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When you think of shorts, you probably automatically envision a casual day running errands or just hanging out in the backyard (ha, backyard). Rarely, would you think of shorts as formal, but as of late, shorts have taken a turn towards formal. Celebrities have opted for shorts on the red carpet and have dressed up even their casual cut offs with feminine blouses. So, next time you're staring into the depths of your closet trying to figure out what exactly to wear, don't forget about your abbreviated pants (also known as shorts). Dressed up with heels and a sexy blouse, you have another option for a warm weather evening look that is anything but expected.
1. Vince Half Placket Blouse, $285, 2. alice + olivia Leather Shorts, $198, 3. Belle by Sigerson Morrison Felicia Dip Wedge Booties, $325
1. Calvin Klein Jacket, $129, 2. cut25 Soft Crepe Drapey Top, $150, 3. alice + olivia Butterfly Shorts, $187, 4. KORS Michael Kors Brookton T Strap Platform Sandals, $295
1. Nasty Gal Laced Tail Blouse, $48, 2. Current/Elliot The Gam Shorts, $168, 3. Rochas Criss Cross Suede and Leather Wedge Sandals, $340
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Ryan Pierse, Getty Images They say time heals all wounds, but not enough time has passed for DJ Lethal to let his ousting from Limp Bizkit go. While tweeting back and forth with some of his followers, Lethal let loose with a number of barbs against his former mates. Theprp.com reports that the conversation started with the Lethal digging in on the news that his old band's new single was going to be ' Pain .' He stated, "Don't get me started. 'Pain'??? Really. Come on. LP is making better songs. R&Bizkit?!??!??? FaCEPALM." He would add, "I like Linkin Park better than Limp Bizkit. Haaa. At least they still make music, not sell out. I used to rock!?!' From there he added, "I used to do it for the nookie. I'm lucky I didn't get an STD. But if I went the Paris/Kim way, you would know. Bad luck. Rockstar with a LIL PP." In another tweet, he added, "Basically Fred [Durst] is 43 years old. How long can that dude do it for the NOOKIE? Don't get me wrong there was a time when he wrote his own lyrics." Lethal also cited his love for Korn and Deftones , and added, "Because the lead singer of those bands can SING. Lb now = gangban." He would follow stating, "Honestly, Limp Bizkit stole they're qhol # style from Deftones. Vocally!!!" When a Twitter follower attempted to back Limp Bizkit, Lethal added, "I hate a–holes that judge me for leaving a 'band' I was in for 15 years. Your like a f-n moose that got lucky!! F— Fred Durst. I was talented and was an artist own before u even knew who Fred was. If tout gonna be a #wigger, than do your homework. #houseofpain bitch!" He also defended his right to speak his mind, adding, "Don't like it, f— off. U like Wes [Borland] new moustache? F— you! You think Fred is a better rapper than MGK? FU." Before signing out, the DJ concluded, "Ok, yeah I'm drunk talking s—. No I know who my REAL friends are. If you're not one of them, unfollow and f— off." Editors Note: By Saturday morning, a majority of the tweets had been removed. [button href="http://loudwire.com/dj-lethal-offers-scream-the-metal-preview-launch-post-limp-bizkit-career/" title="Next: DJ Lethal Previews 'Scream the Metal'" align="center"]
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that was funny....yea you should of made them all flaming machetes...pansy
Sam is basically right, he's just cranky.
Vivec, you're the best forum member ever.
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How the hell was I supposed to know who they were? They're some obscure 30 year old hippy band.
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(CNN) – As support for Newt Gingrich surges in Iowa, Mitt Romney's lead has dwindled in New Hampshire, according to new polls measuring support for candidates in the early caucus and primary states.
In a poll released Sunday, former House Speaker Gingrich has risen to the top in Iowa and former Massachusetts Gov. Romney remains ahead in New Hampshire, with competitors catching up.
The NBC News/Marist Poll indicates Gingrich has 26% support among likely Republican caucus-goers 30 days from the first GOP presidential nominating contest in January. Eighteen percent said they back Romney with Texas Rep. Ron Paul close behind at 17%.
The margin between Gingrich, Romney, and Paul falls within the sampling error for the survey.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry tied with businessman Herman Cain, who suspended his presidential campaign Saturday, at 9% each. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, who won the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa last August, tied with former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum at 5% support, followed by former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who received 2% in the survey.
In October, Romney carried 26% support while Gingrich netted only 3%. Now that Cain has suspended his campaign activities, the poll shows likely GOP caucus-goers may shift their support to Gingrich, who was the second choice among Cain supporters. And Gingrich's advantage over Romney widens among likely caucus-goers who describe themselves as conservative by a 34-to-20% margin.
Nine percent said they remain undecided in Iowa, and only four in 10 strongly support their choice of candidate.
In New Hampshire, Romney is still leading but is increasingly threatened by Gingrich, the poll found.
One month ago, Romney earned 45% support, with his closest opponents in the low teens. Now Romney's support has fallen to 39%, with Gingrich earning 23%.
However, Romney still comes out ahead when asked who voters think could defeat President Barack Obama in 2012. The poll found both Romney and Paul would be competitive in a hypothetical match-up against Obama, while Gingrich lags the president by 10 points in the match-up.
The poll also shows more voters are making up their minds about the candidate they will support. Forty-nine percent of likely Republican New Hampshire primary voters said they "strongly support" their pick.
Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman also drew support, at 16% and 9% respectively. Herman Cain, who only recently came in second in several state polls, earned only 2%. Michelle Bachmann and Rick Perry received 3%, and Rick Santorum 1%.
The NBC News/Marist Poll in Iowa was conducted by telephone from November 27-29 among 425 likely Republican caucus-goers. It has a sampling error of plus-or-minus 4.8 percentage points.
The NBC News/Marist in New Hampshire was conducted by telephone from November 28-30 among 696 likely Republican primary voters. It has a sampling error of plus-or-minus 3.7 percentage points.
Also see:
Cain suspends presidential campaign
Reporter's Notebook: The Rise and Fall of the real Herman Cain
Cain Iowa supporters: Media 'took a good man down'
Romney – you never had a chance.
Newt – you don't either.
Great to watch these GOP filthy Rich Clowns....Nation needs Obama....Obama2012.
I would love to be President Obama if Newt becomes the nominee. Picture this scenario @ the debates – President Obama makes an opening statement – then yields the floor to Newt. Newt begins do babble – Obama lets him go on-and-on- and-on until Newt finally "steps in it". Obama's response – "I don't think I need to say anything – Newt proves that I deserve to be re-elected"! The more Newt talks – the better Obama looks.
I always think by the one someone else will win the primary. No newt! No Romney! No Ron! No Bachmann! No Santorum!
He is the moderate Republican. The one with no baggage. No flip flopper. Smart and very experience in domestic and international affair.
He is no Rino just like Tea party like to downgrade moderate Republican. He is just Republican.
I am a Democrat and I would vote fo him if he won primary. Other than that? I have no choice than to give my vote for that Hawaiin boy!
LOL love it!!! Ron Paul is second right now and yet some still claim he can't win. How delusional can you be?! Romney is the one not going to make it. =)
It was only a matter of time until Romney sunk like a lead weight. And the Republicans pushing unelectable Newt like he has any real chance himself just reeks of desperation without a clue.
You've got to be kidding me. I've already got my Obama 2012 sticker so from a left-view Mitt is the only candidate that isn't going to alienate independents. Perry is Bush 2.0 with more "God power" but less brain power. Paul is a pipe-dream for republican hippies, and Bachmann... yuck. Mitt's not going to win but he's going to give the democrats the most run for their money. Let's keep this spirited and not be a blow out. We want to feel like we earned Obama's reelection not like we beat up on a stupid monkey (Perry)
I have held back from saying to much about gingrich because I actually supported him in the 90s.
Sicne then I have followed him closely. I expect most politicians to be dishonest. I expect some (maxine waters for example) to have such a personality flaw that they cant help but steal and lie.
I have found few that can talk out of both sides of his face like newt. He is in perpetual spin cycle and must be a firm believer in the mantra "tell a litttle truth with many lies".
I wouldnt vote for him to be president of any establishment and certainly not my country.
GOP candidate field = NO WHERE NEAR GOOD ENOUGH TO EVEN CONSIDER VOTING IN THAT DIRECTION!
As Many say in here. America needs to wake up. Romney is the adult and moral man in this group of GOP candidates. It looks so, so, so, racist to think that Herman was accused and it is now out of the race because of sex and cheating scandals and now you have a adulterer front runner. Come on !!! How stupid that is. Gingrich only cares about himself and for sure you will not have a balanced government with him. I want to just scream out to the world how much of a bad person he is and president will be.
And Republicans still haven't realized yet that every single one of their candidates are trash?
I hope and pray that Gingrich doesn't get any more supports becuase what he said about the children below the proverty level really bothers me. I wouldn't want that kind of person running my country at all. If he thinks that about children, its quite clear how he feels about the adults, and then said it was a fact, where's the proof. People don't just wake up one morning and deciede to be in proverty. I'd rather Romney, win myself. These republicans do throw a lot of dirt to divert away from the real issues, and to me these other things just don't matter if they don't help America. I really wish Bill could come back.
Salfist Republican's for Newt! Let's nominate Newt and blow up the Grand Old Party in 2012...
Let's remember, Newt famously dumped wife #1 for wife #2 while wife #1 was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. As in literally went to the hospital to present her with divorce papers while she was recovering from surgery for uterine cancer.
He eventually dumped wife #2 for wife #3 shortly after wife #2 was diagnosed with MS back in 1999. And he was having the affair on wife #2 with wife #3 while he was turning the country upside down trying to drive Bill Clinton from office over his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Newt and mostly members of the Republican party have used third party sources for years to arrange payoffs, promised silence by women that expect some money and cooperation from whoever it's needed. Jewelry purchases almost look legitimate for this purpose.
We need someone that will step up to the plate. Harry Truman stepped up to the plate. Lyndon Johnson stepped up to the plate. Richard Nixon stepped up tp the plate. Ronald Reagan stepped up to the plate. All Obama does is vote present. Newt, like him or not will step up to the plate. Taking cheap shots at serious candiates is like Nero Fiddleing while Rome burns. And make no mistake about it, the Annointed one ihas no clue where the fire is.
So here we go; another philanderer, adulterer, convicted felon, all around immoral human bring and life long politician. Find a real leader one that has ethics a a conscience not to mention integrity, would you please?!


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The Siren is still writing, oh yes she is. Here is an excerpt from her essay about It Happened One Night, part of the Blu-Ray package now available from the fine and fabulous folks at Criterion. You can read the Siren's essay in its entirety at their website.
It's been a particularly hard week for the world beyond the movie screen, and indeed a hard year. Frank Capra's joyous masterpiece was made at a time that was, in many respects, far harsher. Watching the film again (and again) and writing about the things that make it great was an uplifting experience. This movie has a true democratic spirit. This long weekend, you could do far worse than to watch It Happened One Night.
No matter what they watch, or whether or not they celebrate this American holiday, the Siren sends all her patient readers warm and loving Thanksgiving wishes.
Almost eighty years ago, the Academy Awards saw a clean sweep of its top five categories—screenplay, actor, actress, director, and picture—not by a grandiose epic or searing social drama but by a romantic comedy, a sparkling, gossamer thing about the love of a pampered heiress for a just-fired, often-drunk scamp of a reporter.
The film begins with the heiress already married to an obvious fortune hunter. Her father has imprisoned her on his yacht, demanding that she accept an annulment. She runs away on a Greyhound bus and finds herself mixed up with that scoop-hungry reporter. They spend one night together, then another. They fall in love. A bare plot synopsis hasn't got much heft. And yet after all these years, It Happened One Night (1934) is almost universally acknowledged as one for the ages, its gorgeous spirit haunting all the romantic road trips, all the unlikely courtships, all the bickering, smitten couples that have come after.
It's a movie both escapist and egalitarian. Director Frank Capra, that great American cheerleader, assures everyone that this fair country's wide-open spaces, while not without peril, are full of fellowship and democracy. Our land can bring out the good in Ellen Andrews (Claudette Colbert), who is so spoiled that, in the first scene, she flings an entire steak dinner out a porthole. Her father (Walter Connolly) delivers a roundhouse slap, a moment that shocks them both. But for a Great Depression audience, one that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would still describe, in 1937, as "one-third . . . ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished," wasting a lavish meal would have bordered on the criminal. Comeuppance must be on its way — and so it is, in the guise of reporter Peter Warne (Clark Gable). When Pete is introduced, he's on the phone with the editor who canned him. As an appreciative audience gathers to listen, Pete tilts a bottle of booze down his throat and defends an unprintably bad story with "That was free verse, ya gashouse palooka." He remains fired, of course, wasting something else that was scarce and precious in 1934: a job.
An ideal romantic comedy doesn't ignore reality; it converses with it. The Depression may be softened by moonlight and shining eyes, but it is everywhere visible in It Happened One Night, from the woman on the bus who faints from hunger to the freight car full of hoboes who wave back at a joyous Pete as he races to propose to Ellie. One of the loveliest shots in the movie is the exquisite track that follows Ellie as she makes her way to the autocamp's communal shower, while children chase each other and weary adults prepare to get back on the road.


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The Presidential flight of Hillary Rodham Clinton, which had been aloft for nearly a year, began its descent stage on January 3, 2008, somewhere over Iowa. Five months later to the day, she piloted it to a smooth touchdown, though not without experiencing some turbulence during the final approach. First, there was her non-concession speech, delivered on the final Tuesday of the primary season; then, after a few days of cogitation, consultation, and commiseration, there was her Saturday speech. Tuesday's speech was anything but full of grace, and, on the whole, was poorly received. Saturday's was greeted rapturously, often by the same commentators. "The way to continue our fight now, to accomplish the goals for which we stand," Clinton said, "is to take our energy, our passion, our strength, and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama the next President of the United States." And she said, echoing the signature chant of the Obama campaign, "Today, I am standing with Senator Obama to say: Yes, we can!" She could scarcely have been more emphatic.
With that, the most astounding primary season in American history came to an end. It was astounding not because of the policy differences separating the competing sides (these were trivial compared with their vast reaches of agreement), or because of the turmoil of the times and the bitterness of the clash (compared with the two campaigns of the Vietnam War era, 1968 and 1972, all was calm and collegial), but because of who the candidates were—more precisely, because of what they were. The first woman and the first man of color to have a serious chance of victory contended for the right to represent America's party of progressive change in the contest for the most powerful office on earth, and they fought each other very nearly to a draw. This conspicuous, astonishing fact was not much discussed by the candidates themselves; for them, the point was to transcend "identity politics," lest they be trapped in its stereotypes. Only when compelled by the antics of the retiring minister of his church did Obama directly confront the questions of race and identity, doing so in a speech of such power and nuance that it saved his campaign. Clinton—whose "identity," after all, comprises more than half the electorate and extends, by definition, into every family on earth—treated her gender as a grace note, a significant but ultimately secondary feature, like Jimmy Carter's Southernness or Bob Dole's war wound. Only in the final appearance of her exhausting campaign did Hillary Clinton speak at length about, in her words, "what it means to be a woman running for President."
Much of what she said was phrased in such a way as to apply to Obama as well as to herself. "I am a woman and, like millions of women, I know there are still barriers and biases out there, often unconscious, and I want to build an America that respects and embraces the potential of every last one of us," she declared. "There are no acceptable limits, and there are no acceptable prejudices in the twenty-first century in our country." And, speaking of herself, Obama, and the supporters of both: "We will make history together."
In the emotional climax of her speech, she said, "Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it's got about eighteen million cracks in it—and the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time." Some people interpreted this to imply that it was her gender that denied her the prize. Only she knows whether she meant it that way, or whether that's what she believes. In such a close race, of course, almost any factor can be viewed as decisive. But it's hard to find anyone who will dispute that if she had not voted to authorize the Iraq war, or if her delegate-hunting strategy had been as astute as her principal opponent's, or if that opponent had been a slightly more ordinary politician, or, perhaps, if her campaign messages had been more coherent and less negative, then she would have breezed to the nomination and made history all by herself.
Competitions among grievances do not ennoble, and both Clinton and Obama strove to avoid one; but it does not belittle the oppressions of gender to suggest that in America the oppressions of race have cut deeper. Clinton's supporters would sometimes note that the Constitution did not extend the vote to women until a half century after it extended it to men of color. But there is no gender equivalent of the nightmare of disenfranchisement, lynching, apartheid, and peonage that followed Reconstruction, to say nothing of "the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil" that preceded it. Nor has any feminist leader shared the fate of Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. Clinton spoke on Saturday of "women in their eighties and nineties, born before women could vote." But Barack Obama is only in his forties, and he was born before the Voting Rights Act redeemed the broken promise of the Fifteenth Amendment.
Clinton was right to say that from now on it will be "unremarkable to think that a woman can be the President of the United States"—and that, in large measure, is her doing. But the Speaker of the House is a woman; and there are, at the moment, sixteen women in the Senate and eight in the nation's governors' offices, the pools from which Presidential candidates are usually drawn. There are two African-American governors, only one of whom was elected to that office. There is one African-American senator—and seven months from now that one may have a different job.
Clinton's defeat has left many of her supporters, especially among older women, not just disappointed but angry. Their anger is directed partly, sometimes mainly, at "the media," especially at a handful of commentators on the cable news networks, particularly MSNBC. (Fox News is hopeless; you might as well get angry at mildew.) One such commentator, in a fairly representative remark, described Clinton as "looking like everyone's first wife standing outside a probate court." Ugly, yes, and arguably misogynistic, but not much uglier (and probably less politically damaging) than the ridicule once heaped upon Michael Dukakis for looking wimpy in a tank and Al Gore for being stiff, or sighing, or wearing "earth tones" at the supposed urging of a feminist adviser—insults rooted, like the probate-court crack, in male stupidity. And the likelihood is that this sort of thing pushed more women into the Clinton column than men away from it.
Barack Obama—reared by a single mother, married to a strong-willed woman, father of two daughters—has an unblemished record of support for the goals of the mainstream women's movement. Yet, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC poll taken over the weekend Clinton withdrew, in a hypothetical matchup with John McCain— whose record with respect to those goals ranges from indifference to hostility—she would win among white suburban women and Obama would lose. The anger of many such women is real, even if Obama is merely a momentary target of opportunity for it, even if it has little or nothing to do with anything he has done or said and everything to do with their own life experience. Fairly or unfairly, it's up to him to demonstrate anew that he respects their experience and understands their anger. And it's up to them to respond. ♦


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Vintage photographs lead to vintage family. Folks that shared an historical context and proximity, whose connections of love and sorrow shaped decisions that are even now rippling through my time.
I love looking at these eyes, windows to my past, staring back into my present.
Thomas W Rogers of Carmichaels, Pennsylvania took this portrait of my great-grandfather's birth family in the mid-1870s, when Robert Minor was about six years old. The faces of his parents bear distinctive features, which I make use of as I sleuth through other photographs.
Like now, when we turn to pages eight and nine of the Minor Family Album.
The photographs are mounted on heavy cardstock, with a metallic coating–silver or gold–on the beveled, scalloped edges, a product commonly used from 1880-the early 1890s. The two appear to be in their early sixties, suggesting a portrait sitting after 1888. The puffy fullness at the shoulder of Mary Jane's dress narrows the timeframe to between 1889-1892.
I imagine Mary Jane and Marion starting their day with the usual farm chores, milking cows, gathering egges, lighting the stove and fixing breakfast. Instructions would be given to Robert and the farmhands for the rest of the day's chores, before the couple changed into their best clothes. A horse was hitched up to the buggy and they drove out onto the "red dog" surface, heading up the hill of Ceylon Road, past the homes of siblings and children, nieces and nephews, on their seven mile trip to Carmichaels.
What was the occasion for the photographs? A sixtieth birthday acknowledged? Their fortieth wedding anniversary celebrated?
Whatever prompted the impulse, I am grateful that the studio appointment was kept, and that I have these eyes gazing from my past.


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Thursday, October 18, 2012
Loaded Buffalo Blue Cheese Fries
I have MAJOR love for all things buffalo flavored! But these, my friends might be my favorite buffalo creation, yet! Alexia Waffle fries topped with buffalo shredded chicken, colby jack cheese, & blue cheese then melted until ooey and gooey… then topped with an extra drizzle of buffalo sauce & some ranch dressing (or blue cheese dressing if you prefer)…
Tell me this doesn't just SCREAM "GAME DAY!!!!" I mean everyone serves some sort of buffalo dish for game day: buffalo wings, buffalo chicken dip, buffalo chicken pizza, buffalo chicken quesadillas… and now THESE little bites of goodness.
You're man-friends will love you. Hubs couldn't even speak, he was shoveling these in his face so fast!
Total side note, but why is it that my husband can eat food like this and have it go straight to his muscles?! My buffalo chicken fries like to head straight for the thighs… not. cool.
Anyhow, remember how I told you that I've teamed up with Alexia Foods as one of their Tastemaker Ambassadors?! Well, you guys can be a part of it too! Alexia has started this really cool reward program where YOU can sign up, earn points, and even win some cool prizes & coupons! Are you a fan of Alexia already? If not… it's probably because you've never tried their product! 😉
Oh, and don't forget to check out the pin board I created on Pinterest!!! If you have a great recipe that features an Alexia product… Shoot me an email with a link (or post it in the comments) and I'll pin it to my board!
Alright ya'll – go on and make these buffalo chicken blue cheese fries for your next game day party (or just because)… you WON'T regret it!
Cheers! Here's to Food! 😉
Loaded Buffalo Blue Cheese Fries
An easy game day treat that'll knock your socks off... PARTY. IN. YOUR. MOUTH!
1 family size bag of Alexia Waffle Fries
2 cups warm shredded cooked chicken (about 2 chicken breasts)*
1 cup favorite bottled buffalo wing sauce (plus additional for drizzling)
4 ounces shredded colby jack cheese
2-3 ounces crumbled blue cheese
Ranch or Blue Cheese dressing for serving
*You can boil or bake the chicken breasts & then shred - or buy a rotisserie chicken to make it extra easy!
Preheat oven to 400°F and place Alexia waffle fries in an even layer on a baking sheet (being sure they do not overlap). Bake until fries are nice and crispy (I like to cook mine a little longer than bag recommends for some extra crunch-factor).
While fries are cooking, toss the shredded chicken with the buffalo sauce and season with a little salt if needed. When fries are cooked and crispy, layer half of them on an oven safe serving platter and top with half of the chicken and 1/3-1/2 of the cheeses. Add the remaining fries and repeat. Place in oven until cheeses are good and melted (should only take a few minutes). Remove from oven and drizzle with buffalo sauce and ranch (or blue cheese) dressing.
Serve with carrot & celery sticks and a side of dressing of choice!


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Group calls for more rail crossings, parks around Caltrain tracks
For Palo Alto residents who live near the Caltrain corridor, the tracks are both a blessing and a curse — a way to get around the Peninsula without cars and a barrier that restricts their ability to travel east and west. This dichotomy, and the opportunities and challenges it presents, is at the center of a new report from a specially appointed Palo Alto Rail Task Force, a 17-member group that has been meeting for more than a year with the goal of adopting an official community "vision" for the corridor. (Posted March 2 at 8:49 a.m.)
Palo Alto detectives find $34 million worth of meth
Three people believed to have ties to a Mexican drug-trafficking organization appeared in court Monday afternoon, March 5, to face charges in one of the largest methamphetamine seizures in U.S. history. Palo Alto police detectives discovered the drugs — 750 pounds of methamphetamine — worth $34 million on the street, while investigating stolen iPads at a San Jose apartment Thursday, March 1. (Posted March 2 at 10:35 p.m.)
Family: Caltrain victim lost battle against mental illness
The man struck by a train in Menlo Park Friday morning, March 9, was Eric Salvatierra, a 39-year-old Palo Alto resident, according to the San Mateo County Coroner's Office. His family released a statement March 11 characterizing his death as a lost battle against a mental illness. (Posted March 11 at 2:34 p.m.)
Teachers: Support needed for graduation proposal
High school teachers Tuesday, March 13, said a move to stiffen graduation requirements, by itself, will not boost the achievement of struggling students. Department heads met with the Board of Education to discuss a proposal to align graduation requirements with entrance criteria for California's public, four-year universities. (Posted March 13 at 9:48 a.m.)
$22M verdict against PAMF in malpractice lawsuit
The Palo Alto Medical Foundation was hit with one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts in Santa Clara County history Monday, March 19, after a Menlo Park woman suffered paralysis while undergoing treatment for migraines. Robyn Frankel, who was 43 years old in 2006, when the treatment paralyzed her, won a $22 million verdict from the jury of six men and six women. (Posted March 21 at 9:55 a.m.)
Classmates stunned by loss of vivacious Paly graduate
Hundreds gathered Saturday, May 12, to remember the life of Emily Benatar, a vivacious 2011 Palo Alto High School graduate who died May 9 in St. Louis, where she had been a first-year student at Washington University. Benatar's friends at colleges across the country were in the midst of final exams when they learned their cheerful and accomplished childhood friend had lost her battle against meningococcal disease after three weeks in the hospital. (Posted May 18 at 9:05 a.m.)
Palo Alto gymnastics teacher drowns in Yosemite
A popular children's gymnastics teacher drowned in Yosemite National Park on Wednesday, Aug. 1, his family has confirmed. Russell Wright, 57, has taught Palo Alto children for a decade at Gym Fit for Little Ones at the Lucie Stern Community Center. He was at a Merced River swimming hole with his daughter when currents carried him downstream. Wright's foot became caught between two boulders and he drowned, his sister, Moria Peters, said. (Posted Aug. 4 at 8:03 p.m.)
Palo Alto police arrest suspect following manhunt
Palo Alto police arrested Cameron Conley, 19, of Oakland after a nearly three-hour manhunt near downtown Palo Alto Thursday afternoon, Aug. 30. Conley led police on a wild chase through downtown and into the Downtown North neighborhood after a traffic stop on University Avenue, crashing into six cars and attempting to carjack a truck, police said. (Posted Aug. 30 at 1:09 p.m.)
Hobee's at Town & Country to close
Longtime Palo Alto icon Hobee's California Restaurant will close at Town & Country Village shopping center in January, property owner Ellis Partners announced on Thursday, Sept. 27. Hobee's Stanford has been at the corner of Embarcadero Road and El Camino Real since 1984, serving up its well-known blueberry coffee cake and other homey dishes. (Posted Sept. 27 at 3:58 p.m.)
Stanford grad's site nets Southwest 'cease and desist'
When Nikil Viswanathan created a website to automatically check himself in to his flights on Southwest Airlines in January, he did it so that his mother wouldn't have to remind him anymore. But the Stanford computer-science graduate's 45-minute project has now garnered a cease-and-desist demand from the airline's attorneys. (Posted Oct. 23 at 5:13 p.m.)
Former Mayor Gary Fazzino dies of cancer
Gary Fazzino, a longtime member of the Palo Alto City Council, a two-time mayor and one of the leading experts on local political history, died Tuesday evening, Oct. 30, at his Palo Alto home following a 2 1/2-year battle with multiple myeloma, a form of cancer. Known for his intelligence, humor and wide-ranging interests, Fazzino, 60, had an unflagging love of Palo Alto and was recognized as the foremost expert on the city's political history. (Posted Oct. 31 at 9:15 a.m.)
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[fr] Une série d'outils/sites autour de Twitter que vous trouverez peut-être utiles.
This is just a small list of links to more or less useful Twitter tools and sites, that you can use (amongst other things) to figure out if this or that new (or old) follower is a spammer or not. I find that kind of information useful when deciding to publish or not "Twitter comments" here (they come in through BackType Connect). None of these ask your your Twitter password, they all use OAuth (you should not be handing out your password to any third-party service, by the way).
- TwitBlock goes through your followers and tells you (with extensive details) how likely it is that they are spammers or bots. You can block them directly from the site (be careful!) You can also just ask it to check one specific account (this is how I know that there is very little likelyhood that @stephtara is a spammer, cool!)
- Tweet Blocker also goes through your followers to chase for spammers, giving each of them a grade (I'm an A+ student). I find the explanations given for each evaluation less clear than with TwitBlock. Again, you can block people directly from their site — don't go overboard.
- Foller.me gives you information about a given Twitter account, which can also come in handy when trying to figure out if somebody is ham or spam. Again, example with @stephtara.
- Follow cost is rather basic, and will tell you how "chatty" a given user is. This is how I know that I average 13.6 tweets a day (ouch!).
- Favstar is interesting, as it centres on favourites, telling you which of your tweets (or any user's, for that matter) were favourited by whom. I'm less excited by their "100+, 50+, …" leaderboard (the popular just get more popular).
- When did you join Twitter? tells you exactly that. (Me? December 8th, 2006.)
Any other ones you find useful? Link to them in the comments. (Yeah, there's a wave, too. Who's going to write a plugin which creates and links post-related comment waves automatically?)
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Wyndham project moving forward in Avon
AVON — Despite losing a project manager and receiving protest over their selection of a replacement, Wyndham Resorts is guaranteeing their downtown project will be completed.
On Tuesday, the town of Avon unanimously approved a motion for town staffers Eric Heil and Scott Wright to review a completion purchase agreement between Wyndham Worldwide and an affiliate of Guggenheim Capital, of New York City, Wyndham's partner on the project, which would guarantee its completion.
"We're hoping to be complete in the final block of 2014 and fully operational by the 2015 World Championships," said K. Erik Brandt, director of strategic development with Wyndham Worldwide. "It will be 58 units, higher-end presidential units."
The project will be located on a small parcel of land between the Seasons at Avon building and Avon Center.
'Working through issues'
Brandt said the agreement under review will allow Wyndham to take advantage of asset transfer financing on the project.
"It allows us to spread out the financing, almost like a mortgage," said Brandt.
Councilmember Buz Reynolds questioned the need for this particular type of review in a project.
"I don't remember us having to approve asset transfer in a project. Why now?" he asked.
Town Attorney Eric Heil said the measure was an effort to enact a further level of review on the project.
"With a lack of projects like this over the last four years, we don't have much of a track record working through these issues," he said. "Wyndham is a well known name, and we have every confidence (in them). They have showed us pictures of the project and what they were going to do. … We understand there's going to be a company formed, specifically acting as the assignee, and so we just want to be able to see what the financial capabilities of that newly formed company to act as the assignee has to perform under the development agreement of the project."
Wyndham Vacation Resorts in February received unanimous approval for the project from the Avon Town Council.
Prior to that approval, Wyndham hosted a bid for the job and selected Horizon Construction in January.
"Because Horizon is not locally based, our partners in the project, Guggenheim Capital, of New York City, wanted a local project management team in place," said Ted Hunter, a senior vice president of development planning and construction at Wyndham Worldwide. "Evans-Chaffee Construction Group was recommended to Guggenheim by a local contact due to their reputation, experience and capabilities."
The selection of Evans-Chaffee received criticism from local residents due to Avon councilvmembers Chris Evans' and Todd Goulding's involvement in the company. Evans and Goulding both voted in favor of the project in February as part of its approval, which passed, 7-0.
"Chris and Todd pushed hard to rush the approval for this project," said Amy Phillips, an Avon resident former councilmember.
"Guggenheim approached Chris Evans in mid-April, fully a month and half after we had our approval," Hunter said. "Following the resignation of our full-time project manager and after some two months of discussions, Wyndham hired Evans-Chaffee as our local project managers for an interim period expected to end in September. Horizon Construction remains the general contractor on the project … Wyndham Worldwide globally has a zero tolerance policy toward any improprieties in the performance of any corporate business."
Town manager backs out
Goulding and Evans sat out on the discussion. As the attention to appearances is especially acute right now in Avon regarding the Wyndham project, Town Manager Virginia Egger also relinquished her involvement in the completion purchase agreement review.
"My husband and I own common units within … Guggenheim LLC," she said. "So the question is, 'Do we have a conflict of interest?'"
Heil recommended Wright, the town's finance director, take on the portion of the review Egger was to conduct.
"From the description of the relationship it does not seem like there's any type of direct economic benefit, but, for appearances sake, we have a finance director I'd suggest as an alternative," Heil said.
"I'm sure you can be completely impartial," said Mayor Rich Carroll. "But just given everything that's going on these days …"
The Avon town council meets again on Sept. 24.
Staff Writer John LaConte can be reached at 970-748-2988 and email@example.com


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Marvel: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Official Trailer
Shang-Chi is a master of numerous unarmed and weaponry-based wushu styles, including the use of the gun, nunchaku, and jian.
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Release Date:
September 3, 2021
Destin Daniel Cretton
Simu Liu, Michelle Yeoh, Awkwafina, Florian Munteanu, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, ronny Chieng, Gala Chen, Dallas Liu. Falla Chen
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Five Reasons To Love 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'
Back in 2014, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 opened into theaters with a mixed reception from critics and audiences and has been deemed as the least desirable of the Spidey movies. In the film, Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) must face off against another villain who has been given the name Electro. Moreover, our brave hero uncovers some bizarre mysteries surrounding his parents.
Many fans of the series view the film as an overcrowded mess, but I think it might be the most entertaining of all the Spidey films, until No Way Home arrived, and here are five reasons why that remains true.
Andrew Garfield
First and foremost, Garfield is always a delight to have in the Spidey outfit. His charisma and witty banter is almost what makes the film truly great. I have always said that he was the best Spider-Man and this movie proves it with his ability to elevate any scene from dull slog to a comedic venture.
Spidey, in this particular movie, embodies the hero in the original comics with his incessant need to make a fast-talking quip to one of his enemies. There is nothing better than a comic-book character sticking true to his essence and spirit of its source material.
Despite what many people say about the villains, Jamie Foxx as the supercharged baddie Electro proves to be a formidable opponent for the web-head, with his omnipotent powers and overly-powered nature. More than that, Max Dillon is depicted as a quiet, shy loner who is invisible to other people. He is essentially a nobody, until he falls into a vat of electrically-charged eels and becomes the sinister villain Electro.
To better understand a villain, you must understand their plight and Electro's plight is that of a rags-to-riches success story and the visual effects are certainly something to marvel at.
Action Sequences
This article wouldn't be complete if I decided not to talk about the exhilarating action that embodied the film. Whether we see Spidey chasing down a truck with Oscorp's product or a massive fight inside a grid that seems like a colossal feat for any Marvel film, the film can take a lot of pride in its action sequences.
One can also never forget the massive and iconic battle sequence between Electro and Spidey in Time Square that seems impossible to be made.
Green Goblin
While he remains a secondary villain, Dane Dehaan's Green Goblin is still noteworthy. Dehaan portrays Harry Osborne who is left with his dead father Norman's life work and stumbles upon a Goblin serum that enhances his speed, strength, and intelligence.
His little spat with Spider-Man is certainly befitting for the dark, moody tone of the film and entertaining for plenty of comic fans with zippy action and certified intensity. In the end, he is also responsible for the death of Spidey's girlfriend Gwen Stacy.
Gwen Stacy Death
Speaking of Gwen Stacy, this is the only Spidey film that features his love interest dying. As he battles the Green Goblin, Spidey attempts to hold on to Stacy, literally, by a thread in the clocktower. However, when the thread snaps, Spidey is able to snag her in mid-air but the whiplash of the fall snaps her neck, killing her.
What might be the saddest moment in any Spider-Man film, was brought to life in this extraordinary scene that silenced an entire generation of Spider-Man fans.
Anthony Hopkins to Lead Peacock Gladiator Drama 'Those About to Die'
Peacock is one of the streamers that has yet to break through in terms of their original content getting recognized for awards contention. One such series that might change that fate for the streaming service is Those About to Die and it's starting to build out its cast. According to Variety, 2-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs, The Father) is the first to join the drama series which comes from Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow). Saving Private Ryan screenwriter Robert Rodat will script the series.
Hopkins will play the character known as Emperor Vespasian in the series which is set in the world of gladiatorial battle. It will be an ensemble drama following many different Roman characters that will set forth for violent affairs in the arena among other complexities such as political power and corruption so expect a starry cast for this Peacock drama. Hopkins' character is described as "despised by the Patricians jockeying for position in the Empire and looking to supplant his heirs to the throne the first chance they get. Vespasian became the Roman emperor after a ten-year civil war. We expect to get more casting news soon as the show will begin filming in Rome in March.
Anthony Hopkins is coming off a terrific performance in James Gray's Armageddon Time in 2022 after winning his second Academy Award for his role in The Father the year prior. He'll next voice a character in Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon for Netflix and also will star in British drama One Life alongside Helena Bonham Carter and Jonathan Pryce. Emmerich is coming off directing the sci-fi disaster film, Moonfall in 2022.
'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' Adds Oscar-Nominee William H. Macy
The Planet of the Apes trilogy headlined by Andy Serkis from the 2010s can be argued as one of the best trilogies of all-time. The technological advances made from motion capture helped actors completely transform into the apes with their interactions with human characters making the story rawer and more emotional. Now, 20th Century Studios will jump back into the world of apes with their latest, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Deadline reports that William H. Macy (Shameless, Fargo) will round out the cast for the newest chapter of the franchise.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes takes place many years after the conclusion of War for the Planet of the Apes being led by an entirely new cast that includes Owen Teague, Freya Allan and Peter Macon. Details are currently unknown on whether Macy will be playing a human character or an ape. The film series has grossed almost $2 billion dollars for the studio so it's no surprise that they're aiming to make more Apes fims.
Macy is coming off his biggest role ever in Showtime's series, Shameless for which he played Frank Gallagher and was nominated for 6 Emmy Awards for his performance over 11 seasons. Macy is also a former Oscar-nominee for his lead role in the Coen Brothers classic, Fargo. Since then, he's amassed tons of parts including most recently in Hulu's The Dropout and a guest spot on the ABC sitcom, The Conners. Macy will next appear in the film, Maybe I Do with Emma Roberts, Diane Keaton, Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon.
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The primary purpose of the Honor Guard unit is to provide funeral honors for fallen comrades. Additionally, the department Honor Guard serves as ambassadors to the public, presenting a positive image of their services, and assisting with the recruiting effort.
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Burt Gummer's Rec Room- July 2012 Archive
A gathering place for firearms enthusiasts, paranoid survivalists and those who worship at the Church of Chang
July in Perfection. Clear blue skies and big fucking worms. What more could we want?
Disclaimer: This is the part of the Church that is the most no holds barred. None of it is intended with malice, and although it can on occasion seem a little bit fraught, it is banter rather than venom. So, be warned that this is like taking a naked swim in a piranha tank and not recommended for the faint of heart.
1,690 responses to "Burt Gummer's Rec Room- July 2012 Archive"
Xiphos0311 says :
What I watched because of some crappy weather
Little Man Tate I like this movie a lot
Bad Boys great fun
some episodes of Leverage which is a TV show its lightweight fluff but entertaining
some other TV: White Collar, which seems to be back on track. Breaking Bad which might finally be living up to its unearned praise since Mike is now a main player and a total bad ass Walts still a dink and there wasn't enough Pinkman but still the first two eps were very good. Warehouse 13 which is another extremely lightweight but fairly entertaining nothing of a show.
Some other movie I'm forgetting.
Echo the Bunnyman says :
its the same issue as Insomnia vs Insomnia…the reason the Nolan remake doesnt often get dubbed 'pointless' is it came at a time when foreign films had less exposure (theaters in US were just starting to show subtitled movies at mainstream multiplexes) and almost no one had seen Insomnia. The gap between the two movies was also only a couple of years. Yet I meet plenty of people who really love Insomnia 2.0. I like it, but prefer the original.
Jarv says :
Actually- that whole article is really funny:
The last paragraph is gold:
Because if I'm not, it means that 2.3 million women in Britain alone (and tens of millions elsewhere) are genuinely turned on by the idea of a man who would stand behind you with his winkle in his hand, and introduce it by name.
Echo the Bunnyman says :
a new gaslight could be phenomenal…Up until the end, I was mostly with WIB. Great atmosphere…less cgi…Radciffe as husband would be good.
They are actually making this Jarv? Or is it another wishlist movie?
Echo the Bunnyman says :
Funny about Gaslight…it does enter into the pointless remake discussion.
Not the new one–although keep it from being modern, set it period and keep the ambience, tension, mystery etc– but the old 1944 one.
It was a very close remake of a film made only four years earlier. Both are very good films, although I do prefer the remake. At the time though, they probably also looked 'pointless'
Jarv says :
It's true!
I didn't even know that it was a remake.
You can't set it modern- the whole play relies on Victorian lighting.
Echo the Bunnyman says :
even more hateful (as you like to say) is that the studio of the remake tried to get all the prints of the original destroyed…haha, good way to eliminate the 'pointless' debate.
Jarv says :
Goes to show that this isn't new,
Echo the Bunnyman says :
Jarv you wouldn't be interested in doing a Gaslight review for PCN would you? the old one or remake vs old one?
Echo the Bunnyman says :
Im sorry, I meant the classic one when I said remake…and comparison would be the 44 and the 40 one. Sorry for lack of clarity.
Jarv says :
If I can find them, gladly.
Sounds like fun. I've never seen the 40 one. Didn't even know it existed.
Echo the Bunnyman says :
It looks like most Gaslight dvds I see are sold as the 44 version but also have the 40 version on the disc as well.
Jarv says :
Must be out there somewhere then.
Echo the Bunnyman says :
also, I wish stuff like this happened more often today:
In MGM's script, Charles Boyer was supposed to have told Ingrid Bergman at the end that he had loved her all along. This was an addition to the play made by the screenwriter. David O. Selznick, when reading over the script, was horrified and promptly sent MGM one of his famous long and involved memos, this one ordering the studio to omit the line, which it did.
koutchboom says :
Black Water or Noise?
Xiphos0311 says :
I see Petey Jackson is going to bloat The Hobbit to an unwatchable size. Pete let it go its barely two movies three is just reCOCKulous. The third flick better be all about the battle of 5 armies and you best not screw up the best part of the whole story the charge of the Last King Under the Mountain and his traveling companions. You fuck that up and the entire bloated mess is shit canned as far as I'm concerned.
lordbronco says :
Ah-Finally got to see TDKR- *and* now can read reviews. Liked it quite alot. Jonah's review is particularly well-written-liked weinberg's as well. But to finally get to read the infamous Knowles review-ha ha. good God-it has to be a lack of set visits and toy props. I mean seriously, ranting about "Knightfall graphic novel-which i never read b/c that came out right around the time that I realized comic books are over-priced pieces of crap-it's like who cares. Anyway, the one decent AICN twitterer-can't remember which one said-don't blame me-I only work there. That was good for a LOL
lordbronco says :
Oh now I gotta go hunt down Armond White's TDKR review, and FILM CRITIC HULKS reviews :-))
koutchboom says :
Naw fuck Film Critic Hulk he blows, that's one of David Fatass's butt buddies and isn't funny.
lordbronco says :
*sighs*-this is why you are blocked and reported as spam, oh wait that was 2 years ago.
perhaps you can naysay my awesome Twilek avatar. Say some stupid shit like she isn't hot.
Her light saber is green-she hangs out in the PVP zones and unzips fools guts day and night.
Boobs, K-Boom. Boobs.
Maybe someday you'll see some.
koutchboom says :
Hehehehe yeah because you blocking me on Twitter means anything? Clueless as always. Hey where's your movie trailer? Also why the fuck would anyone ever side with David Farci anyway? You think your some clueless interner dork? He pretty much is the definition of it. Whatever keep reading Badass Diguest and never understanding your surrondings like always.
And why the fuck would I make fun of your Avatar? I'm like the only person who loves Clone Wars?
Jarv says :
I think I'm following you. But you don't half chat some shit.
Still, I suppose that's what Twitter is for.
I'm following Bronco too. He's on twitter non-stop
Droid says :
You're on Twitter? Nerd. Do you use it to pimp our site at least? That's the only reason I was considering signing up for it.
Jarv says :
Only got it the other day. Yes, I shall be doing that.
I had to sign up at that stupid Social Media training thing I was at.
Aside from laughing at spoofs of 50 Shades of Grey, it's pretty pointless. I'm trying to find Don Murphy's Twitter address so I can abuse him. Or has Knowles got one?
koutchboom says :
Yeah Twitter is stupid now. It was fun for a while, now it's just the same 10 opinions passed around by everyone and no more discussion just people trying to out quip one another. For the life of me I'm still on it, probably cause I'm bored.
Yeah as you can see Bronco blocked me (2 years ago he says? Has it been that long? Jesus), I don't recall if I was every actually following him though. Did he ever drop a trailer for his movie?
Jarv says :
Dunno. I haven't seen it.
What did you say to get banned?
koutchboom says :
Because he doesn't understand things.
You can block people on twitter, he blocked me, though I don't think I ever talked to him on there. And you can report people as spam, he probably did that to me. Before it used to be you can't see their feed, now that doesn't matter even if he's still blocked me I can look at his feed (and even then if I wanted to I could log off then go to his feed and read it). Now it just means I can't follow him (tear). I can still send shit to him, don't know if he actually gets it or not? I know when someone replies to me and I don't follow them I usually miss it because I don't get an e-mail notification like I do with my followers.
I don't block people (though I may have done it to LB because we thought it was funny) because I'm not a child. But now LB joins the mighty allegiance of The Oatmeal and The Horror Movie A Day Blog guy (don't know what I did to him, I think it was because I spoiled the end to ehhhhh that one fucking Alien Invasion movie with Eric Baulfor, anyways he was a bit of a bitch to begin with).
Jarv says :
I started following loads, but then unfollowed them. Fucking idiots retweeting Revolver UK is getting to me so much that I'm thinking about closing the account.
koutchboom says :
Yeah that's the one. I was tweeting BALFOURBRAINSTOSTRONGFORYOU after everything I said because I thought it was funny, and I follow a lot of Eric Balfour fans and they were loving it.
Yeah I sort of stopped looking for people to follow or caring about people following me. Pretty much once you hit 200 followers 90% of your followers are spam or worthless anyway.
Jarv says :
That is quite funny. No reason to chuck a hissy fit anyway.
Jarv says :
I did feel sorry for the British Weightlifting chick- she's 18, and was in some documentary. Instantly Twitter was full of people calling her a lesbo.
Mind you, the Guardian didn't help describing her performing in her event as "Snatch intimidation". I thought that's what Le Hulk suffered from.
Jarv says :
Well, yes. She is a weightlifter after all. Stick Zoe Smith into google.
Jarv says :
She's relatively normal from the waist up.
She is only 18 though. Wait till the roid's kick in. She'll be like King Kong by the next Olympics.
Jarv says :
Fucking hell, by the way.
That's a beast. Zoe looks tiny in comparison to that Sea Monster.
koutchboom says :
Man stupid fucking DVR, only blocks out the olympics as 8 hour chunks. I just wanted to see some events but I have to record the WHOLE fucking block. It's annoying. I mean with time delays and everything you think they could break it down into half hour segments or hour segments.
No I need to see when women's power lifting it on.
Jarv says :
It's finished.
Try the BBC- you can pick events on it. You may have to use a proxy server to get it though.
Jarv says :
That's NBC responsible for that- they're staggering the Olympics depending on where you live in the states to maximise ad revenue.
Which makes a mockery out of "Live" sport.
koutchboom says :
Yeah I don't care about the LIVE sport concept. I just don't see who the fuck is watching the olympics besides stay at home LB types? How the fuck am I suppose to catch anything when the Olympics air from 9:00AM-5:00PM?
I'd rather they just hold it off till 5:00PM then air half hour/hour shows I can record and watch the sports I want to watch at my leasuire. Any way still need to find a copy of that Underworld: Rise of The Deaf song.
Jarv says :
Meh, can't say I care, to be honest- but it does defeat the point of "Live" sport.
Jarv says :
The BBC are letting you pick the sport. I'm surprised that NBC aren't doing the same.
Let's face it, I couldn't give a fuck about most of it, although I did find the archery weirdly compelling the other day, but with the 82 million channels available to Yanks, I'm surprised that you can't do this.
koutchboom says :
Well you can go online and watch the solo events, and that's fine I dont care enough to do that.
I mean it may just be my provider but it seems like other people have the same issue. You go to your guide and it'll just have a block of time carved out on several channels saying: 2012 SUMMER OLYMPICS 9AM-5PM – Women's Boxing, 1st Round Swimming, Running, Basketweaving, Flyi… and then it'll run out of space and doesn't even list all the events going to be covered in that 8 hour block so you gotta go online and see if the event you are interested in is on sometime during that period.
Yeah I don't know why they can't just do that, then after 5 just have half hour segments called TENNIS ROUND 1, WOMENS WEIGHTLIFTING, SOCCER SPAIN VS WALES or some shit.
Jarv says :
That would be more sensible.
Saw the third goal GB scored the other day. Fecking good. I wish England played like that.
koutchboom says :
Heheheh as odd as Danny Boyles mind fuck of an opening ceremony was, the oddest thing to me was at the begining with all the old Rugby clips? I assumed it was some famous match he kept cutting to, but also was that his petition to get Rugby as an Olympic sport? And if so…how was that allowed?
Jarv says :
Fencing is today. Dunno about Ping Pong.
Jarv says :
Rugby 7's is at the next olympics.
Also, it used to be an Olympic sport back in the day. That ceremony was staggeringly boring shite.
koutchboom says :
I dug it, mainly for that song. It was impressive to watch. All the pre recorded bits though were lame, like the Queen/James Bond thing where it looked like Daniel never even met the queen. I liked the Mr. Bean bit, I'm glad he's still a national treasure. I like how most British comedians don't go completely crazy and ruin their history like most American comedians.
Jarv says :
Used to be funny. Is now an utter cunt.
Jarv says :
Nah, he was funny in the 80's. But see also Ben Elton.
Fucking BBC bought back Absolutely fabulous. Made me die a bit inside, as I hated it in the 90's. It's still shite.
Jarv says :
Simon cowell's first number 1
Jarv says :
Shite game, 7's.
Better than League, but it's pointless. Too much space and no skill involved just speed. Go and run the 100m.
koutchboom says :
And it's funny I'm a pretty good completionist at all things in life…except twitter. I just pull it up whenever look at what's there right then, then either Engage Jean Luc style, or fart then leave. Some people I know on twitter NEED to read everything that was said since the last time they logged on. So that means I don't give a fuck really what's on my feed. Yeah I'll unfollow some people/things if they do post tons and tons of shit, but for the most part I don't care. I saw it as this always happening conversation you could just hop in and out of. Now it's just this weeks opinions followed by boring self promotion.
It is crazy though these people able to self promote somehow through twitter/facebook and other means, especially when 99.9% of them have really nothing to offer/give. It fascinates me though, the drive of people with 0 creativity/originality/life/anything new to say.
What's also odd is that i find people being more real (or used to anyway) on Twitter than Facebook. Facebook now has just become a barage of anti some political party, religious quotes, famous quotes, baby/animal pictures, self promotion. I've had more in depth/interesting conversations with weirdos I've found on twitter in the past 2ish years than I have with people I actually know in the flesh relm on facebook.
Jarv says :
Facebook's wank though. The one thing it's useful for is to keep tabs with overseas family like the missus does. I don't care what some cunt that I barely remember from school is up to.
Jarv says :
Maybe not. It sounds horrible.
Droid says :
I've just started reading it last night.
Jarv says :
You'll see what I mean, though, when you get to the later stories.
Jarv says :
Knowles, again proving why he shouldn't be allowed to criticise film:
But let's get down to it. I have a fucking grudge with this goddamn movie. Oh sure, it's absolutely fucking great. The adult in me is fully aware. But as so many of you like to point out, the adult in me rarely is in control of this Harry creature. And 9 year old Harry remembers screaming at his television in 1982 – "THAT'S NOT RIGHT! THAT WAS RIGGED! NO WAY A MOVIE ABOUT GUYS RUNNING ON A BEACH IN PAJAMAS BEATS RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK!!!" I was quite angry about this. I was absolutely furious.
Chariots of Fire is a more "Award friendly" film than Raiders. I, personally, prefer Raiders, but you can see why CoF won.
Jarv says :
Anyone seen Cherry Bomb? Should I bother? Or is it Nude Nuns with Guns rather than Bitch Slap again?
tombando says :
Harolds opinion of Gandhi the next year vs ET must be priceless then. Ditto Annie Hall and Star Wars '77. Get over it Harold its just a fucking Awards show doesnt mean shit after the fact. Christ someone give that tool a thorazine.
Jarv says :
Fuck's sake:
Killer Joe opened in the US through an upstart distributor called LD Entertainment and grossed $37,900 from three theatres. William Friedkin's deep-fried thriller is an arthouse play that ought to benefit from strong word of mouth.
Jarv says :
Pah. Bioshock Infinte has been pushed back.
Jarv says :
I'd imagine that was quite good, to be honest.
What I meant is it only getting 3 theatres.
Jarv says :
3 for 37K is arguably better than that, I suppose. Strikes me as a very silly way to do it.
koutchboom says :
Yeah once you get past the Disney movies (odd that they do that?) there are some better numbers here.
Also the movie is NC-17 here. I'm excited to see it. It either didn't come to this film festival near me or it did and I missed it. I thought it was coming to the art theater as well but when I looked last night it wasn't showing on their schedule orrr I missed it again.
Jarv says :
Looking at that $38K ain't much.
koutchboom says :
Yeah I know, I thought the number sounded decent but looking at that, it doesn't even make the top 200. BUT then you look at this:
and it's doing alright.
Jarv says :
That's a great list. I smell a series there:
- Showgirls
- Henry & June
- The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
- Bad Education
- Lust, Caution
- Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
- Shame
- The Dreamers
- Crash (1996)
- Bad Lieutenant
- Wide Sargasso Sea
- A Dirty Shame
- Whore Trim.
- Poison Zeit.
- Young Adam
- Inside Deep Throat
- Dice Rules
- Orgazmo
- Bent
- Tokyo Decadence
- Matador
- Man Bites Dog
Jarv says :
Possibly for Pillows, admittedly.
Jarv says :
I'm also amazed Henry and June made that much. Stunned.
koutchboom says :
Yeah FUCK! The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, I was at my mums place and that was on and I recorded it but never got a chance to watch it. I wonder if she will ever watch it or she just deleted it? FUCK I want a box set of that directors work, not to own just to borrow for a year and slowly watch.
I bet that movie that Office fuck did with him is probably the best thing he'll ever do. I mean come this Christmas he's career is over…probably more so than Elijah's.
Jarv says :
I think he's a bit overrated, to be honest. Cook is good, but shite like 8 1/2 Women and The Pillow Book are awful. I've got a feeling he did 9 songs as well, which is best described as really boring sex set to really boring music.
koutchboom says :
Winterbottom did 9 songs. I saw it. Save for the girl looking like a slightly less ugly Jillenhall brother with no boobs, yeah it was pretty worthless.
I just wanna see some Greenaway films, mainly Cook and his Rembrandt shit.
BAHAHAh look at his IMDB profile picture:
Jarv says :
Worthless indeed. Even as porn.
Cook is OK, Prospero's Books is OK as well, if you can get past naked Gielguld.
koutchboom says :
Man speaking of worthless Winterbottom needs to do something good soon, or pick up a Bond movie are Twilight are someshit if he wants to be relevant.
I like "art" directors, but I also like to see them do something mainstream, just to show that YES they understand how the process works and they can make a basic movie for normal everyday people. That's why I give Lynch a break because he's proven he's not just some complete weirdo, he just prefers that. Same with Anderson after Fantastic Mr. Fox. And that's why I wanna see some of Greenaway's films, to see just what the fuck he's like.
koutchboom says :
Oh yeah been meaning to tell you about this doc that I've seem to have been watching for the past 2 weeks. Do you know Scott Walker? Of the Walker Brothers fame? There is some doc about him called 30th Century Man, that's fairly interesting. I knew nothing about him. The dude from Pulp in in there a bunch I guess they recorded an album or song together. He's sort of like a poppier version of Joy Division.
Jarv says :
He'll be like that Mark E. Smith geezer (the Fall)- loads of artists will reckon he's the knackers and none of us will ever have heard a single tune.
Bartleby says :
daniel johnston is several years old now, I think. Good docu though.
K, have you seen The Sound of Noise yet?
Also Winterbottom is indeed overrated. Cook and Prospero are worth watching though. Nightwatching with Freeman was just sort of meh.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days tonight….here comes another solid trilogy
koutchboom says :
The Sound of Noise, if it's what I'm thinking, Harold had it on his DVD list and it interest me. But either way no i haven't seen it.
Bartleby says :
its the movie with the deaf cop chasing the musical teorrorist band. weird, but made me think of something you'd appreciate it.
lordbronco says :
Ha Ha Koutch, I blocked and reported you as spam because you are a fucking moron. Jarv, if I'm around (It's a busy week-I'm launching a corporation) i'll be happy to introduce you around. I have more than 1000 followers, so that puts me in the top 95% percentile of internet relevancy. You and Droid would be ace on twitter-it's quite fun once you learn how to be picky about who you follow. Just popping onto twitter everytime you post an article on moonwolves is perfectly acceptable and would probably enhance your views ten fold with 5 minutes time. i don't actively pimp moonwolves, though I think it's arguably the funniest movie blog on internet. I do use it as my default web page address, though. :-))
koutchboom says :
That would require LB to know how twitter and social media works.
As for Rises….I'm hesitant to use the word perfect just because I'm not sure it's a strong enough adjective but until a find one that is I'll go with that.
Jarv says :
It's not perfect. There are gaping plot holes in it for one (as with all Nolan movies), but I don't care about things like that.
Jarv says :
Just because I don't care about them doesn't mean that they aren't there.
It's daft, no film (other than Flash Gordon) is perfect. It's nearly impossible- which is why the likes of Lucash keep coming back and tampering with them.
Jarv says :
I like TDKR, but still prefer TDK, warts and all.
It ain't perfect though.
Jarv says :
Give you an example- the shite in prison goes on for too long. We don't need to see him fail multiple times, we get the point after the first failure.
Jarv says :
This is personal taste, but I felt that the whole prison section (ignoring the plot hole about his speed of recovery) was overextended.
It could have lost 10 minutes or so.
It's a really good film, probably the best I've seen this year in the Cinema, but it's a Nolan Batman so there are flaws.
tombando says :
I use twitter but mostly to follow the varied postings of new weasels and the like, dont usually post much.
Koutch did you ever see the Fog of War w Robt McNamara? Its really good consideting.
Apparently Harold hated Inception too? Whats up w that?
lordbronco says :
Right. so i took the carousel of movie updating after launching my production company. Prometheus. Fucking loved it. As the theater ticket taker said-best 3-D movie released this summer. TASM. Slightly better than Thor and actually quite well done, but an hour and 45 minutes too long. TDKR-Fucking awesome. Bane's Voice was brilliant. The Avengers, the better than TDKR slightly.
I said it once, I'll say it again TDKR and Avengers and Prometheus were far far better than anybody could have hoped to expect.
Prometheus' art direction deserves a fucking Oscar b/c it was the best shit I've seen in 15 years.
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Sofia Vergara's freezing her eggs
Sofia Vergara, as we've seen, has a healthy appetite, but these days the actress is paying more attention to what she eats.
The reason behind that, as she told Vogue magazine, is because she's freezing her eggs.
The 40-year-old "Modern Family" star, who's engaged to Nick Loeb, said that she's embarked on a process of hormone pills, to be followed by hormone injections.
"[T]hey want to get as many eggs as they can because usually you produce them but they're not good," Vergara said. "They have to be perfect, perfect, perfect ones. My boyfriend is 37, younger than me, never had kids."
Vergara already has a son, Manolo, from a prior marriage. The 21-year-old happens to be named after Steven Bauer's character in "Scarface," Manny Ribera. "I looooved that movie, and I was in looove with Steven Bauer," Vergara said.
And Manolo is aware that his mom is hoping to have another baby.
"You know, sometimes he used to scream at me when he was younger, 'Why can't you have another baby, so you can stop focusing on me?'" she said, laughing.
If Vergara does become a mom of two, you can bet she'll have the best-tailored maternity wear in Hollywood. The celebrity mogul, who Forbes named the highest-paid actress on TV in 2012, doesn't hesitate to alter an item.
"All the dresses that I wear for the red carpet, I have to build them inside," the curvaceous star said. "I mean, a normal girl will just put the dress on and leave. I need them to be like an armory. My dresses are like a work of art inside because, you know, I am 40 years old, I had a baby, and I am a 32F boob. And they are real, still. When they are fake, you take the bra off and they are still there, perfect! Me - no, so I have to bring them up!"
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At dinner the other night, my husband asked me, "How's your book coming?" My book is the manuscript I'm not as far along in writing as I'd like to be. The one that's due on February 1st. The one that's been hanging over my head.
"Well," I replied, "the holidays made it hard to get around to writing much." My 10-year-old, the budding artist, commiserated with me: "I know what you mean. I haven't been drawing much lately." To which my nine-year-old added, "Yeah, I haven't had ice cream in a loooooong time."
Ah. I see now. My baby hasn't crossed over to the Dark Side yet. If only I could keep him there for as long as possible.
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The Dark Side is the part of life with deadlines, worries and woes. It's got to-do lists, full calendars and shoulda-coulda-wouldas. It's got too much to do in too little time, and it's always, always, hanging over your head. Happily, it looks like the Dark Side doesn't visit the third grade.
Even when he's got a spelling test the next day, my nine-year-old, Christopher, doesn't seem too concerned about it. He studies, but puts as much mental anguish and hand-wringing concern into his homework as an adult might reserve for picking up the dry cleaning.
It's not that Chris isn't responsible. He's more likely to know where his snow boots are and less likely to lose things than his brother is. He's the one who reminds me to put pick-up slips in his backpack when I'm retrieving him from school, or that we're out of milk. The kid has never even turned in a library book late.
That's exactly why I'm so relieved that he hasn't crossed over to the Dark Side yet. It's the responsible ones who find it the darkest there – the ones whose to-do lists seem to have no bottom, whose deadlines are always looming. The ones who are all too aware of how fast February 1st is coming.
Chris will find his way to the Dark Side soon enough, most likely in fourth grade, when he'll get more homework, take more tests and have more hanging over his head. Until then, though, I'm going to buy him some ice cream. He hasn't had any in a loooooong time.


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Planting the seeds for sustainability
A few weeks ago, as part of a magazine assignment, I visited Sow True Seed in Asheville.
Carol Koury and Peter Wakiewicz, cofounders of the two-year-old company, took time from their busy schedule — and I do mean busy, this is the time of year that makes or breaks a seed company — to give me a tour of the business and chat for a while.
Sow True Seed is located in a small, undistinguished building on Church Street near downtown Asheville. The company specializes in untreated, non-hybrid, open-pollinated seed.
In plain language, this is what that means: you, too, can save seed after growing plants using Koury and Wakiewicz's seed. Hybrid seed, in contrast to open-pollinated, does not grow true: the next generation of plants grown from hybrid seed might be wonderful, it might be terrible. There is only one certainty when you save seed from plants that were grown from hybrid seed — variability.
Why? Because the parents of hybrid varieties are from distinct lines that have been combined for very specific reasons. Perhaps plant breeders have discovered this particular combination, say type A and type B, produces progeny with three favorable characteristics. We'll designate this hybrid result as being type C. Type C is resistant to disease, it's productive and it tastes reasonably good.
Here's the problem. If you buy a pack of type C, grow the plants out, and then save the seed, you will not get type C when you grow them out the ensuing year — type C only occurs as the first generation result of crossing type A and type B.
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Instead, you'll get something we'll call type X. There is no predicting what qualities type X will exhibit. As emphasized a few paragraphs ago, type X might be the best-tasting vegetable you've ever had the pleasure of sinking your pearly whites into. Or, more likely, type X tastes terrible, or perhaps it is prone to certain diseases and produces poorly.
Hybrid seed isn't inherently evil; open-pollinated seed isn't inherently good. They both serve certain purposes. Hybrids can give farmers an edge when it comes to productivity, or shipping (some are bred to be tougher in transport). Open-pollinated varieties do have a reputation for tasting better than hybrids. But, in reality, any loss of taste is simply a variable and is not, by definition, what makes a hybrid — breeders emphasized the selection of certain other traits, perhaps, over that of good taste.
Super sweet corn, for instance, is a classic example of selective breeding. Many people prefer the taste of really sweet corn. Not me, but this is America and people should be able to eat sugary, icky corn-candy if they want to, shouldn't they? Give thanks to hybrids, then.
Genetically modified seed, which people sometimes confuse with hybrid seed, is an entirely different matter. I won't go so far as to assert GMOs are actually evil, but the verdict is still out in my opinion — and on the companies producing them. GMOs are varieties that scientists have genetically tinkered with. My personal opinion is there are entirely too many unknowns regarding GMOs, our health and the overall wellbeing of our world. That, however, is a subject for another day.
Be all this as it may, seed saving is fun. And, if you are even the slightest bit interested in sustainability and self-reliance, it's a must-have skill. Which brings me back to Sow True Seed, and the potential importance of this company to gardeners and farmers here in the Southeast.
First, plants adapt to conditions over time. Garlic is famous for this — you start with a variety that thrives (I'm personally having good success with Russian Red), and after a few years of saving and replanting cloves, your garlic actually adapts to the specific conditions of your garden. It improves in size and quality. Other vegetables aren't as obvious, but adaptability still occurs over time, just much more subtly. Sow True Seed is selecting from plants that do well here. If the company does this season after season, eventually it will create and own a bank of seed specifically geared to perform well in this region. That has not happened before — many of us order from companies located in Maine, California or other far-flung places. The seed we get might be great, but it isn't specifically adapted to our growing conditions.
Second, Sow True Seed is working on preserving older varieties. The company doesn't have a lot of these yet, but flipping through the catalogue reveals greasy beans, sorghum, creasy greens and some older tomato varieties. Here's hoping local gardeners and farmers provide the company additional tried-and-true favorites — the more people who cultivate these garden treasures, the better chance they stand of surviving.
Third, Sow True Seed is local. To the best of my knowledge, there is no other seed company of this size anywhere in the region (meaning WNC and the piedmont, north Georgia, east Tennessee, upstate South Carolina). I'm a little hesitant to over-hype buying local, because it has turned into such a buzzword and my tendency (probably a genetic trait specifically adapted to the conditions I was grown in) is contrarian. But I happen to truly believe that buying from small, local companies is critical to this region's sustainability.


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Some people have no trouble trumpeting their successes. But for others it can be hard to brag.
When you are negotiating a pay raise, this is not the time to be humble. It's important to communicate to your boss what you have accomplished since joining the company. Even outside of work events that make you more valuable -- networking events or conferences you attended, presentations or leadership roles you have in other organizations and classes or certifications you are pursuing. Sometimes getting a degree (or another one) can be a good way to demonstrate your increased value -- before you take on student loans, decide if it is financially a good time for you to go back to school. These all add to what you are worth to your current company, so make sure those setting your salary know about them.
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Just be careful not to embellish what you've accomplished or your role in big successes.
It's a good idea to assume that your boss will check with others to make sure you have done what you say you have done. If you were one of a team who completed a project, talk about that project and then the specific role you played.
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Don't let one unsuccessful attempt to get a pay raise stop you from asking again in the future. Try setting a specific time with your boss when you can re-evaluate what you have contributed and discuss your compensation again. This doesn't mean you should continue to ask for a raise every week, but set a reasonable time (maybe six months or a year) for you to demonstrate your worth … and get rewarded for it.
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