the store. I went to the other location later in the day and found a Denise Mina book marked down, bought the Wally Lamb bestseller, and found the John Harvey novel I posted about a few days ago.ReplyDelete
I find myself much more willing to shop for full-price books after picking up a bargain or two. That's why I think the other doofuss is making such a mistake by not stocking more of the markdowns.
As for O'Reilly, I tend to agree with him more often than not. Even when he's on the other side of an issue than I am, though, I find his confrontational approach to almost always be just fine. That's, I suppose, because I enjoy seeing certain egotistical types have their mistakes and unethical behavior thrown back in their faces. I especially enjoyed his confrontation with Barney Frank, one of the biggest hypocrites in Congress (that's quite an achievement because most of them are hypocrites to one degree or another). Don't get me wrong - the man irritates me plenty of times and I am totally aware that he has a huge ego. I just see his willingness to play hardball by attacking both sides, both parties, as refreshing.
Goodness in action,ReplyDelete
compassionate deeds, do
help people. As do kind words
of encouragement. I believe
that evil has no desire nor can tolerate being anywhere
near a loving conciousness. I
suspose that is why it seems to be
peeking out all through O'Rielly's
perverse spinning of facts in the zone of his egomanical battles & behaviors. Kate H.
when i'm off duty, i make sure i watch the o'rielly factor on weekdays.i like his ideas and comments about politicians and the system.i became a huge fan of his that i asked my folks in the US to buy me a hardcover ed of a bold fresh piece of humanity.can't wait to get my hands of the book and read it.ReplyDelete
I hope you've received and enjoyed your copy of the book by now, Anonymous.ReplyDelete
Where are you, by the way?


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Fiserv Inc.'s buyout of Open Solutions Inc. is good for credit unions. Or it's very bad.
Reaction varied to the news that the Wisconsin-based financial services technology giant had scooped up its debt-ridden former rival.
"I think this will prove to be good news for the credit union industry," said Christine Barry, a research director at Aite Group in Boston.
- Jan. 14, 2013 Fiserv Buys Open Solutions
- Jan. 15, 2013 Fiserv CEO Touts Integration in Open Solutions Buy
Barry noted that credit unions often depend on their core processor for their other services – such as bill pay and online banking – and said Fiserv can profit from cross selling while offering users of Open Solutions' CUnify and DNA platforms solutions they previously had to get elsewhere.
"Now Fiserv can invest in the DNA product in ways that Open Solutions could not afford to," Barry said.
Kirk Drake, president/CEO of Maryland-based business continuity CUSO Ongoing Operations LLC, had a different take on the purchase announced this week.
"I think the acquisition of OSI by Fiserv is terrible for credit unions," he said Wednesday "Anytime choice is eliminated or one company controls that much market share, innovation and product advancement suffers.
"Fiserv's entire goal is to maximize profits – that goal is completely counter to a credit union's mission and purpose. This conflict creates never ending lousy customer experience, poor service and poor focus on helping customers achieve their goals."
Drake added, "Credit unions need to fight to have choice and innovation in their technology or they will become commoditized like the rest of the banking industry."
Robert Hunt, senior research director at CEB TowerGroup in Boston, noted the strengthening of Fiserv's competitive position and said the price tag – $55 million in cash and $960 million in assumed debt – caught his eye.
"I would say the price is high, especially because of all that debt they took on, and I think the key is Fiserv's ability to sell products and services into that new customer base. That's something Fiserv has done before very successfully with their acquisitions in the past," he said.
To be seen is how Connecticut-based Open Solutions' 1,400 or so employees and its 300 or so credit union core processing clients will fare under their new owners.
Scott Cowan, vice president of sales and marketing for document management specialist Millennial Vision Inc. in Salt Lake City, said he wasn't surprised that Fiserv ended up owning Open Solutions.
"With the reduction in the small credit union market space and the continued growth of the larger credit unions I think Fiserv would have been the logical choice as an acquisition partner," Cowan said.
"OSI's Oracle-based platform lets Fiserv add a different dimension to their core DP offerings in both the credit union and banking space," he added. "We wish their customers and employees well in their transition as we have many friends and joint customers on both sides of the house."
Fiserv President/CEO Jeff Yabuki said he doesn't expect DNA and Fiserv's flagship Acumen platform to co-exist and indicated the survivor would be DNA. He also said that the company's list of more than a dozen core platforms for community financial institutions would not necessarily shrink.
Time will tell, said one industry consultant.
"Fiserv is very experienced at acquiring other companies but also has been criticized for not rationalizing assets, for putting so many competing cores and lending solutions and online banking solutions out in the market," said Randall Pearson of Pearrari Solutions in Tucson, Ariz.
"They've been making progress on this and this presents an opportunity to do something about it. Why buy three cores? We'll just have to see which solutions come out the winners. I think it will be DNA," Pearson said.
He added, "Well, whenever these things happen, you hear the standard blather, 'nothing's going to change,' and so on. Well, we'll get past that part of it and be in in the reality part in a few months."


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Evergreen Energy is a renewable energy company that sells, installs and maintains solar photovoltaic (PV), solar thermal, wind energy, and geothermal heating and cooling systems. Located in central Connecticut, we service both residential and business customers.
Commercial Businesses and Homeowners located in Connecticut looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint and save money.
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Sites we like:
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|Wire and plastic cages in the van [Photo: P. Wiebe]
|Installing the VPR into the van [Photo: P. Wiebe]
After a few days of packing while in transit, our gear will soon be en route for Woods Hole: a truck picked up our storage van, our ethanol-preserved samples are traveling via refrigerated truck, some frozen samples are headed via cryo-pack, and some seawater samples are being driven up to Santa Barbara for nutrient analysis. The science party will soon be dispersing, heading to their various homes.
We all feel an enormous sense of accomplishment and I am very proud of our team. A few numbers to put the magnitude of this project in perspective:
Distance we traveled: 5269 nautical miles (6063 conventional miles)
Amount of fuel we burned: 40,476 gallons
Number of days we spent at sea: 34 days
Approximate cost of that shiptime: Somewhere around $800,000
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I'll sign off for now with a very nice movie Liza Roger made of a Cavolinia uncinata. This pteropod was about 1 1/2 cm long. You can see by how it moves why they're called sea butterflies, and hopefully can see why we find these animals so charismatic.
Tune in again soon for our next field effort!


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Enjoyment comes when you are in complete silence, in a rippleless lake. The reflection of all the joy that is created on the shores of that lake is completely reflected. It is not deflected.
The spirit reflects
God has created human beings…and now He wants to see His beautiful image in you people. So first of all, know that your mirror is your spirit. That is the mirror you have got which you can see, which doesn't know its beauty, doesn't know anything, in the sense that it reflects the beauty of God within you.
The quality of the reflector
The spirit is eternal. It is all-powerful. It never loses its power whether we are old, young. Whatever condition we may be, the spirit has its own power all the time. But the reflection of the spirit in us, the light of the spirit in us depends on the quality of our reflector – how we are. And because of the quality being so poor sometimes, darkness is created within us. And in that darkness we do not know sometimes – even to that extent – that there is something beyond. If you learn how to surrender to the Primordial Kundalini, then your kundalini is immediately strengthened. It is like this: supposing you have a stone and you try to put anything on it. It wont reflect, Then you improve with the wood – still nothing will be reflected. Then you paint it – some reflection will come. Then you have the glass. The glass won't reflect. But if you use some mercury and make it a mirror, it will reflect – but still, it may not be the perfect mirror. So this is how the kind of a reflector you are. On that depends the kind of a reflection you get and the kind of personality you develop. So there should be no aim as such, but to be dissolved into the reality should be the desire within you.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- IOC President Jacques Rogge has backed Pat McQuaid to lead the International Cycling Union in its ongoing dispute with the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Rogge says the Olympic body does not currently plan on intervening in a dispute fueled by the Lance Armstrong doping case.
Asked for an opinion on cycling's leadership, Rogge says "we have confidence in Mr. McQuaid as president of the UCI."
The UCI and WADA's public spat has escalated since disagreeing last year on who should prosecute the Armstrong case.
McQuaid, who is an IOC member, and WADA leaders have clashed on how to deal with cycling's doping since the extent of cheating by Armstrong's teams was revealed by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
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Will John Sununu And Harold Ford Jr. Agree To Pay Netflix's Broadband Bill Next Month?
from the simple-request deptNot this again. I thought that we were well past lobbyists publishing op-ed pieces in which they flat out lied about how broadband pricing works. Almost exactly five years ago, we called out (then) telecom lobbyist Mike McCurry (a former Clinton press secretary) for his bizarre and ridiculous claim that Google got its bandwidth for free. We asked, if that was the case, if McCurry would agree to pay Google's bandwidth bill. McCurry never responded, though the astroturf group he ran at the time was clearly reading, since they took other comments of mine totally out of context at a later date.
It looks like we're in for a repeat with some other ex-DC folks-turned-sell-out lobbyists. This time, it's former Senator John Sununu and former Rep. Harold Ford Jr., shilling for "Broadband for America," claiming that Netflix gets its bandwidth for free. There are so many things wrong with this particular op-ed piece, which is so dishonest that the Mercury News should publish a full retraction and apology. But, for now I'll just make the same deal that I offered to McCurry five years ago:
If John Sununu and Harold Ford Jr. really believe that Netflix is getting a "free ride" with its bandwidth and this is somehow socially irresponsible and unfair, will they agree to pay Netflix's broadband bills for the rest of this year?Perhaps they can trade bandwidth bills with Netflix. I'm sure if they're willing to pay Netflix's bandwidth bill, Netflix would have no problem paying for their home DSL lines. Hell, maybe Netflix will even cover their mobile broadband accounts as well.
As for the rest of the op-ed, it's pretty funny. While they play up how Netflix "saves" $0.40 in postage by not having to use the mail, they ignore the fact that in order to stream movies, Netflix has to pay ridiculously high licenses. With disc rentals, it could buy one disc and rent it out many times. Not so with streaming licenses. It needs to pay a ton for those.
Then there's this bit of economic cluelessness:
Netflix argues that the marginal cost to the network providers of streaming a half-hour TV show to a residential customer is "one penny." This ignores the hundreds of billions of dollars in sunken network investments needed to create that one-penny marginal cost efficiency at the customer's end.Um, yes, it does. And as most any economics professor will tell you, you're supposed to ignore the sunk costs in understanding how a market prices things competitively. Telling the market to do the opposite is the very definition of an anti-market, anti-efficient solution.
Consumers tend to pay more when they consume more goods and services, and pay less when they consume less.And, contrary to the claims in the article, Netflix pays more when its users consume more. Again, will Sununu and Ford pay Netflix's bandwidth bill?
The reality is that Netflix and similar services want a free ride on the networks built with more than $250 billion in design, engineering, manufacturing, construction and maintenance -- a system that now provides broadband services to 95 percent of American households.Hey, you know what? I spent a lot of money building Techdirt. All of you now owe me money. Apparently that's how Sununu and Ford view market functions. If one party spends a lot of money on something, everyone else is just required to pay. Of course, back here in the real world, that's not how things work. Various broadband companies (with massive taxpayer subsidies, by the way) built out broadband networks because they knew it would be profitable to do so. They made their bet and made their deal. Now they're trying to change the deal by pretending that someone's not paying. They're lying. What they really want is for service providers to pay twice for the same bandwidth. Netflix is already paying for its bandwidth. Consumers already pay for their bandwidth. Sununu and Ford (and really, the telcos they represent) are really trying to get Netflix to pay again, pretending that they should pay for the bandwidth that consumers already paid for, even though Netflix is already paying for that bandwidth. This is about trying to double charge.
If broadband providers are so hard up for cash, then just let them raise rates. Nothing is stopping them from doing that. But that's not what this is really about. This is about trying to force Netflix to double-pay for consumers' bandwidth as well.
So, once again, John Sununu and Harold Ford Jr.: since you insist that Netflix is getting a free ride, will you pay Netflix's bills for the rest of the year? Or will you pull a Mike McCurry and simply ignore this simple challenge and go on pretending that Netflix doesn't pay?
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From the beginning of 2011 to May 2013, Alvin, the U.S. science community's only human-occupied submersible dedicated to deep-sea research, underwent a thorough overhaul and upgrade to greatly enhance its capabilities. In the end, the iconic sub was redesigned and rebuilt, piece by piece, by a one-of-a-kind team of engineers, technicians, and pilots at WHOI.
Megan Carroll and Kaitlyn McCartney worked on the foam pieces that provide buoyancy to Alvin and here they describe how the foam was made, fitted, and documented.
Megan: For the new Alvin, we re-used previously existing syntactic foam, but we also needed new foam pieces shaped specifically for this upgrade. I worked on designing the pieces, and also worked with the machine shops that machined raw foam blocks into the final shapes for the new sub.
Once we had final designs for the shapes we needed, we sent drawings to a machine shop, which bonded raw blocks of syntactic foam together and machined them into final shapes.
Kaitlyn: And then we finalized how to attach the foam to the sub's frame. That's when I got involved working with Megan, looking at the attachments and brackets.
Megan: When a foam piece comes back from the manufacturers, we check its dimensions. Then you fit it onto where it's supposed to sit on the vehicle, make sure that there aren't any interferences and that the clearances you allowed for are there. That's called "fitting it up" with the vehicle.
These particular blocks—one port and one starboard—are referred to as the "cheek blocks." We were making sure the opening of the foam over the Alvin's viewport was pretty well centered, and marking its final location. The cheek blocks fit around the sphere, with an inside curvature around the sphere and an outside curvature from top to bottom and fore to aft, so there are two different profiles to fine-machine.
Kaitlyn: Every piece of foam had its weight taken—in air and 'wet,' or in water. We had to prove that the brackets would hold the foam on the vehicle by withstanding stresses caused when they transition from water to air. Every piece of bracketry and long tie rods that tie foam pieces together and to the frame, all had to be individually analyzed.
Megan: … under various operational and emergency conditions.
Kaitlyn: Say if the submarine was transiting along the bottom and unexpectedly impacted something; is that force enough to cause a bracket to fail and release a piece of foam?
Megan: Because the foam is required for the vehicle to re-surface.We analyzed 16 foam pieces, the brackets, the bolt sizes and materials, the shape of the brackets, and the hole locations—things like, 'What's the spacing between the hole and the edge of the material? Where might it fail?
Kaitlyn: You know, 'Will a force take that bolt and rip it through that piece?' Then we did another analysis for the forces various inserts could withstand before pulling out of the foam. We started the analysis in August, and submitted it initially in December. It ended up just under 200 pages of calculations when printed.
Megan: I've been here since fall 1999, and I got involved with the Alvin Upgrade project probably the end of 2009.
Kaitlyn: I've been at WHOI since the start of 2011, and was brought into the Alvin project at the end of 2011. I worked on a lot of designs and calculations. It was nice to see the vehicle coming together. It's cool to see it on the computer screen, eight inches big every day, and then go and see it in person, and it's like, 'Wow,'—because you lose the scale sometimes. I know I do.
Alvin is owned by the U.S. Navy and operated by WHOI. The current upgrade has been funded largely by the National Science Foundation, with support from private donations to WHOI.


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In a bonus installment of HDNet Fights Video Vault, we look back at a March fight between World current Victory Road featherweight champion Marlon Sandro and Japanese challenger Tomonari Kanomata.
The fight took place on March 7 at World Victory Road's Sengoku Raiden Championships 12 in Tokyo and originally aired on HDNet.
Once you press play, don't blink.
Each week HDNet and MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) release a new and exclusive fight from the ever-growing HDNet Fights video library. Stunning knockouts, slick submissions and shocking finishes are the norm for this weekly feature. And Sandro vs. Kanomata is certainly no exception.
Sandro (15-1 at the time) came into the matchup with a chip on his shoulder after suffering a controversial split-decision loss to Michihiro Omigawa at Sengoku 9. The Brazilian sensation bounced back with a knockout win over Yuji Hoshino, but Sandro was hoping to make another statement in the fight with Kanomata.
Meanwhile, Kanomata (15-4-5 at the time), a longtime Pancrase and Shooto veteran, hoped to notch the most notable win of his career against Sandro. Kanomata brought a four-fight unbeaten streak to the event, though that run did include a pair of draws.
Would Sandro get back to winning ways, or would Kanomata impress in front of his countrymen?
Check out the embedded clip to watch the full fight.
Each week MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) and HDNet Fights (www.hdnetfights.com) team up for "HDNet Fights Vault," which offer a new and unique video from the organization's ever-growing fight library. The weekly feature is a continuation of a partnership MMAjunkie.com and HDNet formed earlier this year. For more information on HDNet, which broadcasts more MMA events than any other TV outlet, visit www.hd.net.


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Jacob exhaled a huge cloud of grey marijuana smoke as the 1986 Chevette barreled down the gravel back roads of rural North Dakota. Eliza squinted her youthful eyes; trying to focus as her hands gripped the wheel. It was well past midnight, and there's nothing more disorienting then the all encompassing darkness of the plains. The sky was crystal clear and as the light from the city retreated the milky way could be seen beginning to emerge out of the darkness. In the back seat lay a plastic kite still in the package. The floor of the old Chevy had accumulated months of convenience store food. Empty bags of chips intermingled with empty soda cans and candy wrappers. The kite had been purchased only 15 minutes earlier when Jacob had the idea to go to Wal Mart and "get stoned and fly kites".
Elizas foot slammed down on the breaks as they approached a fork in the road. The Chevette's tires slid and the car was engulfed in a dirty khaki cloud.
"What the fuck?!" Jacob exclaimed as a grin slowly crept up his face.
The chevette's engine idled as Eliza began to come to her senses. She then looked over at Jacob with her eyes wide open before she descended into laughter. She wasn't used to smoking so much weed. As she continued to laugh her eyes began to water and she managed to blurt out.
"I didn't know which way to…..fucking….go!"
Jacob's head fell back on the seat as he exhaled, still smiling.
"Let's just pull over here sweety"
As soon as the engine was turned off the change of atmosphere was instantaneous. Only the sound of crickets and a distant highway interrupted the otherwise dead silence. Jacob stayed inside the car, sparking the lighter above a bowl made from pipe fittings they bought from a local hardware store. Eliza sat on the hood, her eyes on the sky. She leaned back, allowing her back to soak up all the warmth of the engine as she gazed up at the stars. In an instant a flash of light skirted across the black sky. "Shooting star!" Eliza exclaimed. "Better make a wish quick" Jacob replied, his eyes now focused on assembling the kite which lay in his lap. Eliza closed her eyes as she tried to calm her mind so as to speak directly to the falling star wish gods. Then whispering she said "I wish, I wish that Jacob really loved….no. no. that's not a good wish. Maybe I'll fall in love again too. Once I go to college. wait. fuck. I need to wish. shit. Ok. I wish to know if god is.." Jacob interrupted her concentration and as she opened her eyes she saw him, kite in hand, with a stoned grin plastered across his face. "You're a dick" Eliza blurted out as her face morphed into a way that only a 15 year old girl's can. Showing pure disdain, naiveté, and fear all at once. "I'm sorry babe" he said, still smiling as he handed her the kite. Just then; another white streak skidded across the atmosphere. It was so bright that Jacob saw it in the reflection of the windshield. Eliza's anger quickly turned to a youthful sigh as she began to crack a smile. Jacob came closer to her and gave her a little peck and said "Looks like you got another wish". It was just the reason why she had fallen so hard in love with him. Even though Jacob was a complete fuck up he always had a way of being clever and thoughtful. Eliza looked back up at Jacob "So, you think it'll fly?" Eliza said. "Yeah, of course it'll fly. It was assembled by an expert pothead. I know all about the physics of building and shit." Jacob replied as he slowly walked away, the thimble of string slowly unwinding as he walked further and further into the darkness of the cornfields.
As Eliza began to scan the cornfields surrounding her an eerie feeling began to creep into her. At this point Jacob was at least 50 yards away, Eliza stood alone in front of her Chevette clutching the kite. And then another white streak across the sky. "Jacob!" she yelled. "Another one!". But she couldn't see Jacob anywhere. Desperation quickly set in. "Don't fuck with me!" she yelled into the darkness. Only crickets responded. "Jacob!" she screamed again. At this point another flash of light across the sky. But Eliza noticed that the light didn't burn out. It sat there hovering near the horizon before darting off in another direction. "Jacob what the fuck! We gotta go!". She tugged on the string and it went taught. Against every bone in her body she trudged slowly forward, pulling on the string and following it into the black cornfield. The light in the sky continued to do its dance. "Jacob?!". At this point the corn completely engulfed her, she gave the string another tug and saw a stalk of corn jolt against the black sky. He had tied the string around a corn stalk. Her mind began to race as she quickly turned around, making her retreat back to her car. The razor sharp leaves were cutting her forearms as she bounded out of the field onto the dirt road. "I'll leave the fucker here!" she thought to herself as she plunged her hand into her pocket in search of her keys. She was running as fast as she could to the car when she saw a small flash come from within the field behind the car. A small amber flash, it looked like a lighter. Eliza pulled the door open and slammed it behind her and thrust the keys into the ignition. The engine revved and just as she was about to pop the clutch she saw the same light flicker for a second. It was a lighter. It had to be Jacob. Rolling down her window she yelled "Get in the fucking car Jacob. Seriously. I'm leaving". No response. Only a flicker of light. "Have a fun walk back to town dickweed!". She popped the clutch and her tires spun on the gravel road.
It only took a few moments to realize she was driving away from the highway entrance. As she slowed she saw the light continue to dart back and forth across the sky. "Fuck Off!" she yelled at it while performing a three point turn in the middle of the road. With her car now back on track she noticed a light slowly getting brighter and brighter directly in front of her. "Probably just a pissed off farmer coming to see who's messing around in his field. It's gonna be ok." she said to herself. But this was no farmer. The light began to glow amber and blue and became so bright that she had to bring the car to a halt. A warmth began to fill her body as she closed her eyes from the blinding glare. She was at peace and completely relaxed.
Suddenly she felt her body being pulled from the seat and dragged across the road. The bright lights had made her completely night blind. She could see the light in the distance filling up the interior of her chevette. Her shoe came off and her foot scraped against the gravel cutting the bottom of her foot open. "Ahhhhh" her scream was cut short by a hand firmly pressed over her mouth. "Shhhhhhh" she heard. "It's ok babe". It was Jacob. His features were still blurry but it was him. She felt the same leaves scraping her skin. She was back in the corn field. As her vision came back she began to make out the image of Jacob with his finger over his mouth. "quiet. they hunt sound" he whispered. His arms held her firmly as she pressed her head into his shoulder. Looking out from the field she could still see her Chevette lit up like a Christmas tree. The light began to slowly dissipate as Eliza watched in awe, occasionally looking up at Jacob for verification as to whether it was ok to speak or not yet. And then in a flash, the light rocketed straight up into space. Becoming only as big as a distant star. It stayed in place for a moment, and then like that, it was gone.
Jacob broke the silence. "well, you want to smoke a bowl?" he said as if nothing had happened. Eliza should've been annoyed but the fact that everything was ok comforted her. "what…the….fuck…was that" Eliza stated with a shocked smile across her face. "Those, those were just drones. Kind of like alien paparazzi" Jacob stated still playing with Eliza's emotions a bit. Eliza crinkled up her nose and began to smile and then stated "And so, what are you?" . "Me? I'm the person in charge of protecting you, and I'm going to be in a shitload of trouble" Jacob said as he took Elizas hand while walking back to the car. "You're protecting me from what?" "Well, let's just say that far far away there are some people who really care a lot about you and they think you are perfect in every way. You give them hope for the future. Our relationship is being viewed far from this planet on something kind of like Tv". Eliza wasn't sure whether to be honored or frightened. They got back inside her chevette which was parked sideways in the road. All the wrappers were gone and the car was completely clean. Jacob blurted out laughing "haha, they took all your shit! probably going to end up on alien ebay!". Eliza was still in a state of shock but it was mixed with a new strange sort of self confidence . She slid the keys back into the ignition and started the car. As they buzzed down the dirt road Jacob looked over at her. "So should I pack another bowl?" Eliza's glanced at Jacob, the same guy she had fallen in love with months ago. "Yeah sweety, pack another one. Then lets go get some pizza."
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Found this recipe in Southern Living about 4 years ago and still make this recipe today. A perfect dinner for a delightful spring night. This recipe is a definite crowd pleaser :)
1 pound chicken breast tenders
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
2 large eggs
cooking spray
2 cups crushed tortilla chips
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Pat chicken dry with a paper towel and sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper.
2. Combine 1/3 cup flour and next 4 ingredients.
3. Next, whisk eggs just until foamy.
4. Place a wire rack coated with cooking spray on a 15- x 10-inch baking sheet.
5. Dredge chicken tenders in flour mixture, shaking off excess; dip in egg mixture, and dredge in crushed tortilla chips. Lightly coat chicken on each side with cooking spray; arrange chicken on wire rack.
6. Bake at 425 degrees for 18 to 20 minutes or until done, turning once half way through. These tortilla crusted chicken strips pair very well with this pineapple kiwi salsa.
2 (8-oz.) cans pineapple tidbits, drained
*of course fresh pineapple is always a good choice as well
2 kiwifruit, peeled and diced
2 tablespoons fresh cilantro leaves, finely chopped
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
1 teaspoon minced jalapeño pepper
Salt to taste
1. Stir together first 5 ingredients; add salt to taste.
juice of 1 lime
zest 1/2 lime
1 TBS chopped cilantro (add more if you like)
1/8 cumin
1/4 chili powder
salt to taste
Mix all ingredients and dollop over chicken and salsa!


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HRS is hosting a fundraising and educational booth at the Solano Stroll! Join us for a fun, hopefully sun-filled day on Solano Avenue. Sign up to volunteer for a few hours, and then check out all the other awesome booths, watch the parade, enjoy tons of yummy food, spread awareness about the plight of unwanted rabbits, and help HRS raise funds all at the same time!
Email email@example.com if you are interested in volunteering. Thanks!
Parents, older siblings, teachers, librarians, community and student leaders are encouraged to read to younger children every day for twenty minutes to impart simple, everyday ways to treat animals with kindness while fostering literacy skills and cooperation through creative playtime.
Participants in this class will learn the basics of a varied 20 to 30-minute presentation and receive a NBLB volunteer educator certificate, a training manual, a recommended reading list, a signed NBLB poster, and a copy of Rosemary Wells book, Read to Your Bunny. As a certified NBLB educator, participants will be encouraged to visit elementary school classrooms, after-school programs, churches, animal shelters and other venues to read to children and lead discussions — helping children develop critical thinking skillsand empathy. No Bunny Left Behind posters are available should volunteers want to hang them at local shelters, schools and churches.
Judy Hardin, founder of RabbitEARS Adoption Store in El Cerrito, an HRS member and humane educator (not yet but I will sign up immediately!!!), and guardian to six house bunnies.
Elianna Senturia, a long-time volunteer at RabbitEARS, an eighth-grader at Albany Middle School, a lover of all creatures and a certified No Bunny Left Behind volunteer educator.
Class Date: Saturday, Oct 6 2012
Time: 10am – 5pm, includes vegan lunch and snack
Fee: $55
Please join us for our first annual Halloween Party at the Rabbit Center! Check out the "haunted" shelter, meet & greet the bunnies, enter our costume contest, watch a screening of "Curse of the Were-Rabbit", and enjoy frighteningly delicious food! Please invite your family and friends, too!
Please join us for our annual holiday party on Saturday, December 1st, from 12 to 5 p.m. More details to come!
Help stuff the shelter bags and enjoy our Valentine Tea Party. We will have raspberry or regular tea, sparking cranberry juice, shortbread bunny valentine cookies, and bunny tembleque (coconut pudding) with fresh strawberries. The tea party will be free to volunteers who help stuff shelter bags for at least one hour and deliver bags to one of the shelters. For others, the tea party will cost $6.00. Please RSVP to email@example.com if you plan to attend!
Join us for our Annual Valentine Luncheon on February 10th in Benicia. The vegan luncheon will feature tangy Jamaican soup, red bell peppers stuffed with herbed Israeli couscous and pistachios, "hearty" salad, and your choice of chocolate ganache pudding or raspberry cloude souffle (vegetarian). The luncheon is $16.00 per person. Appetizers, coffee, and wine are $3.00 extra. Reservations and prepayment are required. Reservations or cancellations MUST be made at least 48 hours before the luncheon. Please call us at 510-970-7575 or email email@example.com to RSVP.


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Before Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled L.A. detective Philip Marlowe and his vivid literary prose caught the public's attention, before Billy Wilder's towering position as one of Hollywood's greatest writer-directors, there was a James M. Cain novel titled, "Double Indemnity."
The true story of how Chandler and Wilder made movie history with the book's screen adaptation in a collaboration that would launch not only their respective iconic careers, but the dark and edgy genre of American film noir, is the subject of playwright Mike Bencivenga's first-rate new comedy, "Billy & Ray," expertly crafted and well-cast in its world premiere run at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank.
It's an oil-and-water mix when tormented, down-and-out author Chandler (Shaun O'Hagan) and crude, lewd and brilliant Wilder (Kevin Blake) team up to adapt Cain's novel for the screen. Wilder is asked by Paramount producer Joe Sistrom (sympathetic Anthony Starke) to see what he can do with Cain's novel. Wilder's regular co-writer, however, wants nothing to do with it. Impressed with Chandler's stylish prose in short crime stories published in a popular pulp magazine, Wilder recruits him for the project, although he and secretary Helen (smart, wise-cracking Ali Spuck) are taken aback to find the author ascetic and dour, even prudish in person.
Chandler, it turns out, has never seen a screenplay before and doesn't consider it "real writing." Chandler, who took up writing later in life having lost a prestigious position in the oil industry in large part due to alcoholism, accepts the job simply because he's broke.
Wilder, recognizing that Chandler's disdain targets Cain and Wilder himself, takes perverse pleasure in goading his new writing partner with vulgarities and peripatetic pacing. Their comic back-and-forth, at times laugh-out-loud funny, doesn't hide the deeper dimensions that drive both men, revealed partly in the telling physicality that director Garry Marshall (assistant director Joseph Leo Bwarie is also credited) gives both lead actors. O'Hagan, in a tour-de-force of nearly continuous movement, uses the stage as both a defensive and offensive physical statement. For the most part, Blake's painfully self-contained Chandler remains seated, occupying one end of a sofa, briefcase close at hand, in what appears to be self-protective emotional confinement.
Yet despite the often hilarious personality-driven clashes, or perhaps because of them, it's clear that the two men spark off each other creatively, eventually turning Cain's steamy novel of adultery and murder into movie gold for all concerned. Blake and O'Hagan make believable the moments of connection between Wilder and Chandler as two gifted writers who can appreciate a good line or idea that will serve the script, despite their personal antipathy. Wilder may disparage Chandler's first attempt at a script, but loves his line, "I never thought that murder could smell like honeysuckle."
Bencivenga makes it clear that the two men are united, too, in their efforts to script a film for adults by circumventing the heavy-handed censorship of the Motion Picture Production Code that came into being in 1930 to protect the movie-going audience from corrupting depictions of sex and violence. Wilder and Chandler's ingenious plan to slip Cain's story of an adulterous wife and her lover who kill her husband for the insurance money past the gatekeepers of the public good: Show nothing, suggest and tell everything through first person narration, gloomy lighting and dark shadows, unsettling camera angles and facial close-ups, and an atmosphere of menace and moral ambiguity.
The carefully researched, colorful capture of time and place here extends to costume designer Terri A. Lewis' '40s-era styling and to Jeremy Pivnick's subtle lighting design, David Beaudry's evocative sound and Keith Mitchell's striking multi-room set — dark wood paneling, Venetian blinds and cantilevered angles — that suggest the noir aspects of both the film-to-be and the protagonist's real lives as well. These include Austrian immigrant Wilder's hidden concern for Jewish family members still in Europe and Chandler's anguish over past failures. (Professing that he doesn't drink and openly disapproving of Wilder's prodigious alcohol intake, Chandler takes surreptitious and foreshadowing gulps of bourbon from a bottle stashed in his briefcase).
The two men never worked together again. In his award-laden career, Wilder went on to craft some of Hollywood's most respected films, "The Lost Weekend," "Sunset Boulevard," "Some Like It Hot" among them. Warner Bros. turned Chandler's 1939 novel, "The Big Sleep," into that iconic Humphrey Bogart film classic and brought Chandler a public following as an author; his subsequent Philip Marlowe novels (and a couple of other screenwriting detours) ensured further monetary success and solidified Chandler's reputation as a literary stylist.
If in the end the production veers a tad toward pat sentimentality, it isn't enough to derail this truly inspired convergence of comedy, the creative process and real life.
What: "Billy & Ray"
Where: Falcon Theatre, 4252 Riverside Drive, Burbank
When: 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; 4 p.m. Sunday through next Sunday (April 28). Also 8 p.m. May 3-4, 4 p.m. May 5. Ends May 5.
Cost: $34.50-$42
More info: (818) 955-8101, falcontheatre.com
LYNNE HEFFLEY writes about stage and culture for Marquee.


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JT's MySpace
There was a MySpace launch party in LA last night. Miley Cyrus was there -- click here to see those photos. Justin Timberlake, co-owner, of MySpace was there too although he kept a relatively low profile. No carpet pictures and only shots from inside, and very few of those at that.
The event was in service of MySpace's redesign and a new app. Can JT bring MySpace back? Is there room among the Twitters and Vines and Tumblrs and more? God, what will his ego be like if he does?
I'm not qualified to comment on whether or not MySpace JT will be successful. The last I heard, from this hilarious TechCrunch article in January, was that it seemed like a mess...which, I suppose, is why the improvement was necessary. I'll let you let me know if the updates made a difference.
In the meantime, here's a video promoting the new MySpace that Justin tweeted yesterday. It's not particularly...original. Like it could be an ad for anything -- A&F, Apple, Coke, Justin Bieber's friends, whatever.


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Housing development could be on the rise in Osceola.
During a May 20 Osceola City Council meeting, the council spent a lot of time on the redevelopment efforts on the west side of the city, such as The Meadows, as well as zoning issues in the area.
First, the council approved the first reading of an "R-60" single-family residential district of the Osceola Zoning Ordinance. Single family means only one family can live in the dwelling.
"It only allows single families," said Dave Leonard, zoning administrator/building inspector, community development. "So, the attempt here for the future use of this, not just for this development, but will be to go into existing areas that are currently all single-family areas that have varying lot sizes … and rezone those areas to protect them from duplexes or three-plexes or quad-plexes in the future. There's been a lot of conversions all over town, and that's what we're going to try and use this R-60 tool to go in and protect some of those areas which are still uniformally single-family."
The Meadows
Next, the council held a public hearing on an ordinance rezoning The Meadows, Plat 1, to a single-family residential district.
Ty Wheeler, Osceola city administrator/clerk, said plat 1 comprises Truman Road and the north half of Primrose Lane. The council approved the first reading of the ordinance.
The council held another public hearing regarding the ordinance rezoning The Meadows, Plat 2, with "PUD." PUD stands for planned unit development, and Wheeler said the streets in the area are public roads yet to be named.
This is where some public frustrations were voiced because the council was also looking into having a development agreement with Kading Properties for the area.
The proposed development agreement for the development of The Meadows, Plat 2, called for no fewer than 42 single-family property lots and the construction of no fewer than 22 two-family dwellings, also known as duplexes.
Kading Properties shall be responsible for the design and construction of all infrastructure associated with the project. Kading will sell the lots for the single-family dwellings, but won't build the homes. However, they will build the duplexes, including the infrastructure and the grading.
Dan Novelli with Kading Properties said there would be sound abatement with a vegetative barrier for the noises from the trains, and it would be maintained by them.
Public frustration
Osceola resident Val Funk expressed concerns with the development with Kading Properties.
"I am not against the development of the property out there, but as a homeowner in that area, the number of duplexes that they are proposing to build out there is going to outnumber the number of single-family dwellings," Funk said. "And, since they are not planning on actually building the houses for the lots they are making available, we are going to be outnumbered in duplexes to houses, and I believe it's going to devastate our neighborhood. The house values that we have out there are going to drop into the sewer because people don't want to live next to that many duplexes."
There was a general public concern about building duplex dwellings for people with lower income but who also want to live in a larger dwelling.
Citizens attending the meeting had issues with Osceola being close to Des Moines and right off Interstate 35, because over time, the duplexes could potentially attract unfavorable people and the trafficking of drugs.
The council listened to the public's concerns, but also approved many first readings of the zoning ordinances.
The councilmen reminded the public that ordinances have to have second and third readings before they go into effect, which gives the council more time to look into potential issues.
However, the city council also approved going into a development agreement with Kading Properties.
At the end of the redevelopment discussion, Wheeler said he wanted to clarify the redevelopment project is really a resalvaging project because of a bad development deal in that area with Midwest Homes Incorporated.
Wheeler said city officials were approached by Kading Properties with development proposals to fix the housing problem made many year ago.
"The city, everybody, spent a lot of money 10 years ago and didn't get anything out of it," Wheeler said. "This is a salvage, this is a redevelopment project. It's trying to take, what I think is a bit of an eyesore, and, in terms of larger subdivision-type projects for the city and it's history, and trying to make the best we can out of it. But, unless we've got somebody willing to come to the table and participate, it's not going to happen. We're not going to put in sanitary sewer. We're not going to extend these streets without something coming in from a development standpoint to support it."


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NEWARK, N.J. – FBI agents in New Jersey sought the public's help Wednesday in identifying a woman seen in a child sex video.
Photos of the unidentified woman – known only as Jane Doe 39 – were being distributed along with information about the case.
She "may have critical information pertaining to the identity of a child victim in an ongoing sexual exploitation investigation," the bureau said.
The child seen having sex with her in a video was pixelated from screen captures.
The video was spotted by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in April 2016, the bureau said.
The woman being sought was described as Asian female, likely between 25-35 years old, with long black hair, who speaks Vietnamese.
At the time the video was produced, she was wearing a white, yellow, blue, and red floral dress.
Anyone with information about her whereabouts can submit a tip online at https://tips.fbi.gov/ , or call the FBI's toll-free tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI ( 1-800-225-5324 ).
This case is being investigated "as part of the FBI's Operation Rescue Me and Endangered Child Alert Program (ECAP) initiatives, both of which represent strategic partnerships between the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children," the bureau release says.
"Operation Rescue Me focuses on utilizing clues obtained through in-depth image analysis to identify the child victims depicted in child exploitation material, while ECAP seeks national and international media exposure of unknown adults (referred to as John/Jane Does) who visibly display their faces and/or other distinguishing characteristics in association with child pornography images," it says.
MORE INFO http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/ecap
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