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The Fast Track
If you're the typical, red-blooded, middle-aged American male with the usual imbalance of too little common sense and too much testosterone, you probably enjoy driving entirely too fast. Roaring, rumbling speed is a simple aphrodisiac and an antidote to the mundane workaday world. Your fantasies revolve not around alluring nymphomanics riding horseback but muscle-bound red cars whining with redlined horsepower.
You may be wildly successful at whatever it is you do. And what you do may be what you've always dreamed of doing. But let's face it: you would rather be a race-car driver. It's more fun than anything else in the world.
There are several ways of fulfilling this fantasy. Be unspeakably rich. Be Paul Newman. Be the son of someone named Unser or Andretti.
Or if you don't meet those criteria, you can attend a "Three Day Competition Course" at the Skip Barber Racing School, America's premier institution of motorsports higher education. Completion of a three-day course awards students the necessary credentials to race in the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) events and half the accreditations to race in Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) meets. Dozens of famous racers, including the Unser and Andretti brood, have come through the program. And even if you don't plan on eventually conquering Indy, graduation from the Skip Barber Racing School entitles you to a bumper-sticker decal whose presence on the fender of your Buick announces to the world: "I have been behind the wheel of a race car and have driven it very, very fast."
Doing that is essentially the most enjoyable activity you'll ever experience that doesn't involve sex. I recently attended a three-day course at the Sears Point Raceway in the shorn-from-a-postcard countryside of the Sonoma Valley. (Skip Barber schools are conducted nationwide at 18 different road-racing tracks, like Sebring, in Florida, Watkins Glen, New York, and Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.)
Having spent a disproportionate amount of time and money racing on a "virtual reality" simulator at my local video arcade, I arrived at Sears Point an accomplished pretend racer. Thanks to a collection of colored dots on a two-dimensional screen, I was expert at pretending to be behind the wheel of a screaming metal monster, pretending to feel the wind on my face as I roared down the back straight, pretending to smell the inspiring aroma of burnt rubber. No matter how many vehicles I crashed or innocent bystanders I maimed, a new car and a clean conscience were only 50 cents away.
Alas, colored dots are merely colored dots.
Skip Barber's three-day course costs $1,995, the equivalent of 3,990 games at the simulator. But unlike the computer game, the school provides safety equipment like a crash helmet and a driving suit, the donning of which inexplicably transforms even the most flaccid of men into a strapping Adonis. (The suit has patches all over it from manufacturers like Mobil and Goodyear; you feel sponsored.) Tuition also covers expert instruction from real race-car drivers (Skip Barber actually exists and has set 35 different lap and race records while winning three SCCA national championships), a damage waiver that indemnifies you from clutch casualties or any mishaps caused by an unexpected rendezvous with the guard rail and, most important, a textbook.
It doesn't take long to read, but whether you've barely made it out of high school or done post doctorate work, the primer takes some getting used to. Because at no other academy of higher learning is your textbook a 1,600 cc, 110 horsepower Formula Ford.
These sleek, little cars are B-1, open-wheel, rear-motor racers that place the driver's rear end about five inches off the pavement. Top speed is a mere 120 mph. But thanks to a lightweight Mondiale chassis and a removable fiberglass body that a child could lift with one hand, the Formula Fords only weigh 900 pounds. With 110 horses, that translates into a power-to-weight ratio that would blow the average street-tuned Ferrari Testarossa off the track. It's not the straightaway speed that impresses so much as the velocity in negotiating turns at 75 mph.
My class of 16 included two women, one celebrity (Michael Castner, a host on E! Entertainment Television and an avid cigar smoker) and a whole bunch of businessmen, car enthusiasts and inveterate daydreamers who could barely wait to grind some gears. Fighting to sublimate the A. J. Foyt-like desires lurking in our hearts, we sat through an indispensable introductory lecture on the difference between street- and race cars, the importance of breaking bad street-driving habits and the sometimes life-threatening mistake of not applying constant throttle throughout high-speed corners. We tried mightily to pay attention.
A Skip Barber course--whether a one-day BMW car-control clinic or a seven-day "Speedweek class"--is structured to sensibly emphasize a mastery of basic skills before allowing lapping at progressively higher speeds. It's a crawl-before-you-walk (or turn- before-you-crash) approach. To this end, our instructors at the Sears Point track, four professional racers at various stages of their careers--from semiretired to looking-for-a-team--escorted us to the pits and literally showed us the Formula Ford's nuts and bolts.
With the bodywork off, the car looks like a sophisticated go-cart. The gearshift lever is about the size of a thumb; the steering wheel has the diminutive diameter of a salad plate and the dashboard, dominated by the tachometer, contains neither a speedometer nor a clock radio.
My class comprised a diverse group of people, who ranged in age from their late 20s to late 50s and in experience from semiregular vintage-car racers to those whose closest brush with competitive driving was at the amusement-park bumper-car track. Nevertheless, we were unanimously awestruck at our first view of the gleaming Formula Fords. These were real race cars. And without fear of highway patrolmen, scolding wives or penurious insurance companies, we were really going to race them.
The cockpit of a Formula Ford accommodates one tightly squeezed body. The driver has to slither into the cocoonlike space and secure himself with a five-belt safety harness that presses him into the bucket seat leaf-in-a-book-style. Fully outfitted, strapped and psychologically prepared to tear through Sears Point at Emerson Fittipaldiesque speeds, I couldn't help feeling like very hot stuff. Sitting in the pit, in neutral, every time I revved the crackling engine I could feel a spine-tingling, insanely powerful reverberation--the kind of roar the Ford back home in my driveway never produces.
Our first exercises focused on the basics of driving: steering, shifting and braking. We slalomed through orange plastic cones; we practiced downshifting; we went faster than we were supposed to when the instructors weren't looking. Not only was this racing stuff immeasurably fun, it was easy! Of course, at this point we may have been going a blistering 35 mph.
Then the instructors announced that we would be performing "controlled" spins, the first maneuver we encountered that wasn't something we'd normally do in the family station wagon. "We want to get these spins out of your system," announced Jim Clark, the lead instructor. "We're going to let you spin the car out here on the straightaway at a low speed so you can learn to correct it. Because in a race situation, if you're still lifting the throttle and oversteering at full speed in the S-curves--well, it's not going to be a pretty sight."
To prevent serious bodily harm, the Skip Barber teachers drilled us in CPR: "correction-pause-recovery." And if any of us had any notion that this wasn't serious stuff, our doubts were quickly disabused upon taking a tour of Sears Point's infamous tenth turn, where the indentations of a fiery crash could still be seen in the side of a trackside administrative building.
Motor sports are dangerous. The consecutive deaths on April 30 and May 1 of Roland Ratzenberger at San Marino and the legendary Ayrton Senna at Imola in Italy reminded everyone just how dangerous. Sears Point, which some race teams call "seriously pointless" (because of its demanding, hilly, frequently expensive--bent-up front-ends are costly--11-turn, 2.53 mile layout) features one particularly infamous stretch of pavement that will shake up anyone driving at full speed with less than precision handling. ("If you can drive here," our instructors promised, "you can drive anywhere.") With this in mind, our mentors stressed thorough comprehension of driving technique and driving theory before they would allow anyone to approach speeds that, if handled incorrectly, could produce frightening results.
After a morning of experimentation and familiarization, our teachers took us to the blackboard to learn the physics of racing. Given that most Formula Fords run at virtually the same top speed, how does one racer finish ahead of the pack? How do you go faster without ending up in a heap of twisted metal? Three days of many trials and even more errors, hours of lectures and minutes of on-track thrills revealed the answer: The Line.
Though Skip Barber instructors tend to talk about The Line with the kind of mystical reverence most people usually reserve for religious deities or aging rock stars, it's a very real, very tangible thing. Basically there's one optimal, inarguably fastest way through each turn on the race track. Find it, follow it, use your brakes and you'll be on the righteous path to speeds previously unimaginable. Get off it at 100 mph. and be prepared for a one-way ticket to Dante's seventh circle.
To demonstrate the importance of The Line, our instructors took the class on a high-speed tour of Sears Point's pernicious bends in, successively, a BMW 325, a rented Nissan Maxima and a Chevy van. Negotiating hair-raising turns in a cumbersome passenger vehicle at 40 mph has a way of converting the staunchest cynic into a true believer. For the duration of the school, we learned empirically how a proper marriage of physics, geometry and power pays off.
Though the teaching staff gave a battery of classroom seminars throughout the course--a "downshifting talk," a "braking talk," a "passing the slowpokes talk," the bulk of our learning was accomplished the best way: on the track at progressively higher speeds, where mistakes become magnified and solid skills produce the kind of frisson you get only from going to the edge and not falling over. But nobody ended up as lunch meat for the dozens of red-tailed hawks that circled the Sonoma sky. Nearly a quarter of the class crashed; none of the accidents produced a single injury.
Indeed, save for the badly mangled axle on one spun-out car, the most serious damage of the three days may have been to our egos. At a Skip Barber class, a waving yellow flag ought to mean: "Caution! American Male Quickly Approaching Midlife Crisis!" Most men would probably rather admit to being lousy lovers than bad or slow drivers. To car-loving, speed-addicted Skip Barber students, getting passed on the back stretch can be nearly as traumatic as discovering the spouse in bed with someone else.
If the average high-school kid took his lessons as seriously as the average Skip Barber student, the Scholastic Aptitude Test would be rendered obsolete. Our Three-Day Competition Course may have been the first and last time some of us would ever have the pleasure of driving a race car, but to see the determination on our faces you might have thought we were one day away from Le Mans. Over lunch at the Winner's Circle Cafe before the climactic 5,000 rpm lapping session, I learned I wasn't the only student whose nightly dreams were dominated by visions of brake-downshift-turn-throttle-upshift. I wasn't the only one who had the Sears Point layout on the back of his corneas.
After three days of tutelage, a few burning clutches, many ground gears and many, many crumpled orange cones, all of us, with varying degrees of success, had learned to drive a race car.
Even if the closest we would ever come to passing Nigel Mansell would be in freeway commuting fantasies, the prospect no longer seemed so distant. We knew, after all, the charm of threshold braking, the ignominy of trailing throttle oversteer and the secrets of The Line. We knew.
And as we collected our diplomas at Skip Barber's informal graduation ceremony, more than a few of us made one last wistful visit to the racetrack and for a melancholy moment seriously considered a radical change in careers.
Michael Konik is the gambling columnist for Cigar Aficionado.


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Ivan Rodriguez: Closer To Cooperstown
Last March during the second round of the World Baseball Classic in Miami we were fill the blank with the proper adjective to have the lead for The Puerto Rico Daily Sun that Iván Rodríguez was going to be playing his 19th season in the Majors with the Houston Astros.
Four months in the calendar have gone by and 'Pudge' is in the news again. The Vega Baja native is set for history again. He will become the all-time major league leader in games caught passing Carlton Fisk 2,226 behind the plate. Coincidentally, Fisk was the opposing catcher when Rodriguez made his debut on June 20, 1991.
Moreover, in interleague play he is in line to break the record against his original team, the Texas Rangers, June 16-18.
If any one have forgotten, Rodriguez, 37, played 12 seasons with the Rangers. It was in Arlington were he established his actual credentials. In Texas he was a 10-time All Star; won 10 out of his 13 Gold Gloves; 6 of 7 Silver Slugger awards; the 1999 American League MVP and many, many other honors and recognitions.
In 2003 he added to his resume something that he could not enjoy as a Ranger. As a Florida Marlins he have a dream season (.297, 16 HR , 85 RBI) and led his young club to the World Series. He was the 2003 National League Championship Series MVP against the Cubs and one of the leaders in the win against the Yankees.
What's next ?
"I still can play this game on an every day basis," Rodriguez said. "I just look forward to have a great year and make this ballclub (Astros) in the playoffs. That's going to be my goal".
At this moment the Astros are off in the race in their Central Division but in the other hand Rodriguez (.259, 5HR, 24 RBI) is showing good shape to keep playing in the Majors.
No matter he have surpassed Fisk and Johnny Bench in numbers and recognition, 'Pudge' have been clear that with his discipline, hard and strong ethic work if he can go on he will. And is no secret he's next goal is try to reach the 3,000-hit plateau.
Time will tell if he will achieve it or not. However, no matter what, Rodriguez at this moment is enjoying the big moment and no doubt once he retires he will be bound to Cooperstown.
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An anonymous reader writes "Game designer Tadhg Kelly writes at TechCrunch about a trend many gamers have noticed over the past decade: designers increasingly relying on statistics — and only statistics — to inform their design decisions. You know the type; the ones who'll change the background color if they think it'll eke out a few more players, or the ones who'll scrap interesting game mechanics in favor of making the game more easily understandable to a broader market. Naturally, this leads to homogenization and boring games. Kelly says, 'Obsessed with measuring everything and therefore defining all of their problems in numerical terms, social game makers have come to believe that those numbers are all there is, and this is why they cannot permit themselves to invent. Like TV people, they are effectively in search of that one number that will explain fun to them. There must, they reason, be some combination of LTV and ARPU and DAU and so on that captures fun, like hunting for the Higgs boson. It must be out there somewhere. ... Unlike every other major game revolution (arcade, console, PC, casual, MMO, etc.), social game developers have proved consistently unable to understand that fun is dynamic in this way. ... They are hunting for the fun boson, but it does not exist.'"
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Ivory and bronze sculptures from the West African Kingdom of Benin, in present-day Nigeria, are among the continent's most important and valuable works of art. The detailed workmanship and outstanding aesthetic quality of Benin's royal sculpture has been compared to the work of the celebrated Renaissance artist, Cellini. Its wealth of iconographic detail conveys the sumptuousness of the royal court and its historical importance as a regional powerhouse in West Africa from the 16th through the 19th centuries.
Through this broad survey of the royal arts and culture of the Kingdom of Benin, the exhibition traces Benin's history—from its origins to the arrival of Portuguese envoys in the 15th century to the growing wealth of the kingdom from coastal trade. It also looks at themes of kingship, hierarchy, and ritual within Benin's royal court. In 1897 British forces invaded the Benin kingdom. The exhibition closes by considering the reconfiguration of Benin's monarchy and its arts following this course-altering event.
The Art Institute's presentation of Benin—Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria features approximately 220 works of art from collections in Europe, Nigeria, and the United States. The 40-page catalogue Benin: Royal Arts of a West African Kingdom highlights 22 of the exhibition's masterworks and includes an essay by curator Kathleen Bickford Berzock.


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Ten Commandments for Interacting With Kids On The Autism Spectrum...
1. Thou shall not yell when speaking to me. My disability does not impair my hearing and I am extremely bright. Perhaps even brighter than you are.
2. Thou shall not ignore me, talk negatively about me, speak unnaturally slow, or ask questions to others in the room that pertain to me. I can comprehend what you are saying just fine.
3. Thou shall believe in me and help me believe in my skills and self worth. Note the good in me and do not merely point out my negative behaviors. Believe in me and I will believe in myself.
4. Thou shall not perceive me as dumb. I am extremely intelligent. I do not learn in the same way as you, and maybe not as quickly as you expect me to. Have patience with me. Once I recall information, I never forget.
5. Thou shall not judge my behavior. I can get overstimulated in certain environments. I may be hypersensitive to sound and loud noises may hurt my ears. Fluorescent lights are distracting for me. They have a humming noise, and can pulsate. All the noises in a room can blur together. Please make accommodations to help me.
6. Thou shall not be so quick to scold me. Do not tell me that "I know what I did". I do not. Tell me what my infraction was in a simple, concise manner. I want to please you, but I have difficulties inferring meaning within a vague statement. For instance, do not say please clean up your bedroom. Tell me exactly what you want, such as 'Please make your bed and pick up your toys".
7. Thou shall not compare me to others. Please remind me, and note the talents that I possess. This increases my confidence and positive self worth. Learning disabled or not, we ALL have talents to contribute within society. I need you to help me realize what mine is. Believe in me and I will believe in myself.
8. Thou shall not exclude me from activities. Please do not mimic me, ignore me, or bully me. Please invite me to play with you. It hurts my feelings when I am excluded. I like to run and jump in the playground, and be invited to birthday parties too. Grownups can help me make friends by encouraging other children to play with me. I can be a loyal friend if you get to know me.
9. Thou shall give me choices. I do not like being ordered about any more than the other children. Give me choices so I know you value my capabilities and opinions. Make them simple and concise. Present two options or so. I get confused when too many questions or directions are given at one time due to my processing speed. For instance, ask me if I would like to wear my blue sweater or green one, rather than asking which sweater I would like to wear.
10. Thou shall not judge me by my diagnosis, but by my character. I am an individual, just like other children. As my son used to say, "Mom my name is John (name changed for his anonymity) not Asperger's". A profound statement I would say. :-0) ~ Mari Nosal


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METOCLOPRAMIDE (met oh kloe PRA mide) is used to treat the symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) like heartburn. It is also used to relieve the symptoms of slow stomach emptying in people with diabetes.
Take this medicine by mouth. Follow the directions on the prescription label. Take this medicine at least 30 minutes before eating and at bedtime. Leave the tablet in the sealed blister pack until you are ready to take it. With dry hands, open the blister and gently remove the tablet. If the tablet breaks or crumbles, throw it away and take a new tablet out of the blister pack. Place the tablet in the mouth and allow it to dissolve, and then swallow. You do not need water to take this medicine. Do not take your medicine more often than directed.
A special MedGuide will be given to you by the pharmacist with each prescription and refill. Be sure to read this information carefully each time.
Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible:
allergic reactions like skin rash, itching or hives, swelling of the face, lips, or tongue
abnormal production of milk in females
breast enlargement in both males and females
change in the way you walk
difficulty moving, speaking, or swallowing
drooling, lip smacking, or rapid movements of the tongue
excessive sweating
involuntary or uncontrollable movements of the eyes, head, arms and legs
irregular heartbeat or palpitations
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Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome):
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medicines for blood pressure
medicines for diabetes, including insulin
medicines for hay fever and other allergies
medicines for depression, especially an Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor (MAOI)
medicines for Parkinson's disease, like levodopa
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It may take a few weeks for your condition to improve. Do not take this medicine for longer than 12 weeks. The longer you take this medicine and the more that you take, the more likely you are to have side effects. If you are an older patient, a female, or you have diabetes, you may be at increased risk for side effects. Contact your health care professional right away if you have movements that you cannot control such as lip smacking, rapid movements of the tongue, unusual movements of the eyes, head, or arms.
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(CNN) -- Politicians make gaffes almost daily. Some they can overcome. Some are fodder for late-night comedians. Some are deadly to their campaigns. Republican congressman Todd Akin's recent gaffe was so toxic, he may not only have killed his campaign, he may be the political equivalent of a zombie who also infects the Romney/Ryan ticket with his deadly virus.
The American public is smarter than most political campaigns give us credit for. We may not be geniuses -- me included -- but we intuitively grasp when a politician has merely slipped up or when he or she has revealed something much more significant.
The first type of political gaffes are just that: mistakes. For example, when then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said he had campaigned in "57 states." Or when Rep. Michele Bachmann suggested that the American Revolution had started in New HampshireThese kinds of comments are generally overcome. The only time they're potentially fatal is if they occur with such frequency that they begin to define the politician. Note to Joe Biden: You are really getting close to achieving that feat.
Then there are the gaffes that are not gaffes at all. These reveal the candidate's views on an issue or a character flaw that we had not previously seen.
Rep. Todd Akin's notorious remark Sunday clearly falls into the second category.
His statement that a woman being raped could magically shut off her reproductive system and avoid becoming pregnant was so outrageous that even Mitt Romney quickly denounced him. (Surprising, because Romney failed to condemn Rush Limbaugh's despicable comments regarding Sandra Fluke, the law student whom Limbaugh called a "slut" on his radio show after she appeared before Congress to discuss contraception.) Akin's statement also brought national attention to his radical position that a woman who becomes pregnant from rape should be required to carry the baby to term.
Is this one statement enough to destroy Akin's Senate campaign? A quick review of the history of political missteps of this type tells us that Akin is probably "dead candidate walking."
For example, in 1990, Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams was leading his Democratic opponent, Ann Richards, by 11 points with less than three months to go before Election Day. Williams then uttered a campaign-changing wisecrack comparing bad weather and rape: "If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.'' Thankfully, Williams lost by 2 points.
Candidates have even been undone by a single word, as in the case of Mitt Romney's father, George Romney, who had been seeking the 1968 Republican nomination for president. Romney had supported the Vietnam War but then came out against it when running for president, as it had become unpopular. (This is apparently a Romney family trait.)
Romney, trying to explain his new anti-war position, commented that in 1965, he had visited Southeast Asia and met with U.S. generals who "brainwashed" him into supporting the war. Romney's candidacy could never overcome this remark.
And there was Republican Sen. George Allen's public use of the racially derogatory term "macaca" to describe a staff member of his opponent's campaign who was of Indian heritage. Allen had been leading in the polls at the time but went on to lose that 2006 election.
Some candidates have even been undone by simply showing too much emotion, causing voters to question the candidate's stability.
In 1972, Sen. Edmund Muskie was a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. But his candidacy came apart when Muskie reportedly had "tears streaming down his face" as he emotionally defended attacks on his wife and himself by the publisher of a New Hampshire newspaper. Consequently, many were concerned that Muskie didn't posses the composure needed to serve as president.
In the same vein, Howard Dean's 2004 presidential ambitions were derided when he released a flu-ridden (and blood-curdling) scream during a speech shortly after losing Iowa's Democratic caucus.
But there's one big difference between Akin's gaffe and the other politically deadly ones above. Those hurt only the candidates who committed them. Akin's comments may even hurt the Romney campaign and other Republicans.
Indeed, the Republican National Committee chairman, Reince Priebus, instructed Akin to not attend next week's Republican National Convention. However, the problem for Romney and others in the GOP is that while Akin may not be at the convention, his radical view that abortion should be banned in the U.S. with no exceptions for rape will be. This position is part of the Republican Party's national platform, adopted a few days ago and supported by Romney's running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan.
As the postscript for this campaign is written after Election Day, we may find that Akin's comments mark the first time that a political gaffe not only doomed the candidate who made it, it also dragged down his party's presidential ticket.


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Introducing our newest little bird to the blog, Lux Vivian Hoeft. Born March 9, 2017 at 12:35pm, 7 pounds, 5 ounces and 19 1/2 inches long. Labor/delivery was a lot quicker than with Rowan but the recovery has taken a bit longer. Overall, everyone is healthy and adjusting pretty well to life as a family of four. We've had a lot of changes happen these last 4 weeks but I'll get more into that later. Expect plenty of "catch-up" posts since I, obviously, took a nice long break to recover and settle in before blogging again.
We're so in love with this little lady. Lux means "light" (or a measurement of light) and Vivian "life" and it couldn't fit her more. She's the sweetest little thing and I can't wait to tell you more about her in future posts. She's already changed quite a bit since I took these photos at 2 days old (1 day old in the color photo).
Thanks for following along on this newborn journey with us once again! We appreciate everyone who's reached out over the past month via my social medias/phone/text/etc and we love you guys!
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Siri is one of the major selling points of the iPhone 4S. The voice-activated personal assistant isn't available on the iPhone 4, iPad 2, or any other Apple device, despite people hacking older devices to run it just fine. And that won't be changing anytime soon.
Despite the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 being perfectly capable of running Siri smoothly, Apple has decided to keep it iPhone 4S exclusive. Cult of Mac blogger Michael Steeber bugged Apple customer service until they gave him this quote:
Engineering has provided the following feedback regarding this issue:
Siri only works on iPhone 4S and we currently have no plans to support older devices.
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Of course, Apple has been known to reverse course in the past. But they don't have many good reasons to do so here, as Siri is one of the only major differences that will convince people to upgrade from the iPhone 4. It is what it is, I suppose.
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Tufa towers in Mono Lake. Mono Lake lies near the town of Lee Vining. It is at least 700,000 years old and one of the oldest continuously existing lakes on the continent. Tufa towers (photographed) are made from calcium and carbonate combine to form limestone, which builds up over time around the lake bottom spring openings. Declining lake levels have exposed the tufa towers we see today. Some of the tufa towers are up to 30 feet high. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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Ashwagandha, also known as Withania somnifera or Winter Cherry, supports the body's ability to maintain physical effort and helps the body maintain healthy stress levels. Ashwagandha is an important and useful Ayurvedic immune supporting herb that is used in many tonics and formulas. This alcohol free 1:1 extract from Nature's Answer also helps promote healthy energy levels.
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Delicious homemade vanilla marshmallows rolled in generous amounts of powdered sugar. Perfect in a cup of hot chocolate, on a homemade S'More or eaten straight out of the package.
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The Price of a Teardrop
A strange will came before the rabbi. It was the last will and testament of a woman who divided up her wealth among her children and grandchildren. What was puzzling was a line directing that ten thousand dollars should be awarded to one particular granddaughter above and beyond what the others would inherit.
This unexplained favoritism raised doubts about the reliability of the entire will. After some serious investigation the reason came to light.
A letter was found in which this grandmother emotionally described the night she sat together with all her grandchildren and told them what she experienced in the Holocaust and the suffering of the Jewish people during that period. All her grandchildren listened attentively but one granddaughter actually wept. As a reward for those tears she was awarded a great inheritance by the grandmother who so appreciated her compassion.


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Blake Ayles, a pillar of sportsmanship and class, gave two Notre Dame fans something to remember him by.
Before the USC game on Saturday, Nick Shelton and his cousin went down to the field to snap a picture. After the photo op, an usher pointed out that they may want to check the camera.
"Low and behold, it was our buddy, No. 88, giving us the double-birdie salute," said Shelton. "Ayles ruined our picture, but I'd be lying if I said I was upset. It's a priceless photo."
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The Fighting Irish fan said that he's "not too worried about a personal apology from Ayles."
Although, Shelton added, the tight end may want to think about the innocent kids sitting in the stands who also got a hefty dose of one-finger salutes.
The Trojans beat Notre Dame 34-27. No other photobombs were reported.


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Heh. When they were moving the couch I was like "The martial arts guy could just use his mind powers..."
Brilliant episode. It was a great way of introducing all the team players to The Escapist viewers.
well now they have three shows on the escapist, they must be getting a lot of money I'm guessing.
LOL ok thanks.. sorry, just got worried and that. I don't like change, so when I suspects that some change might be coming, it does me head in.
OK, so is there any point in me even having LRR in my favourites any more?
I am amazed by the little amount of people needed to move such a heavy couch....I usually need 20 people..
Anyway.....Nice video guys, hope the escapist contract works out well!
Kathleen does an awesome Uma Thurman.
It's a bit strange, coming from two years of watching LRR, but I think it's a great intro to them and their humor.
Keep calm and carry on.
That... Was BRILLIANT! I freaking love you guys! I don't give a shit what the haters say, LRR will forever be absolute comedic geniuses!
Grow up everyone and smell the awesome wit-induced comedy that is obviously way too smart for you.
@swaki, that... Was never an R. It was the largest circle that turned into the Escapist E and I actually like that the original logo has stayed. Much more iconic of LRR.
The introductions for everyone was just golden and with such an amazing punchline, it just can't get any better than that. Or CAN it!?
Loved it, arguably the best special effects yet, and hilarious as always.
Always wanted to do a slo-mo walk scene like that. Absolutely epic, guys. :)
THE ESCAPIST SIGNED LRR?!(<--pretend that is an interrobang)
Nice that you finally get paid for LRR!
Awesome. Also, Tae-Kun(Kwan)-Jutsu-Do? More awesome.
Wow, wasn't expecting to see LRR on The Escapist - will you still be making separate LRR videos on LRR.com, or will you and The Escapist be merging now?
That's wasn't too bad, I did like the punchline :D
I used to watch LRR a lot, until the site's video player decided it wouldn't work half the time for me. I've missed that theme song, and the sketch was everything I expect from you guys! Hilarious stuff!
What we've come to expect from the LRR crew.
*thumbs up*
From what I understand the LRR website will still host ISC, Loading Time and Commodore Hustle.
I'm a regular LRR follower and it's been a while since I laughed constantly through a video of theirs.
That was very good, must say, Hope something like this comes to the escapist. :)
Psssssst, that's actually Matt. Not Graham. lern2lrrplox?
@Fightgarr, Nope, cH is coming here too. Phailhaus is staying on LRR's site though.
Fantastic introduction to LRR for those Escapist folks not fortunate enough to all ready be in tune with it.
And if you weren't before now, I think there's something wrong with you.
Loading Ready Run, you guys rock! I'm eager to see you guys on the Escapist.
Triumph, guys. Way to start things off with a bang. I'd love to meet all of you. Do you do personal appearances?
Because I've got this file cabinet I want to move but it's *hella* heavy.
Loved that video, definetly one of my favourites from the LRR team :D
*statement redacted. I'm a derp*
Awesome episode. Stifled laughter throughout.
Why is this tagged "comedy"?
Welcome to the Escapist most of the rest of the Loading Ready Run crew! Looking forward to more excellent videos in keeping with your always high quality!
you know I could have done that with my mind-Jeremy
Hehehe, that was pretty good guys.
"You know I could have moved that with my mind."
"God dammit, Jer!"
The oppressive communist state of eastern Canada?
Im sold.
For the last time, it's MATT. Matt said "Damn it, Jer!"
The Escapist community, PLEASE for the love of all things holy, LERN2LRR. There was a clear description of WHO THEY ARE, IN the video. Watch it.
My father, uncle and I had to carry one on its end up a flight of stairs once. It sprung open and punched my uncle in the nose with one of its legs. After we executed it for its crime, I learned to always tie the mechanism down with rope when moving.
Great video guys--keep 'em coming!
this is why i love the Escapist, where else are you gonna get insulted by the editor in chief?.
My thoughts exactly. Maybe LRR will finally gain some well-deserved more popularity now that it's featured here
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Actress Reese Witherspoon's mother has filed a petition of annulment to wipe out her husband's recent second marriage.
Mary Elizabeth Witherspoon says in court documents filed May 8 in Nashville that her husband John Drake Witherspoon has taken a second wife who may be taking advantage of his mental condition.
The couple has been separated since 1996, but remains married and still attends family functions together, including their daughter's March 2011 marriage.
The filing alleges John Witherspoon's new wife Tricianne Taylor has tried to take out loans as Mrs. John Witherspoon, lives in his condo, has had him sign a new will and drives a vehicle without permission from a family corporation run by Reese Witherspoon.
Mary Elizabeth Witherspoon, a 63-year-old nurse at Vanderbilt University hospital and a retired Tennessee State professor, says she "loves her husband and does not want a divorce" after 42 years of marriage to the 70-year-old otolaryngologist. She also says in the filing she "fears he may be suffering from early onset of dementia," and she has filed a restraining order to stop Taylor from converting any of the family's assets.
A May 31 court hearing has been scheduled in Davidson County Circuit Court.
Calls left at Mr. Witherspoon's office and with Reese Witherspoon's publicist were not immediately returned. It is unclear if Mr. Witherspoon has retained an attorney.
Mary Elizabeth Witherspoon says in the filing she found out about her husband's Jan. 12 marriage to Taylor from a wedding announcement that appeared in The Tennessean newspaper. She says she confronted her husband about the marriage and he said he didn't recall marrying Taylor, who did not respond to a letter from Mrs. Witherspoon about the situation.
She says in the filing she fears for the safety of her husband and her family and that Mr. Witherspoon has several medical conditions such as heart disease and diabetes that if improperly treated could lead to his death.
The Witherspoons have not lived together in more than 15 years. Mrs. Witherspoon says in the court filing she moved out because of her husband's "alcoholism, infidelity, overspending and hoarding." She says he still has trouble with overspending, noting he owns five motorcycles and five boats.
Along with the annulment, Mrs. Witherspoon is asking the court to order Taylor to leave all residences belonging to the family, return all possessions she has acquired and to pay court costs.
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1. FREE PHOTOSHOP EXPRESS ONLINE (story in wired... thanks thomas)
2. Police are ticketing Pedestrian and Bicyclists at 14th and P and 14th and U Streets
cars are free to do as they please
interesting that the police do not see that the peds and the cyclists are modifying the law in the same way that cars are
the speed limit is 25MPH... why not start there!
then go to people failing to make compete stops at the stop line at their car
then try ticketing for talking on the cell phone while driving
there is more
yes... there is more
the police could ticket cars for passing pedestrians and cyclists too fast and too close
if a car is moving above the speed limit when they pass a pedestrian or a cyclist... that should be considered reckless driving
that would be a SAFE STREET CAMPAIGN!
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- Shana said...
no way.
for all the car traffic violations happening right in front of their faces, and for all the cars that are just not paying attention (yes, that is reckless!) i would be so upset if i got pulled over for not making a complete stop...
i live on 14th. this is ridiculous.
- 3/29/2008
- gwadzilla said...
hains point photographer?
control the car chaos
then start to think about the pedestrians and cyclists
ticketing the bikers and the walkers is like telling women they should not work out alone because they could be attacked
stop the attacker
don't try to lessen the number of attacks by asking the victims to avoid the attackers
control the car chaos
that will make safer streets
yes pedestrians and cyclists need to be responsible for their actions
but until a pedestrian is safe to cross in the crosswalk when it says walk
they should be free to cross where and when they are most safe
the cyclist...
they get no respect and are unsafe when following the law
it is no different when they break it
the bike moving through is to the advantage of all
cars hate having the bikes line up in front of them
- 3/29/2008
- Shana said...
(yep, it's me!)
exactly. thank you.
- 3/30/2008
- horn said...
i'm sad to see this blatant profiteering takes place on both sides of the pond.
i too would be happy if i felt that the issue of reckless motorists took priority over stopping commuters for riding on the pavement...
i saw someone doing their make-up in their rear view today... sheesh.
- 3/31/2008
- gwadzilla said...
I got rear ended once by a car at high speed once
the road was well lit
day time lit
I had so many lights blinking and flashing that I knew how to say christmas tree in many languages as everyone I passed pointed and said christmas tree in their native tongue
the women hit me square in the back tire
I was lucky that i had a good grip on the bars
it sent me flying forward
there was no damage
she had a streak of lipstick on her flat cheek
frozen in position she looked dumbly at me as I went to her window
she rolled the window down and said she was sorry
rather than cuss her out
I asked that she be more careful
the situation was too close to death for a tongue lashing
I wonder if her behavior changed for more than two city blocks
- 3/31/2008
- horn said...
you'd like to think so, but i doubt it...
the last time i was stopped by city police (for genuinely not seeing a red light) i asked if they were going after the numerous taxis and buses i see jumping red lights everyday, he claimed they were and proceeded to tell me how he'd attempted to take a dozy pedestrian to court but the case was thrown out...
i dunno if this was just said to appease me, but he seemed a stand up kind of guy (once i'd calmed down) and even warned me they were going to be staking out the same lights all week.
although i have to say, it took him 300 metres to catch me, so i'd love to know how they stop motor vehicles...
i did find how out of breath he was quite humorous...
- 3/31/2008


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The B.C. government's removal of requirements for environmental assessments for ski resorts and sweet natural gas processing plants is designed to grease the industrial wheel and has nothing to do with reducing duplication, critics charged Tuesday.
"This represents a continued slide towards deregulation," said Anna Johnston, staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law Association. "It's obviously meant to speed up industrial development and that will lead not only to environmental and social concerns but for industry it will erode any social licence they might have."
The province has exempted new and expanded ski and all-season resorts as well as sweet natural gas processing plants from scrutiny of the Environmental Assessment Office.
It argues that the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations already has an established Master Plan review process for ski resorts, that the Oil and Gas Commission is equipped to handle the sweet natural gas sector, and that the changes will help free up the Environmental Assessment Office to review other projects.
"All it does is remove an absolute duplication," said Environment Minister Mary Polak.
The changes to the Reviewable Projects Regulation were approved on Monday.
Johnston noted the changes must be viewed alongside other government initiatives: Bill 24, introduced March 27, which would weaken the agricultural land reserve; and Bill 4, legislation already passed that paves the way for park boundaries to be altered in favour of industrial development such as pipelines and transmission lines.
NDP environment critic Spencer Chandra Herbert said that the Oil and Gas Commission was established primarily to support industry — not to protect the environment.
"Master Plans don't have the same legal strength or the ability to enforce as environmental assessments," warning that in the absence of "reasoned debate" on projects, people could wind up "fighting them in the streets."
Polak said the environmental assessment process will continue for the Garibaldi at Squamish ski resort proposal.
David Lynn, president of Canada West Ski Areas Association, argued the change will result in more efficient reviews by the province's Mountain Resorts Branch.
B.C. has also started charging industry fees for environmental assessments. Polak estimates the fees will recover about 60 per cent of the costs of conducting environmental assessments and processing applications. The Environmental Assessment Office has a 2014/15 budget of $11.7 million, an increase of about $3 million from 2013/14.
The changes remove the need for environmental assessments of new and expanded ski and all-season resorts effective Jan. 1, 2015. For natural gas processing plants, environmental assessments would only be required for projects involving sulphur emissions of two tonnes or more per day as of April 28, 2014.
Johnston noted sweet gas plants can threaten water quality and wildlife habitat.
Polak can still designate a project as reviewable where the "project may have a significant adverse environmental, economic, social, heritage or health effect and that the designation is in the public interest."


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NEWS- No stranger's perfect: Halle Berry adds class to dud
Whatever happened to Bronson Pinchot?
A generic title like Perfect Stranger triggers free association and got me wondering about the star of TV's Perfect Strangers. Not being in this movie, he's one of the few people who aren't suspects in the mysterious death of Grace (Nicki Aycox), which is being vigorously investigated by investigative reporter Rowena Price (Halle Berry).
The movie's about the murder case and about creating false identities in Internet chat rooms and elsewhere. It's about marriage, romance, and affairs and about the cutthroat world of advertising.
But when you've forgotten all those details, you'll remember how good Halle Berry looks. That's what it's really about.
So why is Rowena still single, despite a healthy interest in sex and the ability to get any man she wants? Well, can't a movie have more than one mystery?
Ro is used to assuming false identities in pursuit of a story, and even publishes under a male name, "David Shane." In the opening scene, she pretends to be from "Family First" to bust a conservative senator (Karl Bury) for having an affair with his male intern while campaigning against gay rights.
Grace and Ro were childhood friends and neighbors. They meet in the subway, and Grace gives Ro a scoop: she had an affair with advertising big shot Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis) after an exchange of e-mails. Now that he's dumped her, she's threatening to expose him to his wife (Paula Miranda).
A week later, Grace is fished out of the river, and Ro sets out to build a case against Hill. She starts by getting hired as a temp at his agency, H2A, and letting Hill's nature take its course.
Ro's accomplice in just about everything is Miles (Giovanni Ribisi), a researcher at the paper and apparently her only friend. For such an intelligent woman, it seems odd she doesn't notice Miles has a mad crush on her.
Hill's wife is the money behind the agency, although it's so successful that shouldn't be a factor anymore. Hill's right-hand woman, Josie (Daniella Van Graas), helps him keep a lid on office affairs and other business details.
Talkative Gina (Clea Lewis) fills Ro in on all the juicy office gossip, then disappears, having fulfilled her expository function.
Miles, the movie's wild card, gets tips from the police and hacks into everyone's computers, including Ro's. Our heroine gets into one hazardous situation after another while trying to get the goods on her boss, who in her fantasies becomes confused with memories of her abusive father.
Yes, there's a little bit of everything in Perfect Stranger, all slickly packaged by director James Foley. The solution will probably surprise you– I had it wrongly figured out halfway through– but when it was over, I found the movie vaguely unsatisfying, less than the sum of its parts.
Maybe I just don't respond well to "Gotcha!"
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I just saw the movie and the ending saved it by giving it a C, otherwise it merited a GENEROUS D!
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The IUCN Council has admitted 21 new Members to IUCN.
The Council, President, Director General and entire Union extend a very warm welcome to the new Members and look forward to their active involvement.
New IUCN Members:
- Association pour la Promotion des Oeuvres Sociales (APROS) [Association for the Promotion of Social Services], Burkina Faso (No website)
- Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Físicas, Exactas y Naturales (ACCEFYN) [Colombian Academy of exact, physical and natural sciences], Colombia
- Asociación Costa Rica por Siempre [Forever Costa Rica Association], Costa Rica
- Awely, des animaux et des hommes [Awely, Wildlife and People], France
- Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad (BUP) [Bangladesh Centre for Research and Action on Environment and Development], Bangladesh
- Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation (BTFEC), Bhutan
- BirdLife Suomi [Birdlife Finland], Finland
- Centre for Peace and Development (CPD), Pakistan
- Centro de Conservación, Investigación y Manejo de Áreas Naturales - Cordillera Azul (CIMA) [Center of Conservation, Research and Management of Natural Areas - Cordillera Azul], Peru
- Chicago Botanic Garden, United States of America
- Environment Tasmania (ET), Australia
- Freeland Foundation (FF), Thailand
- Health and Nutrition Development Society (HANDS), Pakistan
- Micronesian Shark Foundation (MSF), Palau
- National Environment Trust Fund (NETFUND), Kenya
- Palau Conservation Society (PCS), Palau
- Palau Protected Areas Network Fund (PANF), Palau
- Sahjeevan, India
- Territory and Municipal Services Directorate, ACT (TAMS), Australia
- Turtle Survival Alliance Foundation (TSA), United States of America
- Zoologische Gesellschaft für Arten- und Populationsschutz e.V. (ZGAP) [Zoological Society for the Conservation of Species and Populations], Germany
The Bureau of Council took the decision to admit the 21 Members on 24 February 2014. This decision was subsequently ratified by Council in line with Regulation 58 of the IUCN Statutes.
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Article Date: July 11, 2007 | Publication: Film School Rejects | Author: Chris Beaumont
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The month of June has just ended, marking the completion of the first half of the year. With six months down, it seems like a good time to take a look back at the year so far. Like every year, it has had its ups and downs. Looking back at the films that have already come and gone, it looks like the year has had more ups than downs, and with Oscar season still to come, not to mention a few big summer movies yet to come, things have nowhere to go but up! I hope�. Read on for my best, and worst of the year so far.
Top 5 Movies
Knocked Up. Judd Apatow really knocked this one out of the park, delivering a raunchy comedy with genuine heart, much like he did with 40 Year Old Virgin, but this one takes a big step forward in delivering a very real environment. There is something that really hits home�the situation, the dialogue, everything hits just the right notes.
Ratatouille. Brad Bird and Pixar�s latest outing is a triumph in animation and in storytelling. It works on many levels, delivering laughs and characters with plenty for children and adults to enjoy.
300. Zack Snyder hits it big with this surprise hit. The movie is the basis of legend, showing how legend begins. It is also very stylish, hyper-violent, and just all around one of the best action films to truly deliver in awhile.
Hot Fuzz. Pure brilliance. Edgar Wright, with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost deliver a film that parodies action, at the same time it pays tribute to the genre. It is smart, clever, and doesn�t skimp on the bullets.
Black Snake Moan. Here is a film that offers a lot of depth beneath its exploitive surface. It features strong direction, and fearless performances from its two leads that carries its tale of redemption further than one would expect.
Bottom 5 Movies
Epic Movie.
This is an easy pick, but it points to all the problems that lie in spoofs these days. It is rare that we get one that works, more likely they are like this with a string of unfunny replicas from other films. (See Hot Fuzz for one done right)
Norbit. Another easy pick, this was flat out not funny. The performances are flat, the jokes are borderline offensive. It was not a happy day at the theater.
Happily N�Ever After. Another fractured fairy tale, but one that doesn�t work. The idea was there, but the execution faltered at every turn. The animation was poor, the voice acting dull. This is a good cure for insomnia.
Blood & Chocolate. Didn�t we already see this story as An American Werewolf in Paris? That wasn�t a great movie, but it is world�s better than this thing.
Perfect Stranger. Ugh. Poor acting, poor story, and an ending that treats the audience like their idiots. Not a good outing for Halle.
Top 5 Disappointments
Spider-Man 3. Yes, I enjoyed the spectacle, the effects were good, and I walked out with something resembling a smile, but it had such a poor story, and characterizations that betray what came in the first two films. So much promise, such a disappointment.
Shrek the Third. Yes, it had a couple of laugh out loud moments, but it was slow, the story was dumb, and it lost track of its fractured fairy tale roots.
Next. A great concept, a basis from a Philip K. Dick story, yet so poor in execution. The story did not amount to anything, not to mention the poor performances and the jagged story telling.
The Number 23. I wanted to like this. I think Carrey can do drama, I think the thriller had potential, but it just did not entertain.
Pathfinder. The wait for a good Viking movie continues. Sure, some of the action was good, but it could have been so much better.
Top 5 Actors
Samuel L. Jackson (Black Snake Moan). As the bluesman looking to redeem himself, Jackson put himself out there, selling the role and showing just how good an actor he can be.
Michael Shannon (Bug). I did not care for Shannon�s role in last year�s World Trade Center, but here he takes his portrayal to the edge as the uber-creepy Peter, the man with the conspiracy tales. He is very good in this role.
Adam Sandler (Reign Over Me). Sandler put me through an emotinal ringer as a man who lost his family in 9/11 and is attempting to regain his life with the help of Don Cheadle.
Joseph Gordon Levitt (The Lookout). Levitt is fast becoming one of the best up and coming actors of this generation. Following Mysterious Skin and Brick, this is another great performance. He is definitely an actor to keep an eye on.
Gerard Butler (300). Butler steps up his game and anchors the big, in your face style that this movie delivers.
Top 5 Actresses
Ashley Judd (Bug). Judd disappears into her character, slowly going insane and going right to the edge of the precipice and then diving in. Brave performance, she dives in without fear.
Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart). There has been much controversy surrounding her playing Mariane Pearl, but there is no denying that her performance was first rate, she convinced me, losing the star image and playing the role.
Tabu (The Namesake). As the matriarch of the Ganguli family, Tabu really owned the role, and anchored the movie with her sensitive portrayal.
Keri Russell (Waitress). This movie was as sweet as the pies that it features, and Russell added to the sweetness while also grounded the picture with her matter of factness.
Christina Ricci (Black Snake Moan). Much like Ashley Judd, Ricci took her performance to the brink, and then dove in with no sign of fear. As the troubled youth, Ricci was captivating.
Top 5 Directors
Judd Apatow (Knocked Up). Apatow is establishing himself as the premiere comedy director. He recognizes that you need to have more than big laughs to make a movie, and his direction here of his cast is perfectly timed. Strong work.
Zack Snyder (300). Snyder flexed his stylish and creative muscle, making the most of the opportunity, thereby establishing himself as a director on the rise.
Brad Bird (Ratatouille). Can he do no wrong? His first film since The Incredibles is a brilliant blend of story, comedy, and character.
Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz). The follow up to Shawn of the Dead is a masterful tribute/parody of the action genre. It offers great laughs and big action
David Fincher (Zodiac). Fincher is a masterful director, completely immersing us in the sixties and seventies as the search for a killer progresses.
Top 5 Writers
Judd Apatow (Knocked Up). A wonderful script that has that perfect blend of raunchy comedy and heartfelt moments that work together. It hits on a lot of real issues and deals with them in a nice manner.
Craig Brewer (Black Snake Moan). A risky project that Brewer deals with wonderfully. Blending great music, an exploitation veneer, and a story of hope. The screenplay doesn�t pull its punches, and delivers the goods.
Brad Bird (Ratatouille). A delightful script that tells a nice story, offers laughs and nicely defined characters. It is much better than I had expected.
Tracy Letts (Bug). Letts adapts his own stageplay to the big screen, which is a strong piece of paranoia building that works. It is creepy and edgy, and different from what usually arrives on the big screen.
Jeff Stockwell and David Paterson (Bridge to Terabithia). So much more than the Narnia 2 it was marketed as, this was a beautifully written coming of age story that tugs at the heart strings.
Of course, these lists can change at any time, for any reason, or no reason at all. Writing a list is always a tricky proposition, and are always apt to be fluid based on any number of factors. hopefully, this gives an idea of where I was while watching these first half movies.
This year has been good, more often than not. It has offered up many good films, some of which are not represented above, but could be in contention come the end of the year. In particular, this year has been particularly good on the horror front, in my opinion, delivering films such as The Abandoned, 28 Weeks Later, Vacancy, Bug, 1408, Dead Silence, Hostel Part II, Grindhouse, and even The Hills Have Eyes II. It feels like years since there has been as good a selection of horror on the big screen. We have also gotten a couple of the best family films of recent memory in Bridge to Terabithia and Ratatouille.
While the year has had a lot of good and surprisingly good films, it has not been all roses. Spider-man and Shrek sequels failed to deliver he goods, Evan Almighty failed to give up the laughs, and we have also gotten lackluster films featuring Demi Moore, Jim Carrey, Lindsay Lohan, Nicolas Cage, Halle Berry, Hillary Swank, and Eddie Murphy.
Looking forward, the summer still has a lot left to offer. Looking into the near future we have Transformers, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Simpsons Movie, and The Bourne Ultimatum to look forward to. To a lesser degree, I am looking forward to Sunshine, Talk to Me, Captivity, Rush Hour 3, The Invasion, Superbad, and Halloween. That is just for the summer.
Moving into thee Fall, the potential quality doesn�t disappear with a whole slew of films to look forward to. Among them are The Brave One, Shoot �Em Up, Eastern Promises, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, 3:10 to Yuma, Across the Universe, Hitman, 30 Days of Night, Bee Movie, Saw IV, Fred Klaus, and the list goes on.
I am very happy so far with what we have gotten Hopefully that will continue as we continue our march towards Oscar season.
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Hmmm... Been a while
Not that into politic's, but I'd go for my fellow morman Romney. Obama's wife took away my favorite cereal so I'm taking it out on Obama.
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Oh Yeah no bad rep for votes Plz!
Don't really like any of the issues that both bring up. Until I can see a more concert plan from both sides I won't be voting for either candidate.
Undecided at the moment, and lets say I know who I want, I wouldn't tell anyone anyways.
Obama :P
Don't trust Romney one bit.
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I don't fight for the people to lazy to even try to make a difference by doing something as simple as voting.
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But it is kinda true that our electoral system isn't exactly as democratic as we imagine it to be. During every election, the candidates only care about Florida and Ohio :/
Romney 100%
sick of Obama's greedy wife spending a million tax payers dollar's on vacations.
beside's Romney has a better idea for the feature.
+ i never vote for obama.
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its no secret that the US isn't a democracy. We'd be french if we used a democracy. But were a Republic like the romans. and the romans were boss. Therefore America is boss. It all comes together so well. The system isn't perfect, but its a hell of a lot better than than the rest of the world if you ask me.
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Ayo, I'd like to hear why ya'll are helping continue the failed two party system?
What about your candidates, makes you want to vote for them?
Include others.
That means proper media coverage
Know of Jill Stein? Gary Johnson?
Most people don't. Ask yourself why.
Obama and Romney would be in just as difficult of a position to win November's election if they were treated in the same manner as the third party candidates. The two major parties have passed laws that essentially bar third parties from ever having a chance to be elected, particularly in obtaining access to the ballot. Therefore, the two-party system ensures no third party will succeed, despite the credibility an individual, or his campaign, may have.
This election appears to be one where an individual may vote for Obama because he despises Romney, or he votes for Romney as a referendum on Obama; the theory of voting for "the lesser of two evils" is not a wise process for selecting our nation's leader.
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Breitbart and O'Keefe: Guilty of being boring
If shoulder shrugs and eye rolls were audible, that's the cacophony of sound you would have heard bouncing across the political blogosphere on Tuesday and Wednesday after James O'Keefe and his online mentor, Andrew Breitbart, launched their latest, and wildly hyped, undercover video gotcha campaign. O'Keefe -- freshly minted as an admitted criminal in the great state of Louisiana -- along with Breitbart, seem to be trying desperately to prove they're not the Milli Vanilli of online journalism -- one-hit wonders who lucked into a big-media hit with their ACORN crusade eight months ago. (And yes, like the lip-syncing Milli Vanilli, it turned out O'Keefe and Breitbart's lone hit had been doctored in the studio.)
Partisan activists and dedicated right-wing fans alike seem especially focused on trying to salvage O'Keefe's reputation so that his future endeavors will be taken seriously by those outside the anti-Obama echo chamber. But that's not small task, considering O'Keefe was revealed as the perpetrator of the now-famous ACORN pimp hoax. In fact, according to Breitbart, it was O'Keefe who duped his mentor, causing Breitbart to later concede he had no idea what was on O'Keefe's ACORN tapes. (Ugh.)
In fact, no less than four independent reviews of the ACORN scheme concluded that the videos showed no criminality on the part of low-level ACORN workers, but the tapes did raise questions about the misleading way their were edited and presented. (i.e. Scenes were "taken out of context," and edited "substantially" in order to push an agenda.)
And it was O'Keefe the GOP prankster, along with his right-wing pals, who played dress-up in January and hatched the brilliant idea of entering a federal building under false pretenses in order to secretly videotape staffers in the office of the U.S. senator's office, and then request access to the office's central phone line. A Louisiana judge declared that the actions of O'Keefe and his cohorts were "unconscionable," "nefarious" and "potentially dangerous." For that adventure, O'Keefe was ordered to pay the state of Louisiana $1,500 and perform 100 hours of community service.
So, yes, O'Keefe's reputation is in desperate need of some repair. But judging from the nap-inducing undercover effort he put forward this week, that repair work may be beyond the likes of Breitbart and a handful of sycophantic bloggers.
And for now, it sure looks that one-hit-wonder tag is a keeper.
Let's be frank: O'Keefe and Breitbart's undercover sting on the Census Bureau, as a news story, is almost indescribably lame and awful and pointless and irrelevant. (Does that cover everything?) There's not a single serious, self-respecting journalist in this country who would attach his or her name to a so-called exposé as hollow and nonsensical as this. In truth, I'm not sure how the staff at The Onion, or the writers for Saturday Night Live, could concoct a more dead-on send-up of the pointless hidden-camera "journalism" that O'Keefe has convinced himself he's practicing.
I almost felt sorry watching the hidden-camera census clip. Not for the census workers who are captured surreptitiously; they come across as perfectly reasonable and sensible people. But I almost (almost) felt sorry for O'Keefe, who seems genuinely convinced, via the breathless voiceovers, that he's blowing the lid off the long-ignored national scandal that census workers may be taking 70-minute lunch breaks.
Noted Joe Conason at Salon:
Soon enough, O'Keefe will be on to his next target. Are you an Amtrak conductor who gave incorrect change? A sanitation worker who took a long coffee break? A schoolteacher who used too much chalk? Beware.
Like I said, the laugh lines pretty much write themselves.
The real problem for O'Keefe and Breitbart is that with their latest production, they've committed the crime of being boring and peddling an utterly vacuous product. Remember when O'Keefe announced that to forge a career in conservative journalism, "The more bold you are, the more opportunities will be open to you" ? So now, going undercover for less than three days, sitting through a census training seminar, and then whining to your supervisor about minor discrepancies on your time card passes for "bold" action?
Oh, brother.
Perhaps burned by the ACORN pimp hoax as well as the New Orleans arrest, Breitbart and O'Keefe seemed to make a more conscious effort of just not making stuff up with regards to their census investigation. (And even then, they weren't entirely successful.) But what happens when Breitbart and friends try to practice 'serious' journalism, when they have to rely on actual facts, etc., is that they come up empty-handed. And that's why (and I'm not exaggerating here), viewing the undercover census investigation is like watching paint dry, albeit via a shaky hidden camera.
Meanwhile, Breitbart, starring in his role as the hapless conductor for the census roll-out, appears to have made a massive media miscalculation by snubbing Fox News, which practically co-sponsored the ACORN attack videos last fall. Instead, Breitbart opted to "launch" the census sting exclusively on ABC's Good Morning America. Writing at his site, Breitbart naively insisted that simply appearing on ABC would give the census (non-)story legs and legitimacy:
The beauty of Stephanopoulos's launching the Census story is that it now gives James O'Keefe a higher media profile. It will be harder and harder for his partisan peers to ignore him with subsequent videos -- all which show rampant corruption in the government.
That's right: Breitbart understands so little about American journalism that he assumed that because GMA hosted O'Keefe and let him talk about their census videos, that would automatically translate into other news outlets taking the story seriously. Well, sure -- if O'Keefe had given the other news outlets some actual news. But with no angles to peruse beyond extended lunch breaks for census workers, most of the press corps wisely took a pass.
And guess what? So did Fox News! On the day of the "launch," Fox News did not mention the census story. Ever. I mean, really ... if you're a high-profile, right-wing propagandist hatching an anti-government sting and you can't even get Fox News to bite, does the gotcha even exist? (Breitbart managed to sneak onto an overnight Fox News show the next day.)
As for the media sites that did weigh in, the reviews were not kind [emphasis added]:
- "O'Keefe's new target is apparently the Census Bureau, thought honestly if he wanted to put himself to any real use one suspects he should direct his 'guerrilla' talents toward the BP workers that are reportedly limiting access to the spill site." [Mediaite]
- "This video is a grave disappointment. Though asinine, O'Keefe's previous tomfoolery at least entertained us with funny pimp outfits, Gordon Gekko costumes, and federal crimes. This time around, he's as scintillating as a teenager filling out the paperwork for her after-school job at the mall food court. Are we supposed to believe he and Breitbart are so naive that lying on a timecard actually shocks them?" [Gawker]
- "[I]f O'Keefe wants his movement to be taken seriously, he needs to draw a lesson from Investigative Journalism 101: when you're speaking truth to power, make sure what you're saying is actually true." [Newsweek]
Ever since O'Keefe's humiliating arrest in New Orleans in January, Breitbart had been promising that as soon as that legal matter was resolved, O'Keefe would return with more blockbuster, hidden camera investigations.
But oh man, if this week's census nonsense is the best they can do, I'm not sure that anything can save this Milli Vanilli duo from the cutout bin.


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S. Afr. j. sci. vol.103 n.7-8 Pretoria Jul./Aug. 2007
Sexual dimorphism in early Homo
J.F. Thackeray
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Sir, Spoor et al.1 report two new hominin specimens from Ileret in East Africa, one (KNM-ER 42700) which they attribute to Homo erectus, and the other (KNM-ER 42703) to H. habilis. They conclude that the two species were evolutionarily distinct but contemporary, and that there was a high degree of sexual dimorphism in H. erectus. However, as in the case of comparisons between KNMER 42700 and the larger OH 9 (featured on the cover of Nature of 9 August 2007), there is a striking similarity in cranial shape of KNM-ER 1813 (a relatively small specimen attributed to H. habilis) and KNM-ER 3733 (a larger specimen attributed to H. erectus), despite differences in size.
A high probability of conspecificity is obtained when cranial measurements of KNM-ER 3733 and KNM-ER 1813 are compared using a morphometric technique based on least-squares regression analysis, using a method described by Thackeray et al.,1 in which attention is given to the standard error of the m-coefficient (s.em) in regression equations of the form y = mx + c, when measurements of pairs of specimens are compared. The question arises as to whether certain specimens attributed to H. habilis (including KNM-ER 42703, dated at 1.44 Myr ago) are females of a species which is also represented by some specimens that are males of H. erectus.
The answer to such questions lies not in trying to 'pigeon hole' hominin fossils into one or other species, but rather to assess probabilities of conspecificity in relation to a statistical definition of a species. For example, the mean log-transformed s.em value calculated by Thackeray et al.1 from comparisons of measurements of conspecific pairs of vertebrate and invertebrate taxa (1.78, associated with a standard deviation of 0.27, for 1260 specimens) essentially provides a statistical definition of a species, based on morphometric analysis. In terms of this definition, KNM-ER 1813 and KNM-ER 3733 have a high probability of conspecificity, because the log10 s.em value obtained from pair-wise comparison of cranial measurements (including the glabellaopisthcranion, prosthioninion, basionbregma, and basionnasion distances, and the posterior cranial length)3 of these two specimens is 1.72, which is not significantly different from the mean log10 s.em value of 1.78 obtained from conspecific pairs of modern taxa.
1. Spoor F. et al. (2007). Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya. Nature 448, 688691. [ Links ]
2. Thackeray J.F. et al. (1997). Probabilities of conspecificity: application of a morphometric technique to modern taxa and fossil specimens attributed to Australopithecus and Homo. S. Afr. J. Sci. 93, 195196. [ Links ]
3. Wood B.A. (1991). Koobi Fora Research Project. Vol. 4. Hominid cranial remains. Clarendon Press, Oxford. [ Links ]


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Fundraising Wisdom
I am a one man consulting firm specializing in fundraising training, consulting, and coaching primarily in education, non-profit, and religious sectors (primarily Christian, but not exclusively). I am a 42 year old white male living in the New Orleans metro area and consider my market to be all of North America
There are two ways people get into fundraising--one is as a professional fundraiser, the other is by rising within an organization until fundraising becomes part of their responsibility by virtue of their leadership position. I train the latter of those. They are usually 35 to 50 year old upper middle or C-level executives.
I need a fairly standard set of stationary, something that communicates that I know what I am doing, that I am creative, but not avant garde. I need the following pieces:
business cards
8.5 x 11 stationary
standard envelopes
catalogue envelopes
smaller stationary for handwritten notes and matching envelopes