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An uptight lawyer (Catherine Keener) in the throes of a divorce takes her teenage kids to stay with her hippie mother (Jane Fonda).
An illuminating documentary that provides a glimpse into the work of the contemporary artist.
Filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering create a stirring portrait of sex abuse in the military.
A drama based on Hong Kong movie producer Roger Lee's final months with his family's long-time servant.
Based on the hit Broadway musical set to '80s hair-band anthems, "Rock of Ages" centers on two young dreamers (Julianne Hough and Diego Boneta) hoping to make it in showbiz.
Director Vikram Gandhi poses as a guru and goes on a spiritual journey of his own.
The cartoon tykes take over Paris.
A narrative ensemble drama about fidelity and the perils of romantic entanglements.
Selena Gomez stars as grade schooler Ramona Quimby's sister in this film adaptation of Beverly Cleary's book.
A French father-and-son food documentary.
The last in a trilogy of Neil Young films is totally unnecessary but not totally awful.
A manic and funny, if ultimately frustrating, sequel to "2 Days in Paris."
A recovering drug addict takes tentative steps out of a rural rehabilitative facility in Joachim Trier's drama.
A sports drama about rowing starring writer-producer Sarah Megan Thomas and James Ban Der Beek.
A look at the final days of Louis XVI's reign through the eyes of a servant.
Veteran documentarian Joe Berlinger investigates a dispute between Texaco and a confederacy of environmentalists, indigenous Ecuadoreans, and lawyers.
Weekend's Desson Howe says, "There isn't a dull or dumb moment in this movie." But Style's Stephen Hunter says, "Like the indestructible Timex watch, it just keeps grinding along, oblivious to its own stupidity and to the giant holes in its plot or even the general staleness of its central conceit."
It's a love triangle -- sort of -- involving a man and two sisters, only one of whom he's slept with. And not the one who's in love with him.
Michael Winterbottom adapts "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" to modern-day India.
Weekend's Michael O'Sullivan says, "While there is much pleasure -- and amusement -- to be derived from watching these two wallflowers blossom in this Oscar-nominated film, there's also something a little too twee about them." Style's Ann Hornaday calls this one "a bighearted audience pleaser."
David Cronenberg's film, starring Robert Pattinson, does a lot of talking.
Set in D.C., musician and piano teacher Simon starts hearing a B note with piercing overtones, and resolves to hunt down the root of the sound.
A lucid documentary highlighting the state of healthcare in the United States.
A weak attempt at satire from Tim Burton and Johnny Depp.
A train wreck of a horror movie.
An ensemble film about a group of friends who summer together every year.
A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults set out to get their hands on it.
Robert De Niro directs this drama about a CIA agent (Matt Damon) and the impact of his work on his family life.
Jack Nicholson is a retiring police chief who promises a distraught mother (Robin Wright Penn) he'll catch the killer of her young daughter. Sean Penn directs.
The tale of returning a painting stolen from its Jewish owners by the Nazis during World War II.
A documentary about Mohamed Nasheed, the first democratically elected president of the Maldives.
An ingenious visual journey into the unconscious.
A documentary about Cape Wind, a plan to place 130 power-generating wind turbines in Nantucket Sound.
A recent college grad (Jesse Eisenberg) takes a job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect way to get him prepared for the real world.
Fassbender plays Carl Jung, who treats a Russian patient played by Knightley and winds up in an intellectual game of cat-and-mouse with Sigmund Freud (Mortensen).
A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing him highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the U.S.
A brash hedge fund trader moves to Hong Kong to work on a deal that spins out of his control.
Matt Damon plays Tom Ripley, a strange individual who becomes obsessed with playboy Dickie Greenleaf.
The animated sequel rehashes the first installment -- minus the elements that made the original "Hoodwinked" so lovable.
Based on the real life "Scopes Monkey Trial" of 1925, this Academy Award nominee features a fundamentalist orator squaring off against a defense attorney whose client is a high school science teacher accused of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution to his students.
After getting dumped by her fiance, a young woman (Greta Gerwig) has a pre-mid-life crisis.
Daniel Craig assumes the role of Bond, James Bond, in the latest installment in the long-running series of spy thrillers.
Finally, 3D technology falls into the hands of a true artist. 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams' is likely to put viewers in an ecstatic trance.
A documentary about the aftermath of 9/11.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - USA Pentathlon now has a full roster for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team as Sam Sacksen (Somerset, Pa./Colorado Springs, Colo.) joins Eli Bremer (Monument, Colo./Colorado Springs, Colo./U.S. Air Force), Sheila Taormina (Livonia, Mich.) and Margaux Isaksen (Fayetteville, Ark./Colorado Springs, Colo.) as a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team that will represent the United States in the sport of modern pentathlon at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
Sacksen received his invitation to the 2008 Olympic Games in the second allocation of Olympic invitations by the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM), the International Governing Body for the sport of modern pentathlon. Sacksen and Dennis Bowsher (Dallas, Texas/Colorado Springs, Colo./U.S. Army) both received Olympic invitations through this second allocation, but as stipulated by UIPM rules for Olympic participation, each NOC can be represented by a maximum of two men and two women. Therefore the U.S. tiebreaker of ranking in World Cup points was instituted and Sacksen earned his first Olympic berth.
Leading the United States Modern Pentathlon Team for a sixth consecutive Olympic Games will be head coach Janusz Peciak (Colorado Springs, Colo.). Peciak won the Olympic gold medal for his home country of Poland in modern pentathlon at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He also competed in the 1972 and 1980 Olympic Games. Peciak will be joined by Michael Cintas (Rancho Mirage, Calif.) who will serve as the riding coach for the team. Cintas has served as the riding coach for the USA Pentathlon Team since 2003, this will be his first year on an Olympic staff. Scott Novack (Colorado Springs, Colo.), the High Performance Manager for USA Pentathlon, will serve as Team Leader.
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Nvidia Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) said in a statement that the world's leading contract semiconductor manufacturer have shipped the millionth processor designed by Nvidia and manufactured by TSMC. In the same note the companies said that TSMC was already producing Nvidia's chips using 65nm process technology.
Nvidia and TSMC began high-volume production in 1998 when Nvidia was developing processors on the 0.35 micron (350nm) technology node. Today, Nvidia still manufactures the vast majority of its processors using TSMC's capacities and "is producing processors on the 65nm node" in TSMC's 300mm fabs, the companies announced, but did not elaborate which chips are made using the new fabrication process.
Usually production of graphics processors begins months before the official unveiling. It is highly likely that chips produced using 65nm production technology will be released to market sometime in early 2007.
TSMC produces most of the GeForce graphics processors and nForce chipsets for Nvidia. Some components are also made by companies like United Microelectronics Corp. or Chartered Semiconductor, but TSMC remains Nvidia's No.1 manufacturing partner. Nvidia tried to use IBM's manufacturing capacities to produce its GeForce 6800-series graphics chips back in 2004, but without much success and decided to stick with TSMC.
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Sound-design conference
Friday, September 7, 2012
International sound-design experts are gathering Sept. 13-16 at St. Cloud State University.
Devotees of a sound-programming environment called Kyma are attending the Kyma International Sound Symposium, known casually as KISS2012.
Invented in 1986 by harpist, researcher and composer Carla Scaletti, Kyma has been used to create sound for film, games, television and music recordings. Notably, sound designers used Kyma to created sounds for the box-office hits "Finding Nemo" and "Wall-E."
Conference topics include:
Conference presenters include Scarletti, "Matrix Reloaded" and "Matrix Revolutions" contributor Greg Hunter and Electronic Music Foundation President Joel Chadabe.
Scott Miller, SCSU professor of composition, electroacoustic music and theory, will present with St. Paul free-improvisation clarinetist Pat O'Keefe.
"KISS2012 will include over 24 hours of technical sessions presented by Kyma experts, nine hours of hands-on labs and evenings filled with live music and live cinema, showcasing some of the most outstanding work created in Kyma this year," according to the conference news release.
Symbolic Sound Corporation, based is Champaign, Ill., manufactures the latest Kyma software-hardware system, called Kyma X.
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What Cars Do Rich People Buy?
BOSTON (TheStreet) -- Call it Drivestyles of the Rich and Famous.
Car-shopping site Edmunds.com recently analyzed buying patterns in the nation's costliest ZIP codes and found America's richest consumers like Jeeps, Mercedes-Benzes and Teslas more than Rolls-Royces or Lamborghinis.
"They're not buying exotic cars, they're not buying Ferraris, they're not buying the most-expensive cars available," Edmunds Senior Analyst Jessica Caldwell says. "They're buying cars that fit their needs rather than just showing off their wealth."
Caldwell, who compiled Edmunds' list by looking at all new-car registrations filed between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31, said America's ultra-rich seem to favor cars that match the areas they live in.
For instance, Californians who live in Silicon Valley's poshest enclaves like the cutting-edge Tesla
"Rich drivers seem to like cars that are cool but practical for the region that they live in," she says. "They don't always seem to go for the top brand, or even for the most-expensive model within a brand like Mercedes."
Click below to check out which cars drivers in America's five costliest ZIP codes have been buying the most this year.
Edmunds generated the list by looking at Polk car-registration data covering communities at the top of Forbes magazine's latest annual America's Most Expensive ZIP Codes rankings. Car prices refer to manufacturer's suggested retail prices for each vehicle's base 2014 version.


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5 years ago, my middle son became a Browns fan.(He is now 13) He used to dig the Jets the most but watching my passion for the Browns on Sundays must have convinced him to switch to the Brown and Orange.
I warned him what he was getting hiumself into. He didnt listen.
The 2nd year of his fandom, he was treated to a stunning 10-6 season. He and I trekked to Cleveland that season and watched our guys down the Texans in a rather easy win. Then the team stumbled ansd missed the playoffs.
Then came the depressing back to earth year followed by the Mangini era.
Today, my son came to me and said he cant wait for Thursday night and the draft. Said it is becoming his favorite time of the football year.
I smiled. He has become a Browns fan!


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Ethics program eyes slavery in Bible
Here's the lineup for next week's "Religion and Ethics Newsweekly" program, to run at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday on KTSC-TV.
"12 Years a Slave" — The powerful movie "12 Years a Slave," based on the true story of a free black man kidnapped and sold into slavery, premieres this weekend.
Deborah Potter interviews the film's director, the lead actor and Princeton Theological Seminary professor Yolanda Pierce on how the Bible was used both to justify slavery and to inspire slaves and abolitionists to work for freedom.
"Lawyers for Justice" — In much of Asia where poverty is widespread, the rule of law is weak, and human rights are only starting to get traction, lawyers generally represent only the rich and powerful.
Lucky Severson reports from Chiang Mai, Thailand, on Bruce Lasky, a New York lawyer who is working with law schools in Southeast Asia to set up pro bono legal clinics to help the poor and disenfranchised there.


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Team USA's swimmers continue to dominate at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. With three days remaining of competition, the United States leads the medal standings with nine golds and 20 overall medals. U.S. Olympians will be around the world competing in other major events, including volleyball, rowing and wrestling, and some winter sports athletes are gearing up for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games in ski jumping and bobsled action. Read all about Team USA's stars in this week's edition of the Team USA Weekend Preview.
FINA World Championships, July 28-Aug. 4, Barcelona, Spain
Missy Franklin, a four-time gold medalist at the London 2012 Olympic Games, has already won gold four times at the 15th FINA World Championships this week in Barcelona. She still has three events remaining, including the women's 100-meter freestyle finals Friday night.
Thursday night, she combined with another young American star, Katie Ledecky, and two other swimmers to win gold in the 800 freestyle relay. It was Ledecky's third gold at worlds. Including a win in the 800 free at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Ledecky is unbeaten in four career international races.
"It was my first relay on a U.S. team, so it just meant a lot to get up and race with three other girls behind me," Ledecky said after winning gold with Franklin, Shannon Vreeland and Karlee Bispo. The United States was one second down when Franklin started the anchor leg; she won by two body lengths. The winning time was 7:45.14.
Earlier this week, Ledecky won the women's 400 free in American-record time and the 1500 free in a world-record time of 15:36.53.
Ryan Lochte also earned gold, winning the men's 200 IM in 1:54.98. He will compete for another gold Friday night in the 200 back and will face competition from American Tyler Clary. Micah Lawrence will compete in the final of the women's 200 breaststroke Friday.
TV: 1 p.m.-3 p.m. ET Saturday and 4 p.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, NBC; 9 p.m.-11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Universal Sports
U.S. Open, July 30-Aug. 3, Irvine, Calif.
Tom Shields, a multiple NCAA champion from the University of California-Berkeley, won gold in the men's 100-meter butterfly with one of the world's fastest times Thursday at the U.S. Open. Shields' time of 51.65 seconds set a U.S. Open record and was the fourth-fastest time in the world this year.
Also winning Thursday was Felicia Lee in the women's 100 fly. The meet continues through Saturday, and includes 2012 Olympian Scott Weltz, who won the men's 200 breaststroke Wednesday in meet-record time.
Also in swimming:
Speedo Junior National Championships, Aug. 5-9, Irvine, Calif.
FINA World Championships, July 20-Aug. 4, Barcelona, Spain
The USA Women's National Team will play Greece for fifth place Friday. The United States defeated Netherlands 12-11 on Wednesday to grab a spot in the fifth-place game.
The U.S. men did not qualify for the playoff round of the competition. They were eliminated in a 10-6 loss to Spain this past Sunday.
Also in water polo:
Junior Olympics, July 27-Aug. 4, Orange County, Calif.
FIVB World Grand Prix, Aug. 2-18, Campinas, Brazil
The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team, ranked No. 1 in the world, will begin defense of its FIVB World Grand Prix title Friday with a match against Russia. The road to a fourth consecutive championship includes three weekends of preliminary-round play in three continents before the final round begins Aug. 28 in Japan.
After the opener Friday, the United States will play Poland Saturday and Brazil Sunday.
"Here in Brazil, we have a really tough pool and we have our work cut out for us," U.S. coach Karch Kiraly said. "Russia is one of the world's great teams. Poland plays some really strong volleyball. They beat us a couple of years ago when they hosted a leg of World Grand Prix, and we barely beat them later that year in the Final Round of the World Grand Prix. Poland is always very dangerous and they were contending for an Olympic berth in the European zone. And, of course, we have our work cut out for us playing Brazil on Brazilian soil. I think it is a great way to start out the World Grand Prix."
Olympians on the U.S. roster include five-time Olympian Danielle Scott, two-time Olympian Nicole Davis, and 2012 Olympic silver medalists Christa Harmotto, Tama Miyashiro and Courtney Thompson. Kiraly can activate 14 players from the 22-player U.S. roster for each weekend and 12 players for each match.
Webcast: 3:30 p.m. ET Friday, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. Sunday, universalsports.com
FIVB Girls' U18 World Championship, July 26-Aug. 4, Nakhom Ratchasima, Thailand
The U.S. Girls' Youth National Volleyball Team advanced to the quarterfinals of the FIVB Girls' U18 World Championship with a 25-19, 25-11, 25-17 win over Chinese Taipei. Team USA was to face Poland in the quarterfinals Friday.
Mikaela Foecke led the United States with 16 points (10 kills) in the win over Chinese Taipei. The semifinals will be played Saturday, followed by the medal round Sunday.
Senior World Championship Trials, Aug. 4-7, West Windsor, N.J.
The final spots on the U.S. world championship team will be determined by results in the USRowing Senior World Championship Trials. Competition among 42 crews begins Sunday on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J.
The winning crew in each of 12 events will gain nomination to the world team. The events are: men's and women's lightweight single sculls, men's single sculls, men's double sculls, men's lightweight double sculls, men's pair, men's pair with coxswain, men's lightweight pair, men's and women's lightweight quadruple sculls, women's four, men's lightweight eight. Already nominated to the team are 36 athletes, including 18 with Olympic experience. The World Rowing Championships begin Aug. 25 in South Korea.
USA Wrestling Women's World Team Wrestle-Off, Aug. 3, Colorado Springs, Colo.
The three remaining spots on the U.S. World Team will be determined Saturday at a wrestle-off among the three non-Olympic weight classes. The World Team Wrestle-Off will be held at Palmer High School in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Jessica Medina clinched a spot in the final of the 51 kilograms/112.25 pounds weight class because she won the U.S. Open championship earlier this year. Also in the finals through their U.S. Open titles are Alli Ragan at 59kg/130 and Veronica Carlson at 67kg/147.5. The remainder of the wrestlers will compete for a spot in the finals through the challenge tournament Saturday morning.
The winners of the three weight classes will join the USA Wrestling World Team at the FILA World Wrestling Championships in September in Budapest, Hungary.
Also in wrestling:
Wladyslaw Pytlasinski's Memorial, Greco-Roman, Aug. 3-4, Warsaw, Poland
Stepan Sargsyan, men's freestyle, Aug. 3-4, Vanadzor, Armenia
USA Shooting Shotgun National Championships, July 25-Aug. 3, Fort Carson, Colo.
Five-time Olympic medalist Kim Rhode will be among those seeking spots on the national team at the USA Shooting Shotgun National Championships. Rhode, who gave birth to a son, Carter, in May, has not competed since winning gold at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
"It feels good to be back into the routine of things," Rhode said. "Carter has brought a lot of exciting changes since I last competed, but it feels great to be behind the gun and working towards new goals and opportunities."
Before Rhode begins her shooting in the women's skeet, the nationals begin this weekend with the men's and women's trap. Ashley Carroll has climbed to the top of the U.S. trap rankings at age 18, but will be challenged by Olympic bronze medalist Corey Cogdell and two-time national champion Rachael Heiden. Brian Burrows, Matt Gossett and John Mullins are the top contenders in men's trap.
USA Cycling Gravity Mountain Bike National Championships, Aug. 2-4, Angel Fire, N.M.
Luca Shaw, who placed fifth in junior men's downhill at the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Andorra, and Jill Kintner, an eighth-place finisher in elite women, will be among hundreds of cyclists racing for Stars-and-Stripes jerseys at the USA Cycling Gravity Mountain Bike National Championships.
The competition will take place at the Angel Fire Resort in northern New Mexico. The downhill races begin at 10,500 feet above sea level and descend nearly 2,000 feet along the 2.5-mile course. Downhill qualifying will be Saturday, followed by the finals Sunday. Racing in other events begins Friday.
Also in cycling:
USA Cycling Masters Track National Championships, July 30-Aug. 4, Indy Cycloplex, Indianapolis, Ind.
Tour of Elk Grove, USA Cycling National Racing Calendar (NRC), women's points race, Aug. 2-4, Elk Grove, Ill.
Specialized Catamount Classic, USA Cycling Pro XCT, Aug. 3-4, Williston, Vt.
USA Bobsled National Push Championships, Aug. 1-3, Calgary, Canada
Chris Fogt defeated 2010 Olympic teammate Steve Langton for the men's national push championship Thursday and Aja Evans won her second consecutive title in Calgary, Canada. Langton was the four-time defending national push champion.
Both Fogt and Langton set Calgary Ice House records, Fogt setting his record with the fastest push from the brakes and Langton setting a record from the right side.
"The U.S. team now owns the Canadian Ice House track record from the right side, left side and brakes," U.S. coach Brian Shimer said. "This is going to be a special year. It feels pretty good to be the coach of such a talented team."
Drivers will compete from the driver push bar Friday. Coaches will select driver-push athlete combinations from a series of race-offs Saturday. Results from the Push Championships are a part of the determination for roster spots on the national and Olympic teams.
A former sprinter in track in college, women's champion Evans had a perfect score in the combine test Tuesday. Katie Eberling, a two-time world medalist and the 2011 national push champion, finished runner-up to Evans. Lauryn Williams, a track star who earned a silver medal in the 100-meter run at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games and a gold medalist in the 4 x 100 relay in London, placed third. Among the other top finishers was Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones, who placed fifth.
U.S. Ski Jumping Championships, Aug. 4, Park City, Utah
World champion Sarah Hendrickson is expected to compete in the U.S. Large Hill Ski Jumping Championships Sunday at Utah Olympic Park in Park City. She skipped the event last year while recovering from knee surgery. Jessica Jerome is the defending women's champion and Peter Frenette is the men's champion. The normal hill championships will take place in October in Lake Placid, N.Y.
"Just because it's an Olympic year does not make me want to win any more," Jerome said. "I always aim to win. It will be interesting to see what happens this year. I know Lindsey (Van) and Sarah (Hendrickson) are really great fliers, and Alissa (Johnson) and Abby (Hughes) have made some strong improvements this summer, so it will definitely be a fun competition."
ICF Junior/U-23 Sprint World Championships, Aug. 1-4, Welland, Ont., Canada
Chris Miller and Stanton Collins advanced to the B finals of the men's 1,000-meter two-man kayak race, one of three U.S. crews to reach the B finals at the ICF Junior/U-23 Sprint World Championships.
Miller and Collins are among 21 U.S. paddlers competing this weekend at the sprint worlds. More than 70 nations are at the competition, which features a U-23 division for the first time and is also a qualifier for the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games.
Ian Ross also advanced to the finals in men's canoe by placing third in his 1,000-meter heat and fourth in the semifinals. The junior K-2 team of Istvan Urban and Dylan Puckett also reached the finals after an eighth-place finish in the 1,000-meter semifinals.
COPABE AA 15U Pan American Championships, July 26-Aug. 4, Barranquilla, Colombia
The USA Baseball 15U National Team won its first five games in the COPABE "AA" 15U Pan American Championships, including 11-9 over Cuba on Thursday. Team USA will play Brazil on Friday in its final preliminary round game.
In Thursday's game, Team USA overcame a four-run deficit and scored six runs after two were out in the sixth inning. A two-run triple by Christian Moya put the United States in front. The victory clinched a No. 1 seed in the semifinals.
USA Triathlon Youth and Junior National Championships, Aug. 3-4, West Chester, Ohio
Tamara Gorman and Tony Smoragiewicz, who both won titles at the PATCO Junior Championships in Brazil, will be among more than 250 junior and youth elite athletes competing Saturday in the USA Triathlon Youth and Junior National Championships. The results will determine some roster spots for the Junior World Championship Team. Gorman earned a bronze at the 2012 ITU Junior World Championships.
The races will be held at Voice of America Park in West Chester, Ohio. Age-group national championship races and draft-legal team relays will be held Sunday.
Also in triathlon:
USA Triathlon Aquathon National Championship, Lake Logan Aquathlon, Aug. 3-4, Canton, N.C.
Boston Triathlon, Aug. 4, South Boston, Mass.
CSIO5* and CSIO3* Hickstead, FEI Nations Cup of Great Britain, Aug. 2-4, Hickstead, England
Richard Spooner and London Olympian Reed Kessler helped the U.S. Jumping Team grab two of the top three positions on the first day of the Nations Cup CSIO5* Hickstead in England. Riding Let's Dance 46, Spooner placed second in the opening speed class behind Great Britain's Guy Williams. Two-time Olympic gold medalists Beezie Madden and McLain Ward and Katie Dinan are also competing for the United States. Nations Cup qualifying begins Friday.
U.S. Dressage Team members competing in the CSIO3* Nations Cup competition are Shelly Francis, Arlene Page, Kathleen Raine and Guenter Seidel. David Blake will ride in the Grand Prix event. Katherine Bateson-Chandler and Francis will compete in the Small Tour. The Nations Cup team title will be determined by Sunday's freestyle event. The Hickstead competition includes the top horse-rider combinations in the world.
FEI Nations Cup, Aug. 1-4, Bratislava, Slovakia
Five U.S. riders are representing the United States at the CSIO3* Bratislava, an FEI Nations Cup competition in Slovakia. The riders are: Kirsten Coe, aboard Calypso; Meagan Nusz, aboard Dynamo; Catherine Pasmore, aboard Bonanza Van Paemel and Zaragosa; Quentin Judge, aboard HH Dark de la Hart; Paige Johnson, aboard Dakota. Coe is a two-time FEI World Cup finalist.
USA Basketball 3x3 National Championship, Aug. 2-4, Colorado Springs, Colo.
The second annual USA Basketball 3x3 National Championship will feature 13 men's teams and five women's teams. It will be played Friday through Sunday at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. The men's and women's winners gain an automatic bid to the 2014 tournament, which will be a qualifier for the 2014 FIBA 3x3 World Championship.
Junior World Cup, July 27-Aug. 4, Monchengladbach, Germany
The USA Field Hockey U-21 National Team was to play Australia in a 5th-8th placement game Friday at the Junior World Cup in Monchengladbach, Germany. The United States won two of three games in pool play, but was knocked out of contention for a medal by Thursday's 2-0 loss to Argentina.
Women's Nations Cup, July 30-Aug. 10, Greeley, Colo.
The USA Rugby Women's Eagles will face Canada Saturday in their second game of the Women's Nations Cup in Greeley, Colo. The United States began the tournament Tuesday with a 35-22 win against South Africa. Hope Rogers, Emilie Bydwell, Ashley Kmiecik, Sylvia Braaten and Shaina Turley each had tries for the United States.
The United States will close out preliminary-round play Wednesday against England. The tournament is being played at the University of Northern Colorado.
USA Diving Age Group and Junior National Championships, July 31-Aug. 10, Minneapolis
The USA Diving Age Group National Championships winds up Friday in Minneapolis. The Junior National Championships begin Sunday. The nationals include an estimated 500 junior-age divers.
U.S. Women's National Team playoff, July 31-Aug. 2, Stamford, Conn.
The final round of action in a four-person round-robin playoff was to be held Friday at Chelsea Piers in Stamford, Conn. The playoff was to determine the third and fourth positions on the U.S. Women's National Team. The four in the playoff are Kristen Lange, ranked No. 55 in the world; Sabrina Sobhy, world ranking No. 69 and a quarterfinalist at the 2013 Junior World Championships; Olivia Blatchford, world ranking No. 65; and Cecelia Cortes, world ranking No. 100.
In Friday's matches, Lange faces Blatchford and Sobhy plays Cortes.
Figure Skating National Championships, July 21-Aug. 4, Albuquerque
The final weekend of competition in the USA Roller Sports Figure Skating National Championships comes to a close Sunday at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
World Games, July 25-Aug. 4, Cali, Colombia
The World Games is a multisport competition that was first held in 1981 in Santa Clara, Calif., and features a variety of indoor and outdoor sports, ranging from bowling to wushu to tug of war. Currently, Italy leads the medal table with 45 overall (17 gold). The United States has earned nine gold medals and 15 medals overall and ranks sixth. Here are some of the highlights from the World Games, which conclude Sunday.
Canoe/kayak: The U.S. Women's National Kayak Team will compete Friday and Saturday in the canoe polo championships. The United States will compete against five teams in a round-robin format before playing for the final ranking. Members of the team are: Marijo Bosiljevac, Kim Parker, April Romeo, Giselle Nguyen, Mary Ann King, Jacquelyn Gonzales, Molly Cummings, Katie Homann.
Archery: Erika Jones won gold in women's compound and Reo Wilde won gold in men's compound. Two-time Olympian Brady Ellison earned silver in men's recurve Thursday.
Bowling: Mike Fagan and Kelly Kulick combined in mixed doubles to win the first U.S. bowling gold in World Games history Thursday. Fagan and Kulick defeated Canada, 905-871, in the two-game final. Scores from mixed doubles carries into the qualifying games in men's and women's singles Friday. The top 10 men and top 10 women after 18 games advance to round-robin competition Sunday, followed by the stepladder finals.
Squash: Chris Gordon and Julian Illingworth, the top two players on the U.S. Men's National Team, begin play Friday in the three-day tournament. Illingworth, ranked No. 35 in the world, was to face No. 27 Ryan Cuskelly in his first-round match.
Story courtesy Red Line Editorial, Inc. Paul D. Bowker is a freelance contributor for TeamUSA.org. This story was not subject to the approval of any National Governing Bodies.


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Hey everyone. I've search for a long while about this topic but didn't find an answer, so here goes:
I'm creating my own custom emai template to be used in Outlook 2003. I've created 3 tables all of the same width. One as a header (with an image centered) another as the body and the last as a footer with a custom signature and 2 graphics linked to my FB & Twitter pages. I'm almost completed but there are two nagging problems:
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Thanks in advance. I really appreciate your efforts.
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Albert Lund will tell you first-hand: It's a bug-eat-bug world out there. He learned the lesson early in life from a first-generation naturalist, his late father Horace Lund, former head of entomology at the University of Georgia. The pair spent many weekends hiking and camping in favorite spots such as North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest. They'd head in different directions, collect insects for hours, and then reunite at "base camp" for microscopic looks at their finds and discussions of each insect's adaptations. "Dad taught me the power of observation and the ability to train my eye to see what others don't see," Lund says. "It's a real jungle out there, and a fascinating, natural drama is always unfolding." Through his father's eyes, Lund learned to appreciate not only nature's panoramic beauty—mountain meadows and deciduous forests—but also intricate snapshots of the natural world—a beetle's tenacious fight against an anthill or a shrew's rapid respiration rate, a stress reaction to its low level on the food chain. "In many ways, Dad's interest in nature started me in biology and led me to entomology," he says. Avid campers, Lund and his wife Rea, also an entomologist and Purdue graduate, have passed on the powers of natural observation to their sons, Timothy and Wesley. And, as was true decades ago, father and sons have recorded memorable adventures. "There was a hurricane off the East Coast the same weekend Timothy and I were camping in West Virginia," Lund recalls. "The storm was predicted to move out to sea, but instead it changed direction, backed up, and dumped torrential rain on West Virginia. We spent the whole time bushwhacking over steep terrain to avoid the rising rivers. "In general, I prefer a much less athletic approach to the outdoors!" 1972 B.S., Entomology, University of Georgia 1974 M.S., Entomology (Physiology), Purdue University 1974 Pi Kappa Phi, Purdue University 1975-1977 David Ross Research Fellow, Purdue University 1978 Ph.D., Entomology (Physiology-Toxicology), Purdue University 1978 Grass Research Fellow, Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole 1978-1980 Post-doctorate, Neuropharmacology, Northwestern University Medical School 1978-1980 NIH National Research Service Award, Northwestern University Medical School 1980-1983 Research Biologist, DuPont 1983-1984 Group Leader, DuPont 1984-1987 Research Supervisor, DuPont 1987-1989 Supervisor, Insect Control Group of Discovery, DuPont 1989-1991 Network Plans Manager, DuPont 1991-1993 Research Manager, DuPont 1993-1999 Insecticide Technology Manager, DuPont 1999-present Manager, Research and Development Asia- Pacific, DuPont 2002 Agriculture & Nutrition Research Accomplishment Award, E.I. DuPont de Nemours "Professors and mentors at Purdue demonstrated the power of a disciplined scientific thought process. From these masters, I learned to frame and approach research problems and to thoroughly enjoy hunting for the truth behind the problem."
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S&P 500 Is Little Changed, Hovering Near 5-Year High
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Major U.S. stock averages were little changed during a volatile session on Friday as financial stocks were big drag after Wells Fargo (WFC) kicked off bank earnings with mixed results.
Policy news was also mixed Friday with China's faster-than-expected inflation pointing to a smaller chance of stimulus from the world's second-largest economy. Meanwhile, the U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly deteriorated.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 17 points, or 0.13%, to 13,488. The index added 0.4% for the week.
Breadth was even on the blue-chip index. The sharpest percentage decliners were Boeing(BA) , Hewlett-Packard(HPQ) , Bank of America (BAC) and Pfizer(PFE)
Boeing shares fell Friday as the Federal Aviation Administration prepared to review the design, manufacture and assembly of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Boeing's Dreamliner suffered a series of mishaps this week. Shares tumbled 1.9%.
Blue-chip gainers included Chevron(CVX) , Merck(MRK) and Microsoft(MSFT)
Chevron shares rose 1.1% after the company said Thursday that fourth-quarter earnings would be "notably higher" than third-quarter profit, getting a lift from bigger gains on asset sales and more oil and gas production.
American Express (AXP) shares edged higher by 0.7%. The global-payments company said Thursday it was cutting 5,400 jobs, or about 8.5% of its workforce, and would take fourth-quarter restructuring charges of $742 million.
The S&P 500 closed down incrementally at 1,472 after soaring to a five-year high Thursday. The S&P gained 0.4% in the week's five trading sessions. The Nasdaq settled down 4 points, or 0.1%, to 3,126. The tech-heavy index climbed 0.8% for the week.
The biggest sector decliners in the broad market Friday were basic materials, capital goods and financials. Technology shares led industries trading higher.
Volumes totaled 3.33 billion on the New York Stock Exchange and 1.77 billion on the Nasdaq. Advancers overtook decliners by a small 1.1-to-1 ratio on the Big Board and incrementally on the Nasdaq.
The major indices remained in the green for the week.
"We think we can probably move up another couple percent," said Mark Newton, Greywolf chief technical analyst, of the short-term market action. "We are certainly starting to get stress on a lot of the indices, but it still looks a little early to sell into this."
Wells Fargo reported better-than-expected earnings of $5.1 billion on revenue of $21.9 billion, beating adjusted estimates of $4.82 billion and $21.3 billion, respectively. However, the net interest margin narrowed 10 basis points , missing some estimates. Shares fell 0.9%.
The Census Bureau reported Friday that the U.S. trade deficit widened to $48.7 billion in November from a revised $42.1 billion in October. The prior October deficit estimate was $42.2 billion.
Economists, on average, were expecting a deficit of $41.3 billion for November.


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Industrial poultry production and reemerging avian flu
By Emily Gilbert
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), there are alarming signs that a new mutant strain of the avian flu, or H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, is spreading in Asia and beyond. H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) is a potentially devastating virus, associated with a high mortality rate and high economic losses. HPAI viruses can jump species barriers and infect humans, becoming a potential source of a future pandemic.
Although wild birds and small-scale poultry production have been blamed for the spread of avian flu, recent research conducted by Tour du Valat, a Mediterranean wetland conservation research center, has found that when the avian flu virus infects poultry, not wild bird species, it mutates into the highly pathogenic strains of the flu . These findings are supported by separate research on outbreaks in Nigeria and Thailand, which found that human agricultural activity and industrial poultry production, or factory farming, are major sources of the global spread of the avian flu.
After a 2002 bird flu outbreak in Chile, a study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases identified poultry as the primary species in which the more highly pathogenic strains evolved. A separate study produced in part by the Joint Influenza Research Centre at Hong Kong University found that, "transmission within poultry is the major mechanism for sustaining H5N1 virus endemicity in this region." Interestingly, in the Southeast Asian countries where most of the bird flu outbreaks are concentrated, including Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam, poultry production grew eightfold over the last three decades, from around 300,000 metric tonnes of meat produced in 1971 to 2,440,000 metric tonnes in 2001. In China where the H5N1 virus has also spread, poultry production tripled during the 1990s, with 15 billion ducks, geese and chickens raised in 2004.


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July 11, 2005 WIC Update
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SUBJECT: Vendor Training open to LWP Vendor Coordinator (Attachment #2 & #3)
SUBJECT: New e-mail addresses for State WIC office staff and Public Health Departments
SUBJECT: August is Immunization Awareness Month
- Attached is a listing of extra supplies of formulas located in different LWPs. If you are in need of any of the formula for a WIC participant in your L WP, please contact the person that is listed.
- The WIC Vendor Group would like to extend an invitation to the Local WIC Providers to attend the upcoming Annual WIC Vendor Training. Training sessions will be held at the district level across the state throughout the month of August, 2005. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend if you would like to learn more about the role of the Local WIC Provider, the responsibilities of the retail vendor, the approved food list (going into effect October 1, 2005) and other important inf ormation regarding WIC Vendors. A copy of the scheduled training dates, times and locations has been attached. Training date preferences will be made based upon a first com e basis so make your reservation early. Reservations need to be received by the state WIC office by 5 pm on July 18. To register, please email your name, your local WIC provider location, and your preferred training date, location and time to firstname.lastname@example.com. Suggestion: You may want to choose more than one date, time and location just in case your first preference is not available.
- The e-mail addresses have changed for the state WIC office staff and also for the local public health agencies (LPHAs). The e-mail address for users of the LPHA email system was changed from 'email@example.com' to 'email@example.com'. This change was mandatory. As of June 27, 2005, the DHSS computer system no longer accepts any email addresses ending with "@lpha.health.state.mo.us". Any email addressed using the "@lpha.health.state .mo.us" suffix will be bounced back to the sender with an undeliverable message. The change has already been reflected in the Novell Address Book. If you have LPHA users listed in Frequent contacts, you will need to delete the old addresses from there. If you have LPHA addresses in personal groups, you might need to reselect them from the Novell Address Book with the new address.
The State WIC office e-mail addresses for employees have also been changed. The Office of Information Systems (OIS) modified the GroupWise email system to use the firstname.lastname@example.com email format.
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These are the ones I found in my picture archive, probably 2-5 guns are unaccounted for and not on this list.
Thye're not in order, but I put a guess on when I owned it on each picture.
Let's start with all my Egos
The most goregous of them all, the SL8R
Here's my last Ego, I had this for a few months then traded it for a Geo3.
My old Ego11, which I bought and traded this month.
And the Dynasty Ego11 I bought brand new back in early 2011.
Here is a Ego9 I had for a very brief time in 2010.
And of course the good ol' Ego 5 ot 6 or whatever I had something in between 2008 and 2009.
Let's not forget these SL74s I had in 2009, yes there are two different guns.
And here's an Etek3 I got late 2011, no idea why I got that though.
There's a nother Ego9 coming later in a "collection" picture and there's an Etek2 I never took a pocture of.
While we're talking Eclipse, let's watch all my Geos
Here's my latest addition, a black Geo3.
My pride and joy, the "blue poop" Geo2. Used it the 2011 season and I fucking loved it.(sold it due to money issues)
Yes, I had more geo2s, here's a random black one I owned late 2010.
Traded that for this Geo2, which I sold off in late 2010.
But wait! I've had a couple Geos too! Both from that 2010 eara I believe. One of them might be 2009.
Heyho! That's it for Eclipse now, let's move onto Dye.
A Dye DM11, feels like an NT in the hands but shoots like a DM. Pretty damn close to perfect this is.
Here's a DM8 I think I had for two days in 2010.
Another DM! This time a 2007 model I also had in 2010.
Damn, I had another one of these, a DM6 from 2009.
And then you have the DM9 I had in 2010, GREAT fucking marker. I loved it and regred the day I sold it(As I did with that Geo2)
And here is that dark era from late 2009 to early 2010. This piece of shit thing called the NT.
I think we're done with Dye. Let's move on to Bob Long.
Here's a G6R I regretfully bought new right after it came out. Took me 6 months to actually get it. Thing wasn't that good either. Wasn't this in late 2010/Early 2011?
(Please ignore that hideous red thing in the background)
And I owned a Closer Marq in 2009, this thing loved to give me wierd issues.
I also owned a glorious Ripper 2 Alias 2009, pretty cool thing, but there was, as always, wierd issues with it.
Here's another pair of Timmies from late 2008 or early 2009 that gave me wierd issues.
This is my old Darq Marq from 2009, the only Bob Long marker that never fucked up. I miss it, a lot.
And here's that collection picture I was talking about, from early 2009.
Another Darq Marq, a NXT Shocker, another Ego9 and those two aliases I had.
Oh wait! I almost forgot, I had another Vice. Also being a total bich usually.
And we're done with Bob. Let's pick out these random ones I've owned.
Empire Axe I had from Saturday morning to Monday night.
DLX Luxe, pretty good shooter if you ask me. Kind of like a Shocker. 2010
Here's a Russian Legion Clone I had in late 2010. Feedneck loved falling off in dives.
Yes I had a 2009 Impulse, Almost never worked and teh feedneck snapped off the body. Also 2010.
Hey! I had a Vanguard AR-V Creed, except for the solinoid leak, this thing was great. Also 2010.
Here's an Angel A1 FLy, went back and fourch between me and a buddy in 2009 and 2010.
I also had a DP G3 SE in late 2009 or early 2010. That thing never shot great. Ever.
A couple olf impulses I still got, but I got them in 2009.
What even is this? WGP something, trilogy I think. 2009.
WGP SR I bought for $30 in 2009 and sold for a consideralble amount more a couple days back.
What the fuck is this? Old cocker from '97 I belive. Had it in 2009 at least.
And last, but not even close to least, my glorious, beautiful, awesome Shocktech SFT Shocker. Got it in late 2010 and still have it.
That was it for the pictures, but there's more!
I had a DP G3 that always broke paint in 2008. Also had a Etek2 in 2008, sold that to whoever.
In 2007 I had a couple BT-4 Combats, yeey. And in late 2007/early 2008 I got a BT-4 Delta. Ooh, that was pretty fucking terrible.
And let's not forget the time I shot a Tippmann A5. Suprisinlgy good marker actually. I had a PMR as well.
Then you have my ions, the total three of them, one normal, a "Dynasty" one and an Empiphany. All were Ions, shot when they shot and that was it.
Let's count, 51 of them it seems, probably missing out on some of them too.
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Topic: Modeling authentication and users
My application requires 4 different kinds of actors:
- Proband
- Manager
- CCOperator
- Administrator
The only thing that they have in common is that they are human beings who want to use my applications. Their properties, associated objects and related business logic is totally different.
The application consists of four major 'subapplications':
- The b2c application (for probands)
- The b2b application (for managers)
- The ccconsole (for ccoperators)
- The admin console (for administrators)
As these subapplications share the same model and some business logic as long as other resources, it seems natural to implement all three 'subapplications' as part of a single Rails application.
The question is now, how should I efficiently separate authentication. Collapsing all my actors into one model hierarchy seems awkward, as they don't have too much in common. Separating them as first class objects complicates authentication and violates the DRY principle.
What are your ideas ?


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (95 votes).
In short: well organised my 1st 10kDate of review: December 8, 2008
In short: loved itIn full: this was my first ever race, was fantasticDate of review: October 17, 2008
In short: Good EventDate of review: August 31, 2008
In short: A great race with great atmosphere!! definitely doing it again.Date of review: August 10, 2008
In short: loved itIn full: excellent race Date of review: August 10, 2008
In short: Good fun race for runners of all abilities. Very well organised, though a few more portaloos would have been good! Date of review: August 10, 2008
In short: Brilliantly organised for such a large event and a great atmosphere around the start and finishDate of review: August 10, 2008
In short: Great first race, definitely do it again and reccommend.In full: This was my first ever 10K and I was a bit apprehensive beforehand about what the standard would be like. It was a really well organised event and I enjoyed it. Mostly flat course, only one small hill that I can remember. Plenty of support around the course to keep you motivated and well marshalled. Free lucozade and water as well as medal and stuff at the end.Date of review: August 7, 2008
In short: Great day out and even got a PB!In full: This race was very well organised and worth the extra dosh for entry. Great weather and a great day out and even with 11,000+ runners I managed to get a PB.Date of review: August 4, 2008
In short: One of the better big racesIn full: Well done to the race organisers. Often the big races with large fields forget the basics, but this was well catered for. I liked the attempt to put runners in the correct time bands, which worked well. You still found people towards the front walking before you got to the 2K mark (get real these people). Like most big races I found I spent most of the first 7k weaving through the slow runners, but not as bad as most other big 10k runs. Nice t-shirt too!Date of review: July 28, 2008
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Looks good, John. From the pictures it looks like some little flecks of corn meal or something on the bottom of the crust. Is there any? And no oil to give it another dimension or flavor. Simple recipe and I'll have to try it sometime. What kind of sausage did you use? Tom Lehmann had always advised, tho, not to mix the salt with the yeast as it can adversely affect the yeast. I think Tom has a preference for ADY like I do and you have to let it develop and foam up a while first before adding in the other ingredients, esp. salt. But we learn new things everyday. --BTB
Looks good John. Now here is a style I've yet to try and know nothing about. Looks like I'll have to try soon just to say I did as well.


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Landis, John
John Landis 1950–
American film director and screenwriter.
Landis is noted for zany comedies that poke fun at contemporary culture. Containing a combination of slapstick, sight gags, and satire, Landis's films effectively convey his sense of the absurd. Landis first gained critical attention as a director for The Kentucky Fried Movie. This film, similar to Ken Shapiro's The Groove Tube, consists of fast-paced vignettes that parody commercial television, sex education courses, and such film genres as the martial arts and the Blaxploitation movies produced during the early 1970s.
National Lampoon's Animal House was an enormously popular film that greatly advanced Landis's career. Primarily a satire on collegiate life, Animal House is a direct assault on authority and self-imposed stratification of social fraternities. Landis's next film, The Blues Brothers, which he wrote with comedian Dan Aykroyd, is a rhythm-and-blues musical whose epic structure has been compared to the MGM musicals of the Depression era. An American Werewolf in London is a spoof of the werewolf films popular during the 1930s and 1940s. Although this film contains many of the same comic elements used in Landis's earlier work, it is noted also for its realistic special effects.
Because of the tone of his films, Landis's work is considered buffoonery by some critics. However, Landis insists that his work contains serious social commentary, claiming that "all movies are political, no matter how silly they are."
Lawrence Van Gelder
Anyone interested in the condition of humor and wit in the United States stands likely to come away depressed from "The Kentucky Fried Movie."… "The Kentucky Fried Movie" is in the tradition of "The Groove Tube" and "Tunnelvision." The range of its satire and comedy, as displayed in 22 segments running from a minute or two up to 30 minutes, is fairly narrow.
Television is both an inspiration and a preoccupation, with commercials, news shows, early morning talk-news shows, talk shows and 50's-style courtroom dramas all serving as targets.
Movies come next. "Cleopatra Schwartz," dealing with the love of a black superwoman and a Hasidic rabbi, is this movie's comment on black exploitation films.
Disaster movies, soft-core pornographic movies and martial-arts films are also the focus of a mordancy that gives the impression—particularly in the 30-minute martial-arts segment—of being undercut by the maker's affection for the original genre. Sex records and charity appeals are also inspirations for efforts at humor in this 86-minute film, which seems at least twice as long….
Television is at once this movie's nourishment and onus. The caliber of television wit and humor has never been uniformly high, and comedy derived from it is likely to have difficulty surmounting such humble origins. It is little wonder, then, that "The Kentucky Fried Movie," being freed from the restraints of television, though not from its inherent defects, occasionally descends into juvenile tastelessness (a dignified woman using four-letter words; a board game built around the assassination of President Kennedy; a charity appeal involving a child's corpse)….
Lots of people will probably like "The Kentucky Fried Movie," just as they like Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonald's hamburgers. But popularity is still no reason for deifying mediocrity.
Lawrence Van Gelder, "'Kentucky Fried' a Yolky Film," in The New York Times (© 1977 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), August 11, 1977, p. C14.
Richard Schickel
The Kentucky Fried Movie is a sort of National Lampoon that talks and moves. It offers a compilation of very broad show-business parodies aimed at sophomoric sensibilities (and those permanently arrested in those realms). The picture is indelicate, obvious, often less funny than it thinks it is, but lively and sufficiently on-target to reward casual attention.
Most of the film satirizes television commercials and movie trailers. Since such bits and pieces cannot, in the nature of things, exceed the length of the material being sent up, the misfires do not detain, and are quickly forgotten. Among those most likely to be remembered—at least for a day or two—are a beer commercial in which those seeking gusto from the suds are a group of Hare Krishna sect members coming in after a hard day's chanting and leaflet peddling, and an institutional plug from an oil company experimentally reclaiming oil from greasy containers cast off by fast-food restaurants.
There is also a public service message … informing the world of death's danger signals and advising what to do when the end arrives (don't attempt to operate heavy machinery). Finally there are previews of coming attractions, the products of the fevered imagination of a mythical movie producer, Samuel L. Bronkowitz, offering foretastes of epics like That's Armageddon.
Bronkowitz is also producer of record of the movie's longest,...
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David Denby
Fraternity-house pranks, which depend on humiliating your rivals and yourself at the same time, may be the lowest of all forms of humor, but they have a necessity that anyone can see: They are probably the only form of rebellion available to square college boys. (Hip kids tend not to join fraternities, i.e., they get laid off campus.) In a few years those boys will be doctors, lawyers, businessmen, but at nineteen they can make outrageously cruel and infantile jokes and no one will give them too hard a time. At college I halfheartedly admired the guys who tore themselves apart on Saturday night, but I never wanted to join their revels. National Lampoon's Animal House, which is a genial, uneven, occasionally hilarious celebration of frathouse anarchy, doesn't give you the chance to stand back: The movie says that anyone who won't join the fun is a prig….
Animal House was written by three National Lampoon contributors (Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, and Chris Miller) as a continuation of that magazine's nonstop guerrilla war against respectful attitudes toward culture, women, blacks, animals, etc. The year is 1962 at Faber College, one of the less rigorous West Coast institutions. The place is in a state of war. On the one side is Delta House, a sorry collection of fatties, geeks, near-criminal misfits, and outrageous make-out artists (our heroes). On the other side are the embattled dean … and his obsequious...
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Penelope Gilliatt
"National Lampoon's Animal House," directed by John Landis, is set in a college called Faber in 1962. But it is not by backdating comedy that one gets away with bad comedy. This comic-book frat-house farce goes WHAM! EECH!! at the expense of a system that self-evidently fosters invaluable intelligences. The picture gives us much facetiousness about a fat undergraduate who steals food (ZOWIE!!) and a professor who apologizes because "Paradise Lost" is a long read (SPLAT!!!!)…. One's ribs are nudged until they ache. The witty hard truths about American college education in the early sixties scarcely inhere in guffaws about beer-drinking and about rather Germanic pranks and about the taking of "diet pills" during exams. Some of us—a lot of us—were there at the time, and the pith of any good lampooning would surely lie in showing the straits of a privileged class of young people with a feeling of thwarted morality. A point could be made of the fact that there are virtually no blacks in the student cast, but the film ignores it. Nor does the picture, in its roll call of stereotypes, give any attention to the intellectually underendowed. The status of being intentionally funny is awarded exclusively to the good-looking and the successfully flirtatious. If one didn't know something about education here, one would think it hermetic from the rest of the world to the point of hygienic refrigeration; if one didn't know the unique rapidity and self-criticism of humor here, one would think wit an absent ingredient. The film tells social untruths that go beyond the excuse of presenting the sort of humor called "undergraduate." "Animal House" depicts a university life that is deeply antiacademic, an undergraduate life that is as blind as a pit pony, and an almost criminally false idea of the national sense of the comedic. The inhabitants of this country, including its undergraduates, surely proffered in the sixties some of the bravest jokes in its history. (pp. 53-4)
Penelope Gilliatt, "Glazed," in The New Yorker (© 1978 by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc.), Vol. LIV. No. 26, August 14, 1978, pp. 53-4.∗
Vincent Canby
"Animal House" is cinematically sloppy—I've now seen the film twice and I still can't separate some of the people. There always seem to be two characters who look much alike to represent a single type. It's full of supposedly comic scenes that have no adequate punch lines to end them, and some of the cross-cutting seems to have been done during a blackout. Yet the movie's fondness for sloth, mess, vulgarity, non-conformism (circa 1962, of course), as demonstrated by the members of an epically disorganized college fraternity, is frequently very, very funny.
The targets of its humor (gung-ho fraternities, neatness, Nixon, chastity, sobriety, Vietnam, patriotism, ceramics) are not exactly sacred at this point, but the gusto of the movie is undeniably appealing. So too are the performers….
The success of "Animal House" … is rather easier understood after the fact than before. Among other things, "Animal House" calls attention to a sentimentality not previously acknowledged in a movie like "American Graffitti." I suspect too that some portion of the movie-going public is a lot more bored with orderliness—with the formulas—of conventional comedies and dramas in theaters and on television than has been recognized heretofore. ["Animal House" manages] to suggest the sublime, if sometimes infantile, joys of chaos and disorder without seriously questioning the system that contains them.
Vincent Canby, "What's So Funny about Potheads and Toga Parties?" in The New York Times, Section 2 (© 1978 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), November 19, 1978, p. 17.∗
Ian Hamilton
[There are many laughs] in the National Lampoon's Animal House: the decor, the uniforms, and many of the attitudes come to us straight from early Presley campus idylls, or even from Rebel Without a Cause, and at least some of the chirpy delinquencies derive from Sergeant Bilko, but the film's animating spirit is blisteringly up to date. More than just a comic fantasy about going back to school to punch some loathed teacher in the mouth, it's essentially a mean-eyed dream of vengeance against what Teacher, in that bygone epoch, used to get away with teaching.
The setting is an Ivy-Leagueish American college in the early days of the Vietnam conscription, and the characters are sliced into...
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Eric Braun
[Landis] shows firm control of the satirical content of [Animal House] so that every jab strikes home and very few gags go on too long, unlike his Kentucky Fried Movie where almost every sequence lingers until the initial laugh turns to a yawn. His bad-taste buds have been tightened, too, so that the killing of the bully-boy officer's adored horse by the idiot freshmen trying to prove themselves as 'mad, bad and dangerous' as their peers, stops short of actually wanting to make one throw up and produces instead a smile of relief—but only just….
This is a painfully funny movie, which may offend as many as it amuses, but, to quote Gloria Swanson: 'It's not the fault of films today...
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Martyn Auty
The self-conscious irony of equating a junk movie with junk food suggests exactly what is wrong with The Kentucky Fried Movie: its knowing comedy is so disposable as to be almost non-existent. Parody follows parody, each one half-baked and then half-digested. Here and there a trace of humour suggests an idea that might profitably have been developed (the trailer for CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IN TROUBLE, or the straight black comedy that follows Henry Gibson's lugubrious "United Appeal for the Dead"), but the problem is essentially the same one that defeated The Groove Tube (an inauspicious antecedent). Parody has no existence beyond its object, leads nowhere, is not sharp enough to amount to satire nor...
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Janet Maslin
There isn't a moment of "The Blues Brothers" that wouldn't have been more enjoyable if it had been mounted on a simpler scale. This essentially modest movie is reported to have cost about $30 million, and what did all that money buy? Scores of car crashes. Too many extras. Overstaged dance numbers. And a hollowness that certainly didn't come cheap. A film that moved faster and called less attention to its indulgences might never convey, as "The Blues Brothers" does in all but its jolliest moments, such unqualified despair….
["The Blues Brothers" features] two very deadpan white men whose love of black culture forms the story's main, perhaps only thread. This aspect of the movie, potentially its...
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Lawrence O'Toole
There's no denying that certain scenes in The Blues Brothers have a wild, off-the-hip humor, and that the great Aretha Franklin sings a sizzling Think and that the stunt work is spectacular. But this cop-chase-car-crash-let's-be-as-crass-as-we-can farce, where everything in sight is smashed with infantile pleasure, has a rankling edge of desperation to it. That desperation reflects the sorry state of movie comedy right now, which began with the anarchic Animal House and left a trail of forced funnies—Meatballs, 1941, Where the Buffalo Roam, Roadie, Wholly Moses et al. Crude comedy used to release us from our complacencies; now the vulgarity has lost its charm—it has become, ironically,...
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David Denby
The Blues Brothers is a monstrous $30 million expansion of a ramshackle old Hollywood musical revue (like The Big Broadcast of 1938)—the kind of movie that used to be made for a few hundred thousand dollars. Those vaudeville musicals, their unrelated musical numbers stitched together with comedy routines, often featured jazz musicians, or black singers and dancers who would never get the chance to star in a movie of their own. Racism was built into the form. Well, things haven't changed all that much in 45 years…. Hectic, exhausting, often gross and stupid, The Blues Brothers nonetheless makes a tiny purchase on immortality when Aretha Franklin opens her mouth to sing.
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Pauline Kael
It has taken all these years for Aretha Franklin to reach the screen—and then she's on for only one number! Getting her into "The Blues Brothers" was the smartest thing that the director, John Landis, did; letting her get away after that number was the dumbest. (p. 95)
This musical slapstick farce, set in Chicago, is good-natured, in a sentimental, folk-bop way, but its big joke is how over-scaled everything in it is, and that one sequence that's really alive is relatively small-scale. John Landis has a lot of comic invention and isn't afraid of silliness, but in terms of slapstick craft he's still an amateur. This showed in "Animal House," but it didn't seem to matter as much there: the sloppiness...
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Andrew Sarris
Like so many other contemporary movies, including the anticlimactic The Empire Strikes Back, the overproduced The Blues Brothers could have been better rendered as an animated cartoon. The uncomically surreal car smashes belong in a Roadrunner series, and Belushi and Aykroyd are infinitely more effective in motion than in conversation. As for the great black musical performers—Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, and James Brown—they might just as well be featured in vaudeville shorts for all the dramatic or narrative impact they have. For example, Aretha Franklin literally stops the show with her soulfully feminist rendition of "Think" when her man is tempted to leave the kitchen of...
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Janet Maslin
Imagine a college boy from Great Neck, L. I., carrying a knapsack and wearing a down parka, wandering very, very incongruously across the English moors. Now imagine two such innocents abroad, to the musical accompaniment of "Blue Moon." As the song suggests, the sun will be going down soon, and the moon will be coming up, and those deserted moors will prove to be not so empty after all. "An American Werewolf in London" begins on a note that's equally balanced between comedy and horror, and that also has a fine touch of restraint. It gets off to a wonderful start.
John Landis, who also directed "Animal House" and "The Blues Brothers," has the makings here of a much better movie than either of those....
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Jack Kroll
John Landis ("National Lampoon's Animal House," "The Blues Brothers") is a member of the wise-guy generation of movie directors. The wise guys include major talents like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and lesser talents like Landis and others. What they have in common is their neo-hip attitude. "I am a movie camera," the wise guys might say, and what they see through that camera is not so much the real world as other movies, which they parody, put on, take off and otherwise play with like the brilliant kids they are. Landis has now come up with An American Werewolf in London, a nearly perfect specimen of the wise-guy movie.
This film is a spoof of the old wolfman horror classics starring...
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John Pym
Sophomore humour appeals, if at all, simply because it is sophomoric; thus, there was no dickering with 'sophistication' in the John Landis team's Animal House. [In An American Werewolf in London], however, the material calls for a much lighter tread, so often has the ground been covered by film-makers in hobnail boots. Landis ends An American Werewolf in London with a title card congratulating the Prince and Princess of Wales on their marriage; and hovering above the preceding action is a feeling that it is taking place in a cinematic country of the imagination not far removed from tourist Britain. Trafalgar Square, Tower Bridge, the Zoo and Piccadilly Circus are all used, and all perceptibly...
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For all you enthusiasts out there, are you also into other drinks?
I actually was seriously into beer before I got into tea...sampling microbrews, reviewing them. I still love beer, about as much as I always have, but I think I'm considerably more into tea than beer now.
There's not much else in the realm of drinks that I'm seriously into besides tea and beer.
How about you all?