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- 1969Kryolan premier the first publication for make-up artistry, "lebendige Maske". This publication has been issued regularly ever since.
- 1971-1981After 26 years of doing business in the old premises, the company moves into its new headquarters in the Papierstrasse. Kryolan begin to make contacts in the USA, and in 1976 the first Kryolan subsidiary is opened in California. Shortly after, the brand's export share grows to 60%.
- 1981-1982The camouflage sector continues to develop well, as Dermacolor products are sold in nine countries including Australia. Kryolan hold their 1st international make-up seminar in Berlin, with 150 participants attending from 20 countries. This seminar is a huge success, and becomes a repeat event.
- 1983-1986Kryolan continues to grow, expanding further into Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
- 1992-1993Kryolan take over Charles H. Fox Ltd. in London. Charles Fox is responsible for sales of Kryolan products in the United Kingdom. Kryolan Poland is founded.
- 1995Kryolan celebrate 50 years of successful business, as their products sell successfully in five continents.
- 2004Kryolan hosts their first Make-up Artists' Forum, discussing the professional concerns and job prospects of German-speaking make-up artists. As the 28th Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece, Kryolan are invited to provide make-up for 4000 actors for a one-of-a-kind opening ceremony. Kryolan develop a unique make-up formula to counteract the extreme weather conditions.
- 2005Arnold Langer is awarded the 'A Lifetime of Beauty' prize for his professional achievements at the Beauty International Trade Fair in Düsseldorf, Germany. Kryolan celebrate 60 years of business, operating seven of their own sites in six countries.
- 2006Kryolan present the first multicultural symposium of professional design make-up at a technical university in Berlin, speaking to over 100 make-up artists.
- 2007Kryolan launch their newest product innovation, High Definition make-up – designed for high-resolution camera technology. Kryolan's Make-up Artist Team becomes exclusively responsible for make-up at a large fashion show in Düsseldorf and the famous fashion show Prêt a Porter in Paris.
- 2008Kryolan conduct their third symposium of professional design make-up in Milan, Italy.
- 2009Kryolan Professional Make-up is the official Cosmetics Partner for the most important beauty pageant in the world – Miss Universe 2009. The Kryolan International Make-up Team is responsible for making-up the contestants, and for exclusively providing the make-up itself.
- 2011For the third time, Kryolan become the official Cosmetics Partner for Miss Universe – this time in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The new Kryolan corporate shop concept is also introduced in Hamburg, Berlin, San Francisco, Chicago, Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Chennai, Mumbai and Sofia. The brand holds their 4th Multicultural Symposium for Make-up in Istanbul, Turkey – presenting make-up trends and techniques to over 250 participants.
- 2012Kryolan has been selected as a major supplier of make-up products for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympic Games. The brand launches its new positioning statement with a streamlined visualization starting from its packaging, webpage, brand film and more.
- 2014Kryolan started its 8th and 9th extension at its premises in Berlin. More space for R&D, production, shipping and administration is planned. A seminar room will be installed as well. Kryolan successfully held the 5th Global Face Art in Dubai with more than 200 participants from over 30 countries and experienced the trends and techniques of tomorrow. GFA is considered as a platform for exchange of professional knowledge among the industry. In Munich Kryolan opened its 3rd Kryolan City Store inviting professionals as well as end users to experience Make-up Is A Science.


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In Rao's debut novel, an arranged Indian marriage sets the stage for an intimate look at the exasperating madness of love.
Shaan Ahuja and Ruhi Sharma's arranged marriage has an inauspicious start. Shaan spurns his new wife on their wedding night, still pining over the American lover he left back in Los Angeles. However, the begrudging spouses soon make a pact: Ruhi will stay with Shaan in the United States just long enough to avoid embarrassment. The young bride hopes she can use the time to win Shaan's heart, and although Ruhi's beauty and attentiveness do change Shaan's feelings, his immaturity and inability to express himself—and Ruhi's lingering mistrust—keep them from reconciling. As they attempt to be "friends without benefits," they start to reveal their true selves, including her needling puckishness and independent spirit and the reasons for his reserved nature and impulsive jealousy. Their eventual reconciliation comes not from forgiveness but from acceptance and understanding. The novel trades in a certain amount of melodrama that, thanks to its light tone, comes across as indulgent but satisfying. Both main characters are highly animated, with hand-wringing, exasperated gestures and barely restrained outbursts. The novel seems highly aware of its influences, using cultural expectations and delayed gratification in the same spirit, if not with the same deftness, as Jane Austen. Shaan and Ruhi also sometimes mirror the star-crossed lovers from Casablanca (a film that the book directly references). The intense focus on the troubled pair's relationship, however, takes away from the novel's other aspects; its settings, including Chandigarh, India, Las Vegas and LA seem sparse and shapeless, their rich cultures highly subdued. The supporting cast, although intriguing, is also underused; in particular, Shaan's energetic friend Sujoy and the endearing, elderly Sunshine make too few appearances despite the novel's considerable length.
An often intoxicating, if narrowly focused, will-they-or-won't-they tale.

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Knicks waive Lamar Odom, re-sign Aldrich
NEW YORK (AP) The New York Knicks have waived veteran forward Lamar Odom and re-signed center Cole Aldrich.
Knicks President Phil Jackson signed Odom, who played for him in Los Angeles, at the end of last season. But the former Sixth Man of the Year never played a game for New York.
Jackson says Friday in a statement: ''Unfortunately, Lamar was unable to uphold the standards to return as an NBA player. We found it necessary to free up the roster spot.''
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|The Thomas G. Stemberg '71 Family Endowed Coach for Harvard Men's Basketball
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|Duke 1987
|13th Season
In the 12 seasons since taking over as head coach of Harvard's men's basketball program, Tommy Amaker has reinvented the Crimson into an Ivy League power with a national presence. He has directed Harvard to a period of unprecedented prosperity in the form of seven Ivy League championships (2011-15, 2018-19), four NCAA tournament appearances (2012-15) and six 20-win seasons (2010-15). Amaker is the all-time winningest coach with the Crimson, surpassing Frank Sullivan with a 74-66 win at Boston College Dec. 7, 2016.
Amaker was introduced as head coach by Nichols Family Director of Athletics Bob Scalise on April 13, 2007, following six seasons as head coach at Michigan and four at the helm of Seton Hall. Amaker owns a 406-270 career record: 230-131 at Harvard, 108-84 at Michigan and 68-55 at Seton Hall. He has earned numerous Coach of the Year awards, including the 2013 Clarence "Big House" Gaines College Basketball Coach of the Year Award, presented to the top minority basketball coach in NCAA Division I. In 2012, he was presented with district coach of the year awards from both the United States Basketball Writers Association and National Association of Basketball Coaches, and was a candidate for the AP National Coach of the Year. He has also been named a finalist for the Ben Jobe Award six times (2011-15, 2019), and the Hugh Durham Award three times (2011, 2012, 2015).
With Amaker at the helm, Harvard student-athletes have garnered seven All-America honors, 14 All-District distinctions and 33 all-conference accolades. Additionally, Keith Wright '12 (2012), Wesley Saunders '15 (2014) and Seth Towns (2018) have been named Ivy League Player of the Year, Steve Moundou-Missi '15 (2015) and Agunwa Okolie '16 (2016) have garnered defensive player of the year plaudits, with Kyle Casey '13-14 (2010), Siyani Chambers '16-17 (2013), Bryce Aiken (2017) and Noah Kirkwood (2019) earning rookie of the year honors.
Before beginning his head-coaching career, Amaker won two NCAA championships and advanced to five Final Fours as an assistant and associate head coach at Duke. He was previously a four-year starter at point guard for the Blue Devils, leading the team to the 1986 NCAA title game before earning All-America honors and recognition as the nation's top defensive player in his senior year of 1987.
Harvard has garnered the attention of the nation with four straight appearances in the NCAA tournament, but Amaker's teams have long been making headlines, with each season bringing more program milestones. Some of the highlights:
- A 208-95 (.686) overall record since 2009-10, ranking as the 25th-highest win percentage in the NCAA over the last 10 seasons
- A 110-18 (.859) home record since 2009-10, ranking as the 15th-highest home-court win percentage in the NCAA over the last 10 seasons
- Four straight NCAA tournament appearances (2012, '13, '14, '15), becoming just the third program in Ancient Eight history with at least four straight NCAA bids
- Five consecutive Ivy League championships (2011, '12, '13, '14, '15), becoming just the second program in Ancient Eight history with at least five straight titles
- Six straight seasons with 20 wins and a postseason appearance (2010, '11, '12, '13, '14, '15), tying the longest streak in Ivy League history for 20-win seasons
- Harvard's first appearance in a major national poll, ranking as high as No. 21 in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll and No. 22 in the Associated Press Top 25 in 2011-12
- Harvard's first appearance in the Associated Press Preseason Top 25, ranking No. 25 in 2014-15
- The six highest single-season win totals in program history (27-5 in 2013-14, 26-5 in 2011-12, 23-7 in 2010-11, 22-8 in 2014-15, 21-8 in 2009-10 and 20-10 in 2012-13)
- Two wins in the NCAA tournament (68-62 vs. No. 3 New Mexico, March 21, 2013; 61-57 vs. No. 5 Cincinnati, March 20, 2014), Harvard's first two NCAA tournament wins.
- Harvard's first win in the NIT (71-68 vs. Georgetown, March 20, 2019)
- 28-game home winning streak from 2010-12
- 2013 Great Alaska Shootout tournament champions
- 2011 Battle 4 Atlantis tournament champions
- 16 wins against power-conference opponents, with an 8-6 record against Atlantic Coast Conference teams
- Four wins against ranked teams
- Appearance in the first three inaugural Ivy League tournaments
- Thirteen (13) first team All-Ivy League selections, four Ivy League Rookies of the Year (Kyle Casey '13-14, Siyani Chambers '16-17, Bryce Aiken '20 and Noah Kirkwood '22), two Ivy League Defensive Players of the Year (Steve Moundou-Missi '15 & Agunwa Okolie '16), three Ivy League Players of the Year (Keith Wright '12, Wesley Saunders '15 & Seth Towns '20), and one NBA signee (Jeremy Lin '10).
Among Amaker's career achievements:
- 406-270 record (.600)
- 14 postseason appearances
- 2004 NIT championship
- Five NCAA tournament appearances, including 2000 Sweet Sixteen
- Coached six NBA players
For the second year in-a-row, and the seventh time in nine seasons, Harvard earned the Ivy League championship. Bryce Aiken was a unanimous All-Ivy League first team selection, while Noah Kirkwood became Harvard's fourth Ivy League Rookie of the Year under Amaker. The Crimson capped the 2018-19 season with its second-straight trip to the NIT, where it earned the first win in the event in program history, over Georgetown (71-68).
The Crimson captured its sixth Ivy League crown in program history in 2017-18, each coming under Amaker, and earned its second-ever berth to the National Invitation Tournament (NIT). Seth Towns capped a tremendous season as the Ivy League Player of the Year and All-America selection, while Chris Lewis and Justin Bassey also garnered All-Ivy recognition. With a victory over Dartmouth on Jan. 20, Amaker became the fifth head coach in Ivy League history to reach 200 wins at an Ivy program, doing it the second-fastest in the conference's history.
Harvard capped the 2016-17 season with an appearance in the inaugural Ivy League tournament. The Crimson - the 10th-youngest team according to KenPom rankings - finished 18-10 overall, including a 10-4 mark in Ancient Eight play. On Dec. 7, 2016, Amaker became the all-time winningest men's basketball coach in Harvard history, surpassing the previous mark with a 74-66 win at Boston College. Amaker also ended the season as the all-time leader at Harvard in Ivy wins (94).
In 2014-15, Harvard finished the regular season tied with Yale for the Ancient Eight crown. The Crimson defeated the Bulldogs in a one-game playoff for the right to represent the Ivy League in the NCAA tournament, where it fell to fourth-seeded North Carolina, 67-65, despite taking a 65-63 lead with 1:15 to play. Harvard also completed its second straight season sweep of traditional Ivy powers Penn and Princeton during the regular season, becoming the first program in conference history to do in consecutive years.
In 2013-14, the 12th-seeded Crimson knocked off fifth-seeded Cincinnati in the tournament's second round, and nearly pulled off an upset of fourth-seeded Michigan State to reach the Sweet 16. Harvard finished the year with a 27-5 overall record and a 13-1 mark in the Ivy League, setting program bests for both overall victories and conference victories, and also captured the title at the Great Alaska Shootout along the way. Additionally, a record six Crimson were named to the All-Ivy League teams, including player of the year Wesley Saunders '15.
A year earlier, Harvard earned a historic win in the NCAA tournament as the 14th-seeded Crimson upset third-seeded New Mexico, which was ranked 10th nationally. The victory was the first by the Crimson against a top-10 opponent and left Harvard among the nation's top 32 teams at season's end. The 2012-13 season also saw Amaker become the fourth head coach to win 100 games at Harvard, reaching that milestone on Jan. 5, 2013, when the Crimson defeated Rice, 92-62.
A win in the NCAA tournament was a natural progression after the 2011-12 season, perhaps the best overall campaign in program history and the first in which the Crimson claimed sole possession of the Ivy title. En route to ending its 66-year NCAA tournament drought, Harvard debuted in the national rankings, climbing as high as No. 21 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll and No. 22 in the Associated Press poll. Finishing 26-5, Harvard eclipsed the program's previous record for wins for the third straight year and matched the previous season's program-best 12-2 Ivy mark. The Crimson also won the inaugural Battle 4 Atlantis tournament, with wins against Utah, No. 20 Florida State and UCF.
For his effort, Amaker was named the USBWA and NABC district coach of the year, as well as the College Insider Ivy League Coach of the Year. Amaker was also tabbed a finalist for the Ben Jobe Award and the Hugh Durham Award for coaching and was selected as a candidate for the AP National Coach of the Year. He received the NABC, College Insider, Jobe and Durham recognitions for the second straight year.
Harvard's first Ivy crown came in 2010-11, when the Crimson went 23-7, tied Princeton at 12-2 in league play, set a program record with 14 home wins and made its first NIT appearance. The 23 wins briefly held as the program standard, erasing the 21 victories from 2009-10 from the top spot. That 2009-10 campaign ended in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament, Harvard's first postseason berth since 1946.
Amaker's first two seasons showed signs of the great achievements to come. The 2008-09 freshman class was tabbed as one of the nation's 25 best recruiting classes by ESPN, an accolade never before bestowed upon an Ivy League institution. The Crimson went on to post a victory at No. 17 Boston College. The marquee win in Amaker's debut season of 2007-08 was a 62-51 victory over Michigan—Amaker's former team—on national television.
At Michigan, Amaker inherited a program that was reeling from institutional and NCAA sanctions but led the Wolverines to the postseason three times, winning the 2004 NIT title and reaching the championship game of the 2006 NIT. The Wolverines were ranked as high as No. 20 in the nation during the 2005-06 season.
Seton Hall reached the postseason every year during Amaker's tenure. He led the Pirates to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen in 2000 and to three appearances in the NIT. He was credited with bringing in the top recruiting class in the country, including the national high school player of the year, for the 2000-01 season.
Amaker has been the head coach of six players who were either drafted, or signed as free agents, by NBA clubs, including two first-round draft picks.
Amaker served nine years as a graduate assistant, assistant coach and associate head coach at Duke, working for legendary head coach Mike Krzyzewski. He was an assistant on two NCAA championship teams with the Blue Devils (1991, '92) and helped Duke to three other Final Fours in eight NCAA tournament appearances. Duke was a combined 230-80 in Amaker's nine years on the Blue Devils coaching staff.
A native of Falls Church, Virginia, Amaker began his career in college basketball with a highly successful playing stint at Duke. He led the Blue Devils to four NCAA tournaments, including the 1986 national championship game, and served as team captain as a senior. Amaker was the 1987 winner of the Henry Iba Corinthian Award as the nation's top defensive player, and he was enshrined in the Duke Sports Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2013, Amaker was inducted in the Washington Metropolitan Basketball Hall of Fame.
Amaker is also a member of the New England Basketball Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 2013, and the W.T. Woodson H.S. Hall of Fame (Fairfax, Va.) (2012).
Amaker's playing career also includes a gold medal as part of the U.S. national team at the 1986 World Championships.
A 1987 Duke graduate with a bachelor's degree in economics, Amaker was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 1987 NBA draft. He currently serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and is a former board member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches Foundation. Additionally, Amaker served on the board of USA Basketball where he was a member of the Men's Collegiate and Men's Senior National Committees, helping to select members of the gold-medal-winning 1996 U.S. Olympic team.
Amaker also serves on the Board of Overseers for the Boys & Girls Club of Boston.


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Priscilla Presley Gossip
Priscilla Presley gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
The Elvis genes
Wenn, FameFlynet
Lately there's been a surge in my Elvis obsession. When I was a teenager I used to obsess over pictures of Lisa Marie Presley. Elvis was SO strong in her face. It's the eyes. Elvis had Gladys's eyes (his mother) and Lisa Marie has those eyes. And Riley Keough has those eyes. Riley was at the Mad Max: Fury Road premiere last night in Hollywood. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
Yesterday (over afternoon tea at The Langham – because what else do you talk about over finger sandwiches?), Lorella and I exchanged anecdotes about our favourite subject: Elvis. This is one of the bonds of our friendship. Read Full Intro
Cilla is the Evil Queen
Priscilla Presley will be playing the Evil Queen in the Snow White pantomime at the New Wimbledon Theatre beginning in December so f-ck off Julia Roberts and Charlize Theron. Here she is with her castmates, including Professor Flitwick, at the photocall in London today. Remember when Priscilla met Elvis when she was 14 and he was not close to being 14 at all? I feel like this might be a recurring theme today too. Full Story
The strong Presley genes
I may have mentioned before that when I was 12 or so, around then give or take a year or two, I was OBSESSED with Elvis. Listened to the songs all the time, read the biographies, learned what quaaludes are, because he used to take them by the handful, and wished I was Priscilla Presley even though she was straight up a child when Elvis fell in love with her on that army base. Full Story


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Harvard is aiming to reclaim the Ivy League Championship for the first time since 2008 (Gil Talbot).
Story Line
The Harvard men's swimming and diving team will be in search of its 23rd team title when it takes to the pool this weekend at the 2012 Ivy League Championships. This year's meet is being held at Princeton's DeNunzio Pool and will take place Thursday, March 1 through Saturday, March 3. Prelims will be held each morning beginning at 11 a.m. with the championship finals beginning at 6 p.m.
Click here for the complete meet schedule.
On the Web
Fans can watch the meet in its entirety live online through GoPrincetonTigers.com by signing up for a one-month subscription for $9.95. Click here to sign up today.
What's At Stake
Harvard is looking to reclaim the Ivy League Championship for the first time since 2008 and end Princeton's three-year run as the champ. The Crimson has won 22 Ivy titles overall, including six under Tim Murphy, the Ulen-Brooks Endowed Coach for Harvard Men's Swimming and Diving. Harvard boasts a total of 20 EISL/Ivy League Championship Meet titles and has finished either first or second at the event year since 1991.
Harvard and Princeton have combined to win the Ivy League/EISL Championship Meet for 39 consecutive years dating back to 1973. The Crimson has won 20 titles in that time while the Tigers have won 19.
There was no team scoring in the championship meet from its inception in 1938 until 1962. Until the mid-1990s, the Championship included up to 28 Eastern seaboard schools. Until the meet became a smaller, more focused event, the Ivy League Championship was not determined here, but by a round-robin record instead. The Ivy League Championship was determined at this meet binging in 1997. In 2009, the meet switched to include just the eight Ivy League schools.
Leaders of the Pack
Freshman Chuck Katis currently owns two NCAA top 50 times. Katis ranks 44th in the nation and first in the Ivy League in the 200 IM with an NCAA 'B' standard time of 1:47.06 while his 'B' standard time of 54.29 in the 100 breast ranks 47th.
The Crimson boasts four relays which rank in the top 50 as well, led by the 400 free team of Griffin Schumacher, Oliver Lee, Zach Walters and Chris Satterthwaite which ranks 31st with a time of 2:57.04. The 200 free relay team of Lee, Schumacher, Will Brophy and Satterthwaite is 40th with a time of 1:20.50, while Jack Pretto, Katis, Kyle McIntee and Satterthwaite combined for a time of 3:17.02 in the 400 medley relay, which ranks them 48th. The 200 medley relay team of Pretto, Katis, Lee and Schumacher own the 50th-best time in the NCAA at 1:29.15. All four relays have met the NCAA 'B' standard in their respective events.
Seven current Crimson have combined for a total of 13 all-conference honors at previous Ivy League Championship meets. Junior Michael Stanton leads the team as a three-time first team selection, having won both the one meter and three-meter diving competitions in 2010, and capturing the one-meter crown last year.
Wes Stearns picked up a pair of second team honors in 2011 for his runner-up performances in the 500 free and 1,650 free.
Oliver Lee was named to the second team a year ago for his second-place performance in the 50 free. He also earned a second team nod as a member of the 400 free relay team, along with current Crimson Danny Crigler and Chris Satterthwaite. Crigler, Spenser Goodman, Greg Roop and Satterthwaite, meanwhile, placed second in the 800 free relay to earn second team All-Ivy.
Mid-Major Poll
Harvard was ranked second in the most recent CollegeSwimming.com Mid-Major Rankings, rising two spots from its previous ranking of No. 4. The Crimson closed out the dual meet portion of its schedule with a 6-3 overall record and 6-1 in the Ivy League, good for second place in the conference's dual meet standings.
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Record Breakers
Freshmen Chuck Katis and Mike Mosca have combined to set three new school records this season. Katis set new marks in both the 100 and 200 breast at the HYP meet, turning in times of 54.29 and 1:58.89, respectively. The previous 100 breast record of 54.49 was set by Rassan Grant '04 in 2004, while the 200 breast record of 1:58.97 was set in 2008 by Geoff Rathgeber '08.
Mosca now owns both the one meter and three-meter diving marks after breaking the records set by Dan Rybalko '06 in 2006. Mosca turned in a total of 363.80 points against Cornell and Dartmouth for the one meter record, and posted a score of 294.80 on the three meter at the HYP meet.


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Ghana and the United States are set to meet in a World Cup 2014 Group G match on Monday, June 16.
Kick-off time is 6:00 p.m. EDT at Estadio das Dunas, Natal.
The game will be broadcast on NET 2 TV, ETV Ghana, GTV, SuperSport 3 Africa, Sports 24, TV3 Ghana, GTV Sports+, First Digital TV, and Metro TV in Ghana.
The game will also air on SiriusXM FC, Univision USA, ESPN Radio, ESPN3, ESPN Deportes, Univision Deportes En Vivo, Univision Deportes USA, and ESPN in the United States, as well as BBC One UK, BBC Radio 5 Live, and BBC iPlayer in the United Kingdom.
Live stream is available on Watch ESPN (not for DirecTV subscribers).
Here is an AP article on USA goalie Nick Rimando.
Rimando Appreciates World Cup in Spite of Role
SAO PAULO (AP) — One day when Nick Rimando was at World Cup training camp last month in Northern California, his two children opened a lemonade stand back home in Salt Lake City to support their father and U.S. soccer.
Jett Nicholas and little sister Benny Rose were thrilled about getting ready to watch the tournament. And, barring injuries, that's all their dad will do, too — though he has zero complaints.
Rimando has good-naturedly accepted and relished his role as a No. 3 goalkeeper counted upon to stay motivated and ready while pushing the Americans' first two, Tim Howard and Brad Guzan.
Rimando, one of Major League Soccer's top goalies in recent years, knows he will be a spectator in uniform for the Americans unless there's a catastrophe. No team has used three goalies in a World Cup since Greece in 1994.
"Just completely honored, and I take a lot of pride being on this team," said Rimando, who's now with Real Salt Lake. "I'm taking it all in and doing my part. My role is a different role than other players, and also a role that I need to be prepared if called upon. I've seen a lot of things go down where three goalkeepers play in one game."
It's rare, indeed.
In the 1994 World Cup in the U.S., each of the three Greece goalies played an entire game in the group stage, according to STATS. Greece was outscored 10-0 by Argentina, Bulgaria and Nigeria.
Rimando is hardly an unknown. The former UCLA Bruin got a shoutout Friday night from Dodgers star Yasiel Puig, who posted a photo on Twitter of himself in a Rimando jersey while wishing the goalie and the Americans good luck.
During training scrimmages, Rimando watches intently from the end line while Guzan is in goal, then jumps in for a turn.
In 2013, Rimando posted a 0.67 goals against average, the best mark by a U.S. goalkeeper with at least six games since Guzan did so in 2008. Rimando is unbeaten with the national team over 14 matches in his six-year international career.
That reliability earned him a spot on coach Jurgen Klinsmann's 23-man roster.
Rimando turns 35 on Tuesday, a day after the U.S. opener. His kids are 6 and 4 — and earned a whopping $42 running their stand May 25.
"I'll probably take it and put it in their piggy banks," Rimando said. "He has a huge heart, that kid."
Rimando's teammates share that same sentiment about him.
"He's been the best MLS goalkeeper for years now. He doesn't get any accolades because he's so consistent," said midfielder Kyle Beckerman, also Rimando's MLS teammate. "Every year he has a great year and it's what people come to expect. That's not who the accolades go to. It goes to someone who surprises them. … It's great to see that even without those accolades Jurgen has been able to see how good he is and recognize the player he is without all the hoopla."
Howard and Rimando have a blast trading barbs during keep-away drills when they are separated into their own tight-knit group in one corner of the field.
In fact, Howard still claims Rimando urinated on his foot sometime around 1999 — though Rimando won't offer any details or recollections of what actually occurred.
"Nicky's one of my favorite people in the world," Howard said. "Nick and I have known each other half our lives. We were roommates together for seven years with the national team, U-17 and U-20. We were just reminiscing the other day about some stories. We could write a book."
While Rimando is in the middle of final preparations for Monday's match with Ghana at Natal, he has allowed himself to reflect just a little bit.
Rimando's wife, former professional player Jacqui Little, will cheer him in Brazil so they can cherish the experience together. Their children stayed back in Southern California with his parents.
"It's 23 guys out of so many millions in the U.S., to be a part of this again is special and a dream that I'm living," he said. "To say to my kids and grandkids that I was a part of the biggest sporting event in the world is something I'm going to take to the grave for sure."


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Plasma 5 Brings a Cleaner Interface on Top of a New Graphics Stack
The first release of Plasma 5 is out now. We have worked long and hard over the last three years to tidy up the internals and move to new technologies to bring a solid foundation for KDE's Plasma desktop for years to come. The UI has been tidied up, there is a new Breeze artwork theme starting to take off and high-DPI support has been added. The main design of the desktop and workflows in it have not been altered, we know you like your desktop and have no desire to change it. There is not enough polish in this release to make it mainstream yet, this is only for enthusiasts and people who want to help debug for now.
Many distributions have packages to install or test images to try out although this 5.0 release should not be the default option yet. Plasma 5 is built using Qt 5 and Frameworks 5 and is due to have new releases on a three monthly cycle.
You can discuss your experiences on the Plasma 5 forum on the KDE Community Forums. Please post to social media with the #PlasmaByKDE hashtag.
Major changes in this new version include:
Other user-visible changes are:
The Plasma 5.0 Visual Feature Guide provides a video tour around the updated desktop.
Breeze Artwork Improves Visual clarity
The new Breeze theme, which is still in its infancy, welcomes the user with a cleaner, modernized user interface, which improves contrast and reduces visual clutter throughout the workspace. Stronger reliance on typography eases the recognition of UI elements. These changes go together with flatter default theming and improved contrast to improve visual clarity further. Breeze being a new artwork concept, is only starting to show its face. A theme for the workspace components is already available, theming of traditional widgets is under way, and the work on a new icon theme has commenced. The migration to a fully Breeze-themed workspace will be a gradual one, with its first signs showing up in Plasma 5.0.
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The new-in-Plasma-5 "Look and Feel" mechanism allows swapping out parts like the task and activity switchers, lock and login screen and the "Add Widgets" dialog. This allows for greater consistency across central workflows, improves clarity within similar interaction patterns and changing related interaction patterns across the workspace at once.
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Plasma 5 completes the migration of the Plasma workspace to QtQuick. Qt 5's QtQuick 2 uses a hardware-accelerated OpenGL(ES) scenegraph to compose and render graphics on the screen. This allows offloading computationally expensive graphics rendering tasks onto the GPU which frees up resources on the system's main processing unit, is faster and more power-efficient.
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Plasma 5.0 provides a core desktop with a feature set that will suffice for many users. The development team has concentrated on tools that make up the central work flows. As such, not all features from the Plasma 4.x series are available yet, many of them planned to return with a subsequent release. As with any software release of this size, there will be bugs that make a migration to Plasma 5 hard, if not impossible for some users. The development team would like to hear about such issues, so they can be addressed and fixed. We have compiled a list of known issues. Users can expect monthly bugfix updates, and a release bringing new features and more old ones back in the autumn 2014.
With a substantial new toolkit stack below come exciting new crashes and problems that need time to be shaken out. This is to be expected in a first stable release. Especially graphics performance is heavily dependent on specific hardware and software configurations and usage patterns. While it has great potential, it takes time to wrangle this out of it. The underlying stack may not be entirely ready for this either. In many scenarios, Plasma 5.0 will display the buttery smooth performance it is capable of - while at other times, it may be hampered by various shortcomings. These can and will be addressed, however, much is dependent on components like Qt, Mesa and hardware drivers lower in the stack.
Good job!
I must say it looks really polished and streamlined! I would love to see dark variation though. Really looking forward to using Plasma 5.
By Rsh at Tue, 2014/07/15 - 5:25pm
Look at the visual feature guide video
It shows Plasma 5 using both the dark variation of Breeze and also another dark theme
By WookieCheese at Wed, 2014/07/23 - 4:51am
Running Neon5 right now and
Running Neon5 right now and all in all, it looks great and is running smoothly. Great job!
By jfd at Sun, 2014/07/27 - 4:20am
looks fantastic, great job!
looks fantastic, great job!
By Anonymous at Wed, 2014/07/16 - 8:38am
I thought it was alt + tab to
I thought it was alt + tab to a minesweeper game ;) Cool I wasn't alone
By Anonymous at Thu, 2014/07/17 - 6:49am
Ok in wallpaper dialog
The wallpaper dialog is showing Ok i.o. OK -- all other KDE dialogs have OK which is correct IMO. Please fix this if the dialog really shows Ok...
By Shriramana Sharma at Wed, 2014/07/16 - 11:18am
Icons well done
I am extremely happy with the new icons. Looking forward to use it.
By Anonymous at Thu, 2014/07/17 - 3:40am
"With a substantial new
"With a substantial new toolkit stack below come exciting new crashes and problems that need time to be shaken out. This is to be expected in a first stable release"
Mmm... no. This is expected in a beta. Nobody should _expect_ crashes and problem in a stable release, no matter if first or tenth. OFC they can always happen, but "expected"? No way.
I hope this is not the same approach of the first KDE4 releases: call the beta "stable" so endusers would be fooled into being forced betatesters. Do someone remember how bad it worked? I hoped it was a lesson taken...
By Anonymous at Thu, 2014/07/17 - 9:14am
history rewritten
No. The first release of KDE 4 was labeled "risky". People were advised not to use it for production. Some people (such as me) used it anyway, and passed along our experiences. With the Community working together, Plasma Workspaces have become the most effective UserInterfaces. Nobody was fooled about anything. If you chose to use the first versions of Plasma, please take responsibility for having done so.
I (a non-technical user) have been using Plasma 5. It works fine. Over 90% of PC users run Windows, and if the commonly accepted definition of "stable" is based on the number of installations, then Plasma 5 (compared to any version of Windows) is rock solid.
Many people want the latest and greatest as soon as it's available. Many people want performance tuned over years. Wanting both at the same time is delusional.
By Carl Symons at Fri, 2014/08/29 - 2:27pm
The screen-shots look absolutely wonderful.
By Kde_Fan at Fri, 2014/07/18 - 5:23am
Can't wait for a stable release
Tried it out through the project neon I believe, and it crashes frequently, crashes applications like bluefish and doesn't have all the settings in the system settings application. I appreciate the work done, and I look forward to a date when this is usable in a production environment.
By Nick Germaine at Fri, 2014/07/18 - 6:13pm
several weeks of smoothness
I've been using Plasma 5 for several weeks. It works fine, although I'm still working things out with an 7 year old Pentium. The system itself works great; the display is on its last legs.
On a more modern PC (still several years old), Plasma 5 is smooth and responsive. I'm looking forward to whatever improvements the KDE Dev magicians pull out of thin air. But right now, it's working for me every bit as good as the latest version of Plasma Workspaces.
By Carl Symons at Fri, 2014/08/29 - 2:35pm
Still jerk on all icon, min max and close button..blah fixit
By iwan_cahndeso at Wed, 2014/07/23 - 8:51am
Multiple monitors
it's very nice, but... I missing very much settings from systemsettings. I have two monitors and cannot set primary output and location.
By Petr at Wed, 2014/07/23 - 10:49am
System Settings
Bear in mind that this is the first release and not feature complete, the Plasma devs say they will add more features in the next version
By alecdc272 at Sat, 2014/08/02 - 2:58pm
Nice, but improvable icon design
I like the more schematic icons that are displacing the old ones from some releases ago. Icons never needed to be shiny, hypercolorful and detailed, but some color is useful: some plain colors improve usability since make the process of visual recognition of icons faster.
By Andrés at Mon, 2014/08/04 - 11:04am
I don't like it very much
I don't like it very much at all, it's even duller than before. My graphics card can handle 16 million colors, you chose to use only two of them.
By MyName at Fri, 2014/08/29 - 2:01am
icons are useful and well thought out
I'm using the Breeze icon set with Plasma 5. And am vaguely aware of the work being done by the KDE Visual Design Group. They have given considerable thought to what makes icons effective; I have not been directly involved in their work.
Icons work best as indicators when they stay out of the way and don't attract attention unnecessarily.
What I've noticed is that the icons (taking the SysTray as an example) are useful in this way. They only appear when there's some reason. They look black&white, but even the monochrome icons also have gray. The different shading gives ample information with just a glance--wireless strength, volume.
The battery icon shows a blue lightning symbol when charging; the circle indicates the battery level. Right now, I can tell at a glance that my battery is around 50% and it's charging. The battery level indicator changes color to red when the battery reaches critical level. I like that better than getting a rude bell.
So I like the icons. Not for how they look artistically, but for how they serve the way I use my PC.
By Carl Symons at Fri, 2014/08/29 - 2:55pm
how many time to port all apps and widgets
I know Plasma 5 is under dev, but how long should we wait untill we see all the widgets that exist today in plasma 4 ported to plasma 5? how about the apps, when will they be ready to run against QT 5.2?
I do not use plasma 5 yet, so sorry if the questions seems silly. But I will use it for sure, because I just loved it!!!
Congratulations to all developers and artists!
By srs at Thu, 2014/09/04 - 2:14am
Really smooth
I installed it on arch and let me say the devs have really done a great job. I am using kde4 earlier, but I was not happy with the performance. But performance in this have definitely improved. Please keep up the good work. :D
By Debasish Patra at Fri, 2014/09/05 - 10:11am
Wow and wallpapers
It's always great to hear great news about KDE. I'd love to upgrade from KDE 4 once the stability factor levels out. In the meanwhile, I love the wallpapers, especially the triangular one. Please tell me where I can download them from. Thanks!
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In recent days, Steve Jobs has been the company's most prolific customer service representative, replying unexpectedly to emails from a Swedish music producer, an app developer and a blogger. While Steve's replies are generally pretty terse -- often as short as a single word -- the response often leaves the recipient giddy. After all, Apple fans are nothing if not devoted to the company head.
Apple's made an art form out of unusual communications with the public. The company is notorious for its secrecy, but back in January, former Apple marketing manager John Martellaro explained that the company is often likely to intentionally leak details about products as a ploy to stir up public interest.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduras' political standoff escalated Wednesday as legal officials debated whether a congressional vote to remove four Supreme Court justices violated the constitution.
Attorney General Luis Rubi decried the early-morning vote to dismiss the justices after they rejected a plan by President Porfirio Lobo to clean up the corrupt national police. He said his office is studying whether the lawmakers can be prosecuted.
"No one is above the law, not the congress, not the president of the congress or of the republic," Rubi said. "We're analyzing the responsibility of those who made this decision and whether we need to act."
The vote early Wednesday would replace four of the five justices on the constitutional chamber, a committee of the Supreme Court, whose justices have been serving since January 2009 and have been overruling Lobo's attempts at reform in the troubled Central American country.
Those include his plans to create private cities and to weed out corrupt and criminal police officers.
"The conduct of the judges endangered citizen security and is manifestly contrary to the interests of the state," said congressman Jeffrey Flores, a member of Lobo's National Party who introduced the motion.
The four justices released a statement calling their dismissal "illegitimate, illegal and unjust" and declared that they have a right to due process. It was unclear who would continue to sit on the court as congress had already named their replacements.
An attorney with the Supreme Court, who wasn't authorized to speak publicly, said justices can be dismissed only for administrative reasons, such as in misuse of funds, and not for their rulings. Justices are elected by congress.
Opposing congressmen decried the message that the vote and political chaos are sending to the country and the international community.
"The legislature is intimidating the judiciary," said Jose Saavedra, head of the rival Liberal Party in congress. "It violates the separation of powers."
Congress late Tuesday also approved a measure that would allow the president or congress to put the police cleanup and other issues to public referendum.
The political climate around the vote was extremely tense in a country that saw Lobo's predecessor ousted in a 2009 coup. Dozens of police and soldiers surrounded congress for a time while legislators debated about replacing the justices.
Former President Manuel Zelaya was whisked out of the country at gunpoint in his pajamas in June 2009 after he ignored the same Supreme Court and tried to hold a referendum on his plan to revise the constitution, promising the poor they would get a voice in shaping the future of the country.
Lobo over the weekend accused the same Honduran business leaders behind Zelaya's ouster of colluding with the justices to undercut his power, hinting that they might even attempt another coup.
Honduras' federal judges have long been closely tied with the business elite. In October, the Supreme Court shot down Lobo's plan to build private cities as a means of attracting investment and economic development.
Last week, four of five members of the constitutional court, the same who were dismissed Wednesday, declared unconstitutional his police cleanup plan. The full Supreme Court was scheduled to issue a ruling this week, but has yet to do so in the current political turmoil.
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Lobo took office in January 2010 and is limited to a single term, which ends next year. Within six months, Lobo was accusing unnamed opponents of plotting a second coup to oust him from power.
The U.S. State Department said Wednesday it is monitoring the situation and is urging all parties involved to "respect democratic norms."
"The United States is deeply interested in the success of democracy in Honduras and the strengthening and independence of its institutions," State Department press adviser William Ostick said. "We look to the Honduran people to resolve this matter peacefully and democratically."
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In 2014 Iowa will have 29 stand alone drug plans, three less than 2013. Even the plans which continue from 2014 may have changed their premium, deductibles and co-payments so comparing plans is critical for everyone.
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PSU holds vigil in support of victims of Japan's tragedy
Japanese Student Society President Kei Miyajima and Japanese student Shihomi Seki
(Portland, Ore.) March 28, 2011 - Around 150 people attended a vigil at PSU today to give the campus and
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Brits may have been basking in the tropical sunshine over the past few weeks, but the downside to the balmy weather is that painful bites by bloodsucking insects have soared.
Calls to the NHS helpline 111 about bites from insects are nearly double the average for this time of year, and senior doctors are reporting incidents of patients being treated in hospital for infected horsefly bites.
Despite the warm weather, experts say standing water – such as garden paddling pools – where insects thrive should be removed.
Dr Nick Scriven, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said: "We wouldn't normally see anyone coming to hospital for a bite, but we have seen a few recently needing treatment with antibiotics, which is very unusual.
"A couple of these were infected bites from horseflies. They actually give one of the nastier bites, because they take a chunk out of you.
"They can be very painful, and can take a while to heal, and as a result can get infected and need antibiotics. In the worst-case scenario, they can cause cellulitis, an infection of the skin."
Blister pain Horsefly bites can result in horrible, painful blisters. "A bite from a horsefly can be very painful and the bitten area of skin will usually be red and raised,"
NHS Choices says. "Horsefly bites can take a while to heal and can become infected. See your GP if you have symptoms of an infection, such as pus or increasing pain, redness and swelling."
According to the NHS, symptoms of horsefly bites include a larger red, raised rash, dizziness, weakness and wheezing. A part of the body may also become puffy and swollen.
In rare occasions, an allergic reaction to the fly can prove fatal and in 2013 a father of four died suddenly after being bitten by the fly. If you're bitten by a horsefly, keep the wound clean and apply ice to minimise the itching.


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No more coffee and ice cream dates for Jake Gyllenhaal and Taylor Swift, apparently.
"They're over," a secret source told People mag on Tuesday. "It ended last month."
Reps for Gyllenhaal, 30, and Swift, 21, have not commented on the breakup. Then again, the "Love and Other Drugs" actor and country musician have not confirmed their brief relationship either.
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They set the rumor machine in motion in early October by hanging out during an "SNL" taping and with a series of lunch, ice cream and coffee dates through Thanksgiving.
The pair were last spotted out together Dec. 9 in Los Angeles and both celebrated New Year's and their birthdays apart, according to People.


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A number of changes are currently underway in the Hunnewell Building Visitor Center, reflecting our ongoing aspiration to improve and enhance how visitors experience our historical landscape and renowned plant collections. As a public arboretum in the City of Boston and institutional partner in the educational mission of Harvard University, we are committed to engaging the public through meaningful interactions and learning opportunities that foster a greater appreciation of plants, science, and biodiversity.
In the coming months, new displays and increased exhibition space will enable us to share more about the plants, people, and stories that illuminate both the Arboretum's place in history and its increasingly important role in contemporary science. Visitor Education staff will be developing more dynamic ways to share our seasonal highlights in the landscape, the breadth and research use of the living collection, and the rich information resources available through our Horticultural Library, Archives, and institutional publications. Highlighting new technologies, such as our mobile applications that pinpoint and detail each of the Arboretum's more than 15,000 documented plants, offers visitors unprecedented access to our plants and their extensive documentation. In addition, a new schedule for the Visitor Center will increase our open hours during peak visitation periods, keeping the exhibition space and the restrooms open and accessible to the public to more closely match visitation patterns.
In order to facilitate these priorities, the Arboretum will be ceasing retail operations in the Visitor Center by the new year. With the rise of discount booksellers and online retailers, the Arboretum bookstore has operated for several years at a considerable loss. As an institution that operates solely on the return from endowments and the generosity of public support, we have decided to reallocate bookstore funding toward creative and innovative programming more consistent with our educational goals. The Visitor Center will continue to make postcards and maps of our landscape available by donation, and we plan to direct proceeds from these materials to benefit our children's education programs for Boston Public Schools.
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Should Christian women wear pants?
Question: "Should Christian women wear pants?"
Answer: The question about whether Christian women should wear pants or slacks is an issue that is raised about externals when the life of the child of God should rather be about a spiritual relationship based upon our position in Christ as believers. The obedience of a child of God is not measured by what clothing we wear but by our walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:16).
When looking at "doubtful things," we need to use Scripture in context for the principles that will help us walk as believers, which means considering the dispensation and the whole counsel of God and not taking passages out of context. There is a passage in the Old Testament that speaks about a woman wearing men's clothing: "A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing, for the LORD your God detests anyone who does this" (Deuteronomy 22:5). The context of this passage is the second giving of the law to the nation of Israel as they were poised to enter the Promised Land. Deuteronomy 22:5 is an admonition not to live as a transvestite. This has to do with more than just clothing; it also speaks of a life that emulates in every way those of the opposite sex. Transvestitism was a practice of the Canaanites, and Israel was to consider it an abomination. We take a principle from this and apply it to our lives as believers, but we must use it in the context in which it is given and do so in relation to the dispensation of grace.
The Apostle Paul wrote extensively on the difference between the law and grace in Romans. We are not justified by our adherence to the law, but we are justified by faith in Christ (Romans 3:21-28). The believer in Christ Jesus is "dead" to the constraints of the law. "But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code" (Romans 7:6). Therefore, a believer does not live by legalism, nor by license, but rather by grace.
What has that to do with a believing woman wearing pants? There is no biblical law that says what a woman should wear or not wear. Rather, the issue is one of modesty. Paul addresses the modesty of women in his first letter to Timothy. "I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God" (1 Timothy 2:9-10). The Greek word translated modest is kosmios, which occurs twice in the New Testament, once as "modest" in this passage and once as "of good behavior" in 1 Timothy 3:2. It came to mean "well-arranged, seemly, and modest."
The word clothes is the Greek word katastole. The meaning of the word was "to send or to let down or lower." It was primarily a garment that was let down and in that day referred to a stole or a loose outer garment worn by kings and persons of rank. Since we know that Paul was not speaking to people of rank, the context here is simply modest attire, and it does not specify what that entails. Paul addressed this issue here because the women in the church were trying to outdo each other in how they dressed, and the flashier the better. They were losing sight of the things that should adorn a godly woman—humility, sobriety, godliness, and good works. The words "dress modestly" are not used here in the context of specific garments, but rather to being clad in a modest covering. It should not be used to prove a prohibition against wearing pants (also see 1 Peter 3:3-4).
So, the issue is that a woman should wear modest clothing. Whether or not that includes a pair of slacks should be a matter for the woman's own conscience before the LORD. If a woman allows her outward appearance to be the measure of her inward relationship with Christ, she is living under the constraints of legalism. Born-again women are free in Christ to wear whatever modest apparel they choose, and the only judgment they should be under is that of their own conscience. "Everything that does not come from faith is sin" (Romans 14:23). We are not to allow our consciences to be dictated to by legalism and the consciences of others, but by our own relationship with Christ. "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20). God will take care of the outward woman if we walk in obedience in the inward woman.
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This morning, the Large Association of Movie Blogs (The Lamb) released the official list of nominees for this year's edition of their annual movie blogging awards: The Lammys. The LAMB is the premiere movie blogging community on the internet, boasting over 1,500 member blogs. The Lammys are, accordingly, one of the highest honors in movie blogging.
Fogs' Movie Reviews has received nominations in nine separate categories: Most Knowledgeable, Best Blogathon, Best Convention Coverage, Best Podcast, Best Running Feature, Best Reviewer, Best Community Builder, Funniest Writer and Best Blog.
For the second year in a row, it's the most nominations received by any blog (tied this year with The Cinematic Katzenjammer, which also received nine nominations).
I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to those who cast nomination votes on my behalf. It's humbling and gratifying to receive recognition in so many various categories. If you'll click through, I break down my qualifications for each!
Most Knowledgeable
I tend to focus on the humorous side of blogging, but that doesn't necessarily exclude my content from being informative and knowledgeable. Each week in my "Movies That Everyone Should See" series, I hold mini history lessons on great films. And every week, with your help in the Reader's Recommendations series, I'm filling in gaps in my film watching history! FMR is certainly a place where you can learn a thing or two about movies!
Best Blogathon
For the 50th Anniversary of the James Bond film franchise, I decided to hold my first ever Blogathon! Over the course of the five weeks leading up to the release of "Skyfall", 27 bloggers submitted links to 70 different Bond posts. I myself posted several Bond Top Ten lists, Two Movies That Everyone Should See columns ("Casino Royale" and "Dr. No") and a double sized podcast spectacular! It was an excellent tribute the Bond legacy, and I'm proud it's been nominated!
Best Convention Coverage
Last July, I was privileged enough to attend San Diego Comic-Con, the largest pop culture celebration of the year! It's loaded with Movie previews, panels with celebrity guests and tons of opportunities for autographs! I kept everyone at FMR up to speed with frequent posts, tweets and videos! You can easily browse the coverage by scanning through my convention coverage category!
Best Podcast
The (title pending) Movie Podcast with Tank and Fogs is in the middle of its second year and still gets better every episode! Each week, Tank and I bring you the latest in the world of film! From reviews of all the biggest theatrical releases to the box office roundup and a glimpse of what's on the radar, he and I have you covered, with a dash of humor and great chemistry along the way! Give it a listen and see for yourself!
Best Running Feature
80 entries in and still going strong, the "Movies That Everyone Should See" series is the pride of FMR! Each week I take a look at a great movie and break down what makes it so special. From making of stories, to analysis of the films, to looks at their pop culture impact, the MTESS series tries to give you the best read of your week, covering a wide variety of phenomenal movies!
Best Reviewer
Every weekend, I attend every new theatrical release with a wide opening and bring the reviews back here to you, the reader! Whether I shower praises with my trademarked A++ rating, or skewer a terrible movie mercilessly, I tell it like it is for your reading enjoyment! I believe it's my mission to both entertain AND enlighten with my reviews, and I think that the enthusiastic response they receive speaks pretty loudly!
Best Community Builder
I make a serious effort to get around to a number of other blogs, but there's no way to keep up with all the great stuff out there. I do know that the commenting community here, however is second to none. Second to none. Award or no, you folks are the best. If you're new here and would like to get a feel for the participation FMR receives each week, take a look through the comments in the Tossin' It Out There series. Each week, that series of posts gets a phenomenal turnout from a great number of commenters!
Funniest Writer
Whether it's my now infamous Too Much Twilight To Take? Marathon, my Cheese-Tastic Classics, or my recent return to Chick Flick City, I'm always gunning for a laugh here at FMR. Do I always succeed? Hell no. But that's funny too, in its own right. Whether it's pulling an April Fool's joke by giving "The Host" a B+, counting every kill in the "Commando" island shootout scene, or replying to comments using Ron Burgundy pictures, you know you can always count on finding something funny here at FMR!
Best Blog
I'd like to think that being nominated in so many categories is a sign of the popularity and multi-facted appeal of FMR. Leading the field in nominations in my first two years of eligibility is quite an achievement, and should stand as a testament to how highly people think of what I'm doing here. Every new movie is reviewed, I post fun special features, a fantastic podcast, top-notch convention coverage… FMR has something for everyone, and has become a great place to read about and discuss movies on the web.
I hope you'll take these into consideration as you prepare to cast your votes. Voting opens tomorrow (sorry, friends and family, LAMB members only) and runs through the end of the month. It's my hope that this year will be the year where I break my 0-fer streak and win some Lammys. YOU can help. If you frequent the site, and enjoy it, please lend your support and vote for FMR in as many categories as you can see clear to.
THANK YOU again to everyone who nominated the site, it is an incredible honor to be nominated in so many categories, and congratulations to all my fellow nominees!!


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Good grief it just gets worse every time I look at that picture.
It's not just that this was a "close the door and fuggedaboutit" type of room. We had given up on this room. We weren't even shamed into cleaning it when we had company over. Friends? Family? An appraisor? It didn't matter. We never cleaned it.
I guess it took me posting this picture to finally, finally feel shamed enough to exorcise the demons in here.
And I'll tell ya, with how tired I was from the whole "other" house scenario, I am shocked that I got all up on this disaster like I have. Shock. Ed.
First stop? Well, clean it, duh. That was a project all in itself. You do realize that "cleaning", for me at least, is just rearranging the junk to some other place, don't you?
Cabinets. I am so proud to say that I hung this cabinet all by myself. My entire body was shaking as I heaved it up there. It was like Ahnuld. You know the Arnold yell he does in every movie? I'd love to do my re-enactment if you were here for reals. Jeffro does a real good Ahnuld impression, too.
The hubs and I hung the rest together, and when we were finished. . . we nearly cried.
Held each other for a long, long time.
Or we would have if we were that freaking lame. But we're not.
It probably more went something along the lines of "Wow that looks so much better."
And then I smacked his bum and we walked away.
Did you notice that I decided to throw in some left over glass tile up there, too? This whole thing is just snowballing! And don't get excited! It's not going to make a page in Better Homes & Gardens. I'm not promising a beautiful laundry room. I am promising a less embarrassing laundry room. And that is all one can hope for!
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I'm even happy that I've found the tops of the washer 'n dryer, here. I never thought I would see them again. . .
A word on the washer and dryer. Notice that they don't match. Thanks for noticing. Your noticing has been noted. It's a long story, and it has to do with wanting to use up and basically kill that dryer before we replaced it with our other one. And it's about murdered, so I expect it to be traded this week.
Confession: I don't love my front-loading washer. I just don't. Do you love yours? 'Cause next time I buy I'll probably just go with the moldy oldy kind.
Now, let's talk plans of this little laundry room/mudroom of mine.
I solemnly swear that I will keep it clean from NOW ON. And then there needs to be a place for the Iron Maiden to go, too. Because this is a room of torture, isn't it??
Oh, hehe. My mistake. I just assumed.
Pulling up vinyl off the subfloor. This is what I am currently up to. Whole new flooring in here. It'll be a different place. Maybe a little less torture-y. But I highly doubt it.


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Sandra Bullock thanked a lot of people during her Best Actress acceptance speech at the Oscars – including George Clooney.
"The Blind Side" actress offered her kudos to those who have been nice and mean to her throughout her career, lumping Gentleman George in the latter group.
"George Clooney threw me in a pool years ago," she said on the Kodak Theatre stage. "I'm still holding a grudge."
But what was behind the reference?
"It [happened] at a friend's house at a nice formal dinner," she told Access Hollywood's Shaun Robinson on Sunday night at the Governor's Ball, following her big Oscar win. "Need I say more?"
Sandra didn't want to recount the tale though, instead reveling in her post-Oscar glow.
"You need to talk to them," she said, referring to the pool incident, which involved not only George, but Tom Cruise.
In fact, the incident took place in 2000 at Joel Schumacher's birthday.
Sandra told InStyle magazine in 2005 that she was at the "A Time To Kill's" director's birthday party and he didn't' "look happy enough."
And Sandra suggested she cheer up, by telling him, "You're going in the pool, Joel."
George and Tom appeared to get involved, taking off their shirts and shoes and suggesting they would hit the water too. Instead, as the group stood on the pool's edge, it was just Sandra who ended up in.
"I was wearing this little Valentino slip dress that I'd spent way too much on. I went to the edge, Tom on my left, George on my right, and they said, 'One, two, three…' I remember Nicole [Kidman] standing there with a stack of towels – and the fact that Joel was holding a camera should have been a clue," Sandra said at the time. "As I leaped, I remember two masculine hands letting go."
"The pictures are hilarious," Sandra added. "All you see is movie star teeth laughing, and me getting out of the pool like some drowned Yorkie. And Nicole going [stewardess voice], 'Towel?'"
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