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He also doesn't believe in telling a good story. Max Payne the video game is freaking awesome. Released in 2001, it was the first truly great third person shooter to grace the video game world by combining razor sharp gameplay with a game changing innovation in bullet time, which allowed you to slow time down to better aim your shots. A common misconception is this was based on the insanely popular film the Matrix, but the game had actually been in development before the movie.
To top it off, they added a pretty deep and engrossing story. Some derided it for its overly angsty dialogue, but it was meant to be a tribute to classic hard boiled detective novels. Personally, I loved it and was quoting Max Payne for months after playing this game. But Hollywood just can't let good video games rest in peace without mangling them into something completely unrecognizable from the source material, so we got Max Payne The Movie. It was directed by John Moore, whose only really notable film was 2001's Behind Enemy Lines. Oh, you forgot all about that one? Owen Wilson... in an action movie? Yeah.
The movie was written by Beau Thorne, and is the only thing I can find that he's ever written. After reading my review I think you'll see why he hasn't gotten work since this. Pop some pain killers (you're going to need them) and get ready for A Ghoul Versus Max Payne! And yes, I'm going to annoyingly point out all the differences from the video game.
Our film opens with James Bond sinking into water, a giant hand- wait, this isn't Skyfall as there's no terrible Adele song playing. Our film opens with Max Payne sinking into water as he begins narration of How We Got Here. One week earlier, Poor Man's Dennis Franz introduces a rookie to the Cold Case division. This is where we find Max Payne working, which is a change from the game as he was an undercover DEA agent there. The rookie tries to talk to him but Max just ignores him. The rookie goes back to Poor Man's Dennis Franz and asks what Max's deal is and we get this gem:
Franz: "Remember when you were a kid and you'd hold your breath when you went past the graveyard?"
The rookie nods.
Franz: "Just leave the man alone".
Mmm. That's the kind of writing we're going to be treated to, eh? Short story short, Max's wife and kids were murdered and the case was never solved. Later we cut to a subway, where Max lures three junkies to a bathroom in a scene that I really hope doesn't- ah, never mind. Max reveals he's been following one of them, a punk named Doug whom he believes knows something about the men who killed his family. This is a huge change from the game, while both open in the New York City subway system, Max was not hunting for his family's killers but was there to meet a fellow undercover officer. In the game Max never suspected there was anything deeper to the death of his family.
Doug knows nothing, spouting some gibberish about black wings. One of the junkies escapes into the subway tunnel, where he's attacked by the Dementors from Harry Potter and then is flattened by the train. All the chocolate in the world isn't going to heal that, buddy. Max heads to Leisure Suit Larry's apartment, where he's having a huge party. And I mean HUGE, this is probably the biggest apartment in history. Larry has been feeding him leads about the people who killed his family, and I guess Max is here for another one although he seems more interested in doing... nothing. Nika from the movie Hitman is also at the party, very taken by Max. I say Nika because I'm pretty sure she's wearing the exact same dress as she was in Hitman.
Nika introduces herself to Max, who immediately notices a tattoo of a wing on her wrist which is very similar to one Doug had. Elsewhere at the party we see Larry talking to Mila Kunis, who is flocked by a gaggle of goons. Mila walks up to Nika, roughly grabbing her and dragging her away. All in all, another day for poor Nika. Her arm must be perma-bruised. Mila plays Mona Sax, who is a Russian assassin. In the game she worked for the Mafia family that Max was infiltrating, in the movie she... does absolutely nothing. In the game her sister Lisa was married to the don of the Mafia family, in the movie Nika is her sister and is just a junkie.
Larry tells Max he needs to go as he's upsetting many of the criminals at the party. Max says he'll leave as soon as he's done talking to Nika, who manages to vanish in the few seconds he turns away from her. This will set a precedent for Max having the worst spatial awareness in the world, take note of this. Max walks into a back room of the massive apartment, opening a door into another room where he sees a bunch of girls getting high off a blue liquid drug called Valkyr. He sees Nika in there, but before he can go in he finds a threatening bald man is now magically standing behind him. First Nika, now Agent 47? Did I accidentally put Hitman back in the blu-ray player?
This bald man is actually Jack Lupino, who in the game was an underboss for the Mafia family. In movie... I'm not actually sure. Let's see if we can figure it out. Max notices he has a wing tattoo on his hand as well. Before anything can happen, Nika suddenly appears from a different direction despite being inside the room that Max is standing outside of. She asks Max to take her somewhere, so he takes her back to his apartment.
She tries to make out with Max put her pushes her away. Man, no one wants to have sex with her in these movies do they? But then she remembers her gimmick and takes her dress off, getting into his bed. She must smell bad because he just kicks her out of his apartment. What was the point of Max taking her with him? He obviously didn't want to have sex with her and she had no information for him, so I'm going to go with the film had to work a PG-13 T and A scene into it somehow.
As Nika leaves, she makes a call to her dealer Owen for another fix. We see Lupino lurking outside with a giant freaking knife. Heading down an alley, Nika is attacked by the Dementors, who engulf her. The next morning Max can't find his wallet. Gripping! He heads to work where he is intercepted by Alex Balder, his ex-partner. In the game he was Max's friend and fellow DEA agent, here he was his former partner when Max was in the Homicide Division. Alex takes Max to the alley where Nika has been murdered. They found Max's wallet on her body, which makes Max a suspect in her death. The cops don't ever try to question him or anything, and Max just leaves. He and Alex get in an argument that ends when Max infers Alex didn't do enough to solve his family's murder.
Later, Alex examines Nika's crime scene photos when he has a revelation: Nika's tattoo matches the tattoo on one of the dead junkies who killed Max's family. He tries to call Max but can't get an answer, leaving a message that he'll meet him at his apartment. Mona arrives at police HQ to get information about her sister's murder. She gets her phone records, seeing her last two calls were to Owen. She also finds out about Max's wallet being found next to Nika.
Max gets Alex's message, heading home to meet him. His finds his door has been kicked open, finding Alex dead at the end of the hallway. Before he can investigate, he gets jumped from behind and knocked out. He wakes up in the hospital, where his old friend BB Hensley is waiting for him. And here we get our biggest and most puzzling change between the two stories. In the game, BB was the other undercover DEA agent in the Mafia family. In the movie he is head of security for Aesir Pharmaceuticals. More on this later on.
BB tells Max he is the prime suspect in Alex's murder. So let me get this straight, Max is now the prime suspect in two brutal murders and not a single cop has showed up to at least question him? For that matter, how did Max get to the hospital? Let's say a neighbour was walking by and saw his open door, looking inside and seeing an unconscious Max and Alex's dead body. They called 911, which would bring the cops. The cops would arrange for Max to go to the hospital and then... just completely forget about him? Were they hoping a doctor and his surgeon best friend would solve the case for them?
BB takes Max to his office at Aesir, where Max FAILS TO SPOT that their logo has the same wings on it that are tattooed on half the cast of the movie, despite the camera lingering on it a couple of times. The CEO of the company, Nicole Horne, notices Max there and offers her condolences for his dead wife Michelle, who used to work there. Horne is probably the only character that basically wasn't touched between the game to movie adaption. Horne has an assistant named Jason Colvin, who is played by Chris O'Donnell. He was not in the game at all. Geez, remember when he was going to be the Next Big Thing? Anyone? No?
Max then goes to Alex's house, where his wake is being held. All the cops glare at him, but no one, y'know, tries to arrest him or anything. Max tries to offer his respects to Alex's wife, who is played by.. NELLY FURTADO?! Wha? Her cameo is so distracting I'm unable to focus on her overacting. She ends up kicking Max out of her home. As he walks out of the house, Internal Affairs Agent Jim Bravura pulls up in a car. Fairly big change here, in the game Bravura was Deputy Chief of the NYPD who was leading the department in their quest to arrest Payne after he goes rogue. He was barely in the game and had no real effect on the story. Also, he wasn't Ludacris like he is here.
Here, Bravura doesn't arrest Max but at least takes him to his office to ask him some questions. Like a cop would! However Max doesn't really answer his questions and leaves, Bravura just letting him go. It's official, next time I go on a crime spree I'm going to do it in New York. The cops seem REALLY easy going! He heads to Alex's office in the Homicide Division, every cop angrily glaring at Max and following him. Max locks himself in Alex's office while Poor Man's Jimmy Smits tries to kick the door in. Searching Alex's files, Max learns about Nika calling Owen and Nika's tattoo matching one of the killers. He ducks out a window before the cops break down the door.
Mila's goons from earlier start following Max, prompting him to duck into an alley and pull out his... what is that thing in his hand? Max Payne holding a gun? I'd forgotten what that even looked like in this movie. Mila magically appears behind Max and pulls her gun on him. Boy, Max sucks at people sneaking up behind him. They talk, realizing they're both looking for Owen. ...even though Mila knew about Owen at least a full day ago, I guess she decided that could wait? So they head to Owen's disgusting apartment, where he is freaking out due to Valkyr. After being on the fritz earlier, Max's Tattoo-Vision (TM) returns as he notices Owen has a wing tattoo. Owen wastes our time for a few minutes and then jumps out the window. Or is dragged out by a Dementor from his drugged out perspective.
Yeah, it's obvious this is NOT a supernatural movie. All of the Dementors are just hallucinations caused by Valkyr, which is the movie's attempt of being stylistic. It fails badly. BADLY. And naturally this is the ONE aspect the film's trailers played up, probably because it contains almost no gun battles whatsoever. I wonder how many people that never heard of the video game went to see this because they thought it was some kind of man vs. demon story? I wonder how many of those same people failed to notice the giant "NO REFUNDS" sign hanging over the Max Payne show times?
Max and Mila get in his car to go find Ted- no, that's not right. They head to a tattoo parlor to find out about the wing tattoos. The artist says they represent Norse Valkyries and goes on to give us an extensive mythology lesson the writer carefully researched from Wikipedia. Elsewhere, Lupino has bound a man to a chair and pours some Valkyr down his throat. The man tears through his bonds, going for another vial of Valkyr that Lupino put on the floor. Lupino grabs his giant knife and hacks him to pieces. Damn that was pointless!
Max drops off Mila and I am TOTALLY BORED with this movie already. And we're only 44 minutes in. Mila goes to meet with a man named Lincoln, who is African Crime Lord Stereotype #662,464,127. This is such a bad scene, which actually has the audacity to feature a FLASHBACK of the Lupino scene we literally saw a few minutes ago. Lincoln tells Mila that Lupino is holed up at an old club called Rag Na Rock, which was also Lupino's hideout in the game.
Max then drives to a storage lot, opening up his container and searching a box of Michelle's old files. He find they're all empty, but FINALLY notices Aesir's logo has the wings on it. Max goes to meet BB at a coffee shop, wondering if her old supervisor is behind the missing papers. BB gives him Colvin's name and Max leaves as it dawns on me pretty much EVERY SINGLE SCENE in his movie is "X goes to talk to Y, gets information about Z, X leaves".
Bravura goes to talk to BB, gets information about Max, Bravura leaves. This scene does give us a little more of Max's origin, as he came home to find three junkies had broke in and killed his wife and daughter. He killed the first two, but the third jumped out a bedroom window (which is clearly on the second floor and would have surely given him pause so Max could have had time to shoot him) before Max could get a good look at him. Elsewhere in the city, Horne goes to talk to Colvin, gets information about Lupino, Horne leaves. Horne is evil, very spot on with the game. Too bad it's too late for me to give a damn in the slightest.
At Aesir, Max goes to talk to Colvin, gets information about Michelle, Max leaves. Make it stop, make it stop! Long blabbering short, Valkyr was originally conceived as a military project to make soldiers basically invincible. It only worked on 1%, the rest were all driven insane by visions of demons. That's quite the drug that can make every user have the same identical visions. Colvin says Michelle was working on this project, though she didn't know the full scope of it. He tells Max he'll confess to all of this as long as Max can protect him from "the man who killed his wife". He also has a folder full of evidence just conveniently sitting on his desk which Max grabs as he takes Colvin with him.
Outside Colvin's office, Aesir security has arrived. At first, Colvin wouldn't talk so Max started relentlessly beating him. Colvin's secretary heard the commotion and called for help. And when I say security, WOW do I mean it. Aesir's security is more heavily armed than your average first person shooter character. One of the guards shoots Colvin dead, to Max's shock. Max and the guards spend the next few minutes engaging in a stupid firefight that has him firing infinite ammo from his pistol from behind file cabinets while the guards shoot at him without attempting any kind of movement or flanking whatsoever.
Max finally realizes this is pointless (like everything else going on) and escapes. He gets shot in the arm but that's okay because it doesn't effect him in the slightest and is never brought up again. As he escapes he encounters Bravura, briefly telling him Colvin knew what was going on. Max goes to talk to Mila, gets information about Lupino, Max leaves. Did you think I was kidding about that? They go over the information in Colvin's file, where we learn he was a sergeant in the army and was one of the few people Valkyr actually worked on. Max loads up a shotgun and heads to the Rag Na Rock Club, sadly not with a bottle full of bub.
It's at this point I want to talk about Lupino. His role in the story is confusing to say the least. We'll find out in a few minutes Rag Na Rock is where Lupino runs a huge Valkyr lab, so we're meant to assume that he's working with Aesir to develop the drug. And I believe we're meant to think he killed Nika because she was talking to Max, and since he's a cop that's bad. But then we had a scene earlier where Colvin met with Horne, showing her a picture of Lupino and getting told to "take care of it".
Take care of what? I figured it must mean Lupino is getting crazier and can no longer be trusted, but we're supposed to believe the top pharmaceutical corporation in New York would entrust their entire Valkyr production to a psychopathic junkie? For that matter if Aesir abandoned the military Valkyr project they're just content selling it at street level now? That's a horrible business plan! And why is Max the one going after Lupino? Shouldn't it be Mila, since she was the one trying to track him down to avenge her sister's murder? The only thing Lupino's done is technically frame Max for a murder, but since the police don't give a damn why would Max?
Max effortlessly kills his way through the club until his great weakness strikes: someone sneaks up behind him! But since the end of the movie is (finally) is sight, Max is able to sense him. Now instead of turning around, Max (finally) activates his Bullet Time and... falls backwards as he fires his shotgun to take the guy out. Lupino jumps out and now it's time for a boss fight, the one the whole movie... hasn't been building up to at all. You realize this movie's almost over and Max has no idea who he's even after? It's very obvious, but he's pretty dumb so I'm willing to bet he hasn't figured it out yet. Lupino annihilates Max but is shot dead by BB before he can machete him to death.
BB helps him out of the club, Max asking "What's going on?" about a hundred times. He gets his answer as BB turns on him, revealing himself to be the man behind everything! Bwa hah hah hah- wait, what? I think his plan has a couple of flaws.
1. In a bit we'll see BB has a mole in the NYPD, so that's how he knew Alex figured out the connection about the tattoos. I won't even question the logic of why Aesir would let Lupino use their logo for his drug armies, because no way that'd ever come back to haunt them. My question is when he went to Max's apartment to kill Alex, why didn't he kill Max too?! The cops have been shown to not give a damn when a cop is murdered so he would have gotten away no problems.
2. Why didn't BB let Lupino kill Max first BEFORE shooting him? That would have solved all of his problems, Max would be gone and he could tell the cops (if they even bothered to show up) he shot Lupino in self defense. No one's going to doubt the head of security of a multi-million dollar corporation!
BB proceeds to give us a CLASSIC five hour long villain rant as he tells Max every single aspect of his plan as well as his interpretation of James Joyce's Ulysses. LONG LONG LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG story short, BB was the third man in Max's house and personally killed his family, all because Michelle was going to blow the whistle on Valkyr. This goes on forever, so long that even BB's assistant Joe (who handcuffs Max) tells him to STFU and get this over with. I really like Joe. BB's master plan is to throw Max into the river, pretending he committed suicide. He puts a vial of Valkyr in Max's pocket to further the story, as he'll say Max had become a junkie. But since BB took an eternity with his speech, Max's handcuffs have apparently disintegrated from old age since he's no longer wearing them and he... dives into the river. In the middle of a New York winter.
Well, that puts us full circle now from where we began. BB concludes Max will freeze to death in the river and leaves, because he's never seen a movie before in his life. As Max drowns, he has a vision of his wife holding their baby and telling him "Not yet", which powers him up to escape the river. He lies on the bank freezing to death when he gets the bright idea to take the Valkyr vial BB put in his pocket. Fortunately he's one of the 1% because this activates his God Mode instead of making him into a hallucinating invalid.
Max screams as he begins to power up, and we get one of the most ridiculous green screen CGI visuals ever as the night sky bursts into flames from the POWER OF PAYNE! Back at the police station, Bravura has called in the FBI to deal with this train wreck as he now believes Max. BB gets a call from his cop mole who warns him shit is about to get real. BB and his security force go to leave the Aesir building but guess who's waiting for them? HIGH AS A KITE MAX PAYNE! I don't like their chances against a killing machine who's tripping balls. Max's guns must have taken some Valkyr too, because they are on infinite turbo fire mode. He kills everyone except BB and Joe who get away. BB calls Horne, saying he needs a helicopter extraction. This is sort of like the game, only it was Horne trying to escape in the chopper.
Which brings me back to BB's character like I mentioned much earlier. In the game, he was a DEA agent that Horne bribed to kill Max and Alex as they were getting too close to discovering Aesir's dark secrets. He was so minor he was only in the game like three times. I just don't understand making him the main villain in the movie while KEEPING Horne as the ultimate big bad. He really should have just been her right hand man, carrying out her orders while it was kept quite clear Horne was pulling every single string. I'm not even sure she was aware of what he was doing in most of this movie since we never freaking see her.
Max keeps shooting his way to the top of the tower where the helipad is, only his hallucinations become too powerful and he collapses. Fortunately Mila magically appears to save him, despite earlier saying he was on his own. Bad ass female anti-hero with a change of heart cliché, check. Max finally makes it to the top, where BB shoots him a few times in the torso before his gun runs out of bullets. But Max just shrugs off the bullets like he has all movie. BB probably could have shot him with a rocket launcher and gotten the same result. BB takes a deep breath to make another overly long rambling speech, but Max activates Bullet Time and shoots him dead with a single shot. ANTICLIMATIC MUCH?
With BB dead, Max discovers that BLOODY REVENGE and not love was the key to his powers, as he is able to stop the endless winter and make the sun come out. He has another vision of his family as the police appear and surround him, which is how the game ended as well more or less.
Cue the credits. WHAT?!? Horne gets off scot free? Hold that thought. We get a stinger of Max and Mila in a bar, where it's implied they're going to go after Horne. Ha ha, like this movie's ever getting a sequel.
This is literally every video game adaption ever. They take a very simple and straightforward video game story and make it hopelessly convoluted and overly complicated. Bonus points when they switch a minor character with a major one for no reason whatsoever. But you know, whatever, that's old hat at this point. My real problem with this is they took a video game based around mind blowing gunplay and turned it into... a movie that pretty much amounts to Mark Wahlberg standing around looking annoyed and confused.
This movie is one hundred minutes long and features exactly THREE gun fights, which account for a grand total of maybe fifteen minutes. And those fifteen minutes? Absolutely nothing special or memorable about them. Max uses Bullet Time twice, once for that extremely awkward backwards shot gun blast and the second when he kills BB in a completely boring fashion. The video games were a lovingly crafted love letter to the gun-fu of John Woo's greatest films, every action sequence of the game was violence as an art form. In the movie Max doesn't even shoot anyone until the one hour two minute mark. The game spent time making sure every single "boss" character had a personality of some sort so every battle with them was memorable. In the movie Max just shoots a bunch of faceless goons and we don't even see most of the shots land because this was stupidly PG-13 when it came out in theaters.
The rest of the movie is filled with really dull talky parts where everyone is on "don't give a damn" mode. Wahlberg is just horrible here, but I can't blame him too much as his character is given NOTHING to do in this movie. Mila Kunis once again confirms my theory she'll never escape being Jackie from That 70s Show, because she just does not work in any kind of serious role whatsoever (even Black Swan). Ludacris is probably the best actor here, which isn't saying too much. Total dud here. There's nothing to see here for anyone, fans of the video game series are automatically written off, fans of gunplay will die of boredom, and fans of any kind of police drama/mystery will figure this out a few minutes in. Avoid at all costs!


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Team Balderston wins WCT event
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WORLD CURLING TOUR Del Shaughnessy, Rob Bucholz, Terry Meek and Kurt Balderston captured the Original 16 World Curling Tour bonspiel last week
Playing in major bonspiels these days are few and far between for local curler Kurt Balderston and his team of Terry Meek, Rob Bucholz and Del Shaughnessy.
The foursome keep their bonspiels local, such as playing on the Peace Curling Tour (PCT), which they've won a record six times.
The Original 16 World Curling Tour (WCT) Bonspiel on Nov. 10-12 was different. In a rare WCT event appearance, Team Balderston captured the men's title with an 8-7 victory over Tom Brewster's rink from Scotland. As a result, Swan City squad captured $6,000, along with 31.804 world ranking points.
"The reason we went into this event is because Terry (Meek) is from Calgary and it's an event we can go to where he doesn't have to travel. It's probably a little bit bigger than we would play at this stage, but it was a good fit for timing...," said Balderston.
"It was a really strong field and we thought the competition would be good, but we probably definitely exceeded our expectations."
Balderston called the win a sweet victory, noting Brewster's successful record on the world and Olympic stage. Brewster, of Scotland, captured silver at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, gold at the 1995 World Junior Curling Championships, along with two bronze and two silver at the World Curling Championships.
"I think at this stage of our careers, we're at the fact that we're a senior team now, and to be out competing against a world-class field of curlers in their primes, it just made us feel good that we're still able to compete and win at an event like that," said Balderston.
"We're at the stage where we're very blessed to be out there and able to compete and do this. There's no pressure any more at this age. I think that's what made it easy is the fact we go out there and play relaxed and loose, and you see a lot of the younger teams that are putting extra pressure on themselves, getting mad when they miss or getting bad when things aren't going their way; we're kind of past all of that."
Balderston knows what those big games can be like. Regarded as one of the best skips to come out of the Peace Region, Balderston represented the Peace Curling Association on numerous times at the Alberta Men's Provincial Championships. He came close on four occasions (1991, 1992, 2002 and 2004) to playing in the Brier as the Alberta rep, but lost in the provincial final – twice against Kevin Martin and twice against Randy Ferbey.
"Now when we get into those situations, they're not pressure to us anymore. When I had my last shot to win the spiel, I felt no pressure. It was just… 'it's another shot and it's something I practice every day' and I was completely relaxed. If it was 20 years ago, I certainly feel like I would be able to make it, but I know I wouldn't be as relaxed," he said.
Balderston defeated Stefan Staehli (Switzerland), Carl deConinck Smith (Saskatchewan), and Daylan Vavrek (Calgary) in the round-robin. In a playoff qualifier the team defeated Stuart Thompson (Nova Scotia). In the quarter-finals, Team Balderston had a convincing 8-2 victory over Edmonton's Karsten Sturmay, and then edged Stuart Thompson in the semis with a 5-4 win.
The WCT event was the only major event Team Balderston had planned this season. They will continue to play on the PCT until the end of the end and then turn their focus towards senior men's provincial playdowns in mid-January.

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On November 28 in Munich, Germany, Bonhams will be dispersing an incredible collection of BMW motorcycles. A legend among BMW collectors, the late Willy Neutkens (1925-2008) assembled the world's largest collection of motorcycles representing the Bavarian marque, earning him an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for owning the most examples of a single make. The collection consists of almost every model built since BMW commenced motorcycle production in 1923, including the very last of the old-style, twin-cylinder "Boxers.†The latter — an R100 Classic — was specially delivered to Neutkens by BMW and remains unused.
For a closer look at the collection, visit Bonhams' site at www.bonhams.com.
(This post originally appeared in the September 24, 2009, issue of the Hemmings eWeekly Newsletter.)


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Tuesday, September 16, 2003
I didn't want to leave without posting a little something about the cables. I must say, I'm tickled to death with how cabley they are! The width is a problem. I worked a single pattern repeat of each of the cable patterns to come up with my numbers but I'm two inches short. I may end up knitting a little strip to go up each side in the underarm, we'll see after I have a front and a back to fit. The ribbing looks good with the cables and the shell seems to be telling me it wants to be a turtleneck.
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Updated July 12 to reflect a change in the July 27 Wald Park Ballfields meeting to 5:30 p.m.
Now that the city has hired TCU Consulting Services, the Community Spaces Committee and its subcommittees will be hosting a series of public forums for each aspect of the plan.
The City Council approved a contract with TCU at its June 12 meeting, and the first phase of the firm's work includes meeting with stakeholders to further determine the scope and direction oft he Community Spaces Plan.
For each aspect, ranging from the pool and multipurpose facilities at Wald Park to the ballfields at Cahaba Heights and SHAC, there will be two meetings.
The subcommittees have already met with TCU for "Meeting #1," and will meet publicly along with TCU and other city representatives to get public feedback on what was discussed.
The first round of meetings, "Meeting #2" for each aspect of the plan will be held July 11-18. The meeting will take the proposed ideas and look at each in more detail, and the city wants residents and other stakeholders to participate in the discussion as much as possible.
"The subcommittees truly want to receive input, both positive and negative," said Cinnamon McCulley, the city's communication specialist. "As the name states, this Plan is for our Community, so stakeholder participation is key."
Those meetings will take place at City Hall, and will be led by the subcommittee chair for that aspect of the plan.
The next set of meetings, "Meeting #3" will focus on taking what was discussed in the second meetings to present any changes to the plan. Those meetings will also take place at City Hall and be led by subcommittee chairs.
The Community Spaces Plan has been informally on the Council's radar officially for the last year, and was a major talking point during the municipal election last August.


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Micralyne Inc., a leading independent MEMS developer and manufacturer, has announced plans to collaborate with SVTC Technologies LLC, a leading independent MEMS and CMOS commercialization company, to develop and manufacture MEMS devices using 8-inch fabrication technology. This collaboration harnesses Micralyne's proven skills in MEMS design, process and manufacturing integration and SVTC's advanced technology development and engineering expertise to provide customer's with a one-stop shop for design through manufacturing at a competitive cost.
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Sunday, March 18, 2007
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I have no intention of hitting the typical resort spots like Langanao minamin. I don't want to fall trap to the culture of Diaspora Habesh on vacation back home who party incessantly or those who go back and hang out with folk from here.
I think I can easily spend days roaming the streets of Addis … but then I thought to myself … what would Jesus do? Um. Ok. Not. I just had to say that, but I thought to myself … what good is a blog but to ramble on?
I ramble. You ramble. We ramble. Perhaps you've some Addis ramblings for the inbound?
Now I think that line of thought is too idealistic. It's like saying, 'why can't we all just along?' Dang! You can imagine the discussion didn't get far.
I think educational institutions should only support as many students as they can teach, not as many students as they can reach. And teach they should with quality, where quality should, among other things, preserve one's identity/background.
Anyway the point of the post wasn't so much to rant about education in Ethiopia but to mention a dance group called Mesgana (which I'd have 'spelled' as Misgana. It's funny when you can tell a non-Ethiopian person spelling an Ethiopian word. Like '
Now Mesgana is quality and identity. Remember Hibre tr'it? Mesgana is hibre tr'it by little people. It's a troupe of kids aged 7 – 13 who perform traditional Ethiopian dances to raise funds for the education of girls. In their own words:
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Their tour schedule for 2007 includes DC,
Thursday, March 08, 2007
A Quickie
I was actually going to write an article in defense of Starbucks, but ... bleh.
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This apartment is excellent, quiet, very clean and comfortable, a lovely terrace with views of the church and over the roof tops. The town is sleepy with beautiful surroundings, with a couple of restaurants and a small supermarket. The wifi is fast and trouble free. There are lovely walks, drives and just lots to do.
We only used it as a base as were were visiting friends in the area and went out and about everyday, unfortunately the weather was a bit iffy so not warm enough to use the pool, although the owners were very happy to fill it up if we wanted it but as I say not really warm enough to use it. The owners were very friendly and helpful and there little cat made my granddaughters holiday , he came in to play before we went out and every evening before she went bed it was her "holiday cat"


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Our time at Sega's E3 suite was largely unimpressive, but I did find a couple of gems hidden in the back, in their "PC Room."
The PR flak almost didn't take me there, concerned, I guess , that it would eb a waste of my time. Barred the way, asking if there was anything else I'd rather see instead, anything I hadn't seen. When I told her Id been through the whole suite, had a few minutes to spare between appointments and that I really did want to see what they kept in there (Really. I really do.), she relented. Grudgingly. And handed me off to someone else to make the introductions.
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My local community garden has captured the story of its land through a mural on the garden shed.
The community garden is at Varsity Lakes on Australia's Gold Coast and the Artists completing the mural are two of the area's original inhabitants.
The mural they are painting tells a story of the local area.
The gardeners themselves are also creating their stories as shown by this lively bed with its blue peacock wind wheel.
Another garden bed, another story and lots of good organic food for meals to come.
A cabbage reflects the sunlight in one of the shared areas at the community garden.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Spirit & Food Combine in Community Garden
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- CyberCelt said...
Winsome, I am so glad you left a message on Endangered Spaces! After you quit blogging, I tried emailing the addresses I had, but never could reach you. I was afraid that fire had gotten you.
Join the Top List, if you want:
I know many will be happy to see you again.
- October 9, 2009 at 8:14 PM
- ericat said...
Thank you for the visit, the link and the opportunity to visit your blog. That mural is enchanting.
We have very hot summers as well, but my husband decided to try some vegetables once again.
Our summers has always been very dry and hot. So far we have had no major sign of climate change.
greetings from down south at the other side of the world.
- October 11, 2009 at 8:50 AM
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- Description
- Dysphonia symptoms
- Dysphonia reasons
- Treatment of the Dysphonia
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Frustration of a phonation at which the voice remains, but becomes hoarse and weak carries the name a dysphonia.
Dysphonia symptoms:
The variety of forms of functional narusheyoniya of a voice defines distinction of their clinical manifestations.
The general symptoms for a dysphonia, an aphonia, phonasthenias are poyostoyanny or periodic hoarseness, fatigue of a voice.
Each form of a disease has kliniyochesky manifestations, characteristic of it.
At a hypokinetic (paretic) dysphonia voice folds usually slightly hyperemic, at phonation the crack is formed various form (ovalyyony, triangular).
Voice of the deaf, hoarse.
For a giperkineyotichesky (spastic) dysphonia harakyoterno a condition of a spastic hyperkinesia of muscles of a throat with a preyoobladaniye of a tonic spasm.
During phonation the preddveyoriya is noted convulsive rapprochement of voice folds and folds.
Voice folds are not changed, mobile, at phonation are in a condition of sharp tension.
The most severe form of functional frustration of a voice, the spastiyochesky dysphonia is.
The beginning of a spastic dysphonia usually acute, as a rule, obuslovyoleno a mental injury which in certain cases predyoshestvut a long overstrain of a voice.
The disease of a spastic dysphonia has resistant long character, renders negative vliyayony on a mental condition of patients.
Gipotonusny dysphonia - permanent funktsionalyyony disturbance of a voice - are characterized by a diskoordination of all departments of a voice apyoparat.
At a gipotonusny dysphonia is defined:
• hypotone of voice folds,
• incomplete smykaniye of a glottis,
• decrease in intensity of a voice and disturbance of its timbre.
By special psychological obsleyodovaniye L. E. Goncharuk (1986) it is established that permanent functional disturbances of a voice represent not только a throat disease, and are connected with disturbance neuroпсихической spheres.
Dysphonia reasons:
Origins of voice frustration the most various. Most often disturbances of a voice arise against the background of flu, a SARS, quinsy, tracheitis, bronchitis.
Not the last place among the reasons of voice frustration is taken by a voice overstrain, especially when people try to outvoice others in the company, in the noisy room or, despite an indisposition, go to give a lecture. And if similar cases often repeat, a number of disturbances is possible: nodulation, polyps, fibromas, developing of hemorrhages in voice folds. The long and excessive tension of a voice leads to developing of chronic laryngitis which main symptom is the dysphonia.
Frustration of a voice can be connected also with a microclimate of the room in which the person spends much time. In this case the irritating factors are dampness, dust, and also temperature influences – cold or a heat. Voice function is influenced by also production factors. A throat, being a part of respiratory system, is affected by organic and inorganic dust, gases and various impurity which are contained in the inhaled air.
Treatment of the Dysphonia:
Functional disturbances of a voice are not local pathological process in a throat, and are connected with various disturbances, diseases and the raised layobilnost of a nervous system.
In this regard treatment of these bolyyony has to be complex, including:
• psychotherapy,
• respiratory gymnastics,
• speech and vocal fonopediya,
• medicamentous therapy.
The important place at treatment of patients is taken by the physical methods of treatment of functional disturbances of a voice directed mainly to regulation of a deyayotelnost of the central nervous system and local vozdeystyovy to a throat.
Treatment of functional disfoniya has to be directed to elimination of the pathological center of congestive braking in bark of a great brain and recovery of narushenyony reflex mechanisms.
For improvement of processes of an obyomen and carrying out excitement in interneural synapses the stimulating medicamentous therapy nayoznachatsya:
• poliviyotamina,
• strychnine,
• прозерин (intramuscular injections),
• sedatives,
• tranquilizers (Trioxazinum, Tazepamum) inside.
Medicamentous therapy of a dysphonia is carried out against the background of the golosoyovy mode in a complex with respiratory gymnastics and orthophonic treatment.
From physical methods of treatment of a dysphonia for immediate effect appoint galvanization, an electrophoresis of 0,1% of solution of strychnine to the neuromuscular device of a throat.
One electrode with laying of 40x60 mm in size place on область throats, raspolayogat other electrode of 60X80 mm in size in the lower cervical vertebras.
Current is up to 3 - 5 мА, 10-20 min., on a course of 10-15 procedures.
According to M. A. Ratenberg (1973), good results, especially at patients with existence are paresthesias, are observed at local darsonvalization of a throat.
The fungoid electrode is medyolenno moved on the front surface of a neck within 5-10 min.
Appoint also vibration massage of a throat.
For the purpose of stimulation of the neuromuscular device of a throat influence faradic and diadynamic tokayom is shown.
DD-therapy of the neuromuscular device of a throat is carried out by currents - a rhythm a syncope.
Electrodes of 80X90 mm establish at plates of a thyroid cartilage between the lower and average third of a grudinoklyuchichno-mastoidal muscle.
Begin treatment with two-half-period wave current.
Current before emergence expressed (but unpainful) feelings of vibration, 10 min., on a course to 15.
Good rezulyyotata are noted at a diadinamoelektroforeza of a prozerin.
Uluchyosheniye broken as a result of a disease of a peripheral kroyovoobrashcheniye and a trophicity of fabrics, along with normalization of funkyotion of the autonomic nervous system provides medical effect of SMT.
Important factor of medical action of SMT at funktsioyonalny disturbances of a voice is their influence on the chuvstviyotelny sphere of a nervous system.
Influence by these currents causes rhythmic the arranged impulsation flow with ekstero-, intero-and proprioretseptor in the central nervous system.
Influence of SMT carry out by the doubled electrode (30X40 mm everyone), have them on the side surfaces of a throat ahead of grudinoklyuchichno-mastoidal muscles on the urovena of the lower and average third (area of a motor point of a phrenic nerve), place other electrode in areas of nizhyony cervical vertebrae.
The mode 1, sort of work II, frequency is 75 - 100 Hz, duration of half-cycles 2-3 with, depth of modulations is 50-100%, 10 min., on a course 10-12.
In the presence of a pain syndrome influence of SMT directly on область is shown to a throat, at considerable disturbances of neurohumoral regulation and a trophicity - on area of cervical sympathetic nodes.
For the purpose of recovery of the broken reflex mekhanizyom it is necessary to include reflex therapy in a complex of medical actions - influence by physical factors (an electrophoresis of 10% of solution of Calcii chloridum) for "vorotniyokovy" area, 15-20 procedures.
V. A. Trinos and соавт. (1984) suggest to carry out at the specified pathology electrostimulation of muscles of a throat under zayoshchity mutings (that the patient did not hear the sobstvenyony voice).
In process of improvement of phonation by voice skladyoka muting is removed.
The complex which includes step-by-step differenyotsirovanny use of a fonopediya, the psychotherapy, a psikhoprofiyolaktika and methods of physical therapy promoting a noryomalization of function of a nervous system is developed for treatment of permanent functional disturbances of a voice.
It is appointed:
• sedative therapy,
• hydrotherapy,
• a galvanic collar on Shcherbaka,
• breathing exercises which purpose is elaboration of the correct speech breath.
It is necessary to emphasize importance of exact differential diagnosis of nature of defeat and the reasons which caused a disease as the irrational terayopiya at these patients promotes fixing of a pathological soyostoyaniye.
At a hyperkinetic dysphonia treatment is directed generally to elimination of the excess muscle tension of a goryotana during phonation caused by dysfunction of the central nervous system.
At treatment of a hyperkinetic dysphonia appoint:
• psychotropic prepayorata,
• neuroleptics (Tisercinum, сонапакс),
• tranquilizers (Elenium, Seduxenum, Tazepamum),
• antidepressants (триптиозол, нипотен),
• spasmolytic drugs (Nospanum, Nicospanum, to midoka).
Along with medicamentous therapy the fizicheyosky methods of treatment of a hyperkinetic dysphonia promoting recovery of a normal funkyotion of a nervous system are applied.
Carry out:
• electrophoresis of 1% of solution of ephedrine,
• an electrophoresis of 10% - Calcii chloridum,
• an electrophoresis of 2% - an Euphyllinum on "voyorotnikovy" area,
• a galvanic collar on Shcherbaka.
In a complex of medical actions of treatment of a hyperkinetic dysphonia are shown:
• a balyyoneoterapiya (iodine-bromine bathing temperature of 35-36 °C 12-14 min., on a course of 10-12 bathtubs, pearl bathtubs of a temperayotura of 34-36 °C, 10-15 min., on a course of 12-15 bathtubs),
• electrophoresis, medical physical culture,
• electrophoresis, massage of "collar" area.
With poyolozhitelny effect of treatment of a hyperkinetic dysphonia at these patients use an electrosleep by a step technique with a frequency of 25-150 Hz, on a course 15 - 20 procedures, acupuncture.
For treatment of a hyperkinetic dysphonia the remedial respiratory gymnastics providing the set of exercises directed to elaboration of steady, coordinate fonatsionny breath is recommended.
The leading place in rehabilitation of patients with a hyperkinetic dysphonia is given to logopedic work.
The stimulating therapy at a hyperkinetic dysphonia is not shown.
At a spastic dysphonia the technique of impact of PEMP on a reflex and segmented zone is more effective.
The obtained data allow to schiyotat that use of PEMP in a complex with a voice and dykhayotelny training is shown at various forms of funktsioyonalny diseases of a throat.
Achievement of the maximum effect requires the differentiated definition of parametyor and zones of influence by magnetic field in each case [Vasilenko Yu. With, the Nikolaev V. P., Demchenko E. V., 1986].
At treatment of patients with functional diseases of a throat widely it is necessary to use the methods of a physical terayopiya exerting the normalizing impact on neuroпсихический the status of an organism.
Appoint a balneoterapiya (uglekisyoly, iodine-bromine, pearl bathtubs), an electrophoresis of calcium, bromine, magnesium to "collar" area, massage of a "vorotniyokovy" zone, the general electrophoresis of calcium across Vermel, the general UF-radiation, medical physical culture, etc.
Thus, at funkyotsionalny disturbances of a voice enter a complex of medical actions:
• psychotherapy,
• medikayomentozny means,
• the orthophonic treatment and methods of fiziyochesky therapy directed generally to regulation of a deyayotelnost of the central nervous system
local impact on a throat (afferent perceiving аппарат).
Such complex pathogenetic therapy, napravlenyony on various, connected among themselves links of patologicheyosky process, provides the potentiated effect of primeyonyaemy medical factors and allows to receive more blagoyopriyatny results.


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- http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/report-reveals-85-trillion-missing


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It'd been twelve hours in the Beijing airport. I'd spent a good eight hours straddling my luggage as I'd shift in the metal seat, attempting to find a moment of comfort in which to close my eyes and drift off into a few moments of sleep. I passed the time watching the woman in the New York Yankees hat take shameless selfie after selfie, and the happy couple with the pink and blue luggage feed each other bites of sandwiches as they'd giggle at the woman snoring next to me. She had fallen asleep within the first five minutes of sitting down, upright, arms crossed, and mouth opened. I was envious of her ability to pass out. Minute after minute trickled by, and I remained in the haze of a sleepless stirring, hoping that every time I opened my eyes, the hours would have passed, but the magical disappearing act of time was a no show. It was like a middle school lock-in, boys and girls in their little cliques sprawled all over the airport only instead of the 12 year old dream of pulling an all nighter, the goal of our evening was to fall asleep.
The next afternoon, as I sat in front of the gate that would take me back to the Midwest, I people watched and wondered which paths my fellow Americans had taken to lead them to where we were now. There was man and his two daughters heading back home after a tour of the country. Couples were heading home to meet the parents for the first time, nomad travellers going back to their origins for the holidays, and a spattering of loners joined together in a silent union. Among the couples were many new families, young men with their Chinese wives and newborn babies. One little girl had the lightest sandy brown hair pulled up into a floppy ponytail that spilled stray strands over her round face. Her head bobbed up and down as she switched seamlessly from Chinese conversations with her mother to English with her dad. It was a plane full of bilingual babies. An old couple came and sat down next to me. The lady was wearing a red Christmas sweater, complete with styrofoam presents wrapped in shiny paper under the tree decked out in real jingling bells and strands of plastic lights. Seeing the ugly pullover squeezed my heart with excited anticipation for my arrival back home. Something about Christmas just isn't complete without an lovely old lady in a lovely Christmas jumper.
Time ticked away, and soon the pilots and stewardesses started coming through to board the plane. Seeing the flight crew sparked a strange sensation in my gut. As I watched the Detroit Delta flight attendants chat, I felt a swelling inside of me that pushed upwards to my lungs, clenching onto my breath. I could feel tears building behind my eyes, threatening to leak out in a creepy stream of euphoria, disbelief, and complete relief. I was going home. Something about these women, with their leathered skin that had seen too many rays of sun and their eyeliner tattooed to their tired eyes and their voices cracking from a lifetime of puffing cigarettes, something about them made me want to run up to them, hug them, and cry. These were my people! I was going home to people who understood me and to people I understand! The Delta ladies were there to lead me back to my salvation from the homesickness that I had been feeling for the past six months. I managed to contain my tears until I arrived in Peoria almost a day later. When I saw my dad waiting for me outside the gate, I might have lost it a little bit with happy tears.
Getting back to the cornfields, blue skies, and big trucks was the best. It's strange how comfortable it is going home, how safe and easy it is to slip unnoticed right back into a previous life, as if I'd never left.
There were a couple of things I was expecting pre-arrival to my hometown.
- Peoria would have changed in a way that would make me either want desperately to be back, or make me happy to have left.
- I'd gain about ten pounds from gorging myself on Christmas treats and all of the food that I wouldn't be able to get once I went back to China.
- I'd have forgotten how to drive and need to be toted around everywhere.
- I might be a bit at a lost on knowing what to say to my friends and family after being gone for a year.
- I'd be a panicked mess trying to fit in everything and everyone I could over the ten days I'd be there.
- I wouldn't be ready and wouldn't want to go back to China when the time came.
- I'd be very awkward because I'm so used to China mannerisms that I wouldn't know how to respond to so many savy Western people.
I was wrong on most fronts. Here's how it actually went down.
- Peoria hasn't changed much at all. It's still my sweet, stable, hard-working, and relatively blue-collar town. It's almost as if I was expecting Peoria to have morphed itself into a new city, flourishing upon my absence and rebranding itself into a city that any one would be crazy to move away from. It's as if I wanted it to be a place that I needed to be in. And yes, some things had changed: a new brewery had opened up, two new art centres were offering wine night painting classes, a few new restaurants had opened and a few had failed. Overall though, nothing had changed. It's kind of beautiful how some things don't change. And it's comforting knowing that I can always go back to that place, and have things be completely the same. Untainted by time except in the smallest ways that don't affect everyone, like a friend getting married, colleagues changing jobs, ex's getting engaged, and babies being had.
- I actually lost a pound or too because food back in the States just doesn't taste as good as I remember it. Maybe it's because Chinese food is delicious and fresh or maybe my tastes buds have changed— but American cuisine doesn't do it for me anymore. Most of what I ate didn't taste like real food, and it's actually nice to be back in the land of stir-fry, hot pots, and un-named veggie dishes.
- Apparently we don't forget how to drive; however, I didn't attempt to try to remember how to drive a stick. That I'll save for another trip.
- The best thing about best friends is that no matter what changes, when you get back together to chat it up, it's as if nothing has changed just a few more stories to tell.
- I might have been a bit of a panicked mess as the days neared my departure.
- I wasn't ready.
- And I'm just an awkward person in general regardless of the added Chinese factor. Still Chloe. Still awkward. But I didn't spit on the street or eat with my mouth open, so I think that means I'm still pretty American.
What did overwhelm me was the general niceness of people. The Midwest is always stereotyped as being some of the friendliest parts of the U.S., and I now understand why. It's utterly amazing coming home to smiling faces of strangers that ask you how your day is and act genuinely interested in hearing your response. I didn't realize how much I missed little moments like talking to the barista as I wait for my latte to be made, or chatting it up with the front desk people at the gym, or making friends with the mailman who asks you about your dog every time you cross paths. These connections make the world a better less lonely place. I never appreciated it until I stripped myself of the ability to fully communicate with the general population by moving to China. Besides my family and my friends, I think that is what I miss most about living in the United States. Being able to communicate without barriers.
Part of me was hoping for massive epiphany, wanting a distinct realization that I needed to come back home to stay, or some definite reassurance that China is where I'm meant to be for now. That epiphany didn't come so I'll keep doing what I'm doing, being open to life and opportunities that arise.


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Sometimes I just need to improve one little thing to make myself feel a little better. Last week it was my tights issue (I still need to address my hoarding of them sometime soon). This week–makeup! I've used this old … Continue reading
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A Nice Little Visit to the City
This weekend I decided to head up to New Jersey to visit some family and a good friend of mine from college. First up, we headed to the Italian Festival, which we heard was apparently almost stopped by the mayor … Continue reading


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1. Kevin - hes sick w/ the flu...poor little baby, but we are settling into a nice little spot together, its comfy.
2. Kevins house - he had an offer on it, too low, so he countered...we will see!!
3. Russ - we are doing very well at finding our way as friends. There are bumps but he is aware of Kevin and respects my privacy and relationship w/ him.
4. Bills - I started up an acct at clearcheckbook.com so I can follow my expenses more closely.
5. WLS - 11/12 is the seminar. Nervous, yet excited.
6. Sleep - its getting better, most night, altho I need to watch how late I eat and what I am eating, heartburn/acid reflex is back w/ some big balls, ouch
7. Ryland - he has called me a few days in a row to just say I love you. Awww so sweet.
8. Shopping - I really want a new purse. And I need a few new pairs of pants for work.
9. My Tire - I still need to get a new one, still on my donut...not good.
10. Mass Firing - at my old job, every year right before the holidays they fire a bunch of people. But this years list seemed to be the most tenured and typically the higher performers. Glad I am not there.
11. Krystal - Hey! I wanna see Anonymous and I wanna play Bingo. Saturday? For bingo I mean?
12. Need to go see my dad.
13. Clean my room. My room is messy right now and its driving me crazy.