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Eliza Battle
|Eliza Battle
|Cox, Brainard and Company
|Tombigbee River between Columbus, Mississippi and Mobile, Alabama
|In service:
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|Caught fire and sank March 1, 1858
|General characteristics
|Side-wheeled paddle steamer
|316 tons
The Eliza Battle was a Tombigbee River steamboat that ran a route between Columbus, Mississippi and Mobile, Alabama during the 1850s. She was destroyed in a fire on the river near modern Pennington, Alabama on March 1, 1858. It was the greatest maritime disaster in Tombigbee River history, with an estimated thirty-three people killed, out of roughly sixty passengers and a crew of forty-five.[1][2] The disaster and its aftermath saw the Eliza Battle enter southwestern Alabama folklore as a ghost ship, with numerous purported sightings of the burning ship from just north of Pennington to Nanafalia downriver. The story of the disaster and associated folklore has been fictionalized in several published short stories, most notably in "The Phantom Steamboat of the Tombigbee" in 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey.[3]
The Eliza Battle was launched in New Albany, Indiana in 1852. A side-wheeled paddle steamer, the wooden-hulled ship had a size of 316 tons. She was operated out of Mobile, Alabama by the firm of Cox, Brainard and Company. One of the most luxurious riverboats plying the state's waters at that time, former President Millard Fillmore was entertained during a reception on board the ship in Mobile on April 7, 1854.[1][2][4]
Captained by S. Graham Stone and with Daniel Epps as pilot, the Eliza Battle departed Columbus in the last days of February 1858. Only able to negotiate the Tombigbee that far north during the regular flooding of the river during the winter months, the ship made its way downriver with stops at Pickensville, Gainesville, Demopolis and numerous small river landings. By the time that the ship left Demopolis, on February 28, 1858, she was fully loaded with passengers and more than 1200 bales of cotton. During an already cold night, a strong north wind began to blow, with the air temperature decreasing another 40 °F in the two hours after nightfall.[1][5]
At roughly 2 a.m. on March 1, 1858, about 32 miles (51 km) downriver from Demopolis, near Beckley's Landing (32°17′05″N 87°55′40″W / 32.28486°N 87.92779°W), it was discovered that cotton bales on the main deck were on fire. Partially attributed to the strong winds, the fire soon spread out of control. The boat continued downstream out of control. Cut off from the lifeboat by the flames, the passengers, dressed only in their nightclothes, were forced to seek refuge in the icy river. Some survived by floating atop cotton bales. The Eliza Battle finally came to rest above Kemp's Landing (32°14′37″N 88°00′45″W / 32.24359°N 88.01238°WCoordinates: 32°14′37″N 88°00′45″W / 32.24359°N 88.01238°W), near the modern Alabama State Route 114 bridge over the river near Pennington. The survivors were rescued by the Magnolia and local residents, with some passengers having to be retrieved from treetops along the flooded river. All of the casualties were attributed to drowning or exposure to the extreme cold during the night. The ship sank below the waters of the Tombigbee following the disaster, with the hull of the wreck remaining on the river bottom in 28 ft (8.5 m) of water to the present day.[1][2][5]
In Kathryn Tucker Windham's 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey the disaster and folklore concerning the ghost ship is recorded as "The Phantom Steamboat of the Tombigbee". The story roughly follows newspaper accounts of the disaster. It is purported in the story that sightings of the ship tend to happen on cold and windy winter nights, with the ship, fully engulfed in flames, appearing on the river near the same locations where the disaster occurred. It also relates that the sightings are said by river-men to foretell of impending disaster and are an ill omen to ships still plying the waters of the river.[3]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d Ward, Rufus (2010). The Tombigbee River Steamboats: Rollodores, Dead heads, and Side-wheelers. Charleston, South Carolina: History Press. pp. 69–92. ISBN 978-1-59629-285-7.
- ^ a b c "Burning of the Steamer Eliza Battle" (PDF). New York Times. 4 March 1858. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
- ^ a b Windham, Kathryn Tucker; Figh, Margaret Gillis (1969). 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. Strode Publishers. ISBN 0-8173-0376-6.
- ^ "Reception of Ex-President Fillmore" (PDF). New York Times. 8 April 1854. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
- ^ a b Emmet Calhoun (14 August 1942). "Recollections: Eliza Battle". Birmingham News. Retrieved 26 January 2014.

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Like most folks who follow the progress of LGBTQ rights, I was fascinated by the recent revelation that an athlete at the University of Missouri is gay. I'm talking, of course, about the unnamed swimmer whom football player and NFL prospect Michael Sam dated last year.
Several articles have referred to Sam's "openly dating" the swimmer as evidence of his increasing comfort with his sexuality. He was public enough about the relationship that his teammates knew about it. So his coming out to the football team was the natural next move in his step-wise process. As we all know by now, that process culminated in the public avowal of his gay identity last weekend.
But I can't find any mention of the swimmer's name anywhere, and that's revealing. It might just be that the anonymous aquaman isn't completely out, and folks are respecting his privacy. That benign account seems unlikely, though, because anyone Sam was openly dating would expect the football player's reflected celebrity to make his own identity quite public.
My guess is that the swimmer wasn't named because he doesn't matter. Or at least his sexuality doesn't, not to the general public, anyway. But why not? Both teams are Division I powers at the same school. But, the Olympics aside, no one really cares about swimming. (I should know. I swam for a Division I team. We perversely reveled in our marginal status.) And we're past the point of scouring college sports to find and then celebrate obscure gay athletes. It's gotten too hard to keep track of them all.
High-level football, though, is something else. And not because—or not mainly because—it's the most testosterone-heavy, het-identified mainstream sport around. If Sam had been at a different school, or even been a so-so player with no prospect of continuing his career beyond Missouri, the story would have died quickly. (Remember Conner Mertens? Me neither.)* This story has had such a big impact only because Sam is ticketed for the National Football League, where he'll soon become the first active, openly gay player. Ever. And since Jason Collins didn't manage to hook on with a team in the NBA after coming out last year, Michael Sam will be the first openly gay player in any of the four major sports: baseball, basketball, football, or (sort of) hockey.
Through his brick-by-brick coming out process, Sam gained the confidence to take this plunge. He's smart enough to understand the risks, and he has calculated that his prodigious defensive skills will be a sufficient bulwark against the homophobia that might derail a lesser player's chances of being drafted. (He will probably be picked up by an NFL team, but after reading Emily Bazelon's piece on Richie Incognito's relentless bullying of Miami Dolphins teammate Jonathan Martin and another teammate who was suspected of being gay, I'm more worried than I was before about what will happen to Sam once he's there.)
Michael Sam knows what football at this level is: a business. Responding to the tired canard that straight players won't be able to deal with a teammate's gayness in the locker room, Sam had this to say: "It's a workplace. If you've ever been in a Division I or pro locker room, it's a business place. And people want to act professional."
"Workplace." When I heard that, I thought of another recent college football story: the Northwestern University players who have filed a petition to unionize. They're arguing that they're employees, while the school (and the NCAA) continues to pound the "student-athlete" drum. Sam's straightforward statement is hard to argue with. Whether in Division I or the NCAA, football players' lives are highly controlled in a way most of us wouldn't put up with in our jobs. Was Michael Sam consciously boosting the players' argument for unionizing when he spoke?
That seems unlikely; but after hearing the guy, almost anything seems possible. His honesty and clarity of purpose are astonishing. He also seems ready for whatever crap he has to deal with. As he said, after growing up in a home marked by relentless tragedy, "telling the world I'm gay is nothing compared to that." He'll need to hold onto that perspective once he's in the merciless NFL.
*Correction, Feb. 18, 2014: This post originally misspelled the first name of Conner Mertens.


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Dear Hermione,
After over two entire decades of knowing, admiring and wanting to emulate you, I finally pen down this letter to you.
I first discovered you when I was all of twelve years old. An age where I was still finding myself. I'd always been an extroverted, curious and over-imaginative child. One for whom being in control of situations came to, very naturally. Yet, some part of me always tried to validate the my inherent confidence, my sense of independence, my longing for adventure. In my world of conformists, I was the one whose heart desired the road not taken. The offbeat path. And for silent rebels like me, we were more likely to find critics rather than cheerleaders.
And then I met you.
You taught me that being a nerd, as opposed to stereotype, is a wonderful thing. That curiosity and a passion for learning can take you places. That a yearning for knowledge is a virtue few are endowed with, and the ones who do make use of their potential, are true game-changers. However, what you also taught me, was that it was equally important to apply the knowledge to good use, at the apt time. Whether it was remembering to use that spell you learned in class in a time of crisis, or making Polyjuice potion from scratch or remembering that phoenix tears were actually healing powers, I wonder how Harry and Ron would've ever managed without you. If Harry was the brave heart, and Ron the soul, you were undebatedly the brain in the trio. Like cogs of a wheel that were always made to fit together.
From you I learned, to be a strong woman. One who wasn't afraid to stand up for her rights, her thoughts and her opinions. You taught me that activism is a good thing. Even when Malfoy derided you by calling you a mud blood, you didn't flinch. Or explain yourself. Not because it didn't affect you. But because your self-respect and dignity didn't allow you to have to justify yourself to someone who clearly was way beneath you as far as thinking was concerned. Not to mention anyone who accused you of not being a true witch didn't stand a chance against you in class.
However, above everything else, I learned from you. The value of friendship. Of standing up for your friends when they need you. Of being their rock. Of believing in their vision. Supporting them with your abilities, and sometimes, just with your presence. Maybe that's why even when Ron left Harry momentarily, you didn't.
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Since many video cards come with various inputs for video from other sources, you may want to consider a video card upgrade.This would be advisable depending on the status of your existing video card, and how often you intend to use your computer for video conversion. Capture devices that utilize FireWire and USB inputs are convenient in the sense that they don't require the computer case to be opened, nor do they require a dedicated slot on the motherboard. In these cases, the best video capture card for your needs may not technically be considered a standard capture card, but will perform according to your requirements regardless.
Take, for instance, the inexpensive Sabrent USB Video/Audio Capture DVD Maker Adapter. It appears to be little more than two audio inputs, a composite video input, and an S-video input attached to a USB device no larger than a memory stick. An external device available at around $30.00, you might expect minimal performance for the most basic of analog-to-digital (VHS to DVD) conversion. According to the product description, it supports all major video codecs, streaming video, and can be used for CCTV surveillance monitoring. Though its maximum resolution is 720×480 for NTSC (no support for HDTV) the functionality for this price range is impressive.
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CLINTON � Clinton's Dan Young, 67, recently competed in the Gran Fondo Eddy Merckx in Tannersville, N.Y.
The event is a challenging, 77-mile race through the Catskill mountains. It was the fourth annual race, but Young's first.
Young was entered in the Open division, because the licensed class only went as high as 50-year-olds. U.S. Cycling was offering an automatic class upgrade to any older riders willing to move into that class.
"Open means you're all in the same class, 19-year-olds to whatever," Young said. "Fortunately, or unfortunately, I was the oldest competitor at 67 and only had to beat other riders in a 60-and-over bracket."
The race is noted for its beautiful scenery and the "Devil's Kitchen Climb," a three-mile section of the race that has an average climbing grade of 12 percent and two sections reaching 22 percent. At 26 percent, it's impossible to pedal up; a rider literally stops and falls off the bike.
"At the start, the announcer tells all riders that 'the Devil awaits,'" Young said. "It was 80 degrees and humid, to add to the misery of the climbs.
"The start was great," he said. "The first 20 miles had the course drop from 1,920 feet to 1,170 feet of elevation, and the peloton (riders) was averaging 25 mph. The first set of climbs was at the 25-mile mark, bringing the riders back up to 1,955 feet and an average grade of 12 percent.
"Then, at 35 miles, the course plunged you down the mountains to an elevation of 360 feet and speeds reaching 50 mph," Young continued. "The Devil awaited � from the 67-mile marker to the 70-mile marker started the real climbing.
"Up we went," he said. "Over the three-mile assent you were climbing to 1,935 feet. The heat and humidity, along with the grade of 16 percent to 22 percent, was the Devil's revenge. The average speed here was 5 mph, and that is a speed that brings all your strength to move forward and stay upright on the bicycle.
"After cresting, the remaining seven miles were similar to riding around the Wachusett Reservoir and brought you back to Tannersville at 1,920 feet," Young concluded.
There were 67 finishers of the race out of 77 competitors registered.
Young placed fourth in the 60-and-over bracket, with a time of just over 5 hours. He was 13 seconds behind the nearest rider, just missing a podium finish.
"It was a great experience for a 'flatlander,' as the area around here (Clinton) is considered," Young said. "For those that can't imagine a 22 percent grade, it's equal to climbing Mount Washington in New Hampshire, only at three miles in length instead of six.
"My next race will be in the fall in Maryland and a lot easier for me," he said.


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Posted by leeran on April 22, 2003, at 0:23:14
In reply to cackling leeran » leeran, posted by fayeroe on April 21, 2003, at 13:19:42
I'm always ready for a good laugh. Maybe I'll go to the library and check out "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues."
I'll also check out Mary Oliver.
My husband just ordered a book by Anne Lamott. Have you heard of her? I hadn't until we went to her Learning Annex writing seminar last fall. She is so engaging in person. I haven't read any of her books but I've read excerpts from "Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith."
Wednesday as a joke day? I love it! Wednesdays used to be my "bad days." I get so many off-color jokes via email that I've learned to appreciate the few "clean" jokes that I hear that are really good.
One of my favorite "visual" jokes is the picture of the two chocolate easter bunnies sitting next to each other. One has had his ears eaten off and there's a call-out over his head that says "Huh? What did you say?" (or something like that).
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|Stylistic origins
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Folktronica, synthfolk, or electrofolk is a genre of music comprising various elements of folk music and electronica, often featuring samplings of acoustic instruments—especially stringed instruments—and incorporating hip hop or dance rhythms.[1][2]
Folktronica was coined by music writer Jim Byers on the now-defunct website BurnitBlue.com, during the proliferation of labels like Manchester's Twisted Nerve, responsible for the emergence of Badly Drawn Boy, but with its origins in electronica. It was later used when describing the music coming from Kieran Hebden and his Four Tet project in 2001.[2][3][4] In 2001, postmodern pop artist Momus released an album titled Folktronic deliberately exploring (and satirizing) the fusion.[5] A similar genre is "Laptop folk", which refers to a slightly more minimalistic electronic folk. The genre has some antecedents in the electro-acoustic works of more experimental composers like Paul Lansky (particularly on his album Folk Images), and Alan Sondheim. Latin America's biggest folktronica act is arguably Juana Molina.
Definitive albums in the genre include: Four Tet's Pause (2001),[6] Tunng's Mother's Daughter and Other Songs (2005),[6][7] Caribou's The Milk of Human Kindness (2005), The Prize Fighter Inferno's ″My Brother's Blood Machine″ (2006),[6] Goldfrapp's Seventh Tree (2008)[7] and Tales of Us (2013),[8] Damon Albarn's Everyday Robots (2014).,[9] and Haiku Salut's Etch And Etch Deep (2015).[10]
- ↑ Smyth, David (April 23, 2004). "Electrifying folk: Folktronica, new folk, fuzzy folk – call it what you will. Laptops are replacing lutes to create a whole new sound", Evening Standard, p. 31.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Empire, Kitty (April 27, 2003). "Up front on the verge: Four Tet, aka Kieran Hebden", The Observer, p. 14.
- ↑ Harley, Kevin (January 30, 2010). "Four Tet: There Is Love in You", The Independent, p. 24
- ↑ Brown, Jonathan; Kinnear, Lucy (11 February 2008). "The real school of rock". p. 10., Elliott School is a struggling comprehensive in south London. But it has an astonishing record in nurturing a diverse range of avant-garde pop stars. The Independent. Retrieved 7 September 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Momus: Folktronic: Pitchfork Record Review
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Clayton, Richard (1 February 2009). "Folktronica: Encyclopedia of Modern Music". Times Online. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2010.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles> (password-protected)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Last.FM 'folktronica' taggers. Last.FM, ed. "Top Albums tagged as 'folktronica'". Hit albums tagged 'folktronica' and less-popular albums highly tagged 'folktronica'. Last.FM. Retrieved 7 September 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Stephen Sears. Idolator.com title=Goldfrapp's 'Tales Of Us': Album Review | Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on http://www.idolator.com/7483283/goldfrapp-tales-of-us-album-review title=Goldfrapp's 'Tales Of Us': Album Review | Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Check
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- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/aug/02/haiku-salut-etch-and-etch-deep-review-folktronica
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Over the last two months, Boston has experienced a 3.38-inch rainfall deficit. Lawns have been turning brown and gardens have needed constant irrigation. A handful of towns have implemented voluntary water bans. Timing is unfortunate, but at least we will see some rain over the next couple of days.
On and off showers will be around this evening, tonight and through the day tomorrow. When all is said and done, nearly a half inch of rain is possible.
After a cooler than average Saturday, temperatures will stay cool through the evening. Overnight low temperatures will drop into the 50s. Sunday will be warmer with high temperatures in the mid 70s.
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Monday, clouds will gradually clear. We will catch a couple of nice days Tuesday and Wednesday before our shower chances increase. Temperatures will rise by mid-week. Thursday looks like it will bring showers and be breezy. Showers may continue into the day on Friday.
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Ration balance, simplicity and monitoring underpin the beef system run by Michael Strother and provide some valuable lessons for those looking to make more from cereals this winter.
Every decision Michael Strother makes is geared towards producing beef in the most cost-effective, simple way possible through the use of home-grown cereals and careful genetic selection.
Regularly weighing of cattle and feed intakes allows feed conversion rates to be continuously monitored, which helps in the selection of replacements and enables any drop in performance to be picked up early.
Balancing cereals with the appropriately-formulated concentrate also helps unlock the full potential of home-grown barley in the most economic way possible.
Mr Strother runs 70 commercial spring-calving Limousin cross, British Blue cross and Aberdeen-Angus cross suckler cows and seven pedigree Limousins with his wife Louise at Fowberry Moor Farm, Northumberland. The commercials are artificially inseminated with British
Blue, Limousin, Aberdeen-Angus or Charolais semen and all calves are finished on-farm.
"The aim is to finish cattle at as big a weight as possible and as quickly as possible, while controlling costs. But the final weight is a moveable feast depending on what the abattoir requires," says Mr Strother, who regularly compares feed costs and beef prices to assess the most effective way to finish cattle.
To optimise growth rates, Mr Strother works closely with Mole Agriculture's beef and sheep specialist Kenny McDonald.
Mr McDonald says: "The aim is to formulate a ration which makes the most of home-grown cereals and creates an optimum balance between costs and cattle performance."
The ration is made up home-grown barley which is milled and mixed with a 34 per cent protein concentrate on-farm and sugar beet is added at certain times of the year. The same ingredients are used across all stock, with ratios varied to deliver the correct level of protein and starch at different stages. Mr McDonald says this is the best way to get more from cereals.
He says: "When cereals look good value, there is a tendency to overcomplicate the home mix by using several different by-products or straights and mixing on-farm. But this can lead to expensive ingredients on-farm which go off, lose feed value or need a lot of capital outlay.
"By purchasing a ready-made concentrate and adjusting percentage inclusion, it is possible to create a bespoke ration for a number of different classes of stock."
The aim of a concentrate or balancer is to release energy and protein at different times of the day so the animal can convert feed as efficiently as possible, while maintaining a stable rumen pH. The protein concentrate includes rape, soya, urea, wheat feed and dark
grain along with vitamins, minerals and live yeast.
Kenny McDonald's 'golden rules' when feeding cereals
At Fowberry Moor Farm, cows calve in spring with calves receiving creep while at grass along with straw or haylage. Calves are bought inside at weaning and receive the same diet, excluding grazed grass for about 10 days. Bulls then move onto an ad-lib cereal mix with straw available, while heifers receive 3-5kg/head/day of the cereal mix and ad-lib haylage.
Around November, the aim is to provide a 16 per cent protein mix of 70 per cent crushed barley, 5 per cent sugar beet, 25 per cent of the concentrate and yeast. Beet pulp will be dropped out around Christmas.
Heifers then remain on a 16 per cent diet through to finish. Bulls have their concentrate inclusion gradually dropped from the New Year to bring protein levels down to 12-13 per cent around finishing.
The amount of feed provided to bulls is monitored using weigh cells on the forklift and by counting bags fed to heifers. Intakes are then compared to cattle weights which are recorded monthly from weaning. This is then used to calculate feed conversion rates.
Mr Strother says: "I think it is critical to weigh cattle and feed. If there is a problem you have the ability to quickly see where things are going wrong."
Now the ration is where he wants it, Mr Strother is focusing on cattle genetics and adopts a strict culling policy based on performance. With the aim to increase numbers to 120 cows, the focus is currently on the maternal side.
Artificial insemination is being used to drive improvements in milking ability and ease of calving. Two hundred and 400 day weights are still a key focus with estimated breeding values used to select sires in the top 5 per cent for beef value.
Mr Strother, who has also started breeding his own pedigree black Limousin bulls on the herd, says: "I link the weight gain figures with the calf's dam and sire to track performance. If the calf is heavier, I am more likely to retain any related stock."


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Girls is back! For a whole 1 minute 31 seconds. HBO released the official trailer for season 4 on Friday (7th November) and it's certainly got everyone talking!
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Imagine Trainspotting without any trace of humor and you're on the right track. Picture Pasolini's Salo: 120 Days of Sodom shot by some MTV music video kid interested in the novelty of his new camera. Darren Aronofsky (Pi) stacks one degrading sight atop another without implicating the viewer, nor providing any framework or reference for his visual rape of his audience - all smoke and mirrors disguising a great, vapid emptiness.
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Happiness has been mired in controversy for the entire year, and not without good reason. Put simply, Happiness is one of the most shocking films I've ever seen - this from a man who adores A Clockwork Orange.
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Surprise: Ziering is barely in the film at all, and her few scenes are so clumsily grafted into the picture that even the most pathetic pornographer would be shamed by witnessing them.
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Forget every movie you've ever seen about the downward spiral of drug addiction. "Drugstore Cowboy," "Sid and Nancy," "Trainspotting," "Permanent Midnight," and more recently "Jesus' Son" -- these films are almost as innocuous as "Alice in Wonderland" compared to "Requiem for a Dream."
Director Darren Aronofsky's follow-up to the uniquely mind-bending mathematical-theological thriller "Pi," this adaptation of a 1978 novel by Hubert Selby Jr. is a soul-rattling, cerebral and cinematically ingenious runaway train of gruesome overindulgence.
Set against the forlorn backdrop of a deteriorating Coney Island, "Requiem" stars a rail-thin Jared Leto ("Fight Club," "Girl, Interrupted") as Harry, a minor-league heroin dealer who has already copped a bad habit for his own product. As the movie opens he's broken into his mother's apartment to steal her TV -- which is chained to the wall because it's not the first time this has happened -- so he can pawn it to pay for a hit.
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"Fast Food, Fast Women" is a considerably imperfect movie, the intangible charm of which has to grow on you.
Most everything wrong with it can be summed up by the fact that it absolutely screams "my first low-budget indie," yet writer-director Amos Kollek has been making movies for 15 years (all small independent films, straight-to-videos or quickie sequels).
It's uneven and under-rehearsed. It's clear that Kollek had only one or two takes to choose from in editing some scenes. It has all the trappings of a Woody Allen wannabe, including Allenesque opening credits, Allenesque handheld camerawork, an Allenesque ensemble ranging in age and recognition, Allenesque quirky characters (how about a stuttering hooker?) and nervously insecure Allenesque leads. The picture even co-stars Louise Lasser ("Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"), Woody Allen's ex-wife and frequent collaborator.
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This summer I have had a burning fascination with hot chicken. Every time I would see this southern delicacy either in, or on the cover, of a national food magazine, I would think: "THAT sounds amazing." My mouth would water just thinking about its crunchy, yet juicy, red-hot spicy goodness. Seeing that fried chicken was the dish "du jour" last summer, it only makes sense that its spicy little sister, hot chicken, would take a turn in the spotlight this summer. So, I decided to I had to scheme a way to get some into my mouth, before the "summer of hot chicken" drew to a close.
For those of you unfamiliar, hot chicken is basically spicy fried chicken. It starts by marinating chicken pieces in a lethal hot sauce. Next, a paste is made from mixing one-part lard, to three-parts cayenne pepper. The paste is then smeared all over the marinated chicken before it is dredged in flour and fried. The more paste that it added to the chicken, the hotter it will be. Once the chicken is fried, then it is doused again with a liquid version of lard and cayenne and served on a couple of pieces of white bread with some dill pickles on top. The presentation of the hot chicken on the white bread and pickles is considered a mandatory part of enjoying this specialty, as the chicken grease, sauce and juices runs down onto the bread as you eat it, which you then in turn eat as a part of your meal. Hot chicken on white bread is a gift that keeps on giving.
Prince's Hot Chicken Shack in Nashville is credited for inventing this type of fried chicken that hurts so good. The legend has it that hot chicken was invented when the great uncle, of the owner of Prince's, had stayed out all night long. When he got home, his lady friend, none too happy about his night out, carousing, decided to get her revenge by dousing his breakfast of fried chicken with hot sauce before serving it to him. He ate it, and liked it, and Prince's Hot Chicken was born. I hear that story, and all I can think is, this woman's plan backfired. There is no incentive for him to stop carousing, if his woman is fixing him a dish he loves when he gets home. Duh!
In Nashville, there are few things more sacred than hot chicken. It has a following. It is a religion. You must go and worship at its alter when you are traveling through. I discovered, that I am a woman, in need of some religion.
My first thought, was just to try to make it at home. I am a good home cook and enjoy culinary experiments and projects as much as the next gal, but fried chicken was daunting. It is up there in culinary difficulty, next to the perfect pie crust and homemade yeast rolls, in my book. I had never even made plain fried chicken before, and neither had my Mom. So with no cast iron skillet to use, no role models to look up to, and no family recipes to refer, I decided to take a more strategic approach to quench my craving for hot chicken.
I thought, "If hot chicken starts with good fried chicken, then who makes the best fried chicken in Kansas City?" James Beard Award winner, Chef Colby Garrelts and his kitchen crew at Rye, that's who, came the answer from within. I am clearly not alone in this opinion. Almost from the moment Colby and his wife Megan, opened their new restaurant, Rye, their fried chicken was the most popular dish on the menu.
If I was a woman in need of some "hot chicken" religion, I was about to make Chef Colby Garrelts my preacher man.
So, my "ask strategy" was to play it cool, but apply a bit of social media finesse to my request. I decided to hop on Twitter and generically tweeted something like: "Chef @colbygarrelts is the right person to make and serve hot chicken in KC." I just threw a little bait into the social media waters, to see if Chef would bite. Within a few minutes, Chef Colby had tweeted back to me saying he had been playing around with it at the restaurant and invited me in to taste his version of "hot chicken" for myself. Yesssss. Mission accomplished.
We arranged to enjoy this hot chicken meal on a Thursday afternoon at Rye. I had been racing from one appointment to the next that day, when I finally hit their doors at 1:30 pm I was famished and ready to have my first "hot chicken" experience.
I was shown to the copper-top Chef's table in front of the line, facing the kitchen at Rye. Best seat in the house, this is going to be good, I remember thinking. Chef Colby came over and explained that he was going to send out the hot chicken and a few side dishes for me to try. The anticipation was killing me, but I tried not to let it show.
A lovely green salad came out of the cold station at Rye first, as Colby dropped them off he said: "A healthy green salad before you sin." That was followed by his steak tartare, which as good as it was, I was only able to eat a few bites of in anticipation for the main event.
Finally, I heard Chef yell back into the kitchen to "Fire the hot chicken." Within minutes, two sizzling platters of hot chicken hit my table, it was the equivalent of a whole chicken that had been broken down, spiced up, fried up and served up. Next, came a dizzying array of side dishes from the kitchen. Green beans, cottage fries, macaroni and cheese and of course thick white Texas Toast and house-made pickles.
The first thing I noticed was that the hot chicken was served crispy and perfectly dry. No hot sauce had been heaped over the chicken as they do at Prince's in Nashville. Colby quickly explained that he would never serve anything in his restaurant that wasn't edible.
"I'm not going to fix anything that you would be miserable eating. I'm not about extreme eating challenges," he said.
Honestly, I appreciated his point of view. It was a revelation. It made me realize, as much as I wanted to try hot chicken, I wasn't interested in the "how hot can you go" part of this dish. I wanted to taste it, and enjoy it, not win a t-shirt and bragging rights. I wanted it spicy, but not too spicy to eat.
He told us the spice was definitely there, but it was subtle enough heat where "you might actually be able to eat and entire piece of chicken without needing a glass of milk to cool your tastebuds down." He called his hot chicken more of a Memphis, "dry-style" of hot chicken.
With the explanations out of the way, it was finally time to try this long anticipated specialty. Colby was right, the spice was super subtle and in the background. I finished a thigh crunching through the crispy battered skin and pulling the juicy chicken from the bone. It was like great fried chicken, with just a bit more spice and seasoning. I was trying to decide if I was disappointed. I went for a drumstick next, allowing myself to take the time to think about the chicken and all of its flavors in my mouth. About the time I started in on my second piece of hot chicken, I could feel the slow burn of the cayenne pepper creeping up the back of my throat. By the time I finished the second piece of hot chicken, my lips were burning. THERE was the spice I had been looking for from my hot chicken.
On my third piece of hot chicken, I decided to douse it with Colby's house-made hot sauce to see if I could replicate the Nashville wet-style of hot chicken. This was probably my favorite piece of all. This piece was less subtle in heat than the others, but not so hot that I could not finish it, which I did, wiping my sticky fingers on my napkin and grinning like a naughty schoolgirl. I had finally tried hot chicken. Maybe not the way Prince's in Nashville would serve it to me, but the way a local Chef interpreted the dish for me.
Colby's kitchen crew all filed by me then, some stopping to chat and look at the hot chicken in front of me. As they each stopped by the counter, looking longingly at the embarrassing amount of left over hot chicken I had in front of me, I offered them each a piece. That's when Colby came over and confessed that he had only made his version of hot chicken for family meal for his staff at Rye. I was eating one of their favorite treats.
I thanked Colby for serving me his version of "hot chicken," as I asked my waitress for the bill. I asked Colby then, if this was a dish he was planning to put on the menu at Rye. He looked down at my leftovers, and finally shaking his head no, said he didn't think so. He said he wasn't sure if his clientele at Rye was looking for hot chicken from him. Finally, he confessed that if enough people came in looking for hot chicken, he might consider adding it to the menu . . . MAYBE.
So, the moral of this story is . . .ask, and ye MIGHT receive, hot chicken in the future at Rye. Amen.
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CLAREMONT- The University of La Verne volleyball squad endured a 3-1 loss in a conference road matchup with Pomona-Pitzer Tuesday evening.
The Leopards (5-19, 2-7 SCIAC) dropped the opening set 25-23 but rallied to a 29-27 victory in the second before losing the final two 25-22 and 25-18. The Sagehens improved to 13-6 overall and 6-3 in league play.
Sophomore outside hitter Brittany Yaxley led four La Verne player with double-digit kills with 18. Sophomore outside hitter Ashlyn Cross had 14 while freshman middle blocker Kelsi Robinson and junior outside hitter Nysa Allen chipped in 11 and 10 respectively. Senior setter Morgan Donohue tallied 47 assists and sophomore libero Monica Lopez made 16 digs.
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The Astronot will Screen at the Oregon Independent Film Festival on Tuesday, Sept 18
The Astronot is a feature film drama set during the 1960's space race, directed and co-produced by Oregon filmmaker Tim Cash and filmed entirely in Oregon.
The feature film, a drama set during the space race of the 1960's, was written/scored/starring/co-produced by Pennan Brae (Vancouver, Canada) and directed/co-produced by Tim Cash3 (Bend, OR). The film follows Daniel McKovsky, a young man who lost both his parents at a young age and whose only solace is his fascination with space travel and the cosmos beyond. One day at the age of 30, he meets outgoing postal worker, Sandy Allister. This new inclusion into his otherwise lonely existence forces Daniel to confront his darkest fears of loss and emptiness which shall lead him towards becoming, The Astronot.
The Astronot was filmed in rural Oregon, using local cast and crew, including Director Tim Cash of Far From Earth Films. "Working on The Astronot was a dream come true for me. It was one of the hardest and most rewarding projects I've ever been a part of," says Tim Cash, Director of The Astronot.
The Astronot has already won accolades at various international film festivals in the USA, UK & Europe including Best Feature Film, Screenplay & Score. Pennan Brae's upcoming album (also called, The Astronot), features 11 songs which serve as the film's soundtrack. The first single, "Walk With Me" was already released to radio in the UK, Canada & Europe and received airplay on over 200 stations. The album was recorded at Blue Light Studio in Vancouver with producer Kaj Falch-Nielsen, with additional sessions taking place in Los Angeles with composer/producer Eric Alexandrakis, renowned drummer Steve Ferrone and INXS bassist Garry Gary Beers. The second single, 'Crashland' is currently airing on rock radio in Canada.
The Oregon Independent Film Festival runs from September 18-26 and holds events in cities across Oregon including Eugene and Portland, ending in ceremonies, premieres, press events and movie screenings.
For information on tickets, visit the festival's website at www.OregonIndependentFilmFest.com. For more information on The Astronot please visit www.TheAstronot.com.
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Blackhand Boost: Normal Mode
Kill the end boss of the new Blackrock Foundry dungeon in normal mode difficulty; depending on the options you select you will receive all the loot for your spec.
A Normal Blackhand kill in Blackrock Foundry yields you all the loot and gear for the spec and class that you sign up with. Blackhand in our reality was a mighty hero and the first Warchief of the Horde when it was first formed after the battle at Blackrock Mountain.
The warlord Blackhand as he was once known in Draenor was the leader of his clan known as the Blackrock Orcs. The Blackrock Orcs lived in a mountain in Draenor now known as the Outlands, called Blackrock Mountain.
There they lived freely free of rivalries from other clans and were known as the strongest out of all of the clans due to their lifestyle having to carry around big boulders and move heavy stones every day. Once the planet of Draenor blew up thanks to the Burning Legion finding out where the Naaru lived the whole clan was forced to evacuate using the Dark Portal leading to Azeroth.
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Once they were in Azeroth as the war between Humans and Orcs raged on. The Blackrock clan found another mountain strategically located in the Burning Steppes near Stormwind, the Human capital.
The king of Stormwind, King Llane took notice of this and he assaulted the usual peaceful Orcs without notice. Thousands of the clan members were slaughtered and this forced the mighty leader Blackhand to take action.
Blackhand assembled all of the Orc clans and other races among them to help him in his war and thus the Horde was born. With the formation of the Horde the Human race was vastly outnumbered as it was many races and legions of armies against only one.
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The Human's sought help from other races including the Night elves and the Alliance was formed. The two factions clashed at the heart of Blackrock Mountain for the final battle when the two enemy leaders King Llane and Warchief Blackhand stared into each others eyes and charged into battle against each other.
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Aaron's Family Tradition - Would You Do It?
What are you doing to keep the meaning of Christmas? Aaron told us how he tries to keep Christmas from being hijacked by commercialism and business. It starts with devotions and a tradition they adopted from a friend. What are you doing? Have you ever adopted someone else's tradition? We love what Aaron is doing and thought you might too!


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WARNING: This post contains spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Just before Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 hit theaters, director James Gunn announced that he would be back for Guardians of the Galaxy 3. Gunn said that all three films would round out the trilogy and tell one complete story — but that almost didn't happen.
Leading up to the release of Guardians 2, the writer/director was non-committal about taking on the third film. Up until now, no Marvel director has completed three back to back films in a specific franchise. Even Joe and Anthony Russo, who are directing Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4, only directed the sequels to the original Captain America which was helmed by Joe Johnston.
Gunn revealed in a Facebook broadcast that he almost didn't return for Guardians 3 due to a decision he made in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 — namely, his decision to kill Michael Rooker's character Yondu. Gunn has worked with Rooker for years on multiple movies and that weighed heavily on whether he was going to return for the third film or not. Here's what he said in the video:
Let me tell you, there was nothing harder for me than the choice to kill Yondu in this movie. Michael Rooker, for all the crap I give him, is one of my closest friends in the world and the last thing I wanted to do was to make a movie without Michael Rooker in the future. I almost didn't do Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 because there was no Michael Rooker in it and I couldn't see making the movie without him. He means that much to me and I love him that much.
That single decision was something he came back to in several drafts of Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Gunn went on to reveal that he tried to save Yondu but it never worked out in terms of the story. He continued:
[Killing Yondu was] the hardest choice I've ever had to make from a storytelling perspective. I wrote a bunch of treatments where Yondu did not die. There were other endings — he was saved at the last minute after taking the sacrificial stance, and I wrote many drafts like that. And I realized I was being dishonest. That was not what this story was. For me, the most important thing in making a movie is to tell the truest and most honest story possible, and that's whether you're making a $500,000 indie film or a $200 million dollar spectacle film. And the truth of this story, this was about a father's true and ultimate love for his son. This is a movie about, Who really are our fathers? Who really are our siblings? And the only way for it to be an honest story was for Yondu to die, and anything else would have been half measures, and would have been me backing out because I was afraid to tell the truth. And so that's why Yondu dies.
Michael Rooker has appeared in every single James Gunn film up to this point. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 will mark the first time the director won't be bringing his go-to actor with him if we go by Gunn's statements. But there are still ways around that so it is possible that Rooker will, once again, be part of Guardians 3.
The first possibility is the old science-fiction/comic book staple of being brought back from the dead. Considering how powerful a message Yondu's death was in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 it is unlikely that Gunn will bring the character back from the dead. Another possibility would be seeing Rooker once more during Yondu/Peter Quill flashbacks. The third possibility is that just because Yondu has shed his mortal coil, Rooker hasn't. The actor can easily be brought back to play a CG character in the third Guardians installment. Rooker has been a lucky charm for Gunn so it would be sad to see him not be included in Guardians of the Galaxy.
NEXT: 15 Marvel Characters Who Should Join Guardians of the Galaxy 3
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United Technologies is in talks to buy aerospace supplier Goodrich and a deal could come as early as next week, sources tell CNBC.
The offer is expected to be between $110 and $125 a share. Goodrich shares ended Friday at $92.89 and then soared more than 20 percent in after-hours trading. Click here to get the latest after-hours quote.
There had been buzz all day about United Technologies lining up financing in the double-digit billions of dollars to make an acquisition in the U.S. and a several companies, including Goodrich, saw their stocks jump in regular trading.
Tyco International was among the discussed takeover targets and saw its stock up as much as 5 percent at one point but the stock ended down 1.4 percent on the day. United Technologies' credit line wouldn't be big enough to make such an acquisition, sources told CNBC.
Another large conglomerate, Honeywell International, had also been kicked around as a possible takeover target, as well as smaller rival Rockwell Collins and Cessna aircraft maker Textron.
United Technologies spokesman John Moran declined to comment. The company has a market value of $67 billion and had $5.4 billion in cash as of June 30.
Chief Executive Louis Chenevert, who came up through the company's aerospace business and headed before taking the top job at corporate, holds up his $1.8 billion acquisition of General Electric's security business as the sort of deal he would like to replicate in the near future.
In 2008, United Technologies made a hostile $2.64 billion takeover offer for Diebold, a maker of automated teller machines. That effort was ultimately fruitless, and Chenevert has since said he would be reluctant to go hostile again after that experience.
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"You're going to see us put our balance sheet to work, you're going to see us put more cash to work on the M&A side," Hayes said. "That's where I think a big piece of growth is going to come from in the next few years; it's going to come from the M&A."
United Tech officials have expressed particular interest in targets to merge into its Fire and Security and Hamilton Sundstrand security and aircraft components arms. Both divisions are below Chenevert's $10 billion annual revenue target.
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U.S. congressional leaders last month agreed to cut $350 billion from national security spending over the next decade.
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There has been a lot of buzz on the internet the past few days about some "mysterious" images that Google Maps has taken of the Western deserts of China. Pictured above is one of the sites that people are trying to make sense of.
Conspiracy theorists the globe over have been speculating (sometimes very wildly) about what the odd grouping of white lines could be. Suggestions ranging from a military mock-up of Washington DC streets, to an optical calibration field for Chinese spy satellites have been offered. Of course, suggestions of aliens having something to do with it come into play as well.
While the sites in question are interesting discussion fodder, with a little bit of research most of them can be explained rationally. The overarching purpose for the area is military training, according to a former military member who claims to have monitored the area as part of his assignment.
The image above that depicts random roads is exactly that. They are used for artillery drills and practice. A crew can pull up, deploy, and sight-on one of the roads from a distance and work to hit it accurately. It is not an overlay for Washington DC or any other city in the US. In fact, the aforementioned military member said that all training that happens in this area of China takes place in planning for an invasion of Taiwan. If you remember, Taiwan declared its independence from China, which has caused more than a little upset.
The other images support the theory of military testing. Pictured here is another test range with a mock-up of jets sitting on an airfield. Used for both bombing and artillery practice, it is not a "crop circle" or alien guidance system.
Suggested to be a power plant of some kind, this region is actually a replica of an air base. To the left is an airstrip, to the right just another mock-up of base structures. The suggested reason for the blue coloring is making it easier to distinguish from the air on bomber training missions.
The image above depicts several destroyed vehicles, used for target practice. They are not "monoliths" a la 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Last but not least, this "mysterious blue building" is actually a well-documented "potash" factory in Lop Lake. You can read all about it on Wikipedia or on the Far West China blog.
These images come from an area of Chinese desert that has long been known to be a military testing ground, very similar to our White Sands facility in New Mexico, or the fabled Area 51 in Nevada. The remote regions are better suited for testing weapons or sensitive new technologies. There really are no surprises here. As a matter of fact, one can simply enable the Wikipedia layer of Google Maps and get information on the various locations identified in the images.
Sorry to burst the bubble for conspiracy theorists. There is always Bigfoot to go chase!
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Last night, Rep. Tom Latham (R-IA) offered an amendment during deliberations on the Democrats' massive year-end appropriations bill to clarify the prohibition on federal funds going to ACORN or its subsidiaries. That amendment was shot down on a 5-9 party line vote as Republicans sided with taxpayers while Democrats stood with ACORN.Remember, ACORN is the group whose representatives were caught on tape engaging in all kinds of evil behavior including a woman who thought she was helping people smuggle children into the U.S. for sexual slavery!
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Archive for March, 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS – Globalisation and People at the Margins: Experiences from India
Submissions are invited for a book on "Globalisation and People at the Margins: Experiences from India".
Tentative Title:
Globalisation and People at the Margins: Experiences from India
Dr. Sarbeswar SAHOO and
Dr. Eswarappa KASI
Globalisation has brought many significant changes in the socio-political and economic spheres of Indian society. Although it has brought economic growth and expanded the size of the middle class in India, the lives of the marginalised people have not improved as expected. Globalisation has drastically transformed the relationship between the state and the civil society in India and, as a result, the state is withdrawing itself from the welfare agenda. In response to this, many of the non-state actors have emerged to take up issues that were previously undertaken by the state. Specifically, globalisation has followed a market-oriented development strategy, which has affected the livelihoods of the marginalised people. The civil society actors have strongly opposed this exploitative and exclusivist model of development and advocated for a more participatory and people-centric development paradigm. With this background, the book aims to dwell upon the theoretical and epistemological engagement of globalisation on the one hand, and the ethnographic and empirical experiences on the other. The book will follow inter-disciplinary perspectives, drawing on inferences from sociology, anthropology, politics, development and area studies. The editors invite abstracts or summary of the paper on the following themes.
1. Globalisation and Marginality
2. Globalization and Livelihoods
3. Globalisation and Social Welfare
4. Globalisation, Civil Society and the State in India
5. Globalisation and Political Mobilisation
The length of the abstract/summary of the paper should be around 500 words. The due date of submission of abstract is April 20, 2012. Abstracts should be submitted to sarbeswarjnu [ at ] yahoo.co.in; and kasieswar [ at ] gmail.com
The last date for abstract submission has been extended till June 30, 2012.
Dr. Sarbeswar SAHOO is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max-Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany.
Dr. Eswarappa KASI is associated with the U.N. Women Project at the Center for Women's Development and Gender Studies, National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD), Hyderabad, India.


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Welcome to Screen Rant's "Geek Picks," where we collect the finest movie-related geekery from around the Web. Today you'll find Bruce Willis's personal assistants; cool kid High School films to watch; forgotten takes from Forrest Gump; and Kevin Bacon's Footloose entrance on The Tonight Show. All that and more on this edition of SR's Geek Picks!
If you have any Geek Picks of your own, please send them to srgeekpicks(at)gmail(dot)com and you could be featured in a future post!
Kevin Bacon's 30th Anniversary Footloose Entrance
After Jimmy announces that The Tonight Show has banned dancing, Kevin Bacon breaks the rules with an epic entrance.
Cool Kid HIGH School Flicks!! - What to Watch
DRUGS, COMPETITION AND MURDER aka HIGH SCHOOL movies! Find out where on the World Wide Web cool movies about high school are STREAMING NOW!!!
Norman and Peter: Bruce Willis's Personal Assistants
Norman and Peter are Bruce Willis's personal assistants; join them as they try and navigate the famous actor's crazy world.
Conan O'Brien & Alex Morgan Review Just Dance 4
Conan & USA Soccer gold medalist Alex Morgan engage in an epic dance battle.
Unbelievable Bus Shelter
Pepsi Max surprise commuters with an 'unbelievable' augmented reality experience at a bus shelter on New Oxford Street in London.
Which is Worse: A Game of Thrones Spoiler, or Detention?
A French mathematics teacher is said to have devised a powerful technique for keeping classroom chatter to a minimum: Whenever his class gets too noisy, he simply writes a spoiler from Game of Thrones on the board. As in: "Oh, you haven't finished reading A Storm of Swords? LET ME TELL YOU EVERYONE WHO DIES."
Top 10 Movies of the 1920s
This decade saw Hollywood expand, feature films become common, and talkies overtake silent movies.
Top 10 Movies of the 1930s
This decade saw Hollywood overcome the Great Depression to begin its Golden Age.
Top 10 Movies of the 1940s
This decade saw Hollywood reflect the changes in society and technology in some landmark films.
Top 10 Movies of the 1950s
This decade saw Hollywood compete with television by way of vast epics, outrageous sci-fi and stark realism.
Forrest Gump Forgotten Takes! - The Cutting Room
Check out a few deleted takes from this Oscar-winning classic!
That's all for today, folks! Be sure to check back tomorrow for more movie-related geekery.
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